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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-29

serve tea.
Bran Nut Bread
y cup dried apricots
II cup dates
Il cup chopped nut meats
3 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
4 teaspoon soda
X teaspoon salt
IA cups brown sugar
2 tablespoons butter
l egg, beaten
/ " cups milk.
Soak dried apricots in warm
water for Is minutes. Cut dates
and soaked apricots into bits and
add chopped nuts. Sift -four,
measure and sift again with bak-
ing powder. soda and salt into
mixing bowl. Pack brown sugar
firmly into cup and add to sifted
dry ingredients, then add cut
fruits and nuts and mix well. Melt
butter in large loaf pan.
Beat egg. stir in milk and
melted butter. add to fruit mix
ture and beat well. The batter
will seem thin for nut bread.
Turn in well buttered loaf pan and
let stand for IS minutes, then
bake in moderate oven $3.50 de-
grees) for one hour or until done.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-29

kIce and Bran Bread
l egg
l cup milk
y cup molaSSes
l cup cooked rice
l cup bran
2 cups flour
4 teaspoon soda
3 teaspoons baking powder
Il teaspoon salt
l cup nut meats
u cup raisins
4 teaspoons melted shortening.
Beat egg. add milk and mo-
laSseS; then add rice. then bran
and flour mixed with soda. baking
powder and salt. Add chopped
nut meats, raisins and melted
shortening. stir until thoroughly
mixed. Pour into creased loaf pan
and bake in moderate oven (325
degrees) for one hour.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-29
Novel Snack

Another cheese treat calls for
finely sliced onions, marinated and
drained. Spread on triangles OF
rye or pumpernickel bread and
top with a slice of liederkranZ
cheese. Watercress will act as a
garnish.
Toasted cheese sandwiches can
be easily made. Just before broil-
ing, top the cheese with a slice OF
tomato or bacon. All sandwiches
make ideal porch snacks. Cookies
were also designed to go with tea.
These Butter Crisps are delightful.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-29
Fruits and NUTS
Make These
De Luxe

HOMEMADE FRUIT and nut
breads are excellent foods to have
on hand, especially when there are
children in the house They pro-
vide food value for snacks, and are
life-Savers when there are unex-
pected callers and one wishes to
Ar,n
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-22
DHiIu Short Story
It's the Law
By CHARLES McGUIRK

ONE OF the first things that
" endeared the New Deal 70 the
American public was the Old Age
Pension. Under it, the various
states were 10 take care Of such
people as had reached the ripe
old age oi -.
The states were not 10 humor
them. II was carefully worked
out Investigators and scientists
and doctors none Of them s.. or
even 40 figured down 20 the last
penny what II would cost 65-year-
old mon and women 20 eat and
cloihe and shelter themselves
against the heat of Summer The
chill Of Autumn, tho cold Of Win
ter and the inertia ot Spring
The amount OF the pension was
designed strictly for living II left
no margin of money with which 10
raise he'll II was SIS a month
Just Try 10 figure out how any
body 81 or nor. can cat up dldocS
on SIS a month.
Nobody can DO II. YOU say. Well
now. there's where YOU are wrong.
II can he done. II has been done
Grandma Turb did 1T. Grandma
Turb not only fed and clothed and
warmed herself but She took taxi
cabs for long distances. wore the
very best Of clothes and ate the
choicest ~ ViandS She asked Tor
and cot all kinds Of service paying
for II on the nose and tho scene
with bills Of large denomination,
Grandma, II IS true, IS no longer
on ReIief-or rather she Is no
longer a ward of her state She
was thrown of the pension rolls
after a female investigator who
had been disappointed and dISap-l
pointing-in love certified that the
old girl was full of moral turpl-
tude.
Because Of this. she could not
eat or he clothed or be sheltered
hy the state In civilized society,
there is some unwritten law that
the wicked should not only not
prosper but should be encour-
aged 90 perish.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-22
1T LASTS THREE YEARS

