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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-19
IN WALL STREET
MARKET OPENING
NARROW, IRREGULAR

New York. Aug. l9-INS- The
stock market opened narrow and
irregular today.
There were further big deal
ings in Continental Motors, which
started with $500 shares. The
price was unchanged at 4.
United Aircraft opened on a
block OF $500 shares in the svia-
tions. II was off fractionally af-
ter yesterdays strength. Boeing
was slightly higher.
u. S. Steel gained fractionally.
Anaconda and American Smelling
were lower, as was c. & o. Else
where changes were unimportant.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-19
Daily Market Report
LIVESTOCK

Detroit, Mich. Aug. 1s-Cattle:
Monday receipts. 100. Choice
to prime yearlings, dry fed, SIG
1900: good TO choice yearlings,
dry fed, s1O.5OG11; medium to
good yearlings. dry fed. $40 a
1880; good to choice heavy steers,
dry fed, s1O.75Q12; medium to
good heavy steers. dry fed, $40 q
1880; best grass steers and heif-
ers, s7Qs.5O; medium to good
grass steers and heifers, $7.75 q
$50; common grass cattle, Sc 500
$50; best cows, $7.5O@S; good
butcher and cutter cows, $500
1925; Gamer cows, $4.5O@6; old
rims. $4.25 down; best light butcher
and best heavyweight bologna bulls,
sSQS.50; few strictly choice high
err. Mediumweight bolognas, $3.50
S; light common bulls. s6G7; stock
bulls, s64S; good to choice stockers
and feeders. ssql2 common TO fair
stockers and feeders, s7qs.50;
mixers and sprmgers. s65Q90.
Calves-best, S14; fair to good,
s12@13.50; common, 50.
Sheep and lambs-Monday re-
ceipts, 400. Few choice lambs
$l1.50; Best lambs, $11.25; fair to
good. s9.50Q10.50; seconds. sS.50Q
9; skips. Sc down; best yearling
ewes. ss9s.50; best yearling weth-
ers, 81; best sheep, s5Q5.50; fair
to good sheep, $3@4.5o; culls and
common. s2Q3.
Hogs-Monday receipts. $500;
10000 lbs, S11.65; 20O-22O lbs,
s11.75; 220-230 lbs. s11.65; 23O.250
lbs, $11.40: 25O-270 lbs, s11.05;
10000 lbs, 5000; SOO-35O lbs.
$1,000; 350-400 lbs. 5000; 400-45O
lbs, s10.25; $50 lbs. down, s10.50@
1915; stays, $3.50.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-19
Vegetables

Detroit. Mich. Aug. 10
ASPARAGUS - No. /, so @ Use
doz. punches.
GREEN BEANS-No-1,S L256L75
bu.
BEETS-No. I, 25@35c doz. bchs.
CARROTS-No. l, 80 q Acc doz.
punches.
CELERY-No. l, 25930c doz. bchs
ONIONS-No. l green. S5Q50c doz.
bchs.
POTATOES-No. /. soq9 bu.
RADISHES-Red. No. /, S5q50c
doz. punches.
RHUBARB-Outdoor. No. l, ESQ 35c
doz. punches. 80.
RUTABAGAS-No. l. 75cas1 bu.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-19
POULTRY
(RaZleY'a MarketA
Council Notes
CONTINUED from Page one)
Buying Prices1

Contractor constructing the wat
er main along Mauss Ave. Is to be
given two weeks in which to re-
pair damage TO the road and side
walk. II the repairs are not made
by that time the city will require
forfeit Of the bond supplied by the
contractor and will do the work
itself Ernest Tomford had COM
planned of condition OF the road.
LONDON-AP- The admiralty
announced today that approximate
ly 4.007, 900 tons OF Axis shipping
had been sunk. captured or scut-
tied up to Aug. 16.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-19
DIVORCES GRAINED

Edward Davis from May Thomp-
son Davis: cruelty.
Helen Mcleod Smith from Ed
wyn- Smith: cruelty and non-sup-
port.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-08-19
Butter and Equs

Detroit, Mich, Aug. IS
BUTTER-Best creamery in tubs,
34@35c.
EGGS - Current receipts 241ac;
dirties, 22hc; checks, 22iac.
Poultry
Detroit, Mich, Aug. 19-Poultry:
market steady. Hens. average run,
19c; leghorn hens. 3 lbs up.
15c; cocks, 10Q12c; rock spring
ers, average run, 21c; leg.
horn broilers, 1 Y lbs up, isc. No un.
loading Of poultry before a. IN. or
after 8 p. m. Saturdays no unload.
ing.
Evening star., 1941-07-12
Warden Luwes 'Retires'

