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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-13
SERVICES DONATED

All artists contributed their
services, as did the technical and
clerical stats of WJR. Musicians
gave their talent through the
courtesy Of The Detroit Fedora
ton of Musicians.
What a show it was! What tai
ent, including Samuel Benavie and
his orchestra; George Dorm, tenor ;
The Mummers, directed by Ger
aldine Elliott and Eric Hewlett;
Helen Hadley. soprano; John Nc
Kenzie. tenor; Tim DooGttle and
His Gang; Harold Kean, The Sun
shine Boy; Cyril Wexemael. bar
itone; Lyn Carl, singer of popular
songs, and others.
1t was a grand program, one
that fully sustained the reputation
this annual broadcast has estab
Ilished as "Detroit's Radio Show o
the Year"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-13

Gen. Hugh s. Johns son.
"America's Fighting Thinker"
Writes Daily for the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-13

Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson,
"America's Fighting Thinker"
Writes Daily for the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-13
Broadcast Nets
Old NeWsboys
S2,O27 Pledges

When the final number Of The
Detroit Times-WJR Old Newsboys'
annual Goodfellow broadcast had
faded on the air at 3:24 a. m.
today, S2,027.S8 had been pledged
TO help the Goodfellows bring
Christmas happiness to needy De-
troit children.
A short time later shower OF
checks and cash began to arrive
at Station WJR, by messenger,
mail and even delivered in person
1t is hoped by Norman White, OF
WJR. that all who pledged money
will have fulfilled their promises
within the next few hours.
From the time the program
opened at 11:15 p. m. yesterday
with Leo ]. Fitzpatrick in charge
of ceremonies, a succession Of
melody and other entertainment
went over the air into many thou
sands of homes, for four hours anC
nine minutes.
PLEDGES POUR IN
For several hours before thu
program began, requests anC
pledges began to come by tele
phone, keeping a staff of studio
attaches busy answering the calls
The pledges continued to arrive a
intervals throughout the program
First contribution came from
Freddie Meyers. of 10955 Cratic
avenue, and the second from TIT
Elks Bowling League.
AS requests were fulfilled b.
musicians and singers, the name
of those making requests and tn
amounts of their pledges were an
nounced on the air.
/ Assisting Fitzpatrick. vice-pres
ident and general manager o
WJR, in directing the ceremonies
were Norman White and Uncl
Neal Tony. the latter the MAJ
who broadcasts The Detroit Sun
day Times funnies over WJR eacl
Sunday morning.
Evening star., 1941-11-10
Is From D. T.. Area
Named on National
Legion Committees
Four Senators Selected;
Entire Pilgrimage Group
Is From Washington

