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Bradley beam., 1944-08-12

Sergeant: "Goodness, why don't you peel that banana before you eat it?"
 Private: "What for? I know what's inside"
Bradley beam., 1944-08-12
C.I. CRlNS and SILLY SALVOS

Eli diddle diddle, the cat and tiD
 fiddle
 He called his Sarge a goon. The MP laughed to see szch
 sport Court Martial: Tomorrow Nooni Men fall into two classes:
 Old and bent.
 Young and broke.
 Miss Glamor Gal of 'O9 concealed her instep. her daughter shows her step-ins
 Y'ardbird wants to know whether gal in a strip-poker game is good loser-or just conceited. He asked for burning kisses, She answered low and cool. "I may be a red, hot mama, But I ain't nobody's fuel" "Do you know what they are say ing about mel"
 "Yup. That's why I came overt" Statistics tell us that for every man 85 years old there are seven women-But, it's too late then. There has been a dire shortage of bourbon around the county seat of the nation. So everyone in Wash ington has been forced to gin and beer it!
Evening star., 1944-10-04
Baltimore Doctor
Reports Cure Evolved
For Color Blindness
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Oct. "A Balti-
more physician, reporting a cure
for supposedly incurable color blind
ness based on the theory that the
affliction is mental and not physical,
cited today as proof of his sue
cess nine young men now in the
Army Air Forces.
DR.. Israel Dvorine, who described
his method as a retraining of the
eyes with color charts, said he was
successful in 9 cases out Of IL and
that the three who failed "just
didn't want to try
He has published two books con-
tanning more than 400 charts he de-
veloped and painted with water COL
ors during the treatment of his
young patients. One book is for test
ing, the other for treatment.
Different patients require differ
ent charts, he found, and his COM
plete set covers the entire spectrum
in pairs, and in varying tints and
shades. ;,
1.-THE only medical idea of how we
distinguish colors is that there are
nerve ends in the eye which are
able to tell them apart" he ex-i
planned.
But I have found there is more
to it than this. - believe color
blindness, especially the inability to
distinguish between colors side by
side is mental, not nerve trouble,
and like any other mental deficiency
it can be educated away"
DR.. Dvorine explained that in the
training method there are three
steps. The first is to show the
student or patient figure, say in
red on green field, the figure being
plainly separated from the green.
He is told what the colors are
and studies this chart repeatedly.
"The second step has the same
number blended into the green
background. = The third chart
has the colors perfectly blended. '''
THE test is then repeated with
green on red, and SO on through the
whole rainbow of colors and two
added for good measure, until the
student is letter perfect"
Evening star., 1944-10-04
German Theft Of Italian
Art Treasures Confirmed

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 4.-Some of Italy's
greatest art treasures have disap-
peared in a huge fraud perpetrated
on the Vatican by the Germans,
War Minister Sir James Grigg told
the House of Commons yesterday.
THE most damning case of theft" "
he said, was from deposit in Cas-
sino Abbey, where paintings and
sculpture from all over North ItaE
had been stored"
THE Germans claimed to have
packed the treasures in 1877 crates
and sent them to the Vatican for
safe keeping, he said, but Is crates
never reached their destination and
many others were found to con-
tain inferior works
Evening star., 1944-10-04

Here's real find. A complete 3-piece
single bed outfit The frame is solid
maple (ponted olive drob). Included ore
link metal spring and rolI-edge cotton
mattress. Grond for q chiId's room or
guestroom.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15

from it's resemblance TO others
have seen and from the style and
crudity of the workmanship, would
say ii is about million years old.
It's too bad that part of it, the part
that apparently was the cutting edge,
has broken off"
What would you say if told
you there had been a diamond in it,"
Vanderhofen asked.
The able was annoyed. "A man
who has been around diamonds as
long as you have" he said, ought
TO know that they aren't found in
rocks like this. In fact, they aren't
found in rocks at all. Except for
the ones that have been cut away
from their original beds by erosion,
diamonds are found in blue ground,
which is decomposed rock"
Il know all that" the prospector
said, but take look at this"
He pulled a small leather bag out
of his pocket and took from it an
irregularly shaped crystal about an
inch and half long and an inch wide,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15

