davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20

It seems to me that those who
advocate a hard or a soft peace are
equally guilty OF the error OF wish
full thinking. The task, first OF all.
Is TO win the war and to win 1t In
such a manner that a peace Is not
only possible but OF some durabili-
ty. At the Paris Peace Conference
a: the end OF the last war, the vic
tors quarrelled among themselves
over territorial gains. produced
what appeared to be hard peace
but was in reality, as we now
know, a soft peace. And as we
know. It was not a durable peace.
The longer this war lasts, the
more likely It will be that the
peace. which might even be pro-
ionged armistice, will be the pro-
duct OF regional agreements. The
first OF these was the treaty be-
tween Czecho-Slovakia and Soviet
Russia. Other arrangements lead
ing to a Pan-Slavic regional under
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20
BY VIRGINIA MCPHERSON

Today a newspaper reporter
squashed himself into a laundry
cart and sneaked into a famous
movie queens plushlined hotel
suite. And then. instead OF getting
scoop about her stolen jewels.
no proceeded to fall IN love with
her.
You really can't blame him. be-
cause the film beauty was Ginge
Rogers. looking as glamorous in
tigh: blue velvet as any movie
queen should.
The reporter was Walter Pidgeon.
And we have yet to see a newsman
as handsome as he.
ONLY he'd rather be pirate.
Mostly, he says, because pirates
never get interviewed by the press.
Reporters scare me-" he said.
Especially female ones. All the
time l think they're sitting around
waiting for Pidgeon to say some
thing brilliant. And II they can't
play backgammon I'm tongue-tied,"
So Metro-Goldwyn- MAYER. MAKES
him q reporter on the screen--a six
foot, three inch, 200-pound foreign
correspondent. The picture is
Weekend at the Waldorf, CO.
starring Miss Rogers and Lana
Turner.
As q foreign CORRESPONDENT Mr..
P.dgeon is also shy. He's afraid of
reporters who want to interview
him on his battle front coverage.
That's how he lands in Miss Rogers
room along with the dirty clothes,
The hotel suite was just about
the fanciest thing ever dreamed
I'D by M-G-M's army of set design
ers. Pink drapes, blue fur rugs,
mirrored walls, and plush sofas, for
instance.
The decorations even left the
Waldorf-Astoria technical adviser
pop-eyed. His name is Ted Soucier,
head OF public relations for the
Waldorf in New York.
And even he hasn't seen such
beautiful rooms even in the Wal
dOrf
But I'm sending them pictures
OF these SETS" he said. "And
they're going to redecorate some
OF the rooms in the tower like this.
Maybe we can even get Miss Rog
ers TO stay there sometime"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20
Chat TER and
~ q Fact or two

In l776-1777, the Continental
Congress was held In a Balti-
more tavern, as II was feared
the British would capture Phila-
delphia where the congress had
been meeting.
The first operating table ever
built for large animals was in
stalled in the animal hospital at
the University OF Pennsylvania
The breeding season of the
scallop begins in June and more
than a million eggs may be dis
charged in an hour and half.
In the construction of a mod
ern four-engined bomber or
transport plane there are 100000
parts.
PVT. BERNARD SNYDER
OF Pittsburgh, Pa, his brother
Frank tells us, trained at Pitts
burgh, Cal, and then found him
self aboard the u. 8. s. Pitts
burgh. 1t may be a global war
but it's still a small world.
!
Fleeing German soldiers, says
a news item. disguised them
selves as sheep. For them il
probably was no trick at all.
!
An Amsterdam, Holland, ware
house full Of cheese was blown
up. Maybe someone was trying
to invent thaf better mouse trap.
!
The Gestapo's Hlmmler is
believed to have become the new
boss of Germany. That's
punishment almost too horrible
for even a Nazi.
The Germans seem TO be
suffering from a shortage of al
most everything but enemies.
orandpoppy Jenkins complains
The family is always borrowing
one Of his books. lis title Is
Check"
Beer Is suggested as a hair
wash. At last, 1t seems. the
permanent wave Ii to acquire
some real foam
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20
STAGE and SCREEN

