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BURTOSi Weather Report Continued warm Friday rOIXSN' COCST. THURSDAY 59 Cf a --'MA TTfr On Guard for Over a Century CpfYl rrr BURTON -METROPOLITAN 'iV li2trTYcar 26 Pager Cents Friday, August 14, i Scion of Noted Detroit Family and His Wife Never Regains Consciousness U.S. Marines Seize Solomons A ir drome Gain on Cualdalcanal and at Tulagi Harbor; Jap Ships Blasted Women's Stories Partly Explain Scion's Adventures Before Stroke City and County authorities looked Thursday night fx explanation of the case of died at 10:18 p. m. in Re medical science for an John Duval Dodge, who ceiving Hospital under the of his career as a playboy.

4 till Hospital authorities said that the body of the forty-three- year-old scion, of a multi-millionaire automobile maker would ba removed to the fourth floor from the room in which he died, in dicating that a post-mortem examination would be performed. Inspector John O. Whitman, that an autopsy would be performed at 10 a. m. Friday.

Dodge died without regaining consciousness. With him at the time were only a nurse and physician. His wife, Mrs. Dora Dodge, had left the hospital five minutes before. At 10:45 sha returned with Howard Lange and Albert Stover, family friends i who indirectly figured in the strange events leading to Dodge's seizure as a prowler suspect, a scuffle with the police and removal to the hospital in a condition which physicians said could have been induced by a physical affliction or a blow.

1942. No. 102 ports steaming along near New Guinea. They were believed carrying reinforcements to the Solomons. Bad weather prevented the Allied airmen from observing the results of their attacks, said a communique issued here.

Bag Three Planes They'did, however, shoot down three and damage three of 13 Japanese Zero fighter planes which tried to intercept them. Military experts, meanwhile, believed the greatest air-naval battle of the Pacific war now is raging in the Solomons. Tho Marines were reported to have broken Jap resistance at key points on Tulagi and to be con solidating their newly won positions there under fierce attack by Japanese heavy bombers and fighters, now deprived of one of their most valuable landing grounife. The Marines were said to have received heavy reinforcements. Japanese forces were being driven back to heavy jungle lands, where the natural cover will great ly increase the difficulties of Alliel mopping-up parties, it was re ported.

From the jungles they are ex pectel to carry on guerilla warfare, as did the Allies in the Netherland East Indies, but Allied control of sea and air bases will cut them -toff from supplies and communication centers. Navy's Report Terse (The United States Navy, at Washington, announced in a com munique that "operations are continuing in the Solomon Islands area," but gave no indication of the progress of American forces.) Dispatches from the New Zea land headquarters of Rear Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, who commands the Solomon assault force. said that it was believed In unofficial circles that battleships carriers, cruisers, destroyers, sub marines and auxiliary ships were locked in the greatest battle of the Pacific war, and that, intentionally or otherwise, the Allies appeared to have opened a major "second front" in the Solomons. New Zealand observers said that it might still be a localized action: but the main Jap fleet inter vened, it could be the turning point of the war.

Reports indicated that the Jap Turn to rage 16, Column 5 Family of 3 Dies in Crash A war worker, his wife and two- year-old daughter were killed at 3:30 m. Thursday when a speeding r.utomobile in which they were riding went out of control and crashed into a tree on the Ann Arbor Trail, near Wayne Road. Harold Peterson, 27 years old, an employee of the Kelsey-Hayes plant, and his wife, whose first name and age could not be estab lished by sheriff's deputies, died at the scene. The child, Carlene, was dead on arrival at Eloise Hospital. The Petersons lived at 8028 Ravine, Nankin Township.

A. Mrs. Dodge, who had been near collapse during her husband' last hours, had to be assisted from the death room by Lange and Stover. She slill wore the dark glasses and lip bandage with which she had first appeared at the hospital. i MRS.

JOHN DUVAL DODGE AND FRIENDS Leaving hospital after husband's death JOHN DUVAL DODGE Succumbed to cerebral hemorrhage BY DOX CASWELL Vnlted Prrsi Cormpondtnt Cr Hf APAPTWTTP'Q UTT A TV (QUARTERS, Australia, Aug. 14 (Friday) United States Marines have captured a Japanese airfield on Guadacanal Island of the Solomons group in bitter hand-to-hand fighting, it was reported today as a communique revealed that Allied bombers, lending support to the great Pacific battle which rntered its second week today, had made three attacks Thursday on Jap warships and trans- Baby Girl iorLindy Reported A nine-pound baby girl wag born to the Charles A. Lindberghs at Henry Ford Hospital Thursday it was reported. Complete secrecy surrounded the imported addition to the family of tha famous flier. Ford Hospital ANNE LINDBERGH Mother a fifth time attaches refused to say anything about the report.

Doctors would neither deny nor affirm the report. The daughter would be the fifth child born to the famous aviator and his wife, and their second daughter. The Lindberghs were married May 27, 1929. Their firstborn child, Charles was kidnaped and slain in 1932. Jon Morrow Lindbergh, their second child, was born Aug.

2, 1932. Land Morrow Lindbergh was born on May 12, 1937. Their first daughter was born Oct. 2, 1940. British Fine Three for Sleeping on Job New Tork Times Fore Ijn Service LONDON.

Auir. 13-Three Brit ish workers who left Important jobs during working hours to sleep in factory shelters were fined 15 pounds each at Southampton today. This action was instigated by i "Imp stewards who thought that the trio had been insufficiently runished by being fired. Hon. Permit Will Be Revoked on Next Visit MIDLAND, Aug.

13 (AP) Maj. Art Goebel, holder of permit to fly over Tokio, is all set he got his bombardier's certificate today from the Midland Army Flying School. The Tokio permit was given the famous Pacific flier on a good-will flight some years ago. 17 CONVICTS ESCAPE RALEIGH, N. Aug.

13 'AP) Seventeen convicts escaped today from Northampton County Prison camp after trussing up their guards. Only five had been recaptured by posses tonight. On Inside Pacs "m's'nts 14-15 Chatterbox 30 flapper 12 Classified 22-2-1 Clubs 10 Crossword 22 Msrar Guest 6 Editorials 6 fashions 11 Ftsnk rjill 20-L'l Lyons 26 Parade 25 Merry-Go-R'd 6 My Day 12 6 fi 20 25 Newton Quillen Racing Radio Reporter Recipes Ruth Alden 1S-1P Mnio-roj 21 TheSma fohb 10 Town Crirr 2S Ward Washmcton 12 21 20 12 Sabo uTrrrann omen P-12 jl most hectic circumstances head of the Homicide Squad, said J.D.Dodge OhenHitthe FrontPage Death Thursday night ended a career which had put John Duval Dodge on the front page repeatedly since he ran away in 1918 to marry Marie O'Connor, a former schoolmate at Eastern High School. She was 18 years old and he was approaching 21 at the time. For this, apparently, Dodge wa cut off in the will of his father with a mere $150 a month.

Worked as Mechanic Dodge and his bride eloped to Pontiac and later Dodge refused to give his son further financial support. W'hen John F. Dodce died In New York Jan. 14, 1920, John Duval's" return north was too late for the funeral. The father's estate amounted to $50,000,000 that he had amassed in Dodge Brothers, in which he was associated with his brother, and in tne Ford Motor Co.

His will declared: "The provis ions I have made in this will have been made after careful thought and deliberation. I believe these provisions to be the most wise I can make for my said son John Duval Dodge. Left but $1.50 a Month The younger Dodge tried for more than 10 years to set aside the will, which left him only $150 a month, and In 1931 made a settlement with his stepmother, sis ters and brother in which agreed to renounce all claims on the estate upon payment of $1,704,222. By 1933, when Dodge was divorced and married to a divorcee within the period of a week, most of the money was gone. The first wife got a large part of it in a rettlement, signed at the time of the divorce, that gavn her $300,000 and set up a trust fund of $108,000 for their daughter, Mary Ann, who was mm years old at the time.

