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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-23
Fine Points in Bridqe
BY SHEPARD BARCLAY

A little study showed that they
would probably try to drop the
missing four spades in two rounds,
or else find the singleton. Either
Of those would furnish entry to
dummy. Consequently his assign
ment was to locate a way to have
better chance for such an entry.
He found it.
Winning the club Q with the X,
he cashed the heart A, next the
spade A. and then led the heart 9.
II West put up the J. as he did,
the contract was safe. as the 10
was then an entry to use the
spades for minor suit discards. II
West had ducked-an unthinkable
play-the 10 would have been an
immediate entry for two spades as
a means Of discarding losers. and
so all the tricks would have been
taken.
II West had played low. and the
10 went on. then East killed II
with the J, it would have been
because the four cards were even
ly divided. In that event. the heart
2 to the would have furnished
the necessary entry to dummy. In
a nutshell. South had multiplied
his chances playing as he did. and
using a method which would have
been correct alaO in 6-Haarta
contract at rubber bridge.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-23
Poultry

Detroit, Mich, Jan. 23-
Broilers 27lac; flyers, 29c; roast.
ers. 52-34c; stays 27-2Slac: capons,
36-3Sc; hens 2S1s.2GIsc; cocks. 1877.
l9lsc; ducks, 26iac; geese, 26lsc,
turkeys, 3+35i2c.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-23
(Ypsilantl Farm suresu)
POULTRY
(Bazleys Ma=ket)

Due to uncertainty of new OPA
regulations on poultry prices no
quotations are available. The poul.
try market was firm with prices up
sharply.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-23
LIVESTOCK
Livestock

Livestock
Detroit. Mich, Jan. % Fed
steers and yearlings. $3.50:
shorlfed steers, sl3 Il; COM
mon grassy steers, slO50 l2.25;
Beef cows. Sl0.25; cutter COWS,
mainly s7.25-10: sausage bulls from
sI4.
Calves: good and choice grades,
$500; common and medium,
grades, 1917.
Hogs: Good TO choice butchers
scaling $50 400 lbs. late al
sl5.05-l5.25; stays, $3.50: sows.
Sl3.
Sheep: Choice native lambs
is . 1925; medium to good lambs,
Sl4-l5.50; common throwouts 1915
down.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-23
Your Weekend Lesson

When you are contemplating a
lead-throwing end-play. what is
the difference between the prepa-
ration necessary II you are in a
No Trump contract and that re-
quired If you are in q suit con-
tract?
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-23
Butter and EGGS

Butter and EGGS
Detroit, Mich, Jan. 23-
BUTTER-45-46c.
EGGS-Whites U. S. Extras Grade
Al, large 44c: medium,
Ale; Z. S. Standards (grade
b, large, 42c; medium, 40
Browns, L. S. extras, (grade
AZ, large, ALAG; medium, 3942c.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-23
INCREASE YOUR CHANCES

STALKING your all on one single
possibility is sound bridge when
nothing else will avail. But be-
fore you do it. look around a mo-
ment and see IL there isn't some
way to give yourself an extra
chance You viii be surprised
how many times you can find
some alternative which increases
the odds in your favor or decreases
those against you.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-23
Detroit Cash Grain

Detroit. Mich, Jan. %
WHEAT-No. l, Sl.54.
BARLEY Mailing range. 145
moisture, Sl.10Shc; feeding, CSC.
Fruits
Detroit, Mich, Jan. 23-
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-23

South felt sure that almost
every other North-South pair in
the duplicate would be in a con-
tract Of Hearts or 7 No Trumps,
as soon as he saw that dummy
after West led the club Q. He had
to have some way to beat them,
If they failed to make their con-
tracts. as he was unalterably de-
feated II they succeeded in them.
He also wanted to beat any others
who stopped at small slam.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-01-23

