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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-09
FOR
PROSECUTING
ATTORNEY
Primaries Tuesday, September 10


These letters were written introducing
Andrew j. Sawyer to the United States Court
of Milwaukee, when he was called there to de-
fend Commodore S. Cooksey, charged with
having transported 100000 in Govern
ment Bonds from Chicago to Milwaukee,
knowing them to be stolen. Which cause
terminated in the discharge of the Respondent.
The letters conclusively set forth the standing
of Mr.. Sawyer, Candidate for Prosecuting At
torney, as practicing attorney in the State
of Michigan.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-09
May 18TH, 1888.
Dear str:-

Dear sir:
The bearer Of this letter is Mr.. A. j .
Sawyer whom I understand is to be engaged in the
trial Of q in the Court to which you are
attached some time Mr.. Sawyer is lawyer
Of note and good standing at this bar and
practt toner in all Of the courts in this state.
Very respec fully,
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-09

Hon. Clerk Of the
United States District Court,
Milwaukee, wi sc onstn.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-09

CLERK of the United States District Court
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Dear Str:
This is to certify that Andrew. Sawyer
of Ann Arbor, Nichi gan, is member Of
the Bar of WaehtenaW County and State OF
Nj chi gan, in good standing, and I do here
by certify the foregoing fact to be true
Of my own knowledge.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-09

Political ADVERTISEMENT
Evening star., 1940-12-29

The earliest lighthouses were the
towers built by the Lbyans and
Cushites in lower Egypt. They were
maintained by priests.
Evening star., 1940-12-29
Husband for 4S Years
Held in Death OF Wife
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSOCIATED PreSS.
BELINGTON, w. Va, Dec. "a
Mrs. Ella Koontz, 68, was found dy-
ing of a pistol wound today at her
daughters home. the climax of a
quarrel with her husband of 4s
years, Sheriff J. N. Forman reported.
Mr.. Forman said that Mort c.,
koontz, 75-year-old retired farmer.
had been placed in the Barbour
County Jail at Philippi for question
ing about his wife's death.
The sheriff said that Mrs. Koontz
came to the home OF her daughter,
Mrs. Jack Bigman, four or five weeks
ago from her farm home near Bel
lngton. He said neignpors told him
that Mr.. ana Mrs. Koontz had been
"quarreling" and unable to get
along lately"
Today Koontz came to the Big
man home to persuade his wife TO
return. Sheriff Forman said he was
told by Mrs. Bigman that her
mother refused and a quarrel de-
veloped.
The Koontzes were married in
1892. They had three sons and
one other daughter besides Mrs.
Bigman.
Evening star., 1940-12-29
British Aid Protest Text
No Foreign War Committee Urges
President to Keep 'Compoign Assurances

closed in 1919, of an endless war,
most definitely had not been fought
to save the world for democracy.
Also the signers of this telegram
respectfully ask you, as their high
est elected public servant and Gov
ernment leader, not to lend or give
away the defenses of their Nation
as you propose to ask Congress that
5000, 100000 worth of those de-
fenses be loaned or given to Britain.
We hope that somehow every
genuine democratic principle for
which Britain stands may survive
this calamitious renewal Of Europe s
ancient war, no phase of which
ever has been fought TO promote or
preserve the fundamentals of pure
democracy.
Trusting that you are correctly
informed when you repeatedly tell
them that then own country's de-
lenses are dangerously inadequate,
and that all haste must be made in
furious effort to strengthen those
defenses against some aggressor
who may have designs upon this
hemisphere, the common people of
the great Middle West and many
States outside that solidly American
area, are fearful when they see so
much of their defense equipment
and material shipped overseas.
Difficult to Believe Dangers.
II England's plight is as critical
as you tell us, there is possibility
that she may be unable much longer
TO Withstand aggressor attack upon
her empire. Mr.. Knudsen long de-
layed his admission that our de-
Tense program lags, a fact which
observant Americans had known for
months.
But now that we know of this lag
which we are told is threatening TO
our security and peace, it is normal
that we should worry about the dan
gers repeatedly confronting us,Aere
in the United States. Some of us
md 1t difficult to believe that these
dangers are as acute as pictured.
But, AS good Americans, we should
accept the word of our President.
And we do. After you have spoken
TO us tomorrow evening, our "ignor-
ance and lethargy and disbelief"
doubtless will have been removed
And then as the ITO prominent
Americans said in their Thursday
telegram, our democracy will have
peen insulated against such dreadful
extinction as has overtaken demo-
cracies elsewhere.
There are some $500 signatures
on this telegram, Mr.. President. If
it be your desire to have more sigma
lures, in proof of the convictions,
sincerity and Americanism of the
common people of the Middle West
and other States, and will so advise
your secretary, Mr.. Early, the No
Foreign War Committee will be
happy to send them along, by tele-
graph, prepaid.
Evening star., 1940-12-29
De GuuIIe
Continued From First Page }

