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Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18
.By GEORGE DIXON

studio known to electrical SCI
ence is being set up I'm the
White House. IL has every
thing In the way Of fancy
lighting; for setting of the
giamor-seeking subject In
highlights and shadows, and
all the rest of the stuff be-
loved by the Hollywood CLAM
OrpussinboOtses.
The President is being pains
takingly coached in how TO
gesture, talk, and-most par
ticularly-smile before the tele-
vision apparatus. Those who
have been privileged 10 see him
in rehearsal contend that Amer
lea will see an utterly new Tru-
man when television becomes in
general usage in the nations
homes.
TIIE National Housing Agency
Il is our greatest authority on
the housing shortage. II labors
day and night trying to speed up
housing construction so people
will have houses 10 live in.
John J. Blandford Jr.. its ad-
ministrator. has practically been
running himself bowlegged try
ing to keep working citizens and
corporations with a roof over
their heads. II there is one
thing that breaks Mr.. Bland
fords heart-a tender and sus-
ceptible thing--it is TO hear that
some one has been evicted.
Well, his heart Is completely
shattered now. He and his ma
tional housing agency have
been evicted!
EOR nearly four years the
Il MIA has been housed in a
lovely old mansion at Sixteenth
and Eye streets, two blocks
from the White House. The
place originally was owned by
family named Potter or
Porter, but when the last of the
clan kicked off IL was be-
queathed in equal shares 10 the
Library of Congress and the
Smithsonian Institution.
Figuring these were pretty
substantial landlords. the gov
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18
Let Men I'm Sos
Have Their Fling

real hit play In his life. That
was THE Music Master" The
"Auctioneer" was only fairly
successful.
Q-Alleged experts keep
telling the public two blue-eyed
parents cannot have brown
eyed child. l know this is not
correct because my husband
and myself are both blue-eyed
and have a brown-eyed child.
Do these experts realize the
embarrassment their claim can
cause to blue-eyed mothers such
as myself?
Alt IN claimed by men OF
science that many people who
consider themselves blue-eyed
are not 100 per cent that way.
They have some brown-eyed
pigment. Hence IL often hap
pens they have brown-eyed
children.
ASIDES-
DIMPLES, a Persian cat who
Dhas been a prize winner at
many shows. has one blue eye
and one orange colored eye.
They should star her in a TECH
nicolor picture.
Thackeray said: "The woman
without a laugh In her Is the
greatest bore i'm existence"
Quite so. But what type OF
female is second on the list? ?
How about the kind of woman
who is always telling cute
stories" about her experiences
with her maid or cook?
Distributed by King Features synd, Inc.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18
LAUGHS--THAT'S
WHAT WE NEED
By HENRY McLEMORE

land the chances are I don't
the winner was The Marchi-
oness.
Flash" l called to my teleg-
rapher
What did you say" he
asked. shifting his cud OF
Brown Mule or Foot Print.
Flash" l repeated
"Oh." he said, "and what
goes after that"
What wanted 10 say was
Flash Goshen-T'he March1-
oness Wins Hambletonian."
To make a long story short,
I had 10 spell Flash for him.
spell Goshen for him. The Mar
chioness for him. and by the
time my story got into New
York my chances OF ever be-
coming president of the United
Press had been completely OBJ
liberated.
On the other hand, there was
Tommy Noone OF the u. p, one
of the best telegraphers who
ever corrected a reporters
story without telling him.
Tommy used 10 take my blow
by blow" coverage OF the big
championship fights. He knew
more about boxing than / ever
will know, and. thank heavens,
saw TO II that what he sent over
the wires was what he saw and
felt. and not what / shouted
into his ear. After we had COW
cred many fights together and
had become fast friends. he
asked me. as a favor, 10 Quit
debating so loud. II can hear
what you are saying. and IL
bothers me IN what l am send
ing he said.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18
Gossip Cleaned
Along Big Stem

has almost a dozen oil paintings
of himself instead of mirrors.
Milton Rubin debuts as pro-
ducer with a musical, Holiday
for Love-" in May. The score
is by Maria (Tippy Tippy-Tin)
Grever.
Who slugged crooner Johnny
Johnston in Miami?
IL Elinson hears that when
Rita Hayworths divorce action
is heard Mr.. Welles will be
happy with the custody of Mr..
Welles.
The gaZettes muffed the sui
eide attempt of a plane exec
over a gal thrush. The night
before the would-be corpse
swallowed sleeping pills" Lon
don Terrace residents heard him
pounding on her door and
screaming: You'll be sorry"
Copyright by Daily Mirror, Inc.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18
THESE
DAYS

