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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15
Charge False
Says Coughlin

Detroit. Apr 15-lNS Denying
that he is editor. owner or pub
Usher Of the magazine Social Jus
tice-banned from the mails for
alleged violation OF the 1917 es-
pionage act. the Rev Father
Charles f. Coughlin today said he
was willing TO appear in Washing
ton to defend the property OF So
cisl Justice"
Father Coughlin, unnamed IN
the opinion OF Atty-Gen Francis
Biddle that the periodical violated
the 1917 law. said
III Attorney General Biddle sum
mons me to Washington TO de
fend the property OF the magazine.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15
Washington Delays Vital
Authority For Macarthur

stood that problems affecting the
entire matter OF allied grand STRAIT
egy were the cause OF the delay
which Australians regarded as dan
gerous.
The United States Army sDokes-
man said that Macarthur had not.
four weeks after his arrival IN Aus.
tralia, received from Washington
the necessary decisions and in
struotions and that as the result he
was as yet commander Only Of the
American forces in the Far EaSt
and Australia.
The statement was made after
President Roosevelt a. Washing
ton. had said yesterday that Mac
Arthur was In supreme command Of
all military, naval and air forces
in the Southwest Pacific.
II was understood that The com
position OF a supreme Allied staH
and the desired exact definition o
MscArthurs powers and territory
were linked with more fsr-reaching
questions
Well informed quarters suggest
ed that he failure to complete the
high command was traceable to
broader Strstegical and political
matters in which Macarthur was
not personally or directly involved
II vas suggested that the Presi-
dent had been unable TO supply e1
plicit instructions and guidance for
Macarthur pending an answer TO
questions involving the whole OF
Allied strategy.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15
Farm, Factory
Response Good

The campaign 10 list farm and
factory workers was started IN the
Ypsilanti area Tuesday evening and
fine progress Is being reported.
Three new groups. the Domestic
Daughters Extension Club. Spencer
Extension Club. and the Rswson-
Vile Extension Group. have offered
to help in the house TO house can
ysss. Cards have been distributed
and 81 is desired that the completed
ones be turned IN each day TO he
United States Employment office
The Ypsilsnti area includes Ypsi.
lsnii. Augusta. York. Salem and Su
perior Townships and the campaign
Is 10 be completed By April %.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15
Congress Today
fBy Associated PrssO
Senate

senate
In recess
Post Office and Post Roads COM
mittee considers bill for Is per cent
increase In compensation OF postal
employees. q p. m. EWTj.
Patent Committee continues hear
Ing on bill permitting government
10 seize patents needed for war
effort. 90 a. M
Labor Committee hears further
testimony on bill 10 abolish NYA
and CCC. C0:30).
Philip Reed Of WPB testi'iss be-
fore Special Defense Investigating
Committee. 90 800
House
Routine session. moon.
Naval Committee studies profit
labor legislation. G0D
Military Committee hears services
heads on Army and Navy pay
boosts G0:30).
Ways and Means Committee con-
tinues search for new revenue
90.
YESTERDAY
Senate In recess.
House held routine session.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15
Mrs. COnOn at
Bomber Plant

One OF Michigan's most outstand-
ing women political leaders, Ms.
Josephine Gomon, Is 10 supervise
activities OF all women employed
in the Bomber plant.
She will act as consultsnt for
women on economic and personal
problems. She will interview all
women employees with the view OF
systematizing their work as well
as aid factory superintendents in
selecting work best suited for each
person.
This will be one OF the most in
teresting and constructive Jobs
could hold as my contribution 10
the war effort" Mrs. Conan said.
There is much need for such work
5 new era in labor relations for
women has arrived. This is the
first time women will have played
a really important part in the
plants"
No definite policies have yet
been formulated, she added
Frank Murphy first brought Mrs.
Conan into the public light when
be named her his executive secre-
tary In 1880 while he was mayor
Of Detroit In 1888 she became the
first director-secretary OF the De
troit Housing Commission. position
held until 1888. She is credited with
having done much to secure the
completion OF the Brewster and
Parkside housing projects during
which she controlled expenditures
OF more than $4,000 600
Gov Murray d. VanWagoner ap
pointed Mrs. Gomon TO the Michigan
Unemployment Compensation Com
mission. but a ruling Of the Supreme
See MRS GONON- PAGE
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15
TO STOP DUPLICATION

