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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12
Road To Romance

He stood looking e. her while
strange, conflicting feelings passed
through him The sneering taunt
died in his throat. the quick irri-
tation OF embarrassment collapsed
under puzzled wonder.
You mean" he stammered
slowly, you'd get that scared-for
me ,"
Mary closed teu-tale eyes, but a
smile tugged at the corners Of her
lips.
I'm sorry" she whispered. I'm.
such a-fool."
The nurse was back again, her
fingers on hary's pulse, her voice
briskly CHEEKY. How're you feel.
ing ?" she asked.
Fine" Mary smiled at her.
Were going to send you home
as soon as you're able. You can rest
better in your own bed. And If you
don't feel able to come tomorrow,
stay right there"
Bruce moved up beside the nurse.
TN take her home." he said
quietly.
The nurse nodded her consent,
but as she lifted her fingers from
Marys pulse she smiled enigmati-
cally. There was an awful lot one
could learn about a person, she
unused, as she went back to her
desk, IL you happened to have your
finger on his pulse at certain mo-
ments.
Bruce drove her home, lifted her
from the low gray car and helped
her up the two flights to the apart
ment. While Mary lay on the living
room sofa, he went to FIX the hot
brandy toddy the nurse had sug-
gested. He held her with an arm
under her shoulders while she
drank 1t, then gently eased her
back onto the pillows.
"That'll make you sleep" he told
her. He was worried. He felt the
same responsibility for this fragile
little person as he did for his plane
when he heard something go wrong
with its delicate mechanism and
knew II was up to him to get it
safely back onto terra firma.
DO you want anything else ?"
She shook her head and smiled at
him weakly.
well, I'd better run along before
your landlady comes up and throws
me out" He leaned down to tweak
her ear. Bye, Redhead. And
don't pull any more Of this fainting
business. See"
She nodded obediently. And sud
denly she asked. Bruce, are you
happy"
He was startled. In all his head
strong. stubborn life, he had never
known an uncalculating. unde-
handing tenderness. He frowned
at her in confusion. finally found
his old sneering smile.
Sure he said gruf1y. Why
not?" He left her without looking
back.
Ito Be Continued
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12

took one look at the pilot and fa!t-
ed"
Maybe she knew him" Danver
suggested.
Nope" the engineer returned
cheerfully. He was conscious. l
heard him say he'd never seen her
before"
Even then, the information would
not have penetrated Bruces dark
thoughts, had not Danvers gleam-
ing eyes forced him to concentrate
on it. Danver was putting two and
two together and getting a sum he
didn't like. Bruce thought back
over the word searching for the
thing that had made Danver look
at him so suspiciously. A girl had
rushed out to the pilot and tainted
"a red-haired girl.
Danver saw the shock Of realiza-
ton sweep over Bruce, saw him
turn and start toward the plant
buildings and called after him.
Where you going?"
Bruce strobe on, calling back
with a sneer, I'm tell you in my
report when you send for me to-
morrow"
Mary lay on a cot In the pale
gray hospital room Of the Nordex
tnhrmary, staring with wide,
haunted eyes at the ceiling above
her. Consciousness had returned,
but mind and body were still strug-
Cling to resdjust from shock and
fear. The pressure Of terror in her
brain slowly formed into meaning
the picture OF the pilot lying on
the landing field. Frantic, cold fear
gripped her once more.
And then she turned her eyes
with the sound Of the opening door
and saw Bruce Martin. AS she
stared at him, the strain, the ter
ror ebbed from her white face
Tears flooded her eyes.
Bruce stood there immobile In
the doorway until the nurse urged
him on. You can go to her" She
went out of the room and closed
the door after her.
Bruce moved awkwardly toward
the cot. He was embarrassed and
alarmed. She looked as though she
were dying. This seemed to be his
fault, too. He felt the old surge Of
impotent fury yelling up in him.
But when she held up a weak hand,
he took II in both OF his
Hello" she quavered.
Hello" Bruce said hoarsely.
He remembered as he looked at
her heart-shsped face, so trans
parent now In its frame Of flaming
hair. that she had looked like this
that night at the hospital when she
had been frightened over Fran. He
had thought, "she must be crazy
about her roommate"
He asked, why did you run out
to the plane
Mays wide green eyes we're
piteous In their honesty. They said
1t was you In u" she whispered.
Bruce Martin dropped her hand
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12
Wings

