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PAGE TWELVE THE NEWS PALLADIUM, BENTON HARBOR, MICH. TUESDAYJANUARY 5, 1MB First Selective Service Navy Volunteers LATEST MEWS -MICHIGAN- 5k I 2 Fennville Girl Is Enrolled In Woman's Army Nurse ix i i i 1 1 1 nJ-Jmlr mi. II AJ I Vr Ilt Legislature To Reserve Of The U. S. Navy y.

y. i tl Democrats Of Slate Gather On Jan. 15th i Itlllill) VZX 111111 fy arranged. Some branches are al Pictured here Is the first group of applicants for Navy service to volunteer under the selective service system in this area. The young men are Fred Lee Jeffrey, Robert Joseph Kotyuk, Arthur James Bach teal, Roy William Rickel, George W.

Gunkel, Arthur August Mashke and Keith Laevrne Hammer, of Benton Harbor, Vernon William Arent, of St. Joseph, and Elmer Eugene Johnson, of Riverside. Also shown are J. F. Donaldson, P.

O. 1st class, in charge of recruiting, Kenneth Erskine, P. O. 1st class, and M. F.

Swalley, P. O. 2nd class, who are handling the enlistments in the postoffice building. ready filled and recruiting officer A have been instructed to accept no more enlistees. The enlistment I rules for other branches call for me same pnysicai, moral ana men- tal requirements as required in the jf Naval Reserves and the office here will receive applications daily until furthej notice.

Michigan Sports 4 call into the service. In the meantime the office is enlisting 17-year-olds and also the men in the 38-50 age bracket. Tradesmen are taken according to the length of experience in their particular skill. While the volunteei plan is under a temporary schedule a quota is expected to be set and a call list 2 Hurt In Crash, Driver Is Held Pullman Man Faces A Reckless Charge SOUTH' HAVEN, Jan. 5.

Minor injuries were received by two persons and a ticket for reckless driving was given James VanBlarcum, of Pullman, when his car on Sunday collided with an auto driven by Hobart Crandall, of Manistee, on US-31 three and a half miles north of South Haven. Richard Jerue, 17, of Pullman, and Pauline Decker, 15, of R. F. D. 2, South Haven, were the injured ones.

They were treated for cuts about the forehead at the scene of the accident. Both were passengers in the car driven by Van Blarcum. A statement of State Police is that the accident happened about 2:30. p. m.

They said the left front of the VanBlarcum car and the left side of the Crandall car were badly damaged. Both men were able to drive away their cars. The accident was lnvestifated by Troopers Kaufman and Collins of South Haven State Felice post. Refuse To Allow King Carol To Enter U.S. (By Associated Press) DETROIT, Jan.

5 Louis M. Hopping, assistant U. S. district attorney, notified. Federal Judge Frank A.

Picard today that the State department has refused permission for King Carol of Rumania to enter this country to testify at the trial here of Glighaerie Moraru, Stephan Opreanu and George Zan-fir, charged with failure to register as agents of a foreign power. Depositions may be sought from Carol in Mexico, Hopping Volunteers for the Navy are applying daily at the local Naval recruiting station in the postoffice under the newly instituted selective service, plan or are asking for Navy preference at the draft board offices. The men are given applications to fill out and also take a mental test. Those passing tests are to await Jancke-Disterheft Wedding Saturday BERRIEN CENTER, Jan. 5 At the Gottlieb Disterheft home east of Berrien Center Saturday afternoon occurred the marriage of their daughter, Ida, to Richard Jancke, of St.

Joseph. About 45 relatives and friends gathered for the ceremony at 4 o'clock. Attendants were Miss Ericka Jancke, of Baroda, sister of the groom, and Arthur Disterlrelt, brother of the bride. Rev. Hubert Karl, pastor of the Berrien Center Lutheran church, officiated.

The bride is employed at the Skldmore Corp. in St. Joseph, and the groom at th? Nylen Products plant in St. Joseph. They will make their home in Benton Harbor.

