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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-12

page at Court, where ne lived a worthless
gigolo life, saddening Christopher's last days
by neglecting to advance the discoveries
claims and often not bothering even to answer
his letters.
In will, leaving to Diego the bulk of the
Columbus fortune which was still largely
to be collected from the Crown the discov-
erer added a codicil urging the legitimate son
TO care for his disinherited half-brother, Fer
nando and his mother.
This, the no-good Diego never did but II
days after his fathers death he began TO
push the dead mans claims with great energy.
that he was beneficiary.
Diego managed to marry a rich woman.
cousin of the King and to be about the most
Incompetent Governor Santo Domingo ever
had. Nevertheless, when he died in 1926, Diego
left considerable money and seven children
His giddy widow frittered it away, in efforts
TO establish her claim to the title of "Vice
Queen of the Indies" After that it was Fer
nando who supported her generously.
Fernando received something better than
cash from his father character King Ferdi-
nand awarded him considerable land in Santo
Domingo and the Kings grandson. Charles v,
gave him a pension Of $4,000 year.
Among other things he collected a library
Of 10000 rare volumes one of the most notable
in Europe.
The bar-sinister son inherited his mothers
distaste for wedlock. dying a bachelor with
out children and leaving fortune and library
10 his nephew Luis. son Of the ungrateful
Diego. So II Mrs. Columbus received no
credit at least the cash trickled through the
fingers Of her descendants.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-12

THE Queen. she put her Jewels in hook,
To get Columbo started
She wept soft tears upon the dock.
When her hero departed.
Columbo sighed most pensively;
He looked quite dissipated-
To leave the bars which fringed the dock
Was what Columbo hated.
CHORUS
He knew the world was round-o he knew
il could be found-o.
That calculatin navigatin' son-of- gun,
Columbo
(From the Song. "ChriStofo Coiun1bo,
Copyright 1898 by NJ Witmark e. Sons.
Used by Permission.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-12

age or anything else Of value,
he deliberately set it down on his
chart many hundred miles out of %
its true position, together with other in
genous transformation. Entirely sepa
rate, he kept a memorandum. giving the
proper correction. Sometimes this was only in
the discoverer's own head.
Felipa not only gave her husband the charts
but supplied the Interpretation together with
much secret information. After the two young
heads had pored over the charts "A few days,
Christopher Columbus arose with the convic-
ton that the world was round and that a ship
could sail through the sea of Darkness to
Cathay.
He was correct except that the continents
of North and South America We're In the way,
to say nothing of another large ocean.
Besides this precious idea sne presented
him with quite unsatisfactory son, Diego
Columbus, and then died.
There were three possible reasons why
Columbus never gave his wife due credit.
Two of these were women, Beatriz Enrique dc
Arana the next and the longest love of his
life and Queen Isabella.
1t would have been dumb courtier indeed
who. in begging money from proud but inn
poverished Queen would say. Il owe everything
20 my dear dead wife" Also Beatrz though
willing to sacrifice everything else for the man
she loved, even having Legitimate son by
him. may well have baked at that same state
ment. The third reason was strictly business.
He dared not tell it all.
Columbus had to sell the Dig idea 20 some
ruler and yet not confide in him or any Of his
tricky councillors enough for them 10 steal It.
AS Mr.. and Mrs. Posterity learned from
their history books, he finally did business
through the Court Of Spain. II was one of the
poorest times imaginable 20 ask for anything
that would cost money, because the Spanish
taxpayer had already been bled white for the
war with the pesly Moors
In the first place there was no hope
of getting the ear of King Ferdinand for such
a fantastic scheme without an introduction
1 hv AmarL-an weakIv- Inc GLa.L BLLlan RlehL- N-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-12
Meet Mrs. Christopher Columbus

Also fhe Other LadY
mo. S-S-S-S Not
Queen Isabella - She
Didn't Hook Those
Jewels. II Now Turns
Quiz and Also Meet
the Greet Mans No
Good Son. Diego
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-12

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Evening star., 1941-01-06
City News in Brief
TODAY.

