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do everything there was to do just little better than anyone else. |.
 .In Heavy Fighting
 When the United States entered World War I, Truman went with the National Guard unit and, as a captain commanding Battery D of the 129th Field Artillery, 35th Di- vision, he saw some of the heaviest fighting of that conflict, including the St. Mihiel and Mouse -Argonne cffensives. Before he was dis charged, he had been promoted to major
 On the troopship that returned the battery to the United States a collection was taken up and the commander presented with a huge loving cup.
 Back home he married child hood sweetheart, Bess Wallace, and they have one daughter, Mary Mar garet. He and an Army buddy went into the mems clothing business in Kansas City's old Baltimore Hotel. For a time the haberdashery flour ished, but then business fell off as the deflation of the early 20's set in and finally the store failed.
 Truman attained his first poli- tical office in 1922 when he was elected to one of the three posi- tions on the county court, govern ing body of Jackson county equiva- lent to a board of commissioners or supervisors in some states.
 He had won the nomination over four other candidates in the Demo- cratic primary. Two years later he was defeated for reelection, but was elected again in 1926, becoming pesiding judge. As presiding judge he was responsible for the greatest county road and public building program ever undertaken by any
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Hard of HeaFing2 Ourine Home Test Aids Thousands

Thanks to an easy no-rlsk heaflns test, many thousands who have been tenn porarily deafened now say they hear well again. If you are bothered by ringing, buzzing head noises due to hardened or eoeguiated wax tcerumen) try the Ourine Home Method test. You must hear better after making this simple test or you get your money back at once. Ask about Ourine Ear Drops today s'
 Your Rexall Store
 Butler Maur0 Drug Co.
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Forced To Take Rest


 Influenza, sinusitis and bronchitis weakened him in the winter of 1943- A and rumors spread about his health. In April, l944 he bundled up his old clothes and took month off to convalesce in shirt-sleeves on the languorous plantation coast of South Carolina. When he returned to Washington. his physician said he was in as good shape as any man Of 62 could hope to be and that his condition offered no bar to another four years in the White House.
 Mir. Roosevelt accepted the fourth term nomination by radio from naval base at San Diego, Calf. Inn mediately he boarded a cruiser for his first wartime trip into the Pac- fife and consultations in Hawaii where sneak punch brought Amer ica into the war on December T, l94i-with top commanders in the battle against Japan.
 He long since had broken all Pres idential travel records, and war did not deter him from pushing the mileage up around 300,000 Travel ing south he visited the Alaska Coastal sections, including Aux Bay, near Juneau.
 Roosevelt attended many confer ences abroad, meeting Churchill and also Stalin Momentous decisions for World War II victory were made.
 To most people, Roosevelt was warm and affable, gifted conver- sationist. He was an able story tell CT and enjoyed good joke, even on himself
 His drinking was in moderation and of the social type, but he chain smoked cigarettes in tremendous quantities in a yellowed, ivory cigarette holder Occasionally some of his cronies came to the White House for a session of poker-the more wild" cards the better.
 Two Attempts On Life
 Occasionally, too, he saw movies at the White House, or worked with a valuable stamp collection.
 Even before he lost the use of his legs, swimming, fishing and sailing had been favorite pastimes, and they continued to be throughout the
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salvo will be dispensed with in view of war conditions.n
 The Office of the Captain of the Port here, which released Secretary Forrestal's statement today. is ar ranging with U. s. Army units sta- toned here for joint memorial ser vices to be held Sunday. The mem orial program is to be announced as soon ar arrangement are completed.
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government are at stake.
 Accepts As Good Soldier

Accepts As Good Soldier
 ITO win this war wholeheartedly unequiyocally and as quickly as we can is our task of the first impor- tance. To win this war in such a way that there be no further world wars in the foreseeable future is oul second objective. To provide occu- pations, and to provide a decent standard of living for our men in the armed forces after the war, and fol all Americans, are the final ob- jectives.
 Therefore, reluctantly, but as . good soldier |. will accept ano serve in this office, if I am SC ordered by the commander-in-chiei of us all-the sovereign people oi the United States"
 His republican opponent was Gov Thomas E. Dewey of New York.
 A tremendous figure of man despite legs left withered and use less by infantile paralysis in 1921 MT. Roosevelt shouldered burden: as heavy as any Chief Executive ever carried. While ne stood ur under a job which had wrecked the health of many predecessor, the years naturally left their mark on him.
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DANCING GLASSES NOW ENROLLING

