Seturdoy, March 10, 1945
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Congress Passes Hateful 'Work Or Fight'Bill
Youths Riot Throughout Nation FBI Will Have Jurisdiction
As Pool Halls Shout 'Treason' Over Underage 'Butt Fiends9
Anxious America Awaits President's WASHINGTON, March -In a
Return from Caucasian Fishing Banks move designed to clamp down on traband cigarette. Check of dru
illegal cigarette purchases by mi- store after drug store rved fruit-
nors, the Federal Bureau of Inves- less today as Price Administration
By P. F. SISLIN tigation today announced new sleuths tried to establish where
WASHINGTON, March 9.-In aItion glumly. Wickey saw no futuie drastic penalties for violation of the fags were coming from.
floor battle not equalled since the i the industry and his aide, Sc the igarette sales laws. As the FBI agents threw out a
ty Lynn, refused to volunteer com- A discerning member of the net designed to ensnare transgres-
plan, das andth e r ment. FBI dropped a bombshell in a i ving minors, the department of
plan, Senators andRepresenta- 'l stad ith President Wil eet hos investigating com- justice prepared a test case to try
lives today simultaneously put the son," Wickey stated. "TIm too mittee meeting yesterday reveal- Sumner Thrump, freshman at the
stamp of approval on legislation proud to fight." ing that purchases by persons un- University of Michigan, caught
designed to draft every male not Aeatby Noted des 25 were becoming increasingly smoking illegally in the corridors
piigedt evfaveylentotApty otdof Angell H-all.
in the armed services into vital Exclusive inter Views with otherprev lePideo Roosevelt grins ntSdenis' Rights Endangered
war work. Ann Arborites thrown io em smugly after Congress approves Sug esting thatte cn rs- Thrump, short-haired collegian
As pcke gllry usilyboedplomemt. by threat of the sweep-! sweeping national service draft
As a pea ked gallery lustily oaed inedict rvealed ageneialap- l I w is aida t th sisnal committee investiatin majoring in plays. ed., was tra
speaker ater speaker and as hy as. issai e Un-American Activities take over versing the hall-way from the AR
House pages worked feverishly re- person that the government will smoking room to further on down,
Cheoe . ~rdy l - rc on nwl e.e-o- te inquiy of tunawllcigarette
moving paper planes flung down Capcote T. Fairaday, lt-field- rack do'n on will be ex-gOv- purchases, the unnamed. but high- when authorities stepped in. He
from the gallery, Congressmen er for Monroe Street Trojans, only ernor Brieker of Ohio who iis will be defended by a battery of
firmly concentrated on the bus- would concede that Sherman was now reported by reliable auth- ly placed FBI executive called for wille defen a btte
anrmendcntontheedpiactices.- Ycounsllors drawn from nicotine
iness at hand and voted for every right about war. ority to be out of a job. "The morality of or yotth is at addicts in the Law School.
phase of the measure that would stake." he cried. In an exclusive interview
"take American youth out of the -ANumerous JD's in the ante- Thrump declared that students'
pool rooms." l udent Salt iM iners C a use room booed as the congressmen rights the world over were being
Defer Flies left the session. Some were smok- endangered. University students
The bill, as passed today, pro- f -ting remained apathetic. The Depart-
vided that no occupation not list- w o isasterous an5a s Need FDR's O.K. ment of Justice haa issued no
dp T oUnofficial sources revealed that statement as yet; however, the
ed as deferable would keep 18 toasythoerhe
45 year old males from national . a dramatic appeal was made for -acase will be called E Prte
service, regardless of physical han- By PAUL BEARER Thrump. Milwaukee bettors are
dicap. Specifically listed among WASHINGTON, March 9.- As ing the sunset gun of the Judg e s i emergen p rvto offering even money that the trial.
the occupations not deferable over-all national service became a Advocate General's Corps station- will have to come from the Presi- makes the American Constitu-
were: rack boy, pin-ball adjuster,' fact today, reports sweeping from ed on campus, the misguided labor dent's office. An unconfirmed ru- tional History 174 final next term.
ticket runner and exercise boy. isolated points in the nation re- draftees loaded the field piece. mor said that Martin Dies would "Everything else has beenon
Sporting circles in the nation con- vealed that you can lead a horse Quad Is All Shot be called up from his Texas estate the exam, why not that?" they
demned the provisions as specific- to water but you cant' make him , to once more assume the helm of asked.
