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Detroit evening times., 1945-03-25

The medical book had been turned
to a different page, and one of its
margins showed a smudge of blood.
Di Bernardo recounted his eX-
perience. Not long after the door had
been locked, he said, he observed a
soft glow over his head and felt
another presence in the room; then
he felt delicate but clammy hands
touch his body. .-
The hands were removed and there
was a rustling sound as though the
pages of the book were being turned
in solid blackneSS.
He heard a trickle of water. Sud.
denly he felt a sort of scratch on his
abdomen and he tried to contract his
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-25

RIO DE JANEIRO.
IN Sveltering cubicle in sprtuast temple at Pnda
monhangaba, Mecca of BraZils numerous believers
in the supernatural IL perspirng waited impaenty
he other day for event that would be unique In medical
|story-if il really materialized promised
Strapped a cot in adjoining room patient
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-25

Alone in a Locked and Sealed Room.
fhe Pofienf Was Operated Upon
SuceessfulIy- But Was II by
Surgeon Who Had Died 19 Years
Before?
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-25

"There Were Faint Sounds of Footsteps, and TT
He Felt Delicate hut Clammy Hands. He Hes
O Rustling Sound Though the IL.
Pages OF the Book Were Being -
Turned I'm the Solid BlackneSs 80
Suddenly He Felt Sort
of Scratch on His Alb
dOmen. :"
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
I'd Big Raid
On Rdngoon

SHIN TON, March 2
r1NSD -SuperfortresSes today de-
livered second destructive blow
against vital japanese storage and
military installations IN Rangoon
hub Of the enemy'S sole remaining
supply route 10 Burma
Striking by daylight the latest
attack following on the heels OF
nne made Saturday. achieved
good results" and all the partici-
pating craft returned safely 10
their India bases. the war de-
partment reported
Jap forces were able 10 muster
only moderate anti-aircraft fire
against the invading B-29s and NO
enemy planes were encountered.
the cOmmunique revealed
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
Accidents
UpIn City

Accidents increased in Detroit
for January and February by 663
over the same period last year,
Inspector James NJ. Lupton of the
accident prevention bureau re-
ported today. He said bad driv-
ing conditions were responsible.
The report will be used by
police heads in mapping a revised
accident prevention program.
Greatest cause of accidents this
year was careless driving. the re-
port said. with 1.265 violations,
against 966 for last year in the
same two months.
Failure TO yield the right OF
way caused the second largest
number. being responsible for S73
accidents against 974, which was
high in the 1914 period. Cutting
in" was third, with 731 violations
against last years 604.
Driving on the wrong side Of
the street was fourth, showing a
big increase over IA. 631 10 296.
Drunk driving increased, 2s3 to
267
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
365 Out.
TuSSle
Blamed

About 365 workers, members OF
CAW-CIO Local 1s2, went on
strike at the Graham Paige plant
this afternoon in protest against
the suspension OF a workman who
assertedly hit superintendent. 1t
was necessary for the company TO
close the department.
The state labor mediation board
said the trouble started yesterday
afternoon when 4S persons struck
in dispute over a washup period.
When they returned this morning
the alleged alteration ensued.
Union leaders said they would
attempt to have the strikers back
on the job in the morning.
Meanwhile, So striking Hudson
Motor Car Co. engineering de-
partment employees remained off
the job. The company refuses TO
until the men return.
The Hudson management said
the strike was unauthorized, broke
up negotiations for settlement OF
grievances and interrupted work
on war assignments, claiming the
strikers refused TO take a proper
work assignment.
A spokesman for the union,
Local 154, UAW-CIO, said the
dispute involved their claims that
the company has violated con-
tract provisions in allegedly shift
ing skilled workers from one job
to another not in their classical
ton.
The "off again, on again" strike
in the receiving department at
the Ford Willow Run bomber
plant was ended by the first shift
of 40 men today when they voted
to return. Sixty-four more strik-
ers were not due until the after
noon Shift.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23

