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The Hagerstown globe., 1942-06-26
THE FOUR HIGH DUTIES
FOR EVERY AMERICAN

AS we move forward toward
realizing the Four Freedoms, it
is my belief that every free
dom, every right, every privi-
lege has it's price, it's CORE
spending duty without which it
cannot be enjoyed.N
The four duties Of the peoples
revolution are these:
1. The duty to produce to the
limit.
2. The duty to transport as
rapidly as possible to the field
of battle.
8. The duty to fight with all
that is in us.
4. The duty to build a peace
just, charitable and enduring
(Henry A. Wallace, Vice-Presi
dent of the United States.
The Hagerstown globe., 1942-06-26

he had found an ace money raiser
in Colby Chester, 62-year-old board
chairman of General Foods Cor
pOration. An admirer Of Martin
Chester tentatively agreed to take
the job after a long talk between
them.
But last week he sent his regrets
saying that ratiOning, price con-
troll and loss of key assistants
forced him to devote all his time
to his giant company. General
Foods president, Clare Francis,
and Charles Mortimer, advertising
manager, are dollar-a-year WPB
officials.
The Hagerstown globe., 1942-06-26

either in the planning of the ma
ton defenses or the postwar per-
iod."
The speech. according to the
New York Times, also charged that
Mr.. Dewey land his friends" er-
Trained from lending any help" to
the lease-lend bill, and that the
honor Of the Republican party,
despite "appeasers and straddlers"
within it, was saved on this pro-
gram by the help of men like Rep
resentative Wadsworth.
But / think our Republican
friends have done service in
opening the State campaign by
rendering. squarely, the issue of
planning the fight for democracy
and of planning for future peace
the speech continued.
eve have every right and every
duty, both of self-interest, of com
mon sense and common humanity
in endeayoring 80 to arrange af-
fairs that another twenty years
will not see another generation
forced into the same conflict. |
believe, accordingly, that the men
to whom responsibility must be
entrusted now, must be men capa.
BILE Of realizing what is at stake
and of formulating the policies
needed to finish this job as we'll as
to begin it,
Mr.. Berle's speech concluded:
"The isOlationists who wanted to
run away from the war will be the
same men who would accept a com
promise peace, or would run away
from the obligation which we
shall have to assume to see that the
peace is kept
"The men who tried to play il
safe on the issue of whether we
should assist in the fight against
Axis conquest would be the first
to try to dodge the issue as tc
whether we should safeguard lib
erty and the safety We have won
once victory has been achieved by
blood and sweat.
II believe that the public knows
this better than the politicians
The Hagerstown globe., 1942-06-26
WHO'S BAILEY COSS?
Baltimore To-day Bailey
Coss is the full-time sports

news collector
and Commen-
tator of the
National Brew
ing Company
ri n n g
you, twice a
d a y, ov r
WBAL, the last
word in local
and national
sports.
A n d h e
The Hagerstown globe., 1942-06-26

Melt one ounce of chocolate and
add it, to two tablespoons of sugar
dissolved in two tablespoons of
boiling water. Mix thoroughly.
Add this chocolate mixture to two
cups of scalded milk and use as
the milk in a plain soft custard.
The Hagerstown globe., 1942-06-26
Maryland Merry
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determine for himself and his loyal
.camp followers whether he would
have a chance to overcome the
considerable lead which the gov
!ernor enjoys, both in Baltimore
land throughout the State.
They feel that a part of Gov
;O'Conor's following is because he
has enjoyed the POLITICAL stage
virtually alone and all that is need,
ed to dissipate some of this
strength is to. place 1Qother candi-
date in the field.
Also other factors. just now de-
.veloping caused old[ine Jackson
lites to urge Hizzoner to let go a
broad hint to anti-O'Conor fac
-tions.
Among these developments are
incipient factional disputes among
OCOnor followers. In the Fourth
Congressional District, for instance
.Jacksonites hope to take advantage
of Ambrose Kennedy who long has
been an O'Con0r stalWart, but
who is now in a position to trade
if he can win back ais old seat
from John Meyer.
For sometime Kennedy has been
disturbed over the appearance in
the Congressional race Of Ex-Magis-
trate Joe Wyatt, an O'Conor ap-
pointee to the traffic court and
who bears all the earmarks of hav-
ing the political blessings of Boss
William Curran. if not the COVER
nor. Kennedy is privately miffed
over this trend Of events and with
Out committing himself has listen
ed to overtures made by his former
archfoe, Mayor Jackson.
+*#**
OTHER FRACTIONAL FIGHTS
. Also in the third congressional
district in Baltimore belated op-
position has developed for Con-
gressman Tommy D'AlesandrO in
the candidacy of John Noyak. No
yak has served several terms in
the state legislature and has a
considerable Polish following but
lacks TOmmy's experience. gusto
and machine support. However
slim Novak's chances may be, he
could prove a useful vote-getting
instrument for the mayor.
Similarly, Baltimore harbors a
number of potent, if small, political
leaders in various wards and dis
tricts who are constantly Jockey
ing between the State and city ma
chine for favor. Two such are
the ubiquitous straw-bosses Julian
Carrick and Jack Pollack.
These Baltimore examples sug-
gest the basic pattern which the
mayor would be obliged to employ
not only in Baltimore but in the
for instance, where James P. Kel-
ley and H. Street Baldwin are
squaring off to grab Congressman
Bill Coles seat when he retires to
the bench, Jackson would look to
the Kelley faction to deliver its
force to him.
In Maryland's Sixth District
Jackson would be able to corral
all of the sentiment against candi
date E. Brooke Lee if he came out
and stumped for Lees bitter foe
Congressional Katharine Byron
who is seriously in need of an i'm
portant front-man to help her. II
is on factional disputes such as
these that the Mayor would have
to hinge a large part of his race.
But what Jackson would positive
ly need - and it looks as though
he has a fair chance of getting i
The Hagerstown globe., 1942-06-26

Keen the taltn Buy Defense
Bondsi
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-08

In 1929, gaunt sinewy man arrived in
the region in four-cyinder jalopy He said
he was Frank Kritzer, SO years Old from
back East" Except for a vague mumblng
about relatives who did not like him. this was
all the mans past that has ever been known.
Presumably he just another pros
pector and evidently knew where he was GO
ing, which was down the San Gorgonio Pass,
over the forbidding mesa known as Devils
Garden" through a canyon in the Little San
Benardino Range and finally into the sun
scorched emptiness of the Mojave Desert
Then he did the first in long series of
things that did not make sense He settled
at the foot Of Giant Rock, a spot known to
have no mineral value whatever. The man
seemed a true hermit, wishing to have as
little contact as possible with his fellow man.
He knew that the section was so worthless
that IL had never been surveyed and therefore
was his for the taking. He made it his prop
erty legally by filing claims, though there
was nothing to mine.
If the white man scorned the place. it was
not so OF a long-vanished tribe of pottery
making Indians who for centuries, perhaps
thousands of years. had inhabited a cave at
the side of the great boulder. The dirt Of its
floor contains broken fragments Of the pot
terry its roof is black from smoke of millions
of fires and its walls have a patina, formed
by sweat and grease, where il has been
touched by countless generations of hands and
bodies, long since dust.
kritzer took possession of the cave and
Immediately began improving the ancient
residence by digging passage under the rock
itself. There he eXcavated chamber about
20 feet by IS and added two alcoves which he
curtained off with any old bits of cloth that
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-08

