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Mrs. z. How come? Don't
ask me. didn't know. At
least, l didn't then. But the
years have brought me
wisdom.
BY those early reckonings,
I thought-and had been
taught--that Mrs. z. would
get little from life because
she had little TO give.
And, by the same token.
Widow A. would have much
because she could draw on
such abundance. Yet the very
reverse was true.
Mrs. z. had little, except
bad luck. Her husband was
shiftless drunkard her
only son a lazy drifter.
One daughter had taken her
own life they talked in
whispers about the other. The
tiny tad had died.
Yet no trace of grief, self
pity or scandal darkened that
little home.
Women went in there with
their faces wrung by pain
yet came out with their eyes
at peace.
Yet, of all those who left
the Widow AS. / can re-
member none who came out
comforted. Only years later
did / find the secret.
ONE gave. One shared.
" One had money. health.
good advice and divided
them all in high. good humor.
Her pink percale was a re-
Election OF hep own contents
ment 4. her own abundance.
The other had little. in this
worlds goods. But she had
known shame and heartbreak
disappointment and
despair.
And she shared them all ..
She shared her Calvary
And, by that sharing. light
ened her own heart Of its
sore load and made each
heart who sought her more
content because she under
stood.
One gave--and served her
own self-centered arrogance
and love of power.
One shared-and doubled
her own treasure by the help
she gave.
distributed by King Features synd.. In
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DOCKERS ASK WHY

The question caught on. In
the next rally of the strikers
the lockers asked:
why"
The answer which I and
my colleagues could give
them was feeble.
German ships that sail To
Russia" we explained, "carry
goods which are necessary for
the victorious construction of
socialism. To strike against
German ships I'm Soviet ports
means to strike against the
second Five-Year-Pian."
In one of these meetings,
which / supervised. a man
rose yelling, his arms out
stretched in a gesture OF ac-
cusation.
"OnIy lawyers talk that
way" he yelled. "The Soviet
Union has betrayed u.s."
/ had the sensation that this
mans shout knocked the bot
tom out of our effort 10 drive
Nazi shipping off the seas. l
looked at his face. 1t was
pale, half-cynical. half reck-
less face of man of 40. He
had blond hair. bold eyes and
a stubborn chin.
Who was he? His features
seemed familiar to me. After
the meeting ended L followed
the man out on the street.
And suddenly L recognized
him. His name was Hermann
Knueffgen.
/ had first seen him In Ham
burg, in the bleak Spring of
1919. He stood in the middle
of a band of mutinous long
shoremen and had shouted:
1.-THE rich must die so that
the poor may live"
(To Be Continued)
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Not having an heir. the Japanese some
how will put the skids under him to favor
his Manchu brother, whom militarists mar
ried off TO a Japanese girl.
How will the Japanese handle their
puppet Wang Ching Wei at Marking?
japanese guards surround him for two
purposes: keep enemy hand grenades from
being tossed at him and keep him from
running away.
His wife. notorious in Chinese politics.
stays in Shanghai selling government jobs
and opium licenses
The Presidents freezing order of Jap
anese business means: NO MORE lily bulbs
for Easter goldfish by the tank for FIVE
and dime stores, oyster bed seedlings, cam
phor for menthol products or pyretheum
seeds for bug powder.
Japan faces economic ruin. Her Man
churian market depended on soy bean
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-21
CHAPTER 20

