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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1941-02-28
InquisitiVe Sal

Hello, Folks:
The talk around town these days
consists of the competitive frater-
nifty basketball games and dances,
which seem to be holding the lime
light and the newcomer who was
in town, JOSEPHINE HARRELD,
the lovely pianist. Miss Harreld
was presented by the Phyllis
Wheatley House in a very fine
piano recital last week, at the
Y. w. c. A. and she really had a
number of the supposed to be So
phistieated young men jumping
hoops for some attention. A
delightful tea was given in her
honor at the Wheatley House by
the College WOmen's Club. e.
Among the guests were: MRS.
ARTHUR HOWARD, striking in a
twO-tOned blue and black outfit.
MRS. LOUIS P. MOORE and
daughter, ELIZABETH, who
seemed to be enjoying themselves.
MRS. MARJORIE CURRY
and MRS. HAZEL CURRY made
charming hOstesses at the tea ia
bic. >. What young Alpha brother
stared with mouth agape at the
guest of honor? JEANETTE
DORSEY'S Girls Quartette was
really good. You ought to hear
them swing out on 'RumbOOgie."
Well, that's enuf for that event.
Tidbits Hither and YOn:
Just heard that wedding bells
will not ring for BLAINE ASH
and MARGARET SMITH as
planned. =. Did you know: MYR-
TIE WORMLEY and BARBARA
MALLORY, who are taking pre-
spring vacations via Chicago to
Louisville, Kentucky, are having
one grand time? Are the gals
ever excited over the LIE Moyne
College debate team that will be in
town debating with the St. Thomas
College debate team at the Halle
@. Brown and the Wheatley House
next Sunday. Everywhere Sal
turns she hears some gal about
town asking, What do they look
like" "Are they intelligent ?"
"Are they handsome?" Well, Sal
has seen all their pictures and
knows what they look like, ETC.,
and so as not to get you too ex-
cited or disappoint you, she's go
ing to keep mum on the above
questions and let you be the judge
yourselves. =. Just heard HENRY
BOWMAN is a certain St. Paul
lassie's dream man. (Ain't it grand
to have a dream prince?) GOSH!
Believe 1t or Not:
| Miss X is an attractive young
miss about town who is known for
smooth complexion, charm, etc.
Well, the other night, after just
returning home from a dance, she
began her nightly beauty prepare
tons, ugly curriers' piled all over
her head and large fistful of white
cold cream smOOthed round her
mouth (yOu know, the cold weather
had sOrta taken the soft luster of
her lips away and, last, but not
least, an odd looking chin strap
was tied round her chin to pre-
vent the growth of double chin,
which she felt she was getting.
After dOlling herself in this garb
she ran downstairs to turn out the
lights and 10, and behold, she ran
smack into a night prowler, ran
sacking the buffet. When he turned
suddenly upon hearing her foot
steps and looked in her face he ae-
tually let out a howl and ran as
fast as he could out of the house.
This young lady who related this
story to Sal swears that it is the
truth and nothing but the truth.
You can take it or leave it.
Amt 1t the Truth?
A mother can call, "Joey, it's
time to get up" for two or three
hours without making any impress
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Jimmy Lunceford is coming
again to Eagles Hall, Minneapolis,
Thursday, March 20. Advance
tickets 75c.-Advt.
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Credjafawns VS.. SOcialites Bas-
'ketball Dance at Wheatley Satur-
day, March 8.-advt.
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Ministerial Quiz Contest, st.
James Church, March Is. Cash
Prizes.-Advt.
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Alpha Kappa Alpha Dance,
March IA, Wheatley House, Down
Beats Orchestra. Admission %
cents.-Advt.
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Wheatley VS.. Omega, Saturday,
March l, Basketball Dance.-advt.
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For rent to settled couple, A rooms
on first floor and 2 furnished
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Bridgeport 1896.
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Keep of date March IL. Whist
and Checker TOurnament.-Advt.
Evening star., 1941-06-23

must be a qualified aviation man, is
given full authority over both the
combat and service units. He is
subordinate only to the chief Of stan,
the Assistant Secretary of War for
Air and the Secretary of War. This
makes for greatly increased auton-
omy for the air force, without de-
priving it of the ordnance, quarter
master and other services of the
Regular Army establishment.
This reorganization may not sat-
isfy many of the ardent advocates Of
the fully detached air force de-
manded by the late Brigadier Gen.
eral william Mitchell and other
aviation "progressives," but it seems
to achieve at least some of the OBJ
jectives sought by that group. The
War Department undoubtedly will be
given ample opportunity to "sell" It's
compromise arrangement to Congress
If and when hearings are held on
pending proposals for a separate air
force. Certainly the new setup, as
outlined by the War Department.,
accords to air power the added
prestige which todsy's aerial warfare
has shown it deserves.
Evening star., 1941-06-23
A Forward Step

