davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-27
Florida Notes Boom
In Summer Sports

MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 25 (UP)--
Returning servicemen, legislative
provisions. and, indirectly, the rae
ing ban early this year. have pre-
cipitated a summer sports boom
in Florida which shows every
prospect of blending with the win
ter scene 10 present a year-'round
state sports program.
The racing ediCt on Jan. 3, this
year, with its resultant loss of
revenue 10 the state, helped leg
lslatorS make up their minds 10
approve laws pcu-~Sing out-Of-
season dog racing, and throwing
open the doors 10 major summer
sports events.
But IL is the servicemcn. both
returneeS and permanent party,
who are shifting the sports scene
here into high gear and making
good use OF Florida S tropic
waters.
One-two on the list of soldier
activities. according TO ground
force and air force officials, are
fishing and swimming. All avail
able army boats and many civilian
fishing yachts daily take service
men through channels. rivers, into
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-27

the bay and out into the Atlantic
for the water sport.
Fishing and swimming tourna-
ments promise 10 be bigger and
better late this year and early IN
1916 as the result of participation
and success Of Journeys this year.
More than 275,OO0 entries by cl-
villains and servicemen were made
in the metropolitan Miami fishing
tournament this year
Golf swings into third spot in
popularity and participation m
FloridaS two Miami golf courses
show that more than 10000
rounds per month are played dur
ing the summer and double that
in the winter. Plans already arc
being made at Miami Springs for
DecembeTs Miami open and next
March's international fOur-ball
tournament. won last year by
Byron Nelson and Jug McSpaden.
Interest in baseball is being
stirred by several major devel-
opments, including the promised
return of several big league clubs
for training when travel restric-
tionS are lifted, and talk about
the formation of class "B
league in FlOrld..
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-27
Loss of Sailors
Hits Western

KALAMAZOO. Aug 25- With
the naval tralnecs to m oV Q
out from Western Michigan Col
lege at the end of the present
navy term in October, Bronco
football coaches Will not only be
faced with the job of developing
a new aggregation from almost
completely inexperienced material
this fail. bur will also be required
10 rebuild the team midseason
from a combination personnel Of
VIZ trainccS and civilians 10 a
completely civilian aggregation.
Starting football practice Mon
day head coach John w Gill and
his aids VIII have only three letter
men available al most IN Arthur
May. Hamtramck. reserve half
last year Arthur Gillespie, re-
serve lullhack from Ann Arbor,
and Harold ThToop reserve full
back from the 1912 season. OF
these three Gillespie is a VIZ
trainec. The schedule
sept 22-Alma College ~ Kaamazao.
Sept 29-CFutrsI T.C.I2au C.fIcEe az M
Pheasant Oct H-tt-f-- i-tvr-vfry a. ATn-
euS o Oct l3-Mami University. an Eals-
marco -27=Glea' ia1eE. a. Kalamazoo.
Nov. 2--Valparaiso UuiyFrrity A. Valparaiso,
Ind No'. lo-CoHcre ot Wooster O. al
Kalamazoo.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-27
Fix
Bronko' Course

MINNEAPOLIS. Aug. = tUP)
Bronko Nagurski, 34-year-old for
mer All-American and star with
the Chicago Bears. said he would
return TO football if two oper-
ationS on a knee joint prove sue
cesSful.
Nagurski was recovering from
the operations at ST. Mary's Hos
pital here. Doctors said Nagur-
ski probably would regain full use
of both knees.
The Nag" who once held the
worlds professional wrestling
championship, did say when or
where he would return 10 the
gridiron depended on recovery
from the operation.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-27
Tulane Lists p.
Notre Dame

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 25-
Listing nine games, five of which
Sre against Southeastern Confer
Ance foes, Tulane University's
1945 football schedule can be
tabled the toughest Tulane has
been asked to face since play be-
An back in 1893
VSince that beginning, when
three games were played, Tulane
football has advanced to a high
point. And this season, with eight
slated in the Tulane bowl with its
1900 seating capacity, attend
ance figures should run we'll above
250,000.
Top for this season is the Notre
Dame encounter Nov. "a. which
will mark the first appearance for
an Irish team in the deep south.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-27
Rather Forget
Than Remember

Interesting sidelight on that
Chicago White Sox-St Louis
Brown brawl of six weeks ago,
i'm which ST. Louis infielder Ellis
Clary and Sox batting practice
pitcher Karl Scheel Swapped
blows, occurred during a visit OF
both clubs TO the East
Scheel and Clary were stopping
at the same hotel in New York
and the ex-marine hurler walked
past the diminutive infielder.
Say isn't that the fellow
you had II out with" a reporter
asked Clary.
well what do you know"
was the reply, II never would
have ecOgnize him I'm "A
month Of Sundays"
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-27
Frosh Meet Aaain

