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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-04-15
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Auction located los Street Ypslsnt saturday
April a. commencing 100 o'clock the following household
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beds springs mattress; drssssrs
drawers large tables small tables sdebosrd with
large mirror rocking chairs reclining chair
chairs writing desk es12 small
sewing machine Eureka electric osster electric
slvrare dishes kitchen utensils fut so foot
hose garden tools stove tubs lawn ANAL
electric 10 g. ladder step ladders small chest
OF carpenter tools. TERMS CASH.
WILLIAM SECKINGER, Administr.tor
GUY r. THOMPSON, AUCTIONEER
4o4 Ferris street
o. E. VEDDER Clerk
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
Pope Plus Warns Battling
 Nations Against Long War
BY PHILIP AULT United Press Staff Correspondent

Unlte0 frcSS Stat1 COfreSp0n0ent
 London, June 2-(UP)-Pope Plus XII warned the warning nations to- day that demands for total victory might prolong the war unnecessari- ly, and appealed to their military leaders to spare Rome from the bat tie now raging a dozen miles from its gates.
 Spea king against the distant thunder of Allied and German guns duelling on the approaches to the Eternal City, the Pontiff reiterated his stand that the war must be ter minated by a just peace.
 Fear has risen with many that there would be for the nations and their peoples no other alternative but full victory or complete anni- hilation," he said.
 "Once this dreadful dilemma has penetrated the minds of the people, it works as a stimulant for prolong- ation of the war, even with those who by an inner impulse or for realistic consideration would be in clined to a reasonable peace"
 The Pope deplored the mourn ful happenings and unmeasured, unspeakable suffering" of the past year of war.
 "The terrible tragedy Of the World War as it unfolds itself before and around us," he said, has reached pitch and kind of frightfulness which smite and shock every Christ Ian and human sense"
 At the same time, the Pope,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
ALLIES BATTER WAY INTO VELLETRI Crack Nazi Bases On Road To Rome
Slash Way Across
 Foes Escape Route

BY ROBERT V. vERMILLTON United Press War COrrespondentN
 Allied H e a d quarter9 Naples, June 2. (UP) -- American Forces cracked tI1o two anchors of the German line guarding the ap- breaches to Rome tOdays blasting their way into Vel- letri and slaShing across the via Casilina escape highway near ValmOntone in an alia out drive on the capital.
 The twin penetrations were announced in a special communique while other American units of the Fifth Army were clearing the enemy from the ArtemisiO mountains more than two miles north of Velletri and preparing to storm Mt. Della Faeta, last height before Rome itself.
 The Fifth Army wa sreported ofn~ cially to be attacking all along the 26-mile length of the front from Valmontone ot the Tyrrhenian Sea in a powerful attempt to smash completely through the belt or enemy Notifications and reach Rome, only 1S miles away at the nearest point.
 The American thrust across the Via Casilina in the 'Valmontone area" crumpled the strong center or enemy resistance in the whole line and may trap enemy remnants fall- ing back along the Via Casilina from Ferentino, 19 miles to the southeast and now under attack by Canadians of hte Eighth Army.
 (An Algiers broadcast relayed by London and recorded by CBS said the Canadians had captured Fer- entino.)
 The German command had mass ed the whole Hermann Goering di@ \ vision, along with other enemy units which had escaped from the south. at valmontone for a desperate at tempt to hold the town of all cost but the Germans finally broke after a week of almost ceaseless American pressure.
 Valmontone. g miles southeast of Rome, controlled the nome stretchs of the Via Casilina and it's prospec- tive fall should pave the way for way for an Allied advance around t''e southeastern flank of the Alban hills.
 Other American units were en- gagged in fierce fighting" in ths streets of ruined Velletri, Appian (Nnntfp1iod np poOn A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
Union Men
 Go Hoywire

