davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-03
UNABLE TO ATTEND

After A long distance call from
Washington informing Tho De
troit Times and the Michigan
chapfer of the Federated Bataan
Relief Organization that he would
he unable 10 attend. President
Que1on sent this message TO ms
here
ION this second anniversary
81 the fall Of Bataan, I send YOU
this message of gratitude and
faith-gratitude for the magnif-
icent devotion YOU have shown
10 our country and faith that
YOU will continue unwaNering m
your loyalty 10 it, cause.
Your toll and your sacrifices,
whether YOU are I'm the armed
forces. the merchant marine,
working in offices, in factories.
or on the farm are helping tn
Speed the daX Of the redemption
of the PhilIDpinPS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-03
Release OF Men 38
Depends on Situations

War Problem Clinic:
Ny brother IS in the service and
viii be IS years old in July. Are
Sery icemen released when they
are 3S?
MRS. 3. G.
Dear Mrs. u. c.:
II n man in the service, on
reaching 81 years OF age, asks
To be released his case will he
considered by the proper au-
thOrities. There IL no automatic
release of men who reach this
age that ! know Of.
\ good many men. upon
reaching that age, have been
released in the last year but. i'm
many cases, II depends upon
where the man il and In what
type of service he may he en-
gagged.
You might write the state
headquarters of the Selective
Service Commission in. Lansing
and IL can give YOU the present
opinion in this matter.
ROBERT q. FOSTER.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-03
Rev. 7. |. Jones
Is Dead at Sc
Obituaries

Funeral services for the Rev
Thomas London Jones, pastor Of
the Gratiot Avenue Presbyterian
Church, who died yesterday after
short illness. will be held AT 2
p. m. Wednesday in the church,
with burial in Forest Lawn Gene
terry.
Until 10 a. m. Wednesday the
body will he a. the "Opens
Funeral Home, 1899 Gratiot
Born June 3. 1885, in South
Wales. the Rev. Mr.. Jones was
educated in London. coming 10
the United States in 1912. He
was ordained in Cincinnati and
held paStorsteS in Wilkes-Barre,
Pa, and Prairie City and Franklin
Grove. H.. before coming 10 De-
troit in 1926.
He is survived by his wife.
Mary of 1884 Montlieu, a son.
Thomas Jr., in the army and
two sisters.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-03
DARN DAYS RECALLED

I'm the dark days following
the fall Of Bataan, you did not
falter. You carried on and gave
~ yourselves without stint To
help achieve that inevitable VIC
tory which must come To every
righteous cause such A. ours.
To-day. when the forces un-
der Gen. Macarthur and Adm.
Nimitz are pushing hack the
Japanese and Philippine free
dom II approaching, know You
will not slacken your efforts.
Our 100000 countrymen liv-
ing under the heel bf the Japa-
nese 'oppreSsor are waiting for
freedom. We must do our duty
nv them"
In his stead. President QueZor
has delegated Jaime Hernandez
auditor general OF the Phihppin,
Commonwealth. To be preSent-tol
the service.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-03
Emil y. NPrIingpr

Services for Judge Emil F
NerllnGer. SO who died suddenly
Of heart attack in his home at
1922 Bedford. Crosse Pointe. yes
terday VIII be held al s p m.
tomorrow in the Verb Q y d Q n
Funeral Home with burial IN
Traverse CIV.
Born in Pittsburgh. Judge Ncr-
linger moved TO Traverse City.
with his parents As boy After
-altaaaing -hlGh--School there.-he
fought IN the Spanish American
War and attended the University
Of Michigan law school where he
received an IL b. degree IN 1901.
He served on the bench in TraV-
erse City for many years
lie moved to Detroit and was
4 partner an the real estate firm
OF Donahue and Adams Later. he
was associated with other real
estate firms here.
Judge Nerlnger is survived by
bis wife Rozella; a daughter. Mrs.
kenneth Pearcelocke. and two
brothers John and Charles. both
of Detroit
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-03
EDWARD POKORNY.

