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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-01

YOU could have knocked US
over with a slug of salami
when we learned the other day
that the family picnic survives
as an institution in these United
States Of America. True. we had
given the matter no special con-
sideration.
We had Just been taking it for
granted tn at the picnic had
passed out like many another
noble old custom. We cannot
recall having heard any discus
sion of the picnic in years. But
il still lives. though we fear on
certain false notes.
a member of our immediate
circle attended an event of this
nature no longer ago than last
Saturday. joining a group that
took baskets of edibles and went
TO public park on Long Island
anu III lllt blNIl.
That is how We came TO be
advised that the picnic remains
a going concern. We were prac-
tically enihralled by the report
made 10 rs on. the festivity and
were rejoicing in this evidence
that all the good old diversions
were not dead. when we heard
mention OF tables and benches
set UP in the park on which the
plcnickers spread their food.
Tables and benches:" we re-
peated. Didn't you lay a table
cloth on the ground and squat
down around IL 10 cate"
NO." was the reply. I'VE sat
at table. There were other
folks there having picnics and
they all sat at tables. That Is
what the tables and benches are
there for"
WELL, Of course we could see
W at once the synthetic ma
ture OF this particular picnic.
What chance have the little chill
dren playing about the green
Sward or romping over the
vittleS if you are going to put
them out of reach?
And what Of the ants? Is il
fair 10 the ants 10 make them
climb table legs in order that
they may iHfeSt- the grub
We think not. We suppose we
should be content that even the
form Of tho picnic is preserved
n, this age. hut wc-fccl that it
should not he made a travesty.
Presently they Will be putting
tables and benches on the
beaches and destroying the flavor
Of sand IN the sandwiches and
potato salad and eliminating the
pleasure that dripping batherS
derive from galloping across the
festive board like the little chill
drcn on the Creensward As an
cld-time picnic man We protest
this innovation IF modcrnity
IT Is true that OF late years we
Il fund We like our picnic best
in places like the Colony Restau-
rant. where the air is as fine as
any We have ever found out
doors and whore the cooling
system provides a nice substi-
fute for mountain or sea breeZcS,
I bur i'm orr day We were as good
a picnicker as you would want
10 sec.
We used 10 60 on a picnic al
most every week back in our old
homo town of Pueblo. our favor
ito being ono that was always
pitchcd in the Ice OF a brewery
by Pm organization known rs
fhc Rover Wheel and Athletic
Club.
Tho picnickcrs would choose
up sides for a baseball game,
and as a special inducement "a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-01
Quiz Answers

TAI Mahal.
Pin July. 1929.
3-Mongooses.
4-Even more so than we do
now. for only the female
mosquito Is equipped with
the needlelike apparatus used
in inflicting the wound.
5-The present army ration
calls for eight ounces Of
fresh milk daily for each
man.
e. Guatemala.
Rubber.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-01
25 YEARS AGO TODAY
August 7, 1916

British warship wait outside
United States waters for the
U-boat Deutschlpd to make It's
dash back -Cermany,-
Second year of conflict ends
as Germany defies Allies in their
hunger war against them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-01
Red Claims
Making Us
Too Optimistic
Soviets Use Nazi Tactics
but That Isn't Victory
BY PAUL M.ALLON