New solo students at the Np--
lauti Airport include Paul Sa5o
and Earl Rury. Ypsi'suu and Rob
ert Powell. Ann Arbor. all ~ whom
made their first rIght alone on
sunday and Miss Eleanor Sm.ssen.
YpsilautL who soloti last week.
Whitley" Burns has received
word that Do successfully pass d
the test for his private pilots De
ceuse. Thomas Halliday went TO
krist Port Monday to write i1g his
private tr-trr-v ---r------r-
George Romanos. Detroit. a Civil
ian Pilot Training student ia the
summer OF 1871. has entered the
pre-night training school at Iowa
State University as d Nayal AVA
ton Cadet Wilbur Donaldson. =
recent visitor az the NrsI.anu Air.
port and a former student there.
has completed the Navy prefilglt
training and is being sent 90 an
airport near Chicago.
Cross country Hights made nom
the local airports include Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Jarman who few from
MCEnnan Airport 10 Saginaw sun
day, and from lpsiiauri airport,
DR.. and Mrs Harry Rritton Who
flew 10 Port Huron sunday. Ralph
Camburn To TeCumseh sunday
and Ray Dunlap. Jackson. who has
a Luscomhe flew with John Fl9ns
hurEh. Jackson. 20 Brooks Field.
Marshall sunday
New students az the NpsilautI
Airport include George Howe,
George wheeler. Lyle nihhle
Wayne, Kathryn Dean, barbara
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12
DRIVE GETS euAYuLE TIRE

SALINAS. Cal-UP-- Included
iB contributions 20 the scrap rub.
her drive here was one OF the first
tires ever made completely OF
guayule rubber. II was construct.
cd for the International Rubber Co.
IN 1925 and was turned in during
a cleanup ~ samples and scraps
from the gusyule rubber mill and
nursery one OF the tires made at
that time is now In the Smithson-
ian Institution More han a ton
of gu4yule scraps and products
were included
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12
CHAPTER TwENTY-sEvEN

SAlAA AAAN Il W AAAN = A9AA A@AN
BRUCE MARTIN heard the
crash of the plane on the nying
field as he opened his locker 10
throw in his flying clothes. He stood
there staring into the locker with
an empty gaze, knowing instantly
what had happened. And knowing
he had been cheated again!
The ship had been his Job. For
several days he had been ready
so take 1t up. He'd been ready to-
day and, except for the fight with
the boss
1t had been short, hot, bitter,
elimaxing his angry impotence at
a three-day wait for re-checking on
the plane, then an order to come
hack to the plant today for the test
hight-his day of.
"All right" he could hear the
boss voice now, in dry, biting fury.
Get out Of here! wouldn't let you
take up the plane In the mood
you're in now. Go to the races II
you want-go any place you please
but get out! I'm fed up with you
today"
Slowly Bruce pushed the flying
suit into the small locker and
closed the door. P'ght now he was
pretty fed up with himself. Auto
matically he started for the field on
the run. He reached the door as
John Danver, the F. B. l. chief, hur-
ried out of his office. Danver looked
surprised.
Thought you were going up to-
day, Martin"
well, I didn't" He didn't wait
to glover at the ever inquisltive
Danver, but hurried on.
Already the siren OF the company
ambulance was waiting across the
field and the big white car drew to
halt beside the burning plane. It
was at the far end OF the flying
field from the hangers and by the
time Bruce and Danver had reached
the scene. the ambulance was NOV
ing away, the onlookers transfer
ring their fascinated gaze to the
burning plane.
Bruce stopped beside a white
faced young mechanic. What hap
pened7" he asked tersely.
Il don't know" said the man.
Then he added through clamped
jaws, But there wasn't anything
wrong with II this morning."
An engineer moved over from the
crowd. They all thought you were
flying It," he said TO Bruce.
Bruce chuckled bitterly. you
mean they all hoped I was"
Didn't they put two people In
that ambulance ?" Danver asked.
The engineer nodded. Yeah. But
the pilot was the only one hurt. The
other was just a girl from the
plant She pulled cute one. all
right. Swell, red-hsired little num-
Der, too. She ran out on the field
practically TO the burning plane,
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12

