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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-10
Entertslns at Dinner

Mrs. Herman +. Wiederhoft as.
sisted by Mrs. Charles Wiederhoft
entertained Wednesday evening at
dinner in honor OF Mrs. Russell
Smith, formerly Miss Helen Rohde,
who was recently married in Cali
fornia. Covers were laid for eight.
Little Nancy Wiederhoft presented
each guest as she arrived with q
corsage OF white chrysanthemums
and the table was beautifully dec
Grated with bouquet Of white
chrysanthemums with white tapers
on each side. After dinner Mrs.
Smith was presented with several
lovely wedding gifts.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-10

Mr.. and Mrs. H. J. Rowden are
entertaining Mr.. Rowden's sisters,
Mrs. Mabel Gerou from Caro- and
Mrs. Charles Southwell from Ian
sing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09
BYRNES TO SPEED
 WAR PRODUCTION

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 - James Byrnss and his new crew of assist ants today moved in on the tagging war production to speed munitions to tie Tanks. Into the campaign they funneled efforts of all gov ernmsnt agencies responsible in any way for the war output; the manpower supporting it, and trans portation for hauling it.
 Squirting the Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion were shortages or sagging production in big and little ammunition, assault ships, radar for planes, cotton for tents, foundry castings for tanks, and Superforts for bombing. He had to hunt up some 100000 work CTS to bring the schedules back to par
 Byrnes named Maj. Gen. L. D. Clay, E-year-old engineer and West Point graduate, as his Deputy Di- rector in charge of war programs.
 The War Production Board is re- ported to be meanwhile proposing the clamping of labor ceilings on the less urgent war plants as well as civilian industry In a special WIPE report on armament emer- gency, it said it recommends that the Government fix limits on the number of workers which can be held by the less essential" factories.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09

clearing additional land adjoining and in the immediate rear of the original village to allow a larger lot for each dwelling; installation of streets, sewage and water sys- tems and an electrical distribution line that will provide street light ing as well as domestic electricity, with the Indian residents supplying $10,000 for the purchase of Q diesel generating plant.
 Allowances are also being made for the subsequent construction of additional buildings in the form of a Salvation Army Hall and a rec reation suilding, to be erected by the Presbyterian Church A future use commercial area is also being laid out.
 The area has been subdivided into lots of sufficient size to permit a minimum of 20 feet between dwellings, which are to have an exterior finish of stained cedar shakes.
 For the duration of the war, the Indians will pay rent, with an ar- rangement at wars end whereby they can buy the houses.
 Final plans are now being drawn and the contract for construction is to be let sometime in the early spring.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09
BRITISH pATR0LS
 LEAVE ATHENS 10
 BATTLE LEFTISTS

ATHENS, Dec. British patrols, tanks and armored cars today push ed out from Athens to meet TOO in surgent ELIAS militiamen advancing from the northeast on Athens where general firing was resumed
 Clearing skies broke the overnight lull in the strife and from heavy machine-gun positions atop the Royal Palace and the captured Con- munist Headquarters on Constitu- tion Square British parachute troops covered patrols flaming out through the wooded area behind and east of the palace.
 ELIAS patrols infiltrated the woods end took up new positions during the night despite constant fire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09
PLANS COMPLETED
 TO BUILD MODEL
 TOWN AT H0ONhH

The first model Indian village in Alaska will rise out of the ashes and debris of fire-ravaged Hoonah Village next spring, when 80 homes will be constructed to replace those lost in the conflagration which de- stroyed the settlement last spring. The dwellings, it was announced, are to be of basic design and pro lv.ce a living room, two bedrooms ans. bath on the main floor, with 6 stairway leading to the attic which will permit installation of two additional bedrooms if the owner so desires.
 Back of most of the houses, Yakutat huts salvaged from aban- doned Army camps, Will be con- nected to the dwellings by cov- cred porch off the kitchen. These are to be used as utility rooms
 Due to the fact that the Hoonah Indians are engaged in fishing, 8 war essential industry, the National Housing Agency made an appro- priation to rebuild the village. The project was turned over to the FPHA, with the H. B. Fcss Com pany of Juneau appointed as agent to prepare plans for the construc- ticn, following the pooling of In- dian lands through the Alaska In- dian Service, a necessary prelimi nary to construction of this type. The project involves the follow ing steps Cleaning up the fire de- bris, filling the tidal slough (the houses to be built on solid ground rather than on stilts as formerly 1;
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have won 19s military awards thus lar in this war, including 2S Pur- pie Hearts, 113 air medals, IT bronze stars, one Distinguished Flying Cross, 10 Legion of Merit decorations. five silver stars, four Soldiers Medals. 15 presidential unit citations and seven commen- dations.
 In tribute to the conduct of Army nurses under fire, It. Col. Bernice M. Wilbur of Park Ridge, N j., director of nursing service, Mediterranean theater Of opera tions, until her recent return to this country after 3S months of overseas duty, told of her conver- sation with one 22-year-old nurse on the Anzio beachhead. Asked how she felt when her hospital was being shelled, the nurse said
 T went around putting helmets on the patients who had them. I put my helmet on the sickest and l sat with ss.e scareGAst."
 Colonel Wilbur, who won the Le- zion of Merit on Sept 28, 1914, for outstanding service in the medical section of Allied Force Headquar- ters, recalled the case of another nurse, 46 years of age, who was to have been sent out of the combat area at Anzio because of her age
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09
FASCyT TROOPS
 DE5ERTING LINES

