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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-09-18

Bridge club last Thursday al the
Alpha House on Eliot street II was
a miscellaneous shower and she re-
ceived some very lovely gifts. Sat-
urday night Louise Grooms. Mamye
Jeferys, Beulah Cain Brewer, Mar
garet Thompson. Ruth Graham and
Beulah Whitby honored her with a
linen shower.
Joya Sherrirs thoughts are In the
South nowadays.
Just heard that the Clarence Brad
fields are parents.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-09-18
JINIBLED JOTTINGS


Il. Leon Burton dashed IN and
out az town before you could say
Jack Robinson" D.t:o Birney
Coker.
Alya Carroll made a short trip 10
savannah Ga. and North Carolina.
Cu;e Barbara Davis s still thrilled
abou; that trip 20 Chicago
Attractive Helen Bryant Glenn
nert. formerly a Detroi;e7. but now
a Yves. Virginian. IS in town with
her young daughter. She IS stopping
With Gladys and Bob Scott.
Jeanne Waundless. Ruth Webb.
Mary ,JefTer.es and Mrs. Andrew
Waundless visited Andrew Wsund-
less Jr.. at Grca: Lakes, III. The
other "sobS" az Grea. Lakes envied
Andrew. - Ana who wouldn't, with
FOUR eyetulls al one time9
TIE Tom Br,scocs are hoping Il.
MI be LITTLE Tom.
Mary Virginia ElIins. nee Ora
ham. has a baby girl, born a; Henry
Ford hospital =
Gladys and Glenn Mills will di.
rect the Sigma Gamma Rho fashion
show this year. per usual II Will
De held al the Art Institute October
= Floss.e Williams IS chairman and
We are looking forward 20 a glamor'
oLs and unusual show
A charming addition 10 Detroit is
Mrs D Hammond. who halls from
New York City. She IS the stately
picturesque beauty shat you read
about but seldom see
Kate French S.nkford was show
cred by her Thursday Morning
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-09-18
A CULTURAL ASPECT

William L. Summers is chairman
Of the Round Table Group that Will
discuss postwar plans, beginning
September - a. the st. Antoine
YMCA
W. c. wooison is seriously III in
Henry Ford hospital.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-09-18
PEOPLE ARE FUNNY

A local business man tells this
one on himself He was attending
a very large convention. On the
night OF the banquet. a finger bowl
was placed before him. He pro-
ceeded % squeeze a piece OF lemon
N IT, add a generous amount OF
sugar. and then calmly drink il
down.
Then. one OF our teachers in the
city system Went 20 her classroom
one morning with her bedroom
slippers on.
A "smartie" walked Up behind a
lady that she thought was an old
friend and yelled Hi. old bag To
her amazement, the odd bag" wasn't
friend at all, but a complete
stranger.
A dignihed grandfather laughed
so hard at a funny movie that he
dropped his upper plate. While
scrambling for them in the dark.
ened theatre. he accidentally touch.
ed young lady's leg She muttered
The old freshie." He replied. Lady,
I'm no freshe,II just lost ny teeth. :
Last, Blu. not least. those droopy.
baggy. dr.ppy rayon hose, that we
women have 20 endure now They
axe funny sight - behold. es-
pee. ally on a gal w.;l thin legs
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-09-18

wire: looks like curtains for poor
Andy" now.
We could go on and on. but your
writer wants to hurry and finish
this. so she can see what Mrs.
Prunetaces next move will be. VIII
Dick Tracy ge: her? Oh! the sus-
pense,u
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-09-18
DETROIT HOSPITALITY

Dorothy Jamerson OF Savannah,
Ga. has been entertained every
minute she has been here. What's
this about Southern hospitality?
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-09-18

Mrs. Elizabeth Austin motored TO
Wherefore with party OF friends
over the holiday weekend.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09
CLERGYMAN MADE PHYSICAL DIRECTOR
Rev. Stanley Gasek, Epis= COpalian Rector in N. Y.,
 Takes Wartime Job

Cape Vincent, N. Y.-Dec. 9-War conditions made 1t possible for Cape Vincent Central School to find a physical director, to replace the coach who resigned recently. The Rev. Stanley P. Gasek, rector of St. Johns Episcopal Church, Cape Vim cent. volunteered to help members of the faculty in running the phy- sicsl education division. The State education department is issuing a special temporary certificate to teach for year, and MT. Gasek plans to coach basketball and foot ball. He was at one time director of playgrounds in Utica, and work ed with the Y. M. c. A. in Geneva. In addition to his Church and school work, MT. Gasek is president of the Watertown Clericus, a mem- ber of the Army Aircraft Warning System, and price panel assistant on the OPA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09
O. Belzg H1 REAL PERSON
BY DR. HARRY EMERSON FOsDICl
Natural Effect of Irreligion Is to
 Deplete Morale

