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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
GOV. KELLY BITTER

Bitter because only nnn reH
ave been allotted tins state Kelly
aid
This means Ne are getting
ehout half of what We expected
and only One-third If what we
need. The purpose 81 the Wash
ington conference will bc 10 pre-
sent Miehigau's requirements
sud attempt 10 obtain federal
commitments covering thcm.
Michigan Will need more
prisoners and viii need them
aer = longer i1-tir it-t-if tirrrr-- tram
The commission has planned,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06

Funeral services for Alfre d
John Tumble, retired railroad
engineer, who died yesterday at
66. will be held at 1870 p. m.
Monday IN the Rigley Funeral
Home, 12712 LivernoiS,
Mr. Trumble is survived by his
wife. Genevieve; son, Lawrence,
a petty officer. first class, with
the Seabees in New Guinea, and
three daughters. Bernice. Mildred
and Mrs. Bernadine Vehno.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
Gas Line Break
Ties Up Traffic

Traffic on MIA one mile south
of Monroe was re-routed early
today while .fremen Waited for
a blaze-ta- httFn- itself ont in n
pool Of gasoline fed by an oil
line break.
The line, which carried high
test gas, was routed close 10 the
highway. How it broke or what
ignited the gas, officials were un-
able 10 explain.
The flow of gas was cut off at
Erie Mich. and the pool and
fumes created by the break
burned six hours. At periods the
blaze would flare up making traf-
fic on the highway impossible.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
5 DetroiterS 10 Aid
Coal Distribution

-tTve Deuolters today were
named hy Secretary of the In
terror lcscs 90 an advisory COM
mlttec on local distribution Of
bliuWiuouS coal 81"
The five are Peter KoeniC l..
Kelly r. G. Mlstele, +. *. Well
man and Earl s. Snider Ickes
said The committee viii SERVE
MIlhnni cnmncnSailOn
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
Mechanic
Burned
I'm Blast

Russell Prose-, Is. Of 1925 S.
Lafayette, suffered severe burns
and cuts at 10 a. m. today when a
gasoline tank exploded while he
was welding The chassis Of an
automobile in a garage and repaiT
shop at 1868 Woodward.
The blast ripped out 20 feet OF
the garage floor and caused a
crater 3 feet deep. Prose- did not
know that the automobile he was
working on had an auxiliary tank
which was full. Flame from his
torch exploded the gas. lie was
treated by a physician. Other
workmen in the place escaped
injury.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
Central High Pupils
Set Bond Sales Mark

Passing their million dollar
quota, students of Central High
School have set new national
high school record for sales of
war bonds and stamps. Principal
Thomas Gum announced today
Beginning its drive IN Febru-
airy. Gum said, the student com
mittce. headed by Robert Castle
has now more than doubled the
bond and stamp sales made at
the school during all of last year.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06

Detroit and vicinity Parity cloudy AND
bfder tonight Lowest ah1ut 80 CoLt-at-c-
fld Saturday Moderate winds
DETROIT DATA
Temperature Thr-rdsv ittEi1rrt ~ Ur=
fses lowest 90 mean, Ga
Departure from n or m 70 Temperature
thursday: degrees
Departure from norma temperature since
~ 232 degrees
TEMPERATURE one year ago TODAY High
\ - degrees lowest - Hf=aH t~
Temperature mss dste in past = te7rs
ghesi 20 degrees n isAa lowest. 20 IN
rrs .ts-fr-t ''1s sa'
Relative humidity THURSDAY 800 m
ser $50 a M. Rz% go p. r. 80
$50 2. m. So ~,
precipitation m last "a hoHrs cndrE az
t30 = m. TODAY al lncn.
Departure from normal rrecirtat0n since
IN Us inches
Degree DAYS for Thursday. MAJ 4: s.
Normal for MAY g. -.
Accumulated degree days This month; 3.
Normal degree days for Man. 300
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
Christian johnson

