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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22
Marines Pouring Onto Two
Mine Fields
Checking
Yanks
(By the Associated Press

Veterans of the Third Marine Di-
vision poured into the almost stale
mated and costly battle for Two
Island today. while Dismounted
L. 5. Cavalrymen fought room-by-
room for possession Of the Manila
Hotel in the deadliest battle raging
in the Philippines.
Counterbalancing these grim
scenes were victorious reports. from
Gen. Douglas Macarthur that his
toric Bataan has been recaptured
and the Japanese garrison on Cor
regidor practically destroyed.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an
nounced the Third Division Mar
ines. veterans Of the Solomons and
Guam, were rushed into battle for
Two after japanese defenders
checked the advance OF the Fourth
and Fifth Marine Divisions across
exposed mine fields.
Guam dispatches reported Ma
rine casualties on the airbase
island $50 miles south OF Tokyo
were in the neighborhood of 5000,
about twice the price paid for
Tarawa. That's more than 1000
above yesterdays official figure and
h" the more than 10000 claim
ed by Tokyo radio.
Make No Gain
Nimitz announced last night that
Marines, facing intense mortar,
artillery and small arms fire.. had
made no appreciable gain.
He estimated the enemy garri-
son at 10000, An incomplete count
showed $50 dead.
Thick mine fields slowed the
Yank attack on fortress-like Surf
bachi Volcano on the southern TIT
OF the island where tanks and
fiamefhrowers spearneaded the as
sault.
Bitter building by building, floor
, by floor. and room by room bat
ties were developing around the
ancient walled city in southern
| Manila.
Japs Upstairs
Dismounted First Division Caval
rymen captured the first floor OF
the famed Manila Hotel yesterday
and spent most Of the night fight
| ing up the stairway TO the second
floor. At daybreak the fight spread
down the second floor, with the
enemy still in full control OF the
upper floors.
Macarthur reported American
patrols have Combed Bataan on the
northern shores Of Manila Bay and
mo living japanese soldier car
be found.
Blow Selves Up
| Seventeen hundred enemy dead
have been counted on Corregidol
so far. An untold number. sealed
ZIP in the tunnels OF the island
. fortress at the entrance Of Manila
Bay. touched off their main ammu
/ nj on dump and blew themselves
up. Survivors are being burned
out Of caves.
-nconfirmed Tokyo claims said a
Nipponese submarine sank al
! American cruiser in the Philippine
and suicide pilots destroyed two
aircraft carriers off Two.
Tokyo newspapers we're quoted
as warning that since the invasion
OF the Volcano Islands Japan il
exposed to danger. too
American-led Chinese troops II
North Burma recaptured the rich
Baldwin silver and lead mines ..
miles north OF Lashio. The Japa
nese gave up the mines almos'
without a fight although they ar
capable Of producing enough Lead
to supply the entire Nipponese wal
machine.
Tanks aided Indian troops in
Central Burma in expanding their
Irrawaddy River bridgeheads or
either side OF Msndalay about ~
miles to the north and IS miles e
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22
AUCTION CALENDAR

SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 24-t:oo
o'clock sharp. at e7o5 Whitaker
I'd, miles south OF Ypsilanti, or
~ miles North Of Whitaker or
Y, mile South Of Lincoln School.
Erwin A. kreaeer. Proprietor;
Earl Wright. Auetioneer; orrie
Vcdder, Clerk. Adv. 2s3
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22
U. S. WEATHER FORECAST

Lower Michigan: Snow flurries
tonight and Friday. Colder tonight
and Friday. Colder tonight. Little
change Friday. Strong winds dim
inishing.
Highest temperature yesterday.
Al: lowest last night "a.
Highest temperature one year ago
today. 81: lowest. IS.
Highest temperature this date IN
last 70 years, s. in 1880: lowest 3
in 1907.
The sun sets today at 7:13 and
rises Friday at sic.
The moon rises today at 5:0i p.
m. and sets Friday at 6:24 a. m.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22

LONDON AP The condition o.
David Lloyd George. who has
been seriously so az his home in
North. wales. had so improved last
night that his physician said he
probably would issue no further
bulletins. The S2.yearold states
man sat up for a time yesterday In
his room overlooking Cardigan Bay
and was said 10 have had a com
Portable da!.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22

