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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-05

pasture"
He could see them every moment
Of his day and night. He could
hear a celestial voice humbly
grooming, playing her own accom-
panlment.
Lola Linda permeating New
York City was a fragrance OF
hope. rhythm. music. pathway tc
the stars. And that pathway he
took next day. Tuesday, an hour
or so before Lola'S broadcast. He
knew she would be in the studio
~ want TO thank you for sing
ing those songs" he said by way
of greeting.
"They weren't so good Il
mean the songs" she smiled.
But that's not your fault"
They were terrible" Benja-
min agreed. "And-and as I've
just been fred from my job. !
don't mind saying So" He sat
down beside the brief case con-
tanning his own music.
That's funny-I mean it's
not funny, just a coincidence.
I'm fired, too"
WRITE POETRY
"My God" cried Benjamin.
Probably because of those
lOu-thOse trashy songs"
wish 1 could write music"
said Lola plalntively. you see,
1 do write poetry"
"You do Benjamin's face
lighted up.
Here's something ! just did"
She drew a slip OF paper out of
her handbag. ITS called Love
Is on the Air
Benjamin was moving his lips
and tapping the floor in rhythm
to the words.
"Say" he beamed, 81 have
some music that would just suit
it-with a few changes. Want
TO try it,"
They sat down TO the piano. Sc
were they on fitting
the words TO the music that Lola
paid no attention TO the clock. Be-
fore she realized il, her time was
called
"We1I sing IL together" she
informed him.
But" BENJAMIN started up.
He wanted TO run. But Lola
held on 10 his sleeve.
I'VE are going to-" she in
sisted. and announced "A duet
nv Lola Linda and Benjamin
Joyce. entitled Love Is on the
Air"
PRESSES HIS HAND
With an involuntary shudder
Benjamin sat down on the piano
stool. a cold chill froze his heart
as If some one were walking over
his grave Was he going TO ruin
this chance--the greatest chance
of his life? Lola reached over and
pressed his hand The reaSSur-
ing little gesture literally brought
him back to consciousness.
She struck the prcSaging chords
and then the song began
Love IS on the air! Love is on
the air
VIII YOU tell us what we all
should do
To contact treasures kept by
YOU?
Lola sang the verses, then
chorus tSung by both)-
There's magic IN the universe
All earth is bright and fair
And millions in your empty
purse
When love is on the air.
Benjamin kept his face near &c
Lola's as they harmonized. or
the last note. he felt the star,
tumble out O. the sky 10 bless him
He knew without A doubt that he
loved Lola with all his soul.
There was a pause. during
which they just sat, smiling upor
each other. The song had gone
perfectly But. as they both knew
II had been an audaciouS act or
both thcu parts 10 "ad lib like
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-05
Daily Short Story
Love Is on the Air
BY MAUREEN FLEMING

The whole town was eNclled a
they read the news IN their morn
ing papers. Lola Linda had left for
an addition IN New York.
That fiery dark-eyed Lola with
her irizzy black hair! She could
sing all right. hat who would have
thought Of anything 9ike this hap
peninE 10 her.
Lola wrote poetN In high school
Too sentimental rejection sips
called II. So she luSt wrote Ton her
own JOY Of expression and dreamed
tall visions az being singer,
Music lessons were expensive IN
Chestnut Vale. the small town
where She was born and brought
10. She had 10 60 hy bus 10 Phl'a-
ueiphia for her weekly hour with
Madame NNani. Her parents
gladly paid the two dollars ~ cos.
Bv taking IN extra sewing her
mother managed tNa'.
Is WEEKS on SUSTAINING
When She vas given her chance
< weeks on sustaining hour az
XNNR IN New York. she wrote home
that she was the happlc>t Elri in
the world Although her salary was
comparatively small. she sent a
weekly amount 10 her parents
One day. a young song salesman
BENJAMIN joyce came 10 the
Studio and asked TO sec her.
I've been listening To, your
hour, Miss Linda" he said, pull
lng out Sheat OF music from
his brief case. land ! wonder II
YOU would sing few Of our
numbers"
Stcadfastly. as if she we're think
ing of something else. Lola looked
into has ewes. Benjamin felt al
strange dizziness IN his head Was
she going 10 refuse? But II was
not really just apprehension about
that
Lets try this one" Lola
played her own accompaniment. /.
singing in Silvery pianisSimo.
Giving more meaning 10 the
words with excellent dIction. +
precise conSonants, clear open
novels.
THAT one goes all right"
she smiled. Let's try couple
more"
Benjamin tried 10 thank her
She paid little attention 30 him as
he stood mutely listening and
looking al her
Benjamin left three songs with
her. I'll he listening on Friday,
you bet" he said, as he backed out
of the studio
Lola sang on Tuesdays and Fri
days at . o'clock. There was still
two weeks 10 so before her Is eX-
pired.
Although a sponsor had not yet
bought her hour. she was conSid-.
cred a fairly hopeful possibility.
Benjamin fairly burst into his
boss music shop.
"Fine day. today" he an
nounced. THAT wonderful little
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-04
BELLA IN GERMANY
HOLIDAY WORK ON
 PEAK SCHEDULES

