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Evening star., 1943-12-22
Spain
Continued From First Page.

coup have been circulating and it is
apparent that many Spaniards, now
convinced of Allied victory, are
hoping to remodel their government
in time for the peace conference.
A Spanish government announce
ment at Madrid today said the
Franco cabinet at a series of meet
ings had approved an unspecified
number OF "pardons for the Christ
mas flestas" and that 5000 political
prisoners had been given their con-
ditional liberty.
Franco had decreed earlier that all
Republicans imprisoned under the
law OF military rebellion might be
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Washington Produce

From the War Food Administration
Prices paid net fob washington. -''o"
EGGS--Market steady Receipts tncreas-
ing rapidly. Prices paid for Federai-State t.
tDecember go Whites. o. S. grade A,
large, 81; o. s. grade A. medium. IL: q. s.
grade 3, large. ~. Browns, q. 8. Grade A.
medium, 47.4s: average. A.: o. s. grade B,
large; 46-47; average. ~: q. g. srade c.
500 average AZ. Receipts, Government
y, LIVE POULTRY--Market Arm Receipts
liberal: Prices paid net fob. washington
permitted transportation charges included
according to milease). Broilers and fryers,
2Sh.30; fowl, 26M-2s: roosters, 1920
Practically no turkeys received and prices
net lob. Washington nominally un-
chsnsed: YOUNG hens and toms, Is pounds
ana under 364-3s; 1920 pounds, 343z-
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Army Takes Over Case of FLYER
Wed7 Times, Divorced Three

The probation omcer's report gave
this account Of Munday's marital
history:
His first wife is dead, and divorces
or annulments ended three other
marriages.
The seventh wife, Flora Medlin
to whom he was married last Octo-
ber 7 under the name of Gordon
Richard Allison, went to Santa
Monica police and caused the arrest
after Munday left her to return to
his fifth wife, Martha johnson
Munday, to whom he was wed in
Hollywood December l6, 1912
Munday's sixth marriage, in North
Carolina last January 3. was to
Matty Bell Allen of Statesboro. Ga
None OF the last three marriages
was terminated by divorce or an
nulment, the report added.
Evening star., 1943-12-22

freed If they show exemplary con-
duct and absence of malice"
A recommendation also was sent
to the Cortes Degislature) provid-
ing for re-establishment OF the
right of Spaniards to appeal deci-
sions Of the government.
This reform. it was expected, may
follow the lines suggested earlier
this week by the Falange secretary
general. He urged that Franco
authorize a certain elasticity in
the regime now that the civil war
is long past.
Another decree announced AT
Madrid today dealt with reorgani-
zation of the powerful Falange mil
lila which. it was indicated by an
announcement two days ago, either
will be dissolved or incorporated in
the regular army.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Ring
Continued From First Page

38, and j. G. Hearty, 48, both of New
York; Philip Peters, %, and William
j, Regan, about 55, both of Detroit
Harry Novick. 48, of Jacksonville
Fla; Edward Turner. about so, said
by Mr.. DUNCAN to be owner of the
Quarterback Club in Miami. Fla.
and Arthur lombard, IS, of New
Haven, Conn
All the men. except Turner, Mr.
DUNCAN said, were being questioned
at the New York Office of the tax
unit. He described Turner as being
Ill Of pneumonia in his suite at the
Park Central Hotel
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Foreign Exchange

NEW YORK, Dec. % LP,.-Foreign ex-
change rates follow tGreat Britain in dol
lars, others in cents):
Canadian dollar in New York open mar
sst; 10 per cent discount or 5000 United
Europe-Great Britain, ofieial, bu,inx,
4.02: selling, 4.O4
Latin America-Arsentins, free, 2S12,
down .03 Of q cent; Brazil, free soon;
Mexico. 20.65n. Nominal
Evening star., 1943-12-22

vice commander Of q storm troop
company, and Richard Ratzlaw,
Gestapo auxiliary police corporal.
The fourth member Of the quartet
was Mikhail Bulanov, Russian,
who served as a Gestapo chauffeur.
Evening star., 1943-12-22

