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Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16
dedication
For The
Cinderella StpnOQ

~ ALL the office Cinderellas
who have gone before her, few
~ ever have made marrying the
boss pay off so Spectacularly as DOro-
thy NJ. Fleet, one-time $25-a-week
Buffalo, ~ Y, stenographer.
Dorothy. now a recognized Cali.
fOrnia social leader ended her 14-year
marriage the other day with an un.
contested divorce decree and a 81 ESQ.,
ttte settlement from trr -ex.buSs and
husband Major Reuben Hollis Fleet,
multimillonaire aviation executive.
To be sure Dorothy had asked for
S10,000000, the majors entire fortune
and while she didn't get that, the
settlement she received was one of the
highest i'm the history OF Los Angeles
Superior Court.
Pretty Dorothy was only 16 when
she first took dictatiOn from Major
Fleet 20 years ago in his Buffalo
office. She was quick TO catch on and
was getting $50 a week when he mar
ried her six years later.
But Major Fleet carried his dieta-
ton over into his home life, she says,
and after & while it got so she couldn't
take it any more. So she clicked her
heels into court and asked for a di-
vorce and all of the majors $1,000,
600 fortune.
What the fashionable Beverly Hills
society matron got was a 81 ,250,000
trust fund, $171, 800 in cash and $685.
SEQ in other property, including the
couples $4,000 Holmby Hills man
sion and a 100000 Palm Springs
estate.
She also won custody of their
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-16

month income for these necessary
expenses.
g Dorothy, now SO, told the court
: she had lost her early talent for
}. tapping the typewriter keys and
;, was no longer able 10 support her
self and her children When she
a admitted having S1250O0 of her
2 own, the court ruled she'd have 10
i try Tending off the wolf on the
S1,G5OOO
= The trust fund set up for her
provides $4,000 n year income
and the principal goes 10 the chill
drcn after her death.
Going back 10 the major, there
was a time when a fraction Of this
was far beyond his means
When he took Dorothy into his office
and later into his heart his circum-
stances were barely modest, though
his star was already beginning to rise.
Eventually, he pyramided a $4,000
bank account into his S10,000,000 for.
tune -accumulating most of it in
single business blltZ i'm 1911
War planes filled the skies over
Europe and the Orient and the majors
wealth and income scared up with
Evening star., 1945-12-02

with the frank argument that the
smaller peacetime Navy would be In
an unfayorable minority position.
Despite this clash most generals
and adrnirAls, Is well as civilian
secretaries, urged that Congress give
legal and permanent status to the
Joint chiefs setup and the special
presidential advisor.
Navy League Opposes Move.
The Navy League of the United
States, civilian organization
formed in 1902 to support the Navy,
recorded itself last night as opposed
to the merger. It made public the
following telegram to President
Truman:
THE membership OF this civilian
organization, many Of whom have
served in both branches OF the
armed services or have kin in both
branches Of the services, trusts you
will not become the first President
OF the United States to dislocate the
military balance Of this democracy
in favor Of a rule by military
clique which Is now using the word
unification as q means of attain
ing its end.
The proposed merging Of the
Army and the Navy under a single
dictatorship is patiently grab fol
power, although this purpose Is vel
Evening star., 1945-12-02
Jail Break
Continued From First Page.)

second week of fact-finding to-
morrow and possibly will conclude
its work Tuesday, Chairman Thomas
r. Sard said.
To Question Inmates.
Mr.. Sard said the board expects
to quiz a number of inmates tomor-
row in an effort to determine how
a sawblade was smuggled into the
Jail and how the break was accom-
plished by saving through window.
Since the getaway, three guards
have been under suspension. Two
of them, H. F. Robinson and B. E.
Samples, have attended all sessions
of the inquiry board, but the third,
L. A. Howard, now charged with
attempted extortion in another
phase of the investigation, has
chosen to remain quiet, according
to Howard B. Gill, District super
intendent of penal institutions.
At the completion of the inves-
tigative boards work, report will
be turned over to Mr.. Gill, who in
turn will send it to the welfare
board. The report probably will be
made public the latter part of the
week, at which time the welfare
board may order separate inves-
tigation.
Ray L. Huff, director Of the De-
partment of Public Welfare, has
received from Mr.. Gill a lengthy re-
port recommending numerous re-
forms at the Jail. This probably
will be released at the conclusion
of the escape investigation, it was
said.
Evening star., 1945-12-02
By OLEN CLEMENTS.

