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for Germany the Fatherland

for Germany "ths Fatherland 4
lost"
On visit home ? few days ago
he said, he saw the results OF the
steady pounding Of the British and
American air forces and found that
Hamburg was virtually shambles
A row of hotels near the railway
was intact, he added, but the rail-
way station was destroyed and al
most all of the city leveled except
for some homes in the suburbs.
Captured in Mists.
He was captured on Mount Mag
giore when he went up to deliver q
message to a platoon and became
lost in the mists. He saw soldiers
and called, "Is this the 1st platoon?'
The answer in German was "Yes.
But when he walked up he found
himself facing American doughboys
one of whom spoke German.
Another German was captured on
Mount Canine. He surrendered to
the Yanks when he saw that his po-
sition was hopeless.
Germany can last another two
years." he said. Germany is one
great armament factory, and even
after those severe air blows the
country is only groggy, and will not
be beaten In a few months. We
have become fatalists. We have lost
our homes and our property and
have nothing more to lose, so why
should we worry about this little bit
of life?"
This young officer, who is a stu
dent and philosopher, explained
that the German people were so
regimented and controlled by the
Gestapo that there was little chance
for a sudden crack in the home
front. He said that rationing was
we'll handled in Germany so that
every one got at least the minimum
on which it was possible to live,
which he said was not true in the
First World War.
Calls Underground Weak.
Individuals dared not protest, he
explained, and he asserted that
there is no underground movement
in Germany strong enough to pro-
duce any leaders with armed fol-
lowers who could rise against Hitler
and his satellites.
His criticism of American dough-
Evening star., 1943-12-13
|ScaIping Profits Soa|
|As New York Shows
Turn Crowds AWAY
Ry the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13. - With
money laden war workers rowing
the Broadway playhouse district in
search OF admission to shows sold
out far in advance. ticket scalpers
are doing good business at profits
often greater than 200 per cent,
showmen say.
Theater men say the scalpers-
mostly individuals whose offices are
IN their hat"-now seem to have
no trouble finding customers will
ing to pay $25 for a pair of choice
aisle seats for which the playhouse
received only $3.50 or $3.50.
Alfred Harding, a member of the
Code Enforcement Authority which
administers the ticket codes of the
Actors Equity Association and the
League of New York Theaters, said
he believed that whereas ticket
scalping formerly was "systematized,
Evening star., 1943-12-13
Nazis in Front Lines
Pin Hopes Of Victory
On Spring Offensive
BY DON WHITEHEAD,

AsSocihteu FIeSS war Correspondent.
WITH THE 5th ARMY NEAR
MIGNANO, Italy, Dec. 9 Delayed
German front-line soldiers are
pinning their hopes Of victory for
the Fatherland on great offensive
next spring, which they call "ver-
geltungschlacht"-a war OF revenge
They are told-and they believe
that Germany is outstanding its
forces for one great and final des-
perate attack.
Prisoners volunteered this story
today while being questioned by
American officers.
If the German troops question
the current lack of Nazi planes over
the front it is because of "ver-
geltungschlacht." If there are no
tanks it is because of "vergeltung-
schlacht." If there should be no
food, ammunition, artillery support,
or supplies, the reason is that these
things are being saved for the great
day when Germany will lash out
with another mighty blow to crush
her enemies.
Troops Believe Story.
Every shortage is explained to the
German troops in terms of saving
material for the war of revenge.
1t seemed incredible to me that
the Germans could believe those
things. But they do.
Out of 1863 prisoners questioned,
however, only IS said they still
thought Germany could win the
war. The others said they believed
their Fatherland would lose, but
their guess as to how long the war
will last ranged from two weeks to
two years.
Most of the Germans felt as did
one prisoner. He came from Ham
burg and was brought to this front
on November II. He said that un-
less the "vergeltungschlacht" wins
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common and accepted" it now was
occasional and furtive."

common and accepted" It now was
occasional and furtive."
Regular licensed ticket brokers
are prohibited by law from charging
more than rs cents above the regu-
lar price Of any ticket, but often
they cannot supply tickets for i'm
mediate use to such shows as "Ok-
lahoma," "Othello," zone Touch OF
Venus" Winged Victory" "Voice
of the Turtle" or Carmen Jones' u
which are sold out days or weeks in
advance.
So, how does the scalper get tick
cts? Theater men said scalpers got
them by digging" for them. That
means getting them any way pos
sible-by writing, telegraphing and
telephoning to theaters, and by
sending accomplices to box ofiees
and licensed agencies.
Showmen say that a genuine
scalper always can invent two
hurdles for any obstacle put in his
path.
Licensed ticket brokers and thea
ter managers generally have de-
nounced theater patrons for paying
BLACK market" prices, saying Gus
toners can be accommodate at all
shows If they buy tickets far enough
in advance,
Evening star., 1943-12-13
Hunter Punctures Tire

