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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-02-15
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
Chestnut and First


Rev. Warren E. Hall, Pastor
GAS a. m, Church school.
IL a. NJ. Morning worship. Com
munion service, reception of new
members Snd also baptism of chill
dren.
Junior choir rehearsal, childrens
play hour
$50, Westminster Fellowship.
1880 p. m, Evening Service. Ma
onic ladies attending.
Wednesday. 7 p. m. Boy Scouts.
Thursday at 4:00-Girl Scout.
Thursday, 1880 p. m, Boy Scout
Pack.
Board of DeaconS.
Tuesday 10 a. m, Red Cross sew
ing.
Wednesday, 7:3O, Boy Scout Troop
No. 6.
Wednesday, 800, 25th anniversary
reception.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-02-15
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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-02-15
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Corner Van Alst-ne and Chestnut


SOIL" will e the subject of the
Lesson Ser.-,on in all Christian
Science churches throughout the
world Oh Sunday, February Is.
The Golden TIE. t (P5almS CPD is:
Truly my soul waiteth upon God:
from him cometh my salvation.
Among the Bible cite lions is this
passage (RomanS 13:6,1O: owe
no man anything, but to love one
another: for he that loveth an
other hath fulfilled the law. Love
worketh no i'll to his neighbor:
therefore love is the fulfilling of the
law"
Correlative passages to be read
from the Christian Science textbook,
Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures by Mary Raller Eddy.
include the following (2o5): when
We realize that there is one Mind,
the divine law of loving our neigh
Dor as ourselves is unfolccd; where
as a belief III many ruling minds
hinders mans normal drift towards
the one Mind, one God, and leads
human thought into opposite chan
nels where selfishnesS reignS."
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL
Superior at First
Rev. Norman Jackson, Pastor
Eleanor Bennink. Organist and
Choir Director
$40 a. m, Church school, Junior
and Senior departments.
IL a. m, Kindergarten and pri-
mary departments.
II a. m, Morning worship. Topic,
"a Religion That Lifts
$50 p. m, Pilgrim Fellowship.
Tuesday, 4 p. m, Junior choir re-
hearsal.
Monday, 800 p m, Guild at Mrs.
Otto Welke.
Thursday, AIS, Girl Scouts and
Brownies.
Thursday, TOO, Boy Scouts.
Thursday, 800 p. m, Choir re-
hearsal.
Friday, 800, Annual Father and
Son Banquet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
JOHN NCURTIN
 PASSESAWAY
Prime Minister of Australia Dies in Canberra After
 Long Illness

CANBERRA, Australia, July B. Prime Minister John Curtin, 60, IS dead after a long illness from a heart ailment with lung compli- cations.
 His successor will likely be chosen next Thursday by the Parliament ary Labor Party from Deputy Prime Minister Francis M Forde, Treas urer Joseph B. Chifley, former locomotive engineer; or Minister of External Affairs Herbert E. Evatt, Australia's recent delegate to the San Francisco Security Conference.
 Pending the selection, Forde will continue as acting premier. He was appointed Army Minister, sec ond in command of the Govern ment, when the Curtin Govern ment took office in 1941.
 Before crowded public galleries, the Federal Parliament mourned Curtins death. Tribute poured in shortly after the Premier died of coronary thrombosis.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
Philippine Islands
 Won Batk;; MatArihur
 Makes Proclamation

MANILA, July 5.-All the Philip pine Islands have been won back in the greatest disaster ever sustained by Japanese arms" Gen. Douglas Macarthur proudly proclaimed to- day and their 115,60O square miles are being transformed into bases comparable to the British Islands . to spur the march on Tokyo.
 In 25O days of campaigning, IT American divisions whipped 35 Japa- nese divisions in lone of the rare instances when -. a ground force superior in numbers was entirely destroyed by numerically inferior opponent"
 Roughly 420,000 Japanese were slaughtered, including such hated outfits as the 16th Imperial Division which tortured American and Fili- pino prisoners in the death march" after the 1942 fall of Bataan.
 A spokesman estimated that pos sibly 30,000 Japanese survive in all the archipelago, cut into groups and driven into mountains where they are reduced to guerrilla activity.
 American ground and air person. nel casualties up to July l were listed as 11,921 killed, 40 missing and 42,569 wounded - a total of 54.891.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
GEN. SpAATz
 ASSIGNED TO
 PACIFIC WAR
Bomber Chief Will Head NewIy-uedfed Army
 Air Force