Detroit Apr 15-INS- Omcisls
Of the DSR indicated today thar
the DSR will remove Lus service
from lines also served by street
cars. although such a step will cost
the city an additional Sif6s. 900 IN
operating expenses Indications
that the move will be made came
after It was reported in Washing
ton that the once OF Transporta-
ton had suggested such a step was
necessary for the balance OF the
var.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15
Death Claims
Old Ironpants

Washington. Apr. LAP Cen
eral Hugh S Johnson, who organ
lied the MIRA in President Roose-
yelrs first administration, died at
4 As a. m. today OF pneumonia
The csustic former soldier Old
Ironpants', had been IN ill health
for several months He wrote his
usual column yesterday against his
doctors orders for complete rest.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15
You will enjoy reading the
new series OF articles entitled
WHAT'S COOKIN'
Dixie oisnns


Dixie Disnns
starting today on page four.
columns four, five and six
When you have read a few
OF these articles We would ap.
preciate post card or tele-
phone call telling US whether
Won like them.
Such features are expensive.
We don't want TO buy them n
YOU don't enjoy reading them
We have no way OF knowing ~
Won don't tell Ms We shall be
very grateful 10 you for your
opinion
The YPslLANTt DAILY
PRESS
Telephones: business office 40.
AT news room 50.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15

General MacArthurs Headqusr-
tiers, Apr. l5-UP-An army spokes-
man revealed today that Gen, Doug
las Macarthur has been unable so
far to form his Southwest Pacific
allied command and 1t was under
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15
AUCTION CALENDAR

SATURDAY. APRIL 1s-i:oo sharp,
~ the farm located on futile Hill
Road. Corner Of Willow Read. z
miles Southeast Of Whitaker. 2
miles North Of oskVllle, 7 Miles
Northeast Of Milan. Frank Vsdder,
Proprietor; Earl Wright, auction
eer: o. {. Vedder. Clerk. Adv.
I1s
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15
Butcher S Son
Expected to
Take Helm
Full Collaboration
With Germany
Likely

CRy international News Service
The return Of Pierre Laval as
power in the Vichy regime of
France today brought the United
States ever closer to complete
severance OF diplomatic relations
with the French government.
Whatever official title the swar-
thy former vice premier assumes
when announcement of the new
government is made late tomorrow
or early Friday. there was little
son would be in the drivers seat
and take France into fun cola bora.
ton with Germany.
Official quarters in Washington
generally fell that 10 will be only
a question OF time before there will
be a complete break between the
United States and France after the
arch foe Of Great Britain and chief
proponent Of elaboration takes
over the reins.
London sources were OF the opin-
len that German fears concerning
a possible United Nations invasion
OF the continent prompted The
Nazis 10 force the return OF Laval.
The Nazls were described as ex-
iremely unnerved over this posi-
bility following the successful Brit
ish Commando raid on the Nai-held
naval base at St. Nazaire. France.
and the perpetual day and night
bombings to which the French and
Belgian coasts and German indus
trial areas are being subjected.
In Paris Today
Laval Is in Paris today, sppsr-
emily receiving instruction from hia
Nazi bosses on what they think
should be the composition OF the
new cabinet to be formed at Vichy.
Official British circles viewed the
situation with gravity but were
awaiting fun official Developments
before deciding on future course.
Some reports said that the aged
Marshal Henri Philippe Peiain
would remain nominal head as CHIEF
Of state but that Laval would be
chief OF the government
The Royal Air Force throughout
the night and the early morning
hours today continued TO harry tha
Germans In occupied France bY
pummeling anew the French coastal
areas. including the docks al la
Havre. and airdiomes on the conti-
nent The German industrial RUIZ
suffered further battering by the
British bombers.
Heavy antl-aircrsft fire and COM
centrations OF searchlizht beams
were seen along the Channel coast
as the Raj attacked In the yiciu-
ity OF Cape Grlz Ne1. Dunkirk and
Calais. The Germans Acknowledged
that the British planes had inflict.
ed damage in an attack on western
Germany. 1t was claimed five Brit
ish planes were shot down.
United Nations air forces mean
while we're speeding increasing sup
port 10 the defending British lmper-
isl infantry units attempting ~
stem the Jap northward drive In
western Burma toward the rich oil
fields there
On Dark Side
But the news from Burma SIN
had its darker side. a communiqus
from headquarters Of the British
Burma command in New Delhi said
that enemy pressure was increasing
along the entire lrrawaddy front
See WAR-Paze
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay-AP-
Delegates from seven American re-
publics assembled here today for
sessions Of the emergency consul
tative committee for political de-
Tense OF continent, created at the
Rio de Janeiro conference to com
bat fifth column activities in the
Americas.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15

