Detroit evening times., November 19, 1944, FINAL, Image 1

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NAZIS RETREAT IN REICH
Nation's Sixth
Loan Drive
On Tomorrow
Michigan to Raise
472 Million Dollars
of 14 Billion Total
Monday will sec the owning of
♦he Stxth War Loan drive Through
out the nation with an o\erall
total of SI4,(XX).OOO,(XX) to he sub
scribed.
Between Monday and Dec, HV
Michigan must pledge ft472,tXK).000
as its share in the campaign.
Because of the inclemency of
the weather there will be very
little done in the way of outdoor
demonstrations. However, at 12:30
p. m. Monday a large treasury
flag, official flag of
Jr he Sixth War Loan, will be laised
at the city hall.
NOTABLES TO ATTEND
Present for the short cere
mony will be Frank N. Isbey.
chairman of the local war
finance committee: Ernest R
Breech, chairman of the geneial
advertising committee: James B
Webber Jr., state chairman of the
Retail Merchants’ committee, and
Nate Shapero. \Va>ne County re
tail chairman.
Flags of the Allied Nations will
fly on the lawn of the city hall,
representing the "court of na
tions" for the duration of the
drivau--
Also on the lawn will be a Jap
“Zeke." successor to the Zero.
This plane was built in Japan in
1944 and shot down over Saipan.
Transported hore for the drive it
will bear tiie slogan. "Let’s shoot
them all down with bonds."
STORES GIVE ADS
As In previous campaigns, the
Retail Merchants Association will
aignal the kickoff. On Monday
and Tuesday stores will withhold
their advertisements for merchan
dise and, in their customary space,
will carry pictures of their gal
lants so that the general public
may met "face to face" the men
and women from whom they may
buy bonds.
Fron a central control room im
portant war bond news will be
broadcast each day through out
lets from Grand Circus Park to
the citv hall A bond tiooth will lie
erected at city hall.
On Woodward avenue, from Jef
ferson north to Lothrop each flag
pole will be dressed with Ameri
can and Allied flags, each of
will carry an identification
OTHER MERCHANTS AID
Merchant* in many of the out
lying neighborhoods arc erecting
*igns over the silewalks. on one
ndr of which is a picture of GI
Jor uttering the Sixth War Loan
slogan. “Stick with me to the
finish.*’ and on the reverse “Buy
«n extra bond for the Sixth War
Loan”
Throughout the city merchants
estimate an increase of 50 per
cent in the number of their own
gallants for this drive. Each gal
lant can he identified by a red.
white and blue ribbon framed bar
pin.
The E bond quota for Michigan
Is $141,000,000 Of that the Wayne
County retailers must subscribe
$22,966.500.
Navy Sentences 50
Ammunition Loaders
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 18
fUP>—Fifty Negro navy enlisted
men have been found guilty on
one specification of mutiny by a
court-martial for refusing to load
ammunition shortly after the Port
of Chicago explosion.
They have been given >entenca*
ranging from eight to 15 years,
the Twelfth Naval District an
nounced lotto} _
Burly Trio Trail Robbers
In Pointe and Get Shock
This is the story of Snoopy,
to Three burly policemen, guns
Jhoised. tiptoed through the home
of C. Edward Coolman.
Whittier. Grosse Pointe farms,
Saturday night.
Burglars! The floors of the
house were covered with debris,
Venetian blinds were askew, cur
tains were ripped.
Coolman returned from a
week’s trip to discover the dam
age. He tried to call police, hut
the phone was out of order. The
flre department was next, and on
a relayed message, the trio of
gendarmes fairly flew to the home
Von Wiegand Sees:
Vital Secret Dickering
In Background of War
Stage Being Set for Next Meeting
of Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin
By KARL 11. VON WIEGAM)
Dean of Ainerk-ttn War < orrespondents
LISBON, Portugal, Nov. 18 —There is an in
; tensive diplomatic activity behind the scenes of the
| European war.
The political stage is being set in expectation
I of the next meeting lietween President Roosevelt,
Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin.