LONDON-lNS - Further evil
dence Of the seriousness of current
unrest in Germany was reported to-
day by the German Freedom radio.
The anti.Nazi transmitter reported
Adolf Hitler has decided to call the
Reichstag into session soon to de-
mand a vote OF confidence and for
continuation OF the war.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22
Jury Record
Issue

Lansing, Feb, % -AP - The
house OF representatives today
faced further debate on whether II
should delegate to itself or the au-
ditor general power to pry into sec
ret records OF the Carr grand
jury to determine whether any
present legislators have confessed
TO taking graft
Rep. Jack Ellstein. Detroit Dem.
ocrat, serving his first term in the
legislature Wednesday told col
leagues in floor debate that he and
other first termers experience "a
feeling Of something existing here
=something wrong. n there
are some guilty people here yet, we
ought 10 let everybody know
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22
Flashes of
Late News

MISUNDERSTANDING. Lea
(D-Calif). disclosed today that the
House Interstate and Foreign Com
merce Committee Of which he Is
chairman will consider legislation
aimed at curbing the activities Of
James {. Petrillo, president OF the
American Federation OF Musicians.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22

LONDON 49, ms The British
House of Commons was called upon
today to give its approval to the
declaration of joint policy issued
by the Big Three at Yalta. Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden submit
ted a confidence motion which
would put the House of Commons
on record as agreeing that This
House approves the declaration OF
joint policy. of the Crimea con-
ference and in particular welcomes
the determination to maintain unity
of action not only in achieving the
final defeat of the common enemy
hut thereafter in peace as in war"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22

JERSEY CITY, n. J.-lNS-With
the monotony, boredom and hard.
ships OF German prison and intern
ment camps far behind them, 1909
repatrioates brought to a precious
American freedom by the mercy
ship Gripsholm set out today on the
last lap of their long journey home.
Group by group they came ashore
after passing through security
screening and other necessary Of
fetal processing and began to eX.
plore a freshly recapturcd way Of
life.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22
Senate RalkR

Lansing. Feb. % -AP-The sen.
ate baked temporarily Thursday
at a proposal TO give county
shcriffs more money with which TO
enforce liquor laws.
The measure would place 90 per
cent OF liquor license fee refunds
10 each village or township in the
hands OF the sheriff 10 pay for Of
ficers TO enforce the liquor laws in
those areas. which usually lack full
time policemen. Eighty-hye per
cent Of license fees are rebated
now to the local communities. os
tensibly TO finance law enforcement
but actually without any legal
strings attached
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22

PITTSBURGH AP- A walkout
halted all production today at the
huge Pittsburgh works of the
Jones and Laughlin Steel Coorp..
despite a back-to-work order by
CIO President Philip Murray. Some
$500 Steelworkers Union (ClO)
members were idle, some because
OF an overtime grievance.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22

NEWARK, y. j. AP-- Carl
Emil Ludwig Krepper, former min
lister, was conovicted by a federal
court jury last night after two
hours deliberations on charges of
conspiracy to obstruct, interfere
with and injure the defense of the
United States.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22

Observation-Disclosures Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee
will report favorably on the L. s.
Mexican water treaty tomorrow
canvass of the committee indicat.
cd today. A roll OF the commit
tee showed that nine Of the 23
members are definitely pledged for
The treaty. while four are lean.
ing toward approval.
ZURICH-INS-Refugees arriv-
ing from Austria said today that
Vienna is bustling with prepare
tions to defend the bomb-torn Aus
trian capital from the approaching
Russians. The Gestapo was re-
tported arresting all Austrians sus-
pected OF harboring peace senti-
ments.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22

ACCOMPLISHMENTS on
new American reports concerning
8 state visit by President Roose-
Welt to London this spring. United
states embassy Official declared to-
day that at is anybody's guess
we do not know a thing about it,
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22

CHICAGO-AP - The Army S
Gardiner Central Hospital here dis
closed today that Pfc. Henry Room
OF Grand Rapids, Mich, has sur
vived a battlefront operation in
which a fountainpen was inserted
in his windpipe after German
shrapnel had pierced his throat.
Room has been permitted TO take a
short leave at home, but will re-
turn here later for an operation to
remove the shrapnel.
NEW YORK-INS-Five thou
sand. New York City night club
employees ranging from star to
stagchand were out of work today
as the result of the midnight cur
few ordered by War Mobilization
Director James F. Byrnes. Night
club owners, who termed the cur
few effective Monday night AN act
of God, were prepared ito go into
court to uphold cancellation of
contracts, a spokesman said.
OttIOANO- l4No - new OlltdHS
authorities joined today with Chi
cago police in the search for a
man who is believed to have been
involved in both Of two mysterious
hotel bathtub deaths Of women.
one in Chicago and the other in
New Orleans. The women died in
strikingly similar circumstances.
Each had shared a hotel room with
= man, who checked out OF the re-
spectiye hotels some time before
his companions body was found in
the bathtub by hotel employees.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22

