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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-01
BY VERA BROWN

Mother said shortly, but before
dinner went on the table her two
sailor lads raided the icebox.
you'd think the navy didn't
feed you boys ut ALL" she
laughed as they hung over the
stove where the chicken was
frying, and Ferris hooked the
giblets out OF the pan.
Said Wayne:
They feed us, but It's not
like mothers cooking. How
about cutting that apple pie?"
Wayne goes back to the East
Coast Sunday, Ferris to the West
Coast next week.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-01
'Seotty' on Stand
AT Murder Trial

Jack "Scotty" Silverston will
take the stand in his own defense
today to deny charges thathe had
a part in the murder of Sidney
Levine, who was shot in his own
car in August, 1910.
Silverston, 80, and a companion,
David "Schnozz" Bennett, both are
on trial for the murder before q
jury of IL women and one man in
Recorders Judge John J. Makers
court.
On the stand yesterday. Ben
nett denied he had been in the
car with Levine at any time and
claimed he was only a casual ac-
quaintance.
Both Scotty and myself were
In q bar downtown at the time Of
the shooting" he said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-01
Black Gold
42I New Tires Become
Loot of Thieves

Somewhere. presumably in De-
troit, is a loot OF black gold-121
new tires stolen from the Swein-
hart Tire Sales Company, 1857
Gratiot avenue.
The theft was believed to be the
largest tire loot since rubber be-
came a scarcity. The thieves
broke the lock on the rear door of
the firm and escaped with their
precious booty during the night
without being noticed.
Coincident with the break-in,
Inspector Jack Harvill of the auto
squad pointed out that only 1888
tires have been stolen since JAN
uary l, when the offense was made
a serious felony as compared with
/, 1854 during the first four
months of 1941.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-01
Human Flies COMING
With Olympia Circus

Human flies who walk on the
ceiling and performing elephants
are only small part Of the many
attractions that move into Olymr
pia on Friday, May 8, with tina
Great Olympia Circus. i
The circus, the largest one opB
Grating indoors at the present
time. has more than 500 perform,
ers, including the Zacchini Broth
|ers, who are shot out Of a cannon
the length of the arena. The show
will run until Sunday, May IL.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-01
Sunday Night
BIackOut Rules
Wardens Given Blanks TO List
Violations in First Test

(Bioekout instyuetions-PaRe 2S)
Only three days before Detroit's
trial blackout. problem as to who
has authority to call such a black
out was settled once and for all
today by Glenn c. Richards,
civilian defense director here.
After five large county de-
partments wrote Governor Van
Wagner asking where the au-
thority lay. Richards announced
that sanction was given by;
Lit. Col. Daniel E. Squier
sixth corps area OCD chief.
2-Liuet. Col. Harold Furlong
Michigan civilian defense co-ordi.
nator.
3-The Michigan Council of De.
fancn
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-01
INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED

Meanwhile. at a meeting of De-
troit's area air raid wardens, OCD
passed out 100000 in
structions for the blackout, TO be
among res d ent S
throughout the city, while $500
instructions were released
for distribution among the city's
stores and apartment buildings.
The wardens were also given
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-01
.FBI Hunts 1,4B
Lost Track Of
BY Draft Boards
Men Are Believed
10 Be 'Floaters'
and Not Evaders

