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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-04
Mickey MaeDougoII. Famous "cord De-
teefive." Exposes fhe Wars Menoeing
Crop Of SwindIes and GyPs. and Tells
How TO Recognize and Avoid +he Hordes
Of craffy chiseIers Out TO Clip
Your bonkroII.

game. often agrees. He buys off the fraudulent
up, and bids the girl hasty goodby. Which
Just what she wants, as she Immediately sets
out to snare another innocent. And the farce is
played all over again, several times a night.
The great majority of the Broadway girls de-
pend on others to help them clip their prey, but
a one Belle Dolan, whose short career was
brought to a tragic end by sudden death.
Belle. a buxom miss from Pennsylvania, had
just turned IS, though she appeared to be sew
eral years older Her extreme youth enabled her
to put over a unique bit of chicanery.
THIS lone wolfess would prowl the theatrical
section until she met a sailor. First making
certain her escort was carrying plenty of money
Belle would invite him to a nearby love nest.
After a suitable lapse Of time, the girl swim
dler would separate the sailor from his banlSroll
in the most direct way imaginable. For no ap
parent reason, Belle would suddenly begin sob
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-22

A HANDSOME pair of cushions
4 \ to brighten up your living
room may be made from things on
hand or from remnants of silk.
Eighteen inches square is a good
size for the cushions and, if you
have an assortment of cushions of
different sizes, it is easy to trans
fer the filling into ticks of the size
you want. Stitch and turn, leaving
a four-inch opening in one side.
Rip smaller opening in the old
ticking; sew the large opening
over the smaller one and then
work the filling through.
NOTE: This illustration is from BOOK
of the Mend nd-Save-for-Victory book
let's. Book 2 contains directions for all
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-22

throws his head
back as though
tossing hair out
Of his eyes. His
other claim is
that he used to
be six feet tall
but has worried
himself down to
his present small
height in the past
five months.
Jimmy Doolit-
- - ga
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-22

Tie mas 1lOIS SlltS
than any one man has right to be
blessed with. He has been one OF
Americas greatest pilots for more
than Is years. He is bold and COM
pletely fearless. Along with that
he has great technical mind and a
highly perfected education in engi-
neering.
In addition to his professional skill
he is one Of the most engaging hui
mans you ever ran across. His
voice is clear and keen, he talks
with animation, and his tone car
ries sense Of quick and right de-
cision.
He is one of the greatest of story
tellers. He is the only man I've
ever knwn who can tell stories all
evening long and never tell one
you've heard before. He can tell
them in any dialect, from Swedish
to Chinese.
Lieut.. Gen. Jimmy DoOlittle, head
Of the Eighth air force over here,
noticed one day in the roster Of Off
GERS at his staff headquarters the
name Of Captain Doolittle.
The name is not a very ordinary
one, and he made a mental note
that some day he would look the fell
low up for a little chat. One day
not long after that his phone rang
and the voice at the other end said,
This is Captain Doolittle."
"Oh yes" said the general. II
had noticed your name and meant
to call you up sometime"
"I'd like to come in and see you,"
said the voice at the other end.
"Why yes, do that" the general
said. I'm pretty busy these days,
but I'll switch you to my aide and
he'll make an appointment for you.
Glad you called, Captain. I'll look
forward to seeing YOU"
He was Just ready to hang up
when the voice came back plaintive-
ly over the phone:
'But Dad, this Is me. Don't you
recognize me? I've got package
for you from Nom"
The general exploded: ''Well why
in hell didn't you say so In the first
placed"
It was Capt. Jimmy Doolittle Jr.,
a BIG pilot in the Ninth air force.
The general hasn't got around yet
to seeing the other Captain Doc
little. It'll probably turn out to be
his brother or something.
The last time had seen General
Doolittle was tome 16 months ago,
way down at the desert airdrome
- D:cI~co ~, &ba oI4a ~ fho Coharo
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-22

OF humOr about It.
Doolittle, as you know, Is rather
short and getting almost bald. Since
arriving in England from Italy he
has diabolically started a couple OF
false rurnors circulating about him.
self.
One is that his nickname used to
be Curly" and he occasionally
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-22

