davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-09
Easter Days
No Thrill TO
Vacationers
By THE CHAPERON

EASTER vacations this year
L are practically nonexist-
ent for the college girls set,
and the few schools that are
granting brief respite from
classes seem TO choose diff
ferent times so that the va
cationer Is finding herself
without the usual gathering
OF friends so en- joyed in other
years.
Even sisters can't depend on
their spring outing 10 bring
them together for long. as the
Owen girls will testify. Miss
Mary Owen is still home, though
she plans 10 leave this Sunday
evening for the Walnut Hill
School at Natick, Mass, but her
sister Helen returned early in
the week to Rogers Hail School
in Powell, Mass.
The girls are daughters Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Owen III Of
Stephen road, Crosse Pointe
Farms.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-09

beige lace and a corSage oou-
quet of camellias.
A wedding reception was
held at the home. The buffet
table was conferred with TERED
wedding cake, garlanded with
white narcissi and thanked by
white tapers.
The bride wore for travel
ing a robins egg blue three
piece suit with an orchid
corsage bouquet and a fuch-
STA hat.
1t. and Mrs. Wills will live
at 200 Aberdeen, Dayton.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-09
Gloria Morrison Back

Another Of the privileged few
is Miss Gloria Mary Morrison,
who is Easter vacationing here
with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Alger Morrison Of Bal
moral drive, Palmer Woods.
Miss Morrison attends the
Goodman School OF the Chicago
Institute OF Art, and viii leave
Monday for Chicago 10 resume
her studies.
The MorrisonS have just bid
den farewell to Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick ]. Sutton of Kinston,
\. C., who were their house
guests here for "A week.
The SuttonS were visiting
their daughier-in-law. Mrs
Frederick Sutton .--s-,>4Il
young Frederick III. who are
making their home with the
MorriSonS for the duration Mrs.
Sutton Jr. Is The former Helen
Sykes Morrison. Her husband
II. Sutton. j. now on active
service with the navy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-09
Eunice Alexander
Engaged TO Wed

MIR. AND MRS. FERDT-
NAND ALEXANDER Of Burl-
Ingame avenue. announce the
engagement OF their daughter.
Eunlce. 20 Cpl. Walter Strauss.
son Of Mr. and Mrs. ISadore
Strauss Of Grand avenue.
Cpl Strauss is stationed a.
Fort Knox. Ky.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-09

u ONT let's think of our
IL selves today.
Think of our boys - for
them we pray.
And for every dollar we
spend on clothes
See that IT'S double 10
charity goes.
90 OUR Easter Ia, may
~ a symbol be
Of faith and hope and
charity
And thar Easter tie your
pledge viii be
To do your Dir for the boys
oversee.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-09
6. Harold Wills Married

The wedding Dorothy Jeanne Rehing daughter of Mr.
and George Herman Rehlng of Dayton o. and 1t Z.
Harold Wills of Mrs Harold Wills of the Whittier ana
late Mr. Wills took place Saturday evening at Beyerwyck
the Rehing residence in Rdgeway road, Dayton.
The service $50 o'clock by the Rev. Raymond
h Riebs rector Pauls Episcopal Church. before the
fireplace in the living which banked with greenery
thanked by holding arrangements of Gala lilies and
white tapes cathedral candeabra The bride and BRIDE
groom knelt a white satin priedieu.
The wedding party walked down aisle marked by
greenery Gala lilies white tapers in candelabra.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-09

attractive children - Frances
looking so young ladyish that
we could hardly believe II was
she. Harold and Mary as full
of life and enthusiasm as ever.
Prepare Summer Homes
There is something so vivid
about these youngsters natur-
ally no. df course. when YOU re-
member who their grandparents
vrrp- Tire Howard BaffdutvncS
were there with their pretty
daughter, Barbara Norcott. and
Mrs BallantyneS brother, Carol
Trcgo
Now that summer IS near.
people arc getting their summer
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-09
Bride Is Attended by Sister

The brides sister, Mrs. Richard Campo Goodman of
Washington D. c.. her only attendant.
1t (ig) John Carnegie Wills, stationed in Washington
D. c., his brothers best
The ushers were 1t. Richard Campo Goodman, USN,
Pney Ponte, Nd and Ensign Ivan R. Kendall
Wright Field, Dayton, o.
bride attractive in wedding dress of ivory satin
trimmed with Juliet cap of matching lace and
fingertp veil caught with blossoms The veil was
by her sister, Mrs Goodman, the former Mariana
Rehing, at her wedding
The dress made with full skirt with train,
square neckline and long sleeves.
bridal bouquet made of white lacs, lies-ofthe-
valley tulips irises centered with butterfly orchids
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-09
Round Bouquet

