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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-07-25

Although Moose Lodge could get
only two hits Monday evening they
managed to defeat Ford Local s4s
2 70 4 at Recreation Park and re-
main one game behind the League
leading Carver Community Center
who staged q seventh inning rally
to down ST. Johns C.Y.o. s to 4 at
Ford Field.
Through the wildness OF Pitch
ers Earl Singer and Son Wolf. who
issued nine bases-on.balis between
them, the Lodgemsn we're able TO
rack up four runs without o hit
in the fourth inning after Manager
Max Hilley had driven home Hurler
Ed Ziesler in the hrst with q sin
gle. Ziegler accounted for the 9TH
er two scores for Moose with a hit
in the fifth frame.
Ford's collected six safeties but
scored only four times. They took
the lead in the first inning on sue
cessiYe singles by 5econdbaseman
Collins, Leftnelder La Combe, and
Rightnelder fowler. Stringer sent
fowler across the plate With the
fourth Local S4s run in the fourth.
Carver Rallies to Win
After scoring their frst victory OF
the season last week by tripping
Moose Lodge ST. Johns gro. went
down after a valiant battle when
doubles by Leftnelder Mays and
Secondbaseman Jacobs, and q sin.
gle by Rightfelder John Russell
provided Carver's with the winning
and tying runs in the last inning.
C.Y.O. opened the contest by
scoring three times in the nrst
frame only to have the Center tie
the score at three all In the third.
Hits by Shortstop Jim Garfield and
Firstbaseman Frank HelIerman put
St. Johns in the lead In the NTH
inning which they held until the
seventh.
Summaries:
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cor. ave minute.. I ,hould thlnk. {.

"oh, Ave minutes. 7 should think
THAT will be all, thank you,S
said defense counsel triumphantly.
Carter Bradford climbed to his
feet for a redirect examination. The
courtroom was whispering, and the
jury looked thoughtful.
Miss Wright, did anyone enter
the pantry either through the kitch-
en- or the dining room while you
were conversing at the back door
with Jim Haight?"
81 don't know. I merely said
someone could have, and We
wouldn't have known the diff
ference"
"Then you can't really say that
someone did?"
81 can't say someone did. but by
the same token I can't say someone
didn't"
"But You didn't see anyone enter
tho pantry, and you did see Jim
Haight come out of the pantry?"
"Yes, but"
"And you saw Jim Haight go
back into the pantry"
mo such thing" said Lola with
asperity. II turned around and
went away, leaving Jim at the
door,"
"That's ALL" said Carter softly;
he even tried to help her off the
stand, but Lola drew herself up and
went back to her chair haughtily.
81 should like" said Carter to
the Court, ito recall one of my pre-
vious witnesses. Frank Lloyd"
Then Frank Lloyd took the
stand for only a few minutes. The
substance of his testimony was that
he now recalled an important fact
which he had forgotten in previous
testimony. Jim Haight had not
been the only one out of the living
room during the time he was mix
ing the last batch Of cocktails be-
fore midnight. There had been one
other.
O. And who was that, Mr..
Mr.. Lloyd?
A guest of the Wrights'. Mr..
Ellery Smith.
Q.-Mr. Smith left the room d.
rectly after the defendant?
A.-Yes. He didn't return until
Haight came back with the tray of
cocktails and started passing them
around.
This is it, thought Mr.. Queen.
Carter Bradford turned around and
looked directly into Ellery's eyes.
81 call" said the Prosecutor with
a snap in his voice. "Ellery Smith"
As Mr. Ellery Queen left his seat.
crossed the courtroom. took the
oath, and sat down in the witness
chair, his mind was not occupied
with Prosecutor Bradford's I'M
uttered questions or his own un-
uttered answers He must tell
the truth so as to help Jim Haight...
Another conviction crept into his
consciousness as he answered the
first few routine questions about his
name. occupation, connection with
the Wright family, and so on; and
It arose from Prosecutor Carter
Bradford himself.
Bradford was speaking imper-
sonally; but there was a bitterness
about his speech that was not part
Of the words he was uttering. Cart
was remembering that this lean.
quict-eyed man was an author OF
more than books--he was the au-
thor of Mr.. Brsdford's romantic
troubles, too.
Suddenly the witness saw how he
could make the truth work for Jim
Haight!
(To be continued)
Copyright ~ Titus Brown aCsi
DiitibU,sd by kins gestures syndicate ~
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Monday Evenings Results
Moose Lodge Z, Ford Local sac
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STRIKE MAY SPREAD

