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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-27
IVAN y. STRETTEN.
1929 Harper avenue.
TO THE EDITOR:

IL HE EDllOk'
SHAKESPEARE was certainly
- right when he made his little
speech about "All the worlds a
stage and especially so when
he ends with and one man IN
his time plays many parts.
This man Hitler. for instance,
has proven himself 10 be YER
satile paper-hanger, or was he
a painter?
He has surely put us in the
comic opera class of actors. We
are bitterly and justly opposed
10 communism since it is the dl-
rect opposite OF our free form OF
government and now we find.
ourselves trying TO XIII com
munlSm in our own country
while we lend all out aid To the
land Of its birth. as well as TO
China. the child il has raised so
tenderly.
Just another example Of not
letting your right hand know
what your left hand doeth, /
guess. and what a funny sight 1t
must be 10 the rest Of the world.
If they would only laugh It's of
the stage and out of the picture
entirely il would save us a lot
of trouble in the years 10 come.
MADELEINE LARGENT.
4l02 Springle avenue.
Were / so tall 10 reach the pole,
or grasp the ocean with my
span,
/ must be measured by my soul;
The minds the standard OF
the man.
Watts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-27
25 YEARS AGO TODAY
June 27, 1916

French gain at Verdun great
British offensive on Fr n c o.
Belgian front is expected mo-
mentarily by the Germans.
Three steam ers- British,
French and japanese arc sunk
by submarines in the Medlter-
ranean.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-27

arsonist for it's abIaze from the middle to both ends
Men being killed babies bombed and starved,
cities destroyed and commerce ruined don't know what it's
all because I couldn't spell without getting
scratched.
You reduce my amony and put my
bass understand why nations fight To
Just horrible cgaret butt floating in cold coffee.
Plato thought the world would be peaceful until
was run by philosophers Naturally Plato philosopher
himself he boosting his racket like trained seal
spplauding itself.
Still would like a philosopher take swing with
the political No bad thing would happen without
good FOR it.
Dsaes,sa by in,'rustorsi
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3AERING DOWN ON THE NEWS:
III Reason KeiDHeA
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

This old world should look like picnic grounds
arsonist for it's ablaze from the middle to both ends
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-27
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Evening star., 1941-10-04
By the Associated Press.


Reporting they were actually
hungry after a months stay in
England, two high-ranking Agricul-
ture Department officials said today
the British people need all the food
that the United States can possibly
send.
Paul H. Appleby, Undersecretary
OF Agriculture. remarked that he lost
8 pounds on the restricted English
diet, while r. M Evans, agricultural
adjustment administrator, returned
here 10 pounds lighter.
Both went to England nearly two
months ago at the invitation of the
British government to get closeup
view of food supply, distribution and
transportation problems
Mr.. Appleby said that "gobs and
gobs of American food" now were
reaching England under the British
aid program, but that the facts sre
that the English people are not get
ting enough to eat"
English Not Complaining.
THE English people are not COM
planning" he said. They are 100
per cent confident that they will
win the war, but they are not talk
ing about when that will be. All of
their plans and speculations are
based on 4 period Of Years. They
plan now for 1914 as readily as 1912.
There Is grim determination that
Evening star., 1941-10-04
U.S.. Officials Actually Hungry
After Month in England

we are going to whip Hitler hut
no concern over how long it will take
or how much it will cost"
Both officials said they believed
their personal contact with British
officials would facilitate the food
supply program because they found
that, in addition to meats, cheese,
eggs and other dairy products, Eng
land could use several products of
which there is a real surplus in the
United States.
Mr.. Evans said the English food
situation was tight"
Saw Only Three Eggs.
Both men were struck by the lack
of eggs in England. They said they
saw only three during a month.
Mr.. Appleby declared that there
was no conflict between Prime Min
lister Churchill's recent statement to
Parliament that food reserves had
improved and warning here by
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard
that England must have a greatly
increased food supply from the
United States to win the war.
Food reserves have improved be-
cause there has been great decline
in loss of shipping" Mr.. Appleby
said. That means If there should
be bad days, . tragedy, or complete
loss of shipping that England might
have food for only a few more days" F."
Evening star., 1941-10-04
District Committee
Urged 10 Rush D. t..
Traffic Measures
Dirksen Demands District
Call in Practical Experts
For Emergency Action
By WILL p. KENNEDY.

