The Escanaba Daily Press from Escanaba, Michigan • Page 3

SATURDAY, DEC. 23, 1944 THE ESCANABA (MICH.) DAILY PRESS PAGE THREE COUPLE GIVEN MENTAL TESTS Psychiatrists Examine Youth And Girl In Murder Case Three doctors from the Newberry state hospital for the insane Thursday gave Harry Curry and i Miss Joyce Peterson psychiatric tests at the Delta county jail where they are held for trial in circuit court on a charge of murdering Charles Gilbeau. The findings of the doctors is reported to the circuit judge. The examination is required in every murder case under the provisions of a state law, and are ordered by the state hospital commission after a report is filed by the circuit court clerk. Conducting the examination were Doctors E.

H. Campbell, Newberry State Hospital superintendent, William S. Purmort and C. B. Toms.

Curry, 20, of Bark River, and Miss Peterson, 19, of Ford River, are charged with murder in connection with the death of Charles Gilbeau of Escanaba, who died Sunday, Nov. 12, of a skull fracture suffered when he was struck on the head the night before with a club. The youth and girl confessed that they robbed Gilbeau of about $200 and fled to Milwaukee, where they were apprehended. They are scheduled to be arraigned at the next session of circuit court for Delta county, which will open January 2 with Judge Frank A. Bell of Negaunee presiding.

Army Is Solving Laundry Dilemma New York. The Medimal Department has solved an age-old problem, and as a result, hospital and troop ships will soon be able to wash their laundry in sea The process, which involves use of chemicals, recently saved 4,480 gallons of fresh water during a trial run by a hospital ship, says Ships magazine. Ordinarily this ship carries 30,000 sheets; with sea-water laundering only 8,700 sheets were a saving of two-thirds in the linen inventory. This provided room for four more bed patients or 10 more walking cases than normally carried. The new process also eliminates risk of contamination from huge stocks of soiled bed linen that formerly could not be laundered at sea.

Rapid River Flier Describes Battle With Nazi Pilots Ed. Note: First Lieutenant Melvin Q. Carlson, of Rapid River. on a recent mission in support of American ground forces on the western front, attacked two MF- that were firins at accompanying P-47 Thunderbolts, destroyins one and damaging the second. This is the P-47 account of the action.

By First Lieut. Melvin Q. A Ninth Air Force Bomber Base, Belgium leading an element in on ron that was supporting Am- erican infantry I about 9:45 a. m. when my flight leader, First Lt.

I Lloyd A. llutch- ins of Jackson, was jumped by two ME as he went down on a train, near Bedburg.j about 20 miles west of Cologne. ai Ison Hutch was in a vertical dive with the Jerry on his tail when I somebody called to him to break. I Hutch pulled up to the left and I closed on the ME and fired I about a hundred rounds from 500 Life Whirls At Dizzy FREIGHT CARS Pace In Old New York MUST MOVE ON NEA Service i primed field of mushrooms, and New' metropolis in although they must be reserved the world is as dizzily, busily, in advance, a headwaiter will for I slap-happily jam-packed as war- a five-buck tip set up another time Manhattan. in space that visibly exist.

Missions from foreign lands Attractions up and down from make New York their mecca for dignified uptown hotel supper fun after settling their business rooms to holes in the wall in in Washington. Joes and gob I Greenwich Village are whooped Rapid Unloading Urged During: Christmas Holidays Anv flock to New York for their last leaves before shoving off for overseas duties. War wives come here to see their men stay on to find jobs and live in the city. Here buyers come to buy, visiting firemen come to visit, vacationers come to see the sights. Crowded terminals swarm like beehives.

Hotels are tight-packed. Subways are bone-crushingly full. SRO signs confront block- long queues of movie-goers who patiently wait for hours to glimpse a film. Every apartment building has a per cent rented sign conspicuously displayed. Theater tickets must be ordered weeks in advance.

Night clubs are complete sell-outs. Follow Moving Vans From cellar to attic, every habitable building is filled in teaming New York, where more people are packed into fewer square feet of area than in any other metropolis in the world. There was a time when whole pages of dass- slowing up in the unloading of freight cars during the Christmas holidays would seriously delay shipments of food, clothing, guns, tanks and shells needed at this critical period by General Eisenhower and General MacArthur. Director J. Monroe Johnson of the Office of Defense Transportation said today.

