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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-30
MILFORD E. OLIVER

MILFORD (. Oliver died Saturday
at Boyer Hospital where he had
been since May % for observation.
He had been employed for two
years at the Motor State Products
Co. He was a member of the
Moose and the Eagles and was a
sportsman of note. He is survived
by his parents who live in Britton,
Mich; wife, Aileen, and a son.
The funeral service will be We'd
nesday at o'clock in the Niblick
Funeral Home at Britton, with
burial in the Britton Cemetery.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-30
KIN ESCAPE DEATH

EASTON, Pa.-INS-When the
|. S. Air Force accidentally
bombed Schatfhausen. Switzerland,
killing IS persons, it was not an
impersonal matter to Robert Schel.
ling, Easton Hotel proprietor. Six
brothers and three sisters reside
there All escaped injury.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-30
WOUNDED DON'T CRY

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. ms -
Wounded soldiers in New Guinea
did "less kicking than men not In
combat" revealed Lieut.. Virginia
w. Crelli, OF Jamestown, upon her
return home after 16 months in the
Pacific area. She was one OF the
first American nurses to reach New
Guinea
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-30
WHATS In A NAME2

New York, May 30-INS-Work-
ers at the Consolidated Vultee Air
craft Corporation plant in Califor.
MIA refused to call certain airplane
part by its designated name, mo.
74-779933-400,' their morale officer
reported to the New York office.
One look at the part and someone
announced: TITS a coffee pot"
Other nicknames were alarm
clock" for gear boz; bird cage"
for tail-asseIsbly fitting; flutes"
for seat-support tubes and "spaghet-
III for electric conduits. But plant
officials were not too seriously per-
turbed about the situation-for the
planes keep right on coming off the
assembly lines.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-30
BATTLE TO DEATH

MUNDYS CORNER. Pains
Mute evidence OF a battle to the
death in the animal world was dis.
covered near Mundys Corner by
c. T. Grove, OF Vince, when he
came across a dead pigeon hawk.
The hawk had been strangled by a
green grass snake which died It..
self in the birds death grip.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-30
TOO BIG A HUG

BOSTON-UP-So happy was
Cpl. Norman Leblanc to see his
mother after Is months in the
South Pacific that he picked her
right off the floor to give her a big
hug. Later, when Mrs. lie Blanc
complained OF chest pains, an X-ray
revealed two broken ribs.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-30
SOLDIERS SALVAGE SCRAP

GREENVILLE, Pa.-INS-Camp
Reynolds reports that soldiers
training there have hit new highs
in salvaglng paper. tin, and other
metals, and rubber During March
the camp shipped 10 tons OF scrap
paper, IS tons Of flattened tin cans,
and IL tons OF scrap rubber, Includ.
ed in the salvage was a ton OF cop
per, zinc and brass.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-30

ceiving treatment at Finney Gener-
al Hospital. Army medical estab-
lishment, Thomasyille, Georgia, for
an illness following his return from
the European theater OF operations.
He was flown by plane from New
York. May II.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-30
Calendar OF Social Events
WEDNESDAY

Ypsanti Post number 2S2 American o'clock Legion
home.
Ypsant Aere Faterna Order Eagles 1914
Red Cross surgical dressings five Welch Hail.
and at ST. Lukes Church House. $50
Girl Scouts o'clock Methodist Church. troop five
o'clock Roosevelt; troop o'clock, Rackham;
eight o'clock St Lukes; Brownie Is O'clock Stark
weather; Brownie H. o'clock troop
10, O'Clock, Rackham Brownie troop O'Clock, Harriet
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-30
CROP GOES FOR HAIRCUT

MURPHYSBORO, Ill.-UP-The
Guetterslau brothers wheat was
worth something. even though It
was covered by Mississippi flood
water. Bill snapped his 100-acre
crop for haircut, while his broth
er Arthur traded his 5O-acre plan,
ing for a shave.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-30
In the Sick Room

Mrs. Mary E. Monaghans condt
ton is improving but she is still a.
Boyer Memorial Hospital.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-30
Rural Events
THURSDAY hume

THURSDAY. JUNE
Pittsfield
Pittsfield Ladies' Aid Society will
meet with Mrs. Minnie Rust, LOT
N. Huron ST., Ypsilanti. Business
meeting. 2 o'clock.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-30

