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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
Sprint After Him

The county officers sprinted
after their man, while Whalen
got his car i'm motion and eased
alongside the roadster just as it
was swinging away from the
curb.
The suspect realizing he was
blocked on the left, scrambled
out of the car on the other side.
into the arms of Sheriff Wall. A
pair Of handouts clicked on his
wrists.
The following morning Wall
got a fingerprint report from
Minneapolis by telephone
I'VE have two good prints
from the handle. Our records
show they were made by one
August Yaeger, alias Caldwell,
alias. McLeod-but you don't
want to listen to names all day.
You've got one of the most
slippery and amazing criminals
I've heard of. Listen to this ="
At the age of Il, back in 1907.
August Robert Yaeger. one of
eight children of a prosperous
farmer in jamestown. North Da-
kota, forged his fathers name
to a check for five dollars and
cashed II al a local grocery
store.
From then on until 1916 when
he was p, this Yaeger boy was
a constant source of anxiety 10
his father who, 10 protect the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
They Find Hammer

They were all hawk-eycd
hunters and il wasn't long be-
fore one Of them turned UP a
bloodStained hammer that had
been flung into some weeds back
of the barn.
The morning of the crime had
been quite warm-hands would
be sweaty, and the chances for
prints were good. Wall was pre-
pairing to send the hammer TO
Minneapolis when he received a
phone call from his deputy
THE Farmers Union Live
stock Company a commission
house in South 81. Paul, bought
the Oswald cows from a man
who gave his name as Caldwell.
He got a check for Sl43 drawn
on the Drivers National Bank.
81 checked there but II hasn't
been cashed yet so I got in touch
with Chief McAIpine Of South
II. Paul and he promised 40
assign man 10 the bank 20
wait for Caldwell. The cattle
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
Aake' S Drip Lock

Unlike the fragrant and
~ washed multitude, am not
too partial to the overt or covert
charms OF the cinematic belle
known as Veronica Lake but I
bow in tribute TO the genius Of
the gentleman who first con-
ceived the idea OF letting those
lustrous flaxcn locks drip in pro-
fusion over one eye. That was a
WOW Of an attention-getter-and
thereafter, Miss Lake appeared
in several other movies which
were less than masterpieces but
in which she finally developed
into an acceptable actress. In
fact. in one of them. II Married
a Witch" / found myself warm
ing up to her considerably.
The boys If the studio.
whether in the makeup. pro-
ducer's. directors or publicity
department who think up these
attention-getters for the stars or
starlings deserve a round of
applause.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
Murder as Religion

0NE Of the obscurest problems
~ in the human soul is murder
as p religious rite.
Cannibslism is part of the
cannihals' creed. In the eleventh
century there was an organized
band of Arabian murderers.
They were called The Assassins,
in fact. They made their head
quarters on Mount Lebanon.
Hashoosh eaters. they practiced
murder as a religious rite. They
claimed that when they killed
some one an evil spirit left
them
Frazier in The Golden Bough"
gives us many examples of this
tieup among all primitive peo-
Piles of religion and murder. In
Jewish lore the murder-demons
called a dybbuk. In, medieval
times--and EVEN in NourNown New
England Of 800 years aao--this
Misunderstanding impulse was
known as possession"
Now here is this strange In
stinct-if IL is, such-again in a
current novel. The Conspira-
tors" by that handler OF purple
prose, Frederick Prohosch (Har-
peri.
Copyright. 1913 BY KOS ys.tr..
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
A TRUE DETECTIVE STORY

At NOON on July z, 1888,
IA Sheriff John Wall sat at the
kitchen table OF farmhouse on
the outskirts OF Osseo. 10 miles
northwest OF Minneapolis, max
ing notes of what he had cleaned
from. a veritable harvest of
death!
The sheriff had responded TO
the frantic summons of Charles
Oswald. a prosperous farmer OF
the community who had visited
his 22-year-old son, Kenneth
Oswald. and found the entire
household murdered.
AS the sheriff reconstructed
the crimes nc noted that death
had struck thrice in the night
with lichtening-like suddenness.
The killer had evidently entered
by the front door. which in that
law-abiding community is al
ways unlocked.
The trail led directly TO the
stairway and continued TO the
master bedroom above.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
They Find Clue

