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AUG Weather Report Continued warm with showers Sun rise celt 4SF TIN TROPOLITAN AL EDITION On Guard for Over a Century; Monday, August 23, 1943. No. Ill 113th Year 24 Pages Four Cents Vl mm Housi 6 MICHIGAN DEAD HONORED Litvinoffs Recall Stirs Hero's Medal Pinned onBahy Son He'll IS ever See DAY IS COMING New French Politeness Scares Foe Axis Reports Landings in Italy, Crete Story Believed Trick; Allied Bombers Blast Port's 5 Arteries; Foe Loses 50 Planes By the Tnited Pre ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 22 Allied fliers have virtually isolated Naples, climaxing repeated blows against Italy's second port and its feeder railways Saturday when they smashed five near-by junctions and shot down 50 enemy fighters, Allied reports disclosed today. (A German DNB broadcast, recorded by United Press in London, said that Allied bombing formations had raided objectives in the Naples area again today.

(A suspicious broadcast from the Axis-controlled "Radio Liberation" station said that the Allies had landed on the east coast of the Italian "toe" yesterday and sent i 1 A 'i v- I j.i?f i 'ii 'i i i M-inur tii tiiwi i II fNrt Free Press Photo MRS. SIMON WARMERHOVEN AND SIION, JR. leaves a heritage of bravery and sacrifice COL. A. M.

KRECH A father hoed of Byron Center, was given to his mother, Mrs. Orie Geel-hoed. He was killed Jan. 2. 1943, near Buna Mission, New Guinea.

Military police stationed at Camp River Rouge Park participated in a battalion review as part of the presentation cere trrouD to Sift High Food Profits 500 Per Cent 3Iargin Laid to Wholesalers by Rep. Fulmer; Farm Ceiling Sought Bt the I nitfd Ire WASHINGTON. Aug. 22 Rep. Hampton F.

Fulmer, South Carolina Democrat and chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, charged tonight that "money-mad middlemen making war profits up to 500 per cent" are responsible for shortages and price increases in foodstuffs. He disclosed that when Congress returns from recess next month he plans to name a subcommittee to investigate the "ever-widening gap" between prices paid farmer and the ultimate cost of food to the consumer. PROFITS REVEALED Office of Price Administration economists have issued a report, he said, showing that a majority of large wholesalers received at least 100 per cent greater profits in 1942 than in 1939 and that one-fifth of all wholesalers had profits of 500 per cent or more last year as compared with 1939. "Farmers and consumers oper ate as individuals and are abso lutely at the mercy of those op erating between them." Fulmer paid. "Farm prices are being depressed at will by speculation and otherwise.

"On the other hand, consumers are called upon to pay unfair increases to obtain necessary food because the supply has fallen far behind demand and price fixing has been ineffective." TO SEEK CEILINGS Fulmer said he would seek price ceilings on all basic farm commodities, with upward scaling of prices through processors, wholesalers and retailers "allowing proper differentials for overhead and profit at each stage." "This program," he said, "is the only one that will definitely work with all groups and at the same time hold down inflation, and it will assure an even flow of foods to market and equitable profits to all." Fulmer said his group was approved just before Congress recessed and was allotted $50,000 for the inquiry. Eisenhoiccr Hails Morale in Victory LONDON, Aug. 23 (Monday) '(AP) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of Allied troops in North Africa, commented on the "magnificcent morale" of his forces today in a message thanking King George VI for his congratulations on the Sicilian victory.

Allies Menace Salamaua Strip By I he A oc ia ted Prr ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug. 23 (Monday In a general tightening of -the Allied battle lines below Salamaua, New Guinea, Australian and American jungle troops have occupied the forward slopes of a mil, south of the air strip there, and now command the airdrome itself with their guns. The field is roughly a mile southwest of Salamaua. The new positions were secured at 8 a. m.

Sunday, a communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today. Headquarters reports said that the Japanese in the area are continuing the general withdrawal they began Friday. There also was a new outbreak of land action in the Solomon Islands. TOO miles to the east.

American forces from New Georgia seized Japanese field pieces on off-lying Baanga Island, from! which the enemy had been shelling our positions on the captured Munda airfield. Russians Praised by Mrs. Churchill QUEBEC, Aug. 22 (AP) Mrs. Winston Churchill, wife of the British Prime Minister, today praised "the heroic part played by the people of Russia" in the war and in a broadcast to Britain appealed for renewed support of Red Cross aid to Russia.