Rightist leader whose bitter tongue
used to be thorn in the side of all
Leftist and Centrist parties in Re
publican France.
Both M. Doriot and M. Bergery
were said to have pledged full sup
port and both soon may be given
official positions in the government.
The reported agreement puts an
end to speculation that Pierre Laval,
ousted foreign minister and vice
premier, was trying to enlist the
Rlghtist leaders aid in Paris.
M. Doriot, a former Communist,
has concentrated since the armis-
tlce on building up his Extremist
Rlghtist party into the strongest
single political unit in both occu-
pied and unoccupied France.
Its members were famed in pre-
war Republican France for their
toughness and helped to fill the
ranks OF the "Groupe de Protec-
ton" after the war. The G.. P.
enjoyed brief existence as the
French equivalent of the German
S. S.-Adolf Hitler's black -shirted
Elite Guard--until the Germans de-
manded that 1t be dissolved.
Evening star., 1940-12-29
Rochester Group Urges
ANY Aid to Britain
sN the Associated Press.

9' AilC noopN4ekNA tNeos
ROCHESTER, N. Y, Dec. e9-
Twenty three members of tho
Rochester Committee TO Defend
America by Aiding the Allies, a
branch Of the national group headed
by William Allen White, today tele-
graphed President Roosevelt to urge
immediate aid TO Great Britain in
any and every form you feel is pos
sible."
Among signers Of the telegram
was Harper Sibley, former president
OF the Chamber of Commerce Of
the United States.
The message said In part: I'VE
are certain the great majority Of
our people will support you in an
measures short Of war which you
feel should BE- taken at this time.
Particularly we believe it to be
vitality important to do something
now before it is too late"
Evening star., 1940-12-29
La Guardia Suggests
To White His Group
Had Better Divide
Form New Section to Aid
The Allies With Words,
Mayor Writes Him
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-Mayor La
Guardia, chairman Of the American
section of the United States Cana
dian Joint Defense Board, said to-
day that the Committee to Defend
America by Aiding the Allies had
better divide"
In letter to William Allen White,
committee chairman, Mr. La Guardia
said:
II read your statement saying
what the Committee TO Defend
America by Aiding the Allies would
not do. Strange, when the going
was good for the Allies, you and
others were strong in saying what
you would do. Now that the going
is bad, you are doing a typical Laval.
1T occurred to me that the COM
mittee had better divide. You could
continue as chairman of the Com
mittee TO Defend America by Aid
ing the Allies With Words and the
rest of us would join Committee
TO Defend America by Aiding the
Allies With Deeds That at least
would identify the division which I
am sure your statement will cause"
Mr.. White in statement copy
righted by the Scripps- Howard
Newspaper Alliance December %
said the only reason he was a mem
ber of the Committee to Defend
America by Aiding the Allies was
ito keep this country out OF war"
Mr.. White expressed opposition
to repeal of the johnson Act, which
bars loans to debt-defaulting ma
tions, and said it was mot true, even
remotely, that We favor repeating Of
that portion of the neutrality law
which forbids American ships to
carry contraband into the war"
He added that 81 have sat in all
our executive councils, all our policy
making committees, and I have
never heard war as an alternative
objective seriously discussed by any
official group Of our organization at
any time"
Evening star., 1940-12-29
Editor Asks Increase
In Help 10 Britain,
Whatever the Cost
Agar Calls Aid Surest
Means Of Preserving
The American Way
By the Associated Press.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 2s.-Irn-
mediate and increased aid for Great
Britain-whatever the cost in work
or wealth or hardship"-was urged
tonight oy Herbert Agar, editor Of
the Courier journal and member
OF the William Allen White Com
mittee to Defend America by Aiding
the Allies, as the surest means Of
preserving the American way Of life.
He spoke on the Peoples Forum,
broadcast nationally by the Colum-
bia Broadcasting System.
You cannot appease revolu-
ton" Mr.. Agar said. "The best we
can hope for If we let Britain fall
if we let the revolution take the
whole earth except our one conti-
nent-is gloomy years of increasing
militarism, increasing economic
pressure from the slave-world with
out"
The debate on what I'VE should do
for Britain" he added, "is really a
debate on what the war is about. If
we agree on what is happening most
of us will agree on what America
should do.
Revolution Against Our Way.
"What is happening-according to
the men who are making it happen
is revolution against our whole
way of life. Hitler and Mussolini
tell us that all our ideas are fraud
ulent, are passing phases in the
long and bloody story Of man, and
that their way is done. In the place
of Christian brotherhood and obedi-
ence to moral law this revolution
puts 'racism' and obedience to pure
power. In the place Of democracy
it puts the slavery Of subjects to
the master race *+'
mo one who sees the truth can
doubt what we ought to do. We
must resist the revolution. We must
send those stone gods back to their
gloomy paradise SO that we can turn
again to the job of building a world
fit for democrats and Christians to
live in.
THE first step is to give every
ounce of aid to Britain. Whether
we call that being at peace, or
whether we call 1t being at war,
or whether we borrow Hitler's talk
and call it protecting Germany
doesn't matter. There lies our first
job-to make the goods, and see,
to it that they get into the British
isles whatever that may cost us
in work or wealth or hardship. We
are not doing that Job we'll enough
today.
The Awful Burden"
"On Christmas about ITO Ameri-
cans signed letter to Mr.. Roosevelt
asking him to lead us out of
lethargy to tell us the truth about
the danger ahead, to do every
thing necessary to insure defeat Of
the axis. Everything-nothing less
than that is good enough
Countless Americans would have
been proud to sign this letter.
ask every such person who is listen
ing tonight to send word at once
to the President that he or she
approves the request for light, and
leadership and victory.
Whatever laws must be repealed
to do the job right, we should re-
peal them. Whatever emergencies
must be declared to put our fac
tories on 24-hour, 7-day basis-we
should declare them. No one who
knows the danger will disagree.
Evening star., 1940-12-29
SIS Cincinnutiuns Ask
President for Peace
b, the Associated Press.