SHAWNEE, Okla. (R.-Dr. B. F.
Nicely avoided mussing his clothing
by using a % rife to kill some
chickens for the Sunday table
Later he entered his garage to use
his car and discovered a fiat tire
You can imagine what flattened it.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01
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SHIPPER Film
At Telenews

KILL OR BE KILLED" en-
crossing short feature inspired by
the war, is being shown at both
the Downtown and Norwood Tele-
news theaterS. As the title sug-
gestS. its scenes reflect the move
mentS and thought of two Snipers.
British and German, both Of whom
realize that their stalking can end
only in one way.
Produced for the British Min
istry of Information. the film is
novel in its absence of official
commentary. Instead, the indi-
vidual thought OF the two snip
-nrs- is spoken a4eHa- by two m
terpreters. These spoken thoughts
provide a tense accompaniment
10 the deft footwork and BRAIN
work of the two antagonists.
In addition Telenews presents
the latest war news, sports and
fashions.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01
Many Detroiters
Visit French Lick

MANY DETROITERS stayed
at the French Lick Springs in
French Lick, Ind. during the
past week, including r. +.
Moody OF Central avenue, James
B. Smith of CaSs avenue, Phil
r. Redekef of GaSs avenue, j.
w. Krall Of Trumbull avenue,
Edward Kellie of Fourteenth
street, John Wyllie Jr. of East
Outer Drive, George r. Tau
beneck of Cass avenue and j.
w. Bailene of Lahser road
Birmingham.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01
Can+een Hit

FORMER COMEDY star, Bus
ter Keaton, was the center of
attention the other night when he
made an appearance at the Holly
wood Canteen. He signed total
of 40 autographs for soldiers and
literally stopped the show"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01
Monkey Lore

RENE BELBENOIT, technical
advisor on Warner Bros Pas
sage TO Marseille," outsmarted an
elusive monkey on the set, by lur-
ing him with a tangerine tucked
into a milk bottle.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01
IN GOOD SUPPORT
Sonny Is Thinner

SONNY TUFTS will be -
pounds lighter in his next Mark
Sandrich picture with PaHiette
Goddard than he was in so
Proudly We Hail" He lost the
weight on A personal appearance
tour, but the loss is okay since
he plays soldier back from the
SOlOrnOES
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01

first glimpse of which Detroit
theater-goers will have Tuesday
night.
We hope it has everything Miss
Cornell wants il 10 have and
we're just as eager for that first
curtain 10 rise.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01
She's Grown Up

DOROTHY GISH. widely known
silent movie iugenUe, reappears
on screen in Our Hearts We're
Young and Gay" as Gail Russell $
mother.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01
TRULY ENTHUSIASTIC

Although she has never met
the playwright. Miss Cornell has
long admired Miss Smiths other
plays. Autumn CrocuS," Dear
Octopus" and Call 1t a Day"
so that when John Wilson, Noel
CowardS producer. called her and
asked her if she'd like 10 see
the new script, Miss Cornell
urged him TO send it Immediately
10 her.
She was in Chicago at the
time finishing the tour of Three
Sisters" and after she read the
new play she called her famous
husband, Guthrie McClintic, and
woke him up AT 2 O'Clock in the
morning. Being a producer, he
was a little skeptical about his
wife's enthusiasm, but after he
read II he was in perfect accord
and the pair set about assem-
bling a cast and production, the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01
WORKED ON ROLE

"Of course, during the last
month I did work on the new
part, which Is tremendously
absorbing TO me. although I'm
n little frightened Of IL. / have
100 pages this time and role
that long invariably terrifies
me, just on the score of MEM
Ory. alone.
Ever since The Barretts,'
my friends have said that /
haven't been on the stage
enough and that they wanted
10 see more Of me. Well, i
thing they're going to get more
than they asked for this time.
But even" Miss Cornell
added "if IL is long it's a play
I'm in love with. Dodie Smith
who wrote IL has n gift for
writing warm, human comedy
and she has been shrewd, 1
think, In devoting herself to the
only things we really are sure
of these- chaotic days and that
IL our immediate relationship
with our fellow man.
She doesn't try to settle
wars, Judge racial or political
problems. She just has writ
ten a romantic comedy about
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01
Little
Women
At Lafayette

