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TRAFFIC LIGHTS FOR
•^COLOR-BLIND" FOLkS:
Linguizing of South Bend's downtown automatic traffic control system
will begin soon. Ernest H. Miller, city
traffic engineer, reports, but not in those
words. It will be completed by summer's end, he said. The plan calls Jtor
renlacement of the present traffic lights
at 29 intersections with pedestrian walk-
wait signals and installation of an
island control system at the confluence
off Lincoln Way, Jefferson boulevard and
Carroll street. The "walk-wait" idea is
for those who can read, but are colorblind, or don't believe in signs.
Treatment of the broad intersection of
Jlinooln Way, Jefferson and Carroll also
calls for super-lighting. The islands will
be similar to those on U. S. highway
No. 31' at Ireland road on the southern
fringe of the city. Cost will approximate $35,000 the state highway.co_nmis-
sion and the city will share the expense.
The state will pay 18/25th of the bill
because 18 of the 29 intersections are
on state highways.
New traffic control lights will be installed at crossings of Lafayette boulevard and Main and Michigan streets
with Madison street, LaSalle avenue,
Colfax avenue, Washington avenue, Jefferson boulevard, Wayne street, Western avenue, Monroe street and South
Street, also at Michigan and Bronson
street. William street at Colfax and
William and Washington as well as at
the broad confluence of Jefferson and
__ii_coln Way and at Jefferson and St.
Joseph street.
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OPA HITS HARD AT
GASOLINE SHORTAGES:
A 30-day suspension of gasoline sales,
15 days to be served and the rest to be
on probation, was ordered by OPA
Hearing Commissioner Dennis F. Dun-
la vy, of Cleveland, O., late Tuesday
against the South Bend Parking Company, Inc., which operates nine gasoline
filling stations in South Bend. * 1_*e order covers five stations, at Colfax avenue and Lafayette boulevard"; 305 South
St. Joseph street, 222 North Michigan
street, 200 East Jefferson boulevard and
118 South Lafayette boulevard. It is
effective May 1, based on an admitted
and unexplained shortage of 4,200 gallons of gasoline.
A fourHHiO-ith suspension __x>m gasoline dealing was imposed on Joseph Nemeth, proprietor of the Nemeth Friendly
Service station, 1923 Prairie avenue,
for a shortage of 1,764 gallons. The first
two months, beginning May 1, are to be
served; the other two will be on probation.
A 30-day suspension on probation was
given Vern L. Ake and Roy Gindleber-
ger, doing business as the Globe Clothiers, Ind., of Walkerton, this county. The
firm was charged with a shortage in its
shoe inventory.
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JSOEW PROBATE COURT AND
OTHER ALLOWANCES STAYED:
The St. Joseph county council Wednesday raised a doubt about the legality
of the new county probate court and
postponed an appropriation of funds for
the court's operation until an opinion is
received from Attorney General James
A. Emmert {political opinion pr^nouncei-
for the Republican party, which sponsored the law).
•Question of the court's status came as
the council postponed salary increase
appropriations for the county commissioners and for the Portage township assessor, Edward F. (Babe) Voorde, until
the attorney general's ruling is obtained
as to the effectiveness of the 1945 salary
acts.
Howard O. Geyer, one of two Republicans on the council, offescod the motion
to postpone the court's appropriations,
totaling $17,520, and the council ordered
County Auditor Muszer to ask the attorney general for an opinion.
The county board of commissioners
sought increases of $3 per dayjbased on
seven days per week. The councilmen
questioned the right to base the new increase on seven days per week ai_d pc-st-
pcned the board's requested $2,664.
Mr. Voorde's right to an $1,800 increase "Ma salary during a term to which
he had been elected was also questionea
by the council. The deputies in the assessor's office was granted total increases
of $3,697 by the council.
The council appointed C. G. Wolfe,
its Republican member, as a member of
1he county tax adjustnffent board.
