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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-07-02
Merchandise

Farm Products and Equipment
IS ACRES Of standing clover and
timothy hay. Location mile north
Of OakNiIle on Liss Road between
T4ttlc I'm and Buntou RI. John
krocAmal r - wills, Mich.
STANDING HAY FOR SALE
call lj5u-W-l
Inquire $500 Geddes Rd
ELECTRIC Milking Machine, Double
unit John Rlst. Mile s. and Mile
r. Of Whitaker. Nh4s Willow Rd
so ACRES good hay West OF Pros
pect, corner Ford and Fratns Lake
Roads, John SanockL
FARM PRODUCE-Baled Alfalfa
bronze hay, soc per bale from
field Jesse Hewens. ! MI y, y
m W, ~ Lincoln school
EXCELLENT STANDING HAY
for sale H. ". Dickerson
$3.50 Geddes I'd.
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ORDER APPOINTING TIME ron
MBARIn0 CLAIMS

NJ d3I1J
STATE or MICHIGAN. The Pro-
bate Court for tho County of wash
tenhw.
At the Probate office In the city Of
Ann Arhor. In the said County. on
the 18th day Of June. A. ID. 1919.
Present. Honorable Jay q. Pray.
ludge OF Probate.
IN the Matter OF the Estate %
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Automotive
House TraIlers For Gale

rs TT. is4i Palace. Excellent eondi-
ton Good tires $3.50. 25S0 Hol-
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For SMART. rich easy 10 clean
floors. recover with Armstrong $
Floor Covering or Iula.d Iinoleum.
r0mplete selection. Grluneil Bros
2I0 W. Michigan
Evening star., 1943-10-15
Nozis Fortified Wrong Town;
1t Couldn't Happen to Yonks
Stoff Of TOO Experts
Ready to Meet Any
GeoqruphicuI Order

If this had happened to the Yanks,
at least dozen spontaneous con-
gressional investigations would have
burst forth in all their democratic
fury. Fortunately, it didn't.
1t seems the German high COM
mand wanted to fortify a Norwegian
town called Leikanger 1t made a
quick check of map and found two
places with that name, one in the
political division of More and two
in Sogn og Fordane The one it
wanted was in Sogn and appropriate
instructions were issued to the COM
mander of that area
Now there are actually two towns
named Leikanger in Sogn. But the
area commander knew of only one.
So he got to work on the Leikanger
he knew and-yeS, that's right. He
picked the wrong one.
For two years the Nazis worked
like beavers fortifying the wrong
town. The error wasn't discovered
until new commander came into
the area. History doesn't record
what happened to the man RESPONSE
BILE for that little boner.
1t Can't Happen Here.
Things like that can't happen to
American troops with the Interior
Departments Board on Geographical
Names standing by to help them,
according to the boards director,
DR.. Meredith F. Burrill, The boards
staff of more than 100 experts is
ready at all times to hop into any
kind of geographical emergency,
whether it's the correct pronuncia-
ton of some obscure Siberian vii
lage or the name of South Sea
island which no American ever
thought would mean anything in
his life.
The mundane chores of the Board
on Geographical Names escaped
press notice until last spring. when
its staff was suddenly enlarged and
1t began issuing releases on how to
pronounce the names Of places which
were being captured by Allied armies.
This naturally led many people to
believe that the organization had its
birth around that time, a delusion
which is painful to members of the
staff.
Created in 1890.
Actually, it was created in 1890 by
President Harrison as the United
States Geographic Board, an inde-
pendent governmental unit. Nine
Evening star., 1943-10-15

Unfortunately, he said. the great
bulk of the duties being carried
out by his stafI involve the military
and can't be referred to, even Ii,
whispers. The reason is fairly OBJ
vious. If 1t ever got around that
the board had been asked by the
War Department to straighten oat
some names in a country that had
not yet been touched by Allied
armies, the enemy might make cer-
tain deductions.
100000 Names Indexed.
BY the end of this year the
board will have more than 5000, 900
place names filed and indeAed. 1t
is working on at least $4,000, 900
more. 1t gets about 100 inquiries
week from the war agencies, most
of them from War and Navy, and
a smaller number from other
sources. go
The Importance of such lnforma-
ton to the military is dramatized
by the Nazi blunder in Norway.
but there are dozens of workaday
situations which come up and must
be clarified for smooth operations.
Field maps in war theaters must
contain the names OF many obscure
towns. villages. rivers, creeks, NOUN
tains. Often there will be scores
Of different names for these places,
and sometimes no names at all.
Some one must decide the official
name, and that's where the board
comes in. 1t is equipped to give de-
cisions almost Immediately as re-
quired in military operations.
Aside from the purely military
Evening star., 1943-10-15