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
PRESIDENT
 GIVES OUT
 BIG APPEAL
Declares Foreign Policy Is Issue in Coming Mo-
 vember Election

NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-President Roosevelt calls for a World Coun- cil, with American representatives, preendowed by Congress, given a place in the American forces on the pathway of future aggressors.
 The demand was made by the President in an address prepared for the Foreign Policy Association at a dinner in the Waldorf Astoria.
 The Chief Executive also said that a Republican victory would toss the Congressional leadership to "invet- crate isolationists" who are not "re- liable custodians" of the American foreign policy in world which re- quires international cooperation to preserve peace.
 The Preioent said the projected Council of the United Nations pro- posed by the Dumbarton Oaks agree ment must have power to act quickly and decisively to keep peace, by lOTCe, Il Ieeu Ue.
 Tt is clear" the President said, "that if a world organization is to have any reality at all, our repre- sentatives must be endowed in ad- vance by the people themselves, by constitutional means, through their representatives in Congress and with authority to act"
 The President further said, "the question of men who will formulate and carry out the foreign policy of this country is an issue in the com- ing November election-very much an issue-it is an issue, not in terms of sober, solemn facts-facts that of sober. solemn facts-facts that are on the record"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
LANDINGS IN pHILIpp|NE5
 ONLY BLUFF
(By Associated Press)

The landings in the Philippines are termed nothing more than a bluff by Sadao Iguchi, spokesman of the Japanese Information Board in propaganda broadcast to the Filipino people, and another propa- ganda broadcast from Tokyo, also recorded by the EGG, said the in vasion of Leyte Island is of mo strategic consequence from stand- point of general operations"
 Jap headquarters, in a broad cast rescript by the Emperor, says the "war situation is daily becom- ing more pressing" and he com- mended three high officers for their part in defeating the enemy fleet off Formosa."
 Iguchi is also quoted in broad cast as saying the American claim that the landings on Leyte were from an armada of 600 ships with 250,000 men, is another more than propaganda and fantasy report, to- tally out of proportion to reality and he added the actual scale of the invasion forces is well known to us and we have the situation well in hand"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
BLOWSARE
 STRUCK ON
 LONG FRONT
Preparations Made for Grand Offensive, Smash
 Direct on 10 Berlin

LONDON. Oct. 23-Six Allied armies pounded the tightly drawn Nazi defense band from Holland to the Switzerland border today with unceasing pressure, aimed at open ing eventual cracks to permit the smash at Berlin.
 The blows are not yet a grand offensive, but are intended to ham, mer the enemy line ever thinner and mask the timing and place for the main attack assault.
 On and against the shrinking south Schelde pocket, west of Ant werp and Breda tnorth of Antwerp) and the hard held doorway from Aachen to the Saar Valley and sharp cloven Vosges passes, the British Second Army is striking in three columns on Emile front.
 From the western side of its Holland salient, 1t drove within three to five miles from the prize com- munications hub of Shertogenbosch, and the Canadian Army swept from Esschen, on the Dutch Belgian bor- der, to within 16 miles north of Antwerp after an 11-mile advance in two days and hammed methodically toward Roosendaal, four miles ahead.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
By T/SGT. J. A. OLEARY
 Marine Corps Combat COrre- spondent, formerly of the Wash ingtOn Evening Star.)

PELILEU, Palau Islands, (De- layed) Marine Pfc. Arthur j.. Jackson, 200 pounds of one-man gang from Nome, Alaska, killed more than SO Japs here in a single day of fighting.
 He rolled up the impressive total while his platoon was attacking Jap defense positions on the south ern end of the island. In eight hours, the platoon destroyed or neutrallzed 40 Jap strongpolnts, Jackson singlehandedly accounting for Is of them.
 His technique was simple:
 With or without covering fire, he charged the Jap bunkers, place the muzzle of his Browning automatic rifle in the fire slits or observation apertures and sprayed the interior
 If the desperate enemy tried a dash for safety, Jackson was ready He moved 'em down in windrows, one Marine described it.
 In all, the big Alaskan expended more than 2,O00 rounds of Brown
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
NATIONAL WAR
 FUND CAMPAIGN
 GETTING BOOST
Over S5,OOO Contributed. Is Noon Report by
 Chairman Fletcher

