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Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-10

AID IS persons We're still MISSING
rom the 5,000-ton Robin Moor
IeNen survivors have been picked
p.
y naz5 spokesman in Berlin dis
ll~sed reports on the sinking as
confusing and contradictory"
Other developments crowded the
International picture:
|. Premier MuSsolini virtually
dctlcd the United States To de-
clare war against the axis.
II ducc, addressing the cham
Der OF la>CcS and guilds on the
anniversary of Ilal,'s entrance
into the war, declared Japan
would be loNal to her pact with
Germany and Italy in the event
OF "Amcrican aggression against
the aNi>.'
,. On the middle cast war
front, British columns driving in
to Irrnch-rulcd Syria were re-
ported less than ten miles from
ancient Damascus, the capital.
last night.
Early capture OF the city was
prcdic>cd by the British, who
saId their advance wa proceeding
smoothly.
e.. Narpiants were report
ed to have violently and CON
tnuou>lN assaulted the British
fortified island OF Cyprus for the
past 1S hours, indicating that
Germany may be preparing a
second crete invasion of the
M'oittffanrdn stronghold SO
mites off the coast of SYRIA.
l. Prime Munster Churchill.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-10
Income Tax
Limits Kept

Washington, June l0.-lAfD-
The House ways and means COM
mittce voted today to retain the
present individual income tan
exemptions of $500 for SINGLE
persons and 81 900 for married
couples.
On the basi, of this years
figures, this means that 10000
600 persons will file income tax
returns on their 1871 income.
About bali of those who Tiled re-
turns TINS year pad u
taxes.
At the same time the commit
tee decided 10 retain the current
500 credit Tor dependents IN
addition To the spouse.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-10
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-10
Rescue Ship
Is
Authority
Skipper of Brazilian
Steamer Which Picked
Up Eleven Survivors
K d d ios Associated
Press; Other Events
Crowd Picture.
cBy Tn" Associated Pyess,)

,hN IN" Associated F'reSs.)
IN" captain of a Brazilian
rescue >hip declared flatlv in a
~faoio&tam to the Associated
ireNN today that the ini,rd
states steamship Robin Moor.
sunk III tie south Atlantic on
Wa u, was torpcdocd." and
government officials in Wash
ineton expressed grave concern
over other reports that the YES
sci was sent 10 the bottom by a
German J-boat.
II true, ii would be the first
American ship t]orpcdocd since
the World War.
Captain WaidcHar IdIcio pcrcirI
OF the rescue ship O~orj,
Washington. June l0.-(AP!-
The White House asked today
that judgment be suspended on
the sinking of the steamer Robin
until ii is established how
She was lost.
one intercepted radio mes
sage given the Navy blamed a
German submarine for the sink
ing and this aroused grave con
Germ IN the capital. However,
stephen Early, White House
press secretary. said there was
no official information. He said.
The President would apprc-
cate 1t ii there wa a suspension
OF Judgment on the sinking pend
ing a determination of the facts"
Early said it seemed to be fair
~ we'll determined that the no
sItlon of the sinking was in
American Waters-on thi, side of
the Atlantic"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-10

Extended weather forecast for
the period from 80 p. IN. June
10 to $50 p. M. June l4-Tcm-
tatiOn light. some scattered
thundershoNers latter part of
period.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-10

TVK WI III I NKVJI4TN Y.
Mostly cloudy, scattered thun-
dCrshoWcrN tonight and WcducS-
day, continued mild.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-06-10

Continued on Page Seveul
Evening star., 1941-06-29

-oR two hours we had been flying over the
. waters out beyond New York harbor.
L The plane was on neutrality patrol.
When we spotted a steamer We would swoop
down for inspection, then zoom off into the
sky again. 1t took fast looking to see much.
We picked up the lightship which was our
last objective and were turning for home,
when the officer beside me pointed out the
cabin window, looked and saw big silver
blimp with "U S. Navy painted on its side.
The blimp seemed to be just hanging there,
perfectly motionless.
What she doing" | asked.
'Hovering," said my friend the officer.
And that's one trick we can't do we've
got to keep going places fast. Those babies
can look things over down to the last detail.
And that, as | have since discovered, is
one of the main reasons why Uncle Sans
Navy has started to build a whole flock of
blimps - six now building, forty-eight to be
built in all.
If war should come to our shores 1t would
come first, in all probability, in the form of
submarines and mines; and to spot them
would require the sort of inch-by-inch search
of the coastal waters that no fast-hylng plane
can accomplish - but that blimp can.
That. say, is one Of the main reasons:
But probably the biggest reason is that
Captain Charles E. Rosendahl, U.S.N.,
wouldn't give up the ship - that is, the air
ship. For years, most of us have been thinking
solely in terms of planes - heavier-than-alr
craft. The fate of our airships Shenandoah,
Akron and Macon. and of the German Hin
denburg. disheartened the country about
Evening star., 1941-06-29
The human story of a United States
NAVY officer who couldn't be scared
by Arthur Bartlett

