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The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-01-04
DumbartOn Oaks

What happened at Dumbarton Oaks? Men met there
and talked about the problem of world peace They
scented the United States Great Britain Russia and China
They agreed on many points.
What is the main point? That all the peace-ovng ma
tons shall take part in organization called the United
Nations with delegate from each country All the dele
gates will be the General Assembly Eleven of them will
be on the Security Council The delegates from the United
States Great Britain Russia China and France will always
be the Council The others will take turns The Assembly
will discuss things and give advice but the Council will
really have the say
What will the Council do? Whatever thinks must be
done to keep from starting When two coun-
tries get into dispute, the Council will do its best get
them to settle the dispute without fighting If that doesn't
work the Council will decide which country at fault and
will try to make it behave by not letting trains ships
arpaneS mail enter it from the outside leave it. and
by other of that kind still doesn't work the
Council will then armed forces make the country that
IS trying to start Fighter has started one-back down.
Since the Council will have behind it the forces of many
nations the idea is that country three
will ever be strong enough to get big started
Will the Council have its armed forces? No. It will
be permitted to the armed forces of various
tries the that handest when they are needed
Is this sure to prevent wars? Not necessarily But if
we really mean it when want wars here
is chance to make real start Set-up will get
US what we want if work at it.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-01-04
V-Day for VD

Treason and sabotage probably the hardest words
that be thrown at any soldier Yet here in this CITY,
In hundreds of towns and cities all the
helping soldiers to commit acts of and sabotage
day.
During the last few months there has been much as
forty percent increase in the venereal disease within
the Army and the Navy Military authorities attribute this
in part to the widespread publicity given the new
cure wonder-drug peniciln They urge civilian assist
ance in natonwi information program V-D
Some communities will combat such program. They
will that talking about VD to advertise the
getting it. But more and more communities recognize that
to allow VD to persistn fact to increases to endanger
the immediate health of fighting men, to stall their
rainng to delay necessary military oensves These COM
muntes, through their civic organizations their schools
their newspapers and their churches giving
civilians the unpleasant but unvarnshed truths about
real disease Through health clinics they providing
examinations, diagnosis and treatment.
and build for a healthier postwar America.
To refuse it, to perform in effect, insidious act
of sabotage
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-01-04
3l,2O7 Join Navy
AT Detroit Station

A total of 31,207 men were sworn
into the Navy during 1914 at De-
troit's Navy Recruiting and Induc-
ton Station, according to an an
nouncement today by Lieut. Comdr.
Byron E. Flechtner, Officer in
Charge.
The total represented men from
Lower Michigans So counties and
included 20,214 inductees and 1898
who entered the Navy by voluntary
enlistment, a privilege still open to
17-year- olds and men, 38 through
so.
Commander Fqechtner pointed out
that 1944's 1898 Navy volunteers
represented a substantial increase
over the $685. voluntary enlistments
of 1943 although the latter years
80, 268 inductions exceeded those of
1914.
The 1914 total brings to 99,328
the number of men who have been
sworn into the Navy at the Detroit
station since the Jap attack on
Pearl Harbor December Z, l941.
Station records for total men
swearing in during a single day and
month we're established during 1914.
The record day was April 20 when
316 men took the Oath of Alleg-
lance; the top month, May when
5,675 were sworn into the Navy.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-01-04
Operates Largest
Army Food Depot

ALllED fOHCE dEAD(3UA
TIERS, Italy - Private First Class
Paul p. Kolakowski, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Kolakowski, 1910 3rd ST..
is serving with one Of two PENN
sular Base Section Quartermastel
supply outfits operating the larg-
est food depot in the Mediterranean
Theater. A record 900 tons of food
have been shipped TO Fifth Army
and base section troops by these
men In one day.
Soldiers supervise some 1000 Ital-
ian laborers who work on the dumps
IL giant stock piles. Enough bal
anced diets to feed over two million
men are kept in each pile and truck
conveys flow through the depot
steadily since they can be loaded
at any one Of these stock points.
The dumps present site was sur
veyed by an advance party while
American artillery was still Smelling
Germans from . point almost a mile
behind them. Detachment soldiers,
IS per cent Of whom are ex-combat
men, also worked on the dumps
nine miles Of roads and installed
a network Of drainage bitches.
Pvt. Kolakowski has been over
seas 10 months and wears the Med
iterranean Theater Ribbon with
three battle participation stars and
has been awarded the Combat In
fantryman's Badge.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-01-04
New Sulphuric Acid Plant
Is Announced by Monsanto