Dinner, American Arbitration As
sociation, Willard Hotel, 7 pm.
Dinner, Touchdown Club, Willard
Hotel, assembly, 6:45 pm, dinner,
8 pm.
Installation and dinner, Daugh-
ters of Union Veterans of the Civil
War, Willard Hotel, 7 pm.
Meeting, Abraham Lincoln Circle
No. 3, Ladies G. A. r., Willard
Hotel, pm.
TOMORROW.
Breakfast, Early Birds Club, Will
lard Hotel, am.
Convention, National Association
of Land Grant Colleges and Univer-
sites, Willard Hotel, all day, begin
ming at 8 am.
Meeting, Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen and Enginemen
Hotel Annapolis, am.
Meeting, Defense Committee, Ma
tional Machine Tool Builders, Carl
ton Hotel, 9 am.
Luncheon, Dartmouth Club, Hotel
Annapolis, 1890 pm.
Dinner, Alpha Sigma Phi Frater-
nifty. Press Club, $50 pm.
Meeting, District of Columbia
Chapter, Catholic Daughters OF
America, Willard Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Meeting, Executive Committee
Tall Cedars of Lebanon, Willard
Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Rehearsal, Rubinstein Club, VIII
lard Hotel, 7:45 pm.
Bridge party, Federal Bridge
League, Wardman Park Hotel, 8 pm
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Large Fires Observed
In Heart of London

BERLIN, Jan. s P.-Strong Nazi
combat formations again bombed
London during the night and ex-
plosions and large fires were OBJ
served in the heart of the city.
informed German sources said
today.
Smaller attacks were directed
against factories and airports and
vital industries at Hull, Darlington
and Lincoln, they said.
No British air activity was re-
ported anywhere in Germany.
Factory Suffers Hits.
DNB Official German news
agency reported a factory at
Chelmsford had suffered numerous
direct hits in the nights raiding,
while near Colchester German
planes attacked a railway station,
switching yards and freight cars.
The agency said this latter bomb
ing was effective"
The Germans also were active
yesterday over the sea, the agency
continued. In the course of armed
reconnaissance flights, it said, at
tacks were made on ships trying
to reach English east coast harbors
under the protection of soupy
weather.
A ship of 5000 to 1000 tons sail
ing in a convoy was so severely hit
the report said, that she was left
listing in a sinking condition.
Two outpost boats and 5000
ton merchantmen also were said to
have been successfully bombed"
The high command said two Brit
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Party Bars Socialists
From No War Group
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-The Socialist
party yesterday enjoined its men,
bers from supporting the No Foreign
War Committee. headed by Verne
Marshall. Iowa editor.
Declaring cooperation with the
No Foreign War Committee was
inconsistent with loyalty to the
Socialist party" statement issued
by Norman Thomas charged Mr..
Marshall with pursuing "viciously
anti-socialist and anti-democratic"
policies.
The statement. asserting that Mr..
Marshall also had used the familiar
Nazi technique of accusing inter
national Jewish bankers of foment-
ing the present war" added:
These policies are sufficient to
condemn the committee at this time
in the eyes of all Socialists.
Therefore, the Socialist party con-
demns the No Foreign War Com
mittee and enjoins its members from
joining or supporting this organiza-
ton"
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Several of the Flyers
Had Served Tours Here

Several of the Navy flyers killed
in the crash of a naval transport
near Barrett, Calf, Saturday night
had served tours of duty in Wash
ington and were widely known here.
1t. Comdr. Stephen Hand Cooke,
a native of Fort Smith, Ark, was
graduated from the Naval Academy
in 1921. He completed the aviation
course at Pensacola. Fla, in 1929,
and since had served in the air
branch. From 1887 to 1899 he was
with the maintenance division of the
Bureau of Aeronautics at the Navy
Department. Since then he had
been an air patrol commander. His
promotion to the rank of commander
was approved by the President jan
uary 3, 194l.
1t. Comdr. Joseph Henry Gowan,
born at Leadhill, Ark. had served
with both plane and lighter-than-
air forces. He was appointed a
gunner in the Navy in 1917 and
commissioned an ensign in 1919. He
had served a tour of duty at the
Anacostia Air Station. He held the
Mexican campaign, World War and
Yangtze medals.
1t. Victor Solomon Gaulin, ma
tive of Lowell, Mass, and graduate
of the Naval Academy in 1880, was
stationed at the postgraduate school
at Annapolis from 1887 until 1910,
when he was transferred to Patrol
Squadron IA, with which he served
until his death.
1t. James Cyril Flemming of the
Medical Corps was native of Phila-
delphia. He was appointed a lieu
tenant, junior grade, in 1885. He
attended the Naval Medical School
in Washington and served at the
Naval Hospital here. Later he was
assigned to the Naval Air Station
at San Diego.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Duke Of York Launched
Year AGO, British Reveal

