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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25
The Brighter Side

IRVING BERLIN'S show, This
4 Is the Army" is closing its
stage tour on the West Coast
and passes into theatrical and
military history as one of the
most amazing incidents of NOR
ale effort in any war.
1t has netted upward of
100000 for the Army Emer-
gency Relief Fund, which may be
increased several millions more
by a motion picture that Is 10
be made from the show with
most of the original cast.
However, without considering
the potential returns from the
picture, the show has estab-
lished a record for receipts for
a war effort that probably sur
passes any other single agency.
Irving Berlin, the little Rus
sian-born genius of Tin Pan
Alley" who came out of the
deadfalls Of Chinatown some 30
years ago to thrill the nation
with a new type of popular
song. is almost entirely response
bic for This Is the Army"
He thought it up, wrote il,
staged it and has practically
managed il from start TO finish.
He negotiated the deal to in
crease its take through the pic
lures.
l would not say il is the
climax of Berlins career. as at
54 the wispy, black-haired COM
poser still has plenty of vitality
and inspirational power that
will probably give us other and
perhaps greater things before
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25
BY Il. v. DurIing :
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Attack on Sumatra by Japan. 2
--Japan's maritime forces weak
ened by Americans. 3-DeStruc-
ton Of Japanese cities and her
crushing defeat.
Sir Thomas Beecham, musician
and pill fortune heir, married
a girl whose first name was
Utica.
In his recent suit for divorce
Sir Thomas stated Utica was
somewhat extravagant.
"She once spent 100000 in
q week." said he.
There have been some tre-
mendous fortunes made from
the sale of pills.
An astute man of trade once
said the best thing to sell was
something people consumed inn
mediately or only used once and
then threw away.
Just check on how some OF
our great fortunes were made
and see how right this man was.
IT WAS reported that in the
4 Boston night club fire the po-
lice had considerable difficulty
in identifying women victims
because all they had 10 identity
them was in their handbags,
which had been left behind in
the fire or misplaced.
Men. too, usually have their
Identification material in wallets.
Why couldn't everybody have
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25
Better Health G III.
BY Dr. Logan Clendenin9

THE fingernails and toenails
l. are often an index TO the
general state of the body.
This is frequently pointed out
by clinicianS 10 medical students.
But as matter Of fact many
of the diseases of the nails are
entirely local
The breaking and scaling of
nails and the general shaggy APP
pearance which they occasionally
take on is either due 10 ring
worm infection of the nail bed or
10 a pus infection by staphylo-
coccus germs of the nail bed
These infections produce a
very unsightly appearance in the
nails, but they can be corrected
with considerable certainty by
the use Of the ordinary methods
that are used for ringworm in
lection and pus infection else
where.
THE use of Whitfield's ONT
l. ment or some other prepa-
ration which kills of ringworm
is indicated first.
If this isn't completely sue
cesSful. exposure TO the X-ray
should be made
Exposure TO the X-ray also
works in the case OF pus infec-
ton, and antiSeptic ointments
and opening up the skin over the
base of the nail bed 10 let out
pus cures these conditions
Ridges on the nails trouble a
great many people.
In most cases they do not
mean anything,
a traverse ridge from side 10
side-on- all the nails Of the fin
gers means that at one period in
nail growth there was bad nu-
triton.
This bad nutrition might have
occurred during a period Of
fever or otherNillness.
7 HAVE seen a doctor tell by
l. patients nails that a certain
number of weeks ago he had ty-
phoid fever and also tell him
how long the typhoid fever
lasted.
Nearly any infection or period
of acute bad health will cause
these transverse ridges.
Longitudinal ridges in the
nails, which run up and down,
do not mean anything.
They are simply an indication
Of an irregularity in the root of
the nail or nail bed and this is
an anatomical condition which is
laid down at birth.
In many instances these longi-
tudinal ridges can be traced by
heredity from son TO father 10
grandfather and in the female
line from daughter TO mother 10
grandmother.
Brittle nails are a mystery TO
the medical profession.
A good many of them, per-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25

