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and suggested that the Dutch
might face the same difficulties in
the future and form a different type
Of rule over the East Indies.
In southeastern Europe, he
seems to feel that the difficulties
will arise, not so much as q con-
flict between the large nations, as
the smaller nations fight among
each other due to racial and other
conflicts.
The Polish problem, as always,
looms as the largest single barrier
between the larger nations In
volved-due to mixtures OF nation.
alities, and he mentioned the fact
that a new system had been
evolved-that OF moving peoples
instead OF boundary lines and bring
ing those OF like nationalities to-
gether.
Guests at the meeting included
Ernest Allison, Plymouth; William
Taylor, Frankfort. KY; Waldo
Buss. Harold Barnum, Z. L. Klag.
err, Harold Burch and Roscoe Bon
isteel OF Ann Arbor, NJ. Tinkham.
Wayne, and Roland Loeffler, De-
troit.
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employment for 5000 to 10000 peo-
pie who could establish their resi-
dence here. and could invest their
money in homes. They think the
governments wen constructed air
port. two miles square. with con-
crete runways, with permanent
drainage installed, will be used by
government or private agencies.
And there is one other general
agreement in Ypsilanti, whispered
at times. almost as a prayer, Don't
you think after the fuss is all over,
and II has been given thought by
the government authorities, Henry
Ford might enter the picture and
buy II at figure which would per-
NIT him to reconvert to some peace
time manufacture which will pro-
vide Jobs and regular employment"
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Congress

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epochal bill may furnish the key
To the trend OF congressional legis'
lation. The bill declares that the
government shall create Jobs by
investment and expenditure when
private industry fails to provide
full employment.
Sen. Austin (R) VT, who re-
turned for hearings on the mea-
sure as a member Of the postwar
committee, saw the possibility OF
compromise legislation emerging
after long hearings and debate.
This type OF legislation excites
three or four kinds OF considera-
ton" said Austin. "There Is a
group entirely opposed to the leg
islation.
There Is another group. which
assumes that the government owes
the duty to provide legislation,
flexible in nature TO meet the diff
culties Of reconversion as they show
IN in unemployment and this group
would be against this bill but not
all bills.
"A third group wholly favors the
legislation, l should expect that
suggestions for improving the bill
would come from the second group
and that out of the consideration
would come a bill from the bank
ing subcommittee. Upon its re-
port the full committee will explore
and report out bill to the Senate"
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Flames Gut
Garage Home

Fire Quilted the garage home OF
Mrs. Susan Thomas, 4o5 NJ Adams
St., shortly after two o'clock this
morning. Mrs. Thomas was able to
save only herself, her two year old
son, James. his blanket and her
purse. The building is owned by
Benjamin Boyce, and Is insured.
The fire was discovered when
the baby awakened his mother with
his crying. The blaze apparently or.
iginated In the closet on the north
side Of the bedroom, since that side
OF the room was aflame when Mrs.
Thomas awoke The mother
grabbed the baby, purse, and blan-
ket and ran from the house. as the
flames spread swiftly into the kit
chen. Z, She suffered minor burns
while escaping.
The local fire department extin-
guished the fire before II broke
through the walls.
Mrs. Thomas Is staying with the
Dougal A. Mcdonald family, 122
n. Huron St, until she can find an
other apartment.
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Pick of the dir Today
Thursday

Thursday
NBC-9:30 a. m.-Daytime Clas.
sizes;
u noon-Words and Music;
4:45 p. m.-Young Wilder
Brown;
7:00-Radio Supper Club:
9:00-Edward Everett Horton.
CBS-1l:l5 a. m.-Second Hus-
band:
p. m.-House Party;
6:l5-Calling Pan America, con-
cert;
s:SO-FBI in Peace and War re.
turns at New Time;
10:30-Larry Douglas and Rip
ley;
ABC-ll a. m.-Breneman's break
fast;
1880 p. m.-Chicago Variety;
4:30-Chester BOwles on OPA;
S:00-Pic and Pat;
10:00-One Foot in Heaven.
MBS-9:15 a. m.-Shady Valley
Folks:
2:15 D. m.-Jane Cowl:
4:30-Summertime Melodies;
7:30-Arthur Hale;
9:30-Bea Vain and Serenade.
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StOrk Calls

