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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-18
HOME TREES FOR CHRISTMAS

ERIE. ia. UP-Among the ma
tons biggest buyers OF Canadian
grown Christmas trees, this city's
residents have been advised TO OBJ
tain their l943 greens from Erie
County woodlands and even then
many homes may be without this
Yuletide decoration because OF tree
shortages and wartime labor and
transportation restrictions. which
in Canada have wiped out the
Christmas tree cutting and ship
ping industry.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-18
Rural Events
TUE SDAY
Salem

TUESDAY
Salem
Patrol III will meet at the home
OF Betty Lou Hall.
WEDNESDAY
Willis
Autumn Festival at the Willis
Methodist Church, supper served at
500 under the sponsorship OF the
Young Married Peoples Sunday
School Glass.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-18
RETIREMENT FUND GROWS

HARRISBURG. Pa.-PennsyIva-
MAS state employees retirement
fund has grown from BAT members
drawing s195.OO0 annual pensions
in 1880 to 1,45O members drawing
$3.50, 900 yearly in 1913. Assets in
creased in the same period from
81. 900. 900 to sS2.50O. 900
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-18
PARKING METER CLICKS TOPS

CHESTER. pa UP The city's
new silent champion moneymakcr
Is parking meter 6i5. which yield
cd sl0.4S in one month. t402 under
the sl450 monthly maximum that
any meter could earn. The 1912
monthly average for all $50 meters
was $50.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-18
Ypsilanti Bowling Scores
Masons No. 2

f. Ring 40. A Richards 500.
c. Ragin i34. J. Montonye i23. J.
Mangas $50. handicap IA: totalss
7O6, 1885. us, 2159.
Moose No. 2
N Bowden 81. s. Richards i32.
A. Daignault 6, G. Richards 5is.
l.. Bates 1856: totals, 1902, 757. 1855,
1906.
J. c. c.
r Lambert 401, X. Lindner 43s.
II Gillette 49,, r. Clirc (aye.) 800.
II. Haynes (aveD 3G6, handicap
2l6; totals. al. $50. 656, Posi-.
Eagles No. I
Edison 4Si, Lore AS. Winklen
423. BlakemoIo 1856. Packard 435
handicap II, totals. III. III. 1874
1916.
Eagles No.
l.. Reynolds 400. McComb 40,
Simon i76, Jones 373. Baird 81:
totals AS, ~. 7?l, 2Gl0.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-18
v. ?. IA

Z. Livingston AS. A. Smith 37s,
A. Nolf 367, r. Pierson ass, r.
Messner ass; 'otals. AS, 7SS. 7O7,
2l93.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-18
FRATERNAl LEAGUE
Mssons No. I

Whitcomb i43. Messenger AZ,
Cornwell 1855, d. Smith 442, Mott
456. handicap 70: totals, 7ls. 7Ol,
III. PISS.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-18
Moose No. I

A Morris AS, X. Hathaway 436.
Holley 1863, A. Dundon 455, ID. Deck
435; totals. 703. 500. ss7. 2OsO.
Evening star., 1943-02-11
Legislators May Hear
Madame Chang on
10 China
CurIey Will Ask House
To Invite Generals
Wife to Appear
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A possibility that Nine Chang
kai-shek will be invited to outline
China's lease-lend needs developed
today as the House Foreign Affairs
Committee continued it's study of
extending the mutual aid pact for
another year.
Representative Curley. former
Democratic Governor of Massa chu-
sets, said he would ask the House
to invite the Americana educated
wife of the Chinese generalissimo
to appear "if she has an opportu-
nifty to do So"
Senator Connolly, Democrat, of
Texas also expressed hope Nine.
Chang would address Congress.
She has been undergoing treatment
in an Eastern hospital for an injury
received several years ago in an
automobile mishap.
Mr.. Curley earlier this week in
troduced a measure to allocate to
China 10 per cent Of all lease-lend
aid arguing that it would save
more than 100000 American lives
and enable the Chinese to defeat
1.-The japanese in six months.
The House. learning that Nine
Chang would be in the Capital
next week, already has arranged an
informal reception similar to those
accorded the rulers and nobility Of
other nations. There was no off,
cio fn,fh
from the White House as to when
Nine. Chang would arrive here.
The idea Of obtaining her views
on lease-lend won support from
Representative Mansfield, Demo-
crat. of Montana. Foreign Affairs
Committee member, who has argued
frequently for increased aid to
China.
TT is wonderful opportunity,
he exclaimed. II can think of no
one in this country better qualified
to discuss China's needs"
Both spokesmen for the Lease
Lend Administration and Secretary
Of the Navy Knox have expressed
regret that aid to China has not
reached greater proportions, but
they emphasize the difficulties in
making deliveries since the closing
Of the Burma road.
Mr.. Curly and Mr.. Mansfield ad-
vocate cargo planes, but officials
point out that gasoline supplies pose
a problem there.
Meanwhile, Lease-Lend Admins
traitor Edward r. Stettinius. jr, yes
terday informed the committee that
lease-lend aid Is being supplied the
Allies at an annual rate in excess
of $40 600 600 600.
Evening star., 1943-02-11
Won PouIus Was Spared Search
BY Red Coptors at StoIingrod
Nozi Marshal, Taken in Store Basement,
Allowed to Keep Sideorms Briefly

