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Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
Huge Lumber Supply
Needed in Pacific War

Brig Gen A. 3 Quinton Jr.
chief Of the Detroit ordnance dis
trlct said today that more than
10 million square feet of three
quarter inch boards and nearly
50 million feet Of lumber Of Vari-
Gus sizes would be needed 10
trans-Shlp vehicles from the Euro
pean theater To the Pacific
The Ford Motor Co s Antwerp
plant, which assembled more than
rs 900 general purpose vehicles
for use by the American forces
in the European campaign, soon
VIII he Grating 400 battle-scarred
vehicles a day for shipment 10 the
Ear East.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25

Senator Warren G. Hooper.
Her appearance on tho stand IS
the grand finale Of Special Prose-
cutor Kim SIglers case against
Harry FleISher and hls brother
Sammy Pete Mahoney and Mike
Sellk.
They are on trial before Judge
Blaine fiatCn accused OF plotting
the murder OF the state senator
who vas a grand Jury witness.
Only Miss Wclker and SiCler
know what she Will say when she
speaks her piece
Miss Welker once operated the
kitchen at OLarrNs Bar which
was the hangout for the four de-
PENDANTS.
At the time OF the alleged mur-
der plot she was a waitress al
the Music Bar on GriSWold
Mrs Evelyn 1nez Brown. Al
bion tavern manager. was the tar
get for defense attorneys again
thus morning during -CrOSs-eNam-
nation.
While Mrs Brown $ testimony
concerned only the presence IN
her tavern of Pete Mahoney and
an unidentified man on the day OF
the m, rder attorneys for the four
n-en went into her past 10 the day
of her birth. the date Of which
they were frying 10 establish 10
prove that Mrs. Brown might he
A little older than her admitted 81.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
Reds Bolster Fleet

MOSCOW, July "a CUP)-The
Soviet far eastern fleet has been
strengthened by the addition of
an undisClosed number of war
ships. according to Tass News
Agency dispatch
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
Continued from Page one)

Crat row. and from leases on
prison concessions.
. Holdups and rohberies by in
mates Of other inmates who,
despite prison rules, carried
large rolls of bills on their per-
sons. Joseph d. Medley. whose
escape IN November touched
off the investigation, repeatedly
carried as much as 81 900 on
his person al one time,
. Entertainment of the sweet
heart of big shot criminal
convict at the home of A prison
official where her lover was as
signed permanently as house
hoV "
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
1000 Planes Hit
Jap WdrshipS
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ne they came out of their dives
ever ,ro K4re anchorage One
enemy plane was dowued and one
L $ plane VaS lost
Ensign Glenn N Even Of san
Diego said he h.t Wsrshlp with
a 1oo0-noud bomb on his second
guu over kWe
IT, Donald Machines Of Battle
Creek Mich reported seeing
-four or FIVE bomb hits on one
ship
she was burning all over"
he added
All day the carrier force
smashed at military targets at
kure. A feet dispatch said IT was
common knowledge that the base
vas among Japan's greatest naval
centers. and might shelter much
Of the enemy feet
The first Superfort attack by
daylight IN more than a month hit
the Japanese war centers late IN
The morning. The B-29S dropped
their bombs mostly through A
cloud cover. The weather forced
some Of them 10 take alternate
tArCoiS.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
Laval Tends 10 Knitting

LONDON. July = up A
NadId dispatch said today that
Pierre Laval, morbid and de-
pressed SITS every day m the
Mediterranean sunshine knitting
winter wOohes 20 quiet hlS nerves.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
OSAKA GOOD TARGET

4 break in the weather per-
mitted visual bombing of the
Sumitono light metal industry
plant ar Osaka and the Kawsnlshl
aircraft plant at Takarazuka,
eight miles northwest of Osaka.
Clouds obScured the Nagoya tar
gets. where the bonn b { were
droppe by instrument on the
urban industrial centerS OF ku-
wana, l. miles southwest Of
Nagoya proper and TSu, "a miles
southwest of the city.
Also hit were the NakaUma air
craft plant. l3 miles southeast Of
Nagoya and the Aichl aircraft
plant ar Nagoya. The Shlmitouo
light metals plant in that area
had -heen damaged earlier by the
SuperfortS.
The Aiehi plant turns ont COM
ponent assemblies for all Aichl
planes. Of which the Judy dive
bomber Is the best known.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
New Faces in Murder Picture:
HOOaHIuaIll'S Girl
Hooper Witness

m Jeanette veIKer 50 described the gr friend of
Harry Feisher today confront the former Detroit
in court and tell about the murder Of
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
EXoRBITANT INTEREST

