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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-12
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

CHAPTER IHlRl -ONE
DAN WAS actually grinning In
his most devil-may-care way when
he vent to the porch, but the grin
faded. Anne and. Russell were not
there. The porch had a more than
empty look. Going into the living
room, he saw Anne's purse was
gone. After a moments hesitation
he picked up the telephone and
called the inn. No, Miss Wilson was
not there. II occurred o him he
wasn't angry, but he was hurt.
Russell had done nothing more
than -nap at him. Anne, after
spending several heurs an eating
with him, had gone of without so
much as a word.
II was only a short stroY to
Johnson's store, where people were
eating ice cream on a warm night
like this. but Russell and Anne
were not there He drank a soda he
didn't want and wandered down the
street past Mrs. Reynolds house.
The living room was lighted and he
could see Mrs. Reynolds and Laura
and several other people. II was al
most like a party. Farther along,
Jane Dorset's Town Shoppe was
still open and he looked In.
Jane greeted him cheerily. It's
quite a surprise TO see you" she
said. Your brother was In a while
ago with Miss Wilson"
He made a joke and bought some
razor blades. He wandered on 10
the corner of the Strand Two shad-
owy figures were visible on the
town wharf. He knew instinctively
they were Russell and Anne, and he
turned back. For the first time It
seemed a long way from the Strand
TO his front porch, where he sank
into a chair All at once he felt
tired, drained OF strength He knew
he would have to talk 10 Russell
when he came home.
After a while on the porch ne
went inst lc mi > % his room
where he undressed AMI lay on TOP
of his bed In pajamas. The door
was open and Russell would have
to pass to get to his own room lie
fixed the light so it wouldn't shine
in his eyes. He wanted ia think
clearly, but he couldn't think at
all. II was crazy, but all he could
do was remember where he had
been in Jail In California, arrested
on a charge Of vagrancy. He had
lain on a rough bed night after
night trying to think, and with alb
solutely no success. All he knew
now was that in way he was more
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-12

another word or you'll be sorry
AS far as Anne goes I'll say
plenty" Dan shouted. You stay
away from her."
Go to your room, I'll settle with
you in the morning."
Like heck you will" Dan faced
him truculently. Wen settle
things right now. Annes mine.
can hug her, kiss her, anything /
want. /"
Russell's fist shot out and caught
Dan on the point OF the jaw. For
an instant he wobbled, then fell
back through the open door and
out into the hall, where he lay in
heap. Only his bare feet stuck
into the room. Russell thrust them
aside with his shoe and stood over
him glowering.
Get up. you little skunk. and
take that back"
There was no sign from the
crumpled figure. There was no
sound but a dog barking some
where far of. Slowly Russells
hands unclenched and he knelt
down and pressed his head against
Dams chest. For an instant 1t
seemed he was dead, then he
caught the reassuring heart throb.
His knees shook a little as he
picked up the unconscious figure
and put him on his bed. Then he
stood looking down on him. Dan
had never seemed so slim, so help
less. A wave Of emotion swept over
him. It was Dan he had truck
down as one strikes down an ami
NAL. II was Dan he had wanted to
beat and batter. II was such a few
days since his heart leaped up at
sight Of Dan standing In the door
way looking at him.
He choked down the lump In his
throat and went out. closing the
door softly. Once back in his own
room he put on his tie and coat
again. II took some time, because
his fingers were trembling. Then he
went downstairs and out TO his car.
Looking back at the house, he saw
he'd left his own light burning as
well as Dams. but he didn't go
back. He couldn't. He couldn't face
Dan again until he'd thought things
through. Tomorrow or next day
they would be able to talk quietly
and arrange something. II Dan
loved Anne :.
He didn't let his thoughts run on
He drove hard al-ng the road out
Of town. He felt sick at heart He
must think Of something.
ITO 70 Continucd)
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-12
Who is The Prospective Enemy?
TheseDays5Ny f gg0 5o Z: 59z6l9Ri

