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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13

TO THE EDITOR:
TIIE president of the gas COM
L pany is ready TO negotiate
TO sell the company's property
to the people of the city of De-
troit.
Probably a majority of the
voters in the city will be in ia
vor of this proposal to buy out
the gas company, but the prin-
cipal question in my mind con-
Germs the fair price to be paid
for this property.
Years ago the city of Detroit
paid many millions of dollars TO
buy out the old ID. U. r., and
what was the outcome? Prac-
tically all that expensive equip
ment had to be scrapped be-
cause none of us foresaw the
future obsolescence of the street
cars due to their replacement
by buses.
Now, the question in my
mind is this: Has the gas
company a franchise to use the
streets and alleys or not p
If not. then. gentlemen, the
gas company has nothing COM
ing except for material which
it has above ground. and this
could be bought at a nominal
amount.
Yes, municipal ownership
should include all the public
utilities, the gas company, the
electric company and the tele-
phone company.
All these utilities should be-
long to the people themselves
without the necessity of spend
ing billions of dollars for the
purchase of equipment on
which the original investment
has been realized a hundred
times over by financiers.
The people of Detroit will
not be content without full par
ticulars as to what they are
buying and what the right
price should be.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13
Letters to the Editor
II. II. HOLDEN,
14122 ArdmOre avenue.

Please triple-space letters for
this column. Send to Letter
Editor, The Detroit Times. You
MUST sign your name and adj
dress: otherwise your letter will
not be printed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13
GEORGE j. PONNIER,
1904 Buckingham road.
TO THE EDITOR:

A GERMAN flier. Baron Franz
n Won Vera. escapes from a
Canadian prison train. paddles
across the st. Lawrence. ille-
gally enters the United States. is
arrested and freed on $1,000 bail.
Under consideration is: Shall he
be deported to Germany?
I'd say. NO! BY all means.
not yet, Let's keep him for a
while" Let's make him guest
of the government. He is intelli-
gent. clever. courageous. He
speaks English. Let's show him
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13
BAERlNG DOWN ON THE NEWS:
Getting Closer
By ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER
Back in 1914 was scared Of submarines wouldn't
walk up a damp street.
Now, this is tougher than the other You can't
tell whether guy lurking in seaweed.
see that the Germans bombed Iceland
That fellows New York where the buildings
combination giraffe and those bombers
knock the Empire State Building will be hitchhikers
in New Jersey thumbing rides New York elevators.
The architects say skyscrapers the safest places
the world But I'll still Horace Greeleys advice 20
years late and lap the field.
All the transcontinenta planes fly my house and
lay there awake thinking, Well that could be enemy
bomber
international News
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13

over the tomb of the martyred
Lincoln. the writer feeling him.
self on hallowed ground. ard
overcome by the aura of the
great Emancipation, could only
thank the Infinite One for the
life and gift of this godly man.
whose magnanimity of soul and
character looms greater with the
years.
In a world of increasing
hatred and diabolical destruc-
ton Of property and human
life and which threatens the
whole structure Of civilization.
where are the prototypes of this
incorruptible political genius,
rough hewn, sad-eyed, beloved
Abraham Lincoln.
X. A. LAURIE.
sol Guaranty Building.
TO THE EDITOR:
TO-DAY the Congress of the
i United States of America is
holding public hearings upon
H. r. No. ITS. What a num-
Der for the lease and lend bill.
It's an insult to our forefathers
who established the foundation
for this great nation by the sac
rifice of their blood that we
today may enjoy the fruits of
their devotion for a true de-
mocracy.
l. like many million other citi-
zens. protest the passage of this
bill. for it voids the Constitution
of the United States. it scraps
the johnson Act. and liquidates
the Neutrality Act, and in one
stroke creates a one-man power
greater than any other human
being enjoys on the face Of the
earth.
II is my desire TO see the
President have certain powers,
but not the kind he requests in
II. r. No. 1776.
No true. native-born American
citizen has any use for dicta-
tor. be he in Asia or Europe.
and | am sure we do not want
any here in the United States of
America.
| think, and in fact 1 have the
confidence that the Congress of
the United States will back the
President for any worthwhile
request that he may make, but
they must not by any means
abdicate the power of Congress.
That's asking too much. And
now, as never before. it is the
duty of all citizens to let his
congressman know that the pres
ent bill as it now stands is en-
tirely out of harmony with the
American way, and should be
drastically amended TO safe
guard the American people.
CHARLES J. MEYER,
1912 Whittemore avenue,
Flint, Mich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13
Food Stamps.
Better Late
Than Never
Export Plan Draws
Johnson's Cheers

