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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-10-30

series Of entertaining games played
by the audience with nzizeS for tbs
winners.
The program is under the. direc-
ton of the City Recreation Depart
ment, assisted by the Wyandotts
Exchange Club, Wyandotte Mer-
chants Association and Harry Whit
low, sports columnist, asSannouncer.
Remember to be at Bishop PARK
at els p. m, Tuesday, October 81.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-10-30
Recreation
News
GALA HALLOWEEN PROGRAM
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 81

The annual Mardi Gras parade
and party, sponsored by the Recrea-
ton department, will meet at Bish-
op Park Tusday, October 81 at
6:15. Children should be In cos
tunes ready to parade down Biddlt
avenue at $50 p. m. to the high
school. The Roosevelt high schoo
band will head the parade.
At the Roosevelt IL beautiful gifts
donated by the Wyandotte Mer-
chants Association will be given fol
the following costumes, six for boy,
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-10-30
WILL IMPROVE BUILDING

A petition from the Polish Veter-
ans Post No. IS for permission to
brick veneer their club building at
1895 Eleventh street was granted by
city council last week.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-10-30
WATCHES TAKEN

Mrs Frank Kieronski, Of 1913 Bid
die avenue, reported to police that
two watches, valued at $50, had been
taken from her home. The theft
was reported Monday.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-10-30

To develop better understanding
between the police ana youngsters
of South London, the police will
open a club for boys, believed to be
the first Of fits kind in Britain.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-10-30

for membership. Interested persons
will find application blanks at the
Public Library
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-10-30

The first direct wireless commu-
nication between Great Britain and
Ecuador has just been established.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
Character Will Still Count

If we can believe only half of what we read
about it, that brave new orId of the future
will be most wondrous place indeed.
Theren be no more illness because magical
lights, filters, traps and sprays will Stay germs
before they get chance at us. Any that
survive will be blitzed by miracle drugs be-
fore they can establish beachhead in our
bodies.
Food will be so crammed with vitamines
that we'll have nary a tooth ailment, and
men won't get thin on top and thick through
the middle The ladies will be able to run
their households by pushing few buttons, or
maybe settina al or two. There might even
oe a gadget to change the baby, or maybe
babies won't neeo changing, we've forgotten
which.
Automobiles, if they still have EN-, will be
something out of this world, and most of us
will fit through the skies in helcopters or in
planes that become autos at the flip of wrist
We're not sure how much of this will come
true Perhaps good deal Of it. But there is one
brave new world brings, it will not bring
substitute for character, honesty, sportsman
ship or religion. That means there will be no
substitute for the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION and the things for which it stands
In the century since it was started in 1874
in London bedroom, the YMCA. has seen
many marvels become commonplace: the rail-
roads, motion pictures telegraph, telephone,
radio, automobile, submarines and aeroplanes
to mention few It is entirely possible that
during the next hundred years there will come
advances that will far surpass any of these.
But we think that nothing can surpass
Christian ideals. Whether our kids tear around
In model jalopies or streamlined planes, they
will need the ''Y'', for come what may, char
acter will still couAt
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
Another Breach Of Law

The Nazis, hard-pressed for military man.
power, have resorted to yet another breach of
International law. DR.. Goebbels has invited
German civilians to kill parachuting Allied
flyers, and justified himself with some typical
Nazi absurdity about Allied planes machine
cunning school children
One unconfirmed report coming through
Sweden said that it had started that five
parachuting Allied airmen had been killed.
Berlin denals cut the figure to one lynch
ing'' of an airman after churchgoers had been
strafed, according to a Naz radio announce
ment. True or not, it makes little difference
This, like many anot Goebbels pipe
dream, may backfire. II .ainly has not
stopped air activity over Germany, and will
not. But it has again outraged civilization
with another instance of Hitler's brutality.
We shall not take the sort of counter-measu res
that have made the Nazis infamous But
just vengeance is not retaliation. Each of these
measures of Nazi desperation will make anv
thought of a soft peace for Germany
that much more unlikely.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
Left Arm A Semaph0re

