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The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-07-11
Troops to Hear
Song Favorites

Hollywood. July 11-AP-Before
leaving on a Uso tour. Bandleader
Kay Yyser asked the White House
for President Truman's favorite
songs with the view Of playing
them for troops overseas.
The Presidents favorites, as re-
ported by Presidential Secretary
William u. Hassett, are over
There. pack Up Your Troubles.
Toresdor song from Carmen. sex
tettes from Lucia and Floradora
and Mendelssohn's Songs Without
Words.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-07-11
TO FACE COURT

Kalamazoo.-Jack Brand. former
boxer, was to be arraigned in mu-
nicipal court here this morning on
a charge OF kidnapping Pat Heavey,
manager OF the State Theater, and
robbing the State Theater safe OF
1878 the night OF last April "a
25. Brand was brought back last
night from Knoxville. Tenn. where
he had been under arrest the last
three weeks on a Dyer Act charge
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-07-11
Plant Sweet Corn by Block Plan

corn. There Is one silk for each
kernel Of corn and in a perfectly
pollinated silk, the result Is a per-
fectly pollinated ear.
often when the corn Is planted
in a sigle row, the prevailing wind
may cross the row at the time the
pollen Is falling and carry II away
from the silk. This win result in
a lack Of polarization and mean,
sad 10 say, no sweet corn ears.
II you wish to enjoy sweet corn
all summer, make successive
paintings. A planting every 10
days or two weeks is a good rule.
Corn IL a heavy feed and can be
fed rank fertilizers more safely
than most garden crops.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-07-11
Mrs. Martin Dawson
HonOred at Shower

Mrs. Howard Dawson and Mrs
Clifford Matevia entertained at the
latter's home, log South Adams
St, Tuesday evening at a dessert
shower, in honor OF Mrs. Martin
Dawson. The house was decorated
with bouquets OF summer flowers.
Court Whist was played during
the evening, with prizes going to
Mrs. George Adams and Mrs.
Robert Arnold. Mrs. Dawson re
ceiyed many lovely gifts.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-07-11

not hold their election Monday
evening.
York Town Line School
John E. McCrone was reelected
director of the York Town Line
School Board at the board meet.
ing Monday evening. Other officers
continuing their terms OF office
are Mrs. Vevia Lyon. moderator,
and Charles w. Smith, treasurer.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-07-11
EMPHASIZE SAFETY

East Lansing-National Farm
Safety Week Is scheduled in Mich.
igan for July p to 2S, Lloyd H. Cell
Michigan State College publica-
tions director and chairman OF the
week, announced today. Cell said
purpose Of the week is to urge
farm persons to work safely and to
teach them to recognize, guard
against and eliminate farm work
haZardS.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-07-11
To plan Homecoming

To Plan HomtCoWIhU
Miss Margaret Davis will meet at
1880 wednesday evening. with the
Pittsfield Ladies' Aid Society, un-
der the direction OF Mrs. Mabel
Budd, to plan the Pittsfield Ladies'
Aid annual Homecoming activities
conducted at Gilbert House August
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-07-11
Toys, Scrap Books
Made by Canteen

Wednesday morning the Junior
canteen had Its weekly meeting at
Gilbert House. Activities included
working on scrap books for Percy
Jones Hospital; making stuffed
toys for over as children and plan
ming future activities.
Thursday. the Townsend Club,
under the direction OF the chair.
man, Miss Belle Ross will meet at
Gilbert House for lunch
A bL5iness meeting will follow
and later in the evening the ladies
will entertain their husbands for
supper at $50. after which a social
evening is planned.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-07-11
DRIVE, WALK SAFELY

Traffic. Injuries In Ypsllantl "a
Traffic Deaths This Years
How to live longer-Don't speed
and don't Jay walk.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-07-11

Miss Flora Brier. daughter Of
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Brier, 2 n.
Normal St. sang over station
wPAG while participating in the
Children's Hour.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-07-11
PresldssIn East

At the regular communication
OF Phoenix Lodge number l3, F.
and A. NJ, Tuesday evening, How
ard Trottere, worshipful master,
presided in the East and an
nounced the next communication
to be August II.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-07-11

Parents and. friends enjoyed a
musical program Monday evening,
at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Johnson on Woods Rd. Those par
ticipating were Jane Anne Smith,
William Durant, Charles Waiting,
Ingrid Johnson and Jean Karlin
Johnson.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-07-11

