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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-12

A S WE have said before, we
are no great shakes as a
military expert. even of the arm
chair variety, but we are
enough of one to know that
when anybody talks of this
country not sending troops out
of the Western Hemisphere in
the event we get in the war, it
is Just plumb foolishness.
And we defy you to find any
union expert or army officer
who will tell you any different.
1t would be A dopey way OF
doing if we did not send troops
wherever we are making war.
We fear that some people in
the United States are laboring
under the impression that you
can make war by just skirtIng
the edges of it and not getting
hurt.
They seem to think that if
we get in this war, our soldiers
will merely stand guard here
while the navy takes care of the
situations that may develop
offShore. They seem to think
that we can get by without any
considerable part of our land
fighting forces becoming direct
ly involved, unless this country
is invaded.
DUT THE truth of the matter
- is that probably some time,
some place, we will have to
fight much of this war on land.
and it is not likely that it will
be on United States land if this
nation pursues its usual mill
tary and naval policy in war of
not waiting for the enemy TO
come to us, but TO 60 to the
enemy.
Which in this case would be
Europe and Africa and perhaps
the Orient.
We do not believe a major
war can be won on the sea
alone. or in the air alone, or on
the sea and in the air together.
To win war you must finally
come to grips with the enemy
on the land and destroy or cap
ture his armies and invest his
cities.
And the way to do this IS
with infantry and artillery and
tanks and the other agencies OF
land warfare. In that respect.
the pattern of war has not
changed.
WHEREFORE. if VIC get in the
i war we will undoubtedly
send troops to any scene of ac-
ton to which il is possible to
send them. Again we defy you
to find any union expert or
army officer, or any navy Off
Ger, either. for that matter,
who will tell you any different.
It is an elemental military
proposition.
You cannot win wars stand
ing still. You win them by
moving on the other fellow as
quickly as you can.
We often hear it said that il
would be impossible for us to
land troops anywhere in Eu-
rope. This may be quite true.
In any event, we will not under
take to debate it here.
But when this nation goes TO
war, it is often the impossible
that our military master minds
attemp to achieve. 1t is exactly
the achievement of the mill
tariiy impossible that has eStab-
liShed the United States as
great in warfare.
We will most certainly send
troops 10 the Orient If we fight
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-12
| g If ers TO
The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR;
I THINK John Hollands state
i ment. IF Britain wins, her
colonials will remain enslaved,'
most ill-advised.
| was born and reared in Cam
ada, and all my family and my
husbands family still reside
there. A number of them speak
no English, but when it comes
TO loyalty they are British to
their finger tips.
Surely. such esteem and 10y
atty were not won to England
through her enSlaving her colo
mails. If Mr.. Holland would de-
vote a little time to the study
of history, his sense of justice
would benefit a great deal
And having a cotton belt"
and a dust bowl right here in
this most wonderful country of
ours, one can realize that, even
in this homeland of freedom,
some of us can be enslaved
through social problems and geo.
graphical accidents!
Why ask of England to create
for her colonies the Utopia we
have not yet attained for our
selves?
(MRS.) LEONE DUDE,
1870 EraauIaxuu ayan,,o
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-12
Connolly Answers

la Monastery of Santa Maria
dele Grazie. Milan; (b) Ores
den: tc) Borghese Gallery.
Rome
Pa It's raining violets": (b)
! never hope TO see one: tc)
At some disputed barricade."
3-(al All: tb) Render; (c)
Experience.
la Lorelei; (b) Aphrodite;
tc) Diana.
5-(a) o come, all ye faithful;
(b) Hail Mary; (cD So be IL.
6-(a) Handel; (b) Beethoven;
(c) Leoncavallo
la Carmen; (b) Faust;
(c) Madame Butterfly
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-12
% YEARS AGO TODAY
Nav II. 1916

Germa ans attack British
trenches near Hulluch. but are
repulsed with great loss of life.
Russians claim victories over
Germans in the Seiburg sector.
Berlin says the Austrian liner
Dubrovnik was torpedoed with
out warning by a British SUBJ
marine in the Adriatic.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-12
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

