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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02
THE WORLDS LARGEST
LIBRARY SYSTEM!

Did you know that the Army. in
Guiding it's Libraries overseas and in
the United States. has the largest
library system in the world? 1t OPP
crates 1000 libraries and owns more
than eight million books, and both
figures are constantly increasing.
Monthly, the Army receives many
thousands of magazines and newspa-
pers and purchases huge quantities
of pamphlets and maps" 1t would
require hundreds of miles Of shelly
ing TO accommodate the books
alone!
The Army Library cat home" In
the United States may be housed in
the camps recreation center, but
is often in a separate and attractive
building-often built by the soldiers
themselves. 1t has a professionally
trained Camp Librarian, who is aid
ed by WACS or soldier assistants.
The number Of volumes will vary
with the camp. At Truax Field,
Madison, Wisconsin, Their are 3d.
600 volumes. Miss Wick, Camp Lii
brarian at Camp Lee, Virginia, says
of that library: AT present the
book collection consists Of over 5000
volumes, 700 Of which were gifts and
the remainder purchases. The L.
brary receives regularly fifty mag
azines and ten newspapers, includ-
ing representative ones from the
principal cities of the East. AT first
a good collection of books of gen.
eral interest was built up; then SCI
entific and technical books were
added in increasing quantities. The
reference collection is particularly
strong. Besides the latest encyclo-
pedias, dictionaries and aliases.
there are many reference works on
specific subjects helpful to the SOL
der in finding information he needs.
Many reference questions are an
swered by telephone"
Miss Wick tells of the time a re-
cruit came into the library and tim
idly asked her If she could help
him define love" in poetic terms
for his girl friend. He was alarmed
when about twenty pages Of quota
tons from the worthless we're shown
him. In awed tones he exclaimed:
"Goshl That's enough to get fell
low married."
Contrary to the opinion that
seems widespread, soldiers do not
confine their reading habits to COM
ic books and dime thrillers. IN
doubtedly some do read such publ.
cations exclusively, but they are ir
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02
Librarians
attend annual
Convention

Miss Hazel Adair, librarian, and
Miss June Schroeder, cataloger, at
the Bacon Memorial Library at
tended the annual convention of the
Michigan Library Association, held
at the Pantlind Hotel in Grand
Rapids, Oct. 1928. The theme of
the convention was THE Postwar
Library" The Importance of educa-
ton for the general public and the
library's contribution toward the
freedom of ideas" was stressed.
The most thought-provoking
speaker, according to the returning
librarians was Max Lerner, Russian
born American authority on sociol-
ogy and politics. One of the editors
of The Encyclopedia of Social
Sciences, and q former Harvard
University lecturer. Max Lerner was
for three years editor of THE Ma
ton" and is now Professor of Politi-
cal Science at Williams College. Mr..
Lerner warned his audience that the
postwar world must be prepared to
offer jobs to the returned soldier,
the present war worker and the
young people Just leaving high
schools and colleges. These men,"
said Lerner, task only enough
money to make it possible for them
to marry, raise a family. have a
pleasant home and decent clothes.
We must make this possible for
them! If they can obtain these
things, peace may be possible for
US. Deny men these simple privileges
and you create the seeds Of revolu-
ton"
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02
Let's Be Ready for Peace!

Just few short weeks ago almost everybodyexcept to
be sure the Ills who fighting twas happily assr-
ing that the good over in Europe Many a
nmbe mind turned nylon stockings, refrigeratorS
-.
Now we at home know what the mud-sloggng infantry
had known all tme-hat the Siegfed Line is something
more than wavy mark the map, and that the Hitler
crazed Nazis fight like cornered rats they resemble
It's not over yet there. But in World War the
end might suddenly with the collapse of the German
home fron-and that is the prayer the lips of us all
Are better prepared today for the problems of peace
than we the Nazs running? There few
indications of it, the huge task of reconverg our industry
back to gradual peacetie basis which Americans can
earn more buy more through industrial pro-
duetion Is yet to be given direction
We haven't won the war-yet But In all conscience,
ysts be ready for the day when we do.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02
Is Years Ago In Wyandotte

forced the driver to give up his driv-
er's license. Two of the men then
drove off in the victims car. while
the other bandits left in their own
machine.
Two men attempted to stop the
car Of another local man, but the
driver knocked one Of the men down
and then locked him in the Quarry
Lumber company office until the
police came.
Wayne county's tax rate was set
at s1.46 as against the rate Of $1.6S
for the previous year The state
tax rate jumped from sl.6s TO $3.5S.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02

