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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20

Chicago-Maj. Gen. Philip p.
Fleming, administrator OF the Fed
eral Works Agency. In urging ac-
ton now on postwar projects to
headoff unemployment: 81 think
the collapse OF Germany will come
suddenly, as It did in 1918"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20

Albert ". Schrader. Jr.. 3114 Den.
ton Road, has left to take position
in New Orleans. He flew down
Wednesday morning and will be
supervisor OF cost-accounting de-
partment with the New Orleans di-
vision of Consolidated Vultee Air
craft Corr Mrs. Schrader plans to
join him about February I.
Mrs. W. l.. Patmos and daughter,
Carole. Cleveland. Ohio, are spend
ing three weeks with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. D. H. kellar. Ill n.
Adams st. Mrs. Patmos will return
70 Cleveland about Jan. %.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-20

dealer. South Rnfh SIDES Wi.
nerable)
South WUst North East
~ 30 ~
Pretty quick and incisive bid
iing. that. And pretty quick play.
too. though not incisive West led
his spade X and then his A. East
discarding his club Q West then
put forth the spade 7 hoping East
could over-ruff with the heart J
or Q. but the declarer put on the
10 from the dummy. which was
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
Much Ado About Matches

Have you ever known such volume OF
publicity devoted to Sc small a thing as Gig
arets7 1t goes to show how dependent people
are on small things" The strange part of the
exploitation is that locally nobody has had to go
wthor his Cor herr customary fag at the reg
ular time. even though the favorite brand be
temporarily lacking. We certainly have not be-
come a generation of snipe hunters, roofing
among the offscourings of the streets for butts
more fortunate smokers have discarded.
There are enough cigarets to 60 around,
whatever the Owl says Of the situation nation
ally and congress may do by way of investi-
CATION. But there is another shortage shaping
der. 1t is in matches. Along with other dis
comforts it is noted first in New York City,
where 1t is expected share the light clubs
will be organized if relief is not speedily forth
coming. Heavy orders from the government
to match manufacturers are ascribed as the
cause Of the depressing outlook. These orders
have mounted greatly during four weeks,
New York reports, that an actual scarcity has
already arrived and Ike where the bartender
goes, what will come next nobody knows.
Can it be that, like the impetus given safety
razor blade sales at the start of the war when
so much was said Of their being rationed, the
lighter folk are encouraging discussion Of a
match shortage to promote Christmas sales
OF their article? If so, it demonstrates the GUS
tomary genius Of American advertising men,
NInI of
o'her disable match shortage which happened
after the last World war. There were plenty
of what appeared to be matches, but they
wouldn't light Instead when scratched on the
hox there was a feeble sputter that did not
ignite the wood. Upon investigation it was
found they we're manufactured from salvaged
barracks mostly in France, where the lumber
had been creosoted under high pressure. When
some Of this lumber was used for match
stems, the creosote was still in it's fibre and
the wood still fireproofed, as the hopeful user
discovered in his chagrin.
So much for history. If it is not to be case
Of joining Share the light clubs, and if light
er manufacturers are not starting a sales
campaign, and still there is to be an actual
match shortage, it appears that cigaret users
will have to become chain smokers in self
defense, and that would not only be bad for
their hearts and digestion, but could create an
actual cigaret shortage everywhere, unless
every home had fireplace and the children
of the family engaged in lively competition
in making spills which half century ago
were a favorite Christmas present from them
10 the head Of the household.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
Exploding A Myth

A favorite statistical myth promoted by gov
eminent spokesman, is that since Pearl Harbor,
only one-tenth of one per cent Of man-hours
have been lost by strikes in war plants.
In two instances of late the lie has been CIV
en- to these mythical figures. A one-day strike
of 1000 to 5000 maintenance workers in the
Detroit area forced idleness upon some $4,000
to 1000 workers. Because the men who keep
the assembly lines and equipment in running
condition refused to work, the production work.
ers had to be sent home. In another case,
the strike of few thousand transportation
employees tied up two million people, 900 900 of
whom were war workers.
AS the New York Times declares OF This
statistical myth: 1T cannot be too often point
ed out that such statistics are essentially
meaningless. not only because they fail to take
into consideration the amount of indirect idle
ness that strike involves, but because they
ignore how vital the particular production may
be that is brought to halt.
THE value of the product of the entire soft
coal industry of the United States, TO cite but
one example, amounts to only one per cent
Of the national income. II strike stopped it
for an entire year, the statistics might show
that there were no strikes in SO per cent of
industry. But everyone knows that such q
strike would bring practically our entire war
production to a halt in few months"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28