here alive I'm going, all right, but
- you're going with me-"
Frank Kritzer hermit and caveman of
California's Mojave Desert, beloved the words
in a voice so thunderous that its power is
one of the many mysteries of the man which
the FBI is trying TO solve. Voices of hermits
are notoriously feeble from lack of use.
Before Deputy Sheriff Claude F. Nc
Cracken, OF Banning, California, realized what
Kritzer was doing, the mystery man had
thrown a decorating switch wired TO 200
pounds of dynamite which he had cached in
the cave.
The hermits prophecy was right about
himself. He was not only removed dead but
in several charred pieces. The blast played
strange tricks in that underground chamber
whose roof was the bottom of Giant Rock, a
boulder. as high as three-story house.
The first wave of the explosion bent the
deputy's body backward until his head and
shoulders had almost touched the floor. But
just before this could happen. the pressure
wave, rebounding from the wall behind him.
lifted McCracken up and bent him in the
opposite direction until his face was but a
few inches from the ground
Re-echong from the wall in front of him.
the wave lifted the officers body and bent it
over backward a second time. but not quite
far. Back and forth he vibrated. in a
rapidy-decreasing arc, like a horsewhip in
the socket of old buggy.
After what was probably less than a
second, the deputy found himself standing
his feet. every shred of clothing, except
his shoes, blown from his body which was
bleeding from nearly 100 gashes. caused by
rock splinters.
He was able to stagger out of the passage
and into the arms Of his two fellow deputies,
Harold Simpson and Fred Pratt
McCracken saw their mouths working, but
no sound seemed to come from their lips.
Both his drums had been burst.
The two uninjured officers were about to
attempt the rescue OF the hermit, who might
have been alive for all they knew, but paused
at the sound of a fusillade of shots, as if
lively battle were going on within the cave.
This was followed by torrent of flame and
smoke from the passage. as gasoline storage
tank within the cave blew up.
They lost more time in rushing the
injured man to the nearest telephone, where
an ambulance was summoned from Banning.
The reason old Kritzer's dynamite failed
to take all three deputies with him, was q
defect in his wiring, that only 30 pounds
went off, permitting the remaining no. hid
den in an alcove, TO sleep peacefully even
\ through the gasoline fire. But IL may have
taken away the secret Of the desert rats
mysterious purpose in living there.
Yet there remain a few tantaizing clues
which the FBI is pursuing and the truth
about this man Of German origin. may come
after the war from the archives of the Ges-
tapo or perhaps never be cleared up
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-08

lake that had dried up
after the last ice age.
He stuck up a wind
sock, installed a gas
tank and pump and
waited for customers.
The first was an Army
plane, with engine trou-
BILE.
No more business
came for some time
and il was not until Gus
Parrish, manager of
the airport at Palm
Springs, sighted { h e
landing field on a
flight from Las Vegas
that he made money.
Parrish dared not set a
plane down on what
might be IAN aviator's
mirage" until he had
visited the place by au-
tomobile.
AS a result, Giant
Rock Airport was dis
covered" and did quite
a trickle of business
with ships from vari-
Gus flying clubs, sell
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-08

came to hand. He made the walls solid with
concrete and cut windows at the top
The subterranean chamber had one unique
advantage. The average temperature was
20 degrees Fahrenheit and. in the course of
the entire year. never went more than five
degrees above or below that point
Most hermits are lazy but this one was
prodigiously industrious. Single-handed with
pick. axe, shovel and a homemade drao he
constructed flying field on the bottom Of a
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-08

gators actually found hangar" for planes
concealed in a rock fissure, in a nearby noun
tainside.
What's that for?" the officers demanded
Il hope to do big business here some time"
the hermit replied.
why is it camouflaged with canvas hang
ings?"
That amt camoufage The canvas hap
pens to have weathered the same color as
the rock"
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-08
"I'm Going All
Right" the
Hermit BeHoWed,

