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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12
Meat Ration


Washington, Feb. - -AP-Bab-
les. children. and adults all will
get the same meat allowance when
the rationing plan goes into opera.
ton. now expected about March IS
Officials of the Office of Price
Administration said today that they
had failed 10 find any sensible or
workable plan OF graduating meat
rations according to age, and are
making final plans on the basis Of
everyone getting the same amount.
This will. in effect. give an ex-
ira allotment of meat TO parents
OF babies OPA wanted to avoid
that. but the only alternative was
hot 10 allow any meat at all for
very small children Since teeth
ing babies consume at least a small
amount OF meat. especially bacon.
the rejected plan would have forced
parents TO divide their meager ra.
tions with the small children. The
mechanics OF coupon rationing did
not seem to permit any sliding
scale.
March IS is the date that OPA Is
shooting at in It's planning on
meat. It would prefer an earlier
date in the hope that rationing
will equalize the current supply,
which is only fair in some commun.
tiles and almost nonresident in
others.
Delaying the program. possibly
beyond March rs. are a thousand
details. especially evsluation OF
meats in terms Of points.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12

Washington. Feb. IL lNS-Hav.
ing already ordered more investiga-
lions than any Of its recent prede.
cessors. the 18th Congress today
squared away to probe Washing
tons Loo departments. bureaus.
commissions AMI boards from one
end to the other.
With open warfare on bureauCra-
cy as its keynote. the new Con
gress. although less than seven
weeks old. has authorized is sep
arate investiga lions into activities
of the executive branch OF the gov.
eminent.
The House. sensitive to the re.
ent Novcmbe~ elections, has led
the way by ordering II Of the
probes. many OF them OF sweeping
hararter. In both branches. the
pattern has been similar-to In.
qulre into three aspects. personnel
expenditures AID policies.
Here are the Investigations that
have been set up.
Into soysgnment asrsanHs-ths
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12
TownshipNot
With City on
Election Time
Rural Area Goes
Hour Late For
Monday Vote

Ypsilan;i viii vote on Eastern
War Time Monday and Npsilanti
Township will vote on Easte' 4
Standard Time. Thus the polls VIII
open an hour later in the township
than in the city. The hours in each
case have been set at : a IN. TO s
p. m.
II will be the annual primary
election at which candidates VIII
be chosen for the spring election.
In Ypsilanti Bert c. Gillette and
Ben /. Meyer will oppose each other
for the Office OF constable in the
second district: and Howard w.
Dawson and George VI. Gaudy will
oppose each other for the long term
office OF supervisor in the first dis
trict.
Voting places in the FIVE wards
of the city are: first ward, rear po-
lice station. II S. Washington St;
second ward G AR Hall, 10 Peal
St; third ward. city hall, 30i y.
Huron St: fourth ward, city store
house. 41O y. River ST. fifth ward,
Woodruff School. first floor f.
Michigan Ave.
All ave candidates on the Re
publican ticket. The charter spring
election is scheduled for April e.,
Workers assigned to the various
voting places are: first ward, Hen
~ Frain CD. Bertha NJ. Sthill
(Rl. Mrs Ruth c. Leck t(RI:
second ward. Mrs. Leone Burrell
(R). John Cabaret CD, Mrs. Mabel
]. Hover (Rl: third ward, George
Ellsworth (D); Miss Miriam O..
Barton CR). Arold Brown (R):
fourth ward, Grace Jordan tRD. Ed
mund Block (R). Pearl Wagner
DJ fifth ward, Effiner Kramer
tR). Edwin H. Block (R). and Mrs.
Evelyn Cady CD.
There are only two confess for
office in Ypsilanti Township for
the primary election Monday-for
the board Of review and the Justice
ship OF the peace. The candidates
are. supervisor. Otis \. Tooze
clerk, Lillian Sheppard; treasurer.
Nelson d. Boutell: board OF re-
view, Orsay Darling. Al l.. Bales:
justice Of the peace, Ferdinand
Palma. William H. Gallaher: con
stables, William L. Colts. Lowell
Bellen tfour to be nominated).
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12
See DORMITORY-Page S
Conspiracy In
WPB Claimed

