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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

Editors Note: Following is one OF
series Of articles indicating uses
TO which money given to tine annual
Drive are put. The articles are writ
ten by Ypsilanti residents familiar
with tse participating agencies.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28
Allies Racing to Close Nazi Trap
Base of Big
FOrtreSSeS
Raided
CBy Associated Pressl


japanese planes raiding a super
fortress base damaged Is American
aircraft. dispatches from China re-
ported today, as the quickening in
vasion OF the Philippines engulfed
Samar Island and nearly doubled
the American hold on Leyte.
Land. based L. :. planes operat-
ing from the Philippines for the
first time in more than two and a
half years joined the widespread
search of Philippine waters intent
on increasing this weeks toll Of
40 Japanese warships sunk or Grip
pied
Eight waves of Nipponese planes
swept down on three Superfort
fields in western China Friday
night, but less than dozen got
through. Three B-29s were among
the damaged ships. The runway
was quickly repaired. Tokyo
claimed ~ Superforts were de.
stroyed and 10 others left in flames
at Chengtu.
Thoroughly Defeated
zen. lfOuStdS MAJ al Nhhi ~ FOi !
ed that Japan's notorious 10th diNi
ion-perpetrators OF the death
march" OF Bataan have been tho
roughly defeated on Leyte,
Some $4,000 Nipponese have fall
en- in the first week of the Amer
lean onslaught. American casual
ties were 2.l60, including 5lS killed.
1879 missing, 1903 wounded.
Enemy remnants, facing entrap'
ment in Leyte valley, were report
ed fleeing TO the mountains or the
west coast where PIT boats sank
ten troopladen 9arges and two
freighters.
Leap-frog advances TO Barugo IN
the north and Abuyog in the south
gave invading Yanks control OF ~
miles OF Leyte's coast.line and Vir'
tually blocked the enemy's normal
escape route from the valley, One
force was only two miles from Dag
ami. once the Japanese main base
! Only ten mile gap remained II
be closed before an inland junction
OF northern and southern [. 5
/ forces.
Occupy Capita
Dismounted first cavalry division
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

PRESBYTERIAN BAZAAR Nov.
2. Silver tea from to 5. 81 dinner
,5:30.7:00. Public invited. ADV. l10ls
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

BARI, Italy-AP-The Albanian
military mission here announced
Friday night that a new Albanian
government. headed by Col. Gen.
Enver HeXha, commander OF the
Albanian Army of National Liberia
ton, was formed Oct. 20 in the lib.
Grated city OF Berati. King Zog.
who ruled prior TO the German and
Italian occupation, now is in Lon
don.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28
Flashes of
Late News

LONDON-AP- A representa-
tive OF Gen. Sir Henry Maitland
Wilson. Allied commander in the
Mediterranean, has arrived in Mos
COW to take part in the Bulgarian
armistice discussions, Moscow ra-
do announced today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

MONTREAL-AP- Representa-
tives Of eight countries in the Brit
fish Commonwealth put themselves
on record at a conference ending
here Friday night as favoring crea-
ton OF standing Commonwealth
Air Transport Council.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

MOSCOW-AP- The Supreme
Soviet conferred the first titles of
"Mother Heroine" today on II
D mothers who have 10 or more chill
dren. Leading the group was Ann
Alexakhna, eight of whose II chill
dren are in the Red Army Second
was Xenya Zotoya with Is chill
dren, five of whom are in the army.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-lNS-"The
revolution will 80 off like a fire.
cracker all over the earth" after
! the war ends. Vice President Henry
A. Wallace predicted Friday. unless
there is full employment. For this
reason, he declared at an address
in Ann Arbor, government can't
take it's heavy hand off business"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

CLEVELAND --AP- Officials
said today further attempts to set
esle an inter-union dispute involv.
ing $500 striking members of the
Mechanics Educational Society OF
America independently in 25 war
plants here probably would not be
made before Monday.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

LONDON-AP-Mrs. Wellington
J Koo, wife of the Chinese Ambassa-
dor. told a group today that she
believed China's eight years of
war with the Japanese would end
in victory by the early part of next
year.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