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 6.-The Duke OF
York. fifth and last of Britain's
new 35 5.OOO-ton King George V class
of battleships, was disclosed today
to have been launched last Febru-
ary, seven months ahead OF
schedule.
Pictures of the launching. just
released, show the huge battleship
was christened by Queen Elizabeth.
Other ships of the class. the King
George v, Prince of Wales, Jellicoe
and Beatty, we're said to have been
completed previously.
The announcement of the launch
ing did not indicate whether the
Duke of York had been commits
stoned and put in service with the
f1eet-a process which takes some
time after launching.
The British have announced they
were building four still larger battle
ships, the Lion, the Temeraire and
two others of 10000 tons.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
London
Continued From First Page

raid on the City of London-fnan-
cial and commercial center-a week
earlier, but this time Londoners
were ready for the test.
An Army of volunteers-men,
women and boys-Smothered the
incendiary bombs as fast as they
were dropped in one sector and
defiantly shouted: 1--WE want some
more" The raiders obliged prompt
ly and the watchers dealt with those
bombs just as quickly.
In this area, observers said, there
seemed to be as many watchers as
bombs, even though the raiders were
said to be dropping them in basket
fuls.'
Fires were started at several
points" British communlque said,
but were so promptly dealt with
that none of, them assumed serious
proportions" Five bodies were re-
ported recovered from wrecked
houses in one district and rescue
parties Strove to extricate 13 other
persons entombed in the wreckage.
New Effort for Mobilization.
Reports circulated in London
meanwhile, that the government in
tended to create two ministerial
bodies to mobilize Britain for a
greater war effort.
One would be a production execu-
tive to coordinate war production
work and see that manpower is
utilized efficiently, these reports said,
while the other would be a finance,
trade and export group to frame
economic policy, deal with price con-
troll and coordinate plans to speed
the flow of munitions and war ma
terialS from overseas.
Mentioned in press accounts for
the production executive were Min
lister of Aircraft Production Lord
Beaverbrook, Labor Minister Arthur
Bevin, First Lord of the Admiralty
A. v. Alexander and Supply Minis
ter Sir Andrew Rae Duncan.
Principal members of the other
group, it was said, would be Chan
cellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley
Wood, president of the Board of
Trade Capt. Oliver Lyttleton and
Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh
Dp1tOn
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Bethesda Chase
P.-I. A. to Meet

. The January meeting of the Par
ent-Teacher Association of Be-
thesda Chevy Chase Senior High
School will be held at pm. Wednes-
day in the school. w. Carter Bowles
of the County Lay Health Committee
will speak on the health needs of
Montgomery County.
Mrs. Thomas Pyle, delegate to the
Maryland Congress of Parents and
Teachers, will give a report.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Detroit Auto Dealer Dies
In MonopIune Crash
Py The Associated Press.

Fy The Associated PTeSS.
ST. LOUIS. Jan. 6-Alvin o.
Kempp, Detroit automobile dealer,
was killed Yesterday in crash
which demolished a new Culver
Cadet monoplane he was flying home
from a Wichita CKansD factory.
The plane, a two-seater Of the
latest design, nose dived into field
near the St. Louis Training School
for Boys, only a few miles from
Municipal Airport.
Witnesses said the plane circled
low over the field and then crashed
to earth from an altitude of only a
few hundred feet. The ship did
not burn,
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Silence in Berlin
May Presage New
German Stroke
Comment on Bulgarian
Premier's Trip Hints
Settlement Reached
By LOUIS p. LOCHNER,

