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Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30

Though distance may diUids US
Broad streams, the level plains,
Kind heGUen wuI provide us
With meana to meeL LaaaIa--
And at that Joyous meeting
Oh, tell me, may I oWn.
How this fond hsGrt ia beating.
For you, sWssthsGrt. Gions.
R. A. Wilson.
THE Princess Theater. New
i York City, had less than 300
seats. Yet IL presented regular
attractions. AS for example, the
musical hit The Night Boat
by Bolton, WodehouSe and
Kern The stage was so small
only eight chorus girls could be
used. This reminiscent train Of
thought is inspired by the queS-
ton:
What was the smallest the
ater In New York theatrical
history:"
| believe il was the Princess.
Other very small theaterS which
competed successfully with the
larger ones were Winthrop
Ames' little theater, the Punch
and Judy, at which ! saw Ron
aid Young in "Rollo's Wild
Oat. and the Nora Bayes,
which once housed the comedy
hit Three Live Ghosts
QUERIES from clients. @
W Why is il the Chinese rarely
suffer from heart disease?
A-That Is n question for n
medical expert. However, IL
might be partly due to the fact
that the Chinese usually have
their emotions under control
and are possessed OF philosophy
OF life that inspires peace of
mind.
Q-What is a Cincinnati
bank roll?
A-Never heard Of IL.
Q-Why are there so many
more red-haired women than
red-haired men,
A-There bnly seems TO be
because there are so many syn
thetic red-heads among women.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
The ART or CONVERSATION

py huton Nrikbt
This interesting and instructive booklet
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sationalist with complete information
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actual cost. To get your copy address
Dr. A. Y. Wiggam care OF The Detroit
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Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30

"A spaniel WaRs hs tod at
anybody.
"A Seottis UH not bseoms
familiar or permit familiarity
uHtft he ~ property intro
duesd. Another Hsn Of in-
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
DOGS ONCE MORE

400 YOU say black and
- whits springer spdnisis
are smarter than Seottiss."
writes a BaldWin, L. L.. reader.
"Hoot mon! You're plain
daft. The exceptional intsili-
Renes of the Scotch terrier 10
shoWn by his great dignity
and discrimination.
Springer spanisis. no mat
ter hoW old, remain puppyish.
] know an IL year old
springer that plays Nth
shoe. Thofs like a 77-ysay-
old man playing With a rubber
doll. Indicates orrested de-
Veiopment.
"A Scottis, whsn a puppy,
acts like a puppy, but when
he becomes RroWn dog acts
like one This is a sign Of in
t<iiiRenes.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
BABIES

CALIFORNIAN boasts that
~ her l-year-old baby weighs
30 pounds. Not being a baby
expert, l am unable to say how
unusual that is. However. |
understand the average baby
weighs about IA pounds At
birth, doubles it's weight at six
months of age and triples it at
one year. That is. OF course,
triples its weight at birth. Ac-
cording to that, the average
baby should at one year Of age
weigh 22i2 pourds.
Distributed oy King Features sypd Inc
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
TRIPLE WEDDING

IN recent Portland, Ore,
Il triple wedding. the brides
were grandmother. mother
and daughter The grandmother.
Mrs. Anna Haines, is 50. The
mother. Mrs. Ruth MacLean. is
35. and the daughter, Beverly
Hayes, II.
"I know California can't top
that" writes my informant.
And I doubt even Brooklyn
can"
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30

- - -
The men are all natural red
heads.
PASSING By
. Campbell McGAVIN Pos
- slbly the Oldest active bell
hop in the country Is over 70
years Of age but sui responding
rapidly to call Of Front" In
his youth McGavIn was A we'll
known Jockey lie competed
with such saddle artists As
Henry Spencer tthe original
ice man }. Frank 0'NeiH,
Tod Sloan. Winnie O'Connor.
Monk" Coburn. Tommy Burns.
Willie Shaw and George Noun
tain. He also rode in South
America.
Lee Willard Brilliant restau-
rant maestro. A reformed saXa-
phone player Before the war
was a member Of touring
dance band that played at the
Imperial Hotel. Tokyo. Mr..
Willard's charming wife, Al
berta. who is 4 feet 10 inches
tall. is the sixth vice president
OF that Southern California or
ganization of cute. little tricks
known as The Little, But, Oh
My Club.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30

By (. V. DURLING
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
HOW TO SLEEP

