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Evening star., 1941-09-17
Dutch Ship Captain,
Survivor Of Torpedo
Attack, Visits D. {.
16 Crew Members Get
Chonee From AtIontic
Transport Job, Too

The captain of a Dutch merchant
ship, who survived a torpedoing
by German E-boat in the Atlantic
a year ago, made his first visit to
Washington yesterday, accompanied
by Is members of his crew.
The visit was arranged by the
Netherlands Legation, and report
ers who called at the Legation to
meet the ruddyfaced, quiet-spoken
skipper learned that Washington
can expect to see quite few Dutch
seamen from now on.
Legation officials said this visit
was the start of a new program OF
providing little relaxation for
Dutch crews from the perilous job
of transporting war supplies from
the United States to Great Britain.
Names Withheld.
The names of the captain and
crew were not revealed by Legation
officials for obvious reasons" they
said. The ship. anchored in a
nearby port, also was unidenti-
fed
II "Oulu lldNC DCtll dlIJSulG W pleh
the captain out of the group. One
chap with neatly black
beard and mustache wore a hand
some blue uniform. 1t turned out
he was a mechanic. The captain
was wearing plain, brown double
breasted business suit.
The skipper said the German
threat in the Atlantic still is great.
Asked which was the more danger
GUS menace. submarines or air
planes. he replied. Both" The sur
face raider is less dangerous, he
said.
He was slow TO talk about his own
experiences. but proud of the fact
that about 81 per cent of the Meth
erlands merchant marine escaped
the clutches of the Nazis to help
carry supplies to Britain
Attacked without Warning.
The skipper and Legation officials
said the country lost only about 3
per cent of its 5000 600 tons of mer-
chant ships when the Germans in
vaded About 80 per cent of the
merchant ships now are being used
In transporting supplies from this
country TO Great Britain. and the
remainder in Dutch East Indies
United States traffic.
1t was a large freighter that the
captain lost to the Nazi E-boat last
September. ne said The Germans
attacked at night without warning,
he said. killing IA members of the
crew. The captain and about Is
other survivors escaped in lifeboats
and were picked up by British de-
stroyer.
His present crew is made up of
men from many different ships;
their ages range from 16 to so.
Evening star., 1941-09-17

got Jail sentence Of three months
after explaining he used the loot to
treat women employees to ice cream
and soda pop. Thefts extending over
four months never exceeded rs cents
a day
Evening star., 1941-09-17
Premature End Of War
Unwanted, Wallace SAYS
Nv the Associsted Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 17.--Vice Pres
ident Wallace says that while the
people of the United States are ire
mendously interested in peace. they
would hate to see this war end pre-
maturely in a way which would
insure third and more horrible war
in our generation"
Calling for q new order built on
justice. charity and peace" the Vice
President said last night in an ad-
dress at the Fordham University
centenary celebration that "the Hit
Ter house is built upon the sands
and the winds are blowing"
Il predict" he said, that behind
the walls where lie France and
Greece the winds are blowing at the
foundations Of Hitler's house. Force
untempered by justice brings the
tornado to the house of force
itself ."
Evening star., 1941-09-17
Thief in Mint Sentenced

PHILADELPHIA. Sept. II P.-
George Norris Kirby. 81. who lost his
$2,10O-a-year inspectors job at the
Mint for stealing nickels and dimes,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-09
Belle Starr to
Blue Mouse Today

Due tn the demand 81 Tacoma
motion picture patrons Belle
starr" bandit queen Of the
Ozarks. moves n the Blue Mouse
theater today for an additional
run
Belle Starr never fired shot
when smile or flash % a
shapely ankle would do the trick
She went To masseuses to keep
her figure curvaceous and 10 the
best dressmakers in Chicago and
New York 10 enhance her allure.
That II the gist Of some little
known facts which research ez-
perts for 20th Century-Fo x
brought back with them from Mis-
sour and Arkansas 10 aid in the
production Of that companys
Belle Starr" the technieolor pic
ture which moved today TO the
Blue Mouse theater with Randolph
Scott and Gene Tierney in the
leading roles.
While most folks have thought
for years that Belle was merely
q rough two-gun frontier wom-
an, II didn't take Hollywood long
To discover that she possessed sex
appeal. spelled in capital letters.
The second feature remains the
same. with Ronald Regain and
Joan Perry In Mine Lives Are Not
Enough"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-09
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD
BY PAUL HARRISON
HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD-They supposed to have filmed the
Battle of Little Bgho today with Enrol Flynn and his
cced troopers finally going down before the onsaughs of
the Sioux
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-09
German Losses Set
AT Million and Hall

