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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-06-19

Apropas of wartime condi-
tons, there is, on Chicago
Clark street, an "Innuendo
Grill" and on San Francisco's
Market street there is the Ten
center-Nothing over Is cents. F"
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15
Imprisoned Friars
Face Death to
Bury B-29 FIiers

The Rev. Marcian Pellet, Fran
ciscan friar, who arrived in the
United States this week after being
liberated from a Japanese prison
camp, revealed how the friarS had
dared death to bury members Of a
Bog crew after the plane had
crashed near their prison camp.
DR.. Pellet, the son of Mrs. A. S.
Franklin, formerly of ESQ Sycamore
street who is now living in Mel
vindale, was one of nine friars of
the Capuchin Franciscan Mission
at Guam, who were captured by
the Japanese during the war. When
a B-29 crashed near the japanese
camp where the friars were i'm
priSoned, the friars dared death to
sneak out of the camp and bury
the dead crew members. DR.. Pei
lett said the friars made a pressure
cooker from the wreckage of the
plane to prepare their rations of
| soy beans.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15
Jewish Var Vets
Install Officers

Newly elected officers of Down
River Post No. 225, Jewish War
Veterans of the United States, were
installed at ceremonies held We'd
neSday.
State Commander Harry T. Mad
ison officiated at the installation
and discussed the growth of the
Jewish War Veteran organization
throughout the United States. Ma
tional Executive Committeeman,
Philip Cantor, explained the edu-
cational value for veterans relative
to the G. /. Bill of Rights.
The following officers were in
stalled: Harry Paskovitz. comman-
der; Elliot Stern, senior vice COM
mander; Jack Tarnoff, junior vice
commander; Samuel Congress, ad-
jutant; Sam Fogel, quartermaster;
Dr.. William J, Freedman, judge
advocate; Tony Lebowitz, chap
lain; DR.. Charles Ornstein, sur
geon; S. H. Wiseman, historian;
Eugene Blumenthal, officer of the
day; Max Baker, Morris Fox, Nor
ris Gotch, trustees.
The next regular monthly meet
ing will be held Wednesday, No
vember Z.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15
bu Gene AlIeman

must be boosted 80 per cent, If or
gained labor gets a similar boost
in pay.
Quoting the bureau statement:
Some wage adjustments undoubt-
edly are called for, but a general
increase will surely force generally
higher commodity prices and q de-
gree Of initiation that might become
disasterous."
White House analysts insist that
overtime elimination has cut manu-
featuring costs SIS per cent on the
average, while an end of upgrading
and fringe increases has cut costs
another As per cent. This II per
cent wage increase could be abb
sorbed by most industries without
need for price increase, they say.
However, a 80 per cent pay Jump
would lead, the analysts add, to a
% per cent rise in war material
prices, and q 1914 per cent rise In
finished goods prices. Thus, an in
flation spiral resulting In higher
prices for everyone.
Rankin Peck, executive director
Of the Retail Gasoline Dealers As
ISOLATION, has notified the OPA that
II the government grants . relief
to distributors in wholesale prices,
the local dealers should have .
similar boost in retail prices. ''The
dealers cannot operate II the margin
is reduced further In any way"
cautioned Peck.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15
New Trenton
Legion Post
Elects Officers
Named for First
World War II Casually

Harvey LaBeau was elected COM
mander and Ivra Mike Alyea
vice commander of Trentons newly
organized American Legion post
Wednesday.
The post, which will be known
as the Harold j. Chatell Post No
426, will receive its charter within
the next month and was named
for Trentan's first World War II
casualty, Harold j. Chatell. Cha
tell, a seaman first class in the
Navy, was lost In the attack on the
USS San Francisco.
Other officers elected include
George Pierce, sergeant-at-arms;
Jerome Redmond, chaplain; Charles
Farley, post historian and Fred
Hill, adjutant.
Appointive officers and commit
tee chairmen will be announced
later.
Meetings are being conducted in
the former Coast Guard station at
the foot Of st. Joseph street, Tren-
ton.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15