might already have begun.
1t. Gen. Patton's rampaging
Third Army ran into a Stalingrad-
like defense at Ludwigshaven but
swept into the town in bitter
fighting and captured the 7. G.
Farben Works, the largest chemi-
cal plant in Germany.
MONTGOMERY GETS SET
Field dispatches said a 66-mile
pail of artificial smoke blanketed
the entire northern end of the
battlefront southwark from Mi
megen.
Behind that smoke screen Field
Marshal Montgomery was deploy-
ing the massive armored and
infantry forces of his British Sec
ond, Canadian First and Ameri-
can Ninth armies for what both
sides agreed would be the decisive
assault on the Rhine barrier.
1t. Gen. Hodges First Army
already was on the move north
ward from its salient east of the
Rhine 1t battered with tanks
and infantry against the narrow
Sieg River barely 10 miles from
the southern flank of the Ruhr
The new advance heightened the
Remagen bridgehead 10 81 miles.
The offensive was co-ordinated
with a Gripping air strike by more
than 1900 American heavy bomb
ers and 700 fighters against a
chain of German military encamp-
mentS and air fields in and behind
the imperiled Ruhr basin.
Raj POUNDS REICH
The Raj hurled almost 1000
heavy bombers into the blazing
daylight assault on Germany to-
day in the wake of the 2,000-plane
American strike on the Ruhr and
Rhine river fronts.
simultaneously, the American
Third and Seventh armies to the
south clinched their most decisive
of the war with the de-
Of all but a handful of
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23

an estimated $4,000 to 100000
Germans in the Saar-Palatinate.
The two armies merged into a
solid front west of the Rhine and
closed against the river with a
rush that threatened to eliminate
the few thousand surviving Ger
mans before the weeks end.
MOP UP LUDWIGsHAFTN
Third Army troops were mop
ping up isolated German pockets
inside Ludwigshafen. Other Third
Army forces stabbed to the Rhine
north of Ludwigshafen and struck
southwark toward the last enemy
escape port opposite Karlsruhe.
Still other units were fighting
against fiercely resisting Germans
inside Mainz.
1t. Gen. Patch's Seventh Army
troops, meanwhile, burst out of
the center of the Siegfried Line
from the south and wheeled east
ward to join in the drive for the
Rhine between Ludwigshafen and
karlsruhe.
Hundreds of fighter-bombers of
the u. S. First and Ninth Tactical
Air Forces swarmed over the
Third and Seventh Army fronts to
pound the German forces west of
the Rhine.
They ranged northward also
into the Ruhr to add to the havoc
spread by the U. S. Eighth Air
Forces British-baSed heavies.
Preliminary reports from the
Saar-Palatinate front said Third
Army troops alone had counted
$50 German tanks. 200 big guns
and 5000 motor vehicles wrecked
by the blistering ground and air
offensive of the last week.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
STRIKERS CLOSE
UNIT AT GRAHAM
Allies Start
Rhine Attack
COMPLETE MARKETS
PAGE n

PARIS, March % (UP)-The u. S. First Army
drove nearly two miles from it's Rhine bridgehead
today against the southern flank of the Ruhr under
an aerial barrage laid down by more than 1000
American warplanes.
One of the wars biggest tactical air ofensives in
full swing along the Rhine front from the Swiss border
the North Sea- German and Allied military commentators
indicated that Gen. Esenhowers 'n- -thewar" offensive
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
Woman Accuses 'EX'
OF SiIVerWare Theft

from selling the equipment of the
hamburger spot at 2l67 Crane
River.
81 didn't know DIR. PINK was
married until about FIVE years
after | started to go with him."
she said. "When 1 found that
out I dltched him. He gave me
Sl,415 to put into a restaurant
but didn't say anything about a
partnership.
"He did help out though by
getting that silverware. The
only kind could buy would
turn black"
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23

Charges that her dentist boy
friend helped TO equip a ham,
burger stand by stealing "a sets
of silverware from downtown
hotels and restaurants were made
today before Circuit Court Judge
Theodore J. Richter. 4..
Inez M. Henry of l29 Charlotte,
told the court that DR.. Benjamin
G. Pink, with offices in the
Charlevoix Building, took the
silverware and used a dentist drill
TO remove Identification marks.
DR.. Pink brought court action
in a suit seeking to restrain her
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
Obey Curfew,
Md(onnb Told

Bars whose proprietors fail to
heed the midnight curfew--and
even whole communities where
noncompliance is rife-may be de-
clared of limits for military and
naval personnel with resultant
loss of revenue.
Responding promptly 10 defiance
voiced in a Mt. Clemens city COM
mission meeting by Bert V. Nun
neley, Mt. Clemens city attorney,
the regional War Manpower Com
mission sent IFS representatives TO
a conference with the cityS mayor
today.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
Churchill Announces
Delegates TO Farley

LONDON, March % QNS)-
Four of Britain'S leading political
figures will head that nations rep
reSentativeS TO the San Francisco
conference. Prime Minister
Churchill announced to Commons
today.
They will be Foreign Secretary
Eden Deputy Prime Minister Att
lee, Dominion Secretary Viscount
Cranborne and Lord Halifax. Brit
iSh ambassador 10 Washington.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
Not Guilty Plea
Made by Deweerdt