Court.
In tomorrow's column Of the
WAR p r 0 Il l. r M CLINIC. a
reader asks if alien children under
Is years become American citizens
when their parents do This queS-
ton Will be answered by Fred NJ.
prominent Detroit attor-
neN and civic leader.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-03
ARMY Release
NJ 3B Uncertain

care program for wives Of serv-
icemen. The office - In Lansing.
You are entitled 10 an in
crease in your allowance inn
mediatelN after the birth OF your
child. The Red Cross will aid
YOU to obtain the extra allow
anCe.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-03

Dress Il up With a
frilIy blouse rs we'll
cut jacket has just the
right wsistIine curve =.
It's skirt has a pIeat for
easy stridine! pinstriped
black or navy!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-03

1sa ser, iccman on reaching the
age of IS. released from the
service
Letters by The score have been
received by the WAR PROBLEM
CLINIC from people asking that
question. In today'S column, q
sister interested in the release OF
her brother has asked the WAR
PROBLEM CLINIC 10 inform heT
This question rs answered by
Robert G.. Foster family counsel
ing service. Merrill Palmer School.
and A member of the panel OF
experts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-03
l5-MINUTE BROADCAST

The first Is minutes of the
program will be broadcast over
radio station CKLW and will fea-
ture dramatic reading OF the
last message from Bataan and
Corregidor. minute OF silence
as taps are sounded and an
address by Hernandez.
Members of The Michigan State
Troops, the Boy Scouts and Fill
Pine ex-soldiers will form color
guards. Filipino girls in native
attire will serve as receptionists
Music will be furnished by the
boys band of the department of
parks and recreation under the
direction of Vaughan Sunderland.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-03

Tragic Secret Of the COun-
tess Locked-Up Mind. The
FaVOrite OF Continental Society,
Struck Down by HitRun
Driver. Can't Tell the Secret
Behind the Disappearance Of
Her Husband and Tragic Death
of Her Child. Read This Alb
Sorbing story in The American
Weekly, Celebrated Magazine
Distributed With Next Sundays
Detroit Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-03

This new kind OF aspirin tablet di,solves
more quickly, lefs the aspirin get right
al the Job OF relieving pain. reduces the
scidiy OF ordinary aspirin. and does
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-03
Oil Heater Explosion
Demolishes Home

Mr. and Mrs. James Jackson
3lZ6 B8yham Inkster today had
returned from A trip 10 Hudson
rs find tbe rear Of thor house
demolished by an explosion early
SUNDAY ~ an automatic oil heater
Ttc blast blow the heater 400
icc' away nto field and smashed
ViuHuW--r fhe house next dooi
so ore w-s injured
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-03

LONDON, Apuh3 ilNS The
Paris radio announced iooayNthst
relatives and friends 81 members
of the French Liberation Com
mittee would be shot in Pans I'M
repriSal for the execution OF for
mer1Nichy Minister Pucheu and
Col. Cristofini m AlciCTS
--f--F. i.Haa <ar
Order War stamps delivered
10 your home nv your Detroit
Times carrier.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-03

War Problem Clinic:
My husband IS IN the service
and | am expecting A child soon
and ! need financial aid badly. l
was living with my mother-in-law
but am now IN a boarding house
and my allotment does not cover
my expenses. Is there any way ]
can get financial add
MRS. ID. 3.
Dear Mrs. ID. B.:
III the government allotment
il insufficient TO support YOU
and the expected baby. I sug-
gest that you Immediately apply
ut the office Of the Red Cross in
your city.
if you need emergency relief,
you may apply To the Michigan
Department OF Health, which
has an emergency maternity
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-03
Bdtddn Rites
Honor Dead

NeNt SUNDAY April o marks
fhc second anniversary of Tho fan
OF Bataan
Detroit has planned . commemo-
ratNe service from ! 90 l.3o p. m.
on that day ~ the city hall.
Among the outstanding guests
invited 10 participate m the cerc-
mony is Manuel l. Quczon. preSl-
dcni-in-cXile Of the Philippines
Evening star., 1944-06-18

not long ago had become resented
in the light of the enveloping back
ground of changing alliances.
The State Department does not
specify as to the activities which it
found inimical to the United States.
1t might clarity the atmosphere
could that be done. But those who
know Mr.. Procope and have found
him unchanging readily can under
stand that his own jealous advocacy
of what he regarded as the right
would not always conform to
course of conduct permissible for a
diplomat. Fear and hatred of
Russia, which are hereditary char
acteristics of many Firms, together
with vocal expositions of why Ger
many is regarded as a lesser evil,
assume sinister aspects among allies
of Russia and enemies of Germany.
That the incident involving Mr..
Procope and his staff is the result
of their acts as individuals rather
than as representatives of Finland
seems indicated by the fact that
the order for their departure does
not affect our formal relations with
Finland,
Evening star., 1944-06-18
Exit-the Finnish Minister