The matron of honor airy frock of buttercup
yellow marqusette carried round bouquet OF deep
purple and yellow panses and maiden hair fern
fashioned with neckline and elbow
length had rues of the material going the
shoulders the full skirt in effect
Mrs. Rehng gown of heaven blue and spray
Orchids
Mrs. Wills gown of beige crepe was frightened by gold
sequns carried brown spray orchids her
Charles Clapper the brides grandmother rose
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-09
Bride Graduated From Vassar

Frances Patricia educated the Rye Country Day
School Lit Timothys a Gainesville Md. and Vassar.
She made her debut in September 1941, at the Vest
chester coton and member OF the New York junior
League
Mdshpman Caulkns is graduate of Phillips Academy
Andover Mass and Yale University class Of a. he IS
member of Lit Anthony.
Another important engagement that of Barbara Tgh-
man Brown of Radno Lloyd Pension Jones Jr which
announced by parents Mr. and Mrs Lawrence Aber-
cromby Brown.
The bridegroomeect is the of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Pension Paget Hail. Bermuda and Colorado Springs,
and the grandson Elmer D. Speck of Crosse Ponte
Shores.-
He went to Haverford School in Pennsylvania and
graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-09

through
1lldyfEair
Frances
MiIburn
To Marry
Middle
Horace
CauIkins

XCITING wedding and engagement news received from
isevrrai distant DO WITH tne romance or
- Detroit Mayfairtes.
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Mckenzie Miburn OF Rye
n. y, the engagement Of their daughter
Frances Mburn Midshipman Horace James Cauk
ms Mrs Preston Allen Wade New York City and
the Horace James Caulkns Of Crosse Ponte,
The wedding will take place April p in the Miburn
residence
Quite large party relatives will East for
wedding including Mr. and Mrs Henry Caukins Mr. and
Mrs Frederick Sloane Ford and the Charles B. Johnsons
Evening star., 1944-06-18
A Letter to Nv Son

planning about rntionino;, De
hear of chickering's betiDeen Con-
gress and the White House: TOE
euen hear OF cipilians criticising
the ,Ddy the ,Dar Is being fought.
I don't get it.
Son, 1t is quite American to be
eternally dissatisfied, to seek always
a better way of doing things. Our
untiring quest forward and upward
has been and will be the source OF
our strength. True, some of us re-
sent wartime restrictions: some OF
us are selfish and unpatriotic But
these are not America. To judge
this land by the oelinquencies of the
few is to point to prison and say
that all men are craven.
Americans are an exuberant race
We like to let of steam by roofing
for the home team. by shouting in
structions to the batter, by hurting
jibes at the visitors, by screaming
Kill the umpire!" It makes q bet
ter game that way. Remember?
But, Dad, We keep hearing
about confusion and bungling in
Washington, OF bureducrats
shounig people around, OF polit-
ical n,dneuuerings, OF Unste and
extravaganza. Don't people kno,o
that ,De are at tDdr, and that
some OF US are being killed and
Evening star., 1944-06-18

MANNED. and that others are
dying In prison camps?
Oh. yes! We know that. though
we have never heard the whine Of
sniper's bullet, or the shattering
burst of q bomb, or felt the thrust
Of bayonet. But we know ;. for
you are our gallant sons whom we
cherish.
There is confusion here at home.
We are making mistakes. We do
have misfits in high places. Our
hands have been trained for peace,
and, when we are forced to stand
and fight with strange machines of
death, our hands are very clumsy.
But only at first for somehow
we always manage to win our wars.
There are charlatans, incom-
petents, and dishonest men among
us. But these are not America.
America is the same sweet land
that you went forth to protect.
America is the. doctor, the farmer,
and the small businessman, labor
ing beyond their endurance. Ameri-
ca is new cruiser launched by the
mother of five sailors lost at sea.
America is the little girl next door
in the uniform Of a nurses aid.
America is q rescued seaman ship
ping out on another tanker.
II all this is true, Dad, iDhy
is it that the papers and the
radio keep harping on the things
Which you say are the exception
and not the rule?
NV son, in asking the question.
Evening star., 1944-06-18