program with new CLINT of hope In his eyes.
AT last we'll get chance to show what
we can do he told me the other day.
But to his way of thinking, this is just
start As the country outstanding authority
on lighter than air craft, he wants to go on
to enormously larger rigid airships - ships
bigger than the world has yet seen, big
enough to cruise 10000 miles nonstop over
our oceans, with bevy of scouting planes to
serve as eyes for the fleet He believes passion
ately in their practicability, and if you think
Immediately of objections, he has heard them
all before and has answers for them. Well
come to that
But first, let's go back bit. 1t was in 1923
that Rosendahl, then a tall, broad-shoul-
dered blue-eyed, bronzed young naval officer
from Texas, answered call for volunteers
for the lighter-than-a branch of naval serv-
ice. The Navy needed volunteers Of the few
officers who we're experts in this field, the
cream had been lost two years before on a
trial flight of the hydrogen-filled British
built ZR-2, which broke and burned in the air.
Public confidence was somewhat restored
Ill lllt iOiloWHlB t"o yCdio DS tii0 oiiCiidii-
doahs successful flights. But then came the
morning of September 3, 1925. The big dirig
ible was on cruise that was to include St.
Louis, Minneapolis and Detroit. During the
mid-watch Lieutenant Commander Rosen-
dahl was on duty as navigator. They were
flying over Ohio. Towards daybreak the ship
was encountering ugly weather, struggling to
make any progress at all.
A little before $50 the ship suddenly began
Evening star., 1941-06-29

lighter -than-air craft. But not Captain Ros-
endahl
Yet he had more right than most of us to
turn pessimistic. He was on the Shenandoah
when she broke up in the air over Ohio. He
was the first commander of the Akron,
though not aboard when she plunged into
the Atlantic He was in command of the naval
air station at Lakehurst, New Jersey. when
the Hindenburg burned there. But each sue
ceeding disaster was to him merely lesson
from which to learn in the pioneering job of
developing airships. 1T was never an Ameri-
can motto" he has repeated over and over,
that if at first you don't succeed, quit
Almost lone voice in the wilderness, ne
went right on demanding to be allowed to
proceed with the job of pioneering. For sew
eral years now, until very recently. it has been
a voice almost unheeded Americas S alrship
program came to a virtual standstill. Our
one remaining big rigid ship, the Los Angeles,
collected dust in her hangar until Washington
ordered her dismantled. Of our little fleet of
half dozen blimps, only one was designed
and built after the First World War.
Evening star., 1941-06-29
Planning BLimp Stotions

Dur now we are building blimps again.
We are going to have new air stations for
them. The program calls for three stations
this year - one in the Boston area, one in
the Hatteras area, one in the San Francisco
area plus three more next year, and five
outside our continental limits later on. And
Captain Rosendahl, at a desk in the Navy
Department at Washington, is working on the
Evening star., 1941-06-29
Heading for Efernity

