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Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09
WEPT FOR HOURS

When she was better, she had
no interest in anything. She would
weep silently for hours, she would
talk i'm a mournful tone that set
the listeners nerves on edge. She
drew her hair back into a tight
knot, she went without makeup.
and her clothes hung shapeless
from her thin body.
She was not acting. The death
of her son had thrust her violently
into an adulthood for which she
had never prepared herself. All of
the years of her marriage she had
always been less than 20 in her
mind Now she felt every day Of
her 81 years. Because TO her. 81
was terribly old. she turned into
an old woman.
Margaret's collapse. and lone
illness. and slow disintegration had
allowed John no moment OF alone.
ness in which TO give release to
his own grief. When he came
home from the office. after 2
narrowing day OF holding himself
IN. he could not remove his forceC
bright look.
He had TO wear il through the
long evenings OF Margaret's ex
pressed despair. When at last
he let the mask slip off in his
pillow with Margaret lying awake
and fearful beside him, he wa:
not permitted the relief of a
muffled groan.
One night in late fall, on his
way 20 MS suburban home. Johr
drove past kennel of wirehaireo
puppies. lie had passed it innu.
merable times in the last years
but Margaret had been so much
like A playful kitten that ne had
p9uJnl ~ ssTndml usppns q 10
6ddnd SurYOUoIl
- JoI mooi SBm SI5ul lI9I IsAsJ
into tho driveway In the world
OF adults, into which Margaret hac
Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09

Dunn, 1884 Collingham, and Paul
Greenwood Jr., 5107 Berkshire,
are enrolled in the spring Radar
class of the Chicago naval training
school and will receive ultra high
frequency radio work prior to
taking their Radar dvanc C d
course.
Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09

Johns had eX-
perience in ra-
dio and singing
before he en-
tered the air
corps, including
a part in the
radio religious
S k i {. "T h G
Coun y Par
son" and was
a b ariton e
soloist for the
u n N 1au a rd
Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09

-
that the air
craft accident
rate is 68 per
cent below that
of 10 years ago
and that less
than IA per cent
of current ac-
c / d e nts are
c a u $ g d by
m Q n a n ic al
( ailures. The
n e W organiZa-
tion will super
Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09
nple Methodist Church

Temple Methodist Church.
Pvt. Merrel Edelhiet, 1923 Glad
stone, Detroit, who is with the
fifth engineers training battalion
at Fort Belvoir, Va, has been sent
TO the cooking school for instruc-
tion.
Pvt. William Cowan Noble. 1891
Pasadena. who took his elementary
training at Camp Joseph Robinson,
Ark. now is in the ordnance divi-
sion at Camp Beauregard, La.
Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09

ing battalion and Tylutki to the
2Sth medical corps.
Pvt. Edward Chester Johns, 321
Louis, has been selected for a part
in the cast of Three Dots and a
Dash" a soldier-produced musical
comedy TO be, presented on a
nationwide tour by the enlisted
mon of Sheppard Field. Tex. for
the army emergency relief fund
Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09
Service Notes
4 Detroit BOYS
Now Air Cadets

Contributed notes about sol
diers. sailors and marines pro-
NOTED transferred or home on
furloughs are welcomed by the
Times for the Service Notes
column. Mall them TO the "Serv-
ice Notes" Editor, care Detroit
Times.
Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09

descent light that gave him q
beauty beyond Margaret's. What
John could not kindle in Margaret
for all his trying was a radiance
in Johnny's eyes whenever hi
lifted his face TO his father.
So Johnny took that place ir
his fathers heart that Margaret
had not even wanted to fill. And
John was no longer lonely. Mar
garet's persistent youth was nc
longer terrifying. Johnny was
adult beyond his years.
At 8 he could talk about things
with his father of which Margaret
hadn't the vaguest notion. At TO-
a brilliant future was already pre-.
Idicted for him. John settled down
to the long rich years of his sons
Icompanionship. At II, Johnny
Barrow was dead.
Margaret had never known
death. She had never before beer
close to il. She had never beer
summoned by a screaming child tc
a stretch of white beach and giver
a lifeless body 10 hold. She haC
never had 10 tell man that his
son was dead through her selfish.
ness.
She had never had TO lie awake
living over and over that after
noon when Johnny flung in from a
taxing game of tennis. and downed
two glasses of ice-water, and she
shooed him out TO take a swim
because it was much too hot tc
have a boy tramping around the
house.
Everybody thought that John
ny's death would very nearly xii
his father. And everybody wa,
shocked when Margaret seemed
TO take il harder She collapsed
at the funeral, and for weeks hel
life hung bV a thread
Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09
WANTED A son

