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VICTORY
\jOvv* uniteo states defense
v u BONDS. STAMPS
42ND YEAR. NO. 320
U. S. Probes
Army Plane's
Fata! Crash
Willow Run Bomber
Explodes, 9 Bodies
Strewn Over 150 Yds.
The army began an investigation
Saturday of the* crash of a four
motored bomber from the Willow
Run airport, which exploded into
flames and plunged rune army
fliers to their dealhs near Hast
ings, Mich.
The pianola B-21 bomber, wn*-
on a routine operation whei
crashed in a cornfield, air force
officers at Willow Run said.
Although they reported that de
tails of the crack-up were not yet
known, early belief whs that unfa
vorable weather and motor trouble
caused the mishap.
Bodies Strewn JSO Yards
Bodies of the four officer* and
five enlisted men were strewn over
a 150-yard area
The ofTiciid army death list fol
low s:
EUGENE C\ KING, second
lieutenant, pilot. Rrawley. Cal.
LEWIS H. TALLEY, second
lientrnaDt, co-pilot, Aledo Tex.
JAMES J. DALEY, second
bputenant, bombardier, Upper
Darby. Pa.— 0
MORRIS E. McCall, second
lirutenant, hnvigator, Esthcr-
Nille. la.
JOHN D. HO'/EN, staff ser
geant, radio operator, Lewis
town. Mont.
GEORGE E STRENGE. cor
poral, engineer, Mountain Lake,
Minn.
ERNEST L. PRATHER* cor- I
poral. assistant engineer, School
field. Ya.
C. SPATARA, private, assist
ant radio operator, Wollsburg,
W. Va.
RAYMOND W, CARRILLION,
private, gunner, Millersburg. O.
The bodies have l>ecn taken to
a Battle Crr« k funeral home.
From sketciiy accounts by wit
nesses. it was apparent that the
pilot had been in trouble for some
time preceding the crash.
Trees Shear Wings
Crowds at the Bnr ry County
Fair Grounds watched the plane
rircie over the brilliant lights
like a giant moth and then head
soyth at low altitude toward Bat
tle Greek.
Its wmg> sheared off by tall
willow trn\> a few minutes later,
the plane hurtled a quarter of a
mile farther and crashed 3<x>
yards from the fann home of G.
W. Proefrock. Burning parts were
scattered ovei five aurs.
Occupants ot the ship appar
ently tried to ball out through
the rear door.
M the scene, where 3.000 on
lookers swarmed within two hours.
Coroner C. I*. Lathrop picked a
coroner's jury of six farmers who
viewed the bodies and recessed
pending an inquest next week.
Ration Stamp Worth
5 Pounds of Sugar
WASHINGTON. Aug. 15 HNS).
- The Office of JTice Administra
tion today announced that ration
stamp No. 8 will be good for the
purchase of five pounds of sugar
during the 10-week jK'riorf begin
ning August I*3 and ending Oc
tober 31.
Ration stamps No. fi and 7 may
each he used for the purchase of
two pounds of sugar until mid
night, Aug'ivt 22.
The Weather
I "Nttra*
Harman
Gardanitas.
look how long
it took to
build th#
| Pyramids.*’
iff .
Smear of War Critics
Condemned by Taft
Freedom of Speech at Stake
Under FBI Methods, He Charges
By nwin CAMELON
I Hill'd t*r*M Staff 1 nrifipmulml
WASHINGTON. Aug. 15.- "A
witch hunt. A smear campaign
I. . ”
Senator Robert A. Taft was
speaking the man who might be
called the “leader of the loyal op
position.”
He was talking with grave con
cern in his rooms in the Senate
office budding. And he said:
“I ani deeply atarmrd by the
growing trend to Nmear loyal j
citizens who are critical of the
national administration, and of
the conduct of the war.”