Funeral services for Christian
Johnson. so, of 33l Hillcrest,
Crosse Pointe Farms, who died
Wednesday IN Marine Hospital.
will be held at $50 p. IN. tomor-
row at the Cooper Brothers
Mortuary, 10104 Mack.
Mr.. Johnson, who was born in
Norway, was retired from the
navy in 1917 after 20 years of
service.
He is survived by his widow,
Mary, and one sister, Mrs. Kris
inc HilgeSon of Argo, Ill.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
Edgar ". BOWeH

Edgar r. Bowen ON the staff
of the Detroit Free Press since
1910. died at $50 a. IN. today in
Grace Hospital
Mr.. Bowen, a native Of Illinois,
came 10 Detroit from Grand
Rapids
He is survived by a daughter,
now in California, and his mother,
Mrs. Mary Bowen of Erie. Ill.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
State Fights Malaria
AT Army Hospital
rlm,. stan corrssrondent

LANSING. May ; The state
health department today moved TO
prevent malaria AT the army :
Percy Jones Hospital IN Battle
Creek fft-eHt spreading to civilians.
Dr. William DckIclnc, state
nF81Tn COMMISSIONER, said that
ftf5tlHftt- e1fttruf- measures would
ho put into operation IN - mile
radius of the army hospital,
Including reduction of water
surfaces by draining and eX-
termination of larvae on all
waters whore malaria mosquitoes
lInrd
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
farmers Ask
More NdziS

LANSING Nav Michigan
fillaskhhe War NHnponot/c om1
aission ana tfc war department.
pr increasing numheg Of German
Fsr prisoners to work on Micm-
an farms tins year GoN hciN
evealed today.
Although she state haS been al-
seated approximately 'en- war
wiSonerS This summer. the gov
rnnr said the number f. only
islf Of what we expected ana "a
bird of what Wl pcc4-
Michigan farmers are iu dire
need af labor this wear eSP"-
cislly in the fruit belt and cam
ming processing plants, Doc said.
1--WE have been greatly disap-
pointed I'm our ALLEGATIONS.
QUoTR SEVERITY CIT
IN Chicago Brig Cen John 7.
Davis. comnandnE general MI Tho
sixth Service Command said ln-A
200 German prisoners VIII work
N farms and m food processing
lants nm Michigan Illinois and
Wisconsin during the summer
his. despite The tact thar 1900
we're requested hy farmers and
God professors.
Kelly declared rhsf he has
slked with sen Nandcnherc ~
10 arrange q meeting
rith high army officials
Kellu- said thr prisoner ae
.sed only until August IS and
hat Michigan farmers must show
tlsfs c tory arrangements 20
louse and feed them lie e'npha-
lied the state wanted only Ger
han prisoners and not japanese.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06
Corporal Held as Vendel

Cpl. Jack Drummond, p, of the
RCAF at Toronto. was held for
investigation of malicious destruc-
ton of property today after, po-
lice said, he broke two windows
in the Hotel Statler and a door in
the Book Tower garage.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-06

JAILED e8 4qlIof charge :.

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LANSING. MAY ; Joseph Nivi-
auo rs. former Detroit liquor
clerk. demanded an examination
today when hc was taken before
Circuit Judge leland Carr on a
perjury count I'M connection with
testimony given the grand jury
probing legislative graft
Judge Carr fixed NiViano'S bond
ar So 1000 and set May l6 for the
hearing ViVano appeared in court
after Special Prosecutor Kim
Sigler declared that hereafter he
viii bear down on liars"
Arrested late yesterday in De-
iroit Vivisno spent the night In
the Lansing City jail
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-13

