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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-17
WHO WAS SIN .

"Ol,aN. Cassidy, Doug can GER
tainlv use that five hundred
No. won't be- in till morn
ing
Scott hung up and walked close
90 the girl
SAY" he began Then he
stopped >hou Tel me, my
child. are Your eyes blue or
green or slate gray ."
Then bo went ON hurucdly.
Just what i'm heck have YOU
been mp to. Young lady : Why
this frantic flight in the night?
" hat
Il thought sou Knew. You
said YOU did. Didnt my father
send Nou--Ncrcnt YOU talking
60 my father Just now 80
our lthcr.'.~.ptt cNplodCd.
"GollN, uO. Why OF earth
should he talking To your
father
rHc gl looked bcwlIdcrcc
Apcr = moment She said
II ran away from home to-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-17

night. He'S-he'S not my real
dad. Just my Stepfather and
told YOU he has hated me for
years. was IL today and free
ut last--lf ! could get awaM
lie locked me i'm.
II worked for hours. broke
the lock and helped myself 10
$50 from his drawer. Ii was
really my money-but never
mind that. l was lucky TO get
out and on To the highway.
When reached the Condor I
was pretty much all in" She
paused, her lips trembling but
her voice steady.
I'm going West tomorrow.
But now-do YOU mind calling
my aunt. Her"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-17

name" he said quickly as he
caught protest in her eyes.
THAT coffee shop next door
looks good 10 me. You need
food. young lady. Food"
And then nc added with appar-
ent irrclcvance,
NO use heading west on $50.
II wouldn't even get YOU To
Denver. know a job that's
just made for you here In Chi
cago. 4 swell job. Let's talk
II over.
lie began steering her gently
but firmly towards the door.
THE END.
TomOrrow's short story: Fair
Play" by Marie de Nervaud.
Mercy Flight. When Two Air
men Love n Glamour Girl. and
She Tempts Fate With an Emo
tional Lie. what Happens?
You'll Find the Dramatic An
swcr in n Gripping Romance. by
n. Vernon Dixon. Nell-know
Author. in the American Weekly,
Great MagaZine Distributed
With Next Sundays issue Of
The Detroit Sunday Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-17

tho roll and more than half OF tho
Gun OF coffee. she sad.
I'm going Ia the Hotel
Clarendon. somewhere near
Eortieth and Michigan. think.
My-my aunt lives there" she
added and then he saw fear
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-17
REACHED CHICAGO

Where was u She had said that
hotel was And what wcrc his
plans? He couldn't stall much
longer Time was getting short.
lie had crossed Thlrty-tirSt
when hc felt her hand on his and
heard her voice.
You know who ann"
lie nodded
sure. do"
She caught hcr breath.
How could YOU"
Scott glanced sharply at tho
uptUrncd face beside him
What in heavens name made
YOU do it," he murtcred.
HIS world was spinning again
When ne rallied ms plans were
made. lie was once more Nyron
Scott newly appointed to tho
Office of tht chief.
There was nothing else 10
do Her voice was bleak lie
---hc hated me"
WAS that reason enough
"NhN not? couldn't go on
forever and I'm free of him now
free ot him--w hateNer hap
pens. I'm glad--glad--." Her
- broke and she was silent.
~NN HOTEL AHEAD
-f..r Scott drcw close "a
...'#H and aV jrc Clarendon
... .-r'CI sign dim an the
.""- iHu.
l.r NH'ri nothing 90 much as
fo .'f.e .p e' 'I. -.lo'u 90 the road
I t. .rr '.u her story. no
ma'ert ilar aui ugly u might
hr p Esr Vaa'l that help? Facts
talked and ha aaG thorn. and ~,
m3,trarry @glt with hj, plans
Iu 'ro front Office Of the oliIsh
uHa~~JWus hotel Pc asked her.
- your aunt expecting YOU ."
go" She sUt Watching him
closely with clg> that were WaI%
and alert
Wait here It'll I phone llc
drew a char for hc close 20 the
desk. IN m> line OF vision HlU-
mwrd something 10 the Office
clerk and picked up thc dc~k
phone
I'm q T9urn,trc had the chIDf
office and was talking ~ Cassidy
9r. az fhp cuol s. a>>.~'ant-
What's that Nou saN ."
~oJou- uDs.G lol'Iu'H
Condor Caic I-t. - UWu',- ago.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-17
HELPED HER IN

