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Detroit evening times., 1943-09-09

Photo by Times stan Photograph
Annie Straatman,
u, Of 1860 Concord,
who has saved 152.
silver dollars since her
fourth birthday, pour
ing her fund into the
hat Of G. Jansen,
milkman from whom
S h e b o u G h t t h a t
amount in war bonds.
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Summit Park Unit
To Protest Re1oninq

The Summit Park Citizens Asso-
citation was to send a delegation to
the Zoning Commission hearings to-
day to oppose the rezoning Of por-
ton OF Summit Park from 40 A
restricted" to 40 A." it was an
nounced at their meeting last night.
The proposed change would permit
the construction of apartments and
fats in the area, which now allows
only detached houses.
The association urged that the
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once Of peoples counsel for the
District be filled. The Citizens De-
Tense Committees lone member was
asked to outline a procedure for re-
building the committee or for form
ing a new one. Installation of a
drain pipe under Bangor street at
Thirty-sixth street Sc was asked
to prevent the intersection from
being covered at times with water.
A motion was passed directing
that a second letter be sent to the
Postmaster General for the estab-
lishment of branch post Office in
Fairfax Village.
A Capital Transit Co. letter to
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10000 Soldiers Reported
In Fighting French Ranks

The Fighting French soldiers
number more than 10000, the
French National Committee Infor-
nation Service here reported today.
Twenty thousand Of these soldiers
escaped from France. and the rest
are inhabitants Of territories under
Fighting French control.
The population Of the territories
administered by the French Ma
tional Committee would obviously
permit the levying Of much greater
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number OF men," the information
service said. But only well trained.
well armed and we'll equipped units
can win today. Therefore the high
command of Fighting France has
made it a rule to constitute and
engage in combat only land, naval
and air forces adapted to modern
warfare"
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Tax Clinic Speakers

Three officials Of the Internal
Revenue Bureau will address the
Taxation Clinic tonight at the Ma
tional University, 818 Thirteenth
street NV. They are William v.
Crosswhite, A. w. Carnduft and
Clifford G. Beckham.
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Civil Air Petrol to FIy
PIosmu in EMERGENCIES

Arrangements have been made for
the Civil Air Patrol Of the Office Of
Civilian Defense to fly blood plasma
supplies into stricken areas in the
event Of air raids or other emer-
gencies, James NJ. Lands, director
Of civilian defense, announced to-
day.
Regional medical officers of the
OCD have been instructed to request
emergency transportation for the
plasma from the CAP wing COM
mander in the State from which the
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plasma is to be. flown when other
transportation is not available or is
inadequate. Wing commanders were
authorized to accept requests only
from regional medical officers.
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the association stated that there
would be no curtailment of bus route
c at present. The letter also said
improvements at Barney Circle were
being completed.
Several new members were pro-
posed and accepted.
Mrs. Leila w. Marshall. president.
presided at the meeting, which was
held in her home at 3703 Bangor
street Sc.
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mer movie leading man, Is . cap
tain in the Quartermaster Corps at
Fort Warren, Wyo. Tim, known
chiefly at a Western actor, became
a cadet in the Army Air Forces yes
terday.
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Hollis Son in Air Force

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 10 [P).-Ac-
tor Tim Holt has followed his IA
nous father into the armed forces.
Jack Holt, Tins father and for
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Others die for you; the least you
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Evening star., 1943-10-24
ARE YOU
HANDY WITH TOOLS?

