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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-27
. SERIAL STORY
MEXICAN MASQUERADE
BY CECIL CARNEs


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two, he was biting his nails, Al
the end az three, he ~ss actually
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suddenly Il was . huge amphiplan
bomber which was power-divink
Al the men on the peninsula even
before they were aware of the
death overhead. No homos ~srs
dropped Allan Remembered what
Dr. Sargent had said about the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-27


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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-27
Mans Transition
Is Traced Through
Evidence in Caves

PHILADELPHIA Evidence OF
early mans transition from spear
thrower to uee Of the bow and
arrow has been found In eastern
Oregon caves. Prof, l.. 8. cress-
man. head of the University Of
oregon's department Of snthro-
pology. told the American Phiio-
sophicsl society here.
DR.. Cre~sman said that the
Oregon caves also yielded
fragments Of coiled basketry.
which must have been
brought In by migratory
peoples Hh paper. Gave
and Lake Bed Cultures Of
South Central Oregon. In the
Northern Great Basin" also
dealt with discoveries made In
''the bed OF an ancient lake"
"The bed of an ancient lake,
he said, has given US three
horizons: "a the Oldest, when
horse. camel and some elephant
like animal slaked their thirst al
the dwindling water holes and
were hunted by man; az a second
about the shore line when the lake
was beginning to refill sbou,
1000 years ago: and 81 the his
toric Modoc culture about the
modern shore line. dating from
about the beginning OF the Chris
tian era"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-27
Fern Hill to Honor
Men in u. S. Service

A roster which will contain the
names of all Fern Hill residents
who are now in the army, navy
or aviation corps will be unveiled
and dedicated at the Fern Hill
school auditorium Monday night at
8 o'clock.
Mayor Harry P. Cain will unveii
the roster assisted by Girl Scout
guard. Fred A. Smith, county
assessor. will talk on the Nsches
pass road and a program Of songs
and music has been arranged by
the Fern Hill Improvement club.
Officers of the club are BOD
wilcher, president; Ed Westwood'
vice president; Mrs. West. treas
urpr: w. Wilson, secretary.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-27
Radio Deieciors
To Protect Coast
Lines Of America

WASHINGTON The army 10
installing along the nations coast
lines radio detection devices
capable of locating enemy planes
and ships more than 100 miles
away, Secretary of War Henry l.
stimson revealed Saturday.
Stimsou told about these
devices developed by the army
signal corps to help protect
coastal areas against raids.
and added that the signal
corps' new scientific instru-
ments are making . major con-
tributlon TO the defense Of
the country.
He said that on q recent in
spection visit to q signal corps
station where air warnings are
recorded. Il looked through the
warning instrument and saw the
electrical indication of plane
which believe was 90 miles
away.
They are very busy in our
schools studying radio. electronics.
and the application Of radio to
our new system of detection
what you might call the electric
eye-which can see 100 miles or
more and which works at night as
well a. day through foes and
clouds to locate enemy vessels and
planes"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-27

KANSAS CITY. Mo.-hrs. Anna
Calvin Of Kansas City is a mem
Der of family that keeps abreast
of all the family activities with a
unique round-robin plan Of cor
respondence.
A small canvas. upper bag II
sent TO all members Of the family
once q year. The bag contains
letters. photographs and clippings
which would be Of no interest to
all members Of the family.
Originally only eight persons
participated, but the list Of names
has increased until the parcel is
sent now 10 relatives in % diff
ferent states from Connecticut TO
Washington.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-27
New Papa Gives En-
Stamps, Not Cigars

CLEVELAND. Ohio-Jim Don
ovan found a new use for defense
stamps.
The boys in the back room at
"Donovan's Loop" a bar and night
club operated by Donovan, ex-
pected free cigars or a round on
the house when Jim's new son
arrived. That's the way 1t worked
when his other five children came.
But this time there were no
drinks and no cigars. Everybody
got defense stamps.
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-27
Advise Boards
On "a Class
Men In Non-Wor
Work TO Go First
CONTINUED from pas. One,