She was waiting by the door
WREN he pulled up in front Of II
and jumped out 10 help her into
The car. She smiled in frank
pleasure as he closed the door be-
side her and hurried around 10
Slip in back of the wheel lie
.>tcclcd himself again. Some little
actress; simple mgcnue stuff. She
should he in Hollywood.
He headed east on the highway,
holding his car STEADY against a
driving wind. Rain dashed the
windshield and~tAc viper ground
monotonouSly back and forth.
For a while neither spoke. and
then because, more than anything,
he wanted 10 hear the sound of
her voice. he said:
Whats happened. anyway?
Tell me. what's the big trouble ?
You're IN a jam. Maybe / can
help YOU
lIo felt her Stiffen beside him,
but she did not answer.
Miles sped past them and the
traffic grew heavier He reached
the loop in Chicago and turned
south on Michigan avenue
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-17
STEELS HIMSELF

Gosh he thought. the girl
is scared TO death, and I'm the
one who's going to turn her
over"
He tried 10 remember certain
ugly details of an ugly crime, tho
crime for which She was being
hunted. Those details should
steel him for the thing he had 10
do. one thing was certain. II
was incumbent on him 10 he mat
ter-of-fact and very casual 1
would take 50 little 10 rouse he
suspicious
On an impulse he SAID.
You look a. If you'd been out
In the fog for quite some while.
Were YOU walking ."
Running. most Of the way.
I've just come from aurora.
about three miles from here"
He rose.
Lets start If you're in
hurry"
You're sure YOU have the
time >" Her eyes Frightened
with relief and her voice was al
most natural now. She might
have been Just a nclghbor girl
who lived next door. only
lovely unbelicvably lovely
"MOre time than anything
else" he assured her, and told
himself Grlmly that thus waS
true More time than sense, at
at any rate.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-17
WAIT AWHILE

Let's wait awhile for that"
Scott interrupted.
lie was smiling with shameless
Clcc Five hundred dollars II
was really a great old world when
a man could lose $500 and feel as
II he'd won a million
II don't even know your
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-17

What did mirror
steadily
combing? Have there been ac scalp
ch ~ badly %
uhen
Nourh Consul Is rec.
exa tell tar
has what u II
An uohu.
abb be
quickly slight cost No accepted Tor
BE on
Grorgc TO-DAY. siT have hair Co. y
{ Dat of ii45 Gr,ioid
Of old
HoUfs Wskdal
A. ~. to p. 10 a " TO p " Out Of ovu
pssisrs Ter free Scalp AnolJss Chart
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-17

md young and easy 20 look a.
Nab her on sight. she may b.
desperate. Don't forget ITS easier
"a kill 4 second time
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-17
Daily Short Story
Purely CircumstanciaI'
By PATIENCE HALL

50 This was INC XII. Wy ..'
Scott Sa' 'au' ana n'"rNo.''
his quite i''r'd'o'' l.''N -
fas his hTS' aaF 'o ''' ,'''' >
fhoe and here was p "''''' '' .''S-
ng the eII 70 MS a,''>i ...''"'
able.
'us' cup " ''''''
oa",,o,s 80, 10 l~-o so W..
-, ,..s,.i..~
c.. ~ ,,,,r,.. ..,4 r,- ,r..,,
80 g.. o.. f-s-o5 +, G,-,,
u,'''N ''''
clio" cur i'' "''' ''o '''
put only a dark KIT ,I' on >08'1>
kool. She showed every C0 a.
HAVING vsll-cs -sr.sly ,r--.-- tra
-.
oteH-h--- L.
Scott buried himself in ms pa2'.
Ind was quite CorvincinCly
ksSisI direr ~ the cafe Condo.
[J..5.,.....,, - ,o.l 10, ro~
oN4U''' - > ~ -,
hair was pale &fi2~and heG e\ts
|late 1y and~ts,si She Was sim
Ind volnc and easy ~ look AZ.
Nsb bor -, .oh, Soo NAV -,
...-.
desperate. Ion L Io' -'' 1t ; ''S'' )
10 -k4u- second +-F2AI
Mar IN SIGHT
,.....--.
He stared hard At inc head
lines and could rot have told what
he read Nah her on sight. Leila
h,,co peu..rd S,oo AID now
- - - 80, ~,
We ssoS III 10 % C-,,,5 80 w. 49,.
$500.
x,-.,--,...,. IN n.
IA, o - 49, .nS o RE ~, oTsce well
,nr,nn al rich,"
.,nai1 har,inr 10 t,ou,,od
a s.r.;rL - .-''' - bic - ard
IL. LIZ GO s. e. 80 30 folt 49,
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w. -, u,, ,o.,,,r Co,-,.s,.,,
ne 81 w. 800 80 "a 49,. 90. VI
- 80 80. &c - ~, -
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.1I I.iieu va - p,,.a,do o. eS 90
~ a.e ,: .IT IA, U ,n.;"i',, Ill ~''
voice. II must get away from
here-at once v - -,
oCoIt eyes sun neIu ,'ci :.
sLlPPeu liiIi anu tx
Ell MS "oliu spliiniIs, loPSy-
|ulN! ~ u'uil , rIIaNe se,.se'
lazy 20 loon az inc e"l was
pedu,iIul. -.
nave YOU car she re-
Se.su u. eeHuS'
.ee' o,. .,
AIe you soi"s mo = nloaso
oco,' ioIued ms pdPtI anu
Iosseu IL on lhe eii!P'H olidAl nc
zoe MN me Cillei ; "oIoS came
'don 70 nun. - ~,
nhe u w heAulnG .u'o = NJ
cago; SICK AROUND INC are
onuor. her DoN IrIenu mas haii
in. .'. ~ 'he p,ace' -.
nc III u / = H. iie
'ho . IN r.,
I've e"t !" 'a'A' I've Eo' !"
10 so'ne'hlis' ,
Du' ile sun Sa' anu 81 o' Iu'
FACE LIGHT DIED
Slowly the light died out of the
AIDED and left a frozen mask.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-17
Nab on SIGHT