AIR. TRUMAN still possesses
VI the war powers granted the
President by Congress but which
ne seems incapable Of employing
With authority.
Into an existent mechanism
designed 10 assure collective
bargaining, Mr.. Truman injects
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18

or three - usually boys with
perfectly normal minds - who
cannot learn to read with their
eyes. There are also ID TO 20
pupils who can scarcely be
taught TO read. About one
fourth of all children have a
terribly hard time to learn, and
about half never learn TO read
well. Unless a child is feeble
minded, these can all be made
into excellent readers.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18

LoVe shaH be purified BY pain,
And pain be soothsd by IoVe
again;
So let US nov take heart and go
Cheerfully on through Joy and
Woe;
No change the summer sun can
bring,
Or the ineonstant skies OF spring,
Or the bleak Wintsrs stormy
weatheT,
For ws shall meet them, love,
together.
Adelaide Ann Proctor.
DURING World War ii "a
IL per cent of all men called
for service were rejected Tor
physical reasons. OF the coun-
try boys. those brought up on
farms, Al per cent were re-
jected for physical reasons.
This appears TO prove my OFT
repeated claim that, generally
speaking, city-bred lads are
stronger and healthier than the
country boys.
MULES a. MEN
VIEWED with interest by
our Mules a. Men Depart
ment il an observation on
husband handling by DIR.
Louis VI. Bisch.
The good doctor says most
men are inclined TO become
little gay when reaching the
age of 80, hut II Is a mistake
for their wives to try To re-
strain or restrict the old boys.
The thing to do is to give
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18
By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY-

an extra.iegai fact-finding board
which does not seek facts nor
adhere 10 principle but devotes
itself 10 middle of the course
compromise on the assumption
that there is always a middle
course.
And none of this has anything
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18
LIFE WITH SALT
ON THE SIDE
Bv E. Y. DURLING

the mlddle-aged husband a
little rope. He won't hang
himself; after a period he
will tire of the gay life and
throw the rope away. Or so
says Doctor Bisch.
THAT DOG AGAIN
DLACK and white springer
ID Spaniels seem 70 have an
irresistible attraction for beau
tlful women. No matter where
/ take our dog for a walk at
least one glamour girl pauses
10 pat his noble head and
stroke his back. On these Oc-
casions he always wagS his tail.
But the better looking the
woman Is, the more vigorously
he wags MS tail. A remarkable
animal.
ASKING
QUERIES from clients. O.
W Am l right in saying that
Just previous TO his hit in The
Music Master David Warfield
was a knockabout comedian at
Weber e. Fields Music Hall?
A-Warfield was a comedian
with Weber & Fields but his
first dramatic play after that
engagement was "The Auc-
tiOneer." That was in 1901. IL
was not until 1904 he appeared
in THE Music Master" An in
teresting thing about Warfield
il. though he has the reputa-
tion of being one Of the great
actors in American theatrical
history, he only starred in one
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-18

Copyright, ie4s. By Kins Features
Evening star., 1946-12-01

all, together with hundreds of other modern
terms both grave and sprightly.
For sheltered readers who require trans
lation of the passage quoted. here it is in
terms of actual Webster definitions:
so this eontemptibly nsean- spirited scoun-
drel came up to me and tried to cadee dol
lar. But assumed q completely expressionless
eon'stesance and sexed him BY repeated gibes,
using type of talk that to all abbeayances is
nsecnimgtM bat is actually mixture of sense
and nninteuigibl< serbiage. finally gave him
jee'ing exbression Of disatbrodation and he
knew his Performance had fallen fat
The New Words Section of Webster's
could be called the breeding ground of the
English language. Dr.. John P. Bethel, a
youngish, non-stodgy man who is General
Editor of the dictionary. modestly calls it
a trial balloon" section, in which words
are groomed for possible inclusion in the main
Evening star., 1946-12-01

or bombing raids. 50 he would learn that the
war was fought largely in the air.
He would know the past 10 years have
been period of labor problems because of
words like fink" "sit-down strike" prefer
entail shop" Two up-and-coming sports
must have been hockey and skiing, both hav-
ing dozen or more terms listed (settled
sports like baseball and football have only
two or three apiece).
A strange new music has developed, which
he'd find hard to understand live" hep
cat" Jam session, alligator" and ''boogie-
woogie" would be beyond his comprehension,
even though they have definitions precise
enough to satisfy the most exacting student
of swing.
Several other assorted terms would cast
curious light on recent American social
history for our modern Rip: Cheesecake pho
Biography displaying female shapeliness');
Evening star., 1946-12-01