Baton twirling, tap, acrobatic, toe, ballet, moderne, eccentric, toe tap, character, chorus specialtiesl social dancing for beginners. Body toning and tap classes for stenog- raphers. Studio All 7th. Phone Red 575. Dorothy Sterns Rolf. (Adv)
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county in Missouri. It was carried out successfully.
 His political successes continued unbroken through two races for the Senate and the Presidential campaign of l944.
 Truman is a 32nd degree Mason and a Baptist. Mrs. Truman and daughter belong to the Episcopal Church.
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Death Ends Career Of Great Naiesmal in
 Passing of Roosevelt

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HAYNES SEED POTATOES
 Get yours now at the California Grocery. (Apr 12 1915 l6)
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-01
Eactual

The names have been
changed, of course, but the
story Is q pretty factual affair,
bordering almost on the docu-
mentary. There is, for example,
no truck with love interest. Just
espionage, detection and some
shooting. The FBI has cooper
ated throughout, throwing open
its files on the case, and FBI
men are constantly with The
shooting crew. Some FBI op-
eratives also are in the cast
and Hathaway did about two
weeks of shooting in the ma
tional headquarters in Wash
ington.
THE more I see Of those FBI
men the more respect I have
for them," said Eythe, who is
playing the role of an F'BI man
who joins the ring and mar
rowly escapes being rubbed out
after the spies discover his true
identity. 'It seems 10 me that
they must know and be able 10
do anything"
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-01
Spy Melodrama

Hathaway is shooting in the
Fox Movietone News studio,
Whieh=iS=o =on=a-c considerably
smaller scale than the Holly
wood factories. But there's
room enough for a couple of IN
terror sets and that's all he
needs in which to order around
people like Signe HassO. Bill
Eythe, Leo G.. Carroll and LYDIA
st. Clair.
This film is a spy melodrama
right off the front pages. The
name might turn out TO be Now
II Can Be Told" or The House
in Ninety-second Street" or
something else. ANYWAY IS
based on the 1871 spy ring case
broken by the FBI in winch
Frederick Joubert Duquesne
was the central figure. Abeat
30 men and three women were
taken in that roundup.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-01
Face. Weight Did II

II got tired Of pursuing her,
toO,- he said, and 1 thought I'D
try TO REFORM"
But, he admitted. the face,
plus a considerable accunula-
tion Of weight, seemed 10 des-
tine him TO play burly and un-
pleasant fellows, bent on much
evildoing. That's the way il
was in 1000 and One Nights"
"Salome, Where She Danced"
Blazing Barriers and Main
Street Girl"
Occasionally-all too occasion
ally-Paiva said. he has been as
signed TO comedy roles But the
next time, IL was back TO the
villains Sneer.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-01
FBl Men Act

Hathaway said that acting
certainly hasn't bothered the
agents. who take il i'm stride
Playing the role OF Duquosne
is Carroll. that impeccable Eng
lish actor who spends his eve
nings at the Lyceum Theater
playing that impeccable BoS-
tonian. George Apley, in The
Late George Apley." He looked
his own age on the set, which
is several years younger than
he appears in his stage role.
Miss Hasso, who has red hair,
and Miss st. Clair, who has
redder hair. are members of the
gang. When / saw them they
were a pretty hard looking pair
because they were doing a scene
in which they had just dis
covered that the FBI had The
house surrounded. Miss IIaSSo.
Juggling a pistol with silenccr
attached, making il almost rs
large as she is, and Miss 81.
Clair were engaged in stepping
swiftly across the stage 10 gaze
out of a window.
Hathaway shot the scene n
couple OF times and expressed
satisfaction. Then the hard
work in the movies began.
Waiting.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-01
Going TO Try Again

Miss Franc paused, ex-
hausted by the very thought of
IL all
We'll, then, what do you In
tend To do neXt?" we asked.
"Oh. next" she said, I'm do
ing another picture with Mr..
B erner d-'AIlotment Wives.
Inc, and I'll co-produce again
as well as star"
But, Miss Francis, you just
said"
She smiled blandly.
well, you know what they
say about newspaper work get
ting In your blood. guess It's
the same with being n pro-
ducer."
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-01
Plays 90 Roles

