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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-14

private collector.
This past Summer one of M
Gaudry's steady customers, native
called Hovias, offered the trader a
15-inch slab Of thin wood shaped like
a canoe paddle On it's blade one could
just make out a carved hand, palm
outward and fingers extended. M
Gaudry gave Hovias the two tins of
corned beef and two packs of Virginia
pipe tobacco that he wanted in ex-
change for il.
At Itzanda, the capital city of the
Coromos a government official, NJ
Jean T. Moisouette, an amateur arch
eologist declared the paddle TO be at
least 600 years old-possibly 1000
years-and identified it as a primitive
calling card.
NJ. Moisouette explained that genera
tons before white men reached this
part of the world in the 10th Century
q 1871 by American Weekly Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-14
FERGUS Mace r EG OR
GAUDRY who operates a
small general-store on May

otte, one of the French COmoro Islands
off the eastern coast of Mozambique,
Africa, just north of Madagascar. has
been dealing with the natives for p
years During these two decades ne
has been offered many odd objects
instead of cash as payment for tobacco
or American canned meats which the
Mayottians think is the best tasting
food in the world
Sometimes these objects are family
heirlooms that make the curators Of
museums reach for their checkbooks.
or they are finds accidentally stumbled
across while digging IN the fields where
rice is cultivated Some have COM
mercial value. others are Of archeolog-
ical interest More often the things are
Junk worthless TO the museum or the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-14

Mayotte was made up of dozen small
communities. Each of these usually
was at war with all the others.
When inter-tribal business had to be
conducted a native who called upon
member of another tribe would toss
one of these carved paddles into the
others hut or village and yell his own
name. The age old sign of the open
hand meant that he came in peace. If
the man called upon picked up the
strange calling card it meant that the
tosser was welcome. But if the host"
stamped on the paddle and didn't call
out his own name in answer the other
fellow, if he had any sense, took to his
heels.
This paddle is now in the possession
of the French official who believes 1t
to be the only Comoro one in existence
although. according to native tradition,
these must have been plentiful at one
Great Britain Rights Reserved.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-14

- UE to the war Vienna has levied
personal assessment found in
49, no other city in the world II is
called the "sperrgeld' or door opening
tax. Incredible as it seems, the entire
population of Vienna, numbering up
ward of two millions, are imprisoned
in their own homes between 10 p. IN.
and a. m. unless they want to pay at
least four cents to the janitor or
house master" as the Viennese style
him to go in or out Of their houses.
The janitor must make an accounting
to the Government.
Vienna's apartment houses have five
or six floors with four apartments on
each and often 100 persons live under
one roof. For all these flats there is
but one common entrance and after
10 p. m. this door is barred. Persons
passing in or out after 10 o'clock must
pay four cents until midnight. and
eight cents from that hour until a. m.
This exasperating tax must be paid
every time anyone passes through the
doorway. If a tenant dimes with a
friend and stays after the closing hour
ilC Poy lOhl ItliNS W Stl OUT VI
his friends house and four cents 70
get into his own. If he receives a tele-
gram during the night, it costs four
cents for the messenger to enter. If a
tenant wishes to mail letter, it costs
four cents TO reach the mail box at the
street corner and the same sum to
return to his flat.
That is why the streets of once gay
Vienna, beyond the cafe and theatre
districts. are now as quiet as those Of
a provincial town after $50 at night.
While the sum involved may seem
small to Americans, Europes standard
of living being what it is four cents is
a lot of money.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-14

UUST about the time that theat-
rical agents and the theatre
- going public began to think
that there could be nothing new
or original in dance act, pair
Of pretty, blonde identical twins
bearing the names of Lorraine and
Loretta Stanley pleasantly sur
priscd the Doubling Thomases.
The inspiration for their innova-
ton in Terpsichorean antics came,
of all places, from a garru-
lous drunk. This bibulous
individual happened to be *
celebrating something or
other in Chicago's swanky al
French Casino some four =.
years ago.
At that time the Stanley
sisters were entertaining
the patrons of the place
with a double dancing act
which was adequate but
undistinguished, except for
the fact that the accident
of duple birth which gave
the girls practically iden-
teal faces and figures. M
The customer with the ~
"skinful" sat at a ringside W
table watching the dancers
through bleary eyes. With
little regard for the decorum of such
situations, he rose unsteadily from
his table and staggered into the
spotlight occupied by the sisters
Holding up an impcrious hand he
signaled the entertainers that ne
would have conversations with them.
Listen, he said "sm l seeing
double or are there really two OF
you? 1 gotta know TO find out
If I'm drinking too much"
Being assured that there were
two girls dancing for the edlfica-
ton and amusement Of the guests
assembled in the night club he
ordered another drink.
In their dressing room the girls
got 10 thinking not about the
drunk. but about what he had said.
Why not. they asked each other.
work up an act that would be differer
because the customers would thin
they were seeing single when the
really were seeing double?
Thus it was. that Lorraine took u
dancing with her living shadow whic
is not an outline Of her charming sc
but her talented flesh-and-b blood sistt
dressed in black outfit and dupl
eating 10 the minutest detail h,
sisters maneuvers on the stage.
The photographs on this page al
ample proof that the double act is "a
artistic and athletic success.
Getting the idea for the divertiss'
ment from a man in his cups was OF
thing and perfccting it for public pre-
entation vas something decidedly di
ferent. Lorraine and Loretta put
long and difficult days before lars
mirrors learning 90 dance side by sic
and In almost absolute unison
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-12-14
Where You're Taxed
F0rUSin8D0ors