An appeal to the House District
Committee on Monday to take up
the District traffic situation as an
emergency measure and rush through
any needed legislation will be made
by Representative Everett M. Dirk
sen, ranking minority member.
Traffic in the District has reached
hazard stage" said DR.. Dirksen.
1T calls for immediate action, for
solution by practical experts. 1t is
bound to grow progressively worse,
and right now is the time to stop
that. 1t is hampering national de-
Tense work. Important executives
from all over the country who come
here for conferences with the Gov
ernment lose much valuable time.
Members of Congress are forced to
postpone visits to Government offices
on urgent matters vital to defense,
because they cannot buck the con-
gested traffic. There is constant
menace to human life"
Mr.. Dirksen said this subject was
"one of the most important jobs be-
fore the District Committee in
years" and added there should be
no delay
Should Save Time.
Of the need for expedited action,
he declared:
1T should not be begged down by
long hearings in a subcommittee;
there should be no more playing
with such a dangerous condition
let's save all the time We can and
clean it up now. We should call in
several of the best traffic experts in
the country, who have had practical
experience in some of the largest
cities. let them make quick survey
and then do as they advise That's
what hope the District Committee
will do"
Mr.. Dirksen regretted that in the
press of defense activities he had
not had time to 60 thoroughly into
the various proposals for improve
ment of the traffic situation. He
will support the District Commits
sioners regarding such stop-gap pro-
posals for relief as off street park
ing, he said, but he has no special
formula of his own for curing the
situation.
Nearly Killed in Cab.
I'VE all know it is bad. The
other evening. after a pleasant trip
by airplane from Chicago, I was
nearly killed riding in a taxicab
from the airport to my office. Scores
of my colleagues have had the same
experience. We have grown resent
full because so much time is lost in
fighting our way through traffic.
THE streets of the Nations Cap
ital are daily growing more dan
gerous 1t is our duty to do what
seems best to correct that, and I
intend to do my full share. But
the first thing is to get the best
expert advice we can without long
delay and then act on that advice. A"
When asked regarding the Dis
trict Commissioners announced in
tention to make a thorough shake
up of the traffic bureau, as was done
with the police department, Mr.
Dirksen said that he has not had
an opportunity to study that ques-
ton.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Reynolds Asks License
To Wed Miss Mclean

An application for a marriage L.
cense for Senator Robert Rice
Reynolds, 81. of North Carolina, and
Miss Evalyn Washington Mclean,
10, was filed at District Court today.
The application, filed by Evert l..
Bono, an attorney, said the Senator
and Miss Mclean would be married
by Judge Robert E. Mattingly Of
Municipal Court.
w. E. Mcdonald. the Senator's s
secretary. said he did not know the
date the marriage would take place.
At least three days must elapse be-
tween the filing of an application
and the issuance of the license un-
der District statutes.
The application listed the Sena-
tors legal residence as Asheville.
N. c., and his local residence as /
Second street NE. Miss McLeans
residence was given as Friendship.
Wisconsin avenue NV.
The application said that two of
the Senator's former marriages
were terminated by death and two
by divorce-one in Houston. Tex.
"'-- other in h-'>o-'i;'e.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
r. A. F. Planes Hit Germans
From Denmark to France

