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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-13
Eisenhower May Rank With Great
Military Chieftans Of History

the history of great soldiers ana
their campaigns, especially loglS-
tics - supplies and transportation
strategy. Patton has done Ike
wise.
Patton said that in March be-
fore the invasion of France he dis
cussed he role Eisenhower had
assigned to him. They both studied
road networks and decided to use
the same routes William the Con-
querer trod when he moved west
through Normandy to cross the
channel and invade England IN
1866 which was the last time the
islands were successfully storm
ed.
Patton said he ringed the names
of towns on maps which IN MS
opinion must be captured because
they were road or railroad com
munication centers. General Ike
agreed, adding several others. Fat
ton took all in his allotted zones
plus few extra.
It is universally agreed among
top ranking military leaders that
one of Eisenhower outstanding
achievements has been the s7lec-
ton of his lieutenants and unity
ing their complex personalities
and nationalities into smooth
running team. 1t was Eisenhower
who insisted that "Old Blood and
Cuts" Patton be retained as a
field colnn ander and not broken
after the famous slapping incident
as was demanded then by Con-
gress - which today shouts Pat
tons praises.
Speaking of Patton, Eisenhower
told me recently, Hes a grand
field officer. He h a leadership
and drive. He pushes men and ma
chimes Almost to exhaustion IN ex'
plotting any opening or break
through. Boy, does he carry that
ball through a broken field! ]
know his qualities and many Of
them are exactly what are needed
to bring victory more quickly ans
with less cost
Eisenhower is proud of each
one of h is commanders. He
praises each genuinely and gen
erously. For example, he de.
scribes Bradley as one Of the
greatest commanders of front
line armies in the world today
He is al his all time champions
ship peak now"
Early invasion plans called fol
landing on the beaches in France
with threa divisions. Eisenhower
ordered D-Day postponed on
month TO enable additional land
ing craft and ships to be brough.
in so five divisions could be as.
signed to the original assault.
When Eisenhower was brought
back to Britain from Italy to as
sumo command of Supreme Head
Force, he revised and extended
his original plans of invading the
continent to 60 for the Ruhr.
These long-range offensive opera.
tons started in February, 1912,
when he was named chief OF the
war plans divisions in the War De
partment' General Staff at Wash
ington.
His idea was to effect maneuv.
ers which could accomplish the
most with the least in the short
est possible time because then
America lacked divisions, guns,
ammunition, tanks, airplanes and
ships which since have been pro-
duced
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-13
Two of Roosevelt's Sons
Serving in Pacific Area

GUAM, Friday, April 13.-(P,-
Two of President Roosevelt's sons
were at war stations with tl.v
Pacific Fleet when their father
died today.
1t. Comdr. Franklin D. Roose-
welt, Jr., is skipper of a destroyer
escort which has been On screen
ing duty off Okinawa throughout
the American invasion of that i'm
portant Ryukyu Island.
The exact wnereabout of 1t.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-13
No Troops To Surrender,
German Officer Complains

WEIMAR, Germany, April 12-
UP-Separated from his troops for
four days, a high ranking German
officer surrendered to an Amer
lean G.. I. today and complained:
81 have no troops to command"
Wryly, he suggested that lit
perhaps is significant that in the
last war l was captured just be.
fore the Armistice was signed
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-13
Family Of Gen. Giraud,
Liberated In Germany,
Arrives On Home Soil

DION, France, April 12.-R-
The family of Gen. Henri Giraud,
liberated by American troops in
Germany, arrived here today. One
daughter died during her intern
ment.
Those freed were Mrs. Giraud,
two daughters, seven grandchil-
dren, a son-in-law and two sisters
in-law of Mrs. Giraud. The family
was arrested in April, 1914, at AK
en-Provence and taken to Thur
ingia.
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SOUVENIRS, SCARE COPS

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, April IL.
-QJP,-A small boy walked into
police headquarters with two SOU
yen;rs which he had found and ask
ed if he could keep them. Horri-
fled officials grabbed the souvenirs
for they were two live Japanese
made hand grenades.
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SUBMARINE LOST

