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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-30
Entertalns Club

Mrs. Eben Smith entertained the
Contract Bridge Club Friday eve
ming. Prizes were won by Lillian
Rogers and Mrs. Edward Allward'
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-30

Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Colts and
son, Wallace. were dinner guests
Sunday at the home OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Bechtel. Detroit
Miss Rita Savinski. Ann A.bor,
spent Wednesday with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Savin-
ski.
Word has been received here by
relatives OF Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Colts, Worthwhile, that their son
Larry has been very Ill with pneu-
monia.
Mrs. Roy Austin. S. F. Augusta
visited Thursday with Mrs. o. r.
Darling.
Ralph Colts and son. Wallace,
attended the Minehart auction sale
near Cherry Hill. Friday.
Larry Schanz has been III and
out OF school for several days.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-30
Returns Home

Mrs. William Post who has been
spending several weeks at the B. c.
Post home has returned to Chi
cago.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-30
Woman's study Club Meets

The regular meeting OF the Wom-
ans Study Club was held Thurs
day afternoon at the home Of Mrs.
Carl Simmons.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-30

Mrs Henry Potter was called TO
Flushing Thursday by the sudden
death OF her father. Frank Morton.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-30

Mrs. A. G. Scoop. Ypsilanti. suf-
fered a severe stroke Wednesday
while at the home OF her nephew.
Richard Osler. In the village. She
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-30

The remains OF Mrs. George Won
Nostitz. Ypsilanti, were brought
here for burial Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Won Nostitz was Eva Wortley
before her marriage and formerly
lived in the village.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Nichols,
Mount Morris, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Loviss, and sons. Detroit, visited
their cousins. Mr.. and Mrs. o. n.
Post and Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Spring, Tuesday evening.
School was closed Tuesday after
noon because OF a Teachers Insti-
tute at Wayne.
Mrs. Alfred Eddy has been spend.
ing some time at the home OF her
daughter and husband, Mr.. and
Mrs. Don Smith, Milan.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Sidick have
moved from the Clark cottage on
Liberty St. to Lake Orion.
Mrs. Cora Smith. Liberty St, who
has been Ill for long time, is in a
very critical condition.
Mrs. o. r. Post and Mrs. d. H
Raymond were Detroit shoppers
Wednesday. ..
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-30

grand officers we're present and ex.
emplitied the degrees.
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Ne,Us From BeHeuilIe
Homs on Leave

was removed by ambulance 10
Boyer Hospital.
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VISIT sCHANZ HOME
futile Hill, Mar. S0-Mr and
Mr. Honald Thure and son Terry.
5ranr Rapids were week end
guess OF Mr.. and Mrs. Karl
SohanE.
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News From Saline

colors. yellow and white Mrs.
J. n. Lewis and Mrs. c. II. Miller
poured.
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Lewis Daniels has sold his house
on f. Henry 81. 10 Mr.. and Mrs.
Raymond Daniels and will make
his home in Ypsilsnti.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-30

Give Police A Fair Break!
Police of Ypanti handicapped by lack of adequate
housing
People of Ypsan being forced pay for loss of time
and lack of working convenences.
new police station is urgently needed. For conven-
ence efficiency and saving of time the police Offices the
municipal court and the municipal Jail should be in
building, ON CITY OWNED, CENTRALLY LOCATED
PROPERTY.
The police and police officers have studied
the situation and recommend building which will pro-
vide economic and practical housing
The cost will be approximately $4,000. Bonds issued
for this purpose will be retired over long period of
that the year will be little that will
scarcely affect the tax budget.
AS of fact it is estimated that the saving in
hours transporting prisoners to and from
the Jail together with rent that be expected
from the building being used by the police depart
ment will close paying the entire cost of the
posed new building
Next Monday electors of the city of Ypanti will be priv
LEGGED to vote on this important proposal.
For your benefit and for the practical improvement
in working conditions imperative account of in
dustral growth
Vote X Yes
on the proposal bonds for police headquar
tiers in Ypslanti.
POLLS WILL BE OPEN FROM A. M TO 8 Pm.
MONDAY, APRIL 6.
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Did Davis Lafayette Ind school teacher strike II
she caught him whispering
little Danny told his mother Mrs Virginia
mother and father promptly paid visit
Miss Davis and Mrs Leslie proceeded TO give the teacher
while Mr. Leslie stood guard at the school
pictured the courthouse
pupils testified that she had
Danny with her and the
Leslie pictured talking with Danny during
court
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-30
Home on FurIouoh

