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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-23

should say. every morning. as he
never comes home before midnight
or some times a. m. or 4 a. m.
Last week he came home one
morning al 6 a. m. washed and
dressed and started back TO work
He only had $32 of his pay then.
He said he had been TO some
mans apartment all night gam
bling. Another time he had drawn
S45 for our vacation and had gone
10 this same apartment and came
home at $3.50 a. m. with less than
a dollar in his pocket.
He is 40 years old and.I think
he is old enough 10 know better
than drink so much, but he seems
10 think he is younger man and
gets very angry when / tell him
he is no longer so young.
We have been married 2S years
and feel il Is shame we cant
finish out the rest of our lives in
peace. We have seven children.
three of them married, and il
seems a shame to disgrace them
this way.
| have tried about everything 10
get him TO realize what he is
doing. but / have taken about all
! can as ! feel l can stand most
anything but such drinking.
He has gone from bad to worse
the last two years and in that
time he has gone with me TO one
movie and was intoxicated even
then, / found 10 my sorrow after
we left the house.
We live in a six-room fiat and
pay $3.50 month rent. so you
can see that with other bills
coal. lights, gas, telephone -
don't have much extra money.
But / wouldn't complain about
this II he would only save his
money.
/ try TO tell him TO save money
for his income tax. but he seems
10 think such bills will some way
pay themselves.
This-is my problem. and hope
you can see some way 10 help me
as II seems sometimes I can't go
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-23
Man CIassed 4-F in Draft
Asks if He Should Marry;
,GirI Seeks Service Job

The tragedy of is often poignant in of
battlefront ruhesnes than when has its origin
tion of family at home.
That war has such profound effects the is
revealed daily in many letters written the WAR PROBLEM
CLINIC.
Unprecedented increases in family income
effects sudden loss of wealth. often resulting the complete
breakup of a family unit.
Some Of these effects of the warand be
soften such bowsare discussed in todays WAR PROBLEM
CLINIC by Alfred McClung sociology
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-23
Will He Marry.
Then Enter Army?

War Problem Clinic:
] am 20 years old and l have
been working in a defense plant
two years. l have been keeping
company with young widow who
has two small children and We
would like very much 10 be mar
ried. l have known this woman
all my life.
i am classified in AZ and have
not been reclassified. If were 10
marry now what classification
would / have ? l am asking for
your opinion as l do not wish te
marry her if l am to be drafted
soon. II. T.. A.
Dear II. r. A.:
Judging from your draft
classification and the fact you
do not mention any particular
physical disabilities, I can only
assume your classification IL
one which In not likely tn be
changed. Marriage In your case
should not make any particular
difference one way or another
under present selective service
practices.
Recent pronoupcements from
Washington have made ID clear
that Job status II more I'm
portant consideratio than fam
lily status. However, you might
do best to discuss your plans
with officials Of your local draft
board and be guided by their
advice.
DIR. ALFRED McCLUNG LEE.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-23
How TO Submit
Your Problems
To Clinic Experts

Here is how 10 use the
WAR PROBLEM CLINIC:
Write your problem to
WAR PROBLEM CLINIC,
care of The Detroit Times,
Times Square al Cass ave-
nue., Detroit. Mich.
Do NOT write directly to
members of the clinic.
You must sign your name
and give your address, al
though no names will be pub
lished and the information
you seek will be held in the
strictest confidence. There
will be no charge for the
service.
Your problem will be re-
ferred TO the expert most
familiar with situations such
as yours and best able to
advise you. Do not hesitate
10 write frankly and fully,
for helpful answer may
depend on this.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-23

ADvERTIsEMENT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-23
Wife Under 10
Hunts War Work

War Problem Clinic:
| am a married woman of II.
My husband is in the army air
corps. I would like TO know if
there is any branch of the service
that / can get into? They don't
take any one in defense plants
under 1S.
MRS. J. r. B.
Dear Mrs. J. X. B.:
You must be 81 years old 10
enlist In any of the women's
divisions of our armed forces.
If you are sincerely interested
In some type Of war work, you
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-23
Drinking Husband
Her Chief Worry
War Problem Clinic:

War Problem Clinic:
My husband works in a war
plant and makes over $500 a
month-at least he did when |
last saw his pay check stubs. He
gives me $40 a week. or $3.50 a
month.
He is out every night in the
week with a bunch of men. so he
says. l don't know what he does
except drink, as he comes home
intoxicated every night, or,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-23
Doubts Husband
Can Get FurIough
War Problem Clinic:

War Problem Clinic.
/ am wondering if you could
supply me with information re-
garding a furlough? My husband
enlisted in the Wake Island Ma
rines in September, 1912. He was
at San Diego about two and half
and then was sent over
seas. l think he is stationed in the
Territory of Hawaii.
He never received furiough of
any kind before he left and | am
wondering if there is any possible
chance of his getting a furlough
at any time in the future, sta
toned overseas as he is?
MRS. p. NJ.
Dear Mrs. II. NJ:
Whether your husband will be
given a furlough must be deter
mined, of course, by his COM
man6ing officer. Inasmuch a. he
IL now overseas, however, IL Is
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-23

the money. I would like TO know
how / can get in touch with him
al once.
M. A. ~
Dear VI. A.:
You might write To the COM
manding general, Fort Benning.
Ga, and place the facts before
him. giving your brothers full
name and rank, the name Of his
organization and the address
You used In writing to him, also
the date you last heard from
him. They might be able to tell
you where he is now, unless the
location OF his unit Is a military
secret.
THE CLINIC.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-23

unlikely he will be given
lengthy enough furlOugh to re-
turn home unless some unfOr-
seen circumstance arises.
THE CLINIC. n
War Problem Clinic:
| have a brother in the army.
He has been there about six
months. He wrote 10 me before
Christmas asking for money and
told me 10 send II 10 him at Fort
Benning, Ga. He said he expected
TO leave there most any time.
sent him the money and have
written to him several times since
but l haven't heard from him.
don't know whether he received
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-23

might inquire of the American
Red Cross or American WOmen's
Voluntary Services.
THE CLINIC.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-23
Wife Of War Worker, Dissipating Big Factory Pay

head Of the sociology depart
ment, Wayne University.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-23

rnent of Wayne University, and
one of the members of the dis
tinguished WAR PR OBJ L + M
CLINIC of The Detroit Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TINES:

We hear that the Red Cross has been
able to deliver $25, 900 worth OF supplies.
This is mighty little when divided
among 10000 mere nothing to what
they need.
| have used the letterhead of MONS
Of America to write to you. This
organization has been chosen by the
Bataan Relief Organization to help
bring succor to our stricken sons and
daughters and to Americans interned
by the Japs.
Let us get on with this war that was
started by these .Japs against us.
They attacked US at Pearl Harbor,
NOT IN AFRICA.
Give aid to Gen. Macarthur NOW.
Help him do the job that he left the
Philippines to do.
Let us not be again too late.
We parents feel deeply about the
apparent indifference of the public. We
have watched closely for mention of
those men in the Philippine Islands.
The Times and Mr.. Hearst have said
more than any other of our newspapers.
We thank you and hope that you will
find it possible to do something to bring
to the attention of the public the
unhappy situation of our prisoners
of war.
My son is prisoner of war of the
Japanese, but the allotment he set aside
for me still comes from our government.
From that monthly check | buy war
bond for him EACH MONTH.
From my pay as a war worker | buy
another bond EACH PAY DAY-with
the thought that / am helping to set
him free.
He is one of those boys whose
common wish is to feel once more the
snow of the United States on their
faces, to smell once more the woods in
autumn-as my boy had it in one of
his letters struggled out of Bataan.
Surely those of us at home will walk
another mile with those weary and
forgotten men.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
Company
Doubles
Bond Goal

Employees OF the Colonial Broach
Co, 21601 Hoover, precision tool
makers, set out TO sell 81 900 worth
of bonds. In two days they had
sold more than that sum per man,
so they have stepped up their goal
10 50 900 each, William Reid, presi-
dent of the United Breach Makers
OF America, announced.
Standard Accident Insurance Co..
Of Detroit bought S2,3000,000 in
bonds through the banks for its
reserve account, Walter S. Nc
Lucas, chairman of the treasury
war finance committee, announced.
This does not include bond pur-
chases by the company's 700 en-
ployes. which are yet TO be an
nounced.
Outstate reports piling up at the
office of Edwin X. Hoover. re-
gional manager of the Michigan
Victory Fund Committee, indicate
heavy buying throughout the state.
The nine counties in District No.
z. with headquarters in Kalamazoo.
reported sales totaling So.096, 27S
up 10 Tuesday night.
The Saginaw district reported
sales of S2,872,575 at the end Of
the second day of the campaign.
Grand Rapids had S1.355. 5S4.50 of
its eight million dollar goal at the
end OF the second day. Muskegon
County also is campaigning for
eight million dollars.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
Problem Solved
In Willow Run
Transportation