Associate Press Foreign Correspondent.
CHINHSIEN, Manchuria, Dec l.
On jeep trip from the Great
Wall to points within so miles of
.Mukden-a distance of more than
$50 miles-I have seen numerous
factories which have been stripped
to the bare walls since the japanese
surrender.
1t. Gen. Tu Lining, Chinese
government commander-in-c chief for
the northeast area, said the Rus
slams and Chinese Communists had
removed the equipment, while peas
ants had completed the job of pick
ing clean the bones of plants which
the Japanese had spent IA years
developing in this former puppet
state.
To restore the factories will take
much money and years of work.
Gen. Tu's chief of staff, 1t. Gen.
Chao Chi-shiang, and the secretary
general for Manchuria, Professor
Yu Hsieh-chung, strongly support
ed Gen. Tu's statement that the
Russians and Communists had taken
the equipment. Professor Yu, for
merly of the Marking University
Evening star., 1945-12-02
Truman
Continued From First Page.)

blared the announcement that the
crowd knew he was on the scene.
Secretary of War Patterson and
Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, Fed
eral Works administrator, greeted
the President. Gen. Fleming for
nnerly was on the West Point ath-
letic staff.
! A chill wind was blowing through
the stadium as the President took
his seat, and he soon availed him
self of proffered Navy blanket
Mrs. Truman preserved White
House neutrality by wrapping her
self in an Army blanket of olive
drab.
Just before the first half ended
hampers containing sandwiches and
hot chocolate were brought into the
presidential box, and the President
saw that some of the food was sent
tp a nearby box where Secretary of
the Treasury Vinson sat, with Gov.
Edward L. Martin of Pennsylvania
and Mayor Bernard Samuel of
Philadelphia, who headed the Penn
Elvania delegation at the game.
Formal honors were accorded as
the President moved over to the
Navy side. 5v.- ~ s-,.- ,.--- .--,..,-..
The White House Said last night
the President was accompanied on
the weekend cruise by several
members of his official family"
some members of the "Hardrock
club"-a group formed during his
vice presidential campaign and
some of the press, radio and photo
graphic representatives who went
with him to the Potsdam Confer
ehoce
Evening star., 1945-12-02
Marines Dig In at Tsinetao
For Iona, Cold Winter

TSINGTAO, China, Dec. Am
erican Marines are digging in for a
long, cold winter in this Communist
ehcircled seaport and elsewhere In
North China as it becomes increas-
ihgly evident that landing of the
Chinese Nationalists Eighth Army
Is not going to bring immediate
peace to the Shantung peninsula
To-day Chinese Communist Eighth
Route Army troops hold positions
within 80 miles of the heart of
Tsingtao and have recaptured the
Inland railroad city of Wehsein.
marines of Maj. Gen. Lemuel
Shepherds Sixth Division who land
ed in Tsingtao october l, now have
ohtposts around the city and at the
nearby airport.
Marines in Coal Business.
Meanwhile the Marines have gone
into the coal business, operating
out of the nearby port of Chin
wangtao.
Twelve ships loaded with 100,065
tons of coal have sailed from Chin
wangtao. Eleven of the shiploads
have gone to Shanghai The coal
was mined by the Kailin Mining
Administration, a British Chinese
cbncern, in the vicinity of Tonshan,
south of Chinwangtao.
THE whole movement of coal
from here would stop overnight if
Evening star., 1945-12-02
Dr.. Frank McCue Dies;
Charlottesville Physician

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Dec.
DIR Frank Cyrus McCue, 70,
practicing physician here for more
than 40 years, died at his home
today.
He was a native of Albemarle
County. and before locating in
Charlottesville, had practiced for
two years in Strasburg.
Twice married, he is survived by
his widow, four children, and a
brother.
Funeral services will be at pm.
tomorrow. Burial will be in the
family cemetery near Alton.
Evening star., 1945-12-02
Army, Navy Favor
Keeping Joint STATS,
Presidential Adviser
BY the Associated press.