Senator Taft was weighing his
words carefully. He said:
•‘Something very close to
fanaticism exist* in certain cir-
cle* here. I cannot understand
it—cannot grasp it. But I am
sure of this:
“That freedom of speech itself
Is at stake unless the general
method* pursued by the depart
, rnent of Justice are changed:
C ites Three C ases
of Alarm Trend
: lit cited three instances of the
trend that causes his alarm: One
i' an indictment returned recently
by a federal grand jury in the Dis
trict of Columbia, another is the
.Chicago Tribune case, and the
third lies in speeches of Archibald
MacLeish when he was director
of the division of facts and figure,'
i posed a question to show
what he meant:
“What would you say If, out
■ of a clear sky, some one asked
you If the Hons of the American I
Revolution were disloyal? ir the
descendants of the signers of
the Declaration of lnrie|>cndenrc,
the General Society of May
flower Descendants, snd the
Pollen Count Up,-
Snifflers Snort
Wet Year Is Bad News
for Hay Fever Victims
Friday the pollen count was sfi
Saturday it was 92. If you are
a hay fever 'offerer, the signifi
cance of this need not be explained
Dr. Bruce JI. Douglas, city
health commissioner, predicts that
'the pollen count will he "one hun
dred and plenty" hy Sunday.
• ‘'Recent wet weather has
made rag weed sprout fast." he
explained. "The lnier*j>crsed dry
day* have caused wide distribu
tion of pollen."
In view of the heavy rainfall, he
added, this may be an unusually
good year for hay fever unusu
ally bad for its sufferers.
Quits Laval for De Gaulle
ANKARA, Aug 15 (VP).—
Jean Hellu, former French ambas
sador to Turkey, his wife, and
Georges Ralay, his first secretary,
left for Beirut, Syria, foda\ to
join the fighting French undei
Gen. Charles De Gaulle.
Woman Worker Breaks
Arm Dipping lee Cream
Time* Staff Correspond*nt
LANSING, Aug. 15.—Gleaned
from the hundreds of industrial
accident reports sent to the state
department of labor and industry
for compensation claims, were
these gems:
Dipping a scoop o£ unusually
hard icc cream, a woman clerk
fractured her right arm. •
An exuberant factory worker
slapped a fellow employe on the
Hack. Result: he swallowed a
mouthful of nriils.
A Detroit salesgirl spotted #
shoplifter, started chase, lost her
in »hr crowd. While «he was look
ing under a counter, the shoplifter
returned ♦rid hit her on the head
with a mallet.
Largest Circulation of Any Michigan Newspaper
□ ETROFPWTfM E S
(SUNDAY)
PART ONE
Ladies of the Grand Army of the
Republic had permitted them
selves to he used to corrupt the
American army?
“What would you think If
some one suid that former resi
dents ( alvin Coolidge and Wood
row W ilson had been members
of an unpatriotic organization ?”
J
WhiiL would you .say? Ah*ui<]
.ridiculous, impossible, of course.
'Taft nodded, and said:
“Absurd, yes. Yet that is pre
cisely the charge which the de
partment of justice has brought
against those societies, by Indi
rection and Inference, in an in
dictment on file In the District
of Columbia.”
Indictment Given
Careful Analysis
He turned to the indictment. "It
was released for publication by
Atty. Gen. Francis Biddle on July
23, and charged US persons with:
To interference with, impair and
influence the loyalty, morale and
discipline of the military and naval
forces of the United States in
time of peace before Pearl
Harbor.
To cause insubordination, dis
loyalty, mutiny and refusal of duty
in the mditaiy and naval forces
-irue the war began.
Senator Taft said:
“ \mong the Individuals
who are named as defendants in
Die indictment are a number of
men of known (lermxn connec
tions, and there are also some
other* among those 2H who are
no doubt un-American. To that
extent the indictment command*
the wholehearted approval of
every American.”