bout this land soaring folks by the
bugaboo OF a revived Pan-German-
ism can explain how people de-
priyed Of all arms and the means
OF producing arms, with nothing
left to them but pruning hooks and
manure shoyels can possibly make
war upon us. SO, II all this is true,
then We do not have the German to
fear.
As for the Japanese, we are told
that they will be bombed out Of
existence. Their cities will be lev
ellcd. their industries will be des-
troyed: their ships will be sunk;
they will he reduced to the status
OF primitive Malays living on the
fish they catch in Chinese and Rus
sian waters. The fate OF Carthage
awaits Japan. And SO, If this is all
true, we do not have Japan to
fear.
France. China, Spain, Switzer-
land, Australia, Canada, Mexico
none OF these countries are likely
to require the attention of perm
anent, compulsory, conscripted
army of American youth. Nor is
Italy a menace. There is no war
for Us in any OF this. Our boys
might just as well stay at school
preparing themselves in the obtuse
sciences in the hope Of getting JOBS
in the bureaucracy on a subsist-
ence level.
By a process of elimination, We
come to our own beloved Allies as
the only countries left in all this
world against whom we might
make war. That is. Great Britain
and Soviet Russia.
Now. surely no one can believe
that this huge. permanent, con
scripted, peace-timl compulsory
army is to be raised to fight Great
Britain after this war is over. And
what would we fight the British
about? Lend-Lease, the air bases
we built in British territory, the
shipping we must. give. them, post
war Lend.Lease TO revive their in
dustries and trade? What are We
to fight them about? The future
of Hongkong, the price of rubber,
our synthetic industries that are TO
deprive the Malays OF a bottle Of
milk on the breakfast table? Now,
really, No sane person can believe
that the United states and Great
Britain will ever 20 to war.
Yet. some insist that Ie2ce.time
COMPULSORY military service is es.
sential after this war. BY pro
cess OF elimination. we find that
only one country is left as the pros.
pective enemy. 1t is a land that
may not be mentioned adversely
It is a land whose dictator inter
yened in our presidential election
It Is a land whose imperialism We
condone. 1t is a land whose master
treats the"Test of the world with
the disdain BETTING an Ivan the
Terrible.
But surly such love and adora-
tion as We Americans have bestow-
ed upon Soviet Russia cannot lead
to war. Instead, arm in arm we
shall enter the world Of everlast-
| ing peace and GOODWILL to the com.
mon man. And Henry Wallace will
deliver sDeeeh and Arch BE- Id
NacLeish will write a poem-which
Frank Siuatra will recite in the
heaven OF eternal bliss. Certainly,
there is 10 war in all that.
Well, ii no war IS in prospect
why peace-time COMPULSORY service
for a permanent standing armv?
That is a question that needs to
/ h answered
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-12
.HAT TER and
- q Fact or two

The elevators IN the Carlsbad
Caverns are the second largest
single-lift elevators in the world,
being surpassed only by those in
the Empire State building in
New York City.
The real name Of George Sand.
French novelist and friend Of
List, was Armandine Lucille Au-
rore. Dupin.
vettis Falls. Norway, are $50
feet high.
LIFE on the home front sure
is terrible. isn't it? Just think,
for three years now, we've had
to do without a few of the great
many things Great Grandpa
never had!
The poet who called snow
fakes, Natures sweetest. most
precious diamonds" probably
never developed a good set of
shovel bisterS.
!
What this world needs, says
the mon at the next desk, is q
permanent cure Of the German
measles.
II the 194s Olympic Games
are held in Westinghouse now
proposed by Capital City dwell
ers-they might add a couple Of
track and field feature events:
the run for Office and the stand
ing broad jump onto the band
wagon.
Autumn certainly puts on q
beautiful show. The only trou-
bic is, there aren't enough en-
cores.
4!
The professional football play.
en- thinks GrandpoPpY Jenkins,
earns his money the hard way
by working on Sunday when eV-
srYons else Is loohns.
A giant, six-horned elephant
nee roamed over what is now
the United States, say paleon-
biologists. Gosh, how could pre-
historic man ever be sure he
wasn't having a hangover but
was cold soberl
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-12

WASHINGTON-AP- Tires no
longer fit for Army service will be
sold for civilian use. An undisclos-
Ell II mber of tires. chiefly from the
war fronts. will be sold through
the Treasury's procurement divi.
sion. While no longer suitable for
Army use, the tires may be recon.
ditioned for limited civilian use".
Z e Office OF Price Administration
said Monday in announcing whole
sale ceilings.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-12

CHICO. Calif.-UP-Flight Off.
Ger Byron X. Duke. son Of D. K
Duke. 1916 West St. Homestead
Pa, was killed instantly when his
plane crashed on a routine combat
training mission near Princeton.
Calf Friday night, Chico Army
Air Force.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-12