BY the Associated Press. &. Ss
Two setups which the late Pres
ident Roosevelt created for war
time appeared last night to have
support of both the Army and Navy
for continuance In peacetime de-
spite their dispute over a merger.
These are:
/. The joint chiefs Of staff, the
top group Of Army, Navy and Air
Force commanders.
2. The chief Of stan to the Presi-
dent as Commander In Chief.
Senators will learn about wartime
Operations of both this week when
Admiral William d. Leahy, only Of
ficer ever to serve as chief Of staff to
a President, testifies Tuesday before
the Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee hearings on legislative pro-
posals for single department Of the
services. Admiral Leahy was select
ed by President Roosevelt when he
set up the post in the. White House
and has continued to serve Presi-
dent Truman.
Army Urges Unification.
All War Department spokesmen
have urged speedy action on uni
fication of the armed forces into
a single cabinet department with
co-equal land. sea and ground forces
Every Navy Department witness
has opposed such a consolidation
Evening star., 1945-12-02
Monchurion Factories Stripped
BY Reds, AP Reporter Finds

faculty, was educated at Harvard
University.
"The Russians took all of the i'm
portant foreign-made machinery
from every factory and hospital !
have seen," said Gen. Tu. Then
the Communists took most of the
rest, and smashed what they could
not carry away"
After the Communists, he added
came the fuel-hungry peasants of
this scantily forested area.
Gen. Tu said some factories were
burned after being stripped. His
Nationalist forces took Chinhsien SO
quickly that it was little damaged
At Kinsi and Hingcheng, south of
here, damage Is more in evidence
The Japanese had built the worlds
fourth largest sulphur plant at Kinsi
copying the American plant of Free
port, Tex. Gen Tu said the Russians
took so much of its machinery that
it now is unworkable, and that gaso-
line plants in both Kinsi and Hing
cheng were stripped.
Professor Yu said reports from
Mukden and Harbin indicated that
about 80 per cent of the industries
in those two large cities had been
taken away by the Russians.
Evening star., 1945-12-02
DR.. Butler Quits as Head
OF Carneqie Endowment

The Carnegie Endowment for In
ternational Peace yesterday an
nounced the resignation Of DR..
Nicholas Murray Butler as its presi-
dent. "' ~@1si ,-<.'7a 9,
The announcement said the resig-
nation, rendered at meeting of the
executive committee in New York
Friday, gave physical infirmities as
the reason. 5s
DR.. Butler. now SO. also resigned
as director of the education division
post he had held since it was or
ganized in 1911. Malcom w. Davis
was appointed acting director.
DR.. Butler became president of the
endowment in 1925 when its first
president, Elihu Root, retired.
Evening star., 1945-12-02
should not be hasty or ill-conceived
1t should be well thought out"
Hatch to Urge Approval
Of Labor Relations Act

SANTA FE, N. Mex, Dec. l (P.-
Senator Hatch. Democrat, of New
Mexico said today that because OF
failure of President Truman's
labor r-inanagement conference, he
would press vigorously for passage
Of the Federal Industrial Labor
Relations Act which he is sponsor
ing Jointly with Senator Ball, Re-
publicaIl OF Minnesota.
Failure of the labor management
conference to agree is regretted but
it was not unexpected" Senator
Hatch said Almost from the be-
ginning it was evidence no worth
while accord on major issues would
be reached"
Evening star., 1945-12-02
Sponsors Pessimistic
About Chances Of
Passing Training Bill

