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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
.FDR Reports on Pacific Progress
CONVICTED OF = bribery
A to Z, Etc, WHY
You Can t Get ICE

i, Here, according to the OPA, WPB, OCR, VIA
and PCCPA is the reason you can't get ICE:
Arthur B. McWood, OPA district price executive:
I'VE have nothing to do with ice except to set the
ceiling price and that it is violated This Is really
a matter for the WPB."
c. f. Collier priority analyst for the WPB
I'VE understand this is largely manpower problem
for Cushman's VINO. But just hold the line a minute
We will connect you with the OCR who should know all
about it,"
H. Carlton Ravens, regional manager of the OCR:
well, this is really job In which the VIA is in
VOWED. If you get in touch with Angus Doane the state
director, he will tell you all about it,"
Mr. Doane not in. His office spokesman said:
II think the PCCPA should be consulted"
Harry Grayson, assistant area representative of the
PCCPA:
THE ice people have been telling me that the VINO is
to blame for this Last April they told the companies this
is not manpower problem but rationing problem"
Back to the OPA!
Paul Conrad district information executive of the OPA
I'VE can't ration ice. That order comes from Wash
ngton from the WPB BY the time you got rationing set
up the summer would be gone anyway So what's the
use:"
GLOSSARY TERMS
OPA-Ofce Of Price Administration
WPB-War Production Board.
OCR-Ofce Of Civilian Requirements
WFA-War Food Administration
WMC-War Manpower Commission.
PCCPA-Presidents Committee for Congeed Production
ICE-Frozen water. Try TO get it,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
Davis TO Broadcast

WASHINGTON, Aug. II (INS)
-OWI Director Elmer Davis will
broadcast over the Columbia net
work from Honolulu, Tuesday,
Aug. Is, from 1920 to 1926 p. m.
tEWT) on the war in the Pacific,
1t was announced today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13

nat retreat began IN eDTuaty,
1943, and continued 10 the bor-
ders of Germany.
The second phase was the sue
cessful Allied landings in north
western France. The last phase
will be the storming OF Fortress
Germany.
A very general feeling and i'm
preston, often voiced. the war is
over" is not justified by things as
they are. Such belief tends TO
both conscious and unconscious
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
Sailors Honeymoon Ends
In Death of Young Bride

the home of her parents. Mr. and
Mrs. George Zobroski, at 1887 w.
Grand.
At a. m. Berry, awoke. She
told her husband that she felt a
pain in her chest and stomach.
While her father tried locate
doctor she lapSed into coma
and died. An autopsy has been
ordered 10 determine the cause.
Beryl's mother. seriously i'll in
A Detroit hospital, has not been
told OF the girls death.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
ALL WILL APPEAL

The judge set their bonds az
"a 900 pending appeal. All said
they would appeal, with the excep.
ton OF Dombrowski, already
serving a prison sentence. DOM
browski's new term is to run con-
currently with the three and q
half year term given him for con.
tempt of the grand jury.
The 20 were found guilty OF
conspiring to influence action on
two bills dealing with regulation
of automobile finance companies.
The state charged the finance
companies used an $500 "slush-
fund to buy legislative votes with
sums ranging from $50 to $3.50.
After the verdict had been an
nounced, Circuit Judge Simpson
complimented and dismissed the
jury, then told the defendants to
rise. They had been sitting grimly
throughout the proceedings in the
first two rows Of spectators
seats.
There Ii not much I san say
In this case" the judge asserted.
ANY case reaching to the
Continued on Page Six)
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Wanted: 100000
Tons Of Bombs

WASHINGTON. Aug. Il CINS)
The war partm ent an
nounced today that the L. S.
Army Air Forces will need more
than 100000 tons of high explo-
Sive bombs for the intensified air
campaigns during the remainder
Of 1914.
II was disclosed that L. s. Army
planes had dropped in the first
six months of this year twice the
weight of bombs that were
dropped from the outbreak of the
war 10 Dec. 81. 1913.
The total tonnage Of bombs
dumped in all theaters up TO July
/. 1914. amounted 10 STOP. Of
which 472.054 tons we're dropped
from Jan. through June 30
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
Foods Spoil
As Ice Famine
Clutches City
Black Market Boosts
Retail Prices 400 Pet.
With Delivery Halted

