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Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19
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Answers to Veterans

Of the way in which he en-
tered service. Military neces-
sity has preference over point
score and no man will be re-
leased under the demobiliza-
tion plan (regardless of his
point score) If il is determined
he is essential to the army In
the war against Japan.
Q--Does the Marine Corps
have officer candidate schools
and how do they operator
What Is the training period:
G. b. NJ.
A-Candidates first report to
Officer Training Battalion.
Quantico, Va, for screening,
From there they are sent TO
Candidates Refresher School
for four 10 six weeks and then
spend Is weeks in Platoon
Commanders School. Success
full candidates are then COM
missioned. Approximately 1000
marines now are attending COL
lege under the navy's VIZ
program, after which they start
the above schedule. Thirteen
colleges and universities have
marine students under the VIZ
program. All officers training
classes have been consolidated
at Quantico recently.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19

happily-married man who is in
nocently Indifferent TO It's exist
ence.
II isn't love. II is a kind of
distress signal: case OF the
blocked libido blowing of steam
as you near the middle thirties
still minated.
You speak Of having had"
more than your share Of atten-
ton and opportunities for good
marriage.
Relief for you in this situa-
tion depends on mastering le-
gitimate masculine company 10
diver. your mind from forbid
den fruit.
The married man has capti-
vated your imagination for the
reason, / think, that he is the
only personabie fellow you see
regularly on a friendly basis. .
How long does IL take for a
case Ike this 70 burn itself out? ?
A. AbAfb bAl " lti IlitllllltI slht
an Emily Dickinson or Char
lotte Bronte fame. If you NOR
hldly give il free play and fan
II hcrcely IN imagination.
Or u can be taken right now
and stamped out gradually. IN
the manner Of a brigade head
ing of a creeping fire, if you
demonstrate the will 10 pull
yourself together and win back
10 a rational employment OF
emotional energies.
To dIspel your futile fXation
on this man. il should no; be
necessary 10 quit the Job which
keeps him IN the foreground Of
your workaday life. provided
YOU season your leisure time.
between meetings. with other
masculine SoClety-to dull the
edge Of your hamburger and
10 give substance 10 healthy
hopes Of WInnowing a whole loaf
Of love eventually. NJ II.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19
The Brighter
Side

like poets but asked my opinion
OF some clippings he had re-
ceived from an old printer in
Colorado Springs.
This poet was Ford Frick,
who is now president of the Ma
tlonal League at around $4,000
a year, which ] guarantee is
more than he could have made
with his poetry if he had kept
writing il until he had whiskers
TO his ankles. He used TO mix
verse in with his baseball stuff
on the Journal.
would like to see the news
paper poets return TO action.
They should be young and fresh
because turning out newspaper
verse daily is hard work espec-
tally if the poet has TO sweep
the office on the side.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19

pointing bomb, navigator. a
globe with naWeational lines:
fight surgeon, caGuceus, and a
fight engineer, radIal engine.
Recently however, some gag
ster had batch Of wings made
up WITH immature swivel
Chalr on the shield This was
30 signify peHtaFen pilot of
the "charhorne command"
Everybody thought it was
rlotouSly funny. particularly
Col Bill Nestlakc. of public
relations. He removed his COM
mand pilot wings 10 Try on the
new swivel chair insignia.
Just then the phone rang, and
Col Westlake'S secretary SAID
Gen Arnold wants to see
you right away. sir"
forgetting all about his new
decoration Col. WeStlake hur-
ried 70 the august presence Of
Gen II II Arnold, top man of
the Army Air Forces. Soon he
became uncomfortahly aware
that Gen Arnold was subject
ing his chest 10 stern scrutiny.
With horror he recalled the gag
insignia.
He didn't feel any better 10
see Gen. Arnold ScowlinC. be-
cause, when Arnold scoWls, II
usually means great deal Of
trouble for somebody In this
instance Col. Westlake had
distinct premontion it would be
him.
Stumbling and stammering he
tried TO explain. In the midst
Of 1t Gen Arnold threw back
his head and guffawcd.
That's very clever" the gem
eral GaSped "And furthermore
you can tell the originator I
laughed like hell"
DRESS and navy photograph
Il ers are still fumine over the
fast one Secretary of the. Navy
EorreStal pulled the other night
al the premiere of the new
radio show, The Navy Hour"
staged AT George Washington
University, here.
There was so much gold braid
10 photograph, the photogs be-
gan running short of flashbulbs
and plates. So they stopped
swapping admirals and generals,
holding their fire 10 await the
arrival of Forrestal.
They tinued waiting.
Finally some one spotted For
restal wedged in the audience.
II seems he had passed right
dowr the lines of cameras with
out being recognized,
To make il more CALLING for
the photogs, the minute the
show was over Forrestal was
whlsked out a side door by two
WAVES.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19
w ASHINCTON Scene
BY George Dixon

