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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03
Building in
Store Here

An indication of the building pro.
gram in store for Ypsilanti was
seen today with the announcement
that the addition to Motor State
Products building will be carried
out despite the war situation.
The Motor State addition, to cost
over $4,000 is under construction
at the northeast corner Of the pres.
ent structure. and will expand the
factory by 10000 square feet. The
new part will be two story build.
ing, designed by r. S. Geranoff.
Other large buildings for which
Mr.. Gerganoff has prepared plans
are two dormitories at the Normal
College, one to house 200 men and
one for 400 women, and a new
Pierce Hall, to cost 100000. He
has also planned an addition to
Ypsilanti High School for indus
trial arts class rooms; a one story
addition to the Streicher Die &
Tool Company. a new county build
ing in Ann Arbor, and an addition
to Ypsilanti High School locker
rooms.
Money for the construction Of
Pierce Hall has already been ap-
pripriated by the legislature. but
due to the rising cost of building,
additional funds -ef-s44y999- haze
been requested
The two dormitories will be built
as soon as material and labor is
available. and will be of the same
type as Munson and King Halls.
The costs of the residence halls
are 100000 and $4,000 They
are self-liquidating.
In addition to. these projects.
there is discussion OF a new power
house and women's gymnasium at
the college, a new city police sta
ton and garage; and several pri-
vate homes. ranging in cost from
$4,000 to $4,000.
Money to build the new gym
nasium and power house has alrea-
dy been requested from the state
legislature.
A general expansion is also pre-.
dicted for the city by realtors, VINO
stress the fact that the building
program will be under way here,
as never before. as soon as men
and material are available.
The outlying areas have been
subdivided for many years, they
point out, and with materials made
available the entire area is likely
to be very active. There is room
for considerable expansion within
the city, they say, and the demand
for homes is at the highest peak in
many years. Money, too, is plenti-
full.
Growth OF the city will be main.
ly to the west and east, they be-
lieve. since those areas are better
suited 10 settlement.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03

IN ]. NJ. ROBERTS. Ir.

BY ]. NJ. ROBERTS. Jr.
The impulse this morning is TO
write This is We Day. 1t would
be, IL Allied men we're not still
lighting and dying in the pockets
which the last fanatical Germans
cans hold hut refuse to surrender
completely. Or IL would be IL We
Day had not already passed.
Historians will argue that We
Day was the day in 1910 that Hitler
failed to invade England, or the
day he beat himself by invading
Russia, the day he was turned back
at Stalingrad or FL Alamein. or the
day he failed 10 throw the Allies
on the Normandy beaches
Whatever the verdict. the day
when Germany changed her mill.
tary policy. stopped fighting for
key centers and began to declare
them open cities. will stand as a
great climax OF the war. We are
down to the mop.up, and It begins
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03
Germans May Quit in Denmark,
~ Germany, Holland, Norway
Peace
Today

San Francisco, May Sup The
worlds democracies begin today
the hard business OF measuring
their high hopes against their
ability 10 write a charter to guar
antee peace.
The routine plenary session talk
fest Of the United Nations confer
ence has ended. Today the four
major conference commissions
meet to organize for the job OF
making the world safe TO live in.
There have been preliminary bat.
ties here but on the whole every
one is happy and hopeful. The
only shadow over this gathering
is the possibility that events in
Europe may force key delegates to
leave before the charter is com
pleted
Still Around
Soviet Foreign Commissar V. NJ.
Molotov is still around but he al
ready has told the American delega-
ton that he must leave in a few
days
Commissions I and II of the con-
ference meet at 1880 a. m, PVT
today. Commissions III and "
ysset..2t 49, ~ "a.
Sen. Henri Rollin of Belgium. as
president of Commission /, will
supervise drafting of the several
provisions OF the International
Organization Charter. Those pro
visions include the preamble of
the organization charter, a state
ment Of it's purpose, principles and
membership.
Field Marshal Jan Christian
SHUTS Of South Africa is president
Of Commission II. He will super
wise the creation Of the organiza-
TONS general assembly, Commits
sion II WIN make proposals regard
jug the stTucture and procedures Of
The assembly, its political and Sc
curity functions and methods o.
economic and social cooperation.
Shuts commission also has an
other function. That is to draft a
plan for trustesship system over
areas seized from the enemy
Security
Foreign Minister Trygve Lie OF
Norway is president or Commission
i'll which will deal with the power
full security council on which the
United States. the Soviet Union,
China and Great Britain will have
permanent seats. The security
council is the top body Of the inter-
national organization
The security council will have
the authority to decide where,
when and how armed force shall be
used to keep the peace. The only
circumstances under which the
security council may not order
out the troops will be il and
when one Of the permanent mem
bers turns to aggression. It has
been agreed among the major spon-
sors OF this conference that it is
not intended to write a charter
which would permit the lnterna-
tianal Organization to crack down
forcefully on the big powers.
Legal Problems
Commission " is headed by
Venezuelan Foreign Minister tar
raciolo PARA Perez. Some OF the
conferences bitterest disputes may
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03