Washington, Feb. 12-lNS-Scn.
Tom Stewart CD Tenn. a member
Of the Senate Small Businoss Com
mittee, today said that he plans a
Senate speech next week in which
he will charge existence of con
spiracy within the War Production
Board to destroy small business.
There Is evidence that there de
finitely is a group in the WPB in
tent on destroying small business
and already hundreds Of firms have
been driven out OF existence SAID
Stewart.
He plans to carry on attacks on
WPB which began in the Senare
yesterday when Sen. Harry Tru-
man CD Mo, chairman OF the War
Investigating committee. protested
against custer of Lou Holland A.
chairman OF the WPB smaller
plants corporation and his replace
ment by Col. Robert Woods John
son.
The declared intention OF Stew
art. who asserted that the motive
behind the attack on small busine
Is the desire TO create huge mono
poles. presaged a bitter feud be-
tween the Senate and War Produr.
ton Board Chairman Donald "
Nelson.
Truman charged that the Smaller
Plants Corporation. set up by Con
gress with $i50.OOO.000 capital to
obtain war contracts for small
firms. was blocked by indu trial
lists in the WPB, including many
81 year men.
The Senate attack was climaycd
by the declaration OF Democratic
Senate Leader Barkley that he had
held his tongue ia his eheeF' long
enough on the question of failure NJ
the Smaller War Plants Corpora.
ton.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12
Solons Seek to
Adjourn Quickly

Lansing, Mich, Feb. 12-INS-A
move was underfoot in the legisla-
ture today for speedy adjournment
The trend toward quick compile
ton Of legislative business was
paced by Sen. George p. McCallum.
OF Ann Arbor He told his fellow
senators that they were unpatrio-
tie 10 ask FOR needless DELAYS o.
routine bills.
III there are any Of these bills
YOU don't understand McCallum
told the senators. speak up and
we will hold them over and answer
your questions.
but let me toll you its not only
unpatriotic but absolutely coward.
ly TO sit around here day after day
and do nothing
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12
Allies Drive Forward
EiSht Miles TuniSia
in
Command
i'm Africa
ROmmel Decides to
Make Stand in
S. Tunisia

(By lnternationa, News Seryic)
Allied armies IN Tunisis today
stepped mp the drive. 10 Gust the
Axis from their last African strong
hold and repeatedly scored TN
eightmile advance In sudden Of
fenslye on the Mateur sector. ~
miles southwes, Of the port ot
Bizerte.
As Gen. Dwight ID. Eisenhowsr,
Ahfed commandments. took
over fun command OF the Tunisian
campaign. the British eighth army
was reported battling the Afriaa
Korps G5 miles within the border.
Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rom
mel abandoned bis tactics OF re-
treat and fhrew.tank and motorized
units against the advancing British
army. Sharp skirmishes were ga ID
to he raging in south Tunisia within
As miles OF the fortified Msrcth
line
smsshes Ahead
= The Russian offensive smashed
ahead in eastern Europe whers
Axis armies continued their retreat
westward towards the Dnieper Kiy-
er line. running from Kiey to tho
Black Sea. Soviet Nanguards wee
within So miles OF the Dnieper
after capturing LoZoyaya, vital
rail point 20 miles south OF khar-
koy.
Axis communications from khar-
koy south. and west TO Kiev on
the line from Voronezh.
Stockholm reports said Red
Armies were within six TO ten
miles OF KharkCv and were laying
a heavy artillery barrage on the biz
kraine industrial city. a supply
point for the whole Nazi defense
line from Orel TO the Caucasus.
Soviet commando forces we're ~
ported 10 have landed on the Black
Sea coast near Novorossisk, west
ern Caucasus port, in a determined
drive 10 block retreat OF shattered
Axis divisions to the Crimea. MT
ler's western defense lines were
blasted again in a night raid by
British bombers. A Berlin radio
broadcast said targets in northwest
Germany were attacked In "ntis-
ance raids" which caused minor
damage.
Not Confirmed
The German report was not con.
frmed by the British air ministry
which previously had announced
daylight attacks on occupied France
and Holland American-made Bos.
ton bombers bore the brunt Of
Thursdays assaults.
Japanese invasion forces in tbs
Southwest Pacific suffered add.
tional defeats as Australian Jungle
fighters under command OF Gen.
Douglas Macarthur beat OF enemy
attacks in the Wan district and
forced them 10 fall back on Mubo,
only 10 miles south OF Salamaua.
Since January 30 enemy losses
in New Guinea were estimated at
1000 dead and larger number
wounded
The single japanese success was
the reported sinking OF a small
Allied vessel on the Australian
east coast
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12

