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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
.Knudsen Unhurt
In Auto Crash
International News Service Wire

LOS ANGELES. July 15.-Es-
Gaping injury, William S. Knudsen
was shaken up when the automo-
bile in which he was returning
from Long Beach was struck by
a coupe near Dominguez Junction
last night it was revealed today
After the inspection tour of the
Douglas Aircraft Plant at Long
Beach. the KnudSen party was re-
turning TO the Ambassador Hotel
when the crash occurred.
None was injured, and, although
shaken, KnudSen assisted the
driver Of the car that struck him
TO make emergency repairs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
8 MILLION FIGHTERS

II was the first official disclos-
ure that this country plans 10 get
ready TO put 100000 first class
fighting men in the field overnight
If the necessity should arise.
Officers told members they did
not visualize the immediate need
for such force, but were re-
ported TO have stressed the ply
Geological effect such state OF
preparedness might have on pos
Sible enemy countries.
They pointed out that under the
draft acr. men are being trained
and will be released TO become re-
serves while others arc trained IN
their place. AS this supply OF re-
serve manpower is built up, the
army wants TO build up at the
same time a reserve supply oil
equipment for these men.
Thus. in the next year or so, the
army would be ready 10 throw
into action at once a force strong
enough 10 contend even with the
ma ior armies of European coun-
tries. the officers were said to have
polnted out.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
;ouiet Claims 19-Mle Gain IN Drive
Request
Arms for.
3 Million
BY GRIFFING BANCROFT
int'I News service stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON. July Is. --
Members of the House appropria.
tions committee disclosed today
that the pending S4,770000,000
war department appropriation bill
provides funds for a completely
equipped army of 100000 men
approximately double its present
strength.
Ranking army officers, in secret
testimony, told the committee
that the money would be spent
TO buy every kind of equipment
an army Of this strength would
need small arms and smmuni-
ton. clothing. personal supplies
machine guns, and a correspond
ing increase in the number OF
heavy guns and tanks 10 main
tam the present balance Of the
land forces.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
British Subs Sink
3 Italian Ships

LONDON. July SINS
The admiralty announced today
that submarines of the Mediter-
ranean command had sunk the
5.232-ton Italian tanker Stombo, a
5.5O0-ton supply ship and large
sailing vessel loaded with troops
and military stores.
One submarine on the surface
was said 10 have Shelled an enemy
anchorage near BengaZi and II
was believed a trawler and a
supply ship had been sunk
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
SOUTH OF NAZI DRIVE

This drive is south Of the right
flank Of the main fighting often
sive which is based on Mogilev. 65
miles 10 the north.
Heavy fighting on the Leningrad
front and on the White Russian
battle-ground between Vitebsk and
and Mocilev, where the Germans
are driving against Moscow. was
announced by the Soviet high COM
mand
The war cOmmuniqlIe also stated
that during the night the Russian
air force bombed German mechan-
lied units and attacked reflnerieS
and the oil fields around Ploesti
Rumania.
Heavy fighting continues on
the northwestern and western
fronts" the communique stated.
"On the other fronts there vas
no change"
Earlier. the high command an
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
Big Battle
Raging Near

International Nsw. service Csbl.

MOSCOW. July Is Russia 5
central army, opening its first
major offensive of the war. has
succeeded in pushing the Germans
back 10 miles in the Rogachev
Scct the official newspaper
IZveStla said today.
The drive was ordered BY Mar
shall Seymon Timoshenko. com
missar for defense. who last week
was named commander of the CEN
trial army,
Forcing their way across the
Dnieper River, according TO lives
tia, the Russian army plowed far
10 the west AT several points north
of Rogachcv
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
Ship LOSSES Drop
British Report 329, 296 Tons Lost in June, Lowest
Monthly Total Since January

lowest for any month in the last
year except January.
The June losses amounted 10 81
British ships totalling 228. 2S4 tons,
10 Allied vessels aggregating 81
TT tons and eight neutral ships
totalling 1925 tons.
The admiralty stated that hence
forth British losses Will not be
made public at regular intervals,
saying that such announcements
give valuable information TO he
enemy. Instead. the losses will be
made public from time 10 time as
may be required"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
3 BILLION MORE