TO anyone who knew about gems
there was no MISLEADING the fact that
it was a diamond.
About a dozen of us were going
through that pile of potato gravel
last year." he said. Il picked up
that same piece Of rock you've got
there. / was about TO throw ii away
when saw a dull glitter at one end.
This is what found. l pried it out
with my knife"
The old able was confronted with
the most amazing discovery Of his
TO believe IL.
"You must be mistaken" he said.
You just think it was the same
rock"
The prospector took the ancient axe
and fitted the crystal into one end.
II am convinced" Able Breuil
said. Think of it-diamonds put TO
commercial use a million years ago.
But what about that stone? Aren't
YOU afraid TO be carrying a fortune?"
Vanderhofen shook his head sadly.
This is no fortune" he said The
largest diamond / ever saw, and it's
practically worthless. II this were a
blue-white or even a clear yellow, ]
could spend the rest of my life at
ease But it's imperfectly crystal :.
| could only sell it for an induSAdl
and get about as much as any ordi-
nary little stone. But I'd rather keep
il, Just to show I'd found a diamond
this big"
Diamonds by the Bushel Come
From Kimberley's + q IN Gus
Mother Lode.
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15


None of them was very large
no larger, in fact, than the famous
3,035-carat Cullinan diamond, which
was unearthed not very far from
there. The largest diamond ever dis
covered, the Cullinan was about the
size of a mans clenched fist and was
valued at $5,000,000.
AS the excited scientists paved
over the stones, discussing the uses
of this one and that one, veteran
acknowledges, Kurt Vanderhofen,
sauntered up and listened. Finally he
picked up squarish stone which was
different from the rest.
What would you call this?" he
asked.
Able Breuil took it from him and
patted it lovingly.
THAT is probably the most inn
portant find we made today" he ex-
planned. THAT is a sort of cleaver
or hand-aXe, undoubtedly the oldest
implement of any of these can
only guess at its age, of course, but
October Is. 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15
What an Axe Could
Have Been Made From
the Uncut Cullinan,
Largest Diamond
Ever Found!

quest for the worlds most precious stones. This
particular heap which lies on a bank of the
Vaal River between Windsorton and Barkly
West, was being sorted by Able Henri Breuil,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15

~ ALMONDS, which are indispensable to
4 j modern machine-age industry, were SINH
- larry employed million years ago by the
ancestors of the cavernen TO fashion implements
TO be used in both peace and war.
Evidence of the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15

L a III y " y - -
archeologist, in a
s e ar eh for some
thing he considers
much more precious
than jewels 49, the
artifacts of prehis-
toric man.
With other work
ers in the newly
formed Archeologi-
cal Survey of the
Union of S out h
Africa, the eminent
scholar had estab-
lished that the story
of man in the Union
did not extend back
a m @ r e 250,000
years, as was pre-
vious sly believed,
but for a million
years, and that the
cord was un-
broken throughout
the entire Ice Age.
At the end of the
day, the archeolo-
gi S I S returned to
their nearby camp
and conned over the
days finds, spread
ing them out on the
ground. There were
pointed rocks, flat
rocks, all Clipped a
little here and there
in what was obvi-
ously a crude at.
tempt to improve
the shape for some
unaoifio p,trnncn
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15

diamonds industrial
u TILT y a thousand
millenniums b g ( ore
the dawn of written
history has just come
TO light through a
p il e o f "p o I a I o
gravel" in the Kim
berley re gion of
South Africa.
Potato gravel is
the name given to
the heaps of pebbles
and rock fragments
thrown up by the dia-
m o n did j G & ers of
Kimberley in their
precious stones. This
&c IN ~ hanL IF tho
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15

Relics Uncovered by Able
BreuiI's AreheoIogisfs at the
Kimberley Mines Have Re-
VeoIed the Astonishing Use Of
Huge Precious Gems as Tools
and Weapons 100000
Years Ago
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
De GduNe Asks
Early Election

