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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30
White Popular

Dan Topping-(Sonja Henie's
husband)-''Like most men l
have a weakness for small hats.
It's awful to try to dance with
a woman wearing a big picture
hat. But to get back to this
Easter ideal like all-white.
Those little lowered white hats
are awfully cute and a white
suit with a good looking piece of
jewelry on the lapel would be
smart"
john Barry twho squires Pris-
ella Lane) Navy blue and
white is the prettiest color COM
bination ] know and looks well
on all women and extra well on
Priscilla. For Easter I'd like to
see her in navy straw hat, not
too fuSSy, with a touch of white
somewhere. A tailored navy
coat over a white dress would
be pretty-or have l just very
conventional ideas" ?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30
OOrSot
Prevents
Slunnpins

WHILE we know nearly all
w well groomed girls wear
some type of girdle or corset.
there are still a few who seem
to feel there is a special dis
tinction in going without any
kind of support. The very slen-
der ones are improved with the
soft, though firm, little girdles,
and those of the more robust
lines really need these little
figure molders.
The highly trained corsetieres
know all the weaknesses and
faults of lazy figures and design
the garments TO correct them.
We may know the body is more
beautiful when held up as ma
ture ordained. but when one is
reminded by the sustaining urge
of a well-fitted corset there will
be no tendency TO slump. You
won't wear tight laced, Scarlet
O'Hara, pulled-in affairs, nor the
"old Ironsides" of the grand
mothers days, but sleek, firm
fabrics with Just enough support
to control little bulges which are
SO disastrous TO trim, smart cos
TUNES.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30
Bedux
Selections
BY DOROTHY MANNERS
Special to THE DETROIT TIMES

HOLLYWOOD, March 20.
DOUGHT your Easter outfit
I'D vet? IL you can't make up
your mind-why don't you con-
suit the boy friend or your hus-
band and hear what he'd like TO
see you wear? In the first place
he is sure to be flattered-be-
cause there isn't a man in the
world who doesn't harbor Sc
cret feeling that he's an expert
on feminine styles.
Just for fun we asked the boy
friends of your favorite glamour
girls just what their ideal
Easter ensemble would be.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30
Parquet Floors

Parquet floors-fundamentally
geometric in pattern - were a
development of a later date
when greater selection of
woods was available, through
importation and when tools had
become more refined Handsome
and dignified in character, these
floors were as much a part of
such periods as he French
Louis, late Georgian, American
Federal and Regency as orna-
ment or furniture.
Sometimes they were very
complex in pattern. sometimes
fairly simple. but always they
were exceedingly formal.
Oak IS the best all-around
floor wood today. 1t is durable,
close grained and uniform in
color. Its figure IS good when
either plain or quarter sawed.
For the finest plank feeFs and
parquet. oak IS best. Knotty
white pine IS more common for
planking and very serviceable.
Maple. beech and birch are
excellent floor woods lending
themselves we'll to parquet and
strip flooring but rarely seen as
wide planks Maple does not
stain we'll, though beech and
birch do. Yellow pine and Doug
las fir are common for strip
floors and occasionally for
planks, but are too coarse for
anything else.
Distributed 10y Dougherty Syndicate. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30

There are WON en- whose
figures are not in the best pro-
portions, and for them the cor
Sel-u1ll- de-a Let II Should hA
expertly fitted, however. The
.PustS, too. frequently need Spe-
II attention and for this rea-
I'm all braSsieres should be
fitted.
The fat chest is never beauti-
full and the OyerdeVeloped type
must be reduced. The corset
and brassiere are not reducers,
but will firm and mold while one
is losing weight.
We are frequently asked
whether or not the very young
should wear Corsets, and the
answer is no. They may wear
little waists designed for young
figures. but except for definitely
fat. overweight children. there
should be no restriction in any
garment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30
Deanna's Beau

