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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-28

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Register of Probate.
ADV. i-927
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Daylight Bandits Rob
Connecticut Avenue
Liquor Store Of 5000
Four Victims Bound,
Wotch and Rings Token
By HoIdup Quartet

In a daylight hold-up, staged
directly opposite the Mayf1ower
Hotel, four armed men entered
Mitchell's Liquor Store, 1922
Connecticut avenue, shortly be-
fore noon today, bound a CO.
proprietor and a wholesale liquor
salesman, forced a second CO.
owner to open the cash register,
and escaped with between $3.50
and 5000.
Police were notified shortly after
ward and broadcast a lookout for
the bandits.
Oscar Gildenhorn and his part
ner, Isor Gildenhorn, were standing
at the cash register talking with
the statesmen, Sol Lerhman. when
the four strangers entered. One was
armed with sawed-off shotgun
and the other three carried revolv-
erS.
Ordering the owners and salesman
into the rear of the store, two of the
burglars forced them to lie on the
floor while the other two guarded
the door. They bound Oscar Gilden-
horn and Mr.. Lerhman with their
own belts and forced Isor Gilden-
horn to open the cash register. They
then ordered him to return to the
back room and tied him.
The burglars added to their loot
a watch taken from Oscar Gilden-
horn and rings taken from the
fingers of the other two.
The quartet was ready to leave
when second wholesale agent, Pat
Badia, strolled into the store. They
forced him into the back room and
tied him with strips of cloth torn
from the clothing of the other men.
The total cash loot of between
$3.50 and 5000 included both money
taken from the cash register and
from the wallets of the four men
connected with the store.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
First Mustang Pilot to Down
Axis Plane Dies Suvinq Civilians

Instead, the pilot stayed with the
ship, fighting it clear of the town.
1t neared an open field, but was so
low wing caught tree, Tipping
the plane over, throwing 1t. Gumm
from the cockpit to his death.
Canon Wright requested a picture
of the pilot, which he hung in a
prominent place. He said the vii
layers wished to write 1t. Gumm S
family and had started a fund for
memorial to the pilot at Nayland
1t. Gumm was the leading ace at
this station, with seven and One-half
planes to his credit. The fighter he
bagged December 16, l943, over Bre-
men, was the first German doWned
by a Mustang pilot in this theater
Over Frankfurt, January 10, he
took on eight German fighters,
shooting down two, probably de-
stroying a third, and damaging a
fourth. His wife, Toni, for whom
his regular plane was named, and
their 10-month- -old daughter live in
Spokane. He wore the Air Medal
with three Oak Leaf Clusters.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Red Cross Campaign Reports
$23O,651 for 8.6 Pct. of Cool

The Red Cross War Fund drive
here totaled s23O65l, or 1855 per
cent of the Distrist area $2,665 900
quota, and workers are confident
the sum will be augmented appre-
ciably when the city, residential
and special gift units report to-
morrow, followed by the Govern
ment and general business divi-
Sions Friday.
The first report yesterday of the
general business division, headed
by Samuel H. Kaufman, showed
his workers had raised $143,l1g.50.
Amounts reported by the three vice
chairmen collaborating with Mr..
Kaufman were: Functional Group
No. l, Robert O. Overs, $65 ,489;
Functional Group No. 2, Charles H.
Tompkins, $42,223, and Geographi-
cal Unit, F. Moran McConihe,
Sl7,0l6.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
President May Seek
ConciIiatory Farley
On 0PA Extension
Bipartisan Conference
At White House Seen
As Possibility
BY the Associated Press.

