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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-27

"Christmas Is where you find IT,"
This proposition was proved here
Christmas for three British filters
who tried the experiment OF pok ing
a pin in a map to determine where
to spend the holiday. The pin land
ed near Ypsilanti SO the men left
their barrackse at Port Albert. Ont.
to see where adventure would lead.
Aboard a bus to Ypsilanti, and
at almost the spot where the pin
landed, they met Al Leggett, editor
Of The Bombardier, UAW-CIO Local
so periodical. He not only invited
them to the Christmas party given
for soldiers here by the union but
he and other Local so officers ar
ranged numerous activities for them
up to the hour when they have to
60 back to the barracks.
The fliers are Luke (Bing) Pear
son, Carlisle. England; James Prior.
Kent. England. and Wally Riley,
Manchester. England.
Their English charm and clipped
accents quickly brought a circle OF
interested listeners when Mr.. Leg
gett brought them to union head
quarters here. That was Christmas
Eve. Willard Martinson. education
al director FOR the local, later made
them welcome in his home in Ann
Arbor and soon all we're enjoying
an open fire. ale and English wal
nuts. Conversation was absorbing
as the British fliers and their Amer
lean friends traded opinions on la
Dor, politics and the war.
Sunday they we're guests OF
Glenn R. Brayton. president of the
union. Today they are being taken
through the Willow Run Bomber
plant and this evening will go night
clubbing with three eligibles from
Ann Arbor. The boys must be back
in Canada by o'clock Tuesday.
What do they think OF Ypsllanti?
I'VE are having a terrific time"
they said. ''We're glad that pin
made such happy landing
Both Pearson and Riley were
sworn into the Raj on their eigh
teenth birthdays, a few days apart
and have three and a half years
OF service behind them. Pearson
was a motor mechanic before enter
ing the Royal Air Force, and Riley
was an apprentice machine tool fit
ter. Both were labor union men,
bers.
Prior. eldest OF the trio at %. Is
a veteran OF four and a half years
OF service. Except for the war. he
might never have met his present
pals. His father owned a factory in
the north OF Englanad( and he
worked in its management before
entering the Raj.
All three have been flying on test
flights at Port Albert. but have tired
OF two years at a non-combat base.
We've all put in for transfers. ="
said Riley. "Bing and for flight en-
sineers and Jimmy for pilot. We're
hoping to get word soon"
Attend open House
Between six and seven hundred
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-27
Control of Veterans Affairs
After War Causing Scramble

has already been introduced by
Wiley and bears part IL not full en-.
dorsemsnt OF such powerful veter-
ans groups as The American Lee
gio8s and ?etefAnS OF Toreikn
Wars.
Oppose Capitalization
However, the War and Navy De-
partments. the Federal Security Ad-
ministration headed by Manpower
Chief Paul McNutt, and even the
Farm Security Administration are
said 10 oppose full Capitalization.
Under the present plan. Hines
office handles all veterans mat
ters but the following:
!. Return OF discharged men to
their old jobs. under jurisdiction OF
the Selective Service system head
ed By Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey.
2. Veterans job placement serv-
ice under the War Manpower Com
mission. headed by McNutt
3 Vocational rehabilitation. han
died by the Federal Security AEen.
cy. which also administers civilian
rehs bilitation.
Adjudication OF all claims. and OPP
Grafton OF all hospitals IL handled
by Hines office on the basis OF rec
ords furnished by the War and Navy
Departments.
Neither Wiley nor Rep. John Ran
kin Cd Miss, had heard OF any pro
possl by a small group 70 GUST Gen.
Hines. But both insisted that all
veterans affairs should be handled
by the Veterans Administration.
although Wiley did not 20 as far a.
Rankin.
at seems 10 me" Wiley said.
that the Administration should do
the directing and managing while
all other public facilities, local,
state and national, should be util-
ICED in putting men back on their
feet as real. sustaining members OF
their home communities
The Farm Security Administra-
ton Is reported to be putting out
feelers for control OF farms and
other real property which veterans
would be able 10 buy II certain
pending bonus measures are
passed.
McNutts office Is said 10 feel
that inasmuch as 1t has an organ.
iLation to handle vocational rehabil-
itatlon and job placement that this
phase OF veterans matters should
be left TO It.
A spokesman for Hines office
said that THE Veterans Admins
tration Is taking no stand in any
controversy but will do precisely
and only what Congress tells It
10 do
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-27
Work Started Today
on USO Headquarters