Federal agencies in Detroit. con-
fused over which is in authority,
admitted today that thousands OF
Detroit families are suffering be-
cause they are unable TO obtain
ice
While the available small supply
is being dumped into beer gardens
and other places OF amusement,
federal bureaus said that local
companies and dealers we're MAX
ing frantic efforts to import ice
from as far as Cleveland 10 make
up the shortage.
Meanwhile, they said, q black
market here is selling ice at as
high as $3.50 q hundred pounds
The ceiling price is 60 cents a
hundred.
Throughout the, city long lines
Of men. women and children. haul
ing little carts, stood in line al
neighborhood ice stations.
The thermometer on the side
of one ice station registered l0l
degrees. The Official temperature
was 81.
Hundreds were turned away
when supplies were exhausted and
the stations closed.
Cars were lined up for two
blocks at branch station Of the
City Ice e. Fuel Co. al 3400 Trum-
bull. The station was manufac-
turing a ION Of ice every Is min
utes, but could not keep up with
the demand.
Customers were limited 70 so
Mounds aacb
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BRITISH WITHDRAW

New Zealanders and British
withdrew half mile southwest of
San Colombano which is half
mile south of the Arno.
German infantrymen, however
were forced 10 fall back in the
other two pockets on either side of
Empoli Is miles west of Florence.
On the right Of this riverside town
in the bitterly contested no-man's
land. the Eighth Army advanced
up 10 1000 yards on 2.000-yard
front on either side of the village
of Blbbiano.
In the pocket 10 the left Of
Empol. the Allies. after stiff
fighting. occupied the villages Of
Santa Maria and Avane. but sharp
skirmishes continued for the road
junction
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
Ydnks Near
Junction With
British Arn1or
Only Is Nj Separate
Allied Forces; Nazis
Face New 'Stalinered

SUPREME HQ.. AEF, Aug. Il
QNS)-With u. S. armored spear
heads reported by the Germans
themselves within 80 miles of a
strategic junction with British
Canadian forces near Falaise, all
signs pointed tonight to dra-
matte climax over the weekend
confronting the German Seventh
Army with disastrous Stain
grad" in France.
An American "ghost" army
and Anglo-Canadian columns
were reported by UP as within
Is miles of a junction near Ar
gentan.
BOMBERS RUSH AID
More than 200 bombers. an
swerlng a direct call for aid
from ground forces. drenched
the last few miles of the escape
gap with high explosives and
augmentation bombs late Sat-
urdayD
p Lending emphasis, Allied SUI
preme headquarters cloaked with
rigid secrecy positions of the
Yanks north of lie Mans and the
Paris-bound spearheads which
were reported without official con-
firmation 10 have reached the
capitals outskirts.
An unconfirmed Stockholm re-
port received by the London Eve
ming News said the Germans
we're evacuating Orleans. So
miles south of Paris.
GERMANS ADMIT THREAT
"A London dispatch said the
German radio warned that the
enemy has reached Alencon,
thus creating a threat to Paris
itSelf."0
In the central zone OF the wild
ening pincers move, headquarters
announced the Yanks have recap
tured Mortain, while the British
Canadians hammered closer TO the
key rail-highway hub of Falaise.
The Americans also entered Sour
deval, Az miles north of Mortain.
The Yanks advanced 2 to 3
miles along the 10 to 15-mile Sec
tor between Mortain and Wire.
Selling the Nazi stronghold of
Barbery, midway between Thury-
Harcourt and Falaise, the Cana
dams advanced from east and
west and British artillery poured
shells on positions there.
AS the pincers move threatened
the bulk of the German Seventh
Army-estimated at 80 divisions
with up TO 100000 troops-the AL
lied air forces intensified aerial
blows to isolate the Nazis from
reinforcements and supplies.
On the Brittany front Yank
armored force which crossed the
Loire River south of Nantes was
believed TO be advancing into
southwestern France toward La
Rochelle. La Pallice and Bor-
deauX.
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WHY PAY MORE FOR

q Personal Loan? Thousands Of
Detroiters save money borrowing
from the Industrial National Bank.
ADV.
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Allies Occupy
All Florence
Germans Withdrew
But Reteke Village

