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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
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MANY MAYFAIRITEs. lingering in town talk
ing what delightful Summer Detroit has
turned out 10 be
DR.. and Mrs Frank j. Sladen and family usually
this date down al the Belmont in Harwich Cape
Cod.
home from Mount Holyoke. and Frank Jr.,...
home from Yale oath 10 leave Detroit
They having fun no end here
All the Sladens spend their vacations together.
But lnin will break up this happy family circle
for few days. she dashes down to New York
She o be a bridesmaid for Mary Louise Peck
her great friend and former roommate at Mount
Hoyoke who is marrying Tony Trainor August Is -.
The other members of the family may join min in the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23

She brought back her small daughter Elizabeth
who had been there a on her annual visit . TO
her grandparents.
Mrs. Gordon Woodward will be home on Saturday from
Chicago where she is visiting her sister. Mrs James
McFarrin.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodward who not to be deferred
by the gasoline ruling will leave about
motor trip through eastern Canada 80.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
Young Sons Of Dupont Newbros Jr. Back

THE YOUNG of the Dupont Newbros r..
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
Miss Constant
To Give Party

MISS CONNIE CONSTANT
has invited ~several friends 10
Eastwood Gardens Friday eve
ming, when Frank Clark will be
her escort.
In the party viii be Miss
Mary Lauth and Gerry JaniSSe.
Miss Rheta PLACER and Art
Dannecker. Miss Doris Voelker
and Joe Bellardi, Miss June
Mcclellan and Gordon Jones.
Miss Mickey Tucker and Bill
-Nfttt1eiti '---------
MRS. ABN Err HELEN
PORTER of Stocpcl avenue and
J. William Porter OF San Fran
cisco, Cal. announce the engage
ment OF their daughter. Marilyn
Anne. 10 James O. Whitpman.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23

pont III. and DAVID.
have just come back. from
the kind of vacation that de-
lights every real boy.
They went with tn cir
parents. :. ON a fishing and
camping trip. lon the Au-
Sable. -.
This was their first ex-
perience of trout fishing. -.
and rnughing it
And now. that lovely
Summer home of the Newbros
at Lake Angelus. ;. has
little attraction for the boys.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
Mrs. BaIIantyne and Sons TO Harbor Pointe

MR. AND MRS. HOWARD BALLANTYNE. =. and sons
Howard Jr. and Ted who the Choate
School will 80 10 Habor Pointe the end Of July
The Haldeman Finnes. .debutane daughter, Janet.
and David will spend August the Huron Mountain Club
Robert is at Camp Nissokone Oscoda. -.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
Redfields TO Leave

THE JOHN V. RED
FIELDS. -. and son ;. Bruce
will desert their Crosse
Pointe home August !. for
that romantic Summer home
....Singing Pines....on
Grand Island, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
They Respond TO Call Of the North

THE CALL of the North....
The John Fowler Trows. visiting the Lou MaXons
at their lodge. in northern Michigan.
The Rollo Detwilers and DR.. and Mrs Stewart Ham
lton. up at their cottages at Ponte NiPiGon.
The Albert Roomes will motor up Saturday. e. to
spend several weeks there. at the inn
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
Mrs. Newbro Due

MRS. DUPONT NEW
BRO. who spends most of
the year now. in Pasadena,
Cal. lis arriving today.
to VISIT her son and daugh-
ter-in-law. :. and see all her
old friends. -.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-23
Mrs. Hecker Returns

NJ r S. r | c II A r d
HECKER has been over in
Chicago. visiting her par
ents. -. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-05

1t took a war in Europe to do it,
but the U. S. army is now doing a
whirlwind job of replacing cavalry
with tanks and armored cars. Even
Secretary Of War Stimson's aide,
Col. Eugene Regnier, has gone in
for mechanization.
Commenting whimsically on this
the other day, Secretary Stimson
said: After riding horses all his
life, Gene is now commanding the
first reconnaissance battalion Of the
First Cavalry division. He rides in
a bantam scout car and has ar
mored carr and tanks under his
command. l tell him this is strange
for a man who has sworn that
horses are the only thing in life.
But he says it takes the brains Of
a good cavalryman to handle q
mechanical unit"
Note-Colonel Regnier deserted
his swivel-chair job in Washington
for Ell Paso. Texas, where Gen.
Innes P. Swift commands one of the
most active army posts in the
country.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-05
PLEDGE:
From FDR