ROME, Dec. 9-American Fifth Army troops smashed new enemy cotnter-attacks south of Bologna today while the Eighth Army re- mained locked in. heavy fighting between the Montone and La mcne Rivers, northeast of the Bo- logna-Rimini Highway town of Faenza, Allied Headquarters said.
 Italian Fascist troops and Ger mans began quitting their line about a month ago, deserting to Allied lines at the rate of 30 to mere than 100 daily.
 Nazis yesterday attacked Ameri- can positions at Monte Belmonte Bcmbina, in the central sector of the front, suffering heavy losses when the attacks were broken up.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09
AITEhDAhCE kT GRID
 GAMEs ON IN(REAsE


 NEW YORK, Dec. g - Football attendance took a huge jump dur ing the 1944 season even after due allowances were made for the number of schools which resumed the game this year, after g season CT two out of competition.
 The overall average showed a gain Of 13 8l1o per cent of total attendance. Three hundred and thirty three games were played by 67 colleges covered by the annual Associated Press survey. The at tendance was more than 1,500,000 higher this year than for 273 games by 57 schools last year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09
COMMITTEE VOTES
 HOUSE HAVE HAND
 TREATY TAKING

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 - The House Judiciary Committee today approved a proposed constitutional amendment to give House Repre- sentatives voice in future treaty notifications.
 Tie committee voted IA to 4, to send to the floor a resolution to abolish the Senate's two-thirds vote and control over treaties and make future international pacts subject to ratification by majority vote in both houses.
 The resolution must pass the House and Senate and three-fourths of the legislatures to become ef- fcctiye.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09
TROOPS IN ITALY
 MAKE MORE GAINS


 ROME, Dec. g. British and Pol ish troops, driving on through rain, fog and mud, continued to enlarge their bridgehead over the Lamone River, southwest of Faenza, and cap- tured Castel, Raniero, Olnatelo and Pidaura.
 Simultaneously, the Allied Con- mand disclosed that the First Can adian Corps. commanded by It. Gen Charles Foulkes, in action on the Eighth Army front, scored a break through in heavy fighting between the Lamone and Montone rivers which resulted in the fall of Ray enna.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09
GERMAN HOSPITAL SHIP HIT AND SUNK
 BY ALLIED PLANES


 ROME, Dec. 9--Aircraft of the Mediterranean Allied Coastal Air Force accidentally sank the unillum- mated German hospital ship, Tueb- ingen, during period of poor light on November IS while she was en- route to Trieste.
 Allied Headquarters said regrets were conveyed to German Head quarters. The statement said "a full inquiry of this unfortunate in 1ident is proceeding Headquar- ters said it understood crew casual ties were very light and the ship was carrying no wounded at the time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09

