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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-21

WASHINGnDN-uP- "Pauses
and infections that might be sub.
versiye were the focus of attention
today as the House Un.American
Activities Committee continued its
investigation OF an employee OF the
New York Regional OPA office.
The committee planned to question
Director Daniel P. Woolley OF the
New York office about allegedly
subversive broadcasts his office
has been making over a New York
station.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-21

LONDON-lNS-- British naval
experts we're reported today to
have uncovered Nazi plans to build
a submarine that could also fly. A
dispatch to the London Evening
Standard said the plans had been
found at a U.boat plant at Traye.
mfnde. on the Baltic.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-21

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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-21

PARIS ms Supreme head
quarters of the Allied Expedition.
airy Force in Paris will be dis.
solved a few weeks after the return
TO Europe OF Gen. Dwight d. Eisen
hover, a dispatch to the Army
newspaper Stars and Stripes said
today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-21

SAN FRANClSCo-UP-A Unit.
ed Nations commission was expect.
ed to approve today a committee
recommendation that the press and
public OF the world Save in excep-
tional cases" have free access to
meetings OF the proposed general
assembly.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-21

CHUNGKING-AP- A Chinese
innkeeper and his accomplish were
sentenced to death today for muir.
dering and robbing rs persons,
most Of whom were guests at the
inn. Lao Chang-Shin. the innkeep-
er, and a man called Hsui Chang
Shan, his accomplice, both admit.
ted the charges during the trial.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-21

PARIS-INS-Four hundred Am.
erican military policemen patrolled
the Pigalle night club section Of
Paris during the night and early
today to prevent brawls between
French troops and American sol.
diers as a result OF an alleged as
sault on a member OF the Women's
Army Corps.
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-21

lRGN, Spain-AP Spanish
authorities under instructions from
Madrid closed the frontier into
France today to all freight traffic
except goods already in transit
from other countries.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-21

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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-21

NEWARK, N. J.--INS--The Du,
Pont Company Of Wilmington, Del,
the Rohm & Haas Company OF
Philadelphia and six officers OF the
two corporations stood acquitted
today of cartel charges. The pro
tracted trial ended last night when
jury returned a verdict OF not
guilty after celebrating 10 hours
in Newark Federal Court.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-21

NEW YORK-INS--A plain white
marble monument planned by
President Roosevelt himself on
Dec. 26, 1887. will be used to mark
the grave Of the late chief execu.
tive at Hyde Park, his executors
disclosed today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-21

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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-21

MANILA-AP-The Philippine
house Of representatives passed a
Joint resolution today authorizing
President Sergio Osmena to nego-
tate for the establishment OF air,
naval and military bases for U. S.
occupancy.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-21

MIAMI, Flap The Miami
Weather Bureau reported today
that a tropical storm was moving
rorthward toward the Florida Keys
attended by so mp.h. winds. The
bureau advised caution in the east
ern Gulf of Mexico including the
Florida Keys and western Cuba.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-21

MANILA AP--Rear Adm. For.
rest Breton Royal who died at
sea Monday Of coronary thrombosis
was buried in a Leyte cemetery
yesterday. Funeral services were
held aboard his flagship with Adm
William +. Halsey, commander OF
the Third Fleet, and high Seventh
Fleet officers attending.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-21

HAVANA INS-Ernest Hem.
ingway, the noted author, a woman
companion and Hemingway's Cub
an chauffeur we're slightly injured
near Havana yesterday when his
car left the road near suburban
Mantilla and crashed into a tree,
national police reported today. The
Mantilla police report said that all
three, including Miss Mary Walsh
Of New York City, were only
slightly hurt.
Evening star., 1945-09-30

nonbattle accidents, they estimate. The
victim. OF course, is frequently not to
blame. A friend Of mine who played a
trumpet in an Army band was seriously
injured in Germany right after We
day. He was riding in truck with other
band members when the driver lost
control on a curve. Several men were
killed. Ny friend Is still IN hospital.
False Security
Now that the shooting has stopped. .
Evening star., 1945-09-30

