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fane Curry and Asrs. Helen
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eat IL inc ARMY. the Navy and
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R. T. TEARNEY

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aus thing 90 say about that mat
tef SitsUore saws further. IN his
present statement. that ne WAS
al.rn 10 understand ne would
BE- sentenced from two To FIRE
wears
When he confessed. he told
Iearnry where the jewelry was
hidden and Il was recovered.
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q gesture and that Italy will SUE
tcr Peace before the invasion of
that country begins Success of
the Allies in Sicily. If is believed.
las convinced the Italians that
Trey will be unable 10 cope with
he Allied military machine. once
II starts rolling in Italy. and If IS
20 avoid such sr eventually that
will lead BsdOqlio to sue for
DesCe.
Reports from Madrid today said
bet news hss reached that coun-
nv that The marshal shortly will
pat Oui peace feelers.
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RETURN TO CITY

Mr and Ms Joseph c. knight.
pecu i,i1 hsrc abnut week ago
ior san Antonio. Tex. accmPan-
.cd hy Mrs Jscph W knight.
and na1v returned TO Key West
last evening
Ms knight. Jr. and baby re-
11ain,d d san Antonio. l"inIrg
Lieut. KNIGHT vino * stationed
fheu Wn the United States
ltw< Forces.
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BULLETINS

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cases to attend 10 before hoiaiaH
the MsrignY hearing. II n tne
third time the count has appeared
before Magistrate Field since SIR
Harry Cakes ives murdered fss
weeks ago today.
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Ia DIE IN PLANE 44CCiDEN
SANTA FE. Cube Two
American planes crashed on ihn
beach here today and Ia flyers losf
their lives. No further psriiculsr
were given about the accident
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iiuucd warm this afternoon and
tonight. with scattered showers
and ihundcrstormS
Florida Little change in tenn
pcraturc this afternoon, tonight
ard Tuesday forenoon: scattered
showers and thundcrstOrmS this
afternoon and tonight. and over
.nuih portion Tuesday forenoon.
HaitcraS. ~ c. to Apalachicola.
Pa No small craft OF storm
warnings have been issued.
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Evening star., 1943-06-20

1t was on Tuesday that she'd met Bill
Shook. Her lunch at the drugstore came to
twenty cents, and there was nickel change
Because it was payday, and Dawes letter
actually had said - for the first time - that
he was getting lonely, and the world seemed
good, she'd put the nickel in pinball machine
near the cash register. 1t was the first time
she'd ever done that, and after the display of
flashing lights and buzzers she went out feel
ing bit guilty; for she was saving her money
for the things she'd need when Dave sent
for her.
Miss" man was saying at her elbow in
the street, Excuse me, but you didn't COL
lect." He pulled great handful of nickels
from his coat pocket. "The pinball machine"
into little drawer
This was Bill Shook, tall and good-looking
and smooth, smiling at her and extending
handful of nickels. She was pleased and
little excited She found herself laughing.
He came into the drugstore the next noon
as she was eating lunch. and said Hello"
He sat beside her at the counter, and they
got to talking He was awfully nice. She
found herself expecting him each noon. She'd
known him almost two weeks before he asked
for date.
She hesitated, because of Dave. But Dave
was long way off. Dave wanted to pay on
the service station, and he wasn't lonely
enough to send for her. After all, what was the
harm in going to picture show with nice
fellow like Bill?
1t would never amount to anything. she
knew. She was still too much of a country girl.
Evening star., 1943-06-20

Dave didn't have a command of smooth
phrases for every occasion - like Bill. Dave
couldn't order a dinner, and make walters
bow, and get into places on pass. But Dave
was somehow - we'll, solid.
DILL didn't wear so we'll. Perhaps because
she never could get to know him. She went
around with him almost three months, but
knew nothing about him. He knew an amaz-
ing variety of people, but casually. The men
she met at night clubs and parties seemed en-
crossed in sporting events. She came to won
der if it was significant that she'd met Bill
Shook by way of pmball machine.
He took her to the dog races one night,
and at her door later he said, Invite me in,
sweetheart" He'd always said sweetheart"
in casual way.
Its late, Bill. Good night"
wait minute
She waited, looking up at his face There
was something in his eyes that made her un-
comfortable.
II haven't been squirrelie,' he said. 81
haven't rushed you." He expected an answer.
WHICH, Sic ulodC III iCPiy AC oo10, "CN
been seeing each other for quite spell"
you've shown me good time, Bill
81 haven't rushed things"
Il don't understand"
you know I'm nuts about you"
Bill, I've told you about Dave"
A gesture waved that away "I've showed
you my speed. can give you things sweet
heart can give you everything"
But = don't feel that way about you,
Bill can't marry you"
Evening star., 1943-06-20