ROME. Aug. u CAPITALIZED
forces have occupied all of Flor
ence, center Of Italian Rennais-
ssnce art, and AMG officials are
taking over. il was announced
today, but the Allies have been
forced from the village of San
Colombano, five miles west, by
massed German fire from the
Gothic line.
The Germans, who for weeks
took advantage Of Allied hesitancy
10 shell Florence's art and archi-
tectural treasures, withdrew at 5
a. m. yesterday and within an
hour Allied military government
personnel had crossed the Arno
and entered the heart of the city.
Greeted enthusiastically by 1tal-
ians, the AMG men found Ger
mans had blown up the railway
station and buildings along the
water front End the ancient Via
Porta Santa Maria which inter-
sects the river at the historic
Necchlo bridge.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
Won Wieeand Warns:
Won Wieeand Warns:
War Is Not Yet Won,
Hitler Won t Glue Up
BY KARL II. Won WIEGAND
Dean OF American War Correspondent.

World War II enters its sixth year in Europe
Once again all preconceived theories and all
predictions of experts" specialists" and COM
petent authorities" that no modern war can last as
long as past conflicts have been proven wrong and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13

VI AIlt wal NlAOl VII lIlt
home front, invites disappointment
and makes for prolongation of the
war.
HITLER WONT SURRENDER
Things are going we'll, VERY
well, in the Pacific and in Europe.
but the supreme effort and very
stiff fighting and heavy casualties
are still before us. 1t is well not
10 consider the war Is over in
Europe until the Allied armies are
nearing Berlin or Germany capitu-
lates. Then there will still remain
the war against Japan, our own
war.
With all his internal trouble,
and he has plenty, there is no sign
that Adolf Hitler will capitulate
Internationally. His nerves may
break, he may 60 insane, he may
Continued on Page Six)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
RATIoNED FOOD sPoILs

Rationing bureaus were receiv-
ing hundreds of calls from families
who said that precious ratloned
foods were spelling in their homes.
Other calls were from families
where there were sick persons or
infant children.
In the midst OF the crisis Satur-
day. the Borin Bros. one OF the
largest distributors in the city.
announced that their storage
houses were empty and that they
were closing al noon 10 devote all
their time and manpower TO the
Continued on Page Two)
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sNIPERs LEFT BEHIND

German snipers remained in the
city.
Italians told AMG officers that
italian women and children were
shot by snipers as they went
through the streets, seeking food
and water.
The Nazis. since the Allied en-
try into southern Florence, had
imposed a 24-hour curfew on all
males, front reports said, and in
recent days had entered and
searched private homes. confiscat-
ing watches. cameras and any
other valuables attracting them.
Meanwhile. sharp fighting broke
out west of Florence as the Ger
mans battled furiously 10 hold the
three shallow pockets south of
the Arno in that sector.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13

DIR. J. c. TooLE, DENTIST. no
w. Lafayette at Mich, Opp. City
Hall. Hours: SO. Tel. CA ESQ.
ADV.
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misleading


The in third phase decisive stage The first
the defeat the Of Soviet
Russia of the Nazi German front of than 1000
miles following Htlers great military disaster Sangrad
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13
THE WEATHER
HoUKLY TEMPERATURES

, m. % 10 ?. m. 81 y y MD g. 80
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13

DAG LAKE LINES TO BUF-
FALO every evening at $50. to
Cleveland every night al 11:30
Lake Ride every Sunday at II
a. m.-Adv.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-13

ICE -E'rozen water. - 10 get II,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29

WASHINGTON, Oct 2s-Inlvote
spite of all the brickbatS that have stron
been hurled at Sidney Hillman Inv
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29
i. ). Conci|idtors
Meet in Detroit

Better application Of human re-
lations around conference tables in
labor disputes will he studied by
II state commissioners Of the
l.. s. Cancellation Service in ses-
sion al the Federal Building this
Sunday.
The object Of the meeting, one
OF a series that has been held
throughout the state, is 10 ac-
quaint commissioners with all
phases OF human relations, John
Q. Jennings. commission chair
man. said Saturday.
The agency's program, including
valuable information collected
from the files of the service dur
ing the last 30 years, is available
10 both labor and management
and special representative will
be sent from Washington TO assist
them if they want 10 adopt the
program, Jennings said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29
VIA Official Takes
ReCOnVersion Job

WASHINGTON, Oct. rs (UP)
David Meeker. former chief of
the farm machinery branch of the
War Food Administration, took
over today as director of WAS
newly-created office OF surplus
property and reconversion.
WA said the new Office will
supervise and coordinate func-
tons OF other WA agencies in
surplus property disposal, recon-
version and contract settlement.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29
Barbershop Qudrtets
Concert Wednesday

