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Discharges
Continued from Page II

NSOutiuuCu iIOm aSS ~
Inmates that had 10 be supplied
in connection with the annual
budget and that later conditions
would give us new set of
figures" He did not amplify
this.
At the War Department, addi-
tional details on the point score
were announced.
WAC PROGRAM
The discharge score for en-
listed Wacs will be reduced
from al 10 SO on Oct. /. and
further reduced to "a on Nov. /.
With the exception of medical
officers, male officers of all
grades. including warrant off,
GERS and flight officers, will be
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Even 80 Per Cent Wage Hike
Nav Be Effected AmicobIy y

Suppose that strike hits one
firm just at the time when the
whole industry is beginning to
roll off cars in good numbers.
The struck firm then must
,'atch. helplessly, its COMPETE
tors grab off the big civilian
market of people waiting to buy
new cars.
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Women keep "harems' of men
and dominate all activities in
certain sections of Malaysia.
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Factory
CONTINUED from Page -

made because of the existing
heavy demand for the firms
products, officials said. II is
their determination that a
greater volume of production
can be maintained without in
terruption through making the
shift TO Mount Clemens in easy
stages.
Complete plans for the spa
cious new manufacturing plant
have been drawn by the Austin
company, internationally known
industrial builders. The plant
will be of brick and steel con-
struction and will incorporate
the most up-to-date and efficient
production methods the manage
ment said. All manufacturing
operations will be confined TO
one floor.
NEW OFFICE BUILDING
Included in the building pro-
gram of the company is an I'M
posing new office structure
which, together with the COM
plete plant, will face on Lafay-
cite avenue.
Marshall expressed deep APP
probation if the cooperation ex-
tended his company. Four other
sites had been under serious
consideration he revealed. I'VE
appreciate very much the coop
Grafton which we have had from
Board of Commerce executives
and members and the fine spirit
exhibited by Mayor Albert A.
Wagner and his fellow members
of the Mount Clemens City
Commission he said. I'VE are
sure that the relationship be-
tween our plant and the COM
munity will prove mutually
beneficial and helpful. We look
forward with pleasure to build
ing and operating in this city,
he concluded.
LONG NEGOTIATIONS
A. D. Brewer, secretary of the
Board of Commerce, revealed
that original negotiations in the
Electromaster undertaking be.
gan more than eight years ago,
were virtually at a standstil,
throughout the war but were
resumed within the past six
months. 1--WE certainly feel that,
in gaining the Electromaster OPP
Grafton Mount Clemens can look
forward to a better and brighter
future" he said.
Christian F. Matthews, who
handled all legal work for the
corporation in negotiating the
purchase of the site, said that
approximately 16 acres of the
property had previously been
owned by J. c. Ernst, of Rich
mond, two acres had been ac-
quired from the Steffens Estate,
of Fraser, and the remaining
acreage had belonged to the
RosSeel estate,
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Mountbatten Allied comman-
der in southeast Asia, directed
his broadcast order yesterday
to Field Marshal count Juichi
Terauchi, commander of the Jap
anese southern army, and advis-
ed him that the japanese ENJOYS
should be empowered to arrange
for complete land, sea and air
surrender in the theater.
The order, broadcast by the
new Delhi radio, was in accord
ance with the surrender proce-
dure outlined in Manila yester-
day by Gen. Macarthur, who
said responsibility for that por-
ton of the southwest Pacific
area which lies south of the
Philippines will be assumed by
British and Australian COM
manders."
Mountbatten's order did not
specifically defeine Terauchi S
command area, but presumable
i. includes Burma, Indo-China,
Singapore, Thailand and the
Malay states.
The Japanese in Burma, who
have lost approximately $4,000
men In bloody fighting in re-
cent weeks, are continuing the
See BURMA-Page
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Original Tokyo
Raiders Safe
in Prison Camp

CHUNGKING, Aug. 21-(R-
Four members of General Doo-
Titles first mission over Tokyo
were released from prison
camp in Peiping the office OF
strategic services announced to-
day.
The names will not be dis
closed until relatives have been
notified.
japanese propagandists, ap-
parently intending to intimidate
American filters, announced that
some of the Doolittle filters who
had taken off from the carrier
Hornet and bombed the home.
land were put to death.
The four were rel ease q
through the efofrts of q humani'
tari.l mteam which parachuted a,
Peiping, 1t was announced.
A radio message from the team
received in Chungking today
said the men were now quarter.
See RAIDERS-Page Z
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Defroit;s Idle
Mumber2O0,OOO

