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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
King Looks Over
i. 5. Destroyer
EDWARD G. BUDD
International New. servie. Cable

4No~A ctrNee tAnie
PLYMOUTH. March 21.-King
George VI paid his first visit to
one of the recently acquired
American destroyers. inspecting
the vessel and its Canadian crew
in the Davenport naval dockyard,
ii was announced today.
The monarch travelled TO Devon
port yesterday and, after inspect
ing the ships company on deck,
went through the ship examining
with particular interest items of
equipment and armament of
manufacture.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
96h Annual Statement to it's Polcyholders
Payments to Policyholders and Beneficiaries

Payments to Policyholders and Benehciaries
During the year 1870, the New York Life
Insurance Company paid to policyholders
and their benehcaries total OF o4,394,34S.
OF this sum $685. 900 was paid to living
policyholders and s69,379,279 to benehci-
aries. During the past ten years, the Com
pany's payments to polcyholders and bene-
hcaries have exceeded s2,ISo,ooo,ooo.
New Insurance
New insurance during the year 1910
amounted to s42S,97o,3oo. There were
2Io,S96 new policy contracts made during
the year and the average size of new policies
was 5000. Although the volume of new
business was slightly less than the previous
year, nevertheless there was a substantial
reduction in the aggregate volume OF ter
limitations, particularly lapses and sur
renders. On December 81, 1870 the Com
pany had 2,925,77s insurance policies in
force for total of s6,S9S,IS2,749, which
represented an increase Of S3,54I in the
number Of policies and s64,347,9S3 in
amount as compared with the end of the
previous year.
Assets and Liabilities
The total value OF all bonds, which were
valued in accordance with the law, was sub
stantally below the total market value as of
December q. 1870 The aggregate amount
OF the Company's real estate mortgage loans
was written down by s16,ooo,ooo to the
estimated value as Of the end of the year.
Furthermore, the total real estate owned
by the Company was also marked down
in 1910 and is carried at the estimated
market value. Total admitted assets amount
to $2,S69,73S,2oS, an increase OF sIo7,4So,727
over the previous year.
In the liabilities, by far the largest item,
$2,322, 67I,Ss4, is the Insurance and Annuity
Reserve computed by the Superintendent of
Insurance of the State OF New York. This
reserve is the amount which the Company
must hold in good assets so that together
with future premiums and interest, it may
be able to meet future policy obligations as
they become due based on assumptions as
to future rates OF claim, interest and expense.
The sum OF s3S,747,49o is set aside in the
liabilities for dividends payable to policy
holders in I94r In addition to Voluntary
Investment Reserve OF 100000, the
Company had, at the end OF the year, a
surplus, reserved for general contingencies,
amounting to sI27,o73,6o3.
The present high standing of the Com
pany, its conservative financial and actuarial
standards, and the character of the organiza-
ton both in the Home Office and the Field
should be source of great satisfaction to
every policyholder.
A more complete report as of December
n, Io4o containing additional statistical and
other information of interest about the Com
pany, as well as list of the bonds and the
guaranteed and preferred stocks owned by
the Company, will be sent upon request to
the New York Life Insurance Company, 81
Madison Avenue, New York, n. 7.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
Dutch Colonies
Seek TO Buy
U. 5. Planes
BY ARTHUR HACHTEN
Init News Service star Cerrespondeut

WASHINGTON. March 21.-
The Dutch East Indies, mindful
that the Axis may swoop down on
its fabulous wealth, have appealed
to the United States for war
planes, anti-aircraft equipment
and other munitions.
Elco Nicholas van Kleffens,
Netherlands foreign minister. after
lengthy conference with acting
Secretary of State Sumner Welles,
voiced confidence that America
would arm the Dutch East Indies,
because we are all in the same
boat now" The. Dutch East Indies
are able to pay for the munitions
America can spare, Van Kleffens
said.
BRAZIL IN MARKET
Earlier. Gen. George c. Mar
shall, chief of staff, revealed that
Latin-American countries are ELI
gible to share in munitions to be
turned out under the $1,000, 000, 900
lease-lend appropriation bill.
Brazil already has a mission
here negotiating for munitions and
one or two other South American
countries are keenly interested in
building up their defenses through
the United States, General Mar
shall said. He expressed no opin-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21

building Mexican defenses would
come in return for permission for
troops to join Mexico in event Of
attack from abroad.
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ion on whether the Brazil appeal
carried an offer to pay cash.
Negotiations are understood to
be under way between the United
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21

