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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02

had way with women and engaged in many an
extra-marital romance.
Ultimately his wife refused to put up with
his philandering and she obtained separation.
This incensed Flynn who left for Kentucky
where he said he would get divorce Later he
wrote his wife that he had obtained his final de-
cree, and she nnocently remarked.
That was just what his scheming mind had
conceived. for he Immediately returned and had
her arrested on a charge of bgamy.
Then, when she was sentenced he used her
conviction 10 obtain his own divorce.
This information made Flynn out a vicious
blackguard; but it did not tie him in any way
with the untimely death of Harve Hoffee until
Dec, 1884, when one of Flynn's sons-in-law be-
came mysterousy ill-after a spat with his
father-in-law.
Andrew Merritt 81, who had married Flynns
daughter Hattie, was rushed TO the hospital on
Dec. %; three days later, just before he died, he
mentioned something about "a letter he had
found while living on the Flynn farm-a letter
that told of Harve's death" and was buried in
jar in the driveway.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02

IN THE REALM OF BOOKS = By Benjamin DeCasseps

THE greatest postwar vision that come to
i American is a free, democratic alliance of all
the nations in the western hemisphere, each
retaining its political independence but living
behind collectively maintained wall" of air. sea
and land defenses.
Such a vision has the Mexican Secretary Of
Foreign Affairs Ezequiel Padia in his book-the
best yet written on the relations Of the United
States, Mexico and the Latin American countries
Free Men of America The Role Of the New World
in the Coming Era (Allance). That role is PAN
AMER1CANISM-th Western World, evolving
more and more toward its goal of freedom of the
individual, against all that is predatory in Europe
and Asia.
Written in calm, thoughtful manner. with per
feet trankness IN regard to the Shortcomings and
on the part OF all countries concerned this book
reveals Senior Padlla 20 my way of thinking as
statesman No of the Western World a man who
preserves perfect balance between practical realism
and a common sense dealiSm
These chapters will give YOU tho tang Of Free Men
OF America Slavery; the Monroe Doctrine; Bolivar
and Monroe; Hitler, the Americas and Democracy;
Freedom IN Latin America Culture and Race; Re
demption of the Masses Under What Social Banner?
Sane and inspirauonal-a trumpet blast TO all
lovers Of liberty from Chile 10 the Arctic Circle.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Insomnia Inspired Reading

MRS LINDNFR tells OF the birth OF her interest
WI in ProuSt i'm this unusual entry in her preface:
"In truly PrOustian way did my interest In
PrOuSt begn-thrOugh insomnia.
~ physician had told me how to my wakeful
hours; not to worry II could not sleep he said, but
To do constructive work engage in absorb
ing study The quiet of the deep night conductive
to contempative reading. But I found that books
were ending by the time I had become most deeply
engrossed. dear friend inspired He gave me
Remembrance of Things Past" in Scott-Moncrieff's
marvellous translation
These books, no doubt, brought drowsiness and
then sleep And that is precisely what Proust does
for me-putS into a peaceful calm meditative,
drowSy state of mind. find the same magical sleepy
STYLE in him that 1 find in De Quincy, Henry James,
Joseph Conrad and Nathaniel Hawthorne. They
dream writers talking 10 Us in own hal-dreamS
These 60 essays superb literature in them
Seves-even If they were about some one ClSe-and
reveal Secctve mind in Mrs Lindncr.
Copyright istS nv King
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Brands Ickes a 'Curmudqeon'

HAROLD L. IC{ES, secretary Of the interior having
II laid out every less fiat whom he
doesn't like with ephets and sassy phrases, the adj
mnlSratons master of the verbal Slngshot now turns
on himself and calls IckeS "curmudgeon' in The
Autobiography of Curmudgeon' (Reynal and Hitch
cock This is the old trick of beating the other fellow
90 the gun, and Honest Harold has done good job
Of H
The dictionary says that a curmudgeon is an AKA
lICOuSl grasplng fellow a miScr. nggard. Churl. /
can well believe that Of any professional upliftcr
IckeS says moreover. that he is n "Sclf-madc'
cnmudceon. T7at ahsolves hls forheaTS his cnvrdnA
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Questioned About Death