you have answered 1t. These things
that disturb you are exceptional:
they are abnormal: therefore, they
are news. Remember the old cliche
about the man biting the dog?
Well, 1t isn't news that most
Americans are patriotic and decent.
That most workers are Loyalty
meeting production schedules
doesn't make headlines. There Is
nothing dramatic In the fact that
most Congressman and Government
leaders are men OF ability and in
tegrity.
Keep talking, Dad. think
I'm beginning to get the point.
Son, you cannot see true image
of your homeland through an in
verted telescope. You are so far
away from us. You are completely
out of your own natural environ
ment. Our greatest fear Is that
these distorted images will cause
you to lose faith in your native
land.
do not say that the impact OF
war has not uncovered our weak
nesses and our follies. I do not
ask you to believe that all Is well
here at home. Nor do I seek to
minimize your own fears and sacri-
fees for the country you love.
But do want you to believe that,
despite its faults, whatever its
shortcomings may be, there is no
fairer land than America in all the
world.
We are striving to keep our house
Evening star., 1944-06-18
BY FRANK COLBY.

My dear Son:
We are being told that you and
your fellows in arms are seriously
disturbed by reports of disunity here
at home. It is said that many OF
you believe that we are not giving
full support to the war effort, and
are bearing with reluctance the few
small sacrifices and inconvenience
of our wartime economy.
Right, Dad. Frankly. some OF
the things 1De are hearing and
reading simply do not add up
to our idea OF America.
My son, to begin with, you are,
for the first time in your life, look
ing at your country through an in
verted telescope. That which you
see is strange, unreal and disquiet-
ing, for only the abnormalities stand
out. 1t is as If you were looking
down upon America from place
so high that all familiar landmarks
have vanished. But that which is
good and beautiful in America still
is here, and you will find it so when
you come back to us.
But all these strikes and
threats OF strikes-labor leaders
sticking a gun in Uncle Sans
ribs and saying, "Your money or
your lte!" That burns us up.
Uhat are you folks thinking OF
to allow such things to happen?
Son, our indignation, too. runs
high; and we are seeking ways to
restrain the few who would threaten
our security and nullify your sacri-
fees. But, il we are to preserve our
democracy, We must solve these
problems by applying the principles
Of that democracy. You and would
have it no other way.
We are a free peopfe-yes, even
free to close coal mine, to stop
railroad, to shut down a war plant
We are free to challenge the Presi-
dent of the United States-yes, and
even to denounce him and repudiate
his official acts. Such are the ways
of a democracy. But it does not
mean that we are demoralized. The
measure of our strength has ever
been the freedom to speak our
minds without fear of the headmans
block or the concentration camp.
That is the way we want it to be,
and you are fighting to keep it that
way.
Agitators and strikers are not
America. The real America is going
about its work in quiet determine
ton that no son of this soil shall
ever weigh his country in the bal
ance and find it wanting.
But ,Dtat about the big money
everybody is making and throaD-
ing aDny on night spots, horse
races, liquor, and high jinks?
That kind of ne,Ds isn't funny
to a $50-n-month G. I. Joe rot
ting somewhere in jungle.
You are right, of course. There
have always been wasters, cheaters
and cheap, noisy, foolish men among
us, and there always will be, for we
are but human. There are no perfect
races and no nation is free from fail
ings. But these irresponsible ones
are not America, son. America Is
10 million homes where boys room
is vacant :. +. some to remain forever
so. America is blood bank that
begins at Main street and reaches
out to where stricken soldier lies.
America Is q mighty heartbeat Of
anxiety fer the sons she has sent
to the wars. America is an organism
so complex that 1t cannot possibly
work {. but which somehow does
work.
But we hear OF people COM
Evening star., 1944-06-18

your house-in order against the
day Of your return. We shall make
many more mistakes. And wnen
We seem to falter. try to understand
that no one has ever taught us how
to run nation at war.
When you come home you will
find your America very much as 1t
was when you went away. You
Will see that we have been neither
indifferent nor complacent. Oh,
please. please, believe that this Is
so! Many great tasks lie ahead
for which we shall need your youth,
your strength and your WISDOM.
And We want you home with all our
hearts.
May God keep you. safe.
YOUR DAD.
Evening star., 1944-06-18