States and Mexico. looking toward
a military alliance against pos
sible attack by an overseas power.
Aid from the United States in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
Two-0Cedn Fleet
ToInCIude New
Super-Wdrships
BY ROBERT G. NIXON
iutT New, service star Correspondent


WASHINGTON, March q. -
Speeding Americas S7000000. 900
two-ocean fleet program, the Sen
ate today approved the So, 446. 6S5, =
IA naval appropriation measure,
which includes more funds for six
battle cruisers a new type Of
super-warship that is expected 70
prove the fastest and most power
ful fighting ship afoat.
The six battle cruisers, already
building at the New York Ship
building Company's Camden, y. j..
plant. overshadowed in Importance
numerous other defense items in
the appropriation which will
finance the naval establishment
next year, carrying on. at the
same time. major phases of naval
sea and air rearnament.
ANSWER TO AXIS
The battle cruisers, il was
learned in naval circles, are Amer
icas answer to similar types of
ships being constructed by Japan,
three of which are understood TO
be building or completed, and to
the fast cruisers Germany has
used as commerce raiders in the
present war.
While specifications are
closely-guarded navy secret, it
was learned that they will be
around $4,000 tons. armed with
batteries of 14-inch guns, and will
have speed of perhaps IS knots
making them the fastest, most
powerful warships in the world.
OTHER CONTRACTS
Secretary of the Navy Knox
meanwhile announced award of
contracts totaling 500. 315, $50 for
239 minesweepers, sub chaSers and
other small naval craft of the type
he has said will be included in the
initial naval aid TO Great Britain
under the lease-lend program.
Among the wards were a
1927 900 contract to the American
Cruiser Company of Detroit for
two ships, and a S274, 900 contract
to the Robinson Marine Construc-
ton Company of Benton Harbor
also for two ships.
In voting funds for the naval
program the Senate acted with
swift precision, passing the bill by
voice vote in rs minutes and send
ing ii back to the House for con-
currence on minor changes.
OCEAN DEFENSES
Earlier the upper house APP
proved a $1S8, 0S3. 544 supplemental
appropriation bill, so per cent of
which was for defense activities.
and completed congressional action
on two bills authorizing S345.- |
100000 program to start defense
works at Guam, Samoa and other
Pacific islands. plus construction
of Atlantic base sites.
Administration efforts to amend
the measure to provide funds for
purchase of Argentine beef for the
navy were defeated by a tie vote,
while Vice President Henry Wal
lace. presiding officer, was out to
lunch.
The purchase, a controversial
matter of long standing. was spon-
sored by the administration to
implement it's good neighbor"
policy in Latin America.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
Safety Is the First Consideration

In making investments or loans it is of
paramount Importance that the policy
holders interests be protected and that
safety be made the first consideration That
has been the policy of this Company since
IT'S organization. 1t Will continue to be its
policy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
December 81, 1910
ASSETS

Cash on Hand or in Banks. s50,74O,23l.25
L. s. Government, direct or
fully guaranteed Bonds 79S 70l ,3l042
State, County and Municipal
Bonds. ........'........... 254,27s,O3573
Railroad Bonds ........... 2s5, 1882, 1874
Public Utility Bonds ....... $, 335,SO9, 03S9l
Industrial and other Bonds. $3.50, 2sO67
Canadian Bonds ........... S5,754, 4439O
Stocks Preferred and
Guaranteed .............., 1851, $1,000
Real Estate ............... 93,753,23l2
Home Office ............... 1874, 10000
First Mortgageson Real Estate,
less reserves ........... All, 9O4, 72s.35
Policy Loans. .............. 800, 2o7 ,0SOs2
Interest Due and Accrued on
Bonds, Mortgagesand Policy
Loans .......e......... 27,1Sl .644oS
Rents. Due and Accrued l,752,6427l
Unccllected and Deferred
Premiums ............... 32,155,46550
Other Assets .............. 439,1l266
Total. ........... 81. 1863, 735, 2O5.67
OF the Securities listed in the above statement,
Securities valued AZ $40. 652 sos u are deposited
with Government or State authorities as required
by law.
The Ner York Life Insurance Company has olsc'
April IL, 1915 and Is incorporated W
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21
LIABILITIES AND SURPLUS FUNDS