Work on the new USO head
quarters, 2 W. Michigan Ave. was
started this morning by the Henry
de koning Construction Co.. Ann
Arbor. and a tentative opening
date is to be set for about the mid
die OF January. James Maloney.
USO director here stated.
The building, the former Ter.
race Ballroom. will be renovated
and redecorated. according to plans
OF R. s. Gerganoff, architect. who
has designed the building with
space for dancing. q snack bar
kitchen. reading and quiet rooms.
and office accommodations.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-27
DEAD IN CELL

Jackson. Dec. 27-AP-Dale Oar
row, rs. was found hanged with a
blanket in detention cell at South
ern Michigan Prison Sunday. Pri-
son officials said Darrow. who was
serving a life term for the muir
der Of his wife. had requested
Saturday that he be placed In the
detention cell because he had fears
he was being prosecuted. He was
sentenced from Ailegan County In
1871.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-27
Two Struck
by Car, Die

Two former residents OF this
vicinity, Mr.. and Mrs. Orrin Gil
leland, $685. n. Telegraph Rd.,
formerly OF 3244 E. Michigan Ave.
were killed Friday evening when
they, with another pedestrian, Miss
Lucille Gose, we're struck by an
automobile driven by Glenwood W.
Larson. Il.
The three were standing in the
middle OF Telegraph Rd.. near Mid
way. when struck. Miss Gose is
now in a seriogs condition at Eloise
Hospital. suffering a skull fracture.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-27

CHICAGO-UP - The Federal
Grand Jury investigating the cur
rent liquor shortage reconyened
today amid warnings by veteran
enforceme officers that the crime
syndicates are moving back into
the liquor business they once con.
trolled BY hijacking. gunhre. brib-
cry and murder.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-27

BUENOS AlRKs-AP--A pisto.
duel may take place between Cen.
Armando Verdaguer and Julio Nor
emo, former judge OF the Buenos
Aires Provincial Supreme Court, I'M
less police step in, 1t was learned
last night. Verdaguer. who resigned
recently as federal administrator Of
the province, challenged Moreno to
the duel after the latter wrote him
a vitriolic letter protesting the loss
OF his job as result OF the generals
reorganization Of the provincial ju-
dietary.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-27

WASHINGTON-UP - Premier
Josef Stain was authoritatively
credited here today with forcing
at the Tehran conference q deci-
sion on a leader for the Allied
expeditionary. forces in a second
front" invasion OF Eprope The
Russian premier also promised
that when the western front be-
comes tough and bloody, the Allies
can be sure that the Red Army
will keep a large part OF the Ger
man army busy in a smuggling
match on the eastern front
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-27

CHUNGKING-AP-China's vic
torious forces captured Kungan in
an important Christmas day battle
and now have regaiped four-fifths
OF the area overrun by the Japan
csc before their November sweep
into the rice bowl district was
turned to defeat.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-27

Observation-Disclosures
Roosevelt was expected today to
press for a final decision on his
offer to arbitrate the rail strike
case. barring successful negotia-
tons between railroad management
and labor. After a two-day holiday
lull, officials OF the nations car
riers and the 10 incorporating
unions representing one million,
100 thousand employees were SEIZED
uled for final last ditch effort to
settle the wage controversy.
WASHINGTON - ms - Rep.
Charles A. Halleck OF Indiana, new
chairman OF the Republican Con-
gressional Campaign Committee,
predicted today that the COP will
win four OF the five vacant seats in
the House in forthcoming special
elections. II Halleck's prediction
proves correct. the already slim
Democratic majority will be re-
duced to a mere three-vote margin
and any future vacancies on the
Democratic side might make COP
control Of the House possible be-
fore the end OF President Roose-
velt's third term.
ALGIERS-AP-- Some so per-
sons, most holding government
posts under Gen. Charles De
Gaulle, attended a ceremony yes
terday in memory OF Eugene Bon
nier de la Chapelle, who was exc
cuted for the assassination OF Ad-
miral Jean Darlan on Christmas
Eve a year ago.
NEW YORK-AP-- The death
toll in the Christmas Eve blaze
which swept through the Standard
Hotel had climbed to IS today as
Fire Marshall Thomas P. Brophy
prepared to question witnesses In
an attempt to get a complete ex-
PLANTATION Of the blaze.
NEW YORK-AP-A report that
"a sneak air attack" might be at
tempted on the holiday kept mill
tary and civilian defense units
on the alert Christmas Eve and
most OF Christmas Day, according
to the Eastern Defense Command.
Army authorities said they could
not disclose the origin OF the
report. The EDO announced the
alert had been cancelled at s:05
D. m. (EWT), three hours after IL
had reported that protective
measures had been taken.
WASHINGTON-UP - Govern
ment food and price officials dis
closed today that tentative 1874
meat rationing plans for civilians
envisaged an average annual per
capita consumption OF 1872 pounds
about II pounds less than this
year. The 1914 program now be-
ing worke dout by officials OF the
War Food Administration and the
once OF Price Administration
would give civilian ration book.
holders about Il pounds OF meat
month as against this -sar's aver
age OF close TO - pounds.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-27
Flashes Of
Late News
THE WEATHER: Tonight:
Snow Flurrles, Colder