A farewell party WAS given at
Mr.. and Mrs. Slaranofi's home
Monday evening, by line number
seven OF Kelsey Hayse, for vii
liam Amrheim, former employe.
who LEFT for the Army Air Corps
Nov. 4.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12
NetCS From Salem

Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Foreman were
dinner guests Saturday evening a.
the home OF Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Foreman, South Lyon
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12
Dinner Gusata

Mr.. and Mrs Rudolph Kehrl
we're dinner guests Thursday OF
Mr.. and Mrs. William Merritt.
Seven Mile Rd.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12
Patient improving

Mrs. Frances Shoebridge. who
was taken to st. Joseph's Hospi-
tai. Ann Arbor with a broken col
lar bone, is improved. She has
been taken to the home Of her
daughter, Mrs. Ray Speers, Plym-
outh.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12

Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Northrop.
Ypsilanti, were week end guests OF
Mr. and Mrs. Knowles Buers.
Miss Lucille Wells spent the
week end with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Wells. Detroit.
Mrs. Julia Foreman and daugh-
ter. z. A. Foster, Detroit spent the
week end with Mr. and Mrs. c. z.
Clark, Lansing.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hardesty and
son Dean and Miss Wanda StooK s
visited Mr.. and Mrs. George Leh,
man, Mont Pelier, O., over the
week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Wheeler spent
the week end with their son and
family, Holly. here. ........
Mr.. and Mrs. Hamilton searfoss
and sons were Saturday evening
guests Of the Meridith Kahlers, De
troit.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Merritt
visited their son Donald, Howell,
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs Russell Fraser, De,
troit, were Sunday visitors at the
Hamilton Searfoss home.
Mr. and Mrs. Myrlen Lyke and
son hurry visited friends at Wall.
ed Lake Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Whittiker
accompanied Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie
Snyder to Lansing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Proctor
and children, Chelsea, were Sun
day visitors OF the George Bennett
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Burnham visit
ed friends in Ypsilanti and Ann
Arbor Sunday.
Mrs. Leo Heintz spent two DAYS
last week with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs Charles Stacey
Mr.. and Mrs Hall entertained
his mother and father. Pontiac,
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Snyder were
Detroit visitors Saturday evening.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12
Recovering satlsfaetorlly

Mrs Burton Rich. Laphan Corn.
ers, who underwent a major opera
ton al St Joseph Hospital, Ann
Arbor, last week, is reported TO be
recovering satisfactorily.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12

NAVY VETERAN, 30, REJolNs
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. Up
George SANDY Sanderson. so, has
Just won a year long battle to get
back into the Navy and now ranks
as the oldest man in the service
With 10 "hashmarks" on his
sleeves representing 40 years Of
service in the Navy, and with ten
years OF retirement Afterwards he
fought the good fight for re.enlist-
ment for a year until a final di.
rect appeal to Secretary Of the
Navy Frank Knox won him read
mission.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12

The Salem Union School P. T. A.
will meet Friday at s p m at
The school house. Everyone inter
ested is urged to attend
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12
Pneumonia Patient

Mrs. Kate Stanbro. who Is in
University Hospital, Ann Arbor.
with a broken hip. is very low
with pneumanla.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12
yapan studied

The sixth graders are completing
a unit on Japan in geography They
are making a japanese project.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12

Week End Guests

James Hall is a new pupil in the
lower room OF the school here.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12
Ladies' Aid 10 Meet

tt Ladies' Aid meets with Mrs.
L. Griffith, 1l5 Mill St, Plymouth,
Thursday for dinner at 70 O'Clock.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12

Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Wayerley,
Pontiac, were week end guests Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gable.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-11-12