Reports circulated at the Capt.
tol today that the White House,
in a new gesture of conciliation
toward Congress, would try to
bring leaders of both parties to-
lgether on continuing the present
powers of the Office of Price Ad-
ministration beyond their June
80 expiration date.
Those reports arose as Senator
Wagner, Democrat, of New York,
an administration leader, an
nounced Price Administrator Ches-
ter Bowles would meet informally
Friday with members of the Senate
Banking Committee to discuss the
OPA extension plans.
In radio talk last night, Mr..
Bowles credited price controls with
saving the Nation $83, ,O00, 900 900
through 1943.
Legislation to continue price con-
troll hasn't been introduced as vet,
but administration leaders were de-
scribed as eager to effect a biparti-
san agreement on principles in ad-
vance, If possible, in order to fore
stah any prolonged fight in Con-
gress.
Wagner Urges Agreement.
Senator Wagner said he believed
most members of Congress and a
growing majority of the people ac-
cept price control as an essential
part OF the war program and added !:
Il think it would be admirable if
the leaders of both parties could
reach an understanding on this
legislation. It's for the good of the
country and the war effort, and 7
think that's generally recognized"
Acting Minority Leader White
commented that he believed it was
always advisable for the White
House and Congress to consult with
each other and reach understand
ings whenever possible. think there
has been too little of that in the
past" Senator White added, how
ever, he wasn't speaking particularly
OF the price control legislation.
The recent statement of House
Minority Leader Martin that he con-
sidered continuance of price control
as essential was reported to have lent
backing to the move for a bipartisan
agreement.
Bowles Gives Figures.
Mr.. Bowles said last night that
after comparing price increases in
this war with the last war our re-
search division estimates that with
out price control you would have
already spent in the stores S22,OOO,-
100000 more than you have for
civilian goods and services. That
saving alone amounts to $169 for
each of us-just through 1943.
by the same comparison of in
dustrlal prices in the two wars you
have saved SGT ,000,OO0,0O0 as tax
payers, since that is the additional
amount it would have cost your
Government for building our vast
military effort"
The administration declared that
OPA,S services are costing $1.14 for
each of u.s. during the present
fiscal year based on an appropria-
ton of $155.000,000
Even more important than the
money saving, he said, ''our OPA
volunteer system has kept these
wartime controls the kind of demo-
cratic community process that
America was founded on and for
which we fight TODAY"
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Reynolds Protests UNRRA
Farm Machine Export
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Reynolds, Democrat, of
North Carolina has protested against
plans of the United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation Administration
to send large quantities Of farm ma
chinery and equipment to foreign
nations as part Of its program for
aiding war-stricken areas.
He laid before the Senate yester-
day a report stating UNRRA plans
call for shipment overseas by August
!, 1945, of approximately $4,000
ploWS, II 300 binders, 10000 tractors
80 900 separators, 22,s00 rakes and
3,77o threshers, along with numerous
other items of equipment, and said
L protest against our sending
thousands upon thousands of pieces
of farm machinery to foreign lands
when our farmers here in America
are in dire need of them to produce
the stuff needed to feed ourselves
and the rest of the world"
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Toxic Reports Raids
On ThoiIond Capital

FE NE ASSoclaTeG PrtSs.
NEW YORK, Mar. 8.-The Toxic
Domei Agency said yesterday in an
overseas wireless. dispatch that for
nations of enemy aircraft" had car
ried out two raids on Bangkok,
capital of Occupied Thailand, dur
ing the night, causing slight dam
age"
The raiders, whose nationality was
not given, were declared immedi-
ately repulsed by japanese fighter
planes and antiaircraft fire.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Krueger's 9th Army Whips Jops
On Three Bismarck Sea Fronts
Los Neeros Fully Controlled, New Landing
Made on New Britain, Arowe Gains Scored

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
Southwest Pacific, Mar. Sit
Gen. Walter Krueger's 9Th Amer
lean Army is whipping the Japa-
nese on three fronts around the
borders of the Bismarck Sea.
The Allied headquarters COM
munique today said the Americans
have won control of Los Negros
Island in the Admiralty group, at
the northern approach to the sea,
and had buried 479 more japanese
dead.
Marines attached to the 9th Army
made a quick thrust ITO miles east
|of Cape Gloucester, New Britain
Island, and landed Monday with
mere rifle-t1re opposition on Willau-
mez Peninsula, on the north coast
of the island. Soldiers on the south
coast advanced "a miles eastward
from Arawe to Amgoring. New
Britain forms the south boundary
of Bismarck Sea.
On New Guinea, which limits the
sea to the west, 32d Division troops
who landed behind the japanese
lines at Yalau, 80 miles west of
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Ford Protection Man
Reported Beaten in Fight
,v the Associated Press.