Hard work-and lot of it-over the weekend on the part of the many solicitors for the National War Fund was reflected today in the receipt at headquarters of hard cash and a lot of it. So much so. in fact, that the ever-cheerful Jack Fletcher, Chairman of the local Campaign Committee, announced with even more than his usual cheerfulness that at noon the total contributions were just over the $5,000 mark. The exact figure is $5,02880.
 One of the most heartening fea- lures of the drive thus far, declared Fletcher, is the speed with which a number of the solicitors have been completing their work. This morn ing, for example, he was advised by A. Blackerby, who is responsible for the solicitation of the Federal Build ing, that already four of his workers have finished their assignments George Folta, Mrs. Gladys Overby, Merv. Sides and Chris Wyller. He also spoke enthusiastically of the excellent report coming in from the Army Signal Corpsmen who appear determined that no civilian group is going to make any better report than theirs.
 Conspicuous among the business concerns that are making fine show ings is the Alaska Laundry, which its solicitor, Charles Naghel, states has successfully completed it's efforts in the drive. It is believed, accord ing to Fletcher, that by the end of the week many additional organiza- tions in the business area will have turned in their final reports, being further evidence of the remarkably efficient job that has been done ever since the campaign was opened by Frank Heintzleman, chairman of the entire business section of the city.
 Each solicitor throughout the com munity is requested to make report by Tuesday evening, at the latest. It is realized by the Campaign Com mittee that, of course, it will be some days before many of the work CTS will be able to complete their efforts. Especially is this true where exceptionally large areas of cover age are involved in several of the residential districts. One such dis trict is that being handled by Mrs. Jake Cropley, who it is understood, has been making first-rate progress to date.
 In this one combined drive the entire nation is raising the funds necessary for a years support of the National War Prisoners Aid, the Allied War Relief, the United Sea- mems Service and the USO, together with more than dozen other humanitarian agencies.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
SAYS JAPAN I5 NOW ON
 DEFENSIVE
Naval Commentator Gets Whole Lot Off of His
 Yellow Chest
(By Associated Press)

Jap is now on the defensive" Japanese naval commentator Mas anori Ito said in a dispatch trans. mitted today by Domei, Japanese news agency.
 Ito's statement came in the course of remarks in which he claimed Japan welcomed" the American invasion of the Philippines because it offers another opportunity to deal crushing blows to the main- stays of the enemy's Pacific forces" :"
 The speaker compared Formosa with Pearl Harbor, then said: How ever, there is considerable differ ence existing under the present cir cumstances compared with those of three years ago. The difference now is that Japan is on the defensive while three years ago we were on the offensive"
 The broadcast was recorded by the Federal Communications Com mission.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
BALL IS TO SUPPORT FOR
 IN ELECTION
Says Dewey Still Too Much of an IsOIdtionist in
 His Speeches

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23-Senator Joseph H. Ball, Minnesota Repub- lican, announced T shall vote for support of President Roosevelt"
 The Senator said Roosevelt met the foreign policy issues more squarely than Dewey in his Sat- urday night speech on foreign re- lations. Ball said the President kept his record of action by meeting "squarely and unequivocally the two vital and controversial issues on which the isolatdonists kept us out of the League of Nations and on which they will fight our entry into the United Nations Security organization"
 The Senator added to the state ment: he insisted that the United Nations Organization be formed without delay and before the hos tilities cease it be granted power OO uoc lillllIdly lOlCC dSdAlloI 1dChA . agressors without requiring indivi- dual approval by each member na- ton.
 Gov. Dewey opposed the delay but he did not meet squarely the second vital issue He has spoken for a strong international security organization but in each speech he so worded his commitment that both isolationists and international ists could find comfort and support in what he said. A part of his support talking to the country was straight isolationist doctrine"
 The Senator is scheduled to make a 15-minute radio address Thurs day at 7:15 p m. (Pacific War time) over the Blue Network to discuss reasons for his action in the campaign issue.
 Ball told reporters he conferred
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
WAGNER FIGHTS FOR HIS POST

tracked by the heat and name calling of the Presidential campaign, one of the most import ant Senatorial races in the nation has been lost sight of. It is the valiant uphill battle of Senator Robert Wagner, father of more social legislation than any other man in American history, to keep his seat.
 Most significant of all is the failure of the liberal New York City American Federation of Labor to give any hearty support to the man who authored and pushed through the Senate the Magma Charta of American Labor.
 Inside reason for this is the fact that the CIO was first in going to bat for Wagner with a strong en- dorsement. Following this, the local New York City AFL played cagey, indicated that Wagner was the CIO candidate. This was not true of AFL President Bill Green, who gave Wagner a hearty endorse ment.
 But in New York, where votes
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
CHURCHILL IS BACK FROM HIS
 5TALIN TALKS
Stopped Off in Cairo, Also Italy, Returning to
 London Home

