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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-05

After that she began to be seen more
and more at the nice parties-at Pichair
al the Grove at private houses like Tommy
Meighans and Florence Vidors and Frances
Nari0n's.
She was a star by this time - playing roles
that typifed youth and innocence. such as
Esther in Ben Hur.'
Then she fell in love
I suppose it was inevitable She fell in
love with the most dashing. the most popular,
the widest young blood in town. Oh, he was
brilliant and he was handsome and probably
one Of the most amusing young men Holly
wood has ever known But he would be the
last To deny that ne loved life and didn't want
TO miss any Of 1t and hadn't missed any of it
right up TO the day he met May McAvoy.
In your town. as in ours there are prob
ably boys like that because he was only q
boy. on the wild side. No real harm IN them.
But they get regulations for being CAV
hlaaes- devils with the women 1t Is even
uimored that on occasion they drink not
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-05

The grand thing is that in the meantime
the thing they forgot to tell you when they
mentioned the Motion Picture Relief Fund
in the meantime, May McAyoy, quietly cour-
ageously. is making her come back. She
went back to work in pictures She began
practically extra. Small parts
The first of January. 1910 year and a half
after she had hit rock bottom that time
been knocked to her knees-May McAvoy
signed new contract with etro-Godwyn-
Mayer. She's been in several pictures-com-
ing up this time the hard way doing bits
taking whatever she could, to support herself
and her son.
She did small part for director Robert
Leonard in Third Finger Left Hand and
Bob Leonard told me The girl is becoming a
real actress. She'll get back up there She's
got more courage than anyone 1 ever saw
and for such little thing
Did a scene with Lionel Barrymore in the
last DR.. Kildare picture-as a nurse-and
Lionel. that grand old trouper, put his arm
around her and said "Youngster nobodys
any good until they found out whether
they can take failure and come back from
it. You'll do. You keep on. You'll have your
name up there in lights again before long"
Probably it takes more courage to come
back than anything. To start at the bottom
when you have been at the top. To fear char
ity. To have others know of your defeat I
don't want May McAvoy to feel that way. do
you? ! don't want her to worry because
people came TO know that once she was licked
once she had to ask for help from her pro-
b fession. want her to feel it was fine thing
that her profession there to give her a
hand-and to know that everyone of US who
know are cheering for her now-the way we
always cheer when champion gets up off
the floor and starts To come back Because
champion always does-and little Nav Nc
Avoy may have fought in the lightweight
the flyweight dvisions-but she was a cham
pion.
Divorced now and she does not believe
in divorce has always thought il something
to avoid If possible with her child with
her heart aching for her ex-husband in his
trial to come back. too, going out where she
was once the glittering headiner-and start
ing all over again.
Say what you like It takes courage 70 do
-that@plents- courage
1 hope you like this kind OF HOLLYWOOD
story It's diffeHeHt-bat trtie Your town and
mine-they all have stories. Besides. thought
so many of you who remember May McAvoy
and her beauty and sweetness would like 10
know the truth and have the privilege Of root
70 ing for her and helping her TO happiness in
the tough days Courage like Englands cour-
age-seens TO me the-eHly thing that's keep
ing us hopeful today when we need so much
to be hopeful. l like to tell you about it.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-05

