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Detroit evening times., 1945-06-11

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ROwFP PFC rRE0p0RE e "a Florsnc.
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cvlLsN, SGT CHARLES 1870 Almont.
puBEc. r PAUL. lssoo stsnsbury
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ss.GsIER, CPL RopERr A. esss Barrie,
GUTowsKi PFC PRANK p ssos Glseys
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klSS. PVT EpNARN r 1915 Parkvood
LlCk PVT. NARNER y h6l4 Fenwood.
NALANlAk. SCI. HARRY w. es77 PArk-
MsMuREAN. PIC. JAMES ?. esss Nor.
NEwKIR, CPL, ROBERT l.. 2oss Del.-
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SELLERS PVT WILBUR l.. $3.50 Penn.
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ToRiczYK. PVT EDwIN p. siol Port.
wElss, PVT HAROLD L. is72s DEXTER
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zowocKI. PFC. FRANK H.. sso7 Gladys
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ACTON. PIC PoBERT W, 81 Johns.
ADKINS. PVT. CRAWFORD A.. Fllnt
nALLGoop, 5 CHARLES W. Battle
BOND. PFC HERBERr NJ. Sev Boston.
BRONSON PVT. CHESTER 8. Holland.
BUrTERFrELD, set, FRANK A.. ST. Jo-
cHovAN PFC. JOHN NJ. Anvn
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HoucHTELLINc PFC. ARNOLD A.
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MCLEAN PFC KENNETH J BAD Are.
NcAAHAN SGT THOMAS C. Caro-.
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MOORE. PFC oRv1I.LE u. Grand Rapids.
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MURPHY. CPL. PRANK, Port Huron.
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NANNA PFC. A p, Bentley,
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-11
ADVERTISEMENT
" y y = 'I =
Athletes Foot
Victims Storm
Drug Stores
To Get Improved Fornuls That
Kiils Dreaded Germs On Contact

Yea. ne newly improved formula for
Aliens , Toot-EAse spells death 10 Athletes
FOOT germs. Kills ON contact - laboratory
te-u prove this statement beyond question
% q doubt Good Esvsf Sure - but that.
only tne half - IL. he improved Allen
Foot base has an effective dcodorAnt action
- helps keep psupiung feet dry. and free
from offensive odor. So why fool with les
effective foot powders - just sptinkls
Aliens foot-Eass on your feet. between
your toes and into your shoes. Don't suffer
lonFer the itching torment of Athletes
Ioot- Fine 100, for tired. burning feet.
0uArsnteed n satisfy or money refunded.
Only 1Sf At al druRgists
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-11
ARMY WOUNDED

NOMEHr HOEEHI fNl ll-hAsOhNQ OF
Mira. Martha L. Conner. sturEis-
ARMY WOUNDED
PACIFIC ARIA
BEEREBooM. JOHN j. PVT son Of Mrs
Grace Beereboom. Holland
COLLINS, WADE X. JR. PFc-son Of
Mrs Fiorne Groth. OTTAWA Lake.
DEYNIsoN. RONALD E., Pvr.--son Of
DESPOT JOSEPH F.. PFC Husband Of
Mrs Pauline J Despot Calumet
DE WITT EDWARD u. sGT.-Broth'r
pILTs. JOHN PVT @Husbsnd Of Mrs
Dorphine Dilts' Mgskeson.
FLOWER vERE p. SCI. r.--Husband o,
Mrs MArgaret Flower. Jackson
FRENCH. PHILLIP r.. PFC.-Son OF Mrs
vern French, LANSING
GIBSON. WILLIAM a PFC. son O, Mrs
Mildred N. Gibson. Ann Aroof.
JUDY. FREEMAN L.. PFC--Brothsr OF Fay
Judy, Byron Center
KAISER, RICHARD H. sGT.--son Of Henry
KINNuNEN, EINARD J, T sCT.--son OF
KOTAJARvI. EDWIN A, 1sT 1T Husband
OF Mrs Martha c. Koiaisrvi' Toivola'
LYON. CHARLES W. PvT-s o, Mrs
Daisy z. Lyon, Mount Pleasant
MAwHoRTER. EDWARD. JR PFc-son
OF Mrs Esther Mavhorter. Pontiac
MONTGOMERY, DONALD A, PFc.-Son OF
Mrs. Josephine MONTGOMERY, Mount Clemens
SINCLAIR. WILLIAM. PvT-son Of Mr,.
Marian NJ. Sinclair Bsnnlster.
vELDKAMP. PETER. SGT Son OF Mr,.
Grace Veldkamp, kalamazooi-
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-11

