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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-25

Chapter II
WHEN Mario strobe up TO the
w car with Mario Drew swing
to Madge,s body, Uncle Louie
stepped out and greeted her with
a flourish Of his derby. His blue
ewes twinkled and his face
beamed with a triumphant smile
as he thought. My formula IS q
success!
aMy dear Miss Drew" bowed
Uncle Louie. 'this is indeed q
pleasure"
$50 you are Uncle Louie" said
Mario, as she gave his unique at
tire a curious once-over.
"At your service, my dear" he
said. assisting her into the car
swell, here goes" said Mario,
as she switched on the ignition.
"Yoa know the direction. my
dear?"
81 should" laughed Mario;
SITS been my goal for a long. long
time"
Marlo's explosive exit. which
had nearly slammed the foyer
door off its hinges, brought Sophie
out of the kitchen. She found
Mario, who was of course Madge,
standing like one stupefied
"She sure left in a noisy huff, |"
said Sophie.
"And she surely pulled fast
one on me-" said Madge to her
self. ~
@She pulled a fast one on you?'
asked the surprised Sophie.
Madge asked herself, "Why
didn't she tell me John had gone
back to Winston Manor?"
$50 she knew it all the time
Well, what do you knowl" said
Sophie.
IF she had only told me, all
this mess could have been
avoided" continued Madge; ''but
maybe John hasn't gone back to
stay maybe he's just gone back
to pack and move out all his
things"
Didn't you tell me that he told
you that he was going back be-
cause"
Madge didn't hear her as she
continued, The terrible thing is
that she is going back to him.
instead of me! She'll do anything
20 turn him against me, even
make him hate mel"
''If he lets her do that" re-
marked Sophie, "after you givin
up your career, he's nothin' but
a deodorized skunk"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-25
TREES srYMIE SWEEPER

ANDERSON, Ind.-In order to
use a new street sweeper, cost
ing several thousand dollars. city
officials had to spend several
hundreds of dollars to trim the
over-hanging branches of the
trees lining the streets. The
sweeper was so tall the trees kept
it from reaching the curbs.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-25

We often hear the assertion that he is
his worst enemy, but that applies to all of
us, male and female. 1t was Cicero who said
that Man is his worst enemy" and he was
a very observant chap.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-25

discipline is largely responsible for the
increase in juvenile delinquency.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-07-25

The man who rushes to finish every
task often leaves something unfinished.
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14
War In Brief


The Western Front; Ninth Army
met heavy flax fire 45 miles from
Berlin; Third drove past northern
tip of Czechoslovakia, virtually BIZ
secting the Reich; First fought for
and beyond Leipzig; Bayreuth en-
tered; British within 40 miles of
Hamburg, outflanking city; Cana.
dams besieged Arnhem; Ameri-
cans in south arvaneed toward
Nuremberg. and French were nine
miles from Stuttgart.
The Russian Front: Troops re-
leased after fall OF Vienna rolled
westward toward Prague and
southern Germany; Goeding. Mora
Wan war center, captured; Moscow
said 10000 Germans were taken
ein Vienna siege.
The Italian Front: British pene.
trated outskirts OF Imola, met stiff
opposition in SanternO Bridgehead /:
Americans drove north on west
coast against scattered resistance
The Pacific Fronts: Chinese re.
ported Japanese armor speeding to-
ward Manchuria border; japanese
counterattacked on Okinawa south
ern front and were beaten back
Americans on LuZon within three
miles OF Baguio.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14
We Day to Come After Linkup And
End of Subsequent Fighting

in the west, until the eastern
front, too, had collapsed
Not to Collapse
There is no disposition here TO
believe that even splitting the
Reich in two would cause the col
lapse of fighting front-sctualiy
many fighting fronts as the Ger
man command disintegrated into
separate pockets Of major resist
ance.
These fronts already are form
ing. One, perhaps the weakest OF
two is shaping up in the north in
a great arc backed up against the
Baltic Sea and trying TO hold the
northern ports and perhaps Der.
lin
The other would he a great arc
in the south centered upon the ma
tional redoubt' Of Nazism-the
hideaways OF mountainous south
ern Germany and northern Austria
between Lake Constance and Berch
tesgaden.
The arc IN the north would
probably break into more than one
pocket, particularly II the Allies in
the west continue their wedge to
ward Hamburg and Lubbock
II would mean there would be
the Berlin arc TO clear out. the
northern ports. the flooded fort
ress Of western Holland-perhaps
eventually even Denmark and Nor.
way. The farthermost and best
naturally guarded OF these three
NorWay-snd the heart OF the
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14
Too Much Idle
Time Decried

