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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-17
Major Parties
Both Cheered by
Primary Results
Democrats Get Two-fifths
Of Total Vote; Ferguson
Victory Spurs COP Hope
BY FRANK MORRIS

Having found reason for good
cheer in the results of the pri-
mary election, both Republicans
and Democrats prepared today for
a lively battle before the general
election, November 3.
Followers of Gov. Murray d.
Van Wagner were heartened by
the fact that 40 per cent of the
ballots we're Democratic, despite
the lack of statewide contests on
their ticket. In the primary two
years ago. only "a per cent of the
voters called for Democratic bal
lots. while two years ago the per-
centage was 3Sia.
Never have Democrats had a
in the primary. even in
the bumper years of 1882, 1886
and 1910.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-17
Babies KissIess
In Campaign by
Mrs. Roosevelt
improved World
for Them TO Live In
Is Her Preference
By JANE sCHERMERHORN

Brown eyed Dorothy KemE
Roosevelt (by marriage a sister
in-law of Americas First Roose'
velts) today admitted that as
Michigan's first woman nomineo
10 Congress she has her own idea
on politics.
Rather than bestow the politlcaI
kiss on babies. Mrs. Roosevelt
prefers 10 devote her efforts tC
making this world more decent
place in which babies may live.
Ate her talented finger tips
(which until she started cam
paigning for the primary were
more accustomed 10 the intricacies
of piano concerto than drum
ming on political points, she has
down-to-earth plans on how to
work out her loftiest ideals.
EXCITING DAYS
AS you may imagine these arc
exciting DAYS in the RooSevelts
attractive home in Birmingham
where the congressional aspiran'
lives with her mother Mrs
Francis p. Kemp and her three
young daughters. Amy, Diana and
Janet
There's a secretary now, lSa-
belle Tanalaska. who makes nc
secret OF her conviction that what
Congress needs Is Dorothy Roose-
welt.
There's tho campaign manager,
James Little. Pontiac newspaper
executive. who holds lengthy con-
ferences in what was once called
the library OF the home, what is
now headquarters"
One OF the panne)ed walls OF
headquarters is almost obscured
by maps of districts and counties
in and around Detroit, the thought
full contribution of a nephew.
CONVERSATION CHANGES
Even conversation has changed.
Mrs. kemp's political interest
heretofore staunchly Republican,
have been played down in her life.
Now. speaking OF this or that
friend. she inadvertently will say
"Oh, you know, that nice Mrs.
Wellington. who lives In the
sixteenth District"
In fact this weeks primaries
marked the first Democratic vote
ever cast by the candidates
mother.
1.-THE Republican ticket has a
certain important issue on which
your vote may be needed"
Dorothy Roosevelt reminded her
mother.
"No. dear. I'll vote for YOU"
said Mrs. Kemp nervously ac-
cepting a Democratic ballot.
.aWAKENS DAUGHTERS
At 3 o'clock in the morning
when her closest competitor in the
race called to concede the election,
Mrs. Roosevelt kept promise TO
her daughters. She went 10 each
OF their rooms 10 wake them and
say.
II think I'm in"
The girls insisted upon being
informed of every detail in this
campaign.
Mrs. Roosevelt believes her bat
tle 10 beat George Dondero. pres
ent incumbent. will be a stiff one.
She places hope for victory in a
campaign organization strong in
woman power. Her success thus
far she attributes TO support from
womens groups OF all different
classes.
When she isn't attending a po-
litical rally, you might find the
candidate in the kitchen helping
10 get dinner or washing the
dishes.
Even the Roosevelt maids GO
charging off TO work in the fac
tories these days.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-17

my first letter. There have been
%. They are great comfort.
Here's his last One-On July -.
He says he's going 10 write an
other when he gets back TO
camp so there may be another
one for me. His mother got one
yesterday. written August 6. I
hope there will be one for me
too"
In that letter the soldier tolc
his sister ne was on leave II
Wales
I'm writing this by candle
light on the floor" ne wrote.
This j. a beautiful country. IL
Is just n note tell you I am all
right. I'll send "A real letter next
week"
Mrs. Groves three children
chung 20 her skirts, wondering
why she wept She added
''IIe enclosed some letters for
the children. I'll keep them un-
ill they are big enough 10 un-
derstand."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-17
Windsor Hides Aching Hearts for Men Lost at Dieppe
Horse Diet
Stynies
Council
Do horses eat gypsum board?