WASHINGTON, July 5.-General Carl A Spaatz, who directed the strategic bombing that leveled Ger many, today was given the same as- signment in the Pacific.
 Spaatz will arrive at the War De- partment for conferences on his new assignment perhaps this week.
 Under Secretary Robert P. Patter- son announced at a news confer cnce the creation of the U. s. Army Air Force in the Pacific with Gen. Spaatz as the supervising general reporting directly to General of the Army H. H. Arnold.
 There will be two principal air forces in the new bombing of Japan. The 9th Air Force will be under It. Gen. James Doolittle and the 20th will operate under Maj. Gen. Curtis E. Lamay
 This giant force was established, Patterson said, tbecause of the greatly increased size and activity of the Superfortress attacks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
ADM. MIT5CHER
 MAKES ADDRESS
 ON SEATTLE'S 4TH
Declares Jap Navy EIimin- oied But Nips Are Not
 Giving Up Fight

SEATTLE, July 5.-Japan's Navy is virtually eliminated as a fight ing unit and it's Naval air power lis now almost. non -existant," Vice Ad-- miral Marc A. Mitscher said yes- terday, but he warned he would not count heavily upon their quitting.
 The leader of the famed Task Force 58, in speeches prepared for an Independence Day observance said the Japanese show no indi- cation that they will give up, even though they are being burned day after day by our heavy bombers and by Navy Carrier Air Force X X K
 Thousands lined downtown streets as Admiral Mitscher led parade in which 7,500 persons, chiefly military personnel. took part.
 Admiral Mitscher said he believed Japanese Kamikaze attacks are born of desperation and a desire to prolong the war in the hope we
 will wear out"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
CHURCHILL, FRANCO 10
 HAVE TALK
Published Report Is, How ever, Doubted-B Big }
 Meet at P0tsddm

LONDON, July 5.--A published re- port said today that Prime Minister Churchill would meet Generalissimo Franco of Spain before the Big Three conference in Potsdam, but a Foreign Office commentator cast doubt on the report.
 The best guess was that President Truman, Generalissimo Stalin and Churchill would confer at Potsdam, a Berlin suburb, July IA or 16. They will try to liquidate outstanding European problems.
 The Prime Minister. tired from the election campaign, his wife and daughter are expected to take a holiday at the beautiful Chateau de Bordaberry on the French Basque coast just outside Hendaye on the spanish border before the Big Three meeting. Bordeaux reports said tele- phone and telegraph experts were connecting the villa direct with London.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
AIR RAIDS MADE OVER
 WIDE AREA
Fires Are Set by Supers in Four Mainland Nip Cities
 Mustangs Join in
By AL DOPKING Associated Press Correspondent

tAssociateu freSs lOrreSpOndent)
 GUAM, July g. Approximately 800 American planes set off Fourth of July fires and explosions in Jap an, capped by an hour-long radio challenge of fighters circling three Tokyo airfields for the Japanese air force to come up for battle The dare went unanswered.
 Fires in four Japanese cities burn ed so brightly they could be seen simultaneously by returning B-29 pilots.
 Two Japanese destroyers were hit in the Yellow Sea. Six Tokyo air fields were ripped Everything from power houses to light houses was shot up.
 Photographic asses sm ent was underway today to check the results of the greatest Independence Day celebration of the Pacific war
 It started when a fleet of 500 Superfortresses fire-bombed four mainland cities, leaving them in flames set off by 5000 tons of incendiaries
 Before the day was over, Army, Navy and Marine fliers had given Nippon's dwindling Empire a thor ougn going over with bombs and strafings.
 The B-29 attack was followed by a force of more than l50 Mustang fighters of the U. s. Seventh Army Air Force which went on an aerial rampage, flying over hundreds of miles of Japan's home soil looking for Japans air force and ground targets.
 The Mustangs, Two Jima head quarters announced today, found more installations than enemy pilots. They destroyed eight planes on the ground, damaged 24 more, and then roamed at will, shooting up six airfields, radio stations, freight cars. control towers. am- intuition sheds, gas tanks and power plants,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
AU5SIES IN
 ADVANCE IN
 BALIkpApAN
Strike Last Japanese Foot hoIds-0iI Port PrdC-
 tioalIy Controlled
By RUSSELL BRINES