A plan has been worked out Ia
assure adequate transportation for
war workers 10 the Willow Run
bomber plant. Senator Ferguson
revealed today in Washington.
II see daylight on this prOpO-
sition," he said. ut looks now
as II we will be able TO get
enough transportation both oy
buses and private automobiles"
Ferguson made his statement
after comforting with Thomas IL
Nieholl. associate director OF Local
transportation for the ODT. ano
y. Lee Barrett. director Of the
Detroit Automobile Club.
Virtual assurances were given
TO Ferguson that ODT officials
would open the door TO obtain
additional buses 10 carry workers
TO the plant and that gasoline and
tires would be provided for those
using private automobiles eff
GENTLY.
THE next thing, after getting
the transportation probIe I'm
worked out. Is to get people to
realize the importance of taking
jobs at Willow Run and keeping
them.
81 hope that people In the
Willow Run district will see Ia
IL that every room In their
homes in in use and, II one IL
vacant. 1t will be opened TO a
Ford Willow Run worker"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
Banks Awaiting
Bond Allotment

Michigan banks are ready to buy
whatever war bonds are allotted
them, but so far the treasury has
made no ALLEGATIONS, Edwin K.
Hoover. regional manager of the
Victory Fund Committee,
declared today.
mo part of the Second War
Loan quota has as yet been as
signed to the banks and IL would
be the best thing for the country
IL the whole $4,000, 900 900 issue
were subscribed for by individ-
uals and corporations" Hoover
said.
ITO provide a backlog of re-
serves for the after-war period,
both for corporations to enable
them to change over to peace
time production, and for individ-
uals to give them purchasing
power reserve to avoid depres-
sion, Ii would be splendid IL tho
public bought all the available
war savings issues.
Further, the greatest safe
guard against initiation Is the
putting of private funds into
these government bonds, instead
of commodities"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
Group Sets
; Million
Bond Goal

Mlchigan's 31l Ford dealers,
most of them in the Detroit area,
today launched campaign - sell
$1,000 600 worth Of war savings
bonds TO their customers.
Every dealer pledged to place
himself and his sales and service
organization on the bond selling
front. and the dealers themselves
arc making purchases of bonds to-
falling S375, 900. exclusive of their
s. 0OO.00 public sales goal.
Their own 1915 900 is 10 be ear
marked for the purchase of a Lib
orator B-24 bomber, plus what
ever other war equipment can be
b Dug ht with the rest of the
money
Anthony Tony J. DAnna. Wy
andotte Ford dealer. was named
chairman of the Ford dealers
bond sales drive at a dinner meet
ing
The bond drive was given added
impetus last night when about so
CAP planes went aloft and bonn
barded the city with 100000 leaf
lets urging the populace TO Buy
Bonds Now.
Twenty-Five Of the leaflets were
autographed by Walter S. Nc
Lucas, chairman of the u. S.
/ Treasury War Finance Committee
for Lower Michigan. The finders
of these leaflets are entitled 10
free CAP rides over the city.
Two leaflets bore the autograph
Of Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt and
the persons finding these will be
given CAP rides TO Cleveland and
back.
The Ford dealers S5.375. 900
bond campaign was announced
shortly after the Detroit police de-
partment topped its S4,S00,000
goal.
Police exceeded their quota of
100000 for each of the Is sta
lions in the first eight days they
campaigned They launched their
drive last week. a little ahead of
the formal opening of the Detroit
Wayne County campaign which
seeks TO collect S140,0O0,0 900 of the
second war loans 13 billion dollars.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
Lourdes Novel
Starts Monday