o Operation by inmates of
pawn shops and loan businesses
AT eXorblttant interest rates, as
much as 25 per cent for only
one month.
. Pleasure trips In cars owned
by prison officials enjoyed by
Convicts who were allowed 10
leave the walls, unguarded even
though they were wanted for
crimes in other states
. Control OF inmates under
mined by failure of prison Off
Gals 10 discipline offenders and
by discrimination and ia
VorltiSm.
. Use Of produce grown on the
prison farm 10 procure the serv-
ices Of prostitutes whom in
mates were permitted 70 visit
without guards at regular IN
terVals.
. Noisy drunken parties and
weddings IN homes OF officials
attended by convlcts who re-
turned drunk 10 their cells at
2 or 3 a m.
. A weekend party az which
ConviCts and their women
guests were entertained in the
summer resort cottage of an
other official.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
CLAIM LUKS FAVORED

Among the criminals mentioned
IN the report as having received
special favors are Henry Luks,
who is A principal state witness
in the Battle Greek murder con-
splracy trial OF four hoodlumS
charged with plotting 10 kill the
late Senator Warren c. Hooper
Others include Erwen Schaner
John Wakefield, Harold Johnson
Chester Jurczyszyn, Raymond Fox
the latter the center of A dispute
between the state parole board
and Detroit Recorders Judge w
Mckay Skillman, Hugo Biagini
and James Buchanan
Also Harry and Philip keywell
Ray Bernstein Robert D. Allen,
alias Blackie Zanger. Dethners
asserted the latter fear-~cre
transferred 10 Marquette when
Jackson prison officials learned OF
the probe.
Investigators subsequently went
10 Marquette 10 question them
Philip Ke@ell and Bernstein
are llfeIs convicted Of the Colllng-
wood massacre IN Detroit,
Dethmers said Warden Jack.
son. who has held his job since
1925 except for TWO brief inter-.
walls. exercised his influence tc
prevent the finding Of facts about
his administration
"One prison employe refused
10 testify and when the warden
was asked to influence him To
testify, the warden disowned
the entire affair. When An In
mate was called 10 testify, the
warden told him l will do
something for you after this
bloUs over.
Warden Jacksons report NJ
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25
LESSER ABUSES

Lesser abuses uncovered were
the use Of cars owned by officials
to deliver large quantities Of
liquor, purchased at OLarry's s
Bar. TO the prison; manufacture
of "spud Juice alcohol within the
prison from potato peels and the
concocting of narcotic drugs made
from nutmeg
"A bet placing syndicate is
operated by 10 bookies In va
rious cell blocks and employ
runners to take bets. Crap
games flourish In the prison
with stakes as high az $500.
There is much sexual perversion
among inmates and insufficient
control measures" Dethmers
reported.
Testimony showed that during
the 194l prison investigation
pressed by the Go, certain prison
officials "schemed with one OF the
inmates 10 frame an escape and
make II Chargeable against the
guard who was president OF the
CIO local, for the purpose Of dis
crediting The guards and halting
the investigation -
The investigation. begun by
the corrections department after
the escape of Medley. now con-
vcted of murder in Washington,
is expected TO produce the most
thorough-going prison shakeup in
the states penal history
Recommendations on appropri.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-25

fers with mortgage arrange
mentS.
Secluded prison offices were
used as conference rooms by big
shot inmates and visiting gang
Sters and hoodlums," the report
stated
"Mike Selik and other known
Purple ogangsters were per-
mitted 10 come from outside
and visit In private conference
inmates also known to belong
To that gang" the report said.
"Some of these men are now
on trial for a conspiracy In
murder which was entered into
at about the time Of that visit"
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Rites Arranged Today
For Former Governor

CAMBRIDGE. Md, Dec. l7.-Fu-
neral services for Emerson c. Har-
rington, Governor Of Maryland from
1915 to 1920, who died Saturday,
were to be held today from Christ
Protestant Episcopal Church here.
Mr.. Harrington, who was 81, had
been Ill for several weeks.
Bishop William McClelland of the
diocese Of Easton will officiate at
the services, to be attended by dig
nitaries from all sections of the
State. The Rev. Charles Hinton,
rector OF Christ Church, and the
Rev. Thomas G. Mulligan, superin-
ter1dent of the Dover district Of
the Methodist Church, will assist.
One Of those paying tribute to Mr..
Harrington was Gov. O'Conor, who
said that "over the long span Of
years, he served his community, his
country and his State earnestly and
effectively. All these levels of gov
have been better as the
result of his dutiful service"
All flags on State office buildings
were ordered at half staff in menu
ory Of the late Governor and Gov.
O'Conor sent Maryland flag that
had flown from the State ONCE
Building in Annapolis to be draped
over the casket.
Burial will be in the churchyard.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Downey Pay Measure
Due 10 Come Up for
Senate Action Today
BY JOSEPH YOUNG.

