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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-05
Oldest Member

At the annual Vealey family re-
union IN Recreation Park Arthur
Vealey, Ypsilanti, as the oldest
member OF the family, was elected
honorary president and Thedford
Vealey. Ypsilanti. president It was
voted TO meet in Recreation Park
next year. There were sixty mem
bers present from Milan. Saline,
Ypsilanti, Toledo, Romulus, Brit
ton and Wayne.
Mr.. and Mrs. Baird Horning are
spending their vacation at Calu-
met visiting Mrs. Mornings. par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. w. Allen.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-05

Master James Kettles, Lansing.
has come TO spend three weeks
with his aunts. Misses Elizabeth
and jennie Stobie.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-05
Heimerdineer-Lannine

The marriage OF Miss Coralee
tanning TO Pfc. Andrew Heimer-
dinger has been announced by her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton W.
tanning, 926 Packard st. The sery-
fee was read Tuesday. July q. by
Rev. +. c. Stellhorn in the parish
hall OF Zion Lutheran Church. The
attendants were Mrs. Dorothy Tes-
Ia, Kimberly Rd., and Robert Eisele
OF W. Delhi Rd. Mr.. Heimerdinger
is stationed at Camp Lee, Va.
Mrs. Harvey Colburn left We'd
nesday night for Bozeman, Mont,
10 spend a month with her daugh-
ter Mrs. T. B. Douglas and Dr.
Douglas.
Letha Mae Glenn and Claudine
Frye left Wednesday for Avoca,
y. Y, to visit Lethas sister, Mrs.
Fred Decker.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-05
Services Continued

Another in the present series OF
vesper services will be at the
Lincoln School at 8 p. m. Sunday.
Aug. 8. at which time Mrs. Olive
Riggs will be chairman; the speak
er. George Ennen, Ypsilanti. with
special music from the Whitaker
Catholic Church.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-05
servIcs Mems Briefs

Pvt. Richard Wardle, who left
this community recently to serve
his country. is now stationed at
Gulfport Field, Miss. Eugene Arm
strong. who left with him, has ar
rived at Camp MeQuaid, Calf, and
is serving in the Coast Artillery.
John Linenkugel. the other member
of the trio arriving together for in
duction at Camp Custer, preceded
him to this camp by severalsdays.
Pfc. Alfred W. Morton has been
transferred from Washington, Pa
to Barrancas. Fla.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-05
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-05
Aid Bulldino Fund

VTu bUTTuTHp FuHd
fpsilanti Post, Veterans OF For
eign Wars. voted to give s25 to the
Salvation Army building fund at
its meeting in Veterans Hall. Tues
day evening. Plans for the coming
season were discussed. one being
the joining OF the Bowling League
for the winter. The next meeting
will be the first Tuesday in Septem-
her
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-05
FLOWERS WILL BE
SENT TO HOSPITAL

The Ypsilanti Garden Club has
undertaken the responsibility OF
supplying the East Ypsilanti Base
Hospital with flowers during the
season. They hope to brighten the
invalid service mems quarters with
weekly supplies OF garden blooms
through the cooperation OF Mrs
Carl Johnson OF the Camp and Hos
pital Council OF the Red Cross, De.
troit area. and the Motor Corps OF
the Red Cross.
Miss Mary Crane is chairman for
this week, and will deliver the flow.
ers on Saturday to Mrs. Johnson for
transportation to the camp. Mrs.
George Cullis will be the clubs rep
resentatiye for August II.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-05

Enjoy Roast
The employees OF the local Mich.
igan Bell Telephone Company en-
Joyed a wiener roast with onions
and "all the trimmings" on the
lawn OF Gilbert House wednesday
evening. After the roast the remain.
der OF the evening was spent IL
dancing and indoor games. Sally
Lenheiser was in charge OF the ar.
rangements.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-18
Is Legitimate Distribution Wanted?

Unless producers and consumers wish to contact each other through national black market, they will have to unite with retail food distributors in demand for types of control which permit legiti- mate distribution to live. That is the fortnight opinion of one chain store spokesman, and there is little question but that it is the opinion of the entire retail industry. Said this spokesman: "One simple fundamental of distribution is that by the performance of a needed and economic service, distributor earns recovery-of-costs. Legitimate distribu- tion in America has record of perform ance for economical cost unequaled in control be set up which will permit the strength of American distribution to be exercised fully in the fight against in- flation?
 C. .. Food control has been admins tered with only casual and lip-service rec ognition of the truth that cost-recovery is the cornerstone of legitimate distribu- ton. And it is because recovery of costs, in so many instances, has been made inn possible that such large volumes of food have been suctioned intoillegitimate black market distributve channels where not merely cost, but in many cases, abnormal and unnecessarily high profits have accrued to the illegitimate distributor"
 The government can dam the black market operator to nigh heaven. It will do no good as long as policy is followed which ignores production costs while try ing to limit prices to consumers. Putting food distributors out of business will not stop imitation. Low prices on nonexistent necessities in honest market places are merely an irritating farce to consumers forced to seek those necessities from undercover sources at artificially high prices. The day of reckoning is not far away.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-18
Manpower and Induction