The investigators had their doubts but
there was no evidence of law violation. so
they had to let the hermit alone. more
serious threat to Kritzers privacy appeared
in 1941, when members of the FBI at San
Bernardino began to take an interest in the
desert recluse.
guard at the Army Gliding School, in
Twenty-Five Palms. some 25 miles southeast
of Giant Rock, reported mysterious flares
Illuminating the night sky in the direction of
the rock. Since the Army was now occasion
ally using the Giant Rock field in bomber
maneuvres, the Federal men Immediately
looked the place over but found no justifica-
tion for arrest.
Baffled like the immigration men, they
went away but, secretly, they kept the hermit
and his place under surveillance. 1t was this
watchfulness which indirectly led TO the visit
of the deputies and Kritzer's dynamite suicide.
For six months before that visit con-
tractors at Garnet, Twenty-Five Palms and
other nearby settlements had been complain
ing about thefts of dynamite and gasoline.
So the deputies called on the hermit and
when McCracken explained the purpose of
the visit, Kritzer said:
Don't know anything about it."
But McCracken said they'd have to search
the cave and the hermit replied:
Come. I'll show you."
McCracken followed Kritzer down the
passage to the underground chamber The
other two were just entering the passage when
a blast Of air knocked them flat on their
backs.
The caveman had shown them what he had
The deputy's wounds on the body were not
dangerous and the hospital doctors believe
that even his ear drums will eventually heal
without much damage to his hearing Besides
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-08

ing them gas and water and rent
ing camp-sites.
Weird legends arose, as they
always do, around a solitary
figure and the craziest of all may
be true, that he was some sort of
sun worshiper. There were re-
ports that just before dawn, he
would scale the barren hillside
near his rock to greet the rising
sun with stentorian bellows, at
the same time beating his chest
like a gorilla. In some such way
he must have built up and main
tanned that tremendous voice,
which he used so rarely in con-
versation.
That was nobody's business,
but other things were. In 1888,
immigration Officers, watching
the Mexican border, were moved
to investigate Kritzer and his
airport. Various planes. coming
up from Laguna Salada, ghost
ing across the border at night,
seemed to vanish in the vicinity
of Giant Rock.
1t was suspected that the
desert airport might be the land
ing place for aliens, smuggled
s,,N~ o.
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-08

the dynamite within the chamber was
found high-power rifle and more
ammunition than Kritzer could reas-
onably expect to use in ten years.
Some of this had exploded causing
the shots they heard.
What was he intending to do with
all those cartridges and 200 pounds
of dynamite which he had evidently
stolen so there would be no record
that he had it?
If he was Nazi saboteur. he NAV
have planned TO lay mines along the
narrow runway of his field, TO de-
stroy at least one of Uncle Sans
bombers and its crew. Or he may
have meant to deliver il to Nazi sabo-
teurs arriving at the field by night.
In support of this theory is the
fact that there was also found in the
chamber, the charred remains of an
expensive short-wave radio set. much
too costly for man in Kritzer's
circumstances to have acquired legiti-
mately. It's aerial, cunningly hidden.
was carried up the bouldered hillside,
near the rock.
Whatever his motive, the desert
rat is safely interned, somewhere in
the next world.
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-08

II~HERIFF, you're not taking me out of
here alive. I'm going. all right. but
~ you're going with me-"
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-08
H0WbsHern1iittofGiantR
.SealedfhS Strange Secret

Nobody Will Ever Know. Now. Whether the Mys.
ferrous Desert Rat of fhe Mojave Was Smugger
Of Aliens. Nazi Sobofeur and Spy-or just
Harmless Sun Worshiper Trying to
Get Away From 1t All
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-08

November q, 1912
Detroit evening times., 1942-11-08

oi'la by American Weekly Britain Rights Reserved
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-26
DENLY Trdknen
Leading Champs

