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Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31
THESE DAYS

DETAIL shops are rapidly
IL closing down because the
retailer is squeezed between the
ceiling prices and the increased
cost of operations.
II is uneconomic and unrea-
sonable 10 expect any one TO
work for inadequate pay and
the retailer has a right 10 a
return on his investment, his
work and his time.
He is now the victim Of errors
made by the OPA and other
government agencies, errors
sometimes admitted and some
times covered up, but never
sufficiently rectified 10 make il
possible for the retailer to earn
a fair return.
This applies particularly 20
butchers. and the proof lies in
the fact that so many are clos
ing down.
No one gives up a profitable
business.
Even in time of war, the law
of supply and demand will con-
tinue 10 function, no matter
what is done to suspend or
abrogate it.
Black markets come into
existence for several reasons,
often because Of the selfshness
OF men.
The present so-called black
market is not of that charac-
ter.
II is actually an unpremedi-
tated and unarrsnged consent
agreement between the seller
and buyer under which the
buyer tacitly agrees TO a recti-
fication OF OPA errors by
slight increase in price by the
seller.
IT IS very bad process.
L II opens the way TO exces-
sive price increases.
It opens the way 10 corrupt
practices such as tipping Of
sales clerks, secret overcharges,
thumbing the scale and a thou
sand and one devices that the
human mind is capable Of con-
cocting.
The cure for such evils is the
proper price administration by
the overnme ent agencies
charged with that function.
Canceling 10000,000.000 red
points is not proper administra-
ton; II is an admission OF in
competence.
Even before this country went
TO war, Bernard M. Baruch, our
keenest intellect in the economic
field, and Herbert Hoover, who
was in charge OF food during the
last war. advised Congress how
TO do the job.
Their advice was based upon
experiences garnered out of the
last war when many errors we're
made in a virgin field.
Their advice was rejected and
all our present troubles arise
from the fact that we started
de novo and very impractcally.
Sending out a mob OF OPA
inspectors TO persecute retailers
will no more abats the evils of
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31
One Word Led to Another
BY Linda and
Jerry Walter
By Arthur Bugs" Baer

have always noticed that when you get down to the
bottom of the barrel potato is potato
That's the way with manpower And US old swivel
tailed warriors have stopped boasting what would do
If we were that mans army
Things getting tough that draft board
drafted another draft board.
A loud shrek of cannibaism split the acoustics
down the back concede that was mezzanne aviator
and lobby strategst. Whatever said misquoted
BY that time accordion-pleated beezarks will be in
the next draft The only physical examination will be
picture of your grandmother in tights. If the army
doctors like her shape you will be in the army.
That's for men over 40. For so the army
doctors will breathe in your right If it blows out
match in the left you will be in the army.
For men over 10 the test will be more complicated
The battle surgeons will draw chalk line down the
middle of the floor
In the old army they would ask you to walk it. In the
next Macedonian phalanx things will be slightly different
the edges.
If you step the chalk line you will be in
the army
copyrht, by Unite Tsur,, syut
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31
On the
Side

general couldn't get any cigars
doesn't 60 now. He is in tha
Philippines where they grow
some fine tobacco and make
excellent cigars.
A. will wager you one fine
Manila cigar that within the
next month you will see a news
photo of the general smoking a
cigar.
Q-Should you feel bad" or
'Teel badly?"
A-This is open TO argument.
No matter what the gram
marians claim 1 prefer to say
"feel badly"
MOST dogs not only UNDER
A'I stand what is said directly
10 them but can actually get
the drift OF a conversation.
II you have dog, start talk
ing TO your wife about going
out for a walk and note the
pups reaction.
Our dog always understands
such A conversation.
He knows, too, when we say
that we are going 10 leave him
home.
Dogs. at times, seem TO be
trying 10 talk
Some men Of science seem to
believe dogs could be taught to
talk.
wish they could.
Perhaps, II he could talk, a
smart fellow like my dog could
give me some good advice.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31
BETTER HEALTH
By DR.. Logan Glendening

THERE ere methods of meas
urIug the physical features #
not the spiritual qualities that
indicate maleness and female
ness II would be possible
10 line UP a group of men
who represented only very
gradually the change from the
perfectly characteristic male
contour Of wide shoulders.
narrow hips, nOnapproMmatIng
spans betW cen the legs. and
large hands and feet 20 the last
man in line who had narrow
shoulders, broad hips and taper
ing fingers and toes.
And the same thing could be
done In reverse with series Of
women.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31

