davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1943-08-15
To Americans Europeans Asians:
This will give . ift 10 all Of you
bv Donald Culxoss pea11ie

lazy, soft, Indifferent to the rest of the
world. The giant win Sleep Let US begin
the murder.
Now they know. They know that we
execute murderers.
For we believe in Justice. Knowing
that it is perfect only IN heaven, we were
born to struggle for it here on earth. Our
birth certificate, the Declaration of indie
pendence, asserts that all men are Great
ed equal; -. with certain malienable
rights; that among these are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness"
Not that all men are alike. Americans
are the most diverse people in any one
nation. Not that all pursue happiness In
the same way. But IN its first youth, this
nation was leveled to an equality among
men by the hard hand of Nature itself.
Marching to meet the first of the settlers
was a hardwood forest vaster than any
history records; it had never known the
ak. Slowly, with straining shoulder mus
cles, Americans pushed back that wilder
ness. Little by little, arose here and there
the finger of smoke that meant an Ameri-
can home. These were signal fires that a
new way of life was coming. to triumph,
mile by mile, across the last and greatest
unexplored continent of the temperate
world.
Now the American frontier is gone. 1t
is thing of legend. the subject of our
favorite stories. But although the from
tier has vanished from the United States,
it remains in the American character.
We are the nation that likes new ideas and
looks for new ways. We are the people
to whom nothing seems impossible. This
is not a boast; this is the strong hope of
youth. Not ignorant, not untried, but I'M
tired. No defeat has sapped our strength,
80 that we are still daring to believe that
the most practical thing on earth is an
ideal.
VIZ KNOW how far from perfect realiza-
ton is the ideal of our democracy. But
it has never been destroyed. Not by a
civil war, four years long and slaughtermg
the best of our youth. million of them
Not by prosperity. mighty tidal rise
of it, nor by the ebb of numerous depres-
sions. Today one hundred and thirty
four million people still believe in the same
ideal which was declared in the first breath
of life this nation drew. "All men are
created free and equal" That was 50
bold a thing to say that the men who
signed our Declaration might have been
Evening star., 1943-08-15

)osan CMlross Peatfie scrose this article
to erpIGis America to The PEOPLES Of The
soord. Through the Overseas Division Of
tie Office Of War Information ii 'oiH circle
the Globe. Translated into many Languages,
ii is bsing distributed through $500 bAbii-
cations to so nations, from Iceland to India,
from China to Australia. Because is
about America, ,ce thought Americans, too,
,could ,poaa to read ii. So THIS WEEK
Maeazine arranged to publish Il exclusively
in the United States.
The Editors
~D WORLD, the son you bore is
marching in the vigor of his youth
~ to fight beside you. America has
come of age, and shoulders like a just in
heritance a full share in mankind's fate.
There is new face now in all the ancient
lands - in sunburnt, secret Africa, IN
many-peopled Asia, in Europe who moth
cred this tall SON and will see now his tilial
devotion.
This face of America is many faces.
Many races nodded it, many weathers
seasoned it. The eyes are blue or brown
or pray. Indian-black, almond-shaped.
But the light in the eyes is the same.
Freedom put it there. 1t rains down care
lessly out OF the high skies arching over
our forty-eight united states, and our chill
dren catch it in their eyes as soon as these
are opened. They catch an easy way OF
laughing, an off-hand way of talking.
OK" they say. 'tSure thing. ."'Can do"
10 HEAR America talk and laugh, you'd
think we had never known trouble. But
we have fought before; we came up the
hard way, fighting, cutting way through
wilderness, through savagery, through the
great loneliness of forest and prairie and
desert waste. This aboriginal Nature too
is in the eyes of America, steadying them.
And our towering cities gleam IN Americas
eyes; they put some of the pride there.
Some of the purpose there, glmting like
AMER. II reflected from Thousands OF blast
furnaces, from an endless stream OF molten
; metal pouring into the shapes OF bullets
and bayonets, planes and tanks and guns.
America laughs as it fights; it meets
YOU who are our Allies carelessly, genially,
90 sure you're friend that its manners
are easy to rudeness. But you Will not be
fooled. Not as the Axis, plotting the
assassination of civilization, was fooled by
Americas lounging gait and light-hearted
laughter. A colossus, they sneered, but
Evening star., 1943-08-15
sIDEllnfs