When he's not climbing in and
out OF the clothes cart. Pidgeon is
playing backgammon in his dress
ing room with Mr.. Soucier. And
up to today he's winning.
But" declared Soucier, we've
got a couple OF months to shoot
We; and II he thinks he's going to
get a free room at the Waldorf
he'll have to roll better dice than
that"
All OF which makes Mr.. Pidgeon
wish even harder that he could
be a pirate.
Guess l get 1t from my grand
father, who was skipper" he ex'
planned. when / was a kid
used to spend hours listening to
his stories. Now | repeat 'em to
all the crew between scenes"
Pidgeon says his greatest ambi-
tlon is to sail around the world
with three other fellers. No NOV
les, no women-and no reporters.
Except, we added helpfully, may
be a press conference at the dock
when he gets back.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20
BEATS wonAN, KILLS SELF

Coldwater, Mich. - A deputy
sheriff summoned by a seven-year'
old girl Sunday found the child's
stepfather, Amos Powers, 81, dead
OF shotgun wounds and the 25-year-
old mother. Mrs. Edrie Powers, un-
conscious from a skull fracture and
chest and other injuries which APP
parently had been inflicted with a
hammer Undersheriff Homer Burns
said Powers returned home from
work in Battle Creek, engaged In IL
quarrel with his wife and shot him
self. to death shortly after beating
her with the hammer. Burns said
{ daughter, Rose Marie, witness
ed the be ting and ran down the
road TO the home OF Deputy Sheriff
PAU 6. Underwood, neighbor, for
aid.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20
Today's Horoscope

A birthday today means that
you are determined and venture
some. even TO the verge OF reck-
lessness. You are so positive in
your opinions that when you know
a thing TO be right, II Is almost
impossible TO move you. People
sometimes accuse you OF being
stubborn. You are Just and hon.
est. but very exacting. You love
with passion and vigor. Fortitude
and courage will be needed TO sue
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20
By LANES r. YOUNG


would like TO PROFOUND -four
questions in regard to theh istoric
ally shameful debacle of Pearl Har
Dor.
l. Why was the tactical plan OF
| Vice Admiral J. X. Taussig not
used at Hawaii?
2. Who was responsible In re-
leasing the famous Japanese navy
spy, Commander Tatibana from
federal prosecution at Los Angeles,
June 1871?
8. How does the Navy account
for inadequate naval intelligence
operations in the 18th, 18th and
l3 districts (San Diego, San Fran
cisco and Seattle) from 1885 10
1871?
4. What is the explanation OF
L Senate Navy Affairs Committee
for opposing funds TO investigate
Japanese espionage?
Regarding question No. /, will
the Pearl Harbor investigators tell
us why our Navy Department repri-
manded Vice Admiral ]. X. Taus.
sig in April 1910 for indicating that
War with Japan is possible?
Taussig told the Senate Navy Com
mittee that war with Japan is
inevitable unless We do certain
thin to prevent II.
The Secretary of State should
be called on for the answer to ques-
ton No. 2.
To answer question No. 3. Capt.
w. d. Puleston, chief OF Naval In
telligence from 1894 to 1887. and
Admiral Ralston S. Holmes, his
successor, could be summoned.
To question No. 4. the Senate
Naval Affairs Committee might Of
fer an explanation OF the motive be-
hind the lack OF adequate surveil-
lance OF Jap activities on the West
Coast. and what prevented Navy
investigation OF japanese penetra-
ton OF the North Pacific.
am among several typewriter
strategists who went out on a limb
believing the Japs would not attack
Pearl Harbor and that the Taussig
plan would be in force. We were
told the Japs would strike from
Formosa at the Philippines, and
from Hainan Island off the China
coast attack Thailand and Malaga.
French Indo-China. a springboard
toward Singapore and the Dutch
East Indies was under Jap control
before war broke.
Japanese agents. $50 to 400 OF
them, reported the moves of Amer
lean Navy and commercial vessels
in and out of every port in the
Pacific - from San Francisco to
Honolulu, Manila to Singapore
and Hong Kong to Seattle.
Two enterprising Navy officers
caught one Jap plotter who operat'
ed between Pearl Harbor and Los
Angeles for over a year. Orders
from Washington caused the re-
lease of the plotter who posed as
student at the University OF
Southern California. Attempts
were made to force the return OF
all seized documents to the Jap
embassy in Washington!
Junior Naval officers often were
brought ashore TO pursue intellig
ence work as a side line to regular
assignments.
An inquiry board would discover
that Naval Intelligence had no cont
pact adequately trained group oi
men anywhere comparable 10 the
thorough processing program OF J
Edgar Hoover's FBI. Young offic
ers who displayed too much initia
tive and zeal jeopardized their owr
careers by their efforts. The re
suit was a perfunctory perform
nnce of duties with a minimum OF
legitimate information going 70
Washington.
There was no continuity in nav
al intelligence assignments. Navy
intelligence was unprepared tc
meet vast and swiftly movinl
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20

cessfuiiy overcome the many eb-
staeles and disap p ntm en- is
threatening you In the next few
months. The utmost vigilance u
advised In all financial and BUSH
ness transactions. Avoid changes
and conserve resources. Born to-
day a child will be more success
full as life advances. Various re-
stricting elements gradually Will
be eliminated and health win Inn
prove.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20
One-Mlnute Test

