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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31
Kelly Against
Sales
lax Revenues

Lansing. Jan. 3i--AP-Governo
Kelly bluntly rejected local gov
ernments' demands for a share OF
state sales tax revenues or the al
Tentative right to impose their own
excise taxes. in a special message
to the legislature as II convened
at noon today in special session
under a grand jurys goldly watch
full gaze.
Assuring the lawmakers he was
mindful OF financial distress OF
some municipal governments. Kelly
firmly declared
81 am convinced that no solu-
ton should be attempted without
further scientific studies OF the
entire tax structure OF the state
and local units -" and that
the current legislative session was
not the proper time to attempt
this.
Proposes Survey
lie proposed, instead that the
legislature empower the Munich
pal Finance Commission TO study
state and local tax problems with
the help OF an advisory committee.
and submit appropriate recommen.
dations TO the 1916 legislature
His bulky 7.000-word message
proposed the creation OF a state of
fee OF veterans affairs to coordn.
ate state veterans activities. pro
vide skilled contact with multiple
federal agencies handling veterans
problems, and fulhll other duties.
No Mention
No where in his prepared text
did Governor Kelly mention Cir
cult Judge Leland w. Cars one
man grand jury investigating state
government. which already has
caused the arrest OF 81 legislators
and former Legislators on graft
and conspiracy charges and the i'm
prisonment OF another for perjury.
The grand jury has issued an ad-
monshment that these actions
were lust the beginning OF its
work. one OF the lawmak ers. Rep.
resentatiye Miles NJ. Callaghan.
pleaded guilty Saturday to a graft
conspiracy charge. Speaker How
ard Nugent said he would seek to
have any house member convicted
or pleading guilty to felony
charges. removed from the house.
Plans Construction
Governor Kelly asked the legisla-
ture to earmark a huge portion Of
state treasury SURPRISES for mud
ti.million dollar fve-year plan OF
postwar state institutional con.
stIction, declaring our facilities
are inac equate d in critical need
OF attention" He aided the pro
jects would provide needed Jobs
for men and women returning to a
peace time economy following let.
down from the war boom.
He proposed expenditure OF s21.-
3 $50 for rcconditioning, new
construction and land purchases
for all state educational institu-
tons; s21,473,500 TO enlarge and
make safer the state mental hos
pitfalls; S3.3i3.700 for new tuber-
culosis hospital facilities to serve
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31
Congress Today

by Associated Pressi
Senate
Resumes soldier vote debate
tmects II a m, Eastern War
Time.
senate and House Conferees al
tempt 10 reach final agreement on
S2,3l5,S00. 900 tax bill.
House
Votes on $500. 100000 independ-
ent Offices appropriation bill
noon.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31
speed Victory, Buy MORE Bonds
List Of Delinquent
Taxes Published

In this Issue OF Ypsiianti Daily
Press appears the first publication
OF descriptions OF land in Wash;e.
nav County on which taxes are de-
linquent for 1891 and previous
years.
The lands described will be sold
az auction the first Tuesday in May
(May p beginning at 10 =. N.
Hearing for those desiring 20
portest the tax lien on the proper
ties will be In wsshtenaw County
Circuit Court March 5.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31
Labor Vote Likely to Bring
Surprises in Next Election

and others have gone farther west
TO the war plants.
Texas. ordinarily considered an
"unorganized" state. Is witnessing
union drive to register workers
and to get them to pay their poll
tax.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31

Lovely six room house, six months
old. Full basement 12x32 recreation
room. Lawn seeded~7f5 Dwight st
for sale b. owner. Adv. 49,
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31
Speed Victory, Bp- MORE bonds
PRIVATE CHAGRlNED
AS SUBSTITUTE FOR WAC

FORT SMITH. Ark.-UP-Therc
was a note OF tunpoking and def
mite anger at the fates in a letter
Pvt. Woodrow burden wrote his
buddies in the prosecuting atter.
neys office here
burden. a deputy prosecutor be-
fore going into the Army said he
has been assigned a desk Job in
the reception center headquarters
at Camp Robinson.
There isn't anything TO that. but
Is burdens face red now.
Now" burden wrote. 81 find
that I have been substituting for a
Wac who has been on furlough."
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31
Building up
But Slightly