Continued from Page onsl
regardless Of whether or not the
dependent is working OF il capable
Of working"
2. Whether the registrant. De.
pendents we're acquired when IN.
reEistrant had reason TO antici.
pate selection FOR military service. -
The memorandum also
pointed out that AT present
there In no Justification for
putting q man In class IA. or
available for gener, military
service. where there IL . n
nancially dependent wife. child
or children.
Degree Of dependency should be
determined by the measure Of
support which 10 considered ade-
quate In accordance it'll the pre-
vailing standards in the COM
munity at the time Of classified
ton or Reconsideration" the men,
orandum said.
In other words, the mainten-
ance Of present standards for the
dependent IN not required but con-
sideration shall be given by the
local board to the providing of an
adequate measure of support. The
prevailing standards In the COM
munity will be judged on current
standards A. they may. at the
time. be lower by reason of the
war"
The memorandum said
careful study should be made
o fthe time dependency was
acquired to determine whether
the registrant was attempting
10 avoid induction.
Local boards were instructed to
apply the new order Immediately
to the 20-21 and 1914 age groups
who were registered last Feb. Is
and are now being classified. and
to other registrants a. soon A.
conveniently possible.
Officials pointed out that many
more men with dependents will be-
come available for induction II
congress passes pending allowance
and ALLEGATION legislation which
would authorize the government
to contribute to the support Of de-
pendents Of soldiers and sailors.
II was disclosed approximately
e5 per cent of all men classified
to date have been deferred for
dependents. On Jan. l, total OF
16,640,212 men had been CLASH
fled of whom 1o,7s4.675 had been
deferred for dependents.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-27

You help yourself when you buy
u. s. War Bonds.
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-04-27

AUGUSTA. Ms.---Ths bast busi-
ness IN Maine seems 10 be fishing
Sea and Shore Fisheries Commits
sionsr Arthur X. Grsenlsaf says
that Maine Fishermen earned . to-
tai OF s4.o7i .sss last year 10 s~t
the aii-tims earning record.
Evening star., 1942-02-08
SlDEIlNEs

OUR GEORGE. THIS WEEK readers
don't have to be told that George
Creation of Author Richard Powell -
see page l2) is notable cat. However
we thought you'd like to know how
George is now doing his bit:
Subsidiary of Bundles for Britain is
Kittens for Britain (475 5th Ave-,
New York; - an organization whereby
cat fanciers can help the FOR VICTORY
campaign. Membership fee is SOC per
cat. Over 10000 toms, tabbies - blue
bloods, back-fence-walkers - have
joined up. Owners are entering their
cats at the rate of 900 week. Badge of
membership is medal and small bell.
Official slogan of Kittens for Britain
is Purr With A Purpose And our George
is right in there purring.
MEMO. Supply Sergeant kreth White
of the 45th Infantry Division is so
accustomed to using military style in
official correspondence that the habit
got the better of him when he wrote
home to his best girl. He carefully
headed the epistle:
SUBJECT: Love"
SHINE? Quincy, Illinois, was the scene
of one of the famed Lincoln Douglas
debates. In the towns public square
stands large bronze plaque, by Lorado
Taft, showing the two debaters. Lincoln
stands, intense, pleading. Douglas sits
at his ease, legs crossed, a shoe pro-
truding. Keen observers notice that
that one shoe CLEANS like gold while the
rest of the plaque is the dull color Of
unpublished bronze. There's story be-
hind that shoe shine:
Two years ago stranger arrived in
Quincy. Sunday morning, he left his
hotel, noticed and admired the plaque.
A few minutes later tiny bootblack
intercepted him: Shine The man
shook his head. The boy insisted. The
stranger tossed the small salesman a
coin. and told him to 90 over and shine
Douglass shoe.
Evening star., 1942-02-08

The boy grinned, picked up his box,
went to work. People stopped to watch.
The story spread. Next Sunday another
traveller heard the tale, sent the same
boy over to Mr.. Douglas. That was the
start. Now, every Sunday rain. snow,
sun - Abe looks down from his great
height on a small boy giving Stephen
his weekly shine. M.
Evening star., 1942-02-08

pay boy to do less for the removal of smudge than for the
removal of my ab The older grow, the reer become with
money and the more miser with time Time so much more
precious than money and 50 much harder to obtain.
The noted author John Erskne recently suggested
azne article that of lose lot of time by waiting to get
it long uninterrupted stretches of work When teaching
Columbia he sad Il had time to write Then tried
experiment Whenever had five unoccuped minutes sat down
and hundred words The result his bestselng
novel, Helen of Troy
JUST lady recently in the put her spare copper into
box and after while exchanged them for defense bonds
grow amazingly. mathematical friend of mine cal
clated that considerable number of additional Army trucks
could be produced daily the huge plants worked
until the whistle stopped blowing instead of quitting when
began My friend merely amusing himself OF course but the
figures become significant relation present aout
effort Five minutes day wasted every machine turning out
cartridges millions less rounds of ammunition in
This however somewhat apart from what started to say
which is What and do for ourselves with minute?
And the that quite big enough without bringing in
the much greater problem of the nation whole So big that
can't help believing the realization of its importance might alter
very great many lives When find that the lad who devotes
few hours week to gardening employed in factory all
day. and working for to extra for college,
that youth in the shpyad studies navigation night
isn't difficult to envision them going farther than lot of the
prosperous kids negborhood who spend their spare
time at the drugstore.
Not long had letter from former beboy hotel
where lived when first to New York One day had
found him shooting with another boy the end of the hail.
As he recalls it. asked rs that the best thing you find
do with your tme? And he replied Il only do it for half
hour when come duty and another after quit
gested he writes that compromise and craps after quit
and you lent book read the other haho The book
Dckens Tale of Two Cities and before long reading
every could snatch That explains the heading on
this letter The heading the writer's chief
of of the important public offices in New Jersey
There things in this world that only as big as
the who them of those things dollar
and the other is minute
D UNITED AMERICA
Evening star., 1942-02-08

