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Evening star., 1942-05-03
Educators Clash
Over u. Of CHICAGO S
TWo-Year Course
Some School Leaders
Soy Plan Will Leod
To Chaos, HoirpuIIine
By the Associated Press

CHICAGO, May 2-The Univer-
sity of Chicago's revolutionary plan
to award the bachelor of arts de-
gree at the end of the sophomore
year instead of at the finish of the
senior term was lauded and lam
basted today by educational leaders.
It was viewed variously, in SYM
postum before the American Council
on Education, as something that was
needed in peace and even more so
in wartime and as step that likely
would lead to general chaos and
hairpulling among school people.
Robert M. Hutchins, Chicago's
president and champion of the sys-
tenn recently adopted there. re-
ported that his university deter
mined to provide liberal education
by the end Of the sophomore year
in a program which squeezes out
waste, water and duplication" He
contended that such a course was
desirable at any time. but was i'm
perative during the war.
Plan Is Called "Silly."
Young men are going to have to
leave us at the age of 20" he added.
TT Is our duty to give them before
they 90 the education every citizen
should have"
President william p Tolley Of
Allegheny College termed the idea
"the expression Of an inferiority
complex Of Americans dazzled by
the educational systems Of the old
world" He continued:
Although Mr.. Hutchins complains
that the American college boy lags
two years behind the English,
French and German boy Of the same
age, 1t is interesting to note that to
overcome this lag, he proposes two
less years Of schooling. 1t is
perfectly silly to think that general
education should come to full stop
at the end Of the sophomore year"
Uniformity Of Action Urged.
Walter c. Eells, executive secretary
OF the American Association OF
Junior Colleges, advanced this argu-
ment:
THE proposal is undesirable be-
cause hundreds Of other American
colleges and universities have long
established and widely recognized
rights to the use of the bachelors
degree to indicate completion Of
four years OF college education; and
because uniformity of action Is
needed If confusion, misunderstand-
ing, rivalry, academic hair-pulling
and general chaos is to be avoided" !"
President Homer P. Rainey of the
University Of Texas suggested that
his colleagues might consign the
junior college and the B. A. degree to
Evening star., 1942-05-03

one OF my sons was killed In action.
It shocked me 80 I became hysteri-
cal and have been Ill ever since.
This degenerate said he WAS calling
from the War Department In WASH
ington. I called my boys-and TO
my overjoyment they are both safe"
The department said that noti-
fication of casualties in foreign
service Is made by commercial tele-
graph from the War Department.
Death of an Army member in the
continental United States Is made
by telegraph by the commander OF
the post. camp or station at which
the death occurs.
Evening star., 1942-05-03

by Miss Lois M. Smith, secretary
OF the group. will be here. Stephen
Macy is president of the Washington
organization, which last night held
Its last meeting until September.
DR.: James Cuf7ey. formerly Of HAr-
ward and Indiana Universities, gave
an illustrated lecture on Star
Astronomy"
Evening star., 1942-05-03
Actress to Be Married

HOLLYWOOD. May 2 (P,.-Twc
years ago Inspector James Roche
of the State Highway Patrol stopped
actress Barbara Lynn and gave hel
a ticket for a minor trafiic violation
Tonight, said a studio announce
ment, they'll be married at Las
Vegas, New, after motoring from
Hollywood.
Evening star., 1942-05-03
Army's Deuth Notices
Are Wired, Not Phoned

~ the Associated Press.
Prompted by . letter from q
mother who said she had received
telephone call purporting to be
from me War Department that q
son had been killed, the department
reiterated today such notifications
were made only by commercial tele-
graph.
Mrs. Mary Amato, Philadelphia,
wrote:
Il received telephone call that
Evening star., 1942-05-03
Astronomers Society
To Entertain Visitors

Members Of the National Capital
Amateur Astronomers Association
will be hosts today to the Amateur
Astronomers Association of the
Franklin Institute in Philadelphia
for q sightseeing tour Of Washing
ton.
About Is Philadelphians, headed
Evening star., 1942-05-03

Americas future. Nothing in the
world Is safer today. Buy!
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-23
u. !. Pilot Crash.Dives
Plane 70 Avoid Homes

