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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-02-24
GIRLS PLAN TO
MEET AT Y "
FEB, "a TO Is!

Industrial girls from the Wv
{ A. - VI N. gan are meeting in
Dc'ro., oH FEB "a and 25 to dis
caSS Full Employment and ways
II recruiting more industrial girls
IN y VIC 4 club activities.
MRS. JOSEPH BARNES Of New
York Cfy. member ~ the indus
ir q. subcommittee OF the National
Board YWC A. Is the speaker Al
Saturdays banquet. and Mrs Ger
-a,i,ne @BicGsoe of the mlnor.,ieS
dlv. sion of the Women Bureau 81
the | : Department 81 Labor, wili
st in on the q ,ScuSSlon
Sessions will he held at High
land Park Branch Y.WC a. and
delegates will he entertained
overnight at Central and Lucy
Thurman branches.
THE HIGH SCHOOL crowd is
invited % ucW series Il Boy
G 4 dances g. be held every Sat-
.rGa' C,cr NJ t.ou g so > oc,ock
80 L.tv Thurman branch Wv { A.
U- 1cr''ac ausp COS ~ the Gl,' Re
>c-yC ecpartwc~,
A c., Reserve bridge party 20
.s.sc fund, To- TIC summer pro-
--am - tic You"Ser Girls de-
psrtr-ert IS being sponsored or
M7rc5r,0 al Lucy Taprman branch
wv < 4
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-30

Dies al Game
Obituaries

Funeral services for Clifford T.
Crane. 46. Highland Park school
teacher, who ZEN oe7G Saturday
in Midland while r,lcreC.uE a
basketball game. viii De held ar
j p. m. WendeS3ay ln The Harper
Mulhgan Funeral Home. 1880
Hamilton with burial ~ wood
lawn Cemetery.
A basketball Official for %
years, Mir Crane complained of
dizziness WhItC rcfrercne the
Dow Chemical Co -R0uu'US Air
Base game. He was carried 10 2
dressing ram -MLCre he dlcd.
MIR. Crane in the last IA DAYS
officiated al - basketball games.
The Crane home is az ~ Colo
rado. He Is survived by his widow.
Aida; a daughter. Patricia; a son.
Bud c.; three sisters, Mrs. Edith
MancouT Of Linden. Mich: Mfrs.
Edwin Brewer of Flint. Mrs. Ray
fnond Smith of SwaFt7 Greek. and
four brothers, Floyd OF YpSjlantj
Glenn Of Linden, John of BAY City
and William OF Flint.
The Detroit Times has far more
nationally famous features than
any other Detroit newspaper.
rxrup -rey.tfrrsr-
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-30
John Il. Irwin

Funeral services for John H.
INln. 81. Of 1872 Marlowe, en-
ploye OF the New York Central
Railroad for 30 years, viii he held
LAT p. m. Wednesday in the
Harvey a. NeciV Funeral Home.
l6S3 Nsybury Grand. Burial VIII
be n GIeHwCod Cemetery. WAYNE.
AiF lftH = member of MoSlem
Srruc. a.S3i Degree Mason and
IA tv-Tti- WIZ 1-Ncjgy3n. died yes
tcr.1N In h.s automobile while on
i.. way to work
Surviving are hl~ widow Isabel
"a som Donald, a daughter. shirley
joan. and hs mother, Mrs. Josie
IRWIN
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-30
Michioan Man Killed

