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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-20
Spectacular Attack Made on
Port of vaIona, No
Opposition
UNITED STATES DOUBLES
AID FOR GREAT BRITAIN
Seventy Per Cent of Planes
GO to England Under
Presidential Plan

(By International News Servlee)
New British and Greek advances
against the Italians in Libya and
Albania and a spectacular British
naval sweep through the Adriatic
were revealed today as President
Roosevelt ordered American de-
liveries of war planes to Britain
doubled.
While II Duce's harried troops
found the going heavy on all fronts,
the. American program to aid Bril-
tain with vast war supplies came
increasingly to the forefront as the
American Chief Executive prepar-
ed to shake up defense production
to hasten his help-England plan.
President Roosevelt, who will
meet members of his Defense Coll-
mission later in the day, revised
his previous policy so that, from
now on. Britain will receive 20
per cent of the l<anes produced in
the United States.
May Sieze Ships
In addition it was reported so
ships. including about 80 Danish
vessels tied up in american ports,
will be sold to Britain this week
end. If this sale goes through, 1t
was reported, the United States
might seize LOG German and lta-
liam ships and sell them to the
British.
Athens reported that Greek
troops fought their way to the out
skirts of Tepeleni on the Central
Albanian battle sector after fore
ing the Fascists out of klisura
with heavy losses to the Fascists.
The Greek high command report
ed capture of more than 600 prison
ers.
Italians Trapped
From Cairo came word that some
10000 crack Italian troops were
bottled up in the besieged Libyan
base of Bardia, their backs to the
sea under relentless hammering Of
mechanical British forces.
1t appeared that the Italians
faced the prospect either of ami
hilation or surrender.
Rome announced four enemv
bombing attacks on the Italian
port of Brindisi and said an artil-
lery duel occurred at Bardia.
Harassing SEQ communications
between Italy and Albania. the Brit
ish admiralty reported, units of
Britain's Mediterranean fleet swept
the Adriatic Sea as far north as
Italian Bari and Albanian Durazzo
on the night of Dec. Is.
Shell valona
British battleships, this an
nouncement said, lobbed nearly 100
tons Of shells on the Albanian port
Of Valona. The admiralty added
pridefully that no Italian opposi-
ton was encountered in any of
these operations.
German raids on Eng and were
resumed during the night after a
three-day lay-off, but the London
air ministry said damage and cas-
ualties were light.
Italy emphatically denied that
large numbers of German troops
are arriving in Premier Mussolini's
domain.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-20
FINLAND M0URNS
FORMER LEADER
HAD LED IN FIGHT AGAINST
RUSSIA, SAW RYTI NAMED
IN HIS PLACE

Helsinki, Finland, Dec. 2O-AP-
All Finland went into mourning to-
day for peasant born Kyosti Kallio
who became the Republics presi-
dent.
Flags were half stated and pub
lie dancing. singing and other en-
tertainments we're banned as marks
Of respect for Kallio who died OF
a heart attack Thursday AT rail-
way station as he was preparing TO
leave for the peace and quiet OF his
country estate.
Kallio. whose illness forced him
70 step down from the presidency
Nov. 20 after he had led Finland
in her fight against Russia, was
present Thursday when Prime Min
lister Rlsto Ryti was elected 10 fill
out bis unexpired term ending in
1919.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-20
TODAY IN LAST WAR

(Bv Associated Press
Dec. 20, 1915-British Tepulse
German attack near Ypres.
HOBBY GOODS-521 W. Cross
Adv. 1921
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-20

WASHINGTON-AP-The regis
tration OF the nations aliens start
ed its final week today with the
prospect that the tally would show
100000 more non-citizens than
originally estimated
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-20

WASHINGTON APP A detach-
ment of United States soldiers had
orders today to sail for Newfound-
land early in January to garrison
the nations newly acquired North
Atlantic outpost.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-20

WAsHIN6TON-INS - The
War Department has decided
to override the recent heated
objections CT Defense Commits
sioner Sidney Hillman and sign
100000 contract with the
Ford Motor Company for the
manufacture Of "pigmy trucks"
authoritative army sources dis
closed today.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-20

BERCIN-AP- Authorized
sources disclosed that today
or Saturday an important
news release would be issued
presenting an interesting pros
pect Of further Developments
Of cooperation between nations
united in the horsepower pact"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-20

PHlLADELPHlA-1NS-Four
gunner, apparently amateurs,
bungled up a bank hoIdup in
Philadelphia today and fled
empty handed after firing sew
eral shots. one Of which struck
a customer in the left hip-bone.
The victim was Matthias n.
Moll, so, trustee for the United
Germans and Hungsrians Of
Philade lphia.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-20
Flashes of
Late News
THE WEATHER: Saturday:
Fair, Colder

BETHEL, Vt.-AP-Police today
held three boys-two IL and one
Is years old-in connection with
the bludgeon staying Sunday Of
Miss Jennie Kendall. 70. and. be-
cause OF the trio's youth. were con-
fronted with a problem as to what
action to take.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-20
NOTICE.

City Market will be open Dec. "a.
Adv. 1920
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-20

NNUAL CHRISTMAS VEsPER sERvCEs-Hgh School Chorus,
uditorum Sun Dec % 100 Adm Free Roland schafer Dir
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-20

WASHINGTON APP Crown
Princess Juliana of the Netherlands
turned toward New York today to
top off her pre-Christmas visit to
the United States.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-20

MOSCOW-UP- Josef Sta
lin today called a national con-
ference OF the Russian Com
munist party to meet here Feb.
is. Stain, Russia's leader, Is
secretary general Of the Com
munlst party.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-20

VANCOUVER. B. C.-UP-Rslph
Lohn. IS. and James Watson, 35.
we're under prison sentence today
for taking $4,000 from L. o. LaRue,
Sc, wealthy Windsor Ont. fish
packed in a poker game here
Lohn was sentenced TO four years ;
Watson 10 two. The men, with a
third partner known as Joe Lee
were accused Of enticing LaRue
into the game, his first try at
poker.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-20

Sergt. Harvey
B. Ferris, Of the Bethune Station.
who was among tn 259 indicted by
the Wayne County grand jury on a
charge of taking graft money from
handbook operators. today plead.
ed guilty.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-12-20

WASHINGTON-AP-The Treas
ury disclosed today its debt has
passed $4,000, 100000, the former
statutory limit which many persons
thought would be permanent cell
ing for federal obligations.
Evening star., 1940-08-24

like things which got into the script
by mistake. Not a fatal mistake,
mind you, but reproach-worthy
one.
The story of The Sea Hawk" of
course, is that of those doughty
privateers who were the Robin
Hoods of the sea in Queen Eliza
beth'S colorful reign. Flynn plays
Capt. Thorpe, fellow who was the
scourge of the tyrants and despots,
greatest of whom was Phillip II of
Spain. Practically single handed,
with no more help from the queen
than an archly reluctant consent
to his extral legal missions. Capt.
Thorne and his daring crew smash
Phillips dream of world conquest.
The wrecking process starts with
out delay in the latest version of
THE Sea Hawk Almost before
the eyes are properly focused, Capt.
Thorne is inviting wrathy charges
of piracy by sinking the Spanish
galley which is carrying the new
Spanish ambassador To England.
The picture attains its widest swirl
of action in this early sequence, a
pitched battle into which Flynn
Evening star., 1940-08-24

leads hundreds of muscular swords
men who board the Spanish vessel
by swinging across yards of open
sea on ropes. Once this spectacular
and savage action is out of the way.
the picture settles down, meander-
ing for a while through an uncon-
vincing, pallid little romance and
some loud but unimportant political
oratory on the part of the queen
Flora Robson.
After these, however, it comes
back to another, though lesser, dra-
ican jungle. Trickery beats Capt.
Thorpe on this occasion and he
lands in those Spanish hands which
have been itching for his throat
for many years. He is sentenced to
life as a galley slave, he and his
lusty crew chained to huge oars,
subjected to brutal beatings, cruelty
underfed and overworked. Drama
returns to the picture with a bang
in this passage. one which has been
nicely worked out by Director
Michael Curtiz to show the various
dirty tricks which make up an In
QUESTION.
1t is a big moment, too, when
the galley slaves break their chains,
capture their old captors, seize the
vessel and rush back to England in
time to tell the Queen that Phillips
armada is on the way and she had
better do something about it.
Warmers made use of their entire
first team of adventures. heroes
and heels, in casting The Sea
Hawk" In addition to Flynn. there
is Claude Rains, Alan Hale. Gilbert
Roland. Julien Mitchell, Montagu
Love, Henry Daniel, Donald Crisp,
etc. These are backed, OF course,
by the finest assemblage of cut
throats gallant ones. to be sure)
ever assembled before a camera.
For love interest. though not very
much, the picture makes use of
lovely Brenda Marshall, a senorita
of ice and fire. who captures Flynn's
IlCdl Will SlCdtCl CooC AAioil III
captured thieving Spaniards. AS the
Queen, Miss Robson does not have
much chance to be impressive with
the material tossed her way.
Senoritas and Queens, however,
figure in the picture only as breath
ing spaces between battles and
bloodshed.
Length of the picture being what
it is, 2 hours and minutes, Harry
Anger has turned up this week with
one of those brief. bright stage
shows built around the houses
Sing Song feature and the un-
failingly fine RoXyettes. The latter
are at their best in that globe
walking routine on which everyone
should refresh his admiration If 1t
has begun to wilt. The Yost singers.
talented group, and Johnny Barnes
comprise the rest Of the bill. Neat
ly, TOO.
Evening star., 1940-08-24
Palace Holds
ILove You Again
A Merry Thing,
Like Thin Man

Given script worthy of their
talents, Myrna 10y, William Powell
and Director w. S. Van Dyke, I'd,
are just the people to turn it into
a sparkling motion picture. Such
script is theirs in Il Love You
Again" a bright. sophisticated
comedy, the like of which the three
have not had since The Thin
Man" It's at the Palace.
Amnesia. loss of memory, is the
item about which all the merri-
ment centers. Powell has had it
for nine years when the picture
begins. When a second blip on
the head restores his memory he
is astounded to discover that from
a debonair confidence man he has
turned into a sober-puss civic lead
er, fellow who heads reform
movements, practices taXidermy as
hobby. He is even more astound-
ed to find himself married to the
lovely Miss 10y, who is about to
divorce him on grounds of utter
boredom.
Within that framework Van Dyke
and his brilliant comedy cast have
the time of their lives.
So does the audience. J.C.
Evening star., 1940-08-24

moved heaven and earth-and I do
mean heaven and earth, to persuade
Morgan's bosses that the oppor-
tunity of "Kittye Foyle" will make
him bigger movie shot than South
of Suez' But this still leaves Wood
and R-K-O shy one leading man.
What to do about the dearth of
young leading men? THE big stu
dios here should, of course. develop
new players" says Wood, but they
don't; they're afraid to risk big
money on an unknown. The next
best way of unearthing talent would
be for studios to finance local stock
companies. This would give the
new comers experience and
chance to prove themselves But
according to Wood, the prerequisite
for a would be movie actor is not
so much the ability to act as
personality"
But how do you define person.
ality?" I ask him.
THE one you pick out in a crowd"
replies Wood, who in the course
of his Is years of directing has
picked from the crowd" Greer
Carson, Mickey Rooney and Martha
Scott. Take a dozen people" he
continues. Put them in front of
the camera, make a silent test, and
the one you notice most is the one
with most chance of success in
movies. 1t has nothing to do with
looks, or whether they are supposed
to photograph badly. It's whether
they have the power of making you
notice them"
Are you sticking to the book
of Kitty Foyle'?" ask Sam. There
are q few necessary changes" he
tells me, "but I am retaining the
flavor of the book (recent best
seller written by Christopher Nor
ley). We start the story at the end,
and then 60 back to the beginning" 4"
Here is some good news for the
fans who dislike Ginger Rogers as
q brunette (and most of them do) E.
She is reverting to her ginger
tresses, and a softer hair-do-for
kitty Foyle." I have Mr.. Woods
definite promise on this.
released By the North American News.
paper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1940-08-24

not good enough for the roles.
"It's like this" say Sam. I'VE
would have naturally liked to sign
a couple of stars-some one like
Tyrone Power. But Twentieth Gen.
tury-Fox wouldn't loan him. Or
Robert Taylor. Metro wouldn't loan
him. We could perhaps have bor-
rowed Richard Greene, but he's too
much of a risk-after his recent un-
favorable publicity. Ray Milland is
free -lancing, but he's booked up
for the next II months. And so on
all along the line. But we thought
our troubles were so per cent over
when Warmers promised us Dennis
Morgan for one of the two roles.
II knew Dennis when he was at
Metro" continues the director, "un-
der the name of Stanley Morner. I
gave him a small part in Navy Blue
and Gold He's got the spark Of
personality necessary for film star
dom. I tried to get Metro interested
in him. But they let him 60. A
week ago I tested him with Ginger
Rogers, and we both liked him: So
what happens? George Raft decides
not to do South Of Suez,' and War
ners decided we couldn't have Nor
gan. They wanted him to take over
for Raft. So there we were back
where we started-without our two
leading men,"
However, the latest news is that
Morgan will be available for "Kitty
Foyle," R-K-O and Wood have
Evening star., 1940-08-24

1t Of the distinction OF being easy
to recommend as bright entertain
ment.
In adapting Guitry's spicy whimsy
to the clever talents Of its stars,
Director Lewis Milestone accom-
plished the naturalization without
loss of the story's Gallo flavor. More
than that, he has ornamented it
with directorial touches of which
Guitry himself might be proud.
The very human story which
Lucky Partners" tells with such
warmth and merriment concerns
spirited Greenwich Village girl and
a disillusioned artist with fair for
daring, but nice, experiments. Be-
fore she settles down with her solid
young man in Poughkeepsie, the
artist proposes they should spend
their joint winnings on a lucky
sweepstakes ticket on purely pla-
tonic honeymoon. The girl naturally
is shocked, her young man more so,
but the artist is an eloquent fellow
who knows just the right treatment
for shock. He talks them out Of
their anger and right into his plan
in a series of sequences which are
endlessly merry and highly reveal
ing of Guitry's understanding OF the
human heart.
HF*
Miss Rogers growth as a come
dienne has made her practically the
perfect Guitry heroine, girl who
can take one of those double edged
lines and show its full sharpness.
Many's the time in the course OF
working out the honeymoon rehearsal
idea when Milestone has discarded
dialogue altogether or reduced 1t to
a minimum. All the eloquence OF
pantomime needed to make every
thing clear is provided by Miss
Rogers and Colman, as resourceful
a pair as ever raised an eyebrow or
dropped an eyelid.
Lucky Partners" attains its most
tender and humorous moments in
the passage devoted to the strange
honeymoon OF the latter a par
ticularly unforgettable touch is that
which matches Colman and hotel
clerk in a duel of politeness which
every imaginative person has
dreamed of doing practically all his
life. When the clerk hopes the
couple will be happy as the hotels
guests, Colman counters with the
wish that the hotel will be happy,
too.
Brightest and most Guitry- like Of
all the sequences in the drama,
however, is that which occurs in
Evening star., 1940-08-24
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Earle-"The Sea Hawk" Bucca-
neer Enrol Flynn rides the waves !:
1915 am, l, 3:55, 6:45 and $40 pm.
Stage shows: 1925, 3:l5, sos and
9 pm.
Capitol-"The Golden Fleeing"
meek lad meets romance: II am,
1:45, 4:40. tbs and 10 pm Stage
shows: 1855, 3:4O, 6:25 and 9:10
pm.
Keith's-"Lucky Partners" Ginger
Rogers and Ronald Colman win a
sweepstakes prize: 1875 am, 1885,
3:35, 5:35. 7:35 and 9:35 pm.
Columbia-"Pride and Prejudice, f"
screen version of the Jane Austen
novel, with Greer Carson: IL ;35 a m,
2:05, ABS, 7:05 and 9:35 pm.
Palace-"I Love You Again."
Myrna 10y and William Powell in
romantic comedy: l0:45 am, IL :55.
sos, $50. 7:30 and 9:45 pm.
Metropolitan-"Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs," plus some top
Disney shorts: II am, los, 3:l5,
$40, 7:30 and 9:40pm.
Little-"Sandy Is a Lady" new
comedy with the cinema'S top baby
star: 1855 am, 1:50, 3:55, $50,
755 and 9:55 pm.
Trans-LuX News and shorts.
continuous from 10 am.
In the Country.
Cross Roads What a Life" the
comedy of high school romance: :
$40 pm.
Roadside-"The Virginlan," that
popular sturdy drama is revived:
$40 pm.
Evening star., 1940-08-24

