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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30
JAMES ALESSI,
32 East Madge,
Hazel Park, Mich.
I SAY prepare and aid!

I SAY prepare and aid
1t is to our interest that Germany is
beaten, that Naziism is. extngushed forever.
If Hitler had wanted to declare war be-
cause of the aid we are giving Britain he
would have done so the very moment the
repeal of the arms embargo act was passed.
Let us remember that the United States
Of America is potentially, the most powerful
country financially and niiitarily, in the
whole world.
+. G.. KILLETT,
1929 Haverhill avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30
JOSEPH ALLOW,
17345 Charest street,

THE hard-earned money of Americans
/ should be spent only to strengthen our
defenses on land, sea and in the air. So
defended, we need fear no group of nations.
That is, if we mind our own business
under which good old-fashioned policy. Amer
lea grew great and strong and welded happy,
hopeful and united people.
Americans do not want war, nor do they
desire to be exposed further to the horrors
and indescribable sufferings of the present
European war-participation in which would
bring to us individual misery and plunge our
beloved country into national despair and
ultimate bankruptcy
ARTHUR TRAVES GRANFIELD.
2033 Park avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30

circumstance that argued that
ladies must be rather scarce
We never saw those gentle
men before without ladies. But
perhaps their poverty of com
pany was just further evidence
of that lack of high-presSure
civic spirit in Washington which
would leave the visitor without
any sense of warmth Of well
come were IT not for the taxi
cab drivers.
Those Washington taxica b
drivers are the most affable and
Informative motor mahouts we
have ever encountered any
where Most of them know all
about Washington and are eager
TO explain its miracles with a
pride that might we'll be emu
lated by all other Washington
citizens.
They are self-conStftutcd
guides and mentors to the
stranger and we hope and trust
that the city appreciates them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30
Lack Canal Defenses

VIDENCE piles up that although Congress appropri
L. ated $27700O000 to defend the Panama Canal that
waterway, absolutely vital to us in of war, is
practically defenseess against modern attack.
Rep Forest A Harness of the House military affairs
committee who returned recently from inspection trip
to the Canal Zone revealed to representative of the
Hearst newspapers these amazing facts:
THE canal is in a Vulnerable condition.
C-There ISN'T ONE 9O-NM GUN, which can hit an
invading bomber at 200 feet in the canal defenses
0-There isn't EVEN ONE 37-MM. GUN, the next best
- ant-aircraft gun known, in the Canal Zone
A-Our arfelds in the Canal Zone not large enough
+ to accommodate the new bombers if and when they
reach there.
Representative Harness put the blame for this the
administration.
IE ASKED pertinently:
1 why haven't these weapons gone the PRIORITY
LIST for the canalo"
We may skmp ourselves to provide help for Britain,
but certainly should do at the expense of the
defenses of the Panama Canal for that canal vital
to the Straits Of Gibraltar the English Channel
are to the British Empire.
Supplementng this revelation of Mr. Harness was
that of Rep Homer D. Angel of Oregon who said point
blank:
THE blame doesn't lie with Congress. We've appro-
priated the money which the military experts said was
needed In my mind, the people may look TO the
department for an explanation
U7THE people may well ask whether politics has beer
L played. The Roosevelt administration has been
expanding billions. Has the money which should
have gone into canal defeses been spent in strategic
states where the votes cOunted?"
If the new Congress is not going to be buldozed il
should inquire into this whole canal situation immediately
And it might also look into the expenditure of the
-S2110o0000 for canal defeHses which Mr. Angel hints
might have gone for political purposes
Something has dnquestfonabiy gone wrong IN The
Canal Zone.
We have the money. We have the will We have
the men.
But WHY ARE NOT THE MOST POWERFUL
ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS on THE CANAL?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30


I'VE boss. however Is not IN
L Washington. ana neither IS
They are out OF town ana VIII
be gone Tor a month
2,llesA MileIe lheA- are <. e1l VI
II me shn" heAtiehihs t, .,
le Val i"'lo" eis a. uIeN emp liic
frozen son vim piehS 20 earn d
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are do"h I'D -dialit. -,
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city tf17'--SiIc Uf eSuiiTi1y dI1er
-ll-odd years ol Official reSiuefice
There
II be leALn2leI2- AIld- carpenters
are pretty important In INDIAN
apoliS Tor instance
But ~ quincy. Mass, the local
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30

