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Evening star., 1941-12-12
Bishop Richardson
Heads Methodist Council

BY the Associated Press.
SEA ISLAND, Ga, Dec. H.
Bishop E. r. Richardson of Phila-
delphia is the new president of the
Methodist Council of Bishops.
He was elected last night at the
councils annual session. Bishop
w. w. Peele of Richmond was named
vice president. Bishop G. B. Obnan
of Boston was elected secretary and
Bishop J. C. Broomf1eld OF ST. Louis
and Bishop A. w. Leonard of Wash
ington were appointed to the Execu-
tive Committee.
Bishop Arthur j. Moore of Atlanta,
who spent six years in the Orient,
told the council that the Japanese
government has waged one of the
most brutal and unwarranted ag-
gresSions in human history"
He declared that 'as much as we
deplore the necessity of war, there
must be no hesitancy in resisting
such force" Japan's aggression, he
added, began in China. but was
aimed at every ideal of Christianity
and democracy"
Evening star., 1941-11-16
Ecclesiastical Court
Reopened in England

Canterbury recently witnessed the
first sitting in nearly three years Of
the Court of Arches, one of the least
known of England's ecclesiastical
tribunals, although it is 300 years
old.
1t has become the final court Of
appeal in all ecclesiastical causes in
the Province of Canterbury, with
some exceptions.
Tradition has it that the Dean Of
Arches, in the days Of Pope Alex
ander III, had to deal with a papal
edict that clergymen who grew
boards should be pursued and forci-
bly, shaved by the archdeacons.
Evening star., 1941-11-16
Capt. Kennedy Manager
Of Brooklyn Navy Yard

The Navy Department announced
yesterday that Capt. Sherman S.
Kennedy, who is on duty in the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, has been Or
dered to relieve Capt. Joseph J.
Broshek as manager of that yard.
Capt. Broshek will report for duty
in the Office of the chief of the
Bureau of Ships in the Navy De-
partment here.
Capt. Broshek served almost four
years in the Bureau of Engineering
here, going to join the scouting
force in 1885. He went to the Brook
lyn Navy Yard in 1887. Capt.
Evening star., 1941-11-16
Miss Lillian Broedon
To Speak at Book Teu'

Miss Lillian j. Bragdon, editor Of
young peoples books, will be the
principal speaker at a book tea"
sponsored by the Chevy Chase Ele-
mentary School Parent-Teacher As
sociation at 1:30 pm. Tuesday in
the school auditorium.
Miss Bragdon will speak on the
makeup of children's books. Fol-
lowing her talk she will discuss with
parents the individual reading prob
lens of their children.
Miss Vesta Eales will talk briefly
on new books. A group of authors
attending the tea will autograph
Evening star., 1941-11-16

books and help parents make selec-
tions from books on display around
the auditorium. Among writer's ex-
pected to be present are Hilda Won
Stockham, Margaret Frances Fox
and Richard Gibbs.
The committee in charge of ar
rangements is headed by Mrs. J..
Hawley Smith and Mrs. Dean Din
WoOdey,
Evening star., 1941-11-16
NeedIework Guild Exhibits

The District branch of the Needle
work Guild of America will hold
its annual display and distribution
Of clothing and household linen to-
morrow and Tuesday in the Sunday
school room of the Church of the
Covenant, Eighteenth and N streets
NV.
Evening star., 1941-11-16
Weird Lights Mystify
New South Wales Folk

Investigators are mystified by the
queer lights that appear at long
intervals on the plain north of
Brewarrina, New South Wales.
known locally as Hobson's lights,
after the man who first reported
seeing them, they shine brilliantly,
move swiftly from place to place,
and appear and disappear irregu-
larly.
A recent observer told of seeing
what he thought was q camp fire.
Evening star., 1941-11-16

now had relinquished important
work"
Admiral Keyes was appointed ma
val attache May 10, 1910, for special
liaison to the King Of the Belgians
and dropped from the news after
the fall of Belgium.
Evening star., 1941-11-16
Watson Davis to Speak

Watson Davis, director of Science
Service and president of the Ameri-
can Documentation Institute, will
be the speaker at a meeting of the
District Chapter of the Special Lii
braries' Association at 8 pm. Tues
day in the National Archives Audi
torium. He will speak on How
Can the Worlds knowledge Be
Mobilized?"
Evening star., 1941-11-16
Pios in Traffic Clover

BALD HEAD ISLAND, N. c., Nov.
Is R)-ThiS is a pedestrians para
disc. Even the pigs have the right
of way. There are now only six
automobiles on the island and 113
pigs. They run wild and signs warn
motorists not to mOleSt them.
Evening star., 1941-11-16
Admiral Reyes Organizing
British Command Units
By the Associated Press.