tories. Through organizations like the bl1unli-
nous Coal Institute it has carried on research
seeking maximum efficiency in coal burning
heaters 1t has even developed "clean' coal as
further enticement to consumers
Partly as result Of these efforts, the coal
industry expects to have steady jobs for over
five-nundred- thousand men when peace re-
turns. Scores Of other industries are proceeding
along similar lines. Instead Of defying nature
to do its worst they hope to conform to its
dictates and still reach desired detectives
through hard work and greater production,
The threatening reformers will not make their
task any easier.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
TEXTILE WORKERS
NEXT IN LINE TO
GET WAGE BOOST

WASHINGTON, Nov. o. tB -
Textile workers are next in line
before the War Labor Board with
pay increase demands outside the
scope of the Little Steel formula.
WLB began consideration today
of the sub-standard pay complaints
posed In case between $4,000 CLIO
textile workers and 81 textile and
rayon mills in tn e South, New
England, New York and Pennsyl-
vania.
CLIO demands in this case, like
those involved in WLB's decision
handing an average 5 cents an
hour wage increase to 400, 900 CLIO
steel workers, could be granted
without infringing on the formula.
After textiles, the board has put
down for consideration, in this or
der, the demands of workers in
volved in meat packing, General
Motors, glass, Aluminium, General
Electric and Westinghouse cases.
AS in steel, WLB will not consider
any base wage increases until the
White House speaks in regard to
general pay boosts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
The Pearl HarbOr
Investigation

1T is more important now to win the war
than it is to find out what happened at Pearl
Harbor," said Sen. Alben w. Barley in OBJ
jecting to a proposal that 1O-man Senate
1871.
1t might be asked, while agreeing with the
Senator from Kentucky, if both could not be
done at the same time. Does Mr.. Barley mean
That the disclosure Of what happened could
lose the war? Does he fear that the investiga-
uon would divert attention and effort from the
task at hand, or that the findings would be a
rlous blow to national morale? Or was his
statement merely a non sequiture?
Whatever the answer, 1t scarcely would COM
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
Bond Sales Pick Up

The slow start in War Bond sales has been
made up for in recent days. No longer can
Wilmingtonians and New Hanover countlans
be chided for reluctance to buy. Instead they
are to be commended for maintaining their
regular receptivity to this form OF investment.
There is now good reason to think that the
quota of 81, 666 900 will be in hand when the
campaign ends, with a fair surplus in addl-
ton.
This is based on the announcement that
n -ough last Friday sales had mounted to ST.
3S1 ,405 Obviously the community at large has
no intention Of letting the boys at the front
down It is equally obvious that the people OF
this community are fully aware of the invest
nent value of war bonds.
They are accommodating capital against the
day when lush pay will no longer be avail
able and ready money at premium The IN
terest war bonds earn through the decade OF
their existence is SO much better than most
other channels available for saving that no
argument should be needed to induce earners
in any classification of employment to take
advantage of it.
This is mentioned to encourage bond buyers
to hoc on to their bounds until maturity, or
cash them only in actual emergency. To cash
them now, as may be done at any bank, is to
make real sacrifice the full weight of which
will lie felt in later years when cash will be
needed and not to be had.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
DORSEY PICTURED
AS HOME DEFENDER

LOS ANGELES, Nov. o. R -
Tommy Dorsey was pictured as a
man defending the sanctity Of his
homeland Allen Smiley as friend
who went to his adm questions
asked of prospective jurors by de-
Tense lawyers as the bandleader
went to trial today on charges of
assaulting movie actor Jon Hall.
Smiley, man about Hollywood,
and Actress Pat Dane, Dorsey's
wife, are his co defendants. A
grand jury indicted them as re-
suit of an early morning fight Aug
ust 5 at the Dorsey apartment after
a party celebrating Mrs. Dorsey's
26th birthday.
The attractive Miss Dane, Incl
dentally, became the object of a
great deal of attention as jury Sc
selection slowly proceeded w h e n
someone discovered she was wear
ing nylon stockings. Where, she was
asked, did she get 'em?
Il bought a gross Chats IA
pairs) before they went out" said
she.
Smiley's counsel, Jerry Giesler,
disclosed in remark to the tenta-
tive jury that I'm representing my
next door neighbor"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
The Literary Guidepost

