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Detroit evening times., 1945-06-17
I'VE open with a
BANG ionishtl"
says Parkyakorkvs

Come alons everybody
TO Parky's Restaurant =.
radio'snewest Sundaynight
meeting plaeel Proprietor
Parkyakarkus serves up the
howls. Betty Rhodes and
Dave Street cook up songs
and romance. Opie Gates,
with his clarinet. dishes out
the music. Tune in for a
rollicking fun-feast!
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-17
United Lines Fly
5t,165,6OO Miles

An estimated 51,l65,600 reve-
nue. passenger miles were flown
by United Air Lines in May. an
increase of 81 per cent over the
total for May of last year, ac-
cording TO Jack. Misselhorn. dis
trict traffic manager for United
Air Lines.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-17
Truman 10 Be Given
Honorary Degree

WASHINGTON, June Is (TNS)
Truman will receive
an honorary degree of doctor Of
law from Georgetown University,
II was announced today
In the absence of the President,
the degree will be accepted on
his behalf by Senator Dennis
Chavez, Democrat, of New Mex
leo. at the annual commencement
tomorrow
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-17

quartet he organized She is now
>ia}lnC with his mother until her
crooncr husband comes home
After "A stretch a. soloIst with
Gene krupa. Johnny enlisted IN
the alr corps in August, 1912, and
nine months later Joined the
famous Glenn Miller unit
il D., reported that David O
SclznickS London office SphoneS
him daily trying 10 siGrPhIm up.
johnny has already made two
Celluloid appearances in Let $
Make Music and Sis Hopkins
w1th Bon Grusbys hanri-----
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-17
Detroit Singer Wows
Paris Bobby-Soxers
By JEAN WHITEHEAD

Detroit has 10 swooner Sinatra IN the person
Of Sgt Johnny Desmond baritone singing star VITA 'He overseas
Glenn Miller Air Forces Band
The bobby soxers Gay Paris call him The Creamor and
resnond 10 his phonetic French endons of y BE Seeing You
and Long Ago and Far Away with OF "ooa-a and
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-17

bravo"
The princesSos Elizabeth and
Margaret Rose. two regal fans
never miss hiS Sunday night BBC
program. a Soldier ana a SONG
Once a group Of fighting men,
Nho wanted to hear hlS broad
cast, organized scouting party
OF volunteers 10 dash t,c miles
into German territory ar1 oon-S-
cate a radio
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-17
SANG WIN kRIPA

Sometimes when he would
he down the basement singing.
customers in the store stopped
10 listen 10 him. They told me
j ought To do something to help
him get started with his career.
Johnny later married Ruth kcd
dlneton. the Clrl Nlngor WITH
Arkansas State press., 1945-08-10

Lonely Kid-Please tell me
what to do. ! have been going
with a man for over two years
and ! want to know just what he
is going to do. Shall ! leave him
alone or continue to seek him?
Arkansas State press., 1945-08-10

tunity to take her back. Now my
husband writes that he is COM
ing home. ! am standing here
between the devil and the deep
blue sea. Please tell me what to
do?
Ans: Since you did not di-
vorce your husband in the years
that you have been separated
do not make decision until he
returns. wait few more
months to take steps of this kind
will clear up any lingering doubts
in your mind. You loved him at
one time and he is the father to
your child. It may be that the
war had a SOLDERING influence on
your husband and he views life
at a different angle. II you find
that there isn't a chance for a
reconciliation then you may get
Arkansas State press., 1945-08-10
ASHDoWN
Catherine Y. Taylor