That conference promises to be the most decisive and
fateful of any yet held in its expected bearing on the end of
the war and the nature of the peace with Germany and
postwar Europe.
The visit of Prime Minister
Churchill and Foreign Minister
Eden to Paris and the Vosges
front is regarded a- only one as
pect of that activity and those
preparations
1 In some circles the pari' visit
and the British wooing of France,
giving De Gaulle "fan to enable
him to consolidate his power and
control against a strong French
Communist movement, i* in part
ascribed to some major political
objective' which Churchill failed
to achieve in hi« recent visit to
Moscow.
DEFENSE LEAt.fr
A "western European defense
league” is looming in outline as
one of the alleged main objectives
of the visit of Churchill and Eden
to Paris
It will consist of Britain. France,
Belgium, Holland ar possibly two
other western powers, and it will
be backstopped by America
It is believed in some quarters
that as a regional pact it can Ire
fitted into President Roosevelt’s
security league, though it has not
yet developed that far.
It is being openly hailed by a
section of the British press and
other European newspapers, which
seem to imply that effort' are be
ing made behind the scenes to
divide the continent into two
major political and economic
spherea—east and west.
BARRIERS AGAINST REDS
Ostensibly against a Germany
defeated, crushed and rendered
impotent through its exnected to
tal disarmament and most rigid
control, the purpose of such a
western European defense league
would in reality be a barrier
against a westward sweep of Rus
sian communism ami Soviet diplo
matic **ower and influence.
The coming visit of Ik* Gaulle
to Moscow is interpreted in some
circles as indicating that France
is moving into the position of be
ing wooed by east and wpst.
(Continued on Page 2. Fol. ft)
Stalin Hails Red Guns
LONDON. Nov. 18 <UP>
Marshal Stalin, in a special order
tonight, saluted the artillery
forces of the Red armv which he
said was dealing "final blows" in
the "la»t decisive battles for
victory”
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A search of the downstairs pro
duced exactly nothing. The three
crept up the stairs.
In a topsy-turvy bedroom. Pa
trolman Anthony Walsh noticed
something protruding from a
blanket. He swooped down,
grabbed up the cover and dashed
outdoors.
He threw down the blanket and
out popped a gray squirrel, which
ran up the nearest tree to chatter
a good scolding to those guys who
disturbed his sleep.
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Jury Set to Bare
New Graft List
Carr, Sigler Snare
More Lawmakers
LANSING. Nov*. 18 Grand
Jury Judge Leland W. Carr and
Special Pr ecutor Kim Sigler ap
parently arc ready to emerge
again from the secrecy of their
courtroom and bung with them a
[collection of hapless law-makers
and leb>yl»t»
Day and night since the first
briberv tnal last spring the two
crime-busters have been persuing
trails of legislative payoffs, parad
ing a long line of witnesses
through their quarters in the city
hall and relentlessly digging back
of the Capitol’s shifting scenes.
EXPLOSION NEAR
There is every sign that they
are nearly ready to explode an
other conspiracy indictment, per
haps a barrage of a half dozen or
mope
There is a new- tenseness at the
Capitol, lik* the unconcealed con
cern that developed when Judge
Carr drafted Sigler a' his prose
cutor and shunted aside all effort*
to lead him away.
A year ago this month, the
grand jury appeared to be on the
vurge of disintegration Many poli
ticians were confident they had
sulxlued the judge and had per
suaded him that the Capitol was
clothed with a righteousness com
parable to honesty within a troop
of Boy Scouts.
TACIT! KN FACT-FINDER
Bit they soon learned they did
not know Judge Carr, the calm,
unsmiling, taciturn fact-finder. j
It has developed now that when
nearly everyone thought the grand
jury threat had been scotched,
Judge Carr alone was keeping it
alive.
He suddenly employed Sigler,
brilliant, colorful, determined at
torney from Hastings, who main
tains even to this day that he is
"just a hick lawyer from a hick
town."
