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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-29
Freatman, Harmon Pace Net
Team to Win Over Adrian

Paced by Ellis Freatman and L.
d. Harmon. number one and two
singles meters respectively, the
Ypsilanti High racquet squad rode
to Its third victory in as many
games when they downed Adrian
80 at Recreation Park Tuesday.
Freatman won handily from VIII
liams OF Adrian SO, GO and Har-
mon walloped J. Cabath 60, g.
After winning the initial set 90,
jerry Norman in number three
singles was beaten by r. Hansen
81. 81.
Schass berger and Heiser dropped
the number one doubles TO Bill
Rowe and Bill Strang, go. Ga.
Bob. Johnston and Jim Miller. won
their first set from Knilum and All
house g. but finally dropped the
match as. 20.
on Thursday of this week the
Warriors will play host 10 Ann
Arbor on the Recreation court at
p. m.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-29

STATE OF MICHIGAN. The Cir
cult Court for tire County OF Wash
tenaw
In Chancerv
Oscar W Haab and Otto H. Haab.
Plaintiffs.
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Dundee High
Team Banked

In banking Dundee High School,
Wallace Flowers won for Lincoln
their third consecutive diamond vic,
tory this season Tuesday.
Lincoln pounded out eight hits
in rounding out their win, three of
which went to Bob Brown. third
baseman. who hit three singles in
as many times at bat.
Second sacker Joe Muller leo
the Lincoln run scorers. making
two circuits on one hit, and a base
on balls.
The inning most damaging to
Dundee and meatiest for the Rail
splitters was the third in which
four hits brought four tallies across
the plate for the locals
Pitcher Wallace Flowers opened
with a single, and went to third on
Joe Muller's double Bob Brown
then walked to load the bases with
no one out.
On wild pitch by Kuhlman of
Dundee, Flower came home. and
the other runners advanced. A
single then by Center Fielder Cur
It's sent two more runners home.
and kuhlman to the showers. He
was replaced on the mound by
Cranor, who had been playing first.
After fowler had struck out.
base on balls to Dysinger moved
Curtis to second from where he
scored on Leonard's single.
Dundee hits were scattered so a,
not to do any damage. Cranor singh
ing in the third. Roggernan in the
sixth, and Kleiner In the seventh.
iar1In
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Steelman, the former soaring 90
feet seven inches.
The summary:
l20 yd. high hurdles-First. War.
rem Shifferd CY): second. Stealing
OBJ; third. Wyckoff OBJ Time
1856.
100 yard dash-First. Steelman
OBJ; second. Peterson OBJ third,
Murray (B). Time :10.5.
Mile run-First Had1isky (B):
second, Nipple CB). third. Groves
OBJ. Time 5.5.
$40 yard dash-First. Kauvesberg
OBJ: second, Cavenahan OBJ; third.
Watts OBJ. Time 56.4
200 yard low hurdles-First,
Armstrong OBJ: second, Wolter
CY); third, Sterling OBJ. Time
Is.
200 yard dash-First Steelman
OBJ; second, Peterson OBJ: third,
VOTERS CY). Time 237.
$50 yard run First, Wanberg
OBJ; second, Penoyar CB) third,
Wills (Y). Time 2.15.
Half-mile relay-First, Birming-
ham; second, Ypsilanti
Pole vault-Zoelin (B). Carlton
OBJ, Kelly OBJ, all tied for first.
Shot put-First, Fisher OBJ; sec
ond, Lee (Y): third. Boik (Y).
Distance As feet, 10 inches.
Running high jump - First,
Hughes (FD; second. Murray (B);
Heighth- five feet, eight inches.
Running broad jump--First, Arm.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-04-29
Expenditures In School District
Of The City Of Ypsilanti
Bills Approved at April Meeting

Administrative Payroll Administrative payroll
American Book Company. Reference books ....
American Film Service, Institutional supplies
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strong OBJ 20 IT, I in: second.
Steelman~(B) II #. 1912 in; third,
Wolter (Y) II IT. SO in
Final score-Birmingham los 2-3.
Ypsilanti e3 2-3
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Sports Calendar