LONDON-The Exchange Tele-
graph agency here quoted the
m ilitary correspondent OF the
Swiss publication Die Nation as
estimating German losses in
Russia at the end of nine weeks
warfare at 100000 casualties,
5000 armored vehicles and 400
planes.
This estimate credited the Ger
mans with launching their attack
with about $50 divisions. including
"a Rumanian, 10 Hungarian, six
Finnish and two Slovakian.
German losses were esti-
mated Mt $4,000 men per day
beginning at the fourth week
Of the war with ~ per cent
Of the casualties being fatal.
The luftwaffe was said 10 be
losing about so planes per day.
SCOW - Prof Alexander
Scherbakov. director of the official
bureau OF information, in week
end analysis of war losses, put
German casualties In killed
wounded and prisoners at more
than 100000 against total Rus
sian casualties OF 1.12S,000.
Scherbakov gave Russian losse:
as 100000 killed, 10000 wounded
and IT'S. 900 missing.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-09

and that cattle were bringing q
good price.
Il didn't exactly mean cow
ranchin." he said dreamily II
I had place like this I'd build me
a little western town In the gulch
yonder. Good, practical buildings.
I figure Id fix 'em so a movie
company could live in EN-. And
I'd get me a railroad-an old
fashioned engine an a couple of
cars an half mile of track.
Isn't any location I know of with
a railroad for rent. I'd have my
own string of horses. too; and
some cows for atmosphere. Man,
that sure would be the life"
NO MORE PARADISE
A little later l heard the sad
tale Of couple OF people who
tried to get away from Hollywood
and failed. They're Mr.. and Mrs
II. J. Ruess, and about 10 years
ago they left Los Angeles and
bought "a acres in Triunfo can
yon. 53 miles away.
They wanted peace and solitude,
and for a while they had it. No
body bothered them, and since the
canyon road ends at their ranch.
no one ever passed by. With the
aid of the stream and a dam they
built, they were able to develop
a little paradise. They did too
good a job. It's the only rustic
spot in southern California that's
green all through the long dry
season.
A cameraman, picnicking with
his family on a Sunday. spotted it
first and took pictures. Within a
week studio location scouts were
visiting the ranch and making ar
rangements for companies to work
there. They now are invaded by
about 10 troupes every summer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-09

But the last I saw of Brevet
Ma or-General George Armstrong
Custer, or his Hollywood counter
part, he was still standing among
his kneeling mon and blasting with
two REVIEWERS at the whooping red
skins. Through the dust OF Lasky
Mesa, a battlefield now worn as
smooth as a drill field, Flynn's
long yellow hair and shining saber
glinted bravely in the sun. But
they showed falsely. too. because
Custer had short hair when he
went on that punitive expedition
in 1876. and nobody in his outfit
carried a saber.
Director Raoul Walsh wasn't
ready to let the Indians swoop
In for the kill. Weeks ago he
filmed some spectacular charges.
in which two men were killed and
about 40 injured in the fast,
massed riding. Now the camera
was drawing back to show the
dismounted soldiers taking their
position for the last stand and re-
pulsing the first assaults of Sitting
Bulls warriors. Not until the
horde finally swept over the few
remaining white men-with close
ups of desperate and heroic action
interspersed would Flynn go
down in blaze of glory.
The action here was fast and
noisy. but not awfully exciting.
The Indians would charge, kill a
few soldiers. and he driven back.
The fallen troopers would lie still
while fresh ammunition was dis
tributed to the live ones. Then
the cameras would turn again and
the Indians would charge from
different direction.
INDIANS PLAY FOOTBALL
The loudest yips came from the
riders-many of whom were stunt
men-when Walsh called Lunch"
Everyone lined up and was handed
box and a bottle OF milk. Most
of the men wolfed their sand
witches. cake and fruit, and within
Is minutes six crap games were
going full tilt. The genuine Indians
played football
wandered down the hill lit
tie way to the shade of a live oak
tree. One of the horse wranglers.
a red-faced young man from New
Mexico. was sitting there methodi-
cally downing every item In his
lunch box. Facing away from the
big company and the fleet Of
trucks. we both looked at the
pleasant hills and few fat Here
fords in the valley. The wrangler
sighed and said he sure wished
he owned a place like this; a Teller
never would have to worry then.
said yes, 1t was nice country.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-09

Your postmaster can tell YOU
how to invest In u. S. Defense
Bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-09
NOW PLAYING At
LOCAL ThEATERS