Building permits issued in Up
SLANT for the month of January
were only slightly in excess OF the
previous month, weather oondi-
lions and difficulties in obtaining
building priorities accounting for
the low figure OF s9,405. The De-
cember figure was Ss,195.
Remodeling OF the new USO cen
ter accounted for almost one half
the sum, work having been done
by the Henry deKoning Construc-
ton Co., Ann Arbor. for the sum. of
$4,000. which included installing
partitions, plumbing, heating, ana
electrical appliances.
Other permits issued were to:
John G. Mccarthy, 4O2 Michigan
Ave, repairing house at u S. Grove
St; Ralph Wagner, Is w. Michi-
gan Ave, erect storm entrance;
Mary f. Robinson, 511 Second
Ave, shingle roof; Otis Lee, 203
Wallace Blvd, erect sidewall shin
gle; Grover F. Frye. 1915 S. Con-
gress St. repair roof; Leo A. Hew-
lit. 1O7 Maple St, install new stone
siding; William J. Hayden. 1919
Collegewood Dr.. erect open porch
and roof over drive; Charles Beat
ty, 119 Hawkins St, install stone
siding: August Markva. Il W.
Michigan Ave, erect temporary
building for taxi stand; Robert
Fink. 800 Vinewood CT. remodel
second floor; Gregory Scharf. sos
W. Forest Ave. wreck frame barn;
Rev. o. R. Gilligan, repair damage
caused by fire; Perry Jackson. AL
Jefferson Ave. provide basement:
Peter Smith. 1878 Miles St. erect
addition TO 221 S. Prospect St, and
Karl Haigman, POI Oak ST., remod-
ell house.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31

See STATE Page 2
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31

See USO-Page 2
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31

See WAR Page 2
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31
Flashes Of
Late News
THE WEATHER: Tonight:
Snow, Colder

NEW YORK ms A confer
ence today between representa-
tives of the League Of New York
gTheaters and union stage hands
may decide whether 80 legitimate
theaters in the Broadway district
will be BACKED out tomorrow night
by a strike. The stage hands
threaten to walk out unless the
league signs a new contract in
GLIDING a Is per cent pay raise
and other benefits. The old con-
RI act, providing wages varying
from SIS TO $3.50 a week, expires
tonight.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31

see PRIsoNERs-Pags 2
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31

LONDON-AP-The German ra-
do said today Nazi U-boats. in an
attack still in progress against a
Murmansk- bound convoy. had sunk
DO destroyers and escort vessels
snd five merchant ships in the Arc.
|tlc. The broadcast, by Nazi propa,
ganda agency, was without Allied
confirmation.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31

y LANSING-AP-A maximum Of
|s3 of the 100 legislative seats in
the house Of representatives are
expected to be occupied at the
current special session. Death has
taken two members, representa-
|tives Fred Rodesiler. of Riga, and
oscar f. Kilstrom, Grand Rapids,
Republicans.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31

WASHINGTON-AP- The Fed.
|eral Communications Commission
found itself the target today OF
lthe first congressional economy
Drive OF 1874 Aroused over com
omission Chairman James L. Figs
refusal 10 testify fully before a
special House mmittee investi.
eating his agency. a bipartisan
House group moved 10 chop FCC
Funds IN the $500. 900. moo indie
pendent Offices supply bill slated
3or passage today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31

WASHINGTON ms House
appropriations leaders declared to
hay there was mot a chance" that
lone million, 654 thousand dollars
|slashed from the Federal Commun
|ication Commission fund for the
fiscal year 1916 would be restored
I'm voting on the eight and a hall
billion dollar Independent offices
bin.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31

Speed Victory, Buv MORE bond
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31

WASHINGTON AP Alumni.
mum emerged today as a potential
|all-purpose metal as the War Pro.
|duction Board (WPB) closed down
three more production lines, all
at Massena, y. Y. Satisfactory
|war production has been reached
and much aluminium may be put
back on the civilian market to bat
for steel and other metals.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31