He was lonely. He lived with a
child whose whole life was spent
i'm having fun. And because Mar
garet was a child, her fun was en-
tirely innocent, and he could not
even expend his passion in jeal-
ousy.
1T was then that John began to
want q son. He felt that where he
had failed baby might succeed in
making Margaret a woman. II
would be something smaller and
Trailer than herself, dependent on
her for everything. Surely in that
moment when she saw her son for
the first time, Margaret's eyes
would glow and soften, and her
Y lips would curve into tenderness.
But Margarets eyes filled with
angry tears. and she turned her
face TO the window. The nurse as
sured the discomforted father that
unany young mothers reacted like
that. They got over il. she said
heartily. John knew that Margaret
would not. In flash he realized
that she was jealous. Her sons
tiny hand made her own look enor-
nous, his doll-siZed body made
hers seem immense. II was a con-
trast she hated
Margaret was more thistledown
than ever after Johnnys birth. II
was as If she sought by this means
TO prove 10 herself and the world
in general that motherhood had
not changed her. John was the
stay-at-home with his son when
Margaret plunge back into
gayety.
John wheeled the baby in the
park while Margaret went riding
with unmarried friends VINO hac
no tiresome basinet on the back
seat. When she was coTnoTcd bN
expectant par rents. she sent Z
frantic signal 10 John. who joineC
the conversation and talked viii
ease and eloquence about infant
care.
AS Johnny grew IL began 10 ap
pear that he was TO be like hi
mother in looks and like his fathe
in ways. II was a long time be
fore he realized that the flyawa,
Margaret was his mother Ever
when ne knew. il did not matter
He continued 10 prefer th'
motherly houSekeeper. and woult
60 10 Margaret only when coaxeC
with candy.
But the housekeeper filled onl.
q physical part of his life. II wa
his father who was the beginning
end end OF his inner world. Hi
love for his father was an incan
Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09

for widows and independents of
the gallant men of Bataan, who
lost their lives. The production is
under the direction of Robert
Syya. formerly of the M-G-N
Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09
By Walt Disney
Favored by Fate

ERE pleasant little game that will give you message
day. II numerical puzzle designed TO spell
fortune Count the letters in first the number
subtract II the number less than
add number Start at the upper left
hand Of the rectang and check Of
numbers left right read the the letters under
the checked figures give you So
Nv Inc
Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09

ferred from the naval reserve base
at Miami, Fla.
Erwin N. Townsend Of Wayne, is
one of the reserve officers who
has been named TO participate in
the safety program being inau-
gurated at Selfridge Field in
connection with the nationwide
movement for Flying Safety Or
ganization in the army air forces
TO keep pace with increased train
ing of aviators.
figures from WASHINGTON ShON
Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09

Five Detroit boys have been ap-
pointed aviation cadets and trans
ferred TO the naval air station at
Pensacola, Fla, where they will
have seven months of instruction
Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09

Whitcomb. and Dallas c. Zonkers.
67l0 MaJestic. All five were trans
Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09
Dnily Short Story
The Puppy
Nv DOROTHY WEST