southern town she calls Illyria and
describes perfectly. There lived the
Aunt Louisa of the title, a dour,
sturdy, honest and duty-bound Gov
enanter of the old school. There
Mrs. Elliott first saw Wilson and
fell romantic ally in love with him
although she was many years old
err. And there began the curious
set of similarities, and differences,
between young Woodrow and mid
dle-aged Aunt Louisa. They were
Doth Convenanters, both of good
blood, stern and unable to COM
promise. But one was a woman of
the South, character" but a
local character. The other had the
mark of the ages on him.
There is so much that has a
bearing on Wilson in the book that
choosing from them is difficult.
Perhaps his Covenanter inability
10 compromise, Wilson's thin-skin-
ned nature, and the fact that at a
critical period he was almost al
together dependent upon women
for associates explain most, in
Mrs. Elliott's opinion. There is a
great deal of detail, a total abb
sence of any tendency to trade
on Wilson'S fame, and lot Of in
tel1igence in this short book.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
BY JOHN SELBY

my Aunt Louisa and Woodrow
Wilson," by Margaret Arson Ell
lott Chapel Hill: S4).
Margaret Arson Elliott's "My
Aunt louisa and Woodrow Wilson
is the most delightful and most re-
vealing memoir I ever have read
in which the former President is
the chief figure. 1t is a far better
picture than the book by Edith
Boiling Wilson, or any of those by
Wilson'S admirers or detra ctors,
so far as it goes. This is quite a
distance.
The book is only an attempt to
show Wilson against a family
backdrop except in one Of it's sec
tons. The years at Princeton
were years that Mrs. Elliott spent
in the Wilson house, and there
the background includes Prince
ton University as well as the
teemlng house of Professor, later
PRESIDENT, Wilson. Mrs. Elliott saws
That the place was always over
run with in-laws, that often nobody
except her sister Ellen knew who
was there and who was likely to
arrive. Sometimes even Ellen Will
son did not know when her guests
could be expected.
MRS. Elllotfs story begins IN a
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28

to 90 when the Krauts stopped us
again." said Dagenhart. This
time they had us surrounded. Bull
lets were coming fl m bushes,
trees, even a nearby house. We
all hit the side of the road
But now they had rifle ammuni-
ton again. After Commute fight
they managed to reach the jeeps
in the middle of the road, but
somebody had to cover the get
away before they dared jump up
and expose themselves in the We
hicles.
So Dagenhart.. Pfc. Jimmy Oris
of Johnstown, Pa, and Pvt. Leo
Kell of Pensacola, Fla. elected
themselves.
While the others jumped into the
jeeps, the holding trio lay there
firing. The two jeeps got 200 yards
down the road, rounded a curve
and halted.
Oris, Kell and Dagenhart set a
brand-new record for the 200-yard
dash, with plenty of starting guns
for their grim race.
They made it and headed home
again, leaving at least 10 more
dead Germans.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
Reformers' Folly

Self made reformers who run around shout
irg that the country will never again accent
the unpeasantries of unemployment, made
quate wages, and substandard living condi.
tons as if the mere fact Of refusal will settle
the matter, should fool on one The laws of
nature cannot be swept away by simple de-
fiance.
Many industries are tackling the problem NJ
how to attain greater productivity and more
real jobs in the surest way they know, through
scientific research and expanded markets
During the past year. basic industries such as
mining, oil, power and transportation have
worked harder than ever before in preparing
to bring their products to more people, in new
forms as we'll as old. Coal has worked as
hard any industry in this direction. Coal is
used in medicines, clothing, fertilizers, insec
ticides, roofing, and countless other materials.
to say nothing of its primary function in steel
making heating and powering homes and fac.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
By KENNETH L. DIXON