LONDON, Oct. 4 (P,.-British air
raids overnight against German
held territory from Denmark to
Northern France were announced
by the Air Ministry today.
Besides attacks on the often
raided ports of Rotterdam. Antwerp.
Dunkerque and Brest, it said coastal
command planes bombed German
airdromes at Aalborg. in Denmark,
and R. A. F. fighters blasted another
in Northern France with aerial can
non and machine-gun fire.
The German air force was COM
paratively inactive, only a few
planes appearing over Eastern Eng
land and Scotland. the government
said. The Nazi raiders dropped a
few bombs but no casualties were
reported, E communique declared.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Halifax Expects
No Invasion Of
Continent Now
Time Not Yet Ripe,
Bombers Must Soften
Reich, He Says
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

Great Britain must weaken Ger
many by constant air attacks be-
fore England will undertake a mill
tary invasion of the Nazi-held Euro
pean continent, Viscount Halifax,
the British Ambassador, said today
He was speaking at his first press
conference since his return to Wash
ington Wednesday from a six-week
stay in England
Lord Halifax is a member of the
British war cabinet, as we'll as envoy
to the United States
The Ambassador empha sized that
the British need American-made
heavy bombers to soften their enemy
from the air. AS for an invasion now,
he agreed that the phrase the time
is not yet ripe" is applicable.
Hopes for Offensive Later.
TN reporting what I say about
invasion" the Ambassador asked
newspaper men, be sure to include
the words at the present time
He said he hoped that England
would be able to pass from the de
fensive to the offensive at the earl-
est possible time He thought that
an expeditionary force now. sent
into Belgium or northern France,
might suffer the fate of other Brit
ish soldiers who escaped through
Dunkirk and from Greece and Crete,
and left behind materials useful TO
the Axis and costly to the British.
Only by attack from the air can
we create the conditions in Ger
many that will enable the war to
be won in a reasonable time Lord
Halifax said.
Bombers Desired Now.
only by having heavy bombers
can this be accomplished One
heavy bomber in 1941 is worth two
or three in 1912 Every heavy bomb
er you can deliver to us is worth
its weight in gold"
The Ambassador said the oues-
ton of whether Great Britain
would send an expeditionary force
into Russia from Iran depended
on whether it was found that Rus
sian needed troops or supplies more
He said that dispatch of troops into
Russia would tax transportation
lines nov needed for Russian sup
plies.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Russians Battling
To Save Khurkov
And the Crimeu
BY the Associated Press.

! BY the Associated Press.
The Russians threw large scale
forces into battle along the
southern front today in an effort
to stem the German drive to-
ward Kharkov and the Donets
River Basin and to entrap the
German forces battering at Cri-
mean Peninsula defenses.
In the north the Soviet claimed
| to have repulsed the Firms in de-
cislve sector of the Leningrad front
and front line dispatches told of
heavy fighting along a line running
almost straight from the Black Sea
to Leningrad.
Dispatches from the belligerent
capitals indicated the Nazi thrust
toward the industrialized Donets
basin in Southern Russia was the
main danger to the Soviet.
Izvestia, Soviet government news
paper, said Red Army counter
attack on an undisclosed south
western sector had routed a COM
blned German Rumanian force
from 80 settlements. The 7th and
9th Rumanian Infantry Regiments
and the 5th Cavalry Brigade were
defeated in battle in which Rus
sian planes backed up land froces.
1t said.
Reds Hastily Marshal Power.
Berlin reported that German
scouts on the southern front told of
the Russians hastily organizing their
last ounce of reserve strength in that
area.
Authorized Berlin sources said the
Intensive Red Army activity. dis
covered by air reconnaissance and
ground patrols. presumably was a
| Russian countermeasure to the
large-scale German operations an
nounced yesterday by Adolf Hitler
. and repeated in the high command
communique today.
AT least one strong Russian coun-
ter thrust was reported in the south
where, Nazi dispatches said, a Ger
man regiment destroyed 300 Red
Army tanks.
With crisp fall weather said to be
favoring airforce activity, the daily
war bulletin reported both Lenin-
grad and Moscow raided during the
night.
Pressure on Donets.
Berlin reports said the Germans
seemed to be turning their mightiest
pressure on the Donets and the
manufacturing city of Kharkov.
They added that the German as
saults were colliding with counter
attacking Russian tanks and arm
ored trains
D.NB. said German airmen had
bombed Soviet transport lines and
industrial centers of the southern
zone, especially the rail line at
Kharkov, with good effect
There still was no indication. how
ever, what Fuehrer Hitler meant
by his declaration yesterday that a
gigantic new development had oc-
CURED on the Russian front. Ger
mans speculated as to whether the
central front armies of Field Mar
shall Fedor Won Book had once more
swung into action. or whether the
Evening star., 1941-10-04
81 900 Fire Is Caused
By Children Playing

