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Evening star., 1941-11-13

In the other room West bid four
spades instead of doubling four
hearts. and four spades was made
in that room, should have gone on
to five hearts, expecting the pen
atty to be smaller than the value
of the spade game.
Where West doubled four hearts
that player opened trump. Dummy
played the jack and South overlook
with the queen in order to lead a
club West put up the king of clubs
and led another trump, South over
taking with the ace in order to
draw the last trump.
Then South led another club and
West wisely ducked instead of
taking the trick with the club ace.
Now it looked as though South
would have to lose a diamond and
a spade In addition to two clubs;
but he still had lots of fight left.
He returned a spade from the
dummy, East winning with the
queen. And East made the fatal
error of leading another spade in
stead of shifting to diamonds at
once South ruffed the second spade
and led out every one of the trumps,
discarding clubs from the dummy.
West had to save the club ace
together with his king and jack
of diamonds. Thereupon South led
his last club, forcing West TO lead
diamonds. South thus avoided the
loss of diamond trick, making
his doubled contract.
Yesterday you were Howard
Schenken's partner and. with both
sides vulnerable. you held:
Evening star., 1941-11-13
Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.

David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D.
Maier. Oswald Jacoby and Howard
Schenken, worlds leading team-of-
four. inventors of the system that
has beaten every other system in
existence
Evening star., 1941-11-13
EVENING STAR FEATURES.
THE EVENINGS HIGH LIGHTS.

Star Flashes-Laiest news with Bill CoyIe,
twice daily. WhAL, 1890 am, and AS pm
Evening star., 1941-11-13
Not This

Mother: That's a fine picture of
a house It's a better one than I
could draw"
Son. mo 1t isn't. You just al
ways say mine are good when they
aren't"
Evening star., 1941-11-13

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Evening star., 1941-11-13
POINTS FOR PARENTS
This

Praise Is OF pdlue only ,rhen 1t
is honestly gipen.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22
Heavy Nazi Loss
In Life Claimed
International News Service Cable

LONDON, April 22.-German
forces have progressed in Greece
at the cost of "sickening sacri-
fee of life" a Reuters (British)
dispatch from the British front
said today.
The Reuters correspondent,
Henry Stokes, said that in the
Larissa region German infantry
units attempted to ford a river
waist deep in water.
But he said that British Bren
guns moved down the Germans
and that the river was running
red before the Germans desisted."
Stokes reported likewise that
during the Nazi attack through
Serbia from Katerni German SOL
diers were moved down in
swathes."
The new British line in Greece,
he reported, consists of command
ing mountain positions. and he
said that British officers are con-
fident this line will hold.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22
.Bu|gars Mop Up
.ConqueredAre
International New. service Cable

internhtonhi news service thDie
SOFIA, Bulgaria, April %
Bulgarian troops today were re-
ported taking over the entire area
of Grecian Thrace between the
Struma and Martha rivers and the
Vardar Valley of Yugoslavia from
Prot and Skoplie to the Greek
border in order to relieve German
troops and complete the task of
mopping-up small bands of Yugo-
slav guerrilla troops.
At the same time, il was off
cially announced that Minister of
Commerce Zagaroff was sending
a commission into the occupied
areas to supervise feeding the in
habitants.
4 Other government ministries
have been charged with the tasks
of repairing roads. bridges and
railways and in fixing new finan-
cial exchange rates in the con-
quered territory.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22
CTS THERE no lar"
L sag you, ito protect

4 sag you, ito protect
the tar-paying guy?"
of course there is.
There are books of law
libraries Of law-and the guy can
go to law IL he likes.
But first he has to PAY the
taxes the government assesses
him.
And then he has to get himself
lawyers, and he has to pay the
lawyers, and he has to spend his
time on the suit to get his money
back.
So II he wins the suit, he has
spent most of the tax saving on
legal expenses.
And If he loses the suit, he has
TO pay both the tax and the ex-
penses.
Then maybe he has made some
mistake.
Maybe he has not meant to.
Maybe he was just not trying
TO pay more taxes than he had to.
There Is n very close legal DIFF
ference between avoiding taxation
in way which might he cOnsid-
cred legitimate and evading taxa
tion in a way which might be de-
clared criminal.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22
France Under Hitler:
Birth Rate DWindleS
Continued from Page One)