Boston, Dec. { - rUPl New England's war plants maintained peak operating schedules over the Thanksgiving holiday and industrial operations in She district held at a record pace in the past week. Dun and Brsdstreet. Inc- reported today
 With industrial payrClls at record highs throughout the region. strong consumer demand continued to hold retail sales at -1bOom EeTels." the agency said
 Although cold. rainy weather combined with the loss of a shop ping day held the weekS total turnover beAOw last year's volume. reports indicated that there was little luTl In the tempo Of retail buy ing. warm apparel and gfftware continued to be best sellers- De- mand for most food products was active
 Wool markets were reported dull but with supplies 0f spots limited prices advanced x7creased activity wns noted km cotton markets witA prices steady af the higher levels reached on the recovery fSum Last weeks decline.
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 NEWSMEN ON VISIT

Cambridge, Mass, Dec. 4 - UP0 A group of 10 Latin-American news men visited Harvard University to- day as part of their study Of war time conditions throughout the United States and Canada.
 The group includes seven Mexi- cans and three Bolivians. Their tour was arranged by the National Press Club in Washington. th- Ofice of Inter-American Affairs and the State Department.
 The Bolivian newsmen were Luis Zavala, editor of La Razon; Fred erico Guteierrez Granier, publisher of La Tierra; and Arturo Otero, publisher of La Paz.
 The Mexican group included Ber- nardo Ponce and Gonzalo BaeZ Camargo, both of Excelsior; Jose Perez Mreno. Universal; Cesar Ortiz Tinoco. Fl Popular; Rafael Herre- rias, Novedades; Francisco M. Ar mand, La Prensa; ard Xavier San- chez Gavito, Fl Nacional.
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Washington Geriotrics

CCHOOL children who work D on farms are eligible to purchase new bicycles under rationing. . . Navy wants Phi Beta Kappas between 20 and 30 to study Japanese lan-
 guage at Boulder, Colo. ss
 Get next to the science of geriatrics, which cans stretching the prime of life i'm
 to the 60-7O year age group, enabling them to do war work. High school students who have studied rre-flight aeronautics may take m 1-year exams giving them government certificates of aeronautical knowledge. . . . Demands for wood for heating purposes may be up 20 per cent this winter. Seven thousand tons of Christ mas mail for soldiers was shipped overseas up to Nov. l5.
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where you're going and with whom.
 You spot a squadron Of scout bombers, loaded with business like 500-pound bombs and join the formation with the uncomfortable realization that you're In the only torpedo bomber in the squadron.
 For an hour or more you fly north at 10000 eyes on the sky above, eagerly scanning the water below. By this time you've realized you're looking for trouble, but aren't sure that you want to find it. De- spite lack of fighter protection, ma~ chine gunners manning the rear guns in the scouts" give you a well-protected feeling.
 CLOUD PICTURES
 You make pictures dodging in and out of cumulus clouds and hope they turn out as well as they should, wishing you had some color film along.
 After losing your comrades In a heavy cloud, you come out into the open, glance below, see this target:
 Spread out on a cobalt sea, sterns kicking out white stream CTS of wake, two cruisers and four destroyers dodge and swerve. You take your eyes from the scene for moment to tighten your safety belt and your plane starts to buck and kick like a steer. Rough up here" you mutter audibly, then look over the side to see you're in the middle of pufing balls of black smoke,
 Up until now you've been just an observer of something remote, Then it suddenly becomes very personal. Hell" you remark with some surprise, that's IA, and they're shooting at us."
 Your still unknown pilot looks over the air above, swings into a wide arc as the scout bombers start peeling of. You try to watch the bombers and their tar get and a cruiser dead ahead of your nose, but the angle of your plane interferes. Then you start down.
 This is it. you mutter unhap- pily and hold on with everything you've got, wonder if it would do any good to pray, decide it's too late in life to be hypocrite. INTO THE DIVE
 For a few seconds you take
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your eyes off the scene ahead shift to the right, Huge water spouts envelop a big destroyer, Then a big explosion. Smoke and aebris rise. Automatically Soa raise camera to get eye level snap the shutter, re~wsnG, snap, re~wilgd and snap agaam, You US to get your target in the camera range sanaer but yoare bouncing around too much and the ave now is at a steep angle 1oSng 800 miles an hour or more.
 Then your scat rises and eScSs you in the seat of the pants and you instincttve1y know that the torpedo is away, The plane banks sharp to the left and you osfer that same seat to the enemy, Stomach muscles contract and you brace yourself for a Aasl oS machine gun eallets. But the eS> pected shock doesn't come
 The man ahead Of you with your life in his hands starts get ting out of there, and yoGre glad Of it. He gets astSta6e, banks again and yon look over the Ssoe to see one destroyer burning fiercely. You make more pictures Your target is stil Sn one pseoe, however, and you wonder Sf you made a hit.
 More planes come up and goA lose that ~all alone" feeling you've had during the dive, You count 'em. Yep, all safe ~1t's an oyer, you breathe thankfully aS g0G start home to Henderson Field as Guadalcanal.
 Sometime later your psaot turns, grins over his shoulder and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-04

