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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-02
Masterlnn the Maater Mlnd


Charley Grimm, Cubs-Noted as
left-handed banjo player ana a
two-hsted conyersationalist Thinks
he set a record in the Southern AS
ISOLATION one year by playing sec.
ond base left.handed and then
catching with a left-hand mitt. That
probably explains how he got
through a couple OF wartime sea.
sons without being dslbly disturb.
ed by left-handed thinking 800. Steve
oNeih gers-Not satisfied with
coming from a town (Minooka. Pa. }
and a family that specialize in pro
ducing ban players, Steve has a
son-in law, Skeeter Webb, playing
shortstop twell. part of the time)
on his ball club.
Light Work
Two Virginia Tech coaches, Tex
Tilson and Gene McEver, secuted
some opponents last week end.
Tex watched Maryland against
GuilfoId Friday night, William and
Mary against Catawba Saturday
afternoon and " NJ. I..Richmond
Saturday night. Gene viewed North
Carolina State and Joined Tilson
on the VMI-Richmond Job. Those
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-02
Back When

Today a year ago-Stevs o'Neill
signed as Detroit manager for the
third year.
Three years ago-Major League
attendance fell off eight per cent
from 1941 totals.
Five years ago-Bobo Newsom
hurled the Tigers 10 a To victory
over the Reds in the series opener
at Cincinnati.
Ten years ago-Lon Warneke
pitched a 80 shutout win for the
Cubs in frs. game OF the Chicago
Detroit World Series.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-02
N. 3. Inspeetlon No. 2
TEMPLE HOUSE LEAGUE

l-Lounsberry Service ......S
2-Jackson's Gift Shop .........7
3-Elmer Cox Service .........7
4-Yeatman q Stein Service -. IS
BELLA Vista Dairy ............S
G-R. S. Gerganoff .............l
7-Streicher Die & Tool Co. -. i
S-Michigan Aluminium Casting %
Evening star., 1945-10-07

Argentina, whose worker delegates
to the conference have been held
up so they might not reach here
until tomorrow-too late to put
their views before the Federation. :"
Other resolutions call for naming
a committee to investigate allega-
tions of government interference
with trade unions in Greece, and
for protests to the Greek and Iran
governments, accused of keeping
delegates from coming to the con-
ference.
Recognition Of Exiles Asked.
The boycott of the Franco regime
was urged by delegates from Uru-
quay, Cuba, Spanish trade union
organizations in France and in
Mexico.
Demands were voiced also for i'm
mediate recognition of the exile
Spanish Republican government in
Mexico. The Resolutions Committee
asked the Executive Committee to
investigate whether the exile gov
eminent was truly representative.
Louis Saillant of France was
una nin1ously elected secretary gen.
eral of the federation, and Sir WAL
ter Citrine, British trades union
congress secretary, was made chair
man of the bureau of management
of the Executive Council. 7''"H-'
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Killed


S/Sergt. James G. La Marie, who
fought in Italy before participating
in the Normandy invasion, waa
killed last spring on the western
front, his wife, Mrs. Ethel r. La
Marie. Fairfax, Va, has been noti-
fled by the War Department. Sergt
La Marie previously was reported
missing in action.
Sergt. La Marie catered the serv-
Ice In November, 1912. He was Sc
lected for infantry oficer training
at Fort Benning, Ca, but failed to
finish the course when he volun-
teered for overseas duty as an en-
listed man, his family said. He
participated in the Italian cam
paign and landed on D-day in Nor
mandy.
He was wounded in Normandy
and after returning to action again
was wounded September 10 in Bel
GUM. Following his recovery. he
again returned to action.
Sergt. La Marie was born at Fort
Worth, Tex, and was a graduate
of Fairfax High School. Before
entering the service he was en-
ployed by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road in Washington. His mother
Mrs. Grace Brownstein, also lives
in Fairfax.
Pfc. John T. Fisher, jr., 18, re.
ported missing in action in GERMANY
last April 8, Is now listed by the
War Department as killed. Pvt
Fisher, whose parents live at 1901
Brinkley road. Oxon Hill, Md, was
an infantryman with the 7th Army
Born in Washington, Pvt. Fisher
was graduated from Oxon Hill High
School and attended Maryland Uni
versity. He entered the Army on
August %, 1914, and went overseas
last January.
lst 1t. Merlin r. Allen, son OF Mrs
Marie A. Wiles, 1928 Massachusetts
avenue NV, is listed on the Wal
Department casualty list as killed
in Pacific action. A story about his
death appeared in The Star on Sep
tember 20, after his family had beer
notified he had been killed.
Pfc. Edgar C. Emeigh, whose wife
Mrs Doris H. Emeigh, lives at 124;
Neal street NE, Is reported killed
In Europe on a War Department
casualty list for today. His death
was reported in The Star after hi,
wife had been notified.
Liberated
Col. Richard G. Rogers, Sl3 Bev.
erly drive, Beverly Hills, Alexandria
has been liberated from a japanese
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Quarter Century Club
Of Capital Transit Co.
Veterans Organized

