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Sales To
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 Unallocated 84,311 84,311
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-14
Delta Phi Delta Elects

Ballots were cast by the
Delta Phi Delta Fraternity at
the home of George Hoppins in
Edison avenue. electing Robert
Slater. president; Thomas Child.
vice president; James Snyder,
pledge master, and Jack Ryan,
publicity.
The Deltas will collaborate
with Theta M on Feb. 10 at a
supper dance TO be held in the
Fountain Ballroom of Masonic
Temple.
Alpha Gamma Chapter of
Pi Kappa Sigma at Wayne
University held an informal
initiation for its pledges at
house party at Pinebrook Farms
near Brighton.
There was plenty of tobog-
gaming. skiing and moonlight
sleigh riding.
Miss Nancy Sue Sampich was
in charge of the initiation, and
Miss Norma Pattison and Wini-
fred Stoddard were in charge
of the entertainment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-14
lie Clubs
Resume

MANY of the clubs and or
Nl CARNATIONS which post
poned meetings until after the
holidays have resumed their
regular meetings.
Mrs. Hugh Martin will enter
tain her bridge and luncheon
club on Monday. The members
are:
James Leyes Don Poltin
Louis Liggett q. A. johnson
Herman Kramer Hoyt Hewlett
Norman Tieman
The Frioay Book Club will
meet Jan. Is in the home of
Mrs. Anna Reinvaldt of Parke
road. The feature of the after
noon will be the showing of
films of China and India.
The Afternoon Division of st.
James Service League on Tues
day will resume its monthly
bridge teas in the parish house.
Mrs. Howard Roderick will be
I'm charge of the afternoon and
her assistants will be Mrs. w.
II. Lamprecht and Mrs. IL
Remson Ryder.
That same day at 8 p. m. the
Evening Division will entertain
at a games party which will be
under the supervision OF Mrs.
Deane Rucker assisted by:
HVenAMpc
Harry Drake Robert Ring
4 Alexander MeKinnon
There will be pot luck sup
per at St James Church on
Jan. Is followed by the annual
meeting and election of vestry-
men. The hostesses for this
affair will be Mrs. Fred Coke,
Mrs. Randolph Guest, Mrs. o.
A. johnson and Mrs. James Joy
Miller.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Edward
Leh, of Allentown, Pa, arrived
Friday 10 spend the weekend
as the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
John M. Mayors. In their honor
the Mayors entertained that
evening at large cocktail
party.
Randolph T. Guest Jr. has
come from Camp Endicott. N. j.
10, spend some time with his
parents. At the expiration Of
his leave he will go on TO New
York for further training.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-14
.Du CIef Ball.
Next Friday
--L.-

A MONG the girls entering
"A Denison University as fresh
men for the January term is
Marjorie Little. third genera
ton student there. Miss Little
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edwin r. Little of Rivard boule-
ward. Crosse Pointe.
Du Clef members have plans
for a big dance Jan. 10 at the
Book Cadillac Hotel.
Newly elected officers of the
fraternity are: Robert Nagle,
president; William Strahan, vice
president: Harry Horick, treas
urer; Thomas Ashcraft, pledge
master; With Porcynalik,
scribe, and Peter Malansick,
sergeant at arms.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-14
Club TO Honor
Past Presidents

s OU T II w Z S T F r n
WOMAN'S CLUB will meet at
! 80 p. m. Thursday in South
western High School to honor
past presidents. Fran Harris
will speak on radio Expert
ences," and Virginia Rashid of
Marygrove College will present
a musical program.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-14
Confers Pledge Pins

Dramatic Club pledge pins
were conferred on 19 Mary
grove College students at a tea
held recently in the Hall Of
Glasses on the campus.
Miss Jeanne Derse. club presi-
dent, presented pins TO:
MISSES
Marjorie Former Nancy DuBrul
Elizabeth AcSherry Ann Harmon
Sallee LuCASey Mary Lou Hoey
Patricia KinAhan Barbara Luke
Mary Ellen Crane Marion snyder
10 Anne SeitE Ceraldine murphy
MaVis Bennett Eva BAlcher
MARY Jane HenneStey Ruth Wynn
Lenora Lsgrou Anna NAME Weh
haTTsret Mary Baoccck
Miss Harriet Jozefiak as
sisted the club president at the
tea table following the pledging
ceremony.
Evening star., 1945-06-02
De Gau||e Spurns Talks on Syria;
Tokyo Reports Carrier Attacks
As Fo||owup Of B-29 Devastation
Uprising in Levont
Created by British
Agents, He Says
By the Associated Press

