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WOMAN’S HACKED BODY FOUND
U. S. to Get Japan’s Silk
Stocks Will
Provide Cash
To Buy Food
MacArthur Dissolves
Trust; Cabinet Gives
Women Right to Vote
TOKYO, Oct. 13 CUP) Gen.
MacArthur today moved in on
Japanese silk stocks while the
approved universal suf
▼ frage and Rave Japanese women
the opportunity to swing next
Januar> * general elections after
centuries of unquestioning bond
age to their men.
He ordered the Japanese to re-'
port on both present and future
silk stocks in order to ascertain
how much may he exported to pay
for the Importation o.' food and
other supplies for Japan* civil
ians facing a disastrous winter.
LOWER VOTING AGE
The cabinet anted on election
reforms only 4k hours after Mac-
Arthur ordered universal suffrage
and other basic constitutional re
forms. The cabinet also lowered'
the general voting age from 25 to
2° and the minimum age for
officeholders from 3h to 20.
MacArthur ordered the govern
ment to dissolve three organiza
tions controlling the silk industry
and to revoke previous orders
which would have reduced the
• production of Mlk. It appeared hr
was acting to provide the Jap
anese with a means of obtaining
/ mds for essential ii The
Allied nations have announced;
•they were not prepared to feed or
clothe the Japanese.
STOCKS WORTH MILLIONS
Dissolved were the Japanese
Silk Controlling Co. the Japan
Raw Silk Manufacturing Co. and
the Silk Reeling Co It was e«ii
rnated that existing stocks of low
quality auk* were worth some
S 18.500.000 and production n<\t
year would total between 13.000 -
©of» and 18.500,000 pounds.
The electoral change'; were
Trade by the cabinet in its mt-
extraordinary meeting in as
■many da>s to discuss Mai Arthur s
"five-jmint "democratization’ order
of Thursday.
It had directed Premier Raron
Kijurn Shidehara to write a hill
of rights into the Japanese con
stitution providing universal suf
frage—it did not ask for a
lowering of the voting age per
mitting unionization of lnhor.
democratizing Jaj*an s economic
Institutions, liberalizing education,
and substituting justice for the
tools of inquisition.
F.I.F.CTOR ATE TRIPLED
Under the lowered vbting age.
ft was estimated that Japan's
electorate would he tripled, with
pnme 21,680,000 women eligible
against a potential 21.200.000
males. 6.230 000 of w hom are over
seas and will he unable to vote in
January. Only 13,000.000 men
cast ballots at the general elec
tions of 1942. Japanese women
(till may not hold office.
The U. S. Bth Army meanwhile
announced the arrest of nine
officials of the puppet Nanking
and Manchurian governments. It
was disclosed that 4.m»0 police
chiefs had been dismissed in com
pliance wth orders from Mac-
Arthur.
Bears 19th Child at 43
GRIMSRY, Eng.. Oct. 13 fUP>
—Mrs. Emily Dorothy Russell. 4'!.
gave birth to her nineteenth child
today, a 14-pound boy. Seventeen
of Mrs. Russell's children are
Jiving.
Mosquito Plane to Attempt
\2lO-Minute Atlantic Hop
LONDON. Oct. 13 (UP)-A
Royal Air Force Mosquito plane
will soon attempt a B'ii /hour
crossing of the Atlantic entailing
a 2,000-mile flight over open sea.
the Daily Express reported today.
Basil Cardew. aviation corre
spondent of the paper, said the
twin-engined, plv-wood plane
would take off from Labrador to
g tin the advantage of a tail wind
w hieh may add 100 m. p. h. to
Us speed.
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Retailers Open
Victory loan
Detroit retailers, with publishers
of the three daily newspapers as
«pecial guests, wiU participate in
the kickoff luncheon for the Vic
tory War Iy)an drive Wednesday,
at the Rook-Cadillac Hotel.
