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Evening star., 1944-09-12
THE EVENING STAR. Washington. D C. A.
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Strikes Close 19 More
Mines in Kentucky
And West Virginia
BY the Associated Press.

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CHARLESTON, w. Va, Sept. H.
Approximately $500 coal miners in
West Virginia and Kentucky today
Joined 1000 others in idleness as
spreading strikes of supervisory
workers closed 10 more operations
for total Of IS.
Production loss was estimated ut
nearly 75,0O0 tons q day at the
closed mines.
In Washington, Secretary of In
terror Ickes announced strikes had
cost more than 800, 900 tons of
bituminous coal production for the
week ended September 2, as COM
pared with 200 900 tons for the week
ended August 26..
The War Labor Board sent tele-
grams to John McAlpine, president
Of the Supervisory Workers Union,
directing him to get the strikes
called OIL not later than the first
shift tomorrow" at l6 OF the mines
at West Virginia and Kentucky.
The Government already has
seized 80 mines in Pennsylvania and
west virginia In connection with
the supervisors drive for union
recognition and similar step was
expected involving the mines now
closed.
Supervisors at 16 mines in the
Raleigh Wyoming County Southern
West Virginia field voted to strike at
q meeting yesterday at Beckley, but
company oficials said six Of the
mines were still operating.
Just across the West Virginia line
In Kentucky, strikes closed four op-
erations in the Pond Greek section.
j. j. Ardigo, secretary of the Will
hanson (W. Va Operators Asso-
citation. said foremen and other
supervisors walked out at two of
the mines, following strike votes ta-
ken September and that at the
other pits rank and file miners
struck in sympathy.
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Dutch Sub Crewmon
Shot in Toproom BrowI

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. IA
Dutch sailor. member of a Dutch
submarine crew, was shot In the
back early today in downtown tap
room.
Police arrested Anthony Cato, Al
on a charge of aggravated assault
and battery by shooting. The sailor
Fatthos j. Morsdorf. Is, was not
critically hurt, hospital physicians
said.
Detective Sergt. Thomas McDer.
mott said Cato approached Mors.
dorf as he sat with Miss Eleanor
Quirk, %, and opened fire shouting
Shes my girl friend and l don't
want you around her"
Evening star., 1944-09-12
EorIy Morning Fires
Opposed by Ickes
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
Secretary Ickes today appealed to
householders in the East to foregc
firing coal-burning furnaces on
chilly mornings until weather re-
ports indicate sustained tempera-
lures averaging less than IS de-
grees.
Mr.. Ickes said that by enduring
some chilly fall mornings, discom-
fort on many frigid winter days can
be avoided. He said every home
using anthracite and Southern Ap-
palachian soft coal must save from
10 to 1872 per cent of the amount
normally required, and whatever
the fortunes of war in Europe, there
appears little or no chance that
these allotments can be increased
materially"
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Silver Wings Near Heart
Save Airmun's Life
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Sept. H.
Capt. Walter Siewert, an Army Air
Forces navigator of Milwaukee,
Wis, says the ornamental silver
wings he wore above his heart saved
his life during a raid on Ploesti.
Flax hit the 28-year-old officers
Liberator last May S during a raid
over the Romanian oil fields. A
piece of the metal lanced through
his flying clothes, his Mae West and
his parachute harness. 1t was
stopped by the silver wings pinned
on his shirt and left only a severe
bruise on his chest.
The wings were bent nearly dou-
BILE from the impact" said Capt.
Siewert, who has arrived at the
Army Air Forces redistribution sta
ton here after eight months in the
North African theater.
Evening star., 1944-09-12
Two Ho|dup Men Get $500,
Coupons for 5000 Gallons

Two holdup men, one armed with
a pistol, today robbed Richard jerks,
36, manager Of Bartmeir's Service
Station, Second street and Consti-
tuition avenue NV, of $500 and gas
oline coupons good for more than
5000 gallons, police reported.
Mr.. jerks told police he was in
the office of the station at Z am,
counting the receipts for the previ-
GUS day, when two young white men
entered and took the money and
coupons after one had drawn a gun.
They escaped in a station wagon,
according to police.
Evening star., 1944-09-12
MISUNDERSTANDING Cashier
Faces Jail Despite 'Wife's S Plea