Restaurant Fire Claims 7 Lives Explosion Of Gasol i ne Causes N.Y. Tragedy MASSENA, N. Jan. 5 At least seven persons were burned to death today after a can of gasoline exploded in a restaurant here, blow ing out the front wall and enveloping the one -story building in flames. Two other persons, badly were taken to Massena general hospital.

State Police Sgt. B. B. Watkins of this northern New York town reported the victims were passengers on a bus en route from Potsdawn to Messena that had stopped at the cafe, owned by Walter Hutchins. The bus driver, Maurice Kiah, also was unaccounted for.

Police said identification of the victims could not be determined until a check was made at the Blancor Aluminum plant to learn whi did not report for work. The busarried plant workers. (By Associated Press) DETROIT Sergeant Joe Louis, weighing 215 pounds, is in good enough shape, he says, so that hB could start training Immediately were the war to end today. The heavyweight boxing champion, visiting his mother who is ill with pneumonia, is on leave from Fort Riley, where he teaches boxing. Joe said he has a team of 40 or 50 men and in addition gives lessons to 500 soldiers every day.

He said ha had some good men in the lighter weights. DETROIT Talk that Gus Doraia is being sought as coach of the Detroit Lions professional football team was revived today with the appearance in Detroit of Fred L. Man del, owner of the -club. Mandel, here from his Chicago home to clean up affairs of the lata season, said he wished he could say that Dorias was to be his new coach "but I can't." Reports were published recently that the veteran university of Detroit coach had beerj offered $he job. NIECE DIES IN WEST i EAU CLAIRE, Jan.

Word ofl the death of his niece, Mrs. Flor ence Wyrembek, of Pine River, were received Saturday by F. Bark of Eau Claire. Mrs. Wyrembek was known to many Eau Claira residents through her frequent visit here.

You Hay Always Do Constipated If- you don't correct faulty living habits. In the meantime to help insure gent I yet thorough bowel movements take) Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets. Olive Tablets are simply wonder fui not only to relieve constipation but also to stir up liver bile secretion and tone up Intestinal muscular action. 151, 304, SO, follow label directions.

All drugstores. MeefVednesday, Hear Gov. Kelly New Governor's Program Is Eagerly Waited By Solons (Bv Associated Press) LANSING, Jan. 5 The 62nd legislature will convene at noon Wednesday, its members looking to Governor Kelly to break the silence he preserved in his campaign and since the election concerning his administration program. Kelly personally is to outline the program in a message to the lawmakers Wednesday night, and they looked to him for guidance on many important subjects in this critical war year.

A Republican himself, flanked by administrative officers of his own party, Kelly has a Republican-dominated legislature, leaders of which helped to "draft" him to run for governor. Room For Controversy Yet there is planty of room for controversy, since he is a Detroit-er and a majority of the lawmakers come from agricultural areas and have engaged in stormy rural-urban fights at every session, recurrence of which might embarrass him. Members of the House of Repre sentatives, arriving in advance of tonight's caucus of the KepuDucan majority members, disclosed many 9f their number still were uncon rinced of the merits of Kelly's pro posals that they divide their work into two annual sessions instead of a single regular biennial meeting. Kelly had spoken of difficulties of appraising needs and revenues in adoDtine the annual budget for state derjartments and institutions, as an argument for two annual meetines. Leaders said many law makers considered they should do the best thev could in drafting a single two-year budget as usual and.

If occasion demanded, they could be recalled to change it. Meet A Get Together Prime purpose of the caucus to night, was to provide a get-together for new members and to settle at least some patronage problems. A movement was under way among some legislators to side-step a fight in selection of a majority floor lead er by letting the, problem alone un til sentiment has crystalized. There seemed to be little doubt Speaker Howard Nugent of Bad Axe would receive a precedent- breaking third term as presiding officer, and no one had openly challenged the bid of Rep. Maurice E.

Post of Rockford for another term as speaker protempore. The senate Republican majority already has caucused and chosen its officers. Law Change For Oil Sought From New Legislature (By Associated Press) LANSING, Jan. 5 Amendment of the state law controlling crude oil and gas production may be sought at the forthcoming session of the legislature, it was disclosed today. P.