machine-gun belts. On the side
walk q gravely wounded German
soldier in heavily tattered uni
form lay sprawled. face down, his
hands and feet from which the
boots had been torn blackening
with the savage cold.
Won Paulus could not see, but at
least was probably aware, Of the
existence in the basement at that
/ corner of the building OF 200 others
so poorly clad and fed that they
could no longer be driven to any
battle task If he cared to let his
eyes wander around the circumfer-
ence of that good-siZed square, he
could not see a single building not
showing the frightful toll Hitler
had exacted from Stalingrad.
Square Surrounded.
The plain fact at 7 o'clock that
morning was that the Red Army,
after exactly three weeks of its new
offensive, had completely sur
rounded the square, with its slender
obelisk dedicated to the fallen
"heroes of the revolution" in which
Stalingrad, then called Tsaritsin,
played a leading role. They sent a
new offer of surrender. Someone
said no" and touched off the last
chapter of Hitlers worst defeat.
The relative morning calm was
shattered suddenly by a concentra-
ton of mortars and divisional artil-
lery bearing on every position the
Germans still held in that square.
Later, when they finally entered
the building basement and found
it crowded the Russians were given
the explanation that the lombard
ment was so terrific that it had
driven the Germns to shelter.
Fifteen minutes of fire had sealed
the doom of the central group of
encircled Germans. The first to
appear was Marshal Won Paulus'
aide, It. Gen. Roske. But let 1t.
Fedor Yelchenko continue the story
in his own words, as related to
correspondents as they crowded
around Won Paulus' desk.
"The aide said, MY chief wants
to see the Russian chief"
Yelchenko explained. It had not
occurred to him as anything strange
that he should begin the negotia-
tions."
With Is soldiers and officers of
the storm group, OF which he was
senior officer, Yelchenko started
through the gated passageway lead
ing to the store court. The Germans
inside shouted warnings against
mines and finally guided the party
through the danger.
Marshal Keeps Sidearms.
Inside the court" Yelchenko con-
tinued, I'VE passed the same entrance
We later used-a ramp leading down
to what apparently was the packag-
Evening star., 1943-02-11
California Union Official
Held as Germun Alien
BY tie Associated Press.

BY tie Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. IL
Arthur Frenke, who under the name
OF Harry (Blackie) Provost was 4
San Francisco labor ofiicial as far
back as the 1884 waterfront strike,
is under arrest by the Federal Bureau
OF Investigation on charge Of fail
ing to register as German alien.
Nat J. L. Pieper, special agent in
charge Of the FBI Bureau, said
Frenke was arrested Saturday at Salt
Lake City and was being held in
lieu of $4,000 bail pending removal
to San Francisco.
Frenke has been charged in a
Federal Court Indictment with two
counts of claiming false citizenship
and one Of failing to register As an
enemy alien, Mr.. Pieper said.
Evening star., 1943-02-11
(Secotd in q Series.)
Ry DAVID NJ. NICHOL.