palms. var-and danger-seemed far
away But within few days after their
arrival, one man was killed and IL
injured by falling coconuts,
Many unwary GIs were injured SINH
larly all over the Pacific. Marine Sergt
Joe Mintzer, Philadelphia stationed in
Washington, told me how a safety rule
saved his buddy from serious injury or
death from the same cause.
In October, l942. he and sergt. Tom
Roberts, Newport News, Va, were string
ing telephone wire on Tulagi, nrst
Pacific island secured from the Japs
Joe was high on a coconut palm. Tom
was unwinding wire at the base OF the
trunk. Suddenly = green coconut the
size of a football plummeted 40 feet
from the tree, struck Tom on the helmet
and sent him spravling.
He Had to Be Shown
He was dazed but when he picked
himself up he started to yell, shake his
fist at me and accuse me of dropping
my hammer on him." Sergt. Mintzer
said. ITO shut him up had to climb
down and show him the coconut that
hit him" BY needing safety rule
Sergt. Roberts had escaped possible
tragedy. The rule was: Wear a helmet
II you work under coconut trees"
Army-wide safety education Is CO.
ordinated by the Undersecretary OF
Wars Advisory Board on Accident Pre-
vention, OF which Maj. Gen. Archer L.
Lerch. the provost marshal general, is
chairman. Executive arm of this policy
making board is the War Department
Safety Council, which aids the pro-
grams of all commands. The Nays set
up, under direction Of Capt. c. NJ Sim
mers, was started in q small way back
in 1917 by the then Assistant Secretary
Of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Covered by safety measures at the
height of the war were more than TO-
1000 military and civilian personnel,
plus civilian workers in more than 49,
900 privately operated war plants. Pris-
Evening star., 1945-09-30
Army>Navy War on Accidents Has Saved Many Lives

oners of war in the United States also
receive safety protection to comply with
the Geneva Convention. Tens Of thou
sands of trained men help to enforce
the program.
Facing Danger
Individual services are responsible for
their own safety measures. The work is
decentralized so that any safety unit
can function independently. The real
job," says Gen. Lerch, rs done where
men come face to face with danger.
You can't prevent an accident from
Washington"
Violators Of safe practices quickly
draw penalties. A CT who speeds along
German autobahn while intoxicated
Is even more apt to be penalized than
the civilian who does the same thing In
New York or Los Angeles. Some time
ago the driver OF the leading truck Of .
2S-truck Army convoy was stopped by
MPs in Virginia. He was travelling a
miles an hour. 2 miles over the speed
limit. That violation cost him 30 days
confinement TO quarters. To save lives,
enforcement is tough.
Safe.Drivins Rules
AS in civilian life, motor vehicles are
the source Of many military accidents.
In 1915 the Army owned % cars and
trucks. BY WI day it owned l,50o, 900.
To train men to operate those vehicles
safely was 4 major job. The Army
handled 1t by selecting drivers carefully.
then training them under rigid SAFE
driving rules. What that training meant
when the chips were down was illus
Evening star., 1945-09-30
BY Robert ]. Lewis.


Last June Gen. Eisenhower stepped
oil train at Topeka, Kans, to greet d
group Of Purple Heart soldiers. A few
minutes afterward the train began to
move away without him. As he sprinted
to leap aboard he fell and injured his
leg. Next dey at his Homecoming in
Abilene, Kans., he had painful limp.
Hundreds of GIs have not been 80
lucky--they were crippled or killed doing
the same thing.
During the war two servicemen were
injured or killed by accidents for every
combat casualty. With the nghting
ended, millions OF men still face this foe
which kills and cripples as ruthlessly
as did any Nazi or Jap. How Army and
Navy safety engineers fought accidents
ID one Of the most fascinating untold
stories Of the war.
Many Lives Saved
Today safety officers are stepping up
the battle on accidents. for this was Z
war that didn't end. Gobs and GIs re-
main At their posts all over the world.
Eighteen months may be needed to bring
them all back. Meanwhile, selective
service Is snatching many thousands
every month to take their place The
accident specter still stalks those men
wherever they are.
The battle to reduce the accident toll
Evening star., 1945-09-30

He trauelng only miles the speed limit "That
uoation cost him 30 days confinement to quarters
liues, enforcement is tough."
Evening star., 1945-09-30
Crimes and Criminals
Of Early Washington
BY John Clagett Proctor

