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Detroit evening times., 1945-09-30
: Anchors Aweieh' Best

We still think, however. that
Anchors Aweigh" is one of the
best screen musicals OF the year.
And evidently the fans think so
-too.furitts is now in It's fourth
week.
The combination Of Frank
Sinatra and Gene Kelly IS aided
and abetted by the voice and
charm of Kathryn Grayson and
the music of Jose Iturbi.
But particularly engaging arc
the wonderful special routincs
which enhance every reel OF
this picture. Don't miss IL, if
you haven't caught il yet.
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In Hellzepoppin''

Although Miss Scott had some
stage experience previously. II
was the fashion shot which
brought her movie chance.
Detroit theater- goers may re-
call a gorgeous young girl who
appeared here with Olsen and
Johnson in "Hellzapoppln' four
years ago. Believe IL OF not.
that was Lizabeth Scott. who
later understudied Tallulah
Bankhead in Skin Of Our
Teeth"
At the Michigan. George Raft-
turns sea captain in a melo-
drama called Johnny Angel. "a
It's a story OF high adventure
on the high seas, involving muir
der, stolen gold and a mystic
rious adventures in the person
OF Signe HaSso.
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 20.

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. %.
DEN LYON and Bebe Daniels
- have just completed what
started out eight years ago TO
be a six weeks personal appear
ance tour in England.
1t all began in 1887, when
George Black signed Bebe and
Ben TO a short term contract TO
appear in his 80 eaters
throughout England.
Before the six weeks were up
they were committed to a series
Of commercial broadcasts re-
corded in London and released
through continental stations
beamed 10 England.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-30

fans with a performance
which is quite arresting.
Actually, Miss Scott is
chiefly a threat, or rather a
challenge to Lauren Bacall.
for she is a husky-voiced, sui
try siren on the same order
as Miss Bacall and Ii will be
interesting TO discover which
has the greater audience ap-
peal.
Both came out OF fashion
magazines where producers saw
them modelling smart clothes,
and Immediately began taking
their contract measurements.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-30

her third floor bathroom. When
the noise subsidized and the dust
settled. she was still I'm the tub
but the tub was in the middle
Of the street.
"Her only injury was q small
scratch on the chin. She wasn't
even frightened by her close
brush with death-she was In
dignant.
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Miss Ayery
ToLec+ure

MARJORIE AVERY, Detroit
1'A newspaperwoman who has
been a European war cores
pondent for the last two and
one-half years, will open the
new Town Hall lecture series
Friday morning, Oct. 10. in the
CaSs Theater.
Miss Avery will describe and
discuss her experiences in the
war zone.
Speakers who will reappear
on the series this year include
1t. John. Mason Brown. drama
critic: Edward Weeks, editor of
the Atlantic Monthly; and DIR.
Hilton Ira Jones, research
scientist.
World problems and peace
plans will be discussed by Count
Richard Coudenhove Kalergi:
Nolney Hurd, Christian Science
Monitor correspondent; Robert
kaSmayer, world events lec-
turcr; Phillip Cummings. SOUTH
west Pacific authority: and DR..
j Raymond Walsh, political
scientist and radio commenta-
Tor
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Dual Role Trouble

In the laugh department, the
same goes for the Adams cur
rent hit. Wonder Man" in
which comedian Danny Kaye
has all kinds of double trouble
with a dual role.
Virginia Mayo and Vera-Ellcn
are the two cuties who drive
Continued on Page 2D
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Stage Film Attractions Here
Extend Billings Another Week

STAGE and attractions getting their second Wind
~ with almost all the current offerings going strong their
second and third weeks
Fox Adams and United Artists all hold in the film
department while the Cass holds The Student Prince
second week.
You Came Along the at the Broadway Capitol
brings Lzabeh Scott The Threat attention Of film
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Osmena OF Philippines
Arrives In America To
Confer On UNRRA Help

WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.-(UP)-
President Sergio Osmena OF the
Philippine Commonwealth has ar
rived in the United States for
conferences here with Government
officials on relief and rehabilita-
ton measures in liberated areas
of the island, the War Depart
ment announced tonight.
Osmena, the department said,
now is in Jacksonville, Fla, where
he will undergo a physical check
up necessitated by the rigorous
conditions he experienced during
the military campaign" in the is
lands. He went to Australia ear,
ier this year and accompanied
Gen. Douglas Macarthur on the
initial Philippine invasion OF Leyte
Island.
He expects to return to his home
land as soon as he completes ms
conferences with officials here. HIS
talks, the department said, VIII
involve relief and rehabilitation
measures for his people "necessl-
tated by the destruction IN the
Philippines wrought by the Japa-
nese occupation"
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BRITISH FACING
ANOTHER CRISIS
King Peters Rejection OF
Regency Snarls Eng
Iish Plans

LONDON, Jan. H. CUP) The
British government was plunged in
to new political trouble in the Bal
kans today by King Peters opposi-
ton to a regency agreement Tor
Yugoslavia.
The 21-year-old king flouted Brit
ish and Russian plans for pro-
visional settlement of his country's
problems in a statement issued
without consulting either the Brit
ism government or his own minis
tiers. One of his associates told the
press, he is acting like a medi-
eval monarch. We cannot tie
what he will do next"
The agreement, reached some
time ago by Premier Ivan Subasic
Of the Royal Yugoslav Government
and Marshal Tito of the Yugslav
National Liberation Committee,
provides for three man regen-
cy and for fusion of the two groups
in provisional government under
tito's premiership.
A British Foreign Office spokes-
man today emphasized that Britain
continues to support the Tito-Su-
basic agreement, and said it could
be assumed that Foreign Secre-
tary Anthony Eden had told Peter
so in brief conference which pre-.
ceded the Yugoslav kings an.
nouncement. The spokesman de.
scribed the situation today as 'en-
tirely fluid" All factions involved
in the Yugoslav crisis conferred
busily.
These major alternatives emerg-
ed:
/. The pressure of the British
and Russian governments and of
public opinion may make Peter ac-
cept the original agreement.
2. Tito and Subasic may imple-
ment their agreement by combin-
ing their governments in Belgrade
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
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Knudsen Would hmprison
Those Stunning War Jobs

alties for men who won't work
where hey are needed, or fight.
Army or Navy service, Kilday
said, is something that should not
be looked upon as punishment. The
type of service proposed in Mays
bill would make the inductees per-
manent yard birds" and confine
their work to unattractive assign
ments.
The job placement provisions of
Mays bill also are receiving a
cool reception.
Many members believe local
draft boards have neither the time,
the personnel no, the facilities to
handle it. They have suggested the
War Manpoyer Commission find
jobs for the men affected - the
draft deferred between 10 and 45
and Federal district courts deal
with those who won't take them
without good reason
The VINO committee sources
disclosed, now is working on re-
vised list of essential jobs. It is
understood the list may be broken
into classes to protect the most
critical war jobs when the Army
and the Navy make heavy inroads
into the pool of deferred younger
men to meet their needs for 900, ZOO
! Continued on Page Eight; Col. s.
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WASHINGTON. Jan. IL. Up =
"A Congressional move TO make
.'jail BIRDS instead of yard
BIRDS out of draft-age men who
refuse war jobs won the support
of Lieut.. Gen. William S. Knudsen
today.
The Army's plane production
boss told the House Military Com
mittee he prefers civilian penal
ties for men who leave their jobs
without authorization rather than
induction in special Army Navy
work units as proposed IN leglsla-
ton drafted by Chairman May d.
KY.
Opposition to induction OF these
men into Army labor battahons
previously had been voiced by
Spokesman for the Army and the
Navy. They neither wanted nor
needed the men, they said, ard
preferred to see them dealt with
under the penal provisions of the
Selective Service Act which pro-
vide for a. $4,000 fine and five
wears Imprisonment for men who
disregard draft board orders.
A committee bloc headed by
Representative Kilday (D-Tex) is
backing an amendment to elimi-
nate the work battalion provision
and substitute the daft act pen
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VINO GROUP SEES
new SHORTAGES
Clothing And Leather May
Be Scarce Due To
War Needs

PARIS, Jan. 12.-UP)-Ameri-
can battlefront needs are going to
cause greater civilian shorta ges
in the United States, possibly in
clothing and leather goods, a group
Of American official headed by
War Manpower Commission Chart
man Paul V. McNutt asserted to-
day.
Interviewed at Allied Supreme
Headquarters after completing a
three weeks tour of the European
theater from Britain to front line
installations, seven VINO and War
Production Board officials empha-
sized that civilian America will
have to work harder and consume
less before victory over Germany
and Japan.
McNutt said that military and
civilian leaders in Europe were in
clined to forget that America also
was fighting a war in the Pacific
He said that American manpowe1
mobilization of 54,0O0,000 workers
had been accomplished so IA by
persuasion, but that it would be
easier to fill future manpoWer need
eff I had a (National Service) law
to help
William Y. Elliott, WPB vice
chairman of civilian requirements,
stated fatty that there will be
more numerous and severe civil.
an shortages tin the U. s. from
here on out. -
Elliott mentioned textiles. wool
ems and worsteds and said thai
the leather situation in the Unit ed
States was very tight."
Some. of our sources from
abroad are uncertain due to pc
litical situations which it would not
be polite to discuss in detail Ell
lott said of leather, apparently re
ferring to Argentina.
Maury Maverick, chairman O.
WIPES smaller War Plants Cor
poration, said that he had gained
four impressions from the tour
/. The chief problem in cooper
alton among the Allies is the neee
for rehabilitation of French indus
try and the French people.
2. There is definite shortage
of nurses in war theaters.
] a. America must multiply every
thing by two and double the sp,rl
of Pearl Harbor to win.
4. I'VE in America don't KIN "
all the facts about the war ant
need more information.
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N. c. WORKERS ASK
EQUITABLE WAGES
Legislature Petitioned To
Remedy Growing Liv-
ing Cost

RALEIGH, Jan. IL Up The
legislature was petitioned by State
employees today to 'tske immedi-
ate action to remedy this glaring
ineuuity' between salaries and the
cost of living.
THE great State of North Caro-
lima has grown rich out of this
war;" the petitions placed upon
legislators desks, said. The peti.
tons added:
Its employees have grown stead
lily poorer as a result of the high
er cost of living. Basic living cost
have gone up 80 to IS per cent
since 1899. State employees have
had their meager salaries supple
mented by war bonus which av-
erages only 10 per cent Or less.
This means that the States en-
ployes have taken a cut of 20 to
Is per cent in real wages while
they have faithfully continued to
fulfill their duties. There is nc
assurance that basic living costs
will not continue to rise. 1t is re-
specially requested that the gen.
eral assembly take immediate ac-
ton to remedy this glazing inequi-
ty. Meanwhile, the State grows
richer, its employees poorer, as a
result of the war;
There are Approximately 1920
State employees. other than $4,000
teachers.
Increases in the teacher salary
schedule are embodied in the Gen
eral Appropriations Bill. which in
cludes the amount of the present
war bonus. plus three per cent.
Continued on Page Eight; Col. 81
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British Planes Raid Z
Bergen U-Boat Base
With Six-Ton Bombs

LONDON, Jan. r. R Royal
Air Force Lancaster bombers, out
to blast one of Germany's most
important remaining submarine
bases, poured a load of six-ton
bombs on U-boat shelters in Der.
gen on the Norwegian coast today.
Bad weather over the Western
Front prevented Allied air support
in the battle of the Ardennes for
the second straight day.
Screened by Raj Mustangs, two
squadrons of Lancasters cruised
over the Bergen dock area for 30
minutes despite persistent German
fighter and flax attacks in order
to make certain they hit their tar.
gets. There was a slight haze over
the harbor.
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MUNITIONS WORK
TO RISE SHARPLY
War Jobs Assured For. All
During First OF This
Year
WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.-(UP)

WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.-(UP)
The 1945 munitions program will
be about $1,000, 100000 greater than
last year and production Of B-29
Superfortresses and other hot
planes must be tripled by March,
it was disclosed today by Produc-
ton Chief J. A. Krug who assured
war workers that they need no
longer fear they might soon be out
Of a job.
THE 1945 munitions program is
more difficult and larger than in
1914" he told a news conference.
There will be plenty of jobs for
anyone in the war industries and
for those who want to get into
war industry. The fear of the av.
erage worker during the last six
months that he might soon be out
of a job can be dispelled.'
He revealed that two of the Ma
TONS B-29 aircraft plants are pro-
ducing 1875 Superfortresses a month
and that one plant now turning
out So of the giant bombers must
increase it's output to 200 a month
by July. Rejecting plans for a
greater air offensive against ia
pan, he said that last October's
output of Superfortresses and sew
eral other ''hot'' planes must be
tripled by next March and that
production of some other types OF
planes will be increased 800 to 700
per cent.
The revised 1945 munitions pro-
gram will total $64, 500, 900, 000-$2, :
100000, 900 more than originally
last years total. It will include
production of equipment f o r the
French army which President
Roosevelt promised in his State OF
the Union message. ..
This year. schedule now calls
for 81, 900, 900, 900 worth of shipping
above schedules announced last
fContiuued an Pare Two: Col. g.
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LAROCHE, Belgium, Jan. IL
R American cavalry fought a
muffled and icy Indian style war
in recapturing the shattered road
junction town of La Roche. The
smell of death is still heavy here
today.
Members of the U. S. Fourth
Cavalry Regiment, one OF the old
est horse outfits in the American
Army, which now is mechanical,
beat the British into this town by
a few hours. The Fourth is attach
ed to Brig. Gen. Alexander r. Boil
ing's 84th "Railsplitter' Infantry
Division. .
La Roche is the largest town yet
retaken from the Germans in the
bulge. Next to Houffalize, it is the
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Tanks hdian-Style War
Takes La Roche From Foe

most important place in the tip
of the salient.
Blizzard conditions made this
campaign the most difficult t
faced by the Americans on either
the Western or the Italian Fronts
Snow softened the scars Of war.
but not the overpowering smell Of
decaying bodies.
Civilians suffered heavily from
bombing and Smelling. Some 200
were buried under debris of what
once was pretty Belgian town
nestled at the foot of high, wood
ed mountains.
The first six or seven emaciated
women and children to emerge
from cellars and nearby woods
when American jeeps rolled in
found their homes in ruins.
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Is Jap Ships Sunk Off Indo-C China By Yanks
Invaders SeH# San Carlos In Manila Drive
Three Armies Pursue Disorganized Germans
Reds Polish Drive
Opens, Berlin Says
Long Awaited Offensive Penetrates German
Lines In Extremely Violent Fighting,
- Enemy Announces

LONDON, Jan. H. R Berlin
announced today that the long I.
awaited Russian winter offensive
in southern Poland had begun this
morning on broad front west of
the Vistula river bridgehead town
of Baranow, I'D miles below Wa--
saw, and admitted Red army pen
CITATIONS Of German lines in lex
tremely violent fighting
The new push apparently was
aimed at Kielce and Krakow, last
major strongholds protecting Ger
man Silesia. When the fighting in
Poland subsidized last August, the
Russians held positions 20 miles
southeat of Kielce and 81 mile
northeast Of Krakow. At that time
they were within rs miles of indus
trially rich Silesia.
The Russians in their regular
nightly communicate broadcast by
Moscow tonight made no mention
of the reported new offensive, but
such silence is usual by the Red
Army command for the first sever
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VI dtlO1~ q , l
night. --s-.....-...-,.-,4 ---
All records for shipments were
shattered last year when more
than 25,0Oo,0oO tons of dry cargo
and IL, 75U, OOO tons of bulk liquid
cargo were dispatched from the
Ship sailings jumped from 3,14S in
1943 tc 1853 in 1914 with Whining
ton recording 16 of the emba-ka.
tons.
Mr.. SchWenk pointed out that the
shipments accounted for almost
half of the Nations total of S.
100000 tons of dry cargo on VISA
controlled vessels. His report COW
ers actual shipments through last
November plus conservatively es-
timated figures for December
With New York City heading the
list of tonnage and sailings handl-
ed, Wilmington was last on the
score sheet. However, the other
ports listed were large seaports
that even IN peace-time handled
enormous quantities of shipping,
it was pointed out.
Among the significant factors
listed by Mr. SchWenk as contri-
buting to the record ship move
ment were:
A 20 per cent increase in the
number of ships available for car.
go transport.
Improved efficiency in berthing,
loading and unloading, manning,
repairing and general servicing OF
ships which cut the turn bout
time between arrival and depar-
ture of vessels.
Solution of problems which caus-
| fCnnfiru1I m, NJ nm rnI C
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Bornbers Sink
.46 Ships At.
San Fernando
Advancing Americans En-
tcring Zone OF Enemy
Concentration
GENERAL MacARTHUR'S|
HEADQUARTERS, uzon,