Camille ]. Deweerdt, 50. of 577l
Radnor, pleaded not guilty today
to a charge Of first-degree murder
in the shotgun Staying. March Is,
OF Henry Couvreur, as, of AS
Radnor.
He was remanded to the county
Jail without bond. Examination
was set for March 2S.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
IMPERIALs IN MYINGYAN

CALCUTTA March - up
British imperial troops fought
their way today into the burning
japanese stronghold of MyinEyan.
81 miles southwest OF Mandalay
against fierce enemy opposition.
a communique said the British
were established firmly IN the
southern part of the town and
battling slowly into the enemy
held section.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
VIENNA PATH OPENED
Youths Hanged in KiIlinq

CAIRO, March % QNS) Eli
ahu Bet-Tsouri, %, of Tel Aviv,
and Eliahu Hakim. 20, of Haifa,
Jewish terrorists convicted of the
Nov. 8 killing of Lord Moyne,
British resident commissioner of
the Middle East, and his chauf-
feur. were hanged today.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
Chile May Declare War

BUEN NOS AIRES. March %
(INS)-Reports from Santiago to-
day said the Chilean government
will present a motion to Congress
next week asking for a declara-
tion Of war against Japan.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
INCOME TAN EvADERs SOUGHT IN FLORIDA

WASHINGTON, March 22 (UP)-Treasury agents
looking for income tax evaders among Several hun
dred free spenders" at Florida resorts, il disclosed
today The treasury also is checking the tax records of
amusement places in Miami and Miami Beach where the
free spenders do their spending, spokesman said
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
Joe Louis Hearing Off

CHICAGO. March % (UPJ-. a
hearing of the divorce suit filed
by Mrs. Marva Trotter Louis
against Joe Louis. world heavy
weight boxing champion. was poet
poned again today until March II.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
aADIO STARS FREED IN CUSTOMS SUITS

NEW YORK, March 22 (UP)-Supreme Court Jus
tce Ernest Hammer today dismissed a suit in which
Albert ~ Chapereau sought to collect 1852 customs
violations fine from Jack Benny Mary Livingston George
Burns and Oracle Allen.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
La TOILETTE PREDICTS WILLIAMS DEFEAT

WASHINGTON, March % (UP)-Senator La Toilette
PrOg) of Wisconsin said today that Senate rejection of
Aubrey Williams nomination to be rural elecrifcaton
administrator s oregone conclusion La Toilette is
Williams supporter.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
DING DONG DADDY FOUND GUILTY

SAN FRANCISCO, March % (UP)-Francis Van
VIE, the j8yearod "ding dong daddy of the carnes
found guilty three counts of bigamy today by
jury of nine and three women after 10 minutes of
deliberations
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
Ii. Bourdo Gets DFC

DENVER, March % GNS)-
First 1t Alex d. Bourdo OF
Pontiac, Mich, was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross al
Lowry Field. II was anpounced
today.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
BredkthrouQh
By Reds Nets
4,OOO Towns

LONDON, March % CUP)-
Marshal Konev's army has broken
through south and west of Oppeln
in southern Silesia, advancing 25
miles and trapping at least $1,000
Germans in a sweeping new offen-
'siVe that overran more than 1000
German towns.
Marshal Stain announced to-
night that Konev's First Ukrain-
ian Army joined forces in a two
way drive that toppled most of the
defense strongholds in the south
ern end of Silesia.
Neustadt, Cosel, Flankenberg,
Suelz. Oberglogau. Steinau, Krap-
pitz and scores of other key towns
fell to Konev's forces securing the
extreme left wing of the Berlin
front for the brewing push against
the German capital.
GERMANS TRAPPED
A special order of the day by
Stain said the junction of Konev's
two columns in drives south and
west of Oppeln surrounded and
routed a formidable force of Ger
man troops.
Along with the $1,000 Germans.
the Reds captured 464 field guns
and great quantities of other war
materiels.
The list of captured towns read
like a roll call of the major in
duStrial and fortified centers in
the Oder Valley south of the
upper or southern Silesia capital
of Oppeln.
VIENNA PATH OPENED
The Nose announcement
clarified Nazi radio reports of the
last few days giving accounts of
violent fighting in the upper Oder
Valley.
Other German reports told of a
violent Russian drive that had
broken a 65-mile defensive line
in northwest Hungary, opening
the way TO Vienna and southeast
eTn Germany.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
REMARKS CITED

