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ADVANCED FIGHTER BASE
NEW GUINEA, May 9 ms
ANY one who recalls The wartime
profession Of being a fighter pilot
even remotely elamorouS sho4-a
have spent month with us M
New Guinea when aS The older
mon in rhis fhcater describe d.
The "CornC was plenty tough
The going was tough there 2nd
~ il iuSt as tough now l0l mo
combat pilot aui hi, crow.
I've been lucky in the number
NJ times I have run into the Sips
Rit there are stll hundreds OF
n;lors out here who are ilyng
-.as.-f=v e.-A-proIccunG conveys OF
air iran Dorts and sea-borne
forces. running area patrols, tax
inc sweeps 10 distant enemy bases
and c>corting homberS on long
rancc missions who seldom even
see a Jap plane.
But they arc the backbone oi
our western Pacific fighter ierceS.
even as the ground crews are he
real backbone Of the fighter
S1uadrons themselves.
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Prtces Subject 10 &c, Sales Tar Tax 20
on base pries not including any federal tar.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-05-09

Matching. Brown imitation leather
er-proof canvas. Leather-bound.
sturdy wood frames. Two locks.
FIRST BASEMENT-FARMER
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Pittsburgh, / watched him play
the hand shown today. The open
ing bid was not at all conven-
tional and the final contract was
a bit Of a stretch.
Kilchenstein (South) ruffed
the second heart lead, and need
ing to reach dummy, he laid
down a trump. West won with
the ace and led the ace of clubs,
followed by another club, which
South won. Another trump was
led to dummy's queen and a
club returned. West discarded a
low diamond, but ruffed the next
club lead, then led his last heart.
This was trumped in dummy
with the king, the diamond fl
nesse taken, and when it held,
Vests last trump was picked up.
While l do not approve the
opening bid nor North's two
raises on his weak hand, who
can quarrel with success? East
of course could have made three
hearts, and many made four.
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PENNIES FOR THOUGHTS

It seems that the Pullman people have taken
thot coy circumIocuton of the curious IA penny for
your thoughts" and put it to work. Since March,
lo4l they have poid out pennies to the totol Of
$4,000 to their employees for, thoughts on how
Pullman cors might be built operated more eff.
GENTLY, During thot time they've received 9o,545
suggestions and adopted 1909.
Probably we shall have to wot till otter the war
for most Of those 1909 boons to travellers Until
then we only hope thot Pullman employees managed
to devise noseess, bumpIess coupling process (ot
leost in the decd Of night and also some sort Of
wokie.toIkie arrangement by which the passenger
with an upper may get in touch with the porter and
procure the odder when he has fingered in the
club cor post the porters bedtime.
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. SO THEY SAY

The most reassuring thought
I can give you is that the Amer
lean soldier, wherever he may
be on the far-flung battlefronts
of this global war, has 81
chances out of 100 of surviving
if he is wounded. - Maj. Gen.
Norman T. Kirk, War Depart
ment surgeon general.
The quality OF the weapons
we have manufactured enables
our forces to attack with SUI
preme confidence an enemy who
has been 20 years preparing for
the battle. WPB chairman
Donald Nj. Nelson.
If any power were to acquire
domination of the European con-
tinent, nothing could prevent
this island from being Pearl
Harbored" in a night, We must
think of some organization
which would act promptly
enough to prevent it. - Sir Ed
ward Grigg, British M. P.
The fortress of Holland Is
ready for coming events. In case
an invasion attempt is made in
this area all vehicles, tanks and
guns will get stuck in the mud.
German broadcast.
Some of our men have been
fighting without break for
five days. They manage to carry
on because they realize they're
in on the greatest victory OF
Allied arms in the west - the
greatest defeat the Germans
have ever suffered in Europe.
- Allied officer in France.
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Tarnol against injustice and in
tolerance becomes symbolic of
similar fights against similar
injustice the world Overland
therein lies the strength of
"Blackbirds on the Lawn"
Octavus Roy Cohen has done
a right good job of treating
murder in a light vein in "Ro-
nance in the First Degree
Macmillan: So.
Jerry Franklin is a wounded
and discharged war veteran. He
has the tough assignment Of
finding out what's wrong with
his former buddy, son of the
man he works for. And while
trying to find the root of the
evil, he runs into a quartet of
Sayings, a vicious black market
circle, and Sandy Cameron.
Sandy is a swell girl, sister OF
Jerry's old flame. One day OF
Sandy, and the old flame dies,
The girl is a big help in han
ding the investigation. and the
story winds up in the usual
clinch after some rather unuS-
ual plotting.
Book is we'll written and en-
acted. with a pleasing flow Of
understandable language and a
laugh every now and then that
helps.
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. BARBS

