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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-14
VIM. Mershon,
Saginaw Author ,
Sportsman, Dies

SAGINAW, July William b.
Mershon. pioneer Saginaw lum-
herman and manufactures who
spent his entire 81 years here will
be buried tomorrow IN Forest
Lawn Cemetery.
Death yesterday followed sew
eral years illness for the sports
man and outdoor lover whose
book. The Passenger Pigeon, %
established him as an authority
on the now extinct bird.
Besides the lumber business
which he followed In arizona and
Idaho as we'll as both the Upper
and Lower PeninsulaS of Mich
igan, Mr. MerShon manufactured
wooden shipping boxes. and band
saws which were shipped 10 all
parts of the world
Surviving are the widow three
sons, 1t. Col William b. Mershon
Jr., Fort Riley, Kan; Edward l..
MerShon of Oregon, and John NJ.
Mershon OF California, and TWO
sisters, Miss Elsie MerShon and
Mrs. William j. Wickes Of
Saginaw.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-14
Spe ciaI Effects
Weird Task

WEIRD ASSIGNMENTS are
commonplace 10 a studio special
effects department. They stir up
hurricanes. tidal waves or earth
quakes upon demand They've
been known 10 reproduce prehis-
toric animals that met with scien-
tific approval and make them
Work But the Paramount S. +. d.
has just been handed one which
is causing a lot of head scratch
ing.
II has been asked TO make
ghost The apparition Is needed
for The UNLIMITED, " which tells
the story Of a brother and sister,
played by Ray Milland and Ruth
HuSsey. who acquires a haunted
house on the coast of Devonshire,
England And il isn't one OF those
stories where imaginary spooks
are explained away in the end by
natural causes. Neither is il the
kind in which the SpookS take hui
man form. ,ff,fte-tpve ghosts in
The Uninvited' remain ghosts
throughout
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-14
Dutch FIierS
To Visit State
THE DETROIT TIMES

GRAND RAPIDS, July IA CUPD
a squadron of Mitchell BIS
bomberS plloted by graduates of
the Royal Netherlands military
flying school AZ jackson. Miss,
will make a bombing run" over
the city tomorrow as part Of a
goodwill operational flight across
the continent
The fight, which comes in the
form Of a final exam for the
Dutch tiierS, will have as its par
Elephants many Follanders evac-
uated from the Dutch East Indies
complete their military train
ing in tins country.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-14
u State
FOUNDED
Arrive

BATTLE CREEK. July II
Twelve Michigan men were in.
cluded in the 40 patients admitted
at the Percy Jones General Hos
pital following arrival by train
yesterday. The DetroiterS In the
group are Capt. Charles j Gee
Of 1880 Holcomb. and Sgt Philip
p. Trapaini of 1915 Lyford.
The others are: Pfc Marshall
f.. Brooks of Pontiac, Cpl Charles
r. Powell OF MarcelluS, Pfc. Will
liam J. O'Connor Of HubberSton.
Pfc. Willie +, Cherry of Eaton
Rapids, Capt James A. Butler Of
Grand Rapids, Sgt William F..
Peterson of Marquette. pvt.
Harry r. Dokey OF Kalamazoo
and Richard r, Harper of Wa
tervliet..
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-14
; Hurt, One Badly,
As Auto Hits Truck

Three persons were injured one
seriously at l;l0a, m today when
an automobile driven by Albert
Hansen. 43, of 1853 Myers, col
lided with An overturned truck
driven by Samuel Adams 30. of
Benton Harbor, at Inkster and
Ford roads.
Adams suffered a fractured
skull and other injuries With
him in the truck was Merle Pol
manteer 70, also of Benton IIar-
Dor. The three were taken to
EloiSe Hospital.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-14
Teller of Tales Stays
Another Week at Mario
CLUB CASANOVA
BY COLLEEN MacDoNELL

tsinment than in his initial Of
ferings.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-14
Navy Officer Killed
In Transport Crash

SAGINAW, July l4-Navy Lt.
George c. Wilcox was among six
naval officers and an enlisted man
killed July ? when a navy trans
port plane from Seattle crashed
near Dutch Harbor, the thirteenth
naval district headquarters said
today.
1t. Wilcox was 80 He was q
patent attorney before he joined
the navy. His home is at 907
Howard Surviving is his wife,
Jane Nash Wilcox.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-14

Dwight Fiske, king Of the story
tellers, has been held over at the
Mario for another week. II you
tried 10 get into the club last
week. you know why the piano
playing tale weaver has topped all
attendance records al the club.
Like the magician who extracts
rabbits from a top hat, the genial
Fiske has. dipped into his bag OF
breezy. satirical sketches 10 pro-
vide even more uproariouS enter
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-14

feringS.
CLUB CASANOVA
Marian Francis follows Patsy
Garrett into the Casanova this
week, and While any singing star
finds II hard 10 live up 10 the
Southern bellies friendllneSs. Ma
rian seems 10 be one gal who can
do II.
She gives her numbers a mod
ern and refreshing twist, making
an instantaneous hit with the lis
teners.
Emsee Ray Stiles. comedy ma
gician and chatterbox. is back and
the Evelyn Manion dancers are
giving out with some brand new
precision dances as they start
their third week.
Carl ThOrson. clever juggler.
Durkin and Warren, ballroom
specialists. and Eddie Camdens
muSicmakers finish the lineup.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-14
CLUB THREE $3.50

Rhythm on the Islands" Bet
tie Taylor's unusual Hawaiian
Sepia revue ends lis current run
Sunday. Meantime, Ella Mae
Waters. sensational interpretive
danSeuSc. heads the cast
She draws fine support from
Burnham and Blair comedy song
and dance specialists. Leroy and
Watts. novelty dancers, Bobbe
CASTOR popular t0rCndHtrCSy- sam
Fn4che, master Of ceremonies. and
the eight attractive Taylorettes
The radium enhanced 'Ha-
waiian War Chant Is still the
high spot of the show and Teddy
Buckncr, outfit puts plenty OF pep
into the dance and revue rhythm
Joa-AnnaS yOCdlS and George
Sanders organ melodies are inter-
spersed during The IntcrmlSSion.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-14

GLAMOUR. TEENS is tn e
new designation for rising movie
contract players. Roy Rel Ruth
bestowed the title on young Gloria
De Haven when he chose her for
The role Of stage struck miss IN
Broadway Rhythm %
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-14
z Marines, a Woman, Killed

DALLAS. Tex, July IA INS)
Two marine corps officers, a
man and a woman, were dead
today. victims of plane crash.
TIE woman. 1t. kathryn Mar
uuis. is believed 10 be the first
woman marine Killed on duty.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-14
U.Boats Still a Menace

WASHINGTON, July IA ms
Secretary Of the Navy Knox
said today that the big decrease
in merchant ship losses from sub
marine action does not mean that
the battle against the U-boats
has been won.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-14

Price, subjset 10 ~, yslr Tss
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-14
FIESTA BAR

Gene Fcnby and his orchestra
sull remain rulers OF the dance
domain IN the popular Continental
Room and Fiesta Bar at the
Savarine Hotel
The entertaining instrumental
and vocal group. featuring Sally
Romine and Herman Zichl, shines
with originality in all Of the nov
elites.
The band schedule runs from
Wednesday through Sunday each
week.
Evening star., 1943-10-01
Not Cleared Up Yet

II it is the desire of Representative
Cox OF Georgia that the Federal
Communications Commission receive
thorough investigation at the hands
OF the House, he has aided his cause
by resignation from the special COM
mittee making the investigation.
In House and Senate the prevailing
practice is to appoint as the chair
man OF a special investigating COM
mlttee the sponsor of the proposal
to investigate. Thus there has been
established as custom the otherwise
illogical process Of making an accuser
the Judge, so to speak, of the validity
OF his own accusations. The system
has its obvious defects, but also its
manifest merits. 1t sometimes re-
suits in unfairness for the accused.
but 1t lends unique force to the
investigation.
What made untenable Chairman
Cox'S continued exercise of his au-
thority as chairman of the special
House committee in this case. how
ever, was the fact that he was not
merely the accuser, and a Judge of
his own accusations. He filled a third
role-that of defendant, by reason of
Federal Communications Commits
Sloner Durr's accusations regarding
his acceptance Of fee from party
which had an interest in the outcome
of the investigation.
His resignation from the committee
and the craftsmanship tends to clear
the atmosphere in one respect. AS
long as his alleged acceptance of a
fee for services he is said to have
rendered remains a matter of unset
tied controversy, however, the in
vestigation he initiated will remain
under cloud.
Evening star., 1943-10-01