geographical names by the Govern
ment.
During the first 50 years of its
existence, it got along with a staff
Of three or four experts who re-
NAMED obscure civil servants. Early
this year, however. the war agencies,
including the War and Navy Depart
ments, pointed out there were lot
OF geographical odds and ends to be
cleared up if tactical officers and
men in the field were to keep from
losing their minds and suggested
that the board take on the work.
The war agencies appreciated the
need for expanding the staff and
offered to put up the necessary
funds. Secretary Of the Interior
1ckes accepted the offer and desig-
mated Dr. Burrill to reorganize and
direct the organization.
DR.. Burrill was recruited from the
Land ONCE where he was chief of
the research division. He had come
to the Land Once as an economic
geographer in 1910, after teaching
geography for 10 years at Oklahoma
A. and NJ College.
The phase of the boards work that
has recently gained the most noto-
riety Is, according to DR.. Burrill
only minor function-that of pro-
viding authoritative information on
the pronunciation of foreign names.
The bulletins that have been issued
in this field have led to some caustic
comment in certain quarters. DR..
Burrill is little bitter about this,
since, he explained, the work was
undertaken at the specific request of
the radio and newspapers.
Evening star., 1943-10-15

functions of the board, there are
hundreds Of problems right here in
the United States that need solving.
Not so long ago 4 war plant in
Ohio was having trouble getting
shipments Of freight promptly. It
seemed the plant was near a little
railroad station called Fairfield.
This shouldn't have caused any
trouble, except that there were Two
Fairflelds in Ohio, and the wrong
station was always getting the
freight. 1t would lie around for
weeks because no one knew what
to do with it, So the board was
consulted by the railroad and it
finally agreed to change the name
OF one OF the stations to Heston,
and everything has been cleared up.
Preferred Local Usage.
So far as is consistent with GER
tain. fixed policies, preferred local
usage Is the guide for deciding on a
name. DIR. Burral hopes this policy
will be adopted generally by Amer
leans after the war when they write
to countries in Europe. Some ex-
amples: Rome. should be Roma
Moscow, Moskya; Naples, Napoli;
Evening star., 1943-10-15

Belgrade, Belgrade: Vienna, Vein !;
Warsaw, Warszawa; Munich, Mum
chen. and Cologne, Koln.
That's the way the people who live
there spell the names, and DR..
Burrill believes it would simplify
communications and foreign reia-
tions no end If Americans would
address their mail that way. The
name OF the country should still be
spelled In the American way so that
postal employees here who classify
the mail before it leaves the country
can get it an the right ship or plane.
Evening star., 1943-10-15

years ago it was incorporated into
the Interior Department by execu-
tive order and it's name changed.
Also by executive decree it was made
the official authority on the use of
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-02-15
SUPPLIES SOLD
in NORTH AFRICA
10000 Tons Go to Civil
ians; Hardships Severe
Due to Axis LOOting

Allied North African Headquart-
ers, Feb. l6.-(UP)-Sixty thousand
tons Of American and British lend
lease SUPPLIES were being sold today
to North African civilians, who have
suffered acute hardship because .oi
the looting Of Axis economic mis-
sions" since 1910.
The North African economic
board said the first supplies were
unloaAed shortly after Christmas
and NNe United States and Britain
were sending about the same guam
tity Of materials.
The principal commodities which
have arrived were sugar, hour, milk
tea, coffee, margarine, potatoes,
cheese, soap, matches, cotton cloth
clothing, shoes, and copper sulphate
for wine growers.
The board said the supplies were
handed over to the French high
command by q British american
agency attached to Allied head
quarters. Then the Algerian and
Moroccan governments distribute
them In normal trade channels
Some commodities, however, were
being given away, or sent to COM
rnissaries which sell directly to ma
tive labor employed by the Allied
armies.
The American Red Cross said q
daily ration Of powdered milk was
being distributed daily to children
up to IL In many Algerian and
Moroccan cities.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-02-15
JUDGE DISMISSES
DIVORCES ACTIONS
Grants Decree to Plaintiff
in Another Suit, Also
Custody, Allowance