ON THE WESTERN FRONT,
Nov. 21.-(Delayed)-R-By rights
you could hardly call it routine
combat patrol. For one thing, it
failed to accomplish it's mission, it
was a motorized patrol, and that S
strictly not routine for infantry.
There were other reasons, too.
The order came down, Get us
a German prisoner and bring him
back alive" and Company B drew
the short straw.
In late afternoon two jeep loads
went high-balling down muddy
road toward the enemy. 1t. How
ard Bell of New York and Staff
Sgt. Edward Dagenhart of Dodge
City, Kans., holder of the Silver
Star with oak leaf cluster, COM
manded the two groups.
A mile from the enemy front the
bespectacled Dagenhart spotted a
German in field. He was too
far away for capture, but he had
to be silenced or he might give
an alarm. So the Kansan killed
the German with the jeep's ma
chine gun, without stopping.
Five miles inside enemy terri
tory they skidded to halt in front
of road block and hit the dirt.
Some Is Germans behind the bar
ricade poured out merciless fire.
Somehow Cpl. Walter VOTE of
Lawrence, Kans., managed to back
his jeep to cover. Dagenhart
grabbed the machine gun again,
but it damned.
Pfc. John Humpa of Philadelphia
and Pfc. Bob Teitz of Winona,
Mimi, kept firing a Browning au-
tomato rifle until their ammuni-
ton was gone. They then ran out
of carbine ammunition. too.
1--WE had more in the other
jeep," Dagenhart said later, but
we couldn't get to it across the
road
So the boys began singing gren-
AIDES.
When the Germans took cover
the fire eased off, the, patrol piled
into the jeeps, turned around and
tore out for home.
They hadn't accomplished their
mission, but they had killed sever
al Germans and were lucky to be
alive.
But it wasn't over.
eve only had about mile lett
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
Mr.. Hull Steps Out

Even it he were not in delicate health, Sec
retary of State Cordell Hull has given so much
of his life to public service that he richly de-
serves the privilege of retiring.
The unfortunate aspect of his declared in
tention to do so is that his health, long
under heavy strain, should have failed at
time when his services are most needed. For,
whereas there are a number OF Americans
eligible in many ways to succeed him, not one
Ct them possesses his deep understanding ana
we NAV even believe none has the serenity OF
mind so essential in dealing with the difficult
situations arising daily, not only in connection
with prosecution OF the war, with which he is
identified only indirectly but most Important
Iy. but especially with the establishment of
peace, when the guns are silenced and the
powers gather to create an organization Tor
maintaining the world equilibrium.
Stettinius' qualification for appointment,
which the President announced late yesterday,
is solely his outstanding ability. In the cold
light OF logic he is the man tor the job.
He was undersecretary long enough to
know what Secretary Hull has been planning,
especially for the postwar peace organiza-
ton and there has been no evidence OF his
disagreement with the general policy Of the
office under Mr.. Hulls administration.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28

The War
BY KIRKE L. SJ,rpsou
Associated pres, Ir sun
.Jndr.ro+: war Analys.

Onoramatic as has beor ,Ana'yst
gress of Allied armies IN IN, me pro,
s sooIe northern area Of nv, +'s T 52
tern front as compares VIA. me IVES,
IN the south, the eien ~.,.. events
crisis crisis for the Nazis are fsssu Of
finite shape there 'aN-ag De.
They can be seen !, =.
army approach to the Po 's 1'ee'
on a 15-mile front thar has ASK 5rd SMs'
man n al enemy anchorages ''a sI5l
that waterway from south =, s-oas
en- to north Of Linnich undsr 1 y,
erican or British fire. T5ev An M
obvious, too, northeas.ward an
Meuse where British SecoT5 "a A. ne
forces have closed on Veni ,''''y
Between these two Allied 49,,
prongs lies a narrow wes+y, a.s
jutting finger of the Gern7s 5,'@aFa
tier. 1t forms a segment '' .. non IN
slegfrled line. The exact Am ~,
front, presumably held by The c'I a..
fish, about that westward bn1 l Dill III,
German territory east Of S+i sY "
is not quite clear, but it is re ,.a'a
that a dangerous salient for '' ,.a
enemy is developing. ~'
American puncture Of n. D..
defense line anywhere slonv '' va
First or Ninth army fronts S.r VI;
outtlank that salient from ,,.
south. British crossing Of ,1 s
Mouse at Venlo or Roero, ~s
would outflank it from the 1. s,..
and also outflank the Roer In,
holding up an Anglo-Americsn Al
vance to the Rhine across the Cd
ogne plain.
Between the two active zore,
an Allied wise is developnq a,
that German central bulge TO com.
pei its evacuation sooner or lste-
perhaps without 4 frontal assam.
Its fall would widen the breac,
already driven into Siegfried De.
lenses. The gap would stretch VIZ.
tually from Duren to VenIo, which
is a critically important COMM,
nication hub. British forces RIM.
ing the town virtually are euud,s
tant with Second Army comrades
on the left flank OF the Anglo,
American three-army push Once
either the Meuse at Venlo or The
Roer north of Linnich is crossed by
the Allies however, there remain
no river lines or other natural bar.
riers on the way to Gladbach,
stable Nazi city, as in the case Of
Cologne itself.
While the German bridgehead
west of the Meuse is reported
eliminated by the British, there
has been no intimation as yet Of
a British attempt to cross the RI
yer itself if it has been reached
anywhere from north of Venlo 10
Roermond. That sector of the 'front.'
however, has obvious possibilities
of not only a tactical but also
strategic nature which still are
to be fully developed. A British
break through there could turn
the present German resistance
front either to the north or the
south. 1t remains TO be seen Wne'
Their General Eisenhower throws
in his reserves for the final attack
when he is ready on the MeuSe OF
on the Roer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
THIRD ARMY TAKES
1900 MILES OF
LAND FROM NAILS