Nunneley told police chief
Arthur RoSSo in a city commits
sion meeting last night that Jump
in the lake would be a proper
reply TO complaints Of the VINO
that two Mt Clemens bars were
remaining open until ! a. m.
Even in advance of today's con-
ference with the Mt. Clemens
mayor, O. K. Fjetland of the
VINO aid Selfridge Field officers
had agreed 10 order military po-
lice 10 clear bars of military per-
sonnel by midnight.
"It would be too bad were Mt.
Clemens 10 be declared out-of-
bounds for Selfridge troops"
Fjetland said
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
REPRESENTATIVE DIES AT g.
WASHINGTON. Ma

WASHINGTON March % (UP)-Rep. Heidinger
(R) of Illinois died today at the Good Samaritan Hospital
at Phoenix, Ariz., il announced in the House He
81.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
EXPRESS APPRECIATION

In a formal statement the VINO
expressed appreciation for the
belated cooperation of Dearborn
barkeepers with the midnight cur
few. Investigators found only
four Dearborn bars in defiance of
the order last night.
The violatoTS were the Rotunda
bar. 1916 Michigan, reported
after midnight and serving army
and navy personnel almost eX-
clusively' the Haymarket Club,
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
.a:53kE!1S
FDR ASKS FOR SLIGO, 900, 900
WASHINGTON. March %

WASHINGTON, March % (INS)-President ROose-
Welt today asked Congress for appropriations toang
Sl,l200O0,000 to continue operations of 10 civilian
agencies.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23
Army POndering
Job FurlOughS

WASHINGTON, March %
QNS)-Acting Secretary of War
Patterson disclosed today that the
army is considering extending fur
loughs granted to soldiers some
time agosIo meet critical labor
shortages in some war plants.
Soldiers have been furloughed
to tire plants, cotton duck and
tire cord mills and plants produc-
ing steel shells.
MICKTY'S SHOW BAR
NhoWf WverN Ntaht 4 40 anH 10 80 -Adv.
Detroit evening times., 1945-03-23

MICKFY'S SHOW BAR
, Shows Every Night, Z 30 and 10 50 ADV.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-20

ministrative functions, he is active
as a singer.
1t. thinner will sing two mum,
bers on tonight's program. Those
Wilmington listeners who have
heard him before won't have to be
urged to tune in. AS for the new
tuner-inners, well, they're in for a
very happy surprise.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-20
Mo@rppmg,
WRePoM2kk

CAMP DAVIS, June 10. - If you
tune in WMFD tonight at 8:15,
you'll hear the Camp Davis radio
program, Johnny Comes Marching
Home" And the two Johnnies VINO
will be featured are officers VIII
started their army careers doing
things that were far removed from
their civilian training.
1t. Irwin Wexner graduated from
Brooklyn College and returned tc
his high school as ar English teach
er, although he was only about 81
at the time. When the time came
for him and the army to get to
gether, in he went, and away he
went. The Southwest Pacific be
came home, and Wexner was liv.
ing the life of an enlisted man
His JOHN the medics.
Eventually he returned to the
states, became a medical admin.
strative officer. and at the presen.
time is in charge of plans and
schedules in the convalescent di
vision at Camp L0vis. This really
amounts to being principal of q
school-and then some.
So finally, after a few years in
the army, service overseas, and a
rise in the ranks from EN- to o.
ficer, Wexner is now back in the
educational fiela.
And now take the case Of 1t.
Alex thinner, another Brooklyn ma
tive. After he got cut of high school,
he went to work as the social di-
rector of Capital Mansion up in
Ferndale, N. Y. He was about nine
teen at the time.
Then, in 1912, thinner went into
the army as IN enlisted man and
began to study 10 be a radio tech
nlcian. Pilot training suddenly
doomed on his horizon, however.
and off he went-into the wild blue
yonder.
Before long ne was flying B-24's
in Europe and accommodating the
Air Medal, Distinguished Flying
Cross, and four Oak leaf clusters.
When he completed his tour, he
returned to the states, was station
ed at Camp Davis, and 1T long
last, became active once again il,
his social and entertainment work
AS one of the special services of.
ficers in charge OF entertainment,
1t. thinner is in no small way
responsible for The extensive pro-
gram of activities that is under
way. And in addition TO his al
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-20
ice SHORTAGES
HELD CRITICAL