EoNN--Ann Sheridan and Jack oakls
In Navy Blues" II '4b, 2 80. 10
Gas: siso Wayne Morris and Brenda
Marshall In The Smiling Ghost.
40, $50. 6:i5.
HIAITO - Dorothy Iamour and Jon
Hall In "hloma OF the South Seas, y
II 80. 2.io. $50. 7.3o. 1918. aiso
Richard Arlen and Jean Parker In
Plying Blind" 100. 3'45. e'75
po5.
MUSIC BOX Sonia Henis and John
PAYNE In Sun Valley Serenade.
i2s5. 3.5o, 6:b5. 1000, also Roger
Pryor IN Bullets for o'Hsra.' u 40
7:a5, $50. sssb; and March Of Time
i2:25. sac. Gas. $40.
Blue MorsE-oene Tierney and
Randolph Scott in Belle starr, !,
Regain in Nine Lives Are Not
Enough" ii;s5. 2;4s, s:$s. s:$s.
RIvIERA-rim Holt In Along the
Rio orande, II 80. 2.i5. 300 TAO,
"Ellery Queen and the Perfect
Crime" 100. a:46. ESQ. e:i6.
LITTLE THEATER - Tacoma Drams
LEAGUE presents The Women" cur
tain at $40.
RETURN SHOWING
BEvERLy-Herpert Marshall and viz
ginia Bruce In Adventure In
Washington" also Penny Singleton
In Blonde In Society"
CApITOI~-Robert Young and Ran
dolph Scott In western Union.
also Joan Bennett In Man ]
Married"
COMMUNITY - Virginia Grey and
John Shelton In Blonde Inspira-
ton" also Margaret LOCKWOOD IN
Girl In the News"
KAY sTREET-Franchot Tone and
Joan Bennett In she Knew All the
Answers" also Frank Morgan In
washington Melodrama."
LAKEwooD--Joei Mccres and Ellen
Drew IN "Reachins for the sun,
also Power Dive"
PARk-Joan Crawford and MELVIN
Douglas In "A Womans Face" also
LLOYD Nolan and Lynn Bari In
"Slecpers West"
PRocToR--Joan. Crawford in "A
Woman's Face"
REALART-Tyrone Power and Linda
Darncll In Blood and Sand"
REN-Phil Regain and Bert Wheeler
In Las Vegas Nights" also Nancy
Kelly and John Loder In Scotland
Yard"
SHELL l. - James Caenev and Pat
O'Brien In THE Fighting 69th,
also Enrol Flynn and Brenda Mar
shall In Footsteps In the Dark"
SUNSET Joel McCres and Ellen
Drew In Reaching for the sun,
also LLOYD Nolan and Lynn Bari In
"sleepers West"
TENPLE--Clark Gable and Rosalind
Russell In "Thev Met In Bombay.
also Marlene Dietrich and George
Raft In Man Power"
LIBERTY. puyallup-Jane rrazee In
san Antonio Rose," also They
Meet Again
RIVIERA. summer 49, Very YounH
Lady" also Murder A m 8
Friends"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-09

Opening tonight for It's last four
performances ~ the Tacoms Lit
lie fheatsr Is The Women IA
nous American satire BY Clare
Booth. Ons Of ire outstanding hits
of both stage and screen The
Women" - also proving q biz IA
vorite with Tacoma audiences. the
Little threaten reports. Both Fri
dsy and Saturday nights Of last
week PLAYED to SRO houses and a
large reservation list Is already
in for this weeks performances.
Directed by Frankie Fuller, well
known here for q number Of past
successes. The Women" uses one
Of the largest casts ever assem-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-09
Navy Blues at
The Roxy Theaier
Ann Sheridan Stors
In Musical Comedy

Warner Bros. who several years
ago we're giving us the biggest.
most glittering, giri-studded mu-
steal pictures 70 emanate from
Hollywood. has returned 10 that
gay medium with Navy Blues. i"
an sye-filling comedy set 70 mu-
sic. which opens today at the Roxy
theater.
Herslding the return TO the
screen Of Ann Sheridan for her
first film in approximately six
months. Navy Blues also brings
Martha Rave out of temporary
Hollywood retirement In add
ton. the cast includes Jack Oakie,
Jack Haley, Eddie Albert. Jack
Carson and, new 10 films. Jackie
Gleason OF night club fame.
deliberately set and deliberately
cast. Navy Blues" was written
by Jerry Wald. its co-producer,
and Richard Macsulay strictly
along laugh lines.
Lots of pretty girls including
the Navy Blues Sextet." the six
girls selected by the gobs Of the
u. s. navy as the loveliest lockers
in Hollywood. and lots Of gags for
the principals to handy about are
featured IN Navy Blues" which
is designed for the express pur-
pose OF entertaining the custom
ers along the lush, sxtravagant
lines of about eye and ear pleas
ure.
Wayne Morris with lovely Bren-
ds Marshall and the blonde bomb
er, Alexis Smith, share honors in
the companion attraction, The
Smiling Ghost
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-09