WDo 1AD 11n87 Every war for the
abjecticn OF domination of an alien peo-
pie sooner or later weakens the victor
internally and eventually brings about
his defeat"
ANSWER: Adolf Hitler, Reichstag
speech, May 81, 1895.
WHEE Stars and Stripes, AEF news
paper. says the Marines have new rifle
which fires so fast it shoots eight times
before you didn't know it was loaded.
Evening star., 1943-08-15

where's my No. l8 couPon?'
3ACnUICE- Margaret Fishback says:
Fathers solcs are very thin;
Father takes it on the chin;
Father has some ration books,
But his stamps are used for Snooks.
G.I. NUlUERS. Here's the low-down on
the eight-digit numbers the Army assigns
every soldier: If the first digit is /, it
means the man joined the regular Army
after the draft began; 2 - the owner
was National Guard unit member called
up; 3 = the G.I. was drafted. Second
digit reveals the mans service command:
the Others are personal identification.
If there's an o in front of the numbers,
he's an officer; A = she's a Wac; L.
she's Wac officer. The serial number is
private property, it's never reassigned.
Quiz: Translate O-13O76A. Answer:
Officer joining regular Army after the
draft, now in 3rd Service Command.
Evening star., 1943-08-15
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12
sports
Barrow Thinks
His Yankees
viii Repeat
By LEO MACDONELL

Well. Steve O'Neill and other
American League managers are
doomed 10 bitter disappointment
if they were Of the opinion that
a war levehng off was going TO
cut the Yankees down To a
mans size.
AT least. we are supposed to
believe that, according TO Ed
Barrow of the Yankees.
"Well win again." Barrow
said in answer 10 story seek
ing scribe's query.
with what you've gote"
Eyes, why not. And we prob
ably won't get any one else"
The Yankees have lost six
men who played important roles
in the winning of the 1912 pen
nant - Red Ruffing. Tommy
Heinrich, Buddy Hassett. George
Selkirk. Phil Rizzuto and Red
Rolfe. Buddy Rosar, Lefty Co
mez and Roy Cullenbine were
traded away. They may yet lose
Joe DiMaggio.
But the Yankees probably still
will have one of the best pitch
ing staffs in the league-Ernie
Bonham, MARY Breuer, Alley
Donald. Spud Chandler, Johnny
Murphy, Johnny Lindell, Marius
Russo, Hank Borowy and Jim
Turner.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12
Connie Is Fatherly

The fatherly gentleness with
which Connie Mack has ruled
some of the most unruly char
acters in baseball is emphasized
in an old RUDE Waddell yarn
dug up the other day.
As you know, Waddell was
one of Mack's prize problems in
manpower. Rube. a remarkable
pitcher. was noted for his fire.
Quent disappearance.
One time ne was supposed TO
pitch an important game in De-
troit. Rube went off on one Of
his excursions and Eddie Plank
had to hurl in his place.
That night ,Waddell drove up
10 the hotel in tallyho. His
face was cut and scratched.
Mack greeted him with a smile
and asked what happened.
The Rube had spent the day
In Windsor playing la crosse,
with frequent Interruptions for
refreshments. Connie led him
away 10 get his wounds dressed.
Wa d dell won the next four
games he pitched. Nary a harsh
word did he hear from Mack.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12

physique which was his IN 1917
when King Gustav of Sweden
presented him With-hiS Olympic
prizes and saidM Sir, you are the
greatest athlete in the world.
AT HIS PEAK
Thorpe had just won the death
Ion and pentathlon championships
in the games at Stockholm. lie
was al the peak of one of the
greatest athletic careers in history
Envious shoppers later forced a
return of the trophies on charges
that Thorpe had lost his amateur
standing through acceptance of
small sums for playing summer
baseball in an obscure southern
league.
But they could never dim the
fame Of the big Indian athlete
whom such authorities as Gus
Dorais. Detroit Lions coach, call
the best football player who
ever lived
Thorpe was the greatest Of the
great on the Carlisle Indian InSti-
tute football teams that smashed
and ripped through the nation s
best in the early years of the
century.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12
Top Midwest
Track Squads in
State Relays