J. Hoffmaster, state conservation director, who also is state supervisor of said his department ni2y seek a less sever; alternative method of enforcing its orders than those now provided. While the present act allows penalties of imprisonment and fines up to $1,000 for each day of violation, Hoffmaster paid it has been suggested that in soni3 cases court orders requiring compliance would suffice. Violations would be punishable as contempt of court. STATE BRIEFS PONTIAC James S'th Brown.

3. drowned in the Clinton river Wednesday when he wandered out on the ice roar his Drayton Plains home and fell into the The body was recovered a quarter mile downstream. HASTINGS Maurice Irish, 18, of Nashville, member of a youthful gang, pleaded guilty Monday in circuit court to a charge of breaking tnd entering in the nght time and was held without bail for sentencing. He was accused in a Nashville tavern burglary. Five youths wer? sentenced earlier in Battle Creek.

ANN AREOR A heart attack proved 'fatal Monday to Harry 58-year-old store em ploye, as he was tending a rubbish fire, and he feu into tne namss. Coroner Edwin C. Ganzhorn ssid the man apparently, died before "Mailing. Police sought relatives oe-lieved living in Detroit and Chicago. PONTIAC Wills rd Joseph 24-year-old Birmingham bus driver who admitted two previous 'Vmarriages in the feast without divorce in either Instance, pleaded guilty to polygamy Monday in connection with a third marriage here.

He was held in $1,000 bond by Circuit Judge- Fraric L. Doty for sen tencing. BAY CITY Arraigned for alleged draft evasion. Eldred M. Rademaeh er, 20, declared Monday "this is supposed to be a free country I don't have to fleht this war if I don't want to." Rademacher declared himself a conscientious objector and member of a group having convictions against war.

U. S. Cimmis-idoner Clarence fl. Petylt set bond at $2,500 and ordered Radnacher held for remoial to federal court in Detroit for examination. BLOOMINGTON, Jan.

5 Miss Alice Wade, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willard B. Wade of Fenn ville. an apprentice seaman in the Woman's Reserve of the Navy, is in training at the U.

S. Naval Train ing School, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. Seaman Wade is one of approximately 600 WAVES studying to become navy storekeep ers. When she is graduated from the four months' course early in February, Miss Wade will be eligible for a rating as a third class petty officer and will be assigned to a shore station within the United States thus relieving a man for active duty aboard ship. The Naval Training School at Indiana University was one of the first schools for enlisted personnel of the Woman's Reserve to be opened.

It is also one of the few coeducational units in the navy, for a similar course in storekeeping for enlisted men is also in progress. Both men and women will have the same instructors although classes are held at different times. Students arrived on Oct. 9th for their period of training, which includes one month of indoctrination and three months of specialized training as storekeepers. The indoctrination course acquaints the trainees with the navy, its administrative organization, traditions, regulations, ships, aircraft, terms and vocabulary.

Drill and physical education are also an integral part of the indoctination period. As a storekeeper, Miss Wade wiU Van Buren Board Discusses Time Reports Are Heard At January Meet PAW PAW, Jan. 5 Van Buren eounty supervisors met at the courthouse Monday for the regular January session- of a week or more, with all members in attendance with the exception of Supervisors Dave Gilbert, of Pine Grove, and Robert Brearly, of Covert. The annual report of Mrs. Hettis Jewett was read, showing that the income from the office for the year was' $5,322.50 derived from the following sources; Deeds, Mortgages, liens, Levies, $1.30.

Other items were: Lis Pendens, Discharges, Partial releases, af-fadavits, probate orders, right of ways, photostats, plats, redemptions, $10; writs, chattels, death certificates, bill of sales, leases, $218.95: assignments, decrees, powers of attorney, mortgage extensions. land patents, land contracts. agreements, miscellaneous, $32.95. The report of County Clerk Rex S. Martin for the year showed revenue of $4,615.86 for his office which includes receipts of from circuit court; $380.24 notary; $145.00 marriages: $478.25 fines and marriages: $319.72 partnerships and miscellaneous.