He stared harI AZ the head
ines and could not have told what
he read. Nab her on sight. Leila
Brice. Reward $500. Ard now
he was sitting across from HIM
Reward $500. He could hear his
trends:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-17

would have TO follow her and got
her That was his Job. She's a
killer. and don't forget it. Lordy,
couldn't he forget what the chief
had said oven for minute?
His first day on tho job. Five
hundred reward. But such a slip
of a girl. He shook himself
anCrIly Is he wheeled the car
around and headed for the road
house door. Was he going off the
deep end? Young Myron CCott-
IuSt promoted 10 the office of the
ChIcf
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-17

Tomorrow's short story: Fair
Play" by Marie de NerNaud.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-23
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

1t would seem better in lead
ing from any short holding to
try to indicate at once that it is
short, rather than to try to save
one situation in which the ten
lead is necessarily ambiguous.
l am frequently asked if it is
correct to lead the middle card
from certain three card holdings.
What usually happens is that my
correspondent, Mr.. A., has seen
such a .ead made by Mr.. B, and
upon being questioned, MIR. B
insists that the middle card is
the only correct lead. Mr.. A
then writes TO me. / have to re-
ply that the lead may be correct
for Mr.. B but probably is not for
Mr.. A.
The reason for this answer is
that in certain parts of the
country, the players use a con-
vention called 1.-The three-card
echo" This involves a different
system of leads from short
holdings and different system
of responses.
If you are using this system in
all its phases, then it is correct
for you TO lead a middle card,
but it is foolish to single out
one point of the system, practise
that, and expect to be understood
by the vast majority of players
who use the system of leads I
have outlined i'm these articles.
/ do not want to argue the merits
OF the "three-card echo" as
against the more universal sys-
tenn, but l do say that the player
has to follow one system or the
other in its entirety.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-23

mad and slapped someody else.
Thomas did order them back, and they
went.
Yet so childish performance
makes the heart sick at time when
men are dying. literally dying, for the
lack of oircroft whose production was
thus held up The JAW. is not direct
Iy to blame, of course. for no resPon-
sibIe union Official would countenonce
a stoppoee in days like these for SO in
fontile q cause. But it does prove that
the business as usual" psychology is
common to all groups.
1t was not an auto workman who
qot slapped in this little trogi-comedy.
1t was some soldier crouched in fox
hole in Botoon.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-23

'Stotes government hesitotes to
extend recognition.
Since PeorI Horbor, the
United Stotes hos token two
definite steps to did Koreans.
Their nationals who have pre-
viousIy registered as koreons
ore excluded from clossifico-
ton as enemy aliens, and the
funds of these Korean nation
OILS were freed from freezing
orders. Austrian nationals in
the United Stotes have been
given the same consideration
and by these steps q stort los
been made toward Free Aus
trio and Free Korea move
ments.
But do the q million Ko-
reons want independence now?
After all, it is pointed out, the
Koreans have been Japanese
subjects for nearly 40 yeors. To
this the ....oreon potriots reply
that their civilization goes
back AZ centuries and 40 years
can't destroy what 42OO years
built up.
Then it is asked if, granting
that the Koreans do want in
dependence, do they want the
government Of Kim Koo ond
Synemon Rice? Maybe the ko-
reons want q government MOI,
to the left or more to the right
or O eovernmnt mode up Of
only those Koreans who have
lived at home all through the
occupation.
Then there is kiIsoo Ham,
another Korean patriot who
admits he wos on oeent Of the
japanese secret service at one
time, and bored from within to
set up q Korean revolutionary
movement Of his own. The
whole potential Korean fifth
column ond independence
movement is therefore con-
fused. II the Chi; ,ese govern
ment would recognize koo-.
If Rhee and Hoon and the
OF her Independent potriots
could get together. Rhee
hopes his conference will do
the trick.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-23

