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J. 1 1 'Vi' r-l Af mm if Grim Moments and Gay at the Fronts 1 Jiv Iwrv -r4J I A L- -V TWO AMERICAN'S, members of the famous New York Fighting their foxhole during the invasion of Makin in the Gilbert Islands. 69th of World War fire over the body of a dead Japanese from The island was taken from Jap Marines in five days. mr 11 4w -A hn LUSCIOUS LOOKLVG fruits and vegetables are delivered to an advanced South Pacific base by a troop-carrier plane, which hauls freight as well as troops to outposts. H'ACs STATIONED at Delhi.

India, include Capt. Elizabeth Lutze (left), of Sheboygan, and Lt. Sally Dean, of Battle Creek, Mich. They're saluted by Britain and Indian. WWWIHIWP'.

N. Asso''iatpl Press Photo photographed, front center, battery manned entirely by Negro soldiers in Italy. The battery is stationed near the front lines above Venafro. HOME FOLKS get help from jungle fighters and here's the sign to prove it, outside a jungle galley somewhere in the South Pacific. There'll be steak for everybody some day.

TWO JAPANESE-AMERICANS wounded in Italy while fight-ing the Nazis are shown on a hospital ship returning to this country with Pvt. Paul F. Wilk (left), of Hamtramck. OUT AND MAIL TO A MAN IN THE ARMED PfTKOITEK Pvt. Walter West is here in an American anti-aircraft fa.

i li from Home for the Serviceman SUNDAY, JANUARY TTto DO OUR FOR fff CUT Letter Vol. 2 62 Policemen Receive Promotions as Force Is Shaken Up by Ballenger A City police shake-up by John F. Ballenger, newly-appointed police commissioner, distributed 62 promotions throughout the department last week. Although Ballenger denied that politics was involved, two promotions inspectorships were among the three which City Hall rumor said Mayor Jeffries wanted. Reliable reports had it that Commissioner John H.

Wither-spoon resigned rather than promote the two, Charles A. D'Hondt, who had been a lieutenant at Hunt Station, and Lt. Herman Zalewsky, of the traf: fic detail. Leo Doyle, of the homicide squad, for whom Jeffries was said to have also wanted a promotion, was omitted from Ballenger's list. It was the greatest juggling of personnel since former Commissioner Frank D.

a a cleaned up the department after the Ferguson grand jury's revelation of widespread police graft. Coincident with the promotions, Polict Supt. Louis L. Berg transferred Inspector Cornelius Boyle from Davison to Bethune Station, and moved four uniformed lieutenants, three sergeants, 16 patrolmen, a detective lieutenant, three detective sergeants and 11 detectives. Two Detroit cousins, serving overseas, met by chance in Italy.

They are Lt. Phyllis Scrafano, of 2652 Vernor. who is in the Army Nurse Corps, and Pvt. Nick Adolfo, of 187 Burke, who is with the Fifth Army. Sam Davis, 68 years old, was numb at the latest trick of a "meanest thief." He was sleeping in a doorway at the rear of 25 W.

Columbia when a thief stole his shoes. The temperature was in the 'teens at the time. The War Production Board issued a statement the other day telling why so many workers change jobs. They cited 26 reasons, top two being desire for more money and a feeling that the worker was not doing enough for the war effort. A fire last Monday night caused damage estimated at $2,500,000 at the Morton Salt huge plant at Marysville, Mich.

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is expected in town on Jan. 26 for a tour of war plants and child-care centers. DETROIT.

it: 1 SERVICES 16, 1944 No. 9 Bricker Hits jNew Deal in Detroit Talk; Gannett leaks to Adcraft Club Two top Republicans, Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio and Publisher Frank Gannett, a onetime candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, were among visitors to the City last week. Blocker's address before 1.100 members of the Wayne County Republicans at Hotel Book-Cadillac a considered the opening gun in his campaign for this year's presidential nomination.