African bomber force that was plas-
tering the Tunisian ports.
General Doolittle flew in one aft
ernoon from the far forward air.
drome of Youks les Bains. The night
before his entire crew except for
the co-pilot had been killed in Ger
man bombing at the Youks field.
His crew had manned their planes
guns until it got too hot, and then
made run for an old bomb crater
so yards away. It was one OF those
heartbreaking freaks of hard luck.
A bomb hit the crater just as they
reached 1t, and blew them all to
pieces.
General DooIttle has written hum
dreds, perhaps thousands, Of letters
to people who have lost sons or hus-
bands in his air forces. But one Of
the men in that crew was the hard
est subject he has ever had to write
home about. Here is the reason
When he led the famous raid on
Tokyo, Doolittle had a mechanic who
had been with him a long time.
Doolittle was colonel then. The
mechanic went on the Tokyo raid
with him.
You remember the details of that
raid, which have gradually seeped
out. The planes were badly scat
tered. Some were shot down over
japanese territory. Others ran out
of gas. Some of the crews bailed
out. Others landed in Russia. The
remainder splattered themselves all
over the rice paddles of China.
That night Doolittle was lower
than he had ever been before in his
life. There wasn't any humor in
the world for him that night. He sat
with his head down and thought to
himself:
"You have balled up the biggest
chance anybody could ever have.
You have sure made mess of this
affair. You've lost most of your
planes. The whole thing was MS
cradle failure. You'll spend the rest
of your life In Leavenworth for this,
and be lucky to get out of it that
easy"
AS he sat there this sergeant-me.
chanic came up and said:
Don't feel so bad about it, Colo.
nell"
Doolittle paid no attention. But
the sergeant kept at him.
TITS not as bad as 1t seems. Why,
I'll bet you that within year you'll
have a Congressional Medal for It
and be a brigadier general"
Doolittle just snorted.
''Well, I'll bet you So" the SER
geant said. sand I'd like to ask
one thing. AS long as you're flying
I'd like to be your mechanic
That finally got inside Doolittle's
gloom. Somebody had confidence in
him. He began to buck up. So he
said:
"Son, as long as I've got an air.
plane you're its mechanic, even IL
we live to be a thousand years Old"
AS you know, he did get Con-
gressional Medal of Honor, and now
he has not only one star but the
three of a lieutenant general. And
that sergeant, who devoted himself
to Colonel Doolittle that miserable
night out there in China, was still
General Doolittle's mechanic the
night they landed at Youks les Bains
in February of 1943. He was one
of the men who ran for the shell hole
that night.
General Doolittle had to write the
letter to his parents. - -
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-22
With Ernie Pyle at the Front
Doolittle Meets Doolittle;
Son Drops In on Father
Tokyo Bombing Hero Has Still Another
Nanesake to Greet in Same 9th Air Force
BY Ernie Pyle

Editors delays brought by the vme of inva
historic reached
country following ie before the sedJ
LONDON-Cy weessere I've been galivantn around with
going to amateur
Dooite who is still the magnf-
captains bars
Eighth Is
Dooite
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-22

The last time / had seen General
Doolittle was tome Is months ago,
way down at the desert airdrome
of Biskra on the edge Of the Sahara.
That was when he was running our
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WINDSOR LOCKS

SUNDAY, November 26th 3:3O P.M.-MOVIES- Recreation Hall, Elm Plains.
 8:30 PM. HUNTED WAR FUND BENEFIT CONCERT. Pizzitola Electro, Symphony Or chestra. -...: l.. MONDAY, November 27th
 PM. to II P.M.-GAMES AND INFORMAL DANCING - Serv- ice Personnel and Junior Host esses invited. TUESDAY, November 18th
 8 PM. to Il P.M.-FORMAL- Bradley Field Orchestra. WEDNESDAY, November 18th 8 PM. to Il P.M.-ARTS AND CRAFTS NIGHT-Service Per sonnel and Junior Hostesses in- vited. THURSDAY, November 30th 8 PM. to Il P.M.-SQUARE DANCING - Service Personnel and Junior Hostesses invited. FRIDAY, December 1st
 8 PM to II P.M.-VARIETY NIGHT - Entertainment. Se1v- ice Personnel and Junior Host esses invited.
 SATURDAY, December End
 10 AM. to 12 A.M.-PLAYT1ME WITH USO-Housing Unit. 6 P.M.-FEATURED MOVIES WITH SHORT SUBJECTS Hostesses and Service Personnel invited.
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JOKES AND FOXES:

New bandsmen appearing on the podium are Pfc. Herman Binns, better known as the "one man band". Pfc. Jacob Berv, a national ly known french horn artist. Cpl. Van G. Kallis, saxaphone virtuoso. Sgt. Tommy English" Atkins, a budding Harry James and Sgt. '"Red" Marston, a second Red Nichols, who used to play with the '"Red Hot Pennies" Welcome, longhairs, and don't do all your playing on the stage neither.
 Favorite melodies of Sgt. Terry Lynch: "I1l Take You Home Again, Kathleen" and "Kate Has Found Her Mate."
 Kenny Andolf met with recent little mishap on way to see Long Island Sweetie, but when you're out of this world most anything can happen.
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 SideIishts

