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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-01

GOVERNOR BRIckER is national figure today. because the
~ American people whole unlike the people of Ohio
All OF the people know The need Of honest efficient
government and would be appccvc Of IT, All Of the people
tie qualities American leadership in man who believes as
Governor I}uclor believes. that:
There has been reckless spending money fragrant
abuse OF power An unbalanced budget national
credit standing The expansion Federal Governments ac
Invites has brought about drifting do nothing attitude The
paternam the New weakened the old homev virtues
Of initiative and self reliance"
ONO has given many great Americans the nation, nclud-
Ohio has nqucstoIaby produced another Great American
leader IN Governor John w ckcr administrator of public
affairs IN manner already noted with public interest beyond
tie borders of Ohio.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30
TO-DAY IN SCIENCE
BY GOBIND BEHARI LALr

to houses and metal containers
for food and drink. new kinds
of steel can be made.
"Modern research has shown
that weight and strength are
different things.
1--WE are trying to make such
steel that it would Withstand
the stress set up by the vibra-
tons and other motions Of the
steel objects, and yet be much
lighter than the steel now gen.
orally I'm use.
"COrrosion is another enemy
TO be fought. We have clues
for making steel alloys which
can resist four TO six times
more effectively than does the
ordinary carbon steel"
4 MONG the methods being
"A used by American scientists
for steel research most i'm
portant are studies of minute
particles of the metal alloys,
under changing temperatures.
The electron microscope, the
X-ray and the electron ray are
being used for such research.
Recently, Drs. G.. L. Clark
and r. w. Eyler of the Univer-
Sity of Illinois have developed a
camera, "stereoscopic micro
photography camera" of great
help in study of metal alloy
particles.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30

4 LFRED HARRISON, private
n first class, advises me that
he has found Skull Skulason.
whose whereabouts were my
concern in a column on July IL,
1871.
Pvt. Harrison has found Skull
right where / left him some
II years ago. in Reykjavik.
Iceland, and Skull carries that
very column in his wallet and
displays il occasionally, laugh
ing at my misspelling OF his
name.
i have forgotten wherein l
erred. but the way / am giving
it 20 YOU now is absolutely cor
rect as Pvt. Harrison sends me
a clipping from the Reykjavik
Morgunbladid, a paper for which
Skull formerly worked. making
much of the fact that he re-
Gently celebrated his 18th year
in journalism.
I JUDGE from what Pvt.
Il Harrison says that Skull is
now the foremost newspaper
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30
One Word Led to Another
: By ARTHUR BUGS" BAER-
Siciian Vespers Recalled by Baer

SiciIian Vespers Recalled by Baer
have noticed that many people enormously utilize
the famous vespers of 1882 criterion of Sciian
treachery.
Well they're wrong a lighthouse that burns oil
in the daytime. The vespers were slaughter of the
French brought on by themselves.
Charley of Anjou, who a buddy of Looie, king
of France, grabbed Naples and Sicily, gave the buns
gavotte to the Norman princes and made himself No
boy for that territory That 1865 the flies
The French cruel as an impacted tooth. The
vespers began March &c. 1882 remember the date be-
cause have string tied around my finger.
Two sweethearts of Palermo had set Easter Monday
as their wedding date. When the Sician bride walked
by with her retnue Frenchman named Droche grabbed
her and searched her under the petense of looking for
hidden weapons.
young Sicilian, possibly the groom, grabbed
Drochet's sword and presented it to him. point first
Drochet bowed gracefully with the hit in his chest and
the point sticking out his back.
Over 200 French dragons were massacred there
and then. The ructon swept around the island like fire
along wool string. Over 5000 French killed
regardless of age height metabolism There
shibboleth connected with this that forget Anyway
it was word that the French could not pronounce
correctly.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30
POLITICAL PARADE
BY GEORGE ROTHWELL BROWN