1. What artist signed his cor
d respondence and paintings with
a little drawing Of q butterfly?
2. Pinochio In marionette.
hero Of a child's tale. What Is
finochio?
3. Who were Frans Halls, Mem
dert Hobbema and Peter Paul Ru-
bens?
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20

who comes from q distant town.
the family Of the bride Is expect
ed TO pay his expenses both ways
and II he does not stay at the
family home. to pay his hotel ex-
penses also.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20

Mothers Day was established In
1907 by Miss Anna Jarvis OF Phila-
delphia, whose mother died In
1906.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20

1. James Whistler.
2. Al herb, also known as "the
sweet fennel."
3. They were all famous paint
erA
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20
Half Forgotten Days
Twenty Years Ago


Arthur Conrad initiated into the
degree DeMolay Dad) W w. Johnson offering veni
bear meat for the boys banquet for their
parents.
Mrs T. W McAndrew dinner at Hotel Huron
Mrs George Damon daughter Harriet who have
visiting Prof B. w Pees home and returning Pasa
dena, CAL
Knsely. Strong the upper
ninsua writes that he has shot deer and black bear which
will be shipped here.
At public Lincoln school, the Kiwans Club
present the school with so foot flag pole and IL by flag
Death: Jennie Terry.
Births and Roberts boy Perry Clark
To Mr. and Mrs Dan ohnger daughter, Phyllis
and Mrs. Earl Kracklau
Fifty Years Ago
d. Woodruff brother OF Editor
Woodruff of the Ypsian Sentinel Saginaw
years
in order 10 be near his children.
School primary extent OF Ss421sO
ed to Washtenaw County.
The eleventh Of Ceary
mated ~ students Miss Mary Mott Caremont ~ H..
luaorian and " Cady Napoleon Mich the vaedictoan
Rev DR. r. Grene Detroit, the inspiring address Music
furnished the college orchestra led by
violin solo by Frank G. Smith Rev r. W. Van Kirk the
T-1esklsA
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20
Words of Wisdom

No man who has once heartily
and wholly laughed can be alto
gether and irreclaimably de-
praved.-Carlyle.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20
Hints ON FtIouetta

When the daughter OF the house
Is 70 be married hy q clergyman
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20

DR.. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-20
Your Health
Chronic Pain in
Feet Difficult
to Bear

THE CHRISTMAS seals Of the
National tuberculosis Association
will soon be on sale. We realize
that there are many appeals, es-
pecially this year, to give, but the
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-06-19
Typo President
Iona Active

The recent election Of officers
OF Cumberland Typographical
Union, Local 244, saw the full
fillment of a cherished dream
for its new president, w. Henry
Frazier, secretary of Maryland
Labor Unity Conference, and
active in union affairs locally
for twenty years.
Elevation 10 the posts OF presi-
dent as well as delegate to the
International Union convention to
be held In Grand Rapids. Mich,
beginning August 10, completes the
cycle OF Offices Of Cumberland
Typos held at various times by Mr..
Frazier. So far as Is known, this
Is the first time in the more than
fifty years of existence Of Cumber-
land Typographical Union. that one
individual has held every elective
Office within the province Of the
local union.
Besides being an officer of local
typos, Frazier was for fourteen
years a delegate to Allegany
Trades Council, and served as Sec
rotary there for nine years. A few
years ago. he was active in the for
nation OF Labor's Non-Partisan
League. and Is now giving much
time to the cause Of unity In the
ranks of labor.
Organized Workers OF Cumber-
land and Allegany County wish the
new addition to local union presi-
dents, a successful tenure in Office.
and add the wish that Cumberland
Typographical Union will prosper
by the knowledge gained by this
active worker in Labor's cause.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-06-19

