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Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05

obey. Presently Mr. sybert and her grandmother. IL
yearod Mrs Rebecca Sybcrt appeared in the flesh and
in angry mood.
Berthas explanation accepted but they did
take her suggestion that they stop themselves First
both her elders added their weight TO the bed but still
bounced
Then Mrs sybert remained on top while Mr. sybert
crawed underneath watch monkey business
out nonplussed.
Grandma Sybert then made the scientific test Of trans
ferrng the mysterious child TO her welbchaved bed,
only to see it bounce like the other.
When the thing happened 10 Mr. SybertS they
had beds, but not of ideas Papa Sybert
placed the family Bible under the chds pillow 1t worked
perfectly but only for that one night.
The night bounced Bible and all they called in
grinning neghbos who quit scoffng when the bed
bounced as many as could sit it
Praying brought negative results but TO hymn-sngng
the potergeist responded extent moving the bed
with the rhythm Finally they had give up
letting the ghost do il pleased and usual, it
tually left them in peace, of its own accord
CCENCE has taken this clowning spoo more seriously
~ than il does the minded spirits because 1t does
not like anything supernatural but more like some
sort Of unknown natural force such clcpathy that
perhaps and useful the childhood of the human
but power almost lost Some cases doubtless
are hoaXes but others have haffed Investigation.
TIL AMERICAN WEEKLY,
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05

and outside the house was rewarded by the best
demonstration Of all
The thumps. three at time began at 55 p. m. and
They were according to the chief louder than any
human have made and were heard outside the
house, half block away
Out of all this the family learned that it was being
haunted by potergeist, which something to
them all and the nuisance pinned Loros by crcum-
stantal evidence
They told him that he couldn't help it any more than
scarlet measles Also like these diseases there
pills to be taken it would have to its
which probably would not be very long but might last
I'll he Ia older and nobody died Of potter
geist.
Most ghosts show a faithful attachment to certain
buildings preferably ancient and person has
prejudice against "disemhodied entities all he need do Is
out.
But buffoon of the spirit world interested
in real estate and will follow the young member of the
family to whom it is attached surely will the family
dog
For few days the other boys looked up to Loros as
overprveged child who could do trick they did not
understand But when it that he had control
over the thing such making it work in school or church
where there would be interesting results they lost interest
Though potergeists not fatal it is recorded that
in 1928 Eleanor Zugun young Rumanian peasant girl
quarreed with her invisible boyrend and got the worst
of H. coming out Of scufe in the dark with her face so
badly cawed that it feared she might be permanently
disfgured
But eventually the scars went away and so did the
mean tempered spook.
F science awarding prize the biggest best
Bertha Marie Sybert daughter a Virginia
Ger living St Charles This spook TO be tops
muscular power and what important the ability
work a fairly good light and the presence Of
many people could get into the
According 10 the Bertha who only nine
years old at the time it began August night 1889
She had gone bed usual but before falling asleep
happened to think fairy tale a magic carpet
which would transport person where he wled provided
he knew the magic words If carpet, why not mat
tress?
So Bertha began invepting magic words and at once
got encouraging results The bed began bouncing up and
down therefore If she could more it would
probably take her right out the window which would be
swell
But just then her father in the next commanded
the child to stop that noise"
Papa Sybert temporal authority equivalent to
sultan in the fairy tales and FOR little Princess Bertha"
obey She whispered the genie" to stop
and then realizing that did understand English tried
to invent the right words in hog Latin but still it did not
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05