At the request of Drain Commissioner L. G. Monk, $1,500 was transferred to the revolving fund from the general fund. The matter of changing back to slow time was brought up by Supervisor Roland Lyster and was discussed briefly but was referred to the committee on legislation for further action. Forsythe Sent To Sell State Fitness Course (Bv Associated Press) LANSING, Jan.

5 Lieut. Commander Charles E. Forsythe of the Navy, former state high school athletic director, is back in Michigan to help his old department "sell" to the schools a realization of the need for a stepped-up physical fitness program for youths about to take their places in armed service and other phases of the war effort. Forsythe said he would share in programs of a physical fitness institute in Grand Rapids today, and later this week and next week in other cities. Forsythe will participate In a series of physical fitness institutes for school men of Michigan to be held this week and next week.

Lacota LACOTA. Jan. 5 Mr. and Mrs. Vamura Dilley left New Years morning for Milwaukee where- they will be the guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Taylor and family. Mr. and Mrs. Orvil Hunt and three children returned home Jan.

2 from Sanwood, where they had been for the- past two weeks visiting his parents. Miss Dorothy Eitel returned" to her teaching duties at. Clarksvillj Sunday after spending the holiday recess with her mother, Mrs. Laura Eitel. Miss Minnie Thomas is quite ill at the home of her brother, William Thomas, Last vnk Miss Thomas sustained severe bruises when she fell and was trampled by a cow.

Mrs. Rose Parkinson, who is in the Douglas hospital, is improving. Her husband reports he expects she will come home the first of this week. Supt. and Mrs.

Floyd Hazel of Lakeview school, Battl Creek, have been spending part of the holiday vacation with her brothers, the Tol- lea brothers. Miss Alice Marie Cleaveland, of Eau Claire, has been inducted aa a Red Ctom Army nurse, and left last Saturday to report lor doty at the station hospital at Camp Hulen, Tex. She is a graduate nurse of Blodgett hospital, at Grand Rapids. Miss Cleaveland is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Edgar M. Cleaveland, of Eau Claire, and was graduated from the Eau Claire high school in 1939. School Aid Will Be Distributed On January 22nd Court Refuses Writs Of Mandamus Sought By Six Cities (By Associated Press) LANSING, Jan. 5 Distribution of the first portion of state school aid money upwards of $5,000,000 will be made January 22, it was announced today, by virtue of a state supreme court decision dissolving restraining litigation. The court unanimously yesterday refused to issue writs of mandamus sought by Detroit, Bay City, Sagi naw, Flint, Muskegon, and Mus kegon Heights to alter th method of distribution planned by the department of public instruction.

The first distribution had been scheduled for January 15, but will be one week late because of the suit, it was announced. Upholds Program Upholding the department program on two counts, the opinion of the court asserted that if admini stration construction of any statute "is within the provisions of an act which by its very terms is obscure or ambiguous, such construction is entitled to consideration" by the courts. Elsewhere the justices referred to the school aid law, the most complicated act of each legislative session, as confused and ambiguous. The suit involved the status of 12 so-called "85 per cent districts" Fordson, Wyandotte, Hamtramack, Alpena, East Grand Rapids, Negau-nee, Trenton, Ann Arbor, Monroe, Bessemer township, Ecorse and Grosse Pointe. Get 85 Percent By the 1941 school aid act, those communities were guaranteed 85 per cent of the state aid they received in 1940-41, a sum they otherwise would not be entitled to under the workings of the act.

The court upheld the department in granting those communities high school tuition payments in addition to their other grants. The city of Detroit argued such a payment would be a duplicate grant. About $110,000 was involved. An Army Flyer Killed, 2 Hurt In Plane Crash DETROIT, Jan. 5 One Army flier was killed and two were injured in the crash of a medium bomber on a routine training flight Sunday, the Romi Air Base announced last night.

Second Lieut. Vincent Barsdls, 94 of East Hampton, N. was killed. Second Lieut. John McGuire, 24, of Pontiac.

and Second Lieut. Earl Pifer; 35, of Detroit, were injured but are expected to recover. Col. Carlyle L. Nelson, commanding officer of the Romulus base.

said the plane, an A-28 Lockheed medium bomber, crashed in a woods near the base. GIRL BABIES BORN DECATUR, Jan. 5 Word has been received of the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Turner Howard, on Dec.