‘Among those 28 defendants, he
(< out in tied on Page Eight)
Nazi Sea Raider
Reported Seized
Other Brazil Rumors
Have It Near Capture
nro DF JANEIRO. Aug. 15
'IF 1» Inofficial reports circu
latod-today that a German surface
raider operating in the South At
lantic cither had been raptured
or was dose to being surrounded
hy pursuing force*.
According to these report*, the
Na/i w arship w as discovered about
7.) to 100 miles off the Rrazihan
province of St Catharina and mid
way between Santos and Port
Alegre.
The same sources reported that
the raider was believed to have
refueled from a coastal base, pre
sumably in Brazil.
4
Japs Lose 300 in China
GHVNGKING, Ghina, Aug. 15
ftA Chinese war communi
que today reported that the Japa
nese have suffered 300 casualties
m heavy fighting in western Che
kiang and Kiangsi.
| While unloading a carload of
shotgun shells, a worker playfully
extracted one. placed it on a table
and hit it with a hammer. His
partner was shot in the leg.
A Saginaw mechanic decided to
milk a cow in his garage. The
cow kicked him in the arm. break
ing it.
While shooting rats with a rifle
a factory worker missed, hit a bar
rel; she bullet ricocheted, wounded
another worker in the Irg.
A factory foreman presented the
department with an miury claim
His story: He presented an cm- (
ploye with a discharge slip and'
the employe hit him on the head;
with a shovel.
Only Detroit Newspaper Carrying Both International News Service and United Press
DETROIT. MICHIGAN. SUNDAY. AUGUST 16. 1942
CIO to Appeal
WLB Panel’s
GM Ruling
40c Daily Increase
to Be Opposed in
Hearing for Public
Dissatisfied with the War Labor
Board’s panel recommendation of
a 40 cents a day increase for 225,-
000 General/ Motor* workers.
L’AW-CIO officials will press for
their full demand* before the hoaid
itself they revealed Saturday.
Walter Reuther. director of the
General Motors division of ihe
union, will appear in a public
heating before the full board
probably within two weeks, to de
mand a dollar a day increase and
a union shop in the firm's 95
plants.
Reuther said:
“The proposal of the WLB
panel in the General Motors
ease do not represent an equit
able decision. They do not take
prrpf»r account of the continu
ally rising living cost nor do
they give due consideration to
the profits of GM and the gen
eral salary increases its execu
tive* are collecting.
Public Hearing
“The full hoard will hold a
formal public hearing within a
week or two before a final de
cision i* made. We will urge
the hoard to grant the full
wage and other demands of the
union.
“The panel decision does not
cover the wages of the skilled
trades employed hv GM. The
hoard is planning to call a spe
cial conference on this matter.
We feel that it must art
promptly if the best interests of
the defense program are to he
served.”
The investigating panel trccom
mended a flat increase of one and
one-half cents an hour to adjust
wages to the co*t of living and
three and one-half cents to elim
inate a wage differential between
the General Motors and the Ford
plants.
Increases Would Spread
WLB officials in Washington
were quoted gfk saying that any in
crease granted to the GM workers
probably would spread to the 115.-
000 employes of ihe Ford Motor
Company and 85.000 Chrysler
workers. Both companies have
wage disputes before the board.
The Chrysler wage scale Is
about the same as that of General
Motors.
If WLB follows its panel’*
recommendations it will place its
wage stabilization policy estab
lished in the "lit'tle steel" decision
info widespread effect. The policy
provides for higher vvages wher
ever increases are necessary to
♦nflVt a 15 per cent cost-of-living
rise since January, 1941.
Union Security Granted
Although the panel rejected she
■demands of the VAW and the
jCK)'.* united electrical, radio and
machine workers for a union shop
in the General Motors plants, n
suggested a maintenance of mem
bership clause that would substan
tially grant union security.
All wage increases would he re
troactive to April 28. 1912, when
the last General Motors contract
expired.