1 You'll kill me if you do,s the nurse pleaded. .e7
 This nurse was in charge of her units blood bank at Anzio, work ing IS to 20 hours a day during the height of the fighting in that area
 Colonel Wilbur. who was in charge of 4,o00 nurses in Italy, North Africa and Southern France, pointed out that many 5f her nurses have been in front line field hospitals since the first days of the war.
 We don't take them out with cut good reason" she said, ne- cause it would break their morale. They want to stay on the job. When I toured the front, nurses in every hospital told me they were happy to be where the work was heaviest. And in the rear hospitals the nurses begged for an oppor- tunity to serve at the front"
 Plenty of Hardships
 Army nurses have no time to stroke fevered soldiers brows in this war And Army nursing is hard work, the colonel emphasized
 "The front isn't funny and it isn't glamorous," she said. This walking in mud up to your knees ceases to be humorous after the first two weeks. After that it l,e- comes a job. but Army nurses love their work and they'll put up with any hardship"
 Frequent checks are made on the health of the nurses at the front Long hours, tent hospitals, C-ra- tion meals and the strain on life in the combat areas sometimes take their toll There have been 93 deaths in the Army Nurse Corps from various causes, including ill., ness. accidents and combat, since Pearl Harbor.
 Nurses have undergone all the hardships that face fighting men in this war. There are 66 Army nurses who have been prisoners of war since the Japanese took the Philippines.
 Army nurses do not complain about hardships. They cheerfully take the discomforts, the risks and the toll. Their only plea is for help to assure wounded American fight ing men the finest possible medical attention.
 Emphasizing the need for addi- tional nurses on the fighting fronts and in Army hospitals at home, Col. LeRoy w. Marlborough, officer in charge, recruiting publicity bu- reau, U. S. Army, pointed out that the Army is seeking 10000 more registered nurses.
 There are 3O,o00 registered nurses in the United States who have been declared eligible for service with the armed forces by the War Manpower commission, Colonel Marlborough asserted.
 We owe it to the wounded fight ing men to see that at least 10000 of those IA nurses accept com missions in the Army Nurse Corps, said Colonel Marlborough. Their best reward will be the gratitude of the men they will serve." /
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09
Major ). J. Grifiiihs
 Passes Away Today

CHICALO, IL, Dec. g n Major John J. Griffith, 67. Commissioner Of Athletics of the Far Western Conference, died in his office of what is believed to have been a heart attack shortly after being re- elected to office for another five years at a meeting of the Confer ence athletic officers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09
TRUSC0TT NAMED NEW ALLIED HEAD
 ON ITALY FRONT

ROME, Dec. 9--Lt. Gen. Lucian Truscott, Jr., 49, who commanded the Allied forces on the Anzio beach, head and, who, later led the assault troops in the invasion of Southern France, has been appointed Com mander of the United States Fifth Army.
 Truscott succeeds It. Gen. Mark Clark, recently named Commander of the Fifteenth Army Corps. Clark, as Commander of All Allied Ground Forces in Italy succeeds Field Mar shal Sir Harold Alexander who was appointed Allied Commander in Chief for the Mediterranean.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09
tL. s, ARMY NURSES AREpLAYINed1
 ROLE IN WORLD WAR H
By Central Press

THE TENTS of the big evacua- ts4r hospital huddled in the dark uc53 on the beach at AnziG One mcuent there was only ,he sub Cuea h.zz of normal field hospital sounds the throb ci ambulance engines the steady hum of electric generators. the low voices of doe tc-s. nurses and ward men, the footsteps O. the litter bearers feel irr Lhcir way over the uneven glcuni.
 -Tto next moment the earth be- uclt, tho hospital tents rocked un- Gc- g load of bombs dumped by a Gena1 plane shen fragments sprayed the entire hospital area. Electric wires were cut and the tent wards were plunged into inky lHaoluess.
 Three .. S Army nurses were Killed at that hospitsl but the oth- CT nurses coolly and courageously c,acustcd patients where neces- es1y. attended the injured, and by thciy conduct were an inspiration to tie wounded as well as to the cniis-od men working under their supervision.
 Two o,her Army nurses were Killed and three more wounded in g. shali1g Of another hospital al Nnzi5 three days later. A sixth nurse was fatally injured at q third Afzio hospitai Two Army flight uu-ees, one a patient, died in Q r.a9c crash in tsely, and arotller Army nisht nurse died with her caarees when an air transport ucat CoHn in Alaska
 War is no respecter of sex. Woanls. iluoss. combat fatigue end Coe,h have kept the attrition rate among Army nurses canger- ,usly close to the recruitment rate he women Of the Army Lurse ,ofps waded ashore from landing raft in Italy with the first inva ion troops and dug themselves in- the sands of Salerno under the
 olting blasts of enemy shells. rl1ty penetrated deep into the New Guinca jungles and staffed evacu ton hospitals while planes stood Y ready to evacuate them by air .om the threat of a Japanese of- ensive.
 Other Heroic Deeds
 When a ship carrying Army .mses was torpedoed in the dark less off North Africa they worked trough the night in lifeboats, buff cted by high seas and icy wealth n. to relieve the suffering of 5 s0nded soldiers With land mines -Xploding 150 yards away, Army lieht nurses went into Normandy md brought out the wounded in na rm { 1 C-54 air evacuation planes.
 Members of the Army Nurse Corps have been wounded and heir injuries bandaged, have re- tuned to their duties. These are aot isolated cases Of courage and -e eeotion to duty. Army nurses
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09
HAMPTON IN TOWN