All owners and manager* of
retail stores, their bond chairmen,
advertising and display managers
are invit»*d to attend
William E. Anderman of The
Detroit Times. John S. Knight of
the Free Press and William E
Scripps of the New s will be special
guests of the committee, composed
of Ralph L. Yorker. Edward 11.
Thomas and Nat S. Shapero.
Ambassador Hurley
Returning to China
WASHINGTON. Oct. 13 (UP>
Secretary of State Byrnes to
day authornred announcement that
Patrick J. Hurley U. S. ambassa
dor to China, will return to his
post after a short rest in this
country.
There have been recurring re
ports that Hurley would resign
He has been in this country sev
eral weeks conferring with Presi
dent Truman and state department
dffirials.
One of the fastest planes ever
built, outside the jet propulsion
cla«s, the RAF' Mosquito unoffi
cially is rated at a speed well in
excess of 400 miles an hour. To
make the crossing from Labrador
to the British Isle* in 3'i hours
it would have to make a wind
aided average speed of about 570
miles an hour.
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treason against France. Decision on the
plea for a new trial has been held up by
Gen. De Gaulle, who is expected to reject it.
Quislings Appeal
Denied by Court
His Only Chance Now
Rests With the King
OSLO. rvt. 13 (INS) The
death sentence of ex-puppet Pre
mier Vidkun Quisling was unani
mously sustained by the Norwe
gian supreme court today and the
condemned traitor's last hope of
saving htt'life now rests in an
appeal t 6 King Haakon.
Quisling was sentenced in Oslo.
Sept. 10 for collaboration with the
Germans In preparing for the Nazi
invasion of Norway, manslaughter,
theft and embezzlement.
DELAY LAVAL DECISION
PARIS, Oct. 13-Defense coun
sel said today that President Gen.
Charles de Gaulle had reserved
decision on their plea to set aside
the French high court's conviction
of Pierre Laval for treason and
grant him a new trial.
They said, however, they were
not hopeful of a new trial and ex
pected that Laval would he exe
cuted "very soon" if their plea was
denied.
MUBBERT TRIAL SET
THE HAGUE. Ort. 13 <INS>
The Netherlands government an
nounced today that Anton Mtis
sert. head of the Dutch Nazi party
during the ocrupation. will go on
trial for his life before a special
court in The Hague Nov. 13.
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Mrs. Gomon
Loses Ford Job
Mrs Josephine Gomon. formerly
director for women’s personnel
problems and public relations at
the F'ord Willow’ Run plant, has
been dismissed by the company.
A Harry Bennett-appointed em
ploye, Mrs. Gomon is the latest to
be released under the reorganiza
tion plans of Henry Ford 11, presi
dent.
Mrs Gomon formerly was direc
tor of the Detroit Housing Com
mission and took the Ford job
while government and municipal
officials in the Willow Run area
were in a controversy over
housing.
When Bennett and others of hi'
group were fired, Mrs. Gomon was
on vacation.
Milton Hershey Dies;
Was Chocolate King
HERSHEY, Pa Oct. 13 (INS)
Milton S Hershey, chocolate
king and philanthropist, died to
dav. He was 88.
Scorned Husband Falters
After Planning Suicide
This ts the story of a man w’ho
changed his mind about jumping
off Belle Isle bridge, went home to
sleep off the idea, hut left enough!
traces behind on the bridge to
start the harbor master dragging
the river for his body.
It started when two passershy
saw a bundle of clothing on the
bridge at 3a. m. Saturday. They
notified police who found the
name of Wesley Goralski, 37, of
8697 Studcbaker. Van pyke.
Goralski was in bed when police,
arrived at hi* home. Detective Sgt.