One divorce was granted. and two
other divorce actions were dis
missed by Judge Frank P. McEvoy
In memorandum Of decision hand
ed down today.
Elizabeth O'Neill Peterson Of Wa
terbury was granted q divorce from
Walter A. Peterson, also Of this city.
She was given custody Of two minor
children, an allowance Of $40 for
the support Of each and allmony Of
$40 per week. The couple married
July IS, 1925 In New York city and
cruelty was alleged to nave started
In July, 1928.
The action brought by Joseph
Cappella Of Waterbury against Mary
Mocciola Cappella, also Of this city,
was dismissed. The jurist stated the
difficulties Of the marriage appeared
to grow out Of the plaintiffs and
not the defendants actions. The
couple married July z, 1917 and are
the parents Of four children.
Mary DeVito Venezianos action
against Julio Veneziano was the
other one dismissed today. Judge
McEvoy stated in his memorandum
that the evidence given for the
plaintiff, was not sufficiently trust
worthy to form q basis for O de
vorce. The couple married April
IA, 1912.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-02-15
BOOK CAMPAIGN
FORMALLY OPENS
Weather interiors With
Plans of Many PrOspeC.
tive Donors

Old Man Winter somewhat
checked the incoming food of books
donated In the Victory Book Drive
which off1cially began today. The
below-freezing temperature prevent
ed many a patriotic minded in
dividuals from Drawing the Icy winds
to bring his donation to the receiv-
ing stations located in the Victory
House on the Green, at neighbour
hood flrehouses or at the library.
In spite OF the weather handicap,
however, there has been a fairly
decent starting supply delivered to
the Victory House for the bays in
the armed forces. Librarians posted
on duty here say that they are
pleased to note that books Of quail
ity are being collected, and that
books which had been on last
months best seller lists are among
those which will provide the serv-
icemen with entertainment.
During the drive of last year, peo-
pie were won't to give away the books
that they considered good" This
year the trend seems to be toward
giving books which are the books
you would like to keep.
Donors will find volunteers
posted at the Victory House on the
Green daily from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m,
today through Saturday.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-02-15

right within her own four walls
and say she is a patriot, too, and
the public soon will recognize the
fact more fully"
This two-way position comes
oddly from Mrs. Denny, for she re-
Gently went on the air to declare
fatty: mo, mothers Of young chill
dren should NOT work because they
cannot do their Job at home and
also work outside"
what I mean," she qualities now,
twas that homemaking is one full
time job and outside work is an
other, and the average woman cam
not do both Of them in the style to
which I think the children are en-
titled, meeting standards which the
community also needs to have main
tanned"
Mother of a college girl and twin
12-year-old boys, Mrs. Denny knows
thing or two about home-m making.
And also about outside work, for
before she married she was secre-
tary TO the head Of a huge grocery
house.
"And I can hardly wait until my
children's situation will permit me
to get back into my own work out
side of home" she laughs eagerly.
The actual need for mother of
young children in outside work, she
pointed out, varies greatly from
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-02-15
HOUSE CONSIDERS
ADJUSTMENT BILL

Hartford, Conn.,, Feb. 15-(UP)-
A reorganization Of two major
state departments was likely this
week by legislative action.
The military affairs committee
probably will report favorably q
bill revamping the state defense
council and placing 1t under the jur-
isdiction Of the new Connecticut
War Council.
The house on Wednesday will be-
gin consideration Of a bill abolish
ing the state public works depart
ment, and transferring its duties
to the state comptroller's office. The
bill was reported favorably by the
judiciary committee.
The public works division has a
staff Of about SO administrative
employees, and about lis mainten-
ance employees in the state capitol
buildings.
AS regards the defense set-up,
Gov. Baldwin was expected to ask
the legislature to increase the men,
bership Of the new war council to
about Is members. Many members
Of the state defense council prob
ably will be named to the war coun-
Gil, which will act as Gov. Bald
wins war cabinet.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-02-15

