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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-04

NEXT fall for the second time in
N two years Michigan voters will
have opportunity of deciding the
question of home rule for Wayne
County.
Responsible leaders of both major
political parties should urge an af
firmative vote on this question. They
should endorse it jointly regardless
of how bitterly apart they may be on
other questions.
Otherwise they will convict them
selves of holding partisan and fac
tional inclination above the benefit Of
all the people.
THE HOME RULE ACT HAS
BEEN IN FORCE IN MICHIGAN
CITIES FOR MORE THAN 30
YEARS, AND THE RESULTS
HAVE BEEN LARGELY BENE-
FIClAL.
A FAIR and inclusive home rule
n act for Wayne County would be
a fortnight step in the direction of
modernized and simplifed govern
ment.
It would be movement to impose
definite responsibility on individual
county officials, most of whom here
tofore have been free of such ex-
plicitly designated responsibility.
It would eliminate unnecessary
Offices and procedures.
1t would reduce substantially the
cost of running Wayne County.
Here briefly is the machinery:
First, an amendment TO the State
Constitution empowering electors of
Wayne County to select charter
commission.
Second, selection of that charter
commission.
Third, preparation by the com
mission Of simplifed, modern
charter providing new executive and
legislative framework
Fourth, submission Of the pro
posed charter to the voters of the
state.
IO-C The DETROIT TIMES Tnuraay
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-04

the Roosevelt system Of paci-
flying labor unions ?
Any. man who viii willingly
and forcefully take three and
even wish four terms as presi-
dent, breaking all American
precedent, has no other idea in
mind. but-to ne another Stain.
Remember Washington fare
well address wherein he said:
"BeWdre of the bGnefui ef-
fleets of party spirit, and Of the
ruin 10 whieh its extremes must
lead"
II seems 10 me. the Mont
gomery Ward incident, proves
without a shadow of a doubt
what we can expect if this adj
ministration is continued in Of
fee, coming events cast their
shadow. and the shadow is get
ting nearer and darker.
tSigned) v. VI.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-04
Veteran Rehabilitation

newspapers have always taken in
every crisis involving the principle
of fair play for those who have
SERVED THEIR CO N TRY
WITH HONOR IN TIME OF WAR.
Your vigorous endorsement of our
rehabilitation detectives gives us in
creased confidence in the justice of
our demands for a minimum of bu-
reaucratic REPRESENTATION
AND INEFFICIENCY in the estab-
lishment of a veteran rehabilitation
program that will GUARANTEE to
the men who come home from this
war the SECURITY they so richly
deserve.
We will regard the achievement
of our present 81, 5000 900 veteran well
fare fund campaign as a monument
to your lifelong loyalty to the prin-
ciple of justice for the nations vet
Grams.
Sincerely yours,
CARL j. SCHOENINGER,
Commander in Chief.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-04
Our Pacific Lesson

set of the present war are trying to
obscure the real reasons for that
situation by blaming Congress for its
asserted failure to authorize FORTH
cation of Guam.
It is true that there was once an
abortive movement for harbor de-
veIopment on the island of Guam,
program which was far cry from
actual fertilization.
But it was not Guam which was
vital.
EVEN now, Adm King says;
Il "Whether or not Guam could
haze been made sufficiently strong
TO withstand the full force of enemy
attack is problematical."
BY itself, whatever its fortified
tions, the little fly -speck of Guam
would still have been gobbled up by
the japanese.
The vital area in the Pacific was
not Guam, but the Philippines.
That is where cur major defenses
and Notifications should have been.
That is where the japanese at.
tack could have been stopped
AS a matter of fact, if the Philip
pines had been adequately fortified
and capable of successful defense, in
all probability there never would
have BEEN japanese attack.
But as Adm King implies, all this
is past history.
THE important thing now, and
l. from now on, is whether or not
we have LEARNED our lesson
Now we are going to have more
outlying possessions than we ever
before owned or controlled.
We are going to have not only
the Philippines and Guam, but all
the vast island areas formerly man
dated to Japan.
But these possessions will only be
new LIABILITIES if we leave them
to the mercies of the first aggressors
to come along, as we did the Philip
pines.
AS Adm. King says, what is the
USE of having outlying possessions
if we are not going to DEFEND
them?
That is indeed Am erica's
OBJECT LESSON
In our ability to apply it in the
future will be found the key to our
national safety and=peaee the
future.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-04
knowledge Test
sy.DR. SABINA CONNOLLY

