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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-29
World Urged to Protest
Mass Murders by Nazis
BIZ DOROTHY THOMPSON

CINCE totalitarian war became
~ the first item on the agenda
of the totalitarian StateAthe
world has come to accept with
out protest the theory that any
thing is fair III war.
A young person, not familiar
with the history of civilization,
might take it for granted that
in all wars there has been no
limit to brutalities.
But. actually. there always
have been limits--there have
been codes of international prac-
tice outlawing outrageously UNI
just actions. Even in a war to
the death, some concessions
were previously made to the
conscience of mankind, and the
customs of peace.
The international Red Cross
was but a nineteenth century
manifestation of the eighteenth
century law of nations" which
sought to remind men that even
in war they should do as litIe
damage as possible to civilized
institutions and practices.
Thus. hospital areas were not
to be bombed: prisoners of war
were not to be executed; am
balances bearing wounded were
to he respected.
In this war. to have Red
Cross anywhere about is to in
vite' a stuka bomber.
THESE remarks arc elected
L by the reports that have
been appearing regularly in the
newspapers of the shooting of
hostages by the German armies
of occupation. Not single ma
ton. or group in any country,
has protested against this.
The Christian church has not
protested. The free universities
of the democracies have not pro-
tested. AS far as / recall, the
Pope has not protested. The
President or Congress OF the
United States has not pro-
tested.
twill he-said- tAat-sreteSt-
would be totally ineffective. 1t
probably would be. for all the
influence it would have on the
NaZis.
Nevertheless. that pro Q $ t
should be registered, as mat
ter Of record of the point Of
view of civilized human beings
and as assurance 20 the people
in the occupied countries that
their fate is not matter of in
difference.
-ttrfti beg the Congress or Inc
United States. which represents
a nation that stands for free
dom under law. to pass
condemnatory resolution and
present il 10 the German gov
eminent in the name of human
ity, decency, and a morality that
transcends even moral strife be-
tween nations.
THE German army began this
Il practice OF mass murder of
the innocent in the last war
when French and Belgian snip
ers took shots at German
soldiers and officers of the
armies of occupation
Bet nothing done by the Ger
mans in the last war is compa-
rable 10 what is being done now.
A dispatch on September II says
that - French hostages were
executed for the assassination
of Captain Scheben
Hostages are daily being shot
for acts of espionage and sabo-
tage committed by unknown
persons. In Serbia. as many as
80 hostages have been shot for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-29
Tom Custer
Twice Won
Honor Medal
Set Record ECU aIe d
Later by Butler
BY DAMON RUNYoN

y O. PARKS Of New Rochelle,
~ who seems 10 be up in his
army history. writes that another
American soldier besides Smedley
Butler who twice won the gold
Congressional Medal of Honor.
highest award of the service,
was Capt. Tom Custer. brother
of George Armstrong Custer.
the great cavalry leader who fell
in a fight against the Sioux In
dians that has been immortalized
in prose and poetry as Clusters
last stand.
It's our recoffectiOn that
there was a Sergeant DAILY who
also had two congressional
awards, but we have no data on
him at hand. We think he was
regular army man. Possibly
some of our readers can favor
us with Days history We knew
a number Of holders of the Con-
greSsional Medal from the last
war, including New York ia
nous Sergeant Mike Donaldson.
Johnny Kelly of Chicago, and
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, but
we are not aware of any two
time winners of the decoration
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-29

MASS murder is not Justice II
A'A IS mass murder. 1t cannot
be an-inSt l-llEalasa t,f-orrirr.- be-
cause IT IS by its very nature dis
order. II is no enforcement for
law, because it is arbitrary and
lawless.
Those who think that Hitler's
new order means anything like
law and order should take cogni-
zance of this shooting of hos
tages.
Meanwhile, the guardians Of
ordered civilization and legiti-
mate government in the United
States Congress, in the British
Parliament. in the churches,
schools and colleges Of this coun-
try and Britain, should make
formal protest.
Some time the history civ
iliZation in the twentieth century
will be written. and for the sake
OF our place in this history there
ought 10 be a record of our con-
demnation.
We ought ako 10 do il for tho
sake OF humanity and our own
souls. because we tend 10 become
hardened. calloused and indiffer-
ent through every outrage and
assault on decency and law that
we accept as a matter OF course.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-29