OYSTER BAY. L. T.--INS-More
than 500 Boy Scouts made their
twenty.fifth annual pilgrimage to
the grave of Theodore Roosevelt
today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Hallens-
leben, DNB military commentator,
cautioned the German people to-
day in Berlin broadcast against
hoping that German counterattacks,
which he said had slowed the Rus
sian offensive in East Prussia and
Hungary, could slacken completely
Athe Russian autumn offensive.
"These German countermeasures
have a limited task he said. Rus
sian reserves, especially in East
Prussia, are very great
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif-AP-
1 Corp. Ray Mcdonald, dancer, and
= Miss Elizabeth Frazer, leading
players in the Army Air Forces
show Winged Victory, were mar.
ried yesterday with Father James
McGovern at Church OF the Good
Shepherd officiating.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

LA PAZ, Bolivia-UP- Fearing
that the end Of the war may cut
Bolivia's exports TO one fourth OF
their present S0,000,000 a year
value. Bolivian President Lieut.. Col.
Gualberto Villarroel told the Unit
ed Press today that he is preparing
a far-reaching program to solve
the problems which the end OF hos
tilities may bring his country.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

WASHINGTON --AP-- Senator
Ball (R-Minn0, who is backing
President Roosevelt against Gov.
Thomas Z. Dewey, today described
1t. Comdr. Harold +. Stassen, Min
nesota's former Republican COVER
nor now in the Navy, as standing
"head and shoulders above most of
the political leaders in both par
ties"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

INTERNATIONALLY schedul-
ed inquiry into the financing and
sponsorship OF political campaign
documents originating in Ohio and
Pennsylvania was postponed today
until Tuesday by the Senate Cam
paign Expenditures Committee.
Committee Counsel Robert Muir
ply said Senator Ferguson (R-
MichJ requested the postponement.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

WASHINGTON-AP- The Of
flee OF Price Administration, it was
learned today, is considering estab-
fishing flat price ceilings for live
cattle as the best way TO fight
what officials describe as a very
bad black market in beef, par
ticularly top grades.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

Community sq1aic tonight $50, school
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-28

We outdistanced our supplies IN
the amazing hare and-hound chase
Evening star., 1944-04-29
Walter Reed Patients Enjoy
Broodcosts Over Own Station

the agenda originating at one of the
remote stations situated in the other
buildings of the post.
Corpl. Austad is one of the sta
tion's few real professionals. For a
year and a half before entering the
Army he was staff announcer on
a radio station at Salt Lake City.
His voice Is as well known to those
who reside in the hospital rooms as
some of the radio celebrities heard
over the outside stations to which
the patients may switch at will.
Among the other enlisted men on
the staff is Sergt. Leslie c. Bradley
the "turntable jockey" who sees te
it that the records announced by
Corpl. Austad are rolling out their
pieces after each introduction. He
was a blaster in a Colorado mine
before he joined the Army. This
is right down my alley" he says.
The station is managed by Sergt
Gabriel r. Egeland, who, with his
assistant, Sergt. John Wells, takes
care of all installations. AS the sig.
nal officer Of the post, Capt. Cheste,
Weiss is nominally in charge OF
operations.
II drop in and visit once in a
while" he says, "but I really don't
have to worry about anything there
The boys know what their public
wants and they're doing a bang-ur
Job"
Evening star., 1944-04-29

had been a decrease in the number
of inspections last year as COM
pared with the previous year. Dis
trict officials, he said, explained the
prime reason was that there are
243 vacancies in the authorized
strength of the Police Department
and SO in the Fire Department.
Says Staff Is Small.
Acting Police Supt. Harvey G..
Callahan, pointing out that police
regulations provide that each pre-
cinct assign one officer to check and
enforce license application and en-
forcement, declared today that this
relatively small staff could not be
expected to cope with all the in
vestigate work required. Inspec-
ton of every type of license applica-
ton and compliance prevents a
thorough checkup in many in
stances, he said.
Inspector Callahan said that in
follow-up investigations of premises
denied licenses for lack of suitable
safety equipment, the officer in
many instances is told by the owner
that the place is no longer operated
as rooming house.
"In many of these cases it would
require much time and painstaking
investigation to determine whether
the operator is telling the truth" he
said, adding that the work and time
required was too much for one
policeman.
Evening star., 1944-04-29
BY the Associated Press,

