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The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
Var in Brief
NRy Associated Pressl


.Japan-At least $50 B-29s dumped
more than $3.50 tons OF incendiary
and explosive bombs on Saga, Mae
bishi and Nishinomiya on Honshu
and Imabari on Shikoku-and the
Ube coal liquification plant on
Honshu. One hundred Mustang
fighters strafed Tokyo installations
and communication Sunday. Other
Allied bombers and fighters struck
the Japanese in sweeps extending
from the northern Kuriles south to
Java in the East Indies.
Phlllppines-General Macarthur
announced 4,740 more Japanese
killed 444 captured, bringing ene-
my Philippine campaign casualties
to 443,012.
China-Chinese charged Japa-
nese with numbering $4,000 persons
In Kanhsien area, 240 miles north
OF Hong Kong. And Of sacking
Kweilin. Chinese columns closed
In on Lingllng, former Flying Tiger
base. and Jungan, "a miles to
west.
Rurma-British troops encount-
ering opposition around Nyaun-
glebin and at Abya. both In the
Sittang River area. Almost com
plete destruction Of the Japanese
2sth army in the area north OF
Rangoon announced.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
Police Probing
Case of Beating

Police are investigating the cir.
cumstances leading to the hospi.
talization OF Mrs. Juanita Lee
Rohde. s11 N. Main St., Ann Arbor,
who was treated at Boyer Hospital
for lacerations and bruises received
In beating Saturday.
She told police that she had start.
ed for Detroit with friends, but had
changed her mind at Inkster. and
decided to return home. She began
hitch-hiking. and was given a ride
by a stranger, who said he was
going within half mile OF Ypsi.
lanti.
While she was doing. she said he
must have turned OF on a side road,
because she was aroused when the
car was stopped at strange cross
road. After hitting her with a
cloth. on which she believed was
chlorsform. she claims, he began
TO beat her. finally kicking her out
of the car. and driving away. In
vestigation indicated that the as.
sault occurred on Prospect St., be-
tween Holmes Rd. and Forest Ave.
Mrs. Dan Alexander. 603 n. Ivan
hoe Ave, who was driving on Pros
pect St. stopped and took her 10
the hospital. Mrs. Rohde said the
stranger made no effort TO criminal.
ly attack her.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
New Dealers May
Form Third Party

Topeka, Kas., Aug. GAP For
mer presidential candidate ALI Ian
don said today that as a result OF
the Labor Party's victory in Great
Britain, "The American New Deal
ers are feeling their oats and "eith.
er Mr.. Truman will yield to them
or the left wing New Dealers will
form a third party"
Landon, in an address to the
Topeka Klwanis Club, declared 81
don't think after this British elec.
tion that the left wing New Dealers
will stand for any middle-ground
position. Political parties mean
nothing to them. There are too
many high ranking New Deal casu.
alties already to make them very
happy with Mr.. Truman"
Landon said that 1.-The third party
financed and smartly handled by
the P.A.C. political Action Com
mittee) does not necessarily mean
the election OF the Republican tic
ket."
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06

damaged in previous aerial
blows. reaching over 4,500 miles
from Paramushiro to Singapore.
Need Questioned
The air war reached such pro-
portions a row appeared to be
brewing in Congress over whether
the United States needed an army
OF 100000 men to finish knock
ing out Japan.
China carried the brunt OF
ground actions.
Elsewhere land armies hunted for
Japanese generals in the northern
Philippines. drove toward trapping
the largest Japanese force remain
ing in New Guinea and counted
1900 Nipponese dead in recent
fighting in monsoon-swept South
Burma.
Snperforts warned IL more cit
les Sunday morning they were on
their fire list. A formation OF $50
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
Corp. Newman to
be Buried Today

Fort Worth. Tex. Aug. ZAP
Corp. Jane +. Newman, his fight
for life ended. will be buried with
full military honors In the Gar.
den OF Memories here this after.
noon.
The body OF the Corporal whose
valiant spirit and fight to survive
the effects OF three years in a Jap
prison camp. gained nationwide at
tention, lay in state in a flag-drap.
ed coffin Sunday at a local funeral
home.
Messages Of coincidence poured
into the Newman home. along with
letters containing money for the
purchase OF flowers for Newmans
grave.
Funeral services will be held az
the First Baptist church today al 3
p. m. Newman died Friday. 81
days after he had been permitted
10 come home by Army dolctors
who had given mp hope for him.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
Reason For Loss of Huge
Flying Boat to be Sought

