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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-10-12
WdShtendW
Court Probed

/ ANN ARBOR, Oct IA five
man committee today started an
investigation OF Wa Shtena a
County probate courts system OF
handling juvenile delinquency and
conditions IN the County Dcten-
ton Home
Leigh Beach OF the county
board Of supervisors heads the
committee instructed 10 inveSui-
gate activities Of Probate Judge
jay Pray. County Agent Arch
Wilson and the conditions OF the
juvenile detention home.
The investigation was author
lIed by the supervisors following
receipt of a petition signed by ll9
citizens charging neglect OF chill
dren and juveniles under the
courts custody
The petition asked tn at the
supervisors take action III condi-
ions are found 10 be- what the
public believes 1t also recon-
mended that the investigating
committee remedy unsatisfactory
conditions
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-10-12
Freed Jap Prisoner
Searches for Mother

DENVER. Oct. II GNS)--Back
home after nearly four years IN
prisoner of war camps in Japan.
after being seized at Wake Island.
Donald r. Gates, "a today began
search in Denver for his mother,
whom he has not seen in % years.
Gates. a former Seabee. said his
father. LynSted Gates, had told
him his mother was dead When
the war began the father revealed
that the mother was living in
Denver.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-10-12
Archbishop
Attends Rites

OMAHA. Oct II GNS) Eight
Catholic archbishops and 10 his
hops attended the elevation OF the
Most Rev. James II Ryan, Omaha
bishop. 10 archbishop.
PrelateS who attended the col
orlul ceremonies, held in 81. c.
elias Cathedral, included Arch
bishop Edward Mooney OF Detroit
and Bishop Joseph AlberS OF Ian
Sing. Mich
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-10-12

Good old Nom and good old Ex-
Lax! Mighty nice to know that
little blue box IS always handy.
Ex-LaN is so darned dependable,
yet it's nice and gentle, too. And
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-10-12

that chocolate taste-Brother. it's
sWcH! Not too strong, not too mild,
EX-LaX is the Happy Medium"
laxative. As a precaution, use only
as directed. In 10c and 25c sizes.
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u. S. SUBS SINK
q JAP VESSELS
Total Number OF Vessels
Sent To Bottom Nears
1,000th Mark

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81 P) -
U. S. submarines are pushing ul
toward the thousand mark in the
number of japanese vessels sunk
The Navy reported another 81 to-
day. ,.. 81.
The total now is 979.
The latest toll includes a light
cruiser and 20 non-combatant ships
.-tankers, cargo transports ano
cargo vessels, all categories ir
which the enemy has been re.
ported to be feeling a sharp short
age. Sinking dates were not given,
but may have been any time in the
long cruises of the submarines in.
volved.
One large and one medium
tanker claimed today raised to
Sc the total of that type claimed
by U. S. submarines since the
start of the war. The tanker short
age has been reported to be a
major weakness in the enemy S
supporting fleet and a primeE fac
tor in the unwillingness of the
Japanese fleet to range far at sea,
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CHEDUBA INVADED
BY ALLIED FORCES
British Troops Advaace To
Within Fifteen Miles
OF Mandalay

CALCUTTA, Jan. 27.-UP)--Al-
lied forces in their fifth amphi-
bious operation in two weeks have
landed on Cheduba island, off the
west coast of Burma, while in the
interior, British 14th Army troops
advanced to within Is miles OF
Mandalay with the capture of On
daW, it was announced today. .
Adm. Lord Mountbatten' South
east Asia communique, revealing
three victories. announced that 18th
Indian Corps troops have occupied
Myohaung, northern terminus of
the. vital Myohaung -Taungup es-
cape artery for enemy troops hem
med in by Allied leap-frog land
ings on Akyab, Myebon, Ramree,
on the mainland near Kangaw and
on Cheduba.
Ondaw, reached by leading ele-
ments of the 18th Army, is astride
the Shwebo-Sagaing road a bare
Is miles east of Mandalay. The
communicate announced only that
Ondaw had been cleared of the
eneray." indicat ting that Jap for
ces may put up a strong defense
for Mandalay, Burma's second city.
Cheduba island is located ap.
proximately 80 miles off the main.
land, just opposite Taungup. It is
' Continued on Page Two; Col. e.
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|Jurist Rules
i. R. Without
Seizure Right
Army Will Continue In
Control As Appeal Plans
Are Prepared