Georgia and Georgia Tech will
this year renew the freshman
football game in Atlanta on
Thanksgiving Day.
Evening star., 1945-08-05
Bethesda
Continued From First Page)

wood road, Bethesda, an employe
Of the Weather Bureau who lives
about mile from the institute,
recorded a 61z-inch fall of rain
between 8 and 8 pm. Tuesday on
the gauge in his back yard. But
the rainfall around midnight regis
tered only three fourths of an inch
on Mr.. Linsley's gauge.
The Bethesda fire department
answered an emergency call from
the health institute, which is a
Government institution under the
Public Health Service, and pumped
water out of the cellars, elevator
pits, and boiler rooms until 4 am.
Clarence w. May, superintendent
Of buildings and grounds at the in
stitute, said that he was preparing
q report on the damage to the me-
chanical equipment. He said mo-
tors, boilers and elevators were all
damaged.
The animals lost were only small
part of those kept for experimental
purposes at the institute. Most Of
them were in cages on the first or
upper floors. It happened that the
laboratory animals carrying the
strains of the tropical disease under
study were in the basement of one
Of the buildings.
Evening star., 1945-08-05
Fake Japanese Hospital Ship,
Carrying Arms, Taken to Port

pressure brought to bear on the
minister by the Japanese.
Manila police, directed by Army
officials, have arrested nearly 1000
prostitutes N a drive to clean the
city of vice and lower the venereA
disease rate, which Col. T. F. Ryan
deputy provost marshal, said was
one of the worst In the world.
Plans for increasing distribution
OF the Monday morning Rakkasan
(parachute), Japanese language
newspaper published by the Army
here and delivered by air to the
enemy homeland, were announced
by 1t. Col. Woodall Greene, execu-
tive officer. The paper is minia-
ture of a regular japanese daily
and is dropped each week over
Japan by American Super For
tresses. Col. Greene said present
circulation of 100000 would be
stepped up to 100000 by the end
of the month,
Evening star., 1945-08-05

With no new taxation, Fire may
borrow s14, ,S2S, 900 to meet this years
deficit.
Evening star., 1945-08-05
Jap Radio Says
| Americans Lead
| Starvation Life
BY the Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4-In an
effort to counter the effect Of leaf
lets dropped on Japan by B-29s
warning IL more cities they are
next on the bombing list, Tokyo
radio tonight told the Japanese
people Americans lead q starvation
life" and have stopped buying War
Bonds.
The announcer said the Secretary
Of Agriculture land others request
the people to lead a starvation life. "
THE domestic situation in enemy
America is not an easy one" he
added.
Near the end of the European
war, when the American forces sue
ceeded in breaking through the
Rhine line, the people Immediately
stopped buying War Bonds. The
laborers think when the war ends,
it will be troublesome to have the
returning soldiers take over their
jobs because two-thirds Of the cause
Of the American forces victory is
due to the services rendered by the
laborerS."
Evening star., 1945-08-05
Student Federalisfs
Begin Talks Today

Seventy members of the Student
Federalists will begin q weeks dis. !:
cussion of world affairs at American
University today.
Twenty-Five of the students are
from Midwestern and Southern COLI
leges. They travelled here with the
blessing of the Once of Defense
Transportation because they did not
exceed so In number and because
their purpose is educational,
spokesman said yesterday.
The group of District and out-of-
town students win meet ofncially
for the first time at pm. today,
when Thomas Hughes, their presi-
dent. describes the San Francisco
Conference. A student at Carleton
College, Northfield, Mimi, he at
tended the conference.
Clarence STREET., president of Fed
/ eral Union, Inc, with which the
federalists are connected, will speak
to the students on the university
lawn at z pm.
Among other speakers during the
sessions will be DR.. Stringfellow
Barr, president Of st. Joint College,
Annapolis, Md, who will discuss
Education for Citizenship; DR..
Edwin G. Nourse, director of the
Brookings Institution; Mrs. Ray
mond Clapper, wife of the late
columnist, and Miss Ruth Gruber,
now with the ONCE Of the Secretary
of the Interior, who was the first
woman to cover Russia several years
ago as a correspondent for the New
York Herald Tribune.
The students will review their
opinions of world affairs at a closing
meeting at 3 pm. next Sunday.
Part of the week will be spent
sightseeing.
Evening star., 1945-08-05
sy the Associated Press.