See WATER Page 8
Evening star., 1945-04-20
District Man Weds Navy Nurse
He Met in jap Prison Camp

on Wednesday. His bride will come
here soon for a visit and then, at
the expiration Of her 90-day leave.
will return to her Navy duties.
Mr.. Nelson, 26, was interned in
Manila where he was serving as a
member of the Foreign Funds Con-
troll of the Treasury Department.
He went there in the summer of
l94l when Japanese funds in United
States jurisdiction had been frozen
and were subject to license
At first Mr.. Nelson and the group
he was with were given diplomatic
status, but in the fall Of 1912 they
were transferred to Santo Tomas
from a Manila residence. Then, in
May, l943, he was one of a group
of 800 younger men moved to Los
Banos to the grounds of the Agri-
cultural College.
1t was pleasanter at Los Banos
than at Santo Tomas. Mr.. Nelson
had an impression of open country,
despite the double barbed wire fence
which surrounded the crowded bam-
boo shacks with thatched roofs
which served as barracks
The camp population at the end
was $500, including about 300
women, one of whom was 1t. Har-
rington, who likewise was moved
there from Santo Tomas
Evening star., 1945-04-20
Douglas Will Speak
|At Peace Memorial
To Roosevelt Sunday

Supreme Court Justice Douglas
will deliver the principal address
Sunday at a meeting which will
memorialize President Roosevelt
and which also will be a citizens
dedication to lasting peace.
K The meeting, set for pm. on
the Monument Grounds, Is spon-
sored by Washington civic and re-
ligious groups. 1t will be the first
of series of similar gatherings
to be held throughout the country
in support OF the United Nations
Conference in San Francisco.
Mr.. Roosevelt's appeal for a work.
able peace. which was to have been
made in his Jefferson day address,
will be delivered by Cornelia Otis
Skinner. the noted actress. Dorothy
Maynor, colored concert singer, will
sing.
The Rev. Paul McNally, S. j., vice
president OF Georgetown University
will preside. Rabbi Norman Gersten-
field OF the Washington Hebrew
Congregation will offer the invoca- A.
ton and DR.. Frederick E. Reissig
executive director of the Federation
OF Churches, will give the benedic-
ton.
There will be a preliminary con-
cert at 3:45 pm. by the Marine
Band,
Evening star., 1945-04-20
Goren and SiIodor Enter
National Bridge Finals

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. april 20.-The
Harold S. Vanderbilt Trophy tour
nament for the Nations champion
ship contract bridge knockout team
of four entered its final stages today
with only four teams left in the
contest.
In last nights play. the present
titleholders, Charles H. Goren and
Sidney Silodor of Philadelphia and
Mrs. A. M. Sobel and B. j. Becker,
New York, won their match by 2,24O
points. David B. Clarren. st. Paul,
Mimi. and Albert Weiss, Jules Bank
and William McGhee of Chicago,
won their match by 300 points.
These two teams were to play
against each other today.
The other two remaining teams
which will compete today are those
of Charles J. Solomon and Mrs. Ben
jamin M. Colder, Philadelphia;
Bertram Lebhar, New Rochelle, N.
Y: Samuel Katz. Millburn, N. j.,
and Peter Leventritt. New York City,
and New Workers Waldemar Won
zedtwitz, Theodore Lightner How
ard Schenken, Edward Hymes, jr.,
and Samuel StaYman.
The tournament ends tomorrow
night
Evening star., 1945-04-20
Godfrey, Once Wineman
For Gentle, Liberated
Py the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
OUTSIDE NUREMBERG, Ger
many, April II Delayed Capt
John Godfrey of Woonsocket, r. l..
former ace of the, United States
8th Air Force with 36 German
planes to his credit, was among a
couple of hundred American prison.
ers liberated from the Langwasser
I'D prison camp near Nuremberg
yesterday
Capt. Godfrey, who destroyed lS
planes in the air and an equal
number on the ground, once was
wingman for Capt. Don S. Cen
tile of Piqua, Ohio. first American
pilot to get 80 kills.
The Rhode Island flyer was
downed late last summer. He was
so eager to get back to his air force
comrades after being liberated yes
terday that he hitched ride out
of the camp on the first ieep that
came along and was not present
when newspapermen arrived.
Evening star., 1945-04-20
Committee Takes Issue
With Truman on Riqhts Bill