City-at the foot of 1S0th st.
and the Hudson.
The Stock Exchange, which
has its own medical dept and
tailor.
The 5th Ave. window. display
artists who patent their ideas,
which are often thefted over
night.
Troops arriving from over
seas via Penn Depot-watching
newly inducted men boarding
trains on their way TO a camp.
You can imagine the thoughts
OF both groups.
Priceless antiques sold on
Allen St.-in dusty shops that
seem old enough 10 be antiques
themselves.
AT ONE time New York
"A papers were this conserva-
tive A paper that dened tradi-
ton tby running an interview
with a celebrity was denounced
by competitors for It's senSA-
tional!sm,
Broadway wiSecrackers who
make a joke out OF everything,
including their own lives.
The quip displayed on menus
OF restaurant (which was
cribbed from this column OF a
year ago): Don't complain
about the cold. This IL the
kind OF weather you wanted all
SUMMER
The euspidor In barber shop
with Hitlers likeness on IL.
Four OF the Ave boroughs are
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31

children, forced the German
civilian population to work and
live like rats underground.
There has been no Russian
bombing Of German cities or
even of factories and military
installations. even though we
have given Stain 10000
bombers.
The Russian attack has been
against soldiers in the field.
They know and fear Russian
reprisal.
But only now that the Rus
slams are getting inside Ger
manysdo German civilians have
an opportunity to estimate the
comparative disadvantage of be-
ing conquered by Russians.
Against what evidence that
brings them they measure the
ruins of their bombed cities.
Then, there are Official decla-
ratons. Unconditional Surren-
der" repeat Churchill and
Roosevelt. parrot-like. And TO
Germans that means the worst.
Morgenthsu talks of reducing
them to a position that even
nonindustrisl minded Hindus
will not submit TO.
But Stain, aside from a polite
gesture 70 Roosevelt and
Churchill. has never declared a
dread fate for the German
people.
IF the German high command
L sees fit to let Russian forces
rather than British and Ameri-
cans occupy Germany il is GER
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31

WHY it is called The Big City:
w II contains more workers
who are paid more wages for
producing more goods In more
manufacturing places than In
any other u. S. city.
Double chin-up girls scurrying
into 5th Ave. beauty salons.
Cabbies with unlighted stogies
their teeth because
hooking while driving Is tabu.
- Theatrical stars who pay
fancy fees for scotch'n'soda In
swanky joynts-while they turn
into clouds.
Small-time actors nursing
cupacawfee in cafeterias and
wondering where the rent is
coming from. A scene that can
fracture the illusions OF the
stage-Struck.
The Park Ave. movie temple
with special checkroom Tor
daWgs.
fouts shivering, not from the
cold, but the thawt OF having 10
work.
INHE street-fddler who plays
Il only music he has composed.
Some of which is very listenable.
The swanky East Side private
park where children aren't per-
mitted. Hmf.
Stone Notifications used dur
ins the Revolutionary War still
standing near Broadway and
190th st.
The lighthouse in New York
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31

II1E ARE about to have
W proved 10 US whether or
not the Germans prefer us and
the British 10 the Russians as
conquerors.
The American people are the
worlds prize rustics when II
comes TO falling for fancies
about how other people love
them, or prefer them, or fear
them.
The Russians reach the valley
of the River Oder, margin OF
the inner German homeland,
only a half days drive, and a
half hours fight, from Berlin.
Yet German forces make a
fresh sortie across the Rhine
against US, instead OF throwing
every available machine and
man against the Russian foe
who is much nearer 10 Berlin
with a much easier river to
cross.
Whom do the Germans fear
most?
@..'=
WELL, you say, this may be
w some perversion or plot in
The Nazi or military command,
but certainly the German people
prefer US 70 the Russians.
Now, think this over.
The Germans scrupuiousiy
kept cities have been turned
into dump heaps by continuous
bombing, but not by Russian
planes.
American and British planes
have blown German homes 70
bits, killed German women and
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31

lar button bursts off, you cut
yourself shaving, the toast
burns, etc. You still hold in and
keep sweet. Then you stub your
toe slightly on the rug. This
pulls the trigger and you fly
clear off the handle.
BIT indicates you are lack
ing in what psychologists call
General Characteristic is.
conscientiousness, persistence OF
motive, perseverance, in face Of
obstacles, stability and de-
pendability.
HOW TO BE AN EMO
TIONAL GROWN-UP" - In
cludes so questions with which
TO test yourself. Offered, as
service to our readers, for 10c
to cover costs. Include stamped
(3c). self-addressed return
envelope. Address DR.. A. 4.
Wiggam, care this newspaper.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31
Brain Game Answers