! nRNUI Win IUULSf
We Have Openings for
Mechanically Inclined Men
to Learn the Automobile
Service Business
More Oldsmobile service men are
needed-urgently-tO help main
tain Americas vital tranSpOrta-
ton system. We have immediate
openings for mechanics, body re-
pair men, electricians, parts
men, fabrication specialists. Ex-
perience is helpful. but not absO-
lutely necessary if you are me-
chanically inclined and skilled
with your hands.
ESSENTIAL WORK
Automobile service work has
been classified as essential work
SO here's your chance to switch
to war job. and at the same
time get established in business
with a big future, both during
and after the war.
/ 1oE w hOES-
IDEAL CONDITIONS
TOP WAGES
Work as an Oldsmobile mechanic
is high-paying, pleasant work.
Our employees earn wages COM
parable to those paid in other
war industries, while enjoying
regular hours, freedom from
mOnOtOnous routine, and fire.
quent contact with the public.
EARN WHILE YOU LEARN!
Your pay begMs the day you re-
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as you become more skillful.
Factory-trained experts teach
you the latest service methods
the use of the most modern tools
and equipment. They prepare
you for the best-paying jobs in
this well-paid field. Report to-
day-and let us help you put
your skill at your cOuntry's
service.
Only those eligible under the War
ManpoWer Economic Sterilization
Plan need apply.
Your 0ldsmobiIe Dealer
Capitol Cadillac Co.,
1922 22nd st. NV.
"Paul Brothers, Inc,
1920 Wisconsin Ave. NV.
POhanka Service,
1926 Goth st. NV.
kearney Oldsmobile,
New York Ave. NE.
Olmstead Motor Co., Inc,
1000 Wilson Blvd,
Arlington, Va.
Community Motors, Inc,
1900 Hampden Lane,
Bethesda, Md.
Justine Nicholson Motor Co.,
Hyattsville, Md.
Mann Motor, Inc,
1929 Georgia axe,
Il Silver Spring, Md.
Evening star., 1943-10-24

YOU CAN HELP
Keep the Ships Moving
Down the Woys TO
VICTORY
One Of BoItimore's Biggest
Shipyords needs men-ur-
gently-to help with the
vitoIly importont job of
building coroo ships, tonkers
and tronsports. This need
is YOUR opportunlty-your
chance to earn good money
while mokinq reol, ESSEN
TlAl contribution TO the wor
effort.
EARN WHILE YOU LEARN
No experience is necessary,
You pick out q job-Ieorn it
under our troining program
ond get poid while learning.
Starting rotes ore good.
Average weekly earnings,
token for all workers in the
yord. GRE excellent. If you
ore skilled in q shipyord
trode-but not already in
an essential lob-you ore, Of
course, more thon welcome,
and will earn extra high
wages.
HOUSING NEAR YARD
For shipyord workers there
ore new apartments, fifteen
minutes owoy. Rento!s ore
S34 per month for room,
kitchen and both; S36 for
two rooms, kitchen and both;
S38 for three rooms, kitchen
and bath. Cos and electric
ity included.
SOLDIERS OF
PRODUCTION
Toke your place in the po-
triotic ranks Of the produc-
ticn ormy! NOT only does
your country need you-but
this chance is one you cont
afford TO miss. There ore
reol opportunities for od-
voncement omone the jobs
offered. This shipyord hos
been in operation for S.
years. Many employees who
worked there during the First
World War ore still on the
job.
VISIT U. S. EMPLOYMENT
OFFICE
At the u. S. EMPLOYMENT
Service Office, Fifth and K
streets NV. telephone
District 10000, company rep
resentotives will give you full
information about these Jobs.
Bring your Social Security
card and, if oyoiIobIe, birth
or boptismoI record. Office
open 800 o.m. to 500 pm.
dolly.
Please do not apply if already
in an essential job.
A Large
Baltimore Shipyard
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28

Rut she was foe nov and Ned
was long since ou. of her life
and loyalty. She would use it for
"springing her daughter into
better life They went straight
from Paris 20 Swifznaad
Someone tald her of a good
school near Lausanne sophie
was now Mrs. ST. CLAIR Lee
widow of "a Virginia planter. and
She and Florence dressed accord
ingly Sophie spoke perfect Vir-
ginian Florence was accepted
by the teachers and children OF
this school that turned out upper
class young ladies'
But back In Paris she was
faced by the same old problem
of money 10 make that dream
about her children come true and
once more her past laughed at
her. she must steal again.
She registered az an hotel full
of rich Americans. She found
there was 10 be a wedding next
day at the hotel between a Chi
cago pork packer and the daugh-
ter-ef ~ Lottts brewer Two
detectives. one an Englishman
sent over by private agency,
the other "A Frcnchman, stood
guard over the wedding presents.
Sophie hired the costume Of
sister Of charity. Dressed in it
she arrived at the hotel in a cab
and Went up 10 TIE E0om-Lhe door
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but fhe mob battered the door in
with rifle butts. The door went
with a crash and up the prison
stairs came the mob.
Crowbars smashed Logan's cell
door and he was dragged off
Sophie saw the rest from a pri-
son window They strung Logan
up on a tree. riddled him with
bullets and left the body in the
moonlight.
Then Sophie heard the voices
rise and the mob turned TO the
prison again. Up the stairs they
came yelling.
Where is that woman p"
Sophie laughed. So this was
70 be her end. the most unlikely
she could ever have imagined for
herself 20 die for trying 20 help
the law
There ran through her mem
ory the number Of banks she and
her husband had robbed and for
nearly all Of which they had
gone unpublished. Yet now an
other bank that she had never
harmed, even IN Thought, MAS in
directly Wrcaking vengeance for
thcm all. with the supreme pen
HtrV-
Well she didn't care much, She
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28

