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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-27
u. s. Road Chief
Backs Detroit
Speedway

The proposed Harper-McGraW
superhighway was endorsed today
by Thomas II. Macdonald, United
states commissioner of public
roads, as not only a vital part OF
national defense transportation
but as necessary TO the normal
peacetime growth of Detroit.
Speaking at a luncheon in Hotel
Statler, attended by Gov. Murray
d. Van Wagner, Mayor Edward
j. Jeffries Jr. and Highway Com
missioner Don Kennedy, MacDon-
aid said:
Better roads are one part OF
the defense program which Will
be of lasting benefit. Today we
know that congestion must be
attacked at its heart, the indus
trial center. IL we alleviate
congestion there traffic will
move along our highways.
DETROIT TAKES LEAD
"It Is useless to open up
great speedWays In the country
when a b0ttieneck occurs at the
first big town reached.
Detroit always has taken
the lead In road construction.
When we In Washington found
the new Fort Custer highway
was necessary We had only TO
pick up the telephone to start
the work.
michigan now has one of the
model highway planning systems
of the country"
The Harper McGraw thorough
fare will be built with funds avail
able each year TO the federal high
way administration Effort also
VIII be made 10 obtain additional
funds from Congress as part OF
the national defense program.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-27

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-27

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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
Hugh Walpole,
Novelist, Dies

London, June 2-AP-Hugh Wal.
pole, author OF a novel a year since
he was Is, is dead at 81.
He died OF a heart attack early
Sunday after a week Of illness.
Services will be held Wednes.
day at Keswick, in the Cumberland
Mountains.
An obituary notice said there
would be mo mourning, by his 70.
quest"
Up 10 his last Illness Sir Hugh
kept himself at the writing which
he said came as naturally as
breathing.
His recent work consisted mos..
ly OF contributions TO a London
newspaper book review section.
His 1910 novel was Roman Foun.
tain. in which he recalled an
occasion when Adolf Hitler wept.
Sir Hugh said that was in 1924,
after Hitler's release from the
Munich prison. The novelist
wrote: 81 remember he cried, and
that felt his passion for Germany
so sincere II seemed 10 burn
through his ugly boots into the
ground - o."
Sir Huzh's we're the widely-read
Jeremy books and the "Herries"
saga. He was known in the United
States. too. for his frequent lee
lures and visits.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
7tOo Die, Several Hurt in
Accidents Over Week End,
One Child Drowning Victim,
British Plan to Move Into
Syria, Write Off Crete Loss

mand and named inspector general
OF the Raj. He was succeeded by
his second in command, Air Vice
Marshal A. ". Tedder There was
no indication OF the reason for this
action.
Pour Into Egypt
British troops from Crete we're
pouring into Egypt. Some $4,000
officially were announced as eva.
ouated although, losses in Crete
were admitted TO have been most
severe.
Richard d. Mcmillan United
Press Stan correspondent at Cairo,
talked with many OF the troops.
He found them grim and silent.
They reported that the Nazi air
attack on Crete had been devastat-
ing, that Crete cities literally were
wiped from the map. He said there
were no smiles among the troops.
The universal comment was that
II they had only had some air sup
port they would have had a chance
to hght the Germans on equal
terms.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
ROtarians Told
About Council

All residents would do well to
visit the city council occasionally,
Mayor Ross X. Bower told the Ro-
tary Club members and guests in q
talk on city affairs today.
The program was arranged by p.
VI. Greenstreet. II was a repeti.
ton OF recent Kiwanls hour, he
said, and to start 1t he introduced
Donald Comstock, city assessor.
The present valuation is over ten
million dollars. Mr.. Comstock said,
part Of the drop from previous
high figures being due TO recent
state land sales. In a general re-
view OF city financial affairs he
mentioned some OF revenue and
principal costs.
Following this line OF thought,
T. Fred Older. second speaker,
showed that q large part OF the
money required for municipal ex.
penses is derived through channels
other than direct taxation, such as
water, gas, hospital. courts. and
he emphasized tho care with which
money is handled by Harvey
Holmes, who has served % years
as city clerk.
Mayor Bower was the final speak.
er. He made apparent his earnest
desire 10 conduct affairs OF the
city efficiency and economically
and invited all people to better &C.
quaint themselves with details OF
municipal problems.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
Penalties Added Today to
Dog License Fee Payments