IT is futile, of course, to pro-
pose that the statue of Huey
Long. recently unveiled in the
Capitol in Washington. be hurled
down and smashed in solemn
public ceremonies. as il should be.
But every conscientious citi-
zen who recalls the facts of
Huey's evil career will regret
that the Senate lacked the
character and citizenship to
prevent the dedication of this
insult TO the. whole people of
the United States and to the
Senate in particular.
A small delegation of senator's
attended the rites. including the
two present members from
Louisiana.
John II. Overton was elected
by Huey's crooked machine by
process which Senate COM
mittee denounced as fraud and a
vicious and abhorrent political
practice.
No senator followed up the
report with an insistent demand
for Overton's removal.
THE other Louisiana senator
L who attended on that recent
day when Huey Long in stone
was set up TO leer at The body
which quailed before him was
Allen J. Ellender.
He was political straw-boss
far the dictator wlaa- tin the
lower House of the Legislature
during Huey's special sessions
which wrote away the freedom
of Louisianas people and ex-
ecuted orders from Huey in
plain sight of all present.
He was party TO every legiS-
lative and political move of the
Long dictatorship.
Senator Connally of Texas.
the chairman of the investigat-
ing committee. said experts in
machine politics elsewhere could
take lessons in Louisiana.
INCIDENTALLY. although
L Senator Connally's words
were bold in that report and in
his oral comments on the floor.
he did not act on his discoveries
or his principles.
He ducked the wrath Of Huey
Long by presenting the facts
and saying:
They are here, and n any
body wants to file n resolution
TO Gust any senator those facts
are available for that action"
Huey Long had sound truck
in those days and a way with
the rabble, and he did not re-
Spect state lines.
There has been too much
sentimentalism about Huey. and
too many public men and writers
have condoned his brutal con-
quest of a state on the ground
that he was clever and. when
il pleased him. a wag. That only
made him the more dangerous.
The statue of this dictator
will threaten the liberties of all
the American people as long as
il is allowed to stand, for il is
proof that the Senate was not
on guard over those liberties and
was afraid to fight their enemy
when Huey was alive, and TO
this day prefers the easier way
of dealing with his memory.
He stands in marble sneering
at a body which flinched before
a dictator.
Copyrighted By United Features synd.. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-12
EMMA LOLA GABLE,
1882 Dexter boulevard.
TO THE EDITOR:

7 WAS always under the i'm
L preston that one of the most
important liberties the Ameri-
can people were able 10 enjoy
was the freedom of speech-the
freedom to present ones view
point on any subject openly and
without fear.
Then why has such a great
man as Colonel Lindbergh been
so shabbily treated
NINA SLOBEY,
5143 Lawndale avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-12
HENRY DELONEY.
8242 FOrestlawn avenue.
TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE EDITOR:
A MEXICAN democracy means
"A that every individual has a
right TO express his opinion,
whether right or wrong. One
cannot be called a pro-Nazi or a
Hitherto because he desires TO
keep his nation and country
out of war,
If ever the right of free
speech is denied honest Ameri-
can citizens. because a certain
group does not favor their view
points, then our democracy is
lost forever and treasured lib
erty gone.
EMMA LOLA GABLE,
1882 Dexter boulevard.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-12
(MRS.) LEONE DUDE,
1890 Greenlawn avenue.
TO THE EDITOR.

~ HE EDllOR:
IF COL. CHARLES A. LIND
L BERGH is a Copperhead. he
is at least an American kind,
and we prefer him to the py-
thons of the Old World or asps
Of Europe.
Eighty per cent of us in these
United States must also be Cop
perheads because we feel like he
does.
We will defend the United
States to the last Copperhead,
but will not sacrifice a Copper
head to preserve the European
or British python.
We also know about the
status quo world economics.
world trade exports and imports
that the British pythons try to
make us believe that we hang
on TO the British tail to save.
This we do not believe.
We believe we can hang on to
our own traditions and stand on
our own feet.
HENRY nEI ONEX
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-12

Premier Reynaud announced
that German parachutists wear
ing Allied or civilian clothes will
be shot Immediately as spies.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-12
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
Nav ~. 1870

Germans assert they have
crossed Holland and have pushed
as far as the North Sea; great
battle draws near as Allied
forces pour in TO stop drive.
French people demand "repris-
ais" as Germans continue TO
drop bombs daily on their cities.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-12
DETROIT
AY IL, Iq4I
Flags Senate
Statue for
Huey Long
M an in Marble Sneers
at Lawmakers, Claim

The opinions expressed by
Westbyook Pesler are his own
and not neeessoriiy those Of The
Detroit Timss.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-12
0ER6lka FINES