Corporal Kenneth L. Post. Esler
Field. Camp Beauregard. Alexan-
dria, La arrived home Friday morn
ing to spend a two weeks furlough
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. o.
R. Post, Liberty ST.
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Dinner Guests

Dinner Guests
Mrs. Leland Gorton and daugh-
ter. Lelanel. were dinner guests
Wednesday at the home of Miss
Mary Boutell
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-30

Misses Katy Lou and Jeanette
Clay. East Lansing. spent the week
end with their sister. Mrs. Don
Francisco.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-30

Hostess TO Club
Mrs Martin Fuoss was hostess
10 the Thursday evening bridge
club at ST. Patrick's party at her
home on US-ll2. Prizes were
awarded for the lowest scores, hay-
ing been received by Mrs. Rose
Woodbridge and Mrs. o c. Wheel
er. and Mrs. Hazel Cook received
the travelling prize The hostess
had a novel scheme by which each
player was given prizes.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-12
PILOTS:
By Thousands

Secretary Knox electrified the ma
| ton when he announced that four
| large American universities would
'join the navy" and serve as train
ing centers for huge army of COM
bat pilots for the new navy air force,
| to be created with a Is billion dol
lar appropriation.
Keeping the identities of the uni
versities a secret, Knox revealed
that the plan will be put into opera
ton so swiftly that by May / it will
be in full swing-perhaps sooner.
Briefly, the plan was this. Each
school is to become an Annapolis of
the air. The entire facilities of the
universities will be rented by the
navy for the duration of the war.
A rigorous routine will be adopted
for the students, future combat pi-
lots. They will handle $500 naval
flying cadets monthly.
A three-month preliminary train
ing will be started, with men dig
ging bitches, marching up to 40
miles from sunup to shutdown. They
will chop wood, clear land, will learn
jiu-jitsu, boxing, rough-and-tumble
fighting.
Only ''men with CUTS" are being
sought. Lieut.. Tom Hamilton, for
mer football coach at the naval
academy, will be physical direc-
tor, and Lieut. Com. Gene Tunney
will work with him.
The universities will be entirely
ground schools, the fight training
coming elsewhere. Each of the
schools was described as "about the
size of Annapolis"
The whole course is expected to
take a year, from the time the
student starts until he has his navy
wings. But when the first class gets
through, the navy's supply of pilots
will grow at the rate of $500 a
month, according to the plan.
If the plan works satisfa ctorily,
the navy hopes it may cut down the
year to lesser time in many
cases.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-12
HIC HLICH T S

Washington: Walter Nash, first
New Zealand minister to the United
States, urged that an American
naval officer be placed in supreme
command In the Pacific.
Buy Defense Bonds
Hamilton, Bermuda: Survivors
from a torpedoed British freighter
said that the German submarine
tried to crush and upset their life
boats.
Washington: Automobile ration
ing, following the end of auto pro-
duction, will start on February 26,
Leon Henderson announced. He will
make an effort to release some half
million frozen new cars ordered
but not delivered since sales were
stopped the first of the year.
Washington: One type of hoard
ing that has actually been recon-
mended is the purchase of coal.
Fuel Co-ordinator Ickes urged con-
surners to build up their stocks Of
coal" while they can.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-12
PINCERS:
In Island Empires

