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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06
'Wyandotte Day At Bob-Lo
Takes 1000 From City

Nearly 1900 Wyandotters en-
joyed the gala "Wyandotte Day"
sponsored by the F.O.P. and the
Recreation Commission, Thursday,
as the rest of the city simmered
under the intense heat.
About LOO men, women and chill
dren with picnic baskets boarded
the Bob-Lo boat at Bishop Park in
the morning and took the longer
cruise from Wyandotte to Detroit
and then to Bob-Lo. -Four hundred
more went on the afternoon boat.
Report has 1t that Mr.. and Mrs.
Tom Chambers were the stars of the
racing events, winning several of
the races. The inevitable beam
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06
Air TraUeI Is
Kii0dnis Subject

Air transportation will be dis
cussed by a public relations officer
of an air line at the Tuesday meet
ing of the local Kiwanis club.
A film on counterfeit money,
Doubtful Dollars" was shown at
last weeks program. Plans were
completed for the Father-Daughter
luncheon and party to be held
August IA. Members are asked to
contact Bruce Mckay for further
information.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06
Not Interested

G.. l. REACTION to proposed
Memorial Arch is definitely mega
tive. City is considering the erec-
ton of an arch on Superior Blvd.
at Bishop Park. This arch would
carry the names of Wyandotters
who have gone forth to war. Cost
of this structure is estimated at
5000 or more.
Dozens of soadiers and sailors
have been questioned by reporters
seeking their opinion Of Tie
proposed plan. Reaction to date las
been cool very cool. G.I!s ap-
Dear more interested in a living
Continued on Page ID
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06
TWO HURT AS LAmES DESTROY
APARTMENT BUILDING today
Fire Department
Reports 80 Calls
Received In July

A rise of $3.50 in loss through
fire in July, 1945, over July. 1914
was reported by the Wyandotte fire
department.
The department was called out on
80 alarms, eight of which were false.
A total of s3,475 in loss on property
and contents was reported, covered
by $3.50 insurance.
There were four rubbish. four
grass and four garage fires; two
automobiles, two fence. and two
business fires; one mail box, one
shed, one boat, and one dwelling
fire.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06
Grupczynski
Pleads Guilty.
Awaits Trial

Walter GrupczynSki, Al. Of 1854
Elm street. pleaded guilty when he
was arraigned Thursday in Justice
Court on a charge of breaking and
entering the office of Wroblewski
Coal company's office.
He waived examination and AS
sociate Justice Guy E. Murphy set
bond at $780, The bond was not
furnished and Grupczynski was
turned over to the county Jail where
he is awaiting trial in circuit court.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06
COMING HOME

Included in a large group of vet
Grams returning within the next
few days from Europe aboard the
John Ericsson are two Wyandotte
boys, Pfc. Calvin Solo, son of Chas.
j. Solo, 427 Walnut and Pfc. John
T. Wisniewski, of 807 Davis street.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06
New Refrigerators Soon?

Production of 1,155,0O0 mechani-
cal refrigerators has been author
lied by the War Production Board,
but wait - civilians have been
warned not to expect to get any
of them.
They will go to laboratories, blood
banks, hospitals, and military. The
stock-pile has dwindled to a mere
10000 and these other services will
get all that are produced before
they 60 on the retail market.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06
AwOL SOLDIER ARRESTED

Adam Kalanowski. n, of 1472
Sycamore street, was arrested on
wednesday by 1t. Tuszynski and
turned over to Pvts. Frazer and
Geake of the military police In De-
troit as a member of the U. s. Army
absent without leave.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06

Several weeks ago, it was reported
in the Herald, that Lawrence Gee,
a drayman, had the misfortune of
losing a team of horses at the foot
of Oak street. Since then several
Wyandotte business men have got
ten together and raised a sum of
money to help Gee get on his feet
again.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06

LOST-SERVICEMAN'S BROWN
LEATHER BILLFOLD AT EAGLES
BINGO SUNDAY, AUG. S. con-
TANNED j. D. CARD. ENSIGN
ROBERT M. WELLER. BADLY
NEEDED. REWARD. JACKS SER
VICE, BIDDLE e. ORANGE adv.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06

guessing contest was tied between
Mrs. Belle Roehrig and Mrs. E.
Petrie and Rose Monoca held the
lucky ticket which won a war bond
for her.
The races were under the direc-
ton Of Dick Hoffheins, Eddie Path,
and Harry Wagner.
AT the end of the day, teen-agers
congregated at Bishop park for an
under the stars dance.
See Results on Page 8
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06
WYANDOTTE THEATER
NEWS REELS