tuIHEN 12-year-old Johnny Bar
!. w row drowned on a summer ;
day, nobody thought John. Senior
would survive the shock, The Two
had been inseparsble. They had
been perfect companions
Margaret had stayed outside
their charmed circle, FOR Margaret
had never wanted children. and
had never forgiven Johnny for
making her a mother. Yet u was
she who went 10 pieces and turned
into an old woman.
John and Margaret Barrow had
been married Is years. Six months
after their marriage, John knew
he should never have married
Margaret. and Margaret should
never have married any one.
The young bride took her mar
riage lightly. She seemed 10 de-
light in her inability 10 make a
bed decently. or broil chop, or
hold a serious conversation.
LAUGHED AT HER
At first he had laughed at her
bedmaking. and kissed the finger
that she had cut trying 10 get a
dinner out of cans, and teaSed her
because she read nothing but the
fInnies and the ads. and caught
her up and danced her around the
room when she switched from a
quiet symphony 10 a blast of jazz.
But when six months later she
was still a sophomore on holiday
John decided that men were fools
who want the honeymoon 10 last
forever. The day that he was noti-
fed of a promotion and raise IN
paw, ne went 10 see a doctor.
He was afraid of his ability TO
handle his new job because OF his
steady loss of weight and nervous
fatigue. The doctor found that he
(. was suffering from nothing more
than undernourishment. and ad-
vised him to get married and stop
eating in restaurants.
John went straight from the
doctors office TO glittering res
taurant, where he was reproach-
fully assured that nothing served
came out Of cans. He ate two
! enormous dinners without stop
ping. Over coffee he thought with
grim amusement of Margarets
! happy satisfaction that marriage
wss not making her fat
BOUGHT FLOWERS
He felt wonderful on his way
. home, and stopped TO buy flowers
for Margaret. After all, he had
got a promotion and a raise. 1t
was a cause for celebration. For
with that raise he was going TO
hire a cook-housekeeper. He knew
that Margaret would be happy
about that as he was.
She would poutingly protest
that he spoiled her. He should
make her learn TO do things, she
:would insist, letting herself look
small and young and helpless.
And he would feel that he was a
brute to expect her to be anything
sbut beautiful.
Margarets beauty could make
ihis heart miss a beat. She could
make all other women seem
shadows that his hands had no
wish to touch. He could not yet
live without her. he was ready to
admit. And If he lived with her.
he would have to be the home
maker. A hired housekeeper would
have to be his proxy.
At the end of two years Mar
garet's beauty disturbed John only
when other men drifted toward
her and away from their palmer
wives. For Margaret had not ma
tured. Her mouth still wore a
childish pout. She was exactly the
Same as she was when they mar
ried. which was no credit to him.
SELF.
o. WANTED A SON
Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09
Washington show

wise inspection and investigation of
everything pertaining to flying
and is under the direction Of Lieut..
Col. Samuel r. Harris.
Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09

Two Detroit sailors, Thomas
Detroit evening times., 1942-05-09

% Eccentric wheel-part.
24-Cereal grass.
25-Anglo- Saxon money OF account.
27-Feeler.
2S-Possess.
29-Tiny.
81 River In Belgium.
35--Rugged mountain ridges.
37--lrish hero.
39--Geological age.
4l-The naples.
42-Masculine.
43-Being.
44-Apportion.
45--Meadows
46--Citrus drinks.
4s-Short sleep.
The Valley settler., 1942-01-23

A GRTAT TINE AT THE Mo2EMAN5
Twenty eight mombers Of the
Literary Club enjoyed Saturday
evening at tho homo Of f-r. z RS.
VcrnC foreman.
The garno room in the 5aso-
mont wos decorated in the Nat
ional colors. 4 raised. platT orm
or stage wos erected, on whic
guests contri butod their best
stunts to tho evenings entertain
mont.
Buffot lunch Was sorvod,
foaturin. g lcrge cako, decorated
wi tn an America flag and the
! limo, Long llcy It 1--we"
DR.. :; llrs. Dorsey Woro
among tho guos ts.
Take. day off now and then.
l Relax end havo o good time.
The Valley settler., 1942-01-23

LADIES CO-oP GUILD M z.TING
The Ladies Coop Guild
will meet on llonday evening Feb
ruary 2 in the Lounge at $500
O'clock. Election Of Off GERS
Will be held at this meeting.
The Valley settler., 1942-01-23

TIE WIRES ARE Eo1
EARLY this week electric
energy was releasded over the
wires from the Eklutna power
plant to Palmer and to lines
north and south Of Palmer.
Many fami lies had de-:,r.
SPARED Of obtaining Jul &C"
before spring but acc ordinG to
inf ormati on obtained yes terdav,
service Will be supplied as
fast as homes are wired and line
cons tructi on contractor and the
meter entrance installati COIL
trac tor coa do their work.
Service hoolz-up was COM
pletod on the Carl Meier farm.
this week and other meters Will
stcrt turning IN rather quiz
sue cessi on from now on.
RIA. LOANS APE AVAILABLE
Ne "A. members WHO wish to
secure Looms for wiring and FOR
plumbing are requested to secure
an estimate for the job from the
contractor or material supplier
and t2aon fill appli cation form
supplied 5v .E!A.- office.
Loans are now available.
" .Mou,. Sup't.
The Valley settler., 1942-01-23

JOAN AND5Rc OK, Ne TEA CHER ;
II .'AIlr7R
Joan Anders on, daughter Of
I5'. and IRIS. I.L.C. anderson
we'll Known in ratanusl1a Valley
has boon recently employed BY
Palmer School to replace Miss
.linifred Alley, who became i4rs.
Robert Balm on December g..
The Valley settler., 1942-01-23

