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Detroit evening times., 1945-07-20
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Detroit evening times., 1945-07-20

The Fighting Irish Never For
get 10 Honor Sweet-Faced Old
Woman on Her Birthday. Her
Name i Polly FairClough aud,
When She Was Known as the
Clnuting Colleen, She Knocked
out Many Brawny Male. Read
About This Bundle of Feminine
Dynamite in The American
Weekly. with rhis Sundays Issue
OF The Detroit sunday Times
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-20
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Detroit evening times., 1945-07-20
Edison Shows Profit
OF 6 Million in Year

The Detroit Edison Co. and sub
salaries report a net profit for
the II months ended June 30, of
So, 24l,S72, after provisions for
taxes, equal to 9S cents share,
as compared to SS,516,474, or
S13i a share in 1914.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-20
100 Million Asked
To Aid Philippines

WASHINGTON. July 70 GNS)
Senator Tyding Of Maryland is
seeking S10O,0OO.0O from Con-
gress 10 pay the Philippines for
property damages IN the Japanese
invasion and subsequent guerrilla
warfare
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-20
Bans 'Corn-Squeezines'

WASHINGTON, July 10 up
Secretary of Agriculture Ander.
on has banned use of corn in the
manufacture of alcohol after July
81. The action will mean no more
bourbon for civilians.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-20
DESTROY
reaches

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tact or swallowing. Effective 24
hours a day. No odor. Over
1000, 200 cans Of Petermsn's sold
last year. Get Peterman's today.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-20
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ROACH FOOD

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Detroit evening times., 1945-07-20

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convenient way. Order them
delivered 10 your door from your
Detroit Times carrier-saIesman.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-01
The Jews i'm EurOpe

advancing American armed forces,
have shown the stark reality of the
unspeakable situation.
The Jews of Europe have been
the principal victims of this
bestiality.
Millions of them have died, and
the pitiful few of them remaining
are dying.
Why are the things left undone
which might SAVE these few?
Every minute of delay spells the
doom of more of them.
They expect no mercy from their
Nazi tormentors, and will receive
none.
But they DO expect the civilized
peoples of the world, particularly the
sympathetic and tolerant and hu-
name American people, to follow
their merciful instincts in their be-
half down to the last fatal minute of
this tragic time.
THE lateness of the time must not
l. stay the hands of mercy in this
challenging cause.
The grave difficulty of the task,
or even its seeming futility, must not
prevent the making of supreme
effort to salvage the little that re-
mains of oppressed European Jewry.
Let us not abandon these people
to their doom.
Whatever we can do, even the
little that seems to remain in our
power to do, should be done NOW in
order that the Jewish people of
Europe who have suffered so much
and so far survived so much will not
be utterly destroyed in "the last mad
act" which now confronts them.
If Congress needs Stimulation"
for this, let the American people pro-
vide it-and be urged on by the
solemn warning of Mr.. Smertenko
that "the greatest danger at this
time lies in delay"
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-01

THE Jewish people of Europe, or
Il such of them as have survived the
long ordeal of persecution, torture
and slaughter conducted by Nazi
Germany in central Europe, are now
in the last act of their tragic expert
ence, as the challenging letter
printed elsewhere on this page as
serts.
The challenge now confronting
the civilized world, writes Mr.. Johan
j. Smertenko, executive vice chair
man of the Emergency Committee to
Save the Jewish People of Europe, is
"to save the surviving Hebrews in
Europe from the last mad act of the
Germans"
There has been program of al
leviative action, drawn up by the
committee and representing the def
mite and practical things which can
still be done in behalf of these un-
happy people, before the Congress
in Washington for many weeks.
THERE have been many express
L sions of sympathy for their cause,
and of approval of the proposed
program.
But there has not been any
ACTION.
And the precious little time re.
naming is RUNNING OUT.
Something should surely be done,
as Mr.. Smertenko writes in obvious
desperation, to stimulate sufficient
sentiment to produce action in
Washington"
Plainly, the American people
must provide that stimulation.
The American people have re-
Gently become acutely conscious of
the bestial practices indulged in the
concentration camps of central
Europe.
Photographs and affidavits by
competent observers, including our
q ~ yur nryon,y y,ue, -
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-01
By
Bob Hope