Politicians discovered then that
Judge Carr s stoic calm did not
moan that his pyes had been
turned from the possibility of leg
islative corruption
Thp two have made a perfect
pair in this unwelcome, but neces
sary . task.
But they are by no means
j through.
The air here is charged with
thunderbolt v
Tiny Leukemia Victim
To See Last Holiday
ST. LOt’IS. Mo., Nov. 18 (l/P>
—Eugene Bridges, who tan add
I only two more weeks to his eight
;years of life, was returned today
to Energy. 111., to await death
from lymphatic leukemia
Today Eugene was in be taken
back to the little Illinois town l>c
cause he was homesick for his
widowed mother. Ins two sisters
and a brother who are now
planning the young invalid s final
holiday.
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Dems Fight
Nonpartisan
Rule in City
Party Opens Drive
to Change Charter,
Seeks Labor's Aid
By CHARLES WEBER
A concerted effort to smash
Detroit’s nonpartisan government
has been launched under leader
ship of the Wayne County Demo
cratic party, it was learned Sat
urday.
Joseph Wisniewski, chairman cf
the county Democratic commit
tee. declared that almost all
members of his organization have
declared themselves in favor of
an all-out fight to end the non
partisan government which came
into being with adoption of the
city charter in 1918.
LABOR’S SIPPORT
"I expect » definite program
to be under way very ahortly,”
Wisniewski said. "And there Is
little doubt that labor, both the
AFL and CIO, w ill support such
a move. The election is over
and people have justly been
anxious to momentarily forget
about politics. But from now
on the elimination of nonparti
san government in Detroit will
be the foremost Issue facing
the voters."
The move gained impetus. Wis
newski pointed out. a> a result
of the vote on the home rule
amendment which was decisively
defeated both outstate and in
Wayne County in the Nov. 7
election.
Opponent* of the amendment
pointed out that the voters m
Wayne County opposed "extension
of non-partisan government to
the county as well as the city
and that the vote was indicative
of the adverse attitude of a large
majority of Detroiters tow aid
their present form of city gov
ernment.
TIED TO CITY
Wisniewski, Hamtramck police
commissioner. explained that his
interest in the Dqfioit govern
mental system stemmed from the
fact that the county political sit
uation is unalterably tied up with
that of the city.
One of the strongest supporter*
of the move to return the city to
the party system of government
is Frank X. Martel, head of the
Wayne County AFL. who recently
asserted that “the shabby condi
tion we find our city can be*
traced largely from the date of
the institution of our new charter
and the so-called efficient form
of government.”
The change in the system of
government would require a vote
of the people. Common council
has the power to submit the
issue to Ihe voters in next
spring’s election or a petition
signed hv a sufficient number of
voters could force the referendum
vote.
Hitler, 'Seriously 111/
Visited by Mussolini
NEW YORK. Nov. 18 < INS)
The Paris radio, quoting Moscow
sources, said today thal Benito
Mussolini "has visited Adolf Hitler
who is said to be seriously ill.”
The broadcast, recorded by CBS
added that “II Duce is reported to
have been present at a conferenc e
of the physicians and psychiatrists
I who surround the German dic-
I tator.”
Eisenhower on Air
At 3:30 P. M. Sunday
Gen. Eisenhower will v|>rak on
the Army Hour this Sunday at
3:30 p. m. over a nationwide* radio
hookup and WWJ on the \ital
need for greater war production
‘M * Defeat of Badgers, 14-0,
Makes Ohio Game Decisive
Michigan remained in the run
ning for the Western Conference
football championship by boating
Wisconsin Saturday, 14-0.
Ohio State, meanwhile, con
tinued unbeaten by dispose of
Illinois. 26-12. Michigan and Ohio
meet in Columbus next Saturday
to decide the title.