The ODT statement followed the recent call of the War Production Board for the maintenance of full work schedules over the Christmas weekend except on Christmas day and over the New Year weekend including villages 42nd jsfew Year's r'ay up for the boom town trade. 52nd beehive of night clubs where bright name bands play in basements with cellar-like drags in all kinds of excitement seekers. Most numerous are servicemen who know' names like Page, Smith and Wingy Mannone from swing platters back home, and pour in to see their idols in the flesh From Swing Lane to West 8th yards. I the bullets hitting advertising enticed apart- the wings and fuselage when the hunters. Now there are Jerry broke right in a steep climb i jwjcc as many advertisements in the direction of ologne.

from persons seeking a roof over Just then I saw anothei I their heads, as there are ads for coming in from the right at about apartments of all sizes and 90 degrees with an ME right on furnjshed or unfurnished for his tail. Making a tight left turn or for I fired a long burst and the Ger- jn 1932 about 16 per cent of I man broke away from the Thun- 1 anfj jajr apartments in derbolt and went into a Manhattan were vacant. When war began, about nine per cent were vacant. The most recent survey bv tlie Real Estate Board went into a diving turn. At about 400 miles per hour my plane turned inside him and EVIDENCE OK NAZI DEATH Natzviller, France, another German is reported to have been discovered.

There, French say, 4000 men, slave labor for the Nazis, were forced to repair airplane engines until their usefulness ended, then were gassed to death, cremated and their ashes sent to relatives. Photos above show, lett to right, generator used to till execution chamber with deadly fumes; FFI men inspecting crematory furnace; and another FFI fighter examining urns used for ashes. Photo below is exterior view of gas chamber and crematory. (NEA Photo.) I closed to 75 yards and saw my bullets hitting him on the canopy and lett wing near the fuselage. The Jerry started a slow roll but never came out it and nosed earthward trailing smoke in about a 70 degree dive.

1 followed him down to 300 feet and he was still going down so I pulled out and rejoined my flight. Sgt. Frank Spincich, Newberry, Wounded Frank J. cich was wounded in action in Germany, members of his family w'ere advised in a message received Tuesday from the War Department. He has been overseas for the past several months.

Germans Apathetic As Disaster Is Imminent tapo can then restore the equilibrium. Nowhere except among of- 1 ficeholders did the secret visitor find anybody who wras not aware that Germany has lost the war. Many workers, in tact, were offer' ing forbidden shelter to deserters for foreign conscript legions or from foreign labor camps, as a sort of insurance for the future, in proof that they were Obituary BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER 1 feel his observations deserve at- London, Dec. 19 Apathy I among the masses, confusion, lack i The masses, especia in- of coordination among anti-Nazis: rtustrial womers.

cher.s^ but one differein from the Nazi and fear of punishment in Nazi I wish, ranks, were found to be the dominant characteristics of the German situation by an agent of German refugee circles who recently returned to a neutral country from a clandestine trip to Berlin, Liep- zig and Silesia. 1 w'as permitted to study his detailed report. Knowing the source, WANTED Mechanics and Body Men Immediate, steady employment Apply Now ESCANABA MOTOR CO. JUST ARRIVED to keep your feet snug and warm let you join the fun on the iciest days! These SUN VALLEY snow boots, of leather, trimmed with warm, fluffy shearling have durable rubber soles. Pull right over your shoes I this observer found that the war may end.

Doggedly they trudge to their work in such complete apathy that even the attempt on life with its attendant purges left them untouched. Nazis Are Privileged If they mentioned the officers putsch at all, they said, with a shrug, all, these men went with Hitler while the going was their motives now must have been selfish and not ditch their Fuehrer now that disaster is i The people were found to snap out of their lethargy only if au! thorities fail to provide the prescribed rations, or if the number of war casualties in any given family piles up particularly high, or if their ire is aroused by insolent leaders and their wives, who continue to live off the fat of the land and bear few hardships. It might then easily happen that someone would run into such Nazis or their wives with their bicycles, or pounce upon them in an air raid shelter and give them a sound beating. These cases, however, were exceptional. From the viewpoint of the Allies this apathy has its positive side.