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Jan. %
Seaman &c Lester John Black
mer 20, Of Grand Haven, Mich.
is one OF II members OF a navy
bomber crew listed by the navy
AS killed Friday near here when
their Liberator crashed on a
routine training flight,
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-30
Millions Switch To
Mutton Suet Idea
For Chest Cold Aid
Helps Break Up Colds Local Conges-
tioa---cheeks Coughing

uon---(beckt Soughtng
Many mothers all over America
are switching to this idea of get
ting fast relief for these chest cold
miseries. They are simply follow
ing Grandma. For years she count
I'd on mutton suet to help carry her
home medication to do its pain-eas-
ing work on nerve ends in the skin.
No wonder so many more now wei
come Grandma's idea as improved
by science-Penetro, with its multi
medicated formula In a base con-
tanning mutton suet-that acts both
as counter-irritant and pain-reliev-
er when you spread it on, and as
q soothing aromatic when hreathed
IN. And so today Penetre hafFies
along newer help in the old reliable
way-help that eases painful mis-
cry lessons coughing. loosens
phlegm, soothes chest rawness-so
that you can rest more comfortably
and give nature a chance to restore
vitality. That's why millions are
switching to Penetro today-why
druggists are recommending il. 25c,
double supply 35c. For all your fam
1y's chest cold miseries, be sure
you get white, easy-to-use Penetro.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-30

Winter weight Aeeees tsee label
for contenD. Smart railroad
stitching and slash pockets. Fully
lined with good quality riyon.
Sizes 8 70 rs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15
Mrs. Lucia Shoemaker,
Wife Of Dentist, Dies

Mrs. Lucia Rittenhouse Shoe.
maker, Sc, District area resident
since 1901 and wife of DR.. Charles
G. Shoemaker, Washington dentist
died of heart attack Friday al
her residence, $500 Edgemoor lane
Bethesda, Md. She had been i'll
more than year.
A native of Scranton, Pa, she
came to Washington in 1901 to at
tend the Corcoran Art School. She
studied there four years, winning
a number of honorable mentions in
exhibitions.
Mrs. Shoemaker is survived by
her husband, whom she married in
1906: a daughter, Mrs. Richard H.
Clark of Bethesda; three sons, 1t.
Charles G. Shoemaker, jr., U. S. N. R.,
on sea duty in the Pacific; Col.
Francis D. Shoemaker, A. A. F., COM
manding officer of Birmingham
(Ala.O Army Air Base, and Corpl.
Leonard r. Shoemaker, serving with
the Army Air Forces in Euphrata,
Wash; a brother, Karl D. Ritten-
house of Kingston, Pa, and five
grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
2 pm. tomorrow at the home of
her brothers-in-law, Clarence r.
and Ralph w. Shoemaker, 3116 P
street NV. Burial will be private
in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15

/ now head Of the Fleet Operationa,
Training Command, Pacific, has
been ordered to report to the COM
mander in chief of the Pacific Fleet
for further assignment.
The Japs can find no solace in the
new assignments in the commands
of the two fast carrier task forces
in the Pacific. for the use of that
fast, mobile task force will be in the
hands of officers well trained in the
handling of surface air fleets.
Towers Built Air Fleet.
Admiral Towers in September,
1912, became commander of Air
Force, Pacific Fleet, and it was I'M
der him that the powerful air forces
now decimating the Japs was built
up.
Admiral Sherman, who is ex-
pected to be promoted. to vice ad-
miral, has been in the midst of the
fighting with the carrier fleets, and
now commands carrier task group.
AS commander of the task group,
he took part first In the operation
against Palau, and then was
plunged into the hottest part of
the battle for Leyte Gulf. At one
time in that battle, his group was
under mass attack by more than
200 Japanese planes at once. All
were driven off.
After covering the Philippines
landings, this time under Admiral
Mccain, Admiral Sherman was
with the force that staged series
of daring raids In the South China
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15