dictionary. But it would seem to be more
than trial balloon; past performance has
shown that 80 per cent of the New Words
eventually make the grade
The New Words Section is published in
between major revisions of Webster's 1t is
bound into the front of the big 20 pound un-
abridged volume, and also included in part
in the smaller edition It serves as a sort of
PS., treating words that have popped into
prominence too late to be inserted in the die
tionary proper.
News Exom New Woeds
"A MODERN Rip Van Winkle might, upon
awakening. read the New Words Section and
gather very fair idea of what has happened
in America in the last 10 years. He would
know there must have been major war;
there are hundreds of military words listed.
About so per cent of them concern airplanes
Evening star., 1946-12-01
DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH? ;, c,.,,., !, ,,,.

Here are some of the strange
ways new words get into the
dictionary. Take ''strip tease"
''goOgol'' or sswolf,' for example
GOO THIS heel came up to me and tried to
~ nsooch dollar But played deod-ban
and needled him with double tale. Finally l
gave him the bird and he knew he'd laid an
egg"
Ofhand you might say that this quotation
is not very good English. It would be more
correct to say that it is not very elegant Eng
ish = but it is English. Every word of it is
recorded in Webster's New International Die
tonuy. second edition, followed by schol-
ariy definition. You won't find the italicized
words in the main body of the dictionary, it's
true; but the New Words Section lists them
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-20
Underwood 4 Underwood

seen part of the wedding attire worn
by beautiful Betsy Patterson, of Balti-
more and the hand-painted fan she
carried when her daShing foreign
beau proposed.
The first Jerome was a lieutenant
in the French Navy, handsome and
just turned 10, when he first arrived
in Baltimore.
Commodore Joshua Barney, a gay
old sea dog, proudly informed the
youthful visitor that the New World
had no cause TO defer TO the Old in
the matter Of feminine beauty, and
18-year-old Betsy, daughter of William
Patterson, a wealthy m er ch n I 4,
clinched the Commodore's point
beyond his fondest hopes. SO COM
pletely and obvious was her conquest
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-20

of Jerome that her perturbed father
sought to reason with her.
"I had rather be the wife of Je-
rome Bonaparte for an hour" she
retorted ardently, than the wife Of
any other man for life"
She got more than her wish-but
not much more. On Christmas Eve,
1903, Protestant Betsy and Catholic
Jerome were joined in wedlock.
And then Jerome founded sacred
American institution by taking Betsy
to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon.
News of these events enraged
Napoleon, who was on the verge of
making himself Emperor and saw
his dreams of royalty flouted by the
marriage. Suddenly Jerome's money
was cut off; French seamen were
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-20

If her heart was broken, it still
managed TO go on beating. She lived
to be 81, meanwhile watching her
former husbands career pass from
anti-climax TO anti-climaX until at last
the progression ended in his death,
at the age of 76.
She also watched her son, Jerome,
marry Susan May Williams, OF Balti
more. One of their sons was the
father of the Jerome who has just
died; the other distinguished himself
in politics, but left no children.
So America at last is without a
living memento of the 10Th century
romance that foreshadowed the Goth
century romance of Edward VIII
and Wallis Warfield SimpSon-who
also comes from Baltimore.
However, the hand-painted fan
and the wedding dress
less than a pound-remain.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-20

On his fathers side a great
grandnephew of the great Emperor,
he had the added distinction Of being,
on his mothers side, a great-grandson
of Daniel Webster.
From this aWeinspiTing ancestry
he inherited a commanding presence,
Sizable income and prominent place
in the Social Register; otherwise with
one possible eXceptiOn-it apparently
helped him little.
The exception came i'm 1921 when,
informally, he was offered the then
vacant throne of Albania. No doubt
the offer flattered him. yet he turned
it doWn-a wise move, in view of
what later happened TO Albania.
Born in Paris, the son of Jerome
~ Bonaparte, West Point product
turned colonel in the French army,
and of Caroline Leroy Appleton,
Daniel Webster's granddaughter,
young Jerome grew up in Baltimore
and graduated from Harvard in 1899.
Fifteen years later he married
Mrs. Blanche Pierce Strebeigh,
Newton, Mass, divorcee. They steered
a safe social course from New York
10 Palm Beach to Newport to Europe
and back. That was their life. Only
occasional domestic squalls varied it.
The subject of one dispute was
Jerome's $500,000 patrimony, all of
Wilhelm moment of generosity, or,
as he later claimed, of plain derange-
ment-he decided to his wife. After
suffering the humiliation of begging
her for pocket money, he almost-but
never quite-went to court to have the
gift returned.
These spats were the only eX-
periences of the latter-day Jerome
Bonapartes ever to be recorded out
side the society columns. The yellowed
clippings commemorating them make
a poor showing beside the original
Jerome Bonapartes' memorials.
The latter include room in the
Maryland Historical Society where,
among other nostalgia objects, may be
January 30. 1915
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-20