of the est-read men knew distinguished
dramatist. Augustus Thomas. As Gus also very
~ busy man, assumed that his wide acquaintance with
literature dated from college days Then discovered that Thomas
had the inside of university until he went into
when and where" asked did you all
this reading?"
Well Gus answered, Il began when page boy in
Congress Most of time spent waiting for calls
managed good deal of reading the classics Later
when got job at the railway yards in St LOUIS always kept
good book pocket and spare moments stored
anything from paragraph chapter of the great Vctorians
read law while worked on newspapers and now read
contemporaries subway when the tagehads aren't
quite ready for us to begin rehearsing."
Gus died several years ago. but his explanation my
mind whenever people idng those precious odd
There used to be elevator boy apartment
house whose English bad that eventually the agents dis
missed him. 1t small house. hours passed without anyone
using the elevator and this lad could have improved his dcon
small part of the time he sprawled idly in the lobby.
Abraham Lincoln used minutes like these to qualify himself
for greatness When of age didn't know much he
The little advance have upon this of educa
ton have picked up from time time under the pressure of
necessity The Great Emancpators first knowledge of law
acquired between sales Of and dry goods while he ceked
a country store.
Once musical show Supreme Court Justice
Holmes and noted that between the he read the great
philosopher Marcus Aurelus Justice Holmes liked his u just
and do He heartily enjoyed the the stage
when the curtain up but he didn't throw the odd
moments when nothing going
TES, like pennies, the small change of lives
squander them without thought of their value After ALL
wasted minutes day add whole work week the
of year. isn't possible of not to waste of
time and should be first to admit that a work and play
makes Jack dull boy Waste time that which
spent neither work play in the countless odd moments
when prate idly stare at the other side of the
more commonly stall before beginning task
When younger used to postpone the start of days
composition by cleaning my typewriter The more dreaded
particular STINT the smudge could find the type Now
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w. 1--WE want to work We love each
other and it seems unfair to have us 49,
banned"
was touched by her grief and for
got my own in trying to make some plan
to see her again.
I'm going into the hospital tomorrow for OBJ
scrvation' she said then. "To find out what's the
matter with me-
If only some one had gone to Marilyn and said
TO her. 1--WE have wonderful part for you IN a
new show-a sure-fire hit--so please get we'll
right away" I'm sure she would have recoveredI
from that severe sinus infection. But no one did
And Marilyn lay in her casket in st. Bartholo1
news Church month later
felt that l had TO see her alone l went to-
the church and her lying there, like big doll
as if she were sleeping.
Marilyn and were all alone except for the pol
liceman on guard, and as | looked at her in herr
casket l was reminded of the fairy story, Snow
White" placed some tiny pink roses in her hand
and thought of the many happy times we had had
together -
don't know how long l stood there beside ~
but when l heard others arriving left. walked
out of the church, into the sun, hoping it might
warm me.
Now it seemed was more deeply sunk in myI
own tragedy than ever before. l realized that II
must do something something. But what? II
tried hard but could not govern my emotions
Even raising enough money to exist and to visit
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12