Coleman B. Ross, who served dur
ing World War I as captain Of the
l48th Infantry, attached to the Bel
gian Army, was called to Cincinnati
where he was decorated by King
Albert of Belgium. He was awarded
the Belgian war cross with palm and
made an officer in the Order Of the
Crown.
Hold-up artists we're stopping au-
tomobiles nightly on lonely roads.
A quartette held-up a Wyandotte
man and his companions. took their
money and other valuables and
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02

Story Hour
at Library
First Of Series
Scheduled for Saturday

The first Of a series OF story hours
for children Of school age will be
held at ten o'clock Saturday morn
ing, November 4 at the Bacon
Memorial Library. Henceforth this
will be a regular, weekly event at
the library.
Miss Frances Thomas reveals that
the story hours planned for the next
few weeks will begin with group
singing and will include several
guest story-tellers. This week Miss
Thomas, herself, will give Joseph
Jacobs adaptation of the old Eng
lish folk-tale 1.-THE Buried Moon"
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02

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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02

goats to chew on. We gave him one.
"Hadji" is the Arab word used in
place of ".Sir" before the name of
anybody who has journeyed to Nee
ca and become holy. Seven journeys
to Kaisouan equal one to Mecca, so
We correspondents now go around
calling each other Hadji. since most
of us have crossed the city line more
than seven times.
Another word we've adopted Is
"djebel" It's Arabic for hill or
mountain. On the maps every knob
you see is Djebel This or Djebel
That. So we also call each other
Djebel, and If you think that's silly,
well, We have to have something to
laugh at.
We're now with an infantry out
fit that has battled ceaseleSsly for
four days and nights.
This northern warfare has
been I'm the mountains. You
don't ride much any more. 1t
IS walking and climbing and
crawling country. The noun
tains aren't big, but they are
constant. They are largely tree
less. They are easy to defend
and bitter to take. But we are
taking them.
The Germans lie on the back slope
of every ridge, deeply dug into fox
holes. In front of them the fields
and pastures are hideous with
thousands of hidden mines. The
forward slopes are left open, unten-
anted, and if the Americans tried to
scale these slopes they would be
murdered wholesale in an inferno
Of machine-gun crossfire plus NOR
tarS and grenades.
Consequently we don't do it that
way. We have fallen back to the
old warfare of first pulverizing the
enemy with artillery. then sweeping
around the ends of the hill with in
fantry and taking them from the
sides and behind.
Our artillery has really been SEN
sational. For once we have enough
of something and at the right time.
Officers tell me they actually have
more guns than they know what to
do with.
All the guns in any one sector
can be centered to shoot at one
spot. And when we lay the
whole business on German
hill the whole slope seems to
erupt. II becomes an unbeliev-
able cauldron of fire and smoke
and dirt. Veteran German SOL
diers say they have never been
through anything like it.
love the infantry because they
are the underdogs. They are the
mud-rain-frost-an wind boys. They
/ AAohC AiO SOAiiAOl W, dlll- IllCy even
learn to live without the necessi-
ties. And in the end they are the
guys that wars can't be won with
out.
I wish you could see just one Of
the ineradicable pictures I have in
my mind today. In this particular
picture I am sitting among clumps
of sword-graSs on a steep and rocky
hillside that we have just taken.
We are looking out over a vast roll
ing country to the rear.
A narrow path comes like q rib
bon over hill miles away, down
q long slope, across a creek, up q
slope and over another hill.
All along the length Of this
ribbon there is now a thin line
of men. For four days and
nights they have fought hard.
eaten little, washed none, and
slept hardly at all. Their nights
have been violent with attack,
4 fright butchery, and their days
sleepless and miserable with the
crash Of artillery.
! The men are walking. They are
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02