STREET LIGHTING ORDERED
«Y BOARD OF SAFETY:
Effective' immediately, '■ norma, lighting was restored in the down-town business district by the board of public
(From Page Five)
"-*—Bonds
Over America
Four Billions
In E Bonds Goal
, In 7th War Loan
WASHINGTON, D. C—"In the
Seventh War Loan your government
is asking for the largest sum in investments by individuals in the history of America. Of the $7,000,000,-
000 individual goal, -$4,000,1)00,000
is to be in E Bonds," Secretary of
the Treasury Henry Morgenthau
Jr. recently said in announcing the
Advance Payroll Savings drive.
The Secretary further stated:
"To meet this unprecedented ktai
vitally necessary E Bond quota, the
American worker, through the payroll -savings plan, is being called
upon for increased allotments and
extra cash War Bond purchases
to a greater extent than in any1;
previous drive.
"War is the
grimmest and
greatest of human endurance
tests. The side
that wins, in the
-final analysis, is
the side that is
in there working
and fighting fit
the end--the side
-with the stamina
and the spirit to
endure the long
and terrible or- Sec. Morgenthau
deal.
j "The present war imposes its test
no less upon civiHgsns than upon the
men in the armed services, victory
goes inevitably to the side whose
___en and women, in and out of
uniform, stick longest and most unwaveringly to the performance of
their jobs.
"There has been a fundamental
change in the nature of the war.
There is no limited objective now.
The objective is total victory. The
"nearer we drive toward the enemy's
heart, the costlier the war beco___©s.
As we begin to go all out against
the Japanese, so will our costs increase due to greater distances.
"I know that Americans need no
appeal to meet the demands of the
Seventh War Loan. The way for
*ach of us here at home to meet
these demands is through increasing War Bond purchases, unceasing devotion to his duty and Ms job
and through a vivid knowledge thai
to win we must sacrifice. '■
-•'"Our response to the Seventh War
Loan will be the vindication to
these men of their faith in us."
PEACE PROBLEM
PARAMOUNT
■(From Page Three)
London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Mexico City, Teheran, Yalta, Bretton
Woods, Dumbarton Oaks—and now
that Bag of Gold, and cache of coin,
and currency, and pictures. Of
course, we may nonchalantly pass
the gold, and Ga-_naency, and coin
up; what is two billion, or four billion to us—in our1 habit of talking
in hundreds' of billions? Just a
bagatelle. But the pictures? Leave
it to Miss Virginia Gildersleeve to
stick for the pictures. She is dean
of Barnard College and a patron of
art.
The sculptured head of a woman
who lived more than 3,000 years
ago and with which Adolf Hitler
was reputed to have fallen in love,
may be among the art treasures
captured with Germany's gold by
American doughboys in the salt
mine at Merkens.
The head is1 that of Nofretiti,
wife of the heretic Pharaoh Ikhna-
ton, who reigned in Egypt in the
18th century B. C. For 50 years,
Nofretiti was kept in the state gallery in Berlin' after it had been
smuggled out of Egypt in 1889.
Egypt had previously requested its
return from Berlin and offered a
statute in exchange, but Hitler refused.
And now just as though these
tMngs were not enough to make
San Franeasco interesting, England
has a prior claim on something that
may have to be threshed out. According to the London Daily Mail,
British troops have found Reich
Marshal Hermann Goering's spe-
,Qi$i automobile, a super-Mercedes,
hidden in a factory. It is a powder-
blue coupe with silver trimmings,
upholstery of blue cloth and beige
leather, rosewood dashboard and
many gadgets.
The car has six forward speeds
and a speedometer that registers
up to 1^0 miles an hour.
Time for Germany to Consider Herself Un-Faced
KANSAS WOMEN
F«__ow_ng the signing of the treaty
with the Delaware and Shawnee
Indians in 1854, settlers poured tat©
Kansas. Women and children accompanied the men on steamboats,
on horseback, in prairie schooners
and wagons. They went Jo make it
a home terettOTy and courageously
stayed to make permanent homes,
despite the bloody years of border
warfare over the slavery issue. They
were strong, purposeful women who
foresaw the opportunity for prosperity and good homes for future generations. Kansas has a monument
to them on the capitol grounds at
Topeka. Their grandsons battle for
an unspoiled future for all the Nation
and War Bond funds equip them.#
. U. S. Treasury Department
* (From Page One)
cf Germany, or its management.