What causes so many minor traffic accidents
in Wilmington streets? Probably at the root
of them is the same cause that accounts for
the major accidents carlessness and IN
difference to safety rules by or both
drivers involved, frequently encouraged by
John Barleycorn or necking.
But in addition, many bent tenders and even
near escapes from tragic collisions are trace
able to disregard of stop signs and failure of
drivers to signal intention to stop, turn and
slow down. There is no excuse for anyone
behind the steering wheel of an automobile to
fail to stop at plainly marked signs nor to use
the left arm to signal drivers behind that
he is not going to continue in the groove
or change pace.
The rules regulating these matters are uni
versal. They have been set up for years in
all states. Nobody can plead ignorance of them
and get away with it. No driver is competent
or entitled to drivers license who does not
know all about them. That so many sideswpes
and other minor accidents happen because
the rules are not employed clearly indicates
Indifference to them or preoccupation on the
pdll VI tllC O11SIloillS QI1VGI, WileIl Ills WQOle
attention should be conferred on safe driv-
ing.
The left arm OF driver is in effect
semaphotre. Its correct use as such is as
essential in motor vehicle traffic as is real
semaphore in the movement of ssiway trains
The driver intending to turn left is expected
to extend his left arm at right angles to
his body. If he does so following drivers, if
properly alert, will give him right of way
and neither try to pass or bump him. If he
intends to turn right he is exected to elevate
his left arm at full length. If he proposes to
slow down he VIII, if awake to his responsible
ty as a driver, trail his left arm with fingers
spread. Most accidents will be prevented if
drivers observe these simple signals.
One trouble is that while many drivers give
some attention to the rules they do so in
halfhearted way sticking merely finger out
the window, or no more than hand at best,
which drivers at the rear may see or may not
and in nine cases out of ten if they do see it
assume the signalman is merely knocking
askes from his cigarette or cigar The need is
to put the whole arm into the signal If this
IS done, the large number of minor accidents
Will come very near to being wiped out
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
Shuttle-BOmbfng

Even before Rommel was driven out of
Africa, rocking chair strategists were saying
what fine thing it would be if Russia would
only open airfelds for her Allies bombing
forces. Well, Russia has done just that
The first shuttle bombing by American
planes has taken place. More will follow. The
probability is that shuttle bombing will con-
tinue practically without lapse of time from
Russian bases and arfelds in Italy until
Hitler's war production in areas accessible
from these termin IS completely halted.
1t seems that while the easy chair generals
were wishing this might be done Allied leaders
were drafting the program. Reliable reports
Moscow conference when Britain and the Unit
ed States set the date for invasion of west
ern Europe As soon as Stain was convinced
we are told, that D-day was marked on the
calendar, the Russian premier consented to
build airfields on Russian soil for his Allies
air forces. Their construction and the assembly
of supplies has been going on since that time
Their use means that the German-operated
Scoda works in Cechoslovakia may now come
under the fire of Allied bombs, among other
great industrial plants from which Hitler has
been drawing his war tools. Romanian plants
may be blasted out of commission. Southern
Germany may be brought under heavier at
tack, particularly as the Allied armies move
up in Italy. So far as air power has the ability
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04

If Americas oil wells give out,
the United States still will have
an oil reserve of 100 billion bar
rels, according to some estimates
of the amount of oil shale in this
country. Oil has been extracted
experimentally from this shale at
cost of about $1.25 barrel.
Large quantities of the oil shale
are found in Colorado, Utah and
Wyoming, says a bulletin from the
National Geographic Society. Two
naval oil shale reserves we've es-
tablished in this area in 1916, and
third has since been added.
The U. S. Bureau of Mines has
produced gasoline from western
shale oil, experimentally, for eight
cents gallon. This gasoline did
not measure up to standard, but
Congress ent ly authorized
large-scale experiments by the
Bureau, with a view to working
out new and improved extra citing
ands refining methods. In general
oil is extracted from crushed shale
by heating in retorts.
Scotland got it's first oil from
shale $50 years ago. Commercial
production began the middle of the
last century, when tn growing
scarcity of whales had boosted the
price of whale oil, long used for
lighting. France had begun COM
mercial production of shale oil in
1888.
BY 1865 Scotland was operating
IS shale oil plants. Meantime,
Pennsylvania had begun to get pc
troleum from wells. Shale oil had
sold in New York City for dol
lar a gallon; Pennsylvania prod
uct never cost as much as so cents.
Scottish shale now yields 10 to
As gallons of oil from ton of
shale. Government analyses show
ed Colorado shale contained an
average of over A gallons to the
ton, of which perhaps IS per cent
could be extracted commercially.
From experiments started Is
years ago, shale oil production be-
came one of Estonia's outstanding
industries, much of it in German
hands. The year before the war
Estonia's total output was estimat-
ed at nearly IL million barrels.
When the first World Wlr cut
off Sweden's supply of imported
petroleum, the Swedes turned to
the production of shale oil from
sources within their country. Es-
timated production in 1943 exceed
ed half million barrels.
Next to the United States, the
Soviet Union is the largest pro-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
IS Years Ago
Today
(From the files
of the Star-News)
JUNE q. 1919