Little by little study of the maps
Of the island empires of the AIDA
forces in the East Indies began to
show the picture of the Japanese eff
fort, and demonstrated that a giant
pincers movement was being car
ried out with three major detectives.
On the extreme west, the two
prongs of the Japanese pincers were
working on Rangoon and Singapore.
The former, if the Japs could crack
it, they felt, would put an effective
stopper on the Burma road. The lat
ter would jettison British hopes of
defending the west half of the island
empire, and leave the japanese fleet
in command Of the India-Australia
supply lines.
In the center lay Borneo, and
with invasion forces going both to
left and right of this island, it was
evident that the Japs were seeking
to wipe out the advance defenses of
Java and Sumatra.
On the east was the Bismark
archipelago, and the drive here,
while not SO well established, appar-
emily was seeking an invasion of
Cape York, Australia, and a sweep
down the east coast of the continent
"down under" the only rich and
populous section of the whole huge
island.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-12
TEMPEST:
In Ireland

Arrival OF a large number of ap.
parently well-equipped u S. troops
in Northern Ireland, seemingly from
the Middle West, provided the first
reinforcement story of land forces
sent to combat areas by this country
and started an Irish tempest.
DeValera, in southern Ireland, OBJ
jected strenuously to the arrival of
American troops, and criticized it
most sharply for being what he
called "a British attempt to make
more sharp the breach between
northern and southern Ireland"
There were some critics also in
Northern Ireland, though in general
the populace was welcoming the
disembarked troops, and fraterniz-
ing was on a most pleasant basis.
What their mission might be was
obscure, but expected to be clarified
before long.
Whether that meant that Ameri-
can forces would use Belfast bases
as way-stations to Africa and the
Far East, or that they would take
up training duty to replace British
defenders of Great Britain proper
was matter of conjecture.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-12
SOVIET:
Continued

Grounding day came andwent, but
regardless of shadows, King Winter
reigned in Soviet Russia, freezing
into motionless hulks the majority of
Hitler's mechanical war-fghters,
and giving the Russians continued
strength to hurl the Nazis back along
the entire long front
A 93-mile gain in the Ukraine had
brought the Reds to within easy
striking distance of the lower bend
of the Dnieper river, brought within
the realm of possibility the capture
of Dnieperopetrovsk, where the
$500, 900, 900 dam had been blown up
by the Russians in their retreat.
Most remarkable dispatch was the
announcement of the capture of a
town named Berestovoya, 115 miles
west of German-held Taganrog, a
serious blow to the German rear,
and forming possible trap for thou
sands Of Nazi troops.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-12
in the weeks nesUs

London: Quisling has assumed in
Norway the German-designated post
Of prime Minister of State"-
equivalent to dictator.
Belfast: Americans inethe British
Isles were reported as clamoring
for chances to enlist in the A.E.F.
Many of them already were serving
in the British army and wanted
transfers to American units.
WashingtOn: General Johnson
Hagood, army critic who resigned
following the fracas over his re-
marks that WPA money was "stage
money" had blamed the Pearl Har-
Dor debacle squarely on the in
efficiency of the war department it.
self.
Buy Defense Bonds
Bern: When Hitler made his an
niversary talk before the reichstag
recently, it was said that Goering,
Won Ribbentrop and Admiral Raeder
were missing from the 'honor
bench near the fuehrer.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-12

buy and sell commodities in case in
flation threatened, probably would
give the administration powerful
curbs to keep farm prices down to
parity.
The senate agriculture committee
questioned Wickard for four hours,
left his office somewhat ruefully adj
hitting that his claims were prob
ably true.
Some were quoted as saying that
they felt their legislative victory
over the administration had been
nullified by power the bill itself
conferred on the government.
Wickard was frank about the
whole thing. He told the senators
that cotton, wheat, tobacco, will be
stabilized at parity.
He said that corn and other feed
crops will be stabilized at around IS
per cent of parity, probably to keep
stock prices from going sky high,
also to encourage farmers to stock,
dairying and poultry-raising.
Livestock, dairy and poultry prices
will be permitted to go above parity
ON the same basis of reasoning.
Farmers who grow corn, however,
will be given benefit payments by
the government to permit their re-
turn to be up to parity.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-12
MIRACLE:
Man on LuzOn