The var course of the United
States was more firmly charted by
President Roosevelt's "6reside
CHAT" yet the reactions abroad were
considered as more important than
that at home, enthusiastic though it
was.
For the President went "all-out"
on the diplomatic limb for a victory
for Britain and China, pledging a
continuance of United States aid to
the embattled democracies, and
promising wider action when and if
needed.
The speech was believed to have
settled the convoy question, the
strike issue, the use of the navy in
furtherance of a British victory,
many other questions which had
kept the people Of this country in a
nightmarish condition of not know
ing what was coming next"
Virtually all of the American edi-
torial comment was favorable,
though many Of the editorial writ
ers took the stand that succeeding
events would show how much of the
Presidents talk was words-how
much would be backed by action.
Night following Mr.. R%oosevelt's
speech, Sen. Burton X. Wheeler of
Montana took the radio to inform
the nation regarding the stand Of the
opposition to the Presidents pol
icies. He asked the President for a
new pledge of peace"
Rome newspapers cut the Gordian
knot and stated that the u. S. WAS
virtually in the war" German press
took a more literal view of the Pres
ident's speech, referred only to his
freedom of the seas" dictum,
called the United States a nation at
tempting to be dictator of the seas.
German government sources said:
"Our ships have been ordered to
continue the blockade of Britain, to
sink all ships coming within the
combat zones. and these orders have
not been rescinded and will not be-"
Lease-lend ships had been sunk
and there was no question about it,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-05
MERRY-GO-ROUND

The appointment Of ex-senator
Sherman Minton Of Indiana to the
U. S. court of appeals makes the
third judicial reward for a member
Of the famous senate lobby investi.
eating committee, whose sensation
al exposes Of utility lobbying led to
the holding company law. Hugo
Black Of Alabama, chairman, Is q
Supreme court justice, and Lewis
Schwellenbach is a federal district
fudge in Washington.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-05
NEAR-EAST:
And africa

The Reich. apparently fearful that
American aid to Britain might
change the situation, particularly in
the Near-East and in North Africa,
was speeding up all effort, spear
headed by the Battle of Crete, to
gain control of the Mediterranean
before the aid began flowing full
force.
1t might have been for this reason
that the British felt fairly good over
the Battle Of Greece and the Battle
Of Crete. no matter what the out
come. for they pointed out that
Greece and Crete had taken the Ger
mans longer than the entire cam
paign against Norway, France and
the Low Countries.
1t was the British feeling that the
wider the land battle spread itself,
the worse for Germany, and no
worse for Britain. because she had
to so dispose her forces that all battle
fronts were guarded anyway.
There were thousands upon thou
sands OF British troops. well armed
and equipped, sitting on their
hands in England, in Singapore and
In India.
So the British were trying des-
perately to overcome the Nazi-
controlled Gallant government in
Iraq SO as to be able still more to
delay the eventual tall Of Suez,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-05
MMmNbn
MeRRFG0>RouAD
M GA pREw RE4ESNW
A4AA9
Washington, d. C..
TEST

For National Defense chiefs, June
holds a special significance. 1t will
indicate whether government opera
ton of railroads may be necessary.
In June the nations railroads will
meet their first crucial test of
whether they are adequately
equipped to handle the enormous
increase in freight resulting from
the defense program.
When the wheat harvest starts in
the Texas Panhandle and continues
north, the carriers will be on the
spot to prove their determined con-
tention that there is no shortage of
freight cars. and that they a cope
with the great demands Of the de-
tense program without the govern
ment taking them over as in the
World war.
Railroad moguls are fully aware
that they face a decisive showdown,
and they r making tremendous
efforts to meet it.
Twenty-Five thousand cars have
been modified to handle the Texas
crop and a strict rule has been laid
down that they must be kept rolling.
Cars will not be allowed TO be used
for storage purposes. II a ship
ment can't be unloaded without de-
lay, cars will not be released.
Cars will be peremptorally re-
called if shippers don't load. Cir
cuitous routing is being eliminated.
And the railroads themselves are
now distributing the materials and
equipment they will need months
hence, so that the maximum num-
Der of cars will be available in the
peak season next autumn. This
alone is expected to release 20, 900
freight cars.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-05