ST. LOUIS, Jan. Monsanto
Chemical Company today announced
plans TO construct . new sulfuric
acid plant, with yearly capacity
OF 72,0oo tons, In the plant area
Of its Monsanto. Ill, properties.
Equipment for the new plant Is
on order and construction win begin
in about three weeks. Monsanto said
adding that production is expected
to get underway In five or six
months. The new facility viii cost
about $4,000.
Monsanto's Illinois plant has long
been one Of the mid-west's major
producers Of sulfuric acid, which is
essential to o large number Of man
ufacturing processes The new plant
Is designed largely 10 meet require
nents growing out OF increased pro-
duction Of explosives.
About $50 men will be employed
In construction Of the new facility.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-01-04
Book


Jan Karski is q young Polish
lieutenant (only thirty years ODD
who spent three years with Poland's
Underground. Before the German
invasion forces reached Paris, he
served as q courier between the
Underground and France. The Ges-
tapo eventually caught and tor
tured him, and one night when
everything seemed hopeless he
regained consciousness in a prison
hospital, and the sympathetic Slo-
vakian doctor and attendants helped
him to escape. He resumed Under
ground work propaganda, pub
fishing newspapers, helping re-
fugees to escape, training young
people, bringing punishment on
collaborationists - all the grueling,
detailed, hazardous jobs involved In
the secret war against Hitler.
Not because he grew weary or
frightened, but only because he had
too many encounters with the Ges-
tapo, he finally desisted, on orders
from his superiors. He went to
London, carrying with his 1900 pages
of Underground documents recorded
on microfilm. He has since reported
in secret sessions to Anthony Eden,
to Secretary Stifnson and to Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Much Of what he said had to be
kept confidential at that time. Now
it is possible for him to tell the full
story, which he does in his book,
STORY Of Secret State, A Book-of
the Month Club Selection for jan
uary.
There are at least two chapters
in STORY Of a Secret State" that,
once read, it will be difficult to
forget, much as we would like to
forget them, for our peace of mind.
Before he left Poland, Karski was
taken on two of the most incredible
personally conducted tours that ever
man beheld. BY way of a secret
passage he visited the Warsaw
ghetto, saw death and disease and
starvation on the faces of the
doomed populace who walked there.
Disguised as an Estonian guard,
he also spent a day in a Jewish
death camp, where he saw for him
self the way the Nazi are conducting
their mass determination of in
nocent men, women and children.
STORY of a Secret State" Is told
simply, factually, with no attempt
at literary flourishes or embellishes
and for that reason is all the more
effective. Jan KarsN is In America
now. His greatest desire is to get
back to Poland, to continue the job
that must be done before his country
is free again.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-01-04
Food Supplies May
Be Less This Year

NEW YORK, Jan. 4 - Civilians
can expect no increase in food sup
plies so long as the war in Europe
lasts, at least, and some items such
as butter, poultry, pork and bacon
will become increasingly short in
the next few months, the nations
leading food distributor said today.
In its monthly outlook for Janu-
airy, the Great Atlantic and Pacific
Tea Company said reports from
more than 140 field buying offices
throughout the country indicated
the constantly expanding demands
Of the military and lend lease would
further deplete the nations lightly
stocked food basket.
1t predicted beef supplies would
be extremely short, although the
quality will be improved; less pork
than last month despite heavier
Strengthening, all of which is ear
marked for the military and lend
lease; less veal and lamb than in
December and extremely short sup
plies of ham, bacon and pork.
Much shorter supplies Of butter
were forecast but slight improve
ment in cheese was predicted, the
poultry outlook was described as
dismal" and fish production as I'M
even but in fair supply.
The fresh fruit and vegetable sup
ply will be curtailed in January as
winter paintings have decreased IL
per cent over 1914 and production
is expected to decline Is per cent.
Added to this is the heavy middle
cember frost which struck Florida
and Texas, two heavy winter pro-
ducing states.
Two bright spots are eggs, which
are coming into record production.
and sundries such as jellies. peanut
butter and macaroni, substitutes for
scarce butter and other foods, and
spices, particularly black pepper,
long a war casualty.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-01-04
Hospit alCampaign
OPENS Nest Week

