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Show BEAVER PRESS I Brill uwi I ,n fel Yank Was Believed M iiv,.T) fcr tnnrrinri Reincarnation of Faustin I. Tallulah The Magic Lanterns: Bankhead, whose cinema career was wrecked a decade ago with cheesy stories, didn't make that blunder again. She comes back In .' By ROBERT II. MYERS "Lifeboat," fashioned by John SteinReleased by Western Newspaper Union, beck and directed by the mighty (Through courtesy of THE LEATH Hitchcock. It's a highly seaworthy vehicle. Its story deals with the ad- ERNECK, the magazine of the U. S. ventures of nine in a boat through Marines.) the courtesy of a Nazi sub. A Nazi dark, gloomy night in gets aboard the boat, and from then year 1848, on the tiny on, in Steinbeck's devastating diavoodoo isle of La logue, you get a swell look at a rat. tropical black Gonave, King Faustin Tallulah gives her role plenty of I and suddenly mysteriously are there and by good jobs vigor, Wm, Bendix, Gwen Anderson and disappeared. Years crept by Henry Hull . . "Sherlock Holmes and King Faustin I was never and the Spider Woman" puts Basil heard from again, but a legRathbone to work at his silky gumend was born that some day a shoeing. He prowls around to disof his name would descendant cover that all those suicides aren't to return this West Indies rule to . . . be what they're cracked up island. "Of Thee I Sing" is to be filmed, Some three score and ten years probably hopeful of getting a free In 1920, a creaky sailboat later, on the Presidential campaign. ride lurched across the choppy waters of the channel from Port au Prince and I Remember It! Bob Dunn wonders if we ever heard about the late scraped up on the sands of La GonJim Thornton, the vaudeville star, ave. Bounding out was a strange collection of occupants; chattering when he was teamed with Gentleblack natives, bawling cattle and man Jim Corbett. Mr. Thornton was an and whenever Gunnery Sergeant Wjrkus of the he went on a spree, the act was United States marines whose first cancelled. It happened at the Pal- name was Faustin. Thus was forged a link in one of ace Theatre. the strangest stories that ever came Corbett went looking for his partner and located him in a saloon out of this storied, superstition-boun- d island. For Faustin E. Wir- with a terrible looking bum. Corblue-eyea kus, square-chinne- d bett bawled him out and refused to Yankee from the state of Pennsyl give him money for one more drink. To which Thornton, in regal tones, vania, who had never heard of King said to the bum: "Mr. Russell, Faustin I or about his mysterious this is Mr. Corbett. Throw a louse disappearance from La Gonave, and most certainly was no descendant of on him!" the ebony emperor, eventually was Mail This to Someone: We saw it crowned King Faustin II and In Coronet. It should be handed to reigned virtually singlehanded over the 12,000 natives for nearly five people who cash in their War Bonds. A man scheduled for induction the years between 1921 and 1925. He's Asked About "Queen." next day decided, before going to He became famous as the "White sleep, to cash in his Bond the next a. m. King of La Gonave," and as he That night he dreamt he was in a goes about more commonplace due One Jap ties in the marine corps today, he fighting Japs. charged at him with a bayonet still gets numerous inquiries about Sighting his own rifle, our hero was his years in Haiti; about the broad about to save himself by pulling the and beaming native woman, Queen trigger, when his sergeant tapped Ti Memenne, who had chosen him him on the shoulder and said, "Sorto rule the island. ry, but the man who paid for your Queen Ti Memenne, of course, was rifle wants it back." not really a queen, nor was Wirkus truly a king, because La Gonave was merely a province of Haiti and The Morning Mail: "Dear Walter," writes Maurice Rocco, "It under the administration of the Haimust be an oldie, but it still gets tian republic and its president But the biggest laugh wherever gamblers the stormy little country had been gather, About the wife who (going the scene of a bloody uprising a through her groom's pockets) found few years before, starting in 1915. a slip of paper on which was memo'd Marines had been sent in to settle Ruth She asked him: Whats this it, and a picked number had remained to train and run the native mean?' " 'Oh,' he oh'd, 'that's a horse I Gendarmerie. Gunnery Sergeant Wirkus was one played today. Then the phone rang. of these men, and by congressional She picked up the receiver. " 'Darling,' said the Mrs., "your permission, was