changed the curriculum to conform to the needs of sailors and Marines based there for flight and other training programs. This disruption of normal academic life, however, did afford "an unparalleled op- portunity for taking fresh stock of our educational ends and means" Dr. Case points out. And though the results of this stock-taking have not been formally reported, they will probably fulfill Dr. Cases prediction that tour aim must not be to diversity but to deepen and enrich ou. characteristic contribution"
 The end of the war is bound to bring both a need and a market for technical training. Hundreds of thousands of young men and women will come out of the armed forces and war plants with new SkillS and new interest in technical matters. "The fact remains, however" says Dr. Case, "that the great problems of contemporary civilization are not techni- cal, but human and social. We have been warned that unless we can keep pace socially, morally and esthetically, with the gigantic strides of science and technol- ogy, the balance of our civilization be- comes ighly precarious. If world which has known the phenomenon of a Hitler and his cult cannot grasp the sig nificance of that warning, we have little hope indeed of fighting ourselves"
 The worlds problems are not going to be settled by helicopters, television, cleo ironically heated houses or plaStics. They will be settled, whenever they are settled, by better understanding of man as an individual and as a component of society. of his needs and rights and duties. Who is to achieve this understanding? Not only the rulers of men, certainly, but as many of the John Does of the world as have the mental capacity to receive it. As long as there is need for such under standing, there will be {. need for liberal arts colleges. They are needed to teach the world perspective and reason, to help the world pick itself up after such a conflict as this, and pursue with little more wisdom the distant hope that every war will be the last one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-13
National Service Insurance

Postwar planners, officials and other wise, are senSibly devoting much of their attention to the problems that will con- front the returning veteran. And now might be good time to remind actual and potential veterans, at the risk of repeating Army and Navy lessons, that there is something they can do for them selves. That is to convert their wartime insurance to a permanent peacetime form within the prescribed time, and to keep up their payments on it. Many veterans of the last war failed to do this, and doubtless regretted it later. There are now less than 100000 policies of World War I-type life insurance in effect .(nlany of which were taken out by mem- hers of the peacetime forces after the war and before October, 1940) although A. 500,000 policies were written in 1917-19. It is unlikely that there will be similar discrepancy of figures in this war. The services are seeing to it that their men ard women are more insurance-Wise. Yet the insurance officers" with the fighting forces are officers with other more inn portant and immediate duties. Soldiers and sailors obviously have plenty to think about in their day-to-day duties. So some policies will unavoidably lapse. For
  present and future veterans and their families may not be unjustified.
 National service insurance is originally five-year policy which should be applied for within 120 days afte induction. After the first year and before the end of the fifth, the policy should be converted to one of three types - ordinary, 2O-pay- ment or 30-payment life insurance. There are many advantages to continue wartime insurance in peacetime. It is less expensive than the usual type. It pro- videS for waiver of premium payments during periods of disability. There is no caSh-surrender charge, and loan and cash xalueS start building after the first year. There are other advantages, too. But perhaps the most compelling reasons are that the discharged service man or woman does not need to take physical examination when this war-service inSur- ance is converted, and does not have to pay higher premium for occuaptlonal reasons.
 All this sales talk is not meant to dis parage civilian insurance, and should not be so construed. National service in- Surance is not money-making proposl- ton for the Veterans Administration, which issues it, or for the taxpayer. It doesn't intend to be competitive. Issued in monthly payments, it probably will not meet most families complete insurance needs. National service insurance might rather he conceived of as offering bene- fits in the nature of a bonus, in return for modest payment. Care should be taken that these benefits are not lost through oversight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-13
A Better Record

The American Civil Liberties Union has totted up the score of prosecutions "for utterances or publications alleged to ob- Struct the conduct of the war" since De- cember 2, 1941, as against Ire record in World War l. The result shows that, in the approximate time we were in the last war (to the end of August, 1943) there had been 26 federal cases involving 13O persons, as against nearly 1000 cases and sare than 1,500 persons in 1917-18.
 Granted that the Justice Department may have done some dilly-dallying in some instances, the report is generally encouraging. The splendid records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation balks any charge that the government has been lax in it's pursuits of sedition. The con trasting figures rather go to prove that the country views the whole question Of disloyalty with more sanity than in the last war, when authority was confused and divided, when wild-eyed amateur Hawkshaws were numerous and unre- strained, and the mere possession of German name brought suspicion and, on many occasions, violence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-13
Battle of France