The Detroit and Oakland
County chapters of the Society
for the Preservation and En-
couragement of Barbership Quar-
tet Singing in America will pre-
sent a concert of 19 quartets
Wednesday at Sis p. m. in the
Masonic Auditorium.
Archie Livingston, 1916 Wood
ward, one OF three BARRIERS in the
country who belong 10 the society,
will sing with one OF the quartets,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29
New Appeal Made
For Blood Donors
Many Lives Saved.
Normandy Vet Says

A new appeal for blood plasma
was made Saturday by Coast
Guard Pharmacists Mate Bernard
Rather who went without sleep
for five days and nights on the
Normandy beachhead while he
administered plasma and tended
TO the wounds of men from all
nations.
Rather, a Chicagoan who Is
now stationed here, declared
plasma saved an uncounted num-
Der of lives in Normandy.
IL swore then" he said. "thst
the first thing I'd do when !
got back would be TO give . pint
OF my own blood"
EXPLAINS CASUALTIES
Explaining the many casualties
on the beachhead. Rather said.
1.-THE Germans had n terrific
defense. First. there were teller
mines and railroad track traps
In the water, tank traps on the
beach, then barbed wire, n sys-
tenn OF cross-firing machine
guns, then 88's buried In case
ments, with other SS's In the
cliffs.
I'VE found concrete emplsce-
ments and traps extending eight
miles inland.
HIT BY SPLINTER
lone Of the kids on my ship,
who had been In every previous
invasion, was hit In the head by
bomb splinter and was all
bandaged up.
But, the next day, he In
sisted on going with US. He
didn't want TO miss the inya-
sion OF France. When we got
over, he was the first one
killed"
Rather also participated in the
invasions OF Africa and Sicily.
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OWES HIM FULL DEBT

The answer TO these questions,
well learn when the actual cleo
ton returns are recorded.
But whatever the results, this
fact still remains:
The PAC is largely responsible
for the showing that Mr.. Roosevelt
makes in the large Democratic
centers Of neutrality-suspicious.
the industrial areas.
II he pulls through, II will be
because Of the pluralities there,
and 10 Sidney Hillman and the
PAC he owes the full debt because
Of them.
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COP Splits
Polish Vote
Hamframek Delighted
by Dewey's Stand
BY FRANK MORRIS

For the first time since the 1882
New Deal landslide, Michigan Re-
publicans believe they will crash
the almost solid Democratic vote
cast here by voters OF Polish de-
scent.
This group casts approximately
$4,000 votes in Wayne County. II
has been about 95 per cent Demo
cratic.
But many Polish-Americans are
concerned this-yesr- eper-ths
future OF the homeland. inasmuch
as President Roosevelt's agree
ment with Stain over the destiny
OF Poland has not been made
public.
DEWEY GAINS FRIENDS
Gov. Dewey has gained friends
In Hamtramck through his forth
right stand in favor OF a free
Poland, unpartitioned and uncon-
trolled by Russia.
There II every Indication
that the United States govern
ment has agreed to seizure OF
Poland by Russia" John Sos
nowski, candidate for Congress
In the First District. said Sat-
urday.
1.-THE hesitant stand taken by
President Roosevelt, coupled
with his amazing number Of
Com m u n ist followers, has
caused grave concern among
citizens of Polish descent.
The Polish question II .
challenge 10 American justice
and fair play. Dewey's position
10 emphatic, but the President
does not answer our entreaties
for n Straightforward stand"
James II. Lee, assistant corpor-
alton counsel and Democratic
nominee for Acknowledgements
received campaign card the
other day with picture of him
self in high, neck-choking collar,
and announcing he is candidate
for the State Senate.
The card was "a years old.
He was elected 10 the Senate In
1910, when he was fresh from law
school and was the first Demo
crat 10 be seated In the chamber
in decades.
PLEDGES 81 YEARS OLD
The campaign card listed sew
eral pledges. all Of which have
since been carried out. Among
them were civil service, election
Of u. s. Senators by popular vote,
workmen's compensation. refores-
tation, state control OF private
banks, abolition of convict labor
in private factories. higher taxes
on mines and repeal Of state
property taxes.
A slip Of the tongue by Edward
J. Fry, Democratic nominee for
governor. provided n new phrase
for Vice President Wallace al the
Democratic rally Friday night at
Olympia.
Intending 10 say Franklin
Delano Roosevelt" Fry spoke N
"Franklin Democrat Roosevelt"
Wallace was delighted by the
slip and throughout his address
ne referred 10 the President as
franklin Democrat Roosevelt
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29

