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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-17
Law May Block
Change in Time

LANSING. Dec II CUPl At
torney General Herbert j. RuShton
today studied a Wisconsin state
supreme court ruling which may
nullify bloSSomlnC legislative
moves TO return Michigan TO
SLOW" time.
Rushton said the Wisconsin de-
cision upholds war time as estab-
lished by act OF Congress and APP
pears 10 prevent states from
changing from one time zone TO
another. II the attorney general
finds the ruling applicable 10
Michigan. il will serve 10 mp sew
eral moves already under way TO
change the state back 10 Central
War Time instead of the present
Eastern War Time
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-17
Kelly
HeuShleS ID
Pick Judge

Governor-elect Harry r. Kelly
indicated today he will name a
judicial successor 10 Senator-eleCt
Homer Ferguson before January !
II would like To take of some
Of the pressure before going to
Lansing" he said The new
Judge will he satisfactory To
trial lawyers because l know
what il il To try and practice
before Judge with little trial
experience.
Al the same time Kelly revealed
opening Of part-tlme guber-
office in Detroit because
Of gas rationlng and the fact that
state business is
transacted here.
Kelly said he will have his
executive secretary and perhaps
his legal advisor on duty here al
least two days week
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-17
Mrs. Hedwig Wasik
Last Rites Set Tor EarIy
Polish Settler

Funeral services VIII he held a.
~ 4 m saturday for Mrs HedwE
Wa'kl s.. one of the carly Polish
settlers N Detroit. Who passed
away Monday nl.hi- Services uillAl
he held from 81 Stanislau>
Church. with burial IN Nj Ohvet
Cemetery.
Mrs WaSlk was part owner of
the WaSik Funeral Home 1854
Dubois street, where she resided
She leaves a son Jerome r. and
three daughters They are Mrs
Helen ClaruoCki Mrs. Eleanor
JaroSz and Mrs Sophia SzopinSki
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-17
Senate S Move
0utf|dnks Reyes
Tims. >,an Correspondent

Ian SIN G.. Dec. 1.-THE
senate. = committee on committees
created 10 strip the lieutenant gov
ernor OF committee sppointivc
powers. viii meet IN Ann Arbor
next week 10 make rs final Selec-
liOn~.
Ina move apparently 70 eludc
newspaper men and It Gov elect
Eugene c. Reyes. the committee.
meeting here Yesterday, decided 10
20 30 Ann Arbor
kcycS indicated be knew moth
INC of the Ann Arbor rendezvous
when he announced tho commit
tee neNt meeting would be held
when the legislature meets.
Tho committee NeSterda V
listened politely 10 the recon-
mcndaiiorS ~ Doctor KeyeS.
II am very well satisfied with
the choices made" nc said after
the meeting n got all l asked
for and more too"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-17
Police Probing Death
OF Victim in Car

Police today arc Investigating
the death of Hans w. Kopf. A.
year-old former auiomotive en-
ginecr. found dead m the garage
behind his home AZ qa5 Noting
ham road. Crosse Pontc Park.
Police SAID that the garage doors
were closed and that a pipe led
from the running motor 10 the car
through the floor boards Kopf
was >lumpcd over the wheel Of the
car. and was dead when discovered
He had been in III health for some
time, his wife, Mrs. Grace Kopf.
told police
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-17

