Detroit evening times., June 16, 1942, NIGHT EDITION, Image 1

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PAY DAY
BOND DAY
U. $. FLIERS BLAST ITALIANS
IN MEDITERRANEAN BATTLE
Cowan Ousted by Governor
Auditor Meld
Convicted ot
Misfeasance
Van Wagoner Acts
on Testimony Taken
at Ferguson Hearing
Removal of John C. Cowan as*
Wayne County auditor was or
dered today by Gov. Murray D.
Van Wagoner,
The governor acted on ouster
hearing findings o< Judge Maurice
E. Tripp, brought by petition of
grand Jury Judge Homer Fer
guson for Cowan's removal.
Governor Van Wagoner said:
“There Is little If any differ
ence In the conduct of auditors
Cowan (Edward II ). Williams
and (Ray D.) Schneider. If one
Is guilty, all are guilty.’*
Williams is now under sentence
In Jackson prison for graft as a
county auditor. Schneider is fac
ing charges.
ft ACTS OF MISFEASANCE'
Cowan was charged by Judge,
Ferguson with five acts of mis- (
feasance in office:
I—Selling tickets for moon
light rides to county employes -
and vendors of the county and
accepting substantial contribu
tions from those vendors.
2 Corrupt practices in hos- i
pitali/ation of county patients.
3 -Diversion of county - paid ,
services and county-owned equip
ment for his personal use.
4 Surrendering Jud g m ent
and discretion over county
affairs.
5 Illegal and negligent plac
ing of insurance on county
owned property.
At the time the ouster of Cowan
was announced by the governor in
Lansing. Cowan was sitting as
chairman of the board of auditors
in his Detroit office. He is the
only Republican member of the
board.
The ouster hearing against
Cowan began March 19 and con
cluded May 8. Judge Tripp, a pro
bate judge from Adrian, forwarded
4 transcript of the testimony to
the governor for decision.
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Blast 6 Jap
Warships
Off Alaska
By BAN DOR 8. KLEIN
l atted Prm Staff Cirnipwlwi
WASHINGTON, June 16.-A
ihird great naval-air battle in the
Pacific within six weeks is in
progress today off the Aleutian;
Islands.
American airmen—both army
and navy—have damaged at least
six Japanese vessels, possibly,
seven, and have sunk a cruiser.
One of the damaged vessels wasi
an aircraft carrier.
The battle apparently has been
going on intermittently since
Japanese bombers attacked the 1
naval base at Dutch Harbor June
3. Admiral Ernest J. King said
on June 7 that a battle was going
on in that area but that the sit
uation was obscure. Last week the
Japanese landed on one of the
Aleutian Islands, the archipelago
extending westward from Alaska.
VERSIONS DIFFER
Only fragmentary reports on
the Aleutian area have been re
leased and they are confused now
by different versions by the army]
and navy of the damage inflicted
on the enemy.
The navy version—army and
navy airmen have damaged at
least three cruisers, one destroyer,
one gunboat and one transport,
“some of them severely.”
The army version—Lieut. Gen.
Henry H. Arnold, air corps chief,
said in a telegram to the Glenn
L. Martin Company,-aircraft man
ufacturers. that army medium
bombers attacked the Japanese
task force in the Aleutians three
times, sinking a cruiser and scor
ing three torpedo hits on an air
craft carrier.
ONLY PLANES IN ACTION
A navy spokesman, commenting
on Arnold’s message, said the full
extent of the navy department’s
“accurate information” to this
time was contained in its com
munique. There was a possibility
that the sunken cruiser Arnold
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33 Walkers Ticketed
Eight Motorists Also Cited for Violating New City
Pedestrian Protection Law on First Day
Of the hundreds of thousands of
Detroiters who crossed the city’s
streets during the first 24 hours in
which the new pedestrian-protec
tive ordinance was effective, only
33 were given violations tickets,
the police department stated to
day.
From midnight Sunday until
midnight yesterday. 41 tickets
were issued, eight of them to
motorists.
The heart of the ordinance Is Its
provision that pedestrians cannot
interfere with traffic and a ma
jority of the 33 tickets concerned
violations of this type.
One ticket was issued to a
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|42ND YEAR, NO. 259
British Yield
Base. Dig In
Near Tobruk
Coastal El Gazala
Abandoned; Ritchie
Keeps Army Intact
By LEON KAY
I iU«4 Pitm Sta* Cwwpwtm
CAIRO. June 16 (UP).— The
British today acknowledged the
loss of El Gazala, most advanced
point of their Libyan Desert de
fense line, after **a magnificent
fight by our troops’* who eluded
an Axis trap and fell back for a
do-or-die defense of Tobruk.
