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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-15

GEN. MacARTHUR.S HEAD
QUARTERS, Leyte-AP- Frank
Prist, Acme newsphoto photograph
er on assignment with the wartime
still photo pool, was shot through
the head and killed by a Japanese
sniper during heavy fighting in
the Ormoc sector. He was the
fourth war correspondent to be kill
ed since the start of the Philippines
invasion.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-09-07
Teachers To
Hear Childs
On Thursday

Dr.. 3. G.. ChlldS, of Duke Cn!Vcr-
SHY, will address teachers OF the
white schools Of ilendel SOFA and Vance"
county at q faculty meeting here -
Thursday preliminary to opening 81
the schools on Monday. September
10. Superintendent +. NJ. Rolilns n
Hounced today.
The Duke educational leader WlIi
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-09-07
OTIS GRADY DlE..S
OF A ATTACK
81 :ickcn While at Lunch: knCtrai
Friday, With Burial at Nala
County Baptist Church

Otis Grady, IA, died suddenly a
lis p. IN. Wednesday Of a heart at.
tack suffered while he was 1t The
lunch table at his home in South
Henderson. Coroner Asa p. PaScha!t
made a personal investigation uad
concluded Mr.. Grady was stricncu
with a heart ailment.
Funeral services will be held at toe
nome in South Henderson Friday at
2:3O o'clock in charge Of ReV. T..
Norfleet Gardner, pastor o. the First
Baptist church, after which the BODY
viii be taken TO Mount Vernon 8ap-
tst church in Wake county for Dugill.
Surviving are the widow: the la
tAer, George w. Grady Of RALEIGH.
Il sister, Mrs. Daisy Grady o. Ra-
leigh; two brothers, James II. Grady
Of Route 3, Raleigh, and Iowa Grady
Of Raleigh.
Mr.. Grady was a native of Wake
county, and had lived here about
twenty years. He was an empioyc Of
the Harriet Cotton Mills.
Active pallbearers were named as
fellows: W. L. Evans, L. c. Evans,
c. F. King, Pete Thompson, Will
Fruitt and Thomas Tucker.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-09-07

Nine million dollars worth of sup
lies for Americans who are prison.
rs of war were delivered by the
american Red Cross in l943.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28

kinS Street, Oakland, California.
Fifth Division. Bucharest to Lon
don, 1893 miles; Maor Carlyle H.
Wash, killed January 26 l943, in an
airplane crash while holding the
rank of brigadier general; sister
Mrs. Arthur ziercld, 1905 Fremont
avenue, South Minneapolis, Mime
sofa.
Sixth Division, Brough, England,
to Boston: Lieutenant Clarence E.
Crumrine, now colonel, Ninth Air
Force, England; wife, Dorothy E.
Crumrine, 269 VoluSia avenue, Day
ton, Ohio. Lieutenant LeClaire
Shultz, who subsequently died on
duty with the Air Corps. Bissell also
served as one of the advance Off
GERS of this division.
Seventh Division, New York to
Seattle; Captain Burdette Wright,
now president, Curtiss- Wright
corporation, Buffalo.
Air Corps officers who served on
the world flight committee were:
Captain William F.. Volandt, fl
nance and transportation member,
now colonel, AAF headquarters,
Washington, d. c., home West
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
Famed FIiers Old Dovs
Shore i'm Fighting Now

chester kpts.. Washington.
Lieutenant aubert = Brown, COM
mittee chairman. killed in an air
plane crash at Langley Field, Vir-
ginia.
Captain Lorenzo l.. Snow. foreign
relations member. now civilian with
Pratt Il Whitney, East Hartford,
Connecticut.
Lieutenant st. Clair STREET.. now
major general commanding the 18th
Air Force in me Far East: wife, Mrs.
Mary Street,, Fort Myer, Virginia.
The Chicago, Lieutenant Smiths
flagship which completed the flight,
is new in the Smithsonian Institu-
tion'S aercnautical nj uSeum in
Warrington, while the New Orleans
is in Los Angeles museum.
The Seattle was DESTROYED in
crash in Seattle and the Boston was
lost after forced landing in the
Atlantic.
The planes had a wing span of
SO feet, length of 38 feet and
weighed about 5000 pounds empty.
They were powered with single 450-
horsepower Liberty engines.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
CTS DECIDE ON FINES
TO TEMPER LANGUAGE

