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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-17
PHOENIX LODGE HAS
GUESTS FROM DETROIT

Phoenix Lodge number Is F. and
A. NJ. had visitors from a Detroit
baking company at their special
communication Tuesday evening
when four candidates received the
Entered Apprentice degree. The Wis.
itors conferred the degree on one
OF the candidates.
James Bell. worshipful master,
presided in the East and announced
the special communication for Fri
day night for the comforting OF the
Master Mason degree, also the COM
munication Tuesday night for the
Entered Apprentice degree.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-17

ing a full red skirt with wide rib
bons. a vest embroidered with Sc
gums and many beads and pearls
worn about the neck, The costume
is completed by a small lowered
tiara with brightly coiored stream
ers hanging from il.
The festival. under the direction
OF Roland L. Schafer, is entitled
Americans All and features the
songs and dances OF immigrants or
pilgrims who have contributed their
culture 10 make America what il is
today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-17
FARMER FOUND DEAD

Owosso, Mich, May flap
Earl Cousins, 2s, was found dead
Monday under a tractor WHICH he
was using on his farm In Be6nins-
ton Township.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-17
Municipal Court

II year old youth charged with
larceny of automobile accessories.
was fined $50 and placed on
years probation this morning when
he was arraigned in municipal
court. Charged with being intoxi-
Gated and disorderly, Alberta
Rhodes. Franklin St. paid $40
when she was arraigned. Justice
f. C. Simmonds officiated in court
this morning in the temporary alb
sence OF Justice Arthur NJ. Van
dersall
Receipts in court for Tuesday
we're Sl41.30. At the police station
minor traffic fines yielded $50.
and daughter, Jane Anne. arrived
Tuesday evening from Camp Barke.
ley, Texas, to visit Mr.. and Mrs.
Guy c. Kennedy. capt. Kennedy is
an Instructor in the Officers Can
didate School in Medical Admins
tration.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Klatfke spent
Mothers Day with their son. Pvt.
Karl Klaffke at Camp Atterbury.
Ind.
Staff Sergt Russell NJ. Akans will
return 10 his station at FL fora.
Santa Ana, Cal, the last OF the
week.
Tech. Attn Grade Sergt. W. A.
Horner arrived Tuesday afternoon
from Camp How're. Texas. TO spend
his IL day furlough with his moth
er. Mrs Helen Horner and aunt.
Miss Stella Horner.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-17
Three Initiated by -
Veterans Organization

At the regular meeting OF the
VIEW Post No. 240S Tuesday
night at the V.FW. Hall three
new members were initiated: John
J Wills, Fireman First Glass U.SN.,
Thomas J. Martin. 140th Infantry
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-17
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-17

Ypsilanti young women who have
enlisted in the women's branches
OF the armed service are Clara
Moore in the Marines; Beatrice
Neeley in the WACs. and Garnet
Block in the WAVES.
Capt. and Mrs. J. Yates Kennedy
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-05-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Klaifke spent
Mothers Day with their son. Pvt.
Karl Klaffke at Camp Atterbury.
Ind.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-10
Fighting First
In Combat I Yrs.

WITH THE FIRST Z. s.
ARMY, Nov. 9 CINSD The Big
One" Americas spearhead divi-
sion in Africa. Sicily Italy and
D-Day in western Europe, today
celebrated its second combat
birthday
The famous Fighting First"
captured more than 81 PAT pris-
oners during the last two years
and booted the NaziS through
Normandy. France and Belgium
into the Siegfried Line and be-
.yond
The battle-tested, tough, proud
First Division has a tradition Of
whipping the enemy second 10
none in World War H.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-10
Unite
Says FDR

HYDE PARK. N. Y. Nov. 9
(INS)-President Roosevelt in his
first statement since his fourth
term victory called upon America
to unite 10 win the war and TO
achieve LISTING peace"
"For the first time In 80
years we have held "A national
election In the midst Of war"
he said.
what II really important Is
that after all OF the changes
and vicissitudes OF four score
years, we have again demon
strated Ia the world that de-
mocracy Is "A living, vital force;
that our faith i'm American in
situations IN mistaken: that
conscience, and not force, il the
source of power in the govern
ment of man."
The President said that America
must unite in that faith ito win
the war and achieve a lasting
peace"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-10
Million Poles Deported