Consolidation of the General Head
quarters Air Force and the Army Air
Corps into the "Army Air Forces"
under Joint command of the deputy
chief of staff for air, is an intelli-
gent step toward the goal of for
midable American army of the skies,
modernized in accord with the latest
known developments in aerial war
fare. While this reorganization Is
short of the 1ong-debated pro-
posals for a completely independent
air force, it is claimed by the War
Department that it embodies the
best points of the two air setups
most frequently cited by proponents
of a separate corps-Britain's effec-
tive Royal Air Force and Germany's
powerful LuftWaffe.
AS the War Department indicated
in it's announcement, Britain started
out with a wholly independent air
force, but found through experience
that it was advisable to modify its
organizational plan so as to give the
navy its own air arm and to provide
a special coastal command, in addi-
ton. Even so, there have been allie
cations in high British quarters that
the R. A. F., because of its separate
status, failed to cooperate properly
with the army and navy in the op-
erations in Greece and Crete. And,
while the Luftwaffe technically is
autonomous, it is allowed little or no
independence of judgment or action
under the rigid central control sys-
tenn of the Nazi board of strategy.
Under the former Army air organ
ization, there were two distinct
branches-the G. H. @. Air Force, or
combat arm, and the Air Corps
proper, charged with training pro-
curement and sundry service duties.
The two branches were rather loosely
tied together through liaison officer,
the deputy chief of staff for air,
whose function was chiefly that of a
co-ordinator. Under the new plan,
the deputy chief Of staff for air, who
Evening star., 1941-06-23
THIS AND THAT
By Charles z. Trdce1Dell.

AS far as we know, this is the only
species which deliberately consumes bees.
The first batch Of eggs of the scarlet
tanager are usually laid, at least in this
vicinity, during the last week of May
On the rare occasions the eggs of the
summer tanager have been found, 1t has
been early in June.
In our family, the scarlet tanager Is
known as the Sunday afternoon bird, for
it has never been seen except then.
~ ~
Still keeping to the subject of bees, the
kingbird is often known as the bee
martin.
This is the fycatcher which chases
hawks, even alighting on their backs and
pecking them repeatedly.
Since this bird is only inches long,
this is feat, indeed.
Reports of this have come in to this
column recently from nearby Maryland
AS far as We can find, the kingbird
rarely eats bees. Investigation by the
Biological Survey shows that the king
birds food is IS per cent insects, most of
them of harmful nature.
An examination of 634 kingbird stom-
achs showed only 81 bees in % stomachs,
and of these 81 were drones.
There can be no doubt that MANY a
bird gulps down bees, in flight, but does
not do so purposely, and perhaps at times
rather wishes it hadn't!
This, however, does not mean that the
birds can be classed as bee eaters.
y *
The unusual thing about the scarlet
tanager is the extremely vivid and diff
ferent scarlet.
1t is much brighter red than the
scarlet of the cardinal, the redbird, and
has an electrical something to it which
no cardinal ever had.
The contrast, too, between the bright
body and the glossy black wings and
tail, is startling.
Seeing this bird for the first time
among green leaves is a real experience,
genuine red letter day" in any per-
sons bird watching.
And this, too, no matter how expert
enced or interested.
Aside from his color, the tanager is a
rather tiresome bird, not in the same
class with our cardinal.
The female scarlet tanager is a dull
ollve-green, dusky brown sort of crea-
ture, so unlike her vivid partner that
few persons unacquainted with the fam
lily would suspect their relationship. This
is true OF many bird families. The indigo
bunting, for instance, is a true wonder
but his wife is plain and colorless little
| thing.
Tanagers are found from Canada
south through Mexico and Central Amer
lea to Argentina, Bolivia and Peru. thus
uniting in one vivid color the whole
Western Hemisphere.
Evening star., 1941-06-23
Gates