Today we are told that crime in this
country Is greatly on the increase and
that the war, just ended, has a great
deal to do with it. As we know, war
brings into existence many useful in
ventions and these may greatly benefit
the country and the people, but it also
has an evil aftermath. evidenced in the
increase of crime and mental and social
diseases.
So far as crime is concerned. Wash
ington has had its full share during the
past 100 years. eof which many are
fresh within the memory of those still
living.
Take, for instance, the case of Daniel
e. sickles and Philip Barton Key. Gen.
sickles, who was then a member of Con-
gress, shot Mr.. Key for the alleged un-,
gentlemanly conduct of flirting with
Mrs. Sickles. the generals Spanish wife,
and Sickles, so the story goes, there
upon armed himself with a 5-bore
6-inch revolver and two single barrel
Derringers,. each of which is said to
have carried ball double the size of
the revolvers. Thus equipped, he left
his home and walked down past the
White House and met, Mr.. Key near the
northeast corner of Pennsylvania ave-
hue and Madison place What took place
may best be told by how the National
Intelligencer reported it on Monday,
February 20, 1859:
Homicide in the First Ward
Our community was yesterday after
noon thrown into a state of painful
excitement and regret by the reports of
an encounter and resulting homicide
which took place about 2 o'clock in the
1st ward, at the corner of Pennsyl-
vania avenue and the east side of La
fayette Square. '''
THE provocative to this dreadful af-
fair is disclosed in the testimony of
Mr.. Butterworth Of New York before
Justice Goddard, the chief of police.
He states that about the time above
mentioned he met Mr. Sickles on Penn
sylvania avenue, a little eastward of
the corner of Lafayette Square and
nearly opposite the State Department.
He had a few words of conversation
with Mr.. Sckles, who left him as Mr..
Key approached, the latter coming
down the Avenue toward the State De-
partment.
They met at the corner of Lafayette
Evening star., 1945-09-30
From an Old Drawing.

Whitney. Mrs. Whitney died at War;
rington in the autumn OF 1879 and in
the following May Mrs. Gaines and her
son and son-in-law, with their families,
became boarders at the Misses Har-
rovers.
TT appears that Mrs. Gaines fur
nished the two men with money, with
which they embarked together in the
'curled hair business, having an once
at No. IT'S Fifteenth street. Last spring
they disagreed and the partnership was
dissolved. Mr.. Whitney continued in
the business, becoming a member Of the
flrm of H. A. Linger & Co. Recently
Whitney published a notice informing
the public that j. Y. Christmas Is not
allowed under any circumstances to coll
lect any bills for the Arm.
"One cause of bad feeling between the
two men appears to have been jealous
feeling entertained by Whitney regard
ing the attention Of Mrs. Gaines to
Christmas and his motherless children,
and it is stated that Whitney frequent
ly accused his brother-in-law of at
tempting to defraud the lady. Whitney
had been subject to epileptic Ats and
1t was considered by gentlemen residing
in the house with him that his mind had
been affected. There were frequent out
breaks of temper on his part and he was
so abusive that the servants stood in
great dread of him. 1t appears also that
Whitney had been further inflamed Of
late by drinking. The Whitney family,
of which Mrs. Gaines first husband was
a member, came from the vicinity OF
Binghampton, N. Y.
"As stated above. the shooting oc-
CURED on the steps leading to the base
ment floor The house, which Is an old
fashioned double house. is divided on
the main floor by wide hall. At the
end Of this hall are the stairs leading to
the upper floors and a narrow flight of
stairs leading to the basement.
THE body Of Whitney soon after the
shooting was taken to Barker's under
taking establishment on Eleventh street,
where it was prepared for burial. Sat-
urday night jury of inquest was sum-
moned and was composed Of William
Dickson, Michael Combs, J. L. Reward,
j. J. Knowles, L. C. Studer and Matthew
Goddard. DR.. j. F. Hartigan made
postmortem examination Of the body,
and yesterday morning the inquest was
held about II o'clock in the parlor of
the house on I street. - Assistant
District Attorney Coyle was present.
The prisoner, Mr.. Christmas, who was
5 taken to the house by Sergt. johnson,
was an attentive listener to part Of the
testimony, having arrived late, and occa-
sionally made suggestions to the coroner
as to questions to be put to witnesses 4"
Christmas was tried and acquitted
on March ~. 1882.
The other interesting phase Of this
case, though not part OF 1t by any
means. is suggested by the relation
ship of the principals to Mrs. Myra
Clark Gaines, she being Whitneys
mother and Christmas mother -in-law,
and besides one of the most prominent
women of her day, particularly because
Of her long and continued effort to
establish In the courts her legal rieht
to q large part Of the city Of New Or
leans, first having the United states
Evening star., 1945-09-30