Where did yoW come from, baby
dear?
out Of nol0here into here.
Where did you get your eyes Of
blue?
out Of the sky as came through.
But hon did you come TO rs, you
dedrl
God thought about you, and so
am here.
George Macdonald.
(Above is an excerpt from a
once popular lullaby.
THE baby song situation be-
came somewhat confused when
the tin pan alleyists started
writing songs about grown-up
babies.
II think the first of these
was: II Guess III Have TO Tele-.
graph My Baby"
The best Of the innumerable
grown-up baby songs is: Il
Can't Give You Anything But
Love, Baby" Second best:
"Yes, Sir, She's My Baby"
OVETA CULP HOBBY. Com
" mander of the WAACs. She
measures 5 feet 3, and thus it
may be said she is the country's
most famous cute, little trick"
Lois January. Cheerful. little
eyeful. is from McAllen, Tex.
Linda Monette Eloyse OAR
nell. cinema cutie. She's from
Dallas. Tex. though her given
names sound as if they came
from New Orleans.
All three young women men,
toned so far are from Texas.
There must be at least 1000
beautiful and celebrated Texas
born girls.
Sometimes I even think there
are more, famous girls from
Texas than there are from
Brooklyn.
Greer Carson. Seems as if
she is destined 10 become the
first lady of the screen.
She certainly Is possessed OF
those -four attributes Of great
lady" /. e., sympathy. simple
ity. sincerity and serenity.
Only time Greer loses her
serenity is when the band starts
playing a rumba tune.
But then that is not bad.
When serenity is continuous
il ceases 10 be a virtue and be-
comes boring.
AS TO Japan and this war,
"A Nostradamus predicted the
course of events as follows: l.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25
An Innocent
Bysfander's Notes

once-over. Stout Is persuasive
on the radio because the Nazis
have been under his skin too
long. He gave up a heavy in
come TO give full time to max
ing a fool out of the Berlin liars
and cry-babies.
The lingo of the Raj fliers is
reported, with samples, by
George BLUR in the American
Mercury. If you can find the
English for "the pukka gen is
that he was brassed of with
Wimpies when he went for a
Burton" you qualify 10 throw
bombs at the enemy. It's weirder
than boogie-woogie, but it's in a
better cause.
THE Front Pages The APP re-
i ported Drew Pearsons and
this reporters truce with the
networks, adding that we had
regained the right TO holler
freely.
The New York Times found a
secondary item in the yarn TO
support a headline: "Winchell
Admits Error"
Strictly legal and all that sort
athing. but you never thought
the Times would let itself get
caught angling" a story It's
like catching the teachers pet
putting cubeb.
Writes Pegler:
sour govt had set Its face
against Nszi-Fascists In instinc-
tive preparation for the inevits-
bile war and the Dept of Justice
WAS on the Job and the hunt for
such vermin was ioyously taken
up by some of our best report
ers."
Best reporters? Why. Peggy,
l didn't know you cared!
I'ftE InteillgentSla: Inonas j.
i HamiltonS "Appeasement'S
Child Knopft is diagram of
Spanish fascism's breathing
corpse. II makes you wonder
why we still sit at the same
table with them.
Foreign newsgal Alice-Leone
Meats has rolled out of her type
writer a racy account of her ad-
ventures in Russia. in Blind
Date with Mars" Doubleday
DoranD.
q Thomas Mann's thought-pro-
voking Listen. Germany"
(KnopG is worth spilling into
your mind. The trouble with
Germany is they didn't listen TO
people like Mann.
II you send books 10 soldiers
make sure they're interesting.
Just any book isn't good enough.
Boredom never aided anybody's
morale.
Copyright BY Daily Mlrror. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25
4 Peek Through KnOthOIe
Boer's Waffle Flour
Has SowmiII Twong
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

don't know the wife puts in her wafAes these cold
mornings, but they have knotholes in EN-
I've got reinforced suspicion that shes getting her -four
in a sawml.
Everything these days around neck Of the
The maple syrup thin give the waffes coat
with a spray gun.
If our butter is on the level we must be getting
frightened That goes for the milk too 1t hasn't been the
right shade of blue for weeks.
Now, don't mind walking riding bicycle for the
duration. if oil wish the wife would stop
putting 1t in the coffee. ...l Nt.
She's got a system all her We have to hire
watch the nexdoor neghbors who used to steal
milk and rolls Now, they put theirs alongside
know what for. coffee, but it's the
Mississippi the delta STILL the folks down at
New Orleans say the Mississippi wouldn't be bad if wasn't
for the Missouri.
I'm up that I'm scared to order cottage cheese
they will bring a bod and will have to join
brcklayer's union to eat il.
( copyrgh " In
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25
by Damon RunyOn