Lewis E. LaWes is less than fifty
eight and his retirement from his
position as warden of Sing Sing
Prison therefore cannot indicate any
desire on his part to be idle. True,
he has served at a difficult post OF
duty continuously, seven days week,
tWenty-four hours day, since jan
uary l. 1920. 1t also is fact that,
beginning as guard at Clinton in
1905, he spent fifteen years as an
apprentice preparing for the work
he elected to do.
But for such persons as Warden
Lawes there can be no escape from
labor in any sense of the phrase
that would mean abandonment of a
cause. He entered upon his task as
qualified physician undertakes to
practice medicine. His vocation was
a sacred charge which he could not
reject even if he were to wish free
dom from responsibilities. He has
been in certain respect voluntary
inmate of the institution over which
he has presided with acknowledged
success. Now he prefers to get out
Evening star., 1941-07-12
Fire Escapes

In adopting an order requiring
the operators Of all rooming houses
with sleeping accommodations for
ten or more persons to obtain an
annual license, the Commissioners
have taken a step which should
prove helpful in dealing with the
serious hazard arising from the fact
that at this time there Is no ade-
quate supervision of rooming houses
to determine whether they are prop
erly equipped with fire escapes.
Under the new order, rooming
house operators, of which there are
said to be some 5000 in the city, will
be required to secure a certificate OF
occupancy from the building in
spector's office before licenses will
be issued. No certificate will be
issued, it is said, until it has been
established that the rooming house
in question meets the requirements
of the fire escape law.
There are two phases of this mat
ter, however, which should be kept in
mind. One is that the licensing
order is not an adequate substitute
for the new fire escape legislation
which Congress has been asked to
enact. The present law was passed
in 1906 and amended in 1907 and
1884. Under its terms, fire escapes
are required only in the cases Of
those rooming houses which have
more than nine occupants above the
second floor. That requirement can
and has been evaded by concentrat-
ing roomers on the first floor at the
time of inspection, and returning
them to the upper floors later. The
new law makes fire escape manda-
tory when there are ten or more
roomers in any part of house, and,
in addition, requires that all apart
ment houses be connected directly
to the Districts fire alarm system.
These changes are important and
should receive congressional ap-
proval.
The other point concerns the re-
quest by Building Inspector Robert
H. Davis for additional fire escape
inspectors. At present he has four, q
staff which obviously would be un-
able to inspect 5000 rooming houses
in addition to their present duties.
Mr.. Davis says that he needs from
ten to twelve more men, and 1t seems
rather futile to talk about any real
tightening up on enforcement of the
fire escape regulations by licensing
system or by any other such device
II the necessary personnel is not to
be forthcoming.
Evening star., 1941-07-12

was resigning because u great many
controversies" are coming before the
commission which involve individuals
or groups with whom he has .
personal connection. He added
that under the circumstances he
found it difficult to function with
the complete disinterestedness that
one should have in this position"
Resignation of all officials who find
themselves in the position OF Mr..
Duckett may not be the solution.
They might be observing the pro-
prieties better, however, If they with
drew from consideration of certain
cases, as judges frequently do. The
voters themselves can best provide
a permanent improvement by care
fully considering at election time the
potential results of the backing that
individual candidates receive from
party organizations.
Evening star., 1941-07-12
Wants Police Cooperation
To Save Gas and Oil.

To the Editor Of The Star
Speaking of conserving gasoline for
defense, in which am a firm believer,
a rather peculiar situation has occurred.
On our block in the suburbs there are
mo parking signs on our side of the
street and parking is restricted to few
hours daily on the other. AS con-
sequence, most of us are forced to park
two or three blocks away. Unfortunately,
1 made the blunder one day. due to ILL
ness, of parking near neighbor's house
over 18 hours and was promptly reported
to the police for breaking the 18-hour
parking law.
NV friend and both drive automobiles
and in order to save gasoline, she drives
down to my place and parks her car
and we both drive to the office In mine.
We could further conserve gasoline and
oil If we could alternate the cars in the
drive to the ONCE because mine uses .
lot more oil and gasoline than hers. We,
however, are compelled to take my car
because I am forced to park near this
neighbors house and from past expert
ence I am positive that if the car
remains there over 18 hours, which Is
bound to happen. will be reported.
If the police will cooperate with as
Evening star., 1941-07-12
Discusses Limited Warfare"
Against Germany Now.