Over 200 dog license tags for
1871 were written in the city trea-
surers office Saturday. the final
day OF fee payment before penal
ties were established today. The
sales brought the total licenses
issued TO approximately $50.
Mrs, Mabel stadtmilier. city
treasurer. did not have sufficient
tags to service people today and
was to obtain more from the coun-
ty office this afternoon.
Fees for CANNES were $3.50 for
male and unsexed and 50 for fe-
male. A 81 penalty will be added
to all. payments made beginning
today.
Kennel licenses cannot be writ
ten at the city treasurer's office.
Persons must go TO the county
treasurer's office at Ann Arbor
and pay $3.50 Including IS
penalty for overdue payment. This
entities the kennel owner 70 10
tags.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
Week End Death Total Ouer 500
Red Gross Group to Start
Work on New County Quota

Beginning Tuesday, the Ypsi-
lanti branch OF the American Red
Cross will begin work on It's
share OF Washtenaw County's
third war relief quota, which is as
follows:
407 women's wool skirts, so cot
ton dresses, 500 girls wool skirts,
500 girls wool dresses, 32o cotton
dresses, 50 boys shirts, 525 boys
shorts. 800 hospital pajamas, 20O
operating gowns, $50 bed shirts,
200 layettes, 400 fodder packs.
These materials have been pur-
chased by the United States gov
eminent from the appropriation
voted by Congress 10 aid belea-
guered countries, and are being
made. into garments through the
voluntary services Of the Ameri-
can Red Cross.
In addition to the above, an ex-
tremely large knitting quota and
an enlarged surgical dressings
quota have been received by the
county, Red Cross officials here
state, 1T has therefore become
necessary 10 earnestly appeal TO
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
. aterfrOnt i'm :
Jersey Burns

Jersey City. n. j.. June Up
Great heaps Of twisted steel and
blackened rubble today marked the
scene OF $2S.0o0,ooO waterfront
fire here.
The ruined area covered eight
blocks. Officials believed a careless
cigaret smoker may have caused
the fire, which started Saturday
evening and burned "a hours.
Federal Bureau OF Investigation
agents were on the scene, but d..
rector J. Edgar Hoover. in Omaha
Neb.. said that no evidence OF sab
otage had been found.
Jersey City and New York firemen
Joined in the fight. More than %
police and firemen were treated for
minor injuries.
The principal damage occurred In
the huge concrete and steel ware.
house OF the Mid-Hudson Company,
where stocks OF crude rubber, oil.
paper. tool steel, alcohol, Scotch
whisky. chemicals and other Com
modities were stored.
Also destroyed were the Jersey
City Stockysrd Company cattle pen,
where the fire apparently started.
an eight-story grain elevator and
engine house. a large milk platform,
nine Hudson River barges. Is
freight cars and two automobiles.
Another warehouse. six ferry slips
and a covered spur OF the Erie Rail
road we're damaged.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
Traffic Accidents
Main Cause of
Tragedies

(Bv international News Service)
The three-day Memorial Day
week end cost the lives OF almost
500 Americans in accidents, a sur
vey by International News Ser
vice indicated today, with trafhc
mishaps taking by far the highest
toll.
California led the states in IA
talities, with more than IS counted
from traffic causes alone, AMI seven
from drownings. M;chigan's traffic
death toll also was high, with SO
reported killed.
Although some 500 persons we're
killed in rancsaccihents. the toll
was not so high as had been pre-
dicted by the National Safety
Council. which had feared more
than 400 deaths on the highways
on the basis of alarming increases
in traffic fatalities this year as
compared TO 1910.
New York state reported at least
IS auto deaths and Is persons were
killed in auto accidents in Indiana,
among the heavy traffic states.
There was bright side, too, to
the dismal picture. According TO
late reports, there were no holt
day traffic deaths in the District
of Columbia, and in metropolitan
Chicago, where traffic authorities
estimated more than 100000 auto
mobiles moved in and out OF the
city, there were but two fatalities.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
Fight Against
WarPrOposed

