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The daily monitor leader., 1945-03-01
the mayor wanted, so long as IL
kept the citizen happy.
BLAME NAZI PARTY

ttlC Ill., VI WdiiiSdt oo iOhS % ~
kept the citizen happy.
BLAME NAZI PARTY
There were other reports.
Capt. Samuel Boron, Perry, Ga,
told of the progress being made
in repairing the water aqueduct
Chief Warrant Officer John
Bonner, Salt Lake City, brought
up question involving the Nil
itary Governments authority
over COWS left by the local Nazi
Kreis County official. This
question was referred TO higher
headquarters.
The German people them
selves blame the Nazis - as
distinct from the rest of the
German people-for the war
Accordingly, they think the
Nazis alone should be made 10
suffer and pay the consequences
Of defeat.
Admittedly tn csc opinions
come from non or lukeWarm
Nazis. This whole area is one
of the Catholic areas where the
Nazis never made tremendous
inroads on the local population.
Those who were red hot, fam
atical Nazis had plenty of time
TO leave town before we arrived.
Those who stayed behind did SO
in direct violation of at least
five Nazi commands, starting in
mid-September, to evacuate the
city.
Bearing these qualifications IN
mind. listen TO two Germans
thoughts. First is farmer and
his family. Before the war he
belonged to a conservative party.
Then he became member Of the
Nazi party because, he says, this
was necessary TO maintain mem
bership in an athletic club he
liked.
THE war is the fault Of Hitler
and the Nazis who thought he
was Cod he said. "He wanted
'lebensraum'. / didn't. My farm
is big enough"
This mans opinion would be
fairly typical of those still living
in Alsdorf. A non-typical, but
nonetheless highly important
opinion, was expressed by the
owner of the local mill.
believe he spoke the truth
when he said he was one of a
group of six people here who
have been anti-Nazi all along
He and five friends met fre-
quently throughout the war to
see if anything could be done
The daily monitor leader., 1945-03-01

against the Nazis. He told me il
was absolutely impossible TO
take any action against them.
He added that during the war
he made frequent trips TO other
parts of Germany, diccreetly
trying TO find other anti-NaZl
groups with whom he could tie
up. He was unsuccessful (Which
doesn't prove such groups didn |
eXisD.
GET RID OF NAZIS
You can only say the NaZiS
were responsible for the war ,
he said. Il think that the solu-
tion to the Nazi problem should
be left TO the Germans. AS soon
as the GeStapo's gun is knocked
from the Gestapo's S hands think
the Germans will overthrow
Naziism themselves.
asked how our Military Gov
ernorS could find the anti-Nazis.
That's hard, he replied. MANY
will claim falsely. But if a man
was never a member of the party
that's a good sign. If he was
never in DAT (the Nazi labor
organizatioiD that's better. And
if his wife never was in the
womens organization, that S
perfect"
asked what he would do If
he were in the Allies boots
My friends and ! have talked
about that many tines he re
piled. We never arrived at q
solution. | just don't know. You
can't punish the whole people
for what the Nazi party has
done. You've got TO get rid o.
the Nazis without making all
Germans suffer for the Nazls
crimes. Maybe we will do it for
you"
The daily monitor leader., 1945-03-01
BY TOM WOLF

ALSDORF, Germany, - What
kind of military government the
Germans are going TO get from
us depends in the long run on
the attitude of each individual
4 Military Government officer to-
wards the Germans and Ger
many.
The Military Governments
first job here in this frontier
city of Alsdorf was, as it will
be everywhere in Germany, TO
see that there is law and order
80 that there's no threat TO the
Army's lines of supply and COM
munications. To maintain that
claw and order" presumes at
least a non-hostile, If not a
friendly, local population. That's
where the problem comes.
It's all very well to speak OF
our official attitude being that
of "conquerors but not oppres-
sors." But in translating this
attitude into terms of daily
human problems, when is an
act of sympathy towards the
civil population an act OF soft
ness and when is it just military
good sense-on the theory that
a well-treated citizen is less
likely TO sabotage than a NAL
treated one?
It's question that can't be
answered pragmatically. It's a
question on which Military Gov
ernment officers disagree among
themselves. Some officers are
going TO overdo it by being too
harsh and others by being too
soft. Both are going to make a
lot of Americans mad.
MANY PROBLEMS
From the Military Govern
ment officers I've talked to both
in Alsdorf and elsewhere, l think
we are going to be less soft with
the Germans than the French,
for example, fear we will De.
On the other hand, / think we
will be less tough than the
French would be in similar cir
cumstances.
The sort OF problems which
arise every day can be seen in
one of the nightly meetings held
by the Military Government De
tachment here in Alsdorf. The
The daily monitor leader., 1945-03-01
IgIOO Practice