IT, as hope, you interested blocking this diserimina
6on sgans srse chat you write your Senator's and
Representatives In Congress Immediately expressing your views
In this matter N.l
We urge ths wire them days later asking that they
get your the record the hearings be held June 18th
before te House OF Representatives Post Office and Post Roads
Committee.
MALCOLM JOHNSON,
COMMITTEE ON BOOK POSTAGE RATES
b1 fhs Ass- kaYsH, Ny,
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-11

principle of a Eat rate for reading
matter is we'll established for news.
pspsrs and magazines When, some
seven years back. books were treated
difsrently. il took Is cents TO send
q rwo-pound book TO Los Angeles,
10 cents to Yonkers. Since most
books are published on the Eastern
seaboard, it does not take a mathe.
matician 20 figure that 1one rates
mean that the Deep South and the
Far West must pay a substantial
diffefential. Strangely, IL is South.
ener. Representative Mckenzie, OF
Louisiana, who has suddenly de.
cided that books are, after all. just
merchandise. and that il Southerner,
want to read them they can pay
extra for the privilege.
We can't bur believe that Amefi.
cas- faith in learning is AZ strong
or stronger than il ever was. Amer.
icans will be loath to restore any
unnecessary barriers in the way OF
the 6ow OF thought and ideas from
one end Of their land to the other.
IL would be best il Mr.. MCKen1ie's
bill Just quietly died But since hear.
ings have now been set for June IL,
protests are emphatieslly in order.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-11
ARMY MISSING

EUROPEAN AREA
EVANS CLAIR W. 2D LT-Husband o
Mrs Marie II, Evans. Grand Rapids
49, Saturday, June 9, 1915 ~~'
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-11
OUTSTATE
ARMY DEAD

PACIFIC AREA
CONFER, ROBERT C.. PVT Husband OF
Mira. Martha L. Conner. sturEs.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-11
Percy Jones
Arrivals

BATTLE CREEK. June 9 -
More war casualties have arrived
AZ Percy Jones General and Con-
valescent Hospital from the Eu.
ropean fighting front There were
81 from the Detroit area and 65
from outStAte.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-11
ARMY WOUNDED

NEWMAN. PHILLIP C. PFC son q
chATlsI NeNnhAm. 29O6 Z Jtfterson.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-11

The WOUNDED VETERAN and his
problems have been woven into q
novel Of rare power. called Il
Weep for You" It's the story of
Bill Markeley. a 3-year veteran at
%, OF the Campus Queen whom
he loved and OF his rival, the
civilian football hero.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
BY J. A. FOX.

President Truman last night
set up machinery to facilitate
the transfer to this country of
European refugees entitled to
admission under the quota law,
and at the same time urged
Congress to reject pending leg
islation that would either pro-
hibit or severely reduce further
immigration"
Emphasizing that the proposed
migration to the United States
from American zones of occupation
would be carried out in strict &C
cord with existing law and that he
did not intend to seek liberalization
of the law, the President quoted
figures to show that a maximum of
some %, 400 aliens could be admitted
to these shores during the remainder
of the fiscal year-the entry rate
being $500 monthly. He indicated
his desire to have the movement
under way by early spring.
Stressing the desire to do some
thing to relieve human misery and
set an example to other countries
of the world which are able to re-
ceive some of these war sufferers"
the President said, II feel that it is
essential that we do this ourselves
to show our good faith in request
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
200 Beds Ready at Portsmouth
For Patients From Mount Alto

but Is using its emergency bed IA
ciities, the Veterans Administration
reported. DR.. Grifith said he had a
waiting list Of patients wanting adj
mission for nonemergency opera
tionS.
Twenty beds for washington vet
Grams have been authorized at Wal
ter Reed Hospital. The Veterans
Administration wants 100. beds at
Walter Reed, a request awaiting
approval of Secretary OF War Pat
terson.
The Walter Reed request is part
of the Veterans Administration pro-
gram to utilize thousands of Army
beds. Secretary Patterson will have
to decide, however, whether enough
medical personnel can be held in
the service to care for the veterans
in Army hospitals.
Although the Naval Medical Gem
ter, at Bethesda. Md, is said to be
overcrowded, It has set aside $50
beds for veterans and has allocated
500 beds by September l, 1916. This
(see VETERANS, Page AID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
Far East Rubber,
First in 3 Years,
Expected Today
The Associated Press.