The arrangement lasted through
three whole years and then the
family tired Of Smelling out for
Grandma. They forgot her
Grandma didn't know that She
trooped TO the bank every day
wondering whether any word OF
any money had come from the
family.
None. Of course. had. Mr. Len
son, the banker. got kind Of en-
barraSSed az seeing her around
every day He was the one who
told her about her Old Age Pen
sion.
Grandma proved easily enough
that she was destitute She
merely brought the investigators
around 10 the hut in which she
lived. And when they asked her
if she had any kin, Grandma said.
"Not any that would do me
any good" So in the course
of time, she was placed on the
pension roll and she began 10
get her money
She didn't change her method
Of living For more years than
she could remember. she had AL
WAYS made her first expenditure
tip sheet.
When She had purchased that,
the rest OF her life arranged itself
automatically. For every dime
she had 10 spend for food and
cleanliness and raimcnt. she put
out p quarter 10 bet on the horses
Joe GoOdy was the bOokie M
Ehvah lie ran a pool room for a
front and a barroom for pleasure
buj taking bets on horse races
was his business. He conducted
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-22
THEY SHOULD PERISH

Not that Grandma is wicked.
And not that Grandma is hemoan-
ing the loss of her pension. Grand
ma SAYS that the state which she
inhabits and all the Investigators
and other political parasites
therein are full of not turpitude
but jealousy.
She goes right on doing from
day 10 day what the state pushed
her off the pension roll for doing.
And she's having grand time.
Grandma was rs when some
body told her that she could get
SIS a month from the state IN
which she had lived all her life
for going on living.
you're dishing me out ma
Iarky." she told her informer.
She talked like that. She was
a spirited old lady who wore a
feather in her hat and a feather
boa around her neck She had
raised three daughters and two
sons.
They. in turn, had increased and
multiplied so that she had eight
grandsons and five granddaughter.
And they, in turn had married and
begat Ia great grandchildren.
Grandma liked all OF them at a
distance. She liked none OF them
up close. They. in their turn. adj
mired her and secretly wished 10
be as much like her as they dared.
But they didn't care because they
all lived in deeply religious rural
unities and Grandma
brazenly committed a public sin,
She bet on the horses.
1t is strange that theologians
all frown on gambling.
But as Grandma used 10 say:
THERE AMT ANY
"Show me one spot in the
Good Book that tells you not Ia
gamble. Just one tiny place.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-22

You can't because there amt
any. 80 II amt sin 10 gamble.
It's fooIishness because all
losers are suckers and there can
only be few winners. But
being suckers no sin. It's
just gift. What do you like in
the fifth race ."
Well Grandma lived in Urban
ton up IN 1897 with the large
majority OF her descendants. Blu
the police raided a horse room ir
that town one afternoon anC
Grandma was picked up with some
other bettors and taken 10 the
police station in a patrol wagon.
She was released of course
after a few hours in Jail but thu
New York newspapers wrote
stories about her because she wa,
a horse player AT her age. lIel
family then held a conclave anC
delivered an ultimatum 10 her.
"You'll either have To stop
playing the horses" her young
est son told her. cor Wen quit
supporting you"
"Quit and he feathered"
Grandma retorted promptly. II
was reading tip sheets before
any OF you arrived in this
world"
So they decided to exile Grand
ma from Urhanton. They sent hel
TO Elivah. so miles away. They
had her maintenance we'll worked
out. An Elivah bank was glver
"A certain sum of money II was
10 dole out just enough for Grand
ma 10 SubSiSt on by the week.
If Grandma spent all her money
in the first two days she starved
for the other five She only
starved the first week. After
that, she conserved.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-22
THERE AMT ANY

"Show me one spot in the
Good Book that tells YOU not Ia
gamble. Just one tiny place.
Evening star., 1941-09-09

They were not as closely watched
as the Embassy staff. Hence,
a diplomatic staff in Washington
is of no value to Berlin today.
Herr Won Ribbentrop in the
past has shared the desire of
other Hitler advisers that the
time for a war with the United
States be delayed. For this
reason the impatient Germans
have accepted quite a few kicks
from America without retaliat-
ing. They have been relying on
the Observation-Disclosures in this
country to keep America out of
war and the occasional incidents
caused by German submarine
commanders were usually fol-
lowed by assurances and re-
assurances" that Germany would
try to avoid such sad mistakes.
Now, Won Ribbentrop and most
German military leaders feel the
game is mighty close to being
up. And the German foreign
secretary wants the Reich to
have the satisfaction of throwing
the gauntlet at the United States
first.
Evening star., 1941-09-09
Stote Department Deal Hit
Secret Oil Arrangement With Mexico
Held Peril to American Firms

