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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-17
S25,Iss.9Is INVESTED

Yet before the war department
finished the Job. SIS. lSs. 9i3 had
been invested In II as compared
with an original estimate of Sl2.-
474,06l.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-17
DARLAN IN SADDLE

Admiral Darlan is now seen as
sitting in the saddle with Petain
about to become the Hindenburg
of France.
American officials are reluctant
to condemn the marshal himself
for what is happening. Vichy ad-
vices indicate the hero of Verdun
held out just about as long as he
could against both Hitler's de-
mands and the pressure of those
around him, especially Darlan,
who favored the policy of close
collaboration.
Hitler is understood to have in
formed Darlan at their recent
meeting that this was the last
chance he intended to give France.
Either Petain must agree to the
collaboration terms, OK, the Ger
man army would occupy all of
France and the nation would be
dismembered in the final peace
settlement fnposed-by the Axis.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-17
RAID MIDLAND TOWN

Another east Midland town was
attacked by planes that dropped
hundreds of flares followed by
bombs. but no casualties were re-
ported there.
Earlier in the night six Messer-
schmitts flying at an altitude OF
only 400 feet strafed southeast
ern coastal town with machine
gun and aerial cannon fire.
Many persons caught IN the
streets when the attack began
escaped the hail of bullets. but
one person was wounded.
British fighting planes today
broke up a German Messerschmltt
patrol which attempted to cross
the southeast English coast. A
running battle occurred at a ire
mendous altitude before the Ger
man craft fled.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-17
|rdq Bonnbers
Raid Capital Of
.Trdnsjorddnid

International News Service Cable
ROME, May l7.-Italy today
confirmed officially that italian
planes have arrived In Iraq.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-17
Oh. u Few Millions
Army Camps Cost Is Double the Estimate EUen
When Dishonesty and Waste Are Eliminated
BY THEODORE \. HUNTLEY
Times stan Correspondent

Engel attributed the extra mil
lions TO overtime, overhead, taxes,
insurance and the cost of building
the camp in the midst of an un-
usually cold New England Winter,
to meet deadline.
He approved the location and
found no fault with the manner
in which the camp had been laid
out and built.
OVERTIME S1,35O,O0O
Overtime cost S1.350,0O0, he
said. He accounted for invisible
items figuring in the cost, but
representing neither labor nor ma.
terial as follows:
Total army overhead % Il per
cent including contract en-
gineer's and construction quar-
termaster's overhead t2.77o. "a;
Contractors overhead 1901 .o4'
Insurance 80. p4l
Social Security taxes 333 Al
Total A.t6e.2a
Floodlighting. for night worL
cost another 100000. his investi
CATION revealed.
Failure OF the Washington
office to deliver lumber ordered
disOrganiZed carpenter crews
and added to the cost OF the
project" he declared. FOR
many weeks a shortage Of TO-
100000 board feet existed"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-17
THE FRUITS OF WAR

One bitter young opponent o
American entry" for instance
processes TO believe in beautiful
peaceful America" and condemns
repudiates and protests all war
and especially another Amer
canized World War because the
fruits of the last war were the
hatred and poverty it naturally
caused, leading to the enthrone'
ment OF such constituencies beasts
as Hitler. Mussolini, Stain ano
their kinds
He stops there. whereas the
question seems 10 start there, but
he isn't typical of all the pro-
ponents and conponents.
In one college. brilliant senior
wrote an open letter to the college
paper demanding that the United
States declare war upon Germany
with no more assembling, spar
ring or stalling around. He stated
a full bill of particulars. said he
knew what he was consigning him.
self and his generation to. but he'd
weighed the issues carefully and
had decided that not only honor
but safety lay in denotncing Hit
lerism by name, and then joining
Britain in blasting it from the face
of the earth.
He was promptly waited upon
by an equally brilliant classmate
notable on the campus for his out
spoken advocacy of isolationism
and addressed with challenge tC
his sincerity.
CHALLENGE NOT ACCEPTED
81 am so positive In my own
mind that you are saying one
thing and meaning another, that
you are urging one thing upon
the public and reserving some
thing else for yourself" the
words ran, "that, as much as l
hate war and loathe personal
participat ton In one as a matter
of public principle and personal
inconvenience, I herewith chal-
lenge you 10 meet In front of the
village post office tomorrow and
well enlist side by side In the
United States Army"
The story goes that the chal
lenge wasn't accepted, the chal
lengee explaining that he WASH
prepared to rush into the matter
in that headlong fashion; that h,
preferred 10 finish his college yea
in orderly style and that he WASH
even any too sure that he coulC
serve his country best as an infan
tryman. But. however, IL was -.
An older man hesitates TO mi,
into any of this, but that he
insure of his feelings but becaus
he remembers how wildly he re
sented a lot of free advice from
those physically unliable when h
faced the same crisis as a cole
gian a quarter century ago Wa
is the problem, the hazard, tn
only curse of the young. Som
cynic of the F. Scott Fitzgerald
era said, as he grew older, he dis
covered life is merely a conspirac.
OF the mature TO keep the trutl
from the Young.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-17
Mckay Jury Told
Of Sales Jump
CONTINUED from Page One)