Vaughn Paul (who Deanna
Durbin will marry April 1877
like to see Deanna In those
small lowered hats with wells
and things. The color doesn't
matter so much - but I think
lavender and orchid and violet
tones are pretty. As for the
dress-well, maybe a bIue-gray-
ish print with a navy coat would
look well with a violet lowered
hat" (Not bad. Mr.. Paul. not
bad at ALPHABETICALLY on your
color schemes.)
Bill Powell-''Easter or not
still Hike tailored clothes. II l
were to choose DANES tLewis1
Easter outfit-and I'm not say
ing / AMI think I would select
a soft gray gabardine suit with
a white blouse with ruffles.
(You wouldn't mean a jabot.
would you. Mr.. P.?) ] like small
hats with flowers and a veil
and, oh, yes. if she wore my
suit / think I'd send her a cor
sage of violets."
THAT makes two gentlemen
who like violets on their girl
friends-which should be a tip.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30

shower gradually cooled is
necessary.
Some women like the hot
EPSON salt congresses for parts.
A large Turkish towel is soaked
IN the hot EPSON salt. then
wrapped firmly about the fat
spot. This can be done in the
tub or even under blankets, but
the bed is protected By rubber
sheets. Never change from in
tense heat 10 the very cold
shower when treating the body
as there viii be a shock that
may result in muscle soreness.
When you adopt the corset
II is we'll to have several, and
change every few days The
best plan is 10 have day and
evening corsets.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30
Many Styles

Another trim black hoe with
a world nf style is made of twill
with open work of criSscroSs
bands of patent. How it Sims
the foot. For little dreSsmaker
suits. there's a moccaSin type
tailored shoe which fits the foot
like glove.
Don't think for moment that
you can get along completely
without a few dashing. high
styled shoes, for they are 10
your wardrobe what dessert is
10 dinner.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30
Slenderize Neck

IF THE neck is plump don't
wear a snug necklace; get one
that droops so as TO impart a
longer line.
Don't indulge in a long thick,
bunchy bob. If the hair is lifted
al the back, and swirled. WIKI
rolls atop the crown the meek
viii look more slender.
Use a powder slightly darker
than that which is applied -
the face, which will cast a slight
shadow over the neck.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30
Brown for Blonde

Ronald Reagan-"Ordinarily I
like brown on blondes like my
wife. Jane Wyman. But Easter
is sort Of special and dressed up
so III settle for a cocoa-col-
ored ensemble with brown bag,
gloves and shoes ] think a large
straw hat with a brown band
would look well.
Don Ameche-'I have weak
ness for white hats on women
so I'd like to see Honore in a
MEDIUMS sized white straw hat
with a black veil. Black and
white. TO me. is the most stun
ming combination a woman can
wear. Also, don't tell anybody
but / think this new hatpin fad
is cute-and old-fashioned look
ing"
Tyrone Power - "Annabella
wears hats only on state occa-
sions so I'm not so well versed
in feminine headgear. But for
an Easter dress l hope she
wears something in a maroon
color,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30
Wood Floors More
|ntricdteIy Planned Toddy
international News Photo
BY JAMES r. PATTERSON
Supervisor of Interior Design at Pratt Institute

Of random width plank fioorings
have made it popular in all the
informal styles. Even today,
when available materials and
teels no longer govern the style,
plank flooring is highly desirable
in houses adapted from such
historic types as Queen Anne,
Early English md American
Colonial. Informal houses with
out historic precedent also favor
this floor over the more sophisti-
Gated varieties.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30
Massage Helps

A course Of massage when
wearing a garment TO control
will hasten the operation and
firm the tissues so there will be
less tendency 10 sag. Hot sitz
baths in the EPSON salt solution
helps the shrinkage. then a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30
Black
Shoes
Practical

DEGARDLESS OF THE many
IL fashion fads 10 be found in
the new shoes, there will always
be a demand for trim. smart
footgear that can be worn with
practically anything in your
wardrobe.
So much has been said about
the tremendous trend toward
bright colored shoes that it is
easy 10 forget that after all is
said and done the chic. we'll
fitted, black, semi-dress shoe
cannot be excelled for smart
grooming.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30
individual

That they fiatter milady's feet
cannot be denied and when worn
with smart clothes in any and
all colors, they enhance the cos
tune and in these days of much
bizayre in fashions, they are def
nitely individual. Black Access
sories are very striking with any
Of the. new beige shades and it's
stunning with the sun tan colors.
For dressier occasions you
might choose one of the new
open heel. open toe patent leath-
ers. They are showing some COM
pletely perforated. with curl
ing patent bow, wonderful for
Spring.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-30
Early Floors