EAST LANSING, Feb. 49,
Eleven outstanding Midwestern
track squads Will vic for honors in
the twenty-third annual Michigan
State College relays scheduled for
JeniSon FieldhouSe Saturday night.
Coach Karl Schlademan of
Michigan State said entries had
closed with the fastest field in the
meets history Schools TO be
represented are Michigan, Notre
Dame, Ohio State, Indiana. Michi-
gan State, Michigan Normal,
Western Michigan. Central Michi-
gan, A lbion, Kalamazoo and
Loyola.
Eighteen events are scheduled,
Among individual stars is Dallas
Dupre. Ohio States triple threat,
who is a favorite in the dash, low
hurdles and broad Jump.
Bob Ufer OF Michigan and Russ
Owen Of Ohio State will be lead
ing ContenderS in the quarter-mile,
while Oliver Hunter of Notre
Dame is favored in the mile.
Michigan State is likely TO rank
high in the high jump with jim
Milne. while Michigan can bank
on its crack relay teams.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12
By GEORGE f. VAN

His sailing pals heroabouts
hsdnt heard from "Old Lantern
Jaw for weeks Bat today there
came a letter from l. CyrenGs
L. Gillette Of the nsyyS air fleet
Hes been az Guadalcanal and
rs he writes. having one helluva
time
As a skipper ms Was The kind
of daring that made the breaks.
lie always seemed 20 be able 10
make his tack good some called
A. luck Others called ~ smart
sailing He was a NrT1her then
and he's Stll on the winning
crew.
But Paul Rcnncr. 4, Thomas,
Tommy Lott he's NevtnS, Per
Nalboe. Fred Memo. Cap Ross
Rick Lcudtke BnG dozens of
others VINO sailed with and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12
ST. StdnisIdus :
Can CIinCh Title
Photo by Times stan Photographed

ST. StaniSlaus can be the first
quintet in the Catholic High
School Basketball League virtu-
ally to clinch a championship by
defeating ST. Bernard when they
meet tonight in an east side Sec
Iond division contest.
The Broncos have seven vic
tories against no defeats, while
two nearest rivals, st. Bernard
and ST. Charles, have won ) and
lost ,.
T0NIGHT's GAMES
St Anthony at 81. Joseph. St Ambrose
at DE La Sale est Benedict A. St Cath
crime 81. Gregory AZ Catholic Central, Visit
tation at St. Ladslaus St Mary OF Red
ford AZ St Leo. 81. Cecilia AZ Redeemer.
st. Theresa az Lourdes, ST. Alphonsus N
ST. Rita, ST. Mary r. o al ST Frederick.
st. Charles AT Annunciatiou. s. Rose a,
ST Philip ST. Bernard At St stanislaus
Sacred Heart at MI Carmel ST Francis
Xavier a. ST. Vincent All Saints At st.
Patrick st. Agnes AZ Sweetest Heart Ros-
airy at ST. Thomas, ST. Josaphst at ST.
Hedwig.
Montague game.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12
Nice Lot of Boys
Those DAG Beavers
BY GEORGE f. VAN

Once a week for five-minute
period over in the Detroit Athletic
Club pool some Of the incest fell
lows in our town commit every
thing this side of mayhem in a
game called "basketbrawl.'
It's strictly an invention of the
Beavers, the clubs swimming club
made up Of a bunch Of two-fisted
guys with a lot of steam to work
off.
"Basketbrawr looks like sea-
going basketball. but differs in
that there are no rules whatSo-
ever. Yes, there is one. You've
got 10 let a rival up on top of
the water when President Carter
Laitner blows the luncheon whistle.
AS many as a team captain can
Jam into the pool can play. Goug-
ing, kicking, scratching, backhand
punching is the fashion, and a
players ability is known by the
bruises and cuts he carries.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12
Grapefruit in His Eye

Uncle Wilbert Robinson, him
self a catcher in his playing
days before becoming manager
Of the Brooklyn Dodgers. AL
ways envied Gabby Street the
distinction of having caught
ball dropped from the top OF
the Washington monument
So, al training camp in Clear
water, Fla. many years ago,
Robbie tried 10 catch ball
dropped from a plane He made
the mistake of sending Casey
Stengel aloft 10 drop the ball.
As il hurtled earthwsrd. Rob-
bic pranced and danced into po-
Sition. bat Casey dropped
grapefruit instead ~ a baseball.
II Smacked against r oh h c's
catcher mitt and exploded in
his face.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12
Hickey in Demand