DR. DIOSADO YAP. chairman
~ Of the board Of the Philip
pines Chamber Of Commerce, is
gong around yapping that the
state Of Kentucky is dong bet
ter by him than the common
-~eaith-eF tae fift+tppinc%-
II seems that Dr. zap. special
consultant 10 Secretary Of War
SunSon on the Far East. holds
only the rank Of first lieutenant
in the Philippines army. But
he attended a function here the
other day and the governor
Of Kentucky made him a Ken
lucky colonel!
MEMBERS Of tho army air
'I forces wear wings as in
sigma bur the various ranches,
sections, ranks etc, have sddi-
tlonal indentIfyng marks on
their wings.
For instance, a senior pilot is
distinguished from a pilot by a
star on a shield a command
pilot has a wreath around the
star. a glider pilot has a &C;
a bombardler, a downward
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19

Yes, and with astonish-
ingly little practice. A group
Of 50 pupils entering tenth
grade senior high school were
given the Inglis Vocabulary
Test-about the best there is.
They average al words-four
words below the average ninth
grade. They were drilled on
vocabulary 10 minutes daily for
one semester. and then made 73
words on the test-four words
below the average for the
eleventh grade, a gain OF two
years in vocabulary in one
semester. A gain of 81 words
on this test meant gains of
hundreds of words in general.
This experiment was by ISo-
dora w. Miles, in Washington,
y. c.
2-Certainly. This is called
"hysterical blindness. As re-
lated by DR.. Edward PodolSky
in just the book you may need,
STOP WORRYING AND GET
there was the case Of
Mis-. Mitchell. She thought
she was losing her husbands
love, and promptly went blind.
Her doctor instructed her hus-
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19
WALTER WINCHELL ..,es.,u On
DOOM the Yawn Dept:

DOOM the Yawn Dept: A
L book reviewer Tin a weekly
reports that F. Scott Fitzgerald
wandering among the beautiful
and the damned, set down with
soft pencil the anecdotes he re-
membered the morning after,
the epigrams, the jokes, the
npcracks, the nonsense and
10y phrases he heard. II was
from these that he wrought such
books as The Great Gatsby'
and The Last Tycoon"
Many litree critics consider
those tones classics.
We mention il because some
columnists use similar material
(and methods TO compose their
daily stint, and when il is put
between comers IL is called lit
erature.
But when such material ap-
pears in a newspaper the you-
aforementioned snub IL pub
lcly after devouring il privately.
Oscar Wilde said history IS
merely gossip. =
CHOWFOLKS' Small Talk:
~ Henny Youngman Wow'd the
starchy Washington big-shots at
the Statler's Embassy room.
Cafe Society Uptown is 10 be
completely rcdecorated. They
will shelve the familiar gro
tesque decor and murals.
Folie Miller tshe'S been dane
Ing since she was - opens at
Slapsy-Maxie'S next week. She
was a show-stopper in Miami.
A femme stars mother IS re-
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19
One Word. Led 10 Another
Detroit Times
BY Linda and
Jerry Walter
By Arthur Bugs Baer

Now, they gossip me that the krauts working
on four-engined comet that had the radius Of Dick
Cromwell's hat band.
That famous band went three times around Dicks
hat and didn't meet
The four-rnotored bombno was designed to buzz
right around the world subject to the human equation
like the dart game the saloon where the loser buys
the drinks.
It was the American invasion that cancelled the four
cylinder revenge But the invasion hasn't stopped work
the atomic bomb which is still as dangerous as a
quack with a diploma.
According to the rumors being circulated by the
perts an atom is the smallest particle Of element that
can exist That brings you into atomechanics or
molecular physics From there it stumble to the
energy of the nucleus attained by the thermal agitation
Of the atom whole
Wrap one of these paragraphs in a paper bag and
you have dangerous weapon in itself. Convert them
into explosive expansion and you have thatomc bomb
One of which will wreck town worse than fusion
mayor
mid sort Of appeaser said to me last week Don't
get the krauts too mad they will invent the atomic
bomb.
said, Brother you don't have to get them mad.
They UIl do for fun
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19

