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Evening star., 1942-09-15
Committees 10 Meet
Tomorrow 10 Plan
Nurses Aide Rally
Mrs. Roosevelt TO Be
Main Speaker in
Drive for Recruits

Committees announced today for
the nurses aide recruiting rally will
meet tomorrow afternoon to make
plans for the September Is meet
ing, at which Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt will speak
Other speakers for the rally, to
be held at the Departmental Audi
torium. will include Miss Mabel T.
Boardman, secretary of the Ameri-
can Red Cross and chairman of the
volunteer special services of the
District: Mrs. Walter Lippmann,
national chairman of the Red Cross
Volunteer Nurses Aides: Mrs.
Dwight Davis, national chairman of
volunteer special services, and Col
Lemuel Bolles, executive director
of civilian defense here
Mrs. Edward A. ST. John, chair
Evening star., 1942-09-15
School Offers New Course
For Medical Secretaries

A new course designed to train
young women as secretaries in the
offices of physicians and dentists
will be given at the Chamber
lain Vocational School. Four
tee,1th street and Potomac avenue
Sc, when District schools open
Monday.
Students taking the course will
be given actual clinical experience
In the Public Health Service elm
les here.
The Chamberlain School also will
effer a new course in multilith op-
Grafton. 1t will run for six weeks
and will qualify students for Gov
eminent jobs.
The Dennison Vocational School
will provide day and night classes
In stenogrsphy and tipping.
Evening star., 1942-09-15
Spanish War Cannon
Sent to Scrop Drive
By the Associated Press

ps tHe Associated Press.
FREDERICK. Md. Sept. 15.-A
cannon taken from the old Spanish
battleship Maria Terese during the
Spanish-America War and since
then situated at the base of the
Francis Scott Key Monument, was
removed yesterday for scrap.
The cannon was on the battle
ship captured in the battle of San
tlago July 3. 1898, by an American
fleet commanded by Commodore
Winfield Scott Schley, native of
Frederick.
Evening star., 1942-09-15

Uncle Sam will give you many
tanks-if you get in that scrap.
Evening star., 1942-09-15

The tollo1Ding is another ac-
count OF action in ths Solomons
,Uritten by Serot James w. Hurl-
but OF Arlington, a fighting cor
respondent aUith the United
States Marines.
Evening star., 1942-09-15

i'm peace: In war, gather scrap
metal. to win.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13

OF the annual production of
household washing machines
1.500,000--more than 1,350,000
are electric machines. and over
100000 are gasoline-e & / n g
driven. according TO the census.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
Must Have Air ardens

7 Asst night at WAYNE University 16l Detroers were
l. graduated by the Civilian Defense Institute to instruct
other Detroiters as air raid wardens.
These graduates in civilian defense will be spotted az
strategic points throughout Detroit 10 conduct classes o
volunteers in the duties Of air RAID warden <
They have received brisk and thorough training so
that they are fully competent to pass on to recruits the
details Of this highly essential job
They are eager to start their teaching
The only thing that hampers them Is that there are
too few pupils
THE men Of Detroit ineligible for army service must
be counted just as eager to serve their country and
their city as the physically fiji Youngsters who march
away day after day into the army or the navy or the
marines. 1000
But in spite of week-ong, intensive drive for $1,000
.ounteers the OCD reports fewer than 10000 appl-
ANTS with the week virtually ended
This cannot mean that Deroitors are unpatriotic.
II must mean that they are not yet awake TO the
eita necessity Of organized defense of their city
DRAY God they viii come awake before their Detroit
[ has been shattered and torn by bombs from invading
terrorists
Sign up today. YOU Dctroers who are physically fit
but ineligible for the draft.
Sign up today and prove yourselves patriots even as
though YOU were fighting with General Macarthur in the
Philippines
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
Remember Next Winter

CPRING raps at the door Your lawn is beginning to
y shift in hue from the dead yellow Of winter to that
infant green which the nfalble sign that spring the
seasonal busybody, is once more stirring
Your coal bin is low but what do you care?
Soon crocuses will peep out inqusltivey. Before you
know it the heavy smell of lacs will make you think you
young again.
BUT!
But there will come another winter and tough one
n OVERNOR VAN WAGNER, with realistic pessi-
III msm, reminds us of that. He urges us to get in
our next winters coal right He said yesterday:
THE bituminous coal situation is becoming critical.
1t demands quick action by citizens to avoid heat
less days next winter As plants attain full pro-
ducton in midsummer, transportation facilities will be
absolutely unable to move coal for domestic use"
This is not an optimistic note. 1t is sound one,
however.
Forget spring and summer and think Of your needs
next winter.
Fuel up now if you can
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
Vaccinate Your Children