The s. S. Brabant steamed
out through Oslo Fjord az II.
Two days later l arrived in
Antwerp The local liaison
agent. Comrade Anton, tall,
cool and conservative, met me
on the quay. Doctor Halvor-
sen had advised him of my
coming.
81 have wired Copenhagen"
said Anton. "COmrade Avatin
Is here. He might need you.
Antwerp Is infested with Ges-
tapo spies"
: 1t was May.
/ had supper with Michel
Avatin. he had slipped out of
Germany but a few days be-
fore my arrest In Oslo. What
he had seen and heard Of the
fate of many Of our common
friends was enough TO chill
any ones blood. / asked him
about Firelei.
"She is lucky" he said
"She is a courier for Com
rade Kippenberger."
l could not suppress a
shudder. Hans Kippenberger
was the director of the party's
military intelligence Apparat,
/ knew Hermann Goering's
new laws. For collaboration
in the betrayal of military or
industrial secrets, there was
but one sentence in Germany:
death.
We talked about the Ges-
tapo. Avatin had been watch
ing the growth, the methods
and the habits of that force
as an animal fancier might
study the doings of his pet
tiger. The foreign division of
the Gestapo was branching
out. It's corps of operatives
abroad was composed of two
distinct categorieS--the spies
and the man-hunters.
GUIsE OF FUGITIVEs
The spies usually arrived
in the guise of political fugi-
tives. brimful of fervor and
anxious to win for themselves
a place in organizations COM
batting the Hitler movement.
The man-hunters, however.
were trained kidnapers and
killers; they came in crops of
three or five, commissioned 10
carry out abductionS or
assassinations of political an
tagonists after the latter had
been spotted, identified and
pointed out by the spies.
In every large city in
countries adjoining Germany,
the director-in-chief of the
Gestapo espionage and strong
arm units was in constant
communication-by mail, tele-
graph, couriers, and through
diplomatic channels-with the
headquarters of the secret
police in Berlin, and its for
eign division in Hamburg.
1t was he who ordered and
directed the coups de main.
and who forwarded to Ger
many the information gath
cred by his spy brigades. A
chance discovery by a Nazi
spy in Paris or Basic or Lon
don often spelled sudden
disaster for courageous con-
Spirators at work within the
German frontiers.
Michel Avatin reported
that there was a Gestapo OBJ
server aboard every German
ship trading with foreign
ports.
But il was not a one-sided
game; spies and counter-spies
were active on both sides.
And if one was caught, he
was killed like a poisonous
snake, without trial or mercy.
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and the Dodgers. And mat pretty Dltter.
Every now and then the talk is revived
in California Of making the northern and
southern sections separate states.
Right now the San Francisco sector
and the Los Angeles sector have rival
death-ray machines in the course OF de-
velopment.
At the moment the Los Angeles death
ray inventor seems to have something of
lead over the San Francisco scientist.
The Los Angeles machine has killed
rabbits at 400 feet,
The best the San Francisco death
ray machine has accomplished to date is
to kill cockroaches at distance of Is
inches.
UCOMMENTING on the assistance of a
male bird In doing some of the sitting
on eggs 10 hatch them you say II Is
TIM had man can't ha of u,ora assistance
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Waller WiNscheH
On Broadway
(Mr. WincheU Is on Vacation.)
BY JAMES r. YOUNG

UNS Correspondent Japan and Author behind the
Rising SUM-
UNFINISHED STORIES: What has become of the Emperor.
brother Prince Chichibu? His failure appear the
Empires 2600h NEUROLOGICAL anniversary founding the
Sun Goddess country aroused queries.
What will become of Japans puppet Emperor Manchura
Henry Pu Vi who rides bicycle plays pro
lection 2" =
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Out of the Night

arrived. They were conveyed
10 me from Denmark by a
man named Dietlevsen,
courier who served as boat
swain aboard the Danish
steamship p. A. Bernstorff.
Save for the airline Copen-
Observation-Disclosures. this
ship, trading between Esbjerg.
Antwerp and Dunkerque, had
become the main bridge for
CONSULTATIVE communications
between Copenhagen and the
capitals of Western Europe.
Railways had become taboo,
since they crossed forbidden
German soil. DietlevSen also
brought me funds. Among
the money conSignments was
thick envelope which L was
ordered 10 forward 10 Roy
Hudson. George Mink's sue
cessor on the American water
front.
A courier aboard the liner
Ilsenstein, of the Bernstein
Line. carried the consign-
ment to New York, for de-
livery at 40 Broad street,
Comrade Hudson's headquar-
tiers.
My instructions demanded,
as most Comintern instruc-
tons do, more than a common
mortal could hope to fulfill in
his allotted time. A man who
is given a crowbar and the
order to use it to shift the
Matterhorn must have much
the same emotions as a Com
intern agent has when
perusing freshly arrived
set of instructions.
"Where shall I start?" |
asked Comrade Anton, who
controlled the financial end
OF tneSe schemes.
Begin with what Is nearest
to your heart" he calmly re-
piled.
OPENS PROPAGANDA
Now, under Comintern in
structions, / launched a gen.
eral offensive against the
swastika flag. For three con-
secutive days the harbors of
Antwerp, Rotterdam. Client.
and Dunkerque were flooded
with manifestoes, all of which
had as their central tenor:
'Down with the murder
flag! Refuse to load or dis
charge ships that fly the
ensign of Assassin Hitler!
The Hooked Cross is a Hunger
Cross"
The lockers rallied. Action
COMMITTEES were formed. NaZi
Seamen encountered wearing
the Swastika badge on Dutch
and Belgian waterfronts were
beaten within an inch of their
lives.
Clinging precariously to the
back seat of a very old
motorcycle, / was whisked
from Antwerp to Rotterdam,
back to Antwerp, and on to
Client and Dunkerque.
Emotions ran high. The
response of the workers was
swift, for they had been we'll
prepared by the intensive pub
Lefty which the Gestapo and
storm trooper atrocities had
received in the foreign press.
My propaganda squads in
the harbor of Antwerp scored
the first success. Dunkerque
followed. and then Rotter-
dam and Client. Five days
after the campaign began,
20-odd German ships lay
paraiyzed, besieged by a
hostile mob in these ports
alone.
The lockers OF other har-
bors, from Sydney to Seville.
soon followed the example of
the vanguard in Antwerp. AS
soon as a German steamer
was moored, l sent delega-
ton of lockers aboard to ask
for the captain.
CAPTAIN REFUSES
The lockers demanded that
the SWastika flag Should be
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-21