We hear so much of factional strife within the provisional French govern ment that we are likely to forget the unity, the bravery, and the growing strength of the underground within France itself It was something of sur prise, then, to read of a report presented to the French Consultative Assembly in Algiers in which it was disclosed that it is the underground now, and not the oc- cupying Nazis, that is presenting ultl- matumS.
 After patriots blew up powder factory and German-requisitione hotel in Gren- oble, the Nazis seized 300 hostages. The patriots told them to release the prisoners or expect reprisals. The NaziS refused, and the patriots then blew up German barracks, killing 22O and injuring 15O.
 This is as encouraging as the squabbles of De Gaulle, Giraud, ct al., have been disheartening And it lends strength to the appeal uttered by an escaped member of the underground to the assembly: we want you, too, to be as united as we are.
 With the French patriots accomplish ing so much against frightful odds, IL seems little enough for their provisional government to give them assurance or appreciation and common aim, and to let them know that political pickering will be adjourned until the great coming battle is won.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-13
Views Of The Press
A NEW RUBBER SOURCE
(Hartford Courant)

Three Canadian Government scientists have announced the de- velopment on an experimental scale of a new process for securing rub Der and certain resins, vital war priority materials, from the mashed pulp of milkweed, dogbane and kindred plants. This method, known aS "bubble-floating," is somewhat reminiscent of the Notation process employed in separating metals from their ores. The mashed and ground vegetable matter is agitated in a mechanical or pneumatic Notation container. A Spurt of fine air bubbles is injected into the mixture. Attaching themselves to the rubber-resin particles, these bubbles carry the recovered material to the surface. The concentrated froth is thereupon removed from the top.
 According to these Canadian ex- perimenters no additional chemical reagents are necessary in order to separate rubber and rsein from milkweed. Some reagents are used, however, to secure results when treating other vegetable matter. Goats beard. sow-thistle. wild let. tuce and several othT plants have been found to be further valuable sources. The process is. of course,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-13
College of the Future c

On the occasion of Colgate Universitys l25th anniversary, Dr. Everett Needham Case, its president, issued report which roughly outlines the university's plans for the future. It might seem that such plans are of no immediate concern. After all, the worlds biggest war is far from won, and our tremendous task of eco homie readjustment is still largely mat ter of blue-prints and conjecture. But the country's colleges have their own ''re- conversion" problems, too. Few of them have escaped the diSruptive influence Of war. At Colgate large percentage ol the faculty was called into service or to more necessary jobs. The civilian stu dent body was reduced by almost nine ,enfhs. New studies and new emphasis
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-13
BAKED, BOILED OR MASHED
(New York Herald Tribune)

The big, mealy baked potato, bursting in steaming beauty below dash of paprika, need no longer be looked upon in horror by the pleasingly plump. For potatoes, de- clares the Department of Agricul- ture, backed up by battalions of food experts and list of calories, are not fattening. One can but clasp deceived and guarded waist line and stand aghast! Why. one demands. has this secret been kept so long from world of timid, expanding diners, who have been led to look upon the potato as the producer Of Goering silhouette? It is to be ima- gined, for instance, that a fair sized and avoidable potato is no more fattening than a large red apple or four humble prunes? It is to be imagined and "so is, answer the dietectic solons. And they calm ly add that the potato has too long been a scapegoat. a whipping post and a sometimes burnt offering. For 1t really Is as economical, delicious and harmless a vegetable as ever adorned a blue plate special or maddened a K. P. And here we have been stufflng tasteless spin. ach. underdone beets and overdone carrots down our throats all these potatoless years. believing - of course. in vain-that we might re- main sylphlike by such inward har- rowing.
 The answer from Washington is that 1t is not what we eat, but how much we eat. that strains us at the seams. It is the little more and how much 1t is that ruins us. If we ration ourselves to no more than a proper daily intake of cal- orics, we can devour these baby heat units in any form we like whether in potatoes. bread, beef. steak eff any) or spring duam stew of we get the spring). All this being understood, let the diner no longer rage and the weighing ma. chimes imagine a vain thing. De- finitely. absolutely. potatoes are not fattening. The pride of Idaho. the mint of Maine. the joy of Ireland, has ct last come into It's own.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-13

