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Evening star., 1942-06-02
After Dark
News and Comment of the Night Clubs.
BY the Spectator.
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larization. as hinted above, gives
absolutely no indication Of that.
To the Shorehams Barnee goes
the credit for the job, as it appears
in beguine form and in his bands
beguiling arrangement And Bar
nee deserves an additional pat on
the brow for resisting any wayward
urge to name his piece something
like MY Heart Pants for YOU" in
preference to an unsullying, respect
full Francesca"
X + ~
Ralph Hawkins gasped for one
more breath, caught the signal,
mustered windup and let fly. The
ball floated ears-high but Les Brown
swung at 1t anyway, for all the
good 1t did him. Batsman Brown
picked. himself up muttering, out
wise toward the pitchers mound.
Yes, there was Hurler Hawkins ac-
cepting the congratulations of his
teammates and looking mighty
proud.
II didn't have no support" snarled
Brown to himself. And besides,
de sun was in my eyes all de time" F"
And he shouted a derisive remark at
the inf1eld, greeted in kline. by howls
of laughter, boos and raspfng noises
which stirred the echoes Of Clancy's
field. Each team trudged off to-
ward home, Hawkins to the Cross
roads and Browns to the Victory
Room, for another nights work.
Thus ended the classic event Of
the sporting season, the Ralph
Hawkins Crossroadsters VS.. the Les
Brown Victorians in softbau. Score:
CrossroadSters 16, Victorians 8.
Strictly a matter of all for fun and
fun for all, as Dumas might have
worded it at risk of his professional
life.
The Luis Ortiz Trio Lirico. two
boys on guitar with Rita Molino
singing and shaking maracas in
Restaurant 400, must devote as
much OF their time to nnguistics as
to music. With hardly more than
a moments notice they can break
into Spanish, Cuban, Mexican, Rus
sian and according to their delicate
distinction) English and American.
In their line of work, this versatility
in languages is useful, as demon
strated more or less by the song
requests during last week which
for some unaccountable reason were
three-quarters Mexican.
A violent shake of the memory is
not necessary for one to recall that
one of the favorite pastimes of the
King Cole Room management,
namely. Vim Gallagher, is to coin
puns in connection with King Cole
Room principals. There was Bari
tone Bob Pace: Pace your Knight
away at the K. C. R." And Evelyn
Knight, who in addition to the afore-
quoted, had a drink concocted in her
honor: Frosty Knight" Now
comes announcement Of Miss
Knights new theme song. 1t is
Deep Knight" which is, of course.
the same tune as Deep Night" the
latter spelling being forever barred
from King Cole Room. One or
two more like that one and the
public will be amply justified in
erecting cobblestone barricades in
the streets and forcing a showdown
with Mr.. G.
~
The band Of Enric Madriguera
Evening star., 1942-06-02
Club Women Will Confer
With War Department Unit

Presidents Of SO groups said to
represent more than 100000 club
women. have been invited to a con-
ference here June IS with the VOL
untary Advisory Council Of the
women's interest section Of the War
Department.
War Department officials will take
part in discussion of war problems
with which the advisory council is
concerned. The session will be held
In the Munitions Building.
Maj Gen. Alexander D. Surles,
director Of the Public Relations
Bureau, will open the conference and
Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, chief of
the women's interest section, will
preside.
Reports on conditions in the
Pacific war area will be given at a
luncheon meeting over which Col.
R. Ernest Dupuy, chief of the plan
ming and liaison branch Of the Pub
lie Relations Bureau, will preside.
Evening star., 1942-06-02

The war we're In Is the war to win!
Buy War bonds!
Evening star., 1942-06-02

having become . dead issue locally,
inasmuch as 1t left the Del Rio last
night, we could not, nevertheless,
resist pointing out that two addi-
tional instruments have been dis
covered in the outfit over and above
the various oboes, flutes, bass clari-
nets, ETC., detected previously. Moth
ing more, nothing less than a pic
colo and harmonica, of all things.
Madriguera himself doubles on har-
monica, in the event talent scouts
are interested.
A reminder that Jane Pickens
opens her engagement at Del Rio
this evening, along with Bernie
Cummins' Orchestra. Pianist Song
stress Ruth Ray, incidentally, also
has departed from those afternoon
sessions.
The band of Carr and Don in the
Madrillon one night last week rolled
out an old tune and trimmed it
Evening star., 1942-06-02
Navy to Show Coaches
Pilot 'Touqheninq'

