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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12

the world. She was then an
awkward, rawboned gal in her
teens and very shy. She was
wearing a classy tailor-made job
the other day that / have no
doubt was the product OF the
highest skill OF Zaharias &
Chester, and there was complete
ease in her manner. / think 1
should tell you, too, that Ia
harias says she is a good cook.
In the days of the gold rush
on Broadway, or the mid 2Os,
frankie Chester was a good
looking, dapper, blond kid who
seemed to have plenty Of pota-
toes, which he showered on cafe
owners, the prize breads OF the
period. auto statesmen and other
vendors OF luxuries. He was
high-rollin' fool and also a crack
amateur golfer
In those days he hung around
the Silver Slipper cafe in the
basement at 4Sth and Broad
way, owned by Bill Duffy and
his combination. and kater-
-eeFnered across Broadway also
in a basement. was the Parody
Club, where the greatest unit Of
cafe entertainers OF all time
were working. / mean Jimmy
Durante, Lou Clayton and Eddie
Jackson.
THE Parody was owned by
Il Big Jim Redmond, and he
and Duffy were golf bugs. Lou
Clayton then as now was a
superb golfer. He has practically
lived on a golf course since /
have known him. and that is
many years. Redmond was
Dragging about LOUIS skill one
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12

By Damon
Runyon

night when Duffy said he had a
guy who could beat him. and
that developed the match for a
big side bet. Money was just
something you played with in
those days.
The match was the talk OF
the big street. II came of one
dawning after Clayton was
through work and Chester
through play. The Clayton con-.
tingent courteously bought the
drinks before the contest and
that is when they gave Chester
Mickey Finn No. /. The boys
were ready 10 tee off when a
Claytonian, not satisfied with
Chester's calm demeanor. sug-
gested another round of dripks.
Then they gave frankie his
Michael No. 2. a practically
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
one familiar with the reaction
of the treacherous little Finnola
will tell you.
DUT as l say, frankie
ID stepped out and -uncorked
67. Our hero was heard to
say once on his journey around
the course that the dame he
was out with the night before
must have been a member Of
the Borgia family, otherwise he
never complained.
/ always thought il was
good thing for frankie he had
such a stout constitution. An
other man might have thought
of dying and Franbe's hackers
were not citizens who would
have tolerated demise with
their money at stake.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
BY Maj. Gen. David
Prescott Barrows

advantages for the American
people 10 realize from the great
expenditures of life and means
which they are contributing to
the war in the Far East?
| think there are, provided
that these advantages are not
only for ourselves, but for the
benefit of all nations and peo-
Piles concerned.
| suggest three lines OF action,
which we are entitled, by rea-
son of our war effort, to- ask
for.
They are, first, the establish
ment Of a free economic order
in the western Pacific, in which
the commerce and the industrial
opportunities of this entire re-
gained territory should be open
10 our own people, and TO all
other law-abiding peoples, on
equal terms.
There is an opportunity 10
establish throughout the Pacific.
ana especially IN Wnat may De
called dependent territory" a
truly international economic or
der.
The wellbeing and prosperity
Of peoples everywhere has come
TO be dependent upon the re-
sources Of the earth. not only
those which sustain life and give
Il comfort, but those resources
which. in an industrial age an
iron age-give economic prog
resS and power.
There is an opportunity 10
build up IN the Far East free
and cooperative economic re-
gime Of great consequence and
beuef!cent example.
We should seek that il be
done.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
WASHINGTON SCENE
By George Dixon