somehow l always lost my nerve. l would put off
going until the following day. and then could not
make myself go.
l had been running full force, like speed motor,
for terrifying months.
Out of many acquaintance in New York there
were only three who seemed to understand my
struggle against despair. These were three young
men, who shared an apartment. If they had had
money could have had it, but they didn't There
fore they gave something greater, which was
understanding. In my presence they never opened
a subject which might echo unhappily across my
heart
In their unsefish intent to divert me they
pooled their savings one night and invited me to Fl
Morocco to listen to the kind of music liked to be
in an atmosphere of gaiety and color, with smart
ly dressed crowd bent on having fun.
Marilyn Miller there, looking especially
lovely. She was with Chef OBrien, her very good
looking husband, and l thought what striking
couple they made Watching Marilyn who had
not yet seen me- l regretted the GOODNESS which
had come between us since Flo Ziegfeld sent me to
ask her not to marry Jack Pickford.
Zigge had hoped to keep Marilyn from being
hurt by Jack and he had asked me to tell her how
Jack had broken Olive Thomas heart. told Mar
iyn, but she married Jack, anyway, against every
ones advice
Marilyn was hurt and unhappy in that marriage
and her divorce from the screen star inevitable
AS if she could not forgive Ziggie and me for
being right in our warning, she had only nodded
when we met after that But now she looked at
me and smiled, then sgnaled to meet her in
the corridor outside the dining room.
l hoped, as she claspcd my hand and held it,
that she would not ask about my troubles, and she
didn't. She had too many of her own.
In the confidential way she had talked to me
when we were children, Marilyn told me then what
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-12

He seemed to lead peaceful normal life and l
often wished l could live that way with my child.
you say my child needs to be in the country,
DR.. Cunning" l told him day. "And I've
heard you speak often of your country home,
where you go week-ends. l wonder if your family
would allow my little boy to stay there?
Doctor no matter how much you charge me I'll
pay. You know that I'm a large Garner You know
my reputation
had allowed no one to know my actual finan-
cial predicament. My natural instinct to protect
my boy told me that everyone must go on thinking
that my money was unlimited so that he would re-
Ceve the best care and attention.
DR.. Cunning decided then that Koran could 60
to his home and all arrangements were completed,
every detail worked out to our mutual agreement.
This pleased Koran, as he had seen more of DR..
Cunning than the other doctors. After leaving
the hospital DR.. Cunning had called regularly at the
hotel and when Koran was able to go out had
taken him to DR.. Cummings office When the dress
ings were changed, in order to divert the childs
pain, DR.. Cunning would tell him that when he
was well he would take him to his house in the
country.
But it tore my heart to be separated from my
bow although had the consoling thought that he
was in a home with doctor who knew his case,
and where at the slightest disturbance the family
could communicate with the doctor if he were not
at home.
With this great weight off my shoulders, and
feeling that now l could plunge right into work
where l had left off, l started trying to pick up
threads which had been broken when my boy be-
came ill. / knew could not make the English con-
nection now, but felt there were numerous things
/ could find to do in New York.
But something had happened to me during
those agonZing months
would plan to go in to see agents and pro-
ducers and theatrical managers about work but
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CHAPTER VIII
Other Film Success

1912 by Weekly Britain Rights Reserved
4 HAD gotten my divorce from David Mdivani l
had won the custody of my son, Koran-now
he lay desperately i'll in the school where L
had placed him.
The Brothers and my friend helped me carry
Koran out into the car and we drove as quickly
as we could into New York. We were refused adj
mittance in the first hospital we went to and
the second But at the third I rushed in saying
what knew had to say in order for my child to
receive attention.
said that doctor had admitted me, which was
untrue, but knew that something had to be done
quickly for my child.
Have you money!" was the next question.
1t Saturday night and many phone calls
were then made to many doctors before one could
be located
CDR Daniel Cunning is coming over to the hos
ptal now" | was told at last.
Only little later an emergency operation was
performed on my boy for double mastoids.
did not sail that night. did not sail the fol-
lowing night or the month after that. My baby
was too near death. had TO cancel my contract.
l was too busy accomplishing the impossible.
stayed by my child through long, exasperating
months.
The baby's nurses were eventually dismissed,
but then had to stay with him.
DR.. Cunning still called on Koran daily. Dur
ing those hectic months there had been many doc
tors in attendance TO Koran but felt that | knew
DR.. Cunning best. He was pleasant sort of man
He often spoke of his family who lived near Al
bany New York. He told me how his two sisters
and three brothers, all unmarried, lived there and
that he went up to be with them every weekend
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was soon to become
a Broadway legend.
She told me that Sam
Harris, producer of
her show "As Thou
sands Cheer" h a d
disliked a prank Of
Oh ct O'Brien's. It
was such a small
thing. Chef had only
done it for fun. And
there seemed no point
in taking the prank
as an offense, yet
Sam Harris dis
charged Chef, who
had held an impor-
tant place in t h c
show. Marilyn, in her
loyalty, stood up for
Chef and finally mar
ried him. (They had
been in love for
months, but only
their intimates knew
it,
"But now we can't
work-that's hat
every producer on
Broadway tells u.s."
Marilyn said fearful
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Mae, as She Is Today, Still
Hopeful and Confident That
She VIII Accomplish n Come
back in Hollywood.