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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-07

WHO is the typical American?
W What does he look like?
How does he act?
Is he a farmland, city
SliCker. a Bahbitt, an idealist.
wise guy, a grown-up "Huck'
Finny a breezy Westerner. a
hot-tempered Southerner or a
sophisticated eaSterner?
These questions arose in my
mind when | saw John Doe"
the highly entertaining and eX-
tremely we'll acted and directed
Capra-RiSkin-Gary Cooper pic
ture.
John Doe" has something in
il reminiscent of Mr.. Deeds
Goes to Town" and MIR. Smith
Goes to Washington" both AA1
pictures.
But in John Doe we are
practically told that the Gary
Cooper portrayal (incomparably
well done) of an unbelieVably
shy. almost illiterate. crummy-
bunny looking, moronic bush
league pitcher Is representa-
tive of those millions Of Ameri-
cans who are just John Doe"
that is. 90 per cent of us. ac-
cording to line of a character
In the picture.
NOW while the Capra- Cooper
y John Doe may be a certain
-typc ~nt American, ] deny yso,,
emphatically that he is the
typical sAmerican," s.s.as i -
-. Ed-,bate~to believe thai .tilis
John Doe which VIII be
shown in England. throughout,
the British Empire, in all coun-
tries from the Rio Grande TO
Patagonia, in China. and maybe
in Japan, will be taken as a por-
trait of 90 per cent of all
Americans.
And yet that is the impression
that the rest of the world will
get-that the typical American
IS incredibly dumb, is hopelessly
baseball nutty. is timid, is a
sentimental Soapy Sam and goes
around most of the time I'M
shaven and without a tie.
If John Doe is the L.. s. A..
today. then God help America.
But he isn't! The typical Ameri-
can does not speak, look or act
like John Doe. For. with all our
shortcomings. the typical Ameri-
can is not incredibly thick. And
he doesn't 60 through life mum
bling. And he is not a bum.
And l repeat I'm frightfully
uneasy Of what non-American
peoples will think of John Doe
as the representative of 90 per
cent Of our anonymous public.
My own concept of the typical
American is composite of
Abraham Lincoln. "Huck" Finn,
Richard Halliburton and George
+. Babbitt.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-07

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Dr. Mexico:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-07
y. L. DAY,
Alpena, Mich.
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
TT IS not the British who are
L seeking world domination but
Germany. through Hitler. Hitler
in "Mein kampf breaches world
domination. and to accomplish
his purpose has built up the
most powerful and most highly
mechanical military machine
the world has ever seen.
How could the British or any
other nation think of world DOM
lnatlon with an army less than
= one-ierth the size. and less tyS8a
one-tenth as highly mechanical?
II The United States does not
"dtfp arru tn}s Sfsf9ta ~ are ut-e
.1eated thct the United states.
~ eo4r nr. laiaEs must 6oht Hjt-
Ter alone We cannot TIC ISoia-
tionists any longer. No nation
can.
There is only one thing TO do.
Either be prepared TO be SUBJ
Servient TO these self-styled SUI
permen, or get ready 10 fight at
once.
r. III. SCOTT,
Nj. Clemens. Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-07
BAERlNG DOWN ON THE NEWS:
Where l)IH Pals Meet
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

] know you must play nine pins a bowling alley and
backgammon a board but the queerest all places is
Bremen Pass where Adolf and Benito shake hands.
went through the Bremen Pass in 1927 and 1t didn't
particularly adapted for shaking hands It's in the Alps
and guess the dcatos selected dgital gymnasium
because the echoes afrmatory.
When things break right galops and Benito
scampes north They shake hands and then step back
TO count their fingers.
Some day Beno will keep the engagement and Adolf
will be there alone. But he will shake hands
Distributed INTERNATIONAL News seyes
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-07
| e++ers TO
The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

4 HARMED by the rapid
"A spread of communism in
Michigan in the past eight
years, leaders of Christian fra
ternal organizations are plac-
ing themselves on record oppos-
ing the Communist Party a
place on the state ballot.
Instead of trying TO outlaw
the Communist Party in Michi-
gan, it does seem that it would
be more practical for these
leaders TO instruct their follow
ers 10 demand that our govern
ment abandon its policy of buy
ing Communist Russia's gold at
an artificially high price.
Within the past eight years
our national government has
traded hundreds of millions of
American dollars for gold that
has been mined in Russia by
concentration camp slave labor.
y. T.. DAY,
Alpena, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-07
Death Brings
Memory Of
1914 Kaiser
Recalls World S State
Quarter Century Ago
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
THE kaiser's death was well
- timed

III hdlScl utdlH was WeH
timed.
At moment when some
Americans are searching the
past. the present and their own
Imagination for reasons not to
believe that Germany is an alb
solutely ruthless and brutal ma
ton, respecting no right but her
own, which is even known AZ
the German right, the old pic
lures reappear out of the
morgueS showing the monarch
and his military flunkies at the
height of their arrogant power
and furbelowed glory.
Most of the world had for
gotten the kaiser as he was
before 1914 and in the early
days OF the first World War
a vain and self-deified mortal
with withered arm who de-
lighted TO hang himself over
with flaShy ornaments of jewels
and gold and carry scepter
and brandiSh his sword at other
peoples.
seen again -he-maS- then
the quiet rccluse OF Doom. who
ran away from his people, al
though he had vowed. like Hit
Ter now. to die in battle first.
reappears with fluttering feath-
erS and brass eagle on his hat. .
lie reappearS as the aggrcsso"
VINO was going TO absorb Bel
gum and much Of France and
said that God was with him
when his soldiers counted of
The Belgian peasants leaving
Sunday mass and executed one
IN tcn m reprISaf for the patrf-
otlc resistance Of brave citizens.
That, and not the harmless
wood chopper. was the kaiser
OF the German nation before he
fled.
And the terms which that
man Intended 10 impose on all
who fell before him in that war
were such that the Treaty of
Versailles not only seemed but
was indeed a forgiving peace.
IL HAS been said and written
Il often since that Germans
rivalry of Britain caused that
war. and the issue has been
logged beyond hope OF final set
tlement except in conformity
WIN the national sympathies OF
the individual.
But the fact will never be oh
liberated that the kaiser was
'ruculent ruler with The great
est army on earth, who favored
decisions by the sword and ac-
tually did regard himself as one
appointed by God 10 execute the
divine plan according 10 his own
Judgment and held all other
rights 10 be nonexistent where
they clashed with the German
right.
Thus il will be seen that
Adolf Hitler differs very little
from the discredited ruler whom
he repudiated only because the
kaiser failed.
In the matter OF ornate uni
forms and spectacular guards,
der fuehrer makes contrast. for
he sold himself 10 the Germanl
as a simple man of the peopl
and brought some of the people
into the ruling group.
Bu, even 50. he has yielded
10 the love OF tyranny and dis
play.
The uniform that he wears
now. though unadorned by the
ostentatious modeSty of his
humble iron cross. ne longer is
.-sse greasy faincoat OF his carry
days.
H.. And the pagcaptss whieh ~
q ttfdk fxesiidrs NV 'gp-Yy hDrFe4- have
0tt shone ,eyen those the kaiser
gave himself
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
NEW YORK STOCKS

NEW YORK. sept. y (UPJ -
Stocks made an irregular advance
in moderate trading today on favor
able Interpretation of President
Rooseyelt's speech.
Wall Street considered the speech
as clearing uncertainty on our
ships at sea. Since the Presiden
didn't mention Japan, the market
community deduced that the ed
ministration vas hoping for amica-
BILE settlement Of United
States differences.
Stocks were firm early. They en-
countered some rofit?taking that
brought irregularity in the third
hour and then resumed their up
turn. Leading issues continued to
fuctuate narrowly while selective
buying and selling went ahead over
wider range in special issues.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
THE DAYS
SPORTS PARADE
By Harry Ferguson

NEW YORK, Sept u. CUP)-
Maybe it's just as well that a case
of athletes foot" on another
athletes feet prevents Georgia Alb
rams from appearing in Madison
Square Garden tonight.
You probably never heard OF
George Abrams, certainly you did
MT unless you follow closely the
fortunes of those who smash peo-
pies noses and ribs for a living.
But on the day of his birth in
Roanoke, Va, bells rang, horns blew,
men marched and women wept for
JOY.
1t was Armistice day-Nov. II,
19l8-and it was a strange world
into which George Abrams was
born, world gone wild with thanks
giving and relief because the blood
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12

