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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-20
Miss Roberts
To Wed on
Labor Day
BY THE BYSTANDER

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PATRICIA ROBERTS and
Lieut. William Whitfield Kirk
Jr. Of Cleveland Heights, O.,
have sci their wedding date.
They have chosen the evening
Of Labor Day. when Lieut. Kirk
will have leave from his military
duties. and the ceremony Will
take place i'm the Monterey ave-
nue. home of the bride-elect's
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar
F. Roberts, and will be followed
by a reception at the DAG.
Mrs. Howard Bullock gave the
first of the pre-nuptial parties,
a tea and linen shower, in her
home in RoSelawn avenue.
The table was covered with an
ivory Italian cloth of lace and
linen and held a lovely arrange
ment Of Gladiolas and bebe.
chrySanthemumS in the Autumn
shades of crimson and bronze
and yellow
Mrs. William w. Kirk of
Cleveland Heights, mother of
the brdegroom-elect, and Mrs.
Joseph Verhelle poured.
Mrs. Bullock wore a becom-
ing gown of brown sheer with
white collar and cuffs and
Patricia chose a tailored frock
of Raj. blue crepe.
Among the guests were Mrs.
Joseph Mclaughlin. Mrs. Will
liam Henry Gallagher and her
daughter, Joan, Miss Ruth
Mauserette, Mrs. T. Glenn Phil
lips, Mrs. William B. PETE Jr.,
Mrs. Sherwin Hill, Mrs. John
Warren, Mrs. Harry II. Doering,
Mrs. Joseph Lanahan and her
niece, Barbara Gullberg Of
Cleveland.
The time between now and
the wedding is damned with
parties.
Tomorrow evening Dorothy
Webb of Glynn court will give
a crystal shower and an evening
party in her home.
Friday afterno Don Betty
Schraeder Of Worthwhile will give
a tea and personal shower.
Next Monday Mrs. William b.
PETE OF Worthwhile will give a
luncheon and miscellaneous
shower at Meadowbrook Coun-
try Club,
A week from today Mrs.
Joseph Mclaughlin and her
daughters, Frances, Patricia and
Nan. will give dinner and
kitchen shower in their home.
August IS the matron Of
honor, Mrs. A. Marriott Walker
of Dearborn, will give a dinner
in the home OF her mother, Mrs.
Irving Condit, in Worthwhile.
PARTIES CONTINUE at a
great rate for Hildred Husband.
who will become the bride of
Glenn Earl Cofbett September 6.
Mrs. Alfred T. Wagner of
Tuxedo avenue gave tea yes
terday, and Mrs Sidney CaSweil
is giving a luncheon and crystal
shower today in her home in the
Art Center.
Saturday Mrs. Win f. Kerr of
Warrington drive will give a
luncheon and kitchen shower at
the Detroit Athletic Club.
Saturday evening MIR. and
Mrs. Louis Weyand of Birchcrest
road will give a dinner.
August u Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Brown of Huntington
Woods will give a luncheon at
the DAG.
September 5 Mrs. Warren Ken
dali and Joyce Albright will give
a luncheon in the Kendall home
in Manor avenue and that same
evening Mr.. and Mrs. +. Glenn
Simpson, uncle and aunt of the
bridegroom-elect. will give the
rehearsal dinner at the DAG.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-20
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1T WAS regular reunion
In there at jules the Fisher Building yesterday
when the swank shop that Mayfairs chic set
Opened for the season..
Besides s-c-a-d-s Of mammals and school age daughters
looking for pretties for the coming term.
There were no less than five brides. being fitted 10
Glorious wedding gowns . and having wonderful time call
ng back and forth the dressing rooms telling of
parties and Plans.
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Among Notes Made in Haste

IN HASTE:
DidJuno that Mrs w. Colburn Standish whose serial
shameless Sarah ran in The Detroit Times couple Of years
ago..
Has Just had a book published? 49,.
Not poems this time but novel Susan Sins" which
even with that the Swimming have given till time permits
lelsurely reading. looks wonderful.
No doubt Mayfair will give it a great sale
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-20
surveys of the population.
X-RAY RECOMMENDED

The recommendation was that
each recruit, preferably at his
home draft office, but at any rate
as soon as he gets to the induction
station, should have an X-ray
plate of the chest 10 determine
whether or not there is any tuber-
Iculosis present.
We pointed out the staggering
cost of the acceptance for military
duty in the last World War of men
who had active tuberculosis at the
/ time they were accepted which was
Iundetected by the examining
boards. Under the stress of war
conditions, these men broke down
and became active cases of tuber-
culosiS. Since they had been ac-
Icepted by the United States, hos
pitfalls had 10 be built for them and
many of them are still being cared
flor at government expense. The
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-20
Mrs. S. Always Uses Double s.

