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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-27
War ON SpeedeIs
Officer Cuts SuUath Among Youthful Drivers;
so Tickets GiUen Out in IS Days

Officer Mentally will get you II
you don't watch out--that is, II
you live in the northwest section
of the city and are given to break
ing the speed laws,
For McNally is a one-man traf-
fic division who is leaving a trail
of speeding tickets from Grand
River avenue to McNichols road.
Mentally is Patrolman Luverne
IL. McNally of the Traffic Divi-
sion. and he's waging his own
traffic war against youthful reck-
less drivers i'm the vicinity of his
home which is at 1903 Steel ave-
niue.
HE TELLS ABOUT 1T
He tells il this way:
For a long time the traffic
division has been receiving AZ
high as 10 complaints week
from citizens in the general
vicinity OF Cooley High School
telling of unbelievable number
of speed viOlatOrs.
"All of these streets are
narrow side-streets, with cars
parked on both sides and chill
dren playing on them. These
young drivers have turned them
into race tracks. When two COM
plants came i'm bearing a total
OF 800 signatures, IL was decided
Ii was time to act"
With the approval Of his super.
Tor officers, McNally set out &c
clean up those back streets. Ir
his first month, during July, he
handed out a grand total of 49,
tickets, most of them for speed.
ing and reckless driving.
60 TICKETS IN Is DAYS
Yesterday, in traffic court II
was shown that in the 13-day
period between July u and July
| 25 he had issued 90 tickets. 81 o
which were for speeding and i
for reckless driving. For August
he already has a batch of ticket:
as thick as "Gone With the Wind
II have little boy Of my
own who Is 3-years-old. I once
picked up a little girl the same
age who was struck down right
in front of me. She died In my
arms. Those things Kind of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-27
NEW EXAMINATION

No sooner VIII the examination
be completed, however, than a
new one will be opened on indict-
mentS charging many of the same
persons and more than a dozen
Others with graft and corruption
d in public office from 1884 10 1893
during the administration of Ham,
tramck mayors Joseph Lcwando-
wski and Rudolph TcneroWicz.
II is expected that FIgurski, who
suddenly turned from defendant
10 states witness, viii testify at
these hearings.
$4,000 IN FIVE MONTHS
Now under sentence of from
two 10 five years IN Jackson prison
for his part In the Wayne county
graft conspiracy, Figurski has
testified that Kanar was paid
$4,000 in five months 10 permit
the operation of disorderly houses
IN Hamtramck.
In addition. Figurski said that
kanar was paid 81 900 by Thomas
Bradley. brothel keeper, for APP
pointing Barney Nowicli as head
of the police department.
Bradley, returned from Jackson
Prison where he is now serving a
10 TO 20-year sentence for pander-
ing. later testified that he coll
lected $3.50 each from the oper-
ators of three disorderly houses
10 pay Kanar, but was unable
10 raise the money himself and
finally had 10 borrow il from
FigHrskf.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Heffernun
Continued From First PageJ

good for me. Id take No. 7, let
No go where it may.
so I took No. 7. in a nice. cold
ice box, more commonly known as
refrigerator car. In due course
it arrived in Portland. Portland is
good show town. I got job on
the stage. And few months later
1 was headed for Hollywood"
Mary Beth Hughes is the girl who
got her starry ticket by sauntering
down the boulevard gazing into store
windows. Let her tell it:
I had just finished an addition
for the Earl Carroll chorus and
had been turned down because I
was too heavy. On the way back
10 the rooming house I proceeded to
window sflop-for beautiful. big au-
tomobiles l never could hope to
buy-then.
During one of these pauses ]
noticed a man staring at me. Mash
ers aren't entirely unknown to Hol-
lywood, so I paid no attention and
hustled along. But I felt / was
being followed. At a street inter-
section the man tapped me on the
shoulder and gave out with the
old line, How would you like to
get into the movies?'
Astonishing as it was, this one
turned out to be the real thing
an agent with studio contacts. Tc
make it short, signed up with MIN,
he took me out to M-G-M and in
less than week I had a contract 81
Ann Rutherford's road to stardom
started with a sore tooth-and
you've probably never heard this
one before. She came from radio
Evening star., 1941-08-03