NORFOLK, Va, April "a IT.
|year-old sailor who sang in the
chapel choir during his boot train
ing was charged with murder yes
terday in connection with the fatal
beating of Curtis Clinton Case. AZ
year-old war worker, at Ocean View
Sunday night.
Detective Leon Nowitzky said
Erwin r. Schroeder, attached to the
amphibious training base at Little
Creek, admitted he beat Mr.. Case
in fit of anger after he said Mr..
Case had struck his wife and daugh-
ter. Schroder's home is in New
Britain, Conn.
Docketed on a charge of murder,
Schroeder is slated for hearing in
the Court of Juvenile and Domestic
Relations where Judge Herbert G.
Cochran will decide to try the case
or to send it on to Corporation
Court for jury trial.
st ran into Case at Ocean View
Sunday night about sundown," De-
tective Nowitzky quoted Schroeder
as saying. 1--WE had drink to-
gether then a few more at
several places, more than I should
have. No, it wasn't whisky. it was
beer. I don't drink whisky. Two
beers usually make me dizzy.
Evening star., 1944-04-29

None OF the organizations which
furnish radio ratings lists Station
WRGH, and listeners in this area
do not tune in on its programs. So
far as its management is concerned
this is not an upsetting condition.
The station is quite successful.
WRGH is the station, as It's call
letters suggest, of the Walter Reed
General Hospital. 1t is run by SOL
diers for the more than 5000 pa
tients at the institution. It's studio
is located in a small section of the
basement of the Administration
Building.
The station is on the air from
7:30 am. to 11:30 pm. and for a
good portion of that time the pro-
grams originate in the tiny studio
and its pickup points throughout the
hospital buildings.
Re Programs Stressed.
Whilo :, in way, "glorified"
public a. ess system, the station
also can transmit programs from
the hospital as well as receive out
side shows.
A great deal of the entertainment
is canned music, it is true, but this
has distinct advantage in that
the listeners in the wards and rooms
of the hospital may request and
hear the kind of music they want.
The hospital is equipped with
1000 headsets for the patients and
a project is underway to equip the
two mess halls with amplifiers SO
that those able to dine away from
their beds will have soothing music
to help their digestion.
Take it from Corpl. Mark Austad,
one of the stations guest announc-
ers, the patients requests are not
always for the "jive and hotcha"
stripe of music. The distinctly
long haired" brand of classical and
semiclassical selections is in great
demand. To meet this demand there
are two symphonic concerts during
the week.
Announcer is Professional.
For the therapeutic value lectures
on educational subjects are also on
Evening star., 1944-04-29
Peace League Hears
Discussion Of Negro
Health Problems

Disease knows no color lines, two
speakers emphasized today at an
institute on Tension Areas in
America" held at the Washington
Hotel under auspices of the Wom-
ems International League for Peace
and Freedom.
DR.. Charles R. Drew, professor of
surgery at Howard University,
pointed out that health problems
are national in scope, while DR..
Frank Horne, racial relations ad-
wiser to the commissioner of Fed
eral Public Housing Authority.
stressed the relations between slums
and disease.
Judge William Hastie, dean of
Howard University law school and
former aide to the Secretary of
War, presided at the morning pro-
gram devoted to racial problems.
Health Problems Discussed.
DR.. Drew expressed the opinion
that the Negro is sound so far as
spiritual health is concerned" but
asserted that his mental health is
constantly impaired by surroundings
in which he is forced to live.
On the physical side, he said that
Negro infant and maternal mortality
rates are "far too high" and that
the average life expectancy of a
Negro is about IL years lower than
that for white persons. Lack of
adequate health and educational
facilities and economic resources
was cited as factors contributing to
the Negro health problem.
DR.. Horne declared that "those
who lived in slums are subject to
diseases of many kinds, not only of
the body but of the mind"
A discussion on UNDERSTANDING
and Resolving Tensions in American
Life" by DR.. Eduard C. Lindeman.
philosophy professor, New York
School of Social Work, will conclude
the study tonight.
The league yesterday proposed
that the United States repudiate its
unconditional surrender" policy
and offer strong but generous
armistice terms" to people of Axis
nations over the heads of their lead
ers. 1t suggested such terms Should
not be vindictive and Should not
seek to penalize peoples"
Evening star., 1944-04-29
6-Foot-8-Inch Pilot Killed

LONDON, April 20 (Py.-John
Crosby Ware, 6-foot 81a-inch test
pilot on British jet propulsion planes,
was killed Thursday night in a plane
crash in Western England. No de-
tails were available.
Evening star., 1944-04-29
Mild Rush Starts
OnLost VoIidDo
OF Shoe Coupon