She made no reference to the Quebec war conference in her talk. In this first mention of Russia to come from the Citadel or the Chateau. Mrs. Churchill said that the Russians "foueht for their own survival, but in doing so, fought also for ours." She declared that Russia "needs all we can give, and she has earned tha right to our belp." 58,404 See Tigers Wallop lanks Twice Detroit Moves into Second Place ivith 12-0 and 8-3 Victories British Fear Possibility of Breach Is Seen, Although Separate Nazi-Soviet Peace Is Doubted By Hie Associated Prf LONDON. Aug.

22 The recall of Maxim Litvinoff from Washington, coming on the heels of Ivan Maisky's withdrawal from London, stirred fears today that at the worst a breach would develop between Russia and her British and American allies. At the best, the removal of Lit vinoff as Soviet Ambassador to the United States was interpreted here as indicating that Premier Joseph Stalin is impatient with the pace of British American military operations. Although the first reaction tf some people here to the with drawal of an outstanding Russian friend of the democracies was mat it could foreshadow a sep arate Kussian-German peace, there seemed to be scant general acceptance of the idea that such a peace actually was in the making. LITVINOFF ROLE AWAITED The role that Litvinoff is to be given in Moscow was anxiously awaited as a gage to the gravity of the move. If he remains an important voice in the Soviet Foreign Office, concern here will be lessened, but if he is sent into a complete eclipse as he was during tne feoviet Government 1939-40 rapprochement with Germany, it will deepen the fears of a major schism between the western democracies and the Russians.

Moscow dispatches said the re call of Litvinoff and his replace ment by Andrei A. Gromyko wa3 announced in a routine manner in the Moscow press, and that Lit vinoff retained the title of vice commissar for foreign affairs as did Maisky following his recall as ambassador from London last month. CZECH PACT PLANNED Further, it was announced in London that Eduard Benes, provisional president of the Czech Government, would leave shortly for Moscow to conclude a Soviet-Czech treaty of alliance similar to the 1935 pact between Moscow and Prague which was vitiated by the Munich agreement of 1938. The new pact, it was reported, will provide Soviet guarantees for the integrity of Czecho-Slovakia, and one clause implies a common land frontier meaning recognition of the 1940 frontiers of Russia in Poland. The Russians will support a return to Czechoslovakia of Teschen, annexed by Poland after Munich, it was reported.

The separate peace idea received scant acceptance, not only Turn to Page 3, Column 6 Bombers Hit Japs at Canton By the Associated Tmn WITH THE UNITED STATES 14TH AIR FORCE IN CHINA, Aug. 21 (Delayed) Mitchell medium bombers of the United States 14th Air Force attacked the Japanese-held Tien Ho airdrome at Canton Friday a few hours after Japanese air units failed in a renewed attempt to raid an American air base in Kwangsi Province. Escorting P-40 Warhawk fighters broke up attacks by more than 20 Japanese Zeros in three flights as the B-25s made their bombing run on camouflaged Tien Ho, scoring hits on hangars and aircraft revetments. One large fire was observed on the airdrome. Among those who accounted for enemy planes definitely downed at Canton was Lieut.

Fennard Herring, of Detroit. a cell on the second floor where a brother has visited him, and Kisielewski has occupied a first floor cell. Kisielewski is an aviation enthusiast and a talented crayon and pen artist. He has been designing various types of aircraft during his stay in the death cell. Both men were sentenced, five minutes after their conviction by a twelve-man Essex County jury, by Judge G.

F. McFarland. TRACED THROUGH GUN The two men were connected with the Windsor murder when a revolver used in the slaying was traced to a restaurant at 8918 W. Jefferson where they were once employed. Ogrodowski, police said, admitted burglarizing the restaurant in September and obtained the gun during the burglary.

After the men had killed Borg they hid the gun under the porch of a Windsor home where a small boy discovered it and turned it over to Windsor police. Ogrodowski, a deserter from the Canadian Polish Army contingent, boarded at 44 Howard and Kisiel- ewskj lived at 9118 Home. The son that Lieut. Col. Si- mon Warmenhoven will never see fretted in his mother's arms Sunday afternoon, for there was no way that a baby of 11 months could know that the medal which hung heavy on the breast of his white rompers was the Army's Distinguished Service Cross, or that his father had died in the gallant action for which it was awardad.

The medal, with five others awarded posthumously to Michigan men. was presented by Col. August M. Krech, district commander, at a ceremony at Camp River Rouge Park. Simon, was born after his father had started overseas.

The father, a medical officer from Grand Rapids, died Nov. 26, 1942, in New Guinea, when he volunteered to go through heavy enemy fire to treat wounded American soldiers. TREATED THE WOUNDED He remained exposed in the front lines until all the wounded were treated and evacuated, and was himself fatally wounded. Another child, Carl F. Siglin, who is 22 years old and lives with his mother and infant brother at 17360 Wildemere, also received his father's posthumous medal the Silver Star awarded to Maj.