Iaugillc's niece aged twelve.
This vas more than year ago and far is known
Mr.. PotcrEest never back Probably he will.
docs possible 20 convict suspect little
Loros Euedgc Jr completely with the heavy-fisted
humping poiterEeist that pcsered his Tumann
Arkansas In fact the eleyenyearold boy had perfect
alb the middle Of the night Of July 12 1910 when it
first happened
Loros in bed and asleep were the other three
children when hs father eaped of bed 20 three
terrific knocks the front door Only with big
news probably big bad would pound mperiously
stars and pulled open the door but
nobody anywhere the deserted Much
puzzled Mr Ecdge laid it to contraction Of the building
and went back 10 bed
Three mornings later Mr. Eledge and Loros
standing The Kitchen the partition shook with three
heavy blows Startled they TO the other side Of the
partition hlt found nothing for
else was the house Mrs Eledge thought it o
spooky and telling her husband they going
bed ght He dismissed nimportant just
three loud cracks rcsounded the bedroom
young Loros
They hurried find the frecklcd youngser sitting
up in bed. pop-cyod
Did you make that nosc?"
mo Dad Of the wall my head"
Loros truthful youngster but that statement
make sens@%o his father drew up a chair
him about half hour Then the thumps again
sounding the place the boy had said
Mr. Eilcdge placed mattress bedcothes boy and all on
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the floor saying:
Now let me see
you do it
Pm not doing any
thing. ne answered
rcproachfully.
Father and son
stared at each other
for another 80 min
utcs and then the
room s hook with
three X n oC k s from
the floor under the
mattress.
II give up" said
Mr.. Ellidgc and went
back TO bed, but not
TO sleep.
The family doctor,
the minister and the
chief Of police we're
consulted.
Chief Edgar Sullins
pla c d men inside
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05

metal the rocker and rocked part Of the
well another After while they invited the ghost
10 JOIN them the kitchen and show what ne could do
lie did plenty
First "A scrapIng sound called attention to a shelf
which small ghostlkc object could be dimy moving
around ON went the lights causing the motion 90 stop
but revealing that the dminutive spook nothing but
a bottle Of milk
The next period Of quiet and darkness ended by
Z that made everyone Jump a tin dinner pail without
Nwle provocation had jumped from its nail on the wall
and landed on the floor ten feet away
Later natiron did the thing then the kitchen
table fell Us side by this Of the callers had
been awed respectful whispers but elderly gentle
resoutcy stated that it all a fake
A moment later there a rattling like silver in
drawer faint h5sfFE 7etff followed ny thud and
the flashing Of lights Qliyerng the wooden sheathing
beside the old gcntcmans head knife and fork The
sfcpuc was so impressed that he said no more.
Reporters and cameramcn visited the home OF the
poerEeist and a picture obtained OF the natirUn
guided through the by something that
looked like a dscmbodied hand but if there
trckcT il not exposed.
The manifest atoms went for several
weeks and then ended with unexplained
abruptness. The salient points of the Bible
Hill this sudden ending and the fact
that in the house lived June Hull, Mrs.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-05

Hurried Into
That She Stop Her Bounn0 She Convinced Them She Couldn't and They
Tried Holding Her DOWn But That Didn't Work Either There Was No
Else Made Then All Three Got the
Bed-But the Mattress Kept Right On Tossing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-05
Falsified Applications

/ Side by side with the persons who tried to
obtain two NJ ration books during the period
of their issuance is another group equally dis
honest who have used trickery in an effort to
secure duplicate A gasoline ration coupons
It is no secret that the local board has been
offered many falsified applications
There is something fundamentally wrong
with the reasoning that leads some individuals,
who in all other dealings are scrupulously OBJ
servant of the conventions as well as the law
and would walk mile to return a found penny
if the loser were known, to cheat on gasoline
| Probably this predisposition springs chiefly
from the laundering of the OPA which is in
general more sinful than sinned against-even
in the face of black markets and may Justly
be blamed for the bulk of public dissatisfaction
with its ponderous and incomprehnsible edits
But even with the score heavy against it.
it is still impossible to justify any attempt to
| ''put it over local ration board and so get
more gasoline than the regular allotment of
A coupons permits.
It just comes to light that one of the chief
contributing factors to the defeat of Rommel
in Africa was the bounteous supply of Ameri
can gasoline delivered to General Montgom
cry, from Alamein eastward. Even if uaany
of us feel that the Eastern seaboard has been
shamefully treated, as it undoubtedly has. in
apportioning the domestic gasoline supply. it
is not to be forgotten that similar need for
battlefront fuel may arise at any time. To
fitch gallonage through trickery at home could
prevent the duplication of Montgomery's VIC
tory in Africa. This is worth bordering if and
when temptation comes to try to deceive
ration board with forged credentials.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-05
QUOTATIONS