The Germans, with premeditation began to
pump Holland of her wealth, her food, her works
of art. They set up what they called Bureau of
Economic Control That was the official title for
the great German Looting System.
And one day the New Order, in the person OF
an agent from the Bureau, came to the farm OF
Wlem van Eman. This German looked greedly
at the tubs of golden butter, the fat hams, the
brown sausages in the smokehouse; the cheeses,
the Jars of honey, the sauerkraut in barrels.
When he finished writing down long list of
farm food, he handed it to Emma's father.
Here is the Requisition he said CURLY, de
liver these at the railroad station tomorrow. We
pay you for everything in Reichmarks."
Those German Reichmarks worthless,
Farmer van Eman knew But he was powerless.
AS the German was leaving, he noticed Emmas
young filly, in the paddock.
add this little horse to the list" he ordered.
Emma standing She burst out: But
you can't take her. Betsie is mine. l brought her
1--WE take the little horse" replied the German.
He strobe off leaving the poor girl in tears, her
arms clasped about her pet.
After thatJth dreary days dragged on for the
van Emans, with more animals more food con-
stantly "requisitoned" until it seemed to the
rowing Emma that each egg was stolen even before
it was laid. From outrage to outrage, the German
rule brought misery to the once prosperous van
Eman farm till that dark hour after midnight,
when shower of pebbles rained upon the chamber
window of young Emma.
Awakened, the girl trembled in her bed 1t
might be German knocking.
In terror she stole to the kitchen door. She
opened it crack. Then she flung it wide.
"Hansie,' she whispered. Brother Hanse,
what's the matter? Oh, Hanse, what has hap
pened? You are terribly hurt. Sit down. Let me
get water Hush darling, let's not waken father"
Emma fumbled for candle since by German
edict electricity banned
The candle revealed what she had partially seen
by moonlight. Emma looked for a long moment.
Then. with Dutch staunchness she went to work.
Poor Hans, his face his hands, his coat front were
crusted with blood His hair was matted with it.
He seemed, for a while, in daze, too weak to
realize fully, the help his sister was bringing him.
But finally, when he washed and bandaged he
spoke up.
There was a fight at school And Twas
in it. But got away. Just in time
Emma shook her head.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-17

Drawing by the Famous Dutch Artist Louis Rarmaeker
Showing Some of Emmas COmpatriOts Receiving TIL
Benefits OF The New Order" From Nazi Firing Squad
published by Courtesy of Knckcrbocker Weeky)
Dutchmen who resisted their Nazi conquerors And
days later, when the Landesgericht heard the case
father was sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
Fifteen years, Emma thought, for mourning oVel
his dead SON
And after poor Hanse was buried, EmmI
fell i'll. The doctor said something about 'prostra
ton induced by shock" Emma knew she was II
because her heart was broken. Yet, i'll, she KEEP
herself alive with her obsession-some way, SOM
how, she must get well, to get father out OF Jall
If she did not. he would die there father, the out
door man. And as she went about the farm agair
with her aching resolve, fate, or perhaps merl
bureaucratic routine, brought another agent of tn
Economic Bureau to her house. He wanted q
billet Germans with her.
"If you take them, you may keep more food
Fraulein And you shall have real coffee"
AS Emma listened, her idea grew took shapd
till she surprised herself with her decision, as sh
answered:
II will take Germans to board she said.
So they came four Of them, and with Their
came good fragrant coffee again, and some SEN.
bance of the old van Eman prosperity. Three
the Germans were middle aged officials of Il
bureaucracy, making lists of the provender of tn
Dutch countryside The fourth was different. II
stood six feet in his whipcord uniform. And III
face was bronzed, and he was young and strong
Emma looked at him. wondering. What did
his medals mean, and what were his duties In thi
battling German military system? He seemed har
and remote at first. She wondered if he had eve
loved any human creature, or if, perchance, h
thought only hardness praiseworthy in his Nev
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-17


