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Detroit evening times., 1942-09-25
Sleep I'm Parks
i'm Sam Diego

ness being the greatest in
cinema history.
But the numerous dance halls
of the city. are undoubtedly
drawing greater trade than
those anywhere else because
dancing is the diversion of youth
and youth is predominant In
San Diego with its defense
workers and service men.
A CURIOUS form OF public
"A amusement, characteristic
only of Pacific Coast cities, Is
the open card room in which, in
San Diego. the popular game
seems to be a. species OF poker
called "lo-ball.' y
The low hand wins. rather
than the high. In San Francisco
and other towns the game is
more apt to be something called
pagini. The spelling is proba-
bly, wrong.) These rooms. with
wide open doors, have existed
on the Coast for years.
But. the cards seem to appeal
more 10 older civilian men and
women than the youth. The
stakes are extremely moderate
and the pastime is probably too
slow and unexciting for the
youngsters. I saw few service
men playing in the rooms but
they struck me as rather bored
by the proceedings. Conversa-
tion among the players was
sparse. 1 imagine a brisk session
at bingo would be much more
thrilling
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-25
Wants Ii Toasted

Ham an cheese, toasted"
Tony added.
Gene and Tony again discussed
the relative merits of ham and
cheese sandwiches of all possible
varieties. for most of an hour.
finally joined the conversation
10 get the subject away from ham
and cheese sandwiches-and onto
some other kind of food, Tor
was as bad as they.
"Some day you'll have to come
down to my ranch at la Mesa
/ said, "and Tony can cook any
thing he wants the first day,
Gene can have the kitchen the
second day and cook anything
he wants, and then on the third
day I'll take over and cook all
my favorite dishes"
This was a novel idea. Gene
and Tony seized upon IL at once
and the three Of us worried il
like starving hounds. suggestions
tumbling over each other.
Tony entertained US with de-
tailed description of a full-course
Polish dinner. taking us through
the minutest preparation for the
entire menu, to the last pinch OF
cniCp
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-25
Farewell Kiss
30 Seconds

lave been lingering around
II the beautiful countryside
for a couple of extra weeks. Not
much Of a touch Of autumn yet.
No leaves falling 10 speak OF.
Not much of that until October.
I'll be in New York then. Oh.
well. / can go TO Central Park
and see the leaves fall.
Took the pup for long walk
in the woods today. He disap-
peared. / shouted for him for
an hour. Then l went home.
The pup had arrived just be-
fore me.
Said my Girl Friend.
"He was sad-faced and whiDi-
pering a little. We thought he
was trying To tell us something
had happened to YOU.
Seems / thought the pup was
lost and he thought | was lost.
And we we're both worried. My
Girl Friend said:
'Tf you boys can't 20 for
walk without getting lost i may
have to hire a nurse for yOu."
Anyhow my story now is that
I was lost. / wouldn't want a
fine hunting dog like mine TO
think he was lost. IT might give
him an inferiority complex.
QUERIES from clients,
VI Q-Certainly you should
know Elfie Fay and not Blanche
Ring introduced the song: i
|, Am the Belle of Avenue A."
A-Bianehe told me she sang
that song before Elfie did.
Q-So there are 21 ways OF
spelling Helen. My name is
Helcp. I can think OF but one
way.
A-Helen, you just didn't
think enough. How about Helene
and Helena? And Helyne and
Helyna'a Then there is Helehne.
Girls who put the II In Helehne
believe in numerology.
Now that / have shown you
six ways of spelling Helen you
viii probably have no trouble In
thinking of the other 10.
Q-Maybe I am not so bad
looking but when asked How
does il seem to be beautiful? ?" I
was embarrassed. How could
you answer that question with
out seeming conceited or being
rude?
A--Well, when asked: How
does il seem to be beautiful?"
you could smile sweetly and say:
ASK Hedy LAMAR
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Detroit evening times., 1942-09-25
the Side