The Downey Federal pay bill
was scheduled for Senate action
today, with sponsors Of the measure
eager to see the bill disposed Of
before the Christmas recess.
Senator Downey, Democrat, Of
California, sponsor OF the measure,
said he was informed that his meas
ure would be given first considera-
ton when the Senate assemblies
today.
The Californian and other sup
porters Of the measure expressed
fear, however, that Senate op-
ponents Of the bill might employ
stalling tactics to prevent consid-
Grafton Of the measure until next
year.
Lack Of a quorum or successful
motion to recommit will be SUFFICIENT
to delay final action on the measure
until Congress reconvenes, it was
pointed out. The Senate is due to
recess Friday for the holidays.
The bill calls for fiat 20 per cent
wage increases for Federal employees,
but supporters of the measure are
willing to compromise in order to
assure some pay boost for Govern
ment workers. An amendment by
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia,
would grant overall percentage
raises of about II per cent, and sup
porters of the Downey bill have in
dicated that they will try to get
compromise legislation calling for
raises ranging between Is and II
| per cent.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Transit Firm and Union
Confer on Reinsfafemenfs

Capital Transit officials and tram
sit union leaders planned to confer
today on the unions demand that
nine operators dismissed following
the recent strike be reinstated
The men were dismissed by the
company on charges Of alleged in
reference with operation of the
lines, after the Once of Defense
Transportation had taken over the
company and resumed operations.
Evidence involving the nine men
will be reviewed at the conference
to he held at the company's Office in
Georgetown.
Meantime, the wage dispute which
led to the two separate tieups In
mass transportation here is in the
hands Of three arbitrators who re-
Gently completed hearings on the
case. The arbitrators plan to meet
Friday to go over the matter. There
were no indications today as to when
an award could be handed down.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Jews in DIP Camps
Strike Over Palestine
z the Associated Press.

6y IQe Associated RfeSS.
BERLIN, Dec. 17.-Field Marshal
Montgomery's headquarters said in
a statement yesterday that Jews in
several displaced persons camps
had staged strikes in protest against
British policies in Palestine, but
denied stories that British troops
had dubbed Jewish inmates of the
camps.
The official statement said that
eat some DIP camps a one-day
strike by Jewish DPS was insti-
tuted, taking the form of a refusal
to eat and do normal duties.
Such strikes were treated with
great tolerance by authorities in
charge of the camps. Stories that
British troops in Germany have
dubbed Jews in DIP camps are un-
true"
Evening star., 1945-12-17
$4,000 GIs Expected
70 Disembark Today
From II Vessels
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
At least u transports with nearly
$1,000 servicemen are due today at
eight East and West Coast ports.
Ships and units arriving:
At New York-Kemp Battle, 478
troops, including 713th Military Po-
lice Battalion and miscellaneous
troops. William Richardson, $50
troops, including Headquarters and
Headquarters Company, I'd Bat
talon, and Companies e and F Of
the 314th Infantry Regiment.
F. Marion Crawford, 565 troops,
including Headquarters and Head
quarters Battery, 333d Field Artil-
lery Group; Headquarters and
Headquarters Battery, 194th Field
Artillery Battalion; 3519 Ordnance
Maintenance Company.
Miscellaneous troops on following
Europa, 6,105: Gustavus Victory,
1903; Cruiser Savannah, 1904;
James Turner, 57l; Fitzhugh Lee
613.
<AO iNC"PO1t 2NCWS-A(df4o Oh
gut, 583 troops, including 312th
Field Artillery Battalion. A total
Of IS miscellaneous troops on three
ships.
At Boston-Marshal Elliott, SCI
troops, including 955th, 320lst
4088th Quartermaster Service Com
panies. James w. Riley, 583 troops
including 3228th, 3196th, 1851
Quartermaster Service Companies.
Benjamin Goodhue, 534 troops, in.
cluding 548th Antiaircraft Artillery
Automatic weapons Battalion. 986tf
Ordnance Base Depot Company
Stevens Victory, 1882 troops, includ
ing 575th, 258th, 268th Field Artil
lery Battalions. A total of 10 mis-
cellaneous troops.
At Seattle-4,921 miscellaneou
personnel on four vessels.
At Tacoma-5,114 miscellaneoul
troops on three transports.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
|FEpC 1eIs1rulI,an
|0f Discrimination
Charge Against u. s.

