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Evening star., 1941-05-20
Chicago Grain
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 20-Disappoint-
ment over President Roosevelt's
failure to mention at his press con-
ference the farm loan measure now
awaiting his signature and a liberal
movement of wheat to terminal
markets checked early rising ten
denotes of the wheat market today.
Final prices were fractionally below
the previous close.
Early strength in the market was
attributed in part to firmness in
oils and fats and to the expectation
that the parity farm loan measure
would soon become a law.
Corn futures held relatively firm
most of the session.
Wheat closed 1s-3s cents lower
than Mondays final prices; May.
1.O1; July. 995s-1a; corn was ls-ss
higher; May, 1888; July, 1872, and
oats were Is off to 9s up.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Duff Appointed Manager
OF Northeast AirIines

Donald A. Duff, just appointed
this month as Eastern division
traffic manager for Pennsylvania
Central Airlines. has relinquished
that post to accept a position with
Northeast Airlines, with offices in
Boston, it was learned today
Duff, who has been with PC. A.
here for more than three years, will
Evening star., 1941-05-20
|OH Production
Gains Slightly
During Week
By the Associated Press.

TULSA, May 20-With the heav-
lest increase in Kansas, daily crude
oil production IN the United States
rose 45,670 barrels to 3,794,40 for
the week ended May II, the Oil and
Gas Journal reported today.
Kansas production was up 21,350
to 218,200; California, 1925 to 641,-
$50; eastern fields, 1910 to 110,830;
Louisiana, 4.340 to 314,320; Michi-
gan, $50 to 38.405; Oklahoma, 1850
to 415,400; Rocky Mountain States.
2,540 to 103.160, and Texas, $3.50 to
1,403 300.
Illinois production declined 1,945
to 322100, and East Texas was off
100 to 73,700.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
What Stocks Did.
American
Ruling to Be
Appealed
Y the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. May 20-The Sc
curities and Exchange Commission
ruling that American Gas & Electric
Co. is subsidiary of Electric Bond
& Share Co. will be appealed to the
courts, stockholders of the former
were told at their annual meeting
today.
The announcement said the COM
pany believed the S. E. C's ruling
would complicate compliance with
the Public Utility Act of 1885.
Three new directors, H H. SoUle.
w. J. Jeffers and NJ. A. Tinkham.
were elected tO fill vacancies.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Erie RuiIroud Net
Far Above Year AGO
BY tie Associated Press.

BY the Associated FTeSS-
CLEVELAND, May 20. - Erie
Railroad today reported April net
railway operating income of 81 1885,
203, up sharply from the S543975 for
April. 1910. Income available for
fixed charges was $1,421 1926.
Before the road went into re-
organization the charges were ST.
100, O,404; under the pending reorgani-
zation plan the charges, with leased
road rentals, would be about $780,
900.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Toxic Market Higher
By the Associated Press.

TOXIC, May 20.-The stock
market went considerably higher
today as traders concluded that
President Roosevelt's scheduled May
27 speech would not place the United
States actually in the war. Nippon
Yuser Kaisha, shipping issue,
was among the leaders in the ad-
vance. N. Y. K. operates a world
wide service.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Box Cars Ordered

NEW YORK, May 20 Op).-Direc-
tors of the Kansas City Southern
Railway authorized today purchase
Of 200 box cars. in addition to 5o
auto box cars. two 2,O00-horsepover
Diesel-electric passenger locomotives
and one 1,000-horsepower Diesel
switching locomotive ordered Last
month.
Evening star., 1941-05-20

become general traffic and sales
manager for the Northeast Airlines,
which is headed by Samuel j.
Solomon, former manager of Wash
ington Airport.
Duff has been engaged in air
transportation since 1880, having
first become affiliated with
predecessor company of the present
Pennsylvania Central Airlines in
Pittsburgh in that year. Previous
to coming to Washington in 1887 he
served PC A. as district manager
in Pittsburgh, division manager at
Detroit and director of publicity and
advertising.
A graduate of the University of
Pittsburgh, Duff is a resident of
Arlington County, Va.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Winnipeg Prices
WINNIPEG. May 90 LPl.-Grain range

May .31T4 .3bTs .31ls 36L
Cash wheat, No. l Northern, rs: No >
a3t2; No. 3. = ls. Oats, No. 2 white,
37ls; No. white, 343s 'e
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Tile Shipments Up

The Census Bureau says manufac-
turers of floor and wall tile shipped
sl,386,523 worth of products to GUS
toners in March, compared with ST.
117,459 in February and $1,165, 1882
in March Of last year.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Net.