One of the diversions of Washing.
ton newsmen is listening to verbal
exchanges between Joseph Chang,
Chinese correspondent. and Mitsui
Kato. Japanese correspondent here
in the capital. After a recent con.
%versation between the two in which
Kato assured Chang that the Chi.
nese were already talking peace, the
latter remarked: Its a good thing
! have American training in humor."
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-05
WNU Service, 1343 H Street,
Washington, D.. C.

washington, d. G..
Dollars!
At last they are beginning to
worry Washington. Not the ones
going out of the treasury-we can
take that in Dur stride. But the ones
rolling into pay envelopes and start
ing to burst forth again is such ex-
element that everybody is afraid
that the noise is going to scare
prices up a tall tree.
Wages today are the highest in
history. And as one official re-
marked to me: IF something isn't
done We'll have imitation and a
slump that will be streamlined. 1t
will make the old-timers wish they
had their old Model T depression
back again."
Some people put the blame other
places but this is the story that
friends of the administration tell.
Leon Henderson, price car, hoped
to keep prices from running away
by using moral suasion or legal eff
fort to keep industrial prices from
going beyond a certain level. There
were two reasons for that: to get
down costs in essential defense COM
modities; to control prices on basic
materials like steel which always
take other costs up when they rise
themselves.
Next, to achieve a balance be-
tween agricultural prices and 9TH
ers, the government would support
farm prices up to a certain point.
Lastly, a certain amount of elas-
ITCHY in wages would be allowed in
order to prevent strikes.
But what happened?
Wages Reach Peak.
Workers demanded. and as I
stated. are getting, the highest
wages in history. Workers wanted
to get their slice of the money the
government is spending or defense.
Then the friends of the farmer
came along. They said the farmer
might as well cut a melon. too.
Willie ule Cutting WdS SOOu. E1ilO 81
congress voted an increase in crop
loan rates, which the President said
might push certain products above
parity.
And so the result is more dollars
for the consumer to spend and less
things for him to spend them on.
especially since the defense indus
tries have to beat their sewing ma
chimes into tanks and the like.
When the demand is big enough
and the supply is small enough it
takes all the kings horses and all
the kings men to keep prices down.
You can't repeal the law Of supply
and demand. However, the pros
poets are that congress will be
asked at least to try to amend it. In
other words some drastic price con
troll measures will be taken. A fat
ceiling will be established for GER
tain goods and then. unless a method
is adopted for getting folks to lock
up those extra dollars with no place
to 60, nobody knows what will hap
pen.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-05
Peace Pickets
muddy the Water

"Muddying the waters"-it seems
to me that l have heard that phrase
more and more often recently. There
is a good example of it right in front
of the White House every day-in
fact "a hours a day while the Amer
lean Peace Mobilization pickets
stroll backward and forward, day
and night.
I watched them in the bright sun
Of noon. And as l looked at each
face-we stared brazenly at each
other-I felt sur some we're sincere
believers that war of any kind was
wrong-some were fanatics joining
a cause for the sake of joining.
Some were simply indulging in an
exhibition complex and some were
cleverly ''muddying the waters"
The leader of the line was a girl
in a military cut jacket: she was
carrying a United States flag. She
looked straight at me as she ap-
preached and as she drew nearer I
noted the strong oriental cast Of her
features.
Next to her was a man carrying
a placard and a lantern (the light
Of peace). He had deepset eyes
that burned with the light of the
fanatic. Gray hair, sunken cheeks,
the stoop of Illustration. You have
heard the type rant on any emo
tional subject. He shuffled past.
Man Is Self-Conscious.
Next "a a serious-looking, aver.
age man in glasses. He was the
only one who looked at me a little
self-consciously. He carried a ban
ner with the commonplace request
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-05
CRETE:
Takes Turn

