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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-23
Tools for Arms
Months Ahead,
Knudsen Says
BY ARTHUR HAGHTEN
Int1 News Service star Correspondent

WASHINGTON. Jan. 23.-Wil-
liam s. Knudsen has not given up
in his effort TO see $4,000 air.
planes produced by July, 1912. of
which $4,000 would be for the
United States and $4,000 for Great
Britain.
The director-general of the Of
flee of Production Management,
so informed newsmen. revealing
that production Of tools to make
defense goods is three months
ahead of schedule.
thine is the chief bottle
neck" Knudsen told reporters as
he described phases of the de-
Tense production effort, which.
he said. had resulted in 2.400
airplane engines being produced
last December along with 1893
airplanes, of which 40 per cent
were for training OF pilots and
60 per cent combat planes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-23

1A"Teaiing up Is our biggest job
now and l think we will be over
the hill with that by April or
May" Knudsen said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-23
BEWARE OF
COLDS NOW!
Contagious Colds are Spreading
Take These Time Tested Precautions

Keep out of crowds much possible. Get plenty of
and sleep Eat simple food Drink plenty of Keep elm
nation regular Don't take needless chances Don't expert
ment with untred indications And be have these
tmetested treatments on hand ready for use
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-23
At the First Sign of a Cold

Be ready to help prevent many
colds from developing. At the first
warning sneeze, sniffle, or irritated
feeling in your nose-use Vicks
VA-TRO-NOL. Just a few drops up
each nostril. Right away you can
feel Va-tro-nol stimulating Natures
own cold-hghting defenses. Used In
time, 1t actually helps to keep many
colds from developing.
Also use VA-TRO-NOL for swift
relief from the suffocating stufiness
and congestion of head cold.
Nov Be Prepsred-Cet a bottle o
Vicks VAPORUB today and O
may save you lot of sickness /;
age enclosures for complete. helr
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-23
If a Cold Develops


Thoroughly massage throat, chest,
and back with Vicks VAPOR UB,
then spread on Q thick layer of
VapoRub. cover with a warmed
cloth, and % 10 bed. VapoRub brings
wonderful relief and invites restfm
sleep. VapoRub stimulates the skin
Ike q warming poaltiee, while its
medicinal vapors are brcathed into
the cold-iritated air passages. Often
when morning comes. most of the
colds discomforts are gone.
Wcks vA-TRO-NOL and a jar of
&c the above precautions. They
I'd worry. Be sure to read pack.
nj dtrerfirr,9 frr ne
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-23
HURRY! THESE SPECIALS for FRIDAY ONLY!
Work TROUSERS, pr,

Sanforized shrunk, Ola
dark grey coverts. WV
$1.19 grade. Drill pockets.
80 to 40. Basement.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-23
BOYS SHIRTS

Broadcloth. Fancy pat EEo
terms. popular stand. oTs
up collars. Sizes 5 10 Ia.
Basement.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-23
Square Dish Pans

Large enameled pans 90
in ivory and green. or Wv
red and white. Irregulars.
Basement.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-23
DRUG SPECIALS

Sanitary Napkins so for sac
Denco Mineral oil. ] gal 500
Citrate OF Magnesia. pint &c
Facial Tissues. 500 for ice
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-12-13

Musicians Hail kinks MaryLou,
Pianist, Composer and Arranger

Negro who the world Ink. Marian
classical and Mary Bethune world
D. Mary Lou MALam.. scnsa.onaL pianist and arIanger
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-12-13

for his Brunswick recordings and
she joined the band in Kansas City
in 1891, on piano and ssxophone, re-
spectively She succeeded a pianist
named Count Basic She enjoys
playing piano with the band. but
likes the composing and arranging
part Of her work even better Her
chief ambition has ALWAYS been 10 be
= great arrarcer And hand leaders
Ike Benny Goodman Louis ARM
strong. Fay Noble, and Bon Crosby.
JOIN Andy Kirk in affirming that
she is = great arranger
Yes MARY Lou can cook Andy
Kirk saws she is good on boiled
dishes and bread She doesn't like
90 cook. though She would rather
attend niEht club or movie when
she wants 10 relax She diets all the
time Her weight is l2e and once
She hit the l45 mark. She hates
hackers and travelling Detroiters
vii. got chance 10 hear and see
this c,cver woman when she appears
With Ardv Krks Band here >, the
Graysiorc during the Christmas
holidays
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-12-13
BOYS MADE
GOOD IN CITY