Tho idea, encouraged by preva- lent stress on intelligence quo- tients," that the great work of the world is done mainly by shining geniuses, is mistaken. Some Of the most dispensable helpfulness can be rendered only by those who have struggled with inferiority. The ex- tent and depth of their usefulness Is achieved now despite their defic- iencies, but because of them. They Sublimate what might easily be humili ,tion, into insight, under standing, sympathy. kindliness, eff cient ability. Who has not been in want of personal help that no suc- cessful genius could render? How could he understand?
 It is a matter of profound psy- chological, as well as theological, significance that not Apollo but one who was born in stable and died on @ cross is called Savior. AS Thornton Wilder puts 1t in one of his dramas, "In Loves service only the wounded soldiers can serve."
 Handicaps and limitations are not simply impediments; they can be made into serviceable instruments.
 Such constructive handling is un- likely without a philosophy that gives life meaning and purpose. In distraught and dejected people the question almost inevitably rises: Why should we bother to accept ourselves and try to create an in- tegrated and useful personality out of limited materials, 8 disliked as- signment, or 8 botched mess? At that point we run upon one reason for lungs amous statemnet: Among all my patients in the sec ond half of life-that is to say. over 35-there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them feel III because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given to their followers. and none of them has been really healed who did not re- gain his religious outlook"
 Certainly, irreligion in its ulti- mate view of personal life is dis piriting-lide an accident on one of the minor plants, @ haphazard by product of blind forces. When one is limited in endowment and har- assed by circumstance. when troubles make life seem not worth the living, when one has become miserably neurotic, or when in moral failure one has done some- thing; irreligion's natural effect is to deepen hopelessness and deplete
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09

morale.
 Why should a man in such case bother to be a real person in world where, as one exponent of ir- religion says, Living is merely physiological process with only physiological meaning? This does not mean that the irreligious person cannot discover motives that may pick him up and give him incentive to get himself together. There are many such ncentives-human love, personal ambition, a task to be done, social ideal to be served, de- sire for appreciation, or even the instinct of self preservation.
 Religion as popularly believed in and practiced can be utterly remote from the real problems of StrNs- gling persons, while theoretical G- religion can make place for motives that stimulate the individual to make the most of your best for the sake of others"
 Granting this. yet nothing more insistently raises questions concern ing life's ultimate meaning than hours when self-acceptance is diff cul Every personal counselor knows that the decisive factor in many cases is whether or not the afflict- ed individual effectively wants to to be a real person. think 1t worth while to try, cares enough to pay the price.
 Probably every person. soon or late. thus finds himself in some valley of decision" where the "death-wish" and the life wish" confront each other. The question then is not whether he will accept himself, but ol what terms-as a defeated man who gives up the battle or as a man in the making who will capitalize even his diff culties and deficiencies to achieve real personality.
 At that point the wisest psychia- trist is often baffled; he cannot ere ate in the man the one thing in- ddspensable- that 1t is worth while to tackle himself, and the effective desire so to do. That indispensable element depends on faith of some sort; without 1t the death wish" triumphs. So. one dying man said tc & friend who was sympathizing with him, Don't pity me nowi died 20 years ago" TOMORROW: The message of religion.
 Copyright, 1S4S, Harper & Brothers. New York
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09
Plastic Surgery Miracles Aid Scared Pliers In Comeback
By DUDLEY ANN HARMON UTns6nH nra~e GfaM CnrrRznOn6pmf

GRuASTEAD England e-CUP)-An American flyer Victoria Hospital here again with better looking fashioned from his hip
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09

Buy War Bonds ( Stamps
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-19
StateLowers
County Value

