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The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-01-08

This is to certify that the above
vouchers amounting to $2,134.40 have
been examined; that the articles or
services called for have been received ;
that prices and computation are cor
rect; that all invoices. receiving no
tices and supporting data are attached
and in order. and that the proper ac-
counts have been charged.
The treasurer is hereby authorized
to pay the above vouchers.
Chas. III. Block,
President
Mildred K. Mielkie,
Secretary.
Trustee Mclnerney moved that the
bills be approved, and that the trea-
surer be authorized to draw warrants
on the proper funds for the payment
Of same.
Ayes: Trustees Altman, Block. Har-
riOtt, HOmeister. McInerney and Steele.
Nays: None.
The motion was carried.
Communications from the Veterans
Of Foreign Wars and Direct Credits
Society were received and placed on
file.
The cafeteria report for the month
OF December was received and placed
on file.
Trustee Steele moved the adoption
Of the following resolution:
Resolved, that, whereas, the School
District q the City Of WyandOtte has
recently received by deed Of gift from
Mary F. Bacon and John r. Bacon
and his wife and Milton Bacon. the
Bacon home for library and educa-
tional purposes, and
Whereas, this Board by it's resOlu-
ton Of December 2. 1910 recommend
ed to the City Council the sale Of the
old library site conditioned upon the
reservation by the said City Council
Of the use Of approximately the east
erly 40 feet Of the city hall site for
library purposes, which rec0mmenda-
ton and reservation was acted upon
and affirmed By q resolution Of the
City Council under date Of December
o, 1910,
Now, therefore, In view Of the fore
going this Board Of Education does
hereby release and relinQuish the
aforesaid reservation of the use OF the
above described property by. fine City
Of WyandOtte to the School District
of the City OF wyandotte.
BE ii further resolved. that the See
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-01-08
MARI e. Catalan, Attorneys
WyandOtte Savings Bank Blde.
Wyand0tte- Mieh

STATE OF MICHIGAN, The Pro
bate Court for the County Of Wayne.
No. 1868
In the matter of the estate of
KATHRYN (CATHERINE) LEATH-
ERS, deceased. Notice Is hereby given
that all creditors Of said deceased
are required to present their claims
In writing and under oath, to said
Court at the Probate Office irs the
City of Detroit, in said County and
to serve a copy thereof upon G orge
ii. feathers, administrator Of sa es-
tate, at ia Poplar Street, Wyan otte,
Michigan on or before the secOn day
Of March, AID. 1913, and that such
claims will be heard by said cou be-
fore Judge Patrick H. O'Brie in
Court room No. 800, Wayne c. fnty
Building In the City Of DetrOi in
said County, on the second. d. of
March. AID. 1913, at two o'clock in
the afternoon.
Dated December u, AID. 1912
PATRICK III. O'BRIEE.
Judge Of Probate.
Published in WyandOtte Herald
once in each week for three weeks
successfully, within thirty days from
the date hereof. 52w3
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-01-08
BOAT LOVERS:

Boat Lovers: ] have IS feet OF river
frontage ON Crosse lie, 3A3 feet deep
adjoining the estate OF Ii. General
WIN. 5. Knudsen.
This property ID nice and highs over.
looking the Detroit River. Win sell
tor less than assessed value.
Owner. Victor c. Gnau, Crosse lie
Michigan. Iva
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-01-08
CHARLES w. KOCH
General Insurance
1918 MeCann Read
RID. I. Wyandette
TELEPHONE 7O62-R-2
Australian Gold-Mining Center

AuStr1h1n Goio-mfning Center
A Western Australian gold-minine
center. Kalgoorlie, which ut one
time produced q considerable por-
ton Of the worlds supply, - not yet
q ghost town." but has been hard
hit By the drain of the war program
on personnel.
Before the war many of the most
important mines were working three
shifts day and employing more
than 1000 men. Today there are
not more than 1000 miners in The
field and production, which had been
more than 500, 900 fine ounces q
year. has fallen sharply.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-01-08

This is ic certify that the above
vouchers amounting to $6SO19.24 have
been examined; that the articles or
services called for have been received
that prices and computations are cor
rect; that all invoices. receiving no
tices and supporting data are attached
and in order, and that the proper ac
counts have been charged.
The treasurer is hereby authorized
TO pay the above vouchers.
ChaS. III. Block,
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-01-08