TO THE EDITOR:
I READ in The Detroit Times
L that a petition was sent TO
the state Legislature by the
Rooscvelt-Wallace Club asking
the Senate to pass a resolution
requesting Congress to deprive
Col. Charles Lindbergh of his
rank on the grounds that his
recent speeches have lent moral
aid TO the Axis powers.
Judge Joseph Sanders was the
head of the committee drawing
up the petition.
This is what ] call an outra-
geouS act and un-American.
Who is Judge Sanders Amer
leans should stop these out
rageous un-American acts.
EMMA LOLA GABLE,
1892 Dexter boulevard.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30

THE taxis are sedans and the
Il driver is not Widowed off
from his passengers. so he can
chat with viS-a-vis, as you might
say. and without the hazard of
collision that is involved in dis
cuSsion with taxi jockeys in
many other cities.
We like this arrangement.
though it minimiZes private con-
sultation between passengers
and also. we suppose. the de-
lightful billing and cooling that
we hear tell is popular pas
time in more secluded taxis.
When we tell you that Wash
ington has the best dressed
gentlemen of any city in the
land, we do not have reference
to the top-hatted and striped
pantsed statesmen and diplomats
who infeSt the premises, but TO
the gentlemen in the street
to the run of mill Washington
gentlemen.
We do not say they are the
most extensively dressed, but
they are the best dressed in
point of style and uniform good
taste.
The Washington gentlemen
also keep their shoes well
shined. their linen clean and
their hats we'll brushed, and we
are told that they battle oftener
than the male population of any
other city, but we have no ac-
tual statistics on that point
We will have to consult the
plumbers next time we are
there.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30

"F GERMANY wins this war ii will imme
- datefy put the United States in danger
of invasion by the aggressOrs.'
Such is the wise information given by
Secretary of State Hull. Identical hints were
made by our third term President few days
ago.
= am not specialist in military or naval
questions, but l know that the British navy
is many times larger than the German one.
What if Great Britain wins this war? Will
the United States be in less danger? If Ger
many with her poor navy is a danger, Why is
not Britain?
Does the President realize that Britain is
the most aggressive country in the worlds
history?
Would it not be wise to let all aggressive
countries fight each other While preparing our
country for defense against any possible
aggression? And instead of helping America
by helping Britain-to- help ourselves
BY the way, if Great Britain adjusts her
Indebtedness to the United States it will solve
the problem of seeking funds fer-our- new
armament program.
JOSEPH ALLOW,
17345 Charest street.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30
BY HUGH S. JOHNSON

TliE proponents OF the Nor
L genthau lease-lend bill are
certainly talking themselves into
d position of self-contradiction
which it may take their lifetime
to explain.
The explanation required may
not be merely lack of logic-lt
may be of why they helped To
ruin their country by using
their official positions to dig
Nifty statements that. from
private citizen, wouldn't stand
two minutes CrUss=eXanInatIou-
before a justice of the peace
Secretary Morgenthau, who
began by trying, without con-
sulting public opinion at all, TO
divert our war supplies 10
France, where Hitler got them,
says that if we do not pass that
bill Britain will have TO stop
fighting.
Secretary Stimson. also urg-
ing this particular bill says
that it must pass at once, be-
cause If Britain stops fighting
-we are subject to attack,
MIR. MORGENTHAU'S arEu-
A'1 ment is that they haven't
any dollars left" That may or
may not be so. and probably
isn't. but If the secretary means
That tFley-have nothing which
they can pledge. as collateral II
certainly is not so-not by. bill
lions. There is considerable
apprehension in Canada that. if
we begin giving our manufac-
lures away TO Britain. Canada
will lose a lot of business.
The British have TO pay Ca
madam industry. also British in
dustry, not to mention all tho
other nations of the British
commonwealth and the whole of
the rest of the world Only
Uncle Sap is rushing out again
TO give away his-well. let'S
call them innardS- when even
the association of British ma
-tfons- give not theirs.
0. X. failing a franker and
more credible statement of this
financial problem. most of us
are willing to give England
money outright 10 buy our lust
share of aid TO her and TO tho
precise eXtent-and not one inch
further-than il really con-
tributes 70 American defense.
We want Congress TO control
these appropriations for the de-
Tense of Britain Just as il must
control appropriations for the
defense of America. The lease
lend bill doesn't do that II
authorizes the President alone
to make. buy and give Britain
unlimited billions worth Of our
resources without consulting
Congress.
IF. THEREFORE, as Secretary
L Morgenthau has said, II IS
o,I,. .. S,,ocf,C, ~ dollars for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30