Blood plasma saves those fighting
to save you. Brother, can you spare
a pint? Call Blood Donors, District
$500, for an engagement to give your
blood.
Evening star., 1943-12-22
Washington Exchange

Washington Gas $500 pfd.-,o A. ,ol
) at 104 h''
WASHINGTON Gas IS pfd.-iO At Ios
WOODWARD Il Lothrop pfd-lO At I21.
Evening star., 1943-12-22

Eek dividend. tPlus extras Paid 80
far this year esTa extra $500 ex-
r. zoe extra: m S1.60 extra Paid
IN 1912. $4,000 extra
Evening star., 1943-12-22
NEW YORK. Dec. 81 (P.-Natio,
soclatlon Securities Dealers, Ine
Dividends Announced

declared.
Accumulated
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-13
Learns HOIc 10 Walk
Carrier Pigeons Help
Manufacturing Boer
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

Now that haven't got motor do lot of things
by carrier pigeon and African drum signals.
tired Of racing motorcycle cops anyway. When they
played tag you weren't allowed to touch them back
Whenever want to 60 anywhere now walk 1t
bit difficult at first, but took lessons.
Now get around from chair to chair pretty we'll There
Is traffic problem in town. In the old days would
look south, then north and get it from the east.
In the old days jumped every time heard horn.
known the Human Tddywink.
Now, swing up Market street vines. And it's much
interesting watching people instead of taxcab meters
Do you remember those parking clocks In Main street?
You dropped in nickel to park hour Well they
starting to pay back
have been raoned downward to three pairs of shoes
year I'm allowed extra heel. That's
Well three pairs of shoes year is all right for
people, but I'm slewfooted throw foot with result
out six shoes foot while wearing only three
the other
One thing is certain. You cannot change your shoes
your feet the same you do on your motor
They tell that will eventually be wearing sabots.
That shoes with wooden soles
That's all right with I did like that family
downstairs anyway.
Copyright By Kns
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-13

And the best OF all uaps
To length our days
IL 10 steal a fsU hours
From the night, my dear.
Thomas Moore.
A T THE time of Napoleon's
"A retreat from Moscow the
Russian army was controlled by
a Scotsman named Barclay.
1t was Barclay who planned
the campaign that resulted in
Napoleon's humiliation.
The plan currently used by
the Russians TO rout the Nazi
forces bears a striking SINH
larity to the one originated by
the brilliant Scotsman afore-
mentioned.
Cecil B. De Mile should
make a modern version of his
great success OF yesteryear
Don't Change Your Wife"
Or perhaps in the interests of
improving the divorce situation
he should make one titled:
Don't Change Your Husband"
Since SO many women have
been receiving their own pay
checks there seems to be quite
a rush on the part OF many
young women 10 discard or
change their husbands.
QUERIES from clients:
V Gas to that 100000
600, 900 war budget.
How long would II take one
man to count 500, 000, 600, 900
in dollar bills?
A-Working an 8-hour day II
would take about 5000 years.
That is for a very fast
counter and with no time of for
lunch.
Q-Who was the best short
man In American business his
tory?
A-That would be Andrew
Carnegie whose height was S
feet 4 inches.
He made about $3.50, 900, 900
and gave nearly all of it away.
Q-b it possible for a woman
to have children born Is years
apart?
A-The experts say IL Ii pos
sible for a woman to have chill
dren born 35 years apart.
However. the longest period
between births / have heard Of
is 19 years.
UWHAT are you feeding your
w dogs?" is the question
nearly always asked when dog
owners meet.
Here is a recipe for dog food
sent in by q kindly client:
Two pounds Of horse meat,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-13
Better Health
BY DIR. Logan CIendening