DE- Ntlc AssOClbLtQ fTtsS.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 2s.-Fifty- five
Cincinnatians sent a telegram to-
day urging President Roosevelt TO
continue to use your leadership to
maintain peace for the United
States"
I'VE express sharp disagreement
with the l6s persons who wired you
Thursday asking you to adopt a
policy that would very probably
commit us to war" the telegram
said.
80 . AS a n-sectarian group
we applaud the statement of Arch
bishop John t. McNicholas that
10 per cent of the people are try
ing to involve us in a war we do
not want"
Signers included Mrs. Robert A.
Taft, wife Of Senator Taft, and Mrs.
Hubert Taft, wife of the publisher
of the Times Star.
Evening star., 1940-12-29

Americans who want to do moth
ing-or to 60 on doing too little
do not see the moral ruin that
threatens us
so I argue tonight for some
thing bigger than aid to Britain.
plead for aid to mankind-to our
own souls, our dignity, our self
respect. Civilization means law,
and a sense that we are members
one OF another. . Only by seeing
the awful truth and accepting the
awful burden can we put America
first"
Evening star., 1940-12-29
Fog in Maine HuIts
Traffic and Shipping

By the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Me, Dec. 28.-Mo-
torists CROPPED over shrouded high
ways, commercial airplanes refused
to venture aloft and shipping vir-
tually was at standstill tonight in
thick fog which has engulfed Maine
for two days.
Weather Bureau forecasters pre-
dicted the fog siege would continue
tomorrow accompanied by snow
and rain. Temperatures between
"a and a above zero were forecast.
Evening star., 1940-12-29
StreumIiner's Cars
Named for Flowers

CHICAGO, Dec. 28-Passengers
from Midwestern cities bound for
Florida holiday will ride in air
conditioned streamlined cars named
for Florida's famous flowers. The
City of Miami, only streamliner
operating between Chicago and
Miami, will include the Bougain-
villea, Camellia, Japonica, Palm
Garden, Hibiscus, Poinsettia and
Bamboo Grove.
Evening star., 1940-12-29
Bubcock Receives Gift
From F. H. A. EMPLOYEES

