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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

Board report to the Senate
Military Affairs Committee.
During 1912 the ratio was
only 5 to 3 in favor of the
Allies. This year it will be
.7l2 to 3, equivalent to a so
per cent gain for the Allies
while Axis production was
static.
The report revealed an
other startling fact. not gem
orally realized, which proves
the speed with which American
industry has converted to the war
effort.
England and Germany. in the
fourth year Of war. are devoting 80
per cent OF their production TO
war goods. The United States has
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24
AUCTION CALENDAR

WEDNESDAY. MARCH 3 at 1900
o'clock sharp at 1909 Holmes 3D..
I mile east and mile north Of
Ypsilanti. Reid Ross. Proprietor:
Earl Wright. Auetioneer; o. e.
Vedder, Clerk. Adv. 900
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

ELSINKI-( Delayed AP -
The newspaper Uusi Suomi assert
cd today that peace.making guar
antees for the security OF Finland
evidently do not fit into war plans
OF the United Nations because Of
opposition from Soviet Russia.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

WHITE ROCK Broilers for sale.
429 Campbell. Phone 1885.
ADV. 223
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

WASHINGTON-AP-Secretaries
OF the War, Navy aud Treasury De-
partments and the chairman OF the
Maritime Commission have agreed
10 an inter-departmental delegation
OF powers In an effort to speed up
the clearance Of cases involving re-
negotiation OF war contracts, the
Office OF War Information dis
closed today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

WASHINGTON-AP- National
economic sterilization leaders to-
day had before them clio union
proposal to declare a five-month
moratorium on wage increase de-
mands based on cost-of.living rises
provided such rises were matched
by non-negotiable war bonds. set
aside for the workers by the en-
ployers.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

LONDON-AP-Foreign Secre-
tary Anthony Eden told the House
OF Commons today that we have
some reason to believe and every
reason TO hope that Madame
Chang Kai-shek will visit England
before returning to China. The
wife OF the Chinese generalissimo
is at present visiting in the United
States.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

lONDON-lNS- More than
80 OF 81 children at the Poor
Clare Girls Orphanage at Ca
van, Erie. were reported miss
ing today after the structure
was swept by fire.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

WASHINGTON - ms New
Zealand Minister Walter Nash to-
day made known the willingness
OF his country to grant the United
States permanent air and naval
bases. Nash said New Zealand
stands ready to grant the United
States the permanent right to use
its air and naval bases as part of
a lasting mutual defensive system
in the Pacific.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

See PRICES Page 5
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

WASHINGTON-AP 80 Senators
investigating food production and
distribution planned today TO in
quire into complaints that friction
between government agencies is re.
sponsible for black market sales Of
diseased meat
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

CHICAGO APP Polling more
than three fourths OF their respec-
tive party's vote in the lightest and
quietest primary in years, Demo
craic Mayor Edward J. Kelly and
Republican George B. McKibbin
yesterday were named nominees for
Chicago's mayoralty election April
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

CAMBRIA, Australia-AP -
Herbert V. Eyatt. Australian attor-
ney general and minister OF exter-
nal affairs, will visit Washington
and London shortly to discuss prob
lens of supply and Pacific policy
in relation to Allied global strategy,
informed quarters said today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

See PARKWAY PAGE )
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

NEW YORK ms The late
Maxine Elliott who retired from
the New York stage % years ago
had accumulated fortune OF more
than 100000 before she died in
1910. it was learned today follow
estate tax appraisal filing.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

CHUNGKING-INS-The second
air alert in two days was sounded
in Chungking at noon today when
IL Japanese planes were sighted
heading in the direction OF the Chi
nese provisional capital.
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See CHILD LABOR Page 8
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

See WAR Page )
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

LONDON-UP-Prime Minister
Winston Churchill's condition was
reported improved today. He spent
a good night, informants said. He
is confined to bed with a cold and
a slight inflammation OF lung.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