After hearing the reports OF the
afternoon session OF the Youth
Guidance Institute. Friday. DR.. Earl
Kelly. professor Of secondary edu'
cation at Wayne University at the
evening session at Charles Nc
Kenny Hall stressed the point that
many young people who quit school
before completion OF the course
do not seek employment, and there
fore have too much free time. He
recommended that children should
not be allowed 10 drop out OF
school until they have reached the
age of IS years, instead Of the pres
ent compulsory school age OF is.
A broader recreation program
would solve much OF the difficulty
with minors, he believed.
Youth is the responsibility OF
adults. he asserted. and the needs
and desires of the young people
should receive much more of their
attention. From 1893 to 1885, he
said. youth was not wanted in in
dustry or business, now boys and
girls are in demand and have
proven that they can accept re-
sponsibility, he said.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14
Stores Close,
Churches Plan
Silent Period

Sunday churches in Ypsilanti will
observe a period OF Sacred Silence,
followed by memorial prayers. The
services, In whole or part. will re-
view the contributions TO the world
OF the late President Franklin ID.
Roosevelt.
Churches will be open this after
noon and all day Sunday for those
who wish to enter for meditation
and prayer.
Stores Close at 2:3o
BY action OF the Retail Mer-
chants Committee Of the Board OF
Commerce and in accordance with
the Proclamation of Mayor Ross X.
Bower. Ypsilanti retail stores will
close at 2:S0 p. m. today and re-
main closed for the rest Of the day.
This gesture OF reverence is nation
wide and in Washtenaw County
the closing OF stores will be gen.
eral. including Ann Arbor, Belle
Vile, Saline. Milan and other shop
ping centers.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14
Pupils Will
Sell Bonds

Lansing. Apr. l4-AP-Michigan
school children will be asked TO
sell $50, 100000 worth OF war bonds
during the Seventh War Bond
Drive, DR.. Eugene b. elliott, state
superintendent OF public instruc-
ton, announced today.
Because many schools will close
before the drive ends officially, FL.
liott asked that school campaigns
begin Immediately. He said all
sales between April ! and June 80
would be counted in the quota.
Per capita quotas ranging from
seven dollars in Pressure Isle (.snn.
ty TO $50 in Wayne County have
been established for schools in the
states $50 counties, Elliott said.
The drives will be conducted un.
der the supervision OF county
school committees. including the
county school commissioner. the
superintendent OF the largest city
school in the county, the county
war finance chairman, and two 9TH
or persons one OF them represent
ing parochial schools.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14
Bomber Strikes
Closing Plants

Approximately 500 employees In
three Ford Motor Co. plants were
sent home today and the company
said intermittent strikes at its
Willow Run Bomber Plant this
week made the layoffs necessary.
Rouge, Lincoln and Highland Park
plants were affected.
- FinsfHssembly tot B-2+-bolEbsns
at Willow Run was halted late Fri
day. Ford spokesman said, by a
strike OF 800 employees protesting
the retention of foreman who had
engaged in a fight with a produc.
ton worker. Both men were given
disciplinary layoffs.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14
Clothing Not
BeiingGiiven

Responses to the call for used
clothing have gone unheeded in
many sections of Ypsilanti
Monday night J. Lester Miller
ard his committee will start work
on sorting and shipping Rev Cor
don Speer. chairman OF Church CO.
operation committee, today urged
people to take their bundles Of
clothing TO their respective
churches Sunday.
Under the confusion OF many ap-
peals We are not receiving the
amount OF support that Ypsilanti is
expected to give" said Paul Tn
grodt. chairman OF the United
Clothing Collection. The month is
half gone and we should be recelv.
ing many more garments than have
been turned in thus far
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14
Storm Toll
Reaches | II