TNIE state official who knew the families in
Volved, called Mrs. Alva Hoffee Flynn TO his
office and questioned her about her first huS-
bands death; but she told him she didn't know
any more than what the physicians had told her.
Emmett had close friend Patti Spencer to
whom he confided his suspicious and the two dis
cuSSed the matter and finally decided a plan.
They found that since 1923 Flynn had been
arrested more than 20 times but was jailed only
once.
Flynns married life, too showed the mans
mean and INSCRIPTIONS nature. He had always
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Great Admiration for Mencken

FULLY is an ace admirer of Mencken who
Il times Spanks Tuly. He says of the famous Bati-
janor at the Temple of English that if II L. M.
were in the ring he would be known as Baby Face
Mencken." His eyes have pity, sentimentality and
rbad laughter" Chats good-and true.9 Mencken
believes that he tMencken hates democracy. That's
the essence of piSh-poSh. He's democrat Of demo-
cras-more democratic in fact, in his everyday life
that jefferson himself. As Tuy says, he loves 10
hate democracy.
Tully puts ms hand Squarely on Mencken when he
says he is "caricaturiSt' He is paradox always
the sort of who will heavc a rock Squarely in your
face and then drag you into hs bed to dress the
wound.
One OF the best sketches in the book is Jim
CruZe.' the director of The Covered Wagon" he who
looked like Indian but a Utah Dane, and who
during prohibition, took his gin Europe, beiev
ing that prohibition worldwide In this sketch
of royal good fellow (peace your soul. JmD there
is mScue of Tuy's brush lie calls Cruze "a
Beethoven in honky-tonk" More woosh! WooshD
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Essays on Marcel Proust

MRS. GLADYS DUDLEY LINDNE,R of San Francisco
WI has collected some essays Marcel PTouSt the
most heatedy discussed writer with James joyce Of
modern times They should be read by every reader
of Remembrance Of Things Past" the many-tomed
novel of the famous Frenchman CMarce Proust
Reviews and Estimates in English-Stanford Univer-
sity Press.D
It is all like dinner party to which Mrs. Lndner
has invited the world meet Arnold Bennett Joseph
Conrad, Haveock Ellis Anatoe France, Georges Le-
maitre. Somerset Vaughan, Paul Elmer More, John
Cowper PowyS Burton Rascoe and many others for the
purpose of a general discussion of Proust-what did
he say what did he mean ought he TO have said it,
and did he really show the 'nsdes" Of decaying
prewar France?
At the head of this literary banquet table, a Ia
Plato preSides Mrs Lndner Next to her is a vacant
chair where there sits the quiet half-seepy shade OF
that queer follow. Prous himself who died in 1872.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Nathan Pictured as Bored

OF GEORGE JEAN NATHAN, he says 'IIe has the
~ manner of a man too bored TO flick the ashes from
cgaret" His socaed snobbery is "a wall TO fortify
himself against boredom Finally Nathan is summed
up in this really excellent essay the first apostle
Of The Solf-CentcrCd with the courage admit it,
Nathan has indeed brought back TO the consciously
srli-pvotcd Cpicurcan way Of life. which Is cause for
rejoicing In conventIonalizcd world of low-in-thc
bottle patterns OF behavior
There are other essays in "A Dozen and One" on
Jack Dempsey (Cood). Paul Bern "a SIckCning moss
of morbid Sentimentaly), Wilson Miner Ca corker
with dozen Chortles) Diego Rivera twooSh wooshD,
Arnold Bennett Tod Sloan and Henry Armstrong Gas
YOU like thcml
An entertaining listening-post of book Don't
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Nursed His Mother

CHE related that when Flynns mother became
~ i'll in August, 1890. she went over 10 nurse
her. There Flynn forced her TO submit to his
attentions and they became intimate.
While Harve visited his two daughters over
the week-ends at their school, hundred miles
away, Flynn had easy access to the Hoffee home.
When Harve died she received $1,000 in in
surance which she turned over to Flynn
"After we were married, Charley abused me
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Calls Clark Gable Dynamic

A cCORDING 10 TllIy, Chaplin IS a melancholy
"A moody fellow. He has private pension list for
some fellows he knew In his London music hall DAYS
He has mantle Of dlsdain' vhrf tp COVERS himself
with when he no like porsou thIi so have you
and II
OF Clark Gable. Tuly says hc once gave his last
nickel 10 porter. that he is "dyram.r' and that be
once had "throttled spirit fWoo,n' WooshD
Walter Winchell is 'honr Win soul" Accord
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02

ing TO Bernard Shaw w w writes as though he had
discovered the business. Winchell pronounees West
speaking of Winche putting feeling" into his reports
of the Lindbergh case that w. w. being family
man, had sympathy for who kidnaps child.
is il necessary be a family feel like all hell
when a child is kidnapped?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Changes Plea to Guilty

