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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04


Der of the House military af-
fairs committee touring the
battlefronts-and she was
fighting mad.
She was made about the suffer
ing from vi and W. bombings
she had seen in Britain; about
the fact that the GIs in the front
lines aren't getting cigarets; about
those Americans on the home
front who still are not making
the supreme effort needed TO
finish the war soonest" and about
the controversy over the treat
ment of German prisoners OF war.
PLEA TO q. S. WOMEN
Interviewed in the same Ritz
Hotel room from whic h she
watched the Germans enter Paris
in 1910, Mrs. Luce launcAd a
one-woman crusade appealing to
Americans of her sex TO cut down
on cigaret smoking TO help the
soldiers. and TO Americans gen.
orally to aid the suffering Civil
lans she has seen in Britain and
France.
Discussing the cigaret situation,
Mrs. Luce declared
IF it's necessary to start
civilian rationlng of cigarets
during the present shortage, I'm
all for II.
1.-THE els at the front are the
ones who should have first call
on our cigarets. When 1 left
London yesterday there wasn't
an American cigaret being Is
sued anywhere in Britain eX-
cept at hospitals and to the air
force"
SEES W. DAMAGE
Mrs. Luce declared that she
was deeply moved by what she
saw in Britain:
1--WE Americans have no con-
ception what life Is like In
Britain today. went to see the
place where We rocket had
landed a few hours before, hit
ting a Woolworth store, killing
many persons and causing con-
siderable damage.
IL watched them clearing
away the debris. Then / went
to another place a few minutes
after the buzz bomb hit 1t. 1t
was a tragic spectacle"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04
Venereal Disease
Rate 2.j Per Cent
Time, staff Correspondent,

LANSING, Dec. 2-Five out Of
every 200 persons taking pre-
marital blood tests have been de-
MED state permission TO marry
because of some form OF venereal
disease. DR.. William DeKleine,
state health commissioner. re-
vealed today
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04
Hill Bremen Pass

ROME, Dec. 2 UNS)-Allied
bombers concentrated today upon
their campaign TO knock out the
vital Bremen Pass Railway line
connecting Germany TO Italy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04
3 Awards Get
States Oh.
Time, staff Correspondent,

LANSING. Dec. 2-The state
public instruction department
committee assigned 10 review
competitions in which public
school students are invited TO par
ticipate today approved three
sponsored by The Detroit Times
and other Hearst newspapers.
They include the Hearst annual
history award. rifle marksman-
ship contest and the high school
and college oratorical contest.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04
Sco++-Paine in Reno

RENO. Dec. . QNS)-Hubert
Scott-Paine. noted British manu-
facturer and sportsman, has filed
suit for a Reno divorce.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04
Phone Strike Vote

ATLANTA. Dec. 2 CUP)-Long
distance telephone workers in
Memphis and Louisville were TO
cast ballots today in strike vote.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04
Gets


WASHINGTON. Dec. . (UP)-
William L. Clayton, retiring sur
plus war property administrator,
will become an assistant secre-
tary of state in charge Of u. S.
foreign economic policy, official
sources revealed today.
Clayton's appointment, which
is expected TO be announced
within a few days. is the first of
several far-reaching state depart
ment changes planned by Edward
r. Stettinius, who was sworn in
yesterday as the new secretary
of state.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04
Yanks Battle
rer0rnno(

GEN. MacA RTHUR'S HQ.
PHILIPPINES. Dec. 2 ms
Breaking up several bloody coun'
terattacks by frenzied EN- e m
troops, vet ran infantrymen OF
the Seventh Division today con-
tinued battling their way inch-by'
inch northward to Ormoc. Gen
Macarthur disclosed
Yanks of the seasoned Seventh
who fought the Japs into the
ground at Attu and Kwajalein
hurled back the suicide attacks
near Palanas. IL miles south OF
the port of Ormoc, in desperate
bayonet-point fighting, infiictinl
an undetermined number of casu'
alties on the Japs.
5APS WELL EQUIPPED
Seventh Division officers re-
ported that the enemy troops
were the best they had yet en-.
countered in the Leyte fighting
They fought their way almost tc
the muzzleS of the Yanks' rifles
before they were dispersed. APP
parently they were some OF the
recent reinforcements that have
been ferried into Ormoc, and were
fresh. well equipped and eager
for battle.
In the northern sector of the
slowly narrowing Ormoc Corridor
sd Division doughboys were con-
verging against enemy positions
in the vicinity of Tolibaw ano
Bonbongon, two small village:
that flank the Ormoc Road north
of Ormoc itself.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04
MAY NAME DOUGLAS

