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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
Dorothy BardOn
Made One Slip

Dorothy Bardon had made
just one little technical slip in
her recital and il was not lost
to the officer. When she said !:
Il was a good little girl" she
made a statement that opened
the door for the admissibility
Of character witnesses.
The detective determined 10
blast a wide breach in the de-
Tense through that tiny flaw
He dispatched two OF his best
men from Olympia 10 Portland,
the girls home town, 10 search
the police files for a trace Of
Dorothy Bardon's past.
II her past was not all il
should have been. she would be
known 10 some parole officer
and that parole officer must be
found in time 10 testify at the
trial the following day so that
Prosecutor Smith Troy could
prove that the knife welding
woman had not been a good lit
tie girl -. ever!
IT was daybreak the following
morning before the officers re-
turned with the welcome infor-
nation that they had found the
girls police record. and that a
police officer would appear 10
testify for the state. Officer
Rufus Randall would appear In
the place of Rufus King, parole
officer. deceased.
When Officer Randall
mounted the stand and began 10
read the long record OF the
woman's misspent youth, the
jury sat In panied and shame
faced attention. From the Off
GERS records Ezra Dillon lived
agatha fond. heartbroken
father who was forever getting
his incorrigible daughter out OF
scrapes: and II could have been
only TO his ultimate relief when.
at the age Of 1S, she finally ran
from home.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
PQtrOin1an
At Work

The detective nodded coldly to
the girl as he entered and
stepped gingerlv across the
floor 10 avoid the splashes OF
crimson spread about. He OBJ
served there were two beds in
the house: an iron cot in the
kitchen living room and more
elaborate metal bed in the
other room. In the kitchen he
noted a heating stove. an cleo
trio plate stove, large Morris
chair. two kitchen chairs and a
table. here a neighbor sat wait
ing to be questioned.
Next 10 the chimney were
shelves on which food and COM
mon household articles were
kept. In one corner Of this room
some mems clothes were hung
neatly on pegs. This was the
setting Of the tragedy.
Patrolman Moody, who noti-
fled his superior OF the crime,
was already at work photo
graphing the two rooms from
all angles. Kuntz noticed that
the largest splotch of blood was
spread in front of the iron cot;
in it were mingled the tracks
of two persons. one set OF prints
being much smaller than the
other. The red trail led around
the huge Morris chair in which
Henry Hymer, the neighbor,
had found his good friend, Ezra.
mortally wounded, as he eX-
planned excitedly to the detec-
tives-
81 heard the girl scream for
help. II was just midnight; i
was closing my gas station. i
came right over"
How was she dressed when
you got heres" interrupted
KuntZ.
"Just like she IL now" he
answered. 81 found Ezra lean
ing back In the chair uncon-
scious with two stab wounds in
his abdomen. His pa m
showed two rips where the knife
went through. He came TO for
Just a second and moaned: 'Ob,
Henry. she has killed me-"
He didn't say she had muir
dered' him: ?" asked the officer.
He didn't say murdered
he said KILLED." the neighbor
insisted. Then he went on to tell
how he raced his friend TO the
hospital where Dillon was pro-
nounced dead on arrival.
Finally he turned TO question
Dorothy Bardon who slouched
easily in a corner OF the kitchen.
where she had been following
the detectives search with
smoldering. heavy-lidded eyes.
But the girl proved fully in
formed rs 10 her rights when
she was asked 10 make state
ment.
ANY question you wish 10 ask
me I will answer truthfully-
after ace my lawyer" said
the girl in even, liquid tones.
Right then the officer was con-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17

that she could do very America"
girls.
Myrna 10y originally ssSayed
the slinky. exotic vamp parts. but
did not attain her present out
standing success until she became
the screens wholesome. perfect
wife type.
Bette Davis was flop ss a
sweet ingenue, and when she
scored her tremendous hit in ."Of
Human Bondage" and won Acade-
my awards in two other 'meanie"
roles she almost typed herself fort
ever as a villaineSS.
Not so Miss Oberon, Film pro-
ducers continue 10 experiment
with her talents, make her a
guinea pig
She was notably successful IN
an American girl role in we Shall
Meet Again and The Cowboy
and the Lady"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
Records PrOUe
Her q Liar!