Your postmaster can tell you
how TO invest In u. s. Defense
Bonds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-09
Ann Sothern
Cast as Star
Robert Young to Be
Seen in Mole Leud

Ann sothcrn makes her first
N-G-M appearance in a singing
dancing role IN Lady Re Good. :
which viii come Thursday 10 the
Music Box thester.
The young actress. whose star
has been increasingly on the
ascendancy since her great hit In
'Msisie." has long been rated by
directors and producers ar one Of
the most versatile players on the
coast. For years Miss sothern has
wanted TO do a musical show. but
II was not until acquisition Of
LADY Be Good" that the Culver
City studio felt II had an ideal
vehicle for her.
The new production has a wealth
81 other player talent, including
Eleanor Powell. Robert Young.
Lionel Barrymore. John Carroll.
Red SHELTON. the comedy find of
the year. Virginia oBrien. Tom
Conway. Dan Daley IT.. and Regi-
maid Owen.
The plot Of Lady Re Good"
revolves about Robert Young and
Miss sothern. . song writing cou-
pie who click on Tin Pan Alley.
However. success goes 10 Younr's
head and he neglects Ann, with
the result that she packs her grips
and heads for the divorce courts.
II takes her dancing friend. Miss
Powell. together with the latter's
hoy friend. John Carroll. 10 engi-
neer an intrigue by which the
fighting couple are brought to-
gether again.
The companion feature brings
Victor McIAglen with Dennis
OKeefe. Patsy Kelly. zasu Pitts
and Marjorie Woodwork in
broadway Limited"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-09
OPENS Thursday at Han1rick,s Music Box Thedter'
The Women Continues Run al Little Theaier

bled for = local show. Thirty-two
women and 10 nsnl appear IN
IN. many scenes that make up the
PLAY.
Al performances are e. SIS =.
m. Reservations may be made by
calling AAin s747.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-09
JACOBSEN TO SPEAK

Ivan Jacobsen IS scheduled 20
give a talk on his experiences in
Norway Friday at s ,. m. at Our
Savior's Lutheran church. Miss
Margaret Anderson will contribute
music for the occasion. The pub
lie Ia invited.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-09

When you need few extra dol
lars. look around the basement OF
attic for discarded articles. These
will bring you cash from some
one II you advertise them with
an inexpensive Times Want Ad
Main 3151.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-12
Says DIR. Preston

has been fired by all available employers the
albi that 1t was always somebody elses fault
no longer goes very well.
But, if he is sick. that is not his fault and
everyone is sorry for him. The neigheors help
out gladly until the community puts him on
a permanent charity basis. The landlord is a
brute if he doesn't reduce the rent and so
are the t~adesmen when they demand their
money.
The man has achieved security by sort
of respectable parasitsm. But TO be happy
in his fraud he must make himself believe 1t.
Self-deception in sickness can go to almost
any lengths including pseudo-paralysis and
eyes that are blind only because they simply
refuse to
Some superstitious people carry horse
chestnuts in their pockets to ward off diseases.
Others knock on wood most of them don't
know Just why-an and others simply must
straighten all the pictures on the walls.
Long ago it was observed that a person
with the habit of going through the motion
of washing his hands was somewhat off
centre, but the Interpretation used to be that
he must be a deep-dyed villain at heart.
This guess was on the target but not IN
the bulls-eye
The constant hand-washer is tormented by
a sense of guilt but may have done far less
wrong than person WIN more CdIous
conscience. In childhood everyone learns that
he must be good not bad, clean not dirty'
Wickedness and dirty tricks are about the
same thing and cleanliness is next to God
liness. So the hand-washing motions SHOW
sub-consciousness of guilt somewhere.
When person takes three baths day, 1t
does not prove that he has gone off his
nut" but it is a suspicious symptom that ne
is veering slightly toward the queer side or
he would not be able to salve his conscience
with this soap-and-water symbolism.
From this it is only a step, though long
one to hearing accusing voices.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-12

ideas about white things that suddenly pop
up in the dark and make noises.
Three urges rule everything that people do
in this world.
Nobody wants TO get hurt, either by a
punch on the nose or by an unkind act.
Everyone wants TO live as comfortably as
possible and most people want to keep up
with the Jones" to the extent that they are at
least reasonably like the rest Of the people
in the community and are liked by them
The man whose mind IS slightly askew or
even badly off-Centcr still is carrying on the
battle against things that threaten to hurt
HIM and make his life unpleasant lie Is using
lust about the same defenses that his saner
brother uses only in bigger doses Some
times he gets so mixed up that nc uses the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-12

