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ment, was four hours late. That
blasted the booking.
I'VE Cancelled the date by tele-
phone. 1t cost us $500 forfeit.
Then we began looking for a train
to Los Angeles, next on the itin-
erary. But there wasn't a seat for
one, let alone a band with instru-
ments."
Finally sympathetic railroad
omcial located tourist sleeper the
Army wasn't using. They. might
get the car, but not on a group basis;
each man would have to produce
his own ticket.
On the road we buy block trans
portation, covering the entire tour"
Dorsey explained. Wed had a very
good run, and every day I'd been
forwarding the take to a bank in
Los Angeles. So I tried to cash in
the remainder of our block ticket.
to pay the individual fares on that
tourist sleeper. But they told me
I could turn in the block ticket only
after we got to Los Angeles.
1T takes a good thousand bucks
to get a sizable band from Salt Lake
City to Los Angeles. And, do YOU
know, l had to borrow from the
boys in the outfit to get 'em here |!
That's travel today"
But. with all its discomforts Tom
my likes the road. He's had plenty
OF it-a million miles in 1s4l. He
can't count the miles before that.
when he and brother Jimmy spent
10 years with Whiteman, vallee,
Kosteleanetz and other big-time
boys. Then there were the years
he and Jimmy toured with their own
band.
Tommy seems to thrive on it; he's
a lot huskier. Those distinctive
horn-rimmed glasses now make him
look little like a successful bank
er, except that the twinkle behind
them is still there.
Hollywood has advantages other
than mitigating travel difnculties.
Dorsey's bride, Actress Patricia
Dane, Is here, for one thing. And
Tommy has solid respect for movie
sound equipment; he likes to make
recordings on the set. As for the
drama.
I'm no actor he confesses. "I've
played before thousands of mikes,
but when they put the thing on a
boom and point that camera at me
I'm scared to death"
One of Dorsey'S fayorite hohhjes
has been his 22-acre farm and
Colonial home at Barnardsville, N.
j. He's always looked on 1t as a
place to 60 after the wheels finally
stopped revolving, But now he s
thinking about selling it.
why, that house has "a rooms
he says. What do I want with all
that? Gosh, I'm thankful for 4
| Pullman berth these days."
Evening star., 1943-08-22

grams. thus ruling out such men a.
Stravinsky. Schoenberg and other
contemporary composers who have
been founders and developers Of the
modern classical school, This stand
Of youth against progress is confus-
ing the whole field of music.
While their older sisters and
brothers stick to Beethoven and Mo-
zart and Chopin, the teen-agers OBJ
viously want Sinatra. Demonstra-
tions at the bowl and at the train
make this certain, for even the
mightiest efforts OF studio press
asents-and they were not lacking
couldn't have produced such .
furore without plenty Of public help.
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in the third act of THE Merry
Widow"
1T is a song that I have loved
for many years because it comes
from the souls of the Polish people"
he says.
When only youth, Kiepura
yearned for music and singing, but
his father hustled him off to the
Warsaw University law school, Kie-
pura didn't forget his singing am
billions; he studied law diligently
during the day-and blossomed out
as a tenor at night.
After graduation he became i'm
patent waiting for fees to come in
as a barrister and went on the road
as a singer. His first success came
in Lvov one night when he learned
that the leading male singer of the
opera Faust" had not appeared
for the performance. He offered
his services, was accepted in hurry
and at the end of the performance
was wildly acclaimed. It was what
you call here an overnight sue
cess-no?"
''Ah. but i talk too much of my
self" he gestured, "Lubuscia, now
you talk"
She smiled Shyly. There are not
many subjects this small. red-headed
girl likes to speak about, except
her husband. Marta Eggerth, her
maiden and now professional name,
is native of Hungary. At IS she
was prima donna of the Violet of
Montmarte. Film offers followed,
but Marta thought maybe it was
not good for me. But later I make
the film The Bridegroom Widow
and some others. Now I am glad,
because I met Jan while making a
movie"
The filn. MY Heart Is Calling
YOU" appropriately titled as it
turned out, involved a plot wherein
Kiepura had to make up his mind
between Marta and another girl.
AT first we do not like each
other. We are always fighting, and
the director he tear his hair out"
But later we fall in love" she
continued dreamily. And, as Jan
broke in, by the end OF the film
making, my heart was really call
ing!"
From that day on, everything has
been smooth. sailing for the Kie-
puras. They have appeared in con-
certs, operas and musical comedies
all over Europe. However, 1.-THE
Merry Widow" is only the second
time they nave sung together in the
United States, the other time be-
ing a single performance Of la
Boheme" at Chicagos Civic Opera.
They feel that of all the types Of
audiences they have played for they
like best the Partisan and the Amer
lean; the Partisan because he has
been educated TO understand music"
and the American because, al
though he may not know one thing
about opera he has great intelli-
gence and srasps it quickly"
was gathering my notes, prepar-
Ing to leave, when Marta walked
Evening star., 1943-08-22