A fire which police said was start
ed by two children trying TO cook
breakfast in a doll house caused
damage estimated at nearly $1,000
at the home of Norris l. Conklin
4810 Battery lane, Bethesda, Nd,
early today.
Mr.. Conklin had left the house
shortly before s am. and other
members of the family were at the
breakfast table when Tommy. 5, ran
down from the attic where the dol
house was kept, to summon aid
Rushing upstairs. Mr. Conklin found
her 2-year-old son. Richard. crawl
ing down from the smoke-filled room
according TO police. Flremen from
the Bethesda and Chevy Chase de-
partments extinguished the blaze.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
British Bombs Kill
50 in Rotterdam,
Germans Report
300 Declared Wounded
English BIost Docks
In Nozi-Held Ports
By the Associated Press.

BERLIN, Oct. A large forma-
ton of British warplanes bombed
Rotterdam in the German occupied
Netherlands during the night, kill
ing more than so persons and
wounding approximately 300. D.NB
declared today.
The news agency said the raiders
did considerable damage to resi-
Dental sections of the city, destroy
ing several apartment houses and
two churches. A Dutch hospital
ship in the harbor was reported
sunk.
Casualties May Be Increased.
First reports of the number of
casualties may be increased by
later advices, DNB. said.
The German high command said
there were no enemy combat opera
tions over the Reich's territory"
The British Air Force, between
August "a and September 80, lost
476 planes" it declared. "4l8 OF
these were downed by air force
units, SO by naval units. In the
same period a total of 40 of our own
planes were lost in the fight against
Great Britain"
U-boats have sunk four merchant
vessels aggregating $4,000 tons ir
the Atlantic and German airmer
sent three ships of an equal ton
mage to the bottom off Great Var
mouth last night, the high command
said. A large tanker was listed
among the Atlantic victims.
Four large merchantmen were re-
ported to have been damaged sc
| badly in the aerial operations of
Great Yarmouth that an addi-
tional loss of shipping space is prob
IL birl, coiI
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Peru and Ecuador Agree
On DemiIitarized Zone
q, the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
QUITO, Ecuador, Oct A Joint
accord to establish a demilltarized
zone on the Peruvian-Ecuadorean
border, the scene of almost continu-
GUS Jungle warfare this summer,
was published by the Foreign Office
here today.
The accord, signed by military
representatives of Peru and Ecua-
dor at Talara, becomes effective at
noon tomorrow. 1t was initiated in
the presence of observers from
Argentina, Brazil and the United
States, nations which had volun-
teered to assist in settling a long
standing dispute over the territory.
A truce went into effect July 81,
but both Peru and Ecuador had
charged violations since
Civil authorities are to admin
ster the demilitarized zone under a
special regime controlled by military
observers of the mediating countries.
The agreement specified that the
establishment of the zone did not
imply recognition of any titles of
sovereignty.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Argentine Warships Crash;
; Lost, Others MISSING
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES. Oct 4.-Three
men were lost and Others are miss
ing as a result of a crash in a fog
yesterday between an Argentine
cruiser and torpedo boat 54 miles
northeast of Mar del Plata. the
Naval Ministry announced today.
Two petty officers and one sea-
man of the torpedo boat Corrientes
were lost. The vessel was in COL
hsion with the cruiser Almirante
Brown at 6 pm. Efforts were being
made today to salvage the Cor
rientes after transfer of the sur
vivors.
Mar del Plata is a seaside resort
230 miles southeast of Buenos
Aires.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Hotels and Workers
Settle Differences,
Ending Strike Threat
Wage Increases Which
TotoI $500, 900 YeorIy
Gronted by Management!