Ben II. Vanden Belt, Jr, son OF
Mr. and Mrs. b. II. Vanden Belt,
219 N. Normal Street, has received
HIS commission as Second Lieuten-
and in the Signal Corps during
graduation exercises at Fort Mon
mouth. New Jersey, Officers Can
didate School.
The Ypsilanti daily press., 1945-07-11

Sgt. Ira c. Davis, husband
OF Mrs. Elaine Davis, has been
promoted to his present rank from
a private first class, while serving
with the 33rd Division In Northern
Luzon. He has been in service for
two and one-half years, two OF
which have been spent overseas
in the Pacific Theater.
Evening star., 1945-01-15
Bridge Class Opens Tonight

A new class in contract bridge will
begin at 8 pm. today at the Thom-
son Recreation Center, Twelfth and
L streets NV, the Recreation De-
partment has announced Charles
Lyons is instructor. Information
may be secured by calling Adams
2050.
Evening star., 1945-01-15
Housekeeping Wage
Conference 10 0pen

Representatives of the public
housekeeping industry will begin
wage conferences at pm. tomorrow
with members of the Minimum Wage
Industrial Safety Board at the Mu-
nicipal Center Building.
The so-called conference group,
composed of three representatives
each of the employers, employees and
the public, are required to submit a
report to the board within two
months. Board members will sit
with industry representatives but
will not vote.
The wages involve those for Wom-
en- and youths in hotels, restaurants,
cafeterias, apartments and other
public housekeeping establishments
The present minimum wages were
enacted in 1888.
The public members are Pau
Douglass, president of American
University; Miss Mary Anderson
former director of the Women's Blu.
reau of the Labor Department, anc
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, president
of the Board of Education.
The employer members include j
Willard Marriott, president of the
Hot Shoppes; F. Moran McConihe
vice president of Randall H. Hagner
real estate firm, and Arthur j. Har-
nett, secretary of the Washington
Hotel Association.
The employe members are Mrs
Frances Brooks, Willard Hotel: Mrs
Marie Hirshcopf, Hamilton Hotel
and Mrs. Nora Mcintosh, the 40C
Club.
Evening star., 1945-01-15
William Bush, 81, Retired
Post Office Worker, Dies

William w. Bush, So, of 400l
TWenty-second street NE, retired
Post Offlce Department employe.
died yesterday in Emergency Hos
pital after long illness.
Funeral services will be held at
$50 o'clock tonight at the Saffell
funeral home. Burial will be at
Bridgeton, N. j.
A resident of the District since
1914, Mr.. Bush was employed as q
postal clerk for Is years before his
retirement last October. He was a
member of Postal Employees Union.
No. 140. He was born in Whining
ton, Del, and attended the Univer-
sity of Delaware.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Marie Lynn Bush; two sons, 1t.
Comdr. William w. Bush, jr., U. S.
NJ, now in the Central Pacific, and
Hugh Lynn Bush, who Is taking the
Navy Viz course at Franklin and
Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa: a
sister, Miss Emma Bush, Wilkes
Barre, Pa, and a brother, Charles
w. Bush, Newark, Del, and a grand
daughter,
Evening star., 1945-01-15
President Nominates
Edwin c. Wilson as
Envoy 10 Turkey

Edwin c. Wilson, director of
the. State Departments office of
special political affairs, was
nominated today by President
Roosevelt to be Ambassador to
Turkey. The 51-year-old career
diplomat has been with the de-
|partment since 1920.
MIR. Wilson is to succeed Laurence
A. Steinhardt, who has been ap-
pointed Ambassador to the Czecho-
slovak government -in-exile.
A native Of Palatka, Fla, Mr.. Will
son has served as Minister to Uru-
quay. Ambassador to Panama and
for four years was chief of the Di-
vision of Latin American Affairs. He
was an American observer on the
Reparations and Rhineland Evacua-
ton Commissions after the las. war.
He was named United States
representative on the Mediterranean
Commission in September, 1943. The
following May he was named direc-
tor Of the Once of Special Political
Affairs.
Mr.. Wilson married Edith de Kor-
anyi, a native Of Budapest, in Paris
In 1896. She was granted citizenship
in the United States in l941.
Mr.. Wilson served in the am
bulance service in France from 1915
to 1917, then was commissioned a
second lieutenant in field artillery
after America entered the World
War
Evening star., 1945-01-15
British Fleet Chief
Narrowly Missed by
Bomb at Lingayen
BY the Associated press