TINWANTED hair, or hair in
~ the wrong places, or hair
on the wrong sex creates in some
instances q tragedy out Of all
proportion to its seeming impor-
lance.
People vary widely in their
mental reactions to these disf1g-
urementx.
As I move on into the great
climacteric Of middle age, I find
that I have hair sprouting from
my ears and my nose and vaIi-
Gus other places where II never
sprouted before.
I do not mind this very much
because 1 am not thinking Of
having a coming-out party and
my pursuit Of the fair sex has
slowed down to a stroll.
I JUST have the barber cut of
L the hair where Ii tickles and
let IL 60 at that.
But this attitude il not shared
by the sweet young thing who is
casting around for q soul mate
and I really think she deserves
all the consideration we can give
her.
Mans ingenuity has been
taxed probably since the days Of
Cleopatra TO get rid Of superflu-
Gus hair, but until the develop
ment OF electrical devices, there
was no reliable means by which
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-13

half-pound coarsely grated car
rots. half-pound Of coarsely
grated parsnips, a pint of to-
mato juice. two tablespoonfuls
of Brewers yeast, quarter-pound
of wheat germ, pound Of good
table scraps.
Boil in kettle for one-half
hour.
Add about two pounds OF oat-
meal TO thicken.
Bake mixture in oven half an
hour.
This my informant states will
make seven pounds Of excellent
dog food.
CAPT. EDDIE RICKENBACK-
~ ER'S father was killed in an
industrial accident.
Eddie went to work in a glass
factory at the age of II.
He worked II hours a day for
which he received $3.50 a week.
II ever a fellow achieved Sue
cess the hard way, II was Eddie
Rickenbacker.
The most effective naval
weapon II the submarine.
But the submarine would not
be worth much without the tor
pedo invented by Robert White
head, an English engineer"
So states a naval expert.
Who am I to correct the naval
experts?
But 1 will buy this particular
naval expert a good cigar or a
pound of first class pipe tobacco
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-13
The On|ooker


dawn was just fighting with
night.
There was a heavy mist and a
wind that drove IL through my
trench coat.
IKE giant ghosts the Fort
resses moved toward the
runway.
There were no lights on them
or in them.
In the haze of dawn and with
the roar Of the motors, a man
felt as IL he were in another
world. watching some strange,
weird ritual.
One by one the fortresses
rolled by.
1t. Gordon Donnelly knew
them rs q trainer knows his
horses and named them of as
they TAXED along.
There's p for Peter, q for
Sugar. III for Henry, J for Jean,
N for Nothing, b for Buggy"
he said.
Lots Of them are going out
today.
TT must be . hot target they
are shooting for"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-13

one moment after midnight
New Years Eve-end made
many front pages in the nation
as the first child born that
year!
MEMOS Of Midnighter:
W1 Pianist Moriz Rosenthal,
the octogenarisn, Ia seriously
ailing at the Great Northern
Hotel.
That first drawing on the wall
of the Cub Is a Cosmo mag. illus
tration.
The gal Ia Martha Mature
the man: Sport Ward.
Tamara, who died In that
crash near Lisbon. was urged to
defer her hop and join the road
troupe of 'Doughgirls" Gas the
Russian sniper.)
"No," she said, 81 gotta go.
I've just had all those Shots"
The Best Tunes of All contro-
versy didn't help the newcomer
at all.
It's first rating was 17.9.
It's second was f0.5.
Meanwhile Info, Please, on its
first two surveys, held to ia
and 17.3.
TNTERMISSION Lobby-T a X:
Il In the forthcoming Vinton
Freddy musical. Dancing in
the Streets" Mary Wickes. az a
Washington colyumist, Is intro
duced to Dudley Digges, q re-
tired Admiral.
ooh, yes" mods Dudley, T
don't read your coluna every
morning!"
Anna Lee Of Hollywood was
discussing her legs with an in
terviewer.
~rhey are rood straight legs,"
she observed. land they ret me
around"
They get lots Of US around.
lady.
All the way around.
Most OF the stay-up late New
Workers have gone to war.
The people you bump into In
the night spots are out-of-
towners there to visit uniformed
mem and service men in 8 to 5
shore jobs.
In Washington they say that
IL Paul McNutt can survive the
gang that's after him-he's a
wonder.
Jim Tullys latest book II "A
Dozen and One" with a Run
yon foreword.
One Of the popular bars and
grills on IS St, patronized by
show folks IL now called: The
AZ Canteen.
Copyright By Daily Mirror. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-13
NV Heart Rode
With Them