Carl F. Siglin. Maj. Siglin led an attack amid heavy fire against German and Italian tanks in Tunisia, and succeeded in destroying them. The Silver Star awarded posthumously to Sergt.

George L. May. of Edmore, was received by his mother, Mrs. Daniel Carey May. Sergt.

May was awarded the medal for gallantry in action in New Guinea. SAVES WOUNDED OFFICER Mrs. Cleo Clarke, of Benton Harbor, was given the Silver Star awarded her husband, Sergt. Bernard F. Clarke, who met his death in rescuing a wounded officer in New Guinea.

After the wounded man was cared for, the enemy opened fire and Sergt. Clarke was killed. Mrs. Susan Hallock, of North Branch, received the Silver Star awarded her husband, Corp. Charles H.

Hallock, who was killed Dec. 2, 1942, near Soputa, New Guinea. The medal of Pfc. Peter Geel- Adcles Accuses Foes of Effort to Split UAW Reuther-Leonard Faction Is Assailed BY DANIEL L. WELLS Fre Prrss Labor Editor The "spirit and skeleton" of Homer Martin has come back to the United Automobile Workers (CIO) in the persons of Walter Reuther and Richard T.

Leonard, who are trying to "divide and conquer the union for their own political ends," it was charged Sunday by George F. Addes, sec- hretary-treasurer of the union. Addes and Vice President Richard T. Frankensteen took the stump in Detroit in behalf of their canaiuacies ior re-eiecuon, speaking at a special "pre-convention educational conference" sponsored by Packard Local 190. 200 DELEGATES ATTEND Co-sponsors were Dodge Local 3, at whose hall the meeting was held, and Briggs Aircraft Local 742.

About 200 delegates representing most East Side locals, two Ford locals and West Side Local No. 174 attended. Addes and Frankensteen both said they did not want a factional fight within the union and that it was started by the Reuther-Leonard group. "Someone is trying to get control of this union," said Addes. "We are working together, Frankensteen and I.

to clean up this mess, and we'll go up or down together. rt'LL NO PUNCHES "We thought the spirit of Komer Martin was buried, but it is back again, and his skeleton is back in the persons of Reuther and Leonard. Now we have two Homer Martins, following the red-baiting line of Hitler, of Clare Hoffman, and of all the other reactionaries." Pulling no punches in their avowed war on Reuther and Leonard, both speakers promised a fight to the finish. "We've been driven into this fight," said Frankensteen, "but now that we have, we will give Turn to Iage 3, Column 5 On Inside Pages Amusements 17 Bingay 6 Clapper 5 Classified 18-22 Crossword 19 Edgar Guest 6 Editorials 6 Grafton 5 Horoscope 23 Iffy 2 Lyons 24 M. Riley 10 Merry-Go-R'd 6 My Day 10 Newton 6 Quillen 6 Radio 23 Sports 14-16 Town Crier 28 Washington 5 Womeng, 10-11 Lippmann 5 By the Associated Frees MADRID, Aug.

22 The mass of the French people have suddenly become extremely polite, cheerful and pleasant toward the Germans and Naval Government officials, and neither the Germans nor the Laval followers like it. This is part of an extraordinary picture of a new atmosphere in France brought to Spain by Frenchmen, neutrals. Italians and even Germans who traveled from Paris since the Allied radio first began to warn Frenchmen that the hour of action was close. Nothing has worried occupation authorities and the Lavalites so much recently as the sudden decrease in acts of sabotage and violence and the excessive concern over the Germans' welfare. "When our train stopped at Vierzon Station Thursday night on the way from Paris to Mountau-ban," said a Spanish merchant of Barcelona, "nearly 100 men and women of the town gathered on the platform went immediately to a car occupied by German officers.

"There they stood silently nodding and waving until the Germans demanded what they wanted. The reply was, 'Oh, nothing, we simply came to the station to greet you and do anything we can to make your stay in Vierzon "This scene was repeated at Chateauroux, Limoges, Brive and Gourdon. At Cahors young Frenchmen and French women even offered to dance for the Germans. By this time the officers who first had tried to accept these unusual receptions cheerfully, were frankly sour." China Takes Seat at Allied War Parley Foreign Minister Joins Churchill, Roosevelt BY JOHN A. REICHMANN VniteA Press Correspondent QUEBEC, Aug.