To the Editor OF The Star:
Conveying means war, shooting" war.
But until Hitler is ready to attack us
with his particular brand of shooting
war; we are free to decide exactly what
shall 60 into our own brand.
We can fight a limited war. We can
do Just as much shooting as our in
terests require Today that means con-
voying. Tomorrow it might mean SCI
zure of additional strategic points outside
this hemisphere.
Secretary Knox stated that one ship
recently sunk carried thousand ma
chine guns for Britain. Ships are being
sunk three times as fast as they are
replaced. Unless We take all practi-
cable measures to reduce these sink
ings, even to the point of fighting a
shooting war on submarines, Britain will
not only be that much weaker against
the supreme invasion attempt which
Nazi success in Russia would make pos
sible; she might even be starved into
submission without invasion.
Should both Britain and Russia go
down we would become the target for
q Hitler shooting war waged with all
the resources and from all the bases Of
Europe, Africa and Asia. If by con-
voying now, even though it means I'M
mediate entry into limited warfare, we
may 30 strengthen Britain and her navy
as to keep all-out warfare from our
shores, isn't that the sensible thing to
do7 ROBERT 8. FIELD.
VinelAnd, n. j.
Evening star., 1941-07-12
THIS AND THAT
By Charles Z. Trdcetpell.

kitty" except that 1t resembles more
call to pussy, pussy, pussy"
The open flowers on the trumpet vine
bring the hummingbirds smallest of our
feathered friends. (What is the matter
with the phrase, "our feathered friends"2
1t has been seized on by persons who
have no interest in birds as a phrase
for semi-derision, but actually it Is a
very good grouping. If it were not for
these true friends of man, we probably
would have no agricultureJ
The hummingbird always runs true to
form. Once a hummer, always hum
mer. We may count on his doing the
same things this year as he did last year.
We know from experience that he will
fly to certain flowers, especially the bell
shaped ones, and particularly the red
ones, and that he will there hover over
them as he alone can do.
We can expect his appearance at the
twilight hour, at the boxes of petllnias
in the window Even the deepest city
window box knows the ruby throated
hereabouts. Sometimes there seem to be
more hummingbirds in the small city
backwards than in the larger gardens of
the suburbs. And when you think that
to these same city yards, the typical
Washington backyard come the cardi-
nails and the friendly wrens, then you
may realize that some of the finest of
all birds appear where newcomers might
least expect them. This is because
Washington is still city of trees. Wha0
will happen when all the trees are gone
is another matter
There is real escape in watching the
birds.
Not escape from duties, but from over
thinking of the sorrows of the world.
Such thinking does no good 1t does
not excite TO action, but is INDUCED in
when one is inactive.
1t is during such periods that taking
ones mind off" the woes of the world
is good thing.
There are many honest ways of doing
it, and one of them is watching the
feathered folk.
For shutins, and a great number Of
persons who are not ILL., in one sense,
yet are not really well, the indoor -out-
door sport of bird observation is espe-
cially good.
1t really takes their minds off their
troubles. Birds come everywhere There
is surely no snobbery among them AS
far as We can see, the English sparrow
is just as good bird TO the cardinal,
which mixes freely with it, as the hand
some towhee.
House sparroWS. as they are called in
England, come to the city streets and
yards. They are friendly. interesting,
pretty, if you will, They are not half
so black as they have been painted, one
often thinks.
They hold their own very we'll with
the rarer birds in the matter of inter-
est, provided the watcher is willing to
take them at their true value. which is
simply that of small fellows trying to
get along in the world.
Some one said that the more he saw
OF human beings, the better he liked
his dog. Much the same thing may be
said OF birds by the consistent observer.
Evening star., 1941-07-12
Wheat Belt Trouble