NEW YORK, Nov. 9 QNS)-
The Polish telegraph agency re-
ported today that the Germans
had deported more than million
inhabitants of warsaw.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-10
Arnold Sees
Japan sDoon1

Life in Japan will soon become
as precarious as in Germany, with
daily visits of thousands of bomb
ers. You can take that right from
the lips of Gen. Henry II. Arnold.
commanding general of the Army
Air Forces.
Gen. Arnold spoke last night 10
an overflow audience of Detroit
industrialists and businessmen as
the guest of the Economic CLUB
in the Book Cadillac Hotel. He
did not see an early end 10 the
war on either side but predicted
To-day we are moving step
by step nearer and nearer To
Japan, until finally that time
comes when the japanese will
experience the daily visit OF
thousands of our bOmbers. with
tho same death and destruction
that has made life hardly
worth living in Germany"
ALLOW NO BREATHER
Gen. Arnold credited the sue
cess of the AAF 10 the fact that
il has never given the Germans
breather and because planes,
crews and supplies have been kept
in balance.
snow, when the going Is
toughest and the war is in its
decisive phases, We are count
ing more than ever on your ef-
forts" he told the industrialS.
Both the Germans and the jap
aneSe have withdrawn forces from
their outposts with the express
purpose of doggedly defending
their homelands Arnold con
tinued.
Those Germans fight like
fanatics and must he treated a.
SUCH" he declared But the
laps are tougher. When a Ger
man outfit il cut off. IL is usu-
ally smart enough 10 give up.
But not the Japs. We have 10
blast them out, killing each
one"
Summarizing European air OPP
erations, Arnold revealed that
Eighth Air Force bombers flew
10000 sorties against German tar
gets in October.
Germany now has more
planes than ID ever had" said
Arnold "but they haven't the
crews or the oil 10 put them in
the air. For every mission the
Germans fly, we fly 1000.
I'VE shall increase these air
tions until Germany
gives up"
PRAISES kNUDSEN
Arnold paid high tribute 10 the
part that 1t. Gen William ).
Knudsen played in building up. the
strength of the AAF.
His contribution to the war
effort cannot he oVer-esti-
mated" he said. 1.-THE Army Air
Forces take off their hats 10
Gen. Knudsen."
Gen. Knudsen introduced Gen.
Arnold. Al the speakers table
we're the leaders of Detroit's auto
motive plants. including c. r.
Wilson. president Of General Mo
tors; Henry Ford II. K. T Keller,
president Of Chrysler: George w
Mason. head of Nash; Ernest
Breech, president Of BendiX and
Alvan Maccauley, chairman Of
Packard's board
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28
Your Legislator
Paw Him or Prosecute Him

Public Opinion in Michigan should have red face
red face We the members of the Legislature three
just enough buy cheese for the public trap and then
groan when the trap springs of them Who is getting
hurt here?
At first when the Grand Jury found few of the mem
bers of the legislature guilty of accepting brbeS 1t seem
ingy good thing get rid of the SnkerS IN pub
all thought doing good job the truth smuggling
its way back that there something baScaly wrong
The wrong is in the method and the amount of COM
penSaOn to the members of the legislature With dollars
there is dirt With dollars there dirt. How
sleeps eye upon business and professional men
periods of time for three dollars per day. Other government
workers have been advanced Factory young people
from eight to fifteen dollars per day. Union labor has
steady improvement compensation to its members
Public Opinion is undoubtedly ready to entertain sug
geSOn that the members of the legislature be given
equitable compensation The suggestion is That the members
of the legislature be paid twenty dollars per day for period
of hundred and twenty days, and twenty-five dollars
day for period of ten days special sessions With
this grade of pay the best qualified citizens of Michigan
might be free to to Lansing and make the laws which
vitality important to your family and to mine
This pay would amount to twentysx hundred and fifty
dollars for the of two years The members receive
approximately wenyone hundred and ninety dollars for
the two years at the rate of three dollars per day.
further suggested that the Press of Michigan
duct poll of Public Opinion the question Do you favor
equitable pay for your member of the legislature? To
who the Capitol Reporters be designated
body to deliver composite report of the poll back to the
public and to the legislature.
this way the legislature will be relieved of the ques
toned action of nstitutng pay increases for itself When
Public Opinion rallies support of this long neglected action
generated legislators go and sin more and earth
Peace, good will toward men,.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28
americans Need NeaU Shoes