White of hair, but spry of foot,
men who kept Washington's public
transportation system moving before
the turn Of the century were hon.
ored last night at the Mayflower
Hotel at the inaugural meeting of
the Capital Transit Co.'S Quarter
Century Club.
Several of the nine active and
eight inactive members having more
than so years service voted vigor-
ouSly in the voice ballot electing
John Chrisman. superintendent of
traffic, first president of the organ
ization. Mr.. Chrisman, who lives
at $500 Thirty first street NE, has
been with the company "a years.
Members of the newly formed
club having more than so years
service with the company were pre-
sented to the gathering by C. Mel
win Sharpe, executive assistant OF
the Potomac Electric Power Co
Each received 50-year membership
pins set with diamonds.
Mann Oldest Active Member.
Among them was John E. Mann
5021 sherwood street NE, whose
81 years with the company makes
him the active member with the
greatest number of years of service
A native of Washington, he recalled
how he joined the old Metropolitan
| Railway Co. as a boy of IA years
He was water boy then, carrying
water to the laborers.
Mr.. Mann then became a change
boy" the job being one of taking
the horses for the cars from P street
to Connecticut avenue and Florida
| avenue NV. He recalled how, on
snowy nights, the horses would slip
and fall and how the boys had
to get them up. He became track
foreman in the construction &C.
partment "a years ago, a job he
still holds.
Benjamin Salari, Sc, of 4733 Ninth
street NV, who retired after 81
years with the company, also was
present. Mr.. Salari was in Gen
George A. Clusters 7th Cavalry al
the time of the battle of the Little
Big Horn on June IS, 1876, but
was in the relief unit that arrived a
the scene later.
Mr.. Salari also was sentry at tn,
city Jail guarding Charles J. Gui
teau the night President Garfiels
died.
"I was told the bells would RIM
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Kramer Confession
On Casing Of Women
Read by Prosecution
Ey the Associated Press.

by tlt ASSOClHLeC FT6SS. .
LUENEBURG, Germany, Oct. 6.
Josef Kramer, chief defendant in
the Belsen war crimes trial, listened
ashen-faced today as the prosecu-
ton read a signed statement in
which Kramer told of sending
women to their death by gas at the
Natzweiler concentration camp.
The purported confession, OBJ
tanned by Commandant Jardin of
the French Army, was presented by
Prosecutor T. M. Backhouse to close
the prosecutions case against the
beast of Belsen' and his staff of A.
The document contained an ad-
mission by Kramer that he knew
of the mass murders at the camp he
commanded at Oswiecim, although
he declared the gas chamber there
was outside his jurisdiction.
Trusted STAFF.
Against the background of hor-
rors to which inmates of the camps
at Belsen and Oswiecim have testi-
fled in the three weeks since the
trial opened, was this declaration
in the statement:
81 have been told some of my SIS
staff were guilty of ill treatment
and brutality toward prisoners. I
find this very difficult to believe
and would trust them absolutely.
To the best of my belief, they
never committed any offenses
against prisoners. I regard myself
responsible for their conduct and
do not believe any of them would
have infringed my orders against i'll
treatment or brutality"
Immediately after adjournment,
kramer's attorney, Maj. Thomas
Claude Winwood, and Kramers wife
set out for Belsen-50 miles away
across Lueneberg Heath-in an at
tempt to find former Belsen inmates
willing to testify next week as to
Kramer's behavior and intent.
Kramer looked glum as the state
ment recounted how he received Or
ders stemming from Gestapo Chief
tain Heinrich Himmler directing
that women be gassed at Natweiler
and the bodies forwarded to PRO
fessor Hirt" at Strasbourg. A gas
sing room was lacking, but Hirt
described "how an ordinary room
might be used" The statement said.
Hirt gave him "a container of gas
crystals with instructions how to
use them," the statement continued.
The first time / saw a gas cham
Der proper was at Oswiecim. 1t was
attached to the Crematorium. The
complete building containing Gre
matorium and gas chamber was sit
uated in Camp No. Two, Birkenau.
of which was in command.
Il visited the building on my first
inspection of the camp. After eight
days the first transport from which
the gas chamber victims were selec-
ted arrived, and at the same time !
received written orders from Hoess
who commanded the whole of the
Oswiecim camp, that although the
gas chamber and crematorium were
in my part of the camp, I had no
jurisdiction over it whatever"
A statement from Kramer intro
duced four days ago asserted that
reports that he participated in OF
knew of mass killings at gas cham
bers and crematoriums at Oswiecim
were untrue from beginning to end.
Evening star., 1945-10-07
On the Roll of Honor

