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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-24
Radioactive
Atom Bomb
Taking Lives
Jops Complain
Workers. Health
Is Affected
Nv The Associated Press


The Tokyo Radio said today
that radioactivity in Hiroshima,
blasted by an atomic bomb, was
taking mounting death toll
weeks after the day of the at
tack, and that in the Ia days
following the raid the death toll
had mounted from 80, 600 to Co.
600.
The broadcast. recorded by the
Associated Press. said service
men working in the area on
reconstruction a week after the
attack were found to have Sc
verely diminished numbers of
red and white corpuscles.
Investigations in the city
showed "radioactivity caused by
the fission of uranium used in
the atomic bombs is taking a
toll of mounting deaths. and
moreover is causing persons en-
gagged in reconstruction work in
Hiroshima to suffer from vari-
Gus scknesses and i'll health"
SPECTRE OF DEATH
Tokyo broadcasts have been
referring repeatedly to h {
atomic bomb raids on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. possibly in a bio
for world sympathy.
The broadcast said:
Although the war has ended,
the spectre of death hangs over
the remaining citizens of Hiro-
shima. In an investigation made
three days after the atomic bomb
See ATOM BOMB-Page 7
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Auto Controls
Are Removed
Manufacturers
Are Unrestricted

WASHINGTON. Aug. 24-(P)
The War Production Board
today removed all quotas on the
production of passenger cars.
leaving the industry free to
make as many as capacity per-
mits.
The new cars now beginning
to come off assembly lines can
not be equipped with spare tire,
WPB ruled.
Previously, an order prohib-
See AUTO-Page !
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Strikes Idle
1900 Workers
Detroit Factories
Foes Wolkouts

DETROIT. Aug. "a - R -
More than 1900 workers were
idle today as the result of peace
time strikes in eight plants here.
At Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co.,
$500 workers walked out on
Thursday in protest against the
firms failure to reinstate three
minor officers Of Local l7l,
UAW-CIO. Spokesman for the
employees said the workers
would stay out until the men
are reinstated."
A dispute at the DetroIt U(ool
Products Co., kept so Afugn
their jobs. A ChkHn1or spo11oD- :
man said ~ 1eHspeed
a now Of. - ~ po1CD
truck, Main ah4 { Ind M
plants and necssDltatsd N ~
off of $500 men thero. 1o>n &,
mept and LQc1l 391. uAV<. 8
are engaged in : ecntyuvo ~
over production stan6ir1o.
See STRlkI1poCo ,
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pow Charged
as |nforner
Conodion Court
Martial Storts

LONDON, Aug. "a - (P, -
Pvt. G.. Hale, 25. of Vassar.
Mich, pleaded innocent before
a Canadian General Court Mar
tial in Farnsborough today to
charges under the Army Act
relative to behavior while a
prisoner of war.
Hale, a member of the Essex
Scottish regiment. was captured
at Dieppe. The charge is that:
In Germany between Novem
Der, 1912, and March, 1943, he
voluntarily acted as an informer
See POW-Page Z
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MARS TROOP MOVEMENT
Truman Holds
Conference on
Labor Relations

WASHINGTON, Aug. "a =
(P) President Truman called
IN government business and Ia
Dor representatives today to dis
cuss a top problem of the recon-
version from war to peace-in-
du5trial- la Dor relations.
Preparatory to ALDERMAN
sgement conference planned for
the Fall, Mr.. Truman summon
ed to his desk:
John w. Snyder. Director OF
War Mobilization and Recover
sion; Eric johnson. President OF
the Chamber of Commerce OF
See TRUMAN-Page 7
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Richmond Lions Announce
AnnuoI Horse Show, Picnic

eral chairman of the program
said that the proceeds will be
used for the betterment Of the
Lions Park.
The 40 acre park was pur-
chased by the club last year and
includes Fairgrounds for chill
dren and Is used by the COM
munity for various events.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS
The horse show this year Is
under the direction of Taft john
ston of the North Branch stock
farm who is being assisted by
his wife.
See RICHMOND-Page Z
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that he followed car which
struck and killed Joseph Bald
win in Van Dyke on Oct. 10.
l943. and claims that when the
auto was halted and abandoned,
he saw a man resembling Mac
Pherson leave it.
Sowinski has failed to appear
in Parents court on Friday,
Aug. Tuesday, Aug. Fl and
yesterday aug. 23) when he
had been notified the case was
up for preliminary examination.
Justice Parent said that due
See HIT RUN-Page ]
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Missing Hit-Run Witness
Named in Court Subpoena