Inc food in the German prison camp con-
sisted OF potatoes, bread and watered SOUP.
IT was the Red Cross packages that we really
looked forward to.-Lieut Albert Glass, ex-
change prisoner.
Ihere must be no Inconsistencies about
tne victory. We must march on to Berlin and
Tokyo to teach future Hitlers and Tojos that
wars OF aggression are improbable and fruit
less.-Navy Secretary Frank Knox.
Had we cut the Germans off, we would
have raced to Rome. The Germans were too
quick for us.-British Gen. Sir Harold R. L. G..
Alexander.
The United States, the latest freshest and
most potent newcomer into the field, may
have to play the decisive part III conducting
the last act in the great war drama.-Prime
Minister Jan Christian SUITS, Union of South
Africa.
General reconstruction of Europe must de-
pend on complete Standardization OF the Ger
mans isolation of Prussia occupation
for time of every German city to show the
Germans that their defeat was completely a
military defeat.-Prince Otto OF Hapsburg.
The Skoda works are now famous Tor their
shells that are stuffed with sawdust instead
of gunpowder . for their shell caslngs mat
fall apart on the firing line Tor the lncreo-
ible slowness of their assembly line .and
for the incredible number of executions OF
their workers.-John Paris, UP corresponds
ent on Czech underground.
If Japan is allowed to retain the vast EN-
pire conquered up to this time as 3, lar ,d as
they are concerned they have won u1e wa,
We are going to have to retake IT, japan an,
ace card is to wear us doWn.-hedl Iauil -.
Elliott c. Buckmaster, former collli''~AS* -
the sunk aircraft carrier Yorkto""
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-05
Lewis Wins Again

For the present at least the crisis in coal
production is past-by surrender of govern.
ment.
| John L. Lewis has again demonstrated his
power to dictate, not only to union labor as
typified by coal miners, but to the United
States government as we'll
To be sure he did not get all he asked when
he demanded wage increase of So day for
mine workers, but he came so close to it
(the increase is $3.50 that the settlement is
clear-cut victory for him.
But the resumption Of work in the mines
cannot Offset the loss of production during
these wildcat strikes, for which the union
leadership accepts no responsibility but can
not be supposed to nave strenuously objected,
nor overcome the setback in war production,
particularly OF steel. Nor can it assure deliv-
cries of coal to cold homes as winter ad-
vances and pneumonia and influenza grow in
creasngly menacing.
The best that can be said of the settlement
is that miners already receiving fatter paw
envelopes than any increase in the cost OF
living justifes. will get Sill week more.
In contrast, interrupted production has placed
handicap upon the nations war output so
heavy as TO jeopardze the victory
This is something that must be dealt with
before labor. whether employed in coal mines
or any other essential industry, can be credited
with performing its fair part in the war pro-
gram.
Striking to fatten pay envelopes is not a
creditable example of patriotism
Even with coal again in pl reduction, the ad-
ministration energies from the crisis with little
credit. A showdown between government and
recalcitrant labor leadership is only postponed
1t may not come, it probably cannot be brought
about as long as the present administration
truckles to the Lewlses and Greens of labor.
but when the war is over and the armed
forces come home, the men who have been
IN mortal danger the battlefields of the
world at niggardly pay are very likely to
force it into the open.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-05
The Literary Guidepost

oraWn with Germanic attention in
detail, its Messiah is brought in,
and then all the people so ruthless
~ introduced are strung together
on the thread of the prophets Wis
ion. which takes him in turn into
the lives of them all. At the end
the reader has a fabulous bundle
OF impressions fitted together as
carefully as Herr Haushofer's geo.
political concepts, in which Jere-
miah the Saint is the hero, the
locusts are the villain and the
whole is an allegory CT the human
race and its unending struggle.
And as is so often the case when
a man is so completely absorbed
in his subject, the effect is good.
The Mormons on their pleateau,
watching the locusts eat up their
future, are after all people just
like the Germans who watch Hitler
gorge himself on the blood of their
UNBORN children. jeremiah they
set upon just as men have set upon
prophets since men left off swing
ing from tree to tree by their tails.
The dancing girl who became a
farmers wife, the old Jewish tin
ware peddler, the horse-thief-all
OF them are human, sometimes al
most tangible.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-05
Raymond Clapper Says:
Senate Should Adopt
New Peace Resolution

address, Willkie recommended ex-
actly what has been done at Mos.
COW. He urged that the United
States join with the other three
big powers in what he called a
Joint Declaration of Intention" as
preliminary to forming a COM
mon council of the United Nations
and other friendly nations a n d
eventually of all the nations. For
mer Governor Stassen of Mime
sofa has been second only to Will
fie in the extent of his activity
Governor Dewey has followed
somewhat at a distance as have
many other Republican leaders.
Thanks SO largely to Wilkes
unrelenting eXhortation. we have
nc party division on foreign poll
cies Thus the nation can, with
genuine sense of unity, accept the
historic cpportunit~ W., 9, r. f4cs-
cow conference offers An expires.
Son to that effect from the United
States Senate surely would be well
coined universally here and
abroad. except in Axis territory.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-05
The Situation In The Pacific
DE QUINCY.