LIYNN pleaded not guilty and demanded jury
Il trial But as the farmers who would com-
prise the jury were busy at that time of the year,
1t was decided to hold Flynn for the fall term.
On November Is, the state was ready to
present its case against Charles Flynn. with his
wfe-who was brought back from her cell
scheduled to take the stand the next day
But abruptly F1ynns lawyer arose and de-
cared that his client wished to change his plea
TO guilty, and the judge forthwith sentenced him
to serve II years.
At last Emmett Hoffee could relax. He had
cleared up the fog that for six years shrouded
his brothers death . thanks to a letter that
Flynn had saved threat over his woman
conspirator, but which proved boomerang
Copyright 1888 by King FEATURE,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02
Consulted His Friend

WHEN this news reached Emmett Hoffee he
w Immediately consulted his friend and they
searched the Flynn driveway. But after three
trips in the dead OF night they could not find the
tell-tale letter.
Early in 1897. Fred Sackett, who had moved
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-02

and threatened TO kill me and my daughters II
1 ever breathed n word about him having any
thing TO do with Harve's death. He told me no
had saved the letters 1 had written which he
would use I'm case ever talked him."
Flynn was taken into custody and told of his
wife's confession. He calmly denied any COM
plicity in the plot and said his wife must be out
of her mind TO involve him in the death of her
first husband.
On April 10, 1887, Alva pleaded guilty TO a
charge of murder and was Immediately sentenced
by Judge Roy F.. Pearce 10 a 99-year term in the
women's prison at Dwight Ill.
The future outlook., 1943-10-23

Tools are as necessary to the
Victory gardner as weapons to Il
soldier and there is much the
same obligation to keep them in
order.
In spite Of the fact that more
tools and garden implements
have been manufactured for next
year than were available last,
the quantity will still be far
behind the. demand.
Only those who are without
tools should buy new ones. Old
tools should be cleaned, oiled
and repaired before they are put
away for the winter, to. make
sure they will be in good con-
dition to serve next year.
The greatest enemy Of tools
is rust. This attacks the metal
parts during the winter when
the tools are in storage and
does more damage then than in
the summer, when they are in
constant use.
70 check the rust, first clean
all outside metal parts, by wash
ing thoroughly. Caked mud
should be softened and removed.
Then dry, and cover the metal
with a thin film Of lubricating
grease, or OIL All bearings of
wheel tools should be oiled. 1t
is possible to obtain new handles,
where the old ones have broken,
and these should be set in place
this fall.
New spraying and busting
equipment is more difficult to
obtain than are cultivating tools.
Clean old ones thoroughly OF all
old spray material. Take the
nozzles of sprayers apart and
clean. Oil the pumps Of sprayers
down the tank caps, SO that the
rubber gaskets are not COM
pressed. Busters should be clean
ed and the outside metal parts
oiled, but instead Of oil powder
The future outlook., 1943-10-23
ORTY-THIRD
ANNIVERSARY
OF REV. J. Ii. ELLIS


The Forty-third anniversary
of Rev. J. b. Ellis, pastor Of New
Light Baptist Church, Green's
boro, was held last week, from
the 10th to the nth.
On Sunday night the services
were conducted by Rev S. G..
Griffin, assistant pastor, who
was supported by the Commun-
ity Bible Band, Mrs. Estella
Gorde, president
On Monday night Rev w. c.
Cleland and his church from
Bethel Nj. T.. church conducted
the services.
On Tuesday night Rev. p. /.
Wells, and his church, High
Street NJ. s., conducted the ser
vices.
On Wednesday night, Rev. f.
T. Byrd from st. James Baptist
church, and his church con
Quoted the services.
Thursday night, Rev. C. II.
Reed and his people from Russell
Temple, conducted the services.
Friday night, Rev. ii. G.
Haskins, and his church from
East White Oak had the services
in charge.
Sunday afternoon we enjoyed
Rev. j. w. Tynes and his congre-
cation from Providence Baptist
church.
Sunday night the program was
composed of his three churches,
New Light, Gibsonville Baptist
church and Morning Star Baptist
church of Burlington.
We wish to thank all the
church for their kind coopera-
tion, and we can truthfully say
that we count this the best
anniversary he has had in the
last fortythree years.
The future outlook., 1943-10-23
Keep YOUR GARDEN TOOLS IN HANDY RACK IT IS EcONorX

ed graphite snould be used on
the inside.
Make a resolution when your
tools have been cleaned, to keep
them celan in the future. This
will prolong their lives, and
make a substantial saving. A
rack in which every tool has its
place will be found we'll worth
while.
The future outlook., 1943-10-23
WRITER'S PLEDGE TO
FIGHT BIGOTRY