Catherine Y. Taylor
Elder G. T. L. Duncan, presid-
ing elder of the Prescott District,
held his first quarterly confer
ence at Orig Chapel AME church
Sunday. Rev. D. L. Newell is pas
tor, FREEMAN'S CHAPEL
CINE CHURCH, Rev. Settles,
pastor of Freeman CINE Church,
has been i'll. Our pastor, Rev. A.
Jones, has been filling his vac
ancy during last week. Rev.
Jones has been repairing the build
ing and also preaching for several
nights. He was accompanied by
his members to Foreman last
Sunday where we were highly
entertained by our presiding eld-
er. Rev. r. J. Rhone was also
with us. The drive was closed
Sunday afternoon. The sun and
moon characters of the church in
race, passed their heights of
ambition, in total eclipse. The
total raised was $l24.00. Rev.
l.. T. Turner of Little Rock spent
the weekend visiting his mother
and friends. Mrs. Annie Mae
Mills is on the sick list. A fish
fry was given Tuesday night on
the lawn Of Mrs. Hannah Duck
ett's home. 1t was enjoyed by
everyone. Guests were Miss
Edyth Jean Hendricks and Miss
Leila Mae Gaines of Paris, Texas,
Misses Norvelle and Jewelene
Turner of Little Rock and Miss
Catherine Y. Taylor of Ashdown
Mrs, Laura Dell Beavers left
Monday for Tacoma, Washing
ton. Mrs. Edna Ouida Sims
and Miss Edyth Hendricks are
visiting Mrs. Leila Thurston and
Mrs. Hannah Duckett. Mrs.
Ardell Peters has returned from
a business trip to Monroe, Louis
lana. Leonard Owens Jr. Of
Paris, Texas, spent Sunday with
his grandmother, Mrs. Leila Thurs
ton Eddie Steward and L. c.
Cook of Fort Smith visited Mrs
Martha Cook Monday. Ula
King and son, ODDS Harold Of
Houston, Texas, are visiting their
aunt, Mrs. X. c. Owens and bro
Their, l.. T. Duncan. Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Harris of Nashville
spent Sunday with their aunt,
Mrs. Chester Owens, also Mr.. and
Mrs. Il. +. Harris of Wiltor.
Arkansas State press., 1945-08-10

II. R.--My girl has troubel with
her face and ! want you to tell
me what | should do. | heard
about you and ! thought would
write you for help.
Ans, Many youngsters are
subject to an ache condition while
in their adolescent years Put
your daughter under the care Of
a physician and follow his instruc-
tons carefully. A child her age
is acutely sensitive of conditions
of this kind and it would be a
mistake not to look after the con-
dition at once.
Arkansas State press., 1945-08-10
your freedom and devote your
interest to the other man.
Start Humply

II In doubt about your ability b
maintain a garden plot Of certain
size, 1t is far better to cultivate only
a small plot and give it good care.
allowing minimum Of half an hour
per day for space up to 1000
square feet In area, and about
half hour per Gay for each addi-
tional 1000 square feet Of area UNI
der cultivation. 1t is preferable to
work small space intensively and
through better cultural practices
and the application of a complete
balanced plant food make that
space productive and keep it nea.
and clean. than it is to attempt to
care for larger area which will
deteriorate and become an eyesore
as well as prodG.e light yield Of
poor quality.
Arkansas State press., 1945-08-10

Ans: It's quite all right to
continue to be friendly with him
but not devote all of your time
to hi mexclusively. A little COM
petition might stimulate his in
terest. 1t surely will awaken
him to the fact that you are not
his personal property. The
chances are he will make up his
mind quickly how he feels about
you and express himself.
Arkansas State press., 1945-08-10
WRITE YOUR SOLDIER OFT
EN-SEND 1T V-MAIL.