DETROIT, Aug. 21-(R-De-
troit's army of unemployed,
made idle by the sudden cancel
lation of some $1,500,000, 900
worth of war contracts, was esti-
mated today to total approxi-
mately 100000 men and women.
The figure came from officials
of the United States Employment
Service and the Michigan Unem-
ployment Compensation Com
mission, as hundreds of persons
lined up at the USES and MUCC
offices for the second day seek
ing Jobs or certification for I'm.
employment compensation.
Many of those who appeared
at the various offices throughout
the city brought stools with them
or improvised chairs with boxes.
Some brought reading matter;
some of the women had knitting
with them. A few brought
lunches.
At the central USES office in
Second boulevard the line at one
time this forenoon extended for
seven blocks. At the office in
West Fort street and Junction
avenue, extra police were called
to maintain order. They esti-
See DETROIT-Page 7
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t ~
July d Crash
Ends Fatally
Probe Accident
Nsor New Haven

The death of an automobile &C.
cident victim approximately ore
month after the accident in
which it was believed she was
only slightly hurt, is being in
vestigated this week by tho
Wayne County coroner's office,
which indicated that Z full re-
port will be submitted to Prose-
cutor Wilbur F. Held for study.
The auto victim was June
Amelia Thies, 81 Of 40 Roian
Crosse Pointe Farms, who was
found dead in her bed Saturday
morning.
Miss Thies had recently coma
planned to her family Of dizzy
spells and illness, presumably
from an accident in which 3 en-
driven by her was involved at
8 p. m, July %, at New Haven
road and Gratiot.
A report made at that time BY
William Heinemann. police chief
Of New Haven. said that Miss
Thies' car was going south on
Gratiot when it was struck by
a car driven east on New Haven
road by Edmund Borgacz, IL, Of
463 Marine City highway, New
Baltimore.
The report cited Borgacz for
"disregarding a stop and 90
light, and said that witnesses
said Borgacz drove through .
red light. The name of only one
witness was listed in the report:
Mrs. Louise Kelly, of 211 South
Kennifer, Yale, Mich.
The report states that Mis-
Thies received slight leg injur-
les" and was treated at st. Jos
eph Hospital. A relative with
her, Olivia Thies, Is, Of thu
See FATAL-Page I
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kukden Holds
Rescue cams
Russions Must q. K.
Releases, Jops Soy

CHUNGKING, Aug. Fl Up
Lit. Gen. Albert G. Wede-
meyer, American commander IN
China, announced today he had
received word from Mukden
that all American personnel
landing there probably would be
informed until the japanese are
given permission by the Rus
SLAMS to allow such landings.
Mukden, chief industrial CEN
ter in Manchuria, was occupied
by the Russians yesterday, Mos
cow announced.
Wedemeyer said he had re-
ceived the word from Mukden
yesterday.
- Allied Humanitarian teams"
Including Americans, began
series Of parachute descents last
week and established contact
with Allied prisoners of war in
Japanese camps, including one
100 miles northwest of Mudken
where 1t. Gen. Jonathan Vain
right was found.
Seven American prisoners of
war who were held in prison in
Peiping on a chance of attempt
Ing escape are being transferred
tc the Wagons Lifts Hotel IL
Peiping where they will be cared
for by humanitarian team
which landed in the ancient cap
ital Aug. II. Wedemeyer's head
quarters announced. Another
such prisoner is being moved
to the hotel from Tsinan, in
Shantung province.
Headquarters said 317 civil
ians internees were reported
See MUKDEN-Page 7
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ministry that the first occupation
troops would be airborne, land
ing at Atsugi Airfield, 20 miles
southwest Of Tokyo.
The airborne landings will be
followed Tuesday, Aug. %, with
further landings from warships
and transports in the Yokosunka
area" the ministry said. Yoke
suka is one of Japan's great ma
val bases. It Is located at the
mouth of Tokyo bay.
Tokyo meanwhile professed to
the world that she was extreme
ly fearful many of her military
men-"without any experience
of actual defeat on the field of
battle"-would create disorders
the moment Macarthur and his
hosts landed in Japan. That
broadcast was In English.
The japanese announcements
were the first disclosures of plans
for the triumphal entry by Al
lied forces which will lead to
the formal surrender to General
Macarthur as Supreme Allied
Commander.
Tokyo's disclosures followed
an imperial announcement that
See LANDING-Page
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Ernie Py|e's Widow
Opposes Memorial