1t will be interesting to await the
outcome of the tug-of-war between
the Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration and those champions of the
wheat farmers who are objecting
vigorously to the imposition of a
penalty of forty-nine cents bushel
on wheat grown in excess of market
ing quotas
The farmers voted for the market
ing quotas by considerably more
than the necessary two-t thirds ma
jority some six weeks ago. Under the
quota system, farmers growing in
excess of their allocated acreage are
ineligible for the full amount of Gov
ernment wheat loans and cannot
market their wheat except by paying
the forty-nine- cent penalty on the
excess.
1t seems, however, that the farm
ers, or some of them, voted for the
quotas under the impression that
they would be subject only to
fifteen-cent penalty, despite the fact
that the higher penalty was approved
last May. In other words, it appears
that they were willing to accept the
benefits of the quota system provided
they could ignore the quotas by pay
ing only fifteen-cent penalty, but
that forty-nine cents is an altogether
different matter.
Meanwhile, congressional cham
pions of the wheat farmers have
taken up their cause, and the A. A. A.
is standing firm, since it would be
grossly unfair to the farmers who
have complied with the quotas to
modify the penalty for the benefit of
those who have ignored them. It
may we'll be that the battle over
RECOMMENDATION of the farmer" is
about to be revived on new and
more significant front.
Evening star., 1941-07-12
CommendS Plan
To Aid BicycliSts.

To the Editor of The Star:
At last some one advocates the intro
duction of bicycle lanes! Henry J.
Kolbey hit the nail on the head
in his letter to The Star. I have
been telling people for some time about
the Danish way of solving the bicycle
traffic problem.
One-way lanes. marked off by wide
white lines, on the sides near the curb,
are found on all Copenhagen thorough
fares. Bicycling thus becomes less of
zigzagging hazard; nerves and lives are
saved and everybody has a good time.
Cycling will probably become the vogue
when and if the distribution of gasoline
is curtailed. But with cars parked along
the street-curbs, bicycle lanes are out of
the question.
Being a street-parker myself, I cannot
very we'll advocate its abolishment! 1t
seems surprising, though, that in a city
with so many privately owned cars,
garages have not been automatically
built with each house and apartment.
Until we have reached this stage of civil
llzation cyclists will have to wait patient
ly or write to their Congressman about
II. K. B. CHASE.
Evening star., 1941-07-12

Escape literature, as 1t is called, usu-
ally means a romantic novel placed in
times past, 50 that the reader is able
to forget the present, at least for the
time being.
Watching the birds in the garden is
q sort of escape activity, in a very good
sense.
While one is observing, one is not
thinking of war and destruction, of
treachery and broken faith, Of cruelty
and planned havoc.
While the birds which come to our
yards have their bad points. now and
then, in the main they are very decent
citizens of this world.
At least the observer knows where
they stand. There are hawks. 1t is true,
cardinal is always a cardinal, brave and
true, and a wood thrush is always
thrush, handsome and gentlemanly.
This surety about the birds is whole
some and satisfying, especially in these
sad days, when alliances change over
night, and men around the world scarce
ly know where they stand from one day
to another.
The birds work on long planned lines.
They are today as they have been for
centuries. When you see blue Jay
standing on the rim of the feeding sta
ton at the dining room window, you
will be sure how he is going to act.
His wild squawk, as he sees you, will
be a decent greeting, one which will
scare the sparrows away, but one upon
which they may rely, at the same time.
They are not very much afraid of
the jays, after all. They know from
experience that the big blue and gray
birds will not harm them, as a general
proposition.
The observer may observe these birds
for many years and never see them
hurt anything. Even in their bullying
they are good humored.
Has the blue jay feud with the
SQUIRREL" we were asked the other day
He Is always after him"
No, the jay has no particular feud
with the squirrel
He has a feud with everything, if you
take him seriously.
Those who have watched him for a
long time do not take him so seriously.
He is humorist, this jay, and he likes
to make other birds, and animals, run.
So he flies down, with an outrageous
shrek of defiance, but he really doesn't
mean it.
He is just doing it to see what the
other creatures will do.
They fly away, or run away, of course.
Who wouldn't, when such a handsome.
bold fellow flies down with such a yell?
Yes, the jay yells. 1t is the best word
for it. 1t is his trade mark, his best
identification. But he has many other
notes, too, some of them sweet and soft,
SO unlike his yell that the listener can
not quite believe his ears.
The jay has queer creaking noise,
as If he were twirling one of these
wooden rattles which are operated by a
series of cogs.
He has soft repeated cry. for all the
world as If he were calling kitty. kitty,
Evening star., 1941-07-12
For Non-Defense Cuts