HATTIEsBURG, Miss.-INS -
Funeral arrangements we're COM
pleted today for Gov. Paul B.
johnson. So. who died at his home
In Hattiesburg yesterday OF heart
silment. Services will be at 1880
a. m. Wednesday at the family
home just outside Of Hatiesburg.
ATLANTIC CITY. y. J.-INS -
The Navy to- y again denied that
the rending blasts which came from
the sea and were heard as far as
ten miles inland. were anything bur
maneuvers. Thousands OF resi-
dents OF coast communities were
convinced yesterday that the shaK-
ing explosions were the result OF
a major naval battle, but the Navy
in an Official declaration denied it.
BUENOS AIRES-INS The
minister Of finance IN the new gov
eminent OF Bolivia, Victor Par
Estenssoro, was reported today to
have declared the governments in
tention to nationalize all Axis bust
ness concerns.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-27

CHICAGO AP- Cities and VII.
lagos OF 81 states have created or
are in the process OF creating. re-
serve funds for postwar capital i'm
provements, survey by the Munich
pal Finance Officers Association,
said.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-27

NAPLES-AP-Naples. suffering
an outbreak OF typhus fever. has
been closed to Fifth Army troops
except for units based here, and
Allied authorities are taking steps
TO protect the city's 100000 or
more civilians.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-27

LONDON-AP- Seeking to re-
pair the Polish-Soviet breach. Pre-
mier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk OF the
Polish governmentin-exi is rota-
bly, reported to be en- route TO see
President Roosevelt and possibly
ask him to mediate the problem.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-27

See DEATH-PsEs I
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-27
1914 To End European
War Says Eisenhower
One of Nazis
Warships
Sunk

Alsiers. Dec. 27 ms Gen.
Dwight o. Eisenhower. nswly-ap.
pointed commander Of the Allied
Invasion o. Europe, declared to-
day that the United Nations will
win the European war In 1914.
Gen. Eisenhower. just returned
from . Christmas visit 10 the Isle
Of Capri. said a. a news confer.
snes: we will win the European
war In 1914" The statement was
more significant than any 70 come
from an Allied leader since the
general 10 the man charged with
bringing the Germans TO book.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-12-27
In Bloody Battle

See wAR-Psge ?
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-12
Film Time Clock

ADAMs-''The Black Swan" II a. m.
2:Oi. 4:52. 7;43, iO:3t p. m; Laugh
Your Blues Away" l2:52. 3;4s, asa. s:aS
p. m.
81. nRoADwAY &. esrrT9I->EG5s't ,5.1 Ran
Friendly Enemies" II a. m. 2:25. b:4s.
s:09 p. IN.
GENERALIZATION 1:45. I:to.
1888, 1890 p. m; Are Husbands Nsess-
sary2'' 1890, $40. $40. $40 p. m.
. CINEMA = Crime and Punishment. >. :.
las 4:5O. 7:5O. iO:45 ,. m.
iO:4s p. m. Are Husbands Necessary"
l2:5o, $3.50, $50. $50 ?, m. -.
$50 FoNTTh9 7si loss Rsn' p I'm II SkStmaI: % iS!
LYwOOD-"Iceland," 7;O7. 1O:2s
p. m. Are Husbands Necessary" p, M;
1908. 2:42. 5:2i. s:01. fo:4o p m; The
Falcons Brother" IL a. m, 1889, AIS,
6:5s, 937 p. m.
MICHIGAN-"Georgs WASHINGTON Slept
Live on Danger" 1905, 3;i5. 6:25, s:35
PALMs-sTATE - The Moon and Six
? M. highways by flight" i2:4S. s:4i.
. 'Is PARADISE I =" u cootie williams, 7:sO.
sos, 1880, 1920 p m: Dawn on the
Great Divide" lI7. $50 eio, $50.
1870 p. m.
RIViERA-"Iceiand" 2:O5. ass. 757,
10:5s p. m. Are Husbands Necessaryf"
l12:AI, 3;42, 6:3S, 9:34 p. m.
RKO-UPTONN - Iceland" I 80, 430.
1880, 10:35 p. m; Are Husbands Eeces-
sary9" $40. $40. 9:15 p. m.
TELENEws-News, short subjects. .
a. m 20 IL p. m.
UNITED ARTISTs-"For Me and Ny
Gal" 1890 3:55. 1920. l045 p. m (;
sunday Punch" 11;i0 a. m, 2.30, 5;5o.
20 D. IN
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-12
1--WE Program
At Paradise