A kOfsunl OH america .
Position i'm the War
the following three quon
I-Should America Enter the European War?
Twill Our Present Course, Persisted in Inevitably
Involve Us in War?
3-Should America Concentrate Her Own Defense and
Her Own independence Ally Herself With England in
the Recent World War?
Editor Detroit We solicit
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30
Contradiction
In Argument
For War Aid
Advocates Knock Down
Each Others Reasons

(The opinions expressed by
General Johnson are not neees-
sorily those of The Detroit
Times.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30
DETROIT TIMES

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Company at 1928 Times square, Detroit.
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70 any place in the United states. Canada
or Mexico.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30
l. G tt ers
TO The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

L
DLEASE accept the sincere
appreciation of the general
committee of Detroit District
Canadian Legion Posts for the
generous publicity given De-
troit's Pageant of Thrills for
war relief in Britain in your
worthy publication.
There is no doubt that your
cooperation was in a. great
measure responsible for the ulti-
mate success of the event.
ARTHUR III. COPELAND,
Secretary Great Lakes Com
mand. Canadian Legion War
Relief Fund.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
Jan. 30, 1910
Hitler again threatened to
tai" war in a speech attacking
French and British war aims.
In Finland. fierce fighting
broke out around MaerkaejserW
an the North Central Front.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30
Union Chiefs
EnveIoped
In Mystery
More on Pick-and- Shovel
Men in Defense

(The opinions expressed by
Westbrook Pegier are not neces-
sarHy those of The Detroit
Times.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30

IF. THEREFORE, as Secretary
i Morgenthau has said IT Is
only a question of dollars for
Britain. no argument al all IS
left for the much wider powers
OF the lcase-lcnd bill
Some days ago all the argu-
ment was that if the lease-lend
bill were not damned through
Congress we could not aid Brit
ain in her crisis in the next go
TO 90 days.
When il was testified by all
informed authorities that our
industry could not deliver any
thing moro III 81 to 81 tt71171-S7
except from existing equipment.
the reaction from the country
against giving away part of our
admittedly inadequate naval, ar
and land equipment was TOO
powerful TO ignore
When General Marshall, who
supported the lease-lend bill
strangely, in view of his own
military convictions-was asked
whether. with that authority, we
could not transfer 10 Britain
surplus stores of army equip
ment. he said:
"Storese We have no stores.
II will be a happy day when we
can speak about stores of army
equipment We have need
for all the modern equipment
delivered TO u.s."
60 THAT the whole end OF
- the argument for rushing the
bill to permit aid TO Britain
crumbled and Secretary Morgen-
THAI had 10 invent a new one
something like this:
ct j. solely matter of dol
lars. If Great Britain has no
dollars, she can't order more
supplies for her 1912 offensive"
But that argument is COM
pletely answered by 20. *. give
her the dollars" against which,
with even reasonable congress
sional control. as much as we
use on our own defense, there II
no important opposition.
Other official opinions that
Great Britain can lick Germany
on the continent with our aid,
that if Great Britain doesn't,
Germany will lick us, etc, etc,
aren't worth the paper on which
they are written or the breath
with which they are spoken.
Modern war is too unpredict-
able. There is only one rule for
us-a burning lesson of this ter
rible age.
arm for impregnable Amefi-
can defense. RELY on no other
nation - on nothing but the
strength of our own resources
and the courage, ingenuity. pa
triotism and devotion of our own
people.
by United Features synd Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-30
Against