Associated Press war Correspondent,
BERLIN, Jan. 6-This week began
In Berlin with a continuance of that
ominous silence in authorized quar-
ters, already noticeable last week,
which Strikingly reminded old timers
among foreign correspondents of
similar periods of silence such as
that preceding the beginning of the
air battle of London last August.
All questions regarding troop
movements in the Balkans we're
ruled out as referring TO military
secrets, hence discussion of them
was taboo.
Coupled with these refusals to
discuss troop movements were the
usual deniaIs, for instance the state
ment that Balkan reports that
German troops will occupy Bulgaria
peacefully January are too silly
for rejoinder; reports of King Boris
III of Bulgaria coming to Germany
are without foundation"
Bulgarian Settlement Seen.
More interesting and revealing was
the reply to a question concerning
political talks of Bulgarian Premier
Bogdan Philoff in Germany.
I'VE fail to see either compell-
ing reason or evidence of any plan
ming for such talks" authorized
sources said.
Many correspondents received the
impression from this remark that
Dr. o1 Nv iS
settled.
Our relations with Bulgaria are
traditional and friendly" the NaZi
informants said. But so far as de-
tails are concerned, We cannot dis
cuss them at present"
These sources had no comment
to offer on the reported summoning
of Soviet envoys in Southeast Eu-
rope to a Moscow conference. say
ing they had no official information
except press assertions and denials
in this connection.
Balkan Rumors Put OFF.
Generally speaking, the vast crop
of Balkan rumors was put off by
authorized quarters with psyche
logical explanation.
Such rumors always crop up
when either or both of two situa-
tions arise" these quarters observed.
when a given situation is not
clear and pieces of the puzzle are
missing, conjectures are made in
the hope of fitting these into the
picture puzzle.
Then again, when certain parties
are interested in finding out what
the other side is doing, rumors are
spread with the view to provoking
answers which may give a clue to
the opponents intentions.
In the present situation where
there are such multitude OF
rumors, we believe psychological ex-
plantations are applicable"
The general impression the foreign
observer gains is that German au-
| thorities rather welcome this welter
of rumors and consider it a screen
behind which to protect their plans
for whatever may be in the offing.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Patterson Sees Crisis
In Defense Greater
Three Months Hence
Army industrial College
Is Told All Energy Must
Go Into Program

There is every indication" that
The defense crisis will be more
grave" three months hence than
now, Assistant Secretary of War
Robert P. Patterson warned today.
This is no time for alarm, If by
alarm we mean panic, emotionalism,
fear" he told the new class of the
Army Industrial College. "It is a
time for action. 1t is time to put
forth every ounce of energy we pos
sess in the furtherance of a program
whose single aim is to make Amer
lea safe for Americans and tough
for anybody else"
Taking cognizance that the new
class OF Is men was for the first time
composed entirely of reserve Off
Cers-except for one regular naval
officer-Mr. Patterson declared:
You typify admirably the fact
that this is everybody's crisis-a
crisis affecting every phase not only
of our national life but of the pri-
vate life of every man, woman and
child, of every civilian and of every
HOANilcI III lilc ldIlu.
No Soldiers i'm War.
There are no sideIines in today's
war. Everybody gets into the game.
Casualties are indiscriminate A fac
tory Is as much a military objective
as a fortress, a truckload of farm
produce as legitimate prey as an
armed merchantmen.
And there are no sidelines in to-
days procurement programs. Every
body must contribute. Everybody
must be prepared to make some
sacrifice and to make it cheefully
not only for the general good but
for his own personal advantage, be-
cause by making the little sacrifices
now We shall best be able to fore
stall the necessity for larger sac
rjfices later. The Poles, the Nor
vegianS, the Danes, the Belgians,
the Dutch and the French would
have been glad to do that. We of
the Americas are now almost the
only peoples in the world who still
have the opportunity to do it"
months to study problems of arms
procurement and upon graduation
officers will be assigned to duty with
the Army, Navy and Marine Corps.
For the first time the Industrial Col
lege met in the new Social Security
Building. which has been taken over
by the War Department for the
duration" Previous classes have
been held at the Munitions Building
Must Comprehend Crisis.
THE class that Immediately pre-
ceded you Mr.. Patterson said, was
as fine a group as the Army Indus
trial College ever graduated. 1t had
to be. There was no place in it fo1
any one who did not comprehend to
the full the grave crisis confronting
America and the full implications of
this vast procurement program. The
graduates of that class are now
graphing with the problems at its
sources.
"All that say about the last pre-
vious class will apply to you gentle
men three months from now -. The
crisis cannot then be less grave.
There is every indication that it
will be more grave. You will not
be graduating into a vacuum"
Mr.. Patterson warned the stu
dents, especially selected because Of
their civilian and military expert
ence, that you will have job to
do the moment your course is COM
rleted-a Job that dWarfs in magni-
tude anything that America has
ever attempted"
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Widow of G. J. PhiIbin
Dies in Jacksonville

