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Detroit evening times., 1942-12-19
WORKS SELLING CANDY

The first outlet for his talents
was not exactly promising, Wood
row got himself a Job. selling
candy during intermlSSioRs at a
hurleSque theater IN Trenton, not
far from where New Jersey kicked
him eHt Hpon ms own.
And il was there that Woodrow
was subjected TO the sight of tall
girls with golden hair. Some day
ne determined, he would have q
blond-thatched, long linibed god
deSS for his own
And some months later, as a
step in this direction, Woodrow
got himself a Job as second comic
in a travelling burle>que show
The tall girls were cool how
ever, 10 the Sawed-off son Of Italy.
and Woodrow could only grit his
teeth and promise that some day
he would have the wealth and
power TO bend one like them TO
his will.
To recompense himself for this
romantic Illustration, Woodrow
worked hard 10 perfect himself as
a burleSque TheSplan. He was on
his way TO becoming another Bert
Lahr or Lou Costello when two
things happened
Fiorello LaGuardia was elected
mayor of New York and baniShed
40-cent burleSque in favor of tho
S4 variety. The depression came
and stopped the flow of gold into
the legitimate theater. Actors were
dime a dozen.
WOODROW'S CHANCE
For time. Woodrow Blair pom
Il i l. Il. l..
Detroit evening times., 1942-12-19
BOUGHT LOTS IN CHICAGO

But il was people crowding into
che cities that really made Peter
Monaghan rich. Peter took the
money he made in his skins and
bought corner lots in Chicago
= And rich people packed in
smelly steerageS. people from all
parts of Europe. crowded into Chi
.cago and bid fiercely against each
other for the privilege of building
stores and hotels and tenements on
Peters lots.
= Peter had discovered the pot of
gold at The bottom of the rainbow
lie bought corner lots in all the
growing cities Of America; and
steamship companies, flooding the
villages of Russia and Poland and
Italy with pictures of Amer c a,
drought endless thousands more 10
pay Peter for the privilege OF eN-
isting in America.
And among those who came was
n frightened, curly-headed little
brown-skinned boy, who had first
seen the light of day in sky
-darkened by the smoke of Mount
NesuVius
This little boy, who trembleC
Detroit evening times., 1942-12-19

\ Tribe That MeFships fan--
Kee Shippers a. Pagan Gods.
These Strange People Live in
the Jungles Of Panama. and
Their Most Curious Custom
Dates From the DAYS When
american Nhal ing Captains
sailed the Seven Seas. Read
This nuSual story In The
american Weekly With This
sundays issue Of The Detroit
sunday Times.
Detroit evening times., 1942-12-19

whose hair was the color of shoe backing She looked
him sharply and silently
"Belon sent me, said George. Madame MareIli nodded
She seemed find nothing extraordinary in that Motion
ing him TO a chair, Madame Marelli hustled into an
adjoining room. George was too exhausted TO make
sense of his surroundings He started the sound of
whispering in the next room. He expected be seized
and TO hear the click of handouts. He Jumped up.
Madame Marei returned, her arms loaded with CLOTH
ing. After George had changed, she looked him
Detroit evening times., 1942-12-19
Clip and Sooe Each Days InstaIn,ent-bfake a Scra

Toes. Bat out Of the depression
came the WPA and the Federal
Theater project. Woodrow'S day
dreams were destined to serve him.
Even when he snapped cuStard
pies with other comics. Woodrow
Blair had imagined himself great
lord and had cultivated courtly
manners. Al the offices Of the
theater project his manners won
The heart of female project SUI
pervisor.
Woodrow dropped comedy and
PLAYED a hero. The lady super
visor made Woodrow a director.
She wangled him appearances
upon the radio.
The rest is history. Woodrow
staged radio stunt one night that
put the country in furore, Holly
wood always eager 10 capitalize
on outside pubhcity-sent for him.
The lady supervisor did not look
a bit like Gypsy Rose Lee. Wood
row went TO Hollywood alone.
And on the day that Monique
Monaghan stepped out of the day
coach of The Chief at Los Angeles,
Woodrow was sitting on a lot IN
Hollywood. in an office as big as
MuSSollni's,
Detroit evening times., 1942-12-19
HER FATHER UPSET

