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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Pope Discusses
Peace Principles

Vatican City, Sept 2-AP@Pope
Plus XII in a world broadcast last
night defended the right OF prl
vate property as the Cornerstone
of social order" but condemned the
type of capitalism which "arro-
gates to itself an unlimited right
over property"
In his address, made on the fifth
anniversary of the wars outbreak
and broadcast by the Vatican radio,
the Pontiff also appealed for a
peace founded on Christian princi-
pies but said that force might be
necessary to prevent future wars.
He declared all nations must col
laborate in the maintenance OF Sc
curity.
The vanquished should share
with the victors mot only rights
and duties but also in the benefits
of a true civilization" the Pope
said. His entire address under
lined the imminence of the end of
the war in Europe.
Asserting that the Christian
conscience cannot admit as just
social order which either denies In
principle or renders impossible or
negatory in practice, the natural
right to property" the Pontiff de-
clared that neither could il accept
unlimited right over property"
permitting immense riches to dom
mate public and private economic
life.
Dealing with the question OF the
use of force to prevent future
wars. the Pope said
THE sword can and sometimes,
alas. must open the way to peace.
The shadow of the sword may
be cast also over the transition
from the cessation of hostilities TO
the formal conclusion OF peace.
The threat OF the sword may ap.
pear inevitable even after the con-
clusion OF peace, in order to safe
guard within legally necessary and
morally justified limits the observ-
ance Of just obligations and prevent
attempts at new conflicts"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Purchasing Chief
Held For Bribery

New York, Sept. 2-AP-Charles
Margolis. "A, chief Of the Cinchona
Bark Purchasing Mission OF the T..
S. Foreign Economic Administra-
ton was arrested here yesterday by
FBI agents on a bribery charge.
Chief Assistant L. S. Attorney
John F. X. McGohey said Margolis
had demanded $4,000 from Pierre
Lakhovsky, Bogota, Colombia, ex.
porter. and was arrested when he
accepted a package containing $500
in marked bills.
FBI Director j. Edgar Hoover
said Lakhovsky had reported to the
FEA Margolis' request for money in
return for favorably supporting the
quinine bark claims against the
government running into six fig
ures. and had cooperated in the in
vestigation.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Large Peace
ArmyOpposed
by Marshall

Washington. Sept. ZAP An
American army OF wartime strength
may be needed long after the de
feat OF Germany and Japan, Gen
eral George c. Marshall believes
but he feels that the armed forcee
in peace years should consist Of
the smallest possible" number Of
professional soldiers.
Marshall has issued a Directive
to all officers concerned with post.
war military organization that a
large standing army has no place
among the institutions of modern
democratic state"
The Chief of Staff said, however.
that he assumed that Congress
would approve OF a policy OF uni
versal military training for all
youths, under which every able
bodied young American shall be
trained to defend his country"
Such reserves, after their dis
charge from training, Marshall said.
should form the citizens reserves
OF the regular army. He added that
nations which choose large stand
ing army for a protecting force au-
tomatically concentrate their con-
troll Of military policy lin a special
class or caste of professional SOL
diers."
Marshall suggested as the second
type of peacetime military estab-
lishment one mo larger than neces-
sary to meet normal peacetime re-
quirements' but which could be re-
.nforced in time OF emergency"
by organized reserves.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02

prediction OF last winter that II
everyone on the battle front and az
home does his duty. the Allies can
win the European war IN 1914.
matter OF fact, while no.
body wants TO see the conflict pro.
iracted there's widespread feeling
in Allied countries that the cause
Of lasting peace will best be served
80 the United Nations are compelled
10 invade Germany and give the
population proper closeup OF
fighting. True, the turning OF the
Reich into battle field might re.
lease an uncomfortable flood OF yio-
lent hatred on Germans from the
millions OF foreigners whom Hitler
imported as slaves. Still. the Ger.
mans would learn even from that.
The way things stand Hitler Is
pulling back his forces in western
Europe 20 his own frontiers as fast
as possible. His armies in eastern
Europe will have 70 follox soon. He
intends TO make a stand II he eau
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
More Polio


DR.. Otto X. Engelke, head OF the
Washtenaw County Health Depart
ment, emphasized further today
that parents should keep children
away from all group gatherings
until September Is at least. DR..
Engelke has received a flood of
inquiries from anxious parents.
Children should be kept from
church, Sunday School. picnics and
motion pictures, he said. The post.
ponement OF the opening OF the
schools will be useless IL the chill.
dren are allowed to mingle In
other large groups.
Another infantile paralysis case
was reported in Ann Arbor this
morning. Miss Kathleen Logan,
nine year old daughter of Mrs.
Alga Logan, 800 Second Street, is
the newest victim.
The total number OF cases in the
county is now fourteen: four in
Ann Arbor, one at Willow Run, and
nine in other parts OF the county.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Youth Confesses
Poisoning Foods

Detroit, Sept. 2 -AP--Detectiv
1t, Lester Chorpening OF the DO.
lice homicide squad said today that
William j. MacKay, 10, had con-
fessed to placing poison In foods
and liquids In the family refriger-
ator from which his l4.year.old sis
ter, Isabelle, obtained a lunch short
ly before her death Friday.
wanted to get my father"
Chorpening quoted the boy as ex-
planning. He was always after me
TO get Job"
The parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Alex
MacKay, said Isabelle worked In a
department store and came home
from lunch few minutes before
noon Friday.
"She had bacon and tomato
sandwich" Mrs. MacKay said. and
then went TO the refrigerator and
poured glass OF water from two
quart bottle we keep there. She
drank a mouthful and then turned
and said that water tastes terri
BILE Then she fell"
A physician was called. admins
tered first aid and summoned a fire
department rescue squad which
worked over the girl as she was be-
ing taken 10 Receiving Hospital.
She died n few minutes after ar
irving there.
Police first questioned the par
ents and then William. who was
away from home when his sister
was stricken and did not return
until p. m. Later they took him
to headquarters for continued ques.
tioning.
Chorpening said today the youth
did not admit placing the poison
in the refrigerator until / a. IN.
then, the detective said, he con
fessed obtaining pound OF a
deadly poison from drug store on
the pretext that he wanted II FOR |
some chemical experiments.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02

tie 70 be carried onto their sacred
SOIL? A couple OF months ago the
answer would have been no" That
was before the open revolt OF the
Prussian generals. Being wise in
war, they knew that they had lost
and they wanted 10 surrender short
OF fighting in Germany.
With their influence stilled. how.
ever, the situation has changed.
Hitler gives every sign OF intending
10 fight to a finish. The only thing
that will stop him is desertion by
his fighting forces and home front.
So long as they back him. he pre-
sumably will battle on, and this
means fighting inside Germany.
The Allies are bent on invading
the Reich. Eisenhower made that
clear in his statement 10 the press
Thursday. lie also reiterated his
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Flashes of
Late News

WASHINGToN-INS-The SEN
ate Campaign Funds Committee to-
day considered seizing all ballot
boxes in the Arkansas senatorial
primary in which reports indicate
that over 100000 was spent for
campaigns Of three Democratic can
didates. Sen. Hattie Caraway, only
woman senator, was defeated in the
senatorial primary in which Rep. j..
William Fulbright emerged as vic
tor. The committee named Full
bright. Gov. Homer Adkins and T..
II. Barton as the candidates for
whom over $500 900 was spent. Full
bright won the Democratic nomina-
ton.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Send
New Weapon

London, Sept. 2-AP-The Ger.
mans sent another secret weapon"
flying against England last night
apparently a makeshift application
OF the old pick-a.back plane idea
which caused neither casualties
nor damage
The air ministry and the minis.
try Of home security tentatively L..
beled the thing a composite air.
craft and made no application Of
this brief communique: Last night
two enemy aircraft believed 10
have been lower components OF
composite aircraft were launched
against this country" These caused
neither casualties nor damage.
Late last month a German com
posite aircraft encountered in
France consisted OF a Junkers-Ss
bomber married" to Messer.
schmitt-109 fighter in the pick.a-
back fashion that had been tried
out years previously.
The Junkers was stripped OF all
armament and It's nose filled with
high explosive.
Fighter and bomber take off to.
eether with their total OF three en-
gines running, the Junkers being
remotely controlled by the Messer-
schmitt pilot. At the appropriate
moment the fighter pilot releases
the expiosive-laden Junkers TO glide
or fly under its own power until il
crashes on its objective.
The freak was not regarded seri.
ously here as a major air weapon
because II is slow and unwieldy
and an easy target.
1t was considered here that the
composite aircraft definitely could
not be the Nazis threatened "V.2"
reprisal weapon and not even In the
same league with wi" the flying
hon, y
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Yanks KNOCK On German Door
Allied Planes
Hit Chichi
lima
cBy Associated Press)