on detached duty with the Gendarmerie and held the horse wants to talk to you.' " rank of lieutenant in the force. AsBehind the Scenes: Grena Ben- signed to La Gonave, he was officialnett, a New York opera critic, ly a subdistrict commander. Today Wirkus is a warrant officer, spends spare hours at the movies. In one film revival she saw an actor In charge of the marine aviation delisted as "Alexander Broun." Grena tachment at the navy's wracked her memory to place a school at Chapel Hill, N. C. But to familiar mannerism of the unknown go back to those years of yester yplayer. Then a closeup showed the da-Soon after enlisting, be landed in trouper had oddly scarred thumbs. It was Richard Bennett, in a Haiti with the first outfits of mathat went down to settle the meager role, who disguised himself rines in two critics' names, Woollcott and trouble in that country. His was the company, led by BrounV Miss Bennett, you see, was old Twenty-secon- d Richard Bennett's first wife. She Capt Alexander S. Williams, and remembered a boyhood accident his battalion commander was a man later destined for world fame. Gen. that nearly cost him bis hands. Smedley Butler. Five Years of Bushnghting. The morning after movie director Off and on for five years, the maEdmund Goulding first visited Holthe lywood (many years ago), he was rines were busy bushflghting e awakened by his host's valet, who treacherous "cacos," stood by the bed offering him a natives whose tactics were bloody if small golden' bowl filled with a clear liquid. Only half awake, Goulding stared at the bowl. Was it a finger bowl? Surely not at this hour. Was it something to drink? He finally decided to ask the valet. "What the devil is this, anyhow?" "The temperature of your bath," intoned the lackey. "Will you kindly let me know if it is satisfactory, sir?" ONE elbow-bende- r, , fox-hol- pre-flig- ht knife-wieldin- Big City Vignette: Two boys were epthused about the newsreel chewing their taffy and otherwise being kids at a rnovie theater last week . . . Then on came Greer Carson's short appealing for Infantile Paralysis contributions . . . The house lights went up, and the ladies with the coin boxes passed them . . . Probably thinking children had no money, a skipped the two boys . . . One got up and chased her several rows back before he could catch her. "Here lady," he kept calling, "lady, here!" . . . Limping on his braced leg to give his little bit so that some other youngster not so fortunate as he-c- ould go to a movie and giggle and munch candy and also give. SNAPPY FACTsI Marine Sergeant Who Was King Of 12,000 Natives on Voodoo Isle k ABOUT not successful. Wirkus engaged in many scraps he killed seven cacos in one bitter engagement and grad. i ually gained recognition as an effiWashington, D. C. non-cocient and straight-shootin- g COMPLAINTS OF 'WASTED Once in Port au Prince he took a MANPOWER' handful of native gendarmerie and The fathers' draft has brought on broke up a secret voodoo ceremony a new series of complaints about and captured the ringleaders. This "wasted manpower" in the armed he accomplished with not a man inservices stationed in the U. S. A. jured. Voodoo meetings were often hotbeds of trouble. Pending a call to action, a feeling of idleness and waste becomes a During these years Wirkus kept demoralizing factor. The men on hearing tales about the island of the home front generally suffer most La Gonave, 40 miles north of Port service disease of au Prince and about 300 square miles from the age-ol- d in area. Voodooism was rampant "just waiting around." The type of thing that happens in on the island, and fearsome were the waiting period is illustrated in some of the tales. A white man, so it was whispered, was not safe on Warrant Officer Faustin Wirkus as a confidential survey made at the naval dirigible station at Lakehurst, La Gonave. No one wanted that out- be looks today. N. J., which brought forth the fol post duty. Ghosts and spooks, they teriously, into a dwelling especially lowing facts. said, haunted the place. 1. The navy uses 100 to 115 men But Wirkus made one visit to the reserved for him. It was late afterisland and decided he wanted it as noon and the queen's emissaries to handle a blimp when it lands, a command. He scoffed informed him that his presence whereas Goodyear handles the same at voodoo scare tales and still does would not be wanted before Queen blimp with 15 civilians. 