II WAS spinning dizzily. and shooting up.
Rosendahl almost lost sight of the land be-
low. He shouted - and found six other men,
four of them officers. still clnging to the
wrecked hulk AS the senior officer present.
he Immediately went into action.
We'll handle this like a free balloon,
and try to land, he said, and ordered helium
managed to bring the strange craft to gentle
landing after more than an hour adrift.
Fourteen of those in the other parts of the
ship we're dead, including the commander.
Rosendahl was the ranking officer left alive.
The reaction of a shocked nation was prompt
and condemnatory of airships. To Rosendahl,
the disaster meant mainly that certain struc-
tural changes should be made in the next ship
built. 1t proved. too, that even if an airship
broke apart, half of it could still be landed
safely. And it vindicated helum; there was
no sign of fire.
Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief
of the Navys Bureau of Aeronautics, and
other experts agreed with Rosendahl, and the
program went on, despite increased opposl-
ton. The Navy in 1924 had acquired the
Los Angeles, German-built airship, and in
1926 Rosendahl was placed in command. He
flew her on epochal flights all over the coun-
try, and he landed her on the deck of an air.
plane carrier, to prove it was possible. The
event was considered of historic importance.
In 1928, he took time out to make the first
transatlantic flight aboard the German ship
Graf Zeppelin, and the next year made the
first round thew fight, rejoicing that
successful commercial flights were restoring
public confidence in the airship. (He likes
to point out now that the Germans have used
lighter -than-air commercial ships since long
CONTINUED on poge 81
Evening star., 1941-06-29
Rudy Arnold

to rise rapidly. 1t shot up, struggled back
down. shot up again. Rosendahl heard one
of the men at the controls say, Il can't check
her. sir" Everybody aboard knew that
meant grim trouble.
'Rosendahl" said the skipper, Comman-
der Zachary Lansdowne, go up in the keel
and see that they are ready to drop gasoline
and oil.
Rosendahl hauled himself up the ladder
from the control cabin. and along the catwak
in the keel. while the ship plunged down.
ward at l400 feet minute. Suddenly it
veered crafty upward again. Rosendahl
heard cables swapping and struts being torn
apart A moment later the control car was
torn loose, and plummeted to earth. Then,
hanging on only few feet from the jagged
break, he saw the after part of the ship itself
floating away. He was left in half an airship!
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

Myer-H you luf her Wy don't you send
her some poultry?
Mike-she don't need no poultry; her
father is butcher
Myer--I mean luf voids like Romeo und
Chuliet talks.
III you luf you like luf me,
No knife can cut us togedder"
Mike don't like dot.
Mycr-Vell, vot do you want 10 say to
her.
Mike-I don't want you TO know vat I'm
saying to her. All want you to do is to tell
vot TO put in her letter
Myer-Such foolishness you are! If
don't tell you vot to say, how will you know
vot TO write if she don't know how TO read?
Mike don't want nobody to know vot
I'm writtennin TO her
Myer-You don't want anyone to know
vot you are rotteninin?
Mike-No.
Myer-Then send her a postal card
Mike-Send her a postal card? II do
she'll think don't care two cendts for her
Myer-Are you going TO marry her?
Mike-In two days 1 will be a murdered
man
Myer-A vot?
Mike mean married man.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

Myer-Hey! Don't get so close to dot
table You got TO stand three fsets away
ven you shoot 1t.
This was the more ridiculous In that
Weber's pillow-padded waistline stopped him
a foot short of the pool table. At this warn
ing he would make laundering try at a
cues length, then reverse the cue and aim
with the large end.
Myer-You can't do dot Always you
must shoot 1t nit der end dots got der
sponge on.
Mike got him. I got him
Myer-(grabbing the ball)-You didn't
call it!
Mike did call It! did cali It! called
1t to myself!
Myer-Dot's bad habit, talking to your.
self, and worser in pool Don't do II some
more. Now vot bah you play?
Mike-Do got to tell your
Myer-Sure, you got to tell me.
Mike-Are you der Mayor or Something's?
I like to play dis one only dot one Ia In de
way.
Myer-An right, move it for you. Mike
also moves ball to isefurther advantage.)
Mke-Vot ball you play?
Myer-Der round one
Mike-Round? All is round!
Myer-Dis one is rounder.
Mike-Vot ball you shoot now?
Myer-Der colored one.
Mike-Vich color? Dey all got colorsi
Myer-How many times got to tell you
you got to name vat ball you shoot?
Mike-Good! name one Rudolph.
Mike shoots, misses and scratches the
cue ball into a side pocket. He dances tubi-
lantly)
Mike-Hooray! vim four balls! Dots a
scratch, like you told me!
Myer-Dot's no scratch. Dots an itch.
Scratches is in corner pockets, itches In side
pockets.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

THE ORIGIN OF THE PIE THROWING
When the drama, The Conquerors," was
running in New York the Weber and Fields
company presented an uproarious travesty
called The Con Curers."
The first real custard pie thrown on any
stage is the claim made for The Con
Curers" In the original the heavy had COM
manded the heroine TO drink a glass of wine
Instead she dashed II into his face In the
Weber and Fields version Charley Ross, the
william Of the piece. ordered his wife, Mabel
Fenton, the girl, TO eat a custard pie Of her
own making, a fat, juicy extra-thck custard
She threw it in his face A minor character
sampled the debris later and died in agony.
In the opening scene a bust on a pedestal
had a cigar in in its mouth and a military
cap cooked at a rakish angle on its head A
large birdcage held a small pig. The pig was
a prisoner of war because he had rooted for
the enemy. Three drunken peasants were
brought in as spies They were proved spies
because they had first been seen through
spyglass
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24
THE POOLRooM SCENE.