RUDY Nalcc. while covering the
water front IN Hollywood found tho
two boys Ned and johnny known
as tho Shadrach boys they were
doing their operas and Gaucho SER
enadcs in the Pirate Den in Ho'-
lywcod for several ycass whore tho
famous swing song became famous
They finally named the boys after
the sons. Bcinc fatori'cs 81 the
movie stars in Hollywood ,hoy have
broken tho ice on Broadway at the
New Bccchcomhcr heading tic show
with a smash his Not q! the duo
is singer Of hot swing numbers
and does opera. often called The
Scpian Lawrence Tibet OF the
night clubs.
johnny Of the team i qAic r
piano Boogic Wooeie pianist. re-
semblng Fats Waller Of band fame
Both boys are tennis champions and
are the favorilc slrokcsis, win Don
Bulge and Billy 1ilden, wi.l chal-
lcnge enybody after hours
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-12-13
TOURIN' THE
RADIO WORLD
BY ISAAC JONES

THE MAJOR NETWORKS as well
as the local stations would add more
colored talent TO their programs. if
colorcd people would take time to
write, declared Macco Pinkard COM
poser and writer Of New York City.
in an interview last week.
Continued Mr.. Pinkard we
should exercise the opportunity to
paironize the firms that reciprocate
by employing some Of our cquali-
fed musicians. singers and actors,
as we'll as more employees ir fac
tories, stores and offices exploiting
their products
The readers Of this column will
recall that this writer has expressed
the same opinion from time 20 time,
because am aware Of the TACT that
the pen plays an important part in
the control Of radio programs and
stars Also. here is a little proof Of
Nj. Pinkard's statement above in a
letter received few weeks ago
from Parks Johnson the man be-
hind the mike on the Nox Pop pro-
gran heard over CHS every Mon
day niaht. The advertising agency
for this program furnishes yours
truly with weekly advance releases
telling about tho program for the
following week decided to find
OUT Why Vox Pop did not include
colorcd people in their weekly quiz
which takes them 10 many parts
OF the United States TO Army
camps. hat,lcships, colleges, uniyer-
sites and whanots. Finally my reply
/ come 60 my surprise from Parks
/ Johnson himself Il. not iypewrit-
ten but three pages IN long
hand He explained that the reason
( Xox Pop had not visited any OF the
colorcd colleges or schools because
they had not been invited and
he added that their weekly broad
cast from various parts Of this coun-
try were arranged through invita-
tons only. lie further stated that
he knew that they should visit
colored school and would be glad
10 do a broadcast from one if in
vied.
The listeners to this program will
recall that the students at the va
rious schools receive valuable pres
ents each week. According 10 my
releases, Parks Johnson and Wally
Bu,tcrworth are allowed to spend
from $3.50 10 $500 per broadcast for
prizes for persons appearing on the
program. So suppose the people OF
our group buy few postal cards
or stamps and let's get busy E.
and make our demands to the radio
stations don't worry about re-
suits if enough demands are
received results are assured.
Remember what said about the
Breakfast Club and Jack Baker
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-12-13
Getting Brush Off

Is ASCAP "flg!nnr OF colurcd
composers? Dave DcNlerra-cs This
question IN Down iloat as ~ re-
ports that ASCAp, winch ''crawlcd
on It's belly 10 &c, IS songs on The
networks apparently is back un i,s
high horse and has denied the APP
nlicaiion for membership az Mandle
Lux Lewis, famous coiorfd cons
poser. who has scNcsal biz songs
to his credit among them 'Nancey
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-12-13

dcrSon 10 the classical world and Maj
is Mary Lou Williams, sensational p
Miss Williams is the onlv feminine
pianist in a major dance band since
Ramona left Paul WhReman. Miss
Williams has nickname Il is
Prelude She has composed over
twenty Andy Kirk specialize in
GLIDING the sensational "FroGgy Bot
tom and Ghost Of Love Benny
Goodman has been after her for
several wears 70 Join his trio. But
she has been with Andy band for
nnc wears and IS famous fox her
LOYALTY
Miss Williams was born MARI Lou
W.nn in Pittsburgh. MAY s. 1910
She still makes her homo there with
her sister and mother Her mother
was a talented musician and organ
isi for several churchcs in Pitts
hlrgh She wanted her daughter 20
make real money IN the music world
and encouraged her 10 play Jazz
Mary Lou started PLAYING the organ
a FIVE years Of ACC sitting on her
mothers LAP a, SIX She started
p.ayng tho piano Al seven sho was
considered a piano prodigy Her
salary was forty dollar a wock when
she was eight years Old. Al ton she
was giving concerts a. tho Univer-
si'v Of Pittsburgh shs studied piano
siduously a. Lincoln School and
Washington High School n Pits
Darah Her piano ieachef was stcr-
sio who taught her harmony
Mis-, Williams career was almost
battered whci her arm WAS broken
so three Places hy 4 severe fail
While p.ayins tennis 10 high schoo.
Il had TO be Sc, twice bu' mcndcd
perfectly She made hof ihca'r,
dcbu' in Cleveland AZ tho arc Of -
AZ II she became pianist w.'h
ioan W.iianis syn opa'or or acs-
ira with the Seymour and jeanette
uni' which PLAYED The entire Keith
Orphan circuit for iwo years She
maac plane record, for Okch and
Gcuc,i ia 1925
IN 1929 when Mary Lou Williams
was seventeen wears old She started
sitting IN wiih Ardv XIX hand
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-12-13