The Detroit office Of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation today
was seeking 1 ,425 men who have
disappeared from their last known
address since they registered with
selective service boards in eastern
Michigan.
OF this number nearly 1000 are
missing from the Wayne County
boards. Board No. %, which COW
ers the downtown area OF the city.
has lost track of almost 400.
The majority Of the missing men
are not draft evaders, however,
say federal and selective service
officials. They are merely float
ers" who registered here and then
wandered out of town. or persons
who through ignorance or neglect
failed to notify draft boards of a
change Of address.
$500 CASES INVESTIGATED
Since the beginning of selective
service, more than $500 draft
cases have been Investigated by
1.-THE local FBI office. Many of
these cases concerned failure TO
Register for the draft. OF those
who failed for some reason to
answer draft questionnaires or or
ders to report for induction, 1,224
have been located.
The FBI has also investigated
liza conscientious directors, in
each case I@terviewing at least II
witnesses who could testify as TO
the selectee's convictions against
war. Fifty-one of the cases in
Ivolving conscientious directors
have been closed, while the others
are still pending and investigation
is continuing.
To handle the huge task of draft
investigations a number of Omen
have been assigned to this job
alone, but how many are now do
ing this work, officials refuse to
reveal.
EVERY CASE PROBED
Every case k thoroughly
investigated" said Milton Boyd,
acting FBI head. persons who
fail TO respond TO draft board
notices are sought throughout
the country just n any other
person wanted by our Office"
Maj. Paul V. Engstrom, head OF
Wayne County selective service
said he does not consider the mum.
Der of missing registrants a:
alarming.
cit IL q very small percentage
Of the total number of men reg
istered and except In board %
the number In relatively small,
not averaging over 10 men per
board. In some boards every
man In accounted for while In
othes only one or two cannot
be located.
"Many of those who are miss
ing from Board IS are just fell
lows who live I'm downtown flop
houses and move from one place
to another every night and per-
haps leave town within a couple
Of weeks"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-01
u. ). Ends Case
Against Mckay;
'NistridI Asked
Defense Beres Plea
on Newspaper Story;
FBI Head Quizzed

The government today rested It's
case in. the trial of Frank d.
Mckay. former state COP boss,
and 10 others and the defense
attorneys promptly asked that a
mistrial be declared because Of
an article that appeared in a De-
troit morning newspaper.
Judge Shackleford Miller Jr.
delayed ruling on the mistrial mo-
ton while he called the author Of
the article, as well as John S.
Bugas, FBI head here, and other
federal officials In for questioning.
In closing it's case. the govern
ment failed TO produce the second
surprise" witness, previously
promised by Assistant United
States District Attorney George
McNulty
FAIL TO SHAKE STORY
The first and only surprise wit
ness. Kenneth J. Stanford. was
the last government witness on
the stand and his testimony
caused a sensation. A vigorous
cross-examination by defense
counsel failed TO shake Stanford's
testimony.
Stanford. employed by Mckay
I'm the reorganization OF the
Berkey-Gay Furniture Company
in Grand Rapids. testified that
Mckay told him in 1885 that he
controlled the state liquor COM
Amission and had a contract with
vendors under which he was paid
81 case on liquor sold the state.
In November, 1885. Stanford
testified Mckay asked him 10 go
TO New York with him where he
was going TO collect SOS. 900
commission from the Schenley
liquor company.
RECORDS INTRODUCED
But William Henry Gallagher,
counsel for Mckay introduced
official liquor commission records
today 10 show that as of Jan. !,
1896, the Schenley company had
sold only $4,000 cases to the state.
Asked how TO account for the dis
crepancy between the figure al
legedly paid and the number OF
cases sold the state, Stanford
teplied:
81 know nothing about the
facts. All I know IL what Nc
Kay told me-"
did you make o statement
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-01

blanks for listing of violations
during the test set for from 10 10
1915 p. m. Sunday night. The
wardens' reports will be studied
by OCD officials and then sub
mitted to police for prosecution of
offenders.
With an insufficient number of
%, 900 air raid wardens ready for
duty, hurried arrangements were
being made to patrol the $4,000
city blocks.
MOST PRESSING PROBLEM
The most pressing problem was
finding an adequate number OF
wardens for the downtown district
where few people make their
homes.
II was believed settled, however
at meeting of Charles <. Boyd
secretary of the Retail Merchants
Association; j. w. Watson of the
II otel Operators Association;
Frank II. O'Connell. business prop.
erty defense co-ordinator, anc
Frank M. McLaury, chief warden
On Watson's suggestion. il wa!
decided to provide wardens fol
night duty from the permanent
residents of downtown hotels anC
from the wardens who can bt
spared from other districts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-01