When you fall for buying War
Bonds it proves you stand for
something really worthwhile.
Remember VIII e speaking
Scotch used to be more diff
cult than getting it?
Reports have it that Hitler
may give up Norway. Well, that
will be a lot easier than having
it taken away from him.
An optimist is anybody who
starts out to work a crossword
puzzle with pen and ink.
There are five kinds of wa
termelon - round, oval, solid
green, striped and swiped.
A lot of German generals are
having a lot less trouble than
some of our politicians deciding
on whether or not they want to
run.
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BULL SNAKE STORY

PUEBLO, COLO. A bull
snake, slithering through the
window of a Pueblo house.
caused the family to
Cd Attack the reptile with
poisonous gas.
(2) Leave the house for the
family auto because gas fumes
were still present.
90 Call local newspaper for
back copies to cover the water
soaked cushions of the car-ex-
posed to one of the worst hall
storms in the city's history.
(4) Retire at last to news
paper pallet in the car, hoping
that by morning snake would
be dead and gas would have de-
parted.
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END OF THE LINE

The oermon armies have O hobt Of slipping out
OF trops which is not only skilfuI but very annoying
They hove done it in Russo and in Sicily and in
Fronce, and hove embarrassed some able generals
n the process But they cont keep it up much long.
~ For with every slip they get closer to the lost
NO, Jhot should be Berlin, whence there will be
loet,em = slip except to dsinteerotion and obv-
Jon They'll probably be obIe to do that, too.
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NEWSBOY'S DREAM

SANTA FEE. N. M.-When "
day arrives, James Gervos wants
the news, but fast. He inserted
this ad in the Santa Fe Ne"
Mexican:
$50 will be awarded to the
first newsboy to bring the Santa
Fee New Mexican announcing
the fall of Germany to Jim. The
award will not be divided
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CHORES-BY LONG
DISTANCE

FALLON, MONT. When far
mer Chris Johansen goes to his
barn--it's so miles.
JohanSen's house is on one
side of the Yellowstone River,
his barn on the other. Floods
washed away the bridge and his
boat, too.
It's a 5O-mile trip by the near
est crossing.
He says he can't blame his
crops for being late this year.
He is, too, most of the time.
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. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .
BY PETER EDISON

The surprise of some people
over the apparent early success
ses of the c. !. o. Political Ac-
ton Committees is really more
surprising than the results. For
all that Sidney Hillman's Or
ganization has done is steal not
only a leaf but the whole book
of tricks based on the expert
ences of every well-organized
political machine. from Tam
many Hall up. down or out.
For a fair sample of what
this line of education amounts
to, take a look at typical
Guide to Political Action" put
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MCKINNEY ON
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

! received a letter from Fred
p. Kilchenstein, who is well
known in Pittsburgh bridge cir
Giles. Fred is doing some special
war work in Hawaii. He wrote
that his wife has joined him
there and he hopes to be able
to get in a few hands of bridge
in the evenings, although they
still have a 10 o'clock curfew.
The last time saw Fred in
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FATHER-AND FRANCE

"While Fathers Away" by
Godfrey and Mother John Day:
S1.5O),is the day-to-day record
Of what went on in An American
household during the four
months that father was away on
a tour of duty as a war cores
pendent. Written in diary
form, the book records the con-
versations of Mother, and Geof-
frey, aged s, who wishes his
father had a job that would per-
NIT him to stay home and play
with him-but he wouldn't
swap his father for any other
boys, you can be sure Of that.
Included are letters from the
Solomons, and Geoffrey's letters
in return. The book is a
charming one, doubly so for any
parent.
Pierre Cot, Frances minister
of aviation under the Popular
Front government, tells the
hard and unpleasant truths
about the Fall of France as he
saw it, in Triumph Of Treason"
(Ziff-Davis: $500. He fought
Nazism, was compelled to flee
for his life, and presenting the
picture of trcason's triumph as a
whole, names names, and dem
onstrates that no particular
group in France. the appeasers,
the workers, or the capitalists,
was entirely responsible for the
Fall of France. Fully document
cd. especially as TO the Rom
Trial. A fighting book.
Q-Where do we get the word
tobacco?
A-Fron the American In
dians.
Q-What is the Corniche OF
Northern Ireland?
A 1O0-mile road walled in
by sheer cliffs.
Q-What is the cost of train
ing a Navy pilot?
A-S27 500.
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BASIC BUREAUcRATESE