ally aimed at them. drink,tpopl :5 ~.yse__
day, before a full military review the investigating committee. --- -- -
Meanwhile, the measure today Reconverted pool hall loungers and just before chow, the gun was Meanwhile, John . Rankin,
rested on the President's desk a- throno io unemployment by the fired. The trajectory of the shell battling Mississippi solon, threat-
waiting his return from a Cauca- sweeping edict, and collegians was through the uppermost turret ened to take on any man, woman ,
sion fishing expedition. thrown out of luxurious residence of the quadrangle. The entire sec- or child under 21 caught smoking 'I'
Detroit Is Hard Hit halls and pipe courses, today were tion fronting South University was or purchasing cigarettes. Rankin
Al Gordo Daily special corre- bobbling their jobs as production ,razed and destruction of Martha drawled that he "'lowed there
spondent on Detroit's home front, front soldiers. 3Cook was narrowly averted. The wouldn't be none o' that going on
today revealed in a leased-wire Salt of the Earth !JAG's have pitched tents on the while he represented Mississippi's
dispatch that Detroit's tenderloin A corps of Michigan students, (diagonal in the quadrangle. Re- electorate."
belt was in a panic. now stationed in the salt mines of verberations from the explosion OPA Investigates'WAK *ODS
"The publishers have begun to Wyandotte, Mich., yesterday were shattered all the glass in the con- OPA investigators in Washing-
double up," Gordo revealed, "and causes of ono of the worst land- sr'atory attached to the Natural ton vere busying themselves try-
the plight of these oppceased sons falls in M ichigan m ining history. Sci ance Building. tu ing to find the source of the con- t p t t-so s i a n s . c l go no-- --
of toil is pathetic. The students, qualified as experts - -- - -"-
"Sympathetic hotel manage- because of experience threading
ments have not begun eviction their way along Michigan seques-
proceedings as yet. However, with tered walks at 8 am, of a winter
the increased patrolling in search morning were sent to mine Wyan- K
of non-essential civilians, none of dotte salt. Some of them had seen
these gentlemen dare appear in service as sugar beet pickers dur-
the streets. ing the winter of 1942 near Caro,
Mass Demonstration . Mich.
"A mass demonstration along Seasoned Well
Detroit's fabulous Michigan eve- Ambitiously picking at the rock
nue, highlighted by placards say- salt, onward and upward, they
ing, 'We have not yet begun to undermined a good part of the
fight,' was spontaneously begun sub-strata underlying Wyandotte's
beautiful Cedar Street. The sub-
asi night when it became eagoer- sqen adfl edt hed-A *re#: I ~ti kr 1e 1ersatll
ent the legislation would pass. stuntolandfall whole section de-
"Scenes rivaling the days of, street including that part on coei. Iatloks dressy it h frill
British domination of America which the residence of Harvo
were repeated along Detroits bou- Frank, ex-Daily sports editor, was
levards as press gangs ranged the perched. Frank's home now has a IOHN s . lacy diekies, and
streets searching for eligible males bad list but the former Daily man
to put them to work on lathes or was out of town at the time of the c4o'stnIe jewelry . and
in coal mines." accident.
Ann Arbor Suffers A similar catastrophe in South- easual with sutaiters and skirts.
Ann Arbor's pool halls were de- ern Ohio virtually demolished Al-
serted today as a long over-age liance, O., fly-speck on the map of
porter dusted the tables in the program. Henry Mantho, Daily
Michigan Union billiard empor- personage, was not available for R
ium, standing gloom-shrouded and comment when the accident oc- Expertly tailored suits with cardigan
silent. The porter vouchsafed no curred hoeing his own row else-
comment. where in line with the national or lopeled necklines. Slim costume suits
A lone v-12, called Sailor Joe, service ruling.
bemusedly practiced three - rail 'Lawsy Me'
caroms on a corner table, but Michigans famed Law Quad- with decorative buttons and pert y
excepting him, there were no other rangle was a gaping shambles to-
able-bodied males. day as the result of the ill-advised bows. 100', wools and gabardines
J. V. Wickey, long-time billiard activities of two national service
entrepreneur, surveyed the situa- impressed volunteers. While clean- pastels, darks, checks, stripes
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