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Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-06-23
Army To Cut
Meat Buying;
Aid Civilians

Washington, June 23.-(AP)-
The army VIII cut down sharply
on its purchase of meats during the
next sixty days in a government
move TO increase civilian supplies.
Dtsclo, ing rlis today, informed
sources said the armed forces had
re-cXamined their meat supply sit
uation and found it possible to re
uce military buying for a brief
period in order to help relieve
Shortages in the civilian market.
The government previously had
announced that lend-Iease ship
ments of meat viii be suspended
curing the July-September quatrer.
This plan Of reduced military
buying is apparently what PREV
dent Truman had in mind when he
told a news conference at Olympia.
WASH, Thursday that he expected
an Improvement in civilian meat
supplies as Representative Clinton
p. Anderson, New Mexico Demo-
crat, takes over as secretary of
agriculture and war food admins
traitor on July |.
Paving the way for diversion Of
the larger portion of beef produc-
ton into civilian markets, War Food
Administrator Marvin Jones has
tened an order reducing the por-
ton of beef which federally-in-
spected slaughterers must set aside
Tor military and other government
agencies.
This order becomes effective July
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-06-23
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair and warmer tonight;
Sunday partly cloudy and con-
tinued warm.
Eisenhower Plans Holiday
After Return To Capital

whether he might become secretary
of state, Eisenhower SAID:
"Look, I'm in the Federal service
and | take the orders Of my COM
mander-in-chief. All | want Is TO be
a citizen of the United States, and
when the War Department turns me
out to pasture that's all want to be
| want nothing else.
He reiterated: II should like to
make this as emphatic as possible.
There's no use my denying that III
fly to the moon because no one has
suggested il, and | couldn't If |
wanted to. The same goes Tor po-
litics. | am a soldier ana I'm posi-
tive no one thinks OF me as a po-
litician."
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-06-23

Continued on Page TWo.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-06-23
Devastation
AT Okinawa
Is Claimed
Suicide Pilots Are
Active Off Shore
By Day And Night

Guam. June 23.- APP =
Tokyo radio claimed suicide
pilots. continuing attacks which
sank two American ships and
damaged three off OkinaWa the
same day Americans conquered
the island, crashed into at least
twenty more vessels last night
and today.
The oHe.at.#ed enemy broad
cost asserted an mi Identified Allied
#afs"lp Was known te have been
sunk Ill Flltay al9nt's RAID, which
scored considerable Successes"
suicide pilots, returning after
daylight, hit 10 others. Tokyo
SAID including two battlcships.
three destr0yers and II unidcn-
titled vessels.
Latest confirmed enemy air at
ticks began Thursday light and con-
tnuCd until noon Friday. During
these assaults, Admiral Chester MIN
NJ announced. two light naval units
A7tre stink. am auxiliary heavily
damaged and two other craft
slightly damaged.
As American soldiers and Ma
II eIimlN hunted out the last
scattered remnants of japanese
troops, and the stars and Stripes
were raised formally over the
island at 10 a. IN. Friday, the
cn"mN threw in twenty separate
raids in small gr0unS.
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More Crime
Charges Face
Jap General

Manila, Nov. JAP Narcisco
Lspus who freely admitted he was
very friendly with the japanese
during their occupation Of the
Philippines, today accused 1t. Gen.
Tomoyuki Yamashita of having
ordered the islands rid OF Fnipi-
nos before the Americans return.
Lapus testimony, closely linking
Yamashita with atrocities he is
accused OF having condoned by
troops OF his command, came. sur.
prisingly. under cross examination
by the generals sharp-questioning
chief attorney, Col. Harry Clarke.
This is the seventh day OF Yama-
shita's war crimes trial before
L. s. commission OF five generals.
Lapus said that Gen. Artemio
Ricarte, Filipino politico.militarist
TO whom he was private secretary
during. the occupation. appealed
personally to Yamashita four times
to spare Filipino lives but that the
general refused TO modify his order
lie said Ricarte told him after
one conference that Namashita ord.
cred the destruction OF Manila and
other places in the Philippines to
rid the country OF Filipinos The
witness added that Ricarte was
trying to save the country he loved"
when he pleaded with Namashita.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-11-05
F. D. R. FILES OPEN TO COMMITTEE