- UE to the war Vienna has levied
personal assessment found in
49, no other city in the world. II is
Evening star., 1941-06-10
Patty Berg's71To Tops
Helen DettWeiIer
By Five Strokes
81 Linkswomen Ranging
From IS Years Up In
Western QuoIifiers
By the Associated Press.


CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 10
Thirty-two feminine golfers, ranging
in scoring ability from sub-par II to
exasperating 95, and in age from Is
up to where they don't count BIRTH
days, launched match play competi-
ton today over the Cincinnati Coun-
try Clubs course in quest of the 18th
annual Western Womens Open
championship.
Pacing the parade were two pro-
fessionals and the national amateur
queen. the only three in the starting
field of 81 able to crack 80 in yes
terday's qualifying round.
Patty Berg, the mighty miss from
Minneapolis, shared brides on four
holes, and an eagle on another, to
romp around in II strokes. 2 under
par, to set a course record and to
tie the tourney mark set in 1886 by
Mrs. Opal Hill of Kansas City.
Five strokes back was another
professional, Helen Dettweiler of
Washington with rs, while Betty
Jameson, the national amateur ruler
from San Antonio, had 70 for third
place. The other qualifiers ranged
right up to 95. Betty Jane Haemerle
of St. Louis. IS years old. passed the
qualifying test with neat 81.
With Mrs. George Babe Didrick-
som Zaharias. the defending cham
pion. not participating, indications
were that the Misses Berg, Dett-
weller and Jameson would dominate
the match play rounds which con-
tinue through Saturday.
Evening star., 1941-06-10
BY BILL BONI,
Associated Press Sports Writer


ST. LOUIS. June 10.-Golf fans,
the people who pay the freight for
the National Open and the East
Podunk Invitation, are the most
abused spectators in the sports en-
tertainment field.
For the privilege of paying as
much as $3.50 (top price for last
weeks OPEN they get about as fancy
treatment as the man who pays his
nickel in a New York subway rush
hour.
The sight of stampeding galleries,
breaking their necks to get in the
front line, baWled out by super
officious marshals and tripped up
by gallery ropes or poked in the
eve by bamboo poles, has become
an accepted feature of any major
tournament.
Urges Few Positive Rules.
But Horton Smith, who studies
COLTS angles as thoroughly and as
thoughtfully as he studies his own
golf shots, sees no reason why any
of this should be true. Horton be-
lieves a system of popular educa-
ton. based on a few basic positive
rules instead of the prevalent
don't" not only would be easy to
carry out, but would make tourna-
nnent golf more enjoyable for every
one-offlcial, player and spectator.
During the open at Fort Worth" )"
said Horton, who was on his way to
visit his parents in Springfield, Mo-,
"the galleries were handled very
well, but that was an exceptional
case, since there had been time for
considerable preparation, and there
seemed to be ample man-power.
Not every tournament has those
advantages.
Evening star., 1941-06-10
St. PouI's Academy
Awards ; Scholarships

} Fourteen-year-o Victor Dukson
of 514 Quintana place NV. has been
awarded a four-year scholarship to
st. Paul's Academy, Sister Rose Es-
telle, principal, announced today.
Victor is now attending the Nativity
School,
Two-year scholarships also were
awarded to Marguerite Owens, IA,
of 1717 Columbia road NV. a stu
dent of Central High School, and
Annette Gilbert. Is, of 1913 Seventh
street NV. a student at Nativity.
The three students were named
following examinations held at the
academy last Saturday.
Evening star., 1941-06-10
United S Pilot Training
School Graduates t9