some weeks ago in this column?
Well j.. yours truly sent Mr.. Baker
copy Of the Detroit Tribune con-
tanning this article TO my sur
prise, the following reply came from
Jack Baker:
NBC Studios
Chicago, H.
November 81, 1871
Mr.. Isaac Jones.
SIS East Columbia Street,
Detroit. Mich.
Dear Mr.. Jones'
hope you will forgive my SEEM
inc neglect in thanking you for the
writcup in your paper.
1t was really swell and a pleas
ure to know that the Breakfast Club
is so popular with you and your
readers.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-12-13
Very truly yours.
JACK BAKER.

You MAY BE Interesting in
Knowing That.
The Negro Artists Hour spon-
sored by the White Newspaper Syn
dictate, is now heard twice weekly
:. over station WJBK E. Satur-
days, 23O to 3 p. m. Sundays
$50 TO Z p. m. Suppose you listen,
Until next week-"GOOD LISTEN
ING"
Evening star., 1941-08-26
Assistant 10 6. 0. P. Head
To Go on Active Navy Duty

Robinson McIlvaine, assistant to
the chairman of the Republican
National Committee, will leave
Washington late today for Norfolk,
where he will go on active duty in
the Navy. He is lieutenant q. g.
in the Naval Reserve.
As right hand man for G. o. P.
Chairman Martin, Mr.. McIlvaine
has been active in committee work
for several years. He was on full
time duty at committee headquar-
ters here and lived at 2703 o street
NV. His wife is the former Jane
Stevenson of Middleburg, Va.
Although he has been in the
Reserve only a few months, Mr..
McIlvaine goes into active duty with
q good deal Of sea experience. He
has been deep sea sailing en-
thusiast for years and has skip
pered" craft in the Bermuda races.
He is familiar with the Atlantic
coast from Nova Scotia to the
Caribbean, and said today he will
feel right at home" should he be
assigned to a ship on patrol duty.
He expects to receive q ship
assignment shorty after his arrival
in Norfolk and sail within the next
few days.
Evening star., 1941-08-26
Expert Warns Of Plaques
As Byproduct Of War
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DENVER, Aug. 26.-As an emf
nently successful killer, war may
turn out to be a piker compared with
an enemy facing humanity as one
of its byproducts, says Hugh s.
Cumming, former director Of the
United States Public Health Service.
That enemy is world-sweeping
plaques.
I'VE thought yellow fever had
been abolished" Mr.. Cumming said
In an interview yesterday. 1T has
appeared again, and unless checked.
may have q far fling when In
dian troops serving in Africa come
down from the mountains and out
of the jungles and return to their
native land.
Mr.. Cumming declared that, in
this war as in the last, more deaths
will probably result from disease
than from bullets.
Mr.. Cumming, head Of the Pam
American Sanitary Commission Of
the League of Nations, in Denver
en- route to Salt Lake City for =
Public Health conference, said Eng
lands continued existence is partly
due to its health record.
Evening star., 1941-08-26
Mrs. Stedmon Divorces
Sea Coptoin at Reno
BY the Associated Press.