By the Associa ted Press.
LONDON, Nov. 15,-Admiral Sir
Roger Keyes, World War hero and
former admiral of the fleet, has been
engaged for Is months it was re-
ported tonight, in organizing the
Commands, tough, hand-picked
British shock troops, who already
are raiding German-held posts on
the continent.
The report by Press Association
followed terse official announce
ment that the 69-year- old Keyes
Evening star., 1941-11-16

Suddenly 1t raced toward him, stop
ping 80 yards away. 1t dazzled him
with its brilliance and vanished.
The scene is that of the Hospital
Greek massacre, where hundreds of
blacks were killed by the early set
tiers
Evening star., 1941-11-16

Kennedy also served in the Bureau
of Engineering from 1882 to 1885.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-20
MRS. ]. GR|ERSON
TAKEN BY DEATH
, FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE
CONDUCTED IN ONTARIO
WEDNESDAY

Mrs. Mary Ann Grierson passed
away Saturday evening at o'clock
in Boyer Memorial Hospital where
she had been taken three days be-
fore.
Mrs. Grierson was the daughter
OF Andrew and Susan Jacklin Gal
lagher and was born in Ontario
Sept. 20, 1861. She had spent the
last four years living with her chill
dren in Ypslanti, lately with her
son and daughter-in-law Mr.. and
Mrs. Orville Grierson. at 2S5l Golf
Side Rd. She belonged to the Unit.
ed Church. Perth. Ont.
Mrs. Grierson was the wife o.;
John X. Grierson. who passed away
in Ypsilanti in 1927.
Surviving are three sons. An
drew, Orville and william. Ypsi-
lanti; three daughters, Mrs. An
drew Sym, Plymouth, Mrs. Gordon
Wright. this city. and Mrs. Kenneth
Elements. Perth; FIVE grandchil-
dren, three sisters. Mrs. John
Weekes. Lombardy, Ont. Mrs. Ed
ward Wilson, Perth. and Mrs. Will
liam Arnberg, Smith Falls, Ont.
and three brothers. John, William
and Andrew Gallagher, Perth.
Friends may call at the Stevens
and Bush Funeral Home until this
afternoon II o'clock when the re-
mains will be taken to Perth where
funeral services will take place
Wednesday. Burial will be in Red
eau Ferry.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-20
DEATH SUMMONS
MRS. ETHEL BONN
PASSES AT HOME OF SON,
CHARLES, THIS CITY;
RITES HERE TONIGHT

Mrs. Ethel W. Bohn, whose
home was in Detroit, passed away
Saturday evening at 9:l5 at the
home of her son, Charles. 1l72
Cornell Rd. this city after a ten
days illness with toxic poisoning
Mrs. Bohn was the daughter of
Walter and Alice Ashton Warren
der and was born in Warrington,
Eng. May II, 1881. She was three
years old when she came TO Amer
lea and later attended the public
schools of Sharon, Pa. She belong
ed TO ST. John Episcopal Church,
Sharon, and to Chapter 242 Of the
Eastern Star.
She was married to William NJ.
Bohn Sept. IS, 1900. Mr. Bohn pas
sed away while they lived in
Sharon.
Mrs. Bohn is survived by three
daughters. Mrs. T. E. Hutchinson,
(Alice), Erie, Pa. Mrs. Ralph
Moore Mary, Hamburg, Mich,
and Mrs. Jean Wheeler (EtheD ,
Manchester: and three sons,
Charles h, Ypsilanti, Homer W,
and Edward c., Detroit; II grand
children; three sisters, Mrs. Fred
B. Wilson. Mrs. Edith Parker and
Mrs. Anna Hynd. Sharon; three
brothers. Walter and Ralph War
ren6er, Sharon. and Cecil Warren
der. Gary. Ind, and several nieces
and nephevs.
Funeral services will be in Geer
Funeral Home this evening at
$3.50. after which the remains will
be taken 10 Sharon and lie in
state in the J. S. Sharp Funeral
Home. East State st. Funeral SER
vices will be there Wednesday af-
ternoon in the st. John Episcopal
Church and burial will be in Oak
wool Cemetery.
Rev. r. T. Appleyard will Of
ficiate at the services this even
ing.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-20
W|LLKIE COME
WITH PRESIDENT,
To CHEER BRITAIN
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the extraordinary authority to be
granted 10 the President
,. A congressional check OF the
measure. section by section, TO
eliminate any authority granted
which is not necessary to accom-
plish the detectives OF speeding de-
lenses and rendering additional aid
to Great Britain.
8. Congress to retain control of
the purse strings
Inauguration day pomp and cere-
mony brought lull in the congress
sional battle over the measure, but
the hearings will resume Tuesday
morning before the House Foreign
Affairs Committee with retiring
Ambassador to Britain Joseph p
Kennedy as the first witness. Ken.
nedy favors aid TO England but de.
clared in a radio speech Saturday
night that the Roosevelt Administra-
ton had not yet established a case
for the proposed surrender OF con
gressional authority and RESPONSE
bility.
Kennedy will be followed at the
committee hearing Wednesday by
Norman Thomas, Socialist presi.
dental candidate. and Hanford Mac.
Nider former minister to Canada.
Thursdays witnesses will be Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh and Gen.
Hugh S. Johnson. columnist.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-20
ST R|KES
lContinued from Page Onel