In their dispatch from South Africa. Ray
mond P Cronn and Russell BInes, cores
oondents and exchanged prisoners, base their
conclusion on the probable term of the war
in the Pacific upon the ability of the japanese
to hold and fully develop the resoul ces of their
more valuable conquered areasnotably The
Netherlands East Inoes and Maaya-and con-
tinued industrial production. They foresee that
the war will last another five years. if no
substantial interruption in Japanese produc-
retaken by the Allies They believe the Japa-
nese people generally are capable Of holding
out that long despite short rations and multi
plying discomforts.
. Cronin and Brines have been in Japanese
prisons had contacts with travellers in Japan
and heard reports which filtered through the
strict japanese censorship They are trained
observers. Their views, therefore, are not
such as would stem from snap judgment or
scattered hearsay alone. Rather, they OBJ
viously have been formed after careful thought
and consideration of known conditions What
they say is sufficiently important to dispel
any thought that the final Campaign against
the Japanese is either at hand or will be
speedily concluded once it starts.
I On the other bend, their dispatch clearly
points new targets for attack which probably
have been well known to the Allied militarists.
though little about them has crept into news.
While General Macarthur has been DESTROYING
Iokyo's outer bastioIs and an offensive is be-
Ing organized in Burma, we may well assume
that neither Washington nor Lonoon has over
looked the importance of these other possess
sions which the japanese were quick to seize.
nor that Japan's capacity to marufa cture the
implements of war has been underestimated.
Neither Washington nor London NAV have
set time limit upon Japan's resistance as
these correspondents do. It is conceivable that
these capitals, with better understanding moi
only of the enemy's strength but also of the
growing Allied fire power, foresee Japan's
collapse sooner than they predict. But their
dispatch is Illuminating and highly valuable II
the reading public for the light il sheds upon
the true situation in the Orient.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-05
1.-THE Locusts, "by Otto Schrag
t(Farrarw ! Rinehart; S3).

There are so many odd features
to Otto. Schrag's 1.-THE Locusts'
that casual reader might be for.
given for losing sight of the au.
thor's objective. The book is &C.
tually study of the Great Plains
and contiguous territory under a
blight. the blight being the locust.
1t is panorama novel, in which
many different people and settings
are used, and its unifying agent
is a Mormon prophet who might
be out Of the Old Testament, the
Book Of Mormon, Beowulf, the Ko.
rean or just somebody's head.
But the book is strange. It is
about the most American part of
America, for example, yet it is
written by German only few
years on these shores, written in
German at that nd splendidly
translated by Richard Winston.
Translating such book, one that
hangs always between the epic and
the homely, must have been a
chore of parts.
And the method is so Germanic
as to call up a smile, now and
then. Its Introductory scenes are
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-05
Daily Praye,
FOR sTIRRINGs OF THE DEEP

Thou art moving upon Thy
world, o infinite Creator and
Ruler of all things; and we praise
Thee for all manifestations of Thy
providence. Do Thou turn n d
overturn until Thy Kingdom comes
to the transformed hearts of all
peoples. We confess the sin of
superficiality: we have not entered
into fellowship with the greatness
of Thy purposes in this war. Now
we pray that, by the movings of
Thy mysterious Spirit the deepest
depths of our spirits may be stir
red. Awaken us to the magnitude
of the crisis now upon the world.
Open our eyes to the vastness of
the issues involved. Give us, in
new awe, sense of sympathy
with the peoples now suffering so
sorely. Purify our purposes and
perceptions, so that we may pur-
sue the golden tomorrow in Thy
strength. Deliver us. we plead,
from the terrible fate of being
small souls in a great time. Make
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-05
You're
Telling Me