GAN FRANCISCAN recon-
- mendS sleeping fiat on your
stomach with arms outstretched
and using no pillow Says it pro-
notes longevity. All 1 know is
that "R b b I" Maranville,
famous major sguer. once
stated that was the way he
slept. Maranvllle was active in
major league ball when in his
middle forties and played semi
pro ball when we'll over so. So
maybe that is good way 70
sleep. That IS, If you can do it.
l tried II and couldn't.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30
BY GEORGE DIXON,

just simple strategy. And once
you knock him out, the ques-
ton OF whether you were AFRAID
OF him or not has ceased 70
matter.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30

The men are all natural red
heads.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-30

= = Son So.
- -.~~- Sun De emp
Evening star., 1945-03-30
March Weather
Expected to Be
Hottest on Record

The warmest March in District
Weather Bureau records Is in pros
pect although fair and cooler is fore
cast for the Easter week end.
Today will be more cloudy and
cooler than yesterday, with prospect
of light showers this afternoon and
clearing tonight. The rain which
previously had been expected to-
morrow apparently has passed
around Washington.
Temperatures this month, which
reached a peak of 80 at $40 pm.
yesterday, may break all March rec
ords since the Weather Bureau was
established In 1916. 1t was estimated
that the mean temperature today
may be So. and If it is warm enough
tomorrow to reach mean tempera-
ture of IS degrees, the average for
March will rise to 55.6. This would
exceed the 55.5 degrees record set in
March, 1921. The mean temperature
for this month through yesterday
was $50 degrees.
Evening star., 1945-03-30
Stettinius Sure Vote Disclosure
Won't Hamper Allied PdrIey
Small Nations Study
Strategy to Combat
Big Three Plan
BY the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Mar. 30.-Statesmer
of smaller nations today studied
strategy for combating the move
by Soviet Russia and the United
States for triple voting power in
the proposed World Security Or
ganization Assembly. Some were
believed counting on France and
China to help block the plan.
Representatives of the little coun-
tries, worried over league domina-
ton by the Big Three, expressed
surprise at the Washington dis
closure that Russia and the United
States would claim three votes each
to balance the British Empires six.
Some spokesmen said they re-
garded the proposal as a trading de-
vice to offset attempts by smaller
nations to obtain more potent voices
in the assembly. Others considered
increased power for the big nations
a relegation of the small nations to
rubber-stamp roles.
Representatives Of such countries
as the Netherlands and Belgium
would say for the record only that
the report of the plan had just been
brought to their attention and was
being studied by foreign ministers.
For guidance" familiar term
Evening star., 1945-03-30

