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PAGE FOUR THE ESCANABA (MICH.) DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, NOV. 9, 19 43 The Daily Press Moraine Published bc Monday It Eceacaha Daily John P. Norton. Publisher. 60O-6C2 LudingloB St, contrive a wn and make the isia.

Sho can i from Germans to get out of lie conflict best deni she can with Rus- count on very little aid from now on, and there is nothing she can gain by remaining Russia's enemy. mutter April 4, IQQ9. Michiran. under Act F.oUreo Claw at Eacanaba. of March Member of Preas Service TVe Presj entitled the for publication of all nun credited to it or not otherwise credited in raper.

local publiahed therein Leaaed Wire nd alao Daily only daily paper printed (n an of PO.OOO population, c-'verinc Schoolcraft and Altrrr countiee tb roupbly. with branch offices and carrier in Maniiticuc Giaditowe and Murisme Advertising rate on application. conoid the ba ducted The induct MEMBER ALDI! BUREAU Member Inlaid Daily Member Michigan National Advertisino OF CIRCULATION Prtsw n. Represen tati ve to SCI: 441 L-exrnertoB Ave. EERER A New York Thicairo S6 E.

WaeVei Dr i I '111 Il SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ft mail: T5c per month, tr.00 three tS.M) per By 20c per week. vear. 20 moBLhs. 110 4 It May mai dun; il He Easier war problems be ui ne that ped i com it! aps tha on i th 111 111 nces and foi Mid program this war dif for 5 11 li jlution by problems will not at one time. It the war in Eurl well before the Pacific theater.

against Germany will unit ion production ipplv our own fighting osition under the lease- allies. When Nazi crushed some indus- now in full hundred niuction, may find it pos- production of goods most ian use. hting forces of all the able to their effort obliteration of Japan, the job come to considerable degree, a val operation that will probably require use of a far smaller land force than at now needed on the global war fronts. ie will need all add more of its eseot personnel in our final war effort, it considerable numbers of Army infan- men and others will probably be re- ased for pcace time pursuits, well be- eneral demobilization, SO! Weeding: Out Unfits effort to reduce the number of war-borne casualties iu our armed forces resulting from emotional or social instability, the government is adopting a new program which is designed to obtain rably more information concerning kgrouud of men about to be in- or enlisted in the armed forces, policy up to now has been to de- pon psychiatrists to weed out at in stations men who show evl- of instability, men who would be collapse under the strain of mod- ar. The system has not worked nt 1 because psychiatrists had too information upon which to base decisions.

As a result many men inducted into armed forces who were not emotionally fitted for military service. Due to this experience, the government has acted, through selective service, to obtain broad information about the social, medical and educational background of every man about to inducted or enlisted into the armed forces. This Information, coupled with data obtained in personal interviews by psychiatrists at induction centers, expected to result in a better job of selecting men for military service. The background information will bo oh-, taint'd from the draft registrants them-1 selves, from the schools they attended, from th vate medical institution other sources that these men. wen and colleges that public and prl- and from any Information con- We hear but success from Russia the latest being the success of the American-Brltlsh Russian meeting lied at to shift to for civil idi the fig tions are tl Much time and fretting would around home by having rugs with likr clgaret ashes.

ed signs Il mp to itive for is thi of a of our fighting forces com- civilian life, in relatively their Absorption should be easy of accomplishment. No ien this situation may devel- come either earlier or later expected But certain it is. etting some of our fighting men back into civilian pulpier lipli tl ir si; ing me fi a fi task ti were if ont, within months. Franco Insults I HE strange how Gem tist can still the democrati the war tides i Axis. Franco lai ns sending oi ions to Jose charge of vas a direct or the Philip mystery of I Franco, an avowed apin nations at definitely insult a time going a upon when rainst was In a Pennsylvania town laundry fire- girl workers saved a fireman.