Leyte. Philippines: Gen. DOUG
las Macarthur. comparing the Japs
to a spring: I'VE have pushed them
TO a point where everything W.
do now is going to be tough-you
can't make an omelet without
breaking the egg"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-12
Half Forgotten Days
Twenty Years Ago

W6NIy 1GdIS HSU
Ypsan Milk Producers Association
Campbell Avan Maubetsch The other directors
Jay Knapp William Kelly George Gresehoven Morten Crit
tenden and William Ward.
of the death OF her daugh
ter Catherine Haynes Raleigh y c. formerly OF this city
Ypsilan School debating Misses Ruth Latham,
Audrey Pray Lorinda McAndrew will Hamramck for
the question Resolved that the l. should
the Philippines immediate and complete control The team
will take the affirmative side
Mrs John Brooks. formerly this city,
daughter Mary Margaret their home St Petersburg Fla To
Mr.. and Mrs Brion, daughter, Virginia Mae.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-12
Rural Events
TUESDAY

TUESDAY
Salem
Annual meeting OF Federated
Church in church parlor, p. m
OakVille
Oakville Farmers Club at John
Cosner residence. Potluck supper
?. m.
WEDNESDAY
Willis
w. S. c. s. Christmas luncheon
at church. Short business meet
ing.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-12
Fifty Years Ago

Daniel Putnam expected home from York after Wis
iting a number of Eastern schools
John Dodge rejoined the LerRc Cad
lilac. His throat has entirely eeoyered however
Announcement made Of the marriage Of Miss Jennie Miller
Richards and Edward Mason Idaho Springs COL take
place the Presbyterian Church, Dec. %.
The for Presbyterian Ladies' Aid Society 10th annual
chicken includes chicken ceamed potatoes salad
Jelly, cake and coffee, price, rs cents.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-12

DR.. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-12
Your Health
Elderly People
Advised to Use
Care in Winter

II LNENN CLENNENTNG VI y
SNAKES SELDOM break any
bones from falling on slippery
plvements. A great many people
who would do much better to laugh
az the pictures in the current peri
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-12
Horrible Sight

One of the most horrible sights
i ever saw was while was rid
ing on the branch railroad from
Wheeling, West Virginia, the home
Of my ancestors, to Pittsburgh q
few years ago. 1t was a cold day
and | was sitting in the seat by
the window right in front of one
of the passenger cars. The train
stopped at a little station and a
woman went tripping down the
steps, but the car had stopped IN
the exact geometric spot where
there was a spot of ice at the foot
of the steps. She hit that icy spot
and her foot went out from under
her and she tried to save herself
with the other foot as she fell with
her outstretched hand.
saw it all as plain as If she
were under a microscope - the
mechanism Of exactly how Potts
fracture Of the ankle and a COLES
fracture Of the wrist occurred.
She let out a yell and they
picked her up and as she was being
carried past my observation post
she wailed-"Oh! it's broken, Il
know it's broken" Well, l knew
it too, because | could see the
dangling foot all twisted over to
the outside and Topping like a
fail.
| often wonder what became Of
her. The train went on to Pitts
burgh and / never knew. But
want to let all elderly people in on
the warning that it gave me. A
broken bone is no fun. You cannot
Re too careful.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-12