The strike of $500 St. Louis AFL street car and bus operators swept out of the control of union leaders today, leaving 100000. workers seeking other transportation, while more than 17,000 CIO woodworkers in the Pacific northwest were or dered by union officials to end their strike.
 At. St. Louis, a meeting of strikers broke up last night when the men, many of them intoxicated, refused to vote to return to work despite an appeal by Paul P. Nachtman, re- gional War Labor Board chairman. "in the name of the United States"
 Nachtman told the men that he would return to talk to them today when you are sober"
 The strikers walked out early yes- terday after accusing the Public Service Go. of seeking to eyade WLB ruling granting time and one half for overtime for parts Of split shifts extending over an ilh hour period.
 John J. Grimm, chairman of St. Louis draft boards executive com mittee, said the strikers would lose their deferred classifications and face immediate reconsideration into IA. Grimm said the strikers would not be returned to their deferred classifications on their return to work, but would have to depend on individual appeals to their respec- tive boards.
 At Portland, officials of the CIO Woodworkers Union ordered strike for higher wages to end. They took action two days after a strike of 26,O0O AFL lumber workers was terminated. Mills operating with AFL crews resumed production, but in some eases were hampered by the absence of key men, members of the CIO union.
 The wo0dWorkers officials took acc ton after receiving VILE assurances that a hearing would be held June l2 to review the unions demands Phillip Murray, CI0 president, called upon the strikers to return to work
 The Detroit area was without . major strike for the first time In al- most two years. Two strikes ended yesterday when CIO chemical work CTS returned to work at the Parkt Davis. Co. where blood plasma ii processed and yaccines and penicil' lin manufactured, and 1000 baker, drivers, members of the AFL Team. ' sters Union. ended their walkoui over a wage dispute. The Park Davis employees dispute was up fol reconsideration by the WLB.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
Navy WiH Hold Air
 Operations To Minimum,

was acquiring a bigger force Of heavy bombers-the PB4Ys, which are naval versions of the army's B-24 Liberators.
 They explained, however, that the navy has not. is not and has no intentions of using the PB4Y's for heavy bombardrment in the Pacis fife, or anywhere else. These planes are used primarily as iong-range search craft.
 As a matter of fact. these sources said, the Liberators have been mod flied SO radically for naval use that ihey cannot be adopted easily to heavy bombardment. They have been stripped down in armament and other equipment ln the interests 0f speed and range and their bomb loads sharply reduced.
 It is true. they went on, that navy search planes have dropped bombs on the enemy but this has been done where targets Of opportunity have presented themselves during Fsconnaissance flights.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
Many Planes Given Allies Lend Lease

Washington, June 2(UP)- President Roosevelt disclosed today that l75,000 American airplanes were produced between March Il, 1941-the date of enactment of the lend-lease law-and April 1, 1944 and that 33,000 were sent to the air forces of other United Nations.
 He gave his news conference ta- bulatlcm of lend-lease plane exports showing that in the first three months of this year 4,400 planes were sent to our Allies.
 This, he said, was an average Of 338 planes a week shipped or flown to Allied fighting forces.
 Of the 33,000 planes sent to other nations since the start of the lend lease program, the president said, the Allies paid cash for 1000 and the remaining 26,000 were sent un- der lend-lease.
 We thus retained for our own part of the combined United Na- tions war effort more than four fifths of the planes we produced, while sending very large numbers to our Allies" MT. Roosevelt said.
 Through lend-lease, i've have seen to it that the men who fight beside Americans, in the offensives already under way and in the still greater offensives that are ahead, have the extra striking power they need to deliver the most damaging possible blows against our enemies --the Germans and the Japanese" !"
 The president broke from a mem- orandum prepared for him by for- eign economic Administrator Leo T. Crowley. He said that while the memorandum was not very excit- ing, he thought it certainly was one for the record.
 MT. Roosevelt halted in his re- view of plane production and ship ments to recall-with obvious relish that there had been those who In speeches and stories in l94O, were
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
De VoIero Scores Hiqh

Dublin, June 2. (UP) The Fianna Fail party won an over Tall majority of IA seats in the Dali Eireann in Tuesdays general elec- ton, final results showed today giving Prime Minister Ramon De Valera his strongest position in the Fire government.
 Complete returns gave: Fianna Fail 76 seats; Fine Goel 30; Labor g.; National Labor {; Farmers g and Independents II.
 The voting was considered com plete victory for De Valera who called the special election following the one-Vote defeat of the govern ment-supported transport bill early last month.
 In the last general election . year ago. the Prime Ministers Fianpa Fail party won only 6I seats.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02

