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Faithful Friends Valentiner Meyers Given 24 Water Weasels DETROIT SUNDAY TIMES C April 8. 1945—Part I, Page 11 Dr. Friends . Good Housekeeping Faithful“/ pray thee, give them me, that birds to gentle, unto which the Scripture likeneth chaste and humble In Carriers’ Bag and faithful souls, may not fall into the hands of TABLE PADf Quit cruel To Post men that would kill them”—St Francis Assisi. Knudsen Post Stop chances with your Ml Times Boys Near taklnf table. Be sale, be tare with Art Institute Head Detroit Officer Half Way Mark a Good Housekeeping table Old Masters Authority pad. None better made, none Succeeds General better fitted. Nu-wood grain One Water Weasel short of their patterns William R. Valentiner, with choice of colors half way mark! Detroit Times and soil felt back. Priced fromIMP tor of the Detroit Art Insti- An army career officer will suc- t carriers Saturday had purchased Let our representative measure lute, by some ceed Gen. William S. Knudsen. and considered the Lt 24 Water Weasels and havg 26 to your table and show «am. world’s on M ¦BHg : production pies of foremoat authority old former automotive go to reach their goal ... 50 heat-proof, liquid- proof and masters, will retire this month. geniu* of General Motors Corp., Water Weasels purchased for the washable table pads. his wife, of the air technical Shop at koms by Dr. Valentiner and as director army through calling TR 2-1455, day Cecilia, are at their newly en- service command May 1. 24 Bought the sale of war or night. \ gaged apartment in New York, Knudsen, who in July. 1944. wa* savings stamps it was reported Saturday. He will assigned the task of consolidating Good Housekeeping Table Pad Co. be 65 years old on May 2 and the pld AAF material command this home front MjjjM eligible to a city pension. and the air service command, will army of Times 7310 Woodward Ave Dr. Valentiner was bom in devote all his time to the larger carriers in this Karlsruhe, ny, recently Ge rma job of directing all army produc- by the French First Army, was Roy Peter*. f’errun the the son of Dr. Wilhelm Valentiner, tion for war department. istronomer of note, privy coun- He will be succeeded in the air whose Sat* cilor and director of the Heidel- technical service po*t by another 26 to Co! urd a y tally YOU CAN HAVE CHICKENS berg Observatory. The son was Detroiter who has been his showed the sale formerly assistant director the of 98,355 10-cent war stamps or Here’s a tip. Raisa of deputy, Maj. Gen. Bennett E. enough Rerlin Art Museum. their equivalent in bonds, chickens either for your Art Museum. Meyers. to purchase two Water Weasels, own use or as a lucrative easy MEYERS LONG ARMY MAN the army’s new’ sea-going jeeps business. It’s with BROUGHT IN BY MORGAN which are named after the feroci- a modern, scientifically pro- His mother was a daughter of Meyers, long a recognized ous, tenacious animals, which stop built chicken house. the famous Egyptologist, Karl duction expert in the AAF, liter- at nothing. Come in for details. Richard Lepsius. ally grew up in the army. He was Other leaders: Don Ureel. 180% He was brought to this country commissioned from the ranks in iHickory; Chet Brown. 4051 Lilli- In 1908 by J. Pierpone Morgan as .. .. AI World War I He remained in the bridge; Sam Freedman. 2903 curator of the Metropolitan | S 3 army after Waverly; Micallef, Museum of Art, and came to De- as flying instructor Vincent 1543 troit in October. 1924 the armistice Eighth; Billy Brennan. 9057 Crane; Complete During the depression Dr. Val- In 1920, Meyers was trans- Ronald Williams. 5214 Mitchell; liquida- pntiner was the target for those ferred to Detroit to direct Stanley Wilk, 4450 Riopelle; Ray- Sill who wished to fire city employes tion of surplus material from mond Duley, Wyandotte, and who were World War I. He performed sim- 6xl’ aliens. He became a Wyandotte. NO MONEY DOWN citizen in 1935. ilar jobs in Buffalo and New Ronald Endicott. ¦ . ¦¦ : .i : IR York, served four years in Hawaii, This drive has only five weeks Built of lumbar In our Easy Payments AUTHORITY own REMBRANDT • /-s' :-yfL yZTI and in 1927 was assigned to to go. Its success depends on the shops. Easy to assemble com- MODELS ON DISPLAY An authority on Rembrandt on Wright Field. 