Allied warsnips and carrier
planes hit Chichi Jima in the Bo-
min Islands. the Tokyo radio re-
ported today. in the first signifi-
cant move in the Pacific theater
in several days.
The report. without Allied con
firmation. said the warships shell.
ed the island while 100 carrier
based planes carried out a bomb.
ing attack Friday. Two Jima also
vas attacked, the report said, by
100 and a score or more" planes.
The BONN raid broke a period
OF comparative quiet except for
an attack on Davao by 40 B-24
Liberator bombers, reported By
Tokyo radio
The raiders hit the Mindanao
base at Midway yesterday The
report indicated some Japanese
nervousness over General Douglas
MacArthui's preparations for re-
taking the Philippines when II
added that enemy action against
Davao bears watching"
Macarthur communique did not
mention the raid, listing only linn
tied aerial actions against ia.
panese shipping and land installa.
ton.
A patrol plane or his command
sank Rn enemy merchant ship,
damaged another and destroyed
Or damaged 80 beached barges in
Manado area Of the Butch Cele,
bes. Other air patrols harassed
enemy communications off Dutch
New Guinea, bombed an airstrip
on Timor and hit supply dumps
and occupied villages at Wewak,
New Guinea.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Operations in Both Theatres Must
Be Complementary to Win

the Balkans raced FOR cover 10
escape the Allied storm, but Hun.
gary-keystone OF Germany's
southeastern military and political
defenses-is shaking like an aut-
umn leaf and is said 70 be seeking
a way TO escape the Fuehrer's
clutch.
But the Balkans have been more
than bulwark for southeastern Ger.
many. They've been a powerful
shield for the southern flank OF
Hitler's last great line OF defense
east OF the Reich-that along the
Vistula River. With the Balkans
gone. the dictator can't long hold
the Vistula and the last Prussian
front. Then will come the big
squeeze on both sides OF the father.
land.
VIII the Hitlerites allow the bat.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Congress Today
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press)
House
In recess until noon Tuesday.
Senate
In recess until noon Tuesday.
Senate and House conferees be-
gin work TO compromise unemploy.
ment compensation differences -
executive 1000 a. m, EWT.
Senate and House conferees con-
tinue efforts for agreement on sur.
plus property disposal bill-execu-
tive-l0 90 a. m.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
NEGROES TO CONFER

Lansing, Mich. Sept. ZAP
Slightly revising the schedule for
Gov. Thomas +. Dewey's discus
sions with Michigan Republicans
Sept. 3. Governor Kelly announced
Friday that negro leaders would
have half-hour conference with
the COPS presidential nominee.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Former YHS Boy
Missing in Action

Mrs. Ray Stokes. 93s Sheridan
Ave, has received word that her
nephew, S &c Frederick Bennett.
~, has been reported missing in
action since August IL. He attend.
ed Ypsilanu High School before
entering the Navy about two years
ago His father, Rev. II. s. Bennett.
was well known in the city as ALI
evangelist. They formerly resided
on Park 81.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
lckes, Patterson
to Address Clio

Grand Rapids, Mich. Sept. ZAP
interior Secretary Harold l..
lckes and Undersecretary OF War
Robert p. Patterson will address
the international convention OF the
United Automobile Workers (CIO)
which starts here Sept II.
George F. Adde's. secretary.treas-
urer OF the union. said other speak
ers will include Philip Murray, Go
president, and Sidney Hillman.
head OF the CIO political action
committee.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
Eighth Amy
Speeds in
Italy
tBy the Associated Press)

10y the associated Press)
American forces smashed beyond
81. Mihlel and Verdun today at A
wAirlwind pace which could take
mem to the German frontier In a
few hours.
Tho British Second Army In a
surging new advance toward FIand-
ers' seized historic Vimy Ridge
near Arras.
American patrols were driving
toward the Moselle River. 20 miles
from the border OF the Reich ard
80 miles east OF captured Verdun.
How far they had stabbed was not
disclosed, but at last reports thew
were racing In the direction OF
Metz and Nancy and there were
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02
U. S. WEATHER FORECAST