to look as though the final days OF
guerrilla warfare may not be so
extensive or so exasperating as
once expected.
Mad Momentum
Without Hamburg. Prague.
Munich, Berlin, Stettin. Vienna,
Bremen or any important Hedge
hog left. only heaven knows why
any Germans keep fighting. Prob.
ably only on mad momentum plus
the fact that we haven't arrived
yet at all the army headquarters
to accept all the surrenders. that
all the Nazi commanders haven't
had the opportunity for their last
little honor satisfying" battle
to save them from the "igonminyn
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03
Students Told of
History Theories

A very interesting and inspiring
assembly was presented to the stu
dent body Of Cleary College, We'd
nesday morning by Rabbi Jehudah
NJ. Cohen. Ann Arbor on The
Theories Of History.
Hetpointed out that some attri-
bufe history to accident, some to
plans OF great men, some to econ
omics. some to races. He conelud-
ed that there must be a fair plan Of
realism and idealism If mankind is
to progress.
Miss Elizabeth Roberts. a stu
dent, gave two vocal selections
Loves Old Sweet Song and
villa" from the Merry Widow
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03
Allied Men Still Fighting,
in German Pockets


OF surrendering without firing a
shot
Regardless OF history's decision
on Just when Germany lost the war
militarily. there will be little de-
bate on moral grounds. Germany
lost the war before she began IL.
by arraying against herself the
freedom-loving, right thinking peo.
pie OF the globe.
Nowhere is this so well demon
strated as in Italy. where the erst-
while Hitlerites have just sur
rendered
Hardly a nation but has been rep
resented there. many Of them by
fully organized armies Poles. Hin
dus and Moslcms from India, Jews,
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03
Bomber Has
Short Week

The 80 hour a week schedule at
the Willow Run Bomber plant was
given War Manpower Commission
approval Wednesday.
The Ford Motor Company, oper-
ating the big plant instituted the
reduced hours last Monday in what
il said was an effort to spread re-
naming work at the plant among
more employees. The plant Is
about to complete production Of B
% Liherator bombers and probsh-
~ will be closed. II has been op-
Grating on two as hour a week
shifts
Earlier Wednesday the Ford
management announced with VINO
approval that work week schedules
in its Rouge, Lincoln and Highland
Park plants would be cut imme-
diately from as to 40 hours.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03

That announcement indicat-
ed that the Czechoslovak
capital and the largest Nazi-
held city in the south would
not be defended.
All fighting in northern
Italy and western Austria
has ceased under the uncondition-
al surrender agreement accepted
by German Gen. Heinrich Won Vie
.inghoff Scheel.
The surrender yesterday. which
yielded nearly 100000 German
and Italian Fascist troops, Opened
the mountainous heart OF the.
-Nazis shrinking Alpine redoubt,
now about to be split by Junction
of L. S. Third Army troops with
the Russians around the Austrian
city of Linz.
With the loss of Berlin, Ham
burg, Lubbock and Rostock, the
only large German cities remain
ing under the swastika were Bres-
lau, Dresden, Chemnitz and kiel.
Al Lubbock. the British we're SO
miles from Kiel and SIS miles from
the Danish frontier.
In Berlin the toll OF sullen Ger
man prisoners taken by the Rus
SLAMS reached approximately l0O,-
600.
Berlin. the fourth largest city In
the world with a peacetime popula-
ton OF 1895, 900, surrendered yes
terday to troops of the First White
Russian and First Ukrainian
Armies after - days lighting.
Suicides Claimed
There was no further word from
the fallen Reich capital on the fate
of Adolf Hitler. but the belief grew
in Moscow that his body might
turn up. By a captive Nazi's ac-
count Hitler. Propaganda Minister
Paul Joseph Goebhels and Chief OF
staff Gen. Hans Krebs committed
suicide.
Denmark and Norway were isO-
lated by the British-Russian juno
ton near Wismar, % miles south
west OF CAPTURED Rostock. The
Germans in the north were sur
rendering in wholesale lots. The
Luxembourg radio, which some
times speaks with authority. said
German rule in Denmark seemed to
be nearing its end.
Despite the surrender in north
ern Italy and western Austria.
Gen. Eisenhower kept the Ameri-
can Third and Seventh armies and
the French First Army driving into
the enemy's southern pocket
Dominating the Inn River on a
G6-mile front. Gen. Pstton's Third
Army had crossed that wide trihu-
tary Of the Danube at half doz-
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03
Most of Personal
Taxes Collected

