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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-11
1880 p. m.-Evangelistic service.
dooreyIIIe Methodist Church

MooreVllle Methodist Church
Tavern Kramer, Sunday School
superintendent.
3 a. m.-Church services.
1918 a. m.-Sunday School.
$3.50 p. m.-B.Y.P.U.
7:45 p. m.-Gospel Service.
Thursday, 8 p. m.-Prayer Meet
ing.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-11

ciety meets the second Thursday OF
each month. Mrs. We're ShIpp.
president.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-11
Saline St. PauI's Evangelical

Saline St. Paups Evangelical
Church
Rev. c. H. Wittbracht, pastor.
10 a. Morning worship. Ser
mon.
4:30 .. m.-Christian Endeavor.
Saline Trinity Lutheran Church
Rev. II. l.. Engel, pastor.
10 a.. Morning service. Serv.
ices in German and English alter.
nate.
11:l5 a. m.-Sunday School
seybert Evangelical Church
Rev. w. F. Boettcher. minister.
10 a. INFORMING worship.
IL a. m.-Sunday School. We're
Shupp. superintendent.
Wednesday, 3 p. NJ Prayer
service and Bible study held alter
nately with Whitaker Church.
The Good VIII Missionary So.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-11
Milan Rantlst Church

IL a. m.-Bible School. Bruce
Williams, superintendent
1880 p. m.-Services.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-11

Milan Peoples Church
(lnterdenominatioraD
Rev. |. w. Parrish, pastor.
10 a. m.-Morning service.
11:15 a. m.-Sunday School.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-11

Stony Creek Methodist Church
Rev. Percy Tomas. pastor.
1890 u. m.-Sunday School.
Mrs. Robert Holloweil, Sunday
School superintendent.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-11

1880 D. m.-Evening service.
Thursday, 1880 p. m.-Prayer
and Praise Service.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-11

Wayne Church OF The Nazarene
Wallace St and Wayne Rd.
Rev. John w. Springhall, pastor.
10 a. m.-Sunday School.
IL a. m.-Morning worship.
$3.50 p. m.-Young Peoples meet
ing.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
Seubees
By David Laurence.

From the New Haven Journal-Courier
In October. 1941 there were 90 men
III an experimental group called Con-
struction Battalion" Flying magazine
says few months ago there were 262,-
600 men in these battalions, of whom
more than 100000 were overseas. =
Are they all carpenters? Not quite,
though all their work is concerned with
building. Here are some of the trades
represented in an average Seabee bat
talon:
Blacksmith, bulldozer operator, car
penter, concrete worker, construction
worker, dredge deckhand, quarry driller,
electrician, engine operator, excavation
foreman, launchman, dredge mate, me-
chanic. oiler, dredge fireman, gasoline
and Diesel engine repairman, labor
foreman, shovel operator, painter, pile
driver foreman, pipefitter and plumber,
pipelayer, powderman, rigger, road ma
chine operator, sheet metal worker, cop
persmith, steel worker. telephone man,
truck driver, water tender, welder,
wharfbuilder, boatswain and craftsman.
Some may be omitted, but even so
that's quite list No wonder they are
so competent. They used to have for q
motto: I'VE do the dificult immediate
ly; the impossible takes little longer"
Now, says Flying, they have . new one.
streamlined like everything in this age.
1t Is: Can do-wil do-did."
Evening star., 1944-09-11

In 1850, and q still moro compre-
hensive scheme of fortification was
developed by the famous engineer
Vauban in 1874. Napoleon III estab-
lished a circle of detached sub
sidiary works in anticipation of the
clash which finally occurred in 1870.
After his defeat at Sedan, the tri-
umphant Germans completed" his
plan in reverse as "the pivot of
operations" against France. The
fighting around the town in the year
last mentioned is standard proc
lem" for modern students Of the
science of war. Marshal Bazaine,
the French commander, has been
scolded consistently for not having
withstood siege indefinitely, but a
civilian population clamoring for
food-after the last gun-team horses
had been slaughtered and eaten
was his excuse for surrender.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
Metz