28. Mrs. Howard is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.

A. Flagg, of Decatur. Coach and Mrs. Kenneth Higgins are parents of a seven pound daughter, born in Lakeview hospital, Paw Paw, Wed. morning, Dec.

30. Parry Hopes To Salvage Something From Its Big Defeat By Associated Press) LANSING, Jan. 5. The Demo cratic party will rally its forces here January 15 to see what it can salvage from its crushing 1942 election defeat, and to plan for the future. A state central committee meet ing called by Chairman Charles S.

Porritt is the medium for the gathering, to which Porritt said he also has invited ccunty chairmen from over the state. It will enable them to get their heads together with those of the defeated former Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner, Edmund C. Shields, Democratic national committeeman, and the defeated U. S.

Senator Prentiss M. Brown if he can ar range to be here. G. 0. P.

Meet Jan. 14 John R. Dethmers, Republican state chairman, called his party's central committee to meet here January 14. He said the meeting would spotlight the opportunity open to Republicans to seize In the spring election control of the State Highway Department which for years has been a keystone in the Demo cratic party's structure in this state. The formal business before tne two central committee meetings will be the selection of dates and locations of their spring conventions, which will nominate candidates for the election contests.

Resignation of G. Donald Kennedy, state highway commissioner, places that office at stake' in the election to enliven what otherwise would have been a tame campaign. Kennedy was Van Wagoner's chief lieutenant before resigning to take a job in Washington. Democrats are casting about for a strong candidate, not certain whether L. B.

Reid, who inherited the post by appointment of Van Wagoner, would fit the bill. Never Sought Office Reid never has sought political office, and his colleagues in the highway department describe him as "no politician." A free-for-all race for the Republican nomination is in prospect. Charles M. Ziegler, of Lansing, who once unsuccessfully 'opposed Van Wagoner for that post, is to announce his candidacy for the Re publican nomination this week. Two supreme court justices, two members of the state board of agriculture which governs Michigan State College, two regents of the University of Michigan, and a member of the State Board of Education will be elected this spring.

Landmark At Pullman Has Blaze In Attic PULLMAN, Jan. 5 A fire started in the attic of the Wilbur Ridley cottage Saturday evening, Jan. 2, about 9 o'clock. The place is known as the Dunn house and is on old landmark to many. The Pullman volunteer fire department was called and the blaze was soon under control.

A family from the south moved into the house at Christmas time. Fennville FENNVILLE, Jan. 5 New Years was celebrated at the Bassett-Arnold home with a dinner for relatives of Clare Arnold, son-in-law of Mrs. Bassett. Mrs.

Bassett, who was in bed over Christmas as the result of an injury in an auto accident be fore Christmas, was able to be up for New Years dinner. Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson who lived in Indianapolis several months have left there, and Mrs. Johnson and th? children are staying with her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Clarence Arndt, until their home in Kalamazoo is vacant when they will again reside there. Mr. Johnson has again taken up employment at Ft. Custer where he was employed before they went to Indianapolis.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. King followed Christmas trade at their drug store with a visit to Chicago. Their son, Jack, of W.

M. C. spent his vacation here. On Jan. 17 he will enter school in Chicago for advanced instruction in radio.

Mr. and Mrs. Onofrio Marfia enjoyed a visit from their daughter, Carl Stuenkel, of Chicago, during the holiday. She came from Ft. Benning, where she spent Christmas week with her husband.

If Mr. Stuenkel is sent ovJrseas on completion of his training there his wife plans to enlist in the WAACS. She is now employed with the War Production- board at Montgomery Ward's in Chicago. Breedsville REEDS VILLE "Jan. 5 Mrs.

Mary Fuller and family went to Fort Custer during the holidays to visit hr son. Sherman, who is in the Army. On arriving she found he had been transferred to Miami Beach, to another camp. Mrs. Carl Nelson entertained 12 girls at dinner in honor of her guest, Betty Cooley, a guest at the Nelson home: It was a surprise party and after a 1 o'clock supper the remainder of the evening was spent playing games.