Settlement of the issues between
Washington hotels and their en-
ployes. averting the strike which no.
tel workers unions voted last Mon
day. but withheld pending negotia-
tions. was announced today by DR.
John r. Steelman, director of con-
ciliation of the Labor Department.
A statement authorized by both
sides explained that the hotels had
agreed to wage increases in no in
stance less than 10 per cent" and
approXimating s500000 annually.
The employees. it was announced,
also were granted "an improved va
cation plan and seniority rule"
The settlement followed nearly a
week of prolonged negotiations by
representatives of the management
and the employees. The final session.
held this morning in DR.. Steelman S
office, resulted in the agreement.
Represents 16 Hotels.
The terms were agreed TO by the
Hotel Operators Association OF
Washington, representing the l6
hotels involved, and the local Joint
Executive Board of the Hotel and
Restaurant Employees International
Alliance and the Bartenders' In
ternational League.
The Joint Employees Board rep
resented the several locals involved
1t was announced that the Bartend
| ers' Local No. rs already had ratified
the terms by referendum vote ano
that the Executive Boards of the
two other locals, Service Employees
Local No. 80 and Catering Employees
Local No 78l, also had approved the
pact The service and catering
union memberships had yet to vote
on the settlement, but it was ex-
planned that, since their Executive
Boards had approved, this was a
mere formality.
The unions had asked wage in
creases ranging up to Is per cent
The exact scale of increases agreed
upon was not made public, but it was
indicated that the unions got a SUBJ
stantial portion of what they sought
Doesn't Include Closed Shop.
1t also was made known that the
agreement does not call for a closed
shop. The unions, it was pointed
out, already have a modified union
shop in the Is hotels, under which
the unions supply employees where
ever possible, and this plan will re-
main in effect.
The brief statement issued by DR.
Steelman at the request of the
management and the employees
stated:
'It is estimated that the settle
ment will result in increases OF
wages for the employees represented
by the unions of approximately
$500,000 "a year,.
I'm allocating the increases, the
(See HOTEL STRIKE, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Nozis' Lord How How
Reported Banned,
Gives Broadcast
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 4.-The
Berlin radio was quoted by c.
B. S. today as announcing that
the world-famous radio COM
mentator, Lord Haw Haw, has
been banned from the air" but
several hours later the Fascist
minded Englishman made his
regular broadcast
At 7:30 pm, Berlin time,
Lord Haw Haw gave a news
broadcast, but he merely read re-
ports and gave no commentary.
Berlin authorities denied Lord
HaW Haw had been banned and
said he could be heard as
usual, although c. B. S. reported
hearing the ban announcement
at 6 80 m. and again two hours
later.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
AUS. Marines Convicted
OF Criminal Assault
Rx the Associated Press

By the AsS0clated Press
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Oct. 2 de-
layedD "A United States Naval Court
has convicted four American Ma
rines on charges of criminally as
saulting an Icelandic woman and
has sentenced them to terms In
Portsmouth prison ranging from 10
to 20 years.
The men convicted and sentences
imposed:
John F. Freeman and Raleigh N.
Ross. 20 years each: Earl w. Pharr
Is years; John Marx Junious, 10
years.
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Chengehow Occupation
Claimed by japanese
Nv the Ssnciated PraSS

By the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI. Oct. 4.-The Japa-
nese Army declared tonight its
forces had occupied Chengchow
vital railray junction. in its new
Honan Province offensive.
Capture of this city was declared
by Japanese sources here to be the
preliminary to fresh advance along
the western part of the Luunghai
railway against the Chinese forces
of Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek