1945-07-12; Saline Observer

              VOLUME 62
SALINE,   WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN,   THURSDAY,   JULY   12,  1945
NUMER 40
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600 THOUSAND WAR HEROES RETURNING BY AIR
Air Iransport Command at
Casablanca Conducts Big Business
By Pauline Frederick
(Special Western Newspaper -Union War Correspondent.)
CASABLAN.CA.—I have just seen Casablanca beginning
to unfold the biggest story since V-E Day. This ancient
Moroccan city where American boys came ashore in November, 1942, to start the liberation of the Western world, where
Roosevelt and Churchill met in January, 1943, in the Anfa
hotel where I am staying for two day's before continuing on
to the Far East in a four-motored C-54, has just become the
gateway home for 600,000 American boys who fought the
ie:
M
William
al
Heusel
Dr. Fred A. Lendrum, Retired Minister,
Gave 40 Years of Service to His Church
Pool Project
Still In The Air
war in Europe.
Converted bombers with loads o]
American soldiers flying in from
Europe. Every six minutes a C-54
starts home with a load of-American veterans. When they get back
home, whether they stay there or
go on to the Pacific is a matter
with which this base is not concerned. The Air Transport Command's sole concern at Casablanca
is to get the boys back as quickly
as possible.
I talked with Brigadier General
Stowell, commanding general of
the Air Transport Command's
North .African Division—who has
charge of this task—it's called the
Green Project. He's done a lot of
important jobs—such as getting the
VIPs — very important people —
through to the Yalta conference.
But he's never had a bigger mission
than this one. He told me that by
August the ATC would be carrying
home 40,000 boys a month out of
Casablanca.
Here is how the project works as
I saw it at first hand. I went out
to the airfield this afternoon. It is
a single strip more than a mile
long, with unused French and
American fighters stacked up along
the sides. As I saw the great
amount of traffic with the planes
going and coming I marveled the
more at our skillful crew which
brought our big ship with the 110-
foot wing span in which we had
flown the Atlantic from Bermuda
to the Azores in 9 hours and 15
minutes down here in all the traf-.
fie. The car in which I was riding
dodged in and out to avoid going
and coming planes like an ant trying to ke-d?j out of the way of a
flock of eagles.
A B-17 rolled up in a cloud ot
sand that must have been something like a minor storm in the
Sahara. For Morocco is having its
worst drouth in years. .And the
famine that threatens holds, in
the opinion of seasoned observers
in Casablanca. At the Anfa hotel
the water and electricity are
turned off until six o'clock at night.
As the motors of the big B-17
came to a halt, sunburned and
weary veterans from Italy piled
Dut. They had been sitting on seats
where turret guns had once been.
Their baggage was stowed in the
bomb bays. Over the door of their
silver ship was painted "Home
Bound Airlines." Around the door
were names of the eight cities this
now peaceful ship had bombed—
Berlin I, Vienna in, Verona II,
Salzburg II, Belgrade II, and so
dn. The ships without the turret
guns can carry 15—the others 10.
I talked with several of the boys
as they got off. One was husky
Elzy Youngkin, T/5, of Monroe,
Iowa. He'd been up around Pisa.
.And when he gets back home he
said he'd probably marry his best
girl, Bernadine Smith. Then there
was Sgt. Blevin White of Charlottesville, Va., who had been in
the 34th Division and had been up
around Milan. He's been overseas
33 months, and when he gets home
he just wants to do nothing for a
while. Most of the boys had just
had their first flight as many of
them  are foot  soldiers.
The pilots of these converted tactical ships do not even report to operations. They stay aboard and
are handed their instructions. As
soon as the last boy and his lug-
gage are off, they wheel back into
the runway and are off. They fly
down to Marakech, some 100 miles
to the south, where the ships are
serviced and refueled and stay
overnight. In the morning they
start back again to Europe to pick
up"- another load.
Meantime, the boys who are
flown in are taken to Camp Du-
shane adjoining the airfield to
await transportation home. I went
out there to see them arriving in
trucks and buses. There, their
baggage is weighed in to make
sure they don't have more than 35
pounds. They are told whether
they are going home —and how —
and why. I say whether they are
going home—for just now some of
the boys .coming through here are
stopped, if General Stowell needs
their technical skill to carry out
this biggest transportation job in
history.
The boys are housed and fed—
and I can testify to the food. When
the mess sergeant offered me a
irumstick out of one of the vats
Df succulent fried chicken, I tell
/ou it was an experience out here
in North Africa. There is a Red
dross quarters on the Post known
as the Stop-Over Club, and a personable young lady from Detroit
ivas in charge when I stopped in.
Here the boys can find recreation
while they wait.
The boys are sent out to the
States any hour of the day or night
when a C-54 is available. Every
effort is made, to try to get them
put within 24 hours after they arrive from Europe. There are no
priorities about that homeward
takeoff General Stowell told me,
it's "first come, first served." The
giant C-54s that come in from the
States are on the ground an average of four hours before starting
their return trip with a shipload of
boys. ts
If weather and facilities permit,
giant ships go by way of the
Azores, across the mid-Atlantic—
a 26-hour hop. Otherwise, they go
by Dakar and Natal, a matter of
several    days.
Already the North .African divi-
pion ATC has more planes than all
the domestic airlines of the United
States had in operation before the
war. It is estimated that carrying
the boys to the States this way will
save 600 liberty ship crossings.
And so Casablanca, in spite of
?ts native destitution, and the devastating drouth and impending
'famine, is a happy place for a lot
of American boys. For when they
arrive there, they are pretty sure
i>\ey are going home.
In view of the fact that no
definite figures are available on
the cost of constructing a swim-
  * -p.     T,    ,    .    T     ,    . ,       ,      -r, .      •       ,     ,,      c,  ,     ming pool as outlined by the Sa-
^ Dr.  J red  A.  Lendrum,  who aba.  Returning   to   the   States ^ne    Qfty    j>aY]r_    Commission
A large number of relatives at the clo?e f this Conference in 1914, he joined the Vermon Mayor Alwin Gross has hesitat:
and friends gathered at"' St. 7ear t™11^ i° years, serv- Conference, serving at St Al- ed to call a special meeting .of
Paul's Evangelical and Reform- }ce with the Methodist church, loans for two years, coming back the city m _mQ.il to consider the
ed church at 2:30 Sunday after-is continuing his* residence to Michigan and the Detroit pr0posal because he believes that
noon, July 8th, to pay their here- at least for the balance Conference m 1916, since when it W0Vlld be ratlier premature,
respects to the memory of Pfc. ?f the summer and is making ne has served successively in that there are many questj0ns
Robert William Heusel, of "the lus home in tlie house formerly pastorates at Monroe Caro, yet to be answereo_ concerning
United State Marine Corps, who 9wned and occupied.by the late Freemont Avenue church Bay it and that it will be mucL
lost his life in the service" of * Mrs. Ola Hammond on North City, Plymouth, Adrian, Farm- wiser to expiore an the differ-
his country on May 15, on DM- Ann Arbor street. mgton,   Hudson   and   lastly In ent angies to it before making
nawa Island. * Dr-     Lendrum    joined     the Saline. decisions  that  may  prove   re-
The Rev. Alvin Siemsen^offi- Methodist  Conference in 1905,     Dr. and Mrs. Lendrum came grettable afterwards.
ciated at the service, which in- serving the pastorate of East to   Saline  five   years   ago
and
"Plans for a pool as designed
eluded the reading of the obit- Avenue church in Kalamazoo, they made many good friends b Edwin Hering appeal to me
uary and the sermon. The Rev. and Jonesville. The following here. Mrs. Lendrum passed away very much » said Mr_ Gross
C. H. Wittbracht who had bap- year he was transferred to the about three years ago. He has ]as£ week «_But there are a
tized the serviceman in his in- Wyoming Conference, preach- two sons, both practicing medi- number of tMngs to be consid-
fancy and not only confirmed ing* at Oxford, and four years cine, one at Champaign and tiie ered whidl T do not fed should
him, but also his mother, used later went to the El Ora church, other at Chicago, 111. be oveii0oked. If "and when a
the words of Robert's confirma- in Mexico and was apointed In closing his pastorate here, ol ig bailt h it should be
tion memory verse, "My son. dean of the Theological depart- the Methodist congregation ten- done in such a maimer tliat a
give me thine heart, and let ment of the Mexico Methodist dered Dr. Lendrum a farewell i0t of objectionable features
thine eyes observe my ways" Institute. supper and the church organi- will not crop up in later years
Prov. 23 26, as the basis for While in Mexico, Dr. Lendrum remembered him with to haunt us."
his   meditation.   Mr.   and  Mrs. was  connected with the Unit- Pointing     out    that    public
Erwin Schmid offered as a duet, ed States Consular Service and gifts as a token oi then  lo^e au|horities mQst p£s on
"Sometime  We'll  Understand," also held a pastorate at Onz- and affection. - -       -    - -   ^
and  Mr.   Schmid   sansr  Tenny-	
son's "Crossing the Bar,
Robert William Heusel Wi,s
bom in Ann Arbor, the son of
William and Esther Burkhardt
Heusel, on December 1, 1924.
He attended school in the
neighborhood of his home on
Scio Church road, and graduated from the Ann Arbor High
school  on  June  10,   1942,   fol-
Dies Following Make Saline
Long Illness      Poultry Center
Death came to John Ashley
Burg,   66-year-old  York  towu-
the sanitary features of the pool,
that an adequate water supply must be made available,
which would in all probability
come from the city water system, Mayor Gross stated that
be would be loath to spread the
cost of it on the tax rolls ,in
view of the fact that a disposal plant must be built here
President Fred  O.  Wiedmar,     .,, .    , „
started ofi* on the right foot at W3*m the next few years
ut
lowing which Te was^mploved ship^farmer, Saturday morning the meeting of the Rotary Club     However, the   expression
lowing wnicn ne_ was empioyea ^^.^ __ ,'„„„ ffl„QOC!   A «„«,„_ Qi.  rrha  Ta.7o.-n  last.  TVmvs-^v   other:
store until
M«w?" il* a "member "of the Presbyterian hoped everfwogram chairman the way of building  the  pool
ividicn    xs,     ,_    ,       ■     ,    .      ...    j.   •„„ ,!_„ „„„,., „,-„ij Uot.o o+'are onlv minor ones,  that can
rt"Fko-errclothino-"^torT\mtn following a long illness. A Span- at The Tavern last Thursday, otners is to the effect that most
al jHiegels clothing store_ until ish.Ame°ican ^ar veteran and when   he   announced   that   Iip of the difficulties that stand, in
m
his   enlistment
Marine   Corps
1943. He received
ing at San Dieg
ing   which  he   went   to   raiio
school   until   September,   19*-. Jennie
dhi^Wtrflin church, he was bom in this during the year would have at'are .only minor ones, that can
.J rnlif fnW Lownship June 21,1879, son of least one vocational talk by one be readily ironed out if the city
o, cant., follow- lhe latei Frank Burg and Mrg_ Qf the new members- As a. rP_ conned will give the go-ahead
Burg,   and   went   with suit of this splendid idea, A. 13. sign   and  lend  then-
opinion that it would not be difficult
One"thing"ofInterest was his to raise the necessary funds by
lieception iror
Rev. Hocking    E.
went to Camp Elliott and thence ?go,,   ,     , . -        ^ .        i    <_     , +•
overseas.    He was in the Ha- m   York   township   where   he only touch upon a lew.
XnVSSpS'i/S-S dlOnDefmr.18j. 1906, he was sta^MaflST P*^. **** subscription,
vasion of Eniwetok Atoll   and earned to May Elizabeth Maul- business, as a business, is only
later took part in the invasion betseh of Ypsilanti who with about 25 years old and has made LINDBERG WITH *
of Guam, Palou and Okinawa, °*e fon' 3o]^n Frankm Burg of wonderful strides, everything GENERAL MOTORS
where he  was instantlv killed Pinckney; two daughters, Mrs. considered.
in action by enemy artillery fire Henry Groeb, Ann Arbor, and     His   hatchery  produces   two     Charles A. Lmdberg, of whom
on May 15 1945 Mis. Lorrin Bauer, Saline town- kinds   of  stock,   one  for  com- but little has been heard recent-
He is survived bv his nar sniP? nine grandchildren; his mercial use and the other for ly, is said to be no longer with
ents and sister JSJancv and his m°ther, Mrs. Jennie Burg, Ann breeding stock. His white leg- the Ford Company, but is in the
Grandmother Heusel and Grand- Art.or; one sister, M. Grace horn strain comes from the employ of General Motors doin^
mother Burkhardt " ^U1'g»   -^nn  Arbor;   and  three Gasson flocks in  Ohio,  barred stratospheric research work on
Contributions to a memorial brothers, Ralph E. of Binning- rocks from  two local  experts, the continent of Europe.
fund in place of flowers were £am> ^a' Grover F., Ann Ar- Mrs. Jacob Bauer and Mrs. Al-   . 	
received to be used for chari4"   bor» and Pharo C; Burg, Colum- bert Heininger,  who have  ad-
able purposes in tribute to his bu^ Ohio, survive him. vanced   with   the   years   until
Funeral   services   were   held their flocks are among the best
from the home Monday at 1:30 in the state. ■
p. m., the Rev. Raymond Mc-     The    Saline   Hatchery   lays
Laughlin officiating, with inter- much   stress   on  blood  testing
memory.
HOW THE WORLD
>r    IS EATING
ast
\ites ror
Young
ment in Macon cemetery,
Services Today
rs. Grob
or
for disease control and is meeting with favorable co-operation on the part of the flock-
owners.
Pride is taken in the hatch-
ability of eggs and high production of eggs when chicks become of laying age.
At present Mr. Hagen's incu-
life bators have a capacity of 6,000
PREWAR
.    («ER   CAPITA
CONSUMPTION
WARTIME
PER CAPITA
CONSUMPTION
Mrs.   Ema  R    Grob    »   ^   M k      Th   hatchery also spe.
^e ^f^lh^J^l^h ciahzes more and more in pro.
The Saline Methodist Church CLINTON—Edway C. Young,
Society formally welcomed its 83 years old, died Friday mom-
new pastor, Rev. Reginald Hock- ing in the Tecumseh hospital
ing and his family at a recep- where he had been a patient
tion    in    the    church   parlors for several weeks.
Tuesday evening, July 3.    Rev.     Bom March 19- 1862  in <"H   time resiaenb OJ- -LjOU1 i-uwxisiup,
Hocking arrived here two weeks line township, he'came herel9 ?ed fddeIlly ^^ZJ^JZ. cessed chicks, which tends to
ago Tuesday from Carleton, his years ago. After retiring as a ?*\ ho^^ MovS 7 T«77 ft! make the hatching season
previous charge. farmer   he   served   as   ^^ road.   Bom March 7^ 18/7,.she lesg continuous.       •
Rev. Hocking comes we? eaS T He. ls survived by his wife, Irene, at home; four brothers, eiies wiU be started here to the
p^I fS hTminiSiy here Bom JenmeX * sof <>"* ?°™& Cl1" Albert Herter.  Scio  township; end   that   whenever   Saline  is
  in RosconLon   he spent mS ™f> °J?°'i*™ hm^s> *a™s and George, Reuben and  Lor- mentioned out-state peopk^ wfll
Tvr-       t    -n      <a •■ ..i       i      of  his  boyhood  in  the  Upper T"? Mdm Joun& both of Ann enCe Herter, all of Scio town- Just naturally think of poultiy.
Miss    Lucille    Spindler    has £ f* ^^ g „   LKS ^rbor' _and  two  sisters,   Mrs. ship; three sisters, Mrs. Eugene"A S°+od ™*kft already has been
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To Teach Piano
In Detroit
UNITED; KINGDOM
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560 IBS.
NETHERLANDS
been accepted as a teacher of P„en™suia-   „He  is  ,a „gradliate Ire
piaiojrffir^t-ss^««; A>s,s»^i «-S; S6sSTonbis?nagSe.and \±5S£SA'rS7*z- ^^r,tat j?..i '^edmt
the sales are local.
Sgt. Nelson Watling of  Co.
Funeral services' will be held C.  Camp Hood,  Texas, was a
Otto Luck- created for chicks at Capae and
tnrv'of Mi^r^h^rpcPiVp^bpr ^in  Graduate  School  of Theol- iVl1^; Saia
dSpe T BkcheW   of   Mnslc °gT where he received his de-   J™*™1   services   were   held est Finch,  Mian;  and  several
S^th^CoSStorvXstW «ree-    He  be&an his ministry at 2:30 p. m. Monday at the nieces and nephews, survive her.
KberTOStS^   Eose   Citf,   which   tos   a fause funeal home, Eev. C. E.     Funeral services will be held
W mtsteS dlS Shich she four-church   charge   and   from Foltz of the Methodist church today   from   the   residence   at guest, also Wdham Johnson of
Sf Sinuino-   while   teachin- there he went to Hemlock and offiicating., with burial in Riv- 1:30   and   at  Salem   Lutheran Milan and Don Lawrence of Yp-
MisSSrisThrdaSelof then to Carleton. erside cemetery. church in Scio township  at 2 sdanti.
SE?SiSd^SfSi2     Mm- Hocking-, whose maiden   o'clock, Rev. H. L. Engle   offi-     The   birthday  of  Gordon  J.
ated   from   the   Llfne   Hirii name   was   Putnam,   was   an ,„r _ , dating. Burial wfll be made m Prout was observed m the us-
Shool with the claSfrf1938      Alma   girl  whose  family   con- * VVaV   Over! Bethlehem cemetery. .ual manner^	
tains the names of several mm- <#     ^"^ " v   "   	
  isters   though   mostly   of   the     Final totals in the sales of   a . . l    \ 1   O O A *
PROSPECTS FOR MICHIGAN Presbytenan church. The_ cou- 7th War Loan Bonds ^ Saline attend  AOIlUal   OOWTeaS Again
PF A rw trap nnnn ple have tw.°'chlldren' Pau1' lfa shows  an  addition  of  $869.25     - . °
rxxAVxit tKur uuul» and Joyce, j.0.      - ' to  the  amount pubhshed  last     Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Dell and     Early peas such as Thomas
Latest reports of the prospec- Other churches of the com- week, to the credit of the "E" Mrs. Carl Moehn attended the Laxton and World's Record can
tive Michigan crop of peaches munity and the friends of Bond column, thereby exceeding annual meeting of the Second be sown in southern Michigan
indicate that peaches suffered Christian progress in Saline the quota assigned the city by District of the American Legion about July 10 to 15 for a fall
least from the adverse weather join with the. Methodists in $2,896.25. As stated last week, and Auxiliary at Temperance, crop. Such a crop is less sue-
that affected so much of Michi- welcoming Rev.. Hocking and all issues were oversubscribed Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Moehn cessful than peas sown in the
gan's fruit. The largest national his family here. here,   the   grand   total   being was re-elected treasurer of the early   spring,   but   if   weather
peach crop on record is expect-   $228,975.75,  which  is  ideed. a Second  District Legion Auxil- conditions are favorable a fairly
ed this year however. LINER ADS GET RESULTS, creditable record 5br Sahne.       iary. good harvest can be expected.
jyifiL
GERMANY
„>faa.
no IBS.
143 IBS.
M\
As Clinton- P. Anderson takes*
over the position as secretSry ofi
agriculture and food czar, with
black markets and shortages and!
distribution problems being dis--;
cussed everywhere—this chart pre-1
sents some interesting statistics.'
Many will be surprised to learn I
that thus far in 1945-there has been!
a,decrease of only 4.2 pet"1, cent]
from the 1944 figure and there is]
still one-third more food per capi-i
ta than in prewar years.
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