First, we had a story about sagging war production that disturbed the pubic peace of mind. After time report from Chairman Donald Nelson said that the program of war production was more than four-fifths completed during the first half of 1943. Meantime, the Man. power Commission called for the induc ton of 3-A fathers, ard then opened-out a loop-hole through which fathers might miss the draft by going to work in war industries.
 On the face of Manpower statements it appeared that about 100000 fathers would be in uniform by December 31, of this year.. Months ago Government agencies issued estimates that fighting force of Il ,000, ,000 men would be in uni forms by the end of this year.
 While this is the greatest war of all times, in which no efforts are being spared to win, there seems to be nothing in the records up-todate to show that the United States will actually use more than army. The American and British forces took North Africa with less than 100000 men and have operated in Sicily and Italy with about 225,000 men. Speaker Ray burn says our total forces abroad are two million men. Japan had 3OO,OOO men in the Pacific Neither the Germans, nor the Russians, have used 100000 men.
 It is not at all surprising that there IS strong public disapproval of the Man power order to draft fathers. Some of our Senators have insisted that there is a lack of consistency in the ManpoWer Commission of which Paul " McNutt IS chairman, and the nation at large is back ing up proposals for the establishment of a reasonable overall policy on manpoWer and allocations. This indicated pOSsi- bility that the pre-war fathers will not be called in 1943.
 Besides you might just as well make up your mind that the chances are far more than even that there will not be enough Axis enemies left on the firing line in Europe or anywhere in the world to call for an increase in the present size of our armies and other military forces. The enemy is on the run, even in the Pacific, from which spot General Mac Arthur has reported that Japans heaviest hitting powers have been exhausted and that Japan is "noW on a defensive"
 Even World War was over so suddenly that it surprised Wilson, Clemenceau and Lloyd George. Coming down to the pres- ent war we found Mu5soini dropping out of the picture so fast it was hard to believe 1t. So prepare for lot of surprises!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-18
Current Comment

We (British) shall have to look to our step between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics if we are to keep our eminence among the powers.
 George Bernard Shaw.
 China has no territorial ambi- tions. We claim no special privi- leges. Manchuria certainly will be returned to us and also Formosa. Korea ought to tbe an independent nation.
 Chinese Foreign Minister pr. T. V. Soong. A flight og 1000 bombers every night for month over Hamburg and Berlin consumes quantity of gasoline equivalent to complete stoppage for 8 day of every one of the 30000.O00 or so automobiles, busses and trucks in the United States.
 -Dr. R. R. Savern, director
 Bureau of Mines.
 Far better achievement must be attained in producing equipment that is much superior to that of the enemy.
 Jap Premier Hideki Tojo. The world is one family with one future a future which will bind our brotherhood with heart and mind and not with chains. Vice President Henry A. Wal ] lace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-18
A Thought for Today
Caught Short

The War Production Board is reported to have told alcohol producers, informally, that they may have to shift from grain to molaSses. Such conversion is delayed by the fact that tankers would be needed to bring in the mOlasseS, and the same tankers are necessary to take gasoline to our invasion troops all over the world. So it develops that, instead of there being huge surplus of grain available for the manufacture of butadiene for synthetic rubber there isn't even enough grain for industrial alcohol for other war uses with out taking it from Stock-feederS and housewives tables. Our current buta- diene program calls for 230 900 short tons 10 be made from grain alcohol. Rubber producers have been worrying lest the synthetic program may be held up by the increasing grain shortage. They have been told that alcohol will be provided for the butadiene plants. But some of them wonder if it will - whether, when the time comes to cut down on grain for eating and for feeding livestock and hogs, there won't be a lot of pressure against such diversion. However, the difficulty is resolved, there is going to be trouble because we relied so heavily upon grain as a source for butadiene.
 IndC TelldnCe was at ledSC pdTLly CIle result of political pressure from those who supposed that there was a surplus of grain, and did not look ahead to the heavy demands we now face and the yet greater ones that must be met as soon as we begin feeding Sicily, Italy, and then, one after another, those areas of Europe which we shall free from the Nazis. There is no way of saying flatly whether the governmental agencies concerned did not foresee what has come and is coming. It looks as though they did not. If they did, then they are culpable for not having resisted the pressure of interested groups which were not in position to look ahead so well.
 The planning of this war is a mighty complicated business. It calls for intel ligent, hard-boiled integration of many factors. A great many of the difficulties we have encountered were unavoidable, but others like the threatened shortage of alcohol for the making of synthetic rubber, could have been prevented.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-18
Conscientious Objector