NEW YORK-INS-Sir Thomas
Beecham. internationally known
orchestra conductor who is said
10 have made a $1,750,000 settle
ment when divorcing his first wife,
recently married Miss Betty Hum
by, young English pianist, 1t be
came known today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

LONDON-UP-The Nazis' ra-
do Vichy said today that two Al
lied conveys. OF Al and 2S cargo
ships, had reached Gibraltar from
the Atlantic. Thirty-four mercn-
anthem of medium tonnage had en-
tered the roadstead from the At
lantic. and numerous planes were
continually landing and taking off
from the Gibraltar airfeld, radio
Nichy said.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

NEW YORK-INS- Prospective
farmers are being assured of "un-
limited markets" for their produce
by large chain stores and indie
endent buyers in drive to aug
ment food production in this coun-
try. Stores in some twenty states,
including New York, are cooperat-
ing in the program which is en-
listing the aid of agricultural serv-
ices of score of colleges.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-24

CHICAGO-INS-With the break
down in mediation proceedings,
the big five operating brotherhoods
prepared today to carry their de
mands for a wage increase to the
National Railway Labor Panel,
headed by DR.. William NJ. Lesser
son.
Evening star., 1943-04-22
Voorhis Offers 5-Point
Security Program
Californian Submits Model
For Postwar Problems
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Questioning whether the Amer
lean people want "cradle-to-the-
grave security" Representative
Voorhis, Democrat, OF California has
placed before the House a five point
program which, he says, a social
security system program in this
country should cover, as follows:
l. A general national old-age pen
sion provision applying to all per-
sons who have passed the age where
employment in industry in normal
times can be reasonably expected.
2. Help for mothers and children
left without a bread winner"
3. Insurance against i'll health,
accidents and disability.
4. Insurance against unemploy-
ment under provisions mainly CAL
culated to maintain the purchasing
power of temporarily unemployed
people.
5. A Nation wide school lunch and
penny milk program.
Mr.. Voorhis told the House yes
terday he believed this country
wanted provision for a steady flow
OF consumer buying power, thus
guaranteeing full employment, rath-
er than a program of general pub
lie assistance" as proposed by the
National Resources Planning Board
Wise fiscal and monetary meas
ures. the Californian said, could be
a first line of defense against un-
employment" and result in nearly
Null employment" without the neces-
sity of huge public works programs
Evening star., 1943-04-22
OPA to AIIowVictory Gardeners
Extra Gas for Travel to Plots

The Office of Price Administration
will allow motorists who are 0culti-
waiting Victory gardens at distance
from their homes to obtain enough
extra gasoline to drive 300 more
miles during the gardening season,
it was learned today.
An order permitting rationing
boards to authorize the additional
purchase of gasoline will be pub
lished in the Federal Register Tues
day. The order will go in effect that
day.
AS the OPA figures mileage at IS
miles to the gallon, regardless of the
size of the car, the order will give
gardeners about 20 extra gallons of
gasoline.
Local rationing boards will be
charged with determining who are
bona fide gardeners in need Of the
gasoline.
In Washington. neighborhood
victory garden leaders have been
organized ofiicially through the
once of Civilian Defense. They
will certify to the rationing boards
the names of gardeners operating
at distance from their homes. The
District Victory Garden Committee.
headed by Granville Guide, plans
to instruct the ration boards to
withdraw the extra gasoline priv
ilege from those who do not weed
their plots in community gardens.
THAT ought to do it, Mr.. Guide
said when told about the plans for
Evening star., 1943-04-22