THE LITTLE WOMEN"
haven't aged as much as we had
expected Judging from their ap-
.pearance last night at the Lafa-
yette, where Frank McCoy's pro-
ID uction OF Louisa M. Alcotts
famous saga about the four sac
.charine sisters opened last night
OF course, the girls were born
before the days of Elizabeth
Arden and the Woodbury. Facial
Cocktail, so one won't find them
as young and fresh as they were
in the days of Jessie Bonstelle, the
little woman who first put them
on the stage.
But outside OF that, things
haven't changed very much around
the old March homestead. Papa
gets i'll right in the middle of the
Civil War. Aunt March. the old
bag. breaks down and becomes a
human being and poor Beth dies
with all the trappings of Little
Eve, except the ladder. because
she was too pure TO live on earth. !"
Well she was smart enough to get
release before the second act VAS
over, which is more than we
could do.
STOCK PERFORMANCE
AS a matter OF fact, it's an ade-
quate stock production OF the old
tears and laughter bro m d e
equipped with several actors and
actresses we have seen on these
same boards before
Erin O'Brien Moore does a good
Job as 10. She's not too tom
boyiSh" and she has a sort of vital
charm that projects we'll. Marjorie
Peterson made an Amy that was
almost too naive and Beatrice Cole
was an attractive, but terribly
nervous Meg.
IN GOOD SUPPORT
Peter Boyne, Stanley Bell and
Coburn Goodwin filled the male
assignments we'll, Mr., Bell reading
the new prologue in very persua-
Sive manner.
Valerie Valaire as "Marmee"
Hale NorcroSS and Louise Kirkland
complete the supporting cast.
The furnishings are by Ye An
teek Exchange. G..
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01

people such as you and 1. /
thing she's very wise and that
Lovers and Friends" has great
wisdom in II.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01
HANDSOME DICK

Every time I see Richard Arlen
II seems he is better looking. It's
hard TO believe Dicks first big
hit was Wings made way back
there. He's been going strong ever
since and today Republic signed a
thpee-year contract with him call
ing for four starring pictures a
year.
He's on the lot now making
THE Monster" which was pre-
viously titled The Monster and
the Lady" and before that he
made "DonoVan's Brain, CO.
starring with Erich Won Stroheim.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01
Cornell
Here For
NetU Play
BY CHARLES GENTRY

ONE VISIT 10 town by kath-
anne Cornell a year rs an event,
bat two within The course of eight
months is really exciting.
But The first lady of the the
alter is back in Detroit, radiant
and Keyed up about her new
nlav. Lovers and Friends. "
which VIII have us premiere here
Tuesday night at the Csss The
atey.
An interview with Miss Cornell
IS invariably & treat, because she
discusses so many things, and
oddly enough for an actress, is
loaih 70 talk about herself.
In fact YOU really have 10
croSS-cxamine her, rather than
question her. "a find out what
she's been doing. She looks so
wonderful that we knew she'd
been spending a great deal of
time out of doors.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01
-LOueIIa
Parsons
in AoHwool

NEW YORK. Nov The only
important role IN "Hitler'S Gang
goes 10 Poldi Dur, beagtiul blond
Austrian actress, formerly pre-
miere danseuse with the Vicnnc>o
Opera. Poldi is not exactly new
20 Hollywood She has had several
small roles IN Twentieth Century
Fox pictures. among them Mar
pin for Error But after looking
at all the tests Director Johnny
Farrow decided she was the host
10 play the part Of The girl named
Cell Rcubel in Hltlers love lie.
The NaziS have always made a
concerted effort 10 Soft-pedsl HIT
lers romance with Goh. who was
his half-niece. The girl was killed
under mysterious circumstances.
none too flstteTlng 10 der fuchrcr.
Para tells me Miss Dur even
resembles photographs smuggled
in OF the unfortunate Cell.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01
CHECK BRINGS sTRoKE

