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Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14
Killed by
A Fresh Egg

HEARING a terrific com.
- motion in his hen house
the other day, MIR Oliver
FellcrS Of Muncie. Ind,
rushed in, hoping this time
10 catch the culprit who
had been making off with
his hen fruit.
But the thief occupied
so busily in rolling a fresh
egg along the floor was
hardly the kind of robber
of the roost that Mr.. Fellers
expected TO find. 1t was a
long black snake that imme-
diately swallowed the egg.
For this bit of reptilian
stupidity, the sinuous ser
pent paid dearly. As it
tried to glide through a
hole and escape, the bulge
made by the egg caught
and held the snake long
enough for Mr.. Fellers TO
deal out death with q club.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14

In funk

HGOLD is where you find
~ it" is an old maxim
of Western prospectors who
toll long years with pick
and pan trying to uncover
a fortune in Mother Earth.
For an English art pros
pector, however, fortune
lay in the window of a
small village shop, exposed
for years to the eyes of a
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14

The Sharp-Eyed Art COllec-
tor Paid 81 for the Missing
Masterpiece and Then Sold
1t for the Sum OF $10,925.
world that failed to recog-
niZe il.
The Englishman, Z. A.
Lawrence, was motoring
through Essex when a sec
ondhand shop caught his
eye. He stopped to explore,
as he had done in the case
of many other shops.
A framed drawing in the
window intrigued him,
though its glass was so
dust-coated that he couldn't
see clearly what lay be
meath. Lawrence went
back to his car for an oil.
rag to wipe away the CRIME.
He could hardly restrain
his excitement after clean
ing it. AS casually as pos
sible, he asked the price.
1--WE had that a long
time" the dealer grumbled.
Give me a pound and it's
yours"
Lawrence paid about 81
and FASTENED back to Lon
don. Art authorities con
firmed his belief that he
had picked up, for a song,
the superb sketch of a
night at Vauxhall Gardens,
done in 1884 by Thomas
Rowlandson, exhibited at
the Royal Academy-and
missing for some 160 years.
At a recent auction the
famous drawing was sold
for a high bid equivalent to
Sl0,925 in our money, or
S10,921 more than Lawrence
had paid to acquire it.
Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14

UWFNIEU
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Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14

There ore many tempting recipes Do the tou.ceod
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Detroit evening times., 1945-10-14
When
When
Your Dog
begins 10
YOU Owe Him
Relief

A dogs blood may b. con-
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Detroit evening times., 1945-09-30
EAT PILLsBURY ENRICHED FARINA
FOR ENERGY TO WIN!

You'll discover how really deli
cious farina can be 80. when you
first try Pillsbury Enriched
Farina! It's creamy-white and
so smooth-tasting You'll Eike-it
for lunch or supper as well as
breakfast.
It's the finest Farina the Pills
bury people have made in their
10 years experience.
BE sure TO ask for Pillsbury
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-30

Enriched Farina. enriched with
extra B and D vitamins, calcium,
iron and PHOSPHORUS to help
build sound bodies -. and give
good measureof an energy food
children, especially, need. And
tell Mother =. it cooks in only
3 minutes. Have her get the
economical large size package Of
creamy-white ri illsbury Enriched
Farina today
The Nome nugget., 1945-12-28
BERLIN STREET ORGAN CHEERS WOMEN POWs

BEfLiN-(P)-The organ grind CT, that vagabond of melody, has reappeared for the first time since the war in rubble-lined streets of
The Nome nugget., 1945-12-28

the ruins a little song floated up. The organ grinder has reappeared and is dispensing his penny mel ancholy.
 At a corner of W.lhelmstrasse he has created an unforgettable scene. Women Who'Ve been push ing heavy sand trucks or passing bricks from hand to hand in a chain as gangs of rubble clearers, have abandoned their tasks and are embracing each other and dancing-@ancing a waltz in the ruined street.
 "A group of returned prisoners of war comes shuffling up the street seeking their old homes. The women rush to them and sur round them. The shabby looking women put their arms around the shabbier looking men and bid them dance. The shy, broken men light up with slow smiles and try few clumsy steps. Then they stop. Breathing heavily, the or gan grinder collects his pfennigs and passes on. The prisoners snuff fle along their road back. The wo- men go bac'r to their rubble piles" '"
The Nome nugget., 1945-12-28
FEIDAY, DECEMBER 2S, 1945
downtown Berlin.

downtown Berlin.
 He's just a tramp trying to make catch-penny living in the ruined city but today he created a street scene indelibly imprinted upon the memory of 3 reporter for American licensed Tagesspiegel Daily Mirror):
 "All of a sudden from amidst
The Nome nugget., 1945-12-28

TREASURE H c " E R-Nlar..s .4 A.. .-....u -. righ of Lufkin Tex, Marine Corp Leslie G. Karel Grand Rapids Mich, himself with Chinese the Fifth division abandoned SasebO, The treasure pated by
 from Chinese sailing vessels.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-30

point. The first person the trigger tense Marines met was lone Jap- anese woman gathering clans along the shore. She gave the Tanks one startled look and lit out for home at full speed.
 'sThis is a helluva invasion" one grinning Leatherneck shouted.
 All landing forces were warned in advance against footing or any other overt act that might touch on re sistance among the Japanese.
 we expect to land quietly and enforce. our will without stampeding the Japs," Clement told his men be- fore they hit the beach.
 We won't invade any homes. But you can bet there will not be any coddling or Hi Joe attitude on our part"
 talked to many people in Tokyo today and found almost as many different attitudes as there were people. One of the most worried men I Gpoke with. was Jorge War; gas, ambassador here from the pup- pet Philippines regime. F. E. Euppet Ruler Vargas, e short chubby man with gray hair, sat in the luxurious iiv- ing room of the villa which the Japanese gave him for an embassy and said he had stayed n1hino aud worked with the 1ona1ese because certain responsible peopit" WnnIe4 hiM io
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will examine the reports to deter mine whether Congress will under take any further investigation.
 Rep. Dewey Short, R. Mo, a member of the House Military Com mittee who long has demanded that Kimmel and Gen. Short be given a chance to stand open trial, said now that Marshall and Stark have been accused, they, too, should be given their day in court"
 Scores Marshall
 Rep. Short and others suggested that the official reports might have left out some important details.
 Rep. Short asked whether Mar shall was now being protected or shielded because he might possibly have been protecting or shielding someone else"
 Rep. Robert Sikes, D., Fla, and Albert Thomas, D., Tex, viewed Forrestal's charge of lack of coop eration between Kinmel and Short as an argument for consolidation of the Army and Navy into de- partment of national defense.
 Sikes and Rep. John D. Dingell, D., Mich, denounced the Army board for criticizing Hull. Sikes said Hull continued to treat with the Japanese ''after most of us had lost patience with them."
 President Truman agreed and said he had complete confidence not only in Marshall but in all ot the country's war leaders.
 Stimson also took heated issue with the Army boards criticism oi Hull. The board said Hull, in g bluntly composed counter-proposal to Japanese suggestion for keep ing peace in the Pacific, touched the button that started the war"
 Hull said he would make state- ment after studying the documents
 The only extended reference in the various documents to the part played in pre-Pearl Harbor events by MT. Roosevelt, target of bitter denunciation in the past for official secrecy in connection with the Jap anese attack, was in the Army re- port.
 It stated twice that he was eager that the United States commit no overt warlike act or anything the Japanese could construe as an act of war.
 It also quoted from a diary oi those days kept by Stimson. A pas sage in this disclosed that MT. Roos- evelt told his high command or Nov. 25 that the Japanese might at- tack on the following Monday Dec. l.
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(Continued from Page D
 Healy explained today that the Boards order means that "a work CT in one of the Big Four plants tor at least six months who left to enter the armed services and then returned to his job after dis charge is entitled to the same vaca- tion pay as he would have received had his tenure of employment not been interrupted by war service"
 The vacation pains of the four companies differ somewhat in de- tails" Healy stated, "but all pro- vide for c weeks vacation with pay after one years service and two weeks after five years. Thus, a veteran returning to his job one or more years after first entering the employ of the company would re- ceive Q weeks vacation with pay while one whose total seniority, ac- CuInulated both on the job and in service, totalled five or more years would get two weeks vacation with pay"
 Life other employees, the return ing servicemen must be on the com- pany payroll on the eligibility date and be otherwise qualified under the company-union contract in or der to receive vacation payments.
 Healy stated also that all four companies have been granting vaca- fion pay for the first week on the basis of two per cent of the em- ployes' gross annual earnings but a lesser amount for the second weeks vacation for those with five or more years service. The WLB order pro- vides that pay for the second week shall be the same as for the first, that is, two per cent of gross an nual earnings. Vacation payments made for the previous year are to be included in calculating gross earnings. Industry members of the WLB dissented from the majority decision on this issue.
 A union request for pro-rated va cations for employees with between ore and five years service was de- nied by the VILE, labor members dissenting.
 Similar changes in vacation policy were ordered by the VILE in settle ment of q dispute between the Mine Mi1l 6 Smelter Workers, CIO, and the Manufacturers Foundry Co.,, also of Waterbury. Conn.
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plane. The sun was shining bright