Insurance and Annuity Reserve
computed by the Superin-
tendent of Insurance Of the
State of New York 49,. 1922, 81 90
For amounts not yet due on
Supplementary Contracts l66, 767 005.40
For dividends left with the
Company ................. I25,76sA12O
is4I. .......,...',.......o 3s,74749OOO
For policy benefits in process
Of settlement. ............ 9,O96 7O3O4
but not yet reported. ...... 1,s75OOOOO
For premiums interest and
rents, prepaid ..........s. ii $50 9O6 10
Reserve for future expenses on
Annuities - -. 3,39oOOOOo
Reserve for fluctuations in
foreign currencies' -. 1000 10000
Reserve for miscellaneous
Liabilities Including taxes,
rentals and salaries) 800. S,9S453l 90
Total Liabilities 50 800, 661 ,601.76
Voluntary Investment
Reserve. ........... $4,000, 100000
Surplus. reserved for
General Contingencies. 127.O73,6O3.9l
TotaI...............s2 q, 1869. 1876 2O5.67
---
This reserve Is held mainly against ths
difference between Canadian currency Assets and
Liabilities which are carried at par.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-21

SHE management of life insurance
10 company has a primary response
bility to its policyholders to invest
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-02
Ne1US in q
n u T HE'LL

Babies-Just year to day after
the arrival of triplets to Mr.. and
Mrs. John Feilmeier, the mother
presented her husband with twins.
1t raised the family to IA children.
In Gushing, Okla, a child weighing
one pound, fom ounces was born to
Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Parker. 1t
was kept alive in a homemade in
cubator.
Disaster-More than 200 Jewish
refugees were drowned, including
many women and children, when a
motorship en- route from Bulgaria to
Palestine was wrecked in a storm.
Error-The $4,000 residents of
Rochester, N. Y, sought protection
in NEGOTIATIONS when it was learned
polluted river water had been turned
into the city's mains. The discov-
cry was not made until 10 hours aft
er the act. River water was used
in series of pipes which normally
fed only fire hydrants. A veteran
water bureau employee made the
error of turning the wrong valve.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-02
BEHIND THE LINES:
Discomfort

Rumors of discomfort in Germany,
Italy and conquered lands flooded
the news, but there was little dispo-
sition in official circles to take them
optimistically. The grapevine in
Italy made known the full extent of
the reverses in Albania and Egypt.
Italians got pleasure out of tipping
their hats. Word had gone around
that tipping of the hat was a way
of expressing desire for peace.
In Antwerp, Jews were ordered to
wear white armbands. The follow
ing day masses of Gentiles appeared
with white bands on their arms.
The Dutch also got sly satisfaction
in changing signposts along roads.
In Denmark, there was open dis
play of displeasure. Danish Nazis
attempted to parade in uniforms.
They were arrested by the police
and thrown into prison. Outside the
prison, thousands stood and jeered
at them.
In Norway, there was more trou-
BILE. Whistling was forbidden, be-
cause the natives adopted the GUS
tom of whistling whenever a Ger
man soldier passed. Many Germans
have been shot by snipers. Labor
practiced sabotage and bankers re-
fused to bid on Oslo bonds.
In Bohemia, cinema advertised
the title of its next show, ''The 1000
Year Reich" The next caption
said, Here for one week, ending
Thursday" Audiences focked to
the show to cheer the title.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-02
CENERALSHIP:
History Repeats