Do horses eat gypsum board?
Common council, Traffic Engi-
neer d. Grant MicRle and his
traffic staff mulled this question
in council meeting.
II was agreed that horses don't
The horses and gypsum board
came up at session in which
Mickle explained TO Councilman
Eugene 1. Van Antwerp why SC
many traffic signs are needed in
the city.
Mickle then attempted to dis
suade other councilmen from
passing an ordinance that would
require still more signs, at a pro-
hibitive cost and drain essential
materials.
The city sign department
Mickle said is busy keeping uE
with changes forced by federal
.ODT orders.
1--WE haven't purchased any
new materials" he said. We're
now considering using gypsum
board for stop signs because
It's cheaper and Is no drain on
war materials"
Van Antwerp then raised the
crucial issue:
Better be careful about the
use OF substitutes. There Is an
increased use of horses and I'm
afraid that horses might eat
the signs. read someplace
that SOME city substituted
plastic for dog licenses and the
dogs ate each others licenses"
The council instructed Mickle &c
investigate possibility of an ordi.
nance which would allow parking
only on one side of narrow
streets.
Council then Instructed Micklt
to investigate passing of such ar
ordinance without having TO USE
signs. He will.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-17
Loses NeW.FOuHaF Him
Mrs. JaequeIne Grove May Never See Brother,
Located After Years. Missing at DiePpe

Mrs. Jacqueline Grove. II may
never see the brother for whom
she has searched for seven years,
and whom she found only few
short months ago.
He is Pvt. Robert Lord Morand,
20, TecumSeh, whose name is
among the new list of missing OF
the Essex Scottish at Dieppe.
Mrs. Grove lives at l4408 West
wood avenue.
The pretty young mother OF
three, received the news at her
desk on which lay the % letters
received from Robert since she
found him.
She has never seen him he
sailed with the Essex regiment a
few days before she learned he
was her brother.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-17
DENIS SEEK CANDIDATE

Only Detroit candidate on the
Democratic state ticket is 1t. Gov
Frank Murphy. AS result. party
leaders are looking for a Detroit
attorney 10 run for attorney gen.
eral. They have approached John
w. Baccock, deputy United STATES
district attorney here, and Thomas
Donohue. chairman of the state
labor relations board.
Democrats have the strongest
congressional slate in half a cen.
fury and are most hopeful in the
Fifth District. where Herman
Wierenga of Wyoming Township is
opposing Congressman Bartel j.
Jonkman of Grand Rapids; the
Sixth. where Labor Commissioner
David Martin Of Flint is the nomi-
nee against Congressman William
w. Blackney: the Eleventh. where
former Mayor Paul l.. Adams of
Sault Ste. Marie is opposing Con-
gresham Fred Bradley, and the
Seventeenth. where Mrs. Dorothy
X. Roosevelt is the Democratic
opponent of Congressman George
DOnderO,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-17
Dearborn Kid Dieppe Hero

The story of how Tommy Nc
Dermott--as he was known around
the baseball fields of Dearborn
or Pvt. Thomas McDermott, as he
was known officially TO the Essex
Scottish, hurled himself unflinch-
ingly into barbed wire on the
beach at Dieppe to help his COM
rades was revealed today.
Private McDermott, 20-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Nc
Dermott of 4785 Curtis avenue,
Dearborn, was last seen by others
on the Dieppe Commando raid
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-17
COP ENCOURAGED

Republicans. on the other hand,
scented November victory in the
vote given Judge Homer Ferguson,
nominee for United States senator.
He won over the Rev. Gerald L. K.
Smith by a plurality of 10000, de-
spite the unusually light vote.
Smiths huge crowds at pre-pri-
mary meeting had the COP chiefs
scared stiff.
One important outcome OF the
primary is the nomination of three
Wayne County residents for top
places on the COP ticket. Harry
r. Kelly. nominee for governor.
and Judge Ferguson are from
Wayne, while DR.. Eugene c. Keyes,
nominee for lieutenant-governor. is
from Dearborn,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-17