Southeastern High, defending
Metropolitan League champion,
remained favorite 10 repeat as
east side outdoor track winner
despite Denby's small lead at the
end of three final events run off
yesterday at Belle Isle.
DENLY scored 28la points 10
Southeastern's 26, with other
schools far back. The remaining
nine final events will be held
Thursday al Belle Isle.
Bill Roediger gave DENLY a
first in the 440 when he led the
field in :52.7. Frank Senter,
Southeastern weight ace. took the
shot put on az feet s inches. In
the pole vault, a triple tie saw
Garrett Hess and George Eyster
of DENLY and Tally Spilos of
Southeastern divide the points at
10 feet 3 inches.
Yesterdays results:
+tO-yard dash-Won nv RoediEer Cd.
Nedsrisnder (sEl. second; Bargowski III,
third Burton tNE). fourth: Brands tEj
shotput Won ny sentsr (sE); schemRn.
ski tSEb. second Iasky (Pb. third
Ei1onAs (HJ. fourth: Lauder CPJ. nth:
Orlando Cd, sixth. Distance, IS feet
inches
Pole vault EyS,,r CDl, Hess tp) and
spilos (sED tied for FIRST; Ssstorek tH).
fourth Cults (CTD and Collins CD tied
or hfth. Height. 10 feet inches.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-26
NOME Runs
RIMS
HITS
Runs BATTED N
Highland Parker
Pitches 0ne-Hitter

Bob De Lair allowed only one
hit as Highland Park whipped
Northern. 30. in postponed
Metropolitan League baseball
game. Stewart Chapman made the
only hit. single in the third. The
Parkers collected four hits but all
their runs came on errors.
Ten games are listed for Metro
mines today. with Cooley VS.. Rcd
ford and Eastern vs.. Southeastern
the outstanding games. Cooley
and Central are tied for the west
side lead. while Eastern and
Northeastern share the top on the
east side Today's games:
METROPOLITAN IEAGIE
Mackenzie ~ Central. cooley AZ Red
ford Western AZ Northeastern T. OF D.
81 Southwestern. Wright ~ Chadsey Cas-
~ Miller. Eastern At Southeastern. Denby
A. HiEhlsnd Park, Pershng AZ North
eastern. Hamtramck A. Northern.
CATHOLIC LEAGUE
st. Anthony vs. La Sale, St Catherine
vs.. ~, Ambrose. Lourdes ". Redeemer
Catholic Central vs. 81 JOSEPH. St Msry''
NJ Mt Clemens vs. st. James. De Sales
W. ST. Frederick.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-26
King Holds Court
Hagen Laughs and Ribs as He Gives Others
Advice in Locker Room at P. @. A. Journey
BY LAYTON CARVER
International News service sports Editor

ATLANTIC CITY. N. j.. May
26.-He was sitting in a corner
talking and laughing, with blue
sports jacket thrown around his
shoulders, a dotted scarf tucked
into his neckband and swagger
grey Stacks engulfing his not quite
trim middle.
The king Is holding court"
somebody said. walking through
the locker room, and looking
over the 50-year-old go1fing
phenomenon, Walter Hagen.
He was just warming up Il
the people around him and toss
ing off some of the philosophy
which has kept him going wher
younger guys have been content
to pack their golfing games away
and call 1t a day.
Don't worry; don't hurry;
you're here on q short visit, be
sure you get q smell Of the
flowers" he said, then he went
into another story.
A GESTURE
The amazing, be-spectacled,
elderly gent Is in the midst OF
some kind OF a comeback. He
shook of the moth balls and de-
cided to play in this silver ami
versary of the National profess
sional golf championship as a
gesture TO those dear
dead days when they held parades
for him on New York's Fifth
Avenue and took him to the city
hall to get the keys to the city
and his entry is a gesture tn the
game in the future. whatever the
future may be. Golf is through
for the time being and until the
war is over.
did I ever tell you about the
time" he said. and everybody
scraped his chair up little
closer to hear this one. as he
went on and on, through IL all.
reiterating that you've got TO
have fun land get smell OF
those flowers as you 60 along"
He has laughed and ribbed his
way through life and he must
have been the greatest golfer that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-26
Last Nights Fight Results
ny United Press

