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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-28
Dangers OF Overweight

long time without doing any of
them any harm.
Dangers OF Overweight
Doctors have been preaching
for years Of the dangers of over
weight to health. 1t is associated
with diabetes, high blood pressure
and hardening of the arteries. It
puts a burden on a middle-aged
heart. There are always a few
wise-looking old fogles like this
doctor. who sit around and carp
but they never took the trouble
to make diet list in their lives.
The horror stories we hear are
about the thin movie actresses
who reduce for business reasons
until they become so emaciated
they run into tuberculosis. But
they probably had tuberculosis
anyhow - the reduction diet did
not precipitate it. They do not
belong in the class with the plump
matron of fifty who comes through
a door belt-buckle first.
Reasons for Reducing
First = health AS noticed
above. After the age of so over.
weight is a decided liability. Ac-
tuarial tables show that after 80
even. the race is decidedly to the
slender. Diabetes, Apprehension.
heart disease, arthritls. asthma,
are all associated with overweight
Second-business reasons-effi
cheney. ECONOMIC reasons in the
cost of letting out clothes.
Third-cosmetic reasons. This
is really the reason next to the
heart for most, and not only the
fair sex. among US.
New York POSTGRADUATE Hos
pital Reducing Diet
Breakfast: Fresh fruit por-
ton of either blackberries, grape
fruit. melon, orange, peach, pine
apple. raspberries or strawber-
ries; skim milk cup; or bever-
age-l cup.
Lunch: Fish-A pound; vege-
tables and salad as desired; aspar-
agus, string beans, broccoli, cab
bage, carrots, caulihower, celery,
chicory, cucumbers. escarolle. egg
plant, lettuce. radishes. spinach,
squash, tomatoes, tomato juice,
turnips; skim milk cup, or bev-
erage-1 cup.
Supper. Meat or fish pound;
g times weekly. eggs or 4
pound cottage or pot cheese);
vegetables and salad from list as
desired; skim milk cup; or but
termilk - cup; or beverage Il
cup. Use little salt in the prep
aration Of the food-add none
after. Vinegar okay with salads.
Approximately 500 calories.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
P. MI was born with a rup-
ture 25 years ago and it now
troubles me after much exercise
and working. Would you recon-
mend an operation"
Answer would certainly rec
ommend having 1t treated by an
experienced surgeon by whatever
method he suggests. Probably op-
erative treatment is the best.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-02-28

II was put forward by the Ma
tional Conference Of Mayors, head
ed by Mayor Fiorello II. LaGuar-
dia Of New York. II calls, not for a
federal law, but for state laws.
Green's story is that it would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-24
Treasury Opens Laugh Drive
To Boost Defense Bonds Sale

The Treasury Department yester-
day began an experiment. It
launched drive aimed at amusing
America into buying stamps and
bonds for defense.
Secretary Morgenthau is firm
against emotional appeals and high
pressure stuff. Instead, he thinks he
can lure money with laughs.
The first evidence of the sense of
humor campaign is visible today in
Washington theaters.
The Defense Savings Bond Divi-
sion of the Treasury has released a
newsreel picture lasting a minute
and half and featuring the comed-
ians Abbott and Costello in a gag"
situation about Defense bond pur-
chases.
The movie. released today in Is 900
theaters around the country, is the
first Of series of 10. They are being
made at the expense of the motion
picture industry and are donated to
the Treasury.
The list of Washington theaters
where the newsreel is being shown
comprises the Palace. the Capitol.
Keith's, the Earle, the Translux. the
Lincoln. the Booker T, the Ambas-
sador, the Metropolitan and the Co.
lumbia.
Other films will feature Jack
Benny. Carolyn Lee, Jane Withers
and other picture stars who make
you laugh
A big radio program will occupy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-24
4 British Cruisers Sunk
BY Italians, Rome Says