IERE pleasant little that will give message
numerical puzzle designed to spell out
your your II the number
subtract II the number is less than g.
your key number. Start at the upper left
rectange every your
right read the the letters under
the checked figures give you. 60
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CAPTAIN REFUSES

The lockers demanded that
the swastika flag should be
hauled down. The captain, of
course, refused: arrest by the
Gestapo would be his lot if he
complied with the delegations
demand.
The answer OF the lockers
was:
"As long as you fly the muir
der flag, we won't work your
ship"
A Gordon of pickets was
thrown around the stricken
ships. No German was allowed
10 go ashore. More action
resulted when the officers
aboard the steamers attempted
10 compel the German crews
10 work the cargoes.
Communist and Socialist
crew members refused to obey
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On the Side
By E. v. During

When other lips and other hearts
Their tales Of love shall TELL
Ia language ichoss mpdrts =
The power they feel so jeeU,
There may. perhaps, in such
recollection be-
OF days that have happy been
And youU remember
tAbove is Of the songs my mother
Then You'll Remember Me- The Bohemian Girl As a
listener my singing accompaniment
like a string quaret.-EVD)
DVALRY between northern and California continues
IL bitter 1t more bitter than of St. Paul and
Minneapolis Or that of TT Worth and Dallas Tex
1t is even the rivalry between the Giants
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-21
By JAN VALTIN

this order. The ships cap
tains sounded the siren signals,
"Mutiny aboard.
A sorry chapter in the
police annals of the democratic
nations began. Belgian and
Dutch policemen seized the
German seamen as mutineers.
The mayor of Antwerp, M.
Huysmans, arrived on the
docks to induce the stevedores
to labor while the swastika
fiuttered high above their
heads. That happened at
night, at about IL. From the
shadows of a cargo shed L
watched the progress of the
action.
"Who Is that fat man talk
ing to the action committee ."
| askd one of the couriers on
the scene of BATTLE.
Mayor Huysmans," he re-
piled.
MAYOR TRoUNCED
The mayor was a Socialist.
] summoned a group of young
"activists" - Let's, Germans,
an Estonian and an Irishman
and sent them forward to
push the interloper off the
quay. He was, however, too
far from the waters edge, and
my comrades were content
with giving the mayor of Ant
werp a trouncing.
SERIOUS trouble I'm the har-
Dor of Antwerp" reported the
headlines of the following
morning.
In Client and Dunkerque.
the boycott of the swastika
flag was so complete that
German shipping companies
cancelled them from their list
OF ports OF call.
The campaign, after two
violent weeks, was abruptly
throttled by an ingenious
maneuver which prob bly,
emanated from the headquar-
tiers of DR.. Joseph Goebbels
in Berlin.
Manifestoes appeared on the
docks of Antwerp and else
where, signed by the Com
munist Opposition" and ask
ing the lockers why the
swastika flag was not boy
cotted by Soviet stevedores in
Russian harbors.
The bottom of the leaflet
showed photographs of Lenin-
port, the harbor of Leningrad.
There was a ship which few
the swastika banner, and not
far off another which showed
the hammer and sickle in red.
The matches of the German
ships were open, and the
figures of men at work could
be discerned.
stain wishes you 10 strike
against German ships" the
leaflets concluded. "Now ask
Stain why he does not strike
against the German ships In
Russia"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-08
Daily Quiz
BY THE ACE ANSWERMAN

Can you name the President
in office when each of these
wars was declared World War.
Spanish-American War, War
of 1912?
Only two OF the present
Supreme Court justices ante
date the New Deal. Who are
they?
What were the four original
New England States?
The city Of Halifax is said IA
have suffered the worst de-
vastation Of any Western
Hemisphere city during the
first World War. What was
its cause?
or falSe7 Dogs and
horses maintain the same foot
fallngS when gallopinC.
A venircman is employed in
which OF the following en-
beavers: juror, woodworker,
salesman
What was the middle name OF
Thomas a. Edison?
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knowledge Test
By DIR. SABINA N. CONNOLLY