LONDON, Oct 23-British Prime a night in Italy enroute home from conferences in Moscow with Stalin, it is announced.
 Churchill conferred with Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Allied Commander in the Mediterranean region.
 The Prime Minister, who also spent 24 hours in Cairo, returned to London yesterday. It is ex- pected he will make a report to the House of Commons this week as the result of his conferences with Stalin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
The ashinqton Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON Gt. Col Robert s. Allen now on active service with the Army)

WASHINGTON-P Roose- welt made an important revela- tion to Italo-American publisher Generoso Pope, the other day, when he disclosed that in 1893 he had written letter to Mussolini urging him not to engage in a heavy armament race which might plunge the world into war
 Some day I'll show you the letter. Roosevelt told Pope. "It was the first year I was in the White House and just as Mussolini was beginning to prepare for war with Ethiopia two years later. If Mussolini had taken my advice and kept away from his war machine and Hitler, Italy would not be in the tragic situation she is today.
 The President also asked Pope many detailed questions about vari- ous sections behind the lines in Italy, especially in regard to how the Italian population in these areas would receive American troops, and what cooperation they would give in rising up against the Nazis.
 q don't think I can tell you much about it. Pope finally re- piled, after several of these ques- tions. You see, I left Italy when I was only eight years old. But how do you know all about these Italian towns and villages?"
 The President replied that when he was a boy his father had taken him to Italy to live for a while and he had learned to read Italian and even speak it a bit. The Presi- dent approved a proposal to permit Americans of Italian descent to send Christmas packages to their friends and relatives in Italy, and also told Pope about the progress of other relief measures, including the dispatch of several shiploads of food and supplies for Italy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
RED ARMY IS
 PENETRATING
 PRUSSIA
Russians Are Now 18 Miles Inside Reich with Cap-
 lure of GoIdap

LONDON, Oct. g Russian troops captured the East Prussian Highway center of Goldap. IS miles inside Germany, and broadened their offensive along the entire eastern boundary of the province.
 A German communique said deep penetrations" into the Nazi lines between Goldap and Suwalki have been acknowledged. The Germans said the front is now 10 airline miles long, from beseiged Memel in the northernmost part, which city the Germans claim, to Augustow, in the Suwalke sector, in the southeast corner of East Prussia at the extreme tip of the eastern front.
 Near Norwegian Border
 The Russians on the Arctic Sea pulled up to the border of Norway on wide front, placing them within striking distance of the Norwegian iron export harbor of Kirknes, a German submarine base posing constant threat to the Murmansk- -Archangel convoy routes to Russia.
 Far to the south, where the Russians are less than 130 miles from Austria and 80 milyes from Vienna, Moscow announced vic- tories Il both Hungary and Yugo- Slayia
 Two Cities Captured
 Sombor, Yugoslayia, a place of 32,000 inhabitants and commupi- cations center. 95 miles northv est of liberated Belgrade, toppled, as has Nyiregyhaza, Hungarian city of 56,000 and lying close to the Czechoslovak border.
 The Russians are near to Aus tria and Vienna at captured Baja on the Danube River.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
Positions On Leyete Island Fronts Expande>
One Man Gang from Nome Kills Over 60 Japs in 1 Day
 In Fighting, PaIau Islands

ing automatic ammunition during the day. So fast did he work that men ordinarily assigned to carrying ammunition for machine guns were set to bringing up ammunition for his B. A. R.
 Jackson, known as Bull to fel- low Marines because of his size and tremendous strength, climaxed his one-man gang performance a few days later when, armed only with a splintered rifle stock, he clubbed to death Japanese sol- dier who attacked him with gre nades and bayonet.
 The Nome Marine was in his foxhole when the Jap and a com panion charged him. He killed the first enemy soldier with a burst from his Browning, but the second threw a grenade which shattered the rifle.
 Jackson dodged the Jap's bayo- net, grabbed his opponent by the neck and battered him to the ground with the stock of the broken rifle.
 A native of Nome, Jackson now makes his home at 4429 80th Street, Portland, Oregon. He also saw action at Cape Gloucester, New Britain.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
PART OF BRITISH FLEET ON PACIFIC;
 ASSERTION MADE