LOS ANGELES-UP - Funeral
services we're being arranged today
for John ]. Jack" Doyle, veteran
California fight promoter who died
yesterday after an illness Of three
months. Doyle. CO, died at a Santa
Monica hospital His wife, Cecilia,
was at his bedside.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31

EMPORTA. Kas.-AP-Henry J.
Haskell. editor OF the Kansas City
kStar. will make the address at the
Funeral service this afternoon Of
William Allen White. noted author
land newspaper editor. who died
Saturday at the age OF IS.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31

LONDON-AP-A conference OF
italian political parties. meeting
IN Bari. Italy. was reported today
70 have adopted a resolution de.
|manding the abdication OF King
|Vittorio Emanuele and the forma.
lion OF A new Italian rovernmanf
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-13

(Continued from Page J premier and now C member Of tho Greek Liberal party's executive committee, told the United Press in Cairo that no expected the island of Crete 10 Dc liberated within . few days.
 At least e half-dozen other Greek islands ifi the eastern Mediterra1- can ares were known to De ifi Allied hands and British wafships Fang- ing almost uflopposed through the area were believed to De putting landing parties ashore On many other isiets.
 The German grip on Greece ap. peared to have been smashed only 10 days after the first ,airsboFne troops Of the new British expedi- tionary force landed ifi the southern Peiop0nnesus on Sept. 24.
 With Russian and YugosiaV par- tisafs i1 command of aii the fiiaiil escape routes leading from Greece into central Europe, the plight Of the German garrisons ifl Greece, recently estimated ct five divisions, appeared hopeless. Some units were believed trying to escape along the eastern seacoast, while others were fleeing over secondary roads under incessant attack by Greek Partisan bands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-13
Pensions Get More Study
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  do not contribute toward their pen- sion.
 It is doubtful # any plan proposed by any other company based on m actuarial t1natr
 Mfr, Hooker would result in any less cost to the I,,S ', Such actuarial plans are bhSeG Ol age, length Of cervice, etc., basis which in turn Is computed by the standard American Mortality table, However, it is possible that one of these companies will be able to pre- sent Q plan more satisfactory to oil. The commission will meet next Tuesday afternoon for another ses- sion to review the current proposal now in their hands. A series of nightly meetings will be conducted soon RS public hearings at which time all interested parties may ap. pear to present views.
 The fire and police department members have already organized committees to represent them at these meetings. The local teachers also will present representation. Pension authorities have stressed tho fact that the proposed plan of Mir. Rockers is but 6 tentative one, to date, and by no means con- stttutes any final arrangement.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-13

slams went over to the attack and plunged forward to capture 50 towns and villages,
 According to incomplete reports, the Germans lost i,600 men killed and t4 tanks,
 North Of Memel
 North Of Memel. Gen, Ivan O., BAgramians ist Baltic widened It's wall pinning 100000 German troops against the Baltic to within i4 miles of Liepala, one Of three evae- uatlon ports still in enemy hands, with the capture of Skiei on the Latvian coast.
 Soviet siege forces at the north- ern end of the enemy pocket plung- ed through the suburbs of Riga, eap- ital of Latvia, from three sides and the fall of the big city was expected soon.
 One column drove across the 6auja river north of Memel with such force and speed that the Ger mans had no time to blow up al- ready mine ferries. Forging ahead, the Soviets captured Kalngalaeiems, only three miles north of Riga,
 4 second force routed two enemy regiments in an advance along the Pskov- Riga highway to Jaglasmuiza, Ave miles east of Riga, Jaunciems, two and half miles north of Riga, Priede, six and half miles south- east and Vilcins, eight miles south, also fell yesterday.
 Marshal Rodion Y. Mallnovsky's End Ukrainian Army famed out through Hungary in . bid for early conquest of Adolf Hitler's last im- portant satellite.
 One force seized the five-way center of Subotica, 9S miles south of Budapest, in a 25-Enile advance from Szeged, rupturing the last link be- tween Budapest and Belgrade. while others speared through to the Tisa river and captured Abad. Szalok, 6S miles east of Budapest. and Tiszas- zentimre. q miles west of Debrecen and 76 miles from the capital.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-13

