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JHi DETROIT THIS
June 1945
Honors
Birth of Flag
, Detroit Celebrates
< 168th Anniversary
* Today is Flag D*y and ihej
flags flying from homes and pub-j
lie buildings take on special sig
nificance as Detroit# r-s carry out
•she program of tribute planned
fbr the 168th birthday *>l Old
Glory.
» Mayor Jeffries addressed a radio
'iudience oxer Staiion WJR on
the significance of Flag" Day this
morning.
* The Sons of the American Rev-'
olution were to meet at ma rt in
f%he Hotel Statler to view moxTr*
t*< the recent Pacific campaigns
and hear Flag Day speeches.
ELKS CLt’B CEREMONY
Climaxing the observances, pub-'
lie ceremonies will be held at 8
n m. today in the* Elks’ Club.
1745 Cass, under the auspices of
Detroit Lodge No. 34.
Here. Judge Ralph W. Liddy
will be the principal speaker and
lodge officers will demonstrate.
the order's Hag Day ritual.
, National observance of Hag
week, proclaimed this year from
June 10 to June 17. was estab
lished in 1939 by the l’ S. Flag
Association.
Because the V 9 flag, older
than either the Union Jack of
Britain or the tricolor of
France, was first authorized by
Congress June 14. 1777. today has
been set aside for special com
memoration.
LEGION HONORS FLAG
Throughout the week, the 88
American Legion f*os in W’avne
'County, representing 13,500 mem
bers, honored the flag with cere
monies at their meetings
The Hag Week committee, of
Vhirh Marquis Shat tuck, director
<t>f language education for Detroit
public schools, is chairman, ha*
Urged all civic, business, industrial
organizations and homes to dis
play the flag as much as possible.
Other members of this com
mittee are Walter If. K. Scott,
commander, American Legion
Thomas J. Barrett, president,
municipal council, Spanish War
Veterans; Edward C.. Booza. com
mander, Disabled American Vet
erans. and Edward Rothwell,
►resident. Allied Veteran's Coun
cil; George Lyle, commander.
Wayne County council. Veteran*
•f Foreign Wars; Charles C.
Jia rnes, director of social studies
for the Detroit public schools,
and the Rev. Father Carroll F
JDeady. superintendent of Catholic
schools.
BOOST BOND SALES
The committee expects that
war bonds and stamps will be
sold far above normal purchases
during the Hag Week observance.
Besides renewing the pledge of
allegiance to the flag at all pub
{ie gatherings during Flag Week,
hree other major purposes high
ght this year's observance They
• re to provide appropriate display
Bf the flag, to increase the sale
Bf war bonds and stamps and to
Bonnr Ihc flags of a!! of the
Lmted Nations.
Girl Arrested
In Hooper Case
(Continued from Page One)
“crning their whereabouts on
| Jan. 11.
They were sentenced by rirruif
ludge Carr, serving a one
nan grand jury.
Other defendants in ihr mn
[piracy rase, which will he heard
)eginning July 9. are Pete Ma
loney, Detroit hoodlum, and
larry's brother. Sammy Fie is her.
LIST WITNESSES
In addition to holding the girl
is a witness. Sigler asked Judge
latch to endorse 10 additional
tdtnessr* in the ease
In addition to Miss Welker, the
! I’itnesscs are: Maurice C. Cuvier,
lbion gas station operator; Harry
Jr., Albion auto dealer;
1 »uy S. Vroman. Albion milk route
i perator: Clarenee M, Chapman,
unk dealer from Albion: Peter
llyveis. Albion junk dealer; Louis
lobinson. Albion auto m« , chanic;
llice Niee, farmer's wife; Karl
fice, Albion railway mail clerk
nd farmer, and Harrv Richards
I lr, auto dealer in Albion.
Sigler said Miss Welker should
i» held beeause “she is a person
rho has no ties **
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A closeu p of Ihe invasion area In the North Borneo
campaign where veteran Australian troops have raptured
another airfield in their drive for Brunei town (arrow).
On
northward toward the Japanese-held Timhalai air field.
Stale Asks Life Term
For Slaver Deweerdt
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Tn his opening argument before
m jury of 12 women and one man.
Assistant Prosecutor William P.