Published every Week Day Evening and
Sunday Morning by The Times Publishing
at 1225 Times Square. Detroit.
Mich.
at Detroit, Mich, as second-Clsss
Mail Matter.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-12

lady found $500 Fifth avenue and turne
She said she could the money.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-07

1--WE look over the map of Michigan with its 81 counties
and try TO guess where this game will be worked next
Many prudent housewife who would sign her
to paper buy anything that she doesn't know
about forgets find where her cleaner is
being taken TO be repaired So the modern counterpart
Johnny Kid Norton who worked household goods
bunco back in the 1SS0s is doing very well indeed in his
particular racket
The who to inspect the cleaner.
according to Commissioner Olander looking young
fellow who tells the housewife that he has discovered
bearing missing and that in another week the machine
would be worthless 1t would least SIS to rebuild
the motor. His company, however gives complete
conditioning jobncluding brand bearing-for $3.50.
And he would have il back, good new, in two days
80 he carries At the bring
II back days" the Commissioner reveals THE
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-07

- RESSED up in modern clothes the old swindles which
i j fooled grandparents claiming more victims
- today than they did back in the unsophisticated
What more according TO Commissioner Oscar O.
Oander Of the Michigan Police, the tmeworn
off and with twists stitched
over the holes by shrewd racketeers blking
people who think they're much too smart to
fall such crooked schemes.
Commissioner Oander and his alert department have
made an intensive study confidence games old and new,
in a campaign hold them in check in their own State
concluded that of the main reasons that the
ourshes today is because so few people regard
him a matter Of personal concern.
They think of themselves in the role of possible
victims" he says There be suckers enough TO keep
such syvndes common. but they would never buy gold
brick nor invest a money machine or be trapped with
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-07
What The Dem0CraCiesD Did =
e e. For he NaZi B|ifZkrieQ = ==

TO many American Army officers,
the blltzkrieg is largely foreign in
name only The spectacular sue
ccss Of parachute troops in the invasion
OF the Lowlands in 1910, and again in
the Battle for Crete, revealed what
many persons considered the new tech
niQuc Of a vertical development"
But the German paratroop blitzkrieg
was a direct steal from the Russians
who previously had lifted the idea
from the United States Army. Back
when new concepts Of warfare de-
veloped by Americans were left want.
ing for lack of Congressional largess
the feasibility of sending machine guns
and crews into battle from high above
the ground troops was being proved by
Uncle Sam at Kelly, Field, Texas. In
1928, for instance, six parachutists
were dropped from a Martin bomber
along with a machine gun The crew
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-07

age of cigarettes presenting a crisp $50 bill He
pockets his change opens the package makes remark
about the weather to the merchant and then leaves.
Five minutes later elderly dashes into the
store and says crsply: Il tracing young about
p old wearing gray hat and gray top-coa Was
he in this store in the last 10 minutes ?"
He fps back his coat TO show badge and mutters
something about being federal man."
The merchant recalls that such just in the
store The elderly eXcedy asks whether the suspect
left $40 bill with the number "so-and-so"
Sure enough the merchant that the bill has that
very number. The other takes it and looks il.
It's counterfeit" he mutters grimly Hes flooding the
town with them"
He then starts out of the store with the bill saying
that has been thrown around the block he'll be
back with the counterfeiter few minutes To take
report the merchant, Of will have be a
witness
He doesn't come back He isn't an officer and the bill
The two work this trick maybe dozen times before
the evening papers expose it. Then they'll
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-07

land National Air Races in the early
l930's. The bomb-releasing mechanism
for military planes is likewise an
American invention.
In the early 193O's the Army per-
fected a modern system of teamwork
between aerial and mechanical ground
forccs-but an abbreviated budget
forced the Army TO pigeon-hole any
grandiose plans. Testimony before a
Congressional Committee recently dis
closed, however, that blitzkrieg tactics
have been taught in the United states
Army Command and General staff
School since 1932-yet actual ma
neuvers. coordinating ground and air
forces were hampered by lack of equip
ment.
The modern tank and other track
type vehicles were utilized in heavy
duty American tractors several years
before the World War broke out Many
ed constructing armored tractors for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-07