News reels at the Wyandotte
theater include: Attlee Joins Big 3
for Finale; Trial of Marshal Pc
tain; Relatives Greet Wounded GIL;
Ruined Berlin; Nelson Wins Again;
P-80, Shooting Star; and Air Force
Day.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06
SEND MEN HOME
FROM PACIFIC

Gen. Douglas Macarthur an
nounced that about half Of the 49,
coo Army personnel in the Pacific
with IS points or over will be home
by the end of September.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06

About thirty local spectators wit
messed the game between Wyan-
dotte and oxford. The rooters were
sadly disappointed when Oxford
beat the locals to the tune of 4 to 8.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06
JUVENILES ARRESTED

Two Wyandotte boys were taken
to the Juvenile Detention home
Saturday charged with unlawfully
driving away an automobile. They
were arrested after Grand Rapids
police reported they were holding
the youths as runaway boys.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06

Dr.. mclaughlin filed suit against
the county to compel the board of
auditors to pay home balance due
from medical services rendered to
small pox cases in this area.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06
40 YEARS AGO
IN WYANDOTTE

The Short Line Railway will be
extended to Monroe soon. The peo-
pie of Monroe have been clamoring
for an electric line to bring them
closer to Detroit.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06

BOYS GIRLS MAKE
BIG MONEY DELIVERING wy
ANDOTTE NEWS-HEBA AID MON
DAYS AND THURSDAYS. A FEW
GOOD ROUTES ARE OPEN NOW.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06
MAKE

BOYS GIRLS MAKE
ZIG MONEY DELIVERING wy
ANDOTTE NEWS-HERALp MON
DAYS AND THURSDAYS. A FEW
GOOD ROUTES ARE OPEN NOW.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06
RELEASED BY POLICE

William Kirts, 244 West road,
Trenton. was released by Wyandotte
police on lack of evidence after
arrest on a charge of larceny.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06
Vernon Gardner Injured In
Fall From Second Story
Window; Family Trapped
Children Rescued by Fi1emen. BYstanders; Two
Other Homes Burned in Fire This Morning

Two persons injured seriously, when flames
enveoped twOstory frame apartment house 703 ST. John
street early this morning The fire which fire officials es
mate had burned unnotced for spread the
house GA Seventh street owned by Mr. Mrs Patrick
Pyne, before it extingushed.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06

The big freighter, Peter Stack
house, was launched at the ship
yards. Many people from Cleveland
witnessed the christening.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06

POST WAR FUTURE FOR GOOD
AUTO MECHANICS. PAY TOP
WAGES. SIMPSON PONTIAC
SALES AND SERVICE. PIG SYCA-
MORE ST. adv.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06

Bids were opened at the recent
council meeting for the construction
of the sewer line
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06

OLD HOMESTEAD rs a GOOD
PLACE TO LIVE adv,
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06

Cash FOR YOUR CAR - Any
Make or Model SIMPSON. 21s
Sycamore Street. Adv
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06
A Friendly Pat
PFC. MARION MODZELEWSKI

PFC. MARION MODZELEWSKI
Wyandotte soldier sends
us q clipping from Pilsen. Czecho-
slovakia. It has been translated
from a Polish newspaper and
gives the natives reaction to Amer
leans.
Before the war we saw many
Americans Tin films as rich, with
big homes and amusement places
beautiful women half-naked and
some totally naked. Our thoughts
of these people vary and some bring
smiles to our faces. Here we give
you a picture of the American in
PilSen:
Its a beautiful day and on one
side of the street is string Of
Army vehicles. each soldier having
a vehicle for himself They are
just sitting idly looking at the wo-
men going by. One soldier wants 10
take a picture with his camera,
but to make the picture more ef-
fective, he grabs a girl and sits her
on his vehicle and has a comrade
take his picture This, of course,
causes a small riot as all the other
soldiers want to have their pictures
taken. After several shots the girl
is turned looSe-given a piece of
chocolate or gum plus a few pats,
which certainly don't land on her
shoulder.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-08-06
Seats To Ladies

eyes, the American is different.
Can you imagine an European get
ting off his seat on a train and
offering to a lady? Yet these
Americans do it all the time, except
II it is a beautiful lady. he will
offer his lap to sit upon.
Here is a story-once during the
battle, the Americans captured a
lot of Germans. The next day the
Germans saw funny sight-Com-
ing toward their lines was a column
of German soldiers carrying large
banner saying, The Americans do
not fight children. We are sending
these back to their mothers"
Evening star., 1945-01-31
IS Will Be Ordained
Saturday as Climax
TO {. U. Ceremonies

The Most Rev. John M. Nc
Namara, Auxiliary Bishop Of Balti-
more, will ordain a class of 13 to
the priesthood Saturday morning at
the close Of ordination ceremonies
being held this week in the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Concep-
ton at Catholic University.
Bishop Mcnamara opened the
ceremonies yesterday. administer
ing the rite of topsure to a class of
40 seminarians studying for the
priesthood This morning the Most
Rev. Michael j. Keyes, S. NJ, Bishop
of Aeropolis, of the Marist College,
administered all four minor orders
to class of 35. Fifteen others be-
came porterS and readers, repre-
senting two of the minor orders, and
II more were ordained exorcists and
acolytes, the other two minor
orders
Tomorrow morning Bishop Keyes
will ordain Al as subdeacons. He
also will officiate Friday morning
when class of 81 subdeacons will
be advanced to deacons, the last step
before priesthood.
Those in the ordination classes
have taken their preparatory work
at Catholic University and the
neighboring seminaries and colleges
in Brookland. The l3 who will be-
come priests are: Guliemus Clancy
Carolus Coughlin, Joannes Dunn
Franciscus Fallon, Carolus Hanks
Paulus Ortner, Joannes Rawlins
Franciscus Schroeder, Joannes
Walsh, Josephus Waters, Georgius
Dahn, Leo Travers and Augustinus
Chachers.-
Evening star., 1945-01-31
3 Aged Sisters
Found Dead; One
frozen in Yard
he Associated Press

DS the AsSOcldteQ PTeSS-
FREDERICK, Md, Jan. 81
Three aged sisters were found dead
today at the Frederick home where
they had lived for the last As years,
one of them frozen to death in the
yard. The other two were found in
the house.
A grocery clerk, Grayson Haller.
found the eldest of the unmarried
sisters, Ellen J. E. Finn, 88, in the
yard He called help and later the
bodies of the others, Fannie, 7S, and
Lille, Is. were discovered.
DR.. r. w. Baer, Frederick County
medical examiner, will conduct an
investigation. No violence was in
dicated by the preliminary exami-
nation, authorities said.
officials said they believed that
Fannie, found dead on the kitchen
floor, suffered a heart attack. Ellen
was believed to have tried to sum-
mon aid but died in the yard before
being able to reach any one. The
body of Lille was found in her bed
room
Evening star., 1945-01-31
Residents Of Aachen,
Living in Ruins, See
Na1i Fall by Spring
BY LOUIS p. LOCHNER,
Chief OF the former Associated Press
Bureau in Berlin.

.s
AACHEN, Germany, Jan. 81
Aachen, after more than three
months of American occupation, is
anything but Phoenix arising from
ashes, but somehow life continues
surprisingly well.
This despite the fact that hardly
building is intact and that citizens
who are not living in the refugee
hospital with 600 fellow Germans
are leading a caveman-like exist
ence in cellars. Many of the cellars
are unheated. None except military
and government Offices have elec-
trio or gas light. The curfew keeps
the denizens in their emergency
quarters from pm. until 7 am.
The public health service func-
tions well and there are few diseases
Three well-equipped hospitals are
functioning. Also there are a men,
tai institution, an orphanage for $50
children and a home for the aged.
There is even an artificial limb
factory sufficiently intact to take
care of German as we'll as some
Allied cases.
The German Army apparently had
not expected the bombardment and
had not evacuated large stocks of
canned goods, medicine, beer and
even army cloth. This is a boon to
Aacheners, who find they can carry
on until spring.
Every Aachener to whom I spoke
during six hours of almost incessant
interviewing was certain of one
thing-the war will be over by
spring, with Germany catastrophe
ally defeated.
Evening star., 1945-01-31
| Treasury Agent Joins
Ring, Breaks Up Drug
Racket on Two Coasts
BY the Associated Press.