Upstairs. over the garage, on his
weed -Strewn estate behind Sands
Point. Michael Monaghan read
with misgivingS the stories in the
gossip columns about Monique'
appearances with Woodrow Blair
at The hottest spots in Hollywood.
He didn't like the linking of his
daughters name with that upstart
out of hurleSque. He relished even
less Woodrow's record of making
films based on scandals in the
lives of the great names of
America.
He knew that Monique was am
bilious and feared the lengths TO
which her determination 10 cash
her beauty into cinema success
might lead her. Would Monique
be Trilby to Woodrow Blair'S
ISvengah Although he loved his
daughter, Michael wasn't too sure
she was real bright
Even when the gossip took a
more respectful turn. Michael
wasn't pleased After all even a
marriage 10 an immigrant boy
would be a miSalllance tor a
Monaghan.
MILLION FOR HER DAD
But taxes and the New Deal
zeal for federal housing and de-
DECENTRALIZATION. had knocked the
Monaghan real estate kingdom
Into a heap Of worthless rubble
! Michael sat among the RUNS. help
less 10 prevent his daughter S
hight TO Yuma TO become the
fourth wife of Woodrow Blair.
1t was a great day for Wood.
row. He had his blond goddess
He had married a patrician name
As MOnique hovered near HMM
their bridal suite al Palm Spring,
Woodrow made his great geS.
lture. He took out his check book
lSlowly, he drew check for mil.
lion dollars. Monique raised hel
eye -browS.
For YOUR father" Woodrow
I
for the father-in-Iaw Of Wood
row Blair 10 he a pauper."
QUITE A BLOW
Even in his private life, Wood
ROW Blair is famous for those 1T
tile touches which make master
pieces
Michael Monaghan victim o
that Shirt-Sleeves TO shirt sleeve
lcycle, which is the story of s,
lmany great American fortunes. /
lowly drinking himself 10 dcatl
IN the gay resorts Of Fifty-secon,
IStrcet.
lie took Woodrow Blair
check. bur Bowery \. Delaney
society columnlSt- of the New
York Spectacle, hints that Wood
Rows gesture hit his eSteemet
Iajher-in-law harder than the dc
IpreSSion and the New Deal pu
together
THE END.
Mondays short story: winter
Dude" by Marie de Nervaud.
\ Tribe That MeFships fnn-
Kee Shippers a. Pagan Gods.
These Strange People Live In
the Jnngles Of Panama. and
Their Most Curious Custom
Dates From the DAYS When
american Whaling Captains
sailed the Seven Seas. Read
This Unusual SiOrN i'm The
Detroit evening times., 1942-12-19
FATHER STUNNED

The change came hafetei--fef
Monique's fat shirt front Of a
father. He dIdn oppose her when
she announced she was going 10
try 20 cash her looks IN Hollywood.
\ For Michael Monaghan was
stunned. much as II a Kansas Clty
packing house worker had battered
. him upon hiS 0>-lIkc head.
For the MonaGhanS were not
merely used 10 money. They were
used 10 millions. The Monaghan
money was an American insutu-
ton. Every Schoolhoy knew the
story OF old Peter Monaghan,
founder Of the dynasty. There were
pictures of Peter IN lots Of poPu-
lar books.
You could close your eyes and
see him, driving a mule his buggy
loaded with quart lars OF all
sizes" and black stockings in all
'colors Peter drove west and
traded his quart Jars and stock
jngs for buffalo hides and mink
skins.
He sold the skins and hides in
the cities and his pockets bulged
with money.
Detroit evening times., 1942-12-19

carefully "Now YOU can hold up your head again I've
made package of your old rags Here eight marks
Give nv love 10 Bcloni if you meet him"
Thank YOU" said George Walking down the stairs he
again became suSpcious-the street door might he
watched. He had almost reached the bottom when the
woman called after him that he had forgotten his pack
age Mister! Mister" she shouted. He paid atten-
tlon but rushed into the 1t quiet and de-
serted.
Wandering into dark hallway, George slumped down
Detroit evening times., 1942-12-19

Mondays short story: Winter
Dude" by Marie de Nervaud.
Detroit evening times., 1942-12-19
Daily Shorf Story
Beautiful and Smart
By MARY BRUSH WILLIAMS Louis WHITE fEHR