CC0HtiHued rom PaBe D was on c business trip.
 There was no evidence Of 6 strug. gle, police said. Her jeWelry had iiot been disturbed, Her open purse was il the bedroom, which was across c hail from the open front door. Her ring of keys, including the one Of her automobile, was gone from the purse, and the faShy convertible coupe was missing.
 Otherwise. 1t appeared as though Miss Bauerdorf may have been the victim of afl accident while pre- pairing for bed.
 Inspector William J. Penprase of the sheriffs Bureau of InVestiga- ton pieced together her last eve- ming,
 With q friend, June Zeigier, sine drove to Hollywood canteen, where they were regular hostesses. Miss Zeigier left at 10;30 D, n, 4 half hour later Miss Bauerdorf left alone, by a side door, aS required of all hosteggcs,
 mystery
 What happened after that was hidden in mystery.
 4 janitor who entered the apart- ment to cclan 1t yesterday morning found the front door ajar, It opens into a ground floor aIcove and faces the door Of c similar apart- ment on the other side Of the building.
 Going upstairs to th3 bedroom and on into the bathroom, ile found the body in the tub, with warm water still running slowly.
 Her bedroom was disarranged, but according to Penphase, not unusually so. Her pajama pants were on the bed and the covers were pulled back. There was no evidence of an intruder, PenpraSe said.
 A few small spots of blood dotted the floor. These could have been from her nosebleed, to which She was chemically subject, Penprase said, or from other natural causes
 The sheriff's men refused to of- fer theory pending the autopsy report.
 Miss Bauerdorf might have failed to close the door when sine returned home. It was hard to close, Pen- prase said, and made a false click before locking.
 A pickup order was broadcast foE her automobile.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-13

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 now, slipped down to an altitude of 300 feet above the city to allow me to photograph the bomb damage. No shorts were fired at our slow moving cub.
 Once we saw four puffs of Ger man flax behind us but they were fired apparently at flight of light nings above us.
 Both times we flew in over the eastern preimeter of the city where factories and railroads were torn up by stratgic bombing and where several factories were smoking, not from chimneys but from roofs and windows.
 We flew low along the railroad track which divides the American hel suburb of Forst from the city of Forst from the city proper but I saw no one below. To the north east as dusk settled, German tanks and infantry could be seen trying to form for a counter-at They were taking a pounding from Am- erican artillery.
 From an altitude of SO feet over another section of the front around the city I photographed Doughboys climbing on tanks, ready for a new advance.
 Aachen was considerably dam- aged but not as much as expect ed. It. would have taken a lot more shells and bombs to make the city look like Casino or St. To.
 Many buildings are unroofed but much of the city still stands.
 It is an eerie feeling Co see a city which held 100000 An peaee-tlme
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-13
Formosa Is Given
 Bad Air Thrashing
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had 7,00o,0O0 inhabitants, is most strategic in Japan's defenges. ft h only 60 miles from the Ryulkyu fs. lands, south of the Japanese home. land; 90 miles from the china coast, and separated by e i00smile wide strait from the northern end of the Pihiippines.
 The lack of Allied comment on the Formosa reports was obvious because even If Halsey's fleet did hit the island it would not break radio silence to flash q report until it left the scene of action.
 However, on the basis of the enemy reports, the campaign against Fornosa seemed to Dc . part of c sustained American offensive against the defenses ringing Japan's Imperial home islands.
 Last Sunday, surface units of Halseys fleet hammered Marcus Island, li36 miles southeast Of Tokyo, and the next day swarins Of planes from Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's famed Task Force b8' hammered tho Ryukyu Islands, which stretch from japar's Kyushu Island, to FoFInosa.
 LuS0n Ralded
 On Tuesday, "Wednesday Tokyo time), large forces" of carrier planes raldcd L,izon, tho principal Island of the Philippines and the site of Manila and BAtaan.
 Admiral Chester W. Nimit2, ln announcing the raid last night, merely mentioned that the carrier planes attacked enemy airbases and installation on Luzon, and explain cd that "detailed reports of tho damage inflicted are not yet aVail' able"
 The communique did not indicate whether there were two or more groups of carriers operating in the western Pacific, or just one huge task force.
 Regardless, though, the fact that MItsehers carriers were able to hit targets within 200 miles or less Of Japan Itself to 900 miles to the south in thre days--and against the strongest enemy bases-point6d Up Nimit2 disclosure that the U. s Navy was strong enough to go afiy' where.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-13