MANILA, Sunday, Aug. 5.-A Jap
anese hospital ship which used its
free conduct" under Red Cross in
sigma to move contraband war
supplies through the Allied block
ade of the East Indies is being
taken into the port by an Amer
lean 7th Fleet patrol vessel.
Gen. MacArthur's headquarters
yesterday announced intaception
of the hospital ship. which also
carried apparently faxed soldier
patients.
Meanwhile, in the fighting in
Northern Luzon, the 9th Army re-
ported an additional 882 Japanese
had been killed in the last three
days.
London received a report that 1t.
Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, jap
anese supreme commander during
the Philippines campaign, had been
killed on Luzon in bombing at
tack.
Gen. MacArthur's report of the
boarding Of the hospital ship, in the
Band Sea, north of Timor and
roughly 400 miles north of Australia
said approximately $500 Japanese
aboard were listed as patients. When
the boarding party removed ban
dages from some of the patients no
wounds were found.
Arms Found in Cases.
Machine guns, rs millimeter shells
and other ammunition were found
packed in cases marked medical
supplies" headquarters said.
In the announcement, neither the
course of the vessel nor the port to
which 1t is being taken Is disclosed
The Japanese still occupy most of
the islands between New Guinea
and Borneo, though the Allied block
ade has cut of all possible escape.
except for small scattered groups.
The hospital ships crew was listed
as Is officers and SO men.
The report of Japanese killed on
Luzon, plus 142 captured, brought
to 438,852 the new total Of Jap
casualties and prisoners in this Phil
ippines campaign, for which Ysma-
shita was imported as supreme COM
mander shortly after Gen. Mac
Arthurs forces struck Leyte.
Yamashita's death would mark, a
definite milestone in the drive to
smash the Japanese In the South
west Pacific. Once it was reported
that the conqueror of Singapore had
fed to Japan in an airplane, but
Tokyo denied this. Later, he was
said to be holed up in the noun
tains north Of Baguio with 100000
remaining troops and camp follow
ers.
Guerrillas Quoted.
The London report, received by
Reuters, was by way of the New
Delhi radio, which quoted a Philip
pine guerrilla broadcast. Supposedly
Yamashita was killed in a low level
bombing attack, probably north Of
Baguio, where three American COL
umns are within two to six miles Of
Yamashita' last known headquar-
tiers.
In Manila's first important COL
Elaboration trial since the liberation
of the Philippines, Maj. Enrique So
brepena, chaplain and most promi-
nent Protestant leader on the is
lands. was acquitted Friday by
court martial of charges of aiding
the Japanese. Witnesses told Of
Evening star., 1945-08-05

hand in hand. All subjects of dis
cussion between us have been
solved"
Laval came to Petain's defense
at another point. He shouldered
the blame for the secret tribunals
in which French resistance fighters
were tried. He said he organized
the courts because French magis-
trates were afraid to try the cases
openly.
But Laval insisted that under
cover Of their secrecy, great many
French patriots were freed as well
as convicted. He said he knew Of
only one case" Of French torture
chambers where underground lead
ers were taken, and also intimated
that neither he nor Petain was
aware of the actions of Darnands
Vichy Gestapo.
Evening star., 1945-08-05
Empire State Plane Crash
EuuaIed $50 75-mm. Shells

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-Steel ex-
perts reported today that when a
12-ton bomber struck the Empire
State Building last Saturday the
impact was as great as though $50
75-mm. shells had been fired at
the structure simultaneously at
point blank range.
Nevertheless, the 102-story build
ing's steel framework shows "amaz-
ingly few signs" OF the tremendous
shock, the American Institute of
Steel Construction said, adding that
the framing leased itself only very
slightly, as a prizefighter rolls with
q blow"
None of the main structural steel
members supporting the building
was affected in the slightest" the
Evening star., 1945-08-05

Speed victory by buying bonds
through payroll savings. +
Evening star., 1945-08-05
Army
Continued From First Page.)