Rr the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Mar. "a Ford Motor
Co. spokesman reported today a
plant protection man was kicked
and beaten in fighting which, he
SAID, followed discharge of a worker
for striking a foreman in the River
Rouge plant aircraft building, and
suspension of two men for smoking
on the assembly line.
The fighting in the aircraft build
ing started after the discharge and
suspensions, the spokesman said,
when about $50 assembly line work
ers stormed the labor relations Of
flee seeking an official they blamed
for the disciplinary actions. He
escaped, the spokesman added, but
a plant protection man who tried to
quell the disturbance was knocked
to the floor, kicked and beaten with
paper weights.
Evening star., 1944-03-08

Saidor, have expanded their posi-
tions. The drive here is on Madang
japanese coastal base.
Aided by Air and Naval Action.
The 9th Army successes were aided
by Allied air and naval action, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's communique
said.
Solomons- based bombers and
fighters continued their hammering
of Rabaul, enemy base on New Brit
ain, ITO airline miles east of the
Marines Monday landing near
Talasea on Willaumez Peninsula.
The bombers hit Rabaul town.
ship and Tobera airdrome Sunday
with SO tons of explosives, blasting
waterfront installations, parked air
craft and harbor shipping. There
was no enemy aerial interception, as
in the last three weeks, but anti
aircraft fire was intense. One Al
lied plane was missing.
On Los Negros Island, Navy Sea-
bees have restored Momote air.
drome and now small planes used as
spoilers for artillery fire are land
ing there.
1t was only nine days ago that
Evening star., 1944-03-08
First Liberutor of Year
Is Lost Over RubuuI
BY the Associated Press.

GUADALCANAL, Solomon Is
lands, Mar. 8-Loss of the first
American Liberator heavy bomber
over Rabaul, New Britain, this year
was reported by Admiral William F.
Halsey's headquarters today. Three
crew members were rescued.
Other South Pacific planes hit
Rabaul with 98 tons of bombs in a
day-long succession of air attacks
through intense antiaircraft fire
Evening star., 1944-03-08
z California HoIdup Men
Kill Policeman and Flee

BY the Associated Press.
EMERYVILLE, Calf, Mar. g.
Two masked gunner, one of whom
held a submachine gun, killed a
special patrolman, wounded one
member of a crowd of 80 and escaped
into nearby Oakland early today in
an attempt to holdup a bar.
Patrolman George Haas, 81, dice
in Highlands Alameda County Hos
pital from three machine gun bullet
wounds in the chest, suffered when
he attempted to shoot it out with
the gunner.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Republican Defeats
War Hero in Colorado
Race for House Seat
SpongIer and HolIeck
Hail Gillespie Victory in
Democratic Stronghold
BY GOULD LINCOLN.
GOV. DEWEY'S STAND on servi
vote seen in 1914 bid. Page A