IT'S INTERESTING to us too
That the very literary Mrs S.
Always uses double 81 in the titles of her books
The publisher is Fortunys...
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-20
Careys lake House at Leland, Mich.

DIDJUNO....
That the Matthew Careys . of Indian Village
Have taken house at Leland Mich. for the remainder
Of the Summer.
And Will be accompanied their stay there .
BY their daughters Kitty =. Betty. and Mary Lou -
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-20
Better

By LOGAN CLENDENING, NJ. d.

Since all my fellow columnists
in the political field are pointing
out mistakes of the defense
boards, l feel that l am perfectly
justified in calling attention to a
mistake made in the medical de-
partment of preparation. All the
more so since this column publicly
recommended last Fall a method
which has been recognized as
efficient and has stood the test OF
time in medical practice in large
SURVEYS of the DOpulation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-20
LODOCCODE By Frances
! - Drake

Look the Your Birthday Comes h. and Find What
Your Outlook Is, According TO the Stars,
For Thursday, August 2f.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-20
St. Andrews Society Picnic

The ninety-Second annual picnic
Of the St. Andrews Society will
be held at Bob-Lo Park tomorrow.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-20
Your Horoscope

Frances Drake,
The Detroit Times.
1925 Times Square, Detroit, Mich.
PLEASE SIND MY INDIVlD-
UAL HOROSCOPE, PERSONAL
DAILY 6 UIDE and LUCKY
CALENDAR for the last SIX
months Of 1871.
| Vas Born:
Month ........... Day 900.
Send Sc and Self-Addtsusi
STAMPED EHtriobs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-20
IDEAL METHOD

Since that time. the method OF
taking a flat plate mot a fluoro-
'scopic study has proved to be
capable of detecting 95 per cent
of all cases of tuberculosis in
those examined. This method is
an ideal one to eliminate those
unfit on the grounds of tubercu-
losiS and TO save the government
from wholesale expenditure in
caring for these patients later on.
This procedure, which had all
common sense and experience be-
hind 1t, was not followed out by
the draft boards with any regu-
larity. / have been told in most
places that draftees were ordered
TO have an X-ray plate of the chest
only when there were suspicious
symptoms.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-20

IeXact amount of the cost of these
mistakes was millions Of dollars.
Evening star., 1941-06-15

hours before the British attack does not
change the facts.
The action of the French government
appears even stranger, Mr.. Hull added,
in the light of what France did in the
Far East when it agreed without mur-
mur to permit Japanese infltration
of the whole of Indo-China. That por-
ton of Asia was an actual French COL
ony belonging to the people of France.
Syria was merely a mandate. Why,
asked the Secretary of State of the
French Ambassador, did the Vichy gov
ernment not attempt to defend Indo-
China, in view of its determination to
prevent by force the British encroach-
ment on territory which was entrusted
temporarily to France by all those who
had fought and defeated the Germans
in the first World War.
Indo- China Defense Hampered.
The French Ambassador is reported to
have pleaded impotence on the part of
the Vlchy government to protect far
away Indo-China. This the Secretary
repudiated. He reminded M. Henry
Haye that in Indo-China the military
strength at the disposal of the Governor
General, Admiral DecouX, exceeded by
far that at the disposal of the Syrian
High Commissioner, Gen. Dentz. The
French Embassy in Washington did its
best to keep the official agents Of the
French Governor General from obtain
ing new airplanes and war materiel to
protect the colony.
The suggestions set forth by this Gov
ernment in September, 1910, concerning
the a1rplanes unloaded at Martinique
and those on the airplane carrier Bearn
were rejected under the pretext that the
Wiesbaden Armistice Commission would
not permit such transfer. Yet the same
armlst1ce commission is now authorizing
the French forces in Syria to fight their
former ally. The reasons of the Wies-
baden Armistice Commission are obvious
and logical-as far as the Axis powers
are concerned. But they are more than
obscure as far as this Government is
concerned.
Mr.. Hull concluded the lengthy con-
versation with the warning that if tbs
French government were to use ths
British action in Asia Minor as pretext
to side militarily with the AXIS, the con-
sequences, as far as this Government is
concerned, might be of most serious
nature and damaging to the traditional
friendship between the two countries.
Mr.. Hull concluded his momentous
conversation with the French envoy on
a grave note of warning. The warning
was that the day may come when the
military and naval forces of these two
traditionally friendly countries France
and the United States-may come to
grips.
Evening star., 1941-06-15
Court
Continued From Page CID