Dinner Guests
Mr.. and Mrs. Ronald Lyke and
Evening star., 1942-11-06
Pepper Sees Need
Of Fighting Spirit
For u. 5. Victory
Federal Bor Association
Speaker Says Fear Ties
Tongues on Postwar

Senator Pepper of Florida yester-
day called on America to display a
lighting war spirit.
Americans have not made up their
minds to win the war, as contrasted
with Axis peoples hardened by
years of ordeal and discipline" he
told a luncheon meeting of the Fed
'eral Bar Association at the Har-
rington Hotel
Our soldiers, sailors and marines
are fighting because when some one
shoots at you, you shoot back in self
defense" Senator Pepper said. Can
civilians win, however, if we keep
thinking only about ourselves, our
jobs, our immediate horizon and
blot out the fate of other peoples?
We are not spiritually refined in
the crucible of war to make us a
dynamic force throughout the world.
If we do survive, it will be a con-
quest of the spirit over the body"
He said America is afraid to talk
about postwar world because we
might offend somebody" He added
that every sensible Englishman
knows the British Empire faces re-
striction, not expansion"
Liberalism in this country has en-
countered resistance for the past two
years, Senator Pepper said, adding
that Tuesdays election proves the
trend of the country is definitely
more conservative"
He fayed pre-war isolationists
who discounted Hitlers menace to
the world and also paid his respects
to some responsible members of
our State Department who, up to a
few months ago, were saying Hitler
would collapse this year."
Robert N. Anderson, president,
who introduced Senator Pepper,
announced that Clifford Pinchot,
former Governor of Pennsylvania,
will be the speaker next Thursday.
Evening star., 1942-11-06
W. W.; +; E. s.
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MEETINGS.
Armistice Day Ball Committee,
Willard Hotel, o'clock tonight.
Sigma Delta Kappa Sorority, Carl
ton Hotel, o'clock tonight.
DINNER.
Business Paper Editors, Willard
Hotel, $50 o'clock tonight.
DANCE.
THE Hoya," Georgetown Univer-
sity publication, Wardman Park
Hotel 8 o'clock tonight.
Safeway Stores, Inc, Wardman
Park Hotel, 10 o'clock tonight.
SMOKER.
Delta Theta Phi Fraternity, May
flower Hotel, o'clock tonight.
LUNCHEONS.
Lawyers Club, Mayfower Hotel,
! pm. tomorrow
LECTURE.
"The Doctrine of the Catholic
Church." Rev. Eugene NJ Burke,
The Guild House, 172l Rhode Island
avenue NV, 7:30 o'clock tonight.
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.
Stage Door Canteen, Belascoi
Theater, Madison place and Penn
sylvania avenue NV, 5 o'clock this
evening.
Sports Night, Roosevelt Commu-
nifty Center, 730 o'clock tonight.
Ballroom dance class for women
war workers and servicemen, Ma
tional Catholic Community Service.
Women, CUSO), 7:30 o'clock tonight.
Bowling, "20-40 Club" Mount
Pleasant Congregational Church at
the Lucky Strike Alleys, Fourteenth
street between r and S, O'Clock
tonight.
Game night, National Baptist
Memorial Church. Sixteenth and
Columbia read NV, 8 o'clock to-
night.
Womens Battalion Dance, Bureau
of Engraving, Fourteenth and G
streets NV, 8 o'clock tonight.
Dancing, refreshments, Friend
ship House, 8 o'clock tonight.
instruction in South American
dancing, drama classes, Roosevelt
Community Center, Thirteenth and
Upshur street NV, 8 o'clock to-
night.
Glass in ballroom and square
dancing, men and women, Central
Community Center, Thirteenth and
Clifton streets NV, O'Clock to-
night.
Religious services, social hour,
open forum, Adas Israel Congrega-
ton, conservative JEWISH. Sixth
and I streets NV, 8:l5 o'clock to-
night.
Square dancing, refreshments
First Congregational Church, Tenth
and G streets NV, $50 o'clock to-
night.
For Colored Servicemen.
Games, Skating, Phyllis Wheat
lev YWCA, 901 Rhode Island avenue
N w. (USO), 7:30 O'Clock tonight.
Big sing, Mount Olivet Lutheran
Church, 8 o'clock tonight.
Swimming, photography, games
bridge. YMCA, 1916 Twelfth street
NV, (USO), 8 o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1942-11-06
Philosophical Unit to Meet