I'm the eight years have
been In pictures IN Hollywood 1
have played 93 roles" Paiva
enumerated, land 81 Of them
were dirty, mean characters"
"But I suppose I shouldn't
complain too mUcb,S he said.
AT least I'm working regu-
larly.'
Just then the telephone rang.
Paiva went to answer il.
When he returned he wore a
resigned expression.
You see what I mean,- he
said. That was the King Broth
era They want me 20 play the
villain In their next picture,
Payment Due'!"
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-01
N. Scene
Of fSpYFiInn
BY JACK GAVER
United Press staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, June 80.
THE darnedest thing is going
u on over at the corner Of
FHifty-fourth street and TCnth
avenue, just a couple Of saloons
away from the Hudson River.
Twentieth Century-Fox actually
is making a big-time feature film
in New York City.
Hollywood. of course, needn't
look to its laurels. This is a spe-
cial case and doesn't mean that
the industry is fleeing all Of
those swimming pools and sun
shine. In fact, Director Henry
Hathaway is going TO be very
glad to get back there in an
other month so he can live in a
private house with a reasonable
amount OF greensward as a man
is supposed to live. For the
benefit of New Workers, / might
add that he's a trifle prejudiccd,
being a native son Of a native
SON.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-01
BY PATRICIA CLARY
thIttd Ffttt SUIT tVfTt-Pendent
HOLLYWOOD June 30.

dOLL1 WOOD June ~.
NESTOR PAIVA, Who started
= y his stage career by playing
an. angel, has been portraying
the villain ever since.
Paiva was an angel in a
Fresno, CAT, amateur show
when he was 4. Since then. he
thinks. his face must have
changed.
Every time . casting direc-
tor looks at me he gets the idea
I'm strictly q heavy type
Paiva complained. Either my
face has undergone q terrific
Transformation, or the director
who cast me rs an angel needed
glasses"
He started his nasty career
back in 1885 when he was cast
In the role Of the villain in The
Drunkard' during a San Fran
cisco engagement. He came 10
Los Angeles with the show and
pursued the lovely heroine for a
record run Of 10 years.
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Everybody Tied Up

you suddenly discover MI the
stars you need are tied up with
major producers and you cant
have them at any price-even
In you had the price.
so maybe you finally get
your cast set, and then you have
more trouble said the harassed
Miss Francis. ''The director You
want is busy elsewhere. You
walt n few more weeks. Then
you start 60 shoot, and the
weather - which evIdentI
hasn't heard about the claims
the Hollywood Cha IN ber Of
Commerce makes-gets nasty.
Then some player catches cold
or the hu--Or worse"
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-01
Producing Poivo s-Life
Hard Work k u ps. Downs
HOLLYWOOD June 80.

AACA~A~ 4 W WI ~
Ray FRANCIS has told us
AA the facts Of a producers
life. And it's no cinch job. she
says.
Miss Francis has just COM
pleted her first chore as a pro-
ducer. and she's lost all her
Illusions. She and Jeffery Ber-
nerd were associated in the pro-
duction OF Divorce" in which
she also starred for Monogram.
Actors who want to be pro-
ducers just haven't the faintest
IDEA Of the trials and tribuiA-
tions Of a person In that spot"
Miss Francis explained.
"SAy you decide TO make n
picture. And that's where your
trouble starts. You line up q
story idea. After weeks OF an
guish, your writers turn I'm an
acceptable script Then you 20
into the business of casting the
picture. That means more head
aches--and I mean real ones as
well as financial
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eral. But they're best when
they're not pretentious. Like
Berkeley Square" last week at
Stamford.
Or, turning TO a musical,
The Cat and the Fiddle" last
week at Millburn. These l hap
pened 10 see. as the saying is.
with my own eyes. These 1
enjoyed tremendously. You
also would have enjoyed them
had you taken the trouble TO
stir your Stumps and get there.
Believe me.
Out of town bHt nearby.
playgoing is not an adventure
to be approached in the ordi-
nary let's = go-to-the- theater-to-
night manner. You must take
the summer circuit in its stride.
Whatever IL does, wherever il
does il. you have TO meet the
show half way. Happiness and
heartbreak have gone into its
preparation. Take il as il comes.
Give the lads and lasSieS hand.
In them. you have the Ethel
Barrymores. the Gilbert Millers,
the Jerome Kerns and the Rou-
ben Mamoulians of tomorrow.
Or have you?
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the current cow-barn stand
by. Or it may be giving Will
liam Shakespeare's Hamlet"
with that nice young Thes-
plan who put his best friends
money in it. No matter!
The straw hat tournament
is stimulating What will
turn up next-and how-you
never, never know.
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-01
Good intentions