ROME, May "a tP,.-The italian
high command asserted today thai
four British cruisers had been sunk
and three others damaged by Ital-
ian torpedoes and bombs in four
days of fighting In the Eastern Medi.
terranean.
Two of the British cruisers were
sunk by torpedoes from italian SUR
face craft, the communique said
describing them as warships of the
5.450-ton Dido class and the 1910
ton Leander class.
The Leander-class ship. it said
split in two.
An italian submarine also was re.
ported to have sunk 12,000-tor
merchantmen in the Atlantic.
dido class vessels have eight
5.2b-lnch guns, six torpedo tubes
and lighter weapons and carry a
plane. There are 10 Of them,
built in 1899 and 1910.
The Leander class. averaging
1000 tons, includes the Achilles
and Ajax, which participated in
the chasing of the Admiral Graf
spec to her destruction by scut-
Ting at Montevideo: the Orion,
the Neptune and the Leander.
Their chief ornaments are eight
6-inch guns. They have eight
torpedo tubes.
The italian dispatches described
the battle for the Eastern Mediter-
ranean as intensifving and said
Italian planes and light naval craft
were aiding the Germans by attack
ing British naval units sent to Crete
to attempt to prevent the Germans
from landing troops.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-24
Workers Who Enlist
Keep Same U. 5. Job
Rights as Se|ectees
Controller General Also
Rules Employees Retain
Accrued Leaves

Federal employees who enlist in
stead of waiting for draft induction
are entitled to be restored to their
positions when their military duty is
completed. just as are those called
in the draft, Controller General
Warren held yesterday.
In another decision. the Controller
General indicated that Federal en-
ployes retain rights to accrued an
nual leave standing to their credit
when they are indicted or ordered
into military service.
The decisions were Qualifications
Of earlier rulings.
Decisions Explained.
In the first decision, which went
to the Secretary of War, Mr.. Warren
said the Selective Service Act in
preserving in general the civilian
employment rights of selectees must
be interpreted Ito include volunteers
for induction under that act as well
as Cthose) of persons conscripted."
The decision covering leave was
submitted to the Engineer Corps,
which asked if clothing and sub
Sistence allowances of enlisted men
should be considered as pay" in
determining their rights to be COM
pensated for leave when going from
civilian to military status.
II these eratuities were included.
it was explained, cases might arise
in which compensation for leave
could not be granted without vio-
lating the dual compensation law,
which forbids payments to an in
dividual of two salaries If they ex-
coed $4,000 annually. Mr.. Warren
responded that gratuities do not
have to be considered. but added
that employees entering military
service were not automatically en-
titled to be paid for unused leave.
Optional Decision Offered.
There would appear to be a right
In them to have the period of their
accrued leave remain to their credit
until they return to their civilian
positions after military service" he
said.
This opinion apparently makes it
optional with administrative officers
to decide if employees shall be paid
for the leave or shall retain it to be
used when and if they return to civil
employment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-24

the time to be vacated during his
summer vacation by Fred Allen
The Texas Co., which sponsors him
will pay for it.
For series starting the first
Wednesday in July and continuing
for Is weeks, the Treasury is lining
up a well-known dance band and
master of ceremonies. and scores of
entertainment celebrities who will
do their specialties and then urge
purchase of bonds.
Five-minute transcriptions of
similar entertainment also have
been distributed to 862 radio stations
and will go on the air daily begin
ming this week end.
To reach persons of foreign ex-
traction, another radio series is I'M
der way. Ignace Jan Paderewski
started it last week and will be fol-
lowed by Hendrix Van Loon, Eve
Curie and Emil Ludwig.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-24
Claude Y. Parsons,
U. 5. Housing Official
Found Dead in Room
Death of Ex-Coneress
Member Apparently Due
To Natural Causes