The final report OF the city
treasurer's Office showed that in the
fiscal year just completed. OF to.
tai tax on personal property
amounting TO S63.576 the treasurer
has collected all hut s1349.
The total personal prope fty tax
was assessed upon 1926 taxpayers.
and all paid hut two who had NOV.
ed out OF the city. The tax was lev.
led for the various units as follows:
city, t34.066; school general. sIs.-
906: school debt. s4.915: county,
S5,167; and county drains, 1922.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03

The Army show. Here's Your In.
fantry" putting on an actual dem
onstration OF an attack on a pill
box and reproducing the tactics
and weapons used In the attack
on the Jap positions at Bougain-
vile. will be produced in Ypsilan-
Il Wednesday night, May 16, as
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03
U. S. WEATHER FORECAST

Lower MichigaT Fair tonight
and Friday. Cooler tonight; warm
er Friday.
Highest temperature yesterday,
IS; lowest, 81.
Highest temperature one year
ago today, 70; lowest, SO.
Highest temperature this date in
last 70 years. SO in 1913; lowest,
30 in 1911.
The sun sets today at 1888 and
rises Friday at 625.
The moon sets today at 1888 a.
m. and rises Friday at 1926 a. m.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03

EINDHOVEN. Holland-INS -
The Dutch government was re-.
vealed today to have offered the
United States permanent use o.
bases in the Netherlands East In
dies TO help maintain peace in the
Pacific
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03

WASHINGTON lNS-The 100
per cent set-aside order on military
procurement OF chickens will short
ly be extended to one or more poul
reproducing areas, It was learned
today. The War Food Administra-
ton declined 10 identify the areas.
but ackno wledged that the forth
coming directive stems from wide
spread diversion Of poultry into
black markets, thus hampering Ar
my purchases.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03
AUCTION CALENDAR

SATURDAY, MAY S, I O'CLOCK,
7 miles S. W. Of Milan So miles
N. &. OF Britton, I mile N. or Va
mile e Of German Church off
Ridge Road. 20 head cattle, farm
Implements. 30 .ere farm. Leon
J. squires, owner and prop, Brit.
ton, Mich. RID. No. 2. Guy r.
Thompson, Auetioneer. 4o4 Fer
ris ST., Phone 251e.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03

DuBLiN-lNS-The German
government had the eondolene-
es OF Prime Minister cannon de
Valera today on the death Of
Adolf Hitler. De Valera per-
sonalIy offered his sympathy
to the German minister here. >.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03
Reichsfuehrer Doenitz May
be~in Denmark or Norway;
White House to Give Word
Believe Churchill to
be Out of Country For
Surrender Ceremony

Paris, May 3-INS-Reports circulated in reli,hIs
french circles tonight that surrender of
German armies in North Germany nd Denmark and
Norway may be forthcoming
If negotiations are successful it is probable that an.
nouncement will be made the White House in
Washington.
New York, May 3-INS-The Danish radio TODAY told
listeners important German would be
broadcast shortly. Danish translation will follow the
German announcement.
London May 3-INS-A military writer for the author
tatve British Press Association said today that fairly
Sertsn that Reichsfuehrer Grand ADMIRAL Karl Doenitz
somewhere in Denmark possibly crossed over
to Norway.
London, May 3-INS-The semi-a authoritative British
Press Association reported today that Commons agog
with speculation whether Prime Minister Winston
Churchill may be of the country or the surrender
ceremony"
New York, May 3-INS-Cernian officers of all ranks
offering surrender entire uns the " s. Firt
and Ninth Armies BIC said today IN broadcast heard
tby KBC Negotiations underway The British Army
alone captured 100 900 prisoners yesterday, BIC
said.
London May 3-INS-A Reuter- dispatch from Moscow
said that of moves toward immediate uncond
tiona surrender by Germany circulating in the So
Wet capital today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03