to pictures and to radio by mistake.
Little Ann was tripping down the
boulevard one day, not gayly but in
pain. She was heading for a dentist
whose Offices were in a building
adjoining one that housed a radio
station. Into the wrong building
tripped Ann. Mistaken for another
applicant, Ann got an addition. She
went on the air-and into pictures.
Ellen Drew is the actress who
found candy store clerking more
rapid route to the inner circle than
studying hard in some far-away
dramatic school. Comedian Bill
Demarest, then a talent scout, took
Ellen to Paramount for test. That
was three years ago. She's climbed
steadily ever since.
A few doors up the street from
Ellen's candy store was the barber
shop where Arleen Whelan trimmed
nails from to every day-and it
was there a director set in motion
one of the mightiest ballyhoo cam
paigns ever launched for an un-
known.
So, don't be too impressed by
all the high-sounding advice you
Evening star., 1941-08-03

The best-selling book. the best
seller by 10000 copies week, is a
grim story of war and blood and
battle and brain tumors and trag-
edy." he declared. 1T is This Above
All by Eric knight. which We will
film. Whatever quality it has that
is causing people to read it we
hope to retain in the picture.
Because a nation is thinking
about war is no reason to avoid
war stories. We are making them
because there is great drama in
tragedy and. even though it may
be grim. great entertainment.
1T is entertainment that people
want. The consent decree will
have the effect of giving it to them.
Each picture must, from September
on. be individually good. We've
all made prestige pictures. knowing
we'd be able to sell them. Here
after they might as we'll stay on
the shelf.
We've never known before exactly
what business our stars and our
pictures we're doing. We knew when
the outstanding pictures made
money and when the bad o.les
Topped. But We never knew about
the majority of pictures. the in
betWeeners. After this we will. And
we'll know about the stars.
The awakening may be very re-
vealing"
Evening star., 1941-08-03

HCIS INO nuns dlttI DCttC OH'io
cocktail party. introducing Mr..
Woolley to the Hollywood press. he
was discovered at doll-Sized table
tucked in A corner. 1t was quite
sight to see this large man with
hahy-blue eyes, pink and white
cheeks frirged with a sparse blond
beard. sitting alone there with his
naukin tucked under his chin!
ITO dine alone is the only CIV
ilized thing to do he declared
You can understand why Monty
Wool,ey. after dining with standing
room audiences during the run of
the Broadway hit, would want to
pull a Garbo after working hours.
However. he is something of a par
pdoX. Although he doesn't care a
fig about the food be eats-the
simpler the better-'7e likes it served
by cb cquiCus walters.
His home always has been a hotel
rccm. He hes a horror of posses
si0ns and never buys anything he
can become attached to. He was
brought up. ard practically born, in
hotel. His father owned the old
PriStol Hotel at the corner Of Fifth
fvoHue and Tcyty-second street,
Ncw York. Letter he acquired the
fomors Grand Union Hotel in Sara
toca Springs. Here Monty's brother
ESgar. retired businessman, nain-
tairs the Woolley home.
HIonty was used to money He
travelled from Florida to California,
Ri1 to the Riviera. He went on
wcrld cruises. once with Cole Porter,
his chum at Yale. Woolley's fame
es wit ard raconteur. his fair for
regaline parties with gay little soncs.
made him the man most often in
vitod to dinner.
At Yale his chief interest was in
the dramatic society. He always
played the leads. The ingenue was
Bill Bullitt--a future ambassador
Woolley left Yale for Harvard in
search of Phi. D. He studied with
professor Kittridge, whose famous
Kitty beard filled him with tre-
mendous envy.
llC fOhNh ilN VI lulDN pllt VI llIS
own. His mother laughed him out
of it, saying that nothing could be
sillier than a young man wearing
a beard. Orson Welles was unheard
of then.
Thirteen years later, after his
mother died. Monty Woolley grew
the beard which was to play so
large a part in his career and finally
land him in a wheelchair of foot
light fame.
After Harvard he returned to
Yale as assistant professor of
drama, leaving in huff when
George Pierce Baker arrived to
build a drama school on a Million
dollar bequest. He was soldier
twice-first with Gen. Pershing in
his hunt for Pancho Villa and
again as first lieutenant in the
World War.
He turned professional actor for
the musical "On Your Toes" The
Evening star., 1941-08-03