LONDON, Nov. % - R "A
United States Army air force
pilot was killed yesterday when
he crash dived his faltering
plane into a football field in
crowded London district in or
der to avoid hitting q row of
small homes.
The name of the pilot was not
announced here.
Suburban tn o u sands saw
flames squirt from the engine
and noticed the irregularity of
the motor as the low flying craft
headed for a row of closely
packed houses.
The pilot then banked steeply
and nose-dived in q football
field so yards from the nearest
house.
Thomas Curd ran from his
garden to the field and dragged
the pilots body from the burn
ing wreckage.
This pilot saved dozens Of
our lives" he said. "All of us
in this neighborhood want to do
something to show our gratitude.
If we can get the name and ad-
dress we want to write to his
parents and tell them how he
sacrificed his life for U.S."
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-23

of Atlanta, J. w. Mcclellan, So,
of Earle. Ark, and Corporal
Thomas G.. Vest of Charlotte,
N. c.
Twenty Of the injured were
treated at hospitals. and others
received first aid treatment at
the scene of the wreck. None
was reported seriously hurt.
The two engines of the train
passed over the 80O-foot trestle,
but two mail cars and six of the
eight passenger cars were de-
rallied, most of them overturn-
ing down l2-foot embank-
ment. One car came to rest in
the river. which was running
only one-foot deep.
The train was enroute from
Cincinnati to Florida over the
southern railway.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-23
Asylum Cooks
Held in Deaths
Police Question
Hospital Employees

SALEM, Ore, Nov. 23-(P)-
Two cooks in the Oregon State
Hospital for the Insane, where
AZ inmates died last week after
a dinner of poisoned scrambled
eggs, were detained by police
today.
District Attorne Miller Hay
den said he was preparing a
charge of involuntary man.
slaughter against A. B. McKil-
lop, assistant cook, and charge
of obstructing justice against
Mrs. Mary O'Hare, chief cook.
Hayden gave this account of
the tragedy, which made more
than 400 inmates ill:
McKillop, in TVfolation OF the
institutions rules, sent an in
mate to the basement to get
powdered milk in which to mix
the eggs. The inmate. George A.
Nosen, q, Medford, Ore. who
entered tn asylum voluntarily,
dippd into the wrong storage
can and brought back six
pound sof roach powder.
M Killop unsuspectingly
mixed the roach powder, SINH
lar in appearance to powdered
milk, with the eggs.
The cooks disclosed Nosen's
error after the inmates became
i'll, but withheld their knowl-
edge until Saturday night,
when they broke down under
questioning, Hayden added.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-23
Maritime Service Offers
Good Pay, Sound Troining
Navy Officer Soys Quotes
for Service are Unlimited

jobs aboard ship which, with
war bonuses, pay as high as $500
per month, plus uniforms, all
living expenses and incidentals.
Following IA months sea ex-
perience, they may apply for ap-
pointment to the Prospective Of
ficers' School at New London,
Conn. Those who successfully
complete a four months course
are given officers commissions.
The courses offered these
men qualify them for high
paying positions in the Merchant
Marine after the war so Mari
time Service men, not only are
helping their country at war,
but are receiving valuable
training.
Facilities for training these
men have been expanded great
ly~ in recent months. Most
Michigan men are being sent to
the new Maritime Service
Training Station at Sleeps
head Bay, Brooklyn, N. Y,
which is modern in every re-
spect.
Men, from II years and eight
months to 35, who want to bet
ter themselves at the same
time they serve their country
should visit the Maritime Serv-
ice Enrolling Office, First
Floor, Hammond Building.
In joining the Maritime Serv-
ice, men also become members
of the u. S. Merchant Marine
Naval Reserve, on an inactive
duty status. This releases them
from Selective Service so they
may follow their career at sea.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-23
Brutal Slayer
Faces Trial
Seek Worront
for Youth. II