BALIKPAPAN, Borneo, July B. Australian infantrymen struck today at the last Japanese footholds i'll Balikpapan, Borneo's major oil port, which already for all practical pur- poses is in Allied hands.
 (Radio Tokyo insisted Japanese lines were holding and that an Aus tralian attack spearheaded by 30 tanks had been repulsed with heavy loss. It estimated Allied casualties at HOO since the beachhead was made last Sunday-700 in the sea and 400 ashore. Allied sources have said casualties were nght)
 American engineers with the in- vasion celebrated Fourth of July by sailing two of their LCMs into Bal ikpapan Bay despite the fact it was not yet cleared of Japanese mines.
 The landings of the LCMs at
 
 Japanese built pontoon wharves marked the first entry of Allied shipping into the bay since the Nipponese took over in 1941.
 The bay itself was in strong con- trast with the wrecked and scared port city. Only few sunken ships protrude above it's calm waters.
 Artillery duelad, meanwhile, with strongly placed enemy guns across the three mile wide Balikpapan Bay while engineers rushed .'econstruc- tion of captured Sepinggang air strip and a column smashed against strong opposition in a drive to envelope Manggar, last major enemy airfield in the invasion territory.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
IS
 v0TING;; I5 GREAT DAY
Churchill, AttIee Leading Opponents Question
 of Left or Right

LONDON, July 5.--Britain is vot- ing today to decide the bitterly de- bated issue of free enterprise versus Socialism in general election watched by the world for an indica- tion of Europe's postwar political trend-left or right.
 In the country's stormiest cam- paign in decades the Conservative Party led by Prime Minister Chur- chill supported it's traditional policy of freedom of economic enterprise.
 The Labor Party headed by Clem- ent Attlee demanded the national ization of four basic industries with the announced aim of eventually es- tablishing "Socialistic' common wealth of Great Britain.
 . Results will not be known until July 26 because the absentee soldier vote will remain to be counted, but both sides voiced the usual election eve confidence in the outcome.
 We are going to win Churchill shouted at rally last night. T feel it in my bones.' Conservative news papers speculated on a majority of up to 100 seats for their party, which had 52-seat majority in the last House of Commons. elected 10 years ago.
 However. the Laborite Daily Her aid said
 All indications are that today's poll will overwhelmingly confirm the swing to Labor, which months be- fore the campaign began, was free ly admitted in Tory Conservative circles
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
Two Committees
 Of House Coming
 North in Summer

WASHINGTON, July 5-Two com- mittees of the House of Representa- tives will visit Alaska this summer: the Territories Committee and the Interior Subcommittee of the Ap- propriations committee.
 The latter group plans to leave Seattle July IS and expects to study such subjects as fisheries, land, na- tives, which are supervised by the Interior Department.
 Rep. Jed Johnson (D-Okla) is chairman of the subcommittee. He has been appointed to be member of the customs court but has not yet resigned from Congress. Other mem bers are Reps Michael J. Kirwan D-Ohio), w. F. Norrell D-Ark) John J. Rooney tD-NY), Robert F. Jones (R-Ohio), Ben F. Jensen, tR- Iowa), and Henry c. Dworshak (R- Idaho) Clerk is William A. Du- wall.
 The Territorial Committee is plan ming to leave Seattle about August 1, and Chairman Hugh Peterson D- Ga) said he expected that at least a dozen members would make the trip. He said he expects to go and that Rep. J. w. Robinson D-Utah) has said he will go. Both are mem bers of the House committee on roads and highways, of which Rob- inson is chairman. Rep. Homer D. Angel R-Ore), ranking Republi- can member of the committee, also will be a member of the party
 Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska) who will accompany this group says special emphasis will be placed on studies relating to proposed revisions of the Organic Act of Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
The W ashinqton Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON It. Col Robert S. Alien now on active service with the Army)

The old hullabal0O of artillery shells not reaching the Western Frcnt is now being settled once and for all by the Mead Committee. Careful Senator Kilgore of West Virginia interviewed high-ranking generals at the front who swore there was no shell shortage =. General Somervell and Under Sec retary of War Patterson had screamed that the home front had fallen down. Even Jimmy Byrnes fell for this one . Though Tru- man has brought lot of Western CTS into the Cabinet, actually three New Workers remain. They are: Stimson CWar), Forrestal (Navy) Norge hau (Treasury). The fourth New Yorker, Miss Perkins, stepped down =. Here is the geo. graphical layout of the rest of the Cabinet: Texas Clark, Attorney GeneraD; Illinois-Qckes, Inter- ior); Wallace, Commerce. ; New Mexico-(Anderson, Agricul- ture); WaShington-(S h wei IT, bach, Labor South Carol n a. (Byrnes, State); Missouri tHanne- gan, Post Office ... Then, ot course, Harry Truman himself, also from Missouri. So it looks as if the West was pretty well repre- Sented
 Chalk up a belated victory to the little group of Senators who op-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
k0RGENTHAU
 RESIG S AS TREASURER
Truman Announces Accept eeptanee- Successor 10
 Announced Later