Long made it apparent today lhat
the state would demand a first
degree murder verdict against
Camille Drwocrdt. amnush killer
of his wifos admirer, Henry
Coux reur.
Such a xerdict carries a manda
tory life sentence. The state
contends that Deweerdt planned
the shotgun killing in cold blood.
INSISTS SI.AU.K WAS SANK
Long declared: 1
"There nuist be some one to
see that the laxxs of soeiety are
| enforced.”
I In demanding thr maximum
sentence. Long continued:
“We are In great chaos the
xxorlil oxer now because some
one said, ‘to heck with the
rule* ’.”
Tin.* prosecutor asserted that
Deweerdt was stole both when he
planned the crime and culmi
nated it.
, It ap|>eared likely that the case
! would go to the jury some time
; tomorrow after 10 days of testi
mony in the jammed courtroom
of recorder's Judge Paul E.
j Krause. •
ALIF.NTISTS ARE HEARD
Testimony ended befdre noon
today after the state had put the
last two of it* expert medical
witnesses on the stand. The
state was seeking to refute the
testimony of defense psychiatrists
who *anl that Deweerdt was
paranoic xvhen he shot the wealthy
Crosse Pointe contractor.
They were Doctors Ralph Ke.rn
kymp and Allied C. Labine, both
I of whom said they did not believe
Deweerdt was insane at the time
I <>t th*- killing. Both Bltd they
I found no evidence of paranoia or
other mental disease.
Defense counsel Max Silverman
j has sought to show that Pe-
I weerdt was driven insane by the
nine-year romance between his
wife. Mary, and Coux reur.
( ALLS REACTIONS NORMAL
Thr first alienist to testify for
the state was Dr. l,ennart W.
Wiran. director of the psychiatric
clinic for recorder’s court.
“Deweerdt talked about thr
affair between hi* wife and
Couvreur and in those troubles
his reactions were no different
fr<<m those of a normal person
THE WEATHER
Junr 14 I'MX
Detr.-u »tirt vicinity Pirtly cloud* *n«l
*«i n, • n<t*y sod tonight, lowest tonight
about 6* Mattered shostr* «rjs cooler Friday.
DF.TROIT DATA
Temperature' Wedneaday Highest, M de
gree . loweal. 60, mean. 72
r>epartur* fri>m normal temperature Wednes
day *6 dea-ieea.
Df|’»rtur« from n>omal tem|»eraturr alnc*
Jan 1 -* 2f>4 degree*.
Temperature* one y««r ago today Hlgheat.
49 degree* io»e*i 61 mean, 76
Tempera'ure* thl* date In pa*t 7 2 year*-
JOt;re*T. 92 derreea In 11*19 loweat, 44 In
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t’e »t|\V humidity \\>dne*d*y 2 X 0 » m
<"4- e X(> » m '*4l id p m. «.X't .
6 10p m 61 r*
P* e mitatho in last 24 hour* ending at
tlO i m t -day None
Oejoirture C m r -rmal prer|pttatt'>n atnee
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l>err»e day* f«r \x>dn»*day June 1J- Zero
N omal tor tune 1 ,X X
A' ■ij o tile ted deeree day* »ht* m-nttv 112
N rma! degree day* for June 74.
under the same circumstance*.”
Dr. Wiran said.
"Deweerdt talked about the
poisoning plot.” Dr. Wiran ex- i
plained to assistant prosecutor j
William P. Long. “He talked
about the affair between his
wife and Couvreur, hut In rela
tion to those troubles his re
actions were no different than
a normal per son under the same
circumstances.
“With a true victim of para- 1
noia there Is no fact.
“The defendant's reactions
during direct and cross exam
ination, sobbing, bursting into
tears, gesticulating, demonstrat
ing things that had happened
to him, is definitely not a basis
for diagnosing his mind psy
chotic.”
I'osl Howard
For Plant*
The navy today posted a (500
reward for information leading to
location of a GB-2 airplane,
missing since May 26 when it took
off with two officers from Grosse
lie Naval Training Station for
Washington.
Information should be sent Im
mediately to either the command
ant at Great Lakes. 111., or the i
commanding officer at Grosse He.