Hundreds of thousands of tired even aware that they are slowing down work to an alarming extent, thereby committing negative sabotage In fact, attempts to speed them up are of- ten met with insulting profanity From time to time this apathy 1 gives place to temporary outbursts of hysteria which may prove eon- I tagious through-out a war plant. Only sharp measures by the Ges- Gestapo Terrorism Countless times the visitor asked people, everybody is so sick of the war, why the people demand To this he received two answers The first was Gestapo terrorism. The second and somewhat surprising one was that the food situation continues bettei than anybody! anticipated. By no means has the lowr food level of 1917-18 been reached. The observer estimated that only five per cent of the people were defiant, fanatic Nazis.

This may well have been due to the limited contacts he dared make among But whatever the percentage, they were filled with fear. More than anything else has been hammered into their con- sciouness the dictum of propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels: 1 will be more terrible even than this The investigator found much I evidence of underground 1 ance to Nazism, but said it was well organized nor unified as to purpose and outlook. And this undergrout WILLIAM J. E1S Funeral services for illiam J. Eis were held at a solemn requiem high mass at St.

church Friday morning, with Rev. 1 Fr. Alphonse, O. F. celebrant of the mass; Rev.

Fr. Charles Szygula, deacon; and Rev. Fr. Francis, O. F.

sub-deacon. Burial was in St. cemetery. At the Offertory of the mass, Mrs. John Cass sang Jesu Christe" and at the close of the service, Mrs.

Eldridge Baker sang Christe Salvator Pallbearers were Claude Tobin, C. E. Wood, O. G. Olson.

G. N. Hirn, E. J. Lindstrom and P.

H. Miller. attending the rites included Mr. and Mrs. Emil Lahaie, of Gary, Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Sheedlo, Nahma; Mr. and Mrs. Jake Landis. Isabella; Mr.

and Mrs. Adolph Anderson, Iron Mountain; Mr. and Mrs. R. Warner and Mr.

and Mrs. R. L. Eis, Chicago; Dorothy Kis, Evanston, 111; John Lang, Marquette; i John Johnson, Gladstone; and Capt. Ray Eis, of Seattle, ash.

tl lacks a positive politic tion as to what should Germany. Vaguely, th groups are made up of Catholics, Socialists, and munists, and vaguely tl want some sort of democra a social outlook. through with the junkers, business tycoons, and the aire bankers. But beyor they differ widely as effort concep- corne of therans, Comley all tic state hey are the big million- id that what should happen after the war Some lean to Moscow, others tc JOHN O. ANDERSON Funeral services for John Anderson, who died Tuesday, will be held at the Anderson funeral home at 2 this afternoon, Rev.

Karl Hammar officiating Burial will be in Lakeview cemetery. The average time for building a Liberty ship has been cut from 244 days to 32. the Western powers One encouraging siku about the Gestapo he found, was that it is absolutely on its own. The time when citizens, even members of a family, denounced each is over. An icy silence greets Gestapo men wherever they turn up.

fans roam to spots like Nick's, where Pee Wee Rus- sell holds forth, and like the Pied Piper, where Max Kaminsky, hero of the foxholes, holds the kids enthralled while the foam dies on their beer. Symbol of the Broadway has another story to tell of crowds that make toe 1 street look every night like New I Yorkers are used to seeing it on New' Eve and election night. Weaving into and out of the queues which run blocks long 1 from theater marquees are boom- town hordes which line up against I a background of dance halls. 1 turtle marts, souvenir stalls, newsreel theaters, houses, pop corn and wiener stands and flea circuses where tiny four-footed actors carry miniature artillery on their backs. Movie theaters billing stupend- I ous, colossal and terrific entertainment stay open until midnight and after.

