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Two cars in the ammunition train exploded at a British camp yesterday afternoon. killing rn< soldier and injuring four Ten others were repea ted n .>sm • No American soldiers wen involved Flames spread and set off *\- plosions in seven other cars fully loaded with ammunition Troops, firemen and other civil ians evacuated the area last night to await daylight for resuming a battle against the flame-, but the Six villagers, including an S.'bvear old man and his 80-year-old wife who had lived in Cadley all their lives, refused to trudge. Thirty other ammunition cars' which had been threatened were moved away and it was hoped no further major explosions would occur. The first explosion occurred among rifle ammunition which detonated land mines. Some of the troops working on the cars were blown 0 yards. Families May Join Officers and upper-grade sergeants of the American occupation force will be joined in Germany by their wives and families starting about April 1, if the war department approves a plan now in its hands, it was learned today. Occupation force soldiers eligible to have their families with them in Germany include all officers and noncommissioned officers with the rating of staff sergeants. THE WEATHER HOLIDAY TIWPIKVTI RIS 13 mill 24 4 » m 2* S • rr. 28 1 ■ rr 2». S • m 2a o*m 10 2am 27 « • m 20 10 a m 31 Sam 27 7 a m 21 The sun will set at 1 12 r. m today and rise tomorrow at 9 o'clock. "It was last night." Haw Haw's latest hookup. FORECAST: Cloudy, mild; occasional light snow; light rain gentle winds. "tx> Skating good at all rinks: no tobogganing or skiing. Revelers Denied Use of the Bus A group of wealthy New Year celebrants, in rumpled tuxedoes and very pink of eye, today were waiting somewhere on the east side for their fifth chartered bus in. Four days—but they weren’t going to get it. The remnants of a party which began New Year's Eve was primed to go again, but the day just couldn't take it any more. The fourth coach driver went the way of all the sober flesh— at midnight last night, but the flying guests were back on the line again at 8:30 a.m. today, demanding another chartered bus. The DSR said the buses were charged to William Dart, 23, of the late Plaza Hotel. "No more buses for you," the dispatcher said, "What you need is an ambulance, or the dog wagon." The revelers had traveled east and west and all around the town, exhausting the alphabet of might spots, and visited "more homes than one can shake a finger at" during the "party of the year." Host for the affair, a reliable source close to the scene, reported, was a Los Angeles banker, formerly of Detroit, who footed the hill... or bills. No small item was the transportation, logged at $3 an hour, plus a 10-cent-a-mile charge, plus 15 percent federal tax. The informant said rental totaled nearly $200. He said he saw the host pay same. Then, there were tips for the four drivers, ranging as high as $30. PORTABLE BAR Giving a 'chronological account, the informant said the number of participants once reached 20 but ranged downward to only five when things got dull for a while. He said he really lost count later. They equipped each bus with a portable bar from which the Naming Club Holdup Perils Hetty Grande HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 3 (IT) Six masked bandits pointed a machine gun at actress Betty Grable while they pulled a $75,000 New Year's Eve holdup, the film star. Said today, "And because the proprietors of a Sunset Strip Rambling den apparently preferred going broke to going to jail for operating a gambling house, the robbers had a 4H-hour head start on police." Sheriff’s deputies did not learn of the daring holdup until rumors sifted into a Hollywood police station. Detective F. M. Ronfro said a score of movie celebrities, including Miss Grable, her band leader, and Harry James, proclaimed the proper use of the case in closing argument in her sanity trial. Mrs. Mansfeldt has admitted the slaving of a nurse whom she believed had stolen her husband. The first bus was chartered at 10 p.m. Monday and made the rounds, including the Crosse Pointe Yacht Club until 7 a.m., New Year's Day. The driver was tipped royally. Two hours later, the host ordered a second bus engaging it until 5:45 a.m. yesterday when he obtained a fresh coach and driver. The third was kept until 11 a.m. At 1:30 p.m., they decided they overlooked some places and ordered the fourth—and last—coach. This among other places from one end of town to another, took them to the Lee Plaza Hotel, 2240 W, Grand Blvd., where a blow-off dinner was staged for 15 last night. Shortly before midnight this coach was returned to the Shoemaker garage—in better condition than the passengers. 