22 Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong came to the Roosevelt-Churchill war council today to have a part in the final drafting of the "Declaration of Quebec" which is expected to be the prelude to an Allied land offensive against Hitler's Europe and a concerted Anglo-American attack on Japan. At a press conference late today.

White House Secretary Stephen Early said Secretary of Navy Frank Knox would arrive here tomorrow. He said that Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill would give Soong a complete account of plans for pressing the war in the Pacific. It was the first time that China had been officially represented at any of the series of war councils between Mr. Roosevelt and the Prime Minister.

Soong's arrival also emphasized the attention being paid to the Far Eastern war theater at the conference, and supported reports that the invasion of Europe already had been planned and that the con ference had been devoted mainly to a Pacific offensive and political matters. The Soviet withdrawal of Maxim Litvinoff, exponent of co-operation with the Western powers, re mained a major subject of debate among observers and political and military experts at the Chateau Frontenac. With the naming of Andrei Gromyko, counsellor of embassy and charge d'affaires at Washington to replace Litvinoff, it became apparent that Moscow was not satisfied with the methods by which the two western Allies are pursuing the war. The possibility existed that it was in connection with the Soviet change that Secretary of State Cordell Hull and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden came here. It had been planned originally to have the conference solely on military matters and the political questions came in later, it was understood.

News of Russia's announcement was transmitted immediately to the Citadel, where Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill are conferring, and to Hull and Eden. None of the principals were available for comment. For the most part, activity was Turn to Page 3, Column 5 London Area Undergoes Short Air-Raid Alarm LONDON, Aug. 23 (Monday) (AP) An air-raid alarm sounded in London early today.

Although gunfire was heard almost immediately after the alert was sounded, no incidents in the London area had been reported by the time the all-clear came shortly afterward. High explosive bombs were dropped at a southeast coast town, however. parachute troops into Crete at dawn today in invasions in con siderable force. London immediately discounted the reports. which perhaps were intended to cause underground forces to tip their hand prematurely.) STATIONS PLASTERED From Middle East bases, a force of nearly 70 United States Liberators showered nearly 300,000 pounds of explosives on the railway station at Cancello, 12 miles north of Naples, and on Promigti-ano, eight miles northeast of the port.

B-26 Marauders and Flying Fortresses of the Northwest Africa Air Force gave Villa Literno and Aversa in the same area their second batterings in as many days and British Wellingtons continued the offensive into last night, hitting Battipaglia, 42 mile3 southeast of Naples. In hitting these five targets, the Allies struck at each of the main rail arteries out of Naples and reconnoissance reports indicated that all were blocked, at least temporarily. Naples' harbor already lay so torn and twisted from repeated bombings that it was of little use as an entry for seaborne supplies. TELLS OF FLEET ACTION (The "Radio Liberator" broadcast, heard by the Ministry of Information in London, said that two invasion fleets had sailed at dawn Saturday from Sicily with strong naval escorts, one striking the eastern coast of the Calabrian Peninsula and the other steaming to Chete. operations took place on the beaches around Fran-caleone, north of Cape Spartivento, which the Allied navies seem to have passed without hindrance.

Landing forces are considerable," the broadcast said. (In language that seemed suspect, the broadcast added that "it seems this twofold attack against the European fortress will lead the Allies to the greatest success in military initiatives. In fact, the road of the Balkans is now open to them." AXIS RUSE IS SEEN (This and the fact that the broadcast was beamed in French to French Africa indicated that the purpose might be to stampede patriots in occupied lands into the open. (British Broadcasting Corporation monitors said that "Radio Liberation" broadcasts irregularly from somewhere near the center of France, although it claims to operate from North Africa. It describes itself as representing the "national front of liberation" without specifying whom it proposes to liberate from what.) For the second successive day the enemy hurled swarms of Focke-Wulfs and Messerschmitts and Italian Macchi fighters at the raider formations, but the Allied pilots scored a lop-sided victory over them.

In addition to downing 50 enemy planes, they probably destroyed a dozen more, and they lost only eight planes. (An Italian communique claimed that 20 Allied planes had been shot down in Saturday's action in the Naples area.) Italian Press Hits Nazis for Preventing Peace By the Aasoeiated Fm BERN, Aug. 22 The Italian press tonight openly declared what it has recently hinted that the German occupation of Italy was blocking efforts of the Badoglio Government to remove the country from the war. In the bombed industrial cities of Milan, Turin and Genoa, workers are being told that the people's desire for peace is blocked by "enormous difficulties." A Swiss Telegraph Agency Dispatch said that Italian newspaper; are "clearly stating that the first aim of the Badoglio Government is to remove the country from war, but Rome is seeking to prevent the peninsula from becoming the theater of a gigantic battle among the Germans there and the Anglo-Saxons threatening to enter." BY CHARLES P. WARD Before a crowd of 58,404.

the largest that has attended a baseball contest anywhere this season and the largest that ever attended an athletic event at Briggs 1 Killed, 5 Hurt in Auto Crash One woman was killed and five other persons were injured seriously when two automobiles collided Sunday noon at Joy and Ridge. Mrs. F. J. Block, of 1693 Prospect, Ypsilanti, died at the scene of the accident.