the courtroom scene, which has be-
come an inevitable part of every
comedy. The trial of the various
principals on a variety of charges
is seized by the impish Guitry as
an opportunity to force Justice to
apologize to Art for thinking that
artists should be amenable to the
discipline of lesser men. That idea
is but one Of many which flies
around in this extraordinarily in
formal trial, but it always is the
one toward which the long scene is
working. Incidental but interesting
is Guitry's determination to bring
out the susceptibility of the bench
to beauty. With excellent assistance
from Miss Rogers and Colman, he
makes very bright point of it all.
Scintillating though the principals
are, their performances do not OBJ
scure the fact the Milestone got ex-
cellent results from players in lesser
parts. Jack Carson, whom you also
probably never heard of, makes
quite a thing of his role of half
suspicious trusting solid young
man; Spring Byington is excellent
as the giddy, coyly curious aunt of
the girl; Cecilia LOTUS is perfect,
as usual, in fleeting moment as
a stormy, rich widow. and Harry
Evening star., 1940-08-24
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JENE'S ITALIAN RESTAURANT, 1907 De
sales St., opposite Mayf1ower Hotel. Spe-
ciaizing in ravioli and spaghetti Phone
Sterling 9S9S.
DEAUVILLE FOOD SHOP, 1929 Conn. Ave:
Delicious soft-shell crabs. excellent cold
salads fancy drinks. Air conditioned.
Open 7 am TO 3 am. Home atmosphere.
sHOREHAM TERRACE. Conn. at Calvert:
Dining and dancing. Two shows. 9:30 and
IL 30. Dinner Saturday. S2.25, lncindlng
cover. Supper cover, 81. plus tax. AID. 07oo-
THE NIGHTINGALE. Richmond Hwy, 81
Mi. south OF Alex. Dancing $3.50 to l
nightly including Sunday. Sweet swing by
Radd Rafers Orchestra. Temple 4640.
HAY-ADAMS HOUSE-OverIooking White
House at 18th and SITS. Dining in an
atmosphere of charm. dignity and gen
tility Luncheon, $50; dinner from S1.25.
organ music nightly during dinner.
RAINBOW ROOM Hamilton Hotel, 18th
at X. Cocktail and dinner dancing, So;
supper dancing to Milt Davis Orchestra,
1O-l. Min. Saturday only. 81. D1. 1880
MADRILLON RESTAURANT, WASHINGTON
Building, L5th and New York Ave. The
favorite place to dine the popular place
to dance.
MARYLAND CLUB GARDENS, on Marl-
boro Pike. Featuring Nadine and her coed
band. De luxe dinner, Sl.25. Dancing
until o'clock Phone Hillside O60O.
Evening star., 1940-08-24
Dionne Quints Star
On Trans.LuX Bill