B. C.-My husband is return
ing to this country and | am
planning to meet the boat in N.
Y. Can the soldiers see their
wives up there?
Ans: The Government requests
that no one 60 to meet their SER
vice man. He will be returned
to his respective Service Com
mand and will be issued his fur
Tough from there. Remain at
home until he contacts you.
r. Al have been married 6
years and because | year and S
months were spent with my hus-
band, S feel single. You see my
husband was cruel. | stayed on in
hopes that he would do better.
Later a baby was approaching
and after his begging and plead
ing to do something about it re-
fused, the baby never came due to
a kick in the abdomen by him.
coming and ! hid it up to 5
months. When he found it out
he ragged until I went to the law.
He then said he didn't want me
until after the baby came. He
left and went in service and has
been overseas four years. Since
that time | have found someone
who cares for me and my baby.
He says a man who gave up his
wife on account of an approaching
child shouldn't have the oppor-
Arkansas State press., 1945-08-10
Care Of The State Press Little Rock. AK

F. E. HI am writing about
my husband. He tells me he loves
me but when he gets drunk he
tells me he doesn't. He writes
to other women and also sends
them money. / Think sometimes
that / will let him 60 and | will
make a change. hTere is a fell
low overseas who writes me and
says he loves me. He wants to
marry me when he returns. Please
help me.
Ans. You get out of life only
what you put into it. if you ex-
pect loyalty, you will have to give
it. Both of you seem to have got
ten of ito a bad start. you are
pulling against each other instead
of together. He seems to enjoy
Haunting his conquests before
you and you do likewise. You
two need to familiarize yourselves
with the true meaning and de-
mands of marriage. If this mar
riage is to survive you are going
to have to cooperat eand practice
loyalty, fidelity and true devo-
ton.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Edna Ferber Visits War>Torn Europe
BV Edna Ferber

WEISBADEN tBy Cable In this
macabre world on the other side Of the
Atlantic day is month and year
is crammed into two weeks. For days
a bitter cold north drizzle grounded the
9th Bombers and prevented us, too,
from flying to Germany. The front from
there is a little more than an hour
distant, but when the ceiling Is 200
feet and the hills around Weisbaden
are 1000, the arithmetic is likely to
come out wrong. You pull Pollyanna
and make the best of it by catching up
on your homework.
Two fantastic weeks are in the back
ground, SO I empty my handbag and
my memory, spilling out pell nell the
tumble accumulated in these crowded
days. The handbags tumble is soon as
sorted-scrawled notes, an address
book, gum. cigarette crumbs, broken
pencils, British coins. French bills
flask of French perfume, an 9th Bomber
Squadron insigne that has been down
in the North Sea and down in Ger
many, Shortsnorter bill, vitamins ig-
nored in the fantastic past days, travel
ing orders. All this is cleared soon. But
the odds and ends that come tumbling
out of my mind are not so easily sorted.
Some of these fragments will be thrown
away some smoothed out and examined
carefully, some filed, some repacked for
future use. Let's see.
They Once Were Homes
Over France, over England and over
Belgium are clouds of blossoming fruit
trees, white and rosy like the skirts of
ballet dancers and amongst them, hide
ously incongruous as broken, discolored
teeth in lovely, young face, are the
crumbled walls, the shattered windows,
the gaping roofs of what once were
proud buildings or comfortable homes.
The young French slave laborer just
out of Germany is struggling into his
shirt after being deloused at the Care
DOrsay and is saying, Il want to go
back to my regiment and fight" He
doesn't know that only six of his regi-
ment survive.
The radio never stops, night or day.
In every billet, every makeshift bar,
every little clubroom, at every base, in
every room in which radio may be
Evening star., 1945-05-06

appointed in my not returning this fall
AS much as I'd love to, can't. At the
moment I'm trained man, Nom. 1
have spent two years in active opera
ton with two armies. The knowledge
and experience of these two years are
being used at the moment If return it
is doubtful whether I could get into
action again in this war because of my
high blood pressure. 1 can't see my re-
could wangle it, but I've started some
thing and I'm going to finish it."
June, "A: AS to your coming home
question: do have a chance in five
months, but I'm not likely to take it, I
doubt very much that I shall see you
until the end of the war unless should
get badly hurt or come down with ma
laria. Anyway. count on my heart and
thoughts being with you.
I've now fought under the flags of
England, New Zealand, Australia, Amer
Evening star., 1945-05-06
Memorable White House Recollections