prison camp in Mukden, Manchuria.
A quartermaster officer, he was cap
tured at the fall of Bataan where
he had been stationed since 1899.
Col. Rogers entered the service
during the World War and before
going to the Philippines had served
In Washington in the Quartermas-
ter Generals Office for four. years.
He previously was stationed here at
the Army Industrial College, his
wife said. Mrs. Rogers and their
son, Richard G. Rogers, jr., were in
the Philippines with Col. Rogers
until May, l941.
Pfc. William J. BagIey, jr., 81, cap
tured by the Japanese in the Philip
pines. has been liberated from a
camp on Honshu Island and is en-
route home, according to his parents,
who live at 1883 Kansas avenue NV.
They have not seen him since July
18, 1941, when he entered the Army
and went overseas, his mother said.
Pvt. Bagley was with the Air Forces
lat Nichols Field near Manila before
his capture.
Pvt. Bagley was born in Washing
ton but moved with his family to
st. Louis, Mo, in infancy. He was
employed in st. Louis when he en-
tered the service. Mr.. and Mrs. Bag
ley returned to Washington last
April when Mr.. Bagley accepted a
post with the Office of Price Ad-
ministration.
T/Sergt. G0ldie c. Rutherford, 27,
a veteran of nine years Army SER
Ice, was liberated from a Japanese
prison camp September 10, 1945, and
Is returning to his home at 493 E
street S.W., his grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. Charles T. Wyrick, of the
E street address have been notified.
Sergt. Rutherford was in the Philip
pines when the war broke out and
was captured at the fall of Cor
regidor.
Born in Kentucky, Sergt. Ruther-
ford attended school in Tennessee
and came to Washington in 1896.
Pvt. John J. McGovern, whose
mother, Mrs. Marie H. Pinkham, is
listed as living at 1865 Nichols
avenue Sc, also has been liberated
from a Japanese prison camp, ac-
cording to the War Department
casualty list for today.
Pvt. Lloyd C. Shumaker, son of
Mrs. Tessie Shumaker, Route 8
Rockville, is listed among men lib
Grated from Japanese prison camps
on the War Department casualty
list for today.
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Japanese, Ignorant
OF Defeat, Celebrate
Victory. in BroziI
Ey the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. g..
Several hundred japanese from
the interior of Brazil gathered.
today in the inland city of Sac.
Paulo for a victory" celebra-
ton, apparently ignorant of the.
complete defeat of their home
land.
Sac Paulo police said the.
"celebrants" claimed they had.
been misinformed by propa-
ganda of unknown origin an
nouncing a great japanese VIC.
tory in the Pacific. 1t was:
reported the Japanese sold their:
property and abandoned jobs
to attend the celebration. y,
Police said they explained that,
they expected Emperor Hiro-'
hito's victory message to arrive.
by battleship. 4
Evening star., 1945-10-07

when Garfield died" he said. They
rang. and a crowd formed around
the Jail. kept them back. One
man wanted to come on, but I told
him would pull the trigger and he
remained where he was"
Mr.. Chrisman recalled the night
of the Knickerbocker Theater dis
aster in January, 1922, and the effort
of the streetcar company to keep
the tracks clear. s"I did not get
home from Friday morning until the
following Wednesday," he remem-
bered. Snow covered the streetcar
tracks and we worked with bars and
picks to dig them open"
Other speakers included John H.
Hanna, former president of the COM
pany and chairman of the board
with 81 years of service, and Edward
D. Merrill, present president. Mr..
Hanna was made a lifetime hon
orary president of the club.
Other Veterans Honored.
Old employees unable to be present
were remembered. George p
Downey, of 36O6 Eighteenth street
NE, with the company for 56 years
until he retired in January of this
year; George E. Hamilton, Oldest in
point of years though not of service;
Flavius Morrill,, former roadmaster,
and Alfred G. Neal, former men,
ber of the board of directors, were
all brought to mind by the toast
master.
j. Edward Heberle, vice president
and controller of the company, was
elected vice president of the organi-
zation and Louis H. Curry, admins
trative assistant, was chosen sec
retary.
The meeting was closed with q
skit on the company's history.
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Navy Completes Task
OF Rescuing Prisoners
By the Associated rress.