The first of five classes Of air
transport flying cadets who received
their initial training in the Civil
Aeronautics Authority's civil pilot
training program has been grad
uated by United Air Lines from its
new airline pilot training school at
Tracy, Calf. as a part of the ma
tional defense program.
The 10 men who have been grad
uated and given their wings have
been undergoing intensive instruc-
ton since last fall in the first do
mestic airline school of its kind and
have been assigned as so-pilots to
various sections of the United coast
forecast and Pacific coastal air
routes.
The other classes will be grad
uated this summer and fall, bringing
United's total of flying personnel to
more than $50. The War and Navy
Departments have asked the air.
lines to speed up training of flying
personnel so that airline personnel
holding reserve commissions in the
military services may be released for
military duty.
Evening star., 1941-06-10
Ronking Woman Golfers
Seek Eastern Crown
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
RYE, N. Y, June 10.-A field OF
more than 10, including most of
the leading woman golfers from
Boston to Baltimore, starts play
today in the 54-hole medal play
championship of the Women's East
ern Golf Association at the West
chester Country Club.
Grace Amory, who won the title
last year, will not be on hand to
defend it, but the field includes
Mrs. Charles Leichner, recent WIN
ner of the women's metropolitan
title; Maureen Orcutt of Engle-
wood, N. j., former met champion;
Jean Bauer of Providence. Deborah
Very of Worcester, Mrs. Glenna
Collett Ware of Philadelphia and
Gail Wild of Short Hills, N. j.. as
well as other prominent players.
Evening star., 1941-06-10
Capital ProsLooking
To P. 6. A. Tryouts
Al Richmond
Three of Mid-AtIuntic
Area to Go to Denver;
Patent Team Victor

Most of the members of Washing
tons professional golf colony will
trek down to Richmond over the
coming week end to prepare for tie
sectional qualifying rounds for the
national professional championship,
to be held over the wooded Lake
side Country Club course next Mon
day. The championship proper Is
scheduled for Denver, Colo, the
week of July 7.
Three men will qualify from the
mid-Atlantic sector for the "a
tional tourney. The p. G. A. IS quite
different from the National Open. In
the latter tourney the boys are on
their own as to expenses. When
the championship is held at dis
tant point the cost runs UP into
money. But the qualifiers for the
P. G. A. get return. They get
one-way railroad fare from their
home to tine tourney. In this case
1t means something. with the cham
pionship being held in Denver.
Busy Season for Barr.
Bill Barr, secretary of the Middle
Atlantic and District Golf Associa-
tions, is in the middle of a red-hot
competitive season. getting ready to
run flock OF tournaments staged
by the two organizations. Bill was
to leave today for Hot Springs, Va,
where the Middle Atlantic tourney
starts Thursday.
The events which he will run later
include the District Junior cham
pionship at Indian Spring, June 25;
the midAtlantic Junior at Wood
mont. July 8; the District Golf As
sociation mixed foulsome tourney
at Congressional, July Is, and the
District championship in September.
Mr.. Secretary is due to be busy
gent He already has handled the
sectional qualifying rounds for the
open championship at Columbia.
Ag Golfers Play Tomorrow.
Department of Agriculture golfers
will play tomorrow at Beaver Dam
in their annual tourney postponed
by rain last "Wednesday. Favorities
to win the department champion
ship are Maurice Cocper and Wilbur
Seay. More than 100 are expected
to compete
Patent Office defeated Rural Elec-
trification in a match in The Star
sponsored match-play tourney for
Federal employees. winning at Wood
mont by score of 81 10 2k. Play
ing for the winners were C. C.
Heath, Anderson. Arnold and Good
ridge. Heath had the best medal
score, a 70, and with Anderson won
2i9 points to put the Patent Office
men in front.
Evening star., 1941-06-10
Await Woods Entry
To Make Pairings
In $4,000 Event
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GIRARD. Ohio, June 10.-Pair-
ings in the $4,000 Mahoning Valley
Open Golf Tournament were held
up today pending word from Craig
Wood, United States open cham
pion who has indicated he probably
will enter the June 1915 classic.
Tournament Manager Peter M.
Wellman said he expected a definite
decision today following a confer
ence between Wood and members
OF the home club in Mamaroneck,
N. Y.
Woods entry would bring all the
top flight stars who competed in the
open at Forth Worth last week to
the 72-hole Mahoming Valley joust,
said Fred Corcoran, P. G. A. tourna-
ment manager.
Eighteen holes are scheduled Fri
day and Saturday. with the field cut
to so professionals and Is amateurs
for Sundays final So holes.
Evening star., 1941-06-10
Browne| and Pitt Leave Early
For Mid-AtIontic Tourney;
Cox Tops in Pro Affair