Col. Ellsworth, who fell dead upon the
stairs. Pvt Brownell, one of the zouaves
accompanying Ellsworth to take down
the flag, instantly discharged the con-
tents of his musket into Jacksons brain,
bayoneting his body as he fell"
But the White House was to have
but little rest from funerals. and be-
fore the lapse of another year the
Presidents second oldest son, William
Wallace Lincoln, died from typhoid
fever on February TO- 1862 Very little
is printed about this lad in the papers
though The Star spoke feeling Of him
editorially.
Following this, three years later, came
the assassination and burial of Presi-
dent Lincoln himself, which threw the
whole Nation into grief and mourning
just at time when gladness and re-
joicing should more appropriately have
been expected and looked for. There
are many living who recall this sac
event. around which many stories
might be written, for there is always
something interesting to be said about
Lincoln.
Mrs. Grants father. Col. Frederick
Tracy Dent, a native of Cumberland,
Md, was the next to be buried from
the White House, he having passed
away on December Is, 1873
Then followed the horror of the Tracy
fire at 1884 street NV, in which Mrs.
Tracy and Miss Mary Tracy, wife and
daughter of the Secretary Of the Navy,
Benjamin F. Tracy, perished and the
Secretary himself had very narrow
escape. They also were buried from the
famous east room. as was Mrs. Caroline
Scott Harrison, wife of President Benja-
min Harrison, who died In the White
House on october 25, 1892. only to be
followed a month and four days later
by DR.. John w. Scott, father -in-law of
President Harrison.
Secretary of State Walter @. Gresham
was the next to be buried from the
Presidents House. He died May %, 1895,
and is buried in Arlington.
Following this came another extremely
sad event in the tragic death Of Presi-
dent william Mckinley. who was strick-
en- down at Buffalo, N. Y, on September
6, 1901, by the hand of an assassin, and
died on the 14th day Of that month. His
remains were brought back to WASH
ington and Immediately taken to the
White House.
Mrs. Ellen Louise (Axson) Wilson, first
wife of President Woodrow Wilson, died
in the White House on August 7, 1914,
and from there her funeral took place
She was noted for her noble character
md charitable works.
No doubt, the reader is quite familiar
18th the later funerals from the White
House, that of President Harding, who
died in San Francisco, Calf, August 2
1923, and whose body was borne direct
from there to the east room of the White
House, thence to the Capitol and on to
Marion, Ohio. Others buried from the
east room include Mrs. Laura NJ Work,
wife of the Secretary of the Interior
Calvin Coolidge, jr.; Henry Cantwell
Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, and
several who were buried from there In
the last few years.
Evening star., 1945-05-06
BY Dorothy Cookston


Don't expect me home until it's all
over, Nom. I'm going to stay with this
thing and see 1t over the top Of the last
hill, the end of the war. know you'll
be disappointed Nom, but they need me.
And, If I returned now I couldn't get
back into action because of my high
blood pressure
And. there you have the story behind
Neil Gilliam's refusal to come back to
the States after three and half years
American Field Service. Back to the
States, and to his mother, Mrs. Leila
Burt Gillian of the Wardman Park
Hotel.
1t was way back in November of 194l
that sandy-haired, blue-eyed Neil, just
l8 and graduate of Woodrow Wilson
High School, climbed train from Wash
ington and went to the Princeton
Thanksgiving day football game. 1t was
swell game. but Neil had other things
on his mind. While the winning team
was still celebrating around a quickly
fading goal post, Neil took off for New
York to volunteer to join the American
Field Service. He fibbed about his age.
He didn't want his family to know he
was volunteering until after he'd been
accepted. He'd read a lot about the
American Field Service.
Wins Highest British Award
Neil was accepted The boys elation
didn t sooth Mrs. Gilliam's heartbreak.
She had known the war might mean
Evening star., 1945-05-06