score yourself on each question; one
for each 1T the first five questions, and
ave for the last question: score $40,
brilliant; rs, bright; as, average;
O-S, dull.
What have the following in
common: DiSraeli, Baldwin,
Gladstone: Ca) archbishopS
(b) prime ministers; Co
lord mayors?
"a club that meets every
two years meets biennially.
what would you call IT if il
met every 10 years: ca
dccennial; (b) centennial;
Co millennial?
3-When rabbit fur is used
in coats. il is called: (a)
ermine; OBJ lapln; (c)
martin?
4-Who was the original Robin
son CruSoe. ca Robin Hood;
Cb) Alexander Selkirk; (c)
Robert Bruce?
5-One Of these statements is
true: Ca vaccination dis
covered by Curie. Cb) Sir
Walter Raleigh introduced
tobacco into England; CO.
umbrellas are modern in
VentiOnS2
6 Match these columns.
ta1 Bsriolome Muriuo ~ italy
thl AIbreChfa Durer tWl Belgium
trf NichacianrcIo tXf Germany
ca Anthony Van DYKE 50 England
tel Joshua Reynolds co spain
(AnswerS on Opposite Page
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-04

THE report on American naval OPP
i erations in the early years OF this
great war. made by Adm. Ernest j.
King, probably had nothing IN II
MORE IMPORTANT than this
cryptic observation;
Eve appear to haze had an o6-
iect lesson to the effect that II zoe are
TO HAVE outlying possessions zoe
must be prepared to DEFEND them.
II wfts-ffet-o tir-losses- at Pearl
Harbor which lost us the Philip
pines, said Adm King.
That was surely gripping de
feat, he freely acknowledges.
Had we not suffered those
losses, hopeuer," he frankly dis
closes, our feet COULD NOT
HAVE PROCEEDED TO MANILA
as many people supposed and there
relieved our hard-pressed forces.
"Such an undertaking at that
time, WITH THE MEANS AT
HAND TO carry IL out, mould haze
been disastrous.
It would have been disastrous
because we were not PREPARED to
defend the Philippines.
WE HAD not FORTIFIED the
w Philippines.
We did not have an adequate
garrison of trained troops in the
Philippines.
We had started too late to de-
velop a program of national defense
based on Filipino manpower and re-
sources.
There was only smattering of
efficient military aviation in the
Philippines,
So of course the Philippines could
not be defended, and even if our fleet
had remained intact it could not
have reached the Philippines ahead
of the japanese.
Why were the Philippines left
undefended?
The Hearst newspapers tirelessly
but futilely CRUSADED for impreg
nable defenses in the Philippines
over period of many years.
American military and naval au,
thorities familiar with the Pacific
theater and the japanese menace
long appealed and PLEADED for
Notifications and ornaments in the
Philippines.
Now some apologists for our-im-
potency in the far Pacific at the out
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-04
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE Editor.
CEIZURE of the plant Of
~ Montgomery Ward & Co. IN
Chicago by President Roose-
welt, using troops 10 carry out
the seizure, should warn every
American citizen that the Pres
ident has abused the wartime
emergency powers granted him
and that he is trying TO force
dictatorial power on US.
If he can seize the property
of a company not engaged in
war production, then nothing
can stop him, if, il suits his pur-
pose, TO take from us our
farms, business, our homes,
money and bonds
We were shocked and horri-
fled when Hitler's troops
marched into towns and robbed
and raided homes and business
places and killed their victims.
Our boys are being sent 10
Europe 10 stop Hitler and his
gang of cutthroatS. And they
are fighting and dying for
DEMOCRACY.
What are our boys going 10
think and say when they see
the pictures of Mr. Avery being
carried out Of his office by
AMERICAN troops? And the
picture where the troops nave
moved into Mr.. Averys office?
This action by our President
closely resembles IIitlcr's ges-
tapo methods.
AGNES RICHARDS,
Flint Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-04
AGNES RICHARDS,
Flint. Mich.
TO THE EDITOR:

ERST we were fed little
Il SpOonfulS. now il is coming
IN larger doses. When the New
Deal came into being. SO did all
the labor descriptions. that Is.
strikes. racial disturbances as
happened in Detroit.
Now the very latest is the
taking over of Montgomery
Ward by troops IN Chicago.
This company makes no war
materials and Just because they
had a mind of their own. in
come the troops
II wouldn't surprise me one
little bit. II. and that IS a big
II, Roosevelt is reelected in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-04


n weeks scores for a rating and try
TO improve II each week.
Eduard Hempel and SetSuya
Beppu are causes Of most ire
in Fire. Why?
Pin percentage Of combatant
casualties. this war has not
had a major battle rivallng
the Wilderness campaign
Where was the Wilderness
hattlcfield Tennessee. Penn
sylvania, Virginia or Mary
land?
3-Dircctor Of the Veterans
Administration is: Brig. Gen.
Hines. Mai Gen Hershey
1t. Gen. SomerVell?
"A survey showed which two
Of these are the SMILES
most often used: Ca) proud
as a peacock; tb) meek as
a lamb. tc) hard as a rock;
cd rich as Midas; tc) tight
AS q Scot?
5-Bookshop and library sta
tistiCS Indicate average
American reads how many
books a year one, four,
10. 81?
Ga mill is also part of our
monetary system. How many
would YOU have 10 have a
million dollars?
ANSWERS on Opposite Page)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-04

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-04
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
OF THE UNITED STATES,
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS,
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.


MR.. WILLIAM RANDOLPH
HEARST,
SAN SIMEON, CALIFORNIA.
DEAR MR.. HEARST:
ON THURSDAY, April 6, The
ODetroit Times and other Hearst
publications throughout the nation,
featured an editorial on "Rehabilita-
ton at Home" in recognition of the
current campaign being conducted
by the Veterans of Foreign Wars of
the u. S. to EXPAND AND IN
TENSIFY it's rehabilitation facili
ties in anticipation of the nations
increased postwar veteran welfare
obligations.
In keeping with your traditional
militant loyalty to the cause of vet
eran welfare, this editorial symbol
ICES the courageous stand that Hearst
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-04
++++++++t++++YXYyz

100 lbs OF waste
paper makes 1470
boxes for emer-
Eency life boat
rattons. Save
every scrap!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-04
Quick Questions

4 e0-second mental test. Score rs
for starred questions; 10 for others
answered within 10 seconds. Average
n weeks scores for a rating and try
to improve II each week.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10

v. Nunneley pointed out that
the junk yard business is a legal
and necessary one, and that the
city can only regulate, but not
prohibit such a business. Ten
years ago a certain area) adjoin-
ing the railroad tracks, was set
aside for such businesses, Nun
neley said, and LeRoy's appli-
cation concerned this area.
Nunneley pointed out that il
the commission considered with
drawing the permit granted re-
Gently, they should notify Le-
Roy of their reconsideration of
his license, so that he could re-
frain from expenditures which
might be wasted. Any expendi-
lures made by Leroy in moving
to Hubbard avenue since the ap-
plication was granted might be
considered liability to the city,
if the license is not withdrawn,
Nunneley commented.
In tabling the matter for a
week, the commission instructed
the city clerk to notify Leroy
of the changed situation brought
about by the citizens petition.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10
FDR Too!
ROOSEVELT STRUGGLING
WITH INCOME TAX
FORM lO4O

WASHINGTON. March 10 -
(P)-So you can't get anything
done for figuring on that blast
ed income tax? Move over, bro
Their, you've got some distin-
guished company.
President Roosevelt. II seems
is struggling with form l04O,
which you probably can see in
sleep by now. You'd think
wouldn't you. that he'd just call
up the Treasury and have Hen
ry Morgenthau send over an ex-
pert or two?
But for FDR. He does il the
hard way, computes the whole
thing himself.
They'll tell you at the White
House that the Presidential desk
at given hour during the last
three days. has been piled high
with papers and forms.
Because the operation Of his
mothers estate involves among
other things, the renting of some
bungalows, the Roosevelt return
is more complicated this year,
but couple or more Whirls at il
and it ought to be ready for the
internal revenue collector.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10
MoIosses Found to Be
High in Mineral Value

AMES, Ia. - up Sulphur
and molasses have been divorc-
ed for the duration and molass-
es has been elevated to a new
rank one of aiding winter
menus.
Miss Comic c. Foote, extern
sion nutritionist at Iowa State
College says molasses has high
mineral and energy content in
addition 10 its value as a sugar
stretcher.
Miss Foote says that molasses
will help save points by using
il in molasses sauce for pud-
dings, seasoning baked beans,
and in steamed brown bread.
Old-timers probably will still
use IL with its running mate,
sulphur, as a spring tonic for the
kids.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10
Petitioners Oppose
Junk Yard License
Challenge Action
on Port OF City