the Directive Order'-that Is, I'M
ill November 8, 1874.
GETS BREAK IN PRESS
Fulcher p. Smith, owner and
manager Of the Cumberland Box
Co.. and his lawyer Clarence Lip
pei got a break when the local
morning paper gave three inches
to the Labor Boards directive and
a whole column to Smiths answer
ing attack on the CLIO. But read
ers hunted in vain In Mr.. Smiths
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-06-19

column for any account Of the
sneak wage reduction, requested
in September and granted in Oc-
tober. Mr.. Smith also convenient
ly failed to mention that his en-
ployes first began TO organize in
May 1943. The company's request
TO the WLB for permission TO i'm
crease all wages 10 cents an hour
was not made, according to Mr..
Smiths own statement, until
June.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-06-19

the plant, and did not use the
form usually employed for such
applications. Mr.. Loucks says,
"This action on the part Of the
Company occurred more than =
month after the Union had been
certified and after more than q
month Of active negotiation with
the Union on the provisions Of
the proposed first contract. It
Is impossible to believe that the
Company did not know Its OBJ
legations to the Union In this
regard. Obviously the Company
should have refrained from pre-
senting any request not Joined
In by the Union for modification
Of the" earlier wage ruling Of
the Board.
"Since responsibility for act
Ing improperly In this respect
falls squarely on the Company,
the effect Of the Directive Order
which this Board now issues In
to revoke the Wage Sterilization
Directors ruling Of October IS,
I94S. In which he approved the
proposals improperly submitted
by the Company acting uniIater-
ally"
The Board now has machinery
by which ii is notified Of any cleo
ton carried out by the National
Labor Relations Board, and un-
lateral applications for wage ad-
justments are not accepted from
plants where q union has bargain
ing right. In this case. the ma
chinery failed to function.
elm this decision, the refore,r
says the Loucks opinion, "it Is the
Boards obligation TO place the
Union, as far as possible, I'm the
same situation In which IL
wolld have been but for the I'm
proper conduct Of the Company
and the mechanical failure Of
the Boards processes"
MUST SIGN CONTRACT
at is the understanding OF this
Board" concludes the Opinion
that the Company refused to
sign the contract provisions on
which II had come TO an agree
ment with the Union prior to the
certification of this dispute. Since
this Boards Directive Order re.
solves the issues on which the
parties could not agree, we as.
sumo that the terms of the con-
tract now stand determined and
that the Company and the Union
will proceed to sign the contract
for such term as is specified in
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-06-19

The company In requesting the q
wage cut acted unllaterally, and
this was Improper" procedure,
the Board found. The Labor
members OF the Board went
further and described the COM
pany's procedure as "trickery".
They referred to the record rs
one OF shameful deceit on the
company's part.
BOARDS DIRECTIVE
In Its present directive, the
Board revOkes ruling OF the
Wage Sterilization Director is
sued October IS, 19iS, which
granted certain wage cuts that
the employer had requested.
The new directive establishes q
minimum rate Of 80 cents per
hour for all except physically
handicapped employees.
The Board also orders time and
a half for all work performed on
New Years Day. Memorial Day.
July Fourth, Labor Day, Thanks
giving Day, and Christmas Day.
II orders that Gin addition TO the
present vacation practice Of one
weeks vacation with pay for one
years service with the Company,
the Company shall grant one add
tiOnal week Of vacation with pay
during 1874 to each emplOye with
Ave or more years Of service"
The directive orders that all en-
ployes VINO are members Of the
union on June %. 1914, or who
join 1t thereafter "shail, rs q con-
dition of employment. maintain
their membership In the Union In
good standing for the duration Of
the collective agreement or until
further order OF the Board. The
company Il directed TO check on
union dues on request.
The Union Is ordered to submit
q list of its members as Of June %.
The contract, which the company
is dirctd to sign, Is to run until
November 8. 1913. The Unon's re-
quest for automatic step-rate in
creases Is referred back to the
parties for further negotiation.
BOARD ADMITS FAILURES
Failure Of the Boards machin-
cry TO function prejudieed the
interests Of the union, said an
Opinion by vice-Chairman Will
Ham N. Loucks which accom-
panied the Directive.
When the Company asked per-
mission last September to reduce
the wages of certain employees. 1t
said nothing about the fact that
a Union had bargaining rights In
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-06-19
WLB Accuses Box
Co. Of Trickery

CUMBERLAND, June 17-Chastising the Cumberland Box
Co. in left doubt their meaning the War
Dor issued directive which cancels reroacvely
wage cut half the employees grants second weeks
with pay and uphods the right of the United Furniture
Workers bargain the agent of the workers.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-06-19
Blood Doning
is Foir Success