BROMLY, England, Oct. g = Britain hopes to have place in the Pacific fleet, capable in itself of fighting in a general action against the Jap Navy"
 First Lord of the Admiralty Alex ander said, "a movement of part of the British fleet is already underway" indicating a large num- Der of vessels of the British Navy are on the way to join the Ameri-
 can Pacific fleets.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
 DEATH TOLL.
 GROWING
Possibly Over 200 Victims of Liquid Gas ExpIo-
 sions, Flames

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 23.-Cor- oner Gerber today estimated that possibly 200" persons met death as the liquid gas explosions and flames laid waste to the East Side area, one-half mile square.
 The known dead in Fridays dis aster has reached 99 and more than 100 are listed as missing, 49 of them East Ohio Gas Company employees.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
Chinese Crisis Gives Worry 10 Washington,
 World Peace Planners
By JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21-Strate- gists in both the War and Navy Departments and among planners for world peace are plenty worried about the dreadful drubbing we have been taking in China
 It's rather surprising that the critical defeats in China haven't made bigger headlines. Both Chi nese and U. S. Army censorship (not entirely unwarranted for military reasons); and the deli cate political situation in China are partly responsible, according to officials here. But the fact re- mains that the catastrophe possi- bilities of the Japanese successes in China have hardly been publicly explored at all
 At their best, they could mean some months prolongation of the war with Japan and a consequent additional loss of Allied lives and Allied billions. They might also mean a change in war strategy which was to see us driving inland from the east China coast to form junction with the great Chinese armies that, with American sup plies, could sever Japan's overland lifeline to French Indo-China, Thailand, Burma and the Malay peninsula. It is considered possible here that that strategy already has been abandoned and will only be resumed if China can put it's po- litical and military house in order.
 Already these defeats have wiped out five great American air bases in eastern China, built with the back-breaking work of hundreds of thousands of Chinese hand laborers, taking months for job that our engineers could do in a couple of
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Oct. B = Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine stock today is 6ss, American Can 89h, Anacenda '27, Beech Aircraft 9A, Bethlehem 62S, Common wealth and Southern l 1/16, Curtiss Wright 5B, International Harvester 791s, Kennecott 351s, North Ameri- can Aviation 10%, New York Gen. tral 18A, Northern Pacific 16, United States Steel STA, Pound $4.04
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows; Industrials, 146.58; rails, 4h43; utilities, 2554.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
LATE WAR BULLETINS

BU LLETIN = GEN. Mac ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Oct. 23.-American soldiers push ing westward on Leyte Island, southern front, overran a strong Jap defense position while try ing to trap the enemy troops re- treating up the wide Leyfe Val ley.
 Associated Press Correspond ent Al Dodkins, of the southern front, reports the Yank Seventh Infantry Division troops, led by tanks, are moving up the valley inland from Dulag where one of the first American beachheads were established.
 The troops, under command of It. Col. Herbert Edmunson, is heading northwestward from Dulag in a flat country ideal for tank warfare.
 LONDON-The capture of tn, border town Salmujarvi, Finnisl frontier, and all of Finland's north ,rn nickel mines is announced b. Stalin tonight.
 NEW YORK-Domei tonight an lounces British troops have landed on Nicobar Islands in the Indial 0ocean.
 LONDON For the first time 5talin announced tonight the Rus sian armies have invaded East Prus sia to depth of 19 miles on an 88 nile front, the third White Russian Front.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
SELE(TIVE SERVICE
 OFFICIALS RETURN
 FROM TRIP TODAY

John Mccormick. Territorial Di- rector of Selectiye Service, accom- panied by Col F. J. Killilea, Terri torial Procurement Officer for Sel- lectiye Service, returned to Juneau today from an official trip to Ket- chikan, Wrangell and Petersburg.