An address by. Frederick Seitz of
the University Of Pennsylvania will
be delivered at the meeting of the
Philosophical Society of Washing
ton at BIS pm. tomorrow at the
Cosmos Club.
Evening star., 1942-11-06
The vanquishilng
American
Makes War
in the
Heart Of Kansas

ME Vanishing American and his paint gone from
J. the plains of Kansas these many years.
But has back to Kansas-and finds the Vanquis
ing American of today better, crafier, resouceu
fighter fights where he is with what he has He fights for
nag and freedom to the Everlasting glory of the little fellow
with the ingenuity and skill and individual initiative that built
this country in the first place.
In today Denver Lndey tells the story breahes
that the little fellows really understand a.out
war-and they're fighting it, American fashion.
Out of chicken hatcheres GARAGES back of old stores in
Wichita of tents erected under the and of fac
tories built the open plains from old oil dercks giant
glider transports for Army And these Kansans are but
typical of the little fellows everywhere in America.
Golfers writes of and for people of action Well written, it's
easily read Where the heat of public interest most intense
be it home front battle line diplomacy arenathere you'll
find Golfers staff men, Such editorial vigilance produces
natural vehicle for the advertisers report Small wonder
that advertisements in Golfers getting such thorough and
responsive reading.
Buy the issue out today Besides Lndeys epic of the SUBJ
of the country read Martha Gehorn article
what has done Puerto Rco alert Pearl arbor
of the Atlantic Float through the with RAF paratroopers,
as Quentin Reynolds has Read Phoebe Radcliffe how you
can feel better while working.
Wing Talk keeps you abreast of what's in the air. The
Golfers comics convulse you There's from in the
fasmovng fiction There's exciting in Normandy in
Roland Perwees "The Letter Box There's fight in the brst
ling down.toearth editorials There's hot the adver
tising pages
Golfers is watched weekly by millions of active Americans
from Washington to Wenachee Read oday-a newsstands
10 cents.
Evening star., 1942-11-06
81 District Registrars
Will Report Tomorrow

Sixty-two District selectees will
begin Army life tomorrow. when they
report for assignment to training
camps.
They were inducted October "a
and given two weeks furlough
They are:
Joyce, John F. Palmer, William l..
Wall, Howard l.. Farri1ston, G. G.
Farley. Walter 3 Kaplan, Eugene
Beazley. Robert c.. Boswell, F. G.
Tlmberlake, j. E. Vann, Vernon A.
Perry Royal j. Stewart Paul P.
Grenfell. w. w, jr. Hoy. Otto o.
Sachs, Morris Mardres. Robert o.
Toomey Patrick J. Martin. Jack E.
Setnicer, Frank A. Nolda, Henry G.
Kupiasky Abe Goodstein j. B.
Flynn. w. J. Canty, Joseph A.
Blalnck, Robert l.. Burns, John E.
Goodrich, Robert Wehle, Kurt F.
Heinrichs, R. c.. Fee Gilbert S.
Robinson, Frank E. Fugolln. Gino G.
Bunyea, E. w ST. Scholfield. Daniel
Beavers. w w Edwards. S. T.
Schlesberg, Quinton Byrne William A.
Burke, Kinsey w. Brown, Morris A.
Rinewalt. Harry Schatz. Leo j., sr.
Sakeis. Orfeas E. Gormley, B L.
L!chtblau, Alfred Galloway. James A.
Romano, A. c. RoterIS. Roy A.
Mortimer. H. T. jr. Johnson, Roger c.
Smith William G. Walker, William F.
Fitzhugh. Earl S. Heatwole, G. NJ,
Miller. Allen r. DouslaSs, Robert l..
Laurie. Eugene c. Thomas. John z.
Lieb, William Cohen. Albert NJ.
Lust, Bernard S. Frel, Jacob
Evening star., 1942-11-06