five majors and the Governmnt,
block booking will END. An eX-
hibitor will no longer have to BUY
A wears supply of pictures from
these five: in theory at least ne
can shop around taking the pic
lures he believes will be the most
attractive.
There is going to be a great lev
cling off" Zanuck went on. we
will know. after We begin selling
one picture at a time, whether
these stars We have been paying
so much money are worth what they
are getting
The zanuck interviewer really
should be provided with a swivel
chair. Zanuck isn't nervous. but
he PAGES around his immense Of
fee. back and forth in front and
to the sides of the person to whom
he is talking He talks as fast as
he walks. or vice versa. He stops
walking. for dramatic emphasis
maybe, as he ends each sentence.
Walking rapidly, he said he sees
no trend in movie subject matter
because of the change in merchan-
6iSing methods, nor, as some here
have predicted, because of the de-
fense emergency Some movie work
ers and makers say that in these
worrisome days pictures ought to
be entirely light and, fluffy and
girly and escapist.
Zanuck does not agree.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Not Something Thought Up,
But 7 art OF Show Business
Continued From First Pase)

throwing the spangles on tne
opening night the audience gapeo
m The talked OF 1eoree
diamond curtain Actually cost under $1,000
We sold curtains all the country for years after
said there the last of the big
kind who spring things that make
say the big dear
He great collector and he kept books where dead
call and hed
of butterfly and hed
I want color want it by yesterday
worried about wee tell him. II you want 1t by
anything
We had to vov color dot butternhow
it'll look like when spread over $50 yards
Zegd too He'd say i went to party
six or Uppy Upp SoandSo was
beautiful red dress very special red beautiful That's the red
want this number 1t was up to the Dszians
always got it. That's why heyV managed 10 remain
the only people In for 100
by the North Alliance lnco
Evening star., 1941-08-03

get from Hollywood. Stardom was.
is and always will be just around
the corner-any corner.
Remember that Greta Garbo was
modelling hats in Stockholm
department store into which wan
dered all eagle-eyed Swedish di-
rector; that Myrna 10y was selling
a bit of her sculpture to stars
wife who said, You should be in
pictures actually did some
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Teamed in Comedy

Charles Boy yer and Margaret SUI
layan have reported to Universal
for their co-starring vehicle. APP
pointment for Love" The stars OF
Back Street" are being directed by
William Setter. and the picture IS
being made unGer the production
guidance of Bruce Manning "Ap-
pointment For Love" is an ultra
modern romantic comedy.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Nh'D II. 2IO6.

Matinee . PM
DEAD End" KIDS BARTON NJ
LASE, GLADYS GEORGE .a HIT
N.dj. 300 Wings o. Sree'
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Together Again

Robert Preston and Ellen Drew,
who formed a recent film combina-
ton to make The Night Of January
16," will team together again in
The Morning After" another
Paramount murder mystery drama.
The picture, based on detective
story by James r. Langham. was
formerly known at the studio as
"Mardi Gras Murder"
Evening star., 1941-08-03

play. Monty and his beard were all
hits, and Hollywood sent him a tele-
gram to come quickly.
Unhappy in what he was called
upon to do, Monty Woolley says
that one evening his phone rang.
1T was my friend, Moss Hart, in
New York, asking me if I'd fly
East right away as he'd just writ
ten comedy for me to star in.
That's very poor joke to play
on a tired old man who's trying to
sleep 1 told him, hanging up"
The play was The Man Who
Came to Dinner" And Monty Wool
ley played the crochety, imperious.
diabolic, charming snob, Sheridan
Whiteside. 1888 times before Warmers
wheeled his chair on to Hollywood.
Released by the Bell Syndicate. IncD
Evening star., 1941-08-03

thing about it-and that William
Powell borrowed $500 from his aunt
to get started on stage career.
P. Slack Conway, once star,
now a great director. was the brake
man He was baWling stations. An
Evening star., 1941-08-03
SUNDAY

She Knew All the
Answers and
Knockout. -
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Dine Alone and Like It

Monty Wooey, The Man Who Came to Dinner" always
alone
York dinner served my House
81 nights nsa row. he said.
dimes q Prince Mike
Evening star., 1941-08-03
There's a Great Awakening
Coming to HollywCod
Ey the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD.