Ban Coffin Swastika
DENVER. June 14 (INSI
German prisoners of war today
had another reminder of the fall
of the Nazi regime. Lt. Col, Jesse
Marshall, Colorado-Wyoming
security commander, rpvealed that
German prisoners who die in
American camps no longer will
have the Nazi swastika draped
over Iheir coffins
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1 WEIL'S "3T
DSR to Buy
Bigger Buses
The DSR commission today au
thorized General Manager William
S. Bullock to draw up plans for
letting bids on the purchase of
325 new buses to be placed in
'operation in the area of the Trum
bull. Hamilton and Fourteenth
streetcar lines.
I The buses which will have a 44
or 45-passenger capacity will cost
approximately $14,000 each or an
aggregate of $4,550,000.
The commission also hired
Richard Sullivan, city public
Utility rates analyst, on a part
time basis to study the DSR's fare
structure His salary will be
$5,000 a year. He will also draw
his regular salary of $7,500 per
year from the city.
Virtually all the 1,800 coaches
now owned by the DSR are 27-
passenger vehicles sold by the
Ford Transit Bus Co.
JEFFRIES GIVES HINT
Ordering of the larger buses
was hinted by Mayor Jeffries re
cently when he termed the policy
lof using small buses exclusively
"the worst mistake the DSR ever
made.”
For a number of years it had
been the DSR plan ultimately to
convert entirely to the 27-pas
senger bus on the ground that
i they were faster and more flexible
in traffic.
Fallacy of this plan was pointed
out by the Times in its "Your
DSR’’ series last February, when
lit reported that since 1940 the
| DSR had purchased 1 098 small
i buses, and said:
“If instead of getting 1,098
of the 27-passenger buses, the
DSR had purchased 800 buses of
the 87-passenger size, It would
not now be mi desperately in
need of 800 drivers.
"The 800 larger buses could
accommodate as many pas
sengers as the 1,098 smaller
ones.”
O. K. ONE-MAN TROLLEYS
Last xvpek the DSR. admitting
that it whs operating on a losing
basis, moved to purchase 80 new
PCC one-man streetcars, and to
convert its older cars to one-man
operation, as has been done in
most other cities.
Before one-man cars can be
legally placed in operation, how
ever, it will be necessary for
common council to repeal an ordi
nance forbidding one-man opera
tion of cars seating more than 40
passengers. Action on the repeal,
opposed by Councilman Fred Cas
tator, is pending. »
Liuchow Battle
Mounts in Fury
CHUNGKING. June 14 HNS>
The bat tie* by Chinese forces to
recapture the strategic city of
Liuchow, former American air
base site, mounted in fury to<Jay
when a second Chinese assault
column reached the Kwangsi
province metropolis
Severe clashes also werp re
ported in progress at Ishan. 43
miles W'est of Liuchow. where re
inforced Japanese units main
tained desperate rearguard ac
tions in an effort to keep part of
the southern corridor into Indo-
China open as long as possible.
Casualties
Climb to
1,017,097
WASHINGTON. June 14 (UP)
U. S. combat casualties reached
1,017,097 today, a gain of 5,048
since Friday.
The total included 899.952 afmy
and 117.145 navy, marine corps
and coast guard casualties.
{ The table:
ARMY NAVY TOTAL.
] Kll)»<t 147,34 V 44 769 23 2 13*
Wounded sr>* 61 1 67 402 616.013
Mu In. 42 71« 10 7 36 *3.446
Prltonr i 11 1 242 4 33* 11S 600
T«»»l* 499 9X2 117 147 1 017.097
Of the army wounded, 324.319
have returned to duty. The army
prisoners total includes those who
have been liberated in Germany.
'AFL, CIO Row
Halts Dodge Job
(Continued from I'age One)
to diccuss the jurisdictional fight
and other problems of employ
ment.
i The UAW-OIQ executive t>oard
last week adopted a policy of not
'“tolerating’ interference by the
AFL, but favored negotiations and
arbitration with AFL leaders.
night presidents of 30
;UAW locals met and recom
mended that the conference today
'adopt a resolution calling for
(strike action to combat AFL
J policy.
i Their recommendation* were in
line with a proposal made by
UAW Vice President Walter
, Reuther to modify the no strike
pledge.