| ~ tao hssOSlhteu FTeSk.
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Leyte, Philippines, Jan.
l5.-Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, COM
mander in chief of the British Pa
cific Fleet, disclosed yesterday that
he missed death only by a few feet
in the operations incident to the
American landings in the Lingayen
Gulf.
The admiral told newsmen during
press conference that he was only
short distance from the aerial
bomb explosion which killed British
1t. Gen. William Lumsden and VIII
liam Chickering, Time magazine
correspondent, when Japanese
flyers attacked a United States war
ship headed for the gulf.
Sir Bruce said he left Gen. Lums-
den, personal representative of
Prime Minister Churchill with the
Southwest Pacific command, only
a few minutes before the ship was
hit and was standing a few PAGES
away when the bomb exploded. He
said he escaped with only a bit Of
a bang in the ears"
The admiral observed the Lin
gayen landings, gaining experience
for future Pacific blows against
Japan.
In the near future" he said, 'I
expect the British fleet to play an
important part in Pacific action with
strong forces, including many newer
craft. We are here to get the
Japs and we are going to pursue
them"
Sir Bruce said British and Amer
ican task forces would unleash con-
tinuous blows thereby Tightening
pressure on the enemy" He said
the British Pacific Fleet will be
mobile force prepared to fight any
action"
Admiral Fraser refused to Spec
ulate as to when the Pacific war
might end, but said 'it is moving
quicker and quicker. /" - Any one
with increasing command of the sea
Is going to shorten the war and we
have overwhelming superiority in
seapower."
Answering a query as to the Brit
ish attitude on the Pacific conflict,
the admiral said Britain was vitally
interested, He declared Not only
have we lost considerable territory
but the Japs have many British
prisoners and we must get them
back"
Evening star., 1945-01-15
Lewis N. Austin, 81, Dies;
Adam Cook & Sons Co. Aide

Lewis M. Austin, 81, of 3171
Eighteenth street NV, a resident
of the District for 49 years, died
yesterday in George Washington
University Hospital after brief ILL
ness
Born in Maysville, Mo, Mr.. Aus
tin attended Mckinley High School
and Emerson Institute. He formerly
operated the Dalco Lubricants busi-
ness here. At the time of his death
he was Washington representative
for Adam Cook & Sons Co. He
formerly was active in the Elks, the
Disabled American Veterans and the
American Legion.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Zaidee l.. Austin, and a nephew
Dick Leith, of the Eighteenth street
address.
Funeral services will be held at 10
am. Wednesday at the Hines fune-
raj home. Burial will be in Airing
ton Cemetery.
Evening star., 1945-01-15
Veteran Program 10 Urge
Personalized Guidance

A Veterans Community Service
Center with expert counsellors to
give guidance, information and serv-
ice to returning servicemen will be
urged by Fraser Gardner on his
For the Veteran" program over
Radio Station WINK at 8:l5 O'Clock
tonight
Mr.. Gardner will emphasize the
need for personalized service and
personal attention to help veterans
make decisions on education, Jobs
and social and family problems.
He will discuss the staff and setup
OF the type Of center he proposes
and describe how the community
can participate in making it a
success.
Evening star., 1945-01-15
ADVERTISEMENT.
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Evening star., 1945-01-15
Child Information Unit
To Serve 80 GROUPS

Creation of the Child Welfare In
formation Service, Inc, organized
by 80 national organizations as a
clearing house for information on
Federal action pertaining to chill
dren, was announced today.
The new group is headed by Mrs.
Eugene Meyer, wife of the editor
and publisher of the Washington
Post. 1t has opened an Office at
$50 F street NV, with Bernard
Locker, formerly with the State
Charities Aid Association of New
York, as executive director.
1--WE are not lobby" Mrs. Meyer
explained. Our purpose is to fur
Gish the groups we serve with an
objective analysis of the whole child
welfare front as seen from the Fed
eral point of view"
Mrs. Meyer said the destructive
influences of war on children of all
ages and the 100000 recruits re-
jected by the Army because of illit-
eracy or health defects have
aroused the Nation to a realizatio
that there are serious defects in our
educational system, health protec-
ton and general child welfare serv-
Ices"
Evening star., 1945-01-15

Let's see it through-this means
you-an extra War Bond today and
War Bonds really work,
Evening star., 1945-01-15
Veteran Receivers S1,100
In Checks; SIG Cash Gone