Her husband and Mr. and Mrs. George Daschner, of 317i W. Michigan, Ypsilanti, with whom they were riding, are in serious condition in Eloise Hospital. Reginald Stringer, of 34118 Plymouth, driver of the other car, and Robert Clayton, his passenger, also were in serious condition in Eloise.

Deputy Sheriff Frank Kortas said that Stringer would be held for questioning. THE TRAP HAS BEEN Manistique, on Aug. 31 at Self-ridge Field. Brig. Gen.

A. B. Quinton, chief of the Detroit Ordnance District, will make the presentation. Capt. Coleman was killed Dec.

10, 1942, while piloting a bomber over enemy territory. Windsor Pays Tribute to Dieppe Heroes Essex Scottish Mark Anniversary of Raid Windsor said prayers Sunday for her heroic sons who fell a year ago in the historic Commando raid on Dieppe. It was on Aug. 23, 1942, that Windsor's famed Essex Scottish regiment and other Commando units crossed the English Channel and stormed the French port, suffering a loss of 67 per cent of the attacking force in "killed, wounded or missing." And it was just a few days later, when the casualty reports began to come in, that the entire city of Windsor was stricken with grief. For it became known then that the Essex Scottish had suffered the heaviest losses of any of the attacking units.

There was scarcely a family in Windsor that did not find a relative or a close friend on the lists. In many families, there was more than one lost brother or son. One mother was notified that four of her sons were among the missing. As time went on the original blow was softened a little. Many of those who had been listed as missing were found to be prisoners of the Germans.

The Windsor Turn to Tage 2, Column 4 STEVE OGRODOWSKI awaits ing which leads onto the hallway floor below. The body of each victim will remain hanging until the jail surgeon pronounces death. Sheriff Anthony Marentette said both men would be hanged in 20 minutes. Since their conviction last May, Ogrodowski has been confined to mony. The women, after receiving the medals, stood with Col.

Krech to review the batallion. The Distinguished Service Cross posthumously awarded to Capt. Carlyle Coleman will be presented to his widow, Mrs. Ruth Catherine Coleman, 4218 Stadium, the Tigers took both ends of a double-header from the league-leading Yankees Sunday and moved into second place in the American League standings. With the aid of an 18-hit attack that included home runs by Dick Wakefield, Pinky Higgins and Jimmy Blood worth, Paul Trout shut out the Yankees with ease in the first game, 12 to 0.

The victory was the fifteenth of the season for the Hoosier from Sand Cut who has lost nine games. Rudy York hit his twenty-sixth home run of the season to help Tommy Bridges gain an 8 to 3 decision in the second game. It was the eleventh victory of the season for Bridges, who is giving Spud Chandler of the Yankees a battle for the leadership of the league's pitchers. Chandler has won 15 games and lost three. Bridges also has lost only three games this season.

Both York and Wakefield gathered new batting honors as the Tigers made the Yankees look worse than any Yankee team has looked in years. In addition to Turn to Page 14, Column 3 TESTED BRUNO KISIELEWSKI Death enter the cell of one of the men with leather straps in his hand. The arms of the condemned men will be strapped tightly and their hands will be bound behind them. At the death trap the hangman will bind their legs. The victims will plunge silently to their death from the trap on the second floor through the open 2 Detroit Killers Will Hang Tonight in Windsor A hangman Sunday tested the gallows in Windsor's Essex County jail where two young Detroit men will be hanged shortly after midnight Monday for the holdup-slaying of a Windsor restaurant owner.

Unless a last-minute reprieve is granted or their sentences are commuted the gallows will claim the lives of Steve Ogrodowski, 24 years old, and Bruno (Barney) KisielewskL 21. They were convicted for the slaying of Joseph Borg on Oct. 3, 1942. Arrested by Detroit police, they allegedly confessed the crime and later repudiated their confession in court. WILL NOT MEET The men have not met since they were placed in separate death cells and will not meet before the execution.

They were visited by a priest Sunday and last rites of the Roman Catholic Church will be administered to them before they are led to the gallows. The executioner, whose identity has not yet been disclosed, will decide Monday who will die first. Shortly before midnight he will.