PORTLAND. Ore ms With
eiy bodies alreadv recovered from
;he floods wollen waters OF the
Columbia River. divers and deputy
sherffs today searched for four
other persons believed drowned
when the tugboat May capsized
while carrying a load OF shipysrd
workers from the Oregon shore 10
Vantouver. Wash. or the estimated
10 aboard. nine others. including
four women. were rescued.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12
Congress Today

tBy Associated Press)
Senate-in recess.
Agriculture Subcommittee starts
investigation OF food. labor and
farm machinery supply 1880 a.
m. Eastern War Time).
House-in recess
Ways and Means Committee
seeks more data on Ruml tax plan
GQ:30J.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12
Flashes of
Late News
THE WEATHER: Tonight:
Somewhat Warmer

ALBANY, Ore.-INS-Robert L.
Folkes. 90, train cook accused Of
the lower 10" murder OF a young
Navy ensign's bride. will face a
county grand jury next Thursday al
Albany. it was announced today
by District Attorney Harlow Vein
rick.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12

BEVERLY HILLS. Cal.--INS -
John W. Considlne, ST., so, pioneer
Snowman who brought Charles
Chaplin to the United States some
so years ago. was dead today fol-
lowing a four.week illness. Ply
sicians attributed the death to a
heart ailment.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12

BERKELEY. Cal. ms Mrs.
Edythe White Lane, ~. wanted for
alleged completely in a 1881 mur.
der in the nations capital await.
ed arrival Of Washington author.
tiles today, following issuance Of
fugitive warrant by Judge Oliver
loungs. Jr. Arrested Sunday on
a drunk charge. Mrs. Lane told of
ficers she was wanted in Washing.
ton in connection with the murder
OF Mrs. Lizzie Jaynes, teashop EN-
ploye, during a holdup which net.
ted $100
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12

TAMPA, Fla.-UP A closed
shop agreement between the Tam
pa Ship Building Company and Il
American Federation of Labor IN.
ions was in discard today by order
OF Circuit Judge L. l.. Parks. Parks
in a ruling yesterday asserted that
the plant was doing war work and
a closed shop should be cast aside
for the duration.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12

NEW YORK-UP-Omcials fear
ed today that they would have. to
close 80 Of New York City's $50
public buildings because of a fuel
oil shortage. City Fuel Oil Adj
ministrator Edwin A. Salmon said
the Pennsylvania Avenue court.
house in Brooklyn also would have
TO close.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12

WASHINGTON-AP - Govern
ment food authorities may soon
give farmers and consumers a
chance to use the power of local
public opinion TO end black mar.
ket operations in meats and other
scarce commodities. a plan to
place enforcement Of government
regulations relating to slaughter
ing and marketing in the hands of
local farmer COMMITTEES, rationing
boards and civic groups is being
formed by the Office of Price A 1.
ministrstion and the Agriculture
Department.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12

MONTREAL-INS- Loss OF IS
liyes-thirteen passengers and five
crew members when n ROYAL Air
Force ferry command bomber
crashed Tuesday night at New
foundland was revealed officially
today. Identity of those killed
and circumstances OF the accident
were withheld pending investiga-
ton and the notifying of the vic
Tins next OF kin.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12

WASHINGTON-AP- Attorney
General Biddle visited the capitol
this week for the specific purpose,
it was learned today, OF offering
the Justice Departments coopera-
ton to the House Appropriations
Subcommittee appointed to investi-
gate charges OF subversion among
government employees.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12

DANTONA BEACH, Fla. ms
Charged with assault, William X.
Boyle, %. of Gainesville, Fla. was
held for action by the grand jury
under $4,000 bond today following
accusations by % year old mem
Der OF the Woman Army Auxiliary
Corps at the second training cen
ter in Daytona Beach. The WAC
testified in Justice OF the Peace
A. f. Donovan's court that she per
mitted Boyle TO seduce her in or.
der to silence his threats against
her life.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12

ALEXANDRIA, AP - A deci-
sion Is expected TO be reached
shortly regarding disposition OF the
French fleet which has been i'm.
modified here since the fall OF
France. This fleet remains the
only French fighting force outside
metropolitan France which has
not reioined the battle against the
Axis.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12

MARTINS FERRY. o. ms
Physicians today we're searching
frantically for a blood donor in an
effort to save the life OF nine year
old William Gavorcik. OF nearby
Adena. who is near death in Mar.
tins Ferry Hospital. Not an or
binary blood donor will do. Ply
sicians explained the donor must
have suffered and recovered from
sub-acute bacterial endorcarditis.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-02-12

