Prisoners & Fugitives

Ex-Premier Paul Reynaud was allowed to leave his Vals-les-Bains prison under heavy guard to visit his ailing 94-year-old mother for a few hours. sbsb Dr. Alexis Carrel, last reported detained in Occupied France, is now reported by Vichy to be studying malnutrition in Belgium. sbsb Salvationist General Evangeline Booth's niece, Colonel Mary Booth, was found in a detention camp in southern Germany.

sbsbThriller-Diller E. Phillips Oppenheim got back safely to England from the Riviera, mum about how he did it. sbsbU.S. Newspaper Correspondent Jay C. Allen, imprisoned at Chaumont by the Nazis for trying to slip into Unoccupied France, was given a mutton-sleeves nightshirt, a French copy of GWTW, hoped to get out this week when his go-day term expires.

John D. Rockefeller Jr., World's No. 1 Giver, had some advice for United Service Organizations fund solicitors: "Don't use the holdup method. . . . Don't tell people that it is their duty . . . never embarrass a prospect . . . don't ask friends at theaters and teas. . . . Never apologize. . . ."

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