WASHlNGTON-lNS- Dan
A. West, director OF the OPA
consumer division, today APP
pealed to home owners In the
Atlantic Coast states and Wash
inoton, and oregon to change
back from oil TO coal heating
furnaces wherever possible.
Pointing out that consumption
OF fuel oil In this area already
was under a Limitation order,
West warned that additional
restrictions may be ordered ss
the war continues.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15

OTTAWA. Ont - ms Prince
Bernhard and Princess Juliana Of
the Netherlands are coming 10 Now
York for a visit next Wedne sdav
The following dav. April % the
royal couple will visit Washington.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15

IONDON-lNS- Pierre La
val is considering handing over
the strasbourg-Dijon Lyons
Marseilles Railway TO the Ger.
man army, the London Evening
News reported today. This
would greatly facilitate rein
foreement Of German forces In
libys.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15
Flashes of
Late News
THE WEATHER: Tonight:
Continued Warm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -AP-
One hundred and 81 persons. most
ly Swedish Americans. left Stock
holm last night by special train
for Goteborg and the motorship
Drottnlngholm, Swedish'American
liner under charter for an ex'
change OF Axis and American dip
lomats. The Drottningholm is
scheduled TO leave today for her
long voyage.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15

CHUNGKING. China 49, APP
Regular passenger service on high
ways in Southwest China was sus-
pended today because OF a short
age of gasoline. one Of numerous
results OF the Japanese invasion
OF Burma and the cutting OF the
Burma Road over which supplies
reached Chungking.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15

WASHINGTON. D. GINS
Formally reporting that the
fire which ragged through the
luxury liner Normandie was
directly attributable TO care
Iessness," House Naval A.
fairs Committee to-day recon-
mended that the Navy take
over operation OF the entire
U. S. Merchant Marine for the
duration OF the war.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15

See sUPERVSoRs-Page !
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15

MELBOURNE -AP-- Australia
IS on the verge OF a cigaret and
beer famine but the service men
are among the favored few still
smoking normal packs. A sur.
vey disclosed that more than 200
tobacconists in Melbourne alone
have closed already.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15

DETROIT-lNS- TWO I'M
armed negro bandits today
robbed the Office safe ut the
American Legion Hal, OF ST.
500 after binding the watch
man, Harry Ellis, Sc, accord
Ing to Detroit police.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15

see MRS. GoMoN- Page :
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15

NEW YORK-INS- DR.. Cham
Neizmann, president Of the World
Zionist Organization and OF the
Jewish Agency for Palestine, was
in New York today to attend the
executive meeting OF the World
Zionist Organization on May 8.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-15

SANTA FE, y. NJ. ms A
speed limit Of 40 miles an hour on
New Mexico highways was fixed
today by the state highway com
mission in response to the plea of
President Roosevelt for such regu-
lations in all the states as war
time tire-saving measure.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-06-05