The turn of events in the Battle
OF Crete was against the British
Greek defenders, and while the news
vas not decisive, British reports
showed that the defenders expected
to lose the battle, and the Germans
were definite in claiming victory.
The Reich. however, claimed that
all would be owe long before it was,
and seemed inclined to minimize the
cost Of the fight.
The British attitude, while deplor-
ing still another disaster to her
arms was that "the fight was gal
liant, and the troops stood up under
constant bombing longer than any,
one had expected"
Thus again the airplane was the
turn of the battle, for in the fight
for Crete the British had the best Of
it on the sea. sending a reported
5000 Germans to the bottom, and
preventing the landing of sea-borne
troops while still landing some
quantities of reinforcements them
selves.
On land, also, the British at the
outset had the superior force, and
all forces opposed to them had
come in by plane.
This, from the German standpoint,
was the highly favorable result of the
campaign, that an army, with no
land approach, could still be landed
and take an island away from occu-
plying forces who had some time to
prepare their positions.
The formula? Simply to gain
first, mastery Of the air; second. to
be willing to land men with modern
weapons, even light tanks and light
feldpieces, in such ~ever-fowing
quantities, regardless Of losses, so
that the enemy will finally be out
numbered; third, to keep a relent-
less bombing of the enemy from the
skies during the battle, and an end
less supply Of ammunition, also
from the skies, for the air-borne
army.
Data that Hitler's men were able
to accumulate included the fact that
artillery alone cannot make an air
field %unusable, despite the hundreds
Of shell craters created. Evidently
these can be repaired even under
fire, and the field still used.
Germans wondered (and British
did tool whether this formula for
the battle of Crete might not be
transferred to Britain, and result in
the capture of the British Isles. But
the British felt that while the tech
nique had worked in Crete, might it
not fail over England, where air.
mastery could hardly be won by an
enemy willing only to come over at
night; where instead of a few thou
sands of air-borne soldiers, close to
a million would have to be sent.
The general British feeling was
let them try it, we are ready-and
indeed the enormous British army
of defense might well be straining
for action. with the Tommies in
North Africa, Crete and the Balkans
getting it all.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-05
IZs.ZZ.ZZZ.ZZZZZ.
High Wages, Crop Loans -
Threaten Cost of Living
Price Control Measures Considered Likely:
Peace Lovers Picket White House;
Hull Reveals Post War Plans.
By BAUKHAGE
National Farm md Home Hour Commentator.

to "join the peace movement"
There were others but by this time
l was feeling a little self-conscious
myself, so I grinned at the police
men and they grinned back. There
were two of them guarding the
pickets who had been attacked at
least twice by overpatriotic soldiers.
Two more bluecoats stood at the
White House gates for when there
are demonstrations no one can en-.
ter the grounds without proper iden-
LITIGATION. AS l went in I heard one
of them reporting at the call-box
Everything going fine out here"
But I wondered.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-05

The largest telegraph Office in the
government is located in the de-
partment Of agriculture. Last year
two major telegraph companies did
a million dollars worth Of business
from this one federal agency.
Kindly Draft is the name of q
young man registered for selective
service training in Aiken county,
South Carolina.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-05
OPM'S:
Report

Following a year Of OPM function
ing, Knudsen gave the country, at
about the time Of the Presidents
epochal address, information which
was more encouraging than any,
thing that had come before.
Mass production, said Knudsen,
was really now beginning to roll,
with planes in April 1900, in May
1000, and similar increases, some
Of them more spectacular. all along
the line.
The use Of Cataline planes in the
Bismarck battle showed that there
we're few British encounters now in
which American-made equipment
was not functioning.
Then along came the Presidents
speech, asking for doubling Of this,
TRIPPING Of that, and three billions
for planes-and in spite Of the pres
sure which his demands put on the
industrial situation, it began to be
possible for Americans to visualize
$4,000 planes, 10000 tanks, and some
Of the other goals this country had
set itself.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-05
VICHY:
ActiUe Again