By the Associated Press.
Three weeks of public hearings
on universal military training left
congressional sponsors pessimistic
last night over the chances of get
ting peacetime draft law.
Publicly they are conceding moth
Ing but privately they would settle
right now for law requiring every
able-bodied male to take four
j.. months Of military training at or
near the age of IS.
President Truman has requested
a law requiring one continuous year
of training. The War and Navy De-
partments and the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States
have backed the proposal in hear
ings before the House Military Az
fairs Committee. So have numer-
ouS individuals and miscellaneous
groups.
- Opposition to Be Heard.
But some educators, churchmen
and others are opposed to it. Still
to be heard are spokesman for or
edAi1ACQ A1bO1 III SlOuHS WHO
opposed universal training last sum-
n1er, when the House Postwar Mill
tary Policy Committee held hear
i1gs.
1--WE will do we'll to get even a
four-month program" one legisla-
tor said privately, Right now I'm
not so sure any kind of a compul-
sorry bill could get out of the Mill
tary Committee"
s"It looks like we are whipped, \
but we're not ready to quit yet" said
another.
: Compromise Expected.
IAN Army Observer who has been
attending the hearings commented,
The outlook isn't so good" and
said the War Department was re-
signed to accepting compromise.
Some supporters believe their
cause will pick up strength after
the first of the year. They expect
the unsettled international situa-
tion to help.
sThe end of the hearings is not in
sight but Chairman May is hoping
all witnesses will have been heard
by the middle of December. Com
naittee action before next year is
unlikely.
Evening star., 1945-12-02
Hurley Seeks Permission
To Offer Papers al Hearing

BY the Associated Press.
Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley said
last night he will ask State Depart
ment permission to present docu-
ments at the hearing of his charges
against certain career diplomats.
Gen. Hurley, who resigned Tues
day as Ambassador to China, re-
ferred both to papers of the depart
ment and those in his own possess
sion, he explained. since the latter
may require official release also
because of their diplomatic nature.
The general. who has said
unnamed professional diplomats
wrecked United States foreign
policy, will appear before the Sem
ate Foreign Relations Committee
at a hearing Wednesday.
Evening star., 1945-12-02
Judge Melvin Confined
To Home by illness
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. Dec. Judge
Ridgely P. Melvin, Associate Justice
OF the Maryland Court of Appeals.
was taken i'll Tuesday and was con-
fined to his home here, it was an
nounced today.
No statement of his condition was
made. His Office said Judge Melvin
became i'll during Tuesdays session
of the court.
Evening star., 1945-12-02

more industrial upheavals of all
sorts, strong Government and con-
gressional action" were almost Ger
tain to ensue.
Mr.. Smith said in an interview
that failure of the conference to
produce anything conclusive" sig
nailed a need for stronger White
House leadership to avert a labor
crisis.
Says Truman Could Have Acted.
The meeting might have been
saved, he said, had President Tru-
man taken hand when it begged
down instead of sticking to a de-
cision that there should be no Gov
ernment interference.
There is difference" Mr.. Smith
said, between guidance and inter-
ference"
| He added that the industrial out
look raises question whether the
Government is to retire to a posi-
ton of minor Importance while self
ish factions declare open warfare
for the control of vital situations. :"
A member of the publishing house
of Simon & Schuster and former
vice president of American Broad
casting: Co., Mr.. Smith attended all
meetings Of the conferences s. Execu-
tive Committee, closed to the press
and most delegates. ,.al 4t4-., Il: =. = =
Seen Up to President.
David Sarnof1. president of the
Radio Corp. of America, a confer
ence delegate who touched of a
futile last-minute effort to get dele
gates together Friday, said he felt
Mr.. Truman would have to move
in"
Fact-finding machinery showed
yesterday on the agenda of the
twelfth National Conference on La
Dor Legislation.
The conference, called by Secre-
tary Schwellenbach and including
delegates from Al States and the
District of Columbia, opens a four
day session here tomorrow.
/ State labor administrators, Fed
eral labor officials and representa-
tives OF organized labor will attend.
T. On the program for discussion is
the Strengthening State labor de-
partments by adequate State appro-
priations for the enforcement of
State safety and health, wage and
hour laws. and for fact-flnding," the
Labor Department announced.
War End Poses Problems.
Nothing that the wars end posed
many peactime reconversion prob
lens for Federal and State labor de-
partments, Mr.. Schwellenbach said
in statement that the conference
would discuss Federal-State CO.
operation in labor legislation and its
administration.
Eric Johnston, president Of the
United States Chamber Of, Com
merce and one of the leaders who
planned the Labor Management
Conference with President Truman
and Secretaries Schwellenbach and
Wallace, summed up the conference
in radio address last night.
He warned against pressures which
might stampede us into national
policies which we shall have cause
to regret and bewail later"
"The temptation is strong, at a
time like this, to evade the RESPONSE
bility of voluntary action by resort
ing to official coercion" Mr.. john
ston said.
II 90 not want to be understood
as saying that perhaps no legisla-
tion is necessary. Maybe it is. What
I am saying is that whatever we do
Evening star., 1945-12-02
THE SUNDAY STAR Washington, D. C. As
4,