The continued holding out of Gen
eral MacArthur's "smoke-begrimed
army in its foxholes on Bataan
peninsula" to use his own words,
challenged and won the admiration
of all Americans.
1t was felt that his long stand in
the face of more than 10 to odds,
his ability to maneuver his men
into position where only a fraction
of the Japanese power could be used
against him, and the fact that he
was still immobilizing a vastly SUI
perior force, entitled him to the title
of miracle man" of warfare.
If the Japanese attempted to in
fltrate his lines, as often as not he
checkmated them with counter
attacks. If they succeeded, either
by a skillful withdrawal or by vigor-
GUS counter-measures at hand-to-
hand, the following day would find
the Macarthur army still intact, still
fighting, still able to resist all eff
LUIS W ul1VG l1Il1l I1tO I4C oCd'
Though the communicates from
Luzon never had given hope Of
successful outcome, there was no
tinge of heroics, save the tribute of
the general to men who, without re-
lief and subjected to almost constant
attack by fresh troops in rotation,
continued a defense that seemed to
grow from day to day in strength
rather than to be collapsing under
pressure.
General Homma, Japanese COM
mander, sent over a 'leafiet raid"
in which he strongly suggested sur
render, paying tribute to the mag
nifcent defense of MacArthur's
army. It was not rejected-the
army simply paid no attention to
1t whatever.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-12
Weekly
IT, SBritsh Forces Fight Crimly Resisting Heavy jap Pressure
by Edward e.. WAYNE

AS Singapore rocked under bomb
ings, and held grimly in the face of
actual siege at last, the japanese be-
gan an about assault on Amboina,
tiny island naval stronghold of the
Dutch south of the larger island of
Ceram, and called second only to
Sourabaya as the chief navy base Of
the Netherlands.
Importance of this attack was
seen in the report that the Dutch
were arranging the destruction of all
installations, and the fact that AM
boina lay only 900 miles due north
of Darwin, northernmost Australian
port.
The whole defense Of the East In
dies, from Luzon to Java, had as
sumed an indigo hue, solely the bat
tie of Macassar straits having
showed what the allied nations could
do with air supremacy.
But the battle for air supremacy
had definitely not been won-and re-
ports Of allied, particularly Ameri-
can air support arriving constantly
provided almost the only bright spot
in the East Indies reports.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-12

Singapore stood buttressed on the
north by a mile-wide strip Of land
from which the British had attempt
ed to strip all distractions which
might offer refuge and cover to
enemy soldiers or batteries; by an
other mile-wide strip of water which
had become the ''moat" Of Singa-
pore following the destruction Of the
granite causeway which connected
the potato-shaped island with the
peninsula.
Over this causeway, under the
DEMONSTRATING Of Japanese planes
had passed thousands Of civilians,
other thousands of soldiers with
their machines and vehicles of war
fare, ready to attempt the defense Of
one of the Far East's most impor-
tant strategic spots.
Lieutenant General Percival,
raised from the ranks to a vital job,
said:
''The battle of Malaga is over. The
battle of Singapore has begun"
He urged that civilians and SOL
diers make ready to fight with all
they had until help should come. +"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-12
SINGAPORE:
Siege

The Japanese, having increased
their pressure on the narrow and
difficult Malayan peninsula, had
finally induced the British defenders
to make a sudden, dramatic with
drawal from the mainland, starting
the long-expected siege Of Singapore.
This, battle expected to 60 down
into history as one Of the bitterest
and bloodiest in the history Of war
fare, started with the 100000 popu-
lation of Singapore largely added to
by civilian refugees from the main
land.
It was the first test in battle of
a fortress and stronghold called by
British tradition the Gibraltar of
the Far East and now, after 118
years of building and rebuilding it's
defenses with more and more mod
ern armament, the time had come
for its testing.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-12

