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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-12-21
CHAPTER TWELVE

TOM KILCRAN ran his fingers
through his thick hair and looked
extremely worried. You know,
Pamela, there are lots Of girls and
boys here who have a good time.
Maybe we could cook up ="
Look, sweetie," she said affec-
tionately, you're not to worry
about anything, mostly me. I'll
find plenty to do. Only I'm used to
Fairgrounds and lots Of people
around and ! sort Of miss them.
That's Claire's fault, l guess. She
does provide an exciting back
ground"
You mustn't blame your moth
err. She was meant for good times.
She never should have married a
plain businessman like me. / often
blame myself. E"
Half-angrily, his daughter re-
torted, Don't talk nonsense, Faith
err. The trouble with you two is
that you never got together, really.
You should have put your foot
down and stopped her. But
you didn't, so if she If I &.
or we ever do anything you
don't understand or feel like for
giving, l hope you'll be lenient."
Tom felt that his daughter was
trying to convey something that
her words did not. He said, What
do you mean, PAMELA"
She fiicked a lighter on, held 1t
TO the tip Of her cigaret and dis
missed his question with a shrung.
You haven't told me who the
young man in the thunder-cloud
Was?"
Bradshaw. DR.. Bradshaw"
Pamela put down the lighter and
forgot her cigaret. Tony Brad
shaw? The one who used to play
football?"
That's the one. Know him ?"
II never met him. I was in pin
MES when he was the high school
hero. And to think that when
I finally meet him all he has to say
is sorry. What was the rumpus
about? could hear your voices as
l came up the stairs"
He thinks I ought to build a
hospital for the town, that's all.
Anything you'd like today, like a
million dollars 20
why don't you2" she asked
'coolly, ignoring his sarcasm. IF he
wants one, I'm sure we ought to
have one. We could have it named
after us"
"a hundred and fifty thousand
dollars to have KILCRAN chiseled
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Didn't know he knew you" Ad-
die Bradshaw said.
II know he didn't remember me.
L. Fathers been telling
me wonderful thingo about him.
Has ne? Miss Bradshaw asked
in tone that showed neither pleas
ure or surprise.
Pamela nodded. YES. He says
he's very ambitious young man.
Hes doing very we'll"
I'm sure he is! I'd love to hear
about it. Does he play
bridget"
Guess he does, but he don't have
much time for parties"
Pamela gave her an understand
ing, woman-to-woman smile. "All
work and no play is bad for a
young man, isn't it? 1t would be
nice il he could come to Stormwald
some evening to dinner and little
bridge. VIII you tell him? I'd like
to renew an old acquaintance"
Miss Addie said, I'm tell him.
in tones that indicated she expected
nothing would come Of it.
It's nice to see you again.
Well, goodby. Tell Tony to ring me
up. Any evening will be all right"
J She debated offering her hand
again, decided against it and went
of.
Miss Addie looked after her de-
parting figure with a wintry
glance that plainly expressed her
disapproval Of the girls holiness.
The meeting had driven her errand
cut Of her mind and trying to re-
call IT, she remembered that her
nephew was waiting to drive her
home.
There was a door marked IN and
a door marked OUT in front Of
her. The OUT door hadn't worked
since she could remember. Now as
she pulled the other toward her,
Barbara Wister stood before her on
the steps.
They said good morning to each
other briefly and then impusively
the younger woman said, Miss
Bradshaw. You're just the
person l wanted to meet. l wonder
If you would give me some advice ?"
Il will II / can," Miss Bradshaw
answered, not ungraciously, noting
that, unlike the Kilcran girl, Mrs.
Wister did not have painted finger
nails.
I'm going to open a circulating
library and / want to send out
postcards to announce 1t. I Won
dered if you could tell me where I
could get list of townSpeople who
would like to know about it."
Miss Dawson would know bet
ter. She writes the personals for
the Clarion"
Thank you"
Don't thank me. Haven't done
anything. How's your little
boy?"
Barbaras face lighted instantly.
"Oh, he's splendid, thank you. Hes
such healthy little boy"
Glad to hear it," Addie said
briefly and nodded abruptly, term
mating the exchange.
! (ro Be Continued)
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-12-21
Schools, Churches to Enjoy
Christmas Exercises, Music