PARIS. Aug. 30 tUP)-The
necessity Of an early general cleo
ton 10 enable the French people
10 choose their own government
vas stressed by Gen dc Gaulle
today as his patriot forces cleared
the last collaborationist Snipers
from Paris rooflopS.
De Gaulle confirmed his Oft
made pledge 10 hold a general
election soon after liberation. dur
ing a conference with Georges
Bidault. president OF the Council
Of Resistance He also expressed
the belief that there should be no
call of a National Assembly that
has not been elected by the
people.
But a consultative chamber
Of the Resistance Council Will
meet soon IN Paris to consider a
constitution for the projected
Fourth French Republic.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
Two 0usted
In Shdkeup Of
TokyoCdbiinet

NEW YORK, Aug. 80
GNSt-The Tokyo radio said
today that the vice minister
of war in the new cabinet of
Premier kuniaki Koiso, 1t.
Gen. Kyoji TOminaga, had
been relieved of his post
and replaced by 1t. Gen.
Kaneshiro Shibayama.
A cabinet announcement. the
Tokyo broadcast reported also
said that II Gen. Heitaro klmura,
supreme military councillor and
chief Of the asnament adminlstra-
ton headquarters had been re
heved Of ms post
1t. Gen Haruii TAM chief of
the general affairs bureau OF the
armament. administration head
quarters, was named 10 succeed
hlm
The broadcast was reported 10y
the FEC.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
Bulgaria Ready
To Make Peace

LONDON. Aug 80 CUP) Bull
garia has accepted Anglo-Ameri-
can terms and may sign an armiS-
tice at Cairo in the next few days
IStanbul and Cairo dispatches said
today but Hungary'S new premier
Col Gen Geza Lakatis, was re-
ported 10 have asserted that his
government will continue IN the
war son GeTmany'S side.
Cairo reports said that the Bull
garan armiStice most probably
would be signed for the British
government by Lord Moyne. min
iStcr of state in tho Middle East,
and for the United States by Lin
coin MacNeagh, L s. ambassador
10 Greece and YugoSlavia.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
500 TRUCKS SEIZED

The Germans were losing heav-
liy in the desperate fighting as
they attempted 10 fee northward
along the Rhone In two days
the Americans captured 800 mo-
tor trucks and two batteries of
SS-mm guns on the front around
Montelimar.
While there was no disclosure
Of German troop losses in the bat
ties on the Rhone. an Allied COM
munique reported that the num-
Der of prisoners taken in southern
France had reached $4,000, of
which 10000 were seized al Mar
settles.
In occupying Montelimar, the
Americans captured Maj. Gen.
Otto Richter, commander Of the
19Sth infantry division which
prisoners said was transferred re-
Gently 10 southern France after
being mauled IN Russia. He was
the sixth German general cap
tured on this front.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
NaZi Cities
Bombed

LONDON. Aug. 30 GNS)-
More than 1000 heavy British
bombers battered military and IN
duStrial objectiVeS in four German
cities last night in the heaviest
night raid of recent weeks. the
air ministry disclosed, while a
steady stream of Allied bomberS
which took 30 minutes 10 cross
the southeast coast blasted Ger
man flying bomb sites in northern
France.
More Of the pilotless missiles
ralned down on southern England,
including the London area, last
night and early today.
Forty-one planes failed 10 re-
turn from the night raids.
Most of the bombs were con-
centrated on the port Of Stettin
in northeastern Germany, and
KoenigSberg. East Prussia, as
speedy wooden Mosquito bombers,
carrying two-ton blockbusters,
struck at Berlin and Hamburg.
The air ministry announcement
said that the Stettin attack was
highly concentrated one, cauS-
ing vast fires and smoke columns
that hillowed 26.000 feet into the
air and were visible many miles
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
81 DeafhIeSS Days
Give Detroit Record

CHICAGO. Aug 30 ms
Traffic deaths in the United States
in the first seven months this
year were s per cent higher than
in the same period of 1913 the
National Safety Council reported
today.
The death total for the nation
through July was announced as
1880, compared with 1850 for
the same period last year. The
loii firrtros however. were IS per
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
Milk Row
Farley Set

A special three-man panel APP
pointed TO settle grievances be-
tween 600 AFL employees and five
diaries will resume hearings Tues
day Sept. 3
The committee was appointed
by Phillip Weiss. state labor medi-
ator. Aug. 9. after a strike that
stopped milk deliveries 10 10000
homes and 1000 stores. The
strikers walked off the job when
the dairieS refused 10 add swing
shifts.
Members Of the special commit
tee are the Rev Henry Written
berger, regent of the L of d. law
school; Allen Dean of the Detroit
Board OF Commerce. and Walter
G. Wisdom of the Detroit Alice
Printing Trades.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
HUNGARY'S PROGRAM