Much of the remainder of ths money had been squandered in ths preceding two years in unsuccess ful ventures to manufacture a mo tor car, launch a real-estate pro motion in France and establish chain of night clubs in Detroit. Within a week after the whirl wind divorce proceedings Dodga was married to Mrs. Dora Mc Donald Cline, whose mother was manager of an E. Grand Blvd. apartment building.

In spite of his 1933 agreement to forego any further share of the Turn to Page 13, Column 2 They'll Share a House by Sail ing It in Half BUFFALO, N. Aug. 13 (AP)A long court dispute over ownership of a two and storv frame house will be ended! tomorrow bv carpenters v. ho saw the dwelling half. The state Supreme Court ru'e-I trmt w'urski owns wcupant cr.e tbt, owr.j other half.

Her injuries, according to a- statement which Prosecutor Wil liam E. liowllng said she made to him, were received when Dodge assaulted her. During the after noon and evening, when Dodge's temperature continued to rise and finally passed 107 degrees, she frequently rested on a cot beside ms bed. Death Expected Hope that Dodge would recover enough to make a statement was abandoned at 4:45 p.m. when a doctor told reporters; "He's not going to make it." whitman said that he was still openminded as to whether Dodge suffered a hemorrhage or a skull fracture.

"Our investigation entirely depends upon the findings of the post-mortem," he said. "We had hoped to question Dodge as to the scuffle that took place between himself and his wife in the kitchen of the Lange home." Fight Unwitnessed Whitman said that Miss Fon taine, the only person In the house at the time of the scuffle between Dodge and Mrs. Dodge, said that she was in another room at the time. One point to be cleared up, Whitman said, was how the bowl, that Mrs. Dodge had carried into the home, had been broken.

The bowl, which Mrs. Dodge took with her for the purpose of getting ice cubes, was found on the floor of the kitchen where the reported fight took place. The quarrel with his wife and the scuffle with police were inci dents in a lively evening that ended with a woman clad in a nightgown and robe watching from bushes as police took Dodge into custody at 3 a. m. Wednesday as a suspected house prowler.

Dowling said that one of the things cleared up was that Dodge was not prowling, he was freely admitted to the home of Howard Lange, 7860 Van Dyke Place. His attempt to remove a window screen made him look like a prowler, Dowling said. Dowling Asks Question The current theory is that Dodge suffered a stroke because of ex citement. It had been assumed that this was brought on by his arrest, but Dowling asked a ques lion instead of answering one when questioned about it. "Is it possible that there was enough excitement when his wife walked in on him to cause his Dowling asked.

There follows Dowling's reconstruction of what led up to the accident based on statements made by Mrs. Dodge, Miss Mignon Fon taine and others: Mrs. Dodge last saw her husband Monday night, according to the report from Dowling. When she awoke Tuesday in their apart merit in the Detroit Towers, 8162 E. Jefferson, he was gone.

That night he telephoned her, and she Judged that he was drinking. Tuesday night sne had as i guest at dinner a family friend Albert Stover, of Belle River, and afterward William Tucker, an air-raid warden, of 7876 Van Dyke Place, whose family was reported vacationing, and Mrs. Sonny Allen Stecn, of 7870 Van Dyke Place, whose husband was away, came over. They had cocktails, went out for food, and then went to Tucker home The report to Dowling continued! that the Tucker refrigerator was i i not working and Mrs. Dodge got; up on a chair to see if anyone Lange's.

She not only saw a light, Turn to Tage 11, Column 3 I Frr FreasPtiotoi Builder May HaltHcrman Gardens Job BY OWEN C. DEATRICK Frw Pnn Staff Writer Governmental and Detroit Housing Commission red tape has put the brakes on the 2,150 unit S. James Herman Gardens Housing Project for the last month and may bring the proj ect to a complete stop Monday in spite of Detroit's desperate need for more houses. This statement was made Thursday by E. L.