scared when an Indian asked
him whore he could check his
tomahawk. That's the first time
| ever saw a toupee run for
help.
Most Of their delegation is
campod out Of town on the hills
but they're keeping up with
things. A buddy is sending them
smoke signals from the Top OF
the Mark" One puff means I've
met paleface. Two puffs-
I've met very paleface. Three
puffs-Sinatra's arrived.
But these delegates are
plenty sharp. They don't use
that old peace pipe routine TO
get what they want. They just
run through the conference
with cartons OF cigarets. And.
early this morning, they'd got
the Middle Atlantic states back
and we're still going strong.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-01
VIGOROUSLY Make Peace PERMANENTLY Bring Our Boys Home PROMPTLY
The NaZi Horror Camps
MIR. JOHN r. HEARST, repre-.

MIR. JOHN R. HEARST, repre-
AVA senting the Hearst newspapers,
recently accompanied a group of
eighteen American publishers and
editors who flew to Germany at the
special request of Gen. Eisenhower
% "see for themselves" the evidence
of Nazi atrocities in concentration
camps overrun by the American
armed forces.
He reports that all of the mem
bers of the party were "fearfully
shocked" by the experience.
Gen. Eisenhower knew they
would be shocked, and he told them
that his purpose in asking them to
view the frightful scene was to make
it possible for them "to giUe the
American people the bare unUar-
nished truth of the horrors that were
perpetrated under the Hitler Dictator
ship"
1T IS surely of the utmost impor-
tance that the American people,
and indeed all of the decent and re.
sponsible people of the, civilized
world, should know the TRUTH of
this matter.
The American people remember,
and Gen. Eisenhower well knows,
that there was gross exaggeration
and misrepresentation about atroci-
ties in the last war, and that there
was ultimate and inevitable refuta-
tion-and that consequently there is
a natural skepticism in the public
mind about atrocities in this war.
But Gen. Eisenhower knows that
THIS TIME the atrocities are not
fiction.
lie AND his men were the first
IL to see what Mr.. Hearst has now
seen and reported as "the grisiy
stack of corpses flung in heap for
disposal-a disposal Dhich had
neuer taken place due to the rapid
approach of the American forces"
His problem was to make the peo-
pie at home BELIEVE that such evil
things had been done-things that in
the understanding of decent and
civilized people are almost beyond
belief.
It was not his purpose that the
American people should know these
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-01
COMMUNICATES

GAN FRANCISCO. April 30
~ The equilibrium of the San
Francisco conference was AL
most upset when a delegation
Of American Indians arrived
and demanded As of the United
States back. They were Demo-
cratic Indians. so they refused
Maine and Vermont.
They're supposed 10 have the
active support Of Chief Little
Big Hat, who runs TO fires.
That's Mayor LaGuardia TO
you.
/ met one delegate this morn
ing and wanted him TO see that
was friendly, so l walked over
and said:
Ugh"
He grunted:
"Oh yeah. well. you amt no
Van Johnson, either, brother"
And did one hotel clerk get
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-01
WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
BY DIR. SABINA CONNOLLY

eanette Macdonald, DR..
Francis Griffin.
"a famous brother battery
,pitcher and catcher) has
been having trouble, over
salary arrangements, with
the management of a big
league ball club. Can you:
ta) name the club? (b)
name the brothers?
f-True or false: (a) Calcium Is
a metal. (b) The state of
California touches two large
bodies Of water. the Pacific
ocean and the Gulf of Cali
fornia.
)-The calendar now mos
widely used is an evolution
of the Roman calendar. Is il
called Julian or Gregorian?
o-Does hygrometer meas
ure: ta) the moisture con-
tent of the air? (b) the
consumption Of water of a
family whose source is a mu-
nicipal water system? (c)
the temperature of water in
particularly deep parts of
the ocean?
I'm weaving which is the
thread that crosses from
Selvage 10 selvage of the
completed fabric-is it the
warp, or is it the weft?
Sin President Truman's first
address to Congress he
quoted from the Bible a pas
sage IN which Solomon replies
to the Lord when asked TO
name what he. God. should
give him. For what did Solo,
mon ask?
(Answer. on Opposite Psge)
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-01