demic Of dented tenders and
scufted tires. He does not come
right out and say So but he
implies that the British Empire
would be better off if his ATS"
would go TO war.
Most stories b out Mrs.
-'I Roosevelt are untrue. l
have an idea there must be a
gag factory that turns them out
because they pretty well fol-
low a pattern.
The first lady, for all the ter
ritOry she covers, is pretty
naive. Here is a true story
which seems to illustrate the
point.
Mrs. Roosevelt encountered a
young woman she knew in an
elevator the other day. The
girl was with a sailor whom she
promptly introduced.
if'ffc COB was so overcome he
could only gulp when Mrs.
Roosevelt extended her hand.
So the First Lady tried to put
him al ease.
II see you are in the navy"
she said. IL have several boys
in the navy myself
CHANGING through the daily
VI log of the navy's bureau of
aeronautiCs l found this item:
IAN desks should search for
a figurehead from the bow of "A
native war canoe. This figure
head is Of mahogany type wood,
s inches in width and IL inches
in height, and decorated with
mOther-of-pearl. This head ap-
psrently was picked up in error
from mail desk In room 1907.
"If found please notify Comdr.
Robert =. Quackenbush Jr.,
room 1905
called up Comdr. Quacken-
bush 10 commiserate with him.
ut Is undoubtedly great
loss" l said, but l suppose you
are thankful they didn't take
the whole canoe ."
II never had the whole
canoe" he said. Just the
figurehead. II came from a
canoe in the south Pacific. But
do not be distressed; my want
ad brought II back"
Comdr. Quackenbush said his
experience represented a great
plug for the efficacy OF want
ads
THE day after IL appeared"
he said. "a junior officer came
running in. He implored me 10
come at once to his cubicle and
when l got there he asked me
to look out the window.
81 did-and there was my
missing figurehead, perched on
the radiator cap Of a truck"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12

A LII the time, you see, Sgt.
"A Berg was moving closer and
closer to the ultimate misery of
battle, which for him was on
New Georgia.
AS they moved in, they be-
gan to meet the Jap snipers,
but they never impressed him
much.
Forget about EN-" he ad-
vised. eff you worry about snip
ers you'll never get anything
done. Occasionally they would
get a man. but II you don't
stand around, II you keep NOV
ing, they don't have time to
draw a bead on YOU"
Shippers did hold them up
somewhat as they moved
through the jungle to relieve
another outfit, but Sgt. Berg
found the artillery a worse ex-
perience-even the American.
"You hear your own shells
going over and don't know
where they will land. But in a
day or two you learn. As for
the ones coming the other way
you never hear them"
And as one peril after another
passed, they reached the COM
bat zone where men live in
foxheles and find sure death by
stepping out of them.
III the Japs don't get you,
your own buddies will" That's
the rule of the jungle nights.
Say nothing. Don't even whis-
per, Don't smoke. Don't shoot.
Do nothing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12

LIVERY summer, since ration
IL ing started, l put in time
doing the family shopping and l
learn a lot of things just stand
ing around stores.
For instance, why is IL that
when an item is put on the free
list, il becomes scarce in the
stores. but the moment you have
to have points for II, the stores
have plenty on hand.
I've asked that question OF
butchers and grocers, but they
don't know the answer.
They say that exactly that has
been their experience, but they
don't know why it is like that.
They are willing TO sell what
they can get 70 sell, points or
no points. II isn't their fault
And they hate TO have their
customers read that certain cuts
of beef will be on the free list
or the points will be lowered,
only 10 discover that the items
are not TO be obtained anywhere.
IT Is like that report in the
i newspapers that aluminium
ware is being released for con
sumner! purchase.
Hardware dealers were dell
rood with wou1en- looking fer
pots and pans.
1t would have been smarter
to make the announcement after
the pots and pans were actually
on the shelves of the store-not
months before.
Who benefits by all til is
double-talk in official announce
ments? The consumer wants
goods, not publicity mems hand
outs.
1t is like the ceiling price
on used cars or any other used
item-called in the good old
days, secondhand goods and
sometimes plain junk.
In the first place, no ceiling
price was put on used cars until
the market was permitted to
90 haywire, every smiling
Jack" and "fair-dealing Bill
pulling in customers like an
old-clothes shop. Then suddenly
a ceiling is put on.
Suppose q young man puts
his savings into a car and Is
drafted.
He has to dispose Of il i'm
mediately, perhaps to leave his
wife as much cash as he can
lay hands on.
In a free market, that young
fellow can shop around for the
best customer. Today there is
a ceiling and if he takes a
nickel above the ceiling price.
he is in trouble.
SHOULD hate 10 have TO do
Il any forced selling at this
time when il is almost impos-
sible 10 replace what is sold
at ceiling prices.
The trouble is that any gov
eminent bureaucracy in any
country under any circum-
stances has to make general
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
Letters From
A Soldier