GENERAL MacARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Luzo n,
Saturday, Jan. 10. - up -
Sixth Army Yanks cap
tured the five-highway juno
ton at San Carlos Thursday
as they punched forward in
force to points IL miles from
their beachheads along main
roads leading to Manila, near
ing apparent enemy defense
areas.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur com.
munique today said 'our drive
southwark from Lingayen Gulf
continues unchecked" but mention
ed more stiff fighting on the left
flank and declared increasing en-
envy contacts indicate our forward
units are entering a zone of enemy
concentration.
Harassing enemy attacks to
bring reinfoGcements north, Am
erican warplanes in low strafing
assaults on motor columns destroy
ed more than 200 vehicles and five
tanks. Many locomotives and 40
freight cars were wiped out.
Forty-six small japanese freigh-
tiers and one large transport at
tempting to unload at San Fer
nando, port As miles north of the
Yank beachhead,, were erased by
naval units and torpedo bombers.
Torpedo planes attacked at dawn
Wednesday but were driven off by
intense anti-aircraft fire. Five u.
S. destroyers then steamed in and
made snort work of the audacious
enemy reinforcement try, sinking
or badly damaging the entire en-
envy Iieet.
The warships then turned their
guns % shore and shelled the port
area, destroying three large am
munition dumps.
The first real evidence that the
japanese might put up fight for
the northern part of the central
Luzon valley materialized Wednes-
day when the American spearhead
pushing southeastward on the Fo-
zorrubio road called for air sup
port to smash what the ground
patrol believed was a strongly de.
defended positions.
Navy Wildcats responded with a
Commute rocket barrage. The in
fantrymen than pushed ahead and
found number of abandoned pill
boxes, two achineguns and five
dead japanese.
Frontline dispatches disclosed
the use of tanks in the American
advance, although none had been
mentioned in the communicates,
The open country b. highly ad-
vantageous for tank warfare down
the 100 miles to Manila. The Jap
anese used light tanks in their
southwark march down the same
broad valley three years ago.
American warplanes, harassing
enemy attempts to rush reinforce
ments northward, ripped airfields,
communications and troop cal
umns from Lingayen south to Ba-
tangas, below Monila.
Other planes cooperating with
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al days OF such a drive.
Inside wrecked Budapest the Rus
slams captured another 1876 blocks,
the city park, the city cemetery, an
oil refinery and an arms factory
today, the Soviet communicate said.
Another 1,27O Germans and Hun
garians were reported taken pris-
oner, and booty included $500
trucks and 81 locomotives.
Continued German tank and in
fantry assaults toward the Hun.
garian capital from northwest OF
the cicty again were repulsed, the
communique said.
The encircled German garrison
in Budapest now holds only one.
fifth of the city.
The Russians were acknowledg.
ed by the Germans to have cap.
tured the east rail station in Pest,
the eastern part of Budapest, and
Moscow dispatches said Red ar.
my spearheads rolling beyond the
station were only mile from the
Danube in the heart of the city.