Meeting with fair success N
It's two weeks Of operation, the
blood donor unit Of the Red Cross
was scheduled to wind up ita
two-week stay In Cumberland
on Friday, June ne.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-23
BEWARE MR. NELSON!
on THAT TRIP TO CHINA

Once again Roosevelt has brought forth
his veil of secrecy to shroud an event the
American people simply must not know
about until he gets ready to tell them as
much as he thinks they should know. 1t
has to do with his sudden decision to send
Donald Nelson, head of the War Produc
tion Administration to China on a "mys-
terious mission" Mystery or no mystery
Mr.. Nelson is taking big chance going
to the Orient. Look what happened to
Henry Wallace. While he was over there
the skids were set and creased to ditch
him as candidate for reelection. He found
out he was expendable. Maybe that will
be the secret in Nelson's case.
In the meantime the people will have
to resort to the old saw that what you
don't know don't hurt you"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-23
Exumed Skeleton
Stirs Inquiry
On Old Staying

LOS ANGELES, Aug. %. (UP)-
From pile of bones in the back
var cot George Lee, 50-year-old
chef, sheriff's Investigators have
pieced together a 13-year-old love
triangle.
The bones were identified as the
skeleton of his first wife, Iva, who,
Inspector William j. PenpraSe said,
resented his attentions to Mrs. Flos-
sic Clark, now living in Lees home
and his cOmmon-laW wife.
Lee, missing since 1910, married
again in San Francisco, and dis
appeared again.
Iva's skull was cracked by a pow
erful blow in 1851, and her body
buried in the backyard. Lee told
friends she had left him. Soon
after, Mrs. Clark moved into the
house as his second wife. She al
reacy had a son by Lee, she told
Penprase, whom Iva was willing to
adopt. Iva refused when Lee sug-
gested that both the baby and Mrs.
Clark move in with them. Iva dis
appeared shortly thereafter.
1t was Mrs. Clark's son by her
former marriage marine Pvt. Joseph
Clark, who uncovered the skeleton
in digging garbage pit.
Lee was charged with murder
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-23
Wounded British
Pilot Rescued

dredS of shell craters. Many of
them were only yards away. One
was right at the end OF his wing.
The metal sides of the plane were
speckled with hundreds of shrapnel
holes.
He lay there, trapped in the midst
of this inferno OF explosions. The
fields around him gradually be-
came Uttered with dead. At last
American strength pushed the Ger
mans back. and silence came. But
no help. Because. you see. 1t was III
that vacuum behind the battle, and
only a few people were left.
The days passed. He thirsted ter
ribly. He slept some; part OF the
time he was unconscious; part OF
the time he undoubtedly was de-
lirious. But he never gave up hope
After we had finally got him out
he said as he lay on the Stretchel
under a wing, rs it possible that
I've been out of this plane since
crashed?'
ASSURED BY DOCTOR
Everybody chuckled. The doctor
who had arrived said, Not the re-
motest possibility. You were seaiet
sin there and it took men with tool'
half an hour to make an opening
And your leg was broken and youl
foot was pinned there. No. yot
haven't been out.
Il didn't think it was possible
the pilot said, and yet it seems II
nv mind that I was out once ano
back in again
That little memory of deliriun
was the only word said by that re-
markable man in the whole houI
of his rescue that wasn't as dlSpas'
sionate and matter-cf-fact a.
though he had been sitting com
fortably at the end of the day II
front of his own fireplace.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-08-23
Legal ADVERTISEMENT
PROPOSAL FOR BIDS FOk HE
PURCHASE OF TAX DECIDED
PROPERTY

Notice is hereby given that ploS
for the purchase from the City OF
Eel Centre of the tax decided prop
erty hereinafter described Will be
received at the office of the City
Clerk of the City of Ell Centre at
the City Hall in said City up to and
until 500 o'clock P. M. OF the 1st
day of September, 1914, ano said bids
will be opened and considered by
the City Council Of the City OF Ell
Centre at the next succeeding meet
ing. or at such subsequent meeting
to which such consideration may be
continued. The City reserves the
right TO reject any and all bids.
Said property is described as fol-
lows:
Lot 3, Block 3, Second Addition,
City of Ell Centro.
NEIL H. GAVIN
City Clerk of the
City of Ell Centre
DATED: August %, 1914.
CNo. 39) A-23