d ARENTS of Detrot-arrange now to have your chill
dren especially if they infants vaccnated against
diphthera and smallpox
This is the bad time of year for these dread diseases
Neither is epidemic present in Detroit but that is
because of the continuous alerness of the Department
Of Health.
If you have small children go to your family phys
can If you cannot afford personal treatment consult him
anyway and he will fix it for you to get free vaccination
through the Department of Health
The whole world is sick today Don't add to its all
ments by counting epidemic disease in Michigan through
failure to vaccinate your children
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
Enlist in Land Corps. Save
Farmer. Help Scrap Japs!
BY DOROTHY THOMPSON

hlSPAICHE from WdSnlnS-
~ ton and elsewhere are call
ing attention TO a crisis that is
going to confront the nation in
the spring, and on the home
front.
All over the country there is
a serious shortage of agricultural
labor.
Boys from the farms have
been drafted; high wages in
armament plants have dragged
away others; meanwhile, this
country is not only the arsenal
for democracy but the granary
for it.
The department of agriculture
is crying for increased produc-
ton of high protein foods, such
as milk, cheese and eggs-prod-
uctS that can be dried. shipped
and stored, stored against the
end of the war when the whole
world will want our products.
4 GROUP of young men are
"a doing something about it.
Again, they are self-starterS.
They aren't sent out by the
government; they are young men
who love America and want TO
serve her.
There's a philosophy about
America in their minds and
hearts.
Long before this war began,
they were thinking, in Dart
mouth and Harvard, about the
future of the country.
They believed that war or no
war m~'crSal service for the
nation, as a definite part of
every young mans education,
ought to be established; service
10 the soil of America; service to
the armed forces; service wher-
ever it was needed.
SO. a few months ago, they
founded the Volunteer Land
Corps, for the purpose Of help
ing out the farmers.
They had made some surveys
and knew this would be a tough
summer on the land.
Instead of trying 10 start
nationwide movement, they de-
Cided to do a job in limited
area. just 10 show how 1t could
be done, and working in a small
area, 10 do il right
THEY chose the neiGhboring
Il states of Vermont and New
Hampshire, got in touch with
the farm agencies there, and
found that masses Of farmers
were willing TO take college and
high school students, even If not
trained. provided they came
with no illusions and in the
right spirit.
Then they went 10 UNIVERSE
ties and high schools, appealing
10 the following classes Of
young men: those below draft
age those rejected for minor
| physical diSqualifcations; those
registered but not yet called.
They offered these young men
/ Jobs as private soldiers of the
land. at private soldiers wages,
ST. a month and board and
room Girls heard about 1t, and
offered 20 Join
Farmers said they'd take
/ girls, too.
So the Volunteer Land Corps
Of agricultural 'privatcS' got
started.
DUT these youthful enthusiasts
- have an idea that goes be-
yond the essential economic war
service.
They want 20 create in their
land army a real esprit de corps;
10 reach ont from their group
10 the youth Of the farm COM
munities; TO plan Sunday meet
ings together in the townships
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
WILLIAM ESCHE
1922 Huron,
Dearborn, Mich.
25 YEARS AGO TODAY
March 10, 1917

General Won Hindenburg with
draws his forces from Western
Front; Allies suspect il is a
trick 10 draw them into a trap.
Britain's war cost is set at
$4,000, 100000 year.
German raider sinks Japanese
freighter in Indian Ocean; Japa-
nese and British warships give
chase.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
AERING DOWN ON THE NEWS:
Boots for. .SlsTS
BY ARTHUR BUGS) BAER

From America is running shoe store for Japs
who die with their boots on.
The monkey men are playing capfrog with the archi-
pelagos They just like their beetles that migrate in
bunch of cherry blossoms.
Both Of them are reminders that there is boom in
finished business.
Distributed by International
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
March -. 1871