Hollywood, Calif.-At the clos
Ing meeting Of the writer's con-
gress here last week, writer's IN
animously adopted pledge to
oppose "every attempt to bind
the free spirit Of man with the
chains Of bigotry and ignorance"
Present at the congress was
Walter White, NAACP executive
secretary and many writer's of
plays and screen stories. Walter
White who was in Hollywood in
the interest of a fairer treatment
Of Negroes and other minorities
in motion pictures, polluted out
that the writer's pledge gives
needed support to the promise of
movie producers made last year
when he and Wendell Willkie
urged that the screen cease to
represent Negroes as senseless
buffoons.
The future outlook., 1943-10-23
Church News
PROVIDENCE BAPTIST
CHURCH.
REV. j. w. TYNES, Pastor.

NCt. ~. w. hA4NHo' "oa"'
Sunday morning service
Theme Gods Love.
6 AS B. r. U. Topic: What is
your purpose in life?
This topic was discussed by Mr..
William Reid, ST., of A. and Il.
college. This topic was well pre-
pared.
Soldiers from BIC No. 10 sang
three very inspiring selections.
Night service: Young Rev.
Norris Tynes preached. Subject
Gods Vision, found in Genesis
! :26.
Singing Convention Planned.
Providence Baptist church Will
present an evening in song Sun
day, October 81 ut 2:30 p. III.
at Dudley high school auditorium
The following will appear on the
program: The Master Singers,
High Point; the Silver Trumpet
Gaspel Singers, Greensboro Win
ston-Salem Gospel Singers, Win
ston-Salem The Morehead Quar-
tette, Greensboro The Warmers
vile Four, Greensboro Soldiers
from BTC No. 10; Loving Sisters
The future outlook., 1943-10-23

The prominent sculptor who
abandoned his art to become a
machinist probably figured that
in wartime his profession was a
bust.
The future outlook., 1943-10-23

Quartette, Mccall, S. c.; Heaven
ly Gospel Singers, Red Springs;
the Challenger Choir, Raeford;
the Sunset Gospel Singers, Wash
ington, ID. G.
Mrs. Lille Il. Mitchell Is IN
charge.
The future outlook., 1943-10-23

You can't blame the German
U-boats for preferring to so
straight home to straight down.
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lsWRahoniinq
&sS9Remiinders@o

Blue coupons, Book 2-Those marked
G, H and are good for rationed
canned goods and remain valid
through May 81.
Red coupons, Book 2-These can be
exchanged for meats, butter, mar
garine, fats and oils, cheeses and
canned fish.
Stamps marked E, F and G are
good now and can be used any
time before May 81.
Stamps lettered H become valid
next Sunday and will then be good
through May 81.
Sugar-Stamp No. IL in Book / is
good for S pounds through May 81.
Coffee-Stamp No. % is now valid
for ! pound through May 30.
Fuel oil-No coupons are valid for
10 gallons through September 80.
Gasoline-No. A coupons are good
for 3 gallons each through July 81.
B and c coupons, good for 3
gallons each, expire on dates in
dicated in individual books.
Shoes-stamp II in Book / Is good
for one pair Of shoes through
June IS.
Detailed rdtioning information ,otu
be found on page Az OF The Sunday
Star each ,Deek
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Further investigation uncovered
S. Caruso, meat and wine dealer who
rents the building on the back of
which the sign hung. Mr.. Caruso
conflded the fact he had been in
the building for more than 10 years
and he had seen no Japanese
Chinese restaurant.
When it began to look as if moth
ing had ever existed except the
sign, few oldtimers in the neigh
borhood recalled that not only had
the Japanese-Chinese restaurant
been there, but a Rumanian restau-
rant, too-and both had moved
more than II years ago.
The only problem left, then, was
the sign itself and Mr.. Caruso took
immediate steps. He had boy
scramble up a ladder and remove
the Japanese-Chinese sign. A few
tugs and the sign dropped, only to
reveal sign for the Rumanian
restaurant. Another tug and that
went the way of all signs, too.
So everything is peachy now
selectees can stare out the rear WIN
dow of Board No. % and contem-
plate a good American brick build
ing unblemished by 15-cent Yaco-
mein-the next sign they see will
be "Tokio-straigh ahead
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For a long, long time, selectees
stared out the rear window of Draft
Board No. % and fumed-fumed
nightly and loudly at the sign
hanging on the building across the
alley.
Two Chinese boys muttered they
would take matters in their bare
hands unless somebody-anybody-
tore that thing down.
One selectee suggested a blast
from Well-aimed trench mortar
and two FBI men concerned them
selves to the extent of finding out
why in blazes that sign across the
alley still read:
"Japanese-C Restaurant
chop suey, 25 cents; chow mein IS
cents; Yacomein, IS cents; entrance
1874 Fifth street NE"
The Chinese part was ok. but
who had the nerve to poke that Nip
angle into the picture-and a res
taurant. too.
Nobody had particularly noticed
the sign-out loud, anyway-until
the news of the Jap execution OF
the American flyers sensitivized per-
sons to even the mention of the
word Japanese.
The mutterings grew so loud that
the FBI and all concerned investi-
gated-expecting, no doubt, to find
a spy or two.
A casual investigation disclosed
nothing even approaching a Jap
anese restaurant Then some one
began meditating on the prices
listed on the sign-chop suey, Is
cents-not for long time had prices
been that low.
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BY JAMES BIRCHFIELD.