President Truman was told today
by members Of the Fair Employ
ment Practice Committee that re-
ports are coming In Of discrimina-
tory rehiring practices IN Govern
ment agencies here and elsewhere.
Malcolm Ross, FEPC chairman, told
newsmen after the White House
conference.
Mr.. Ross, who described the re-
ported situation as grave" said the
President was asked III he would
lend his voice to anything to aid In
the situation" and that he indicated
he would. Mr.. Ross said, however,
he didn't know what form the Presi-
dents interest in the matter might
take.
Mr.. Ross did not care to indicate
those agencies where discrimination
has been alleged, he said, and he
admitted the committee had not fol-
lowed through to see just exactly
what had been done in these places.
Hearing Planned in Chicago.
He described the reported dis
elimination as based on race, creed,
color and national origin"
The FEPC chairman said also
that the President had been told
Of the committee plan to hold a
hearing in Chicago in February to
get picture Of how minority groups
are faring in industrial cutbacks.
Mr.. Ross said the members also
told the President the committee
has only 5000 left to operate dur
ing the rest of the fiscal year, and
that this would not be suficient to
do the Job that should be done In
the field.
Five Regional Offices Closed.
The committee closed five re-
gional Offices, including that in
Washington, Saturday, and now has
establishments left only in Chicago,
st. Louis and Detroit.
Mr.. Ross said that the President
indicated that he would be glad to
have a report on what the Chicago
hearing develops.
Congress, which had refused to
heed the Presidents recommenda-
ton for a permanent FEPC, gave
the agency, which was set up under
executive order as a wartime propo-
sition, q quarter of a million dollars
to operate this year.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
|ndonesians Repu|sed
By Indian Troops in
Western Java Attack
BY the Associated Press.

BATAVIA, Java, Dec. 17.-Three
hundred Indonesians, armed with
knives and shouting for their Mos
lem brothers from India" to Join
them, were dispersed today when
they attacked guard post in the
Buitenzorg area of Western Java.
British Indian troops broke up
the attack with rifle fire. Several
hours earlier, an attack by Indo-
nesians armed with machineguns
also was repelled.
A British announcement yester-
day said Indian troops burned a
troublesome" village near Buiten-
zorg because it was used by snipers
who prevented the Indians from
guarding rail crossing where some
British forces had been ambushed
Strafing British planes knocked
out 40-mm. gun near Soerabaja
"Pacification" Tour Begun.
Premier Sutan Sjahrir and Presi-
dent Soekarno Of the unrecognized
Indonesian republic started yester-
day on "pacification tour" of
strife-torn Java.
Sjahrir, just before his departure,
indicated he was expecting more
detailed Dutch peace proposals to
the Indonesians, and at the same
time expressed concern over the pos
sibility of American aid to the
Dutch.
American Help Cited.
Declaring that he had heard
Dutch Marines" trained in the
United States were on their way
to the Indies probably to be used
not In Java but in the outer islands, !"
Sjahrir added:
There was a certain amount of
American help for the French cause
in Indo-China in the shipment of
troops. I hope America won't SINH
larly serve Dutch interests here" :"
Meanwhile, the British said Sat-
urday that Aroedji, leader of the
Indonesian Peoples Peace Army
(TKR) in Bandoeng, recommended
that strong action" be taken
against the Nationalist in the
northern part of the town, "even to
the extent of full military action" I"
Official denial was made yesterday
that 1t. Col. H. C.. G. Harding,
British assistant provost marshal,
said on November "a that go Indo-
nesian police were shot down "in
cold blood" by Dutch and Amboinese
troops in an attack on the Indones-
ian central police station here, as
reported by the Associated Press.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Crippled ChiIdrenAre Guests
At Kiwuniuns' YuIe Party

More than $50 crippled children
of Washington received gifts from
Santa Claus yesterday afternoon
when they gathered at Roosevelt
High School to attend a Christ
mas party given for them by the
Kiwanis Club.
All the children have been treated
during the year at the Kiwanis
Clinic at Children's Hospital. Eacn
child was asked several weeks ago
by his or her Kiwanian sponsor to
make a written request for Christ
mas presents desired. The lists
came in and members Of the club
began to shop.
Yesterday the Kiwanians were re-
Evening star., 1945-12-17
U. S. to Recruit SO, 900
For Philippine Scouts