New york-.-Lulu costantlno. i2o. New
York City. Knocked out Lou Transparent.
1913, Baltimore t5). Tommy Rotolo. 1891,
Rome. N. T., dsclsioned Harold Green
Brooklyn. knocked out WINS Johnson
l34L, Palm Beach. Fla. a.. joey Toe
caro-, i6i, orange, N. j., decisioned Jimmy
Rankin. iss. New YORK city D.. Eugene
Burton, 1874. New York city decisioned
Douglas Ratford. 1871. Brooklyn ca. Lou
Miller, 1881. Brooklyn, drew with Tommy
Graziano, ilsA. New York City 90.
New Orleans, La.-Jimmy Kid Hatcher
l33h, South Carolina, decisioned Pete,
scalzo. 1873, New York City u0l.
Newark. ~. al Hart. 220, Washing
ton, ID. C., decisioned Harry Lane. l79
Trenton. n. J. ts). Wallace Cross. 202
East Orange, N. J., deeisioned King Kong
ie4. Baltimore (s5. Charlie Smith. 1872
Harrison, y. j., dseisioned Joe Griffo. 100
Newark Co. Al DE Felcs. las, Newark
dscisioned Johnny Rudolph, 1877. Morris
town Co.
New Haven, conn.-Nathan Mann. 1924
New Haven, Conn, scored technica
Knockout over Bill Weinberg, lqs. Boston
lOD. Herman Badger. 10, New Haven
Knocked out Augis Angarano, iss. Harrison
PittsburKh = Frit,is ZivIc. iA, Pitts
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-26
Bowling Nedrs
Trail S End

Detroit's bowling championship
tournament season ends tonight
with the close OF the annual
womens event at Chene-Trombly
Recreation. Activity is confined TO
singles and doubles. The team sec
ton wound up last Sunday night.
Reatha and Lucille Goldman. a
mother and daughter combination,
Thelma Peterson and Dorothy
Merchant are the final threats in
Class A. They must beat Ann
Wells $50 in singles. Crescence
Sterbenz and Evelyn Lang lead in
doubles with 1922. Ann Wells has
the all-events on l749.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-26


cold because the
that poker Well the of the Hook Domestic Relations
Department will fire method Of squang the
that the horse racing Is here
has been and pronounced perfect by OF
the photographers horse pcers Detroit
It's very simple IL you follow this procedure:
Go the track Pick the winning daily double
combination Coct the bundle of cash in $40 bills and $50
GO straight home.
5-As you walk in, hand the little woman $40 bill 6-Con-
hand SO bill everytme she looks
each other Don't stop until she smiles Then give her the $50
Close instead OF what
need awyerno advice Points and are the most i'm
portant according to Rapid Role the systems originator
FInchum Florida racing
has
father troublenaker by the stewards But
riding Beuah Park his father
enough where peases Jackie will back to Ohio
Long Dufferin Park tracks will combine their
Apprentice Glen Crowe Of Sonora Tex who rode
last will ride here for the stable Of Mrs H. H.
Worth Tex His contract purchased
terday from Cecil Locklear
Bruins IL In the ordnance depart
men Hudacek Tom Bennett, Fordham
Lieut. Jimmy Crowleys
Aviation Cadets this fall Harry Hopp. Detroit Lions
Detroit track taking the
Job left vacant by MIt Pepul who changed his plans
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-26
La Sale Academy
Gets Hearst Trophy

OAKDALE, L. l., May 26.-The
William Randolph Hearst trophy.
emblematic of the national rifle
championship Of military schools
in the annual ROTC marksman-
ship competition, today is in the
proud possession of the La Sale
Military Academy here.
First prize for the individual
championship in this class. a
gold wrist watch awarded by Mr..
Hearst, is being displayed by Cadet
Capt Lawrence w. Keepnews.