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Aid to Russia Grows

g oLONDON Sept 9-tAP)-Britoin has made "consider-
obe progress" in giving Soviet Ruso economic assistance
in her fight against Gerony authoritative decor
ed todoy
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-09
Flames Gut Manila WaterfrOn

okANILA Sept. 9-(AP)-MoniIos vitoI hobor
swept by 81 900 900 fire tonight Flames sureed through
Jorge port Of the quarters housing the Manila odne and
Supply Co., Ford agency located within block Of Manila
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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-09
Bia Italian Liner TOrpedOed

oROkE Sept o-(AP)-The toIion high command
knowledoed todoy that British submarine hod sunk the
OOOon oion steamer Espeo in the cenol Mediterranean
but said almost oil Of those aboard had been rescued by
corno worships.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-09
late X X X
bulletins

Reds Pursue Broken NaZiS
eMoscoW, Sept e-tAP)-The Soviet orrnes Of the
to front todoy we're pursuing the broken remnants Of Ger
man force of 100000 beck westward to~ord Solensk
hovino thrust the Nozs back Is miles in doys and
captured $50 square miles Of territory ond so Wooes in
gigantic continuing bottle. Official dispatches reported
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-10

JERE is pleasant little that will you
day II numerical puzzle designed spell
your fortune Count the letters your
OF letters is or subtract If the than
add The result number upper
hand corner of the rectange and every
numbers left right message
the checked figures give you 1910
copyriEht Teaturcs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-10
UNLoCkS DOOR

Martin Jensen unlocked the
door and his thick head APP
peared outlined against the
yellow light of a kerosene
lantern behind him.
"Now you better keep
quiet" he said. "Tbis is no
insane asylum.
'If you start shouting i'm the
night, Ill have TO hit you on
the head"
Let me out of here"
Martin Jensen was irritated.
You are "a real pest. j can't
LET YOU out till Comrade
Avatin tells me you're all
right"
/ said derlSiVely:
You're making the grade,
Martin. BY and by you'll get
job as a jailer In the But
irky. Four hundred rubles and
paGded shoes"
The faces of Christensen
and Scharnetzki bobbcd up in
the doorway.
II don't want a iailcr's job"
Martin Jensen said Sullenly.
Christensen interviewed
Listen, cOmrade," he said
10 me. II know how YOU feel.
But this is not a strong house.
IL can he wrecked with few
good kicks. l only want To tell
YOU not TO start wrecking the
house. First thing YOU know
you'll have handouts round
your wrists and towel round
your mouth"
In a rage ! picked up the
chair and hurled il at Chris
Hansen. lie ducked, caught
the chair and hurled il back
at me. Pieces of wood flew
about as il struck the wall.
An instant later Martin Jen-
sen had his arm around my
throat and his knee in the
small OF my back.
Leave him alone" Chris
tianScn muttcrDd
Reluctantly Martin Jensen
let Ego.
III YOU were a Gestapo
man." he growlod, I'D put
YOU in irons and dump n pail
of ice water over you. Trouble
with YOU is, YOU might he all
right"
Christensen laughed.
Nothing like ice water 10
make man shut up. You
know Oskar. the photographer
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-10
URGE TO ESCAPE

l fought the urge TO escape.
II would not be an escape
from my proletarian guards.
1t would be an escape from
the Comintern. an admission
that | feared the Comintern.
an admission Of guilt. A mis-
cradle declaration of bank
ruptcy,
The window faced north. In
the north lay Copenhagen.
Above Copenhagen the sky
was a lurid glow. as though
the city were on fire. The
night was cold.
| heard the chain rattle on
the other side of my door.
Scharnetzki barged into the
room. Around the house the
Dane came running.
= Get down from that win
dow" ScharnetZki SAID men
acingly.
! got down quietly
II can't sleep" ! said. THE
blankets stink"
Nothing wrong with the
blankets" Scharnetzki said.
Continued Tomorrow
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-10
Free Speech Can Be Taken
From Us by Subtle Plots
By Elsie Robinson