the murder Of a single German.
Recently a German was shot
from d hoteL-and a squad ina
medidteiy entered the restaurant
of the hotel. took out the first
20 men AT hand, and shot every
other one of them. Actually IL
died because one collapsed OF
heart failure
IN THIS shooting of hostages
Il is the complete breakdown of
any sort of law whatsoever. No
connection is established be-
tween the hostages and the
crime-the hostages are shot
purely as an act of terror to
quell the population.
Five, 10. 20, 30 innocent men
must die, by arbitrary selection,
for the crime of some one else.
A Serbian bridge is blown up,
and so Serbian peasants are COL
1ected from the nearest fields
and strung up to their own fruit
trees, without investigation or
trial.
The practice is not only adj
mitted by the German author
tieS-they brag of il II is the
only efficient way, they argue,
OF keeping order
A PPARENTLY this is the Ger
"A man new order. Other
armies Of occupation in con-
quered countries have not
resorted to such methods. Ger
many, itself, after the last war.
was occupied by French, British
and American troops.
The German population COM
mitted acts of sabotage and ter
ror against those armies of occu-
patton. The guilty were usually
unprecedented and if the act was
particularly heinous, they were
executed.
One of them is regarded as n
Nazi hero: Leo Schlageter.
The NaziS, who are so piously
outraged by the behavior of the
-4sefef;,- erected a monument to
him.
Schlageter blew up a railroad
bridge at Duisburg, and the
allied armies Of occupation exc
cuted him. But never, never. did
they execute innocent people in
order Ito terrorize the popuia-
ton.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-29
Connolly Answers

la Atlantic Ocean; OBJ
Seine River; (c) Mediter-
ranean Sea. q
2-(a) Wyoming; (b) Utah; lc)
New York.
3-lal Rome; fhl Oxford; fcl
Galway
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"Tannhauser" lei 9Lohen-
grin.
5-(a) Nebraska; (b) Min
neSota; tc) California.
6-ta) Antaeus; CD Gree; (cl
Antigone.
tai Philippines; OBJ Puerto
Rico: (c) Hawaii.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-29
BAERING DOWN ON THE NEWS:
DeNE'lh of RpSCITe
BY ARTHUR "BUGs" BAER

efficiency expert but it to me that Secre
tary Morgenthau shaving thinner than potato chips.
When the old boy limits corporations to per he
isn't allowing for bad day And the Garden of Eden
had one Of those
Mr. Morgenthaus idea of fair return gives business less
roon than two mule trains passing the Bright Angel Trail
We have just recovered from Mr. cke famous shortage
Of surplus and it looks like for dearth Of
per cent margin Of safety enough and business
will be like the old farmer who yelled stretch
boys it's got 70 reach from the house 10 the barn"
EeeEs Serves
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-29
25 YEARS AGO TODAY
Sent. 20, 1916

Germany's imperial chancel-
lor. Or. Won Bethmann Hollweg,
tells Reichstag England forced
Italy into the war against Ru-
mania.
British troops claim their
military fire in the Ancre valley
along the Somme is driving the
Germans from their positions.
AuStro-German reports say
they repulsed Rumanians at
'acking at HermannStadt. i'm
Pennsylvania.
Berlin criticiZes our help TO
the Allies. may revive U-boat
warfare to stop this aid.
Dispatches from Athens say
king of Greece has decided TO
declare war against Bulgaria.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-29

John McGRAW had personal
- quarters in the old Waldorf
from which. in the late hours.
old friends of the little Napoleon
would come hurting, bruised
and disheveled. like buns out Of
barrel house.
He was a man Of unpredicta-
bic moods. so any one Who made
merry with McGraw assumed
all the risk.
Cap'n Til Huston. the social
partner of the Yankee firm, had
personal quarters in the Mar
Unique. but Col. Jake Rupert
and Ed G.. Barrow. the business
manager. merely dropped in. sa-
luted their guests and quietly
vanished on big business.
In 1923. the social program
was greatly reduced and, while
economy may have been a rea-
son. am willing TO believe that
-the-haSt- -l4ati-currrr 10 tire con-
clusion that their hospitality
was getting their guests down.
THE most hysterical public
IL demonstration Of all oc-
Cured in Washington in 1924
when Bucky Harris won his first
pennant for Clark Griffith
This one was hard 10 account
for except on the grounds6ssf
innocent enthusiasm for Wash
ingfon.
NeVGTTnC1CSS, nc fFehZIes
rivaled those of either armistice
and thousands Of citizens made
fools of themselves far beyond
midnight on nothing stronger
than coffee.
Mr.. Griffith abhorred intoXl-
cants from honest convictions
and provided no bar. but each
working press ticket was ac-
companied by a series Of cou-
ponS. one for each day which.
presented at a certain room in
a certain hotel, somehow en-
titled bearer to one imperial
quart.
1t had become a binding ira
dition now to ossify the press
sur1dry- and TINS pretty
custom continued on down TO
repeal when temptation, or,
anyway. opportunity appeared
on every hand, at popular prices.
Much as our public envicd us
our seats in the working press,
still more would the people OF
the l.. S. A. have pinned TO Join
us when we threw off the cares
of high office TO make fellow
ship.
Copyrighted BY United Features synd, Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-29