WASHINGTON, July 5. = Presi- dent Truman today accepted the resignation of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
 The President said he would name Morgenthau's successor upon his return from the Big Three meeting near Berlin, which he said would take place in about three weeks.
 Names which have figured in speculation over a new treasury chief include Director of War Mob ilization Fred Vinson: John C. Snyder, the new Federal Loan Ad- m mist tor; Senator George D.-Ga), veteran Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Walter J. Cummings of the Chicago Board, Chairman of the Contin- ental-Illinois National Bank and Trust Company.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
Bartlett Proposes
 .Limii on Fishing

WASHINGTON, July 5.-Delegate Bartlett of Alaska has introduced in the Senate a bill to limit commer- cial salmon fishing in the Moser Bay and Olga Bay areas and the area be- tween Cape Karluk and Cape Uyak to persons who have lived within 75 miles of the area for five years, ex- cept that for the 1946 season resi- dence continuously since June shall be considered sufficient.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
JUSTICE ROBERTS RESIGNS POSITION,
 SUPREME COURT

WASHINGTON, July 5.-President Truman today announced the resig- nation of Supreme Court Justice Owen H. Roberts.
 The President told his news con- ference he has no successor in mind.
 Justice Roberts, who went on the Supreme Court in 1930, reached the retirement age of TO last month He gave that as his reason for resigning in the letter he wrote MT Truman.
 Roberts conferred briefly with the President earlier in the day but dc clined at that time to tell reporters the purpose of his visit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
TRANSFERRED

Four members of the U. s. Coast Guard enlisted personnel attached to the organization of the Captain of the Port here have departed on transfer to duty with the Thir- teenth Naval District at Seattle. Departed are: William H. Den mark, fireman 1/c; Eager L. Hol- loway, specialist (PS) 1/c; Harry Bagnell, motor machinist's mate Pc; and Arlyn G. Olson, fireman lie.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
WRECKED AIRpLANES lf
 AREF0UND

VANCOUVER, B. C., July 5.-(C PD-The Western Air Command announced yeserday the finding of four wrecked airplanes as search CTS were looking for another ma chine missing since last week.
 One was an American fighter plane sighted across the border The others were located on Van couver Island and were said tC have been missing with some 3( Canadian and British airmen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
{ AreDead
 In Tornado

RISING CITY, Nebr., July 5.-Six persons were killed and at least 12 critically injured by tornado which swept a path five miles long and two miles wide north and west of Rising City last night.
 Three of the victims died in a Columbus, Nebr., hospital early to- day and three were killed outright.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
HEINTZLEMAN BACK

Regional Foreseter B. Frank Heintzleman returned here by plane yesterday from Ketchikan. where he conferred with officials of the Smaller War Plants Corporation, now visiting Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
pft. Richard WaIook
 Wounded in Atiion

WASHINGTON. July 5.-The War Department today reported that Pfc. Richard Walook, son of Mrs. Lucy K. Walook, Wainwright, Alaska, had been wounded in action in the Pacific regions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
500 AMERICAN PLANES SMASH AT JAPAN
B BULLETINS }

WASHINGTON - Appropriations totaling S548, ,204, ,450 for 10 home front war agencies were eliminated in the House today from the $752,- 100000 war agencies bill in a renewal of the fight over FEPC.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
OLSON IN JUNEAU

Sven Olson, of Taku Harbor, has arrived in Juneau and is guest at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05

WASHINGTON-The House Post war Military Policy Committee today endorsed the broad principle "of universal military training in peace time"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05

LOS ANGELES-Ch Chaplin has been ordered to disclose the size of his fortune following an ac- ton by Joan Berry, his former movie protege, she has received no aid from him and is without funds to support herself and daughter, Carol Ann, now 20 months old, which a jury decided the comedian was the father.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05