GOV. DEWEY'S STAND on service
vote seen in 1914 bid. Page Az
The Republicans have chalked
up another impressive victory in
a former Democratic strong
hold-Denver-where Dean M
Gillespie, a businessman, was
elected to the House over the
Democratic candidate, Maj. Carl
E. Wuertele, a wounded war
veteran and the holder of several
decorations, including the Silver
Star and Distinguished Flying
Cross. The vote was Mr.. Gill
lespie, 41,418; Maj. Wuertele
SO, ,440, on the basis of unofficial
returns.
Chairman Harrison E. Spangler OF
the National Committee and Repre-
sentative Halleck, chairman of the
National Republican Congressional
Committee, today hailed the results
of the special congressional election
in Colorado yesterday as another
indication that this is Republican
year.
THAT the American people are
through with the New Deal was
evidenced again yesterday in
the unmistakable language of votes,
declared Mr.. Halleck.
Spangler Sees COP Year.
Mr.. Spangler said I'VE have fore
cast before that the nominee of the
Republican National Convention will
be the next President of the United
States, and on a basis of the recent
election returns In Colorado and
New York I repeat that statement y
This Colorado district had been
going Democratic since 1882. Demo-
cratic pluralities ranged as high as
10000 in 1886. In 1912, however
when the late Representative Law
renee Lewis, Democrat, was last
elected, the Democratic lead had
been scaled down to 5000. Yester-
day 1t was wiped out.
Mr.. Gillespie, truck dealer and
Gilman and an avowed foe of bu-
reaucracy, said in a statement: 81
think that the results of this elec-
ton prove that the people are
tired of the Democratic New Deal
stuff and that businessmen are
coming awake"
Maj. Wuertle, 80, who was
wounded in the South Pacific and
retired from service, was drafted by
the Democrats to oppose the So
year-old Republican.
Halleck's Statement.
Mr.. Halleck in a statement said
that in the 10 special elections held
since the general election in 1912
Republican candidates have won in
all but two, and failed to carry one
by only a scant margin, Tammany
district in New York which had
been overwhelmingly Democratic for
nearly a quarter of q century.
The issue, the same everywhere,
was never more clearly drawn then
in the election in the 1st Colorado
district yesterday. Personalities were
not involved. The Republican can
didate and his supporters from first
to last stressed but one thing-that
the issue was constitutional govern
tSee ELECTIONS, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Senate, REA Inquiry
Drops Move 10 Cite
Daniels in CONTEMPT
Gillette Reports Group
Will Make No Demand
For White House Files
By the Associated Press.

A Senate Agriculture Subcom-
mlttee today abandoned a move
to cite Presidential Assistant
Jonathan Daniels for contempt.
Senator Gillette, Democrat, of
Iowa said after an executive session
OF the subcommittee that the pro-
ceedings were abandoned because
Mr.. Daniels had answered satisfac-
torily all questions about unsuccess-
full efforts to GUST Harry E. Slattery
as head of the Rural Electrification
Administration.
Mr.. Daniels appeared again before
the committee this morning.
Thus the Daniels case" may be
officially marked closed, but the sub
committee investigating the electri-
fication agency isn't through delving
into the part the White House
played in attempts to induce Mr..
Slattery to resign.
Senator Gillette said, however, the
subcommittee had agreed that there
probably would be nothing pertinent
to the inquiry in President Roose-
velt's files on the REA land had
decided therefore that no effort will
be made to subpoena those files"
Asked at the close of yesterdays
hearing by Carroll Beedy, commit
tee counsel, to supply the commit
tee with the complete White House
files, Mr.. Daniels advised that the
request should be made direct to the
President.
Mr.. Roosevelt told his press con-
ference yesterday he hadn't heard
a word about Mr.. Beedys request
and would have to cross that bridge
when it was reached.
A reporter said the subcommittee
appeared to be interested also in
whether Eugene Casey, another
White House assistant, had any
connection with the efforts to get
Mr.. Slattery to resign and whether
Mr.. Casey's interest was political.
Isn't Casey Around.
Mr. Casey is around here, isn't
he? was the Presidents reply. In
fact, he added, he was there right
then and probably for the same
reason as was the reporter. The
reporter replied that he was there
to get information and suggested
that perhaps Mr.. Casey might want
to give some, but nothing came of it.
Mr.. Daniels explained to the COM
mittee yesterday that he asked Mr..
Slattery to resign after looking into
REA affairs last July at the request
OF the Chief Executive He said he
found dissention between two lac
tionS within REA and believed that
Mr.. Slattery's resignation might be
the quickest way to restore har-
mony. Mr.. Slattery refused to quit,
though Mr.. Daniels, with presi-
dental approval, offered him an
other job studying European power
developments.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Red Forces Threaten
To 0utfIank TarnopoI
Nazi Rail Juncfions
Troops Driving Toward
Rumunio Overpower
Heavy CounterbIows
By the Associated Press,

