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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23-(P)

WASHlNGION, Aug. Z3-tHo
The White House may have TO
step into a hot government argu-
ment and decide this question:
Should there be a limit on prices
for postwar homes?
There has been a sales ceiling
on all homes built in wartime.
The answer will be given with
in the next few days to get the
Nations peacetime home-build-
ing program under way.
These are the arguments: ~
!. Hugh Potter, new reconver-
sion construction coodinator. says
he thinks a flood of new home
building will take care of real
estate prices by making dwell
ings rapidly available for all.
2. OPA and others fear hous-
ing needs are so great that prices
for homes built will be out OF
sight, that contractors will con
centrate on top-class residences
Right now the whole real
estate ceiling problem, including
some proposals to fix ceilings On
the sales price Of existing homes.
IL In the hands of the reconver-
sion inter-agency m m ittee
headed by Potter.
TRUMAN MAY DECIDE
There's q chance that Potter's
chief, Reconversion Director
John w. Snyder. may have 70
carry the problem to President
Truman.
OPA Administrator Chester
Bowles, long an advocate OF
some price controls on new hous-
ing. has kept mum so far about
OPA's peacetime plans.
But he has prepared several
articles for future publication
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23

pital, my wounds dressed and
I went back on duty.
II was cut a bit on the arms
and leg but not too badly. I got
home God knows how, and was
knocked out for about five
weeks. Thank God ] was all in
one piece. II was no good get.
ting sore about it because it was
just part of my job. We ask nc
praise or medals only that
We did a job that had to be
done.
Zone night last year, Ray,
Julie and I had been to . Civ
IL Defense dinner. 1t was
about 1880 at night and we
went to see some friends off
at the station. The car had
got about 100 yards from our
home when q We rocket fell.
Well, you should have seen
the house when we reached It.!
Walls, ceilings, windows.
doors, window-frames all
smashed!
I'VE worked nearly q week
clearing it up 'and joked
and sang as we went along. This
was the spirit of all Londoners
. the spirit that pulled us
through TO final victory.
IL would like to say q word
to all you American parents.
Your country came into this
war to do a job. You sent
your sons and daughters
across to lend US a hand. You
will never know how well
they did that job!
whenever and wherever
there was trouble they were
there. At all the incidents
caused by bombings, the Ameri-
can boys and girls would do
their share digging, car
ing for the homeless and injured
giving their cigarettes to
the men and their candies to
the little children,
I'VE have a lot to thank
them for Now they are
leaving us: some for home,
some for the East. We
LOndOners will miss each and
every one of them. They
were our friends. They
became part of us. Each
and every one was a gentle
man and the girls were
real ladies'!
II should like a few folks In
America to write to us :.
just to tell what they think of
us Within a few weeks all
your sons and daughters will
have gone back home and
that will be the end. or will it?
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$50 you can see how hard
Il Is for US to realize that it's
all over We now have
lights and the nights
are quiet. II will take a lot
Of getting used to But for
all that, we want to say to
you all Thank you SO
muchw
WHAT DO GIs overseas
thinks about in addition to their
families and loved ones? &.
Home, in general: the town
square, the old main street, a
college campus, or big league
ball park. in particular" This is
the question asked and answer
ed by the scribe of a Signal
Service Battalion APO 488
somewhere in China" and
in a press release listing what
some of the signalmen are
thinking of he includes
It's Kenneth Harter, Mount
Clemens. Mich. Nv h o
wants TO see the interior OF the
wl-A-Drome."
When the phone rang at Mr..
and MRS. Wayne Adair's house
the other evening, il wasn't
just another inquiry for the
assistant postmaster concern
ing the mail, but a very well
come call from London, Eng
land, with LIST 1t. Wayne
Adair Jr., on the other end of
the line. A good friend
wants to get in touch with
Rodney A. Waterbury, up
Grand Rapids way and
since we've mislaid Rods ad-
dress, and he is one Of our
constant readers, we're asking
him to contact us.
. ONE OF THOSE friendly ges-
lures of the unofficial VI cell
ebration almost passed by us UNI
noticed, had it not been for a
friend who learned of the kind
ly deed. Florist Frank j. Munt
(who likes to be frank j. munt)
dispatched 1000 roses to: Ev.
cry room in ST. Joseph, Mount
Clemens General and Selfridge
Field Hospitals and to the
Protestant Union Service az
Grace Episcopal Church and the
Catholic Service at ST. Peters. :.
A Thoughtful and highly
appropriate act of kindness.
Passing through Walden
burg the other day we in
spected the fine display Of
rocks collected by Roy Dit
trick on a motoring tour
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more do we hear the wall of tn,
sirens the crash of bomb
the thunder of guns houl
upon hour =. waiting for i
all to pass.
"Then not knowing II you
had a home to 90 to or
that your family and friends
were safe. I, together with
my pals in the Civil Defense
during the dark years Of
1910 and Al, hardly knew
the meaning Of rest.
1--WE would return home from
work have a meal the best
way We could (often only a cur
of tea and crust of bread) >.
simply because we had no time
for anything else. Then out or
patrol for hours on end
waiting for trouble.
"And when il did come
1t was fighting for lives!
Digging throughout the night
in the rubble that was left Of
someone's home Some
times we got them out alive
but more often than not
just their. tangled. remains
Make no mistakes; 1t hit you
hard when II was one of your
own friends.
II have been injured twice
once nearly losing my life 4.
We were near a building that
had been hit and from under
meath the debris I heard a wo-
man screaming for help. j
began to work towards her, and
upon reaching her, another
bomb dropped nearby. The
building just caved in and
went down three floors to the
basement.
1.-THE firemen got to me.
and with a rope l was hoisted
up but an iron girder
blocked the way. So back
down l went. Later they got
out the picks and l was dug
out. I was taken to the hos
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23