Detroit. July 25-AP-- Oficials
OF 10 hotel service employees un.
ions said Monday that employees 81
all major downtown hotels may be
called out on strike TO enforce de-.
mands OF 81 elevator operators and
10 engineers who left their Jobs at
the Hotel Statler last Friday de-
handing wage increases. The
strike OF the elevator operators.
affiliated with tho ALL Building
Service Employees local 1855. and
the engineers, members OF the AFI:
Operating Engineers Union, halt
ed all service 10 Statler guests
when other employees Joined the
walkout.
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Calamity Town
BY Ellery Queen

this witness, herself In badly re-
duced circumstances, was somehow
induced by the defendant to get
money for him, thus indicating his
basic character, how desperate he
was for money-all part of the Peo-
pies case to show his gain motive
for the poisoning"
The jury was brought back.
Bradford went at Lola once more,
with savage persistence. But Judge
Martin was not beaten. On cross
examination he sailed in almost
with joy.
"Miss Wright" began the old
lawyer, "you have testified in d.
rect examination that on the night
of New Years Eve last you called
at the back door of your sisters
house. What time was that visit, do
you recall?"
Eyes. looked at my wrist watch,
because | had IA party of my own
to go TO in town. 1t was just before
midnight - fifteen minutes before
the New Year was rung in"
"You also testified that you saw
your brother-in-law go into the
buffers pantry and, after a moment
or two, you knocked and he came
out to you, and you talked. Where
exactly did that conversation take
placer"
AT the back door of the kitchen. I"
What did you say to JIM"
81 asked him what he was doing,
and he said he had been mixing a
lot of Manhattan cocktails for the
crowd-he'd about got to the mar
aschino cherries when | knocked, he
said. Then told him about the
check"
"Did you see the cocktails he re-
ferred to-"
The room rustled like an agitated
aviary, and Carter Bradford leaned
forward, frowning. This was i'm
portant-this was the time the poi
soning must have taken place.
After that ripple of sound, the
courtroom was very still.
"No," said Lola. Jim had come
from the direction of the pantry to
answer the door, so / know that's
where he'd been mixing the cock
tails. From where l was standing,
at the back door, l couldn't see into
the pantry. So Of course l couldn't
see the cocktails, either"
"Ah! Miss Wright, had someone
sneaked into the kitchen from the
main hall or the dining room while
you and Mr.. Haight were talking at
the back door, would you have been
able to see that person."
"No. The door from the dining
room doesn't open into the kitchen;
it leads directly into the pantry.
And while the door from the hall
does open into the kitchen and IS
visible from the back door,
couldn't see it because Jim was
standing in front of me, blocking
ny view"
"Ih other words, Miss Wright,
while you and Mr.. Haight were
talking-Mr. Haight with his back
to the rest of the kitchen, you I'M
able to see most OF the kitchen be-
cause he was blocking your view
someone could have slipped into the
kitchen through the hall door,
crossed to the pantry, and retraced
his steps without either of you be-
ing aware Of what had happened or
who IL had BEEN"
That's correct"
"Or someone could have entered
the pantry through the dining room
during that period, and neither you
nor Mr.. Haight could have seen
him."
"of course we couldn't have seen
him."
How long did this conversation
at the back door take7"
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ATHLETES FOOT GERM
How 10 Kill IL

The germ imbeds deeply. Can't be
killed unless reached Many lni.
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ADV.
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ADOPT PLATFORM

Detroit. July 25-AP-The SO
cialist party OF Michigan. meeting
in convention Sunday. adopted :
platform calling for repeal OF the
state sales tar and recognition OF
unions OF government employees.
The platform also advocates a state
planning board for industry, un-
segregated public housing for rural
and urban areas, a state fair EN-
ployment practices commission. and
extension Of social security.
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Sports Roundup