mander of the Service Force, At.
lantic.
Vice Admiral Sherwood A. Tai
finder, Seattle. Wash, goes from
the Service Force, Atlantic, to com
mandant, 18th Naval District ano
Hawaiian Sea Frontier, relieving
Vice Admiral David w. Bagley, Ra-
leigh, N. C. Admiral Bagley will
relieve Vice Admiral Alfred w
Johnson, 2137 r street NV, as
member of the United States-M Mex
lean Defense Commission and men,
Der of the Permanent Joint Board
of Defense. United States and Can
ada. Admiral Johnson, who is on
the retired list, goes on inactive
duty.
Hanson Heads Pearl Harbor Yard
Rear Admiral Edward w. Han
son, Alexandria, MINI, recently de-
tached from duty in the Bureau of
Naval Personnel, becomes COM
mander of the Pearl Harbor Navy
Yard. He relieves Rear Admiral
William r. Furlong, 36l1 Lowell
street NV, who is assigned tenn
porary duty here in the Bureau of
Naval Personnel, pending retire.
ment for statutory age.
Rear Admiral w. H. p. Blandy,
$3.50 Macomb street NV, former
chief of the Naval Bureau of Ord
nance, commander of an amphibi-
Gus group in the Pacific, has been
assigned as commander, cruisers,
and commander, destroyers, Pacific.
His relief has not been nominated.
Rear Admiral Walden L. Aims
worth, Minneapolis, MINI, whom
Admiral Blandy relieves, becomes
commandant of the 5th Naval Dis
trict and the Naval Operating Base
at Norfolk, Va, relieving Rear Ad-
miral David Med. LIE Breton, 1901
Connecticut avenue. Admiral LIE
Breton becomes president of the
Naval Examining Board In the Navy
Department here.
Rear Admiral Francis w. Rock
well, 1854 Forty-fourth street NV.
whose functions as commander
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lAmphibious Training Command, At.
lantic, have been absorbed by com.
mander, Training, Atlantic, will re-
lieve Rear Admiral Gilbert j. Row
cliff, Peoria, ILL.,, as senior member
of the Board of Inspection and Sur
vey, West Coast. Admiral Rowclif1
is to report to the chief of naval
operations, before being placed on
inactive duty for statutory age.
Rear Admiral Louis E. Denfeld
Westchester Apartments, former as
sistant chief of the Bureau of Per-
sonnet and now commander of a
battleship division, has been ordered
to report to the Secretary. His relief
in the battleship assignment has not
yet been nominated.
Berkey May Get Postwar Job.
Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey,
Tulsa, Okla, commander of cruiser
division in the Pacific, has been
ordered to report to the chief of
naval operations. No relief for him
has been nominated. Admiral Berkey
Is expected to be assigned to duty in
connection with the planning of the
postwar Navy.
Rear Admiral James L. Holloway
924 Twenty sixth street South,
Arlington, Va, who was recently
advanced to flag rank, has been as
signed as commander of the Fleet
Operational Training Command,
Pacific.
Rear Admiral Francis C. Dene-
brink, Long Beach, Calf, former
head of naval public relations here,
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announcement Of such an appoint.
ment would have to come from tn,
White House.
For the first time in It's history
the Naval Academy will be headee
by an air man, and the second IL
command also will be an air officer
Vice Admiral Aubrey w. Fitch, 230l
Connecticut avenue NV, nov
deputy chief of naval operations fol
air, will become the new superin.
tendent of the naval school. Tht
second in command as commandani
of midshipmen is Capt. I. H. In
gersoll. now on duty there.
Admiral Henry K. Hewitt, Hack
ensack, N. j., now a member of the
General Board, and who has been
engaged on special work in con-
nection with the Pearl Harbor in
vestigation for Secretary Forrestal,
will become commander of the
United States Naval Forces In Eu-
rope, relieving Admiral Harold r.
Stark, 1900 Glenbrook road NV,
who will return to the United
States for retirement and transfer
to the inactive list, having reached
the statutory age limit.
Rear Admiral John r. Beardall,
Orlando, Calf, present superintend-
ent of the Naval Academy and
commander of the Severn River
Naval Command. will relieve Rear
Admiral Howard F. Kingman,
Chevy Chase Club, as commandant
of the 18th Naval District and COM
mander of the Panama Sea Frontier
and Southeast Pacific. Admiral
Kingman will report to the COM
mander in chief of the Pacific Fleet
for further assignment.
Ragsdale Gets Another Post.
Rear Admiral Van H. Ragsdale
commander, Fleet Air, Alameda
Calf, has been given the additional
assignment of commander. Fleet
Air Pacific Coast. Rear Admiral
Alfred E. Montgomery, Piedmont
Calf, who had the latter assign
ment, will relieve Vice Admiral
George D. Murray, 3402 @ street
NV, as air commander in the
Pacific.
Admiral Murray becomes COM
mander of the Marianas, relieving
Vice Admiral John H. Hoover,
Westchester Apartments, who in
turn relieves Admiral Towers.
Vice Admiral William r. Munroe,
Santa Monica, Calf, commander,
South Atlantic, takes the assign
ment of Vice Admiral Robert G.
Giffen, Annapolis, Md, as COM
mander, Caribbean Sea Frontier
and commandant, 10th Naval Dis
trict. The latter becomes COM
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Navy
Continued From First Page.0