For the Inside News" Of
Washington, Follow Paul NAL
Ions Column I'm the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-01
you would get even with Nc
Kay." Gallagher asked.

my Snlid6hCi dShtN'
Stanford said he had not. but
under further questioning admitted
he had sued Mckay and the Ber-
key-Cay company for $4,000
after he was discharged and had
finally settled the suit for $4,000.
Questioned on other phases of
his testimony. Stanford frequently
replied that he knew nothing Of
the facts. but testified 10 what
Mckay told me-"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-04
. BARBS

The real feminine touch right
now is a fur coat.
At last braggarts come into
their own, With gas and tire
shortage, about all their is left
to do is blow your horn!
The person always blazing up
in anger seldom sets the old
world afire!
Lost OF people packed up their
troubles in an old kit bag-and
gave 'em TO the scrap metal
drive.
Well, the new liquor tax is in
effect. Another way for Uncle
Sam to keep his shirts up!
A professor says the radio has
cut down the number OF di-
vorces. Business of putting mar
riage on a sound basis.
A small helping is plenty
when you're getting a piece OF
mind.
Marriage broadcns a man -
and also makes him short.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-04

We are engaged in an about
war to keep democracy alive.
Democracy survives through the
courage and fortitude and wis
dom of many gener on S
of fighting Americans. And that
includes using not only bullets,
but ballots. - President Roose-
welt.
To heed the voices of some
candidates for office would lead
us to believe that one particular
party had a corner on all the
patriotism in the country.-Illi-
nois public official.
We shall never forget the aid
America gave Britain in its
darkest hour. - British Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden.
Eddie will turn up. He's too
old q hand to get lost in any air.
plane now.-Mrs. Eddie Ricksn-
hacker.
America, our own country, is
the worlds last citadel of lib
erty. What we do here at home,
and what our boys do on the
battlefields ut this crucial time
will decide the future Of the
world, possibly for thousand
years. - Gov. Dwight II. Green,
of Illinois.
Nothing can be said against
Alexander's British first lord of
admiralty claim because it is
pretty near the truth. - Berlin
news agency commenting on re-
ported loss of $50 U boats in
war.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-04
BY PETER EDISON

With five first line govern
ment war agencies now having
q thumb stuck in the pie of ma
tional food supply, the only
plum that can possibly be pull
ed out by the Good Boy in the
White House is eventual ap-
pointment of q food administra-
tor to control not only the grow
ing and processing of the in
gradients, but the delivery, the
serving and the eating of the pie
as we'll. inca Donald Nelson has
had a recommendation to this
effect filed with the President
for some days now, but there
the matter is stymied.
In the meantime, the problem
of growing enough food crops
is in the hands of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, the fur
nishing of farm labor is theo-
retically in the hands of the War
Manpo wer Commission, the
manufacturing and processing OF
food is in the hands of the War
Production Board, the moving OF
food crops is in the hands OF the
Office of Defense Transporta-
ton, and distribution is in the
hands of the Office of Price Ad-
ministration.
Over all this there is within
the War Production Board a
Food Requirements Committee
under the craftsmanship of Sec
rotary of Agriculture Claude B.
Wickard. The Food Require
ments Committee was announc-
ed last June and at the time 1T
was assumed this was to be the
central food authority OF the
United States. Nine agencies
were represented on the COM
mittee, which seemed to- give
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-04

In his youth, Groesbeck ROOM
ed and roistered with o. Henry,
whose stories he illustrated for
the old Hampton's Magazine. He
has been newspaper cartoon
list, reporter, race driver, sailor,
beachcomber, faro dealer and
soldier of the Canadian lost
battalion in Siberia during the
last war. He drove the first
automobile from New York to
Chicago in 1903, shoveling many
of his own roads, and beating the
celebrated Barney Oldfield to
the finish line. His time was
five weeks.
A Denver newspaper once as
signed him to a balloon ascension
for the purpose of measuring the
height of Pixies Peak. The bal
loon cracked up, Dan was hurled
into a ravine, and the professor
in charge of the expedition
wound up hanging from a tree
limb, which Dan says served
him right.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-04

split. The ace of hearts picked
up the king, and the ten of hearts
was led back, covered by the
jack, and ruffed by South.
While it was clear that Q heart
trick could be established in
dummy, the problem was to get
back there to make it. Declarer
solved the problem neatly. He
cashed the ace of diamonds, then
ruffed a diamond with dummy's
last trump. When the nine Of
hearts was led and covere d,
South discarded a diamond. East
had nothing left but hearts, so
he himself had to return the
suit to dummy's eight-spot, on
which South got rid of his last
diamond.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-04
JUST WALK, PAL