FORT WAYNE, Ind U,R) -
A heavy snowfall came in handy
for Gleason II. Ledyard, a Foct
Wayne Bible Institute student,
who plans to be a missionary in
the Arctic. He built an igloo on
the campus and slept in 1t all
night for practise.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-03-01
New Device Aids Mining

A blasting cartridge, with the
dynamite surrounded by a cylin-
drical cushion OF balSawood pulp
in an adhesive binder, lessons
S h hock of explosions to coal
seams, bringing down coal in
larger Jumps.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23

Allt = tfll NAAlll VI soN Allh
Lake, now glowing red in
the light Of flames.
II wasn't much Of a lake,
but il was water, and the
girl and three men crossed
the track and headed for il.
n the lurid light and dark,
they ran head on into a
barbed wire fence. The
ugly barbs tore into Silver
Bells burned skin, they
ripped the skirt from her
body. Jim Hale swore a
good curse, grabbed a fence
post, and broke il off, then
another. They got through,
with jim holding Bell by
the hand.
Now they ran for the
green scum, pushing G
through the tall reeds that
were burning like candles.
1t was wet, wet, wet, and
not too deep. In fact, it
was hardly deep enough. So
they sat in the slime and
dipped their heads into IL as
the long sheets OF flame
reached out over the pond.
During a brief lull in the
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23

Hale. Old Spruce, and one OF the Carlson broth
eTs left the camp. The other Carlson and Oh
took up their work again, and Olson grum
bled about who scared by the foolish
fears of woman Olson swore that he and
Carlson would stay right where they we're
They did, too, and five days later friend OF
mine found their charTed bodies
If Silver Bell tired from her long trip, she
didn't show il. She led the way, and as the four
moved along down the old logging road, she told
the men that she could take them by short cut
Through the woods TO Skunk Lake
1T is the only place we will be safe" she said
II began 10 look as if the fellows would never
|see Skunk Lake. All was now as dark as the
darkest midnight, and away TO the south they
could hear mighty roar, a roar like that of a
big waterfall, bigger than any they had ever heard
Silver Bell probably guessed II; that moment
|IInCklcy going up in blaze that took hun
|dreds of lives and wiped the town clean But If
|shc did she said nothnE-only hurried the faster,
$50 fast that Old Spruce was hard put to keep up
AS they neared the railroad great hunks of
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23

cars They watched While they ran 1Or the wafer.
They saw a tall carrying woman In his
arms. and her long hair streamed out behind in
q mass of flames. They saw woman with baby
in arms run to a potato patch and dig in. She
was Mrs. Frank Spriggs, now of St. Paul, and her
baby lived il out, too
EOR two hours the flames roared and reached out
the lake, then they died suddenly. The
stopped And by then relief parties were on
the way from Duluth, Pine City, and Minneapolis
ST Paul No less than 413 had died A thousand
more were taken to hospitals Silver Bell had
saved her Jim, and two others, by wonderful fore
sight and courage.
But much as would like it otherwise, she and
Jim were never married. l don't know why.
The Hinckley tragedy was the first of Mime
sofas many tragic forest fires that took hundreds
of lives and ruined the states lumber industry.
1t was shame Those fires are the reason
that no new great forests have grown up in the
past 80 years in Minnesota they killed the second
growth, which lumbermen now guard closely In
longrange forest management program.
Hnckley was only one of thousands OF Mime
sofa forest fires since 1894. They have cost the
millions Of dollars in lost industry, and will
cost millions of dollars in replanng Of trees
Hnckley helped to educate lumbermen toNthe
need for fire protection, but ii didn't have much
effect on the public which still sets our forests
on fire 10 the tune Of 5000 blaZes every year.
Next week Mr.. Mahoney will tell about place
so tough lOggers called it HellIown i'm the Pines.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23