Failure OF the KEY witness in
the Macpherson hit-run case to
appear in justice court Thurs
day TO" the thrice adjourned
hearing in which a Warren
Township oil refinery executive
is the defendant, has resulted in
the issuance by Justice Donald
j. Parent of subpoena against
the man.
He is Michael Sowinski, a
special police officer not on duty
at the time Of the hit-run acct
dent. who testified at prelimi-
nary examination q year ago
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lckes Assured
Of Keeping Spot
in u. s. Cabinet
WASHINGTON. Aug. "a

WASHINGTON. Aug. PAP,
- Secretary of Interior Ickes,
who calls himself the resign
INCEST man in the Government, "
can remain in the Cabinet as
long as ne desires.
President Truman put il that
way az his new conference yes
terday.
The 7l-year-old secretary has
resigned a, least sixe times since
taking office in the original cab
met Of President Franklin D
Roosevelt l2ie years ago He
has served longer than any 9TH
err Secretary of Interior
See 1CkES-PaPe7
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U.S.. Runs
Illinois
Central

CHICAGO, Aug. "a - (P -
The 6, 605-mile Illinois Central
Railroad system was seized by
the Government today in the
face of a strike threat and line
officials reported normal opera
tons.
Under order of President Tru-
man, who said a stoppage in the
railroad INDUSTRY al this time
is unthinkable, the Office of De-
tense Transportation assumed
control at 1901 a. m. Central
war Time.
AS soon as Mr.. Truman'S or
der was made known, the broth
erhood of. locomotive firemen
and enginemen postponed in
defininitely' its stroke growing
out of a jurisdictional dispute
with the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers. The strike
was to have started at 1901.
w. F. Kirk of Chicago, ODT's
Western director, was named
Federal Manager of the road
which serves Ia states in the
Middle West and South. Clifford
Blackburn, ODT information Of
ficer.~ said there would be no
Overt Seizure of the proper
ties, and an /. c. spokesman
said he assumed the present
management would continue to
operate the line, with token
ODT representation in the gen.
eral offices.
The White House order d.
recting seizure did not define
the legal authority for the &C.
ton. A spokesman for the o.
flee of War Mobilization and Re-
conversion said, however, 1t was
done under the War Powers Act,
the Selective Service Act, and
the Constitutional powers OF the
President as communicating
chief.
MARS TROOP MOVEMENT
The proposed walkout OF l.
500 firemen, hostlers and host
lers' helpers, he said, threatened
10 interfere with essential war
purposes-troop movements and
shipment of goods to troops
See RAILROAD-Page I
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A published report that the
OPA had granted the Ford Mo-
tor Company an increase Of
slightly more than Ia per cen,
over its 1912 prices was denied
by the company which said the
formula had been agreed upon
but that prices had not been
fixed.
In Washington, Chest er
Bowles, OPA administrator, said
the published report was incor-
rect. A Washington report a
fortnight ago said the OPA
would attempt 10 hold automo-
bile prices at 1912 levels. Tn.
named officials quoted at that
time said the new prices might
represent an increase over the
1941 levels but not over 1912
figures.
Because various car makers
had different price bases in 194l
and 1912. OPA officials said a
separate formula had to be pre-
pared for each company.
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Landing Area
Devastated
laps Reveal
No Postponement
Of Occupation
Is Requested
BULLETIN

