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Evening star., 1941-09-12
This Changing World
British, Assuming U. S. Muy Help Petrol Atlantic,
Reported Planning for Near Eost Campaign

greatly strengthened as soon as
the Germans become really active
on that front.
Hence, the British high COM
mand must detail the bulk Of the
fleet to the Mediterranean. I'm
less American men-of-War help
to protect the conveys the Brit
ish will not be in position to
guard both the Atlantic and
Mediterranean.
The Near East Forces.
High military quarters here
realize how important it is for
the Allies to prevent the Axis
from reaching the Middle East
oil fields. Our strategistS also
realize, that having made the
mistake of not going to Mosul
and Iran last summer after the
conquest of the Balkans, the
German general staff will now
make tremendous effort to dis
lodge the British and the Russians
from their comparatively strong
positions in that sector. The Brit
ish and the Russians now have
close to 100000 men in that
region, force sufficient to hold
the Germans, provided they can
be supplied with war material.
Large quantities have already
been dispatched but they are
barely enough for two months
fighting.
The British can regain their
naval supremacy in the Mediter-
ranean If they can send the bulk
of their feet there.
To all intents and purposes the
Italian feet is out OF commits
sion; the French feet, on which
the Germans have been relying
to help them out this winter, is
reported to be ready to stage a
mutiny if Admiral Darlan orders
it to fight the British. The Ger
mans have only a few submarines
and no surface ships in that
region.
Hence, except for the danger
from the Axis air arm, the Brit
ish Navy could get its transports
safely to the Eastern Mediter-
Evening star., 1941-09-12
Freedom Of Various Forms Of Expression Seen
Threatened if Attack on Movie Industry Succeeds

like all industries depending for
their financial survival on public
support, vulnerable to public in
timidation. What the America
First Committee. through Sen
ator Nye, hopes to accomplish is
to scare the motion picture in
dustry that it will throw out all
films that are anti-Nazi, throw
off its boards of directors all
executives whose opinions or ra-
cial origins do not please the
America First Committee, and
reduce the motion picture indus
try to subservience by blackmail.
This case Immediately involves
every writer, every journalist,
every playwright. every university
professor, every artist, every
school teacher and every member
Of free profession in the United
States. 1t involves every one who
has anything to do with freedom
Of expression. If the motion pic
ture industry, which is made up
of executives, producers, direc-
tors, writers, photographers, re-
search workers, historians, jour-
nalists, artists and actors, can be
held to answer for their various
forms of expression and can be
reduced by intimidation to vacu-
ity, so can the radio, the press,
the schools, the lecturers.
Antecedents Interesting.
This fight, therefore. is our
fight. 1t is the fight of every hu-
man being who believes in free
dom of speech, habeas corpus,
intellectual integrity and freedom
from intimidation.
1t has very interesting and
significant antecedents. The first
great attack of the German NaZis
against civil liberties was made
against the motion picture indus
try one year before the Nazis
came to power.
The Nazi party picked a par
ticular film as the entering wedge.
1t was the dramatization of Eric
Mario Remarque's international
best seller, "All Quiet on the
Western Front" which they de-
termined to drive off the screen
as a demonstration of their power
to intimidate. They succeeded.
One year later there, was not a
scrap of any sort of civil liberty
left in Germany. A minority par
ty had demonstrated its power to
blackmail, smear and economical
ly ruin one of the great arts and
one of the forms of expression in
Germany. Goebbels had won his
first great test. After that 1t was
easy.
Have Anti-Nazi Right.
We, who belong to the still free
professions, ask the motion pic
ture industry to stand firm. We
say, fight for your rights. We say,
fight for our rights. You have
taken the right line: You are
anti-Nazi, and you have a right
to be. You are supporting the
United States Government and
the foreign policy of the Nation.
Good heavens, and the audacious
little clique in the Senate call
this "collusion!"
There is collusion going on,
fellow-Americans! Collusion with
the Nazi party line. 1t is collu-
sion Of very dangerous nature.
1t follows an alto familiar pat
tern. 1t has happened before,
and we know the consequences to
free peoples and free nations.
Released by the Bell Syndicate. Incl
Evening star., 1941-09-12
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Working on the now logical as
sumption that the United States
Navy may shortly take over many
duties of the British Navy in the
North Atlantic, the British high
command is reported to be pre-
pairing for a major campaign in
the Near and Middle East. Hitler
is expected to make supreme
effort in that area in the course
of this fall and winter in the hope
of breaking down British resist
ance and thus getting to the
source of the oil supply which he
will badly need if the war is to
continue for long time.
Evening star., 1941-09-12
The Great Game of Politics
Price Control Bill Is Called Fruud
And New Deals Fear Of Two Blocs Is Blamed