Saline. Mich. Dec. IA Christ.
mas program will be given Tues
day evening in the school au.
ditorium by the music depart
ment OF the school, under the di-
reetion Of Miss Ada Dahlgren and
Miss Dorothy Horning. A silver
collection will nc Tor the fund 10
provide robes Tor the Glee Club.
The Methodist Sunday Schoo,
will hold their annual exercises
on Christmas Eve.
The Federated Church will also
have their children's exercises on
Christmas Eve and on the follow
ing Sunday evening the choir. Miss
Dahlgren directing. will give the
cantata The Music OF Bethlehem"
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in marble over a door %

in marble over a door,"
Pamela snapped her fingers. "A
drop in the bucket. Let's have him
I'D to the house and talk il over.
love earnest young medicos."
"You stay out Of this, miss. I've
enough expenses, trying to keep
everybody on the payroll now"
Realization" his daughter told
him. you know the war in Europe
is going to shoot the wooden bust
ness sky high. Next time he comes
around tell him my shell-like ear is
available II he'd LIKE to talk TO me
about it,"
I'm warning you to keep out of
it. You leave him alone. He's got
lot Of work TO do. He's no play
boy"
you never can tell. .
Lunch?"
IF you can wait half an hour,
you can drive me home to lunch.
Pamela went around the desk
and kissed him. I'm run along TO
the post-ofice and pick you up at
one"
II it's stamps you want -
She shook her head and hurried
out before he had a chance to ask
her any further questions. She had
very private business at the post
office, of which she didn't want her
family to be aware.
She hoped the clerk would not
be a stranger. He wasn't. She said
Mr.. Hunneker, l want to rent a
box. II any mail comes for Miss
Betty Brown, will you keep it there
for me and not send it up to the
house? You see or .
Miss Brown used to be a maid for
us and well, I'll take care
of her mail"
Betty Brown, you say? .
Seems like there's a couple OF let,
ters in the general delivery for hel
right now"
He brought her three letters
with Mexican postmarks and boldly
scrawled addresses or the thin pa
per envelopes. She looked at then
hastily and thrust them into hel
pocketbook and turned away from
the window to hear Hunneker say
Morning, Miss Bradshaw"
Bradshaw. Parmela stole g
glance at the woman who hac
come in, remembering that Tony
Bradshaw lived with a nader
aunt. She stole another glance al
the middle-aged figure in uncom
promising black and decided thai
she certainly was someone's nader
aunt. Then, as if suddenly remem
boring, recognition came into hel
face and she turned, smiling sweet
ly and held out her hand, saying
How do you do" Miss Bradshaw
Don't you remember me? I'm Pa
mela Kilcran."
Miss Bradshaw took her hanC
awkwardly, unaccustomed to for
NAL gesture at informal moments
and said primly, How do you do.
Pamela ignored the unenthusi
astic beginning. II just bumped
into your nephew leaving Father
office, 1 guess he didn't remember
me"
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MRS. JORDAN ENTERTAlNs
AT MISCELLANEOUS SHOWER

Mrs. c. A. Jordan entertained at
a miscellaneous shower Tuesday
evening for Miss Shirley Stephen
son, who will be married the day
after Christmas. She was assist
e6 by the aunts of the bride.to be,
Mrs. Edward Warner and Mrs. Cor
don Anthony. Courth whist WIS
played and the prize winners pre-
scented their gifts to Miss Stephen
son. Refreshments were served.
the color scheme having been in
blue.
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MILK FOR PENNY

Monroe. Dec. 21-In Monroe ap-
proXimately 5000 school children
will receive a pint of milk for a
penny daily under an arrangement
announced Sunday between the
schools and the Agricultural Mark
citing Administration. The pro-
gram will begin next month and
will include Dundee village schools.
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Masons Install Officers

The Masonic Lodge held their
installation Thursday evening with
William Austin and Ernest fowler
as installing officers. The officers
who took their stations were w
NJ, Samuel Lambarth; S. W. Arth
UT Cook; J. w, Herbert Teachout:
secretary. Ernest Mann; treasurer
Clarence Cook; S. D., Armine
Westphal; J. D., Clarence Fritz:
tyler, George Seeger; marshal. Del
mar Schrader; chaplain, Charles
Marker, Jr.: stewards, Vincent Fox
and George Martin.
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KILLED IN ACCIDENT