And they pull the buttons off his shirt. Other Editorial Comments A MVIISTIO EXIT ASKKIl (Detroit Kree Press) The Italian war theater has seen many strange developments. Not the least of them is Marshal summons to King Victor Emmanuel to abdicate. Unless the king steps aside It will be impossible, he says, to form a representative government. Political!) speaking, this comes into category of the pot and the kettle.

Itado- -io's record may not be quite as black as the little king's, but it is certainly not lily-white. Badogllo only looks a little better because majesty looks so bad. One pragmatic criterion will be the wav the marshal is regarded from now on by the typo of Italian personified by Carlos Sforra. the long-exiled anti-Fascist lead- P. 1: mei lJU Jsi rei, OTt I mi mdacity congratula- was placed lent of the er, now in Napl tainty is that step down, the to democracy.

's. The one apparent cer- if Victor Emmanuel does departure will be no iti tl puppet. United a part have This ates, the a ken it thi Fri itlie elei pe Ml Fra i pani id up has been I of the Bp force repub- by a me as is her dem, military ivil war. BOOM Menominee '1 lie Soo ami Fsranaba were the boom towns of the upper peninsula in thts war. The Soo got a blc lock const ruct ion project and a big garrison force to protect the shipping canal Fscanaba got a big ore dock construction project.

Things were pretty busy, Menominee folk, watch- The World oday BY (OI, FREDERICK PALM KB North American Alliance major military result of the Moscow conference, one which is now well out of the domain of wishful thinking, is that Turkey will give the Allies the use of bases if she does not come into the war on the Allied side. Either decision would be timed to make the most of value in the coordinated Anglo- American Russian offensive plan. For us to get the bases be very bad news indeed for Hitler, and much worse should Turkey enter the war as an active belligerent. From air bases within Asiatic Turkey wo should be in shorter range to triangulate bombing attacks with those from Italy on German communications in Greece, to back up the guerrilla campaign in Yugoslavia and to pound the Rumania oil fields. Should we get bases military operations in Turkish Thrace on the European side of the Dardanelles, our ground forces might be saved from amphibious operations running the Aegean Island Gamut in a thrust Into the TURKS (X)l LD HELP MUC A dream would be fulfilled if the Turkish army joined in the drive, which she might well do, since Russian and Anglo-American victories in Italy have shown her where her interest lies.

Striking from Thrace, a powerful army would have the harassed German garrisons in Greece in the rear, and join in a pincers movement with the Russian army on Rumania which should convince both Rumania and her fellow Satellite, Hungary, that Marshal Radoglio way was the right way out of tho war. This, or any other surprise equally unpleasant for Hitler, which is in the making, will be hastened by the success of Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark fifth army and Gen.

Sir Bernard L. eighth army in breaking Marshal Erwin Rommel's stonewallers out of the Mondragone-Vasto line across the Italian peninsula sooner than The chances are much better that we shall be in Rome by Thanksgiving, and, without fooling ourselves, we shall have the war with Germany won by Christmas. Since Rommel is no unable to hold out long in positional warfare in strong natural positions againfct the ceaselessly attacking British, Yanks and Canadians, bis policy must now be restricted to stubborn delaying actions to gain all the time he i before lie has to yield Rome. i in nkck Whether or not the object of the Jap out in the Southwest Pacific is to gain he is getting it in the neck, whether lie sticks his neck out or not. He stuck it out in the naval battle of Bougainville For a tremendous staggering loss, which! is another lesson for him that we are ready to blast him when he comes at us to accompany the previous lessons when i I we went after him.

After every advance by General Doug-: las Arthur wonder was expressed at how much he had accomplished with so Surely, would have to wait, now until he had more ith which to tinht. But there he is with a purchase on I Bougainville Island, only 2U0 miles from the great Jap base of Rabaul which our bombers are making a graveyard for Jap ships. And in the latest raid on Rabaul they took a toll of 10R Jap planes with a loss of twenty-nine If he had the amount of air power we have across the Atlantic, and ground power to match it, Gen. Mac Arthur would not he long in taking i Rabaul. The Cold Stove Pearson Good Morning! By The Bugler------- INTO THE PAST 10 Yearn Ago THEY ALSO SERVE The men who man the long ships that carry iron ore down the Great Lakes are preparing for the great offensive in a battle against time, and storm.