HrHE Netherlands News" recently printed
this short, curt paragraph about an un-
named Dutch girl:
"A youngDutch girl, who succeeded in escaping
from Holland, said that she had been member of
a nation wide sabotage ring. Just before she es
capped she said she had helped fire German
used munitions factory"
So, briefly, did hint Of the story of young
Emma van Eman drift over here to America But
when l finally gathered together the full story
the awful task of vengeance upon the Germans
Emma van Eman set hersef-and accomplished
l was overwhelmed.
Before the poor girl turned avenger, her
innocent blue eyes had looked upon death and
brutality She had seen her entire family perish
because of the Germans.
She had faced the terrible choice:
Give yourself to me, Emma Eman, and
will spare the last member of your family. l will
set him free"
Il want to be good woman" she had replied,
have mercy on me-"
Mercy is the dwelling emotion of weaklings,"
came the answer.
And then Emma-but let me tell her story from
the beginning.
Emma van Eman lived in the Province of North
Holland in a low, wide spreading farmhouse built
of warm bricks, under a Dutch tiled roof. She
was the youngest child and only daughter of her
widowed father. There were two brothers. Wiem,
a wide-travelling engineer, and Hans, student in
Amsterdam.
1t was good life they shared with father so
kind, brothers so staunch, Emma so busy and
wholesome
"A fine girl and useful" father used to tell
the neighbors, but did we not name her for that
good woman, Queen Emma, the mother of our
Wilhelmina?"
So father spoke, in the good days before hell
dropped out of the heavens, Rotterdam was laid
low and all Dutchmen agonized in their outrage.
After the cataclysm, came the New Order with
its edicts, its ersatz it's penalties
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-17

what did you boys at the Agricultural School
do to stir up the Germans
Hansie grinned through his bandages 1--WE
ran up the flag of our Queen" he said, "and we
locked the tower door, so the Germans couldn't get
it down-for long time Then we scratched
for victory on every German car parked along the
street After that got to the roof and pelted
those Huns with loosened bricks
"Oh, Hansie, what good did all those schoolboy
antics do?"
Somebody must show these swine how Dutch
men feel" Hansie answered, boyish and brave
Again Emma shook her head Then as she
started TO help her brother to bed the dog barked
Hans stood up his eyes dilated An automobile
had stopped outside. pounding fell upon the
kitchen door Emma whispered:
GO hide. will answer"
She never remembered later how she got to the
door nor how she answered the German officer
standing there. But finally his words were beating
against her worried heart.
1--WE search the house, Fraulein."
Desperately she tried to delay him. Useless.
Hansie hadn't even tried to hide. He spoke up
sternly like father from the dimness behind her.
mo need to search" he said, here l am, you
swine"
The German answered back Hansie spoke
again . fast words. furious words -. words all
mixed up and black with anger, till poor Emma
trembed as the Germans of the searching party
and her brother moved out into the courtyard.
Their hands were on Hansie they were taking
him off Against the dawning day, Emma then saw
Hansie's fist shoot out And suddenly, father was
in the yard among them. Five men were fighting,
tearing at each other.
ooh, don't, father Go with them quietly,
Hansie. Brother father fighting is no use!'
Across those cries, the Germans shots rang out.
And when the smoke cleared in the light of the
early day, Emma saw her brother, Hans, stretched
out on the cobbed farmyard, trlckle OF blood
running down his cheek Father was down on the
ground beside the boy lifting up that poor
Young head was pressing it tc his heart. Father
was irving to WILL Hanse back to life. But at
last father said, DULY:
"You have killed this night one who would have
been a great man. And good man. My boy was
honor pupil at the Agricultural School. There was
more in that bright head of his than in all your
German pates
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-17

Emma turned away.
She gripped her hands
across her heart.
ooh, God" she prayed,
don't let the Germans
kill father. Oh, dear God,
don't let father infuriate
them. Help us. We can
not help ourselves"
Emma tn en- turned
again. The Germans were
pushing Farm er van
Eman into their automo-
bile, leaving Hansie dead
there, before the house.
They were taking father,
those Germans, off to
the Landesgericht, a Ger
man cour' set up to try
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-17
CHAPTER w

by American Weekly Inc Grca Frtan Rights Roser'ed
//T-HE Netherlands News recently printed
this short, curt paragraph about an I'M
named Dutch girl:
Evening star., 1942-05-30
Utilizing Silver