Twas the night before Christmas.
The year was l776. HeSsian SOL
diers under the command of the
British had captured New York and
moved across New Jersey toward
Philadelphia. George Washington
was in retreat. He got across the
Delaware first.
The Hessians had superior and
better equipped force; they were
flush with victory. Few in the Colo
NAL army even had shoes to protect
them from the ice and snow. So
the invaders, in a mellow mood, es-
tablished a strong force to protect
their front and then celebrated the
portending victory.
Meanwhile Washington gathered
boats from nearby towns. The Hes
sian front door was closed to him,
so he ferried 1000 selected men
around the back, entered from the
rear, captured 1000 prisoners and
turned victory into defeat.
Something quite comparable to
that military fete was occurring this
year in Albania. Substitute hot des-
ert sands for cold winter SHOWS and
the same thing was true in Egypt.
In Albania, the Italian army was
retreating along the Adriatic sea
abandoning port after port. The
fighting there was intense, but more
threatening to the Fascist legion
was a movement against their left
flank which threatened to envelope
their entire army and wipe out
Italian rule in the Balkans. If the
force of the Grecian drive could be
kept up for another month, victory
seemed certain-a most remarkable
victory of small, poorly equipped
army over a numerically superior
and mechanical force.
And in Egypt the same kind of
tactics by the British drove Marshal
Rodolfo Graziani's army back into
Libya. Three months earlier the
Italians had invaded Egypt and adj
vanced rs miles to Sidi Barrani.
Once there they built an excellent
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-02
AID TO ENGLAND:
Congress to Decide

When President Roosevelt APP
pears before the new congress dur
ing the first week in January, an
important part of his message is
expected to be devoted to aid to
Britain.
There has been talk of an outright
subsidy to England to help that ma.
ton finance the manufacture of mu-
nitions here. Discussion of a loan
gets little endorsement. The gen.
eral sentiment is that loan couldn't
be paid anyhow and would only
cause headache of misunderstood
ing after the war. An outright gift
would have it done and over with.
President Roosevelt advanced an
other scheme. He would "lend"
Britain such war materials as we
have on hand. This proposal en-
visions Britain's use of the material
while America held title. After the
war it would be returned to the U. S.
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road back to Libya in order to move
supplies. Barrani was made i'm
pregnable.
But the British General Archibald
Wavel didn't bother about the front.
He went around to the rear, cut the
splendid Italian-built road and for
a time threatened four Italian divi-
sions of 10000 men in a death trap.
Half of them escaped, fleeing back
to Libya with the British in pursuit.
The balance were taken prisoners or
were casualties.
In both places the Greeks and
British turned dismal failure into
surprising victory. More important
than the victory however was this:
The British had taken the offensive
for the first time in the war.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-02
WOMEN AND WAR:
americans abroad

A second American woman was
arrested by German secret police
in Paris. She is Mrs. Eta Kahn
Shiber, wife of a former New York
editor. The U. S. embassy was in
formed of her detention week after
she was taken into custody. Then it
was announced that Mrs. Elizabeth
Deegan, U. S. citizen and clerk at the
embassy, who had been arrested
two weeks earlier, had been re-
leased.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-02
1910 Draft Army Has Been Found Bigger Than 1917

large contingent of new recruits ar
rived and asked for their uniforms.
The supplies on hand are made up
according to schedules of average
sizes worked out on the basis of past
experience, but the 1910 doughboy is
full size larger in all dimensions
than his father in 1917, Captain
Banker has found.
Captain Banker said he had ex-
changed a considerable amount of
correspondence with the quarter
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-02

FORT DIX, N. $50 many big
feet and broad shoulders have
turned up among the selective serv-
ice recruits indicted into the army
that the war department in Wash
ington has determined on a whole
sale revision of uniform sizes, it was
learned.
capt. George Banker, post proper
ty officer, has been obliged to send
hurry calls for oversize shoes, shirts,
coats and trousers, every time
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-02

government. That which could not
be returned in as good shape as it
was given, would be paid for. The
President likened it to a man lend
ing a hose to a neighbor whose
house was on fire.
Important development in plans
to help Britain would be what course
Nazi reaction would take. First hint
of the German attitude toward the
rumored Roosevelt plans came in the
form of unofficial press comment
from Berlin. These reports tended
to give the impression that further
moves to aid Britain would be re-
garded as being mo longer neu-
trail"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-02

master generals office in Washing
ton regarding this situation, which
he understood was paralleled by the
experience of other posts through
out the country. He added that s
survey of sizes as worn by the arm.
is now underway and will probabl,
result in a revision of the army
regulations.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-02
SHIFT:
By the French

In continental politics, French
Statesman Pierre Laval was never
considered bargain by the British.
He was pro-German and pro-Ital-
ian. French Statesman Pierre-Eti-
enne Flandin also was pro-German.
But he was more pro-British and
less pro-Italian.
When capitulation came to the
French, Pierre Laval emerged as
vice premier and "heir" to Chief of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-02
ON THE DISTAFF SIDE