Mt Clemens, Dee. I'll Sunday
night John Buby, 45 years old, 659
st. Jean, Detroit, was killed when
he was struck by a car as he was
standing beside a state police pa.
troll car talking to officers VINO
had stopped him for passing a car
at an intersection. The accident
occurred on Van Dyke Rd., three
miles north of Utica.
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ANOTHER FIRE VICTIM

Monroe, Dec. 2l--Gerald Arthur
Guthrie, one month old, died Sun
day in Monroe Hospital from bu. rs
suffered in a fire which destroyed
the trailer home Of his parents, Nj,
and Mrs. James Guthrie, near here
early Saturday. The infant was
the second victim of the fire, whicl
took the life Of Nancy Guthrie, %
months. Three other children es.
capped from the blaze, which was
blamed on an overheated stove.
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PHILADELPHIA-INS - Fed
eral authorities announced early to-
day that FBI agents had arrested
Phil Kaye. brother OF sammy Kaye,
noted orchestra leader. on charges
OF violating the Seleetiye Service
Act Phil. Who Is believed to have
been on tour OF USO camps
throughout the country with an en-.
tertaiumcnt group. was accused %
having failed 10 notify his draft
board OF "a change OF address, a
governments spokesman said
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HIT RUN DRIVER SOUGHT

Reed City, Dec. 2f-Their only
clew, a few pieces Of shattered
headlight lens, police sought Sun.
day an unidentified hit.and.run
driver who struck and killed Fred
Samuels, So years old, shortly after
midnight Samuels. a farmer, was
found dead beside US-13l four
miles north of here by two oil field
workers. Coroner P. B. Kilmer
said that death was instantaneous
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Surprised on Anniversary

Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Burkhart
were surprised Saturday evening
by group OF relatives in celebra-
ton Of their 25th wedding annivers-
airy, with a potluck supper. During
the evening, their son Charles call.
ed by phone from a Coast Guard
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SYNOPSIS

BARBARA wISTER. former sctress
finds herself a widow at p when her
husband dies. Her only friend in the
small town Of South Wintridge
where she lives. Is
DIR. TONY BRADSHAW, a young ply
stefan. owner OF the towns only big
business Is
TOM KILCRAN. whose daughter.
PAMELA. and wife.
CLAIRE. are naughty. cold and selfish
YESTERDAY. Pam complains 10 her
father about the lack Of eligible mer
around South Wintridge.
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Mrs. Stanley IIewuch, Monroe
St. is a patient in Saline Hospital.
Ed ward Foster. Ypsilanti. has
purchased the farms of William
Lose and Carl Carr four miles
west OF Saline on the Manchest r
Rd.
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Past officers aud their husbands
OF the o. +. :. gave their retiring
matron and patron, Mrs Charles
Schultz and MIR. schultz, party a.
their home Saturday eyenins.
Cards were a diversion and the
honored guests were presented
with a gift. Refreshments were
served
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To Have Christmas Party

The annual Christmas party OF
the Masons and Eastern Stars will
be held Monday evening, Dec. 2S.
with potluck supper at GAS and
exchange of gifts,
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Entertain Past Nations

Mrs. o. c. Wheeler entertained
past matrons OF the o. +. S. at
o'clock luncheon Monday for their
Christmas party. With 10 present.
II was also the celebration for the
birthday OF Mrs. Arthur Helninger.
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Mrs. Roehm Aostess

Mrs. Clarence Roehn was hos.
tess TO the womens society OF ST.
James Church Thursday Potmck
dinner was followed by exchange
OF gifts.
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Mrs. ormsby Entertairs

The Contract Bridge Club was
entertained by Mrs. Henry Ormshy
with Mrs. Lee Hart winning first
and Mrs. Donald Shurt low hon
ors.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Bredernitz
announce the birth Of son. Deem
Der II, at Saline Hospital,
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EnioY TurknX Dinner