THE Song Of Bernadette."
Book of the Month Clubs
best seller, to be presented in
pictorial form with digest,
beginning in Mondays Detroit
Times. will be illustrated by
Harold Foster, noted artist,
who draws the popular
prince Valiant" feature in
the Sunday Times.
Scrapbooks have been pre-
pared in which you can place
daily instruments of Franz
Werfels magnificent novel;
zation OF the miracles of
Lourdes. These scrapbooks.
when filled, will make excel
lent gifts to men or women in
service and Shut-ins.
To order one of these spe-
cially designed 30-page scrap
books. just mail 10 cents to:
The Song of Bernadette
Scrupbooks, Detroit Times,
Detroit, Mich. Be sure TO in
clude pour name and address.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
ELIZABETH PARSONS.
Bar on { Bonds
Lifted by |sbey

Frank ~ Isbey, chairman Of the
War Savings Staff of Michigan,
today said that many members of
the Gallant $4,000 of Michigan"
have misunderstanding as TO the
limit which the government has
placed on the holding of Series f
war bonds,
He said that any Individual
could buy $1,000 worth OF these
bonds in any one year. However,
man and his wife could have
more. he disclosed, the first $1,000
worth being bought in the name
of the wife, with the husband as
co-owner, and second $1,000
worth with the co-ownership
reversed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17

Your front page article in Sundays
Times, with the picture II Was at
Boto0H,' should help greatly in the
sale Of war bonds, but it seems in that
article that something was forgotten
and has apparently been forgotten by
Alr and Mrs. Average American.
1t should have said:
This time last year, we were the
hungry, brave, beaten but unbOwed
heroes of Bataan.
To-day, we sweat and wither and
are dying-twenty thousand of us, men
and women nurses who could have left
but who stayed to care for the sick and
wOunded) forgotten i'm filthy japanese
concentration camps, almost despairing
that we shall ever see our American
buddies come swarming up the beaches
10 deliver us, almost despairing that
help will ever come"
dependable in the first place, and
now all but forgotten these men of ours
are still Al B0tddn. and in long, long
18 months have had no word from loved
ones AT home.
They are tortured by propaganda
lies that we at home are being bombed
and slaughtered
And we, their parents, have had to
receive our returned mail from the
Philippines, this message stamped on
letters and parcels alike: Service Sus-
pcHdcd, Unable to DeiiUer.
wish that all who have ever read
the motto Of our post office could see
these sad packages, with the stamp of
defeat on them.
Even those with little would buy
bonds, and those with much would feel
it privilege TO lend their weight TO
bring about the day, and speedily, that
the Mail Must and Shall Go Through.
Word has been received through
Toxic that our prisoners Of war need
shoes, sweaters, sweets, soap, toilet
articles, vitamins, fruit juices, medicines
but most Of all, letters from home.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
Can't Hire Firemen,
V-Gardeners Told

Detroit firemen are going TO at
tend to their fires and leave the
victory garden program in the
hands of others, city officials de-
cided today.
The question of firemen-farmers
arose when Floyd McGriff. victory
garden chairman for the North
west Detroit War Council, asked
Mayor Jeffries if his organization
could hire some firemen on, their
leave DAYS TO help with the plow-
ing. discing and narrowing of some
! 800 large garden plots.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
DSR's Monthly Load
Increased IS Million

The DSR carried total vi
50, 189, 1913 revenue and transfer
passengers during March, almost
Is million more than in March,
1912. il was revealed today.
There was a corresponding jump
in revenue, this years total of
So. 046. 00775 being 35.78 per cent
higher than the revenue of 81, 243,-
353.37 taken in March, 1912.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
A Letter to the Editor:
MY Son Is a Prisoner of Japan;
Let Us Get on With This War;

EDITORS NOTE-This is letter from Elizabeth Mrs H. W.
Parsons Angu road Pontiac national president
MONS OF AMERICA MONS stand for Mothers of Men IN Service
Mrs Parsons servce-L James Dey camae of Capt.
Kelly Paul Cool South Pacific from Pontiac
It. Deg prisoner coraled somehe IN Jap pc" since the
HIS mother hasn't heard from him
shortly Jap took that time he mugged letter
crtten typeOriter salUagd from bombed building.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17

