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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19
Asking

QUERIES from clients:
" Q-Remcmbcr a song titled
"A Little Bit Of Love sim
Burning ?
Al grr~S soti inran "A Lit
tie Spark OF Love >dll Burn
ing" Kitty Gordon introduced
this song in "A vaudeville sketch,
One of the things remember
best about the statueSque Kitty
il she had nine PekineSe.
often saw her walking all these
dogs in Madison avenue, Man
haitian. late at night.
Q-How about persons born
on Feb. 29? What DO they DO
about birthdays when it isn't
leap year?
Am excellent question, sir.
But / don't know the answer.
1 will have 90 look around for
somebody born on Feb. % and
ask them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19
In Tough Spot

so the infantry soldiers have
IL tough" writes a member OF
the L. S. Army Medical Corps.
"HOw about us medicos who act
as litter bearers
I'VE have no weapons 10 pro-
tect ourselves. The red cross on
our arms makes perfect tar
get for Jap snipers.
ut is tough enough being
shot at under any conditions but
when you haven't anything TO
shoot back with II Is even
tougher"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19
Ingrid Bergman
Gives Advice

HOLLYWOOD, March rs.
Take a tip from Ingrid Berg
man, who WAS just there-don-t
send so many candy bars. etc,
in Alaska. The boys can buy
those things in canteens. What
they enjoy most is home-cooked
foods, snapshots of the family,
books and above all. letters.
Buy a bunch Of envelopes.
Ingrld advises, and stamp and
address them in advance. Then,
# you can't think of much to
say enclose clippings, cartoons,
almost anything.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19

nation Please. lie was the
Smartcst boy on the program
that night.
lie is a graduate Of the fourth
best prep school in the country
which Is Hill School, Pottstown,
Pa, and also an alumnuS OF
Cornell University.
lie was born at Niagara Falls.
His first name. Franchot, was
las mothers last name.
a mother of five children of
Revere. Mass, says Brahm $
Lullaby is the best. She has
used II successfully 10 sing all
OF her children 10 sleep.
As for tips and the income
Lax a hcllhoX STATES his salary
is $50 "a week and ne is taxed
ttrt ST. IT week, -tAe government
assuming he makes as much in
tips as IN salary
People who laugh actually
live longer than those who de-
not. Few persons realize health
actually varies according to
the amount OF laughter" So
states DR. James j. Walsh.
think he Is exactly right.
WOMEN are drafted in Great
w Britain Up to now they
have been drafted for service
with the forces. but owing TO
the shortage of domestic help
Will probably be called up TO
act as maids and cooks in hos
pualS and other institutions.
Naturally. there IS no atten-
ton paid TO social position. If
a young woman has done no
domestic work she will be in
structcd in the art of house
keeping While learning how to
cook she may be called on to
act as a scrubwoman.
Have you any readers with
a. many names as mine ." asks
Francis Michael CHRISTOPHER
Patrick Cornelius Donnellan Of
Chicago.
-A-Detro!tcr--SayS,- tAeasA
kissed as much as any human
helngS she has yet 10 meet n
man whose kiss has thrilled"
her. She is 40, but is still hope
tul She Will be thrilled" ~ry
kiss before she passes on.
This department wishes this
subscriber the best Of luck. OF
course, when a person is not
thrilled by a kiss the blame
cannot always be placed on the
person who gives the kiss.
SCIENTIST states after the
- war there VIII be available
gasoline that will give so miles
10 the gallon. That's fine.
How about that carburetor
which before the war made il
possible TO get over 200 miles
on a gallon of the gasoline cur
IentlN used.
With this new gasoline and
hat Carburctor an autoist
should get 400 miles per gallon.
As previously recorded here the
,arburetor referred 20 has been
regnlarly patented. but has not
reached the market.
I|gtrffrIffn FN kfnF EpafuFes E.rH Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19
Mules and Men

