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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-09
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR;
WHAT has become Of the
w THINKING A m r c a n
workman Has he vanished
ike so many of our other proud
possessions ?
The violence and mob rule OF
the Go should be all a think
me man would need 10 know
that he is following a bad leader.
Unions can be credit or
disgrace to any profession. The
vicious and wanton destruction
of innocent peoples property as
shown by the Go men IN the
destruction Of a policeman'S car.
shows the unstable type of citi-
zens they are.
No self-respecting American
would deliberately inlure either
the person or property OF a citl-
zen who was so patiently mlndlng
his own business.
THIS wild mob hySterla should
he all thinking workman need
10 let him see that If the shoe
were on the other foot and the
union was IN the position the.
capltaliSt IS now in, that he q
find himself working for more
unrelenting. slave-dfiVing task
master than any capitalist has
ever been.
American men. lets go back to
our AMERICAN ways. They be-
come our American standard of
living much more than mob rule
does.
MADELEINE LARGENT,
1902 Springle avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-09
BAERING DOWN ON The NEWS:
Those We're the DNUS
BY ARTHUR "BUGS" BAER

The women around my house all knitting for the
soldiers but it's SLOW work They've dropped enough stitches
to make graduation dress for nudlst colony.
It's Just like It 3 years ago and wouldn't be
prised if food got expensive Back 1920 food high
We ground our coffee in pencil sharpener.
What I don't understand is Why soldier only gets y
smackers month when used get So OF course
didn't get all. l. said 30 the envelope pencil the
outside The paymaser used the the money the
inside.
BY the time the army took out insurance dependents
Liberty Bonds Red Cross and mortgage pup
tent we had just enough money eff TO gum secondhand
sodawater straw
hear the conscientious DIRECTORS their camps don't
get any pay a. al Naturally they're going object that
They don't get food and they wear uniforms and
guess they pretty happy for fellows who
allegiance to complaint blank.
II this article seems rambling is because Secretary Knox
made me rewrite my piece yesterday. l.
information picked mp reel last week.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-09
N. Y. Bicycles Failed to Stop
Kentucky Colonel Winn
BY DAMON RUNYON

COL. MATT J WYNN, the
y most celebrated Kentucky
colonel in all Kentucky comes
up so on June 80, a fine old
age for fine old gentleman,
and ar rffTC INVITATION OF Col
Dan O'SuIlivan, an equally fine
old gentleman of equally fire
old age. we wrote a piece for
the Kentucky Derby program of
1871, which we understand IS TO
be an epochal publication
Both these colonies arc aSSo--
ciated with the Derby Colonel
VIM as The master mind, and
Colonel Q,SHlllipata AZ assistant
master mind Our piece was
about Colonel VIM a friend of
years standing. and naturally We
had to have a few facts about
him, though this is not always
important to our pieces.
So we went 10 the works of
that human encyclopedia of
sport. Frank G. Menke for the
facts. and brought TO light an
exciting. though little known
chapter in Colonel Wnn's life
II deals with the time he
invaded New York City with a
race meeting undcr the dlSap-
proving noses of the then smooth
est outfit in the United States.
the Jockey Club. 1t was IN
1907.
The mighty August Belmont
was chairman Of the Jockey
Club and he-ran- New York
racing with an iron fist. He
had refused racing dates to Jim
Butler. a stubborn IFisiffffdr1 rvf1C
owned a chain of grocery stores
and was also proprietor Of En-
pire City, the race track IN
YonkerS. which had formerly
been operated by the harness
horse people but had had no
racing of any kind since 1900.
DUTLER sent for Colonel
I'D Minn, who had iust con-
Guided a couple OF tough turf
battles in his own domain ana
wanted nothing but peace. Ed
Corrigan. a famous old time turf
warrior. had introduced the two
a couple of years before.
Butler wanted VIM 10 run a
meeting for him at Empire re-
CARELESS Of the Jockey Club. and
the colonel advised MIN to 70 to
court and ask for a ruling Of
some kind requiring the Jockey
Club 10 grant HIM a license.
This Butler did with great
success. but VIM knew that
Just the mere license did not
mean victory and he tried TO
talk Butler out of the idea OF
trying to run without the sup
port and approval Of the Jockey
Club.
He had some consideration for
his own interests IN his drgu-
mcntS as most of the big horse
owners Of the East were mcm-
hers of the Jockey Club and he
was trying to interest them in
shipping 20 his Kentucky track.
'If you try 10 run at Empire
City while the Jockey Club
meeting il operating at Sara
toga. YOU will be in "A war and
wars cost lots OF money" he
=teid Butler.
what do you mean by lots
of money!" Butler asked
ooh" VIM said. thinking he
would knock the IriShman from
under his hat. about n million
II thought YOU meant real
money" said Butler. lau~hinS.
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Quiz Answers