Wiamspor the Scranton Red
soH back in good standing today the Eastern League
nonpayment OF $50
Thomas president OF the baseball league
lifting after MAnush notified
him that he had mailed a check.
Deo-AP-Paul the Detroit Tigers hasn't lost game
3 and the six winning streak has boosted his total
another 20yoy
Working with Trout shut the Phil
adelpha Athletics twilight last night before lOO5
while tossing fouhtter
didn't He also had the sasfa
which
increased TO
with the selection of w Dub wooen end and cocaptan
University Oklahoma William Adworth
tackle Colegans charity
II.
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CHAPTER rHrRrY-oNE

"Can you explain how James
Haight's endorsement appears on a
check you borrowed from J. c.
Pettigrew?" continued Prosecutor
Bradford.
81 gave it to Jim admitted Lola.
"When? What date7"
THAT same night, December
61st."
"Where?"
AT the house Of my sister Nora"
"At the house of your sister
Nora. Have you heard the testi-
mony here to the effect that you
were not present at the house, of
your sister Nora during the New
Years Eve party?"
Eyes"
well, were you or weren't you7"
81 did stop at the house for few
minutes, but | wasn't at the party"
Il see. Were you invited to the
party?"
Eyes"
But you didn't go!"
"No."
"Why not7"
Judge Martin objected, and Judge
Eewbold sustained him.
"Did anyone see you but your
brother-in-law, the defendant%
mo. l went around to the back
door of the kitchen"
did YOU know Jim Haight was
in the kitchen?" asked Carter Brad
ford quickly.
Lola grew pink. "Yes. I hung
around outside in the back yard till
saw, through the kitchen window,
that Jim came in. He disappeared in
the buffers pantry, and l thought
there might be someone with him.
But after few minutes decided he
was alone, and knocked. Jim came
out of the pantry to the kitchen door,
and we talked"
About what, Miss Wright"
Lola glanced at Judge Martin. He
made as if to rise, then sank back.
II gave Jim the check"
Ellery was leaning far forward.
So that had been Lola's mission! He
had not been able to overhear. or see,
what had passed between Jim and
Lola at the back door of Nora's
kitchen that night.
"You gave him the check" said
Bradford courteously." Miss Wright,
did the defendant ask you To give
him money!"
"No"
"But didn't you borrow the hun
dred dollars from Mr.. Pettigrew for
~athe purpose of giving it to the de-
fcndant?"
"Yes," said Lola coolly. "Only II
was in repayment of debt | owed
Jim. | owe everybody, you SEQ
chronic borrower.
And Ellery recalled that night
when he had trailed Jim to Lola's
apartment in Low Village, and how
Jim had demanded money and Lola
had said she didn't have any
Only it wasn't true that, on New
Years Eve, Lola had repaid a
debt Lola had made a donation
10 Nora's happiness.
Bradford continued, "Miss Wright,
did Haight ask you for the money
you say you owed him?"
Lola said. too quickly: "No, he
didn't"
"You Just decided suddenly, on
the last day of the year, that you'd
better pay him back-without any
suggestion from him?"
Objection. Argument.
Then: miss Wright, you have
only small income, have you not ?"
Objection. Argument. Heat now.
Judge Newbold excused the jury.
Bradford said sternly TO Judge
Newbold: "Nour Honor, IL is i'm
portant TO the People 20 show that
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n
Ford Local 500 100 o. s 4
Moose Lodge 100 40 II 2 8
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Moose Lodge Defeats Ford Local

STOCKHOLM-AP 800 The Ger
mans acknowledged Monday that
recruiting and supply for the war
fronts had begged down. and they
blamed tho bureaucracy in tina
staff OF the German home army"
which Heinrich Himmler took over
last week.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-07-25
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Results Monday
st. Louis 7, Bosten I.
New York 5, Chicago 5.
Brooklyn u. Pittsburgh 7.
Cincinnati at Philadelphia. rain
Todsy's Games
Chicago at Brooklyn.
Cincinnati at Boston.
Pittsburgh at New York.
st. Louis at PHILADELPHIA.
Evening star., 1944-05-09
Thing Not Done
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
One hundred and sixty-seven years ago
last Christmas the cause of the Ameri-
can Colonies reached its lowest ebb. Our
little Armies were defeated and dis
persed. Washington was discredited.
But that night he and little band of
comrades braved the icy cold, crossed
the Delaware, surprised the Hessian
soldiery at Trenton, captured them and
their general and started the cause of
freedom on the road to eventual
triumph.
God" said Napoleon, sis on the side
of the heaviest battalions." We Ameri-
cans are proud to have done everything
needing to be done to get God on our
side in a Napoleonic way. We have
mountains of munitions, thousands of
ships, millions of trained soldiers, tens
of thousands of aircraft. We have done
everything-except one thing: AS a
nation we have not humbled ourselves
before God, confessed our great sins, re-
consecrated our lives to the building of
His kingdom on earth, nor prayed to
Him to use our Nation according to his
will. We have not, as a people or as
churches, earnestly sought His guidance
on our President, military leaders and
Allies. Worst of ALL we have not be-
seeched Him in repentance, reconsecra-
tion and fervent faith to save our boys
and the boys Of other lands from further
slaughter.
ROSSEL EDW. MITCHELL.
Evening star., 1944-05-09
Bombs and Critics
By Dapid Laurence
From the London Daily Mail.