SS tue associated lTeSS.
PARIS, June 2-Gen. de Gaulle
clearly indicated today that
France will not submit the
Syrian question to the proposed
tripartite conference He de-
clared a number Of British
agents created the uprising in
Lebanon and Syria.
Asked about submission of the
problem to the conference of French
British and United States repre-
sentatives, Gen. de Gaulle told a
press conference:
we wish that when We were in
vited to London an answer would
have been given in different way
and it would have been better also
for the invitation itself
France, he said, had withdrawn
all but 1000 to 5000 troops from the
Levant, but Britain had kept 100000
men there, including the 9th Army.
Gen. de Gaulle said British agents
in the Levant had created a situa-
ton contrary to the interests of
France. France had tried to nego-
tiate with the republics of Syria and
Lebanon on pending questions, in
Guiding Frances material interests
in the Levant, he said. France
should have military bases in the
world just as Britain and America,
he asserted.
The French chief of state said a
large measure of independence had
been granted Syria and Lebanon,
Evening star., 1945-06-02
'HoIsey and Sd Fleet Take Over
Offensive in Jap Home Waters
Spruonce Is Shifted
From Okinuwu to
Base at Guam
y the Associated Press.

! BY the Associated Press.
GUAM, June 2.-Admiral Will
liam F. Halsey has returned to
the Pacific with his famous Sd
Fleet confident that it could go
anywhere, even into Tokyo Bay.
! Admiral Chester w. Nimitz an
nounced today that Admiral Halsey
and his staff have taken over the job
of fighting the japanese in the en-
emy's home waters from Admiral
! Raymond A. Spruance and his 5th
Fleet, preparatory to launching new
attacks.
In his farewell message to the
fleet Admiral Spruance reported the
| greatest naval casualties of the
Pacific War were suffered in the
Okinawa campaign. After four
months in command of the worlds
mightiest floating fighting force,
during which he directed the con-
quest of Two Jima and OkinaWa,
Admiral Spruance moved over to
temporary shore headquarters on
Guam.
The japanese can be assured that
in his current assignment, Admiral
Spruance will be planning the
greatest. most powerful assaults yet
delivered against them, with either
the home islands or key Chinese
coastal areas as the objectives.
Underscoring the fact the Okina-
wa campaign has passed from the
amphibious operations phase, Ad-
miral Nimitz said the 10th Army
and other forces in the Ryukyus
under 1t. Gen. Simon Bolivar
Buckner now are under his (Nim-
itz's) direct control as commander
in chief.
Previously, all Okinawa forces
were under the 5th Fleet command
of Admiral Spruance, who was
awarded the Navy Cross for
extraordinary heroism" in the Two
Jima and Okinawa operations.
Vice Admiral John S. Mccain re-
turns to sea, commanding the Sd
Fleets fast carrier forces under Ad-
miral Halsey, as Vice Admiral Marc
A. Mitscher operated as carrier COM
mander under Admiral Spruance.
Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner,
commander of amphiblous forces of
Evening star., 1945-06-02
Japs Report Sub
SheIIed Marcus
By the Associated Press.

Ss lDe associated PRESS.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 2.-An
American submarine shelled tiny
Japanese-held Marcus Island, about
100 miles northeast of Guam
Thursday night Japanese time), the
Tokyo radio said today in a broad
cast heard by the Federal Com
munications Commission.
At the same time, the japanese
Domei news agency claimed 300
American ships had been sunk and
263 heavily damaged in Okinawan
waters since March %, eight days
before the invasion of the island
began.
Domei's claims were a tabulation
OF yesterdays imperial communique
plus previous claims.
The breakdown of the. claims, as
heard by the FEC, included:
Aircraft carriers Is sunk, IL
damaged.
Battleships-14 sunk, IA damaged
BattleshipS or cruisers sunk, Is
damaged.
Cruisers-52 sunk, 26 damaged.
Destroyers-41 sunk, 20 damaged.
Transports-40 sunk, Al damaged.
Submarines sunk.
Evening star., 1945-06-02
'Par|eyC|osing
lis Indefinite,
Truman Told
Won't End June 6;
Date of Presidents
Talk up in Air