That Of the atomizer. Air
pressure spreads the paint in
thin spray.
2=FoHrSo of a=rhord played In
rapid succession rather than
simultaneously
; a mild wind from the west.
4-Judge advocate generals de-
partment.
although the "tenpenny"
originally referred to the
value of the nail. the term
is now taken 10 indicate its
length
6-One who has risen suddenly
TO wealth or power and who
presumeS on his success.
An explosive called trini-
trOtOluol
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-09
25 YEARS AGO TO-DAY
April 9, 1916

Italians claim they downed
two Austrian planes in a dog
fight over the 1SonoZ front.
Offer Of peace by Germany il
turned down. bluntly by the
British.
In East Africa. British forces
surprise and capture a noun
tain stronghold held by the Ger
mans in the Arusha district
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-09

TOO much generalization is a
L mistake because the Situa-
ton is far from simple. Part
of the coast shiPbHilding labor
is Go. Part is AFL. In AFL
at least two very important
separate unions are involved
Cargo-handling unions and
many ship-operating unions are
Go. Yet there seems-to be
sufficient understanding among
all these Earring elements to
create something that looks TO
NE, AT first glance, at least, to
be not merely industry-wide
unionism but unionism covering
0He whole integrated industrial
area.
In view OF the fact that the
heart of the whole CIO VS.. AFL
row is craft VS.. industrial union
ism. this is a harbinger of great
hope This writer has always
insisted that there need be no
irreconcilable difference here.
on our west coast this opinion
seems to be now confirmed.
AS the San Francisco Exam
liner remarked in an editorial
IF industry and labor here
can sit down and work out their
problems on long range basis,
making sacrifices of selfish in
terest that may he necessary I'm
recognition of a general obliga-
ton, why cannot this he done
elsewhere. In all industries, all
over the country" Why, in
deed?
Both houses of labor. the
craft unionists of AFL and the
industrial unionists of the Go
are in full agreement"
V'HlS latter remark applied
L only to the Shipbuilding in
duStry but | believe that about
the same conclusion applies to
the ship operating industry
Management and labor on this
coast are agreed that in the
paramount interest of national
defense. there shall be neither
strikes nor lockouts.
The editorial continues:
THE conference. however. did
not stop here. II has taken up
such basic matters as overall
wage scales, overtime provisions,
shift work -differentiaI and re-
lated matters. What is being
done today by shipyard manage
ment and labor in San Francisco
should have a-telling nationwide
effect.
TIIE- flesh of the extremely
complex organizational situ-
alton oui here may be weak
but. as this column reported
from Los Angeles. the spirit
seems 10 be so willing that II
should stand as an example to
the threatening Small-time bick-
crine IN other parts of the
country
This is not to say that all is
sweetness and light Some wage
scales and other concessions,
squeezed out by government
pressure. leave a question of
their economic Justification. All
companies have not accepted
tho closed shop provisions of
some of these understandings.
But generally speaking and
wonder 10 tell. the Pacific
Coast labor condition Is the best
m the country
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"Tve got million I'm willing
10 lose Just Tor The fun of
fighting those fellows"
you'll need some influential
friends, too. in addition to the
million" Vim persisted That
il, il will have to be known that
YOU have sources of wealth you
can call on in case you need
help
Thomas Fortune Ryan is my
friend" said Butler Ryan was
way Up in the millions
That's good" said Vim.
"Who else ."
Well" Butter said. thought
fully. Tve got a neighbor who
will back me to the limit in
ANYTHING | want Ia do.
who is the neighbor ." in
CURED Vim
John ID. Rockefeller" said
Butler.
THAT was good enough for
Il VIM. He opened the Empire
City meeting IN August. com
peting against the fashionable
Saratoga meeting with western
horses. trainers. Jockeys and
even western bookmakerS. be-
cause all the eastern racing fra
ternity had been notified by the
Jockey Club 10 lay off Empire
City or be blacklistcd al all the
tracks undc~ Jockey Club con-
troll
Even Bin Pinkerton. who had
been hired to police the premises.
begged off at the last minute
Under Jockey Club duress.
But even with his sssemblage
Of strangers 10 the big city
'WFTnn : meeTlng proved a big
success. and after it had been
going so days. Hal Knapp. as
emiSSary from the naughty Mr.
Belmont. called on Vim and
told him that Belmont was
pleased TO see that he was oper-
ating under Jockey Club rules
and that the meeting was not
on the outlaw order as he had
feared. and that Empire City
would be awarded dates in the
New York circuit in 1908 which
il was.
Jim Butler never had 10 call
on John D Rockefeller
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ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
ApriL9, 1870