wages and no regulation of food
prices, although no one denies that
these are the two greatest factors
in all prices and that without regu-
lation of them any effort to put
ceiling over prices" is ridiculous.
The bill is very, very confused and
few people will ever read it. Yet
there are in it these definite prohibi-
tions against wage and food price
control.
No matter what else it contains,
clearly these make.it utterly ineffec-
tual. In the matter Of food prices
it goes beyond a mere prohibition. It
declares that mo ceiling shall be
established for any agricultural
commodity below 110 per cent Of
the parity price
Inasmuch as most farm products
are now well below parity price, the
bill is direct encouragement for
every farm product to go not only to
full parity but 10 per cent above.
Such provision, coupled with the
wage clause, which says that
nothing in this act shall be con-
strued to authorize the regulation of
compensation by an employer to
any of his employees" makes this a
bill not to reduce the most of living
but TO increase the cost of living.
Here is an administration which
promulgates a law to keep prices
down, but at the same time not
only insists on retaining intact many
laws to keep prices up ION wheat,
cotton. coal, gold and various other
commoditieS but in the proposed
new law actually declares that the
price of wages and food shall not be
held down but shall go up.
1t is impossible to reconcile this
with either common decency or
common sense.
Excuses Feeble.
Mr.. Leon Henderson, the price
administrator, may or may not be
communistically inclined as charged
by Mr.. Dies. And certainly he has
in the past bumptiously expressed
views which would justify the belief
that he has no faith in the Ameri-
can system of free enterprise. But
he is too smart not to know that
this bill is bunk.
The excuses for refusing to
grapple with the question of wage
and food price control are dis
ingenious and feeble. The ahbi that
the British have failed to regulate
wages will not hold water. Condi-
tions there and here are altogether
different.
The truth, which every informed
person knows, is that the admins
tration is afraid to oppose the two
big voting groups represented by the
labor leaders and the farm lobby,
The net result of all this is that,
despite Mr.. Morgenthaus plea. there
may be no price-control legislation
at all Certainly, there is no prospect
that this bill will be passed before
November.
Only a very pronounced public
resentment against rising prices can
force earlier action or a better bill.
The chances for this are not good.
(Copyright. 1941)
Evening star., 1941-09-12

DreyfuS case. DreyfuS, you re-
call, was framed by an anti
Semitic crowd in the French
Army and condemned. The case
split France wide open. Clemen-
ceau. then a journalist, wrote an
editorial every day for a year,
and the great novelist, Zola,
risked-and got-a libel case
against himself in order to reopen
the Dreyfus case. Dreyfus was
eventually rehabilitated, the real
culprltS were exposed, and
France, as a result of winning
that case for justice, had liberal
era for years to come.
The American Dreyfus case is
much bigger affair, a much
more dangerous affair, and in
wolves many more basic questions
than the French affair at the end
of the last century. The America
First Committee, working through
members of the United States
Senate, has set out to frame the
entire motion picture industry
OF this country. To do so 1t is
resorting to a Senate subcom-
mittee hearing of doubtful legal
ity. 1t is going to put the entire
industry before a star-chamber
court IN which witnesses have no
benefit of counsel, for the in
dustry's attorneys may not cross
examine witnesses. And the
object of the whole business is to
bring about a reversal Of the
foreign policy of the United
States in the most critical mo-
ment OF American history, defeat
the Presidents pro-British policy
and change American policy into
one of collaboration with Hitler
on the model of Vichy.
Spread of Confusion Seen.
That is the first, last and most
important thing involved in the
case Of Senator Nye and associ-
ates against the motion picture
industry. Through this case
Senator Nye and associates in
tend to awaken an anti-Semitic
movement in the United States.
stop all attacks on Hitler and
Hitlerism on the ground that
criticism OF the Nazi regime is
war-mongering, spread public ap-
prehenSion and confusion regard
ing the Government of the United
States, reduce this Nation in
time Of crisis to paralysis, and
pave the way for a collabora-
zionist regime in America.
Now, this is not a Senate"
inquiry. 1t is an inquiry to deter
mine whether there should be a
Senate inquiry. A resolution, sug-
costing such an inquiry, was in
troduced on a dull day and re-
ferred to the Interstate Com
merce Commission, headed by
Senator Wheeler, whose views are
those of the America First Com
mlttee and Mr.. Lindbergh and fol-
low exactly the Nazi party line for
the United States.
Senator Wheeler then appoint
ed a subcommittee to investigate
whether there was any reason for
a hearing. This committee Is
headed by another America
Firster, Senator Nye. 1t now pro-
ceeds to conduct a press cam
paign against the motion picture
industry, and to subpoena at will
members of the industry, whom
it will then publicly interrogate
and smear under conditions that
have no relation whatsoever to
the proceedings of court Of law.
Nicely Timed Stunt"
1t is the greatest Nazi propa-
ganda stunt ever pulled off in the
United States. And 1t is nicely
timed. 1t comedies with an at
tack by the Vichy Ambassador in
America against freedom of criti-
cism in the American press.
M. - 4:>.. ,.i.4.,r. ir,d ,d,,rfrsr ir
Evening star., 1941-09-12
~ Members to See Game