The campaign for the new Peo-
plies Community Hospital with q
goal of 100000 through public sub.
scriptions, will open officially on
January 18th, 1t was announced to-
day by Mantous Uht. general chair
man. cat this time" Mr.. Uht said
town and township chairmen and
their committee members will launch
the general campaign to obtain
gifts for the new hospital by per-
sonally interviewing businessmen
and residents In their respective
territories.
Report meetings will be held
three times o week In each town
and township for q period Of three
weeks after which the campaign n
.pected TO close. Chairmen havs
been furnished with supplies. These
consist of attractive window cards,
leaflets for mass distribution, pledge
cards, workers carry envelopes and
report envelopes and contributors
buttons,
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-01-04
Air Medal GiUen
To Mustang Pilot

AN ZIG HTH AIR FORCE
FIGHTER STATION, ENGLAND
The Air Medal has been awarded
Ind 1t. Paul j. MILAN, Psi Mus
tang pilot, of lots Orange ST., wy
andotte, Mich, for meritorious SER
vice in aerial combat.
Since joining the Goth fighter
group In England 1t. MILAN has
flown his Psi Mustang on long
rAngs bomber escort missions and
ground strafins and dive-bombing
attacks behind German lines.
The twenty one year : old flier,
whose wife. Mrs. Betty MILAN, lives
at 354 Oak ST., Wyandotte, Mich.
is q graduate of Roosevelt high
school In Wyandotte.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-01-04
| Notes From
Bacon Library
ASSORTED THOUGHTS ALA
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Having read the December issue
Of the Readers Digest" was in
terested in the following item in
the New York Times Book Review;
'sW. L. White had planned to get
to work again on editing his fathers
autobiography when he returned
from his trip to Russia with Eric
johnson, but he postponed it in
favor Of writing story of what he
saw in Russian cities. factories and
on the battlefields. The manuscript,
entitled REPORT ON THE RUS
SLAMS Is now at Harcourt Brace.
When I read the above item I
had just finished reading Part I of
the condensed version Of REPORT
ON THE RUSSIANS in the Deem
Der Readers Digest" and since
then I have read the conclusion in
the January issue. Uet me here in
terpose the hope that you do not
let your reading of a condensation
in Readers Digest" substitute for
the book itself. II you liked the
condensation you will like the en-
tire book even better. The main
value of Readers Digest" oonden-
sations Is that they serve as a guide
In helping you select books you want
to read in entirety. And never make
the mistake of forgetting that the
Readers Digest" version is just a
sampled
After reading REPORT ON THE
RUSSIANS I searched for its forth
coming publication date, but as yet
1t has not been announced. It will
probably be published as soon as
Harcourt Brace can use their 1915
quota book paper. Publishers are
having their diffieulties-af1d their
headaches. Who ever thought the
day would come when publishers
would not welcome q bestseller, in
fact would even reach the point
of fearing and stunning q book
they thought might become q best
seller?
This year some publishers Gas Dut-
ton, with THE WORLD OF WASH.
INGTON IRv1NG) have had 10
surrender their copyrights to others
with more paper. Countless books
that will probably have q large sale
have been postponed until next
spring; In some cases. with books
whose interest is not too dependent
ON today's events, postponed inde-
finitely. Other publishers with their
printings Of current books long
since sold out, have sold certificates
which entitle the purchaser to the
book when q new printing IL pos
sible in ts45.
Here are some SOLDERING statistics
to stattle the book lover: @T'he War
Production Board reports fDl4 paper
quotas of 77,s44 tons for grocery
and variety bags. 45,0e3 tons for
books, and 2O,250 tons for warl.
paper" Hereafter, I, for one, will
have an additional selfish reason
for guarding each scrap of waste
paper carefully. I'm not only con-
cerned with the progress of the war
and the welfare of our fighting
men. but like to read!
I suppose some Of the school chill
dren see q brighter side to the paper
shortage, however. The WPB also
reports that there Is serious short
age Of textbooks ESTIMATED at sew.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-01-04