things and believe them in order that
they might fight harder in the war,
and thus more quickly win the war.
THIS is not necessary, because the
- disclosure of the Nazi horror
camps has come at stage of the war
when victory is assured and virtu-
ally achieved.
It was not his purpose to make
the American people HATE their
enemies with greater intensity in
order that vengeance might be
exacted-because hate and venge-
ance have no curative powers in
sick world.
His real purpose is to set in
motion, if possible, the human and
spiritual forces which may PRE-
VENT such evil things from ever
happening again.
That is what will be IMPOR.
TANT after this war.
The vital task of humanity after
this war, if there are not to be other
and more terrible wars and new and
worse evils, is to determine what
manner of mental poison it was that
made these unspeakable and unbe-
lievable things possible.
uOW and why did human minds
IL ever become depraved and de-
ranged to the extent, as Mr.. Hearst
writes, that "the Nazis had deliber-
ately sponsored starvation as
means of eliminating those inmates
who had to be got rid of for political
reasons, and some of the lesser folk
no longer able physically to continue
their sloUe labor"
How can such depravity and de-
rangement be guarded against in the
future?
Gen. Eisenhower does not pretend
to know the answers.
But he does know that if enough
decent and responsible people
throughout the world KNOW THE
TRUTH they will FIND the answers,
since that is the only way human
decency and dignity can ever prevail
in the world.
That is why he wanted repre-
sentative American publishers and
editors to "see for themselves" and
report the facts in a manner that
will prevent their repetition.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-01

1-How many presidents OF
United States have been
named Harry? (a) one, (b)
two, (c) three.
2-We get the word ketchup
from the ta) Indians, Cb)
Chinese, (c) japanese.
3-What Bible character was
caught by his hair in a tree
during battle? (a) Absa-
lom, (b) jeremiah, tc) David.
4-One Of these states is west
of the Mississippi and north
of the Ohio: (a) Arkansas,
tb) Iowa, tc) Indiana.
5-Our first ambassador TO Eng
land was: ta) Thomas Jay,
tb) Benjamin Franklin, (c)
John Adams.
Snatch these columns cor
rectly. Vice presidents sue
ceeding at a presidents
death:
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-01

T MY eye, he seems man
Il OF contrasts whose real per-
sonality is unfathomably deep
within him. He shows no weak
nesses unless his own depth OF
intensity is a weakness in the
extreme to which he sometimes
carries it in action.
His cold and calculating in
terror is balanced by certain
desire to break into levity at
times and a certain warmth OF
cordiality.
Contrastingly, also he wears.
as you have seen, clothes which
could have been cut by Fifth
Avenue tailor yet he walks lum-
beringly around in them at
times as if he were Santa Claus
(the similarity begins and ends
with the gaiD.
Here is a hard man to deal
with. He leaves you with the
feeling you never know his
thorough purposes-or him.
THE Briton. Anthony Eden.
l. spells Eton cricket, play
ing fields, all that you know.
From his impeccable mustache
down TO his spats. he is prac-
tically a picture of British ira
dition (the tall slender part of
it, Churchill being the roly-poly
half.
Above his mustache, he is for
eign office, the old League of
Nations school tie. He is more
experienced in that subject Of
the league and how things were
done at Geneva than any of the
top quartet.
In speaking he radiates the
parliamentary m ner, the
straightforward style Of speech
used by ministers there. You
will not realize until he has con-
cluded and you start to analyze
his words carefully, that he has
carefully reserved b IN ind a
beautifully drawn curved line
what he did not want to say.
CTETTINIUS seems to me in
~ manner and purpose TO be
what a young chairman Of the
board of the u. s. Steel Corp.
should be. l think he has been
widely underestimated by those
who have followed only his brief
political career. He has the di-
rect business approach. His
dominating quality l think is
earnestness.
In that tone-executive ear
nestness-he handled the begin
nings OF the conference as if it
were a meeting Of the board.
No one else spoke except upon
his invitation.
IT V. SOONG, the Chinese
IL leader. is a young business
man also, neat and polished in
demeanor as well as utterance.
l do not think he could be
easily swayed. He speaks good
American. as contrasted with
English tno broad AS or British
words) and he seems to me TO
have financial type of mind.
These are all young men Of
the new world whose actions
are 10 make the course of the
world. great contrasts all with
the PROFESSIONAL Wilson, shrewd
Clemenceau and the bargaining
politico Lloyd George-yet act
ing without precise direction
from the absentees who sit- at
the top desks in Washington,
Moscow, London and Chung
king.
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Detroit evening times., 1945-05-01
The ROAD
TO TOKYO
BY James R.
Young