President Truman has been
advised that the tentative clos
ing date of June for the San
Francisco Conference has been
abandoned, and that the security
organization meeting will not
end before some days there
AFTER" it was announced at the
White House today.
Press Secretary Charles G. Ross
said that consequently the Pres
ident's plan to go to the Coast early
this week had been dropped, but
that he will address the final session
Of the conference as contemplated,
though he does not know how many
days the closing would be delayed.
Asked if it were possible that the
President might go to Olympia.
Wash, before he goes to San Fran
cisco, instead of visiting there on
his return trip as originally con-
templated, Mr.. Ross saidehe did not
know
The whole thing is up in the air."
he explained.
President Truman told his news
conference yesterday he expected
the San Francisco meeting would
| end within 10 days.
Evening star., 1945-06-02
Russia Wants Peaceful
Settlement of Matter

LONDON, June . IPl.-As Gen.
Charles de Gaulle indicated his un-
Willingness to take part at the pres
ent time in an international con-
ference to settle Frances dispute
with Lebanon and Syria, Moscow
told other members of the Big Five
the conflict which has arisen must
be settled in peaceful manner"
Dispatches reported Gen. de
Gaulle said in a Paris statement he
judged 1T preferable not to address
himself to Mr.. Churchill since the
Britons message was delivered by a
British diplomat as minutes after
1t had been read to the House of
Commons in London.
No Time for Amenities.
A British Foreign Office COM
mentator said the British govern
ment could not await the ordinary
amenities of diplomatic exchange
He said the bombardment of Da-
mascus was going on and the note
was in France at the time Foreign
Secretary Eden disclosed its con-
tents. He added that the timing of
Mr.. Eden's announcement was gov
erned chiefly by parliamentary pro-
cedure, Commons question period
being in progress then.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Damascus reported French forces
there retired to their barracks late
yesterday under the noses of Brit
lSee SYRIA PAGE Al
Evening star., 1945-06-02
Gestopo Officer
Traced byHis
Dog in Norway
y the Associated Press,

ny tne Associated PreSS.
OSLO, June 2.-Siegfried Fehmer
GeStapo officer whom Norwegians
say was more responsible than any
other Nazi for torture of patriots
was in the hands of authorities to-
day-because of his dog.
He was apprehended in a disarm-
ing area, posing as a member of the
German air force.
Fehmer left Oslo SO hurriedly
just prior to the German capitu-
lation that he was unable to take
his dog, "Schock" The pet was
turned over to a friend who in turn
gave the animal to one of Fehmer S
girl friends.
This much the Norwegian and
British security officials learned, and
knowing Fehmer's affection for the
dog, they kept watch on the girl
friends home and tapped her tele-
phone line.
Eventually the call for which they
were waiting came through.
Fehmer called to ask about
"Schock," and the call was traced
to the dlSarming area.
Evening star., 1945-06-02
u. 5. Troops Arrive
In Norway 10 Help
In Enforcing Peace
Super Commands
Fought in ItoIy and
Southern France
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star War Correspondent.

OSLO, Norway, June 2 (By
WireleSS). - Veteran American
troops landed in Oslo last night
to enforce the peace terms in
cooperation with Norwegian
home forces over approximately
a third of the country with
nearly half of its population.
These troops are an infantry regi-
ment, reinforced by special elements
who have one of the most pictur-
esque records of the war. Two bat
talions are special service regi-
ments," American super commandos
whose existence during hostilities
was a closely guarded secret. I re-
call the first appearance Of these
men as part of Yank force on the
Casino front year ago last De-
cember. All are supermen espe-
cially trained for the most perilous
missions. They also fought at Anzio
and in Southern France.
lnteHueQ IOT INVASION.
Few Of the original men are left
among the Norwegian force. An
other element, the goth Battalion
was recruited in 1912 of almost en-
tirely se-Americans from Min
nesota. They were especially
trained in mountain winter fight
ing and intended for Norwegian
landing This was delayed month
after month as all the Yank troops
were needed in France and Ger
many until the German Army in
Norway finally capitulated. Many
of them were born in Norway and
all speak like natives. The regi-
ment is commanded by Col. Edwin
Walker of Center Point, Tex, with
the super rangers from the start.
Heading all ,the Yank forces here
is Brig. Gen. Owen Sommers, whose
force consists of several thousand
Americans and a British brigade
The arrival of more Yanks and
Evening star., 1945-06-02
Dewey Pens Acceptance
To White House Invitation

Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York has advised President Truman
that he will be happy to drop in
and pay him a call the first time he
is in Washington, White House
Press Secretary Charles G. Ross an
nounced this morning.
The Republican presidential can
didate of last November sent the re-
sponse to President Truman's invi-
tation in his own handwriting, Mr..
Ross said.
Earlier. the President had re-
ceived an acceptance from former
Gov. ALT M. Landon of Kansas,
the Republican presidential candi-
date of 1886.
Mr.. Truman had written both ex-
pressing the hope that they would
call on him when they were in
Washington. No date has been fixed
for either visit.
Evening star., 1945-06-02
z Unfinished 1roopships
To Become Luxury Liners
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 1.-Two
troopships contracted by the United
States Maritime Commission at the
Observation-Disclosures shipyards are
to be shaped into luxury liners be-
fore their completion next year and
assigned to the American President
Lines for trans-Pacific service, it was
announced yesterday.
The company said the vessels will
replace the President Hoover
wrecked off Formosa in December
1887. and the President Coolidge
which struck an American mine in
the New Hebrides in the fall of 1912
The new ships, of 22,390 tons and
600 feet in length, are the first to be
earmarked on the Pacific Coast fol
postwar civilian travel. The Mari
time Commission explained that
rapidly changing war conditions
caused the switch in troopship plans
Evening star., 1945-06-02
Woman, 63, Sentenced
To Die by Gas for Murder
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, June 2.-Mrs
Louise Peete, 63, yesterday was SEN
fenced to death in the San Quentin
gas chamber for the murder of Mrs
Margaret Logan, to whom she had
been paroled after serving 18 years
for life sentence for Staying Jacob
Denton Is years ago.
Sentence was passed by Superior
Judge Harold B. Landreth, in whose
court a jury of II women and /
man last week returned a verdict of
guilty without recommendation for
clemency.
Mrs. Peete was unmoved as SEN
tence was passed after a new trial
was denied. She will be taken to
the State Institution for Women
at Tehachapi to await an automatic
appeal to the State Supreme Court
from her conviction.
Evening star., 1945-06-02
Rise Of New Germany
Shorn Of Nazi Terror,
Is Hope Of Plus XII
Prewor Vatican Policy
Reviewed in Speech to
College of Cardinals
y the Associated Press.

BY int Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, June 2.-Pope
Plus XII expressed hope in a
world broadcast today that the
German nation "can rise to new
dignity and new life once it
has laid the satanic Specter
raised by national socialism and
the guilty have expiated the
crimes they have committed"
The Pontiff reviewed Vatican pol.
icy toward Nazi Germany through
out the years preceding the war. He
addressed the College of Cardinals
paying their respects on st. Eugene's
Day, his name day.
Dealing briefly with the Euro
pean situation Immediately after
the war, the 69-year-old Pontif1
expressed concern for multitudes OF
disappointed, hopeless men" who
he said, "are going to swell the
ranks of revolution and disorder
in the pay of tyrant no less des-
potic than those for whose over
throw men planned"
1--WE have had to deplore, alas, in
more than one region the murder
of priests, deportations of civilians
(See POPE, Page A-7O
Evening star., 1945-06-02
Four Types Of Fire Bombs
Being Used in Jap Raids
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
The Chemical Warfare Service
disclosed today that Super For
tresses are dropping at least four
different types of incendiary bombs
on Japan and that research is un-
der way to develop more fiery call
ing cards.
Two of the bombs spread flaming
synthetic lava formed by jellied gas
oline, powdered magnesium, liquid
asphalt and other ingredients.
One is the M-76 or coop" bomb
500-pounder, which scatters lava
into corners and other out-cf the
way places. The other is the To-
pound MIA equipped with mecha-
nism which throws gobs of burning
lava for distances of Is yards.
The two other types of bombs are
the 100-pound MAT and the 6-pound
M-69 cluster. The MAT, packed
with jellied gasoline in a thin wall,
is capable of scattering chunks OF
fire for distances of 40 Yards. The
M-69 is made up of bomb clusters
scattered by a time fuse, releasing
a shower of fire sticks.
Evening star., 1945-06-02
Boy, 7, Dies as Father
Rushes Home From War
Py the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y, June 2.-Beside
her dead son Bobby, victim of leu
kemia, Mrs. Robert F.. McEvoy today
maintained her vigil for the return
of her soldier husband.
Two-year-old Bobby died last
night without the comforting arms
of his father, en- route from Europe
on an emergency furlough.
The boys mother had looked for
her husband constantly since Mon
day, when she received word he was
being sent home "by the fastest
means of available transportation"
Pfc. McEvoy got leave early this
week after his wife telegraphed
President Truman and the War De-
partment had asked the Red Cross
to act in the case. Two previous ap-
peals by the Red Cross and one by
the mother to the theater COM
mander had failed.
Evening star., 1945-06-02
Yanks on 0kinawa
Launch Drive 10 Take
Harbor and AirfieId
Main Defense Line Fell
With Capture Of Shuri;
Resistance. May End Soor
BY tie Associated Press.