"the legality OF the appropriation
is in fact dependent on the OBJ
servance Of this requirement"
In one of his most striking
passages, Mr.. Hull said:
THE taking of property with
out compensation is not expro.
priation. 1t is confiscation. 1t is
no less confiscation because there
may be an expressed intent to pay
at some time in future"
Mexican expressed intent to
pay" is about all the American
oil owners will have left If they
subscribe to the proposed agree
ment by accepting the proffered
token payment"
Amount of Liability.
How much liability to the for
eign companies Mexico proposes
to acknowledge has not been dis
closed. but it is expected to be
far short OF the claims of the
owners. In March, 1923, the Mex
lean Minister of Foreign Affairs
stated that "the petroleum indus
try in Mexico Qargely American
and British owned is now esti-
mated at pesos 1,050, ,532, ,434,"
equivalent to $510,000,000 at the
then prevailing rate of exchange.
Since the 1888 seizure, Mexican
governmental appraisers have es-
timated the value of foreign
owned properties at slightly over
SAC. 900, 900. The difference is due
largely to the fact that the latter
appraisal held that all subsoil
property, that is, oil in the
ground. belonged to the govern
ment and the private owners were
entitled to payment only for their
plant above ground.
One American company, the
Sinclair, settled for the value
of its surface properties. All
other American owners have
been standing out for compro-
mise, which would technically
acknowledge public subsoil own
ership, but would give the opera
tors a longtime operating con-
tract, including stipulation as to
taxes and wage rates.
Confiscation May, Spread.
In April. 1910. the State De-
partment proposed that the whole
issue be settled by arbitration as
between the company offer and
the position Of the Mexican gov
ernment. This Mexico fatty re-
fused.
One obvious danger is that IL
the Mexican oil seizure is &C
cepted by the United States and
Great Britain, other nations will
follow the Mexican lead. Bolivia
really set the confiscation FASH
ion by evpropriating American
owned oil wells. When the Amer .
ican Government did nothing
more than verbally protest to
Bolivia, Mexico perpetrated her
grab. Both Americans and Brit
ish have large oil holdings in
Venezuela, Colombia and Peru in
South America and in Iran and
Iraq in Eastern Asia. II gov
ernmental confiscation is given
British and American stamp of
approval, it is likely to spread.
New Dealers loudly condemn
the old-scho0l type of dollar
diplomacy" by which the Gov
ernment supported private busi-
ness interests in their foreign
exploitations. But what of the
new type of dollar diplomacy"
which brands private financial
manipulations as immoral, but
buys the favor Of foreign govern
ments with American taxpayers
dOllarSo
Evening star., 1941-09-09

it was such conditions that resulted
in the vote for strike. On Sunday
morning prior to the strike, gen.
eral membership meeting was held
at Newark. At this meeting the
presiding officers literally jammed
the supposed benefits of the modi-
fled closed shop down the throats
of those poor workers, because they
could not understand plain English
and common sense. 1t was made to
look as If they we're taking vote
to strike for Redistribution of the
yard jobs rather than modified
shop.
"I can almost guarantee the last
of the modified shop issue if it were
put in simple language to the men
at a general meeting now. Allow
them to decide whether they will
make a secure position for a lot of
union officials or be free men with
no fear of their job. I believe If
this issue could be put before the
men, it would be voted out"
Expression of Views Urged.
The Navy Department, in another
case-the Allis Chalmers strike a
few months ago-charged that the
strike voting was fraudulently con-
Quoted and requested the men to go
back to work. Since protection for
those who wanted to 60 back to work
was not given by either Federal or
State authorities, and no secret bal
lot properly supervised by the Gov
ernment was taken, there was no
way of testing the right of minor
ity to proclaim strike. Here, how
Evening star., 1941-09-09
This. Changing World
Won Ribbentrop Reported to Be Urging
Hitler to Breok Diplomatic Relations With u S.

chancellories. And the same ar
gument could apply to German
submarine commanders. The
sight of an American destroyer
might compel him to fire at the
ship in "self-defense," If he be-
lieved the American would open
fire on him on sight.
Ribbentrop Favors Break.
Because of this situation, the
German high command is said to
have washed its hands of po-
litical consultation. Heretofore
military and naval chiefs we're
consulted before Herr Won Rib
bentrop was given instructions to
act. Now they are no longer in
the diplomatic picture as the
prospect of conflict with the
United States grows.
Herr Won Ribbentrop, who
pushed Hitler to make war on
Poland rather than accept elev-
enth-hour negotiations and who
urged the war on Russia as well,
is said to argue that German
American relations are hanging
by a thin thread. Since the ex-
pulsion of the German and Ital-
ian Consuls from this country,
the Reich has had no particular
interest in keeping its Embassy
in Washington. The German
diplomatic mission has been re-
duced to a mere emblem. Herr
Thomson, the Charge dAffaires,
and his secretaries and attaches
are living in virtual isolation in
the Capital. Their diplomatic
activity is negative; they cannot
indulge in much subversive ac-
tivity because they are closely
watched and suspected by the
American authorities and their
contacts with Americans have
been reduced to zero. The con-
suls who were stationed in diff
ferent cities outside the Nations
Capital could indulge both in
propaganda and subversive work.
Evening star., 1941-09-09