from the Adriatic coast may have to
wait for next spring in any event.
Already the first SHOWS are falling in
the high mountains, and soon the
passes will be choked with drifts.
That climatic handicap, however,
need not prevent the landing of
equipment and supplies on the in
Vulnerable islands and inlets of the
rocky Dalmatian coast. The fact
that the Adriatic is now open to
Allied sea and air power is a great
step forward which will doubtless be
duly exploited during the coming
months.
Evening star., 1943-10-01
time studying and planning military

time studying and planning military
tactics.
The whole discussion now going on
In the Senate-over whether fathers
should be deferred, over the size of
the Army needed to win and whether
deferments in essential war indus
tries should be restricted-is a risky
attempt to direct war strategy from
Capitol Hill.
1t may we'll be that many fathers
now in nondeferrable jobs could re-
place single men in key places in
shipyardS or plane factories, and let
them enter the Army. But in the
absence Of national service law,
under which each man could be as
signed where he was most needed,
how would mere deferment of a man
because he is father get him into
the essential job of an unmarried
war worker?
Evening star., 1943-10-01
Sees Long War
Against NaZis.

To tn. Editor Of The Star:
1t seems to me that we are more and
more on the way to commit a serious
blunder in estimating the duration Of
the war in Europe. The "home-flre.'
"editorial' and other expert strategists,
both in the press and on the radio.
evidently disdain contemplating a map
of Europe once in a while. If they did
so. they would probably realize that
both the Russians and the Western Allies
are a very long and extremely hard way
from Berlin. Even Eddie Rickenback-
ers estimate Of Nazi cracking time is
too optimistic. The defenses prepared
by the Nazis against invasion are formi-
dable. They can be destroyed, and will
be destroyed, but it will take more time
and blood and sweat and tears than our
rosy -colored- glasses experts" foresee.
In estimating the duration of the war
we must assume that the Nazi resistance
will not diminish until We reach Berlin.
Any other assumption would be danger
Gus and wishful thinking. The Nazis do
not lack military manpower. They have
replaced their Nazi men in the home in
dustry by prisoner. slave and imported
labor, creating reservoir of over 10000
900 men for military needs. These men
may be soldiers of inferior quality but,
given good equipment, they are formi-
dable. The Germans now probably have
between IL and IA million men under
arms, and this is nothing to sneeze at
in any mans language.
We must strive with all might to
knock Hitler out, not in 1914 but in
l943, but we must prepare ourselves to
carry the war against him no matter
how long it takes and set no such def
mite date as fall of 1914" or spring of
1945" Let us get on with the job and
stop watching the clock-and let us buy
more War bonds
ALEXANDER S. WINNETT.
Evening star., 1943-10-01
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. TrdcetDell.

ut is much to the glory Of modern de-
tective fiction that the writer seldom
takes unfair advantage of the reader.
He, being omniscient, could tell the read
er at the beginning who did it, but that
would be unfair OF the reader, even to
hint that he wants to know. That is
what he Is reading for, to find out
How marvelously some OF our authors
weave their plots Dickens is back
number at complexity, compared with
some OF the more or less unknown writ
ers Of detective fiction. The two schools,
the American and the British, have their
different methods. 1t is wonderful to see
the strands all come together in the end
And what gallery of strange creatures,
the detectives, themselves! Some OF
them are fat, and seldom get out OF their
armchairs; others are lean and slim.
and are forever running in and out of
hotel rooms in the dead Of night.
"Just why the various detectives have
to have such crazy mannerisms, I have
not been able to figure out yet, unless it
is to make them picturesque from the
very start. and begin with a genuine in
terest, instead Of waiting to work it up.
In recent weeks I have plunged into
murder clear up to my neck, with the
most soothing results. 1t is all good,
clean fun. Of the intellectual sort.
Whether the reader fancies himself as a
detective or not, he soon joins in the
hunt, and in time not only has the
pleasure of the chase, but also feeling
of keen admiration for the busy authors
VINO manage to create these things. His
hat is off to them.
The reader of these tales realizes
that the writer's have always at their
beck and call the interest of the chase,
as we'll as the interest of wanting to
know how the story comes out. They
do not have to create this interest, page
by page, but it is there from the very
start. This certainly is very much to
their advantage
Il sit around at all spare hours now
reading about terrible deeds and how
their perpetrators are caught. I find it
soothing helpful, interesting. calming
My nerves are much better, and l am
doing better work for victory. l recon-
mend this help to all war-worn persons
who must keep on.
Most sincerely yours, J. B."
Many persons have discovered this
good recreation. Detective stories have
stood the test of the years, and are today
at their very peak
The writing Of these stories has be-
| come big business
One authors books alone sell million
copies year. year after year.
In the good small libraries referred tc
by our correspondent. the most popular
books, and therefore the most reprinted
are the detective stories
| This is as it should be for what is q
| detective story after all but a section OF
| your daily newspaper. reple:e with pres
ent interest, hot off the press, sizzling
with life?
Evening star., 1943-10-01
GEORGETOWN.