DASSING BY: Hope Hampton.
Film star OF the silent film
era. The distinguished appear
ing gentleman al her side IS her
husband, Jules Brulatour, film
industry pioneer. Jules is not a
Frenchman, as is often stated,
but was born in New Orleans.
Hope and Jules must be nearing
their 25th wedding anniversary.
Matt Brady, trainer of thor
oughbred horses. Also a skillful
breeder of cocker spaniels. The
cocker spaniel is on the way 10
become Americas most popular
dog. Nevertheless, ! still prefer
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19
At Your SERVICE

O-Would you please tell me
W what a discharge under
Section ii, AR 615-S60 CDD
means" MRS. j. w. NJ.
A-The CDD, Certificate of
Disability Discharge, is the au-
thority under which the army
discharges individuals for ply
sical disability. 1t is honor
able discharge, and carries no
stigma.
Q-After Ave months ac-
tive service, my husband was
discharged from the army un-
der the authority providing for
the release Of men 38 years Of
age and over. Is he entitled
TO mustering-out pay?
MRS. c. III. ID.
A-If your husband was re-
leased on his own application
10 enter essential industry, he
IS not eligible for mastering
out pay. unless he has served
outside the continental limits
OF the United States or in
Alaska.
o. have filed a claim for
disability compensation with
the Veterans Administration.
How long will il be before
get check? j. l.. &.
A-Due TO the tremendous
number Of claims being handled
by the Veterans Administra-
ton II may take quite a while
before your claim is processed.
However, If your claim is
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19

ported 10 be in steady attend
ance at a rabble-rousers meet
ings In Hwood.
Sylvia Scott, who subbed ~
months) for Arleen Whelan in
"Doughgirls" and clicked, was
rewarded with role in "All
for AL"
Mrs. X. Cugst, who started
divorce action but dropped IL,
goes night-spotting with him,
but dwells with his niece, Margo,
the star.
OUOTATION Workmanship:
" Jay Russell: 1t was typical
London weather-ralning cats
n fogs."
Louis Prima: That actor ran
the hamut from A 10 T..
w. Miner: Id rather know n
square guy than own a square
miln--
Howard Newton Don't con-
fuse the number Of friends you
can count up-with the number
you can count on.
II. Junlus: Man argues that a
woman may not be trusted too
far; woman feels that man cam
not be trusted too near.
II 6. DISTRICT COURT
- JUDGE VIM. CLARK Che
wrote the decision in the Mayor
Frank Hague case) has been in
overseas service for three years.
The only federal court Judge to
do this. Has all kinds of wound
stripes and decorations. There
are two vacancies in the Third
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19

Vas u something said,
Something done,
Tered him? Vas Il touch Of hand,
Turn Of headI
Strange that rery Uay
Lore bCglW;
! rs itfic understand
Lorc's dCc0y
Robert Browning.
CUBSCRlBER brought up in
- the country says that as a
city kid never knew the Joys
of the old swlmmln hole" !"
In The first place. will say I
knew the joys OF swimming off
the docks on New York Harbor
and considered this vastlY.Su
perIor as a youthful sport 10
that afforded by the "old SWIM
min hole.
also enjoyed tho old swim
min hole as CdCn yCTT- our
family spent six weeks in the
country up around Walker Val
ley, New York state
Quite a few other New York
and Brooklyn families visited
this section.
The city kids could outswim
the country kids.
They could also beat them at
baseball
In addition, when an argu-
ment ensued that led 10 a fight
the city kid usually won the
battle because his style of fight
lnG was more scientific than
that OF the rural lad.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19
DAMON RUNYON