(The opinions expressed by
General Johnson are not neces-
sariiy those of The Detroit
Times.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13
Never Take
Gal Friend
To Thea+er
Things She Does
TO Spoil Evening

1.-THE opinions expressed BY
Westbrook Pesier are not nscss.
soriiy those of The Detroit
Times.)
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13
DETR0I FINES

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Company at 1928 Times square, Detroit
Mich.
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Mail Matter
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-13

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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-10-09

men and women in it find daily
strength and courage in their homes.
which it is woman's great, historic
destiny to manage!
For today the thing vital to this coun
, try is morale; the vision and conf
dence that our future wild be even
greater than our past. And this type
OF morale can only be created in the
homes of country.
An important speaker said recent
ly, "The eyes, hopes and prayers Of
free men everywhere are on Amer1-
can Industry in this world crisis. All
who oppose the scourge of oppression
sweeping out Of central Europe today
look to our factories-to American
industrial management and American
labor to produce the bombing planes,
the guns and tanks and other weapons
OF modern war which may once more
turn in favor of democracy, peace
and freedom"
But this Industry toward which
free men are looking, can only func-
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-10-09

Home. It's not only what we work
for It's the thing that supports and
stands back of us all It's where men
and women rest and eat and talk and
laugh and get ready to go out to do
their part in these factories and these
camps. It's where children grow
strong and intelligent, imbued with
ideals of freedom and independence
as uncompromising as those of our
forefathers. It's where they come at
night when they're tired and hungry
and puzzled; perhaps disillusioned at
what's going on in the world, to find
peace and comfort and good food.
Never before in all the colorfui
years Of this countrys history has
home been more important than 1t
is today. No even in the days when
she little log cabin on an unfriendly
frontier was the last outpost OF civil
cation; the place where the necessi-
| ties for living, NOW turned out by OUR
factories, were painfully produced.
ton at its greatest efficiency II the
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-10-09

derful country. And it's being made
in our homes just as surely as it's be-
ing made in this factories and camps
OF America.
But how can history be made in
your home you ask? There's nothing
special going on there. just the usual
things. three meals day. bed
making. cleaning the washing
once a week.
But the USUAL things are what
men and children, as we'll as women,
live by. They're the comforts and
freedoms and associations for which
we work and support our government
and fight, when it's necessary.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-10-09
Published Every Tnursday Morning
In the Interest 1T Coulee City and
the Neishborinx Vicinity.
HISTORY is MADE AT HOME

History is being made these days.
History-that men and women will
read hundreds Of years from now and
marvel at, as we read and marvel at
the difficult beginnings of this woa-
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-10-09
REPORT OF CONDITION OF
Security State Bank

Of coulee City County member Of the Federal Reserve
24th 1941 published
of Banking or washing
vision of
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-10-09
CouLEE CITY DISPATCH
I. W. fBGA) Hu.soN. Editor

untsred ut the postoffice at Coules
City. WASH, ss seAond-ciass matter.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1941-10-09

State Washngtom, of
me End dayo October
GsEAL) ALLEN SPRATLIN Notary
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-06
MoUing Traiiers to Rent


81 UP ALL SIZES INSURED
$3.50 GRAND RIVER. NEAR KIRBY
Greenbelt cooperator., 1941-12-19
HghSchoolChatter
BY JOAN MCNAMARA

