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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-21
M'Artflur
Blasts Jap
Air Base

UNITED NATIONS HEAD
QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, May
81 -4NSS4t Two grounded enemy
planes were destroyed, the runway
blasted and large fires set among
buildings when United Nations
filters attacked the japanese base
at Kupang, Dutch Timor, General
Douglas MacArthurs headquarters
announced today.
The enemy base at Dill. also
on the island of Timor, was raidec
by American and Australian pilots
Targets in the harbor area were
bombed.
Twelve Jap Zero fighters at.
tempted new assault-the fifty
third-against the United Nations
advanced base at Port Moresby,
New Guinea. Four of the attack
ing craft were damaged.
The renewed aerial activity over
territories north of Australia
marked the end of 24-hour recon-
naiSsance flights.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-21

II UT "poeta nascitur non
II fit
A poet and any other
kind of a genius is born, not
made.
Morris was not born to
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-21
How New Tax Hits Income

WASHINGTON May q QNS)-The following table indicates
the single married couples with dependents will have
TO the provisions of the tax BILL assuming de-
auctions taken other than allowed exemptions
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the ladies' paper and gave the
customer a wOman's maya
zine.
The customer started Ia
complain, but looking into
Moisha's smiling, eager face,
bought the paper and the
magazine and told Moisha he
would make a great salesman
some day.
MOisha did-Or at least
Morris did.
He sold more high priced
admissions to high class per-
fOrmances than this kindly
Boston customer would ever
have dreamed of.
II UT we are getting ahead
rs of the procession OF
events.
Let us revert to Morris
still selling papers by day and
flowers by night to try tC
increase the income from fit,
teen cents to twenty-five
or even thirty cents.
On successful days Morris
lived high on Boston bakeC
beans and cake, or New Eng
land apple pie, but on les,
favorable days he maintained
his morale on coffee anC
sinkers.
He slept in an alley with q
saloon on one side of 1t anC
a print shop on the other.
This blind boulevard wa.
known as Pi alley because OF
its hopelessly jumbled ant
Uttered condition.
But Morris liked 1t. HI
had to.
He had a nice warm bed In
ton a grating in the pave
ment through which tn.
heated air came up from the
printing house press room
laden with the intellectual
OdOr of ink.
Then there was light anC
noise, if not music, from the
saloon.
What more could anybody
want?
II Ut "pOeta nascitur nor
% fit"
A poet and any Other
kind of a genius is born, no.
made.
Morris was not born t,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-21

international producer, has
passed from among us.
A good man, a great Amer
lean. a loyal friend, has gone.
We can only hope that he
enjoyed his worthy achieve
ments and had a happy life on
this earth-and that he has
gone to a still happier life In
the world to come.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-21
IN THE NEWS

and "Chu- Chin Chow" and
THE wander and
Mecca" and he brought over
and introduced to this cOun-
try under his management,
the Russ ballet, the
Chauve-Souris and the Mos
COW Art Theatre.
He produced many plays
and musicals in conjunction
with F. Ray Comstock-
among them some of Jerry
Kern's biggest hits.
He was also affiliated In
opera with Oscar Hammer
stein and under them Mary
Garden scored her first big
American success.
He brought the wonderful
italian actress, EleOnOra
Duse, to America and she ap-
peared for him i'm five plays,
He ventured into tn G
movies with Geraldine Farrar
and scored a marked success
i'm this one screen venture.
Nothing but the superlative
appealed to him.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-21