Oklahoma City. Apr. zap -
The number OF dead in Thursdays
tornadoes in Oklahoma, Arkansas
and Missouri mounted today to 1l2.
Fifteen others were listed as miss
ing and hundreds were injured.
Deaths in Arkansas jumped to Il
with FIVE persons unaccounted for.
Six were killed in Missouri
Oklahomas dead totaled So OF
whom GO were at Antlers in the
southeastern section OF the state.
Soldiers. using bulldozers, continu-
ed to search the rubble for ten
more persons reported missing.
The state health department an
nounced it was ready to begin a
general sanitation program in the
stricken areas. This includes wat
er treatment and injection OF ty-
phoid serum.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14

Just when. after this die.hsrd
resistance is finally pushed into
its last pockets, the Allied victory
proclamation will come. will de-
pend upon the extent OF the break
down OF the German fighting force.
But it IL conceivable-eve prob
able-that when It is proclaimed
the Germans might still have at
least q nominal army in the field.
perhaps tvo-one In Norway and
one in the national redoubt.
That is to say. the proclamation
would not necessarily await break
down OF the German opposition into
purely guerrilla resistance.
But it would certainly not come
until virtually all Of Germany is
seized and resistance whitfield
down 10 mere mop.up and pru-out
side and locked tightly in a cor
ner from which it could not move.
II that was the case, there might
come a "celebrationaf" victory day.
and after that the war would CON
tinue as aggressive occupa ton
OF additional parts OF the Reich
and the liberation OF the last bits
OF Nazi-held and Naziconquered
territory.
II would be entirely conceivable
under such conditions that some
American doughboys would still be
in the fighting line in Europe and
new gold stars would be added Ia
the little flags in the windows down
main street back home for weeks
or even months. after the day OF
celebration.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14
BY JAMES NJ. LONG

Supreme Headquarters Allied Elk
peditionary Force, Paris. Apr IL
APT The German army. still
fighting fiercely in the east, no
longer has either a cohesive front
nor a coherent command In the
west. The long awaited Allied
linkup severing the Reich in the
middle is near-but that does NOT
mean that the war in Europe will
end at that time.
There might still be military
fighting on into next winter. but
il was not likely that it would
still be regarded as an active
phase of the European war.
w day will come. according to
the best available opinion here.
somewhere between the Allied
linkup and the end Of subsequent
fighting. And II will come by Al
lied proclamation, and not by
German surrender.
Events since Gen. Eisenhower r
fortnight ago predicted that the
Germans would continue TO fight
as best they could until the last
inch OF the Reich has been over
run have only served TO under.
score the supreme commanders
words.
He declared then that the Nazis
would not quit: there would be no
formal surrender: that victory
would probably be announced by
proclamation.
But it is hardly likely that Fl.
senhower alone could or would
proclaim such a We day. Il would
be proclaimed by a joint agree
ment with Premier Marshal sta.
F.. lin. and IL could hardly come. what.
! ever the success OF the cleanup
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14

have hit-for four hours
starting shortly before mid
night.
On the southern approach
es to Japan, American and
British carrier forces de-
stroyed 256 Nipponese
planes, most Of them flown
by suicide pilots attacking
American shipping.
Radio Tokyo admitted the
situation was getting worse
on Okinawa, 1926 miles south
of Japan, where the L. =. cath
Army Corps repulsed an attacking
battalion OF Japanese with heavy
enemy losses. There was no
change In battle lines for the eighth
consecutive day.
Yanks OF the 3sth division recap
tured Fort Drum on I'll Fralle Is
land AT the entrance 10 Manila Bay
yesterday. burning out the small
Nipponese garrison.
The 18th airborne division and
15sth regimental combat team, clos
ing a pincers on southern Lizon.
drew 10 within 80 air miles OF each
other. On northern Luzon, the
33rd division edged TO within three
miles of Baguio. enemy headanarl
ters, IN .iha PhilippiaessfrsF ~h'sh
1t. Gen. T'omoyuki samashiia was
reported to have fled TO Japan.
japanese mechanical units were
reported speeding from tho Shang-
hal area toward former stations In
Manchuria as a result OF Moscow's
denunciation OF the Russo. Japanese
neutrality pact.
A resurgent Chinese counterof-
fensive in North Central China was
reported to have frustrated a two
pronged Japanese threat to Shensi
province and the northern approach
es to Chungking. Chinese columns
drove into the suburbs OF Sichwan
and SinRyang.
British carrier planes raided
northern Formosa for the second
successive day Friday Tokyo re.
ported. while Philippines based
bombers hit Shanghai. British car
rier aircraft destroyed II planes
the preceding day while surface
units shelled shore installations.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14
University of Michigan May
Yet Receive Building Funds

