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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-12

PIC: -wnat Will you 90 II your sec
ond looie comes to you after the war
and asks for a job?-
Cpl: I'D make him work for three
hours filling out two dozen question
naires and when I'd look them over I'd
slowly shake my head and say sorTy.
but he didn't qualify for single
thing"
Tinker Todso,o
The soldier on furlough took his girl
friend for an auto ride on a moonlit
evening, and all she did was shake
her head. After 63 miles he found out
her nose was caught In the windshield
wiper.
Commend Post
First Cootie: What do you think OF
the war;"
Second Cootie: "Oh. II seems nice 10
be back In uniform again"
Nom Sty~rifeT
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
so We MAY LEARN
WHILE HE IS AWAY"

How thoughtful it was of Vice Presi-
dent Henry Agard Wallace not to leave
us all benighted and in a state of mental
status quo while he is off on some self
appointed or White House-drected jaunt
into the hinterlands of the Russians.
Just before showing off Mr.. Henry re-
leased a pamphlet entitled Our Job In
the Pacific" And such brand new
job in the Pacific for this country. But
to be fair, the job he articulates about
via the printed word (paper costs money,
incidentally and hot air is free) has to
do with the day the peace era starts in.
1t was issued under the sponsorship Of
the American Council of Pacific Rela-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
HITLER'S SECRET WEAPON
MAKES LATE APPEAR ANCE

First descriptions of the mystery
bombs which Hitler sent against Britain
almost are as "flighty" as the fiery mis-
siles themselves 1t all reads like COM
bination of Martian revelerS and vision
aries like Jules Verne. That the man-leSS
planes, or sky boats or whatever they
were, wreaked considerable havoc must
be admitted since any kind of bombs
from any source will do Just that. But
there is no indication either from London
or Berlin that there is any justification
to a belief that the Germans have un-
limited supplies of the fantastic weapon.
The British were more consumed with
wonder than fear when the shower start
ed. They had been told at least twice
by Churchill that just such a raid could
be expected during the naZis dying et-
forts, and he was correct. Also he was
correct in his estimate that his people
would take it all in their customary
stride.
While there has been no official COM
ment to this effect, it safely can be said
that British experts know pretty we'll
about the projectiles and can duplicate
them, or speedily contrive an effective
method for combating them.
After all, however, it is at best only
a spasmodc effort of Hitler to hang on
1t is better than an even chance that
the nesting place of the air varmntS
already is known and that it soon will be
obliterated.
In the meantime, thanks for the enter
tainment.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18

Every thoughtful American knows
today that a strong labor move
ment IS one of our greatest bull
warka against the growth of fas-
cistic tendencies and consequently
is necessary fer our democratic way
Of life Tho republican party must
demonstrate yieibly and tangibly
that it appreciates the contribution
of labor to cur economic Well-being
1t must leave no doubt that it I'M
derstands that labor has legitimate
grievances. and justifiable aspira-
tions toward a more secure place
with larger participation in our
modern industrial life. Above all,
the Republican party must demon
strate that it can produce con-
structive, just and humane labor
program
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
Soil analysis
In County
Stirs interest

Imperial county soil drainage
problems and methods of scientific
combating by the soil conservation
offices in FL Centre were studied
this week for application in north
ern San Benito county.
Carl Forsberg, Soledad, district
conservationist for Salinas valley
in Monterey and San Benito coun-
ties planned to leave Friday after
makig a three-day study OF the Ell
Centro research laboratories work.
He said he found the work done
by William Fox and his staff not
only interesting but unique as they
attack an old problem with many
locally developed new scientific
methods. He said his area in north
ern San Benito county is similar to
tie one here in that it has a drain
age and alkali problem.
The results of the work of the
offices here todate, although they
may appear to be small to local
residents, have developed many an
swers and are promising to be of
great value to the valley in few
years, Forsberg claimed.
With the exception OF the area
mentioned he said his office was
primarily concerned with erosion
control and surface water disposal
In soil conservation.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
LIFE-SAVING CONTEST
MAY BE WORTH TRYING