EINDHOVEN. Holland-INS -
Allied authorities revealed today
that It had been decided to isolate
Holland for two months immediate
ly following total liberation OF The
Netherlands because OF typhoid
epidemics raging there.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03

b ~ In u. s. sf4ffRD ARMf-~szS 5
fzGeneral George S. Patton's Third
Army troops today entered the lit
tie Austrian village of Braunau,
birthplace OF Adolf Hitler. Few
persons in the town seemed to care
that Hitler was dead.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03

LONDON-lNS 49, The Reuter-
news agency said today that it Is
evident the Hamburg radio is now
operating under Allied control. Pro
carnations guiding the behavior Of
the population, it was pointed out
are being issued under the author
ity of, the British commander-in-
chief.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03

MADRID ms Pierre
Laval, condemned chief OF gov
eminent Of Vichy France, his
wife, and four other ViehylteS
were held In Spain today for
Allied disposal after landing
near Barcelona In a German
plane. Two German pilots of
the plane also were arrested,
and, along with the Viehy ref
uaees, were held lneommuniea.
do after refusing to leave the
country.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03

NEW YoRK-INS-The bod
les OF Hitler. Goebbels and
General krebs have not yet
been found so far as 10 known
In Moscow at 3 p. m. Moscow
time-s a. m. Eastern War
: Aime-Mutual eorrsspondent
Arthur Davies reported from
the Russian capital today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03

BRASSIERES GIRDLES
Complete stock OF nationally adver-
tised makes at Dixie Shop. Adv. sos
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03


The Nazi pockets in northern Germany dissoving
today British arborne troops and Russian tanks linked
up near Wismar and the British entered Hamburg after
the enemy had proclaimed that great port open CITY,
Grand Admiral Karl DoenitZ, Germany new Fuehrer,
has declared Prague hospital city, the Germans said
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03

SAN FRANCISCo-AP-Eeaders
of the world Labor Congress, now
In session at Oakland. Calf, have
asked the United Nations Confer
ence TO give formal recognition to
their group for consultiye pur-
poses.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03

NEW YORk-INS-The fall OF
Berlin and capitulation OF German
armies in Italy and Austria caused
hardly a ripple among New York $
White way pleasure seekers. But
Times Square business men are
taking no chances. In anticipation
Of mass demonstrations Of JOY when
We day is announced, wooden bar
ricades were placed today in front
of plate glass windows Just In
case.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03

SUITS COATS 90 PER CENT OFF
At Sally Sheer Shop.
NOnth-End Sale. Adv j9j
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03
Flashes of
Late News

ROME-AP--Col. William o
Darby OF Arkansas. who helped or
ganize and then commanded the
American Ranger bsttalions
through the grim fighting In North
Africa and Sicily, was killed by a
German SIS mil1imeter shell 3asi
two days before the end OF the
war in Italy, II was revealed today
WITH THE v. S. SEVENTH
ARMY at Daehau-lNS- An
epidemic Of the dread black
typhus Is sweeping this imam.
Gus liberated German eoncen.
tration camp, with 1000 cases
already reported. Authorities
were working day and night to
alleviate the appalling eondi-
tions found at the camp.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-05-03

SAN FRANCISCO ms DR..
Ivan Subasic, foreign minister OF
Yugoslavia, privately. expressed
fear today that his own party may
become the object OF purge by
the pro-Communist forces of Mar
shall Tito, head OF the government.
Subasic, chief OF the Yugoslay dele
CATION to the United Nations con-
ference. addressed the plenary ses-
sion yesterday. He avoided all ref
erence, however. to the political
controversies within his country.
WASHINGTON-AP -- Pennsyl-
vanias holidaying anthracite min
ers looked to Economic Stabilizer
William II. Davis today for sign
that they might return to work
with Uncle Sam as tLeir boss. The
The War Labor Board last night
routed to Davis desk the stale
mated contract dispute that Mas left
72,009 miners idle since Monday
night when their working agree
ment expired.
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See TRUMAN Page S
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See PArIFic-Pase s
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See CONFERENCE.-THE s
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Speed Victory
Buy More Bonds
Salvage Pepper
Evening star., 1945-02-21
Boy, Il, Shot TO Death
By Brother After Dispute