Roads leading TO playhouses
out OF which the cows have
gone. into which the actors
have come, are paved with good
intentions. Which means that
they are bumpy. But hopes are
as high as funds are low-7u un-
-fess, as is infreQuentiy the case.
the -JulY-August impreSario- Is
a playbny among producers.
Sometimes the exhibit is
classic. Sometimes the exhibit
IS a tryout. But. for the most
part, the exhibit is apt TO be a
recent Broadway winner with
small cast and single setting.
MoneySavers.
At any rate. the summer cir
cult Is safely under way. From
Ape TO Virginia, from Vir-
back TO Maine, the boys
~ girls are once more begin
nlng TO act their hearts out
with hayseedS in their hair.
They're doing Biithe Spirit
here.' They're doing Dark
Eyes" there. They're doing
over 2l" almost everywhere
else. They're doing plays. at
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-01
Good for Theafer

Still harping on the summer
circuit, these warm weather
showshopS are as good as good
can be for the theater in gen
eral. But they're best when
they're not pretentious. Like
Berkeley Square" last week at
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-01
i RBRAMA RA1||,A|'
Summer theatrical Circuits
Optimistic as Boom Times Near

NEW YORK, June go
IIP AND along the selfstyled summer circuit OPTIMISM
what can pass for optimism permeaes sutry show
ep air.
This the turning Craze actors
are turning in to act The change doubt will
both Of them.
With the in Europe and the in Asia doing
better than expected theaergoBg hearts be lighter,
theatergo appetes may stronger gas
oline may be more plentiful.
May be!
Don't get me wrong. now. love the self-styed
circuit Year after July in, August out It lends
TO weather show shopping
1t may be giving Ruth Gordons "Over 81" grown to be
Detroit evening times., 1945-07-01

any rate. And find II fun TO
walk. run or ride-if riding's
poSsible-out under the trees TO
watch them do il.
Why not! Z!
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-15
BY MARGUERITE BROOKS

In teaching myself to be happy
in the dark 1 learned how to teach
others the same thing and also
stumbled upon system to help
totally deaf persons hear" This was
the statement made in El Centro
Monday by Jack Kenny Of Death
Valley, who lost his sight six years
ago.
What he taught himself in year
Of almost constant labor he is aole
to teach newly blinded persons in
ter. days, Kenny said.
WORKED WAY OUT
Kenny said he soon found that
'ile was working too hard to conquer
his blindness and needed hobby.
And so ne chose raising canary
birds. And now the sale of the birds
finances his school for teaching the
newly blind how to live happily and
be useful citizens.
Kenny has a place. in Death Val
ley, at Shoshone, which he calls
Rancho Del Valiente. There his pu-
pills have private rooms and baths,
and many other comforts all paid
for by the sale of the canary birds.
His place is the only one of its
kind in the world and he hopes it
will be a model for others. He will
teach anyone to operate such places
for the blind. He asks nothing for
his teaching.
Early in his blindness Kenny con-
sioered self destruction, he declared.
Investigation showed him, he said,
that he could be taught to walk. to
read Braille, and to weave rug, but
there was no one to teach him how
to be happy in the dark. He decided
to teach himself
GETS AROUND
His self imposed training includ-
ed first the task of learning to be
mobile. He carried a large, heavy
white cane with hook on it, tap
ping it in rhythm usually asso-
ciated with blind persons. This cane
slipped from his hand many times.
He now carries a small light cane
with a loop as handle, giving him
use of his hand. He does not tap it,
but uses it as a sort of "fishpole'
to feel for things in the dark as he
slides it along before his feet.
Second, came the task of learn
ing how to eat He learned the les
son and now teaches other blind
ones to eat without humiliation.
Third, came training his sense of
hearing. He mastered the depth of
perception and can tell from move
ment how far away an object is and,
best Of all, how to tune out the
noises he does not wish to hear. He
learned this tuning out at will by
listening to only one instrument in
records of full symphony orchestras.
Kenny calls this ability "selective
hearing"
PERCEPTION TRAINING
/. Fourth, came object perception,
or the ability to feel objects before
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-15
NAzI DENIALS WHEN
BREAKUP CAME