crowned DrOtneI 4
Betsy went TO Lon
don TO give birth
TO a son.
Napoleon h a d
offere d her an
income of $4,000
francs TO forswear
his family name.
She showed how
little she thought
of the offer by
naming her baby
Jerome Napoleon
Bonaparte.
When the Vat.
lean fuS Se d a
royal request for
an annulm @ mt.
Napoleon ordered
one himself, there.
after disposing OF
his difficult rela
tive first by max
ing him King OF
Westphalia n d
then by marrying
him off TO Cath.
crime Of Wurttem
berg.
Betsy returned
to Baltimore and
got an annulment.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-20
Famous Triple Portrait
OF Betsy Patterson by Gil.
bert Stuart. Her Friends
Liked Ii. She Didn't.

ordered not TO transport his bride;
all conquered Europe was closed
against her.
Nevertheless, the newlyweds
started for the forbidden CONT.
nent, in one of Betsys fathers
ships. They parted at Lisbon.
Jerome going alone 10 Paris 10
plead his case before his newly
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-20
By CHARLES ROBBINS

rVER since the romantic but illstarred marriage of
- Napoleons youngest brother, Jerome, TO Betsy
| Patterson, of Baltimore, America has had its own
line of Bonapartes.
Now, 142 years after began that line has vanished
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte whose life ended in
New York few weeks ago at the age of 67 was the
last twig of the New World branch of the Bonapare
family
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-28

Leading ChicagOans recalled
the words of Franklin d.
Roosevelt: Having been help
ed to power by fascist Ger
many and Italy and having pat
termed itself along totalitarian
lines, the present regime in
Spain is naturally the subject
of distrust by a great many
American citizens who find it
difficult to see the justifica-
ton for this country to con.
tinue to maintain relations
with such regime" they
called for severance of reIa.
tiOns in the interests of Amer.
lean security.
Among those who have sent
wires are:
Rev. Virgil Lowder of the Chi
cago Church Federation; William
Miller. State Director of National
Citizens Political Action Commit
tee; Reid Robinson, Information
al President of Mine Mill and
Smelter Workers Union, CLIO; Dir
David Shapiro, President, Amer.
icap Jewish Congress; Mrs. Irene
Mccoy Gaines, President of the
Council of Negro Organizations
Robert Travis, Legislative Direc
tor, Illinois State Industrial Tn
ion Council; Sidney Ordower, Elk
ecutive Secretary of the Ameri
can Veterans Committee; Grant
Cakes, International President OF
the Farm Equipment Workers OF
America, CLIO.
Also Kenneth Kennedy, Ma
tional President, United Negro
and Allied Veterans of America
Thomas London, Commander oil
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-28

Castle, Barton employment
agency likewise has imported
some 400 girls, to work as domes-
tics in Chicago.
One of the most striking
things about the girls is their ex-
IRENE youth. Most of them look
in their teens and many of them
admit to being 16 or II years
old. Working under a contract
which calls for wages of $50 a
month. minus deductions for
plane fare, ETC., the girls are dis.
appointed by the reality of the
good" jobs they were promised
They report working long
hours, doing hard work. Few OF
them get their full day off.
after I came" one of the
girls said,. "she (the Employer
dismissed the laundry maid. Then
she dismissed the nurse. I have
to do the work for everybody"
More next week on "Slave
Trade = 1947 Style.")
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-28