urged the Fuehrer not to dilly-
daily with America any longer,
but to recall the diplomatic
staff from Washington.
Won Ribbentrops argument is
said to have been that 1t would
be bad for the morale of the
Reich and its partners if Amer
lea were allowed the initiative in
both a diplomatic and shooting
war. The Berlin version of the
Greer incident insisted that the
American destroyer attacked the
German submarine and claimed
that instructions have been sent
to American naval commanders
to fire on any hostile craft on
sight. According to this version
the United States has the choice
Of when and whom to shoot. The
Germans have not so far minded
their enemies taking the diplo-
matte initiative. When the French
and British declared war In Sep
tember, 1899, the Wilhelmstrasse
welcomed the move because the
German people could be told the
British and French were the
aggressors. The high command
cares little about diplomacy as
long as 1t is able to shoot first.
Battle of Atlantic a Worry.
Berlin is alarmed over the pos
sibility Of the United States TAX
ing the military initiative in the
battle of the Atlantic. The mill
tary leaders are worried lest the
United States order its naval
forces to wage undeclared war
against the German blockading
force. Berlin has been confident
up to now that America would
not get into the war because it
was believed in the German
capital the administration could
not find majority in Congress
to sustain an outright declara-
ton of war. But in light of the
Greer incident German naval
authorities are being told that
the American patrol force can
shoot at the Germans without a
declaration of war. Berlin main
tains that 1t is a moot question
as to when a naval commander
can consider his ship threatened
in waters infested with subma-
rines and bombers. Hence, there
is likely to be a lot OF shooting
in the near future regardless of
the points of view in diplomatic
Evening star., 1941-09-09
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

The pay of the Army, the Navy
and the Marine Corps is to have
a scientific going over-with the
idea that Inequalities, injustices
and inadequacies be eliminated.
Senate Acting Majority Leader
Hill sponsored a resolution yes
terday directing the Senate Mill
tary Affairs Committee, of which
he is member, to go thoroughly
into the question of compensation
of the men in the armed services.
The Alabama Senator expressed
the opinion that these men are
the worst paid-for what they do
of any of Federal employees. 1t
is his purpose to get, however, the
views of the War and Navy De-
partments and of the officers of
the services and of the enlisted
men before he undertakes to draft
any legislation. Whether the
study will be made by the full
committee or by subcommittee
is still to be determined
Thorough Inquiry.
He admitted that present con-
ditions, with the best of the youth
of the country drafted into the
military service, had much to do
with the demand for a study of
Army pay. 1t is his opinion, how
ever, that whatever is done should
be done only after a thorough
inquiry.
What he hopes to head off is
ill-considered and speedy action
on some amendment offered as a
rider on an appropriation bill.
He mentioned, as an example, the
amendment tackled on to the
Army service extension bill, re-
Gently passed by Congress. 1t
calls for a $10-a-month increase
in the pay of the draftees after
they have served year. This is
a blanket proposition. 1t may be
of some use and it may not.
Senator Hill wants to get the
whole picture before Congress
and before the country, before
anything is done about it.
The Complaint.
The Army, Navy and Marine
Corps are the highest paid armed
forces in the world. That has
been the boast for years. What
gripes Senator Hill-and un-
doubtedly a lot of the men who
have been taken into the service
is that a seventh-grade, unquali-
fled private gets s21 month and
this may be increased to $50 after
four months service, while young
sters who go into shipbuilding
plants and other plants turning
out aircraft and munitions are
getting as high as $40 and s45
a week.
1t is perfectly true that the
enlisted men in the Army get
their food and lodging, their uni
forms, medical care, ETC., free of
charge from the Government.
Even so, the discrepancy is
marked.
Furthermore, the young men
who are in such employment
outside of the Army or the Navy
or the Marine Corps are building
for their own future, learning
and becoming efficient at trades.
Unless a draftee determines to
remain in the military service as
a career, there is no gain for
him, except in learning dis
cipline.
Pay Rates Intricate.
1t would require at least a
Sherlock Holmes to unravel the
laws now setting up the rates
of pay for the armed services.
1t can be done; it is done, be-
cause all the men in the services
receive their pay and allowances.
But to the layman the rates of
Evening star., 1941-09-09