Edward Wurm of the homicide
DETROIT 31, MICH., Oet. 14, 1948
Frankensfeen,
Jeffries Bitter
In Vote Battle
Strip for Action
in Final Days Before
Election on Nov. 6
By FRANK MORRIS
Although the voters have been
only mildly concerned so far over
trfe forthcoming municipal elec
tion. Mayor Jeffries and his prin
cipal opponent, Richard T. Frank
ensteen. stripped for action Satur
day with promises of an exciting
climax to this third bid by labor
for control of the municipal gov
ernment.
Both candidates have arranged
speaking schedules which will
take them to as many as a dozen
meetings a day from now until the
election Nov. 6.
MARKED BY BITTERNESS
And they have staitcd this final
drive with snarls and bitterness
over the issues that will determine
the outcome.
Despite campaign pledges of
new parks, rapid transit and bet
ter schools, the one mam issue
which becomes more pronounced
daily is the fact that Franken
steen is vice president of the
UAW-CIO and therefore carries
a labor banner.
In all of his speecnes on the
eve of the forthcoming rocket
attack, Frankrnsteen has been
predicting that Jeffries will at
tempt to slur him because of his
union activities. So far. the mayor
has refused to be baited.
Jeffries’ only barb has been a
repeated statement that the elec
tion of Frankensteen would mean
that Detroit is to be used ”as a
guinea pig for social experiments.”!
BID BY UNION
Yet. when November 6 arrives,
each voter will enter a booth fully
| aware that once again the power
ful union w hjch has become so
; potent in Detroit s current history’
| will be attempting to make one
lof its own men the mayor of the
city.
| Patrick H. O'Brien, now a
Probate judge, failed in 1937.
rank Fitz Gerald, circuit court
lost as the CIO
candidate two years ago.
j Although Frankensteen led
Mayor Jeffries in the recent
pnmary, he is believed by the
betting fraternity to have lost
ground because of the strikes.
The gasoline strike, hitting every
citizen squarely in the gas tank,
has been particularly effective in
reversing sentiment, according to
the mayor's campaign managers
One fact stands out so far in all
of the speculation. That is. that
Detroiters in uniform are no more
interested in the outcome than
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5 Start Prison Terms
For Plot to Kill Suzuki
TOKYO, Oct. 13 (INS)—Five
Yokohama students who attempted
to murder former Premier Suzuki
and burned his Tokyo home when
they heard the Japanese surrender
rumor, began five-year prison
terms today.
The quintet, whose ages range
from 22 to 23 years, were charged
with arson and attempted murder.
squad said Goralski admitted he
had planned suicide, but changed
his mind.
Goralski related his wife. Irene,
obtained a divorce last week, won
custody of their three children.
Sylvia, 9;* George, 7, and Elaine.
4. He charged she was infatuated
with a fnrmer neighbor.
"It’s been driving me fruy,"
Goralski was quoted by the po
lice, “and I'm afraid I may
harm him or myself.”
Police took Goralski to the psy
chopathic ward In Receiving Hos
pital for observation.
I* C II Cts.
All Should Share
Secrets of Atom,
Scientists Warn |
EDITOR'S NOTE: More, than f *oo scientists who
perfected the atomic bomb nt the government's scent
mountain laboratory at Los Alamos, S. A/., urge imme
diate creation of a u orld authority for the control of
nuclear energy to prevent another war, Thnr views are
expressed in the following story by one of their numbei\
By DR. ROBERT R. WILROV
iWritten for the Annoelatlon of Luo Alamo* SelrnO«t« and Distributed by
International New* vrtlrei
LOS ALAMOS, N. M., Oct. 13 (INS) — President Truman, In
his message to Congress on atomic power, said “never in history
has society been confronted with a power so full pf potential
danger and, at the same time, so full of promise for the future
of man and f%r the peace of the world.”
The scientists at Los Alamos,
who worked on the atomic bomb,
fee! it is their duty to make public
the outcome of their considera
tions.
The scientific background nec
essary to develop an atomic bomb
is generally known throughout the
world. The technical design and
industrial methods of production
are, <gt present, the secrets of
this country, Great Britain and
Canada.