0.. where his train- liberality with which you and plete sections including floor, whom he has wntten over 50 ing as a production expert began. thousands of others purchase war roof, windows, walls, venti- Phene SL 8481 works, Dr. Valentiner's great fight This training included a year's stamps and bonds through Times lator and hardwara. Out-of- was to bring art to the masses. ilfcr study of industrial research and carriers. town ordare takan. Also in In 1938, he was loaned to the war procurement planning in the Help the carriers buy 50 Water 6xlo, 10x12 and 10x16 sixas. INTERSTATE as it* exclusive army industrial college, Help win war! Help World's Fair in New York “Major,” the pet cocker spaniel of the dsco Presidio, waiting patiently for Pvt. Weasels! the Opan Sun., 9 A. M. to 2 P. M, (* director general of art. and two years devoted to business yourself to build a safe and sub- ASPHALT LUMBLR CO 400th AAF WAC barracks in San Fran- Beth Fleming to finish letter home. management in Babson Institute. Dr. and Mrs. Valentiner have a her stantial nestegg! War savings Monday and Friday ivtnlngs MOVHD AT /O M/T6 KD daughter living in Cali- RETURNS TO OHIO stamps and bonds are backed by Until • By EVE JOLLY Uncle and are the world's He returned to Wright Field in soundest investment. Churchill's Wife I/VERPRESENT at this time of Change 1933 and remained there until Body of Man in Rivar the year is the danger of fledg- Center to September 1940, when he took The body of a man tentatively lings dropping from nests and charge of aircraft procurement in Washington. com- identified by police as Oorge Received by Stalin being easy prey for cats and dogs. He assumed Garrett, 54. of 481 Henry was dis- mand of the AAF material com- LONDON, April 7 CUPt Mos- Many letter* have asked that Monday covered floating in the Detroit Name mand in 1914. and remained as MONDAY-atike RELIABLE cow radio i-aid that Marshal River at the foot of Mt. Elliott we give some indication in this Knudsen's deputy under the late Saturday by a passer-by who Stalin today received Mrs. column a* to the care and treat- merger of that organization and Social Work Among the air service command. called police. Churchill. these young “orphans.” ment of Knudsen was appointed to his The very' best “treatment” is to Agency's Efforts first defrnse post June 1. 1940. He get the fledgling hack into the nest became director general of OPM The sign East Chance Remark Leads as quickly as possible. YWCA at 2431 in January. 1911. and director of he army production However, some birds so far re- Grand Blvd. will painted over all a year later Monday as the final step in the He undertook the job of consoli- sent the scent of human hand on dating transition of the International all production and supply their young, that they will desert army Center, an into for the air forces under one Yanks to Nazi Bullion old YWCA agency, a ago them. the new International Institute of operating head year He completing assign- MERKERS, Germany, April 7 hidden horde of paintings from So in all case* it i* wisest to Detroit now is this ment. <UP> A chance remark over- Berlin museum*. Dr. William R. move the bird on cardboard, or a Supported by the Community of the I>e- V the Valentiner. director sturdy, spatula than Fund and War Che>t and organ- AD F.RT 18 EMENT heard by an alert MP led to troit Art, to- wide rather Institute of said touching him with your ized with the co-operation of the diacovery of what is believed to be night in New- York hands. of Agencies, the always the possibility Council Social the entire German gold reserve by The Madonna would “of There is new organization, incorporated that the parent bird may have STQMATONE of Third course'* be one of the paintings Jan. 1, was formally introduced the 90th Division the into met with an accident and that cold Tablets Are Just Grand for Army. the Germans w’ould rush to the press Saturday. hiding, said.) or hunger has caused the fledgling purpose two he “The of the institute STOMACH-SIFFERERS Yesterday afternoon Ger- to flutter from the nest, so it is is to provide a center for infor- who were on their LAW YER ALSO A GUARD to watch to They neutralize r>c«ii acid at one*, af- man women wise the nest he sure mation. service and assembly IMMEDIATE RELIEF from bleat- the mother fordtnc way to find a midwife for a friend Another of the German guard- reclaims her young. for people of all nationalities inf, gat, lour itomach, heartburn and were stopped by two American • • • acid indigaatien. They balp to rid tha 2-pc. LIVING ians was Wolf von Kurzel, an and races,” Henry’, ' ROOM Dr. David D. bewal* of poiaonou* waataa, gently military' policemen for crossing occasion, and Genuine suite, Austrian, who said his uncle.
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