That Vichy was implementing her
German aid vas seer in British dis
patches which told of the sinking Of
two French flag vessels in the Medi-
terranean, one of them a 5, 000-ton
tanker loaded with oil and headed
for Tripoli.
At the same time the British re-
ported the sinking of an ID, OO0-ton
Axis liner, presumably Italian, car
rying 5000 German troops to the
same destination.
These dispatches pointed, dis
quietingly enough, to proof of one
Of two things, possibly of both.
Either there was being planned a
strong increase in the battle Of
North Africa, or the Germans were
moving in force to Dakar to create
a strong base there.
Either Of these was d%isquieting
enough, particularly the latter, from
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-05
Conscientious Directors.

Announcements that LOO consci.
entious DIRECTORS will report to nom
military training camps in the next
few weeks are a lot of hooey. Real
fact is that only POI draft registrants
have even been classed as genuine
religious directors.
Out of the 5000, 900 questionnaires
received from draft e~ligibles. less
than $500 sought exemption on the
ground of religious scruples. OF
this number, 20l have been OK'd so
far. They will train in eight camps
as follows:
Fifty at Camp Patapsco. Elkridge,
Md; IA at Grottoes. Va; u at
Lagro, Ind; 80 at San Dimes.
Calf; 10 at Richmond, Ind; 40 at
Marietta, Ohio: 80 at Colorado
Springs. Colo; 10 at Cooperstown.
N. Y.
While operated by the govern.
ment, the camps are financed by
private funds. supplied chiefly by
the Quakers, Mennonites. and Unit
ed Brethren. In some instances the
men pay their own costs, at the
rate Of S35 a month.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-05

whether they had been patrolled or
conveyed by U. S. naval ships or
not. But so far no American flag
ships had been sen to the bottom,
for they had been keeping out of
combat zones.
But that they would be sunk in the
future no one seemed to doubt, and
America interestedly, rather than
%anxiously, looked for that day to see
what action would be taken.
The first shots to be exchanged be-
tween American-flag naval vessels
and German planes, surface raiders
or submarine was still to be fired,
but most observers expected that,
following the Presidents talk that
this firing was just a matter of time,
and that it might not be long.
The British reaction to the presi-
dental address was prompt and Jul
bflant. They accepted the pledge
Of American aid of a more complete
and vigorous type than heretofore
with enthusiasm. though the British
man in the street." moi c%onversant
with Americas problems and politi-
cal battlings, was rather befuddled
by It all.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-06-05
SHIP:
For Ship

Down to the bottom of the Atlantic
ocean went H. M. S. Hood, AZ. 100
tons, with about 1900 men aboard,
victim Of al "unlucky hit from the
15-inch guns Of the Reich's great
battleship Bismarck.
Three days later. down to the bot
tom Of the same Atlantic went the
Bismarck, victim Of a lucky hit"
on her propellers from a British
torpedo plane.
But the whole Bismarck story, OBJ
servers generally felt, might change,
If it had not already changed, the
whole story of naval warfare. It
brought the airplane into new PROM
i%nence, and showed that this arm of
present-day navies had not been CIV
en- the notice it deserved.
Indeed. the plane-battleship con-
troversy got a sharper answer dur
ing the past few weeks from the
Hood-Bismarck battle and the Cretan
encounter of the Mediterranean
British fleet with the Stukas than it
a thus Tar IN the war.
In both of these battles the planes
gave a good account of themselves.
The British admitted the loss of two
cruisers and four destroyers. in the
battle of Crete, and while the ships
Of war prevented any ship-crossing
to the island, 1t was at terrific cost.
It is true that planes cost a good
deal, but it takes around a million
dollars to build a destroyer, and
anywhere from 10 to 30 millions for
a bigger cruiser, and those millions
lost in the Crete battle would have
bought ever more than the ''hun-
dreds" of Stukas engaged. anu only
relatively few Of which were lost.