What attracts Us la n tOomGH
Rarely binds us 10 her.
Collins.
IN HER next picture Deanna
Il Durbin and the hero will have
a scene in which there will be a
kiss lasting 10 seconds. In her
last picture Deanna had kiss
that lasted 3 seconds. In her
first picture the kiss only lasted
2 seconds.
/ suppose the 10 second kiss
in her current film means De-
anna is really a big girl now. A
10-second kiss is quite a lengthy
kiss at that.
To get an idea, why not time
a few kisses with your wife?
However, while 10 seconds is not
a short kiss and can be claSsed
perhaps as long kiss IL IS not
long enough for a farewell kiss.
Experts on this matter say "A
farewell kiss should last at least
80 seconds.
IT WAS Ian MacLaren who
Il said:
what does your anxiety doe
IL does not empty tomorrow of
its sorrow but IL empties today
OF Its strength and beauty.
"It does not make you escape
the evil; II makes you unfit to
cope with IL, II IL comes"
In Union Mills, Pa. there are
four sisters named Lettie, Hettie,
Mettie and Nettie.
States Pat Stanley:
"The city with the most often
misprOnounced name i'm the coun-
try is San Luis Obispo, Cal"
"Why do all people when eat
Ing corn start left and keep go
ing To the right" asks a Chi
cagoan.
What do you mean "all peo-
ple"? / don't start left when
eating corn. l start in the
middle.
GIT MAY be a tall girls year" )"
i writes a California client.
"But I am 5 feet 8 inches tall
and my rival for the affections
of the man 1 wanted was 5 feet
10 inches tall. j won.
'T married the man. What do
YOU think Of that: 1 am IL
years old"
Jehosophat Goggi. jockey
only rider on the major circuits
who sports a mustache. He s
the first jockey with mustache
l ever saw.
Lillian Gish, if you remember
Lillian in The Birth of a Ma
ton" you can't call that much
of feat of memory, but If you
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-25
Opposite Direction

We were very anxious 10 work
westward from our starting posi-
tion. and now this new wind was
driving us north and east. exactly
the opposite Of our desires. IL we
were TO 60 on like this. l admitted
secretly. the outlook was not
promising. A good stiff wind in
the wrong direction could push
this 40-pound boat
Then had il, Why wouldn't II
be feasible to rig some sort Of sea
anchor 10 check our progress when
the wind was wrong?
I Immediately began 10 look
around for some practicable means
of working out my idea.
''Gimme that life jacket" I
ordered Gene
The half-inch manila rope life
line still enCircled the boat.
removed il. and tied one end "a
the deflated life jacket the other
TO the gas inductor manifold or
the pointed bow Of the boat. The
line was about - feet long.
cast ont the jacket 10 see how she
would work as a sea anchor.
/ AS the jacket sank in the sea
and the boat pulled to the end OF
her tether. the tiny craft jerked
slowed. and swung about lazily
pointing her bow into the wind
i PerfeCti
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Detroit evening times., 1942-09-25
Lost Life jacket

/ had lost my life jacket shortly
after the sinking of the plane, II
leaked. wouldn't hold air. so
had Just let it 60 in the water.
But We had two left, and | seized
one.
knew the approximate position
when we went into the water, and
long ago. aboard ship, I had
memorized the positions Of all the
islands in this section Of the
Pacific. l would have 10 use dead
reckoning. but the small ccllulolo
aerial navigator'S calculator that
had kept gave me an excellent
mileage scale for my purpose.
Navigation was fabulous mys-
terry TO Gene and Tony. They
watched with great interest as
traced the lines of latitude and
longiture on the front of the life
/ lacked. and marked with tiny
ovals the approximate spot where
we had landed. and my estimate
OF our positions in the past days
drifting.
There's where we are. and
there's where we're going" |
said enthu s iaStically They
nodded, excited but not under
standing this abstruse science.
Each afternoon just before sun
down / would estimate the com
poncnt direction and distance o
our progress in the preceding y
hours. and enter il on our chart
AT the same time | would MAKE
ono straight mark on the gunwal'
10 denote one more day passed
reckoned each day to begin anC
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-25
Let's Toss Out
the Rule Book

some OF t1e sanitary supplies
and allows the pilot and plane
20 go free. This is authorized
practice under the rules of war.
After a person has been re-
patriated he may enter his own
army and again be used in mill
tary service.
THE rules of warfare set forth
Il specific means for II heir
efficacy, among which are re-
prisal and the payment OF
damages.
A spy, who after rejoining the
army 10 which he belongs, If
subsequently recaptured by the
enemy. is treated as a prisoner
of war, and incurs no RESPONSE
bility for his previous acts OF
espionage.
And so on--So my reader
writes-for 20 questions.
The writing reader wants TO
know-and so do we--what all
of this has TO do with war as
war is being fought by the AXIS
today.
What possible good are rules
of warfare when one set of con-
testants won't abide by them,
and makes il clear that he has
no intention of doing so, and that
he considers them as something
that went out with handlebar
mustaches?
Can you imagine a United
Nations soldier saving his skin
by saying something like this TO
a Jap or NaZi:
"Look here, old fellow, you
can't do this to me. Really you
can't. 1t is specifically prohib-
tied by the Hague Convention OF
1907, and the a I'M q N d m e N =
adopted at Locarno I'm 1925. Now
behave yourself. or I'll have TO
report you for violating not only
the letter but the spirit OF the
rules as we'll"
THE hours the officers spend
Il on such a subject as rules
of warfare should be utilized for
something useful. such as how TO
shoot a German in the back when
he isn't looking, how TO cut a
Jap's throat from 10 PAGES with
out making a sound. and how
generally TO out-dirty-trick an
enemy that has no decency or
thought of fair play.
The war has been going on
quite a while. now, and there
hasn't been one single instance
of one of our foe being killed by
a blow on the head with rule
book. The enemy we are fight
ing understands but one Ian
guage, and il is spoken by a gun,
not by a frock coated idealist.
OF course, we may have the
Axis soldiers all wrong. They
may be all sweetness and light
as Herr Goebbels says. but
wouldn't YOU hate TO FACE one
with nothing but a copy OF the
Locarno agreements in your
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Detroit evening times., 1942-09-25
Meals OH Farm