share the alley with the cats
and the rats.
One day an editor from the
print shop gave Morris pass
to a theatrical play.
II was probably not a very
good play-probably one OF
those plays which need free
passes to fill up the back
seats-but 1t was like a
glimpse of heaven to Morris.
1t opened to him a new
wOrld-a world of art, a world
of imagination, a world of
dreams. Somehow the boy
knew he had found his vOca-
ton.
Later he said:
81 lCoS deiiriOuSly happy,
bit I lCdS not satisfied.
II felt as If / Were outside
the gates of Paradise look
ing M through the bars.
ITO pass through those
gates l must be IN and Of
the theatre myself"
FINALLY Morris gave up
n the twenty-five cents a
day-and sometimes
even more mind you-and got
a job at fifteen cents a night
at the theatre-inside the
gates of Paradise.
Not much of a beginning
say you-but enough for a
genius.
Thirty years later the
great theatrical producer,
Morris Gest, for his mar
Vicious production of the
splendid spiritual play, "The
Miracle" was presented by
Mayor Curley with the high
est honor the city of Boston
could bestow-the keys of the
city.
What miracles can be ac-
cOmplished by genius in our
America-land of freedom
and opportunity!
The play, a miracle of
imagination and creativeness.
The mans life, a miracle of
actuality-Of lofty ambition
and glorious fulfillment.
IN UT 1.-THE Miracle" while
n the greatest, was not
- the only great achieve
ment of our now world re-
nOwned producer Morris Gest.
Gest also produced "Aphro-
difov IN v,So unsfsnarf ,,co u-or
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-21
Pay Deductions
For Income Tax
BeforeCongress
Treasury Asks Right
10 Collect Monthly 10
Block Initiation
BY ARTHUR r. HERMANN
Iut'i News Ssr,ics star Correspondent


WASHINGTON. May 21-ThC
House WAYS and means committee
today began consideration Of a
treasury proposal calling for the
payment Of individual income
taxes in monthly instalments as
the income is being earned.
Randolph Paul. treasury tax eX-
pert. submitted a proposal which
would give the treasury dlScre-
tionary power 10 collect from /
"a 10 per cent Of persons esti-
mated tax bill each month.
The new method Of collection Is
desired by the treasury as an anti
inflationary proposal, in that Inc
public would no longer pay taxes
for one year out of the next year s
earnings. and purchasing power
would therefore be cut down.
TAX UP TO Is PCT.
The committee made public per-
Sonal income tax rates which
would start al 1S per cent OF
taxable incomes-after all deduc-
tions-and graduate 10 81 per cent
on incomes of 100000 and over.
The new normal tax would be 6
per cent and surfaces would range
from IL 10 81 per cent.
Under the new rates, assuming
that no deductions other than
allowed exemptions were taken
a single person earning $500 a
year would pay tax of SD. while
a married couple. with no depend
ents and an income of 81 300
would pay SIP. Last year, neither
would have had 10 pay any tax.
Only $3.50, 600, 900 Of the per-
sonal income tax total will be
derived from the higher tax rates,
IL is estimated. The balance, &C
cording TO tax experts, will be
derived from lowering exemptions
for single persons from $3.50 to
$500 and married couples from
81, 500 TO 200.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-21
BLAMEs RUSSIA

The Duke asserted that had the
public been told the truth and had
il been consulted il would never
have consented 10 the Polish ALI
ance or the Polish War"
He blamed Russia for the out
break of the first World War in
1914.
The Duke has been identified
with peace efforts ever since Brit
aims entry into the war and In
February, 1910. he handed over 10
the foreign Office what he said
were Nazi peace proposals which
he obtained from the German lega-
tion in Dublin.
A few days later. however. the
German minister 10 Fire. Eduard
Hempil, repudiated the proposals.
In October. 1871. the Duke pub
lished a pamphlet calling for peace
between Britain and Germany and
defending Hitler.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-21
WAR COUNCIL PLAN

F Mr.. Hoover told the twenty
sixth annual assembly OF the Ma
itional Industrial Conference Board
that a more definite war council,
embracing civilian heads OF the
great war agencies. should DO
created 10 collaborate with the
President for more effective
conduct of the struggle.
ITO win total war" Hoover
said, President Roosevelt must
have dictatoriaI economic
powers. There must be no
no hesitation In giving them to
him and unfolding him In them.
Moreover, we must expect q
steady decrease I'm economic frec1
dom as the war goes on.
I'VE must start our thinking
with q disagreeable, cold. hard
fact. That II, the economic meas
ures necessary to win total war
are just plain Fascist economies.
1T was from the war organi-
zation developed by all nations,
inclu ng the democracies,
during the first total war. that
the economic department OF
fascism was born.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-21