Washington, Nov. 5-AP- The
late President Roosevelts White
House files bundles each as big
as a bale OF hay--havc been made
available to a Senate-House com.
mittee inQuiring into the Pearl Har.
Dor disaster.
Senator George (D-GaO told
reported today it is his understand
ing that no sestriqtions haze sbesn
placed on The committees looking
over the documents.
Committee members said the
files locked up in a single room
under the custody of Miss Grace
G. Tully, personal secretary to the
late President Miss Tully alone
has the key to the room. they said.
Senator Brewster (R-MeO. com
mittee member. raised the question
last week whether the full Roose.
welt correspondence would be made
ayail9ble. He said ii might be pos
sibie that some Of It would be. re-
garded as personal papers and with
held. But George said he thought
not
The committee has yet to decide,
however, just how far il will try
TO 90 into the Roosevelt records
said to cover the period from 1870
to the late Presidents death.
Chairman Barley D-Ky) said
Stan members have been working
DAY and night hut have not yet
Sec CONGRESS- PAGE I
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Curfew Called
in Palestine

Jerusalem. Nov. 5-AP--A pre-
cautionary dusk -to-dawn curfew
was IN force at Palestine trouble
spots today after a quiet week end
in which there was no recurrence
of last weeks Arab-Jewish disturb
ances
Mai Gen. c. FSLoewen, military
commander OF the northern area,
issued the curfew order II com
manded all persons living in speci'
fed sections between Tel Ayiv and
Haifa as well as residents OF the
Haifa port and refinery areas to
remain indoors between $50 p. m.
and $50 a. m.
The only new incident reported
yesterday occurred when six per
sons were detected tampering with
the ROYAL Navy Depot fence near
Haifa They fled after an inter-
change of shots with guards. There
were no casualties.
4 ConciliatoTy voice was raised
over the week end when Musa Bey.
FL Alami. Palestine delegate TO the
Pan.Arab League. said that the
Arab people would agree TO addi-
tional Jewish immigration into Pal
estine II an impartial United Ma
tions body decided the country's
economy could carry the load and
IL all Allied nations also agreed 10
accept Jewish immigrants.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-11-05
Clio PIcKETS WILLOW RUN PLANT
Local SO Joins
Seniority Fight
Wants Merger

Moving Of machinery from the
Graham Paige Warren Ave. plant
TO the newly acquired Willow Run
Plant was at a standstill today as
a result of strike which started
at the Detroit plant last Tuesday
and moved to the former bomber
plant today as several hundred
pickets in four separate lines BLOCK
ed entrances at the Willow run
plant
Local l42, UAW-CIO. under con-
tract with Graham Paige. began
the strike last week, in an effort
TO insure recognition of seniority
rights when the transition of plants
was finished, and the Kaiser Frazer
Co. begins operations.
Local 80 Joined the lines today
10 f@ht for seniority OF former
Ford workers. John Bateman. I'm
ancial secretary for Local So stated
today they were not lighting for
the right 10 represent the workers
Of the Kaiser Frazer Co. but for
merger OF seniority OF the members
of the two locals.
Only n few Army Air Force men
were allowed entry today at the
plant. All Kaiser Frazer or Ora
ham Paige officials were turned
back by the lines
state Police, who were pstroing
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Miners Three Year
Old Son Still Missing

Downieyille. Calf, Nov. j--AP
Il hone it is kidnapping and that he
is alive and safe-rather than lost
in hose mountains" the gricc
stricken father of Dickie Tum Sud-
en-, 3, exclaimed last night as weary
searchers began TO despair OF lind
ing the child alive.
The father, Joseph tum SUDDEN,
who operates the Brush Creek goll
mine. and other members Of the
family chung to the hdnap theory
as one of the last rays Of hope as
tired searchers and footsore dos
concluded their fourth fruitless day
OF hunting in the towering Sierra
Neyadas.
Blonde. blue-eyed Dickie disap-
peared Thursday from the yard OF
his home at Goodyear Bar
Agents OF the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation were reported at tho
scene
Two Dobermanu pinsCher tral..
ing dogs flown in by the Army.
were unable TO pick up the child's
JIdll yesterday IlOh 4oO'P' mus Va
covered Saturday
Two other dogs. bloodhounds, an
being brought from Ogden, ItaI,
along with their owner John BlacN.
They we're flown to Reno YESTERDAY
in an Army plane and are expected
here early today.
Approximately go soldiers lrohi
Camp Beale, MarysyilIe. are now
aiding civilians woodsmen. towns
people, and forest rangers in ths
search
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-11-05
B-29Failst to
Record

