The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-16
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Observation-Disclosures forces
continued today to drive deeper
into Manchuria where, q Soviet
eommunique said last night, Japan
sss troops still are offering resist
ance. Front dispatches indicated
Red army mobile units we're
spreading out rapidly over hun
dreds OF square miles OF territory.
with three main columns driving
steadily toward the munitions and
communications center Of Hardin.
SOUTHAMPTON. Eng AP -
The liner Queen Mary Is scheduled
20 sail for New York tomorrow
with $4,000 American troops-most
Of them members Of the 30th told
Hickory Division. About Aug. 20
the Queen Elizabeth will put in at
Southampton to take on a full load
Of homeland bound American
troops. The 31.year-oid Aquitanis
and the captured German liner
Europa also are expected to arrive
before the end OF the month to
aid In the redeployment program
Of LONDON -AP- Nearly 400 per
sons were listed today as injured
from the firing OF rockets and can
non crackers last night as Britons
continued their victory celebration.
Up to early this morning the Lon
don fire department had turned
out for 220 false alarms and Sc &C.
tnai fires, most OF them small blaz-
90 from fireworks and street bon.
fires.
= CALCUTTA --AP-- A powerful
naval task force, which included
the largest number OF escort car
riers and naval aircraft to be
engaged In a single operation by
the British East Indies fleet. sailed
from Ceylon last week but the sur
render cancelled its planned at
tacks on Japanese shore installa-
tons, a Southeast Asia command
communique said today.
SAN FRANCISCO -AP- San
Francisco's third night Of a tumul-
tuous victory celebration turned
into rioting with civilian and mill
tary police dispensing crowds that
had shattered windows and looted
stores on Market Street.
GUAM --AP- Eight American
battleships operated with Admiral
Halsey's great Third fleet Off the
waters Of Japan during its last blax-
ing air and set strikes against the
enemy, the Pacific fleet command
disclosed today.
:. WASHINGTON -AP7- President
Truman said today he does not
think the Japanese people will
ever have a chance TO obtain re-
venge for their defeat In this war.
IN his first peacetime news con
ference the President declared that
n Conersss1goes along. I'M Tcientif
Il discoveries which made possible
the atomic bomb will be turned
to the welfare and benefit Of. man.
kind. ~
LONDON --AP- Delegates to
the third uNRRA conference &C.
cepted today the British-sponsored
principle OF helping refugees who
refuse to return to their home
lands. Soviet Russia, Poland. Yu-
goslavia and Czechoslovakia had
opposed II.
WINDSOR, ont--AP-Theb body
Of William Davies. 81, was found
early this morning In a garage here
where he was night Waterman. His
skull had been smashed. A ma
chinist's hammer and screwdriver
with blood on them were found
near the body.
CHICAGO ms Ten prospec.
tive soldiers from Michigan could
thank the failure OF chartered bus
to pick them up from q Chicago
bound train at Niles, Mich. for the
fact that they were back home to.
day. still civilians. A local draft
board at Berrien Springs, Mich,
sent them to Chicago Tuesday for
Induction. but because OF the non
appearance OF the bus they arrived
too late to complete their tests. BY
the time they reported back at the
induction center yesterday, he new
sslecive service rules were coming
IN.
WASHINGT0N-AP-- Senators
are giving serious consio -ation 10
proposals for an all.volunteer army
OF occupation to enforce our terms
on Japan and Germany. The official
decision to cut draft calls to sc, 900
a,month, confine inductions to men
under rs, and release an estimate ed
100000 from the armed services
In the next year was pleasing to
all the lawmakers but II didn't 20
far enough for some.
sLONDON-AP-Paul G. Hoffman,
chairman Of the United States
Committee on Economic Develop.
ment, said today that q forthcom.
ing survey report by that business
planning 0rOun would ahow Amar