There is great coming HOLLYWOOD 1t will be
of the consent decree which
sell each picture individually
sold
merits will establish and picture makers AS
one latter Zanuck sa welcomes the change
result the agreement between the
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Photoplays in Washington Theaters This Week
SATURDAY

Under Age"
/ and
in Old Cheyenne
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-05
BRITISH BEAT OFF
 ATTACKS
Axis Troops Suffer Heavily as Triple Assault on
 EIduda Fails
(By Associated Press)

Britain's North Africa armies to- day were credited with beating off the heavy Axis attacks on Elduda in the bloody battle zone south of Tobruk, but new setback was ac- knowledged in the loss of Gamut, British supply base 40 miles east of Tobruk.
 Authoritative London quarters conceded that Axis troops reoccu- pied Gambut, which the British captured on the second day of Gen eral Cunningham 18-day-old of fensive in Libya.
 British headquarters said the Axis troops attacked Elduda in three waves, suffering heavy casualties. The first two assaults gained slight ly but the third saw Imperial counter attacks regain most of the lost ground The Axis forces again suffered heavily in killed and wounded as the third attack failed
 A British bulletin said New Zea land troops, mopping up along the Egyptian-Libyan frontier, routed remnants of the Italian column which fled westward.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-05
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON. Dec. 5.-Capital Talk.
 Uncle Sam may forgive his debt ors but he doesn't forget them. Over in the General Accounting Office are ten clerks who do noth- ing but be sure that the people who owe Uncle Sam money aren't for gotten.
 This little division of GAO was started only few years ago and in it's beginnings had only one clerk. Since then, the division has grown to such proportions that in government employee circles it has acquired the nickname of the beartrap.' Caught in the trap when it was last run were more than 100000 persons who owe the government the staggering sum of more than ,65OOO0,OOO (These are individual and company debts and have nothing whatever to do with unpaid foreign loans)
 Probably the reason that Uncle's nephews and nieces gave the 'beartrap" it's nickname is that thousands of them have had their fingers nipped in it. Whenever a government employe quits, owing the government for extra time off, overpayment for expenses, etc, his card goes into the file. And if he ever steps into government service again tas thousands have since na- tional defense started), he pays his debt or else.
 Uncle Sam's debtor list is grow ing by leaps and bounds. The av- craze monthly additions now have
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-05
INTERIOR
 FUR RING
 IN COURT
Investigation of Beaver PeIt Affiddvits Signed
 by Native Children

An action which may bring an end to the activities of an alleged fur ring believed by the Alaska Game Commission to have been operating for a number of years to dispose of beaver pelts in ex- cess of the legal bag limit of 10 skins per trapper was started in Federal District Court at Fair banks today, according to an an- nouncement by Frank Dufresne, executive officer of the commission.
 The court action was signaled by the arrival in Fairbanks yesterday of Webster H. Ransom, Seattle agent of the Fish and Wildlife Service, who seized ITO beaver skins alleged to have been illegally caught.
 Star witnesses who will appear in court will include IT native chil- dren, ranging in age from two to eight years of age. Dufresne said, who executed affidavits which
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-05
 PREPARES
 WAR PLANS
Defense Mechanism Set Up dt Cabinet Meefing-
 Blockade Studied

MELBOURNE. Australia, Dec. B. An important defense decision was taken by the Australian War Cab inet at it's meeting today but of ficials did not reveal the nature of the step and emphasized that it does not mean war is inevitable
 An Australian broadcast quoting the Melbourne Herald said the cab inet planned ito complete an elabor- ate and complicated mechanism which can be set in motion by serv- ice chiefs if war should come to the Pacific. This mechanism not only affects the disposition of ships, planes and troops over a vast area but also imposes great changes on the home front"
 The broadcast said defense against a possible blockade of Australia was considered at the meeting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-05
Soviet Advancing in South but Invaders Reported
 Nearing Moscow
DEFENDERS' LINES
 BROKEN BELOW KILN
Hitler's Legions Driving East Toward Dimitrov,
 40 Miles from Capital
lBy Associated Pressl

Russia's Ukraine armies today are reported to have recaptured 4,000 square miles of territory near Ros- toy on the Donets River Basin front, wrestling hundreds of villages" from the fleeing Germans, while in the north, Soviet dispatches admitted the Nazis have opened a violent new onslaught northeast of Moscow.
 The German push, it was reported, broke through Red army defenses just below Kiln, 50 miles north of Moscow, and continued eastward to- ward Dimitrov, 40 miles due north of the capital.
 On the southern front the Soviet radio said Marshal Timoshenkos armies, driving west through the Donets Basin and along the Sea of Azov, reached the Mus River where the Germans are trying to form a new front"
 Two Red Army spearheads were reported racing ahead in an attempt to hem up the Germans retreating toward Maruipol, 100 miles west of Rostov.
 Soviet dispatches acknowledge that German rear guard detach- ments were still holding out in parts of Taganrog, 40 miles west of Ros- tov, but said the Russian flag again is flying over the city.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-05
LARGER ARMY
 WILL BOOST DRAFT RATE
Two Million More Men and Officers 10 Be Called 10
 CoIorsAfter Holidays
!. I. W. Phonephofo