Metz is older than its name. julius
Caesar described it as one of the
most important towns in Gaul. It
was the metropolis of the Medic
matrici, a tribe now lost to history.
The Romans, with an eye to its
strategical significance, connected it
with Toul, Langres, Lyon, Stras-
bourg, VerGun, Reims and Trier in
a system of military roads which,
often repaved and occasionally
Shortened" still are in use. In the
third century Christianity was in
troduced; in the fifth Attila the
Hun appeared; in the sixth the
community was chosen the capital
of Theodore II, Frankish King of
Austrasia, otherwise known as
Thierry; in the ninth the Emperor
Lothair I ruled Lorraine from the
neighborhood. The city prospered
under each successive master. It
was both rich and independent in
the Middle Ages.
But its wealth and its freedom
constantly were threatened. Both
the Germans and the French wanted
the place. 1t fell into the hands of
the latter in 1852 and subsequently
was defended against Charles v by
Francis, Duke of Guise. The title,
however, was not clear until the
peace of Westphalia. which con-
f1rmed French possession in 1648.
Primitive stone walls were eliminated
to make way for effective ramparts
Evening star., 1944-09-11
Letters to The Star
Urges Soldiers at Conference al
Treaty Observers

To the Editor Of The Star:
Soon the treaty makers will sit down
at long table with their secretaries
nearby to draw up their conclusions on
the peace that is to follow the defeat OF
Germany.
These men have waged the good fight
from swivel chairs which is as 1t should
be. However, wouldn't 1t be a grand
gesture to the men In the ranks who
fought the war to let them sit in on
these parleys from start to finish? They
could be picked from among the men
who have fought longest against the
common enemy. Each branch Of the
service abounds with intelligent young
men with the right qualifications.
Even If we took only the men who
have won the Congressional Medal of
Honor and let them sit in it would be
good start. Haven't they earned the
right to observe how these peace treaties
are drawn up?
You think the parleys might be too
lengthy. Well, then, If 1t takes several
years, put these men on regular salary
and let the experience be a formal
education for them. It can't do any
harm. Would their presence embarrass
the peacemakers? We don't think so, If
the result is to be a good one.
r. T, BOWE.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
Lights On in EnqIund

1t is possible that If Hitler had
been able to introduce it earlier, the
flying or robot bomb might have had
an important effect on the course
and length of the war. But now,
with virtually all it's launching sites
in Allied hands, it appears to have
grown so negligible, even as a mere
nuisance, that Britain's home de-
fense leaders fatty declare that the
Battle of London is over except
possibly for the last few Shots" The
danger from the sky has been so
reduced, in fact, that Bngland's five
years of blackout is to be ended on
September II, with the lights going
on nearly everywhere at almost
peacetime strength.
The bomber squadrons of the Luft-
~affe were long ago made relatively
ineffective over Britain, the back of
their deadliness have been broken in
the blitz of 1940-41 by the fighter
pilots of the Royal Air Force-the so
few to whom so many owe so much.
The flying bomb was to be Hitlers
answer to this, but before he had
chance to unleash it on large scale,
RAF and American bombers began
gigantic and sustained offensive
against the Pas-de-Calais launching
2latforms and other installations
connected with it elsewhere. AS a
result, it was not until late in the
day, not until after the successful
Allied landings in Normandy, that it
began to pound the London area. All
told, before and after it first put in
its appearance, 1900 Allied airmen
were lost in the battle against it and
more than 5000 persons were killed
by it in England, while hundreds of
thousands of homes were damaged.
But though deadly in their poten-
tialties, as these figures indicate, the
flying bombs never approached the
accomplishments luridly ascribed to
them by the Goebbels propaganda
machine. The defense against them
-barrage ballons, antiaircraft fire
and direct attack by fighter planes
steadily improved to such a point
that on August %, out of the 1Ol of
them fired at England that day, 81
were shot down. This, combined
with the fact that our Allied armies
have taken or cut off the launching
sites in France and the Low Coun-
tries, eliminates them from the war
for all practical purposes, proving
cnce again the truth of the old mill
tary maxim that every new weapon
can be offset by counterweapon.
Twenty years from now the flying
bomb and also the much-discussed
giant rocket bomb, which has yet to
make it's appearance, may be greatly
advanced, but even then there will
probably be ways of coping with
them effectively. In any event, as
far as this war goes, such weapons
obviously seem to have been beaten,
though the Nazis have banked
heavily on them, even to the extent
OF sacrificing the production OF Or
thodox arms in order to turn them
out IN quantity. As much as any,
thing else, the lights that are soon
Evening star., 1944-09-11
The School Estimates