Daughter. to Mr.. and Mrs. Gilt
ford Davy. 321O4 Geneses Court,
Wayne. at Boyer Hospital August
p, weight, seven pounds, three
ounces.
Son, to Mr.. and Mrs Richard
Warner. $40 Roosevelt Blvd, at
Boyer Hospital August %, weight
six pounds. eight ounces.
Daughter. to Mr.. and Mrs. Clif.
ford Geesey. 800 Glenwood St.. at
Boyer Hospital August %. weight
seven pounds. nine and three
fourths ounces.
Son. to Mr.. and Mrs. William
Tompkins. 514 First Court, Park
Ridge Project, at Boyer Hospital
August 20. weight. six pounds, ten
and one-half ounces.
Daughter TO Mr.. and Mrs. Noble
Anderson. 214 North River st.. at
Boyer Hospital August %, weight
six pounds, one-half ounce.
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MARRIAGE ANNOUNCED

Ann Arbor, Aug. 22--Announce-
ment is being made OF the marriage
Of Miss Cecile Mae Franking. to
Major william Quokan WI. UsAAC.
The couple were married sunday at
the Trinity Episcopalian Church
Washington, d. c. The bride is
graduate Of Ann Arbor High School,
class OF 1895 and the University OF
Michigan in 1899. Major WI. who
has been with the Chinese-Ameri-
can forces in Burma for two years,
was graduated from the Univer-
sity OF Michigans Medical School
in 1888.
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Deaths
CLIFFORD NELSON

Clifford Nelson. s21 Stanley St..
passed away Tuesday at his home
of a heart attack. He had been in
Ill health for the past seven years.
Mr.. Nelson was born in Ypsilanti
June 10, 1909. He married Miss
Madeline Allward December 7.
1885, and was employed at the Ford
Motor Company and the United
Stove Company.
Mr.. Nelson is survived by his
wife, his mother. Mrs. Carrie Mel
son, two brothers, Sylvester. and
Norman, three sisters, Mrs. Dayton
Smith (Bernice). Mrs. Howard
Woodruff (Velma) and Mrs. Frank
Hanson (Nina); and a grandmother,
Mrs. Edward Cheeseman, all Of Up
slant.
Funeral services will be Thursday
at 2 p. m. from the Stevens and
Bush Funeral Home. with Rev.
George Moore officiating. Burial
will follow in Highland Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral
home.
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Peace

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which Japan sent her armed forces
there were reports which indicated
that the worlds bloodieBt war has
been ended.
Troops OF the japanese Fifth
Wangtung Army Group continued
to lay down their arms TO Soviet
forces in Manchuris, Russian :orces
we're spreading over the Kwan-
tung Peninsula where $4,000 Japs
gave up Monday after repeatedly
staying a number OF their officers
who resisted surrender.
Kwantung has historic signifi.
canoe for the Russians since the
peninsula was taken from them by
the Japs in 1904.
Radio Chungking reported that
Japanese in China will surrender
to Chinese officers after the jap
high command formally capitu-
lates in the Nip homeland.
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Daily Market Report