Reports of this testimony came
as the committee worke at almost
unprecedented speed 10 approve a
total of more than $4,000 900, DOC
in additional defense expenditures
before the end of the week.
Hearings on the arnys share
Of this were completed and without
respite the committee Immediately
turned today TO consideration of
Sl.625. 600 600 aked for the nav TO
step up shipbuilding and strengthen
it's air and submarine bases along
the coasts and on the outlying
posts in the Atlantic and the
Pacific
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
Reds Fail
Near kieV.
NaZiS Say
BY PIERRE i. HUSS
Iut1 News Service stan Correspondent

BERLIN, July 15.-The German
high command announced today
that desperate Soviet counter-at-
lacks TO relieve. Kicv, capital of
the Ukraine, have been repulsed
with heavy losses TO the Russians.
The Red counter-thrustS were
launched after rapidly advancing
German pincer columns threat
ened to encircle KEYS defenseS.
According TO the official an
nouncement fleets of Soviet tanks
were thrown against the German
advance in a battle that has been
going on since Sunday. Hundreds
of these Russian land battleshipS
were said TO have been destroyed
They included 70-ton monsters
carrying 6-inCh guns.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
REDS ENCIRCLED

In addition, the high command
said. a large portion of the Red
army forces defending Kiev have
been encircled and annihilated.
On the northern sector of the
front. IL was state German
Finnish troops SURROUNDED and an
initiated two Soviet battalions in
northern Finland.
On this front. II was claimed. a
division of Russian rillemen was
wiped out several days ago.
On the northern section of the
front. the high command said.
frantic Soviet attempts TO con-
centrate reserves between Lake
Peipus and Leningrad failed and
6 erma an tanks are advancing
rapidly in this area.
German officials asserted that
Soviet prisoners revealed that, the
commander-in-chicf of the Red
forces in the Baltic region and 10
members of his staff were exc.
Continued on Page Four)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
Eliza TiIton EIopes

NEW YORK. July 15.-GNS)
The New York Journal-Ameri-
can today reported the elopement
on the West Coast of Eliza Tilton
featured singer with Bob CroSby's
orchestra. and Bruce Roffno, Calf
foTnia insurance broker.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
SEEMED AvERTED

The fiare-up of the fractional
war came just as a threatened
transportation strike appeared
averted when Mayor Jeffries in
duced representatives of warning
unions to meet today with the
DSR commission.
The jurisdictional war reached a
crisis late yesterday when Frank
X. Martel. president of the Detroit
and Wayne County AFL, served
notice on the mayor of walkout
unless the city sever Go relations
and discharge Go worknen
spreading Go propaganda.
Martefs threat embraced motor
men, coach drivers, mechanics and
office workers.
Meanwhile. the Go pressed it's
demand 70 represent the mainten-
ance division.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
Sicilien City Bombed

ROME. July 15.-QNSD An
enemy bombing attack on Messina.
Sicily. was announced by the
italian high command today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
WI "NNf'f! .'VuANf
LYMAN >. ABBOTT
Committee on Publication.

July 3, 1911,
Editor,
Detroit Evening Times,
Detroit, Michigan.
Dear Sir:
WILL you kindly permit me
w to reply to the letter
from /. ii. Rubenstein, Of
Chicago, published on the
church page of your issue OF
July 5, 1911.
Christian Science is neither
experimentation" nor faith
healing" as these words ar,
commonly understood. Chris
tan Science heals through d
demonstrable understanding
of Gods spiritual law, tn,
method used by Christ Jesus
when lie healed the sick am
raised the dead. The faith
which enters into the practice
Of Christian Science is TN,
CONTINUED on Page Seyenl
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
Men March
On City Hall
In Union Row

Approximately half Of the DSR's
800 maintenance men marched on
the City Hall shortly after 10
"a. m. today in a Go demonstra-
ton of strength which threatens
transportation service.
The maintenance men quit their
posts and appeared at the City
Hall as the latest development in
the AFL-CIO jurisdictional dis
pute.
Emil F. Helfrich, DSR mainte-
nance division head, admitted 400
men walked out at the Coolidge
and Wyoming garage and at the
Highland Park garage.
He refused to say how soon the
demonstration might cripple
service.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
3 SHIPS SUNK IN sUEz

BERLIN. July 15.-(INSD The
high command announced today
that German planes on Sunday
night sank three ships totalling
&c, 200 tons in the Suez Canal
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
SHOW OF STRENGTH