We were pretty angry, but so nearly
helpless
For the time being, the urge to do
something
While we learned, bitterly, our silly
handicaps--
1t was terribly humiliating, clarity
ing, educational
When Hitler declared war on us,
right afterward-
We took it as a mere metter-of fact
incident.
The draft, was just logical pre-
paredness-
If it did mess up a lot of things, it
also absorbed man-power-
Lend-lease hook-up was really good
for business
Yankee pride in mass production be-
gan to swell up
That stuff had been our middle
name, first, and for years
If they wanted planes, tanks, guns
and cannon balls
Hitler would soon be wanting to
take lessons from our boys
Then the nasty mess began to spill
around the globe
Singapore, Hong Kong, Surabaya,
never seemed important to US
Even when the Japs played their
nasty tricks there, too
Proving their cleverness, their
knowledge of our weapons
1t still seemed to be long way off
"down under"-
Australians were mighty fine chaps,
dandy fighters
But even the fall of Manila did not
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-06-05
BERCOFF FINALLY
CAUGHT BY LAW in
CONSPIRACY GAME

New York City (ILNS) Pearl L.
Bergoff, 68 years old, who for 35
years conducted strikebreaking or
ganizations notorious throughout the
United States, has at last been reached
| by the law.
Found guilty here of conspiring to
operate an unlicensed detective agency,
which furnished strikebreakers in a
walkout called by the Brotherhood of
Teamsters, Bergoff was fined $500 in
Special Sessions to avoid serving
3O-day workhouse term. 1t was said
to be his first conviction in his long
career of strikebreaking. Two as5o-
ciates of Bergoff were also fined.
| Bergoff was convicted of running
the Modern Investigating Bureau,
without a state license. His license
had been revoked in 1885 because of
irregularities. Bergoff furnished the
strikebreakers in strike of drivers
and others against Spear & Company,
trial it was testified he was to re-
ceive $3.50 daily for the first 20 weeks
and $75 daily and expenses thereafter.
Justices Hofmann and Kozicke of
Special Sessions voted the $500 fine,
while Justice Wieboldt voted for
fiat six-month term. The three JUS
tees also imposed an additional one
year penitentiary term on Bergoff, but
suspended it's execution.
They ordered fines of $100 each or
thirty days in the workhouse for Berg
offs brother, Leo, 62, and Bernard
Haas, 81, holder of the license for the
Modern Investigating Bureau. The
justices also fined the bureau $500 but
suspended sentences on Lew Cohen and
Edward Graft, who had pleaded guilty
and testified for the prosecution.
Leonard Ruisi, assistant state at
torney-general, who had prosecuted
the defendants, told the court:
State Attorney General Bennett
feels that the conviction in this case
will serve as warning to others in
clined to use private detective agen-
cies to engage in strikebreaking-
Pearl and Leo Bergoff for 35 years
had been engaged in strikebreaking
activities, during which there was
considerable bloodshed, but their ac
tivities were very profitable"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-06-05
Truths POndered While
Riding at
Anchor
Then gently scan
your brother man
BY Mr.. MOdestus

Now America is mad!
We didn't like Hitler
His treatment Of German Jews was
offensive
But that seemed to be Germany's
business, after all
If those Heinies wanted that kind
of country
Well, we were glad we didn't have
to live in it, with them
Czechoslovakia was pretty rotten,
but Britain took it
Poland, Belgium, Holland, and then
France
That began to show which way the
beast was headed
About that time we began to read
Mein Kampf, too
But, still, that was over yonder,
across the Atlantic
Then came Pearl Harbor-
All America woke up, with one
large, unanimous cuss-word-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-06-05

Jalopies, and Joy-riding gone
Gas we could wangle, somehow, bor-
row, beg or steal
But rubber: we had gone to sleep
on rubber
Here is one of the freedoms nobody
mentioned out there on the Atlantic
Freedom to burn gas, and rubber
anywhere, any time, anyhow
Freedom to race with the cop, or to
hitch hike
Now may all their Shintos and
Buddhas and other "sorry" idols
Blast those ugly little hypocrites
who have grabbed off our rubber
NOW we are MAD!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-06-05