plane. The sun was shining bright ly.
 Prom Melbourne to Tokyo has been long way" MacArthur said. "It has been a long and hard road, but this looks like the payoff."
 He reported that Japanese resist ance had practically ceased in all outlying theaters. Some 300,000 troops in the Tokyo area have been disarmed, he said, and the Japanese appeared to.be acting in good faith.
 Members of the 11th airborn divi- sion will act as MacArtbur's body guards.
 The landings at Atsugi proceeded on clockwork schedule. Seven min- utes after the first bi C-54 trans port alighted at the airfield. Mai. Gen. Joseph Swing, commanding general of the 11th division, stepped from his plane.
 Communications already had been set up by an advance party of 150 technicians who landed at TtSugi two days ago.
 Land Last Night
 The first American and British went ashore on the three fortified islands off Yokosuka naval base at 6:15 a. m. (5:15 p. m. Wednesday. EWT) without even getting their feet wet.
 Other units of the combat team went ashore on Cape Futtsu at the southeast corner of Tokyo Bay. took over guns and pillboxes guarding the entrance to the bay and raised the Stars and Stripes at 2 a. m. (6 D. In., Wednesday EWT).
 Still other Marines landed at Yokosuka naval base at 9:30 a. m. and found everything had been ar- ranged by the Japanese as directed. Fifteen Japanese officers and 15 interpreters, some with sullen faces and others smiling, greeted the in- vaders.
 The Japanese included naval Capt. Kiyoshu Masuda,. who conducted the commander of the landing forces, Brig. Gen. William T. Ciem-, ent of Richmond, Va, to his head quarters.
 Rear Admiral Oscar c. Badger, commander of the Tokyo Bay task force, and Rear Admiral Robert B. Carney, chief of staff to Halsey, accepted the surrender of the base.
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Homecoming 
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(COuCIuueO ITOIu EdSC 4J
 This correspondent went ashore at 10 a. m., 30 minutes after the Van guard of the Fourth regiment-the famous fourth whose original mem- bers were killed or captured on Ba- taan-began landing.
 They went in with guns at the ready, backed by the big guns of the third fleet and hundreds of carrier planes laundering overhead.
 But not a shot was fired in the surrender of Yokosuka or it's pro- tecting Fort Okahodai on Cape Flt- tsu, directly across Tokyo Bay.
 Surrender Party
 Fifteen Japanes officers and 15 interpreters, one of them 8 beamine chauffeur who announced he had driven a taxicab in New York a decade ago, greeted the Tanks at YokoSuka.
 Everything was in order when the marines came ashore and at 11:2O a. m. formal control of the great naval anchorage was passed into American hands by Rear Adm. Michitara Tozuka.>
 The Admiral, a fat-faced little man with baggy eyes, handed 8 plain white envelope to Rear Adm Robert Carney, CSN., chief of staff to the third fleets skipper, Adm William F. H ,lAy.
 The brief surrender formalities were completed on the dockside in the shadow of the American cruiser Sa Diego,n Badgers flagship and the first Yankee man o'war to tie up at this newest American naval base.
 Japs Sorrowful
 Tozuka took the surrender docu- ment from one of three Japanese aides, who looked ready to burst into tears. He handed it over to Carney, and the American tore open the envelope and began reading the few lines. typewriter neatly in English.
 Then Tozuka and his aides saluted smartly and clambered back into an old sedan bearing a Domei New Agency press card on its wind shield.
 Badger, Carney and Brig. Gen. William Clement, Richmond, Va. commander of the Marine landing force. entered waiting car and began an inspection tour of the Navy yard.
 Simultaneously, a boarding party fro mthe U. s. Destroyer Bass seized the wrecked Japanese battle ship Nagato, lying partly awash but still afloat of Yokosuika.
 Only handful of Japanese were aboard the once-mighty battle wagon, including its skipper. Capt. Sugino. and 22 cfilcers and men. sugino and all but four of his skele- ton crew were put ashore.
 Green clad Leathernecks of Maj. Gen. Lemuel o. Shepherds veteran sixth Marine Division had the honor of making the first seahorne landing on the enemy's shores.
 The Fourth Regiments Second Battalion showed of from the trans- port Braxton et six a. m. three hours before the scheduled landing at xokosnka. and hli the peaeh Ai Caps Fatt2u. seven Ailaz apEo&1 Che
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Major Lend
 Lease Debts
Continued from Page D
Allies" the report said.