ITO LOOK AZ Nonique Monaghan
a you'd never think her great
grandfather bad carried a pf0-
dler's bag upon his back Tall and
slender. her features ~ perfect as
a head by PhdiaS NoniQue was 4
true pauician. a couple of gem
erations of good feeding, few
generations of boarding schools
tennis. golf and foreign travel can
do loi m changing The appear
ance of q family S women folk.
Its tough ON 4 girl 70 GONE hack
from a fine school M Switzerland
and find that her family has lost
its money Such a catastrophe
made MoniQQe reallZe -1hA1-A-c
had 10 face a different future.
MoniQue- with tho easy e.aS-
ticity of youth-didn find il too
hard 10 move out OF the Long
Island mansion. and live in the
upper floor OF the garage. Al least
she wasn't stranded like a White
Russian princess IN IStanbuI OF
Shanghai.
Detroit evening times., 1942-12-19

MnfN inc ~ td' WIS .t' va ''''
steamer shook tho salt ar with
It's hoarSe Qry Ma, Woodrow Blair,
The WRITER. producer and cinema
king Only Woodrow Blair today
was Bcppo Alc>>andro then. !
GIFTS \ JOB
A lcw days after nc landed.
Bcppo WAS helping hlS hardy par
ent, pick tomatoes in the FIAT low
country back OF Ncw Jerseys
shore coast cliffs, The New Jersey
climate was too much for Papa
and Mamma AlcSSandro. bat little
Reupo was made OF Steiner stuff.
-t N fITrl TiiTy were t8Id To rest IN
----r- -r1Tw tandf 70 WINCH they had
come 30 hopefully the Garden
STATE 81 New Jersey took over the
AleSSandro orphan and reared hm
m an excellent Institution among
the healthy pines.
II was ln tins pinc-WoodS or
phanaCe that little Bcppo began
10 soak mp The atmosphere OF ms
adopted home The name nc picked
tor himself gives clue 10 ms
character For his FIRST pane bo T,
,chose mat OF the Princeton pro-
fo>Sor and New Jersey governor
Who MAS not only wartime preSl-'
dent of the United States, hul a .
sort of Messiah 10 the peoples OF
the world
And for n name 10 90 with
Woodrow ne chose Blair, one OF
the manorial family names Of New
Jersey.
Early in his career, Woodrow
Blair decided that he was going
TO 90 places. He would be cru
Sader and he would have the out
ward panopy of wealth and power
and position Not for nothing had
Woodrow Blair read The works OF
Horatio Alger. 4
Detroit evening times., 1942-12-19
WooDRoW'S CHANCE

For a time. Woodrow Blair pom
red going back 10 picking toma-
Kodiak mirror., 1942-04-18
Found Gold trimmed glasses. Owner may identify and pay for ad at Mirror office.

FOUND-One small key, near post office. Owner may identify and pay for ad at Mirror office. BPS
Evening star., 1942-05-16
Former Showgir| Tells Of $50
Escaping From Torpedoed Ship

Several people were kiled-two
or three, l believe-when a sixth
lifeboat jammed on it's davits and
crashed against the side Of the
boat"
Others were killed in the engine
room. said Miss Garfield. who ap-
peared in several Broadway shows
early in the century She put the
total fatality list at II.
I'VE got away in the lifeboats. u
she added, land in less than Is
minutes after the torpedo struck
we looked back and saw the good
old ship roll over on her side and
sink.
I'VE picked up other survivors
who were on two or three life-rafts. ("
The lifeboats, she said, were we'll
handled and there was enough food
during the three days and two
nights she spent at sea. On the
third night. her boat was sighted
by a plane and she and the others
were picked up and taken to Ber-
muda.
During the ordeal one man be-
came crazed and jumped into the
water. He was pulled out, but had
drowned.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
Gas Ration CurtaiIed
In Maritime Provinces
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, May 16.-Gasoline ra-
ton for non essential driving in the
Maritimes-the provinces of Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince
Edward Island-Were reduced yes
terday to approximately 2 gallons
per week in order to counteract an
acute shortage.
Drivers who receive go coupons for
the year ordinarily emitting them to
300 gallons under a 5-gallon unit
system now will receive only 120
gallons under 2-gallon coupon
system. Canada uses the imperial
gallon which is one-fifth larger than
the United States gallon0
What can be done for the tourist
beyond the four coupons that he is
given at the border will depend on
circumstances. Munitions Minister
C. D. Howe said in making the
announcement.
IF he has come to Canada simply
for pleasure driving I doubt if any
thing further can be done for him,
but if he is travelling to summer
home in Canada it is probable that
provision can be made to take him
to his home and back again
No change was made in the cou-
pom unit for other parts OF Canada,
and Mr.. Howe expressed hope that
the reduction might be only tenn
porary.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
Kerch in Nazi Hands,
Berlin Says, After
Stubborn Resistance
High Commend Claims
Victory Over Red Army
In Bitter Bottle
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN From German Broad
casts, May 16.-German forces,
beating down stubborn resist
ance," penetrated Kerch yester-
day and now hold both the town
and harbor, the German high
command declared today.
The communique said the Rus
slams still were attacking on the
Kharkov front, but there, 1t de-
clared, they were repelled in hard
fighting" and German counter
attacks were successful"
Up to now, it added, the Rus
slams have lost 180 tanks.
In the far north also. the war
bulletin reported setbacks to at
tacking Red Army forces-in Lap
land, where it said German-Fin-
nish troops isolated and destroyed
a Soviet force in difficult fighting
In woods" and on the Murmansk
front, where it said the Russians
had lost 5000 dead and much ma
terial between April 26 and May
13 in frustrated outfanking at
temps
In Kola Bay of the Russian far
north the German air force was
said to have destroyed one trans
port and damaged merchant ship
The high command covered the
Kerch action in two communiques,
the regular report and an earlier
special announcement. The i'm
portance of the town lay in its
position as a possible stepping stone
toward invasion of the Caucasus
just across narrow Kerch Strait.
The text of the special COM
munique:
After overcoming stubborn re.
sistance German troops yesterday
penetrated into Kerch. The town
and harbor are in German hands
The Russians, who have conceded
making two Withdrawals since the
German drive on Kerch began May
8, gave no hint that the city had
been occupied.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
File Case Defense Plans
To Ask Directed Verdict