British claim they damaged a
cruiser when their planes raided
Bergen.
Norway reported asking for
peace with Nazis. Allies rush
aid 10 the Norwegians.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-09
BY HUGH JOHNSON

lust few days in an indus
- trial area like the Pacific Coast
gives not enough time for
carefully checked survey of even
one segment OF a thing of so
much national Importance as
labor unrest. But il isn't hard
to get a pretty good general
lmpreSSion--a sort of composite
smell in which any important
unpleasant odor would surely be
apparent,
Speaking relatively only and
comparing the -tenseness in the
East and Middlewest with the
comparative calm on the coast.
this general situation is the best
in the country. Comparing it
from another angle with the
ferment of the threatened San
Francisco general strike and
whole West Coast condition SIX
and-a-half years ago, il is a par
adiises
The Pacific Coast ship-build-
ING and ship-operating industries
are key points in national de-
Tense. In the former and. to
some extent in the latter, a kind
of conSortium has been reached
out here on a coaStwise basis.
In this, labor, industry and
government all seem to be in
& FL lissss
all, both Go and AFL unions
are cooperating in fairly cordial
relations.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-09

G ADUAL unnoticcd
n change has taken place
among Mr.. RooSevelt's counsel
orS on the question of convoy
ing The navy has come 10 the
view II would rather convoy
than glAe any more deStroXerS
to the British
Nothing is being said di-
rcctly but Navy Secretary Knox
Is insisting on any and al oc-
caslon> thai no more ships be
given up What be really means
Is he would rather convoy
TIIE administration has caScd
L its price policy without an
nOuncement. The determination
to freeze prices as far as pos
sible at pre-defenSe levels has
given way in one notable in
stance agriculture department
decision 10 boost pork dairy
products poultry and eggs
In talking With government
economists you will find a cor
responding breakdown in the
Official attitude toward prices IN
general. In "a negative way
new policy Of letting prices rise
moderately has been adopted.
They say these moderate IN
creaSes will be allowed 10 CON
tinuc until the point is reached
when the government considers
a price situation TO have
arisen.
II is not true that a general
further increase of 10 per cent
or any special per cent viii be
allowed They will Just coast
along meeting particular sltua-
lions in specific defense com
modities. continuing to apply
mild publicity pressure and
waiting for the situation 10 de-
velop.
THE cost of living had risen
L only 2 per cent in February
since juno. 1893 The cost then
was the highest since the middle
of 1888.
New Deal economists main
tain this rise was moderate.
All commodities except farm
and food were up 4 per cent in
March over March last year
Fut these general figures tio not
tell the whole story Lumber IS
up 20 per cent, wooden and
worSted goods L per cent. cot
ton goods q per cent. meats 10
per cent and practically every
thing is up smaller amount
The government economists
refuse 10 look at the rising wage
rates local and steel among
others as an immediate har-
binger of initiation. They know
very well coal and steel prices
will be increased as a result. but
they expect a lag Of some
months. probably until Fall or
later before the effect develops.
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-Coas+tabor
Working in
Harmony
AL, Go Join Hands
in Shipping Industry