Many of the local entrants in the
mid Atlantic golf championship will
20 to Hot Springs, Va, today, while
others will leave tomorrow. Sched-
uled to drive to the Virginia noun
tain resort tomorrow are Bobby
Brownell and Harry G. Pitt of
Manor.
Brownell is billed as one of the
genuine threats to win the title,
while Pitt, a former champion, will
be no soft touch in tourney which
probably will draw the biggest entry
list in many years of the mid-At-
lantic affairs.
In all, between so and rs Wash
ingtonians have said they intend
to make the trip to Hot Springs.
Pro golfers will see more action
next week, of a hotter kind than
they had yesterday, when they
played in little informal amateur
pro and sweepstakes tourney at In
dian Spring. They'll qualify at
Richmond for the national P. G. A.
championship.
Houghton Misses First Place.
For the first time in a mid Atlantic
P. G. A. tourney this year Al
Houghton. the Beaver Dam sharp
shooter. was out of the heavy dough
In the pro sweepstakes affair
Houghton, badly off his putting, took
Is whacks, which netted him third
place. It's hard to see how a
straight gent like Houghton could
take rs, but that's what the score
card showed. Witty Cox took down
the major prize in the pro sweeps
with a 73. George Diffenbaugh,
Kenwood mentor, was next with IA.
Surprise, surprise. A pair that
has played consistently in the pro-
amateur Journeys and has gone no.
where. suddenly came to life and
won first money as Tommy Doerer,
jr., and Leroy Smith of East Po-
tomac Park scored q best ball of So.
Evening star., 1941-06-10
Passing Of Gehrig Brings
Comes Greatest Sorrow

I doubt that the passing of any
ballplayer in the history of the
game. not even Christy Mathewson,
brought along as much genuine sor-
row as the recent death of Lou
Gehrig.
Texas is far away from the side
walks of New York. but they still are
talking about the Yankee star who
had such an abundance of courage.
skill, stamina and craftsmanship.
Here was basebalIs greatest trag-
edy. Lou was great ballplayer,
one Of the greatest, but he was some
thing more. With his great physique,
his amazing physical power, he also
had the gentleness of a child.
Here's an example. There was
the quail hunting trip with Bill
Dickey in Arkansas. What kind
of a gun do you want to shoot?"
Dickey asked Lou grinned. II
don't shoot a gun" he said Il just
couldn't kill anything" He might
have added, Except fast ball or
a curve"
No one like Lou will come our
way again.
I was talking with President Ford
Frick of the National League about
baseball attendance.
week days have been off," Ford
said. because so many now are
working on defense. Saturdays and
Sundays have taken big jump. SO
have night games. l am sure there
is greater interest in both pennant
races than ever before We should
have at least three clubs in the
running before August - and that
also will help"
Evening star., 1941-06-10
Cure Seen for Abused Golf Fan
By H. Smith in Cooperation
Of Players and OnIookers

But they're not essential. You
can make a very good start with
two fundamentals the gall
leries outside the white lines drawn
around the greens, and make them
stay 10 yards back of the shortest
ball when they're following a match
down the fairway. If walking ahead
of the match, they should stay In
the rough at all times"
Horton believes the players can
cooperate as much as officials or
spectators in making tournaments
more enjoyable.
Walter Hagen always was eX-
tremely considerate of the galleries, l"
he said. "he never hit the ball until
the galleries were settled into place
and knew what to look for. Too
many of today's stars rush up, holler
fore or stand back on the right
and make their shots while half the
crowd is in a panic because it doesn't
know what's going on"
Customer Also Has Faults.
The paying customer isn't entire
ly blameless, either. His principal
faults. according to Horton. are:
Supplying players on the course
with information or advice they
don't want. We're concentrating
all the time. and the least little
thing can distract us. So, If you
can't do any more than just say
howdy,' no matter how we'll we
know you off the course, don't say
anything at all"
Failure to give every player an
even break. quite frequently you'll
find an unknown youngster paired
with two established stars. He should
be given just as much time to make
his shots. and the gallery should
wait for him to putt out just as they
would for the open champion"
Evening star., 1941-06-10
Tests Slated June II
At Mount Pleasant
In Baltimore
Aid Will Be Necessary
To Send Team to Title
Tourney at Spokane
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