ridge, they seized Monte CordruESo and pushed on more than Q mile to the southeastern slopes Of Monte Della Erte.
 The advance on the southern wing carried to within 0 mile of the i'm. portant north-south highway be. tween Bibbiena and CesenA, and the Germans brought up achievements for Q major stand on Monte Della Erte.
 British Advance
 On the coastal highway, the Brit. ish advance was slowed by strong German fire from Q chain of de- fensive positions strung along the canaliZed rivers that interlace that sector. The British destroyers Loyal ard Lookout supported the attack yesterday with Q heavy naval bomb- ardment that poured 1900 rounds of shellfire into the German positions around Cesenatico
 Hard fighting also was reported on the left flank of the 0th Army linc to the southwest, where the British captured Monte Di Rullato, eight miles east of Santa Sofia, and the village of Bucchio, two miles southwest of Rullato.
 A communique said fierce battles were raging at the tip of the Amer ican 5th Army spearhead pointing toward Bologna, with no material changes in the opposing lines yes terday.
 Stalled in their thrust up the main highway, the Americans famed out on both sides of the road in an ef- fort to out-flank the German de- lenses at Livergnano. They captur- ed Monte Della Foriniche, three miles east of Livergnano, and two unnamed peaks two and four miles farther to the southeast. On the west side of the highway, the Tanks advanced more than a mile north of Monte Ramici.
 Generally clear weather prevailed over the battle areas, and 1t was inc dicated that Allied bombing fleets had resumed the attack on the Bol- ogna area in e follow-up to yester- days record saturation assault.
 Wave upon wave of American heavy and medium bombers and fighter-homber blasGed the German defenses surrounding Bologna yes- terday in an attack that headquart- CTS spokesmen said was heavier than the assault that levelled Cas- sino last March.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-13

Continued from Page D munications in the Eastern Medlter- ranean and in the middle east gem erally. This preSur;Ssnea a friendly Greece and Turkey with a peaceful hinterland.
 ''The primary Soviet interest is the security of her own frontier, which she might quite legitimately try to insure by bringing Rumania, and Bulgaria and perhaps Hungary and Jugoslavia within the Soviet security system"
 The times challenged suggestions that Russia harbored aggressive in- tentions in the Balkans, saying that such fears should have been set at rest by the declaration of Foreign CommisSar V. M. Molotov last June on Rumania, by the Rumanian sr- mistice terms and by the fact tllat historically Russian policy in the Balkans has been negative rather than positive.
 Noting that there was no Brit- ish-Soviet dispute about JugoSlavia. the Times said:
 The emphasis may shift in dif- ferent cases: the countries border ing on Russia will inevitably tend to move in the Russian orbit. whereas Greece whose interests are mainly maritime will tend, just as naturally, to move in the British orbit.
 But the interests of both Britain and Russia would best be served by a peaceful and united Balkans with a rising standard of living which forms part of both the British and Soviet security system. This is also in the best interest of the countries themselves.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-13


 "Our biggest task" he said. "is to strike for unity of the Polish peo- pie. The Raczkiewiczs (President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz of the LOn- don Poles) and Sosnkowskis (0en. Kaimierz sosnkowski. former com- manCEr-in-chief of the Polish Army) and their agents are making every effort to sabotage that cause.
 'SThey are trying to SOW dissen- ton among the people and start c new fratricidal conflict. These gentlemen are doing Hitler's work. We have started on the building of a new democratic Poland and this will not be built by the London coterie."
 Asked whether there was any prospect of his meeting with stain and Churchill this year. Mr. n0oses