relying on previous court decisions, de-
clared that near" may connote "prox-
unity in casual relationship as well as
proximity in space
There is an obvious remedy for these
Disbursements within the court-Con-
gress can accept the challenge of the
supreme bench and legislate specifically,
if it has the political courage, on the
exact limits of the Labor Relations
Boards authority; can give clear
cut statement of policy on jurisdictional
strikes; can write law directed at pri-
maries, and can set geographic and
casual boundaries for contempt of court.
If Congress does not accept this re-
sponsibility as the court has frequently
asked it to do, judicial controversies
will continue, with some justices assert
ing that their brethren are usurping
the functions of legislators.
In the days of the "old court, "' when
the conservative" majority gave its own
Interpretation of "due process" equal
protection" delegated powers" and
other inherently constitutional ques-
tions, there was little Congress could
do to express the will of the electorate.
Such excuse is no longer available. The
very disagreements within the new
court" demonstrate that specific Ian
guage in statutes is necessary, if, as
President Roosevelt said in 1887, JUS
tices are to act as justices and not as
legislators.
Evening star., 1941-06-15
JAN SMUTS-SOUTH AFRICA'S CHURCHILL
Dominons War Effort Is His Noteworthy Achievement
By J. W. Patten.

of a world statesman who has seen, in
his own phrase, that humanity has
struck it's tents and is on the march.
On the west coast, the Unions ward
and neighbor is the former German
colony of South West Africa, a big chunk
of sparsely populated country. much of
it semi-arid, some of it sheer desert sand.
A third of its 10000 white inhabitants
are still German, many of them Nazis
intoxicated with dreams of a still greater
Reich and not yet disillusioned by close
acquaintance with the Fuehrer's regime.
South Africa's Peril.
1t is dagger at the heart of Africa,
and especially of South Africa, for if,
in any patched-up settlement that left
Nazi power and ambitions unbroken,
South West Africa became Duitsch Sud-
Yves again, the Union would feel itself
in mortal peril. The 10000 Afrikaners
there, men and women who trekked into
the new promised land after its conquest
in the last war, already know what their
fate would be.
No South African is able to forget for
long that he is one OF population OF
some 100000 people, of whom only
about 100000 are white, occupying a
country twice the size Of Germany or
Japan and containing the worlds Edo
RADIO of gold, the Witwatersrand, with
production of more than 100000 fine
ounces of gold month.
These are the hard facts of a situa-
ton which threw South Africa into the
war within "a hours of Great Britain,
whatever additional weight the i'm
ponderables of solidarity with the Brit
ish Commonwealth may have had.
A Free Choice.
The country went into war as matter
of free choice because she knew that
she must inevitably fall a prize to
victorious Germany should Hitlerism tri-
umph. There would be no dominion
status" in German Empire and none
of the freedom to quarrel and criticize
which is so dear to the hearts of people
who produced the Great Trek.
Curiously enough, it was the men who
led the isolationist opposition to the
war in September 1889, who had ex-
pressed themselves most emphatically
on the fundamentals of South Africa's
policy in the past-the Prime Minister
at the time, Gen. James Barry Munnik
Hertzog, and the Minister of Defense,
Mr.. Oswald Prov.
In 1886, when the Abyssinian war was
still in progress and the League of Ma
tions was wrestling with sanctions and
its soul, Gen. Hertzog was prepared to
| go to war rather than let Italy get away
with it."
Yet he failed to recognize the peril he
had foreseen when it was upon him. His
! subsequent defeatist speeches at tame
Evening star., 1941-06-15