odicals go into gales Of merriment
az the sight Of me going along the
streets these icy and frosty morn
iEgs because more and more | get
to initiate the locomotion and pos
ture Of a snake. The nearer | am
to the ground, say |, the less dis
lance | will fall if and when | do
slip.
The other day some statistician
pointed out that the greatest num-
Der of street accidents occurred
between the age group first, be-
tween 5 and u years old and, sec
ond, between IS and 65 years old.
And the second group was slightly
in the majority. Elderly people
do not realize the risks they are
taking whether pedestrian OF driv-
ing a car"
! And l want to let that anony-
nous statistician know that while
l do not especially relish being
called elderly people" | took his
warning to heart because | know
he is right.
| Accidents Of Children
! The little kids make up the big
accident group because, as the gent
said about his blind mule which
fell down a sewer, they just don't
give darn. They run out in the
street and don't look where they
are going either up or down. They
are excited and they want to show
of and they think they can crowd
a large truck off the road with a
second hand bicycle or a pair of
roller skates, etc.
The older group who have the
accidents have retained a good deal
Of that carefree psychology, but
they also have more brittle bones
than they used to have. And the
little bones break easier than
younger ones and at more incon-
venient places. An eminent Xray
specialist, DR.. E. H. Skinner, in an
article called THE Radiologist
Looks at Aging Bones" points
out that older bones show many
variations and crystallizations Of
lines of force, atrophy and decalci-
fication. You don't hear of frac-
lures of the hip bone in people of
twenty or forty, only in those of
sixty to eighty just on account of
these crystallizations of lines Of
force.
So that is why you will find me
going along pretty slow and care
full. l do not share the belligerency
Of some of my contemporaries
who are not going to let anyone
show them where to get of. II
kid has borrowed Dads car and is
coming towards the intersection
with his lights off and his horn
on, leave him pass even if all the
pretty gals in the back seat Of his
car jeer at me. And if there is a
slick driveway | am supposed to
walk down l am not above rolling
down it. Anyway it tickles the
neighbors,
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-03-25

Lone completion of the week was
Texaco-H owling No. 10, c NE NV
SW I0-S5-2W. This well drilled to
total depth of i ,632, got the Ellis
Madison contact at 1920, acidized
with 500 gallons and is pumping
80 barrels of oil and no water daily.
The Texas company is giving
heroic treatment TO another well,
the company's Reeg No. IL, Sc NE
SW 14-35-2W. This has been acidized
twice with 500 gallons without
help and has now been shot with
80 quarts and Is testing
The field report.
u III. AGsME-sTATE NO. 81
SW &N E% 16-38-SW
Drilling, 1900.
C0BR-HARDROCx Gw osfszT-B NO. H.
NV SW SW xS-3S~&W
Rig up. fFTHET HEPURT)
E@PERRAE~CRAEG-AEA NO. e.
n SW Sc lG-a5-1W
Drilling, 1100
lCsmszmwsa en- Pass 81
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-03-25

approximately 20 percent in the
freight rate on low grade petroleum
products including fuel oil and
tractor and diesel fuel, and asphalt
merce commission, effective June
z in Minnesota and North Dakota
from Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas,
Texas and Louisiana.
The new rate Is 80 percent of
the regular gasoline rate, whereas
before the rates for gasoline and
the lower grade products were
equal
(ContlnHed on Page .
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-03-25

This
spotted drilling scheduled TO test over roughly six miles east
biggest success scored by John Haw Northern Ordnance Company
well Haey estimated drilled least 80 wildcats In the nations
the entire expenditure
beneath
drilling
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-03-25
UNION WELL
MAY DRILL
DEEP ZONES

The Union on Company will
drill it's first northern Montana
wildcat. on the William Asmus
farm northwest of Power, with
rotary tools, and may test hOri-
IONS at least 500 feet beneath
the top of the Madison lime.
This became known when the
company filed notice of intention
to change drilling plans, with the
state Oil conservation board. II had
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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-03-25
BORDER WELL I'm DEvONIAN

The McColl-F'rontenac company
Is drilling past 4 ,400 feet in its test
on Pinhorn dome in southern Al
berta, a few miles north of the
Flat Coulee structure ia the Sweet
grass hills. This well had heavy gas
flows above the Time, Got more
gas 773 feet below the top of the
Madison, and is now in the De-
vonian.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-03-25
Those We're The Days :.
From Files Of the Montana Oil Journal,
Twenty Years Ago This Week

SHELBY-Folowing alwnter shutdown the Illinois Pipe
line Co again taking oil from the Kevn-Sunburs field
GREAT FAILS-Senator J. w. Speer A. F. Mavity and c. NJ
McCuceon have formed the Regal Oil Co. viii develop 80acre
field Contract for the first well has
been let Guy Craig Craig Chamberlain drilling contractors
o
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-03-25

Best reported completion OF the
week was Texaco-Mueller No. 3,
c Sc SW 2-35-6W, drilled to total
depth of 3,019, which had 300 feet
of fluid in the hole from the lower
Cut Bank sand at $3.50 to 1904 and
which swabbed l6l barrels the first
"a hours.
Two wells which got relatively
small production in the lower Cut
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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-03-25
TEsT MAY nE NEAR