DETROIT, Nov. % - R -
Police said today they would
ask q first degree murder war
rant for a 17-year-old factory
worker who, they said, compos-
eddy confessed that he beat to
death with a poker and chair his
benefactor, an elderly merchant,
for the $40 proceeds of a sale of
a second hand stove, then took
the mans car for a two-state
joyride with young friends.
The killing occurred Friday
and the youth was in custody of
traffic police "a hours before
it was discovered. Car theft
and Staying were linked when
the youth, arrested in suburban
Dearborn After leading police a
70-mile an hour chase, broke
down in q confused story of how
he obtained the auto.
Detective Lieut.. Lawrence
Sheehy of the homicide squad
said the youth told him he kill
ed Wellington J. Beam, IS, in
the latter's secondhand store,
stole $40 the merchant had just
taken on q sale, then used his
car for q ride Somewhere In
northern Ohio" with two girls
and . boy.
Police said the youth told of
doing recent errands for the
merchant and that on Friday he
again came to the store. Beam
was making a sale and II wait
ed for him at the back of the
store. I saw this iron bar and
I don't know what prompted me,
but I picked it up and held it
behind my back. AS he turned
his head, I hit him as hard as
could" When the merchant
was still able to hurl an article
at his assailant the youth chit
him again, with q chair and with
the iron"
Then, police said the youth re-
counted, he drew the blinds,
locked the store and drove off
in the car, which he said the
merchant had at times loaned
him.
Police discovered the battered
body yesterday afternoon, lodged
between several ice boxes and
stoves in the rear of the store,
a bloddy trail indicating it had
been dragged from the place of
attack.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-23
THO Deer Rule
OutFears of
BigBad Wolf

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Charben-
eau, Jr., returned home Satur-
day from a hunting trip to Gray
ling repeatedly singing: who's
afraid of the big bad wolff"
The couple brought back a
buck apiece, the first hunting
trip and the first trophy of the
chase by Mrs. Charbeneau. She
got a spikehorn. Charbeneau,
who got a nice four-pointer, was
bringing home his eighth buck
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-23

High pay and the chance to
receive training for q profitable
career are two of many induce
ments offered men to join the
United States Maritime Service.
Enlistment IL open to men from
II years and eight months to 35.
Ensign Duane c. Phillips, Of
ficer in Charge of Detroit's
Maritime Service Enrolling Of
flee, First Floor, Hammond
Building, says that quotas are
unlimited for the enlistment OF
men in this service.
After three months instruc-
ton In seamanship at q training
station, maritime seamen get
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-23
pork, Not Turkey
Planned for AEF


NEW YORK, Nov. % W.
It'll be roast pork Thursday for
Americans fighting overseas -
not turkey.
Maj. Gen. j. c. H. Lee, COM
handing general of the services
of supply in the European thea
ter, said yesterday in q broad
cast from London that the sub
stitution on the Thanksgiving
Day menu would be made be-
cause Ito bring over turkey for
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-23
3 Die, Score
Hurt in Crash
Luxury Troin
IS DeroiIed

VALDOSTA, Ga, Nov. % -
(P - Three persons were kill
ed and more than a score in
jured near here yesterday
when the southbound Royal
Palm passenger train crashed
through burning trestle SPAN
ming the shallow Withlacoochee
River.
Those killed were r. H.
Stevens, So, Railway mail clerk
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-23

al a ~ vsuld u nn1n - q
travasant,"
He MD ths sseeDpsU -
had been recsived woulA ~ go
ed 70 "the wounde1 $500
sailors and airman. ~ ~ Z
the British and Ameg1eoo ~
pitals In England and lEU14m4
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-23
THAT TOBACCO HABIT

DENVER-A stranger sat be-
side 18-year-old Eugene Haynes
in q restaurant and admired the
handsome pipe Haynes had just
purchased.
Haynes, walking home, felt a
sharp pain in his arm and lost
consciousness. He woke up in
a hospital as physicians removed
a bullet from his arm.
The new pipe and his wallet,
containing 81, were gone.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-23
Night Typins Gloss Will
Meet Tussdoy This Week

Miss Hulda Daeubler's night
school class in tipping that regu-
larly meets on Wednesday
nights will convene Tuesday
night for this week only, she re-
vealed today.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-23

FORT CUSTER - R PVT.
Floyd c. Parker, Al, of Short
erville, Ala, was killed by a hit
run auto early Sunday while
walking with a fellow soldier on
a highway within the reserva-
ton.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-23
IS kswsbeys Win TsslIsys
in Civeulotion Contoof

Fifteen Daily lGonitee-Leo6oe
carrier boys today Won taw1oVD
In the annual circuation eooeoOe
sponsored by this nswspopes.
K. w. Moody, circulatiGo
manager, said the confess w. .
distinct success.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-23

in nine trips to the northern
woods. Meat rationing isn't
worrying them at all.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-23
AIaonoe Women Dies
at Hospitol Here 1odoy