always got McKeighan." he said.
A government witness, Edwin j.
Anderson, formerly vice president
and general manager of Hiram
Walker & Sons, Canadian distil-
lers. altered his testimony yes
terday when william Henry
Gallagher, attorney for Mckay
produced correspondence which
controverted statements Anderson
had made.
He had stated that he never had
anything TO do with Wines and
LIQUORS, Inc, one of the alleged
dummy" sales agencies. Gallagher
produced letters from Anderson to
j. c. Wittliff. an officer of Wines
and Liquors.
81 must have had dealings
with the agency If Wittliff was
an officer of the agency" An
derson said. 81 dealt with him
as an individual, however"
Gallagher then pointed out that
letters from Anderson to Wittlift
bore the address of the agency and
letters from Wittliff to Anderson
were written on the letterhead of
the agency.
ACCUSES SALLAN
David Blanke, Michigan sales
representative for Seagram Dis
tillers. Limited, the next witness,
testified that in 1885 Sol Sallan,
retired Detroit jeweler who has
been linked with one of the de-
PENDANTS sales agencies. Wines
and Liquors, Inc, asked him if il
would be worth anything if he got
him an order from the state liquor
commission for $500 cases of
whisky.
81 told him IL would not"
Blanke said> He then asked me
IL IL would be worth 80 cents a
case If he got on the telephone
and got a commission order for
1900 or $4,000 cases. When
said il wouldn't, he said, We'll,
you'll probably want to see me
in about 80 days."
Six months later commission
orders for SeesFaIlf WHISTLES lei
off. Blanke said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-17
Shall We Fight, or Not?
A Red-Hot College Topic
By BILL CUNNINGHAM

back each Of these up with !.
others per man. ranging up 10 50
but the actual fighting and dyinl
are done by the youth OF college
age.
j My plant at the moment has
nothing To do with the dire de
ciSion facing the storm-tosSeC
seniors. / believe in letting you'll
walk through It's own GethSemant
and find its own soul, or fail &c
find II, as il will. ! can remember
far enough back 10 know that
that's the way / wanted it and the
times weren't so very much, II
any. different al that interim.
PITCH IN THERE. KIDS
NV word is TO those other kids
those too young yet. or uncalled
vet. but who are also on those
college Campuses- yet, upset be-
wildered and excited no doubt by
all this wild debate.
That word is, finish the Job at
hand. which means your college
education, if possible. And don't
give II a lick and a promise. Stay
in there and really punch. Come
back next year and go as far as
YOU can. Your duty to your coun-
try is fulfilled when you register
and stand ready to go, If and when
you're called.
Nobody has done enough think
ing yet about what comes after
the war. Maybe that's premature
when we still haven't got into one
and, maybe by Gods grace and
some miracle, we may avoid that
eventual fate. But the world, and
this nation. is going 10 need intel
ligence for that handling. If you
have the chance to bring it some,
that will be the greatest service
of all. Finish your job and finish
il well. If the bridge comes up.
cross it when it's dead in your
path. but don't let wild words toss
YOU in the meantime.
Distributed by United Features snyd. Inc
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-17