James McDade. chief steward of
the Go Street Car Mems Union,
referred to the mass rally as a
committee meeting to impress the
DSR commission with the size Of
Go representation.
eve haven't been getting
square deal from the DSR COM
mission, and we are here to
show them,- McDade said.
Samuel p. Gilbert. commission
president, could count those pres
ent as proof, McDade pointed out.
The Go asks to be declared
sole bargaining agent for the
maintenance workers, claiming A.
majority membership in the State,
County and Municipal Workers,
|CIO.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
OTHER PLANTS OPEN

The Hanna Furnace division and
the Michigan Steel division of the
Great Lakes company were not
effected by the walkout yet. Lack
of supplies from the main plant
would force them to close within
"a few days, however, the company
spokesman said.
The first pickets arrived at the
gates at 9 last night and no
one has passed through the picket
lines except two physicians in the
plant medical department. EcorSe
police were on hand. but there
was no disorder.
II is understood that skeleton
crews are in the plant TO keep
furnaces going.
The pickets appeared TO be with
out leadership and their actions
were decided upon in mass con-
fcrences outside the gates.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
IN THE
NEWS
Los Angeles, California,
July Z, 1941.

Mr.. william Randolph Hearst,
San Simeon, California.
Dear Sir:
I READ with amazement
i the article i'm your paper
Of July 5th by ]. ii. Ruben
stein.
Here I'm our beloved Amer
lea where we have the right
to worship as we please, an
migrate has the nerve to try
to criticize a religion. This
alone is bad enough, let alone
criticizing a religion he knows
nothing of.
II he had the intelligence to
write a book on par with Mrs.
Eddy's Science and Health
he certainly would be far too
intelligent to write such al
article as he wrote to you, or
perhaps this was a publicity
stunt for his article. Anyone
who wants a poor dumb ami
NAL tortured, well, this alone
shows his character. No doubt
he is one Of those who think
we should send Our American
youth to Europe 10 defeat
Hitler and aid Russia.
No, l am not a royal refu-
gee, prO-German or probing
lish. i am just plain Amer
lean mother who believes all
individual like this should be
so thankful there's one cOun-
try left where he can spcaI.
freely, that he would at least
speak like an American.
Thanking YOU for your
wonderful paper and the
splendid fight you are maxi
ing for the American people.
/ am
Very gratefully yours.
ELIZABETH CHRISTIE.
Christian Science Committee
on Publication for Michigan
1214 Book Building
Detroit
July 8, 1911.
Mr.. William Randolph Hearst,
Son Simeon,
California.
Dear Mr.. Hearst:
IN YOUR column I'm the
i News" for Saturday, Jul,
5, is a letter from Mr.. l. III.
Rubenstein, of Chicago. Since
the letter appeared i'm large
type on the church page oil
The Detroit Evening Times,
am taking the liberty Of for.
warding my reply direct TO
YOU, 50 that it may be given
the same prominence i'm our
Detroit paper a was MIR.
Rubenstein's letter. His letter
j. so misleading that all
sure YOU will be glad 10 pub
lish an answer.
Very sincerely yours,
LYMAN ). ABBOTT.
Committee on Publication.
July 3, 1911.
Editor,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-15
Great Lakes
Steel Shut by
Wildcat Strike