CHICAGO, Jan. 27.-{P)-
The government lost it's suit
against Montgomery W a r d
and company today when Fed
eral Judge Philip L. Sullivan
ruled that President Roosevelt
had neither statutory nor con-
stitutional authority to order
army seizure of 16 company
properties.
Plans for an immediate appeal
were initiated, however, by U. S.
District Attorney J. Albert Vol,
whereupon Judge Sullivan stayed
all proceedings SO that army con-
troll will continue at least until the
appeal decision. Vol said the case
might reach the circuit court OF
appeals next week, or it might be
taken directly 70 the U. S. Su-
preme court.
The court upheld Wards conten-
ton that the company is not a
war production plant within h e
meaning of the war labor disputes
act and therefore is not subject
to the seizure powers of that act.
The opinion also noted that war
labor board directives are "only
advisory" which the government
previously had conceded, and said
that if disputants are unwilling to
boey WLB recommendations then
Congress alone is the only branch
Of the government which can COM
pei them to do So
"Plan Will Collapse"
Chairman William H. Davis of
the War Labor Board said in Wash
ington that IF the decision is not
reversed or Congress does not take
appropriate action to make the
War Labor Boards orders of set
tlement effective on everybody, the
whole plan Of peaceful settlement
of wartime labor disputes will col
lapse"
Sewell L. Avery, chairman of
the board of Wards, declared in
Chandler, Ariz., however, that the
decision means "a great day for
labor" adding that 1.-The battle of
Wards for seven years has been
to maintain independence of the in
dividual in his constitutional rights
to join union, not to join union
or to resign from union as he
wishes.
Woe to labor if Avery becomes
its champion. was the reply of
Samuel w c h o k, international
president of the CLIO United Re-
tail, wholesale and department
store employees, principal union in
Continued on Page Three; Col. u
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Reds Encircle P oznan, Reach Brandenburg;
Yanks Strikezz<eich Border At Five Places
y. S. Loses suit Against Montgomery War<
Third Fleet Planes
Sink OrHt 1875, 900
Tons OF Jap Ships

China continued with reports
from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
headquarters in the Philippines
that plants of his command
scored a direct hit on an en-
envy destroyer off Annoy on
the China Coast and touched
off fires visible for IS miles in
raid on the major Formosan
port of Takao. II
Joining in the growing as
sault were B-29 Superfortresses
of the goth Bomber Command
in India, which carried out their
first attack against Saigon, the
largest city and principal sea-
port Of Ipdo-China and cen
ter of the enemy's road, air and
ocean traffic between China
and the Malay States.
Nimitz previously had an
nounced some results of the
'Continued IN Pare Three. Col
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GERMANS MAY Be
EYACUATINC ITALY
official COMMUNICATES Re.
port Only Patrol Ac-
ton For Il Days

ROME, Jan. 27.-R-The posi-
0lllly that the Germans may be
puAns out of Italy-as suggested
W Prime Minister Churchill this
WEEKS being discussed here in.
.ieaSlngly, particularly since off
.idl announcements have reported
days
There are both pros and cons
70 this question.
supporting the Churchill sugges
.un' besides the want of German
s sHacks' are the series of unex
p as explosions back of the en-
eli. INES that might suggest dem
'|1oAS before retreat.
- oae such explosion was report
:, ~ .ooay on the Eighth Army from
j a.. .Ae area Of Lugo, a road Juno
s nGl OF $4,000 inhabitants eigh
'"I p5' horh Of Faenza.
g. But there are other indication.
,, 4'' me Germans mean to stay
,o least until they are needed
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OPPOSITION GAINS
National Group OF Bust.
nessmen For Nominee
Not Compromising
BY CHARLES B. EEGGES
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-UP)-
Senate confirmation of former
Vice President Henry A. Wallace
as Secretary of Commerce ap'
peared highly improbable tonight
This appeared to De true re
CARELESS of whether or not the com
merce secretary is permitted te
hang on to the vast lending pow.
ers which have been exercised by
Jesse H. Jones.
Senate sentiment against con
firmation shaped up as little
band of Democratic senators man
euvered behind the scenes to per
suade Wallace himself to take
some step to placate his opposi
ton.
To Demand Separation
These senators have no inten'
ton of voting for confirmation I'M
less they are assured that the re-
construction finance corp. will be
divorced from the commerce de-
partment.
If it is, they said, they will vote
for confirmation. That is the way
they would like it to be, because
it would be embarrassing for them
to have to vote against their party
leaders choice for the post.
= They have asked Wallace to send
an emissary to the commerce com,
mittee - which yesterday voted
against Wallace and for divorce
ment of the RFC-or to Senate
leaders with the suggestion that
his nomination be held up until
the RFC bill can be enacted.
These senators. who never OBJ.
jected to the dual job of commerce
secretary and loan administrator
as long as Jones held it, said Wal.
lace also might ask President
Roosevelt to inform Senate lead
ers that he would sign the George
bill taking the RFC away from the
Commerce Department.
That Wallace would do either OF
these things did not seem likely.
Continued on Page Two, Col. y
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NAILS PREPARING
TO QUIT BERLIN
Breakfasts Tell OF Men
Being Sent From Shops
Into Battle Line