Mrs. Wassinger her three children
and her husband, now a marine
serving in the South Pacific.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth johnson. 80,
who came here from Washington,
pleaded with the court for leniency
and declared she was willing to
take her husband back.
Johnsons parents, here from
Brooklyn, N. Y, described theil
son as "a good boy" and said they
would help him make restitution
johnson said the money was spent
on transportation, upkeep and ir
gambling
Evening star., 1944-09-12
General and $1,000 Men
Surrender to FIJI Units

NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-The
French radio at Lyon said today
that a German general and $4,000
men had surrendered to units of
the French Forces of the Interior
at Chateauneuf-Sur Cher, in Gen.
trail France southwest of Bourges,
the capital of the Cher department.
The broadcast, reported by the
Federal communications Commits
sion, added that the FIJI COM
mander Immediately got in touch
with the nearest American author
tiles
The name of the German general
was not given.
Evening star., 1944-09-12

For the bond drive you have an
e,card and the speed limit is of.
give now, and step on it!
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-30
What They're Whispering in Gotham

girl who was glorihed by the greai
Ziegfeld had hit the very bulls eye
OF the spotlight.
To become a Ziegfeld mannequin
shcwgirl had to possess specta
cular beauty of face and form. But
to be Ziegfeld boy-incongruous
phrase!-a lad had TO have talent
and lots OF II. VIII Rogers was
'one OF the boys. So was Eddie
Cantor-Ziegfeld glorified him in
blackface. To this day. the songs
most dearly identified with Cantor
are those he sang under the Zieg'
field aegis. And so 1t was only ha.
tural that when Cantor sat in a
glittering Gotham cafe some nights
ago with his Ida and George Jes.
sci, and the band played a medley
Of Ziegfeld tunes. the comedians
memory travelled back to the days
when Ziegfeld girls reigned SUI
preme in the glamor kingdom.
And Cantor told a story about
one such girl. a beauty who. he and
Jessel agreed. had been one OF the
most fabulous. The world was her
oyster, and the oyster had a pearl
in it. The extensively expressed
alteration she excited would have
seemed fantastic in fiction. Suitors
gave her stocks and bonds. a town
house. a country estate, furs and
diamonds.
Nobody would have believed that
she returned all her luxurious pos
sessions. But she did. Just few
months ago. she told Eddie about
il. He was making war bond
pitch in the chief department store
OF a Midwestern city when a bux-
ON, beaming middle-aged woman
greeted him affectionately and ask
ed IL he remembered her. He did.
1t was the former "Follies" favorite.
She works behind the lingerie coun-
ter in that department store-has
for a long time. She's been mar
ried for a long time, too, and her
husband makes a nice living. as
she puts it, for white collar
worker" They're saving every pen.
ny to buy a small house OF their
own after the war.
She doesn't look anything like
she used to, but the fading Of her
beauty didn't sadden Cantor as IL
might have. Because as she told
him about herself, her eyes shone
as bright as they ever did in the
old days and she said wondering
ly:
Eddie, never knew I could be
this happy"
That reminded Jessel Of another
showgirl and another story. This
beauty never received stocks or
sables and was never seen slipping
champagne at the fashionable sup
per spots. She could have had all
these things, because they were
around in those days for the taking
and she was exquisitely lovely, but
she had fallen madly in love with
a fellow who was penniless and she
was working as a Ziegfeld girl only
to save enough money to buy the
furniture for their first little two
room apartment.
They were married. but the mar
riage was an unhappy one. The
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-30
The Army Supply
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light-heavy and heavy trucks, heavy
artillery munitions, aircraft bombs
and tires. II is true that in other
items there has been excess pro-
duction but that means nothing.
In Africa, the Army required one
kind of supplies: in France. an
other. AS the character of the war
changes, the supplies required
change. And what the Army needs.
it must have no matter what the
political statisticians have TO say
on the subject. Satisfies will not
save lives; munitions will.
A year ago. the Army was criti-
cized for having ordered too many
tanks recall seeing literally
miles OF them standing on railroad
sidings. II seemed as though the
Army was on a tank hinge. Today,
every one OF those tanks Is in SER
vice. Today, il is the tank that
counts. Fortunate indeed is the
country that can switch from one
type OF battle to another, knowing
for certain that the supplies needed
will be available.
In July, deliveries OF military
supplies were approximately four
per cent below the first OF the
month forecast and three per cent
below June. Forecasts OF produc-
ton for August have been revised
downward in several vitality inn
portant items. The main Difficult
ty seems to be insufficient manpow-
err, arising from end-ofwar opti-
mism and the reconversion talk in
WPB The Nelson-Wilson row in
WPB will undoubtedly increase the
shortages because public opinion
will assume that Wilson and the
Army exaggerated the military re-
quirements.
This war will not be won by poll
ticians columnists and radio COM
mentators squabbling over whether
the Army is extravagant or wheth-
er Charlie Wilson or Donald Mel
son is right or wrong. This war,
like any war, will be won by SOL
diers in the field. adequately sup
piled, licking the enemy and taking
his territory. II the general in
the field today wants tanks, he
ought to have tanks; IL next month
he no longer wants tanks but needs
trucks. he ought to have the trucks.
That is the way to win. Because
Germany has for a year now not
been able to provision its army in
this manner, Germany Is losing the
war.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-30