town to town, Public officials have
a formula which she likes: when
war labor shortages occur, take ev-
cry available man first, then every
single woman, then every woman
with grown children. And only af-
ter that ask young children's moth.
ers to work outside as O matter Of
patriotic duty.
Mrs. Denny recognizes that many
such mothers are voluntarily work.
ing In war plants, and she says
honor them when they also manage
adequate care Of their children, In
Guiding character-guidance.
"But social pressure is getting SO
strong that the 'woman-in-the-
home sometimes feels she's q pretty
poor creature If she cannot do q Job
outside also, and that's unfortu-
nate" she went on. women who
have young children have a job-a
responsibility - which they can
shirk, but never shift.
EFT is two-fold. It involves giving
affection and guidance, bending the
twig as she'd like to see the tree
incline, and nobody can substitute
for o mother here. It also involves
physical care, Just time-consuming
work in the home. Fortunately, here
the community, neighbors or rela.
tons can help by caring for war
working mothers children"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-02-15
SWEATER GIRLS
STILL kDAMANT
Stafford Aircraft Work
ers May Appeal to Mrs.
Roosevelt for Help

stratford, Conn, Feb. l5.--(UP)--
Women workers at the Vought-Si-
korslky Aircraft Corp, were deter
ninted to-day to win their fight for
the privilege Of wearing sweaters at
their Jobs, "even II we have to
write to Mrs. Roosevelt"
The appeal to the White House
angle developed while shop COM
mittee continued conferences with
company representatives In q des-
perate attempt to. ease q company
regulation prescribing slacks,, jack
cts and tlrbans as the acceptable
uniform for the 5000 feminine work.
ers at the hugh aircraft plant.
A conference last Friday, result
ing from SO women being sent home
for wearing sweaters, ended In
staleSnate when the company re-.
fused to permit the women to wear
the knitted coveralls while O Joint
committee set about working on
new styled uniform for the girls.
The next step was Q conference
agreed upon for today, but which
was postponed until tomorrow and
the scene shifted to East Hartford,
home Of the United Aircraft Corp,
Of which Vought- Sikorsky Is q SUBJ
sidiasy. Attending this conference
will be CIO International Repre-
sentative Leonard Schiller: shop
Committee Chairman Mike Swirl
doff; local union President John
Robinson, and Martin Burke, per-
sonnet director Of United Aircraft.
Pending a possible adjustment OF
the Stype dispute, the girls remained
at work, wearing the regulation
Stacks and Jackets.
At the Friday conference It was
announced by John Robinson, presi-
dent Of the CTO union, that the
controversy would be certified to
the U. 8. Cancellation Service at
Washington If the shop committee
and company were unable t oget
together In agreement.
Meantime, II was understood, q
petition was being prepared askig
Mrs. Roosevelt to intervene, If ayll
other suggestions failed.
The girls object to the Jackets
as expensive, uncomfortable and UNI
attractive, and limited broadly Of
Inorla reasons for the cornpany's OBJ.
jections to the sweaters.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-02-15
RABAUL BLASTED
FOR THREE HOURS
Allied BOrnbers Encounter
Anti-Aircraft Fire, But
All Return Safely
BY DON CASWELL
limited Press Staff Correspondent

Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters
Australia, Feb. 10 -(UP)- More
than 80 heavy Allied bombers, in
GLIDING Flying Tortresses and B-24
Idberators attacking In four waves,
blasted the Rabaul area, on New
Britain island, early Sunday In one
Of the heaviest raids yet made on
that major Japanese base - drop
ping more than so tons Of explo-
sives, including l,00O-pounders, and
over $500 incendiaries, headquar-
tiers communique said today.
For nearly three hours the raid
ers crossed and recrossed the targN.
area, and when they roared of, a
dense pail Of smoke was rising 1000
feet In the skies and fires were visi-
BILE for 10 .miles.
It was the first heavy raid on
Rabaul since Saturday, Feb. 8, ale
though light blows have been main
tanned almost nightly.
"All waves Of planes encountered
intense anti aircraft fire and search
light, but all returned safely" an
Army spokesman said.
The bombers concentrated mainly
on the area around the northern
end of Simpson harbor, where the
town itself is located, and also
smashed airdromeS, warehouses,
docks and shipping installations.
Australians, who triumphed over
Japanese troops in the Wau area Of
the northeast New Guinea front,
continued hopping up stragglerS.
The latest patrol activity was re-
ported around .Wanduma, approxl-
mately nine miles northeast ofWau.
The major part Of the Japanese
force Is falling back toward It's base
at Salamaua, after losing nearly L.
900 men in 12-day fight in the
Wau area which ended last week.
Catalina Flying Boats raided BUN
airdrome, ON Bougainville island in
the northern s0lomons early Sum
day, causing explosions In the dis
persal area and supply dumps, while
BOA LiberatOrs raided the Ubili
area, on the northeast side Of New
Britain.
On Sunday Q single Boa raided
the Madang air field, on the north
east New Guinea coast. while Bias
Mitchell Mediums. escorted By P-3o
Lightning fighters, hit the Lac area,
on the Huon gulf In New Guinea,
damaging buildings. destroying two
grounded enemy planes. and start
Ing fires with no attempt at inter-
ception By the Japanese.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-02-15
Nazis Seek Assassins
OF Cabinet Members
Dutch ''BIack Hand" Out to Kill Entire Quisng Per
sonnet: Van Razenwaai Latest to Fall