bovie where Florence had again
been placed She didn't even
wait 10 take in tho changes in
Florence that two years made
Darling" she cried, "wc'rc
going 90 Europe IN put you in
good school Youll bc educated
% Doe "a lady Then she whis-
pcred In her daughters ear. No
body there knows about me and
I'll even make you proud Of me-"
AS for her other children, one
of the boys had nun away from
the orphanage and was appar-
entity already on the downward
path, and IL seemed advisable
AT the time 20 leave the younger
son and daughter where they
We're Some day perhaps. She
could contrive % have them with
her abroad, but meanwhile her
---ul MAS proaceHPiod with Flor
cucc's future
She would not steal this time
20 make new life possible for
Florence bat managed 20 scrapc
together enough money by selling
some Jewels This buried treas
urc was a sacred last-rcsort fund
intcadcd 20 DC uscf only for
"sprnging" herself or Ned from
prison.
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CONTINUED from Double Page)

their custodians thought was an
old Chinese custom but was
really born in Sophie's brain.
After the guards thought this
had gone on long enough. they
announced that time Was up and
the callers must depart. The
order was obeyed with prompt
meekness and everyone concerned
was happy.
The only flaw in the system
lay in the fact that IL always
happened TO be the prisoners who
walked away, while the ones that
Uncle Sam sent back 20 China
at his expense were homesick
Chinese whose passage cost them
only a ten-dollar commission"
paid TO Sophie's agent.
About the time Uncle Santa
Claus got onto the game. Sophie
received the bitterest news Of all.
She was tipped off that we were
tracking her through her two
children
Two days later we caught up
with her Back She went to finish
her sentence at Sing Sing. with
two more years added for her
escape. Actually she served three
years and then a social worker
got her released.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28

CONTRARY 10 its usual custom, and because OF the time
~ illness and immediate importance of the article, this
Pnkerton series will be broken week for double
article by Nine v IA Wellington hoo, wife OF the Chinese
Ambassador to Great Britain.
The article will deal with the exploits Of Chna'S Little
Devils its child and the work of the old and old
women in resisting the Japanese.
Every japanese killed by these children and old
Japanese less kill American
After Nine. koos article, the NIanhunng Pner-
tons series will be resumed.
The Editor
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28

had lived badly but now she
would die grandly Advancing
proudly 90 meet them she cried;
1T takes 800 Of you towards
10 get me must be pretty
good
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28

She was lifted on the shoulders
of tho mob. In The Wardcn's Of
flee She was set down A gaunt
hlack-bcardcd man said
80 YOU tried 20 save Charlie
Steele p"
Sophie could not lind voice
She saw the faces about her now
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28

looking at Lcr with A,au
Iwmut nothing wrong n.'h
Charlie Steele 'ccpt "a mite too
much liquor the leader of that
mob went on "aud faint much
wrong with that To turned 20
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28

, a. ~ fAAt'A III ~ a s'iAAfAA ~ 'fl fhhI
got her released.
c TRONG as was the impulse
~ 10 -rush-Lo hcl cLIIIrGI--A-h
had again been 'famcd OUT
in Canada, Sophie decided first
10 get rid Of her prison pallor
rest and think things over be-
fore starting on her new life.
Ned was still IN prison but she
would not have joined him had
he been
Their love had grown cold
Eventually they We're divorced
and in later years she married
William Burke known as Billy
me I'D So When She was re-
leased from sing sing she took
train south 90 meet the coming
Spring and spent two completely
innocent and quiet weeks in the
sleepy htue town Of Mount Stirl-
ing kentucky
Ihcn one day SHOTS and shouts
interrupted her thoughts as a
crowd sIrged around the corner.
sophie had settled her account
WIN 'h' law. haa hnth"g u"
-g.tr ar. no Ll,eI- l1+4 2i E-i'-AG
INTO TINS ti"Hh-f. "il'''F'f II
might ne Ana just ta'h her
past r''. '''' 'H' ana ''..'i'a heI.
q voice ii'i1 me past "hisperea.
T'''- 0r'T' ~,
'h'in NOTICE mat ann talking 70
St'ti
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"'''h haa become sec
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a..'.''', ''' "i.,si''' ~ vas S''."d,
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Hei pea her iop the brooklyn pai,h'
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5,d moro ~ ,.,s,or,,i ,.',l,,,..
IN ain she r,adc - r,..,ro .l,,t
confused those MOI, ~ 49,. SIN
with their Dattern - -betsvfoII
toward women even thouor tbev
were ben, on a lyrchinr n tho
confusion tho voice Of Tho sheriff
prevailed.
Bows" he pleaded 1ct nae
have them"
Sophie and Big Tom vcrc taken
., I'll. ..1 er.t. g.
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G TRONG as was the impulse
9to- rush-G0- her cLiIIrGu--llhA
had again been "fmmcd out
in Canada, Sophie decided first
10 get rid Of her prison pallor
rest and think things over be
fore starting on her new life.
Ned was still in prison but she
would not have joined him had
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-28