WASHINGTON. o I. %
w That old curmudgeon, Har-
old Ickes, has precipitated a
conflict between the executive
power and Congress the like of
which probably has not been
known since the impeachment
of Andrew Johnson.
Harold has flouted, derided
and ignored an act of Congress
which President Roosevelt, by
signing last summer, has made
the law of the land.
After a long investigation by
a subcommittee of the House
appropriations committee into
the subversive associations of
certain government bureaucrats,
three were cited specifically by
name, in the urgent deficiency
act of July II, 1943, which con-
tains a provision that no salary
should be paid to them after
Nov. IS, 1943, unless by that
time the President has nomi-
mated them TO the Senate and
they had been confirmed by
that body.
nNE of these was Robert
" Morss Lovett. celebrated
liner" of left wing Communist
front organizations.
The President, in signing the
act, stated in message to Con-
gress that he did not consider
either the executive or the jul
dicial branch of the government
to be bound by this language
of the law.
This week Ickes shuttled
Lovett out of his hot spot as
secretary of the Virgin Islands
into the position of executive
assistant" 10 the governor Of
the Virgin Islands, where there
was a vacancy.
The language of the act of
July II. 1943, section 304, in re-
gard to the prohibition as TO
employment of Loyett and two
others does not mention the
jobs WHICH THESE MEN
NOW HOLD. The prohibition
applies to ANY JOB.
JUST how Ickes expects to get
- around this very clear Ian
guage 1t is difficult to see.
Perhaps he has some sort Of
an opinion by the attorney gen
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30

THROUGH a series of regula-
l. tons quietly introduced last
July and now made public, the
u. S. Army air forces have
again been given larger auton-
omy within the framework of
the existing army set-up. The
land and air forces are now de-
scribed in a new war depart
ment manual as "co-equal and
inter-dependent" in the field of
action. In actual operations the
aerial phase, ii is indicated, is
no longer auxiliary to the
ground forces.
This development is highly
gratifying TO advocates of full
use of the air power potential.
AS far as tactical freedom for
the air contingents working in
army operations is concerned,
modification has now run its
full course.
Important as this internal
army reorganization may be. it
is most unfortunate that the
news has been broken to the
American people in misleading
terms. The announcement came
TO us in phrases about "a sep
arate air arm" independent
equality" free from groun d
rule" and the like which convey
the utterly false impression that
Americas air power has at
tanned a standing of independ-
ent equality with the army and
the navy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30

NOTHING of the sort has
~ happened and confusion on
this score can only bewilder
public opinion and delay the ut
most utilization of our air po-
tential. What has happened is
desirable, but it has nothing to
do with the kind of a unified,
autonomous air force VIII C h
Gen. Mitchell and his disciples
have pleaded for.
We do not have the equivalent
of the British Air Ministry and
its Royal Air Force. 1t is essen
tial that Americans understand
this thoroughly, If we are to
lead and not trail in aviation.
The army air forces in any
given theater of war now have
the same independence of ac-
ton hitherto enjoyed by tn e
ground forces. But they con-
tinue to work within the larger
strategic patterns conceived by
the army and navy, in the for
mutation of which airmen par
ticipate ~ as subordinates
and consultants. No less inn
portant, they work with equip
ment rejecting tn a I overall
strategy and therefore are de-
pendent on surface minds"
.HNHE autonomy granted to avi-
Il alton within the structure of
the army remains of a subordi-
nate character. Besides, it af-
fects only part of our air
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30
Quick Answers

I'm both Matthew " and
Luke N.
. Eat-it's a variety Of cherry.
4-The Wall Street crash when
IS million shares were sold
on The stock exchange and
z million shares on the curb
5-He perfected the microscope,
discovered protocol (simpl-
est units of life) and gave
the first scientific explana-
ton OF pregnancy.
6-(a) Right, because night
bombers- must cover wider
territories 20 be sure Of
hitting their target. tb)
right. The water is used in
distillation processes.
THE oath OF a Freeman,
Cambride, Mass, 1889.
8 Franklin - the identity Of
lightning and electricity.
Copyright, 1s43. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30

A TOM by atom studies Of
"A steel, which are preparing
the way for the construction Of
strato-planes. railway cars and
other fast vehicles, all made of
new kinds of steel alloys. came
TO light recently.
II was learned from Prof.
Colin c.. Fink of Columbia Uni
versity that the second World
War has pushed steel again 10
the front in the field of metal
strength and technology.
According TO this authority,
DR.. B. d. Saklatwalla. Pitts
burgh scientist and metallurgist,
discoverer OF many steel proc
esseS, and other American in
vestigators have made American
steel far more powerful than
German steel. Our steel is
harder and tougher, more cor
rosion resisting. and in some
ways lighter than that of any
other country's, so far as is
known.
nR. S XII AT w ALA re-
~ vealed;
Very large airliners, for car
rying passengers and cargo,
after this war, will have to be
made of special kinds of steel
From strato-planes, railway
cars, automobiles, bridges down
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30