WITH INDUSTRY BOOMING the interests of national defense there
gueng ahead workers all
where milk National health important
ona defense and milk plays major role the health of the nation
Especially need the high quality nutrona elements
tanned milk keep body Drink Milk for Health.
Evening star., 1943-01-30
Allies Plan Crete Attack,
German Newsman Says
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-German
Correspondent Walter Glaue, in Lis
bon, informed his German readers
yesterday, according to Berlin
broadcast heard by the Associated
Press, that President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill decided, in
their Casablanca conference, to
mount spring offensive in the
Eastern Mediterranean.
Here is the true story of the Cas-
ablanca conference as it was told to
, me by one who participated" Glaue
boasted.
For spring, a joint Anglo -Ameri-
can action was decided on against
Crete and the Dodecanese. Air raids
on Italy are to be further intensified
in the hope that the Italian peoples S
morale might be weakened. The
motion of South African Premier
SHUTS to employ South African
troops outside Africa was motivateo
by the plans to attack Crete and the
Dodecanese.
Also in connection Is the Casa
blanca decision to increase pressure
on Turkey in order to inveigle tha,
country into the war on the Allied
side this year" s,.,- ia
No major operations against, area.
defended by Germany will be at.
tempted this year, Glaue said.
Evening star., 1943-01-30
Cook and Aide Cleared
In Asylum Poisonings

BY the Associated Press.
SALEM, Greg, Jan. 30.-A cook
and her assistant have been cleared
of blame in roach powder poison
ing that killed Al patients at State
Hospital and made 400 others i'll.
A county grand jury yesterday re-
turned no true bills against A. B
McKillop, assistant State hospital
cook, charged with manslaughter, or
Mrs. Mary OHare, head cook,
charged with withholding informa-
ton from police.
Mr.. McKillop was accused of send
ing patient, George Nosen, to get
powdered milk. Mr.. Nosen got into
the wrong barrel and brought back
roach powder instead Mr.. McKillop
mixed the poison with scrambled
eggs, which were fed to 467 patients
The grand jury did not attempt to
fix any responsibility.
Evening star., 1943-01-30
Patrols Press Search
For Nine Missing on
Plane in Caribbean
Col. Smith, Former CAA
Official, Among Officers
On Overdue Croft

Two Washington men Col.
Walter Sumpter Smith, As, former
chairman of the Civil Aeronautics
Authority's Air Safety Board, and
Maj. Levin B. Barringer, SO, noted
glider authority for the Army Air
Forces-are among seven Army Air
Forces officers and two non-com-
missioned officers missing in an
Army plane over the Caribbean.
Patrol planes in the Caribbean area
continued to search for the plane
overdue for nearly week.
The War Department announced
yesterday that the plane had not
been heard from since it left San
Juan, Puerto Rico, last Sunday for
an undisclosed destination.
Col. Smith, former head of the
Inter Departmental Engineering
Commission which built Washington
National Airport, is chief of the
transport facilities division of the
Army Air Forces. Maj. Barringer
is chief of the glider production and
training unit Of the Air Support
Command.
Wife Is Confident.
Col. Smiths wife, who lives at
37l5 Ingomar street NV, expressed
confidence yesterday that her hus-
band and other members OF the
plane would be found.
Too many have been found, after
being forced down at sea, for any,
one to give up hope that my hus-
band will not be saved" she said.
Mrs. Barringer lives at 1922 G
street NV. Her husband is 9
champion glider pilot and has wor
numerous prizes In civilian life.
Col. Smiths son, Sumpter, II, en-
listed in the Marine Corps last
November and is now training a,
Paris Island, S. c. The Smith.
also have a daughter, Selene, 13.
During the early days of WPA
Col. Smith was in charge OF buildins
hundreds of airports Throughout
the country. He was called bacl
to active duty as division air offi,
Ger with the Alabama Nationa
Guard on November rs. 1910. Col
Smith was an Air Corps oficer ii
World War I.
Graduate Of Haverford.
Maj. Barringer is former presi-
dent OF the Gliders' Society ol
America and a graduate of Haver.
ford College and Princeton Uniyer.
sity. He usually makes his home al
Philadelphia, Pa, and Lewellyr
Park, N. j. He was in charge O,
training glider pilots for the Army
at Phoenix, Ariz., before being com.
missioned in the Air Forces in May
1942.
Other officers aboard the plan.
were: First 1t. John L. D'Azzo
Tampa, Fla; First 1t. Aness K
Khoury, Chester, Pa; Second 1t
John T. Torrillo, pilot, Bridgeport
Conn; Second 1t. Albert o. Balm
co-pilot, Walsenburg, Calf; Secont
1t. John c. Marvin, navigator, Gin
cinnati, Ohio; Technical Sergt
Joseph Dragelis, engineer, Tama
qua. Pa, and Sergt. John A. Miller
radioman, Kaloma, Iowa.
Evening star., 1943-01-30
future years." their joint statement