WITH THE U. S. THIRD ARM
Nov. 27.-R,-After 20 days Of the
current operations, the T. J.
Third Army has overrun = more more
than 1900 square miles Of Frame me-
and no more than $50 square Hllla
remain Immediately in front Oh 10
advancing divisions.
1t, Gen. George S. Patton's io.,
ces now occupy about 40 Sq u. ii.
miles of German soil and fn .e'.
lines run for 10 miles through pS
Reich from the Luxembourg DOT
der into the western Saar OaS, .r,.
At no point along the front f1 run.
ming from the Luxembourg 00la ars
s southeastward for 60 miles, .5 ass
the Thirds battle lines more ~ s"o u
16 miles from Germany anu a., =,
two points they are no more 'D''
one and two miles away ~
"A Advanced forces are two, -. ss
and a half and 10 miles lfo on., d,
saar river siegfried Line cites es, =.
Merzig, saarlautern ana ''''
brucken, respectively
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
Two Big Maxi Canals = =,
Blocked By Raj Rad

LONDON, Nov, H. @5o0oced
British Air Ministry all'io ~.r,i.
tonight two Of GERMANY Nv Raj
pal canals were bloch so W njght d
Lancasters attacking the iHSD'
November 81. :. two
months, the Ministry salp'
bombers preached the Doi, ol,sr a
Ems canal and drained r it 0'S atS
6 nif' tbe M it liz canal and dFis'
it up for about IS miles ..-io,,
The twin blows crippled ,s sf
ly Germany's system OIL Western
Communications to the n', re-.
Front. A number OF 0arss o.rsI,
observed stranded in the ''
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
New Congress To Get t.
Anti-Lynching De'a'F

WASHINGTON, Nov 21a Il IN
The controversial propose o." revived
anti-lynching law will De odrvsass
when the 18th Congress s;t [r anti
in January, although e-g dis ri;
1ynching bills stand to o-'
session. Tudici8T
Committee said today a Ig msas
is anticipated on the els"' in De-
ures before adjournment
cember. oowevet
will re-introduce ahtl-ly ~ nassag'
islation and hopes for It's
by the new Congress-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
Daily Prayer
FOR REALITY IN RELIGION

Daily we pray to Thee, O God
over all, for our boys in service;
for victory for our arms; for our
Country's faithful devotion to Thy
will. Yet under all and over all
of these petitions is our deep
yearning for living realization
OF Thyslf. We crave mani
festation of Thy reality in our own
hearts. We would know Thee not
as a far-off Deity, but as a pulsing
glowing Reality within our own
spirits. Our deepest hunger and
thirst is for an awareness of Thee
as the illuminating Power of our
lives. Thou hast promised to make
Thy home in the hearts of those
who love Thee. o come, even now,
Eternal Father, and abide with us.
dominating our every thought and
action; so that we may truly walk
with God. This we ask in the name
of the Son Who came to reveal
Thee to us in Thy nearness and in
Thy fullness. Amen.-WT.E
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
N0n-ROutine Mission

The first friends they met were
some American armored vehicles.
A soldier stuck his head out of a
turret and inquired politely, "Just
what-the-hell do you guys think
you're doing out there?"
Right at that particular moment
none of them could seem to think
of a suitable answer. Even they
couldn't rightly say they had just
been on routine patrol.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-11-28
GANGS BATTLE

WITH U. S. NINTH ARMY IN
GERMANY, Nov. 27-REA IT.
year-old German deserter assert
ed today that teen-age boys in
German cities are forming gangs
which engage in fighting Hitler
youth groups in the streets with
knives and clubs at night.