This contagious disease of hatred which rising in
America cannot be cured by miraculous drug;
will respond to marvellous scientific invention is
impossible to touch by any legislation 1t of the evils
in American life which be purged only each in
dividual is willing to purge it in him or herself
There ancient and charming legend about the first
shoes in the world great king stepped sharp thorn
his garden In frouSage he ordered his Prime Minister
the entire earth with leather that he would
step thorn again At first the Prime Minister
appalled,. But suddenly he way out. He said to
the King Your Majesty just your feet with leather
and wherever you GO on the entire earth you will
be walking on leather"
That is way out, too We cannot the entire
United States with understanding and kindness but
ourselves that wherever walk plain
everyday human kindness will walk too.
And that plain everyday human kindness will stop
lips from criticism and eventually hearts will learn that
it not the color of mans skim the racial strains
his the place in which he worshps that
like dislike AS plan for the postwar period let
fashion personal shoes of human Kindness
With such shoes, hatred cannot be a thorn in
Americas flesh.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28

On the other hand, Margaret
Mitchell spent ten years Q926-36)
writing GONE WITH THE WIND,
that best seller of all best sellers
called less a novel than a phen-
omenon." 1t was her first novel
and she still insists emphatically
that 1t will be her last.
Elizabeth Janeway worked on THE
WALSH GIRLS for seven years and
rewrote the whole novel a third
time after she had torn up two un-
satisfactory versions "in disgust"
Just writing for a long period
of time doesn't insure a book of good
literary quality, however, Kathleen
Winsor was more than five years
reading in preparation for and writ
ing FOREVER AMBER, read less
for its value as literature than for
the racy way in which Amber runs
through four husbands and a dozen
odd lovers, including Charles II
himeSlf." Time" says of it, MANY
readers will never finish so poor a
book =" But the publishers,
Macmillan are betting that FOR
EVER AMBERS risque passages will
entice enough more people to fin
ish IL to make it one of the greatest
financial successes of the decade.
quality CAN exist side by side with
And to the contrary literary
quality can exist side by side with
great speed in writing. Sir Walter
Scott wrote his Waverly novels
published under a pseudonym be-
cause he feared they would en-
danger his literary reputation) at
a speed unchallenged until the pres
ent day when Max Brand (pseu-
donym Of Frederick FausD in twenty
years Of writing averaged a word
age equal to full-length book every
three weeks"
Oh yes, speed and quality are
possible together and if you don't
even aim at quality but are con-
tent with mere dollars almost I'M
believable speed can be achieved
Edgar Wallace once dictated a COM
plete novel between Friday night
and Monday morning, and ON THE
SPOT was on paper in four days!
Conclusions? How does one write
a book? How long does it take?
Well, I'm afraid I can't say exactly
Can you?
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28
You Can Hear the Neat Var Coming

Keep your when read the story about
buzzbombs striking London, Paris Antwerp Keep your
and you'll hear the SINISTER motorsoundS of VIC
heading for New York Chicago Denver and Detroit VIC
the Kssel Kar king of the road 1t may have
siderable German skill to develop the robot bomb which
could be launched by from land platform air.
plane, boadeck which could fly 300 miles or so and
blast city block and its inhabitants into oblivion But it
won't take much German skill at all improve that VI
to the point where will fly 300 miles but 5000 It is
just question of fuel capacity andsmackhere goes
the corner of Main Street and Vine.
Don't be deceived by the fact that the robot bomb is
not winning this 1t wasn't supposed in an ex
perimental phase and England ultimate tar
get America and for the best of military reasons Ger
many lost the first because it didn't think America
would fight America got in the fight at the end and Ger
many lost Germany losing this for precisely the
same reason Therefore, to the coldy calculating mind of
any German Strategs there just simple knock
out America first Destroy American production and the
American wiltofght before America knows there's war
That's the purpose of the buzz bomb Twenty years
sets watching the World Series and paying more aen
ton to Germany than paid to it in 1914 1899 At
that moment 10000 German fingers will touch off 10000
German robot bombs few minutes later those Americans
who remain alive will know two things They'll know that
Germany has declared the United States they'll
know that the United States has lost the the same
instant Then, with America out of the picture Germany
can proceed comfortably and safely fight the kind of
world war that she can win.
you're not sure how you would like such q war glance
the nearest child and consider how would look quarter
OF century hence adult smashed in one furious Ger
man instant to pulp Think this before you decide
now much OF GermanyS industry how much of Germanys
General Staff hoy much of Gemanys aggressive spirit
you d like to leave alive when this is over.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28