A safety control contest has been IN
augurated in California through the OF
flee of the director of motor vehicles. 1t
is calculated to contribute in prevention
of traffic deaths. Specifically it is
plan to introduce and perpetuate pedes-
trian control in the states municlpal-
ties. 1t has the support of all automobile
clubs and it is expected to receive stimu-
lus through civic groups as we'll as city
councils and officials.
That something effective and drastic
is necessary to reduce the tremendous
traffic accident toll in the state goes
without saying, and if this contest will
help accomplish that purpose it should
be adopted widely and conscientious eff
forts made to make it successful. Al
most any move or plan or crusade Is
worthwhile since the records continues to
climb.
The state traffic safety commission re-
Gently named by Governor Warren is
backing the contest and the program
calls for immediate dissemination of the
details to all municipalities. The COM
mission calls attention to 11.486 acci-
dents involving pedestrians last year,
and increase of IA per cent over the pre-
vious year. In the first three months of
1914 800 pedestrians We're killed and
1850 injured.
Imperial county shares in this dark
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
THE POST-PRESS

Established 1876.
Published Sundays as combined issue
OF Imperial Valley Press and The
Morning Post, by the Imperial VALLEY
Publishing Company, 625 State St, FL
Centro, California.
Paul Jenkins Publisher
and President.
A. e. Johnston. Nicc-prcsidCni and Ad-
vcrlisinG Manager; Mrs. Logan II.
Jenkins. SeCretar".
Member United Press, California News
paper Publishers Assn, Holiday
Co, Inc, national representatives.
Rates, in combination with either The
Morning Post or Imperial Valley Press
Single copy Sc; carrier paid-in-ad-
vance: ! month, 81 90; 3 months,
$2.75; 6 months, s.. 25; / year, $1,000
BY Mail: month. 81 90; 3 months.
$3.50. months. $50; year. SIS 90
Outside of California S1OO per month
Hat.
Entered al Fl Centre. Calf. post
office as End class mail
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
Editorials and Comment

tions-quite a new concern, too. Summed
up the pamphlet points out Our job in
the Pacific" How nice. This conclusion
is reached after reading an Introductory
phrase in which the VP. says it would be
a good thing for the United States if all
Asia were free and independent and pros
porous.
BY the same token, so would the Unit
ed States or Timbuctoo.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
WiIIkie Eyes l. obor Outlook

nally act which is both unWise ano
unenforceable should be repealed.
For labors inherent right to strike,
which it has voluntarily abandoned
during the war. is the basis of all
its rights and must not be Cutlawed
merely because the administration
has created an atmosphere in which
strike are inevitable.
INDUSTRY'S PART
Industry must convince labor that
it is prepared permanently to ac-
cept the basic principles of collCc-
tive bargaining and unions must
be treasured that the period of
transition to peace will not be used
as in 1920 to destroy the or
eanizatiCnS they have built.
Labor also has aspirations which
are not only just but indispensable
to the health of society marked
by wide economic fluctuations. For
inCtanCe. an annual wage to those
who work in plants with long sea-
SCnal or periodic Shut-doWnS seems
fair and necessary. And or post
war economy must be built en- a
high wage level if we hope to fur
niSh a market for the goods of an
expanding peace-time production.
Our wheels can keep turning only
if our workers can keep spending.
Labor management cooperation
has Droved fruitful during the war
The more it is continued and de-
yeloped after the peace the less
necessity there will be for govern
ment intervention in industrial re-
laticns. It is time for both labor
and management to grow up, to
recognize each other as essential
factors in the same basic inter
rrise - United States industry -
and to settle their affairs among
Themselves without recourse to
government
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
THE CONQUEST
OF TYPHUS
(New York TimeS)