Although the pledge can he re
voked only through a referendum
ivote, the executive board has the
authority to interpret the'adminis
tration of the pledge.
SO-HOFR WORK WEEI>
Reuther contends the board can
interpret the pledge as valid only
in plants that have 100 jx'r cent
war work. If the general con
ference agrees with the 60 presi
dents today, the no strike modifi
cation proposal will be presented
at the UAW board meeting in
Minneapolis next month.
The local presidents also
adopted a resolution calling for
30-hour work-week with wages in
creased so that the present take
home pay would not be cut.
A program of education to In
form the public of the I’AW's
platform also was recomryndcd.
4 hooses .lail
Over Alimony
When Stanley Kornatowski, 51.
of 4647 Fort, Ecorse, told Circuit
Judge Chester P. O’Hara he
i "would rather rot in jail” than
pay $1,500 back alimony to his
former wife, the judge gave him
his wish hy sentencing him to one
year in the house of correction.
Kornatowski is being held in
the county jail with his son, John.
18. who conjessed the holdup mur-
Irier of a cashier at the Vcrnor
Ginger Ale Co. several weeks ago.
The Detroit Times has far more
nationally famous features than
any other Detroit nexvspaper.
Nations Rush
World Charter
SAN FRANCISCO* June 14
(INS)—The Big Five veto was
“in" today and the United Nations
conference at last was on its way
to dean up seconuary problems
and complete a world security
charter by the end of next week.
Delegates from 50 nations,
hopeful of adding Poland to their
midst before adjourning, ad
vanced # their work another step
by approving the important char
ter on regional self-defense at a
public night commission session.
ADD PREAMBLE
Today they add another section
ihe preamble of the world "con
stitution"—at the sixth commis
sion meeting ol the conference
now in its eighth week.
The one remaining fight of con
sequence and one close to the
hearts of the small nations de
feated on the Yalta Noting for
mula yesterday was that of
eliminating the Big Five veto on
future amendments to the rhar
ter. The Yalta unanimity rule was
approved by a vote of 30 to 2.
AMENDMENT ISSUE
Rut thp amendment question
was expected to come up today.
Small powers, again led by Aus
tralia but more strongly backed
than on the Yalta issue, want to
knock out the proviso that
amendments to the charter must
be approved by the Big Five as
well as a majority of other mem
bers of the world organization.
'lTte United States, Rritatn,
Russia, China and Franc?—the
veto exercising jiermanent mem
bers of the security council -are
as firmly opposed on this as on
maintaining the Yalta formula.
There i" no seriously founded
opinion in San Francisco that the
amendment attack will succeed.
3 High Chinese
Shot for Fraud
KUNMING, China, June 14
(UP)—Three high Chinese offi
cials have been executed by a fir
ing squad for theft and extortion in
the handling of military supplies
for use in the continental counter
offensive against Japan, it was
announced today
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek
personally ordered death sen
tences for Liang Lin. former
mayor of Changsha, one of China’s
major cities now held by the
Ja|ianese; Maj. lien. Huang Yao,
and Col. Pao Yun Fei.
All three were officials of the
Chinese service of supply—an or
ganization responsible for supply
ing new Chinese striking forces
south of the Yangtze River.
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IT.l T . S. Troop Losses
At Sea Revealed
WASHINGTON, June 14 (UP)-The w»r department
reported today that of the 4,453.061 troops sent to Europe, 3,604
were lost at sea.
They were loat from 41 ship# that were sunk or damaged.
The figures covered losses both by enemy action and accident!
from Pearl Harbor to V-E Day. They included losses in
African, Mediterranean, European and Atlantic areas, but none
in the Pacific.
This country lost 1,554 merchant ships of 6,277,077 loos,
to enemy action or as a result of causes due to war conditions,
from Sept. 1, 1939, to May 8, 1945. The total includes a large
number of small ships.
U. S. merchant seamen have suffered 6,066 casualties, includ
ing 5,579 dead and missing and 487 prisoners of war.