when his country was at war are prob
ably unique.
His defeat in Parliament swept him
into the arms of political enemies as i'm
placable as himself, who in little more
than year succeeded in destroying him,
and very nearly in destroying themselves
as well.
The case of the ex-Minister of Defense,
Mr. PROV, is somewhat different.
This South African of German parents,
once intended for career in the Ger
man Navy, was always one of the smart"
men of politics, quick to seize an oppor-
tunity and with a reputation for blowing
hot and cold. Feted in the British East
African colonies, he made them large
promises that the Union would be big
brother to them, and came near on one
or two occasions to formulating kind
of Monroe Doctrine for Africa. In 1888
he visited Germany and presented Hitler,
it is said, plan to solve world problems
and avert the coming war.
Smuts' Career.
What passed between them is not
known, but he returned to South Africa
morose and preoccupied. His influence
Is popularity believed to have swayed his
old leader toward neutrality, and he is
today stumping the country with new
order" plan for South Africa which Is
barely distinguishable from Nazi-ism.
His only legacy to the administration
was defense department totally unpre-
pared for the most trivial emergency.
Against this strange political back
ground, South Africa went to war led by
the man who had been Paul Kruger's
state attorney, and fought the British in
what was to be the last of the horseman's
wars, and who decade and half later
conquered two German colonies, sat in
British war cabinet and collaborated with
President Wilson in preparing the cove
nant of the League.
To him there was no anomaly in de-
Tending South Africa on the Abyssinian
frontier or beyond. An enemy who got
down below the waist of Africa and with
in bombing range of the Rand might
well be unbeatable. What South Africa
could do to stem the tide far away in the
North before it broke bounds it would do.
And it could do more than supply the
Allies with small, if well set up army.
The Cape was long known as the Tavern
of the Seas and with the boot of Italy
straddled across the Mediterranean it
again became point of vital strategic
Importance. South African ports watched
Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell build up his
army bit by bit as huge conveys touched
on their way round Africa. If Fires
neutrality has hampered the defense of
Britain, South Africa's might have been
fatal to the North African campaigns.
Evening star., 1941-06-15
HULL MAKES u. S. POLICY CLEAR TO VICHY
Aiding Axis Means End of Friendly Relations Envoy
By Constantine BrOsCn.

He is said to have launched forth in a
long TRADE about Britains wrongdoings
ever since the conclusion Of the arrni-
stice between the Axis and France. The
latest attack on the French Empire,
which Marshal Petain pledged to pre-
serve intact for the nation, was consid-
cred to be most outrageous action of
the British government. and had filled
the Vichy cup to the brim.
Vichy's Actions Belle Words.
Mr.. Hull listened coldly. When the
French envoy finished his speech the
Secretary had his say. The Government
of this country, he retorted then-and
reiterated in his later formal statement
cannot accept fully the protestations
of friendship of the French government.
The actions of the Vichy government be-
lie its words. The British invasion of
Syria was dictated by motives of self
preservation. The American consular Of
ficers in Syria, whose reports the admin
iStration is bound to accept as being more
truthful than anything else that may
come to Washington from other courses,
had confirmed the stories that German
officers and specialists" were surveying
Syria in the same manner in which they
had surveyed Bulgaria and Rumania be-
fore their occupation by Reich forces.
Hence, it stands to reason that the Brit
ish, who are fighting for their life and
whose cause is fully indorsed by the
people and the Government of this coun-
try, should have wanted to avoid Ger
man attack by occupying the territory
before the Axis forces got there.
But, the Secretary added, the Govern
ment of this country does not understand
why Vichy should want to make an issue
over the Syrian situation. That terri
tory does not belong to France. 1t had
been entrusted by the League of Nations
to the French government as mandate.
The government of France was supposed
to train the natives in the science of
self-government and within Is years
after it took over the mandate-that is
to say, 1935-it should have set them
free.
U. S. Finds Attitude Strange.
The French troops, which are at pres
ent in Syria, are supposed-this is at
least the view of the United States Gov
ernment-to keep law and order in that
country. The American Government,
Mr. Hull added, finds it somewhat
strange that while the High Commis-
sioner of Syria did not protest the ar
rival of German bomber and transport
planes, together with some 1000 para
chutists, France should get into an up
roar when the British took normal pre-
cautionary measures to prevent their
possessions in the Middle East from be-
ing invaded by the enemy. That some
300 of these parachutists left Syria 48
Evening star., 1941-06-15