Twenty-Five American Legion
naires from the Washington area
have been named on 1912 national
committees Of the Legion, 1t was
announced by National Comdr. Ly-
man u. Stambaugh of Indianapolis
District area members comprise the
entire National Pilgrimage Commit
tee. They include William r
Kershner. chairman; Edwin W. Lu-
ther, vice chairman James Cox
OF Alexandria, Patrick j. Fitzgib-
bonS, Oscar G. Jones, Joseph L.
KOehl. John Allen Long, Basil Nc
AlliSter, T. A. McAteer of Brooklyn
Park. Md; Guy c. Nadeau. Hey
wood N Saunders, J. Franklin Will
son, Clement Murphy, Ralph I
Graves and Ernest H. Campbell.
John Lewis Smith was reappoint-
ed member Of the Finance Com
mittee. Fred Fraser was named to
the Boys State Committee, William
H. Hargrave, National Defefse Com
mittee: DR. Ray F.. Guynn, ad-
visory board of the Rehabilitation
Committee; Edward l.. Marthill,
Veterans Preference Committee: ::
Horace w. Lineberg and Donald w.
Smith, Law and Order Committee,
and James F. KehOe, Charles Kshen
Evening star., 1941-11-10
Torpedoed Seamen
.0f Merchant Craft
Real Heroes Of War
Get Ne Another Ship
Is Their Plea When
Landed in Iceland
BY DREW MIDDLETON.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (Corre-
spondence of the Special News Serv-
ice) Authentic heroes of this wal
are the merchant Seamen who meet
and survive torpedoings and bomb
ingS on the North Atlantic, yet re-
turn to sea to continue their dull
and dangerous job Of ferrying ma
terials and munitions from the
United States to Britain.
They come In here from the At
lantic after days or a week In an
open boat.
Curiously unheroic figures in
greasy uniforms and odd combina-
tons of trousers, sweaters and
| Jackets, they tramp the streets of
this somber seaport murmuring
their war cry:
Get me another ship"
Unnoticed against the background
of uniforms of Americans, BritonS
and Icelanders, they live in tram
Sient camp.
For them there are no bands, no
trim uniforms, no Salutes. They
spend their time. washing what
clothes they have left. sleeping long
hours and gazing longingly at the
sea which beckOnS outside the har-
Dor.
Ships Hold Affection.
You know their ships. The CeSSa,
Pink Star and the rest . grubby
unhandy little tramp ships that
poked their noses into the strange
ports of the Indian Ocean; and
sleek, modern liners whose decks
once echoed to the laughter of cock
tail parties.
These men retain affection for
their last ships. She was little
sweetheart, she was" they say.
Five thousand tons, and sound all
through"
They are Britons and Chinese,
Scots and MalayanS, Canadians and
Trinidad Negroes. They are mostly
in the late 30s and 40s-navies at
war have taken the younger men.
1t is not unusual TO meet men who
have been at sea 80 or more years,
who remember torpedoings and con-
voys of the World War.
If any one looks even fairly Off
cial. they corner him and out it
pourS:
Look, get me another ship, will
va? I been at sea % years. Got
sunk last trip out but I'm in good
shape. Get me another ship, will
ya?"
Most of Them Broke.
Those who have money share it.
Most of them are fiat broke when
they land, clad i'll clothes donated
by reScuing crews.
You see them in cafes. eating 81
lently and listening to the chatter
and laughter of young American and
British soldiers.
Their stories are grim. gay, gall
liant by turns. They tell of radio
engineers who stuck to their in
StrumentS as their ships settled,
knowing the German might sur
face and shell the radio room.
They tell of a Chinese cook on
an English ship who kept life
boat happy by mimicking the Off
GERS :. of captains standing calmly
on bridges. directing the lowering
of boats from sinking ships . of
seamen who went down into a
blazing hold to pull out wounded
oiler. then went back to rescue the
ships cat.
Their attitude toward German
submarine commanders is strange
mixture of admiration and con-
tempt. In one breath they say,
Hes bloody pirate" and then they
add, but he's a cunning devil, al
ways trying some new dodge"
After a week or two weeks or some
times a month of waiting, ships
come in, and they go to sea again.
Sooner or later they are crossing
Evening star., 1941-11-10
When Acute Colds
Choke You Up, Cause
Coughing Sposms

HERE'S some good sound advice
H.. when a choking, nagging cold
makes your nose runny, stufts up your
head and causes coughing spasms that
make you miserable . relieve misery
this SPECIAL, h0ME-P PROVED vtCxS WAY.
Boil some WATERPROOF it into a
bowl. Add a heaping spoonful Of
VapORub. Then breathe in the steam
ing medicinal vapors.
From the first breath you can feel
relief come as VapoRub's medication
is carried deep into the breathing pas
sages of nose, throat and chest. 1t
soothes the irritation-quiets the
Coughing-helps clear congestion in
the upper bronchial tubes, head, nose
and throat.
Once you enjoy the results of this
special mediCated vapors treatment
you will realize why so many peo-
Evening star., 1941-11-10
Conudiun Air Chief
Praises U. S. Progress

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 10.-Air Mar
shall William A. Bishop Of the Royal
Canadian Air Force said yesterday
the United States was making
wonderful" progress in aircraft
production.
Arriving here after a one-Week
inspection tour Of West Coast air
craft factories, the air marshal said l.:
Il visited five factories, and I
was just taking a look-see. 1t is
perfectly wonderful how things have
developed since was last here last
May"
He said the empire air training
program in Canada was way ahead
Of schedule" and that I'VE are all
very well satisfied as to the ulti-
mate outcome" He plans to return
to Ottawa by plane today.
Evening star., 1941-11-10

the most dangerous stretch Of ocean
in the WOrld-the North Atlantic.
You see them marching single file
up gangplanks, carrying what little
the war has left them.
AS they 60 aboard, they look up to
Evening star., 1941-11-10

see "the old Red Duster," the en-
sign of Britains merchant marine
Then they know, these plain men,
that they are home again.
Britain owes them lot, for as
much as any navy and air force,
they keep the lifelines open.
Evening star., 1941-11-10

and Hiram w. Hunter, Distinguished
Guests Committee.
Nine Legionnaires who live in
Washington, but maintain member
ships in other departments were ap-
pointed on committees. They in
cluded Senators Brooks and Lucas Of
Illinois, Senator Burton of Ohio,
Senator Maybank of South Carolina,
Mai. Fred H. Hauser. o. E. Hollen-
beck, Gen. P. C. Harris, Thomas
Owen. jr, and Brig. Gen. Frank T.
Hines.
Evening star., 1941-11-10