Washington. Nov. 5-AP-A beg.
whose passengers included 1t. Gen.
and Mrs. James H. Doolittle, span
ned the continent in six hours and
80 minutes yesterday SO minutes
short OF the record.
Doolittle said no attempt had
been made to set a record. Then
he added TO reporters:
I'VE just didn't get the predicted
winds
The transcOntinental record T.
six hours and three minutes. II
was set last January by a Boeing
coz, TRANSPORT version Of the B--9.
in a fight from Seattle to Washing
ton.
II was not Doolittle's fastest trip
across the country. He flew a B-29
from Los Angeles 10 Washington
last October in six hours and 10
minutes. That flight. however.
was not officially timed
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-11-05
Theis Arrested on
Staying Warrant

New York, Nov. 5-AP-A 40
hour interval in the activities OF
Larry J. Theis. %. was being check
ed today by police in connection
with an investigation of the slay-
ing OF a 81 year old Army officers
wife near Pontiac. Mich, last week.
Theis, a former Detroit factory
worker. who was arrested here
yesterday. is charged in Michigan
with first degree murder
The body of the victim, Mrs. Al
berta Rose Young. was found float
ing in the Clinton River. near Pom
tiac. last Wednesday.
Detectives said Theis admitted
knowing Mrs. Young. that she had
spent considerable amount Of
money on him and gave him an
automobile. but that he returned
the car after a dispute with the
woman, and signed a note for the
money he had received from her
When Detectives George Mitchell
and Max Sprauer apprehended
Theis in a Forest Hills. Queens
apartment yesterday, they quoted
him as saying:
81 know what you want me for,
but you've got me wrong
Police said that Theis, who was
booked on a fugitive charge, had
agreed to waive cxtradition to Mich
igan
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Reds Prepare
Holiday

Moscow. Nov. > AP The Soviet
Union decked itself in red hunt
ing today as its millions OF citizens.
bound by stronger ties Of patriot
ism than ever before prepared to
celebrate the 2Sth anniversary Of
the October revolution.
The ceremonies are expected TO
begin tomorrow night with a speech
by Generalissimo Stain. who ira
ditiOnally addresses himself to the
Soviet people on tho owe OF the
anniversary.
The celebration commentaries
the Boil heyik uprising which over
threw the Kereinsky government.
and Is called the October reyolu..
ton because. according 10 the
Julian calendar in use i'm 1917. il
took place on oct %. According
to the present calendar the date IA
Nov. :.
The uprising in which the Czarist
government was oyerthrown on
March -. 1917. H. for similar
reason known as the February
revolution"
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Man Knitted
byCeH Mate
inCity Jail

Harry Peck. 413la W Cross St,
while awaiting a hearing scheduled
for this morning in municipal court
on charges of intoxication and dis
orderly conduct, was attacked by
his cell mate, identified by fellow
prisoners as Lewis Bullock, Ann Ar
Dor.
Bullock, armed with q knife con
cealed from the police in their
search before taking him to a cell.
inflicted serious decorations on the
face and hands OF Peck.
Bullock had been arrested Sun
day morning on charges Of intoXica-
ton and disordcrly conduct, and
was also awaiting a hearing.
Witnesses to the conflict. stated
that IL started after Bullock de
See KNIFGNG-Page
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Three Days More For Votes to
Select Queen of Football
Kitchener FavorS
Freedom of Speech
Press in Europe
by ESTHER y. WAGoNEE TIIrY
Washington Core poud,ut

by ESTHER y. WAGoNEE TTTrY
Washington Core poud,ut
Snccial TO Tho Npsilanu Press
Washington. Nov Although
congressman returning from Eu-
rope are critical OF wastnful and
improper management Of I'NRRA
they agree that starvation faces
many European countries unless re.
lief is received from the United
States. SO Earl Kitchener favored
the resolution as AN obligation
rising from typical American in
stincts Of humanity Also. he
recognized the obligation under the
law and under our contract involv-
ing SI3j0000000. on which $3.50
100000 is still due.
He added a caution for careful
scrutiny 10 be given to additional
legislation before new contracts
are entered into and new oblifs-
tons created.
Looking TO future demands for
UNRRA funds, Rep. Kitchener said.
"UNRRA is intended for relief only.
l' - lVl# IultuNfu 10 iNi llNn tue
finances whereby oyeTrun and dew
astated countries are 10 be rehab-
ilitated.
He reminded the House that
generous Uncle sam is contribut-
ing - per cent OF all the money
implementing the UNRRA interna-
tional agreement. He said 5000
employees administered JNRRA
and that there are 1900 operating
in Washington. alone. with more
than 600 i'm London and hundreds
more scattered through Europe.
He fayors more inquiry and moro
regulations placed by the Congress
upon this army OF administrators.
one OF those limitations was in
herent I'm the Brown amendment de
nyinE relief funds TO nations bar
ring American press representa-
tives from reporting on CNRRA
operations
Rep Micheners reaction was
typical o. the Republicans voting
for the appropriation.
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Bond Drive
Rotary Topic