inss on new home constructions.
Production Is the only IN.
swer to high prices" he ssid.
If you can get construction So
ing full tilt, then you won't
have any more initiation In homo
real estate. Even present prices
will come down"
Administrator John B. Bland.
ford. yr.. Of the National Hous-
ing agency said in another inter-
view that sales ceilings on new
homes require some sort of sys-
tenn.
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mutuol respect established
lover there between men and
women Of our Allied notions.
The letter reached Mrs. Will
lam K. Churchyard, of Mount
Clemens, from her nephew, Rob-
ert Biddulph, 80 Grove Park,
Camberwell, London, Sc 5, Eng
land 1t was written after
the war clouds were pierced by
the sunshine of a blessed peace 4.
well It Is all over;
or shall we say nearly over
-. except for the Far
East which l trust will
not be long now. Things
over here are quickly get
tint into shape.
"You know, we Londoners
cannot yet realize that it is ov-
er. No more blackout No
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Price Ceilings for Homes
May Help Building Boom

advocating price ceilings on new
homes.
And Ivan d. Carson. OPA's
rent control administrator, states
slatly they must be established.
Potter said today in an inter-
view that IL would be almost im-
possible for the government IN
peacetime TO enforce price cell
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-23
& Mm til. sDay

Americans whose homes and beautiful countryside
spared the Of bombs and who have been the
helpful roher than the helpless side Of the world conflict
will certainly relish the following excerpt from letter written
eloquence the bombing teors ond xpressno weoth of
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Gates Takes office Today
As Navy Undersecretory

Artemus L. Gates today was sworn
in as Undersecretary of the Navy
in ceremonies in the Office of Secre-
tary Forrestal before a distinguished
gathering of high-ranking officers
and heads of naval bureaus. Mr.
Gates, former Assistant Secretary
of the Navy for Air, was sworn in
by Rear Admiral Thomas l.. Catch,
judge advocate general of the Navy.
Secretary Forrestal told the gath
ering that the new Secretary
brings to his new job distinguished
combat record in the World War,
a long peacetime interest in avia-
ton and career of prominence in
banking. in addition to his record
as Assistant Secretary for Air.
Mr.. Forrestal said Mr.. Gates dur
ing the World War originated the
present system of air-sea rescue, de-
velopment of which has saved hun
dreds of flyers in this war.
The new Undersecretary served
as commanding officer of the Naval
Air Station at Dunkerque, France,
in 1918 and received the Distin-
guished Service Medal, the French
Legion of Honor and Croix de
Guerre and the British Distin-
guiShed Flying Cross.
Evening star., 1945-07-03

of the service for the last two years.
DR.. Cairns, who has been head of
the live stock service in Maine for
the last five years, is a native of
New York. He was educated at
Cornell University, where he re-
ceived his doctor of philosophy de-
gree in 1910. Following his gradua-
ton he was associated with the ex-
tension service and animal hus-
bandry department at Cornell.
DR.. Brueckner, widely known
among Maryland stock and poultry
raiSers, has been connected with the
Live Stock Sanitary Service since
1880. Before becoming acting oil
rector he was in charge of the serv-
ice laboratories for a number of
years.
DR.. Brueckner was educated at
the University of Kentucky and re-
ceived his doctor of veterinary medi-
cine degree from the University of
Pennsylvania.
Evening star., 1945-07-03
African Giant, II,
Seeks Enlistment
In Coast Guard
By the Associated Press.