Continued from Page One)
materials orders totaling 10000
900 at its eight Middle West plants.
Strikes already have been author
lied at the Rock Falls, H., and
Milwaukee. Wis. plants and work
ers at the Rock Island, ILL.,, Har-
vester plant take a strike vote
tonight.
The East Moline. H., Harvester
plant remained closed under a dou-
BILE strike that stopped production
on farm combines. An independent
union at the plant walked out last
week in protest against alleged I'M
fair classification OF its members
by the FEWOC. which claims most
OF the workers are members. The
FEWOC walked out charging the
independent union strike was
company provoked, charge that
was denied by company officials at
Chicago.
David T. Roadley. federal conci-
liator, was expected to arrive at
East Moline today.
The FEWOC is demanding rec
ignition Throughout; the corpora
ton and wage increases for $4,000
employees. The Clio union has con-
tracts with Harvester at the Chica
go tractor plant and at the Rich
mond, Ind, plant.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-20
Grandfather, Robbed
of $50. Kills Three.
Wounds Own Daughter

Saginaw. Mich, Jan. 20-UP-A
Il year old grandfather, who po-
lice said was enraged because he
was robbed of $50. Sunday night
shot and killed his son-in-law
two grandsons and then committed
suicide.
Police said that John Grzybcw-
ski, shot Vincent Trazemalski, a
Saginaw foundry worker; Traze-
malski's two sons, Edwin. l6, and
Henry, II, as they slept before
turning the As calibre revolver on
himself
Mrs. Trazemalski was seriously
injured by her father az she at
tempted 10 defend her husband.
She was taken 10 the Saginaw ST.
Mays Hospital and was not ex-
pected to recover.
The only member OF the fam ~
untouched by the grandfather
bullets was Lottie, u.
The girl told police she was
awakened by two shots and heard
Ter grandfather leave the room of
her two brothers. A moment later,
she said, she heard her mother call
for help and another shot, follow
ed several minutes later by a
fourth.
The girl said she ran to her
mothers room and found her moth
er unconscious from a bullet wound
and her father was dead. She sum
moned neighbors who Immediately
called police.
Officers discovered the bodies
OF the two boys in their bed and
Grzybowski dead in the kitchen.
Police said Grzybowski had been
al tavern early in the evening but
had retired with the family about
10 O'Clock When bis body was
found it was clad only in under
ware and a work shirt.
Grzybowski was robbed OF $50
during the week end. and police
theorized that he had plotted to
kill the entire family in their beds
for revenge.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-20
Young Husband Goes on
Trial For Staying Bride

Allegan. Mich. Jan. 20--lNS =
Charged with beating and strang-
ling his 17-year-old wife to death
and burying her body in a shallow
grave in dense woods. 23-year-old
Dale barrow. Now mechanic. was
TO 20 on trial for murder today.
The state contends that Darrow
perpetrated the crime on the farm
OF his grandfather near Hopkins
Vile after an unsuccessful effort at
reconciliation. The pair had been
separated for some time before the
tragedy.
barrow. when frst arrested. de-
MED any knowledge OF the incident
but later led officials to the grave
in a dense woods near Hopkins
Vile.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-20
Roosevelt, Van Wagner to
Confer on Defense Setup