Washington will be well and
capably represented in the sectional
qualifying round for the national
public links championship.
Entries closed today with Public
Links Supervisor Tommy Doerer, jr.,
who shipped over to Baltimore the
names Of IS of the best municipal
golfers in the National Capital. In
cluded in the list were Bob Morris,
Leroy Smith. the reigning city
champion; Andy Oliveri, former city
champ; Bill Briggs and all the top
notchers who play their golf on the
pay-as-you-play courses.
Sectional rounds will be played
over Baltimores Mount Pleasant
course on June 81. The boys, of
course, will wish we had something
in Washington in the way of
municipal courses as good as that
w. P. A. constructed layout in
Baltimore. But at present, with no
action being taken toward improved
public links here. they cannot do
anything about it,
National Scheduled for Spokane.
The national championship will be
held in July at Spokane, Wash,
which is a fur piece" from WASH
ington. But probably the powers
-that-be in public links golf will see
to it that Harding Cup team of
three men plays in the title tourney
from Washington In past years
Pappy Leoff1er. public links con-
ceSsionnaire, has dug down in his
jeans and come up with most of
the money needed for the trip of
the Washington team. He will
probably do it again, although it
Will cost plenty. But he did send a
team of four to San Francisco
several years back, and Spokane is
considerably this side of Frisco.
Pairings for the tourney will be
made by Preston Pairo, public links
committeeman for this section, and
will be announced in few days.
SchOolboys Play for Medal.
Today over John Connolly's Fair
fax Country Club course three
schoolboys were to play off their
recent tie for the medal in the
interscholastic championship Clash
ing in an l8-hole test over the Vir-
ginia course were Alton Willett,
who won the tourney: Carroll Will
lett, his brother, and Earle Skinker,
whom Willett beat in the final round
for the title. The boys all racked
up scores of IS in the medal round
at Kenwood May %.
Evening star., 1941-06-10
Cotton Aids British
With Golf Skill

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 10.-Englands
golf wizard, Henry Cotton, has
turned his fairway magic into
cash for Britain.
The 1884 and 1887 British Open
champion has raised Sl04,224 for
the Red Cross and st. Johns
ambulance fund in exhibition
matches last fall and this spring.
Sports in general have con-
tributed 1851, ,456 to the two or
ganizations.
Evening star., 1941-06-10
6. W. u. Order OF Golf
And Phi Beta Kappa
Hold limitations
Solicitor General Biddle
Indueted; AIphu Chapter
Adds Is Members

Two honor societies at George
Washington University, Phi Beta
Kappa, liberal arts scholastic society,
and the Order of the Golf, law
school fraternity. held initiation
ceremonies last night.
Alpha of the District Of Columbia
chapter of Phi Beta Kappa held its
initiation banquet at the Cosmos
Club. Dean Henry Grattan Doyle,
president of the George Washington
Chapter, was POSTMASTER, and the
university's president, DR., Cloyd
Heck Marvin, extended greetings to
members and initiates. DR.. Charles
Sager Collier, professor OF law, spoke
on THE Significance Of Phi Beta
Kappa" DR.. Howard Maxwell Mer-
riman, assistant professor of Amer
ican diplomatic history, said Lartln
grace.
13 Initiated.
Those initiated were Edgar Baker,
Vernard Bond, Katherine Bowen,
Elsie Mae Carper, Marie Falk, Lii
liam Kolbey, Ellen Maxi, Paul Nc
Clenon, Robert Morrison, Eleanor
Sherburne, Anne Thomas, John Will
son and William Zeller.
The Order of the Golf held its
meeting at the Washington Hotel,
Solicitor General Francis Blddle,
Rear Admiral Walter B. Woodson,
Judge Advocate General of the Navy,
and two law faculty members,
George Bowdoin Craighill and James
Ward Morris were initiated into
this honor society.
Class Night Exercises Tonight.
New members from the graduating
class of the law school are Andrew
Beveridge, Harry J. Breithaupt,
Henry c. Bruton, John P, Burke,
Ernest M. Callomon, Martin J. Car
roll. Homer L. Cupples, Robert B.
Hobbs, Paul M. Roca, Harry Rosner,
Wilbur A. Schaich, Rice E. Schrlms-
cher, Eleanor SchWartzbach, Halmaz
J. Webb and Arthur Weissman.
Class night exercises for all George
Washington graduates will be held
at O'Clock tonight in the university
yard. Omicron Delta Kappa, honor
airy activities fraternity, will hold its
tapping ceremony. President Mar
win will make some so awards for
excellence in scholarship and student
activities. Dancing and refresh
ments will follow the program.