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The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-02-05
HOWARD WILLIAMSON

Howard Williamson, of BOuraSsa
street EcOrse. died suddenly at his
home last Friday morning. Surviving
are his wife, Mabel; daughter. Mrs.
W. 4. Banning, <ef WyandOtte; his
mother, Mrs Emma Williamson. of
Blissfield, Ohio, and two grandchild-
rem. The remains were shipped from
the Nixon funeral home. Saturday,
for burial at Alliance, Ohio.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-02-05
WILLIAM II. THOMPSON

william III. Thompson, -. died Jam
nary 26 at the Milton COnvalescent
home. Detroit. following a long illness.
He is survived by a son. Lloyd. OF De-
ttroit, and two daughters. Mrs. Burton
Pollard, Of Long Beach. Calf. and
Miss Nora Bell Thompson. formerly of
Wyandotte. but now Of Midland. Mich
Funeral services were held Thurs
day ut p.m.. from the Nixon funeral
home. in charge Of Rev. III. Norman
Jackson. of the First congregational
church. Burial was in Ferndale GENE
tefy,
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-02-05
MRS. MAUDE SCHARF

Mrs. Maude Scharf, OF $50 Alfred
street, died last Friday night at Sey-
tnour hospital. Detroit. She was u
years old. Surviving are a son, Stan
ley, Of Ecorse; two brothers, Everett
and Leslie Jones, of WyandOtte, and
sister, Elsie.
Funeral services, conducted by Rev.
Warren f. Jackson of the First Bap-
list church. were held lat the Nixon
funeral home, Wednesday afternoon.
Burial was i'm Wells cemetery.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-02-05
War Chest Drive
Nets $lO4,O77

The recent down river war chest
campaign resulted In the raising Of
$1O4IOT5 80. The districts quota Of $75.-
$50 was exceeded by $28,227.52. OF
the total amount raised, SIT .S0S4
was realized In wyandotte, exclusive
OF contributions by the city's indus.
tries. Industrial contribution from the
down river district totaled $5S.619.34.
Communities participating in the
down river campaign were Ecorse. Ein-
coin Park. River Rouge. Trenton and
WyandOtte.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-02-05
Doesn't Approve

The war department does not ap-
prove correspondence between SOL
diers and civilians unknown to them,
it announces. Under no circum-
stances will any plan to encourage
or promote such correspondence be
approved. However kindly the mo-
tive behind them may be, the de-
partment believes that such plans
are liable to abuse by unscrupulous
persons.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-02-05
Bars Rabbit With Apple

James Cole of Youngstown, Ohio,
was hunting when he spied sleep
ing rabbit. Being . sportsman who
only shoots his Dummies on the run,
he took IN, apple from his pocket
and SHED il at the animal to wake
him I'D. Result: a bulls-eye with
the apple, which knocked the bunny
cold. The throw. if not the apple,
was a pippin.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-02-05
LUCILLE SMITH

lucille Smith, 81. of 1896 Eighth
street, died January - at Herman
Kiefer hospital. Detroit. after Il long
illness. She is survived by her moth
er. Mrs. Nellie Smith: three sisters
Mrs. Joseph Lynch. Mrs. Harvey Mar
quardt and Miss Nellie Smith, and two
brothers. John, of Allen Park and
Glenn. OF WyandOtte.
Following prayers by Rev. f. H..
Wilcox. of the First Methodist church
at the Nixon funeral home, the body
was shipped to LaFOllette. Tenn. for
burial.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-02-05
CHARLES w. KOCH
General Insurance
1915 McCann Road
RID. /. Wyandotte
TELEPHONE 7O32-R-2

STATE OF MICHIGAN, The Pro-
bate Court for the County of Wayne.
No. 800, O66
In the matter OF the estate Of
ELIZABETH NJ. DROUILI.ARD, de-
ceased. Notice IL hereby given that all
creditors OF said deceased are requir-
ed to present their claims, in writing
and under oath, to said Court at the
Probate Office in the City. Of Detroit.
in said County, and to serve q copy
thereof upon Alice NJ Drouillard, ad-
ministratfix with the win annexed OF
said estate, at 1913 Biddle Ave, Wy
'andotte. Michigan, on or before the
18th day Of April, AID. 1913, and that
such claims will be heard by said
court before Judge Patrick II. O'Brien
in Court Room No. 300, Wayne Coun-
ty Building in the City of Detroit, in
said County. on the 18th day of April,
A. ID. 1913, at two o'clock in the az
ternOon
Dat q: Feb. !. 4. d. 1913.
PATRICK III O'BRIEN.
Judge OF Probate.
Published in WyandOtte Herald,
once in each week for three weeks
successfully. within thirty days from
the date hereof 6w3
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-02-05