bank at about 1890 am. with the
satchel containing the money. They
were bound for Kann's. which is
only a few hundred feet away, across
a heavily travelled intersection.
The bandits apparently had PLAN
ned the holdup well, and they acted
swiftly.
Arnold H. Tielke, 27. seaman first
class, stationed at the Patuxent
Md Naval base. saw the two ban
dts walk up to the tellers as they
left the bank. According to the sai-
lor. the holdup men hurried along
the street until they were close to
the bank employees.
Knocks Teller Down.
Suddenly, one of the bandits
struck Mr. Phillips with something
which Seaman Tielke said resembled
blackjack wrapped in paper. The
teller was knocked to the pave
ment and Mr.. Goode leaped aside,
the sailor said. The man who struck
Mr.. Phillips then grabbed the bag
and both bandits ran toward the
waiting car. They drove northeast
on Indiana avenue in the direction
of police headquarters, Seaman
Tielke said. The sailor saw the
license number as the car sped off.
At Emergency Hospital, where he
was taken for treatment of head
lacerations, Mr.. Phillips told police
he was just leaving the bank with
Mr.. Goode when the two men came
up to him and one of them struck
him on the head from behind. He
said he believed the men had been
in the bank and followed him OUT
side.
|. st don't know what they struck
me with" he said. Il still feel
pretty shaky."
An immediate check on the license
Evening star., 1945-03-30
III British Brigadiers
| And 3 Writer'S Rescued
By Enc Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MARSHAL MONTGOMERY'S
HEADQUARTERS, Mar. 80. - The
Allies overran an officers prison
camp yesterday and liberated II
British brigadiers and three war
correspondents, including Godfrey
Anderson Of the Associated Press,
who was captured by the Germans
in Africa.
The other two correspondents
were Patrick Cross of Reuters and
Edward Ward Of BBC.
Mr.. Anderson was q correspondent
with the British 8th Army in Libya
when the Italians captured him
Mr.. Ward and Harold Denny of the
New York Times on November %
194l, in the desert regions around
Sidi Omar.
Mr.. Denny was repatriated on the
Drottningholm in an exchange ir
1s42.
Evening star., 1945-03-30
0PA Is Hard Pressed
By Beef Industry's
Victory on Ceilings
Court Says Pockers
Cont Break Even
Under Price Policies
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OPA's pricing policies-under
attack as a cause for current
food shortages - reeled today
from a judicial blow and sena-
torial admonitions to get to-
gether. with business.
Although upheld on one major
contention, the agency was told by
the Emergency Court of Appeals
late yesterday that it's present CELL
ings, even with Government SUBJ
sides, do not allow packers who
produce only fresh beef to make an
adequate profit or indeed = to
break even."
The court, on the other hand
held that processing" packer CELL
ings generally are fair and equitable
In contrast to nonprocessors, these
packers turn out in addition to fresh
beef such by-products as sausage
tallow and oil. They handle about
85 per cent Of the beef supply.
Investigators Rest.
The courts findings were con-
tanned in five decisions involving
q number Of packers, among them
Armour and Co.. of the '"big four
professor slaughterers.
Two upheld the professor packers
who had protested that they suffered
out-of-pocket losses on sales of beei
to the armed forces.
Otherwise the food picture was in
a week end dim-out, with separate
Senate and House investigating
committees resting for resumption
Monday of their quest for cause and
cure of shortages.
There was no rest, however, for
OPA-already under heavy pressure
for concessions to business groups
which contend its policies have been
unfair.
Even before yesterdays decision
from the court, set up solely to hear
appeals from OPA regulations, the
agency had direct requests from two
Senate committees that it patch up
its differences with business.
Can Appeal Ruling.
The Agriculture Committee In
midWeek told OPA, in an "or else
manner, to adjust things with pack
ers who contended they were being
forced into bankruptcy.
Yesterday, the Banking Commit
tee called in OPA officials for q
talk about complaints it has hac
from businessmen. Chairman Wag-
ner reported the agency chieftains
gave assurances they would try tt
harmonic" their relations witt
business.
The Senate committee then tenta-
lively approved extension Of the
Price Control Act for one year from
June 80.
Meanwhile. OPA attorneys wrestlet
with . decision whether to accept
or appeal the ruling that some o.
(see FOOD, Page A-40
Evening star., 1945-03-30
Pictures on PAGE BIZ


Two employees of the National
Bank of Washington were as
saulted and robbed of $4,000
shortly after 10:30 am. today by
two armed men at the busy in
tersection of Seventh and C.
streets NV. The bank employees
had just left the bank with
money for S. Kann Sons Co.
Department Store.
The holdup took place little over
a block from police headquarters. It
was the first bank holdup in this
area in almost four years.
One of the bank employees, Arthur
L. Phillips, At, whose home is in
nearby Virginia, was slugged on the
head with blackjack by one of the
bandits. The other messenger, T.
Gray Goode, AZ, of 214 Twelfth street
S.W., was held at gun point by the
other holdup man.
The bandits escaped in an auto
mobile, which was waiting nearby
with driver at the wheel.
Roads Checked.
Police Immediately posted patrol
cars at all bridges and roads lead
ing out of the city. The FBI joined
the search Immediately because q
national bank was involved.
| According to Rutherford j. Dooley
vice president and cashier of the
bank. the two employees, both of
whom are paying tellers. left the
Evening star., 1945-03-30
Mine Wage Confelee,
Summoned 10 WLB
Hearing Tomorrow
Extension of Contract
Pending Further ToIks
Will Be Discussed
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