Ernie Pyle morning had come
and a hot sun was beaning down
into our squirting eyes.
And what should those sleepy
eyes behold but two Arab boys
standing right over our bedrolls,
holding out eggs. 1t was practically
like a New Yorker cartoon. For all
I know they may have been stand
ing there all night.
At any rate they had come to
the right place, for we were def
initely In the market for eggs.
They wouldn't sell for money
50 we dug into our larder box
and got four eggs in trade for
three little cellophane packets
of hard candy. Then we started
all over again and got four more
eggs for a pack of cigarettes.
We thought 1t a good trade, but
found later that the trading ratio
which the Germans had set up
ahead of us was one cigarette for
one egg. We Americans have to ruin
everything, Of course. But as one
tough-looking soldier said:
eff want to give $50 for an egg
It's my business and my $50. And
from all I've seen of Arabs an extra
franc or two amt gonna hurt them
any"
All this transpired before we had
got out of our bedrolls. But the
youthful traders didn't leave. AS we
were putting on our pants each boy
whisked q shoeshining box from
under his burnoose and went after
our shoes. Then when we started a
fire and were feeding it with sticks,
one of the boys got down and blew
on the flame to make it burn bet
ter. 1t was easy to see that we had
acquired a couple of body servants.
The boys were herding about
two dozen goats in some nearby
clover. Now and then one of
them would run over and chase
the goats back nearer to our
camp. We called our boy Mo-
manned and the other Abdul
Lab, which seemed to tickle
them. They were good-natured
happy boys Of about Is.
The boys told us in French that
the Germans had made them work
at an airport, opening gas cans and
doing general flunky work. They said
the Germans paid them 20 francs q
day, which is above the local scale
but 1t turned out they were Ger
man-printed francs, which of course
are now absolutely worthless.
Our self-appointed helpers
hunted sticks for us, poured wa
ter out OF our big can and
helped us wash our mess kits.
They kept blowing In the Ire,
they cleaned up all the scraps
around our bivouac, they lifted
our heavy bedrolls into the jeep
for US, and just as we were
ready to leave, they gave our
shoes . final brushing.
We paid them with three cigar.
cites and two sticks Of gum each
and they were delighted.
When we were ready to go We
shook hands all around, au-revoired
smiled and saluted. And then ont
Of the boys asked apologetically 4
We could give them one more thing
maybe. We asked what 1t was they
wanted. You'd never guess. H,
wanted an empty tin can for hi
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02

was finished and we were going to
the state fair for a day. And when
you have looked, goggle-eyed, all
day at more Germans than you ever
expected to see In your life, you
really feel as If you have been to a
fair.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02

Expansion Of the shale-oil plant
operated by the Swedish Navy and
which produces 10000 barrels Of oil
annually is planned with 81 900 bar
rels as the annual production goal.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02

g over our heads.
We were in a sort
of big ditch right
alongside an Adab
graveyard. B u t
neither the graves
nor the mosqui-
toes bothered us
that night. for we
were tired and
windburned, a n d
before we knew it
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1944-11-02
Ernie PyIe's Slant on the Var:
Arabs Profit by Yanks
Liberal Trading Policy
Infantry the Underdogs of african
Battles Carried on Without Fanfare
BY Ernie Pyle

Noie Pyle while he
African campaign He taking
a long needed in New Mexico.
NORTHERN TUNISIA-One night at Kairouan three of
correspondents finding the newly taken town filled with
newly arrived British and American troops just drove out
of the country and camped for the night We didn't
put up tent. We just slept in the open.
Evening star., 1944-09-10
MEHMIry

FLASH! We get tins tale from a
Camp Hale trooper: One of the
men. a Corporal Smith, was on out,
post patrol. He earned not iuSt a
walkv talky but a regular short wave
sending and receiving set Returning
from his mission, he got lost IN the
mountains FrantlCally, he tuned IN
the radio to get his bearings. heard
one of the Army plane pilots calling,
pilot to Peterson Field Pilot to
Peterson Field Motor dead at eight
thousand feet. Gliding Gliding
The soldier immediately began to
transmit: Corporal Smith to Com
mand Post Corporal Smith to Com.
mand Post Lost at twelve thousand
feet " alkrng. Walking
Evening star., 1944-09-10
MmHMMrk

MINSTREL. Joe Howard is the old
est living singing star today. Nearly
80 years old. Howard was the Bing
Crosby of his era. and still earns
$4,000 a year as headllner Of CBS's
Gay Nineties Revue" The septua-
genarian soloist neither looks nor acts
his age. Tall. stocky. Drowned. he
moves around with amazing agility.
And his voice is still good - mel
low whisky baritone. perfectly suited
to nostalgia rendltions OF Come.
Josephine. in My FLYING Machine
or After the Ball is Over" Most in
demand, though. is Howard's own
composition. Il Wonder Who's Kiss
ing Her Now" composed IN 1906,
and since sung by the composer about
100000 times. 1t sold 100000 cop
les and still sells 1000 year.
Its not my favorlte song, says
Howard who's written o24 of them.
Just grind-organ ditty."
HEYDAY. Born in Manhattan in
1867 Joe began writing musical come
dies at l8. In 1906 he had four mus-
cal hits running simultaneously IN
Chicago. Howard made S25O.OOO a
year. and spent it,
Il wouldn't have thought of drink
ing anything but champagne then.
he recalls. "Guzzled three bottles OF
it every day. too. They don't know
how TO make champagne like that
any more They don't know how to
write songs nowadays, or sing them
either. Fifty years ago they'd have
shot Slnatra at sunrise. Songs don't
come from the heart any more.
Evening star., 1944-09-10