Coaches Of the Nation have been
invited to attend two-week schools
at the Navys pre-flight training
centers this summer to learn the
"toughening-up' processes to be used
in training the estimated 10000
pilots in the new naval aviation pro-
gram. The schools cover the two
weeks period from August 3 to
August Is.
The schools are located at the
University of North Carolina Chapel
Hill, N. c.; University Of Georgia,
Athens. Ga; University of Iowa,
Iowa City. Iowa, and at st. Mary's
College, st. Mary's College, Calf
The visiting coaches will live az the
dormitories with the cadets, observe
the same training schedules and
participate in all phases of the in
struction.
Evening star., 1942-06-02
Births Reported

Paul and Mary Arlt, girl.
Alfred and Margaret Hammond. girl.
John and Edith Kennedy, girl.
William and Rose Lee. boy.
Norman and Agnes Luttrell, girl.
Clarence and Ann Peck. jr.. girl.
Luigi and Angelo ProvenZano, girl.
Warren and Ann Skillman, girl.
William and Esther Tippett, girl.
John and Nancy Wolford, girl
John and Ida Babchak. girl.
Ernest and Ellen jackson, sirl.
Eric and Mary Larsen. girl.
julius and Sylvia Levinson, girl
Robert and Elizabeth Meehan, girl. .
Joseph and Veronica Popkins, girl.
Gene and Catherine Rae, girl.
Frank and Kathryn Theodore, girl
Woodson and Dorothy Ward, girl.
Homer and Marion Bullock, boy.
Bernard and Katherine Stewart, boy.
John and Gertrude Miller, boy
Arnold and Ruth Amman, girl.
John and Minnie Cain, boy
Ralph and Julia De Sarno, boy.
Waverly and Ruth MCCOY, boy.
McKendree and Jane Skinner, boy.
Duncan and Margaret Taylor. boy.
Bernard and Dorothy Broughton. boy.
Roy and Louise Darnell, twin boys.
Robert and Alice Franz, boy.
James and Margaret Park, boy.
Eugene and Evelyn Swami, girl.
Robert and Ellen Tennille, girl.
Linwood and Carrie Brooks, girl.
Joseph and Annie Smith. girl.
Charles and Mary Harrison, girl
Evening star., 1942-06-02

Under D. c. lau, couples must
apply for a marriage license on
one day, tDait three tuH days and
receiDe their license on the nth
day. Sundays and holidays are
counted the same as other days.
Evening star., 1942-06-02

So you thought the bones Of
TSchaikowsky, musically speaking,
had been picked clean! That after
months and months of scraping and
prodding Peter Intch's every musical
score from Romeo and Juliet" to
the "Pathetique" there was at last
nothing for the band boys to adapt
for dancing feet, unless the cannon
section Of 1872 Overture" fixed up
as a conga might logically be con-
Sidered. Just in case you do re-
gard the situation somewhat in
that light. prepare for a surprise.
And this time do not prepare ac-
Evening star., 1942-06-02
Reody to Quit Golf

KANSAS CITY (P).-Oscar o.
Olson is thinking about giving up
golf until 1914. After a two-year
layof Mr.. Olson returned to action
at the Ivanhoe Country Club course
and scored a hole-in-one on the
117-yard 10th hole.
Evening star., 1942-06-02

LED o1to w NJ
The popular maestro OF suing
currently to be seen and heard
in the Victory Room OF Hotel
Roosevelt.
cordingly to curse and deplore
Tschaikowsky's fate, as you may
have on past occasions, such as the
advent of Tonight We Love" "
Moon Love-" etc.
The latest syncopated Tschaikow-
sky is a wholly agreeable affair;
perhaps the best Of the entire
Tschaikowsky harvest by virtue not
only of its pure melody. but of the
fact that the number has not been
sentenced to death by overplaying
in the concert hall. To end this
killing suspense, its name is Fran
cesca." 1t is a theme taken from
overture-fantasy Francesca da
Rimini," which Is about the lady
who sojourned in hades. The popu-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Allied Power
In Air Grows