He is ae Walters of Harlan, Iowa, a grain and feed mer- chant. He replaces cx-COngreSS- man McKeOugh, who recently re- signed to become Midwest pOii- tical leader for the CIO.
 Walters, former Des Moines OPA district direcotr, doubtless has many excellent qualifications. However, the manner of his ap- pointment was peculiar. OPA re- gional administrators are sup posed to be taken from theh top of a Civil Service list. There were fifty-six names on the list, of which seven men at the top were considered qualified. Walters name was well down the list, among the 49 considered unqualified because of lack of experience.
 Among those at the top were Alex Elson, OPA regional attorney and acting administrator for the Chicago region; Frank Marsh, who recently resigned as Deputy Administrator for Field Opera tions; Michael F. Mulcahy, Chi- cago OPA district director and the choice of Mayor Kelly. In the past, Chicago has picked the re- gional administrator because there are 5,0OO,00O people in the Chi cago area and only 100000 In the remainder of the region.
 However, in this case, someone reached down, too Walters name from low on the Civil Service list and put it among the three top men. Tip-Off on how this was done may be the fact that Walters is the buddy of Jake More, Democratic chair man for Iowa. They grew up together in the same town. Also, it is significant that Senator Gillette, not OPA Administrator Chester BOwles, announced Wal ters' appointment.
 NOTE: Morale in the Chicago office was shot as result of Wal ters' appointment. However, he has been getting to work at 7:3O a. m. and seems to be making things move.
 Copyright, 1914, by United
 Feature Syndicate, lnc0
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-13

Architects will perhaps develop their ideas on a smaller scale. You can be sure the three-floor home and even the tWo- floor home will have been quite eftaced by presently popular one-floor residences. Many large homes of the style built dur- ing the last twenty-five, thirty or forty years have gone through a face-liftlng process. Made into three and four room apartments, and given different tront, they look neat and tidy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-13

hitting Major General Levin Campbell, Chief of Ordnance, who graduated from Annapolis hut later joined the Coast Ar
 tillery and has been in the Army ever since.
 It was Campbell who decen- tralized the somewhat moribund Ordnance Department shortly af- ter Pearl Harbor, moving ammun- ition to St. Louis, automotive vehicles to Detroit, safety and Se- curity to Chicago, artillery car- riages to Rock Island, H.. and getting things away from Wash ington where, as he says, People are always breathing down your neck"
 It was Campbell who cleared the decks for the famous bazooka anti- tank gun. Though he has been criticized for not developing an airplane rocket gun similar to the Germans weapon, it was really General "Hap" Arnold, chief of the Air Forces, who failed to talk eac- tion on the airplane rocket gun when its feasibility was propose' several years ago by Arnold'S arcn- critic, Major Seversky.
 Actually, the Ordnance De- partment has to be guided by what the fighting services want. They never get credit for the new inventions they develop" according to Assistant Secretary of War McClOy, "but if they ever miss one, they catch he'll" OPA POLITICS
 The last Iowa Democrat to run for reelection to the U. s. Sen- ate, charming Clyde Herring, was defeated partly because the Re- pubicans were in charge of OPA machinery in the State.
 Though Senator Guy Gillette, after a period of indecision, has now announced that he will not seek reelection. up until last week he and his cohorts appar- ently were taking precautions not to gun the same OPA risks as Sen ator Herring. A staunch Demo- cratic politico has just been placed in charge of all OPA administra- tion not only for Iowa but also for Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, and North and South
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-13
LEGAL PARADOX
(Catholic Transcript-HartfordD

(Catholic TranScript-Hartford)
 The paradox of international law is that while it may be international it is not real law by any accurate definition. A law is rule of cus- tom made obligatory by some au- thority having power to enforce adequate sanctions against its violation. Between sovereign na- tions no such power and no such sanctions exist. Until they do eX- ist an international law is at most an agreement between sovereign nations terminable at will by any one of them.
 When We talk of international law being violated in war time by a na- ton we are talking of an illusion. These so-called violations. whether they concern the treatment of pris. onerS, the use of gas or the bonlb- ing of cities are in reality merely acts repugnant to our own standards of what is right and honorable. To an enemy with different and lower standards our ideas and ideals of international law are neither signi. ficant nor important until we en. force them by weight of arms.
 England now has over 17,1O0OO0 Post Office Savings Bank depos. itorS.