read or write. And yet I defy you
to find more real gentlemen among
our troops than in a camp of these
so-called hillbillies. There is a sim
pie genuineness about them that
shows in every word they speak
They don't have the city's smart
aleck ways and suspicious outlook.
They have had no training in fancy
manners, but they are well-man-
nered. My stay with these boys
made me aware once more that a
companionship with the earth and
the woods breeds something fine in
a character, and that sophistication
is one Of the lesser virtues.
These boys are good soldiers.
They are tough physically and
amenable to discipline, and they
learn quickly.
I was standing in the company
street talking to a colonel in the
outfit, a North Carolina man of
joviality and wit. A sentry was
walking his post nearby. His pace
was only shade ahead of suspen-
ded motion. His face was leathery
and his nose was sharp and blue.
His uniform fit like joke. He
looked as though he didn't know
where he was.
Look at that guy" said the colo
mel. He looks as If a family OF
sharecroppers had just moved out
Of the seat Of his pants. He would
not look bit different if you got a
Bond Street tailor out here to work
on him. He can't even sign his
name. But he's a damn good SOL
der"
I was introduced to Pfc. Gilbert
D. Stephenson of Smithfield, N. c.,
a tobacco auctioneer by profession.
You know that unintelligible jargon
that tobacco auctioneers use. Steph-
enson keeps the boys entertained by
Cabling 1t every morning when they
get out of bed, grumpy and cold
I suggested he try it on some of
the English girls. He said he al
ready had.
What did they do?" I asked.
They liked to had fit" he said.
Sgt. Cecil Z. Lambert of Darling
ton, s. c., took me out to a big rifle
range and let me take q few shots.
Like all good soldiers, I got cheated
out of one bulls eye by the pitman
marking it a complete miss when
1t was obviously a direct hit. Out
side Of that, we've decided to keep
my score a military secret Its pub
lication might give aid and comfort
to the enemy.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28
IS YEARS AGO
IN WYANDOTTE

Owing to breakdown at the mu-
nicipal light plant. the city was
minus electric service for a day
and portion of the city was still
without electricity.
While the women and children
of two families knelt in prayer for
protection on what they believed to
be the last day of the world, a
twelye-year-old member of one fam
lily shot the young son of the neigh
bors. Inspired by his fathers teach
ings to protect his family in time
Of danger, the youngster was at
tempting to show the other boy
how well he could shoot.
In q statement to the assistant
prosecutor the boys father said
his family had been discussing the
prediction that the world would come
to an end on December II and the
boy, who had been instructed In the
manual Of arms of the Russian
army, was toying with the loaded
shotgun when it was discharged.
The Crosse lie bus, containing
about 20 passengers. was struck by
. Toledo interurban car at the cor
ner Of Fort and Dragon, Detroit.
Among the injured persons were
Minnie JOHNSON and Mrk William
Marx Of Wyandotte.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28
Paper Used for
Yule Packages
Sho uld Be Saved
Paper Shortage Acute;
Urge Salvage Of All
disable Wrapping

LANSING - Michigan residents
are urged by Kenneth M. Burns,
Chairman Of the State Salvage
Committee of the Michigan Office
Of Civilian Defense, to save every
piece Of Christmas wrapping for
paper salvage and dispose Of it thru
Paper Troopers and other collection
agencies.
BY placing the festive wrappings
which customarily 90 into the fire
place at Christmas time into waste
paper salvage collections, Americans
viii be making an immense con-
tribution to the war effort, Burns
said.
Paper is too precious this year
to be burned" he stated, Paper
is a weapon without which we can
not successfully wage q war. Paper
is more valuable, in some respects,
than money. because money alone
cannot purchase the paper that is
needed for many military and life
saving purposes"
AL types of waste paper are des-
perately needed by Michigan paper
mills, Burns said. Heavy paper, cor
rugated cartons and paperboards
are especially important, and fancy
inner wrappings, tissue paper and
Christmas cards represent valuable
salvage material.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28
Book
Lovers