Sizes ore approximate
Choose your Karasfan now and use
our 6fo Deferred Payment Plan. The
only charge is for interest at 6cn per
nnmam on declining monthly balances.
Check and see how little it costs.
Evening star., 1941-11-10

Special voyto ~ relief Siah VspsRvt
pie regularly use VapoRub this way.
ADDED RflIEF-also rub Vicks VapoRub
on throat, chest, and back. at bedtime
to get the two-way benefits of its
soothing medicated vapors and com.
forting poultice action while you sleep.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
South America Honeymoon Good Will Tour May Reward
Old Don1inions Have 1t Easy
With Oorsnen of Potomac
And Virginia Boat Clubs

heat for The eights, Potomac and
Old Dominion were paired off. The
Alexandria eight was the winner.
The finals saw Old Dominion and
Virginia racing, despite the fact Club
Announcer Ben Minor insisted on
calling the Richmond eight Potomac
throughout the race. The Virginians
rowed raggedly and about two thirds
down the course one Of their men
caught a crab.
1t was a break Old Dominion really
didn't need for they were far su-
perior. At the finish the Alex
andrians were better than a boats
length ahead
Potomac's points came through
a first in the heat race for souls and
their second in the eight-oared
event.
While the Virginia club showed
up poorly yesterday in the quad
event, the team had sufficient points
from previous regattas to retain the
series trophy for that class.
Take Gig Event, Too.
In addition to winning the DAYS
eight and scull races, Old Dominion
scored in the gig event. In the first
heat they were boat length ahead
of Virginia, and when they met Po-
tomac in the finals, the gig crew
from Alexandria duplicated its
earlier performance.
A tail wind, while kicking up
something of chop, aided the
oarSmen over their downstream
course. All events we're over a half
mile
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Another Net Crown
For Pauline Betz
Seen in Essex
Eastern Champ Seeded
No. | in Field of 48 for
Invitation Tourney
Bv the Associated Press.


MANCHESTER, Mass, Aug. IL
Pauline Betz, the pretty Rollings
College coed who captured the
women's Eastern grass court singles
championship at Rye, N. Y, yester-
day, appeared today logical candi-
date for another crown, the 18th
annual women's invitation title at
the Essex County Club.
Pauline is top-seeded in the field
of 48, which opens the quest for the
crown vacated by Alice Marble, now
turned professional, after a three
year reign. Miss Betz, incidentally,
was finalist with Queen Alice last
year as the latter swept to her third
straight triumph.
However. she will have plenty of
opposition as the field includes seven
of the top 10 in the 1910 rankings.
Only absentees in additional to Miss
Marble will be Mrs. Sarah Palfrey
Cooke, a perennial contender in this
tourney, and Marjory Wheeler
Kelleher.
Those seeded in addition to Miss
Betz are Helen Jacobs of Greenville,
Del, winner of this title in 1886:
Dorothy May Bundy, of Santa
Monica, Calf: Helen Bernhard,
New York; Mary Arnold, Los
Angeles, and Hope Knowles, Phila-
delphia
Three foreign stars also are in
cluded in the field.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
BY MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.

Old Domision Boat Club oarSmen
could call themselves Southern Row.
ing Association champions for 194l
today following their easy victory
over two weak opponents-Potomac
Boat Club of Washington and Vir-
ginia Boat Club of Richmond-in
the third and final match race held
yesterday of the Alexandria club
house.
The nearby club rolled up 27 points
to Potomac's 9 and Virginia'S in
winning two of the three series
events, the eight-oared shell and the
four -oared gig. These points added
to their "a tally made in regattaS
earlier in the season gave the Do
minions a final 25-point lead over
Virginia.
Series scores at the close Of the
regatta were: Old Dominion, 81;
Virginia, 36, and Potomac, %.
One Event Proves Contest.
An otherwise slow day was bright
ened during the finals for the quad
ruple scull event when a smooth
rowing Potomac team held the Old
Dominion oarsmen until about SO
yards from the finish line. Ragged
but more powerful, the Alexandrians
gave a last squirt Of speed to take
the event.
Their time of two minutes, five
seconds for the half mile set a record
for the Potomac course. according to
officials. The team was composed
of John Davis, Jack Franklin, Sonny
Weiner and Henry Roach, stroke.
Virginia drawing bye in the first
Evening star., 1941-08-11