I DO not suppose that many of
i my readers know that l used
10 write jlngles, a skeleton that
came tumbling out of my closet
the other day in the form of a
tattered little volume of my au-
thorship that the late Sid Mer-
Ger gave me not long before his
death recently.
l have been reading over the
contents of the book and if il
does not include some of the
worst verse the world has ever
known, it will do very nicely
until the worse comes along.
I ATER in my career I became
IL a -Psrt-tiHe poet on the New
York American. usually on the
sports page, but sometimes fill
ing in for Jimmy Montague who
did piece of verse every day
for the editorial page. Jimmy
was A pretty good poet. He also
wrote editorials.
Jimmy succeeded William F.
(BllD Kirk, a chap out of Mil
waukee, who in turn succeeded
one of the greatest journalists Of
all time, Denver Langdon
Smith. Smith wrote a thing that
is practically high class poetry.
Kirk was one Of the only two
/ ever knew who could write
verse on a typewriter as if it
were straiGhtaway copy. Grant
land Rice is the other. In those
days. Grant always started his
column Of sports comment with
A piece of verse, and Kirk
opened his daily report of the
baseball game with a rhyme. l
think Grant the more artistic
poet of the two and in fact re-
gard some OF his work as endur-
ing Both composed on a ma
chine.
NEARLY all the newspapers
~ made quite a thing of verse
years ago. Franklin p. Adams
tF. =. A.. now the Information
Please fellow, Best Lesion Tay-
lor, Hughy keogh and numerous
others were writing rhymes that
were very popular features.
Walt Mason came along with his
verse in paragraph form and
was widely syndlcated. The
newspaper poet was recog-
nlzed institution and probably
the best that ever lived was
Eugene Field who was years
ahead of any of those I have
named.
l do not remember just when
the newspaper poet began disap-
pearing but il could not have
been long after World War l.
/ presume II was due partly to
the limitation of newspaper
space and partly to the fact that
no new newspaper poets ap-
peared. Finally, Eddie Guest
and Nick Kenny are about the
sole Survivors of a once numer-
Gus tribe. ~
Nick is sort Of protege of
mine. l recommended him 10
Arthur Brisbane on the strength
Of some French-Canadian verse
Nick sent me. l okayed another
newspaper poet about the same
time with Brisbane who did not
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19

granted, II will be payable
from the date on which your
claim was received by the Vet
erans' Administration office.
Q--Is the Combat Infantry
mans Badge considered a dec
oration for the purpose Of COM
putting point scores under the
rehabilitation plan. F. NJ. G.
At is not.
Q-Will enlisted men who
have enough points be dis
charged or will they be held
In service because they en-
listed: o. r. III.
Avery enlisted man is
given point score regardless
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19

This treatment is continued
snul the condition Is completely
healed and then for several
weeks thereafter. II there are
large bllStcrS on the soleS Of
the feet or. II there is a great
deal Of inflammation. other
types Of treatment may be
necessary. For example. for the
inflammation, king with
potassium permanganate solu-
tlon IS often advised.
In treating the ringworm of
the groin or skin Of other parts
Of the body. the ointment IS
appAet night and every
morning not only 10 the affected
skin, but also 70 the normal
skin immediately surrounding
the infected area The treat
ment in these cases is continued
for about week after healing
has occurred
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19

District. He will leave the
army and be reappointed, but
the story is that Hague will
back him despite the fact that
Clark wrote the opinion against
Hague.
MADCAP MERRY FAHRNEY
tl (Who once wore a gold
,swastlka and told newspapermen
that American reporters and
commentators chased her out Of
the u. 81 had a lawyer in
Washington attempt 10 unfreeze
some of her Yankee gold here.
But no dice.
Norma Hall (MEs. Townsend
Netcher) will waive all claims
10 alimony. etc.
The Arthur (Street Singer
Tracys were RenotariZed. She
is Valerie Tracy. an English
movie star.
Garbo is adding a Fire Island
hut to her collection Of tepees.
The Ford Symphony has taken
the full hour ton the American
Network starting at s p. m.
EWT. The new program debuts
in September. Wendell Berge
(head OF the antitrust division
at the Department of Justice)
is under fire by some monopo-
lists although Berge won every
case he argued before the l.. S.
Supreme Court last year.
Cafe society is frosting
woman writer who allegedly
boasted that she covered par
ties for the FBI
Copyright BY Daily Mirror. Inc
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19
Brain Game Answers

Greece.
2-(b) is correct.
3-They never played together
on a university team, but
were members of a mythical
1943 All-American backfield.
4-The tree of life and the tree
OF knowledge of good and
evil.
5-(a) False. II comes from the
game of billiards. (b) True.
6-He claimed he was born in
Brooklyn, New York, u. S. A.,
and therefore was not a Brit
ish subject
flames Cagney.
SIThe movement in the u. S.
QS73-1900) TO restore the
coinage of the silver dollar
under the same unlimited ar
rangement as gold.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19
MARY HAWORTH'S MAIL

at least semi-weekly for busi-
ness reasons and the situation is
becoming unbearable.
have worked hard for the
position l now hold and would
like 10 keep II, but under the
circumstances feel some
change must be made.
do not wish merely 10 have
a romance with him.
would hike 10 marry him.
How-ieng docs If take for q
case like this 10 burn itself out?
X. {.
DEAR K. C:
NOuR fixation in this instance
is crazy indeed, since II is a
secret torment beamed at a
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19
BETTER HEALTH
BY DR.. Herman Bundesen

