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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-27

only Shop Girl Johnny and Emma Ray In
"A Hot Old Time" Terry McGovern in the Road
10 Ruin and Lillian Mortimer in No Mother
10 Guide Her"
J. Harrison Dempsey, genial ex-champion
The toughest fight Dempsey ever had was with
Bill Brennan IN old Madison Square Garden,
Manhattan in 1920. Jack was in the hospital
for two days after that fight Brennan was IN
the hospital for seven days.
EORTY years ago George NJ Conan wrote his
first Skit The Governors Son. The four
Cohans appeared in this and was while playing
The Governors Son IN vaudeville that George
introduced his famous speech
"My father thanks you, my mother thanks
you. my sister thanks YOU and thank YOU
OF all the songs he has written Mr.. Cohan
StIll thinks the best is Venus My Shining Star"
Only licensed feminine Jockey al this time is
Anna Lee Wiley, who rides against men al
Aqua Calientc
Anna doesn't ride much because She weighs
124 pounds which is much too heavy for Jockey.
Reason women are not given licenses 10 ride
on United States tracks is not because the Of
fcials wish 10 discriminate against females but
because OF feeling the men Jockeys would. IN
their efforts TO be polite and not too rough with
lady, give the feminine rider an unfair adj
vantage.
And this in turn would be unfair 10 the
bettors
T>O TIE people on the Pacific Coast the Far
l. East does not seem so far as formerly.
Writes Phil Sudano:
$50 your favorte song is Il Don't Want to
Set the World on Fire and when invited to 20
TO party attired 20 represent your favorite
song you couldn't think of anything Why
didn't you go a frepug:"
Walt Disney's character. Dunnbo the Elephant,
recalls there not so long ago very popular
comic strip character known as Groucho the
Monk Was around the time of the Buster Brown
and AlphonSe and CASTOR comic strips
Edward Price Richards who was born male
and then changed TO female. born on April
Fools Day, 1912
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-27

pof the commonest words,
breathes an idea into
them, and sud denly
they rise up on wings.
singing together like a
flock of birds.
Myrtle Reed: From
the elms yellow leaves
were dropping-tele-
grams from the high
places saying that sum-
mer had gone.
w. Boyd Gatewood:
Very few people go TO a
doctor when they have
a cold. They 60 to the
theater instead.
Jay Russell: His
heart couldn't see
straight-it was always
humping into memories.
Virginia Col d e n:
Permanent happiness is
never founded on an
others unhappiness.
Walter Lippman:
The mentality of folk
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-27


romance, but doesn't
help il any
Therefore. sir II you
have "A snoring mate
and want 10 keep that
little spark Of love for
her still burning per-
haps you better wear
ear-stoppers
IA MES Blu r Is L.
- ErStwhilc vau d @
william Has had the
same breakfast daily
Nor II years: Bacon and
|eggs, with eggs well
done. one side, and
bacon medium. But.
tered toast. toasted
light with crust
trimmed and coffee.
/ have a different
breakfast every morn
ing,
This morning | had
orange Juice, baked
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-27

Our fa0s nfurled 70 every breeze,
From dawn 10 setting sun;
We've fought IN every cline ard place
Where could take gun.
III the snoo Of far-of northern lands,
A nd IN SUNNY tropic scenes
YouU dlloays fnd us on the job,
The United States Marines.
-(Marine Corps Song)
MORE women Snore than men All research
vi so indicates. The husband OF a snoring
wife usually says nothing about II in the IN.
tereSt OF sparing the little ladyS feelings
Women consider snoring severe affliction
because OF their belief that IL kills romance
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-27

TYPEWRITER RIBBONS: James Branch
Cabell: The optimist proclalms that we live
in the best of all possible worlds The pessin1ist
fears that is true
Christopher Morley: The extraordinary insect
obligato of Summer nights.
Dorothy Richardson's: The poet takes dozen
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-27

apple. chlpped beei, Toast and coiIee.
Harry Clay Blaney. Remembered by all
old timers as the star OF the meodrama Across
the Pacific" Harry says nobody can be rightly
STYLED a veteran theater-goer unless he remem-
bers Neil Burgess in The Country Fair" Rose
Melville in Sis Hopkins" Lotte Williams in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-27
On Broadway.
Walter WincheU