In other games Involving con
ference team*. Minnesota ga\r
lowa a trouncing. 46-0; Indiana
4 Allied Armies
Gain; 3d in Metz
PARKS, Nov. 19 (Sunday) (INS)—Four Allied armies, cascading some half million
men onto Germany’s homo soil, hammered early today at the thresholds of the Ruhr,
Rhineland and Saar after British Second Army units joined the U. S. First and Ninth
Armies beyond Aachen and the U. S. Third Army entered the Reich below Luxembourg*
YANKS SMASH INTO METZ
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Where American tanks anti infantry have smashed
into the German-held fortress French city of Metz
from both the north and south. The map shows just
how the Nazis have fortified this important French city.
3,350 Out as Strike
Grows at DeSoto
More Than 2,100 Fail
to Work 2d Shift
More than 2.100 employee on
the second shift at the Dc Soto
Wyoming plant failed to report for
work Saturday afternoon, bringing
the total number of strikers to
3.350. company officials reported.
Of 2.400 persons employed on
the second shift‘only 350 reported
at 3:30 p. m . a spokesman for the
company said.
Company officials reported that
the strike resulted in protest of
three-day layoffs given 78 persons
throughout the plant for loafing
on the iob and quitting their ma
chines from 5 to 45 minutes early.
Notice of the action, officials
said was given officials of De
Soto Local 227 UAW-CIO. on
Nov. 15. The layoffs were effective
*' Thursday.
A passenger car. outfitted with
a loudspeaker system. drove
slowly hack and fourth in front of
the main gates urging employes
not to return to jobs, it was
reported
The War Fronts
RUSSIA—Paris radio reports
Soviet forces fighting’inside
Budapest. (Page 1.)
THE PHI LI PPI N E S—Red
Arrow division traps 3.000
Jap troops on Leyte.
< Page 1.)
FRANCE Allies pour half
million men onto German
soil as six armies drive
Nazis back along entire
front. « Page 1.1
swatnppd Pittsburgh. 47-0: Notre
Dame came bark to brat North
western. 21-0, but Purdur lost to
Navy, 32-0,
Army rrmainrd unbeaten witn
a 62-7 romp over Penn. Yale also
kept its slate clean, beating North
Carol ifc». 13-6. Previously un
beaten Mississippi State. howe\er
fell to Alabama. 19-0
Mackenzie High won the Metro
politan league championship by
defeating Pershing High, 19-13.
Railhead Falls
To Red Troops
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MOSCOW. Nov. IP (INS)—The
Red army pressed retreating Ger
mans back into the M a t r a and
Buekk mountains of Hungary
today after capturing the key rail
way junction of Fuezesabony, 60
miles northeast of Budapest.
< A Red Army communique
tonight announced the capture
of several more populated places
and four railroad stations inside
Hungary, the Moscow radio re
ported in a broadcast heard by
the FCC.t
•An outbreak of street fight
ing in Budapest was reported by
the Swiss radio “The Germans
are in the royal castle in Buda.”
western part of the city, the
Swiss announcer said.
< A British radio broadcast
said the Reds opened a full scale
bombing offensive against the
Budapest area today, with gun
emplacements, airfields and rail
junction'' as the main objec
tives. »
Soviet troops swung the Nazis
back all along the northern flank
defending the Hungarian capital
and gained control of 27 miles of
the strategic
trunk railway'.
Five railway stations and sev
eral inhabited localities fell before
the Russian drive as tank and in
fantry forces moved slowly closer
to the Austrian and Czechoslo
vak borders.
Nelson Talks to Chiang
CHUNGKING. Nov. 18 (INS)
Donald M. Nelson. President
Roosevelt’s personal envoy to
China conferred today with Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek.
Vouched for os
AUTHENTIC
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Information Center
The Terrifying
Experiences of a
POLISH GIRL -
in a GERMAN
CONCENTRATION
CAMP
BrgOM in
Monday’s TIMES
Five more German towns fell yesterday in thun«
dering Allied advances up to two miles across Reich
territory, as other Third Army tanks and doughboys
slammed to within a few hundred yards of the heart
of Metz after breaking into that Moselle fortress
city from the south and north.
More than 1,000 American guns and 1,450 Yank
dive bombers leveled paths for the drive on the
Aaehen-Geilenkirchen sector to within less than 25
miles of the German Rhine as Berlin said the First
and Ninth Armies alone were using 1,000 tanks.