RENO, New, Aug. 26-In an ac-
ton unusual for Reno divorce pro-
cedure, Mrs. Florence Levitt Schick
Stedman Of New York City was
granted a divorce yesterday from
Capt. Giles C. Stedman, Manhattan
mariner who often has been deco
rated for his valor in saving ships
at sea.
The usual procedure is to assert
extreme cruelty and have the ac-
ton heard behind closed doors.
Yesterday, however, Mrs. Sted-
man. the widow of Col. Jacob Schick,
razor magnate, charged Mr.. Sted-
man with adultery aboard ship and
extreme cruelty and had the action
heard at public trial.
Judge B. F. Curler granted Mrs.
Stedman custody of a minor child
and the right to resume her for
mer name of Mrs. Florence Levitt
Schick.
The Stedman's were married De-
cember II, 1898.
Evening star., 1941-08-26
Gen. Fish Celebrates
His Goth Birthdoy

WITH THE EARMY IN LOUISIANA,
Aug, 26 tP.-A regimental band
softly footed Happy Birthday to
You" before dawn, but that ended
the birthday celebration for one of
the Army's fighting generals out on
the firing line.
1t was just another days job for
B2d Division commander, Maj. Gen.
irving A. Fish of Milwaukee, even
though it marked his Goth birthday.
Staff officers wouldn't permit any
real birthday concert for Gen. Fish
beyond the one quietly played num-
Der, but compensated by presenting
their chief with box of peanut
brittle. From then on, with break
fast at 4:30 am, the generals BIRTH
day included a round of visits
to the danger zone, inspecting
terrain, directing operations, exhort-
ing officers and troops from Wis
consin and Michigan to victory.
Evening star., 1941-08-26
Initiation Is Certain
Without Price Curb,
Miss Elliott Says
Head Of Consumers
Division Addresses
Social Workers

Director Harriet Elliott of the
Consumers Division. Opacs, warned
a conference of social workers last
night that imitation is sure unleks
Congress passes a price control bill.
Miss Elliott was one of the speak
ers at Today course being given
AZ staff members of the Women's
Division, National Catholic Com
munity Service, who are being
trained for U. S. O. and community
service projects operated by the
service group.
Efforts to control prices by volun-
tary cooperation have proved I'M
successful in some cases, Miss Elliott
reported, and only a price control
bill will prevent spiraling OF retail
and wholesale prices.
She urged the social workers to
teach defense workers the impor-
tance of conservation in consumer
goods.
DR.. Dean Clark, United States
public health officer, urged workers
going into industrial areas to start
recreation centers to recognize the
health needs before the problems in
industrial areas reach emergency
proportions. He criticized the pres
ent lack of emphasis on the health
needs of defense workers.
Other speakers at sessions yester-
day were Carl Monsees, assistant
defapca ho,,ci,o m ord;po to~ fo, ~, -.
District, who told the workers de-
fense housing presents a social
problem mo one seems to recognize
yet" and DR.. Helen Mitchell, nutri-
ton director of the staff of the CO.
ordinator of health, welfare and re-
lated defense activities, who stressed
the need for Capitalization and CO.
ordination of volunteer defense
efforts.
Evening star., 1941-08-26
By FRANK I. WELLER.


Frederick Henry Osborn, the man
selected by President Roosevelt to
build up Army morale, uses the
Abraham Lincoln device Of telling
. story to answer . question.
You ask: well, General, now
that you've got the job, what are
you going to do about it,"
old guy.
Rookie-Hey, bud, gotta matchf
v. o. G.-Nope. Sorry. Solong.
Rockies pal-Godelmity, dops,
that's Gen. Pershing!
Rookie-General, sir, forgive me.
! didn't recognize you In civvies, sir.
Gen. Pershing-Sure. Don't mind
me, son. But, for Heavens sake,
don't ever pull that ON q second leu
tenant!
Osborn, q private citizen whose
appointment as brigadier general
went to the Senate on August 10,
lets the story point its own moral.
He won't tell what it is. Those who
know him best, however, say he is
great fellow for directness and
simplicity in human relations.
Something New Seen.
This may mean, they say, some
thing new in American military be-
havior. No, certainly nothing so
absurd as once tried by Russia when
Soviet soldiers voted whether to
obey an officers orders. or as absurd
as execution of German soldiers
suspected Of Nazi party disloyalty.
Nevertheless, many in this coun-
try would like to see Gen. Osborn
readjust morale practices which at
one end punish soldiers for "yoo-
hooing" at girls playing golf near
an omcer not In uniform and at the
other permit uniformed officers to
thumb rides on the highway and
drink in taprooms with soldiers.
Commentators say it is up to Gen.
Osborn, a 52-year-old New York
scientist and banker. to decide
whether the Army of the United
States, with no enemy in sight. shall
be a club or a hard-boiled fighting
machine or something betwixt and
between.
The current problem, as some see
1t, Is to overcome what's the use"
attitude. This is noticed among
troops who have trained for a years
time with sticks for guns, have had
nothing more menacing to face than
making up a bunk and who now
may be retained for another Is
months doing the same thing.
Gen. Osborn, who never had a
lick of military training unless he
got some ideas from his one-year
overseas with the Red Cross during
the last war, hesitates to say wheth-
er Army morale today is good. bad
or indifferent. He told reporters
the Army morale branch needed 100
more men. He had been with it.,
in Washington, since enactment Of
the selective service law and praised
variety of plans for recreational
and athletic programs which he
said he would carry out promptly.
Sold Railroad to Ford.
He said he found a splendid
spirit Of cooperation" in the Army
during his visit to a dozen Army
posts, first as chairman Of the Sc
lective Service Advisory Committee
and then as chairman Of the Joint
Army and Navy Committee on We'll
fare and Recreation.
Authorities say the new Army
morale chief probably has more
than baseball and group singing on
Evening star., 1941-08-26