The Egyptian pyramids were built
from 5000 B. c. to 1900 B. G.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-01-08
BOARD OF EDUCATION

V4hRA Htoe00o3
January (. 1913.
A regular meeting of, the Board Of
Education Of the School District Of
the City Of Wyandotte was held In the
Roosevelt High School On Monday.
January 4. The meeting was called to
order at Z IS Pm. by the president.
Charles III. Block. There were pre-
sent: Trustees Altman. Block, Har-
riOtt. HOmeister. and Steele. Absent {:
Trustees jacobson and McInerney.
Trustee Harriott moved that the
minutes Of the regular meeting Of De
eember =, 1912 stand approved as re-
corded.
Trustee Steele seconded the motion.
Ayes: Trustees Altman, Block. Har-
riOtt, Hometster, Steele.
Nays: None.
The motion was carried.
Trustee McInerney arrived at this
time.
The bills and accounts were read.
Authorization sheets Nos. 3J1-2.
Semi-MOnthly Pay Ron 49, 4.481 .9S
Secretary Of the Treasury go, 10000
Transfer Of Cash to Bank Ac-
count No. 5 - 1871
Semi-Monthly Pay Rob - 424.26
Teachers Retirement Fund
Board ------------------ 1.sO.9s
Non Teaching retirement
Fund Board - 2J2 AZ
War Workers Training Pay
ROl 6JO.SS
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-01-08

!, Pennsylvania, 1812
Lancaster was the capital Of Penn
sylvania from 1893 to 1912.
Evening star., 1943-07-24

the Wage and Hour Act-under
which the pay is claimed-went into
effect. An arrangement of that sort
can be considered nothing more than
a bold attempt to get around the
Little Steel' formula limiting pay
increases.
1t is reported unoff1cially from the
War Labor Board that some conces-
sions might be made, but the boards
record in coal and other industries
supports the belief that these will fall
far short of the proposals now ad-
vanced even though Mr.. Lewis is now
ready and willing to plead his case
in person. The board made its stand
clear in rejecting the miners de-
mands for 50 daily increase in the
Appalachian area where the contract
customarily serves as model for the
Illinois mines, citing the inflationary
aspect of such an increase. That
would seem to be the answer in this
instance also.
Evening star., 1943-07-24
Sinking the Issue

From the Christian Science Monitor.
Inflation-higher living costs-is today
taxing the average family Is per cent.
Moreover, the dizzy spiral caused by each
organized group pressing for higher pay
or prices threatens to break out of all
control. If it should, the damage will be
only less than that from an invasion.
The remedy7 First, awareness of the
danger. There are so many producing
groups who find mild imitation very
pleasant that. only an awakened and
militant stand by the great body of con-
sumers will make it politically possible
to lay the taxes and maintain the wage
and price controls that will stop imitation.
But Canada has done it. And so has
Britain. BY Spartan methods. Britain
last year devoted only 81 per cent Of
her national income to civilian con-
sumption. The American figure was 70
per cent ian actual increase of nearly 10
per cent over 1880.
Evening star., 1943-07-24
Welcome Decline

Today'S news that the cost of living
for city dwellers fell, in the month
ending June IS, for the first time
since the year before Pearl Harbor
does not mean that the battle against
imitation is won. But it is encourag-
ing news for number of reasons.
In the first place, the drop in food
prices was ahead of the normal sea-
sonal decline. That means that
further reductions may be expected
for the next two months, at least.
The rollback on meat prices is not
reflected in the report made public
today, and it will help next months
showing. Victory gardens are prov
ing their value, They influenced last
months prices and will count even
more next month. The once lowly
potato, which usually rises in price
this time Of year, led everything
else with 9 per cent drop last
month. This was due, in part at
least, to the fantastic potato prices
about twice what they were last
year-and to the early shipments
which broke the market, assisted by
OPA's enforcement of mark-up regu-
lations. OPAs subsidy prices on but
ter, and price ceilings on canned
fruits and vegetables, contributed to
food price reductions.
The cost of living is still 23.8 per
cent above January, 1941, base date
for the Little Steel formula, and rs
per cent above the May, 1912, level,
when OPA began retail price control.
Food prices are As per cent above
January of 1941 and about 16 per
cent over May of last year. But there
is a tendency to read these figures
alone, without relation to the money
available to meet the cost of living
Industrial wages have increased
more than the cost of living. The
cost of food takes a smaller per-
centage of the average consumers
wages today than it did before the
war.
Commenting on the demand by Or
ganized labor leaders for subsidized
price rollbacks, the President said
yesterday that labor is in the same
predicament as everybody else, with
costs rising and wages frozen. This
is true, except that organized labor
generally has benefited by wage
raises exceeding living cost increases,
while the unorganized millions, the
people on fixed income, have been in
a much worse predicament And
they will be in an even worse predica-
ment should the leaders of organized
labor, restive as they naturally are
over price increases, fail to give con-
tinued support to wage stabilization,
without which any form of price
control will be futile.
Evening star., 1943-07-24
Open City