the japanese militarist"
An American note to Japan,
transmitted through Swiss diplo-
matte channels and made public at
the White House yesterday, said the
United States eventually will bring
those responsible for the executions
to justice.
1t also warned that any other vio-
lations of the Geneva Convention
regarding treatment of prisoners of
war-"as military operations now in
progress draw to their inexorable
and inevitable would
bring punishment to those RESPONSE
BILE.
Undersecretary of War Patterson
told his press conference today:
I'VE have faithfully lived up to
our commitments under the Geneva
convention. Reprisals for this act
directed against Japanese soldiers
would lower us to the level of our
enemy without touching the evil in
dividuals who alone are responsible
I'VE shall have our reprisals, but
they will be directed against the
officials of the japanese government
who have directed or instigated
these crimes"
The executions by no means rep
resented Japan's first disregard OF
military procedure.
The war was less than a month
old when the War Department in
its communique No. 35, on December
30, 1941, told of damage done tc
"undefended Manila by the repeated
senseless and savage bombing by
Japanese aircraft after it had beer
declared an open city,
| Included in that communique
which charged the enemy with de-
| liberately selecting churches and
other centers of Christian worship
and culture" as special targets, was
this radiogram from Gen. Douglas
Macarthur:
Enemy mercilessly bombed the
open city of Manila using 63 bomb
Evening star., 1943-04-22

ers. Damage has been severe and
includes all types of civilian in
llations, such as churches, the
cathedral, hospitals, converts, busi-
ness and private dwellings.
1T is notable that before Manila
was declared an open city and be-
fore our antiaircraft defense evacu-
ated therefrom he had abstained
from attempted bombing Of any
thing in Manila except military in
stallations. His present actions can
only be deemed completely violative
of all civllizen processes of interna-
tional law. At the proper time I
bespeak proper retaliatory meas
ures.'
Japan did not say how many
American flyers had been put to
death. but informed this Govern
ment through Swiss channels that
it had tried those captured and SEN
fenced them to death. The sentence
was commuted for the larger num-
Der" of them, the note added, but
was carried out on the others.
OF the 80 officers and men who
flew to Japan with Maj. Gen. James
H. Doolittle last April, the War De-
partment listed eight as prisoners
or presumed prisoners of the Japa-
nese and two as missing.
ID. c. Pilot Among Prisoners.
The White House released the
news of the executions in the form
of statement by the President, re-
ceived from a stop on his war-camp
inspection journey at Corpus Christi
Tex, and 1,0OO-word note of pro-
test from the State Department.
Those held were First 1t. William
Glover Farrow, 1919 Varnum street
Washington; Second 1t. George
Barr, Madison. Wis; First 1t. Rob-
ert L. Hite. Earth, Tex; First 1t
Robert J. Meder, Lakewood, Ohio
and First 1t Chase j. Nelson, Hy-
rum, Utah. Those presumed to be
prisoners were First 1t. Dean Hall
mark, Dallas, Tex; Corpl. Jacob D
Deshazer, Madres, Greg. and Sergt
Harold A. Spatz, Lebo, Kans.
V1AoSlllS WClC oCASp. w y
Dieter, Tulelake, Calf, and Corpl
Donald Fitzmaurice, Lincoln, Nebr.
I'VE must not rest-We must re-
double our efforts" Gen. Arnold sale
in a message to all his personnel g
few hours after Mr.. Roosevelt dis
closed the japanese had acknowl-
edged putting some Americans te
death and treating other captured
flyers as criminals, denying then
all rights as prisoners of war.
Gen. Arnold made clear tina
the Japanese inhumanity will mo-
deter this country from further
raids on Toxic.
Saying the victims Of the Japa.
nese died as heroes, Gen. Arnole
told his airmen:
Remember those comrades wher
you get Zero in your sight-hav,
their sacrifice before you when yol
line up your bombsight on a Japa
nese base.
Let your answer to their treat
ment of your comrades be the de.
struction of the Japanese air force
their lines of communication ant
the production centers which offe,
them opportunity to continue such
atrocities
Evening star., 1943-04-22
Wallace 10 Conclude
Tour and Start Home
By Plane Saturday
Voices His Expectation Of
World Peoce and Unity .
In Colombian Talk
BY the Associated Press.