"EREE-SPEECH'--most Of
us still take il for
granted. We've always had
II we've never had 10
suffer for it. We can pick up
any newspaper page. or turn
the dial in any radio. and he
assured of honest. wide-open
action.
They don't shoot us here for
listening 10. British broad
cast, as they are doing in Nor
way and Germany.
But don't comfort yourself
too much with that thought.
For. despite our rosy Illusions,
Free Speech is not an IN
alicnablc right. II can be taken
from Us. as il has been taken
from other people.
You can be robbed OF Free
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-10

Speech" BY the most subtle
devices and never know you've
lost it until 1t is too late
and, believe me, many n
Mister Big is making passes
in that direction!
The current agitation over
war propaganda in Hollywood
IS a case in point IL is
claimed that the magnificent
new picture, Sergeant York"
is a vicious example of war
mongering.
America. cry these claim
ants. is being pushed into
war by the passion and pathos
of its appeal Maybe SOL
But I've seen Sergeant
York
And if that's propaganda,
I'm a humming bird!
sergeant York is a
straight story OF lusty
American and his Incredibly
brave deed. You can read
various shades meaning
INTO If. as you can into any
act or speech.
But it's not pushing
America. save IN the sense
that we're all pushed" into
courage by the sight of a
brave deed, or pushed" into
rage by the pity aroused by a
dastardly one.
If it's war mongering" ~
applaud the hero and hiss the
villain. then you can find
propaganda in the simplest
film. Even in Donald Duck"
Personally. I've long suspected
SubVerSive influences in his
stridcnt Squawkl
If we permit any group or
individual 10 censor this
worthy appeal to patriotism.
we are striking 10 the roots
Of all our democratic tradi-
tionS no injury which
Hitler or MuSSolini could pos
Sibly infiict upon us could
equal the viciousneSs of such
"A blow.
opyrght. 1871. Klng Features g,nd.. In
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-10


anybody calls Hitler but for the record
his Schckegweber
MRS JOE DI MAGGIE Very good locker "Gr With the
~4h Bcc-Stmg Lip type be always popng But
understand genial except foggy days Fran
cisco when she moody and plays sad the phono
,.graph why Nobody Loves Me and MY
Hands Are Cold and Chopns Funeral March
George Wel-known honeymooner Formerly
Stephenson she Of the few models nil
--ionaire.
Her sister is married to Victor Mature With one married
millionaire the other movie The Stephenson
5 sisters 10 have done all right
Just to show America is still land Of opportunity
GAYS film news chaterer:
THE sxiu makeup transferred Hedy Lamar into
aged q 40"
What does he mean an aged woman Of
the glamorous of the stage screen
admittedly 40 Such Lynn Fontanne Ina Claire
Gertrude Lawrence and Gloria Swanson only few
Nowadays be called aged must be al least 70
I listen o British Field Marshal Sir Edmund Ironsfde:
"The viii exactly like the last The Germans
keep up suddenly.
when the Germans crash they'll crash badly"
Liberia in West Africa is 100 cent Negro state And
il has balanced budget
"AT Men Alike" play The belief among
women that all alike great falacy Don't teach
your daughter that
That all men are different and each should be handled as an
individual problem persons
experience Bernhard Cleopatra Peggy Hopkins Joyce
Lillian Russell Catherine the Great Vyenne Sega and Gaby
Delys.
INoNDRINkERS are happier and optimistic less
' tolerant than drinkers" says Dr. Theodore Lent
Don't forget you drink onlSe4hlee highballs daily
six specia! occasions you entitled yourself
nondrinker
If drink four highbals day you drinker
take than eight drinks daily regret say you
be cassed S a drunkard.
"Say that on January 49, 1897 a
with 10 cent interest compounded
he the holder unpaid 1922"
Well sir. the would be S30l $40 30 26S5lS
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-10
CHAPTER 1Is

Here we are" Martin Jep-
sen doomed. "Ho, Christian
sen. here's a guest for YOU
4 massive Individual IN dun
-EaTeeS and a leather Jacket
shamblcd out of the cottage.
He had a barrel chest and a
mIStly face. He was Sven
Christensen. who had been a
whalcr IN his youth and whom
! had met several times when
he helped-JufluS Nanman
Smuggle Comintern contra
band. alive and otherwise, be-
tween Denmark and Sweden
across OereSund.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-10
Out Of the Night

but chains. and world 10
gain. A world of freedom,
bread, dignity. e" What was
wrong with that?
"The triumph of socialism
in the Soviet Union IL the
guarantee for the victory of
socialism I'm the whole world"
Question: Who is the father
Of all the oppressed Who Is
the greatest living statesman
Answer: Comrade Stain.
Three bloody words leered
AT me from the pine boards of
my cell: Down with Stalinw
Somewhere i'm Germany was
Flrelei, living in insecurity
from day TO day. waiting
waiting for the moment when
she could tell me:
NOW, come, come quickly,
they have relaxed their watch
fulness,"
Her message would 90 TO
Antwerp. II would never reach
me. She would wait wait
in vain, abandoned, cheated,
utterly betrayed
From the winterly reaches
of the Baltic the wind came
pounding in, whistling and
wailing through the cracks of
the fence. A voice was in the
wind, the voice of Firelei.
what have you done with
me?" it asked me again and
again.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-10
WORKED IN MINES

ChriStia nSen had also
worked I'm South American
mines. He had the reputation
of being an expert in the
handling of explosives. For
this reason AVatin had selected
him for the -GPtl- 4A4PPat-ertt
Good YOU come" Chris
tianscn said.
| was hustled into the cot
tagc.
Hands up" Martin Jensen
commanded His enormous
hands were feeling their way
down my person, patting
searching.
Keep your paws Off" !
protested. "Who do YOU think
you are? Gestapo?"
NO" he grinned. But just
the same-hold still"
He took my watch, fountain
pen, note paper and the two
passports | carried. He even
took away my penknile.
~ don't like it," / said.
II don't either" answered
Hut COmrade Avatin hold
ic responsible for you"
What are your 0rders?"
Orders? To hold YOU hero
in good health till your buSi-
ness is cleared up i'm Moscow"
DO you think I'm a Trot-
skyist? \ japanese spy? \
Gestapo agent ?"
Martin Jensen made a geS-
ture of dismissal.
II think nothing" he said
II know nothing. All l know
is that you can become damned
dangerous if what COmrade
NOllweber said about you il
true. All l tell you is that
you'd better start no trouble"
DO you think l couldn't
break out of this dump ii !
had mind to-"
Martin Jensen said stolldly
Maybe you could"
We'll, what then"
"lf YOU run, we might
shoot" Martin Jensen con-
tinued. First time YOU try a
break, we're going TO tie YOU
up. After that you stay tied
mp, like il or not. Maybe Mos
cow says you're all right. If
Moscow says you're all right,
Wen all have a big celebra-
ton"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-10

Ana Natal. ssis Piedmont
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-10
PRISON CELL

My prison cell" contained p
camp bed, a collapSiblc table
and a chair with broken legs
The blankets Smelled OF sweat
and CRIME. Stacked up in a
corner was a large pile OF old
newspapers and magazines. /
saw that little spy-holes had
been drilled through both
doors, and that the doors
could be secured from the out
side with strong copper chains.
The implanted boards which
shut off the windows were
covered with ScribblingS in
pencil. Red Front forever.
lines from the lnternationale,
a few unintelligible words in
Latvian or Russian. No
paSaran, a love song. a carica-
ture of Hitler, Max Jahnkc'
a name, and half obliterated
from scrapings with a knife.
Down with Stain"
The words Max Jahnko"
electrified me. They were fol-
lowed by the figures 1896. ="
! knew his story. Until 1881
Max Jahnke had been a leader
Of the Red Seamen'S Union in
Germany He had been a
grilzled and hard rebel slow
moving pig-headed. efficient.
When the" Comintern
launched the international
strike OF German Seamen IN
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-10
CANNOT SLEEP

I could not sleep. Things
came trooping into my head,
happenings OF the past, vague
plans, faces of enemies and
friends. some silent in I'M
known graves, others tottering
as yet toward weary disillu-
sion-or sudden destruction,
and still others the hard.
cautious cynics, prowling for
high rank and power.
| fingered over every inch
of wall in my room. L tried
to find a plank which could
be lifted out of the floor. l
climbed on rafter and pushed
hard against the roof The
wood was old. but solid. 1t
would never give way without
making a great noise.
What if l broke out Of the
house? On one side was the
Baltic Sea. On three sides was
the. fence. The gate in the
fence was ramshackle enough,
but il would be locked. They
would be atop of me before |
could climb the fence or kick
in the gate.
| hoiSted myself up on the
window. There was a crack
almost an inch wide, between
the casing and the topmost
board. / could see the outside
through this crack, the night,
the silhouettes of other houses
a little way off, dim light in
a window or two.
The discovery that people
lived nearby astoniShed me.
The nearest house. / Judged,
was 90 yards away. Two hun
dred yards further on ran
highway. The headlight rehec-
tons Of passing cars now and
then streaked through the
night
A large house doomed in
the distance. surrounded by
strings of colored light bulbs.
A roadhouse. Five hundred
yards away, perhaps. What If
| shouted Shouted for people
TO hear? 1t was a ridiculous
thing 10 shout for help. l had
never shouted for help in all
nv life
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-10
Waller WincheH
On Broadway
Trade Mark Registered. Copyright. isn.

ERoUX Belgian died swanky recently. hotel
- box revealed $4,000 $4,000 bills kin
found, government gets it,
Embricos (kiled in plane crash with
socialite) left SlsoOoo the safety vaults
keeping King from entering United
isn't Lupescu The real they say ex-Nnister
pals Washington
and Davila political enemies
Jack Davis, Florida and JEANNE Brand
threeyear idy their
bomness.
Tony Sally new dance speciality
surefre-hey float to "Intermezzo"
NEW YORK NOVELETTE,: She was show girl year
- Broadway photographer took One Of them
lovely making her resemble Brenda Frazier little.
She sign paper giving away full rights
Recently things been good for her She has
those wearyng model jobs wholesale house for not
enough week.
eight daily and the days to be
getting longer
many ago photog pedded picture cggie
firm for mucho mooa and she never even got thank YOU
shops featuring loneliness in the
windows.
every girl fr=sighs wishes she could
be That Girl.
Every it-she cries!
MANHATrAN MuRALs The bootblack who messages your
AH rag bearing the likeness of Hitler.
sign nvver parked in 9Th Avenue: Don't Z
augh-this ones paid for"
The downtown uncheonec with the nifty The Club
restaurant Route % called: Never Inn"
E fast-talkng whose monopoogues fun
- nier than
press trying successful
and seldom achieve that for themselves.
The who the gate by gal because he
devotng himself TO his work
trying forget the girl.
Bartenders only healthy looking people
The selling beautiful flowers they would
look better in gardens picking them.
CHILDREN enjoying their little world of parks
and games knowing that adults spelling the world
they're growing
walking along Riverside drive Of whom don't
all others
adoyation
Panhandts who park themselves amusement places
people who enjoyed Themselves viii
looser pIFse-stringS
Drugstore Romeos buying their dates ice
making o
Subway who the tough job of pushing people into
while being pushed around by the crowds
The blind newsdeaer near 23rd and 18th who expert
checker player.
The hghbrow who refuses play popular
musiconly the classics.
Winchcl broadcast Sunday. 9 TO s:15
n m on tat trot-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-10
By JAN VALTIN

guy: Well. every night around
IL he got the ice water cure"
Get out, all of YOU" said.
II want 10 sleep"
| did not sleep. Through the
Spy-hole in the door | watched
Martin Jensen and Christian
sen stretch out on their beds.
ScharnetZki and the Dane kept
watch. The Dane sat by the
stove, smoking and reading, a
pot OF coffee at his side.
Scharnetzki put on gloves,
a muller and a soldiers great
coat and went out 10 patrol
the space between the cottage
and the fence. His crunching
steps went around the house.
At intervals he stopped, and l
heard him flap his arms
against his sides to warm up.
After two hours Scharnetzki
sat by the stove and the Dane
patrolled outside. The Dane
hummed marching tunes. AT
times he cursed softly and
broke into a trot.
Scharnetzki ate sandwiches.
After that he cleaned his nails
with a Screwdrlver. Later he
pulled out blue handkerchief
and began to polish his gun.
Whenever he heard me move,
he was at my door with two
quick strides, peering in.
"Ah. still here ." he would
ask
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-10
GUARDS OPTIMISTIC