On the eve of a possible diplomatic
break between the United States and
new" France, Secretary of State Cordell
Hull has pointed an accusing finger at
the two principal French supporters Of
the German-French Axis, former Vice
Premier Laval, and the present Heuten-
ant of Marshal Petain, Admiral Jean
Louis Darlan.
The Secretary of State has revealed to
the public in this country and abroad
that these two men are solely responsible
for the endeavor of the French govern
ment to cooperate with the Germans to
bring about the quick downfall of Britain
and the democratic system of govern
ment in other sections of the world. By
implication, Mr.. Hull has attempted to
exonerate the French people-who are
poWerleSs now-and a number of fine in
dividuals who may still play an i'm
portant role in the future.
The "Weygand Story"
He felt, however, that he was not at
liberty to tell the "Weygand story which
in brief is this: When the French COM
mander of the African forces was sum-
moned last week to Vichy to discuss the
immediate steps of collaboration with
the Axis forces against the British, Wey-
gand stubbornly refused to do so. He
pointed out-and his views prevailed in
the end over those of Darlan - that
France should not make an issue over
Syria; that the local forces should do
their best but the government should
not do anything more. He urged Petain
to avoid for as long as possible an active
collaboration with Germany, pointing
out that if formal military association
with the Reich were formed, Berlin
would Immediately send important forces
to North Africa under the excuse of help
ing the French to repel any British
American aggression"
The tension between this country and
France developed into an active phase
last Monday when Mr.. Hull received the
French Ambassador in his private apart
ment at the Wardman Park Hotel.
The Vichy envoy was sure of himself
when he arrived to meet the Secretary
after several fruitless attempts to see him
during the previous week. He thought
that events we're favoring him; that the
invasion of Syria by the Free French
British forces would convince the Gov
ernment of the United States that the
old French expression, "le perfide Albion"
-perfidious Britain-was justified once
more.
While bringing Mr.. Hull new assur-
ances about Frances determination not
to allow anything to interfere with the
excellent relations which have always
existed between M. Henry Hayes coun-
try and the United States, the French
Ambassador pointed out that his govern
ment would find it difficult" to leave
unanswered this new British proyocation.
Evening star., 1941-06-15
Mediterranean Front

Syria today is the most important
place on the Mediterranean front The
remarkable thing about the campaign
going on there is that it was initiated
by the British. Taking the first step
getting there first with the most men
is something new for the British in this
war. A British victory in Syria will not
turn the tide of battle Britains way
all at once. But the manner in which
the Syrian campaign was launched may
be indicative of a changed attitude in
Britain which might contribute toward
an improvement in British fortunes.
The invaders moved northward from
Palestine and Transjordania in two col
umns-one up the coast to-
Syria ward the port of Beirut,
Invaded the other by the wild Jebel
ed Druz desert region to-
ward Damascus, the Syrian capital,
oldest inhabited city, where once the
finest swords in the world were made
when swords meant much in fighting.
Another column moved westward into
Syria from Iraq along the Euphrates
River toward the outpost of DER ez
Zor. The British and Allied forces fore
saw easy victory. Gen. Georges Catroux,
Governor of Damascus after the World
War, led the Free French forces Gen.
Sir Henry Maitland Wilson was in COM
mand of the British imperial troops.
Gen. Henri Dentz commanded the de-
tense.
Among other things, this Syrian cam
paign marked the first major military
undertaking by the Free French since
Mai. Gen. Charles de Gaulle, who left
France in dissatisfaction over the suit
for peace, organized the movement last
June o. Yet while this is military
undertaking with a major prize at stake,
It started out scarcely as bloody war.
In two days the British and Free
French were 10 miles from Damascus.
Berlin sources suggested that the French
defenders were fighting hard. But dyna-
mited roads and artillery fire more than
a pitched stand at any place cut the
Allies initial speed, and vacated gar
risons along the line of march toward
Damascus indicated that the defense
was to be more token than a reality.
On the first day of the invasion the
Evening star., 1941-06-15
Review of Ninety-T Third Week of War
By Blair BoIIes.

North from British
fought
French forces moved last week Since Syria
clash between England allies last
defeated
colleagues French soldiers
still defended The British
n
before 1t lies the keystone the whole Medter
played role the their relations
old ship Robin Moor 5000
Atlantic
thus returned to the practice
the World War 80 months after its
laws relations
thought they couda growing
dark In Germany Russia.