1t was a miserable English day
when We sailed-cold, with a driv-
ing rain. Most of us just lay In our
hunks, Indifferent even to the tradi-
tional last glance at land.
The ship seemed terribly crowded,
and some complained bitterly of the
fool, and didn't eat for days. The
worst trouble was q lack Of hot
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-01-04
P1ohibitionists to Hold
Convention In February

The Spring convention Of the
Prohibition party Of Michigan has
been called 70 meet 1t Grand Rap
ids. Thursday. February 3 to elect
. state chairman. vice chairman,
platform and transact other busi-
state central committee. adopt a
meas.
Delegates have been apportioned
on the basis Of one for each 80
votes, or fraction thereof, for Sec
Rotary Of state n 1914. Wayne
county is entitled to -.
Ali county Spring conventions will
be held February
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-01-04

W at e r, British
standards of sani-
tation are SO diff
ferent from ours
that the contrast
is som ct m e S
shocking. The
water for washing
dishes was only
tepid, and there
was no soap. AS
a result the dishes
got greasy.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-01-04

eral million) and something must be
done Immediately or there won't be
paper for the school books necessary
But we've strayed a long way
from the REPORT ON THE RUS
SLAMS. Finding Whites book in the
Readers Digest" before it's pub
LEGATION in book form led me tt
consider the relationship between
book publication and Readers Di-
gest" condensation. Apparently
there Is no rule. The magazine evi.
IDENTIFY aims to condense book al
the moment public interest in the
book, the author or the suject mat
ter Is at its highest peak. 1t is moi
unusual for Readers Digest" Il
eondense a book before its trade
publication. The first edition of Hill
airy st. George Saunders PION.
EERSI 0 PIONEERS!, an English
mans reaction to America today
was published August 5, 1914 but
the condensation was in the pre-
vious March issue of Readers Di-
gest".
On the other hand, Eric knight:
FLYING YORKSHIREMAN was
published in 1887, but did not reach
Readers Digest" until July, 1910
Interest in this saga of Sam Small
had increased slowly but steadily
since its publication, and the pub
lie mind, according to Readers Dr.
gest" was not ripe" for THE FLY
mo YORESHIREMAN until mid.
summer 1910. The publishing game
sounds like an interesting one, does
Mt it? And one requiring sound
knowledge of psychology.
Speaking Of the Russians let me
remind you that Edgar Snow:
PEOPLE ON OUR SIDE, the latest
book to be named Imperative" by
the Council on Books in Wartime
should be must" on your reading
list. If you like Whites REPORT ON
THE RUSSIANS Chased on 5 week:
in Russia) you will be even more
enthusiastic about Shows new book
Snow (you remember him as the
author Of RED STAR OVER CHINA
and BATTLE FOR ASIA "has re-
Gently returned from a world assign
ment during which he visited seven
teen countries, spending sever
months in Russia, and six months
In China and India. His brilliant
new book (PEOPLE ON OUR SIDE
Is concerned chiefly with those three
great countries-their political out.
look, their fight against the com
mon enemy and their social anc
economic problems
Also concerning the Russians are
these interesting items from The
New York Times Book Review:
'In Leningrad during three years
of war no less than 800 books were
published, though most writer's anc
publishers were then at the front
Literary magazines came out reg.
ularly even during the historic siege
when the city was blockaded ano
under constant fire. Writers gave
I 500 radio talks and as many more
to camps and hospitals. Militar!
orders and medals have beer
awarded to more than 100 Of Len.
ingrad's authors. All this is told il
cable written by Mikolai vorono1
and sent to the Writer'S War Boare
from Moscow.
IA few hours after new book,
appears on the bookstalls the stocl
is sold out. First TO go are novel!
about Russia's past, and poetry"
p. 8. - were sorry that we can't
give you Whites REPORT ON THE
RUSSIANS in book form. Wed lik,
to read IL ourselves. Our pre-pub.
LEGATION order is on file and wher
the book is published it will be here
at Bacon Memorial Public Library
tA{~- f1r 1,o,.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-01-04
Ernie PyIe's Slant on the Var:
Ernie PyIe's Slant on the Var:
Taken to War Like Galley
Slaves, GIs Stage Gala Show
american Soldiers We're Quick
To adjust Themselves to algeria
BY Ernie Pyle