disguised. It win prove to be not .
merging, but a submerging Of our
first line Of attack and defense,
namely, sea-air power.
IT the proposal is so obviously in
the Nations interest, let there be
something more than a cursory
study and the jumping at fallacious
conclusions.
Evening star., 1945-12-02

ter would strike for Jehoi PROVINCES
capital of Chengteh, 100 miles
northeast of Peiping, and the Sd and
18th Armies would press on the
Communist stronghold of Kalgan,
about the same distance northwest
OF Peiping.
Evening star., 1945-12-02

the Marines were W1thdraWn, q
KMA company official said.
Another aspect of the Chinwang-
tao coal business was the exchange
of coai for $3.50 tons of American
flour by UNRRA, according to a
ranking agent of the KMA. The
trade was reported to have been
made by a British representative
for the. China Office of UNRRA.
An official said the -four would be
distributed to Chinese miners in
lieu of wages.
Evening star., 1945-12-02
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-09
Daily Market Report

TOMATOES outdoor. s2.0o-2.50
IL ID. basket.
TURNlPS-Topped. No. /. bu.,
Sl.50-l.75.
Fruit
APPPLES-Dutchess, No. I, S4.12,
10 ID. Blu.
APPLES-New Transparents, No.
/, $i.l2; IS ID. Blu.
CURRANTS-Red, No. /. $500. "a
at. case.
GoOSEBERRIES-$6-7 24-qt case.
PEACHES-No. /. s4.47 bu.
PLUMS-No. !. $500 II bu.
FRUIT
Benton Harbor, Mich, Aug. p
AP-Peaches trebled in volume on
the fruit market Wednesday, indi-
eating that the main harvest OF
Michigans 1880. 000-bushels peach
crop is not far off. Ceiling or near
ceiling prices we're paid. Prices
were:
Peaches, bushels, No. |, orioles,
Jubilees and Redhavens of two-ineh
size and up mostly 1854, pale
Orioles and smaller sizes OF other
varieties S2.50-3.25; tomatoes. IL
quarts, Michigan No. 2, S0c-$l.00;
dewberries. 16 quarts s24.32; GU
cumbers, slicer bushels $3.00-6 so.
picklers, 12 quarts Sl.50.2.00; blue
berries. 16 quarts $S.00-9.0O; Is
pints S5.5O-5.S5; apples, bushels
S345.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-08-09
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the leading squad making its way
up through rough and heavily wood
ed terrain where observation was
difficult.
Heavy Jap rifle fire failed to halt
the platoon's advance. and the lead
ing Doughboys had almost reached
the top OF the ridge when the fran
tic Nips began hurting satchel
charges down on the attacking rifle
men. The enemy was nearly sue.
cessful in repulsing the entire pia-
toon.
One OF the satchel charges land
ed between Private Thomas legs as
he lay sprawled flat and firing his
BAR into the Jap position above.
The terrific blast tore off both his
legs below the knees.
In almost the came second that
he screamed, "Oh. my legs" the
young Infantryman realized that
maximum firepower from his posi-
ton was essential to preventing q
disastrous withdrawal OF his COM
rades.
Refusing medical aid and evacua.
ton which were necessary to save
his life. Private Thomas continued
to fire his rifle. He killed at least
three Japs after he lost his leg.
Even after his automatic rifle
was smashed by an enemy bullet,
the Arkansas soldier continued to
fire his rifle. He killed at least
three Japs after he lost his legs.
Colonel SHELTON declared that the
effective fire on the enemy posi-
ton by Private Thomas after he
had been hit prevented the repulse
of the platoon and enabled It to
continue the attack and capture
the position.
The youth now being honored by
a grateful Nation died in a battalion
aid station not far from the front
lines, where the medic who gave
him first aid, Technician Fourth
Grade Herman Forman, OF II Ma
verick, St, Chelsea, Mass, told
a graphic story Of Private Thomas
indominatable courage.
The % year old first class pri.
vate. was born in wynne. Ark. The
family moved to Willow Village
in January 1943. He was not mar
ried.