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, Aug
FL - up - Mrs. Ernie Pyle
widow of the famed war cor
respondent, asked today that
promotion of a multi . million
dollar park and cemetery me-
mortal at Dana and Terre Haute,
Ind, be abandoned, and asserted
she would never consent to hav-
ing Pyle's body removed from
lie Shima.
1t was proposed that the war
correspondent. killed on lie Shi-
ma, be buried in the memorial
cemetery.
Mrs. Pyle. who still lives in
the little white cottage to which
Ernie so often referred in his
stories, said she thought the
small library proposed by his
friends and neighbors at Dana
was useful, and that she ap-
proved the journalism scholar
ship offered by Indiana Univer-
sity.
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Non.Fraiernilaiion
Is New Tokyo Rule

. SAN FRANCISCO. Aug al
R)-The Japanese government,
on The eve of Allied occupation
of its homeland, issued q. nom
determination order.
The statement said:
I'm regard to the supplying Of
living quarters and food to the
Allied landing forces. the army
and government will assume full
responsibility.
There will be no contact be-
tween the general public and the
landing forces. We emphasize
this point"
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in Hii-Run Case
MoePhsrson Hearing
Adjourned Again

The much-delayed examina-
ton of G.. Boyd Mcpherson,
wealthy Warren Township oil
executive, ran into further snags
today when Justice of the Peace
Donald J. Parent ordered an
other adjournment of the case
due to the absence of the COM
planning witness.
After two adjournments last
week due to VI Day and ab-
sence of principal witness, ev-
erything was in readiness for
the examination today. How
ever when Michael Sowinski,
the complaining witness did not
make an appearance the hear
ing was moved to Thursday.
Sowinski, upon whose request
the present holly contested war
rant was issued, has contended
that he followed MacPherson's
car after it allegedly struck and
fatally injured Joseph Baldwin.
Of Warren Township, at the in
tersection of Van Dyke and Or
chard on Oct. 18, 1913.
Appearing in court were the
defendant and his counsel, Lar
ry Davidow and Hugh Neale
and Prosecuting Attorney Viii.
bur F. Held.
Held told the court that he
was ready to 60 ahead with the
CASE" He added that he would
be present at Thursdays exami-
C>~ EFT RY1N-Da~n
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War Department
SIashes Contracts
Five Millions
Of Work Stopped

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. al
tP- War contract examinations
totaling $5,o15,e95,2s5 have
been reported to the Securities
and Exchange Commission by 49
corporations with securities list
ed on national stock exchanges,
1t was disclosed today.
Three aircraft companies
alone reported more than ST.
600, 100000 in contract termina-
lions. They are Boeing Airplane
Company, Seattle, Wash, $780,
100000: United Aircraft Corpor-
alton, Hartford, Conn, $685.
600, 900, and Wright Aeronau-
tical Corporation, Paterson, N
j., $452, 900, 900.
Othe Examinations included:
Packard Motor Car Company,
Detroit, $400, 900, 900.
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TACKLED FOUR ZERoS
Bechtel Wins Second DIG

A veteran of % months in the
South Pacific with the Army
Air Forces, during which he
completed IS combat missions
and won the Distinguished Fly
ms Cross (navaD and an Air
Medal with four oak-leaf clus-
tiers, Major Paul S. Bechtel, of
Mount Clemens. was recently
honored with a second Distin-
guished Flying Cross by the
army.
His latest award was for ex-
.ceptional heroism i'm warding
off four Japanese zeros, in a
12,000-foot dog-fight during
which he sent two crashing to
destruction and badly damaged
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Flood Control
Funds Awaited
Congress Looks
to Postwar Fro