NOISY, che" muttercd the
sheriff. He was inCredulous
about his own dawnlng sus-
picions. Was II possible that
human being would take three
lives 10 steal two COWS and an
old truck?
As though he read his SUI
perior'S thoughts, Kraemer
broke in:
Lowell here showed me where
TIE Oswalds kept the truck in
the barn and the spot where IL
stood Is strewn around with
homemade cigaret butts.
Looks TO me like some one
sat around waiting for dawn,
for just enough light TO commit
these murders. Then he could
get away with those two cows
in that noisy truck without in
reference"
When the deputy left the sher-
if as an afterthought turned TO
the farm boy:
by the way, Lowell, do YOU
remember Mcleod who worked
for the OswaIds ."
yes. sir"
What kind Of man was
hee"
HE wasn't very friendly with
anybody hut he got along some
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14

By TERRY M'SHANE

buyer describes him as a small,
mouse-faced man with a high
baldish forehead; he wore n tan
shirt and overalls."
Less than an hour later the
officers stopped at the state
criminal laboratories in Min
neapolis where they left the
hammer; then they drove to the
bank. There they easily spotted
ID tective Ernest Whalen
slouched in a car opposite the
bank entrance.
The detective told them that
when the Caldwell check was
presented for payment the pay
ing teller would signal another
clerk who in turn would come
out of the bank entrance mop
ping his forehead with his hand
kerchief.
1t was a quarter of an hour
before closing time. The min
utes passed by swiftly with
waning hope; but at the ebb.
two minutes before the bank
was due to close, an obviously
excited young man came out the
bank door going through the
prearranged motions.
His behavior must have ex-
cited the quarry's suspicious be-
cause a small weaSel-like man
brushed out past the clerk to-
ward a small, red-wheeled road
ster parked about 40 feet down
the block.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14

and consequently must have
known your son. This man
kujawa, how long has he worked
here:"
"Only two months. He was n
thorough, dependable man who
never bothered anybody"
who worked here before
that ."
After some thought Oswald
recalled that IL was a short.
slim middle-aged man named
Mcleod who had had some
slight difference with his son
and asked TO be paid off. The
man left, and so far as the fam
lily was concerned was forgotten.
How long was he here"
about year. even before
Kenneth got married. They got
along well together except for
the last argument, and that
couldn't have been much or Ken
meth would have told me the
details"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
A Superb Portrait

THAT'S more or less the sur
L face Nathan. The real
Nathan is a man of uncom-
promising intellectual and per-
sonal honesty, a man whose
vast knowledge of stage matters
from Aeschylus to Saroyan is
not only second to none in the
world but who has with IL that
perfect and instantaneous taste
that knows the difference be-
tween filet mignon and chuck
steak.
He, with II. l.. Mencken. in
the Smart Set and the Ameri-
can Mercury days tcirca 1908
1934) did the great service to
American literature of pub
licizing such writers as Lord
Dunsany, James Branch Cabell,
James Joyce, Aldous Huxley,
Anatole France, Frank Norris,
Stephen Crane. James Stephens
and many others.
He has done the same cleanup
for the American stage that
Bernard Shaw did for the Eng
lish stage cat-called, slap
sticked and pun m lie d the
sweetly sentimental plays with
their diabetic plots out of ex-
lstence. Almost out of existence.
for THE Eve of st. Marks" for
instance. proves that The Old
Homestead" stuff. like the UNI
dying worm, may be scatched
but is never eternally squashed.
This is superb portrait
tfaintly critical in spots) about
a most admirable man who Is
under the delightful illusion that
he poses" but whose real motto
is that of Montague: What do
/ know? What does il matter?"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
Lannon'S Sarono

nOROTHY LAMOUR was al
~ ways shapely locker aud
n talented girl with the voice
but it took a sarong 10 put her
over. Some one decided Clara
Bow had "it"-and for a time
she was the hottie thing on the
screen. With Martha Rayc il
was that spacious mouth-until
they decided 10 glamorize her.
Thereafter we were treated TO
magazine page layoutS of the
glorious Raye gains.
Vaguely l recall others
Theda Bara, the vamp, Jean
Harlow, the platinum blonde,
Marlene Legs" Dietrich. etc.
komeone must have been the
Eoneer. Who was the first TO
see Bara as the vampire
woman? To call her a "vamp'
Who applied the label platinum"
ITO Jean Harlow's corn-silk? Who
was the first TO make capital
OF Dietrich'S shapely underpin-
nings? Why was Clara Bow and
not some other out of half n
dozen equally fetching vixens
chosen as the official ut" girl?
Personally and frankly, who
cares?
Copyright. 1913. by King Fsatur..
DETROIT SUNDAY
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
Wins $lI2 Pot