hOrdes of our brave fighter
pilots. -Four hundred enemy
bombers were shot down. Three
OF our fighters were lost.
zone of our cities Is missing"
QUOTATION craftsmanship:
0 p. X. Thomaian: Ambition:
A getahead-ache j. Con-
merry: He took the words right
out of my alphabet soup +.
A. A. Milne: There was full
length novel in her sigh /.
i. c. Mahony: That charming
Roosevelvet manner Vogue:
She wore a bathing suit that
fitted like a sunburn w. S.
Ethfidge: Oaks lipsticked with
autumn /. Panin: The in
visible ballet of winds .. p.
Hammond: II was a rowdy
show with no theatrical man.
ners whatever G.. Earring:
Tact is loving people you wish
would leave Anon: Silence
Is golden. Sometimes it is yell
low G. Field: There is only
one worse break than asking a
woman her age. II is looking
incredulous when she tells il.
COUNDS in the night: At the
~ Wivel: rs she wearing that
gown over her skin or under
il ?" In the Cub Room: He's
old enough TO know better and
young enough not 10 givadamb"
At Leon and Eddie's: Love
may make the world 60 round
bat il makes me 90 crazy"
In the Zanzibar: She's been
a hasbeen so long she's forgot
ten her stage name" Cafe
Society Downtown: MY hus-
band? He's fine-he's simply
outlived his youthfulness that's
alp AT the Eldorado:
"Broadminded7 Honey, he
thinks OF nothing elsew
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30
IL. v. DURLING
ON THE SIDE,

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I'm women an affection that II
little removed i'm intensity from
that OF love Of sister for n
brother. Pipe smoking appeals
To men who are too calm, COM
placent and self-satisfied to
really arouse the emotions OF a
woman. Strangely enOug h
though most women do not like
the way smoking a cigar makes
n man look. The cigar smoker
Is the type OF man women fall
madly in love with"
QUERIES from clients:
W $50 Hildegarde Sell and
Gilda Gray are the only enter
tainment celebrities from Mil
waukee, says you. How about
Spencer Tracy, Don Ameche,
Pat O'Brien, Dennis Morgan
and Leonore Ulrich?
A-Tracy and O'Brien are
from Milwaukee, but Don
Ameche In from Kenosha, Wis.
Dennis Morgan Is from Prentice,
Wis, and Leonore Ulrich's
old home town Is New Ulm,
MINI.
Didn't f. r. Thomas own
the great thoroughbred Rose
ben? Ask Glenn Mccarthy.
Al don't have to ask Glenn
about that. Davy johnson owned
Roseben.
OH the days when all the
great plays and actors went on
road tours what city was con-
sidered the worst show town ?
My pal says il was Syracuse,
~. Y. 1 say Memphis, Tenn.
A-Your attention Is called
TO the following. lines often re-
cited by theatrical people of the
yesteryear:
The three worst weeks
In the show business credo.
Holy Week, Christmas Week
And a week in Toledo.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30

eral. But the comptroller gen.
eral may prohibit the payment
of salary to Lovett in his new
job unless he shall have been
nominated to and confirmed by
the Senate.
Doubtless also the appropria-
tons committee will stand pat,
and the House will back it up,
in refusing to appropriate any
salary for any of these three
gentlemen, in any job whatso-
ever, after Nov. Is, unless by
that time they shall have been
confirmed by the Senate.
So the question narrows down
to this. not what Congress will
do to these three minor en-
ployes, on which il has already
spoken, but WHAT CONGRESS
WILL DO TO HAROLD ICKES.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30

"Dennis McTaw,' she an
swered."
And / guess that accounts for
that 20 per cent in Philadelphia.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q-Does temperature rise
more readily in children than
in adults Pr II. q.
Ayes. Bremmerman re-
Gently reported some tests on
people before and after exercise
with oral and rectal tempera-
lures. OF course, exercise In
creases temperature In all, both
old and young, but the increase
in the children was much greater
and maintained longer.
Q-Will you explain briefly
what rhinitis is? Does it do
away with your sense of smell?
H. w. ID.
A-Rhinitis IL literally. ac-
cording to the meaning GA the
word, an inflammation Of the
nose. A cold IL an acute rhinitis.
The cavities and twining bones
of the nose-tbe sinuses--are so
numerous that a chronic case IL
most difficult To treat. In some
cases the mucous membrane In
destroyed and the sense of smell
disappears. The variations are
80 great that the only sensible
advice I can give Is To see
good doctor who specializes in
the nose.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30