LONDON, Jan. 27.-tUP)-The
German government tonight was
reported preparing to evacuate
Berlin as Nazi broadcasts, empha-
sizing the severe plight of the
Wehrmacht on the eastern front,
told of men being sent directly
into battle from shops and offices
in a desperate attempt to halt the
Red Army.
Meanwhile, reports of riotlng In
the German capital were carried
in an exchange telegraph agency
dispatch quoting radio Paris which
said that 100 Germans were killed
in a clash with SIS troops in the
east railway station of Berlin. The
dispatch gave no details.
The Berlin radio, calling for a
fight to the death, coined a new
slogan for the hard-pressed Ger
man people, or perish
The Clandestine Atlantic radio
whose reports in the past frequent
ly have preceded official an
nouncements by several days-said
embassies and legations in Berlin
had been notified by the chief OF
protocol of the German foreign
ministry to ''hold themselves ready
to leave Berlin together with the
Reich government.
(The British radio, heard by
CHS, reported all foreign press
correspondents have been advised
to leave Berlin.O
Stockholm reports said that the
archives and files of four ministries
finance, economy
and public welfare-had been re-
moved from Berlin to Traunstein,
Reichenhall and Rosenheim, an
near Adolf Hitler's Berchtesgaden
hideout in the Bavarian Alps.
The reports stated that the min
istries of interior had evacuaed
to the Baden Schwarzwald area of
southwestern Germany where
Heinrich Himmler had opened
new field commanding office to
be far away from Hitler
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POSTWAR LOAN
BODY COMPLETED
Local Banks Become Mem
bers OF Group Under
writing Large Fund

Taking definite action on their
promises to the small businessman
three Wilmington, banks in a meet
ing at Greensboro recently. became
members of a reorganization form
ed to underwrite a fund of $4,000
900 for loans to small business
under the program Of the Post
War Small usiness Credit Com
mission of the American Bankers
Association. of which r. M.
Hanes, of Winston-Salem. is ma
tional chairman.
The organization has been com.
p1eted and the fund is now avail
able, w. H. Hood, general chair
man of the Commission for North
Carolina. announced yesterday,
emphasizing that all applications
for loans must come through local
banks.
John H. Hardin. vice presiden.
and representative of the Whining
ton Savings and Trust Co., said
yesterday that the fund was Great.
ed ito implement, augment and
undertake the financing, through
loans or other credit accommoda'
tions, of small and medium-slzeo
concerns doing business in North
Carolina.''
N. S. Calhoun. president of the
Security National Bank, and War
rem S. Johnson, president OF the
Peoples Savings Bank and Irus'
Company, represented their respec'
tive banks at the meeting.
The action is an important ster
in bringing banks. operating under
state and national charters, into
more favorable position with the
many Government operated subsl
died loaning agencies" Mr. HOOD
declared. -,
Every worthwhile borrower will
be given fair consideration for any
loans he may desire, and all appll
cations should be made through his
local bank. This is sincere effor1
on the part OF North Carolina banks
TO lend every possible assistance
to competent individuals, partner
st,ips large and small corporations
business men and farmers, during
the time when private enterprise
ICoptinued on Page Two, Col. s.
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fales Opposes Proposal
10 Work Under Sheriff

bureau by the sheriff's office 'ls
not for the good of the Bureau of
Identification nor the tax-paying
public
City Councilman Robert R. Ro.
meo, who came in for his share OF
criticism in Mr.. Fales' open letter
to the public, explained yesterday
that city-county harmony on the
fingerprint bureau was "a COM
mittee recommendation made in an
informal discussion Wednesday. It
must be ratified by the Council.
The reason the agreement has not
been written into the minutes is
because it was a committee recon-
lmendation.
However, Addison Hewlett, chair
Continued on Page Two, Col. A.
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LeGrand Proposes Ciuil
Service Measure Farley