NV SAUNA III y Wv aNOtstsI
What city is near: (a) Fon-
taineblcau: (b) Mt. Nesuvius;
tc) Niagara Falls?
DO you know: (a) What Gala
had achieved; (b) What
Donatello resembled; (c) What
Hester wore?
What kind of country would
YOU describe as: (a) maritime;
tbl occidental; (c) hostile?
Who composed these songs: Cal
None But the Lonely Heart:
tb) Mighty LAX a Rose; -tc)
The Two Grenadiers"
Would II he complimentary 10
call you: fa) a Gorgon: Ch) a
Gargantua: (c) a Gourmet?
From what countries do these
come: (al Anzac; (b) Bersag-
licre. (c) Yankees
r. Name a story: ta) about a man
sleeping 20 years: (bl about a
face on tho mountainside: (cl
about miSer named Scrooge
Answers on Editorial Page.
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PLAYED WITH DOLLS

Some of Eddle's acts, he often
said, would have made theatrical
history If they had been shown on
Broadway. Indeed, acts that were
stolen from them eventually did
arrive on Broadway and when
they did so, stopped the show.
But what Eddie really liked TO
do was 10 dress his acts. He built
UP what they did because il was
necessary. But his thrill came
from dreaming how his girls would
look in certain Of his creations
and then fooling with the material
and watching it grow until il was
a realization Of his dream.
He had always been like that.
When he was a kid up in Gros-
berg. Pa, he preferred playing
with dolls to any other form of
play the other children had To
offer.
Maybe il was partly because
his mother was a widowed dress.
maker who supported both OF
them with her needle and maybe
IL was because OF an ineXplicablt
fair for the artistic that comes
down the generations TO bloom in
the most unlikely people. Anyhow
Eddie had it.
He would spend hours with the
girls. draping rags and bits OF
sheer cloth on the dolls they
brought out TO play with. When he
reached and passed the age of 7,
he had fought so many fights TO
prove that he wasn't the sissy
the other boys called him that his
mother forbade him to play with
girls any more.
Eddie didn't mind. He didn't
think much of girls, anyhow. They
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-08
Daily ShOIf SlOz.y
Show Business

saw IL al once as he caught TIT
act in Orega. He was backstag'
when Eddie and the girls Cant
of.
"Me." he said 10 Bobby. I'm
Benny Sayern. l been looking
for a dame like you for years"
He handed her a dirty card with
his name on II with a flourish
and went on with his spiel.
II can put YOU on Broadway.
I got connections with the Shu-
berts. know George Abbott
personally. got him his start
in show business. And girls! 1
sent 20 Of them to Hollywood.
Three Of them are stars. You
got II on any Of them"
But cant leave Eddie
Amos" Bobby said. looking at
Eddie, who stood there. taking
il all in. HE gave me my start"
"Who In Eddie Amos" Benny
asked, that pansy that VI. C.s
the act ."
Eddie gulped and shook his head
at the startled Bobby, who
nodded
Forget him." Benny told her.
Hes a ham and he'll never do
YOU any good. I'll punch him In
the nose"
I'm no pansy." Eddie told
him mildly. II like Ia design
and dress acts. l did this one.
It's pretty good. ! think it'll get
10 Broadway. But I tell you. l
amt going TO stand in the way
Of Bobby here, making sue
cess on her own. She's got
everything. She's beautiful. and
: she can sing and dance. She's a
trOuper.
BENNY GOES DOWN
"She's been playing for two
years. On Broadway, she'll WOW
them. You haven't seen any
thing until you see her dance.
threw out her dance because
needed her for clothes
horse"
She'll wow them II I'm be-
hind her." Benny corrected him.
That's what 1 mean. l never
heard OF you, and / know all
the big agents and talent scouts
In New York. You show me
some credentials and you can
take Bobby with YOU"
"Oh, she's your girI?"
NO" Eddie explained pa
tiently, "she isn't my girl. She's
just n beautiful clother horse
and also an artistic. She's a nice
kid and II she ever makes the
Big Time, i want to have a hand
In IL. Now, show me some Gre
dentials or get the hell out Of
here"
I'll show you some creden-
tials." Benny shouted and
swung his right hand. 1t missed.
A cascade of fists filled his face.
The last one 10 land knocked
him down. He scrambled up
from the floor and flew through
the stage door.
That guys a phony," Eddie
said, rubbing his knuckles. "But
1 think you'll make Broadway
some day, Bobby"
HIS WIFE NOW
II don't want TO make Broad
way" Bobby told him. I'D like
to get married, IL 1 could find
some big producer who thought
I'd make better wife than a
clothes horse"
"Geereusalem!" Eddie said
"why didn't you say so in the
first place? 1 been nuts about
YOU ever since first laid eyes
on you. Wen take out an appli-
cation for a license today"
Eddie's out Of the theatrica
business. He's back home ant
working in the steel mill. Ii
these war days, he makes yer.
good money. Bobby. his wife, j
the best-dressed woman in eros
berg, barring nobody. They sd.
Eddie designs all her clothes.
THE END.
Tomorrow short story: I'm
side the Budget by Blanche Re
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-08
By CHARLES McGUrRK