provided food for the $4,000 pris-
oners of this camp. Neither COM
planned of bad treatment from
their captors.
Serious observers can see only
one possibility of the release Of
any large number of prisoners. If
the time should come when the
Germans want Laval swept back
into power and with some popular
support, something he has lacked
entirely up to now. they might
liberate some thousands of prison.
.ers, taking care TO see that
great propaganda campaign gave
Laval all the credit.
UnderSuch conditions Laval's I'M
popularity might well change TO
popularity, because the depth of
feeling on the prisoner question is
something which cannot be over
estimated.
In the overwhelming JOY of re-
ceiving back their husbands, sons
and brothers, simple French fami-
lies might not be too analytical OF
the motives of the man who OBJ
tanned their liberation.
(Mr. Downs continues his
revelation of France under
German hegemOny i'm to-
mOrrow's Detroit Times.
Don't miss an instalment of
his sensational series.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22
ShipbuiIders' Union
Gusts Two as Reds

BALTIMORE. April 22.-(INS)
William Smith. National repre-
sentative of the Industrial Union
Of Marine and Shipbuilding Work
ers of America (CIOl. today an
nounced the expulsion of two
officers of local No. 81 at the
Maryland Dry Dock on the charge
of "communistic activities"
He named the two expelled as
Edward Dorland, president of Lo-
cal No. 81, who is alleged to have
been an assistant district leader
for the Communist Party in Phila-
delphia before coming to Balti-
more. and Carl Bradley, delegate
and financial secretary of Local
No. 81.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22

There Is nothing the matter
with the men.
They are good decent Americans
such as you like to know.
1t Is the method which is OBJ
jectionable.
The blame Is not to be put on
the tax departments, but on the
laundering, plundering. squander-
Ing misdeal government which the
people of America are wearing like
a hair shirt In expiration of their
sins.
All the outrage and abuse-all
the oppression and extOrtiOn-ls
duly and justly attributable to our
miserable misdeal.
People wonder what happened
to poor Joe Schenck.
OF course we cannot comment
on his case, as 1t is still before the
court.
But perhaps he took this
"every man a king" blather too
seriously.
Perhaps he did not realize that
when a citizen of this great, free
country gets before the misdeal
tax inquisition, every man Is a
deuce.
Or perhaps-since we do not
remedy the situation-every man
il inst n JACK
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22
Sam Huston S Son, 81,
Named Texas Senator

HOUSTON, Tex. April %
Gov. w. Lee O'Daniel today had
appointed 81 year - old Andrew
Jackson Houston - son of the
Texas revolutionary leader. Sam
Houston-to fill temporarily the
United States Senate seat of the
late Morris Sheppard.
The appointment will keep
Houston in the Senate until after
next June %, when Texans will
vote in a special election for a
permanent successor who will
serve the term which expires Jan.
3. 1913.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22
Report |stanbu|
In Siege State

BERLIN, April PA DNE
Official German news agency re-
port from Istanbul stated that the
Turkish city has been placed under
martial law through proclamation
of a state of siege
A curfew quires that al
civilians be off the streets by mid
night, the report stated.
CA British radio broadcast
stated that Franz Won Papen,
Nazi minister to Turkey. con-
ferred with Chancellor Hitler
Friday and Saturday at his
secret Balkan field headquarters.
presumably upon Germany's flu
ture moves in TurkeyD
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22
British
Push Fails
I'm Africa

BERLIN. April %. - Another
British attempt to pierce German
and Italian lines along the Libyan-
Egyptian border has failed, an
official German announcement
stated today.
British tanks. trucks, four Off
GERS and numerous soldiers were
captured, the statement said.
German advance troops yester-
day pushed east of the Sollun
area in Egypt following a number
of successful skirmishes, the COM
munique claimed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22
Defend Jim Crow Law

WASHINGTON. A pril o.
UNS) Acknowledgement of 10
Southern states today filed a brief
in the Supreme Court upholding
constitutionality of Jim Crow"
acts and urging the court 10 reject
the appeal of Representative
Mitchell CD of Illinois to outlaw
them
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22
jewelers. in Convention