Lest and found columns q
Toxic newspapers are crowd
e these days. Every time an
American buys q War Bond,
the laps lose face. Buy your
; 1879 every pay day.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-02-05

This is to certify that the above
vouchers amounting to S6,15S.IO have
been examined; that the articles or
services called for have been received
that prices and computations are cor
rect; that all invoices, receiving no
tees and supporting data are attached
and in order. and that the proper &c
counts have been charged.
The treasurer is hereby authorized
to pay the above vouchers.
Chas. III. Block,
President.
Mildred L. Mielkie.
Secretary.
Trustee Altman moved that the bills
be approved and that the treasurer be
authorized to draw warrants on the
proper accounts for the payment Of
same.
Trustee Steele seconded the mo-
ton.
Ayes: Trustees Altman. Block, Har-
riott Jacobson and Steele.
Nays: None.
The motion was carried.
The report Of the cafeteria manager
was read and placed on file.
Trustee jacobson moved TO adjourn.
Trustee Steele seconded the mo-
ton.
Ayes: Trustees Altman. Block, Har-
riOtt. jacobson and Steele.
Nays: None
The meeting was adjourned.
Mildred z. Mielkie.
Secretary.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-02-05

This is to certify that the above
vouchers amounting to $45.2 5O.OS have
been examined; that the articles or
services called for have been received !;
that prices and computations are cor
rect; that all invoices, receiving no
tees and supporting data are attached
and in order. and that the proper ac
counts have been charged.
The treasurer is hereby authorized
to pay the above vouchers.
ChaS. ii. Block,
President
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-02-05
BOARD OF EDUCATION

EebruarY I. 1913

FEBRUARY i, 1JbO
\ regular meeting of the Board Of
Education was held in the Roosevelt
High School on Monday, February l,
1913. The meeting was called 10 order
at Z 40 PM. by the president Charles
II. Block. There were present: Trus-
tets Altman, Block, IIarriOtt, Jacob
son and Steele. Absent: Trustees He
meister and McInerney.
Trustee Steele moved that the min
utes of the regular meeting Of Janu-
AIRY Is. stand approved as recorded.
Trustee HarriOtt seconded the mo-
ton.
Ayes: Trustees Altman, Block, Har-
riOtt. Jacobson and Steele.
Nays: None.
The motion was carried
The authorization sheets were read.
Authorization sheets Nos 1856.
Teachers Pay Roll -3O,O13.33
National Bank Of WyandOtte 100000
Michigan Bell Telephone Co. 1871
Semi-MOnthly Pay Roll - 4,7O7.O0
Teachers Retirement Fund
Board 1.345.4S
Non Teaching Retirement
Fund Board ---- 1890
War Training Pay Roll - S14.19
~ D2O OK
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BUY L. s. WAR BONDS
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-02-05

PRESIDENT.
Mildred +. Mielkie,
Secretary.
The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1943-02-05
NOTICE OF
General rimarvEIeC ion

NOTICE is HEREBY Given s1hat
the General Primary Election Will be
held in the City of Wyandotte CT
MONDAY EERRIIARV TX 1899
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-11-19
Children Who Want To Go
To School

AS we continued our walk PEG.
pie would stop our companion tc
exchange a few words of greeting
Occasionally we would also meet
children.
This may sound odd to Ameri-
can parents but it happened in
Tunis, and, no doubt, it will hap
pen in Europe after victory.
when are we going back to
school ?When will the schools be
opened again ?" the youngsters
would ask.
Our children" the attorney
explained, haven't had any for
NAL schooling for nearly two
years. First, because the laws of
the Vichy Government barred
them from the regular schools,
and now simply because the
schoolhouses must be used to shell
ter the refugees you saw little
while ago. That's another prob
lem we shall have to take up"
When we arrived at the home
of the president of the Jewish
community we found number of
other leaders present. They were
eager to get down to the actual
job of rehabilitation. A commit
tee for that purpose had already
been formed, just as there were
committees in Casablanca and AL
giers through which the ]. D. G.
operated in those areas.
Liberation Brings Responsibilities
What saw in Tunisia leads me
to stress one vital fact: The bat
tie for Jewish survival does not
end, but begins with Allied liber-
alton. It will take years after
the war is ended before the Jew
ish communities Of Tunisia can
once more stand on their feet. 1t
will take years because there
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-11-19
Anf-SenitiSm
Menaces Nation