"IF GERMANY wins this war it will imme-
put the United States in danger
of invasion by the aggressOrs."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28
BANKERS HONOR ROBERT WALKER
Colonial Trust Co. Officer Named State Association
 Committeeman

Hartford, Aug. 28- Committee ap- pointments for the Connecticut Bankers Association, announced by Ostrom E:nders, vice-president of the Hartford National Bank & Trust company, who is serving as president of the association for the ensuing year, includes 8 number of changes. As a matter of policy, President Enders has named the first vice. president of the associa- tion, Robert S. Walker of the Colonial Trust company of Water bury, to be a member exofflcio on ell committees.
 Executive: Eugene E. Blackford of Greenwich Trust company, Greenwich; Dwight L. Chamberlain of First National Bank & Trust company, New Haven; o. M. Hibler of Phoenix State Bank & Trust company, Hartford, and Lewis s. Reed of Citizens & Manufacturers Trust company, Waterbury.
 Agricultural committee; Allen w. Holmes. chairman, of Middletown National bank, Middletown; Charles E. Smith of Southington Bank 6 Trust company, Southington; B. F. Turner of Glastonbury Bank & Trust company, Glastonbury, and Mr. Walker.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28
BY PAUL HARRISON

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 Hollywood-There are no HoltS barred in the scramble for stardom. Old Jack was headliner longer and more steadily than anybody else in pictures and he still can play TO- mantle leads without much make up. His boy Tim is under contract at RKO as top hand in their west erns. And here comes Jenny.
 Sage-brush opera has claimed her, too. Jenny, 20-year-old daugh- ter of Jack, is Hopalong Cassidy's newest leading lady. Five years be- fore she was born, her father made his movie debut by riding horse off a 30-foot cliff. She's an expert rider now, but Paramount wouldn't let her do anything so reckless; the studio wants her for dramatic roles eventually.
 Marlene Dietrich's 16-year -old daughter is slated for Broadway bow in the autumn. And Barbara Denny, daughter of Reginald, will begin movie career about the same time. She has had some inn pressive backgrounding = at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. But Miss Denny isn't uppity about it; here first Holly wood job was standing in for Heather Angel.
 KATIE TO BROADWAY
 Director Sam Woods shapely off, spring seems well launched after a flight and furry of press agent ho- cus-pocus. After changing her name to K. T. Stevens-for the announced purpose of seeking an independent career-and after posing for a series of decorative pictures, she was kept busy for a month rejecting studio contract offers. Now she has settled on a Broadway bid, and in cou- pie of months movie scouts will be rushing backstage to discover" her.
 At this sitting, I don't find many second-generation Hollywood males coming into prominence. J. c. Nu- gents boy, Elliott, is too well estab- lished as an actor, writer and more recently 8 director, to count. Johr Huston, son of Walter, is directing his first picture. Have you ever noticed how very few are the chil- dren of screen actors and actresses who are trained>or encouraged tc take up the mask of make-believe?
 Frank Morgan, incidentally is going around bragging about his son, George. It seems that George has job, and likes it, on 'he night shift at the Douglas atrplane factory.
 Quite a few. kids plan to become directors. producers or scenarists Claude Binyon tells how he Scold- ed Nipper, his son, for doing So badly with his lessons at school Don't you want an educationP he asked sternly. What do you think you can do if you grow ur
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28
? STAMP NEWS

fpICTURE of King Carol is con-
 spicuously absent from a new set of five Rumanian stamps com Imemorating the 50th anniversary iof the existence of the Carol Fund. I The Netherlands East Indies has Issued three more values of the locally printed Queen Wilhelmina lseries. Three values-17h cents iorange, l0-gulden green and 25- igulden orange-were announced. I Belgium has issued a charity set ,of l2 values, total face value 50 ifrancs. The surtax will aid sol- ldiers' families. The series was |sponsored by Princess Merode, lcousin of King Leopold.
 4 A new dark-red stamp pictur- ling a madonna by Won Dux, a Dutch painter, has been issued by
 Liechtenstein for regular postage.
 The new U. s. airmall stamp
 Issued June 2S at the Phllatelic
 Agency and postoiiiee in Wash-
 inalon, D. C., sold 227.S7l copies
 Rhc first day (si3.672.26). A total
 og oe.e06 covers were cancelled.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28