FORT WARREN, Wyo., Sept %.
CUP)-The old remedy for swear
ing used to be a threat to wash
your mouth cut with bar of soap"
but the boys in the regional hospital
annex mess at Fort Warren have
an even better idea.
The idea was thought up by IA
Sgt. Peter Dettore, mess sergeant,
who decided that since half the
personnel in the mess hall are Wo-
men, there was entirely too much
profanity around the place.
So Sgt. Dettore took a quart fruit
jar, sealed it up, cut a slot in the
lie and labeled it: Swear Can
five cents for each profane word"
The idea caught on and has been
working fine, except Sgt. Dettore
happened to be the first person to
drop a nickel in the slot.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28

into pastures very nearby. A few
minutes later, as we were Wriggling
through the wettest possible woods
among tanglss OF briars, half a
dozen shrapnel airbursts whacked
the vicinity.
They seem to have plenty of
stuff" remarked an officer.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
By HUGH BAILLIE, President of
the United Press
Copyright, 1914. by United Press


WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
INSIDE GERMANY, Sept. %
Nobody coming fresh from the
United States with a preconceiVed
idea that the Germans are on the
verge Of quitting would get much
support for this notion if he visited
the front lines as l have.
Maybe they tIe figuring on sur
rendering. but you wouldn't think
so if you got up here.
From a command post in the
front line before Metz with German
strong points on both TANKS, /
looked through powerful glasses di-
rectly into the city itself. The
steeple5 and buildings loomed
. clearly.
In the middle distance, however,
the peaceful-appearing green coun-
tryside was studded with enemy
pillboxes ard artillery positions
from which occa asional shells
slammed into the American front.
GERMANS FIRE BACK
The Americans were firing even
more frequently. The cinister Whi5-
pering of our own stuff going over
head would be followed by great
velloWish black bursts upon the
German positions.
The Germans appeared TO have
big gun on an elevator which from
time TO time rose over hill ridge,
fired, and disappeared.
Near one half shattered farm
house in plain view half a dozen
Germans strolled in open view, evi-
dently figuring We wouldn't waste
shells on small groups, as it was
their forts we were after.
Our own conspicuous situation
was emphasized by an officer warn
inc us 10 keep down; don't allow
silhouette against the sky. It's not
only your own neck, but we don't
want TO tempt them TO send a salYo
in this direction
Artillery whackings were inter-
spersed with malignant machine
gun gatherings at our right and
lElt elLDHS, lIulCdIlllB LIlc 4OCo1Aci'
OF strong points.
PATTON MEETS STONE WALL
Lieut. nant- General George ).
Pattons great armored column,
which rolled VIGOROUSLY across
France after the break-through,
now has come smack up against the
traditional fortress Of Metz, which
probably cannot be taken without
a heay air bombardment which was
retarded due to the thick, rainy,
foul weather that gave Hitler
breathing spell.
Further north, on Lieutenant
General Courtney H. Hodges First
Army front, I entered Germany
with United Press Correspondent
Henry T. Gcrrell It was not his
first trip across the frontier as he
and Ernest Hemingway had Deen
tie first correspondents in.
That's Germany right across the
railroad tracks" said GorreH.
A minute later our jeep, slitherirG
through mud that in many places
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
HEARN ST, AUSGl.%,
LOOKS TO N-DAX

AUSTIN, Tex, Sept. z9. up
For its length and number Of homes,
Hearn ST. should qualify for special
recognition for its contribution to
the war.
There are 19 stars in the windows
of the u homes on the three-block
long lane. From these homes Is
sons and four sons-in-law have gone
into the armed forces.
Nine of them are overseas, one
being a German prisoner of war.
Another acquired a strong liking
for England-he married an English
girl. The others are training in the
United States.
Folks here call Hearn st. Aus
tins honor street for serricemen, -
and therell likely be a big celebra-
ton when they return.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
Head of Unite d Press Sees
Hard Fighting to Come