Rep. ]. @. LeGrand, who dis
closed yesterday that ne had rec
commended a joint conference be
held by city-police-firemen repre-
sentatives for further considera-
ton" of the Civil Service bills, an
nounced he was awaiting "deve1-
opments' before planning intro
duction to the 1915 Legislature Of
the city's new measure.
In connection with the Civil Serv-
ice legislation, Mr.. LeGrand said
II feel differences now existing
are not material and could be adj
justed if the interested parties ap-
proach the matter in a coopera-
tive manner"
It was understood that city
committee of Mayor Ronald Lane
and Councilman Garland S. Currin
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Angeles Falls
AsYanksPush
Manila Drive
C,Dture OF Town Places
Troops Within AZ Air
line Miles OF Capital

GENERAL MacARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, L ION,
Sunday, Jan. 28.-(P)-Cap-
trre Of the Pampanga prov
ince town of Angeles, "A air.
line miles from Manila, by
southbound Sixth army Yanks
was disclosed today in a field
dispatch after Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's communicate had
reported the 18th Corps was
approaching it in force.
In a dispatch dated Saturday
from Angeles. Spencer Davis, As
ISOLATED Press war correspondent,
told Of tanks iattering through the
central plaza while crowds cheer
ed and d dignified matro nshout-
I'd. God bless America"
Angeles, on the main Manila
Bagmo highway. is scant 10
miles northwest of San Fernando,
the capital Of Pampanga province.
II is on the road which leads be-
tween two sWamplands just south
west Of San Fernando, the short
est route to Manila.
Davis descriptive of t h e gala
scene made it evident there was
not even q semblance of fighting
in the town.
Girls in flashing print dresses
and wooden sandals headed a col
umn Of the Filipinos peoples anti
Japanese army (Hukbalahapas),
waving flags Of the United States
and the free Philippines.
Yanks entering Angeles passed
sign reading in English:
Prohibit TO pass this road ex-
ecpt japanese army
Meanwhile, the First Army
Corps in the Rosario-San manuel
Continued on Page Three; Col. A.
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The Tokyo raiders claimed 81
japanese planes destroyed, 10
probably destroyed and "a others
damaged. Bombing was through
broken clouds but with generally
good results on this seventh mass
attack against the city's war tar
gets.
Results of the combined sky bat
tie and raid were given in an
add to headquarters first COM
munlque - an unusual procedure.
The Americans were elements of
the 21st bomber command based
in the Marianas.
But at Saigon, Indo-China's big
port, the situation was different.
John Grover Associated Press cor.
respondent at the India base from
Continued on Page Two; Col. g.
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had been comforting last week with
the police-fireman group of Lieut..
Coy. Etheridge, Radio Dispatcher
L. E. Skies, Pvt. Roy Bagwell and
Pvt. WILDER Cherry. No announce
ment as to the outcome OF the
discussions has been made.
Representative LeGrand reiterat-
ed his promise to arrange prior
to Thursday for a hearing before
the House committee on Counties,
Cities and Towns for any group
objecting to the City Extension
measure.
1t was explained that the suburb
annexation legislation will require
three separate readings on three
separate days in each of the state
houses prior to ratification.
Continued on Page Three; Col. 3
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|Naziis Forced
Behind Their
RiverBarriiers
Third Army Mops Up II
Belgian And Luxem-
bourg Communities
BY EDWARD KENNEDY