Michigan Central Stock Yards.
Detroit, Aug. 22-AP-USDA-
HOGS salable 200. Fully steady,
all desirable barrows and gifts at
Sl4.s0 ceiling; most sows S1400.
l415; stays Sl4.00 down.
CATTLE salable $50. Fresh re.
ceipts largely trucked in COWS:
moderate holdoyer from Monday:
slaughter steers and yearlings
mostly common and medium native
grassers; all classes about steady:
most sales common and medium
100000 ID. steers and yearlings
sl0.00-l400; virtually no good or
choice steers here: most common
and medium beef COWS $9.O0-l30O;
bulk natives under $1,000; Gamers
and cutters unevenly $7.00-S.50;
some shelly Gamers down to $3.50:
bulls again on peddling basis, few
sales common and medium light
erweights S9.00-11.00; good heaY.
les held upwards to $3.50: replace
ment cattle scarce, slow, weak.
CALVES saslble 400. VealerS &C.
tive, firm; practical top and bulk
good and choice $500; most COM
mon and medium Sl300-16.00: culls
around $1,000.
SHEEP salable 300. Lambs and
sheep steady; early sales good and
choice native spring lambs $3.50.
400; top sl4.00; few common and
medium throwouts S10.50-12 90;
bucks discounted 800; good and
choice shorn ewes $6.50-7.00; top
$500 for weights under 125 ID. Gull
and common ewes, $3.00-4.00.
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Municipal Court

Russell II. Davis. found beaten
near the overpass Of Grove st. and
Tyler Rd., Tuesday, was sentenced
to serve 10 days in the county jail
in order that police may check on
his identity. He was charged with
vagrancy.
Paul Maniacek, Cicero, H., was
also sentenced to serve 10 days in
Jail in order that the state police
may check. on his identity. He
was found west OF Ypsilanti, late
Tuesday night, walking down the
middle OF US-112. He, too, was
charged with vagrancy.
Total receipts of the court, Tues
day, were SS3.45.
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DeCaulle

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more shipping and more supplies
will be available.
The French leader was under
stood to want to wipe the state
clean OF previous misunderstand-
ings between the United States and
France and restore the historical
ly favorable Franco-American re-
lations.
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MRS. CARRIE cUsHMAN

Ann Arbor. Aug. 22-Funeral ser
vices for Mrs. Carrie Cushman will
be Thursday at st. Andrews Epis'
copal Church. Rev. Schady Hill
will officiate at 1880 p. m. Burial
will be In Forest. Lawn Cemetery.
Dexter.
Mrs. Cushman, formerly OF 435
Thompson St. died Tuesday at the
home Of Mrs. Ruth Cushman Garlic
ton, Escanaba. where she had been
staying for the last several months.
She has no near relatives surviv-
ing,
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MISS EUGENIA ALLEN

Ann Arbor, Aug. 22-FollowIng
lingering illness, Miss Eugenia AL
len died Tuesday at Simpson Me
mortal Hospital. The daughter OF
Horace and Lydia Allen, she spent
the early part OF her life on a farm
near Milan. and later attended
Michigan State Normal College.
Miss Allen moved to Ann Arbor
about 35 years ago, where for Is
years she had been employed as an
accountant for the Michigan Daily.
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BONNIE GALE scHocK

The infant daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Schock. 704 Lamay St.
Bonnie Gale Schock, who was born
August Is, was buried Monday In
Udell Cemetery. She is survived
by her parents, two sisters, two
half-sisters, one brother, and Il
grandmother, Mrs. Dorothy Cherry
Mrs. Schock was formerly Miss Vir-
ginia Cherry.
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ToMAToEs-outdoor. soc-sl.oO
IL ID. basket
TURNIPS-No. I, Si.0o.1.25 dos.
bchs.
Fruit
APPPLEs-Dutchess No. 1, sl.i3.
As ID. bu.
CANTALOUPES-No. l, s3.12 90
ID. bu.
rEACHES-No I, s447 bu.
PEARS-No. !, $3.50 bu.
PLUMS-No. l, $500 bu.
Benton Harbor. Mich. Aug. ~
AP-Peach demand was only fair
up to noon today following Tues
days price crash Of so cents a bush.
Ell under arrivals OF 10S carloads
which glutted the market and con-
gested streets. Prices we're:
Peaches, bushels. No. 1, pinch,
early varieties 10000, few high.
er, 3-4 inch 10000; tomatoes,
~ quarts, No. l ,125-2.OO. No. 2,
$3.50. S-basket crates 3.00.25; can.
taloupes. bushels. 100000, crates
1926: plums, half bushels 2.l5-
800; beans, IL quarts, llmas l.75-
2.25, green and wax .75-1.00; plum
tomatoes, 16 quarts 2.50-3.00; Gu
cumbers. sllcer bushels 2.50-4.00.
IL quarts 1918.
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WASHINGTON INS-Senator
Stewart Cd Tenn, said his Small
Business subcommittee would
launch an investigation today into
reports that large supplies OF sugar
are being exported to Spain and
other foreign nations.
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Grocer Fined

