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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-01-18
Great Lakes
Protest Upheld
By League
Lose Sunday
To Auto Club,
so To 38

Great Lakes protest OF It's defeat
by the Harry Suffrin club Jan s,
was upheld by officials OF the De-
troit Basketball association. The
officials ruled that the referee had
erred in allowing the winning has
kct and declared the game mo
contest The game will be re-
played within the next two weeks.
While this was pleasant news to
the Great Lakes players, their hap
piness was short-lived. Sunday the
Auto club. pace-setiers In the
Triple A division Of the Detroit
Basketball association. smothered
Great lakes under 50-3S score In
the feature attraction OF the league
games at Holy Redeemer gym
nasium.
Maintain Lead
Auto club jumped into An early
lead which was never rclinquished.
leading .22-ii at half time. The
winners maintained this pace
through the remaining two periods
OF the game II was the second
consecutive victory Auto club has
gained over Great Lakes.
Larry Bleach and Jim Country
Davis continued their fine shooting
Bleach collecting three field goals
and two foul shots for points
while Davis was helping himself 10
four field goals and two foul shots
for 10 points Tony Piana. Auto
guard. was high point man Of the
evening with III pnoits
Manager Bleach told his players
after the game that he planned a
reorganization and that several
new faces would he In the Lineup
when the team takes the floor next
Sunday evening.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-01-18

are urged TO he present and on
mo
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1941-01-18
Cleveland Hlghllghts

Donald and James, Jr. chatham
kept us company on the way over
with their four varieties OF shores.
Donald says that he wants 10
bowl but will take ice cream IN
stead. Martha shannon defeated
some OF CleVelands best women
Evening star., 1941-04-16

tribution, is due to excessive requi-
sitions of food by the conquerors
rather than the British blockade.
In this connection, special inter-
est attaches to an article in the
Christian Science Monitor, which
quoted French newspapers as stating
that sixty-eight vessels arrived at
Marseille from Algeria and Tunisia
during the three weeks from Novem-
ber 18 to December s. According to
a recent broadcast from Algiers, rec
ord quantities of figs, dates, cereals,
mutton, fruit and vegetables have
been transported to both occupied
and unoccupied France. Where did
this food go-to the French or to
their conquerors?
These reported shipments, coupled
with the comment by Temps, consti-
tute an impressive answer to the re-
cent statement by Admiral Darlan,
Frances anti-British Vice Premier,
that the Germans, in the matter of
food for the French, were more
humane than the British. And they
also should give pause to those who
are inclined arbitrarily to reject
Britain's contention that any relax
alton of her blockade of the conti-
nent would surely result, directly or
indirectly, in easing Germany's own
food problem.
Evening star., 1941-04-16

Pigeons are among the greatest
nuisances at bird ieeding stations.
Persons who admire and feed song
sters will be unwilling TO admit that any
things with wings really can be objec.
tionable.
Persistent advent of band of pigeons,
however, may make them change their
minds.
Pigeons are greedy, consuming vast
amounts of food intended for smaller
and more interesting birds.
They perch on house and garage roofs
making uncouth noises from time to
time. A pigeon fancier may admire
this noise but to others it will be the
well-known pain in the neck"
Pigeons crowd smaller birds out of the
way at feeding stations. A group of
dozen to 10 pigeons, an average band,
will eat inside of an hour all the seed
put out at four different spots, in the
yard
Yet there are many things to admire
about pigeons, no doubt Of it at all.
That is where sincere admiration for
the artistic and the unusual helps the
person who has pigeons which he does
not want.
1t has always seemed to us that ad-
miration of the usual is not enough. The
better way is to admire the unusual and
the usual.
Artistic things may exist in the COM
mon and the usual, but all too many
persons fail to see the artistic in the
unusual
Music offers many examples of this.
Place a disc of classical Chinese music
on your phonograph and most of your
hearers will hold up their hands in
horror
Yet nothing is surer, in music, than
that the unusual becomes the beautiful
once 1t becomes familiar. The modern
phonog with its great depth of bass,
offers the best possible way< for the
listener to become familiar with un-
usual music.
Not only will the user have the op-
portunity to hear the same thing over
anu ONNA dAltlL llC OUCc w.,
but he will find on modern phonograph
records mass of musical material un-
available in any other way.
Admiration of unusual music may seem
long way from pigeons, but it is not;
even the notes of this large birds song,
if so it may be called, in time come to
be pleasing. They somewhat resemble
the truly musical song of the dove, its
cousin
In other ways, too, it is possible for a
really determined person to work up
genuine admiration for this somewhat
ungainly bird-ungainly that is, when
on the ground. Nothing is prettier in the
air or more graceful or powerful flyer
The other day after the rain we
chanced to see half a dozen pigeons
picking their way through the wet grass
The sight had something comical
about 1t as we'll as artistic.
The birds were spread out over the
lawn, spaced some feet apart, one
Evening star., 1941-04-16
THIS AND THAT
Bu Charles z. TrdceDell.