the farmers property without his knowledge and dis
covered fortune undeveloped Either had
an oil well or mine on it. Even if the land only
marsh the glib had pat spiel TO convince the
farmer that this mud clay the kind that well
known ceramics manufacturer seeking to make
pcnsve pottery He'd get the farmer dizzy with visions
of unexpected wealth, offer make the sale to the
weston who close friend of his and leave with a
stable amount of cash as his advance commission.
This bewhiskered gags re-birth today has left
amazing number of victims its wake The only differ
technique from that of 80 years ago that the
shrewd raceteer tells the landowner that he has ideal
site for defense factory airport Even farmers with
land IS 100 miles from nowhere have fallen for the
scheme the lowered his signifi-
cantly and said: You understand of that will
be able get such good price for your land because it
completely isolated and just the place to assemble
of the secret defense ornaments that country
working on"
The check that supposed to be sent for the sale
hasn't arrvedand won't" says the Commissioner grmly
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-07

had the firing in about six minutes In later jumps
the gun was firing in few seconds
Dive bombing, used with devastating effect by Stuka
planes in Europe, perfected by the United States
Navy The story persists that foreign arobservers
performance Of dive bombing when United States
Navy bombers put startling exhibition the
G 1871 by American Weekly In
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-07

Americans suggested constructing srmored tractors for
military purposes The British however used the idea to
build the first military tank during the World War.
The first military submarine built by David Bush
nell Colonist 1915 In the American Civil War a ship
was actually sunk by and the Americans Lake and
Holland made improvements leading to todays submarine
Britain Rights Resnrvcd
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-07

housewife is quite
surprised when we
tell her that hun
dreds of machines
are pie k g d up
every week, just
Ii re hers. The
nice young man
has a fence in an
other city where
he receives $40 for
each of these ma
chimes. There they
were frightened up
and find their way
back into the chan
nels of trade as
rebuilt machines,
selling at $3.50"
Some years ago
Eddie Sussey and
other bill switch"
artists would pay
for a small item or
lunch check with
a $50 bill and by
a q r o 1t converse
ton and manipula-
ton of the change
so distract atten-
ton that he'd be
able to leave quick
ly with extra cur
rency before the
mistake was cor
rected. The mod
ern vision of this
old s. in die Is
mitch simpler, al
though 1t takes
two TO carry it
through. The COM
missioner tells how
IT WORKS.
"A young man
appears at a cor
ner drug store and
purchases a pack
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-09-07

that other chest
nut the lost pock-
etbook trick. But
the sophisticated
person W h o re-
CARDS a word. Of
caution about a
confidence game
as a warning for
the other fellow"
is trapped daily by
the con man."
How is it being
done =? Just as in
gra n d ( a I he RS
youth, but with a
few modern trim
mings. There is
the old "undevel-
pc d resources"
swindle, for eX-
ample, now going
stronger than ever,
due to the public's
interest in national
defense. And a lot
Of victims have &C
uually chuckled in
the past when they
listened to their
grandfathers d e.
scribe how a bunco
man like Boston
Jim ow en- or
+ e [ er Darrigan
drove up to a farm,
tied his horse and
trim IN e d I h e
owner.
Depending upon
w h ere he was
working, the bunco
man would pre-
tend to be an oil
man, a mining en-
elneer or a pro-
mOter. He'd say
that he had looked
-
Evening star., 1941-01-19

Herman Ingram at the Y. M. c. A.
and guest cards will be available at
the door.
Evening star., 1941-01-19
Shoemakers Mark
3Oth Anniversary

Mr. and Mrs. I. w. Shoemaker
entertained Saturday evening, jan
uary II, at their home in Bethesda
Md, to celebrate their 30th wedding
anniversary. The house was deco
rated with cream-color roses and
candles for the occasion.
The hosts we're assisted in re-
ceiving by their daughter. Miss
Hazel c. Shoemaker. and their son
and daughter -in-law, Mr.. and Mrs
Carroll w. Shoemaker; Mrs Shoe
makers sisters. Mrs. w. A. Carlisle
Miss Edith P. Magruder, Miss Vio-
let W. Magruder and Miss Naomi
Magruder.
During the evening the guests as
sembled in the dining room, where
a large wedding cake was cut by
the hostess.
Mrs; Shoemaker is the great
great-granddaughter of Maj. Sam
uel Wade Magruder of Revolution
ary War fame.
Evening star., 1941-01-19