They have already tried them once
or twice, on assurance that they had
been Nazis perforce, and not per-
choice, only to find that the perforce
continued active. Doubtful if any
more Nazis will ever be appointed to
municipal, or other governmental
positions in conquered Germany. It
will show every active Nazi party
member the door, regardless of how
much he knows about waterworks or
garbage collection. It will, instead,
find meek little Germans who were
not active party members.
But it is a small recommendation,
indeed, for a man to have, that he
was merely not an active Nazi; that
comes to very little, in the way of
credentials, for any human being, if
it is all we know about him.
Let us suppose (for the sake of a
horrid comparison) that some other
nation had conquered the Unfced
States, and that the foreign administrators, in picking officials, used, as
their test of rejection, active membership in the Democratic party, or active suppewrr of Roosevelt. It would
be a ridiculous test. They could staff
the country with Americans who had
never worked conspicuously for Mr.
Roose^re'lt, and yet these Americans
would foz Americans, different in a
thousand ways from their conquerors, and not in love with them, either. |
The new Allied Military Govern-'
ment order doesn't really mean very
much,—unless. It still remains necessary to approach the occiapartion
problem with profound pessimism,
af*d to p_ace tittle t_ope m tins, ot any
other farmalajfor separating one kind
ei German from another. One admits that the AMG must adopt some
formula, but let us face! the fact thai
none of the formulas are infallible.
Try to imagine Germans separating
Americans into classifications in an
Iowa town, and you will glimpse
some of the difficu-ties.
The German separation, when it
/to_nes, wit! come from within. It will
come because of the war, because
some Ger__-iW-S will draw proper conclusions from the war. They w__l see
how fascism has failed dbem; they
will teste *s failure on their own
tongues. They will cast about for al-
Ceraatives, good ones and bad ones,
and then the cleavage will take place
For a time, many German men and
women will be political nvJ&ties, Nazis and demi-Nazis and semi-demi-
Nazis of cracked faith. The differences among them do not now exist,
in effective f<wm; the differences will
appear later.
08* job is to wait for that grand
proces_rto take place; sparing the Germans nothing, meanwhile, of the rigors of defeat, for that is part of tfae
process.
But we are not waiting for that
process. Hardly had the Anj^cjfcas
taken Frankfurt, before the Blue Network (WHOT here) was in there,
last Friday, putting three English-
speaking Germans on the American
air. These enemies were allowed to
•tell us, with nauseating winsomeness,
ait about how simple) and "human"
they are. One was allowed to attack;
the Versailles treaty. American soldiers in the 'field in Germany are not
permitted to fraternize with the ene- ■
my, _HJt chese voices were carried into]
the America.- home, and no Army
officer objected.
How soft these three Germans
must think we are. Defeat means you
get the privilege of using a coast-to-
coast network in America. The incident is certainly based on nothing
more than an innocent desire on the
part of the Blue to have a "scoop";
hut its moral, in Frankfurt, must be
tt_ai it is perfectly safe, under American-occupation, to talk Nazi talk.
The incident didn't hurt us; but
it «Gerta__-ly hurt the Germans, by
making them feel it a little less neces-
jgtry for them to face the realities of
their defeat and probation. One
would not have objected if "Trudi,"
the now-famous German girl, who
helped the wounded soldiers of our
1st Division, and who was mauled
by the Nazis for doing so, had? been
allowed to talk. Trudi has separated
herself from the other Germans, in
the only way that counts. Somehow
we must communicate to Germans
that, this is the kind of separation we
are waiting for. We must find somewhere in ourselves the toughness
needed to keep all Germans under a
cloud, until they learn what it means
to have been Fascists. We must trust
no formula completely; we must assigned only the mildest importance to
the fact that a man didn't carry a
party card; we must spake no concessions., The Germans won't face reality unless they have to, and so far,
on the basis of the easy, almost casual
American approach, they have some
excuse to think they don't have to.
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