Lansing, Apr. 1i-AP-Senator
Don Wander Werp. chairman OF the
Senate Finance Committee. said
today an attempt would be made
next week to restore a provision
for a new $1,30O.00O service and ad.
ministration building at the Unit
versity of Michigan. 1t was elm
mated from the state building bill
Friday.
Wander Werp said Governor Kelly
had requested the committee TO
reconsider the decision to elm
mate the money and that President
Alexander G.. Ruthven of the Uni
versity would appear before the
committee.
The committee agreed tentatively
to give Michigan State College an
additional ISL 900 for poultry
house, northern Michigan College
OF Education 100000 for the
states share OF girls dormitory
and student union building. and
100000 to the Michigan College
of Mining and Technology TO sup
plement 1871 appropriation for
a gymnasium and athletic field.
In those three additions. the com
mittee OVERRIDE a state building
department policy which had gov
erned the drafting Of the bill. That
policy limited the building fund to
structures vitality needed 70 care
foe additional institutional popula.
tions, such as new classrooms for
colleges. new cells for prisons and
new bed space for hospitals.
The committee voted to give the
state police $4,000 for radio re-
pairs and research building, and
the Western College OF Education
S450,000 for a training school. in
stead OF 100000 for a fine arts
building.
To permit the increase and re-
duce the bills total from S5.992.-
600 to A.3l3.00O, the committee
Topped off the only University Of
Michigan building in the bill as
well as 100000 for a power plant
at the Ionia State Hospital. SOS. 900
for a central store building al the
state prison OF Southern Michigan,
and 100000 of the $4,000 for
postwar building plans.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14

southern German redoubt might
take months to clean out, especial
~ II the Nazis held on there past
fall and into weather when SHOWS
come in the mountain passes and
ice forms on the mountain roads
End Near
Il Is not suggested that the Ger
mans would necessarily be able to
do that with any degree NJ sue
cess The speed Of the American
race through middle Germany and
the force Of the Russian drive into
the southern flank from the east
IL bringing the end near. even fast
er than the Germans had calculat-
ed.
But, by The very nature OF the
Allied breskthroueh in the center.
considerable Wehrmacht forces are
actually being folded back into
these arcs.
II seemed clear that Just as sure
ly as victory would not be pro
claimed on the day Of the American
and Russian linkup. neither would
the proclamation be withheld IN
I'll the last shooting on German
sail was over.
No Precedent
The situation created is virtual
" without military precedent
people beaten and unable 20 quit
nation defeated and unwilling "a
surrender: and The prospect o.
one side eventually having 70 an
nounce just that IT had non = val
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14
Pay Raised

Lansing. Apr. LAP County
welfare agents and their assistants
were given a pay raise under bill
signed by Governor Kelly Friday.
Those officials receive n raise
OF 10 per cent OF their state salary
until the end OF the war.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14
U. S. WEATHER FORECAST

Lower Michigan: Partly cloudy
tonight and Sunday. Light frost
and near freezing temperatures
north PARTON tonight. Not so cool
Sunday.
Highest temperature yesterday,
rs lowest, so.
Highest temperature one year
ago today, AZ: lowest "a.
Highest temperature this date
in last ~ years. 81 in 1881; lowest,
% in 1910.
The sun sets today at SIP p. m.
and rises Sunday at 6:51 a. m.
The moon sets today at 11:06 D.
m. and rises Sunday at 9:13 a. m.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14
Reich Nearly
Cut In Two bv
Bradley Dash