MIR. PARKS says Capt. Tom
Custer was a member of the
United States Volunteer Cav
airy in the unpleasantness that
is now usually mentioned as the
war between the states. 1t used
10 be called the Civil War, which
was shorter and quite as de-
Scriptivp, but Of late years the
other title has come to be pre-
feffed in some quarters, Captain
Toms most daring exploit. as
related by Mr.. Parks, was just
before Appomatox, when he
dashed into the enemy lines and
Single-handed captured a Confed-
crate battle flag.
He was shot in the head and
badly burt. but he refused 10
leave the firing Mr.. Parks
does not mention Captain Toms
other medal-winning feat, but
presumably it was equally spec
tacular-"in the line of duty or
beyond as the award demands.
The capture of battle flags was
deemed of great Importance in
the old-time wars and soldiers
often risked their lives to seize
an enemy standard. Now the
flags are not carried into battle
or exposed in the lines. They
would only make good targets
for the other fellow.
Mr.. Parks says that Capt. Tom
Custer was the officer who later
arrested the Sioux warrior Rain
in-the-Face for the murder of
two white men, and that the
Indian thereupon swore that he
would some day cut the heart
out of the captain After the
battle of the Little Big Horn in
which Gen. George A. Clusters
Seventh Cavalry command was
wiped out, a human heart bound
round with a leather thong was
found in a deserted tepee near
the battle field, according to Mr..
Parks, and he thinks it could
have been the heart that once
so courageously beat beneath
the uniform of the gallant Cap
tain Tom.
ME NEVER heard this par
w ticular story in connection
with Clusters last stand. in
which only a couple of scouts
are supposed to have survived.
We do remember. vaguely, a
poem that told of Rain-in-the
Faces oath of vengeance against
"the white chief with the yellow
hair" but that was the cavalry
leader himself. Rain-in-the-Face
was one of the principals in the
Sioux force that attacked Gus
ter, though the master mind Is
SAID 10 haze hecn-Sltting- Bull.-a-
medicine man and chief who was
always k eping the Indians
stirred up.
1t was his refusal to return
TO his reservation in 1876 that
led 10 Clusters campaign. Sitting
Bull skipped TO Canada after the
massacre with large band of
his men. lie returned TO the.
United States in 1881 and made
his home at the Standing Rock
Agency but some years later
unrest among dllaHs caused
the authorities to decide TO ar
rest him as a precaution. He
was killed on Grand River in
1890 while his companions were
trying TO rescue him.
Not only General Custer and
Captain Tom were killed on the
Little Big Horn. but also an
other brother. Boston, and a
nephew. Autie Reid: also a
brother-in-law of the Clusters,
Captain Calhoun. Thus. MIR.
Parks points out. Mrs. Custer
lost her husband. her three
brothers and a nephew in the
massacre.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-29
Quiz Answers

Sweden.
3 Seventy-fve.
Between 20 and Is beats per
minute
= Lactose.
s. Steel.
6-Bluish-gray.
March T.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-29
Leaders Ask
Unity in Own
Support
Nearly Everybody Seems
Anxious Except Them
BY HUGH S. JOHNSON