COLUMBIA, Mo. - The rub
Der situation may bring old dob
bin back, but
If you lead, ride or drive
horse on any of Columbia's
streets, you're breaking law.
City Attorney A. D. Sapping-
ton, preparing to revise city or
dinances, also learned it is un-
lawful to wash a horse on city
street or to hitch him to fire
plug or lamp post.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-04
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON


Every now and then we get a
yen to write a book, and this
week it's Trapped in Holly
wood: the Life of Dan Sayre
Groesbeck." The reason we
have never let you in on Dan
before is that he used to be pref
ty touchy about publicity. 1t
seemed that every time he would
inadvertently appear in print as
a prominent artist who had just
sold something, an old friend
would turn up and start putting
the bee on him, and Dan, who is
sucker for old friends, would
pry himself loose from a sizable
chunk of his commission.
But this situation has now
been Strengthened out-never
mind how-and Dan says it'll be
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-04
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

1t the necessary distinction and
front to make 1t the real tops for
winning friends and influencing
the right people.
In the five months of its ex-
istence the Food Requirements
Committee has in weekly meet
ings and in between times bold
ly tackled such problems as ade-
quate supply Of farm machinery,
increasing the capacity of plants
to dry milk and dehydrate meat,
etc.
II seems, however, that when
ever the Food Requirements
Committee would make a rec
ommendation on what to do
about supplying farmers with
machinery, this recommendation
would have to go to some iron
and steel ALLEGATION branch or
some machinery branch of War
Production Board, where 1t
would be held up for some
weeks to make sure that this
manufacture of more farm ma
chinery wouldn't interfere with
the manufacture of something
else. In most cases it did, and a
stalemate resulted.
AUTHORITY LACKING
Now this may have been nee
essary, but while it was being
done the food programs had to
stand still. In other words, this
begins to look a little like the
we'll known wartime Washington
runaround. The Food Require
ments Committee has no author
ity of its own. 1t can only rec
ommend. So a new organization
must be set up which will have
the authority to step in and get
action.
This situation has developed
many times in the last couple
of years. The National Defense
Advisory Committee had to be
replaced by OPM and SPAB and
finally WPB with one man in
charge as boss. The Housing Co.
qrdinator's job had to be re-
placed by a complete reorgani-
cation of housing agencies with
one man in charge as boss. The
rubber muddle had to be inves-
tigated and fought over and fl
nally reorganized with one man
in charge as boss. The govern
ment's information service had
to be reorganized. The War Man
power Commission is now in
the throes of being reorganized
by law.
In this process Of shaping up
a food administration there Is,
as you might suppose, the usual
Washington push-pull as to who
shall run the show. Mr.. Nelson's
as yet unanswered letter to the
President recommended that the
food administration be set up
within the War Production
Board. 1t might, however, be
given to Justice Jimmy Byrnes'
new Office of Economic Stabili-
cation.
POWER WANTED
Office of Price Administration
has a Foods Price Division, ex-
panding rapidly under A. G.
Hoffman, formerly a principal
economist with Department of
Agriculture. Department Of Az
riculture men would like to see
Secretary Wickard and the pres
ent Food Requirements Com
mittee given more power.
The food processing industry
is building bonfires all over the
place to have man from their
industry named to the job.
In the meantime, here is a
nice job waiting for the right
man. Let's see. The last man
who was food administrator, a
fellow named Herbert Hoover,
got to be President, didn't he?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-04
MORE ADVENTURES