War Correspondent OF The Star and Chi
cago Daily News.
STALINGRAD, Feb. 10.-Fiel,
Marshal Friedrich Won Paulus, tai
and as severely Prussian as an.
wielder of the Nazi baton, was cap
tured in the basement of larg,
Stalingrad department store by i
minutes of blasting and tearins
artillery fire and a 2l-year-old Rec
Army senior lieutenant.
On the shoulders of the com
mander OF the 9Th German Army
the most powerful modern force
ever hurled against besieged city
rests a heavy responsibility that car
only be shared by one man-Hitler
On Der Fuehrer's decision, Vor
Paulus issued the orders for main
tanning pressure on Stalingrad's
center, despite the threat of en-
circlement, and then the orders re-
fusing the ultimatum of January
and again Of January g. The direct
result of this chain of events was
the throwing of 100000 men, the
pride of the German Army. to star
vation, disease, death and imprison-
ment.
Perhaps the thin-faced COM
mander, elevated to the post of
marshal only the previous day, was
meditating along those lines that
fatal morning of January 81 What
ever his thoughts may have been,
there Is no indication that he altered
his mind. In the end, with regard
for military niceties that seems ter
ribly out of place amid the horror
of this city, another general accepted
the responsibility for the marshals
capture.
Debris All Around.
Around him, his own headquarters
were literally falling to pieces. The
basement of the Univermag, Stain
grads central department store on
the northwest corner of the city's
principal square, was still reasonably
secure. But from the one window,
still retaining its glass, the marshal
could look. if he scraped through the
heavy frost, out on the debris
Uttered courtyard and towering,
Jagged. 6-story walls from which all
semb.ance of roof and floors had
long since disappeared.
Directly west across the street he
could see another monument to Hit
lers futile effort at conquest-the
single gaunt corner Of a former four
story building where not even a
semblance of the others walls on
either side remained.
A little farther south. across the
street leading to the railroad sta
ton and a second square, the mar
shall coulds have seen a pile of shell
cases and grenades and litter OF
Evening star., 1943-02-11

ing and delivery section of the store
The long hall, when we saw it, was
dimly lighted by three oil lamps
which the Russians improvised by
pinching together the tops of 76-mm.
shellcasings. At the halls end, three
OF these men entered the small room
and the negotiations were begun.
Roske explained, according to the
lieutenant's account, that he accept
ed full responsibility. He asked for
the terms and was informed that
they were the same as those Of the
ultimatum.
Won Paulus did not appear dur
ing the talks, but 1t. Gen. Fiele-
field Schmidt, staff chief of the 9Th
German Army, made frequent trips
to Won Paulus' bedroom. An agree
ment was reached and Soviet guards
took places for a few minutes be-
| sides the Nazi guards at Won Paulus'
quarters. The Nazis were later re-
moved.
The lieutenant said that Won
Paulus was not searched and was
permitted to keep his sidearms for
halt an hour after the talks. There
is no evidence to support the Nazi
radio account that he attempted
to poison himself.
Roske's only request, the lieuten-
ant said, was that Won Paulus
should be given a special guard to
prevent his possible injury and that
he should not be treated like a
tramp" Actually, Won Paulus was
taken away in a private car with
Red Army guards charged with his
safety.
Healthy and Unhappy"
'He looked healthy and unhappy"
the lieutenant said.
That was a good summary of the
way he looked to us. We saw Won
Paulus, Schmidt, the marshal's per-
sonal aide. Col. Adam, and several
other captured Nazi generals in
their quarters in q frame building
in one of the nearby steppe villages.
Won Paulus appeared extremely tired
and had marked nervous tic in the
right corner of his mouth, but other
wise he was well and unharmed.
The marshal, who led Hitler's
armies into their biggest failure,
would only answer two questions.
He admitted that his first name was
Friedrich" and said he was 50
years old.
The best commentary was sup
piled by q Soviet commander who
said, later:
Generals without armies are un-
important"
He might have paraphrased the
assertion of 1t. Gen. Mikhail
Malinin, chief Of staff Of Col. Gen.
Konstantin Rokossovakys Don
armies, who was asked If American
equipment figured Importantly in
the Stalingrad fight"
mot much" the general said.
He was reminded Of the presence
Of American trucks.
They don't shoot" was his
laconic reply.
(Copyright. 1e43. chicaso Daily News. Inc. }
Uap hANA. ~r> tA> h>~ k,,- -
Evening star., 1943-02-11
GuiIford College Head to
Open Quaker Lectures

Clyde A. Miner, president Of Gull
ford College Of North Carolina, will
speak on Religion and Reconstruc-
ton at 8 pm. Sunday at the Florida
Avenue Friends Meeting House. 21l1
Florida avenue NV, in the first of a
series of six talks on Quaker Con-
cepts of the Stepping Stones to a
Peaceful World"
Mr.. Miner will also speak at 7::3O
pm. Saturday at the Meeting House
at the midwinter conference Of
Baltimore Young Friends. Philip
Jacobs of the civilian public service
section Of the AFSC will speak to
the conference at pm Sunday on
Quaker Service in Wartime"
Evening star., 1943-02-11
Girl, IA, Dies Of Burns

Mildred Myers, ID, colored, of 81
Virginia avenue SW. died last night
in Casualty Hospital of burns suf-
fered Teusday in fire at her home
The fire is believed to have been
started by the explosion of a wood
stove in the basement.
Evening star., 1943-02-11