Claude Van Parsons. As, first as
sistant administrator TO the United
States Housing Administration and
former member of Congress from
Illinois. was found dead in his room
at the Continental Hotel this
morning
Hotel officials said his death ap-
parently was from natural causes
A native of Golconda, Ill. Mr.
Parsons had served as first assistant
to Housing Administrator Nathan
Straus following his defeat for re-
election to Congress by Judge James
V. Heidinger of Fairfield last fall
He had been member of Congress
for five successive terms. represent
ing the oath Illinois district.
Backed Waterways Bill.
One of his undertakings in Con-
greSs was the sponsorship of a bill
to create a direct and adequate
waterway between the Great Lakes
and the Gulf of Mexico. He made
speeches in behalf of this measure
in various sections of the country
Mr.. Parsons first was elected To
Congress in 1880 to fill the unexpired
term of the late Representative Tom
Williams. Part of his terms he was
chairman of the House Commute on
Enrolled Bills.
Mr.. Parsons was born at McCOr-
mick, Ill. October 7, 1895. He was
graduated from Southern Illinois
State Normal University in 1923. He
was unmarried.
Taught School. Edited Paper.
From 1914 to 1922 he taught school
in Pope County. Ill. and from 1922
10 the time of his election to Con-
gress was superintendent of schools
in that county. From 1924 to 1880 he
was editor and publisher of q news
paper.
He was president of the Southern
Illinois Teachers Associate in
1926 and of the County Superin-
tendents' Association of Illinois in
1880. He held membership in the
Masons, Order of Eastern Star and
Rotary Club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-24
North American
Continued From First Page

being much larger than the COM
panies here.
The other properties include the
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co,
three Wisconsin, Michigan companies
and the Union Electric Co. of Mis-
souri,. It has been known for a long
time that if the S. E. C. compelled
compliance with the indignation" re-
ouirementS, the North American Co.
would divest itself of the Washing
ton holdings. President E. L. Shea
intimating as much on several occa-
sions.
Owns $4,000 Shares.
The North American Co. now
owns approximately $4,000 shares
of Washington Railway & Electric
common stock. There are $4,000
outstanding.
Recently the North American Co
has paid dividends on its own COM
mon stock in participating units of
Washington Railway Il Electric
common. In December, 1889, the
New York concern declared a spe-
cial dividend payable in fractional
shares of Railway common. each
representing /4Oth of a share. An
other special dividend, amounting
to one unit for each 100 shares of
North American common, was paid
IN October, 1910.
In March of this year North Amer
lean Co. announced that all divi-
dends on its common stock during
1871 would be paid in Washington
Railway & Electric units, the action
being taken to reduce the cOmpany's
holdings and control in the latter
company. At the time of the last
dividend the bid price Of the units
was $3.50 The plan has suddenly
been dropped
The Security and Exchange Com
mission recently intimated to the
North American Co, that common
dividend payments in Railway e.
Electric units was far too slow a
method of giving up control of the
Washington properties. It would
take three or four years. the COM
rissioners said. It is understood
that the North American Co. then
decided to make an outright sale
Of the Washington stock.
1t is believed any syndicate
buying the Washington Railway
common stock will reoffer it to the
public in the form of participating
units similar to those now outstand-
ing. 1t is understood that Wash
ington investment houses will be
among the underwriters. North
Americans move to sell the Railway
Il Electric stock requires approval
Of the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
Washington Railway & Electric
common is quoted on the Washing
ton Exchange at $3.50 a share bid;
offered at $3.50 per share. Last year
the stock paid $50 per share in
dividends. The president of the
company is Alfred G. Neal who is
also director in the North Ameri-
can Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-24
Tests for Civil Service
Explained by Bourd

