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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-01
Saturday viii
See Football
Tops in Fray

New York, Oct. 1-AP-FootBan
fireworks will pop all over the ma
ton on Saturday when the gridiron
powers pump into each other in
wholesale numbers for the first
time OF the campaign.
The top contests will pit Navy
against the high scoring Duke at
Durham, and Notre Dame against
Georgia Tech at Atlanta.
The Navy, in waloping Villanoya
1910, showed so many talented
backs that visiting scouts went
away shaking their heads The
Duke Blue Devils also displayed
plenty Of punch in rolling up $50
over Bogue Fields Marines.
Notre Danes Hughie Devore and
Georgia Techs Bobby Dodds both
got OFF on the right foot as the
Irish defeated Illinois 10 and Geor-
gia Tech came back to nose out
North Carolina 20-14.
Ohio State, with Paul Starring
haus breaking loose for four touch
down. subdued Missouri 47-6 and
will open its Big Ten competition
against Iowa. The Hawkeyes
edged out Bergstrom Field 1913.
Yale, PIT winner over Little
Tufts, will try to uphold Ivy League
prestige against Holy Cross which
nipped Dartmouth 1876. The latter
squad appears in for another whip.
ping from the three-deep Penn
Quakers who trampled Brown 500.
Columbia walloped Lafayette 40-l4
and will tangle with Syracuse, beat.
en- rs by Temple.
Michigan paster Michigan State
400; Oklahoma BANKED Nebraska
200; Purdue edged out Great
Lakes 20-6; Wisconsin overwhelm.
ed Marquette 40-13, Texas showed
under Southwestern $50; Texas A.
e. NJ. halted Texas Tech 1856;
Texas Christian squeezed past Bay.
lor &c, Colorado surprised Colo
RADIO College 1870: Nevada shellack.
ed Utah 1914 and U. c. L. A. over
came San Diego Naval 20-14. The
Gaeis Of St. Mary's defeated Stock.
ton Army Air Base 26-O In a Sun.
day tilt. -
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-01

ankle ana was on the bench for
several weeks.
1T was a screwbalI l hit and II
was right down the middle" declar.
ed Hanf as he recounted his home
run wallop.
President Walter Briggs OF the
Detroit Club was on the phone in
a matter Of minutes after the flag
was clinched to give explicit orders
for the celebration on the Tigers
Victory Special.
Briggs made II plain he wanted
it to be a good one and he would
not have been disappointed II he
had been along.
The Tigers had been strung like
banjos in the closing days OF the
race and O'Neill wanted them 10
relax. They will rest today and will
hold their pre-series workout at II
a. m. tomorrow at their home
field. O'Neill said the Cubs would
be given the park at p. m. for
their workout.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-01
Sports Roundup

DetroAPThree games University Mich
Big clash with Northwestern headline this weeks state col
schedule action
eighgame program whacked by Michigan
its plays its first home Saturday against Kentucky
team the spaans nosed out 90 last year Lexington.
Ann Arbor-APMchgan winner twice in three straight home
tackle Northwestern Saturday
The Wildcats played TT tie last week with the Indiana Uni
Michigan only defeat 1871 In other Sat
both Michigan journey into Ohio
Wayne tackle Ohio Wesleyan and Western Ohio University
Albion opening winner Hsdae 146 last week will help
Michigan State Normal College its schedule here in Ypssnu
Saturday.
BalmoeAPThe Washington Redskins took TO the air with
Sunday Detroit Lions 2 in exhibition
witnessed by $4,000 fans
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-01

home wherein the owner has ample opportunity
enjoy the many facilities for relaxation and COM
fort that he has had built in is the all.electrie
home. The time, health. and labor.Saving advan-
tages of electricity say, "Turn the electric e"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-01