bridegroom drank and gambled
away what little money they could
save, and sometimes even grease.
paint couldn't hide the ugly black.
and blue marks on the beautiful
showgirl's arms and neck. Finally,
in desperation, she got a divorce
and for a long time after that she
went about under the weight OF a
crushing sadness.
Where is she now? Well. Jessel
says, she's married again. This
time TO a husband who adores her.
And II so happens he's not only
good and kind and intelligent and
sweet-but one OF the richest men
in town,
Sometimes a star finds that fame
Is not as far-reaching as might be
assumed. Unflattering discovery?
Not always.
Exiting from the 44th Street
Theater stage door one night last
week. Gertrude Niesen noticed a
stalwart sailor smiling and cycling
her enthusiastically. She smiled
back and went on her way. The
next night, there stood the same
sailor with the same smile. This
pantomime between the tar and
the star was repeated the following
evening. and for several nights af-
ter that.
Well, Follow the Girls" Is Ger
trude's first Broadway starring ve-
hicle and she admits II gave her
feeling OF pride to see this de-
voted fan at the stage door night
after night.
She's even prouder now, in a diff
ferent way. Because on the sixth
night the sailor summoned I'D
enough courage to confront the
stage doorman. And this is what
he said:
IL can't get that little blonde off
my mind. I'm afraid to speak to her
she might think | was fresh But
isn't there any way | can find out
her name and get someone to intro
duce u.s."
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-30
Half Forgotten Days
Twenty Years Ago

Twenty Years Ago
L. has in her possession Bible which is 1913
years old given by grandmother Eng
iishwoman. who married The
printed English. but in the old English script It is
in the st. James version
Results OF demonstrations the pumper
satisfactory machine exceeded capacity
The is guaranteed TO have $50 gallon capacity
the tests II exceeded that amount
Marriage Vides Mary Kincad daughter Of Mr. and Mrs W.
r. Kincaid to John Russell Mckay the Baptist
Birth To Mr. and Mrs. william scott boy William
Jr. at the Scott home.
Hiram Holmes Detroit formerly OF ths city at the
home 1926 Longfellow. Detroit
Fifty Years Ago
Charles s. Woodland has discovered rings in a tree
trunk tell not only the Of the tree but the relative
drynes OF the successive
old and found the VIC spondcd
TO the records he had years rainfall
ProfFred A. letters and HIS bride Cora Dootla wheaand
called old Normal friends their wedding trip JEFF
fers will be head OF the schools Atlantic year
Derk NJ Stegenga president OF the
head OF the Latin and science work Manisique
Jennie Pudy, Brighton. ware married Aug 23
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-30