On the continent Dieppe re-
mains the testimonial 10 the
feasibility OF an Allied second
front. The smoking cities of
occupied France and bombed
German cities are graphic
barometers of the growing air
power of Britain and America.
In Egypt, Rommel and his
Africa Korps battered their
heads in vain against the desert
defense lines.
On the high seas, great con-
voys are more and more success
fully defying the U-boat packs.
AS / know Hitler. all these
factors will have been carefully
weighed and considered in the
light of his own reserve striking
power.
Revenge against England for
blitZing the German cities must
be kept in mind to assuage ex-
pectations of the German public.
A blow at the Western Henri
sphere from bases in West
Africa beckons, while another
attempt to capture Alexandria
and penetrate deep into the
Middle East is not to be over
looked in Hitler's deck of cards.
He cannot afford TO waver
now, lest he lose the initiative
so valuable in fighting a global
war
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Raj Bombings of Rails
Put Germans In a Jam

hauling coal TO Italy. looks like
a railway league of nations.
The cars are from every point
in Europe and are identified in
languages ranging from Polish
and Czech 10 Dutch and French.
The Nazis seized 100000 cars
and 5000 locomotives in France
alone; but in Russia they got
only relatively few of the 1000
locomotives there, and they had
10 change the gauge on those.
The footing possibilities in
Europe have been exhausted.
Further problems such as
fabrication and roadbed deterio-
ration have brought German
railway transportation 10 the
point where it is periodically inn
possible to move any private
freight at all. And private per-
sonal travel is possible only
with special permits.
1t is difficult 10 see why the
NaZis, usually so farsighted in
their war preparations, let their
railways 60 To seed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Enemy Tough Baby;
Playing for Keeps

Hes a tough baby, and mako
no mistake" Kenney said of the
enemy. "and he's playing for
keeps"
But, with a wry grin, he went
on:
$50 are we. And we've got
the winning cards. 1 tell you it
makes me damned proud I'm IN
American citizen when I watch
our boys I'm there pitching day
after day and steadily whipping
the Jap at his own game.
They've outwitted the enemy
almost every time and they're
the most inventive and coura-
geous bunch Of Americans I've
ever seem"
Kenney is deeply respected
and liked by his junior officers.
Lieutenants drift into his Office
in droves daily. He is interested
in their ideas and encourages
them to submit plans and sug.
gestions. One of those ideas.
VIII C h, incidentally, corrected
what was probably the only out
standing operational fault Of
Flying Fortresses last week, was
turned in by second lieutenant.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Jap Air Power Cut
Sharply in Pacific

AS a matter of fact. since
August a, when he was APP
pointed. Kenney hasn't left very
much Japanese air power in the
Southwest Pacific. He started
with a great raid against Vunu-
kanau airdrome at Rabaul and
has continued with blistering
attacks against japanese bases
on New Guinea and New Brit
ain ever since.
Plainly and simply, Kenney
has launched new era of aerial
warfare in this area and every
one likes it except the Japs.
: Today, in his map and PLAN
Uttered office, General Kenney
looked over his new command
and found-with reservations
that he liked it also.
The reservations are, OF
course, the presence anywhere
in this area of the little Japa-
nese brethren from the north.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Tank Priority
TO Iron Fit
for Engines
By FREDERICK oECHsNER

BY FREDERICK OECHSNER
United Press Central European Manager
THE Royal Air Force policy of
- concentrating on railroad
cepters and functions in the
Reich as well as directly on war
production, hits Nazi trans
portation in an extremely vul-
nerable point.
Raj raids lately have wisely
included among their primary
detectives locomotive building
plants at such places as Kassel.
Nuremberg, Frankfort. Duis-
burg, Bielefeld and Cologne.
The importance which loco
motive production has been
given by the depleted Reich is
illustrated by the disclosure that
such plants now have the same
priority claims on iron and cop
per as factories turning out
tanks.
That comedies with a current
drive for scrap metal to build
locomotives, similar 10 earlier
drives for the production of
guns.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Fight FMrjOMsIy Against Time:
Swastika Over Volga River
Signal for Nazis to Dig In
Peace Offers
Next Move in
Killers Wiles
BY PIERRE j. HUSS
News Service stan Writer


NEW YORK. Sept. 26.
EIGHTING hard against time
IL and the growing might Of
the United Nations, Adolf Hitler
in the next few weeks expects
TO brace himself by digging in
along the west bank of the
lower Volga for the winter while
unleashing both peace offensives
and military thrusts against his
foes in Asia. Africa and the
West.
Grim resistance on the vast
Russian front indicates definitely
that the lower Volga for this
year is the limit of any with
drawal by the Red army. Like
the English Channel in the West,
this compels Hitler to accept a
wet front" In the East.
To Hitler Stalingrad Is the
eastern frontier of Europe. but
unless the central and northern
armies of Stain collapse, he
\ merely has the satisfaction of
seeing the swastika wave on
the Volga while the great cam
paign of 1912 he staked so much
on with all its sacrifices remains
as indecisive as that OF 194l.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Jap Cruiser Screened
By Red Cross Ship