Future OF schools IN Npsilanti
looked brighter today following &C.
ton Of the state equalization board
in reducing valuation OF Washte-
nav County 100000.
An emergency had been created
for the coming year when an in
crease had resulted in a reduction
in the amount of state aid so that
the city system was faced with
necessity of providing for many
more pupils with curtailed fund.
The valuation reduction made
Wednesday in Lansing will result
in more state aid next year but
will not affect the financial status
during the 1894 terms.
Decision 10 make the change
followed an appeal made Monday
by the equalization committee OF
the Washtenaw County Board of
Supervisors, the prosecuting attor-
ney. Francis Kamman. John Cosner
supervisors chairman, Rep. Joseph
e. Warner, Senator George p. Nc
Callum. Superintendent OF Schools
E. H. Chapelle. City Assessor Don
aid F. Comstock and representa-
tives OF the Ann Arbor school sys-
TEN.
All pointed out that the Ford
Bomber Plant property is creating
demands for free services in areas
OF the county where there is no
commensurate relief from taxes.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-19
See CoNFERENCE-Page 8
WaIlace.Only
Meant a Few

Washington, Aug. 19-UP-Vice
President Henry a. Wallace today
exonerated "95 or even SO per cent
OF corporations from his recent de-
nunciation of big business but warn.
ed that the common folks" must
see through the propaganda Of
those which are demanding a re-
turn to old fashioned American
ism.
by Old-fashioned Americanism
they really mean corporation-con-
trolled government" he said in an
interview. by free enterprise they
really mean free enterprise for big
business, but not for little bust.
ness.
IT'S vital for the people who buy
from the corporations. who sell 70
them, who work for them-the com
mon folks-to see through the pro-
paganda OF certain of the big cor
porations.
Wallace has been vigorously cri-
ticlzed for his remarks at a press
conference in Detroit on July "a
when he denounced American fas-
cists" as big business haters" Of
President Roosevelt. He said then:
"Old fashioned Americanism is
thu last refuge OF the fascists. BY
old fashioned Americanism they
do not mean what is implied by
the term but they mean the situa-
ton that existed when great cor.
porations rose to power economic
ally and politically.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-19

"She didn't do It," he said she
said she didn't do 1t and I believe
her. The state has not offered a
motive. The state told Judge Crop
per (Judge c. !. Chopper before
whom she was arraigned), II had
been unable to establish a motive.
~ Joan is a pathological case.
and ! don't believe II, then she
should have medical treatment and
not 10 hours OF questioning by of
ficers.'
Joan was questioned extensively
by police after they arrived at the
Kiger home. Judge Chopper ordered
police TO take her to see her moth
er. She was then returned to the
Booze County jail where she is held
without bail
Police said Sl,5l5 had been found
in the Kiger summer home.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-19
Mother Remains Faithful to
Daughter Accused of Killing

Burlington, Ky, Aug. l9-UP -
Mrs. Jenny kiger. wounded by a
bullet fired from the same revolver
which killed her husband and six.
year-old son, chung today to the l6-
year-old daughter charged with muir
dering them.
Joan kiger was permitted 10 visit
her mother in a hospital last night
after she had pleaded not guilty
when arraigned on a charge o.
killing her father. Carl Niger, ~.
city commissioner, ard vice mayer
OF Covington. KY and her brother,
Jerry.
Mrs. Kiger accepted Joan's story
which was that she was awakened
in the Kiger summer home early
Monday by an intruder aud seized
a pistol and fired at him. She said
the intruder fired Is shots. One
wounded Mrs. Kiger in the hip and
the others killed Kiger and Jerry.
The mother had told police that
Joan was subject to nightmares.
Just before the shots were fired.
she heard her cry out: There's a
crazy man in here and he's going TO
kill all OF US. don't want to be
lett alone in here
She shouted to Joan. then. TO as
certain II she was IN the throes OF
a nightmare. The shots followed.
Sawyer Smith, Coyington attor-
ney, and friend q the Kiger fam
lily. came here to represent Joan.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-19
Axis Confusion Conference Plan
Repercussions Likely If no
Second Front is Attempted

London, Aug. 19-UP-It Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill decide against a major
second front operation this year.
informed persons in London believe
there will be major repercussions
throughout Europe.
The Russians already have made
1t eloquently plain that anything
less than an attack diverting 60
German diyisions-one-quarter to
one-third of Nazi strength on the
Russian front-will be regarded
with GOODNESS.
Effects are likely to be strong
in occupied countries where the
populace has been living increas-
ingly on the hope of major Allied
offensive.
There also is the fact that in
such countries as France. the un-
derground movement is existing
with increasing difficulty due to
mass deportations.
1t is most likely that the consid-
cradle psychological edge which
the Allies now hold against the
satellites would be blunted II pres
ent successes were not followed
up by most energetic operations.
The basic strategic decision
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-19
Troops to be
in Olive Drab

Lansing, Aug. 19-AP-Brig. Gen.
Thomas Colladay, commander of
the Michigan State Troops. report
ed today he was making distinct
progress with a campaign to uni
form and equip the states military
force the same as Uncle Sans
Doughboys.
A S235,000 program OF improving
the troops equipment was ordered
by the state administration follow
ing the Detroit race riots.
Connaday said he had obtained
permission from the War Depart
ment TO uniform the State Troops
in olive drab outfits resembling
&c. J." At present, the troops
wear light khaki summer dress and
blue winter dress.
III all goes WE'LL" Colladay said,
I'VE will be able to turn our whole
force out by October l in olive
drab uniforms, except for overcoats.
We plan to equip each trooper with
a field jacket or windbreaker and
an overseas cap. The men will
wear the State Troops ensignia,
embodying the state seal, on their
upper left arm to distinguish them
from regular Army troops. When
overcoats are issued they will bear
buttons with the state seal"
Colladay said for the present
We won't be able to get enough
overcoats to equip us il all the
men are called out at once. but we
will have enough for an effective
force"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-19
Graft Claimed
During Vote
onBanks
Pay Off Man Said
to Have Left
Country

Lansing, Mich. Aug. ls-Attor-
ney General II. J, Rushton today
stated that there will be a grand
jun investigation OF graft in the
last three sessions OF the state
legislature.
The probe is the outgrowth Of
allegations by Representative ".
c. Stenson that during the voting
on the anti-chain banking bill in
the last session he found 81, 900 in
his coat pocket. He also claims
that he has evidence OF further
graft.
The investigation was instigated
by w. p. Lovett, executive secre-
tary OF the Detroit Citizens League
who asserts that the main pay OF
man" has already left the country
but. despite the exodus. several
wicked men will be indicted.
1t is anticipated that Judge lie.
land w. Carr will conduct the grand
jury probe.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-19
Secrecy to Stroud
Decisions at
Conference

Quebec. Que. Aug. 19-UP -
President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill, along with Brit.
ish Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden and Secretary OF State Cordell
Hull, were parties today to a plan
to confuse the Axis and accomplish
their detectives behind a screen of
unbridled speculation.
Decisions of the greatest import
ance were being made in the heavi-
ly protected citadel. And the prin-
cipals were only too happy to see
the Axis squirming in uniformed
discomforts over what activation OF
the plans being made here will
mean to the German and Japanese
armies and conquests.
Some tangible information on the
conferenee5 will be inside available
today by White House Press Sec
Rotary Stephen T. Early after he
confers wi Brendan Bracken.
head of the British ministry Of in
formation.
Expect Invasion
This much was certain: The de-
cisions OF the quebec conferences
will be manifest only on the battle
fields OF the world, probably soon.
1t was generally accepted here
that these manifestations would be
a full scale invasion of Europe.
Eden arrived here late yesterday
by Clipper plane from London.
Bracken was with him. Hull,
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-19
Chain System
Practice Fine

The Civilian Defense chain call
practice wednesday night proved
a marked success when 71ee, or 3i2
out OF 5l4 OF the o. c. ID. personnel
we're definitely reached. The Tele-
phone Co. handled $50 calls within
the 5 minute period. Five hundred
and thirteen OF the calls were COM
pleted.
william c. Bergman. manager of
the Bell Telephone CO., states, The
practice last night showed quite
definitely that facilities Of the teis-
phone company and OF the control
center are sufficient TO handle all
calls in case Of emergency"
Mayor Ross X. Bower said that
Although only 71eo OF the person
mel could be reached, we would
have enough help in case Of emers-
ency to handle the situation until
other people could be contacted.
The showing was exceedingly fine
in view OF the fact that so many
OF the personnel are working nights
or are on vacation at this time ~
tn year"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-19
Population Of
Europe Told
to Prepare
Escape Area Near
KharkOv Made
Narrower
(By Associated Press)