Bureaucratic JOTSOn or WI'o' 'N'oNy
coils "eobbIedygook" language, has flno'y proved
TOO much for the bureoucrots themselves. Inc 90
cioI Security Boord has launched reform conn.,
no;on sp,,rred on by the hows Of boffled citizens
and q rather embarrassing report from Co'umo'o
University's Probability" laboratory
The Columbia researchers arrived ct the conclus-
ion. by undiscIosed but apparently sound methods,
thot Social Security report is os much harder TO
read than scientific journal as the scientific Jour-
mol is than love story magazine fiction SO the oooro
has appealed to it's employees in the name OF e'or'y
and economy Of words, time paper, and PUBIC rem
Der. to act off their rhetorical high horses.
I'VE are usually normal when we tolk,' the
board wstfulIy admits, but put pencil IN our
hands or stenogropher at our side and myster''
Gus change tokes place"
The board doesn't attempt to explain why, and
we don't know all the answers, either: But certainly
"oobbIedyqook" isn't the invention OF bureoucrots
It is collection Of all the pomPous triteness and
ood toothed tureidity Of expression found in the
working vocobuores Of lawyers, economists bus'-
nessmen, social workers and the like.
And what makes lawyers, businessmen and the
others tok that way? Well, the lawyers may have
thread of excuse since they have found through SOD
experience that legal documents can be shot full OF
!
woys
For the rest Of them, it's probably just way OF
feeling important The ordering Of 100 pounds OF
beans can be accomplished with heavy soIemnty by
using few standard phrases which stote the simp-
lest thing in the longest possible way, and make the
transactions as secret as lodge ritual
All this is pretty tresome under any circunn-
stonces But when the Taxpayer finds that he is
paying government employees to obscure and con-
fuse his business and life with lot Of can't about
please be advised" and Pursuant to your request
when he behoIds himself os something at THE To-
cal level" for whom policies promulgated" or
"hed in obeyonce," he gets sore.
For all this we think we have solution - Bosc
English. Why not give it try by issuing one more
directive at THE government IeveP' which would
compel bureoucrots to write only from this simple
vocabulary We should then be able to settle the
arguments about the merits Of Basic, and olso de-
eide the question Of whether government can func.
tion if the employees express themselves like human
beings, not abstracts Of title.
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Q IN HOLLYWOOD