AASAS94 l. VoSA(s
Luckily all the costumes I wear
In the Song of Bernadette" have
long sleeves. Otherwise everybody
would see the black and white
marks on my arms, where 1 keep
pinching myself to make sure that
I'm not dreaming-that this role is
really happening to me.
How did I, Jennifer Jones, a be-
Einner in the movies, ever win the
title role in a dramatic epic based
on a best-selling novel-a picture
costing upward OF $2,000,000?
To begin, it Is necessary to 60
back four years-to January 2,
1899. That was when I changed
my name from Phyllis with one
-L'D Isley to Phyllis Walker. 1 mar
ried Robert Walker, whom I had
met the year before at the Amer
lean Academy Of Dramatic Arts in
New York, and the two of us set out
--hopefully--to amount to some
thing on the stage.
Sometimes I wish we had kept
track OF all the times We tried to
persuade people that We might have
little dramatic talent. We audi
toned for literally hundreds of pro-
ducers and stage managers and
agents before one finally showed any
serious interest in U.S. That one was
Robert Kennedy OF the Lyons
Agency.
Before he came along We hadn't
had anything but scattered radio
work and few Little Theater en-
gagements. He landed Bob a steady
job on the Myrt and Marge radio
program.
Friends Better idea.
7 hadn't seen the play, Claudia"
but had read it at least so times,
and the ambition of my life was to
play Claudia. I asked Bob Kennedy
II he couldn't get me an addition
for the role in the Chicago company.
He said, Il have a better idea. Why
not try out for the movie version?"
That was in July, 1941.
He took me to see Katherine
Brown, New York representative of
David o. Selznick, who had bought
the screen rights. I read for her
and read very badly. was SO keyed
up, 50 anxious. Miss Brown was
very frank with me. She said, That
wasn't very good, was it?" AL
choked up because I hadn't made
good. I shook my head; then I broke
down and had good cry. She said,
I'D like you to come back tomorrow
at 5 and meet Mr.. Selznick." 1
though she was just being kind; I
didn't think she meant it.
The next afternoon, at 4 o'clock,
Evening star., 1943-08-22
ToDAY's NEIeHBORHooD MOVIES

An Time Schedules Given In Warnss
Ssss. AS Indicate Tins Feature II
Evening star., 1943-08-22

over to the mantelpiece and tender
ly fingered the tiny figures OF the
boy and girl sitting on the bench.
Did yon notice this?" she asked,
'it is so,' she searched for a word,
80 simple"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
j. 5. lanes Raid
French AirfieId

LONDON. Sept. % tUPl-Ma-
rauder medium bombers Of the
Eighth L. s. Air Force attacked
the Longeuenesse air6eld at 81.
Omer in north France today, the
third day of an intense offensive
against Nazi bases in western
Europe.
A joint communicate Of the L. 6.
army and the British air ministry
said all planes returned safely.
British Beaufghtcrs attacked a
large German convoy of the
Dutch coast, tOTpCdoIUE 4 NO
diminished merchantmen and rak-
ing the escort with cannon and
machine gun fire Two Beau
fighters were missing.
The air ministry reported the
Raj damaged 30 buildings Of the
T. G.. Farben chemical works a.
LudWlgshafen Thursday night
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
N. Y. to MoscolU by Phone!
Reporter First to Talk
By GEROLD FRANK
Special to THE DETROIT TIMES

NEW YORK, Sept. 25-I spoke
to Moscow, Russia, today.
In what is believed to be the
first public telephone call ever
completed from the United States
10 Russia ! spoke-with Interrupt
tions-for nearly 20 minutes with
Natalia Rene, international News
Service correspondent seated in
her room at the Hotel Metropole,
Moscow
The line cracked and buzzed,
but over the wartorn lands and
bloodstained seas, swift as light
itself over the battling world, the
voice Of Miss Rene came.
1t rose and fell with the infec-
ton of a voice over short-wave
radio. It was high-pitched and
thin. and now and then it sounded
like a voice echolng in a huge,
Q mpty room, and the words
sWellcd and overran each other.
II was a little startling, for 10
all intents she might have been
sitting at your elbow, instead Of
in room more than 500 miles
/ away.
Once, when I ventured asking
whether il was raining in Moscow
mans voice broke in. II spoke
in the solid. familiar accents OF
midwest America and il was re.
buking. almost a little hurt
Now" il said, "you know
YOU can't talk about the
MeathPr"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26

1t was less than As hours ago
that Washington announced the
opening OF the first Unite d
States to-Russia telephone circuit
in history.
The teletype ink was still damp
on the dispatch when call was
put in from The New York Jour
nal-American offices at 220 South
street, for Miss Rene in MiScow.
The overseas operator went 10
work on il at once.
Not until 9:55 a. m. today was
she able 10 get through 10 Miss
Rene. The l.. S.-Russia circuit.
it developed, is open only from
9 10 IL a. m, which corresponds
10 1 10 6 p. m. in Moscow. How
the call was routed, by what cities
and over what countries, can not
be disclosed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
EISENHOWER CHOICE

WASHINGTON, Sept. Is (UP)
The Army and Navy Register
said today that the decision 10
assign Gen. Marshall TO a new
post already has been made and
that Gen. Eisenhower, commander
Of Allied forces based in North
Africa, appears 10 be his most
likely successor as chief of staff.
The unofficial but authoritative
publication said in an editorial
that new assignment for Mar
shall had been decided upon de-
spite protests 10 the contrary.
The exact role he is about 10
assume remains to be divulged, it
said.
The Register said that although
Eisenhower appears TO be top
choice for Marshall'S present Job
at this time, il is understood
Harry Hopkins prefers 1t Gen.
SomerVell. commander Of the
army service forces.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26

How grade labelling will affect the pantry food budget and
individual freedom of
of articles beginning in Mondays Detroit Times
The writer of this timely series Merre STAN
ley RueySer the Hearst
who discusses the essentials American way life
RukeySer distinguishes between unavoidable wartime de-
tours the hand and
with the freedom of the people permanent postwar
system the other.
Dial Cherry $500 time Monday order The Detroit
delivered home, TO
The Labelling.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26

constable. was elected senator
Nov. 5, 1910. He is 3S. married
and the father of one daughter.
He was the first to be jailed
by the legislative grand jury
when he was sentenced Sept. Is
10 a 60-day term for contempt.
Digs, son of an African mis-
sionary. was born IN Taliula, Miss
He is 40 and has lived in Detroit
since 1913.
Diggs, in denying the charge
said he made no approach to Nc
GonagIe.
"a Mr. Donaldson at the bank
where | do business asked me II
| would meet a friend Of his II
he brought him around" Diggs
said. HE brough I Mr.. Nc
GOnagle TO my office and in
him.
mir. McGOnagle said ii would
be 10 our advantage to 20 along
with the bill because we would
need favOrS from time TO time.
IL told him 1 had voted
against the bill and wanted 10
he consistent hut l would like
TO have better banking cOnnec-
tionS because of my business.
'THe asked me if could get
hold of some of the other boys
for him to talk with and called
Blondy. who happened to he in
the cOnstable's office and came
over.
There was nothing said in
my presence about money, either
a. "A hribe or as a campaign con-
tributiOn. have never had
campaign contribution from any
banker"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
10 Tons a Minute Hit
Hanover for Record

LONDON, Sept. % GNS)-
Last Wednesday nights Raj raid
on the central German industrial
city of Hanover was revealed Of
fiCially tonight to have been the
greatest bombing attack in the
history OF air warfare
British information services dis
closed that i'm a devastating 33
minutes exactly 2,33S tons Of high
explosive were hurled a fraction
of more than 70 tons q minute.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
Jap Push in China
Goes Into Sd Day

CHUNGKING. Sept 25 CUP)-
Chinese forces have been engaged
in a fierce struggle during the last
two DAYS against reinforced Japa
nese troops attempting 10 push
westward from Chaoan. railroad
center near eastern KWangtune
Provinces coast. "A Chinese COM
muniQue reported tonight
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
Coast Guard Station Closed

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 CUP)
The navy said today that the
coast guard had eliminated the
Chicago district office and that all
coast guard activities on the Great
Lakes had been consolidated in
The Cleveland district office.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
Tires Further Restricted

WASHINGTON. Sept % CUP)
The OPA today restricted ehGi-
hility for new passenger tires 10
C book drivers with a mileage
OF 60l miles or more per month.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
Duel : -oss Channel