dioman Laycock telephoned them
from San Francisco, saying he
would be home shortly. Mr.. Lay
cock is general agent at the local
New York Central railroad office.
The realization that the war was
over came gradually to the men at
Hanawa, according to Laycock.
On the night of August IS, the
blackout was lifted and on the 18th
the Nips issued them the remaining
Red Cross parcels-one small box
for five men, And on the morning
Of the 18th as the men prepared
to go to work they were told not
to go.
Although buoyed up by the num-
erous indications that the war was
over, the prisoners were afraid to
believe it because of the let-down
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15
EcOrse Park
Extension
Is Proposed

Members Of the Wayne county
board of supervisors were urged to
support the proposed extension of
the present Ecorse riverfront park
by the Ecorse Junior Chamber of
Commerce at dinner meeting in
the Pennsylvania club, Ecorse,
Thursday night.
The dinner, attended by more
than 80 persons, was sponsored by
the Ecorse city council.
John Haschal, chairman of the
JCC park and planning commission,
pointed out the benefits to be de-
rived from removal of the eyesores
now lining the waterfront.
Not only the people in Ecorse
will benefit from the project. he
declared, but also the crowds which
jam the area for the July 4 rowing
regattas.
Former Governor Comstock, who
was introduced by Gene Dorcy, JCC
president who presided at the meet
ing, emphasized that consideration
should be given the practical as
poets of the project, not the esthe-
tic values alone.
Other speakers on the program
were william Voisine, owner Of the
Voisine and Wayne Steel Mills, and
Francis Labadie, councilman and
schoolteacher, both candidates fol-
the Ecorse mayoralty; George Cor
nell. secretary of the Wayne coun-
ty board of auditors; Presc oft
Brown, chairman of the Wayne
county road commission, and Will
lard Kots.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15
Michigan Mirror

How Michigan should spend its
$4,000 900 veterans reserve fund,
already $1,000 900 richer because of
accumulated interest, is one Of sew
eral issues which will confront the
State Legislature in special session
early in 1916.
Michigan's $4,000 veterans, of
whom approximately 100000 are still
in the service, are interested chiefly
in the decision.
Other legislative problems include
these:
Revision of the $4,000, 900 build
ing program. Rising labor and ma
terial costs have already exceeded
the appropriation.
Veterans education and housing
at state educational institutions such
as the University of Michigan and
Michigan State College. No housing
is available for veterans and their
wives (plus children for some) at
college dormitories.
Construction of Is harbors Of
refugee for small boats on the Great
Lakes, a benefit to the tourists in
dustry.
Revision of the state juvenile in
stitute commission and possible re-
FORMS and improvements at the
Boys Vocational School. Lansing.
The veterans multiple problems
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15
Yank Prisoners Half Hysterical At Sight Of First
American Planes Over Jap Prison Camp At Hanawa

they would suffer If it weren't true.
Laycock said. But on the 10th the
leading Nip on-commissioned Of
ficer at the camp unofficially told
American officers that the war had
ended.
Laycock remembers that the men
did little sleeping for the next few
nights as they were all half hys-
terical, acting as if they were
half drunk"
I'VE knew the war was over but
having received no official confir-
nation, still retained the least
doubt. 1t was too big thing for
us to realize" he wrote.
On the morning OF the both the
Jap commanding officer informed
them the war was over and that
they would come under their own
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15
Two Dead AS
Car Upsets
And Burns
One Person Tentatively
Identified in
lockwood Accident