winner, will start at Lexington, KY,
tomorrow or Wednesday in an er.
fort to beat the world three year
old record OF 1853 he set at Du
Quoin, ILL.,. Alma College in Mich
igan will wind up its football sea.
son before the fall college session
begins. Because OF the Navy pro.
gram, civilian classes don't start
until Oct. 81, but Alma's Navy
manned football team closes its
campaign against Michigan Nor
NAL Oct. 20. Carolina football
fans are touting Clemson's Ralph
Jenkins as a prospective All Ameri-
ca CENTER.
Guess Again
"a final look at the World
Series pitchers)
AL Benton, Tigers-Returned to
baseball from the Navy this sea-
son. Won FIVE games, then broke a
leg. Ran into an August slump
that damaged his record. =. Virgil
Trucks, Tigers-just out Of the
Navy and perfectly willing to give
the Cubs his blues. Jim Tobln
Tigers-A cub jinx for years in
the National League but he wasn't
this year before leaving the Braves
-. Claude Passeau, Cubs-Last
spring he was a doubtful asset be-
cause of bone chips in his right
elbow. Now his elbowing has help
ed put the Cubs in the chips. 30.
Ray (Pappyl Prim, Cubs-Was a
highlander but switched to south
paw pitching because OF a burn
on his hand. Has been burning up
the league late in the season. o..
Hy Vandenberg. Lon Warheke, Ray
Starr and Paul Derringer, Cubs
what? Those old guys?
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-01

WELLINGTON, New Zealand 49,
APT British Commonwealth
troops go to Japan, New Zealand
will be represented by a brigade
group from the 18th, 1lth and 18th
endorsements to the New Zea.
land division now In the Middle
East. Prime Minister Peter Fraser
announced Saturday. They have
seen little or no fighting, he said.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-01
Back When

Today a year ago-The st. Louis
Browns won their first American
League pennant by beating the
New York Yankees SO while Wash
ington was defeating Detroit, Al.
Three years ago-The st. Louis
Cardinals edged out the New York
Yankees 4-3 in the second game Of
the World Series at 1-all.
Five years ago-The New York
Giants picked up pitcher Ace Ad.
ans from Nashville in the annual
draft meeting at Cincinnati.
Ten years ago-Mike Jacobs may
take over boxing for Madison
Square Garden under q five year
contract.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-01

20 mark this year partly because
Of a lame back. When someone
told him about Gabby Street catch
ing a ball tossed from the Washing
ton Monument, Trout said: And
you guys call me Dizzy. Hank
Wyse-Cubs-This looks like an
epidemic OF injured backs. Hank
hurt his last winter falling of a
welding platform at Miami, Okla,
war plant and had to wear a corset
most OF this season. He's a %
game winner and specializes in
low.hit contests.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-01
Gusss Than Rlnht

inspecting some righthanders
an the World Series mound STATS
and finally counting the Cards OUT
Paul DIZZY Trout, Tigers-The
clubs workhorse. and an occasion
al longball hitter, won 2S games
last year but dropped below the
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-01

It's variety OF scenic attractions,
geological features, wilderness at
mosphere, historically significant
spots, and recreational facilities
makes Michigan's state park sys-
tenn one of the most outstanding
in the United States.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-01
SundaNIa Resulta

Sundays Results
Chicago 8, Pittsburgh 3.
ST. Louis 3, Cincinnati 2.
Brooklyn 4, Philadelphia 1.
New York IL. Boston OF. (sec-
ond game called at end OF sixth.
rain).
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-01
HOu0 They Stand
Sundays Results

Sundays Results
Detroit 6, ST. Louis (second
game canceled).
Cleveland al Chicago, Cancelled.
New York IL, Boston 2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
Valentine On Stand

New York, Feb. 23-(UP)-Lewis J. Valentine, New York city police commissioner, testified today, that he had been advised prior to the opening of the 1944-45 season that professional gamblers were trying to corrupt coaches and players of the basketball teams playing at Madison Square Garden.
 Valentine, the first witness as the open hearing into the basketball! gambling situation was resumed, said he had a conference with Ned Irish, acting president of the Gar den in November, 1944, and that police cooperation was sought in suppressing gambling at the Garden.
 Irish told him, Valentine said, that the gamblers were trying to approach the players and coaches and revealed that a gambler aWokc the coach of the University of Utah basketball team at ' a m. to suggest that his team throw game. The coach became indignant and kicked the bum out" Irish told him, Valentine testified. He added that it was unfortunate that the coach did not detain the gambler until police could have arrived and taken him into custody.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
And
 Pilot Differ