He shifted his eyes to the door, then back
to her face. 1--WE already got wife"
She thought he was joking. When she saw
he wasn't, she went in quickly, shut the door
and stood with her back against it.
That was the first time she'd felt the fear
that was to stay with her and grow.
During the next week she didn't know
what to do about him. She told him she
couldn't see him any more - but it did no
good He was waiting in the lobby every after
noon when she came down the elevator from
work. If she stepped outside in the evening.
he emerged from the shadows. She pretended
to ignore him. She tried to argue. Bill, for
heavens sake" she said one Saturday after
noon, this can't go on. This is silly
HIGHT" He showed his white teeth.
There's no use being silly"
Bill, will you do me favor? I'm going
to the company ball tonight. It's an annual
affair and -"
I'm call around. What time?"
Its just for the members of the firm. I'm
going with Lorin Roberts - an accountant"
NO" he said.
Il ask you to leave me alone tonight. Bill,
hope you don't spoil all the good times we've
had together"
They were walking along the street. He
smiled in his smooth way. Look, sweetheart;
I'm not rushing you. If you want to sit home
at night, okay. But don't two-time me-
"Two-time =? certainly owe you moth
ing, the way you've acted!'
This guy - Roberts - you like him?"
Please turn 10 noart page
Evening star., 1943-06-20

apartment with the resolve to be more care
full. San Francisco wasn't like Idaho She was
crossing to the kitchenette when she saw Bill
- and gave small gasp.
Bill was lying on the bed, two pillows folded
under his head. His trousers were hiked up
from his ankles to preserve the knife crease,
and his coat was hanging over a chair back.
Hello, sweetheart" he said
She turned with an impulse to flee; then
with chin raised faced him again. BILL, what
are you doing here?"
Were going out for dinner" he said.
I'm not going to dinner with you. I'm
not going anywhere with you. Why can't you
leave me alone?"
Put on your glad rags" he said. He got
up and stretched his lean frame. STOPPING
at the mirror of the dresser, he ran comb
through his sleek hair, adjusted his tie, grim
aced to examine the perfect teeth. He took
the coat from the chair and put it on.
How did you - find me?" Lucy asked.
He grinned slowly That was easy
Lucy had taken new job. moved to new
apartment She'd told nobody, left no ad-
dress. But here he was. He'd found her in
exactly five days ''Ill 60 out in the hall
while you get ready" he said.
NO" She crossed defantly to face him.
Bill haven't you any decency at all? don't
want anything to do with you. just want
you to leave me alone"
He was looking down at her admiringly.
II like you like this" he said Full of spirit.
You're tiger"
SHE brought her hand barrenly across her
eyes why is this wished on me?" she asked
in a wondering way. There are lots of people
in San Francisco. Honest people, hard-work-
ing There must be thousands of nice fellows.
Why did have to run into you? Why can't
you leave me alone? Why p"
I'm go on outside while you bawl'
That stiffened her. Bill! I'm not going
with YOU I'm through with you forever. You
can't molest me- = I'll call the police!"
He turned his face sidewise at the door.
"Whatll you tell the cops, sweetheart"
That you - you're bothering me. You
broke in here today
who's got better right?" The false in
sinuation in his voice brought color into her
face. There's the phone: call the cops. My
words as good as yours. Better. know peo-
pie. III tell them I've been paying your rent
and you tried to run out on me. The news
papers like something like that - Juicy"
His voice was fiat and elemental. IF you want
trouble, you'll get it - I'll wait outside while
you get ready"
Lucy found chair and sat with her elbows
on the dresser and her face in her hands.
When she brought her face up slowly she
looked with numb wonder at her reflection
in the wavy glass. How could anything like
this happen to girl who minded her own
business and tried to be decent?
ONLY three months ago her greatest trouble
was loneliness in the great city. her greatest
worry whether Dave would get lonely enough
back in Idaho to send for her. Big slow Dave
Thorton, who took her too much for granted.
When she told Dave she was going away, he
Evening star., 1943-06-13

Every man in those naval hospitals has
the same idea. go back and get even." They
want to get even for themselves and for their
ships and for their country.
There are Marines in those hospitals,
too. They've fought all over the Pacific,
and in the Atlantic, and they'll fight
again. saw one of them that time went to
Mare Island - Robert Dickey, warrant
officer (now lieutenant) who joined the corps
back in 1923.
He was on Midway when scout plane
sighted a four-engined Jap patrol bomber
over the Pacific. With three other pilots,
Dickey was ordered out to attack the behe-
moth.
The big Jap ship was heavily armored, and
the four tiny Marine pursuit ships met
whitening blast of fire when they attacked.
Evening star., 1943-06-13

Slugs tore into Dickey's arm, shattering the
bone He didn't waver.
With the other pilots he kept coming in,
firing when he could, until the Jap bomber
broke into fame and screamed down into the
sea. Then, his flying toys drenched with his
own blood, he turned back to Midway.
Half conscious, he landed the tiny ship
safely Then he passed out. When he was re-
turned to the Mare Island Hospital, he found
a Distinguished Flying Cross waiting for
him.
1t was in the drawer of his bedside table.
He took it out.
Il can't see why they put these things out
for stuff like that" he said. "A man trains
for fourteen years to do job and then he Just
naturally goes out and does it. It's what he
Please turn - 1sat po1o
Evening star., 1943-06-13

1HE doctor walked out of the ward at the
Naval Hospital grumbling. He was new
to the Navy and new to Navy ways, and
he couldn't understand his patients.
You do everything possible for them, he
complained "You give them the best treat
ment and the best food and the most COM
Portable quarters possible, and what do you
get? Thanks? You do not. All day you hear
just one question: When can l get back to
my ship, Doc? Soon, huh?'
This youngster just left is an example
Had both legs fractured by machine gun bull
let's Still in cast to his waist And what does
he tell me this morning?
Look, Doc,' he says, | can type, you
know, and there's gotta be yeoman in the
old mans office Why can't you send me back
to my ship now, and can do that sort of
stuff until can get back to my gun post
IF that boy leaves his bed before six
months are up, he may never walk again.
It'll be a year before he can 60 back to duty
told him that, and what did he say?
He said, 'Yeh, know, Doc, but this war
might be over in year, and I've gotta get
a crack at those Japs. If I've gotta do it sit
ting down. that's okay, but let me get my
chance When can get back to my ship?'"
They Remember
! HE new doctor grumbles but he doesn't
mean it, Neither do the dozens of other
physicians and surgeons who staff our great
naval hospitals. There are still boys in those
hospitals who were victims of the Jap assault
on Pearl Harbor. There are others who have
been wounded in battles in the Coral Sea, in
the Solomons, at Midway and elsewhere in
the Pacific, in the African campaign. They are
in the worlds finest hospitals, and everything
possible is done to make them comfortable
and happy and speed the day when they can
get back to duty.
But every man in every hospital has
left his heart on his ship. They search the
papers for reports of new battles, for
mention Of their own craft. New
arrivals are put through merclless
griling for information. The Navy is
life to those men, and life without
their ship is empty. n
When see and talk with those .-.s,,
men, my mind goes back to Dean a-.-.,
Darrow. 24-year-od Milwaukee lad
whom saw at the Mare Island Naval Hos
pital some time after the sneak attack at
Pearl Harbor His spirit is typical of them all.
Darrow had been sailor scant year before
Pearl Harbor He hated so to leave his ship
that he spent IS days of active duty after
Pearl Harbor with japanese machine-gun
bullet lodged in his heart 1t sounds impos-
Evening star., 1943-06-13
by Franc Shor

sibe, but it's true Here's his amazing story
Darrow was Fire Controlman Third Class
on warshp in Pearl Harbor the morning of
December 7. He was clad only in shorts when
the first torpedo blasted his ship.
I'VE manned our gun and started firing, -
he said. Don't know how well we did, be-
cause about that time bomb hit and blew
me overheard. A launch pulled alongside me,
and they were just hauling me over the side
- face down - when Jap plane came down
strahng us. l didn't even feel any pain -
everything just went black"
Felt Fine
Harrow woke up later that day in hos
pital He insisted he felt fine, wanted to get
back to duty. Medical officers kept him in bed
for eight days. chiefly for observation. There
was nothing wrong with him, apparently,
except a little wound just under his left
shoulder blade. A she'll fragment, they figured.
and put piece of tape on it. He insisted he
felt fine, and on December Is he was back
aboard his ship.
Darrow stayed with his ship for IS days.
The last couple of weeks were pretty tough.
He was short of breath. He was always late
to his station when drills were called, and he
had trouble negotiating the ships ladders.
His commanding officer, who knew Darrow
as man always prompt at his post, ordered
that he turn in to the sick bay.
In the sick bay Darrow promptly devel-
oped appendicitis. When that was out, the
doctors X-rayed him from all angles. A pic
ture taken from the left side revealed the
amazing cause of his Showdown" Firmly
mbedded in his heart. pointing straight
ahead, was TT machine-gun bullet.
Earlier X rays, taken from front and back.
had failed to reveal the slug. Doctors couldn't
believe it, but there it was.
The story of the removal of that bullet
was reported in medical journals. But the i'm
portant thing about it isn't the operation on
the heart, or the fact that the heart is still in
operation. It's the fact that there's
't""7' still plenty of steel in Darrows heart
'a%''@ - and not the steel of a Jap bullet.
There were lot of men in Dar-
rows ward at Mare Island who were
injured that same morning at Pearl
Harbor For instance, the boy who
occupied the bed across from Dar-
rows when | visited there is typical, too.
H. E. Knight, Gunners Mate Third Class,
had to lie on his stomach while he talked.
A Jap plane dived for his ship, and machine
gun bullets ran right up his left leg. DOC says
it'll be months before I'm out, but l can't
wait that lonp. GOT some scores to settle I'm
Evening star., 1943-06-13