WASHINGTON, April -. -(P)-
The submarine Scamp and large
support landing craft have been
lost in the Pacific, the Navy an
nounced today.
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BUY WAR BONDS AND Stamps
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04

, The convicted man, August
Kraft, not only took over the
physical properties Of the sold.
ier, Pfc. Fredwin Carr, but as
sumed his identity as well, ac-
cording to testimony presented
by Chief Assistant Prosecutor
Fred Van Fleteren.
ADMITS ROMANCE
Carr's wife, pretty 31-year-old
Florence, took the witness stand
during the three-day hearing be-
fore Judge James E. Spier and
confessed that she had been
living with Kraft during her
soldier husbands absence. She
sought to justify her actions by
revealing that she had written
her husband stating that she
wanted a divorce.
Kraft, according to Van Flet-
eren and supporting witnesses,
sold the Carr machine and ac-
tually signed the name Of the
serviceman to the title.
That Kraft, who had set him
self up in the upholstery busi-
ness in Romeo. had collected
$14 worth of drinks as ad-
vance payment for work he had
contracted for but did not per-
form - proved to be one of the
several unusual features Of -tes-
timony offered before the court.
CAR TRANSFER
According to the prosecutor,
Kraft obtained $685. through
See KRAFT-Page 3
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04

Ex.Emp|oyee
Tightens Net
About GILMAN
ReIotes Admission
Of Guilt; Tells How
He Hid Driver

A sensational "break" In the
three year old hit-run death Of
Joseph Baldwin, father of six
children, today not only indicat-
ed that c.. Boyd Macpherson,
wealthy oil refinery executive,
was behind the wheel of the
death car, but according to a
surprise witness, disclosed that
he had admitted Immediately
after the accident that 1--WE
just killed a man."
The climactic development
which Prosecutor Wilbur F. Held
terms "the missing link I have
been waiting for" followed in
the wake of fist-fight at the
MACPHERSON Refinery plant on
Hoover road Monday afternoon
and the subsequent confession of
a Center Line man, long an en-
ployee Of Macpherson, that II
was at the plant when Mac
Pherson and a companion -
both drunk - stepped out of the
car, ran into the office and con-
vinced me to hide them when
police inquired about their pres
ence." He said that he had kept
his guilty secret ever since Oct.
2, 1943, when Baldwin was fa-
tally injured because l wanted
to keep my job and I feared !
would be killed If talked"
CENTER LINE MAN
The new witness against Mac
Pherson, 42-year-old Detroiter, is
Fred Mohr, As, of 23690 Sher-
wood avenue, Center Line, for
the past five years superintend-
ent of the Macpherson Oil Re-
finery plant at 217O4 Hoover
road in Warren township.
AS a result of the new evil
dence in the case Justice of the
Peace Donald j. Parent today
dismissed the latest warrant up
on which Macpherson had been
accused of leaving the scene of
a fatal accident, thus permitting
Held to obtain issuance of a new
one upon which thorough and
detailed development of the new
evidence may be heard.
NEW WARRANT
The new warrant - fourth in
a string of such formal charges
See WITNESS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
4Hour Phone
Service Strike
Due on Friday

NEW YORK, Oct. 4 - R -
Telephone workers throughout
the nation were pictured today
by a union spokesman as eager
to Jump the gun on their sched-
uled strike vote tomorrow aft
ernoon and 60 "out Immediately
on a full-time strike"
Joseph Beirne, president Of
the National Federation of Tel
ephone Workers Qnd.), said the
union was finding it difficult
to restrain" thousands of the
workers.
Bojrne said many workers
See PHONES-Page 2
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
Hommo Faces
S peedy Trial
for Brutality