Hi there!-There're just lots Of
things to talk about this week
that is, if you pull yourself away
from the war news for a few
minutes. Il suppose it's the same
in lot of your homes, as in
mine. When there's a good dance
program on, the radio has to be
turned low, but the minute the
news flashes come on, the beat-up
box is turned so high you can
hear it block away.)
You should see the way Miss
Council has fixed up the library
window-it's lovely winter scene
but smartl
The student council meetings in
the past few weeks have produced
our Christmas celebration that is
to be held on December %. We
also had the traditional trading
of names for Christmas presents.
More fun. There is also a Christ
mas tree in the library.
Don't say l told you but
What certain girls ex-boy friend
was married on the rebound?-It
seems that June Hammersla had
good time at nearby Army
camp Sunday evening.-What
sophomore boy has a habit of
glancing at the calendar" on
Miss Younger's desk?-Speaking
of Miss Younger, we hear she's
a number 6 on the "Anchors
Aweigh" list.-Gosh, I've counted
a dozen "gals" who have flames
in the Air Corps, too (patriotic
girls in G. H. S., don't you think?)
Who are the three boys that
are suddenly becoming interested
in musicians lives?-A new face
brightens the sophomore class
these days,-Shirley Kreman, OF
Beltsville. We're glad to have you
with US, Shirley.-Why it is that
Tommy" Freeman gets away
with SO much?-
Well, I'll be seeing you again
next week.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1941-12-19
GreenbeIt Children
Practice Carols
And Afraid Drills
By KATHRYN M. WOOD

AS the community Christmas
tree is lighted in the center to-
hight, the children of Greenbelt
will gather around it to sing their
Christmas carols. They have
looked forward eagerly to this oc-
casion and have practiced these
tlme-honored songs every morning
for several weeks at school. Won't
you join them in making this an
all-Greenbelt ceremony?
Monday, December %, at 8
pIln., the children will stage their
operetta, "The Gift of the Magi,"
in the auditorium. 1t is a mys-
terry story of medieval England
having for it's background the
great Cathedral on Christmas
Eve. The story will be told in
lovely music-some old and some
new-with a touch of variety pro-
vided by the mummers and testers.
Tuesday morning, the Junior
Red Cross will assemble in front
of Greenbelt Hospital for mid
morning concert of Christmas
music to add to the cheer and hap
piness of those who must spend
Christmas in the hospital.
In direct contrast to these holi-
day preparations, the children at
school have been discussing de-
fense precautions this last week
and have had several afraid
drills, using the social room as
a temporary shelter until adequate
ones are ready, the town authori-
ties having decided that the So
cial room is the safest place
available to the present time for
the children.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1941-12-19
OUR
NEIGHBORS
By SALLY MEREDITH

Hello, Greenbelt:
Have you registered to do your
part in the local civilian defense
organization? l think most of us
have; but one point has not been
made clear. All registrations re-
ceived before the "incident" that
precipitated the present emer-
gency must be renewed in order
to be placed on the active list, as
definite assignments are now being
made with registration.
You certainly can get some good
suggestions and timely tips from
the Bread and Butter" publica-
tion. l hope you'll pardon the
frequent reference to it in this
column, but there are SO many
things that aren't otherwise
brought to the notice of the con-
sumer, that you might as well
profit by them, too. For instance,
in the issue of December IL, it is
pointed out that there is still
time-but not much-to wire,
write or send delegations to your
Senators, to demand that they pass
price control bill that will really
control prices" They also have
Consumer Union findings ON cos
metics, (Which make up a large
percentage of Christmas gifts)
with special emphasis on lipstick,
) powder, and perfume. They advise
that since the 10 cent brands COM
pare favorably v with higher priced
Ibrands-though perhaps not in
quite So glamorous a container-
there's no reason for spending a
small fortune for something that
can be obtained for much less.
Plans are being made to have
carol-singing through the town on
Christmas Eve, the carolers to be
represented by the Protestant,
Catholic and Mormon Churches:
the High School Glee Club, and
members of the Community Band.
Using one of the buses for trans
portation, the group will start in
the center and tour the town, stop
ping at the hospital, the homes of
lnvalids, with at least one stop in
each block. If there's anything
better than "Silent Night" The
First Noel" and ooh, Little Town
Of Bethlehem" on Christmas Eve.
I'd like to know what it is!
Especially when sung by a group
such as this one will be.
IL you'd like to send Patty
Beebe a Christmas card, her ad.
is RID No. 6, Gala Pas
errace, Carlisle, Pa. Whew!
it looks like it sounds?
Ais the last issue b re
Ike this opd IA
gsssonss greetings to
hope you find Just
wanted in your stock
next Thursday morning!
Greenbelt cooperator., 1941-12-19

