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N0V1 1943 FORUM GETS MESSAGE FROM ROOSEVELT. 'Forces of Decency9 Must Carry Initiative Gained in War On into 'Centuries of Peace5 Br the raited Press NEW YORK, Nov. 17 President Roosevelt said tonight that the United Nations now had "the supreme advantage of the initiative" and that it must be maintained during the war and "perhaps the centuries of peace that are to follow." Mr. Roosevelt's remarks were contained in a message to the Forum on Current Problems sponsored by the New York Herald Tribune. The message was read by Mrs.

Ogden Reid, vice president of the New York Tribune, Inc. A message from British Prime Minister Winston Churchill also was read at the forum. The reading of Mr. Roosevelt's message and addresses by Vice President Henry A. Wallace and Wendell L.

Willkie concluded the two-day forum. Mr. Roosevelt said that the "increasingly" swift pace of events in this war" prevented his joining personally in the forum, and recalled that at the 1942 meeting "he said that the turning point of the war "had at last been reached." "The great advances that have been made during the year since then can be measured by the fact that now the important events of the war and in the building of the peace are being impelled by us of the "United Nations and not by our "We must not lose this advantage the supreme advantage of the initiative. We must never lose it in this war. And in the years and perhaps the centuries of peace that are to follow this war, the forces of civilization and common decency, the overwhelming majority of the human race, must always maintain the initiative." Wallace told the forum that the peace after World War II must "recognize the simple realities of international, trade." He attacked the high tariffs which were adopted after World War and described those who insisted on the high tariffs as "selfish morons." "Our task is to make this the century of the common Wallace said.

"This idea, this dream, can become a. reality." He said that the "common man wants free enterprise but private enterprise is not a goal in itself." Wallace said that Peace "is rapidly coming upon us," and cautioned that "by lack of planning and the selfishness of so-called hard-headed men we can turn Peace into World War HL" to save Peace he continued, "we must make freedom from want that reality which is implicit in our resources, manpower and skills." Willkie told the forum that the United States, Great Britain, Russia and China should invite all the United Nations to sign a declaration of intention to keep the Moscow agreements from "degenerating into a mere alliance of four powerful countries for the ruling of the world." jMETROPOLITAN FINAL EDITION Weather Report Cloudy and warmer Sua rises vll 6:09 November Over a Century 18, 1943. No. 198 mm lk7 Knockout Blows Aimed 't( 1 113th Year 28 Pages sS- 4.x i I 7 i iK-ftgff i at Marshalls Gilberts mis 'i-jj PRECISION PROPAGANDA Allied Radio Warns French of Air Destruction to Come By the Coifed Tress The Inter-Allied Command broadcast an unprecedented warning to French civilians over United Nations transmitters Wednesday that the Allied air forces would bomb 37 specified districts in France as part of a campaign to crush all French industry turning out war goods for the Nazis. In the first designation of specific areas to be attacked, the Allies warned that in order to shorten the war it was urgently necessary to destroy all French plants making tanks, automobiles, trucks, aircraft and guns and all their component parts, particularly ballbearings and tires.

"Therefore, it is most urgent for all Frenchmen working in those places or working or residing near the objectives pointed out immediately to take all necessary precautions," the broadcast said. Among the areas listed were Paris, Gennevilliers, Colombes, Argenteuil, Ivry, Courbevoie, Nantes, Lemans, Toulouse, Lille, Strasbourg, Lyon, Clermont. Metz and Denain. The overseas branch of the United States Office of War Information said that its transmitters and those of the BBC in London began broadcasting the warning at 4:15 p. m.

(EWT). Radio stations in Axis-held countries went off the air Wednesday night, indicating air attacks were under way. Associated Press Wireohoto craft, part of the undersea force of the once powerful Italian Navy, is shown at the right. The superstructure is seen in a broadside view of the boat in the water in the left foreground. MIDGET SUBS SEIZED AT TARANTO These two undersized submarines were seized by the Allies in the harbor of Taranto, Italy, without firing a shot.