The Reconstruction Finance Corp.
disclosed yesterday that the first
shipment of crude rubber in three
years from the rehabilitated coun-
tries Of the Far East will arrive to-
day or tomorrow in New Yark.
I The Canton Victory is bringing
1850 tons of rubber from Malaya
and Java, the RFC said. The rub
Der will be stored and later parcelled
out for productive use.
Meanwhile, the RFC said, it will
get rid of its scrap rubber piles in
10 cities. explaining that the ma
terial has been worked over many
times and what Is left has no COM
nercial value.
At the beginning of 1916, the OF.
flee Of Rubber Reserve and its
predecessor, the Rubber Reserve Co.
had bought 1,l09, 900 short tons of
scrap rubber, had sold $4,000 tons
for use by rubber manufacturing
companies. and had 182, 900 tons q
scrap rubber on hand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
Truman Condemns Bills to Cut
immigration, Asks Refugee Aid
Acts to Speed Entry of War Sufferers
From Europe Within Established Quotas

I, ing other nations to open their
doors for this purpose. The cost
will be borne by the people involved,
Mr.. Truman said.
This Government has sought I'M
successfully to persuade Great
Britain to admit 100000 displaced
Jews into Palestine, and now has
joined with the British in a study
of the Palestine problem through a
joint commission.
Mr.. Truman's plan entails the
establishment of emergency con-
sular Offices in the American zones
to speed the issuance of visas, and
the furnishing of subsistence and
shipping for the aliens.
'Visas should be distributed fairly
among persons of all faiths, creeds
and nationalities," he said in a
directive to the six Federal agen-
cies that were ordered to cooperate
in the contemplated movement. IT
desire that special attention be de-
voted to orphaned children to- whom
it is. hoped the majority of visas
will be issued"
The President also ordered that
the movement of the immigrants "in
no way interfere with the scheduled
return of service personnel and their
spouses and children from the
European theater."
Parenthetically. the President dis
closed that 1t was no longer con-
(See INCARCERATION page A-31
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG

The Navy has made an emer-
gency ALLEGATION of 200 beds in
the Naval Hospital at Ports
mouth, Va, to take care Of
Washington veterans able to be
moved fr o m overcrowded
Mount Alto Hospital, it was
learned yesterday.
washington veterans also are be-
ing sent to the Veterans Admins
tration hospital at Kecoughtan, Va,
with the idea of using MOUNT Alto
only for emergency cases.
BY moving all ambulatory patients
to Kecoughtan. which is near Old
Point Comfort, Mount Alto so far
has been able to take in all emer-
gency and seriously Ill patients, DR..
q. M. Grif1ith, manager of Mt. Alto,
reported.
81 don't know how long we can
continue that If we get an epidemic. p
he added.
The hospital now Is not only Allied,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
White House Ceremony Open
Gala YuIe Celebration Here
President to Light Tree, Broadcast at PM;
Parties Arranged for All Sevicemen

At S pm. tomorrow President
Truman will switch on the lights
of the gigantic White House
Christmas tree, symbolizing
Americas first peacetime Cele-
bration of the Nativity since
1910.
To thousands of American fami-
lies reunited with service men and
women the radio will carry tidings
from the Executive Mansion: Peace
on earth, good will toward men
and the lights, indeed. will be shin
ing all over the world.
For, as thousands stand on the
south lawn singing the carols of
happier season, many thousands
elsewhere will light their trees at
home. Not since 1941, when the
late President Roosevelt, with Win
ston Churchill present, lighted the
living National Community Christ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
MucArthurGets
Yelled Threat of
Assassination
By the Associated Press.

~ tiiS hosuCldtcQ ElcSSs
TOKYO, Sunday, Dec. 23-Gen.
MacArthur's aide said today a half
threat to assassinate the Allied
commander had been voiced by a
japanese petition signer, but I'VE
paid no attention at all to the
statement"
Col. Herbert Wheeler related that
the japanese who presented petit
tons asking Gen Macarthur to
commute the death sentence for
Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita told
Allied headquarters one of the
signers said "if Macarthur didn't
grant the petition then maybe we
should assassinate him"
Reports of any real plot to assas-
sinate the commander are ground
less" Col. Wheeler declared.
Brig. Gen. Elliott Thrope, chief Of
the Observation-Disclosures corps, con-
firmed that there lis no assassina-
ton plot and we are not rounding
up any suspects
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23

mas Tree II days after Pearl Har-
Dor, have Christmas tree lights
cleaned across the south lawn of
the White House grounds.
There is a possibility that snow
will fall tomorrow evening to add
another Christmas touch. The
Weather Bureau expected another
shower Of white flakes before
Christmas Day to freshen the
blanket which has covered the
Capital the past few days.
At least there is small probability
Of rain dampening the White House
party, since freezing temperatures
are predicted through Tuesday.
Rejecting the renaissance at the
white House, Washington is pre-
pared to observe the next two days
with the gaiety tradition has her.
aided. From hospitals to the jails
TO- (1YYn YcTT A q -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
Woman Rents AirpIane
For Ride, Dives 10 Death
By the Associated Press.