The announcement on Monday OF
the formation of a Nationwide Cit
liens Committee to work for a re-
duction In outlays by Federal. State,
and local governments will be well
coined as a move to make articulate,
and effective, the growing public de-
mand for a curb on non-esSential ex-
penditures. Headed by Henry M.
Wriston, president of Brown Uni
versity, the group will be known as
the Citizens Emergency Committee
on Non-defense Expenditures. 1t will
have its headquarters in Washing
ton, and its membership will repre-
sent widely varied elements in Ameri-
can life-consumers, labor, business,
, agriculture. women's groups and
church organizations.
In explaining the objectives of the
committee, DR.. Wriston pointed out
that despite the vast expenditures
for total defense, and the burden and
sacrifices which these necessary out
lays and the resulting higher taxes
have placed on every American wage
Garner, Congress appropriated $780,
1000 more for non-defense appro-
priations during the fiscal year just
ended than it did during the previous
twelye-month period. If the Nation
is to survive the present emergency,
and retain the democratic processes
of government, the American peo-
pie must insist on the strictest econ
omy in non-defense spending. he
warned.
The record speaks for itself.
Though the Nation has embarked
upon the greatest defense program in
it's history, to meet the threat of
totalitarian aggression, and though
the public debt has reached a new
high, and is still increasing, neither
Congress nor the administration so
far has made any thoroughgoing
effort to reduce the non-defense
budget.
The mobilization of an informed
public opinion Is clearly needed, if
governmental expenditures for non-
essentials are to be eliminated dur
ing the present emergency. BY help
ing to mobilize this opinion and ex-
planning the possibilities of non-
defense cuts, the committee can rem
der valuable service to the Ameri-
can people. Its objectives will be
commended by every thoughtful cit
izen. For it is of vital Importance
that the country maintain a strong
economy, and this can only be done
through prudent administration of
the Nations finances and the prun-
ing of expenditures not directly re-
lated to the defense program.
Evening star., 1941-07-12
New Homes for Sole

Huge derrickS scooped the tender,
terny crypt
Where lady-slippers nodded, eager
Tipped;
And graceful grasses crossed to touch
and UhiSper
Like prayer book leaves that rustic
during UeSper.
Wen remember hoD the clouer,
S,Deet,
Brushed its rosy head against my
feet.
Notu planks fail duly NTH con-
quering thud
Smothering the peri,oinkles deep in
mud,
Unteehngly the shovel does its duty;
Ouer again the barro,O Is piled NTH
beauty
OF fo,Uer tuneralS-each giving its
tiny face
To brick and mortar for a greedy
space.
Civilization mounts to azure domes
But ,Uhere 1UiU these StUeet tDildltngs
find men homes"f
IDA ELAINE JAMES.
Evening star., 1941-07-12
Detective Shuke-up

The testimony of Captain Ira E.
Keck that a reorganization OF the
Detective Bureau now in progress
contemplates the selection of a cap
tain to head the homicide squad
holds promise of an important step
in the right direction.
Evidence presented to the House
subcommittee investigating the Po-
lice Department seems to have es-
tabliShed that the Detective Bureau
is the weakest link in the depart
ment. And there is good reason to
believe that the homicide squad is
the weakest link in the bureau.
But both the Detective Bureau and
the homicide squad have been handi-
capped by the fact that the law set
ting up the bureau command pro-
vides only for an inspector of police
in charge and lieutenant acting as
captain to be second in command.
The result has been that good men,
in order to win deserved promotions,
have had to leave the bureau, and
in this fashion the District has lost
the services of several first-class de-
tectives.
In this respect, Captain Keck's
plan to put the homicide squad in
charge of captain is only a partial
remedy, for it corrects a weakness in
but one unit. A proper solution of
the bureaus problem calls for legis-
lation which would give the full
rank of captain to the officer who is
second in command, and provide for
the creation of several additional
captaincies and lieutenancies. If
that were done, there would be an
incentive for good men to stay in the
bureau.
Testifying as acting chief of de-
tectives, Captain Keck also sub
mitted several other sensible recon-
mendations to the subcommittee.
One calls for assignment to the bu-
reau of a full-time criminologist or
microanalySt to help with technical
and chemical work. Another con-
templates the reaSsignment of de-
tectives now on the force, a change
which seems important in view of
testimony that men who are not on
speaking terms have been assigned
to work in pairs as partners. A third
recommendation was that all plain
clothes men, including precinct de-
tectives, be placed under the direc-
ton of the chief of detectives, a
proposal which would seem to be in
the interests of more orderly and
more effective detective work.
All of these proposed changes are
administrative in character, how
ever. They could be put into effect
without legislation, and if they would
make for an improved Detective
Bureau it is difficult to understand
why there should be any further de-
lay in carrying them out.