The earliest wood floors were
81 blanks. hand-hewn TO random
width and laid with pegs. The
woods were those at hand-oak
in England and France. walnut
in Italy and pine in the Ameri-
can colonies. although oak, too,
was not uncommon IN the col
Onies.
As in all periods, decorative
style resulted from available
materials and tools. and the
wide plank floors of the Nor
man, Tudor. ElZabethan and
Early American periods became
characteristic. Many of them
were so durable that they are
still in good condition after sey-
eral hundred years of use.
The interesting irregularities
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29
Aluminium, Steel on
U.s. Salvage List
In New Campaign
Two Test Drives Get
Under Way Friday to
Save Vital Materials

WASHINGTON, May 20
(UP) Nationwide salvage
campaigns to collect scrap
metals-aluminum and steel
may be started by July !
as a result of threatened shortages
defense officials said today.
Two test campaigns begin tomor-
row in Richmond, Va. and Madison
Wis, where the civilian populations
will be asked to contribute alumni
UNI pots, pans, kettles, old Frank
lin automobiles which contain
much aluminium, vacuum cleaner
and washing machine parts, cast
ings and other salvageable items.
Germany, italy, Great Britain and
Japan all have initiated pickup
campaigns to collect scrap materials
to keep their war industries sup
piled.
Defense officials believed large
scale advertising campaign would
begin in June as a build-up for
the salvage campaign to begin on
independence day. The drive would
Continued on Page s; Column y
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29
Man Kills Self
With Ch|orofoiIl1

With face buried in towel and
three empty chloroform bottles
nearby, the body of Henry Rick
erick Jacobus of Los Angeles was
found late Wednesday in a locked
room in an El Centre hotel.
Among papers found in the room
by Deputy Coroner Herbert
Hughes were a social security card
and a draft card giving the name
and an address in Los Angeles.
The body was discovered by
Frank Mazzaferro, hotel proprietor,
and James A. Ross. Ross said the
room was locked Tuesday and he
supposed the occupant was asleep.
When the room still was locked
Wednesday afternoon, Ross said.
he called the proprietor. The door
was locked and the windows bar
red. Jacobus registered at the hotel
Saturday. Jacobus told Mrs. MAJ
zaferro that he had had trouble
with his wife.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29
Picketing Called
Peril 10 Farmers
Shipping I.V.F|ax
Teamsters Ring Plant
Despite Vote FavOring
Indeperdent Dealing

Imperial county's Associ'
ated Farmers headquarters
announced Thursday t h a t
valley flax growers face g
Serious menace to the dellv-
cry of their crop" through picket
ing of the Glidden company plant
at Buena Park. Calf, by A. F. OF
l.. Transfers union representatives
Valley trucks have already been
halted and refused admission and
growers are contemplating conveys
the announcement added
Picketing began at the Glidden
plant when unionization was sought
and a subsequent election resulted
in all but one vote going for inde-
pendent bargaining. The opposing
vote favored CIO affiliation, the
Associated Farmers said.
A temporary injunction was issued
Wednesday and a hearing set for
June 6, but Thursday the pickets
reappeared as usual the farmers
group stated, and trucks were again
being stopped.
Argyle McLachlan OF the South
west Flax Seed association, whose
seed was involved, said that as fai
as he knew no loads had failed tc
reach destination but that some hao
been delayed. He said he under
stood that some loads had beer
transferred to other trucks before
taken into the plant at Buena Park
Hugh Osborne, secretary of the
Associated Farmers, and John d.
Bois of the flax association were
reported assisting in an attempt tt
settle the difficulties.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29

CIO die casters In i've CleVelano
plants of the Aluminium Company OF
America directed a new strike threat
at defense production to express
impatience with wage negotiations
The action came at a time of
aluminium shortage so severe that
the nation was drafting tentative
plans for a salvage campaign tc
bolster its stock of the precious
metal.
In a vote conducted by the Ma
tional Association of Die Casters
1888 of the 1872 balloting members
favored a strike. They demanded
81 daily wage increase to replace
an eight-cent hourly increase re-
Gently granted.
The company, employing 4,50C
men in the five plants, is the ma
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29