he folds, but I suspect that TO
Berlin himself il is the most
satisfactory effort of his life
and the one that gave him the
greatest pleasure.
LIE TRAVELLED with the show
IL throughout the tour that
took it to big cities of the coun-
try. and at the certain moment
that all audiences awaited as the
high spot of the performance, he
appeared with his little group of
fellow veterans of World War /
in their old campaign hats and
uniforms the style of '16 TO sing
"Oh. How ! Hate to Get Up in
the Morning"
Sometimes he sang when his
larnyx was so raw from colds
that his piping voice scarcely
carried beyond the footlights and
occasionally he had TO resort to
a microphone, an instrument I'M
known in the days Of the other
war when he sang the same song
with the same chorus in his "Yip,
Zip. Yaphank.
Berlins singing has been vsri-
ously described but Frisco" the
dancer. covered il best years ago
when he stuttered:
'Trving's not n b-b-bad singer.
Only y-you have to h-h-hug him
to hear him."
Oddly enough, one of Berlin's
greatest song hits, God Bless
America" was written for the
soldier show. "Yip. Zip. zap
hank" undoubtedly the pappy of
This Is the Army" but the
composer did not think it good
enough and put it away on a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25
March Of Events
BY Benjamin DeCasseres
ENTO PERSON shall he held

HNO PERSON shall he held
~ to answer for a capital. or
otherwise Infamous, crime, un-
less on a presentment or indict-
ment OF a grand jury."-Article
Five Of the Bill of Rights.
As Stanley j. Quinn of the
American Defense Society. in
pamphlet. The Grand Jury. The
Unused Safeguard of the Pub
lie" says
"Our nation today II paying n
bitter price for the racketeerlng
lstrikes which halted the pro-
)iuction OF articles for defense.
MANY Of these strikes were
marked by felonies and violence.
yet the communities involved
failed to use the constitutional
means which could have been
used TO put down disorder and
sabotage"
THAT means is the grand
L jury.
We have not realized what
tremendous weapon for the
preservation of our liberties and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25

a minute number tattooed on
them?
So small that d magnifying
glass would be needed TO
read it.
This would furnish a certain
means of Identification and
would not be objected TO as fin
gerprinting often is.
A MAN of science points out
"a that there are male and fe-
male asparagus.
He says the female asparagus
Is larger and of better quality"
Keep that in mind, lady.
Next time you buy bunch or
asparagus be certain 70 ask the
grocer:
els this male or female?"
The aforementioned man OF
science did not explain how to
tell the sex of a bunch Of
asparagus, but 1 suppose the
grocer knows.
QUERIES from clients:
VI Q-My husband brings the
strangest people home to dinner.
One of his pals is a quaint
kind of a quiz expert.
For instance, if you say that
your brother could lick his
weight in wildcats" this fellow
viii ask: How much does a
wildcat weigh?'
This prompts me to ask you
that question.
A-Regret 10 say we have no
wildcat experts on our staff.
However, l think wildcat
weighs about Is pounds.
Q-When ! was a kid some
body in the neighborhood always
had a clever parrot.
Now nobody seems to have a
parrot. Why?
Att has for some time been
against the law to import par
rots in the United States.
ON a football game be-
tween Loyola and the University
of San Francisco Joe bet Jim
San Francisco would not score.
Final score was Loyola Z, S. z.
2. Now Joe won't pay off.
He claims Loyola did. all the
scoring. How about il?
Aft Joe doesn't pay off he
is a welcher. His claim is ridicu-
lous.
San Francisco by forcing
Loyola into spot where a
safety was necessary, scored 2
points.
Copyright, 1913. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25

THE Magic Lanterns Some OF
i the long-run films ran out
Of breath and made way for a
trio OF newcomers.
The Crystal Ball. Is an
agreeable dish of escapism. with
Paulette Goddard, Virginia
Field and Ray Milland larking
il up. The moral is not TO invest
on the advice of fake fortune
tellers. William Bendix. as a
comic chauffeur. commits first
degree scene larceny.
Deanna Durbin is very win
! some in The Amazing Mrs.
Holiday a tale about getting
orphans out Of China. She
orioles a pair of arias delight
fully. But the bright news is
that Barry Fitzgerald has finally
got Hollywood aroused from
their Slumbers) 10 the fact that
he's a mighty handy comedian.
Lon Clancy Jr and Bella Luz
gosi meet head on in "Franken-
stein Meets the Wolfman."
You've had better nightmares.
The films have decided 10 cut
out banquet scenes. showing
heaps OF foodstuffs. until the rs-
tioning is over. II took world
war TO kill that dullest OF
scenes.
THE wireless: The fall OF
l. Kharkov 10 the Soviets did
something that nothing else ever
did--it shut Goebbels' trap. Ray
mond G. Swing told why.
The NaziS couldn't use tho
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25