Dunatban tnd fo us of powei md Mi Wh, wi a solini we ibii ged to zed along femillg be back, bv ing the thou rent old year i He thut as in roll through on ore dock, some of that ies were curs pond ing. An anything for Ft dstul the cars of fir timber North Western for ight; "Why can't we gei dough?" Lots of stor about double barreled timer who hadn't done got a job as a held the tape line down with his lb in the middle of a timber when it measured. For this he not a paycheck cess of $100 a week. Maybe he didn't out that was the story. were drained away fro ts tn Menomin Who could i nil wage to Take My Word For it Frank Colby WORDS l'il WATt II GUARANTEE is frequently mispronounced with the sound in the first syllable, as "GAHH-un-TEK," probably because of Influence of such words as against fog, snow and cold.

It is the annual November December battle of Great Lakes, when the men on the ore carriers risk death and danger to deliver vitally needed ore to steel in-j du 1 s. In wartime the battle has become more than a race against time and storm it is an offensive against the Axis along a thousand mile transportation front. From Escanaba, Marquette, from Duluth and Superior the great ships nose in an out of the harbors, are upw'ard alongside lowering ore docks to settle deeper into the water as thousands of tons of red ore more valuable than gold hip poured into their cavernous holds. From these ports they head out and down the Lakes, those from the Lake Superior ports rounding Whitefish Point, "Graveyard of the Lakes," and into the narrow channels of the St. Marys River, thence through the Soo locks and the torturous passages above Detour Into the open water of Lake Huron.

It at Escanaba the battle of the lakes starts, and it is here the battle ends. For Escanaba is the only iron ore port on Michi- It has a wide, deep and well-protected harbor. The route to the steel centers at Gary, to unloading ports on Lake Is shorter than from Lake Superior, From April when the shipping opens, to mid-December when the lakes again are held fast In growing inches of winter ice, the iron men in ships of steel I brave treacherous weather. Some I day their story will be told as It should he story of men who defv death to make American Manistlque The Schoolcraft county board of supervisors has adopted a resolution requesting the state highway department not 1 to reroute US-2 from Cooks to Manlstique by way of Thompson 1 and the lake shore. Probate Judtje Frank J.

Mileski will leave today for Lansing where he will request that a state orthopedic surgeon be located in the Upper Peninsula for the benefit of crippled children. for an elaborate Christmas program are being made by R. N. Haskins, music instructor in the high school. Hoi lywood By Erskine Johnson 20 Years Ago Munich The Bavarian government has been declared overthrown by Adolph Hitler, the fascist leader, and the administration placed In the hands of General Ludendorf, as commander-in- chief.

The coup detat took place at a beer hall, where Dr. Von Kahr, the military dictator, had just completed a patriotic address when the Hitler guard of 600 men marched in. Hitler, whose armed band has overthrown the Bavarian government, was naturalized only three days ago. Although he makes pretensions of patriotism, his plan to overthrow the Reich will meet in failure. Washington President Wilson will inform the American people of the end of the war or the German determination to continue it, as soon as the news is officially received, it was made public by the president today.

This was announced at the White House. The president, having in mind the doubt that may exist in the minds of the American people because of the erroneous cable dispatches of yesterday, has taken i upon himself the task of correct- i ly informing the people. Ten years ago when Hitler and his gang were rising to power, a director for the UFA film company in Berlin, Alfred Zeisler, met an actor named Paul Andor. Zeisler was stricken by resemblance to Dr. Paul Joseph Goehbels and said "You should got job as double Andor laughingly said, "Yes, and I might get shot." Today in Hollywood Alfred Zeisler Is directing Paul Andor in "Dr.