AS with most of their other business. the
famous skit the poolroom scene, came to
Weber and Fields in strictly inspirationa)
fashion and, as it happened, at the phycho
logical moment They had assembled a COM
pany and were all set for New York open
ing-except that they had nothing new to
show the public themselves. Sitting in a
saloon, bemoaning their luck they heard an
argument going on at one of the pool tables.
The comedians were at first inclined to
resent the disturbance, for it kept them
from concentrating on their own problem
but as it waxed louder and a lot of broken
English then fists, and finally pool balls
began to fly. they suddenly realized that
Providence had staged this shindy for their
especial benefit.
Half an hour later, they had their new
slit well enough in hand to start rehearsals.
Some Of the dialogue goes as follows:
Myer f'eldsl Remember now Der one
dot gets der money wins.
Mike-Let me understand meinself: der
one dot gets der money is der winner, Ell?
(Myer. starting to shoot Mike seizes his
cue)
Mike-who made idt out you should be
firstest starter?
Myer-All right. den We choose up for IT,
(They measure hands on pool cue in the
manner of boys choosing up sides for a base
ball game. Mike wins and starts for the
money!
Mike win! I win!
Myer-D umbskulll\ You don't win der
money you chust get shot first.
Mike-Pardon, please, l oliogepize.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

Myer--I hope you
will always look
back upon der
presendt moment as
der habbiest mo-
ments uff your life.
Mike-But I aind't
married yet.
Myer-I know it,
und furthermore,
upon dis suspicious
occasion / also wish
TO express TO you
charges collect
my uppermost de-
probation of der
dishonor you half
informed upon me
in making me your
bridesmaid.
Mike Der insult
is all mein.
NJ yer As you
standt before me
now, 500 young,
500 innocent, 500
obnoxius, there is
only one void dat
can express mein
pleasure, mein dis
satisfaction
Mike-Yes, yes ,
Myer-Und I can't
tink Of der void.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

-feeling-that-oh. l can't express myself!
such a-oo-oo-oo-oo! (Chokes him. then
turns to audience) Why do l 60 with him?
pointing at Weber, When l look at him my
heart goes out to him. Ito Weber, When
you are away from me, can't keep my mind
off of you When you are with me 1 can't keep
my hands off you (Chokes him. But some
times 1 think you do not return my affec-
ton. pushes a finger in his eye, etc..
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24
WEBER AND THE DOG POWDER

In "Fiddle-dee-dee," one Of the burlesque
hits played at the Music Hall, Weber, Fields
and David Warfeld were playing their
familiar German and Jewish low comedy
roles. One Of the scenes called for the three
20 emerge from a papier-mache mountain
pass, to be confronted by growing st. Ber-
nard dog, played by George ALI A chance
sally of Weber's in this scene exploded the
frst-night audience. AS rehearsed, Warfield
was to attempt to conciliate the dog, then
Fields 10 try. Both failing timidly. Weber
was 10 kick the fearsome animal contemptu-
ousy out of the way
Warfield began.
Here. Able" he called. The dog snarled.
Nice Nose. Cute little lizzie" he tried again.
Whoever heard Of a dog called Able or
Mose?" Fields scoffed.
Maybe he would be a kosher spaniel"
said Warfield
Fields tried IT,
Come OTTO" he wheedled. The dog
showed his teeth. Hans? Rudolph? Adelph?
Schneider"
AS Weber waited for his cue. a possible
line occurred to him. The Music Hall method
to try everything on the audience II
it laughed the joke stayed. Weber made the
experiment doubtfuly:
Maybe it's not that kind Of a dog"
George rose brilliantly to the occasion.
Al "Julia,' spoken endearingly by Weber, he
barked. pranced joyfully and wagged his tail.
That drew the shows biggest laugh.
small cask was attached to the dogs
collar. Fields explained learnedly how the
monks of the st Bernard hospice sent their
great dogs out, each with small cask OF
brandy fixed 70 the collar, TO succor way
farers lost in the Winter storms Warfield
smacked his lips in anticipation, but Weber
turned the cask around disclosing the word
Powder" painted on it.
Powder? p" Wsrfield exclaimed What
kinds Of powder? Seditzes POWDER Talcums
powder Bang bang powder? ?"
Plea powder" said Weber. What else
would dogs want ?"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