quoting the Scandinavian Telegraph
Bureau of Stockholm on Ravens
waai's assassination said there had
been conflicting reports as to wheth-
er Reydon had died.
Other Stockholm dispatches
quoted by the Netherlands Agency
said all prominent Dutch quislings
had been given strong bodyguarsd
but nevertheless were living in NOR
tai terror,
Ravenzwaai was hated not only
by loyal Dutch, but by QuislingS
because Of his petty stealing as
burgomaster Of Utrecht. He left the
zaadam treasury with q deficit OF
$4,000 when he became burgomaster
Of UTRECHT, and upon his assuming
his new post appointed an ex-con-
vict, director of municipal social
services, and a grocer's clerk who
had been fired for fraud, senior
clerk Of the municipality.
The Germans said they had made
Several arrests" In the assassina-
ton Of former Bulgarian Minister OF
War Gen. Christie Lukoff. Radio
Berlin said he was killed Saturday
night, when he returned to his home
In Sofia from theater where he
had seen the German film, Front
Theater."
LUXOR was shot by a man wear
ing goggles as he opened his front
door radio Berlin said. He fell In
side the hall, and the man followed
him in to administer the coup de
grace. The patriot escaped.
He was minister Of war from 1886
to 1888, and radio Berlin extolled
him as q great friend Of the Nazis
The Germans admitted that a vio-
lent explosion in the Friedrich
Strasse station, Berlin's' most i'm.
portant railway junction, killed tive
persons and injured several" Sat-
urday. The Russian Tass Agency
reported from Stockholm that the
Germans had executed four more
Austrians in Vienna for anti-Naz
activities. They recently had exc.
cuted SO, TaSs said.
The British section OF the Worl6
Jewish Congress said in London thai
reports direct from central Europe
said the Nazis had issued orders
that no Jew must be left alive ir
Berlin, Bohemia or Moravia BY
March 81.
Authorities In Bohemia and Mora.
via were ordered last December *
cancel Jews cards for rationet
goods, the agency said, and they
previously had been forbidden un'
rationed goods.
The Congress said Gestapo agent!
in Vienna, where the expulsion o.
Jews was almost complete. had beer
ordered to Berlin and Holland *
speed explosions there, even Of Jew.
ish girls working in war industries
Mass executions continued in Pc.
land, the victims first being stripped
Of their miserable clothes so they
might be worn by Germans. 1t was
understood that not q single Jew
was left In the Warsaw Ghetto
where before the mass extermina-
ton campaign were 100000.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-02-15
BUS PASSENGER
SEEKS $4,000

Antoinette Cucciniello of Water
bury will file a $4,000 civil action
in superior court against the Con-
necticut Railway and Lighting Co.
as the result of injuries sustained
in an accident Feb. S, 1912. The
complaint will be returned to the
court March by Attorney Edward
MaScolo.
The plaintiff claims she sustained
severe injuries when she fell while
alighting from Town Plot bus at
Avon and Rose streets. It is al
legged ice and snow had accumu-
lated on a step of the bus making 1t
slippery and dangerous. An injury
to the left foot. conclusion of the
brain and Commissions and abrasions
to the limbs. body and face are
listed.