OTHERS CAN SOLVE IT
However, it is certain that other
countries can achieve these ends
by independent research before
many years.
They also may be manufactur
ing bombs which may be tens,
hundreds or even thousands of
times more powerful than those
which caused such devastation at
Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
This country with its highly
concentrated centers is particu
larly vulnerable to such weapons.
The fact that the atomic bomb
represents such a concentrated
form of destructive energy makes
counter measures of delivery ex
tremely difficult and uncertain.
DEFENSE IS POSSIBLE
It is particularly difficult to de
velop counter measures that w’ould
provide a sufficiently large pro
portion of interceptions of high
speed missiles of the F-2 type,
such as recently described by
Gen. George C. Marshall, the U. S.
army’s chief of staff.
The success of the best possible
defense system would, in any
event, require a continuous hour
by-hour alert. A single heavy
attack lasting a matter of min
utes might destroy the ability of
a nation to defend itself further.
One proposal is for this country
to try to maintain its present
position by producing more and
bigger bombs than other coun
tries. Merely having more bombs
than other countries is not de
cisive if another country has
enough bombs to demolish our
cities and stores of weapons.
AGGRESSOR HAS EDGE
The overwhelming advantage
will lip with the aggressor and our
superioiity might he lost in the
first minutes of a surprise attack.
A world, in which nuclear
weapons are owned hy many
nations and their use held hack
only hy fear of retaliation, will he
a world of fear, suspicion and
inevitable, final explosion.
It has been suggested that the
United States, together with Brit
ain and Canada, assume unilateral
control over atomic power develop
ment throughout the world. And.
by force or threat, prevent all
other nations from producing
atomic bombs.
Other nations will not willingly
lose their sovereignty to those
who maintain their own. In this
way. such a policy will lead to an
unending war more savage than
the last.
ONLY ONE COURSE LX FT I
We cannot conceive of It lead
ing to a stable peaceful world. Wr
are convinced that we are left but
one course of action. We must co
operate with the rest of the world
In the future development of
atomic power and the use of
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Java Rebels Open
Guerilla Warfare
Indonesian Natives
Ordered to Attack
BATAVIA. Oct, 13 (UP)—A
proclamation calling for all-out;
guerilla warfare in the Batavia
area was issued today by the
commander of the “Indonesian
People's Army” and clashes be
tween native forces and Dutch
and Japanese troops threatened
to flare into full warfare through
out all Java.
Japanese military police posted
machine guns and tanks in Ba
tavia and set up barricades, and
roadblocks after sporadic but
savage attacks, by the natives.
“PLAN HOLY WAR*
The Indonesians, seeking free
dom from Dutch rule, were re
ported to be taking over control
of cities in central and western
Java, arresting both Dutch offi
cials and Japanese troops and
preparing for a "holy war.’’
(The Dutch new* agency
Aneta reported that Indonesian
military headquarters had de
clared war on the Dutch, effec
tive tonight, and had ordered
the native population to resist
with every weapon at their
command.)
Angkatan Mud a , Indonesian
youth leader, was reported in Ba
tavia to be gaming central power.
ROl'T JAP G ARRISON
In the big port of Soerabaja in
eastern Java, all Dutch personnel
were reported tc have been ar
rested by the Indonesians. The
Japanese garrison at Serapff was
attacked by an armed mob Thurs
day and forced tc withdraw after
inflicting casualties.
The nationalist movement also
was reported gaining strength in
Bali, the tiny Dutch-owned island!
just east of java.
! M'Arthur to Speak
| On Radio Monday
NEW YORK. Oct. 13 (INS)
Gen. Mae Arthur will discuss all
phase" of the military occupation
of Japan in a radio address to the
American neoole at 6 p. m. Mon
day (EST). The broadcast will
be * carried on all four major
American networks.