after the other, but not keeping in a
set order First one pigeon, then an
other, would forge aheao of the next.
In this way they went from the
| feeding sta ion beneath the maple tree
| to the place across the yard beneath
the Van Fleet rose vine where station
| had stood all winter.
1t has been cleaned up now, but the
birds still look for 1t.
The facial expression of the pigeons
as they stood around wondering where
the feeding station was made a perfect
picture.
One might not think, offhand, that
these birds could manifest dismay so
easily, but they did. And in another
manner they showed an almost human
capability. Instead of being satisfied
with the heaps of food in the station be-
meath the maple, they left that to look
for food where it was not and, not find
ing it, were not content to go back to the
other side of the yard where plenty of
grain and seed awaited them.
No. that would not do them at all.
Sullenly, almost deflantly. they waited
beneath the big rose vine, determined to
find food where they expected to find it.
First one bird and then another would
turn around, look toward the house,
then back again to the empty space.
If they could have spoken we felt sure
that they would have said something
along the following line:
THE food was here yesterday. it ought
to be here today. and we hope it Will
be here tomorrow. Do not disappoint
us again
The ground where the old feeder stood
is as hard as concrete for a space of
8 feet in all directions.
Even after the rain it was necessary
to take pick to loosen the combined
matt Of seed and grain husks which
had been trampled down all winter by
hundreds of bird feet.
You would not think that such small
claws could do such a mighty job of
| packing down the earth.
This crust is about inches thick
and comes Of in chunks like concrete.
Broken up and made fine it is a fine
bed for grass seed. The fact that spar
rows will come and eat the seed makes
| little difference. The way to combat
this, as most problems in the yard, is to
do more-that is, put in more grass seed
than usual in order to have enough to
Sprout. 1t is the same with the squirrel
problem-put out more food, especially
peanuts, SO that the squirrels will leave
the birds alone with their seed and
grain.
If the gardener desires to keep pigeons
away, especially from now on, a good
plan is to keep grain out of the feeding
box ana to try the old plan of putting
a wire box over it.
Ordinary chicken wire of good mesh
will permit most of the smaller birds to
hop in, while keeping the pigeons away.
While they are persistent, they would
not keep coming, day after day (well.
not more than for a week anyway If
there were absolutely no food available.
Evening star., 1941-04-16
News From Vichy

A recent dispatch from the French
capital of Vichy presents, by impli-
cation, a most significant commen-
tary on the growing food shortage in
France.
The dispatch, published in the
New York Times, is based on an edi-
torial in the well-informed French
newspaper, Temps, which, in effect
if not quite by direct accusation,
charges the Germans with requisi-
tioning French foodstuffs in excess
of the limits fixed by the terms of
the armistice.
After recognizing that a defective
distribution system was in part re-
sponsible for the food shortage, the
editorial said: France should pro-
duce enough and the empire should
supplement sufficient of the vital
necessities of life. But to be sue
cessful, food brought in by our ship
ping ought to be exclusively destined
to feeding the French population,
and, moreover, within the strict
limits of the armistice clauses. The
amount of acquisitions should be
kept from interfering with French
supplies. = Frances future is
compromised unless her people rise
in a great movement of solidarity to
solve this question (of distribution)
and unless she insists firmly on her
rights under the treaty, or if she
allows encroachments whose conse-
quences will be mortal"
This statement is an all but open
accusation against the Germans, and
it cannot be brushed aside as British
propaganda, for it was published in
French newspaper subject to strict
official censorship and exposed to
the possibility of German retaliation.
Under the circumstances, it is a re-
markably bold intimation that
Frances plight, aside from faulty dis
Evening star., 1941-04-16