A total of 4,770 merchant ships, allied arid neutral, have
been loat to the enemy action. *
The tabulation of ships from which army personnel were
lost:
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Rohna 1 Brttuti > N»* 2*. 1«47 Off Djiajtlll Ai*»iu l.tlft
Leopoldvlllv i Belgian
under Brlttah flag : Dec 24. 1944 Off rtwtbnutg Kiamt T»«
Paul Hamilton April 20. 1044 Off Algle/x ,n.
Dorcheater Fvb. .2. 1042 Nrar Greenland «#4
I.ST 521 In preinvaalnn eiercUea off England 114
CRT SOT In prtlnvailon eatrclae* Off England ISA
Henry R Mallory Feb. T, 194.7 South of Greenland ga
*H. u. Blaadel June 2d. 1944 English Channel 7a
'J W. McAndre* March 12, 194*> Northwest of the Auii»« an
William R Woods March #, 1944 North of Palermo, Sluly SI
Cherokee June 1Y 194 2 East of Boaton IS
Sicilian June 7. 1942 South of Haiti 19
Co*mo Oar 1942 overdue. Gibraltar to New Tark 7a
Daniel C French March a 194 4 Off Htrerte Tunisia 14
Stmutl J Tilrten Dec 2. 1942 hart. Italy la
Empire Javelin < British • Dec 2* 1944 off Cherbourg 14
‘Uruguay F-b 12. lust Northraat of Bermuda 12
Umlae Lykes Jan It 194 1 Overdue, Belfast tb New York to
John Harvey r>e<. 2. 194 i Bari. Italy 10
George Thatcher Nui 1 1942 off French Equatorial Alrire »
ST (small tug i 744 July 20. 194 4 English Channel •
Charles Morgan June 10. 1944 English Channel 7
I-ST 411 (British i Dec SL 194 1 Bastu. Corsica 7
Jack May 27. 1942 Off Jamaica •
James A Farrell June 29. 194 4 English Channel 4
Nevada II Der In 194 t >• uth of Greenland 4
Merdinars June 9. 194 2 Off South Coast Cubs 1
LST 422 1 British tsn 20 1944 off Anxlo Beachhead 1
James Sprurit Match lb 194 7 off East Coast Cuba
St David 1 British 1 Jan 24. 1944 off Antlo 2
Charles Pinckney Jan 27, 194 t South of Azores 2
Col L O Mathews O. t 20 194 2 Fort Chlmo. Canada
Arthur Middleton Jan 2, 194 1 off Oran l
Jeremiah Van Rensselaer ► ••b 2 194 1 Southeast of Greenland 1
Malantlc March 9 194 7 South of Ireland
Christian Mtrhelson Sept 20. 194 t t nst of Bone, Algeria
Melville E Stone Nov 24 194 1 off Cristobal. C. Z 1
John L. Motley D*r 2 l»4t Hart. Italy
‘Sharpsburg Feb 17, 1944 Mersey England l
•Robert Howe May 20, 194 4 Off Gibraltar
Y-17 (tanker I April A. 194 S English Chanael l
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Raid Liquor Depot
Steeplejack burglars early to
day raided the main warehouse
of the State Liquor Control <\>m
mission, 7831 W. Fort. They got
away with an undetermined
amount of choice whisky.
Balancing a 12-foot steel pole
on top of a cartage truck parked
in the alley, police say. two or
more burglars shinnied their w ay
to a small warehouse window Jo
feet from the ground.
After opening the window, the
burglar jumped seven f**et to ttiv
second floor of the building when
a large quantity of wines and
whiskies were stored
Using wine cases for steps they
built a stairway to the window
from which lhey either lowered
whisky to the ground with a rope
or pitched it down to accomplices
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on the truck and on the ground.
The truck, pole and stairs were
left intact hv the burglars.
liquor commission employes
found three rases on the floor in
which bottles had been broken.
Fugene Bauman, warehouse *u
[jcrintendent, was unable to esti
mate the amount of whisky stolen
and had asked that state auditors
In* sent in to check the stock.
Tlie burglars passed up such
rare stock as pinch bottle Scotch,
preferring a bonded Canadian
whisky. Bauman said.
The warehouse spokesman ex
pressed the opinion that one of
the burglars might have gained
entrance to the stockroom yes
terday. hiding until joined by his
accomplice* last night.
Investigators are searching th#
eartage truck for fingerprints.