atre which no other theatrical
manager had ever been able
to make successful. ii
Ziegfeld and Dillingham; In
combination had tried by
massing their attractions and
uniting their clever minds, to
make the Century pay and
had failed to do so. !
In fact, Charlie Dillingham;,
with his characteristic dry
humOr, had once told this
writer that he had gone into
the mathematics of the situa-
ton and found that IL he and
Ziegfeld sold every seat In the
house they would only lose
$50 a night.
But" said Charlie dpOl-
ogeticdlly, "of course zoe do
not aliOays sell every seat"
n NORRIS GEST made the
V Century pay with the
~ Miracle" and with
"Aphrodite" and with the
Russian players whom he pre-
scented to fhe public on the
Century roof.
At this high point In his
career, your columnist once
accused Morris of making
money and he said:
"You are right, w. r., /
am, but I do not'knOW Uhdt
to do NTH IL eTcept to put it
back into production"
He spoke truly enough.
He had no extravagances
and no delight in luxury.
He lived modestly and
dressed SIMPLY.
His attire was that Of the
typical artists black suit, a
black slouched hat and a
black opera cloak.
He, apparently, had no en-
j0yments outside of his work
and his home.
TT is ambition was not to
III make money but to
- create great, artistic
t h eatrical performances
which would not only enter
tain but educate the public.
This he accomplished In the
highest degree and for 1t he
should be gratefully remem-
bered.
Moisha Gersonovitch, the
little Russian immigrant,
later Morris Gest the great
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-21
Hoover Urges
Dictator Powers
For Roosevelt :
Also Defends Right
Of 9Th CoIumnisis
TO Criticize Strategy

NEW YORK, May Fl tINS).-
Describing his proposal as Fascist
in principle" former President
Herbert Hoover today advocated
the vesting of dictatorial economic
powers with President Roosevelt
to insure Americas victory in the
total war effort.
At the same time. the ex.
Republican chief executive cau-
toned against encroachment on
civil liberties and defended the
right of sixth columnists" 10
discuss and criticize the conduct
-ff1-Vr1FF
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-21

"A ORRIS became great In
V theatrical circles and
- allied himself with the
great.
He was associated with Be-
lasco and Reinhardt, both
mighty theatrical geniuses,
and he married Belasco's
lovely daughter who made
him an ideal wife.
Next to 1.-THE Miracle
Morris most elaborate pro-
duction was "Aphrodite."
THE Miracle" was, In the
opinion of this cOlumnist, the
greatest theatrical creation
ever produced In America.
1t represented a refinement
of the theatrical art never be-
fore attained and never since
equalled.
His "Aphrodite" was not rs
great, not as monumental,
not as spiritual, not as didac-
tic, but 1t was a triumph OF
theatrical art and a wonder.
fully accurate portrayal OF
Alexandria's life in its most
luxurious and extravagant
period.
~ 9TH UTha Mira oIeo and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-21
Hitler
Upheld i'm
Commons

LONDON. May Fl (UP).-The
Duke of Bedford, who tried to in
stitute peace negotiations with
Germany two years ago today, de-
Tended Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime
before the House of Lords during
a debate on postwar policy and
the proposed treatment of the
German people after the war.
The 54-year-old twelfth Duke of
Bedford made his statements in
approval of Hitler while defend
ing a Justice for the German
people" speech made May 5 by
Herbert Morrison, minister for
home security.
"Hitler has seen the children
of his country starving. and j
suggest that II you had shared
his experience you would at
least begin to understand why
he In ruthless when protecting
his country from a repetition Of
that starvation by reason of the
blockade" the duke said.
Evening star., 1942-10-27
Federal Investigators Checking
Capitals Runnor Originotors