be required. They represent only
one phase of the emergency pro-
gram, a similar set of suggestions
for the Police Department being now
in preparation.
Among those features which
should have first attention are the
installation of 800 more fire-alarm
boxes, the growth of the city having
gone far beyond the system which
was last brought up to date" more
than ten years ago, and extension
of water supply through laying addi-
tional mains and by means of spe-
cial cisterns in heavily built-up
areas.
While most of the money sought
would be spent on equipment, part
would provide 105 additional f1remen,
special training of existing person.
mel, and employment of clerical help.
1t would be possible to augment
this service in case of great emer-
gency by use of trained volunteer
civilian auxiliaries.
Evening star., 1941-04-16
The Ukraine

Hitler may be reaching for the
Ukraine. If so, it is entirely reason
able to believe that he considers
himself possessed of the power
needed to take part of the Soviet
Union. The world has learned from
bitter experience that Der Fuehrer
makes it habit to attack his weaker
neighbors; and there is ample evi-
dence that Russia is anxious to avoid
fight.
Also, it happens that Hitler is ac-
customed to justifying his book. In
"Mein Kampf" he serves notice on
the Bolsheviks that the absorption
of the Ukraine is an item Of his pro-
gram. Up to the moment when he
signed his treaty with Stain in Au-
gust, 1889, the Nazi leader had
preached a passionate hatred of
Muscovite Communism. He rose to
his position as Chancellor largely be-
cause of the campaign against the
MarXist dogma which he staged be-
tween 1926 and 1888. That he has
changed his mind about the menace
of proletarianism is unlikely. 1t fol-
lows that he may have emotional
instincts as we'll as less personal po-
litical, economic and military mo-
tives for a drive on "the bread
basket" to the east of lands he now
controls.
The Ukraine includes one hundred
and seventy thousand square miles
of the finest real estate in Europe.
1t has population of thirty millions,
predominantly of independent Slavic
origin akin to the Ruthenes of the
old Austro-H Hungarian Empire and,
less closely, the Poles, Czechs, Serbs
and Bulgars. Farming is the prin-
cipal industry, but by no means the
only occupation of the inhabitants.
Coal, iron and other metals are found
in vast quantities in the Donetz
basin. The largest hydroelectric de-
velopment in the Eastern Herni-
sphere is located on the Dnieper
River. Hitler could use the minerals
and chemicals as we'll as the wheat,
the sugar beets, the livestock and
the human labor supply which the
annexation of "the march-country"
would bring him.
Perhaps likewise his ambition
might be stimulated by the unques-
toned diSaffection of those Ukrain-
ians who adventurously might prefer
the Nazi experiment to that of Lenin
with which they are more familiar.
Kiev and Odessa are notoriously un-
happy under the Soviet system and,
paraphrasing Shakespeare, might
prefer evils that they know not of
rather than those ills from which
they have suffered since 1918. The
Cossacks especially are restless.
1t is matter of history that on sew
eral occasions in the past they have
appealed to Germany for help in their
resistance to the BolShevikS. Hitler'S
operations in the Balkans eventually
will bring him into contact with the
Little Russians" The question is:
With what result?
Evening star., 1941-04-16
Wants ID. A. r. to Declare
Against Union With Britain,