Boston, Feb. 23.-(UP)-The Pilot, official newspaper of the Catholic archdiocese of Boston, took issue today with Mrs. Franklin D. Roose- velt'S statement that we don't want to encourage indiscriminately large families"
 Referring to remarks made by the Presidents wife during a recent press conference, the Pilot said edi- torially:
 Read carefully, read very care fully, Mrs. Rooseyelt's statement might pass muster. Gauged solely from an economic viewpoint, 1t seems plausible that it does not help country to have families of 12 children if they have inferior health or mentality"
 Yet. the Pilot said, it is unpleas- ant to meet sheer, however ob- lique and qualified, at families of 12 children It is the large fam flies of this country that saved the nation in very dark and perilous hour This doesn't mean that the only child is not doing his share. But there aren't enough
 Besides the flavor of snobbery which this distinction implies, and apart from its hint that no moral issue is involved. this eulogy of really good families reeks with menace. . If the parents of ages past had waited until they could afford children, the standard of the swastika would be floating over the White House at this moment Or, the emblem of the Rising Sun
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
U 5 Improves tS Position
(Continued from Page D

bay coast, through the road junc- tion of Alabang to Nuntinglupa.
 In Manila, the heaviest fighting centered around the city Hall, the general postoffice, the Manila ho- tel and university buildings.
 Elements of the First Calvary Di- vision, which now is attached to the 37th Infantry Division, broke into Manila hotel Wednesday and seized the first floor of the building. Jap anese naval and marine personnel held the rest of the hotel er:d were reported firmly entrenched behind sandbags and stone Instructions.
 Front dispatches said the Japan ese turned every floor of every building into individual fighting pockets for fight to the last man. Some of the entrances were criss- crossed with barbed wire and mined witL electrical detonators.
 Japanese units, carrying demoli- tions, shotguns and spears, attempt ed to infiltrate American positions at the Army-Navy club, but were routed with the loss of l. men.
 Troops of the 37th division cap tured the three-story Ermita normal school and wiped out every Jap anese in the ice-plant, the Metro politan theater and the Spanish Club.
 Heavy American guns continued pounding the ancient wall around the Intramuros sector. One shell set off Japanese ammunition dump at the northeast corner of the wall, causing terrific blast which ripped 30-foot hole in the masonry.
 The communique disclosed that the 14th army corps, under Maj. Gen O. w. GrisWold, had captured or destroyed in the Manila battle TIP artillery pieces and 705 machine guns.
 Nearly 100 Liberator bombers joined with 40th division troops in an assault on the Japanese forces holding out in the Zambales noun tains behind Fort Stotsenburg and the Clark field area.
 Determined Resistance
 The bombers con entrated on en- enly dumps in caves, where spokes- man described the Japanese resist arce as most determined"
 Heavy bombers, fighters and patrol planes carried out extensive attacks on Formosa. Sixty tons of bombs were dropped on KoSkun barracks and supply area by the heavy bomb- CTS, while m3dium units with fighter escort struck Chosu, destroying bar racks, railway installations and most of the toWn,' the communique said.
 Fighters destroyed 13 grounded enemy planes at the Karenko air. drome on Formosas s east coast. Ten coastal vessels were destroyed or damaged.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
Marines Capture
 Mount Suribachi
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Besides being the heaviest forti- fled island yet encountered, Two possesses tremendous natural bar riers that also must be overcome" :" he said in broadcast on his re- turn from the scene.
 He said it might take two weeks 'or even longer" to secure the is- land, depending on whether the Japanese hole up to fight to the last or expend thir forcs in sui cidal Banzai charg.
 Regardless of what tactics to in- sure an American victory
 Once secured, Two immediately will be put into operation as an air base for attacks on Tokyo and other targets on the Jaanese homeland.
 You must remember that we can do in months what 1t takes the Japs years to accomplish"
 Hoover disclosed that the Amer ican beachhead on Two apeared doomed for time on D-Day Mon- day. The marines encountered lit- tie fire going ashore because the Japanese through the landing on the the southeast beach was a feint, he said, but three hours later they swung mortars and howitzers into place.
 Shells began knocking out Amer ican tanks and causing casualties among the troops, he said
 Tt was serious moment and for awhile our invasion beach appeared doomed" he said, but later that same day we discovered an area far to the south where we could pene- trate to the southern airfield out of range of their heaviest gunfire.
 We kept feeding our men through this region and it saved the day, but can testify it was touch and go for awhile"
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 he had large amusement park there. He said the Germans forcibly repatriated him.
 Another, Mrs. Hariola Nicola and her two daughters, said she was the widow of World War One veteran, a Greek by birth, who brought her here after the last war and then took her back to Salonika with their two children Is years ago. She and her daughters were interned in the Liebenau Germany prison camp since 1942, she said.
 Two other civilians also wanted to return to Europe as soon as they could - but in American army uni- forms. They were Frank Wojcie- choWski, 9, who left his mother and brother in Poland, and Stephen Kutis, g, who lived in Poland since 1881. Both said they'd like to be part of the army of occupation.
 Repatriated American seamen said today that British warships abandoned their 38-ship convoy in the North Atlantic in July, 1942. and that German submarines and planes sank 34 of the ships the next day.
 The seamen returned this week from German prison camps on the exchange Ship Gripsholm.
 Walter StankieWicZ who sailed on the SS Carlton, said the Nazis ap- parently lured the British warships away by sending out the Nazi bat tleshipS Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.
 Third Mate Hugh Gonzales of the Carlton said that their theory "sort of worked up in prison camp" and that there must be something we don't know to explain It.
 Captain Frederick A. Strand of the SS Honomu, another of the ships sunk, also confirmed the out line of the incident.
 The mariners story was that they left for Murmansk with IA British destroyers and four heavy cruisers. Early in July they passed through the North Atlantic, and the escort unaccountably left.
 The convoy then was subjected to fierce German attacks.
 They had their pickingS we couldn't do thing" Stankiewicz said
 When the Carlton went down in the Barents Sea, Gonzales said the crew was af1oat in lifeboats for 19 days before being picked up by the Germans who took them to Norway. Strand said the Germans treated them fine" in Norway and that he was permitted to visit sister living there.
 The men were later transported to a German prison camp near Bre- men.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23