McNamara, construction superintendent of the Cauld- well-Wingate Co. He said that buck passing and interoffice delays in getting approval on substi tute materials vitally needed to complete the project meant that Herman Gardens, at Joy and Southfield, would not be finished before next spring. Can't Get OK on Iron Pipe "Everybody involved knows that we can't get copper," McNamara said. "Yet we have been trying for almost one month to get housing officials to say that we can use wrought-iron pipe instead of 5,000 pounds of copper. Be cause of this delay the plastering will probably not be finished until late in the winter and the side walks and pavements will not be completed before next spring.

"Since July 17 all interior plumb' ine has been at a standstill be- cause we could not get official approval to go ahead. 1 "First we went to the Octroi Housing Commission, and after the commission approved the change, efforts were made to get the consent of the United States Housing Authority's regional office in Chicago. That has not as yet been obtained. "I have advised our New York office to walk off this job next Monday, unless we get some co operation." Cites Dispute on Overtime McNamara said that the material dispute had been piled on Turn to Page 16, Column 1 Canadians Seek 3 Nazi Saboteurs HALIFAX, N. Aug.

13 (AP) City detectives said today that they have photographs and descriptions of three suspected Nazi saboteurs believed to have landed from U-boats somewhere along the Atlantic Coast of Canada or the United States. One suspect was said to have Jivi an tim in lid.v.&iitoi. Yank Bombers Blast Three of Italy's Cruisers hj tho AMortatfA Frfai CAIRO, Aug. 13 United States four-motored bombers severely damaged three Italian cruisers found at Pylos, Greek harbor on the Ionian Sea at cautious distance from the convoy battle which the Axis insisted was raging in the Mediterranean. (The latest German claim, unconfirmed, was that the United States aircraft carrier Wasp had been set afire by six bombs and was trying to reach Malta.

(London called the Axis reports of the convoy battle "inaccurate" and indicated an official statement would be made tomorrow.) Results of the high-level attack made by the huge bombers at MALTA'S VITAL ROLE WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (UP) Malta, the most heavily bombed spot in the world, will be the jumping off place for an Allied invasion of Italy, Air Marshal Sir Hugh Pughe Lloyd, who commanded the RAF on the island fortress during its darkest hours, said today. Pylos by daylight were announced today as: Two direct hits on one cruiser, followed by a terrific explosion; a second cruiser set afire with columns of black smoke pouring from her; a third cruiser damaged by an explosion. A fourth Italian cruiser apparently escaped undamaged. The bombers flew a round trip, returning in darkness to bases either in Egypt or Cyprus, Turn to Fage 16, Column Allies Spur Raider Hunt New Vork TimM Fordjn Smite RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug.

13 Several United Nations war craft are reported hunting the German raider in the South Atlantic but no contact has been reported. Shore-based planes have extended their patrols farther out to sea. The opinion expressed that the raider may be a camouflaged cruisjr apparently Is borne out by the fact that she is speedy enough to evade vigorous pursuit beyond the speed limits or any converted raider. HAVANA, Aug. 13 (UP) The Cuban Navy announced today that 27 gurvivors of two small Cuban freighters, torpedoed and sunk Aujr.

12, had been landed at a Mr rtft in Nazis Drive 65 Miles into the Caucasus BY HENRY SHAPIRO UnHffJ Prom Correnpondpnt MOSCOW, Aug, 14 (Friday) German troops have pushed 65 miles farther down the Rostov-Baku railway to Mineralny Vody, 140 miles from the oil capital of Grozny, the Russians reported today, but stiffening Red Army resistance on other fronts eased the threats to Stalingrad and Black Sea naval bases. "In the area of Mineralyne Vody our units fought defensive battles with numerically superior enemy forces," the High Command announced, revealing the new German advance 65 miles down the railroad from Nevinnomyss-kaya, where another column struck southward into the Caucasus foothills around Cherkesk. Stop 800 Nazi Tanks Earlier dispatches said that Russian troops, tanks and dive bombers defending the outer approaches to Stalingrad, "with incredible ferocity," had hurled back 300 German tanks In one great battle and routed two Axis divisions in another. The late communique said that the Russians attacked in one sector of the KIctskaya front, 70 miles northwest of Stalingrad, Turn to Page 1fl, Column 8 then made the rounds with an Instrument known as the Geigei counter which he has used in detecting and recovering $250,000 worth of lost radium In all parts of the United States. He built the device himself at a cost of only $35.