MANILA, Oct. 4-R - 1t.
Gen. Masaharu Homma, who
commanded Japanese forces dur
ing the infamous March Of Death
from Bataan, will be arraigned
as war criminal in the near fu-
ture, Col. Alva Carpenter, chief
Of General MacArthur's war
crimes branch, said today.
Homma's arraignment will
follow shortly after that of Gen.
T moyuki Yamashita, now
scheduled for next Monday.
Homma, the chunky, bland
faced general who surrendered
to American occupation forces
in Japan, is the man who arro-
gantly accepted the surrender of
General Wainwright after the
fall of Corregidor.
Yamashita, erstwhile Tiger Of
Malaga and commander of Nip
ponese defense forces in the
Philippines, will be arraigned in
the grand ballroom of the high
commissioners pre- war resi-
dence on Dewey Boulevard. Now
Scared and shattered by bombs
and shells, this former show
place is being repaired for the
first of many war criminal trials
to be held in Manila.
Although Yamashita has been
provided with a defense counsel
of American officers, Carpenter
said, provisions are being made
to comply with a possible re-
quest that his own counsel be
brought from Japan.
Army planes will be available
to fly such persons from Japan,
Carpenter added, but I'VE will
stand for no quibbling or un-
necessary delay. This will be
military court and will follow
strict rules of law; there will be
no stalling."
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
COMMISSION TO sPLAY BALL
City Aids Industry

A trend toward industrial ex-
pansion in Mount Clemens was
seen last night by the city COM
mission which went on record
as offering every facility avail
able to companies wishing to
build plants or move here.
The question of the city's at
titude toward naturalization
was brought UP by A. D. Brew
er, secretary of the Board Of
Commerce, who urged that the
city play ball" with the COM
panies who are moving here.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
Strike PeriIs.
Gas Service
Union Voices
WoIkout Threot

A total of 1900 Macomh
County gas consumers, including
thousands in Mount Clemens, to-
day were watching closely the
threatened strike of the Michigan
Utility Workers Joint Council
(CIO) against the Consumers
Power Company. which had
reached the deadlock stage In
negotiations at Lansing.
A spokesman for the union
quoted by the Associated Press,
said 'in all probability" q com
pany-wide strike would be called
next week.
A management spokesman said
such a strike would affect $780,
600 consumers in 1900 Michigan
communities extending from
Sault Ste. Marie to Adrian and
from Muskegon to Mount Glenn
ems.
Garland w. Sanders, council
president, said the dispute con-
cerned the company's refusal to
grant general 80 per cent wage
increase, to eliminate zone"
pay differentials and to allow
premium pay of four and six
cents hourly to rotating shift
employees.
The company has offered five
to nine cents per hour wage
boosts but claims the union de-
mands cannot be met.
See GAS-Page 2
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04

The issue was brought to a
head by a letter from the Elec-
tromaster, Inc. of Detroit which
plans to construct a huge plant
here. The Electromaster firm has
asked the commission for an
ample water supply, improved
streets and drainage.
City Engineer Ernest L. Pet
tingill estimated that the work
would cost in the vicinity of
50, 900.
Commissioner Edward Dubay
See INDUSTRY-Page 2
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
Yanks Wounded
in Rioting
Between Chinese

CHUNKING. Oct. 4-R-
Maj. Gen. H. S. Aurand, COM
mander of U. S. Services of Sup
ply Units, today announced COM
plete cessation of fighting at
Running between the Chinese
Central Government troops and
forces of deposed Yunan gov
ernment Lung Yum.
The situation is rapidly re-
turning to normal after at least
three Americans were reported
wounded by the gunfire.
Earlier, Yank troops had been
reported isolated in two Kun
ming hotels as central govern
See RlOTS-Page 3
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04

Although emergency public
health and safety services are
being maintained in Mount
Clemens and district during tie
current gasoline shortage. police
today estimated that several
hundred local cars are immobil-
lied lack of gas. and scores daily
are being relegated to garages
for the duration of the nation
wide strike.
Public Safety Commissioner
Lawrence A. Oehmke, tempor-
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
LuvoI Ousted
from His
Own Trial