Gen. Nell M. Ritchie’s eighth
imperial army forces around EU
Gazala on the coast 40 mile* west
of Tobruk, including South Afri
can infantrymen and British
troops fell back to a small arc
of defense almost on Tobruk’s
doorstep. .
Although El Gazala was lost,
Gen. Erwin Rommel’s hopes of
splitting and inflicting disaster
upon the British imperials by
means of a slashing drive to the
Mediterranean coast between To
bruk and El Gazala were shat
tered. it was stated officially.
DENY BRITISH TRAPPED
Axis claims that large British
forces were trapped in the El Ga- 1
zala region were denied at Brit
ish general headquarters here.
After the successful withdrawal
from El Gazala the British threw
up a new defense line w’est and
southwest of Tobruk, where an
imperial garrison held out against
Rommel for seven months last
year and finally succeeded in
breaking the trap.
Strong points of the new British
defenses are AcromH. 13 miles
west of Tdbruk. and El Adem, 15
miles south.
MAY SIDESTEP TOBRCK
Front line advices said that thus
far Rommel has made no move to
;assault the perimeter defenses of
[Tobruk itself/ indicating that he
'may attempt to invest and sweep
around Tobruk in an effort to
reach the Egyptian border, 90
Smiles eastward.
The British imperials withdrew
not only from El Gazala but also
from the Knightsbridge desert
crossroads 28 miles southwest of
Tobruk, scene of some of the bit
terest fighting of the entire desert
war.
pedestrian who walked against a
red light, causing an accident.
The policemen who handed out
the tickets reported that the
recipients accepted them grace
fully. Some, in fact, seemed to
take the view that being ticketed
for walking was amusing and
worth the amount of the fine.
The greatest improvement from
the standpoint of pedestrians was
in the behavior of motorists
making right and left turns. Most
motorists waited courteously and
legally until the pedestrians
reached a neutral corner.
The pedestrians returned the
courtesy by waiting for green
lights.
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UNITED STATES SOLDIERS WHILING AWAY THEIR TIME BEFORE DISEMBARKING
. . , this is part of the largest American convoy to cross the Atlantic; not a man was lost . . .
Tigers, Yankees
In Twilight Bill
DETROIT NEW YORK
Hitchcock, ss Crosetti, 3h
McCosky. If Hassett, lb
Cramer, cf Henrich, rs
York, lb DiMaggio, cf
Harris, rs Keller. If
Higgins, 3b Gordon, 2b
Bloodworth. 2b Rizzuto, ss
Tebbetts, c Kearae, e
Benton and Donald and
Newhouser, p Chandler, p
By LEO MACDONELL
A 1 Benton and Harold New
houser will pitch for the Tigers
against the Yankees in a double
header at Briggs Stadium today.
Alley Donald and Spud Chandler
are expected to pitch for New
York.
The first game will start at 3
o’clock instead of the usual 1:30
time for twin hills.
The innovation is being intro
duced to give the Tiger manage
ment an idea of whether or not
fans here want .twilight ball.
The second game is expected to
get under way around 5:15 o'clock.
TODAY—In the Times
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War Hero Day Here
Detroit Will Stage Huge Parade Down Woodward
to Public Rally in Briggs Stadium at 8 P. M.
The heroes who wield the'
weapons of war tomorrow wilt
meet the men and women who
make their weapons.
In celebration of the event. De
troit is staging what is expected
to he its greatest wartime parade.
At dusk down Woodward ave
nue and out to Briggs Stadium
will roll the Michigan-made ele
ments which now comprise the
Allied Nations war machine.
Leading the parade of might
Herop ** Time
The only two general public
appearances of the heroes in De
troit will be in the parade and at
the rally.
The parade starts at 6:30 p. m.,
Wednesday, at Peterboro street,
'moving down Woodward avenue to
Park, west on Park to Bagley and
i finally west on Michigan avenue to
Briggs Stadium
The rally will be held at 8
p. m. at the Stadium. Here the
i heroes will be introduced and will
i greet the public.
will be a representative group of
14 British and American youths
whose feats have branded them
war heroes.
They are being brought here by
the United States treasury depart
ment as part of a nation-wide
campaign to spur the selling of
war bonds.
Detroit will be reminded of this
when the distinguished guests are
introduced at the vast public rally
which is expected to attract more
than 53,000 persons to Briggs
Stadium at 8 p. m.
THREE CENTS
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Thousands more are expected to
line the route of the two-hour-long
parade which will display before
the populace practically every
Michigan forged war weapon
which is not a closely guarded
military secret.