Mexico is to receive a loan,
somewhere between $50,000, 900
and 100000, 900, from the United
States Export rt-Import Bank, con-
ditioned on settlement of the oil
dispute and token payment"
to American oil owners to bind
the latter part of the bargain.
Actually the American oil
companies have had no part in
the negotiation: nor have they
been able to elicit from the State
Department any official informa-
ton as to details of the impend-
ing agreement. Scouts of the
companies have been told unoffl-
cially that discussions have been
going on between Assistant Sec
retary of State A. A. Berle and
the Mexican Ambassador, Senor
Castillo Najera, and that agree
ment has been tentatively ar
rived at.
Mexican Promises Doubted.
As the oil company repre-
sentatives see it, token pay
ment," if accepted by them,
amounts merely to acknowledge
ment of the validity OF the Mexi-
can seizure with no real imme-
diate quid pro quo and only a
doubtful promise for the future.
They point out that similar
Mexican promises to pay in the
past generally have proved
worthless.
But the agreement, as re-
ported, does not stop with this
condonement of larceny as re-
spects American-owned prop
critics. British oil wells also were
seized in 1888 and the British
government severed diplomatic
relations with Mexico in protest.
Now, it is said, the British, under
American lend-lease pressure
which they obviously are In diff
cult position to resist, have been
induced to agree to resume dip
lomatic relations with Mexico.
The principal Mexican counter
for all this appears to be a pledge
to play the anti-Axis game and,
particularly, not to let any of
the oil from the seized American
and British wells 60 to the Jap
anese. Needless to say, Mexico
has been assured that the anti
Axis Allies will take all the oil
she has to offer at lucrative
prices.
HulTs Stand.
Secretary of State Hull SEEM
ingly has left the Mexican nego-
tiation to subordinates, a circum-
stance not surprising in view of
his previous statements on the
subject. In series of notes to
the Mexican government, begin
ming in March, 1888, Mr.. Hull has
maintained that under interna-
tional law the appropriated prop
critics of American nationals must
be paid for by compensation, rep
resenting fair, assured and ef-
fective value of the properties
taken; that the right to expro-
pirate "is coupled with and con-
ditioned on the obligation to
make adequate, effective and
prompt compensation" and that
Evening star., 1941-09-09
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

OJ WINS fAAN \ AANE SAko
Reports from usually reliable
sources in Berlin indicate that
Herr Hitler had q confab with
Foreign Minister Won Ribben-
trop, his adviser on international
affairs, Immediately after the
Greer incident and that the uues-
ton of breaking of diplomatic
relations with the United States
was discussed.
Herr Won Ribbentrop is known
as a fire-eater. The German
Foreign Minister, who learned
psychology in a most practical
way-he was for years a cham
pagne salesman-is said to have
Evening star., 1941-09-09
U. S. Envoy in Sydney

SYDNEY, Australia, Sept. o LP9.-
Nelson T. Johnson, United States
Minister to Australia, arrived In
Sydney today on his way to Can
berra to present his credentials. He
was formerly United States Am
bassador to China.
Evening star., 1941-09-09

of the most ef-
hcient shipyards
In this country
q n d dismissed
its management
just because the
a d m / n / S -
ira tion W a S
afraid to turn
down the de-
mand of a few
labor leaders.
Today W h a t
are he con-
ditions in the
plant of the
Evening star., 1941-09-09

reports as to
the terms of
an impend-
ing H.
around" set
tlement of
Anne r ! C a n {.
Mexican eco
nomic differ
ences $50 far
unof fl a ID
prove accu-
rate.
Publ S h e d
reports have
declared that
Evening star., 1941-09-09

ever, in Kearny, a minority has bull
dozed the National Mediation Board
and now is trying to bulldoze the
workers by threatening them with
dire consequences because they hap
pen to question what the strike really
gained and what advantages to the
workers are now being assured with
a management that is no longer
present.
(Reproduction Rights ReservedD
Evening star., 1941-09-09
Film Actress Asks Divorce

LOS ANGELES. Sept. 9 UP.-
Frances Clifford, film leading lady,
yesterday sued for a divorce from
James Dunn. former motion picture
actor now on the Broadway stage,
charging mental cruelty.