AT FIFTY-E HTH and
"A Third. she saw a picture
featured at Proctor's which she
had missed-so she spent her
last few nickels and dimes for
admission. When she emerged
two hours later. she was SIP
richer. She had won the bingo
prize! Miss Jones avows sol
EMMY that since that night she
has had nothing but good luck
in this city. She has worked
steadily. has been tested for
cincmas, expects 10 appear In a
play and is one Of Mr.. Conover's
top models. Obviously, the moral
is all cockeyed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
Cows, Truck Missing

A hum of voices was heard
from the farmyard where Wall
had assigned Deputy Fred Krae-
mer TO look around.
The sheriff stepped out into
the hot sunlight 10 see a crowd
OF neighbors clustered near the
barn. His deputy and a young
farmer strobe quickly toward
the sheriff.
This IL Lowell ReinkinC.
sheriff" began the deputy. "son
Of the nearest neighbor. He tells
mo that two cows and a truck
are missing from the barn"
Eyes, sir" corroborated the
boy. 'T saw that old truck pass
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
Without Funds

A S "A CITIZEN who still be-
lieves along with countless
others that a national lottery
would not dip us into the quag-
mire of sin, but would fatten
the treasury TO agreeable pro-
portions, I don't know how I
stand with the estimable Mayor
LaGuardia. He'll probably shud-
der when he learns that I lost
1880 playing tick-tack-toe the
Iother night with George Jessel.
another hopeless gambling adj
dict. Under the circumstances,
I don't think the mayor will
consider 1t good taste on my
part to tell this story of a
comely and well known young
model. appropriately named
Candy Jones.
Miss Jones came to Manhat-
tan almost two years ago, ade-
uuately equipped with ambition
and good looks-but not with
funds. One early evening she
came back to her tiny hotel
room TO discover she had been
locked out"-a little custom
among our hotel people when
bills remain unpaid beyond
reasonable limit. With a few
cents less than a dollar TO her
name. no Job, no transportation
money home. Candy bought her
self q chocolate matted at a
corner store and then drifted
aaxfWard Nhera the river lies
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
Next. Shoots Them

The slaycr'S CHASTITY design
now became apparent: He had
silently bludgeoned the couple so
that the farmland would not be
disturbed; and when the latter's
turn came TO meet his death
there was noNneed for silencing
him so the pistol was used.
Then the skulking beast re4
turned TO the couple and admin
istered the coup de grace, insur-
ance that they would never live
10 identify him.
Sheriff Wall was frankly
stumped. What had seemed hRe
a clear professional Job began TO
take on the aspects Of a path
illogical case; and crazy people
are shrewd, much tougher 10
track than the hardened Grim
inal.
"Mr. Oswald, whoever COM
mitted these horrible crimes
knew his way around this house
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14

family name. got his son out of
one thieving scrape after an
other.
True to the criminologists'
contention that forgers always
repeat their crimes. Yeager was
arrested for forgery every year
from then on. He received light
sentences in county jails in four
states until he was re-arrested
in Fargo in 1923, shortly after
North Dakota had passed its
Habitual Criminals Act.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
Both Bludeeoned

The assassin had approached
the bed, upon which lay the
young farmer and his pretty
bride of only six months, and
cruelty bludgeoned both with
some blunt instrument.
What puzzled the officer for a
moment was that each of the
victims had also been shot
squarely through the head.
The other rooms on that floor
had not been visited by the in
truder, but greasy tracks reap
peared on the dusty stairs that
led to the attic.
In that tiny room the sheriff
found the third victim-the
husky. middlc-agcd hired man.
John Kujawa. His body bore
only one wound, a powder-cir-
cumscribed hole on the temple.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14

by our place at 6 o'clock this
morning headed toward st. Paul.
1 could see cattle In the truck
but 1 couldn't make out who
was driving IL. .
I'D know that truck by the
sound alone; IL made more noise
than anything 1 ever heard on
wheels"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
THE REALM.
OF BOOKS
BY BENJAMIN DecAssEREs