muniques indicated plainly the tide
of battle had swung to the air.
borne Nazi invaders and barring an
unlikely 11th hour reversal the is
land seemed to be within German
grasp.
The Germans we're driving the
hard pressed British forces from
one stronghold after another, aided
by almost unchallenged air domin-
ance which enabled them to inflict
terrific bombardments upon the
British defenders, heavily damage
the British eastern Mediterranean
fleet and needless of losses-bring
in heavy and constant reinforce
ments of air-borne troops.
The British admitted they had
been driven from Canea, capital OF
Crete and Suda bay, the British
fleet anchorage, and fighting was
now reported in the vicinity of Reti-
mo. The Germans claimed their
forces had swept on to capture Can
dia, largest city on the island. If
the German report is correct, Nazi
forces now control virtually all
strategically important points on
Crete.
SHIP LOSSES
1t seemed probable the British and
Greek allies would be forced to
fight to the last on the island since
there appeared little chance for
evacuation. All the good harbors
J,o ri =
most Of them now under Nazi con-
troll.
AS Crete apeared to be slipping
from British grasp, the admiralty
admitted additional losses in the
category of shipS-cruisers and de-
strCyers-Wl&lch the British can
least afford to lose.
The admiralty revealed a third
cruiser was lost in Crete, bringing
British losses there to seven war;
ships, three cruisers and four de-
stroyerS.
A fifth detroyer, the admiralty
revealed, was lost in the Atlantic
in the course of a heavy air attack
launched by the luftWaffe upon the
British Warships which sank the
battleship Bismarck.
Great Britain placed her war aims
before the world for the first time
aims calling for the establishment
everywhere of President Roosevelt's
-four freedoms" and stern military
and political terms to prevent Ger
many from ever again aspiring tc
Continued on Page s; Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29
Georgia Men Face
Indictments for
EnsIavinq Negroes

CHICAGO, May 20 (UP-A fed
eral grand jury today indicted a
Georgia plantation owner and his
lawyer on charges of conspiring to
place and hold Negroes in bondage.
The indictments named William
Toliver Cunningham, ST., Lexington,
Ga, owner of the Sandy Cross plan
tation, and Hamilton McWhorter,
Sr., Atlanta and Lexington attorney.
McWhorter was said to be former
president of the Georgia senate.
Bonds were set at $1,000 each.
They we're charged with conspir-
ing to deprive six Chicago Negroes
of their civil rights under the 18th
(slavery) amendment, to hold them
in slavery, and to return them to
peonage after they had escaped
from the plantation.
Federal authorities said the case
was the first of its kind since 1911
under the civil rights statutes Of
1870. '-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29
Chutist Monsters
Met Worse Horror
Than They Created
Survivors Reveal Story
OF First Attack on
Maleme Airport
BY RICHARD ID. MCMILLAN

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt,
May 28. (UP)-(Delayed)-
German parachute troops
completely covered with
green paint dropped onto the NAL
eme airport like faceless monsters
from another world to start the
battle of Crete, British officers who
fought there said today.
The Germans encountered even
worse horrors than they created.
Laughing, yelling Maoris-the New
Zealand aborigines whose ances-
tors were inveteratc cannibals -
butchered them with bayonetS
Crete natives pounced upon some
and slit their throats. British anti
aircraft guns poured sprays of in
cendiary bullets into the troop
carrying German planes, bringing
some of them down in flames.
The Germans had begun the bat
tie with a bombing and machine
cunning airplane attack on the
airport district, and it already was
an inferno when the hordes OF
parachutists started down, green
paint covering even their faces.
hands and the binoculars they
carried.
There was general massacre OF
every parachutist who landed the
first day. After two Gays the Ger
mans were able to land some planes
at the field and to drive the Brit
ish airport force a mile and halt
down the road. Then the Maoris
counter attacked with bayonets
again and drove the Germans out
The battle lasted seven days. The
British Imperials finally were over
whelmed and group of officers
from airport staff have arrived here
with the first detailed account OF
Continued on Page s; Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29

turned thumbs down earlier this
week. In 17-page veto message he
charged that the bill was ''uncon-
stitutional class legislation. Citing
a number of court decisions, the
governor said the supreme court of
the United States had held such
laws violated the rights guaranteed
by the first and l4th amendments
of the federal constitution.
At the same time, however, Gov
ernor Olson warned labor that Cali
fornia cannot be expected to look
with favor upon stoppages in de-
tense preparedness work.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29
High Ranking Nazi
Arrested in n. Y:
Justice Dept Says

