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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-10
SYNOPSIS

Mary Norman, attractive widow
and successful decorator, was de-
lighted when Judith Lambert,
daughter of an old friend, dropped
in 10 see her. Judith, whose home
is in Califoria, is en- route TO Maine
for the summer. The families had
been neighbors before Judith's
father died. She asked for Mary's
son, DR.. Matthew Norman, adding,
He was my first erush-bnt he
didn't know I existed" Mary told
her that Matthew plans to have his
own Office soon. Judith promised
to stop off again on her way home
in the fall. AS Mary dressed for
dinner with Lynn Mortimer, long
her devoted friend, she INDUCED in
a little mental matchmaking anent
Judith and her SON
CHAPTER THREE
When Lynn Mortimer came in, he
found Mary at the piano. He heard
her playing as Kate, smiling,
opened the door and took his hat.
He said, walking into the living
ROOM. Don't stop playing; why
that music is as cool and restful as
a dip in a forest pool"
He sat down on the piano bench
beside her, kissing her smooth
cheek lightly. where's Matthew"
he wanted TO know.
II haven't the least idea. He
wasn't sure that he'd be here"
"Good!" declared Lynn heartily.
Much as l admire and like your
boy, Mary, haven't seen you alone
for donkey's years"
Nonsense. How about the st.
Regis roof last weels?"
I'VE were hardly alone" he said
gravely. Lord, I'm tired" he put
his hand to his thinning blond hair
land it's been so hot"
She asked, "Are you spending the
weekend on the Island ?"
- Il suppose so; Rita always raises
sin if ! don't come down. Much as
l love my child and her children"
he said, II find that a weekend in
the country is pretty strenuous
affair. Golf with Fred, and a swim,
and people dropping in for cocktails.
And the kids can be pretty wearing.
You know by experience the place
isn't very big. For relaxation give
me my apartment with no one to dis
turb me and the phone turned
off :"
Lynn was fifty and a successful
lawyer. He had a married daughter
and two grandchildren. His wife
had been in an asylum for twenty
years and for fifteen Of those, Lynn
Mortimer had been in love with
Mary Norman. He had never told
her so, but she knew it
How was Detroit?"
~Hot."
~And your business there?"
Unsatisfactory. Everyone's sort
of simmering down, ! suppose, after
the changes and upheaval the
country's in a state Of fiux."
He had his drink and presently
they went into the white and beige
dining room and had their dinner.
Lynn said, II thought about thea
ter seats :. but you've seen every
thing worth seeing. And, besides,
l don't know about Matthew"
~ thought he'd phone" She was
silent moment and the candlelight
was kind to her oval face and long
gray eyes and dark shining hair.
"What are you thinking abort?"
be demanded.
was matchmaking" She looked
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-10
Youths Confess
Series Of Thefts

Ann Arbor, Mich. Aug. 10 The
confession OF footing between 10
and Is cars, by Isaac Williamson,
IS. Willow Village, and BARLEY
German, 81. Belleville, who were
arrested on suspicion while driving
without lights early Wednesday
morning. was the result of ques.
tioning by Ann Arbor police. The
arrests were made about 3:15 a. m.
by Patrolman William Krasny and
Sgt. Alfred Toney, who became
suspicious OF the German car as
it travelled down Fuller St. near
the Municipal Golf Course without
lights. Stopping the car, the ar
resting officers stated that they
noticed the back seat Of the vehicle
covered with an array of goods
consisting Of everything from fish.
ing tackle to golf clubs and tires.
On being questioned. the two de.
MED any theft, and claimed the
fishing tackle was their own which
they were taking home after
week at lake near Dexter. and the
purses found In the car belonged
TO their girl friends. they said.
When they realized that their
stories did not compare, both con
fessed to the thefts, which were
made in the vicinity Of Observatory
st. and ~ University Ave.
The stolen articles were being
held at the voiice station pending
identihcatic The police were
able 10 lo, re of the looted
cars. and we're left for the
owners TO police headquar-
tiers.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-10