LONDON. Sept > ms
British and German coastal artil-
lery batteries engaged in a 90
minute duel across the English
Channel before dawn today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
IT'S UP TO ROOSEVELT

II can be stopped by the FarcSi-
dent refusing 10 Dust Gen Mar
shall from his present control Of
the army. Marshall's friends know
he would prevent any political
manipulation of army affairs. That
is why the cabal is determined to
GUST him:
Leaders OF the cahal will de-
fend their plot by contending that
they propose 10 streamline anti
quated war department production
machinery in order 10 speed up
production. But their actual pro-
posal is 10 eliminate the present
commodity organization pro-
duction system and substitute a
functional organization.
Prominent industTialiSts long
have derided any claim that a
functional organization" can out
produce a commodity organiza-
ton"
The arn1y'S present Commodity
organization" was drafted from
the successful production prac-
tees Of the SearS-Roebuck. Ford,
General Motors and Du Pont de
Nemours companies. IndustrialiSts
say most functional organiza-
tionS" have failed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
Bay City Doctor Die,

BAY CITY. Sept 25-Dr g
Il. Hesly Sc wel-known physi-
can, Is dead TODAY. following q
weeks illness.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
MET BLoNDY IN HOTEL

McGonaele is a veteran of De-
trolt banking.
McGonagle said he met Blondy
in April following defeat Of the
bill. The meeting was in a down.
town hotel.
II asked Blondy why he
double-CrOssed me by offering
some one else six votes for
$4,000 McGonagle said. "BlOndy
Just laughed about 1t and there
was no further conversation"
BLoNDY'S STATEMENT
At the Ingham County jail ir
, Mason, Senator Blondy said that
he remembered m TIN s Me
Gonagle.
Charles Digs called me on
the phone one day and asked
me 10 come over TO his office
and meet him there" Blondy
said. at was in Digs office
that 1 met McGonagle.
"McGonagle told us that he
wanted 10 get the anti-chain-
banking bill passed. He said
that he wanted to meet the
Wayne County delegation and
wanted to know how 10 do IL.
suggested that McGonagle
come to Lansing some day and
have dinner with all the mem
bers of the Legislature from
Wayne County. Then ne could
explain why he wanted the bill
passed
Blondy said that never in any
Of his conversations with MCGon.
agile or DiggS was bribery OF
money mentioned.
Blondy lour-time Detroit
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
4 POLITICAL WEAPON

t-tt-r-T1Cd EuurECA-A-4N- HE tF+etiNe
is 10 use the army vast produC-
lion program excepting aircraft
as q political weapon i'm the 1914
presidential campaign Aircraft
production, now hoSScd by Gen.
II. II, Arnold, army air chef, may
be included later
Some Observers believe the
cahal also intend 10 build up Som
ervcll as an army mate
tor Mr.. Roosevelt on a fourth
term ticket 10 Offset the possible
Republican nomination of Gen.
Douglas Macarthur.
There is no evidence whatever
that either President Roosevelt or
Gen. Marshall has ever heard Of
the purpose or potential effect of
the plot. knowledge Of u how
ever, has spread terror through
the highest ranks Of the war de-
partmeni.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
No Tax Measure
Likely This Year,
CONGRESS Hints
Leaders Fear Roosevelt's
Request for II Billions
Extra Won't Be Met

WASHINGTON, Sept % INS)
Congressional leaders are OK
pressing fears today that PreSi-
dent RooSeyeltS request for 70
billion dollars in additional reve-
-nUe VIII not be- met and some OF
them are now predicting that
Congress Will not pass a tax bill
this year.
The House ways and means
committee Will start hearings a
week from Monday but leaders
arc growing pcsslmiSilc that Con-
grcSS can bo induced 10 ACT before
the Christmas holidays send the
members home until 1914
The assertion is general in the
capital that if Mr.. Roosevelt gets
half the sum he has asked he will
have come off well There is
strong opposition in both the ways
and committee and It's
counterpart the Senate finance
committee against increasing IN
come taN rates any tuthCr
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
DoUGHToN FEARFUL

Doughton fears that II a bill is
not enacted into law this year, a
difficult problem Of retroactive
taxes VIII have 70 be met next
year.
According 10 The North Caro-
llnian. the new pay-aS-yoU-go syS-
tenn has already complicated the
payment Of taxes 20 a serious
point and If the retroactive fea-
ture was added 10 the confusion,
collection Of taxes might verge on
q breakdown.
D0uChton says the committee 3
going 10 spend some time TINS
year trying 10 simplify the whole
taNUaying procedure
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
Politics Seen
In Plan TO Dust
Gen. Marshall
Capitol Group Reported
Boosting Gen. Sonervell
10 Run With Roosevelt
Nv WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON

International Ncws service stan Writer
Cor,rrrt. 1913, International News seryic,
WASHINGTON. Sept. 25-A
r--7rr-r r1Trr tf0UyC TdvEeTS
are planning today TO give 1t.
Gen. Brehon SomcTVcll. chief Of
army supply, personal control Of
the expenditure OF - billion dol
lars IN the coming year by "a COM
plete reorganization Of the army
production front
This domestic coup d'otat is the
objective behind the efforts 10
Gust Gen George &. Marshall as
army chief OF staff and KICK him
upstairs 10 a glorIfed but pow
erlcsS world command over Anglo
American forces.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
Banker Accuses
.B|ondy, Diggs
Continued from Page one)

Continued from Page One)
two hut YOU better get three TO
he sure"
McGonagle said he asked
Blondy who the three votes would
be and was told:
Myself, Diggs and maybe
WilkowslSi." -
The Wilkowski named was not
identified further.
McGonaGle told Judge Cottcr
he had discussed the proposition
with Joseph NJ. Dodge, president
of the Detroit Bank who told
him:
you're piker. Blnndy has
offered -siN- votes for S6, Gee, -
No money was paid, McGonagle
said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26
COMMITTEE TO WORK

Rep tJOUIIiOn I'D or North
Carolina tv-5tvv dr1rt rrraUS COTE
mittcc chairman has given notice
that LlS committee -WIll work
nights II necessary to get hill,
bat other committeeman feel dir
lCrcnuy.
on the Senate side, Sen. George
CD of Georgia head OF the
finance committee, is openly hos
tile 10 any increase in either the
individual or corporate tax rate.
The trC7guTy is SAID 10 plan
recommendation Of an increase Of
10 percentage points on both the
withholding lcNy on wages and
salaries and on corporation rates.
This would boost the corporate
rate from A4 10 -ll- percent, while
the Withholding levy would amount
10 SO per cent instead of 20. The
treasury.s companion proposal for
post war refunds has not won
much sympathy Yet among the
congress lonal fiscal experts.
Typical Of the attitude Of the
Senate committeeman WAS the
statement today by Sen Lucas
lDl Of Illinois. opposing increases.
II don't want taxpayers taxed
hey ond the point where they can
meet their obligations, said
Lucas, ordinarily a stunch ad-
mInISTrat!On supporter.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-09-26

IN THE North Atlantic the
American feet continues 10 CO.
operate fully with British naval
forces in the C-bost campaign
and in the protection Of con-
voys Carrying vital war ma
terials and supplies for Britain
and Russia. The principal Amer
lean naval and air base along
this northern shipping route is
Reykjsvik. Iceland.
Meanwhile the surrender of
the Italian fleet removes that
force as a factor IN the war,
thus making possible the re-
lease Of large part Of Allied
naval strength from the MedI-
terrsnean.N
The present areas occupied by
the main fleets, naval forces
and sea frontiers are indicated
on the accompanying map.
Note: The opnl,nt e1prsssts ana ne
assertions maze herein are ny ouu ard
ere nct q b construed a. rfflrisl ~ re-
hecunr ~ any way TIE views 70 fhs
navy cspeftnsst OF the naval service
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McNuiir
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artillery shell that injured him. He
mad been with an assault platoon
shortly before he was wounded.
L didn't see 1t land" he said
from his cot in the hospital tent.
But I think it was high explosive
shell of about IS millimeter caliber.
1t didn't knock me out and l was
able to walk down the hill to jeep.
Drove Three Hours.
We had to drive about three
hours to reach the hospital but it
wasn't bad. The driver was really
good.
Il didn't get anything from the
Germans in the last war. They must
have been saving it up to give to me
here
But I will be back there soon. I
am looking for my clothes now. The
shoulder doesn't hurt any. After
another good nights sleep I'll be
ready for war again"
Gen. McNair was attended by 1t.
Bernice Marian Wilburn. brown
haired chief Army nurse from Mil
ton. Mass.
She said the wounded military
leader lis a good patient but he is
IN an awful hurry to get back to the
war"
The driver who brought Gen. Nc
Nair to the hospital was Pvt. Homer
Magruder OF Brunswick. Miss.