See these.", another work
er declared holly, pointing to
the work shirt and pants he
was wearing. Il have no other
clothes. And if l have money
l won't buy clothes because the
company store charges three
times their value"
Il think it is because we are
Puerto Ricans that we are treat
ed this way" a puzzled worker
added.
One week the company issued
a paycheck for 26 cents to a
Puerto Rican. Il threw it in the
stovei" he said. The former
chauffeur told me he kept an ac
curate record of his time worked
one week. His paycheck showed
d considerably smaller number
of hours.
when l complained, the com.
pany said it was too late to dc
anything about it and should
have mentioned it sooner"
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-28

balloons2were prominent in huge
clusters. Betty wore a sally cab
bage rose.
OF course many other ex
penses could be mentioned such
as dress bills, invitations, but.
lers, social secretary.
Daughters debut ball cost
papa Swift easily as much as
a years wages for two of
papa's clearinghouse workers.
Throw in the cost of the
other six of Betty's parties
and it will undoubtedly be
enough to pay a years wage
for everal clearinghouse
workers.
Betty made her fancy debut
last summer. But apparently
that didn't do the job. To date
Betty has not yet landed any
thing but a mess of bills for
papa.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-28

of the arrangements seemed, .
Midnight supper at the Casino
Club of the Blackstone Hotel.
Champagne and other bever-
ages flowing in the usual man.
ner.
Add the expense of OrcheS-
ira players = one of the most
expensive items of any party.
Add the cost of cigars and
cigarettes, tips and miscellane-
Gus.
And don't forget MangeI
Brothers bill for decorations
and flowers.
Il
DECORATIONS, by the way,
were designed to give white
Christmas" feeling. While tables
twinkled with candles, pyra-
midal-shaped trees were lighted
with green spot lights, festonia
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-28

the Jewish War Veterans Of
America; Rev. Paul j. Folinc.
Chairman of The Protestant;
Rabbi David Graubart, President
of the Ecclesiastical Court of
Conservative Synagogue; Manuel
Terman of the New Council of
American Businessmen; Thomas
Slater, Carpenters Union No. ];
Miss Lillian hike, Director of the
Independent Voters of Illinois;
Joseph Mattson, Regional Direc-
tor, United Auto Workers, CLIO.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-28
$ v

work. A large percentage of the
checks are smaller than that.
Paid 49, cents an hour the
minimum set by the company's
agreement with the United Steel
workers union, the Puerto RicanS
have wage deductions for
O housing and food;
CD Castle, Rarton's agency fee
and plane fare to Chicago; /.
80 a fund to provide return
fare to Puerto Rico;
(Q clothing purchases at the
cpmpany's store;
go social security and with
holding tax.
IN ADDITION, 25 percent of
each mans earnings is sent to
his dependents in Puerto Rico.
Rolled onto company property.
the railroad car housing rhe
workers are furnished ~
with two rows of wood IL
en-, double-decker hunks. Each
bunk has flat spring, thin mat
tress pad, a sheet like mattress
covering, and two medium
weight blankets.
Bathing facilities consist of
three sinks.
The food improved somewhat
after the men went on strike
against a steady diet of corn.
flakes for breakfast, fish soup
and three slices of. bread for
lunch, and the same for supper
But the company increased its
deductions for food too.
II WAS a chauffeur in Puer.
to Rico" curly-haired, alert
young worker said. Il lived well
and had house of my own. The
advertisement said we could
come to good jobs here. but we're
cheated and pushed around" i
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-28
How deb spends year. pay in a day

Oh, the dizzy, dizzy whirl of
the gala holiday season festivi-.
ties. It's enough to make even
the social set giddy!
Take the case of Betty Swift
-. the packinghouse Swifts,
you know -. home for a we'll
earned rest from her studies at
Smith college.
Betty plunged right into a
gay, busy routine of six teas.
parties, dinner-dances, supper
canoes, ETC., held in her honor
during Christmas week.
TOPPING this thrilling burst
OF activity was one of the holt
day seasons most gala parties
Betty's debut ball. Papa and
Mama = Mr.. and Mrs. T. Philip
Swift footed the bill. And
what a ball - modest as some
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-28
. Hours worked

This pay check voucher shows
forty hours at 881a cents an hour.
time and one-haIf for the additional
hours. This is the minimum rate
established by the union contract.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-28
Deduefions:

This amount represents deduc.
tons, but not for bonds. $9.45 for
food, $3.50 for room, So payment on
plane fare and agency fee, So de-
post for return fare. These are
standard weekly deductions.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-28
Leading dieugouns urge U. S.
break relations with Frunto

informed Oh the recent brutal murder another
spanish trace union leader in Frances
of Castro Chicago civic leaders bs
the United States UN delegation to stop Opposition tn e a
Franco Spain ION" WIN
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1946-12-28
D To+oI pay

After IS percent Of the wage is
sent to dependents and another de-
duction made for clothing purchased
in the company store, the worker
receives go cents for the weeks
work. Neither he nor his dependents
get enough to live adequately.