Editors nCte: The president of
the United Press, who prefers
front-line reporting TO sitting
behind a desk in his New York
headquarters. has returned to
Europe and is now at the scene
of action on the western front.
A year ago he was in England,
North Africa and Sicily sharing
the life CT the war correspondent
and sending back vivid accounts
OF action he had witnessed in
those theaters of war. Today he
is in Germany with the American
troops. Here is his first dispatch
from the German side of the Bel
gian frontier, presented in the
robust. pictorial style that has
become a hallmark of his jour-
naliStic career)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
ON INTO GERMANY

ON INTO GERMANY
Ten miles into Germany and ap-
preaching the front you begin to
hear the rumble of artillery, al
though the German peasants, like
these in other countries over which
the war has rolled continue OBJ
viously working in the fields even
though shells are passing directly
overhead
We reached the colonel's head
quarters close up. The weather was
gloomy the mud like liquid glue.
American "GI's' huddled under
dripping trees and in dank. muddy
holes.
However, despite the low cloud
ceiling two German MeSserschmitts
appeared, took q leisurely look at
the town, and then the ack-ack
commenced chattering Everybody
took to the holes or took shelter in
doorWayS as if escaping a sudden
thunders hCWer
Presently we found ourselves at
an observation post from which a
big German factory. smoke boiling
from many chimneys, was easily
discernible; likewise German rail-
road trains chugging along parallel
with our lookout.
Remember. this is net a strictly
solid front like in the last war. It is
long projection or skinny salient
into Germany.
Enemy machine gun nests were
right before us, but so well con-
cealed that only a practiced mill
tary eye could detect them. A farm
woman still was dwelling in no
mans land. Whenever firing began
hitting close to her dCmicile she
waved white handkerchief in
token of strict neutrality.
SEE GERMANS
Several times we saw the Ger
mans cilhouetted in a ridge just
across from US. The country looked
so peaceful and rural that it seemed
We could just march right ahead,
but actually it was bristling with
h lid den defenses, although the
Americans at that point had actu-
ally pierced the Siegfried line
Heavy concrete pillboXeS were ali
behind US Some had been blown
up, some abandoned, and our own
coldiers were occupying them as
shelter from the penetrating, bone
chilling rain.
The Americans dropped a shell
plop into one German slit trench
Smoke arose. A short distance away
a German soldier emerged from his
hideaWay, stood looking around, and
then craWled in again.
Yank5 in the observation post
stood for hours looking death
atraight in the teeth, since it was a
cinch the Germans were staring
down cur threats just as vigilantly
as we were staring down theirs.
Presently they gave evidence of
their interest, banging several shells
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
VIEWPOINT CHANGES

After feeling all that optimism
back home following the attempt to
kill Hitler, following Lieutenant
General Omar Bradleys strategy
in breaking through, and the un-
precedented sweep of the Americana
and British across France and Bel
giun. it was strange to see the
Americans hung up under circum-
stances looking almost like a stale
mate of the last war
However, the explanation is that
bad weather permitted the Germans
to bring up tough divisions un-
mClested by our air superiority, plus
encountering such formidable de-
fenses as Metz; also running into
rear areas behind the Siegfried line
which possibly are even harder to
penetrate, and on top of everything
the rain and deep mud in which the
operations begged down.
A few days of sunshine may
change everything.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
BESSELI NOW GENERAL