Washington. June 2-CP-Dele-
gates to the second National Anti
War Congress- returned TO l25 com
munities today to carry on
Home front" battle against United
States entrance into the war.
They had adopted a resolution
calling for confscation OF all de-
tense industries, natural resources
and the banking and credit system
ITO stop warmongering and proht-
eering'.
The more than 600 delegates
were eager to begin campaign in
hometown newspaper Offices, ra-
do stations and churches for time
and space to keep the L. S. at
peace.
The congress ended its three-day
annual convention yesterday in
the Sylvan Theater. near the Wash
ington Monument, where delegates
from 25 states heard Rep. Jean
nette Ranking. d., Mont, the only
woman member of Congress in
1917, appeal for energy and dis
patch in the peace movement.
The "confscation" resolution,
one OF a series of proposals APP
proved by the congress, caused
heated debate. A proposal by
Frederick Libby. executive seore-
tary OF the National Council for
Prevention OF War, TO tone It
down" was defeated, 1865 TO g.
Maynard Kruger, assistant pro-
lessor OF economics at the Uni
versity OF Chicago and Socialist
leader, championed the resolution
because it would halt the trend
toward total militarization of the
American economy.
Defense industries. the banking
system and natural resources
should be operated ito meet the
needs OF our people instead OF for
profit and they must be operated
under democratic control" the
resolution said.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
German Peace
Offer Hinted

Washington, June 2-lNS-Some
informed washington observers to-
day believe that John G. Winant,
American ambassador TO London.
has returned to the United States
to report personally TO President
Roosevelt the terms Of a German
peace OFFER TO Britain.
Speculation revnlves on the pos
sibility that a German peace offer
was actually delivered to the Brit
ish by Rudolf Hess. No. 3 Nazi.
after his sensational solo flight
to Scotland May 10. II Hess did
carry an oficial or unofficial Ger
man peace offer, it is pointed out,
then Winant would be the logical
person to bring news of it, along
with the British governments re-
action. to President Roosevelt.
Aside from Winant's return.
there have been other rumors in
Washington OF impending peace ne.
gotiations. Over the holiday week
end, Sen. Wheeler (D) Mont, lead
er OF the Senate non-intervention-
lists, called on the President Ito
take the people into your conf
dence and inform them of the Ger.
man peace terms" Wheeler de-
clined to amplify his appeal but
indicated it was based upon some
knowledge OF a German peace Of
fer.
Winant. who returned by Clipper
TO New York Friday. rested over
the week end before a scheduled
conference with Tie President at
the White rouse tomorrow.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
CIVILIAN NEEDS
NOW COME FTER
BRITAIN, DEFENSE
Mandatory Priorities May
be Established For
Program
CANADIAN SHIPS MAY
USE AMERICAN PORTS
Post Office, Treasury to
Have Less Funds Than
in Past Year

lBy International News Ssrvice)
Hyde Park, n. Y, June 2 ms
President Roosevelt today sign
ed an act Of Congress which
makes civilian needs definitely
secondary to the $4,000, 0cO, 900
British aid and national de.anse
program.
The measure, which was flown
to Hyde Park for fiual action.
gives the Office of Production
Management authority TO impose
mandatory priorities on any goods
needed TO fulfill contracts with
foreign governments. Effect of the
bill is to extend OPM's authority.
over Army and Navy requirements
to include the lend-lease program.
This implementation of unlimited
emergency powers was accompan-
led by approval OF another bill de-
signed 10 help speed up the job of
making ornaments for both the
United States and Great Britain.
Under It, vessels of Canadian reg
istry may carry iron ore between
American ports in the Great Lakes
during the current year.
Signs supply Bill
Mr.. Roosevelt also signed the
post office-treasury supply bill,
carrying s1,147, 1000, 900 for regular
functions of the two departments
during the next fiscal year. In line
with efforts to economic on nor
NAL expenditures, this appropria-
ton measure was $3,O00,0 900 under
that of 1940-41 although $4,000
900 higher than the estimates sub
mitted by the budget bureau.
Approval OF the priorities act
sealed a victory OPM Director
General William s. Knudsen won
in Congress. As the measure pass
ed the House, the power to impose
priorities would have been taken
from OPM and vested in the
high command of the Army and
Navy. Knudsen and Edward r.
Stettinius. Jr,, chief OF the priori-
ues division Of. oPM, appeared be-.
fore the Senate Military Affairs
Committee to protest this divest-
ment of authority. The Senate con
Cured with them and the House
retreated from its original posi-
ton in conference.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02