gsSes a Thumbs asA~ hands back a map ca wAseA is written Cape Espegance> f0aSA Ian landings Sasese,n He points over to point es hand putting cut frctn the ncrth end of 0sneaAAcAnsl>
 Re aeAxes the formation. heads for the cape machine guns Sptt- tsne> Jap landing boats dot the water below and you think you see NSpS scattering m the palm trees.
 SPRAYING RARGE$
 Down the co&Ssline you roll. fore and aft machine guns spit ssng and y0Sn see bullet patterns around the landing oargeS,
 Henderson FSea6 is S0on ahead and you hand. climb weakly from the cockpit knees woAhly and heart sskle playing tricks, Your psA0s takes osf his goggles and you recognize him aS It. Henry ~Swe@e" Larsen
 ~rESe fse~ he asks, Great you reply SN what you hope are man. ssna tones. SDS6 we get himfs
 Larsen esrgSeS soalfCllly but Soft- @, Nope Fish slid just ahead of his ooUs> Got a premature re- ae0se, But he waS dead in the water anyhow We slid a couple os fish into him shSS morning. Just GsanT so@ htsa. in - they won't wanted 10 make sure some one nov we've oSsSte6 up that formS- sScss,
 Then you reallze this Is Lar sens second torpedo attack of the 0ap-saSs a railr incident for the Navy flyer who pack the fish" for Uaeae Sam in the SolomonS,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-04

Bud Russell is still telling friends about the date he had recently with Janet Blair when she and RoSannd Russell were touring New England on bond campaign. The day after Buds date, Janet announced her engagement - to somebody else! Pretty FranclS Metal Works after weeks vacation. Broadway scouts and hospital officials reported to be at logger
 heads on the question of whether or not some members of the St. MaryS nursing schools recent dramatic hit "The Witches Doll" will be grapted an indefinite leave of absence to fulfill proposed New York engagements
 The scouts are said to be interested in Bernice NC Bradley but authorities object to any plan which would make more acute the present shortage Of nurses Rena Tamburin who is also student ln the nursing scbooI though not member of the cast is said to be considering an attractive New York theatrical offer.
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have religion when you went up, you got it up there close to God.
 Oftimes the biggest thrills in life come unexpectedly. It was like that one october day in Guadal- canal where Navy and Marine pilots are daily writing the most glorious chapters in the history of air fight ing.
 WATCHING ToJO
 You had been down at the beach to watch Tojo come over on one of his almost-daily bombing raids on the island. As usual, his bombs fell wide of their mark, but you had tried to emulate sand crab when a strafing Zero came down to beach, Grumman fighter hard on his heels filling his tail with arrows"
 You'd swing back to Tender son Field to see what was going on there, just in time to see a "TBF'- torpedo bomber Grum- man-taxi to take of. You signal wildly to the pilot, point to the camera and self, make sign common on the highways and he signals you to come on.
 So you'd grabbed a few extra rolls of film for Leica, couple of film packs for a Graphic, stuff fed filters in your green Marine uniform work suit, dodged under the prop and climbed aboard.
 Tn the navigators compartment between pilot and gunner, you'd wrestled with a recalcitrant chute while taking of, finally to give it up after you were convinced it had been made for a small man instead of a six-footer. Having placed entire faith in the pilot, you start to look around to see
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-04