Defying union leaders, a minor
ity OF less than 300 of the $500
employees of the Great Lakes Steel
Corporation of Ecorse today shut
down the plant by pieketing its
gates in an unauthorized walkout.
Sixty-five per cent of the plant 5
output is defense work.
Orvil Kincaid, Steel Workers
Organizing Committee (CIO) or
ganizer. pleaded in vain with the
men 10 60 back TO york. He was
elected from the grounds when he
ATTEMPTED TO lead group OF
workers through the picket line.
kincaid termed the strike the
work OF AN element that is try
ing 10 break the union.
The company has agreed to
sign contract tomorrow with
your union that will he the best
In the steel industry" Kincaid
told the pickets.
MASS MEETING TONIGHT
While a few OF the pickets
needed the pleadings of Kincafd.
the majority said that they will
continue on strike pending a mass
meeting TO he held tonight.
kincaid then attempted to or
ganize a group Of the workers TO
march through The picket Inc
He headed his car toward the
main gate. followed by a small
number of workers. but was halted
by plcketS. who turned his car
around and pushed 1t up a nearby
street. Kincaid then drove away.
Instructions to get the men
back 10 work Immediately were
received at local SWOC head
quarters from John Doherty, the
unions regional director.
On July 10 the union voted.
1855 10 500. TO accept a contract
negotiated by the union commit
tee. The contract provided wage
increases as high as Is cents an
hour under a clause by which the
company agreed TO meet or mn
prove wages paid in any other
plants in the steel industry
NO CUTS IN HIGH RATES
Where Great Lakes wages are
now higher than those prevailing
i'm other plants there will be no
reduction. Other provisions guar
lantee vacations with pay and bar
gaining rights for the SWOC.
A company spokesman said that
the contract had not been signed
yet because the union needed time
10 study wage rates in other plants
in order 10 set up the Great Lakes
scale.
( The picketS said that they struck
because the company was stall
ling on signing the contract and
because vacation schedules were
not yet posted The company said
I the schedules have been posted.
OTHER PLANTS OPEN
The Hanna Furnace division and
the Michigan Steel division of the
Great Lakes company were not
effected by the walkout yet. Lack
of supplies from the main plant
would force them to close within
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Evening star., 1941-09-16

them destroyed by agents Of the
viceroy. The experience, so the rec
ord says, drove him to rebellion" !"
Several officers of the garrison Of
Guanajuato joined him in revolt.
His eloquence had remarkable ef-
feet on the multitude, " and
when, after his grafton, he unfurled
a rude copy of the picture of Our
Lady of Guadalupe, &" the war
assumed the character of crusade" "
But shortage of ammunition obliged
him to retreat, and he finally was
captured and shot as traitor, July
27, 1911. So bitter was the hatred of
Spain that even the mention of his
name was forbidden.
The dream of independence, how
ever, did not die when Father Hi
dalgo fell. Rather, it was strength
ened by his martyrdom. The strug-
gle for the supreme ideal of human
emancipation continued. Indeed, it
still is carried forward by men and
women who love Mexico. What
greater Immortality could any hero
ask?
Evening star., 1941-09-16
Mexico's Day

Today is the 131st anniversary OF
that September 16 when the patriot
priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla pro-
claimed the independence OF the
Mexican people. His country in 1910
stood in sorry need of the freedom ne
desired for it. The rule of Spain had
been a costly failure, and he long had
been conscious of the futility of COM
promise with alien tyranny. How he
was driven to the conclusion that
liberty was as necessary as air to
breathe is a story which not all
North Americans have been priv
ileged to hear. The present moment
is an appropriate time for its re-
telling.
Father Hidalgo in his youth was
merely a simple, unpretending stu
dent of the Word. 1t never occurred
to him to be interested in politics.
But he could not help being con-
cerned about the poverty OF the In
dians, and in the interest of their
prosperity he dared to sponsor an
experiment which the royal govern
ment resisted. The manufacture OF
silk, he believed, would add to the
wealth of his flock. He imported
| silkworms to that end only to have
Evening star., 1941-09-16
FALLS CHURCH, Va.

Dear Sir.
After reading your article in this eve
nings paper. felt that just couldn't
put of any longer writing to let you know
how much I appreciate your fine articles.
After the funnies. comes your column
every evening, and outside OF the impor-
tant editorials, that completes my read
ing of my daily Star, except Saturday,
when read 1t all the way through.
ut has been through your column that
some of the various birds out here in
Falls Church have been fed daily, even
now during the summer. When I first
moved out here / wanted to feed the
birds In the winter, but as there was no
tree of any size to attract them, that
pleasure was denied me.
Now I feed at least 25 a day, maybe
more, but my chief interest is in the
mourning doves. There are only three,
at first one used to come, then two
came, now three.
But one is the boss and he or she
makes the third one go away, why I
don't know.
'I don't know all of these birds, a
variety, but 1 don't care, they are my
charges and am certain not to forget
them after feed my few chickens.
II also have bird BATH present for
my birthday, which is a delight to some,
especially the starlings, when as many
as eight try to bathe at one time.
when first set the bath in the lawn,
I thought I would need to put sign on
it, saying that it was to be used, but
now could use two.
Guess I could go on and on about
birds, they are such a delight to me and
every one else, no doubt, who loves
nature.
Sincerely yours, M. B. G."
II our correspondent had put out food
In the winter, despite the lack of tree,
the birds would have flocked to it.
While trees are the great bird attrac-
tors. they play little part in the combined
indoor Outdoor sport Of bird feeding.
Here the main thing, next to the bird,
is the food.
Even feeding stations are not nee
essary.
A sprinkle of cracked grain and few
small seeds. with a mixing of sunfloWer
seed. will attract birds any place, if 1t
is simply put on the ground.
Ground feeding is always excellent.
There are few birds which will not
eat off the earth, but not many. Most
of the species hereabouts rather prefer
the earth as dining table.
So if there is no man-made feeding
station handy-nor any man to make it
bare spot beneath a hedge will do, or
even a bit of pavement.
One of the most interesting sights is
a pavement, often close to the curb, with
starlings and English sparrows crowding
it for something to eat.
Passersby scatter them only momen-
tarily.
Several correspondents of this column
have told of excellent results on tin roof.
Evening star., 1941-09-16
Discusses Descriptive Phrases
Applied TO Senators.