wv Oii'"l ~ ~ dhl'N NlHtI-
leans, already operating in the rear
area OF Nazis fighting the Russians.
have. by-passed Leipzig and virtual.
ly cut the Reich in two with
swift 32mile dash carrying 81
miles past the northwest tip OF
Czechosloyakia.
All direct communication be-
tween Berlin and the south was cut.
The Ninth Army on the Elbe IS
miles from the capital met heavy
fire from German flax batteries.
Behind the fronts the First and
Ninth Armies virtually wiped out
the last OF the Ruhr pocket. where
10000 Nazis had been trapped
More than 100000 Germans had
surrendered in the pocket
The dash skirting the Czechoslo-
yak frontier was made by u. \.
Third Army spearheads. Three OF
Bradley's = senifess nov we're Tess
than 100 miles from the ftass Stems,
The Third wss IS miles away. the
Ninth 30 miles. and the First was
fighting FOR Leipzig and last report.
ed IS miles from the Red armies.
Red Army troops, released by the
fall OF Vienna. mounted new drives
toward Prague and the Mani noun.
tain pedoubt In southern Germany.
"A l. al nj hNNI n To- n
Third Ukrainian Army was driv
ing hard toward Berchtesgaden,
Hitler's lair. and his tanks were
rolling the Germans westward
across Austria Berlin indicated a
wholesale withdrawal OF Nazi
troops on the sweeping l70-mile
front.
Push Into MoraVia
At the same time the second
Ukraine army OF Marshal Rodion Y
Malinovsky pushed into Moravia,
last German army arsenal, captur.
ing Goeding (Hodonin), a war cen.
ter 80 miles from Bruenn, Czecho-
sloyak munitions city, and storming
the Moraya River on a li-mils
stretch
British troops on the eastern
Italian front drove into the out
skirts OF lmola, Pc valley highway
center less than 20 miles east OF
Bologna, advancing against light
resistance Scattered opposition
met the Americans moving north
on the west coast toward La Spe-
zia.
But there was heavy fighting IN
the Santeruo River bridzehead
which the British wldened stead
! lily. Raj bombers aided this drive
attacking communications durins
the night. and U. S. planes gave
daylight battlefront support
Lash at Germans
A force OF 1.l50 L. S. heavy
bomners and fighters dashed at the
German pocket in western France
on both sides OF the Gironde River
/ north OF Bordeaux, after a night IN
/ which Kiel. chief haven for whaI
IL left Of the German navy, was
struck by $50 RAF heayies.
A dispatch from supreme head
quarters said the Germans in tn'
] Reich no longer had a cohesive
front OF coherent command. The
/ linkup OF the Western Allies Wit
the. Russians was near, the dis
patch said, but there might be nit
itary fighting into next winter, ar
ter the active phase OF the Euro
pean war ends by proclamation d
! We Day. This probably must wall
Until Marshal Stain and the west
ern Allies agree upon tho date
Long fighting against the redoub
in the south and even against noril
/ German pockets vas predicted.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14
TRIPLE SERVICES HELD

Kalamazoo-Triple funeral ser1
vices were held Friday for the
three small children Of Seaman 10
and Mrs. Robert Bylsya who perl
ished Wednesday when fire DESTROY
ed their farm home. Six othe4
children living in the house werd
rescued.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14
Cortege OF
Roosevelt IN
Washington

Washington, Apr. Tap The
body OF President Roosevelt reach
od sorrowing capitol shortly be-
fersS I0ya. IA. toaays --sg-~s +, -
President Truman and members
OF the Cabinet were at the Union
Station n few minutes before the
train pulled in at $50 a. m. (EWT),
waiting to lead a mournful process.
sion TO the White House.
Members OF the Roosevelt family
were the first to enter the funeral
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14

NEW YORK ms The un-
precedented wave of rumors which
swept New York City yesterday
subsided today as newspapers and
radio stations aided hundreds OF
weary telephone operators in deny
ing reports that some OF the ma
tons leading figures OF both the
political and entertainment worlds
had met sudden death. The rumors
started Thursday night. few hours
after the death Of President Roose-
Welt. and reached their peak yes.
terday afternoon. They were as
cribed to filters occasioned by the
impact of the news OF the sudden
death OF the President.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14
Conference Task nb to Delegates
Largest B-29 Attack Yet Made
on Japs; Incendiaries
Result In Holocaust

record force of about 400 Superforreses raining in
cendares, turned Tokyos arsenal into flaming ex-
podng holocaust today Jet propelled japanese Inter-
ceptors flashed through raidng formations like Roman
candles.
1t was the 18th, and largest BIO attack on the Japan
ese capital Superfors were the five-me square
target areathe most important military objective they
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-14

NEW YORK ms Another OF
those mysteries OF life in the big
city was disclosed today with dis
covery OF two aged spinsters stary.
ing TO death in their six-room apart
ment although they had small
fortune on deposit in several banks.
Police said that Mary Donovan, 50,
and her sister, Catherine, ST. were
suffering from malnutrition end a
heart condition when a curious
neighbor investigated their dis
appearance.