Ditto burlesque showed vacancies ranged from shows which appear and disap- one to two-tenths of one per I pear according to the whims of cent, according to type of build- the censors. Thiek-as-hopq crowds ing and location. never thin out in front of the bul- New York is so crowded that letin strips in Times Square where the Navy has thought of taking 1 headline news flashes in a mov- i over some buildings to assure ing ribbon of light, homes for its personnel. It is so Towering high in the Square is packed that men moved here on a symbol of the times, a phony business have had to live for Statue of Liberty erected to whip weeks or even months in hotels 1 before they could find shelter for 1 their families. It is so jammed 1 that mov ing truck in front of a 1 I door brings frantic visits from I dignified, apparently well-to-do men who are tramping the streets lor just that purpose hoping that i I thus they may find some house or apartment before it has been I rented.

Five-Day Limit New arrivals in York are lucky to set any kind of hotel rooms, even after wiring well ahead of time for reservations and accepting sixth-rhoire rather than first-choice hotels. Even with a reservation, the visitor may find himself sleeping on a cot in an office with a bathroom down the hall. New recognized hotels have about 60,000 rooms, many of them double. They are so jammed now' that the Hotel Association has asked members to limit guests to a maximum of five nights, while 1500 rooms have been set aside for service personnel coming to this city without advance reservations. Much of new travel is by inexperienced persons.

Many do not think make return railroad reservations. When they are ready to go home, they cannot yet train space. So they linger on in hotels from day to day, using space urgently needed for The demands on our transportation system continue to increase rather than diminish the railroads are sending considerably more supplies of all kinds to ports for trans-shipment during December than during the same month last year, Colonel Johnson said. The increasing intensity of the attack, with tremendous expenditures of artillery shells on shipments overseas, the ODT Director said, and shipments will be especially heavy into North Atlantic ports. engaged in unloading freight cars, particularly at these ports, are urged to remain at work on the Saturday and Sunday preceding Christmas day.

Monday, December 25, and to report promptly for work on the morning of Tuesday. December 26, the day following he said. stretching out of the holiday might eastlv result in seriously delaying the sailing of vessels and in keeping freight cars idle when they should be up the Bond Drive A gob in his cups who viewed the floodlighted figure for the first time exclaimed It must be low or so the story goes. Boom business and supper room: three-deep at bar ball sells for six in night clubs 5 stacks 'em in where a high- bits to a buck, where a snort of will set you back suavest bartenders rattled by visiting old brandy 4 and where are visibly firemen who greet the daw'n swigging cocktails. Tables no bigger than a dinner plate dot floors as thickly as a Just Arrived NEW SHIPMENT FANCY Boxed Stationery 65 Up Just in time for last minute Christmas shoppers a new shipment of boxed stationery finest quality, beautifully boxed.

The perfect answer to the one you almost forgot or that certain extra something you've been looking for. Give stationery to any member of the family. A gift that is always appreciated. E8CINIBI, MICH. NOTICE Daily Press Annual Christmas Edition Will Be Published Sunday Morning All advertisers wishing Christmas Greeting Advertisements in the Christmas Edition are asked to phone the Daily Press Advertising department no later than Today at 3 P.

M. Phone 6 9 3 I U. P. Briefs WRITES MAGAZINE STORI Menominee ate Fritz DuBrucq of the U. Guard, a past commodore the M.

M. Yacht clu is the author of an article, Alpi ia- betn a 1System of Comp ass rection in Decombi of Yac iting, a magazine. DuBr who was skipper the slo op Fritzjack II. the ('acht club fleet before he left forservice in the Coa Gu.ard on Jan uary IT, 1942, has seen months service with subr rine pa trol on the Atlant ic anc now ta king ships of war clown the Mississippi river waterv for salt wa ter delivery. LIBRARY BOARD NAMED Mem county libr arv board of five members, two whom ill be the chairm an ofthe countv board and the nty school commissioner, wa 5 auth or- this essi on of the enomir.ee countv board of superv isors to see if lib rary vice ii 14 townshij out ede the cit can be improve anc to take advantage of a aw wide 1brary program Artji to up sue bn,) which is to be appoi bv Chairn lan Albert Kipfer.

Stepb en son. as taken on motioi of upt. Albert Larsen, Meller towns hip supported by Supt. i Second.