In New York City she was ar
rested and served time for car
rying a gun. She was also mixed
up In three knitting scrapes with
admirers.
The records proved her 10 be
a Hart Dorothy Bardon had re-
lied on the passage Of years TO
protect her from the evidence OF
her past. But she reckoned with
out an efficient parole officer
Rufus King had done his work
we'll!
Chewing her nails, all thea
tries gone, like a trapped animal
she glared at Randall. knowing
full we'll her case had collapsed
like a house OF cards. The girl
who had committed murder
and a crime worse than murder
had come TO the end Of her
string of lies.
After is hours. the Jury found
her guilty OF murder in the sec
ond degree and she received the
maximum sentence Of 40 years
to be served in the state peni-
Tertiary at Walla Walla.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
Merle OberOn Known
AS Films Guinea Pig

MERLE OBERON, who has been
AVA filmlandS most successful
guinea pig. admitted the other day
that she has been very lucky in
the outcome OF the experiment
with her career.
No other star has been 20 sue
ceSsful in three major branches
of Characterization. except char
acter actors.
And no new glamour girl has
escaped being typed" for a time
by her initial outstanding success.
Miss Oberon, il will be recalled.
first succeeded on the screen In a
slnky, Slant-eyed, mysterious eX-
otto type OF Characterization. Then
she clicked as very English"
girl. both modern and costume
period" as in Henry VIII" Then
she demonstrated in several films
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
. police dob

vinced that she had had expert
ence in criminal matters and
pressed her no further. For he
could imagine her, sobbing pitt
fully before a grand jury how
she had been third-degreed into
a confession by a heartless.
brutal officer. However. he took
her into custody on a technical
charge of manslaughter.
The following day after con-
sulting an attorney, Dorothy
Bardon volunteered a statement
10 Sergeant Kuntz. She said
she had been escorted to a
dance in Olympia by her father,
and later had wanted to go 10
another place called Nisqually
Grange-but the father insisted
upon taking her home.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17

track man he won a scholarship
at the University OF Pittsburgh
also played football under
Pop Warner. and was active IN
basketball and boxing.
On graduating from Pitt
entered Carnegie Tech 10 finish
his automot engineering
course then went into the
steel business.
But a burning desire 10 be An
actor made him dissatisfied with
his work Ills wise parent
advised him 10 go 10 New York
and get the acting bug out OF
his system His first inter
view resulted in n job as Dennis
Kings undcrStudy for "Ro>o
Marie"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
Matrirony, Etc,

FOR marmony this department believes early marriages
"A Also in working to help along the family income
in night for husband think
should have all times least II hats And
believe for and WIFE particularly either
I believe salaries for home Or
which Will do with wife having to ask her husband
for money. More Of this matter
enough gasoline in the United shortage
has failure build pipe lines We
aluminium the shortage of aluminium due failure
develop enough electrical power.
Grace says steel production will be retarded
because shortage Of We had
but sold nearly all of il TO Japan II be that will
admit that enough of everything
United States but brains
George Jean IIardoGet' Nathan New Yorks sixth
bachelor:
every a bachelor meets, lucky hnd
with sufficient intelligence charm and loneliness 10 interest
him."
suppose that when bachelor the in so females
that interests him. sometimes happens that he does not interest
hnr
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
Mostly Bits

They were mostly bits but
Rege played them TO the hilt
Before long scripters were writ
ing Regis Toomey Roles" into
their screen plays.
Then Capra gave Rege the
small but punchy role OF the
soda clerk In John Doe" q.
The Swear battle was won :.
Reyes fighting heart and fine
sportsmanship helped make him
a star athlete during his school
days.
Because Of his ability ax
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17

LIS long training had taught
H Sergt. Jim Kuntz of the
Washington state patrol that
in a homicide case in which
only two people are involved,
with no eye-witnesses, and
where Self-defense is claimed by
the survivor, the truth is eX-
tremely difficult to learn and
satisfactory solution is almost
impossible. Even more so when
the survivor is a tall, statu-
eSque, beautiful woman 49,.
Sergeant Kuntz had just re-
turned home from a Halloween
party when he got the first
meager details of the bizarre
crime over the telephone-it
was 1910 a. m. on the morning
of Oct. 81, 1887.
He lost no time in getting TO
the scene Of the Staying on the
outskirts of Olympia. where
Dorothy Bardon-aged 26. twice
married and divorced--had
killed her 63-year-old father
with a butcher knife because
"he tried 10 do TO me again
what he did to me IL years ago
in Portland"
The officer knew her father
Ezra Anzo Dillon--well; knew
him as hard working, horse
trading type of individual who
had succeeded In accommodating
considerable money.
He was the sort OF business
man who put a great value on
a display of cash when trading,
and as a result always carried
$1,000 or $1,000 on his person.
The house in which he lived
and died-was small but suit
able 10 his solitary life. He had
recently built a large processing
shed in the rear to slaughter
and pack poultry.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
Almost Confidential