Mexico Addressed
For Ist Time by Pope
VATICAN CITY. Oct. 13 (UPI
Pope Pius addressed the Mexi
can people directly for the first
time last night, telling them that
the conditions of the Catholic
church had improved notably in
their country.
Court Puts Off Hearing
On Status of Barmaids
The fata of Michigan barmaids
rested with the court 3 Saturday.
Circuit Judge John V. Brennan
agreed to delay a hearing on the
validity of an act of the 1945 Leg
islature prohibiting woman bar
tenders.
Assistant Atty. Gen. Ben Cole
and Ralph Moor*- the latter rep
resenting several barmaids, mutu
ally requested the delay in order
to complete preparation o i brief a.,
FINAL
Lovers' Lane
Near Pontiac
Slaying Scene
3 Detroiters Discover
Victim in Underbrush,
Head Nearly Severed
By RAY GIRARDIN
Tlmms Stiff C«rrtapoadei>t
PONTIAC, -Oct. 13—Viciously
stabbed and with her head nearly
severed by hatchet blows, the
body of an unidentified woman
was found today beside a “lovers*
lane,” 15 miles northwest of Pon
tiac.
The body was discovered by
three mushroom pickers irom De
troit at 12:45 p. m. in a spot
densely covered with underbrush
one-quarter mile from Ormond
road.
Deputy sheriffs George Beard
and Delos Anderson said the
woman's neck had been hacked
with a hatchet and that she had
been stabbed at least six times
in the stomach and right temple.
Beard and Anderson said that
she also appeared to have been
shot, because 14 marks on her
body and sue on her face were
about the srce of bird shot.
HACKED WITH HATCHET
The officers estimated she had
.been dead two days.
They speculated that she had
been stabbed in an automobile
and that the killer, after dragging
the body into the brush, had
feared she wa* still alive and
attempted to hack off her head
with a hatchet.
Apparently, officers said, the
slayer was not familiar with the
territory, for by dragging the
body another 25 feet he could
have placed it in a marsh where
ft might never have been found.
The woman, who was lying on
her back and whose clothes were
covered with blood, is 5 feet 7
inches tall. She weighed 140
pounds. She has brown bobbed
hair and blue eyes.
DETROITERS FIND BODY
She wore a brown mohair Sut
ton Park coat, a black skirt and
a blouse with * a black patent
leather belt. Her size six brown
moccasin shoes bore a label from
the J. L. Hudson Co. in Detroit.
The woman wore no rings or
other jewelry'.
The Detroiters who found the
body are Fred K. Owalchuk, 60,
of 13136 Deouindre, Sonia Mas
ters, 26, of 84j2 Herman Garden*
and the latter’s mother, Alex
andria Savin sky, 57, of 2039
Deenng.
Officers were unable to find
any purse and the only marks
around the body were those, of
her own heels. She had apparently
been dragged by some one holding
her under the arms.
FINDERS QUESTIONED
The body was removed to the
morgue in Pontiac General Hos
pital. where an autopsy will ba
conducted Sunday by Dr. Bert
Stoffer. pathologist of Receiving
Hospital. Detroit. Dr. Leon Cobb,
Pontiac coroner, called Dr. Stoffer
into the case.
The three Detroiters w-ho found
the body were taken to the of
fices of Oakland County Prose
cutor Donald C. toggle for ques
tioning.
Heading the investigation is
Oakland County Sheriff E. K.
Thomas.
Detroit police say they have no
person answering this descrip
tion among their list of missing
persons.
Army to Sell Tires
NEW YORK. Oct. 13 (INS)
More than 250,000 new tractor
and truck tires of military mud
and snow design, just declared
surplus by the army, soon will
he made available to states and
their political subdivisions.
Time for the hearing will he set
Within 30 days.\
The 1945 act permits only male
bartenders or wives or daughters
of licensee?.
Moore previously obtained an
injunction delaying enforcement
of the 1945 law pending disposi
tion of the ease now be|pre Judge
Brennan.
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