Although ice supplies which be
gan diminishing last week are ex
pected to continue low until the
latter part of July, it is not an
ticipated that the shortage vii
reach the proportions it did las
year, an official of the Boyle Ice
company, wholesale suppller, sale
yesterday.
The fact that some IS tons O;
ice less per day will be consum
ed in Wilmington this summer
than last, and the establishment,
Of a new ice plant, manufacturing
approximately Is tons a day, will
alleviate the situation to some ex
tent, it was said.
The ever-increasing demands Of
the railroad for ice in the move,
ment of perishable crops is the
prime factor contributing to the
shortage, both locally and nation.
ally. The Boyle company, which
produces 125 tons a day, is cur
rently supplying local consumers
Ordinarily the White Ice Cream
and Milk company with not more
than ten tons, as compared WITT
IS tons last week. From its
stockpile of ice, the company sup
plies 400 tons daily to the rail.
roads for the movement of thei1
peach crops.
The shortage has been delayed
this year by the long cool spring
and it\ was anticipated that dur
ing this period the railroads might
have stored sufficient ice to carry
them through the summer withou1
increasing their summertime de
mands to large extent. However
late last week, the need for ice
to preserve the movment O.
peaches became acute, and almos
the entire supply of the loca
wholesale firm has been chan
neled into the railroads.
The curtailment of ice sales
to local dealers is expected tt
continue until the first of August
when the movement Of peache:
will have been completed.
The Plate Ice company termel
the situation at their plant very
serious and have practically
discontinued the sale of ice from
the platform. Their regular Gus
toners will be supplied from
trucks, while the ice lasts.
The Independent Ice company
with 1000 tons of ice in storage
anticipated no serious shortages
and expects to have ice for tn.
next forty days at least Their,
has been some difficulty, however
in finding sufficient labor to NOV,
the ice from the storage plant.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-20
WASHINGTON CALLING &
by M!EEM
MARQUIS CH1LDS &Ilia2

WASHINGTON "Only fifteer
more days to save the American
free enterprise system.
Maybe you remember back tt
the good old times when the Re
publicans in theil repeated eff
forts to get Franklin Roosevelt Out
of the White House resorted to
that Slogan. As the day OF h
election drew near you W r
meant to feel right on the edge O.
the precipice with nothing but the
yawning abyss OF Communism
down below.
Perhaps it won't save the free
enterprise system. But If in the
days remaining before June 30 Con-
gress does not re. enact the Price
control act in substantially its
present form the odds against
survival of the free enterprise sys
tenn will be bigger than ever be-
fore.
That sounds like contradiction
Take off the controls" Give free
enterprise chance. Those are
the Shibboleths of the opposition to
price control. That is the siren
song.
But if you add just a little bit
more to the degree of initiation we
already have, then you are asking
for the kind of skyrocketing price
spiral that we got after the last
war. And the end OF such boom
will be more government control
than we've ever had before. No
administration. republican Or DEM
orcratic. can afford ever again to
allow mass unemployment to exist
The opposition to price control
is thoroughly organized. One OF the
big retail declarations is directing
a campaign that is flooding Con
gress with letters of protest as
price control comes before t h e
House.
Members are told to write, and
have their friends write, urging
Congress to eliminate crucial sec
lions of the price control bill. A
special target IS the section of the
law which says that the adninistra-
tor shall fix prices at a level gen
orally fair and equitable" Under
that language the OPA has tried to
strike an average representing a
reasonable profit fol- the greatest
possible number Of producers and
distributors.
OF course retailers are sick and
tired of price control. So is every
BODY else. But so long as the wal
is on, so long as we spend billions
in the Pacific. we need barrier
against initiation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-20
Pay Increases Okehed
For u. S. Lawmakers

SFlkGTON. June 19.-tR-
Pay increases for Senators, Repre-
sentatives, the House speaker, the
Vice President and the Cabinet
were voted today by the Senate
appropriati committee, acting
on the suggestion of President Tru-
man.
The measure, reported to the
Senate by Senator Tydings Cd
Md provides if enacted that with
the 80th Congress. starting Jan
uary 3, 1947, the $4,000 a year law
makers shall receive $4,000; the
speaker, now at $4,000 shall re-
ceive $4,000; the vice president,
now $4,000 shall be paid $40, 900
and the $4,000 a year cabinet Of
ficers, go up to $17.500.
The committee report pointed
out that legislators have not re-
ceived a pay boost since 1925.
Nothing was contained in the
bill pertaining to the President but
Tydings said some proposal to in
crease his expense allotments
may be taken up later.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-20

Wyoming now has "a deputy
game and fish wardens on assign
ment in the state.