The War Labor Board today
summoned deadlocked soft coal
miners and operators to appear
at a hearing at 10:30 am. to-
morrow to determine whether
their contract can be extended
until new one can be agreed on
The present contract expires at
midnight tomorrow and Govern
ment seizure of the mines was be-
lieyed likely if the operators and
John l.. Lewis fail to agree on a
new pact or extension of the pres
ent one.
The WLB acted soon after re-
cetving- formal certiflcation of the
dispute from Secretary of Labor
Perkins, whose eleventh hour effort
to settle contract differences
through a compromise failed last
night after a 12-hour conference
with the negotiators.
Cites Boards Practice.
Chairman George w. Taylor of
the WLB wired the operators and
miners saying that ''the parties will
be called on to show cause in ac-
cordance with the boards practice
in such cases why the terms and
conditions of the existing contract
should not be extended, pending
final action on the issues in dispute,
and why an effective date for wage
adjustments that may be finally de-
termined upon should not be fixed .
Mr.. Lewis had agreed to Miss Per-
skins' proposal, which is understood
to have eliminated his demand for a
royalty of 10 cents a ton on all soft
coal mined, but the operators re-
fused to accept the compromise. OBJ
jecting particularly to retroactive
pay provisions.
+ DR.. Taylor said in his telegram
that the board would determine at
the hearing whether it can hear the
dispute directly, dispensing with the
customary procedure of naming a
special panel.
Meanwhile, sentiment among the
coal operators today seemed to indi-
cate a reversal Of their position on
retroactive pay. 1t was held likely
that the producers would now agree
with the WLB order making retro
active to April ! any wage adjust
mentS granted the miners in a new
contract.
Rejected Previous Request.
On Tuesday the operators turned
down a request of Secretary of In
terror Ickes for extension of the
contract and full retroactivity on the
grounds that it might break the in
duStry. The change in position was
ascribed to the fact, as one operator
put it, that I'VE would rather do
business with WLB than with Mr..
IckeS."
Miss Perkins, worn from hours OF
conciliatory effort in the wage con-
ference at the Shoreham, announced
at midnight that mine operators had
| rejected her proposal to compromise
contract differences although she
fSee MINERS, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1945-03-30

enemy said was approaching Kassel
was moving in different direction
and apparently slower than the
tanks curling around the Ruhr.
At one position, the British on the
northern lip of the Ruhr were 30
miles inland from the Rhine ''to
and beyond Dorsten," field dis
patch said. Great Ruhr cities such
as Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Mulheim
Oberhausen, Bochum and Reckling-
hausen thus had been by-passed.
At that point-announced nearly
"a hours ago-the British were 13
miles from Dortmund and % miles
from Hamm, eastern exit for the
Ruhr Valley.
Nazi Tank Division Knocked Out.
The United States 9th Army, driv-
ing eastward in Echelon with the
British, broke clear through Ger
man lines in the Ruhr itself after
knocking the f1rst-rate German
116th Tank Division off it's feet in
the Zweckel area just north of
Gladbeck. The 9th Army has cap
tured 10000 prisoners since crossing
the Rhine.
This seemed to be the pattern of
the west front onslaught:
British forces were driving to seal
off North German ports and moving
with the 9th Army toward meeting
with the 1st Army to box off the
Ruhr.
The Sd Army was gouging into the
middle of Germany toward Russian
lines.
The 7th Army was moving into
position to slice off mountainous
Southern Germany where Nazi war
criminals might try to hole up.
Lauterbach Captured.
Third Army tanks captured
Lauterbach and entered Herbstein
both 80 miles east of Giessen ano
within 237 miles of Russian lines, 1876
of Leipzig and less than 100 miles oi
Czechoslovakia.
First Army infantry was moving
Evening star., 1945-03-30
Germans Finally Yield Donziq,
Where War Started in 1899

the waterways OF the ViStula Estu-
ary. Danzig is a city of SO bridges.
Ancient stronghold of the Teu-
tonic Knights and famous in the
medieval Hanseatic League, Danzig
is predominantly Germanic in
population. Hitler demanded that
its status as a free city be Cancelled
and its territory be annexed to the
Reich along with a corridor across
| the Polish Corridor. This was the
immediate cause of the conflict
which broke out on September /,
1899.
The Nazis. using methods similar
to those adopted for the conquest
of Norway In 1910, smuggled troops
and IS men under civilian guise
into the city prior to the outbreak,
Lynn Heinzerling, Associated Press
correspondent in Danzig that day
timed the first shots of the war
lat 4.48 am. on September /. 1t
was not until $50 that Hitler
broadcast his order of the day an
lnouncing that he had decided to
meet force with force"-the de-
lcision which set the torch to Eu-
rope.
Evening star., 1945-03-30
1900 U. 5. Planes Hit
Nazi North Sea Ports
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Mar. 3o.-More than
1,400 American heavy bombers and
an escort of 900 fighters-the largest
concentration sent out by the 9th
Air Force this year-attacked Ger
many's North Sea ports of Bremen,
Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven today.
The massive attacks were intended
to cut off any seaborne supplies
destined for the German Armies in
the North.
Bomber targets included sub
marine building > DIS, naval vessels
in port, oil storage depots and harbor
installations.
Raj Mosquito bombers struck
ravaged Berlin last night for the
37th time in 38 night.
The Mosquitoes, which laid 2-ton
blockbusters on Berlin, also at
tackled other undisclosed detectives
in Northwest Germany. From these
raids and yesterday afternoons
heavy bomber attack on a benzol
plant near Brunswick, one escorting
fighter plane was missing, the Air
Ministry said.
Evening star., 1945-03-30