PARIS, Oct. 4 -(R- Pierre
Laval was expelled from the
courtroom today during the. first
hours of the trial for his life
and the presiding Judge, Paul
Mongizeaux, announced that the
hearing would continue without
the presence of the former chief
of the Vichy Government.
Laval's lawyers had walked
out and the judge, jury and pros
ecutor shouted in unison at
Laval's assertion at the tumult-
See LAVAL-Page 3
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
GAS PINCH BECOMES ACUTE
Hundreds of Cars Stand Idle

ary "czar" of essential gasoline
distribution here, said limited
gasoline is being doled out 1T
the rate of about so permits
daily at the Sullivan gas sta
ton. North avenue at Pine
street.
Through arrangements with
he Standard Oil Company and
the Oil Workers Union, Oehmke
said the essential gas supply st
Sullivan's is being replenished
daily.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04

II is being given out to ply
sicians, nurses, public safety and
service vehicles, clergymen, milk
and food delivery trucks and
other agents Of vital service to
the community, and also to per-
sons in government work and
facing sudden emergencies.
Other motorists-who are In
the majority-eithef have empty
gasoline tanks or are anxiously
keeping thir eyes on gusoline
See GASOLINE-Page 4
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
Order Slated
for Noon Is
Postponed
Presidents Aide
lndieotes Seizure
Will Yet be Made
BY HAROLD w. WARD

WASHINGTON. Oct. 4-(R-
President Truman today delayed
temporarily the issuance of or
ders for government seizure Of
oil properties affected by a Is
state strike of CIO oil workers.
Charles G.. Ross, press secre-
tary, first announced the orders
would be released about noon
eastern Standard Time) but
shortly after that hour reported
they would not be issued for at
least two hours"
There was no explanation OF
the delay. Ross had said the
seizure orders were being drawn
up following failure of govern.
ment attempts to settle the strike
Of $4,000 workers through arbi-
tration of wage demands.
LAST RESORT
Seizure was last resort to re.
turn the refineries to operation.
There was no let-up. mean.
while, in the labor squabbles
confounding reconversion.
Another $4,000 of John L.
Lewis's bituminous coal miners
walked out yesterday, bringing
the total to $4,000. The estima-
ted 675.000-ton daily loss in pro.
duction represents about two
thirds of the nations output.
Government officials had
looked to settlement by concilia-
ton of the Oil workers strike
for q pattern. But that pattern
was q gloomy one today.
The union wanted a 80 per
cent pay increase to offset losses
in earnings when the work week
is cut from 48 to 40 hours. So.
cretary of Labor Schwellenbacha
after seven days of cancellations
conferences in Chicago and
Washington, proposed a tempor.
ary compromise at Is per cent
An arbitrator was to make the
final settlement.
ONE IN TEN
This was acceptable to the
union. but only one Of the ten
companies agreed to the proposal
without strings. That was Sin.
clair Oil company. Other firms
attached so many conditions that
Schwellenbach conceded to 70.
porters he could not consider
them as acceptances.
The labor secretary, weary
from his day and night struggle
to settle his first big test"
strike, recommended seizure Of
the refineries to assure delivery
of fuel oil and gasoline to the
Army and Navy and to essential
civilian needs.
Involved were: Standard Oil o1
Ohio, Cities Service. Shell Oil.
Pure Oil, Tidewater, Union Oil,
Pan-American, Socony-Yacuum.
Texas, and Sinclair companies.
An eleventh firm, Stanolind
Pipeline company. was in on the
wage conferences but has No
strike.
EMERGENCY MEETING
Union president o. A. knight
called an emergency meeting Of
his executive board to decide
whether to ask the SO, 900 strik.
ers to 60 back to work for the
government.
Both sides in the controversy
were aware Of the significance
Of their decisions. The union
was in the vanguard of the ClO's
drive for 80 per cent higher
wages for millions of members In
auto, steel, rubber, electrical and
maritime industries.
A big wage concession by the
oil companies would have boen
certain to affect the management
position in other industries. Long
distance telephone lines were
kept busy through the last few
days Of the conferences, and e..
flew in and out Of Wash
"A l.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
Order Release
Of Political
Prisoners