FROM the London Daily Mall
Those who have nothing better to do
than denounce the offensive blows of
the RAF have chosen their moment
unluckily The Germans, attempting
renewal of the 194041 blitzes on London,
are once again demonstrating what
''indiscriminate bombing" really means.
These raids are fulfilling no military
purpose whatever. They are quite un-
like the Raj raids, which admittedly
blot out area after area of highly in
dustrialized targets with the object of
knocking Germany out of the war. The
German raiders do not concentrate on
targets of any particular value to the
war effort. The destruction of a hoSpi-
tai, church, school, an hotel, a row
of houses and some shops represents
typical nights work for the Luftwaffe.
This is how it was in 1910, though on
much larger scale. The Germans would
have carried on and multiplied their
wanton bombing if they had had the
means. They would have made London
desert by now if they could. But they
could not, because the Raj have been
knocking out their aircraft factories.
Do the critics, whether habituated to
cottage or cathedral, realize how many
undisturbed nights they owe to the Of
fenstve power of the Raj since 194l?
Evening star., 1944-05-09
Criticizes Railroad Officials

Criticizes Railroad Officials
To the Editor of The Star:
A few days since William M. Jeffers.
president Of the Union Pacific Railroad,
~ an address before the American Irish
Historical Society in New York City,
severely criticized the achievements and
policies of President Roosevelt. But I
have positive proof that railroad oficials
are the least qualified to criticize the
President at this or at any other time.
/ have watched the behavior Of rail-
road officials for over 20 years, and I
know their prejudices against the ordi-
nary man. ,t.
1t remained for President Roosevelt
to help the working people. He in
augurated the old-age pension, the
retirement law for railway employees,
the unemployment compensation law.
And now, a common laborer working
for q railroad receives good wages and
a vacation with pay.
Mr.. Jeffers knows very we'll that all
railroad officials despise President
Roosevelt for his humanitarian acts.
Chicago. FRANK T. MILLER.
Evening star., 1944-05-09
Koqu's End

1t is peculiar to the military
character of the Japanese that
whenever one of their generals or
admirals dies, there is always some
reason to suspect the nature of the
death. Thus we cannot be sure that
Admiral Koga, commander in chief
of the combined Imperial fleet
passed away quite as the Tokyo
radio has just announced-aboard
plane, in performance of 'front.'
line duty.
Similarly, when Admiral Yama-
moto. his more famous predecessor,
was reported lost in the same cir
cumstances last year, the non-
Nipponese world was rife with ru-
mors that his end may actually
have come in another, less heroic
way The reason for this is not
merely that the word of the TOTO
government is notoriously untrust-
worthy, but that rivalry between
Japan's armed forces has been SO
violent in the past and the factor
of face" so traditionally important
that assassination and hari-kari
invariably suggest themselves any
time one of Hirohitos high officers
suddenly joins his ancestors. In
koga's case, the theory of suicide
or murder can be argued most
plausibly, since the navy he headed
has been sorely Inundated and
since many a.Japanese Army leader
must have a low and probably
venomous opinion of its command.
Within less than a twelvemonth,
the naval organization of our Pa
cific enemy has thus been twice up
set at the highest level of authority.
At the very least, in face of these
swift and unexpected changes. the
operating efficiency and morale of
the combined Imperial fleet must
be adversely affected in some de-
gree. Not only our own planes and
warships have been taking a heavy
Evening star., 1944-05-09
De GuuIIe and Eisenhower