Moon STANCE tricks
- The Dramatic Criticism OF
George Jean Nathan" Cornell
University Press)) Miss Com
stance Frick gives us a fascinat-
ing look-see into the soul Il
can hear Nathan shout "Shucks
alors!" at the mention of the
word "sourD of Americas ace
dramatic critic and famous
bachelor-epicurean 1t is done
in collaboration with Nathan
himself, for the latter writes
the preface and Miss Prick
quotes copiously and intelli-
gently from the Nathan books
tand who is more tantalizingiy
quotable than Nathan?)
We get off to false start,
however, for on Page 5 Nathan
says he combines the mind OF
a gentleman with the emotions
of a bum"
That's just one of Nathan's
=t.smaFtyl'|s sayings There is
nothing of the bum" about
Nathan psychologically or physi-
cally. His emotions are artistic
cratic. Well, well pass that
and get TO the real Nathan. to
wit:
what interests me in life Is
the surface of life: LIES music
and color, Its charm and ease,
its humOr and Its loneliness"
Why He's a Critic
THAT'S true of Nathan as I've
Il known him. His is a phil
osophy of "indifferences." he
says, which I no more believe
than that he has the emotions
of bum" He believes that
indignation does not make, and
never has made, the world any
better than has my own objec-
tionable philosophy of laissez-
fairre" (laissez-faire is French
for "Oh, let it go to. helfo.
AS a matter of fact, there is
no more vastly indignant soul at
large in America than Nathan,
but, like Mencken, believing that
emotion is feminine quality
and being fearful of displaying
his feelings" in print, he wells
his Indignation" under mask
of irony mote the titles of two
of his books, THE Autobiog-
raphy of an Attitude" and The
World in Falseface."
Nathan took up dramatic crit.
cism because it is "the pleas
ATTEST and most useless thing to
which you can devote your life"
1t also brought shekels, for, ac-
cording to Miss Prick, he has
the reputation of being the
highest paid dramatic critic OF
any time in any country"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14

AUGUST y A l. q Il II had
been employed on the Oswald
farm until two months before
the triple killing.
how. / never cared much for
him and 1 liked him still less
after 1 saw him beating a COW
with a rope because she SHE'D
going through gate. He
stopped when he saw me-"
Thanks, Lowell. you've been
a big help" and with that the
officer turned his attention TO
the grim group of farmers who
awaited him.
To take their minds off
"necktie party they were NUT
tering about, he set them to
searching the vicinity for the
murder weapons or other clues.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14

what interests me in life Is
the surface of life: LIES music
and color, Its charm and ease,
its humor and Its loneliness"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14

DETROIT SUNDAY
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
TO HIROHTTO

You're the Of the Rising SUM- you claim;
But your will rise more;
You crawled into Freedoms house
Through the cracks In the kitchen floor
With planes and guns wei hunt you down,
Wherever earth you roam.
But the only weapon really need
Is the good old hDe-tOOth comb.
{ 1913 by Weekly Rights Reserved
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
TO HITLER

II had pan like yours
I'D give IL three coats of paint,
If you ever look the facts I'm the face
I know that the facts will faint.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14
TO MUSSOLINI

Your ugly puss gives me stout pains,
I've seen lots better heads on canes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-14

HOratiO AIger wrote of the lads
With patches on their britches,
Who studied, worked and fought
Their way from rags 10 riches.
Tho HoratiO Ii still on the bridge,
The Kid Is In the food,
Limitations" pushed him overheard
Ambitions In the mud.
Washington Journal., 1943-05-07

Citizens of German blood in this
war, as in every other war in which
the United States have had a part,
certainly should not let themselves be
out-done by other groups. We are
all American citizens and we stand
as one in the defense Of our nation.
Washington Journal., 1943-05-07

Unsere Regierung hat die Weir
macht unseres Landes yum Schutze
ihrer Rechte und Freiheiten aufge-
boten. ALLIE Amerikaner ohne Inter
schied der Geburt und Herkunft,
darunter die Landesburger deutschen
Blutes, stehen in diesem Kriege elm
mitig hinter ihrer Regierung. Anne
rika list unser Land, das Land unse-
rer Kinder, das zu schitzen jetzt
unsere h0chste Aufgabe ist.
Washington Journal., 1943-05-07
wir sind allie Amerikaner