A S SENATOR, President Tru-
a man headed the special
committee to investigate the
national defense program, and
performed one of the outstand-
ing jobs of the war.
The befogged atmosphere in
which the House and Senate
committees on foreign affairs
operate should give Mr.. Tru-
man the opportunity TO form
another special committee, this
time on Far Eastern foreign
affairs, which could be of i'm
mense help in Strengthening out
the muddle which faces America
in the Orient.
AS things stand now, innu-
merable situations in the Far
East are so hopelessly tangled
that the present diplomatic
setup might never straighten
them out.
This committee. comprised of
men who have extensive first
hand knowledge of the Orient.
could give the benefit OF their
years of experience to our Far
Eastern department, and could
expose the pitfalls of Oriental
affairs to such gatherings as the
San Francisco conference and
the gatherings which will un-
doubtedly be held soon in
Honolulu and Manila.
The record shows that their
help is sadly needed.
I PROPOSE that President
L Truman encourage the crea-
tion of a peoples committee to
advise on Far Eastern issues.
1t should be unnecessary to
fear that the diplomatic future
will be bleak and sad, a proph-
ecy made this week by the
ed itor of the Times of India
published at Bombay.
Inertia has rendered our for
eign policy a clumsy instrument
in the Far East, geared to
rickshaw days and coal burning
passenger boats.
Several officials in the state
department have become mere
messenger boys.
Others have failed to express
themselves lest they endanger
their advancement in rank.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-01
Brain Game

1-Of the five large continents
OF the world. which has the
smallest population?
Pair the following names
correctly to place each of the
girls with her husband: Mar
garet Sullivan. Burgess
Meredith; Irene Dunno, Ron
aid Reagan; Paulette God
dard. Gene Raymond; Jane
Wyman, Leland Hayward;
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-01
A Plea to Rescue
Jews i'm Europe
Washington, ID. c., April 4, I

u Washington, d. c., April A. 1945
MR. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST,
McCLOUD, CAL.
MY DEAR MR.. HEARST:
7 AM enclosing copies of letters sent by the Hebrew
Committee of National Liberation and the Emergency
Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe to the
President and to Secretary Settus respectively These
constitute part of effort to save the surviving
Hebrews in Europe from the last mad act of the Germans
Every effort has also been extended to Congress-
Senator Claude Pepper of Florida has just informed
that within the next few days he will introduce resou
ton recommending official statement on the part OF
government in accordance with the statement out
lined to the President by Mr. Bergson similar resolu
ton will be introduced in the House.
You have been sympathetic and helpful in the
past that take the liberty of communicating these facts
TO you in the hope that you will support these
by expression of editorial opinion My colleagues and
certain that in calling this situation to the attention
of the American public you will stimulate sufficient
sentiment to produce action in Washington. We trust
that you will be able to do possible for the
greatest danger at this time lies in delay.
Sincerely yours
JOHAN j. SMERTENKO,
Executive Vice Chairman,
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-01