A side view of the unusual Utilities Excise Tax Under Study by City Proposed in Place of Payroll Levy to Finance Postivar Improvements BY LEO DONOVAN Free Press Staff Writer A City Administration plan to levy a 10-to-20 per cent excise tax on Detroit's privately owned public utilities as a substitute for Mayor Jeffries' proposed 1 per cent payroll tax plan has been under consideration for two months, it was learned Wednesday. -On Guard for UAW Opens Drive to End Pay Freeze War Is Declared on Little Steel Formula Raises Demanded of Ford, GM, Chrysler BY DANIEL L. WELLS Free Press Labor Editor The big drive of the United Automobile Workers (CIO) to break the Little Steel formula and gain for its million mem bers a general "cost of living" wage increase started Wednes day. word came from the union three big departments Ford, Chrysler and General Motors that the push was on, and the big guns were trained at the corpora tions whose employees the union represents, and at the War Labor Board. In moving for higher wages, the UAW (CIO) was following the line set down by the union at its Buffalo convention, and by the national CIO convention whose delegates recently voted that the Little Steel formula "no longer is in accord with reality," and that it has "become necessary to eliminate it." After the CIO convention, the United States Steel Workers (CIO) became the first union to demand a general pay raise and revision of the Little Steel form- Is this country about to be taken for a cynical profiteer's ride into uncontrolled price Inflation Read Raymond Clapper's timely warning on Page 19.

ula. At that time, CIO President Philip Murray predicted that other CIO unions would follow suit. The action of the various UAW (CIO) departments makes this union, largest of all CIO affiliates, the second to formulate its demands for more money to the workers. The first announcement of the demands came in a statement from Richard T. Leonard, Ford director of the UAW (CIO), who asked the Ford Motor Co.

"to enter into immediate negotiations for a general wage increase, scrapping the "Little Steel formula." The demand was contained in a letter from Leonard and Percy Llewellyn, chairman of the National Ford Council of the union, to Harry H. Bennett, personnel director of the Turn to Page 11 Column 2 Oakman Yacht a Banana Boat The 200-foot luxury steam yacht Mamie for which the late Robert Oakman, Detroit real estate dealer, paid $300,000 some 20 years ago, has been sold as a banana boat for $15,000. The Mamie named after Oakman's wife, is docked not far from Bar Harbor, in Riverside, Ont. The Mamie is being stripped of her rich cabin fittings and soon will be ready to start for her new home port at Miami. The hull of the craft was built at the Dodge Boat Works in De troit and the superstructure at the Great Lakes Engineering Works.

Typhoon, Flood Paralyze Manila NEW YORK, Nov. 17 (AP) Manila has been paralyzed by a typhoon and flood which inundated most of the city, wrecked homes and disrupted electric power, gas water and telephone services, the Japanese-controlled Manila radio disclosed tonight. "president of an educational in-situation with a millon scholars. A MILLION SCHOLARS "The average American does not rely for education and stimulation on anything but newspapers, so Mr. Martin has his million scholars exclusively for almost the last 42 years of life, Dr.

Crane said. "We spend over three billions a year for school taxes, and the tragedy is that a child is not taught the practical things he is Four Cents Lower Value Is Effective on Friday Backs, Hocks, Bacon Ends Free; Slash Is Limited; Market to Get U.S. Support By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 With hogs moving to markets in heavy numbers, the government tonight slashed ration point costs of all pork products by ttxrrt l-iftinfci At the same time, to keep farmers returns on hogs from being driven too low, it extended price supports to all hog markets. Heretofore, such support has been in effect only at Chicago.

The reduction in ration-point costs of "pork, described by Price Administrator Chester Bowles as temporary, is effective at 12:01 a. m. (EWT) Friday. SOME ITEMS FREE Bowles noted that the cut will make some pork items point free. The higher-valued cuts will be reduced at least 20 per cent, or from 10 points to eight points a pound.

Over the list as a whole the average point reduction will be one-third. OPA emphasized that the reduction will be for a limited period only, and applies only to pork, and 100 per cent pork sausage. It does not change the present point value of lard, those sausages not made exclusively from pork or any other products rationed under the meat-fats order. Canned meats, even though they are made from pork, remain unchanged. HITS BLACK MARKET Bowles said the reduction in point values should not be interpreted as meaning a "sudden im provement in the over-all rationed meat picture." The revision, he said, will also serve to take the "premium off black market operations." The point reductions will mean that such items as fat backs, hocks and bacon ends may be purchased ration free.

The point value on center chops was cut from 10 to eight points while rined baco-i was cut from six to four. The support price for live hogs was fixed at that now in effect at Chicago $13.75 for good and choice 200 to 270-pound hogs adjusted by the normal differential with Chicago prices. Beginning Nov. 29, the support price at each market other than Chicago will be $1 per 100 pounds below the OPA's price ceiling at that market. The Chicago support price will remain unchanged.

will remain effective until War Food Administrator Marvin Jones determines the need for a more flexible support price at markets outside of Chicago. SUPPORT INTERPRETED When the Government fixes a "support price," it means it is ready to buy at that figure if open market buyers are not. WFA anticipated, however, that packers would pay the support price. It announced it is asking the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to withhold meat subsidy payments from any slaughterer who buys at a price below the support price.