In the larger sense, and like the
country which he represented, Fin
nish Minister Hjalmar j. Procope is
a victim of circumstance. The same
fate which cast him in a heros role
when first he came to Washington
now directs his exit as villain,
clothed with the rare opprobrium of
a State Department pronouncement
that he has been engaging in activ-
tiles "inimical to the United States"
Wrapped up in this episode, which
has never been lacking in dramatic
quality, are some Of the beWildering
contradictions of this war
Yet, in a narrower sense, some of
the same personal attributes which
made the Finnish Minister the most
popular and sought-after diplomat
In Washington few short years
ago are no doubt responsible for the
fact that he, with other members
Of the Legation staff, has become
persona non grata. Attractive,
frank and with compelling pa
triotism which infected others with
a sense of appreciation for his own
deep love Of Finland, the very
type of extracurricular propaganda
which fell on many receptive ears
Evening star., 1944-06-18

This dispute led to Mr.. Petrillo's ban
on recording, which the Labor
Board calls a strike and which Mr..
Petrillo says is not a strike.
The interesting question arising
under this decision is whether other
unions, whose members produce
products other than phonograph
records, will seek to apply the same
principle. For the board emphasizes
that royalties like portal-to-portal
pay in mining) do not constitute
wage increases and therefore fall
outside the scope of the wage
stabilization program. The board,
incidentally, in making it's decision,
overrode the panel which originally
heard the case and recommended
against making obligatory division
of royalties with the union.
Mr.. Petrillo says he will oppose
the Labor Board order giving the
disputants fifteen days to work out
a satisfactory royalty payment plan
and that he will not end the ex-
isting ban on recordings. He says
he will take the matter to the
courts, for he is not war industry.
Whether, in the meantime, he will
follow Sewell Avery out of his Office
in the arms of soldiers while some
appropriate branch of Government
seizes and occupies the headquar-
ters of the American Federation of
Musicians is a question for idle, and
not too earnest, speculation.
Evening star., 1944-06-18
The Adumunt Mr.. PetriIIo

The War Labor Board. in seeking
to iron out James C. Petrillo's long
standing dispute with three impor-
tant recording companies, gives it's
approval to the principle that the
worker not only is worthy of his
hire, but, in the case Of musicians,
is entitled to share in the royalties.
The American Federation of Mu-
sicians already has made the prin-
ciple stick in contracts with some
eighty recording companies, the
proceeds ostensibly going to the
unions unemployment fund. Re-
cording subsidiaries Of the Radio
Corporation of America, the Ma
tional Broadcasting Company and
the Columbia BroadcaSting System,
however, took the position that roy
atty rights should be determined by
amendment of the copyright laws
rather than collective bargaining.
Evening star., 1944-06-18
Ribbon and Morale

Most Americans will be willing to
indorse any policy that General
Marshall and the General Staff may
lay down in regard to the award of
military decorations. Certainly a
piece of engraved metal and a bit
of ribbon are, at the most, made
quate compensation for the men
who win them. But in expressing
his concern, in a letter to Repre-
sentative Martin of Iowa, over what
General Marshall considers to be a
lack of public understanding of the
value of combat decorations to sus-
tain morale, the point of some of the
criticism in this respect seems to
have been overlooked.
The critics have been moved, not
by lack of understanding of morale
building value of decorations, but by
fear that this value will be depre-
ciated by too many of them. Gen.
eral Marshall expressed agreement
with a statement attributed to Ma
poleon: Give me enough ribbons to
place on the tunics of my soldiers
and / can conquer the world" But
everybody knows that Napoleon's
failure to conquer the world was
not due to any shortage of ribbon;
that it is the conservation, rather
than the prodigal use of ribbon, that
gives it value.
Evening star., 1944-06-18