.--J O1NE +, lS1S--
Through an agreement reached
between Officer Haskell, of the
plain clothes squad of the police
department, and Mrs. Lee, an
ambitious rooster, owned by Mrs.
Lee, will remain cooped up here
after until am. daily. This ar
rangement was worked out in
order to appease Mre. W. A. Dunn,
112 Ann street, who objects to the
5 am. Growing of the aforesaid
rooster because it awakens her
baby. The Lee rooster has adopted
atop of the back fence of the Dunn
home at am. and ushering In
the day in such noisy manner
that Mrs Dunn has been obliged
to call on the police for some hclp.
The 50th annual commencement
OF St. Mary's parocfial school will
be held in the Academy of Music
this evening.
Among those leaving for Camp
Penton on the shores of Lake Wac.
camaw for their annual camping
include Merlin Greasy, Earl Caops,
Suck Morris, Geroge Sheppard,
Aubrey Kelly, John Futchs, ALI
son Sellers, Edward Koonce, Lans-
qale Sparrow J. D. Edwards. Jr..
rred Blssinger, Allen Ewing, Ever
e.t Huggins, Robert and Sam
SSuark, Foster Edwards, Kenneth
9cott' Edward Hatch, Jack Nc
MTa aI Fred Caps, William
M Manler' Paul Foard, Junius Smith
o araham McNair, Alex Boone and
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
AUTO TIRE BOOST
WILL NOT Be FELT

A Is per cent increase :.
number of passenger c ar +;r
available for rationing in .5nra ,'..,,
hardly be felt because Of the grs "a
number of applications in Nav % ..
be handled this month, off,ci.Is
the New Hanover War prico
Ratlonlng board said yesterd9,. and
they announced tire ouota az
June. 900'aS Tor
According to the deno.os
lar' over one-half of the I,,1 10
quota will be used to fJrnisb 4 t
to the May applicants who ~ VIE, lures
unable to obtain tires last r,o, %gIe
officials said. '''0'''n'
The June quota of passenpar 49,.
in May. "'NI dle
Rationing officials declared -.
demand for truck tires is also W. tns
greater" than the supply. Ava +a'
able for rationing this month 1'a 1..
ITS truck and four tractor t;r ~5e
as compared with 1865 truck tiro.
IN May. The board had no tractos
tire quota in May.
Theodore S. johnson, RaIe;A
district OPA director, has warr s..
the local board that the dem 7'oa
for passenger car and truck t;ro.
now far exceeds production e,rb;s
means that tires will 90 on1v ~
the most essential drivers i, W
cases. he said. 'While the No.
senger tires situation is m war,o
and is somewhat better but for ".
big increase of applications fl.
truck and tractor tire situation !,
most critical. We see little, if ary
relief for truck and tractor oper'
ators."
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
PRIORITY SOUGHT
BY NEGRO CHURCH

An application has been made
to the War Productin board for a
priority to rebuild Mt. Zion AME
church, I'LL North Fifth avenue.
which was considered unsafe"
and condemned by the City of
Wilmington, Leslie Boney, archi-
tect, announced yesterday.
Plans, as completed by Boney.
call for expenditure of approx
mately $4,000 to reconstruct it as
a brick and cinderblock edifice, u.s.
ing all materials that can be
salvaged from the present build
ing. The church will be construct
ed IS feet by IS feet, with base
ment in which Sunday school meet
ings will be held. The interior will
be constructed of steel and the
floor will be built of two-inch con-
crete, convered by asphalt tile.
The Rev. S. A. Fennell is pastor
Of the church and chairman of
the board of trustees.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
Pendulum Swings Back