Cancer men Cborn in period
June 21-July ~ are usually a
great help around the house
when married
Libra men Sept. 23-OCt ~
are nearly all great lovers Cap
ricorn men dec. 2Z-Jan. 20) are
not much as lovers. The wives
Of such men must get their ro-
nance In the movies. SO say
the star EazerS.
However, the Capricorn hus-
bands are not without their
good qualities In her poem.
Love by the Zodiac" Lucille
Anderson says
So come lrc 20 Capricorn, steady
and clear,
Kindly and coUteous-hc is
dear.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19

strictioHs on trqUei, etc. II sucj
AID restore order and help other
nations to recorer from their
damaged
We thought it significant
that only boys voted NO on this
question. All the girls voted
YES Does this indicate that the
female of the species is more
altruiStic than the male?
Whether she is or not, here's
one Yes answer which points
the way toward a better world:
Dear Elsie RObinsOn:
"My two brothers and "A favor
lie cousin of mine not 10
mention other boys from this
vicinity, have joined our army
To make this a better world tn
live in, not only for us, but for
all people.
a little less meat. hutter.
clothing and gasoline wouldn't
make us any less worthy of the
proud traditions OF our country.
We still could bring up our
young people as fine men and
women. But II we forget about
others, II We enjoy all manner
Of luNuries while other peoples
suffer from want, this war with
all It's sacrifices and loss OF life
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19
Dancing Star to Wed

HOLLYWOOD, March Is.
Soon after her picture is over,
Eleanor Powell is off 10 La Jolla
TO be a marines wife. She'll do
her own work and will get
Sgt Glenn Ford off for duty
al 6 a. m.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19
Book for Western Fans

He lived with them when the
Custer massacre was still the
big STORY in the West, when
Sitting Bull was riding high.
wide, not so handsome, but
loose; when a man could ride
for days with nothing but herds
on antelopeS for companions,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19
PASSING By

ERANCHOT TONE. Very
Il clever actor a few weeks
ago inspired much favorable
comment for the way he
handles the questions on Infor-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19
By Benjamin DeCosseres

subterranean world she thought
Of the child.
For the first time perhaps
ever in her life she thought Of
the child as distinct from her
self as a pregnant woman. How
strange that never, before had
she thought OF that other being.
always simply OF herself, the
pregnant woman"
That strikes me as being hol-
low stuff. Not a nice companion,
-aHyite''t,-ifi- afi- aiFPiane -tpfe-
war;. To take this flight she
left another child, Peter, at
home. I think that is where
Eve belonged-at home.
"Lo, the poor Indianv" ex-
claimed Alexander Pope several
hundred years ago i'm his Essay
on Man" Since then the Ameri-
can Indian has been known as
Poor Lo." Is there a finer in
stance of the comic mutilation
of a phrase? Y
In Indian Experiences" by
DeCoSt Smith tthe CaXton
Printers, Caldwell, Idaho), we
have one of the best closeup
studies with illustrations of
the Indian in his transition from
tomahaWk 10 Garand De Cost
Smith went among the Indians
IN 1884 10 paint them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19

the record of the family OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Thomas
Of Pembrokeshire, England,
Mrs. Thomas is a Red Cross
nurse aii the rest are in the
armed forces. Can any Cnited
States raiis,-tie TINS 2.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19

suppliers located in ~ states Their continued CO.
operation has been of the greatest benefit.
Eyes 10 The future
Consolidateds vast industrial organization is con-
centratng upon the job of producing and devel-
oping planes for the war.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19

Author above the best love poetry this
the morale of those the conflict
separately
FRIED and chicken gravy is Gen Escnhowe avorite
L dish. Sounds good have tried it but my
curiosity really aroused have ordered for breakfast
tomorrow
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19
AS She Faces Death

I've was pregnant. TINS was
her thought as she faced death
tof course. like all old-faShioned
herolnes, Eve doesn't die.
Suddenly she was crying.
SObbing violently, and she could
not seem to stop. The sObs
shock her body until she re-
membered that she must not
shake like that because Of the
child in her. For the first time
since they had gone into their
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19

dated Vultee Aircraft Corporation is doing its share
in this great war job The annual report to stock
holders describes what the company is doing, and
there many facts in that report of interest to the
general public Here are some of them;
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19
81 BELIEVE the governments