the women of Ypsilanu to assist
the sewing and surgical dress
ings unit in the production room,
and TO take knitting home. The
need Is immediate and will con-
tinue throughout the summer and
autumn. Sewers need not be ex-
perienced There Is something
which every interested woman can
do. Seasonal activities necessarily
curtail regular attendance during
the summer months, bat a half
day every two weeks would be OF
inestimable value. Organizations
are urged TO send representatives
:, 10 sew IN the name OF tbs society.
II is tho, wish of the production
committee that many women vol
unteer their services for few
hours, thereby relieving many
women who have given one or two
days each week during the past
months"
Production headquarters, Room
5, Welch Hall. will be open three
days each week--Tuesday and Fri
day for sewing and knitting. and
Wednesday for surgical dressings.
The hours are from 900 until
400 o'clock. A cutting machine
has been purchased by the Wash.
tenaw County chapter and all
garments will be cut in Ann Arbor.
Sewing machine sponsors are
needed for the coming months.
BY special arrangement with a
local merchant, sewing machines
may be rented for 81 each month.
The production room needs five
machines every month. Any per-
son who will sponsor a sewing
machine Is TO communicate with
Mrs. Z. !. Rynearson.
Through the courtesy OF one OF
the local merchants, the produc-
ton committee will display some
of the garments and surgical
dressings being made by the
Washtenaw County Chapter dur
ing the week beginning June 30.
The Red Cross fiscal year closes
July l and during the eight
months the production room has
been operating, approximately $500
garments have been knitted and
sewed, while thousands OF surgi-
cal dressings have been made by
Mrs. Charles Clesry and her
small group Of volunteers. One
hundred forty-four women have
been enrolled in sewing, fifty-two
Of whom have had regular attend
ance.
Mrs. F. W. McLane, knitting
chairman. requests all garments
due June 1 be returned this week.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
Ernest Daisher, rs,
Milan, Killed
by Auto
Pavement Narrow
at Place of
Accident

Two persons were killed in accL
dents in this vicinity during the
holiday week end.
Dead. Ernest Daisher. 70, Milan:
Patricia Bergman, % months, Ann
Arbor.
Injured: Charles Southland. 81,
this city, Neil and Elmer Dean.
Ann Arbor; Mrs. Cora Sargent, To.
ledo. O.; Miss Jane hester. 1. Mrs.
Stella Malenich. 26, Mrs. Marie
hester, So, Cleveland, o.; Abel.
bert Johnson, II, Dexter; Wilbur
Wayne Dubson, 80. Charles Nee.
han. IS, Battle Creek; Mr.. and Mrs.
Bert Covell, James Covell, Geneva,
O.; Nelson Woodside, 90, Richard
Radloff. Ann Arbor.
Ernest Daisher was killed almc st
instantly Saturday evening about
$3.50 o'clock while he was walking
on US-23 one quarter mile south
OF Milan village limits. Mr.. Daish-
err was struck by car driven by
Henry Morrison. 20, Route l, Dun
dee. and he was dead on the rival
OF Village Marshall Officer Thorn
as Goodrich at the scene. Mr..
Daisher was walking towards his
home on the correct side OF the
road. but the pavement is narrow
at the point where he was struck
witnesses reported.
Mr.. Morrison was questioned and
released.
Mr.. Daisher was born in Ger
many, February IA, 1865. the son
OF August and Rosa Daisher. He
came TO- America in 1881 and in
1887 became a naturalized citizen.
His marriage to Nora ~. Sanford,
oakville. took place January 80,
1895.
His widow survives as do four
sons. Elmer. kalamazoo; Elman
and Earl, Ann Arbor, and Albert,
at home; one daughter, Mrs.
Martha Calhoun. Milan. four grand
children; and two sisters. Mrs
Bertha Baaske and Miss Editha
Daisher. both OF Tecumseh.
Funeral services will be Tues.
day afternoon at-2 o'clock IN the
Milan Stevens and Bush Funeral
Home. Rev. William Johnson, Of
the Methodist Church, will Off.
ciate and interment will be ia
Lake Ridge Cemetery.
Infant browns
Baby Bergman met death by
drowning. after falling into cess
uool In thu parouaan vard 80 IGa0
Calvin Rid. Sunday evening. II is
believed she may have been In the
pool as long as 20 minutes befors
her mother missed her.
Immediate artificial respiration
was administered by Boy Scout
Trainer Wilfred Bonnewell, q
neighbor. but in vain. The child
was dead on admittance to St
Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbon
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
Pilot CIings to Strut
After Fall, Climbs in,
Then Lands AirpIane