knife away before you sleep,
lest you wake up slashing your
comrades. Is IL any wonder
that Sgt. Berg would rather for
get il? And forget Japanese
voices in the dark. And daring
not climb out of his hole be-
cause anything that moved was
an enemy there. He'd as soon
forget the smell of the Jap,
Their English was good
enough to fol you, but you
could smell them. They use
some peculiar oil. They smell
like skunk cabbage"
-
A Ii this time, you must re-
"A call, these men were living
with what they could carry.
I'VE got our water, from shell
holes" Sgt. Berg recollected.
at was just like muddy water
out of that ditch out there, but
we purified IL with calcium
chloride capsules. / didn't shave,
wash or change clothes for 35
DAYS.
81 grew beard like this The
indicated with his fingers) and
they got to calling me Abraham
Lincoln.
when we finally got through
to the beach l had a haircut.
\ truck driver cut my hair for
me with one of those little pairs
of scissors that YOU cut your
nails with. Manicure scissors.
Somebody had pair with him."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12

IL feel sure they will, be-
cause when the WACs, WAVES,
and SPARS come back they will
be wearing shoes about two
sizes larger than when they
went in. When they come back,
l think they will set the styles.
2-The mother should have
the greater part of the moral
training of the children chiefly
because she is with them so
much more. But if the moral
training and habits of the chill
dren are left too much TO
mother, the children are likely
to grow up thinking of father
only as the one who lectures"
and Furnishes, or else provides
recreation.
3-Yes, if he will do five very
important things. Some people
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
THESE DAYS
By George E.
Sokolsky

rules which apply without dis
elimination, which really means
without sense.
There is no give and take, no
exception, no appreciation Of
values. There is the rule. Live
by it. If you can't, you're out
of luck.
The rule is made on the basis
Of some impersonal application
Of the results of statistical data
compiled by one of those mon
ster machines that pu n C h s
holes in cards and then counts
the holes.
Man becomes a hole, a dot,
an item on a chart. His prob
lens may not fit the punched
hole, but that is all that the
bureaucrat can 90 by because
that is how he operates.
If you don't fit into the hole
I suppose the only thing to do
is TO commit suicide because
you don't belong.
1t is just TOO bad for you.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
WORLD IN REVIEW

IN THE previous comment I
i discussed the fact that. as
American naval and land forces
clear the japanese enemy out
of colonial areas OF the western
Pacific, we are returning these
possessions 10 their legal pos
SCISSORS, the Australians and the
Dutch. We have advanced no
claim 10 the territories them
selves. even though they have
\been liberated mainly by Ameri-
Ican war power.
North of the Equator the sit
uation is different. Micronesia
and the Marianas islands, except
Guam, were by mandate given
TO Japan. For strategic and
other reasons they cannot be re-
turned 10 Japan. If we continue
10 hold them after this war
ends, il will be for strategic rea-
sons.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12

This policy not only accords
with American distaste for dim
perial undertaking; il is en-
bedded in our official policy.
Our opposition 10 conquest and
annexation by the sword was
expressed a decade ago by the
secretary Of state and is known
as the "Stimson doctrine" Our
government then refused 10 rec
ognize territory won by agrees
sion.
I THINK this doctrine applies
Ito stipuiations everywhere, but
that we have applied it 70
Europe, in this war. seems
doubtful. But in the Pacific
the field is still open for us 10
act in accord with the dictates
of international law and public
morality
Are there, then, no national
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12

1.-THE Royal Marines - and
they could speak perfect Eng
lish-would infiItrate and II they
learned somebody's name would
call for Jack or BILL You
wouldn't answer. We didn't
even shoot, unless we were
sure of getting a lot OF them.
1t was a war of nerves. They
were trying to worry us, 20 find
out our positions, too. III you
fired at one, another would toss
a hand grenade in your hole,
so we kept quiet"
At TIMES, he said, the Japa-
nese would crawl right up
10 the side of a foxhole, and in
such case sometimes the
crawlers were killed, but il was
done silently with bayonet,
knife or machete.
Eve even unloaded our rifles
at night" he said. "A lot OF
men were slashed by their own
buddies-battic psychoneurosis.
Wake up thinking they heard
something and start slashing
with a knife.
THAT was mostly in the outfit
ahead of us. We didn't have
SO much trouble We'd have
two men on guard in a hole and
two sleeping, and the men
sleep wouldn't keep their
knives with them while they
slept :"
There you have something to
measure combat. Sy-~p3t youI
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
II. v. DURLHNG