The case Of an Ypsilanti grocery,
which has been delayed several
weeks, was finally closed in the
court OF Judge Edward ]. Monet,
Detroit, when a fine OF $500 was
levied for violation OF OPA price
restrictions. An injunction had
been issued october %, 1914. re.
straining him from charging higher
than ceiling prices and disregard
for that order resulted In charge
OF contempt OF court.
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Morkmsn LAYING LInoleum

WVTNWINV INJF wv ~'''N'NN'''
Workmen are laying inlaid lin
oleum in the front entry way OF
the city hall. The floor has been
scraped and cleaned, and all furni.
ture in. the hall. including the
drinking fountain, has been taken
up in preparation sor the laying OF
the squares.
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Neuetables

Vegetables
ASPARAGUS-No. /. s1.75 2.25
doz. bchs.
BEANS-Green, No. 1. $2O0-2.50.
BEANS-Wax, Moo. l, $2.50-S.00 Blu.
BEETS-No. /. Blu. 65-75c.
CABBAGE-No. !, 1890 Blu.
CARRCTS-No. /. 60-S5c doz. bchs.
CELERY-Root, No. l, $2.Oo-2.25
bu.
CORN-No. !, s1,5O-2.OO 5 doz. sack
CUCUMBERS-No. 1 Slicers, $1.75-
2.25 bu.
DILL-No. /. 5O-75c per doz.
punches.
DRY oNIoNs-No. l. s2.ss. 5Olb.
sack.
doz. bchs.
GREEN ONIONS No. /, 1850
doz. bchs.
LETTUCE leaf. 4-5c ID.
RADISHES-New, No. 1, S. S5c
POTATOBS-New, No. l, $2.65-3.0O
100 ID. sack.
PARSLEY-Curly. No. 1. 50 75c
dog. bchs.
pARSNIPS-No. /, $3.50 Il bu.
PEAS-No. 1. s3.U0-3.97 % ID bu.
RHURARB-60-75c doz. bchs.
RUTABAGAS-No. 1. $5.00-6.00 bu
SPINACH--No. /. $1.75 bu.
SQUASH-Summer, u bu. No. /.
$1.00-1.25.
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National BroadeastInp Company
RED NETWORK-WLW 700. WWJ
$50. WMAQ $40.
ABC NETWORK - WXYz 1910,
WHAM 1850.
Columbia Broadeastlnp Company
WJR $50. WBBM $50. WCKY 1880,
WFBM 1860. VICAR 1880. WBNS.
1860. WDoD 1910.
Mutual BroadeastIna Company
RED NETWORK - CKLW 500,
WJBK 1890. WGN 100.
Tonight
NBC-S-Mr. and Mrs. North;
S:30-Billle Burke skit;
9:30-District Attorney;
10:00-Phil Harris quiz;
CBS-7:30-Ellery Queen;
S:S0-Dr. Christian;
9:00-Crime Photog;
10:00-Great Moments in Music;
ABC-7:30-Lone Ranger;
S:00-Pic and Pat;
s:00-Curtain Time, play;
10:00-Counter Spy.
MBS--s:3O-Bert Wheeler com
edy;
9:30-Ted Fiorito band;
10: 30-LeaYe II 10 the Girls.
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aaa

Detroit, Aug. 22-WFA-AP -
Michigan graded eggs in case lots
FOB Detroit:
Whites: Grade IA large 55A;
Grade A: extra large 52h; large,
sou; medium 461k-47h; small
391a. Grade B large AN; medium
SSia; small 81.
Browns: Grade A medium 46lz.
Grade B medium 38h.
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Bicycles stolsn