This is Betty's first visit home since she went to Chicago last fall to work. A party was held at I.0. O. F. hall Saturday night, January 2, to which the public was invited.

Mrs. Al Faller and two children, of Chicago, visited here a few days before returning to Chicago. They spent the holidays at the Edward Anderson home in South Haven. The Andersons lived here before moving to latt fall. ALICE WADE perform the work of the supply, disbursing and commissary departments.

Her course includes typing, naval accounting and the use of naval forms. Prior to her entrance in the navy, Miss Wade was a member of the teaching staff of Lee high school in Grand Rapids. She also has had teaching positions in Fennville and Detroit. She attended Olivet College" and Western Michigan College of Education in Kalamazoo. Her brother, Cpl.

Richard Wade, is stationed at Mitchell Field, N. Y. Coloma Boys In Military Service COLOMA, Jan. 5 Corp. William Beverly arrived in Coloma Monday for a 12-day furlough with his family, the flrsl, since he entered the Army last February.

For the past three months he has been stationed at Athens, attending a signal corp school in radio work. Robert Warren, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Warren, left Tuesday for Iowa university at Iowa City, where he will continue Naval Aviation pre-flight training. He took his preliminary training at Kalamazoo and Michigan State college at Lansing.

Pvt. Howard J. Hostein is stationed at Amarillo Fields where he is training as an aviation mechanic. He writes that he has been in the hospital ever since he arrived, experiencing a severe cold. His address is A.

S. N. 36408332, S. S. 623, Amarillo Field.

St. Johns Faces Typhoid Threat Public Water Supply Is Found Unfit (By Associated Press) LANSING, Jan. 5 Dr. H. Allen Moyer, state health commissioner, today urged every resident of St.

Johns to be vaccinated at once to avoid a "possible typhoid epidemic" resulting from a contaminated public water source. The health department education 'division said fears of a serious outbreak arose when it was discovered that "several hundred" residents of the Clinton county community had contracted dysentery. Samples of water taken from the community's three municipal wells, it was said, showed one of them to have become contaminated by surf ace water. The public water supply iwas switched from one well to an other periodically each day, it was said. The division reported that' a department emergency chlorinator had been sent to St.

Johns and now was being used to purify the public water supply, but that Dr. Moyer feared tyhoid germs might also have ben carried by the water. Firemen Fight Fire Two Hours At South Haven By Associated Press) SOUTH HAVEN. Jan. 5 For two hours South Haven firemen battled flames in the residence at 810 Conger street on Saturday night before it was brought under control.

The blaze started in the kitchen. The house is a seven room one of a story and a half construction. It was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Trlece and their three children.

While no estimate was given of the loss, firemen announced the damage as considerable. Some of the contents were saved. The fire was first seen about 10:15 Saturday night. It is believed to have originated from a kerosene stove. John Schaub Appointed Deputy Highway Chief 1 (By Associated Press) LANSING, Jan.

5 John G. (Jack) Schaub, an authority on bitumin ous surfacing who has been directing construction of the Willow Run access roads, was appointed deputy highway commissioner today; Schaub. 53, of Williamston. has been assistant chief engineer of the department. He Joined the department in 1934.

A graduate of the University of Michigan, Schaub was employed as a War department engineer in the construction of ship locks at Sault Ste. Marie and then spent 25 years as a private road contractor In MlchJgjn, Ullaoia and indjapBn There are two words that crowd the busy telephone wires unnecessarily they waate 960 hours of switchboard time each day in Detroit alone I "Information, please," whether the request is spoken or dialed, nses central office Jine and equipment that already are humming with a war-created burden of calls. Not all requests for information are unnecessary. But experience shows that three out of four of them are calls for numbers listed in the directory. So please use your telephone di rectory first.

And if you mutt get a number from Information, write it down so you'll have it the next time. -It's little things like this that help BIG things go! WAR MICHIGAN CALLS MUST QO THROUQH DELL TELEPHONE COMPANY.