While Stettinius' choice of an
undersecretary still remained a
matter of speculation. the pro-
jected Clayton-Rockefeller shift
strengthened belief in some quar-
tiers that Stettinius would reach
outside the department for an
undersecretary.
Lewis Douglas. one-time direc-
tor of the budget and friend
of Hopkins, has been mentioned
for the job.
Clayton, 64-year-old head Of
the worlds largest cotton bro
kerage house, has served 10
months as surplus war property
chief. He resigned last month.
but is remaining on the job
until members of a new three
man surplus property board take
office.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04
OPPOSED BY MILITARY

The authorization program was
initiated Aug. ID by former WPB
Chairman Donald NJ Nelson over
vigorous opposition from the mil
itary services.
Disclosure Of the new civilian
production ban was made in a
joint letter from WPB Chairman
Krug, VINO Chairman McNutt,
Undersecretary of War Patterson,
Undersecretary of the Navy For
restal to their field representa-
tives.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04
SEES W. DAMAGE

Order the United States War
Savings Stamps from your De-
troit Times carrier. He'll de-
liver them to your home.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04
Army. Navy Clear
KiImIneI and Short
Continued from Page One)

boards could not be made public
without prejudicing the war
effort.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04

not do this to await decision
whether they should be tried.
Their statements contemplated
trial. Now apparently there will
be no trials.
The solution Il for the army
and navy to send TO the Senate
military affairs committee all
the testimony and conclusions of
the boards Of inquiry. / think
the public In interested I'm know
Ing how this could happen at
Pearl Harbor without some one
being at fault, either there or
In Washington"
Senator Chandler CD Of Ken
lucky voiced the opinion of those
who believe that the inquiry into
the Pearl Harbor disaster is ended
and that the public may as well
forget 1t.
CLOSES THE CASE
81 think this closes the mat
ter 90 far a. Kimmel and Short
are concerned" he said.
Both Secretary Stimson and
Secretary Forrestal said there
were errors of judgment" al
Pearl Harbor and also in Wash
ington when the JapS rained
bombs on American battleships
The evidence now available
does not warrant and will not
support the trial by general
court-martiaI of any person or
persons In the naval service"
said ForrestaL
CONTINUES INQUIRY
He added that he was not sat-
isfied that the investigation had
gone ito the point Of exhaustion
OF all possible evidence and that
he would continue his own in
quiry.
stin1son said that Mai. Gen
Short was removed from his com.
mand In Hawaii and said that "ir
itself IL q serious result for any
officer with a long record Of eX-
cellent service, and conscientious
as I believe Gen. Short 10 be
I'm my Judgment. on the evil
dence now recorded, II Is suffl-
Client action" he added, but said
he would continue the investi-
CATION until all the facts are
clear.
He said syidencs tslsa ~ -
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04

y
tn cir apartment neighbor,
Allen Smiley.
TELLS OF BLOW
Moments later. however, an
other major state witness-An-
tonic Icaza, Panamanian mer-
chant Observation-Disclosures
fatty:
81 saw Mr.. Dorsey hit Mr..
Hall between the eyes with a
bottle"
Icaza. flown back from Panama
to testify, declared he was in the
DorSey's swank Sunset Plaza
apartment and witnessed the
Battle of the Balcony" Aug. 5 in
which the handsome Hall assert
eddy was beaten severely and
slashed.
Halls day and a half on the
witness stand before the jury Of
IL women and one man was cli-
NAKED when Isaac Pacht, attor-
ney for the Dorseys, asked:
"Mr. Hall, II you were on
trial here yourself, would YOU
want to he convicted on any
such testimony as you have
given here?"
HALLS REPLY
"Of course not" Hall replied.
Jerry Giesler. attorney for
Smiley, preceded Pacht with a
bliStering cross-eXamination Of
the movie star, in which he took
Hall to task for statements
three of them under oath-vari-
ously naming Smiley, Mrs. Dorsey
and Dorsey as having welded a
sharp instrument upon his nose
and head.
On the hula matter, il was
hesitant. blushing Hall who adj
mitted he had danced with the
slim Mrs. Dorsey at the insist
ence of other guests in the Dor
sey apartment few minutes
after Dorsey assertedly used pro-
family in ordering actor Eddie
Norris TO leave-then retracted
it with remark that he was
only kidding"
THEY PLAYED RHUMBA
THE guitar players started
10 play a rhumba to ease the
tension" Pacht read from-a
sworn statement Hall had made
earlier to the district attorney.
Mrs. Dorsey started to do a
hula. She came toward me, do
ing a series of bumps and
wiggles.
"She asked me to do a hula
with her. but 1 refused. Ii was
embarrassing, as she just stayed
there, wiggling her hips. 1
thought II best to do just few
steps with her, then I Sat down.
I don't really do the hula"
Hall. hero of native roles In
many South Sea island pictures,
said he had made that statement.
Then Geisler asked:
"In the part of the hula you
did do, did YOU do the snake
hips?"
NO" Hall said
Ibid you shake your hips?"
you cant help It,"
DANCED THE SNAKE HIPS
"Was Mrs. Dorsey dancing
the snake hips?"
yes, the snake hips, the
hula, or whatever you call it,
Pacht then suggested that the
dance was very suggestive!" But
Hall disagreed.
"As a matter of fact" Pacht
continued, Dorsey thought ii
was suggestive, didn't he? And
the party broke up soon after"
Hall again disagreed. saying IT
was some Is minutes before the
guests left.
Icaza. still under direct eXani-
nation by Deputy District Atty.
Edwin Myers. will return 10 the
u,itpees Stand Monday morning
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04
TORRENTIAL RAINS