A challenge to the City Com
missions recent action in APP
proving a junk-yard license at
Hubbard avenue and the rail
road tracks by vote of 3 to 2,
was handed out at Wednesday S
commission meeting when a pc
tition signed by SO property
owners asked revocation of the
license.
In the absence of Mayor Don
aid r. Westendorf, three COM
missioners cast votes to table
the petition for week, and the
fourth. Commissioner Edward j.
DuBay voted against this delay,
and was unsuccessful in strong
appeal that the license be re-
voked.
The petition in question was
signed by Myron H. Phillips of
l52 North Wilson boulevard,
and 81 other residents. Princi-
pal contention of the petitioners
was that junk yard would
lower property values. Commits
sioner DuBay added that the
proposed high fence at the junk
yard would create a safety haz-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10
BY CHARLES MARENTETTE

BATTLE CREEK, Mich,
March 10-(P) - Would your
hands move steadily, calmly, if
you were called upon TO strad-
die a live 100-pound aerial
bomb with orders to remove the
fuse-and hurry?
This was the assignment Civ
en- Staff Sgt. Ralph Lindsey of
Morley, Mich, at an airfield in
Italy a few months ago.
The 2l-year-old former dairy
operator who once lived in Big
Rapids wasn't shaking a Bit
he says.
The bomb had been left on
the air field and we had TO get
it out of the way before the
planes came in" he said at Per-
cy Jones. Hospital. Yea, it was
like something you see in the
movies only this was for keeps.
"A bomb isn't usually danger
Gus unless its detonator fan is
loose and on its way to touch
off the fuse. AS an airplane in
spector / know all about the
thing and this was just another
job to be done, and quick.
II straddled this baby and
started unscrewing the fuse in
the nose of the bomb. Somehow
! thought l had checked the de.
tonator, but actually it wasn't
on safety You do those things
sometimes.
With potential death only
inches below him, Lindsey
worked at the fuse for a few
minutes, turning the bolt easily,
quietly. 1t was coming off. His
right hand turned it further.
And then it happened.
The fuse came free just as
Lindseys left hand, holding a
wrench, swung down against
the open detonator
1t wasn't bit like they pic
ture it in the movies, Lindsey
admits.
The exploding fuse carried
away the hand that held it, tore
off Lindsey's left leg high in the
thigh.
Il guess I was lucky at that, "
the blond, bespectacled sergeant
vowed. IF that fuse hadn't Just
come off the bomb as it explod-
ed, ! wouldn't have been here
at all. The whole thing would
have gone up.
But, as they say, everybody
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10
Licensed Seamen
SOUGHT for War Duty

DETROIT, March 10 - AZ
- An emergency appeal for II
censed officers and experience,
seamen to volunteer for imme
date ocean service in the Mer
chant Marine was issued yester
day by Wilfred j. Evans, por
representative of the recruit
ment and manning organizatio.
OF the war shipping administers.
ton.
Required Immediately, Evan
said, were a chief engineer, fiv
first assistant engineers, ten sec
ond assistant engineers, thre[
chief mates, five second mates
and twenty able-bodied seamei
qualified to work on vessels d
unlimited tonnage.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10
Thot IS an American boy
behind thot wire!

him if you still had him safe at home.
Meat, cheese, sugar, prunes, chocolate bars
and real American cigarettes and tobacco!
If he is sick or wounded, he will get a
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10
Cleveland Sees
Post War Boom
Figures Show Buying
Power High for City
BY LEE Under
United Press Staff Correspondent