~ BELIEVE the governments
present ratiOning policy
should he enforced for several
years after the war and then be
gradually eliminated.
"Other countries will be In
even greater need of many
commodities than we will be.
We must face the fact that
our nation will have TO take the
foremost part I'm relieving the
distress and disorder. We must
feed, clothe and gain the respect
Of those unfortunate nations.
This will require much sacrifice
and self denial on our part"
Pvt. Harold Victor-age p.
co Locator Section. Post Office,
Camp VOTERS, Tex,
$1,000 prize
Copyright. 1914. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19

CtheSe are the best passages in
the book and also how as she
faced danger and death her love
OF life deepened and ethereal
Azed so TO speak
Mrs Lindbergh in this novel
cite demonstrate that either
CD she is not an analytical
psychologist o. GU that there
is no depth IN Eve cher charac-
teri 10 psychologist.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19
Tom GirdIer reports
TO the American people

power shortage Production has been steadily ex-
banded with declining manpower requirements for
each plane.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19

RELIANT. noVsotIonoI trainer
fovoriie Of private f1iers now used for in,,ru.
meni instruction
The Stout Research Division at Dearborn, Mich
igan, under the direction of William B. Stout is en-
gagged in several experimental projects for military
as we'll as commercial application Research and
development being carried on for airplanes for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19
Dips Into Treasury

No wonder Wanda GOT a big
load Of lack out of Stains
private treasury in the Krenhn
(which the brave bal uniortu-
nate people OF Russia believe IS
tl,eif communal" ownl.
or course when Russia wanted
an American booster for Wan
das novel the Big Fingerman IN
the Kremlin laid his thumb on
he shoulder of his old friend
Joseph r. Davies, the celebrated
sponsor of the film, mission
10 Moscow. "
AS to the story itself, il is
dramatic horrific and well
written. But. ncighborS, as pro-
foundry as | hate Hitler and all
his gang l can't work up any
great sympathy for a people
who were in cahoots with Hitler
when the latter was doing to
Frenchmen, NorwegianS
zecho SlovakianS, Dutchmen
Poles and BelgianS exactly what
Wanda tells us the Germans
are now doing to the Russians
And ! don't forget either
Wanda dear, how these very
Russians maSsacred your own
people, the Poles, when Hitler
invited Stain -iH+e-tAe-@lSili2- ia
1000 Al
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19
She's Short Of IDEAS

Anne Morrow Lin d b crg h
knows how TO handle English
But she is short on ideas, as are
most all women writer's.
In her latest book of only 100
pages, The Steep Ascent
tHarcourt-B Brace she describe,
the sensations of Eve and her
flying nut of a husband,
Gerald, in a trip mainly over
the Alps. Ewes reactions aye
both descriptive of what she
sees under her and around her
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19

VENGEANCE. dive bomber
Newly perfected dive brakes on the vsnssones
give pilots complete bombing accuracy.
Under construction is a new military transport,
similar to the Liberator Express but with larger
fuseage to provide space for more efficient cargo
and troop transportation A new four-engine heavy
bomber OF advanced design is also being developed.
Work continues on giant transport plane able
TO make nonstop trips to Europe and return. 1t 10
large enough to accommodate 400 passengers
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19

or example, with the same direct labor required
TO build one four-engne Lberator three years ago,
today we build fourteen. In December 1871 at the
San Diego Division the output per employee was
only AZ pounds; during December 1913, the figure
was Isl pounds per employee the highest output
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19

TIME makers of aircraft of
this country are meet
ing the vast needs of our
Government for thousands
upon thousands Of planes in
a mighty effort which will
stand long as a historic
achievement of industry.
AS the worlds largest pro-
ducer of planes, ConSoli-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19
Young America Speak,
by Elsie Robinson

ioning of food, gasoline and re-
are necessary TO relieve distress
would have been fought and
won all I'm vainw
Mayme Homage IS.
Warren street, Ellenville, N. Y.
$1,000 price
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19

"The Rainbow, by Wanda
Wasilewska Simon q Schu-
ster). l read also on the flap
Of this novel (Which details
The atrocities OF rbC run IN
Russia that Wanda isn't a
Russian az all.
She is a Pole "who walked
hundreds of miles Through
the marshes 20 cross the
border into Russia
And what do YOU think
Wanda is doing when she
isn't hnagling for more of
Uncle Joe's prize money?
Why, she is at the head Of the
Stalin-organized Union of Pol
-tyh Patriots wv :, means
Union of Polish Communists TO
deliver Wanda Rstai-cuuntr,y
over to the car of an the Rus
sias Genial Joe.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19
The Job we ore doing