that the Army be reduced to its
maximum requirements, and that
these maximum requirements be
scaled down to a sensible figure and
that they be based on logistics and
not on the military fortunes of high
officers who do not relish the idea
Of being busted.
Macarthur must have the strong
est Army that American genius and
American enterprise can give him.
Every one insists that he have every
man he can possibly use, but discon-
tented American soldiers marking
time ON this continent are not going
to help Macarthur or hurt the Japs.
With 1000 mile supply line to
buck, the bottleneck is not our de-
sires, but it is the shipping facilities
available. Nothing can be done to
increase them now.
Explains 3 Million Figure.
Under your revolving plan, fully
SO per cent of the men now in the
South Pacific are overdue for re-
placement. Many of them have over
8 years of foreign service. IF we
transport an average of 1000 men
per day until January /, 1947, we
will have transported 100000 new
soldiers to the Japanese front. But
attrition from all sources on an aver
age of 10000 per month will with
draw 100000. men from that front
and that will leave us on January l,
1947, approximately 3,000,0 900 men in
the Pacific. During that time not
less than 10000, 900 tons Of supplies
and equipment must also be trans
ported to the Pacific.
What is wrong with these calcu-
lations? Are they not in truth ex-
tremely optimistic? No humble
jumble' answer will do this time
Please be brutally frank with Con-
gress and the country.
"The American people and the
Congress have supported the Wa,
Department blindly and without
stint for seven long years. Every
request and every hint of a possible
need of men, material and treasure
has been forthcoming and on time
Doubtless you are grateful and prouc
Of the confidence which has beer
reposed in the War Department by
your fellow citizens. Doubtless yol
would like that very desirable rela.
tionship to continue.
We Day Army Size Kept.
However, there is a widespread
feeling in Congress and in the coun.
try now that the War Department
Is tenaciously holding millions Of
men which 1t does not need anc
which it cannot use. Many men art
now essential to the Army because
large numbers of men in uniform
nonessential are being boarded by
the Army.
mo appreciable reduction in the
armed forces has taken place since
We day. According to the Treasury
the War Department, with a one
front war in July, 1945, spent $4,357,-
753, ,293.97, while in July, 1914, with
two ful-sized wars, it spent only
$4,232 1925, TOAST. The Japanese wal
front has shrunk from the wide
spread and far-flung islands of the
South Pacific to the small and con-
centrated Japanese homeland.
Il plead most earnestly with you
to review your maximum require
ments and justify tie faith that
America has in the War Department
by getting down to earth on this
very serious problem. The situation
Is indeed desperate. The men In
uniform and the country are bank
ing on you to do the right thing
Evening star., 1945-08-05
British Hasten Clearing
Of Rhine for Shipping
Y the Associated Press.

~ tne ASSocIateu PreSS.
WITH BRITISH FORCES IN
GERMANY, Aug. 4.-British engi-
neers who have been clearing away
blown bridges with depth charges
said today the Rhine would be open
for navigation from Coblenz to the
sea by September l.
They estimated IS per cent of the
bridges in Germany's canal system
In the British zone had been blown
up, with an average Of one wrecked
bridge every two-thirds of a mile on
the canals. The Dortmund- Ems
Canal, which was drained by RAF
bombs, will be open in four months,
they said.
Evening star., 1945-08-05
Tokyo. Radio Admits
Invasion Of Homeland
Might Be Successful
By the Associated Press.


SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 4.-The
Tokyo radio conceded today that
an Allied invasion of the home
land would be a success If staged
on proper scale but waxed con-
fident that Japan's boarded air
power would smash the invaders and
lead the way to ultimate victory.
Speculation of the anticipated in
vasion was contained in broadcasts
by two unidentified commentators
one Of whom again dismissed talk
of unconditional surrender with the
statement:
Japan will not give in, because
1t does not know the word defeat,
and the quicker the enemy realizes
1t the better it will be for them"
The other broadcaster, attempting
to convey the thought that Japan
was anxiously awaiting the inva-
sion, gave left-handed admission
Of the possibilities by saying the
big attack will be doomed to fail
'ure unless the operation is done
under the utmost skill and on a
large scale"
Playing Waiting Game.
The broadcasts, monitored by the
Federal Communications Commits
sion, described Japan as playing a
waiting game, "gritting its teeth"
and insisted there was mo need to
counterattack the enemy at this
stage-not until the enemy opera
tions actually begin"
One commentator was contemp-
tuous OF Germany and its crackup
under Allied air weight. "Orientals
are made Of sterner stuff" he said,
mentioning the Chinese and their
eight-year defense against "the Sc
verest sort of bombing"
The Russians at Stalingrad? "It
was, I dare say, because of their
Oriental blood, not their Occidental
blood, that they were able to take
it," he said.
Meanwhile, Domei, the Japanese
news agency, declared that well
informed quarters" in Japan had
branded as Outrageous" American
State Department charges that
prisoner of war camps had been
deliberately located in areas sub
Ject to American bombings.
No Area Is Safe.
Admitting there was no area in
the homeland safe from air blows,
Domei's report said: Even If al
prisoner of war camp should be
established on the summit Of Mount
Fuji, 1t eventually would be the
target of the American bombers."
The State Department protest
followed Domei report that pris-
oners of war, many of them Ameri-
cans, had been killed in a camp
during B-29 attack on the Tokyo
Bay oil refining city Of Kawasaki.
The department said the camp was
deliberately placed in target area
to protect the military installation.
Tokyo said the camp was located
in safety zone," claimed it was
near hospital and charged that
American bombers were attacking
unfortunately, and Intentionally
consider everything on the surface
of japanese soil-even women and
children-as military objectives."
AS for relocating the camps, as
demanded by the United States,
Domei said facilities for such re-
moval would be used instead toward
the production of arms ito shoot
down the Super Forts and to
sink American aircraft carriers,
battleships and TRANSPORTS"
Evening star., 1945-08-05
Super Forts
Continued From First PageO