Mrs. ]. c. Little was hostess to
her bridge club for a turkey din.
ner at her home. followed by play
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-12-21

PORTLAND. Ore.--AP- Henry
J Kaiser. and the Army Medical
Corps are colfsrrin- on Possibili-
iis- OF air am ulances to carry
Wounded men t.om hatilerelds TO
base hospitals or even overseas 10
tar United states
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station In New Jersey saying he
will be here on mrlough for tho
holidays.
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Recovering from Operation

Miss Marily Rogers is recovering
from an appendectomy at Saline
Hospital.
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NRlTTLN IOR I'D kElLAsEp BI 1891 rs ASSoclAoN
Evening star., 1942-06-06
District Prepares
Plans 10 Organize
Share-Car Groups
Four Areas Selected
For Poll Of Drivers
Willing to Cooperate

William A. Van Duzer, traffic di-
rector and administrator of defense
transportation for the District, said
today plans are being prepared to
organize "share-your- groups in
four civilian defense areas as the
first step of a city-wide mobilization
of persons willing to share their cars
with others for all types of essential
travel.
The four areas selected we're the
first to appoint civilian mobiliZa-
ton chairmen. who will choose work
ers to set up the share-your-c plan
on a block to- block, door -to-door or
ganization basis. The areas are
Southeast, Howard Park, East Gen.
trail and Foxhan.
Conference Is Held.
Preliminary plans for establishing
fleighborhood car-sharing groups
were discussed yesterday at con-
ference attended by Mr.. Van Duzer,
Conrad Van Hyning. director of pub
lie welfare and chief of the Civilian
Mobilization Division of the local
Civilian Defense Office; Mrs. Olive
Swinney, executive secretary of the
DIVISION Mrs. Charlotte Warner,
chairman of the Consumer Interests
Committee: Mrs. Virginia Fleming,
assistant to Mrs. Swinney; j. D.
Parel of the Office of Civilian De-
fense and Howard F. Wentworth.
public relations chief of the Traffic
Department.
The confereeS agreed that the
share -your-car movement has pro-
gresSed satisfactorily among Fed
eral and municipal employees, but
that more should be done in the
various communities
Poll of Car Owners.
Under the program, car owners
will be polled on their willingness
to cooperate and the number of
persons-immediat neighbors-with
whom they could share rides to and
from work, shopping, school, church
and other essential points. A corps
of volunteer workers will be as
signed to correlate the community
programs.
The program is designed to rotate
the use OF automobiles instead of
simply depending on a. system of
picking up persons along routes Of
travel, officials said.
Evening star., 1942-06-06

example, now cost as much at Sc. go
a pound. Food has disappeared
everywhere but on the black market.
The middle and professional
classes consequently are starving
along with the poor. A months in
come buys only enough food for a
week.
Bankruptcy Of Morals.
Athens has become the abode OF
hordes of destitute, and so-called
German experts" and black market
operators are exploiting the people.
The experts who acquired partner
ship in Greek enterprises were even
more thorough. They have convert
ed their earnings into transportable
wealth-jewelry, rugs, furniture and
art objects-which have flowed
steadily out of Greece.
Moral bankruptcy, with a wave of
criminality. accompanies the famine
Athens authorities report so times
more crimes than year ago.
ITO delay death from starvation,
the Greeks are using every means
legal, illegal or criminal" one quail
flied observer reported. "Al crimes
are committed by the starving. The
habitual criminals have long since
died of starvation in prison"
Evening star., 1942-06-06
Starving Horror Sweeps Over
Once-Proud City of Athens
Hundreds Of Destitute, Exploited by
Conquerors, Drop Dead Daily in Streets