Lower Michigan-Clear and cool
tonight. Sunday increasing cloud.
mess and warm.
highest temperature yesterday,
81; lowest last night. 81.
Highest temperature one year
ago today, 81; lowest, 50.
Highest temperature this date
IN last IL years 90 in 1913; low
est. a in 1885.
The sun sets today at s:04 and
rises Sunday at 7.
The moon rises today at s:25 D.
m and sets Sunday at 7:42 a. m.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02

See EUROPE Page 2
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02

PAWLING, y. Y.-lNS-The Re-
publican party today called upon
a 67-year-old former minister, Lieu
tenant-governor Joe Il. Hanley. as
it's political trail blazer in the drive
TO carry New York state next No
vember for Gov. Thomas f. Dewey,
COP presidential nominee.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02

McCOOK, Neb.-UP - Former
Sen. George W. Norris, 80, lost all
consciousness Friday night and was
reported by his doctors to be in
very critical condition" He suf-
fered a cerebral hemorrhage Tues.
day.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02

CHICAGO INS-A plan OF the
National Association OF Broadcast
ers to provide servicemen with the
latest news from the home front
and their home towns was an
nounced today. Local stations in
1872 areas and communities will CO.
operate with the army in develop
ing a series of half.hour transcribed
programs Of music and home town
news. Necessary personnel and IA
cilities will be donated by NAB
member stations,
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02

WASHINGTON-AP - Because
of the shortage Of heavy duty tires,
intercity and local bus companies
cannot provide more than minimum
service to Labor Day pleasure seek.
ers, j. Monroe Johnson, director Of
the Office of Defense Transporta-
ton, said today. Scores of buses
and hundreds of trucks" now are
idle, he said, because Of the short
age OF tires.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02

NANTICOKE, Pa.-INS-Penn-
sylvania's anthracite fields werc
free OF strikes today for the first
time in more than two months in
the wake of the end OF a one-day
work stoppage by 700 miners en-
ployed at the Bliss colliery at Nan.
ticoke, operated by the Glen Alden
Coal Company, worlds largest hard
coal producers.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02

LONDON-UP-A Belgian under
ground army nearly 100000
Strong, was ordered into action to-
day as Allied armies approached or
crossed the Belgian border and
Nazi broadcasters acknowledged
that Brussels may fall this week
end.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02

WASHINGTON MS - Sen.
Hiram Johnson (R) Calf. a power
full figure in the United States Sem
ate for q years, today observed
his 18th birthday.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-02

BASEL. Switzerland-AP- The
Geneva Tribune today reported a
German radio announcement that
Hitler had stripped Reichsmarsha.
Hermann Goering OF his Air De-
tense command, and had entrusted
that task to Nazi party chiefs. An
informant from Germany. the paper
said. confirmed reports that Goer.
ing was under house arrest at his
Karinhall estate.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-18
OF GUNS
HEARD IN PARIS

LONDON, Aug. II Up The
thunder of Allied guns heralding
the prospective liberation of Paris
reverberated along the ooulevards
of the captive French capital today.
The Germans reported that three
armored A m eri c spearhead
were driving eastward beyond
Chartres and Breux and that vio-
lent fighting ragged on roads con-
verging on the city.
In southern France the Allies
stepped up the tempo of their land
ing operations and, according to
the German official news agency
DNB, established themselves in
Cannes" made new landings on
both sides of Toulon and drove
inland from the St. Raphael area
into the Argens valley. The Ger
man report stressed that reinforce
ments were pouring onto h e
beaches "day and night under
protection of heavy fire from AL
lied warships.
THE whole aspect of the French
capital is assuming that of 'front.'
line city," said DNB, adding that
for the first time the German COM
mand has appealed to the popula-
ton to remain calm
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FRANCE BECOMES
NATION IN ARMS