'But he sure was a game kid"
Private McDermott is reported
missing in action.
Before he joined the Essex Scot
fish. McDermott used 10 play bal
for Battalion lis midget team and
was a student at the Ford trade
school.
His last letter arrived at his
home the day after the message
arrived from the Canadian govern.
ment listing him as missing.
cit contained a newspaper pic
ture of himself, charging up a
hill with fixed bayonet," said his
mother.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-17

lying across the barbed wire that
guarded the beach-purposely. so
that his body became a bridge on
which his comrades could cross.
The story of his self-sacrificing
heroiSm was told by a fellow pri-
vate, David Holmes, who said in
England:
"We got ashore and up to the
barbed wire. That slowed us.
But one young fellow, Tommy
McDermott, threw his body
across IL and let US climb over
him. don't know where he
came from and i don't know
what happened TO him.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-17
Casualty Lists
Tell Story Of
City S Sacrifice
Mourning Is There,
However. Behind q
Highly Courageous Front
BY DOROTHY WILLIAMS

Windsor today turns a sphinx
like face to the world.
No telltale grief identifies IL as
the dominior's city which gave
most freely of its life blood TO
nHake possible the raid on 5000
mile-distant Dieppe.
Dominion casualty lists tell the
story.
Windsor leads Canada In losses
with upward of 500 of its finest
sons dead or missing in action ON
the French coast.
MADE WINDSOR HISTORY
A roll call of the missing lists
names which nodded metropolitan
Windsor from a tiny trading post
which sprang up at the rivers
bend.
There are the McGregors, the
Guests, the Jespersons, the Wigles.
the Mothersills and a score Of
Others.
Such are the men Windsor gave.
but she is not informing the world
of her bereaven ent with the con-
ventional stunned idleness and
tears.
Instead, Ouellette avenue pre-
Isents a business-as-usual atmos-
Iphere. as townsfolk move along In
the mellow autumn sunshine.
Most of thu next-of-kin of the
casualties have known for at least
three weeks that their loved ones
were missing in the Dieppe action,
but not until yesterday did the
world know.
CHANCE GIVEN CAPTIvES
News was withheld in accord
ance with the British practice Of
a fiye-week delay to permit the
missing man to escape, If possible,
without attracting enemy atten-
ltion.
Families waited, hoping against
hope that some friendly French
are harboring their sons.
To the casual observer Windsor
is no different today.
Grief might bring aid and COM
Continued on Page Four) (,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-17
CHANCE GIVEN CAPTIvEs

Continued on Page Four) Il
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-17

"YOur Own Horoscope" by
Frances Drake, is one of many
famous features in The Detroit
Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-17
TOLD or BROTHER

Robert and ! were adopted
when he was only a few weeks
old and ! was about Ia months
old--in Windsor" she said
THAT was 90 years ago. My
foster parents were Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Fox. They were
wonderfH 90 me. and 1 knew
nothing about Bob.
"Then her best friend told me
I had a brother.
when was married. nv
husband wanted TO get some in
surance for me and they ques-
toned my age. My father gave
me my adoption papers. In them
was my baptismal certificate
with my original name Of
Pritchard. From that I learned
that Bob Morand was my
brother"
Tears came 10 Mrs. Grove
eyes as she picked up the largt
photograph of her brother. Ssh
said
But II was too late-he had
sailed that week for England"
HIS CHRISTMAS PRESENT
Roberts foster parents ar,
Mr. and Mrs. Armund Morand o
Tecumseh.
"Mr. Morand cabled Rob right
away--it was his Christmas
present. Early In January I got
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

with bric-a-bra with
out first clearing it
off?
15-Do you try to
a. coax an open fire to
burn by pouring cEinflammables
Last year burns and fires in the
home took a fatality toll of $500
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29
THE LIVING ROOM
Not the dying room.

Not the dying roomD
do you hang heavly-framed family
portraits on thumbtacks so that Uncle Charlie
is apt to fall down, conk guests on the head
and commit murder long after he's been laid
to rest?
2Do you have rickety antique chairs
which can make antiques out of the occupants
in about five seconds
3-Acrobats belong in the circus, not the
home. Because you're too lazy to get the
stepladder, do you teeter precariously on top
of:
A rocking chair?
rckety table?
Any old box?
do you let your children get away with
leaving roller-skat wagons and wheel toys
all over the floor-so you're apt to take a
sudden filler down the hall any minute?
Disorder around the house causes one
accident out of every SIKH
5 DO you have highly waxed floors and
small sIiddy rugs to cover them which can
send visitors to Kingdom Come?
6-Do you continually wall
Il left a cigarette burning and 1 can't
find it"
Il left needle sticking into the sofa
and it's lost?"
Il smell something burning - but 1
guess if it's REAL fire well soon
know it,"
DO you try 10 play Hercules by moving
all the heavy furniture yourself, then have
to play invalid in bed for days afterwards?
DO you casually leave loaded guns re-
volvers and pistols lying around thinking no
Will disturb them
9-Do you try TO pick up fragments of
broken glass with your bare fingers and then
have to nurse cuts for weeks?
10-Because its so nice TO relax" do
you drop your fun weight into a flimsy little
chair and court sudden disaster on the floor?
lido you leave an open fire TO burn it
self out without benefit of fire screen?
u DO your rugs. like a mustache curl
gently up at the edges inviting a not-so-
gentle fall?
13-Do your kerosene lamps and candles
tceter precarously on flimsy bases. which
would collapse and start a holocaust at the
slightest snecze?
lido you Try to move a table covered
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29
AROUND THE HOUSE