11-Year-Old Woman Hies MT. CLEMENS, Jan. 3 Mrs. Emeline Roberts is dead today in her Chesterfield Township home, just a mile from the farm where she was born 101 ago. Three grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren survive. The long-closed Chesterfield Baptist Church will be re-opened for funeral services Sunday. Dis San Francisco, Jan 3 (UP) — The San Francisco Bay area backlog of homebound service men today was reduced to less than 25,000 for the first time since Christmas. According to Sam Wood and Edmund Goulding, Mrs. Irene Selznick and musical director, Leo Forbstein, all were witnesses to the looting. "I was so seared, I'm not sure what actually happened." Miss Graham said. "It was all over in a minute or two." STARS ROBBED HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 3 (AP). Actor Dana Andrews and his wife, Mary, reported theft of clothing, luggage, and jewelry from their night, valued at $2,500. Actress Joan Blondell said $500 worth of men’s clothing well missing from a guest house Dec 15. ROW AT GM PLANT DETROIT Only Detroit Newspaper with All Three Major News Services—INS, AP, and UP 4th VIA, So Riot Squad Quells Row As GM Plant Police “commando squads” were rushed to the Detroit Transmission division of General Motors Corp., 5140 Rio Pelle, today as 1,000 pickets stymied an effort by the police department to permit office workers to enter the building. Police Inspector Walter Stelt of Chene station said that several of his men had been pushed aside by the pickets when they sought to hold open a lane for 20 to 30 office workers. Appearance of the riot squad quelled the minor disturbance and the pickets started to drift away when the office workers refused to make a second attempt to get to their jobs. CLOSED OFF LINE According to Stelt, his men had formed a double line at the gate leading across the sidewalk to the curb. When 10 office workers from a small group gathered on the opposite curb started through, the pickets shoved the officers and stretched their pickets. Line completely across the cleared line Frank Dare, president of Local 733. LAW-CTO. said that the office workers had been barred this morning because the company violated a verbal agreement it had made with the union. Dare said that, under terms of the agreement, the office workers and supervisory help were to identify themselves at the gate. CALL OUT RESERVES Yesterday morning 500 pushed their way through a 12-man picket line without doing so, according to Dare. This prompted the union to call out its reserves and tighten its picket lines, he said. CIO leaders were meeting in Washington to formulate top strategy in their nation-wide drive for higher wages, while awaiting a decision by President Truman’s fact-finding committee in the GM-UAW dispute. Rumors, originating in New York, that the GM-UAW dispute would be settled at a 17.5 percent wage increase mounted as resumption of negotiations between the two factions were scheduled for Monday. They brought denials from C. E. Wilson, General Motors president, and Walter P. Routher, UAW vice president and GM department head, who is spearheading the (Continued on Page 2. Col. S) Highways Disagroo NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (AP)—The Western Union Telegraph Co., putting into effect higher wages ordered by the WLB today found its AFL employees throughout the country prepared to accept the increases and its CIO workers in New York ready for a strike next Tuesday that would cut service between New York and the rest of the country. New rations Hit By rich shortage NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (INS)—The clothing shortage has extended to the ranks of the 32 new cardinals named by Pope Pius XII. Radio Paris reported tailors in New York. Some face a crisis because they have only enough material to do. Detroit 31, Mich., Thursday, Jan. 3,1946 Hunt 2 Fliers in Icy Lake Parolee Quizzed In Strangle Death A 20-year-old Detroiter picked up today by Canfield station police on request of the state parole board will face routine questioning by homicide detectives in the strangling of Mrs. Gladys Marsden, 40, Detroit ordnance worker. The man, William Shaw, was taken into custody at 3:45 a.m. in his home at 984 Putnam and booked for investigation of violating parole. Lt. Gerald Walter, chief of Canfield station detectives, said the state parole board makes a