send only $4,000 tons of grain to
and 80 tons of powdered milk for
distribution to children by the Greek
Red Cross, in addition to million
rations sent at one time to avert a
threatened closing of soup kitchens,
The public kitchens are main
tanned by relief organizations and
are serving more than 100000 per-
sons in Athens-about three-fourths
of the population-with daily meal
containing olive oil, rice and dried
vegetables. 1t provides calories suf-
ficient to maintain life at mini
mum subsistence level.
Death Written in Faces.
The tragedy of Greece is not so
much the dead picked up in the
streets each morning by motor
trucks and men with hand carts.
observers say, as the famine and
condemnation to death reflected in
the faces of those dragging their
starved bodies through the streets.
Sinking. ragged columns of men,
women and children, who no longer
wash even with water alone now
that there is no soap, pick over the
garbage of Germans and Italians.
The poor lie in their squalid
homes, too weak to move, their
swollen bodies covered with sores
Relief workers are greeted with
cries of pain, sighs, delirious rawlings
prayers.
In professions, the Athenians go
to the city dumps. When one finds
sardine or other food can, he
cleans the inside with his tongue
as cat would do.
Keep Dead's Bread Cards.
The hospitals are overcrowded
sometimes with three or four starv-
ing patients in a bed. The court
yards of the morgues are filled with
naked bodies Three hundred bodies
at time are buried in large pits
without lime.
When people die, relatives place
the corpses in the cutters without
reporting the deaths so that they
won't have to surrender the bread
cards of the deceased.
Food prices on the black market
have leaped to such heights that
only the wealthy can afford to buy
food. Beans, which cost less than
! IL cents pound before the war, fol
Evening star., 1942-06-06
| Maryland Areas
To Join D. C.. in
| June II BIockout

Following the lead of Virginia and
the District, four or more Maryland
counties adjacent to Washington
will take part in the dusk-to-dawn
blackout June II, it has been an
nounced by Col. Robert S. Barrett,
air raid precautions director for
Maryland
The night-long blackout date was
set by Virginia nearly two weeks ago
and Col. Lemuel BolleS. director of
civilian defense for Washington has
confirmed that Washington would
join in the test.
Judge Albert E. Brault, head OF
the Montgomery County Civilian
Defense Council, and J. Robert
Sherwood, Prince Georges chief,
yesterday sought authority from Col.
Barrett for participation of the Met
ropolitan area in Maryland instead
of observing a previously ordered
test for southern Maryland counties
scheduled to take place June 16.
The Maryland director author
lied Montgomery, Prince Georges,
Charles and st. Mary's Counties to
participate in the Virginia and
Washington blackout and added
that Calvert and Howard Counties
may also be included.
Evening star., 1942-06-06
Special Capitol Hill
transportation Survey
Promised by Hankin
Plons for Effort to
Solve Problem Related
In Report Of Hearings

Gregory Hankin, chairman of the
Public Utilities Commission, told the
Senate Appropriations Committee
in hearings on the District bill
when the present city-wide trans
portation study is concluded, he
plans to make a special survey of the
facilities needed TO get Congress
and its clerical staff to and from
work.
The hearings, available today,
show he made the announcement
after testifying that the Clerk of
the House wrote him to the effect
that ''Congressmen and their en-
ployes do not keep regular Office
hours, and that, therefore, the en-
tire personnel on Capitol Hill would
have to be treated as a miseellane-
GUS group"
We'll. we have altogether too
many miscellaneous groups in this
city," Mr. Hankin added.
W0uld A0u DATA.
Therefore, what I really intend
to do, Senator, is this: AS soon as
this terrible rush is over, We will
have to send up some people to the
Capitol and make the same kind of
survey, run off the cards and add the
figures to our completed results
Senator OMahoney, Democrat, OF
Wyoming. asked if that meant
Capitol Hill is not within the scope
Of the present survey.
''Oh yes, it is" Mr.. Hankin re-
piled. However, ii is not going to
be in the first tabulation, because of
the situation that I have just ex-
planned"
Senator OMahoney had opened
the discussion by asking: What are
the chances. Mr. Hankin, of getting
satisfactory bus service for the Capt.
toll so that the Congressman will
not have to use their x cards?"
Would Speak Strongly"
Senator, with our best desires
and the greatest amount of respect
may I speak rather strongly TO the
members of the Senator" Mr.
Hankin asked.
Surely: speak as strongly as you
want, but you will have to take the
responsibility" Senator OMahoney
told him Qaughter).
Mr.. Hankin then explained the
commission had sent the cards to
all departments of the Government
including the Clerk of the House,
the Secretary of the Senate and the
architect of the Capitol. and told of
the letter he received from the
House clerk.