JACKSON, April 22.-Five hum
bred retail jewelers. and watch
makers from all parts of the state
are in attendance here at the
twenty-sixth annual convention of
the Michigan Retail jewelers. As
ISOLATION.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22
Simp|ified Rates
For Gas Urged
ByLegisIdtors
Tine. s.an oorre.pondent

LANSING, April 22.-The legis-
lative investigation of Detroit gas
rates ended today with a recon-
mendation that consumers be
charged on a more simple basis
than the formula now used by the
Michigan Consolidated Gas Com
pany.
The three investigators who
signed the report did not find that
rates are excessive.
Their one complaint was that
the method Of charging for gas,
based on a system known as the
Detroit gas unit is confusing.
They proposed that a standard
measurement be set up by law TO
govern every gas utility IN the
state.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22
PENALTY CHARGE

They pointed out that the Mich.
igan Consolidated Gas Company
voluntarily has remedied one
former complaint by charging a
10 per cent penalty for overdue
bills. instead Of 10 cents per unit
The committee was composed OF
Rep. Frank Calvert (R) of High
land Park. Rep. James. Stanley tR)
of Kalamazoo and Rep. Edward
Walsh Cd of Detroit.
Meanwhile. attorneys for the
company told the Michigan Public
Service Commission that they are
attempting TO meet recent rate
cuts by seeking lower priced
natural gas at the Detroit gate
way.
The commission therefore post
poned further hearings until May
10, giving the company another
month TO explore this possibility.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22
Storm Crash Kills
Two Flying Cadets

BATON ROUGE, La, April %.
Barksdale- Field
agmy flying cadets were killed
when their plane crashed II miles
from Baton Rouge during a storm.
The dead were Albert Fisher.
"a, of Hammond, Ind and Elmer
Gibbons, 81, Of New York.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22
STARVED IN CAMPS
STILL SEES DEFEAT

A few prisoners escape. They
are invariably emaciated and all
have the same stories of loss of
weight due to bad or inadequate
food
/ met two old friends who re-
Gently had escaped from different
prison camps. One had lost 25
pounds and told of having TO work
from dawn to dark on a farm near
Berlin. The other had lost II
pounds. He had been in a camp
near Besancon in France and had
not had 10 work. He had lived on
nothing but biscuits and water for
the first four weeks of his cap
tivity.
Later the French population had
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22

]
He was acquitted in two suits
after he had spent two years oil
his well advanced life in court.
Shortly after that he died.
Most people would rather pay
the taxes.
NEOST business men do not know
IVA what taxes they ought to
pay-what taxes can he properly
avoided-and what cannot be le-
ultimately evaded.
They get the best lawyers and
accountants they can secure, and
the accountants go over the books,
and the lawyers interpret the law.
And the tax-paying guy says:
Are you sure you are
right?"
And the accountants and the
lawyers say:
"Oh, certainly"
And II they are right, the guy
is pretty well busted by the pay
ment perhaps, but is at liberty
and at ease UNTIL the collectors
come around some years later, and
open up the back years taxes
again.
And maybe assess some more
taxes, which the guy pays-if ne
is smart-and II he still has any
dough.
But II the accountants and the
lawyers are WRONG, then 1t Is
"just too BAD for the poor guy.
He is dragged up before the in
QUESTION.
He pays the added tax.
He pays the interest.
He pays the fine, and maybe he
faces a criminal charge, which will
either be dismissed for a heavy
penalty-Or he might 60 TO jail.
Gee! Folks, pay anything and
keep out of trouble.
or course there is nothing the
matter with the personnel In the
tax departments of the govern
ment.
1t is the system that Is critl-
ciZable.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22
Quakes Hit Brazil Area

BAHIA. Brazil. April %. -
1NS)-Slight earthquakes shook
the region around Rio Banco
during the last AZ hours, reports
reaching Bahia said today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22
IN THE NEWS
Continued from Page One)
gOur 1885 account"
And the bewildered guy says:

UOUr 1885 account.
And the bewildered guy says:
But you Went through
that account gears ago, and
| paid the tares and got q
quit claim from, the govern
ment."
Il kno1C," says the tdG
collector, "but the lac says
1Oc can reopen the account
If ace file q criminal
charge.
"NoU do yous Wdnt to
kindly gre your consent to
opening up these back
gears, or shall zoe file a
criminal charge? ?"
Holy Moses!" says the
poor guy. Don't file q
criminal charge.
my reputation Would be
ruined If I he'd q criminal
charge filed against me.
GO ahead and open mp
anything you like and take
anything you like"
So the tax collectors reoper
I9S5-or whatever year it may b,
and see II they can find som,
way of making the guy pay more
han he did, and then like a heed
ess surgeon, they sew up tho
wound and leave sponge or d
caIpel or something inside Sc
here will be reason for opening
he whole subject up again II they
ind it desirable.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22

THE great Andrew Mellon.
i called the finest secretary of
the treasury since Alexander
Hamilton-the man who reduced
taxation and cut billions of dollars
off the war debt of the United
States-the man who gave a price
less collection of art to the nation
he, you might have thought.
would have been beyond prosecu-
tlon by the government for tax
delinquency.
But no, he was prosecuted on n
criminal charge of tax evasion.
He was not convicted.
He had good lawyers.
They had advised him properly
in the matter of his tax returns.
The court decided that there
was nothing committed but q
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22

a day to the German army Of
occupation. He thought It would
, be over soon.
STILL SEES DEFEAT
He knows now that he was
wrong about the British powers
of resistance. But he still thinks
they will lose eventually.
Anyway, he has bet his life
on the decision he took last
Summer. So he will continue to
work desperately for a German
victory; not only because he
feels that would be the quickest
way to bring about release OF
our men. adjustment Of pay
ments and would be 10 the best
general interests OF France, but
also because his head depends
on a German victory.
He will bring France into the
war on the German side IL he
can"
From time to time small groups
of prisoners, usually not more
than 20 to 80. are released. On
these occasions the press in both
occupied and unoccupied France
are instructed to play up the news
in a big way.
In one of his shaky periods
Laval announced he was about tc
obtain the release Of all prisoners
who were fathers of four or more
children. The press played this w
hard. Few stopped to think that
there were very few men in the
army who were fathers of foul
and that prisoners of this cate
CORY could not number more thar
a few hundred at the very most.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-22

a day to the German army Of
occupation. He thought 1t would
, be over soon.
Evening star., 1941-09-24

out the entire fighting. the news
paper added.
The Red Army organ reported that
the defenders of Leningrad were
advancing TO new positions on the
front outside Lenlngrad over bat
tlefeld strevn with the corpSes OF
German soldiers.
The Soviet Information Bureau
at the same time told of fresh sue
ceSSeS in the counter-drive on the
central front. one aim of which is
to relieve pressure on Marshal
Semeon Budyenny's forces now re-
forming in the Ukraine for defense
of the industrial Donets River basin
Red Star said a day-long assault
on positions held by the 136th Ger
man Infantry Division ended with
recapture of point ID" on the ap-
proacheS to Leningrad
Tank Assaults Repulsed.
German counterattacks, all sup
ported by tanks. were repulsed and
large-scale Nazi attacks southeast
of Leningrad also failed, the be-
siegers being driven back to their
original positions after brief but
fierce encounters, Red Star said.
Naval flyers of Russia's Baltic
fleet. supporting land forces in the
battle of Leningrad, we're said to
have destroyed two German anti
aircraft batteries, IL anti-aircraft
machine guns. IA armored cars and
eight guns.
On the southern flank, Red Star
reported heavy fighting for point
Evening star., 1941-09-24
Neutrality Act
Continued From First Page.)