To the wonder drugs of war medicine
we must now add DDT, by which letters
epidemologistS abbreviate dichloro-diph-
yl-trichoroethane, a lOuSe-killer which
made it possible for the Army to save
Naples from the ravageS of typhus. Here
we have another case OF a lag between
discovery and its application. DDT was
first SyntheSized in 1874 by young stu
dent, Othman Zeidler, of StraSbourg. 1t
has taken nearly seventy years to dis
cover its remarkable properties as an in
secticde. and this after hundreds of diff
ferent compounds had been tried against
the typhus-carrying louise.
DOT seems almost too good to be true
1t can kill the japanese beetle, which has
thus far resisted all efforts to control it;
flies (spray walls with DDT and no fly
will 90 near them for three months);
moths of the fruit and clothes destroy
ing variety the boil weevil mosquitoes
termites, fleas, bugs of any kind. Neapol-
itanS are now throwing DDT at brides in
stead of rice, runs the story. Maybe it
is because nobody in Italy is wasting food
these days: maybe it is because of graft
tude At any rate, it looks bad for agrl-
cultural pests as we'll as for all the in
sects that carry disease germs and inject
them into the blood of animals and men,
If the tales of DDT miracles are borne
out. there ought to be no excuse for any
insect-borne disease A house-fly ought
to become a curiosity; dogs ought to lead
flealess lives Of bliss.
Though the insecticidal properties of
DDT were discovered in Switzerland in
1889 when the potato crop was threaten
ed with destruction by the Colorado
beetle. the scientists of the Rockefeller
Foundation must be credited with the
miracle performed in Naples. With Roe
kefeller aid the Army set up mass delous-
ing stations in Naples and treated l,5OO,-
600 at the rate of $4,000 a day. DDT was
sprinkled in clothes right on the person
and did its lOuse-repelling even after
eight washings. Typhus, more dreaded
than bullets in any army, is now simply
unknown among our soldiers and sailors
We have not heard the end of this
story, by long odds When the war is
over much of Europe will have to be de-
loused and immunized against typhus.
It is not likely that the frightful ravages
of tvphus after the last war, when whole
communities were decimated, will be re-
heated. We shall still have our regrets
about the long delay in making the most
of DDT after its first synthesis. 1t is
the story of sulfanilamide all over again
the story of chemist who had syn
tbesized what he thought was only dye
but which turned out to be the first ad-
vance made in chemotherapy since Ehr-
Itch discovered sos If there is any moral
in this it is that half a dozen scientists
working together as a team are more
likely to make the utmost use of a new
discovery than one prima donna of the
laboratory.
have been in the Army since 1917 and
! have never heard a shot fired in com
bat.-5th Army colonel in Italy.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
LEE PYLE SCORES TOPS
IN TOASTMASTERS TALK

Lee Pyle won the vote of best
speaker at Thursday nights meet
ing of the Cactus Gavel Junior
Toastmasters club at the California
hotel
Don Cooley was postmaster: Neal
Macurda, the other speaker; Jerry
Asher, Jr., chief critic; Charles
Smaller, Jim Hess, critics.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18

EDITORS NOTE: The follOuing edit
oriaIS are presented as interesting Opin-
ions roiced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this BGper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18

have been in the Army since 1917 and
! have never heard shot fired in com
bqt.-5th Army colonel in Italy.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
RESTS UPON LABOR

Nov that labor is reaching ma
turity all labor leaders must recog-
nize what some leaders are saying
witness the recent statements Of
Mr.. Thomas and Mr.. DubinSky -
that labor muct become responsible.
must drive from its midst its rae
ketecrs, adept democratic proceed
ures and account for its funds and
activities both TO the public and
to its own membership. And If
the reluctant few refuse TO follow
democratic procedures then under
appropriate legislation such matters
must be regulated.
Finally, and basic to the whole
question of labor in a democratic
society, in addition TO its part in
American industrial life, labor must
be made an essential part Of gov
ernment, with a real labor repre-
tentative in the cabinet. Like other
economic groups, it must share in
the determination of governments
fiscal, domestic and international
policies. Thus it will share the re-
sponsibility for the results.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
GRANGE SEEKS ROAD

GRANTS PASS, Ore, June II.
Construction of a Cas-
cade highway and a road from the
southern Oregon coast to the in
terror after the war, was asked in a
resolution by the Oregon State
grange Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
BY WENDELL l.. WIILKIE
distributed by United Prea:)