!
How Treasury narcotics agent
infiltrated a Nation wide ring OF
drug peddlers and broke 1t up was
revealed last night by Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau.
With the arrest of Joseph Tocco of
New York known to the under
world as The Eye'') as he stepped
from a train between the West
Coast and Manhattan" Treasury
agents seized 622 ounces of smoking
opium and ounces of heroin.
THE Eye now is glaring out. of
a prison window Also behind the
bars is Sam Maugeri of California,
who was Toccos chief source of
supply. But third man, alleged to
be one of the narcotic rings leaders
Joseph Michael Dentico of New
York-is still at large. The Treas
ury has posted a $1,000 reward for
information leading to his arrest.
Supplied From Mexico.
The case started in New York in
1912, when Treasury agents began
looking into activities of the "107th
street mob" formerly headed by
the notorious Lucky Luciano, now
in prison.
Several of the gang were arrested
and other were traced to the Ba-
hamas. The result: Seventeen per-
sons were indicted at New York, but
the dope operations continued 1t
appeared that the major supply of
the gang was opium and heroin
from Mexico and that the New
Workers were dealing with a rem
nant of the old BLACK Toni" Par
magini gang in California. So the
Treasury agents moved westward
One of the alleged California
opium dealers was Big Nose" Char
lie Lagaipa. Last June, while be-
ing watched closely by Treasury
agents, he vanished. Police found
his automobile, with bits of brain
tissue on the instrument panel.
The rest of big Nose" has not been
found
The Mexican seller of the dope was
identified as Enrique Diarte, de-
scribed by Treasury men as notori-
Gus smuggler. Early last November,
Diarte was found near Tijuana,
Mexico. He had been shot through
the heart, his throat cut and his
skull crushed. Mexican police ar
rested former associate of Diarte
and charged him with the Staying
Agent Safeguard" Dope.
In the center of these pleasant
groups narcotics agent had infil-
trated himself. Mr.. Morgenthau
did not name the agent, but records
in the Federal District Court at San
Francisco show him to be Benedict
Pocoroba.
Mr.. Pocoroba had been quietly
gathering evidence. One night the
California gangsters, fearing a dou-
ble-cross by the New York end of
the conspiracy, chose Mr.. Pocoroba
to hold an enormously valuable
shipment overnight and then give
it to Tocco, who had come from New
York to take the dope back East.
Mr.. Pocoroba had to give the stuff
up as directed because if he hadn't,
he would have exposed the Govern
ment's hand prematurely.
But "The Eye" was captured on
his way to New York with the goods
on him.
Evening star., 1945-01-31

resentatives are being kept out OF
Office"
Socialists were quoted as COM
planning that in neighboring cap
tured Stolberg, IS of 81 municipal
officials are former Nazi party men,
bers, and that the present Lore
Mayor of Aachen was director of q
corporation which manufactured
parts for V-weapons.
i ASSOCIATED Press War Core
spondent Wade Werner in story
from Aachen last october 80 de-
scribed the swearing in the new
Mayor of the town by 1t. Col. A.
A. Carmichael of Montgomery,
Ala, and described him as "the
first anti-Nazi in IL years to be
the chief administrative officer
of any major German city"
HE was chosen, Mr.. Werner
wrote, by military government Of
ficers from a white list" of a
dozen Aachen citizens of estab-
lished executive ability, known,
after painstaking investigation,
never to have been Nazis or sup
porters of the Nazi movement.)
Maj. Hugh Jones, former head
of the Wisconsin State police, our
chief operations officer sin Aachen, u
Mr.. Savareid said, lis quoted as say
ing that he has the names of some
good Socialists. but that he must
be certain first that they are able to
Evening star., 1945-01-31
Star Staff Photo.