Members of the boys department
Of the Central Young Mems Chris
tian Association were scheduled to
be guests of Clark Griffith. president
OF the Washington Senators, at the
baseball game today between Wash
ington and Cleveland at Griffith
Stadium. A large group Of boys
were to leave by bus from the "Y'
for the ball park.
Evening star., 1941-09-12
Civil Service Rights
Protected by Order

The Civil Service Commission to-
day pointed out that under an
executive order Just promulgated.
the civil service rights OF all Fed.
eral workers who 60 into the mill
tary service will be protected.
The Service Extension Act Of Au-
gust 18, it was pointed out, provides
for the mandatory restoration to
Federal civilian duty of any person
who has left the Federal service to
join the armed forces. The civil
service rights Of the "Ramspeck EN-
ployes" have been preserved by the
executive order Of April 23.
The current order extends ths
same protection to other Federal
positions.
Evening star., 1941-09-12

Atlantic.
Quick Aid to Russia Urged.
1t Is now more essential than
ever that the Russians be pro-
vided with war supplies through
the Middle East. Even if the
southern army is compelled to
fall back on the Caucasus, there
will be at least 100000 more men
who will have to be supplied with
war material. The Soviets have
done their part so far; they have
repelled single-handed the Ger
mans most terrific attacks.
If we want them to continue
the battle after they have lost not
only war material but some Of
their most important plants, we
will have to send them every
thing they need as quickly as
possible.
Evening star., 1941-09-12

OF a single pup
lie or private in
terest.
The author of
the suggestion is
George A. Hill.
jr., president OF
the Houston Oil
Co. of Houston,
Tex, and it has
b e en- formally
submitted not
only to eXecu-
tives in the oil
industry, but to
Ralph K. Davies,
Evening star., 1941-09-12

within the next
year. Prices of a
wide variety of
articles h av e
risen and are on
the rise. This is
the inevitable re-
suit of the vast
outpouring of
Federal fun d S
for defense.
Inherent in
this situation is
the grave dam
ger of imitation.
This has been
Evening star., 1941-09-12

w e " y VI i u
either oppose
Hitler W h
all our might
and main, or
we would end
up with Hit
lerisn in the
United States.
Now it is
b e gin n ing,
a n d begin
ming in a big
way. 1t be-
gins with an
A m eric n
Evening star., 1941-09-12

10 ask J0e GOV-
ernment to clear
up a question
that has been
puzzling millions
Of us for a long
time.
The Govern
ment must have
the answer to
my question, be-
cause it isn't an
a n sw er that
could be made
I'D on the SPUR
Of the moment.
Evening star., 1941-09-12
BY FRANK r. KENT.

The best authorities estimate that
the cost of living, already consider
ably increased in the last year, will
advance at least 10 per cent more
Evening star., 1941-09-12
On the Record
By DOROTHY THOMPSON.

Some months ago I wrote a
column to show that foreign
policy was inextricably linked
with domestic policy, and that
Evening star., 1941-09-12

HE opinions OF the r,ers this page their not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions are presented in The
all OF questions interest to its
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1941-09-12
Gas Supply
Solution
Offered
Plan for Government
To Ship Its Needs
By Roll Suggested
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

A way has been suggested where
by the gasoline shortage can be
ended without any increase in price
and without involving the sacrifice
Evening star., 1941-09-12

Development Of q nnsli and rs-
liable engine has popularized motor
tied bicycles In Great Britain re-
Gently.
Evening star., 1941-09-12
McLemore
Wants to Know Whut
Will Cuuse War
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

I'm just a taxpayer with a type.
writer.
On behalf of the taxpayers who
don't have typewriters I would like
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-27
Council Studies
City Pay Plan