Two will be commanded by Vice
Admiral John H. Towers, IT'S Nine
tenth street NV, now Deputy
Commander in Chief of the Pacific
Fleet and Pacific Ocean Area and
one of the first three flying officers
in the Navy. He will relieve Vice
Admiral John S. Mccain, Coronado,
Calf, who also has been pounding
the Japs on their home grounds with
the Pacific carrier air forces.
Admiral Mccain Reports Here.
Admiral Mccain has been ordered
to report here for duty, but Mr..
Forrestal said that he could not
discuss his future assignment. Asked
about reports that Admiral Mccain
was slated to become deputy veter-
ans administrator, Mr.. Forrestal re-
piled that that would be presi-
Dental matter and information or
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Sea when a new record was set
for the amount Of shipping sunk.
Then, without even pause, this
force went on to a series of raids
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This is the building that launched
thousand ships. B-2o's.
This is the shape that eclipses the
Rising Sun and marks the dwindling
of Japan's empire in the Pacific.
It's the Quonset Hut !. great all
purpose building of the war :. pro-
duced by Great Lakes Steel Corpora
ton to serve hundred and more uses
on our island bases. In it our fighting
men eat, sleep, live :. store supplies
and bombs. -. cook meals and wash
clothes /. establish communication
headquarters -. set up repair shops.
Out of it come the pilots of our Super
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-07-15

on Tokyo. 1t helped cover opera
tons at Two and Okinawa, and
right now is again stabbing at the
Jap home islands.
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-.< MNDW
~" -. and out Of a
Quonset Hut comes trouble for Tokyo
{. and out Of q

fortresses, briefed for their raids on
Tokyo, Kobe, Osaka. To it they return
when the mission is completed, to
report detectives blasted.
Tens of thousands of Quonset Huts
have been erected by Seabees in the
Pacific, each one a milestone on the
road to Tokyo. What makes the Quon.
set Hut great? Speed of erection,
adaptability to all climates and uses,
efficiency and durability ;. these
and the magic of Sfran-Sfeel framing.
Tomorrow's greatest building values,
like today's great Quonset Hut, will
be framed with permanent, 6re-safe,
nailable Stran-Steel from Great Lakes.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-10

Harry informed Thomas N. Biddison,
a Maryland prosecutor. HE told me
Baltimore had been quiet lately and
there was a lot of loose money lying
around. He was all wet. l had to
hit four places to get only 81 900, and
that's too much trouble for such a
small haul.
Harry was a slight, blue-eyed,
brown-haired, taciturn man who spent
his money without ostentation at the
race tracks and card tables. After
his arrest he admitted sheepishly that
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-10

he rented a va
cant building next
10 a small bank.
The cop on the
beat asked him
what sort of busi.
ness he planned
TO engage in and
he replied:
I'm going TO
open a bank"
He did I h e
bank next door.
Although he al
ways operated
alone, Harry had
a tipster on the
Pittsburgh munich
pal payroll who
kept him informed
whenever the po-
lice of other cities
sent out special
fliers for him.
But tn e lug
w s a dope"
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-10