The opinions expressed by
General Johnson are NOT neees-
sariiy those Of The Detroit
Tires.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-09
High Court
BaIks Move
On Unions
Anti rust Count
in Jurisdiction Row
BY PAUL MALL0N

WASHINGTON. April 9.-No
w government authority has
had the nerve 10 60 after or
ganiZed labor, except the trust
buster. Thurman Arnold.
What Mr.. RooSevelt's new
Supreme Court has done TO him
will probably deter any one else.
The whole Arnold campaign 10
draw labor in under the law has
now been washed NIp by the
court amt NruUiu fcft, u1--
dried, with soap in his eyes.
The Roosevelt majority on the
court has followed up its Hutche-
son decision 0egalizing juriSdic-
tional strikes which Mr. RooSc-
veil and even me AZ L have
since denounced). by three more
decisions voiding Arnold's in
dictmentS of the most fragrant
union conflicts with antitrust
laws that Arnold could find
In one case the ALL unions
refused TO receive any materials
transported by the New Orleans
Trucking Association because
the CIO won an NLRB election
as the bargaining agent of the
association Arnold claimed the
union was interfering with inter-
state commerce. and IT was.
DECENTLY before a House
IL subcommittee the assistant
attorney general contcnded these
tactics were rafting progress,
not only IN defense He claimed
II cost more 10 build L house in
Cleveland Than in Detroit. solely
because of labor restrictions. and
consequently not as much build
ing work WIS possible m Gtcve-
land
But the main perpleXing point
IS this The Wagner Act was
adopted by the administration
10 promote labor peace The SUI
preme Court upheld it on the
grounds that even a small Rich
mond. Va, pants factory so az
fected interstate commerce that
Congress could legiSlate to. get
the workers collective bargain
ing rights in order 10 avoid
strikes
Now the court holds the gov
eminent has no power to pre-
Vent a UNION from diSrupting IN
tcrState commerce If the union
IS only angry because a rival
union Won a Wagner Act cleo
ton
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The around my house are all knitting 70
soldiers but it's slow work They've dropped enough SIT
to make graduation dress for nudist colony.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-09
Plunge In,
War Expert
Urges U. S.
Must Fight 10 Triumph.
Nation Is Told
BY EDWIN c. HILL

THE first ui--eserved and un-
qualified advocacy of a quick
drive into the war for the United
States of America, as far as
authoritative and reputable mill
tary experts are concerned. ap-
pears in the newly published
book, America Can Win by
Mai. Malcolm Wheeler-Nichol
Evening star., 1941-11-28
Youths Face Questioning
In Winchester Crimes

Chief c. w. Hollis of the Win
chester police. said Ne planned tc
question Paul Hoback and Buck
Evening star., 1941-11-28

police at Cumberland and to us. The
circumstantial evidence is damning.
| He alluded to the finger prints left
lavishily in the downstairs OF the
Loveless home, wildly Uttered by hi,
struggle for his life He referred tc
the brown hat found In the house.
And Hoback admits he was wear
ing a brown hat at the time" said
one Of the officers.
The prosecutor referred also to the
Loveless auto, the articles found in
it, to all the circumstances that led
inevitably to the arrest.
so far as I'm concerned. I'm
ready for trial now he added.
Whether he will demand the death
penalty for the boys, Mr.. Harrison
said, depends altogether on whether
they are cooperative or sullen. If
they try to get smart" he will ask
the jury to send them to the chair
The prosecutors doubted their
ages. He said he planned to check
with the Bureau of Vital Statistics
in an effort to find out.
There was much they failed to
explain, the officers said.
1t was disclosed. in this connec-
ton, that they had told several
different stories about the pistols
they say they threw away-one the
.32-caliber believed to have been
left in the Loveless home sometime
ago by the lawyers son law. 1t.
Albert Carr; the other a 25-caliber
gun of foreign make which the boys
had acquired somehow. Bullets of
both calibers were taken from Mr..
Loveless' body and from the walls of
the breakfast room.
The officers now have little hope
Evening star., 1941-11-28