Bicycles stolen
Three bicycles were stolen from
the LeForge Rd. bridge Tuesday.
They were owned by Lawrence
Hatch, 70s Hemphill Ave; Bruce
Stinedurf, 305 L. Cross St.. and
Jerry Burgis, I'll Hemphill Ave.
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New York Stocks

New York. Aug. 22-AP-The re-.
cevery trend persisted In today's
stock market although. aside from
scattered strong spots. advances
were mostly in fraction.
Dealings we're quiet from the
start but plus marks were in the
majority near midday.
The outlook for peaee-time pros
perity seemed to have frightened
a bit as n purchasing factor. Furth-
er easing of federal controls on
business was helpful to those who
had been apprehensive over recon
version problems.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
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IpsiIan+i Markets
Buying Prlees)
GRAIN
(Ypsllantl Farm sureaul

(Ypsllantl Farm 5ursau)
Wheat (bu.) ............ $1.45
Oats (bu.) NATURALIZATION. SO
Rye (bu) NATURALIZATION. 1.4o
Buckwheat (cwtl ........... 200
PRODUCE
(Wolfs Market
Eggs, strictly fresh (doz.) 1854
Radishes (doZ. bunches) .... 100
Peas tlb.) .................. .l6
Spinach (bu.) ............... $50
Gree nbeans (bu.) ......... 100
Yellow benas (bu.) .......... 100
New potatoes (bu.) ........ 200
Carorts (doz. punches ........ 80
Tomatoes dbl ............. 10
Celery (doz. bunches) ..... 80
Peaches (bu.) .............. $50
Green peppers OBJ ........ 20
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Making New Plane

Detroit, Aug. 22-AP-The Ford
Motor Co. disclosed today that
shortly before all production was
terminated at the Willow Run
bomber plant the huge factory had
been converted to the manufacture
OF Super-Liberator bombers.
The company said in a statement
today that before the last B-24
Liberator was made on June rs, the
big plant had completed eight OF
the new models, called the B-24N,
with increased range, more speed,
more ceiling and greater aerody-
manic stability. Design changes
included increased horsepower and
a single vertical fin instead OF the
twin tail fins.
Other changes included a new
ball turret in the nose, a de-icing
and heating system, a new canopy
over the pilots deck and lighter
turrets.
When all production was order
ed stopped at Willow Run, the
Army Air Forces explained that
with the end OF the war in Europe
II had need for bombers OF the SUI
perfortress type rather than the
Liberators In the Pacific theater.
Offer Sales
Detroit, Aug. 22-AP-The Re.
construction Finance Corp. today
disclosed that nearly a billion dol
lars worth of government.owned
Industrial equipment in the Detroit
area will be offered for sale with
in 80 days.
Arthur J. Fushman, regiora! nan
ager Of the RFC, said that between
$600,000,000 and 100000, 900 in ma
chinery and tools will be included.
while more than 100000 in
plants, will be put up for sale or
lease.
Work Delay
Detroit, Aug. 22-INS-Secretary
Ed Thai Of AFL Building Trades
Council said today dismanatling Of
government machinery at Willow
Run was being delayed by an ALL
Clio dispute.
Thai declared a small force OF
ALL workers appeared at the
Bomber plant last week to begin
the reconversion work, but were
chased away by UAW-CIO main.
tenance workers. Thai said the
UAW-CIO men were armed with
hammers, crowbars, and anything
they could get their hands on"
Thai asserted his men would do
the job but would not start until
the dispute has been settled. Ma.
chinery for settlement OF jurisdic-
tional disputes was set up in July,
when heads o; the two groups met
in Washington.
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kseapse Appreciated

y Floyd W. Brown. II, an escapee
from the Cassidy Lake Technical
School, Chelsea. was apprehended
by state police here. Tuesday. and
turned over to the school authori.
ties.
Evening star., 1945-09-05
Wi1der's S Drama
Finds a Mixed
London Reaction
BY RUSSELL LANDSTROM,