LONE may be the place where you're treated
best and crouch the worst but we'll
bet some Of these are on your list, too.
do you run around the house with
pencil in your mouth counting sud
den tonsillectomy?
Open scissors in your hand, like Blue
beard stalking his next victim?
Your shoelaces united and trailing to
trip and spill you?
Bare feet-fair game 10 stray bits of
glass pins and thumb tacks?
2-Do you leave the telephone cord
stretching halfway across the room, ready to
send unsuspecting guests into a tailspn?
3-For convenience, do you hold collar
buttons, pins and thumbtacks in your mouth?
4-Do you invite one Way Trip to the
Hereafter by pulling down strange, hanging
wires when your feet damp?
5-Even hospitality should have its limita-
tons. DO you
Leave the front door open at night
inviting all burglars to come and get it,
Confide to strangers where the silver
is hidden
Fling open the door to anyone who
happens to knock?
6-Do you invite a guiotine scene by
leaning out the window when it's propped up
only by a flmsy stick Of wood
When your children play with matches
knives and glass do you sit idly by and
comment on their resourcefulness?
s-Do you scramble quickly up a step
ladder without first making positive whether
it's secure
9-Do YOU try 10 open a glass door by
pushing full force on the pane?
10-When the electric light is kaput do
you stick your finger into the socket to find
out what's wrong?
lido you march heedessly into a dark
closet which might well be staircase?
- l2-Do you pick up and eat anything you
lying around without thinking that it
may have been planted especially for rats?
13-When you detect a strong gassy smell
in the cellar do you 20 down and investigate
with lighted match?
you may never light anotherD
14-Do you plunge headlong into a swing
ing door without first making sure there's
no one on the other side about 10 do the
same thing o
15-Do you use penny for a fuse because,
"It'n work just as Well"
16 DO you scratch matches on the box
without first closing tho cover
17-Do you run your finger over:
knife blade 10 see II it's sharp?
Wood 20 sec # it's smooth
An iron TO see II it's hot?
1s-Do you have low windows in the chill
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

S-Do you grab
hot kettles in your
bare hands ?
9 Do you leave
brooms and mops
lying all over the
floor where people
will trip yer
them -?
los your
kitchen cluttered
up with Jagged
edged tin cans,
broken bottles and
s h a rp = b ! a d e d
knives?
IL Do you
cook in a hermet-
ically sealed kitch-
en- which may pos
sibly Theoretically
seal you instead ?
II DO you use
inflammable clean
aAnr f1ntI .anr 90 IN,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

do you leave poison in the unlocked
medicine cabinet where the children can get
it all too easily?
5-Do you plunge into a steaming hot
bath Immediately after a heavy meal-than
wonder why you feel so giddy?
cts dangerous business TO turn the
light switch while you're in the tub. DO you?
(You may only do it onceD
do you leave soap on the floor or in the
tub where people will take header over it?
S-Do you jump into hot bath before
feeling its temperature to make sure you won't
get a good parboing?
9-Do you ease off to sleep in the bathtub?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

ing fluid near open fire?
THE BATHROOM
kIAYBE it sounds funny when someone
iNi skids on a cake Of soap. eases off to
sleep in the tub or gets locked in the bath
room. But wait till you do it yourself. How
safe is YOUR bathroom?
Fifty per cent of all home fatalities are
caused by falls. And you'll probably be in
for one if you try to get out of the tub this
way DO you rely on:
soapy grip on the sides Of the tub?
A flimsy towel rack which'll let you down
quicker than rich relative?
Your ability as broad jumper?
2-Do you pick up bottle from the medi-
by American Weekly Inc Great Britain Rights Res
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29
CLOSETS, HALLS, STAIRWAYS
AND CELLAR