To the Editor of The Star:
AS our great republic drifts steadily
toward the destructive precipice of union
now with Britain, urged on by an in
tensive propaganda seeking to discredit
the founding fathers and our immortal
Declaration of independence, the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution are as
sembled in their 50th Continental Con-
gress.
How our founding fathers must look
down upon them with love and expecta-
ton. for theirs is real opportunity to
rebuke these new tory Vaccinations and
awaken the American people as never
before! The American people need new
Paul Reveres to spread the alarm that
eternal vigilance is the price of liberty"
They do not need Minister from Brit
ain to tell them about "the price of lib
erty." Our forefathers paid the initial
price, with blood and suffering and near
bankruptcy. Their passion for liberty
was as great as the passion of Britain
to prevent their obtaining it. They had
to fight another war with Britain in
1872, in order to keep their liberty
Again, in our lamented Civil War, Britain
took advantage of it to try again to de-
stroy our republic. The present Minister
from Britain tells us now about "the
mounting passion for liberty in Britain"
He can hardly refer in this connection
to those in control of Britain who con-
tinue to subjugate the people of India
and all other peoples wherever an op-
portunity presents itself. 1t is high time
that the British people did something
toward obtaining liberty for themselves,
which never can be more than a mock
cry while Britain continues to maintain
its House of Lords and to bow to a
financial oligarchy of internationalists
impoverishing the British people, in ad-
dition to the subjugation of other peo-
pies to British imperialism.
Let the Daughters of the American
Revolution sound clarion call against
any union with Britain or else come
out boldly in favor of a declaration of
dependence as substitute for our
Declaration of Independence, and change
their name to Daughters of American
Tories. GEO. z. SULLIVAN,
Evening star., 1941-04-16
SuiIor's Wife

The mind is roaring like trersted
thing
Tonight. 1t harrieS tDirdop pans
and door
With dripping fingers, bent on
entering
My cottage, t0eathered as the
sandy shore.
My heart is torn BY hope and agony,
Remembering another storm Dhtch
tossed
The trees like this; a sailor on the
sea,
A crep and vessel gipen xp as lost.
Again the steps upon the flags. oh,
ears,
Beware, Too many times you havs
believed
The 1Dind. Against the loindotp pane
appears
A face, uision Which the storm
retrieved!
The storm hath taken and the storms
giUeS back,
Creates a heauen OF fishing shack.
LOUISE CRENsHAw RAY.
Evening star., 1941-04-16
Feuthered Fisherman

Nothing so eXasperates the average
fisherman as to have nearby COM
petitor romp off with all the luck.
1t is not a pretty thought, but often
a true one, to state that every time
he watches his rival pull one in, his
heart is filled with envy, malice, and
even mayhem. 1t is even worse when
the other fisherman wears feathers,
like the heron that stole the show by
gulping one every five minutes at
the Hamden Comm Rod and Gun
Clubs most fish" contest. Surely
he was a lucky bird to escape a
declaration of war by the gun di-
vision of the club.
The incident was an especially
vexing variation of the historic
struggle of the barefoot boy with
the clothes pole and the bent pin
against the orthodox angler and his
expensive mechanical equipment.
The barefoot boy is usually either
broke or as badly bent as his pin,
and if no one else is around to gum
the works, may often be bribed to
give up his catch and keep his mouth
shut. From a liability, he may be
turned into an asset, and be made to
serve as an extra bit of fishing tackle
without which there would have been
no success whatever. Unless the lad
is a potential gangster, the angler
should be reasonably safe against
subsequent blackmail. But against
an unapproachable feathered hi
jacker, with q mean and cautious
look in his eye, he is helpless.
Evening star., 1941-04-16

rather than peaceful, economic form
of conduct in the southwark expansion,
which might lead to hostilities with
the United States and Great Britain.
I believe this danger is somewhat
exaggerated and stemming from the old,
erroneous view that Japanese-Ameri-
can war is inevitable. Indeed it is
equally possible that the strengthening
of the cabinet, which the agreement
will bring about, may correspondingly
strengthen recent measures of modera-
ton and reform that are being under
taken here.
Hotheaded outcry may follow news of
the agreement in the United States and
Japan, but it is unlikely to be decisive
or serve the interests Of either side.
released BY the North American Newspaper
Alliance, IncD
Evening star., 1941-04-16
Advocates Conveying Supplies
To Embattled Democracies.
To The Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The outcome of the present battle be-
tween the 'Nazis and the Allies in Greece
will influence the future activity of the
United States in the present conflict.
If the Allies lose the battle of Greece,
if the Nazis press onward and are al
lowed to protect" Turkey as they are
protecting" the rest of the continent of
Europe. if the Nazis then are enabled
to apply a new "pincer" movement on
Suez by way of Turkey and Egypt, then
we Americans will realize that we may
have to win the war alone.
We, therefore, ought to realize the ur-
gency of rushing supplies to Greece,
YugoSlavia and Britain. We must take
upon ourselves the responsibility of their
delivery We must overcome the fear
of becoming involved through the bel
ligerent" act of conveying supplies di-
rectly to the scenes of battles.
We have shown our sentiments from
the start of the conflict; we have been
fortnight, and Germany, through fear
of antagonizing us, has overlooked all
our acts of friendship to her enemies.
We have sponsored policy of material
aid to Britain, we have transferred so
over-age destroyers to augment the Brit
ish convoy fleet, We have passed the
lease-lend bill which, among other things,
killed the cash" clause of cash and
carry" 1t is now up to us to bury the
latter half of that out-dated phrase and
carry" the necessary supplies to the
places where they are most needed.
Philadelphia, Pa. TOBY L. SLEY.
Evening star., 1941-04-16