Gannett's appearance before the Adcraft Club was devoted to international postwar considerations. Bricker attacked the New Deal with the charge that "in this New Deal pattern, altogether too much power has been given to war agencies. Its use of the war to impose on the American public needless bureaucratic controls is an abuse of power." Gannett predicted that an Allied cross-C a 1 invasion may not be needed if British-based bombers are permitted to complete devastation of German industries. BUGAS FACES DRAFT CALL John S. Bugas.

who ended his job as Detroit FBI head last week to join the Ford Motor has lost his draft dpfrr-ment. according to an announcement by his draft board. Whether another deferment will be requested by his new employer is not known. If no request comes through, Bugas will be subject to draft call. He is "5 years old and the father of two children.

SOLDIER VOTE BACKED The proposal to make it possible for service men and women to vote received impetus last week when the American Legion swung its support behind officials moving for absentee-balloting machinery. Chief stumbling block seemed to be the confusion that would arise from the different requirements in the voting regulations of the 48 states. Ralph Baker, former assistant prosecutor, was sentenced to 18 months to five years for defrauding Lynwood T. Schoolboy) Rowe, former Tiger pitcher, of $10,000. Rowe, now a member of the Phillies baseball club, had sent the money to Baker to pay insurance premiums.

Councilman George Edwards left last Monday to begin an Army career at Fort Sheridan, 111. He was inducted Dec. 20. 'Hello Girl1 Troubles Nw York Times Foreign Servire ALGIERS, Jan. 15 The WAC telephone operators who were flown to Cairo especially to handle switchboards during the historic conferences there lived in anticipation of one breathless moment but it never came.

That was when the white light above the line marked "Mr. blinked on. "Mr. X'' was the official name of President Roosevelt, at least so far as the telephonic setup was concerned. One day Cpl.

Elaine Ely was on duty and the white light actually flickered. Elaine said that her heart jumped into her throat and her hands went numb but she recovered quickly and jacked in. Then somebody said, "Never mind." It was just a mistake. Thirteen VVACs were commended for their work in Cairo. Sgt.

Broadhead said that all the distinguished telephone users at American Headquarters in Cairo had excellent telephone manners except Harry Hopkins. SEA STRIPES At fealurtt AMERICA'S merchant sea. men now have their own set of combat ribbons, similar to those awarded in the Army and Navy. The five ribbons, below, are awarded by the War Shipping Administration. Merchant Marine Combat Bar Wounded in Combat Mediterranean Middle East War Zone Bar Atlantic War Zone SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 1944 5 Pacific War Zone tea I TL.

IT XT .1 1 R. 4.v7k I umiTto-ciiMrii- THE DETROIT FREE PRESS The U. S. Navy built thousands of mammoth Landing Boats for invasions all over the world. This L.

B. with its gaping doors, measures 375' long, displaces 5,500 tons. Protected by rapid-fire guns. Shallow draft for beaching. Transports, jeeps, trucks, tanks, field pieces, bulldozers, supplies and food.

The top illustration is the artist's conception of the L. B. (beached) showing troops and war equipment disembarking. Other sketches show Gar Wood war equipment: Cargo and troop body, Gun Carriage, Dump Body, Bulldozer, Wrecker Crane, Refueling Tank and Patrol Boat. Bonds Contributed to Building L.

B's and other War Equipment shown. Buy Bonds. Hasten Surrender. ftjftfhiftftiWanirii iiiftuwifirtiraiiirniriifrrinirrii Detroiters are getting the real lowdown on what women are going to look like in the coming months through the dispatches sent in the last few days by Dorothy Cloudman, Free Press fashion editor, who is in New York looking over the new styles. Dorothy says that the above number is typical of what maybe seen in a little while.

Midriffs are going to be bare and everything is going to be definitely low down, offish or whatchama call it. Anyway, come warm weather, it ought to be interesting. Workers Wed on Job Contrary to the tales ou may have heard about walkouts and strikes, here's a war-plant couple who were too busy to take time out for a wedding, so a preacher tied the knot in their lunch hour. While sandwich munching swing-shifters atop near-by machines watched the ceremony, Edward Goslovv, 23 years old, a cutter-grinder operator in the aircraft department of Hudson Motors, took Miss Ruth Mitchell, 25, a precision-grinder operator, as his bride. A plant guard, the Rev.

William M. McDonald, pronounced them man and wife. The only concession to tradition was that the bridegroom and his best man, Carman Freel, donned their coats. Eath wore a carnation in his lapel. The bride, in white blouse and blue slacks, managed to secure a corsage from somewhere.

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