which they stuck a pin to mark each
of his jobs, hoping that by charting
his progress they could figure out
where he would strike next But
before long there were so many pins
in the map that the pattern was only
a SenselesS maze.
One winter night in 1910, when
Harry was particularly active, Phila-
delphia's public safety director sta.
toned 600 policemen around a small
area-one every 20 feet. When morn.
ing came, six safes in as many ad.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-10

lIle N1dI ldnQ fe1lle1JdTy anu
when-and if-he emerges at the age
of 80, Philadelphia has 105 warrants
waiting TO serve.
In his own quaint way, Harry was
n career man. He had learned his
trade in stir from an erstwhile safe
company cmploye who taught him
how to break off the knob of cafe
and then turn the tumblers with
piece of wire. But he purposely var.
led his technique in different cities.
In Philadelphia he was known as
the sashweight burglar because he
invariably used sashweight to knock
off the knob of a safe. In Baltimore
he always used steel punch. Pitts
burgh knew him as "Old Clumsy"
because he employed heavy mallet
and deliberately made a messy job
of it. But all of them called him "The
Ghost" or The Phantom" because he
never left a fingerprint and he had
A..
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-10

Safe Company Empioye. and 1T
Brought Him Nearly 100000
Year Until That Fatal Last Job.
he was much better at picking locks
than he vas at picking the right
horses at the various race tracks.
After each series of burglaries, dc.
tectives were sent 10 the night clubs
of New York and Atlantic City 10
watch for a big-time spender in the
hope that they might find Eberle
They were wasting their time.
After his arrest Harry, who had
taken a correspondence course in
electrical engineering while he was
in prison and considered himself the
PROFESSIONAL type, gave the police
quite a lecture on how to be a fill
clustering phantom.
It was his custom, he said, to look
over a prospective job during the
day and then return at night TO OBJ
serve just how the police were op-
Grating in that vicinity.
The faces of his listeners redeemed
when he recalled that most patrol
men moved around their posts like
automatons, trying doors and peer.
ing in windows at almost the exact
minute each hour night after night.
His favorite method of getting
into building, he said, was to climb
the fire escape and lower himself
from the roof with the aid of a
strong steel wire.
Usually Harry waited until day
light in the building he had robhf =,
Then he walked out nonchalantly /
joined the work-bound pedestrians. A
few minutes later he would enter the
tenement in which he kept his wife
and child in circumstances i'll becom.
ing a man whose income came close
to 100000 a year.
But his family will be even worse
off now. It's strictly on its own.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-10

never been seen.
Insurance com =
panieS were offering
81 900 reward-n o [
for his capture, but
for only a valid de-
scription of him.
The Phila delp hia
police had a map in
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-10

joining buildings had -
been-eracked, with
the loss running into
five figures. There
were only two clues-the familiar
sashweight and a plank which had
been used to bridge the gaps be
tween the buildings as Harry moved
from roof TO roof.
Business before pleasure was
Harrys motto. One night while
he was playing cards in Chester,
Pa, he listened while a bootlegger
boasted of the amount OF money in
his safe. Harry played out the hand,
left the table, visited the bootleg
gers warehouse, removed $4,000
and returned to the game where his
victim dealt him another hand.
Another story told about Harry,
but which never actually was pinned
on him, goes back TO the time when
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-10
The Safe Crackingest
Gent in +he Business
Finally Became Visible
just as He Was Going
to Give Ii Up

rHE lady known as luck had been
mighty kind TO Harry Eberle for
y many years, but the other day
she played him very dirty trick. He
probably had cracked as many safes
as any man who ever lived-about 500
in the last 10 years, police figured,
with a take of close to a million. He
had made the police look like lot of
butterfly-chaSerS.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-10