LONDON, Mar. 8.-Overpow-
ering heavy German counter
attacks, Red Army troops driv-
ing toward Rumania are threat
ening to outflank the important
junction city OF Tarnopol on the
Odessa Warsaw railway, Moscow
dispatches said today.
Pressing forward over a country
side turned into mire by early
spring thaws, Russian spearheads
yesterday captured the town Of
1grovitsa, 8 miles northwest of
Tarnopol and only 4 miles from the
Warsaw railway, a Russian COM
munique announced. Other forces
operating east of Tarnopol actually
severed the line in the places 20
miles apart-at Kochanovka, S miles
south of Volchisk, and Zelentsy, Is
miles west of Proskurov.
Yesterdays advance by the forces
under Marshal Gregory K. Zhukoy
liberated 200 more localities in the
densely populated Western Ukran-
ian country, Moscow announced.
Germans Hurled Back.
The Germans hurled strong in
fantry and tank forces against the
Red Army, especially in the Staro-
Konstantinov sector south of She
petovka, but were hurled back,
leaving more than 1000 dead on the
battlefield, the Russians said. Nu-
merous pieces of war equipment, in
Guiding 60 tanks, were destroyed or
captured and many prisoners taken,
the Soviet bulletin added.
The district center of Staraya
Sinyava, 80 miles southeast Of
Shepetovka and 30 miles northeast
OF Proskurov, was among the more
important towns listed as taken.
Capture of Staraya Sinyava not
only cut the ro-Konstantinov
toA"oSb boV blOusilG OoNlcO VAIL
guards to within Is miles of the
Odessa Warsaw line west of Zhme-
rinka. Svinnaya, another town cap
tured yesterday, is only 4 miles from
aro-Konstantinov.
Advance 20 Miles a Day.
Marshal Zhukov's advance. now in
its fourth day, was averaging more
than 20 miles day, in some areas
as much as 80 miles, according to
Moscow advices.
The capture yesterday Of Podvo-
lochiSk, miles west of Volochisk,
extended the Russian-held sector of
the Odessa Warsaw Railway to 20
miles, with its western end about 25
miles east of Tarnopol. In this
sector, Russian troops are approxi-
mately 60 miles from the Ruman-
ian frontier.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
53 More Frenchmen Die
In Clashes With Nozis
By the Associated Dress.

by the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. BIN continu-
ing clashes between French patriots
and Nazi-controlled police forces in
France, SO more Frenchmen have
been killed or executed and 46 ar
rested, according to German and
Vichy press and radio dispatches re-
ported to the Office of War Informa-
ton yesterday.
Forty-one of the Frenchmen killed
fell in fight between police and
patriots in the district of Perigeux
in Central France, the Nazi DNB
agency said in a wireless dispatch to
the controlled European press.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Ry the Associated Press.


A UNITED STATES FIGHTER
BASE, England. Mar. Sit, Charles
F. Gumm, jr., of Spokane, Wash, a
fighter ace who was the first Mus
tang pilot to shoot down an enemy
plane over Europe, died a hero's
death eight days ago to save civilians
from his crashing plane. it was dis
closed today.
The story of his heroism in re-
fuSing to parachute from a plane
which would have fallen in the
English town of Nayland was told
by Canon w. l.. Wright of St. James
Vicarage in Nayland, who came to
this base to tell the pilots buddies
that the toWnspeople were deeply
touched by his sacrifice.
He said many persons saw 1t.
Gumm's plane falling toward the
village, when an engine of his
fighter failed during a test fight.
There was no doubt in their minds,
he said, that 1t. Gumm could have
bailed out safely, but the plane
would have crashed into houses.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Ndzis Believed
Regrouping for
Anzio Drive
DueIing Continues in
Casino; Rome Yards
And TouIon Bombed
BY the Associates Press