BY the Associated Fress.
PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 6.-Au re-
covered American military prisoners
under naval cognizance have been
evacuated from japanese prison
camps and started home, the Navy
announced today.
The major areas from which
evacuation has been completed by
search and rescue missions from
feet units include Japan, China,
Manchuria, Korea and Formosa.
Since September l, when the pro-
gram started, 1923 recovered naval
personnel have been cleared through
the Marianas area up to October J.,
and 100 through Manila.
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Man, Wife, Cattle and Dog Start
s, ,3OO-MiIe Journey in Boxcur

and loaded them aboard the freight
car for the trip. the first leg of
which ended here yesterday.
Some people think we're crazy"
Mrs. Gilbert said. She explained
that they had planned for a long
time to 60 to California and buy a
farm and when her husbands asth-
ma got really bad, = We just
up and decided to 60"
"A box car was the only way we
could figure to get there with the
COWS and the car and Ray and me-"
The Gilberts' freight car will go
over the Canadian Pacific to Detroit,
then the Pere Marquette road to
Chicago and thence over the Santa
Fe to the Coast.
Evening star., 1945-10-07

Worldwide Boycott
OF Spain Urged al
World Labor ParIey
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS, Oct. 6.-An interna tional
boycott OF Spain, besides a diplo-
matte break by democratic govern
ments, was urged at the World
Trade Union Conference today by
speakers from the Latin America
block.
The debate lasted so long it pre-
vented vote until Monday on reso-
lutions calling for severing of diplo-
matte relations with Argentina as
well as Spain.
Argentine Overthrow Predicted.
Enrique Rodriguez of Uruguay
predicted the Argentines would soon
overthrow their government, which
he described as q Fascist regime.
set up by a group of colonels." He
declared the regimes aim was to
attempt "te dominate the entire
continent" ~a'a 1.fr 3re54
He said he spoke as "neighbor" Of
Evening star., 1945-10-07
BY the Associated Press.


PORTLAND, Me, Oct. 6.-The
railroad box car which will be the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray D. Gill
bert, 8 head of purebred cattle, and
dog for the next two weeks and
$500 miles, rolled toward st. Johns
bury. Vt, today en- route to Cali
fornia.
Hoping the climate near Merced,
Calf, would improve his health, Mr..
Gilbert sold the dairy farm near
Augusta which he and his wife
operated during the Is years of their
married life.
They brought their cattle, dog.
automobile, an iron bed and a few
personal belongings to Waterville
Evening star., 1945-10-07

no taxes or other government sup
port of Shinto Establishments.
Our policy on this goes beyond
Shinto," Mr.. Vincent added. The
dissemination of japanese militaris-
tic ultra -nationalistic theology in
any form will be completely sup
pressed"
On the economic side, he said the
japanese must solve their own prob
lens. They should put emphasis
on farming and fishing, and the
production Of consumer goods" he
said.
Capt. Dennison said Japan would
have to be permitted some foreign
trade to rebuild a peacetime econ
omy, but that it had not yet been
decided whether to allow the jap
anese to have their own merchant
marine.
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Laval, Again Expelled
|A Trial, Stays Out .
And Charges Injustice
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. s.t-
PARIS, Oct. 6.-Pierre Laval.
expelled again from his trial for
treason, adamantly refused TO
return to court today and the
trial proceeded without him Or
his attorneys.
Declaring jurymen had shouted
at him. "Swinep and you deserve
to be hangedp Laval asserted: THE
high court will condemn me with
out having judged mel"
He charged that "the court fears
the truth and that a crime was
being committed against him.
The former chief of the Vichy
government was thrown out of
court, for the second time In three
days of tumultAous proceedings,
after a heated argument with
Judge Paul Mongibeaux and Pros
ecutor Andre Mornet. -,
Laval is Readmitted.
The court, after deliberation with
the jury for so minutes, decided to
readmit Laval. He reappeared
briefly, and announced that he
would take a silent defense in pro-
test against the manner of con-
Quoting the trial.
Shortly afterward a recess was
ordered, and this time Laval flaay
refused to return when summoned,
asserting he could be led back only
in handouts. He even forbade his
attorneys to re-enter the tribunal.
The judge then announced that
the trial would proceed anyhow and
called the first witness for the
prosecution-former President AZ
bert Lebrun.
Mr.. Lebrun testified that he knew
little except hearsay about LavaPs
activities. After his testimony the
court adjourned until Monday.
Laval Warned Lebrun.
The former president, on the stand
only II minutes, said he had been
warned on one occasion by Laval
in vehement" terms not to leave
France for North Africa because he
then would be committing an "act
of treason toward the French
people"
The court room in the Palace Of
Justice was scene of wild disoy-
der, shouted recriminations and
heated arguments to such an extent
that one Of the jurors cried: This Is
not French justice!"
In statement to the judges Laval
said:
THE incidents that just took
place in the high court of justice
oblige me to abstain from appearing.
The insufficient preparation Of
my trial and the injurious fashion
IN which I was interrogated today
and the threats Of certain members
of the jury showed that 1t is n
crime.
Court Assailed.
The cries of Swine and You
deserve to be hanged from certain
members of the jury manifest in an
iunequivocable fashion the fact that
the court fears the truth. The high
court will condemn me without hay
ing judged me-"
Chief Defense Attorney Albert
Maud said he would return to the
court room only at the time of re-
buttal to explain his reasons for
not appearing.
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Wrong Number Retort