Warren f. Cook, Washtenaw
County chairman for war Bond fl
nancing was the speaker at Rotary
Club today He was introduced hv
Ipsilanti Chairman, ID. " Sill
worth, and both urged the support
Of citizens in this he final bond
drive OF the war.
A picture short. depic diff
'cultles encountered by a service
man who had lost both hands. CAV ,
visual argument for the psrticipa.
ton by every citizen Of the gov
ernments financing problem. Tho
rehabilitation OF men injured =
one OF the large Items in Treas
ury Department needs.
Washtenaw County is one OF thu
:our large counties which met is
heavy + bond quota in the last o.
eth War Loan. Oversubscription IN
bond campaigns is regular proceed
IRE in this county. Dexter was one
Of -four towns in the nation % eN-
coed bond quotas before noon on
the opening day.
Robert Johnston. 10th Air Force.
See ROTARN-paPa
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Search For
OF
Plane Crash

Honolulu. Nov. 5-AP-Seyer
ships and six airplanes searched
the Pacific Ocean $50 miles east OF
here today for II men and a woman
missing IN the forced landing at
sea Of an ATC Liberator Saturday.
Meanwhile, Two escort carriers
steamed toward Honolulu with 90
survivors OF the forced landing OF
Pan.American Honolulu clipper
and with eight survivors and the
bodies OF seven victims-one
woman-of the crashed LiberatOr.
Capt. S. f. Robbins of Palo Alto.
the clippers pilot. made such
"mastcrful landing" on the smooth
Pacific after two OF his planes
engines failed that none o; The 10
crewmen and - passengers was
injured. They were picked up a few
hours later by a merchant tanker
the EuClewOOd Hills. which trans
terred them to the baby flattop,
Manila Bay. for the voyage back TO
Honolulu-6oo miles distant. The
clipper was being toVed TO Homo
lulu.
The clippers passengers included
IL naval officers and two civilian
technicians.
y Capts-EIssd~C. Richards. San Fran :
cisco plotting another clipper which
left Honolulu 80 minutes after Rob.
bins circled the downed seaplane
for five hours until the Engle wood
Hills came TO the rescue. The
forced landing was made in pre-
down darkness. Richards, having
consumed much Of his gasoline in
his vigil. returned to Honolulu with
his eight passengers.
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Chungking. Nov. 5-AP - The
new China Daily News, Chinese
Communist newspaper today ac-
cused American Marines with posi-
lively" participating in armed inter
vention in China's undcclarcd civil
war.
American Marines at Chinwang
tao in cooperation with Kuomin.
tang troops attacked Communist
liberated areas for days" said a
dispatch from one of the newspa.
per's correspondents
ION oct 80 contingent Of
American Marines and troops be.
longing TO the Kuomintang (Naion.
al government Gath Army attack.
cd and occupied point near Shan
haikwan Uinyul. The Americans
disarmed Is Communist guerrillas."
ChinwangtaO. where Vice Adm.
Daniel Barbey's L. S. Seventh Am
phibious Force recently landed Ma
tional troops, and Shanhaikwan are
on the Gulf Of Chilli about $50
miles northeast of Tientsin
"KuomintanG troops were trans.
ported I'm American vehicles 10
launch the attack on Shanhaik.
wan" the dispatch continued.
"On oct. II American and Chi.
nesc forces from Chinwangtao dt-
tackled Pehtaiho and machine
gunned us. Our casualties were
heavy and we were forced to with
draw from Pehtaiho."
Around 10000 L. S. Marines have
been stationed in'the Tientsin .f'eips
ing area OF North China to aid Ma.
tionaiist forces OF Generalissinio
Chang Kai-shek IN dlsarmlng Jan
anese forces. and in policing until
Chang can move in reinforce
ments 49,
American officials have emphasiz-
ed that the Marines have been
ordered TO stand clear OF China's
civil strife and take no sides.
Omcial reports reaching Chung
See CHTNA-pane
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USSR Radio
"a b93E1f
Broadcastss':.l.,
Accusatlo

London, Nov. -AP-The Mos
COW radio today broadcast an at
tack upon American Isolationists"
and accused them of being "oriei-
majors OF the idea Of using econom-
ic and military might as a means of
cxerting pressure on other coun-
tries
Former President Herbert Hooy-
er and Senators Robert A. Taft (R-
Ohio and Burton X. Wheeler ID
Mont.) were singled out for spe-
cial mention.
The American isolationists Taft
and Wheeler have tried to take
advantage of discussion OF inter
national problems for their own
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-11-05
British Hold
Naval Base