Rains have begged down
Tokyo airfields where air.
borne troops will spearhead
the Allied occupation Of ia.
pan, Tokyo told General
Macarthur today. Only me-
dunn transports can land
on the runways Of the Air.
dromeS the enemy command
warned Macarthur, who has
$50 heavy transports lined
up for the job.
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The presentation of the French,
Students Corps insignia will be
made to Edward Arens, 10, OF
3l04 North River road this al
ternoon at $50 at the hetreat
ceremonies at Selfridge Field.
Major NJ. II Bouyer. French
commandant. will present the
gratitude and appreciation Of
the French government and will
pin the Corps insignia on the
Mount Clemens youth,
Arens. according to SelfridGe
Field authorities. saw the fight
er plane piloted by French
student, crash into plot OF
ground near his home last July
20.
SAVED FROM FLAMES
Without regard to personal
safety he helped the stunned
pilot from the burning ship and
saved the pilot from sure death.
The case was reviewed by Col.
w L. Brayton of the French
Air Force in Washington, com
mander of the entire French
Students Corps in the Y. S. and
on his recommendation, it was
decided 10 give ArenS the award
The Air Medal with three oak
leaf clusters will be awarded
Saturday afternoon at Retreat
ceremonies at Selfridge Field
TO Sgt. Garth O Charbeneau. 81,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Amiel Char
beneau.
The local veteran was dis
charged from the Army Air
Forces in January Of this year
after seeing two years of service
in Italy. France and Germany.
He completed 38 missions aboard
a BIS on which he served as
tail gunner.
The citation with the award
commends him for bravery
and meritorious achievement IL
n flight in BIS al Leghorn,
Italy on June %. 1914"
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Crashed Flier:s Rescuer
Receives French Award

local youth whose and quick thinking saved the
life of French pilot after his plane crashed and burned
North River will citation this the
French commandan charge of French training forces
Feld
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President Truman Promises Job Security to Veteran
Pennsylvania Hit
by Jdps on W. Eve
By ROBERT MYERS

GUAM, Aug 24-l-The luck of the u S S, Pennsylvania
which 20year wor
final hours Of the conflict Jap
a blasting
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0PA Setting
Auto Price
Regulations

DETROIT. Aug. "a - tPl -
The formulate by which the Of
flee of Price Administration will
set ceiling prices on l946 model
automobiles have been estab-
lished, but the prices will not
be disclosed until early next
tunnk
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See lCKES--Page 7
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See SCHOOL-Page !
The Omaha guide., 1945-04-07