This letter originally iDds torit-
ten to the authors son, young
naval officer in the 5th Am
phibious Force. Mr.. Colby con-
ducts the better English feature
in The Star knoDn as TAKE MY
Word for It,"
Evening star., 1944-06-18

Bombs aren't falling on your
street, 50 you feel safe. Help keep
1t that way. Let's all back the
attack: Buy more War Bonds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-04
RUSSIANS IN. 5HT0WARD
 AUSTRIA NOW
However, Budapest Is Still Bitterly Defended
 by Ndzis

LONDON, Dec. 4-Russian troops today smashed ahead in southwest ern Hungary to within 72 miles of the Austrian frontier and cracked strong Nazi defenses along the Slo- vakian border with the capture of Miskolc and Satoraljaujhely.
 Moskolv vital military supply cen ter for the German-Hungarian arm- ies, fell yesterday to Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army, elements of which joined Petrov's Fourth Uk- rainian Army, taking by storm the communications junction of Sator- aljaujhely 45 miles northeast of Moskolv which is 85 miles from Budapest, bitterly defended by the Germans for the past several weeks.
 In a drive west of the Danbue toward the Austrian frontier, Tol- bukhin's Third Ukrainian Army cap- tured Tamasi, only 2l miles below Lake Balaton and in an 1l-mile ad- vance seized Kaposmero, in the clos est approach yet to Austria.
 A German broadcast, early today, said major Russian force reached the area around Lake Balaton which is 50 miles southwest of Budapest and, at some points on the far shore, only 45 miles from the Austrian border.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-04
LIONS CLUB TO GET
 BUSY, BOND CAMPAIGN

With President Frank Hermann presiding, the Lions Club met at the Baranof for it's weekly meeting this noon. Lion Lynn Forrest, chairman of the Lions 9th War Loan Drive committee reported progress and cooperation with other groups in sponsorship of the drive.
 Lion J. o. Rude, reported the possibility of assisting in defi- mite manner our Girl and Boy Scouting program in placing addi- tional camping accommodations. The club voted to accept their share of the project.
 Guests were, Bill Lewis of Ko- diak a member of the Denver Lions Club, and Walter Woodal of the OPA.
 Dr. George A. Dale showed sound pictures of the Army and Navy in action.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-04
500NG NOW
 PREMIER OF
 CHINA LAND

CHUNGKING, Dec. 4 = Foreign Minister T. V. Soong has assumed the premiership of China to enable President Chiang Kai-shek, as commander of China's Armies, to concentrate fully on military tasks.
 Soong stepped into the new post with his appointment as Acting Vice President Executive Yuan, succeeding his brother-in-law, H. H. Kung. He was then designated as Acting President Yuan.
 There is an unconfirmed and possibly inspired report of an agreement in principle between the Central Government and Con- munists
 The Com unist leader left Chungking December l., with an alleged draft of an agreement for final approval by North China Communists, but his plane re- turned to the Capital because of bad weather. He is still here.
 Kung was previously succeeded as Finance Minister by o. M. Yui former Mayor of Shanghai.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-04
LAPS, TANKS IN FURIOUS LEYTE FIGHT
Americans Battle with En-
 emy on Ground, Sea and in Air
By MURLIN SPENCER GA. P. War C0rresp0ndent)


 GEN. DOUGLAS MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS IN THE PHIL IPPINES, Dec. 4-In action remi- niscent of the slow moving Buna campaign on New Guinea, Japanese and American patrols spared for positions on the north end of the Ormoc corridor on Leyte Island today, while U. S. Naval aircraft slugged it out with the Nipponese in the air and sea.
 Gen. MacArthur's communique reported no ground advances where the Doughboys are battling both Japanese in strength and the worst Leyte weather ever recorded. But on the sea hardhitting PIT boats damaged a 400 0ton vessel off southern Masbate early Friday and American fighter planes attacked enemy Valencia supply bases, about the middle of the Ormoc corridor.
 Japanese and Americans traded air blows, with U. s. heavy bombers dropping 1855 tons of explosives on 'Palawal, an island in the western most central Philippines. Nipponese planes made light nuisance att tacks on American Leyte installa- tions but there was no damage. Nippon airmen raided American Carigara Bay positions and Morotai Island was also hit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-04
(0NQUE5T0F 5AAR OBJECT
 OF BATTLE
Patton's 5 Army in Violent Battle for Control of
 Industrial Area