The school estimates for the next
fiscal year just submitted to the
Commissioners indicate the degree
of progress made and the ground
still to be covered in giving Wash
ington the physical public school
equipment that its growth demands.
Something over $5,000,O00, for in
stance, is being recommended for
sites and construction of new build
ings. If that amount is appropriated,
about third of the cost of construc-
ton and practically all of the sites
for the new schools needed in the
next decade and half will be in
hand
This is the third consecutive year
that the school authorities have
asked for substantial sums for site
purchase. Buying land in advance
has been prompted by the antici-
pated rise in values after the war
and by the fact that most of the
money available after the war will
go into construction. When con-
struction funds are forthcoming for
schools on the new sites now owned
and recommended for purchase, it
will mean the elimination of the last
OF the ancient and undesirable
eight-room elementary schools and
their replacement with fewer but
larger buildings and the abandon
ment of the temporary buildings
built in this war as we'll as the old
portables which, brought into use in
World War I, have remained in use
during World War II.
The school building program is
designed to replace some thirty
old structures with thirteen larger
buildings in the older sections OF the
city and to furnish schools to meet
the needs of newly developed resi-
Dental areas. This program covers
about fifteen years. BY the end of
that time it may be expected that
new conceptions of what is desirable
In school facilities will become new
needs.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
On the Record
By Dorothy THOMPSON


lights Of Hell-the lurid light of sweep
Ing FIRE; the ain-spiitting light OF ex-
ploding bombs. The darkness was op-
presslve, yet men prayed that the dark
ness would remain.
The people became obsessed with light
with kindly light. With light that
luumines, guides, and comforts, and does
not destroy. With the light of creation.
with which the world emerged out of
chaos; "and God said, let there be light"
Light became the symbol Of liberation.
An Englishman-a prosaic Englishman
as had known him for years, no poet,
either-murmured as we picked our way
through blackness: Did you ever think
that all the darkness In the world can
not put out the light Of a single can
dle?" In those days one single candle
burned in darkness-the faith of the
British people. At dawn with CLASSY
eyes, too agonized for tears they un-
buried and reburied their children. The
enemy who came in the dark made
even the daylight unbearable.
When the robot bombs supplanted the
Luftwaffe day and night were of equal
horror. The light-the lovely light of
the sun-turned traitor, too. Darkness
and light were both alike in terror.
Light went underground. 1t burned
in shelters and subways; 1t became fur
tive and dared not show its face. 1t hid
behind black curtains. It became private,
confined to ones own room, ones own
family. with all those anonymous but
comforting faces shut away. And often
1t shone on odd families, strangers gath
cred incongruously in areas of evacu-
ton. In the private light the child
searched for his mothers face, and it
was not there. Behind the heavy cur
tains another face. not his mothers.
leaned over him in that last moment of
light before the darkness comes. The
mother was at her task in London, in
the dangerous dark. The child was
alone In the safer country, in the COM
fortress dark.
The lights are shortly to 20 on in
London! No wonder that for a moment
this simple thing takes precedence over
every other victroy! For it means vic
tory. 1t is its very symbol No cheering
crowds, no flags unfurled, no triumphant
music could so confirm victory as the
mere turning of a switch and the light
ing Of London.
released By The Bell Syndicate, 1ne)
Evening star., 1944-09-11