Premier Lakatos was reported
by the Hungarian news agency 10
have outlined a three-fold pro-
gram al the first meeting Of his
military government 49, continual
ton Of the war. preservation of
internal order, and maintenance
OF current production levels with
the hope OF an increase.
Meanwhile. Russia which for
mally denied Yesterday that she
recognized Bulgaria'S neutrality
declaration. turned 10 Turkey to-
day with a bitterly scornful article
in the official Soviet newspaper
PraVda.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
Treasury Completes
SimpIified TaX Plan

the year and tho total amount OF
taxes withheld from their pay.
The estimated 1000 600 who
will be- eligible viii simply for
ward The receipt n the treasury
before March IS. 1915. where ex-
pertS viii figure whether or not
the correct amount OF taxes has
been withheld II they find dif-
ference the taxpayer will get
either a bill or a refund.
The new system gives each tax.
payer an automatic deduction OF
about 10 per cent.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30

mile. was suspected of stepping eggs But 1T lie They
great audience And it's wonder because this
those islands where they should send people who won't buy
bonds.
Frances Langford came out and started to sing:
I'm in the mood for love-"
One of the soldiers in the audience yelled:
Sister, you've come to the right place.
FTER the show suggested poker game got into
"A oh, WELL in this climate don't need any pants anyway
had NICE comfortable sleeping right the
and plane that took off sounded though
ing right into the
When they weren't warming up flying cockroaches filled the
just keep up aviation In morning
took off for Tarawa We all looked like rejects from the
clinic
y
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
Stain Halls De GauIle

NEW YORK, Aug 30 tINSl-
The Russian radio last night
broadcast a message from Premier
Stain 10 Gen. De Gaulle and the
French people expressing his
hopes for speedy liberation ef lthe
remainder of France from the
NaZlS
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30

WASHINGTON. Aug. 80 up
The new tax simplification law
which will spare some 10000 600
income taxpayers the trouble of
figuring out their 1914 bills has
been completed and will be put
INTO effect soon, the treasury said
today.
Under the new procedure. tax
payers receiving less than 5000
a year income, on which they paid
withholding taxes. will receive
from their employers by Jan. 81
a receipt showing their wages for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
AttIee Visits Pope

ROME, Aug. 80 GNS)-Clem-
ent Attlee. deputy British prime
minister touring the Allied fronts
in Italy has arrived in Rome
where ne Will be received in audi
enCe AT the Vatican today by Pope
Plus XII.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
RED PAPER HITS TURKEY

Pointing out that almost a
month had elapsed since the
friendly rupture Of diplomatic
relations between Turkey and
Germany Pravda said that Ger
man diplomats and military off
Gals were IN Turkey enjoying
diplomatic immunity and carrying
on anti-AnHN c~Npaganda and
espionage.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
FIGHT ROMANIAN TANKS

(TranSocean quoted well IN
formed German quarters as
saying that north of PloeSti
clashes occurred between Ger
man anti-alrcraft batteries and
Romanlan tanks. ,
ConStanta. the main base of
Germany'S Black Sea fleet. was
cleared OF Nazi naval forces by
one OF the most spectacular land.
air and sea operations of the
RuSSo-German war.
With Russian planes and war
ships Subjecting the port to a ter
rifle bombing and Smelling. Soviet
tanks and motorized infantry
raced s. miles down the highway
from Tulcea. south of the Danube
River, into ConStanta by land.
while Soviet marines swarmed
ashore from units of the Russian
Black Sea fleet.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
Persia CHANCES Cabinet

TEHERAN, Aug. 80 GNS)-
The Shah of Persia today asked
Mohammed Malagha es Saed, Per-
sian prime minister. 10 form a
new cabinet, following resignation
OF the cabinet yesterday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30