Dear Sir:
Recently I went back to an old love
of my youth, the detective story. 1t has
been many years since have read this
form of fiction. In my youthful days
had to sneak them into the house. My
mother OF blessed memory would not
read them, nor do them the justice even
to look them over, but that was to be
expected of mothers dn ones youthful
days.
Il read about Nick Carter, and old
King Brady, and Sherlock Holmes, and
a host of others, including some in stif1
covers, but they were all equally on the
banned list. l didn't see Why, because
they were good, clean, interesting sto-
ries, and I knew it, although I wasn't
very old Of course.
Il bided my time, and in later years
discovered, with the rest of the world,
that President Woodrow Wilson, the
great scholar and man, read detective
tive fiction had grown up, but the irony
Of it was that I had grown up, too, and
out of them
Their accolade came too late for me.
When everybody else and his wife began
to read detective stories, I found that l
no longer cared for them or thought I
didn't. When they had become respec-
them
Recently I found my war work get
ting on my nerves. That is a habit, 1
fear, that war work OF any kind has. 1t
tends to get you down, so that you be-
come a griper, as the young people say.
You want to get away from it, and yet
you have to stick to it.
And there is no place to go. anyway.
Il wondered what l would do about it,
and decided, as usual, nothing. The war
has to be Won That is all The war
will be won. That is sufficient.
"One day, hurrying home, after hard
There were various small books there,
with flexible covers. the kind that sell
for Is cents each. Vaguely knew about
them, and knew they were good, amaz-
ing values, and that sort of thing. but
I had been so busy in recent years that !
had never bought any, and I thought I
had no time for reading. Reading, just
reading-Why that was almost unpatrio-
tic, wasn't it?
This day something stirred me to sc
inside and examine the books. I de-
cided that they looked good. love books
and it had been a shame that for various
reasons hadn't read much lately. So
decided, and deciding. picked out half q
dozen of the little books, and went home
with them.
Ever since, have been reading de-
tective stories. mystery stories. murder
stories, call them what you will, and they
are called by many names. I know again,
the thrill of the chase. the happiness OF
pitting ones wits against the criminal
and against the author!
Evening star., 1943-10-01
Berlin Harvest

The harvest season on the Spree
draWs near,
And. pallid as the ghost OF morbid
fear,
The sickle OF the moon shines ,Uanly
The barren prospect OF the dying
Aboue the reapers, in the autumn
sky,
The 1Uinds OF freedom drtue the
storm clouds b.;
The rain that falls is rain OF death
and doom:
The thunder droDns the reapers'
an9uished cry.
The sheaues in phich the "Herren-
DOlk" 1Oould bind
The bodies, souls and conscience
OF mankind
Are scattered to the corners of the
earth:
They reap the 1Ohirlpind now, ,pho
sotDed the mind.
KINcAIp.
Evening star., 1943-10-01
GoebbeIs GurbIes