DETROIT-INS-- A strike in
which the men did not know
why they were walking out Wed.
nesday halted production OF vital
ball turrets for bombers at the
Briggs Manufacturing Company's
Outer Drive plant. throwing 1900
employees into idleness.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
Invites More Strikes

If the settlement Of the railway wage dis
pute offered a guarantee against more strikes
or threats OF strikes for the duration of the
war there would be reason to sing hosannas
But the fact is, the settlement invites more
strikes. AS result OF it United States Steel
has asked that its wage controversy be turned
over at once to the War Labor board
Ever since John L. Lewis cracked the little
steel formula the strike menace has grown
greater. Now, with railroad employees in all
categories successful in their campaign for
higher wages, with the administration sur.
rendering again as it did to Lewis, we may
expect more and more strikes unless the Con-
gress passes legislation which will put an ef-
fective curb on them
The administration has shown itself incap-
able OF dealing with the labor situation. It is
up to Congress to enact laws that will, whether
by universal service act or other means. It
appears that President Roosevelt's request for
such law was rejected too quickly.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
Keep An Eye On Eden

Prime Minister Winston Churchill is back
on his big job in London after his long seige
of pneumonia, which required him to spend a
period Of recuperation in the Middle East aft
er the Teheran conference. It is reported that
he now appears to be in good health and that
his vigor is undiminished
Because Of his inspiring influence upon the
British people and his leadership in the Allied
cause, this is good news. At the same time
it must be apparent that the strain upon his
constitution occasioned by his grave illness
will require that he husband his strength more
carefully than it has been his custom to do in
the past. This will require that he share some
of the responsibilities he has shouldered here
tofore with other Britons acquainted with the
problems still to be solved in connection with
the war and in the interest Of a lasting peace.
Otherwise, in view of his age and the ravages
OF disease, he is all too likely to collapse.
It is the opinion Of close observers of Brit
ish governmental trends that in whatever d.
vision Of responsibilities he may decide upon.
Anthony Eden is his Ikeliest deputy This
opinion is based not only on the close friend
ship existing between the two, but also on
Sir Anthony's intimate knowledge of world
affairs and keen perception OF the problems
that await solution. Probably, in concert with
Mr.. Churchill, he knew better than any Eng
1ishmn in public life, certainly better than
Prime Minister Chamberlain, what Hitler was
up to in the years preceding his attack on
Poland When the Chamberlain government
fell after the invasion Of Norway and the Low
Countries there was in some circles talk of
making him premier. He has long enjoyed a
high place in American regard a circum-
stance not to be overlooked in these tenn
pestuous times when Britain must rely upon
us to support the cause of democracy as no
other of the United Nations can.
When Prime Minister Chamberlain retired,
Mr.. Churchill was indisputably the man to
succeed him. But it is reasonable to think that
Sir Anthony Eden, the foreign minister in the
Churchill government, will take on new duties,
if not immediately then in the near future
He will bear watching.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
Transport Troubles

In the course of its lengthy annual report
to Congress, the Interstate Commerce Com
mission issued a solemn warning that our
overburdened rail, water and highway trans
portation system would need new materials,
equipment and personnel if our whole war
program were to be saved from grave con-
sequences.
Now that the production Of war materials
appears to be more satisfactory" the report
states, those responsible for the ALLEGATION
OF materials will no doubt give consideration
to the needs Of equipment for transportation
agencies
1t is good to know that some such considera-
ton has already been given. In the last quar-
ter OF 1943, the War Production Board allocat-
ed to truck and auto parts manufacturers
the second largest amount of steel of any
similar period in the industrys history. That
is only first step, of course. which leaves
the equally important problems of manufac-
turing facilities and personnel still unsolved.
put IL does show an aWareness of critical sit
uatlon, and an effort to keep 'em rolling"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20