EDDIE AMOS was in show
Il business. Broadway .wouldn
have recognized ms name. though
he had worked as close 10 n AS
Brooklyn and Palisades Park and
was. according 70 his ambitions
or his way there.
He was an actor IN a very small
way. and a dancer 70 the same
degree. He also played the piano
and sang n little. enough 10 get
by But none OF these was has
hne
Eddie. as he explained il him
self. was a producer. He was a
creator az acts. IAN original
artist Benny talking working
with human beings instead OF
paint or stone He worked with
girls.
Don't leap AT conclusions, now
Eddie had nothing 10 do with bur
leSoue. As he said himself, he had
nothing against burleSque. but he
had nothing for il. either No.
The way Eddie worked, he
would dream up a beautiful act.
He would people IL with pretty
girls. He would light II with Varl-
colored lights And then, he wousd
NJ c. il.
He would stand al the side of
the stage near the footlights, and
gesture toward The girls as they
cid their stuff and he would how
slightly from the waist and click
his heels as the crowd broke into
applause that was sometimes a
little, raucous,
What few people suspected, I'M
I'll Eddie got within talking dis
tance Of them, was the fact that
he dressed his acts himself. He
designed all the costumes for the
girls. He shopped in department
store Easements for the tulle and
Chiffon and silk and satin of which
they were made. He oversaw the
sewing Of them and he was an
acrld critic al the fittings.
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AT HOME ON STAGE

the small theater.
At HOME ON STAGE
As soon as he stepped through
the stage door, he felt that he
was home. The smell OF grease
paint and of hot lights aSsailed
his noStrilS and affected him like
the perfumes Of Arabia.
Three girls in flimsy dancing
costumes passed him and went
into their act TO the blare OF
brasses. That decided Eddie. He
wanted TO be an actor or singer
or a dancer or something.
He had a fair voice which he
projected through his nose. He
spent his hard-earned money
learning 10 tap-dance from a
Ibrok Q n-down ham who got
stranded in the town. He found
he could play the piano fairly well
by ear. He threw up his job in the
steel mills and went on the
stage"
He served a tough apprentice
ship. He spent three years in the
six a day circuit, that raveled
ghost of vaudeville which still eX-
lists in the whistle-Stops and rural
SlumS of the country.
/ AS he had a talent for il, he
got up an act in which he anC
a faded little red-head went forth
TO flop in one jerk town after an
other. In his fourth year, he go
together his first girl act. -
\ II was then his childhood pas
sion for dressing dolls" came
back to him. He designed all the
costumes for the act. They were
made out of the cheapest material
There were four girls in the act
They personified the four seasons
the habitues of a Montmartre cafe
the visitors in Eddie's conception
Of a society drawing room. They
were horrible, but the costumes
were good.
That act bred others. Three
years later while working out his
tenth production" he met Bobby
La Verne. She was an eXquisitely
formed little blonde with eyes that
were corn flowers and hair spun
flax. Her mouth was a rosebud.
Eddie met her in an agents Of
fee and offered her job. which
she accepted without a question
SURPRISED
She would have taken anything
without question, even a chance
al helping in a stick-up. She had
been having a rough time, even
\ for her.
/ SO, when Eddie first told her
that she was beautiful, she waited
without any defense for the in
eVltable next move. When II
didn't come, she regarded Eddie
with surprise and saw that he was
pretty good-looking. He was say
ing
g. Is what l want 10 do.
I want to design and light an
act that will stand out in the
business. There's always agents
scouts around here in. the sticks.
They're looking for talent, and
some day they're going to find
me.
"Now you're made 10 order
for me. You got good lines and
you're pretty. can dream up
costumes that'll make YOU
knockout. I'll build the act
around you when the costumes
get made. We ought 10 WOW
them"
Wow them they did. Bobby
looked like the Queen OF ShebS
or Helen Of Troy or Hedy La Mar
in the costumes in which she
glided from one side of the stage
20 the other
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