The route was divided in seven
divisions, with advance Officers as
signed to arrange for the flight
These diYiGions and the advance Of
ticers were:
First Division, Seattle to Chi
cagoff, Attu, 1892 miles; Lieutenant
Clayton L. Bissell, now major gen.
aral commanG:lg G-2, War Depart
ment General Staff, Washington,
d. c.
Second Division. Nicholski, KC-
mandorski, to Kagoshima, Japan,
3030 miles: Lieutenant Clifford G.
Mutt. now colonel, Seventh Air
Force. Central Pacific; wife, Mrs.
Edna G.. Mutt, lis North Victory
Parkway. Osborn, Ohio.
Third Division, Shanghai to CAL
cut,a, 4910 miles; Lieutenant NAL
colin S. LaWton, now colonel on
duty in Hawaii; wife, Annie Mae
LaWton, 1901 South Hue street,
Montgomery. Alabama.
Fourth Division, Allahabad to
Constantinople, 4450 miles; Lieu
tenant Harry A. Halverscn, now
colonel, Hamilton Field, California,
formerly on combat duty in the
Mediterranean; father, 4720 Thomp-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
HOLLYWOOD
RY ERSkINE JOHNSON

Durbin Before audiuoning Deanna
said. Il hope you're not nervous,
Mr. Cantor!" After one song. COM
plete with her devastating smile,
she was signed.
In 1880 at New X0rk'S famous
Palace theater. l had Oracle Allen
appear on my program. Oracle was
sensational and soon Burns and
Allen had their own show. They've
never stopped.
DISCOVERY IN BOSTON
I first met ParkyakarkuS il Bos-
ton at a banquet making a speech
in Greek dialect TO amuse his fel-
low businessmen. He conVulSed his
audience. Parky didn't know it, but
he auditioned for me then The
next week he was a member Cf my
radio family.
Five years age. listened to a
girl singing her heart out. She
needed a job and put plenty into
her song. When I signed her. she
said; Mr.. c., you won't regret this.
I'm going to try TO be the best
singer in radio" Popularity pclls
prove she made the grade. Congrat-
ulationS. Dinah Shore
Scene: Lindy's famous Broadway
restaurant. Characters, a waiter
and a comedian. The comic explains
he wants mayonnaiSe on his sand
wich-Eo butter, and net too much
In fact. he doesn't want
the sandwich, he'll take soup. Ev-
eryone laughed. Because OF that in
Bert Gordon-"The Mad
Russian became a radio fixture
so SONGS A DAY
III always be grateful to Portland,
Oregon, for lovely Nora Martin.
Nora, a great singing personality.
has one Of the most retentive mem
ories in show business. She only has
to sing a number once to remember
it. I've heard her sing so songs in
che day.
BY now, you've heard Leonard
Sues on my Wednesday night show.
met Leonard for the first time
recently al resort in New York. A
happy crowd whiStled and cheered
as this youngster played encore aft
er encore. Unquestionably fine
good Snowman and an eX-
cellent actor.
I just don't pick these people
I'm lucky enough TO stumble across
them. Pardon me, there's the
phone. You never can tell
Marty Lewis, the Paramount ra-
dio director, and Dorothy Van Nuys,
one of the most beautiful Of the
Ziegfeld Follies girls, have dScov-
cred each other.
Overheard by Lloyd Bacon: She
certainly puts on the dog-and
doesn't she wish it were silver fox"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
By EDDIE CANTOR
pinch Hitting for Frskine Jobns

Pinch Hitting for Erskine Johnson)
I've auditioned over 500 people
each year since 1881 TO find talent
Tor my radio program. Friends say
I'm nuts But if I were lackadaisical
about auditioning. I wouldn't have
met Deanna Durbin. Dinah Shore.
Bobby Breen, Oracle Allen. Parkya-
karkus. Bert Gordon, Ncra Martin
or my new find, Americas 5 youngest
orchestra leader Leonard Sues.
Like any old hen, get a kick see
ing my chicks grow up and find
their own worms.
II seems like yesterday that Bob
by Breen sang Santa. Bring Ny
Mommy Back to Me % Today Private
Breen IS overseas.
I can't forget meeting Deanna
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28
NEW TEACHERS
ENTERTAINED AT
SUPERINTENDENT'S HOME