Nothing" said the Perfect
Husband, lis too good for my
little woman" as he bought her
wedding anniversary gift OF
pound Of butter.
Versatile, those Italians. They
now have been on both sides OF
the war, as well as having been
caught in the middle.
The South reports an over.
abundance of caterpillers. Zadok
Dumkopf wonders if they're Jap
silk worms fleeing the homeland
before it's too late.
It seems that no matter what
move Coach Hitler makes - a
flank attack, an aerial offensive
or a line buck, the Big Red team
is always the one that comes ur
with another first down.
Coach Hitler might try a quarter.
back sneak. At least that WORD
"sneak" should appeal to him
The frost that's on a pumpkin
leaves us cold. It's the pumpkin
that's on the pie crust that really
clicks.
In getting a divorce a midwest
ern woman got custody of the
family Victory gordon. Bet ex.
Hubby wishes he had the foresight
to plant nothing but spinach.
That noch ness sea serpent
certainly is adept at timing its
bids for publicity. It's bobbed up in
the news again having waited, ap-
parently until the World Series
was over.
1t naturally brightens up Der
Fuehrer's breakfast to hear over
the radio that since dusk onlv
one more German industrial
city is missing.
Northern town reports a hail.
storm OF icy pellets as big as
bullets. Why, Mother Nature
who ever thought you'd be Just
another pistol Packin' Mama!'
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-05
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON. - The Senate
could do nothing more useful than
to bring to prompt close it's
double-talk debate over the Con-
na1ly resolution by adopting a new
resolution SO phrased as to con-
stitute a vote of confidence in the
great achievements of Secretary
Cordell Hull at Moscow.
1t would be irregular for the Sell.
ate to do that. But the occasion
is unique. IL is of such moment
in he affairs of the human race
that formal recognition of it by
tie Senate would be fitting. Many
senators are urging this be dove
by adopting the Moscow language
as its own statement of poncy.
BY prompt endorsement of the
work of Secretary Hull. the Sen
ate could add to the effectiveness
of the Moscow conference. lie
force of the declarations will be
all the greater if it is made clear
promptly that the Senate was in
iull sympathy with them-as the
comment from senators inulv NJ
ally seems to indicate. Also a for
NAL declaration by the S n t e
would take divisive, trouble-mak-
ing words out of the mouths of the
Axis propagandists. They would
not then be able TO c,eate d0'lbt
and mistrust by describing t h e
Senate as lukewarm, if not COW
ertly hostile to the work of Sec
rotary Hull.
It would be fitting for the Sem
ate to honor one Of its former
members-and the House too for
that matter. because Hull was
Congressman for many years. De-
mocracies are generous in recog-
milton of the victories of military
men. But statesmen too often 60
unsung or worse.
At the advanced age of y, a
man flies halfway around tn
world, severely taxing his limited
physical reserves And tocre
where most people thought it would
he impossible for him to achieve
much, he participates in one Of
the most inspiring events o 4se
war. A door is opened, and we
see outside not the distant clouds
of third world war, as SO many
had feared, but we see instead ly-
ing off to the horizon tho rro '.
nea ceful fields Of hope. Until now
victory has been something that
would serve only as a pause be-
fore more unacceptable war. We
had felt imprisoned In a room
where there could be no peace.
only more war. Now we can zee
out through the door that has baen
opened at Moscow the broad high
way over which we can go for
ward together into better days.
At last we have the promise
that our men far away are not
dying in vain.
An expression of our gratitude
to Cordell Hull would be but small
payment for bringing back such
great hope to us, and such oppor-
tunity as has come only a few
times in history.
We have others to thank also.
For the almost universal Aneri.
can approval of what has been
cone at Moscow we can thank
those in the Republican party
whose strong leadership ever since
early 1910 has prevented making
these matters partisan questions
To Wendell Willkie, as much as
to any man, must 60 credit. Hav-
ing argued and exhorted. having
dramatlzed the issue by his trav-
els around the world, he finally
goaded his party into declarations
which support in principle what
Cordell Hull has done at Moscow
Indeed. in his recent St. Louis
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-05
This Cock-Eyed War

This war is getting too cockeyed for any.
body to follow The other day The Star had
the Germans rushing renforcements into the
Balkans from Siberia and yesterday it pro-
claimed hundreds of Australians are deserving
the Nazis. Probably we'll learn next that the
Chinese are quitting the Japs.