One OF the self evident facts Of natural law
IS that pendulum, having swung once, al
ways swings back. A new illustration is Of
fered by the OPA.
When rationing was instituted applicants for
food coupons were required to declare their
supply on hand, particularly Of canned goods
and were denied coupons in proportion to the
excess they had boarded in anticipation Of ra.
tionng
Thereafter canned goods were so costly ir
ration points that family dinner tables were
SHINY supplied. 1t was no longer true that
Americans lived for the most part out of tin
cans
Now the ration pendulum swings back.
housewives are encouraged to stock up on
canned goods. Grocery shelves are so over
crowded that Gamers have trouble releasing
reserve stocks
Ihe OPA continues to say the ration holiday
is temporary but the fact remains that tho
country is glutted with canned goods which
must be moved in order to make room for
new supplies
Even if forthcoming crops should be under
average, as some authorities claim, thew can.
not be taken care of if warehouses and gro
Gerry stores have no place for them.
Buy all you want, Mrs. Housewife. with a
clear conscience
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
McNutt Explains Labor
Order To Legislators

WASHINGTON, June g. up -
Chairman Paul V. McNutt explain
ed to three dozen legislators today
the War Power Commissions order
putting industrial hiring under con-
troll of the Federal Employment
Service and Democratic senators
said afterward they believed the
plan would make manpower legis-
lation unnecessary.
But Senator Wherry (R-Neb),
the minority whip, told reporters
he didn't think the war man.
power commission has any legal
authority to enforce the priorities
on which the whole scheme is
based"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04

to implement victory, we may be sure that
shuttle bombing now made possible with Rus
sian bases, will do it.
Thus, with Russia attacking from the east
and Britain and the United States from the
west, with Hitler's output Of planes, munitions,
armor and supplies dwindling under air attack,
V-day. which may well represent final triumph
over the armed forces of the Axis in Europe,
is brought materially closer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
Oil Shale Rock Holds
Bic Petroleum Reserue

Queer of petroleum, but it also has
been developing it's oil shale
mines. In the 10 years before the
present war, shale oil production
increased rapidly. In 1912 the So
viets planned processing million
tons of shale. The oil content of
Russian shales has not been an
nounced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
REWARD

s+ hALElGH, June 3 ~ Thu
f sea'e has offered reward of s15o
. M tne capture of James TAYLOR
Negfo wanted in nection with
E ne Staying of J. L. Taylor, wake
crest constable, and tho crir,i ~
night. Sill tuesday
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
Manpower Policies To
Be Explained Thursday

War Manpower Commission EN-.
ploye-hiring policy changes will be
explained to Wilmington mer,
chants at meeting at 1920 am
Thursday, June 8, in the Tide
Water Power company assembly
hall, L. C. Robertson, Jr., presi.
dent of the Retail Merchants as.
ISOLATION, announced yesterday.
Henry I. Shepherd. area VINO
director, will instruct the business
men on the way they are affected
by the new VINO ruling that be.
comes effective July l.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04

Harry Caldwell, of Greensboro master of
the State Grange, is also author of proposal
designed to make for greater efficiency in the
OPA.
During one of his recent visits to Washing
ton he contended that OPA should be re-
CURED to answer complaints within 30 days
He declared that, as representative of the
Grange, he has been required to wait sew
eral months for answers to important mat
tiers he has submitted to Price Car Chester
Bowles and his associates.
Caldwells proposal is one of Several now
before the committee that would amend the
price control to set up pattern OF pro.
cedure for CPA to follow.
Rep. John H. Folger, of Mt. Airy, member
of the Banking and Currency committee, is
of the opinion that congress should specify a
procedure pattern. With others, he plans to
push certain procedure amendments in event
action on them is not possible IN the price
control extension measure now pending Quick
action on this measure is necessary because
the present OPA law expires June 30.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
THOUGHT FOR TODAY