AS newsworthy as the fact that
the sun rose in the east this morn
ing is the story that Barney Welsh
still is the Districts tennis cham
pion and that Don Leavens was his
final-round victim, in straight sets,
for the third time this season.
Leavens did manage to win more
games from the champ at Edge
moor Club yesterday than in either
prior final, but Welsh won his
eighth straight District title by
scores of 60, "a, Ga, all of
Leavens' games being won after
Welsh had established convincing
margins. Barney ian up 40 lead
in the first set, seized a SO ad-
vantage in the second before Don
won four games in a row and got
off to a 80 lead in the third.
Leavens did manage to tie the score
at 4-all, but, as always, when pres
sure is needed, Welsh applied it to
win without being extended to a
deuce set.
Score Doubles Upset.
With Hugh Lynch, Welsh also won
the doubles title, thereby surprising
many who had picked the newcom-
ers from the Far West, Bob Under
wood and Dick Bennion. Although
the spectators were pulling for the
losers, the latter made far too many
errors against a combination like
Welsh and Lynch and could win
irl Tho
60, 10-8, 4-6, 60.
1t is the first time Lynch ever
has shared the D. C. doubles title,
although Welsh often has won it
with Bud Markey, Ralph McElvenny
and Dcoly Mitchell. But there was
no denying that Lynch was the
outstanding man on the court yes
terday and paced his higher-ranked
partner to their triumph.
Lynch not only won his service
more times than any of the con-
teStants of a match which was
noteworthy for the number of times
in which service was broken, but
it was his burning placements
squarely between Bennion and Un-
derwood that won his side points
time and again. 1t was only fitting,
therefore. that one of Hugh's hot
drives which Underwood only could
touch proved the match point in
the eighth game of the fourth set.
Altogether, Lynch won 10 of his
IL services, the next best in that
respect being Underwood, who could
take only of his II. Welsh,
usually deadly at service, lost 7 of
his IL.
Coast Pair Inconsistent.
Bennion and Underwood played
spectacularly at times, but for every
sensational shot that came off their
Evening star., 1941-08-11
PouIton, Kerr, Mrs. Smythe Star
As II New Records Are Set
In National Skeet Meet

winning the sub-small gauge crown.
Mrs. Smythe, in five women's
events, was returned as queen in
the all-gauge with 245 of $50; the
all-around with SGT of $50: the sub
sman-gauge with 80 of 100; 2O-gauge
with 100 of 100 and teamed with her
husband to take the huSband-Wiie
title.
She set new records in all events
except the all-gauge, missing by one
target, and lost the other women's
race, the small-gauge, to Diana
Boiling of Greenwich, Conn, in the
shootoff.
Fred Missildine of Sea Island. Ga,
annexed the professional all-gauge
title with 249 of $50, another record.
while Grant Ilseng of Chicago, mail
order house ammunition shooter
took the all-around with another
new mark of 534 of $50.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Aquacade Scheduled
By District Group
Al Norfolk Club
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
OLD POINT COMFORT, Va. Aug
ll.-A vest pocket aquacade is
planned here next Sunday at the
Chamberlain Beach Club by a group
of Washington Golf and Country
Club swimmers headed by Mrs. June
Stan. former Middle Atlantic back
stroke champion.
Other featured performers will be
the Palmer sisters, Patsy and Phyl-
lis. and John Marshall, former Big
Ten fancy diving champion.
Included in the exhibition will be
a water ballet in which eight girl
swimmers will swim to music. exc
cutting several spectacular maneu-
vers. Those taking part will be Bev-
erly Mcleod, Sue Radcliffe, Peggy
Prichard, Prue Hudson, Mary Lou
Rudio, Lorraine Skinner. Norma
Jean Skinner and Helen Klonig.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Victory in New Gomez
Keeps Gaetina Bowl
For Bob Lippincott
Horace Brown Carries
OFF Upton Award in
Races at Oxford
By G Staff Correspondent of The Star.