WaShington's one and only Nick
Altrock, just returned from an en-
tertainment tour of the Mediter-
ranean front, further entertained a
radio audience a few nights ago
with some of his experiences. At
times Nick was under fire but pulled
through without a hit being regis
tered, in contrast to past occasions
when he faced another murderers'
row in the Yankee Stadium and was
Nlcked for many hit, even as
other pitchers. Ever alert to find out
something new about baseball, even
from unlikely sources, he succeeded
in a remarkable manner. He learned
from a German prisoner, who in
cldentally expressed the naive hope
OF escaping to safety in Nazi-held
Casablanca, that the Yankee Stadi-
am was no more. The Luftwaffe had
blown 1t out of existence. Goebbels
had said so, the last time the
prisoner was home, and that
settled it.
AS the United Nations push ever
closer to victory, more and more
catastrophes like the destruction of
the Yankee Stadium may be ex-
pected, unless Goebbels slips very
badly. Already, according to other
German prisoners, he has wiped out
Chicago and Hollywood, and in
burst OF generosity to the other half
of the Axis has allowed the Japs to
sink most of our fleet. The total
demolition of the Atlantic seaboard,
down to the last A coupon, may be
logically expected soon. But Just
wait until the going gets really
tough, and the fighting is in Ger
many. Then he may we'll take off
all wraps and land a Nazi Army in
the United States, carefully timing
the progress of the invasion so that
1t Is complete just as Berlin falls.
The widest dreams always occur just
as the opium gives out.
Evening star., 1943-10-01
Adriutic Roce

America S attention to the invasion
OF Italy is naturally concentrated
mainly on its western side. Our Fifth
Army played the leading part in the
Salerno landing, and will continue to
do SO in forthcoming operations up
the west coast from Naples towards
Rome. Those are mouth filling
names, known to all. The conquest
or Sardinia and Corsica, just across
an intervening stretch of water
known as the Tyrrhenian Sea further
emphasize a campaign in the West
ern mediterranean whose objectives
may ultimately be the Riviera and
Southern France, likewise familiar
regions.
Less we'll known to us is the east
ern segment of the Italian war zone,
where the British Eighth Army has
been working rapidly up from the
heel of the peninsula along the
coastal littoral which borders the
Aoriatic Sea. The first important
strategic objective gained by this
advance was the taking of Foggia,
roughly opposite Naples, with it's
multiple airfelds. This achievement
was hailed by President Roosevelt in
a recent press conference as opening
the way for intensified aerial often
SlVes on the Balkans and Central
Europe, since from Foggia a 6OO-mile
bomber radius includes Munich,
Vienna, Budapest, Sofia and the
Ploesti oilfields.
Almost equally important is the
fact that it places within fighter
range most of the Adriatic, thus
paving the way for Allied naval
mastery Of that narrow, elongated
sea which sunders Italy from the
Balkan Peninsula on its eastern
shore. With fighter plane protec-
ton, Allied warShips and even cargo
vessels can henceforth venture into
those waters, bearing aid to the Yu-
goslav and Albanian guerrillas who
are now so active all along the coast
1t is to forestall such Allied interven-
tlons that the Germans are striving
to consolidate their grip on this
neWly-exposed frontage of their
European fortress. Hence, the Adri-
attic is the scene of an animated race
between the contending forces.
Nowhere was Italy's detection from
the Axis more embarrassing to Ger
many than on the Adriatic front. So
long as the Italian Navy was an Axis
instrument and Italian garrisons
could be relied on, the Adriatic was
virtually closed to Allied penetration
Their twotold detection left sudden
gap which had rapidly to be filled by
German and satellite troops. This
the German high command is pro-
ceeding to do. Outstanding in this
| occupational process are the garri-
soning of Corfu, the Greek island at
the bottle-neck mouth of the Adri-
attic, and the taking of Split or
Spalato, the key port on the Dalama-
tian coast. Splits Importance is due
to the fact that it is the water ter
minus of the railway which crosses
the lofty mountain range that cuts
off the coast from the rugged hinter-
land. This is the most feasible base
for an Allied invasion of the Balkans
south of Fiume and Trieste, which
lie far to the northward at the head
of the Adriatic. Once established at
Split, the Allies would be in imme-
diate touch with the centers of Yu-
goslav guerrilla activity in Bosnia
and Serbia. But this the Germans
have forestalled, at least for the mo-
ment.
| An Allied invasion Of the palkani