Mayor Albert A. Wagner OF
Mount Clemens, today hailed
with optimism an official report
from Washington that five bill
ion dollars of flood control and
navigational projects await only
a Congressional starting gun and
specific appropriations for the
launching Of tremendous post
war flood control program.
Although Wagner believes
that the flood control project
for the Clinton River, recently
recommended by the Board OF
Supervisors, has not yet reach
ed the Congressional committee
stage, he pointed out that it is in
the hands of War Department
engineers and may be placed be-
fore the Rivers & Harbors COM
mittee this fall.
The five billion dollars in pro-
jects now awaiting the solons'
approval in Washington include
flood control, navigation, irriga-
ton and river and harbor pro-
jerts.
How many projects will get
under way shortly will depend
on how we'll private industry alb
serbs the manpower made idle
as a result of the war end.
However. most industries are
planning on a 80-day lag In pro-
duction for re-conversion pur-
poses, and it is possible Con-
gress may find it necessary to
See FLOOD-Page
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OSLO, Norway, Aug. Fl -
Up A German document read
by the prosecution today said
that Vidkun Quisling met the
German Admiralty Staff in 1899
and furnished information about
the Norwegian coast before the
1910 Nazi invasion.
Quisling, who became "Pre-
mier" during the German occu-
ption, is on trial for his life
charged with military and civil
treason, murder on 16 counts,
theft, receiving stolen property
and attempting to bring Norway
under q foreign power.
Prosecutor Annaeus Schjoedt
said the once high ranking Nazi,
Alfred Rosenberg. had identified
and termed authentic all docu-
ments produced in the Quisling
trial thus far. including those of
yesterday which the state offered
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Army to Aid
MrPLanf
Rec0nuersiOn'

DETROIT, Aug. n - @ -
The Army today announced
plans for assisting in CONVERTING
Detroit's numerous war indus.
tries to a peacetime basis within
90 days.
Brig. Gen. A. d. Quinton.
Jr., commanding officer Of the
Detroit Ordnance district, dis
closed that the Army has al
ready Joined in the task &C
clearing plants of government
owned machinery. tools and ma.
terialS.
General Quinton revealed
that more than 1000 contracts.
involving $500, 900, 900 worth
of war materials. were cancelled
in the Detroit area in the first
seven hours after President Tru.
See WAR PLANT-Rage :
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Roosevelt Msmoriol
Stomp Goes on Sale

NEW YORK, Aug. Fl up
The first Roosevelt Memorial
two-cent stamp will be sold Fri
day at the Little White House"
in Warm Springs, Ca. where
Franklin Roosevelt fought his
battle against infantile paraly-
ses and where he died.
Gov. Ellis Arnall Of Georgis
will sell the first Of the rectang-
ular, red stamps to Basil O'Con-
nor, president of the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralys
sis,
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Claim Truman
in Favofof
Jobs for All
Full Employment
Hearings Stort
Before Senators