Here once ne Spuno upon these
Sdgging bars,
My pink Sunbonnet caught by
crumpled strings.
We matched the sunset pale, the
first bright stars
Climb up the Dest, Dhile ctrclino
SDdllol0 1UingS
St0ooped lou across the homeUurd
path. Along
A paling fence another gate; the
gears
Had raised our stature, your bropn
hands tUere strong
To lift the latch :. With fragrant
lilac spears
You 1Ooue a 1Ureath for my gold hair,
and Stilled
My 1Oords of quick protest Just
yesterday
A garden gate curbed baby feet,
unSkilled
Where Sloping fields stretched s,peet
NTH cloUer hay.
And not0 our sons bare feet scuf
this same lane
Keeping his trySt wtth sun and
summer rain.
IVY L1NnsLEY.
Evening star., 1941-06-23
Wronq Number

Among petty annoyances of life is
a sinister invention of the late Alex
ander Graham Bell-the wrong num-
ber. The latest victim of it has
been no less a parsonage than Uncle
Sam himself. At Fort Bragg, N. c.,
a draftee, engaged in transmitting
artillery fire orders for a 75-mm.
battery, received over the wire the
words Range, 4000." This inevita-
bly, reminded him of home, sweet
home, where a bill from the tele-
phone company for his number,
Range 1892, awaited him. How he
would like to be there! He sighed,
his thoughts straying from war to
peace. Range 1892" he relayed,
absent-mindedly.
AS result, the battery had the
range on a home and silo where
the COWS and the turkey hens played,
just 1892 yards in front of the guns.
When they barked, the home was
still there, but not the silo, one cow
and three turkeys. 1t happened that
the farmers number was not up.
He rallied, rounded up battery of
lawyers, and is now engaged in
launching a vigorous counterattack
against the Government IN Federal
court.
Evening star., 1941-06-23
A Kew Post

William H. Davis, succeeding Clar-
ence A. DykStra as chairman of the
National Defense Mediation Board,
takes over a post that is and will
continue to be of first Importance in
this critical period of re-armament.
Happily, the record indicates that he
Is well equipped for the job.
Experience gained by Mr.. Davis as
chairman of the New York Mediation
Board has stood him in good stead
during his service on the national
agency as first assistant to Mr..
Dykstra. Handling such dlff1cult
controversies as those involved In
the Allis- Chalmers, General Motors
and soft coal disputes, he has won
Evening star., 1941-06-23
adams MILL ROAD.

Dear Sir.
For several days have been seeing q
beautiful red bird in our mulberry tree.
HE is smaller than cardinal and has
black wings. The color is a pinkish scar
let. He evidently has a nest near.
IT saw him several times today. Could
1t be scarlet tanager? Are they not rare
in this vicinity, and do they sing?
Many other birds come for the null
berries when the catbirds let them. I
have seen a greater variety this spring
than usual.
1T find seed ticks in the Zoo park Just
opposite for the first time since I have
lived here. I made their acquaintance
in Florida. I suppose the long dry spell
gave them chance.
II read your column with interest, as
I am always fascinated with the great
out Ct doors.
Yours very truly, M. L."
The scarlet tanager is regarded as a
common summer resident here, but Ger
tainly it is not common in the sense that
the catbird is common.
An observer will see scores of catbirds
to one tanager.
Usually the glimpse Of the bright red
bird with its black wings and tail is
merely that-a glimpse, 1eeting sight,
as the bird flies into the branches of a
tree.
In most cases, the tanager flies high,
and perches high.
II you happen to look up into a tree
this summer, and see a very bright
splotch of red high up, the chances are
that it is tanager.
The black wings make it sure.
The summer tanager is the other tan
ager in this vicinity. n is regarded as
a very rare summer resident. The sum-
mer tanager Is red all over, having no
black on it.
The real scarlet tanager goes, in va
rious parts Of the country, by such names
as black-winged redbird. firebird Can
ada tanager, pocket bird and scarlet
sparrow.
The summer tanager is variously called
redbird, summer redbird, smooth headed
redbird and bee bird.
Here we have again the confusion
which arises out of popular names No
wonder ornithologists stick to their Latin
names.
Summer redbird is fair enough des-
ignation, to distinguish this tanager from
the cardinal, which may be regarded as
the winter redbird.
Smooth-headed redbird referes to the
| tanager's lack of a crest
Bee bird, on the other hand, demands
bit of explanation.
The summer tanager likes to eat honey
bees.
Evening star., 1941-06-23