Trad. Mark Registered. Copyright 1871.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-27
On the Side
Il. DMr'Hng

Distributed b King T,atuF" syneicat. Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-27

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. -DickersOn. lie. 800
MINDFUL Monday Thru Friday Holidays
Excepted, Free U. 8. Government Defense
Stamp with Every Adult Ticket. Be Patri-
cite. Be Thrifty. Reg. Low Adm. CSC, Tax
Inc. Copyright. 1eil, Parkstde Theater.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-27
PALMER piRY-Bsmilton at McN,choi.
Woodward

h'DiSI Continuous from p. NJ. On
Stage In Person, the Trumpet King OF
Swing, Louis "Satchmo' Armstrong. with
His Entire Orchestra and Great .Sepia Stage
Show. On Screen. "TtNEDO JUNCTION.
with Weaver Bros.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-28
Boy Hurt as
Autos Collide

Four year old Joseph Gutohul
Van Born Rd. was taken to Wayne
General Hospital Saturday after
noon suffering from internal in
juries sustained when a car IN
which he was riding. driven by his
father. Frederick, collided with one
driven by Robert Johnson, A..
Ford Rd.. Dearborn. The accident
was az the intersection Of Ecorse
Rd and Jacksonville Rds.
Bursts Into Flames
A car driven by Robert Riley. q.
SAP Towner ST was badly damaged
when It crashed Into the rear OF a
parked truck on Z. Michigan Ave.
here about $3.50 this morning. The
Riley car burst into flames, and
city and state police aided in ex-
tingulshing the blaze Mr. Riley
told city police he must have fallen
asleep at the wheel shortly before
the crash
Complaints Signed
Complaints charging reckless
driving have been signed BY Frank
Trait. Romulus. against James
Shoner. Belleville. and Joseph
Beaune Romulus. Mr. Trait con-
tends the other two we're racing
their cars on US-li2 between
Wayne and Cherry Hill Rds. Sun
day. forcing Mr. Traits car of the
road The cases are 10 be heard
before Justice Italy Nining, Wayno.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-28

tBV ASsoclated FfeSsl
A Senate committee investigating
conduct OF the defense program
turned TO the stoppage OF soft coal
production today after the National
Defense Mediation Board reported
its inability to end the deadlock
between CLOS United Mine Work
ers OF America and northern opera
tors, on the one hand, and southern
mine owners on the other.
Chairman Truman (D-Mo.) OF the
committee had deferred considera-
ton OF the problem while the Media
ton Board tried Ito solve 1t. But
after the board admitted failure he
summoned John L. Lewis, president
of the UNIV, and representatives OF
mine owners to a committee SEES
sion today.
The boards attempt TO bring the
disputants together ran aground
yesterday on the main issue: shall
the southern operators sign a con
tract with the union which elm,
mates 40 cents day pay differ
entail in their favor as compared
with the northern pay rate?
Northern operators already had
agreed 10. contract raising wages
in their mines from IS to 81 a day.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-28
Local Group Will
be Known as
ll5th

The Ypsilanti company OF the
new Michigan State Troops for
home defense has been officially
designated as the 115th Company,
Michigan State Troops. 1t is now
fully organized with three officers
and 81 men and this evening will
be mustered in and accepted by
the state through Lt.-Col. John
H. Steck, Owosso, who is chief Of
staff for the Michigan State
Troops.
Col. Steck is a World War
veteran and since that war ended
has been on the staff OF the SD
Division until his retirement from
the National Guard last fall, hav-
ing then been Plans and Training
Officer for the Division. He has
had charge OF the organization Of
all the state from military stand
point for Home Defense. There
are now $500 men enrolled In
this new organization, which is
divided into five areas. each des-
ignated by figure in the hum
dreds; Eastern. Central, Western,
Northern and The Upper PENN
sula. AS the Eastern area Is 100
and Ypsilsnti is in this area, In
which 1t is the fifteenth company,
it becomes Co. lis.
Col. Steck will arrive in the
city about five o'clock this after
noon and will have dinner with
the local officers, Major owen j.
Cleary, Captain Frank McLane,
and Lieuts. Robert Schrepper and
o. B. Sprstt. After dinner the
group will 60 to the Armory,
where Col. Steck will inspect and
muster in the Company, later dis
cussing training plans and drill
schedules with the company Off
GERS, .
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-28
Defense Bonds.
Stamps in City