On another newspaper assign
ment, he went along with kind
of seagoing dirigible-a huge in
flated rubber bag which its in
ventor thought would blow
across Lake Erie and show up
the steamboat. The dirigible hit
some Wreckage and was torn to
ribbons and again Dan barely es-
capped with his life.
In his time he also covered the
Iroquois Hotel fire in Chicago;
the Eastland and General Slocum
disasters, and the San Francisco
fire. Beachcombing in Bali, he
managed to pick up touch Of
beri-beri which is still with him.
And coming home from Vladi-
vostok aboard a troop ship after
the last war he had the distinc-
ton of being thrown into the
brig by Raymond Massey.
DeMille has been trying to put
Dan under contract for years,
but Dan won't be tied down, a
trait which he claims to have in
herited from a burro he had as
boy.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-04
. IN HOLLYWOOD
all right to admit that he's still

all right to admit that he's still
alive.
Dan Sayre Groesbeck has a
canvas in the Luxembourg, or
had before Goering got there. He
also has one in the indianapolis
Museum and another in the Syr-
acuse Museum; he did the fam
Gus murals in the Hotel Del
Monte and those in the Santa
Barbara Courthouse.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-04
DETECTIVE DETECTED

EMPORIA, Kas.-Everythlng
looked suspicious all right. The
stranger sat in his parked car
while Police Chief Charles o.
Brien's men sized him up.
Finally they hauled him in.
He had papers to prove he
was a visiting detective trying
to trail an evil doer.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-04
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
by the Associated Press
TEAM WORK

by the AssoctAeo fress
TEAM WORK
ELKHART, Ind.-City detec-
tives solved a series of burglar
les here with basketball plays
and here's how that trick was
done:
Investigating a restaurant bur-
glary, officers found a set OF
basketball plays. On a tour OF
county schools they found the
coach who had issued copies OF
the plays to his team.
The boys were told to turn in
their copies and the youth who
was unable to do so quickly
pleaded guilty to the restaurant
job and several others.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-04
HEAVY VOTE

ALAMEDA, Idano-The vote
was too heavy in one precinct
yesterday. Citizens thronged in
to the village hall. The floor
gave way and fell two feet to
the ground. No one was hurt.
Election officials rig h t e d
their equipment, and carefully
rationed their voters thereafter.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-04
. MIND YOUR
MANNERS

Test your knowledge Of
correct social usage by an
swering the following ques-
tons, then checking against
the authoritative answers
below:
/. If friend offers to pick
you up in his car and take you
to work, should you be ready ut
the exact time?
2. Should a boy ask q girl il
she objects before he invites an
other couple to double-date with
them?
3. If an older person drops
something and there is q much
younger person nearby, should
he quickly pick it up?
4. If a woman Is having q
cocktail with a man should she
give her order directly to the
waiter or tell her escort what
she wants?
5. Should a woman thank the
man who lights her cigaret?
What would you do if
You are smoking q cigaret a.
you step on an elevator
(a) Go on smoking It?
(b) Put it out before you get
on the elevator?
Answers
I. Yes.
2. Yes.
3. Yes.
4. She should tell her escort
what she wants and let him or
der.
5. Yes.
Better what Would You Do"
solution-(b)
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-04
LAMENTs STATE OF ART

At the moment, however, he
laments that the moderns are in
the saddle, artistically speak
ing. Groesbeck, despite his trim
though battered figure, his thick
shock of iron-gray hair and his
youthful sense Of humor, is 62
wears old.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-11-04
McKENNY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM e. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority

When the bidding started off
on this hand, I thought North
and South would get to Q slam.
but they managed to stop in
time. West picked his best lead.
and East led three rounds OF
trumps. South was left with two
diamond losers. He cashed the
to- clubs but the s''it f"'"d to
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1942-02-14

NEW YORK-Dr. Mary Mcleod
Bethune. here to fill speaking en-
sagements this week, was the
Wneheoh-euesi- OF MTs.-Jehn Hope
and Mrs. James Weldon Johnson