Broadvlew Petroleum co. Is re-
ported ready for real test of a
very good oil showing found In the
Madison linne at 5,2205 ,136 fn lts No.
/ Stoltenburg, SW NE 18SN "a e.
The lime was topped at 4,605. Cas-
ing run 10 $40 and Cemented Is
reported TO have shut of water
from above.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-03-25

Bowens original that surface indications
this area appear to Be reasonably accurate guide to sgssac rTe
far drilled Here's the status Of the wells shown ON the reading left
completed Is barrels daily full Of oil and
H.
1856 drilling, 1896 building DaFr flowed
drilling. 1I9G,
s
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-03-25
Six New Locations Made During
Week I'm keyin-Sunburst Field

Not by their brethren nearby Bank Kelvin
Sunurs operators during the week made locations for
wells with only completion reported Thirteen other well
the field somewhere between rugged up and drilling in
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-03-25

A. B. Cobb's deep test I'm the Pom
dera field is fishing for bit, shot
off last week at 5171, presumably
In the pre-Cambrian
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-03-25
Half Dozen New Locations Made
In Cut Bank Field During Week

BIhely ignoring warnings of blizzard which materiazed
Thursday Bank during the week announced
locations and kept the balance by completing six wells with
% others rugged up making hole or testing
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-03-25

BILLINGS. - Following recent
expansion of its producing, rein
ing, and marketing programs in
the Rocky Mountain area, the Car
ter Oil company has announced
naming of ]. r. McWilllams as man
ager Of the company's northwest
division, TO succeed Ralph E. Damp.
Vice president and director of
the Carter Oil company, McWilliams
will Immediately take over his new
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Evening star., 1944-09-30
Record Mail to Fronts
Handled at New York

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 30 Thirty
thousand sacks of mail containing
100000 packaged gifts were moved
toward the scattered American
lighting fronts yesterday, the Army
Embarkation Post Office said. This
set an all-time shipping record.
Evening star., 1944-09-30
New Chever|y Church
To Open Tomorrow

The partly completed $50,0OC
Cheverly Community Church will be
opened tomorrow, eliminating two
years of planning by community
residents.
The first floor and basement of
the sanctuary and Sunday school
wings have been completed. The
rest of the work is planned for after
the war. A total of $17,500 was con-
tributed during campaign last
fall. The Evangelical Church do
mated Sl4,500 and made a loan of
$4,000.
A farewell service will be held at
10 am. tomorrow in the American
Legion Hall, A Sunday school as
sembly at II am. will be held in the
new building. Observance of holy
communion at 1870 am. will be
part of the first service in the new
church.
The Rev. Lewis A. Briner, pastor,
has announced that series of serv-
ices and activities marking occu-
pancy Of the church will be held
the third week in October.
Organized in January, 1912, with
100 charter members, the church
now has 200 members, representing
II denominations Organizations
include two young peoples societies.
four womens groups, four Cub
Scout dens and a Sunday school
with an enrolment of 3O2.
Evening star., 1944-09-30
Plan Community Houses

The Temple Hills tMdD Citizens
Association has decided to purchase
site for the construction of a COM
munity house, officials announced
today. Construction is expected to
begin soon after a site can be
obtained.
Evening star., 1944-09-30
lsiNRshoniinq
&Remiinderr@a

Canned Foods, Etc.-Book No. 4,
blue stamps AS through Z-8 and
AS through LIS good Indefinite
ly. Each stamp worth 10 points.
Most canned vegetables and
special foods now off rationing.
Use of blue tokens to be discon-
tinued October /.
Meats, Fats, Etc.-Red stamps A-8
through z-8 and AS through G-5
good indefinitely for 10 points
each. All meats except beef
steaks. roast beef and choice cuts
OF lamb and pork are point free
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for
each pound Of waste kitchen fats
you turn in. The fact that lard,
shortening and cooking oils have
been removed from the ration list
does not mean fat collection is
less essential.
Sugar-Book No. stamps 30 through
33 valid for pounds indefinitely.
Book No. stamp 40 good for 5
pounds for home canning through
February %. l945.
Gasoline-A-11 coupons good for 3
gallons each through November 8.
B-3, B-4, C-3 and ca coupons
good for gallons each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps i and 2 In
Book No. 3 good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each.
Fuel Oil-Periods No. 4 and S cou-
pons good for 10 gallons per unit
through August 81, 1945. Period l.,
l944-45 ration, also good for 10
gallons unit.