21 Million Allies on Battle Line
The first German defense line before the all-important
Rhineland-Rhur industrial basin was giving w f ay under the
American-British pressure and there were indications that the
Nazi forces were retreating to secondary positions some miles
northeast of Aachen and southeast of Wurselen.
Meanwhile, at the lower end of a blazing 450-mile fronts—
along which six Allied armies were hurling some 1,500,000 troopa
with perhaps another 1,000.000 poised in the immediate rear—
French First Army forces drove one-third of the way through
the Belfort Gap corridor to southwest Germany. Outflanking the
gateway fortress of Belfort, the French flung the Germans into
a disorganized retreat as they struck within 26 mile* of the
southern Rhine.
To the north, the U. S. Seventh captured nine more German
burned villages in gains up to three miles across French Alsace
to within sight of four Vosges Mountain passes leading into Ger
many below the Saar.
The northern edge of the Saar was entered along a 10-mile
front by mechanized cavalry which for the first time carried the
insignia of Lt. Gen. Patton s American Third Army into Ger
many.
2 Towns Captured in Advance
This new' American smash, extending the invasion front
inside Germany to a width of 110 miles, struck a mile and a half
into the Reich and captured Perl and Ober-Perl.
The sudden drive by the Third’s northeast wing threatened
to slice into the rear of the main German forces resisting the
frontal onslaught by the American First and Ninth and British
Second armies. At Perl, Patton’s cavalry opened the way for a
major push along the east side of the Moselle River 80 miles
northeast to the German industrial center of Coblenz.
Coblenz is 70 miles east-southeast of Aachen and 45 miles
southeast of Cologne, chief Rhineland metropolis.
The surprise appearance of the British Second Army in Ger
many for the first time revealed a dramatic secret switch by Gen.
Eisenhower of that army’s right-wing forces into the Reich from
southeast Holland.
The British struck the German flank near Geilenkirchen and
virtually encircled that important rail-highway hub on the main
; roads to both Cologne and Dusseldorf.
The British Second Army, accompanied by American armor,
struck beyond Hunshoven, six miles within Germany, as it linked
up with the upper wing of the U. S. Ninth, which captured threp
more Reich towrns southeast of Geilenkirchen.
East of Aachen, the U. S. First scored gains up to * mile
and a half in the face of furious but apparently wavering German
tesistance.
Yanks 17 Miles Inside Germany
American spearheads now were fighting at least 17 Vi mile*
inside Germany as the Allied cataract of troops, tanks and funs
stepped up its tremendous onset along a broadened front, flatten
ing all obstacles in its path.
The greatest battle of all time was reflected in the observa
tion of one German radio reporter from the Aachen sector who
said American guns were laying down “a continuous carpet of
shells’' with "never a pause” and' that 20,000 shells had fallen
on Geilenkirchen alone Friday.
Behind this unprecedented barrage, the Nazi correspondent
related, "two American armies and part of a British army am
pressing their attack furiously” while hand-to-hand fighting
erupts "at many points.”
The Nazi DNB agency said the First and Ninth Armies were
attacking w'lth a phalanx of at least 1,000 tanks after deploying
10 armored and infantry divisions and "independent tank aaenult
groups” along a 43V2*mile sector northeast, east and southeast
of Aachen.
Supreme Allied headquarters announced early today that
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Overseas Forces to Get
82 Million Yule Packages -
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (UP)
—Christmas gift parcels for the
armed forces overseas totaled be
tween 82.000.000 and 85.000.000,
and their handling was "perhaps
the greatest individual undertak
ing in the history of the U. S.
postal ser\ ice,’’ Postmaster Walker
said today.
* In New York tlone, 12,500 per
FINAL
sons. working daily in a htaga
building covering 14 S arret nt
Sunnyside, L. 1., handled 47.21&*
402 army packages, sorting thus
down to company level. Walker
said The navy processed It own
20.000.000 to 25 000,000 parcel*
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