NEW YORK-INS- Higrlight-
ed by sculptured interpretations of
the -four freedoms and voiced by
the four great leaders OF the Unit
ed Nations. a gigantic exhibit OF
this is our war was opened in
Rockefeller Center today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-19
THOUSANDS FLEE
 WESTERN FLOODS

Swollen rivers spilled over mii- lions of acres of unharveSted crops in five states Wednesday forcing thousands of farmland families to flee their homes in one of the worst floods in a decade.
 At least three persons were drowned and hundreds were report ed missing as waters rose rapidly in Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Okla homa, and Missouri. Damage was estimated in the millions of dollars.
 The flood crests of a dozen Illinois streams swept downstream toward the rising Mississippi already out of it's banks in the St. Louis area. At least million and one half acres of rich farmland were reported un- der water in Illinois alone.
 Gov. Henry Schricker of Indiana ordered out two companies of the state guard to battle the raging Wabash and White rivers in an eff fort to avert the worst flood in h. diana in 30 years. Many war pro- duction plants were closed as the waters rose to basement levels.
 In Oklahoma and Kansas hun dreds of persons made homeless by heavy floods last week again were forced to seek refuge in the high lands,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-19

had used $5O0OO,0O0 of it to pay off mortgages to only six of many insurance companies. They have paid a great deal more since then. The question here is not, How do they happen to have 50 much money?" but, How did they hap pen to be so badly in debt?'
 The farmer gets about 75 cents of the consumers dollar for his pigs, according to MT. Lacey's figures, which would seem absurd to a housewife buying chops from pig that sold in the yard for 15 cents a pound, except that hogs do not consist entirely of choice ham and chops. That is the highest relative return. Beef returns about 70 per cent of the consumers dollar to the farmer white flour a little over 40 per cent, corn flakes slightly over 25 per cent, almost the same figure as oatmeal. Soda crackers return the farmer about 10 per cent for his wheat.
 Oranges do about 35 per cent dIlu IlldICdl Oll ldllO d JlVe1C oAIOl U of 20 per cent.
 NO "PORKY GRANULES"
 What this means, bluntly, Is that the less processing you buy, the more nourishment you will get for your money. No one has yet learned to prepare Porky Granules from hogs and pack them in cellophane, so the farmer and consumer come out reasonably well on meat.
 After the packing scandals of many years ago it is only decent to mention that the boys are be- ing fair now-there's lots of com petition. The inspected steak you bought last night was reasonably priced, at current levels, unless it was bought from a black market.
 The farmers will take the blame for the prices on a black market which gives them no extra returns and for which they have bitter disapproval. The farmer has no quarrel with the legal prices which enable him to pay up some of the debts incurred during his def1ation, 20-odd years ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-19

recruit enough American soldiers and furnish them with enough munitions--if we can't who can? to trim any one, in time.
 But we have here a situation which has changed from the use of farmhands to that of experts. Otherwise, the tremendously in- creased production of products by fewer men with less power over that of the past generation must be explained, and no informed per son will believe any explanation except that expert farming is now being done by expert farmers.
 My farmer, Sam, and his son Vernon and their wives run about three quarters sections for me out in Iowa. Sam will be a hundred years old in 1868 if a snake doesn't bite him or train hit him. He is one of the three best farmers in southeastern Iowa. Sam would be the first to admit that he is not as spry as he was in 1900, neverthe- less, I would not trade him for four football players.
 Sans administration, his ability
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-19
Catholic University
 Awards Scholarships
Graduate Fellowship Also Announced; Six Nuns In= cluded in List of Recipients By Mgsr. Mccormick