This is wartime report from
a Loudoun County model farm, ex-
hibited six years ago by the Rural
Electrification Administration to
demonstrate the uses of electricity
and machinery on the farm and in
the farm home.
Jesse M. Hughes. whose 412-acre
farm on the Leesburg pike. just
across the Fairfax County line, is
equipped with every known device,
both electrical and mechanical. to
take the drudgery out of farming,
finds that it still takes a skilled
man behind the machine, and that
in this day and time skilled men are
hard to find.
This farm is still able to produce
full tilt despite a so per cent loss
in manpoWer. largely because Mr.
Hughes, 70 this year, is able to super
wise every operation from filling the
tractor with gasoline to marking
dairy calves before they are turned
out on summer pasture.
While time is saved by machinery
and the loss in manpower is felt
less than on other farms. the man
behind the machine remains all
important. And. too. it takes more
careful planning than ever before
to keep production at peak level.
ITS like this Mr.. Hughes said.
Il have all the machinery I need
machinery I couldn't buy now for
any price, I've got to see thai it
is kept in good condition, because
when part breaks these days it
means that machine is out for the
duration.
Il lost the best man on the place
to the Army-he is fighting in North
Africa today-and while I've been
able to keep three men, all of them
are not experienced in the use of
farm machinery, and that means
that I have to be on hand every
time a piece of equipment is moved
from its she'd"
AS 1t stands today. the Hughes
farm is hired mans dream. Elec-
tricity pumps water to horse and
dairy barns and to the fields; it
hoists hay to barn lofts and grinds
feed for stock. In addition, cleo
tricity warns the hotbed grinds the
meat, saws the wood and heats the
chicken breeders.
1t operates the mixers and cools
the milk, and electric screens pro-
tect the dairy from flies curing the
summer months.
Electricity has even replaced the
old-fashioned farm bell. A siren
now summons Mr.. Hughes to the
house when the telephone rings
and the farm hands to their dinner.
In the house where Gen. Lee once
had his headquarters it heats water,
churns butter, separates the milk
and cooks the meals. 1t also fur
nishes ventilation during sultry
summer days.
At present more than 30 dairy
COWS are being MIXED, and while
spring milk production has not vet
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Maryland Militia Faces
Compulsory Training
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md.
May 10.-The Maryland State Guard
will spend two weeks at this post.
from July "a to August 7, and sum-
mer training for all Guardsmen will
be compulsory for the first time in
history.
Brig. Gen. Dwight H. Mohr. COM
handing officer of the State Guard,
who yesterday inspected the portion
OF the Fort Meade encampment
which the State militia will use dur
Ing summer maneuvers, said each
man on the active roll will be re-
quired to spend at least eight days
in camp.
Only those who can show they
are employed in essential war in
dustries and whose absence would
hinder the war effort, those unable
to take part in the training because
of their physical condition and those
with extreme family complications"
will be excused from training under
Regular Army officers, Gen. Mohr
added.