The United States Defense Saw.
ings Bonds and Postal Savings
Stamps have arrived here and
will be placed on sale in the Ypsi-
lanti Post Office at the opening II
business May !. as part OF the ma
tional effort to make America i'm
pregnable. according to Postmaster
Matthew Max.
The New Defense Savings Bond
is similar to the familiar Baby
Bond, OF which more than FIVE
billion dollars worth have been
bought by more than two and a
half million Americans since 1885.
A Defense Bend may be purchas-
ed May / or thereafter. for S1s75.
In ten years. this bond will be
worth S25. This is an increase
OF 80 1-3 per cent. equal to an an
nual interest return OF 20 per
cent, compounded semi-annually.
Any time after so days from the
date OF purchase. the bond may be
redeemed for cash, in accordance
with a table Of redemption values
printed on the face OF the bond.
To spread investments widely
among all the people in America. a
limit OF $4,000 has been set on the
amount Of these bonds TO be bought
by any one person in one year.
The bonds are in denominations
OF $25. $50. 800. $500 and $1,000.
all OF which are sold for IS per
cent Of their maturity value and
all Of which mature in ten years.
For larger investors who can
afford TO purchase up TO $4,000
worth Of bonds a year. the Treasury
Department has issued two add.
tional kinds OF Defense Savings
Bonds. but these will be sold only
through banks and by direct mail
from Washington. d c They are
intended for associations trus-
tees and corporations, as we'll as
individual purchasers
For the smaller investor who
wants TO buy Government Bond
on an easy payment plan. the Post
once will have new series Of
Postal Savings Stamps a. l0c. Csc
soc. 81 and So Each purchaser
See DEFENSE BoNDs-Page 6
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-28
Radio Men at
Meeting Here

Between 500 and 500 amateur
radio hams" gathered at the Up
SLANT Armory Sunday for an all.
day session. The meeting. held an
aually by the Detroit club for en-
thusiasts in this area, was address
ed by FEC officials, plotting the
role Of the ham" in national de-
Tense.
At times OF foods and other dis
asters the radio bugs" have al
ready shown themselves invaluable
in maintaining communication
and in the defense program they
may play an important part.
About $500 in prizes were given
for contributors OF new ideas, and
to the women who attended and
played bridge while their husbands
and friends conferred. Some Of
those attending flew their own
planes, completely equipped with
radio. OF course, and flew over Up
silanti off and on throughout the
afternoon, talking with stations al
the Armory.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-28
ROtarians Go
to Ann ArbOr

Ypsilanti Rotary Club members
are attending the l53rd district
fourth annual conference In Ann
Arbor. The sessions we're opened
Sunday afternoon and will be con-
tinued through Tuesday.
Governor Murray D Van Wagner
Is expected 10 extend greetings at
the banquet tonight and 1t. Col.
George Andrew Drew. leader OF the
Ontario Conservative opposition
party. and a power in Canadian
politics will give the address.
About 700 representative and
their wives from SO clubs in the
district are expected TO attend the
conference. Included on the pro-
gram are business meetings. ad-
dresses. group discussions. lunch
cons. banquets. concerts and recep-
lions. A special program has been
planned for wives OF Rotarians.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-28
State Troops to be Mustered in
Senate Group Takes Over
Soft Coal Strike Problem

President Roosevelt had proposed
last week that all mines reopen
and that the southerners agree to
make any wage settlement retroac.
tive 10 the date OF work resump-
ton.
Announcing failure TO persuade
the southerners TO accept the pro
posal, William H. Davis, OF the
Mediation Board said last night:
There are no further steps for
the Mediation Board TO take"
Other labor developments:
Representatives of the Fairchild
Aviation Corporation and CLOS
local l2l OF the United Electrical.
Radio and Machine Workers avert
ed a strike at the firms New YORK
plant by agreeing on terms OF a
new contract.
A contract with the union. which
has 400 members working in the
plant. expired Saturday night. The
members had voted last Tuesday
to strike if it were not renewed.
They wanted wage increases, paid
vacations and holidays and a closed
shop. Terms OF the agreement were
not announced pending a vote by
rank and file unionists whether to
accept It.
At Buffalo. n. Y. CLIO and AFL
uL.on leaders accepted a Defense
Mediation Board formula for end.
ing a two week work stoppage at
an American Car and Foundry plant
which hampered seriously produc.
ton Of shells for Great Britain and
the United States.
CLOS Steel Workers Organizing
Committee sponsored the stoppage
in an attempt to obtain a collective
bargaining election TO determine
whether II or AFL's Federal Steel
Local 2251s represented most OF the
plants 1900 employees. The formu.
la provided that employees go back
to work while the National Labor
Relations Board investigated the
representation question.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-28
Strike i'm CM
Put Off w eek