PARlO, sunday, Jan. 3d.
(P)-Troops of the U. S. Third
army reached the German
frontier at five places yester-
day after sweeping up II Bel
gian and Luxembourg towns
in gains of aearly four miles
as the harassed Germans
withdrew behind the natural
barriers to Germany all along
the western front. "
The Third Army, in pushing to
the Our river in several places,
emulated the U. S. Ninth army
and the British second army,
which have reached the east banks
Of the Roer river system to the
north. Thus, three Allied armies
are poised on the banks of river
barriers to the Reich.
Roofing the last Germans from
Clervaux, once a German anchor
in northern Luxembourg, Third Ar.
my divisions engulfed all but q
mile and a half of the skyline
highway to st. With, and squeezed
the enemy back to within a mile or
two of the Siegfried line along a
23-mile front.
Mon Tn VilIoros
One force reached the Our river
at the Belgian German border
nine and a half miles south of St.
With, where a cluster of four vii
lagos were quickly mopped up.
Other forces ranged along the
Our farther south at the Luxem
bourg- border. There was
little resistance except on the ex
IRENE south flank, where recon
naissance forces knocked out a pan
Their tank and two self-propellee
guns before Withdrawing from Wei
Ter, two miles west of the border
The enemy's northern Alsatiar
venture. which this week threaten
ed the province capital of Stras
bourg, ebbed so low that U. S. Sew
enth army forces were able te
make only patrol conta cts. Along
the 20-mile front as they plowec
through deep snoWbanks.
The only activity reported was
m ping up in Schillersdorf, q
mis- northwest of Strasbourg, and
there was a feeling on that front
that the German scheme to break
across the Moder river line in an
attempt to reconquer Alsace had
been frustrated.
Swing Up Roer
The main forces of the U. S.
Ninth and British second armies
were swinging up to the Roer river
system at the gateway to the Ruhr
and Rhineland unopposed by the
enemy, who has chosen to stand on
the east bank. H.,
The U. S. First army was about
a mile from the German-border-
it's closest approach since the Ard
ennes Observation-Disclosures an ad-
vance of nearly a mile to point
three miles southeast of St. With.
Otherwise that front was quiet.
Six miles to the south, the left
wing of the Third Army was also
about a mile from the Reich and
the Siegfried line, after a three
Continued on Page Three; Col. 81
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Confirmation
Seen Highly improbable
so German Divisions
Eliminated From War

WASHINGTON, Jan. 81
(UP)-The Russian drive has
definitely eliminated from the
war" more than so German
divisions in the past Is days,
highly qualified military OBJ
servers said tonight.
The observers added that
they believed this estimate
was conservative.
AS base for their estimate,
they pointed to the Moscow
announcement that total Ger
man casualties suffered since
the Red Army drive started
two weeks ago now stand at
3S1, 900. including 295, 900 killed.
The remaining, the Russians
said, were captured.
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FORECAST

FORECAST
North Carolina: Sunday increasing
cloudiness and slightly warmer. highes
temperature about 4s degrees; gentl'
to moderate winds, mostly northeast
eastern Standard Time)
4 By U. S. Weather Bureau>
Meteorological data for the "a hour!
ending 1880 pm, yesterday.
Temperature
100 am, 80; 1880 am, 80; 1870 pm. 48
1880 pn 43.
Maximum 50; Minimum %: Mean 40
Normal IS.
Humidity
1870 am, 10: 1880 am. 81: 1870 pm, 80:
1880 pm, 10.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 7:30 pm,
600 inches.
Total since the first 4 the month
1877 inches.
Tides For Today
from the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington ---------- 10:03a ASA
1o:21p 5:08p
Masonboro Inlet -------- 7:53a 1:29a
s:12p 2:o5p
Sunrise. 7:12 am; Sunset, 5:38 pm;
Moonrise, 500 pm; Moonset, 1888 am.
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Superforts Destroy IS
Planes In Tokyo Smash

WASHINGTON, Jan. H. P) -
Superfortresses destroyed or dam
aged Is Japanese planes and five
of their own number were missing
in today's smash. at Tokyo, 20th
Air Force headquarters reported.
It was the largest bag of enemy
planes claimed or a single mis-
sion of the sky giants. The raid
moved up from Saipan while Sec
ond force of the BIOS flew from
Indian 5000 miles to crack down
on the Japanese at the big French
Indo-China has,, of Saigon.
The daylight mission against in
dustrial targets in the capital of
Nippin involving perhaps go Super
forts Tended off heavy enemy
fighter opposition on the way to
the target"