Allied Headquarters announced
today that American warships yio-
lently bombarded the Italian main
land for the nrst time. Smelling
bridges and power installations.
and German broadeasts asserted
that an Allied invasion fleet was
massing in the Mediterranean.
A communique from Gen. Dwight
d. Eisenhowers headquarters said
heavy L. s. naval ships Joined In
thu attack. turning their big guns
on Gioia Tauro and Pslmi 20 miles
north OF captured Sicily.
American Long Tom" artillery
continued to duel with Axis shore
batteries across the narrow Strait
OF Messina.
Are Ready"
News OF the sea bombardment
came In the wake OF an an
nouncement by Gen. Eisenhow-
err that the American Seventh
and British Eighth armies ARE
ready 10 go at any minute"
and a broadcast made in the name
OF the Allied High Command warn
ing the peoples OF conquered Eu-
rope TO prepare I'm the shortest
possible time" for an Allied iuya-
sion OF the continent
The broadcast. made by the Al
lied.controlled Algiers radio. was
directed especially to the people
OF France.
"In the past" II said, you have
! heard similar messages from All
ed headquarters. You just heard
ons OF greatest Importance
Coincidentally. the Madrid radio
quoted Uniformed circles" as bellev-
ing that the time for an assault
on Hltlers European fortress was
only few hours on.
German radio commentators said
a major concentration OF Allied
invasion ships had been observed
at Bizerte, in Tunisia, and asserted
that 20 vessels aggregating 13S,0Oh
tons had been damaged in raid
there by German planes Tuesday
night.
other world events allegiance:
RUSSIA -Reu anleh HdIIoW NeI-
man escape corridor from Kharkov
10 30 miles. threaten last two rail
lines OF retreat; Soviet drive on
Bryansk gains four 10 six miles.
oyerruns 40 more villages; Berlin
says Russians launching fourth
summer offensive at Izyum aimed
at Dnieper River Bend.
New Guinea-Big Japanese Air
base at Salamaua reported in ruins
from bombing assaults, Allied
troops advance within Ave miles OF
enemy stronghold.
Solomon Standardization war
ships intercept four Japanese de-
stroyers escorting barges en- route
10 villa; three enemy destroyers
hit, one probably sunk, majority OF
barges destroyed.
Quebec-Speed.up OF Allied plans
for European invasion seen as like
~ result OF Roosevelt-Churchill war
council; Eden believed chosen as
courier to inform Stain on master
strategy.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-19
Men Report
For Service

Several Ypsilanti youths are IN
cluded in the list ordered TO re-
port for services in the United
States Armed forces today List.
ed are Wayne j. Keelan. Roy J..
Miller, Guy W. Miller, Robert j..
Johnson, Wendell 81. Anderson.
Donald a. Collins. all Ypsilanti:
Lloyd r. Clark, Leonard +. Clark
Herbert b Blacknon, Wendell X.
Sinclair James +. Murray. all
Ann Arbor, Fabian " Godfrey.
Riga. Robert e. Reed and Glen W.
Hafley, Chelsea; Dale l.. Fox. Dew
ter; Frederick Waterbury South
Lyon: Walter W. WEIGH. Port HUI
ron: Perry z. Bruner Princeton. La,
will report az Camp Grant. H.
The following men. enlisted in
the Seabees OF the United States
Navy have already reported 10
Magruder. Va: Clarence T.. Mer.
rift Whitmore Lake: Harold r.
Austin and Melvin z. Staebler, Ann
Arbor.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-19
Soldiers Feel
.Appreclatlve

Praise OF the hospitality and co.
operation OF Ypsilanti. Ann Arbor,
and Detroit residents was given
Wednesday evening when a joint
meeting of Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor
Kiwanis Clubs was addressed by
Lieut.. Col Daniel Z. Casey of the
East Ypsilanti Air Base. Lieut..
Casey told of the appreciation felt
by both officers and men OF the
Base because OF the friendliness
and hospitality offered by residents
in this vicinity.
Speaking only briefly concerning
work and activities of the base here,
Lieut.. Col. casey told Of the immen-
sity of the war effort and the many
problems faced by the Army, par
ticularly in relation to the quarter
master division. He mentioned the
great amounts OF food, clothing and
supplies necessary to maintain the
large Army program.
Following the talk members and
guests we're given an opportunity
to ask questions OF the speaker,
and TO participate in a discussion.
George Becker, accompanied by
Carroll Curtis, sang several selec.
tons at the beginning Of the pro
gram. and led the group in commun-
ity singing.
Arthur d. Walker. president OF
the local organization. introduced
the president of the visiting club.
Lewis II. Holloway, and the district
lieutenant governor OF Kiwanis,
Ashley Clague. The speaker was
introduced by James O'Sullivan,
chairman OF the inter-club commit
tee.