by lie Associated Press.
GUAM, June 2.-The United
States 10th Army, after complet-
ing erasure of Japan's main de-
fense line on Southern Okinawa
by capturing all of Shuri, sprang
forking drives today aimed at
obtaining use of the islands best
airfield and harbor.
A front-line dispatch from Asso-
ciated Press Correspondent AL Dop-
king said another 10 days may see
the end of organized enemy resist
ance.
An Okinawa dispatch from Asso-
ciated Press Correspondent Vern
Haugland noted, however, that the
west coast peninsula below the fallen
capital of Naha is "alive with troops
in position to defend the big Naha
airfield.
Japs Report Sinkings.
An official Navy spokesman said
yesterday in Washington he was
convinced the backbone of Japan's
Okinawa defenses has been broken
Tokyo radio found little to SAY
about the ground operations, bu,
sought to bolster the homeland with
extensive claims of American ship.
ping sunk by suicide planes and as.
surances more such attacks are ir
the offing. The unnamed American
Navy spokesman in Washington
listed losses of % Navy ships anc
two merchant ammunition ships ir
the Okinawa area since the invasion
on April l. More than 40 others have
been damaged.
The complete occupation Friday
OF heavily fortified Shuri, in the
center of the once formidable Naha.
Evening star., 1945-06-02
Kyushu AirfieIds
Declared Target
Of Two-Hour Raid

By the Associated Press.
GUAM, June 2.-Carrier raids
on Japan were renewed today
Tokyo radio reported, in the
wake of B-29 fire raids which
have inflicted "shockingly great
damage on Japan's major indus
trial cities.
Tokyo reported approximately
200" sea-borne fighter planes and ar
unannounced number of flying boat.
from bases in the Kerama Island!
bombed and strafed airdromes or
Kyushu Island for two hours thi!
morning.
Some raiders also strafed train.
in their attack on the most southerly
island of Japan, Tokyo said.
Martial Law Seen.
The report followed other enemy
broadcasts saying Super Fort fire
raids on Tokyo had forced the cap
itals residents to dig subterranear
homes and predicting martial Law
might be declared to meet devasta.
ton inflicted by B-29s.
A Japanese domestic broadcast
quoted an editorial in the Tokyo
Mainichi saying that because o.
the fact that the number of wal
victims has increased to such G
tremendous amount, we certainly
would not be surprised even if We
see a necessity of adopting MARTA
law"
Airmen returning to their Mari
anas Islands bases from the lates
incendiary attack, made on Japan
second largest city by more thar
$50 Super Forts yesterday. reported
1t was SO effective that the hear
of Osaka seemed to be burning out.
Results Called Excellent.
All agreed results were excellent
Some veteran fire raiders placed i
among the most successful b.!
raids on Japan.
The entire city was covered by {
cloud of smoke so huge that tn,
last waves had trouble finding theil
targets.
Ten Super Forts failed to return
About So Tinian-based B-29s LANDED
on Two Jima because they wer,
short of gas. They burned up al
their fuel climbing to get out O.
bad weather on the way to Osaka
Losses were attributed largely tt
intense antiaircraft fire. japanese
interceptors that weren't routed BY
$50 escorting American Mustang
fighters were timid.
Japs Try New Weapon.
Japanese airmen did try a new
but crude chain-and- bucket weapon
in an attempt to bring down the
big bombers.
1t. James M. Pearson, Manchester
Tenn, commander of a Saipan-
based plane, said Japanese fighter
dropped device made of two
cylinders about the size of paint
buckets linked together by a nine
foot chain. The japanese released
the device about TOO feet above 1t
Pearson's plane.
THE pilots aim was bad" 1t
Pearson said, "and the thing
dropped several hundred feet be-
hind U.S."
1t. Pearson said the containers
may have held explosives, but they
dropped out of sight.