Editors Motel This dispatch written published
when Pyle with the GI during the landing Algeria He
o his way to the Pacific
IN ALGERIA came to Africa by troop transport in
convoy.
Our convoy carried number of troops and
had heavy escort, although matter how much
you have it never enough to please you.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-01-04
AZ Iast-FishtinS

From now onward. stretching fol
Evening star., 1945-11-27
SPICED SHRIMP.
From Mrs T. n Tnb01un
Dorothy Dix Says

window listening for the postman's s
step and watching for the letter
that never came. Then his children
will rush to his bedside and pour
into the ears that are closed in death
the story of the love and apprecia-
ton that they never showed him
in life.
And the pitiful thing about this
old mans case is that it is such
a common one His tragedy hap
pens so often and so needlessly. For
there is no possible reason why
men and women, who would be
shocked at the thought of commit
ting patricide, stab their parents to
the heart by a silence that cuts
deeper than any knife.
Yet thousands upon thousands of
people are guilty of this crime.
Especially are men addicted to it.
Indeed. when a boy leaves home,
either to go to college or to seek
his fortune, it is a rare thing for
him to write home except for money.
He doesn't remember that his faith
er's and mothers love is following
his every act and that the smallest
detail Of his life is more thrilling
to them than any tale of adventure.
And when the average man gets
married he turns over the chore of
writing to nom and pop to his
wife and never takes pen in hand
again.
Why so many people are allergic
to writing family letters, no one
knows, but the blackest mark that
the recording angel is setting down
against many of us is that our
lonely old parents looked in vain
for the letter that never came.
Evening star., 1945-11-27

One of the pathetic figures in
my little world is feeble old man
who sits day after day at a window
watching for the letter that never
comes. He has half a dozen chill
dren, now middle-aged men and
women, scattered In different parts
of the country, to whom he has been
a good father He worked hard to
give them good educations and a
start in life, and he is proud that
they have justified the sacrifices
that he made for them. He likes to
brag a bit about John being a
banker, and Tom having a big
grocery, and Mary's fine house, and
that Sally's son has been nomi-
mated for Governor of his State.
There is no smallest thing in
what they do in which he is not
interested and that he would not
like to hear all about, but his chill
dren have no longer any interest in
him. So far as he is concerned,
father is the forgotten man. 1t
has been years since any of them
paid him a real visit. They do not
even bother to write to him except
on Fathers Day, and so the old man
sits at his window, with the death
less optimism of parents in his
heart, watching and waiting for the
mail carrier who passes him by.
Now this mans children are not
deliberately cruel and neglectful
They do not intend to be unkind. 1t
is just that their lives are filled with
their own affairs and they have not
time or thought for anything else.
One Is going into a new business.
Another's daughters are making
their debuts. Another's sons are
starting off to college Another is
trying to decide whether to build
the new house in the modernistic
style or the dignified early Co.
lonial. And they forget that old
people, who have no lives of their
own any more and no plans and
interests, must live yicariously in
their children'S.
Some day before long the old man
will sit no longer in his chair by the