vote in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
strongholds.
The Dewey plurality in the ru-
raj areas and small towns is
growing daily. Six weeks ago,
Dewey was merely a young New
York governor with the little
black mustache who was an ac-
ceptable receptacle for anti
Roosevelt voters.
Today the public has forgotten
the mustache and has forgotten
the fact he is only az years old.
Votes that were anti-Roosevelt
are now pro-Dewey.
IT INCREASES JOB
II the big cities are able 10
overcome IL, and produce a Roose-
welt victory. IL merely means
Hillman has done that much more
Of job.
The catch in the whole thing,
from the standpoint OF November
outcome, is just how much OF
these huge Democratic registra-
tons will be translated in actual
Democratic votes, in the privacy
of the November ballot.
The union organizer technique
that Sidney and his aides adopted
in this question of registration
worked we'll enough then, because
there was means of checking on
the individual. Registration rec
ords are public property.
But BALLOT IS SECRET
The worker didn't dare register
Republican, even if he wanted 10
do so. because the PAC would find
il out Immediately and there might
be determinations.
But the November ballot is
secret. Only the voter and God
know what goes on in the booth.
II may be, too that the mere
heavy-handedness OF the Hillnan
technique in this whole program
may have produced a resentment
on the part of some workers, who
don't like 10 be man-handled, even
in fgurative sense Of the word.
That resentment may manifest IT.
self in a boomerang vote against
the PAC and Roosevelt.
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Fulton Lewis Jr. Says:
Fulton Lewis Jr. Says:
HLlman and PAC
May Hold Balance
BY FULTON LEWIS JR.
copyrirht. ASA, By King Features

NobytIuN 49,
WASHINGTON. Oct. 2s-In
spite of all the brickbats that have
been hurled at Sidney Hillman
and his Political Action Commit
tee, this much is incontrovertibly
true:
II President Roosevelt manages
to squeeze through in this cleo
iton, he will have Hillman and the
Political Action Committee 10
thank for II.
This time, as usual, the election
hinges on the balance between
Democratic pluralitieS In the
large cities and Republican plur-
alities in the rural areas and
smaller towns.
THE OLD SAD TALE
Those big metropolitan districts
are the bailiwick Of the redoubt-
able Sidney and his Political Ac-
ton Committee organization.
Current figures on registrations
in those larger cities, however,
have brought the first real bloom
OF optimism that Democratic cam
paign leaders have had.
They show registrations soaring
almost everywhere. Look at them:
New York City, up $4,000.
Chicago, up $4,000.
Detroit, up $4,000.
Akron, up 1900.
Seattle, up $4,000.
Boston. up 10000.
Newark, up $4,000.
San Francisco, up 10000.
Baltimore. up $4,000
And that's only the beginning.
1t might be asked:
"Why give all the credit TO
Hillman?"
The answer is that that is the
only possible source 10 which
credit can be given. In virtually
every one OF those cities, the
Democratic organization has gone
TO pot. In several cases, II has
virtually vanished.
DEM ACTIVITY DEAD
Simple investigation, on the re-
spective scenes, shows Demo
cratic organization activity has
been nil. but Hillman's Political
Action Committee agents have
been herding the voters in by the
hundreds and even thousands.
II was accomplished by typical
Hillman methods, lifted from his
somewhat robust school OF union
organization technique. Go shop
stewards and straw bosses IN
many cases harassed the men
under them, until each could
show his lapel button, from the
Political Action Committee head
quarters, certifying he had regis
tered.
It's true that a Democratic
registration is not necessarily q
Democratic vote. As a corollary
of that. il also is true that these
Hillman-sired votes that do ma
terialize may not be enough 10
do the job.
HIS DEBT LOCATED
To put il more simply, don't
take this as a prediction that
Mr.. Hillman's Political Action
Committee is going 10 be success
full in re-electing Mr.. Roosevelt
for a fourth term.
But if the President is re-
elected for that fourth term. his
great debt of gratitude is owed 10
Hillman and Hillmans organiza-
ton, because they are the ones
who are doing whatever job is
being done, in getting out the