Washington, Jan. 20 ms -
Within the next 10 days, President
Roosevelt and Gov. Murray ID. Van
Wagner. Of Michigan. will meet
to discuss Michigan's national de-
Tense setup. 1t was learned today.
The announcement came from a
member OF the Van Wagner dele
cation which is in Washington 20
attend the third term inaugura.
ton OF President Roosevelt.
Meanwhile, Van Wagner went
on record as promising to fulfil
his campaign pledge OF doing every.
thing possible toward making the
proposed st. Lawrence Seaway an
actually.
Have you any special plans for
development Of the Great Lakes
area as a shipping center" Van
Wagner was asked.
NO" he replied. that will de-
pend on the turn the waterway
project takes and on what the
national government wants us Ia
do. understand the agreement
with Canada is about ready for sub.
mission to Congress"
AS to the seaway, Van Wagner
commented thusly:
81 said in the campaign would
support II, and | am still for IL"
Shortly after they arrived IN
Washington, Mr.. and Mrs. Van
Wagner motored to Alexandria,
Va. TO visit Mrs. Van Wagner
sister.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-20
WAR IN AFRICA

Continued from Page One)
the Ethiopian interior. There they
would be menaced by Ethiopians
who are being equipped with arms
by a British mission.
Partially offsetting the victory
at Kassala, howeye.'. was a British
air force communique announcing
that Malta had been severely raid
ed again Sunday by a large force
OF German junkers SIS and SIS
The communique said six junkers
we're shot down and others were
badly damaged and that two Brit
ish lighting planes were shot down,
but one pilot was saved.
"a dispatch from Valletta, Malta.
said 10 enemy" planes were shot
down in spectacula. raids Sunday
during which considerable damage
was done TO civilian property, and
that one British fighting plane was
lost. A 400-year-oli church was
said to have been hit the second
time in As hours and another
church bombed, the dispatch said.
II said that in addition to the
planes shot down Sunday. seven
junkers SIS were shot down Satur-
day by British fighting planes, three
by anti-aircraft guns, and three
more damaged and possibly shot
down by fighters.)
The Royal Air Force communique
said that in another British raid
on besieged Tobruk, on the Libyan
coast, Friday night, "a huge fire
was caused near petrol dumps but
other damage was not observed be-
cause OF the weather. however all
bombs fell well within the target
area"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-20
Pro-Nazi Houseboy Sought
After Wounding Benefactor

fRy International News Service)
New York. Jan. 20 ms State
police today we're securing an area
OF 40-square miles in nearby Rock
land County for an 1s-year-old pro-
Nazi houseboy charged with criti-
cally wounding his socially prom.
inent benefactor because OF the lat
ter's pro.British sympathies.
The victim, Percival Wilcox
Whittlesey. banker. was in
Nyack. y. Y. General Hospital with
five bullet wounds IN his body.
Walter Gottlieb Groebn. the
houseboy. was accused Of pursuing
Whittlesey through his sumptuous
home here with blazing automatic.
Whittlesey signed statement
charging that Groebli had apparent.
~ been given orders "to toss me
off % He said he befriended the boy
after an acquaintance had picked
him up as hitch.hiker The state.
ment described Groehli as native
Of Atlanta. Ca. and Of German. S wiss
ancestry.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-20
GREEKS

Continued from Page One)
Germany into the war against
Greece.
The Germans, this source said,
might use such bombings as an ex-
cuse to send warplanes or even
troops into Greece.
The Rumanian oil fields and the
single track train lines through
Rumanian mountain passes were
described as particularly vulnera-
BILE to bomb attack.
Dispatches from Sofia indicated
that both Germany and Great Brit
ain were seeking from ulgaria an
outright declaration of her stand
in the event OF further spread OF
the war in the Balkans.
Some sources in Sofia said Bull
garia first probably would study
the extent OF American aid to Brit
ain and its possible effect on the
outcome OF the war.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-20
THE WEATHER

fpsilanti and vicinity: Partly
cloudy today, tonight and Tuesday
slightly warmer Tuesday. with low
est about 25 degrees: gentle north
erly winds shifting to southerly by
tonight.
Temperature at 1850 a. m. today
p: normal temperature today. "a
Temperature Saturday: Highest
~: lowest, Il; mean. so
Temperature Sunday: Highest
20 lowest, 10: mean, 10.
Departure from normal tempera
ture Sunday, IS.
Departure from normal tempera
ure since January /. 3S degrees.
Temperatures one year ago today:
highest. 10; lowest. 4; mean. 70
Temperatures this date in pasl
So years; highest. ga. in 1906, low
est. 3 in 1892.
Relative humidity Sunday 1870
A. H. Il per cent; 100 a. NJ. 70
per cent 1870 ?. NJ. IS per cent,
1850 ?. m. 81 per cent.
Barometric pressure at 1870 a m
today: station, 2965 inches. sea.
level. 30.3S inches.
Precipitation in last IS hours. end.
ing at 1850 a. m. today. trace.
Departure from normal precipita-
ton since January I. SIS inches.
The sun sets today at 5S9 p m.
and rises tomorrow at 7:54a. m.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-20
CONFERENCE
Continued from PAGE One)