Employees of underwriting Offices
Of the Federal Housing Administra-
ton throughout the United States
yesterday paid tribute to Frederick
M. Babcock, retiring assistant ad-
ministrator. with the presentation
OF q silver service.
Mr.. Babcock retired after six years
Of service with the F. H. A. The
presentation was made at his home,
64i0 Meadow lane, Chevy Chase,
Md, by F. A. Van Patten, chief un-
derwriter, at Richmond, Va, and L.
C. Chappell, assistant director of
the underwriting division of the
Washington headquarters.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03

Twin City Reporter and was to take
the place of Miss Anderson, who
was vacationing.
Joe Anderson of the fourth grade
was absent from school on account
of illness.
A hundred and fifty members of
the Presbyterian Sunday school
were entertained with a party at the
church. Musical selections for the
evening were gwen by Mrs. Auers-
valid, Miss Louise Gravenslund and
Wilmot Gravenslund. Mrs. Hoyt,
Miss Rosella Hamilton, Ruby Slaug-
enhaupt and George Richardson
were in charge of the entertainment.
Grin Beinhart of the seventh
grade was reported i'll.
The officers of the Junior class of
the high school for the coming year
were Merrill Rawson, Nellie Hoad-
ley and May Holloway.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03

The syndicated column which ap-
pears in $50 daily newspapers I'M
der the head of Marriage Med
dlerS' is written by Mrs. Adele Gar
riSon, Of Kent, Connecticut. Mrs.
Garrison celebrated recently the 25th
year Of her column, which appears
in Subscribing dailies six times weekly,
During the twenty-five years in
which the column has appeared
Mrs. Garrison has written an esti-
mated 100000 words, euuivolent
to one-fourth of the Encyclopedia
Britannica or equivalent to 100 av-
erage length novels or eight times
the total words in the Bible. Mrs.
Garrison is 66 years old. She spent
ten years as a school teacher be-
fore entering the newspaper bust
ness in which profession she spent
six years, marrying a fellow newspa-
per man. She has a family of four
children.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03
SOMETHING WRONG

Here is a problem of our own that
needs bit of correcting. It didn't
take a New York judge to let us
know that our present system of
marriage and divorce is a disgrace
to our intelligence. There are too
many state laws that vary with each
other to give a fair deal to all that
come into the courts. One state
recognizes husband and wife while
in another they may become biga-
mistS. One state hands out di-
vorces at the, drop of a hat while
another makes the obtaining Of a
divorce so difficult that in extreme
cases where divorce might be con-
doned it becomes necessary to per-
jure oneself to obtain freedom.
What may be our personal feelings
in Kennewick, regarding divorce, we
are certain that there should be a
more uniform set of laws and more
joint action between all states be-
fore we can elevate our marriage
laws and divorce suits.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03

Walter p. Chrysler, who died re-
Gently at the age of IS, was born in
a small Kansas town where at the
age Of IL he served as an apprentice
in a railroad round house for S cents
an hour. AT the age of So he was
manager for the American Locomo-
tive Co., in Pittsburgh at $4,000 a
year. When young man he
bought locomotive for $4,000, pay
ing 500 down and borrowing the
rest. Before he ever rode in the car
he took it all apart and put it to-
gether again studying its construc-
ton. He accepted a job with the
Buick automobile company at half
the salary he was receiving from
the Locomotive Co., rising to exc
cutive vice-president of General
Motors. In 1920 he took over the re-
of the Willys-OVer-
land and Maxwell companies and in
1924 brought out the Chrysler car.
four years his company.
which included Plymouth, Dodge,
0eSoto and Chrysler was one Of the
big three" auto manufacturers.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03