WE WALKED down the field.
w stepping In a puddle here
and there. banging our toes
against frozen clods.
After nearly q mile Of this we
came to the planes huddled to-
gether like shivering birds.
The sun had come up bit
and we could see the crews gath
cred under the wings OF the
planes. smoking, talking. fasten-
ing chutes and voting sand
wiches.
There wasn't as much tension
as / have seen in a football
dressing room. The boys seemed
relaxed as IL duel with death
were nothing to get excited
over.
They clambered into the
planes as unconcernedly az pas
sengers at LsGuardia Airport
headed for a trip 10 Washington,
Chicago or Miami.
The motors started really
roaring.
The ground shook.
The four-motored monsters
readied themselves for the take
or.
Then came an unseen signal
from the control tower.
They started moving down
the runway into the biting
winds.
They followed one another at
30-second intervals.
TT WAS then that I realized
l. Just how cruel and callous
the whole business OF war is.
To a Bomber Command this
Is necessarily just a routine
business.
Just so many bombers going
of on an operation flight.
Just so many serial numbers.
Just 80 many HIS for Harry,
SIS for Sugar. Us for Jean.
At the completion Of the mis-
sion there would be nothing
more than a terse communique
and those who failed to come
home were covered by the
cruellest OF all phrases:
such and such q number Of
aircraft failed to return"
I have read that line many
times in the States and IL was
all so far away that it failed to
touch me.
pUT, standing there on a field
- as the Fortresses left the
ground and started climbing.
climbing for a mission against
the enemy, il choked me up be-
cause these weren't just bomb
ers, just steel and brass and
copper riding out to fight. y
These were American boys
taking of on the toughest as
signment that could be given
them.
There was Earl Baldwin of
Yakima at the controls OF
"Helps Angel" \
There was Bill Calhoun of
Birmingham in Eight Ball"
There was Ross Bayles in IF.
d. RS Potato Peeler."
Ercil Eyster of Miamisburg,
o., in Holy Mackerel."
Jack Roller of Los Angeles in
Knockout Dropper.
The clouds swallowed them
but mx heart rode with them.
Dntnbutsd~Ry AeNsught Syndicate, Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-13

his plays and heard an actor
altering some Of his lines.
Kaufman rushed out 10 the
nearest telegraph Office and sent
the actor this wire:
Enjoying your playwright
ing"
In the Hurricane last night an
inquisitive stranger asked a Brit
ish tar many questions.
whats that III. NJ. =. mean
on your hat!' he persisted.
To which the bluejacket re-
piled:
I'm Mustnt syw
DIG Town Novelette,: II we
- mentioned the year II hap
pened a lot Of faces would be
cerise.
What difference does the year
make, anyway
They were devoted for about
six years OF unwedded bliss
when she decided TO comment
crate matters with their likeness
in miniature.
He is q Hollywood name"
and he begged her not to COM
plicate things.
She said she was going 10 have
q souvenir to remember him by.
by heck, and not TO be silly.
There wouldn't be publicity
AZ she wasn't any celebrity
and the papers wouldn't be in
terested in her babies, etc.
So what happened,
The blessed event was born
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-13