Mrs. Sarah Eggleston Philbin.
widow of Charles j. Philbin and a
former Washington resident, died
last night in Jacksonville. Fla. A
native of Baltimore, she moved from
Washington to Miami.
Her son, the Rev. R E. Philbin,
assistant pastor of st. Paul's Cath
olic Church. Jacksonville, will cele-
brate mass for her tomorrow morn
ing. Burial will be in Baltimore.
Other survivors include a son. Ray
McP. Philbin, Forest Hills. N. Y; a
daughter, Mrs. Celeste Fields, Albu-
querque, N. Mex, and two sisters,
Mrs. Charles A. Moran and Mrs.
Adam Schussler, both of Baltimore.
Evening star., 1941-01-06

ish planes crashed into the sea off
the French coast yesterday in an
attempted raid on Nazi-occupied
territory.
A submarine previously reported
to have sunk 1890 tons of ship
ping, the daily communique said,
was able to raise its successes to
total of 20,600 tons of enemy cargo
space"
Evening star., 1941-01-06

ing through the mist. I knew the
plane had hit White Peak.
I'VE haven't got a telephone. SO
I got in my car and drove to Bar
rett "a junction miles Distant. I
telephoned the sheriff from there.
About midnight two deputies
came to our house and said they
would wait there for word from
Berger's ranch.
"They said the main rescue camp
had been put in at Berger's and that
parties had started up Mother
Grundy peak. knew they wouldn't
find the plane there, but it was too
late to head them off.
That's all I saw until they brought
the bodies to my place. They found
them on White Mountain, all right"
Evening star., 1941-01-06
A. 5. ZAP. Will Vote
Today on Plan 10 Put
Songs Back on Air
Rudio Advertisers
Rather Than Stations
Would Be Licensed

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 6-Directors Of
the American Society Of Composers,
Authors and Publishers plan to vote
today on proposal of agencies rep
resenting five national advertisers
that they be licensed to use A. S. C.
A. P. music on radio programs.
The proposal, as explained by
A. S. c. A. P's legislative chairman,
E. c. Mills, would be designed to put
A. S. c. A. P. tunes back on network
programs. A. S. C. A. P. music has
been banned since January as a re-
suit of controversy over A. S. c..
A. P.'s demand for increased charges.
However it was not known wheth-
er the broadcasters would permit
A. S. c. A. P. music on the air, even
II licensed, since they now are using
music of their own publishing COM
pany, Broadcast Music, Inc. There
was no immediate comment from
the broadcasters.
Licensing of advertisers would
change A. S. c. A. P.'s 20-year-old
policy. In previous years, A. S. C.
A. P. has licensed only radio sta
tions and networks, and the adver-
tiser has paid indirectly through
A. S. c. A. P.'s cut on the gross in
come Of the broadcasting industry.
The National Association of
Broadcasters announced yesterday
that a telegraphic survey of 125
radio stations showed only ''negli-
gible" protests against the elimina-
ton Of A. S. c. A. P. music.
A. S. C. A. P.'s general manager,
John G. Paine, declared, in reply
that If the broadcasters have not
noted any resentment by the public,
they must be playing ostrich"
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Electrical Contractors
Meet Tomorrow

How the wage and hour law af-
fects members of the District Elec-
trical Contractors Association will
be explained by G. F. Hirman of
the regional Office, Federal Wage
and Hour Division, at meeting of
the association at pm. tomorrow
at the Potomac Electric Power Co.
Building.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Two Sisters Widowed.

SEATTLE, Jan. s [P).-Seattle
friends revealed yesterday that two
sisters had been widowed by the
Texas and California naval plane
crashes.
They were Florence Kelly Percich
and Catherine Kelly Neff, wives Of
Harold E. Neff, shipmates on the
naval bomber which landed after
difficulties over Texas Thursday.
Mr.. Percich was killed in bailing out
from that plane and Mr.. Neff, who
made similar jump safely, was
killed in the crash near San Diego.
The sisters were former residents
of Pittsburgh.
Evening star., 1941-01-06
Bethesda PIT. A. to Meet

Mrs. Milton Miles. who has spent
several years in China, will speak
on THE Burma Road" before the
Bethesda CMdD Parent Teacher As
sociation at 2:30 pm Wednesday in
the Bethesda Elementary School.