NEW ORLEANS. July 3.-There S
a 17-year-old giant from Africa s
Gold Coast who wants Ito go to sea,
but the Coast Guard regretfully ad-
vised him it can't accept his appli-
cation.
A letter addressed simply. United
States Coast Guard, America" was
received from the boy, E. x. Odura
from the Methodist school, Accra
West Africa.
Odura wrote:
II am African boy attending school
at Accra, the capital of the Gold
Coast in West Africa. l want to &c
to sea. I am II years old, 7 feet
4 inches tall. Please kindly reply me
in time so that I can see my
position"
Coast Guard 1t. F. T. Carney
assistant personnel officer, New Or
leans, replied. explaining it was
necessary to be a United States
citizen to join the Coast Guard.
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Maj. Gen. Terry Allen
And 6,N3 Troops Due
In New York Today
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 3.-Maj. Gen.
Terry Allen, commanding general
of the 104th CTimberwolf) Division,
is expected to arrive here today
aboard the transport Monterey.
which is carrying 6.493 troops, ing
cluding the 413th Infantry Regi-
ment.
Other ships scheduled to arrive
are the Samuel Adams with 1863 re-
assignment troops and the Lucretia
B. Mott with 355 troops. Ali troops
will go to Camp Kilmer, N. j., for
repfocessing.
Five troop carriers yesterday dis
embarked more than 1000 soldiers
and WACS, including 800 wounded,
aboard two Army mercy ships.
Ships bringing in veterans Of
Anzio, Casino and the western front
included the hospital ship Thistle,
formerly the cruise liner Munardo,
with 450 patients; the Algonquin
with 440 wounded, and the converted
Liberties, Josiah Bartlett, John Jay
anad George Bancroft, with upward
of 400 troops on each.
The Jay brought in the 18TH and
l78th Quartermaster Bakery Com
panies and the 1,614th Engineer
Water Supply Company.
The skipper of the Bancroft, Capt.
j. Gordon James of East Williston,
N. Y, said that ships passengers
included members of the 34th Chem
ical Decentralization Company and
the 3,436th and 3,438th Quarter
master Trucking Companies.
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Victim Of Death March Tortures
Returns Home, SmiIingIy, to Die

United States. His three-year hitch
in the Army, which he had joined
when he was still a minor, was up.
The corporal was among those
liberated from Cabanatuan. Then
he was taken to New Guinea. Doc
tors said he couldn't survive.
On March n he was brought to
San Francisco and after two weeks
he was taken to Bruins General
Hospital.
His mother visited him there-tt
was the first time in seven years
she had seen him.
"Sit down over there, mother"
she said her son told her. Pull
yourself together. I'm going to be
all right now"
Army doctors at the hospital
feared he couldn't stand the plane
ride which brought him to Fort
Worth.
But with civilian hat cooked
over one eye and propped up on an
elbow, he smiled jauntily as he
moved across the lawn of his front
yard on the stretcher bringing him
home
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Cooler Fourth Of July
Promised After Storm
Breaks Heat Wave

Washingtonians today were
promised something better than
the traditionally torrid Fourth
of July as balm for the heat
wave that contributed to five
deaths before yesterday after
Moons welcome thunderstorm
brought relief.
Temperatures in the low Dos to-
day and a Weather Bureau predic-
ton for comparatively cool weather
tomorrow gave holiday observers a
reason to celebrate. In contrast to
sitting heat of the last few days,
the mercury dropped to low of 65
degrees at 6 am. today before be-
ginning a gradual climb.
1t was 90 degrees at pm. yester-
day, when the skies darkened and
loosed heavy showers, accompanied
by winds up to so miles an hour.
The result was half an inch of rain
and a 19-degree drop in tempera-
ture in is minutes.
Before the respite, two more per-
sons died, either directly from the
heat or from complications induced
by it. George Webster. So, of 9l2
H street NV, collapsed at 221 G
street NV, where he is employed as
a leather maker, and was pro-
nounced dead at Casualty Hospital.
Heat also was blamed for a fatal
heart attack suffered by Joseph l..
Miller, Negro, of 21l1 Eleventh
street NV, who was cooking in a
Wardman Park Hotel kitchen at the
time. .
Two other persons were treated
for proStration. Zack Garrett, COL
ored, 81, of TIT Marion court NV.
recovered in Casualty Hospital after
collapsing in the Seventh street
branch of the Hamilton National
Bank. Mary Lee Walker, colored,
Is, of 1923 Vermont avenue NV.
tainted on a Streetcar at Florida
avenue and Seventh street and was
treated at Freedmen's Hospital.
The cooling storm had its less
welcome side. A bolt of lightning
struck an aerial leading into the
home of George w. Shelley, %, of
5431 TauSsig road, Sunnybrook, Md,
blew out the radio and set fire to
the house.
Firemen from Bladensburg ex-
tinguished the fire.
Another bolt tore hole through
the front porch Of the home of
Leroy Gillette in the 140o block OF
North Nash street, Arlington.
Clarendon f1remen reported re-
viving Mrs. Anna B. Long, 1900
block Kirkwood road north, Airing
ton, with oxygen after she tainted
when lightning struck a window of
her home.
Wind and lightning was RESPONSE
BILE for destruction of several trees
in the city.
The temperature dipped to 10 de-
-grees at midnight, fell to 68 at
a m. and two hours later dropped to
IS degrees-28 degrees under yes
terday'S maximum SO degrees re-
corded at sos pm.
Virginia also experienced relief
from record weekend temperatures
which reached a high of LOG in
Petersburg. Charlottesville reported
two heat-breaking thundershowers.
Evening star., 1945-07-03
BY the Associated Press.