New York (JPS) - "Anti-
Semitism menaces our national
life" FIJI Chief Edgar J. Hoover
declared in an interview he gave
to Haydn Ehrenreich, staff
writer of the Jewish Daily For
ward published in this city.
Describing Anti-Semitism as un-
American, the Oman chief ad-
vised that education is the most
effective method to combat the
anti-Semitic influences. He
conceded that unfortunately
anti-Semitism has been on the
increase among some sections
of our populations, among the
mentally retarded, but on the
other hand the decent elements
are showing increasing sympa-
thy for the prosecuted"
Mr.. Hoover declared himself
strongly in favor of interfaith
movements. He also advised
that Jews give publicity, but
in a modest manner" to their
contributions for the war eff
fort.
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simply aren't enough of the ne
cessary essential materials in
North Africa with which to re-
build. Everything will have to
come from the outside. While
the war is on, such shipments are,
of course, out of the question; and
after the war is over it will take
innumerable shipments to bring
in the vast quantity of materials
required.
When Europe is liberated we
shall find scenes of tragedy and
desolation infinitely greater than
those 1 witnessed in Tunisia. The
task of reconstruction will cor
respondingly be greater.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-11-19
CHURCHILL'S SON
JOINS JEWISH
ARMY COMMITTEE

London (JPS)-Randolph Church
i'll M. F., son of the British Prime
Minister, has joined the British
Committee for a Jewish Army, it
was announced here by the Conn.,
mittee.
Randolph Churchill served in
this war as a military press offic-
er in Cairo, where he met leaders
of the Yishuv and where he had
a chance to observe Palestine's
Jewish volunteers.
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of ten senators and congressman
urging President Roosevelt to set
up commission to plan and in
stitute program to save the
Jews of Nazi dominated Europe
from extinction" The plan stems
from the Emergency Committee
To Save The Jewish People Of
Europe.
At a press conference the Con-
gressional sponsors of the resolu-
ton said that they believed that
1.-THE prestige of quasi-official
commission would have a deterr-
ing effect on Nazi prosecutions"
They envisaged a system of res
cue camps in neutral countries to
house Jews who would be able to
cross the borders out of occupied
territory. These camps, the Com
mittee said, could be financed by
lend-lease or Congressional ap-
preparation. They believed, how
ever, that sufficient funds could
be raised by private sources.
The sponsors predicted "early
and probably unanimous passage
of the resolution"
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What happens to a battlefield
when the battle moves on? What
happens when the battlefield is
not merely a hill or a plain of
scrub and boulders, but a city of
living people, and their homes
and aspirations.
In Tunisia we found the answer.
DR.. Schwartz and I arrived in the
capital at Tunis soon after the
Allies had vanquished the Afrika
Korps. The smell Of panic was
still in the air. Every available
dwelling, tent and barrack was
jammed with people from the
bombed-out areas. The city's pop
ulation, which normally contains
more than 10000 of the 10000
Jews of Tunisia, was multiplied
several fold. Everywhere, too,
were the scars of war-bomb
craters, half houses, lonely crumb-
ling walls, shattered windows, and
on the faces of people shock and
stupor. DR.. Schwartz and I had
come from French Morocco and
Algeria, Tunisia's neighbors on
the west, where there had been
relative quiet. We had expected
to find in Tunisia ruin and DESC
lation, but were not prepared for
the actual havoc we encountered.
The third day of our stay in
Tunis was the one I shall remem-
Der more than any other during
the six months I spent in North
Africa. DR.. Schwartz and I left
our hotel early in the morning.
We hadn't been able to sleep
much. It had been a bad night,
and we were glad to get down to
work. A couple of Dorniers had
come over the evening before and
had caught us out in the open and
we had to spend more than a
half hour in the muck and dirt of
roadside ditch.
We made first for the four
schoolhouses where 120 Jews
from Bizerte had been given
shelter. Eighteen hundred Jews,
almost the entire population of
Bizerte, had originally come to
Tunis, but the Jewish community
was able to provide board in pri-
Vate homes only for so.
We had been accustomed to
crowded conditions in the melas,
the Jewish quarters of Casablanca,
Rabat, Oran and Algiers, but
what we saw in these school
houses paled even that. 1t was
not so much that 60 and 70 per-
sons were living in one room, but
that the sick and the manned
were lying on pallets of straw
right alongside the healthy and
uninjured. You didn't have to be
a doctor to recognize the diseases.
On one pallet a woman tossed in
the fever of typhus. On another
a mother tried to calm a child
whose eyes were closed by the
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-11-19