The reward of "a-perfectly- swell-time" awaited the 25O brave souls who ignored the weather of Thursday night Nov. 16th, the date set for the HARVEST HOP, first party sponsored by the Bradley Field Employees Association. (In the future when we refer to BFEA you'll know what we mean.) One of the door prizes was won by Rummie Falkowski of AAF Sup ply. Everyone fell right into the spirit of the thing with Haley and Harrington doing a professional job of calling the square dances. Cider and doughnuts were in abundance as over 500 were ex- pected, had the elements not in- tervened, so it was decided to donate all left over to one of the squadrons. Yes, it really was a grand party and everyone is now asking about plans for Christmas party, which is pretty compliment tary, we think. ..
 Civilian Personnel is welcoming It. Ernest A. Kjorlie who has just recently arrived at Bradley Field and Civilian Personnel Office.
 Here's a warning to motorists One of the men in Maintenance will assure you that white line in the middle of the road is not put there for decoration!
 Was Helen MairecH of Post En- gineer Office ever surprised this week-the reason was that her husband, Edmund Miarecki AMM 3/c US. Navy, unexpectedly re- turned from overseas, was present at our Bond Rally and bought a sizable Bond, too. What better way to express THANKSGIVING?
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you said tt
 Girls
(Windsor Locks USO)
By PVT. CARL CARSON

plays everything in the musical lexicon.
 On the local level we had Petty Officer Herb Stetson who dropped in to give all the news about our Wave Jamie Pomeroy. Pfc. Douglas Smith USING back on thirty day furlough from the Pacific Islands after twenty eight months. Seaman HoWie Krauss, on one. of his leaves home and still smiling as usual. Sailorboy Bobby Asselin, who's put on those shoulders since donning the pea coat. And as guest of honor, Cpl. William Asselin, wounded in France, whose unfail- ing good spirits are a constant les son to any gripers on the home front. :*-.:.-
 Everyone misses Pvt. Ira Brach- man, patient at Base Hospital for spell. All send best wishes to a real guy. ..:..>.... ::...:
 Signing off, with more news and views in forthcoming issues. And remember Pappa Donlan's maxim, "Never Say No to the USO."
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ADDENDA AND AGENDA:

Cpl. Andy Burke and Lil Mary missed one of those pirouettes and the floor came up to meet them, but nothing at all faxes Handy Andy", the little boy who's always there.
 Herb Big Time" Resin and Anne D. have compounded their little tiff and making with the sweet smiles "agaign and agaign." Kay Molinari, the "Vogue Girl" /" rushed per usual, and Dottie Fisher dropped in to say cheerio to old pals and such.
 Cpl. "Willie Boy" Montgomery, an all around lad who's been places and seen things. Formerly a textile worker, some of his yarns are made out of whole cloth. Cpl. "Ronnie" Thissen, former college basketball ace, does things on the dance floor. Agile is the name for Ronald. Cpl. Wilfred Coffee" Max well, a self-taught musician who
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Sketches
on Sunday-M

Plenty of GIs who attended the JWB-USO Dance last Monday are carrying around their ikenesses. Rae Hurwit, from the Display De- partmcnt of the Wise Smith De- partment Store in Hartford, was on hand to do portrait pencil sketches. Miss Hurwit completed at least 8 dozen sketches though out the evening and all were pro- nounced "swell' by those who posed.
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BOND RALLY FACTS .

Did You Know:
 Alfred Beauvais taps the Civilian Honor Roll?
 his parachute department responsible TOT around it? The Paint printing? committee William and were willing seemed possible through, but they did?
 accepting congratulations and justly War Rally?
 that dig down deeper into Cpl Bernstein played the violin guests Old Conyaescent Hospital?
 ebandh a high in beautiful music?
 and all the Rally participants are "Gnny Smith and to know they get a rain check?
 Victor Casaant Joseph Long Ernest Boyle awards for their er torious suggestions
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ARRIVALS AND sURYIyALs:

Cpl. Howard "Snuffy" Smith, compounding a new firm: Mor- pheus and Smith, Limited. TSgt. Pat "Camoufage" Patterson, Wal ter Pidgeon of the Squadron. Patsy Speed" Romano, jitterbug par excellence, cuts out paper dolls in his spare time. .: .:..:...
 SSgt. Howard Hartford" Har- mening back in town and May is so happy about it all.
 Sgt. Will Bressler is certainly earning that sobriquet of "Pappy'' the way he squires his lads to the ole USO Emporium. Sgt. Dannie Dannenberg has the keys to the city with his big-time act with the Original Romano. Also scintillating at the Talent Show were the Ross Twins, better known as AB and CD. Cpl. Happy" Maxwell, the Thrush, and the hilarious hill billies, Woolford, Wisely and He'd rick.
 SSgt. "The Abbot" Abdallah, the Polish Hop King, fast both with the dogs and the dialogue. SSgt- Bertie Mudich, champeen letter writer of the Base.
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were playlng on the winn nin g team my. atti- tude would. be "to heck with the other guy" If a team is bet ter it's better and it would not be much of a sport if the t e a m 8 didn't play the best Q a m Q thev
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renee, Mass: l definitely feel a team shouldn't slacken its pace because it has a big lead. You can't take a good team and tell it to quit. It is in keeping
 with the spirit of this country to play to win and if one team
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', S;AA 1AA /: ~~A
 slacken up a
 bit. After all,:. $ DO Tt s '" ar e sports, z { and '. if" all the teams
 w e n t a b 0 U t
 showing mercy
 for each other
 there wouldn't
 be. much action.
 There is no hu- mjlity. in losing
 a pana VO1'va
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b e l ve any team s h o u l d toss any points away just be- cause it is lead ing by a big score. It would not be a game if it W e r e pl yed tn a t way. The losing eleven s h o u l d be good enough
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SomeDody mas to lose in most sporting events and the team
 that is on the short end of a sided score
 should be able to take it. No athlete should
 ever be put in the pos i ii o n where he has to take it easy and
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done your best to win and after it's all over it was just game and everyone shakes hands all around.
 PVT. NORMAN SMITH, Section G; home, Los Angeles, Calif.: If
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not do his best to win and keep winning. wouldn't want to be on losing team that accepted charity from it's victors.
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is hopelessly outclassed it's just too bad. Better luck next time.
 CPL. OLIVER CROMWELL, Section I; home, Fl Paso, Texas:
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She was only a cannibars daugh- ter, but she liked her boys best when they were stewed.
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knew how throughout the four quarters. A team that wins one week may take a terrific beating from someone else the next, so why worry about the score too much?
 SGT. THERESA NAPPI, Section A; home, Ashtabula, Ohio: I don't
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A i;i \ klI|z1|S|l|
# ..,.' l..,.,q s,p. - %/ ., :s QUESTION

Do you beHeUe that 1oben c foot- ball team IS defeating its opponent by large score t should slacke1a its pace to giVe the losing team q brPdk?
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CPL HERBERT RosIN, Band; home, Detroit, Mich: I'd say no, <. f h a v@ sho111dn't
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a bad defeat in their stride know
 ing they just weren't so hot and maybe next time they'd do better.
 PVT. WILLIAM DUNHAM, Camouflage Detail; home, Law
Evening star., 1944-09-25
New Deal Won'tL LEI
Nazi Victims Starye,
.|ckes Tells SIavs
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSoclated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 25.-The
Democratic administration does not
propose to be party Ito any policy
of economic isolationism while CIV
ing lip service to political co-opera-
ton between nations" Secretary OF
the Interior Ickes said yesterday
i Addressing an American Slay
Congress rally in Schlenly Park
Mr.. Ickes declared:
IF having helped heroically to
drive out the Nazis, America leaves
their victims to starvation and
want, she will have failed of her
duty and will. for generations to
come, want to hide her head in
shame. We will do no such thing. -
In contrast. Mr.. Ickes said Gov
| Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican
candidate for President, had "sneer-
lngly remarked in Louisville the
other day that we want no 'WPA
for the rest of the world and
| charged those whom he called
washington wasters' with trying to
| buy the good will of the world"
Calls for Qualification.
You Americans of Slavic strain"
Mr.. Ickes continued, have right
to know just what the Republican
candidate means by his slurring ref
erence to helping the devastated
countries of Europe to get back on
their feet.
Does he means that America
should not help war-devastated and
hungry Poland? Does he condemn.
as an international WPA.' eco
nomic aid to Czechoslovakia? Does
he oppose such Washington waste
as succor to Yugoslavia?
Before launching his verbal on
slaught against Gov Dewey. Mr..
1ckes had delivered a message to
the Slav congress from President
Roosevelt, in which he said:
The day of liberation of the
peoples of Slav blood in Europe
draws near, and with it the time
for administration of retributive
justice on their Nazi enslavers.
The President also expressed the
hope that the assemblage would be
impressed with the deepened sense
of the duties and responsibilities
which we must all assume if a Just
and enduring peace is to be made"
Answers Hillman Criticism.
Centering later on Gov. Dewey's
criticism of Sidney Hillman, head
Evening star., 1944-09-25

