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Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
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James Caraher and fireman Fred
Matyn.
At 10 a. m. four hours after
the first alarm was sounded,
flames and smoke were still bill
lowing from the building and the
60-mile an hour wind scattered
sparks dangerously all over the
area near the County Building.
The fire was discovered about
5.45 a. m. by Bernard kiran, 54,
Of "a LaBlanc. building engineer
who was sleeping in the boiler
room.
81 awoke," he said. "and
found the room filled with
smoke and some flames. Some
how l managed 10 find a clear
spot and ran to safety. Then
turned In an alarm"
Kiran reused five state troopers
and four civilian caretakers who
were sleeping on the second floor
of the two and one half story
brick structure. Last night more
than 400 state troopers had been
in the building for their bi-weekly
drill
Kiran sounded the first alarm
at 5:51 a. m, the second came al
els, the third at $50, the fourth
at 6:45 and the fifth at 7:22.
Firemen attempted to cut into
the blazing basement by using
acetylene torches but were driver
back by smoke. At one time more
than 35 streams of water were be-
( ing played on the fire, some by
firemen who swayed dangerously
in the wind from slender, tower
ing ladders.
Col. O. J. Cleary, head Of thu
Michigan State rroops, was or
/ the scene shortly after he firs'
alarm was sounded ffe said the
state troops alone had full equip
ment for 400 men in the building
The building is repeatedly in
sured for 100000.
The armory was completed II
1898 al a cost of S250,000.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18

commander and. where others
would shoot wildly whenever a
rocket MAS Sentup- and thus give
away their positions, on the third
shot Capt Truman would have
nailed his target.
Some one has said that Harry
could hit a hayStack at three
miles on the third shot.
McKim, buck private under
Capt. Truman. had arranged a
poker party for the then vice pres
ident last Thursday night, and
the next day. when they were
alone for a fleeting moment, said
"why don't you settle up for
what I'd have won last night,
Mr.. President"
The President answered;
Lets flip coin to see who'd
have won and then arbitrate
how much"
The next day -Mckim- entered
the White House office again and
remained standing in front of the
Presidents desk.
"Why are YOU standing" said
the new Chief Executive.
I'm In the presence NJ the
President 81 the United states"
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
Frost
Warming
Issued

In the wake of a severe wind
storm, the weather bureau today
issued frost warning for the
Detroit area tonight with the low
est temperature expected to be 80.
Wind gusts in the Detroit area
through the night were 60 miles
per hour at times but were di-
minishing this afternoon.
Damage in the city was mild
compared with that suffered by
fruit growers In southern and
western Michigan. Government
experts said, however, that the
wind was not severe enough 10
damage trees. but that many
orchards probably would suffer a
short crop because of hail on
blossoming trees.
At 5;45 p. m. yesterday, home
going Detroiters were drenched
by half.inch rainfall, accom-.
panied by winds of gale proper
tions.
Telephone and power service
was crippled. Trees were up
rooted, automobiles and planes
wrecked and buildings damaged
as the storm tore through Wash
tenaw and Jackson counties, dis
appearing in central Michigan.
In Detroit, which escaped tn,
main force of the gale, trees were
uprooted, utility poles downcd
autos crushed by falling trees ant
plate glass store window
smashed.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18


president HARRY S. TRUMAN has hundreds Oh
friends, close friends.
Yet he virtually unknown to the rank and file OF the
American people.
He never sought the melight and right this minute is
tre shy of the idea of the fish bowl life ne must lead
a leader of his nation. -
But once in the fish bowl" President Truman will
adapt himself Immediately The intrinsic however is
not likely to change He doesn't do things that way
last September fresh from trip to Detroit where
he had made an important Labor Day speech Mr. Truman had
dinner here with friend Edward D. McKim Omaha
insurance man. they walked the film premiere of Wilson
a few blocks away.
LII official Washington had been invited and there were
~ movie California for the occasion, which was
preceded by a party at the White House
around the theater terrific and Mr. Truman
candidate for the presidency could not buck the crowd
McKim turned him and said to his 165pound friend:
Here" hang my belt and I'll get you through"
McKim old football player with weight showed his way
crowd interference for Mr. Truman There
sailors around the entrance and Mckm con-
vnced who his charge When camera men started
shooting had pull his friend out around front so
the would get the presidential candidate instead
OF the burly westerner
81 said TO the secret service yesterday said McKm,
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
ADMIT RED GAINS

late reports Of the Nazi DNB
agency admitted that Soviet
thrusts against Schwedt. IS miles
northwest Of kuestrin, Fuersten-
-i4t4Fe and Frankfurt achieved
local penetrationS.
Al The same time Berlin admit
ted the Russians were advancing
from their bridgeheads across the
Oder at kienitz, which is j. miles
northeast of KueStrin. and AT
Lebus and GoerlitZ
The Berlin radio. in a series OF
jittery broadcasts. said that Rus
sian forces had driven down the
main ran line from KueStrin
toward Berlin, reaching positions
j miles west of the Oder River
in the vicinity of Seelow.
Col. Ernst Won Hammer, Nazl
DNB agency correspondent, sad
that Russian airborne troops had
been landed in the Berlin outer
defenses between Kuestrin and
Frankfurt on the Oder. but added
that these Soviet forces had been
encircled and annihilated.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18

"you fellows are just getting the
Job I've had ever since he WAS
nominated"
MrKim is one of-three very
close friends made by Truman in
the last war. in which he emerged
with brilliant record
Truman commanded an artillery
battery Of lSS men and was IN
active service in France for more
than year.
Only one man under Capt. Tru-
man was killed and only one man
was wounded. Both were drivers
and were back of the lines.
He was q sensational battery
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
Irving Berlin Tells
Need Of Vet Shows

NEW YORK, April II uNS)-
Song writer Irving Berlin is home
from another war front tour and
reports that American soldiers in
New Guinea. the Philippines and
elsewhere in the Pacific are so
-tscktng IN entertainment they
walked miles 10 see This Is the
Army"
Berlin said that since his show
opened on July 4. 1912. II had
netted $4,000, 900 for army emer-
eency relief.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
Reds Swing
ToJoiin Patton
Union Of Armies
Expected al Dresden

MOSCOW. April y GNS)-
Russian forces. racing for q Ink
up with American units pushing
from the west, swung south OF
Berlin today In direct drive
toward 1t. Gen. Patton adNanc-
ing Third Army.
German broadCa>tS said that
Soviet troops were Streaking west
from a hridcehead over the NeiSSe
Rt GoerltZ. a westward advance
OF al least Is miles towards
Dresden and PattonS Spcsrheads
-Geefittk Is about Comics from
last reported American positions
near ChemnitZ.
East of the German capital.
German reports said that Soviet
armies had smashed 10 within 23
miles of Berlin.
Early morning reports OF the
United Press placed the Red
columns only IL miles from
Rerlinl
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18

LONDON. April II GNSl-The
once dreaded luftwaffe has prac-
tcally ceased 10 exist, air force
headquarters said today.
Allied planes IN one day de-
stroyed one fourth oi the shrink
lng German air force
Latest figures on The number
of German planes destroyed IN
yesterdays far ranging and devsS-
tating raids estimate that a6l
planes were destroyed on the
ground and S. IN the Air. An ad-
ditional 700 were damaged hN
straf1ng alone
Air circles said that the lult.
wsffe now is believed 10 have not
more than 1900 planes of al
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
Scant 5000 Planes
Left to LuftWaffe

types left. The attacks YESTERDAY
concentrated on 2S airhelds N
Germany, Austria and Czecho.
Slovakla
"lour Own Horoscope nv
Frances Drake. il one Of many
famous features in The Detroit
Times.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
Yanks Enter