posite Franklin Square, which since it's
occupancy some years ago by Minister
and Nine. CatacaSy has been known As
the Catacazy house. was on Saturday
evening the scene Of startling tragedy
The house Is now kept rs . boarding
house by the Misses Narrower. Among
their guests have been Mrs. Myra Clark
Gaines. the celebrated claimant: her
son, William G. Whitney. with his
wife and three children, and her
son-in-law, James Y. Christmas. and
his three children. nl-feeling which
arose between Whitney and Christmas
resulted Saturday evening In 4 per-
sonal encounter, in which Whitney was
shot and almost instantly killed.
"A few minutes before 5 o'clock that
evening, just after the bell had been
rung for dinner and as Christmas was
CALAMITY attending Mrs. Dr. Wheat. 4
very venerable lady, down the narrow
stairway leading from the main hall to
the basement or dining room floor
Whitney entered the front door. 1t ap-
pears that he at once started in pur-
suit of Christmas. The latter hurried
down the steps, and Mrs. Wheat, OBJ
serving that there was danger OF a per-
sonal encounter. the hostility OF the
men being known, escaped from the
scene into the dining room.
The next instant the report Of a
pistol and the sound OF falling body
were heard. When the people Of the
house came to the spot they found
Whitney lying at the foot of the stairs
dying. Christmas stood nearby in the
passage and stated calmly that he had
been forced to shoot Whitney in self
defense. Whitney died within a few
minutes after the shot was fired with
out uttering . word. Christmas asked
a servant to 60 for a policeman. and
when an oficer arrived, surrendered
himself and the revolver with which he
had fired the fatal shot to him. Christ
mas was taken to the NTH precinct sta
ton, where he remained during the
night. By advice Of his counsel. Col.
w. A. Cook, he declined to make any
statement of the affair to reporters.
whitney. who was about IS years of
age and inclined to stoutness, was a son
of Mrs. Gaines by her first husband.
Christmas, who is about so years of age,
Is q native of Warrington, N. c., and
married Mrs. Gaines daughter, Rhoda
Evening star., 1945-09-30
;'..ssN

trated at the time Of the German
break through on the western front IN
December, 1914.
Orders came to convoy 7l5 vehicles
from Detroit to the ports of Boston and
Bayonne N. j. Most were weapon car
riers, a heavy, unwieldy vehicle. They
were needed overseas in hurry. Drivers
had to be assembled swiftly from scat
tered posts in the 5ith and 6th Service
Commands. Many had experience in
driving light vehicles only, but this was
an emergency. Time couldn't be spared
to gather other men.
Before the convoy pulled out, 4 safety
officer prepared mimeographed copies of
safe driving instructions. Specific haz-
ards likely to be met along the way were
outlined. As the trucks started to roll
the weather turned bad sleet. snow.
ice, bitter cold dogged the l.430 drivers
over the entire route. The convoy
mileage totaled 515,so4-more than 20
times around the equator. Yet not .
man was injured throughout the trip.
Five Were Frostbitten
ut wasn't q perfect record because
five men suffered from frostbite," said
1t. Col. Edward r. Granniss. chief OF
Evening star., 1945-09-30