Unit trading.
In bankruptcy recevershp
Bankruptcy Act. securities
Rates OF dividends the foregoing are
nursernts based the last
Unless otherwise
included
ID Ex dividends xr Ex rghts Also
stock PAID last Payable
dvdehds paid declared - ~
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Chicago Cash Market.

Chicago Cash Market.
Wheat. No 3 red. 02i4: sample mixed,
50 No 3 hard, 1.Oli4 Corn, No. / vel
low, 74l2-75l4' No. yellow. old, rs; No. @
yellow, 14-75; No. 3 I2l2-7394: No 2
white, S1a4: sample Grade. 1910. Oats,
No l mixed. heavy. 81: No. . mixed, 81:
No. white, heavy. 3s94; No. white. 3sIA;
No > white. heavy, 3Si2: No 3 white. 3634:
No 4, 36i2-31: No. 4 white, heavy. 36L;
sample grade white, 35i4 Barley, mating
$3.50, nominal; feed, 1885, nominal:
screenings 35-54. nominal; No. / mailing,
barley. 67-6s; No. ?, IS. Soy beans, No
l.32-1 .34A; sample grade, yellow 20.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
REYNOLDS Merits Ii

TOR several weekssince the death of Senator Sheppard
i of Texas left the place administrator Robert R.
Reynolds of North Carolina has been acting chairman
of the Senate military affairs committee.
The reason why Senator Reynolds is the ACTING
chairman that he is the RANKING Democratic member
Under the established rules and traditions of the
Senate Mr. Reynolds should become the REGULAR chair
man IMMEDIATELY.
He would thereby occupy the office PERMANENTLY
in the same way the late Senator Sheppard did by
SENIORITY and PROMOTION.
The great value to the country and to Congress of
this method of filling charmanships is that it removes
these important positions from petty log-rollng and
political trading; and that it makes for party responsible
y. while at the time giving the nation the benefit
of years of experience and specialized knowledge which
necessarily the RANKING PARTY MEMBER of i'm
portant committee must have acquired.
IN ALMOST every instance in the entire history of Con-
gress chairmanshps have been filled in this orderly way
automatically, it and, in nearly all cases,
satisfactorily
Why, then. has not Senator Reynolds received the
Craftsmanship which he has earned and has qualified him
self to hold?
One reason that he has earned the wll of radicals
and Communists by endeavong to rid the land of danger
and criminal aliens; by defeating repeated attempts
sabotage immigration laws; and by sponsoring pro-
posed legislation TO make the existing laws more effective
A MOTHER reason is that Senator Reynolds has in
a CURED the enmty of interventionists and prowar
advocates by abog to keep the country out of foreign
Senator Reynolds formal appointment to the chair
manshp of the military affairs committee must be made
by the Senate steering committee.
Pressure has been sufficient to induce the steering
committee to delay taking the appropriate and customary
action obviously in the hope that continued propaganda
and pressure will influence the Senate to scute its
rules and deprive Mr.. Reynolds of his right and oppor
tunity to America
This radical poltcal-pro-war effort CAN BE DE-
FEATED, and WILL BE DEFEATED if those Americans
who want America to STAY OUT OF THE WAR will
write to THEIR senators at Washington in support of
Senator Reynolds.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
BAERlNG DOWN ON THE NEWS:
Who tSNiN THNf?
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

Would it you if advocate preparedness arose
in Congress and yelled claws may be vulgar but
you see very few panthers hanging butcher shops?
Or if he said gentlemen, when diplomat Of old Japan
bows with peaceful smile beneath delicate blossoms of
gentle cherry tree that 50 just been
launched in old Nippon?
Or, zone place the lachsrng always out is on the
American cash register?
Or, we got into this European because of the sign
language. They asked to sign this and sign And
did?
Or, and we hrew span of boats the ocean like
beautiful ralnbow-that appears when the over?
Or don't let any capillary of doubt hesitation
proclaim that our national flag shall be the
fear-sprinkled banner?
Or, and another Congress slides back into the history
it did not help 70 make?
Or, one country, flag and one home. but gosh how
many instruments?
Would you say that the alert legislator right on the
button and as timely mayonnase chopped cabbage? You
certainly would.
What would you say when tel lau Ina. .sf.e- All of
them 70 years 1921? And they appeared in the
newspapers Of America that time
Distributed sse.s service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
Don Juan's I004+h Conquest
Heads Into Musical Snaq
BY BENJAMIN DE CAsSERES