To relieve the market glut WFA also authorized farmers for a period of 90 days to slaughter any hogs owned by them and deliver the meat without obtaining a license or a permit. Persons who purchase or are given the meat must, however, surrender ration points for it. Hull Gives Report to Congress Today WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (AP) Secretary of State Cordell Hull will report on the Moscow Conference at an informal joint session of the two houses of Congress at 12:30 p. m.

tomorrow. His twenty- five-minute speech will be broadcast. On Inside Pages Amusements 22 Lond'n Diary 13 Lyons 28 Vterry-Go-R'd 6 My Day 19 Parade 7 Radio 27 Reporter 5 Sports 16-17 Town Crier 28 Washington 19 Women's 10-14 Bingay 6 Clapper 19 Classified 23-26 Crossword 25 Edgar Guest 6 Editorials 6 Financial Grafton Horoscope 21 19 27 28 Mm Iffy Outposts Hit Third Time in 48 Hours U.S. Army Bombers Smash Installations and Shipping; Make Record Penetration Br the I'nilrd Tress PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 17 Heavy Liberator bombers of the United States Seventh Army Air Force struck at the Marshall and Gilbert islands for the third time in less than 48 hours Monday, wrecking enemy ships and installations, a United States Pacific Fleet communique announced today.

The four-motored bombers. In the deepest penetration yet by l3nd-based planes of Japan's eastern defense perimeter, blasted at Jaluit and Mille Atolls in the Marshalls and Makin island in the Gilberts, late Monday afternoon. FACE STEPPED UP Possibly pointing up the recent Eiatement by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, that "the time has come for us to attack." the raids marked an intensification of mid- Pacific aerial warfare.

Mai. Gen. Willis H. Hale, chief rf the Seventh Air Force, said tfat the offensive against the eremy outposts would be continued until they become "completely untenable." At Jaluit, the raiders scored heavily against Japanese seaplane hangars, shops and dump areas on Imeiji and Jabor islands, which are part of tne Atoll, the communique said. Of five ships anchored in the lagoon, one was left burning and three others were reported possiblv damaged.

SEVERAL FIRES NOTED The communique added that several fires resulted in the attack on Mille, east of Jaluit, while cloud conditions over Makin prevented accurate obdeivance of the damage. As in the case of the two previous raids on th Marshall and Gilberts, last Saturday night and Sunday, the Seventh Air Force Turn to Fage 9 Column 1 Kni ght Calls forUnccnsored Postwar News By the Assoriated Press MANCHESTER, England, Nov. 17 The right of newspaper correspondents to send uncensored dispatches from any part of the world must be a part of the peace, John S. Knight, publisher of the Detroit Free Press, the Akron Beacon Journal and the Miami Herald, declared tonight. "As part of the peace we must protect the right of our worldwide news agencies to gather honest, unbiased, truthful news in the reborn and reconstituted countries now in the hands of the enemy," Knight told a meeting of the English Speaking Union.

The people were entitled to honest, accurate news, he said, and after the war should not be forced to swallow governmental propaganda handed out by national press agencies subsidized to distribute official Government views. W. P. Crozier, editor of the Manchester Guardian, told the meeting he believed the American press, more than that of any other country, represented the freedom of expression and boldness of opinion essential to a true-governing community. ARMY GETS 5 HOTELS WASHINGTON.

Nov. 17 (AP) The War Department announced today that five Santa Barbara (Calif.) hotels were being acquired for a convalescent center for the Army Air Force. MASSAGE AND BATH for m-n. ftom-a and families Jfew Detroit Baths. 1377 W.

Vernor Second Hun ter Killed, Victim of Own Rifle 7 More Wounded, 2 in Freak Mishaps One deer hunter was killed and seven were wounded Wednesday as the third day of the deer season was marked by freak accidents. Death of James Ivan Bell, 16 years old, of 1534 Empire, Lincoln Park, who was shot in the head six miles west of Houghton Lake, brought the gunfire toll for the season to date to two dead and 13 injured. Eleven hunters were reported missing Wednesday, but all of them, along with a Detroit hunter lost the previous day, were found. Bell was killed when his loaded gun discharged as he was climbing out of his car with it. FREAK ACCIDENTS WOUND 2 Two hunters were wounded as the result of stray rifle shots, but not by the bullets themselves.

One was Roland G. Wayborn, 28, of Mason, who was shot by an unidentified hunter three miles from Roscommon. The bullet struck a hunting knife which Wyborn was wearing, and the knife inflicted severe cuts on Wyborn's hip. Myron O. Gilbert, of 118 Allen, Lansing, was shot by an unidentified hunter while driving on US-27 nine miles south of Roscommon and likewise was untouched by the bullet.