with the armies of our Allies is successfully completing the rout of the German Fascist army" StaliE procIaimed. Complete victory over Che Germans now is already near"
 Marshal Ivan s. Konevs Second Ukrainian Army was setting the stage for the climatic assault on Berlin by hurling the last Germans back across the Neisse river south- east of the capital in furious bat tles.
 Double Objective
 Moscow dispatches said KoneV was preparing to smash across the Neisse on a broad front with the double objective of reducing Dres- den, 52 miles ahead Of his spear heads, and flanking Berlin from the south.
 The forcing of the Neisse also
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
Grand-Scale Drive
 Reported By Nazis
(Continued from Page D

was making more sweeping progress against opposition that was fanati- cal at some points and feeble at others.
 Hardest fighting was at the cen- ter of Patton's front, where his tanks and 1nfantrymen were bat tling to close pincers around a IT, mile stretch of the Siegfried line between Pruem and Echternach.
 A half dozen German towns and villages fell to the Americans in that sector in the past "A hours and the Tanks pushed ahead as much as 2 1-2 miles at some points. The northern end of the pincers ripped in behind the Siegfried line and captured Arzfeld, seven miles northeast of Dasburg and 10 miles southwest of Pruem. That column was less than eight miles from a junction with troops of the 90th In- fantry Division who slugged up from the south to capture Ober Geckler against fierce opposition.
 Farther to the south, the Ameri- cans won three footholds across the Saar river into the industrial Saar basin north and south of Saarburg, and cleared the Moselle-Saar tri- angle for possible flanking sweep down the Moselle valley to Coblenz and the Rhine, 60 miles to the northeast
 In the MoSelle-Saar triangle, Pat tons armored spearheads were only five miles from the ancient German city of Trier, one of the enemys key communications and supply centers in that sector.
 The Saar crossings were made at Serrig, 2 1-2 miles south of Saar- burg, opposite Taben-Rodt, 2 1-2 miles farther south, and Ockfen, two mile snortheast of Saarburg.
 The Germans offered little opposi- tion to the 94th Infantry assault parties which crossed the river yes- terday, but field dispatches said they had rallied this morning and were fighting back ferociopsly.
 Heavy street fighting was in prog ress inside Serrig and Ockfen. but United Press War Correspondent Robert Richards reported that the Americans were flaming out on either side of their slim footholds in an effort to link up the three into solid bridgehead
 The crossings poised the threat of drive down the east bank of the Moselle toward Coblenz or south- ward drive through the Saar basin to link up with the American Sev- enth Army moving on Saarbrucken.
 Vanguards of the Seventh Army already had small toehold inside the Saar east of Saarbruecken and were within five miles south of that industrial center in Forbach. The Tanks held two-thirds of F'orbach early today and were battling from house to house. Other elements cut the road leading north to Saar- bruecken.
 Three miles northeast of Forbach American forces cleared wooded height north of Spichern and won artillery sites overlooking Saar- bruecken itself
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
Reds Drive Into
 Forst And Guben
tcontinued from Page D