 Killed In Wor

William Frederick Fendsack, machinists' mate third class, son ot William Fendsack of 8 Patterson Court, was killed in an aeroplane crash April 20 in the performance of his duty and in the service of his country, according to telegram his father received this morning from Randall Jacobs, chief of the Naval Personnel.
 The telegram informed the father that the boys remains were inter- red in Allied territory outside the Continental limits of the United States pending cessation of hostil- ities. The telegram went on to in- form MT. Fendsack that if further details are received he will be tn- formed.
 The deceased is a former resident of g Sprague street in Waterville and also l94 Cherry street. He was employed in the blanket department of the Scovill Manufacturing Com pany before being inducted into the service last September. He received his education in grammar and high schools in Liberty, N. Y.
 Besides his father he is survived by his wife, the former Alice Repkc of Pennsylvania; and a one-year-old son, William.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02

younger element. Details of the accident were not forthcoming in the official War Department tele- gram his wife received today.
 Besides his wife, he is survived by four sisters, Mrs. John Cronin of Scovill street, Mrs. Michael Leon of Franklin street, Mrs. Valmore Theroux of Summer street and Mrs Albert Rosenbeck of Garden Circle i; and four brothers, James of East Dover street, Amos of Wood street Edgar of Hartford, and Fred oi South street.
 O'Brien was only in the service three months when he was made a private first class and was one of three men in his entire group so honored.
 He was born in Berlin, N. H., but resided in this city 29 years. He at- tended St. Ann's Parochial school and Wilby high school. For a few months he and his wife had resided at 100 East Avenue, Norfolk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
Waterbury Judge Rops DiVorceS
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BY ANN ZEMAITIS

Persons who seek nasty divorceS and present weak cases of intoler- able cruelty in an effort to secure decrees were rapped by Judge Ed ward J. Quinlan in an unexpected talk before members of the bar in superior court this morning.
 Every time the court grants a divorce it is like pulling a brick out of the side of the building. If enough bricks are pulled out the wall will fall, and in the same way our social fabric will collapse" he stated.
 The comments were made after lawyer asked the court to squeeze divorce case into the heavy court docket of this month so the case would not have to go over until fall. Judge Quinlan replied, '"There is no emergency in divorce action, ' and stated he had been planning for some time to talk to lawyers on the general subject of divorce.
 Judge Quinlan said, There is an alarming change in the statistics of divorces, not so much in the aggre- gate number of divorce actions although that is increasing through out the country, but in relation to the causes of divorce.
 He stated that in many cases in which the charge of adultery or de- sertion might be made the peti- tioner makes claims of intolerable cruelty. He said many times very weak testimony is presented, and it comes from relatives. It is strange he said, that more witnesses to such alleged cruel conduct cannot be ob- tained.
 The claim is often made, he said that the defendant is running around" with someone else. In many cases such conduct does not war rant a charge of intolerable cruelty despite mental suffering which might be involved.
 Judge Quinlan pointed out thai when he was first admitted to the bar lawyers hesitated before they
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
W.OBrien
 Dies In Miss. Auto Wreck

Private first class William A. OBrien, a former employe of the Chocolate Shop on East Main street, was killed in an automobile accident in Mississippi Tuesday of this week, according to a telegram his wife, Helen, of 39 East Dover street, re- ceived from the War Department this morning.
 Stationed at Camp Shelby in Mississippi, Pfc. O'Brien has been in the service eight months. One month ago he spent his first fur tough here with his wife.
 The body will be brought to the Belleville funeral home, 66 East Clay street, tomorrow evening at 6 O. clock. A military funeral will be accorded the youth, time and other arrangements to be announced la ter.
 A former resident of 180 South Elm street, he was well known in Waterbury, especially among the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
Fire Destroys RoiIrood Shed