Formal or informal tests taken by
appointees to non-civil service
agencies will not qualify them for
civil service status under the Ram
speck Act, the Civil Service Commits
sion said today. The statement was
prompted by number of queries, it
was explained.
The commission added that its
curi examina tons are the sole means
by which those persons subject to
the Ranspeck Act may be put under
civil service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-24
War Will Doom j. ).
Democraey,Lindbergh
And Wheeler Assert
Advisers Want Roosevelt
To Wage Undeelured
Fight, Senator Charges
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 24.-Charles
A. Lindbergh and Senator Wheeler,
Democrat, OF Montana predicted in
speeches last night that United
States participation in the European
War would mean the end of Ameri-
can democracy.
They spoke in Madison Square
Garden at a rally sponsored by the
America First Committee and at
tended by crowd estimated by
police at 10000.
Col Lindbergh opposed United
States entry into the conflict be-
cause he said, Il do not believe
that our system of government in
America and our way of life can
survive our participation"
1t was Senator Wheelers thought
that IF the President accepts the
advice of little coterie who sur
round him he will wage an
undeclared war. And then-consti-
tutional democracy will end
Says U. S. Wants Accounting.
Col. Lindbergh pleaded for lead
ership that would do what Wash
ington did for us when we were
only 100000 people, leadership
that tells what it means and means
what it says"
The country. crying out against
war, he said, demands an eXplana-
ton of what happened at the cleo
tons last November. 1t demands
an accounting from Government
that has led us to war while it
promised us peace"
BooS and yells echoed through
the Garden when John T. Flynn,
chairman of the New York chapter
of the America First Committee,
repudiated any Nazi support of the
rally.
Pointing to Joseph E. McWilliams,
founder of the American Destiny
party who twice has been convicted
of disorderly conduct for making
anti-Semitic speeches in the German
community of Yorkville, Mr.. Flynn
shouted:
McWilliams called "StOoge."
And right here, not many PAGES
from where I am, is sitting a man
named McWilliams. What he is
doing her, how he gets in here, whose
stooge he is. do not know
The America First Committee
does not want the support of
handful of Bundists who are here,
without respect, without power, in
this community or any other"
Disavowing Nazi or Communist
support and describing his followers
as simply pro-Americans," Senator
Wheeler said Il was denouncing
Hitler when Lord Halifax was
shooting wild boar with Goering in
Germany. I was denouncing Mus
solini when Churchill was saying
lin 1920 if I were an Italian I
would be Fascist"
Five hundred police stood guard
inside of the garden during the
meeting, which passed without in
cldent except for the election of
one heckler after Mr.. Flynn's ex-
correlation of McWilliams ano of two
others who jeered Norman Thomas,
Socialist leader
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-24
Presbyterians Study
Committee Reports
AT Montreal Session
Southern Church TO Act
Monday on Charges
Against Dr.. Thompson

bS tHt hbhOCldttu fTcnS.
MONTREAL. N. c.. MAY 24.-The
General Assembly Of the Presbyter-
ian Church in the United States
faced heavy docket today which
included consideration OF various
committee reports and selection of
the site of next years meeting
The assembly decided to take up
Monday charges made in a pamphlet
published last fall by Thomas Glas-
gov of Charlotte against DR.. z. T.
Thompson Of the Union Seminary at
Richmond, Va.
One of the Presbyteries. Central
Mississippi, has demanded the resiR-
nation Of DR.. Thompson. con-
demning his views and asking the
Presbyterians Of the South to dis
continue use of his Sunday school
articles.
The Presbytery commended that
DR.. Thompson's teachings and
writings made the theological pro-
fessor an exponent of liberalism
disturbing to candidates for the
ulIIllSGIy-
A defense service council 10 recon-
mend Presbyterian chaplains for the
Army and Navy and defense indus
tries was proposed by a special com
mittee. The council would select
director for the service. Under the
proposal 100000 would be raised for
this work, salaries to be fixed by the
council.
Last night popular meeting was
held by the Executive Committee on
Religious Education and Publica-
ton. Addresses were made by Dr..
S. Parks McCallie OF Chattanooga
Tenn, and the Rev Marvin S. Kuske
Of Reidsville.
DR.. McCallie described the origin
and progress of weekday religious
education and attributed the grow
ing crime rate in America TO "ignor-
ance Of the Bible in children ana
their lack of moral training"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-24
Woman Bookkeeper Held
In $4,000 Peculotion.