STOP! They've been having trouble
at Navy alrhcld with a Wave on
sentry duty. They keep telling her
that when somebody approaches the
thing to say is Halt Who goes
there" not Stop or I'll scream
COVER: | ast year the Red Cross
collected 5,652. 1851 pmts OF blood.
That's a lot but the Army and
Navy say IT'S the war greatest HE
saver And despite European victor
les. they will have to increase that
figure by 100000 IN 1914. That
means the nations quota IS 100000
plnts a week. 50 remember your
biggest homc-tront lob. :'Glve Your
blood to save a life
Evening star., 1944-09-10

taste in newspapers and the Janltor went
into heated defense
For a quarter of an hour the Jaw took an
awful beating in that small, hot. Tautoue
room. A German would have sneered. an
EnglShman been scandallzed.
We went into court. listened to test-
mony for an hour, and then returned I"
our pen for recess. There was more shout
ed argument over baseball and news
papers. Two of our versatile group did a
buresque of the opposing attorneys. We
were called back to the courtroom. We
listened while the case was finished, and
then returned to the small. hot, Jury
chamber where We were locked up.
Inns time a very odd thing happened.
There was not a sound We sat down at
the table without a word. We waited for
our foreman - the printer - to speak.
The discussion which followed was order
", serious. judicial in every way. The
bolsterous young Dodger fan was the
quietest When called on. he gave his opln-
ion thoughttully and consclentously.
We were in general agreement, but the
engineer said, Now for the sake Of argu
ment and to make sure We haven't over
looked anything, III take the opposite
side - He did He made US slft all the ev-
denCe again in order to defend our con
cluslon. Presently We went back to the
courtroom and the foreman announced
our verdict in favor of the plaintiff
Now consider this Nobody knew to
what political party or what race the
plaintiff belonged, or what connections he
might have IN high places. The verdict
had heen arrived at by six American
citizens. picked b, lot. -oberl, aware
of ~hat the, we're doing and intent on
doing it the best the. could CALMLY
and without ceremony they were working
at a job whose object was justice
In A thousand other free American courts
the same job was being done Done with
out fanfare. Done as men do any other
Job. from gardening to rallroadng.
For a time these thousands OF run-0i-
the-mlll Americans put aside bias and
prejudice and fixed their eyes solely OF
the law and the evidence in order to settle
an argument
II this isn't our most important war
ann - the one on which all the freedoms
You wait to name depend IN the long ran
then what IS IL But only when vou
work at it lttlc while do YOU come t,
realize how terribly important It /,
Evening star., 1944-09-10
In a 5. courtroom
this author met real
democracy in action

I'VE JUST come off Job where saw our
i most important war aim at FIRST hand
| not only saw it, | worked at 1t. For two
weeks | worked at nothing else.
You will say, when | tell you what it
was. that this Job had nothing to do with
the war, that | might better have been
passing rivets or Grating motors. The fact
that this job filed me with excitement
and kind of awe may seem funny to you.
What did do? | served on jury. In
fact served on several jurles, because my
assignment was to MUNICIPAL court, where
the cases are small ones and the hearings
short. The longest lasted three days. One
was finished off in a couple of hours.
They were. >ou see. significant.
SO far as know. none of them was re-
ported in the papers. y ct each of those
cases had a dramatic Importance.
don't mean the importance to the
people involved don't mean the effect
which the lury's decision had on their
lives In fact, the decision - the finding
for plaintiff or defendant and the awarding
of damages was, in each case. kind
of incidental by-product
WHAT was really important - to the
people suing and the people being sued,
to YOU, and me, and all of US went on
in between Let me tell you about one case,
Six of us were picked by lot from
amongst the forty-odd jurors awaiting
assignment My community, like a good
many Others. follows the practice of using
slx-man juries in certain civil courts where
the cases do not involve large sums OF
money. This helps speed the procedure
while the two lawyers described the case
to US briefly and asked whether any of US
felt we couldn't deal with the evidence i'm
partially. We were all accepted,
The SIX of US made about as random a
catch as you could wish to find a printer,
drugstore cowboy. an engineer with the
face and charm of Elnsteln. college pro
fessor, a Janitor and your correspondent
We were shunted into small room
while the case was called. We grouscd at
the luck that had picked US for duty We
groWled at the heat Three OF US tel! into
loud and violent baseball argument. The
professor spoke slightlngly OF the )anltors
Evening star., 1944-09-10
Crosby had a predecessor