been printed I'd like to print the rest Be
cause it's beautiful story Of courage. of
loyalty OF faith and you hear so many OF
the other stories about Hollywood
More than that these are days when
stories with happy endinss stories Of those
who are hurt BY the ugly things IN life but
who battle on and win in the end. are some
thing we all need to restore our own waver-
ing hopes in a world gong baeker and hlaeker
VIII the triumph Of evil
She's a very little girl May McAvoy When
she was bic star we used 20 KID her about
H. over on the Paramount LOT How can such
little girl be such big star Tommy Meighan
and the old gang used 70 say 20 her. And
Nav would blush that was another thing We
used 10 tease her about. the way she could
blush and say m not such very big star.
Not really
Those were the days when she belonged
to a group of lovely young feminine stars at
Paramount there was Bebe Daniels and.
Mary Miles Minter and Constance Binney and
Lila Lee They We're all kids
And in those DAYS May McAvoy was con-
sdered the prettiest girl IN Hollywood. In
fact. in my opinion she is the prettiest girl
who ever was in Hollywood Al any time It's
too bad May wasn't "a star IN technicolor he
cause she had the most exquisite coiorine I've
ever seen blue eyes and dark hair and
skin II would take poetry to describe
She said to me one day when she had
come into some room where we were all talk
ing and laughing Why do you always stop
talking when I come INTO the room, all of
you p"
Whatever I said it wasn't quite the truth
because you couldn't tell May McAvoy. who
thought she was quite grown up. that she
always seemed almost too innocent for even
the ordinary everyday world. but it was true.
The answer. also, was May McAvoys
mother There If ever was a case of Mother
Knows Best-a-case -that-al444.7st-
paralleled Edna Ferber's famous short story.
Mays mother not only knew best she knew
all. We were sorry for Mary Miles Minter
and we didn't like her mother But il was
different about May. She seemed happy. And
her mother simply never let anyone get near
enough 10 her 10 know much about her.
MAY came to the studio she did her work.
Her amazing loveliness made her dar Of
the silent pictures. She couldn't act. Nobody
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-05

pened to be there
and she said she'd
been invited a n d
Just came She was
the belle Of the ball.
I know that. She
and Harold Lloyd
his pretty wife was
one of her b @ st
friends " er . the
sensation of the eve
ming on the dance
floor Men crowded
around her Il was
Cinderella all yer
a gain ana right
through, because at
midnight s he van
ished
That was one of
the first examples
of May $ courage
because her mother
didn know she was
at the party l
never knew whether
she climbed out the
window a n d down
the apple tree and
back or whatp But
she had taken her
courage in her hands
and co m g to the
party
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-05
Adele Rogers st. Johns. Her Friend
Since Those Prosperous Days When
She Was One Of the Screens First
Glamour Girls. Tells Of the Faded
Stars Brave Struggle to Hide Her
Poverty-UnfiI That Divorce Tesfi-
mony Added Humiliation to Her
Bitter Plight
By ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS.

80 THE name OF little May MeAvoy-
movie starWas no longer IN lights
~ no longer up over the theatres-tt was
on the files OF rne Motion Picture Relief Fund
-sl44==tary the way y6usread Il -
your daily newspaper That's the testimony
thai was given in Mays divorce suit from
Maurice Cleary-
But thai why that's 50 little of the story
Nay McAvoy proud a lady beautifully
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-05

educated. one Of the glris/of
Hollywood could always be
whose name had always sto'
naeness ard sweetness May
that knowledge coming % 'ho'
remembered her Sull hates II
i was one Of the stories tina
Hollywood kept 20 ourselves
town Ike yours has Us little
'aIes Of tragedy that We IN
8erstand and that se protect
best we know how Lots
II names ana a great mary
more Of them than you might
suppose are on that same
Motion Picture Relief Fund
But since that much OF the
story has become known 10
those who used 10 sit out
front and watch little May
NcAvov. since that much has
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-05

with Paramount. but to
make her own pictures,
had come a cropper.
Things were very tough
after h a I. Nobody
ever knew about it
from May. She stuck
Her loyalty even now is
mistaken. She hopes
he'll come back.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-05

Struggle, Poverty and
Time Have Changed
May McAvoy. and That
Is How She looks To-
day-But She Hasn't
Lost Hope, Though the
Glamour Is Gone.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
From Here In. It's Velvet.
Runyon Says Of Living
BY DAMON RUNYON

saw and perhaps heard him
talk.
They will be interviewed on
the anniversary of his birth and
their pictures will be put in the
public prints.
Il knew Roosevelt" will be a
proud boast and a high distinc-
ton in the years to come, as Il
knew Lincoln" was until the last
one passed away.
At least that is what we
think, and we have as much
right to guess at history as the
next fellow. Our regret is that
we will not be around to see 1t
come off.
By the way. referring back TO
that 6 to 5 quotation. ii sud
denly occurs TO us that we are
getting a big shade on the price
through living in the United
States of America. 1t would be
10 to l against us in Europe.
Copyright, 1871. King Features synd.. InC
Distributed by International News servie
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
Quiz Answers