Frank Hampton, from Seattle, is staying at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09
MacLANE HERE

G. w. MacLane is in town and is registered at the Baranof from Ket- chikan.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-14
Sports Roundup

New York-NS-A eNighers-each Of whom
took pasngs from American bo1er~ere reported today to
DNB said
the Frenchman
whose hopes heavyweight champion sent
behalf
German fighters Schmeiug who heavyweyh
title holder absorbed powerful whipping from Joe Ions
second time they met
Armstrong favored TO
defeat Spod round lightweight bout tonight that
NAV open Armstrong; second comeback campaign.
Mike" Tobin, known in the nations
collegiate his work publicity director for
died his here minutes before
old and had been the Universe
p forming close friendships with
University
Illinois the He often colaboaed with III
football coach Poh Zuppke in magazine articles
Red Wings had Flash Holett TO thank
TODAY for period that tied the Wings TO last
neht with leading Montreal Canaden Hoet made the
tying Just released from the penalty Reay
brought DOLLHOUSE the second period with
unassted tally when club trailing by goals
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-14
Titans Make
Late Rally

In thrill-packed basketball
game University OF Detroit came
from behind to defeat Michigan
State Normal College 40 TO 80
Thursday night It the high school
gymnasium.
The Titans had TO make a last
half drive TO beat Normal as the
Hurons led % to II at half time.
The tide was turned through Coach
Lloyd Brazil's ability to constant
ly send fresh players into the
game. The Green and White, who
had set fast pace in the first half
were not able 10 keep up with
the often rested" u. of d. cagers.
The twins, Tom and Charley
Greig. once again led the Normal
as we'll as Detroit in scoring as
each collected 10 points. Clair
Ebersole, VII, is leaving for the
Navy Saturday was the next high
with and he was followed by
two Titan, Lessnau and O'Neil,
who had s points each.
Summary.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-14
CHAPTER FIVE

inns TRAIN had left at fVe,
and now 1t was six, an hour that
had passed in curious silence be-
tween Beth and Andrea.
There was a Chinese checker
board on the card table between
them and save when one or the
other murmured, "Your move" or
81 can see three jumps" almost
nothing had been said. A sharp
wind moaned around the windows,
and the quick late autumn twilight
had turned to winter darkness, but
neither seemed to notice the wind
or the darkness outside. They
moved the colored marbles like two
girls engaged in sepa tie pursuits,
as each was in her mind.
They had stood arm in arm wav-
ing to Jim as his train pulled out,
but when it was gone they had
drawn apart and walked home, say
ing little.
For an hour his name had not
been mentioned and then Andrea
said, Were sitting around like a
couple of maiden aunts whove lost
Sonny Boy"
Wen miss him." Beth said,
moving a red marble. Hes been
here so much, almost as II he'd
lived here. expect he'll miss us"
Its funny how someone you're
used to =. - Andrea looked up,
caught Beth's eyes and the brief
animation went out Of her voice
and she said, II suppose all the ex-
citement about war does this"
With guarded eyes, Beth said,
Does what"
Andrea shrugged. when you
think you're going to lose some
thing, you always like it better.
You see it with different values ?"
is it Jim? And do you mean
me?"
Andrea got up and got cigaret
from a box on the mantle. May
be-" she said. 1--WE never seen any
body hover and moon the way
been lowering and incoming
over Jim this last week"
Color flooded Beth's cheeks, but
Andrea, who had kept her face
turned to the window, did not
see il.
do you want to play this game
any more ?"
Andrea shook her head. Its a
blue day, isn't it," she said
"You should have let Dennis
come by when he called you"
Il don't know what I'm going 10
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-14