the confidence Of both employers
and employees.
This reputation as a skillful and
impartial mediator will be an inval-
liable asset when he succeeds to the
Craftsmanship on July /. The prob
lem of labor relations in defense
plants still is vexatious one, and it
can be brought to satisfactory con-
clusion only by the maintenance of
mediation machinery which merits
the confidence of both labor and en-
ployers. 1t may be doubted whether
the President, in selecting a new
chairman of the Mediation Board,
could have chosen a better man than
Mr.. Davis, or one more likely to
enlist the cooperation of employers
and employees, which is the prime
requisite of successful mediation.
Evening star., 1941-06-23
Suggests July Fourth Broadcast
To Demonstrate National Unity.
San Francisco.

To the Editor OF The Star:
Subversive elements in our midst are
bending every effort to make the word
united" in the name United States of
America read united"
On the Fourth of July, 1776, the people
living in the colonies made declaration
of unity and fought for the right to live
and worship according to the dictates of
their hearts. Out of this struggle was
born the United States of America.
In this time of trial that our Govern
ment is passing through, it is thought
fitting and proper that new declara-
tion of unity be set forth to keep the
word united still spelled UNITED
and not UNIFIED.
1t therefore is suggested that the peo-
pie of the United States be afforded a
chance to express their declaration anew
In a radio broadcast from the grounds
Of the Washington Monument on July
1, 1941. RICHARD A. FOX.
Evening star., 1941-06-23
Answers Question About Author
OF Poem Applied to Lou Gehrig.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Through the thoughtfulness of my
friend, John L. Leary, who is one of your
distinguished Washington correspond
ents, have clipping from The Star of
June 6, headed Poem by Unknown
Writer Quoted in Memory of Lou Gehrig"
and comprising verse read by the Rev.
DR.. Frederick Brown Harris at Foundry
Church, which constitutes the body of a
letter written to The Star by Mrs Louis
A. Meyer, who says she does not know
the name of the author.
Mr.. Leary suggested that I drop a line
to you and identify the author of the
verse. This am happy to do. The lines
in question were written by William F.
Kirk, columnist, who died during the
latter part of the first decade of this
century. I had a slight acquaintance
with him when I was a cub on the Los
Angeles Examiner say slight because
Mr.. Kirk was at his best and I was a
fledgling newspaperman.
Mr.. Kirk died while was working on
the Examiner and I clipped the verse
from the obituary. My recollection is
that the lines were written by him the
day before his death. Therein, of course,
parallel with Lou Gehrig and also with
Tad and know there are others in the
newspaper profession who worked until
almost the last minute-game UP to the
point that $50" was called.
Mr.. Kinks lines are to be found in an
anthology which I compiled for news
papermen whom I accompanied to San
Francisco from Chicago on the first run
of the Exposition Flyer. I took them
from my press scrapbook, which I have
kept for more than 30 years.
THOMAS P. BROWN.
San Francisco.
Evening star., 1941-06-23

Proposes Tag
To Quiet Horns.
To the Editor Of The Star:
Maybe-just maybe-this might help
to lessen one part of our noise evil: A
sticker or tag fixed to the rear end Of
the car reading, please lay on your
horn," or something similar.
The driver behind you who was about
to honk might reconsider.
There probably would be police OBJ
lection to a rear window sticker, but a
autographed cardboard or tin tag could
be clipped on above the license plate
holder. OSCAR q. lDEN.
Evening star., 1941-06-23

ton each nations immunity from armed
depredations would be as lasting as a
judgment in rem, than which nothing
is so final except death. If the United
States were to fail now America might
never again possess the power, the prayer
and the privilege to redeem the nations
and spell the earth's future.
EDWARD CONN.
Evening star., 1941-06-23
"Divide and Conouer"