characteristic sores of trachoma-
a vicious optical disease commune
cable by contact with towels or
eating utensils used by the pa
tient. And when you saw hag-
gard men and women convulsed
with coughing, you knew that the
dread tuberculosis was also here.
Hiding Their Nakedness
If you have ever been in North
Africa, or in the Levant, or in
the Far East, you know that you
rapidly become accustomed to the
various kinds of dress or undress
of people. But for the first time
we became acutely aware that
here were men and women who
were hiding their nakedness in a
manner approximating the prim-
tive. If a man had a pair Of
ragged trousers he was lucky.
Many women wore nothing but
shawls. Others wrapped them
selves in swathes of cloth. Child
rem were completely naked. This
was true not only Of the refugees
in the schoolhouses but also of
many Tunis residents. Clothes
were not merely at a premium;
they just couldn't be had.
We left the schoolhouses in the
company of an attorney, with
whom we had spoken earlier, to
visit the president of the Jewish
community. We walked along
the crowded streets, instinctively
keeping an ear cooked for the air
raid siren. We walked slowly;
the mid-morning heat was begin
ming it's climb toward 80 de-
grees, and energy had to be con-
served.
With the attorney as our guide
that walk through the streets OF
Tunis was one of such sights ana
information as has never been
provided for in any Baedeker. we
PASSED the attorneys own house.
It had only half a roof. Concus-
sion from bombs had crumoieo
the white terraces. Even from
the outside we could see that tne
walls had been ripped open. we
knew that the Germans were on
fine run and were preparing TO
ovacrate Tunis," the attorney told
rs, "when they began to rip open
walls to look for precious copper
wiring to take with them"
The Story of a Cafe Table
AS we turned a corner, STUMP
Id on a small table whose top
was hanging crafty on the sac
# belonged to the open air care
which fronted the corner. Inc
attorney stopped and we dio IKE
,.r;so He had bent over and was
;ntentlv regarding some markings
on the top of the table over wnlcli
= bod stumbled. His finger showed
80 nencilled delineations winch
seemed to go in all directlons'
cone of my best friends made
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those" the attorney said. "He
had been sitting right at this
table with some people and dis
cussing the strategy of the Allied
campaign. I guess they were try
ing to figure out how soon the
Allies would get here. You see,"
he pointed to some undulating
lines, this represented the Mareth
Line.
1T happened about four in the
afternoon. AS they were sitting
here and talking, a squad of Ger
man soldiery swoooped into the
cafe and arrested all Jews. My
friend and the others were taken
off to the NaZi labor battalions.
Later. he tried to escape from the
road gang. The Germans killed
him."
He indicated a synagogue a
block away. 1.-The Nazis burst in
there during the services one Sat-
urday morning" he continued,
and dragged away all men between
IS and so. We even had to help
them hunt our own people for
their slave labor battalions. Of
course, they took hostages-the
ten top leaders of our community.
And they told us, quite politely,
that if we didn't supply 5000 Ia
borers within ten days the host
ages would be shot and others
taken. So we had no alternative
but to go with them on the round
ups. We went to synagogues and
homes and cafes. At the end of
the ten days we still didn't have
the required five thousand. We
pleaded for an extension. The
Nazis compromised. They took
men over so and even over So and
forced us to help find them.
1.-THE city was filled with ter
ror. I don't think any of us will
ever recover from the sheer hor-
ror of being hunted down. Those
Nazis aren't human. They weren't
lust cold blooded about it; they
were automatons."
The Poster on the Wall
We turned into a side street,
stepping gingerly across a bomb
crater. Suddenly DIR. Schwartz
and noticed that the attorney
wasn't with us. We found him
a few PAGES around on the ave-
nue.. His face white, he was
ripping a large circular off wall.
When he saw us his rage soften
ed.
"Some of these" he said, ARE
still pasted up around the city.
He handed the circular over. 1t
was in three languages, Italian,
French and Arabic, and was sign
ed by General Won Arnim. The
good general, through this circu-
lar had informed the residents OF
Tunis that because they were SUI
fering severely from Allied bomb
ings, the Jews, who were frlenos
of the Allies and who desired ana
prepared" the war, were being
fined twenty million francs to pay
for the relief of afraid victims.
81 forgot to tell you," the attor-
ney said, that this was only one
fine We also had to pay for the
clothing and food of our men they
took for the labor battalions.
nut the circular in my pocket
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Last May Kurt Peser took leave of his
posts Executive Director Of the Federation
Charities and the Allied Jewish Appeal Philadelphia to
accompany Dr. Joseph Schwartz the Joint
Committees European Chairman North Africa He has
just returned to this country This his frsthand
of what he in Tunisia in terms Of the impact
occupation there.-Ed. Note.)
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Congress Hears
Rescue Resolution