Then you remember. This is
her test for the role of hill
billy moron with Fred MacMur-
rhy in Murder, He Says" Gosh,
the girl is a terrific actress. And
those eyes! They're sensational.
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movie star. ,Okay. Today you
are a film producer at Para
mount studio. You're about to
cast a new million dollar epic
You're looking for a new face
A pretty face to play the femi-
nine lead. A girl who can act
Everything has been arranged
for you by the studios talent
department. You just pick up a
telephone and ask to see the
film tests of newcomers. They
are the cream Of the crop, from
college campuses, Little Thea
tiers, night clubs off Times
Square.
So you 90 to a studio projec-
ton room, sit back in a big lea
Their chair, light cigar and
press a button marked Start"
on the table in front of you. The
projectionist dims the lights and
on the screen comes title card
reading, Screen Test of Gloria
Saunders"
Gloria, a 16-year-old with a
nice smile, is dressed as a south
ern belle. She's sitting in a CO.
lonial garden. An offstage voice
asks Gloria her name and when
Gloria speaks you know she's
from the south. Yes, sub. From
Nawth Cehliney. Gloria states
she worked on the radio in
Charlotte and in Little Theaters
there.
Then Gloria reads q dramatic
scene from "Rebecca." Then the
voice asks her to turn her head,
slowly, from side to side. Nice
profile. Nice reading. Pretty
smile. You make a mental note.
Mmmm-NOT BAD
Screen Test of Olga San
Juan" the next title card reads.
The mood changes. Olga is
Latin song-and-dance girl dis
covered at New Yorks Copaca-
bana. Olga sings a Cuban love
song and does a sultry samba in
a blackdress with split skirt
revealing a, pretty leg. Mmmm
Not bad. But you're looking for
a dramatic actress. You press
the button marked Stop
The projectionist switches to
Test of Hillary Brooke"
Hillary is no newcomer to the
screen. She played the second
feminine lead with Orson Welles
and Joan Fontaine in Jane
Eyre" had a role with Paulette
Goddard and Ray Milland in
Standing Room Only" just
completed working with Bine
Crosby and Bob Hope in THE
Road to Utopia"
Hillary seems to be headed fol
stardom. Maybe she's the cir.
you're looking for. Quite a dish
Tall, blonde, beautiful. She!
dressed as Klondike dance
hall queen with a beauty marx
in the shape of a black hear
stuck on her back. But the film
turns out TO be wardrobe ties
of Hillary's clothes for "Roae
to Utopia" She says nothing
You let the film run, though
because Hillary is very easy OF
the eyes.
TERRIFIC MORON
Screen Test of Jean Heath
err"
Jean is the University OF Ore
gon girl who played leads II
college productions, modelled a.
a vacation girl OF the west" TO
a California oil company, ant
just played the romantic leat
with Bing Crosby in "Going M.
Way?"
She's wearing some h ! n
which looks like a gunny sack
her hair looks as IL it wer,
combed with an egg beaten, sh'
has q dirty neck. She just stand
and rolls her eyes.
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DOING HER PART

GARY, IND. - Mrs. Hettie
Ryan. who says she was told
she was too old for war work
during World War I, claims she
hasn't missed a days work on
the assembly line at the Kings
bury ordnance plant since Pearl
Harbor. .
She commutes the several
miles between her Hobart home
and work. She is IS.
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But it's lunch time. You'll see
a lot more film tests after lunch.
And some more the next MORN
ing. Maybe you'll find the girl
you are looking for. Maybe you
won't.
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Hiqh|iqhts from the Latest Books

America in the raw, rough era
of the 1820's is the setting for
Samuel Hopkins Adams roman
tic novel, Canal Town Gram
dom House: S2.75).
Adams has built a very inter
esting historical yarn around the
building of the Erie Canal, and
his forceful characters, acting
out their parts in and around
Palmyra, N. Y, are true to life.
Especially interesting is the
style of conversation, typical of
those early days.
Chief character is a young
doctor whose yen for sanitation
gets him in bad with the town S
big shots, since his campaign to
clean up working conditions on
the malaria ridden canal trods
on the toes of the bigwigs. They
get back at the doc by seeing
that his license to practise medi-
cine is revoked. But after some
dark hours, right triumphs and
the doc becomes one of the hon
ored men of the community.
The novel is long one, but
1t is filled with action and true
color that only an Adams, veter-
an novelist, is capable of put
ting into a "mellerdrammer."
FOR GOD AND ENGLAND
Once in blue moon you get
novel writteh around an
cient England. Jeffrey Farnol
gives you a stirring romance
on ninth century Albion in "The
King Liveth" doubleday, Dor
an: S2.50).
Earl Ranulf. thane of King AL
fred, is the hero, and the gal IN
the story is fair Lady Morwen-
ma. But head and shoulders
over the other characters in the
book is the figure of King AL
fred himself. His feat of rally
ing his people after their near
subjugation by invasion OIL
Danes and Vikings, is stirring
There's plenty of blood and &C
ton by reason of frequent use
of broadswords, battle axes and
spears. And the story comes to
a fitting climax when Ranuli
takes unto himself Lady Nor
VIENNA. You'll like it.
From a folk superstition that
blackbirds on the lawn are a
portent of evil to the jewellers oil
the house Games the title OF
a new novel, "Blackbirds on the
the Lawn" by Jane Morton
Coward, Mccain: s2.50).
Set in a small Kentucky com
munity, the story concerns the
bitter hate of two families re-
sulting from a dispute over q
strip of land between their adj
Joining properties. and the effec'
of this feud on the lives OF the
members of both families.
As the crusading editor of q
small-town newspaper whose
poor health forced him to re-
tire. Henry Tarnol assumes the
leading role in a unique cast 81
characters. Living with Henry
on the family farm are Linda
frustrated spinster sister, whose
Bitterness causes near-tragedy &c
the community; Susan, another
sister whose patchwork quiz
becomes the symbol Of her life
and Benny, the younger brother
whose physical maturity accent
yates his childlike mentality.
In its portrayal Of the under
currents OF life in a small-towr
community. the fight Of Henry
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TRAFFIC JAM