operation. It tne IdCt uldt t1leIeS
still plenty of steel in DarTow's heart
- and not the steel of Jap bullet.
There were lot of men in Dar-
rows ward at Mare Island who were
injured that same morning at Pearl
Harbor. For instance, the boy who
occupied the bed across from Dar-
Evening star., 1943-06-13

mention Of their own craft. New
arrivals are put through a merclless
grilling for information. The Navy is
life to those men, and life without
their ship is empty.
When see and talk with those
men, my mind goes back to Dean
Darrow. 24-year old Milwaukee lad
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-14
AMANDA NJ. WAlLMiKER

Mrs. Amanda NJ WnuImakCr of ll9
Market St, widow of Robert Waul-
maker, died Monday at & 30 p. m, in
city Hospital following il long illness.
She was G7.
Mrs. WHulmakcr was born in
Emcton, Pa, and was resident of
This vicinity for the last 80 years. She
was Il member of Local No. ~ of the
National brotherhood of Operative
pottcrS and the Women's auxiliary
Private Eddy post G6 of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars.
She is survived by Il daughter. Mrs
Florence Knott of East Liverpool two
sisters, Mrs. William Frey and Mrs
Mae Allen of East Liverpool and four
grandchildren.
Services were held from the Martin
funeral home today at , y. III. by Adit
Henry Hitler of the Salvation Army.
Burial was in Spring Grove cemetery.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-14
The Gen. Overlooks A Point

"Corporations should be allowed
to accumulate enough undstributed
profits to enable them to resume peace
time production and employment after
the war That's the plea of Gen.
Leonard u. Ayres, vice president of Il
big trust company i'm Cleveland and
one of the pet economists of Big BuSi-
ness.
We are not disposed to take issue
with the general, but if it is so essen
tial that corporations accumulate
something for that rainy day" which
we all expect after the war, how about
working men and working women?
Shouldn't they be permitted to ac-
cllmulate Il nest egg" too?
Unfortunately, those who applaud
AyreS most insist at the same time
that American workers must be taxed
to their last penny, because if they
have anything left they will start in
hatiOn"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-14
JAMES III. WHITNEY

James III. Whitney, 81, retired pot
ter, died Saturday at il a. IN. at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Bert
Stephens, 1881 Harvey Ave-, following
a years illness.
Mr.. Whitney was born in Monroe
county, and was Il resident of East
Liverpool for the last - years. lie
was II member of the First Church of
Christ and the National brotherhood
OF Operative POtters.
He is survived by Il son, Rhallie
Whitney of Sebring; one other daugh-
ter, Mrs. Mary Dawson of East Liver
pool; Il brother, George Whitney of
East Liverpool two sisters, Mrs.
Dora Sullivan of BarneSvillc, and Mrs.
Sura Golfer of Athens, and eight
Grandchildren.
Services were held Monday at > 80
D. M. from th" Martin funeral home by
Rev. -. Park Chapman of the First
Church Of Christ. Burial was in
Coumbiana County Memorial park.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-01-14
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false claim than the board spent 1896
on the wires, apparently disregarding
altogether the cost TO the taNpaperS"
Wayne l.. Morse, public member of
the board ripped into the papers dis
tortion, declaring its cost figure was
"ll1 per cent wrong" and that, be
cause the tclcguImS were transmitted
from the Philadelphia office, they cost
only S2oi.25. The "Tribunc,' he said,
apparently di>royarded altogether the
facts"
There is no mention in the story
of the cost to 70 nation ut war of n
strike affecting 200 employees cnga gcd
loo per cent in war production" Morse
said.
He pointed ou that the boards tele-
gram called the >lrike 'unpatriotic and
detrimental TO the war effort" and he
added that "rhr type of journalism
represented 10y his Chicago Tribune
press service s,ory is just as ire
SpOnSible.'