MOST Of our readers Will have
'l heard about ringworm Of
Ethe feet but when We talk
q bou dermatophytoSiS they
probably viii wonder just what
kind Of a condition that is.
DermatophytosIs Is an Infection
Of the upper layers Of the skin.
the hair, and the nails, caused
by any one Of A group OF fungi
which are Ike yesSts or molds.
These parasite may infect
many different parts OF the
body.
Al is usually not difficult 70
make q diagnosis Of these dis
orders because the symptoms
arc quite typical However.
when any doubt exists As 10
whether or not A iungouS in
lection is present. scraplngs can
be made from the affected skin
and examined under the mic
IoScope ior the presence Of the
fungus.
CO-CALLED rircWorm Of the
u feet is a dermatophytoSiS.
According 10 Or kdUund /.
keeney Of the Johns Hopkins
University School Of Medicine.
In recent times two ointments
have been developed which seem
10 work quite successfully in
treating dermatophytosiS. These
,sxsve quite long names.
One is eailea-Pfeeierstr-rro-
flonic acid ointment and the
other observation-disclosures
acid ointment These ONT
ments are not only satisfactory
for the treatment OF the foot
conditions but also ringworm Of
the groin and other parts Of the
SKIN.
nor the treatment .nf the feet
i either one of these ONT
mentS is applied over tho toes,
between and under the toes
every night. The following
morning tho ointment is re-
moved by washing with soap
and water. and the feet arc
busted with talcum powder. a
powder called calcium pro-
pionate powder is also OF value.
Some Of the powder should also
D be busted into the shoes.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19
DEAR MARY HAWORTH:

I AM a young woman in my
early thirties and have had
more than my share OF atten-
tion and opportunities for
good" marriages.
However, / have always felt
capable OF more than the luke
warm affection / could give in
those instances.
land now I am erszily, madiy
love with a married man.
He Is a fine person whom I
have known for almost two
years, is happily married and
completely unaware of my feel
ing for him.
II is necessary that see him
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19

uAVE a communication from
IL Leroy Morning of Hamp-
shire, III. Since Frank Morn
ing OF San Francisco challenged
me with a claim he was my
only reader of that name have
heard from 236 readers named
Morning.
Am asked when and where
the upper was invented. All l
know is it was invented by a
man named Judson. When and
where Mr.. Judson gave birth 10
this great idea l can't say. The
Upper is wonderful acces-
sorry. but what the world needs
now is nonsticking Upper. My
girl friend struggled with a
jammed Upper for as minutes
yesterday. She was more than
slightly irritated.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19

a springer spaniel This is very
nice of me 10 say this consider
ing the trouble my springer
made for me last night. He
wandered far from home. I had
to gc in search for him. I found
the rascal around 4.30 this
morning. He was sitting on the
lawn of a house looking hope
fully at the door. Waiting, no
doubt, for his lady love TO
emerge. He certainly gave me
a merry chase. And. boy, am I
tired?
How about the WAC top
IL sergeants?
Are they sticklers for dis
cipline like their male counter
parts?
Are there any hard-boiled
top kicks in the WACs?
What is the general line of
conversation Of a sergeant OF
the WACs who is teaching a
group of rockies the rudiments
Also it is continually said
that most women hate to be
bossed by a woman.
Won der how the WAC
privates are bearing up under
the necessity of taking orders
from other females? And just
one more question, which I
wish some WAC would answer.
How about the WAC second
lieutenants?
Do too many OF them take
themselves too seriously?
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19
Detroit Times Rationing Timetable
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Connolly Answers

Ia. &c. 3-a. Ec. 5-a. g.
(a) red; (b) violet; (c) pink:
I'D orange; (e) blue.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19

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questions about the needs
and welfare, rights and privi-
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and address and a seIF.od.
dressed, stamped snUeIope.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19

band 10 shower her with atten-
ton. and she was soon cured"
This woman tried 10 escape
reality not seeing her problem.
3-Yes. Your loyalty 10 your
firm may clash with your 10y
atty TO your home or political
party. and sometimes you swing
too far toward one loyalty, then
too far toward another. But I
agree with Teddy Roosevelt that,
in the end, this clash of opinions
results in a better government
and a better world then could
be devised by any group OF spe-
cialists, however wtss.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-19

said, Brother you don't have to get them mad
They will do it for fun