BY HUGH S. JOHNSON
HUMAN labor is not a COM
- modify of commerce. There
fore we ought to put ceiling
over all prices, but not wages.
Something like that is the
reasoning of Mr.. Henry Morgen-
THAI. With one other exception
the 6 per cent limitation on
profits nonsense-hls testimony
was excellent, but that one was
pure politics and buncombe.
II is exactly like saying:
"A straight line is the short
est distance between two points
and therefore the moon is made
of green cheese"
Nobody denies that labor is
not a commodity, Except the
worker himself, no man owns it,
no man can buy and sell il or
send IT to work where it does
not want to go.
But price initiation is the worst
danger to-labor itself. 1t can't
be stopped without direct con-
trolls.
PRINCIPAL @ g M nt in
price Initiation is labor
prices. You can't control price
initiation without controlling
those prices also, and to say
that you can't control the latter
because labor is not COM
modify doesn't make sense.
Commodity or no commodity.
its prices affect the whole COM
modify price structure.
In the control effort, they can
no more be ignored than you
can ignore the law of gravity in
jumping out Of a balloon. They
are the principal pull that leads
10 the coming disastrous result.
You've got to have a para
chute. and it will be no good
with great holes in il.
A parachute for both prices
and wages is proposed here
Nobody is proposing any rigid
ceiling. No control of wages
that is not tied to the certain
increase in the cost OF living
has been discussed.
In a war economy prices are
bound to go up and under these
proposals the wages of labor
must 60 up in the same ratio.
Nobody dreams OF preserving
the old price structure or pre-
venting an orderly rise. The
object here is only 10 keep il
from running away TO absolute
chaos and destruction.
IN SUCH a sky-rocketing labor
always suffers first and
worst. Nothing that labor, or
gained or unorganized. ever
gained or dreamed of gaining
would equal in benefit this pro-
posal 10 control the rise, and,
by insuring automatically rise
In wages proportionate TO the
rise In the cost OF living. TO
secure TO labor. at long last,
preservation of the present high
scale Of real wages.
That means TO insure to every
head of a family that his pay
envelope will buy throughout all
the troublous days ahead at
least as many groceries, as
much clothing, rent and all the
necessaries of life as il does
today.
Those who oppose this are no
true friends of labor. The rea-
sons advanced, that labor is not
a commodity. is just political
hog-wash without any bearing
on the real elements of the
problem.
It's only effect can be 20 be-
fuddle and bemuse workers 10
their own disadvantage.
THERE is hardly a student Of
Il this subject, and there is
tfrdt f1ds rad intense eX-
perience with il, who does not
know that prevention OF infla-
ton through price control is an
utterly foolish and futile gesture
"a mountebank' clowning-if
farm and labor prices are free
from control.
Vet hnranca coy,oa yNo1itfoo1Ix,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-29
DEfR0Isay FINES

Published every Week Day Evening and
Sunday Morning by The Times Publishing
Company at 1928 Times Square. Detroit.
Mich.
Entered at Detroit Mich, as Second Glass
Mail Matter
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-29

TELEPHoNE-cHERRY $500
Subscription rate Tin advance) by mail
to any place in the United States. Canada
or Mexico. (On Canadian subscriptions add
1876 10 cover war import taxi.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-29

DROHIBITION was upon us
Il in earnest then. the bootleg
ging industry had not been or
gained and VIC OF the press
and our guests and a few hum
dred assorted bygone celebrities
Of the game made merry in such
determined fashion that the bill
10 the management OF the two
clubs would seem 10 have been
no less than $4,000 each time.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-29

TIME came in Philadelphia,
i when a frugal management.
stung by disparagement of the
strains discoursed elsewhere in
other years. dispensed with even
this paltry festivity and SUBJ
stituted Sousa on records. mag
-nified by the loud-Speakers.
q That was the year the Gus
toners in the blcachers spotted
Herbert Hoover as ne was IeaV-
ing and hooted. We want beer"
an affront so ominous 10 men OF
serious mind that an elderly cop
in the Gordon holding back the
crowd, fell fiat on his face and
lay as If dead.
The public celebration in
Philadelphia was meager as II
always Is -in-Aew- York where
even The mighty Giants Of Nc
Graw in their early meetings
with the Yankees occaSioned no
horn blowing or hat banging in
the streets.
But, although New York al
ways preserved an outward
calm. the private relaxing par
ties after the game in the years
'2l and % were historic hrawls
which took a measurable toll of
some of the miscreantS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-29
Social Life
Of Series
In Hotels
Baseball Gala Nothing
but Game Of Ball
BY wESTBROOK PEGLER