ary bomb, starting numerous
fires. The Berlin broadcast, not
confirmed by Allied sources, was
heard in London.)
Attached to 5th Fleet.
The British task force, which in
cluded the battleship King George v
and the carrier Illustrious, operated
as unit attached to Admiral Ray
mond A. Spruance's 5th United
States Fleet.
1t became the first element of the
Royal Navy to strike an offensive
blow SO close to Japan in this war,
and the first part Of the British fleet
to undertake such operations at ex-
treme long range.
Until the establishment of the
United States Fleet headquarters
here. the Pacific Fleet carried on
offensiyes at extraordinarily lone
range. The British never had been
equipped to do this. That led some
naval observers to believe the Royal
Navy could not join in the attacks
en- Japan, because It's bases were toe
far away.
But the British overcame that OBJ
tSee RYUKYUs, Page A-3J
Evening star., 1945-03-30
Secret Agreement to
Increase Ballots of
u. S., Russia Bored
BY GARNETT d. HORNER.

Secretary of State Stettinius
said today that he is confident
| the San Francisco United Ma
tionS Conference will be a sue
cess despite public apprehension
raised by disclosure of a secret
Big Three agreement to seek in
creased voting power for Russia
and the United States in the gen.
eral assembly of the proposed
world security organization.
Mr.. Stettinius told a news confer
ence that this confidence was based
on his faith that what We have gone
to war about was not in vain and
that all questions regarding the
peace will be solved.
The Secretary refused to answer
more than 80 specific questions re-
lating to the belatedly disclosed
agreement reached at the Crimea
Conference, but said nothing had
happened to discourage him in any
way with regard to the prospects
for successful world organization.
Will Welcome Red Delegates.
One of the spcific questions he
said he could not answer today was
whether any other secret agree
ments on the Dumbarton Oaks pro-
See SECTTPJTv paoa Az
Evening star., 1945-03-30
By the Associated Press.

LONDON. Mar. 3o.-Danzig, the
10th century Baltic city where the
shooting began in this war, has
fallen to the Russians, the German
high command announced today.
The Germans said, however. that
fighting still was in progress on the
Westerplatte, sandy spit forming
Danzig Harbor where Poles held out
in fortress for week in 1899.
While the capture had not been
confirmed by the Red Army. Mos
COW dispatches said Premier Stain
was expected to salute the final VIC
tory of Danzig very soon.
4 A city of $4,000, Danzig had
been under close siege since March
%, when the Sd White Russian
Army OF Marshal Alexander VasiI-
evsky drove to Zoppot on the Bay
of Danzig, and separated the city
from Its rival Polish port of Gdynia,
since fallen to the Russians. The
Russians encircled both Gdynia and
Danzig on March IL, when they
reached the bay north of Gdynia.
SIS troops fought bitterly on the
many sections Of the city cut by
Evening star., 1945-03-30
Hodges Races North SO Swiftly
Communications With Rear Fail
lst Army Speeds
Toward junction
With 9th Army
MAP on Page A-4.J
Ey the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Mar. 30-American Isl
Army tanks, Shearing the Ruhl
from Germany, Streaked north
ward today SO fast that contact
was lost with headquarters in the
rear, but the German communi-
que said some armor had reached
Bad Wildungen, 20 miles south
west Of KaSSel and 1870 miles from
Berlin.s
1t was the swiftest advance of the
war.
1t. Gen. Courtney H Hodges pow
erful forces were driving past the
headwaters of the Ruhr toward a
junction with the American 9Th
Army of Field Marshal Montgom-
ery's 21st Army Group, swing
ing across Westphalia on the open
roads of North Germany.
Gen. Eisenhower has said the loss
of the Ruhr would leave Germany
incapable of continuing organized
resistance long. The greatest mass
of German troops left in Western
Europe was being swiftly encircled
in the trap fashioned by the 1st
and 9th Armies. British forces of
the 21st Army Group appeared to
be veering northeastward.
The junction would trap up to
10000 enemy troops.
In 48 hours more than $4,000
Germans have surrendered. The
priced old cities of Frankfurt-o
the-Main, Mannheim and Heidel-
berg have fallen with little opposi-
ton. Hundreds of lesser places
have fallen.
Distances Greatly Reduced.
The last definitely pinpointed
position reached by the 1st Army in
the push northward was 10 miles
south of Paderborn. Here the 1st
Army was 1856 miles from Berlin.
The lst Army column which the