GREAT ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN
Thundering along under its own
power in the procession will be a
90 mm. anti-aircraft cannon capa
ble of shooting shells 30,000 feet
into the sky. Mounts for this gun
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John W. Smith's
Condition Grave
The condition of Council Pres
ident John W. Smith, hospitalized
tin the Detroit Tuberculosis Sana
torium. is “dangerously serious,"
.Dr. Stuart Wilson reported today.
Smith weakened and his pulse
increased yesterday. Wilson said.
The councilman’s illness followed
the recent deaths of his wife and
his daughter. Mrs. Dorothy Faust.
His son, John Jr., is a patient at
Herman Keifer Hospital.
60,000 Jews Killed
Women and Children Hauled to Execution at
Vilna by Truckload, Traveler Declares
LONDON. June 16 (INS).—
The Evening Standard reported
today in a dispatch from Stock
holm that 60.000 Jews at Vilna
had been executed between May 7
and May 20 by German-controlled
Lithuanian police.
The report of the execution*
A U. S. ARMY
GAME IN AN
IRISH PORT
63 Indicted Mere
In Lottery Quiz
Sixty-three persons accused of
operating a $7,500,000 lottery and
policy monopoly in several states
were indicted today by a federal
grand jury here, according to
United States District Attorney
John C. Lehr.
Sixteen of the 63 were also
named in an indictment charging
iconspiracy to violate the postal
laws.
After listing the names of nine
men, one from New Jersey and
eight from Illinois, the indictment
states.
“The ABU Sale* Company con
trolled by the above, exerclaed a
monopoly on lotteries In certain
state*. The mall fraud indict
ment arises out of the conduct
ing of the Republic of Cuba
Hospital Fund lottery, which
orglnated In Havana. Cuba.
“The lottery was a fraud In
that It represented that $65,300
was to he paid In prises, whereas
only $32,000 was paid. The lot
tery was conducted through the
distribution of lottery voucher*.
Ticket* were to be Issued later
by name. Three million vouch
ers were distributed at a coat of
$2.30 each."
was brought by an unidentified
traveler arriving in Stockholm
from Vilna. He said men, women
and children were taken into the
Ponary suburbs each night dur
ing the May 7-20 period and ma
chine-gunned to death.
NIGHT]
EDITION
COMPLETE WANT ADS
Yanks, RAF
Hit 'Several'
Big Warships
Axis Radio Claims
Many British Ships
Sunk in 2 Convoys
CAIRO, June 16 (UP).—-Unit*
of the United States Army air
corps and British planes have been
engaged in support of British
naval operations in the central and
eastern Mediterranean in the last
four days, it was revealed tonight.
(The “naval operations’* re
ferred to undoubtedly were the
big Mediterranean naval • air
battle described by the Italian
and German high commands,
which claimed that 20 to 30
Allied ships had been sunk or
damaged.)
HIT ITALIAN FLEET
It was disclosed that yesterday
morning the Italian fleet was at
tacked by American-made Liber
ator four-motor bombers (Consoli
dated B-245), mostly manned by
American pilots.
Several hits were scored on the
Italian battleships, it was stated.
By SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS
liiM PreM Staff formpoMmi
LONDON. June 16.—The Axis
claimed today to have sunk or
damaged 20 to 30 British warships
and merchantmen and admitted
loss of three Italian warships
sunk or damaged in a great Med
iterranean battle “in which United
States warships probably” partfci
peted.
Two Allied convoys—one mov
ing west from Alexandria and the
other east from Gibraltar—were
attacked by Axis warships, sub
marines and airplanes in a three
day battle which ended Monday
evening, according to the Rome
and Berlin radios.
ALWAYS EXTRAVAGANT
British sources refused com*
ment except that the London radio
recalled that Italian naval claims
"always have been well wide of
the mark."
“The convoy en route from
Alexandria to Malta consisted of
II freighters convoked by 41 oa*
rort vessels, probably Including
a United States battleship, eight*
cruisers snd other naval units,**
the Berlin radio said, quoting a
Trans-Ocean Agency dispatch
from Rome.
CLAIMS VAGUE
The Axis reports said that both
convoys were headed for Malta
and that both were broken up and,
except for a few ships, forced to
turn back.
These claims, however, were
vague, and a general belief pre
vailed that the operations were
much more important from the
Allied viewpoint and closely con
nected with the lighting in the
Libyan desert.
The Italian communiques of
Monday and today were overlap
ping and apparently intentionally
confusing, making it difficult to
determine even the Axis clatafld
regarding the two Mediterranean
convoys.
In the past admiralty com*
muniques have completely ex*
ploded Italian claims.
Today Jhe_lt Allan command, fof*
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King Guitaf 84 Today / s
STOCKHOLM. June 18 <UP).-«
King Gustaf V celebrated hit
eighty-fourth birthday feed ay.