PARIS, April II QNS)--
Troops Of the United States
Ninth Army fought r. their
way into Magdeburg on the
river Elbe today coincident
with a Third Army thrust
eastward that promised an
early junction with Soviet
forces near Dresden.
Capt. Ludwig Sartorius. mill
tary commentator for DNB. said
that the u. S. Ninth Army shoot
ing beyond the Elbe had reached
the German town OF Zerbst, only
43 miles southwest of Berlin.
Possibly encouraged by his suc-
cess in wiping out one American
bridgehead on the Elbe. the Nazl
commander of Magdeburg refused
a demand TO surrender.
As a result, Magdeburg was
pounded into flaming debris by
Allied bombing planes and heavy
artillery.
LAST MAJOR BARRIER
In the wake of the barrage
troops of the Second ArmoreC
division plunged into MagdeburG
last major garrison city on TIT
superhighway leading TO Berlin.
Entry into Bagdelburg and IN,
unchecked Third Army pusl
toward Chemnitz and Dresden
brought 10 its climax the join
I Soviet -pinCers= move
Lment against Berlin -and-th
shrinking waist centraLGeI
many.
Fresh advances from both cas-
and west were reported TO hav
carried Allied troops 10 within
score of miles OF the capital o.
either side.
The Paris Radio, frequently a
unreliable source Of information
even reported that a junction be
tween advance units OF the Amer
igan and Russian armies alread
has been achieved near Pirna Il
central Germany.
Neither battle front dispa,che
nor the headquarters Of Gen
Eisenhower gave this report III
slightest confirmation.
46-MILE ADVANCE
The reported junction of force
occurred in the E1be River vale
midway between Chemnitz an
Goeriitz, where massed America
and Soviet armies are bearin
down on the Germans.
The Nazi commander OF Chem
Initz refused the surrender tern
of u. s. Third Army forces whic
thave practically surrounded h
city, a front report said.
Pirna lies about halfway be
tween Chemnitz on the west an
Goerlitz on he east. The cite
of Chemnitz and Goerlitz ar
about SO miles apart. Any linku
of reconnaissance units or othe
forward elements would constitut
advances of some as miles b
troops from the lines Of the
main forces.
Spearheads Of 1t. Gen. Patton
Third Army were making stead
headway in the area OF Chemnlt
bypassing the city on the mort
10 strike forward on Dresdel
, capital of Saxony
. Part of Gen. Pstton's army wa
, reported closing in on Dresde
! from points two miles to the ives
, while the Nazi DNB agency n
, ported that American armore
forces already were fighting insic
Chemnitz and battling for po
/. session OF the auto highway
, Dresden.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
StopWi||owRun
Bomber Output
CONTINUED from Page onel

the construction of Bomber
City" with $4,000 living units and
miles OF the most modern high
way in the world.
The plant itself is 3, 200 feet lone
and l.2S0 feet wide and occupies
81 acres: the airport, 1879 acres
The structural steel in its frame
work weighs $4,000 tons and COW
ers. 2.547, 900 square feet of floor
space.
Seven runways on its massive
airport would make two-lane
concrete highway ll5 miles long
Ground was broken and excava-
ton work started on April IL
l94l. although the clearing OF the
woodlands for an airport was
started three weeks earlier.
An April 20 Of that year the
first concrete was poured on. and
on May ! a railroad spur from
the nearby New York Central
reached the plant side.
WORK is SPEEDY
Thirteen days later the first
piece of steel was erected and on
June 25. the first concrete for the
floor was poured. The brick walls
were started on August ID, and
two weeks later the first machln-
cry was moved in.
Originally the plant was planned
10 produce bomber parts only and
the first OF these were turned out
on Oct. 2, l94l. The production
and assembly of complete bombers
was started May l6, 1912, and or
Nov. II. 1943, the 1,000th Lib
orator rolled of the lines,
Production was stepped up Il
the point that by the following
March 1000 were produced. tn,
last figure, 5000 was announced
last month with the plant op
Grating on bomber an hour
schedule.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
New Shipydrd
Fa(inq Shutdown

NEW ORLEANS. April II
(INS)-Delta Shipyard, one cf
four building Liberty ships in the
Gulf area, will be shutdown late
in August unless a postwar use
OF the site is developed by then,
said Vice Adm. Emory S. Land,
chairman Of the u. s. Maritime
Commission.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
HIGHEST PRIORITY

In getting the approval on
SOS. 900 900 in new construction.
the industry won one Of its great
est victories In obtaining an AA.3
priority.
This is the highest priority OBJ
tainable on civilian goods and is
the same as The priority given 10
the $50, 600, 900 worth OF machine
tools which the manufacturers
were given permission 10 order
last week.
The same priority was also
given on the tools, dies and fix
tures and 70 the $50 900 900 in
facility work
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
2 Billions TO Reds

WASHINGTON. April II tUP)
This country has supplied the
Soviet Union with close 10 nine
billion dollars worth Of war goods
and services thus far under lend
lease, il was announced today.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
STUDENT OF HISTORY

THE new President is one oi the
L foremost history students in
the country and has prodisious
memory.
He cannot he stumped on any
question concerning any military
campaign from the days Of Cen
ghis Khan through Gettysburg TO
this war
When he first came here as a
senator. he bought maps of Get
tysburg and then went 10 that his
toric spot to walk the battlefield
with his maps in his hand.
He has been compared with Cal
vim Coolidge, but the comparison
ends with their nasal twangS. one
definitely border state. the other
distinctly Yankee.
Coolidge was glum and silent
Truman is gay man and talk
ative. He is good listener. but
when he has something to say he
says IL.
And that's the way il will be as
this admirer Of Robert +. Lee and
Stonewall Jackson leads his coun-
try through the greatest crisis IN
history, with firm hand dictated
by great American common sense.
TOMORROW IN THE TINES
-CrsweH Adams tells more of the
h umnn eide NJ Americas neiC
President.)
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
.dnks Invade
New Jap Isle