The Firsi Thing fhe Men in Comp Knew
They Saw Silver Bell Como Stumbling
Through fhe Smoke Out of fhe Timber ond
Throw Herself in Holes Arms. "Jim.
Jim!" She GasPed. "A Bod Cay Is Here
Everything viii Be Fire. Come. come!"
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23

roaring they heard another sound,
and they looked 10 see a locomotive
and four cars-the coaches all ablaZe
pulling up the track. 1t was bare
ly moving, and now il stopped. This
was the famous Number Four, with
brave Jim Root at the throttle, his
hands sinking into the melting iron
as he brought her TO stop.
Those in the lake saw hundreds
Of people tumble oHt of the flaming
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23

T. ?. iieaiy Collection
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-23

The wind rose 10 a hurricane. Big trees
went down like matches. The roaring be-
q came loud that you couldn't hear your
self shout-And fire rained down everywhere
God" young Jim Hale thought TO him
self is fire everywhere in the world?'
1t was pretty near everywhere in Eastern Min
nesota. Hinc<ley and half a dozen other villages
were going up in smoke that minute Famhouses
logging camps were being burned. People in Sand
stone were shouting that the end Of the world had
come and SO il had for many OF them.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-15
Terrace Room
Has New Show

The Statler Terrace Room has
another new show and a very
entertaining one although neither
OF the two headliners are par
ticularly we'll known.
Chief attraction is the band,
which belongs 10 and is directed
by. one of the smartest mu-
sicians in the business, Leo Refs
man.
Leo not only plays for the
show, but furnishes just about
the best dance music this town
has had in some time. He plays
both soft and swing 10 the taste
of the most demanding customers
and his arrangements Of such late
tunes as Love Letters" are ter
rife. It's worth going TO hear
him alone.
But. in addition. you have
Elizabeth Talbot-M Martin. the
amusing impersonator, who can
make like Garbo, Hepburn or
Minnie Mouse, by only a toss OF
her locks.
She could stand some new ma
terial. but even at that, she S
quite entertaining.
Duval, the new magician, takes
himself far more seriously than
Russell Swami, but he does per-
form some very clever tricks. in
cluding the invisible pipe deal,
which is evidently his stock in
trade. {. Y.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-15
.Meagher Moves
To Casanova Club

MASTER OF ceremonies Billy
Meagher, noted for his nonstop
comedy chatter, has moved into
Club Casanova 10 share show
prominence with Weela Gallez,
clever singing comedienne. Weela
plays her own piano accompani-
ment and doubles as an interlude
festure in addition To her floor
show appearances.
Lending support 10 the CO.
starring combination are Terry
Allyn, baritone discovery: The
Pin-Up Girls, talented precision
dancers, and Eddie Frisco in COM
edy on a wire.
Two complete shows are pre-
sented nightly. Dancing begins at
.7:15 D. m.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-15
Cinema Offers
Two Czech Films

TWO OSLOVAKIAN
films. the first 10 be released in
Detroit, Will be premiered today
as the double screen attraction
at the Cinema Theater.
"Hej Rup' (Heave Ho), a COM
edy, and Shelton on Horseback, "
Karl Capek melodrama, contain
Czech dialogue with complete
English titles. The latter's titles
we're written by novelist Fannie
Hurst. o.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-15
Jeffries' Margin
57,734 Ballots

Mayor Jeffries defeated Rich
ard Frankensteen in the Nov. 6
election by an official majority Of
57T34 votes. the hoard OF cam
vassers certified today Jeffries re-
ceived 275.l59 votes, Franken-
stecn 217 AIS.
The board voted TO request
S125. 900 out OF the next budget
for purchase of 100 voting ma
chimes. The 20 machines used In
the Nov. s election were rated
highly successful" "
The total vote cast last week
was sol ,03l, of which 220,635
were cast by women.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-15

Dial Cherry $500 to order
The Detroit Times delivered To
your home. A convenient, re-
liable service, Z days "A week.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-15
1000 Needed Here
For Postal Rush

Delivery of an anticipated rec
ord load of Christmas mail will
require 1000 temporary clerks
and 5000 temporary carriers,
Roscoe B. Huston said
today
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-15
Truman Inducted

WASHINGTON, Nov. ID GNS)
President Truman formally was
inducted into the National Press
Club last night at dinner in his
honor. A rousing welcome was
given 10 Gen. Eisenhower.
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-15
Film Time Clock