An army, at war, cannot know
when It's task will be over. Civil
lians may speculate on the end OF
the war, an army assumes that Il
will go on until IL is over. 1t ord
ers and purchases supplies as
though its immediate war would
continue forever Anything short
OF that would be disastrous, for the
guesses OF the wisest OF men may
turn out wrong.
At the end OF most wars. the
army is accused OF extravaganza,
waste, and useless expenditures.
Great masses OF supplies are UNI
used and much Of the accumulation
is unstable. War is, by its very ma
ture, an extravaganza. Supplies
are made to be destroyed. Obsoles.
cence sets in with startling rapidi-
~ and new models replace old for
no reason apparent 10 the layman.
AS long as the army is winning
victories, its judgment cannot be
questioned. Its sole justification is
the defeat OF the enemy. In the
quarrels between Donald Nelson
and the Army, the Army need only
point to its necessities and it's vic
tories.
A civilian production chief, like
Donald Nelson or even the Presi-
dent. may be willing to concern
himself with the domestic political
reaction 10 the Army's demands
for supplies. Foreseeing the end
Of the war, he may believe that
production for civilian use may be
accelerated. The Army dare not
consider these political factors. be-
cause the Army must stand ready
10 fight with all its equipment up
to the moment that the enemy is
beaten and disarmed. II can lose
an almost.won war by a lack of
supplies.
The trend OF American produc.
ton has been moving downward
since November, 1943. Our produc-
ton in July was actually II per
cent In dollar value less than in
November. Deliveries have been
slipping. AT present schedules. the
accumulations OF demand requires
that production next December be
30 per cent higher than during the
month OF July.
AS long as American troops are
in Europe. Africa and Asia. they
are entitled to every supply that
is essential for their efficiency and
protection against the enemy. The
Army now reports shortages in
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-30

I don't know. There was truck
STEADY" soothed Lynn, his heart
sick within him.
A nurse came to the door. She
said, low, "If you'd come now, DR..
Norman"
Matthew got to his feet and tried
to straighten his shoulders. He
said, "I-she's l.. 4. Leming has taken
her to the operating room. They
sent me away"
They watched him 60. Mary said
nothing. But her heart spoke
strongly, in petition: Don't let this
happen to him, it begged. spare him,
he doesn't deserve this, there isn't
any sense to it, don't let this hap
pen!
Suddenly she spoke aloud and
was unaware that she did so. Lynn.
hearing, knew that she did not know
that she spoke.
"Irene!" she said loudly =. 81
wasn't thinking Of her. l was just
thinking of Matthew"
Her face altered and she began
to cry.
Lynn moved close and took her
hand. He did not speak. After q
little she turned to him. I'm all
right" she said, "I-just ="
Don't try to talk, Mary"
"But must. 1t helps" She chung
to his hand and he was grateful for
that much. Don't you see how I
feel? All my life, almost all my
life, all Matthews life certainly.
I've put him first. I've wanted to-.
Agonized over him, rejoiced in him.
Thinking only that ! must help him
to be strong, to be happy. And now
I can't help him, Lynn. II anything
happens if Irene dies :"
Lynn said, "You will be able to
help him, dear"
"I've had my life" she murmured
duly. "If it had happened to me,
how much more fitting. But to Irene,
with life before her, and the baby :?
To Matthew? It isn't fair" she
cried, cit isn't fair!"
He said, I'VE never understand
these things"
There isn't anything to under
stand" Mary retorted, gin a sense
!ess cruelty like this. Matthews
good, Lynn. He's never hurt any
one. Irene's good :. and the baby
80" She looked at him piteously.
why shouldn't the baby have had
chance at life ?" she asked. $50
! many are born who aren't wanted,
so many are born who come into .
hideous environment, poverty, dis
case, i'll nature, suffering. But
Matthews baby would have had
everything"
lie said, Hush, darling" and she
did not even hear the endearment,
you must try TO be brave. Perhaps
it isn't as bad. perhaps it"
They were silent again. People
came and went. Nurses passed, two
Of them, and one whispered to the
other. That's DR.. Norman's moth
err"
Mary heard the whisper, il pene-
trated sharply; it was q little voice
crying, shrilly: DR.. Norman's
motherl
Well, she was that She twisted
her hands together in her lap. She
thought: Please, God, let me be con-
trolled, let me .ace whatever comes.
give me the right word, show me
the way 70 help my son.
60 be continued)
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-30
YOU'RE.
nae!
BY WILLIAM RIFT
Press WrItr