2. As at many shore stations, duty and figured It would be a good Ti Memenne until late that night. n place as a job. Hunting Already drums were slowly beating usually consists of 24 hours on, then and fishing were good, the climate in the village center. Still wondering 24 hours stand-b- y (which means was no barrier, and Wirkus was what it was all about, he calmly un- waiting around to see if anything ambitious to make a name for him- dressed and went to sleep. happens), then 24 hours liberty. Khakl-CIa- d self as the key man in running the Then this is repeated. Many men Monarch. 24 hours of loafing subdistrict It was his responsibility Later marine the sergeant, complain that the to regulate travel and traffic, pre- dressed in his usual khaki and put- at stand-bcould be used for some vent smuggling, exercise control tees, entered the type of work. queen's house, constructive 3. More than 1,000 civilians are over the prison, enforce harbor and stepping into a tiny room. Squat docking regulations, sanitation re- ting in close array on the floor were employed to recondition ships at quirements, and see that lands were members of the inner court. Ti high rates of pay, while enlisted men properly allotted and taxes paid. Memenne, barefoot and dressed in who could do the job and need the Natives Suspicious. a gaily colored robe, sat at the front training lie around idle. 4. A high wire fence, guarded by When Wirkus arrived on brooding in regal fashion, her black face La Gonave, he found the natives shadowy in the sputtering, vague armed sailors, surrounds Lakehurst. suspicious of all white men, which rays of candles. Queen Ti Memenne Then, inside the fence, a marine was hardly surprising. For years must have been in her forties or guards the outside of each hangar. they had been exploited and cheated. more, and, while a friendly woman, Then, inside the hangar, two civilTheir lot was a poor one, to say the she had a way ot commanding and ians also stand guard. 5. The Lakehurst commissary, least. Wirkus set out to correct getting respect. which handles about 100 customers these conditions, and behind his sucThe marine found out why he had per day, is staffed to handle about cess was a genuine affection for the been summoned before the queen. 1,000. It has 10 clerks, 2 commisnative population. As sequester, or He was to be crowned Faus"King sioned officers and 1 cashier. Any administrator, he not only handled tin II." civilian groceryman plus an assisthis official duties, but went out of "At first I thought it was just a ant could handle the whole his way to help the people. He way they had of telling me they business. easily showed them better ways to till their liked me, but later it developed that Multiply Lakehurst's wasted manlands, for the main industry was ag- Ti Memenne and her people were power by the navy's many other riculture. He repaired their antique in earnest about the matter. They equipment and modernized it where had discussed the thing for days, shore stations and it runs into thousands of men. possible. and had agreed to name me as their Note: The men themselves are Mothers were astonished but 'white king.' " not to blame. Most of them chafe grateful when he came to their aid The ceremony, weird in many at inactivity, want to see action. in bringing up their offspring. 'They ways, lasted nearly three hours. OutEffect on the Men. didn't know it but he bought a side the drums rolled and pounded, One significant indication of how book, "The Care and Feeding of all but drowning out the bleating of glutted the navy is with manpower Children," to help him with such a young goat scared to the of is in the tip g camps, deHe problems. surveyed the lands his tail, which was brought into the to transform a civilian into a signed and divided, eliminating bitter dischamber and offered up as a sailor. This royal training used to last putes, and he reduced taxes for blood sacrifice. three weeks. Now it has been runsome and boosted it for others, many Wirkus was seated on a small, ning four months or more. And aftof whom had enjoyed favoritism short-legge- d chair, and at the er finishing this thoufrom corrupt local representatives queen's command, an attendant sands of men lie around for months of the Haitian government. came from the next room bearing a in OGU's (outgoing units) awaiting It took a full year for Wirkus to heavy, ornate crown. to a school or other acgain the trust and friendship of the "I now crown you 'King Faustin assignment tivity. islanders, and particularly Queen Ti II,' " proclaimed Queen Ti MemIn the past year, also,- - many enMemenne. The "queen" was the enne, and she placed the crown men come to the conclusion listed a of in matrileading