JOLIET, ILL.,, Dec. 22.-Mrs. Harold
Scott, SO, Of Joliet plunged to her
death today from an airplane hear
the Hinsdale Illo Airport. Her
body landed on the football field
of the Hinsdale High School.
Sheriff John H. Horstman of Du
Page County said Charles w.
Mittler of La Grange, pilot of the
plane, told him the woman rented
the ship for a 10-minute ride.
Sheriff Horstman quoted the pilot
as saying that after the ship had
reached an altitude exceeding 1000
feet he turned and saw his pas
|senger plunging through the open
door.
Mr.. Mittler told the sheriff he
grabbed at the woman as she went
through the door but caught only
her shoe.
Her husband, a Standard Oil Co.
employe, and . 5-year -old daughter,
Sally, survive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
Marshall and Chianq
Reported 10 Have He'll;
First Talk at Mankind
Discussions Expected
To Be Resumed in
Chuneking Today
BY the Associated Press.

CHUNGKING, Dec. 22.-Gen.
George c. Marshall, fresh from
his first talks at Marking with
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
on peace for China, arrived
today and was greeted by both
National and Communist leaders.
A dispatch from Marking said
the first conference last night was
extremely cordial" and lasted for
two hours. The discussions will be
resumed tomorrow when Gen
Chang and Nine. Chang fly in
from Marking
This account said Gen. Marshall
was prepared to confer with Com
munist leaders in Chungking, but
had no immediate plans to visit
Yenan, the Communist headquar-
tiers in North China.
Gen. Marshalls arrival was fol-
lowed by China Central News
agency report that 7th Fleet trans
ports had debarked Central Govern
ment troops from Haphong at the
Manchurian port of Huluto on Fri
day. The number landed was not
specified.
Reports from Peiping said one
concrete effect of Gen. Marshall's
first talks with Gen. Chang was a
frightened prospect for the use oil
American ships to carry huge
Chinese occupation forces to Man.
churian ports.
Met BY Premier Soong..
| President Truman's special en-
voy, who had braved perilous fly
ing weather in hurrying here from
the old Chinese capital. was met at
the airport by Premier T. v. Soong,
who accompanied him to his quar-
tiers.
Another greeter was Gen. Chou
En-lai, head of the Chinese Com
munist delegation to the forth
coming peace parleys. The Chinese
press was specializing that the
peace meeting between government
and Communist delegations would
begin shortly after January l.
Although there were reports Of
new outbreaks in troubled North
China, and a new Communist charge
of an imminent government often
sive, Gen. Chou asserted to news
papermen he still was working fol
halt to all hostilities.
He said he had urged Chung.
king government representative here
to forward the Communists plar
for peace to Gen. Chang at Nan.
king without waiting for the arriva
of the generalissimo.
Russian Talks Affected.
Associated Press Correspondent
Richard Cushing in Marking sale
the first discussions between Gen
Marshall and Gen. Chang on the
unification of China took place after
a dinner in Gen. Marshall's honol
last night.
Various topics were discussed ovel
the dinner table, Mr.. Gushing said
after which Gen. Marshall and Gen
Chang retired for more serious
talks.
Associated Press Correspondent
Spencer Davis said in a dispatch
from Peiping that Gen. Marshall's
arrival appeared to have had bene.
fetal effect already on Chinese.
Russian negotiations for the occu-
patton of Manchuria.
Mr.. Davis reported that Central
Government emissaries, after re-
| (See CHINA, Page A-1O.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
Patton S Body 10 Lie
In State al Heidelberg
Until Funeral Today
Cosket Borne Through
Sorrowing Lines Of
Comrades in Arms
By the Associated Press.