GUAM. April II ms
American anfphibious forces. in =
move 10 expand their hold on the
Ryukyu Archipelago, were re-
vealed today to have invaded lie
Shima. capturing its key air
drome and herding the Japs into
the hills TO the southeast.
Adm. Nimitz announced the
new invasion in communique
which disclosed that American
forces had destroyed or damaged
42S more Jap planes in offensive
and defensive operations from
Okinawa TO the southernmos'
Jap home island Of Kyushu.
Marines on Motobu Peninsula
continued 10 attack Jap groups
while other leathernecks con
tinued TO advance northward ir
rugged terrain north OF tht
peninsula
n
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
MEETING on TOOLS

Nelson will meet with a second
committee Of the industry tomor-
row. The subject Of this meeting
will be machine tools lie viii
attempt 10 work out a plan by
which the auto companies can
regain their own machine tools
from war production lines and
replace them with surplus gov
ernment owned tools
There are said 10 be betweenl
10000 and $4,000 government
owned tools now idle. The indus
try is seeking 10 get it's own ma
chine tools back so that they can
be overhauled and modernized be-
fore the companies return 10 ci-
william production.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18

There was little change In
the lines of the cath Army
Corps In the southern sector of
Okinawa," declared the CON-
munique.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18

EDITORS NOTE-Ths The second us'oImen Of intimate
portrait Of Americas ncr President his personality ana ms P
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18

The Western and Eastern fronts where Allied forces
are closing i'm on Berlin In the west the L. - First Third
and Seventh armies besieged Leipsg CD and Nuern-
berg (2) while the Ninth Army fought fiercey to retain
its remaining Elbe bridgehead ID miles southeast OF
Magdeburg 3 and made preparations to cross the Elbe
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
MATERIALS PROBLEM

The only phase OF the recon-
version picture remaining TO be
settled is the matter Of materials.
This will be taken up tomorrow
with a special committee of the
industry in Detroit by Henry p.
Nelson, Krug's reconversion CO.
o"dinator. who has been putting
together the entire program with
the aid of Robert Grindley, re-
gional chief OF the automotive
section
Nelson has been in Washington
GiNInG G-kriIg- -h4A-ArSt EePeft-tea
his work in Detroit -iir-waS-c1
pected back today.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18

SpeededHere

Automobile plant reconversion
picked up momentum today when
il was learned in Washington
that the WPB had authorized
SITS, 10000 in new construction,
facilities and tools, dies and fix
lures for the industry 10 put it
back in peacetime business.
The S75,O00,0OO was broken
down into $25.OO0000 for new
construction, the minimum which
the industry had set in its meet
ings with J. A. Krug, head OF
WPB; S30000,0O0 for new tools,
jigs, dies and fixtures and 500
000,00 for facilities, which would
include clearing out plants. knock
ing out walls and restoring as
Sembly lines.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
Truman ShlIns Spotlight.
But Has Many Friends

Well, sit down right away,
came the reply
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-18
By CASWELL ADAMS
International News servie.


DRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN has hundreds oil
Il frion dc cc1oSef friends
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
27 Million Go To Polls
BY c. T. HALLINAN