War bonds are the best buy on
the market today,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-30
Pamphlet Attacks
Negro Housing
Ban for PhiIly

Philadelphia, Pain a pamph-
let entitled "No Homes for Ne
groes" the Youth Committee for
Democracy, Philadelphia Chapter,
makes a we'll documented and
sharp attack on the Philadelphia
Housing Authority for prohibiting
Negroes to occupy five Federal
housing projects built for war
workers in that area.
Pointing out that the Housing
Authority has justified its refusal
to permit Negro tenants on the
grounds of "white neighborhoods,"
the leaflet presents statistical data
to disprove the theories that values
go down when Negros move into
white" areas and that a mass ex-
odus of white people occurs when
Negroes come in. On the latter
point, it quotes the 1910 census as
showing that 23.49S of all white
families lived in mixed blocks, to-
gether with colored families, thus
proving that "the allegedly msup-
cradle prejudice against colored
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-30
Henry Wallace
Condemns Riots
AS NaZi Aid

Detroit-(ANP)-Henry A. Wal
lace, vice-president of the United
States, addressing a meeting spon-
sored by the labor and civic organi-
cations of this throbbing city Of
war production on Sunday after
noon, firmly and with resolution
declared that race riots, poll taxes,
slum dwelling and illiteracy have
no place in a full democracy.
"As an outgrowth of the war,
our choice is not between a Hitler
slave-world and out-of-date holiday
of normalcy," he said, "nor is our
choice between an Americanized
fascism and the restoration of pre-
war scarcity and unemployment"
Must Crush Riots"
Standing before the thousands
who jammed the State Fair
grounds, and speaking into an NBC
microphone which was carrying his
voice into millions of homes
throughout the nation, the vice
president, who has been called a
dreamer" by many because of his
espousal of what he has called the
century of the common man" and
a peoples revolution, looked into
the faces of the citizenry of city
which only a few weeks ago had
been torn asunder by vicious and
murderous racial conflict, and
warned:
ave cannot fight to crush Nazi
brutality abroad and condone race
riots at home. Those who fan the
fires of racial clashes for the pur-
pose of making political capital
here at home are taking the first
step toward Nazism."
And so the vice president, by a
matter of five days, followed Presi-
dent Roosevelt in his condemnation
of Outbreaks of violence" which he
had declared in a letter to Con-
gresham Vito Marcantonio of New
York "endanger our national unity
and comfort our enemies"
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-30
Mpls. NAACP
Hold ROusing
Member Rally

A rousing meeting, the largest
in months, Sunday, heard an
nouncements on the Minneapolis
NAACP membership drive and
heard a ringing speech by Rev. A.
F. Martin of Bethesda Baptist
church.
DR.. W. D. Brown, membership
campaign chairman, announced
that over 1000 members had been
secured and that over $1,000 had
been subscribed.
Members of the volunteer So
licitor group were awarded certifi-
Gates for their work in the cam
paign.
The principal speaker at the
membership rally was Rev. Martin
who gave many reasons why ev-
cry Negro should belong to the
NAACP. His talk received re-
sounding applause.
It appears that to date the Mill
City branch is ahead of st. Paul
in members. Rev. C. T. Nelson,
Sanity City president, was pres
emit and expressed the determine
ton that St. Paul was going to
come up to Minneapolis in men,
berships.
The full list of 1913 members of
the Minneapolis branch will ap-
pear in a subsequent issue of this
paper.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-30
Frank Boyd
Attends BSCP
Zone Meeting

Frank Boyd, secretary treasurer
of the Twin City Branch of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Port
ers, attended a zone meeting of the
Brotherhood in Chicago, Ill, July
q to "a. Representatives in at
tendance were from branches of
the organization in Denver, Chi
cago, Kansas City, Mo-, Oklahoma
City, Omaha, Chattanooga, Tenn,
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus,
Detroit, Indianapolis, Louisville,
Nashville, Pittsburgh, the Twin
Cities, Toronto and Montreal.
Much of the time was given to
reviewing the latest contract with
the Pullman Co., preparatory to
educating new men in the service,
many of whom do not know a con-
tract even exists.
Mr.. Boyd also attended the
Fourth Annual American Negro
Musical Festival held at Comiskey
park in Chicago. Mrs. Marva Louis
was this years chairman of the
affair. More than $4,000 people at
tended. Besides a 5000 voice choir,
other prominent musicians and
groups appeared. Paul Robson
sang. The U. S. Navy Band from
the Great Lakes Naval Station
played.
Miss RevOida Wright, niece of
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Smith, 87S st.
Anthony Ave-, is in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, visiting her father, Mr..
Fred Wright, and her aunt. She
will return to the city within a
fortnight.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-30