Batavia Nov. -AP Sporadic
fighting flarcd anew in the north.
ern section of Batavia during the
night as newly arrived British rein
forcements maintained a firm hold
on the situation al the important
Soerabaio naval base.
A British communique said In
donesian extremists and Dutch
troops were involved in the fight
ing here, which broke out when
two grenadcs We're hurled into the
Dutch.guardcd area around the no.
tel Des Indies.
nofficial reports said the Dutch
had fired by mistake on a detach-
ment Of scafOrth HiChlanders which
was sent TO the spot 10 investigate.
wounding a Highland major The
incident was not mentioned in the
British communique.
4 British Signal Corps detach.
ment also was reported TO have
been fired at from a passing We
hicle. the driver OF which was shot
The sound Of desultory firing
still was audible in the northern
part OF the city this morning.
The communique described the
situation elsewhere in Java as quiet
during the past - hours. but &C
knowledged that it was tense"
In Soerabaja troops OF the 9Th
and 123rd Indian infantry brigades
landed during the week end, bring.
ing TO q total OF five battalions the
number OF recently arrived rein
forCemeuts.
Raj Mosquitoes and Thunderbolts,
dispatched on reconnaissance mis-
>ions over GENITAL Java. reported
the populscc was massinc for pop
ular meetings apparently concen-
trated in the Jogiakarta area where
lndOnesian troops previously were
said 10 be assembling.
For sale 81 . pass. Ford Couue
Also four tires like new 6o0Xl6. s3i
L.
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II. s. WEATHER FORECAST

Lower Michigan Partly cloudy
tonight Warmer in South. Tues
day mostly cloudy with rain or
snow in North and Central portions
in afternoon or night.
Highest temperature yesterday,
81: lowest. -. Highest tempera-
ture one year ago today, ~; lowest,
IS. Highest temperature this date
in last % years. s. in 1924; lowest,
p in 1905.
The sun sets today at sci y. m.
and rises Tuesday at Ill a. m. The
moon sets today at G.02 p. m. and
rises Tuesday at SIS a. m.
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MOSCOW -AP- The Soviet
sponsored National Committee Of
Free Germany and the Union Of
German Officers have been dissolv-
ed, the government newspaper IL
Nestia has announced. The Free
Germany Committee was organized
in July, l943. The Officers group
was set up two months later and
included many high German off
GERS captured by the Red Army,
including Gen. Friedrich Won Pau
lus, Nazi commander at Stalingrad.
During the war both groups called
for the Germans to overthrow Hit
Ter.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-11-05
More Gifts For
Community Fund
Being Received

Additional subscriptions Tor
s275.5O were reported up to th s
morning. according TO an snnounr'-
ment by Paul Uugrodt. manager or
the War Chest and Community
Fund campaign. Leaders in sp.-
cial gifts will meet Tuesday mor'-
ing to rc-canvass the list and Try
to bring contributions up TO a fig
urp near the goal
The loss is TOO great said Dan
r Quirk. head Of the campaign.
We simply cannot ask agencies
to take a cut so large that the
work will suffer. We are going 10
find people who will increase their
subscriptions and contact others
who have not yet contributed.
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u. s. Marines Said Attacking Reds
Peace
Offer Rejected
BY Communists

chungkIng, Nov. 5-lNs-A Lon
don radio broadcast heard by NBC
said that American planes patrol
ling a 6o-mile stretch OF the Peip-
ing Tientsin railroad have dropped
central government paratroopers
into the area Of civil strife.
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AUCTION CALENDAR

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER Sat II
O'clock at io435 Warner Road
or miles Northwest Of Milan or
miles Southeast Of Saline J. Il.
Bird, Proprietor. Guy 2. Thomp.
son. Auetioneer. Ben Simons.
Clerk. ADV. lll2
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Congress Today

tBy Associated rressJ
Senate
In recess until Tuesday noon.
Civil Service Committee consid-
ers federal pay raise bill.
Military subcommittee hears
Surplus Property Administrator
Symington and others on iron and
steel plant disposal
Special Atomic Energy Commit.
tee holds organizing session.
House
Routine session.
Supreme Court
Opinion dav session
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WASHlNGToN-UP- Some
125 Liberty ships will sail from
the v. S. 10 France this month
with more than i,o0o,o 900 tons
Of French purchases In food,
cotton, steel and other sorely
needed supplies. II was learned
today. American officials eS-
peet this rate Of delivery to con-
tinue-and probably increase
comprise a substantial part Of
the shipments.