the fire. That business was up and
coming long before the country be-
gan to howl about selectees being
dissatisfied with another 18 months
of service and nothing to do"
Gen. Osborn says he has no idea
why Mr. Roosevelt named him to
I'LL the post previously held by Brig.
Gen. James A. Ulio, who trans
ferred to the inactive list because
of Ill health. Associates suggest
it was because Of the genius of this
6-foot-8-inch physical giant to get
along with ais fellow men.
They tell, for example, how he
madea his first $5O0,000 selling the
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Rail-
road to Henry Ford. Gen. Osborn
was 80, and president Of an i'm
poverished right of way. He had one
locomotive 50 old it seldom worked
and when 1t did the boy wonder had
Evening star., 1941-08-26
Increased Production
Cuts Army's Use Of
Makeshift Weapons
Planes Are One Category
In Which Deficiency
Still Is Indicated
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
There still will be plenty Of make
shift weapons In evidence during
the Army's forthcoming Louisiana
maneuvers, but not nearly as many
as figured In last years war games.
Although the War Department
readily conceded today that short
ages continue in the Army's supply
of modern weapons, it is keeping
mum as to the specific categories
and numbers.
while it may be generally known
that we lack certain munitions" one
official explained, foreign agents
don't have an official check on such
reports until the War Department
puts out the information. We don't
intend to hand them any such
check"
From the fact that the Navy and
Marine Corps are planning to lend
the Army some of their dive bombers
to cooperate with the armored
ground forces, it is clear that is one
category in which the Army is
deficient.
1t seems likely, however, that the
citizen-soldiers will not have to carry
make-believe to the extent of last
year, when they were forced to hang
signs bearing the word tank" on
light trucks to simulate the armored
vehicles-because the production of
both light and medium tanks has
materially increased in the last few
months.
At recent press conference, Sec
retary OF War Stimson said that at
previous maneuvers, the lack OF
planes had made the show "a little
like Hamlet without the main char
acter." In the maneuvers this fall
however, he said well be able to
stage q real practice in what we've
been reading about the foreign
armies"
Testimony of War Department
officials in recent congressional
hearings disclosed that there were
shortages Of the new 105-millimeter
howitzers, but in some cases mod
ernized 75s were substituted for that
weapon so that the troops would
at least have real artillery fol
training.
A few weeks ago, the department
admitted that dummy weapons still
were being used in many of the
summer maneuvers but asserted that
all units had sufficient weapons for
training purposes-enough to rotate
so that every man would be familiar
with the operation and use of the
weapon to which he was assigned.
The department stressed that
tactical employment of a weapon
where to place 1t for most effective
use, for instances paramount In
maneuvers. For that reason, it said
little training value is lost by the
substitution of a stove pipe for q
mortar or an oak bough for q
machine gun"
This theory has been criticized
in congressional quarters, however
chiefly on the ground that wide
spread use Of dummy weapons
lowers morale of the troops.
BY way Of rebuttal, the Army
pointed out that the vaunted Ger
man Army made liberal use of card.
board tanks and wooden rifles in
the early days of its reorganization
What was important was that
they learned tactics and strategy
the War Department said.
Evening star., 1941-08-26
German TroveI Agent
jailed in Druft Cuse
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, Aug. 26.-Richard s.
Mennekes, SO, arrested last May
aboard q Japanese liner just before
it sailed from San Francisco, pleaded
nolo contendere yesterday to q
charge of making false statements
in his draft QUESTIONABLE and was
sentenced to serve 18 months in
prison.
Mennekes, office manager for the
HanSa Corp, German travel
agency, was charged with declaring
himself a naturalized citizen when
he registered for the draft, but
claimed he was a subject of the
German Reich in the QUESTIONABLE
he filed shortly before leaving Den
yer to return to Germany.