held conference with the Air Base
authorities and the mayor issued
ran order prohibiting the Negroes
from using the city-owned SWIM
ming pool.
Interraeial Meeting Held
On July 8, Rev. Nelson was the
principal speaker at an inter-racial
luncheon at the Palace of Sweets.
After his address, in which he sug-
gested that the citizens Of Sioux
Falls must take positive action in
changing the unfavorable conditions
complained of by the Negro SOL
diers, Ben Marguiles, a white bust
nessman, suggested that an organ
ization "for action" should be
formed. A steering committee to
organize a branch of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People was named.
The temporary officers named
are: chairman, DR.. Prentiss Penn
berton (white), Professor of Reli-
gion at the Sioux Falls College;
vice-chairman, Charles Warden,
Negro businessman; secretary, Rev.
Guy E. Nusbaum, white Presbyter-
ian minister; treasurer, Ben Mar
gulies. Charter members of this
new branch will include many Of
the leading business, civic and re-
igious leaders of the Sioux Falls
community. Rev. Nelson told the
representative of the Recorder and
Spokesman that he was greatly en-
couraged by the response to his
suggestions for positive action by
many Sioux Falls people, who are
sincere in their desire to see that
the Negro soldiers, and Negro ci-
villains as well, are given their full
and equal rights in Sioux Falls.
Mrs. Dorothy Schultz made a
report for the special Anti-Poll
Tax Committee. Many speakers
have appeared before local labor
unions urging their support of the
Anti-Poll Tax Bill now buried in
the Judiciary Committee of the
Senate. An encouraging report was
made of the membership campaign
by the chairman of the Membership
Committee, John M. Culver. Earl
P. Dickerson, prominent Chicago
lawyer and a former member of
FEPC, will be invited to address a
membership mass meeting early in
August,
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-30
Della Burns,
Beloved Mill
Citian, Dies

Mrs. Della Burns, 2711 Emerson
Ave. &c., one of the bulwarks of
the Seven Day Adventist church
for the past ten years, died last
Thursday, July %, at the age of
Sc, at Abbott hospital. She had
been employed by the Misses An
ME and Elizabeth Quinlan, owners
of Young & Quinlan Department
Store, for % years.
Mrs. Burns, beloved to a large
group of friends in Minneapolis
of all religious denominations, had
been confined for only one week
though she had been in poor health
for the past five years.
Funeral services were held Sun
day, July %, at Beacon Light Sew
en- Day Adventist church. Woodland
Funeral Home was in charge of ar
rangements and shipment Of her
body to Jacksonville, Fla, where
relatives survive.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-30

Tex. She herself was formerly a
public school teacher.
The text of the citation accom-
panying the posthumous award of
the Navy Cross to Harmon is as
follows:
"For extraordinary heroism
while serving aboard the USS SAN
FRANCISCO during action against
enemy Japanese forces in the
Solomon Islands area on Novem-
Der IL and 10, 1912. With per-
sistent disregard for his own per-
sonal safety, HARMON rendered
invaluable assistance in caring for
the wounded and evacuating them
to a dressing station. In addition
to displaying unusual loyalty in
behalf of the injured Executive Of
ficer, he deliberately exposed him
self to hostile gunfire in order to
protect a shipmate and as a re-
suit of this courageous deed, was
killed in action. His heroic spirit
of self-sacrifce, maintained above
and beyond the call of duty, was in
keeping with the highest traditions
Of the United States Naval Service.
He CALAMITY gave up his life in the
defense of his country"
The IS HARMON is the newest
type of ship in the United States
Navy and is especially designed
for the job of convoy protection.
The escorts are all being named
for Navy heroes, just as destroyers
are named. The first of the escorts
are now in service. Others have
been launched and are fitting out
for service at sea. A large num-
Der of these vessels have been built
and are under construction at the
Fore River Yard, which employs
$1,000 persons, representing every
race.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-07-30
Finishes Two
War Production
TruininQ Glasses

Albert H. Smith, 314 Central
Ave. S. E., Minneapolis, appointed
in a group of so from Twin Cities
Ordnance plant to attend a Red
Cross training class at the Wesley
Foundation, Minneapolis, finished
the course with SO, next to the
highest grade in the class which
was SO.
Prior to his employment at the
New Brighton plant he completed
a course in Aircraft Mechanics at
East High School, war production
training center. Mr.. Smith was
employed as a truck driver at Fl.
Smelling before going to New
Brighton.