future years." their joint statement
said.
President Vargas told press
conference later in Rio de Janiero
that complete agreement had been
reached on war operations and "on
all points we discussed"
THE Allied nations are preparing
for long war" he added, mot
wishing to be too optimistic because
war has surprises.
Preparing for Long War"
German military power evident
ly is declining. There may be a
collapse one moment or another
But, generally, we are preparing for
the emergency and are considering
long war.
Il found the President of the
United States fully satisfied with the
results Of the Casablanca confer
ence, one of the purposes of which
was to achieve unity of the French
people"
Rear Admiral Jonas H. Ingram,
commander of the United States
South Atlantic Fleet, who sat in on
the Roosevelt-Vargas discussions,
said the meeting was "the most i'm
portant ever held in the Western
Hemisphere The executives of the
two greatest nations met and dis
cussed the present and future of the
Western Hemisphere and were in
perfect accord"
The two Presidents, dressed in
white suits and wearing Panama
hats, rode together in a jeep while
reviewing the United States forces
at the airfeld outside Natal, dis
patches from Brazil reported. Con-
slant patrols Of bombers and fighters
few overhead throughout their con-
ferences and inspection tours.
Mr.. Roosevelt and President Var
gas spoke French to each other most
of the time, but United States Am
bassador Jefferson Caffery some
times translated Mr.. Roosevelt S
English into Portuguese for the
Brazilian President.
Inspiration to Soldiers.
Military and naval officials of both
nations also conferred and partici-
pated in some of the discussions.
Brig. Gen. Robert L. Walsh, COM
mander of the South Atlantic wing
of the Army Air Transport Com
mand, said 1T was an inspiring
thing for every American soldier,
sailor and marine in Natal to see
President Roosevelt"
He rode jeep down the lines
| and looked them in the eyes. He
wanted them to know that if they
could take this war he could too"
President Vargas said he also dis
cussed with Mr.. Roosevelt prob
lens which may arise after peace is
won, but that "the greatest part OF
the conversations was devoted to
the necessity Of winning the war
and on this theme was centered CO.
operation between Brazil and the
United States, which is an integral
cooperation without restrictions"
Evening star., 1943-01-30
Flynn Jury Is Told
OF Marks on Latch
In BeI-Air Home
Testimony indicating
Tumpering Offered by
Police Chemist
ID, the Associated Presx

d. the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3o.-Errol
Flynns trial on statutory assault
charges entered its third week END
recess today on note of mystery:
Was the inner latch on the blue
bedroom" scratched as though with
a file.
A States rebuttal witness, Police
Chemist Leland Jones, testified YES
terday that only two days before he
found evidence that screws holding
the latch to the door had been
turned and that there were file-hke
scratch marks on the shank of the
latch.
The blue bedroom" is the upstairs
room in Bel-Air home where IT.
year-old Betty Hansen, drug store
fountain waitress, charges Flynn
assaulted her after a dinner party
last September 27 The girl testified
that Flynn walked toward the door
and she heard a click. Another
prosecution witness told of being
unapIe 10 open the door.
A defense witness contended the
latch has been out of order and it
had been impossible to lock the door
from the inside for more than a year,
Mr., Jones, however, declared that
last Wednesday he not only found
evidence of scraping of the latch's
mechanism, but that he found
flake Of metal on the floor. He
admitted, however, he could not tell
how long the scratch marks had
been there.
The door and microphotographs of
the lock were introduced in evidence
IN the prosecutions apparent at
tempt to show the lock had been
tampered with.
Deputy District Attorney Thomas
w. Cochran said he will call County
Locksmith c. D. Pope Monday to
testify further concerning the latch.
Another witness yesterday was
Mickey June Satterlee, sister of To-
year-old Peggy La Rue Satterlee.
The latter accuses Flynn of attack
ing her during a voyage on his yacht
to Catalina Island in August.
Evening star., 1943-01-30
Four Granted Licenses
To Practice Dentistry