1nere seems little reaSonableneSS
In the decision of General de Gaulle's
Committee of National Liberation
to suspend talks with General Eisen-
hower'S staff regarding the admin
istrative policies to be followed
when and as our invading armies
land in France. The committees
excuse for this is that there is a
ban on the use of secret code mes
sages between itself in AlgierS and
its representatives in London. Yet
1T is difficult to see how this juStifies
breaking off the negotiations. The
ban, after all, does not apply to the
De Gaulle regime alone; it applies
to every country represented in
Britain, with the exception of Rus
sia and the United States.
Put into effect just few weeks
ago by the Churchill government,
the ban is designed primarily to
prevent any inadvertent leakage of
information bearing on our Allied
invasion plans. This is an essential
precaution, SO indispensable and
understandable that no power af-
fected by it-none, that is, except
the De Gaulle regime-has yet
openly made an issue of it. AS far
as appearances go, at any rate, the
French committee has therefore
placed itself in rather singular and
unco-operative position, made to
seem all the more unreasonable be-
cause the committee can readily
keep in touch with it's London agents
by means of the British cable, secret
code alone being prohibited.
Coming in this crucial period of
the war, such an attitude is hardly
calculated to win friends for Cen
eral de Gaulle. He has made it
clear enough in the past that he
considers his committee the sole
authority to be dealt with in French
administrative affairs, even though
our American policy-which is Ger
tainly shared by the British-is to
give General Eisenhower more lee
way than that, in the event that
there are other elements inside
France who are anti-Vichy but yet
not probe Gaulle and who can help
us in their own way. The French
committees action in suspending its
London negotiations suggests an
all-or-nothing frame of mind. with
the communications restrictions
being mere incidental matter. 1t
suggests pique, stubbornness and a
strangely ill-timed refusal to COM
promise. Certainly, it does not add
to General de Gaulle's stature.
Evening star., 1944-05-09
The Political. Mill
By Gould Lincoln

Efforts to side-step the Constitution
through congressional laws as we'll as
through administrative acts, have been
plentiful In recent years. The attempt
to drive the so-called antipoll tax bill
through the Senate-it has already been
passed by the House-is just another
case in kind.
The control Of elections and the quail
fications of the electors are left, by the
Constitution, in the hands of the States.
Congress and the courts in the past
have stuck to this Interpretation of Ian
guage which is certainly clear enough.
But politics steps in-aided and abetted
by pressure groups. 1t is now proposed,
by congressional enactment, which pre-
sumably the President will approve, to
give the Federal Government the right
to say what the qualifications for voting
shall be in the States. The proposed
to levy poll tax as voting quail
fication.
Here is no question as to the wisdom
of poll tax or nonwisdom. It is just
a question whether the Federal Gov
ernment shall control State elections
The States in the past have had prop
erty qualifications, educational qualifi-
cations, residence qualifications and poll
tax qualifications for voting. Gradually
many of them have been done away
with. But always by State action-not
by action of the Federal Government.
Always the constitutional provisions
have been recognized in the past.
II n
The present effort to have the Fed
eral Government impose its will on the
States Is political. One group, several
groups, are putting pressure on mem
bers Of Congress by threatening the loss
of Negro votes in the Northern and
Western States, where the Negro vote
may hold the balance of power in close
elections. Other groups believe that it
would be better, anyway, to have the
Federal Government control in elections.
The argument advanced by propo-
nents of the antipoll tax bill is that the
Federal Government has an inherent
right to control elections for Federal
ofhce-for President and Vice President
Evening star., 1944-05-09
Troopship

Helmeted men, tight Tipped, shuttle
nearly
Line on line through the blacked-out
night
ToUdrd toi0ering, nanieleSS ShadotD;
Stumble up the gangUayS under peight
of arms,
To lie NTH closed but SleeplesS eyes in
measured rotDS
Within the humid, dimly lighted hold.
The cro,Oded tenement pushes tor1Udrd
into sea
Made angry by the minds OF men
Trained to hundred jobs OF death,
But each man compelled by one cry
From the hearts OF oil men pdrd-
doTicdlIy-
Peace! On this earth for all people
peace,
ROBERT G. MITCHELL
tstan Sergt. stationed In New Gutnea)