Detroit. Apr 2S-AP-Relieved
of strike-threat tension for at least
a week, negotiators in the contract
dispute between General Motors
Corp. and the United Automobile
Workers lCIO) attempted today 10
reduce the issues which have pre-
vented a settlement.
James F. Dewey. federal labor
conciliator authorized by the Ma
tional Defense Mediation Board to
continue negotiations in its behalf.
said he expected the conferees
would get down to brass tacks"
as this weeks sessions opened.
''ln sessions Saturday" he said.
I'VE prepared a definite program
OF action for today, and we plan
to go over every one OF the unions
demands again and attempt TO
clean up those on which the union
and corporation are more or less
agreed upon"
Yesterday the unions interna.
tional executive board by unani-
nous action affirmed the decision
OF the UAW-CIO negotiating COM
mittee 10 defer strike action for a
reasonable period. Action by the
UAW-CIO was taken Saturday az
ter Secretary OF Labor Francis
Perkins had certified the dispute
to the Defense Mediation Board at
Washington.
Hopes for settlement OF the dis
pute. which is scheduled for a De-
Tense Board hearing Friday 1T
Washington. were seen today as
2. +. Wilson. GM president. enter
ed into the conferences. Also. the
report that Dewey had asked Philip
Murray. clio president. to take part
in the conferences Wednesday indi-
Gated that the climax OF the nego-
tiations NIGH develop before the
end OF the week.
Wilson precipitated a series OF
moves Saturday that postponed
strike action when he announced
that any wage adjustment resulting
from mediation efforts in the next
two weeks would be retroactive to
April Is today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-28
Providers Seen at
Four Places Here

Providers were reported in four
widely separated parts OF the city
during the week end.
About 2:30 Sunday morning a
prowler was seen at a west window
OF Goodison Residence for Girls at
Normal College, and was describ-
ed as wearing dark topcoat and
hat.
He ran away very fast. OF
hcers William Reiman and Arthur
Kramer said they saw a tail.light
disappearing into woods northwest
OF the dormitory when they arrived
on the scene, but could not find the
car. They do not know how a car
got into the college drives as all
gates were properly locked, the Of.
ficers said.
Seen BY Waterman
As Henry hagan. night watch.
man at the Harry B. Hammond fac
tory, Limerick St, approached the
front part OF the building about
$3.50 Saturday night. a man ran
out the front door. he said. Ap-
parently nothing had been taken.
he could give no description Of the
prowler.
On Elder ST.
A tall man wearing a wide-brim-
med brown hat was seen lurking
along Elder St near the Nelson
Boutell residence about 11:45 Sun
day night No attempt to enter
any Of the homes in that area was
discovered. however.
Weapons Taken
Two pistols were stolen from the
home OF Foster Beal. $3.50 Whitta-
ker Rd., between 8 and 7 O'Clock
Sunday. the thief entering the
house through an unlocked rear
door
One pistol, % caliber. belongs 10
Horace Hughes. farmland, and
was taken from his luggage. The
other. .3s caliber, is the property
Of Mr.. Beal. and was taken from
bureau drawer. Money lying be
side the pistol in the same draw
err, was untouched.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-28
Antarctic to
be Claimed by
South America
Argentina, Chile
to Start Study

