The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-06-10
Michigan in
Washington
Esther Van Wagner Tufty


ton. where people have been hold
ing their breath for the 81 day
they could feel approaching. In
no other city in the country were
so many hugging the secret OF the
invasion day date. No one told.
Late that night" | saw Secretary
OF the Navy Forrestal leave a hotel
with some other top ranking Navy
officers. Not by words or action
did they reveal this is the hour.
For weeks. reporters have been
standing by" always within
telephone call distance. Yet now
that it's happened, the topnotch re-
porters In the capital are disgrunt.
led that it's mostly a rewrite job
las they knew II would be, yet
they didn't know how keenly they
would desire to be covering the
invasion story.
Probably the most thrilled re-
porter in Washington as the in
vasion hour struck was a Lansing
girl who was alone in the news
room. Of the National Broadcasting
Company when the first flash from
Berlin came through at 1910 a.
m. Mary Cavanaugh knew II was
her hour, too. Quickly she yanked
1t off the APP ticker from which
broadcasts are written. Then she
started telephoning the staff TO
come in. it's here" But until
they arrived it was her show.
with bulletins coming through
every few minutes.
But her second telephoning task
was equally exciting. She called
the wives of four top invasion
leaders and told them the news.
II was Mary who broke" it TO:
Mrs. Harold Stark. wife of Admiral
Stark, commander of American
naval forces in the European wat
ers; Mrs. Carl Spaatz, wife OF Gen.
eral Spaatz, commander OF strate-
gic bombing; Mrs. Alan Kirk. wife
of Rear Admiral Kirk, in charge
of American task forces and Mrs.
James Doolittle, wife Of General
Doolittle, chief of the Eighth Air
Force.
None of these women knew the
| secret date either...all were asleep
but glad to be aroused. Later they
came to the NBC studios for g
broadca-'...a broadcast which Mary
for the past two months had had
ready and 'raring to go.
Incidentally, Mary Cavanaugh
was formerly on the staff of our
Observation-Disclosures news bu.
reau.
Washington is watching but
keeping its hands strictly off,.
the Flint plan to amend the state
constitution to permit additional
aid to school systems and munich
palities from sales tax revenues.
The Office of Education isn't
commenting, but did reveal that
several other states, such as New
Mexico and Texas, are already u.s.
ing sales taxes to support their
schools in part. Others earmark
the revenue from only a few ar
ticles as tobacco, liquor, and gas
oline (Georgia) to school support.
In no case Is the school system en-.
tirely financed from this source.
Reluctantly, a spokesman admit.
ted better ways existed to handle
school financing. Most tax experts
here advocate the use OF the gen.
eral fund exclusively.
| A Michigan Indian girl. Helen
Wanageshik, OF the Ottawa Indian
tribe, was one of the seventeen
Indian girls who have just applied
for jobs in the powder-making
Army Sunflower Ordnance works
at Lawrence, Kansas. All of the
/ girls came the day their school.
the Haskell Institute at Lawrence.
closed.
Usually these girls spend their
summers with the families and ma
tive tribes. But they have 4S
brothers and cousins serving in the
armed forces, and want to make
powder to send to combat zones
overseas. The army says these
girls, whose forebears were used
to a far different kind Of ammuni-
ton, asked arsenal authorities to
get our physical examinations and
other induction processes over
quickly so anxious were they to
get on the job.
Congressman Louis Rabaut can
talk OF little else these days than
his son. Francis Dermott Ramaut.
S. j.. who will be ordained to the
priesthood by Bishop Joseph F..
Ritter. d. d. of West Baden Col.
lege. West Baden Springs, Indiana,
on June l4th.
Father Rabaut, the eldest OF the
nine Rabauts, will say his first
mass in IS. Peter and Paul's
Church in Detroit on June 18th.
Later in the same day a home
coming reception will honor him
az the family residence in Detroit.
TO FIX SEASONS
Lansing. Mich. June l0-AP-
| Game hunting seasons for 1914