The ageless Howard now lives on
an estate at Baldwin. Long Island.
with his eighth wife and a l3-year-
old son He gives her credit for his
comeback. She started him rehearslng
his old songs, he got a job at Billy
Roses Diamond Horseshoe, ended up
radio star
joe has entertained slA generations
of Americans, but he doesn't feel at
all tired He says, As long as the
public wants TO hear Wonder Who's
Kissing Her Now can keep going
another seven hundred thousand
times" MAURICE zOL0Iow
Evening star., 1944-09-10
This Week Magazine

ARGENTINE UNDERGROUND ;...,. 4
BY Roy Jo,ephs
SERVANT PROBLEM NO.. :......'.. :
by kmo kfof
I'VE SAW HIM FIRST. ............... .
BY CeroId Mysoff
WAtLEk'S LITTLE LAMB .....,-.....' ~
BY MuieI R. Rof'ne'
MEETING Al POINT "1"......'.-.., -. 10
by Maurice 8eom
YOUR CHlLD'S PLAY ................... ~
by Henry Horoes Hort Nd
20 Ye AIRS AN OUTt AW ........ ...-.'.' ~
BY Eve Co,reffe
Evening star., 1944-09-10

Names and Descriptions Of all 'hafs'!e'S ,,,s
hrtion stories and semi-h'ton aIhoeh III
magazine are wholly imaguiatS' ANY IN
which hsup-us TO be the same that OF az
person l,vins or dead IS rnurely CONT
Evening star., 1944-09-10

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-11-02
Not Forgotten

international Photo
Sgt. George Loving, a
wounded veteran from Chi
cagO, holding out his hand
to his dog who runs to him.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-26
D5R Bus Hits
Cars, II Hurt

Eleven persons, including three
internal revenue bureau employees.
were injured today when a DSR
bus rammed into two automobiles
at Mt. Elliott and K. Lafayette.
The bus driver, Gwendolyn
Vaughn, 30, of II Alger, was
charged with reckless driving for
allegedly running a red light.
The internal revenue employees
who were riding in one automobile
are Lowell II. Orebaugh. AZ. Of as
Mckinley, Crosse Pointe Farms:
Arthur Koebel, 40. of 213 McKin-
ley, Crosse Pointe Farms, and
Ulrich H. Gerard, "A, of 236 Nc.
Kinley, Crosse Pointe Farms.
Bus passengers injured and
treated at Receiving Hospital are
Mary A. Wojcik, 80. of 1923 Kno-
dell; Agnes Stei. 80, of 1899 Van
Dyke; Geraldine Bouicske, 10. of
S041 Yolanda: Bernardine Hafeli,
rs. of S135 Sirron; Wilbur Garri
son. is, of 1854 Van Dyke: Ger.
trude MacKay, As, of 1888 Com
cord, and Miss Ellison Bard, 40,
of 1903 E. Jefferson. 49,
Rita Neapolitan, %. Of 1887
Maxwell. was treated by q private
physician.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-26

An attractive auburn haired.
blue eyed 35-year-old woman who
assertedly- lured three soldiers
into marriage to obtain allot-
ments from them was arrested
by the FBI today and charged
with violating the Soldiers De-
pendent Allowance Act. ~
The woman, according 10 De-
troit FBI Chief Robert Guerin. is
Mrs. Marion Horn. a dress de-
signer at 5755 6hene. who has
been living at 500 Blaine under
the name of Korene Marie Will
helm.
Declaring that she hw failed
TO obtain divorces from any Of
the three soldiers, Cuerin said
she was married first In Detroit.
July u, 1910, to Francis L. VIII
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-26

Their first appeal ignored, lead
ers of the bakery drivers of the
Transfers Union (AFL) today
planned a second appeal to the
union membership for compliance
with a War Labor Board directive
to end the strike which has cut
off supplies of bread TO virtually
all stores, restaurants and homes
in Detroit.
A union spokesman said that a
meeting would be
held at 3 p. m. today in the