Two persons were burned to
death when the car in which they
were riding burst into flame after
it had overturned on route Mss
about one and a half miles west Of
lockwood at 2 o'clock this morn
ing.
Although the bodies were badly
burned, state police report one of
the occupants has been tentatively
identified as Henry Washer, Is years
old of 1894 Carleton west road,
Route No. l, Carleton. Identified
ton of the second person in the
automobile has not yet been made.
Reason for the crash has not
yet been established by police as
there were no witnesses to the
accident. The fire was extinguished
by the Flat Rock fire department.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15

in them, living and acting like a
bunch of animals, suddenly trans
formed back to human beings
again.
Men who were case-hardened to
hardships, suffering and death.
selfish, in battle Of survival Of
the fittest, find themselves with a
heart again. 1t is indescribable. A
great load has been lifted from us.
THE fighting we did in the war
was a tough proposition but
by far our greatest battle was pris-
on camp. For those of us who made
it. it was the greatest battle of our
lives"
The letter, begun August 25, was
the first message the Laycocks had
received from their son since vi
day. On Monday, October 8, Ra-
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15

are not easy to solve. In the first
place, there are five times more
Michigan veterans today than Is
years ago. after World War I.
To divide s51,OOO,OOO equally
among the $4,000 veterans - a
number likely to grow larger be-
fore the sum is expended would
put less than $50 in the hands of
each veteran. The average bonus
for World War I veterans was $210,
computed individually at the rate
of SIS per month of service. The
federal mastering out pay varies
from 500 to $500. well eclipsing an
$50 Michigan payment.
To equal the state bonus Of the
last war, the legislature would have
to appropriate $3.50, OOO, 900 more for
the veterans reserve fund. This
isn't likely to happen, other needs
being what they are.
The first state bonus cost tax
payers $35, 454, 668.49, of which the
veterans received $31, 395 ,OO6 and the
bond owners the balance of $22,-
600 900 plus.
Recommendations of how the ssh
OOO, 900 fund might be used to bene-
fit Michigan veterans are to be
submitted to Governor Harry r.
Kelly by the Office of Veteran At
fairs sometime between Thanksgiy-
ing and Christmas. Col. Philip C.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15

supplies which were dropped. II
proved effective against the feas
which had been giving us he'd
when we tried to Sleep" he re-
marked.
In the last portion of his letter.
dated September Is, he wrote that
American and British flags had
been raised for the first time the
previous day. He concluded by say
ing:
Excitement is running high.
can hardly write any more. 1t Is
now about In the afternoon and
our train pulls out at midnight.
I am going to close and impatient
ly wait to leave this spot where /
have spent year and a few days
of the most miserable days of my
life. would gladly wipe this por-
ton Of the earth off the map"
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15
City Unemployed
Set At 2,124
Greatest Number
Registered Are Women

In the Wyandotte metropolitan
area there were 2,124 compensate
unemployed registered as of Octo-
Der 6, the Michigan Unemployment
compensation commission revealed
today.
Numbered among the unemployed
were 1,173 women. The previous
week there were 1913 women and
$50 men on the rolls, or a total
of 1929. The number of compen-
sable claims was 1874 and in the
previous week 263 filed claims.
Michigan's compensate unem-
ployed last week rose from 152,418
to 172,744 and continued to lead
the nation both as to number Of
applicants and money paid out in
compensation, Eugene T. Dormer,
director of the MUCC, said. A to-
tai of 20,471 initial claims for un-
employment benefits were regis
tered in Michigan for the week
ending October 6 which Is 25.7 per
cent under the previous week.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15

with the possibility Of labor unrest
and widespread unemployment one
year from today, is going to give
careful and thoughtful considera-
ton to all veterans needs. Cover
nor Kelly, a disabled veteran Of
World War I, has a personal inter-
est in this field that transcends
political ambitions.
Lieutenant Governor Vernon j.
Brown has personal interests also in
war veterans. Two sons served In
World War I; five grandchildren -
four boys and one girl - are serving
in World War II.
Moving the Michigan State Fair
from Detroit to an upstate city has
been proposed by livestock breed
association and farm leaders, but
the idea is already being snagged
on opposition from friends Of county
fairs. The ace objector is the Ionia
Free Fair at Ionia. Lansing boost
ers have have been reminded that
the fair was established permanent
ly at the state capital city In 1869,
but after running in the red for
several years it was returned to
Detroit.
Echoes Of the labor movement 10
get 80 per cent more pay:
Directors Of the Michigan. State
Farm bureau declare farm prices
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15