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA, Dec II. The United
States Army is recruiting $4,000 Fill
ipinos for the recently organized
Philippine Scouts who eventually
will replace American garrisons in
the islands.
The American-officered scouts,
virtually wiped out during the Ba-
taan campaign, by japanese bru-
talities on the infamous death
march and In concentration camps,
were reactivated when Gen. MacAr-
thur started his reconquest of the
islands.
Little trouble is expected in OBJ
tanning the required strength.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Probe Of British Use
OF Loan May Start
Hot Fight in Congress
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
What may be one Of the bitterest
controversies yet to confront Con-
gress on international issues is shap-
ing up around the proposal to grant
Great Britain a s4,4O0, 900 900 credit
There were signs today that some
members Of Congress will insist on
prying into the long-range purposes
of the British Labor government,
looking for all possible uses to which
the money might be put.
Representative Knutson of Min
nesota, senior Republican member
of the House Ways and Means Com
mite, told the House, 1--WE are be-
ing called on to finance the social
ization of the British Empire" A
Democrat, Representative Celler of
New York, said the loan will pro-
mote too damned much Socialism
at home and too damned much i'm
perialism abroad"
Propaganda Charged.
Representative Smith, Republic
an, of Ohio asserted that the ad-
ministration already is organizing
a Nationwide propaganda cam
paign" to sell the British loan to
the people.
The United States should put a
limit on its total postwar loans,
both in time and in dollars" Rep
resentatiye Blackney, Republican, of
Michigan said.
Unless we do this there are a
hundred places to start loaning our
money and no place to STOP"
Mr.. Blackney said that Russia,
China, Italy, Belgium, Poland and
dozen other nations are waiting
to see what we do with England's s
request for billions of dollars"
Two Steps Advocated.
Besides placing an overall limit
on loans, he advocated two other
steps to keep the United States "a
solvent Nation:
1. Restrict our postwar loans to
whatever nations take elementary
steps in their own and our behalf
before applying for any loan"
2. ANY nation should be required
to utilize its own assets to what
ever degree it can, for funds or as
collateral, before we supply addi-
tional funds"
Truman Request Expected.
The British House of Commons
approved the loan, along with rat
ification of the Breton Woods
monetary pacts. and Congress ex-
poets to receive from President
Truman, perhaps this week, a mes
sage formally proposing legislative
sanction of the loan.
Three House committees are ang-
ling for the loan ratification legis-
lation-ways and means, banking
and currency and foreign affairs.
The administration is expected to
frame the loan measure as an
amendment to the Export Import
Bank Act, which would put the loan
issue before the Banking Commit
tee, which brought out the Bret
ton Woods Agreements Act.
Friends Of the loan proposal are
arguing that America has more to
gain in trade with an economically
healthy British Empire than it
might lose in the $4,400 900 900 ad-
vance. The opposition contends the
money will be gift"
Evening star., 1945-12-17

warded by the smiling, happy faces
of many youngsters as they saw the
enormous tree, decorated with lights,
balls and tinsel, and the stack OF
presents for them. In addition to
his own gift, each child was given a
box Of candy and bag of fruit.
Entertainment included a juggler
and clown, an acrobatic act and a
trained monkey act. Movie cartoons
were shown and the audience joined
in singing Christmas carols. Toys
included scooters and sleds, chairs
and dolls, and all kinds of games.
All the ice cream and cake the young
people could eat was given them be-
fore the party ended.
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Federal Aid Not Enough
For Europe, PoIetti Says
Py the Associated Press.

Ey tne AsSoclateu FfeSS.
NEW YORK, Dec. II. - Col.
Charles Poletti, former Governor of
New York and once head of the
American Military Government in
Italy, said yesterday the relief job
in Europe never can be done ex-
clusively by government agencies
we have got to have the assistance
Of private agencies"
Addressing the annual conven-
ton of the Hebrew Sheltering and
Immigrant Aid Society, Col. Poletti
criticized congressional delay in ap-
propriating funds for UNRRA and
declared he detected on his return
to the United States "a growing
cynicism toward the ideals which
guided us during the war"
Evening star., 1945-12-17
Jap Shipyords Build
122 Steel Vessels
By the Associated Press,

BY the Assoclated Press.
TOKYO, Dec. 17-Japanese ship
yards operating on a fulltime basis
have under construction 122 steel
ships and 1856 wooden vessels, Al
lied headquarters announced today.
The rebuilt merchant fleet will be
geared to support minimum jap
anese economy" From their own
shipyards the Japanese have been
ordered to produce craft to met har-
bor requirements, the fishing in
dustry, the repatriation program
and a merchant fleet to supply the
nation with vital imports.