M -NDA AA~NNh N'+ff nus - ~
W lin news dispensers sighed
one recent morning about the
difficult Russian roads which had
been encountered by der fuehr-
cr'S fighters the previous day.
II they had known an American
idiom they could have more
truthfully called IL q very. very
tough road, even though it was
a four-lanC route.
That day German advance
units had thrust their way
through within 100 miles of Mos
COW on that road in the center
of the Russian lines. The units
were panzCr divisions which had
CrClcd around Smolcnsk. Two
divisions were moving toward
the Soviet capital
What made the road difficult
from there on, m an directions.
including back, was the fact that
he RuSSlapS-SprrauAdcd the
force bottled it completely. cut
II deeply off from the German
lines around SmolonSk.
But within as hours the Ger
mans made a Enthusiastically
desperate and sensational move
10 rescue the isolated panzers.
They threw 30 TO 40 divisions
into rescue drive.
This was cat and dog circular
warfare such as no military eye
had seen in this world before.
Large Russian units. over l50.-
600 strong, had been surrounded
by Germans IN a pocket This
side of SmolcnSk; then 10000
Germans were surrounded in a
pocket on the other side.
TllE Moscow communiqHe an
Il nounccd the day the Ger
mans were surrounded that the
whole second Hitler drive had
failed. Next day. Is hours after
the drive was supposed TO have
failed the Reds said it was being
brought near TO a halt.
The incident has shaken gov
crnmcnt authorities here into
serious consideration of the
effects Of Moscow war propa-
ganda on the American public.
a few weeks ago every one
put a question mark behind all
claims from Moscow on any
subject Since then. hope that
the Reds could win. and end the
war, has risen so high in every
A m erican breast that the
American head Is accepting as
whOlehearted truth the same
brand OF propaganda il formerly
recognized rs such.
1t may turn out all right if
the Reds accomplish the i'm
probable. but the government
officials naturally arc beginning
10 worry about the effects now
on the defense program, upon
defense legislation, and wonder
how far the depressing reaction
viii spread here if the yet I'M
decided battle goes suddenly the
wrong way.
MR.. ROOSENELTS well ball
Al anced argument 10 Com
gross for price controls really
marked a reversal of govern
ment policy 1t was never an
nounCcd in so many words that
the government had been let
ting both prices and wages
tSolely of the union Variety
drift Upward. but tins was the
known effect of the various
policies on strikes, wage in
crcaScs. farm prices and mid
restraining pressure on indus
trial prices
The new step means a price
wage level desirable to the gov
eminent has been reached and
the ceiling is to be built al this
point
Resistance has centcred in
what the headlines call the
farm bloc IN Congress, but
close inspection will disclose
that the most talkative are not
the farmers of the bloc but the
lnl'ationiStS, such rs Senator
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-01
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
August I, 1910

United States agents seize 81
foreign spies in the Panama
Canal zone.
British planes bomb PrusSian
town OF Hanover. kin several
civilians, and d,a m avg e many
buildings.
-1e3uvIrr f'rr-rrcr- 'A-iiUfutoft- Says
his pact with Hitler assures
Germany OF a CAIN feeling of
security against any hostile
attack from the East
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-01
Gen. Mitchell,
Army's Goat.
Now a Hero ,
Showing Up Brosshafs
His Heinous Offenss
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

ONE of the most astonishing
" things in this most astonish-
ing Of times is the rise to the
stature of a national hero of a
man who died quietly enough In
New York City on Feb. 10. 1886.
His name was William Len.
drum Mitchell. He was a briga.
der general. He was an acc
flier during the World War. He
was born in France In 1879 (of
p American parents OF course).
On Feb. %, 1926, after a 10
months trial, he was suspended
from his rank and his command.
What were the crimes OF this
American soldier who was Drey-
fused? What were the dreadful
deeds committed by this man
who wore on his bosom the ID.
S. C., the d. S. NJ, the Croix de
Guerre with five palms and the
Legion of Homer ribbon? Just
these;
URINE No. I'm 1920 Mitch
~ ell told Congress that he
could sink ship from an air.
plane. After three years of men,
tai befuddlement Congress told
Mitchell TO show them" He
climed into a bomber and sank
a boat.
That was Crime No. I. for the
navy's general board never
printed the details Of tits
dare to Congress and BRASS
hatdom.
Crime No. . In February.
1925, Billy" Mitchell, his brain
still working on all cylinders.
said that the war department
is quite incapable of creating.
handling or administering air
power IN an efficient manner.
That was worse than Crime
No. !. which demonstrated be-
fore an assembly OF solemn
noodles that a bomb from the air
could destroy a warsflp.
This second crime was a bomb
dropped on the heads OF the
BourbonS Of the army, who learn
not, neither do they know.
60 THEY pitched this man out
~ Of the army in a most dis
graceful manner - because he
showed them what air power
meant in future wars and be-
cause he told the army that il
wasn't competent 10 handle
something that he. Billy"
Mitchell, commander Of an air
squadron in France. knew all
about.
Incredible in the L. S. A.
in these times,
But after five years Brig. Gen.
William LendTum Mitchell.
L. S. a. rises out OF his grave.
lie was lifted out and stood on a
pedestal Of honor by Clio. god
dcSs of history, who now says 10
the solemn noodles, the BRASS
hats and the Bourbons:
1T II this man whose vision
YOU must follow IL the United
STATES il 10 become impreg-
nabIe"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-01
Railroad Vases