Meanwhile, torrential rains con-
tinued to make a rlorass of the
entire battle area, but infantry
men of the 32d slogged south from
the Leyte River and southeast
from Hill 1925 as Yank fighter
bombers ripped Jap supply areas
and lines of communication across
Ormoc Bay.
Despite the bad weather, the
enemy got enough planes into the
air to conduct light" harassing
raids against our positions. One
reconnaissance plane was shot
down by fighter patrols.
Gen. Macarthur spiked claims
by Radio Tokyo that Jap troops
had invaded Morotai Island, north
Of Halmahera. with the following
brief statement:
about two weeks ago, two
Jap barges unloaded troops on
the north end of MorOtai.'
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04
Byrnes Spurs
War Output
Get Tough Order Out
for 200, 900 Workers
TINE DETROIT TIMES
~ Dec. \ 1914

WASHINGTON. Dec. ? ms
The government today fortified
its determination 10 assure ade-
uuate war materiel for the cur
rent European and Pacific often
sives in more than 120 u. s. COM
munities.
The drastic edict was seen As a
direct outgrowth of War Moblllza-
ton Director James F. Byrnes'
recent "get-tough" order warning
that new civilian production
would be suspended unless some
2O0. 900 workers were found within
"a reasonable time" 10 alleviate
labor shortages in critical areas,
SCOPE OF ORDER
The new order specifically bans
spot authorization" reconversion
In the 120 designated areas, except
In unusual cases" and limits
other civilian production grants 10
areas where war production is up
10 schedule or available manpower
is not needed for vital military
programs.
In view OF the WIPES constant
review of spot authorizations, :"
which permit civilian production
not in conflict with essential war
programs, IL was considered likely
that the list OF grants would be
further restricted, although pres
ent authorizations were expected
to remain unaffected by the order
II was believed that Byrnes
order of Nov. 10 on manpower
shortages set the stage for the
new reconversion limitation when
IL called attention 10 demands for
complete suspension of civilian
production in Group l and 2
(acute) labor areas.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04
GUIDED BY HOPKINS

II was reported in authoritative
quarters that presidential adviser
Harry L. Hopkins was the prime
mover behind the changes 10 he
instituted by the successor to
aged and i'll Cordell Hull.
A new assistant secretary's
post will be created for Clayton.
according 10 present plans, and
a second is being planned TO fit
Nelson A. Rockefeller into the
state department as chief Of
u. S. relations with Latin-Ameri-
can nations. Rockefeller now
heads the office of co-ordinator
of inter-American affairs. which
is expected to be abolished within
a year
Legislation calling for two new
assistant secretarys' posts is in
the hands of the Senate foreign
relations committee. AT present
there are four assistants.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-04
Negro Admits killing
Woman i'm Robbery

year.od Negro early today confessed he fired the gun
which last Sept Is fatally Mrs Victoria Len g. she
Evening star., 1944-02-02
Civilian Egg Allowance
Increased for This Year