We know the American military
authorities took every reasonable
precaution to confine their lombard
ment to military objectives in Rome.
If the attack accomplished anything
to facilitate victory for our troops,
and undoubtedly it did. it requires no
apology. But If we are to be realistic
about the matter from our point of
view, nothing is lost in trying to be
equally candid in understanding the
implications Of demand, on our
part, that Mussolini prevent further
bombardment by declaring Rome an
open city" When he does that, he
will to all intents and purposes be
capitulating.
International law, or what there
is Of 1t, does not recognize an open
Evening star., 1943-07-24
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trdce1Uell.

Have you noticed the locust leaves
falling down, yellow and sere just as in
autumn?
That is the work of the leaf miner.
The larvae do the dirty work.
They bore through the leaves after
the protein content.
Once the damage is seen, in falling
leaves at the wrong time of year, it is
too late to do anything about it.
The damage has been done.
But it is not much damage, after all,
according to the scientists.
They say that no ultimate harm will
come to the locust trees.
Experiments over long period, and
examination of the growth rings OF trees,
shows that they are not harmed.
This will be welcome news to admirers
of the various locusts.
While the oak and naples and many
others are praised far beyond the locust,
it is tree which has many good points.
More practically, it is one tree which
Is found everywhere in suburban WASH
ington, especially in nearby Maryland.
1t is the tree which one finds in the
newly purchased property.
Often the sudden ownership of trees
seems to outweigh the ownership of a
house!
If they are locusts, one may perhaps
have to listen to these words from
friends:
Those old locusts are no good. Their
roots are too shallow. They will blow
down in the next storm"
The tall locust. standing sturdily after
many years, must smile inwardly at the
cocksure words
The leaf-miner not only brings the
leaves down, but it deposits brownish
stains on houses, and makes "flyspecks'
on clean clothes hung on the line
The miner is dull orange with a black
stripe.
The creature is rather narrow, at least
twice as long as broad
This summer has seen the worst in
festation in the past 13 years in Mary
land
Literally thousands Of them have ap-
peared, after coming out of the larval
stage
They do not seem to be afraid of one,
but remain where they are on leaves
4 X
Birds will eat them, but there are so
many of them that the songsters cannot
make a dent In their numbers.
Evening star., 1943-07-24

city" by that term. Article Is of The
Hague Convention Of 1907 says 1.-THE
attack or bombardment, by whatever
means, of towns, villages, dwellings
or buildings which are undefended is
prohibited" In actual practice this
has been taken to mean that it is
permissible to lombard Notifications,
depots or other such military objec-
tives in an "undefended" city. But
to be undefended, city must be
evacuated by military forces and
within the city there was to be no
resistance to occupation.
The President may have offered
the Italian authorities precise terms
to meet the situation under which
Rome would be recognized as an
"open city" But as war industries
and important airports are located in
and around Rome, and as the city is
the focal rail point from Northern to
Southern Italy as we'll as the capital,
to declare it undefended in even a
legalistic sense evidently would
mean its evacuation by troops, the
diversion of railroad traffic over
other routes and possibly the aban-
donment or transfer of munitions
plants. With the enemy still fight
ing to win Sicily, a declaration by
Mussolini that Rome was an open
city" undoubtedly would mean that
he was through.
In this war Rotterdam and Bel
grade were unable to escape terrific
bombardment by being declared open
cities. Paris, Brussels and Manila
were spared, generally speaking, but
as a prelude to assured victory by
the invaders.
Evening star., 1943-07-24
Illinois Coal Woqe