has now entered the conference stage.
The issues include working rules but especially
wage increases-the latter being calculated to add
SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS to annual rail-
road pay rolls if granted.
Most fortunately, long established mediation ma
chinery exists for dealing with such controversies IN the
railroad industry fact which that vital industry
almost exclusively apart from other important American
industries
90 THE nation can be assured that this situation will
- not be Immediately explosive, and will proceed in
orderly through various stages of negotiation and
mediaton-thus applying again the sound principle
of the cooling off, period which has long kept the
peace in the railroad industry
However obvious and definite elements of doubt and
danger are inherent in the situation.
1t is fairly well known to the American people that
the railroad industries of the country have been econon
caly and financially unstable for many years
This is due in part to economic changes within
the country for which there is probably little no
remedy. Other forms of transportation have into
general USE proved their merit and usefulness and
are indispensable.
is in perhaps greater part excessive taxation
which is almost certainly destined to be increased rather
than relieved.
And it is due at least in considerable degree to
PREVIOUS wage increases evolving from precisely the
same agencies of mediation which will function in the
situation developing
Since it is recognized that the rail industries
already precarousy close to the point where any further
increase of burdens will render them imperative under
private management, the possibility must be considered
that the wage proposed will be thessraw to
freak the cames back.
OLAINLY and thoughtfuly to be considered, there
fore, in this situation is the DESIRABILITY of
having the cames back broken.
Will it be in the real interest of railroad labor?
Will it be in the interest of the large number of
individual citizens who have investments in the
railroads?
Will it be in the general and unmistakable interest of
the American people as whole?
If the answers to all these questions in the
affirmative then of course the expanded wage burdens
can be imposed upon the railroad industries with
immunity from disastrous consequences
But the and real to these questions
should certainly be sought in the of mediation
and all facts bearing upon them should be considered in
proper relation all phases of the national life vitality
concerned.
While the processes of mediation are sound and
laudable the results achieved by them necessarily
So and there considerable background for saying that
while mediation has long kept the peace in the railroad
industries has always contributed to their stability
In view of the existing and impending emergencies
of the country in which rail transportation will figure so
vitality be hoped the forthcoming mediation wit
comprehensvey include the welfare Of the railroads them
selves as well those who work for them and most
tainly include the inextricably involved NATIONAL
WELFARE
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-01
| ell ers TO
the Editor
TO TIE EDITOR:

TO TIE EDITOR:
HAVING listened to many
ministers and writer's con-
demning war. and calling names.
| wonder if some Of these war
scared leaders ever went 90 Sun
day school or read the twenty
fourth chapter Of ST. Matthew
where it IS propheSicd there
shall be wars and rumorS Of war.
The work of the ministry is
the lifting up Of Christ, not
mcddling in civil affairs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-01

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-01
WELL, IT isn't only writer's
w who are queer