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Detroit evening times., 1943-12-22
MAJOR DE SEVERSKY

WE HAVE Just been appri,cd
W that flyers of the IT, S
Eighth AIT Fo1ne viii be
equipped with a football type
steel h Q met As protection
against shrapnel fragments The
helmets viii weigh TWO pounds
for ,urrct gunners three pounds
for other crew members
All Of this reflects the greater
fire power being hurled against
US by the enemy. As the Bat
tie OF Germany moves from
trucking proposition to 4 real
aerial struggle for ~ky mastery
this is inevitable The Germans
are using more and more large
calber cannon Of hlch ft1uzaie
velocity-fring pqTerful eXPlo-
sIve shells instead Of SOLID lead
bullets. They have begun te-
employ rock 'arpodocS that
explode on c1ntae and by time
fuses. Tn 80 intensified
their IA t,uc IN greater
pehe'ratr7 81. aircraft by iraE-
mont
Detroit evening times., 1943-12-22

WY Sro. On Coppsrsv1e- -re6I
see that deputy sherifs local Of Los Angeles IS not
excited about crashing the Rose Bowl for free.
he.offcers state they have to use Their own. gas
and tires getting there Also there IS parking squeeze
Of "a cents per linear wreck
Furthermore an officer in citizens clothing does not
forfeit ms official statns-Ne= =aI remember the sheriff
IN church who flashed his badge when the plate was
passed
The deputys' local compNins that an officer Of the
ttatues and ordinances IN mifti still mlnon Of the
bv-laws and amendments Ida fight starts The grand
stands he is not referee 10 separate them ana wave
them trselAer again.
( No he must separate them and keep them that way
The first thing he knows he doesn't know anything for
some pal Of the contestants swings on hrs chnstrap
with this declaration Of belgerence Choosing up sde
en-?
So ne goes down and the lovers of fair play give Rn
the testimonial leather otherwise known as the boots
They kick him into the higher priced seats lower
down The sheriffs local cA this no DICE Yet every
time 20 big contest II looks like hcd day Tor ING
police and fremen.
The sheriff on the sdelInes is always available for
the call of duty Many one with his wife or sWeety IN
night club has coueifQr the artillery during suckup
And MANY one has been bumped of responding TO
call fcr help on his vacation
In, clad 10 hear from the Los Angeles coppers that
a pohcemans life a,n5erry with double nden-
nitv and emolumcrts STILL lts for free And paving to
get would only add accrued interest 70 the oLdeat
Detroit evening times., 1943-12-22

TIIE improvised armorlng Of
i thc personnel As well a.
their planes under battle condi-
tlonS mpanS1hat naval history
Of century ago is being re-
peated in the skies.
Arrnor plate on SHIPS was
used for the first time in 1855.
hy the French n the Crlmean
campaign. Until then 'navicS
tried 10 Meet the growing
threat ~cf artillery by putting
armOr on the crew After a
while this personal armor NO
longer sWficed 10 provide real
protection z in st improved
firearms besides. II became TOO
heavy and confining 10 be prac-
ucal After aTnor plate was
developed the ship rather than
the crew was protected, leaving
the men unenCpbbered in action.
II IS q pity that air power
should have 10 60 through The
same process. Had we turned
back the pages Of history we
could rAadlly~have foreseen the
growth OF aerial FIRE power and
provided against II, instead Of
lmproWsing In action with the