Nazi planes bomb big ship
building center in vicinity of
Glasgow; Liverpool also badly
shaken by intensive bombingS.
British forces in Ethiopia cap
ture Italian base at Iavello.
Greeks crush Italian counter
attacks along Albanian front;
also sink Italian submarine in
the Aegean Sea.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13

ana the future OF America.
They are gathering together
a travelling library of informa-
ton and inSpirational books;
they are planning an educa-
tional service.
Hard work from dawn to
dusk on the American land
seems TO them excellent pre-
military training anyhow.
They revive the old-fashioned
American word of help" in
stead of "employe."
They know that In the old
days farmers depended chiefly
on their own sons and daugh-
terS for farm work.
SO they offer themselves as
foster sons and daughters.
And any boy 16 or over. or
girl Is or over, who isn't afraid
of hard physical work, who can
present a medical certificate,
who knows that he or she isn't
enliSting for summer vacation
but for summer toll, is eligible.
THEY'VE had a remarkable
Il response from precisely that
privileged youth that is sup
posed to be "Soft"-the youth
that is accustomed TO summer
vacations in resorts, and who
have been quite easily persuaded
that they might as we'll pitch in
with a pitchfork instead of with
a golf stick.
They have scouts in Vermont
and New Hampshire doing the
ground work. and seeing to it
that the corps will get into
decent homeS-'we mean the
homes of decent people, not
homes with bathrooms, neceS-
sarily."
Louis Bromfeld Stuart Chase
Waldo Frank and other writer's
who have been emphasizing for
years the need of rediSCovering
Americans, have helped them.
Gen. Robert +. Wood and Her.
bert Agar found themselves in
agreement about the sense and
idealism in this particular move
ment.
THEY have been operating on
Il a shoeString as far as money
is concerned, but they've made
up for that lack by devotion and
enthusiasm.
And they already evolved a
pattern Of organization. an in
tegration of free initiative with
local government agencies, and
local community leaders.
They don't hold any copy
right on their plans.
Any groups that want the
blueprintS can have them
But they want TO make a sim
gle demonstration this summer
in a single area TO prove that
American youth from all social
classes, all races and all CreedS,
are ready and willing 10 help do
the hard, dirty work for America
and for our Allies.
Their leaders are all young.
The director is the valedicto-
rian Of the Dartmouth class of
1910 Arthur Root.
Any boy or girl wanting to
Join them should write in and
sign up.
He or she must agree TO 90
where sent the moment school
is out.
All can be assured that they
60 as members of a corps and
won't be isolated.
Nobody should apply who is
not willing 10 work hard with
his farmer-host, regard himself
as one of the corps and one Of
the community. and be prepared
10 learn his work as quickly and
efficiently as possible.
Teachers are also welcome.
Headquarters are at 8 West
Fortieth street. New York, N. Y.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
| ers TO
The Editor

TO THE EDITOR:
WHY the excess verbiage con-
w corning pensions for con-
gressmen without comment on
the rest OF the bill?
To become law the bill had
TO have a presidential signature.
which made but one individual
responsible for the enactment.
Give credit where credit Is
due. not forgetting that old saw
TO the effect The king can do
no wrong"
WILLIAM ESCHE,
4422 Huron,
Dearborn, Mich.
TO THE EDITOR:
How can a true American
IL working in a defense plant
call a strike, or aid a strike
called by some false leader unfit
to be in this true America?
1t is tim for America to
wake up.
General Macarthur needs
help. Put your striking power
into a blow that will help him
crush the Axis power.
HENRY McSMITH.
1928 North Third street,
Saginaw.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
DETR0FTsassI!THMES

Subscription rates Gin advance) by mai
20 any place in the United states. Canada
or Mexico con Canadian subscriptions add
for war tax 10 per cent?.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13

DUT these youthful enthusiasts
- have an idea that goes be-
yond the essential economic war
service.
They want 10 create in their
land army a real esprit de corps;
10 reach ont from their group
10 the youth of the farm COM
munities; 10 plan Sunday meet
ings together in the townships
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13

Chewing gum produced in the
26 United States gum factories
has an annual value at factory
Of more than $60,000,000, an in
crease of IL per cent in two
years, census reports show.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13
PeeIer on Vacation

Westbrook Pegler is on a
four-week vacation. Upon his
return his column will be re-
sumed on this page.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-13

Nearly 100000 tank cars Of
100000 allon capacity each
would be required TO carry the
total 1889 output of gasoline OF
the AS American petroleum re-
fineries, according to the census.
Gasoline output in 1889 was
over "a billions gallons and a
single train TO carry it would be
over 1900 miles long.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-20