figure group the same crown, so it was that navy schools are being mainarchal societies which dominated that once had adorned the headsaid, of tained mainly for the purpose of affairs of business and society on King Faustin I on Wirkus! keeping them occupied. La Gonave. During his early months "Two huge blacks then picked me Slump in Draft Quotas. there, Wirkus had made it a point to Most significant fact about the humor the fat and friendly queen, up and carried me outside. As soon as I appeared the drums beat out manpower situation is that all last and she soon began to accept his the king's salute four ruffles and summer, the advice and help. army and navy were , three taps. I knew that this was getting less than the quota of cnea Summons From Queen. no empty honor they were paying One day Wirkus received a sumthey requested from the draft me. boards, but did not complain. Few mons at his newly built home on the 'White King of La Gonave.' people outside the government realcoast Messengers from the queen Thus was crowned "The White ized it, but even at the time the delivered it. They were very sol emu. The message asked that Wir King of La Gonave," a title that fathers draft was under vigorous kus hasten inland and up into the was to bring Wirkus, the marine. discussion on Capitol Hill, the army back mountain country to the fame in many countries. William B and navy were not complaining queen's village of whitewashed mud Seabrook made him the featured ro about the failure of draft boards to fill the quotas. huts. The queen very urgently want mantic character of his book, "Mag During the first months of 1943, ed to see the young American, who ic Isle," and later Mr. Wirkus himself wrote a book which he called draft boards overfilled their quotas. was then not quite 25. But in April, they began to slump Wondering what it could be about, "The White King of La Gonave." With the fame, however, also off. In that month, the army-nav- y Wirkus accepted and started off on came envy and jealousy from cer- asked for 334,000 men but actually horseback. The trails up the mountain were crowded with natives, all tain quarters. Haiti's president a got only 299,000. This would not have heading for the queen's village. few years later, Louis Borno, hardly been significant if it had occurred in When he finally reached the village relished the popularity of La Gon-ave- 's one month only. But in May, the he was ushered, still somewhat mys- subdistrict commander, or the services asked Selective Service for thought that a "king," official or un- 303,000 men, got only 264,000. Howofficial, was in charge of one of his ever, there was no complaint from provinces. So eventually Wirkus either the army or navy. Again, in une, the services asked was transferred to another West Infor 320.000 men, but got only 288,000. dies station. In July, they asked for 355,000 but Before that happened, though, the got only 289,000, only slightly more adventure - loving leatherneck than the June figure despite the fact proved himself a good and kindly that the quota requested by the administrator. The natives greeted him with "Bon soir, Roi," or "Good army and navy had been increased. In August, the army-nav- y request evening, King," and he was forever to 299,000, and the draft amused at the intense interest the dropped natives took in his everyday affairs. boards supplied only 221,000 men, a Often they stood around his home, scant 75 per cent of the number asked for. In September, the army-nav- y just to watch him dress. quota was 313,000 men, but As "King," of course, he had no only 214,000 or 70 per cent got they more authority than he had before. In the eyes of his marine associates of what they asked for. However, at no time did the in the Gendarmerie, he was still armed services make any protest. merely subdistrict commander. He received no pay for his kingly tiUe, They seemed content to coast along and his stay on the island was as with what the draft boards were givroutine as before. To him, it was ing them. This was all during the period just a high compliment. when the father-drawas under In 1925 Wirkus was transferred to another station in the West Indies. serious discussion and when the ad It was a sad occasion, when "The ministration was taking a vigorous White King of La Gonave" bade his stand that fathers had to be drafted. What the answer is, no one quite The natives lined knows. people goodby. 1 officers Highup army-nav- y the shores and cheered as Queen Ti probably know but won't talk. 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