A motion for a directed verdict is
expected to be made by defense
counsel Monday in the trial in
District Court of four men and a
woman charged with illegal removal
of civil service personnel records.
Assistant United States Attorney
Charles B. Murray plans to rest the
Government case late Monday
after offering in evidence the last of
13 signed statements given Federal
Bureau of Investigation agents by
the five defendants. AS soon as the
Government rests it is the inten-
ton of defense attorneys to ask
Justice James w. Morris for a di-
rected verdict of not guilty.
The trial already has drifted
through eight days, much of the
time being taken up with legal
arguments over the admiSsibility of
evidence. There was no session of
the court today.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
By the Associated Press.

OAKLAND, Calf. May 16.-The
Philippines and Singapore fell to
the enemy for lack Of ships and I'VE
may lose Australia, perhaps Alaska,
for the same reason" Rear Admiral
J. w. Greenslade warned yesterday.
The commandant of the 18th
Naval District appealed directly to
$4,000 men at the Moore Shipbuild-
ing Co. for their utmost effort in
ship production.
We've got to win this war" he
said. And we will win it. But only
If each one of us does his damndest
and then his double damndest."
Victory or defeat, the admiral de-
clared, hinges largely on our ability
to replace ship losses and build up
a sufficient margin to carry war
goods and supplies to our men on
foreign lands and seas.
It can tell you now that the
building OF ships has become the
most important industry in our war
effort today. And 1t is only fair
to tell you that the ships built up
to the present time are not enough
"War goods are piling up at the
docks on both coasts and are back
ing up at some inland war plants
For example, 10000 military trucks
are standing at single East Coast
port waiting for ships. At one in
Evening star., 1942-05-16
Russia
Continued From First Page.