voy The State Department later
announced that % survivors of the
good condition.
The Pink Star, Mr. Roosevelt dis
closed. had been armed, and he said
| that other American-owned ships
operating under Panamanian regis
| try also had been given guns. The
Neutrality Act prohibits the arming
of ships flying the United States
flag, but the restriction does not
| apply to AmeriCan-owned ships op-
Grated under nom American registry.
The discussion then turned to the
arming of American flag vessels.
| One newsman cited recent state
ment by Secretary of Navy Knox
that insufficient guns were available.
Mr.. Roosevelt agreed this was true
| if the entire merchant marine were
| considered, but he indicated plainly
that he believed enough weapons
were on hand for the ships plying
| dangerous waters.
Early this session Rear Admiral
W. r. Furlong, then chief of naval
ordnance. told congressional COM
mittee that the Navy had a con-
siderable though Inadequate
number of 3-inch and other light
guns on the shelf, available for arm
| ing merchantmen.
Admiral Furlong estimated at the
time that possibly more than 1,60O
Evening star., 1941-09-24
Refrigerator
Sales Highest y
| Ever Recorded
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24.-The Ma
tional Electric Manufacturer AS
sociation reported today August
world sales of household refrig-
orators were 266,011 units, the high
est ever recorded in that month
compared with 202 208 units In
August of 1910.
World sales for the first eight
months of 1941 were 1894, ,l08 units
compared with 2,273,36 in the cor
responding part of 1910. Domestic
sales for the eight months were
nearly one-third greater than the
1910 period.
Evening star., 1941-09-24
Ward Says Auto Cut
Might Have Come
Without j. :. Order
Action Of Defense Aeencie:
Compared to Locking
StobIe After Theft
Bvthe Associated Press,

| By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Sept. 24-Alfred H
Ward, president of Wards Reports,
Inc, automotive industry analytical
publication, said in an address here
today that the curtailment of pas
senger car production ordered by
the defense agencies was much
like locking the barn door after
the horse has gone
Addressing the 9th annual con-
ference of the Robert Morris Asso-
ciates, Mr.. Ward reviewed the heavy
retail buying of motorcars during
the last year and indicated his
belief that curtailment might have
been a natural process without any
regulation by the Government.
obviously he said, we cannot
expect such a buying rate to con-
tinue, and my own opinion is that
we have definitely robbed the fu-
ture. I doubt if it will prove that
the curtailment was necessary"
MI. Ward said that despite the
curJailment. the passenger car and
truck industry will produce approx
imately 3,6l0000 vehicles during the
1912 model year. He reached this
figure. he said, by adding 100000
truck competitions and about 5000
units of production in Canada to
the quota of approximately 2,l50,000
cars set for the 1912 model year in
the United States.
He expressed the belief the arms
business assigned to the automobile
industry would more than make up
in dollar volume for automotive
losses. But he said. record
breaking dollar volume years do not
necessarily mean record breaking
profit years"
The outlook for commercial We
hicle makers, Mr. Ward said, was
one of the best In their history.
Factories have found it difficult to
keep production in pace with
mounting order banks" he said
"Large-scale construction projects
and the need of trucks for heavy
hauling have created a most ex-
traordinary demand, along with
virtual avalanche Of orders for mil
itary vehicles"
Evening star., 1941-09-24

vessels might have to be armed. If
Government-owned auxiliarles were
included with the merchantmen op-
Grating on such trade routes as the
United States might deem essential
to retain.
Sources informed on naval mat
ters said the ship arming problem
was more complicated than in World
War DAYS, when a 3-lnch naval rifle
could cope with submarine attack.
Now the aerial threat must be con-
sidered. and pom-pom batteries or
other anti-alrcraft protection Is es-
sential.
Three or FIVE inch guns might
serve the purpose OF antl-alrcraft
protection, they said, provided that
they have modernized mounts CIV
ing them both horizontal and a
high altitude field Of fire. A 3-inch
gun has a range between $4,000 and
10000 feet, and a 5-incher about
"a 900 feet-both ample for keeping
plane TOO high for accurate bomb
ing.
Gun Crews Necessary.
Another factor involved, they
pointed out, was the question of gun
crews. When the United States
armed her merchantmen before en-
tering the World War in 1917. the
Navy supplied the gun crews, but to-
day the Navy is hard put TO man the
warships OF the rapidly expanding
tWo-ocean fleet. Despite this fact,
Secretary Knox SAID sufficient gun
crews would be available, If neces-
sary.
President Roosevelt said he die
not know how many merchantmen
! Panama had armed, but he re-
marked that the United States coulc
extend lease lend aid in the form
of guns TO Panama and Other
! hemisphere nations wishing 10 arm
! their merchant marine.
One high-ranklng Senator, who
asked not to be quoted by name
| predicted that the sinking of the
| Pink Star would strengthen tht
! Presidents hand in any move ht
might make toward winning re-
vision or complete repeal Of the act