CO. OF NOTES
Army Officials hovo REQUEST
cd oil Dairynon parti cularly
Grade and B milk shippers to
meet With Thorn in tho Toun@o
at 500 P. Ii. Saturday nj 8 t,
January "a.
Don't forgot the 1nomo 2rship
meeting Saturday, January 81.
Purchasing Of potatoes for
this yoor's pool will stop
March :, 1942 10 moro Potatoes
Will be pur chased or received
cftor that dat. This IS being
done S o we will know now many
potatoes We will have to SOIL
in t1mo to reserve nc COS scry Soed
for planting, also SO We can
determine how much if ony addi-
tional advance can be paid.
Les.
8UTT3R-FAT UF 100
Eff tive January Is - lat
onusl,a Valley Dctrnnon Will re-
coivc raise Of 10 cents por
pound for buttorfct in CrcGo 4
end Grade B mi liz and in sweet
croara. The price for sour croan1
Will remain as ct pros ont.
Evening star., 1942-03-23
Nash Calls on Democracies
For Untirinq War Effort
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Walter Nash, New Zealand's s
Minister to. the United States,
called on the new world of the
younger democracies" last night to
pledge sustained and untiring ef-
forts till victory and an honorable
peace have been secured"
He identified the younger de-
mocracies" in q broadcast here as
America, Canada, Australia, South
Africa and New Zealand, and as
serted that when the war is over
there must be no return to an era
when want, poverty and unemploy-
ment were accepted as inevitable 4"
MIR. Nash declared there existed
today "the fullest exchange Of in
formation and the widest possible
agreement on defense issues be-
tween America, Australian, New
Zealand, British and Dutch govern
ments and their defense STATS"
New Zealand, he said, must be
held as part of a commonwealth of
free nations-inseparably linked to-
gether-each with the United King
DOM"
He said that If New Zealand is
lost, "the United States is COM
pletely cut of from the Western
Pacific and the task of defeating
Japan becomes infinitely more
difncult."
Evening star., 1942-03-23
New National Edifice
Of the Church Of God
Is Dedicated Here
Opening Ceremonies
Attended by Visitors
From 10 Stutes

After four and one-hah years Of
planning. the new national edifice Of
the Church Of God was dedicated
yesterday at Sixteenth and Taylor
streets NV.
Next step, the Rev. Esther M.
Boyer, pastor. said today. is con-
struction of an educational building
for Sunday classes and young peo-
Piles meetings. This unit Is planned
for completion in 1943. The church,
under construction since last June,
has been planned by the congrega-
ton for more than four years.
Visitors From 10 States.
Visitors from 10 States as well as
the District attended yesterdays
services, which began at the doors
Of the church. Allen c. Minnix, the
buildings contractor, transferred
keys to A. A. Gott, chairman of the
church's board of trustees, who off,
cially opened the doors.
After the congregation had filed
AL, p2AS WA oAAAP oC2 vASC 0CSdA1 Will
an invocation from DR.. o. F. Linn
of Dundalk, Md. After Miss Boyer
had read the scripture. DR.. Paul
Douglass, president of American
University, offered a prayer. Greet
ings from the Board of Church Ex-
tension Of the Church of God were
brought by DR.. E. F. Adcock, Sec
retary, and from the Baltimore
church by the Rev. L. T. Flint. DR..
Walter Borchers, jr., represented
the Washington Federation of
Churches at the ceremonies.
Faith in Future Expressed.
Faith in the survival OF the church
regardless of the outcome of the
world conflict was expressed by the
main speaker, DR.. John A. Morri-
son, president of Anderson GndD
College. national headquarters Of
the Church of God. DR.. Morrison
will be conducting revival meetings
at the new church every night till
Easter, except Saturdays.
Evening star., 1942-03-23
R. T.. A. F. Pilot Killed
Trying 10 Save Plane
Ry tho Associated prexs

BY the Associated Press.
PRENTISS, Me-, March 23.-The
body of an R. c. A. F. pilot, whose
desire to save his ship resulted in
death, rested today in farmhouse
here awaiting removal to Canada.
Flying Officer Armour OF the No.
3 Training Command handed a curt
bail out" note to his companion,
Air Craftsman Frank Farrell, when
the plane ran into a binding bliz-
zard yesterday, then remained
aboard so long his ultimate leap
earthward proved fatal.
Farrell landed safely. Armour's
body, an opened pilot chute beside
it, was found near highway. It was
indicated he had not had enough
altitude to. permit the entire para
chute to open.
The plane, its gas tank empty
crashed in woods some distance
away. Searchers set out to find it..
Transfer of Armour's body await
ed a medical examiners report on
cause of death.
Evening star., 1942-03-23
Mrs. Harley West
Elected President
OF Alurnnae Group