1.-The Statue of Liberty stands
on this island.
"a galley used by the Romans
having two banks of oars.
3-John Wilkes Booth was Lin
coins ASA ssin; Edwin
Thomas Booth was the actor.
4-"Buffalo Bill" - William +.
Cody.
5-Cape Hatteras.
6-Knight Commander of the
Bath.
7-Tammany.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
Connolly Answers

1-(a) 1.-THE Nibelungenlied."
tb) "Oliver Twist" (c)
"Othello"
Pa Gerald, Cb1 Burton, tel
William,
3-(a) No. (b) yes, father-in-
law, (c) no.
la Colorado River, (b) Hud-
son River, (c) Gauges River.
5-(a) Great lover, tb) idealist,
(c) courageous hero.
6-(a) "Uncle Toms Cabin"
(b) "The Day of DOOM" (c)
Ben Hur."
la Tenth United States
president. (b) famous furni-
ture designer, tc) dictionary
compiler.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21

WE DID not expect to live as
w long as we have, so we fig
ure that from here on in ii is
all velvet. Every morning when
we wake to another day we feel
we have won a bet, because
every night when we crawl into
the hay we realize that it is no
better than 6 to 5 that we will
ever again see the light of noon
day, which is usually the hour
we get up.
We reflect that any day now
when they rap on our door to
advise us that it is time to start
stirring, they will receive no re-
Spouse, so they will force open
the door and there we will be
huddled up in the covers and
there will be some confusion in
the household for a few days
, and then the years will roll over
us and we will be completely
obliterated.
WE HAVE lately been giving
w consideration to the idea
of leaving the door unlocked.
We can see plainly that there
is no sense in having a good
door damaged in the forcing. but
when we try to sleep behind an
unlocked door we keep thinking
of burglars or ghosts walking in
on us. That leads to broken
slumber and bad dreams.
So we guess they will just
have to spoil the door.
We do not write this in
morbid vein. understand. On the
contrary, we feel quite cheerful
that we have got this far.
In the little city of Brest,
France, a United States army
doctor tapped on our bosom
some years ago and finally said
if we did not get thumbed out by
TB before we were five years
older, we could call him a Ounce.
Even before that eminent
medicos had informed us that
they would find better insurance
risks in the morgue.
YOU see, we were always one
L of those half-dying looking
guys. underweight, and hollow
chested, and a hypochondriac.
to boot. Besides, we never gave
ourself any the best of it, what
with late hours, and over-eating,
and over-smoking, and every
thing else.
Maybe if we had it all to do
over again we would do a lot of
things different. Maybe.
Every ball player who boots
one wishes he could play that
one over again. But in general
we have had what the faro bank
players call a full deal.
We have had our aches and
pains and our disappointments,
but on balance we are a little
ahead. We have seen what we
have seen and that is plenty.
Among other things We have
seen Franklin d. Roosevelt
elected president of the United
States for third time. That is
the greatest event in our men,
DRY.
We have thought the matter
over carefully, have reviewed
all the prodigious happenings in
our lifetime, and are sure that
nothing else compares in his
toric import with this.
1t is not only the greatest
event in our memory--it is the
greatest event in the memory of
any person now living.
60 WE will leave Mr.. Roose-
~ welt to history, with the
prediction that long years from
now, venerable men and women
will 4 e looked up to and honored
just rcause in their youth they
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
I SEE where our President has
i summoned his high command,
the White House leaders, to get
busy on huge tax bill to
finance his aid to England.
Well. as 1 see it, the working
man will be asked to foot a big
part of this bill, whether he is
able to or not, which is gener-
ally the way.
l am one of 100000 railroad
men who, several years ago, lent
10 per cent of our wages to the
railroads because they claimed
they were almost broke. and this
loan would put them on their
feet again.
So for three years 10 per cent
of our wages was taken from US,
whether we liked it or not.
And nothing has ever been
mentioned about paying us back
now that they are doing an over
whelming business.
So this is a suggestion: Why
not take 10 per cent or 20 per
cent of all Congress, our Presi-
dents. and all other high Off
Gals earnings, and just see what
a large sum could be raised for
aid to England, as these are the
men who passed the bill?
w. j. DOWELL,
nurand Mich
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21