The case of Arthur Goodwin Billings, former University of Texas teacher, now before the Supreme Court, raises two in- teresting questions concerning the draft.
 One concerns expediency, and probably is moot, yet it is troublesome. Can a man not object conscientiously to war without doing so on religious grounds, as members of pacifist sect? Is it fair co accept automatically the refusal to fight of man who may have joined some pacifist sect at least partly for that req son, and reject the refusal of one who honestly rejects war but belongs to no such sect?
 Also, and this is up to the highest court, can a draft board admir- ister the oath to man who declines to take it and thereby remove the victim from civil justice to military justice? Isn't that more than bit arbitrary?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-18

for thirty six hours. Suddenly, how ever, the wind whirled and began blowing in the opposite direction, throwing the gas back upon the Germans themselves. Dr. Schmaus in his official report said. Tn forty years of meteorological records of the German government the wind never acted so peculiarly before" To make the whole thing doubly strange, the wind changed in only that small area.
 Napoleon intended to begin the Battle of Waterloo at six in the morning. Wellington could not win without Butcher. and Butcher could not possibly arrive until five in the afternoon. But Napoleon did not begin the battle at six. At that hour 1t was raining and the conqueror could not get his artillery into position. The battle was delayed about six hours. Butcher came, and Napoleon went to St. Helena. Such instances without number 1 have arisen in the present struggle. Behold the sea. the earth. and the sky. they are mine, saith the Lord" All Rights Reserved -Babson News
 paper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-18
NO IMPROVEMENT (NeW York Herald Tribune)

NINCW Ol 41Cl dld 4llOullCI
 We don't know how many of our countrymen tune in on the short wave broadcasts from Berlin, Git is no crime to do so in this land of the free), but for the rest it may come as news that, as the Office of War Information tells us, the NaI radio has been carrying on persistent campaign to persuade individuals here to further imitation. Among its suggestions, according to the O. w. l., are the following: Borrow now and buy things; ask for higher wages; make England pay cash for shipments; don't buy bonds; make periodic searches of the houses of the wealthy to see, if they have more of this or that than you do."
 If this is snare propaganda then the meaning of the adjective com- pletely escapes us. Its purport is so obviously enemy-inSpired, malicious and Subversive that one can i'm agine the American listener in his resentment or perhaps even in his glee. resolving immediately to go exactly contrary to its instructions And of this judgment there Is con- firmation in the fact that coinci- dent with the campaign there has come a drop in living costs of 0.8 per cent from mid-June to mid July), the first substantial decline of the sort since Pearl Harbor.
 The Germans are really a very stupid people. In similar fashion they proved it to the hilt in the last war. We can all be happy that in their understanding of American psychology. they have improved not one iota.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-18

Time was when along about this season we drove hither and yon and bought our vegetables and fruits along the way those of us who did not have gardens of our own. This year those of us who have gardens are doing nicely; but others are buying as they can, what they can, and at prices that would have shocked us few short years ago. There would be no kick coming, since these are war times, if the produce we often buy was worth the price.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-18

They began to smell something when they got the latest figures, which show that the amount of liquor being withdrawn from ware houses for sale to the public is only 55 per cent of last year. And there is every evidence that &C., tual consumption of liquor not only has not droppd to 55 per cent, but is even greater than last year.
 America learned the tricks of bOotlegging some years ago, when boOtlegging was really be- set with difficulties. It was it. legal, during prohibition days, to distill liquor, to bottle it, and to sell it. Today, however, none of these processes is in itself illegal.
 Temptation to carry on bootleg operations is very strong because of the vast quantities of alcohol available, and the tremendous profit in marketing this alcohol as a beverage. Industrial al- cohol costs only 90 cents gallon. Add five cents for cleaning" the denatured alcohol, another five cents for bottling, and you have a 190-proof gallon of beverage" which, after adding water to re- duce the proof, is marketable at $38 gallon.
 The diwwerence between a cost price of S1 gallon and the retail price of $38 is apparently more than some producers can resist.
 NOTE: Alcohol Tax Unit inspec- tors are assigned to distilleries but not to plants using industrial alcohol, as in the manufacture of paints Or anti-freeze mixtures. MORE MEAT
 A Washington housewife walked into chain store market with 35 red points and hunger for ham.
 She said the butcher, Could I get half 8 nam? I have only 35 points,"
 The butcher produced six pound piece. The lady did a little mental arithmetic. Nine points, times six pounds, equals 54 points. But I don't have 54 points," she said.
 That's all right, lady," said the butcher. You can take it anyway. We have more hams around here than we know what to do with"
 This is the first twitter of wsat will soon become welcome chorus. Pork products are com-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-18