Joe Batrush, ST. of Chambers street IS year oder Hodav Dom Mecca. is probably prOuder today than he ever has been befOre for the Stork lett ms We their first child, son, Wednesday at St Marys Hos nitaI The newcomer is to be named after his grand non. Nicholas Mecca The proud Momma is the former Ida Evalptta of Oakville . Christmas greeting came via mail this morning from Antonio "Inches' Del. monaco Jack Rose serving Uncle Sam at Miami Beach, Florida just finished two weeks in the hosptal suffering from pneumonia
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is more Glff1cult LnlS year Jn1l eV items you have counted on as per- feet answers to your gift puzzles are on the "out for duration" list now. So save your temper and your tires and give books.
 Here are a few of the current top rotchers. Any one of them will make a prize Christmas package.
 CALDWELL IN RUSSIA
 THE Germans have discovered just Il what the Russians mean when the sons and daughters Of the Soviet 90 "all-out" to stop the NaZi ad- vance. To a Russian, there is but a single goal-regardless of the cost, The invaders must be stopped. And they have been stopped, at Staln- grad, at Moscow, at Leringrad.
 But the cost? Erskine Caldwell gives you an insight into the price the Russians are paying for their victories in Al Night Long Duell, Sloan and Pearce: $25o) a story of Soviet guerillas.
 They were ready when the Ger mans came - long before the Ger mans came, in fact. The seemingly peaceful peasants took up hidden arms and dynamite to blast at German communications, carry Nazi supply lines.
 No price is too high to pay that Russia may be saved. The lives of comrades, the safety of a wife, There is work to be done.
 Caldwell's story of the guerilla and his wife provides a stirring and dramatic tale, with the con- victicn that it is fact, not fiction, It will do you good to read it. Ii Russia can make these sacrifices to defeat our enemy, should We grumble over rationing and tn- convenierces?
 COPE IN A SUBMARINE
 SUBMARINES rarely make head D lines, but Americas fleet of under sea craft is doing more than its share in winning this war. 1t takes a veteran submarine commander Comm. Harley S. Cope, U. S. Navy, to tell you about the battles under the sea in an excellent book Ser pent of the Seas" Funk and Wag- nails: S2.50). But Commander Cope does not confine his work to the present war; he traces the develop ment of the submarine, its activities in previous wars, especially IT World War l.
 One of the prize yarns is thai of the commanders own battle with an enemy sub when his tanker, the U. s. s. Salinas. waE torpedoed in convoy to Iceland
 Commander Cope knows his facts, tells them well. and pays just tribute 70 a branch of service often neglected.
 FULLER'S VICTORIES
 THE biggest battles are not al- | ways the most important writes Maj. Gen. John F. C. Fuller of the British Army in his analysis oi American campaigns Decisive Bat ties of tbe U. S. IA" dHarper: eD. Some of the smallest engagements in point of casualties, have done more to turn the tide of victory than the blasting engagements.
 While General Fuller devOfes his book to past wars. his explana- tinns are of prime importance tc emEy civilian mRFmkegist who 1al- lows the var closely Ycum szn- derStand the reasons for cam paignx. klAe strength and weakness
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 grapher in tn e solonons yo u may get to ride in one of these planes on an ate tack Usually you go up only once, and you're ciarned thankful to get back on the ground again. You emerge from the experience with a feeling of her 0 worship toward your pilot akin to small boy days.
 4A
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we may expect, better after a ses- sion with the general
 STONG IN IOWA
 MAR hit Iowa just as it hit New
 w York and Hollywood and thousands of other citseS of Amer ica, and the people of Towa-Phaa StonglS 1olks-reaccec just as all good Americans,
 Stong was never better than he IS in One Destiny" IReynaa and Hitchcock: $zSoD as he rccOCnsS the wartime adventures 0s an Iowa family, with rhe5r loves and heartaches, their heroes and seae2r not-so-courageous sons
 It's Americana at its best, and Stong's novel carries an important message for all Americans Tsao are doing their best, each 1n his own way, to speed the vSetoTg, LONGSTREET IN u. S A- "STHE Last Man Comes H0zae"
 \ tRandom House: $sb is Stephen Longstreets report on the. state of the nation. He traVeled from coast to coast, doing the things maoS- people dream of doing. but never do He met people, understood them. and from them he gathers his ma teI1al
 Sometimes the objective o1- server, sometimes the cutting $a- tirist, Lcngstreet has confidence in the people, if not alHags tn their leaders.
 BELLA N GERMANY
 DELLA FROAM Was a gueat D newspaperEOman in Germany before the war. She was an aSsO- ciate of NaZi bigEigs before and during the early yeaEs of the con- fiict, she saw much behind the scenes and she had an insight into political and military intrigue
 Consequently her Blood and Banqnets" 6Harper: Ss:50D is . startling diary
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-04