The subject of war. as a national
issue and a personal problem, after
Smouldering Sullenly or self-con-
sciously on the typical American
college campus for a year, Is now
breaking into red and roaring
fame. The college year is racing
toward its finale. II Goodbye, Mr.
Chips for the senior class. The
elms and the ivy are already more
of the past than any part of the
present, and are none OF the future
al all.
It's only a month or little less.
now. Then graduation-and what {.
Seniors naturally dominate any
campus. They're the presidents,
the editors. the leaders, the bell
wethers. Its they. in most cases.
who'Ve dragged the subject sud
denly into the open with letters.
editorials, the sponsorship of this
partisan speaker and that. It's
primarily their own deeply per
sonal problem they're endeavorine
10 explore. It's their fate and
their future they're trying TO grope
through the war smoke and find.
But it's burning blanket dragged
into high grass, and entire sec
tions, otherwise worried, but, al
least outwardly calm, are breaking
into flames that lean this way ana
that depending upon the swing OF
the swiftly countering winds.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-17
NOW IN ANS CAMP

The startling nature of the mill
tary and economic concessions
granted German under the
agreement is regarded ir authori-
tative quarters here as placing
France definitely in the Axis camp.
In addition to granting Germany
the right TO use the French naval
and air bases. the Vichy govern
ment also has agreed to permit
French industries in the unoccu-
pied area to start working full
blast on orders for Germany.
This is seen here as meaning
that millions of French workers
may soon start turning out war
for Germany
In return for these concessions,
Hitler is understood to have
agreed to give France generous
peace terms and to accept that
nation as an equal in the estab-
lishment of the Axis new order in
Europe.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-17

For the Inside News" of
Washington, Follow Paul NAL
Ions Column in the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-17
FrenCh-Germdn
Collaboration
Terms Revealed
By KINGSBURY SMITH
Int'l News Service staff Correspondent

Init News Service staff Correspondents
WASHINGTON, May 17.-Un-
der the terms of the new Franco
German collaboration" agree
ment. the Vichy government OF
France has, it was learned today,
agreed to permit German armed
forces TO use French naval and air
bases on the European continent
and in Africa.
International News Service is
able to reveal exclusively the gen.
eral terms of the collaboration
as they are known IN
official quarters in Washington.
II was knowledge of these terms
which prompted President Roose-
welt to order the virtual seizure of
IA French ships in American ports
and TO condemn vigorously the
Vichy government for agreeing TO
them
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-17
The Weather

The sgn vii set a. 7.47 .. N TO-DAY
ana rise tomorrow a. .os a m.
The moon set today 81 l1.4a O. n.
and rises tomorrow al : 20 g. m.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-17
LONDON'S 587TH RAID

London experienced its five hum
dred sixty-seventh air raid alarm
of the war. Incendiary bombs were
dropped on one London district.
Two Nazi raiders were shot
down.
Oae Of the German planes. shot
down, crashed in flames in the
open countryside, and its bomb
load exploded with a SCATTERING
blast as il burned. 1t was believed
some members of the crew para
chuted to earth and a search for
them. was begun.
The NaZi attack on the western
Midlands area was severe. Houses,
shops and other property were
damaged and a number of persons
were trapped in wrecked buildings.
One public shelter received a dl-
rect hit and a number of casual
ties were caused there. High ex-
plosives damaged shops in another
Midlands district and number of
persons were buried under debris
in a third area.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-17
Vichy Defends Right
To Side With Axis

President Roosevelt's statement
insofar as the President in
terpreted Mars hal Petain's
speech as putting Frances col
onies at Germany's disposal"
the HavaS statement said.
FAILED TO HELP
"As America did not help
France in May, 1910, France
today has the right to try to
keep her rank as great power,
defending her territory and en-
pire, and trying to collaborate
with the winner to organize
continental Europe" -----
simultaneously, resen ment
in Vichy over the actor
of the United States government
in placing guards aboard the
French liner Normandle and l.
other French ships in American
ports.
Official French quarters, how.
ever, remained silent on this point
Informed Vichy circles claimed
France has no alternative excep
cooperation with the German
sponsored new European order.
But they declared France is NOV
ing into economic and politica'
collaboration-not military witt
the reich.
They denied France is deliver
ing her colonies or naval feet over
to the Axis powers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-17
Raj Hammers
RhineIand,
Also Cologne
BY JAMES e. BROWN
Init New. service staff Correspondents