haps, are due TO nail polish or
strong soap or exposure TO
weather or 10 chemicals in in
dustry.
DUT for most OF them there is
- no really good accounting.
They also have an hereditary
tendency.
They should be treated by the
use of oils and greases and
soaked in warm water and the
use of very mild soap.
Color changes in the nails are
usually Of no significance.
The white spots. leuconychia,
have no meaning al all.
Nearly any chemical which is
taken into the body which dis
colors the skin, also will discolor
the nail.
Now last. TO name the nail
conditions which indicate a gen.
eral constitutional disease: we
find the nails which go with
dubbed acknowledgement of
the hands and fingers with nails
that are gently dome-shaped. OF
an egg shell consistency and are
indications of an infection of the
lungs or of congenital heart dis
ease.
have seen a diagnostician
take a natient with dubbed fin
gers and curving nails and make
a diagnosis of an old, neglected,
undrained abscess in the lung on
the ground that they indicated
constitutional disease.
QUESTIONS. ANSWERS
y. Pr have been in bed five
weeks with rheumatic fever.
Does one have to have absolute
bed rest?
Does this fever come right
back again if one is exposed to
cold or gets chilled?
Answer-It is wise to enjoin
a long period of bed rest in
rheumatic fever in order to pro-
tect the heart.
Although il is true that rheu-
matte fever tends 10 recur. there
is no rule or regularity about its
recurrence.
w. NJ. docs taking one
and sometimes two teaspoontuls
of baking soda before bed harm
a person?
My husband takes il every
evening. regardless of what he
has eaten or how he feels.
Answer-This amount of bak-
Ing soda does no harm to any
one.
Baking soda is simply sodium
bicarbonate. which is an alkali
that neutralizes acid stomach.
Undoubtedly a person who
takes it in this way has some
degree of acid stomach and this
makes him comfortable so that
he can get TO sleep.
Quit nagging your husband.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25

TiIE First Nights: The shows
L keep drifting in one at a
time, maybe because the long
run hits won't surrender the
stages.
This Rock" which fetched
Billie Burke back 10 town, was
the weeks only white collar &C.
casion. This is another study
of England, nick-named This
Rock, under the blitz. Which
means the spirit is applaudable.
But the story doesn't wear foot
lights becomingly. according TO
the jury.
There was a warm welcome
for Miss Burke, and a big hand
for Alastair Kyle. a refugee tot
from London. Zachary Scott
and Jane Sterling are the
courtin' pair. The N. Y. Times
voted against IL, finding IL
wooden figures expressing over
written thoughts"
Two chorines we're comment
ing on the very upstage star
of their opera.
"She's society crazy" OBJ
served one. Dying to get into
the Social Register"
AS what" volcanoed the
other. "A misprint ?"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25
AUTHORIZATIONS 9

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-25
On Broadway
BY Walter WincheII

Trad. Mark Registered. Copyright iS4s
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-09
Circus Sets Hour
For Swing Shift

After protests from swing Shift
workers that they would be un-
able 10 see the Big Show this year
because Of the inconvenience or
impossibility Of attending at the
times for which the show is Sched-
uled, Ringing Brothers Circus
today announced two special per-
formsnces for these persons.
Both performances are sched-
uled for 1870 a. m. the first, on
Monday, Aug. IS. at Livernois and
Lyndon; the second at Harper
and Conner on Sunday, Aug. %.
In both cases the doors will be
open at $50 a. m.
Also, according 10 Ringing Of
ficials, the side show has been
ordered to stay open continuously
from noon TO midnight during the
entire run of the circus here
thereby permitting swing shift
workers 10 enjoy il either before
or after work hours. 1t was fur
ther emphasized that the whole
arrangement might have a pre-
ventative effect on absenteeism
among circus fans.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-09
Arrested
As SHit-RuIl
Driver