Sicilian and Italian operations, that he
is master of the art OF mystifying and
misleading the enemy. Just as he in
duced Gen. Won Arnim to believe that
his main attack was coming on the
right wing in Tunisia, whereas it actually
came in the center; just as he induced
the German commander in Sicily to
concentrate for the defense of the wes-
tern tip of that island and so obtained
without loss the vital seaports of Syra-
cuse and Augusta; just as he confused
the German strategy in south Italy by
the mysterious movements of Gen. Pat
tons headquarters, which to the Ger
mans seemed to threaten an imminent
landing by the 7th American Army
first in north Italy, and thereafter in
the Balkans-so during the early days
Of the invasion Gen. Eisenhower kept
the German 18th Army pinned fast
to its positions along the coast from
Dunkerque to Dieppe-and when the
Germans did decide to use it, it was
too late.
They are not free of such anxieties
even now. They must, at all costs, stop
the Allied advance east of Liege and
toward Maastricht and the crossings of
VIC NCuoC AAOA I'LL dlAu WcSt "a MddSLIlCHC.
There they lie exposed to direct incur
sions of the terrible Allied armor into
the heart of their main industrial dis.
trict and beyond into the plains of
Northern Germany.
At all costs they must rush every man,
every gun, every tank to the defense
of this threatened frontier. But II to
do so, they must strip Denmark and
the German North Sea coast of defen-
ders. then they are Immediately ex-
posed to q landing there, a landing
which might strike into the very heart
of Germany once 1t had broken through
the crust Of the fixed coastal defenses.
This is but q single example of the
anxieties which must now attend every
decision Of the German high command.
A new set of anxieties is appearing In
the east. There 1t is plain that the Rus
slams are getting set for a new series
of attacks, probably directed against
East Prussia and toward Cracow and
Silesia. These attacks must be checked
yet the result will inevitably be that
demands will come to Berlin for REIN
forcements for the east when at the
same time the commanders in the west
are pointing out that unless they get
immediate help the Allies will break
through.
tcopyrtsht. 1914. New Yort tribune. lne)
Evening star., 1944-09-11

from the Reich from which transport
planes and gliders can take OF.
The invasion OF Normandy has shown
what powerful diversion such a force
can produce on the enemy It is true
that the losses suffered by the air-borne
troops In June were heavy. But we had
to deal then with an enemy whose
morale was still unimpaired, who still
was convinced that he could hold US
back and had not yet been demoralized
by the political developments which
h-.e shaken the Reich since July 20
Wien the German generals attempted
to assassinate Hitler and do away with
Naziism
Moreover, we have learned a lot from
our initial and costly air-borne opera
tions. Some Of the mistakes made then
will not be repeated.
Military men place high hopes on the
effect which thousands Of Allied soldiers,
dropped from the sky behind the Ger
man armies, will produce on the enemy.
This powerful demonstration will be
backed by many thousands of planes
spreading havoc on and behind the West
Wall, destroying concentration points
and lines Of communication and thou
sands of guns pounding the wall from
the front.
Most military observers believe that
even II the German determination to
fight to the bitter end Is as strong as
Na1 rropagandists want us to believe,
there Is no military force In the world
which could stand such a tremendous
offensive for a long time.
The acquisition of new ports will per-
NIT us to pour into France all the vast
quantities of war material we have at
our disposal. With the elimination Of
the submarine menace, hundreds Of
ships are plying between the Atlantic
coast and the French ports, taking to
the Allied armies the necessary war
materials and reinforcements.
Our lines of communication to the
German border are unhampered. The
LuftWane ranges out in occasional
sorties, but the American-British air
coverage makes us practically immune
from air attack. Under these circum-
stances, the resistance the Germans can
ofier on the West Wall will necessarily
be short lived. Pressed from all sides,
the German fortress already has cracked
up and 1t is only matter OF a short
time before 1t crumbles in ruins.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
COP Fireworks

If one may judge from his opening
speech, Governor Bricker Of Ohio,
the Republican vice presidential
candidate. will produce his share of
the fireworks in this years political
campaign.
The late Senator McNary, who ran
on the COP ticket with Wendell
Willkie in 1910. made few speeches,
and they were unspectacular. But
Governor Bricker, in his address
Saturday at French Lick. Indiana,
pulled no punches.
He denounced the New Deal and
its record. He accused it of seeking
a fourth term in alliance with mo
toriously corrupt" political machines
in the big cities. Asserting that
the President has the "fervent sup
port" of Sidney Hillman and his
Political sAction Committee, Mr..
Bricker said: 1T is no secret that
this committee, including its Com
munistic adherents, proposes to buy
this election with money extracted
from the honest and patriotic work.
ers Of this country" It is also no
secret, he added, that Sidney Hill
man and his committee are now in
complete control" OF the Demo-
cratic party.
Referring to the sorry spectacle
OF the recent Democratic National
Convention. Governor Bricker said
the people will not soon forget the
Presidents instructions to Demo-
cratic National Chairman Hannegan
to "clear everything with Sidney"
And then he wound up on this
note: I'm its alliances with Hague
and Kelly and Hannegan and Hill
man and Browder, the New Deal has
achieved new low in American
politics. - It Is time to elect a
President who will clear everything,
not with Sidney, but with Congress
and the American people"
This is Of the old, free-swinging
school Of political debate. It may
or may not be effective in 1914, but
1t makes for a campaign that Is
anything but dull.
Evening star., 1944-09-11
Nazi Straw:-Snatchinq
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