Previously stored in stacks of
paper boxes at Board 81, the APP
plications S h owe d conclusively,
Ruegsegger said, that many regis
trants had applied for and re-
ceived more than one sugar-coffee-
shoe ration book.
The discovery was made by
workers of the l VIII Do My Best
Committee. who volunteered to
systematic the application for
a methodical check. Their job is
about one-thirt. completed.
NOT WILLFUL VIOLAToRS
Eve have no cases that show
wlllful violations" Ruegsegger
said. 'In most instances one
application was made by the
registrant and the other by an
agent. Usually they were filed
once at the board and once at a
registration center"
Edward Wilson, office manager
Of the board. estimated that in
recent weeks 200 persons daily
had asked the board to replace
their lost books and $50 had made
applications tor originals.
I'VE always felt this was far
too many" he said, "but there
was no way we could check be-
cause the files weren't complete"
REQUIRED TO APPEAR
AS a double check on appli-
cants' sincerity, Wilson revealed
the board compelled each one 10
make personal appearance before
the board after filing applications
About so per cent failed to return
he said.
Assigning OPA Investigators tc
follow up the volunteers findings
Ruegsegger said the names, de,
lscriptions and ages were Identical
on the duplicated applications
Ruegsegger himself took six case:
! for personal scrutiny.
Each violator could receive the
maximum punishment Of 10 year!
and $4,000 fine for classifying Z
government form. he said
But that Is a long criminal
process that must he handled
through Washington" he added.
"More likely we will instigate
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17

bit about the
inside of your
head by re-
cording I h @
@ | ctrical
waves fro m
your brain.
Your brain,
in case you
didn't know
II. sets up an
electric cur
rent.
It's a very
small one, in
I h @. vicinity
of so m il
honthS of a
volt RISING 10
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
Youth Held by FBI
AS Air Officer Fake

Warren d. Harper, 10, of Ypsl-
lanti. told FBI agents today he
posed as an army air corps lieu
tenant 10 impress my girl friend"
FBI agents said Harper re-
ceived A dishonorable discharge
from the navy last October for
bad conduct"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
=. Saginaw, take notice

saginaw, take nOIlce -,
Donald A. Davis of Saginaw is
ranked by being consistently con-
fused with Donald A. Davis of
Saginaw.
The irked Donald a. Davis is an
army private ready for graduation
from the Harrington, Tex, army
gunnery school. The other is a
conscientious objector.
Identical in age, the two Donald
A. Davises lived two blocks apart
IN Saginaw, grew up together and
attended the same schools. Their
physical appearance is similar.
The similarity causes much con-
fusion among the townsfolk, which
the soldier fails to appreciate.
I'm a conscientious objector
only TO the confusion" he said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
BIaekout Penalty Hits Him

YONkERS, n. Y. April l6
HNS) Among persons charged
in Yonkers city court with failing
to blackout their homes properly
during Wednesday nights air drill
was William Mccarthy. Mccarthy
identified himself as salesman OF
blackout materials.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
Report Riots in Greece

WASHINGTON. April is (UP)
The OWL reported today that
the Swedish newspaper Ny Dag
says 300 persons we're killed or
wounded at Athens and Pireus,
occupied Greece, when the Ger
mans tried TO carry out forced
labor regulations.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
Jack Pickering
Here
and
Now
BRAIN WAVE DEPT.

A reader saw a door at Harper
Hospital with a sign, brain
Wave Dept and wants to know
what IL means.
This is fairly new science by
which doctors can tell quite
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
Ration Board Discovers
Many Holding Two Books
BY SCOTT WIGLE

Volunteer helpers engaged in aphabezng applications for
War Ration the cty downtown ration board have
found Implications it disclosed today by A. D..
Ruegsegger, OPA enforcement attorney
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17
suspension OF ration privileges
where we feel it's justified.

Ruegsegger specialized that a
complete check of the board, which
serves approximately 100000
residents, would yield
many more Implications.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17

Detroit Times Rationing Timetable
ID, Y, to Aprn30 A-vaid % A C-Vand
Aprn as I GASOLINE
S-Four I ~.
Stamp l7ons pair to June Is
Save Your Tin Cans for Collection May ~
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-17

Now doctors look" inside
brain by attaching a few wires
10 the patients scalp.