Don't sit down in the barn and
wait for the horse to come to you
and be harnessed, go after the
horse. harness him, and go after
your load.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-03
Extreme Cruelty Basis
Of Divorce Action

oGeraldine Jasmund, Mount
Glen ems, began suit for
divorce In Circuit Court today
from her husband, Otto. They
were married March 20, 1897.
She charges extreme cruelty.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-03
Animals Stage Comeback
in National Forests
Uncle Sam Seeks More. Better
Hunters to Halt Animal BIitx

This means" the service
said, that in many places
hunting is not adequately
harvesting the big game CROP"
The service said Its census
indicated that nearly SO per-
cent-or 100000 head-of the
big game animals were deer.
Elk numbered $4,000, black
bear $4,000, antelope 10000,
mountain goat 10000, bighorn,
$500, moose $500. peccary T.
500, mountain lions $500,
grizzly and Alaska brown bear
4,8O0 and wild boar 700.
The service estimated that
the national forests provided q
habitat for 1000, 900 fur-bear-
ing animals, including S,000,.
900 rabbits and hare and 2,000,-
900 squirrels; 100000 game
birds, and 100000 predatory
or meat-eating animals, such as
bob cats, coyotes and wolves.
The forest service values the
present stock of big game
animals, other wildlife and fish
resources on the national
forests at $100,000,000.
The service said that con-
seryationists had learned In re-
cent years that total protection
of desirable wild animals
many of which faced extinction
not many years ago-is no
longer necessary. Experience
has shown, the service said, that
concentrating such animals In
game refugees often was one
of the surest methods Of exter-
minating them.
Refugees usually offer pro-
lection only from men, but offer
no protection from predators
or over-population or COMPETE
ton with other species. Bighorn,
for example. are threatened I'm
places by too dense deer, elk,
mountain lion or coyote popu-
lation.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-03
Uses Sword, Pen to Bend
II Nations to Maxi Will
Authorities Estimote ZOO. 600. 900
Persons Involved in Huge Conflict

equalled II not surpassed the
$4,000, 000-man army modified
by the Car in 1914-17. The
British, from latest reports, have
close to 100000 men - in
Guiding Home Guards - ready
to defend the British Isles and
at least another 100000 men
in Africa, and the Middle and
Far East. During the World
War the British Empire mobil-
lied 8,41O,000 men.
Germany was reported at the
outbreak of the war to have had
available 100000 men in her
armed forces. Premier Musso-
lini boosted of 100000 "bayo-
nets" How many men Axis
junior partners like Rumania
and Hungary have added to the
fighting forces has not been de-
termined.
NINE MILLION FIGHT
Including Finnish troops, the
Hitler-Mussolini camp probably
held more than 10000, 900 fight
ers when Soviet Russia was in
vaded. Not all these men, Of
course, were thrown into that
conflict. Hitler's headquarters
announced early in the strug-
gle that 100000 were fight
ing on the eastern front on both
sides.
During the World War Ger
many modified 100000 men
and her allies stria-Hungary,
Turkey and Bulgaria a like
number.
Against them were pitted
more than 100000 men from
Russia, France, the British EN-
pire, Italy, Japan, Rumania, Ser
bia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal.
Montenegro and the United
States in four years of war.
Two years of this war have
involved Russia, France, the
British Empire, Yugoslavia,
Greece, Poland, Belgium, the
Netherlands, Norway, Denmark
and Luxembourg on one side
and Germany, Italy, Rumania,
Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland
on the other, plus the territories
once Czechc- slovakia, Austria,
Albania, Esthonia, Latvia and
Lithuania, and Lebanon, Syria,
Iraq and Iran.
It was two years ago today.
too, that the liner Athena went
down in the Atlantic with the
loss of lib lives.
Since then more than 7,000,-
900 tons of merchant and naval
vessels have gone to the bottom.
Records compiled by the As
ISOLATED Press show at least 49,
600 persons have been killed or
drowned and 9,253 are missing.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-03
BY OVID MARTIN