what he really wants, which is war. Thus
he says: ut would seem as if our war
mongers are hoping that . American
boys be drowned in order to drag us
into this European war" His labora-
tory assistant, Rush Holt, is even more
explicit, saying that the warmongers
want to force" an attack on us, and
that: Everybody in this country who
wants to get us into war, wants conveys"
These men seem unable to compre-
hend that some Americans want to de-
fend their country.
Isn't it time to sweep away props
ganda and declare boldly that all of these
accusations Of people wanting war when
they only want adequate defense are
essentially unpatriotic and dangerous
falsehoods?
WALTER P WHITE.
Evening star., 1941-04-16
Importance of Mutruh

AS British forces from East Africa
rush to the defense of the Suez Ca
nal, target of a Nazi-FaSciSt spear
head advancing ominously from
Libya, dispatches indicate that Gen
eral Sir Archibald Wavell, COM
mander of the Army of the Nile, is
preparing to make a supreme stand
against the axis column at fortified
Matruh, tiny Egyptian port on the
Mediterranean coast, about 200 miles
west of Alexandria. It was from this
town, known to the ancient Romans
as Paraetonium, that General Wavell
launched his spectacular drive into
Italian Libya last December, a drive
which was to carry the British as far
as El Agheila, southwest of Bengaa,
within two months. There the Brit
ish halted, and there, on March Is,
was begun an Italo- German counter
thrust that has swept eastward with
startling velocity into Egypt itself.
Not until yesterday did this drive
show signs of slowing up.
A superior axis column has forced
the British to withdraw successfully
from Bengasi, Derna and Bardia, but
Salum and Tobruk at latest reports
were still holding out. The invaders
have swerved around the port of
Tobruk in their march toward the
key prize of Port Said, Mediterranean
end of the Suez Canal. 1t would be
logical for General Wavell to use
Matruh as a main base because that
town had been turned into
defense fortress to resist the origi-
nal Italian push into Egypt last
fall. 1t is the western end of a rail-
road to Alexandria and thence to
Cairo and Port Said. A motor road
parallels the railroad. During the
first World War Egypt's western
headquarters we're at Matruh. The
town has only few hundred inhabi-
tants. The terrain is we'll suited to
defense purposes. Approach from the
west Is by coastal highway from
Salum, but the availability to the
British of railway connections with
Alexandria presumably will facili-
tate preparations to cover this ap-
proach by means of artillery and
other heavy equipment.
To the south of Matruh is the
formidable Libyan Desert, a part of
the Great Sahara. The hot sands
are most unfavorable for tank war
fare of the type that has kept the
Germans on the move up to now.
According to the National Geo.
graphic Society, the town is sur
rounded by low sand hills, beyond
which is an undulating plain of
limestone that stretches to the bar
rem Libyan Plateau. The successful
defense of Matruh, and of the vital
points to the east, will depend, of
course, on the strength of the force
which General Wavell is able to
muster within the short space of
time available. Obscure Matruh,
therefore, may be destined to go
down in the history books as some
thing more than the trading post it
has been for centuries.
Evening star., 1941-04-16
Emergency Plans

Recent recommendations for in
creasing facilities of the Fire De-
partment to provide protection
against civil emergencies, whatever
the cause, are designed to extend
the availability of the departments
service beyond it's present limita-
tions. These recommendation of
the Civil Protection Committee of
the District Defense Council, which
would involve expenditure of $1,11l,-
857, include some features which are
Of immediate Importance, as well as
some which it is hoped may never