said pal, sis that nobody has
strangled him."
After wangling his way to the
position of drama critic on
New York tabloid, he came here
and became a $50-a-week pres
agent on the Warner lot. His
critical faculty almost ruined
him at the start, when the pub
licity staff sat in on private
preview of new picture. OAR
ryl Zanuck was the Wonder Boy
at that time, and on the way
out the producer asked the UNI
derlings if they had any sug-
gestions for cutting the feature.
1.-The only thing to do to that
picture" piped Krasna, lis take
a pair of scissors and cut the film
lengthwise."
He was good press agent,
and sometimes even had to be
restrained. Shortly before the re-
lease of Little Caesar" his boss
made the horrifying discovery
that Krasn was planning to
drive past Edward G.. Robinson's
house and spray the joint with
real bullets from a real machine
gun.
ZANUCK BOILS
In his spare time, Krasna
wrote Louder Please" satiri-
cal play about Hollywood, and
sold it on Broadway. When Zan-
uck read the notices and heard
that all the studios were bidding
for it, he blew up in a TRADE
against the authors "disloyalty,"
declaring it should have been
submitted to Warmers. AS mat
ter of fact, Louder Please" had
been offered to the studio and
turned down,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-23
. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

Within a short time after his
winow-jumping exit, Norman
Krasna was the fair-haired boy
at Columbia. The work palled,
and among the efforts he made
to get fired was script he wrote
about a horse that talked in free
verse. Another was comedy for
Wheeler and Woolsey called $50
This Is Africa" 1T was the dirti-
est screen play ever written"
Krasna recalled, "a combination
of 'Tarzan' and Design for Liv-
ing The Hays Office cut it to
the size of a two-reeler."
When Krasna finally won a
release from his contract,
through a campaign of calculat-
ed insults, he became a happy
free-lance writer and sole many
excellent stories. At the age of
"a he had the longest Rolls
Royce in town.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-23
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

In my previous article ex-
planned that in opening blind
from a tripleton, the lowest card
is the correct lead if the holding
is topped by ace, king or queen
(without a second honor in Sc
quence).
With any less strength at the
top, the top card is usually led
in order to disclose at once that
the holding is short and has no
high card in support of a return
lead by partner.
The blind lead of ten usual
" indicates an interior Sc
quence, such as K-10-9-2, or O.
1892. To preserve this reading,
we lead the deuce, not the ten.
from 1892, against no trump.
Some players for the same
reason prefer the lead of the
deuce from holding No. So. But
this is pressing a principle to
extreme. After all, we lead the
ten from 1882, 1922 and
1912, none of which has a higher
honor.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-23
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYW WOOD, Feb. %
About nine years ago a skinny,
bespectacled young man named
Norman Krasna took leave of
Warner Brothers. A Tuning ex-
ecutive pointed to the door and
indicated it would be all right
with him if Krasna never dark
ened that particular threshold
again.
To prove his hearty concur
renee in this feeling, Krasna
jumped out the window and
went away from there. 1t was,
of course, a ground-floor office.
He returned the other day, and
it would be great to report that
he climbed back through that
window, but the offices all have
been changed around. Besides,
Krasna holds no grudge; he
holds, instead, contract saying
he will be paid 100000 to write
and direct four pictures.
TOO TALKATIVE
This is a comfortable but not
fantastic wage for him, because
he always has done very we'll for
himself. Seven years after he
left an $18-a-week job behind
a necktie counter in New York
department store basement,
Krasna became a writer-produc,
err for Metro at $1,000 a week.
He was q at the time and SEEM
ed to have fulfilled the designa-
ton of Wonder Boy.
But Krasna is too outspoken,
too restless, and too fond of
puncturing egos to become a
movie tycoon. 1.-THE only Won
derful thing about Norman,
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-23
FLASHES
OF
LIFE
BY the Associated Press
COLLECTORS PARADISE