1-(a) Gar Wood.
2-Yes, in addition to land al
far north as Scotland and to
the east, half the land bor-
dering the Black Sea.
3-(b) is correct.
4-Gong.
5-True.
6-"Tomorrow's Business,"
Beardsley Ruml; China to
Me-" Emily Hahn; This
Gentlemen Talk of Peace"
William B. Ziff; Try and
Stop Me-" Bennett Cert; "A
Great Time to Be Alive,S
Harry Emerson Fosdick.
Psalm 19.
Six weeks to three months
and weighing usually less
less than 100 pounds.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31
Detroit Times Rationing Timetable

Blue ca through G-z-vaud through
April as.
Blue H-7 through M-7--vald FEB.
through June 2
MEATS. CHEESE. FATS
Red o-s through s-s-vaud through
March 81
Red rs through X-s-vald through
April 2s
Red Us through D-1-valld through
June q
One 10. salvage fat rood for 4 cents
ana two ration points.
SUGAR
stamp n, Book valid through
Feb. 2e.
Stamp rs, Book valid FEB
through June 2.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31
On
Broadway

either islands or parts of islands.
Only the Bronx is on the main-
land.
Out-of-towners on their first
visit TO the Big Burg enjoying
the novelty OF a subway ride.
They amaze subwayfarers. who
dream OF the time they can af-
ford not 10 ride the subway
Down-and-outers from other
cities are sent back 10 their
home towns at New York tax
payers expense.
THE lonely British sailor al a
l. bar, who was asked II he
had visited Brooklyn. He re-
piled: "Yes, I have. but I
couldn't find the Main street"
The new restaurant which
opens on the 22nd at 9th and
52nd called "Howie's." in honor
OF soldier now in Germany.
The famous star whose new
store teeth are driving her
crazy, so she goes 10 the best
places without them. She looks
terrible.
The old vintage cabs now
making their appearance on the
New York streets. Where do
they come from-museums?
The well known Broadway
producer who Is leaving plenty
OF unpaid bar bills around the
midtown spots. Nice ad.
Toast on a tiny bar sign:
Here's TO Happy Days-The
Nights Are Always Pleasant"
Copyright. le45, By King Features
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31
GASOLINE

NNNIITNI
A Coupon ia gallons. Valid through
March 81
rs and C-s Coupons-S gallons each.
BIS and C-s Coupons gallons each
Law requires state name and license
number be written on every coupon
when received
FUEL OIL
Periods 4, 4 and s-vsld through sept.
80
Period = and s-VAl!d Feb. s,
f SHOES
Airplane Stamps 4, and - valid
Indefinitely.
LIQUOR
No, iT-valid through Jan 81
No. ts-Nalid Feb ] through Feb. 2S.
PROCESSED FOODS
Blue KS through B-2-Vand through
Mar. 81.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31
DEAR MARY ffAWoRTH:

DEAR MARY ffAW0RTH:
THERE are three of us, my
l. dad. my sister who is mar
ried and lives out, and myself.
I live with dad, acting as his
housekeeper, which / have been
since the age Of 10, when
mother died.
During high school, l was sell
dom allowed 10 60 10 social
affairs, as my sister said it
interfered with my duties" T."
Dad agreed with her that my
iends were Jerks so l had
- give them up,
Now / am %. | work in an
office with older people. all in
their forties, and ! have abso-
lutely no social outlets
/ can dance, love good music.
can carry on extensive conver-
sations with agreeable results,
and people Ike me as a rule. !
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31
Connolly Answers

1-(b). 2-(a). 3+(c). f.
(b). 5-(b. 6-(a) Demos
themes, (b) HerodotuA (oy
Euclid, I'D Phidias, (e) Ma
poleon Bonaparte.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31
II. ". DURLING

stengle he decided to use il that
way.
6WHY can't tall girls get
w stylish shoes" writes a
statueSque Californian. "All I
can buy are shoes more suitable
for an elderly woman. Men
manufacturers must be reSpon-
sible for this situation. Don't
they realize there are more tall
girfs In this country now than
ever before In Its history? III
you know n shoe manufacturer
tell him to wake up and look
around"
tNote-I asked a shoe manu-
facturer about this. He said
that in New York and many
other large cities there are shops
which specialize in shoes for tall
females0
QUERIES from clients:
e @. Speaking of husbands
with big feet, what size shoe do
you wear.
A. Eleven and a half. You
know IL has been said men with
big feet make the best hus-
hands. However, nothing has
been said what kind OF wives
women with big feet make. 1
will have our Horses & Women
Department check on this.
q. So Gen Macarthur is
cigar smoker. Then how come
all those news photos of him
smoking a Missouri Meer-
schaum? Your alibi that the
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31