IN MY more or less exhaustive
= histories of the Don Juans,
fctional and real-suggested by
the new King of Spain" Don
juan left out one of the most
famous and exciting OF Don
Juans.
He is known to opera fans
and music lovers as Don Gio-
vanni" utalian for Don juan.
1t was Mozart who put the hero
of a thousand and three con-
quests (actual county, to music.
In the Mozart-Da Ponte story,
Don Juan and his rascally SER
want, Leporello. break into the
house, in the dead of night. of
the commandant of Seville. Don
is after Donna Anna. the daugh-
ter of the commandant. He
wants TO make her his one
thousand and fourth love-scalp
Anna. however. is betrothed
10 watery-eyed fellow named
Don Ottawa. So she spuTns
DonS advanceS-in fact, she
yelps at the top of her soprano
voice for help.
HER father, the commandant
IL comes TO the rescue. lie is
neatly bumped off by Don Juan,
who escapes with Leporello over
the garden wall.
While going through the
streets Of Seville he encounters
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
Boo Boo Hoff's Eccen+rici+y---
Pinging Tinfoi| Wads at You
BY DAMON RUNYON

activity was legend and how
much truth we cannot say. The
law never pinned anything def
mite on him. Rumor connected
him with the most fantastic pu-
gilistlc plots. but here again no
positive evidence was produced.
However. for years Boo Boo
was an infrequent visitor TO New
York City because of a suspicion
in the mind of Johnny Broderick,
the famous Broadway detective,
whose prowess against hoodlums
is proverbial
This suspicion had to do with
an epidemic of NAL de mer that
swept the Atlantic City training
camp Of the mighty Jack Demp-
sey not long before Dempsey's
first fight with Gene Tunney in
Philadelphia.
IT SEEMS that the epidemic
L followed a repaSt at which
Detective Johnny erick
was guest II could have
been due 10 ordinary ptomaine.
of course, but Johnny thought
not He SurmiSed that the con-
trlbutlng cause was liberal
distribution of the good old
Michele Finnberger, or Mickey
Finn, a powder that produces
seaSickneSS doubled in spades
Why Johnny'S suspicious fell
upon Boo Boo as having
knowledge of the distribution
we do not know, but Johnny
was never one to suspect lightly.
After one brief interview with
John. Boo Boo" gave the big
city miss for long spell,
although he always denied know
ing anything about the Finn
berger
1t was supposed that the in
tent was TO disturb DempseY's-
training, and Dempsey himself
thought his illness had some
thing TO do with his defeat by
Tunney. Maybe. Personally we
always felt he covered the stu
alton more completely when he
returned from battle consider
ably bunged up TO EStelle Tay-
lor. then his wife. waiting for
him at tn cir hotel, and she
asked:
"Why. what on earth hap
pened?"
81 forgot to duck. honey" re-
piled the now eX-champion Of
the world.
Copyright. 1871. King Features synd.. Inc.
Distributed by international News Services
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09

Donna Elvira, whom the Span
ish rascal had not done right by.
Pah! Don passes on. and runs
into a wedding party. He tries
TO grab off the bride. Zerlina-
a real beauty. Donna Elvira,
however, operatically appears TO
expose Don to Zerlina.
Don then gives a grand ball
in his palace 10 Zerlina and her
peasant friends. Still no dice!
GO DON wanderS into a ceme-
~ terry where there is a marble
statue of the commander. whom
he killed. as you will recall. Don
invites the statue TO dine with
him.
He gives a swell blowout TO
all the women whom he has
known, and while the orgy is
at its height the commander,
still in stony attire. knocks at
the door.
lie has answered the invita-
ton and how, Don takes his
stone hand in welcome. And
that, believe me. folks, was no
odd Fellows friendly handShake.
Don cant get free. In fact,
the floor opens underneath the
whole plaStered party. flames
shoot up, and down goes Don
Giovanni TO the place where you
can't buy ice or sell radiators.
So we'll say good-by 10 Don
Giovanni, Don John of Austria
and Don Juan OF Spain of today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
L e If ers TO
The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:


THE fear of war has come over
= us all almost like an cpl
demic. Everybody seems to
suffer from this fear. May l
offer the antidote for that fear?
When during these last weeks
l read in the newspapers 1T
won't be long now" or when lis
tening to war talks by men, even
officials from Washington. pre-
pairing us for the inevitable" I
then quietly reach for my anti
dote, a piece of paper dated
Oct. 20, 1910.
Il reads: Fathers and moth
ers, I give you one more aSsur-
ance. / have said this before.
bu: I shall say it again and
again. Your boys are not going
to be sent to any foreign war.
l must confess, l look at these
words oftener and oftener as the
war cries are getting louder and
palmer.
l draw strength and comfort
from those words which the
President spoke on this red
letter day for American fathers
ard mothers in quiet and
serene voice: Your boys are
not going to be sent to any
foreign war.
I want To call to the readers
minds that this promise was not
given right at the start of the
Presidents reelection campaign.
1t was not given in the fashion
of Mr.. RooseveltS political COM
petitor, who gave the same
promise almost right from the
start of his campaign, gave II
quickly and forgot it just as
quickly.
Mr.. Roosevelt's promise was
deliberate and one could feel he
MAS fully aware of lis meaning
And | for one believe he still
means it. He stated that there
were no secret treaties, no COM
mitments with any other nation.
But the whole world is wit
ness TO the fact that he made
a sacred and open treaty with
the fathers and mothers of his
own country and we believe he
will honor that treaty.
We average citizens have not
the funds to spend on efforts TO
keep us out of war. but If the
fathers and mothers get jittery.
! would suggest that they should
send a penny postal TO our PreSi-
dent, repeating his promise word
for word. telling HIM that his
words are the silver lining in
the dark war clouds.
Tell HIM that his promise is
part of your nightly prayer and
that you won't forget 10 say It
and he won't forget 10 keep it.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09

WE REMEMBER Max boo
W Boot Hoff. the picturesquely
monickered little man who died
in his home town of Philadel-
phia the other day, chiefly for a
unique diversion. He used to
keep a side pocket of his coat
full of tinfoil missiles which he
could propel with singing force
from a catapult formed of a
rubber band between a thumb
and forefinger. His passion was
pelting cops.
One of the duties of the girls
in his office, in the prohibition
days when he had an office and
was reputed a figure of conse-
quence in underworld circles in
Philly, was to roll up tight
lengths of tinfoil. then snip
these lengths into pieces of
about an inch and bend the
pieces into a V shape so they
would fit nicely into Boo Boos"
rubber band.
When his car would come to
a halt in the traffic lights, Boo
Boo would sit there Sniping the
traffic cops. He was very cum
ming in his gunnery and could
fire with his hands in his lap
with amazing accuracy.
4 S MAY be imagined. it an
"A noyed the minions of the
law no little to be stung by the
pellets and there would be
great glazing around at innocent
bystanders. After a while most
of the Philadelphia cops became
familiar with the source of the
shooting and accepted it laugh
ingly as an eccentricity of a dis
tinguiShed citizen.
In fact, he was lust a vague
memory of a brighter day, and
he probably realized that cops
will not take much off of memo
ries. Or perhaps he no longer
had any one to roll his ammuni-
ton.
We understand that of late
years Boo Boo" had discreetly
abandoned his bombardment of
the cops. however. He had long
since run out of money and thus
had suffered a decline in the So
cial scale and lost his standing
as a distinguished citizen.
He used 10 vary his targets
at times. In the Summer he
loved 10 come upon lady pcdes-
TRANS of ample beam crossing
the streets In traffic or walking
along the sidewalks and tag
them where their thin dresses
fitted tightest.
His fire was ineffective in the
Winter against heavy wraps. Oc-
caSionally some lady'S eye would
be quicker than Boo Boo's"
hand and he would get tongue
lashing as singing as his shots.
But that just made him laugh.
YOU Will observe that he was
L prankish little man. 1t
was the fashion among the char
acters of his type in those days.
He was a bug about prize
fighters and for entertaining the
figures of the sports world who
visited Philadelphia.
He managed stable of gladi-
ators and loved climbing in and
out of a ring in a seconds
sweater. He maintained a big
suite Of rooms in a downtown
-hetei IN Pfriiadcipi1ia IN prohibit
tion times where the liquor
flowed freely for all corners. He
seemed TO have a world of
money.
How much Of his underworld
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
Nov @ 1910