The National Committee to De-
feat the Unequal Rights Amend
ment today took issue with state
ment made by President Truman
when he was a Senator, indorsing
the Equal Rights Amendment.
In the letter. made public by the
National Woman's Party, Mr.. Tru-
man said he was in sympathy with
the fight for the amendment be
cause l think it will improve the
standard of living by setting level
on wages equal for both sexes
Miss Mary Anderson. retired chief
of the Labor Department Women's
Bureau and treasurer of the COM
mittee opposing the amendment,
said today the committee was EN-
tirely in agreement with the Presi-
dent as to a high standard of living
and wage rates equal for both
sexes" but added that I'VE are at
variance with the method by which
such benefits can be achieved"
She contended that the amend
ment, rather than achieving equal
pay, would actually take off the
statute books the labor laws for wom-
that have helped to raise their
standard of living. Equal opportu-
mites for women. said Mrs. Ander-
son, were now being put into effect
through State action to cure spe-
cific ills.
Evening star., 1945-04-20
BRETON Woods, Dumbarton
Plans Praised by Hoey

The Breton Woods and Dunbar
ton Oaks plans are in keeping with
the ideals of the founders of This
country, Senator Hoey, Democrat, of
North Carolina declared last night
in talk before members of the
District of Columbia Society, Sons of
the American Revolution.
Senator Hoey discussed details of
both plans and the contemplated
participation of the United States
In world organization. The meet
ing was held at the Mayfiower Hotel.
New officers, headed by Benjamin
d. Hill, the president elect, were in
Quoted. The others are Clifford K.
Bergman, cartoonist of The Star,
senior vice president; DR.. Robert
Scott Lamb, second vice president;
James G.. Hoyt, third vice president;
DR.. Clifton P. Clark, secretary and
registrar Robert D. Brinker, his
torian: John F. Little. librarian; the
Rev. Chauncey C. Day, chaplain,
and Kenneth S. Wales, trustee.
Evening star., 1945-04-20
Norman Thomas Doubts
1ruman's S Grasp Of Issues

Ey the Associated Press
NEW YORK, April 20.-Norman
Thomas. four time Socialist candi-
date for President, said yesterday
that President Truman was "a DO
litical accident" who never had
shown ANY grasp of great political
issues"
Writing in the Socialist weekly,
the Call, Mr.. Thomas said the late
Franklin D. Roosevelt's love of
politics and confidence in himself
as player of the game" were
largely responsible" for President
Truman's elevation. adding:
1T may be argued that Mr.. Roose-
welt was justified by lofty purpose
in taking the risk of running the
fourth time when his health was
so bad, but only if he had concen-
trated all his energy and power in
getting the best possible man as his
proba BILE successor"
The new President, Mr. Thomas
said, is "a political accident. a per-
sonally honest but completely blind
and insensitive henchman of one OF
the worst bosses in recent American
history
Mr.. Truman entered politics un-
der the sponsorship of the late
Kansas City political chieftain, Tom
Pendergast.
Mr.. Thomas said President Tru-
mans first address to Congress was
an attempt at the ''hallowing of all
of Roosevelts policies by death"
He added that there was nothing
wise or holy about unconditional
surrender or the Yalta agreement" +"
Evening star., 1945-04-20
Wallace Placed in Charge
OF Surplus Goods Sales

By the Associated Press.
One of the biggest merchandising
jobs in history has been given to
Henry Wallace.
The Office of Surplus Property,
which sells unneeded war goods of
the consumer type, such as autos,
trucks. tractors. clothing, bandages
and dogs, was shifted from the
Treasury to the Commerce Depart
ment.
This is the first agency to be
transferred to the Commerce De-
partment since Mr.. Wallace became
secretary. 1t adds to his agency
about 1000 employees now and many
more later.
President Truman made the shift
by executive order after the
Surplus Property Board headed
by Guy Gillette designated the Com
merce Department as the disposal
agency for consumer goods. Mr..
Wallace was not available for COM
ment.
Evening star., 1945-04-20
Occupation
Continued From First Page