Sen. Hattie Caraway has received
a letter from a man back in Arkan-
sas which says, Dear Miss Hattie,
l want to be in the Secret Service.
Please send me gun, badge, and
handouts by return mail. 1 know
something!"
Mrs. Caraway is an expert in
making white fudge with walnuts.
Mrs. Mary Norton of New Jersey
drives around Washington in a car
with New Jersey license number I3.
Her chauffeur is Lucille McDonagh,
who is niece, clerk, and chauffeur.
CAPITAL CHAFF
Navy brasshats often are peeved
at the views of independent-minded
Rep. Melvin Mas, war flier and
ranking member of the house naval
affairs committee. But they respect
his ability. When the navy wanted
a congressional expert to make an
inspection tour of its aviation train
ing stations, Mas was picked.
The FIJI has traced large quanti-
ties of Nazi literature to Japan,
where it is being printed and shipped
to the U. S. for distribution by the
NaZiS.
In an interesting critique of the
presidential campaign, the Republi-
can, COP. monthly, makes these
three points: (D 1.-THE campaign
was too bitter. Both sides dispensed
with good taste from time to time"
~ "Too many Republicans are
prone to credit Roosevelt's victory
to the millions on relief" go
"Willkie failed to capture the indie
pendent VOTE"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-02
BY Edward c. Wayne
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
British Take Offensive Role in Africa,
Capture Sidi Barrani, 10000 Italians;
Knudsen Deplores Defense Work Lag;
Roosevelt Proposes More Aid to Britain

opinions in these
Newspaper
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-01-02
RADIO:
Program. Trouble

Theme songs will change and
much of the music now heard on
the radio will be banned after Janu-
airy l, unless broadcasting COM
panies and the American Society of
Composers, Authors and Publishers
can get together before that. They
are in disagreement over fees to be
paid for copyrighted music.
The broadcasters have set up a
rival organization of copyright own
ers, Broadcast Music, Inc. But
whereas the ASCAP has rights to
more than 100000 selections of the
leading writer's, BMI has only about
100000 tunes, many of them South
American dances, hill billy songs
and children's music.
Many radio stations already have
stopped playing tunes owned by
ASCAP. The vast majority have
been using ASCAP tunes only in
commercial programs.
Union Trouble
When one chain announced il
would sponsor programs from army
camps, with regimental bands play
ing music, it ran into another snag.
James c. Petrillo, president of the
American Federation of Musicians
GA. F. of L., protested and the
broadcast was suspended. Petrillo
said the unions musicians suffer
from that sort of competition. He
went to Washington for a conference
with War Secretary Henry Stimson,
saying, eff the radio companies want
to sponsor such a broadcast every
Sunday, we won't object. If they
intend to send out programs like that
several times week, that's a diff
ferent story"
MISCELLANY:
q In Mexico, the Day of the Virgin
of Guadalupe is the most famous OF
all fiestas. The church, sacred
place for the faithful, is partly sur.
rounded by peddler's stalls. From
one of them customer bought tor.
pedoes to celebrate the. holiday.
When the first torpedoas: proved.
buds, the customer threw the bal.
ance into the peddler:s basket They
exploded. So did al the neddler's
fireworks. Nine were seriously
burned.
q In the East Room of the White
House, Mrs. Roosevelt gave the first
of the seasons afternoon musicals.
The program was by Mieczyslaw
NUM-, refugee Polish pianist, and
Virginia Lewis, Negro soprano. A
year ago Miss Lewis was domes.
tic in a Philadelphia home.
q Edward L. Reed, counsellor OF
the American embassy in Rome,
was ordered home. To speed the
trip he asked permission to enter
Germany and sail from an Atlantic
port. The German government re-
piled it preferred that he not 60
through Germany"
G A two-ton statue of the late Huey
Long will be unveiled in Statuary
Hall, part of the Capitol building, in
Washington. Ceremonies are expect.
ed in January. Each state is al.
lowed to erect two statues of native
sons. This will be Louisiana's first.
q In Cincinnati an unexplained ex.
ploSion in q tenement was fatal to
13 persons, men, women and chill
dren including one baby that was
born to woman while she was
pinned beneath the debris Of the
structure. The explosion occurred
early in the morning while Eve fam.
lilies were asleep.