Washington, D. C., May 19-(Spe- ciaD Twenty one graduate fellow ships and scholarships in the Cath olic University of America for the academic year 1943-44 eight for men students, seven for lay women and six for Catholic nuns were an nounced yesterday by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Patrick J. Mccormick, rector of the institution. Ranging in value from $500 for the tuition scholar ships to l,2O0 for the felloWships, the grants provide for years study in history, philosophy, chemistry, psychology, biology, sociology, educa- tion, speech ana drama and the various languages, in the graduate departments of the university.
 ReappOintments
 Four men students, one lay Wom- en and two nuns were reappointed to the fellowships and scholarships to which they were originally named last year. The fourteen other grants were new awards, with the selec- tions being made on competitive examinations or on a basis of work performed in undergraduate col leges.
 Reappointed to fellowships en- doWed by the Knights of Columbus were George c. Boehrer, of Hewlett, L. l. to continue his work in his tory; James D. Collins, of Holyoke, Mass, a student in philosophy; and John Duffie, of Fredericton. New Brunswick, and Sigismund J. Nie- gowski, of Philadelphia now in the Department of chemistry. Other grants renewed include the Univer- sity tuition scholarship now held by Miss Ellen c. Dunn, of Baltimore, who will continue her work in Eng fish: Sister Mary Rosalie Brady, O. s. F. of Syracuse, N. Y, taking graduate work in French on a tui- ton scholarship, and Sister M. Ger trude Keckeissen, of Mt. St. Vincent College on the Hudson, who now holds the Anna Hope Hudson grant for work in psychology
 New appointments to Knights of Columbus fellowships were award CN OO w AlAdll 1OC1 de, VI OP- per Darby. Pa. and Francis Mc- Quade, of Harrisburg. Pa., who will take philosophy, and Charles Stein- metz, of Cincinnati, who will major in speech and drama.
 The Winthrop fellowship for study in biochemistry was awarded to Miss Jane Callahan, of Englewood, N. J. who graduates this year from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland at Baltimore. The Penf1eld fellow ship for studies in diplomacy, inter national affairs and belles-lettres was granted to Nathan A. Pitts principal of the Cardinal Gibbons Institute at Ridge, Md
 Women Students
 University tuition scholarships for lay women were awarded to Miss Eleanor J. Doyle, of Savannah, Ga., for work in Spanish; Miss Pauline Cattaneo, of New York City, in so-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-19

ciology; Miss Regina Reitemier, of Pueblo Colo. in sociology; Miss Mary P. Simmons, of York, Pa. in English and Miss N-arie L. Walsh of Kansas City, Mo. in speech and drama.
 Awards made to nuns included the Clara Douglas Sheeron scholar ship in English to Sister Francis Laughlin, s. M I. c. of the Convent of the Immaculate Conception at Patterson, N. J.; the Sister Mary de Paul Cogan scholarship in education to Sister M. Regina Kavanaugh. C.. $. c. of Dunbarton College, Wash ington, and University tuition grants to Sister Joseph Marie Arm CT, c. c. V. I. of the Academy of the Incarnate Word at San Antonio, Texas, and Sister M. Ann Edward Bennis, s. s. J. of the College of Chestnut Hill, Pa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-19

to plan crops and then use the crops with complete efficiency in producing pork, beef, milk, nut ton, wool, chicken and cash are worth the strong backs of several young men. Carlyle mentioned in "Startor Resartus" that the pistol made all men the same height; mechanization, to great extent, has given them the same strength so that apart from his managerial abilities, Sam was able to spell Vernon a few years ago when weather conditions made it neces- sary to run the tractor of the cul- tivators from dawn to dark.
 A-HOUR SHIFT
 The motor was never stopped. MT. Kimberley, with his large farm at Collins, Iowa, can go this one a little better. One of his tractors is equipped with floodlights and can be operated 24 hours in "A hours.
 In speaking of mechanical prob lens, MT. John Lacey, of the Chi cago Farm Bureau Federation, said What the layman does not appre- ciate or count is the ingenuity of the farmer.
 There are several ways to replace braWn on farms, but skills do not run on gasoline.
 MT. Lacey and John B. Kimberley, one of IoWas four Agricultural Ad- justment Administrations, probably know as much about the field prob lems of farm labor and food pro duction as anyone in the country.
 The Farm Bureau is definitely non-po!itical and we members pay our dues simply for value received in statistical matters relating to markets, information on improved farming techniques, and the gen. eral encouragement and improve ment of agriculture
 NOT REPRESENTATIVE
 To get one small partisan matter out of the way at once, the anomal- ous Farm Bloc in Congress does not represent any clientele that l have been able to discover. The speech of a cotton senator about the farmer" does not concern a pig farmer in Illinois or Nebraska or an orange farmer in Florida or California. And the thing is com plicated by a mongrel Washington alliance with the labor Hobbies.
 MT. Lacey's and MT. Kimberley $ farmers are quite satisfied with prices as they are, provided the prices of pork and beef and the prices of blows and overalls stay at the present reasonable parity. This is not merely the feeling of these two Generals on the food produc- tion front, but the feeling of every farmer talked to in April and in November of last year and again in March, 1943
 PICK UP TWO
 The farmers made some money last year; up to July, 1942, they