fines or penalties an emotional
state of sympathy for the Axis or
antipathy for one of our allies.
These people sometimes spread
defeatist propaganda because their
fear and hatred of the Soviets
amount to phobia. Others are
anti-British because in the pas
they were showered with flatter-
ing attentions, from Nazi and Ital-
ian attaches.
The first and second groups are
among the least pernicious. Both
the impatient critics and the emo.
tionally subversive will cease thei,
disquieting talk at the news of the
first Allied victory.
Those individuals with "Clive.
den" tendencies, whose bank bal
ances or train of living are mo-
explainable, are subjected to a most
thorough investigation.
Though criticism still hourishee
In Washington, the formerly, Wig
orous dissenters known as the iso-
lationists are not publicly partici-
pating. Senator Nye, for instance
once the bellwether of all isolation
lst appeals, now speaks rarely from
the floor of the Senate. However
he still has numerous calls from
sections of the United States in
which he was once the most enthus-
1astically applauded platform
speaker.
A number of members of the
armed forces also have been inves-
tlgated, not because of their ex-
pressed opinions on strategy but
because they have been suspected
OF furnishing the background for
articles which have been deemed
indiscreet and prejudicial by the
authorities.
In all of these cases these men
have been cleared.
tReleased BY the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Evening star., 1942-10-27
Picture on Page A-3.)
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, Oct. Pit felt
like an earthquake" said w. c.
Chapman, 18, fireman tsecond
class aboard the aircraft carrier
Wasp, when the ship was shaken
from stem to stern by three tor
pedoes."
Men in the forward part Of
the ship were thrown around like
tenpins. I was standing watch aft
Of the port midship. I grabbed
my life jacket, which was hanging
on the splinter shield of my gun" +"
Young Chapman, here on leave to
visit his family, said every one
aboard was calm.
1T seemed Just like boat drill, "
he said. Shells were exploding
forward and amidship. heard
fragments whine through the air
overhead. The ship listed heavily
to the starboard. One fighter plane
rolled over the side. The Jolt Of
the explosions made the landing
gear give way on the planes. A
lot of men were in the water, and
oil coated the surface. Every one
lay nat on the flight deck awaiting
the word to abandon ship. Doctors
were giving first aid on the flight
deck. There was another explosion
and saw hundreds of shoes being
thrown into the water.
Il united my shoestrings and loos-
ened them up. I made my way down
to the fan tail. A few minutes later
there was another explosion, and
men began jumping over the side
and sliding down lines. Men were
in the overhead cutting life RATS
away. I'm not sure but l think some
three or four men were hit by q
fighter plane that came over the
stern. made my way to a line
and slid into the water; another
man slid in on top of me, but ]
wasn't hurt.
Il removed my shoes, tried to get
clear OF the ship, but the waves
Evening star., 1942-10-27
BY HELEN LOMBARD,

Federal intelligence services in
Washington are busy investigating
number of individuals, some Of
whom belong to what used to be
described. as society. The rumor
market flourishes in the Capital,
and intelligence branches are in
terested in tracking every rumor
to its source, no matter what the
percentage of truth behind it. Oc-
casionally he Axis has not scorned
the use Of the truth-when truth
works to its advantage.
There are many honest differ
ences of opinion about the conduct
of the war and governmental di-
rection Of the war effort. Criticism
Of the Government Is not desig-
mated as subversive activity. But
all types of criticism that might
be enemy inspired are of interest
to the intelligence services, whose
duty it is to ferret out enemy agents
and their stoOges. Thus, a marked
defeatist attitude will lead to an
investigation which may disclose a
mysteriously swollen bank account
A great deal of criticism of the
war effort is entirely honest, il
sometimes injudicious, and the
overfrank individuals are cleared
generally without having known
that they had been the object OF
a minute scrutiny.
Then there is a category OF sus-
poets which falls between those who
express their impatience at Gov
ernment red tape and bungling and
those who accept bribes from Axis
sources.
This "in between" category is the
most difficult with which to deal;
for the attitudes spring from emo
tional bias or political prejudices.
There is as yet no law which de-
Evening star., 1942-10-27
Miami Youth Tells of Escape
AS Carrier Wasp Went Down
SoiIor, l8. Declares Three Torpedo
BIosts Felt Like an Earthquake

were washing me back close to the
hull. was drifting forward of the
ship. I began padding forward to
clear the ship that way. I was
drifting under the forward gun gal
.lery.
Il nearly got tangled up in the
lines along the forecastle but
cleared the ship and began to drift
clear forward Of the starboard side.
Oil on the water caked up about
half an inch on my face and hands
4 managed to make my way to a
rubber life raft. 1t was built for
two men, but already had six in
side and four or five hanging on
the sides where I grabbed hold.
Every one tried to keep together,
three other RATS joining ours.
"Destroyers were everywhere pick
ing up men. A motorboat came
alongside and took of three or four
badly injured men, and little
later the destroyer came up and
pulled us aboard. Later washed
some Of the oil off me, then went
down and crawled into some fell
lows bunk and stayed all night"
In the office of the Miami Herald,
where Chapman came to tell his
story, he met J. A. Berry, 10. another
survivor of the Wasp. Although
both are Miamians, their first meet
ing took place in the newspaper
Office.
Berry, an aviation machinist, third
class, had been on the Wasp since
February. Chapman had been on
the Wasp for 10 months.
Although both the sailors lost all
their personal belongings, Berry
only lament was Tor hula skirt
the real thing" which went down
with the Wasp
They paid tribute to members OF
the rescuing crews Chapman said
they gave us all they had and let
us sleep in their hunks while they
slept on the deck"
Although their leaves last until
November 6, both are anxious to get
back to the job of cleaning up the
Japs."
Evening star., 1942-10-27
0'Conor Paroles Fireman
Who Set Blaze in School