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Detroit evening times., 1945-02-18

a couple Of shots that anybody could
see was wonderful and Ethel ses why
Joe he Is pretty good. isn't he?
ses hope to tell you he is good
but wait until you see the other guy
Mosconi. She ses do you mean the
cute little fellow sitting in the chair
over there? ses that is the one and
he is a wiz. Then Greenleaf made
couple of more great shots and Ethel
stopped talking and settled down to
watching him.
When he had knocked In his for.
tieth ball Ethel ses Joe don't think
this old pool Is fair game. They
keep that cute little fellow sitting in
that chair and only let one man play
I ses well he will get his chance
when Creenleaf misses.
She ses when Is that? Ses oh, any
minute but Greenleaf kept on knock.
ing the balls in and when he got to
seventy Ethel ses Joe feel sorry for
the cute little fellow Mosconi sitting
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-18

In that chair. He must be all tired
out doing nothing. I ses oh, don't
worry about. him. ses he will have
plenty to do later on.
But this was the night Creenleaf
ran nInety.two and won the block so
Mosconi did not get much Of a chance
and when we was on our way home
Ethel ses Joe do you know little Joe
could get prenatal influence to be
monotonous from a thing like that.
There was too much OF Just one fel.
low playing.
Then few nights later I ses Ethel
it ses in the paper that Willie Mos
conf won that tournament after all
in spite Of that long run Creenleat
made the night we was there. She
ses what tournament? ses why the
pocket billiards tournament. She ses
oh, that old pool thing. II was moth.
ing but old pool Joe.
Yours truly
JOE TURP
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-18
Ethel ses she'd rather 90 TO O
movie thon Wofeh them knock
those pool balls into fhe pockets
BROOKLYN

Dear Sir: One night my wife Ethel
ses Joe didn't I hear you tell my pops
that you are going over to New York
tonight 70 see some kind of a cham.
pionship contest? I ses that's right
sweets, am going TO see pocket
billiards match.
Ethel ecs If I went with you would
that be good for the prenatal in.
fluencc? You know Joe l want 10 be
with you whenever you 90 10 sports
events because that viii influence
little Joe 10 take an interest in sports.
II viii make him very manly and
give hun a fine sporting spirit
scs that's fine baby. only can't
help thinking that If it turns cut 10
be a gul and il is full of that pre-.
natal business that you are giving it.
the chances are il win be more like
a boy. Ethel scs VIII you stop worry
ing about it being a girl Joe? I ses
am not worrying about II Ethel.
l scs / would just as soon II was
a girl but am thinking of you when
she grows up and you want her com.
pauonship around the house and she
will be out playing football or golf
Ethel scs we'll you leave that TO me
Joe but what about the thing in New
York? ses Ethel il will be pleas.
ure 20 have you with mo
So that is how We came TO go TO
-McCirrs billiard room on Broadway
he night when Willie Mosconi' and
Ralph Crccnlcaf were playing block
In their tournament and when they
started out Ethel ses Joe this is moth.
Ing but an old pool game. l have
seen the fellows h Wilson's over in
Brooklyn play II thousand times
when l used TO go in there to call
Johnny Clancy for his mother and
you used to be In there. too. It Is
nothing but old pool
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-18

ses shush. Ethel. ses this is
big match of pocket billiards and she
ses ! tell you il Is nothing but old
pool All they do is knock those little
balls into the pockets on the table.
think we ought 10 go to a movie
because l don't want little Joe TO
have prenatal influence to be pool
bum like Johnny Clancy was before
he Joined the Marines. And that re.
minds me l used to wonder what you
did in Wilson's all the time.
l ses Ethel I was one of the best
players in Brooklyn in my day but
please shush now and watch. ses
this is a very big match at pocket
billiards and she ses tell you 1t is
nothing but old pool. don't care
what you call it Joe, It Is nothing but
old pool. Just then Greenleaf made
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-18

DRAWINGS sY AsEeR DEAN
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-11
Police Probe Death
OF Girl, 5, in Fire
Parents at Saloon
When Home Burns