at least Is, 900, ,000, ,000, 900 ,000, 900 mole
cules of oxygen and nitrogen gas.
Had we considered a solid sub
stance like a stone or the dice cubes
themselves, we must have added still
more cyphers. A single molecule Is
q structure more wonderful than ~
watch. II Of oxygen. 1t contains two
atoms: but II OF wood or ivory. or
one of the vitamins, It contains hum
dreds or perhaps thousands OF atoms.
The atoms, themselves, far from
being simple things, ss they were
supposed to be no longer ago than
the year 1900, are quite complex. The
simplest of them, the atom OF hydro
gen, has two parts. electrically joined.
Other elements are more and more
complex systems OF moving parts
comparable with the sun and ~
planets. Their orbits are complex
and embrace spaces enormously
greater than the sizes Of the little
bodies which are combined TO form
their atoms. In an atom OF uranium,
for instance, there are 90 electric ions,
gyrating about q central nucleus,
itself . wonderful electrical CON-
plex Of parts.
These astonishing facts about the
properties OF what Dean Paley
thought of as q simple stone" are
a child's play compared to the at
tributes Of life which are being un-
covered by the science OF this genera
ton. The complexities of the two
microscopic germ cells which join to
carry forward to new being all the
functions Of man, with all the in
dividual characteristics which make
your friend different from every other
person on earth, and the indispensa-
BILE processes by which birth, growth,
repair OF wounds, recovery from sick
ness, and all the necessary things
which make life possible consist;
though we may discover multitudes
of curious facts about them, they are
yet as far above our feeble designing
powers as the heavens are above the
earth.
Thus the more we learn, the more
we are urged to say with the Apostle:
20 the depth Of the riches both of
the wisdom and knowledge Of God!
How unsearchable are his judgments,
and his ways past finding out!"
Evening star., 1944-06-18
Pretty Decent
From the Ottawa Journal.

from tne OVthWa journal.
Mayor La Guardia of New York once
said that were 1t not for less than per
cent OF the population of that city there
would be no necessity for police force.
In other words, lawlessness and dis
honesty, in all Of their FORMS great or
small, are practiced by an infinitesimal
fraction of any community, with the
vast majority law-abiding. social and
hard-working. People reading the news
papers, with their daily recital of mis-
demeanors, are apt to become convinced
that crime and dishonesty are wide
spread. What they forget is that such
things appear in the newspapers because
they are exceptional things, the excep-
tions that make news. The commons
place decencies Of life, honesty, industry.
thrift, are not news simply because they
are the normal things; things taken for
granted like sunshine and fresh air 1t
Is truth that the cynics. plus those
who view with alarm" should try to
keep In mind.
Evening star., 1944-06-18

In his fascinating essay entitled
"Von Ranke," Lord Macaulay says:
LAS respects natural religion 1t
is not easy to see that philosopher
of the present day is more favorably
situated than Thales or Simonides.
He has before him just the same
evidence of design in the structure of
the universe which the early Greeks
had. We say just the same; for the
discoveries of modern astronomers
and anatomists have really added
nothing to the force Of that argu-
ment which rejecting mind finds
in every beast, bird, insect. fish, leaf,
flower and she'll"
No literary expression of belief in a
Greater can ever excel the words
sung three thousand years ago by the
Psalmist:
"The heavens declare the glory OF
God;
And the armament showeth his
handywork."
Nevertheless strongly feel that
the argument from design In nature
for the existence of an omnipotent
God grows more and more unanswer-
able with the new discoveries OF
every passing year. The Psalmist
never saw more than 1000 stars. We
know of millions Of galaxies Of them.
and our galaxy alone contains at
least hundred billion stars. We
know Of their immense sizes, dis
tances, temperatures and what ma
terials compose them. The more we
know the more wonderful they seem.
In his famous book, Natural The
ology," Dean Paley, century and q
half ago, asks us to imagine walking
in a desolate place, where the feet
of man might never have trod before,
and unexpectedly finding watch.
Had 1t been q stone, he says, we
might have thought nothing OF 1t.
But the evidences Of design in the
watch prove to US that man had pre-
ceded us on that desolate moor.
The discoveries of the past half
century have made it plain that the
stone which Paley dismissed as un-
important, shows profounder evi-
dences of design than the watch.
If we take cube Of the air we
breathe, no bigger than one Of the
dice that gamesters use, it contains
Evening star., 1944-06-18
Soipon's S Importance