police In their examination Of the
hat.
Chief Hollis said a clerk at q
Winchester store told him two
youths answering the description of
Porter and Hoback had purchased
several articles of clothing Saturday,
paying the cost of several dollars in
nickels, dimes and quarters.
Another Winchester resident who
would be able to identify the two
youths was Mrs. L. L. Hickman, who
runs a tourist home, according to
the chief. Porter and Hoback are
believed to have stayed there for
three nights while police were look
ing for them in connection with the
burglaries of the past several days
and left early Sunday without pay
ing the bill, Chief Hollis explained.
Evening star., 1941-11-28

of finding the murder weapons
First, they said, the boys said they
threw out the guns at Frederick,
Md. again they mentioned Fred
ericksburg, Va. and finally they ad-
mitted having tried to pawn them.
They also tried to pawn Mr..
Loveless' watch. the officers quoted
them as saying. but suspicious deal
ers refused to buy either the pistols
or the watch.
The boys we're said to have been
similarly vague about the directions
they took and the roads they trav-
eled after leaving the scene of the
bloody struggle at the Loveless
estate They stuck, however, to the
story that they went first to Fred
erick, Md, then headed back into
the Shenandoah Valley Of Virginia
toward Kentucky.
The questioning here took place
in hotel room. While the youths
were undergoing this ordeal. down.
stairs in the lobby a gay, laughing,
cheering crowd of young people re-
turned from a college football game.
A festive air pervaded the hotel.
Emerging, manacled together
Evening star., 1941-11-28
FOUND.

SMALL FEMALE DOG. white and tan
fluffy hair; found in Takoma. Phone
Shepherd 6272.
WRIST WATCH, lady's; describe fully.
Box 1894, Star.
Evening star., 1941-11-28

Porter. held for the Loveless murder
as they passed through there or
later today in Leesburg In connec-
ton with four robberies reported by
Winchester business firms during the
week before the Loveless Staying
and also the theft Of a car owned
by Edgar Nelson, filling station
proprietor.
Chief Hollis said a chain grocery
and a cleaning establishment were
broken into Saturday night or early
Sunday morning.
No hat was reported stolen from
the cleaners. according to Chief
Hollis. A brown hat with the initials
"A. T." was found near the Love-
less home after the Staying and was
considered an important clue. Blond
hairs were found by Washington
Evening star., 1941-11-28

guests he took to the house in the
afternoon.
The boys still insisted they did
not know Mr.. Loveless was dead
when they showed him in the china
closet. shot and beaten.
While Mr.. Harrison did not CO.
ment, other investigators were in
clined to believe the youthful prowl-
ers in this particular. 1t was pointed
out that there were blood stains
in the china closet corresponding
to about the height of Mr. Loveless,
indicating he was walked there at
the point of a gun. These officers
theorized that he collapsed and died
after the boys fed. But this, of
course, would not alter the degree
of their guilt. It would not matter,
for the purpose Of the murder case,
whether he was dead or alive when
they fed.
Hoback and Porter said there was
no money in the wallet except a
$75 check, which they still said they
placed under a farmhouse door 5
miles away, with note stating Mr.
Loveless had been robbed and needed
help. Mr.. Harrison said it had been
determined that Mr.. Loveless did
have such a check.
He planned, on reaching the vi
cinity Of Leesburg late today, to try
to find the house described, though
the boys were rather vague as to
its location.
1t was also revealed that investi-
gators had information that Hoback,
and perhaps both boys, were sus-
pected Of a series OF burglaries near
Winchester
No Signed Confession.
Questioning the boys with Mr..
Harrison were Sheriff S. P. Alex
ander and State Trooper E. D. Helm.
Afterward, Mr.. Harrison said
there was no signed confession. Nor
has one been sought, he indicated.
We don't care what else thev
say the prosecutor added. "Our
case Is complete, even without the
verbal confession they made to the