I Ike TO think Of mother
As an Alpine mountain guide,
A leader Who is looking up.
Around t0hOse l0dist IS tied
A rope 10 help her children
Up a rocky mountain side.
The rope is made Of Trusted
chords
OF dreams and prayers and
re stronger srocs from day 10
day
And WiH outlast the years.
Elaine Bassett
(The foregoing is the first
part of a touching and thought
full poem titled "Y u n &
Mothers. Elaine Bassett. the
author, is one Of the best look
ing young women in Manhattan
and is a highly successful model
and showgiri)
CHE hasn't seen her son since
~ he joined the army %
months ago. So states a Chicago
mother. The boy has been in
the Aleutians for the past IS
months.
Two years is a long time TO
keep a young soldier in the
snow. rain. fog and isolation Of
the Aleutians. 1t certainly can
not help his fighting spirit.
Would seem some system of re-
placements should be inaugu-
rated 10 give these young fell
lows in the Aleutians a chance
at a furlough and a change Of
scene.
CT HAVE noticed" writes a
L Chicago woman who claims
to have made a study of men,
"that men who smoke pipes win
tho respect of women, but rarely
their love. Pipe smokers inspire
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30
WALTER WNCHELL
ON BROADWAY,
Copyright. is4s. By King Features

as a band conductor on 54th
street Newspapermen hear
that the ~. Y. Times London
correspondent, Ray Daniels. COW
cred story at police h'quarters
for his editor the other day. Be
cause OF a shortage Of male
reporters Variety says the
third most played tune on the
air last week wasF do You
Known" The tune Is by Mer-
cedes Weckler. a lieut.. in the
WACs.
THE OPA is probing charges
Il that some hooch wholesalers
make a dealer buy few cases
Of wine, il he orders a case of
laughing soup -. The short the
Under Cover" author made for
the Council on Books in War
time, Inc, was not delayed be-
cause Of political reasons, but
for a better retake Ezra
Stone is very miffed with Irving
Berlin for being cut so much
from the Army" film. He
wouldn't be IL he knew the real
reason ScribneTs in 1882
published Churchill's Amid the
Storms" One essay titled, My
Adventures With a Paint
Brush" contains this:
But there Is really nothing
like oils. First of all, you can
create masks more easily. One
sweep of the palette knife lifts
the blood, sweat and tears from
n morning canvass"
TIE humor of the week One
l. OF the wits Of the Eighth
Y. S. Army Air Force COM
posed this model NaZi COM
munique:
Large formations OF huge
American bombers attempted tn
penetrate western Germany to-
day but were driven OF by
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30

THE way some Of these al
legged military experts writs
about war burns me up. They
discuss war as if it were a
game OF chess or football. I
don't think even Sherman went
far enough in describing war.
j am in accord with what c. +.
NJ. Joad says:
War Is n grim, CHASTITY re-
ality Of flesh, misery and dirt
and mud and lice and mangled
bodies, OF reckless courage and
beastly cruelty"
Harriet Beecher Stowe had
five children when she wrote
Uncle Toms Cabin" so il you
have a few Riddles don't let
that interfere with your writing
a play or novel.
Those who marry late are
best pleased with their children
and those who marry early with
their partners" C al m d DIR.
Samuel Johnson. / think the
good doctor had something
there.
OBSERVES well-known career
" woman Dorothy Kenyon:
Nv o m en- will increasingly
want and should have both
home and career and there In
no incompatibility between the
two" Dorothy may be right,
but there is room for discus
sion. Whether or not there Ii
any "incompatibility" between a
home and a career depends
upon what arrangements a
career mother can make for the
care of her children. Then a
career woman has to be careful
she does not neglect her hus-
band.
I suggest Miss Kenyon read
James Forbes play. The Fa-
nous Mrs. Fair"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30
MAJOR DE SEVERSKY

potential. the part owned by the
army. AS far as our major ma
tional strategy is concerned,
aviation continues to be an aux
Hilary in its concept and conse-
quently also in its equipment.
In 1941 when the army SINH
larly gave some additional lee
way to its air forces, the late
Gen. Andrews, one of the most
far-seeing arm n in our ma
tons history, wrote me:
81 have just seen q copy Of
the new army regulations set
ting up the autonomous air
force which Mr.. Stimson men,
toned some time back. 1t does
not 60 far enough in my opinion,
because IL still leaves too much
influence on the technical de-
velopment In the h IA nds Of
ground thinking men. The
prime consideration I'm the tech
nical development Of the air
plane should be its strategic role
and not its auxiliary function Of
supporting ground troops. How
ever, there Is some consolation
In the fact that we do slowly
move In the right direction and
not backward"
THE regulations just made
Il public. no doubt, are a step
in the right direction. But by
no stretch of the imagination do
they provide us with an indie
pendent air force or the kind of
air power that will give us VIC
tory in the shortest time with a
minimal investment of life.
The change is simply tactical,
whereas the need is for basic
str tegic change. What is
needed is not a routine army
regulation. but congressional ac-
ton to establish an air depart
ment. vested with the authority
and responsibility for providing
this nation with true air power.
(Next column appears Monday
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30
BETTER HEALTH
By DIR. LOGAN CLENDENING-