-Four applicants who took the
January, l943. examination were
given licenses to practice dentistry
and three other applicants passed
the examination to become licensed
dental hygienists, it was announced
today by the Board of Dental Ex-
aminers of the District.
The successful applicants were:
Dentists-Dr. Stanley Clayman,
5759 Thirteenth street NV; DR..
Russell A. Dixon. $50 Twenty third
place N. E.; DR.. E. B. A. Gratz, 73I
Fifth street NE, and DIR. r. z. r.
Lowell, 654 Girard street NV.
Hygienists Leah Gold, ITS
Chapel street. New Haven, Conn.
Virginia w. Hart, 2810 Texas ave-
nue. Sc, and Mary v. Mcguire, 240l
North Capitol street.
Evening star., 1943-01-30
Russians Smosh Ahead
Along 44-Mile Front
BY HENRY c. CASSIDY,
Associated Press War Correspondent


MOSCOW, Jan. 30.-Using recap
tured Kastornoye as base. power
full Red Army bolstered with fresh
forces which smashed through Ger
man defenses on 44-mile front
now holds parts of nine German dl-
visions in a death wise in the Voro-
nezh area and is developing drives
today toward the key railway CEN
ters of Kursk, Belgorod and Khar-
kov, Russian authorities announced
in their newest triumphant COM
muniques.
The latest advance has carried
Russian forces to within IS miles of
Kursk, the Russians said, with the
forces of 1t. Gen. Reiter joining
those under Col. Gen. F. /. Golikov
in ar attack which scored gains
counted at 81 miles in depth and
brought the toll of Axis captives to
nearly 100000 in that sector.
In three days fighting, the war
bulletin said, more than 14,500 pris-
oners were taken and about 10000
of the enemy were killed.
(The Russian noon commu-
nique recorded in London by the
Soviet radio monitor said that DO
more towns had been taken in the
offensive west of VoroneZh and
that 900 Germans had been cap
tured in one engagement. In an
other sector the Russians were
reported to have caused heavy
losses to the enemy.
(Another $50 prisoners were
said to have been captured as
district after district near the
center of the city of Stalingrad
was cleaned up, and the Rus
slams said that many German
officers deserted their units and
tried to get out of the encircle-
ment.'
(The Soviet war bulletin said
one group of NaZi officers dressed
in soldiers uniforms marched out
OF the lines under escort of a
German soldier garbed in a Red
Army uniform in an attempt to
escape. The whole group was
tunSii Vic
said)
In the Caucasus, where fighting
has continued with similar inten-
sity, the capture of the railway
junction of Kropotkin was an
nounced, putting a Russian army
there on the banks of the strategic
ally important Kuban River, seal
ing one of the gates to the Maikop
oil fields, and furnishing a new
menace to Tikhoretsk, another rail-
way junction 35 miles north.
Street fighting in Kropotkin re-
suited in the killing of more than
1000 Germans, the Russians said.
A union of this northward driving
army with that which has driven to
20 miles northeast of Tikhoretsk, on
the main Stalingrad railway, was
envisaged.
Evening star., 1943-01-30
Brother Autographs
Bob Hope Pictures,
Court Is Told
Comedian Too Busy,
Sister-in-Luw Testifies
In Suit for 81, 300
Rx the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30.-Bob
Hopes sister-in-law testified yes
terday that the comedian Is too
busy to answer fan mail. so his
brother Jim autographs his pic
lures, dissuades girl admirers from
leaving home to see him and re-
turns jokes and gags submitted by
radio listeners.
Mrs. Marie Towns Hope. wife Of
Jim Hope. is seeking $4,000 from
Bob through an assignee. She con-
tends she was the comedians part
time secretary working with her
husband, at Sl2.50 week, and was
paid only s25 in all.
Asked what kind of radio pro-
gram Bob appears in, she said, "Is
is termed a comedy show"
One Christmas season, she testi-
fed in Judge Jess E. Stephens
court, she worked hard sending
5000 cards to Bob's fans.
There are an awful lot Of people
who think they know jokes" the
witness explained to the court In
relating how Bob gets scores of
them daily in the mails, land the
jokes have to be sent back with
replies that don't offend the sender" !"
And Bob's girl admirers. why"
said his sister-in-law, they seem
to think they can come out here,
get right off a train and see Mr..
Hope. We have to write them let
ters to keep them home and still
not make enemies of them"
She said she asked Bob several
times for raise, But he had .
lot of excuses and told me to sit
tight; in fact. that seemed to be
his favorite expression"
Bob demands SLABS from the Jim
Hopes in cross-conplaint. alleg-
ing he loaned then. money that
Wasn't repaid. He also denied
owing his sister-in-law any money.
Evening star., 1943-01-30
Roosevelt
Continued From First Page)