F o r T LEAVENWORTH,
KAS.,-"Line up here; pass up
your papers; no smoking in this
building" barked the corporal at
the prospective draftees taking
their physical examinations.
Nov, one thing more. Any
of you got any paper match
folders?"
The IS neophytes gave.
Thanks" responded the
match-la laden corporal. I'm max
ing a collection of these things,
but didn't get much variety I'M
ii, landed in the army"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-23
DOUBLE ACTION

IL, CALlr .-OH-
improved city lots taken over by
the state for non payment of
taxes, 5000 of them in Los An
geles county alone, will be put
to work to produce vegetables
for home consumption as an aid
TO the war effort.
Prospective gardeners can
have the use of them at 81 per
lot, the fee to 60 toward main
tanning necessary records.
A byproduct of the plan
Estate officials hope) will be
elimination of many unsightly
weed patches that have consti-
tuted fire and traffic hazards.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-23
High|iehts from
the Latest Books

Virtually everyone In the
United States would agree that
life is better under freedom and
democracy than under tyranny
and totalitarianism. We look at
the kind of life the axis powers
are trying to force on the world.
and we say with other battlers
for freedom, Better to die on
your feet than live on your
knees"
But is our way better in any
absolute sense, or are we merely
condemning system as being
less good than our own merely
because 1t is totally different?
The task of proving our way bet
ter, not only relatively but abb
solutely by any common stand
ard of measurement that can be
applied, Is assumed by w. T.
STAGE in THE Destiny of Western
Man" (Reynal e. Hitchcock: $3).
BY western man" and west
ern civilization" STAGE means
those peoples whose way Of liv-
ing is based on morals and ethics
derived from the teachings Of
Plato and Christ. To Plato, he
sets forth, we owe our inclina-
ton to rely ON reason; to Christ
we owe the power of sympathy
with other men and women; and
to both that sense of the infin-
lite value of the individual from
which comes the free democratic
institutions we hive set up to fos-
ter it.
All this is challenged today.
The totalitarian regimes are not,
he makes clear, merely an effort
to achieve somewhat similar
goals by different means. They
are a complete reputation Of
our very goals. Hence, it is idle
to criticise the techniques Of
these systems (such as lack Of
individual liberty and so on)
when, according to the axis
thesis, such things are not de-
sirable either as means or as
ends. Schopenhaur and Metz
sche are the teachers whose
words replace for the totalitar-
ians the words of Plato and
Christ; the will for power re-
places both. reason and sympa-
thy.
".... the struggle of our west
ern democratic civilization to
maintain itself against the men,
ace of our antagonists Is justi-
fled by the nature of man." the
author affirms. 1--WE can be-
lieve, on good and rational
grounds, that our ideals are
rooted in reason and goodness,
that they are worth defending
because they are right and true,
because they are actually the
noblest and greatest ideals
which human beings have yet
found in the world. And we may
further fortify our faith that in
the end our cause must triumph,
not because it is ours, but be-
cause 1t Is just"
This book, winner of $500
prize from the publishers, Is q
timely antidote for some of the
plausible fragments of Metz
schean philosophy which even
reasonable men occasionally
swallow, and an arsenal Of phil
osophical ammunition for any
defender of the free way of life
who can persevere through 31l
pages made heavy not by man
uer but by matteI.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-23
PERHAPS AND MAYBE

POCATELLO, lDAHO - he
porters sounded out F. M. Brist-
line, speaker of the House, on
rumors he would run for the
United States Senate.
The answer, it seems, is yes
and no.
II wouldn't say definitely
that l will be a candidate, but ]
wouldn't say definitely that
won't be one. In these days, times
are too unsettled to make any
flat statements"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-23
Q FROM
THE MONITOR
FILES .
20 YEARS AGO TODAY

1892
Sylvester Widrig returned
from the east Monday, after a
visit of three weeks.
George S. Tucker Is home
from Dakota to escape the Sc
verify of the winter. His wife
accompanied him.
.
IS YEARS AGO TODAY
1887
Miss Minnie S. Green Of Ne
gaunee, Mich. is visiting with
Mrs. Jos. Schanher.
We received q PLEASANT visit
from Thee. Z. Quin',y. state edi-
tor Of the Free Pres, yesterday.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-23
! ylDlo cor SLAPPED

~ xesy least R. J. Thomas, head
sltod Auto Workers. could do
W back to work men who
~ ptodsction Of essential
- botouos somebody GOT