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Evening star., 1942-03-25
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LECTURE.
British Labor and the War;" by
r. H. Tawney, Of the British EN-
bassy. Assembly Room. Graduate
School. Howard University, 8 O'Clock
tonight.
AL States Club, Hotel Washington,
$50 O'Clock tonight.
Dance, supper. Warmers Club.
Wardman Park Hotel, 1880 o'clock
tonight.
MUSIC.
Organ recital, d. Sterling Wheel
wright, Washington Chapel, Church
of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints,
8 O'Clock tonight.
Concert, Marine Band Symphony
Orchestra, Marine Barracks audi
torium, 8:15 o'clock tonight.
National Symphony Orchestra. DR..
Hans Kinder. conducting. Leah
Effenbach, pianist, Constitution
Hall, $3.50 o'clock tonight.
Fugueroa String and Piano Quin-
tet, Wardman Park Hotel, $50
O'Clock tonight.
MEETINGS..
Syrian American Club, Willard
Hotel, o'clock tonight.
Board Of Trade, Mayhower Hotel,
8 o'clock tonight.
DINNER.
Civitan Club, Mayfower Hotel,
$50 o'clock tonight.
LUNCHEONS.
North Washington Lions Club,
Sixteenth and Irving streets NV,
1918 pm. tomorrow.
Beta Theta Pi Alumni Association
Of Washington, Viking Room, Earle
Restaurant, 1890 pm. tomorrow.
Junior Board Of Commerce, An
napolis Hotel, 1890 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1942-03-25

Kiwanis Club, Maydower Hotel,
1880 pm. tomorrow.
FOR MEN IN TIE SERvICK.
Dance. refreshments. SOLDIER
Sailors and Marines Club, 1915 L
street NV. 3 O'Clock tonight.
Square dancing, Service Mems
Club No. l. 306 Ninth street NV
8 O'Clock tonight.
Square dancing, Y. w. G. A..
Seventeenth and K streets NV,
$50 o'clock tonight.
Discussion group, Jewish Com
munity Center, Sixteenth and 6
streets NV, $50 o'clock tonight.
FOR COLORED SERVICE MEN.
Badminton Tournament, Ban
neker Gymnasium. Georgia avenue
and Euclid street NV, s o'clock to-
night.
Skating, dancing. hobbies, Phyllis
Wheatley Y. w. G. A., 90l Rhode
Island avenue NV. $50 O'Clock
tonight.
Evening star., 1942-03-25
Army Rejects Power
From Federal Plant,
Manager Charges
Privote Companies Given
Contracts Despite Higher
Bids, OkIohomon Says

BY the Associated Press.
VINITA, Okla. March 25.-Gen-
eral Manager Douglas Wright OF
the Grand River Dam Authority
charges the Army has consistently
rejected the authority's bids for sup
plying electric power to defense
projects in favor Of private utility
companies which charge higher
rates.
Mr.. Wright asserted last night
that the Oklahoma Gas & Electric
Co. was given a contract week ago
to supply power to the Braggs
(Okla) Army cantonment at 108
mills a kiliWatt hour, while the
G. r. D. A. bid was 5 mills.
Several months ago, he added, the
G. r. D. A. offered to serve the
Tulsa bombing plane assembly
plant at As mills, but the Public
Service Co. Of Oklahoma got the
contract on a bid of mills.
Mr.. Wright, who became manager
of the big Grand River project when
President Roosevelt issued an ex-
ecutive order taking it from the
State of Oklahoma, asserted that
It's a hell of a note that the Gov
ernment won't buy its own power on
its own project"
IT have done my best to accom-
plish what the President wanted me
to do. That was to make Grand
River power work for national de-
fense Apparently. it can't be done
1t is impossible for me to get con-
tract with the Army"
Mr.. Wright said he had never been
able to get satisfactory explana-
ton from Army officials. Col. H.
A. Montgomery. head of the Tulsa
Army engineers Office, refused to
comment.