The Dionne quintuplets are stars
of this weeks bill at the Trans-LuX,
no matter what goes on before or
after their appearance in the pic
torial news report. Celebrating
their 9Th birthday anniversary, they
have posed for the movie cameras
again with all that screen presence
they learned when working for Dar-
ryl Zanuck, and they turn out to
be still the most adorable quintet
in the world. not even excluding
Raymond SCOTS.
The King and Queen, who paid
the quintuplets call last year, are
before the cameras again, too, now
with serious problems, reviewing
Indian troops arrived to help the
defense of Britain. Certain events
in that defense also are here-Nazi
planes doWned on the channel
front, Nazi bombing claims proved
false, the British salvaging that
other German Navy for scrap iron,
British shelling Libya in a surprise
attack.
On the domestic scene Ambassa-
dor Bullitt broadcasts his warning,
Candidate Willkie examines the
corn crop in Indiana, poses with
COWS: two new Mosquito" boats are
tested by the Navy; President
Roosevelt and Mackenzie King,
Canada's Prime Minister, view
Army maneuvers: Lew Lehr views
Aouacade girls painting an automo-
bile and themselves.
I'm Old New Orleans" the weeks
travelogue, visits old landmarks,
points out the early French influ-
ence on architecture; Our Gang
gets into explosive difficulties in
"Bubbling Troubles" and there is a
new Screen Snapshots" a new
color cartoon. H. M.
Evening star., 1940-08-24
Hedv Is Loaned

Hedy Lamar has discovered new
use for autographed pictures-the
trick of farming them out" She
recently signed a picture ITO my
friend, Harold, from Hedy LAMAR"
to the small son of a woman friend.
Later, when she laughingly chided
the boy for not having the picture
on display, he embarrassedly con-
fessed he had it out on loan" to
friends named Harold to amaze their
friends.
Evening star., 1940-08-24
Classic Romance
RenewS Its Run

Pride and Prejudice" with Greer
Carson and Laurence Olivier in the
major romantic roles, returned yes
terday to the Columbia for a third
week on F street. If the more
strenuous admirers of Jane Aus
tens famous story of the new"
woman in the 18th century dislike
the change in accent which the
film develops, admirers of Miss
Carson and Olivier won't give a
hang. Since they outnumber the
Austen wing, M-G-M undoubtedly
did wise thing in making the
change. j. G.
Evening star., 1940-08-24
Snow White Stays
For Another Week

Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs," Walt Disney's joyous first
venture into full-length production,
which got the extended run habit
when it was in the first flush of
its youth a year and half ago,
hasn't changed its ways. Now back
in town for a revival engagement
at the Metropolitan, it continues
for a second week of the repeat run.
Continuing also on the all-Disney
festival are four of his more popu-
lar short subjects. Ferdinand the
Bull" Three Little Pigs" The
Ugly Duckling" and "Donald's
Lucky DAY."
Evening star., 1940-08-24

Davenport is one of those wise.
witty old judges who might give
entertaining moments to life Of
crime.
The Donald Duck on the program
is a very bright Donald Duck, help
ing to make Keith's one Of the
merriest spots in town. j. G.
Evening star., 1940-08-24

u o n sequences
is heightened,
let is be said, by
the fact that be-
t W e en- battles
a n d adventure
there is som e
shilly = shallylng
In palaces a n d
palace gardens
which taxes the
p a t / e n c e of
y n n ana us,
too. Love and
politics are fine
in their places,
but in The Sea
Hawk" they look
Evening star., 1940-08-24

perhaps thou
sands Of young
actors, it was al
most impossible
to find the two
men necessary
for the movie. I
didn't believe
this, until I had
a talk with Sam
Wood, the d.
rector, who has
been going quiet
ly crazy these
past weeks, as
actor after ac-
tor has proved
ponavailahle or