IT HAS been six years since
covered World Series, but
my last was my seventeenth in
a row.
So / feel qualified to give out
on the social background of this
peculiar American emotional dis
turbance whose most exciting
phase occurred i'm the. era OF
wonderful nonsense when hot
eyed preachers put poison in the
hootch and nobody went to bed
except to die.
The social life Of the World
Series takes place in the hotels
customarily patronized by base
ball magnates, scouts. traders
and superannHated players and
by the baseball writer's assigned
to the show.
This latter group included in
my day, number OF celebrated
middle-name fictioneers who
would be commissioned by the
syndicates TO do the story i'm
the manner Of the living human
document. an assignment on
which many big name laid an
oVer-ripe egg because, after all,
a World Series game never adds
up to anything more than
game of ball with hunting and
some blurts OF unbelievably bad
band music.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-28
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live With me, but you haven't
found il out yet. You'll discover
Il when we're married. I want you
10 marry me right away"
She shook her head. I'm not in
love with you, Jerry"
We've always got along TO-
lgetaer. You won't have to work
any more, Kitty. We can play for
the rest Of our lives. If We go On
as we have, I'll be satisfied with il
that way"
IT you're satisfied with it that
way. Jerry. I'll marry you when
ever you say"
Fran lowered the venetian blind
70 shut out the hot July sun and
moved 4 small lever that started
the electric fan On her desk.
."That'u make you feel better
she said u the detected figure OF
the press agent sprawled in the
corner chair.
His eyes remained closed and he
spoke in the voice Of a man tried
beyond all endurance.
In all my experience as a press
agent. in all my dreams Of the
Perfect Situation, nothing ike this
has ever happened before, and
What happens?"
Fran concentrated or the letters
her secretary had brought in to
her: there was no reason for her
TO go On arguing with Ferris. There
was nothing he could say that
she hadn't heard in the past hour.
She signed the last Of the letters
and said, Why don't you use the
story I'm giving you? 1t isn't every
sponsor who'd give a star a sable
wrap to replace the one the mob
tore off her back. Honest TO good
ness sable, Jimmie!"
Ferris groaned. She says l
should write about a present from
a sponsor when I've got front
page news. Will you please tell me
what difference a coupla days can
make when we can make the front
page two days in succession? Don't
you realize that nc press agent
ever has been able to do that-to
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-28
break the front page with two dh-
ferent stories, two days runnng:"

break the front page with two diff
ferent stories, two days running:"
couldn't you change the rou-
tne?'' she said pleasantly, with
out looking up. You're going rlsat
back into the story that 'yester-
day we made all the front pages
with the story Of Kits ovation Sat
urday night"
Ferris eyes grew dreamy n ne
chanted the headlines lovingly:
Radio Star Revives Berhardt
TRADITION. Excited Fans Stage
Riot in Street. Storm Broad
casting Company to See Favorlte-
Police Reserves Curb Crowd
|. Famous Singing Star Ac-
claimed by Mob on Return to
Radio After Battle With Death"
Same mob. nearly crushing her.
They tore the clothes off her
back" Fran said, her tone frank
.ly more pleased than sympathetic
And now you won't let me fol-
low it up with the announcement
of her engagement. Star to Wed
sembler Scion It'd break every
front page in the country ii
you'd better not try it or you'N
find something else broken. Kit
saws we can't announce the engage
ment yet, and you know that when
she tells me that. I can't do any
thing about it."
You're breaking my heart"
Ferris told her. Miss O'Rellly,
be a good guy. Don't you realize
that we gotta give the papers a
break after what they did for you
last month? Gee, they gave you
as much space on that Gershwin
show as if you'd been doing it."
Il can see your position, jim
ME-" she answered, but this IS
a personal matter. 1 don't see how
it would be giving the papers a
break"
'The end of July rarely turns up
any good personality stories n
the papers would eat it up. Can't
you see the headlines and pictures
you'd get?"
Look, Jimmie, the papers can
have it, but not until Monday.
We're going to announce it at Mrs.
Won Sicler's house in oyster Bay
at dinner Sunday night. You can
CONTINUED On Page Nine)
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-22
VI uIIeV
&Joo0
Risk

"A safer investment field than
ever before in it's history :"
In these terms Evan T. Hewes,
chairman of the Imperial Irrigation
district, described Imperial Valleys
credit picture before members of
The Lions club Tuesday neon.
Hewes referred to the impending
improvement in the districts finan-
cial status through current refund
ing plans.
Il believe we arc in a position
now to forget the past and look
forward to the future. We are on
the verge of solvency for the first
time in many years :.
Now that we have certain flood
control and adequate water supply,
as well as obligations arranged on
a paying basis, Imperial Valley is
safer investment than ever be-
fore," Hewes declared.
we are justified now in invest
ing two dollars for every one dollar
invested in the past"
HeWeS spoke as guest of John
Davis, chairman of the day John
Adams and Stan Atkin arranged
music selections, played by BaVerne
laVala, pianist.