indicate hub Of the defense
~ not Detroit" writes Marylander
Perhaps Sir And how anti-aircraf guns defend
Baltimore?
"Goodby OF concluding letter that appeals
10
claiming Extermnator II the greatest
about Man o. War;" writes
Pittsburgher.
War raced after Of so how
ter I'm s sticking with Exterinator Fast track slow
muddy track carrying 40 lao pounds at
any distance under Jockey "Od Bones would and win
daughters brunes named Rozanne and
appeal you:" asks maon
Both Don't forget to invite TO dance at their
weddings
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
Passing by

lean SUTTONF1ELD Model recently named the winner In
Chcago's perfect back Miss Suonfeld Is blonde
model and vegetarian Most interesting competitor In the
aforementioned the of the fourth Ann
Nage of New Orleans Mrs Nage 30yeaod housewife from
New Orleans and is the mother of 7year-od triplets.
Aegedy codheared New Workers S224939 to charity
in 1941 And know what they about
Scots Well the worlds record for giving charity capita Is
held by the city OF Aberdeen, Scotland
Brooklyn win pennant without the aid Of ehanded
pitcher" item Very interesting But what
would like TO know is Why has there been ehanded
national golf CHAMPION?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
,SideHghtS
They Don't Care

MOTE said IL characteristic OF Russian not to
~ being killed does whether he lives
dies suspected in 1889 when riding 10
track in Paris in taxcab driven by
Russian recall words TO girl friend shot
over intersection al 65 miles an hour:
: nuts" said.
informing me-" said she. Tell him to stop"
before could stop him. crashed another taxi at the
intersection And after 10 the Amer
Hospital in Paris
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17

hear his footsteps yet He came
softly into my bedroom and told
ma that he had been nice to me
and now I must be nice 70
him. L cried that I wanted 70
70 back to mama He promised
to give me back my pretty
clothes and $15 for fare 70 get
back 10 my mother. i was 20
miserAble-that's how IL hap
penedw
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17
ToOmey in Comeback
After John Doe Role
Eigbt-Minnte Dialogue
in Frank Clprs Film
Wins Contract
Nv HARRIET PARSONS
Special b fHk DETROIT TIMES

HOLLYWOOD. Aug. is.
DEGIS TOOMEY Is on the
IL comeback trail-thanks TO
8 minutes of solid dialogue In
Frank Cspra's Meet John
Doe"
That S-minute scene OF Reyes
was an unforgettable hunk OF
histrionics.
II won him a long-term con-
tract with Warner Brothers .
The long lull is over for him at
last.
Toomey made his first Aim hit
in one of the earliest under
world talkies. Abb" in 1929
He played a death scene so
knowingly that every studio in
Hollywood offered him a con-
tract.
"Albi" set the pattern for
long succession OF gangster
movies and Toomey set a
style in heroic dying From
tnen on Ills CalccI Wao oHlc ht-
mise after another.
Every time he went down his
salary went up . until "
reached the tidy sum OF 81 500
a week.
Something Happened
Then suddenly something
happened TO Rege or rather
things stopped happening 10
him After 7 years OF steady
climbing he hit the ceiling
There was no gradual down
grade for him lie struck
bottom with one sickening thud
In two years, 1896 and 81,
he worked a total of three days.
And that was in a CONNER
cial film never shown in the
theaters It's hard TO figure
the reason for that hull +.
Rege was the same Toomey-
the same fine actor and grand
guy.
Maybe his salary was Just too
high II looks that way be-
cause when he finally changed
agents and lowered his price he
started getting assignments
again.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17

IERE pleasant little game that Will message
every day numerical puzzle designed to spell out
your Count the letters first II the number
Of letters subtract the number Is less than
your key number Start al the upper left
and check OF your key
right the the letters under
,hs cbecLbs ee,,cs owe vo, 6-I1
esssusbt isu vr'ts''. IN"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-17

tertiary at Walla Walla.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
War Games Unit
To Use Indian
Dialect as Code
By the Associated Press.