damaged, against a loss of 6 Ameri-
can planes.
Gen. George c. Kenney's Far East
Air Forces, which alone have &C
counted for 2,846,932 tons of enemy
shipping sunk or damaged in the
first seven months Of this year,
similarly have paid special atten-
ton to inland transportation sys-
TENS.
Continued absence Of Japanese
interceptor opposition is based on
a Japanese policy of boarding air
strength for the Allied invasion, the
Tokyo radio said.
In one Of its infrequent ventures,
the enemy air force sent a few
planes over Okinawa July 20 and
succeeded in sinking an American
light unit and damaging second,
Admiral Niinitz disclosed yesterday
Evening star., 1945-08-05
Petuiin
Continued From First Page. J

alton of $4,000 French prisoners of
war.
II realize those who were sent
to Germany feel nothing but hatred
for me-" he said. Many more who
stayed behind also hate me for this.
But is it the aim Of chief Of gov
ernment to seek popularity, or Is
1t his duty to serve his country2"
Many Joined Maquis.
Some of the workers who refused
to go to Germany stayed behind and
joined the Maquis, Presiding Judge
Paul Mongibeaux pointed out. To
this Laval replied he had protested
to the Germans against decision
to call the Maquis "terrorists." Pc
tain's attitude toward the Maquis
''was that of an honest man" Laval
said. Petain, he added, also pro-
tested.
Laval claimed he won exemption
for French women from Europe
wide Nazi order for q general mo-
bilization of labor and persuaded
the Germans to withdraw de-
mand that all French Jews should
be deprived of their nationality.
When Laval implied that French
army commanders in North Africa
presented only token resistance to
the Allies in 1912, Petain's lawyers
quickly added that they would
produce secret kilograms" dis
patched by Petain to North Africa
ordering the army there not to Of
fer serious resistance. Laval said
Petain was the "only person quail
fed" to answer questions regard
ing them.
Another telegram figured heav-
fly in Laval's day-long testimony
1t was the message which Petair
Is accused Of having sent to Hitler
congratulating the Germans or
the British defeat at Dieppe and
asking permission to fight along
side the Germans.
Petain Defended.
Laval said he never had heard OF
such telegram and expressed dis
belief that Petain would have au-
thorized anybody else to send 1t In
his name. In fact, he went on to
say, he twice refused when the Nazis
offered to permit France to fight
against the Allies.
Coming to the defense of Petain
Laval said the old marshal was moi
free" He said Petain was ordered by
THE n Gor,,oopc fo Hv,, ta ef a ov,, av,fe "
opposition to the Allied action ir
North Africa" and added:
II also was instructed to speal
publicly on the subject. / did moi
refuse. ! made my declaration or
the day of the landings. The Ger.
mans were not satisfied, and they
told me 1t was no real protest"
Regarding his II desire German
victory" speech on June %, 1912
Laval for the second day claimed
that petain changed the broadcas
text from 81 believe in a German
victory" an allegation which Petair
yesterday Indignantly denied.
Meeting Recalled.
"a few days after that broad
cast" Laval revealed, "Admira
Leahy and Mr.. s. Pinkney Tucl
counsellor at the American EN-
bassy at vichy) came to see me.
explained the reason for that state
ment, what meant by 1t and tn
practical effects Of It."
Laval did not say what .Admirs
Leahy's and Mr.. Tuck's reaction
for the broadcast, was met by tn
remainder from Laval that lon
after the broadcast, Petain said
From now on Laval and ! wal