Allies" the report said.
 AstrOhOmical Figures
 The 20th lend-lease report covers only the period through June 30. There will have to be Fist report to cover the period from July l through V-J Day, probably next week, on which date President Tru- man has ordered all lend-lease to halt.
 Through June 30, the total lend- lease aid furnished by the United States was $42, ,020, ITS, 900 plus $788,- CO.,, ,000 worth of goods consigned to military commanders for transfer in the field to lend-lease countries. This is approximately IS per cent of the $500. .000 100000 spent by the U. S. for war.
 The latest reverse lend-lease f1g- ure is through March 30-$5 ,600,- 364,000. Of that virtually all was furnished by the British Empire and S,777, ,383, ,000 by the United King dom alone.
 The British Empire was by far the largest recipient of lend-lease with more than 5000, 100000 on the books against her. Lend-lease exports of goods not including serv- ices show that 42 per cent or $13,- 498. .748,O00, went to the United Kingdom. Twenty-eight per cent of the exports went to Russia.
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High ranking members of Mac Axthurs staff and Filipino digni- kakies were among those who greet eS Wainwright.
 Wainwright, who succeeded Gen. Douglas MacArthur as commander o< Bataau and Corregidor in the dark days of 1942. landed at Nichols 1I1Id ct 5:z3 p. m. (4:43 a. m. EWT) az<1r flight from Chungking.
 First Visit |.
 @or Wainwright. it was his first <zs|t to Manila since he surrendered <he tattered, starved American and EziIpino garrison of Corregidor to 3hf Japanese.
 Among those accompanying Waif-
 |<l1k from Chunsking were naem- ts<S Of his staff and Lt.-Gen. A. E.. Ez<ciral, the British commander rz1 surrendered Singapore to the Iz4suese in fez2.
 %hev will fly to Tokyo bay in /Izoc to be MacArthur's guests at {1z formal surrender ceremony .7<srd the battleship Missouri next
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Enters Hong Kong Today
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Wedemeyer declared that the Communists had exaggerated their strength and said that no where in china were the Communists ade- uuately equipped and trained for warfare on a major scale.
 Plan Ahead
 However in the case of civil war. Wedemeyer said, American troops would be withdrawn and would not enter the light unless for self-pro- lection.
 ne predicted that the bulk of American forces in China would be withdrawn by next spring and said part of the U. s. troops would be flown out from Running to India for shipping while others would be evacuated directly across the Pa cific.
 War Minister Gen. Chen Cheng said Chinese troops would begin en- tering Manchuria even before Soviet troops had started to withdraw, pos sibly by the end of September Ii transportation facilities permit.
 Eormosa will be occupied earlier tnan Manchuria because of the shorter distances involved, the war minister said.
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Tokyo Ruins Revealed
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to this--a few who displayed warm CT feeling.
 For instance a former member of parliament, J. Kasagi, rushed into the lobby of the Imperial hotel and told me:
 I'm glad to see you. never ape proved of this foolish war. I have been jailed and beaten for my be- llefs."
 He added that he was glad "that it's over."
 Another exception were the Jap- anese children who waved and cheered ct us as we drove along the dusty reads in the outskirts Of Tokyo.
 rho adult Japanese did not cheer. They stared without expression and. once in n while. you could detect flicker Of haie ir the eyes ol ti1e1c people who Weke us1 emmy uNlA i># 1111 zfp'
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 Ihc next day, oct. IA, l94t, she was Git by Q torpedo launched by one e three attacking enemy planes.
 The torpedo found its mark close f1 the keeldeck amidships and the 1tunderous explosion which fol- lowed almost sank the cruiser. All power and lighting were lost imme- &iAtsly and the ship took l6-de- gree list to starboard. Water surged across the main deck, one compart- ment after another became flooded, and only a few trembling bulkheads kept he ship from sinking.
 After emergency repairs, part of her trew transferred to other ships. The Houston then was put under toW by the cruiser Boston.
 Two days later, while the Hous- ton and the Canberra were being re- moved to base at Manus in the Admiralty Islands, Japanese planes again roared to the attack and the Houston was hit near the stern by a second torpedo. Twenty men were swept into the sea.
 The two hits cost the lives of 55 men on the Houston.N The Navy has notified the next of fin on both ships.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-30