do you snoop around in a crammed
clothes closet with a lighted candle or match
2-Do you leave heavy door-stoppers in
the middle of the hall TO ruin peoples toes
3-Do you litter up narrow Railways with
clothes hampers, chairs. screens and all odd
junk, so that hurrying through them be-
an obstacle race?
4-Do you have small skiddy rugs at the
head Of the stairs so that people will literally
slip on something and come down quickly"
5-Do you stuff heavy boxes and suit
cases into the closets, so that who ever opens
the door is baptized by a rolling barrage of
falling debris?
6 DO you leave mops. pals brooms and
rubbish on the cellar stairs as a sort of
domestic tank trap?
Are your cellar stairs without benefit
of the following:
Rail?
Light?
Secure underpinnings?
8 Is your hall light just barely within
tiptoe reach of the top stair?
9Do you attempt to negotiate the back
stairs carrying a load bulky you can't
see your feet?
1O-Do your closets unlock only from the
outside, making it a cinch for you to get
locked in
lido you use the cellar stairs as store
room for foods -inviting both mice and the
ambulance?
12-Do you store papers and kindling wood
near the furnace?
13-Does your cellar have pits Dark Holes
of Calcutta open vaults inviting tragedy?
Are your closet walls lined with pro-
truding nails which may rip up an UNI
suspecting groper?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29
THE BATHROOM

ing fluid near an open fire?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29
THE BEDROOM

IT'S been said that bed is the most danger
Gus place in the world because more peo-
pie die in il. But there are other hazards
than this in the bedroom
do you smoke in bed, ease off to sleep.
then wake up wondering what's burning?
2 DO you leave bureau drawers wide open
where they are bound TO get you in the
shins?
3Do you spring out of bed at night.
fumbling around in the dark because you're
so sure you know your way around without
a light and then stumble over a chair that's
out Of place?
4-Does sewing make you end up minus
needles, pins and scissors, which may be in
the bed or on the rug
Come the rude awakening at mid
nightD
5-Do you leave your shoes in the middle
of the floor where you'n trip over them?
6-Do you have cluttered up passage
way from bed to:
Door?
Electric light?
Telephone?
When putting on your socks or stock
ings do you stand one foot like a stork
and then take header or spran an ankle?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

dren's room. inviting fatal fall to the ground
below .?
19-Do you put hot ashes in wooden
baskets cardboard cartons?
20-To get to your fire escape do you
have to fight your way through melee Of
pals pans, mops and rubbish?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29
IN THE KITCHEN

IN HE hl1OhEN
CURVEYS show that the kitchen is the most
- dangerous room in the house More ac-
cidents occur here than in any other place
from attic to cellar. You should put up a
sign DANGER KITCHEN"
do you cause the unsuspecting cook to
take header into the icebox by:
Leaving the garden hose uncoiled all
over the floor?
Dropping fruit peels?
Neglecting to repair rents in the limo
leum?
Forgetting to mop up grease puddes
2-Do you cut TOWARDS your body?
3-Do you leave electrical gadgets turned
on while you answer the doorbell. go market
ing or go to see where the fire is
Maybe you'll find the fire at homeD
do you try to hack open tin cans with
corkscrews, icepcks, knives or any other
sharp instrument handy?
5-Do you have flimsy curtains, towels and
paper gadgets hanging near your stove,
whichl go up in a blaze of glory at the
slightest excuse?
6-Do you keep rat and mice poison
dangerously near the food?
When you cut yourself on a tin can are
you too busy" to put antiseptic on it?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

10-Do you leave razor blades lying
81 around in handy place for people TO
cut and slice themselves?
:" ll-pe yea-leek- yourself securely
in the bathroom so securely that no.
'e body can help you if you get hurt?
12-Do you have an old sponge
vintage 1900-which may readily carry
germs?
13-Do you go out into the cold, thiny-
clad after a hot bath?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

TOME SWEET HOME n the but
Il
Home ranks second only to automobiles
ant anOthe
in the country There's like your
10 live with
This will tell
asionany;
rn to Is.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-29

If You Keep Poison in the Medicine
Chest, Keep the Chest Locked, So In
quisitive Little Fingers Can't Get Into 1t.
cine cabinet in the dark, drink it, taking
it for granted it's the medicine you were
looking for?
(Stick pin through the cork Of
questionable bottle to remind you
to put the light on
3-There's such a thing as OVERRIDING
privacy. Do you keep all the windows
and sources OF ventilation closed when
you take a bath?
you may suffocateD