the American representative, the
navyman said.
Laycock's great hatred for the
japanese dissolved somewhat after
he learned the war was over and
they became coolies again to him
something to tolerate but stay
away from as you would a pig"
Continuing he said:
However, the deep-set hatred is
rising in me again and 1 do not
suppose it will ever leave me. 1
once made a VOW that if I ever got
Ia a position where death looked
inevitable would not go alone but
would take as many Japs with me
as possible. 1t looks as if
can now forget that"
BY August 80 a second B-29 flew
over the camp, Laycock said, and
louise powder was included in the
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15

officers. Reactions of the men were
not as drastic as expected because
or the earlier indications.
Even before the official word
Laycock and his buddy were so sure
the war was over that on the night
of the 18th they opened a two
ounce can of sweetened condensed
milk, which they had carried since
June, 1912, and which they had
vowed to use only if one of them
got sick or the war ended.
"Can you imagine a little can
OF milk being Of that much value
to us?" he asked.
BY August % the men were re-
ceiving very good rations of rice
and soup. according to Laycock,
and the general cry at meal time
became who wants some more
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15
TEAM Work. Is
Exchange Club
Speakers Topic

DR.. Alvin D. Hersch, LID, Of
Detroit, will discuss Team Work
when ne speaks before the Wyan-
dotte Exchange club at the Pres
byterian church Tuesday.
DR.. Hersch is a member of the
Detroit Round Table which is part
of a national organization created
to promote tolerance between diff
ferent creeds and races. A member
of the faculty of the University of
Detroit, he has practiced law in
the city of Detroit for the past SO
years and is author Of the bill
which established the Detroit traf-
fic court.
During World War I, he worked
at various camps throughout the
country in connection with the
orientation program of U. S. armed
forces helping servicemen adjust to
the return to civilian life.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15

Deen estimated at the Sll,UUV,VOO,-
OOc figure in an effort to meet the
tremendous cost of rehabilitation
OF the servicemen and the return
to peacetime economy.
The drive will aid In bringing
servicemen home more quickly,
and provide proper food and medi-
cal supplies for occupation troops
and wounded fighting men now
hospitalized.
In addition, the Treasury depart
ment reports, If the victory loan
is a success it will mean that re-
conversion can go forward on a
sound basis and that inflationary
trends will have been retarded.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15

rice" in contrast to their former
starvation diet. AS an illustration
Laycock wrote:
II had been rice server for the
section I am in for about eight
months and recall when only q few
short days ago I was watched like
a hawk to be sure each bowl Of
rice held the same amount. How
ever, when a few mouthfuls a day
might mean the difference between
life and death, this can readily be
understood"
The Nips worked all night Aug
ust "a putting Identification marks
on the buildings which had not
been marked before, he stated. On
the 25th two Jap doctors asked to
move the sick men to hospital in
Sendai but the American doctors
refused, saying they would wait for
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15

Pack, director, says the report will
not be made public as 1t will be for
the personal use of the governor.
At present the OVA IS service
agency, created by the legislature
and model for other state govern
ments, which is likely to continue
for some years If the $4,000, 900
fund it used for veterans service
and not doled out Immediately in
dribbling sums.
The OVA cooperates with the
State Board of Vocational Control
in operating veterans vocational
training center at Pine Lake, north
of Kalamazoo. The state pays s15.-
600 yearly from state administra-
ton board appropriation of sl,0O0.-
600 and the vocational board chips
in $4,000 a year from its federal
aid kitty.
Another veterans service is likely
to be a neurosis center operated by
the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor.
Michigan veterans are returning
home at the rate now Of $4,000 q
month. The 1916 peak will come in
June when $4,000 are due back. At
least $4,000 veterans win be back
home In michigan by next summer
- fact politicians are already
weighing.
The Kelly administration, faced
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15
Mrs. RaubOLt Named to Head Local
tuberculosis Christmas Seal DriUe
Detroit tuberculosis Sanatorium Will
Issue Own Stamps for First Time