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-A sharp upturn in the rate of Selective Serv- ice inductions was predicted today because of the Army's announced plans to expand it's land and air strength by some 100000 officers and men beginning shortly after the holidays.
 Officials expect draft boards will be called on to provide recruits in larger numbers than at any time in previous months, while at the same time efforts will be intensified to accelerate three-year enlistments in the Army Air Corps and it's related branches which are manned by specifically qualified volunteers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-05
GIANT NAVY
 PLANE MARS
 (AT(KESFIRE
Huge Flying Bodt's Mofor Bursts Into Flames as
 Water Tests Started

BALTIMORE, Dee. 5-Mars, the giant 70-ton flying boat built by the Glenn Martin Company for the United States Navy, caught fire late this aft ernOon and then went aground as is was being taxied out for water tests.
 Witnesses said the flying warship began zigg -zagging suddenly, and flames burst from the motor just to the right of the pilots cabin. The propel- Tor flew off, shivering it, and slowing a hole in the cabin.
 The plane then went aground In shallow water as the fire Nseared another of it's four motors.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-05

 A. J. Closing
 Run1or orIsFa|se
Gold Mine General Super. intendenf Siymies Re-
 ports of Suspension

Widespread reports that the All aska Juneau Gold Mining Company is contemplating closing it's opera tions here were blasted today by General Superintendent J. A. Will Hams, who termed the reports as nothing but rumor and not true"
 However, MT. Williams pointed out. many persons unacquainted with the company have given cur rency to the rumor and for that reason it seemed advisable to ac- quaint the public with the true facts
 Williams added that the mine is about 100 men short" and would like to see qualified miners, prefer ably with families, move to Juneau.
 Recent action of the company's $ board of directors in passing the quarterly dividend, due to increased operating costs, was blamed by the superintendent for the rumor.
 Williams described the labor short age and high labor turnover as per- haps the most serious problem now affecting the company. pointing out that both present production and development work for future pro- duction are affected by lack of work CTS. He also listed difficulties in obtaining supplies and materials, increasing prices, direct Federal taxes and increased indirect taxes as part of the burden which the con- pany is carrying.
 However, the management has no thought of closing operations as long as it is possible to continue, . Williams said. land we intend to carry on as long as we can. We are confident that we will have the full hearted cooperation of the people of Juneau and Douglas
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-05
UntIe Sam Sets Big Bear Trap" 10 Catch
 All ForgeffuI Debtors

crawled up to around 5000. while settlements are being made at the rate of only GOO nfonth. At that, the United States is no slouch at collecting it's bad debts from in- dividuals and corporations. From a half million to a million dol lars a year rolls into the federal coffers as result of GAO's new collection policy.
 There's a curious reason behind the governments establishment of TWO internment camps and why the Italian sailors (interned when their ships were seized in Ameri- can harbors) are held at Fort Mis- soula, Mont, and the German sail ors at Fort Lincoln, N. D.
 That reason--and the only one -is that the government doesn't dare keep these sons of the Axis powers together because they COllotdutiy llSib.
 Even in transporting them, al- though many seamen from both Germany and Italy were arrested in the same harbors, they were kept far enough apart so that they couldn't even threaten each other.
 When I asked a government of ficial who has been connected with internment of the sailors what made them fight, he shrugged his shoulders and said: "All I can get out of them is that they hate each other like poison
 Paul V. McNutt, Federal Secur- ity administrator. has started a
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-12-05
JAPANESE
 NATIONALS
 SUMMONED
Nipponese Repdtridfed as Signs of Trouble with
 U. 5. Increase

TOKYO, Dec. 5.-Repatriation of Japanees nationals from strategic areas in the Pacific gained at an ominous pace today amid signs of deteriorating relations with the United States and associated pow CTS, including a new skirmish with the Russians on the Manchoukuo frontier.
 Emperor Hirohito called an Army section to Imperial Headquarters where it received an audience with General Sugiyama, Chief of the Gen. eral Staff. who, is was formally announced. reported on matters in his jurisdiction"
 Hirohito alos gave an audience to the headquarter staff.