By Staff Correspondent of The Star
OXFORD, Md, Aug. 11-For the
second consecutive year a youthful
Riverton IN. j. pilot will have his
name engraved on the covted Gae-
tina Bowl raced for each year by
comet sailors of Chesapeake Bay.
New Jersey and Pennsylvania in
the finale of the annual races of
Chesapeake Bay Yacht Club here.
The skipper is Bob Lippincott,
whose new comet Swallow won for
him the same trophy he took home
year ago in another and older
comet.
1t was history repeating itself in
another way, too. The fleet of stars
and comets raced in a full-sail
breeze which gave many of the skip
pers and crews anxious moments.
Similar conditions prevailed for the
closing events of the three day re-
gatta last year.
A trophy presented by the late
Sir Thomas Upton for the star
class also leaves the Chesapeake
this year. 1t was won by Horace
Browns Blue Stardust from Ocean
City, N. j.
Young Reeves Hicks from oxford
was leading the Upton series until
yesterday. But his Osopeachee fell
by the way in the last race, giving
him final second position. Third
in the series was Hank Wilmer of
Philadelphia, this years star class
champion of the Bay.
The Chesapeake Bay Y. C. races
yesterday brought to a close the
combined regattas of that club and
the Tired Avon Yacht Club here.
Winners in the latter races received
their prizes Saturday night.
Evening star., 1941-08-11
BY FRITZ HOWELL,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 11.-Eleven
new records were in the books today
and six others had been tied, as the
Nations topnotch skeet shooters
wound up their seventh annual ma
tional championships.
On top of the scoring spree in the
regular events, the greatest ever
produced by scattergun enthusiasts,
were several other outstanding per-
formances.
C. H. Poulton, from down in the
Alamo country at San Antonio. Tex,
took the final official event on the
slate, the coveted all-gauge $50
target championship, with $50
straight, but he had to break IT'S
additional targets to nose out Alex
Kerr, 28-year-old Beverly Hills,
Calf, star, in the shootof.
The shootoff, occasioned by a
deadlock in the regular event, was
the longest ever witnessed at the
national event. Poulton, 41-year-
old automobile salesman, broke the
entire string while Kerr missed the
155th target to lose the crown In
extra innings for the second time in
two years.
Kerr, however, boasted an un-
broken string of 545 regular targets
for a new world record with the IL
gauge. erasing mark of 512 set
three years ago by Louisville's youth
full Max Marcum. The shootoff
targets did not count in the con-
Secutive string.
Kerr, while losing the al-gauge
title, was the star among the men
competing in the annual meet, while
Mrs. M L. Smythe of Aurora, Ohio,
was the feminine luminary. Kerr
won the all-around title with 543 of
$50: teamed with Dorothy Orr of
New York for the mixed team title,
and set a new record of SO of 100 in
Evening star., 1941-08-11
Glowing Disappears
As Frank Captures
Eastern Crown
Pauline Betz, Schroeder
And Kramer Garner
Other Rye LoureIs
By the Associated Press.

Sy the Associated Press.
RYE, N. Y, Aug. 11-Maybe it's
marriage that makes a guy settle
down and tend strictly to business.
If that's the case, the tennis
fathers not only will bestrow their
blessings upon Frank Kovacs and
Virginia Wolfenden, who announced
their marriage in the middle of the
Eastern grass court tournament last
week, but they probably will hurry
and arrange another goodwill tour
of South America this fall to give
them nice honeymoon.
1t has been agreed for couple
of seasons that all Frank needed
was something to make him settle
down. He liked to clown and make
the galleries laugh and show them
how he felt when he muffed an easy
shot. Sometimes he appeared to
muff them just for the opportunity,
or to forget how to make good
ones when he needed them.
Changes Attitude in Eastern.
In spite of that he earned third
place in the national rankings last
season.
In the Eastern tournament he
wasn't like that. Seeded third be-
hind Defending Champion Bobby
Riggs and National Title Holder
Don McNeill. Kovacs stormed
through the tournament with the
loss of only one set in IS. He gave
McNeill a sound trouncing in the
semifinal and then went on to take
the title yesterday by heating Wayne
Sabin, IS. Ga. 60.
This week the same group of male
PLAYERS. minus KovacS, moves on to
Newport for the annual invitation
tournament, while the women'S d.
vision, topped bv Eastern Chamnion
Pauline Betz of Los Angeles, plays
at Manchester, Mass. in prepara-
ton for the nationals at Forest
Hills. August 80.
Miss Betz Defeats Mrs. Cooke.
Miss Betz won her title by beat
ing Mrs. Sarah Palfrev Cooke. 2-6,
s-6. IS. National Doubles Cham
pions Jack Kramer and Ted Schroe-
der won yesterdays other final. de-
featine Riggs and Gene Mako, 81,
e-7. 60.
Sabin, who had upset Riggs in
the quarter-fnal wasn't PLAYING
had tennis all week. but he couldn't
do more than stage a few short
rallies against KovacS yesterday
Franks drives were deep and hard,
his frequent drop shots were exc
cuted with a masterlv touch and
timing that caught his rival fiat
footed and he put away point after
point with cross-court backhand
shots that landed in the corners
of the court at angles that made
them practically impossible to re-
turn