Mrs. Frederick j. Raubolt, 214
Walnut street, has again been
named general chairman Of the
Detroit tuberculosis sanatorium
Christmas seal drive here.
The Detroit tuberculosis Sanato-
rum group this year will distribute
its own seals following a change
of policy. In past years, said DR..
B. R. Shurly, president. the Detroit
tuberculosis sanatorium group has
elaborated with the National Tu-
berculosis association to the extent
Of purchasing the seals it printed
and paying it Is per cent Of the
funds received.
However" said DR.. Shurly,
"this group now believes that tub
erculosis hospitals, children's camps,
the treatment of patients and re-
lated practical activities should be
abandoned to local or State govern
ment facilities.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15
Director Of Chinese Relief
Will Be Speaker For Kiwanis
Edward Lockwood. Lover of Chinese;
Auch" Mierkowicz To Be Guests at Luncheon

200 bombing raids on the city.
When Canton fell to the Japanese
i'll 1898, he and his staff set up
temporary headquarters in Hong
Kong. later moving to Kukong,
famous refugee city whose peace
time population Of 10000 swelled
to 100000 residents exclusive of
thousands who passed through the
city in their flight from the Jap
anese.
One Of the last white men to
leave his post, Lockwood fled Ku-
kong when the Japs captured the
city on January q of this year. He
made his way to Kanhsien airfield
west Of Kukong in an army jeep
and flew from there to the Chin
csc capital at Chunking.
Dubbed the Lover of the Chin
ESQ., by the men he trained in the
Orient, Mr.. Lockwood was chair
man of the Kwantung Internation-
al Relief and supervised distribu-
ton of funds to needy Kukong
residents and refugees.
He graduated from DePauW uni
versity in 1909 and received his
masters degree at the University
of Chicago. His first YMCA post
was in Pittsburgh and in 1918 he
became Secretary of the Student
YMCA at Stanford University. He
sailed for China in 1915 and re-
turned to the United States in 1922,
remaining here until 1927 when he
again left for work in the Orient.
Tiger outfielder, Ed "Auch' Mier-
kowicz. will also be present ct the
meeting as the guest of Jack Hen
derson, athletic director of the
Roosevelt high school.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15

1--WE of course, have no intention
OF abandoning our efforts in behalf
of the Detroit tuberculosis Sana-
forum, children's camps, Leland
Sanatorium and other worthwhile
projects. We cannot see eye-to-eye
with any program that would not
continue this work and therefore
we are distributing our own seals
in this years campaign"
Mrs. Kenneth Monte has been
appointed chairman of divisions by
Mrs. Raubolt who has headed the
local drive for the past nine years.
Veterans of drives in other years
have been re-appointed to their
posts and will begin sale of seals
when opening date of the campaign
is set.
Listed among the workers for
this area are Mrs. Stephen Orr,
Continued on Page 81
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-10-15

The wonder of seeing and hear
ing men act and look like men
again is an experience which Earl
Laycock, radioman LIST class, hopes
he will never have again.
A japanese prisoner of war since
the fall of Corregidor In the spring
OF 1912. Laycock, in a letter, re-
ceived by his parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
z. O. Laycock, Dearborn, on Octo-
Der 3, described reactions of the
men confined at Hanawa. Japan,
after American planes flew over
that area August 25.
There was singing in the COM
pound that night, he wrote and
there was heart in the singing
again"
Men who were beaten down.
with nothing but stubborness left