I MADE a great hit with the boys at
/ Canton Island They were so wild
about me they gave me the island-a
coconut at time.
l did two shows here One for the
army and one for the navy. The army
show was presented in Coral Gully
Every time somebody would move you
could hear coral crackle about half a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30

cent below the 20.3l7 reported for
the first seven months of l94l
On the safety side an outStand-
ing feature was the achievement
of Cleveland and Detroit in going
40 and "a days, respectively with
out a traffic death Because OF
Detroit'S greater population. its
mark was the better as II set a
new American record of $4,000, 600
deathless man-days.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
BIG BRITISH OBJECTIVE

British troops operating in this
area and promising soon TO du-
plicate the speedy advances OF 1t.
Gen. Patton'S Third Army, have
transformed this particular cam
paign into one Of liberation of
their own homeland from the
robot horror.
From Rouen the British are in
position 10 sweep east and north
CONTINUED on Page =, Col. ~
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
1918 Shell Kills
Boy. 9. Injures3
Times Photo

year-od boy dead today and three Of his playmate
fighting for their lives Receiving Hospital after 75mm
of the last exploded while they trying
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
Nazis Flee
Roven,British
In Pursuit

SUPREME HQ., AEF,
Aug. 80 (INS)-Less than 80
miles from Belgium and only
90 miles from the frontier of
Germany itself, troops of the
American Third Army threw
a new bridgehead across the
Aisne River today and the
Nazi high com m a n d an
nounced evacuation of Rouen
to British forces.
The bridgehead at the Aisne,
where Imperial Germany made
it's futile last stand against the
Allies in 1918, was established
at Pont darcy. with American
tanks streaming unchecked
north of Reims toward the
Ardennes forest-gateway to
Belgium, Luxembourg and the
Reich.
Pont darcy lies IA miles east
of scissors. abandoned by de-
feated German army now scurry-
ing for the temporary haven OF
home frontier.
RESISTANCE LIGHT
The advance TO within 35 miles
or less of Belgium was scored in
the area southeast of Laon. Gen.
EiSenhower's headquarters an
nounced that only light German
resistance is being encountered in
the Laon sector.
Lying on a wide loop OF the
Seine east and slightly south OF
LeHavre, Rouen is city Of enor-
nous military Importance.
1t controls all the communica-
tionS of the department of Seine
Inferieure. which embraces the
ports of lie Havre, Fecamp and
Dieppe. while main road and
railway line connect il with Abbe-
Vile. key 10 the Pas de Calais
site Of Hitler'S robot bomb launch
ing platforms.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
Reds Bott|eup
Black Sea;;Hit
For |oesti

MOSCOW, Aug. 30 GNS)-
Red army legions. sweeping across
RomauIa, stood at the approaches
Of the rich Ploesti oil fields today
and. as q result of the capture
of the Black Sea port OF Con-
stanta. held control of the vital
Ploesti-Constanta pipeline
Russian smphibious forces oc-
cupied ConStanta, which has a
normal population OF about 10000
in a surprise s. mile leap down
the Black Sea coast.
81 MILES FROM PLOESTI
simultaneously. other Soviet
forces. despite stIffening German
resistance. drove 10 within 81
miles of the city Of Ploesti itself
and 10 within 81 miles OF the
Romanian capital of Bucharest.
THE Turkish radio, IN a
broadcast reported by the FEC.
said that Romanian troops had
surrounded German forces in
the PloeSti oil fields and pre-
dicted that the Ploesti area
would soon be in the hands of
the RomanlanS
The German TranSocean
agency reported that some So
Wet formations had pene-
trated the Dobruja sector of
southeastern Romania and
added that the situation IN the
southern part of the eastern
front was now marked by mo-
bile warfare with no clearly
discernible front lines"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
LOSSES HEAVY

Headquarters described In e
fighting in the vicinity Of Loriol,
near the apex of the triangle. as
particularly severe" and both
sides were reported suffering con-
siderable casualties.
As one American force ham
mered the Germans frontally at
Loriol. four miles east Of the
Rhone and a mile and a half be-
low the Drome another force
drove eastward 10 Crane. four
miles from Loriol crossed the
Drome and captured ALEX on the
north shore
The thanking movement threat
ened 10 cut off the desperate en-
envy troops. which had staggered
10 the Drome after breaking out
Of a trap below Montelimar, IA
miles south of Loriol
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
<1|bOb Hopes,
I'm 2}Y(>

EDITORS NoTE-Bob Hope is in
the War zone entertaining troops.