il he can deny successfully that
Robert Fulton, originated the
torpedo.
In 1900 Fulton invented a tor
pedo under the sponsorship Of
Napoleon.
The first ship ever blown up
by a torpedo was one SO de-
stroyed by Fulton's torpedo in
the Harbor Of Brest, France, In
1900.
This was SO years before
Whitehead made a torpedo.
HMY HUSBAND was AZ when
NA he enlisted.
81 am 40.
I'VE have been happily mar
ried for Is years." writes CALI
fornian.
IL have done everything I have
seen suggested that q war wife
do to combat loneliness.
II even read Live Alone and
Like It again.
"But I am still lonely.
az wonder IL there Is anything
In the world TO take the place Of
being happily married"
We hear so much about how
readily the civilian Japs sacrifice
things in the interest of their
country's war effort.
But what did the great ma or.
ity Of Japs have to sacrifice?
Even in times Of peace most
Japs never used butter, bread.
meat, coffee and milk.
They never used rubber, wool
or leather.
Only a privileged few had
automobiles.
TT HAS been frequently adj
Il vanced that country resi-
dents are more reliable and
honest than city residents.
However, I have heard Of q
country doctor who regularly
made from Is to 20 calls every
"a hours in extremely cold
weather.
He performed, at times, a.
many as three major operations
on successive nights.
No matter what the time Of
day or night this doctor never
failed to respond to a request
for aid.
And so what!
Most of his patients wouldn't
pay their bills and he had to give
up his country practice because
he went broke.
He is now Q city doctor and Ii
prospecting because his current
patients pay their bills.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-13

CAST Of Characters Abbott
~ and Costello, dancing with
each other beautifully in La
Conga. George Abbott, the play
producer, and Dioca Costello,
the Latin LULU
Susan Hayward swimming in
the Park Central pool.
Ball-of-fire Arleen Whelan. of
the smash hit. "Doughgirls."
demonstrating in the Stork.
Commodore Dutch being evict-
ed from Madison So. Garden by
Revenue men. Such pushing!
Helen Hayes, the American
star the other IS applaud.
Miriam Hopkins and John
Gunther. looking very adult and
New Yorly.
Mary Martin, the cowgirl,
entering Hotel Navarro on 59th.
Carol Lands, whose war rec.
ord shames many who try to
date her.
Madeleine Carroll at Coz
Rouge, In q simple tailored suit
the most attractive woman in
the place.
Milton Berle, asking:
did you hear my new radio
show? I'm terriblev
Paul Whiteman, who'll play
himself In Gershwin's life story.
Cigar headed east on 18th
Street Immediately followed by
Edward G. Robinson.
NEW WORKERS Are Talking
~ About: The grand playing
of Helen Hayes In Harriet at
the Henry Miller.
Treasury Dept Paul Ran
dolph's ailing mother.
Libby Holman. doing her eye
exercises In coat and legligee--
on the landing outside her Berk-
shire Hotel window.
Mrs. Arthur Murray. who
rides q bike abvut 9:45 each
morn down Park from 18th.
Marjorie Holmes, whose first
novel "Wefid by the Tail, I" will
be published In April by Lippin-
colt.
The Swiss Gov't's soon due
red-face-maker.
1t will name all bank deposi-
tors and the amount of their
boards, etc.
Not only will this embarrass
Goering. Coebels and Co.. but
many Londoners and others.
SALLIES In Our Alley: George
~ 8. Kaufman, In the Lambs
Club the other night, observed:
'Tf you think those Russians
are good On ons-night staads--
walt'll they play full weesss.'
Kaufman slipped In at one OF
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-13
TT HEAVY BOMBER BASE.
~ SOMEWHERE IN ENG

SOMEWHERE IN ENG
LAND.-Ths lieutenant yanked
my blankets and said:
"If yes want 10 So the kids
20, you better ret up"
The lieutenant could have saved
himself the trouble of awaken
ing me, as the Flying Fortresses
already had done that an hour
earlier.
As they numbered from the
dispersal points, their motors
were splitting and coughing with
impotence to get going.
tumbled out Of bed and out
OF the barracks in two minutes.
II doesn't take q correspond
ent long to be up and moving
at an air base.
He doesn't have TO dress, be-
cause he sleeps in his clothes to
keep warm.
He doesn't have TO shave be-
cause there is no running water.
He doesn't have TO eat be-
cause it is too early for break
fast.
II was ss cold as only Eng
land can be.
When i reached the outside,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-13
nR. GALLUP, the poll man.
~ has quite a streak of humor