Continued from Page one)
patches in New York from its
Rome bureau but none mentioned
the Hitler Mussolini conference
and all European capitals reported
they were out Of telephone com
munIcation with Rome.
Columbia broadcasting company
in New York heard the British
broadcasting company report that
communications. between. Rome
and Berlin probable would remain
interrupted FOR at least two
days
Cut Circuits
A United Press dispatch from
Buenos Aires said that according
to communications officials there,
Italian police had cut telephone
circuits from Rome Sunday morn
ing without explanation, and had
announced that the only calls per-
mitted would be those made by
Italian government officials who
had first obtained permission from
the police.
German quarters in most Euro
pean capitals believed that there
had been a meeting between Hit
Ter and Mussolini but they would
not be quoted on it,
In Budapest, where diplomatic
quarters had heard a week ago
that such conference vas inn
pending but had not received any
information since. it was said that
the time unquestionably had ar
rived for a meeting OF Mussolini
and Hitler II Britain were to be
prevented from consolidating her
gains in the Mediterranean area
and taking the initiative in the
whole near east, including Ethio-
pia and Syria
Cover Three Points
Budapest reports indicated that
a Hitler ussolini conference
would cover these points:
I The question of German air
bases in the Mediterranean, such
as the ones in Sicily;
?. An agreement on peace terms
to be offered France, whose &C
quiescence is important to any
Axis campaign in the Mediterran-
can;
5. The Balkan situation, includ
ing a discussion of the most like
ly direction to start spring cam
paigl and the possibility OF Ger
man mediation in the Italian
Greek war.
National Broadcasting Company
in New York heard the Rome ra-
do announce a meeting of the
directorate OF all Fascist parties
for Tuesday.
4 United Press wireless dis
patcn from Rome said 35 German
economic experts headed by Dr.
Karl Clodius was beginning a ser
les of "momentous conferences
Y it'll Italian economists, the result
OF which was expected to be that
Germany would greatly increase
her export OF raw materials 70
Italy. The dispatch said Italy had
been shipping enormous quaint
ties of foodstuff to Germany all
winter. heaping it into trains that
came from Germany loaded with
coal.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-20
In The Sick Room


Mrs Judson King and Mrs.
/ George Schanz went TO Milan Thurs
day TO visit Mrs Guy fowler, who
was in.
Mrs Emily Hughes, Who under
went a tonsil operation in Boyer
Memorial Hospital was taken home
Friday.
Edwin 5. Haight. Milan. a former
resident here. underwent a major
operation in 81. Joseph Mercy Hos
pital.
Dr. owen J Cleary has improved
enough from his recent operation
10 be brought from University Hos
pital. Ann Arbor to the home Of his
father. President r. R. Cleary. Mrs.
Cleary and the children. who we're
i'll with influenza are able TO be up
but are not yet fully recovered
Mrs. Jack McCandless is III with
influenza.
Master William Campbell returned
10 school today after a weeks i'll
ness with influenza.
Mrs. Iyele Grubb and son Ivele.
Jr., and Mrs. John Barber are i'll
with influenza
Mrs. Cora Gross, who had been
conyalescing from pneumonia. is i'll
with influenza at the home OF her
mother, Mrs. hurry +. Gibson.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-20
IN WALL STREET
STOCK MARKET
OPENING IRREGULAR

New York. Jan. coins The
stock market opened irregular to-
day with some pressure on indus.
trial shares.
L. S. Steel was slightly higher in
the early trading but Bethlehem
was heavy Westinghouse fell
nearly a point. General Motors
and Studebaker slipped, and Avia-
tions pointed lower
The rails were steady, n. Y. Cen
trail and Atchison holding at prev
lous closing levels. Oil shares
were firm.
There was some demand for the
packing shares. Cudahy was a
feature with an early advance OF
more than a point.
Anaconda was heavy In the cop
pers.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-20
Wayne Woman Forced to
Surrender Cash to Thug

At gun point. Miss Helen Van
Zant was forced to surrender $50
from the cash register OF the
Ferstle Food Market on n. Wayne
Rd. Saturday night.
Miss Van Zant was just closing
the store, owned by her mother.
when man entered, showed his
gun, and ordered her to give him
him the cash. which represented
the days receipts. He then required
her to lie down behind the counter
when he left the store, so she does
not know whether he had compan.
ion outside or in what kind Of a
car he escaped.