Branch Hickey. new general
manager for the Dodgers. is the
highest Salaried man IN baseball.
with an income greater even
than that Of Commissioner Ken
esaw Mountain Lands. declares
J. Roy Stockton ST. LOUIS base
hail scribe IN the Saturday Eve
ming Post
Stockton pointed out that
after Is years with the Csrdi-
nas and facing unemployment
~ the time the Brooklyn direc-
tors virtually begged Hickey 10
take their SOS 600 Job.
He IL considered the great
est Judge Of ball players In the
world" Stockton wrote. "SOme
Insist he can peer through q
nursery window and pick out
the man child he wants his
scouts to follow"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12
Uses .Smart Sailing Bombing Dap Destroyer at Guady

over single planes at night to
carry on harassing b O m b ng
raids as we do. The bombs have
come pretty close sometimes and
It's not too happy a sensation.
Hard TO sleep during the day
its so hot. But I'm at THE
front and getting a taste of real
war"
The next wasn't so good.
1--WE can't fly during the day
:. (. the Japs would shoot our
pants Oft :"
He ended with something for
all of us.
"YOu folks back there, keep
producing and well keep IL up
here"
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Linwood G. Gillette. $50 Mer-
rick. Detroit. He's been a navy
filer for two years.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12

against him won't believe him
when he writes
Il was never 80 scared in my
life" Not CN.
STORMS TOUGH
But il wasn't the laps, you
discover II was the tropical
equivalent many times worse
than AN electrical storm on Lake
S. Clair. he took the Nips IN
stride.
Weather was all one big
electrical storm -. but the laps
were coming down in force 10
land endorsements at night &.
n they always do We had
Ia 20 out and take a crack at
them.
They came down with seven
To nine deStroNers of the latest
anii-aircraft type To put stun
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12
FORMER ATHLETE

The group represent a large
cross section of Detroit business
and professional men. There are
former athletes. even Olympians,
and others who never had time
for teams but who have a natural
instinct for tough going. The old
tand what oldSters) as well as
tho young are "basketbrawlers."
Take Ray Hayes Gold Cap team
which won the first round Of play.
Kaye was a member of the 1896
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12
MihdIo Sets Record in
Winning Mile Walk

Bill Mihalo. recently named on
the All-America track and field
team, has another record and tro-
ply 10 add TO his array today.
The Hamtramck walker, repre-
Senting Thompson A. G. stepped
the mile in 6:54.9 for a new indoor
record 10 win the state A. A. L.
title in Downtown Y last night
The event was renewed after Sow
eral years and only the old mark
of 1903 remained in the books, not
the name Of the holder.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12

the destroyers with a 5OO-pound
bomb Boy, that was better
than winning the sweepstakes
Everywhere l turned drew
A. A. fire -.
HOT SPOT
Explosions were popping
around me for 20 minutes &.
il seemed longer hut / got
out and headed back for the
field ="
Cy was sailing again, trying TO
find the next stake, because:
"The weather closed down q.
had TO climb To 10000 feet
through violent electrical dis
turbances some squall /.
I didn't want 10 hit any noun
talns."
1t was typical OF Cy to forget
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12

The ban on pleasure driving in
tine East naturally caused much
anxiety and uncertainty here and
" hen other golf officials failed "a
act Shields. owner of the Bob-O-
Link course and a Metropolitan
Golf Association director. took u
upon himself 10 do something.
lie "teed on with the letter IN
Brown, pointing out the advant-
ages Of golf and how IL offered the
only means OF outdoor reCrcati
.ana exercise for many war
workers.
You expected Shields 70 get
action which IN this case brings
10 golfers the best news they've
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12
TIlOrpe's
Condition
Improved
BY LEWIS II. WALTER