II 49, ofAA@A<OEs dhc pm AihdAi
~ has quite a streak of humor
in him.
He has had his pollers going
around asking citizens these
questions:
Twill President Roosevelt
run for fourth term!
2-What are his chances for
reelection IL he does?
The good doctors humor is in
dicated by the first question be-
cause that is just the same as
asking folks il they think there
Is any of the ruinored certainty
in death and taxes, and especi-
ally taxes.
Even the little children in the
street know that President
Roosevelt will run for a fourth
term, If indeed he may not be
said to be running now.
THE good doctors announce
l. ment that his poll shows
that six out Of every 10 voters
think he will run causes one to
wonder about the intelligence of
the dissenting four in 10.
To questions of this nature. I
60 to my friends the professional
pricemakers who will lay the
prices they quote and whose
opinion is more studied than the
run-of-mill citizens that the good
doctor interrogates.
Which reminds me that one Of
these days I must make it a
point to meet some one who has
been quizzed in a Gallup poll.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-13
The Brighter Side

The pricemakers (well, call
'em bookmakers, if you like)
have had President Roosevelt up
there on the board at ] to 4 to
run for a fourth term for some
time. and that is without any
conditions.
He is no price at all il the war
is still going on.
THAT Is, the pricemakers
l. would not book against the
proposition Of President RooSe-
welt running at any odds.
As to his chances of re-elec-
ton, the price with the war still
going on is about / to 8, regard
less of his opponent. and without
the war around even money, de-
pending on the opponent
These are future book quota
tions. you understand, with the
election is months away and a
lot of things can happen in Is
months, especially with a war in
progress.
Some of the pricemakers are
OF the opinion that even If the
war ends between now and
shortly before election, the price
on the proposition of President
Roosevelt running should be
very short on the theory that he
will most certainly want to
have a hand in the writing Of
the terms OF peace.
THERE is no outstanding pros
Il pect for future book betting
as an opponent to President
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-13
Presidential
Poll Checked

Roosevelt either In his own
party for the nomination or
among the Republicans for the
election.
A curious situation, indeed.
AS a rule, there are numer.
Gus prospects around on both
sides for at least q couple Of
years before post time.
You practically can write your
own ticket on a guess at the
nomination on either side, out
side OF President Roosevelt.
The Republican who Is being
most discussed by the political
experts is Bricker Of Ohio, but
he Is little known to the country
at large-much less 50 than
Dewey or Willkie.
DEWEY would be the shortest
~ price had he not scratched
out OF the race.
Willkie would have to re.
enact his miracle of Philadel.
phia to get the Republican nomi-
nation again, which strikes the
pricemakers an 80 improbable
that you can get a real nice
price against him.
Bricker, I think. will wind up
favorite for the Republican
nomination il Dewey backs out,
and barring the possibility that
some bloke on jeepback may
come laundering out of the wei.
ter Of war to catch the imagina.
ton OF the people.
Copyright. 1s43, by King Features
Distributed By international News Services
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-13
LENTEN REDUCING DIET
Saturday--900 Galleries
BREAKFAST

BREAKFAST
One-half grapefruit-1o0 CAL
cries; 2 slices whole-wheat bread
100 calories; / teaspoon but.
ter-5O calories; ! cup coffee
(no cream or sugar..
LUNCH
Egg salad: / egg. Y head let
tuce. French dressing or mayor
naise made with mineral oil
100 calories; 2 whole-wheat
crackers-S0 calories; 1 cup
milk-170 Galleries.
DINNER
One cup tomato juice, hot or
cold--50 calories; 1 serving
broiled, boiled or baked fish
100 calories; 3 tablespoons spin
ach-50 Galleries; u canned
peach-100 calories.