In asking Congress for authority
to put more Of the Treasury's silver
hoard to work in the war program,
Government officials are mixing
finance and defense production in
unique but highly realistic manner.
The first step in this plan to trans
form monetary stocks of silver from
a useless white elephant into a valu-
able wartime asset was taken recently
when Secretary Morgenthau, acting
with the legal sanction of the De-
partment of Justice, released $4,000
tons of the white metal to the
aluminium industry for conversion
into bus bars-electrical conductors
used on switchboards. This move, in
turn, saved about $1,000 tons of
copper for other war purposes.
Mr.. Morgenthau now has Joined
with Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones
and War Production Board Chairman
Donald Nelson in asking for legiSla-
ton to extend this utility program
so that thousands of additional tons
of silver bullion may be released to
the synthetic rubber industry. This
silver would be used as a substitute
for copper in the manufacture of
butadiene from alcohol Butadiene
is an essential ingredient in the pro-
duction of artificial rubber. There
are $4,000 tons of silver, now held as
backing for silver certificates, which
could be diverted in this way if statu-
tory permission were granted. The
metal already released for bus bars
and that which would be turned loose
under the new authority will remain
the property Of the Treasury. The
silver is merely being loaned for the
Evening star., 1942-05-30
Insists That Federal Workers
Also Are Payers of Taxes.
To the Editor of The Star

To the Editor of The Star:
One would think from letter in your
paper May 81 signed Taxpayer" that q
small raise for the underpaid employees
in the Government service would bank
rupt the country.
We must therefore remember there
are more taxpayers than one and from
the standpoint of the Federal worker
we are called on to contribute liberal
share of our pay for this purpose and a
$500 per annum raise as planned would
hardly be considered a raise after all,
as we would be called upon also to con-
tribute more of our time to make good
the contemplated raise. We. likewise are
required to pay per cent of our salary
to support our own pension fund.
It would be nothing short of folly to
hold down the wages of our Government
workers at q time when, If denied, they
might drift away to other positions at
better pay and under better working
conditions. 1t is plain that no raise will
be forthcoming unless it is to the ad-
vantage of the Government as well as
the workers involved.
Perhaps Taxpayer" can tell the
workers how to make ends meet under
present circumstances in comparison
with other years.
WILLIAM L. GREEN.
Evening star., 1942-05-30
Expresses Appreciation of Article
On Churches in Wartime.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
I wish to commend The Star on the
splendid treatment Of the churches in
this day of crisis given in feature ar
ticle on Sunday, May IT. The article
which was written by Robert Harper
shows splendid grasp both Of the prob
lens confronting the large body Of de-
fense workers in our city and Of the place
Of the church in their spiritual and
social adaptation to washington life.
AS member of the staff Of the Wash
ington Federation of Churches I am par
ticularly grateful for the intelligent ap-
probation of the importance Of united
church action which the article evil
denced.
I believe The Star has done a dis
tinct service to this city in thus focus
ing attention upon the churches, and
we who are laboring through the
churches to develop in America strong
spiritual undergirding for our democratic
society are truly appreciative of the
splendid aid of an intelligent and co-op-
erative newspaper in our efforts.
Congratulations to The Star for this
fine article and good wishes to you in
your program Of service to the Wash
ington public.
GROVER L. HARTMAN.
Director, Defense Commission
Of the Churches.
Evening star., 1942-05-30
Reports Complications Arising
From Stores Shifting" Deliveries.

To the Editor of The Star:
1t seems to me that unless more In
teiligent thought Is given to the effort
to conserve gas and tires. there is danger
of the effort being defeated by over
enthusiastic "co-operators."
I have in mind particularly the matter
of store deliveries. Nobody objects to
carrying parcels when they can get to
the stores to shop, or to the reduction OF
the number of deliveries and the delay In
receiving their purchases when they are
forced to order by telephone, but when
stores, which we know have marked up
their retail prices to cover the cost OF
delivery, make a practice Of suggesting
to customers that they drop by and
pick up the articles" the fact is over
looked that it takes more gas and rubber
and adds more to traffic congestion for
ten customers, say, to get to the store
than for the store delivery truck to de-
liver ten purchases on one trip,-to say
nothing of the time that ten persons
lose from ten jobs when they must make
such trips.
While the attitude of certain stores
concerning saving their gas and tires
probably is due to the failure of some
one in charge to think the situation
through, 1t gives the impression that, in
some cases at least, the need for preserv-
ing gas and rubber is being taken advan-
tage Of for the benefit Of individual
stores.
Certainly st<ict economy Of gas, rubber
Evening star., 1942-05-30
Town Hall Demonstration