1 probably will be the signal for Mar. shal Gregory K. Zhukov's frs White Russian Army to explode across the Oder river in a fronta assault on Berlin, Moscow said.
 Konev's Army reached the Neisse last water barrier before Berlinf Spree river, at two new points yes- terday. More than 60 towns and villages were captL=yd in advances of up to eight miles along 35-mile front.
 One column broke through to the Neisse on a seven-mile front anc captured Schenkendorf, two miles south of Guben, last German strong hold astride the river. Strega, four miles northwest of the west bank fortress of Forst and II mile noth- east of Cottbus, also was captured
 A second force seized Gross Saer- chen, 20 miles southeast of Cottbus and 52 miles northeast of Dresden in an advance to the Neisse II miles below F'orst
 Northeast of Berlin, Marshal Kon- stantin K. Rokossovsky's second White Russian Army advanced on 5O-mile front extending to the Wierzwyce river opposite Gniew, 34 miles south of Danzig. The Second Army also extended its control of the Danzig- -Stettin-Berlin railway to 9 miles.
 Moscow confirmed that the Ger mans had broken the encirclement of Koenigsberg and opened a cor ridor to the Baltic escape port Of Pillau, but announced the capture of zinten, IT miles southwest of the East Prussian capital.
 More than 5000 Germans were killed in three days of fighting on the Koenigsberg front, Moscow said.
 Stalins order of the day said his armies had advanced up to 344 miles along 745-mile front since the start of the winter offensive Jan. 12.
 The first consequence of our winter offensive" he said, was that it thwarted the Germans win UeE OllcLISlVC III IIiC "NoIJ "IAASAA aimed at the seizure of Belgium and Alsace.
 Ut enabled the armies of our Allies in their turn to launch an offensive against the Germans and thus link up their offensive oper- ations in the west with offensive operations of the Red Army in the East"
 5000 Planes Destroyed
 During the offensive, Stalin said, the Russians killed 100000 Germans, catured 350,OOo, occupied 300 towns, more than 2,400 railway stations and 100 war plants, and destroyed or cap tured 5000 German planes, 4,5OO tanks and self-propelled guns and 12,000 guns.
 The doomed enemy hurls his last forces into action" Stalin said. He resists desperately in order to es- cape stern retribution. He grasps and will grasp at the most extreme and base means of struggle.
 Therefore, it should be borne in mind that the nearer our victory, the higher must be our vigilance, the heavier must be our blows at the enemy"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23

pounds.
 Patrols continued active On the Eighth Army front in the Adriatic coastal sector.
 Mediterranean Allied air forces joined with Allied craft from Brit ish and French bases in large-scale attacks against enemy communica- tion lines in Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia and northern Italy.
 Tactical air force planes gave close support to the Italian fighting front and concentrated on cutting railways and bridges in northern Italy. Light bombers pounded tar gets throughout the Pc Valley.
 RAF heavy and medium bombers attacked a rail yards at Padua in northeast Italy last night.
 The MAAF reported 23 of its craft missing from more than 2,5OO Sorties
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
Booth, Stone Get Support
(Cont!nued from Page I,

year and was instrumental in plac- ing Governor Baldwin back into of flee, the only one of the party tick ct to succeed.
 The post of state athletic com missioner is now held by Frank Cosky whose term expires July 1 The latter was Democratic ap- pointee and is lot expected to be reappointed. The position pays $6,- 800 annually plus expenses.
 Both Stone and Pailpaolillo have announced formal candidates for the post as have numerous others through It the state. At the outset some 50 odd candidates were said to be seeking the post but these have been whittled down to few at this writing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
Cash Register Go. SoIeSmon Suicide

New York, Feh. 23.-- (UF) Max well Hogddon, 48, of 103 Brown street, Brookline, Mass, was found dead today, hanging from strap in the bathroom of his room at the Hotel New Yorker. Police said he was a salesman for the Bos- ton office of the National Casn Register Go. He left no notes anG his 'catl was listed as suicide.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
AGREEMENT APPROVED

Paris, Feb. g - (U.P.) - The French cabinet today approved a lend-lease agreement negotiated at Washington by Jean Monnet, head of 8 French economic mission. The cabinet directed Monnet to return to the United States and sign the agreement.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
G. A. QUACKENBUsH DIES

Worcester, Mass, Feb. 23.--(UP) George A. Quackenbu5h, 50, of Worcester, vice president and gen. eral manager of the John c. Me Innes Co.,, department store, died unexpectedly of heart disease at his home early today.