routine practice of ordering investigation of its parolees who might hate any connection with state crimes. Search continues for a young woman and a man known only as “Louie” who once believed can identify the slayer. Requesting of all persons in the tavern at 7812 Southfield, where the attractive divorcee was last seen alive at 2 a.m. Sunday with the man wearing a beribbon uniform, failed to produce new leads. ANGERED COMPANION The young woman had angrily left the suspected soldier because of his attentions to Mrs. Marsden, who lived in nearby Herman Gardens. “Louie,” not otherwise known by persons in the bar which he frequented, had had a drink with Mrs. Marsden and the soldier. Three possible clues were eliminated yesterday. After questioning a man arrested in November when he was accused of assaulting a woman, police declared he had no connection with the murder. A stolen car containing bloody clothing, found near Battle Creek, was parked on A Battle Creek Street at the time of the murder, police discovered Nathan F. Hibbs, 27, whose similarity to the slayer caused him to be questioned, was exonerated but he is held in Battle Creek on auto theft charges. ROBBERY ELIMINATED Mrs. Marsden had no money in her purse when her body was found but police today eliminated robbery as a motive when they discovered she had made a bank deposit the day before she was slain. Rank records show she deposited a check and currency totaling $123.60. Nylons Hang Phones WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (UP)—Washington women, all trying to dial the same number at the same time to put in an order for nylons, crippled the city's telephone system for more than an hour last night, make robes for 12 of the 32 cardinals. The broadcast, quoting a French newspaper, said an urgent appeal has been sent to the United States for material for the red hats worn by cardinals. Truman Talks on Air Tonight WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (INS) —President Truman will carry his fight direct to the people tonight for a program of social, labor and military legislation he deems vital to the nation's future security. Mr. Truman will make his appeal for support of his administration in a nationwide "fireside chat" at 10 p.m. (Detroit time.) The broadcast will be half-hour in length and will be one of his longest public addresses since taking office. APPEAL FOR PROGRAM The talk will be an outright appeal to the people to get behind the President's 21-point legislative program and force congressional action at an early date. With the nation gripped by industrial strife, particular attention was expected to be focused on the President's labor proposals, including the setting Up of fact finding boards. Mr. Truman's address will be aimed at “putting the heat" on Congress while the legislators are at home on their Christmas recess where their constituents can talk to them. PRINCIPAL ISSUES The message is expected to concern itself with two principal lines of legislation: one aimed at securing the nation’s defenses against possible sudden attack by a foreign power in the atomic age; and the other at speeding the wheels of industry in the reconversion period, achieving full employment, ending work stop pages, and keeping the nation on a high level of prosperity. 2-Millionth Man Home SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3 (UP) — The navy will set S/Cdt. Irving Felmerson, Worcester, Mass., today as the 2,000,000 the service man to return to San Francisco from the Pacific. Movie Maker Weds LAS VEGAS, Nev., Jan. 3 (INS) —Millicent Jaeckel, 39, widow of a New York furrier, was honeymooning today with Watterson Rotharker, 60, motion picture executive. In the Times TODAY Health and Happiness for Men Hope Pattern 10 Battler's Pattern 10 Battler's Pattern 10 Ditman's Amuleta 10 Purifying and Attractive 12 Artists 12 Artists 12 Letter to Editor 12 21 Halloo 12 Winchester 12 Mr. Leman 12 What's the Movie Programs? Answer? It Obit war 21 Women 18 COMPLETE WANT ADS 8 STAR MARKETS, PAGE 20 5 Cents Part of Plane Seen Sticking Through Floe Planes joined the search today for a missing aircraft and its occupants in Lake St. Clair after the coast guard icebreaker Acacia failed in an all-night patrol to locate the wreckage. Authorities held little hope for two persons believed aboard the small plane when it plunged into the ice-covered lake at 4:50 p.m. yesterday. TAKE IT SEARCH Identity of the occupants and home port for the plane remained a mystery as all civilian and military airfields in the Detroit and Windsor areas accounted