TODAY
Track
Lincoln at Romulus. { p. IN.
THURSDAY
Track
Roosevelt High School at Lincoln.
{ p. m.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-30
.CORRECIDOR:
Valiant Fight

Hurting nine-inch shells from their
heaviest guns, the Japanese pound
ed beleaguered Corregidor in their
most furious assault since the war
began.
From new positions on Bataan pc
ninsula and on the south shore of
Manila bay, enemy guns poured a
deadly cross fire into the island for
tress. War department communi-
ques described the barrage as Sin
tense and severe"
On the Island of Panay, enemy
troops made further landings on the
southwest coast near San Jose, but
in the northern part of the island
near Lambanao the enemy was halt
ed at least temporarily by sharp
counterattacks.
Cebu, however, had fallen, losses
had mounted far in excess of $4,000,
and the island of Panay, though put
ting up stiff resistance, had been
successfully invaded by large
japanese force, estimated at $4,000.
Americans had been able to keep
up communications between the is
lands by radio, and it was General
Wainwright, reporting direct from
Corregidor, who was able to report
the fall of Cebu, and the fact that the
American-Filipino troops were still
resisting beyond the city, which was
in flames.
It showed that the battle of the
Philippines was not over.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-30
AUSTRALIA:

The long-awaited and expected in
ivasion move by the Japs against
Australia seemed less and less like
ly to come as fuller reports came
in of American-Aussie air successes.
Despite Jap bombings of Port
Moresby, the news was dominated
by allied raids on Timor, New Brit
ain and New Guinea, with dire re-
suits, and it seemed that we had
grabbed off air supremacy and the
initiative in that part of the Pacific.
Reports of American strength in
Australia, which had come to this
country as being considerable,
were believed to be increasingly
large when Marshall's statement
about ian army corps" referring to
the Ireland troops was given out.
This was cheering news to many
who expected an about assault on
Australia.
People said that if we had that
sort of strength in Ireland, what
must we have in Australia? For
1t had generally been accepted that
that would be our main theater of
war in the immediate future.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-30
RUSSIA:
Holds the Ball

The Red army, fighting back Ger
many's spring offensive and turning
the tables on the Nazis, were
still carrying the ball."
There was no question but that
they were being vastly aided by
their allies, England and the United
States, in two ways-by the sending
of large quantities of vital supplies,
and by the tremendous nonstop
Royal Air force bombings of Ger
many and occupied France.
These latter were being carried out
daily and nightly, by average forces
of several hundred bombers and
fighters, the high water mark being
in excess of 400 planes.
And these were no baby bombers
either, but huge, four-motored ships,
some of them American, most of
them British built.
One raid, the British estimated,
cut off the supplies that would have
kept five divisions in the field.
Despite this great aid, too much
credit could not be given the Rus
slams for the magnificent fight they
were putting up.
Berlin had been admitting break
throughs, and from the Murmansk
end of the 2,000-mile battle line down
to the Crimea, success after sue
cess was reported.
There had been serious break
of the German line near the Kare-
liam isthmus, point heretofore not
mentioned in Moscow dispatches.
UNREST:
Not only were the Japs jittery
over the bombing of their own main
land, but the Italians were said to
be much upset.
Premier Mussolini was said to
have fired" several home defense
leaders and to have called a con-
ference of the remainder.
AS to Hitler, some circles saw
in the Laval coup a hope on the
part of Hitler that if forced to make
an unfavorable peace on account of
the failure in Russia, he would be
better off with Laval as mediator.
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ldI!I||'l'lY
AMERICAS SMALL TOWN
AND MERCHANDISING
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.