The third man was combat
trooper attached to the United
States engineers. who grabbed
machine gun when the attack
began.
The anti-aircraft gunners saw
the hospital ship moving in and
thought il an American Red
Cross vessel. Suddenly the ship
Tit up like a Christmas tree"
from searchlights focused upon
il from out in the bay.
They were about to relax
when some one yelled:
ITS n Jap cruiser!"
And, sure enough, they made
out the outlines of a cruiser
beyond the hospital ship.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Japs Tough Babies: Kenney's Tougher
New Allied Air Chief in Pacific
Wrests Initiative From Enemy
Raids Keep Foe
Busy Repairing
Bomb Damage
BY FRANK ROBERTSON
International News Service stan Writes
GENERAL M'ARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS IN
ATISTR ALA Sent D6


MAJ. GEN. GEORGE KEN
A'A NEY, officially disclosed
as commander of the Allied
air force in the Southwest Pa
cific, has held that, job for
exactly six weeks.
In that time he has made 10
trips into the southwestern Pa
cific battle zone, has directed
the most devastating series OF
attacks yet carried out by
American airmen against the
japanese. has reorganized a
number of features of the COM
bined air command and has
wiped out the enemy on at least
three important occasions.
Kenney has had a busy six
weeks. But this short. dynamic
officer likes things busy and he
expects to keep the Japs 10
times buster repairing and re-
placing the destruction his boys
and bombers cause before the
Pacific war is very much older.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
BaiI-Ouf Food
Festherweieht Package
for Paratroops

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 INS).
Newest emergency food combi-
nation Tor army filters is feather
weight package that contains
enough nourishment for a soldier
for at least a day. the war depart
ment announces.
Developed by quartermaster
corps subsistence experts in Co
operation with air force authori-
ties. il is known as the "bail-out"
ration.
As its name suggests, il is in
tended primarily for filters whose
plane is disabled in midair and
who therefore are required to
parachute to earth.
II contains a vitaminized choco-
late bar, a box of matted milk
dcxtrose tablets, carton Of dex-
tFeSe tablets. a tube of bouillon
powder and stick of gum.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Cruiser Shell
Blasts Gun

"They had been firing for
about 10 minutes when a shell
from the cruiser hit our gun pO-
sition. That II all 1 knew until
1 woke up In the ambulance
headed for a field hospital.
"An attendant told me the
cruiser had gone out of the har-
Dor and then returned. Sure
enough, all the way TO the hos
pital we seemed one jump ahead
of Jap shells. They were hitting
the road right behind u.s."
Simonds, who was among
those credited by high military
authorities with saving the vital
airdrome at Milne Bay. set up a
machine gun on the edge of the
field. Others did likewise.
II guess we did q pretty good
Job Strengthening those Japs
when they came running out Of
the jungle. None knew very
much about firing guns, but we
knew enough 10 aim and keep
them shooting at the Japs."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Calls Officers Bozos.
Good Work Hot Stuff

Smilingly efficient and always
impatiently prodding, Kenney
refers to his fellow officers az
those bozos" and inevitably
pays tribute to work well done
as hot stuff"
Officers and men alike appre-
ciate Kenney's informal manner
and proven ability but. most OF
all, like his unquestioned conf.
dence in them.
Hell. we're okay." Kenney
will tell you.
sure, our air depots at homo
wouldn't like the way we repair
our planes with jackknives,
screw drivers and tin cans, but
we're getting used TO 10 now and
IL saves aluminium. They need
IL In the United States.
why. those bozos out here
brim with it You can't keep
'em down. They're hot pilots
and they've got crews behind
them. too" CN
General kenney is completely
optimistic over the immediate
future in the Southwest Pacifia
lie figures IL this way:
We'll melt these guys down
20 where we cad better them
every time. Right now, things
are going pretty darned good
The air corps and ground men
alike agree that George Kenney
IS a good choice 10 direct tho
melting down" process.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Russian Army
Killers Goal

As long as the hammer and
sickle waves behind intact Red
armies, Hitler has failed TO meet
1912 detectives, with the fore
gone conclusion that sooner or
later the fatal space OF Russia
again will prove the victor.
Looking the situation over as
the swastika nears the Volga, II
is probable that Hitler will have
a new role for the Japs TO play
in the war, an invasion OF India
or Siberia.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Willy Foe Uses
Neutral Boat in
Milne Battle
SOMEWHERE IN AUS
TRALIA, Sent. %.