BY the Associated Press.
PELL CITY, Ala, Feb. 21.-A r.
year-old son of a couple with war
plant jobs was shot to death at the
family residence yesterday after an
argument with his 14-year-old
brother, Officer Tai Rich reported.
The officer said the boys were in
dispute over something about
the pressing of a pair of pants"
The slain boy, Donald Gene Hollis,
was shot through the heart with
a .38-caliber pistol while his father
was at work in cotton mill and
his mother at her job in an ammu-
milton plant, Officer Rich stated.
A warrant has been issued but
has not been served, he added.
Evening star., 1945-02-21

IA. Miles; their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Searle, and the latter's two small
daughters.
Served Power Firm.
Mr.. Miles notified his sister-in-
law, Mrs. George r. Miles, Vienna,
Va, In note written last May that
all the family was we'll. He was
business manager for the Philip
pines Power g. Light Co.
H. E. Strong was released in fair
condition" according to the notifi-
cation reaching his brother, Walter
Strong. H. E. Strong had been in
the Philippines since the late 1920s,
when he was discharged from the
Coast Guard. He was employed by
a coal company at Baguio and later
by firms in Manila.
Mr. Strong was married in Manila
and his wife and their two daugh-
ters and one son also were interned,
but Walter Strong was informed
that the wife and children were re-
leased from internment part of
the time.
Evening star., 1945-02-21
Tito's Forces Capture
Vital Center in Bosnia

BY the Associated Press.
Marshal Tito's liberation troops
have captured the important high
way center OF Zvornik, In Bosnia
IS miles southwest of Belgrade
after bitter fighting that lasted foI
several days, Yugoslav broadcast
communique recorded by the Fed
|eral Communications Commission
announced today.
Parts of the German 22d Divi-
sion were destroyed in the fighting
and only strong enemy reinforce
ments rushed in at the last moment
saved the remnants from total an
Inhalation, the communique de-
clared.
Casualties suffered by the divi-
sion totaled $500. of whom $500 are
dead, the war bulletin said. In ad-
dition the greater part of its equip
ment was DESTROYED
Evening star., 1945-02-21

and were said to be above average
in classification distribution of per-
sonnet" The War Department led
with the highest number of coioIed
'employes-148, ,608-or 11.8 per cent
of the total of 1,359,548 workers.
The Navy Department employed
76,764 colored workers, or 146 per
cent of its total of 25,140 Though
tagging behind both absolutely and
proportionately," the Office of Price
Administration, War Production
Board and War Manpower Com
mission each employed more than
1000 Negroes.
Among the executive departments
(outSide of War and Navy, the
Treasury reported the largest num-
Der of colored employes-10,457-or
lis per cent of the total of 90,759.
Most of these, however, were con-
centrated in the departmental serv-
ice. where they numbered 8.543, or
27 per cent of a total of 81 644 In
field service, 1914 colored employees
formed only 80 per cent of the
59,115 field employees.
Field Jobs in Minority.
"As has been Indicated" the re-
port declared, field employment of
Negroes in the executive depart
ments group is very poor"
The National War Labor Board
was cited as one of g the, agencies
which, although hiring a relatively
small number. gave their colored
employees better jobs as whole"
In this agency, the report said, TIA
per cent of all Negro workers were
professional and 75.2 per cent were
clerical employees. The remaining
rs per cent were custodial workers.
The WLB, however, employed only
1873 colored workers, but was said to
practice a policy of high seleetivity
in the hiring of Negro personnel"
Other agencies in this group,
which were said to follow similar
pattern, were the OPA, the War
Manpower Commission and War
Production Board.
In the classified civil service,
much of which will survive the war,
the report declared: Negroes are
still below their proportion of 1912
per cent of the working population.
1.-The heavy concentration of
Negroes in unclassifled Service-pro-
duction, construction, crafts and
service wage-earning jobs" the re-
port said, "is explained partly by
the fact that many Government
owned and operated shipyards and
arsenals are in Southern areas,
where Negroes constitute as much
as 81 per cent of the labor force