In THE discussion yesterday of
the OBJ jectiye methods We have
for examination of the endocrine
system. / said that some OF the
symptoms most prominently as
sociated in the public's mind
with endocrine gland disorders
were personality changes. and
that for these We have no reli-
able tests.
Whether To -aScrlhe them 10
ductlesS gland disorders IS left
10 the examining doctor opln-
ion. Some modification OF this
statement is permissible and II
especially applies 10 that very
familiar phenomenon OF male
ness in the female and female
ness in the male.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31

EVERYBODY knows them
II the SlSSIeS and the bruteS in
short skirts and brogans that are
cut for the l0-mile tramp no mat
ter what the weather. The lady
wreS,lers and golf champions
and the boys who like to paint
china. Not that necessarily a
lady can't be a golf champion
and not remain quite feminine
Apo. but I'm trying 10 make my
blnt IN brief words.
The woman in politics inclineS
10 somewhat masculine habit OF
thought.
AS Senator Vest once asked
in a rather emotional form Of
argument-'HoW would YOU like
70 come home at night and
be kissed by a justice Of the
peace" - but this was whom
"VoteS for Women was in its
infancy.
OF course all OF Us have some
mixture Of both. There Is fem
inine Sueak In some tough movie
actors which they like 10 bring
out in their most hard-bolled
roles. And for all their beauty
and delicacy, l darkty suspect
that there is quite a lot Of
herman in most ch armi ng
women.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31

The DETROIT TIMES CO
Jan, v L94s
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-31

stengle he decided TO use il that
way.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18
Paper Collection
Set for ; Areas

Collection of waste paper was
scheduled this Sunday in three
Detroit areas by Boy Scout troops
and citizens of the designated
were urged TO place bundles on
the curb by 9 a. m.
An east side area. TO be covered
by scouts of Troop l29, is bounded
by Berkshire. Harper. Whittier
and Outer Drive. Another area
which will be canvassed by Scouts
of Troop 6, sponsored by Calvary
Presbyterian Church, is bounded
by Joy road. fireman, Grand
River and Colfax.
A third collection area was
designated as between Dexter
boulevard, Joy road, Broadstreet
and Pasadena. Scouts of Troop
% will handle the pickups in this
area.
Salvage committee spokesmen
advised householders Scouts were
not permitted to enter homes in
asking that all salvaged waste
paper be assembled prior to the
start of the collection.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18
sTRoNGHOLDs CAPTURED

mands Basilan strait. Particulars
of the landing were not disclosed
STRoNGHoLDs CAPTURED
In the u. s. 14th Corps sector
Of southern Luzon, our troops cap
tured Mabini and Mt. hunting
tubig, on the Calumpan peninsula.
In the 18th Corps sector south Of
Manila the AID Division occupied
Teresa and extended its positions
to the northeast.
In the First Corps sector north
west of Manila, our troops con-
tinued their drives on Balete Pass
against increasing resistance and
towards Baguio, former Philippines
summer capital. Medium bomb
ers, attack bombers and fighters
attacked enemy installations at
Baguio less than six miles from
our closest forces.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18
SPECIAL ELECTION

Gov. Kelly Saturday ordered a
special election to choose a men,
ber of the legislature from the
Detroit district, the ballotlng 10
take place concurrent with the
general election April 2.
The candidate elected will
fill the vacancy in the Wayne
delegation resulting from the re-
cent death of Rep. James j. Muir
ply. The governor acted at the
request of Ernest Lacey, executive
secretary of the Democratic
county committee.
The county committees OF the
two parties will meet this week TO
draft candidates.
His thousands OF friends were
Saddened this week by the news
that Edward j, Fry, Democratic
nominee for governor last fall, is
dangerously i'll at his home at
Fremont.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18
Racial Bias Warning
Voiced by Truman

CHICAGO, March II (UPl-
Vice President Truman said to-
day that America needs a benevo-
lent st. Patrick to drive out evil
doctrines of racial and religious
intolerance plaguing the nation
and hindering international CO.
operation.
Speaking before the Irish Eel
lowship Club, Truman warned
that America is vulnerable 10 in
tolerance and bigotry because II
is composed of diverse races and
creeds.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18
Political Slavery
Hit by DeMine
Producer Attacks
Unions Policies