FORT WORTH, Tex, July s.
Corpl. James E. Newman came home
from the war yesterday, but he
brought with him effects of the
infamous March Of Death and three
years in a Japanese prison camp
which doctors say will be fatal.
He was smiling, this sick, weary
soldier, as an ambulance wheeled
up to his front door and attendants
carried him into the house.
Soaring his 6-foot-2-inch frame
were the ravages of tuberculosis,
laryngitis, malnutrition and beri-
beri, which had reduced his weight
to SO pounds and left him crit
ically i'll.
A Red Cross plane few him home
from the hospital. His parents, Mr..
and Mrs. o. F. Newman, requested
that he be allowed to return home
since doctors said he couldn't live,
Mrs Newman said.
1t was on December 7, 194l, that
Corpl Newman was to have boarded
a ship which was to bring him
from the Philippines back. to the
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Air Route
Marks First Anniversary

PRESQUE ISLE, Me-, July 3
P).-Snowball, the Air Transport
Commands aerial route between
here and Europe, completed its first
year of operations yesterday with
an accident-free record.
The anniversary was observed in
work a day fashion at Presque Isle
Army Air Field.
More than 100 home bound fight
ing men were landed, boosting to
,460 the total number of ground
force men returned to the United
States in so SNOWFALL flights since
the Army's aerial redeployment pro-
gram went into effect two weeks
ago..
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Attorneys for Medley
File Notice Of Appeal

Attorneys for Joseph D. Medley,
43-year-old convicted slayer of Mrs.
Nancy Boyer, yesterday filed notice
at District Court that they will
appeal his conviction to the Court
of Appeals.
Medley was sentenced in District
Court on June 26 to be electrocuted
on November 80 for fatally shoot
ing Mrs. Boyer last March in her
Sixteenth street apartment. Medley
is represented by Attorneys James
K. and Denny Hughes.
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Coast Guard Seeking
More l7-Yeur-OId Boys

The Coast Guard, which accepts
only 17-year-old boys with two years
high school education in its recruit
ing, has sent out call for more
boys
Boys CT this area who join will be
given a u weeks basic training
course at Curtis Bay. Md, before
being assigned to ships or to special
training courses. Applicants must
be between 5 feet 6 inches and 6
feet inches and have 20j30 vision
correctable to 1920. Recruiting Of
fees are in the Post Office Building
in Baltimore
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Chicago u. Reorganized;;
Hutchins Is Chancellor
BY tie Associated Press.