Mussolini says let facts speak
for themselves" as his country
celebrates their fourth anniver-
sary as a new empire.
British submarines attack Ger
man convoy and sink two trans
ports, carrying troops TO Norway.
French artillery and infantry
stop Germans advancing east OF
Moselle River.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
MARIE j. MAUPAI,
1895 Ilene avenue.
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
I EFT every good citizen write
II or wire the members of the
committee on military affairs of
Congress asking an unfavorable
report on Senate Bill $50 and
H. r. 1000.
Don't let the cancer of ma
tional prohibition take root in
the United States again.
The ostensible purpose of
these bills is 10 protect the lads
in the service. but the Interior
motive is really through con-
gresSional action TO force prohi-
bition willy willy on our- citizens
again.
Be alive; don't be hoodwinked
again
JOHN II. SLENIN. AN, MID,
10 Peterboro avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
Connolly Answers

la ST. Paul'S; fb) st. Peter:
tc) Cathedral of ST. John
the Divine.
2-(a) Georges Clemenceau; tb)
Thomas Edison; tc) Ralph
w. Emerson.
3-(a) Columbus Day; fb) Guy
Fawkes' Day (c) Halloween.
la Words; (b) never; (c)
water.
5-Michael, Raphael. Gabriel,
Uriel.
6-(a) New Hampshire: (b)
Ohio; (c) West Virginia.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
DETROIT \
M AY 2. I94I
Lease-lend
Was Signal
For Conveys
But People Weren't Told.
johnson Protests

(The opinions expressed by
General Johnson are his own
and not necessarily those of The
Detroit Times.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
Sympathy
Often Barrier
To Justice
Underdoe. Isn't Always
Entirely Deserving

(The opinions expressed by
Westbrook PeRier are his DUN
and not necessarily those of The
Detroit Times.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
25 YEARS AGO TODAY
May 9, 1916

French claim they repulSed
four attacks made by the Ger
mans at Nerdun.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09

Captain of torpedoed liner
Cymric reports he saw the sub
marine that sank his ship and
that the Cymric- was given no
warning.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-09
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Would it amaze you if an advocate of preparedness
in Congress and yelled, claws and teeth may be vuga
you very few panthers hanging up in butcher shops
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-30
On Broadway

carries hefty radio burden He follows Hope
on the same point on the dial Somebody's made
a very untidy booking. d
Whatever happened to that rule about songs
not being repeated on the networks?
One news man flashed the word that the
Nazis had been slowed before Moscow Then he
added. as a prelude to his commercial;
'Now here's important news
You'll get yourself laughed at mister
THE FRONT PAGES: The editor of the Toxic
editorialists seems TO be the Nazi army.
The editorials depend on the way the battle in
Russia Is going.
The Japs only get tough when the Schickel-
grubers are winning.
That should be lesson to those who say
that what happens in the rest of the world
doesn't affect the u. S.
Lindbergh land the followers of The Lone
Ego) insist that Adolf wants peace with US
Those torpedoes he uses 10 sink American
ships are peace overtures. you see
Considering the stream OF appeasement
speeches being inserted in the Congressional
Record we hope they don't start calling il The
Congressional Weckruf
Cartoonists in the Duce newspapers are try
ing to chuckle off the food shortage in Italy by
drawing comical pictures about il.
First time anybody ever heard of laughs
going to the bellyy-nstead of from.
Government press agents have been ordered
to save white paper by writing in single space
Perhaps some congressman will lend hand
by franking three pro-Nazi speeches in the same
envelope
rTFE QUICK-ACTION DEPT:
Joe McWilliams promised q magistrate he'd
quit melting, but his speeches In the Bronx
started store-window smashing wednesday night
last. Swell ammunition for Candidate O'Dwyer."
From this column, October 20.
"Mr. O'Dwyer recalled, he said, that last
Wednesday night, following anti-Semitic
meeting. such violent language used that
the windows Of Jewish sfofekeepcrs IN the nefgh-
borhood were smashed later that night He said
that Mr.. McWiams addressed this meeting
The Herald Tribune. October o.
"Joe McWiIiiams II arrested Violation of
parole charged Dewey orders his seizure after
O'Dwyer declares agtator still speaks."-The
Herald Tribune, October "a
Tune in WALTER WINCHELL BROAD
CAST each Sunday. to 915 p m, station
WXYZ, Detroit.