drought tears to our eyes,"
 The dispatch added that Boying- ton sent his greetings to Halsey.
 Wounded prisoners were taken from the camp and rapidly proc essed aboard the Navy hospital ship Benevelence and other ves- sells. At least 18 doctors treated the first group of patients.
 Simpson was the officer who led the naval raid which effectively crushed Japanese shipping at Ra- baul, where Boyington was shot down. His force was guided by Navy planes through minefields leading to Amori.
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NO STAR 0AzER

Rochester. N. Y. CuP) Admit IE thaf his studies with a tele-
 <.e Hfre 'other than asironomi- IHI Clarence Reed. U2, was given &1<r1nG0d sentence recently by ' Etiirf. Alleged to have been a
 NoT. net star, ga1ef. Reed was HsIfd 4f n'1 Wc<t b9 a WQnou
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his actions. a
 One thing made him happy. He had been given some American cig-- arets when he visited Atsugi air field yesterday.
 American cigarets made some of the Japanese happy, too, when they tasted them for the first time in four years.
 The food situation is very bad. We were told that the famous earthquake proof imperial hote) served the best meals in Tokyo. But the lunch we had there today was terrible. I.r
 It started off with some kind of cereal soup, kind of fish cake and some very, very ersatz spaghet- ti with broiled cucumbers. That meal cost little under two dol- lars for four persons.
 The price didn't seem to jibe with the tales of imitation we had heard, especially since we had come here from Shanghai where the shang- hai dollar now is exchanged for American dollars at the rate of 100000 to one.
 Occupation Money The Americans are using the same occupation money here ns they dld in OEinaWa hllb the rate has heon changed from 70 lo iB sen fo tnn NoIIaE|
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500 Allies 

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Wainwright Welcomed

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Servicemen's s
 Job Seniority

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Cruisers Hit Ln Attock

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Postscript of the Apache sentinel., 1945-12-28

YOUR uoRK II! THE ARlY NAY LAND YOU a JOB
Con tinucd from Page q Column a.
ex tr emely varied. Consider the rifleman
the fellow whose Army job has been to
load, aim and fire ri file to destroy
envy personnel. ind whose business 1T
has been to assist in the capture and
holding Of enemy positions.
Among the possible civ Liam occupa-
tions for him, with only brief on-the-
job expert ence are: powder monkey. ex-
p1osive opera tor, magazine keeper or
nj tro lycerin- storeroom opera tor. With
some addi tt onel training, he may quail
fy as hunting and fl shing guide, q
trapper, oiler or greaser, Or perhaps
as an automobile accessories inst Ter,
a stud hairspringer, garage equipment
assembler, shrink pit helper, stAr-gage
opera tor or gymlas tt Gator operator.
The GETTRY'S Send Greetings =
Mrs. Gent and husband, Of the, Bon
ME Blink area, wish to extend their
sincere good wishes for 4 Very, very
Happy New Year.
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