Salem, Mass, June 2.-(UP)-A general-alaTm fire that started with an explosion swept a Boston & Maine railroad freight shed today, spread to a half-dozen freight cars standing on a nearby siding and threatened thousands of feet of lumber piled in the yards of the Salem Lumber Co,
 George Sutherland. a bookkeeper for tine lumber company. said that the flames leaped from the long, low building piled with freight after he heard the dull rumble Of an ex. plosion.
 F1Femen from Salem set up a water curtain to prevent the blaze from spreading to the lumber yard. A slight breeze sent the flames lick Ing toward the lumber
 The building, a tw0-story struc- tuFe at the end in which freight ofiices arc located. was quick er. veloped in flames that si read to the nearby railroad cars that were be- lng unloaded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02

New York, June 2-(UP)-Brook lyn hospitals reported today they were continuing to treat l86 per sons, 31 of them listed as serious, for chlorine gas poisoning received yesterday when the greenish-yel- low fumes leaked from a steel cyl finder and overcame or nauseated more than 1000 men, women and children.
 One of the patients was placed on the critical list. A total oI ssy persons were treated at the bor- kough's seven l1ospitals yesterday and last night, but ziS were sent home after being revived by oxy- gen. The largest number, 275, were treated at Cumberland hospital, which reported today 130 had re- mained for further observation.
 Investigations to deter n c whether criminal negligence was in- volved in the transportation of the gas by truck were launched by the Kings County District Attorneys office, and the New York Fire and Police Departments.
 Meanwhile, Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, sent a telegram to the War Department protesting the method used for transporting war
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
5000 PLANES LASH OUT AT
 INVASION COAST

London, June 2.-(UP)- Up to 5000 American Flying Fortresses, Liberators and escorting fighters lashed out from Britain and Italy today at the French invasion coast and five Balkan rail centerS keying Axis transport to the restive Soviet German front.
 A thousand heavy bombers of the Eighth Air force struck one of the heaviest bnows of the war at the Pas de Calais coast of France and nearly 750 of the Italy-based 18th Air force smashed at Com munications centers in Hungary and the Pennsylvania border region of Hungary and Romania.
 The two-way attack put the pre- invasion bombardment of Europe back on major footing after a slump caused by stormy weather over the German-held continent.
 About 750 Lightnings and Mus tangs escorted the heavy bombers from Italy in the five-way attack on Miskoloc, Szolnok and Szeged, Hungary, and the Transylvanian towns of Cluj and Simeria.
 Good results" were reported in the Naples announcement of the attacks. First reports indicated no fighter opposition was encountered and anti-aircraft fire was light.
 Miskolc is 100 miles northeast of Budapest on the railroad to Tarno- pol; Szolnok 55 miles southwest of Budapest on the trunk line to the east; and Szeged is near the Yugoslav-R o manian- Hungarian frantier junction. Cluj and Simeris are on the railroads to the Ploesti oil fields.
 It. Gen. James H. Doolittle hurled 1,5O0-plane fleet of his Eighth Air force heavy bombers and fight CTS against the Pas deCalais coastal strip across the rlarrowest reach of the channel ieaS 6 full scale re- newa1 Of the pre invasion bonn bardment after 6 weather-enforced lull.
 Coincident with the resurgence of the offensive, U. S. headquarters announced that Flying Fortresses and Liberators alone had dropped 63 1000 tons of explosives on the continent during the unprecident- ed campaign waged through the month of May.
 Bad Weather
 Stormy weather which had im- peded the Allied offensive on the first day of new month eased off
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
Japs Close In For All-Out Assault On Changsha City
By GEORGE WANG tied Press War C0rrespOndent)