The strategical Importance of
Saipan can be measured by the bit
ter resistance being shown there by
the japanese. According to one
correspondent, this latest campaign
by American amphibious forces un-
der Admiral Nimitz's command "is
actually like Guadalcanal and
Tarawa combined" 1t is like Qua
dalcanal in the sense that It will
probably be protracted and like
Tarawa because the fighting is as
fierce as it was on that bloody
atoll, though the casualties are not
expected to run so high.
Owing to its key position in the
Pacific, however, Admiral Nimitz
anticipated that Saipan would be
strongly held, so that our troops,
supported by a powerful naval-air
armada, were fully prepared for
violent opposition when they made
their landings on the beaches In
the southwest corner of the island.
Latest reports indicate that they are
continuing to make good progress,
but with tanks, with mortars, with
a defending force of perhaps as
many as 10000 men and with heavy
artillery in the volcanic hills over
looking the west shore road-the
route of our advance-the Japanese
can be counted upon to contest
every inch of ground.
Saipan, though only 72 square
miles in area, is too great a prize
for us to expect anything less than
a savage battle for its possession.
For once we have it firmly in our
hands, the Marianas as a whole
including Guam to the south-will
be ready for the plucking. More
over, with Saipan ours, Admiral
Nimitz, in conjunctiotf with General
Macarthur, will be III a;p0sftion to
move directly against the Carolines
to shatter the last remaining net
work Of island defenses protecting
the enemy's vital north-south sup
ply line and screening the ap-
proaches to the Philippines and the
China coast. And, over and above
all this, Saipan will give us air and
sea bases much faTthero advanced
than any we yet have aif1qthe Pa
cif1c and, will place US directly on
the road to the Bonin Islands, some
300 miles north of the Marianas and
less than 800 miles from Yokohama,
in Japan proper The Bonins, in
fact, had foretaste of what Is to
come when a separate American
task force, as a diversion in sup
port of the Saipan operations, struck
at them last week for the first time,
destroying Al planes and sinking or
damaging IL ships.
The Importance of Saipan is thus
something of the first magnitude
from the standpoint of general Pa
cific strategy and the great often
sive blows being planned against
Japan. 1t may be long time before
the island is entirely ours, but our
bid for it has begun well, enemy sea
and air losses in the first five days
OF our attack adding up to no fewer
than l9l planes destroyed and So
ships sunk or damaged. That is GER
tainly an auspicious beginning, and
we can be confident that the end
will be bright as well, no matter how
tenacious the Japanese may be.
Evening star., 1944-06-18
Our Normandy Casualties

leans killed III LIle llISI clcNcL OdyS
of the invasion of Normandy it can
be of little comfort to know that
these deaths, in strictly military
sense, were a relatively small price
to pay for the great and far
reaching detectives they have
bought. Nor can it solace any of
the bereaved-any of the mothers,
fathers, wives or other kin grieving
for the lost-to be told that the
fine, brave men who are gone now,
the heroes fallen forever in battle,
represent a toll considerably less
than that which the commanders
had anticipated.
Yet, even though the cold arith-
metic of war cannot ease the heart
aches caused by the passing OF a
single life, it is a fact, for which all
of us can be thankful, that these
American casualties-3,2 ,283 dead and
$4,000 wounded-add up to figure
much smaller than that predicted
by many people before the invasion
was launched. General Bradley,
commander of our ground forces in
Normandy, was thus right when he
took the pessimists to task some
weeks ago and declared that, despite
Nazi propaganda to the contrary,
there would be no bloodbath in
flicted upon the Allies when they
stormed the beaches of Western
Europe For, grievous as thetatoll
has Seen so far, it moss certainly
has, apat been nearly s0 heavy as
was feared it would be. e..e
Indeed, proportionately speak
ing-considering the size of the
forces involved, the fortress char
acter of the area attacked and the
nature of the defending enemy-the
Normandy landings appear to have
been even less costly than others we
have made elsewhere The figures
announced by GenefMo, Bradley
cever: q period of eleven, days, Hp to
and including last Friday night, and
it is instructive to compare them
with those covering the casualties
suffered at such places as Tarawa,
where our marines lost 1925 dead
and 2,557 wounded within the space
of rs hours. From the military
standpoint the invasion Of France
clearly seems to have been effected
with exceptional economy, reflect
ing immense credit on the COM
manders who planned and executed
it. It is a happy fact, too, that
medical care has been so we'll pro-
vided for that less than one per
cent of the wounded have died-a
vast improvement over arrange
ments in the First World War, when
the mortality rate for the American
wounded was II per cent.
Although statistics Of this sort are
of no help to them, it may be of
some comfort to the bereaved to
realize that those who have died
have earned the eternal gratitude
of their country and of free men
everywhere. BY their valor and
sacrifice they have made possible a
victory without which the world
cannot be made over into decent
place where all peoples can live
together again without fear Theirs
has been the last full measure of
devotion to duty and liberty-a con-
tribution which must fill us, the liv-
ing, as much with humility as with
pride.