LONDON, May II. - British
bombers carried out widespread
attacks against targets in Ger
many and Nazi-occupied territory
last night and early today while
German raiders hammered the
Midlands and other areas of
Britain.
The great German manufacture
ing city of Cologne and other
districts in Germany's Rhineland
were attacked by the Raj and
German-held channel ports also
were subjected to a terrific three
hour pounding by British planes.
COLOGNE SET AFIRE
An air ministry communique
said Cologne was heavily pounded
by bombs that started large
fires in industrial quarters on both
sides of the Rhine"
The communique added that
docks at the French port of
Boulogne were attacked during
the daylight hours of yesterday
while a number of vessels off the
Norwegian coast were bombed
and supply ship was sunk.
Light planes Of the coastal COM
mand also bombed shipping in
Dutch and French harbors and
airports in France.
An air ministry communique
said that German activity during
the night was slight, but conceded
that bombs dropped on the Mid
lands. southeastern and eastern
England caused some damage and
casualties.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-25
POSITIVELY NO PHONE oaogasi

General Electric Ranges Nov Are Equipped With Substitute Porcelain Enamel Co0h
Peoples Put 10 Ranges Away Months
This Sensational Appliance Sale!
Evening star., 1941-07-01
The Ocean

Your matters hold their need OF 10Y
and grief,
And promises that often proue but
I kno1o your moods of FURNISHED
calm, of brief
And ,Dhite-curled UdterS uhen fierce
storms arise.
I kno10 your little argent, tinkling
notes
On resttul days as constant ebb and
Sends ripples to the beach, or passing
boats
Dipide your seamless robe OF indigo.
I lope your yelloD beaches; the
rugged charm
OF humber fsher-tolk, and dunes
that dip
Within blue uater-like q sheltertng
TO make harbor for the hontrc
ship
When guls fly land,0ard somehow
knotDin1
OF presaged storm and a phite mist
blo,Dtng.
HUGH DALZEIL.
Evening star., 1941-07-01
Building Sites

Once more, after months of con-
Sideration, the question of locations
for temporary and functional types
of Government buildings moves a
step nearer definite decision by the
Senate'S action in writing into the
second deficiency bill a provision
permitting the Public Buildings Ad-
ministration to utilize part of Arling-
ton Farm for such construction. For
this purpose $4,1O0,00o already has
been authorized.
Similar authority had been stricken
from the bill by the House in a move
to keep all new Federal structures
within the boundaries of the District.
But this was at a time when park
land was being considered for pos
sible sites, when part of the Army
War College reservation was believed
available, and before the parking and
transportation problem had come so
prominently to the fore. Now, with
strong opposition to utilization of
more than a small part of the down.
town parks, and with protests by
both the Army and the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee against using
War College land, nearby Arlington
looms as an ideal location.
This is particularly true in view OF
the traffic problem. While many of
the thousands Of workers to be en-
ployed in the new structures would
Evening star., 1941-07-01

largement Of production facilities. In
this connection the special Senate
committee was told that Secretary
IckeS refused last winter to give the
company access to additional power
under his jurisdiction at the Bonne-
vile project.
1t may be contended that neither
the House committees statement
nor Secretary Ickes' charge can be
accepted as a conclusive settlement
of the pros and cons of the aluminium
dispute. But it does seem rather
obvious that any public official
should think twice before publicly
excoriating an industrial concern
whose activities have been of
nature to command such eXtraor-
dinary commendation as that given
by the Military Affairs Committee
in this instance.
Evening star., 1941-07-01
Ant Antics

One of the Bronx Zoos most pop
ular, not to say populous, exhibits is
a colony of ten thousand Parasol
ants from Trinidad, so-called from
their habit of transporting rose
leaves over their heads like UNI
brellas. The petals they take to their
nests and chew up into a paste,
which they eat when it gets moldy.
Not very high standard of living, to
be sure, but to maintain it they toll
frantically, and the number of hours
in their work week would give labor
leaders severe case of the jimjams.
To save expense, Zoo authorities
tried feeding them loose petals from
third-rate roses, and, strange to say,
the supposedly unorganized push
overs actually went out on strike. Not
only did they refuse to eat the in
ferior petals-they ate a thousand
comrades, perhaps because they were
slow in getting on the band wagon
or were suspected of being strike
breakers.
The strike succeeded. Without even
appealing to mediation board, the
Zoo curators yielded instantly and
abjectly, and are now furnishing Sc
lect American Beauty roses.
Evening star., 1941-07-01
The Aluminium Company