INC" is being organized by for
mer Democratic Congressman How
ard McMurray of wisconsin. With
Administration blessing, it will
Commerce and National Association
Of Manufacturers Wallace-minded
business men are being encouraged
to join. Wherever ~expedfent, it
will represent business on govern
ment sponsored committees.
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bltration and mediation; CD it would have power to
investigate and bring charges against employers ac-
cused Of discrimination. Violators Of the code
would be liable to fines up to $500 and or imprison-
ment DIP to one year-Representatives Of labor,
Negro, Protestant, Catholir and Jewish organic
atlOns spoke in afor-Spokesmen for the opposing
groups approfed the oducational features of the bill
and centered their attack on the punitive provisions.
These, they claimed, would foment rather than
ease tensions" New York Times, Feb. %. 1945).
.. "There are at least two amendments to the
lves-Quinn bill that ought to be acceptable to the
great bulk of its supporters. They would clarity
the bill and assure a more just administration with
out in any way impiringa its declared purpose to
prevent and eliminate discrimination in employ
ment and otherwise against persons because Of race,
creed, color or national origin The first Of these
amendments would merely remove any possibility
OF misinterpretatiOn of the meaning of the word
'creed'-The second amendment is more important
because it would apply to the organizational set-up
IN the bill. At present the proposed State commits
sion against discrimination, consisting Of five mem
bers, would be in the dual position Of acting as both
complainant and judge against an employer or union
In addition to a commission with compulsory
powers of judgement, there should be a separate
commission or administrator whose agents should
make the first efforts at Cancellation, with power to
pass on the complaint to the Judging commission if
these efforts at Cancellation failed, or if they were
convinced that discrimination was being practiced'
(New York Times, February q, 1945)
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mother having strains of white blood handed down
through generations by her great grandparents, in
jects the same habits into the life of her male Off
spring-the habits c%rOssfire, hence the desire. White
mn art silly because they have created a Franken-
stein out of the African Negro slave. 1t has grown
so big that 1t is now Interchangeable. 1t has grown
SO big that the silly white man is attracting the at
tentlOn OF white women to the fallacy OF his claims,
by denying her the same liberties he has been enjoy
ing for centuries. He has created so many yellows,
high yellows, browns, octorOons and other shades of
people that he himself is afraid of what is going on.
Despite segregation, despite birth certificates, and
other restricted covenants, people of mixed blood
are in every branch of the United States Govern
ment and big business of the country. Social equal
ity is not as open as the white men practice it with
colored women, but it is gaining ground fast, because
white men go out OF the way to prevent their women
from associating with Negro men, thereby creating
a desire in the white women to Investigates; where,
if she wasn't reminded, she probably WOuldn t care.
Rep. A. Clayton Powell is a victim of this mixed
blood fantasy. Powell has color, looks, hair, featur-
es, and habits Of the highest type of white man, not
Of the low beastly type, who are always searching
for racial trouble. In Powell, Rankin can see the
predictions of his predecessors come true, 'give a
Negro a book to read and it is equivalent to giving
him a baseball bat to beat out the white mans
brains" Well, my friend Powell, you see you have
been given a splendid idea as to how to handle white
rattlesnakes when they interfere with you in the
performance of your duties. The Negro has come a
long way-his path has not been strewn with roses.
like all races, being a mixture Of every blood on the
face of the globe, it is therefore excusable that they
never seem to get along together, and are always
causing the white man so much anxiety. Remem-
Der, white folks, whatever we are, you helped to in
iect the venom into us since 1919. We are a mon
grel race, sometimes called Negro, but when a white
man or a ew wants to get your vote or skin you a.
live, they refer to you as colored people. In Powell
(unless he has changed considerably the Negro or
colored people can expect to be ably represented
ha will not no afraid tO sneak ont no caO take care
of himself, physically, morally, and intellectually.
In closing, remembre a good stiff punch in the nose
would be good medicine for Rankin or Bilbo, when
ever they go on one of those racial TRADES.
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"When the boys come home" is one of our popul-
al songs In every paper or magazine one picks up,
there is an article dealing with how one should treat
the veteran.
Let me tell you how one soldier feels about it. He
had been III the Far East for twenty-six months. and
back here for six when he talked to me. SO he had a
chance to talk to his buddies when they came bacf
from leave.
This is what he said: II wish. Ruth, you'd write
an article to tell people how WE feel. Maybe they
wouldn't like it-but we would. We want other
boys that come back to have it more the way we
wanted it to be--and as it wasn't.
"NOw you know how close / am to my family.
I'd thought about coming home all those months in
the jungle. I'd been terrified Of every flight at the
end Of my stay for fear I'd be shot down before [
could get there. But the first week home l thought
I'd 60 mad
"YOu see they tried to do too much for me. They
were with me constantly. If | went for a walk,
someone went with me. / wasn't allowed to do any
Of the chores that had been expected Of me since |
was d little shaver. People came and called and
gave parties for me. [ didn't feel as though I was
at home at Il. aThe other boys in my unit had the
same experience. We were actually glad when we
had to 90 back to camp.
cit was such a disappointment to us. All those
months we'd gone over every detail ofthe life we'd
lived. The little things became incredibly dear.
What we wanted was for things to be the way we
remembered them, to be AT HOME, not to be COM
pany. Wanted t odo the things we'd always done in
the way we'd always done them. We wanted to
potter over the chores we'd always. shirked. We
wanted to 60 downtown alone for a coke. I guess
we just wanted to turn back time until the world
stopped spinning around u.s."
He said it better than | cOuld-becauSe he was
speaking for all boys like him. l told this to a wise
man, who said: II know what he means. l felt the
same way after the last war. So when we heard our
boy was coming home, my wife and | made engage
ments-for ourselves. 1t took courage to go out
and leave him with a book and bowl of apples as
we'd done before-but the rested, glad look on his
face when we came home was worth it. And it
wasn't long before he and his mother slipped out to
the movies together and until he asked me if | could
get off to play golf with him. Home means more to
BOYS than we realize. HOME is what they want
Rtmember that on the glad day when your boy
comes home.
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but required to hire him because of them"
pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, February p
Gnln1nnn hu. WncthronE ponln1.