Jaul Joseph Goehbels, His and Loves." The actor who looks like Goehbels and the director who watched rise to power were brought together by W. R. Frank, the Minneapolis theater chain owner who likes to produce his own motion pictures. Their film biography of the No. 2 Nazi will be sensational and powerful celluloid.

As a director in Germany. Zeisler picked up many a Goebbels anecdote which in Herbert O. script. resemblance to the propaganda minister is really atnazine. And as the leading lady, Claudia Drake, once Hopalong foil, has one of the best feminine roles of the year.

Only bad acting in the picture is by the guy who plays a radio announcer. Director Zeisler had a terrible time with his scenes. 1 know. 1 played the radio announcer. Street scene: A group of R.

A. F. flyers talking to a studio gate- inan in hopes of crashing the gates to see how movies are made: "I know why you guys want to get in." says the gatemau, "Everybody in there Is crazy!" arms orlil best and mightiest in the the fo the and he farmt adja- in it The own the it racts gov- cost that "guard, guardian." But, as ary will attest, the is fh ret, garrison." PROGRAM number words most frequently Time and again 1 have cautioned say 1 have pointed the sound as iu nnv diction- as in "gar- of program is the monogram, diagn it kill' an 111 1 mah fed in a ram ist rhyme It no us PARTICI' li lee." It LA KL md a bl eg ram, and with "GO. Si on my list of mispronounced. "Do not out that same in in, epigram, it program RI heard umn.

And to HI season Lakes warn in tions i snow -f do And Lakes iU the know will te most. shore sili tl XsllN I IDO 111 i 1 er till pa ht'- I I K- oo-l lee if Fai sen peac sent Tl that mira hour Finland Wants Peace th im Tl JRL thaFi ieri incc it tlth ndi re, tb tioi in tl ef lpt1 be asperity project I I it had it Ion to) Oll1 hoi ce: 1 town i ill of troops a nd loci Olitors. ban 60 Poop were Ing $lu a ee foi a otuplete! room illa liioardi ng housi p. The wa no new 1 ii ry del ivery ami tw eel ser ice. he Soo OU ns a ted veal steak ut you ook pork air at- i hop s.

1 Lot anti 1 lots of men had ate jobs. lu re 1ar one md an extra job water that like11! i notpaid thoui loret han uld be lieii -and 11 ork. TheSoo ck than lived a i not ley id liked aid to the uld re urn stoppedto MO ut when it can reel 11 to pie asure. liie So feltkind gh the of 'd i itild li tamed acomm mee gl) see he (lit al Pi Waalting- handed ton to ll bini do thin lorthe hill ea OF STORMS The dreaded by Great ilors is at hand Storm flags fly at weather stall reat Lakes ports. The gales come roaring of the northwest, he storms of the Great sudden and terrifying intensity.

Mariners who ocean and the lakes you they fear lake storms 'or there Is always a lee far distant, the very de- tlie giant carriers, long How to hold more ore. icm hard to handle in a ocean the great storms approach more slowly. i masters have time to Here on the lakes the me hour can develop into gale the next. Hurtle not uncommon. Just on Armistice Day score of ships were sunk in a hurricane that a velocity of T2 miles an 1 he vein the rs oi a saga of -roisiu and as pray turns rriers in i white.