TODAY—In the Times
PART I—General New*
Oeneml N*»» 1-12 People 3
Woodward 2 Pe»r Buddy 7
Mallon 12 Inrde India 12
PART 2
*port« 1-4 Financial *
In the Open A Travel
Atnueemen;* sio Cro*»word Puix-I* 7
t.ou**i!a Parann* s Stamp* 7
Ineide Detroit t»
PART 3
a-x-ietv | 1 Women a 10 12
Mayfair 4 Faehlon* u
Hot. i*<-npe li Wvmen in War 2
Prudence Penny in
PART 4
Real F.rtate J 2 1 Radi's jn
Clans.fled 4-10
PART s—-Pictorial Review
Rohtnenn 4 Raer 4
Purling 7 B.>ok Review
w ’i hi 4 lleinnaer a
True petectlve Sntml 1 a
f*w> 7 Wishing Well a
PART fi—\mrrlean Weekly
PART 7—Comic*
Marines Blast Japs
From Key Air Base,
Seize 2 New Islands
Fighter Pilots
of U. S. Batter
Axis in Egypt
.
By GEORGE LA IT
lnl»rnuttonal *er»ir* staff Writer
CAIRO, Aug. 13.—Uni led States
fighter pilots went into action last
Wednesday for the first time in
the Western Desert, it was offi
cially revealed today. The Ameri
cans ojicraicd Kitty hawks.
Somewhere in the El Alamein
front, on their initial sortie, they
encountere d Messerachmitts,
whereupon Maj. Clearmont
Wheeler of San Jose, Cal., became
the first United States pilot to fire
a shot in this theater. His machine
gun burst damaged a Messer
schmitt and forced the enemy
plane to pull out of the engage
ment.
'Thursday the Yanks went jut
again with fighter-bombers *to
attack enemy positions. First Lt.
G. Rilby of .Skidmore, Miss., then
became the first American pilot
to bomb the enemy in the desert,
scoring a near miss on a concen
tration of lorries, some of who*e
occupants fired back.
< Reports from La I.inca to
night said a great Allied armada
of 53 warships, including battle
ships and aircraft carriers, had
been assembled at Gibraltar,
possibly in preparation for an
other sally into the Mediter
ranean.)
1. S. Planes Blast
Island of Rhodes
with the British MEDI
TERRANEAN FLEET, Aug. 13
• delayed) 11’PL- British warships
and American planes bombarded
the Axis naval and seaplane hase
of Rhodes off the Turkish coast
for 22 minutes today and left it
a blazing and battered mas<.
• The dispatch rlid not specify
whether the planes were Amer
ican long-range bombers, flown
by American crews from Near
Eastern bases or whether they
were American-made planes of
the fleet air arm > I
At an hour after midnight the
British warships and the American
planes began dropping tons of
bombs upon Rhodes in an answer
to Axy: Haims that ' the bulk of
the British Mediterranean fleet"
had been put out of action.
, The planes co-operating in the
attack drew fire from the enemy
ground batteries for 10 m.nutes at
the start of the bombardment.
When the enemy turned on the
searchlights and the anti-aircraft
guns began rattling, the British
warships went in for a running
attack.
All the British warships and
their supporting planes left the
attack without losses or any real
damage.
Soldiers , Ford Workers
Battle in Belleville Inn
An investigation of a free-for
all fight involving 20 soldiers and
,an unknown number of Willow
Run plant workers in the Orange
Lantern tavern at Belleville was
(Undertaken by State Police Capt.
,Don S Leonard Saturday.
Captain Leonard said the fight
ing started when a worker wear
ing a union button waved a naj"
check at the soldiers, members of
the bombardment group sta
tioned at Willow Run. and said
"You guys are sucker* for
working for the kind of dough
you gel."
In an instant, and without argu
ment, she 20 soldiers arose and
the fight was on the soldiers driv
ing the civilian* out of tljc tavern
Tha fighting eontinuM on the
ISSUED EVERY SUNDAY
Jury of 6 to Determine
How John Dodge Died
Official Inquiry Into Heir's Actions
on Fatal Night Open Thursday
A jury of six will be assembled
Thursday to determine, if possible,
who was responsible for the 10-
inch. ear-to-ear skull fracture that
caused the death of John Duval
Dodge after a drinking party Tues
day night on V'an Dyke Plage.