Gene took us from breakfast
through dinner on a Missouri farm.
and when my turn came was
not outdone.
Thus we plotted nine days OF
progressive gorging, three days at
each of our houses. We really
intended TO do this 1t was the
first of series of little compacts
we made. most of them having ia
( do with eating.
Such was about the level Of our
c onv rsation, interspersed fire.
quently with prolonged and repe-
titious discussion of our plight
and our possibilities for rescue
From time TO time one of us would
offer bits of his life history, and
that led into various converse.
tional pathways, but mostly we
talked of food.
On this third day I discovered
that ! had a pencil 1t suddenly
burst upon me that this was
marvellous tool. l could make
chart,
NV eyes darted about the boat
Draw il on the gunwale? No,
he ,acLott
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-25

THE Gloria Baker-Bob Topping
i divorce won't be amicable, at
all. as the papers reported. The
bic will fly!
Molly Vanderbilt and Hubert
Won Pantz are having a Wonder
full time.
~ Cobina Wright Jr. confused
the Reno-rumors by flying to her
soldier-groom in Georgia.
JOLSON Clipper'd back to re-
" hearse for his new radio
show. Said the csbled reports
of a fight wi h Merle Oberon
we're groundless.
That Merle was in charge Of
the troupe. and when they ar
rived he asked Merle:
"When do we start giving
shows for tho soldiers:
"wednesday" she said.
"Wednesdayw hoWled Jolsen.
"Thls In Sunday. I'm starting
tomorrow-Monday"
And he did-alone.
In Ireland Jolson ph o n d
Adele Astaire. whose Lord Cav
endish is still Ill in their castle.
Don't call me Lady Caven-
dish," she told AL. "Pve worked
mp a rep here as Fred's sister"
EORMER Justice Charles f.
Il Hughes upon hearing that
Mr.. Justice Frank Murphy was
on maneuvers) said:
His knapsack Is probably full
Of certioraris!"
The foreign language. broad
casts (shortwave) will soon be
Elmer Davis biggest headache.
He doesn't deserve the rap.
The gag in Washington is this:
"Is Willkie leased or loaned ."
The Brooklyn hoodlums who
Ghpoed Senator Wagner and Sem
or Mead tat the Demo conven-
4on) booed Candidate Bennett
right out of White House sup
port. In short, the Dodgers have
company.
WASHINGTON execs are dis
w turbed over reports from
south of the border regarding
alleged sinfulness on the part OF
representatives-as ssi gne d 10
goodwill tours in Latin nations.
A few Of them, il appears.
have made IL tough for all
Americans by their whoopee
making - and such gsyety as
bringing sinful women 10 the
homes of Mexico's nice people
for laugh.
One Mexican resort, Acapulco,
is said TO be twice as wicked as
the Riviera used TO be.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-25
Man About
Town