Wilson Everhart, 20, Of Bethesda,
serving a four-year term in the
: Maryland House of Correction for
setting fire to the Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School on February %,
194l, has been paroled by Gov.
O'Conor of Maryland. 81 ~ 60.
The youth was among II to be
paroled yesterday on recommenda-
ton of Herman Moser, director of
parole and probation. Gov. O'Conor
was told Everhart had made an "ex-
cellent adjustment" and had agreed
to return to his parents home If
released, the Associated Press re-
ported from Annapolis.
During Everharts trial in Mont
gomery County Circuit Court it was
testified that the youth, a member
of a volunteer fire department, had
quarreled with a girl friend and had
set fire to the school because he
wanted to become a hero in helping
to put the blaze out. --.'r- .-
Evening star., 1942-10-27
Conference 10 Weigh
Physical , Mental and
Spiritual Fitness
Program Embracing Points
Beyond Just CoIisthenics
Envisioned for District

A war fitness conference" of
District leaders interested in the
'nutritional, child care, exercise,
spiritual, psychological and other
aspects" of fitness will be called
In the near future by the War Hos
pitality Committee, District once
OF Civilian Defense, it was decided
yesterday.
Although the committee meeting
was closed to the press, the chair
man, Floyd D. Akers, announced
through its executive secretary. Jo-
seph Calm, that the group had de-
clared itself interested in the total
concept of fitness" not "just calls
themes"
Supplement Other Programs.
The program of "co-ordination''
will be in addition to health and
recreation activities already being
carried on by the public schools,
which this year expanded their
! physical education program to five
periods a week in the senior high
schools; the District Recreation
Board, Welfare and Recrea tional of
Federal Employees, Boy and Girl
Scouts, Young Mems and Youne
Women's Christian Association and
other recreation institutions.
The National Office of Civilian
Defense sponsored a similar pro-
gram last year, but dropped it after
q burst Of adverse criticism.
The committee was asked to spon-
sor such a meeting on all aspects
OF the fitness of young men and
women, both in and out of school
by Harry S. Wender, chairman of
the Recreation Board and mem
Der OF the Executive Committee of
the hospitality group.
Want Employe Contact.
PHYSICAL fitness is only one small
part OF it," explained Mr.. Calm
we also mean the psychological
part OF fitness, the part that is
represented by q so per cent turn
over IN personnel in Government
omces. The committee. he said
is anxious to get in touch with
tne thousands of young office work.
ers here to fit them for their best
war service.
At the same time, it was empha-
slzed, IN calling the conference tn.
war Hospitality Committee simnlv
Wlshes to establish the means tn,
waro the solution of the problem
mat is, stimulation of discussion
not to pre-empt the work of any
other agency"
Evening star., 1942-10-27
Former Court Clerk Gets
IS Months on Guilty Plea
BY the Associated Press.

os Tic Associated Press.
HARRIsONBUURG, Va Oct -
-Pleading guilty to a charge of re-.
moving internal revenue stamns
from old deeds and using them On
new deeds, Julian Baker. former
frederick County Circuit Court
clerk, was sentenced yesterday to is
months In the Federal reformatorv
at Camp Lee. Sentence was nro.
nounced by Judge John Paul in the
United States District Court of
Western Virginia.
Baker was charged with misusine
stamps in the sum of $720.55 in the
years l934-42 by washing them free
OF old cancellation marks and re-
selling them.
Baker resigned his office this wear
before his indictment by a Federal
grand Jury at session of the Dis
trlct Court at Danville. A number
OF character witnesses appeared be-
fore Judge Paul yesterday to testify
to his good character.