WIN az Alb'fls
Today the patent office In
Washington = being Heeded with
applications for patents on what
seem 10 be the most cock-eyed
inventions il IS possible TO con-
celVe Of
The Associated Press lists
some Of them Bear traps for
enemy tanks. camouflaging
whales as submarines. a ma
chine 10 look into the pockets OF
fifth columniSts for concealed
maps a sort Of X-Ray planted
at street corners. An apparatus
10 douse bombs with water be-
fore they hit
/ even read the other day
that an astronomer was blue
printing landing places on the
moon for airplanes.
Tha; will come some day.
And won't il be amusing then 10
sec ourselves as others might
sec -us=from- the moon.
I Do not believe in chance or
Il luck, although, like every
one / loosely use the word
every day. | Like best what the
pithy Voltaire said:
"Chance II "A word void Of
sense; nothing can exist with
out cause"
So when you find that $1,000
roll of bills tomorrow, don't say
What luck" Somebody lost IL
and you cor somebody else)
found il. That's just cause and
effect.
THE finest piece of sheer, UNI
L adulterated ackermarackus
that / have read since the big
wind in Ireland appeared in a
New York newspaper recently
written by a man whose name
shall not be immortalized here. Il,
1t concerns John G. Winant1
our ambassador to England and
one of the anointcd outsiders Of
the postwar new order" The
writer in interviewing Mr.. VIM
ant in New York eXuded this:
"Tired and worn, he ~ o h q
WinanD looks like Lincoln
who could have written The
Raven In him appeared the
human sympathy Of the Civil
War president and the cerincss
the poet Pee, combined with
the sadness Of both"
Why isn't there Pulitzer
prize for the best piece Of humor-
whangdoodle of the year?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-01

TO TIE EDITOR;
HAVING read in the Sunday
Il Detroit Times duly ~ OF
the misfortune Of Young Norbert
-GpahelAp-44A2z44 -e1at1ic avenue,
in having his invalid cycle stolen
from him. and as result
thereof. his having TO remain
indoors until new legs can be
procured with little prospects
of this happening in the near
future. l sincerely trust you will,
through the columns of your
good paper, start a fund for this
unfortunate person. | have
pleasure IN enclosing herewith
my dollar.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-01
MAX +. TRAYLOR,
1913 Farmer street.

TO THE EDITOR:
DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT S
smear campaign directed
against Senator Wheeler and
Charles Lindbergh IS quite be-
meath the dignity Of the office
of Chief Executive.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-01
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-07

International News Service Wire
NEW YORK, Feb. IA SIS, 00C
suit against Warner Brothers. Inc,
was opened today by Kate Moog,
who, under the name of Kate
Busch, was a government witness
in the 1898 Nazi spy trial in New
York.
Miss Moog. testifying in Federal
Court, asserted that the picture
Confessions of Nazi Spy" made
by Warner Brothers, portrays her
in very unfavorable manner. She
contended that after seeing the
movie she became sick. upset. lost
the esteem of her friends and felt
like ending her life.
Tall and dark haired, Miss Moog
stated that the character por-
trsyed by Lya Lys on the screen
was fashioned after her.
she wears my clothes, my
hat and my hair styles Miss
Moog asserted. "She walks like
me, talks like me, has my man
nerism and it's easy to tell that
the character was supposed to
be me-"
Miss Lys. slight and blond, was
in court and Judge Matthew T.
Abruzzo had her stand beside Miss
Moog so that the jurors could-com-
pare them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-07
4 Killed in Day
In 3Air Crashes
BY International New, servlc.


Twenty-one persons were dead
today after three separate air.
plane crashes in widely separated
sections of the United States and
Canada.
Twelve were killed in Canada's
worst commercial air tragedy
when trans-Canada airliner
crashed within less than a mile
of the Armstrong. Ont. emergency
field, where it was going to land.
An inquest was begun today in the
hope of determining the cause.
In another mystery crash, eight
United States Army officers and
men died when a giant four
motored bomber struck a ragged
mountain top and burned near
Lovelock. New. The wreckage was
under close guard today. TIL e
Bib type flying fortress was a
specially equipped craft. designed
TO test flying in sub-zero Alaska
temperatures.
Two fast flying army pursuit
ships locked wings during maneu-
vers over Long Island, causing the
death of the pilot of one ship and
injury to the second planes pilot
who parachuted to earth.
Gen. Hugh s. Johnso
Americas Fighting Thinker"
Writes Daily for the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-07
AID FROM ALLIES