Dr. Corrigan worked all Wed nesday night and until 6 p. m. Thursday listening in earphones for clicking sounds which always before had told him when he and his ray-catching device were with in 125 feet of radium. "Until workmen began carrying away the last pile of sludge at the West Jefferson plant I had heard only the eight clicks to the minute which the counter ordi nanly registers due to cosmic rays." Dr.

Corrigan said. "Then I began to pick up 16 counts to the minute and I knew radium from a nearby point was givin The six needles with thr precious contents intact were found (in the last shovel of sludg e. The World Today (AUG. 1912) (Frf Trm rarr wllh nf frlrnriii In tits tmtlntt'i flvhttnit RRrvir nfininri ran krep Uirm Infitrmcl nf world rvpntK hr rlluoini no nralllnx this daily fefllurt to thrm.t THE WAR Big U. S.

bombers blast three Italian cruisers in Greek harbor while Axis reports tremendous naval battle raging In Mediterranean with Allied convoy being riddled and American aircraft carrier Wasp damaged. American fighter planes sweep Europe 31 times in 48 hours, starting large scale American activity In this theater of war. Marines battling on the Solomon Islands are reported to have taken a Jap alrbase and made other gains, although the Navy reveals nothing officially and the Allied offensive remains obscured in its seventh day. A German advance of 65 miles toward another Caucasus oil field is admitted by Russia, although defenders of Stalingrad appear to hold firm. 25 YEARS AGO TODAY With only slight casualties, the Canadian troops, fighting south and east of Loos, succeeded in capturing two miles of enemy position on a hill overlooking the city of Lens.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS Senators are told that present tax bill's excess profits levies would compel Boeing Aircraft maker of Flying Fortresses, to quit business. House passes bill to advance date of payment of Government allowances to dependents of service men despite War Department opposition. IN DETROIT Government red tape may halt construction of S. James Herman Gardens housing project. Radium missing from Harper Hospital found at sewage plant.

Questionnaires show Detroit women willing to do any job to win the war. Eloise attendant arraigned on charges of beating patient who died in hospital. Sanders stores to reopen following strike settlement. John Duval Dodge dies. Fifth child and second daughter reported born to Mr.

and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh at Ford Hospital. SPORTS A double in the last of the ninth with the bases loaded and two out gives Indians 3-2 victory over Tigers. Eddie Rack wins Union rrint-rrsft, tnitrnament f-sr fifth year in a row, taking title with "f'9 in bpat out Joe Sommers by seven strokes.

PHYSICIST TRAILS TREASURE Six Needles of Radium Found in Mountain of Detroit Sewage Harper Hospital's six platinum needles, each containing more than $1,000 worth of radium, were back in the hospital vaults Thursday night, having been discovered through a feat of scientific detection as brilliant as any performed by J. Edgar Hoover's laboratory criminologists. When hospital attaches discovered Wednesday that the fortune in medical equipment was missing they called in Dr. Kenneth E. Cor-rigan, one of the institution's own physicists who has achieved a national reputation as a radium detective.

Dr. Corrigan decided that the needles had been flushed into a sewer by accident. Working in co-nperation with the city engi- office ana heads or tne sewage disposal system, he had hundreds nf tons or siunge uumpcii at the sewer outlets pa through processing machines on conveyors rrse in huq-e piles at all disposal plants. The physicist jured. Tw enty-three others from and is wanted by police there.

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