A mild rush in the purchase of
shoes today, the last shopping day
coupon No. 18 in ration book l is
good, was reported by local shoe
dealers. The coupon becomes in
valid at midnight tomorrow.
"A large percentage of the 18s al
ready have been turned in," one
dealer reported. He said, however
that in the past few days approxi-
mately two-thirds of the coupons
surrendered were No. lbs.
Airplane stamp / in ration book
No. is now good indefinitely and
beginning Monday, airplane stamp
in the same book will become valid
for an indefinite period.
Evening star., 1944-04-29
Third Stay Is Sought
To Save CIafterbuck
By the Associated Press,

by the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, April 29.-A
third attempt of counsel for Thomas
William Clatterbuck to save the
condemned slayer from the electric
chair has been made in an appeal
to Gov. Darden to grant a stay OF
execution to permit an inquiry into
the sanity of the 33-year-old LOU
doun County quarry worker.
Clatterbuck is scheduled to be
electrocuted Friday for the June l
murder of Walter Russell, a tenant
on the Loudoun County farm of A.
Morris Love. Mr.. Love, his wife and
their son, and Mrs. Russell also were
killed and Clatterbuck indicted for
their deaths.
He was tried last September in
Loudoun County Circuit Court for
the Staying of Mr.. Russell.
Clatterbuck's attorney, Mai. r. A,
Mcintyre, has appealed to the Gov
ernor to grant the stay in order that
Clatterbuck may be placed under
observation. In announcing the re-
quest yesterday, Gov. Darden re-
called that the insanity issue was
raised in the trial. He said he was
considering the request,
Evening star., 1944-04-29
Navy Choir Singer, u, Faces
Murder Charge in Fatal Beutinq

"Then we went to his house. He
grabbed his wife out of bed and
started slamming her around. He
started slamming his daughter
around. l never saw anything like
that in my life he chased his
boy out of the house, and I followed
Il couldn't find him at first. He
was hiding somewhere. Then I saw
him coming after me. He must
have thought I was the law or
something. I didn't know whether
he had a gun or not so hit him.
Case died Monday, seven hours
after a beating in which both Jaws,
his skull and right arm and hand
were broken.
Il was scared stiff" Schroeder
said. II never was in any trouble
before in my life-never was ar
rested before. ." I stayed around
camp that day, but the next day I
had leave to go to town. I went
home to New Britain. !
told my folks all about it; we went
to see a lawyer, a friend of the
family. You can't beat any,
thing by running away from it, SO
here I am"
Accompanied by his father,
Schroeder returned to the amphib-
ious base yesterday.
Evening star., 1944-04-29
Citizens Group Asks
Budget Funds for 50
Housekeeping Aides
Committee Points to Need
For Core of INDECENT
Families in District

The Citizens Advisory COMMITTEES
on Housekeeping Assistance ap-
pealed to interested Washingtonians
today to write to the House District
Committee urging inclusion in the
1944-5 District budget of q $61 900
item to employ so housekeeping
aides, to be supervised by the Health
Department.
The item was requested by the
Health Department, but has so far
been omitted from the budget now
being considered by the House Dis
trict Appropriations Subcommittee.
Thirty housekeeping aides have
been acting as mothers, nurses and
general housekeepers to hundreds of
INDECENT families since October, un-
der special appropriation made by
Congress to the Health Department
for one year. Mrs. Harold N. Marsh,
chairman, said at the monthly COM
mittee meeting at GA E street NV.
yesterday that she hoped the ac-
tivity could become a permanent
one, included automatically each
year in the Health Department
budget.
Desperate need for such aides in
the District and the approval Of
many social service agencies, Mrs.
Marsh said, led to raising of the
proposed number of aides from this
years total of 80 to so. There is
usually waiting list for the aides
services, 1t was reported, though
agencies attempt to hold down the
number of cases referred to the
aides by selecting only the most
urgent.
Thirty per cent of the 33l cases
handled between October and Feb
ruary, for example, were families
needing care during the mothers
confinement and during the first
days after her return from the hos
pital with the new baby.
The aides also provided home de-
livery service during this period for
66 necessitous maternity cases which
would otherwise have had to be han
died at Gallinger Hospital. Other
emergencies of all types, during
which the housekeeper of the fam
lily was temporarily absent or in
capacitated, were also handled.
The aides are trained at the as.
sistance center, 323-325 North Caro-
lima avenue Sc, to cook balanced
meals, clean house, wash and care
/ for babies and the sick.
Evening star., 1944-04-29
Picodo Flying to Mexico