THERE'S 1--WE, jam and boogie-
woogie on the stage of the Para
disc Theater this week where
Cootie Williams, the "growl trum-
pet" king and his orchestra are
currently filling an engagement.
Cootie puts his organization
through their PAGES with unbe-
lievable speed and adds fresh
laurels with his trumpet tootling
that rates him well up in the
parade.
The Cats and the Fiddle, four
solid jive characters, also stop the
show with such numbers at
"Stomp, Stomp" Another Day."
and Ride, Red. Ride"
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-12
Sonia s Sixth ShOw
Her Best TO Date
By George +. Van

Olympia's ice. He's even funnler
than Jack Adams raving at a ref.
NOVELTY NUMBER
Fritz Dietl, the stilt-skater, is
back again. His regular act is
better than ever and in addition
he provides a novelty as a Donald
Duck which flies out over the
audience and bites Canadian girls.
Or maybe it just appeared that
way.
But in the final analysis. this
show. like all Henie shows, belongs
to Madame Topping (Sonja's hus-
band is a marine, Dan Topping)
and she's bigger and better than
ever. Although she isn't bigger
than a minute. Here's hoping she
can always come back TO us. She
shouldn't have any transportation
problem. All she needs is a pain
of skates or six.
Incidentally, just try and get
into Olympia this week. The show
is doing its biggest business. just
TO show how she pulls at the gate
in 13 shows in Chicago the Holly
wood Ice Revue pulled in more
than 100000. Most OF this will
go TO the government, which
makes Sonia Henie one OF Uncle
Sans favorite daughters, ol
should
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-12
A LINE OR TWO

TT SOUNDED like a one-man
Cuban revolution when DeSi
Arnaz discovered the other dag
that Lucille Ball had left for
the studio with all the family
gas ration cards.
Speaking Of rationing, Guy
Kibbee Jr. pulled a hot one when
he heard his father was return
ing from the East, where he's
been since the rationing came
IN: Praise the Lord, quoth
Junior, "what'u the old man say
when he finds he can't 90 FISH
in'?"
Victor Fleming who has been
resting In Arizona getting his
health back, has returned 20
Hollywood 10 direct Spencer
Tracy and Irene Dunno in "A
Guy Named Joe" Vic looks
wonderful.
The board Of the Hollywood
Canteen met over the weekend
and turned in the first official
report. Since il came into exist
ence the canteen has entertained
5000 service men Bette Davis
was unanimously e-e J q CT q d
president and vice presidents
are Mervyn lie Roy. John Gar
field, Mrs. John Ford and Spike
Wallace.
Hunt Stronberg has changed
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-12
Curtain Call 'COrpses'
Seek to Be LiUe Actors

ELEVEN "CORPSES" sat be-
hind the scaffolding of the Lafay-
cite stage set and looked Somberly
into the blue dusk.
Finally one spoke.
lis No. Is ready"
"No." said another, "he has
not died yet"
"My wife's in the audience"
a voice spoke from the darkness,
81 hope they don't let the cur
tain down too fast"
"Are we all here, now" said
a small, dark corpse with
cleaning eyes.
Except 49," the other dim
shapes sighed in ghoStly unison.
"Corpses ready" came a
sharp question.
"Corpses ready" admitted the
handsome, white haired one.
The moment was close. 1t was
almost time. IT was almost the
hour for that sharp, sweet, mo-
ment when lights would enfold the
happy "corpSes," when sound OF
human laughter, and mortal voices
would Danish those hours spent in
the dimness of the backstage
gloom.
The "corpses" line up. They
bend forward with expectancy,
they wait for the right split. sec
ond. they troop out, 13 of them,
their faces wreathed in happy
knowledge that joyful howls Of
laughter will greet them.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-12

Olympia's ice. He's even funnie
than Jack Adams raving at a re
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-12

Though il is the supreme mo-
ment for 13 "corpSes, " it is only
short half a minute curtain call
at the end of the Shubert-Lafay-
cites howlingly happy murder
play Arsenic and Old Lace" now
in its fifth week with two more
TO 90.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-12

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. l1.-+TheI
very night the new Cole Porter
musicale. Something for the
Boys" opened, Twentieth Century
Fox plunked down a goodly sum
and bought IL for Betty Cradle.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-12

the title OF "G-String Murders
to Lady Of Burlesque' because
a poll reveals that less than 30
per cent of the people know
what a G-String is!
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-12
CHORUS NUMBERS SCORE