The War Food Administration to-
day announced an ALLEGATION of 45,-
900 900 900 eggs for civilians during
1914, approximately 80 per cent Of the
expected production and slightly
higher than supplies available last
year.
Per capita supply was estimated at
$40 eggs as compared with 345 in
1943 and an average Of 800 during
the period of l935-l939.
Civilian ALLEGATION for the first
four months of this year was set at
II 500, 100000 shell and frozen eggs
Military and war service require
ments for the same period were esti-
mated at $500 ,OOO,0 900. Allies, lib.
Grated areas and United States ter
ritories will receive nearly 1000 600.
900 eggs in shell, frozen and dried
VIA said.
Both Great Britain and Russia are
using American dried whole eggs ex-
tensively to supply military needs
the agency reported.
The agency also announced that
the per capita civilian supply OF
cheese in 1914 is expected to be
slightly more than four pounds, or
about a pound less than in 1943.
Americans at home, in the services
and in the territories will receive
about II per cent of the total supply
while % per cent will 60 to lease
lend and 6 per cent will be set aside
for an emergency reserve.
Evening star., 1944-02-02
Gov. bricker PLANNING
Swing Through South
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Plans of Gov. John w. Bricker Of
Ohio to carry his campaign for the
Republican presidential nomination
into the South have been disclosed
here, along with word that Gov.
Dwight Griswold Of Nebraska might
be receptive to the COP vice presi-
Dental candidacy.
Gov. Bricker made known his
plans for a southern trip during a
visit here yesterday. He said he
would make two or three speeches in
Miami, Fla, March H.
Gov. Griswold, who with four
other Governors were here as the
Governors Conference Executive
Committee. indicated he would not
refuse the vice presidential nomina-
ton and in an interview said the
Republicans could win in November
on these two issues:
Il. Who can win the war quickest?
%. Who can best insure business
prosperity after the WARP"
Ohio's Governor, in a separate
interview, said he would speak al
Aberdeen, s. OAK, March %, which
will also be his first venture into
that territory. That is as far as his
speaking plans go at this time
though his main bid for support
will come in a Lincoln Day speech
here February 10.
Evening star., 1944-02-02
Budget Chief Urges
State Works Program
BY the Associated Press.

~ t'io HosOSIhtcG FTeSS.
CHICAGO, Feb. budget Direc-
tor Harold D. Smith today called on
the States to follow the course OF
the Federal Government in setting
up detailed plans for public works
ito take up employment slack as
needed after the war.
The Federal Government, Mr.
Smith said before the American
Road Builders Association, cannot
do the job alone He warned par
ticularly that Federal projects will
not serve their purpose if the per-
formance of the depression years is
repeated and State and local gov
ernments cut their expenditures
while Federal outlays for jobs are
expanding.
To illustrate his point, Mr.. Smith
reported that in the years 1888 IS
Federal expenditures for new con-
struction averaged Sl,600, 900 900
nine times the yearly average o1
1925-29. Yet, he said, State anc
local retrenchments offset 80 pei
cent Of the increase and shrinkagt
Of private construction cut the tota
further, with the net result that
overall figures never approached
the levels of good years.
The problem we face after the
war in trying to keep the econmy OF
an even keel is much greater thar
the problem We faced during the de.
preston" he said.
Evening star., 1944-02-02
Detroit Doctor Denies
Implication in Spy Plot
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Feb. 2.-Defending
himself against a charge that he
conspired to spy for Nazi Germany
DR.. Fred w. Thomas testified in a
Federal courtroom crowded to over
flowing with curious spectators yes
terday that his dealings with Miss
Grace Buchanan-Dineen, confessed
leader of Detroit spy ring, were
purely professional.
Miss Buchanan-Dineen had testi-
fed, as a Government witness, that
her calls on the accused Detroit
physician were for the purpose of
gathering information of military
value for transmission to Germany
He denied, one by one, each Of her
statements tending to connect him
with operations OF the spy ring He
denied she was introduced to him
as secret agent of Germany, that
he knew she would use prescriptions
he gave her to manufacture invisible
ink with which to prepare reports
transmitted to Germany, or that he
supplied her with information she
said she sought.
Evening star., 1944-02-02
Hanson Bags 18th Plane,
| Behind Foss, Boyington