Wir betrachten ale Krie-
ge ais bedauerlich. Aber,
wenn elm Volk NIT Krieg
lberzogen wird und bis es
einen ehrenhaften Frieden
erringen mag, ware es YER
heerend, zu unterliegen. Da-
her halten wir es fir die
Pficht aller treuen ameri-
kanischen Burger, allies in
ihrer Macht zu tun, unserem
Lande, den Vereinigten
Staten Won
yum Siege zu verhelfen,
Washington Journal., 1943-05-07
We are AN Americans

We hold all wars to be
deplorable. Once a nation
is drawn into war, however,
unless an honorable peace
may be secured betimes, it
would be disastrous to be
beaten in that war. There
fore we hold it the duty Of
all loyal American citizens
to do all in their power to
help our country, the United
States Of America, to win
its present war.
Washington Journal., 1943-05-07

and cleared a floor space for us. The captain
and | took our stands facing one another,
while the seconds posted themselves on either
side of us, just beyond saber's reach.
AT that moment there came a peremptory
pounding at the panel and we heard the hotel
managers voice bid us opon the door to the
police. Douglas, who stood nearest the door,
drew the bolt, whereupon several japanese
gensdarmes with drawn sabers rushed in,
followed by the hotel manager and jabbering
walters. The gensdarmes arrested all four
of us.
Then followed much excited talk to and fro
the hotel manager acting as interpreter
with subsequent telephoning by the police to
our respective legations, the French, British
and American. All we could understand of
what was spoken into the telephone mouth
pieces in japanese was our names, more or
less mispronounced.
After a long wait, an attache of the French
Legation came. He was followed by a clerk
from the American Legation. After further
talk we were released with %profuse apologies
from the japanese lieutenant Of gensdarmes.
1t was explained that our arrest was all a
mistake inasmuch as my adversary, the
French military attache, as a diplomat should
have been immune from arrest. Since he and
Marcel were to be released, Lloyd and Sir
Claude Macdonald, the British envoy, had
insisted that | and my second, Archibald
Douglas, should likewise go free, and so we
did.
OF course the affair kicked up some dust.
The japanese Government, looking for griev-
ances from France, who long had been
charged with aiding and abetting Russia in
her war with Japan, made diplomatic re-
monstrances, which resulted in Frances with
drawal of her military attach6 from Japan.
Lloyd wished our fracas never had hap
pened. So wished Sir Claude and M. Armand,
the French envoy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1943-04-03
BY ALBERT LEMAN

NEW fYORk-Confidentlal sur
veys by medical associations show
a disturbing increase in tuber-
eulosis That rate has not yet
reached alarming proportions but
the trend Is being anxiously
watched by physicians. Most cases
discovered among young people,
especially women in victory plants
toiling under great stress and IN
unhygienic surroundings.
Neurologists and phyehiatrists
report that industrial executives
are suffering from nervous dis-
orders and hreakdowns. A new
form Of absenteeism Is developing
among foremen owing to long sus-
tanned high pressure and overwork.
At the start of the conflict ex-
traordinary personal effort and
hours were necessary to switch
factories from peaetime produe-
ton. But the strain is beginning
to tell on conscientious managers.
Investigators have located
bosses who never take sun
days Off, who gnlp coffee and
sandwiches without stopping
their tasks, carry home bulg-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1943-04-03
Q When the People Speak

What happens when the people speak with emphasis
vital issue is indicated in the about face of eight
members of the Seattle city council who had agreed
to pass an ordinance legalizing slot machines in
clubs This was revenue measure and would have
brought large sum into the Seattle city treasury.
But the people who believe in honesty and morality
in government began TO protest AT first the protest
brushed off the jttering of few long haired
morasts In few days the protest had reached
such tremendous volume that it shook the founda-
tions of the city government. Eight members back
tracked and Joined with the one woman member Of
the council to kill the ordinance by unanimous vote
The woman member, by the way, is Mrs. T. F.
Powell, who became a.member of the council several
years ago with the support of the school and church
people. The gossip in Seattle is that Mrs Powell, as
u result of her steadfast fight against the slot
machine ordinance and the successful effect of the
public protest has become good mayoralty material.
Some of the eight councilmen who backed the slot
machine ordinance have had ambitions in that direc-
ton also. Note the past tense.