The average person would say that such 2
person is "bugheuse" and belongs in enc but
that is not always true.
The voices of conscience is an ancient
phenomenon which the Greeks personifed in
the persons of the "Furies relentless, female
hends which pursued the guilty wretch TO the
ends of the earth.
Persons with modern Hfuries" after them
often do flee from place to place finally end
ing in an institution or suicide.
Yet. often these victims of seIf-torture
have little IN the way of wrong doing 10 blame
themselves for.
One might suppose that a guilty con-
science" of this type would at least bF strictly
truthful in the accusations II makes but. after
a while the voices sometimes accuse the VIC
tim of crimes they could not possibly have
committed.
Sometimes an unbalanced mind pro-
tects itself by being unusually solicitous about
someone's welfare Or. Preston tells about
a girl who hated her mother thing which
the girl knew a sin. She couldn't stand
to live with the idea that her wickedness
would make her damned for all time II was
much easier for her to live with some kind
of fear. SO, instead of admitting the hate
she began fearing that her mother would be
run over by An automobile and killed This
fear was SO great that the girl often tele-
that everything was al right
Friends thought the girl the most duti-
full daughter in the world and her new fear
turned her from a sinner to a saint IN her
own mind
The mind IS only part Of the body Or
Preston emphasizes, and often queerness Of
the mind is due TO sickness or other queer
ness" of different parts Of the body
For example a person who inadvertently
sits on hot stove will arise with more speed
than grace, If he is
If he sits there and fries. most anyone
would have no doubts that he was worse than
"goofy,"
But they might be wrong
There are certain diseases Of the nervous
system that shut off the senses Of temper
ature and pain Such a person would have no
way of knowing anything unusual going
on until he smeled something burning.
The condition not uncommon among old
prize-fghters Of being chemically punch
drunk" or "slap-happy" is now known to be
due to too much intra-cranial pressure pre-
venting enough blood reaching the brain to
oxygenate it properly.
Old people sometimes get gaps" in their
minds because they no longer See and hear
well and cannot get information from the
world around them. They fill these gaps with
talking about the good old times The man
whose brain cells have been damaged by
alcohol or disease is in tho same boat only
his mental "gapits" is likely TO be much
more severe and he fills his whole life with
decisions of grandeur. In this class is the
nut-house Napoleon and his cell-mate who
scrawls $4,000 checks at the drop of the hat
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-12

By that he means the thing that Is troubl-
ing d person and developing queer kinks IN
his mind call II bats IN the belfry' or
what you please. according to Or Preston,
most minds that go off on a tangent do so
because OF nothing more complicated than the
way a person feels about the-peope and things
Around him II boils down pretty much to
such simple things as whether you ever were
hit with a hammer hurt by man wearing
glasses and a red tie or sold on the idea that
angels eat spinach.
Your attitudes may be sensible or queer,
depending on all the things that have hap
pencd 10 YOU ever since your birth.
Dr Preston ana his friends scrammod that
night when they saw the mule because earlier
IN their lives they had built up terrifying
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-12

stand and stare at a blank wall. They don't
get killed for this dumb reaction. Yet they
may pay the penalty of life sentence In the
"bughouse."
Everyone is aware Of the human weak
ness of blaming failure on somebody else bu.
this does not mean that the chrome ahoi
inventor is "screwball" as long as he
remains inst a plain liar and knows that he is
one. ONLY when he succeeds in making HIM
self believe his excuses, has he stepped over
the boundary into the land of bats in the
belfry"
OF course. the man or woman who peeps
out of the window of an institution to call
every passerby spy of the interests who are
keeping me here" is mentally sick. but so
may be the person who has convenient
Inv Arnaricnn Weaklv In Greal Britain Righta u,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-12

sarle medicine for
everything.
In that he is like
some of the dumb
animals.
w h a I sc c m s
more stupid than
a rabbit that sees
an a Ito m o b ii e
coming at night
but instead of hop
ping out of the
way, freezes to the
highway and gets
run over?
Yet when the
animal does the
same thing in the
deep grass it is a
SIN art trick to
keep from being
we're d and
usually works
A lot of people
behind the bars in
an asylum meet
all their problems
quite like the rab-
bit. T h y just