One Of the most tragic stories
I've heard since 7 came 10 New
York is that Of George Rector,
owner Of the famous restaurant
which was "the place 10 dine
when Diamond jim Brady was
going strong George h5Ea't been
doing very well 50 When news
came that Twentieth Century
Fox had bought The Girl From
Rector'S' and that he would re-
ceive $500 for his cut he was
ts1ieFieyeri. He was impatient
about getting the check and final
~ when his lawyer handed IL 20
him he dropped over in stroke
and is now in q very critical con-
dition.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01

THE Monster" which was pre-
viously titled The Monster and
the Lady" and before that he
made "Donovan's Brain, CO.
starring with Erich Won Stroheim.
PAXINoU NEEDS REST
AS long as Katina Paxinou is
not strong enough 10 report for
Tomorrow Harvest" with Ray
Milland and Maureen O'Hara,
Paramount couldn't have found a
finer actress to replace her than
Lucille Watson. She was wonder
full as Bette Davis mother In
watch on the Rhine"
/ know my friend Katina is
disappointed over losing the role
as she had her heart set on it.
But Like all people who have been
seriously Ill, she over-estimated
her strength and Buddy de Sylvia
had TO argue with her that any,
one who had undergone 10 blood
transfusions in fight for life
needed longer rest.
POPULAR MEXICo CITY
With all our Hollywood players
crazy to get to Mexico City on
any pretext, Dudley Murphy, for
mer producer and director,
shouldn't have trouble turing a
cast down there for The Bell Of
Tarchova." his first as a Mexican
movie impresario.
Dudley's recently organized
company is backed by Elizabeth
Jenkins Higgins, who owns the
largest chain of theaters in Mex
leo. Budd Schulberg authored
"The Bell of Tarchova" and the
yarn recently ran in national
magazine.
CHATTER IN HOLLYWOOD
Maybe il took a war TO do IL.
but Katharine Hepburn. who used
TO be so unapproachable, has sud-
denly become the belle of the
USO. Her favorite Job is collect
ing 20 or 30 soldiers or sailors
and taking them on personally
conducted tours of the Metro
Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Closed sets mean nothing to
Katie. who used 10 be the queen
of the CLOSED set" school. When
la Hepburn heard the water bal
let set for "Mr COED" with all
the beautiful gals was closed 10
visitors, she went straight 10
Louis B. Mayer (taking 20 ma
rines with herr to get it opened!
COLLECTED AT RANDOM
Tierney Cassinfs baby must re.
main in the incubator six months.
longer. The Jimmy Dorseys are
definitely in tune again and have
moved back 10 their Toluca Lake
home. Rita Hayworth is expected
In New York Nov. 9 for a whirl
Of theaterS and night clubs
Allan Jones gets the singing
lead in Vinton Freedlcy's new
musical. Jackpot which gocs
into reheBrSals shortly. Johnny
NNFahNiIANAlti ltdNtN AUi NlfNi-D
City Nov. 2 for a Spanish movie
Didn't know Johnny spoke the
language, Unless he's inst figuring
on giving the Tarzan yell in
Spanish.
Marsha Hunt gives up the
movies for four months 10 visit
her officer husband. Jerry Hop
per in the East. Virginia Weidler
is reported seriously III with
pneumonia in San Francisco.
Laird Cregsr, out OF the hospital
and so streamlined you wouldn I
know him, lunching with Tallulah
Bankhead ar Twentieth.
Reports from Hollywood are
that Harry Richman is packing
them in at the Florentine Car
dens-aNd I'm so glad. There's no
body quite like Harry
1t Russell Selwyn Edgar's son.
Is giving the biz rush 70 Ann
Savage. Lana Turner nook a DTS
mans holiday and spent All after
noon visiting Marlene Dietrich On
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01
REALLY RURAL

Yes" she admitted. 1--WE
had a perfectly wonderful sum-
mer. Guthrie (Mr McClintic)
and stayed up at Martha's
Vineyard for over three months.
We bought COW which Il
learned 90 milk. We got a small
horse and l bought a cart for
S25 and we really went rural
In fact l worked 30 hard that
i couldn't keep my eyes open
after 9 o'clock at night. 1 was
up every morning at 1880 do
ing the chores and i got 40 used
10 farm life. I don't quite know
how Ill he In front OF the foot
lights.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-01
STOCK PERFORMANCE