BY the Associated Press.
GUADALCANAL, Feb. 2.-The
blond kid with the quick, hearty
laugh roared in over Rabaul, New
Britain, Sunday, and as his eager
guns sent four japanese planes
plummeting, he moved within a
plane of becoming the most potent
pilot the United States ever pro-
duced.
The four bagged Sunday raised
Marine 1t. Bob Hanson's score to 25
only one behind the record set by
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker in the
World War. and tied by Majs. Joe
Foss and Gregory Boyington in this
war. Maj. Foss returned to the
United States after his record tying
feat. while Maj. Boyington has been
missing since January 8. ,Is sE.e
1t. Hanson, whose parents are the
Rev and Mrs. Harry Albert Hanson
of Newtonville, Mass, former mis-
sionaries in India. paid his way at
Hamline University, St. Paul. Mimi,
by working as a bouncer in a night
club.
Evening star., 1944-02-02

ten had been forgotten or over
looked"
He maintained that the record
stands and need not be rehearsed
Acts to Clarity Record.
Nevertheless" he went on to say,
for the purpose of clarification I
wish to state categorically that
never, either publicly or privately,
have expressed an opinion that
the Emperor Hirohito should be or
should not be retained on the
throne Of Japan after the war.
Frankly, I do not think that any OF
us are yet in position to deter
mine what shall be or may be the
precise political structure in Japan
after our certain, ultimate victory
in the war. fear that only harm
and no good can come from reading
into my public utterances views
which I have never held and, there
fore, never expressed"
Evening star., 1944-02-02

34.3 per cent and the AFE Interna-
tional Association Of Machinists,
with 26 per cent.
A runof election between no.
union and the CIO will be held
within 10 days, said E. y. Eagen,
National Labor Relations Board re-
gional director who supervised the
voting. -..
OF eligible employees, 90 per cent
cast ballots. Mr.. Eagen said actual
vote totals were withheld at the
Army's request.
AS the result of a similar election
last week at the Long Beach Douglas
plant, runoff has been scheduled
for next Friday between the AFL
and CIO.
Evening star., 1944-02-02

as it may seem, the Japanese, even
the military leaders, do not like to
be regarded by the rest of the world
as uncivilized. think that the re-
action upon individuals will differ
according to the character and per-
sonality of the individual. Some
will be merely angered, and I doubt
whether the perpetrators themselves
will have any feeling whatever of
repentance.
But others, including perhaps
some of the highest leaders, may
and probably will feel a sense of
shame or, at the very least, a de-
sire to offset in future this record
of barbarism.
The japanese people as a whole
would. if they knew the facts, be
utterly ashamed. They showed this
sense of shame in a spontaneous
and n t i n-wid e demonstration
when their military flyers sank our
ship, the Panay, in 1887. The mere
revelation of these atrocities can
not apd will not change the inher-
ent character of any japanese. but
it is conceivable, and l hope pos
sible, that the higher military lead
ers may gradually, if not immedi-
ately, take steps to insure better
treatment for our compatriots who
are still prisoners in their hands.
Discusses Emperor.
The Interview turned to Emperor
Hirohito, and Mr.. Grew was en-
couraged to say something about
his future position in Japan.
Since returning from Japan a
year and half ago. he said, Il have
expressed in print and in public
addresses good many views about
Japan and our war with Japan
which I have felt might be helpful
in our national war effort. 1 need
hardly say that those views have in
no respect been changed or modified
Rather have some of those views
become intensified, especially as a
result of the unspeakable atrocities
committed in the Philippines and
elsewhere by the Japanese military
Recently, however, editorial comment
in various newspapers throughout
our country, clearly based on dis
torted versions of one or more OF
my public speeches, indicates that
much of what I have said and writ
Evening star., 1944-02-02
Reds Charge Germans
With Rozine Noveorod

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 2.-The Moscow
radio was reported by the Soviet
monitor last night to have charged
the Germans with a new atrocity-
"the devastation and destruction Of
the ancient town Of Novgorod.
1t said that out of 1900 houses
only 40 were left intact, and that
historic monuments, churches and
monasteries were burned, adding,
Germans defiled the greatest
monument Of Russian religion, Sofia
Church, built in the nth century.
by turning it into store"
Evening star., 1944-02-02
Blaze in Beauty Salon
Forces Women 10 Flee

Three women customers having
their hair dried after beauty treat
ments at the Leon and Jules Beauty
Shop, 1886 H street NV, were forced
to f1ee yesterday when flames broke
out In the basement of the establish
ment.
More than 1000 spectators lined
the street as eight fire engine COM
panies responded to the two-alarm
! fire. The blaze was confined to
the basement and the rear of the
first floor. Three firemen over
come by smoke were given first aid
Leon Butte, proprietor, said much
Of the electrical equipment was
ruined by water.