Mrs. z. A. Bartlett and Mrs.
Z. l.. Bywater entertained thir-
ty women at a tea Friday aft
ernoon in the Bartlett home. for
the benefit Of the Congregation
al church.
In the absence of Mrs. Rom
aid Passey, president, Miss Ruth
Phillips presided at a business
meeting, preceding q program.
The flag salute was given, fol-
lowed by the singing of Amer
ica". Devotionals were in charge
Of Mrs. Jeneva Wiedenhoeft.
Readings were given by Mrs.
H m q n Cook, Miss Leonore
Blackmer, Miss Mabel Curry,
Miss Hilda Bartlett, Miss Una
belle Bartlett, and Zuzanne Da-
wilson.
Following the program 4 buff
fet lunch was served. Mrs. Fran
els Babbase and Mrs. George
Cottington poured.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harlan Hender-
son and daughter, Paula, of De-
troit were recent guests Of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Henderson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ronald Passey
and family have returned from
spending q week in q cottage
at st. Clair.
Miss Helen Harrison OF New
York City has been visiting her
father, Nelson Harrison, and 9TH
er relatives here.
Mrs. George Bartlett and Mis-:
Eunice Bartlett, both of Detroit
are spending . week in theiI
home here.
W en-of the Methods
church entertained ut . tea Wed
nesday afternoon in the home
of Mrs. william Nelson. A pro
gram was given.
Mrs. Frank Merritt of Toron'
to, Ont, Mrs. Lawrence Erwin
and Miss Belle Schnoor, both q
Port Huron, were recent guests
of Mrs. Elizabeth Hodgis and
Mrs. Mae Yerden.
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pressed q carefully affected
boredom, q GOODNESS and hau-
teur. Aboard ship she had dis
covered they could inspire con-
fidence and warmth In frighten-
ed fellow passengers.
What good were formal eve
ming gowns and q wardrobe that
included the finest Of Paris Gre
atoms when q trench coat pro-
vided so much protect l o n
against the sea-sprayed winds!
Sophisticated conve rsati o n
meant nothing to youngsters
who had passed through nerve
SCATTERING experiences. Mother
Goose stories made them happy.
So Penny learned to smile and
to laugh. Her quiet "thumbs
up" inspired INV courage IN
others, even when she shared
their dread Of what the next
few minutes might bring.
In New York, Penny had
gone to only one cocktail party.
It was no good. She couldn't
help contrasting the false, fore
ed gaiety Of hex placid friends
with the natural laughter Of the
ship-board children who were
80 sincere in their appreciation
Of her half.remeinbered stories.
Without fanfare, without 50
much as . single Newspaper in
terview, without posing for =
single totogravure picture, PEN
ny had left New York "I'm
somebody new" she had told
herself. II left the old Penelope
Kirk in France. Now I had bet
ter 60 home-really home -and
find myself again."
The Kirk estate, overlooking
4 valley that was green along its
upper slopes and brown along
the river that served the steel
mills, was more beautiful than
she had dreamed 1t would be.
Kirktown nestled like a doll viii
lage down below.
Late in the afternoon Of her
unheralded arrival, after eau
tioning the caretaker and his
wife to tell no one she had
come, Penny selected a gray
roadster and started out for
Kirktown. The winding road
down to the river was pleasant,
cool In frightening shadows.
AS dusk deApened the furnace
es lit the somber skies with an
ever Frightening glow. The
summer night was calm and
peaceful. The roadster neared q
fork in the road. One tangent
stretched invitingly up ward,
toward q white building that
dominated the street, and past
little houses whose lights were
just now beginning to blink
Another way reached downward
to the mills and the river. Pen.
ny chose the upward road.
At the top Of the hill, the
white building she had noticed
was framed in brilliant light
that flooded from hidden recess
es in the shrubbery. Now Pen.
ny could see the name above the
entrance. "John Kirk Memorial
Auditorium" she read. Penny
stopped. She read the name
again. "John Kirk Memorial
Auditorium" How like Grand.
father John to present 30 fine ,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-20
CHAPTER I
BY GLORIA KAYE