Harbor. Att'y-Gen1 Biddle
paroled him on March 2nd.
Ann Miller. the dancer, will
wed a millionaire meat packer.
There is more Scotch in town
than in Scotland. The prices
will tilt because OF increased
taxes.
One of the Sons o. Fun
musicians slugged ii out with a
critic of the President and
wound up with broken collar
bone. The other guy isn't out
of the hospital yet.
Sammy Kaye will enlist some
time this month.
DROADWAYITES who never
- forget 10 revere the memory
Of Slime Silverman will make
their 9th annual pilgrimage from
Variety's Offices.
Mae West. who hasn't made a
flicker in 3 years. paid an in
come tax of $4,000 on last
years earnings. She now
weighs 118 and soon starts on a
3 film schedule.
GLARE BOOTHE LUCE, run
~ ming for Congress from
Connecticut, is learning politics
fast.
She has hired a press agent
for'her campaign AT SlOO
weekly.
His name is Leonard Wood.
Exploiter Wood was on the
staff of the South Norwalk
Conn Sentinel owned by Le-
roy d. Downs.
Publisher Downs who has the
manners Of gallant--is Clare's
opponent.
MANY years ago when this
IVl colyum started broadcast
ing. the Florists Telegraph De-
livery Assn asked us 10 tell
shut-ins all over the land that
il they sent in their names and
addresses-they'd get posies on
National Shut-In Day.
One of the shut-in was a
little fellow named Bill Berry
Jr. of Spencerville. o.
And in the long ago listener
sent in his name, and he was
made happy on Shut-In Day.
Made happy. despite what the
doctors said
That Bill would be an invalid
all his life.
We just learned about him
yesterday.
The "pint-s IL ed American
who led his Raj squadron in a
raid over Saarbrucken for a
hell OF a walloping-was none
other than William Berry Jr.,
the former Shut-in of Spencer
vile, o.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-25

TIED WILLIAMS, the baseball
Il star. and Doris Sproule OF
Minneapolis are merging.
The entire Clyde Mccoy band
has enlisted in the navy.
Dick Jurgens. the maestro,
and Betty Francyss Of the Latin
Quarter are new arrangement.
Life-Is-Like- -That-Pal: In Chi
cago Dorothy Lamour attracted
a mob just 10 watch her get on
a train. A man with only red
cap for an escort was II. Hoover,
the EXPIRES.
Jimmy Ritz new distraction is
Vivian Blaine, Fox starlet, whose
mother goes along on all her
dates.
The Robert Ardheys--he's the
playwright--are imaging.
The powerful Swedish pub
licity machine in the Y. s. with
German ramifications abroad
and its pals in high places here)
will be spotlighted in Graphic.
the new mag.
Condolences TO John L. Lewis
(on the loss of his lovely wife)
included many from foes.
HARVARD students must be-
IL have If they dwell at the
Ritz in ~. Y. 1t is now owned
by Harvard.
DIR. Paul Roland, we'll known
10 Broadway, was captured by
the Japs at Bataan, according 10
returned nurses.
Siegfried Guido Buchmayer.
ski instru tor at Franconis
~. H.. was arrested AZ an alien
enemy two days after Pearl
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-25


"When I look at that SUNRISE
Tony said. nodding AT a rather
spectacular dawn, "all 1 can
think Of Is a fried egg"
II seems strange 10 me nov
that we were still not terribly
worried about our chances oi
eventually coming out OF this
When We fell into this adventure
we were all in exceptionally good
health, and that, ! think, was why
we were able. these first few days
to keep a cheerful discipline or
our minds.
Our minds were optimistic. but
our stomachs were not. We were
good and hungry, Then it began
again-the favorite conversation
of yesterday. and the day before
and the days 10 come.
"Wben I get back TO Missouri"
Gene said, I'm gonna make me
the biggest ham an cheese sand
wich ever seen in Sikeston."
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-25

remember when Lillian was CO.
starred with Rose Dolly Of the
Dolly Sisters in a film titled
The Lily and the Rose you
really have memory.
Miss GiSh has been on the
stage and screen practically all
her life. She made her debut
as a child actress in Rising Sun,
o.. in a play titled I'm Convict's
Stripes.
GsNHY HUSBAND is really a
1Nl honey. I'm wild about
him. We have four lovely
daughters" writes a young ma
tron of San Francisco.
The fact that this husband is
rated so high by his mate and
that they have four daughters
seems to verify the claim Of a
man of science. / mean the man
who said that when a family
consists of all daughters ii indi-
Gates the husband is a great
lover.
Tom Lindsay of Los Angeles
says he has seen Trixie Friganza
and frankie Bailey recently and
both are feeling fine.
Trixie Friganza, whose real
name is Della O'Callahan, began
her career as a musical comedy
actress when 19 and was a sue
cess for over 40 years.
frankie Bailey was turn of
the century Dietrich, being
known as The Girl With the
Million Dollar Legs
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CHAPTER s

at evening which
the hour that
morning found thinking IN went INTO the sea
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-25
Boat WhirIed

The boat whirled in cloud Of
clear green spray. hurling me
down on top of Tony. Another
wave struck the port side with a
stunning honm. and white water
drenched us. There was no time
to think as the tiny boat spun
into a cavernous dark trough. Up
we shot again. and then, as If a
giant had Smoothed the wild
tumult, we were scudding swiftly
but quietly before a steady south
west wind.
dug my hands into my eyes,
wiping out the stinging sea water
II looked about with some trepida-
ton. and was surprised 10 find
that there were no black storm
clouds overhead. We were bump
ing along. seeming to hop from
wave 10 wave. in fairly choppy
sea. but that was all
That was our introduction 10
the swift wind changes of these
latitudes. The powerful gust had
treated our little inflated cookie.
shell as the wind treats a sal
when il jibes. throwing loose
booms with cannon speed. II wa;
something 10 know.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-25
Where We Going?