OUR new infantry division,
" called a triangular division.
has three regiments and has
about 1900 soldiers, as COM
pared with the erous,
heavy hitting main strength
divisions of the World War,
which had about 27,000 men.
The new idea is TO eliminate
the artillery regiment and
brigade entirely and attach a
battalion OF artillery to each
regiment of infantry.
Under this plan the infantry
commander has his cannon along
with him, if you get the idea.
and thus doesn't have TO find
the artillery and defer to the
rank and judgment of the artil-
lery colonel and brigadier when
he wants some guns to knock
over a swarm of tanks.
But we still maintain a lot of
square divisions made up of ma
tional guard troops. which are
not as large as World War divi-
sions, but retain most of the
very defects of organization
which the triangular division is
intended TO smooth away.
Why we are keeping this
clumsy form l haven't been able
TO learn. except that it is said.
in a rather sneering way, that
the idea is to provide the rank
OF brigadier for a lot of civilian
soldiers.
QUT that still doesn't explain
~ it, because at Fort Bragg.
N. c. we have a triangular
streamlined division. the 9th.
which, nevertheless, has two
brigadiers-Edwin Harding and
r. +. ID. Hoyle-under Mai.
Gen. Jacob L. Devers, the divi-
sion commander, supervising the
infantry and artillery, respec-
lively.
But they are brigadiers, Just
the same, and the triangular
form hasn't eliminated their
jobs.
This is complex, l know, and
there is lot more of il. But
we all have a fair working
knowledge of our form of gov
eminent from the White House
down to the town hall. and we
had better do some examining
on the parallel form of the
army.
II is going TO be important to
all of us from now on.
BY United Feature synd., he.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

THIS is going to hurt me more
than you. because have to
study it out and write it.
whereas you don't even have to
read it. 1t is a sort of lesson
on the composition of the new
American army, which is very
unlike the World War model.
An easy topic, says you. but you
wait.
OF course, we know the war
department is the boss of the
whole institution, with the Sec
rotary of war representing the
stockholders and with Gen.
George Marshall, the chief of
staff, serving as the superin-
tendent of the plant.
Then there are the large corps
areas into which the whole
country is divided. and I men,
ton them only to get them out
of the way, because for the
purpose Of the lesson they are
nuisance.
The corps area. in its relation
TO tn c training and fighting
army, can be compared with
hotel.
II is an administrative and
housekeeping organization, and
the armies which are concerned
with the fighting can be moved
from one corps area to another
as a ball club on the road moves
from one hotel to another, leav-
/ ing their laundry TO be sent on.
/ you might say. and not having
to pick up after them.
IN THE combat department
i there are four field armies
now making, and a field army
may be composed of as many as
three army corps. which. in
turn. are composed of three or
more divisions each.
The commanders of the field
armies are Generals Hugh Drum
at Governors Island. New York
Ben Lear at Memphis, Herbert
Brees at San Antonio and John
l.. Dewitt at San Francisco.
| said the army corps-and.
for the last time, now, don't get
the army corps mixed up with
the corps areas-are composed
oil three or more divisions each.
but, like some beautiful, stately
hymn in the vandal hands of a
hopped-up swing band, this plan
IS subject to variations which
throw 1t out of symmetry.
Some of the corps have only
two divisions. one has four. and
General Lear's field army has
only one organized corps and
has two additional divisions of
infantry, one of horse cavalry
and an armored division scat
tered over the central part of
the country.
The armored division. which
is expanding into a corps of its
own. will be a separate outfit
under Gen. Adna Chaffee,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
BAERING DOWN ON THE NEWS:
Habit Form iHN
BY ARTHUR BUGS BAER

BY ARTHUR BUGS BAER
The best thing about Congress is that it's
unanimous, like beans in the army
You always get argument although that get
be habit like pictures of Buffalo Bill surrounded by the
Indians. Bill got he wouldn't pose any other way.
You have right to your opinion and the other has
mostly theories My definition of theory
is a swimming lesson piano STOOL
you happen to be wrong you still have chance TO vote
it. If you happen be right fellow will jump up and
9rrs't you Distribute. ;, ,.. .,,.. s... .u..
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
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to the Editor

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MUST sign your name and ad-
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not be printed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21