PARIS, Dec. 4.-Siegfried Line guns threw salvos at the captured Saar River bridge inside Saarlautern while United States Third Army troops were storming across the in- tact span and fought the last of the spotty German defenses in that sec- ond city of the industrial Saar.
 At the top of the Western Front the British Second Army advanced 1000 yards to the demolished Maas River bridge outside the Dutch road center of Venlo.
 Mopping up the last of the Ger mans west of that water barrier the Tommies took part of the Venlo suburbs west of the river. Other men of Montgomery's Twenty-first Army group encountered foot-deep floods in the Arnhem- Nijmegan area opposite which the Canadian First Army entered Germany within gunshot of the other end of the Siegfried Line at Kleve.
 The American First and Ninth armies fought inside Julich and Lin- nich on the Roer River before Col ogne and crept, slowly and pain fully, toward third bastion on that flooded stream Duren and four other towns went down before those armies yesterday in one of historys most violent battles of attrition. These and Inden were battlegrounds for a week although there was but 100 ruined houses at Lucherburg, Luchem and Brandenberg.
 The armies stood on the Roer Riv- CT for 20 miles, but, at no place were they nearer than 20 miles from Cologne, at Duren.
 General George s. Patton's Third Army infantry fought deeper into vulnerable Saarlautern. Some Ger mans were encountered beyond the Saar River and in the eastern part of that city members of a hastily mustered home guard were cap- tured.
 The Qualifications of the Siegfried Line are just beyond Saarlautern. The Saar River is like moat pro- tecting pillboxes, tank traps and artillery emplacements. The Ger mans have blown up four other bridges spanning the Saar between Saarlautern and Merzig to the northwest.
 Patton's army in the Saar is fight ing a violent battle on 16-mile front and the prize is the immense Saar area which produces eight per cent of the Germany's coal and a good percentage of her iron. It is the third major center of heavy in- dustries in the Reich, following the Ruhr and Silesia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-04
4TH ATTACK ON CAPITAL
 BY 5UpERS
Fresh Ruins Revealed as Result of Sunday Raid
 -Intereepfion Strong

SATAN. Dec. 4-Industrial Tokyo lay today in fresh ruins and flames in the wake of the fourth thunder ous bombing raid and the, most suc- cessful one of the American Super forts based here.
 A sizeable force of B-29s, striking in midafternoon yesterday, found the Tokyo area clearly outlined in the sunlight and for an hour and half unloaded bombs with pin- point accuracy despite intense ack- ack and swarms of interceptors.
 The results were good, says the Twentieth Air Force communique.
 One squadron reported 75 percent of it's bombs fell within the target area.
 Main Target
 The prime objective was the Mus hashima engine factory and ex- tensive Naka jima Aircraft plant, top producer of military planes. The plant was built compactly, one-story of concrete. This was the target of the B-29s in the raid on November 20 when considerable damage was inflicted.
 Returning pilots of this fourth raid on Tokyo in ten days, describe it as the toughest but most success full Antiaircraft fire was more severe and fighter interceptions stronger and more persistent.
 The last squadrons to reach the target found fires raging, whipped by an unusually high wind.
 One Super Lost
 One Superfort is acknowledged to have been lost.
 The Japanese communique claim ed IA Supers were definitely downed and seven more probably The com munique admitted six interceptors were lost including several asserted ly made in suicide crashes on the big raiders.
 The Tokyo broadcast made the customary claim the damage was slight but authoritatively ordered l2 more miles of fire-break in the capital city.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-04
BIG RIOT REPORTED
 IN ATHENS
Greek Police Fire on Dem : onstrators = Strike De-
 CIared-MdrtiaI Law
By STEPHEN BARBER Associated Press Correspondent

ATHENS, Dec. 3 = (Delayed)- Greek capital city, killing at least Wing FAM demonstrators in the Creep capital city, killing at least 15 and wounding l45 persons, by a count of the FAM
 A pitched battle broke out in the Athens suburb between Royal ists and FAM Army members.
 (Prime Minister George Papa dreou, in broadcast to the Greek nation, charged Headers of the Extreme Left were preparing the way for civil war.")
 A crowd of FAM sympathizers turned back by police guns included women and children in the suburb and in the shadow of the Acropolis Royalist headquarters.
 This battle is a new flareup in the long drawn out hostiltiies and the reason of the attacks may be found in the fact Several words censored here) who are responsible for turning over to the British the government of the nation. It is said the guns used by the Civil Police were furnished them by the British.