London, July 5-CUP)-An estim. ated T,000,000 voters went to ths polls for Britain's first general cleo ton in ten years today. Politica, observers saw a possibility of z swing to the left that could unsea1 Prime Minister Churchill,s consery- ative government.
 All signs pointed to one of the closest contests in British history matchin gthe bitterness of the cam paign.
 Churchill himself laid down 6 blunt theological challenge to tht opposition when he invaded tht Laborites' southwest London strong. holds last night for his final speech Of the campaign.
 Ignoring catcalls and explodine firecrackers tossed by hecklers ir the crowd, Churchill declared tha- the course of all Europe hinges or the British election.
 They are looking from the con. tinent to see which way Britain is going to go" he said. If there should be a landslide to the left many countries on the continent would slide not into decent social ism but into the violence of Con- munism. If we go down, all the ninepins of Europe will fall"
 Looking old and tired after the most strenuous of his 16 election campaigns, the prime minister nevertheless radiated belligerent confidence at each of his many street corner stops.
 At one point, a "thunderflash"- noisemaking powder charge used by the home guard in practice drills-exploded within ten feet of Churchill.
 He f1inched slightly and halted his speech to watch police seize the prankster, a 17-year-old boy.
 His chief opponent, Laborite Leader Clement Attlee, also finished his campaign before a crowd of 1 500 persons at Bethnal Green, where he denounced the Conservatives for in- 1ecting "bogies' into the election.
 We are asking that, for the first time in the history of Britain, a working class party should be given power to carry out a policy that puts the interests of the common man first" said Attlee.
 Predictions on the outcome were dime dozen, but most London newspaper shied away from any detailed foreca StinO on tho covo position of the next Parliament.
 Even the most optimistic con- servatives in their pre- election fore- casts were expecting to win a bare majority of the $40 seats in Com mons.
 Other analysts saw the likeli- hood that the Laborite, Liberal, Commonwealth and Communist candidates plus sprinkling of anti Churchill independents, would come up with a majority in the house. Making it very nearly im- possible for the Churchill govern ment to continue.
 To control Commons. the Con- Servatives had to win at least 345 seats, which would give them a working majority of about 50 votes over the combined opposition.
 Service men stationed aboard be- gan voting last Tuesday, continuing until nine o'clock tonight.
 The ballots will be counted on July 26, and the final results are expected to be known by four p. m. of that day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
NOTICE

DISTRICT of WATERBURY, ss.
 PROBATE COURT, July 3rd, A.
 D. 1945. ESTATE of JOHN R.
 CLAYTON, late of Waterbury in
 said District, deceased. :.
 The Trustees having exhibited their account with said estate to this Court for allowance. and made application for an order of distribu- tion of said estate, it Is
 ORDERED, That the 24th day of July. A. D. l945, at 10:00 o'clock, in the forenoon, Eastern War Time, at the Probate Office in Waterbury, be and the same is, assigned for a hearing on the allowance of said account, and application and the Court directs the Trustees, to Svie notice thereof, by publishing this order in some newspaper having a circulation in said District, and by leaving with, or by mailing in reg istered letters addressed to each of the persons interested. and residing without the Probate District of Wa terbury, copy of this order, all of hearing.
 Attest:
 MARGUERITE M FAHY, 7-S-lt Asst. Clenls
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
Legal Notices
NOTICE

DISTRICT of WATERBURY, ss.
 PROBATE COURT, July 3rd, A.
 p. 1945. ESTATE of MARY Fl.
 WoRDEN, late of Waterbury, in
 said District, deceased.
 Upon the application of WILLIAM ". WORDEN, praying that letters of administration may be granted on said Estate, as per application on file more fully appears. it is
 ORDERED, That said Application be heard and determined at the Probate Office in Waterbury, in said District. on the 9th day of July A. D. 1945 at 11:00 o'clock in the forenoon, Eastern War Time and that notice be given of the pendency of said application, and the time and place of hearing there on by publishing the same one time in some newspaper having cir- culation In said District, on or be- fore the 5th day of July 1s45.
 Attest:
 JOHN J. HOWARD. 1-brH Clerk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05

WANTED: PRISON GUARDS for State Prison, Wethersfield and Connecticut Reformatory, Che shire. Starting salary $1 300. Ap- plicants subject to examination and character investigation. Em- ployment in compliance with sta bilization agreement. Obtain al1- nouncements and applications from State Personnel Department, State Capitol, Hartford, or nearest Unit ed States Employment Service Office.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
WORLD of MUSIC

a festival
  the Boston Symphony Orchestra. ' ~ from h,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
VALUABLE SCRAP

More than 2.O00. 900 tons of top Trade, heavy iron and steel scrap 1n the form of abandoned street car Hines, unused mines, and bridges were salva6ed in le42.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05

In the barren south polar con- tinent of Antarctica, there is a coal field of moret han 100000 square miles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
6 Personals

Dental Plates Repaired $1 co Your old plate made like new A up
 CITY DENTAL LABORATORY 16l East Main St. Dial 3-8680
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05

LENDING LIBRARY--Now irstall- ed at the Ethel c. ziglatzki Gift Shop 29 Leavenworth Street; 2nd fl. 4-3998.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05
REQUIRED PERMIssIoN

n World War I, no American .Doldier who died fighting abroad WEs left to lie on foreign soil ex- eept et the cypress wish of his
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05

HAVING LOST "A" gas ration book issued by local board, appli- cation hereby made for new one. Leo Pilon, 316 Baldwin St.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-05

HAVING LOST T-Passbook No. 1884, 460 issued to me by The Water bury Savings Bank. Application has been made to the bank for a new book. Felice Added or Olympia A. Added.