WASHINGTON, May %. (UP)-
Attorney General Robert II. Jack
son announced today the arrest in
New York of Kurt Heinrich Reith,
high-ranking Nazi party leader.
Jackson said Reith was taken into
custody in a New York hotel and
was Immediately taken to Ellis Is
land, He will be held there pending
institution of deportation proceed
ings.
Reith was accused of giving a
false explanation for his entry into
the United States on March %.
Officials here described him as the
number one" Nazi now in the
United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29

gether with three cruiSers-werc
lost in waters around Crete.
The admiralty reported that one
officer and as seamen are missing
in the sinking of the Mashona.
The rescue of 100 officers and men
of the Bismarck contrasts with the
heavy losses suffered By the British
in the sinking of the great 42,l0O-
ton Hood. Only three of that war
ships personnel of about 1,50O men
were rescued. The 100 saved from
the Bismarck came from a person.
mel of about the same number.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29

Saturday TO $4,000 by Tuesday and
more water probably will reach I'M
perial dam Sunday.
He added that some loWlands may
be flooded until the river scours
out a deeper channel and ground
table water may be increased in
other areas.
United Press, meanwhile, report
ed from Needles that there was no
further rise in the river which this
week drove more than 100 families
from their homes in that sector.
Considerable damage below The
International line in Mexico was
reported with farms inundated and
a Mexican railroad bridge washed
out.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29
Chutist Mex SchmeIinQ
Killed in Crete Fighting

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, May &c
(UP) - Max Schmeling, German
prize fighter of all time, and former
world heavyweight champion, has
been killed in Crete while fighting
as a Nazi parachute soldier, reiia-
BILE New Zealand military sources
said today.
Informants said Schmeling had
been made prisoner and was killed
when he seized the rifle of wound
ed man and tried to escape.
The report was not official and
hence could not be confirmed but he
was told circumstantially by field
ambulance men who said his body
had been identified positively.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29
Ickes Advocates
Power Priorities

WASHINGTON, May 30 CUP)-
Secretary of the Interior Harold l.
Ickes said today priorities ought to
be established on distribution of
electric power.
He also warned persons living on
the east coast may be coming to
gasoline-less Sundays unless the
shortage of transportation facilities
from southern oil fields is alleviated
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29
Deputies Prevent
Battle Of Century

The battle of the century failed
to materialize.
Police and deputy sheriffs sum
moned to prevent fisticuffs between
Ell Centre and Imperial High school
boys late Wednesday afternoon were
too much for the would-be gladia-
tors, The boys failed TO show up
on the field Of battle arranged
when Imperial boys challenged the
FL Centre boys to meet them at the
old golf course between the two
towns for pitched battle to settle
school rivalry,
Some of the boys were seen rec
onnoitering the field but did not
leave their cars, officers said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29
River Flow Will Step Up TO $4,000
Feet During Weekend Officials
See No Potential Damage TO Valley

Although the present $4,000 foot
flow of water on the Colorado river
was expected to step up to 10000
this weekend. Reclamation Bureau
authorities at Yuma and officials of
the Imperial Irrigation district held
no fears Thursday of flood damage.
j. X. Rohrer, Bureau engineer,
told United Press the flow at Park
er dam increased from 10000 last
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29

or two, SHE'D away from discussing
the war and national affairs, waved
farewell and raced for Palm Springs.
"I don't do anything much any
more the chairman of the board
for the nations fourth largest bank
explained gravely. They listen po.
litely to me, but it goes in one ear
and out the other E. then they call
me an old fossil -. :"
Renolds j. Barbieri, cashier of
Bank of America, who accompanied
A. P. and was standing nearby,
winked broadly.
A. P. is big. a good six feet des-
pite hunched shoulders, weight prob
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29

can accent. that he was a boxer.
Officers at the scene we're satisfied
beyond doubt of Schmeing's identl-
ty. 1t was said
Informants asserted that Schmel-
ing became trucelent and threat
ening when he was sent from the
dressing station TO prison camp
with other prisoners.
The New Zealand soldiers IN
charge were called out TO mop up
a newly landed group OF German
parachutists, 1t was asserted. and
Schmeling. grabbing the rifle Of
wounded man nearby, tried TO es-
cape and was killed in the attempt.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-29
Driver Sought
After Accident

Hig h way patrolmen searched
Thursday for Frank Fortenberry
who, they said walked away after
his car and one driven by James
Erwin Parker, 35. of Holtville, col
lided east of Meloland Wednesday
night
Parker told Highway Patrolman
Tillman Daley he tried to get out of
Fortenberry's way but was unable
to avoid the collision.