OF medicine or any other profession ould
start us backward to the dark ages"
Proponents of socialized medicine cannot ex-
pect the very same doctors who now vehe-
mently protest the destruction of their free
dom, to don the shackles of legislation such
as the Wagner-Murray bill and continue to
serve with unimpaired efficiency. The doctors
have tradition of freedom behind them just
as have the rest Of us. They are used to liv-
ing in and being part of society of free
men. In proposing to set them apart from
this. society. we have confronted them with
an appalling prospect. Is it any wonder they
rebel? Who wouldn't?
We cannot destroy the economic freedom
of doctors, any more than we can destroy
the freedom of any other group. and expect
unrestricted medical achievement. This fact
might as well be faced. All the laws and
bureaucratic DEGREES in the world won't give
the nation first class medical service. Only the
doctors can do that; and they can only when
there is opportunity for individual progress
and achievement.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
ICC Report On ACL Wreck

AS anticipated in these columns Immediate
ly after the collision Of Atlantic Coast Line
trains near Rennert when Y lives were lost
and 1877 persons injured, the Interstate Com
Ynerce Commission Investigators have found
that inadequate warning to the approaching
northbound train was given by the fireman of
the stalled southbound trim.
News articles in the first days after the
wreck revealed that the fireman had started
out with a fusee but fell and broke it and
thereafter depended upon his lantern to flag
down the northbound train. The ice report
says that although the fireman Stated that
he gave stop signals with lighted red lantern
these signals were not given from a position
where they were visible to the engineman on
No. (northbound).''
The wreck has been accounted for Re-
sponsibility seems to have been placed Now
what the railroads going to do to prevent
a repetition? Human life even in wartime
is too precious to be subjected to unneces
sary risks. Airplane operating companies have
reduced the hazards to their passengers by
using two-way radios. The same service is
available to the rail lines. Is it to much to
expect them to include the radio in their
standard equipment?
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
Ounce Of PrecautiOn

IAN ounce Of precaution is priceless when
there is no cure"
Thus might the old adage well be revised
for the war against infantile paralysis. For il
is on this theory that the American people
for ten years have contributed their dimes
and dollars to fight a vicious and mysterious
enemy on the home front.
In many communities the 1914 Annual Fund
Raising Appeal of the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis will be in the nature of a
Thanks giving - an expression of Divine
thanks that they escaped the fury of the
worst epidemic to hit this nation in twelve
years. Only twice before in the recorded his
tory OF the disease in the United States have
there been such serious outbreaks as that of
1943, with more than $4,000 cases reported.
But the generosity of the American people
in celebrating President Roosevelts Birthday
last year made possible quick and effective
action against this disease which ran rampant
Colorado and other states.
Speedy help for those stricken was made
available by local chapters of the National
Founoation covering nearly 5000 of the ma
tons 1910 counties, even as scientists-aso
supported in their work by those same dimes
and dollars-sought further clues to the ident-
ity of the elusive crippler
Last year the American people provided
that ounce OF precaution by their contribu-
tons. It could not be an ounce of prevention
because there is no known preventive for the
disease But that ounce of precaution was
priceless because there is no known cure for
poliomyelitis.
Another old adage might also be revised
for the 1nfantile Paralysis Appeal now under
way-"A dime or dollar given may be a
child's life saved''
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
TIE Literary Guidepost

before he could explain the entire
matter. 1t was simple matter
the Chinese either could not or
would not properly police the road
so that, he says, brigandage,
smuggling, squeeze, and murder
were rampant and enormous heaps
of Lend-Lease and other material
simply rotted Oh tn Rangoon
docks while cosmetics and other
high-profit goods went through.
The Burmese campaign was like
joke so obscene that the nearer
thereof promptly loses his lunch.
Stowe makes the gravest charges
OF inefficiency and stupidity
against Sir Reginald Dormaa-
Smith, the governor. He saws a
dry rot began Remarkably at the
top and ran down through the gov
erning set-up to the army com
mand and lower.
1t takes more than confer
ence at Teheran and an encour-
aging vote in the Senate to pro-
vide a working basis with Russia.
ne says. 1t is his prediction that
after the war, all Europe will
move to the left, partly because
Hitler has liquidated the middle
class one way or another. And he
argues if we blame Russia or the
Comlntern for this, we are stpid.
He also believes we would be cut
ting our not so lily-white threats.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
Raymond Clapper Says:
Jungle Papers Appeal
To Troops In Pacific