 character actcE. outshinoE even ilis Academy Award winning perform ance with his portrayal Of the gentle and Lupinos % the beauty starved old tailcr, father of the glrl, and John Qualer, psrsonfication of thd pathetic little man, does a wcn- derfuIly moving job sE his friend, the chef. Eddie Albert gives the roia of the girls patient suitcr just tho right degree Of stolidnes and Alins AEacAkahon, too long absent from the screen, comes through with a thoroughly Hfelike performance a the girls mother.
 Others who do standout jobs ix- clude George Tobias, Leo OCrcey, Odette Myrtil and Bernard Gorcey.
 On the same big show is ~Adven. ture Tn washington" costarring Herbert Marshall and Virginia Bruce.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28
POLES

Director Victor Fleming takes keen delight in surprising audiences. Comtemptuous of formula, he never does the expected. Consequently, the much discussed Limitation of Robert Louis Stevenson's thriller, ''Dr. Jekya. and MT. Hyde" which opens tomorrow on the Loew Poli screen, particularly appealed to him because it offered exciting op- portunity for daring presentation and casting.
 Robert Louis Stevensorlss fasci- mating dual characters made a dis tinct departure for Spencer Tracy, who Is usually seen in roles of more noble stature. His Mir Hyde, the awesome embodiment of all that is evil itl. man, Is sure to come a 8 pine-ttngling shock. This, will be 2 surprise to the general public, we
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28
In nHoIIywood

1 and don't know anything when you have to strike out for your self?"
 Well" said the youngSter tim idly, T could be a movie writer, like you, and make $2500 a week. 2 FATHER KNOWS BEST
 The pretty daughter of Nunnal- ly Johnson, writer -producer, seemed headed for an acting career. At least, Marjorie was headed for New York, and Johnson mentioned it to Groucho Marx recently. Groucho said that his son, Arthur, was driv- ing east for some tennis matches and maybe Marjorie could go along.
 They thought about 1t for sev- eral days, right up to the night before the youngsters were to leave, and decided it would be all right. Then, at midnight, Johnson telephoned Marx. You don't have to worry about an elopement," he said. And incidentally, the trips off"
 Groucho asked why. well" explained Johnson, I've just had a call from Marjorie. She and Ken Carter, 8 press agent at Universal, | have eloped!"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28

are sure.
 But in stressing the romantic mo- tivatlon, with its emotional Impact, Fleming went further. Nothing could have been more surprising than his election of 1ngrid Bergman to play Ivy, the harroom singer, and Lana Turner for Beetrix, Jekyll's sweetheart. His unusual casting against type has shrewd reasoning behind 1t. He wanted a syrnpatfetic Ivy, one who would bring out an the brutality innate in Hyde. Tn Beatrix, he saw no milk k-and-water heroine, but ftT@ -Diooded, spir- tied girl. capable of stirring Jekyll and giving reason for his weird and ghastly experiments. w
 The Metro- Go1dwyn-M Mayer film Is Fleming,s first since "Gone With the Wind" {" and so spectacular in its conception that all of the Hyde scenes were filmed behind closed doors.
 On the same program is another 1 smash hit :Scattergood Meets Broadway with Guy Kibbee. | Attractions coming to close at Loew's, Poh tonight are Wild Geese Calling" starring Henry Fonda and Joan Bennett and .Dr Kildare,s i Wedding Day with Lew Ayres
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-28
STRAND

One of the mightlest thrills of all time was afforded capacity ali- diencas at vFsrnerss Strand tfeater yesterday when "Out of the Fog" arrived at that theater with Ida Lupino and John Garfield in CO., starring roles.
 Inspired casting has put Lupino and Garfield in the two starring roles. This pair, who fused their talents to such success in the re- cent "Sea wolf," represent the finest of Hollywood's young dra- matic talent and their performances in "Out of the Fogh shine with 8 fiery beauty. It seems safe to expect that Garfield's role as tlle gangster girl who is helplessly, fascinated by his ,ruthlessness will be the most taxed of performances of the year Thomas Mitchell, ever: the superk