Th through nulating i es high lu i the Great Li exciting ad- hur dihood, winter ap- to ice, coat- shroudlng move like the heaving ice as pilot moi OVe foeBr tic of lied ceptfd a Russians was not! i ireumsti il n. Aim rom she doubt! id the oth ili, she hi feelb do il Finland men me The 1 tn in the a pit io got i in' grumped jobs. too. in sugar. iougei hectic Kscaui Why he The Now, miiivl a depression Soo; they're but they are of the war nlo i 1 hour to 50; evt hou level lu Est booming aloi down from construction a car froi se-ms jour normal art hat to auaba and the ig in a fair way, he fevered pitch days.

like Nu an you re creeping, pace is only 4 5. net a ping Dt er skat ears jack I cabl fron i art Many a skipper and small after long hours for- niiist be released by he ice away from the doors, i hands make their way ov- nng decks slicker than a rink Wrapped to the heavy clothing and life is they ding to the weather in moving the 500 feet crew quarters to the They know that one and thev would be board in icy water, numbed and drowned before the big boat could be halted. In a gale his rescue would be virtually Impossible. BATTLE FOR TIME Last spring the shipping season opened one mouth late, despite the use of ice crushers to open ice-bound ports and channels earlier. That delay, plus adverse weather during the summer shipping season, may mean the battle to deliver 86,500.000 tons of ore this year 'will lost.

But it will be lost only because the odds were too great, not because of any lack of effort. To the end of October 7(5. S37 tons of ore had been dellv- I ered just 10 million tons short of the goal. Whether that final 10 million tons can be transported to the smelter stockpiles be-1 lore winter closes navigation season cannot be answered now. Only the weather gods know.

The War Production Board is calling on the Great Lakes carriers to keep ore moving as and fast as they can during November and the all too short days of navigation iu December. This will be necessary to deliver the quota of iron ore which will go into the nation's armaments A defeat by weather on the Great could mean a defeat on a fighting front in Europe, or the Pacific, next year. The men who man the long ships know this too. And the ships ill keep moving, come snow, fog or hurricane, until the icy hand of winter closes with foot-thick Ice tho vital harbor channels leading to the ore loading ports. Last year under the best weather conditions of any season iu years, and by concerted effort, a total of 92,000,000 tons of iron oie was delivered.

That was more ore, incidentally, than was prdom In all ot the Axis count ies combined. Another few weeks and the battle of lakes will end. Men and may but the battle will be won lint Donalban. Usual scholarly pohe of Mrs. Bessie McGaffey, head of RKO research department, received a jolt when she read the script of a new film, "The Curse of the Cat One item read: The trees stand still and quiet.

At first, no breeze rustles the leaves. The yaddo on the lawn is motionless. Then a whisper of a breeze moves the branches of the tree and the yaddo flutters gently, coming to life." The startled Mrs. McGaffey grabbed a dictionary, but failed to find "yaddo" listed. She called the public library after leaving a telephone message for DeWitt Bodeen, who wrote the script, but who whs away from his office at the moment Some of the people she contacted thought a yaddo was an animal.

Others said it was a hush, but most everybody said they didn't know what in blazes it was. Finally, after she had worried for hours, Bodeen returned her call. he ssid with what she thought was exasperating calm. "Why. a pet expression Val Lew ton.

the producer, likes to use. He got it from Edgar Allan Poe anil it means an interplav of lights and The Washington Merry-Go-Round RY DREW PEARSON Washington Last week's slashing Republican victories have had two effects upon the White House. Effect No. 1 is on those around the White House a greater determination that the President is the only man who can save the Democratic Party, that he must run for a 4th term. Effect No.

2 has been on the President himself. As usual he is keeping his mouth shut. But close friends report less inclination to run for a 4th term. Even severest critics have to admit he is one of the shrewest political observers in the country. As previously reported in this column, he had warned White House associates that politically the Administration was trailing.

His exact wrords were. "Were If he thinks he is still behind next June, it will take more than Frank Walker to drag FDR into a for a 4th term. Meanwhile, tides may shift. Anyway he will not make up his mind until June. Note: Middle-of-the-road Democratic leaders who believe the Party should bet- gin thinking about a candidate if the President steps aside, more and more have their eyes on Gen.

Marshall, the Chief of Staff. Marshall get into West Point because his father, the only Democrat in Uniontown, could not get an appointment from the McKinley Administration. Capital football enthusiasts couldn't beg, borrow or steel extra tickets to tho Armv-Notre Dame gridiron game a week before the contest. Even Postmaster General Frank Walker, a Notre Dame alumnus. and Idaho's Senator D.