Flaming skies were no novel;
ty to Penny Kirk. She had seen
London's inferno Of bursting
bombs. She had raced against
death In blazing France.
Now Penny drove leisurely
along . road canopied by heav-
ems Of red-but this was differ
ent. The glare In the skies was
friendly, comforting, reflecting
the glowing furnaces Of the
Kirk mills-her mills.
This, Penny knew, was where
she belonged. In all the years
she had spent abroad she had
never before thought Of Kirk
town % anything more than the
setting for Grandfather Johns
stories of . career that had
brought him excitingly from
poverty to riches.
Now the Kirk mills belonged
to Penny. For the first time in
the - years Of her leisurely.
lazy life, she felt sense Of re-
sponsibility, . sense that here
she would find . constructive
outlet for her energies, . mean
ing 10 living.
She had been sheltered, too
carefully, by indulgent parents
who had sought to protect her
from harsh reality. They had
never taken IN interest in the
mills. Their life, and hers, had
been luxuriously idle. Now,
alene, she would have to rebuild
her life from foundations shat
tered by the thunder Of war
over Europe.
Penny felt as II she were rid
Ing in 4 fabulously rosy toy bal
loon. How different, she re-
Elected, from her last long ride
through France. There, too, the
skies were red. Death and des-
truction rode in the clouds that
awful day..
Penny shuddered, remember
in1 that wild ride from her villa
to the safe haven Of q port from
which she could embark for the
United States. She had been
crowded into m army car ma
neuvered by 4 sullen poilu In un-
= form. Her companions were Q
= diplomats hsavy-set wife and q
tyNnph-coated correspondent.
The diplomats wife tainted
regularly every five minutes.
The newspaperman outraged his
deninsly endless chain Of ciga-
/, deningly endless chain 70 ciga-
rets. All about them were hav-
oe, destruction, misery.
Penny had never realized how
much the simple initials "U.S
A." could mean. Not until she
had crossed the dangerous At.
lantic in q blackened refugee
ship. Not until she stood on deck
and wept unashamedly, with al
the rest Of the passengers, .,
sight Of the Statue of Liberty.
That trip had done something
70 Penny's point Of view. Hav.
ink Pierre create a new coiffurl
for her every week didn't seem
- important. He would have
= called the way her naturally
beautiful tresses now lay loose
~ on her shoulders "ter-r-r'
ible!"
Her blue eyes had once ex.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-20
JAILBIRD

JAILBIRD
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill.-Sher-
If Walter p. Whitman receiv-
ed q 60-pound bear cub from
Bert Avery, guide at Meeteetse,
Wyo., who accompanied him on
several hunting trips.
Stumped by what to use for
a cage, the sheriff temporarily
lodged the cub in the Madison
County Jail.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-20

gift to his town.
Nothing she had ever expert
enced could equal Penny's thrill
as she stood now, q tiny figure,
staring up at the gracefully col
onnaded edifice, 50 like a Gre
clan temple. How appropriate,
she thought. At the foot OF the
hill stretched the giant, busy
mills. making fiery sacrifice ev-
cry night and all through the
day to this shrine Of their
founder.
For a long time Penny re-
manned thus, in worshipful 81
lence, oblivious to the murmur
! Of conversation Of strollers who
passed by. Her awakening was
rude. She heard . bitter, vicious
voice, whose words she knew
could not have been directed to
her. But they scared her like .
hot iron pressed against her
flesh.
John Kirk Memorial Audi
forum! They should have shap-
&C 1t into q heart Of stone. That
is what John Kirk was really
like. The poor devils who sweat
ed and sickened and died to
build this thing! They lived in
ratholes and dressed in rags 80
he could have glory of . pref
ty marble palace to show them
how puny they really are"
Slowly Penny turned to face
the speaker. Her cheeks were
flushed with anger. Her tongue
was ready to lash out in biting
rebuttal. Then she stopped, and
stared in wide-eyed amazement
Jim Vickers? It couldn't be!
There was no mistaking him
The last time Penny had seer
Jim Vickers had been several
years earlier in Paris. He had
mt changed at all. What strange
coincidence had brought thi,
tall, broad-shouldered, tweed
suited man to Kirktown?
She knew that round, boyish
face. She knew his searching
troubled blue eyes. Jim Vickers
apple-cheeked,. good-humor e d
ace correspondent for q New
York newspaper, had been IA.
miliar figure In her circle
abroad.
He passed within a few inches
of her, but showed no sign Of
recognition. OF course he would
not know her, Penny realized
She had been much younger
then. She had changed.
| Strangely, as If she were lis
tening to q hazy voice in an i'm
possible nightmare, she heart
Jim Vickers say:
1.-THE Kinks were q pretty sell
fish breed. met John Kirk:
granddaughter abroad. A little
snip of a spoiled brat withou
an ounce of common sense II
her head. She owns the Kirl
mills now"
Penny felt lonely and sick a
heart. Should she risk furthel
disillusionment by visiting tn
mills and the town named TO
her family? Would she find tn
Kirk name q disgrace rather
than a proud heritage? Would
Mt it be better to rediscove
herself in some gentler way?
"I'll sleep on it," she decided
driving slowly, thoughtfully
home.
(To BE C0ntinued)