The vigorous defense of the Alu-
minum Company of America which is
contained in the report of the House
Military Affairs Committee should
provide substantial food for thought
on the part of those who have been
severely critical of the activities of
this industrial concern.
Outstanding among these critics
has been Secretary of Interior Ickes
who, in testifying recently before the
special Senate Defense Committee,
said that when the story of this war
comes to be written, it may have to
be written that it was lost because of
the recalcitrance of the Aluminium
Company of America To this ex-
tremely serious accusation the COM
pany entered an immediate and
categorical denial-a denial which
finds strong support in the statement
of the House committee, whose report
said:
"All the testimony given before.
this committee was to the effect that
the Aluminium Company of America
had given 100 per cent cooperation
(to the defense effort, had used its
own money for expansion, had low
cred its price and on its own initia-
tive took steps to treble its produc-
ton" Further, the committee said,
blame for the present critical short
age of aluminium should not be
placed on the company but on those
who underestimated the Govern
ments requirements, and on the I'M
willingness of some Government
officials" to provide hydroelectric
energy from its own dams for en-
Evening star., 1941-07-01
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. Trdce1Dell.

The skylark is a migrating bird, COM
mon in most parts of Europe, migrating
southwark during the winter. 1t once
was favorite cage bird.
1t has habits somewhat resembling
those of the startling, especially as re-
CARDS its flocking together in winter in
the South. The starlings in America
flock together in cities in winter to keep
warm, roosting on the ledges of heated
public buildings. A sensible bird, this
startling.
1t is said that scores of larks are
caught for food.
One may stop to wonder what has
become of the birds of Europe, in view
of the death-dealing missiles flying
through the air there at all times of
the day and night. The birds surely
have no way of knowing that bombs will
drop in the dark. No doubt thousands
and thousands of birds have been killed.
And, no matter where they migrate,
over there, to the sunny Mediterranean
or to even SUMMER Africa. they will find
the same death in the afternoon"
going on.
Although our cardinal is sometimes
called the Virginia nightingale, and our
hermit thrush is often referred to as
the nightingale, We have no real night
ingale in this country. The genuine
nightingale lives in England.
He is Daulias luscinia, bird slightly
larger than an English sparrow. Both
sexes wear the same plumage, not being
differentiated as in most species of birds.
1t returns to England about the middle
of April.
There is enough resemblance between
the genus names of the skylark and the
nightingale to cause some confusion.
The genus name of the skylark is
Alauda. and that of the nightingale is
Daulias.
It is usually the male Of a species
which does the singing, in the main, and
wears the most brilliant plumage.
Both female and male cardinals, how
ever sing much the same song.
xH %*
Ancient mythology tells US that Phil
omela and her sister Procne were
changed into swallows or nightingales
when pursued by Tereus, who became
a hawk.
The modern world is so filled with
horror on all sides that it would serve
no purpose to dish up this terrible tale,
one CT the worst in the ancient fables.
Even the ancients, great on thinking
up terrible stories, scarcely ever achieved
more horrible narrative than that of
the gentle Philomela and the wrongs
which befel her, and how they were
avenged
The sad side to all such fables Is
that their like happens today. Crime
news often presents startingly similar
situations.
1t is really too bad that the ancients,
in trying to explain things, had to
conceive such horrible stories and saddle
the birds with a part of them. Yet
no doubt it was Just their way Of
pointing to the universal decency of
birds and how far below them mankind
often falls.
Evening star., 1941-07-01

cross the river from Washington,
this location would have available
almost unlimited parking space and
traffic movement during rush hours,
particularly on public transportation
lines, would be equalized to greater
degree than would be possible if
additional thousands were to be
brought into the already congested
center of the Capital.
In view Of the large areas available
and, of the adjacent old airport site,
which could be acquired with benefit
to the community, expansion into
the least developed part of Arlington
County would seem to be a sensible
move.