The Germans still are fighting for
time-not, apparently. with any def
mite objective in mind unless they are
still placing some hopes in their secret
weapons, but rather with the desperate
straw-snatching psychology of imagin-
ing that something may turn up as long
as worse has not become worst.
This, at any rate. appears to be the
point of view of the Nazi masters of
Germany, and they have so infiltrated
GERS that it is now difficult to imagine
that the regular officers have very much
control over their own destinies.
Coupled with this time seeking STRAIT
egy, however, appears to be fanatical
determination to prevent at all costs
large-scale invasion of German soil. 1t
is now clear, as pointed out in yester-
days articles, that the Germans thought
they could manage a step-by-step re-
treat in the west which would enable
them to trade time for space in the
same way which they have done in the
east and in Italy; but this hope was
broken by the violence of the Allied
attack and the immense superiority of
the Allies in a war of maneuver, once
the Normandy deadlock was broken.
Now the Germans are face to face
with a prospective invasion of the
Rhineland which it is extremely doubt
full they can stop; nor do we know what
the reaction of the German high COM
mand and of Germans generally will
be to actual fighting on German terri
tory. OF that we have as yet had no
experience in this war, though it ap-
pears imminent both in the Rhineland
and East Prussia.
\
As the Germans gather their last re-
serves for the decisive struggle, 1t
should not be supposed that they are
relieved of those strategical anxieties
which have beset them at every stage
of the operations since the first Allied
landings in Normandy. They were then
tormented by the fear of new land
ings, perhaps in the Pas de Calais, per-
haps elsewhere. They dared not take
the risk of concentrating all their forces
for one mighty drive to push our forces
back into the sea, because they feared
that if they used the 18th Army,
the one available reinforcement they
possessed, in Normandy the whole force
might be cut OF by an Allied landing
on the Pas de Calais coast.
This fear was carefully fostered by
Gen. Eisenhower, who proved again, a.
he had already proven In the Tunisian,
Evening star., 1944-09-11
This Changing World
By Constantine By0vn

Unfortunately, the rumors heard In
Washington in the last few days that
the Germans are about ready to fold
up and sue for armistice terms on the
basis Of unconditional surrender are un-
confirmed. While there can be no best
authority" anywhere to make q reliable
forecast about what the next move of
the Germans will be, those responsible
for the conduct Of the war are inclined
to believe that we will have to fight our
way into the Reich and impose our
armistice terms by force and piecemeal.
That is to say. we will have an arm
istice In the area we, the British and
the Russians occupy.
The prospects of German surren-
der are still remote. Many people in
this country give a deep sigh of re-
lief when they hear about the rapid
progress of the Allied forces and are
ready to consider the war as terminated.
The professional soldiers agree that
the end Of the hostilities is in sight but
every day in which only skirmishes,
or minor actions are fought means the
loss OF SO many more American lives.
Because we will suffer further casual
as cheerful about the end Of the war
as the people at home.
German resistance has stinened in
the last few days. This is natural since
the Na1 armies, which have been chased
by the American, British and Canadian
forces for SO many weeks, have reached
their new positions and, instead of with
drawing In confusion and without much
fighting, can now hit back Fresh
troops which have been kept in readi-
ness in the Reich are manning the
famous West Wall and its approaches.
But the West Wall does not seriously
worry the Allied commanders, except
that our breakthrough will cost thou
sands of casualties.
Gen. Eisenhower and his heutenants
are satisfied that regardless of how
much this chain of Notifications may
have been improved in the last two
years, the Allies will break them.
1t. Gen. Lewis H. Breretons air-borne
divisions-the largest force of this type
ever put in action-are poised to de-
scend deep behind the German lines
In the most unexpected places. The
liberation of France and Belgium will
offer us fields within short distance