Now he had planned
just one more job. 1t
was a good one, a safe
in Washington, d. c., in
which he knew there
was close TO 100000.
Then he was going TO
invest in a snug little
place near Chicago over
looking Lake Michigan
and quit the business.
But, Of course, that
d lid MT h happen. The
night before the Wash
ington tap he decided
10 make a final easy
tou ch i'm Baltimore,
where he had been do
ing very well indeed.
There were policemen
everywhere, in door
ways, in alleys, on roofs,
Straining their eyes for
a glimpse of the guy
who had looted Is safes
i'm six days, but that
didn't both er Harry.
The same thing had
been going on for years.
This time it was diff
ferent. Patrolman Chris
topher Schemm, a COM
parative rookie, saw a
fleeting figure in an al
ley and made the cap
ture. It was Eberle
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-10

and a telltale steel punch was in
his pocket.
So Harry has retired, all right,
but not to a lake-view cottage.
He'll spend the next 35 years in
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-17
Detroit Police
Officer Killed

Detroit. Jan. PatrOlman
Leo f. IIelinski. SC. veteran po-
liceman. is dead today after being
shot twice Tuesday by Casmir
Ratkowski. ST. former Eloise in
mate.
Witnesses said Ratkowski had
been drinking for a week: He is
recovering in Receiving Hospital
from gunshot wounds in the hands
and neck inflicted by Patrolman
John Pobursky. Helinski's partner.
RELATIONSHIPS father, Paul. II. told
police his son came home from a
saloon Tuesday afternoon and
threatened to kill his mother.
Annie. &c.
The elder RatkowsH ran from
the house and told Patrolman Ed
ward Lewandowski that he was
having trouble with his drunken
son.
Patrolmen Helinski and Pobor-
sky were assigned to go 10 the
Ratkowski home
Helinski started up the stairs to
the second floor where Ratkowski
v hiding when he was struck by
the contents OF a - gauge shot
gun shell.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-17
City Workers Considering Strike

Entire membership OF State,
County and Municipal Workers.
CLIO Local 1863, made mp of Ypsilanti
municipal employees. were called to
. meeting in the city storehouse
this afternoon to give consideration
to proposal to strike.
The present difficulty seems to be
an outgrowth Of that which last
summer resulted in the closing OF
six municipal Departments. NJ that
time skeleton crews were main
tanned at the utilities TO avoid dan.
ger of hardships TO the public.
This meeting follows one held
This morning between officers Of
the union. Mayor Ross X. Bower,
Fred ii. Nissly of the Board of
Public Works and T. Fred Older,
city engineer
William Hughes, president OF the
local. said there is at least "a
hours supply Of gas Oh hand, and
that the water would not, under
any condition. be turned off.
Officers OF the union. are be
sides Mr.. Hughes. Emil Pare, vice
president, Jay Cazier, financial
secretary. and Fred Woolsey, re-
cording secretary
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-17
Heater Fire
Does Damage

Fire al restaurant at 2i33 f..
Michigan Ave. Tuesday night caus-
ed an estimated damage Of 81 500.
or this amount, $500 Is the dam
age to the equipment as estimated
by the owners four partners. Jack
Cashdoller. Miss Lillian Flock.
Miss Lottie Nichols, and Mrs. Ger
trudc Butter.
The fire was caused by defec-
tive oil heater. The blaze spread
from the stove throughout rnr rear
Of the lunch room, and the intense
heat seriously damaged the front
OF the building Willow village
fremen. with the assistance Of
the Bomber Plant department were
able to confinc the fire to the first
floor. The second floor was dam
aged by smoke
The fire was reported at : l.
Tuesday night by q waitress. Mrs.
Maxine Beck, who was driven from
the telephone by the flames before
she could complete the call. Her
coat. which she had beside her,
was burned.
The owners. all related. moved
here from Jackson two months ago.
and bought the building as well as
the business The building and
equipment was insured.
Many OF the destroyed things are
almost impossible to replace, name
ly a new slicing machine. toastcrs,
and two new coffee urns