Neil McPoweH Gillian of
Washington, Who Was awarded
the George Medal by Great
Britain for his heroiSnl as a
Uolunteer driDer in the Ameri-
can Field Service.
the loss of her son. But she hadn't ex-
pected to lose him so soon. Neil went
overseas in December of 194l. He went
first to the Middle East where he served
with Montgomery's 9Th Army through
out the Alamein- -Tunis campaign. He
then transferred to the ambulance units
attached to the British l4th Army Of
the Southeast Asia command.
Not long ago Neil received the George
Medal, the highest possible award that
the British can give him. He received
1t for gallantry on two separate occa-
siops at Shenam, Assam. "On both these
occasions" says a wordy citation ap-
proved by thes King, Neil Mcdowell
Gillian took his jeep-ambulance regu-
lar ambulances being impractical be-
cause Of their size on the mountain and
jungle tracks, into the front lines under
heavy fire and ever proceeded further
forward to more dangerous places on
foot, in order to evacuate wounded men
of Gurkha unit
He Isn't Coming Home Now
The action at Shenam was part of
the biggest land fight against the Japs.
Il took place in May and June of 1914 in
the Imphal Kohima sector of the Assam
Burma front when the japanese at
tempted, and nearly succeeded in break
ing through the British positions and
gaining foothill in India.
Today Mrs Gillian awaits his letters.
Letters that may say when he will be
coming home. But Neil isn't coming
home now. Here are excerpts from her
turn until after the end Of the war. I
mail:
October, 43: know you will be dis
Evening star., 1945-05-06

plugged, the grooming, humming and
hear the voice of Durante. raucous and
cozily Brooklynese; Charlie McCarthy's
sly chuckle; Dinah Shore singing of
lonely love. The sound flows over and
under and through all other activities;
it is an accompaniment to their grim
work, to their brief hours of play, to
their sleep, to their meals Perhaps they
scarcely can hear it with the conscious
ear, but it connects them by thin in
visible thread of sound to their dream
world back home.
Her Bomber Flight
Soaring high in the plexiglass nose of
medium bomber at the 9th Bomber
Base, I was scared but fascinated. Rid
ing bomber is as unlike trip in
regular passenger train as destroyer
is unlike an ocean liner. The pilot and
the bombardier are mere lads, like all
the rest of the American flyers-lads
with earnest faces, quiet voices and
great dignity of mien at 10, 20 and 81.
Yet Capt. Lambert. the pilot, has flown
SO missions.
Alfred Lunt. that first morning in
London, appeared at our hotel room
door before breakfast with basket con-
tanning six fresh eggs, two oranges and
a bouquet of country blossoms No one
who has not seen England these past
weeks or years can appreciate what
princely gift this is.
Paris, with the Place De La Concorde
and the Place Vendome strangely empty
and the beautiful buildings untouched,
is perhaps the only unruined capital in
all Europe. 1t looks bare and unreal, like
movie set before the extras swarm on
the stage.
Farmers Flowing
Farmers in England, France, Belgium
and Germany are plowing with horse
and hand plows in fields that adjoin
vast bomber and fighter bases. Milk
cows, too, are hitched to plows Women,
on their way to the village market, are
wheeling perambulators down country
roads, while formations of bombers
voys of trucks and tanks lumber down
the roads, looking like vehicles from
Mars, which certainly they are.
The numbing cold of this spring in
Europe makes every one huddle and
shiver in all the garments one possesses.
With no coal or wood, the houses, tents
and billets are filled with a relentless
cold that creps into your bones with its
icy, mouselike feet. A uniform, two
shirts, a sweater, woolen underwear and
wool-lined topcoat are all umavailing.
The land of steam heat and the hot
bath is far away and the folks back
home who complained about the fuel
shortage last winter might like to try 1t
here for few days. There is no short
age here; 1t doesn't exist. One of the
officers at lunch today in padded,
stitched jacket with a fur collar an
nounced through chattering teeth that
his wife had just sent him from home
a, huge package containing his sum-
mer clothes.
A constant parade of all nations (ex-
cept one) passes in the square facing
the Care Du Nord-C Canadians, Amer
leans, Poles, French, Czechs and Rus
sian flyers with their red-starred caps.
A pair Of silk stockings. cake Of soap
or few cigarettes viii buy more than
Evening star., 1945-05-06