AMERICAS SMALL TOWN
AND MERCHANDISING
THIS TOWN is first of all a mar
ket place. That is the foundation
upon which it is built. On that
foundation of merchandising is also
built the spiritual, cultural, social
structure of the community.
Take away the stores and with
them would soon go the churches,
schools and all those things which
make the town desirable place in
which to live, and a desirable place
for people of the farm homes to
visit.
The influence of, and the advan-
tages offered by the town do not stop
at the corporate limits. It is the
center, the hub, of community.
It's spiritual, social and cultural in
fiuence extends into the farm homes.
The people of those homes are a part
of the community of which the town
is the hub. They, too, support its
churches, its schools and it's market
place. They, too, are interested in
its prosperity and advancement, and
its continuance and improvement as
a market place. Such improvement
means increased convenience for
them and increased values for their
farm acres.
For this town, and all other Amer
lean towns, the shortage of rubber
that makes necessary the saving
of tires, is not an unmixed evil.
There is less inclination for the
towns people or the farmers to trav-
Ell longer distances to larger market
centers. The trade of the commu-
nifty is staying at home. The con-
ditions of today offer an opportunity
for tomorrow for the merchants of
this and all other American towns.
Buying that is now being done in
local market places will continue
after the war, provided all mer-
chants make the most of their oppor-
tunities. For them it means larger
and more varied stocks of merchan-
disc. 1t means merchandising, in
stead of bookkeeping methods. It
means providing in home stores
those things people have previously
gone to larger centers to obtain. This
and modern advertising methods in
the hometown papers will keep the
business of the community in the
hometown market place.
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MOBILIZATION:
OF ManpotUer

On the home front President
Roosevelt had moved to mobilize the
entire manpower of the nation, plac-
ing Paul V. McNutt in charge of the
commission which would be charged
with this duty.
1t was given all-embracing pow
ers, and not only to draft and place
men, but women into industry which
would produce the goods needed to
win the war.
The commission of nine members
was to include WPB chief Donald
Nelson, also representative from
the war, navy, agriculture and la
Dor departments, the selective serv-
ice system, civil service and a
new labor section of the WPB.
At the time when the older men
were to register, the As to "a group,
and at time when some millions
of potential selectees were listed in
classes not available for military
service, it was seen as a distinct
probability that the McNutt commits
sion would begin to draw on this
reservoir of manpower.
At the same time Sidney Hillman,
labor chief of WPB, and former part
ner with General Knudsen in the
former war production setup, was
called into the White House inner
circles as special adviser to the
President on labor matters.
It had been thought that Hillman
was on his way out. Suddenly the
nation discovered that he was not
on the way out, but in.
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BOMBING:
Jap Cities Suffer

Americas spring tonic had been
the sensational report, from Japa-
nese sources, it was true, but un-
denied in Allied circles and hence
accepted, that American planes,
probably carrier-based, had wreaked
havoc and destruction on Tokyo and
three other great Nipponese centers,
including vital Kobe.
Some of the angles of the Jap
broadcasts had been efforts to gain
information as to the source of the
attack which apparently had been
as much of surprise to Japan and
as much of mystery as had been
the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Attempting to pierce the veil of
censorship and silence in Allied cir
cles, observers tried to figure the
strength and source of the raids, and
most of them believed it had been
from two U. S. carriers, and might
have comprised as many as 100
navy bombing planes.
The Japs claimed that nine were
shot down. The Japs told of huge
III OCulS SldI leu, dllO ~ llOuTS
after the raids had admitted, in their
own broadcasts, that the fires in
Tokyo had not been completely
quenched.
From this the American magma
ton was able to gather a picture
lof huge blazes roaring through the
close-packed, flimsy wood and paper
houses of Tokyo's suburbs, the after
math of five hours of bombing.
Simultaneous raids on four cities
widely spaced geographically could
hardly, they had pointed out, have
been carried out from a single car
rier.
If the raids had been by land
planes, observers had said, the gov
eminent would not have kept ST.
lence, as raids by American planes
based in Australia, with a sub-base
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-30
LAVAL:
And POlUer