well-known local historian, was DR..
Anita Newcomb MCGEE. She was
one of Washington's best-known
woman scientists, daughter of a
scientist, wife of noted ethnolo-
gist and a descendant Of Col.
Michael Nourse, former owner of the
estate.
''She tried more than a decade
ago to nail the story about this
tree" said Mr. Proctor, "and did not
succeed" He surmised, however,
that the story still was believed
by many who disregard the impos-
sibilities surrounding the case"
The statement that treaty was
once signed beneath this tree, Mr.,
Proctor said, lis manifestly far
fetched" He based this on re-
search showing that the only treaties
OF record with the Indians in this
area were signed either long before
or long after the tract was officially
recorded as the Widows Mite"
Sold by Masons.
The tract was recently sold to a
New York syndicate by the Grand
Lodge Of Masons of the District,
which had owned it for many years.
Opposing the improvement and
defending the trees is a group known
as Temple Heights Tree Commit
tee, headed by Miss Janet Richards,
lecturer, and including Bertha T.
Voorhorst and the Rev. Armand T.
Eyler, pastor of st. Margaret's Epis-
copal Church.
Various bills have been introduced
in Congress to purchase the site for
recreation area or a memorial, but
none was passed by either house.
Evening star., 1945-01-31
Large Number Of Captive,
Freed , Russians Report
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 3l.-The Moscow
radio, quoting a press dispatch, said
today that large number" Of pris-
oners had been freed from the Prus-
kowe concentration camp.
The camp, the broadcast said, was
"esta blished by the Germans when
they smashed the Warsaw uprising
last year.
Between 1000 and $4,000 Warsaw
people were packed daily into the
camp, the dispatch said, and some
days as many as 10000 were herded
in. Many were tortured "by the
Gestapo and certain members of
the home army"
Late last fall most OF the pris-
oners died or were carried out to
Germany, but the camp was soon
filled again as result of mass raids
by the GeStapo."
Evening star., 1945-01-31

Did the Indians and white men
ever sign treaty beneath the ia
nous Treaty Oak" on Temple
Heights, at Connecticut and Florida
avenues?
Legend says they did, historical
research casts doubt on the story.
But the majestic old oak, now
center of new controversy, rears
its cold, bare branches high above
the grove of trees on the 9-acre
site, recently purchased for a post
war real estate development, A
group of citizens is protesting de-
struction of Treaty Oak" and the
grove of trees on Temple Heights
Scared by age and marred on
one side by loss of bark from fire,
the old tree has lost the tips of some
of its branches to the winds and
storms of winter.
Park Prospect Dim.
Prospects of the site being ac-
quired for park purposes are dim.
The property, in the heart of a high
priced residential section, is con-
sidered by officials as involving too
much money to be bought for
park. This decision was reached
sometime ago by the National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commission.
A. E. Demaray, associate director
of the National Capital Parks, who is
a member of the Park and Plan
ming Commission, agreed with the
decision. No park naturalist or tree
expert ever has been sent to Temple
Heights to look over the health and
value of the grove of trees there,
including Treaty Oak" he said.
Since the Government is not inter-
ested in buying it, there was no use
in making survey.
Spokesman for the new owners
of the property, who plan to build
apartment houses and a hotel on
the site after the war, think the
old Treaty Oak is far past its prime
They asked lumberman to look
over the whole tract with its many
trees, with view to buying the
lumber. The mill man said the trees
weren't even worth turning into
lumber. Treaty Oak was repre-
sented as badly decayed, besides
being burned on one side.
Well-known Story.
The story of the white woman
captive who refused to become the
Indians chiefs squaw, and subse-
quently was restricted to the shade
of Treaty Oak for life, has been
widely spread about Washington.
Among those who doubted it most.
according to John Clagett Procter
first vice president Of the Asso-
ciation of Oldest Inhabitants and
Evening star., 1945-01-31
Auto Dealers Elect

CHICAGO, Jan. 81 (P.-William
l.. Mallon of Newark. N. j., yesterday
was elected president of the National
Automobile Dealers Association. The
election was held at a directors
meeting. following cancellation of
the associations scheduled conven-
tion. Other officers named were
r. c. Jones, Reading, Pa, vice pres
ident; E. Jack Beatty, Denver, Colo,
secretary, and C. B. Robertson,
Richmond, Va, treasurer.
Evening star., 1945-01-31
Inspectors Steel Shoe,
Sugar Rotion Coupons
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS. La, Jan. 81
The OPA said today imposters made
a house-to-house canvas in Tangi-
panoa Parish inspecting" ration
books and tore out valid shoe and
sugar coupons,
Gilbert j. Fortier. district OPA di-
rector, said the scheme might afford
means for wholesale purchases of
shoes and sugar to supply the black
market.
Evening star., 1945-01-31
Former Nozis Reported
In Control of Aochen

NEW YORK. Jan. 81 (P).-CBS
Correspondent Eric Sevareid quoted
the London Daily Express yesterday
as saying that American military
authorities in Aachen were using a
large number of former Nazi party
officials to operate the local govern
ment.
The broadcast quoted an Express
correspondent as stating that ''the
Nazis are still running Aachen," ="
first large-sizeo German city to be
captured by United States forces,
because American officers say there
is no one else to 90 it. German
Socialists complain that their rep