"Weli. We know where we've
BEEN" Tony said. "but where
are we going next?"
That worried me. too.
We had drifted d south and
slightly east for two days. The
raft responded delicately to the
winds touch. sometimes cutting
along as if we actually had canvas
up, even leaving a stubby wake at
times. This was most satisfactory
when we were going in the right
direction, but there's no controlling
the winds. We could conceivably
be driven in vast circles, far from
the narrow shipping lanes, until
our ruhber-and-cloth ship rotted
When this happened. j judged. We
would long since have become
three white skeletons.
Thirsty, tired and hungry. I was
wrestling for way out OF. this
grim conclusion that had begun
TO nag me almost as badly as the
sun itself. when contrary breeze
whipped spray into my eyes. The
bow of the raft tilted upward.
Then the stern lifted until il was
higher than the bow, and our floor
Of fabric shivered.
Tony. trying to rest in the bot
tom. yelled as a sharp wavetop
tcaught him in the mouth. Aldrich,
white-faced. had a death grip on
the stern thwart.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-25

We were all so anxious TO work
our way westward that l would
always unconSciously fudge a little
to the west of the position L really
Judged us TO occupy. The result
was that in the end our plotted
position was about 80 miles to
the west of our true position.
Nevertheless. i was able TO keep
rather accurate track of our prog
ress in this way. and the mere
keeping of a chart, on which we
could actually trace where we
were going on the changelesS sea
gave us something tangible on
which TO pin our hopes.
The boys were quite proud ol
our possessing so useful and en-
couraging a tool as chart. Our
daily progress meant something
when you could see it drawn each
evening in a pencil line. 1t gave
us something new 10 talk about
through the long third night.
Detroit evening times., 1942-09-25
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Continued Tomorrow

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My eyes darted about the boat
Draw il on the gunwale? -? No,
lifn iacknfl
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-19

As evidence . of confusion,
some Boston filling stations clos
ed though they still had gasoline
while others remained open and
sold freely. Regional OPA Ad-
ministrator Kenneth B. Back
man made q radio broadcast de-
filming necessary driving" and
urging station operators to re-
main open.
SALES STOPPED
Major gasoline distributors in
Buffalo instructed their dealers
to discontinue sales except for
emergencies while Mayor Jo-
seph ]. Kelly wired President
Roosevelt that the city would
"patriotically accept" the cur
tailment and was ready and
willing to make any further sac
rifices."
At Albany, some gasoline re-
tailers continued selling yester-
day afternoon, asserting that
they had not been notified Of
ficially, while others curtailed
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STRAP HANGER YORK IS INDEED A LUCKY MAN
Ban on Gas Purchases Jams East Coast Trans Buses

sales on the basis of newspaper,
radio and telephone notification.
OPA refrained from sending
field workert b stations in that
city. stating that when these
workers ran out Of gas. they
would be stuck too"
Dealers at New Haven, Conn.,,
reported an average of about 10
days normal supply on hand.
but il was not evenly distributed
between them. Governor Robert
A. Hurley ordered no State We
hicles used except highw y
trucks and police and health de-
partment cars.
RUSH 10 FILL TANKS
A rush to fill tanks was re-
ported in Virginia, the Carolinas
and Georgia. while in Philadel-
pelphia the Keystone Automo-
bile Club attacked what Il des-
See STRAP-HAN0ER-Pass 8
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'Pre-Cristmas
Rise in Price
of Turkey Seen
BY FRANKLIN MULLIN

CHICAGO, Dec. II - (R -
A sharp pre-Christmas rise in
live turkey prices, similar to
that which occurred before
Thanksgiving, t. day indicated
the American housewife will
have to pay as much as she did
q month ago for the holiday feast
bird and will be lucky if she can
get one.
Wholesale turkey prices are
10 cents q pound or more high
er than q year ago and the
highest in years, like most other
foods, due to strong civilian and
military demand for all things
to eat, particularly meats. High
prices also are the result of the
holding back of many birds for
breeding purposes and to
changes in marketing practises
as a result of price ceilings. At
many markets in various parts
See TURKEYS-Page 3