Pierre Laval had leaped into the
saddle of the Vichy government, and
the immediate aftermath had been
the recall of Ambassador Leahy and
an attitude of watchful waiting on
the part of Washington to see which
way the cat would jump.
While it was considered a prob
ability that the eventual outcome
would be the recognition of the
DeGaulle movement as the real
French government, this action
was not Immediately taken.
Laval's first act in forming his
government was to put Is of his
closest friends into a cabinet of q
members. He did submit the names
to Marshal Petain, and received the
aged generals approval, but this
had been considered a mere matter
of course, as the feeling was that
Petain had actually laid down the
reins of government and was simply
a rubber stamp.
Laval split the civil and military
divisions of government, abolished
the national defense ministry, and
kept three all-importants posts for
himself, the ministries of foreign af-
fairs, interior and information-the
latter, that is to say. propaganda.
DeGaulle's reaction came from
London, where he broadcast in
French to his people calling on them
to revolt, saying ''the duty of each
one is to fight relentlessly against
both the enemy and the men of
Vichy, to drive them out and sabo-
tage their orders"
Secretary Hull had returned to
Washington, and pushed prepara-
lions in diplomatic way to Illustrate
the Vichy coup against the Western
hemisphere.
He had had a serious breakdown,
and had been convalescing in Flor
ida, but cut short his convalescence
to return to the capital because of
the critical turn in U. S.-Vichy af-
fairs.
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THE TIDE:
Fortunes of Var
Take NetU Turn

The days were filed with exciting
news of the Tokyo bombing type
and many saw in the dispatches
from all American fronts a turn ir
the tide of the war.
The long-range and successful
bombing of the Philippines had
started it, and then the bombing Of
Tokyo-and at the same time Gen.
eral Marshall, in London with Har.
ry Hopkins, thrilled the world with
the report that at least whole army
corps would take part in British
Commando raids.
Many believed tina this was such
good news it could not be believed,
but that writer's had misused the
words army corps"-because a
corps at the very least was two
divisions 100000 mem, and usually
meant, in wartime, three to four
divisions (150,00O to 100000 men).
Now, from previous reports of
Commando raids, Americans had
gotten the idea that the whole Com
mando group of Britain might be
reckoned in very few thousand,
including the numbers being used on
the European continent and in AT
RIGA as well.
This was because the raids, wide
ly spaced, seemed to be participated
in by only few hundred men at a
time. Losses were from ones and
twos to dozens, giving the idea of
small forces.
That Marshall should give out an
interview before leaving for the
United States that one army corps
was to be so used was thrilling be-
cause it was not believed that we
had more than two divisions in Ire
land altogether, and this seemed to
indicate that our force in Ireland
was much more extensive.
Marshall's remarks had been
fighting remarks, however, and
whether the numbers were right or
wrong, his statement that 'the time
has come for us to fight the enemy
on land, on the sea and in the air"
and that 81 want to be judged not by
what / proclaim but by what hap
pens," and the fact that the next
thing was the bombing of Tokyo
these three things were taken to
mean that the tide of war had
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-30
NISCELLANY:

Cambridge, Mass: The bantam
battalions" of the U. S. army come
from Massachusetts, an officer of
the surgeon generals office admit
ted This state provides the army's
shortest average man, he said.
New York: A Berlin broadcast
quoted japanese paper as admit.
ting that the Japs rated their foes
as follows: Americans, toughest,
Chinese, next; Russians, next.
Washington: Lease-lend aid to
Russia in March was 21s times that
of February, the White House re-
vealed. The President said, how.
ever, that this fact had not con-
vinced him that a second front on
the continent should not be opened
another broad hint that an inva-
sion by American-British forces was
"in the cards"
New York: The report on the
Normandie, that the disaster had
been the result of gross careless
ness, had been closely followed by
the breaking out of third fire on
the wrecked and overturned vessel.
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Honored in Life

For having destroyed the Span
ish fleet in Manila bay on May l,
1898, George Dewey received a
score of honors and decorations,
among them being his promotion
to the rank of full admiral, the
third in the history of the United
States navy. Congress also passed
a law permitting him to remain
on active duty for the rest of his
life and he was even discussed as
a possible presidential candidate.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-30
u. S. DEMOCRACY
IN A DINING ROOM