To the Editor OF The Star:
The American press, still trying to be
objective in its news columns, seems to
have swallowed unanimously a neat
little piece of isolationist propaganda
A noisy minority (Which, incidentally,
shares with the Nazis a psychopathic
sense of martyrdom and persecutiom
gets the tenderest of treatment from the
copy desk. Thus, Senator Connally, who
supports the foreign policy overwhelm-
ingly Endorsed by the American people
and majority of Congress, is described
as an "interventionist." 1t is, contend,
a smear word, implying a rash fellow
who sticks his nose in other peoples
business-exactly what the America
First Committee likes to see implied.
On the other hand, Senator Nye, who
seems to wish to divide and confuse
opinion and destroy American morale
in a time of emergency, is a non
interventionist." Nice fellow!
If this casual editorializing in news
columns is to continue, don't we need
Q new set of descriptives?
Arlington, Va. M. w. MILLS.
Evening star., 1941-09-16
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trace1UelI.
No elaborate preparation Is necessar,

No elaborate preparation is necessary.
On the other hand, feeding stations
may be as elaborate and costly as one
desires. Glass may be used in their con-
struction. This always runs up the price,
If not the pleasure of the birds.
There are feeding stations to be run
on a trolley or wire, and others to be
fixed on posts, or the sides of trees.
Tree fixing of bird-feeding station is
interesting. 1t will be sure to bring nut
matches. There is no sight more inter-
esting than that of a nuthatch winding
its way head down, to feeding station
on a tree trunk.
Trees really play little part however,
in winter bird feeding.
Not that they are not liked by the
birds at all seasons Of the year. They
are A tree occupies in the bird mind
something equivalent to the idea of a
home in the human mind.
In the winter the birds do not nest in
trees. They simply perch in them, and
often sleep in them.
The tree plays its best part. as bird
attractor, in spring and summer. OF
course, trees do make birds feel at home
at all times of the year. There can be
no doubt of this. Trees, large or small,
mean birds.
Food also means birds In the cold
months, it is sure to mean them. At
what time of the year the beginning Of
feeding is best is a matter of opinion.
Perhaps the best time for the beginner
to begin is about the first Of october.
Usually there is waiting period, dur
ing which the birds become used to the
new station. Many migrators will drop
down, too, if feeding is commenced in
the fall.
Usually there is waiting period after
bird bath is put out. at any time of year.
Sometimes birds refuse to use bath.
Apparently there will be no reason for
this. 1t just happens that way.
Starlings are among the greatest of all
bird bathers They will bathe in any
thing from real pool to a puddle in
the road.
Often they may be seen in winter,
cracking the ice with their strong bills,
then melting it by bodily trying to get
into the water. In short time there
will be enough water showing for one
startling afteS another to take a bath.
This bird also has the habit of dunk
ing" hard crusts of bread.
A reader telephones that an old STAR
ling is now in the yard. 1t walks slowly,
hangs its head and looks humpbacked.
One seldom sees an old bird
This starting walks around on the grass
and eats fallen pears. 1t hangs around
beneath the grape arbor.
1t seems to want to take a bath, but
is not able to fly up into the basin.
We suggest that an old pie pan be filled
with water and placed on the ground for
the use of this old starting.
All birds like the shallow bath placed
either on the ground or sunk in the earth.
Each pedestal bath should be supple
mented by at least one bird bath of this
simple type.