~ tAAS <hocoSiotCS IitsS.
ALL led HEADQUARTERS,
Naples, Mar. 8.-Gunfire, mortar
and grenade duels ragged for the
second straight night in Casino,
Allied headquarters announced
today, and observers have spotted
movements behind the German
lines below Rome, possibly indi-
eating a regrouping for a fourth
all-out push against the Allied
beachhead.
New Zealand siege guns ham,
mered at a German held rail sta
ton about mile south of Casino
while American troops west of Cis-
terna on the beachhead engaged in
a fierce machine gun and mortar
duel with the Nazis, but there was
no change in positions. The Ger
mans made concerted but futile
effort to infiltrate British position
near Carroceto, on the Rome side
of the beachhead.
Discussing the German move
ments behind the lines, headquar-
ters said the Nazis appear to be
on the watch for any opening in our
forward positions"
Weather Slows Troops.
Bad weather, however, continued
to hamper the ground fighting, and
the communique declared that
heavy snow in the mountains and
deep mud in the valleys have made
all movements difficult"
Allied planes flew about 1900 sor-
ties yesterday, with heavy bombers
blasting the Toulon naval base in
Southern France and medium bomb
ers striking at rail yards lin Rome.
Five Nazi planes were DESTROYED
against a. loss Of five Allied craft.
The operations included heavy
bomber raids on rail facilities in the
Florence region and on airfelds
north OF Rome. The Rome radio
said heavy damage and casualties
had been caused in Rome and as
serted that church and an orphan
age had been hit.
Patrol Wrecks House,
On the 9th Army front a Cana
dian patrol wrecked house oc-
cupied by the enemy in the Tollo
area by sneaking up to it and plac-
ing a demolition charge next to it.
Two strong enemy patrols at
tackled Indian Army positions north
OF Orsogna Monday night but were
dispersed before they reached the
Allied lines.
Medium bombers struck at the
docks at Santa Stefano, important
German supply point on the Ital-
ian Riviera, and night bombers re-
turned to dump more bombs on the
port last night.
Photographs of the Toulon raid
showed hits in the munitions fac
tory area and several hits on the
drydocks. War vessels anchored
along a jetty were believed to have
been damaged.
Four Nazi Planes Downed.
Twenty-Five enemy fighters tried
to intercept the Fortresses and
their escorting Lightnings 10 min
utes from the target. Four Nazi
planes were doWned in the battle
and none of the American planes
was lost.
Other air operations included at
tacks by light bombers on gun posi-
tlons, railways and road transport
in the battle area.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Nozis Evocuote 500, 900
On Mediterranean Coost
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, Mar. 8.-Mass evacua-
ton of 100000 Frenchmen from the
Mediterranean coast by INVASION
jittery Germans was reported in the
Spanish press yesterday. The evac-
uation was said to be nearly COM
plete.
Marshal Gerd Won Rundstedt's en-
gineers were said to be rushing forti-
f1cations Of the fiat coastal area near
the mouth of the Aude River. One
traveller arriving from France said
the engineers were having difficulty
finding footings for heavy fortifica-
tions in the sandy soil.
Evening star., 1944-03-08

ana was wound
ed in the New
Georgia c a M
paign, told en-
ployeS of The
Star at a Red
Cross rally yes
terday that the
Marines killed
l l 90 j a p S
against a loss of
only 60 of our
our men during
an engagement
on GuadalcaAal.
The Japs are
not worth a darn
Evening star., 1944-03-08

in open country; Pfc. ]. ]. Mirabitto.
they are good only at jungle fight
ing" he said.
Holder of the Purple Heart, Pfc.
(See RED CROSS, Page A-2.)