letting was done. For Georgia, 1t
has been getting stranger all the
time.
Destiny seems TO have marked
ABRAMS out to be a giant killer
aho never gets credit, a conqueror
If champions who never becomes
champion himself, David who
knocks over Goliaths when nobody
is around to tell the world about
it.
This evening Abrams was slated
to go against Tony zale, tough
body puncher out Of Gary. Ind
who is recognized by the National
Boxing Association as the world
middleweight champion. But Zale
suddenly came down with an ag-
gravated case CT athletes foot last
night. sending him to the hospital
instead of the ring.
Maybe it's Just as well. Even if
Abrams had spent the entire eve
ming poking his fists into zale'S
face and emerged an easy victor
where would he be? Nowhere, for
this 1O-rounder was a non-title
fight.
Boxing commissions are eternally
getting enmeshed in the web OF
their own words and rulings, and
the middleweight division is nc
exception Thus, there are two mid
dleweight Championships has q
claim TO only half the crown. The
rest of it belongs to lanky citizer
named Billy Soose, who is recogniz-
ed as titleholder by the New York
State Commission.
So far as Soose is concerned. il
he never sees George Abrams again
it will be too soon. When both OF
them were trying to struggle up
the ladder, they fought and Abrams
won. Soose wanted a return bout
so Abrams accommodated him and
licked him again. Then Soose's car
eer branched off and he finally won
recognition as middleweight cham
p:on in New York. Not long ago
Soose decided that now that he was
champion and had considerable
more experience under his belt, he
would wipe out the stains that
Abrams had placed on his record.
1t was 10-round, over the weight
match and Soose's title was not
at stake. Once more Abrams won.
So if he had won tonight. Abrams
would have been left in the posi-
ton of having defeated everybody
who has any claim to the middle
weight title anywhere in the world.
He would have become the "un-
crowned king of the middleweights, "
a monarch without realm.
Now, let's go bit further-just
in case the principals in tonight's S
cancelled scrap are ever re-matched,
and Abrams wins.
Ken Overlin, former champion,
IS going to try to regain his title
from Soose in November. Suppose
OVerlin wins as he is likely to do.
Then why not match Oyerlin against
in a title fight and give
the uncrowned king a chance to
win a championship?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
Injuries Strike
Montana SQUAD

MISSOULA, Mont, Sept u
UP)-Coach Doug Fessenden OF
University of Montana was entitled
to use the crying towel today. Gene
Clawson, 225 pound senior tackle, IS
out for a foot operation; Tom
Duffy, veteran tackle, suffered a
conclusion in car accident; a
first string end has wrenched
knee; a promising sophomore center
has water on the knee; the draft
got two men and two lettermen
failed to return. Fessenden's squad
is down to 35 men.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
Stanford Men Vie
For First Strinq

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal,
Sept. II CUP) Coach Clark
Shaughnessy today faced the prob
lem of deciding upon candidates to
fill three major holes in his first
team. Eric Armstrong and Bob
Crane are battling closely for Hugh
Gallarneaus old spot at right half;
Arnold Meiners and Hank Norberg
are contending for Stan Crafts
spot at left end, while Shaughnessy
must decide between Jack Francis
Ken Robesky and Dave Patterson
for the right guard, left vacant by
failure Of Dick Palmer to return
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
Tournament Play
To Honor Mexico

LOS ANGELES. Sept. II (UP) -
The 18th annual Pacific South
west Tennis tournament opened to-
day at the Los Angeles Tennis club
with Bobby Riggs, Don McNeill,
Ted Schroeder, Jack Kramer and
Frankie Parker featured in a SER
les of exhibition matches honor
ing Mexico.
Beginning tomorrow the leading
men and women stars of the nation
will engage in a two-day series of
East-West exhibition matches. Con-
tests on tomorrows card include
Kramer VS.. Riggs. Frank Kovacs
VS.. Gardnar Mulloy and Kovacs
and Parker VS.. Riggs and McNeill.
A highlight Sunday will be a spe-
cial doubles match between the
team of movie star Mickey Rooney
and Schroeder against actor Enrol
Flynn and Kovacs.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
Wright
Wins
tile

WASHINGTON. Sept. ~ CUP
Chalky Wright. California Negro.
today held the first title in his
l5-year ring career-the New York
Maryland California version of the
featherweight championship.
The skinny, battlescarred little
Negro, now 81, won the crown from
Joey Archibald last night by knock
ing out the Providence, r. l., fight
er with a crushing right to the
jaw in the 18th round of their
scheduled l5-round bout. Joey drop
ped on his face and was attempting
to rise when the referee counted
him out.
Eddie Walker, Chalky's manager.
said he planned to match the Ne
gro with Ritchie Lemos. holder of
the National Boxing associations S
version of the title. in order to
clear up the featherweight mud
die"
Some $500 fans saw Wright club
Archibald into submission at Grit
fifth stadium last night. 1t was the
first defeat for the sleek-haired
boy in 81 appearances here, but
it was obvious from the start last
night that his Washington luck"
had run its course Wright Won
every round.
Both fighters weighed 1874,
1t was a costly victory for Wright,
financially speaking. His managers
had guaranteed Archibald $4,000,
an amount they proposed to pay
for their share of the gate-55 per
cent. The net take on the bout
was only S7,558.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
MARKET QUOTATIONS
l.. A. PRODUCE