HEIDELBERG, Germany, Dec.
22.-Past sorrowing lines of his
comrades in arms, the body of
Gen. George Smith Patton, jr.,
was borne tonight to ancient
Villa Reiner, where the warrior
will lie in state until funeral
services tomorrow.
Gen. Patton, one of the most vivid
figures in American military history,
will be laid to rest the next day
in an American military cemetery
at Hamm. Luxembourg, in soil hal
lowed by the blood of his fellow
fighting men in the gallant Sd Army.
The steel casket, draped with the
banners of the Sd, 7th and 18th
Armies. was placed In the oak
panelled drawing room Of the villa.
The spacious room was filled with
fresh roses and carnations flown
in from France.
The somber tones Of an organ,
played in an upstairs room by Sergt.
Joseph Crosby Of Corvallis, Greg,
broke the solemn silence.
Fifty military policemen, COM
manded by 1t. William Higgen-
botham of Fairmont, w. Va, stood
guard in relays of 10. One Of the
guards was Pfc. Henry Koznbol Of
Chicago who served under Gen.
Patton in the 10th Armored Divi-
sion.
I'm proud to serve with Gen.
Patton for the last time" Koznbol
said.
Soldiers Salute Procession.
AS dusk descended over this old
university city an Army ambulance
bearing the body moved out of the
yard of the 130th Station Hospital
where Gen. Patton died late yes
terday. A staff car and three mill
tary police jeeps flashing red lights
escorted the machine.
Silent American soldiers stood
stiffly at attention, their arms raised
in salute, as the procession wound
through the twisting cobblestone
streets. Stolid Germans watched
Internationally.
The Sd and 7th Armies, both of
which Gen. Patton had commanded
with brilliant military success, will
share responsibility for the services
Third Army soldiers will ofiiciate at
the final services at the grave Mon
day on historic battle-ground where
just year ago Gen. Patton helped
cut short the last major bid of the
German Army-the bitter Battle OF
the Bulge.
Messages of tribute and sorrow
poured in from all parts of the
world. In the European theater
American soldiers lowered all flags
to half-staff and closed all soldier
(See PATTON. Page A-5.5
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-23
Two Ex-Legion Chiefs
To Be Suggested as
Pearl Harbor Counsel
Anterior ond CoImery
Georhurt's Choice
For Committee
By j. A. OLEARY and
CARTER BROOKE JONES.


Two former national COM
manders of the American Lee
gion will be suggested to the
Pearl Harbor committee as suit
able counsel to succeed the legal
staff headed by former Attorney
General William D. Mitchell.
Representative Gearhart, Repub-
lican, Of California, announced last
night he would lay before the COM
mittee the names of Warren Ather-
ton, Stockton, Calf, and Harry
Colmery, Topeka, Kans., both for
mer Legion heads. Mr.. Gearhart
explained that the chairman had
asked members to suggest attorneys
who might be willing to serve.
The Californian said both men
were outstanding lawyers and mot
too close to washington politics"
Mr.. Gearhart himself has been
prominent in the Legion for many
years and has held several national
ofhces,
Meanwhile, 1t appeared that the
problem Of finding new counsel Is
unlikely to be solved until after
the Christmas holidays.
Barley Still Undecided.
Another question still hanging in
the air yesterday was whether Chair
man Barley will continue to direct
the committee in view of his heavy
duties as majority floor leader OF
the Senate. Although the Senator
indicated yesterday he still has not
made up his mind, informed sources
at the Capitol believe he will remain
If the investigation can be con-
cluded within the new deadline OF
February Is.
Senator Barley said he doubted
that enough members would be in
town Christmas week to justify an
executive session of the committee
to consider new counsel.
Mr.. Mitchell, his chief assistant
Gerhard Gesell, and the other legal
aides resigned week ago, but agreed
to remain until early in the new
year and help new counsel get start
ed. Mr.. Mitchell's statement in
Dictated he and his staff were re-
signing because of the length of the
hearings and differences over the
scope of the inquiry and what should
be regarded as pertinent evidence.
There have been indications that
one of the chief controversies in
the committee has been over the
necessity for calling a score of wit
nesses to determine whether the
Japanese ever used the so-called
winds code, by which notice of its
intention to go to war was to have
been broadcast to its diplomats
around the world, disguised as
weather reports.
Senator Ferguson, Republican, of
Michigan said yesterday the num-
Der of witnesses whose testimony
may be necessary to settle any per-
tinent point should not be the de-
Gliding factor. While he was not
ready to say how many witnesses
should be called in connection with
the winds code, he said he thought
the question should be gone into
thoroughly.
His comment was prompted by a
recent statement of Representative
Murphy, Democrat, of Pennsyl-
vania that 20 persons would have
to take the stand If committee
members insist on pursuing this one
phase of the events leading up to
1See PEARL HARBOR, Page A-10.)