Jim Thorpe, the Sac and Fox
Indian who was one of the world S
greatest athletes. apparently is
winning his fight for life at Henry
Ford Hospital.
Physicians say his condition is
serious, but improved.
The 53-year-old Thorpe suffered
a heart attack Yesterday morning
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12

the A. A. in his story and worry
about the storm.
UP FOR FIVE HOURS
THAT was the worst part OF
the whole flight Hope l
never have another like that
one We sat up there for
five hours.
I'VE finally landed with only
so gallons of gas some fight
. We learned we had gotten
the only hit of the night"
His letter was dated January
26, so Cy must have been in the
action that helped chase the
JapS out of Guadalcanal.
i've been on bombing hops
over Jap fields and installations.
It's quite life, old pal The
nights l don't fly spend In a
bomb shelter 9. The Japs send
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12
Three-Eye Loop
To Suspend Play

CHICAGO. Feb. u CUP).-The
Three-eye League, one Of base
balls oldest minor circuits. will
suspend play for the duration
Thomas Fairweather, league presi-
dent, said today.
Fairweather said he had called
"a meeting of club presidents here
Sunday TO discuss the suspension.
The league is composed of Cedar
Rapids and Waterloo, Ia; Decatur
and Springfield. H.. Evansville,
Ind, and Madison, Wis.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12

ashore We intercepted them
-. SO did the TT boats, but the
PTS couldn't get in any licks in
the rough going"
And Cy was making his tack
good again when he wrote:
e. made passes over the
destrOyers at 1900 feet not
until then was my bomber salts
fed enough TO release
You can imagine how l felt
making all those passes al such
short range -. The 4. A. tantl-
alTCrafU fire was hot =. :"
GETS 4 HIT
But then Cy won again and
this time il wasn't one Of those
golden flags Of victory he used
10 collect when racing saiiyachts
on Lake St Clair.
II got a direct hit on one of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12
Boxing, Wrestling
Card al US0 Tonight

An all-sports show, with 10
amateur boxing bouts and a
wrestling exhibition. will be staged
for servicemen at the USO Down
town Club, CaSs avenue and Lafa-
yette street, beginning at $50
tonight. Ford Local 500. JAW
Go. minister's will meet other
state amateurs on the ring pro-
gram.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12
Basketball Results

Hope 81 Albion IS
Baldwin Wallace so. Ashland a..
Ohio L. &C. Marietta 81
n. c state ~, Wake Forest 81.
Wooster II Denison 80
Otterbein 50, Oberlin So
Davidson 50. Charleston Sc
Georgetown 80. Fordham 90.
Salem 81, Bethany 50
WAyneshurg IS, St Vincents 81.
Loyola tLA u. Howard 81.
Bates 50 Maine 81
St Ambrose rs. William Penn "a
Union ky -, Georgia NJ. / 81
Presbyterian 50 High Point al
Sefridge Field IS. Jaglowtcz 81
Great Lakes so Michigan state ~.
Duuuesne u.s. y. G. Prsflight rs
Washington MD 81 Camp Pickett ;,
HIGH SCHOOL.
81 HedwiH's 70 St Fran. De sales 1.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12
Shields Gets Results
Course Owner and MGA Director Gets Action
on Appeal to OPA-GoIfers Can Use Cars
BY VI. F. DRUKENBRoD

When Russell A. Shields APP
.pealed to Prentiss NJ. Brown, OPA
director, on behalf of golfers sew
.eral weeks ago. some how you
figured he'd get results. And he
has.
He was informed yesterday in
a letter from John r. Richards.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12

chief Of the gas
Oline rationing
branch in Wash
ington, [ h a [
z offers may
use a BIO o X
coupons 10 get
to courses: also,
that pros and
club employees
may be eligible
for y books.
The OPA, he
wrote, does not
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12

Sydney Harris Howe, one OF
hockey's slickest scorers. will be
on his way to Montreal tonight
with his Red Wing teammates TO
prove again that 50,000-nay-
1000 Frenchmen can be wrong.
First 10 be convinced are the IS
players who make up Club de
Hockey Canadien.
Club de Hockey Canadien is the
official title of the hockey team
which is known 10 the English
speaking residents Of Canada as
the Montreal Canadiens, or Habit
ants.
It's a club that has developed
some decisions of scoring grandeur
when Ray Getliffe of Canadiens
pitched five goals past the great
Frank Brimsek Of the league
leading Boston Bruins last Satur-
day night.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-12

at the River
Rouge plant OF
the Ford Motor
Company. II c
has been EN-
ployed there for
nine months as
a member OF
the plant pro-
lection force.
Thorpe is call
ing on all the
tia atty left
from the great