Los NGELES, Sept. II (UP) -
Demand and trading rather slow.
Bunched vegetables: beets 4O-50c
carrots 4O-5Oc; celery root SOC; di-
kon 7O-SOc; green onions 1925;
leeks 1.5O; mustard 30-40c; Parsley
60-75c; radishes 75-9Oc; spinach l.
110; turnips 1890; dill 10; mint
and watercress soc.
Suash: white summer local and
san Dieh 30 1-1.25: Oxnard LILO;
Italian local e. San Diego 1-1.25;
Lompoc 1-1.25. Yellow crookneck To-
cal and San Diego LIES; Lompoc
90-1.O0; cream and table ueen 40
60c; banana ping IL &c.
Tomatoes: local and San Diego
stones 4x5s 6O-75c, 5x5s and 5x6c
60-75c; 6x6s 4O-6Oc; stems 4x6s to
5x6s san Diego 50-65c red cherry
local 35-4Oc. yellow egg 40-60c.
Watermelons: local 20-24 Id So
10 ton. .Se441
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
BUNS CLIP CARDS

ST. LOUIS, Sept. IL (UP)-The
Dodgers and the Cardinals went
back to the baseball wars today
with Brooklyn holding a two-game
lead in the torrid National league
race and in a position to deliver
a crushing blow to st. Louis PEN
nant hopes by winning one of the
two remaining games OF the series
BY winning yesterdays thrill
packed but loosely-played opener,
the Dodgers proved their gameness
under fire and commanded consid-
erably more respect than after their
double loss at the hands of the
Chicago Cubs Wednesday. Instead
of fretting over their mistakes and
dubbed opportunities in Chicago,
the Dodgers showed real class by
hanging on TO win, Ga, over the
Cards in II innings. The crowd
was 1870 paid.
Dixie Walker, who is held in lofty
esteem b. Flatbush fans but has
never rated very nigh with Larry
MacPhail and the Dodger front
office, delivered the winning
punch yesterday-a single to center
with the bases loaded in the elev-
enth. 1t was Walkers only hit of
the game but it was enough to snap
left-handed Ernie Whites skein
of three straight victories over the
Dodgers.
Despite Whites failure to halt
the Dodgers, Manager Billy South
worth planned to throw another
left handler at Brooklyn today. He
has named the 20-year old rookie
Howard Pollet, up from the Texas
league recently, to face the league
leaders. Brooklyns pitching choice
lies between two right-handed vet
Grams, Whit Wyatt, who's won Is
games, and Curt Davis, ex-Cardinal
who's won II.
Sharing hero laurels with Walker
in the opening sally were Dolf Cam
I'LL, who hit his 33rd homer with
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
l.. A. LIVESIUCK

Los ANGELES. Sept. IL CUP) -
Hogs saleable IS, barley steady.
fe wgood to choice 10000 lb but
chers 1910; choice quoted to 1925;
odd sows 9.75-10.
Cattle saleable $50 steady; head
good TO choice s87-167O lb expert
mentally fed steers 12-12.5O; com
mon to medium cows 7.25-S.5O; can
ners and cutters 525-7; odd bulls
to 9.25; calves saleable 25, steady;
odd vealers TO IA; few common to
medium calves $1,000.
Sheep saleable 300; no sales; good
to choice lambs quoted Hi. .25;
EGu.: ewes quot l. to $50.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
WASHINGTON STATE
SCRIMMAGES IN MUD

PULLMAN, Wash, Sept. u CUPD
Despite a heavy doWnpour, Wash
ington State football players were
sent through their first scrimmage
by Coach Babe Hollingbery. Left
half Jay Stoves, first-line replace
ment for Billy SeWell, will turn out
Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
BY UNITED PRESS

The Seattle Rainiers were back
on top of the Pacific Coast league
Friday because they, of the three
leaders, were the only team with
sufficient luck to win game last
night.
True, the Rainiers dropped an
thinning contest, 7 to 6, to San
Francisco, but came back in the
midnight game to edge out a 3
to win. The second-place San
Diego Padres lost to Oakland, 2
to l, while the third place Sacra-
mento club was dropping a 3 to 2
encounter to Hollywood in brace
of pitchers battles.
Portland and Los Angeles were
rained out, necessitating double
header Friday.
The standing of the three top
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
l.. A. POULTRY
l.. A. STOCKS