sible internal injuries. He was
removed to the South Baltimore
Hospital. Mobiles was reported to
be in the galley in the lower COM
partment when the hull split open.
The Navy, which planned to op-
crate the craft as a cargo carrier
in the Pacific, said 1t was "damag-
ed in a semi-controlled rough land
ing" but gave no specific cause for
the accident.
Coney. however, repartsd thai
HIS instrument panel went dead
after the vertical stabilizer was
lost at about 1000 feet when the
ship developed "shaky" condition.
He said the crew agreed the plane
could be landed, and 1t was tested
for about a half hour before he
tried to pancake the craft on the
bay.
Coney said he was forced to land
the giant craft at about 120 miles
per hour. which, he explained, was
an uncommonly high speed for the
ship.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
rift in War,
House Groups
Being Talked

Washington, Aug. GINS In.
formed circles speculated today
over the possibility OF break be.
tween the War Department and
the powerful House Military Affairs
Committee.
The former close relations be-
tween the two groups have recent.
ly taken a turn for the worse The
change may have an important
bearing in the handling Of future
Army legislation, which must pass
through the committee.
Observers were surprised at the
sharp tone nsed by the War De-
partment Il branding as unbound.
ed" charges by a Military Affairs
Subcommittee that the Army prac-
tices brutality on imprisoned sol
diers and "whitewashes the guilty
parties" The charges were based
on an investigation into the re-
ported mistreatment of prisoners
at the Lincoln, Neb., Air Field.
Rep. May (D) KY, Military At.
fairs Committee chairman, recently
told friends that the War Depart
ment was giving his group "the
run-around".
May asserted that Maj. Gen. Ste
phen G. Henry. assistant chief Of
staff for personnel, promised" his
committee in June that a lower dis.
charge point system would be an
nounced in July.
When May requested an explana.
ton Of Henry's office for the de-
lay, he was told that the War De-
partmeint hoped to issue a new
Critical score" for discharges "in
two or three days. Instead, Sec.
retary OF War Stimson announced
that the Army was not changing
its point system until December or
January.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
Five Die IN
Detroit Fire

Detroit, Aug. g. AP-Five per.
sons, including seven-year-old twin
brothers, lost their lives and an.
other inmate was IN critical condi.
ton after a Sunday night explo-
sion and fire at a Detroit orphan.
age and old peoples home.
More than 120 other persons
were led or carried to safety by
orphanage employees and firemen.
Police identified the dead as:
Albert and Alfred Cade, seven; /;
Christine Lenth, so, Elizabeth
Berch. 50, and Ida Albrecht, IS.
Receiving Hospital authorities
listed the critically injured as Hell.
enc Kreutz, 80. who Is suffer,Ag
from shock and smoke inhalation.
Inspector George w. Smith OF the
Detroit fire department arson
squad said the blaze broke ou. In
the basement laundry OF the Evan.
gelical Home for Orphans and Old
People, which is on west Grand
Boulevard.
He quoted one OF the boys at
the orphanage as saying that sew
eral had been playing with match.
es in the vicinity Of barrel OF
inflammable liquid.
Mrs. Esther Kock, supervisor OF
younger boys, told police that she
heard an explosion and a few mo.
ments later saw two boys, identi-
fled as the Cades, rush from the
basement with their clothing afire.
Mrs. Koch grabbed one and ex-
tinguished the flames. while George
Bottle. supervisor Of older boys, did
the same with the second boy.
BY this time, smoke was seep-
ing through the corridors OF the
institution, creating a minor panic
among the children and elderly In.
mates. many Of the latter being
bed ridden.
Flremen responding to three
alarms jotped in the rescue work
and then confined the blaze to the
basement Of the home.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
Death Takes
Sen. johnson

Washington, Aug. 6-AP-Sena-
tor Hiram w, Johnson of California.
militant opponent Of the League OF
Nations and the San Francisco
charter for a United Nations or.
ganization. died today at 70 years.
The veteran Republican senator
succumbed at Naval Hospital,
where he had been confined for
two and one-half weeks. His ply
sician, Capt. Robert f. Duncan,
USN, said he died from a thrombos-
Is OF cerebral artery.
Mrs. Johnson was with her hus.
band when he died. His son, 1t.
Colonel Hiram W. Johnson, Jr..
left San Francisco last night by
plane but failed to arrive before
the senator died.
His political activities extended
over a third OF a century covering
some OF the most stirring events
in the nations history.
A striking figure in the Senate
since first elected to Congress in
1916. he played leading part in
defeating President Wilson's Leag.
ue OF Nations covenant and later in
opposing United States adherence
to the world court.
Senator McKellar (D-Tenn) }.
president OF the Senate, today will
appoint a committee to attend the
funeral of the silyer-haffed veteran.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06