Common Council today was
the so-calied ST. Paul
plan which provides for annual adj
justment of the wages of muHiei-
pal employees.
A report on the plan was sub
mitted by Budget Director David
V. Addy. who studied it in St.
Paul. He said be recommended
the system in principle, but that
some of the details need further
study.
The plan provides a base pay
for employees which is altered
each year in accordance with the
lluctuatlon in the cost of living,
as shown by United States Bureau
.Of Labor statistics figures. Salaries
in st. Paul are lower than in De-
troit, because the plan there does
not permit payment above set
maXimums.
Addy is preparing examples of
how The plan would have worked
had ii been operated IN Detroit
in past years.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-27
Tire Fence
"a
Linked to
Theft Ring

Sam Rimar, a., sentenced ir
1896 TO four TO five years for act.
ing as a fence" for tire thieves
today was under $1,000 bono
guaranteeing his appearance &c
fact a similar charge involving q
'theft-ring that robbed the Ford
Motor Company.
Police say Rimar, 4252 Tuxedo
avenue. organized q group of Ford
Iworkmen 10 steal small car parts
and machine parts - bearings
thermostats. buffing discs and
+UfUCtT1caf deVices-Whlch he pur-
chased
Arraigned yesterday before Re-
.corder'S Judge John p. Scallen
Rimar pleaded innocent TO the
charges and placed -beHd
pending examination October 8
Three other men, all Ford work.
men accused of taking part in the
Sneak-thief conspiracy, pleaded
guilty.
They are Stephen Durham, %, OF
4372 Allendale avenue, named by
police as go-between for Rimar
and other workmen. John Kelley,
%, of =6463 Regular avenue, and
Harold Carey. 3S. OF 4420 Com
monwealth avenue.
Three other men are sought and
eight others, also accused origi.
nally, have agreed to be states
witnesses. The ring reputedly stole
thousands of dollars worth of auto
parts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-27
EWald
Out of His
Union Job

Robert G. Ewald, former council
man convicted of taking a $1,000
bride for his vote in the Herman
Gardens housing pre- feet has e-
signed his 500 a week Job as
head OF the AFL Detroit brick
layers Union, IT was revealed to-
day in a probation report
Although Ewald and the union
had made no announcement the
report stated that Ewald had re-
signed July Is. nearly two months
after he WIS -Uusted- from council.
The report was introduced when
Ewald came up for sentence by
Judge w. Mckay Skillman. But
sentencing was postponed until
next Friday TO give Edward N.
Barnard. counsel for Ewald, time
to appeal for a new trial.
In the probation report, Ewald
admitted taking the $4,000. but in
sisted it was a campaign cOntribu-
ton. He declined to give any more
information and Barnard was
Iquoted as saying:
'Ewald would be insane to
tell about IL now"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-27
4 Drivers Jailed
By Traffic Judge

Seven men were jailed for
traffic offenses today by Traffic
Judge Thomas F. Maher.
Thomas Warzocha, So of 1856
Central avenue. was sentenced to
go days after his car hit safety
zone and crashed into a store, in
juring the proprietor, last August
81. Alfred A. Gignac. 1S, Of 1861
Harvey avenue, 80 days for leav-
ing the scene of an accident and
William w. Wenzel, q, of 1853
Springle avenue, 30 days for speed
ing. Sentenced for reckless driv-
ing, John Holman, 81. of Piss
Chestnut street.-the days; Clyde b.
Richardson. 81, of 3945 Fourteenth
street fetfr days; Wallace Fafferli5
80, of 1854 East Warren avenue,
10 days; and James O. Chene, %,
of 1865 Mary street. five days.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-27
Labor
Farley Called

-Senara1e- conferences have hnnH
set for Monday with representa-
tIveS Of the Builders Association
of Metropolitan Detroit and the
Carpenters District Council
lAELl. in an attempt te settle
their disputes. il was announced
today by Thomas J. Donahue,
ella iiff ,ffffttff of the state labor Ugdia-
ton board
The groups viii meet at the
same time with representatives OF
t ii4t, state board but IN different
rooms at the state board head
quarters. Edmund II. Huffman
executive vice president of 5the
builders association, threatens &c
stop all building in Wayne, Oak
land and Macomb counties unless
the union ceases intimidatine
non-union carpenters"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-27