THREE wounded American SOL
- diers revealed today how the
tricky japanese used a hospital
ship as a shield in an attack on
Milne Bay at the tip of the
island of New Guinea.
A Japanese cruiser, which
came from behind the hospital
ship to attack the harbor, was
finally driven off.
Two of the men were in
charge of an anti-aircraft gun
emplacement and were closely
watching the harbor late at
night when a hospital ship
came in.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
inducements
For Railmen

The CONSUMPTION Of labor in
France is at least partly in
tended to supply some Of the
100000 workmen needed under
the present railway stock build
ing program.
Inducements are being offered
laborers who can keep Ger
many's rolling stock in con-
dition.
That is not surprising. Fiji
teen years of neglect of Ger
many's transportation syste m
have brought it to a definitely
bad point just when the Nazis'
ever-expanding activities require
it to be in good shape.
The Nazis found that the con-
quest of new countries yielded
them loot in rolling stock, but
that il also brought new head
aches in the movement of goods
throughout Europe.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Yanks Fly Supplies
To India by Night
NEW DELHI, September 26.

MEXICAN supplies being flown from India to China
IA a 60O-me night trail blazed by United States
Army fers after day transports threatened by Burma
based japanese planes.
The dependent entirely their instruments
guide them Chinese base lighted only by smudge
usually conquer deliver these badly needed
materials isolated China.
Capt John Payne of Paducah KY. tall rangy former air
lines pilot between Chicago and Atlanta opened the route
recently with numbering Douglas transport. In his
words he had destiny" guide him the
difficult and dangerous mountains.
"The but instruments most of the
time" Payne said icing conditions
thunderhead thought I'd bite into
to what would happen Immediately ice began TO form
the wings and forced drop down get rid
inch and a half thick coating"
Despite the bad weather and unfamiiarity WITH the
terrain Payne said they hit the right the
Everything pitch except the which
outlined the dim light smudge the Chinese had
the pilot said at amounted shooting
smudge pots 600 miles away"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Nazi Order
In Grave Peril

For his part, he has only TO
look at Egypt and occupied
Europe TO face a large task.
Unrest on the continent has
grown TO such proportions
partly due TO the encouragement
derived by conquered peoples
from Allied Invasion prospects
that the NaZi new order is
gravely threatened.
Gestapo machine guns and de-
portations no longer suffice TO
hold the angry and hungry ones
at bay.
A counterblow or demonstra-
ton of Nazi might is necessary
if Allied bids for the suppressed
are TO be seriously overcome.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
First Soldiers
Hurt on Land

First ground soldiers wounded
in the engagement, the Ameri-
cans told their story in an army
hospital. They are julius Han
son of Lyons, Kan, commander
of the gun emplacement. and
two Negroes, Charles Brown of
Milwaukee and Reginald ST.
monds of Durham, n. c.
Brown was Hanson's assistant,
Simonds the machine gunner.
Their job was 10 guard the
principal Allied piers.
Hanson said:
Eve trained our guns toward
the cruiser hoping tn get a
chance To rake her decks, but
she had the same idea. It seemed
every gun aboard her opened
fire. The Japs made no attempt
TO hit the hospital ship but con-
centrated their fire LANDMARKS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
League Of Nations
Freight Trains

A train going through Ger
many today, whether il is carry
ing food from France. taking
trucks 10 the Russian front. or
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27

throughout EurOpe.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-26
COMPROMISES OR APPEAL

Despite a legal opinion Of the
regional OPA that Michigan must
conform with national regulations.
the Detroit Automobile Dealers
Association will appeal the ruling
to the state rationing board tomor-
row unless compromise settle
ment is reached before that time
Rolf Nugent Of the OPA truck
and passenger car division. who
met with association representa-
tiveS and the Wayne County ra-
tioning board. agreed 10 strive for
a SolutioR TO Michigans problem
before Friday.
Although he conceded the aSSo-
citation "a good case" he suggested
that dealers and car buyers might
have perjured themselves in dat
ing the orders for autos.
Emmett j. Kelly, attorney for
the auto dealers. estimated that
between 7OO~and 800 new models
in Wayne County had been held
in this dispute.
For the dealers 10 get titles
on the cars they took in on
trades" he said. "they would
have had to ignore Michigan
laws and revolutiOnize the sys-
tern they had used for years.
Dealers were caught unaware
by this and so was the public"