Coroner Edmund J. Knobloch
announce Saturday that at 9 a. m.
that day he will open the official
inquiry into the last hours in the
life of the one-time millionaire
playboy.
After draw ing a jury. Doctor
Knobloch and Prosecutor William
E. Dowling will produce more than
a dozen witnesses who had a part,
in one way or another, in the
final episode of Dodges tangled
career.
Pertinent Questions
The jury will be asked thcse
questions:
Was Dodge’* skull fractured
before he was arrested as a
prowler in the home of Howard
Lange || THfil) Van Dyke place?
, U. S. Hearing Set
For Mrs. Stephan
Citizenship Periled,
Government Says
A petition seeking cancellation
of the citizenship of Mrs. Agnes
Stephan, wife of Max Stephan, the
condemned traitor, will he filed in
federal court Monday. United
States Attorney John C. Lehr an
nounced Saturday.
Authority to begin the proceed
ings on the ground that Mrs.
Stephan obtained her citizenship
June 4, 1935. through fraud, has
been received from Atty. Gen.
Francis Biddle.
Louis M. Hopping, a Lehr assist
ant who will handle the case, said
it would be charged that Mrs.
Stephan took the oath of alle
giance to the United States with
a mental reservation Ho remain
loyal to Germany.
The petition will charge also
that she swore falsely to a claim
she had lived in America for five
years prior to the fifing of her
application and contended that she
had never been convicted on
criminal charges.
Hopping said she lived in
Windsor during that five-year
period and in “that time was
convicted twice of violating the
Canadian liquor laws
street and James Eberts, operator
of the tavern, railed the Ypsilanti
po«t of the state police.
When the police arrived.
Leonard said, the soldiers had
driven all civilians to cover end
were arguing among themselves.
The state police detail picked
up the most belligerent of the
soldiers and took them hack to
their ramp, leaving them off at the
entrance. No names were obtained.
The captain said he was espe
cially anxious to locate the worker
whose serious statement started
the fight in an effort to determine
if there were subversive elements
at work at Willow Run.
He said he will also demand an
explanation of why the voldiers
were not tinned over to the offi
cer of rhrv at the camp.
If vn. did he recei\p the fatal
injury In a fight ?
Did the fact that he struck his
wife. Mrs. Dora Dodge, knocking
her to the floor, ha\e anything
to do with his injury?
If his skull was not fractured
when he was arrested, was the
injury received at the McClellan
avenue police station, where he
was locked up?
Woman Witness
In the Lange homo Saturday the
investigators said they found what
might be a blood spot on the floor.
This will l>o analyzed in connection
with the theory that Dodge might
have boon injured prior to his
arrest.
A principal witness will be Miss
Mignon Fontaine, 37-year-old in
terior decorator, who was with
Dodge during the mysterious de
velopments and ran from the home
in a nightgown before the police
arrived.
Dowling Saturday took a state
ment from Theodore Klein, who
(Continued on Page Eight)
Jap Subs Use
Aleutian Base
Enemy Destroyer
Fired in Attack
WASHINGTON. Aug. 15 (UP).
- The navy tonight disclosed the
presence of Japanese submarines
in the Aleutians in a report which
also revealed that an enemy
destroyer was left burning outside
Ki*ka harbor after a U. S. naval
task force bombarded the harbor
August 8.
I>amage to the destroyer, not
previously reported, brought to
four the number of enemy vessels
which felt the force of American
blows during the August 8 bom
bardment and the bombing bv
naval patrol planes which was
carried out the next day.
It repotted that about 10 Jap
anese* cargo ships or transports.
Tour submarines and a destroyer
were observed in Kiska Harbor
before the August 8. bombardment
by a Picific fleet task force.