The problem OF labor today is sur
charged with emotion and danger
ously sharp cleayages. Men more
/ jealous than wise are trying to
label the Democratic party the eX-
elusive friend of labor. and the
/ Republican party its invetcrate
/ enemy. The source of this theory
is not difficult to discern. Labor
/ leaders feel that before the advent
CT the present administration la
Dor did net get a fair break, and
that previous Republican admins
! trationS gave consideration solely to
a business point of view. Today, on
the other hand, many induStrialists
believe with almost fanatical inten-
sity that the present administra-
/ ton sees everything exclusively
! through the eyes of labor, and plays
/ politics both with and within labor
There is considerable truth in the
viewpoints of both.
| However, nothing inherent in the
nature of the two parties juStifieS
the roles that propagandiSts have
sought to assign them. Assuming
that there are in the Republican
party few nineteenth-c century in
dustrialists who still believe that
labor is a commodity, everyone Ct
these has his democratic counter
parts in the Connallys who
devote their energies to batting or
ganized labor.
PUT ON SPOT
But the Republican party has al
lowed itself to be put on the spot
on the labor question. 1t has done
so by failing to appreciate suffi-
ciently that for labor the essential
content of freedom is different III
today's industrial society from what
it was in the agricultural society
of an earlier age Men no longer
able to own, or to aspire to own,
small businesses and farms have
sought new solutions for a need
which all Americans must respect
the need 10 control for themselves
the circumstances which dictate
their working lives However much
/ the present administrator has
bungled the problem, it has taken
/ cognizance of this historic change.
/ A 1914 Republican platform
/ should acknowledge the necessary
requirements for the protection Of
labor under conditions existent to-
dag - not YESTERDAY Some Of them
are: The continuance and inn
provement Of federal wage and
hour law. and federal regulatory
machinery for its Interpretation and
enforcement However, il should
be remembered that no law, Spon-
sored by business or labor, is .
good law which creates in the mind
Of either the justifiable belief that
fair and social insurances must be
broadened in their base and pre-
gressively expanded. Coercive leg
islation such as the Smith-Con-
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B-29's
Continued from Page One)

lCOntlnueu from rage One)
brogol Notifications where they
had been stopped for a week.
The Marines apparently were
intent on encircling the elabor-
ate chain of Notifications or cut
ting the fortress in two. Japa-
neSe were still trying to run in
reinforcements at night from
other Palau Islands and Tokyo
reported some had Joined the
garrison.
American soldiers who con-
troll Angaur, southernmost is
land of Palau, apparently had
not yet attacked Japanese con-
centrations in the northwestern
sector.
In Southwestern Burma the
Fifth Indian Division advanced
against light opposition to with
in seven miles of the enemy
base at Tddim.
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Gifts
Continued from Page One)

Nov. 10 has been set for re-
ceipt here Of the last coupon for
delivery within the United
States.
For the past two Christmases,
the GoodfelloWs have sent car
tons of cigarets TO each local
man in service, the total run
ming to more than go each time.
No estimate has been made of
the number of gift packages re-
CURED for the 1914 plan, but the
organizations president F + n k
E. Jeanette believes that funds
set aside for this purpose will
fully accomplish the objective.
The packages will contain an
assortment of candy, gum, cook
les and other favors reminiscent
of home; will be purchased To-
cally and will cost more than So
each. John SierenS, GoodfelloWs
treasurer and director for many
years IS handling all details of
the project. Fred Touscany,
vice-president, is assisting Ser
ems and Jeanette.
Success of the project de-
ponds entirely on the good faith
of persons submitting names.
Only those of Mount Clemens
men, and those in the immedi-
ate vicinity of the city, will be
accepted. Names will be check
ed against draft board and hon
or roll lists. Full addresses
should be clearly written Cor
preferably printed) on the cou-
pom, and also the identity of the
person submitting the service
mans name.
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Killing
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principal prosecution witness,
Joseph Kopiel, 40, who testified
that the dead woman had gone
TO a bed room, leaving him
asleep in the kitchen, shortly
before she was shot and killed.
The murder defendant, Pa
trolman Joseph KwasnieWski
did not testify in defense at the
examination, concluded today
after several adjournmentS in
the court of Justice Frank L.
Jeanette.
VICTIM ON STAND
Kopiels testimony, delayed
due TO his disqualification for alb
dominal wounds, tended TO show
that there was nothing uncom-
promising about his actions or
those of the deceased woman,
Stella KWaSniewski that night,
and that after a luncheon in the
kitchen of his cabin-Where she
had asked TO be taken, he said
he fell asleep at the table and
Mrs. Kwasniewski, tired from
an evenings drinking, had re-
tired TO a bedroom.
This was the setting, Kopiel
said, for the shooting affray.
He was suddenly aroused
from his sleep at the kitchen
table by noise at the cabin
door. The lights were out and
he stood up to approach the door
when suddenly a mans figure
appeared. The visitor fired one
shot into kopiels body and ko-
plel dashed through the door,
startled, to neighbours house.
AS he left he heard the shots
fired into Mrs. KWaSnieWSkrs
body in the bedroom, he teSti-
fled, but did not know until lat
er that she had been shot, or
who the intruder was.
NET IN TAVERN
Koplel described himself as a.
resident at 1897 Stozenfeldt
avenue, Warren Township, and
said that he had first met Mrs.
kWasnieWSki, whose name he
did not know, in a beer garden
Friday evening Sept. /. After
drinking at this and another
place, Kopiel said the woman
asked if she could accompany
him. He said he did not know
her identity as a married Wo-
man.
Arriving at his cabin, Kopiel
said he and the woman enjoyed
a brief lunch in the kitchen, and
his memory after this was a
blank until he awoke at the
kitchen table, realized the wo-
man had retired to the bed
room and heard a noise at the
door.
No defense was offered in the
preliminary eXaminatio. How
ever, before Justice Jeanette
bound the defendant over to the
higher court he listened to the
plea of defense counsel that the
charge be reduced 10 one Of
manSlaughter.
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Tin Can Pickup
Here Wednesday