by Associated ITesh'
Buenos Aires, Apr. 2S-AP-Ar-
gentina and Chile completed today
a preliminary exchange OF views
leading to more formal converse
tons here next month on legal
grounds for claims to the Antarc-
tic.
Barred from them under the pro-
posals would be United States,
Great Britain and other countries
despite more than a century OF
explorations.
To these South American ma
tons the Antarctic IL more than a
source OF adventure ana imperjRlis,
tic pride Among other things
there is the prospect OF coal and
iron deposits known TO be lying
dormant under Antarctic SHOWS.
The two nations already are
agreed in principle that at least a
part OF the southern extreme OF
the world must be divided between
them and they have been confer
ring informally for FIVE months In
an effort TO find a practical basis
OF agreement on the minimum re-
gion they would demand jointly in
any diplomatic tussle with other
countries.
Spokesman for the Argentine gov
eminent say they have good case
by applying to the South Pole
theory they said had been accepted
for the North Pole-that polar re-
gions are an extension of borders
from the nearest nations.
Under the latter, they said. the
United States. through extension
Of the west and east borders OF
Alaska. has a zone in the Arctic
and other zones are allotted TO
Canada, Russia Great Britain, Nor
way and others.
In the Antarctic, however, ap.
plication OF such a principle would
run into claims put forth by the
great exploring nations. all Of which
lie in the Northern Hemisphere.
Claimants to Antarctic regions
under the border extension idea
should be Chile Argentine and
three members OF the British En-
pire. Australia. New Zealand and
the Union OF South Africa.
Argentina and Chile have refus-
ed 10 recognize claims 10 titles 10
Antarctic regions as a result Of
by nationals Of various
countries in the past
Aside from the border extension
principle, Argentina and Chile are
ready to lay claim 10 part Of
the Antarctic on-the grounds that
they are nearest to II.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-28
Warning Given by
C. of C. Speaker

(By International News Servlce)
Washington. Apr. rs ms -
Opening the goth annual meeting Of
the L. S. Chamber OF Commerce,
James S. Kemper, president, to-
day declared that America must
guard against eventual supremacy
OF the state, under which the
state and not the people would be
supreme"
Addressing some $500 business
leaders from all over the country,
Kemper said that many students
believe the postwar world, 10
America, England and elsewhere,
will witness an intensive drive to
establish detailed and comprehen-
sive state control Of every phase Of
economic life and then added I'VE,
as business men. must rally 10 the
defense OF free economy
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-28
Fourteenth

fBy Associated PressI
Athens, occupied by the Germans
Sunday. three weeks after the Nazi
invasion OF Yugoslavis and Greece
and six months after Italy's quick
ly reversed drive into the Hellenic
kingdom. is the 18th European
capital brought under Adolf Hit
ler's domination either through
blizkrieg or diplomacy.
Countries his forces have occu.
pied since the Austrian anschluss
OF March. 1888, cover approximate
ly 100000 square miles-an area
as large as all the United States
east OF the Mississippi River plus
part OF Kansas and Missouri-and
have more than l70,000.000 popula.
ton.
When and how they fell.
Austria-Absorbed March 10.
1888: Czecho-Slovakia. partitioned
March 10, 1893; Poland, partitioned
after lighting from Sept. 10 Oct
Il, 1889: Denmark, occupied April
3, 1870: Norway. occupied after
Aghting April o to June erl940:
Netherlands, occupied after night
ing May 10 TO IA. 1890; Belgium,
occupied after fghting May 10 to
2s, 1910: Luxembourg, occupied
May 10. 1910; France, partly occu.
pied after fighting Sept 3. 1899 to
June p. 1910: Hungary. Joined
Axis and permitted German troop
passage Nov. 20. 1910: Rumanla.
partitioned Aug. 30. 1910, occupied
Oct. Z, 1910: Bulgaria, joined Axis
and occupied March I, 1877; Yugo-
slavia, partitioned after fighting
April s 10 49, 1871. Greece. her
capital and all but southern PeIo-
ponnesus occupied April 27 after
fighting with Italy since Oct 2s,
1910. and with Germany since April
8. 1871.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-28
SWastika Flies From Greek
Acropolis, German 7hrusts
May Trap British Soldiers
Salient Sentences

London Apr 2SAPHere Minister
Churchlls Sunday broadcast:
On the United long history have
been held admiration Atlantic
'n the long runbeeye for knoWhe OF tho United
but by moral sentiments'''
victoryThe
and rseng doubt total defeat OF Hitler
Mussolni and
the British and American democacies'
On eeeen their mortal peril the Greeks turned FOR
Strained could them
Afaln his the Italians
time than divisions about $4,000 men, =
safety justice the
Middle East In order win this he
conquer the life
line which joins the United States =
MusonThs whipped scka MUssolni who 10 his
Hitler friskng the
yelps only appetehat could
be understood--but OF triumph