Police today held John Swier-
zynski, %. OF 6201 Dubois. believed
10 have been the driver of an
automobile which shortly after
midnight ran down Douglas
Banks. 81. OF 13445 Riopelle, at
DeQuindre and Dearing.
Banks is in Receiving Hospital
suffering broken arm, broken
leg and internal injuries.
Swierzynski was arrested by
Detective Charles KiSsaw Of the
Accident Prevention Bureau, who
found an abandoned automobile.
slightly damaged. in front of PHO
Mclean. In the car was q post
card from California addressed TO
Swierzynski.
When he went 10 the latter's
home he found him and two
others in front of the house. and
after questioning them took them
10 the detective bureau. The two
others, who were not held, said
they were in the car that hit
Banks. and that SwierzynSki was
the driver. Swierzynski refused
10 talk.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-09
10000 Books ;
Still |IUnmdiIed

The OPA today called for an
additional 500 volunteers TO aid
in processing the remaining 10000
applications for ration book No. 3.
There were originally a total OF
5,375.0 900 for the state Of Michi-
gan.
OF the full number. 1900. 900
books have been handled on a
voluntary basis by inmates at
Jackson Prison.
The volunteers are asked TO re-
port 10 1502O Woodward.
Persons who have changed their
address since they filed applica-
lion for the new ration book and
have not listed the change with
the post office may call at local
Tationing boards Monday. Aug.
Is, for applications. Where new
addresses are available. the change
will be made by the OPA and the
books will be received by next
Saturday.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-09
Fights Shark
Michigan Filler Rescued
In Mediterranean

Two days and nights Of drifting
aimlessly fighting hunger and
sharks was the experience Of a
Michigan fiier rescued yesterday
after his Flying Fortress crashed
into the Mediterranean Sea.
Second It. Robert L. kyrz Of
Clawson was pulled aboard the
planes dinghy by his companions
after a battle with a shark which
ripped his arms and fingers.
Kurz and three others were
thrown from their foundering
plane into the water. As soon as
they recovered they fought their
way 10 the tiny dinghy. Kurz was
last 10 be pulled aboard. torn by
the shark and almost exhausted
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-09
Wire Workers
Ask Strike Vote

The first JAW strike vote under
the provisions Of the recently en-
acted Smith-Connslly Act today
was sought by workers Of the
Essex Wire Corp. unit of Local
No. 35l of the UAW.
The vote is sought. union Of
ficials say, because the company
fired - members when they re-
turned 10 work following a wild
cat strike, although company
officials had allegedly promised
there would be no such disciplinary
action. And, they add, the work
ers are being penalized by low
wages. while the company has
refused 10 settle grievances which
have been pending since March of
this year.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-09
Gen. HanseII Pledges
AN-0ut Raids on Ndzis.

NEW YORK, Aug. 9 QNS)-
The Allied air campaign against
Germany will continue until Ger
many is no longer willing or able
to resist our military might" Brig.
Gen. Hansell maintained today.
Just back from Britain where
FOR six months he commanded a
wing Of Flying FortresSes in the
u. S. Eighth Air Force. Gen. Han
sell said that Germany is bleed
ing internally as a result of the
Allied air attacks.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-09
Guard Is Found Dead
In Federal BuiIdinu

Stewart Van Auken, 49. of 81
Tennyson, guard in the Federal
Building, was found dead in the
e h m bers of Federal Judge
O'Brien about midnight by Ed
ward Thomas of 1485 f. Grand
Blvd, another guard.
Thomas told police that earlier
in the evening Van Auken COM
planned Of feeling i'll, and said he
was going TO lie down in Judge
O'Brien's room. When he failed to
appear after a few hours. Thomas
said, he went to the chamber and
found him dead.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-09
DetrOiter on Boat
Which Sank Sub

How one OF the navy's new
small, powerfully armed Subma-
rine chasers. with a Detroiter
aboard. sank Japanese sub
marine in the far Pacific, was
revealed today by the navy.
The Detroiter is Radioman
Joseph A. Bocci, of 1914 Snow
den.
After sighting the sub. which
was preparing to attack a convoy
during an early morning fog, the
sub chaser gunned and rammed
the underseas boat and sank it in
l3 minutes.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-09
Daily Newspaper
Issued on AirIiner

BOSTON. Aug. 9 UNS)-The
worlds first aerial daily news
paper. Minute Men," containing
last minute national and interna-
tional news has been launched
aboard a Northeast Airlines plane
flying $500 feet above Gloucester.
d Editions were produced stimuli
taneously at all the airline's COM
mercial terminals throughout New
England and Canada, and, in ad-
dition, were relayed by plane to
Northeast's stations in the Arctic
and across the North Atlantic.