ST. LOUIS R).-A. D. Kaner re-
ports that when he dialed an incor-
rect telephone number recently the
operator informed him: Mr.. Hitler's
telephone service has been discon-
tinued."
Evening star., 1945-10-07
CLARK Names Representative
To Prosecute Jops
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
John DarSey of Georgia was
named yesterday by Attorney Gen.
eral Clark as his personal repre-
sentative in the United States Ma
tional War Crimes Office arranging
for the prosecution of Japanese war
criminals.
MIR. Darsey, native of Spaulding
County, Ga, has been serving as
head OF the departments War
Frauds Section.
Boris Kostelanetz of New York
City takes Mr.. DarseY's place.
Evening star., 1945-10-07
Old Ships Recovered

A number of naval vessels of the
time of Tberius and Claudius were
recovered In 1881 from the Lake of
Nemi, whose waters are confined by
lava walls $50 feet high in 2-mile
crater near Rome.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-08-09
SUEZ TOLLS:
II. S. BaIks

With u. S. troops pouring through
the Suez canal en- route to the Pa
cific, and with toll payments already
mounting to over $11, 000,O00 the
government again pressed the Brit
ish to absorb such charges under
reverse lend-lease.
In pressing the British, American
authorities pointed out that the
U. S. defrays the cost of British
ships passing through the Panama
canal, with such payments already
past the $9,OOO,OOO mark.
Because the lend-lease act pro-
vides that a country can supply aid
from purchases with its own money,
the British say they are.not obliged
to pay the canal tolls, since they
must be made In Egyptian currency.
AS it is, the British declare, they
already owe Egypt large sums for
wartime purchases.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-08-09
GREAT BRITAIN:
Future Outlook

Though profoundly affecting Great
Britain's internal economy, the
sweeping victory of the Laborites in
the first general election since 1885
is not expected to appreciably alter
the country's foreign policy based
on maintenance of the empire to as
sure comparatively high living
standards
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Laborite triumph represented the
ascendancy of leftism in the United
Kingdom, the fact remains that the
country. is so dependent upon the
empire for raw materials and mar
kets to support its industrial struc-
ture that retention of ties abroad,
strength on the seas and control over
vital bases undoubtedly will remain
the substance of it's foreign policy.
With Laborites ruling, concessions
may be made to Leftist elements in
Europe and elsewhere, but in over
all policy, Great Britain's historic
diplomacy will remain essentially
British.
At home, however, tradition-bound
old Britain may be in for a radical
remodeling, with the Laborites' plat
form for naturalization of industry
tempered by the amount of private
management that will be tolerated.
Under Prime Minister Clement Att
lee, former Minister of Labor Ernest
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uct, and no materials, facilities or
manpower will be diverted from
more necessary industries.
Because various manufac turers
will be in the market for vast guam
titles Of raw materials to fill orders,
and civilian demand for essential
goods, food and many services will
far exceed supply, maintenance of
price control in the immediate post
war period will be required for curb
ing runaway prices, Bowles said.
Only an adequate volume of prod
ucts can relieve the danger growing
from the huge pent-up demand, he
said.