(11UCSDuISu QUILL oloSIdpu, February ~, ISfO.
Column by: Westbrook Pegler.
2. "While Congress is working on a permanent
fair employment practices law to govern interstate
commerce. illinois should not lag behind in the adop-.
ton of a comparable law applying to purely intra-
state industry-A bill now pending in the General
Assembly to set up a state fair employment practic-
es commission. 1t deserves the support Of Cover
nor Green, who in a campaign speech last October
lis promised the Administrators utmost power and
influence in behalf of such legislation, in the name
of tolerance, humanity, and democracy
(ChicagO Sun, February 27, 1945).
3. 1.-The important thing about the Ives-Quinn
bill against discrimination is that it is addressed
forthrightly to discrimination in employment. The
depression taught a great many men what it meant
to be denied the opportunity to work, to maintain
ones self-respect and to get ahead by ones own eff
forts. Yet, that opportunity is additionally dem
led 0 Negroes in many fields. Employer after en-
ployer in firm after firm has decided that he could
run his business or his factory more smoothly if he
hired only whites, or if he hired Negroes only for
certain tasks-This employing pattern is, of course
shifted whenever the demand for labor exceeds the
supply. Thus, in war time, even without new leg
islation or without employment practices commit
tees, Negroes would have been hired in greater num-
bers and tried in harder jobS-lt seems to us that
the provision of the Ives-Quinn bill offer a temper
ate and hopeful means Of changing the custom
whereby "No Negroes is widely accepted as a law
of hiring-The bill is scheduled for prompt action
in both houses Of the legislature. Its passage will
be a break with custom, but with bad custom. And
of that Americans should sot be afraid
New York Herald Tribune, February %, 1945)
4. New York State debated last week the prob
lens of racial and religious discrimination. The spur
was the Ives-Quinn bill, introduced in the State
Legislature, to outlaw discrimination in employ
ment for reason of race. color or creed. This bill
would set up a permanent five-man State Commits
sion Against Discrimination, which would attack
the problem in two ways: () it would carry on an
educational campaign among employer and employ
ee groups in an effeit to ease racial tensions by ar
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competitor in keeping it "nameless''

WOODROW WILSON'S STRIKE
FOILING METHOD has been called
to FDR's attention. When an i'm
portant strike was about to be call
ed during World War 1, leaders
were summoned to Washington.
Tumulty, Wilson's secretary, greet
ed them: THE morning after your
strike is called. the President will
make the following statement to
the American people" The state
ment. if issued, would have branded
the strike leaders as traitors. The
strike did not occur.
ANTT-ROYALTY BILL: Senator
Josiah w. Bailey (Dem.-N. Car }
has introduced a bill to forbid I'M
ions from exacting payments of
any kind from employers Check
off except as a collection from wor-
kers via management. Bill would
prohibit Lewis proposed royalty
of 1Oc a ton, and Petrillo's royalty
on recordings, as well as Dublin
sky's international Ladies' Gar
ment Workers) collection from en-
ployers of an amount equal to go
to so of payroll set aside for I'M
ions welfare fund.
Proponents claim such payments
to unions are already forbidden by
Wagner Act which makes manage
ment contributions to financial
support Of unions an unfair labor
ractice. Union leaders say no, in
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t Dissemination Bill

1. 1.-The people Of the State Of New York appar-
emily are condemned to a period of bedevilment, by
a new State Board charged with the duty Of pre-
venting discrimination in employment on the
ground Of race, creed, color or national origin
Carried to its logical extremity, this law might be
invoked sometime to compel a Catholic parish to
hire a rabbi for its pastor should he be first under
the wire with his application for the job IN case OF a
vancancy, OF a Jewish family to engage for the dut-
les Of butler in their home an unrecOnstructed eX-
member Of the Bund with papers to
prove that he came from Hamburg or Munich. Or
a producer Of a movie or play could be forced to hire
a colored girl for the title role of Gentlemen Pre-
fer Blondes All such proposals and measures IN
ending the national devise improvised for the indus
trial emergency of the war, are the works OF the
Communists and their kind whose intent is not to
open opportunity to Negroes but to cause friction
and provoked disorders by creating intlerable per-
sonal situations The United States, itself, as a
ntion, discriminate against all Orientals on the
ground Of race, color and national Origin--The
worst Of it all is that judgement Of character and
personality is denied the employer as a guide in hir-
ing. And in the end, he is not merely forbidden to
reject an applicant because of certain considerations.
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men + silly individuals. During
slavery and ever since, the white slave
owner has been socially acquainted
with black women. The oft repeated
accusation that male Negroes want soc
ial equality SO they can get next to
white women is true in some cases. In
numerous cases one can trace what is
commonly called heredity in human be-
ings-the female usually absorbs the
habits Of the father and the male, the
habits Of the mother. The colOred