The slug struck the windshield wiper on Gilbert's car, breaking the windshield, and Gilbert was cut on the shoulder and face by flying glass. WOMAN WOUNDED Andrew Tibor, 23, of Lincoln, was arrested Wednesday in connection with the wounding of Mrs. Thurlow Cole, 35, also of Lincoln, who was shot through the chest in Alcona County's first hunting accident of the season. She is in critical condition in an Alpena hospital. State Police were investigating the shooting of David Lamb, of 1174 E.

Lamb, Flint, who was shot by his brother, Arthur, seven miles east of Prudenville. Arthur mistook his brother for a buck, officers said. Roy C. Pimperton, of 82 Waver-Turn to Page 10 Column 5 War Plants Offer Milk for Children Workers Planning to Give Up Supplies BY GEORGE W. CAIN Free Frm Staff Writer Advised by the Department of Health that Detroit's milk shortage would continue indefinitely, labor and management joined Wednes day in a program to divert some of the milk being consumed by war-plant workers to schoolchil dren, mothers and babies who have been going without.

The program, first suggested by Capt. Donald S. Leonard, Gov. Kelly's representative at a milk consumers' meeting here last week, was indorsed by Dr. Bruce u.

Douglas, City health commissioner, as "one of the best ways I know of to divide what milk we have among those who need it most." RESPONSE UNANIMOUS Reuben Patton, of the Ford Motor whose Negro workers offered a few days ago to make their entire supply available to the schools, said that promises of cooperation in the program had been received from every principal plant contacted thus far, including Gen eral Motors, Chrysler, Bnggs, U. S. Rubber, Fisher Body and Na tional Automotive Fibre. "As soon as we find out just how much milk we have to offer, we're going to get together with the dealers and work out an arrangement to make sure that no children, mothers or sick people go without milk in Detroit while there is any left," Patton said. CONSUMERS TO MEET.

Meanwhile, the Greater Detroit Consumers Council announced that it was sponsoring a meeting of consumers and farmers at 2 p. m. Saturday in the Rackham Memorial Building "so that a mutually beneficial program of action can be immediately undertaken" to in- Turn to Page 11 Column 5 Envoy in Finland Shifted to Sweden Jiew York Tiroes Seirice WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 Rob ert McClintock, second secretary of the American Legation in Finland, is being transferred to the legation in Stockholm, the State Department said today. He is being replaced in Helsinki by West, at present vice consul in Stockholm.

The transfers were de scribed as routine. as Real U.S. going to need the day he graduates. "The Army has proved that our men can't read with speed, facility and comprehension. At Northwestern University we graduate students backward, with their headlights focused on the past and their taillights on the future, because they have been taught by intellectual archeologists.

WHEN SCHOOLS FAILED 'It is a tragedy that journalism has had to tell us how to get along Allies Blast Bomber Bases at Marseilles Athens Air Centers Are Also Smashed toj the Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Nov. 17 Attacking on a front of more than 1,000 miles, bombers of the Northwest African Air Force struck their heaviest blow of recent weeks at the Nazi Air Force yesterday when they smashed enemy airdromes near Marseilles in Southern France and in the Athens area in Greece. Blistering onslaughts by Flying Fortresses and Marauders against fields at Istres le Tube and Salon near Marseilles were aimed primarily at the destruction of fleets of German long-range bombers that have been harassing Allied shipping in the Mediterranean. Many grounded bombers were left flaming. Another force of Mitchell medium bombers whipped eastward from Italian bases to blast the Elevsis airfield near Athens for the second straight day.

Meanwhile, ground operations in Italy were cursed by dismal weather with high winds, rain and snow hampering the movements of men and supplies. For a week Allied gains had been measured by yards instead of by miles, and resumption of major fighting did not appear imminent. Americans of the Fifth Army regained some high ground on Monte Santa Croce north of Venafro which had been lost the preceding day to two strong German counterattacks. (The German radio asserted that American troops "are exhausted by repeated attacks" on the Italian front and "seem urgently to need a short interval of rest. 2 Evaders Get 5 Years, Fines Two members of the Jehovah's Witness cult found guilty of violation of the Selective Service Act by Federal juries were each given five-year-prison terms and $10,000 fines by Federal Judge Frank A.

Picard Wednesday. Sentenced were Leo Russo, 19 years old. of 3385 E. Lamed, and Anthony M. Jubinski, 32, of 19429 Sawyer.