Will Durant has the gift Of de-
scribing history and philosophy in
terms that make easy and fascin-
ating reading. His 1.-The Story Of
Philosophy" published in 1927, made
him famous and was best-seller.
"The Life of Greece" 1880, also
enormously popular. was a Book
of-the-M Month Club dividend.
The latest volume in his survey
of world history is Caesar and
Christ" a dramatic account of the
rise of Rome from a crossroads
town to world mastery, and of its
long, slow crumbling and final ca
tastrophic collapse into darkness
and chaos.
AS this Is primarily a cultural
history. politics and government are
only two of the aspects treated.
Religion, industry, manners, morals,
the status Of women, law, science,
literature are all lavishly discussed.
DR.. Durant believes that a read
ing of past events should illuminate
the present. In the class struggles
and jockeying for power that typify
Roman history, he finds an analogue
to the development of Europe and
America to the present time He
reminds us that dictators have ever
used the same methods. And he
tells us that the dole was resorted
to more than century before
Christ and that the first Roman
labor union was established about
600 B. c.
In This Was My Newport" about
the early days of Newport, Maude
Howe Elliott tells of a certain gen.
tleman who made a huge fortune
out of smuggling. He used to en-
terrain in high style and once, just
as his guests were about to be seated
at the table, his mansion caught
fire. But he wouldn't let a little
thing Ike that interfere with his
party. He had the servants take
the table and all the fixings out on
the lawn, where his guests could eat
while enjoying the spectacle Of his
costly house burning to the ground.
The Basque people Of Spain have
a reputation for doing just the op-
posite Of what is expected of them.
DR.. Jose Antonio de Aguirre, for
mer President Of the Basque Re
public, was in Belgium when the
Germans invaded there. He was
on the Gestapo blacklist, and his
capture would have meant his ex-
ecution- Instead OF trying to run
away, he headed straight for Ber-
lin. Though his only disguise was
a pair of spectacles and a mustache,
he lived there, safely for several
months, often treated obsequiously
by the very Nazi officials and Span
ish FalangistS who were looking
for him. He tells his remarkable
story in Escape from Berlin"
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28

An Englishman at another table
saw them. came over and asked in
the Engnshman's apologize way If
they would join him In a drink.
They accepted and got to talking,
and without the marines being
aware of it the Englishman paid
their entire bill.
The other day Pvt. Harry Douglas
lost his pocketbook with 20 pounds
and four American dollars in 1t.
Within an hour 1t was found and
returned to the Washington Club by
a Mr.. Hamm of Knightsbridge.
When an American I'm uniform
stroIls off the beaten path and
gets into . restaurant which does
not see many Americans. they
really dust off the place for him.
Half dozen taxi drivers Of mid
die age or older have unofficially
appointed themselves the official"
cabs to take American soldiers
sightseeing from one Of the Red
Cross clubs. They won't let any
other taxis in on 1t. They don't over
charge the boys; in fact, they even
undercharge them. And they give
the boys a sightseeing spiel as they
go along. And when the tour is over
they stop at pub on the way home,
but they get very fatherly and won't
let the boys have more than one
drink.
TENNESSEE els LIKE ENGLISH
Probably the purest strain Of
Anglo-SaXon blood In America is
that of the hill people of eastern
Tennessee. There are even parts of
the hill country where q sort of
shakespearean English IL still spok-
en-, they say.
Today many of these Tennesseans
are back here in the land Of their
ancestors. ready to fight for the
country they came from as well as
the country they went to. Lately
I've been staying In camp with some
of them, and with boys just like
them from the Carolinas.
Few of them have ever been far
from home before. A few have been
to college. but some Of them can't
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-12-28

got in to tn e
wrong place, for
you pay a mighty
fancy price for
dinner at the Sa-
voy. I guess they
did have enough
money to pay
the bill, but they
were doing a lot
Of obvious count
ing bet W e e n
them