Guard him, o God. No love of
mine
Can shelter him from IN
Encircle Nth TIM grace dirine
And guide him by Thy i0iH.
Protect him, guard him every
hour!
! leare him IN Thu care.
Thine is the i0iii, Thine is the
poUer;
Mine--is just the prayer.
Anon.
WHEN a very young fellow
w l was assigned by a New
York newspaper to cover the
Hollywood film colony
Being very young and possibly
a little irresponsible, / did not
cover the film colony by going
10 studios.
-Feetheeed Notwithstanding
of the old Alexandria Hotel, the
bar of the same elegant hoStelry
and the night clubs.
Strangely enough, I did all
right and what / wrote was
among the first news syndicated
from Hollywood.
spent night after night in
such celebrated after dark spots
of that time as the Vernon
Country Club. the Ship Cafe.
AL Levys, Nat Goodwin'S and
the Sunset Inn.
In these night clubs, always
iammed with Hollywoodians. l
never saw a fight between film
polabritiaC
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12

y - avs 49, 1919 ~ ~
AA Chauffeur al the British en-
bassy, is having girl trouble.
This does not stem from any
crossing in .ove because Mr..
Keep feels that romance is too
undlgnlfled for an ambassa-
dorial limousine pilot.
lie is a tall. taciturn gentle
man who would just as soon
think Of leaping on the back
OF Lord Halifax and yelling.
Buck buck. how many fingers
do l hold up as he would Of
coolng love
The trouble comes from a
group OF young ladies Of the
British Auxiliary Territorial
Service. They are more COM
monty known as ATS" al
though a few wagS argue that
II seems a shame 10 waste the
"B' IN British in applying the
abbreviation.
II seems the embassy has
been suffering from man.
power shortage and Mr.. Keep
found himself without adequate
assistance IN maintaining and
operating the official cars. SO a
group of ATS" was assigned TO
him
Mr. Keep is now muttering
that he is afflicted by an cpl
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
TREMEMBER the tim,

TREM MBER the time
i frankie Chester, with two
Mickey Firms in him tone is
enough to cripple a gorilla)
peeled off a 81 10 beat Lou
Clayton in the bettingest golf
match Broadway has ever seen,
and the reason this historic in
cident popped into my mind is
because j came on frankie
talking golf the other day with
ABabe Didriksen. the greatest
woman athlete .in history.
Babes husband, burly
burper, or wrestler, by the name
of George Zaharias, and Chester
are partners in a tailor shop in
Beverly Hills. Zaharias comes
from my old home town of
Pueblo. Colo. and for years he
has been telling that he used 10
SHINE my shoes m Pueblo, which
is a canard because in the first
place George isn't that old, and
in the second place / never wore
shoes in Pueblo.
Babe emily won the
Womenis Western Open in Chr
cago and George wallowed along
side her all the way. putting a
fat cigar TO give her the direc-
ton Of the wind. Babe took up
golf after she had demonstrated
there was mighty little else in
other athletic effort she couldn't
do.
THE first time l ever clapped
Il eyes on her. Paul Calico
brought her 10 the press section
in the Los Angeles Coliseum in
1882, when the Olympic games
were on, which served 10 intro
duce the phenomenal Babe 10
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
By Patterson
BY Arthur Bugs Baer-

Fellow wants to know where I got my political
education. Guess from old Mike Flynn Tom Pence
Hefin and others too important to mention.
Mike White House for Munsey during the
Taft administration Munsey had bought string of
papers to support Teddy Roosevelt for third term His
reward would be in the annex of heaven.
That the Court of st. James Why Munsey
wanted to short pants with those skinny cams
of his will go down in history felder's choice.
Mr.. Taft the contest leaving Mr.. Munsey with a
string of papers his hands and pair Of short pants
nothing.
That made William president. And the man who
to become supreme justice of the Supreme Court He
showed his qualifications to be unbiased and impartial by
barring all Munsey men from the White House.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12