THE comedy OF Weber and Fields symbozed
the golden of Lillian Russell and Diamond Jim Brady
completely that 10 modern audiences sometimes
a shock though pleasant oneto find carrying
radio and the movies This shock will henceforh be denied
them for Lew Fields died in Hollywood the other day at the
Of "a Leaving his partners death bed 75yearod Joe
Weber wept and said:
ITS like losing my right We grew up together and
he everything 10 ull be single for from
on. guess"
The words tribute 10 sixy-fiveyear old partner
ship begun when the two children fighting for survival
among the tough saloons and dime museums Yorks
old Bowe Once the greatest drawing cards Broadway
they had topped such performers Willie Collier
Wolf Hopper David Warfield. Sam Bernard Gus Edwards
Elsie Janis Fay Tempeton and Lillian Russell all whom
appeared with them at their fabulous Music Han
BY inventng the modern Broadway revue by being
first TO gorfy the chorus girl and by raising
from the obscurity OF the TO high place among
props they made three lasting contributions TO the
theater-more lasting. IT turned out than their own
OF The
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

FdA NiNAAoa ~ "AAN Va N'ii''Ny AAAc
latter has faded with the years
az the fragments OF it printed be-
low reveal: but at least il gave the
world one immortal wheeze. the
classic: Who was that lady saw
you with last night" THAT was
no lady, that was my wife"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

RoIiieking Dialogues. Gogs and Horse
Play Which Evoked Laughter and Ap.
pIause From an Older Generation Of
Thea+re-Goers and Kept the Comic
Team Going for IS Years
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

Weber-Why do
you go with me,
then?
Fields - w n y =?
Why? Because I
like you! Mike,
when l look at you
Il have such "a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

was using their entrance song SO Weber and
Fields we're forced 10 talk themselves onto the
stage. The lines they manufactured TO tide
themselves over this crisis got such a response
that they went on using them for years
Il am delightfulness to meet you!" Weber
shouted.
DER disgust is all mine!" roared Fields
and promptly showed the depth Of his feeling
by blow of his fist.
Some of the words of this and Of their
other sketches have been recorded by Felix
Isman, an old friend and theatrical associate
Of theirs, in a book entitled Weber and
Fields" published by Boni & Liveright The
following excerpts are from Mr.. Isman's book
and complete the dialogue, begun on such
mixed note above.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24
THE CHOKING SCENE.

F1elds-You look like a furnished room
ion by Weekly Rights Reserved
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24
DER DISGUST is ALL NINE

Mike (Weber)-I receivedidid letter from
mein goil, but don't know how 10 writteninin
her back
Myer-Writtennn her back! Such an
edumuncation you got II f? You mean rotteninin
her back. How can you answer her ven you
don't know how TO write?
Mke-Dot makes no nefer mind. She
don't know how to read
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

- n the Bowery circuit and in
4 Coney Island and New Jer-
~ sey honky-tonks Weber and
Fields, while in their early teens
perfected the act that was TO last
them a lifetime.
Tall and domineering, Fields
assumed tho stage name OF Myer
and became the gag man. Weber,
short meek and well stuffed with
pillows, was Mike the foil Both
talked in German dialect and made
up with long hair, chin boards and
shallow-crowned derbies.
Like Topsy, their routines just
grew along with them. They never
wrote down the dialogue; it was al
ways being added to and subtracted
from on the spur OF the moment.
This method kept IT fluid and adj
Unstable TO emergencies, Of which
there were plenty.
Once, for example, they found
that another act on the same bill
was using their entrance song. SO w,
Fields were forced 10 talk themselves
stage The lines they manufactured
t1,o,,,~or..-o r.,-o,- tI,Fg c,.sof, ,s.t -.,.t