The wallet containing more than
1,100 in checks which Master Sergt.
Chester A. Konka lost Friday night
was returned to him early today,
but $16 cash which was with the
checks was missing, he told police.
The 28-year-old soldier, who was
Jap prisoner for two years, told
officers at No. / precinct the wallet
had been brought to him in his
Stratford Hotel room by "a little
colored boy" He made no further
statement, police said.
Reporters who called the hotel in
an effort to obtain further details
were told Sergt. Konka had been
out of his room most of the morn
ing. Sergt. Konka had said pre-
viously that he expected to leave
Washington before noon today for
Williamsburg, Pa, to visit a friend
before assuming new duties.
A native of Buffalo, Sergt. Konka
arrived here January 3 from a Pa
cif1c Coast base to which he had
been sent from the Philippines.
Evening star., 1945-01-15
81 District Men 10 Report
For Induction TODAY

Thirty-one District men have
been ordered to report for induc-
ton into the armed forces in Balti-
more TODAY. They are.
Evening star., 1945-01-15
R. 6. Baldwin, Texas Chief.
OF United Press, Dies
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press,
DALLAS, Tex, Jan. 15.-R. G.
Dick) Baldwin, 80, Texas manager
of the united Press for IL years.:
died of heart attack at his home
here yesterday.
Mr.. Baldwin had been Ill eight
days but his condition had not been
considered critical.
A native of Santa Barbara, Calf,
Mr.. Baldwin worked on the Fresno,
Calf, Bee and the San Francisco
Chronicle. He joined the San Fran
cisco Bureau of the United Press in
1927 and before coming to Texas was
bureau manager in Seattle, and was
employed in bureaus at Denver and
Kansas City.
Funeral services will be held in
Dallas tomorrow.
Survivors include his widow, two
sons and daughter.
Evening star., 1945-01-15

Buy more War Bonds on all fronts
the sky Is not the limit.
Evening star., 1945-01-15

oracle ALLEN HARPS AGAIN!
What will Oracle harp on tonight?
The guest stars nerves? Georges
terrible cigars? Or just George?
You can never tell. So get George
Burns & Oracle Allen on your
radio this evening and laugh your
head off! Guest Star: Alan Ladd.
WTOP, $3.50 p.m., 1900 on your
dial.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-18
Pdy Rdises Urged
For Some Pldnts

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-Wage
increases in some critical war indus
tries might be the quickest and best
way to expand vital production, two
Senators investigating the alleged
manpower shortage said.
This opinion was expressed by
James Nj. Mead of New York, and
Homer Ferguson of Michigan at the
Senate War Investigating Commit
tees manpower inquiry.
They urged wage raises in what
they said were "unattractive indus
tries," mentioning foundries, steel
mills and chemical plants. The prin-
cipal manpower shortages are to be
found among the unskilled, heavy
labor groups in those fields, they said.
They voiced their beliefs during
questioning Of Charles M. Hay, deputy
manpower chairman, who outlined to
the committee the steps VINO is con-
templating to recruit urgently needed
war workers.
Hay indicated he concurred in their
views but remarked that applications
were rejected by the War Labor
ROard
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-18
Decision Druws
Wide Comment

Chicago, Ill.-The decision Of the
1914 convention of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor To establish a ma
tional Department Of Consumer Co
operation with full time director
draws the comment from Business
Week." leading commercial magazine,
that "in effect, the AFL delegates
reversed the traditional union policy
of favoring only co-ops composed
solely of union members" Other
papers to comment in recent weeks
include "Food Field Reporter" and
Food Mart News" as well as the
coop press.
The convention adopted an Execu-
tive Council recommendation that
through co operatives, American
workers can reduce the cost and raise
the quality Of the things they need
for living, just as farmers have done.
Thus far, we have missed this great
opportunity to raise our living stand
ards, largely because the methods OF
training our members in successful
management of co-ops had not been
developed. Today we need no longer
hold back, for these methods are
known and understood"
In earlier times, organized labor
attempted to establish co-ops to be
used by trade unionists only, thus
tending to prevent the wide commun-
ity support which co-ops must have
TO be influential in the economic pic
ture. Most of these "for members
only co-ops have since disappeared
and labor is now learning in hundreds
of American communities that by
working together with farmers, pro-
fessional people and other groups OF
consumers the benefits of cooperation
can be made more lasting.
Business Week" reports that "war
inflated prices and inferior merchan-
disc have created new consciousness
ION the part of labor) of the impor-
tance of its position as a consumer
of the goods its produces The
AFL is readying headquarters in
Washington which will be manned by
full time executive and necessary
staff"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-18
N. Y. Federation
Drdfts Program