P. G. B. CBUD'O MORRIS is a
friend of many years standing. He
is English-born-Stratford-on-Avo
an Al American citizen, who flew
American naval planes in World
War I.
was having dinner with him at
the Arrowhead Springs hotel, of
which he is manager, in the foot
hills of the San Bernardino noun
tains in southern California. It is
pretentious place, with bride paths
and saddle horses, golf courses and
dinner coats, lavishly furnished
lounges and spreading balconies. If
located in Europe, such a place
would be rendezvous of wealth and
the nobility. In America it is a rem
devious of democracy.
I asked Bud to tell me who
some of his guests in the dining
room were. There was an Iowa
farmer and his wife; a merchant
and his wife from small Nebraska
village; a United States army
colonel; the head of one of the great
P3SNAl1S SOA1SS1A1o VI Sll1SdSO Will
his wife and her friend; a country
doctor from Pennsylvania; a New
York society leader and her daugh-
ter; private from a nearby army
camp and his mother, and so on.
The men were all gentlemen, the
women all ladies-not by class but
by instinct. They were all eating in
the same dining room, all selecting
their choice of food from the same
menu, all paying the same price.
There was no thought of class dis
tinctions. They were all Americans.
Such a gathering in such a place
could be found in but few countries
outside of America. Because it can
happen here is what makes America
tick, what makes us love this land
of ours and its institutions; what
makes us fight for its preserva-
ton as land of opportunity.
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Early Burglar Alarm

A very ingenious burglar alarm
protects the Chioin temple In
Kyoto, Japan, having been IL
stalled when the building vas
erected as military headquarters
in 1897. The reverberations caused
by an intruder walking across the
wooden floor produce sound Ike
birds twittering IN the raftezs.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-30
CONGRESSIONAL POLITICS
IN WAR TIME

THAT THE minority lobbyists at
Washington, who threaten timid
members of congress with a loss of
votes for any infraction of the lob
byists' demands, do not represent
any considerable number of voters
is Illustrated by the result of ma
tional polls. A congress that is more
interested in winning votes than in
winning a war should note that 90
per cent vote for legislation that
would force labor unions to register
with the federal government and
report their receipts and expendi-
lures. 1t should note that approx
mately rs per cent oppose the 40
hour week and demand at least 48
hours before overtime is paid.
LABOR'S DIVIDEND
OUT OF A NATIONAL INCOME
of 100 billion dollars, "a billion
IA per cent-will this year 60 to la
Dor. That is labor's dividend from
the business of AMERICA far
greater percentage than can be
found in any other country on the
globe. 1t includes all labor-me-
chanical, clerical, professional, farm,
mine and factory. Out of it labor
pays taxes, just as out of the per
cent that goes to capital it must pay
taxes and out of the receipts to in
dustry it, too, must pay taxes.
FOR THE DURATION, we should
have a ceiling on executive salaries
and all bonuses, as well as on
wages. It should apply especially
to all companies working directly
or indirectly on government orders.
It would affect only that small per.
centage of executives who see in
a war only chance to enrich them
selves. Such men have no love of
country, no love of humanity, no
sense of justice and are entitled
TO no consideration on the part of
the public. They are as bad or
worse than the racketeers.
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in the Philippines, upon Jap hold
ings there had been promptly re-
ported to US, and later by the Japs.
A few doubted, because of allied
silence, that the raids had occurred
at all, but these were in the ire
mendous minority, compared with
those who had accepted the Jap re-
ports of their own disaster, and had
preened themselves joyously over
the arrangement of Pearl Harbor and
Bataan, and that the long-demanded
bombing of Tokyo had been carried
out.
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turned, and the great American Of
fensive was really under way.
Marshall had paid a glowing trib-
ute to the fighters on Bataan, saying
that they had set a glorious example
for the rest of the army. He also
had reviewed the troops, had looked
over the hospitals, and had ex-
pressed himself as tremendously
pleased with the equipment and the
morale of the troops.
Fighting news was being looked
for, and the American public, after
the Tokyo incident, was not going
to be satisfied with less.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-04-30
BY Edward C. Wayne
WEEKLY NEWS ANAL YSIS
McNutt Heads Nine-Man Commission
To Conscript Essential War Workers;
DeGaulle Urges Countrymen to Revolt
AS Laval Takes Over Rule of France

EDITORS NoTEWhen opinions
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~ new crocheted slippers-soles
and all. Get started now. They're
grand for play shoes, too. They're
effective in two colors and make
them bright as can be!
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You believe that easily which
you hope for earnestly.-Terence.