Nothing in the past record of Adolf
Hitlers capacity for faithlessness so
pointedly illustrates the effectiveness
of his policy of divide and conquer"
as the current Nazi assault on Soviet
| Russia.
The Russo-German non -aggres-
sion pact was concluded in late Au-
gust of 1899, just few days before
the Reich's armies swarmed into
Poland. Hitler, announcing the be-
ginning of hostilities, boasted that
the pact with Russia, for which
nation he then vowed eternal
friendship" had safeguarded his
rear. And with what results?
Poland was quickly destroyed. A
few territorial crumbs were handed
to the shadowy figure in the Kremlin,
and Stain, plainly fearful for the
future, grabbed some more for him.
self along the Baltic coast to pro-
tect his flank against the coming
assault that he must have antici-
pated, even at that early date.
But these were matters of small
concern to Hitler in the fall of 1889,
for he was left free to turn west
ward toward France, Belgium and
Holland. In the larger sense, be-
cause of the immobilization of
quavering Russia, these nations, too,
were attacked in detail and beaten
with relative ease. Had Stain lived
up to his treaty obligations with
France despite the French detection
in the case of Czecho-Slovakia, the
whole course of the war might have
been changed. Possibly Hitler would
not have attacked at all; certainly
he would not have won such an easy
victory.
All that, however, is water over
the dam. Stain elected to take the
road of appeasement, and now his
turn has come. AS has been the
case with all others who have sought
to appease the Fuehrer, Stain at last
must fight, and, in the relative sense,
he must fight alone.
For the people of the United States,
this latest turn-about once again
brings into sharp relief an object
lesson which we will ignore at our
peril. The precise reasons for
Hitler's cynical decision to forget his
eternal friendship" for the Soviets
are obscure. And they matter little.
For us, it should be enough that he
is moving to crush Russia and take
over the vast resources OF that
sprawling nation before our aid to
Britain can assume decisive propor-
tions. Once again he is trying to
exploit the time factor, hoping again
to divide and conquer.
From his point of view, Hitler
spoke truthfully when he said that it
would be crime against Germany
to delay the attack on Russia. To
have waited would have been to give
his opponents the advantage Of
time. And in the same sense it will
be crime against democracy if we
should permit our utter distaste for
communism to slow down or in any
way interfere with the continuance
of maximum aid to Britain.
1t may we'll be, as Winston
Churchill said, that the climactic
hour of the war has struck. And
the future of the civilized world may
depend upon our determination not
to surrender the initiative, as the
beaten nations have done.
Evening star., 1941-06-23
Huskin's Answers
To Questions
By Frederic J. HdSktn.


A reader can get the ans,Uer to any
question OF fact by t0rittng The Epe-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. HdSkin, director, Washington,
D.. C. Please incloSe stamp for reply.
@. In what months do the most acci-
dents occur?-N. l.. G.
A. July is the peak month Of the year
for accidents. About 370 deaths day
are probable in this month, unless the
accident rate is reduced. The chief
causes in order of Importance are auto
mobile accidents, falls. drownings and
burns.
@. How far can a dynamite explosion
be hesrd?-M. G. r.
A. In December, 1888, dynamite ex-
plosicn set off on the Arctic island of
Nova Zembla was detected at Berlin,
more than 1000 miles away.
c. Who was the first shoemaker In the
United SUates?-T. L. K
A. Shoemaking as a business was In
troduced into America in 1929, when
Thomas Beard, shoemaker, arrived
SOllll dCG W Lldhc SIlOtS IOI I1l6
Pilgrim colony.
@. How large is Yosemite National
Park?-E. S. H.
A. The total area Of the park is 1,l76
square miles-about the size of Rhode
Island.
@, What is cafe au lait?-M. C. H.
A Cafe au lait consists of hot milk
and strong coffee in about equal pro-
portions.
@. How many copies of Gone With
the Wind" have been sold?-L. T. H.
A. Since its publication the book has
sold nearly 100000 copies and earned
more than s1,OCO,OOO for its author.
@. viii a draftee be entitled to mill
tary preference in civil service exami-
nation?-E. L. G,
A. Men in the selective service will
receive five points preference on future
civil service examinations when they
have been released from the service with
an honorable discharge.
Evening star., 1941-06-23
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