Mrs. Mae E. Brownlee, 80, Of
1852 Marsh, Algonac, died at
st. Joseph's hospital at 1880 am.
today.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-30

Eight labcrers imported from
Mexico paid fines totaling S32 in
FL Centre police court Monday
morning, but in BraWley two 9TH
crS were charged $40 for the same
charge ee-drumkcnnesS.
In FL Centre the police were in
clined to take a lenient view, let
ting off the Mexicans with light
tines hut warning them that if
they got in trouble again they
would be penalized more severely.
Their fines were paid by their in
dividual employers, who indicated
that the money would be taken
from their wages.
The Farm Security AdminiStra-
ton officials in charge OF the nun
drcds of MeXicaus brought into I'M
pcrial Valley recently said that Of
tenders would be dealt with. In the
northern part Of the state several
McXicanS were sent back to their
homes when they could not be han
died. Local officials were conf
dent that The few who straycd out
of the fold could be quickly brought
back.
The officials declared that the
class Of MeXicaus brought in here
is Of high calibre. They noted that
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-30

that the results of night-long tabu-
lations also showed that 176 were
injured and that many of these
were in critical condition.
Preliminary investigation by city
and state authorities tended to
show that the person indirectly re-
sponsible for the blaze was an un
identified practical joker who may
have paid with his life.
According to the alleged confess
sion of Stanley F.. TomaszeWski, To-
year-old bus boy, he was asked to
reDlace a light bulb in the supper
clubs basement Melody lounge that
had been removed by a guest.
LIT A MATCH
"A man in a mixed party, you
know, men and women, reached up
and turned off light" the youth
told police.
Il started to screw it back in but
it fell out of the socket when
touched it, I held it in my hand
and lit a match to find the socket
and started screWing the bulb back
in. Somehow the match fell out of
my hand and 1 guess it dropped
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-30

dbt OllcllolNc Wd.o QlINlIlS lLOill Oiic
Velikie Luki area toward the Lat
Wan frontier
German reports insisted that the
Russians were starting a third big
offensive in the Voronezh area,
northwest of Stalingrad. The Voro-
nezh drive presumably would be
directed toward Kharkov and would
be designed to unhinge further Ger
man communications and supply
lines on the south Russian front.
CLOSE TO BORDER
The Velikie Luki drive was re-
ported to have carried Soviet
spearhead within 60 miles of the
Latvian border after Severing rail
connections between Celikic Luki
and NovoSokolniki.
In the Stalingrad region criSS-
crossing drives between the Volga
and the Don had reached the point
where it seemed likely that the
Germans will be forced TO attempt
TO withdraw from their forward
positions at Stalingrad and take
up a line on the west bank of the
Don.
PROGRESS IN AFRICA
In Africa the Allied drive on Biz
erte and Tunis was moving ahead
rapidly. The Nazi radio at Paris
said that Allied artillery is now
Shelling Tunis and that heavy fight
ing was in progress near Bizerte.
Rail connections between Tunis
and Bizcrte had already been cut
and it was believed that the re-
naming coastal highway was under
fire from Allied guns as we'll as
the TuniS airdrome.
London reports suggested that
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-30
Rationers Help
Truck Operators

FL Centre price and rationing Of
ficials took steps to help the troub-
led commercial vehicle Mon
clay.
In case the Office of Defense
Transportation has made obvious
error in certifying gasoline allow
anceS to truck or similar vehicle
owners, temporary aid may be Sc
cured at the local boards.
One farmer received his certifi-
cate of war necessity with a certili-
cation for 3140 miles instead OF
the 31,400 he requested. Appeal
forms for such cases will soon be
on hand at the Agricultural Ad-
juStment Administration office il
"a Centre.
BY stating that obvious error has
been made in his certificate the
truck owner will be allotted enough
gasoline to carry him through De-
combor, officials said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-30
Valley Awaiting
Warren Arrival

Imperial Valley residents Mon-
day anticipated the arrival of At
torney-General Earl Warren, gov
ernor-eleCt of California. and The
train Of celebrities attracted to the
valley by Warren's presence.
1t was necessary to make few
changes in the schedule of War
ren'S appearances which was an
nounced last week, District Attor-
ney Elmer Heald said Monday.
Warren'S first appearance was to
be at a dinner at the Planters no.
tel in Brawley at $50 pm. and
next at a public meeting at Braw-
ley Union high school at s pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-30
Souvenir Shell
Injuries !. Y. Man