WASHINGTON-W the aim of reducing stock market speculation, the Federal Reserve Board has rais- ed the margin requirements from 50 to 75 per cent-the highest ever. Effective today anyone buying stock exchange securities must put up 75 per cent of the price himself this is his margin" can borrow only 25 per cent from his banker or broker
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05
FAIRHURsT IN TOWN

H. G. Fairhurst, of Ketchikan is a guest at the Raranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05

WASHINGTON-The Big Three meeting in the Berlin area will be held some time within the next three weeks, President Truman told his news conference today. He ie- clined to be more specific.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05

WASHINGTON = The President made it clear to his weekly news conference that he has in mind keeping Harold L. Ickes as Interior Secretary for some months at least. He said Ickes will be sent to London soon to help renegotiate an Anglo American oil agreement. At the same news conference, MT. Truman an- nounced the appointment of Edward C. Moran, Jr., to be Assistant Secre- tary of Labor and Jesse Donaldson to be First Assistant Postmaster General.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05

LONDON - The Japanese news service Domei, in a broadcast heard by BEG, announced that Vice Ad- miral Genzo Sato and Rear Admiral Tsutomu Watanabe have died in action.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05

VANCOUVER, b. C.-N1ne alrmen were killed and six injured when two Liberator bombers collided at Abbottsfojd Station during night flying operations, the Western Air Command announces. All Is were members of the RAF training at the Abbotsfojd Station 35 miles south east of here.
 SAN FRANCISCO--A Tokyo radft broadcast picked up here says 200 American bombers and fighters from Okinawa today smashed at Nagasaki and Omuta on Kyushu Islnd while 100 fighter planes from Two Jima ripped into the airfields at Tokyo.
 AKRON-Acting under executive order by President Truman, the Navy today seized five plants of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company at Akron, Ohio. The Navy took over the plants at 11:15 a. m. Eastern War Time) and ordered Is, TOO strik- ing United Rubber Workers back to their jobs tomorrow.
 WASHINGTON The White House announced today that news papermen will not be permitted to cover actual sessions of the forth coming Big Three conference in the Berlin area, but coverage of the conference will be by official com muniques which will be issued "as may be decided on from time to time"
 WASHINGTON-An increase of 6,258 casualties reported in the past week raised the total for the armed forces in World War II to 1,O36, ,937 today. The Navy listed l25,540 and the Army 911, ,397 on the basis of individual names reported to the War Department through June 29.
 WASHINGTON - President Tru- man has signed into law the legis- lation extending the reciprocal trade program for three years. This is the act which gives MT. Truman ! authority to cut tariffs in agree ments with other nations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05

WASHINGTON-Two lieutenants of the Brazilian Air Force and five sergeants were killed in a plane crash at Burgaw, N. C., Tuesday night, the Brazilian Embassy dis closes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-05

(Conttnued on Page Four)
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-12
SMASH AT KUMAMOTO

More than 500 Far East Air
More htan 500 Far East Air
Force bombers and fighters in their
heaviest saturation raid of the war
smashed at troop packed Kuma-
moto in western Kyushu Friday
and left smoke soaring $4,000 feet
and visible for 200 miles, General
Macarthur announced today
The raids came before the Jap
anese offered to surrender Fri
day night. Gen. George c. Ken
ney since has declared the as
saults of his Far East Air Forces
would be pressed on through Sat-
urday, although the latter blows
have yet to be announced official
ly.
Tokyo radio said, however, that
$50 bombers and fighters set fires
sweeping through Kurume in
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-12
A. G. ELLIS

a A. G.. Ellis, II, former Whining
oman and a resident of Norfolk,
Va, for the past Is years, died
yesterday morning in Norfolk Gen
.ral hospital after an illness OF a
month.
Engaged in the lumber business
While resident of Wilmington and
prominent in Masonry, Mr.. Ellis,
he son of the late Henry Gray
md Ellen Ellis, and a brother OF
he late Louis Oscar Ellis, ST., of
Wilmington was vestryman in
IN Episcopal church in Norfolk for
many years.
He is Survived by his widow,
Mrs. Ethel Thompson Ellis, of Nor
ok; three daughters, Miss Gladys
ellis, Miss Anne Ellis and Mies
3eulah Elis, all of Norfolk; -
sons, A. Gray Ellis, Jr.. and John
Thompson Ellis, of Norfolk; and
relatives in Wilmington.
. Funeral services will be conduct
I'd from the residence, lis Hardy
Ave-, in Norfolk, at pm. Friday.