WASHINGTON, Aug. FL -
Up Backers of legislation de-
signed to underwrite jobs for all
American except school chill
dren and full-time housewives
claimed strong presidential sup
port today as hearings opened
before q Senate Banking SUBJ
committee.
The legislation, labeled the
full employment act original
ly was introduced by four DEM
ocrats, Murray of Montana,
Thomas of Utah, Wagner of
New ork and O'Mahoney Of Wy
aiming. Four Republicans later
joined them as co-sponsors -
Morse of Oregon, Tobey of New
Hampshire, Aiken of Vermont
and LANCER Of North Dakota.
Marked must" by the White
House. the Bill sets out the pol
icy that "all Americans able to
work and seeking work have
the right to useful, remunera-
tive, regular and full-time en-
ployment." 1t declares that
when there are not enough jobs
to 60 around, it is the Federal
governments responsibility to
spend enough money to provide
them.
The measure makes specific
references to Public Works pro-
grams. Sponsors stress the desir-
ability of proper Federal invest
ments, while disclaiming any
idea for made-work or leaf rak-
ing projects.
Wagner and Murray discussed
the measure with President Tru-
man yesterday, reporting later
that The is strong for it" and
"he wants MS to proceed with all
due haste"
NOT DEFICIT SPENDING
Eight days of hearings are
scheduled this week and next,
with Gen. Omar N. Bradley,
new veterans administrator, La
Dor Union presidents, business
organizations, cabinet officers,
Labor Union presidents, bust
ness organization representa-
tives and Sculptor 10 Davidson
also will be heard. The commit
tee held a two-day hearing on
the measure earlier in the
month.
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Pea(eiinle
Production
Gets OK Sign
Wartime Controls
Are Tossed Aside;
Study Employment
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2f-tR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2f-tR
- American industry to ay
poured through the door-open-
ed by the government - into
the promised land of full pro-
duction for peace.
The government last night
tossed off 210 wartime controls
on industry. Some 125 remain.
Most of them, too, soon will be
Topped off.
The action gives an official
and full - go-ahead on manu-
facture of things like radios,
refrigerators, trucks.
Meanwhile:
I. Economic Stabilizer Will
liam H. Davis pointed out that
pay raises under the govern
ment's new program, won't
cause price increases.
2. A Senate committee came
back today, ahead of time, to
resume hearings on the social
ed "full employment" bill. Pres
ident Truman wants 1t passed.
3. The full Congress itself may
not come back September 5, as
planned, but a week or so later.
Here's the story on produc-
ton:
EXPLAIN EXCEPTIONS
Last week the War Produc-
ton Board announced a plan to
send American industry spin
ming back into full production
fast: by lifting wartime con-
trolls.
The 210 lifted last night put
the plan into official action. All
but perhar 40 of the remain
ing 125 restrictions will disap-
pear promptly.
See GO AHEAD-Page 7
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a third plane.
The second DEC award was
made to Major Bechtel on Aug.
Is at Victory Parade in Elgin
Field, Vla., with Col. John r.
Whitley, commanding officer of
the proving ground command,
Elgin Field, making the award
before large military and pub
lie assembly.
Major Bechtel, the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert G. Bechtel Of
Denver, Colo, Is the husband Of
Joan Margaret Noe, of Mount
Clemens, and they are the par
ents Of a son, Paul s., Jr., ase
nine months. In addition to his
=. See BECHTEL-Pa9o
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THE WORLD ON WHEELS
Jalopies Crowd Highways

ment, and said highways were
so damned that few motorists
were able to "open her up" as
they had planned in their en-
thusiastic opening Of the Sunday
driving season.
The lid was really off.
A seemingly endless line Of
cars streamed along Gratiot ave.
nue. as thousands of motorists re-
turned from tricks to Northern
Michigan and the shores of beau
tiful Lake st. Clair.
The shaded highways were
packed with picknickers as
young and old sought to get a
See yALOPIES-Page !
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Sleek, high powered 1912
automobiles, and patched-up ja-
Topics of the 1920 and early 1880
vintage, crowded Macomb Coun-
ty highways to overflowing
throughout the past weekend.
the first ration-free driving in
three years. They presented law
enforcement authorities with
their first serious postwar prob
lem-the prevention Of accidents
and injury.
Although no fatal crashes
were reported and serious mis-
haps were scarce, veteran police
officers attributed this more to
good luck than good manage
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Amerieon lntevnees
Released in Tokyo

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. al
(P- Thirty-four English and
American women and two boys
who had been informed in Tokyo
by the metropolitan police were
release dtoday, radio Tokyo re-
ported.
The broadcast, in English, did
not say how many of those re-
leased were English or Ameri-
can, nor we're names given.
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QuisIing Aided Plot
for Nozi Invasion

to support its accusation that
Quisling helped the Germans
plan the invasion.
Faced with the task of dis
proving the states charges OF
See QUISLING-Paye 7
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Mountbat+en Demands Surrender Of Burma Japs
Japs Say Disorder
May Mark LundinqS

MANILA, Aug 21-t41-Allied occupation Of Japan win
begin Sunday the japanese and imperial
tiers said today in joint communique
The communique broadcast by the japanese Domei
ampfied earlier Information
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Fighting Continues;
Peace ENJOYS Asked

LONDON Aug 21-E-Japanese troops continued to fight
all the 300mle Burma front today Admiral Lord Louis
Mountbaen awaited reply to his radio directing the
Southeast Asia commander to send surrender ENJOYS
10 Rangoon by Thursday
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OPEN ALL DAY Wednesdays
PRIEHS MERCANTILE
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OPEN ALL DAY WednoodayD
PRlEHS MERCANTILE