Now such brawls seem an al
most weekly occurrence.
1t is not that the Hollywood
fans OF today are wilder than
those Of yesteryear.
In fact, they are not nearly
as wild.
But apparently many Of them
do not know how 10 be wild in
a nice way.
MAE WEST is back on Broad
NI way and looking wonderful.
Mae makes no secret Of her
age. She is 50 years old.
She made her first appear
ance in moving pictures when
AZ.
/ do not know how Mae man.
ages 10 be a glamour girl and
pin-up beauty at the age of
81
Perhaps she should write a
book about ~.
What Every Woman Should
Know, by Mae West, should be
a good selling title
ONE out Of every eight per-
~ sons marrying these days
has been married before,
1t was Or. Samuel Johnson
who said:
when a man marries for the
second time IL is a triumph Of
hope over experience"
As the days grow shorter the
films seem to be getting longer
and longer. The average film
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
BETTER HEALTH
BY DR.. Logan Clendening-

IT IS curious that In the nu-
Il merous popular discussions
of the vitanins there is little or
no mention OF a C1eU71caf w-f1tctt
Is fundamental for life, now
named biotIn.r
Biotin was originally called
vitamin-vitamin b six. or the
rat anti-dermatitis factor. II
was also put out, / believe, as
Nitamin F-the skin vitamln.
The way its existence was dis
covered was one Of the by
products Of animal experiment
tation.
Among the numberless ex-
periments performed in the new
field Of food research in the last
three decades. one set aimed 10
observe the effect OF furnishing
rats all their protein require
ment in the form Of egg white.
What happened was that the
rats developed a dcrmatitlS
skin disease They were sorry
looking rats. I have seen some
OF them and | mean they were
the worst samples OF rats /
ever laid my eyes on. Their hair
came out in patches and there
=. were scrlffs and scales on the
lskin that showed through and
Ttheir eyes were red and watery
and their claws and tails looked
sore.
This article is not supposed
10 have any practical applca-
ton. II aims 10 suggest some Of
the new ideas in research IN
food factors. Perhaps some
thing wonderfully useful will
come out Of them. What use IS
it," asked Bismarck, when
Helmholz described TO him a
new idea in pure scientific
theory. What use is a new
born baby?' replied the scien-
fist.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q-Is there any danger in
discarding reading glasses?
NJ. L.
A-No, if you see just as well
without them Many people are
normally slightly near-sighted
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12

do them naturally most OF us
have to work at them. Cd De-
velop a good vocabulary; 90
Never get angry, nor raise your
voice in an argument; CD learn
how 10 start a conversation
easily; (4) when you say or do
anything, watch what the other
fellow actually does-not what
you think he ought TO do; go
learn to like people. Without
these, all the book learning in
the world won't help much.
How 10 start a conversation
easily is told in our booklet,
THE ART OF CONVERSE
TION, sent at cost, 10c, plus a
&c STAN ped self-addressed
envelope.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12

or aStigfnauc when young and
need glasses But when they
get 10 middle-age there is
-f111rr;CTTr7g IT tfTr lens. The eyes
correct without glasses IN sucn
a case.
Q-When you say the Stom-
ach always secretes pepsin does
that apply 10 a case Of hypo-
acidity9 J. G.:
A-Yes, usually, Al any rate
stomach digestion goes on
pretty well in the presence Of
lowered acid in the stomach.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12

1.-The giraffe.
2-They are superior players
and are so arranged in the
draw for opponents that they
do not meet each other in
the early rounds.
3-(a) False. The Winston
Churchill who wrote the now
els mentioned is an Ameri-
can.
A place in the sun.
Sit was used as fortress
when the city was attacked.
6-Famous cabinetmakers and
designers of furniture.
bachelor of science.
Sit means to change the key
in which the music is writ
ten.
Copyright, 1914. King Feat. synd. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
"Shall we take the road to Roueno"
Detroit Times Rationing Timetable
GASOLINE

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Claw requires state name and license
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FUEL OIL
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-12
Connolly Answers

&c; 2-b; 3-b; &C (red); 5
IA. 6-(a) Theodore Roose-
welt; (b) Abraham Lincoln;
(c) Napoleon Bonaparte; Cd
Andrew Jackson; (e) James
G.. Blaine.
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