BOGOTA, Colombia, April o.
Vice President Wallace presented
President Roosevelt.s greetings to
the Colombian people here last
night and then in an hour long
address said he was convinced the
world was destined to become
united and peaceful.
With President Alfonso Alfaro
Lopez, cabinet members and diplo-
mats in his audience, Mr.. Wallace
said the fundamental policy of the
democracies in building for lasting
peace in the world must be to foster
individual liberty tempered to per-
nit mass unity.
1t was the last important speech
of the Vice Presidents Latin Amer
lean tour which will end Saturday
when he takes plane for the
United States.
At press conference, Mr.. Wal
lace said he had faith in the capital
istic system, but with many modi-
fications." and added that he be-
lieved all systems will have to un-
dergo changes. Asked whether he
included the Soviet system, he re-
piled in the Affirmative.
There Is no escape-no matter
what system Or what country is af-
fected,' he said.
The fundamental problem for the
postwar period, the Vice President
said, is permanent economic, as well
as military peace. He said it was
his opinion that military peace will
have to be enforced through an in
ternational tribunal and an interna
tional armed force and that there
will have to be some kind of inter-
national council to control worlo
economy.
Mr.. Wallace said the present great
producing countries agriculturally
and industrially should have nothing
to fear from increased production ir
other countries, as standards of liv-
ing would increase, creating new de.
mands. He said he hoped there
eventually would be universal hv.
ing Standard" including the Asiatit
| peoples.
Evening star., 1943-04-22
Chevy Chase Citizens
Name Committeeman

-Four new members of the Citizens
Committee of the Chevy Chase View
Citizens Association were named at
a meeting of the organization this
week.
New members include Frank
Daniel, Earl w. Macy, John w. Self
and Raymond J. Consley. The new
members, together with j. w. Nc
Causlahd and A. H. Scott, incumbent
members, elected Mr.. McCausland
chairman.
Evening star., 1943-04-22
Harmon Says Attacks
Are Made as Planned ,
Not in Retaliation
Air Force General Coils
Present Pacific Period
IulI Between Storms
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press. --
ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTH PACIFIC, April o.
1t. Gen. Millard F. Harmon declared
today I'VE will stick to our plan of
taking every opportunity to strike
the most vulnerable targets Japan
exposes to U.S."
Gen. Harmon, who is commander
of United States Army forces in the
South Pacific war area, gave this
response at press conference to a
question asking whether retaliation
would be delivered against the Jap
anese for their hundred-plane raid
on the Tulagi sector of the Solomon
Islands April T.
I'VE won't retaliate for that or
any other raid" the general said.
Gen. Harmon. a gray-templed,
54-year-old Air Forces officer, de-
scribed the present quiet period in
this war theater as "a lull between
storms"
Further Jap Losses Seen.
In the language of flyer, the
general likened the recess in major
action since the japanese collapse
on Guadalcanal February to the
interim between atmospheric highs
and lows"
Gen. Harmon's press conference
was his first since he returned from
the Washington strategy confer
ence of Pacific high command Off
GERS early this month. He refused
to comment on these discussions.
The general remarked, however,
in answering query as to what the
japanese could expect in the South
Pacific this summer: I'VE expect
they will continue to suffer both air
and surface losses"
Replying to another question, Gen.
Harmon explained it long has been
known the enemy has been shifting
his plane concentrations back and
| forth striking now at the Solomons
and then at Port Moresby and other
Allied positions in the Papuan area
of New Guinea.
Japs Shift Air Power.
"There is no question about that.
he said 1T is relatively easy for
him to do it. The Solomons and
New Guinea are an area of single
operation for him"
The general declared no specific
answer could be made to the ques-
ton of air control in the South
| Pacific. "We control the air in Ger
tain areas" he said but beyond our
sphere of activities the Jap is in con-
| troll.
This simply means we have to
advance our bombers to bases where
they can eliminate the Jap's air
superiority in areas where he now
has it,"
Evening star., 1943-04-22