the war for the security of this hemi-
sphere.
Both President Vargas and Pres
ident Roosevelt are in complete
agreement" their statement said,
that it must be presumably and
definitely assured that the coasts of
West Africa and Dakar never again
under any circumstances be allowed
to become a blockade or an invasion
threat against the two Americas"
Mr.. Roosevelt, the statement said,
demonstrated to his colleague that
the Allied expedition in North Af-
rica has for the present eliminated
the possibility of the threat of q
German-held Dakar to American
freedom"
After discussing the problems of
the World War as whole and espe-
cially the joint Brazilian United
States efforts" the two Presidents
Lid:
This meeting has given lis an
opportunity to survey the future
safety Of all the Americas In our
opinion, each of the republics is
| interested and affected to an equal
degree In unity there is strength.
1t is the aim of Brazil and the
United States to make the Atlantic
Ocean safe for all. We are deeply
grateful for the almost unanimous
help that our neighbors are giving
to the great cause of democracy
throughout the world"
Aimed at Argentina.
The references to strength in
unity and almost unanimous help"
we're believed to be addressed par
ticularly to Argentina, the only one
of the South American republics
still maintaining relations with the
| Axis.
In separate memorandum for
the press" by Mr.. Roosevelt, released
by the White House along with the
| joint statement, the President ex-
planned that because the Casablanca
conference was so vital to the war
effort" he should delay his return
home in order to talk informally
with the Brazilian President about
| the conference and discuss several
details of additional mutual aid"
He also noted that during his trip
to and from Africa he had inspected
vital points of the Army's ferry
command" which lis doing a most
difficult job every day in sending
planes and quantities of vital equip
ment from America to the Middle
East, TO North Africa, to Russia, to
the air squadrons in China, and to
the Burma front"
Tells of Casablanca Results.
In addition to the pause at Natal,
the only other point at which stop
was made by the President during
his trip home has been announced
as Liberia, where he conferred with
that republics chief executive and
inspected American colored troops
before taking off on the trans
Atlantic hop to Brazil.
During his conferences with Pres
ident Vargas, Mr.. Roosevelt in
formed his colleagues of the very
significant results of the conference
at Casablanca and the resolve that
the peace to come must not allow
l the Axis to attack civilization in
Evening star., 1943-01-30
Women's Club Federation
Cancels Convention Plans

In Difference to the recommenda-
ton of the Office of Defense Trans
portation, the General Federation of
Women's Clubs has Cancelled its
convention scheduled for May lois
in Indianapolis, Mrs. John L. White
hurst. president, announced today.
Mrs. Whitehurst said many feder-
alton members had expressed the
opinion that various Government
departmental conferences "also Gre
ate transportation difficulties, and
are non essential, extravagant and
unWise"
Evening star., 1943-01-30
Chile Confines jap Envoy
In RetoIiotory Action

BY the Associated Press.
SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 30.-The
Japanese Minister, Kiyoshi Yam
agata, and 27 members of the lega-
tion staff, yesterday were confined
in reprisal for the arrest of the
Chilean Minister to Toxic, Armando
Labra Carbajal, following Chile's
severance of diplomatic relations
with Japan.
Military police surrounded the le-
CATION building. locked the doors
and cut of the telephone service.
Evening star., 1943-01-30
20 More WAACS Finish
Study at MP School
By TIE Associated Press.

by ire Associated Press.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, Jan. 30.
Twenty more WAACS have been
graduated from the military police
school at the Second WAAC Train
ing Center here after concluding a
two-week intensive course.
They will serve apprenticeships
with experienced WAAC military
police and continue as understudies
until the WAAC provost marshal
DEGREES they are qualified to go
out on their own"
These MPs form a nucleus for an
MP platoon, which is part of a post
headquarters company. Their work
includes patrolling, conducting vari-
Gus kinds of investigations and
operating and maintenance of the
MP office.
Evening star., 1943-01-30
Death Leaves Harpers Ferry
Without Resident Doctor
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARPERS FERRY, w. Va, Jan.
30.-The recent death of DR.. Clifford
C. johnson has left this community
of nearly 5000 persons without a
resident physician.
The nearest physician lives at
Charles Town, about 10 miles away
and local residents are attempting
to alleviate the shortage of medical
service here by establishing a home
nursing and first aid class.
Plans are being made to have
residents of nearby Millvine and
Bolivar join the program.