Albany, y. Y. (ILNS).-The New
York State Federation of Labor has
drafted its strongest legislative pro-
gram in many years to place before
the 1945 legislature.
The program, drafted by delegates
representing 100000 AFL members
at the recent annual state legislative
conference, calls for:
Creation Of a strong state Fair
Employment Practices Committee to
prevent discrimination because of
race, creed or color.
A state health insurance system
providing adequate medical care and
capitalization for families with in
comes of less than $4,000 year.
Cost Of living increases for state,
county and city workers earning less
than 5000 year.
Extensive improvements in the un-
employment insurance and workmen's
compensation laws.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-18

view that the membership solicita-
tions, made part of the speech in this
case, were "inseparable incidents" of
the occasion, and of all "that was
said or DONE"
Justices Hugo L. Black, William O..
Douglas, Frank Murphy and Robert
II. Jackson concurred in the majority
opinion. Justices Jackson and Doug
las wrote separate opinions.
Robert Writes Dissent
In dissent, Justice Owen j. Rob-
erts declared that the Texas law was
not restriction on free thought and
expression, but an attempt to protect
the public in its dealings with those
processing to hold a professional
capacity"
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone and
Justices Stanley F. Reed and Felix
Frankfurter joined in the dissent.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-18
Murder Workers
In Reprisul For
Roll Strike

New York City (ILNS)-About 100
Dutch railway men have been killed
by the Nazis in occupied Holland for
participating in the nationwide strike,
called by the Netherlands government
simultaneously with the Allied ad-
vance Into Holland, the Netherlands
Information Bureau says in a report
from London.
In an interview in Verij Nederland
the Netherlands weekly published in
London, a railway man who had es-
capped to liberated territory said that
many others had been disabled by
wounds inflicted by the Nazis.
The railway workers were forced
to go into hiding from the Nazis and
it was exceedingly difficult to provide
them all with money and food, he
said, but "the cooperation received
from the Netherlands people was so
great that the problems were over
come"
Then news spread that the Ger
mans had taken savage reprisals, de-
stroying the homes of railway en-
gineers at Amersfoort, looting rail
waymen's houses at HARLEM, and
carrying out revenge in other ways
against 20 of the strikers at Gron-
ingen.
Despite the Nazi threats, the Dutch
people steadfastly supported the
striking workers and after more than
months the whole of occupied Hol-
lands rail transport is still paralyZed
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-18
Supreme Court
Saws Law Covers
Piece Workers

Washington, D. C. QLNS). - The
Fair Labor Standards Act (wage-
hour law includes workers who are
paid on a piece basis, the Supreme
Court has ruled. The majority opin-
ion was written by Justice Frank
Murphy. Justice Owen ]. Roberts was
the lone dissenter, merely noting his
disagreement.
The case, the first test of the piece
work issue, reached the Supreme
Court for Southern California in
favor of the Perfect Garment Co.,
Los Angeles, which had been charged
with violation of minimum wage and
overtime provisions, The district
court dismissed these complaints by
ruling that the wage-hour act was
not intended to cover the piece work
erS.
Many thousands of piece workers
may be affected by the Supreme Court
ruling. Quoting recent studies, the
government said that 80 per cent of
boot and shoe workers were paid on
straight piece-rate basis; 81 per
cent of persons in the fur and felt
industry; 81 per cent in the glove
trades.
Justice Murphy said that neither
the policy of the wage-hour act nor
its legislative history gave any real
basis for excluding piece workers
from benefits. The legislation, he de-
clared, was meant to raise sub-stand-
ard wages and give added money for
overtime work to such employees.
"No reason is apparent" he said,
"why piece workers who are under
paid or who work long hours do not
fall within the spirit or intent of this
statute
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-18

ing Sept. %, 1943, without registering
with the state and obtaining an or
ganizer's card.
The 1913 Texas law on which the
conviction was based was unconsti-
tutional, Judge Wiley Rutledge, who
wrote the majority opinion, ruled be-
cause "a requirement of registration
in order to make a public speech
would seem generally incompatible
with an exercise of the rights Of free
speech and free assembly"
His opinion made clear the courts
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1945-01-18
Supreme Court Holds Act
Involid. Infringing On The
Rights Of Free Speech
TEXAS ANTI-UNION LAW KILLED

Washington, d. c. QLNS The United States Supreme
Court has knocked the Texas law requiring registration of
paid labor organizers before they solicit members within
the state.
BY a 5-to4 decision the held the law is unconst
utona and nrnges the rights of free speech and free
Senby
The decision set aside the conviction of r. j. Thomas pres
of the CO United Automobile Workers. who fined
days jail for speaking a