Los ANGELES, Sept. i CUP) -
Stocks were narrowly mixed in
light trading on the Los Angeles
exchange today. Five issues were
up, five were down and eight were
unchanged. Volume WAS approx
mately 1000 shares.
Broadway Dept. store unchang-
ed; Pacific Fiance, 99s up 70
Transamerica AZ off u; Southern
California Edison, common 231z up
%; Southern Pacific 1917; Aircraft
Accessories 2h unchanged; Conso-
lidated steel pfd 221z unchanged
Vega Airplane Co. go up Y
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
Saints Win Money
Series al Fresno
BY UNITED PRESS

The Santa Barbara Saints won
the presidents cup and the lions
share of the purse that goes with
it by defeating Fresno's Cardinals
Thursday night, TO 5, Tor their
fourth straight win i'll the playoff
series of the California league.
Fresno won the pennant for the
full season, although Santa Barbara
took the second half round of play
with a fast finish Top pitching
kept the Saints on top throughout
the play-off series.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
CHICAGO GRAINS

CHICAGO, Sept. Il UP) = Soy
Beans continued their record break
ing climb today with the May de-
livery reaching s202 a bushel be-
fore heavy profit-taking drove
prices to below the preceding close.
1t was the first time the two
dollar mark had been chalked up
on the boards since the boom days
of 1925, when May wheat sold at
s2.O54.
At the finish, SOY beans slid to
Ia to 3 cents under the preceding
close. Wheat was off "a to p. corn
off z to oats unchanged to off
g and rye off 4 to %, Sept. 1874
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12

two mates on base, and fat Freddy
Fitzsimmons, who pitched toe to
toe with White for ten innings
Fitzsimmons received credit for
the victory, his sixth of the season,
despite the fact that he was taken
out for a pinch-hitter in the tur-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12

bulent eleventh ard Hugh Caseyas
pitched the last half-inning, retir-
ing the Cards in order.
The Cards outhit the Dodgers, ten
to seven but the invaders collected
homer and triple while st. Louis
didn't make an extra base hit.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
BROTHER VS.. BROTHER
AT BERKELEY

BERKELEY, Cal, Sept. IL. UP)
Coach Stub Allison placed en-
phasis on developing speed and
stamina for the California squad
today. Bob Reinhard, all-American
left tackle, and his brother, Bill. a
star on the Bear frosh last year,
engaged in a kicking duel with the
latter showing an edge. His quick
kicks averaged so yards.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12

A pinch-SlngIe BY Bob CoIllns,
batting for Dick Gyselman, drove
Charlie Fallon home with the run
that won the nightcap for the Rain
iers in the last of the seventh. Tom
Seats, who previously had limited
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
Rainiers Fight 10
Top Of Pile Asai',

Seattle to three hits, weakened in
that frame and Fallon and Ned
Sickle touched him for safeties.
Al Niemiec filled the bags when
Ferris Fain dropped a throw to
first. Collins then came through.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12

There were 6l,184 deaths from
tuberculosis in the United States
during 1889 compared TO 63,677 in
1893.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
L. A. BUTTER De EGGS

Los ANG ELEs, Sept. Il CUPJ --
Butter: Extras 3sc; Prime first
3sac; STANDARD 36c; undergrades
Q2HEp
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
L. A. HAY

Los ANGELES. Sept. IL (UP) -
L. S. No. ] .................. Sls.OO
L. 5. l. v No. 2 leafy =. S17.00-17.50
L. $. No. . ............ S15.5O-16.00
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
L. A. BANKS

LOS ANGELES. Sept. IL OUP) -
Bid Asked
Transamerica ......... 4H-4%
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-12
NPLS. FLAX FUTURES

Dec. .................... S2.07k
Sept. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $2.O2A
The guardian., 1941-01-04
Twin Hats Copy
Headgear of Men

Probably the most important STYLE
item this winter is the companionate
hat, known also as che and she"
"Mr. and Mrs." and 'twin" hats.
These hats are merely hats that look
alike-one for men, one for women.
Actually the twin hats are a bless
ing, both to men who have put up
with some pretty wacky looking
women's hats in the past, and to the
ladies' who are always looking for
something new. The distaff twin hat
is, of course, out and out larceny.
1t is styled to duplicate the sportier
mems styles. Manhattan has seen
them in telescopes or pork-pies. der
bies, felt caps and in the so-called
double brim safari felts. AS a stvle
item they are excellent.
American designers of women's
hats have a knack for feminizing
these twin adaptations to the point
where they are, if anything, more
feminine than distinctly feminine
hats.