PHILADELPHIA, PA
Haze you ever been curious
and wondered tUhere came the
stars that spangle our banner?
# SO, this may appease that
curiosity of yours. The man
shoaUn is operating a machine
that cuts White stars from
bunting in blocks of dozens at
q clip. He is one of the many
workers in the Philadelphia
quartermaster depot 1Uhere all
flags, guidons, standards, COL
ors and battle streamers for
the army are made.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-12
CHINESE:
DriUe Japs Back

What a major disaster the closing
OF the Burma road would be had
been convincingly demonstrated by
the Chinese in their latest victory,
an important defeat of the japanese
east of Canton.
The fight was in the Waichow area,
only 90 miles from the city, and the
Japs were reported in disordered
fight, with the Chinese armies in
close pursuit.
OF tremendous interest in this dis
patch was the report that one entire
division of Chinese troops of the
Marking government, armed and
equipped by the japanese, had de-
serted to Chang Kai-shek's banner.
If this fight should develop with
continued favor to the Chinese, they
would place the Japanese holding
forces on Hong Kong with tough
job to retain their tenure of the
island.
Canton is only so miles from Hong
Kong, and the Chinese said they had
possession of the Canton-Kowloon
railroad.
The Chinese are driving to liberate
Canton, and then move on Hong
Kong itself.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-12
CHECKMATE:
On Farm Prices

The administration in Washington,
having apparently lost an important
point in the Price Control bill, SEEM
ingly discovered that "all was we'll"
when a joker was found in the
measure.
Agriculture Secretary Wickard
said that the government power to
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-12

Secretary of the Navy
Co. with officers plan
high youth America
navys training making
the models Qet right
the Secretary
chief
fighting training
estimation practice.
important training civilians
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-12

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those of the news analyst, and not
necessarily of this newspaper.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-03-03
Michigan in
Washington
BY Esther Van Wagner Tuf.y


In the new executive order giving
the Navy responsibility for protect
ing vessels, harbors, ports and 9th
er waterfronts Except those under
the War Department. is seen new
protection for the Great Lakes.
The Navy has not as yet officially
announced Just how all.embracing
the executive order will be. But
the only exception mentioned by
the President in his last press con-
ference were those already protect.
ed by the War Department. The
order also involved protection of
certain national defense materials,
premises, and utilities from injury.
One night a Grand Rapids man
showed some motion pictures TO the
President OF the United States.
Good and bad housing in ten differ
ent countries was depicted in films
taken by Charles Forrest Palmer,
who made his fayorite pastime
such a profession he became Uncle
Sans housing coordinator.
The President, with Characters
tic impulsiveness. suggested 10 his
guest that he go to England and
mosey around to find out about
wartime housing. Also plans for
post war housing.
So the Michigan man becomes a
presidential envoy without port
folio. He's the chap, it will be
remembered, who started the drive
to GUST parasites from Washington.
Michigan's bean growers will get
tin for containers-say their OPP
timlstic representatives, who came
to Washington to sound out WPB
and agriculture officials.
Lee Cline, Saginaw, president OF
Michigan's Bean Shippers Associa.
ton, said he was encouraged after
the tin can shortage had been aired
with members OF WIPES Gamers
and growers division.
Our need is acute. We must
send 80 per cent Of our crop TO con-
sumers in tin containers because
moisture conditions are bad this
year. preventing us from extensive
drying Of beans" said Cline.
Backing up Cline were Leo Card,
Lansing, commissioner OF agricul-
ture; \. 3. Love marketing spe-
cialist at the Michigan State Col
lege; and Earle Davis, Ithica, rep
resentative OF the Bean Shippers
Associations growers advisory
committee.