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3-R)
Uncle Sam may soon be call
ing for more and better hunters
to help halt a blitz-like come
back being staged by big game
animals in the national forests.
The US. Forest Service re-
ported today that a census
taken last winter Of such an
finals indicated they were in
creasing at q rate which would
double their present numbers
by 1851 and place them on a
par with the present human
population by the end Of the
century.
While explaining that in.
adequate feed supplies, disease
and natural competition of the
species would limit the increase.
this service said the number Of
big game animals In national
forests had risen from 500, 900
in 1924 to 2,1oo,ooo in 1941.
Included in the count, taken
at a time when the animals
were concentrated in winter
feeding areas, were deer, elk,
mountain lion, black bear,
grizzly and Alaska brown bear,
moose, wild boar, bighorn, ante
lope, mountain goat and pee
cary.
The service said they had in
creased 50 rapidly in recent
years that some forests already
have overstocked despite the
fact that hunting Is permitted
during certain periods Of the
year.
Suggesting the need for more
hunting in some areas the SER
vice said that while deer herds
could be reduced one-third in
number by hunters without de-
creasing the following years
population the average taken
by hunters last year was only
z per cent.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-03
Ruling Upseis
Land Board
Mortgage Decision
Given by Court

CLEANSING. Sept. 3-(P-
The State Supreme Court yes.
terday upset State Land Office
Board policy with decision tina,
the Land Office Board Act die
not invalidate mortgages on tax.
reverted land redeemed by form.
er owners.
Carl B. Brandenburg, repre-
sentative Of the State Land
Board, said this morning that
the ruling will not affect Ma
comb County greatly. although
some farm property In the
South end Of the County may
be in the scope Of the decision.
No investigation Of mort
cages on property sold
through the land office Is
made by the County repre-
sentatives, Brandenburg stat
ed.
The Boards counsel speculat-
ed whether the decision over.
turned part Of the intention OF
the Land Office Board Law-tc
wipe out encumbrances on tax
and lien-burt.ened property and
permit q fresh start.
The decision, written by Jus.
tice Emerson r. Boyles and con.
Cured in by five other justices
declared property owners cSn'
not seek to escape the result oi
their own default and gain ar
advantage by it."
A dissenting opinion by Chief
Justice Edward M. Sharpe sale
the so-called "scavenger" Law
grants q former owner q new
title without encumbrance,
when he repurchases his proper
ty from the State.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-03
BY JAMES P. HACKETT

BY JAMES p. HACkETT
oThe very thing Great Britain
and France went to war In an
attempt to prevent two years
ago today - q Hitlerized Eu-
rope - virtually is in existence.
BY the sword and the pen the
men of Nazi Berlin have bent
to their will the peoples of II
European nations and at this
moment are directing invasion
of the continents largest coun-
try.
Only three countries which
were neutral in the World War
remain out Of the present con-
flict - Spain, Switzerland and
Sweden.
FEW NOT EMBROILED
Others not embroiled in this
war, but which took part in the
last, are Portugal, Turkey and
Fire.
Some authorities have esti-
mated that fouf-fifths OF hui
Sanity - about 100000, 900
persons - already have had
their everyday lives conditioned
to participation in the fighting.
Just as this war has ragged
over almost the same European
territory that felt the tramp OF
soldiers feet during the first
two years of the World War, so
have Africa and the Middle East
figured in the fighting.
Between them the British en-
pire and Soviet Russia have
thrown more than 626, 900, 900
persons into their war efforts,
probably 100000 as actual
combatants or men under train
ing.
RED ARMY HUGE
Russia in all likelihood has
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-03
HitIerized Europe Looms on Second War AnniverssH
Gets Decree;
Wife Living
in Poland

= Because his wife refuses -
come 70 the United States from
her home In Poland, Joseph u1o-
homirecki Of Warren was grant
ed q divorce yesterday by CIR
cult Judge James Z. Spier. <
Drohomirecki testified tlhat ~
came to this country In 1e13.
and from 1917 % 1871, worried
in the coal mines In Keufuc1y.
During this period he savod
$l3, 900 % he and his wife ~
turned 10 Poland where thsy
purchased . farm.
In 1923, he returned alone -
the Kentucky coal mines, and
since that time has made futile
attempts to have his wife join
him.
They were married in 1919.