A cargo ship was sunk and the
destroyer was left blazing at the
conclusion of the shelling in which '■
more t*han 3.000 projectiles were '
fin d at the enemy's main camp I
ashore. ' l
Tourists shun Tijuana
For Lack of $2 Bills
BAN DIEGO. Cal., Aug. 15 <UP).
—Silence reigned in the almost
deserted streets of Tijuana, Mex
ico, today. Cases and bars, once
thronged with American tourists,
were empty as custom officers be
gan enforcing a United States
Treasury decree that only $2 bills
would he allowed to cross the
line.
The treasury department or
der was designed to pi event Axis
agencies from using Mexico as a
place for dispo<nl of dollar cur
rency looted abroad Two-dollar
hills were exempted from the or
der because f»>w of them aro he
heved to have fallen into enemy
hands.
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Yanks Clear
Enemy Out of
Several Areas
By JOHN F. LEE •
Inlrmniinnal .Nmu Service Staff Writer
LONDON, Aug 15 —Occupation
of the port of Tulago and the
Guadalcanal airdrome in the
Solomons by United States Ma
rines was indicated tonight in
Rritish dispatches which suggested
that Japanese forces may now
have been evicted completely from
some of the islands.
Two small j«lets in the Solomons
archipelago Makambo and Ga
vutu, south of Florida* lsland and
east of Tulagi also were reported
quickly overrun by the marines.
I Messages to London from the
jAustralian war theater intimated
that the gigantic battle of the
Solomons was nearing a climax
promising decided success for the
American commanded Allied land,
sea and air forces.
Hold Some Islands
As the offensive widened to em
brace additional sectors in its
ninth day, the well-infprmed Lon
don Star reported from Sydney
that the American "devil dogs’*
had cleared the enemy out of the
Tulagi Harbor area, though fight
ing continued in the nearby jungle-
clad hills.
j The London Sunday Dispatch
said it is believed the American
; Marines are now "in complete
possession of some of the Solomon
Islands” and that the Japanese
defenders are understood to have
been "thrown back from their
icoastal bases at all points.” All
attempts by the Japanese to rein
force their garrisons in the south
: west Pacific islands are “being
blocked.” this report stated.
Already the Tu+agi harbor zone
was reported in use by the Allies
as a base for further short-range
land, sea and air attacks against
the foe and as a point of delivery
of supplies for the counter-invad
ing marines.
‘ Thousands ’ Taken
One British newspaper report,
lacking official substantiation and
' treated with reserve, asserted that
"thousands" of Japanese prisoners
had been taken, in addition to ex
tensive casualties in dead and
wounded.
On the large island of Guadal
canal. south of Florida and Tulagf,
the big Japanese-developed air
drome was reported securely in
the hands of the marines, and the
London Sunday Times said “its
rapture by the Americans must
be regarded as a notable and per
haps even decisive success.”
An enemy convoy trying to hol
ster the beleaguered Japanese gar
risons in thr* Solomons was re
ported under jiersisfent attack
hv Gen. Douglas MacArthur*
bombers. #
Best Port in Isles
Simultaneously. Reuters t Brit
i,'h> news agency reported from
Sydney that it is understood
American flying fortress horrdfert
havd "already taken a heavy toll
of Japanese forces during raids on
enemy ba*es north of Auatggjja
covering the Solomons operatim)*?*
A special dispatch to the Lon
don Evening Star from Sydney de
clared that reports reaching that
Australian city indicated that Tu
lagi. the best port in the Solomons.
“May soon become an advanced
Allied base.
The naval correspondent of the
Yorkshire Post meantime stated
that it is "definite'' that th«
Guadalcanal air base has been
put out of action” and that the
U. S marines have "overrun the
site.”
On the three or four Solomon
Islands where the marine* have
landed the Japanrv have been
drivn mm harmless positions’*
and are "fighting to avoid cap
ture the Post s correspondent
declared*