ADOLF HITLER has but one
question to put to his advisors.
It's, well, swinehunde, where
can we hide p"
With the coming OF the foot
ball season more sweater boys
than sweater girls will get their
pictures in the paper.
/!
Turkey Is still ponderins whether
or not TO Jump on the Allied vic
tory frain-and the eobooss 10
rolling bv the stofioni
When the postwar auto In
dustry returns to full capacity
Zadok Dumkopf predicts the
lowly pedestrian will once again
return to the curbstone from
whence he sprang.
It's only natural that those
early season wsrm-up grid
games would be played during z
beisted September heat wave.
A new computing machine Il
sold 10 be oble TO answer any
problem. That should cut the $64
question down TO less than 81
cents.
Those Nazis, attempting TO
nee the French front in horse
drawn vehicles, must realize II
is the last time they will ever
hold the whip hand.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-30
CHAPTER TWENTY

On Thursday night Lynn came
TO dinner. His cocktail was wait
ing, the lighted fire, and Mary. in a
long sheer wool frock, with her hair
brushed a new way and her serenity.
He said, on a long breath, Lord,
this is good!"
After dinner, sitting by the fire,
he said, breaking q long silence,
"I've never spoken :"
Mary looked up, from her own
thoughts. you've never spoken of
what?" Then she knew and put out
her hands quickly as il to ward
off a blow. "Oh, don't" she said,
please don't, Lynn, please don't
spoil things!"
He said heavily, "If, TO speak
would spoil anything, then, my
dear, you do not care for me at all. :"
81 dol" Her eyes were shining,
and sad. Matthew, you, Irene.
You three are my whole life"
Lynn said, hopelessly, 81 went up
10 see Nan yesterday. Rita went
too. begged her not TO she
disturbs Nan very much. But we
went because Nan hasn't been as
we'll physically Of late. She is bet
ter now, quite restored. Her heart
Is good" He added, after q mo-
ment, How brutal this sounds =.
but she may live for years. The
doctors said just that. Mentally
she is much worse. She did not
know me, Mary"
He was staring at the fire. at
has been so long -. l have loved
you so long a time, without disloy-
atty. Because for over twenty
years Nan has not been the woman
loved and married, but a scream
ing stranger. have loved you and
taken what comfort I could in the
fact that l may see you, may touch
your hand and listen TO your voice
-. what comfort could in know.
ing that you lived, that we walked
under the same sky, on the same
streets, and breathed the same air
But IL Is not enough. Yet ever
II you felt as do-and you do not
know it, do not look at me so
there is no need TO tell me-even il
you did, there is no other way but
this nay. Only sometimes when
am very tired it seems such a waste
! would ask nothing more Of lif,
than this, to be with you, to grow
old with you, Mary"
She was crying. little. She said
Dear Lynn -. :"
81 know. Forgive me, and won
speak Of it again, | promise. ONLY
there are moments which come sud
denly, one cannot anticipate then
or evade them. In such moment,
the barriers fade and one 10 com
PEELED TO speak,
He was silent and she looked a
him in sudden wonder. She haC
been so fond Of him always, from
the very first. Mary had known fol
a long time that he loved her. anC
had deeply respected his silence
had been grateful for it. But sh,
had not imagined
Something stirred in her, a vair
wish, like a spark from a FIRE sh,
had long thought cold and persisted
Lynn said harshly, Don't be kline
10 me. IL could not endure IL
Next time it will be as IL was be
fore"
But things are never as they wer,
before.
The telephone rang sharply and
Es-y .Ssa g answer u She called,
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-30

often equalled and sometimes sur
passed that OF the star whose pro.
duction she graced. Tabloids and
Sunday supplements were riotous
with the sagas of Broadway beau
ties and in print IL seemed as
though their lives were all ermine
and a yard wide collection OF dia-
mond bracelets And OF course, a