 Chungking, June 2 - U.P) - Four strong Japanese columns were reported closing In for e direct as. sault on Changsha and Cfangtef today and Chungking spokesmer said 90,000 other enemy troops were massing around Canton for CO., ordinated drive northward aimed at clearing the Chinese armies from all of Eastern China.
 Advanced Japanese units moving down from the southern and eastern shores of Tung Ting Lake drove to within less than 30 miles of Chang sha and two other columns famed out along the west shore to about the same distance from Changteh.
 A major battle for the two strong holds, which straddle the main rail way lines leading from Canton into northern and Central China. is im- minent Chinese military spokes- men said.
 Some 40,000 Japanese veterans spearhead the twin drive, and an- other 150,000 men were believed moving down from Hankow to sup port the offensive.
 Simultaneously the spokesman re- ported that 10000 Japanese rein forcements landed at Hong Kong last Thursday to join the 10000 troops already massed at Canton for the northward drive. The southern army, including many picked units from Manchuria, were understood to have assembled $50 tanks for the big push.
 A Chungking spokesman said the Japanese were trying to consolidate their foothold on the mainland to offset the strategic effect of their defeats in the Pacific. He asserted that Is full divisions have been withdrawn from Manchurio to bols- ter Japan's defenses in China, the Pacific and the South Seas. includ- ing 10000 men rushed into French Indo-C China.
 Meanwhile, a communique report ed that Chinese forces were mak- ing progress in their Burma bound offensive west of the Salween river capturing number of enemy strong pOllltS III CAlc uiOu1boAio HUI Ih oA'N east of Tungcheng.
 Japanese endorsements stream ing into the Salween battle area were being bombed and strafed con- tinuously by American fighter bombers and the communique saic the effectiveness of these reserves was being cut down by the constant (Continued on Page A)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
BY sANDOR S. KLEIN

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, June 2-(UP)-The Navy intends to eonfine its iand- based aircraft operations primarily to search missions and leave the job of heavy strategic bombardment to the army air forces, 1t was learned today.
 This disclosure was made by qual- flied sources in response to inquiries on reports that there was growing concern within the army air forces that the navy was seeking to in. tEude Into the field of heavy aerial bombardment which has been re. garded as virtually an exclusive army prerogattVe.
 This concern was an outgrowth of expanded navy procurement oi fouF-engined land-based com b c [ planes together with increasing par. tieipation of land.bAsed naval alr- craft in Pacific operations.
 ouaFteFs familiar with the naVy'G cir policies conceded that the navy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
Boord Okoys $1,OOO,OO0
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Over one million dollars in city expenditures were approved at yes- terday's board of finance meeting, when a total of 1,152, 2,949 in audited vouchers and payrolls for the month of May was passed upon by the board.
 Payment by the city on its short term borrowing on tax anticipation notes comprise the principal share of these expenditures all of which will be paid out within the next few days. Under the terms of the borrowing the principal of STOOL GOO plus interest of $1 400 based on an .45 rate must be paid by Monday June 5.
 Other large sums comprising the total expenditures are $ii6.837 in bond maturitieS and interest due this month and made up of seq. 900 in general bonds and sl0.0U0 in water bonds with $i2,300 and Sl4,- SS7 in interest due respectively.
 Other individually large expendi- lures consist of the following: the payment of $l0,689 to the l.. c. De- Felice Construction O., for con- struction work on the Pitch Reser- voir; the payment of s5,5T0 to Ma- bel Wakeman for property sold to the city as a means of added pro- lection to the reservoir; expenitupe of 5000 to Malcolm Pirnie. New York city engineer for preliminary survey work done by the latter in connection with the city's proposed sewage disposal system and the pay- ment to the state treasurer of e2,- 253 in dog license fees.
 Payrolls approved by the board at yesterdays meeting totaled e27b, 7 e67. .68.
 City Treasurer Serge BelaneeK yesterday submitted his May report (Continued on Page Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-02
By R. II. SHACKFORD United Press Staff COrrespOndeH

Washington, June 2. (UP)-Sec- retaTy of State Cordell Hulls state ment that the United States en- courages the millions of peoples in Colonies to strive for liberty and will recognize them as soon as they gain their freedom was considered by diplomats today as one of the most potentially controversial ut terances by an American statesman in many months.
 They predicted that their belief would be confirmed by the reaction of opponents of freedom for colonial peoples-especially in India. The diplomats considered Hull's state- ment a direct invitation to India's 300 1000. GOO people. as well as the colonial subjects in the East Indies, Africa and other parts of the world. to continue their long struggle for liberty.
 Although Hull'E statement started out as reassuranee to small nations of sovereign equality with big oneE ln the postwar world, lt appeared on ] analysis to be directed more to the