From the production lines of Consolidated Vultee's
plants, eight types of planes ranging from Lib
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19

family OF Is and every member in The forces. That is
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-19

SRIRLiNA. poTot BOMBER
Long used by the Navy, the coiono refuses 10
grow old, as the enemy will testify,
per man-day in the heavy-bomber field according
to the War Production Board.
Sowing the taxpayers dollar
Increasing output has resulted in lower unit cost
Last year Consolidated Vultee saved the govern
ment S2so00o00o with new operating economies
and efficient Of manpower
During the year close to $4,000 time-saving pro-
posalS were submitted by employees. The adoption
of many of these employees suggestions resulted in
savings OF man-hours equivalent to 10000 persons
working 4S hours week for a full year.
How 1000 suppIiers helped
The responsibilities OF Consolidated Nutee in
meeting schedules and turning out vastly increased
production shared with some 1000 material
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-17

ers of teenage children. The records OF our
juvenile courts are a sad revelation of the dis
asters that follow when adoleScents are left To
shift for themselves outside school hours.
Where then do the women 60 from here2- No
one knows yet. More than half of those who
have been doing work want to go home
If they have homes to which they can go. The
remainder viii need to work. Whether they will
get il not remains to be seem Already some
industries and the government letting them
out. Others are taking them in as reconversion
to peacetime needs takes slow headstart.
New businesses and industries will. of course
be opening up. There should be a real boom in
the fields which have been drained by the de
mands OF war or through non-production
Certainly for those women and men who have
worked and fought to win this war, well as for
all women and men who must work in order to
live, there must be chance to do SO.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-17

cafeteria dairy kitchen then to the aid bed.
In the navy yards the womens chief complaint
was that the men don't want them there. They
tell US" several of them said 10 me, that we're
only here on sufferance because it's wartime.
That's not very inspiring" Yet the officers in
charge say the women have done excellent work.
1ENRY KAISER has declared repeatedly that
] he could not have got along without them. The
moment they began to come in to his yards from
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-17

think it is chic" What they have overlooked is
the fact that very few women really have careers
any more than or as much men have them
In normal times or even in abnormal, such as
the present, there is room for them. But in eras
of UNEMPLOYMENT these women block the way OF
other women who really need to earn living
Many of this group married and so great a
hold has the dream of a career" taken on them
that il has become more important to them than
their marriages and their families.
Not long ago, one of them who is successful in
a superficial way and whose marriage is about al
the bottom of the hill was quite upset because.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-17

good job when they get away with poor one"
This same complaint is frequent in business
and government offices where the more con-
scientious and able workers resent these others
who get equal pay for unequal work. II may be
that after the war the re-education of those who
have to earn living but who have acquired bad
habits of work because everything goes in
time" will become an irksome problem.
Another member of this brigade of dispens-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-17

who is control operator of slow cool pits" for the
Carnegie Steel Company in Chicago She also Is
industrial secretary for the Y w. c. A. and
thousands OF girls bring their problems to her
..safest=e those working around expect 70
keep on" she said They have always had TO
work and always will. unless they maFFy.-Sene
of those with husbands in the services hope they
won't have to stay on very long"
She admitted that there were plenty of
women who wanted TO get out of industry. And
They would do so If IL were not for the job
eeZe and the high pay. She isn't afraid that
Fsome man can come along and bump her out Of
her job. il is a part of a new process in steel
manufacture and has never been held by man.
"Yet don't know" she wonders, what might
happen IL they decided to sweep all women out of
the plant I'm worrying too, about others In new
industries such plasties and electroncs II
seems neither fair economical to let all OF
their training and experience go for nothing"
In the shipyards OF Seattle, Portland. Ore and
San Francisco thousands upon thousands of
at work
One of the counseors in a Seattle shipyard
said that less than two per cent OF the women al
work there intended TO stay on
The girls themselves complain principally about
the monotony OF their lives and the housing faci
ities-or lack of them. The unmarried among
them live in dormitories in bare and unlovely
rooms in cottages that come in long. bleak rows
Hours are so long that when night comes for the
majority of them. there is nothing but dinner I'm
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-17

hDIeS are INOSt WHUSt
name is familiar to
us as career" wo-
men. BY these l do
not mean the women
OF ability and special
talent who naturally
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-17

all over the country pro.
duction shot up.
Now another side to the
story. A minority side, to
be sure. Yet IL must be
heard. 1t concerns that
group of unframed girls
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-17