@. A. Weakley, superintendent of
FL Centro schools. and Mrs. Weak
ley Thursday entertained new teach
ers from both elementary and sec
ondary schools and principals at
their home, 1ll6 South Sixth street.
A discussion of educational ele-
ments of Importance to the FL Cen
tro schools featured the assembly.
Twenty-Five attended.
Divorce in Abyssinia used to be
granted for bad cooking by a wife.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28

/ WASHINGTON, Sept %. CUP)-
/ Aviation history has moved sc fast
/ that some { me llierS who made
| the first around-the- -WCrld flight &c
years ago are still in combat while
their feat now appears common
place against everyday perform
ances of the air forces.
1t took months OF planning and
elaborate organization tC carry out
the globe -cireling hop. Many thou
sandS of bombers and fighters have
made longer and more difficult
flights Ell route to combat fronts
in this war than any of the jumps
made by the original around-the
world filters, while transport planes
are regularly flying to all corners
of the earth.
The first word flight started in
Seattle April G, 1924, and ended
there September %, ITS days later.
-Four Douglas cruisers carrying two
men each started the flight and two
finished. flying 26,345 miles in 1868
hours and minutes flying time.
ON MANY FRONTS
Participants and their present
whereabouts:
Major Frederick l.. Martin, COM
manding officer and pilot CT the
flagship Seattle, retired as major
general July 81, 1914, home 40l
North Bowling Green Way, West
Los Angeles, California.
Lieutenant Lowell II. Smith, Chi
cago's pilot and commanding Off
Ger after Major Martin crashed in
Alaska, now colonel on duty with
Sixth Air Force in Caribbean area
wife, Mrs. Madeline C. Smith, 1920
East Sixth street. Tucson, Arizona.
Lieutenant Leigh Wade, Boston'S
pilot, now colonel commanding U.
S. Army Air Forces in Cuba; wife,
3065 Cleveland avenue NJ W., Wash
ington, ID. c.
Lieutenant Erik H Nelson, New
| Orleans pilot, new colonel on duty
in AAF Headquarters, Washington.
ID. C.
: Lieutenant Leslie p. Arnold, now
colonel on duty with Eighth Air
Force, England; wife. 94 Dwight
Place, Englewood, New Jersey.
Lieutenant John Harding, re-
signed from army, now in aviation
at Love Field, Dallas, Texas.
: Sergea AlVa Harvey, who
crashed with Martin in Alaska, new
! colonel commanding a wing of the
Gosh Bomber Command operating
against the japanese from China;
mother. Mrs. L. Harvey, r. F.. d. /,
Cleburne, Texas.
Staff Sergeant Henry Fl. Ogden,
civilian employed by Lockheed Air
craft corporation in Ireland.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-28

was well over the shoetops, carried
us into the NaZis' homeland at
Rotgsn, travelling in the direction
CT Stolberg.
Along the road, I noticed sharp
contrast with the inhabitants back
in Belgium and France Here there
were no waves. except by a few
children Most of the peasants don't
even look up as the army jeep
passes. The toWnsfolk mostly stare
gloomily or glover.
Once in a Whila you get a sur
reptitiouS smile or friendly eye, but
rarely.
Evening star., 1944-03-26

THREE WHO WERE THERE MAKE RED CROSS PLEA-Tech-
ncal Serg John Gardiner Qef who German prisoner
OF war for five months and Corp Herbert Brasington gh
wounded the Tnisian campaign yesterday told
booth volunteer workers rally of the of the organization
on the fighting frontsand they should know Shown with
them Miss Mary Browne Red worker recently
turned from the Pacific area Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Arizona Democrats Pick
Uninstrucfed Delegation