Square, when Mr. Key extended his
hand toward Mr.. Sickles, saying How
are you?' Mr. Sickles refused to take
the proffered hand. saving, You have
dishonored my home and my family,
and applying to him some epithet. Mr.
Key Immediately put his hand into his
side pocket, for the purpose, as the
witness supposed, of drawing a weapon,
and Mr.. Sickles at the same time put
his hand into his shirt pocket, from
which he drew a pistol. AS Mr.. Key
raised his hand to throw at Mr.. Sickles
an article he took out Of his pocket
(which proved to be an opera glass; Mr..
Sickles fired his pistol and shot Mr..
Key
The latter staggered a little back,
but rallied and made at Mr. Sickles,
who, stepping a few feet backward fired
a second shot into the body OF Mr..
Key, who then reeled back toward Mr.
Maynard's house, with one hand on
the railing and one knee on the pave
ment, exclaiming, You have shot me,
and then crying Murder Mr.. Sickles
then fired a third shot into the body
of Mr. Key and left him, after which
Mr.. Key was conveyed to the club
house. close at hand, where he expired
in a few minutes"
Key, who was 38 years of age, was
the son of Francis Scott Key author
of The Star Spangled Banner" and
who was also at one time the United
States district attorney. He was a
nephew of Roger Brooke Taney, chief
justice of the United States Supreme
Court
Sickles Went Free
OF course, Sickles went free. Key was
dead and could not defend himself
Sickles continued In Congress until
1861, when he joined the Army as colonel.
He continued in the military service un-
TIL 1869, when he retired from the
Regular establishment as major gen.
eral.
But, undoubtedly, by far the most
tragic murder to ever occur in the Dis
trict Of Columbia was the mortally
wounding of President Abraham Lin
coin at Ford's Theater on Tenth street
= on April H. 1865. The crime was COM
mitted by John Wilkes Booth, who paid
with his life for his dastardly act And
then, of course, the shooting of Presi.
dent Garfield on July 2. 1881, in the
Baltimore g. Potomac Depot, by poll.
tical crank, from which the lamente6
President died on September 10, follow.
ing, Both OF these were crimes In which
the whole Nation mourned.
The Sickles-Key tragedy soccurret
right across from the White Hous,
grounds, at about Madison place, an,
in 1865, Mary Harris, who had been de
ceived by Aduniram Burroughs. sho
and killed him in the Treasury Building
where he was a clerk in the Currenc,
Bureau.
A later murder that attracted consid
cradle attention at the time, becaus
Of the prominence of the parties, wa
the fatal shooting of William G. Whit
ney In q fashionable downtown board
ing house and rendezvous for Congress
men, by his brother -in-law, James
Christmas, of which The Star Of Jun
n, 1881, says:
"Ihe mansion, No. 1886 street. op
Evening star., 1945-09-30

Jobs around modern weapons pack
their own perils. A young ground crew.
man was walking backward on an air.
strip at Myitkyina In Burma, rolling
UP rope. A pilot at the edge OF the field
cried out warning. His voice was
drowned out by the din Of many air.
plane, motors. The crewman stepped
back into the whirring propeller Of
PAT. In a twinkling the blades sew
cred his body In two Scores OF men
have been killed and hundreds injured
the same way.
Whirring Propellers
Desire for drink has paid of many
fighting men In tragedy. Four cooks
at a Pacific base drained alcohol from
refrigerator, quafYed 1t on an i'm
promptu spree. One man died, two
were blinded and \ fourth became
seriously i'll. "Kickapoo juice con-
coction of green coconut milk and high
octane gasoline-claimed many victims.
But when men play safe deaths and
nonfatal mishaps dwindle sharply.
Army and Navy safety engineers have
ample proof Of that. Within six months
after. an accident-prevention campaign
got under way in one Army command
in January. ls43, the rate had been cut
81 per cent.
Is Out of Every 100
During lo42-blackest period for Army
Notwithstanding injuries landed an
average Of l3 OF every 100 soldiers in
hospitals. BY 1914. the average over
the year had been cut to less than nine
per 100 soldiers. BY the time the Japs
called it quits. the rate had been beaten
down still lower. and similarly marked
results had been scored by other services.
Nothing less than complete elimination
Of accidents, however, will satisfy the
safety men. As one put it. we shoot
for zero"
Unsafe acts cause eight Of every 10
Evening star., 1945-09-30

In the armed services is history's biggest
safety campaign. So far it has saved
hundreds of thousands from injury or
death. 1t stretches out to the remotest
advanced base to protect a man from
danger. Nothing like 1t has ever been
attempted before.
Military life offers all the dangers
COMMON to civilian life, plus many
perils all Its own. In Alaska bases had
to be built on glacial rock whose round
ed sides are as full of danger as
Evening star., 1945-09-30
But not

Illustrations BY Star Stan Artist Glib Crockett.
rise in accidents is expected by military
safety men. They previously found that
when a fighting man left battle zone,
he often developed 4 false sense of
security, took more chances and thus
fell easier victim to unexpected hazards.
For example, in May, ls43, members
OF the lst Marine Division were sent to
4 rest camp on Pauvuvu. an island in the
Russells. They had Just cleaned up a
lot of Japs on New Britain. In the
languorous shade OF Pauvuvu's coconut