1t is no surprise that Germans are
denying their affiliation with naziism
now that "Heil Hitler" is no more. 1t
is a far cry from the elections when Hit
Ter was at his peak as Germany's dicta-
tor when there were no opposition votes
at all to now, when the denials would
make it appear that Hitler stood alone
The Wanted Teutonic pride and boast
ed sense of honor also entirely are lack
ing. Not q single general or other mill
tary officers in custody today maintain
their allegiance to Hitler in their efforts
to gain leniency at the hands of the AL
lies. If the fuehrer is alive he is reaping
a just reward as he learns of the whole
sale repudiations of his leadership.
Echoed from end to end of Germany is
the word "gangsters' as the cringing
Nazi leaders undertake to soften the
judgement Of the Allies when they speak
of Hitler and his coterie of murderers.
There is some danger that those who
finally must deal with all Germany and
all Germans may be influenced by these
pleas. That must not happen. Germany
made Hitler as much as Hitler made
Germany. The Germany that saw and
let the atrocities go on and on is the
Germany that now is trying to convince
the world that it never did adopt naZiism.
1t may be impossible to indict and con-
Wet nation. There is no ready bar of
justice before which country can be
hailed and tried and punished
But there is bar of justice which no
nation like Germany can escape-the bar
OF public opinion and determination and
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-15
A CURE FOR ARROGANCE
New York Times)

One of the false premises from which
the dead dictators, Hitler and Mussolini,
operated was that the United States is
country Of soft-hearted fools who can be
insulted with impunity and defeated with
ease on the battlefield. Experience had
taught them, long before they died, the
spuriousness of the latter evaluation The
German people are learning, according
to dispatch from Bavaria by Gene Cur
rivan to this paper, that American armies
also can be stern cOnquerOrS.
Mr. Currivan reports that our troops
in Germany were met first with sneers.
1t was as though the Germans were say
ing, You're riding high now, but wait
until the next time" Under the cold
sternness of the strictly enforced nom
determination policy of General Eisen-
hover, that sneering veneer is beginning
to crack. Watching the mechanical
might of the American divisions rolling
through their towns, the conquered Ger
mans now try to catch the eyes of the
stern-faced American youngsters riding
by in the jeeps, the command cars, the
half-tracks, the ammunition trucks and
tanks. They have failed. They are learn
ing that when young American officer
tells them to do something they had bet
ter hop to it.
No doubt this is not an easy role to play
for our soldiers. The average American
youngster in uniform is as gregarious as
high school sophomore and as friendly
as puppy. He has been raised to ex-
pect the best from other men until events
prove otherwise General Eisenhower
probably had this in mind when he sent
as many as possible of his young men
through the German prison camps to see
at first hand one reason why they had
been sent to Europe to fight.
1t would be well for the future, and
for the German people themselves, if
the capitulation of the Reich brings no
relaxation of this rule. Cold justice is
all that is due the Germans. Let our
soldiers continue to give it to them
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-15
McNutt Sees Idle
Men in Shipyards

WASHINGTON, May Is. UP)-
War Manpower Chief Paul v. Nc
Mutt expects net surplus of 90,-
600 shipbuilding workers in the San
Francisco bay area by September,
representative Jack z. Anderson
revealed.
In a letter to Anderson, McNutt
said that up to March, $1,000 ship
yard workers already had been dis
charged.
THE outlook for the six months
following March is one of sharp
increase in repair employment
amounting to some 10000" McNutt
said, while a further curtailment
Of 10000 is anticipated in ship con-
struction for the same period"
McNutt predicted that some of
the labor surplus could be absorbed
in manufacturing, trade and SER
vices which he said still were un-
der-staffed. He said the manpower
prospects for food processing and
canning were considerably bright
er" than they were last year.
The wartime population increase
in the San Francisco area was esti-
mated by McNutt at 10000 since
1910. He said the jump had been
from about l.417,O00 in 1910 to l.
807 600 in March 1945. During that
period the civilian labor force in
creased by 250,000. McNutt said.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-05-15
Death Summers
Heber ]. Grant,
Head Of Church
RY CARL WELTI

SALT LAKE CITY, May Is. CUP)
-Heber Jedediah Grant, first ma
tive of Utah to become president OF
the Latter Day Saints tMormon
church, died Monday night. He was
SO years old.
Although he had long been in
poor health, few of Grants follow
ers were aware of the seriousness
of his illness until a few hours be-
fore his death when it was an
nounced he had suffered relapse.
Grants widow. eight daughters
and their husbands and two church
councillors, j. Reuben Clark, for
mer .. S. ambassador to Mexico,
and David o. Mckay, were at his
bedside.
Death was attributed to old age.
Grant assumed the presidency
November %, 1918, and in the fol-
lowing IS years guided the church
through the most crucial period of
its development in this nation and
abroad.
Grant took an early interest in