CLEVELAND - U.P) - If
World War II should end to-
morrow, cold cash - estimated
at s167 1854 $40 - will pour into
consumer markets from over
flowing Cleveland pocketbooks.
Quests for new Off possibIe)
automobiles, homes, household
appliances, and household fur
nishings will loosen the whole
sale spending in the immediate
sunrise of the postwar era, ac-
cording TO Cleveland business
interests.
Representing fraction less
than one per cent of the total
U. S. population, Cleveland is
said to possess 1.35 per cent of
the nations entire buying pow
err. A market analysis of con-
sumner blu VI I'M made by the
Chamber of Commerce supplies
that fact.
In order Of Importance, ac-
cording to Chamber figures,
Cleveland folks will buy me-
chanical refrigerators, radios,
washing machines, stoves and
vacuum cleaners. Autos and
brand new homes rank next on
the list.
Further breaking down the
statistics, it is estimated that
1877 $50 people will spend Sl6,-
414.785 in Cleveland for house
hold appliance within six months
after the armistice.
In addition, 64.40O Cleveland
ers intend spending $1,000 OBS
for household furnishings. while
the will and intent of 36,750 tax
payers is to pay S44 .651 $50 for
the privilege of owning a new
car.
And finally, there are 15.400
residents who will shell out S96,-
994, 800 to buy or build a new
home.
However, even these figures
don't tell the whole story. The
Cleveland home builders-15,-
400 Of them-don't include the
29.440 families planning to re-
paint their homes or the II $50
who will want new roofing.
Then there are 8,480 planning
interior decorations; $3.50 who
are going to install new heating
equipment; $500 who are talk
ing about outside remodeling;
200 planning to build addi-
tions TO their homes. and 1850
who intend undermining their
kitchen.
In 1941. dealers sold 56.210
automobiles in Cleveland. Com
pare that with the intended pur-
chase of $3.50 cars - il they
are available - in the first six
months of the postwar period.
Also, the 15,40O families who
will buy or build new homes
is nearly triple the 1920 new
dwelling purchases in Cleveland
in l941 - the biggest peacetime
consumer spending year in the
nations history.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10

utthisyear, when the need
is greater than ever before
this year you will want to give
more to give freely to
your own Red Cross to
your own sons in the service.
This year dig deep and be
glad. For wherever he is
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10

ard by obstructing motorists
views of approaching trains.
When the junk-yard license
was granted to the applicant,
George Leroy (for some years
operator of a South Broadway
auto parts establishment Mayor
Westendorf and Commissioners
Fred Breitmeyer and Thomas
G.. Longstaff voted to approve it.,
after considerable debate and a
plea from LeRoy's attorney,
Ivan A. Johnston.
Commissioners DuBay and
Henry Bruneel voted No on the
application, claiming that Le-
Roys place had been a nuisance
on South Broadway and that.
although he promised to erect a
fence and do an orderly bust
ness, they could not be con-
WINGED of his reliability.
At last nights meeting, Com
missioner DuBay strongly ap-
pealed for a vote rejecting the
Leroy license, but both Com
missioners Breitmeyer and Long
staff expressed themselves as
unwilling to change their favor
able vote. Presuming that Bru-
neel would have continued to
vote against Leroy, the four
man vote would have been a
deadlock.
Commenting on the LOCALITIES
of the situation. Attorney Bert
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10
City Pledges
v.Garden Aid
10 Per Cent
Increase is Cool

The City of Mount Clemen:
Wednesday officially pledged it
self to back the 1914 Victory
Garden effort to increase local
garden space by 10 per cent and
raise production of needed pro-
duce rs per cent, in line with
q national drive 10 add 2,000,-
900 Victory Gardens.
Mrs. Macy E. Watkins, new
ly-appointed City Victory Gar
den chairman, was introduced
to the City Commission by Law
renee Blades, Civilian Defense
official.
Mrs. Watkins request that the
city again provide blowing serv-
ice, plots of land and other aid
to victory gardeners, was fav-
orably received. City Engineer
Ernest Pettingill was placed in
charge of the citys phase of the
program, and will shortly pub
lish regulations concerning the
minimum and maximum sizes of
plots, blowing arrangements,
and other matters.
Street Commissioner Henry
Bruneel and Assistant Superin-
tendent Gus Klockow agreed to
make arrangements for the
blowing program.
Engineer Pettingill said that
between 200 and ESQ gardens
were cultivated here last year,
and he hoped that 800 to $50
would be registered in 1914.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10

Ked Gross Invalid package
containing food for a special
diet, doubly enriched to bring
him quickly back to health.
No, he won't be forgotten. :.
not while your Red Cross is
on the job.
You have given your sons...
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10

THAT is an American there con-
l. demned by the chance of war to eat
alien bread in some far-of prison camp.
He is hungry for news -. hungry for
the sight of his native land for the
sound of a voice like yours for the
touch of a woman's hand.
But he won't be forgotten! For the Red
Cross, to the utmost of its power, will get
YOUR letters in to him :. will pass his
letters out to you.
And every week, right from your heart,
he will get, if humanity possible, nour-
ishing Red Cross food carton eleven
full pounds of the sort of food you'd give
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10

Beavers cut trees down to a
fine core and let the wind do
the rest, knowing it would be
dangerous for them to gnaw
completely through the trunk.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-10
Philosophical Sergeant
Tells Of Bombs Explosion
We All Make Mistokes'
Wounded Soldier Soys SmiIineIy

makes mistakes, and ! sure made
one that day"