40 enemy planes and the Kharkov
offensive was declared to be de-
veloping irresistibly The bureau
described German losses as tre-
mendous.
A Kharkov front correspondent
of Pravda wrote that a battle of
armored forces had left one field
"a cemetery OF German tanks.
Guerrillas were reported striking
heavily at withdrawing Nazi units.
Red Star reported that Russian
planes in the Kharkov offensive had
blown up the leading tank of a
long NaZi column to block a road,
silenced anti-aircraft guns by dive
bombing and then reduced more
than go tanks, 100 trucks and
other vehicles to burning and
twisted mass.
German airmen attempted to
intervene, but IA of their planes
we're downed in air duels, Red Star
said. Nazi tank units were reported
since to have been moved in small
groups, utilizing available shelter in
forests and fields.
Tass told of incidents in which
about 1,100 Germans were slain,
but there was no tabulation of
total casualties and Hundreds" of
others were said to have fallen.
Action on Leningrad Front.
Far to the north, Red Army de-
tachments on the Leningrad front
were said to have wiped out 1000
enemy troops in three days and de-
stroyed two field gums, six block
houses ant a torpedo boat.
Scouts operating at the enemy
rear on the central front have
wrecked four enemy army trains
and more than 300 Germans lost
their lives in the clashes. 1t was
said. German materiel losses were
emphasized.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, May 16.-A 57-year-
old former showgirl Of Long Beach,
Calf, Gwen Garfield, related today
how she and 249 men escaped in
lifeboats and RATS when their ship
was sunk by torpedo 200 miles from
Bermuda.
Survivors had previously been
taken to Hamilton, Bermuda, and
Miss Garfield came here by clipper
She was returning on Canadian
vessel from a vacation trip.
The torpedoing occurred about 8
pm.-after dinner" said Miss Can
field, who has another home in
Simcoe. Ontario Il was told that
three submarines were sighted OF
our ship. All of them played lights
on us"
One torpedo whizzed past the
vessel, she said, but second hit the
stern.
She continued:
The boat Immediately lifted, and
there was an explosion.
There was quite bit of excite
ment. A few people leaped into the
sea but the morale was perfectly
splendid. 1 was in one of five life
boats which put out from the ship
Evening star., 1942-05-16
German Infantry General.
World War Hero, Dead
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN F'rom German Broad
casts, May 16-The death of In
fantry Gen. Friedrich Karl Won
Lossberg. who gained fame in the
World War, was announced today.
The German radio said he died
Thursday in Lubbock of inflamma-
ton of the lungs and that Hitler has
ordered state funeral.
Gen. Won Lossberg rose swiftly in
the World War and was an advocate
of the German West Wall "zonal"
defense system. He did not become
a colonel until 1915, but few
months later. at the peak of the
French offensive in Champagne, he
became chief of the general staff
of the Sd Army.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
Browder
Continued From First Page.>

that he would be a valuable fighter
of FaScism il he were free.
Browder. a native of Kansas. long
was active head of the Communist
party in this country and held the
title of general secretary. Twice he
was the party's nominee for the
presidency.
Robert Minor succeeded him with
the title of acting general secretary.
A Justice Department official, re-
calling that Browder lost his civil
rights through his conviction. said
that the Communist leader now
must wait four years and then make
application to the pardon attorney
in the department for restoration
of those rights.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
Battle Is Promised
In House on Joint
Income Tax Returns
Representatives of Nine
Community Property
States Predict Defeat
By the Associated Press.

A drive against proposals COM
pelling joint income tax returns by
husbands and wives started today,
less than "a hours after the House
Ways and Means Committee ap-
proved a modified joint return plan
which Congress rejected last year.
The Treasury says joint returns
would add 3OO,0O00O0 to the Ma
tion's war chest. Quick opposition
developed. however, among law
makers from the nine community
property States of Louisiana,
Texas, New Mexico, Arizona. Cali
fornia, Washington, Oregon, Ne
vada and Oklahoma.
Representative West, Democrat,
of Texas; Gearhart, Republican, Of
California. and other lawmakers
from the nine States predicted they
would be able to defeat the joint
income tax proposal.
Laws of those States provide that
husband and wife have an equal
interest in each others property
and income. Thus if a man made
$4,000 yearly under such laws he
and his wife might file separate
returns for $1,000 yearly each. escap-
ing some of the surtax on high in
comes.
The House defeated the joint in
come tax proposal last year by a
roll call vote of 242 to 160. An at
tempt to restore it in the Senate
failed before a vote was reached.
House committee approval yester-
day was 13 to 10.
The committee yesterday refused
to change the present law which ex-
empts from Federal taxation the in
come from State and local Securi-
ties. 1t voted against making
either outstanding or future issues
subject to tax, although Secretary
of the Treasury Morgenthau said
the step was necessary to raise
5000. 900, 900 and to end the "shel-
tered position" of holders Of such
securities.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
12,lo5 Were Captured
AT Conegidor, Japs Say

=, the Associated Press.
TOXIC From japanese Broad
casts, May 16.-Imperial head.
quarters announced today that a.
495 prisoners had been captured BY
Japanese forces which occupied
Corregidor fortress in Manila Bay
on May 8.
Most Of the prisoners were Amer.
can troops, the announcement said.
CThe War Department in
Washington estimated May 7
that the number of soldiers,
sailors, marines and civilians
captured on Corregidor and
neighboring fortified islands at
the time Of their capture totaled
1l,574)
Headquarters said $40 Of Corregi-
doris defenders were killed in the
battle for the fortress and declared
the Japanese had captured large
quantities Of equipment.