PerpIexing Problem Of the Army Of Women Who So
GoIIan+Iy and Ably Plugged the ManPower Cop in
Wartime Industry. Learned New skIs and Greeted
New Opportunities at Fabulous PoY-ond Now
Millions Of Them Don't Wont to Be Bumped" Out
Of Their Jobs When Peace Comes
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-17

WHO teIt IhBH SCiiooi
10 work for the pay
and the excitement,
and who will be out
of a job as soon as
industry and bust
ness can afford to
be fussy a b on [
work standards.
Speaking OF Them
a seasoned. expert
snced and success
full forewornan said:
"The girls just
" off around and
draw their pay.
They don't see why
fhaV choiild 40 a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-17

through a QueS-
tionnaire sent to
colleges. she had
learned that 95 per
cent of the girls
about to graduate
were looking for
ward to marriage
rather than 10 jobs.
'T was not very
happy about that"
she said TO me, "be-
cause 1 think a
career is m u C h
m o r e important
than marriage"
This whole situa.
ton of the married
mother at work has
a deep significance.
Especially so when
they are the moth.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-12-17
'&sKitChen, Ladies? 0rWhat?

take their places
in the world OF
endeavor. / mean
those w o m g n
who do not have
10 work 49, some
OF them are mar
ried and some OF
them single-but
who I a k G the
mediocre and un.
important OBJ s
hncatIC a fbpN
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02

Probably the greatest private
collector Of books of the middle
ages was Gerbert, Pope Sylvester
TT
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02
COLEMAN TO SEEK
REFLECTION HERE

Lewis ]. Coleman, county COM
missioner, made formal announce
nlent Saturday of his intention to
seek reelection to the Board OF
County Comm ssioners.
IT am very grateful to the peo-
pie of this county for their past
support and confidence in my cleo
ton to the County commissioners
board" Coleman said, land I
trust have proved worthy of their
support both in the past and, in
the coming election.
Coleman explained that he has
in the past and intends in the flu
ture to do the best of his ability
TO maintain 'that faith and trust
for the best interest of the people
of New Hanover county"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02

nance the program of the N. c.
League for Crippled Children for
the coming year, Miss Forbes,
president, announced Saturday.
Opening on Monday, April 8, and
continuing until Easter, the seal
sale is sponsored nationally by the
National Society for Crippled Chill
dren, with which forty statewide
societies for the crippled and dis
abled are affiliated.
In accepting the Craftsmanship
Miss Forbes stressed the impor-
lance of intensiflc alton of volun-
tary organizations in the fields of
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-02
5th Avenue Church
Circles Will Meet

The circles of Fifth Avenue
Methodist church will meet as fol-
lows:
1. Mrs. w. H. Schaefer, chair
man, with Mrs. w. M. Chinnis,
1919 Market street, Monday at $3.50
pm.
2. Mrs. L. L. Motto chairman,
with Mrs. Motto 313 Church street,
Tuesday at $3.50 pm.
8. Mrs. P. H. Raspberry, chair
man, with Mrs. L. o. Ellis, ZOE
Wrightsville avenue, Tuesday at
pm.
4. Mrs. E. P. Goodwin, chairman,
with Mrs. W. C. Goodwin, Castle
Haynes road, Monday at $3.50 pm.
5. Mrs. C. D. Barclift, chairman,
with Mrs. ]. R. Franks, Is
Wrightsville avenue, Tuesday at
pm.
6. Mrs. J. L. Gholson, chairman,
with Mrs. E. c. Ruark, Jr., 10
Keaton avenue, Brookwood, Mon.
day at 8 pm.