San Marcos, Tex, June ZAP
Elliott Falls, advanced CAA flying
student, says he fell from the cock
pit OF his training plane, caught a
strut and managed TO fight his way
back into the ship and land safely.
Falls said that while he was
making routine slow rolls yestef-
day his safety belt broke from its
moorings. When the ship became
inverted, he fell and his arm jam
med in a strut
Falls climbed from the ship at
the CAA Airport, his arms and
shoulder bruised and his shirt
torn to shreds. He said his para
chute was in operating condition
but he wanted to bring the ship
down il possible.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
Camping Will
be Discussed

Camping will be the subject
for the June meeting Of the Ypsi-
lanti Council OF Social Agencies
Thursday evening in Charles Nc
Kenny Hall. There will be cafe
terra supper at s o'clock. followed
by the program at 6;45.
Special emphasis will be made
on Ypsilantls new Waterloo
Camp at Cedar Lake. Speakers
will be DR.. Ross Allen. director Of
the American Camping Associa-
ton, Miss Mildred Crawford, d.
rector OF the Girl Scout camp
Principal Floyd Smith. Boy Scout
leader. and Laurence Thomas
chairman OF the Community Fund
Camping committee.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
Bombs in Dublin
of German Origin

Dublin, June PAP - Four
bombs which fell Saturday on neu-
trail Dublin. leaving at least 80 and
perhaps so dead. were OF German
origin the government OF Fire
declared today as 1t instructed its
charge d'affaires in Berlin to pro-
test and demand reparations.
The known death toll stood at
30, but 81 other pei sons we're miss
ing and a formal announcement
said that lin all probability the
final death toll will be 81" since
little hope was held that any OF the
missing would be found alive.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
School District
Voters Register

A total Of 1883 persons will be
eligible 20 vote at the annual
Ypsilanti school beard OF educa-
ton election June 9 in the high
school lunch room from 8 a. m. 10
3 p. m. Registration polls closed
Saturday.
The school board. with the ex-
cepton Of Wesley Dawson. iRcum-
bent, running for reelection TO the
four year term, will serve as an
election board. Delbert II. Moffett
is the other candidate.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
POSTMASTER sUccUMes

Ishpemnig. June . - AP - A
heart attack proved fatal sunday
70 Henning r. siolsnder, 81. lsh-
peming postmaster since 1885 He
was stricken while riding from
Ishpeming 70 Munising in his auto
mobile. From 1882 10 1858 he vas
mayor OF lshpeming.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-06-02
Annual School

Edition Tuesday
Ypsilsnu Daily Press Tues.
day will issue its annual com.
mencement edition in which pic
lures OF graduates Of Ypsilanti,
Roosevelt. Lincoln Consolida'-
ed, Saline. Milan and Belleyille
High Schools graduates will
appear.
Resumes Of the main events.
written by the students, will be
included.
Those desiring extra copies
should telephone 40.