Worth Clark, another graduate, get extra tickets. However, four of the precious pasteboards were sent by mistake to a Senator who has been dead for 4 8 years. They were addressed to Al Thurman. Senate Office Building, Washington. D.

Senator Thufman hailed from Ohio and was the Vice-presidential runing mate ot Grover Cleveland in 1888 in the bid for the Presidency. The football tickets weren't returned West Point. They were accepted and used by the late Senator's grandson of the same name, Al Thurman, able director of investigations for the Senate Small Business Committee. GOP It isn't supposed to be noised about, but Republican Congressman Andrews of Buffalo and his near neighbor Congressman Jim Wadsworth of Geneseo. N.

are planning a significant meeting soon with a view to launching a new GOP candidate for President. That candidate is Jim Wadsworth himself. They are meeting with GOP National Committeeman N. Russell Sprague. Nassau County boss, and Republican State Chairman Ed Jaeckle of Buffalo to try to convince them to line up the New York state delegation for Wadsworth.

The meeting is to be held very quietly on Long Island with no blare of trumpets. Behind the meeting is the feeling ot reactionary Republicans that the country is swinging vigorously to the right, that they can put across a good solid conservative next year. Tills was the interpretation they placed on last week's elections. Jim Wadsworth, now 66, has a great, record in Congress in preparing the nation for war and in supporting Roosevelt's foreign policies. A veteran legislator, he served in the N.

Y. State Assembly for years; also 12 years in the lT. S. Senate. After his defeat in the Senate he had the courage to stage a come-back in the less important House.

On other than war policies, however. political thinking dates back to tho days when he opposed woman's suffrage. WHEAT FOR ALCOHOI Ml along the eastern seaboard, distillers are grinding wheat by the millions of bushels for industrial alcohol, at a time when wheat for food is running tragically short. Largest plants are New England Alcohol, at Everett, U. S.

Industrial Al- A 1 ui" 6.21 Doily Quiz By NEA Service What is a myiiametei A measurement of distane i meters, the equivalent 7 miles. ot of co nt Amala, ere ing A plant Identify the following units urrem with their respective ies: milreis, colon, quetzal. Brazil, Costa Rica, Guate- How many Japanese planes -hot down bv the Allies dur- i lot Allied tj What bluateriug threat did Mussolini recently make against Italy's King Victor Emmanuel? A He. demanded the death. What new group of bombers Is reported ready to join U.

Flying Fortresses in raid- on Nazi Europe? A Large number- of B-2 4 I erators will bolster the U. Eighth Air Fone. cohol. at Baltimore and Yonkers, N. DuPont Company, at Deepwater N.

Publicker at Philadelphia. They are con-smiling wheat at the rate of 60 million bushels a year. These plants normally make their alcohol from molasses. They were located near tidewater for the specific purpose ot getting their raw material, molasses, by from Puerto Rico or Cuba. But today, that molasses is being used to make Puerto Rican and Cuban gin for Itlie thirsty U.

S. market, while the alcohol denied molasses, haul wheat all the way from St. Paul and Chicago, i Cubans are making gin as never Quantity is high, quality low. Current production is running 100 times that oL last year. Sailing vessels from the Caribbean tramp fleets have been pressed into I service to deliver the stuff from Havana 'to Miami.

One such schooner dropped anchor in Havana one evening, and the skipper expressed anger on finding that the cargo of gm he was expecting to load next morning was not yet on the docks, "Don't worry," he was told. "The hoi is arriving at the plant at midnight, and the gin will be ready for you in the morning." U. S. officials are still negotiating with the Cuban government to get molasses in- steud of gin. Discussions broke down but 'are being resained.

Years ago they made the dollar bill smaller in In the past year it naa i just teemed to grow smallec..