LONDON.
Thornton Wilder's comic strip
parable of mankinds uphill climb,
The Skin of Our Teeth" has stirred
London, but it might as we'll be
acknowledged right off that most
playgoers don't like it.
In the critics circle, which long
has lamented the lack of new ideas
in the theater, cleavage is spacious
enough to leave the reader with the
impression that Wilder, creatively, is
a fusion of Shaw, IbSen, ONeill.
Walt Disney, the Marx Brothers and
Olsen and johnson.
The reviewers wanted a little
pathflnding on the stage all right
but many were not prepared fol
anything so violent As The Skin of
Our Teeth The juxtaposition OF
sublime and absurd was too much OF
a jolt.
CThe Skin of Our Teeth" had a
similar reception in the United
States. 1t opened at the Plymouth
Theater in New York November 18,
1912, and so violent were the name
callings and exceptions taken among
the critics that one even shouted in
print at his fellow reviewers for fail
ing to name it the winner of the
New York critics circle award for
the 1942-43 season.
However, it did win the Pulitzer
Prize, placed second in the critics
circle balloting, and closed Septem-
Der 25, 1943, after 359 performances
and highly successful run. Tallulah
Bankhead and Frederic March
starred in the first version. after
which Miriam Hopkins and then
Gladys George succeeded Tallulah
and Conrad Nagel replaced March
Plans are under way to revive it on
Broadway with an all-Negro cast)
The English public and critics
alike have found Wilder's play as
peculiarly American as bubblegum-
and as hard to handle.
The London Stars veteran critic,
A. E. Wilson, said: London has seen
some odd productions during It's
stage history, but nothing quite so
eccentric in my experience as The
Skin of Our Teeth, which converts
Phoenix Theater into a bedlam"
The Sunday Pictorial called it "a
mad and maddening play" the Sun
day Dispatch found it IAN exhilarat-
ing experience" To the Sunday
Express it was "a feat of stagecraft
written. acted and produced with
boundless audacity; there is some
thing marvellous about this play"
The London Evening News said the
production WAS "vitally important" j"
Evening star., 1945-09-05
By HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

HOLLYWOOD.
Personality parade: Parents
pride is rapidly getting the bet
ter of fear and servatiS S m
among Hollywood's starry parents
Today every film personality with a
moppet or two or even four around
the house toys with the idea of put
ting them to work in the movies.
Latest to make the decision is
Andy Devine who proudly announces
that his two boys, Tad and Brad, II
and 7. are to make their debut in his
new picture, Canyon Passage"
Fact is the two boys, led by Papa
Devine. are right now on their way
to location spot in Oregon where
most of the picture will be filmed
In the story Andy plays his real-life
role of father to his own children
Dorothy Peterson will be the screen
mother.
Universal has made several at
tempts to get the Devine children
into pictures during the past few
years but not until Bing Crosby S
four offsprings became an all-star
attraction in Out of This World,
did Andy capitulate
y
1t has been almost a tradition in
Hollywood that the children of great
name players must be protected al
all costs from the spotlight-this be-
cause of series of terrifying kidnar
threats that swept over the colony
some 20 years ago.
First menacing move was made
against Harold Lloyd's family bach
in 1926 when the comedian was ad,
vised to have $4,000 cached at e
certain spot or suffer the loss of hi;
infant daughter, Gloria. A shor
Evening star., 1945-09-05
Stars Offspring Set Free

time later Marlene Dietrich received
similar threats in connection with her
daughter. So did John Boles.
Fear ran rampant through the
colony. Lloyd posted dozen guards
around his huge estate, had the
windows and doors barricaded. Other
stars followed the same procedure
In order to further protect their
children, stars refused to allow them
to be photographed Never could
they go to parties or public events
unless the police were on hand as
chaperonS.
Gradually, however, the bars are
dropping. The kids are being al
lowed to lead normal lives. They