I" SEE by the medical Jour
nals." observed my old
friend, DR.. Adrian Gibbs, the
other day. that somebody else
has now discovered that drink
Ing alcohol docs not cause cir
rhosis of the liver.
IAN ] can say Is that In my
practice, which has extended
over 40 years, every time one Of
my patients passed out from
cirrhosis Of the liver I could
remember . long history of be-
Ing called up by his wKe To
come over and unlock him from
the chandelier.
But along here about Is
years ago the research boys be-
gan 10 report that they were
producing cirrhosis of the liver
I'm animals when they gave them
q diet low In protein and vita
min II.
~T WAS y little skeptical Of
4 that, 90 went To the
medical school where these ex-
perirnents were being carried on
and looked At the livers.
We'll. all can say IL that
what these animals had didn't
look like cirrhosis 20 me.
"Now we have u report from
Philadelphia showing that In
$50 cases Of cirrhosis OF the
liver there was no history of
drinking In los of them TO per
cent?.
GIT ALL reminds me of the
story OF Dennis McTaw.
When I was a Kid around here.
Dennis ran a drygoods store and
n good one, and he made "A lot
of money, but along come 5
o'clock and he would get drunk.
"Well. his wife was very
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30

peculiar woman and she got
tired of ID and divorced Dennis,
and he sold out and went to
Denver. I was there once and
went TO call on him, and he took
me into a saloon and all he had
was glass of milk. Said what
his wife did to him had taught
him n lesson and that he hadn't
had a drink for over 10 years.
SWELI., one day l was sitting
W In my office and I'm came
patient, and very nice
woman she was. She wanted
AN examination and what she
specially wanted to know was
how was her liver. So 1 exam
ined her carefully and the first
thing / said was she needn't
worry about her liver at all. And
she wanted TO know why. and 1
said because In the first place IL
didn't show anything. and in the
second place the principal cause
Of liver trouble was liquor.
Now says she, 4 know you
are no good
How do YOU know ," 7 says.
Because my brother just
died In Denver az liver trouble
and he never had n drink i'm his
life
What was his name? ."
asked.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-30
THE BRIGHTER SIDE
By DAMON RUNYON

man in Iceland, president of the
Iceland Press Association. editor
Of his own weekly paper. the
Falkinn. and correspondent of
the London Times and the
Copenhagen Politiken. More
over. ne remains the best
known figure in Reykjavik, as
in the time when I met him,
tipping his hat 10 every other
person in the street. IL was a
derby hat then.
i came TO write of Skull two
years ago because ! encountered
Jack Harding, one of the ar1ny's
'round-the-world aviators. who
brought Skulls name up in
reminiscing of the flierSs' long
pause in Reykjavik, jumping
from the Orkneys.
The newspapermen following
the flight on cruiser, the navy
officers and men and the avia-
tors themselves took a great
fancy to Skull, who made him
self a sort of civic committee
Of one 10 entertain them. He
did not speak much English and
he endeavored TO teach the
visitors his own tongue, con-
filming his instruction 10 just
one word skoal, which was
quite sufficient.
LIE WAS in Norway for
IL time after the Nazi oc-
cupation and managed to escape.
In his youth he worked in
that country as a reporter. and
afterwards often visited there.
He was on the Morgunbladid
in Reyk javik as far back
as 1918 and established his own
paper with Vilhjalmur Finsen in
1927. i Gull all this information
from the article in the Morgun-
bladid signed by Valtyr Stefans-
son, the editor, who also says:
Zone thing il obvious, that
NhhttNNI Nv AHhuiiD HaN uOit
I'm the past and whatever he
may do in the future, he will
always remain first and fore
most a newspaper man, with
the newspaper mans instinct OF
wanting to follow closely what
ever happens near and far. to
pass the information on to the
public and to promote every
good enterprise. These have, at
any rate, been his attributes
ever since I knew and most
likely ever since he first re-
membered anything about him
self"
Well. Skull, hello. and Skoall
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