1t meant we had to find another way
to get the gasoline across
When suddenly, OPA Henderson
clamped down on tires
Japan had stopped our supply of
rubber, from the East Indies
Then we did quarrel, about "who dun
it," and synthetic rubber
Until the bitter truth dawned upon
us, cold and clear
Those Japs had cut off our rubber
supply
That meant tires
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-06-05

make US understand
Until Macarthur landed some
where in Australia"
Then, suddenly, this little globe
shrank to proper proportions
America began to think in terms of
oceans, and continents
While Russian winters, and Russian
soldiers, became our pals
Then Hitler's Uboats got nasty
Sinking gasoline tankers along our
Atlantic coast
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-06-05
WAR LABOR BOARD
ORDERS AGREEMENT

Washington, d. c. (ILNS). - The
National War Labor Board has or
dered the United States Lines Com
pany of New York to make col
lective bargaining agreement with
Local 88, Masters, Mates and Pilots
of America, A. F. of L. affiliate.
The board gave the company two
choices of hiring procedures under the
union security clause approved by it.
Under one procedure the company
may make its own selection of men to
fill vacancies for licensed deck officers,
even though those selected are not
union members, provided they become
members of the union upon employ
ment.
Long negotiations between the COM
pany and the union over a collective
agreement, the board said, have pro-
duced feelings between the parties
which are quite regrettable, particu-
larly during this war period"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-06-05
De-lOusing Deluxe In Army

Richmond, Va.-A mobile steriliza-
tion and bath unit, which is four
wheeled trailer hauled by tractor, is
being tested at Camp Lees Quarter
master Replacement Center in the
Army's scientific campaign to fight
the war without having to fight "coo-
ties" One section is composed of
steam chamber, in which the soldiers
clothes are steamed Is minutes at 252
degrees. The other half contains IL
showers. The unit can care for $500
men day.
Keep 'em rolling! We mean dollarsl
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-06-05

The Tories bitter hostility to the
so-called 40-hour week is more sym
boil of their distrust in democracy than
of their devotion to our war effort.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-06-05
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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-06-05

Keep 'em rolling! We mean dollars
Buy U. S. War Bonds and Stamps.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-22

great commander and that there would be
spread such inside sedition that even the con-
quered will be amazed at the ease with which
the job was doneD
The machines of flying fire shall como
To trouble the great chief of the besieged;
within which shall he such sedition, that the
overthrown shall be in despair.
Century s, Quatrain 81.
This warning Of fifth columning and its
work can well be used by US, and 1t isn't too
late, in spite of all the losses we have already
suffered as a result of our innocence about it.
1t wasn't very long ago that we felt
secure in our ocean haven. At that time only
a handful Of us took seriously all the warn
ings Rauschning, former President Of the
Danzig Senate. in his book The Voice OF
Destruction" appealed to u.s. and not with
prophecies but with these cold facts:
HITLER TO RAUSCHNING: The United
States will be forced by Germany to complete
and final overthrow. our superior industrial
products will be sold at very low prices all
over the world, and will cause the, United
States TO have not 10000 o0-ls,ft~30 to 40
million unemployed Hr Rosenfeld tRoose-
velU will then beg rpc on his knees to pur-
~ A,nertran Weekly Inc Great Rrttain Rt0bts re
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-22

for Amenca-La Terre Neuve the New
Land) More remarkably than any of the
other prophecies about our own country does
the forcefulness of this one hit home.
II tells that our production and arms
will succeed. And whether we believe the old
boy or not, we must admit that he has struck
all around the target IL he has missed the
bull s-eye here and there. None of his shots
has gone off into empty air Especially those
that concern US most for the crucial days
ahead.
Ben Franklin once said that to a child 20
shillings and 20 years can hardly ever be
spent. But to men who have lived every
moment of packed lives the years bring wis
dom. The greatest prophet of medieval times,
Nostradamus, attributed his powers to God
Whatever the source of his inspiration was
it remains undisputed fact that he spoke
of the Maginot Line as the great trench" and
said it would be powerless to keep out the
enemy. They would come through Belgium.
How he managed to hit off names and
dates probably cannot be explained in human
terms. But the busy, gifted doctor knew
diplomacy and people. He read all the books
he could find.
And he wasn't such bad poet either.