CENATOR TOM CONNALLY,
~ Judging from his past atti-
tude as chairman of the Senate
foreign relations committee, is
not qualified as a leader at the
San Francisco conference. Con-
nally and the chairman of the
House committee, Sol Bloom. l
fear, will acquiesce TO the state
departments policy of consist
emily refusi ing TO take the
people into their confidence.
policy sometimes justifiable in
the interests of military secu-
rity but often with no justifica-
ton. as in the Chinese conver-
sations last autumn.
The public is anxious TO know
our war aims and postwar plans
and to hear specific declarations.
At this writing Senator Con-
nally has taken no action in
forging ahead with the Nickel
lar resolution for hearings on
the necessity for the United
States to retain many of the
former Japanese islands which
we have conquered. described by
Adm. ester w. Nimitz as
vital TO our defense in the
future"
A citizens committee would
include Sumner Welles. Hugh
Gibson, DR.. Brooks ENEMY,
Cleveland; Addison Southard,
former u. S. consul general in
China; Julean Arnold, for 33
years Y. S. commercial attache
in China; Joseph w. Jones, for
eign editor of Fortune maga-
zine; Martin G.. Scott, treasury
department customs service spe-
cial agent, Seattle; Capt. Miller
Freeman, Seattle; Owen Latti-
more, Baltimore; Holmes Green,
Dallas. Tex, businessman. DR..
II. II. Underwood, Brooklyn.
N. Y; J. B. Powell, former
Shanghai newspaper editor;
Rev. Floyd Roberts, Pittsfield,
Mass; Judge John w. Hausser-
man, New Richmond, o.; Prof.
Robert Weinefeld. University of
South Carolina, Columbia. S. C.,
and Prof. Gordon Post of Vas
sar College, Poughkeepsie. n. Y.
Military services would be
represented by Brig. Gen. John
Weakening. war department.
Washington; Capt. f. NJ. Zacha-
rias. navy. San Diego, Cal;
Julian F.. Brown. marine corps,
and Adm. II. Z. Yarnell, retired.
THIS arrangement should pro-
l. vide President Truman with
a committee of business. re-
ligious and professional military
men who could challenge the
fence-straddlers responsible for
our muddled diplomacy.
AS many members as possible
would meet each month, over
period of one year, at Chicago
or st. Louis. They would ex-
anime and criticize foreign
policy and hold special sessions
to interrogate state department
policy planners.
Legislative branches would be
represented by Sen. Scott Lucas,
Illinois, and Rep. Walter Judd,
Minnesota. who could pass on TO
the President the committees
suggestions for the groundwork
of positive policy in the Far
East.
In his last radio broadcast,
Mr.. Roosevelt warned I'VE shall
have 10 take the responsibility
for world collaboration or we
shall have TO bear the response
bility for another world con-
fiict.
President Truman must insist
that those who are to share the
responsibility will determine on
a hard fisted. practical foreign
policy in the Pacific.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-01
JOE REQUESTS

My name is Joe, plain CT Joe,
Pm lot of guys in one -.
I've been in every place you know
Where fighting must be done.
From Bizerte to Casino
To Europes western shore.
From Tarawa up to IWo
To the Japanese front door.
I've hit the beach through whistling shell,
/ froze in snow and rain,
And found out that "war is hell"
AS l cried in mortal pain :.
That I've been scared l won't conceal,
I've shown great courage, too.
I've thrown my flesh 'gainst rock and steel,
1t was my job to do.
I've slept in fox-holes crawled in mud
So tyranny would cease
And all | ask-its not much Bud
Is voice in making peace!
-GI JOE.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-01
BEHIND
THE News
BY Paul
Manon

GAN FRANCISCO. April 30
~ The words and faces OF the
four leaders of the new world
Stettinius, Molotov. Eden and
Soong-are almost as familiar
TO you as are the leaders who
are absent, Truman. Chang Kai-
shek. Churchill and Stain. Most
people in this country could
identify their voices on the radio
without introductions. Yet
meeting them closeup and see|
ing them in front of you in ac-
tion you get deeper impressions.
Here is Molotov, the second
man of Russia, perh haps the
most interesting figure of the
conference. His clothing and
general appearance cast out the
impression that he is a man of
business-nothing elsa man
so deeply immersed in his sole
ideal he had no time for any
other single thought outside of
his business purpose.
LIE CAN be friendly in ad-
- dress and approach, but
there is an unfathomable depth
of intensity in everything he
does or says, a restrained inten-
sity not always apparent, yet
everpresent in the background.
Out of his mouth to us Ameri-
cans come strange words, and
as we hear them we think he
must be saying something of
grave Importance. yet when the
translators disclose his mean
ings we find he has given Tin
the instance l have in mind)
largely the we'll known factual
history of the war.
Only in one sentence then did
he come out with full vocal
manifestation Of the depth OF
feeling he carries, and that was
when he mentioned the Red
Army and Stain.
The translator generally does
not disclose that his words are
particularly scholarly or any
semblance of a picturesque lit
erary style such as Churchills
fluent dramatism, for instance.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-01

JOHAN j. SMERTENKO,
Executive Vice Chairman,
Emergency Committee to Save the
Jewish People of Europe.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-01
Day Unto Day
(Reprinted From the New York Mirror
By Nick Kenny

Dy TNCk NeHHy
HE poet tree The poet tree 1t fourshes for you and
Il me In dirty foxhoes soldiers lie . :. And write
about the clean, blue sky sailor in ships dark
hold is dreaming Of his home of old leaf from you
and twig from And To- We have the poet tree,
For instance, Mike Muzzola of the fighting marines
V-mals poem from overseas. Read it and learn
how the average CT feels about and peace. Mike
lie