do with Dennis" Andrea said In her
old confidential manner. But I
think I'm going to treat him to a
dose Of missing me. I read in the
paper this morning that Beatrice
is going to Sun Valley. Now, If it
had been Reno :"
you haven't seen him since
tuesday," Beth asked.
Tuesday, she was thinking, was
the night that Dennis had brought
Andrea home from the Office and
stopped in for few minutes. Beth
and Jim had been sitting on the
sofa, Jim reading as Beth knitted.
Then, as always when Andrea
joined them, Beth had found her
self looking for THAT look on
Jim'S face again. imagining again
that she had seen it and again
telling herself it was all magma
ton. But that night she had felt
her eyes drawn to Dennis Archers
face, and Dennis was looking at
Andrea and Jim, and she read in
his face the knowledge that she
had been right. There was some
thing intangible, but something
that Jim and Andrea said to each
other whenever their eyes met.
Something that Beth wished she
could face.
Then abruptly. she said, ANDY,
sit down"
I'm too restless" Andrea said,
pacing the floor
IAN right, pace; but let's talk.
Do you know why you're restless ?"
Andrea let a leisurely column Of
smoke drift from her lips, but her
eyes were alert and her whole be-
ing was instantly guarded. Just
nothing to do, l guess"
Meaning no dates?"
Gould be-" Andrea answered.
For you and me and hundreds Of
thousands Of other women-for a
long time to come"
Andrea stopped pacing. Beth, do
you really think we'll go to war ?"
Doesn't everyone ?"
How could we face years Of it ?"
Andrea demanded.
by just having TO. I guess, and
believing In future we can't plan"
How can you believe in it If you
can't plan it,"
Beth pulled her down to the sofa
beside her. I'VE have to grow up
darling, and prepare ourselves
within. We have to get new values
that haven't anything to do with
material things or wants, like fine
houses and the things money buys.
We have to know what we want
out Of human relationships and
how we can earn them, things that
no war, no single person, no taxes
or poverty can take away from the
human race"
Andrea let out an explosive
breath. Talk, Beth, talk. You can
talk about all those abstract things,
but do you believe in them? Do you
think we can just like not want
ing things,"
Il didn't say we wouldn't want
things. said we must prepare our
selves not to want the things we've
wanted all along"
Were young, we're women! We
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-14
Detroit Wins i'm Thrilling Game
Tomorrow is a Lovely Word

want love and that means men
You can't have love like the birds
and bees. You have 10 have clothes
and jobs and homes and good
times"
Beth shook her head, wishing for
a way TO tell the things she felt to
Andrea. Wen have love" she said
the kind of love that 'asts il we
work for it. That's woman's job
now. l don't know how, except to
convince her man that she believes
in the future, that he can count on
her whenever the present is done
and the future is here"
I'm ten years maybe" Beth said
angrily. Meanwhile. I'm 25. I'm
young and not bad to look at. I've
had to work since was 16 and I'm
sick Of IL. want excitement and
adventure, and / want TO be loved
and petted and given a few Of the
things that more fortunate girls
get just because they have money
and position"
You'll have to change all that.
Andy, or you're going to get a
bump that'll be hard to take"
will II" Andrea demanded.
Not little Andy. You can take this
whole war on your shoulders if you
like, but / won't. Just find me one
person who can guess what the flu
lures going to be, Just one"
Beth shook her head again.
"Only abstractly," she said
"Abstractions are not enough for
me. I'm going to live in the pres
ent. and I'll not be alone. War is
exciting, and I'm going to have
some of 1t. Who's getting today.
Miss kinnan? The people who take!
Who'll have it when it's over?"
"The people who are right, who
have retained their integrity"
Rot! Integrity! What is It:
Maybe the Poles had it. Maybe you
and I've got it, but integrity isn't
going to give me anything that I'm
so hungry for"
"And what do you think you can
take, Andy?"
81 don't know-eXactly. Andrea
crushed her cigaret with firm, tense
fingers. But I'm going to live as
If there were nothing but the pres
ent. I'm going to be reckless, Beth.
I'll gamble whenever there's a gam
Bile offered me, and I'm not going
to ask anyone's permission"
Beth's face was very still, but
her heart was pounding and she
asked quietly, why are you tell
ing me this?"
why not, darling? You might
be one Of the people who need fair
warning"
do ] have anything that you
want ?" Beth could hear her own
voice seeming 10 come from out
side Of her.
Nothing you've told me about"
Andrea said evenly.
Beatrice Archer. II must be Bea-
trice Archer. Beth told herself that
over and over again.
And then Christmas came and
Jim came home in uniform on his
first leave and Beth knew the
truth.
Ito BE Continued)