TO THE EDITOR:
NOW we hear tales about an
~ American and English
union. Sixty men down in
Washington voted this lease
lend bill. We have to take it.
even though our hearts are sad
and our minds almost a blank.
Are we going to let hand
full of men make this union
with England?
Our forefathers fought to
give us freedom. liberty and in
dependence from England.
We have had a fine country
for over $50 years.
MRS. l.. GRAY,
1926 Stansbury avenue.
TO THE EDITOR: Nf
TIIE members of the Michigan
l. unemployment compensation
commission have asked me to
express to you their appreciation
for the cooperation given us by
The Detroit Times in our cur
rent drive to register Michigan
workers for Michigan jobs.
v. b. STEINBAUGH,
Executive Director.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
Saving Bonds
Called Major
Security Aid
johnson Says He'll Buy
as Recommendation

(The opinions expressed by
General johnson are not nsees-
sariiy those of The Detroit
Times.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
w. j. DOWELL,
Durand, Mich.

EDITORS NOTE: The 10
per cent loan" referred to was
not loan but was a wage re-
duction agreed to by employees
and railroad operators in 1882.
In 1884 the cut was restored.
first by 21a per cent, a second
2la per cent and then with a
third 5 per cent, according to
G. B. Goble of Chicago. grand
vice president of the Brother
hood of Railway Clerks. Then in
1887 the railroad employees were
given an additional raise of Sla
per cent. All these reductions
and restorations were the result
of mutual agreements between
representatives of all railroad
employees and the railroad COM
panieS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
DEfRGHsg FINES

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
This Hurts
Reader Less
Than Writer
But lis Effort TO Clarity
Skeleton of u. S. Army

(Ths opinions expressed BY
Wssfbrook Pegier are not neees-
sariy those of The Detroit
Times.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
rs YEARS AGO TO-DAY
March 2J. 1916

rs YEARS AGO TODAY
March Fl, 1916
French claim Germans used
liquid fire" to gain ground
west of Verdun.
Russians claim victory over
AustrisnS who abandoned trans
ports and cut through Uscieczko
10 the safety of their advance
outpostS.
General CONSUMPTION urged in
Britain as army experts say
they are in critical need of men.
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
March 81, 1910
Queen Mary sails and heads
south on war adventure.
Prime Minister Chamberlain
faces a hexy fire of criticism
in the Hos OF Commons.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-11-14
No Lack of Vitan,i5, C.
In Winter Vegetables

Many winter vegetables commonly
found on the market In Montana viii
supply adequate amounts of vitamin
c in the family's diet at low cost II
homemakers plan menus carefully and
shop thrifty, says Bessie E. McClel-
land, extension nutrition specialist at
Montana State college.
Foods rich in vitamin C should be
stored daily, she explained. because
the human body cannot store reserves
of this vitamin and needs a day to
day supply.
Studies conducted by the home eco
nomics department at the Montana
agricultural experiment station reveal
that a wide range of winter vegetables
are rich in vitamin c.
Results of these studies are con-
tanned in a new experiment station
bulletin, "Vitamin c Content of Win
ter Fruits and Vegetables" and copies
may be obtained free from county ex-
tension agents.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-11-14
Relief for Landless
Indians of Montana
Asked of Uncle Sam

The Montana welfare board has
telegraphed the state congressional
delegation and federal officials, asking
immediate action to relieve the plight
Of the states landless Indians.
j. B. Convery, welfare administrator,
said the board asked the COMPRESSION
al members to sponsor legislation and
John Collier, Indian commissioner,
and Secretary Of Interior Harold L.
Ickes to create another reservation In
the state on which to settle the land
less tribesmen.
Convery added that the welfare de-
partment would cooperate in every
way it could to make the Indians self
sustaining and to remove them from
the outskirts Of cities. particularly
Great Falls, where they were living
under conditions Of almost unbeliev-
able squalor.
z. e. McNeilly, superintendent Of
the Rocky Boy agency, and two mem
bers Of the Cascade county commits
sion discussed the situation with the
board. They said conditions among the
Indians, particularly those on hill ST.
near Great Falls, were extremely seri-
Gus and that immediate action vas
needed to help than.