Whenever the President leaves Wash ington the news floats about over the grapevine telegraph but newspaper men are prohibited by the censor from telling where the President lis at." Only few days ago it was quietly whispered that he was somewhere in the world" with Win ston Churchill, and the speculation broadened to include Joseph Stalin in their company. But when FDR returned to Washington and it became known that the only international importance of the journey was that the President and eight or ten buddies had been on fishing trip to Canadian waters. About the time the fish stories had all been told Winston Churchills arrival in Canada was an- nounced-and then the newsmen started fishing for another class of news
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-18

There has been so much talk of late about air routes that we have forgotten ground routes. This week announcement was made of a new postwar highway route which will be of benefit to Water bury. cutoff from Seymour to Shel- ton is planned which will shorten the Waterbury-B Bridgeport distance. By the time all changes and Cut-offs between here and Bridgeport are effected the two cities will practically join. Another plan is to eliminate Waterbury in the South bury-Milldale run All this sounds encouraging when the war is over and we can come down to earth again and concentrate a little, for a change, on roads.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-18
HOW TO MAKE THE
 DROWNED BREATHE

Referring to my booklet on Re- suscitation dor copy send ten cents and stamped envelope bearing your address) Pro. Yandell Henderson, of Yale university, recognized au- thority, said:
 T am pleased to notice that you show the victims arms drawn for ward. By having the arms drawn forward beyond the head the thoracic cage is pulled into the po- sition of maximum inspiration and tends to return to this position each time the expiratory pressure of the operator is released
 Then, just as I was inflating my chest over such approval from such an authority, Prof. Henderson added
 T really do not think that the question of putting the subjects
 head upon his arm and the factor
 of gravity are of great importance.
 It has been shown in the labora-
 tory that when water or phySio-
 logical saline is introduced into 8 lung it is quite rapidly absorbed
 Of course salt water from the ocean would rot be absorbed near
 ly so rapidly, but ordinarily the
 amount that enters the lungs, at
 least in cases that are resuscit-
 able, is probably not large"
 AS if that were not baffline enough Prof. Henderson explains that he has advised placing the pa tient's head upon the forearm be- cause 1t keeps the nose and mouth out of the mud and leaves c free passage for breathing. In mines it is sometimes necessary to put the victim on ground covered with pud- dies of mud and water. An uncon- scious man may be drowned by being placed face down in such a puddle.
 If any one else than Prof. Hen derson said that I'd retort 'WhaG- aya mean face down? Schafer ad- vises that the face be turned to one side"
 And to any one else than Prof. Henderson I'd point out that since litlte water in the lungs is rap- idly absorbed it wouldn't be of great importance if the unconscious sub ject's nose or mouth were permit ted to lie in a pool of water! But you can't talk to professor like that
 After all, professors are entitled to a spot of absent-mindedness. Here's Prof. Henderson batting me on the back with one hand for my illustrations showing the subjects arms extended well over the head in the position which pulls the thoracic cage into the position of maximum inspiration; while with the other hand he slaps my wrists because I am consistent enough to keep the subjects arms in that position, whereas the professor ad- vises bringing one arm down and putting it under the head.
 I have been incoming about this for several years. It might be that I have more confidence in the intel ligence of the average bystander than Prof. Henderson has. can't conceive of any one with sufficient intelligence to apply artificial res- piration permitting the subjects nose or mouth to lie in mud or water. Evidently, Prof. Henderson fears such first aid operators would do a dumb thing like that.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-18
Views Of The Press

It may have swayed as 1t approach ed curve, swayed as it descended a hill, swayed as it attempted to pass another vehicle, or swayed in any one of numerous driving situa- tions, but, at any rate, one thing is certain, it swayed. Trailer trucks. unfortunately, have the fatal habit of doing this.
 Now in the latest traffic death nearby. this time on the post road at Westbrook, it is the some old story. "T'he trailer truck swayed as it came along a curve" An 18-year- old girl an only child. is struck and killed while waiting for a bus. Not so long ago swaying trailer truck was responsible for the snuffing out of two lives in post road accident when it upset an automobile while attempting to pass. Such accidents have become too common
 Most car drivers have had enough personal experience, and narrowing close calls to know the peril of the swaying trailer truck. If lives can be saved by slower driving of trailer trucks along inter-city highways, it