AS matter of fact, it's an ade-
quate stock production of the old
tears and laughter bromi d G
equipped with several actors and
actresses we have seen on these
same boards before
Evening star., 1943-03-21

of only 200 miles. That navigator had to
change his course five times by the stars; he
had to find his objective in the pitch-dark and
give his pilot the cue that enabled him to
land safely on the beach of an island that was
totally BACKED out.
If you think pilot, with all his newspaper
glamor, could do that by himself, consider
the two who recently flew safely back from
Moscow and got lost when they took the
wrong train home out of Back Bay Station
in Boston!
Then there are the ground forces, who
never get much ballyhoo but who have
crammed Is years of pioneering into six
months building landing fields in the most
God-forsaken places you can think OF. We
land on one field" in the Arctic that was
made by leveling off the top OF glacier; we
land at another in tropical jungle which
serves our crews iced soft drinks and ham
burgers made of water-buffalo meat. In one
spot in the Sudan our refueling station is in a
trackless waste, $50 miles from the nearest
town and utterly devoid of roads, rivers or
railroads. Our gas is trucked in there by
train of 1000 camels which the energetic
young lieutenant in charge has rented from
native chieftans for miles around.
With all these modern convenences, we
feel that we have the safest job IN the war,
yet we manage to get kick out of it. Scores
Evening star., 1943-03-21

of our boys have earned their Silver Stars
and Distinguished Flying Crosses in this job:
36 of them went to Brigadier General Haynes
and his gang in the Burma incident. And
believe me, they were earned.
recall one lads leaving cover during Jap
attack and standing under the wing of his
transport with rife in one hand and fire
extinguisher in the other throughout wave
after wave of dive bombers. And another who
hoodwinked three successive groups OF Jap
bombers by flying so low along railroad
track that he would have collided with train
if one had come along.
BY and large, however, our job is to avoid
such scrapes with the enemy, if possible, and
get the stuff through. And this kind OF fly
ing, day after day regardless of weather,
provides many thrill, even for old hands.
The North Atlantic trip, although daily
Evening star., 1943-03-21

occurrence, is Still ABOUT the tOugn-
est one because of weather condi-
tions. It's generally a matter of
instrument flying 80 per cent Of the
way. Incidentally, whenever we
get a new pilot who exhibits flare
for stunting or circus stuff, he gets
this run right off the bat to tame
him down. For while we must have
Evening star., 1943-03-21

Making Is to Is flights day during the
Today peak of the rush, those lads carried
out their mission in the face of almost cease
less bombardment and ground-strahng of
their fields enemy pursuit in the air, the foul
est weather imaginable And they evacuated
nearly 5000 sick and wounded men, women
and children without losing single plane or
scratching single customer.
Crack Navigation
j HE book is packed with such incidents,
most of which can't be told until after the
war. And while we pilots generally get all
of the credit, want to take my hat off to
a gang of other fellows who really make such
feats possible.
As pilot, for example, can put my ship
on the automatic - or turn it over to the
co-pilot if want to take snooze. But the
Evening star., 1943-03-21

DOOR crew chief can't snooze. Neither
can the navigator, for he's the guy
who has to get us there - and get
us back. In the evacuation of the
Philippines, for example, one bomb
er picked up a load of ground-crew
men (twice as many as the ships
capacity and flew 1900 miles by
dead reckoning with a gas margin
Evening star., 1943-03-21

crack pilots who know all the answers, we
definitely are not interested in the show-otfs
who boast that it's cinch to fly the Atlantic.
If they We never been scared before in the air.
we see that they get good and scared early IN
the game From then on they re better pilots,
competent but not foolhardy.
Evening star., 1943-03-21
Veteran

! KNOW this is sound because I've been fly
ing for IA years - just half of my life - as
a circus transformer, in early mail planes,
for airlines and finally, for the Army. And
I'm here to say that you We got to know your
stuff when you suddenly find your ship, over
loaded by so per cent, in the middle OF
swirling storm cloud over Labrador, your
carburetor freezing, the ice caking an inch
thick on your wings - even building up
around the hot exhaust stack - and giving
you a ton or more of extra weight to carry!
That's when begin to wonder why ever
left Beaumont, Texas. Yet with all the obvl-
Gus hazards involved in such predicament,
| must confess that one experience which
scared me even more was an encounter with
st Elmos Fire" an eerie discharge OF
atmospheric electricity that is terrifying but
harmless
At least. the scientists say its harmless
But when your radio antennas begin to glow
like neon tubes; when the propeller blades