By the Associated Press.
PHOENIX, Ariz, Mar. 25.-Ari-
zona Democrats in convention today
praised the accomplishments of
President Roosevelt at home and
abroad and Endorsed "the war and
postwar policies of the present ma
tional administration" but did not
commit themselves to a fourth term.
The 20 delegates who will cast the
States 10 votes at the national con-
vention at Chicago in July will go
uninstructed. A proposal that they
be pledged to support the nomina-
ton of the President was stricken
by the Resolutions Committee.
The resolution indorsing the ad-
ministration asserted that early VIC
tory and lasting peace depend on
a leadership having total sympathy
with the wars democratic aims"
and added that mo leader of any
political party so fully insures the
fulflment of these aims as the one
who has most consistently and ef-
|fectively championed them through
all adversities in the past"
Sam H. Morris, national COM
mitteeman, and Mrs. w. P. Stuart,
national committeewoman, for the
last four years, were reelected.
Evening star., 1944-03-26

BURMA'S THREE FRONTS
Circles locate three main the
aters of action in Burma. In
the north, American and Chi
nese troops captured Shadu-
zup, cutting off retreat of Japs
fighting northwest of there.
On central front the Jap drive
on Imphal was being held. On
southern front British troops
edged toward Akyab.
"A. P. Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
Edward H, Droop, IS,
Veteran Of Capital
Music Circles, Dies
Edward Henry Droop. president

Edward Henry Droop,. president
of e. F. Droop 81 Sons, music deal
ers and former president of the
Board of Trade, died late yesterday
at his home, 5207 Colorado avenue
NV. He was rs years old.
Mr.. Droop was known not only
for his support of musical events
in the Capital but was a gifted
pianist himself. With the late
Reginald De Koyen, composer of
Robin Hood, Don Quixote and
many other comic operas, he or
ganized the first Washington Sym
phony Orchestra.
Born in Washington August 13
1868, Mr.. Droop was the son OF
Edward F. and Sophie iSchmidt)
Droop. His father founded more
than 80 years ago the music store
which bears his name. After the
death of his father, Mr.. Droop and
his brother, the late Carl A. Droop,
carried on the business.
Mr.. Droop was educated in the
public schools and the Emerson In
stitute. Known for his fine musical
technique, Mr. Droop often ap-
peared as accompanist for profess
sional artists. Among his personal
friends were many of the great
singers and musicians.
He was the author and publisher
of several songs and instrumental
pieces for piano and had edited a
history Of music and musicians in
Washington.
Mr.. Droop was also widely known
in business and social circles. He
was a past president of the Ma
tional Association of Music Mer-
chants of America, a member of the
Merchants and Manufacturers AS
sociation, the Columbia Historical
Society and the Association of Old
est Inhabitants.
He was also a member of the
Rotary, Advertising, City, National
Press and the Arts Clubs of Wash
ington. He had also been a men,
ber of the Lafayette Lodge, No. 19
of the Masons; the Albert Pike Con-
sistory, Scottish Rite Masonry, and
the Almas Temple of the Shrine.
He is survived by his widow
Mrs. Elizabeth Ray Droop; a
daughter, Mrs. Hamilton E.
Mcguire; two sisters, Mrs. Howard
Longstreth of Haverferd, Pa, and
Mrs. Charles Cass of New York
City, and five grandchildren.
Evening star., 1944-03-26
6. 0. P. Candidate Accuses
Thomas in Oklahoma Race
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
MUSKOGEE, Okla, Mar. 25.-
E. o. Clark, Republican candidate
for Congress, today made public
copies of letter, purportedly bear
Ing the congressional frank of Sena-
tor Elmer Thomas, Democrat, OF
Oklahoma, urging Federal en-
ployes from the second Oklahoma
district now living in Washington
to obtain absentee ballots to cast in
Tuesdays special election.
The communication was quoted
as stating in part:
This election is all important
because if the district goes Repub-
lican, it will give the opposition
added confidence that they may
carry the State in November. Should
the State go Republican in Novem-
ber, then we will certainly have 9
Republican President and it is un-
thinkable that Republican Presi-
dent and a Republican administra.
ton would permit Democrats to holc
their positions in the Federal serv-
ice"
Mr.. Clark said he received the let
ter from a civil service employe
who said his name could not be used
Io- fear of reprisal.
Other than to state that 1t was
representative of his views, Sena-
tor Thomas would not comment
on the letter.