and Brisbane, which are as far
from the front as Cairo is from
London, but there is little up here.
Soldiers are forced pretty much to
'walkee walkee," which is the ma
tive way of spending Sunday. 1t
consists of walking from where the
natives work to visit their relatives
several miles away. Soldiers off
duty walk and hitchhike, but there
are not many places to go. Only
about a thousand white people liv-
ed in eastern New Guinea before
the war.
Il you are lucky enough to be
near Port Moresby you can go to
fine coral sand beach where the
Australian services have a canteen
for enlisted men. The Sunday
was there, there were several
thousand men either in the water
or around the canteen.
There has been one sport -
around the open-dredge gold pits
at Wau. Work stopped there when
the war began. Now American and
Australian soldiers have been pick
ing through the gravel pits, finding
small bits of gold which they are
hammering into rings and other
ornaments.
1t would be just an American
soldiers luck in this place to find
gold, which is just as useless out
here as it is in the States, where
we bury it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
Old Shoe Exchange

Whatever statistics may show to the con-
trary parents know their children's feet grow
fastest. No sooner are they newly shod than
the shoes they have on are too small--or so
it seems. And in this day when rationing is
king, coupons are not to be had for larger
ones. Keeping children in shoes is one Of the
little tragedies of this war.
Or it was until the Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton of the Forest Hills school found a remedy.
It is not infallible, but parents worries are
considerably lessened by it. The association
has set up a used shoe exchange at the
school, where outgrown shoes may be traded
for larger ones. The exchange is open for a
part of Monday afternoons.
It comes as near filling want as anything
we have heard Of in these difficult times.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
BY JOHN SELBY


Ian Stowe (Knopf; S3).
Leland Stoves They Shall Not
Sleep is one of the greatest jobs
of reporting to come out of this
war, reporting in the grand style
as good and as useful as John
Hersey's more particularized,
small scale, work. Top rank re-
porting is much more than a mere
matter of ascertaining pertinent
fact and expressing it clearly. A
good reporter gets through to the
spirit of his subject, and express
es that as well. The word journal
istic. as patronizingly applied by
the T. S. Eliots of this world,
should actually be the trademark
of first grade, four dirnensional, re-
porting. Mr.. Stoves book begins
IN China, and swings back to Rus
STA through Burma and India
and some way stations. It's best
parts, for me, are the sections on
the Burma Road, on the Burmese
campaign" if . could be called
such, and his sober but surpass-
ingly honest and shrewd chapters
On Russia.
Stowe almost precipitated an
international scandal when he
wrote about the Burma Road two
years ago. He said it was a rack
ct, but the censors stopped him
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
That Extra $10O Bond

The reasonable hope is that everybody will
buy an extra 500 war bond during this fourth
bond campaign If this is done in Wilmington
and New Hanover county. and Conservatory
estimating the combined population at loo''
000 sales will reach 10000, 900. With the goal
less than half this amount, such an investment
would result in more than double suoScrlp-
ton of the community's quota.
Mavbe this is too much to ask. Maybe we
have not vet acquired the sacrifcial ardour
for victory that would lead US all to 60 with
out some cherished luxury to make victory
more certain and in shorter time. Maybe the
new budget has scared some OF us win us
prospect of higher taxes. But if we allow any
of these things to deter us from buying more
bonds we are standing in our own light and
so putting our best prospect for future Sc
curity in the shadow.
For money invested now In war bonds are
our best guarantee against want later on. Too
much emphasis cannot be placed upon the IN
vestrnent aspect Of war bond buying. No fear
of an increasing tax burden should interfere
with bond purchases. No sacrifice to buy that
extra one SnOulQ De 100 great IoI ue W IIldhe.
AS sure as night follows day, if we do not
increase our bond buying now. the money we
would have invested in them, and which will
come back with interest after decade, will
be taken from us through direct taxation and
we will get no return The war, which alone
can bring us national and personal security,
must be paid for and We alone can foot the
bill. We may do it in part by buying bonds
or we can do it in full through taxes 1t
would be stupid to forego the recovery of
part Of our outlay, with interest, and pay
the whole cost without recovering a penny.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
Daily Prayer
FOR HELPERS IN SERVICE