StIn1son went on 10 say the
United States is now beginning &c
get the benefit Of plant capacity
increase caused by British AND
French plane orders
THE French and British came
In and furnished money 10 build
our plants" Stimson said. con-
tlnulnE:
we didn't get appropriations
from Congress until last June.
II they british and FRENCH
had not come in. II would be a
long time yet before facilities
would he finished"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-07
Ndzi Magnesium
Control thought
ByU.S. Firm
BY w. w. CHAPLIN

BY w. w. CHAPLIN
Init News Service National Defense Expert
NEW YORK, Feb. IA pur-
chase by the Aluminium Company
of America involving several mil
lion dollars" today released Ger
man brakes on the American
magnesium industry. a vital link
in national defense, and paved the
way for about fabrication Of
alloys indispensable to speedy con-
struction of mighty fleet of war
planes.
Magnesium, mineral bi-product
in the process of salvaging chemi-
Gals from sea water. is indispens-
able in the fabrication of aluminium
sheet and castings for modern
planes and is also used for air.
plane flares and other aeronauti-
cal purposes.
RECENT INDICTMENTS
The magnesium bottleneck re-
Gently became so acute in the
defense program that federal in
dictments charging worldwide
conspiracy TO control price and
production were returned against
four American companies, includ-
ing the Aluminium Company of
America and the Dow Chemical
Company of Midland, Mich.
Also named was the General
Aniline and Film Company. known
in Germany as the /. G. Farben-
lndustrie and popularity spoken OF
here as the German dye trust.
The American companies all
pleaded not guilty to the indict-
ment yesterday but tives
of the German defendant corpora
ton failed to appear. allegedly on
the ground that there were errors
IN the subpoena.
Soon afterward the Aluminium
company announced its purchase
of the German firms Interest in
the industry and said that this
would speed defense.
SHOWDOWN NOT ANALYZEp
The aluminium company. which
already owned one half of the
magnesium company. did not say
In what way production had been
slowed down by the partial Ger
man ownership, merely reporting
that production could now be radi.
cally stepped up.
OF the American companies in.
dlcted as comprising world mo-
nopoly on the precious defense
metal, Aluminus Comp any of
America was included because of
its half interest in the American
Magnesium Corporation.
The latter is a fabricator and
not a producer. the Magnesium
Development Corporation is a pat
ent pool. and the Dow Chemical
Company is the only one of the
group that is both fabricator and
producer, with brine wells at Mid
land. Mich.
There was no indication whether
the indictments might be dropped
in view Of the removal of the
German firms interest in the mag
nesium company and the aluminium
companys assurances that pro-
duction is TO be quickly increased.
The federal court had set April 7
for special pleadings" in the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-07
HITS wHEELER'S CHARGE

Stimson took slap at charges
by Senator Wheeler Cd of Mon.
tana that the army does not have
any up-to-the-minute planes. and
that those il does possess would
be flying collins" in combat with
European planes.
Senator Wheeler's statement
was unfair" Stimson scowled.
The senator gave the impress
sion that we build defective
planes. His figures are not accu-
rate enough for me to endorse
them.
PLANES ordered before the
war are obsolete now. due TO
such inventions a. the leak-proof
gas tank. III Senator Wheeler
had been fair he would have said
that planes ordered before the
war are now being fixed 80 that
these leak proof tanks can he
slipped In. II the time comes
when we must send our planes
into combat they viii be effec-
tive, all right"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-07

Gen. Hugh s. Johnson,
Americas Fighting Thinker"
Writes Daily for the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-07
AiirpIdne Output
1000 a Month,
AH-TimeH High
BY ARTHUR HACHTEN
int'l News Service stan Correspondent


WASHINGTON. Feb. PRO
duction of warplanes in the United
States will be enormously in.
creased soon." Secretary of Wal
Stimson declared today as another
high source revealed January out.
put reached 1000 planes, an all
time record. Five hundred of the
planes will 60 to Britain.
Army construction and procure,
ment of material have been very
little hampered" by strikes. Slim
son said.
1.-THE strikes have been smaller
and less important than we had
reason to expect in the law Of
averages, he said in remarking
that "a great deal of credit" for
preventing strikes is due to
Sidney Hillman. associate direc-
tor of the office of production
management.