honored at the reception and dance
which the West Virginia State So
ciety will give tomorrow night in
the grand ballroom of the Willard
Hotel. The reception will begin al
$50 o'clock and dancing will be
from 10 to l O'Clock. The congress
sional delegation from West Vir-
ginia will be honored at the affair.
Members of the society who are
serving on the Reception Commit
tee are Mr. John w Smith, Internal
Revenue, chairman; Mr. Matt Ed
mission of the Senate Building staff
Mr.. John L. Bateman, retired; Mr..
A. Judson Findley. Justice Depart
ment; Mr.. Alonzo T. Margan of the
Patent Office and Mrs. Morgan, Mrs.
Glen Bray of the General Account =
ing Office. Mrs Mayme Hamrick,
Justice Department; Mr.. w. E. Reese
of the General Accounting Office
and Mrs. Reese. Mr.. Harold H. Mo-
tin. Agriculture Department, and
Col. J. w. De Grange, retired.
Evening star., 1941-01-19
South Carolina Society
Will Give Tea Today.

The inaugural tea and reception
will be given by the South Carolina
State Society in honor of Gov. and
Mrs. Burnet R. Maybank of South
Carolina and the States delegation
in Congress and their wives in the
lounge of the Mayf1ower Hotel to-
day from 4 80 to o'clock.
Mrs. r. w. Hudgens. Mrs. Daniel
C. Roper. Mrs. J. Monroe johnson
Mrs. Thomas S. Mcmillan. Miss
Cassie Conner, Mrs. L. E. Boykin
Mrs. L. P Slattery. Mrs R. L. Car
michael Mrs. Brian Bell Mrs. E
D Hodge. jr: Mrs. c. A. Lawton
Miss Isla Willoughby Mrs Edgar
Morris. Miss Bertha johnson. Mrs
David E Cohn. Mrs. Lloyd B. Har-
rison. Mrs. Alan Johnstone, Mrs
Hugh Phillips. Mrs Horace Smithy
and four members of the junior
society, who have not yet been Sc
lecteo. will pour al the tea.
Tickets are available at the Offices
of the members of the congressional
delegation or may be secured at the
door the afternoon of the tea.
Evening star., 1941-01-19

the home in Chevy Chase of Mr.. and
MIS-. Leon H. Belts, cousin of the
bride
Miss Sanborn, who was given in
marriage by Mr.. Belts, wore a gown
OF ivory brocade, made Spanish In
fanta style with elbow sleeves. tight
bodice and bouffant skirt. A man
| tilla of Spanish lace was worn as
a wedding veil ana she carried a
bouquet of white roses and lilacs.
There were no bridal attendants.
John Mason Parker, Sd, of Raleigh,
N. c.. was best man.
Mrs. Sanborn, who is now with
relatives in Hartland, Wis. was un-
able to be present She has been
an invalid for many years.
Mr.. and Mrs. West, parents of
| the bridegroom, arrived by plane
from Nashville. and will remain for
several weeks in Washington.
Members of the bridal party were
the guests at dinner last night of
Mr.. and Mrs. Belts.
Mr.. West and his bride met at
the University of Wisconsin. of
which both are graduates. Miss
Sanborn specialized in English and
Mr. West in mining engineering
the former engaging in newspaper
and fiction writing and the latter
in active work as mining engineer
in the Western States and Alaska
until last year, when he joined the
faculty of the University of North
Carolina as instructor in geology
and mining at the State College of
Agriculture and Engineering.
Miss Sanborn, after her fathers
death. spent year in New York,
another year travelling in Europe
and two years at the University of
Wyoming. where she was acting
chairman of the journalism curric-
ulum and later instructor in Eng
lish. She came to Washington this
winter to do some post graduate re-
search work at the Library of Con-
gress.
Mr.. and Mrs West left last night
Tor Raleigh, where they will make
their home.
Miss Leone Hayden Wed
To Mr.. Lloyd A. Kite.
The marriage of Miss Leone
Catherine Hayden to Mr.. Lloyd A.
Kite of Washington, formerly of
Luray, Va, took place yesterday
afternoon at $3.50 at st. Gabriel's
rectory, the Rev. Father w. j.
Sweeny officiating Members of the
two families and few friends were
the only guests present.
The bride. who is the daughter of
Mr.. A. Leon Hayden. wore blue
velvet gown with hat to match and
carried a bouquet of white roses and
lilies of the valley.
Mrs. Jean Car Brawner, the
brides only attendant wore a gown
of rose satin and carried talisman
roses and blue iris.
Mr.. Carl L. Hayden, brother of
the bride, was best man.
Mr. and Mrs Kite left after the
ceremony for a northern wedding
trip. On their return they will be
at home in the Buckingham Apart
mentS in Arlington, Va.