Mrs. Harley B. West, wife Of 1t
COL Harley B. West, was elected
president of the Washington Alum
nae Chapter OF Alpha Omicron Pi
National Sorority at recent meet
ing.
Other officers elected include Mrs
Thompson H. Berdeen, vice presi-
dent: Miss Carmen Ellington, re-
cording secretary; Miss Charlotte
Benson, corresponding secretary,
and Miss Mildred Kettler, treasurer
Miss Louisa Wilson was named
Panhellenic delegate, Mrs. E. c. Al
britton, Panhellenic alternate; Miss
Lucille Leighty, editor to Dragma,
and Mrs. c. w. Wahl, city publicity
director.
Miss Fredricka Waldman was
named newcomers group chairman,
Mrs. Ralph Sheals, clothesline chair
man, and Mrs. John Jefferson Davis,
magazine chairman.
Members of the sorority who have
recently taken up their residence
in Washington are invited to call
Mrs. West for dates Of future meet
ings of the group.
Mrs. william Scull, Mrs. Albritton,
Mrs. G.. D. Mock and Miss Solidelle
Fortier were hostesses at the elec-
ton meeting. Special guests were
Miss Marion Shouse and Mrs. Law
renee Groner, chairman of the
Washington Women's Committee for
Frontier Nursing Service.
Evening star., 1942-03-23
Trustees of Mothers S
Health Association
Will Be Entertained

Sponsors and members of the
Board Of Trustees of the Mother
Health Association will be enter
tained by Mrs. Prentiss Wilson at
4 pm. tomorrow at her home, 294C
Albemarle street NV. Final plans
for the associations annual meeting
and luncheon April 7 at the Y. w
C. A. will be discussed.
The program tomorrow will in
clude a skit presented by Mrs
Worth Daniels and Mrs. John B
Martin. jr. Assisting at the tea
table will be Mrs. David Karrick
Mrs Albert ]. Mccartney. Mrs.
Harold N. Marsh, Mrs. John Stern
hagen, Mrs. Theodore Wilkinson and
Mrs. Thomas L. Catch.
Mrs. Fontaine Bradley is in charge
of arrangements for the annual
meeting. She will be assisted by a
committee including Mrs. Wilson,
Mrs. Keith Merrill, Mrs. Ganson
Purcell. Mrs. Henry King, Mrs.
Thomas Bradley and Mrs. Horace
White.
Kenneth Rose, director of the
Planned Parenthood Federation of
America, will speak on Birth Con-
troll in State Health Programs" at
the meeting April 7.
Evening star., 1942-03-23
Early Allied Offensive
Predicted by EIizaIde
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
j. M. Elizalde. Philippine resi-
dent commissioner, said in a mes
sage broadcast to Norway yesterday
that the United Nations soon will
be on the offensive "and when that
happens the cause of the Axis is
doomed"
In his address made from Boston,
Mr. Elizalde said Norwegians and
Filipinos have the same goal-"the
redemption of our homelands from
the invader"
Knowing Norwegians as I do,
I am confident that they will carry
on their fight against the Axis until
they are victorious" Mr. Elizalde
asserted. That is certainly true of
the Filipinos. We will never give
up."
Evening star., 1942-03-23
Engineer Is Killed
In 1roin Collision
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VANCOUVER, Wash, March 23.-
A locomotive smashed into steel
laden freight cars yesterday. killing
an engineer and critically injurins
two other crew members.
Walt Crosby, travelling engineer,
was killed. Jack Bear. engineer. and
a fireman identified only as Ellert-
son, were injured.
The Vancouver Barracks Army
Hospital said three soldiers aboard
the train required treatment, all for
superficial injuries.
The locomotive split in half and
the oil-covered bodies of the crew
members were dragged from the
wreckage. A baggage car over
turned but the few passenger cars
remained upright.
Evening star., 1942-03-23
Church Group Meets

The Woman's Society Of Christian
Service Of the Community Metho-
dist Church of Arlington will hold
its March meeting at pm. tomor-
row in the audience room of the new
church.
Miss Margaret Sewers, director of
religious education, will be the
speaker on the program, which will
observe religious education week"
A musical program will be presented
by Miss Anne L. Payne, organiSt,
and Mrs. Fletcher Kemp, soloist.