In an effort 10 determine
whether charges Will be pressed
policewomen Saturday were ques-
tioning the parents of 5-year-old
girl who was burned 10 death in
their absence
The parents are Mr.. and Mrs
Epergai Shannon. who found their
frame home az 1866 +. Fort in
flames when they arrived home
from a saloon at 2;30 a. m. Ger
aldine 5, burned 10 death in her
bedroom Her brother, Evergal
Jr. 3. was burned severely while
her sister. Yvonne, Z. escaped
Yvonne told police that she
and the other children had been
playing with matches in the liv-
ing room about three hours before
the fire broke out az = 80 a. m
Saturday. Firemen believe a match
ignlted a piece of furniture and
smoldered for hours b for c
spreading.
Mrs. Shannon had left the house
70 meet her husband war
worker. in a nearby saloon.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-11
Small Loan Rate
.ReductionU UrQed

Recommendations that interest
rates charged by small loan com
panIeS be fixed AZ. IL per cent a
month was made by the Consum-
eF.s Council today 20 the commit
tee or state affairs az Lansing.
now considering legislation on the
subject.
Charles c. Lockwood. chairman
Of the council. said his group had
been asked for an opinion by the
committee after L. w. Nelson.
state bank commissioner. reported
he had no recommendation 70
make The present interest rates
range from 2l2 10 3 per cent.
I'VE feel" said L o c wood
"that both profits and expenses
in connection with the operation
of small loan companies Is eX-
cessiVe. We feel that credit
must he and can be made avail
able 20 the honest. poor man at
lower rate than IL now the
case"
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-11
Veteran Hearst Printer
Dies in New York City

NEW YORK, Feb. 10 CINS)-
Daniel p Sullivan. 65. superin-
tendent Of the New York Journal
American composing room, died
today
Sullivan. who came to this coun-
try as A boy. was a veteran Of
more than as years with the
Hearst newspapers and became a
louTneyman compositor when he
was only IS.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-11
Historical Museum
Fund Appeal Issued

Only $4,000 is necessary 10
make up the $3.50 900 fund neces-
sary for a beginning on the De-
troit Historical and Industrial
MUSEUM. Frank Cody, chairman
Of the campaign committee, an
nounced Saturday.
"If we fail in the next few
weeks 10 subscribe this SIS, 1000"
Cody said. lit will be necessary
10 return gifts approximating
$4,000 which were predicated
on the citizens Of Detroit rails
Ing an additional sum 10 total
S250.OO0."
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-11
Army Paper Relays
First News 10 Dads

NEW YORK, Feb. 10 INS)-
L S. soldiers on the European
fighting fronts often are notified
Of the arrival of Sir Stork long
before letters and cablegrams
from the folks back home relay
the big news to them.
Sir Stork's messenger is the
army's newspaper, Stars and
Stripes which publishes column
of births 10 soldier fathers. A
similar service has been set up in
the Rome office, covering the
Mediterranean area.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-11
Belgian Catholics
Bar Reds in Cabinet

BRUSSELS, Feb. 10 UPl-A
refusal by Belgian Catholics 10
serve in any government with
Communists deepened the cabinet
crisis today.
The Catholics. who yesterday
agreed to joir the new govern
ment Q despite Communists. re-
versed thei.' stand last night.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-11
Irish Contend Jeep
Is a Common Noun

DUBLIN, Feb. 10 (UP) The
world famous word leep is a com.
mon noun and cannot be used as
trademark, the Irish industrial
and commercial property registra-
ton office ruled today.
The office refused application OF.
the WillYs-OYerland Co. Toledo,
O., TO use "jeep' as a trademark
on the ground that the word had
fallen into public domain as the
result of common usage"
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-11
Wage Pleas Denied
In Packing Dispute

WASHINGTON. Feb. 10 (UP)
Economic Stabilizer Vinson TO-
day rejected pleas of California
Iowa and Nebraska Congressmer
10 modify his controversial order
banning wage increases which re-
quire price boosts.
The delegation requested the
modification TO expedite settle
ment of the dispute between the
United Packinghouse Workers
Union tCIO) and five big meat
hackers.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-11
Russian Clothing
Drive Falls Behind

Sunday is the last day of the
current drive 10 raise a million
pounds Of clothes for Russian War
Relief Detroit still is far from
its goal. says Robert Wallace, act
ing chairman. who urges Detroit
ers TO take all the used clothing
they can spare to pickup stations
before Sunday night Any fire
station, poster-identified church,
library. Community Fund agency
or Russian War Relief center will
receive donations.