81 tnk AsscCldleu FIcSs.
Borrowing q World War trick of
the A. e. F., the 32d Division will
use II Michigan and Wisconsin In
disns to send radio messages in
"code"-their own Indian dialects
in the big Louisiana war games
starting tomorrow.
In the World War, a front-line
artillery unit whose messages were
being intercepted and decoded regu-
larly put Indians at the end of the
telephone wire, and their jargon re-
portedly baffled the enemy COM
pletely.
Lieut.. Col. Glenn B Arnold, signal
officer of the 32d and resident of
Ypsilanti, Mich. has assigned his
Michigan and Wisconsin warriors
as radio operators in three commun-
ication nets. Nine braves from a
western Wisconsin tribe are with
the provisional antitank battalion
net. Four from northern Wisconsin
are with the 57th Field Artillery bri-
gade, and four from northern Michi-
gan are assigned to the division
command.
The signal officer found that he
had to comb the division for Indians
who had not forgotten their tribal
tongue or did not have trouble
translating it. Training of the In
dians was assigned to First Lieut.
Newton L. Chamberlain of Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
D. T.. Medical Society
Farley 10 Discuss
Health
Role Of Physicians
In Defense to Occupy
Convention Sept. 80

Military medicine will be sub
ject for discussion at the 194l an
nual scientific assembly of the Med
ical Society of the District of Co
lumbia at the MayfloWer Hotel, Sep
tember 80 to october 2.
This was announced last night by
DR.. John r. Cavanaugh, general
chairman, who made public the en-
tire program. Plans are being made
by doctors in Washington and many
States in the Eastern area to at
tend in greater numbers than ever
before, he said, adding: The eyes
of the medical world are on Wash
ington."
Medicine in national defense will
be considered october 2. the clos
ing day of the assembly. Distin-
guished speakers from the armed
services will take up several phases
of the subject. while a military ex-
hibit of equipment for care of the
sick and wounded of the Army and
Navy will be displayed.
The speakers and their subjects
include:
Maj. Gen. James Carre Magee,
surgeon general of the Army, on
The Care and Evacuation of Bat
tie Casualties in Modern War" Rear
Admiral Ross T. McIntire, surgeon
general of the Navy, Aviation Med
icine in the Navy" 1t. Comdr. L. r.
Newhouser, Medical Corps, Navy Re-
serve, The Use of Blood Substi-
tutes by the Armed Forces" Col.
Leonard G. Downtree, Army Medi-
cal Corps, who is chief of the medi-
cal division. selective service sys-
TEN, The Health Of the Nation as
Revealed by Selective Service" DR..
Warren F. Draper, assistant sur
geon general United States Public
Health Service, Public Health and
National Defense" and 1t. Col A.
Clagett Gray, Army Medical Corps,
who is State medical officer OF Sc
lective service for the District Of
Columbia, leading the discussion.
The program, DR.. Cavanaugh ex-
planned, will be devoted to Cur
rent Problems in General Medicine" !"
Among the subjects in addition to
military medicine, will be emergen-
cies in general medicine, preventive
procedures, the use of newer drugs
and treatment of psycho-neuroses.
Luncheons Planned.
An elaborate social program is be-
ing arranged, including luncheons
by the Georgetown University Med
ical Alumni Association, in charge
of DR.. Philip A. Caulf1eld; the
George Washington University Med
ical Society, in charge OF DR.. Oscar
B. Hunter, and the Medical Col
lege of Virginia Alumni, in charge
of DR.. William A. Morgan.
The annual banquet will be held
on the closing night of the assembly
October 2,
Cooperating with DR.. Cavanaugh
in planning the program is a large
committee and officers of the So
ciety, including Theodore Wiprud
| secretary.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Pvt. D. (. Wilson Wins
TRAINING Course Medal

kdjudged the outstanding trainee
at the Chemical Warfare Service
replacement training center. Edge
wood Arsenal, Md, Pvt. Douglas
Emory Wilson, son of the late Emory
M. Wilson, Central High School
principal, was presented with gold
medal as the 11-week course ended,
Friday.
The medal was given by the Edge
wood Service Post of the American
Legion. Pvt. Wilson was rated at
the top of 1000 trainees by board
of officers. The course at Edge
wood is to train chemical warfare
service units for the Air Corps.
A graduate of Dartmouth, Mr..
Wilson did graduate work in Har-
ward and was employed in Houston,
Tex, when inducted in June.
His mother, Mrs. Emory M. Will
son, lives at 1874 P street NV.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Roosevelt
Continued From First Page)