The main trouble with being famous is that your private life all the privacy of gold fish with press agent General Douglas MacArtnur tOuna that out not so long ago. Some of his West Point classmates began circulating the story that while he was at the academy, the General was engaged to no fewer than eight girls at time When called upon for his side of the story Macarthur replied with great dignity II can't remember engaging the enemy so heavily
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-04

Jack Pasternack of 5S Cooke Street is enjoying flrIough the Great Lakes Naval Training station in Illinois, Marty Mazursk of Az Drake Street, president of the St. Stans Young Mems Club, is going ga-ga trying to select name for the daughter the Longegs StOrk left his Mssus at St. Marys Hospital Monday The proud Momma is the former Mary Zem- bruski Al Annes, Army sergeant affiliated with the Hoabrd Ordnance Motor Base at Baltimore, Maryland, helped prepare the bountu meal the soldiers at that site enjoyed Thanksgiving Day: Al claims the poys ate so much everyone went to bed shortly after the tablewares removed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-04

The sea-squirt gets it's name from it's habit of ejecting water when ir- ritated. It belongs to group called tunicates because of their tunic-like outer covering.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-04
LIFE ENDS AT S:3O
Good Evening.

What ho, the bright lights! The neons, the city sights! Dimouts spell their doom, After sunset all is gloom. Not so good a sudden sally Down some unfrequented alley. Even The Bntz, though crowded In semi darkness is shrouded. Gone is the streamlined illumination, And some of the nighttime jubilation. Who would think of strolling in the park, Evenings now after dark. What ho, the electric signs Advertising chewing gum and wines! Ant it awful, says Gertie, Life simply ends at 8:3o!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-04
BY SHERMAN MONTROsE Written for NEA Sgryacel

GAN FRANCISCO, Dec 4-Fighter pilots pack the glaor takes the intestinal fortude the cool and the steady
 eye and they'll all give the nod to the fellows who pilot of the Navys newest potent weaponshe torpedo bomber
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-04

Stanley GrandGeld capable advertising manager of Sears Roebuck Company wants it advertised that he's the pop of a Thanksgiving baby eight-pound son. born to his charming better half at St. Mary's Hospital Stan is rather proud of the fact that the newcomer looks like his mother than he for Mrs Stan was Miss Connecticut of 19SS" She's the former Blanche HawIey of the Stratford Hawleys.
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Fifth of Six Articles :
NEA Photographer Thumbs Ride In, "TBF" Bomber That Blasts Jap Ships

SHERMAN M0NTROsE, Newspscsures CamsEamaM wAo landed with the Marines Guadacannl Aug whose p distributed through the ho graphic pool" lis agmen Below, he the fifth Of informative exciting stories of He or GuadalcanaL
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HleRLIGHTs FROM LATEST BOOKS
Christmas Book Rush Is On Now; Put These Titles On Your List

THE shopping around the corner and you Ha soon find outn selecting Christmas gifts than before Yoa4 .ne many 2. sne
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Civilian Defense
 Calendar

Nallces far this column must Aa seMs ta the Mayors eiiAre al least tAAFee days ln advance