the 300-mile allowance. He had in
mind Washington's principal COM
munity gardening problem. that is,
to provide means of transporting
persons to the Blue Plains Farm.
The farm around the Blue Plains
Home for the Aged is the only large
tract of land suitable for gardening
left in the District. Enough rich
river bottom land for 400 plots is
available there.
Gardening experts say three visits
to garden week is the minimum
to keep weeds from hurting pro-
duction. 81
Evening star., 1943-04-22
Luren D. Dickinson Dies;
Ex-Governor Of Michigan
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE, Mich, April o.
Former Gov. Luren D. Dickinson
died today at his farm home near
here at the age of "a years. He had
suffered a heart attack yesterday.
Mr.. Dickinson attained the gov
ernorship on the death Of Gov.
Frank D. Fitzgerald and served out
his term but failed of reelection
in his 1889 race against Murray D.
Van Wagner, Democrat.
Since leaving office he had been
In retirement from politics but re-
manned active in Methodist Church
affairs and temperance crusades.
making speaking tours when his
health permitted.
A frequent critic of extravaganza
in Government and what he called
high life in high circles" Mr..
Dickinson remarked on his 84th
birthday April Is that he now looked
on the national scene with "a tol-
Grant eye that wartime brought
changes, but that this is no time
lust to criticize"
Evening star., 1943-04-22

tion of the American people to fight
this war to complete victory. That
action will be avenged"
Chairman Connally of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee de-
scribed the action as brutal and
savage and a violation of all inter-
national laW-it will bring down
upon the perpetrators the merited
condemnation of history
Senator Ferguson, Republican, of
Michigan observed, Il haven't had
any sadder news in this war" while
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon
tana said, 1T was dastardly thing
for the Japs to do
Representa- tive Marcantonio, Amer
ican-Labor, of New York said that
when we attack Japan by land
from China, as We must, we must
take no prisoners" and Represent
ative Manasco. Democrat, of Ala
bama commented, I'VE won't take
many prisoners after that"
Mrs. Luce Comments.
There were others, however, who
cautioned that this country must not
let its indignation lead it away from
civilized practices.
Representative Luce. Republican,
of Connecticut, saying she was boil
ing" declared My mind just trem-
bles at what may happen now. Ger
tainly Americans will be so outraged
that If NOV eyop cbapoo tho co,,rSo
of the war in the Pacific. We must
bomb Japan out of the war How
ever, we must not retaliate in kind
because that would unloose a reign
of terror, and we must not make
unwise strategic decisions based on
our anger"
Representative Judd, Republican,
of Minnesota, medical missionary
for 10 years in the Orient, said may
be Americans at last are going to
learn what they are dealing with.
The people of the United States
have no reason to expect that they
would be treated any differently by
the japanese than have the Chi
nese and Koreans.
Scrap Iron Sales Quoted.
But there's no use of us going off
into tailspin with inflammatory
emotional demands for revenge
That would only lower us to the
japanese level. What We need is a
cool, resolute determination to see
this thing through"
Mr.. Judd declared he didn't see
why anybody should be surprised
at actions of the japanese, since I'VE
! should have been thinking about
! this when We were selling them
scrap IRON
In New York, Nine, Chang Kai-
shek, wife of the Chinese generals
simo. said the execution of the
American flyers comes as no sur
prise to us Chinese who have wit
messed the calculated cruelty per-
petrated by the enemy on our own
people through the years, and
especially for the last six years"
Nine. Chiang's statement, released
by the Chinese News Service, added
This latest fragrant violation oi
international and humane laws
should steel the determination oi
the United Nations to bring imme-
diately to task the enemy who knows
no law but brute force.
Every day Of passive theorizine
as to the date in the vague future
when Japan will be dealt with Sc
| riously and effectively, strengthens
Japan's strangle-hold on the terri
tories and resources which she will
pervert to make herself a world
Frankinstein.
Unless we defeat her utterly and
soon, further atrocities OF this kind
are not alien to the brutal nature oi