MADRID, Aug. II -(R-France
was a nation in arms today. The
general uprising ordered by Algiers
against German invaders, their col
laborationists and satellites gained
momentum. .4.-
Direct dispatches to Madrid said
regular armies of Frenchmen,
lacking heavy arms but well
equipped with light weapons-in-
Guiding shotguns and hunting rifles
hidden since the French armistice
had taken to the field for venge-
ance against the Nazis.4
Germans in southwestern France
from Montpelier to the Atlantic
finally have begun to realize their
plight. The French are astride all
escape routes. ~: =
+ A Bordeaux dispatch to the news
paper Arriha said that only few
German military trains, guarded
as if trying to cross through enemy
lines; were able to- function and
that they could make no through
connections. 3sy33s 49, II = .-s'-.. =
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BILL i:
PASSES TESTS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17-R-
The House backed up the admins
tration's idea of how surplus war
property should be disposed of to-
day, voting down proposals to re-
place the proposed disposal direc-
tor with sevenman board and to
restrict his term to coincide with
that of President Roosevelt.
The surplus property bill rode
through its first major tests I'M
changed as the House drove toward
a final vote which probably will
be taken tomorrow.
Hopes for decision today faded
rapidly after scores of members
offered amendments. The wide
spread in terest in proposed
changes in the measure conceded
with another drive to rewrite the
surplus property bills twin the
measure to ease the reconversion
to a peacetirne economy. A BIZ
partisan bloc was organized in the
House in a fresh effort to provide
$25 a week unemployment COM
pensation for civilians and $35 for
veterans for a maximum of So
weeks. over two-year period.
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.russiian
Frontier
Reached

LONDON, Friday. Aug. 49,
R)-Russian troops for the
first time in 80 years carried
the war to the German border
yesterday, smashing across a
battlefield Uttered with Nazi
dead, burned-out tanks and bat
tered gun platforms and reach
ing the East Prussian frontier
along the Szeszuppe river in
western Lithuania.
Led by Gen. Ivan Cherniak-
hovsky, 37-year-old Jewish tank
expert and youngest full gen.
eral in the Red army, this his
toric honor achieved after
months of gruelling campaign
ing fell to the Third White Rus
sian army.
Moscow's midnight bulletin
said the Red army battered
down powerfully built defens--
es' in order to reach the from
tier, and wiped out isolated
German troops pinned against
the river.
T h e Russian communicate
mentioned heavy German re-
sistance, supported by tanks
and artillery, and said the en-
envy was launching constant
counterattacks with supporting
fire from heavy catapult ap-
pliances. This was believed
to mean platforms for rocket
guns.
The enemy still was hurting
in reserves from Heinrich
Himmler's German home army
ordering them to fight to the
DEATH to protect the "holy
soil'' of Germany, Moscow
said.
In one area the Russians
wiped out 1000 Germans yes
terday and blew up go tanks
and self,propelled guns, the
bulletin said.
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CHAPEL HILL, Aug 17-lRE
Frederick Henry Koch, the
man who was called the father
of American folk drama, and
who became a legend before
his time, is dead at 66.
The University of North
Carolina drama teacher died
of a heart attack while surf
bathing at Miami Beach, Fla,
Wednesday. He was visiting
at the home of his son, Fred
erick Koch, Jr., head of the
drama department of the Uni
versity Of Miami. His body
will be cremated, and brief
funeral services held in Miami.
The ashes will be brought to
Chapel Hill, where further serv-
ices will be observed.
DR.. Koch was regarded az
one of the most potential in
fluences in the development Of
the American theater. His
tenet was that there il drama
in every man, and some OF his
pupils brilliantly demonstrated
mis- beliefs. Maxwell Anderson,
Paul Green, Thomas Wolfe,
and Josephine Niggli were
strongly influenced in their
careers by Koch.
Affectionately known to hun
dreds of his former students,
friends, and colleagues as
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Channel I ! ! L To Be Dredged
For Carolina Fishermen

=
Maintenance dredging insthe
channel from Back Sound to
Lookout Blight will ,sbe started
today, it was announced yes
terday by Col. Ellis E.. Haring,
disrSct engineer of the U. S.
. Engineer office, Wilmington di-
vision. r 81. g
The work, which is expected
to be completed within six
weeks, will be done under con-
tract with the Atlantic Dredg-
ing and Construction company,
Colonel Haring said. :
The maintenance dredging
will restore a 50-foot, width and
!. five-foot depth at mean low
water throughout the project
and covers the removal Of b.
600 cubic yards of material,
he stated. ~
According to Colonel Haring,
this channel was originally ex-
cavated by Army Engineers in
1888 to provide assafe passage.