Ihe contract negotiated by the
United Mine Workers with the
Illinois Coal Operators Association
which the Policy Committee would
like to see adopted uniformly-would
be a marked tribute to the bargain
ing abilities of John L. Lewis-if it
were permitted to become effective.
Government approval is not likely.
Stripped to it's essentials, the con-
tract provides So per day increase
for a six-day week, thereby raising
the weekly income of the miners to
$3.50 This would be accomplished
by putting the mines on an eight
hour day, instead of the seven now
in force, with overtime for the eighth
hour at the rate of time and one
half: granting underground travel
(portal-to- -portaD pay, and adding
the equipment allowance recently
authorized by the War Labor Board
In the Appalachian fields.
The foremost barrier in the way of
Government sanction is the fact that
the operators condition the pact on
a boost in the price of coal to Offset
the wage expenditure. To permit
this would be flat reputation of
President Roosevelt's hold-the-lin
stabilization order. To start with,
there has been no showing that six
hour increase in the work week could
be justified by the production needs
of the country. Several months ago,
the work week was heightened from
five to six days at the instance of
Fuels Administrator Ickes, and it is
to be assumed that this schedule was
considered sufficient. It might be
recalled in this connection, that the
Office of Price Administration au-
thorized an increase in the price of
coal at the same time to care for the
higher production.
The devious method of calculation
on the portal-to-portal issue is an
other argument against the contract.
When the War Labor Board refused
to make a portal portal award in
the Appalachian wage dispute, it sug-
gested that this point might be
resolved either by a court test, or
through negotiation. The "negotia-
ton" In the Illinois contract pro-
duced result under which the oper-
ators offer a $125 daily rate which
would include back pay to 1888 when
Evening star., 1943-07-24
Letters to the Editor
British Statesmen Younger

British Statesmen Younger
Than Their American Contemporaries
To the Editor of The Star:
Blair BolleS, in an interesting article on
his recent visit to Sweden and England,
writes: The Parliaments remain mute
and plant on the major issues. The op-
position parties do not oppose"
But so far as the British Parliament
Is concerned 1t is by no means mute"
as any one can ascertain who reads the
reports of its debates. There is nearly
as much criticism, and nearly as many
day to-day questions put to ministers
and answered by them, as in peacetime.
OF course, the opposition party does
not oppose, because, being part of ma
tional government representative of all
parties, it no longer exists as an oppo-
sition. Since Conservatives, Liberals and
Laborites all know that they are repre-
sented by their own men in the cabinet,
how can they oppose the cabinet?
Mr.. Bolles says: The one obvious de-
feet in the truce is that it smothers the
growth of new politicians the
British government is manned in the
main by men far advanced in years, y
and the only instance he gives is that
of the ever-youthful Mr.. Churchill.
Mr.. Bolles is astonishingiy inaccurate
about his men far advanced in years.
Who are they? According to who's
Who" the number of young men in the
British government today is exception
ally large. A young cabinet minister it
will be conceded generally, is one in his
sos, a very young one is in his 40s.
Here are the names Of some leading
British ministers with their ages and
beside them the corresponding American
ministers with theirs: Anthony Eden
46-Cordell Hull II: Herbert Morrison
55-Harold Ickes SO; Hugh Dalton S.
Jesse Jones SO; Albert Alexander 58-Mr.
Knox So; Sir James Grigg 53-Mr. Stim-
son IS; Sir David Fyfe 43-Mr. Biddle
ST; Capt. Crookshank 50-Mr. Walker 81;
Brendan Bracken 42-Elmer Davis 81.
These are by no means exceptional as
the following, who have nc exact Amer
ican equivalents, will show: Oliver
Lyttelton, so; Richard Casey, SO; Oliver
Stanley Colonial secretary, A.; Sir
Archibald Sinclair (Air Minister, 53;
Sir Stafford Cripps, 81; Viscount Gran
borne, so, and R. A. Butler, Al; all full
ministers and not assistant secretaries.
AS to "smothering the growth of new
politicians" here are a few men practi-
cally unknown at the outbreak of war
who now hold high ministerial rank:
Sir John Anderson, Oliver Lyttelton, Sir
James Grigg, Sir Andrew Duncan. Lord
Leathers, Lord Portal, Lord Woolton,
Lord Chevwell, Col. Llewelin. and there
are many others.
Mr.. Bolles goes on to dispose of the
British Financial Secretary: 1T is ques-
tionable," he says. whether Sir Kingsley
Wood is capable Chancellor of the
Exchequer" and adds not a word of
justification. But Sir Kingsley has held
his post for several years through num-
ber of cabinet reshuff1es, and his COL
leagues do not seem to share Mr.. Bolles'
opinion
ERIC UNDERWOOD.
Evening star., 1943-07-24