CHICAGO, July 8. - Robert M.
Hutchins of the University of Chi
cago yesterday announced a gen.
eral administrative reorganization
in which he will be chancellor of the
university and relinquish the presi-
dency.
Ernest C. Colwell, vice president
and dean of the faculties, assumes
the presidency, Mr. Hutchins an
nounced at faculty meeting, Mr..
Hutchins will remain principal Of
ficer and executive head.
The new organization, he said, is
the only one in the country where
a college president is directly re-
sponsible to the executive head, the
chancellor.
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Sullivan Takes Oath
AS Naval Air Aide
On FIagship's S Deck
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ABOARD ADMIRAL McCAIN'S
FLAGSHIP IN THE WESTERN
PACIFIC, July 2 Delayed John
Lawrence Sullivan was sworn in as
Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air
on the flight deck of this task force
flagship today in the first such GER
emony in Navy history.
Patrol planes droned overhead
and other ships of this force foamed
not far off as Vice Admiral Aubrey
w. Fitch, deputy chief of Naval Air
Operations, administered the oath
to Mr.. Sullivan.
The colorful ceremony began
when helmeted officers and crew
formed on the flight deck with
fighter and bomber. planes, wings
folded, in the background. Mr.. Sui
livan, Vice Admiral John S. Mccain
and Admiral Fitch formed a group
before the assemblage.
The ship sped through waters
not long ago controlled by the
japanese.
After he had taken the oath,
Mr.. Sullivan, seaman during the
World War, said, I'VE are engaged
in so applying our vast sea-air
power that this war may be won
quickly and with as little sacrifice
as possible. And with this war
won, we hope that this same sea-
air power will be preserved and
stand ever ready to prevent new
wars"
Mr.. Sullivan, 46-year -old former
district attorney in Manchester,
N. H., and former Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury, was on a tour
of the battle area to survey the sea-
air situation when the Senate con-
frmed his appointment to succeed
Artemus L. Gates, who becomes
Undersecretary of the Navy.
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Japanese Oil Refinery
Destroyed in Raid,
Big Crewmen Say
BY the Associated Press.

GUAM, July 3. = American
Super FortreSseS struck at ia
pans dwindling oil resources
today for the third time in a
week, blasting the Maruzen oil
refinery at ShimotSu with such
precision that returning airmen
said, 1--WE won't have to go back
there again."
Fifty precision bombing B-29s hit
the oil center 35 miles from Osaka
before dawn today in quick follow
up of yesterdays record 600-plane
fire raid on four cities, while other
Allied aiH forces wrecked shipping
and military installations from
Japan to Malaga. Two B-29s were
lost in yesterdays 600-plane raid,
but all but two crew members were
rescued.
Black smoke which rose 10000
feet above the important Maruzen
oil plant could be seen for 30 miles
in the night sky.
Antiaircraft fire was light and the
few japanese interceptors that took
to the air lust seemed to want to
play one flyer said. They just
sat out of range and wiggled their
wings and flicked their lights"
Large Areas Wiped Out.
Meanwhile, 21st Bomber Com
mand Headquarters announced that
lit square miles of Japanese urban
industrial area had been laid waste
by B-29 strikes, not counting yes
| terday'S record raid.
Reconnaissance photographs OF
fire bomb strikes June 90 against
Moji, Sasebo, Shimonoseki and
Nobeoka showed approximately two
square miles burned out.
The refinery hit today at Shimotsu
was the third oil center struck with
in week. 1t had produced fuel and
lubricating oil and aviation gasoline
1t also was a storage center with
many large fuel tanks in the target
area.
The raid was the eighth B-29 at
tack on the japanese homeland in
eight days, dovetailing with other
aerial assaults on farf1ung areas of
the empire.
Navy search privateers, ranging
from Japan to China, sank or dam
aged eight more enemy vessels as
Marine Corsairs swung over the
home island of Kyushu and knocked
down eight Japanese fighter planes.
Other Okinawa-based Tactical Air
Force planes attacked the Sakishima
Islands, off Formosa
137,S75 Tons of Shipping Destroyed.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz, in an
nouncing the air strikes, also dis
closed that Fleet Air Wing I had
destroyed 137,875 tons of japanese
shipping since it began operations
in the Okinawa area, and damaged
1880 tons, plus shooting down 81
enemy planes.
Also hitting at Japan's fuel sources
and Tightening the strangling block
ade in the Southwest Pacific theater,
Philippines-based heavy bombers
have knocked out 80 per cent of
the alcohol production on Formosa,
Gen. Macarthur reported.
Other Philippines blockade planes
sank eight japanese coastal freight
ers and three luggers, attacked the
Jap naval base at Mako in the
Pescadores, blasted airdromes in
the Celebes and hit the Eastern
Java airfields at Malang. A sea-
plane base in the Kangean Islands
near Java was raided.
Evening star., 1945-07-03

of Animal In
dustry in Maine.
as director of the
university's dairy
department. He
will take his new
post August /.
At the same
time President
Byrd announced
the promotion of
DR.. A. L. Brueck-
ner as director
of the Maryland
Live Stock San
itary Service. DR..
Brueckner h as
heel1 acting head
Evening star., 1945-07-03
Rerouting of Bus Lines
B-4 and Be- Protested

Objections by the Villa Heights
Woodley Citizens Association to re-
routing by the Capital Transit Co.
of buslines B-4 and B-6 were filed
formally yesterday with the Mary
land Public Service Commission at
Baltimore.
The association, through Ralph A.
Shank, secretary, protested against
the plan to have the lines go from
Bladensburg road to the Mount
Rainier terminal before proceeding
to Washington.