A third member of the cult, Richard A.Vassalla, 24, of 12108 Mendota, was convicted as a draft dodger, but sentence was postponed three weeks to permit further investigation. A fourth man charged with draft violation. Russell J. Martin, 25. of 737 Hazelwood, failed to appear for trial.

Judge Picard canceled his bond and signed a bench warrant for his arrest. ADDITIONAL BANKING BOrRS Industrial National Bank. MAIN OFFICE MONDAYS 6 to BBACHES FRIDAYS i.6 to 8. AdT. City Controller Charles G.

Oak- man said that the tax, which would be levied on the gross revenues of the Detroit Edison the Michigan Bell Telephone the Michigan 'Consolidated Gas Co. and the local offices of the American Telephone Telegraph would produce at least $13,500,000 annually to help finance Detroit's postwar capital- improvement program, The program, Oakman said, is similar to excise taxes on the gioss revenues of utilities in other cities, particularly in New York Jity. "One of the appealing features cf the proposed tax on payrolls and net profits was that we actually had seen it in successful operation in Philadelphia," uaKman said. "But when the utilities here refused to reduce their rates and the Public Service Commission wouldn't reduce them in view of those things, we considered the excise tax. The Mayor had instructed us to make surveys to determine what the City needed in the way of capital improvements and how we were going to finance them and Krause (Corporation Counsel Paul E.

Krause), Ingalls (Vance G. Ingalis, assistant corporation Sullivan (Richard A. Sullivan, public utility consultant) and I suppose Jim (James Lee (assistant corporation counsel) have been working on it." The proposed program provides for levying a 20 per cent tax upon utilities whose gross revenues fiom within the City of Detroit exceed $45,000,000. Presently, such a rate would apply only to the Detroit Edison whose tax Turn to Page 8 Column 1 George Balks Tax Increases By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 Chairman Walter F.

George, Georgia Democrat, of the Senate Fi nance Committee, torpedoed today any ireasury nopes for tax in creases substantially above the $2,142,000,000 voted by the House Ways and Means Committee. George told a press conference that he thoroughly approves of the House bill in its present form and believes that further tax increases would "shatter business morale." The chairman, whose views carry heavy weight with other members, of the committee and with the Senate, estimated that enactment of the measure would raise the annual tax burden of the people. to $55,000,000,000, when state, county and local levies are included. SHFnn's m.n sm rui, xrt Dressing a dacli will ireaUjf imsrora any SELF-SERVICE How Father Got Milk for the Baby This is the story of how the father of a newborn son got two quarts of milk Wednesday in a section of Detroit blighted by a spotty milk shortage. He isn't quite sure he was entirely within the law and he doesn't care much about that.

He got the milk. "I went to every store that could find open and none of them had milk," explained E. H. Leroy, ot 34bo Jjongieiiow. Tnen I saw a dairy open at Webb and Dexter.

"The counter girl wanted to know if I had any of this particu lar dairy's bottles. When I told her I didn't any, she said she couldn't sell 'me any milk." Leroy said he thought of the DaDy ana decided he was going home with milk. He told the girl he'd either buy the milk or take it. She told him he couldn't do that. "Oh yes, I can," Leroy said, takmg two quarts out of the re frigerator.

"How much is it?" Leroy said the girl told him it would be $2 and he said that would be O.K. with him if she would give him a receipt. "She wouldn't give me a receipt and she wouldn't call the police as I suggested," Leroy said. "So tossed 50 cents on the counter and left with the milk. I think a store doing business over the counter has to sell to any customer who is willing to pay for what he buys.

"I'll be back Thursday night for some more milk, but 111 have bottles then." Leroy said that he was kind of sorry the police weren't called be cause he wanted to make a test case of his right to buy milk for his baby right then and there. Educators when the schools and colleges have failed." In nine years of writing his "Problem Clinic" column, which appears in the Free Press and other newspapers. Dr. Crane said he has had only 13 complaints because he was unduly frank. "The American people are far ahead of their clerical leaders and college professors in science, he said.

Many educators would not run my column, which means that Turn ta Page 4, Column 3 'EDITORS PLAY GREATER ROLE THAN TEACHERS' Dr. Crane Hails Papers BY HELEN BOWER Free Press Staff Writer Newspapers, as educational institutions, are doing a far better job for the American people than the schools and colleges. Dr. George W. Crane, of Chicago, nationally-known psychologist, told his Detroit Town Hall audience in the Fisher Theater Wednesday morning.

Acknowledging his introduction by Douglas D. Martin, managing editor of The Detroit Free Press, Dr. Crane termed Martin the aiKL Adv..