NEW YORK-Borough Presi-
dent James A. Burke of Queens
found the solution for a baby
carriage traffic jam.
Protective barriers erected on
a viaduct narrowed sidewalks
so much there wasn't room for
passage of two carriages. Moth
ers met in mid-viaduct, exchang-
ed words.
Burke's solution: Two signs,
one reading, "this walk for east
bound baby carriage traffic
only" on one, sidewalk. "Thi,
walk for westbound baby car
riage traffic only" across the
street.
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trical Workers and distributed
in quantity by the p. A. c. and
u. E. headquarters.
The introduction is a lunch
time conversation between
couple of the boys, Marty and
Joe, in rich, native vernacu-
lar, with a sprinkling of gram
NAUTICAL errors to make il ring
true:
'It's a war we're all in" says
Marty, mot a pinochle game"
Sure it's war;" answers
Joe. Haven't got a boy over
in Italy this very minute? Sure
it's war, and that's why say the
hell with politics"
Gradually, however, Marty
gets Joe interested.
But what can be done now"
asks Joe. How do we get rid of
some of those guys we got in
office? They ought to pic
kle a few of those congressman
and then ration pickles.
cts not SO easy, Joe, but it's
got to be done. That's why
we're setting up those Political
Action Committees everywhere
so we can begin to bargain
collectively with our congress
men,"
Another half-page of dialogue
and Joe Is convinced.
You can count on me-" he
says.
THE whole damn world is
counting on you," Marty tells
him, and the pair 60 back to
work.
CATECHISM TECHNIQUE
Corny? Sure it's corny:- But
it's lingo people understand and
it is getting results. 1t is the
first reader approach, and the
simple question and answer
technique of the catechism. Here
are typical passages:
Aren't politics too dirty"
Certain politicians may be
too dirty The quicker these
are out of public office the bet
ter"
Doe political action mean
third party movement"
mo. In the words OF Sidney
Hillman the c. I. o. does
not plan a third party at this
time
"Will labor stay in politics
after the war;"
eyes. Labor is in politics for
keeps"
There are a number OF sec
tons of the handbook devoted
to registration Of voters, canvas
sing, selection of candidates,
running of campaigns. How to
obtain voters lists from the city
hall or county clerk is explained
in detail. Preparation of lists
for all shop stewards is advised,
for a checkup on workers who
are not registered.
MANY big companies have
found that there is no substitute
for door-to-door salesmen," the
handbook explains. 1T is the
same thing in politics.
Each precinct is made up of
street blocks. Political Action
Committees will organize on a
block basis"
BOOKLETS GOAL
PLAINLY STATED
AS a tip-off at what all this
detailed organization is heading
for, a couple Of passages will
suffice:
What is needed are about
100 new congressman says the
book. And earlier, where Mar
ty is talking to Joe, he says:
Down in Washington we
know that Roosevelt is having
a tough time trying to keep
Congress in line. Wouldn't
it be a help to us, Joe, il Presi-
dent Roosevelt had more people
in Congress who really wanted
to help him win the war and set
tie the peace like it should be-"
All of this may not be exact
ly news, but is presented here as
sample of pretty smart politics
which certain parties may have
~ cot h,,cy and do copo Of n inc
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WILDLIFE

HOMEDALE, IDAHO The
Owyhee County Chronicle. list
ing duck hunting regulations re-
ported: o..
Daily bag limits xxx permit
10 ducks, including not more
than one woodchuck."
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. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
SIGN OF THE TIMES

NEW YORK,-A wistful sign
in a Manhattan travel agencys
window reads:
"Open only on Wednesday,
$50 am. to $50 pm.