for their ships and personnel. The planes took up the search at daybreak after the Acacia, its searchlights sweeping the water, had patrolled the area from Grosse Pointe Yacht Club to Belle Isle throughout the night. Selfridge Field officials sent two planes. One was a B-17 medium bomber equipped with small skiffs that can be dropped onto the water when the wreckage is found. The other ship was an L-5, a small but fast scout plane. UNABLE TO GET CLOSE Lt. H. J. Beyschlag, skipper of the Acacia, said ice and the ship’s draft prevented him from getting closer than a quarter of a mile offshore. Witnesses to the crash included Mrs. Howard Hoffman of 848 Washington, Grosse Pointe, who was riding in an automobile. She said the plane crashed about a mile offshore directly opposite Colonial road. The water is 14 feet deep at this point. Patrolman John Bundy, (Continued on Page, Col. 5) Churchills Leave Jan. 9 LONDON, Jan. 3 (AP)—Former Prime Minister and Mrs. Churchill will leave next Wednesday for an American vacation, it was announced today. Actor Suffers 2nd Stroke LAGUNA BEACH, Cal., Jan. 3 (AP)—Slim Summerville, 54, veteran portrayer of “hick" movie roles, was seriously ill at his home here today after his second stroke in recent weeks. Chinnault En Route On Chinese Mission SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 3 (UP)—Claire L. Chenault, leader of the famed “Flying Tigers.” was headed back to China again today as a civilian on a mission called “secret” by the Army Air Transport Command. Chennault, who retired recently as major general in the U.S. Army Air Forces, left Hamilton Field late yesterday en route to Yankee-Born Traitor Dies On Gallows LONDON, Jan. 3 (AP) — William Joyce, notorious “Lord Haw Haw” of the German air waves, died a traitor’s death this morning on the gallows of Wandsworth Prison. The 40-year-old American-born Joyce, who sold his voice to Adolf Hitler as a radio propagandist at the outset of the war, was executed shortly after 4 a.m. (Detroit time) on high treason charges of which he was convicted by a British court last Sept 19. SAME SCAFFOLD He died on the same scaffold where John Amery, 33-year-old son of a former British cabinet member, was hanged Dec. 19 on treason charges growing out of similar radio activities. Only a small group of prison officials saw Joyce plunge through the trap. Under English law no spectators may witness an execution. Execution of the death sentence was announced in two typewritten sheets which were posted outside the prison gates shortly after the hanging. (An INS account of the hanging said that Joyce played chess up until the time the hangman came to take him to the gallows. In the hours before that, he also read considerably from a book on metaphysics. Although prison authorities had expected some sort of a public demonstration, and had put extra guards on duty at the main gates, only about 250 people turned out to wait for the announcement of the execution. Execution. Newsreel camera men photographed the crowd. WALKED TO GALLOWS Prison officials said Joyce walked to the gallows from his death cell, his arms pinioned behind him with the broad black strap used in countless executions. (The traitor who once taunted Britain by radio trembled as he walked across the prison yard to the gallows but he refused assistance, United Press said. Dressed in a blue suit, he stood quietly on the trapdoor while the noose was put around his neck.) The trap was sprung by Albert Pierrepont, nephew of the famed hangman who executed America. Joyce's death ended a fantastic career which led him from Fascist street fights in England to an infamous place as Hitler’s No. 1 English language broadcaster. Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels paid Joyce $60 a week for his radio work, which consisted of four daily broadcasts. Banks Must Report WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (INS) — Preston Delano, comptroller of the currency, today issued a call for all national banks to report the condition of business as of Dec. 31, 1945. Envoy Called Home COPENHAGEN, Jan. 3 (INS) — Monnet B. Davis, American minister to Copenhagen, said today that he has been called home to Washington for a conference. Honolulu aboard an ATC plane. The former commanding general of the 14th Air Force had no statement to make before his departure, but Chinese consulate officials at San Francisco hinted he might be headed for a civilian job with the central government. It was rumored that Chennault would take over the direction of Chinas military pilot training program. 