RcverbcraticnS of World War
No. | shattered the quiet Of I'm
perial SUNDAY morning when a
souvenir anti-aircraft shell cx-
p,Odcd and badly laSccratcd G.
NJ. McAllister's let foot.
McAl'ister, 27-yesr-old chief
clerk at the Imperial IRRIGATION
district. had had the old
souvenir shell for more than 10
years. II had been used as a
door stop around bis home at
POI South G street. Imperial,
and for other purely pl cid a,,d
domestic purposes.
Sunday McAIlister decided 10
clean off shelf in closet. lie
found the old shel. and started
to transfer il to the floor. II
slipped through his fingers,
crashed to the floor, and ex-
plOded. Bits of metal slashed
McAllister's shoe. cut his foot.
and penetrated the closet floor.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-30

Civil and military author
tits Monday sought a zoot
suited Mexican youth who
Saturday night stabbed and
critically wounded a United
States soldier in Calexico.
Two Of the "Pachucos," said to be
members of n gang of zoot suited
Mexican youths who recently spread
death and terror in Los Angeles
and other coast cities, picked a fight
with Pvt. John Trine of Camp
Young near Indio. officers said, near
a theater on Hefferman avenue in
downtown CaleXico at pm. Satur-
day.
The soldier doWned one of the
zoot suffers with his fist, The
ether youth came upon him from
the rear and thrust knife in the
right side of his back, the point
piercing the right lung The Mexi-
cans then Feparatcd and disappear
cd before anyone on the streets
realized what had happened. Both
MexicarS carried knives.
% ROUNDED UP
Immediately after the attack on
Trine, C7leXico and railitar-; police
rounded up and arrested so Of the
zOot suffers in CaleXico and the
surrounding areas. They took them
to the Calexico police station for
questioning. The Federal Bureau of
Investigation was called in and
I,o Il
draft card. The others were re-
leased after a grilling and night
in Jail.
Military authorities Monday were
said to be searching for a Mexican
they were informed had stabbed
Trine. He had not been arrested at
noon Monday but the search was
still to be carried on.
TRIVIAL EXCUSE
One of Trine's friends. another
soldier, said he and Trine were
walking along Heflcrman avenue
together when they collided with
two Mexican youths dressed mp in
wild looking clothing. The soldiers
s1id Beg Pardon politely and
passed on. The friend left Urine
in the street and entered store.
Trinc said that as soon as his
friend left him, the two wildly
dressed youths came up to him
again and said. You bumped into
Us" Urine said he said, Sorry,
and attempted to pass on. The
NeXicanS began crowding him and
pushed him off tho sidewalk among
he cars parked at the curb. Trine
struck Cne with his list and knock
ed him down The other came up
behind the soldier and stabbed him,
/ Trine said
WILL RECOVER
Physicians said Trine was Ck
pected to recover unless cOmplica-
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-30
Survivors Recall
Horror ofPaniC
In Boston Tragedy
Screaming, Fighting
Mob Jams Doorway as
Scores Burn to Death
BY HERBERT RICHARDSON

BOSTON, Nov. 30. (UP)-
The mad panic Of a thousand
night club revelers. trapped
in the flaming Cocoanut
Grove cafe, their screams and cries.
the sight of horribly burned bodies
piled deep before clogged doors, and
men and women converted into
flaming torches, were described to-
Gay by survivors of Saturday
nights tragedy.
Heroic tales-hCw the captain of
the eight-girl chorus kept her wits
and led all of them to safety-also
were told by the few able to tell
a coherent story.
One of the survivors, William
Ladd, who was sitting near the or
chestra, said the blaze developed
SC quickly it caught the guests
unaWareS.
FLASH OF FLAME
A girl had just run from the
rear OF the club, Ladd said. and
spoke to the manager, when there
was flash of flame in the rear"
Then black smoke came roll
ing into the main dining room and
on to the dance floor" he said.
Men and women began to
scream. Instantly there was panic.
They jumped up on their chairs,
tipped tables and it seemed every
body wanted to be the first to get
out.
AT a small door on Piedmont
street, one woman fell and others
rushing on piled up on top of her,
They were trapped and tangled
hopelesSly when the flames reached
them. 1t was impossible for them
to get out"
Ladd said that at the main exit
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