to hold q party like this, just as we
are doing it today, just as we hope
we will all come back next year and
do it again"
Mr.. Smith, a homeSpun Will Rog-
ers type of master of ceremonies, re-
ferred contemptuously on several oc-
easions to them isolationists,
finally allowing as how he would
have to think quite awhile before
classifying them as Al American
citizens
: And from Judge John E. Mack of
Foughkeepsie, an old friend OF Mr..
Roosevelt who nominated him Tor
the presidency at the Democratic
convention in 1882 and in 1886, came
the following suggestion. Franklin,
clear up the troubles of the world.
Form a police force big enough to
enforce order. Finish the work
which Woodrow Wilson conceived
and tried to perpetuate. Then come
home In peace"
= At another point Judge Mack re-
marked:
= II we must nave war, II Is better
10 have it on the shores of Europe
and Asia than to do nothing until
Eitler and his ilk drive in on us"
8 Seated on the platform with the
President we're Mrs. Roosevelt and
two grandchildren. Elliott Roose-
velt, jr.. and Ruth Chandler Roose-
velt, Harry L. Hopkins and his
daughter, Diana. Luis Munoz Marin,
president of the Puerto Rican Sen
ate, also was seated with the family
group.
~The military academy band from
West Point played during the pro-
gram, and the crowd, despite a
counter attraction in the form of a
party being sponsored by Repre-
sentative Fish elsewhere In the
county, was of record proportions
for the event.
~Fpllowing the home club affair,
the President joined Mrs. Roosevelt
atevalkill Cottage where members
cf the family, friends and all those
traaelins with the Chief Executive
we're received for q picnic supper.
Evening star., 1941-08-31
Ford Expects 10 Build
Bomber Assemblies
While Plant Goes Up
Borrows Machinery TO
Make at Least 10 ut
Old Tri-Motor Factory
BY DAVID J. WILKIE,

DETROIT, Aug. 30.-Henry Ford
expects to build Consolidated B-24D
bomber plane assemblies long before
the S47,00O,000 factory now under
construction near Ypsilanti, Mich,
is completed.
He disclosed this today in an
nouncing that with equipment bor-
rowed largely from the Consolidated
Aircraft plant at San Diego he would
make at least 10 of the giant four
engined bombers in the old Ford
airplane factory at Dearborn where
little more than a decade ago the
Ford tri-motor transport planes
were built.
Uses Borrowed Equipment.
Installation of the borrowed equip
ment, including intricate jigs and
dies, already is under way. The
assemblies to be produced in the
old aircraft building adjacent TO
the Ford Airport will be complete
excepting for the fon engines.
Company engineers who have spent
much time in the Consolidated Air
craft plant on the West Coast ex-
pect the newest undertaking in
connection with the bomber con-
tract not only TO help in smoothing
out production procedure but TO
speed up top production once the
new factory is ready.
Several weeks ago Esdel Ford an
nounced plans for making landing
gears for the bomber plane in ad-
vance of actual production of the
airframe sub-assemblies. He de-
scribed building the landing gear as
one of the toughest of the produc-
ton problems anticipated in the
bomber plans work. Work on pro-
duction plans for the landing gear
has progressed TO the point where
the Ford Co. is awaiting only sp-
proval of some newly developed
manufacturing processes before be-
ginning actual output of the landing
assemblies.
Mile Assembly Line.
Construction Of the bomber plane
plant, which is to include a mile
long assembly line. is proceeding
day and night. 1t probably will be
ready for occupancy soon after
January l. The s480 900 900 contract
awarded to Ford calls for sub
assemblies for 100 planes and rs
completed bombers a month.
In another section of the giant
Rouge plant of the Ford Motor Co.
the production for test purposes
already has begun on the Pratt &
Whitney aviation engines Ford is
to build for the Army. The initial
! order from the United States Gov
ernment to Ford calls for 4.233 Of the
giant double-roW radial power
plants.
The Ford Co. hopes to start de-
/ liveries on the basis of two engines
daily during September, stepping
this up to IS day by the first Of
the year and to 10 day early next
spring.