handful of money can. Six cigarettes
or a piece of chocolate will launder q
shirt or press uniform more quickly
than hundred francs.
There are those who say the Parisians
aren't exactly cordial to the American
troops swarming the streets and that
the faces one sees are on the sour side.
Imagine New York or Chicago or San
Francisco filled with French officers and
enlisted men SO that there were so uni
forms to every person in civilian dress.
Picture the Waldorf, the Ritz the Plaza,
the St. Regis, the Sherry Netherlands.
the Savoy Plaza, the Drake, the Am
bassador and dozens of others taken
over by the French Army to the ex-
clusion of every one else. It's not pleas
ant for the home folks, really-nor for
the French.
The Maintenance Boys
Too little has been written and told
about the Air Force ground crews. These
maintenance boys don't fly; they keep
the planes fit to fly. Their Importance
cannot be overestinated nor their end
less labor too highly extolled. That boy
who used to service your car at the
garage is probably one of them. If
some one has said to you in the past
three or four years that Ernie doesn't
work here any more, it's because he's in
France or England or Belgium or Ger
many on top of a bomber or under a
fighter plane
Laconic. lanky, grimly humorous,
grease stained-theres a great story in
these ground crews. I asked them If
they'd like to be flyers. They said in
variably, mot the way them guys fly"
Letters from mothers and wives to
flyers always end by saying, Now be
careful The kids grin sardonically.
The bombers' take-off early in the
morning is like ballet, but too grim
and incredibly graceful. Down the run
way they skim every 80 seconds on tip
toe and then up up wheeling and re.
turning for the final take-off in forma-
ton as though painted against a NOV
ing sky. Faces in the early morning
are young, fresh and eager though seri-
GUS. The flyers return at sunset and as
they walk heavily and stiff1y in their
clumsy flying clothes toward the inter-
rogating room, you are shocked to see
the haggard, furrowed faces of old men.
etched where youth had been. But an
hour later. scrubbed and refreshed in
their pinks, they are boys again.
We were up before ,to try to trick
the bad weather into letting us take OF.
We just barely made it over the Ar
dennes in the baffling clouds that liz
over the hills.
Don't bump into any hard clouds"
the colonel said, as We left the Belgian
airf1eld. Snow blanketed the Ardennes
below, covering the farms and villages
OF Luxembourg and Germany.
It's incredible and it's gruesome, but
yet 1t is thing that fills one with satis-
faction and pride in ones country Two
small German boys say, Hello" like
trained monkeys, but no one answers.
American soldiers have been killed these
past days by grenades and guns held by
these sociable small fry. To set foot In
Germany's evil boundaries after IL
years IS as unreal, as the shattered
houses and the barbed wire and the
German signs that say unayailingly.
"Etngang Verboten."
fcopyrisht, 1slSj
Evening star., 1945-05-06

lea, India and Free France in this war.
Take it from me, the American soldier
has the easiest and most pleasant time
and is more cared for than any soldier
in the world He's the best fed, best
clothed and best nursed man alive.
American Volunteers
LAS for myself, I admit that in the
Indian Army your rations are small and
your clothes shabby. But these condi-
tions are more than compensated for
in my mind by the dignity, earnestnesS,
ability and general demeanor of British
officers. And the Indian fighting men
have my complete and unqualified ad-
miration. Associations with them far
outweigh the physical discomfort. If
possible, want to stay with them"
One has to explain the American
Field Service in order to explain Neil
Gillian. The service gave Neil his op-