Just why some years have them and
others do not remains mystery.
The scientists know that various in
sects come in what seem to be cycles.
One year they will be bad" another
year, maybe the very next there will be
few of them SEEN
If we might judge, the leaf-miner
likes hot, humid summer.
There are various types of leaf-miners
at work in all seasons.
Some of them go to work on flowers,
including the chrysanthemum and the
columbine.
Experts can tell, by examining a leaf,
which types of miners have been there.
Each miner leaves its own pattern.
Some are like little snakes, and these,
as might be imagined, are called devil
marks" in the country districts.
Some patterns are starlike.
Some types eat out the middle section
OF the leaves, while others bore in the
upper half, or the lower half only.
Sometimes all the leaf is eaten away
except the veins.
Occasionally one of these leaves may
be found if very sharp lookout is kept.
The lacy outlines of the vein system
is displayed as if patterned on paper.
+* *
Often human being, in a world at
war, thinks that if he could find an
island somewhere, he would be willing
to go, and be at peace.
But if history has not shown him al
ready the futility of such dream, the
life history of the leafminers should.
One would think, offhand, that the
eggs and larvae of the miner, deposited
in leaf would be safe, but research
tells us that certain smaller insects de-
posit their eggs through the leaf surface
into the bodies of the larvae.
Nor are these the only enemies of the
larvae
Certain golden-eyed flies pierce the
leaves and eat the larvae by sucking
them right out of the leaf.
few of the smaller birds slit open
the mines to get at the larvae
Others eat the smallest leaves whole.
30 IL may De seen that all nature Is
working for and against everything else,
and that when pest shows up. in Ger
tain years, there are many creatures
ready to prey on it.
Let us keep in mind that leaves now
falling, riddled by the leaf miners, should
be kept swept up and then destroyed
In any event, it is satisfactory to
know that no lasting damage will come
to our trees.
Evening star., 1943-07-24
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
By Frederic J. Hnskin.

reader con get the dnsuer to anu
question OF fact by ,Driting The Epe-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Haskin, director, Washington.
D. c. Please inclose stamp for return
postage.
O. When did the japanese invade
Manchuria ?-H. s.
A. Japan invaded Manchuria in Sep
tember, 1881.
O. Is member of the United States
Army or Navy permitted to accept a
decoration from a foreign government?
w. r. NJ.
A. Public 671 of the Seventy-seventh
Congress. approved July 20, 1912, per-
mits any foreign decoration to be be-
slowed on members Of any Of our armed
forces by co-belligerent governments
which Is bestowed on the armed forces
of those countries, without congressional
permission.
Evening star., 1943-07-24
The Sailor

His thoughts are like brook that
al,DdyS runs 20
To,Uard the ocean. He torgetS the
chores,
Leans on the plow, and slips the
Sldckened rei1S
Uneasy as the leaUes on the
sycdmores -
The s,Dell of oray-green depths rolls
through his dream. in
Wave on blue Uaue OF hills pile to
the sky %.
And at his feet a sea of grasses bloom.
He aches to hear the soaring sea
gulls cry. ,o
Unhook the leather trace and
1ohif7etree.
Unhitch the team, and push tn
hills apart
The inland cannot keep him from ths
sea 10
When tides are al,pays pulling at
his heart.
INEZ GEORGE GR1DLEY... :.
Evening star., 1943-07-24
ERIC UNDERWOOD.
Influence of War
Upon Composers HurtfuL.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Much of the music that has come from
Europe since World War No. / reveals
the tragic effect of that conflict upon
the composers of belligerent nations.
many things that awaken ones pity:
The absence of any spiritual quality; the
futile efforts to maintain cohesion and
orderly development Of ideas. which
hang here and there to the skeleton of
form-gruesomely suggestive; the delib-
crate substitution of footless harmonic
distortions for discords that are logical
and effective because of the conveyance
Of contrapuntal voices; the hideous
starkness Of melody and harmony-with
Evening star., 1943-07-24

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