1 thank you, God in Heaven, for friends
friends will walk the way 60,
And as the shadows fall,
know that will raise my eyes
And see-ah, hope that never dies!-
The dearest Friend of all.
Margaret E. Sangster.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
GLOBE "HITCH-HIKING"

The Moscow trip of Eric A. Johnston, pop
ular president of the u S. Chamber of Com
merce, and Joyce O'Hara, t h chamber
quick-witted press chief is an example
OF the manner in which civilians so fortunate
as to obtain proper credentials often must re.
sort to the American custom of 'hitch- hiking
to their destinations.
Johnston and O'Hara left Washington early
IN May. They awaited time in New York
when the army had room for them on plane
bound for Casablanca There they waited two
days before another army plane carried them
to Cairo, where three-day stay was neces-
sary before room was found for them on
hight to Teheran. A Russian plane, Moscow
bound picked 'em up at Teheran
Reports are that, as guests of Marshal Stain
ana the Soviet union, they will visit through
out Russia and Siberia before returning.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
BONNER TO AWARD "Tv, FLAG

Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgen-
thau, Jr., chose Rep. Herbert C. Bonner, of
Washington, N. c., to present the Minute
Man 'T' flag to employees of the Elizabeth
City plant of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft,
when the award is made next Wednesday.
A private Consolidated Vultee plane will
carry the congressman from Washington for
the program, in celebration of the Elizabeth
City plants record wherein over 90 per cent
OF Its workers are investing 10 per cent or
more OF their earnings in war bonds
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04

India. we read, has more than 100000 diff
ferent varieties of insects 1hls may nave
hon one Of the reasons why the Japs were
So reluctant TO invade that country-when they
had the chance
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04

Telephone service between London and Mos
COW, severed in 1899, is to be restored Now
they really have something to talk about
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
Our Chief Ain,

To aid in every way the prosecution of
the war to complete Victory.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-04
Congressional
'SUTTLETIES'
The inside on the Washington scene Of
interest to the Carolinas.
BY HOWARD SUBTLE
Star-News Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, June 3.-The socalled Short
resolution, directing the court martial trial
within IL months of Rear Admiral Husband
E. Kimmel and Major General Walter C. Short
on charges growing out of the Pearl Harbor
disaster will be vigorously opposed by Rep.
J. Bayard Clark, of Fayetteville when the
legislation reaches the house floor probably
next week.
Clark feels that such measure by con-
gress would be presumptaous-that it would
represent a lack of confidence in the nation S
war leaders, including not only President
Roosevelt, but also General George C. Marsh
ALL Army chief of staff, and Admiral Ernest
J. King chief Of naval operations.
He contents that if Kmmel and Short, Navy
and Army commanders in Hawaii when the
Japs sneaked upon Pearl Harbor, December
7, 1871, were derelct in their duty of properly
protecting the are they should of course,
suffer the consequences. He feels, however,
that the proper procedure in dealing with
them should be left up to the army and the
navy.
Its the same old partisan story Clark
declared, ''of the efforts of some who would
embarrass the administration to find some
thing wrong with the conduct of ~ war;
General Marshall and Admiral King have
good reasons for delay in action on the cases
OF General Short and Admiral Kinnmel'' he
added IT, for one, am perfectly willing to
rely upon their Judgment
The Short resolution, authored by Rep Dew
ey Short, Republican, Missouri (no relation
to the generaD, is one of several congress
sional proposals to bring the former Hawaiian
commanders to court martial lest the DELAY
permit them to plead the statute of k1nita-
tons.
The senate judiciary committee recently a
proved resolution extending the period of
the statute of limitations for six months to
December T. 1914. A previous extension voted
by congress last December, expires June 7.
Clark roposes to take the floor when the
resolution is debated to defend the position of
the army and navy chieftains, in which they
have failed so far to act to bring charges
against the former Hawaiian comm anders
Secretary Of the Navy James V. Forrestal
has publicly stated that he is opposed to the
trial during the war. Both General Short and
Admiral Kimmel have signed waivers stating
they will not plead the statute of limitations
if brought to trial.