that he would not be through
until we had occupied all of Ger
many.')
There are not nearly enough
military government teams at hand
Civil law broke down in most towns
when the Nazis departed. for they
held all key jobs. The Germans
left behind often try to solve the
problem of law and order as did
their predecessors-by force-unless
Allied troops are at hand to keep
them in hand.
And troops cannot be spared for
this job. For instance, one COM
bat division overran $50 small
towns in one day. If it had left
four men in each town to preserve
order, a battalion of fighting men
would have been tied up. Besides.
few Doughboys speak German.
Russian or Polish-virtually a pre-
requisite if administration prob
lens are to be handled intelligently
Finding it impossible to do every
thing, the combat troops have done
their best and moved on 1t may be
days later before military govern
ment teams arrive
Much difficulty has been expert
enced because of the lack of suffi-
cient machinery to deal effectively
with the millions of released slave
laborers and prisoners of war. There
is widespread looting not only by
the slave laborers, but also by Ger
mans trying to get their hands on
extra food and clothing for the dark
days ahead.
The aim has been to try to keep
these millions in camps until they
can be dealt with properly But
there is not enough food to feed
them. So they forage-and wander
up and down the highways.
Life is worth nothing. People
die on the road, in barns. in the
fields. in jails. abandoned ware
houses. everywhere. No one bothers
to bury them. No one knows who
they are.
Every type of disease, particularly
typhus, is being carried by these
All wanderers by no means are
men. There are thousands of wom-
en-, mostly girls brought into Ger
many as workers. They usually
form into gangs and plunder so
they can eat.
Evening star., 1945-04-20
39,508,716 Pounds
OF Paper Collected
In District Drive

Reports on the first quarter of
this year, released by the District
Salvage Committee, indicate that
wastepaper collections from all
sources in Washington have totaled
SO, ,508,7l6 pounds.
OF this amount, the Evening Star
PTA program has accounted for
2,923,377 pounds. The District Sal
wage Corps monthly collection pro-
fran produced l,066, 1868 pounds and
the Boy Scout program produced
899. 1872 pounds.
The rest was made up by COM
mercial and charity agencies and
other group collections.
Summarizing last years returns,
the committees report indicated
that The Star-PTA program had a
total of 8,106 ,293 pounds with an
average for the nine months of reg
ular collections of BAL ,269 pounds.
The monthly high was in May with
1,065,5l5 pounds and the low for the
year was in July with 143,067 pounds.
The Salvage Corps figures for
1914 reported 4,485.87l pounds col
lected with a monthly average of
373,822 pounds high in August of
40l, ,46l pounds and low in Janu-
ary of 1913 ,608 pounds.
The Scout program produced O.
1883 pounds in 1914 with a
monthly average of 18l ,579 pounds.
The high was in March, 54,195
pounds and the low was in Novem-
Der. $4,000 pounds.
For the first three months of this
year, The Star-PTA program shows:
January, 896 ,482 pounds; February,
804,755 pounds and March, 1922 ,l40
pounds. This is a gain of $4,000
pounds over the same period of last
year.
The District Salvage Corps for
the same period shows: January
35l ,696 pounds February, $3.50
pounds; March, 377 1922 pounds. The
Boy Scout program produced in
Evening star., 1945-04-20
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Evening star., 1945-04-20
Soldier Admits Perjury,
Divorce Decree Set Aside

Justice Matthew F. MCGUIRE of
District Court yesterday set aside a
divorce decree granted Stephen jeff
CO, 30-year -old Army technician,
last December because the man COM
mitted perjury by falsifying his
place of residence.
Jeffco was indicted on the perjury
charge and on Tuesday was SEN
fenced by Justice T. Alan Colds
borough of District Court to serve
from eight months to two years,
after having pleaded guilty.
His wife, Mrs. Margaret Jeffco.
claimed he had continued to live
with her in the 1900 block of l
street NV. until the time of the
divorce. Mr.. Jeffco had claimed as
his residence an address in the 400
block of Third street NV. The di-
vorce decree had been granted on a
claim of deSertion.
Evening star., 1945-04-20
Hermun's Market Owner
Fined for Short Weiahts

Herman B. Sander, operator of
Herman's Market at HOO New Jersey
avenue Sc, paid $50 in fines In
Municipal Court yesterday after
pleading guilty to four counts OF
short weight before Judge George
D. Nelson.
The charges, involving sales OF
steak, shoulder and sausage. ranged
from a shortage of more than two
ounces in a steak sale to more than
nine ounces in q sausage sale