BROWNSVILLE, Tex, April %
(P.-The President-elect of Costa
Rica, Teodoro Picado, left Browns
vile by air for Mexico City yester-
day. He arrived here by plane from
Washington.
Evening star., 1944-04-29
Worship Adopted"

Belfast, Northern Ireland, has
adopted H. M. S. Indomitable, and
has presented the warship a plaque
stating so.
Evening star., 1944-04-29
C. A. Provost to Head
Ford Press Office Here

Clifford A. Provost, former presi-
dent Of the National Press Club, has
resigned as head of the Washington
Bureau of the Detroit Free Press and
Knight Newspapers, Inc, to repre-
sent the Ford Motor Co.'S public re-
lations department here, it was an
nounced today.
Mr.. Provost, who has spent 80
years in newspaper work, served the
Free Press for 26 years. He also was
correspondent here for the Akron
Beacon Journal and the Miami
Herald and others of the John S.
knight group of newspapers.
Evening star., 1944-04-29
Woman Asks $5O,OO0
For Automobile Injuries

A suit asking $4,000 damages
Tor injuries allegedly suffered when
she was struck by an automobile
March 20, was filed yesterday in
Montgomery County Circuit Court
at Rockville by Mrs. Helen l.. Gran
berry, 1904 Fulton street NV.
Mrs. Granbery charges that she
was struck by an automobile driven
by Doris M. Voneiff, 9o23 Flower
avenue, Takoma Park, named as
the defendant, and suffered frac-
lures OF the ankle and knee. The
accident was said to have occurred
at Sherman avenue and Park road
NV.
Evening star., 1944-04-29
Fire Law Violations
Probe 10 Continue in
House Next Week
Subcommittee Calls
For Detailed Reports
On Inspectors Work

An inquiry into enforcement of
the Districts fire safety rules as to
rooming and boarding houses, begun
yesterday by the House District Ap-
preparations Subcommittee, will be
continued next week, under plans
announced by Chairman Coffee.
Taking note of the delays and
complications involved in the long
story of inspections, notices of vio-
lations and prosecutions of those
operating without licenses, the sub
committee called for detailed reports
on the work of Fire Department in
spectors and the Office of the District
inspector of buildings.
Meanwhile, District and police Of
flcials were holding a closed meeting
in the Municipal Center today to
map plans for more stringent en-
forcement of rooming house inspec-
tions.
Attending were the police cap
tains and license officers of each
|precinct, Edward w. Thomas, as
sistant corporation counsel in charge
Of rooming house prosecution, and
Charles Stofberg, special assistant
to Commissioner Young.
Tells of Inspection Reports.
Fire Department officials, on the
stand yesterday, told the subcom-
mittee their special inspectors had
called attention of the Building In
spection Department, in each of the
last three years, to numerous cases
OF improper construction" of build
ings.
In this connection, Mr.. Coffee
said the subcommittee wanted to
find out to what extent the Building
Inspection Department had CO.
operated with the Fire Department
in following up on noncompliance
cases. Col. John w. Oehmann,
building inspector, is to be called
before the committee early next
week. Since he returned to this
post from military service only about
month ago, it is expected other
building inspection officials also will
be questioned.
District officials were advised, Mr..
Coffee said, to make more inspec-
tions, although he agreed the denial
by War Production Board officials
last year of top priorities for fire
escapes and other fire-safety facil-
tiles, due to the shortage of critical
materials, pretty well" satisfied the
subcommittee as a reason for lack
OF determined action against vio-
latos. Mr.. Coffee added he had
hope the priorities situation would
be eased.
"Nonfireproof" Housing.
Chairman Coffee also reported
that apprehension" was expressed
by both committee members and
Fire Department officials to the
construction of buildings of mon
f1reproof" types, including some of
the temporary structures housing
WACS and WAVES. He said some
of the new Federal housing prof.
ects also were referred to in this
connection, but did not specify, ex-
cept to say he was not referring to
those of the National Capital Hous-
ing Authority.
Following a demand Thursday
night by Senator McCarran, Demo-
crat, OF Nevada that the Commits
sioners take prompt action to force
rooming house operators to comply
with fire safety regulations, Assist
ant Corporation Counsel Thomas
said police would present so cases
for prosecution, where licenses had
been denied because of insufficient
fire and other safety precautions.
Mr.. Coffee said his subcommittee
was surprised to learn that there