Washington (JPS)-A resolu-
ton has been introduced in Con-
gress by Senator Guy M. Gillette
of Iowa and Congressman Will
Rogers, Jr., of California, in the
name of non-partisan committee
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TU~|SIA
PREVIEW Of EUROPE
BY KURT PEISER

An Eyewitness and Human Story Which Raises
the Curtain on the Tragedy and Ruin of Jewish
Life We Will Find on the Liberated Continent
Evening star., 1943-11-28
1943 Liquor Bill Put
AT S4,800,00O,000

The American people spent S4,-
800,000,000 for liquor last year, DR..
Z. M. Jellinek, associate professor
CT applied physiology and director
of the Yale school of alcohol studies,
yesterday told an Allied Youth
luncheon at the YWCA, Seventeenth
and K street NV.
This is double the amount spent
on education and one-fifth of the
total food bill for the Nation, DR..
Jellinek said, adding that 'it gives
us some idea of the enormity of the
alcohol problem which the Yale
school of alcohol studies is trying to
assay"
"The school, started because of
requests for scientific information on
the problem by organizations of all
kinds, is a research laboratory de-
voted to the sociological, legal and
statistical as we'll as the physiological
sides of the question" DR.. Jellinek
said 1T is fundamentally inter-
ested in approaching the subject
from a scientific point of view, hav-
ing an objective attitude rooted in
sincere concern"
Declaring that earlier books and
articles on the subject tended to lag
behind scientific knowledge or to
simplify the problem, DR.. Jel-
linek asserted such procedure re-
suited in marrow solutions"
DR.. Willard E. Gibbons, executive
secretary of the National Educa-
tional Association, presided.
Evening star., 1943-11-28

serst. F. N. Hileman. A my Air
Forces Technical School, Buckley
Field, Colo, and Aerial Gunners'
School, Laredo, Tex. Sergt. Hile-
man was born in Avonmore, Pa.
His younger brother, Second 1t.
George A. Hileman, is with the air
forces in Pyote, Tex.
Pvt. Mccarthy, 2O-year-old para
trooper, took part in the Sicilian
invasion and landing operations in
Italy. In September he wrote his
mother, who lives in Fairfax, Va,
not to worry if she didn't hear from
him for about a month. That was
the last word she had. On Novem-
ber the War Department informed
her that he was missing in action.
Before the war his brother, Joseph
Mccarthy, fireman third class, was
lost at sea while serving aboard the
West Virginia.
Played Football at Fairfax High.
Pvt. Mccarthy was on the foot
ball team of Fairfax High School.
In July, 1912, he became a clerk in
the War Department and entered
the service the following November
Sergt. Tyler, 25, of Landover, Md,
has been missing since the recent
action at Rabaul, New Britain, in
the Southwest Pacific. In letter
written october q to his sister, he
referred to shipment of Bibles
that had been received at the post.
Sent overseas last spring, Sergt.
Tyler had been trained as a gunner
in the Air Forces at Tyndal Field,
Fla, and Will Rogers Field, Okla.
He has been in the service since
May, 1912. He moved from Norton,
Va, to Landover as a boy and was
a graduate Of College Park High
School His brother. Pfc. Clyde
Tyler, has been overseas for two
wears
Evening star., 1943-11-28
Army Names 5 Dead
In Crash Of Fortress
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 27.-Five
Army flyers we're killed today as a
Flying Fortress on training flight
out of nearby Lockbourne Air Base
crashed, scattered wreckage over an
acre and gave two boys a never-to-
be-forgotten experience of helpless
ness.
I'VE couldn't do a thing-the
flames were too big" said Don Van
Gundy, IA, and Frank Gleissner, II,
who were operating a tractor when
the plane nose dived from an alti-
tude of so feet. The youngsters ran
forward and heard the trapped crew
yelling for help.
The dead were:
First 1t Claude R. Garmany, jr.,
%. Chattanooga, Tenn.
Second 1t. Monte M. Small, %,
Minter, Ala.
Second It. Frank J. MANI, jr., 27,
Northf1eld, MINI.
Pfc. Philip ]. Kiely, %, Queens,
N. Y.
Pvt. Joseph Dolgin, Is, Brooklyn,
N. Y.