The hullabal0o caused by thg
police discovery that her 14-year
old daughter had been married fol
TWO weeks 10 a I5-year-Oid boy
comes as. a complete surprise "a
Hrs Lulu Rilliker OF 5735 Harding
avpnue. Dearborn Township.
There amt nothing unusual
about IT," she said of the mar
rlacc. why. was married
when I was about the age of
Dorothy and nothing was said
about 10. 1 been married 80
wears.
Asked 90 explain why hcr daugh-
Ger chose 20 marry SO young. Mrs.
HiIiiker said
Wen. YOU cant buck nature,
YOU know"
The daughter, Dorothy and her
Young husband. Fred Hancock. Of
lt4l Merrill avenue. Lincoln Park,
are held in the juvenile detention
hpEHp.
Mrs. fiiiiikeT: her husband Earl
anG the parents of the young hus-
band, Mr. and Mrs Homer Han
cock. are accused Of contributing
90 the delinquency of minors in a
warrant recommended by PrOSecu-
tor William T.. Bowling.
The four parents accompanied
The two children 10 Bryan. O..
where the marriage was performed
On September 10 by Justice Of the
Peace l.. S. Hall.
Since the marriage the couple
has been living with the parents
of the groom and Mrs. Hancock
said today,
Il sure hope they can stay
married. She's a very sweet lit
tie girl and we like her "A lot. I
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-27
Woman, Man
Rob Gas Station

A woman bandit, who with a
male companion robbed gas sta
Ition of S55 today and escaped from
the pursuing owner of the station,
is sought By heldup squad detee-
ltives.
Gas station attendant, Harold
Ware, u, of 1929 Wanda avenue,
said the couple entered the station
at SeYen-Mile and John r. street
in car and the male bandit took
$50 from him at the point of a gun.
The station owner. Harry -Arnett.
ARRIVED as the bandit car drove
away and gave chase, but lost the
car in traffic. He obtained its
license number.
The woman was described by
str-e 5is beTTTE about 70 years old.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-27
Buck BURNS Up
NeUsoni Irritated at Legal Suit by ST. Louis Tailor
Says 1t Wouldn't Haze Happened Last Year

seventh place ST. Louis Browns,
in his latest start in the baseball
league.
Attorneys for the firm were
granted a petition to amend their
suit, previously filed, so that the
name Louis Norman Newsom'
would appear on the legal papers
instead of only Buck"
SERVING OF PAPERS
They then announced they would
serve the Tiger pitcher at Briggs
stadium. Asked if the papers had
been served at Briggs Stadium,
Buck took a full windup to hurl
Ia greatly embellished mo" which
barely missed the plates
Asked where he had been served,
he answered:
"None OF your business"
Jacob Mango e Son alleges that
Louis Norman Newsom bought
S5666 worth of men and women's
Clothing during April, May and
July of 1889 and still owes a S24.16
balance.
AS mentioned heretofore, New
som alleges he didn't and doesn't.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-27
Taylor S Visit
Extites London
InternatIonaI New. Service cnbl.

LONDON. Sept. 27.-Arrival of
President RooSevcltS special envoy
TO the Vatican, Myron c. Taylor,
i'm London today, gave rise to
.rumors that the American diplo-
mat might bear peace proposals
from Italy or the Vatican or a
message from Pope Plus XII.
A Vernm ent spokesman
quickly discouraged any such ru-
.mors. Generally. the opinion in
british government circles was
that Taylor had come TO London
to report to Prime Minister Chur-
chill on his recent talks with Pope
Plus.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-27
Nothing UmuSMal'
Mother of Bride, II, Uncoucsgped About Marriage;
Cant Understand Excitement

think morally that they should
stay married. too. After all, they
have been living as man and
Wife Ter two weeks. My husband
il perfectly willing 10 support
Fred and Dorothy until Fred
can get a permit 60 work when
he becomes rs i'm February"
Mrs Hancock said her son met
his wife al a roller skating rink siA
or eight months ago.
SKIPPED CLASSES
Tho marriage came TO the at
tcntion Of the authorities wher
Lincoln Park Truant officer VII.
liam Bwbaker went TO the Han.
cock home 20 discover why young
Hancock wasn't attending his
eighth grade classes at the Hoover
school in Lincoln Park.
HE doesn't have TO go 90
school," Mrs Hancock told Bru-
baker. He's married man."
II didn't think that they al
lowed rnurriet people in the
school," she explained today.
II thought they knew about It;
this Il small community and
things get around"
The bride was I'm the eighth
grade of the Oxford school in
Dearborn Township.
According TO Officer Brubaker
children under Is are not per-
mitted to marry under the laws
of Michigan whether the parents
permit the marriage or not He
said that he was worried about
the effect Of the marriage ON
other grammar school children in
Lincoln Park.
II don't want 14-year-old
married children i'm school"