For the first time in memory,
all Of the chorus numbers come
out even with the music. The
colorful minstrel number which
winds up the first spasm is a de-
cided innovation. but this is a
iitterbug world. and the 1--WE out
burst of the chorus in the second
act is best of the group numbers.
Sonia is out a half dozen times
and is liberal in her encores. In
fact. it's a long show, winding up
at 11:20.
Dorothy and Hazel Galley, clever
Canadians, are the best formal
skaters in the show. excepting the
queen herself, and Freddie Trenk-
ler'S clowning, good in other years,
flowers into just about the best
laugh producing acts ever seen on
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-12

THERE'S MORE than a grain
ot truth in the story you've prob
ably heard by now that the sixth
annual Hollywood Ice Revue now
lat Olympia is more than Sonia
.Henie and a lot Of boys and girls
playing crack the whip.
It's the best show she's had 10
date if for no other reason than
that hula encore she does early in
the first half. In this she uses
everything a bounuful nature gave
her between the knees and the
shoulders - an accelerated move
.ment that stopped the show.
This is the big difference. She
throws all of her ballet and skat-
ing background overheard for this
once and the result is terrific. II
Just skins boogie-woogie and il
stops the show. She likes il, too
She gave five encoreS in the Satur-
day and Sunday shows.
LIKE a CIRCUS
The Hollywood Ice Revue Is
much like a circus in that if you
see one you've seen them all. But
like a circus, it's something you
grow sentimental about.
This years effort keeps pace
with all previous ShowingS in its
elaborate coStuming and all 'rouno
presentation. The Hollywood touch
| is there again in large gobs.
Dancing seems to reach its ulti.
innate in grace when performed or
skates, and this years show is {
far cry in action from the first
Hollywood ice revue, when prac'
tically the entire cast, excepting
the little blonde goddess, had weak
IankleS.
The midland journal., 1943-01-22

standable. Bond buying, Victory tax
on payrolls, increased income taxes,
and probably compulsory savings
might take some of this excess
spending power away. But the force
of what remains will still be greater
than 1t was in 1912.
The record farm income of 1919,
according to statisticians, was ex-
ceeded last year by over billion
dollars, with the 1912 gross income
being $18,5O0, 900, 900; cash income,
including benefit payments, being
SIS, 600, 100000. The national outlay
in salaries and wages was at least
$50 O,000, ,000,000 in 1912, an increase
of 80 per cent from 1899. 1t is as
sumed, despite certain counteracting
forces, that salaries and wages will
be more than that in 1943.
The consciousness with which the
armed forces, rural and urban work
ers, went about their respective jobs
during 1912 gives an idea of the
might which this nation will achieve
during this present year.
Poet Wait Whitman wrote, 81 hear
America singing -. - This year
Americans will continue to hear the
nations industry hunaming = hum
ming tune of Victory which will
soon-everyone hopes-break out into
a mighty song celebrating the VIC
torious defeat of the enemy.
The midland journal., 1943-01-22

Even though over 1000, 600 farm
ers worked from before dawn until
far late into the night during 1912,
they still were unable to keep up
with the demand for some products,
such as meats Of certain types and
grades, and dairy products. The lat
ter were being dehydrated in enor-
nous quantities for shipment abroad
both to the armed forces, and to
lend-lease nations.
This year over 5000, 900 milk
cows will be utilized to supply
the increased demand for dairy
products. The great amount Of
milk alone that needs to be
dairied during 1943 can be imag-
ined when during 1910, a non-war
year, the U. S. per capita con-
sumption of all dairy products
amounted to over 81 gallons.
That figure includes such per
capita amounts as IL pounds of
butter, SO cheese, 2.3 ice cream.
Food will write the peace after
this war is ended, whether it be
this year or during 1914. But food
and plenty of it's needed right now
for fighters and workers, and those
not so fortunate in war-torn lands.
Meat rationing will attempt to bring
a fair allotment to each American.
Even then the farmers will be
pushed to supply the per person per
year consumption Of meats for this
nation alone.
In 1912 American farmers
went over the quota set for them.
That they can top 1943's quota is
an almost certainty.
One of the dangers-which Amer
lean people have been careful enough
to heed-arising from the increase
in employment is that of an in
creased income, without an accom-
panying supply of products which
they could buy with their new wealth.
That this danger will be no less dur
ing 1943 when employment will in
crease still more, and products for
consumption will be less is under
The midland journal., 1943-01-22
Midwinter Frock

Midwinter Frock
DIAN a frock now, in bold
1 striped material or fabric of vi
brant solid color, to wear under
your winter coat it will