My guards were optimistic.
They sat IN the overheated
east room which faced the
Kjoege Bay. talking loudly.
Martin Jensen's basso eX-
pounded the official version of
The execution of Tukhachev-
sky and the other Soviet
generals.
The Red army generallssimo
was an agent OF the German
general staff And TrotSky
and Zinoviev had hired Dora
kaplan (who made her at
tempt in 1919 to Shoot
Leninl
With the traitors out Of the
way. Stains next job would
be the liquidation of Hitlerism
in Germany. A Soviet Ger
many would mean Soviet
Europe. The GPU would
machine gun the Nazi leaders
wholesale in their own prison
camps.
The rotten democracies Of
the West would fall like ripe
corpSeS before the StaliniSt
hurricane. The workers would
be free. They would build a
workers world under Stains
guidance. Stain, the dynamo
of world revolution. Whoever
opposed Stain was plainly a
lackey of fasclSm, had for
forfeited even his right 10
breathe.
The hours were long. /
began 10 sing every battle
song Of the revolution l knew
AT the end / sang the Inter
rationale, the national anthem
of the Soviet Union, which IS
also the anthem OF Communist
parties the world around. My
guards were suddenly silent
| heard ScharnetzkI's voice
say;
"Comrades-rise"
] felt like a drowning man
struggling toward land that
was many miles away. The icy
night air filtered through the
boarded window. II was late
at night. | stood in the middle
of the dark room and howled
like a melancholy wolf.
Death to hangmen, kins and
traitors
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-10

October. 1881. Max Jannkc
came into deadly conflict with
the party high command. One
of the most powerful figures
IN tho Communist party OF
Germany. Hermann Schu-
bert Reichstag member. had
demanded that Jahnke lead
the striking Seamen in Ham
burg into clashes with the
police.
The party needed coTpSeS
10 give this strike a political
character Jahnke had re-
fused TO spill the blood of
German mariners, at a con-
ference of Seamen's delegates.
he defended his Standpoin; and
attacked Hermann Schubert
At the next Opportunity the
party stripped Jahnke OF his
power. Jahnke struck back i'm
an unforgivable way: He sun
piled the Socialist press with
discriminating documents from
secret party files. year
later, the GPU succeeded i'm
Turing him aboard a Russian
ship under the preteXt that
SoVtorgflot-the Soviet ship
ping trust ~ had requested
Jahnkc'S advice on technical
question, for the German had
been marine engineer oil
long experience.
SENT TO RUSSIA
Jahnke was spirited TO Rus
STA, but managed to escape.
He was recaptured by the
GPU in 1886 And in the
Spring Of 1897 the staunch
-eid trade- uuiOniSt was turned
over by the Soviet govern
nent TO the GeStapo in eX-
lange for one Eugen PriesS
& captured Soviet spy.
A vast shame gripped me
hen / thought of Jahnkc
~ devotion to the Comintern
ad once made me view
ahnke as a danger TO party
unity. When the howl
went up:
away with Max Jahnke!"
l. too, had said. "Jahnke has
become an enemy OF the
cause. He il "A cOmrade no
more"
Mechanically ] paid Max
Jahnke a futile tribute. In
his honor Ibegan TO hum the
funeral march for those who
had fallen for the revolution.
The revolution" had sold him
10 the GeStapo. Today, some
where in Germany, he may
still be alive. his heart
curse. mute and immense,
against the treachery Of Stain
and his hangmen.
This rotten old cottage. L
felt had many secrets. 1t was
not an honest Jail, like the
blood-Spattered cells of Ges-
tapo polizeigefaengnis. 1t was
dishonest, full of sham and
stealthinesS. creeping with the
SpecterS of comrade betrayed
by comrade
| caught myself wondering
how many hundreds of com
rades In the Soviet prison
camps had begun their jour
ney from Just such little
houses as the one in which |
now was hold captive.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-10


zero
4 RE You pipc-smokcr? To keep your
1 tobacco in proper condition, put
piece of wax paper on top Of it and on top
Of The paper a piece of orange peel SO
suggests a tobacco expert
Have just been looking al the photo
graph Of a champion springer spaniel named
Ruton Roberto OF Greonlair.
He rs a dead ringer for my dog Maybe
/ have a champion on my hands ! think
III put him in show next Spring
mo fans can he as sad after defeat
as the Brooklyn DOdger fans" says a sports
-eHibe
! guess he never has been in Colum-
us. O., and seen the Ohio State Uni
rsty football team fans after a defeat
call Hitler by his real name OF
Schicklegrueber and make him appear