Baltimore. Md. Aug. 6-INS-An
investigation was ordered today to
determine why the 72-ton Hawaii
Mars" largest flying boat in the
world. crashed and sank in 20 feet
OF water in Chesapeake Bay, 20
miles southeast Of Baltimore.
The giant four-motored craft
cracked open her hull In a forced
landing at 3:05 p. IN. EWT.. yes
terday while Test Pilot Lieut..
Comdr. William e. Coney headed
the ship northward to Baltimore on
routine flight.
Only one man OF the 10 member
crew. Flight Test Engineer r. s.
Mobiles, was injured. Mobiles suf-
fered cuts and conclusions and pos
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
LITTLE INTEREST

Detroit Tomorrow's municipal
primary here will attract fewer
than 125.000 OF the city's 7S4,640
registered voters. in the opinion OF
city election authorities. Nomin.
ees will be chosen in the non-parti-
san primary for mayor. city coun-
cilmen, city treasurer, city clerk
and traffic court Judge. There
are seven candidates for mayor,
three for city clerk, three foI
treasurer. So for the council and six
for the two nominations to fill the
traffic court vacancy.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
Vandenberg Would Outline
Powers of World Delegate

Washington, Aug. 6-UP-Sen.
Arthur H. Vandenberg. R., Mich,
today proposed seven-point legisla-
ion to govern the choice and pow
ers Of the American delegates to
the United Nations organization.
He said in letter to Secretary
OF State James F. Byrnes that It
was his opinion the power of the
delegate to the Security Council
should be clearly established and
bounded by law" Chairman Tom
Connally, D., Tex, OF the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, has
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06

asked the State Department to de-
termine the need for implement.
ing legislation.
Vandenberg told Byrnes that his
proposals would not impair swift
action by the Council in meeting
threats to the peace. Nor. he said,
would they impair the Presidents
control over the vote OF the Ameri-
can delegate.
He said the implementing statute
should take the following charac.
ter:
l. The American delegate should
be nominated by the President and
confirmed by the Senate, subject to
removal by the President.
2. The delegate should have the
rank, pay and general status OF an
ambassador and should "at all
times act pursuant to the instruc-
tions of the President"
The President should report to
Congress Immediately whenever ne
authorizes the delegate to vote for
the use OF military or economic
sanctions. While this does not de-
tract from the Presidents powers,
Vandenberg said, It will keep Con
gress currently advised regarding
any movements which might gradu-
ate into war, (Which Is an exclusive
congressional prerogative) and free
to assert its attitude II, as and when
II wishes"
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
-Four Jap Cities Now Ashes
Flames Seen
Many Miles
at Sea
CBy Associated Press)

Wy ANSotldNth fIGn9J
American airmen said they turn
ed four more forewarned Japanese
cities to ashes today as $50 Super
forts and Mustang fighters report
edly swept the enemy's sacred Is
lands with fire bombs, rockets and
parachuted mines.
B-29 crewmen returning to their
Marianas island bases told OF set
ting fires visible for $50 miles at
sea. Some ran into intense antiair-
craft fire and strong interception
including rocket planes as they
raided cities Tokyo described as
"defenseless"
Waves OF B-29s from the Marian
as islands and Mustang fighters
from Two Jima struck as American
commanders announced 20 Nip
ponese ships and small craft and 81
locomotives were destroyed or
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
NAMED SECRETARY

DES COINES-AP-Mrs. A. II.
Loomis, Grand Rapids, Mich. was
elected Saturday as secretary Of the
Midwest States Young Republicans.
Michigan, Minnesota. South Dako-
ia and Iowa are charter members
Of the new council and spokesmen
for the organization said they ex-
pected representatives from 13 to
Is states would be included in the
ultimate membership.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
Points Taken Off
Number of Juices

Washington. Aug. 6-AP-Groc
ers scratched point values today
from canned tomato juice, mixed
vegetable Juice and grapefruit-or-
ange Juice blends.
OPA's action in making those
products ration-free yesterday fol-
lowed a recommendation from Sec
retary OF Agriculture Anderson
based on lowered military demands.
Anderson also announced that
civilian store shelves will get To-
100000 more cases Of canned veg
etables from this years pack than
had been expected.
Despite the 10 per cent increase.
however. the Agriculture Depart
ment said the total still would be
less than last years.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
Thieves Again
BecomeActive

Police are investigating another
burglary In the city today. Thieves
broke into the Quality Meat Market,
127 w. Michigan Ave-, and stole
six cartons of cigarettes and a car
ton Of chewing gum. The break
In was discovered by the proprie-
tor, Saturday. but he failed to re-
port II to the police for several
hours because he at first found
nothing missing.
Entry was gained from the out
side stairway at the rear OF the
building. by kicking out a panel Of
the door leading into the store.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
U. s. WEATHER FORECAST

Lower Michigan: Clearing with
little change in temperature TO.
night Tuesday fair and slightly
warmer.
Highest temperature yesterday.
70; lowest, 66.
Highest temperature one year
ago today, 50: lowest, SIS.
Highest temperature this date in
last 70 years, 1O4 in 1918: lowest,
SO in 1884.
The sun sets today at s:45 and
rises Tuesday at $40.
The moon sets today at s:14 D.
m. and rises Tuesday at $3.50 a. m.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
Boys Facing
Train Charge

Warrants against two Ann Arbor
boys, 13 and il respectively, have
been authorized by Prosecutor John
Rae, for attempting to derail a train
in Ann Arbor, July 90.
Investigation by New York Cen
trail Railroad detectives led to the
apprehension OF the boys. They
will be taken into probate court
as delinquents.
The crime, a felony, Is punish
able by a maximum sentence Of life
Imprisonment.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
DOCTORS NEEDED

Lansing, Mich.-The Michigan
State Medical Society today urged
the armed forces to release 5000
medical officers urgently needed
to serve the nations civilian popu-
lation. The society's council. in
a prepared statement, declared "the
Army, Navy and Air Force should
not incur the criticism Of the pub
lie or OF physicians in those SER
vices by holding any physician In
military service day longer than
the interest OF the country re-
duires."
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06

His War bonds we're purchased
from savings on his Press route.
He attends First Baptist Church
on West Cross St. OF which Rev.
William Shaw is pastor. Roberts
Press route is East Cross, Oak,
Maple and North River SITS.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
PLANE HITS WIRE

Detroit-Robert Graham Prince.
IL, and George Wilkinson, Jr.. 3S.
OF Detroit were injured Sunday
when their trainer plane hit high
tension wire and overturned as It
was coming in for a landing at
Warren Airport. Neither was crit
ically injured as the plane looped
over and crashed on its back.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
TO RESUME OPERATION

Detroit-T. p. Archer. general
manager OF Fisher Body division
OF General Motors Corporation. said
today that operation OF the divi-
sion's st. Louis. Mo, assembly
plant will be resumed as soon as
the plant can be reconyerted to
civilian production
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06
ACCIDENTALLY sHo1

Kaamazoo-Donald Jordan. 10,
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Jordan,
was struck In the left leg by a
shotgun charge when the weapon
was discharged accidentally as he
and several other boys were exam.
ming 1t. His condition is not
critical.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06

i've AZ LlU D.
Forest Ave. Rob
ert has carried
The Daily Press
more than four
years. In Septem-
Der he will enter
11th grade at
Ypsilanti High
School, takin 9
the college pre-
paratory course.
His fsvorite sub
ject Ia history
and he would
like to prepare
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06

PARIS -AP- Rep. Dondero (R-
Mich.) heading a ten-man congress
sionsl committee, visited troop
camps in the reims assembly area
yesterday, inspecting Army devel-
opment.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-08-06

Paris, Aug. 6-AP-Marshal Pc
tain. on trial for his life on charg-
es OF reasonable acts. was describ-
ed today by a French delegate to
the San Francisco conference as a
man OF perfect patriotism and
loyalty to France"
The description was in a tele-
gram from Pierre Merillon. former
member OF the French embassy In
Madrid where Petain served.
II was read as the third week OF
the tt4al opened, just before Gen.
Henri Lacaille testified that Wins
ton Churchill told Vichy represen-
tative 70 Great Britain:
I'VE have been momentarily sep
arated. Let us try not to damage
each other any further"
The representative was a Col.
Groussard. whom the defense de-
scribed as a former member Of the
pro-Fascist Cagoulard and as pres
ent representative OF the De Gaulle
government in Switzerland. The
general said Groussard was sent 10
London to inquire II Great Britain
could assist the French with milf.
tary aid in North Africa. Lacaille
did not say whether the British
made commitments, most Of his
testimony was concerned with the
material weakness Of the French
army in the years Immediately pre-
ceding the war
Some 35 defense witnesses re-
main to be called-generals and
other colleagues OF the 50 year old
marshal, including Gen. Alphonse
JUN, one-time commander OF
French forces in North Africa.