of the CIO Political Action Commit.
tee. Mr.. Ickes said that the New
York Governor was willing to &C.
cept $1,000 contribution from Mr.
Hillman's union when he was run
ming for district attorney.
But now that Mr.. Hillman is sug.
gesting that CIO members donate q
dollar each to help re-elect Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Mr.. Ickes said, Gov
Dewey regards Mr.. Hillman as "a
danger to his country
Asserting that Gov. Dewey III he
means what he says in his speeches
is now one of the most ardent New
Dealers of them all Mr.. Icke.
went on
-Four years ago I observed that
Mr.. Dewey had thrown his diaper
into the ring. At Los Angeles or
Friday night he threw the sponge
after his diaper" Mr.. Ickes said, fol
having unbraided the New Dea
for not being New Dealish enough.
Evening star., 1944-09-25
Ickes Nominotes
PegIer as COP
Labor Secretary
: the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PRESS.
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 25.-Secre-
tary Ickes said yesterday that since
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey has been
generous in giving President Roose-
welt advice about his cabinet,s he
shouldn't mind a few suggestions
from the Democrats. j
Mr.. Ickes nominated Westbrook
Pegler as IAN original member OF
the Newspaper Guild of the CIO, a
champion of labor. a journalistic
knight" for Secretary of Labor in
Gov. Dewey's cabinet.
MIR. Pegler has the additional
qualification that he has
already learned to sneeze whenever
Mr. Dewey takes snuff" Mr.. Ickes
told an American Slav Congress
audience.
Evening star., 1944-09-25

former Susan M. Mckinney in 1912
and in the same year switched to
personnel work. In his present post
he supervises maintenance of rec
ords at his field and enforcement
of Army directives.
Sergt. Butler was stationed at
Camp Sherman, Ohio. in the World
War. For rs years, he worked as
a copy reader and reporter for news
papers in Philadelphia, Detroit, and
WASHINGTON.
Evening star., 1944-09-25

bales and excluding hnters, COM
pared with 3,735,88l bales to that
date a year ago, and 2,077,933 bales
two years ago.
The Agriculture Department fore
cast this years cotton crop at H.
483 900 bales in its September report
early this month, compared with
/ APT 900 bales last year and an
average production of 12455 900
bales in the ten years, l933-l942.
Evening star., 1944-09-25

dom Award. the organization an
nounced yesterday.
Mr.. Welles was chosen, the an
nouncement said. because Of his
constructive liberalism and in
ternationalism, and his contribution
to the concept Of world organiza-
ton"
Evening star., 1944-09-25

OldeSt enlisted
man at his 9th
Air Force Fight
er Station II,
England, a n d
one Of the old
est in the Euro
pean Theater of
Operations.
A We t er a n
newspaper man,
Sergt. Butler en-
listed for the
second time in
1910 and was as
signed to. public
relations work .
Evening star., 1944-09-25
Cotton Ginnin9s Lag
Far Behind Year Aqo
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
The Census Bureau reported that
cottan of this years crop ginned
to September 16 totaled 1,816,291
running bales, counting round as half
Evening star., 1944-09-25
Sumner WeIIes to Get
Freedom House Award

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-Sumner
Wenes, former Undersecretary of
State, has been selected by Free
dom House to receive it's 1914 Free
Evening star., 1944-09-25
D. {. Soldier, al 49, Oldest
Enlisted Man al His Station

Staff Sergt. John ]. Butler, 1921
Columbia road NV. has a claim
for distinction-his age. The 49,
year-old World War veteran is the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-21
Family Row i'm Court.
Renewed Inn Corridor

Principals in an involved family
row took 100 literally the advice
Of Judge John J Naher when he
dismissed the assault case which
had brought them into recorders
court and with a iaunty wave Of
the hand suggested
you can easily settle this in
the corridor outside"
Listening intently we're Mrs
Frances Baxter as. Of 1922
Chapel, her dauchter-ln-law, Mrs.
Betty Baxter 10. Of 1917 Black
stone; and Betty's two sisters.
Mrs Fila Wage, -. and Mrs.
Florence Hea. II.
They were M court because
Betty had charged her nother-ln-
law with assault and battery
when tho latter aIlegedIY Slapped
hcr when She went 10 the Chapel
address 10 get her 1t-month-old
daughter
Testimony revealed that Betty
was m the midst Of q divorce suit
against Hector Baxter. Frances s
son. and that circuit court in
junction had awarded her custody
OF the baby
As Judge Naher turned 10 more
pressing business, the quartet