By the Associated Press.
BRYN MAWR, Pa. May "a
Arraigned on charges of embezzling
$1,000 from the Bryn Mawr Build
ing and Loan Association, 44-year-
old M Eugenia Adicks became hys-
terical and screamed she would
faint if questioning continued re-
gardng what happened to the
funds.
II can't talk about it" she walled.
Held for court action. Miss Adicks
couldn't raise $500 bail and was
Jailed.
State Bank Examiner William J.
Stoll charged she embezzled the
$1,000 over period of more than
a year. covering up the facts with
false bookkeeping The woman had
been employed by the association
eight years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-24
Heads LEGION Unit

Arthur Clarendon Smith has been
elected chairman of the Subcom-
mittee of the Professional and Bust
nessmen's Unit of the Committee
on the Proposed American Legion
Home. it was announced yesterday
Other members include Leonard
Block. secretary, and DR.. J. r. OAR
nell, treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-24
u. ). Plans 10 Draft
Women in Next War,
Federation Warned
Mrs. Whitehurst Urges
Organization to Direct
Efforts for Defense
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. j., May "a
Mrs. John l.. Whitehurst of Balti-
more, new president of the National
Federation of Women's Clubs, called
today for organization of the sex to
aid in national defense, but to avoid
consumption OF women, which she
said was already under considera-
ton.
Telling the federation'S Board OF
Directors that a movement to draft
women during the next war was I'M
der way, Mrs. Whitehurst said:
If women are not organized. they
are going to have to take what Is
handed them"
She proposed federation women
call in representatives of all other
womens groups in their respective
counties, choose county co-ordinators
and through them select State CO.
ordinators
Elaborate Program.
This program would include COM
mittees for aviation, so women
might prepare to take over ground
work consumer problems, to meet
the demands for substitutes, includ-
ing those for products which would
go to South America; agriculture,
to prepare for taking over farm
work: industry. prepare tory to in
creased participation in manufac-
ture, nutrition and first aid.
Mrs. Saddle Orr Dunbar of Port
land. Greg, retiring president, in
her farewell address to the board
urged that the women cultivate
group consciousness because great
things are going to be asked of us
soon" She said she would return
to her position as executive secre-
tary of the Oregon tuberculosis
Association. from which she took
a three-year furlough to serve as
federation president.
The board elected Mrs. Charles l..
Fuller, wife of a Brockton Mass
publisher, chairman of
the Budget Committee, which
handles the federation's annual
s95 900 expenditures.
Convention Makes History.
Other weary delegates hurried
homeward or roamed this seaside
resort today, certain their golden
jubilee triennial convention had
made club history.
In accepting the presidency of the
worlds largest organization of wom-
en-, Mrs. Whitehurst said last night
at banquet attended by 5000 that
women must play very important
part in our country's affairs if we are
to save 1t from the fate of France
and other countries
The federation voted for a policy
of whatever aid is necessary" to ma
tons resisting totalitarian aggression
If their defense is deemed vital to
defense of the United States.
The women also committed them
selves to work for a stout national
defense program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-24
Slemp Says World Owes
Gratitude to Roosevelt
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va. May 24-C.
Bascom Slemp, one time secretary to
President Coolidge and for a genera
ton a leader of Republican politics
in Virginia, said yesterday the
United States and the whole world
should be grateful for the leadership
given the country "by President
Roosevelt and his cabinet"
Mr.. Slemp, announcing in writ
ten statement that he was speaking
only as a private citizen recalled
that in 1917 while in Congress he
voted for war and said he would
favor delivering to England what
ever We want to deliver and at what
ever cost"
1T is the only way to prevent eco
nomic slavery for an indefinite
time he added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-24
w. & M. Will Receive
Senator Glass Portrait
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va, May "a
Bernard M. Baruch. World War
chairman of the War Industries
Board, will present a portrait of
Senator Glass, Democrat, Of Vir-
ginia to the College of William
and Mary on behalf of the New
York State Bankers Association,
at exercises at the college June 7.
Senator Glass is expected to at
tend the ceremonies in the Chris
topher Wren Building, where the
painting, the work of Bernhard
Goodwin, will be hung. President
John Stewart Bryan will accept the
portrait on behalf of the college.
The Virginia Senator was Secre-
tary of the Treasury in President
Wilson'S cabinet.