FOX HELPERS IN SEhti"A
To manifold forms of service ~
our Cause Thou hast called gfeas
multitudes of men and women
Lord our Leader. We pray l0I
them all today, that, whether int!
fight on the battlefront or serve
the fighters, or labor in INDUSTRY
or keep watch as Wardeas OF I"'
sky, or nurse the sick or man,
tain the home front, they may o'
sustained by a spirit of OF con-,
secration to our Country ana ~
Thee. Save them from slacAehA.5
under monotony's pressure y,
yielding to physical WEAKNESS VI
spiritual dimness. As patriots w.
voted to the great ends OF IND
war may their spirits be man,
tanned Oh a high level. Leu ~
doubt of the Country'S Loyalty anu
cooperation corrode their mlhos'
Reward them with the clear cOn.
viction that they serve togesns,
with Thee, for ends which L49a
hast declared holy. By fldeI ~.
in war may they be equipped r IL.
the greater tasks Of peace d Il,'
we ask in the name of the O''
penter Christ. Amen.-W.T.E.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-20
By RAYMOND CLAPPER

SOMEWHERE IN NEW Gull
NEA, -(by wireless)- The one
man staff of the soldier newspa
per here, Guinea Gold" is Maj.
Reginald Leonard. And he is not
the least among the heroes of this
rugged Southwest Pacific war.
Major Leonard is a former Mel
bourne newspaper man who per-
huaded the Australian Army to de-
tail him to print and distribute
free to all soldiers a daily news
paper.
In one year he has built up
distribution of 5000. He prints an
American edition of $4,000 at .Doba-
dura, flying the copy over the
Owen Stanley Mountains to small
printshop that has been improvis-
ed. The remainder are printed in
the ramshackle shop of a former
small weekly paper in Port Mores-
by, which looks like an old country
weekly shop in, the Middle West
where I worked as a boy.
The one wheezy linotype broke
down, and much of the type that
was on the makeup stone when I
was there was handset. The paper
is printed on a rafting flatbed
cylinder press, fed by hand.
This clean-cut young Australian
Horace Greeley is one to make
William Allen White proud. He
wangled his print paper out of the
Americans; also a delivery truck.
When the army took away his
editorial assistants he got out the
paper alone, seven days a week.
A Sunday two-color comic by the
Australian Dick Banks is the most
popular comic in the area. Editor
Leonard cadges the plates for his
comics from Brisbane papers and
prints them on his own little press.
Recently he took a poll of soldiers
on the pin-up pictures which he
had been printing in his Sunday
paper. The vote unexpectedly went
against the pin-ups. The soldiers
told him to print war news instead.
The editor, puzzled, found that the
real explanation was that the SOL
diers preferred the slick girl art OF
the magazines to the rough cuts
on newsprint which were the best
Guinea Gold'' could provide. I'm
daunted, Editor Leonard put in this
week a picture of Betty Cradle
in a bathing suit.
The Americans give him an Ar
my news summary, and he gets
Brisbane newspaper copy, so his
small four-page paper produces
good coverage.
The Journalistic urge must be
widespread, because many little
mimeograph soldier newspapers
are put out all around this theater
of operations. One Texas outfit is
sues alamo NNews," and at one
airfield the men put out Fighter
Cover" with personal items about
the field.
Milne Bay radio station, which
calls itself the Mosquito Network.
The theater also has it's own little
If has its own news commenta
tor and plays old scratchy records.
It's all very informal. E.
At Dobadura, one of the air.
fields, there is a small one-man
radio station for entertainment. Its
records wore out. Word got back
to Washington about it, and a
month or two later package
came from Casey Jones, manag-
ing editor of The Washington Post,
with a new record which proved
to be Sousa's, famous washington
Post March, Casey is carrying
his promotion campaign pretty far
out
Men are thrown back on reading
and the radio because recreation
facilities are limited. The Red
Cross has elaborate hospitality :,
services in Melbourne, Sydney