OMAHA, March II QNS)-
Cecil B. DeMille, who forfeited a
S2,o50 weekly radio contract
rather than pay one dollar as
sessment into a unions Political
Action Committee, today called
for the American people 10 unite
ITO save their Individual liberty"
Speaking at a st. Patrick's Day
party given by Union Pacific Pres
ident William NJ. Jeffers, DeMille
warned against groups that have
taken 10 themselves the divine
right to control human destiny
even the right of life and death
by control of the right TO work. y
The veteran Hollywood pro-
ducer asked that political free
dom be restored to the American
working man.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18
British Night Raiders
Blast Berlin Targets

LONDON, March II CNS)--
British Mosquito bombers tonight
struck at Berlin for the 26th con-
secutive time on the heels of
crippling blows delivered against
German rail and oil targets by
nearly 2.1O0 l.. s. planes earlier
today.
On plants. q ben1ol factory,
tank factory and railway yard
were targets of the daylight raids,
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18
Yanks Gain on Mindanao,
Luzon and InUade Basilon

MANILA, Sunday, March IS
CUPD-American troops are forg-
ing steadily ahead on the three
Luzon fronts and the Zamboanga
peninsula of Mindanao and have
landed forces on BasIlan, the oath
of the Philippine islands to be
invaded Gen. Macarthur an
nounced today.
BaSilan, northernmost island in
the Sulu archipelago, guards the
southern approaches 10 Zambo-
anga and, with Zamboanga, COM
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18
Fleeing Convict Steals
Car With Baby in Il

CONCORD, Mass, March IT
(UP)-A youthful convict, fleeing
the Concord Reformatory today.
stole car containing 2-year-old
Roger Mattison, but abandoned
the automobile at Cambridge
some three hours later and the
child was unharmed.
Police began a house-to-house
hunt for the escaped convict, 1S-
year-old Roland ST. Laurent of
Fall River, in the neighborhood
W ere the abandoned car was
found,
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18
Ydnks Battling
In Italian Town

ROME. March i UNS)-
Crack tank troops and infantry
units hattled The Germans from
house to house in the mountain
village of Salvaro today, covering
a Small-scale withdrawal by
American forces through a hail of
enemy artillery and mortar fire.
First armored division elements
bore the brunt of the fighting,
Allied headquarters announced.
Other Fifth Army troops con-
solidated hilltop positions won two
days ago west OF the Florence
Bologna highway al a point nine
miles south Of The latter city.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18

One of the chief functions at
this center. stated by volunteers
and headed by Mrs II L. Wads-
worth and Mrs. William r. Hamll-
ton, is giving advice on how to
pack prisoner food packages.
WEIGHT SPECIFIED
These parcels must he a GER
tain overall length and IL
pounds maximum weight" Mrs.
WadSworth explained, adding.
"The slightest deviation from
either of these regulations
makes the boxes unacceptable
to censorship and subject 10
confisCatiOn by the German gov
ernment."
The center, Mrs Hamilton said
viii furnish 10 next Of kin the
proper cartons. too, because GER
tain recommended articles are
difficult to purchase, such as gum
and chocolate bars. These are fur
niShed free by the Detroit Red
Cross chapter.
In the first two weeks Of the
center'S existence the workers as.
sisted in packing 66 boxes and
responded to 2l6 telephone in
quiries,
The center hours are from 1C
a m. to 4 p, m. Mondays through
Fridays.
Many of the volunteers in the
center are themselves next Of kir
Of prisoners of war and numerous
offers OF volunteer help are com
ing in from persons who have
visited the center
This is Just a small part OF
your Red Cross but one of ines
timable value particularly 10 those
boys who are today being brought
a little closer 10 home by receiv-
ing those food packages.
How about your donation 10 the
Red Cross? Have you MADE 1T
LARGER THAN LAST YEAR ?
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18
ADVANCE ON ZAMBoANGA

ADVANCE On LAMBOANOA
On the Zamboanga Peninsula of
Mindanao the 41st Division, with
close air support, continued a gen.
eral advance. An enemy counter
attack near Pasonanca was re-
pulsed.
Macarthur disclosed that in the
two months and one week Of the
Luzon campaign japanese losses
had been approximately $4,000
men Enemy losses elsewhere IN
the Philippines now total 137 900
making a total of about 2S2 900
japanese casualties in the Philip
pines in the last five months, he
said.
American losses in the LuZon
campaign TO date were announced
as 3.S13 killed, 14,570 wounded
and 1876 missing--a total of 1888.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18
Times Photo
BY MARGARET RUSSELL

Everybody about the Red Cross recreation workers.
Red and clubs and most of the
valuable oshoos Of this great and humanitarian agency
But on floor Of the Edison Building State
Washington Blvd, little mentioned or published Red
branch Prisoner War Center which has performed
advising relatives Of prisoners Of
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-18

mands Basilan strait. Particulars
Of the landing were not disclosed.