Householders in Mount Glenn
ems were reminded today by
Charles v. Titus, salvage chair
man, that processed tin cans will
be picked up at all public and
parochial schools Wednesday.
Cans should be properly
cleaned, opened and flattened,
and placed either by adults or
children in the containers placed
in front of all schools. Titus
stresses the urgent need of tin
for the final phases of war pro-
duction. Y.
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City
Continued from Page One)

Floyd w. Rosso, the new 26-to-l
vote may or may not be legal.
The statutes clearly state that
a majority of the Board of SUI
perviSors, not just of those in
attendance, must approve a res
olution of the nature required
TO place a city incorporation is
sue on the ballot.
Glenn Curtis, Detroit attor-
ncy who told supervisors that
he represents several industries
in the Warren township district,
on Monday raised the question
concerning the manner in which
the latest meeting of the board
was called. He intimated that,
lnasmuch as no Today notice to
members had preceded the
meeting it may be proved not 20
have been legally held.
SPECIAL OR ADJOURNED?
Supervisors, on the other
hand, maintain that Mondays
meeting was not special meet
ing" but, rather, a resumption
OF that held on Monday, Sept.
l8, Which-they say-was mere
ly adjourned subject to call"
Christian +. Matthews, special
counsel representing Charles
Blazer and other supporters of
the incorporation movement,
told the board prior to the TAX
ing of a rOll-call vote, that he
felt the issue was not so much
enc of whether the incorpora-
ton IS necessary (although he
insisted that it Isl but of leaving
the solution Of the problem
within the hands of those most
vitality commemorative residents
of the affected district.
Matthews cited the fact that
as far back as when he, himself,
served as a Macomb county pros
ecuting attorney, the distances
involved and the awkward man
ner of bringing legal representa-
ton to the Warren district, had
caused problems which, he said,
must now be accumulated due
to increased population.
The new City of Van Dyke,
extending six miles along East
Eight Mile road and, roughly,
north 10 the Nine and half
mile road, would contain within
its limits such large industries
as Carboloy, Naval Ordnance,
Rotary Electric Steel, Dodge
Truck, Colonial Breach, Soss
Manufacturing and score or
more of lesser plants.
SEEK NEW BOUNDARIES
Curtis, in addressing the
board, requested that the petit
tons Of those seeking to have
the measure placed before the
voters Nov. 7 be either rejected
or tabled. He said he recognized
the necessity for incorporation
in the interests of the residents
but expressed the belief that
new boundaries should be
drawn, embracing the residen-
tial and business areas, but leav-
ing free the industrial sites so
that, he said, a free flow of
manufacturing plants it its back
door which will always assure
the prosperity Of the city itself"
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SGT. q. Nj. SIOcuIll
Safe i'm Germany

Sergt. Gordon NJ. Slocum, %,
AAF gunner recently reported
missing after a raid over Ger
many, is now a prisoner of war,
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
M. Slocum, SO South avenue,
have been officially informed.
Sergt. Slocum was reported
missing after a raid Aug 10.
The favorable news Of his safe
ty was received by the Slocum
family Saturday.
The air crew member is
graduate of Mount Clemens
High School and his father is
employed on war CONTRACTS at
the Hacker Boat Company,
Mount Clemens.