acknowledgements SuIAIIp lou are
~ he thinks there would be no point
| in his making a campaign tour, in
asmuch as he and what he stands
for are so well known to the coun-
try. On one point, all are agreed
the President was never in finer
form when it comes to his radio
presence and delivery.
Who will win? One of the weekly
picture magazines recently asked
group of well-known Washington
correspondents and commentators,
and all but few hedged. Too much
can happen between now and No
Vember, they said, to make a safe
prediction possible. They were about
evenly divided in giving the edge
at present to either Mr.. Roosevelt
or Mr.. Willkie.
Latest published polls give the
President a substantial lead. But
these polls were taken during the
Willkie let-down period and so
may not mean much. From now on.
the polls should be more significant
and accurate. Hope of Willkie back
ers is that his rating will come
slowly but steadily up, reaching top
just before November 5.
Some are wondering just how &C
curate the modern scientific SAM
ping" polls will prove to be if the
election is close. These polls didn't
come into existence until the
thirties, and have covered two
presidential contests where the vic
;or won with mountaineering ease.
In a really nip-and-tuck election,
where the final decision turned on
few hundred thousand votes in
'Wo or three key states, it is a
question whether the polls would |
make the grade or not.
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TEN YEARS AGO-1930
lG}9S}elG1GSGIS

| TEN YEARS AGO-1930
A check of the packing houses in
! dicated that more than $1,000 day
was being spent here for labor OF
getting Kennewick apples ready for
market. Work was expected to con-
tinue until the first of the year.
The Althea Rebekah lodge was to
celebrate their 18th anniversary the
following week.
w. S. Washburn sold his interests
In the Washburn- Gleason Company
and moved to the coast, where he
was to be engaged in the nursery
business.
Fred Garrett, WS!C.. freshman,
had made the lineup on the state
college football team.
Dudley Beall of Finley had left
Tor Pullman to enter w. S. G. and
his sister, Miss Muriel, was leaving
for California to enter Stanford.
The Misses Alice Mae Smith,
Helen Richards and Ruth Mueller
entered Cheney normal school ten
years ago.
w. j. Barnes had returned from
a trip to England, where he visited
with his parents.
J. B. Slaugenhaupt had gone tc
OIL City, Pennsylvania, where he
was to spend a months vacation
with relatives and friends. T#
Harold Willmsen of Richland left
for Pullman, where he would work
Tor his M. A. degree at w. s. c..
Harry Snively was shipping lambs
to the Chicago market - !
Miss Alice Chalcraft was serious
ly bruised when she collided with
passenger car while crossing the
Street -.~s. = \
A crew Of between 80 and 40 had
been busy the past week cutting
the Concords from the 15-acre vine-
yard OF Church Grape Juice Co
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03

We are in favor of the plan to put
every young man in military train
ing for one year at least. We believe
that such period of training will be
beneficial from the standpoint of
health and training and discipline.
The bill providing for this should
not include so many exemptions
that it will be made joke Anoth-
er reason why we should favor a
years military training is that it
would enable each young man to do
his country a definite service. The
result of this would be that we would
have a heightened degree of appre-
citation for the things we have in
this country and a greater con-
sciousness Of patriotism. The Am
erican Legion members and others
who have served their country in a
Similar manner have an apprecia-
ton of this government and this
country that many who have not
served it, as those have served it,
do not have. If we can secure
greater degree of this appreciation
there will be less danger and less
concern for fifth columnists and
foreign ismS.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03
is HE POOLING

There is oftimes a question in the
minds of Kennewick readers with all
current talk on artillery, what has
happened to the Importance of the
horse in the present battle? There
were days In other attacks, when
the horse played an important role
in the fray, but today the mechan-
lied armament has put the horse
back in the stable, Which should
be pleasing to the horse! We just
learned that Hitler is reported to be
assembling large bodies of horse
cavalry as part of his expeditionary
force to Britain. He must have an
idea that he is going to find the
British other places than on the
battlefront if he expects to use
horses to attack. For although a
horse has played a notable part in
past wars, a successful plan Of bat
tie today does not rely on the caval-
ry.
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her, too. He had written up her
bridge tournament victory-really
done himself proud on the job, he
thought. He had written: "Mrs.
Jilkes proved the winner, the tourn-
ament ending as she smacked the
table with the biggest trump, break
ing up the game" How was the poor
editor to know that the typesetter
had left the ct" off of trump?
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-10-03
WOMEN I'm DEFENSE

Women will be entering the field
of production in the defense in
dustries If all of these orders plac-
ed by the government will mean the
increase in business that it indi-
Gates. Many men will be returning
to the payroll after too long a
rest, but there will be numerous
places that will also be .ued by our