The first washington broadcast of
Americas Town Meeting of the Air
was a success in several distinctive
ways. Six hundred persons crowded
the Andrew Rankin Chapel at How
ard University to witness the actual
presentation of the program. Each
spectator felt himself to be in the
presence of a vast unseen audience.
The speakers addressed themselves
to topic which in itself was deeply
signif1cant-the question: as There
a Basis for Spiritual Unity in the
World Today" Inevitably, the
answers to such a challenge had to
come from the basic idealisms of
the whole human family, the entire
human race.
DR.. Mordecai W. Johnson perhaps
summarized the response of the
average listener when he reafhrmed
the doctrine of the founders of the
Nation who, as he said, established
the mental attitude of radically sin
cere reverence for the personality of
every living human being as the
foundation stone of government"
Such was the philosophy of the
patriots of the past. Not different
is the confident faith and the pro-
found belief of all Americans worthy
of the name today.
1t follows that there is pragmatic
value to tolerance and liberality of
mind The Town Hall presentation
illustrated that principle perfectly.
With no more charity than is feasible
in any citizen not absolutely sunk in
prejudice, it is a proven fact that
many, if not all social and racial
problems are amenable of solution
through methods Of conference. The
prophet Isaiah was not suggesting
any procedure beyond the natural
talents and powers of rational men
when he proposed: "Come now, and
let us reason together"
Washington as community owes
appreciation to the sponsors of the
Town Hall broadcast for the demon
stration of democracy in practice
which they offered here.
Evening star., 1942-05-30
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. Trdce,UeH.

After the old starlings got tired of
this sort of thing. they would take to
leaving the young on the arch and
flying away.
Sometimes the youngsters followed
after them. At other times they would
continue to perch and scream. The
sound is a nasty, disagreeable sound,
unlike the chirping of the young of some
of the other and more popular species.
As the young starlings grew older,
they would begin to scent the food for
themselves. Then when the parents left
them, they would fly down and try to
sample the grub"
This, as it can be imagined, was
'red letter day" in the life of the young
startling.
One particularly stupid startling baby
deliberately was pecked on the head by
its mother, and you can imagine that this
was no easy blow, either, for the bill
of the startling is long and tough.
&k*&
The Startling is quite bird, from what
ever standpoint it is regarded, whether
one dislikes it or manages to find admir-
able qualities in it. The number Of per-
is growing year by year.
Edward Howe Forbush, in Birds of
America" says, Its insect-eating
habits, its beauty and its CHEEKY notes
have already made it many strong
friends in this country who will protect
it Stoutly; and this protection, together
with the birds ability to take care Of
itself and keep out of danger, precludes
all possibility Of its determination.
Were rewards or bounties offered
with a view to its extinction, blackbirds,
meadoWlarkS and other native species,
which consort with the startling, would
be among the chief sufferers. The star
ling is here to stay, and we must make
the best Of it."
1t takes a professional ornithologist
such as Forbush to understand such
problems. 1t would never occur to the
average person who inveighs against
starlings that if restrictions were let
down, and the bird were permitted to
be killed at will, he and thousands Of
similarly ignorant persons undoubtedly
would slay large numbers of meadow
larks and other fine American birds by
mistake.
Yet it is easily understood that this
would be the case.
Most persons would kill song spaTows
and other types Of fine native birds, if
they we're turned loose to kill English
sparrows.
Young starlings take on the darker
colors of their parents in their first
fall and winter
BY next spring they will be handsome,
indeed.
The good looks Of the starting family
are dependent largely on reflected light,
which brings out the sheen and under
tones of their feathers
Catch one in the early morning sun,
in just the right position, and you will
see, maybe for the first time. how it is
that a man like ForbuSh could speak
of the beauty of this bird.