TOKYO, Oct. 4-(P-General
Macarthur decreed a revolution
ary Magma Carta for Japan to-
day, ordering the Imperial Gov
ernment to remove all bars 70
Freedom of Speech, Religion and
assembly, disband the brutal,
still-active Thought police" and
release their 5000 political pris-
oners by Oct. 10.
In a letter to the newly reor-
ganized Japanese Central Liaison
office, Macarthur told the I'm
perial Government bluntly and
clearly to abolish all Legisla =
See JAPAN-Page 2
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
Three bic IN Blast
in Yokohama nagbog

TOKYO, Oct. A. ~ 0uo
American and several Jotnnoee
were. killed In sn expDmoon @
an American amnnunltion-1oG oGGs
barge in Tokyo's lnnog. hnD1lR
Off Yokohama teday. 1hC
Americans nd - usH>p
number Of Japon66p we1
There wAs - tk61o ~
port o. ths eauDe g ~
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
OUT FOR A STROLL
ROANOKE, Va, Oct.

ROANOKE, Va, Oct. 4 Up
Two German prisoners OF
war, who said they escaped
from 6mp Custer, Mich, Sept
II and began walking with the
hope of reaching Mexico and
ultimately South America, were
being held in city Jail here to-
day.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
Mayor Names
Planning Unit
Will Draft Plons
for City's Future
fNEA Telephotos)

A planning commission named
by Mayor Albert A. Wagner to
formulate plans for the future
development of Mount Clemens
last night won the enthusiastic
and overwhelming support of
the City Commission.
The aim of the seven man,
representative commission will
be to draft long range plans to
meet the future demands of the
community at large.
VARIED INTERESTS
In naming the commission
the mayor pointed out that he
sought to represent all groups
in the city and that although
some men, we'll qualified for
appointment to the group had
been omitted, he felt that the
seven men named were we'll
equipped to do the job ahead of
them.
The seven man commission
consists of the following: Henry
Tryloff, George Hargreaves,
Charles v. Titus. Oscar G.. Watz,
Theodore DeGroot, Paul w. Nc
Kee and Clarence F. Barck.
The city attorney, Hugh II.
Neale, City Engineer Ernest l..
Pettingill and City Assessor
Harold Lindsey were named as
members ex-officio TO act in an
advisory capacity to the COM
mission.
ORGANIZATION LATER
No chairman was named for
the commission and it is expect
ed that the planning group will
select such at its first meeting.
In bringing up the matter of a
planning commission, Mayor
Wagner stated that the commits
sion will be asked to make a
survey of the future needs of
Mount Clemens and to make a
detailed study of what should
be done to alleviate some of the
outmoded conditions.
He said that these men, who
will act in the spirit of making
Mount Clemens a better place to
live in, will serve without pay.
VITAL NEEDS
Foremost on the commissions
See PLANNlNG-Page .
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04
Convict Love-Thief
in Larceny of Car

Macomb county circuit court jury Wednesday took but
20 minutes to bring in verdict of guilty against
Romeo charged with larceny by conversion involving
theft of GTS
The daily monitor leader., 1945-10-04


Mount Clemens, s24O,000.
Center Line, $1O5,OOO.
Utica, sos, 1000.
Base Line, $105,0
Van Dyke, sos, 900.
Warren, $85, 900.
Richmond, $4,000.
Romeo, $85,000.
Roseville, SOS, 900.
St. Clair Shores, S95,000
New Baltimore, $85, 900.
All estimated costs for Ma
comb County post offices refer
to ''site and building" expenses,
except in the case of the Mount
Clemens project, which includes
the description: "$240,000 for
additional land, demolition and
new building, or new site and
building"
The present Mount Clemens
Post Office was built "a years
ago on the block originally pur'
chased by the late William Flue-
mer, Joachim Matthews and 9TH
er businessmen. The group made
an attractive offer to the Fed
eral government to bring about
establishment of the building
there.
The balance Of the land be-
came part of the Matthews es-
tate, and was sold In separate
portions to the Christensen
Brothers (Ned's Auto Supply
and Ira w. Fuller, of Fuller &
Peltier.