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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-24
Mob Rule
.Terroriizes
Mississippi
Call Militia
To Prevent
Fourth Killing

Citizens all over the country,
deeply aroused by the wave OF ter
ror which swept Mississippi last
week. are hammering at the door
Of the white house and the attor-
ney generals Office demanding that
white mobsters be brought to JUS
tice and that congress speedily pass
the anti-lynch and anti-poll tax
bills.
Three Lynched
This action was precipitated by
three brutal lynchings inside of a
week. The victims were two IA
year-old youths who were hanged
near Shubuta, Mississippi, and How
ard Wash, IS. lynched at Laurel,
Miss.
Almost Four
A fourth lynching was narrowly
averted Saturday. 10 miles from
where Wash had been lynched earl
Ter in the day, when a posse OF
100 men and two companies OF the
state militia were called to protect
fugitive John A. Catchings, 40.
Officers were seeking TO arrest
Catching for the murder OF a dep
uty sheriff. According TO reports
the dead man was slain at Catch
ings home as he attempted to arrest
the latter on charges Of illegal man
ufacture OF beer.
Taken from Jail
Two lads. Charlie Lang and Ern-
est Green. who died Monday at the
hand Of white mobsters. had been
accused of attacking a 13-year-
white schoolgirl. The fate of How
ard Wash, said to have slain his
white employer, was decided early
Saturday when, after a jury had
failed to agree on his punishment,
a mob estimated at 100 persons re-
moved the prisoner from the mob
proof" Jail.
Said Was Self-Defense
None Of the other five prisoners
in the cells was molested and none
attempted to escape in the excite
ment. Among them was a Negro
charged with attempting TO rape
white woman, but the mob want
ed only Wash. All Of the prisoners
have since been removed to Jack
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-24
BOY CHARGES COP BEAT HIM
WHILE HANDCUFFED TO PHONE BOX

The Detroit branch OF the
NAACP and the regional Office OF
the Elks Civil Liberties league.
Tuesday launched an investigation
into charges lodged against a
white patrolman for Handwriting
an 1S-year-old youth to police
phone box and smuggling him.
The white policeman. Jack Co
san. a 18th precinct officer, was
accused OF beating Edward Carter,
1855 Hunt street Saturday night,
Oct. II on Mt. Elliott near Char
levoix streets before more than
twenty spectators.
The boy told Tribune reporter
Tuesday morning that he had been
slugged several times in the face
and threatened with death IL he
protested.
starts In Theater
According to witnesses OF both
races who saw the alteration,
Carter had an argument with the
cashier at the Pricilla theatre. Mt
Elliott and Arndt street, and a
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-24
Said Was Self-Defense

Continued on page 81
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1942-10-24

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Evening star., 1942-05-28
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles Z. Trace1UeH.

The male is the snowy one Of the
family. His color is classed as cerulean
blue, changing to blush green in GER
tain lights.
There Is black on the wings.
The female is the plain one. She is
olive brown, slightly tinged with greenish
gray. Her chest Is streaked.
The young resemble the mother, but
are drrker brown underneath.
The peculiar blue of the male Is said
to be unlike any other blue outside Of
the tropics.
1t takes a parrot of some sort to show
us such a blue, and of course parrots
are not flying around in nearby Mary
land.
The odd blue, then, is the distinctive
feature of the male indigo bunting. Ex-
perts say that it is scarcely indigo, in the
true sense but that the descriptive gives
the idea of an unusual color, and so en-
joys constant usage.
Some say the blue is an ultramarine
blue. Whatever the right name is, the
color is a great deal like that of the
paper wrapped around surgical cotton.
1t is unmistakable, and identifies this
bird instantly.
The female indigo bunting is bird OF
another color. She is about the size and
coloring of good average sparrow. Even
ornithologists are likely to make a mis-
take in identifying her.
The best way to be sure is to find the
male, and then watch for plain spar
row-like bird which seems to be in his
company.
Another odd thing about the male Is
that he sings little in May, when most
birds do, but waits until the hot month
Of July.
Then, while the other birds are keep
ing cool, he comes out into the open and
sings away for dear Life. Few of us
hereabouts, however, will hear him, for
mostly he goes on farther north.
In various parts Of the country he has
been given such names as indigo blue
bird, indigo painted bunting, indigo bird,
indigo finch, blue canary and blue finch.
The real painted bunting is a native
OF the far South. He has blue, green
and red on him, and is genuine beauty
One Of his popular names is Nonpareil.
He is also called the Mexican canary.
The painted bunting iS Slightly larger
than the indigo bunting, and Is a IA
vorite cage bird in Mexico, and no doubt
sometimes finds his way to dealers cages
in this country.
The indigo bunting is we'll worth keep
ing an eye open for, mainly on account
of its distinct coloration, utterly unlike
anything else in the bird line
Perhaps we appreciate him all the
more because we get to see him so sell
dom. He is one Of the rewards of living
| in the suburbs.
Evening star., 1942-05-28
Cuntiqny

Twenty-four years ago today the
first independent action on battle
scale by American troops in the
First World War was fought in
Picardy An official account OF the
event explains: Early in May the
command of the 1st Division was
transferred to the French x Corps,
and about the middle of the month
1t was decided to dislodge the Ger
mans from their positions near Can
tigny in order to reduce the diff
culties of holding the front line in
the vicinity of that place. The 18th
Infantry was selected to
carry out the attack and for several
days rehearsed its plans over SIM
liar terrain in the rear area" When
all was ready, "the assault was
launched at Gas am. on May %,
and in spite of heavy resistance
mainly beyond the town and severe
artillery and machine-gun fire from
the left flank. all objectives soon
were gained. The construction of
trenches, the laying of barbed wire
and the preparation of strong points
on the newly captured ground were
promptly started by the American
troops concerned" Two companies
of the 18th Infantry aided in the
work from its beginning.
"The German reaction" accord
ing to the War Department, was
Evening star., 1942-05-28
"THORNAPPLE STREET.

Dear Sir.
Recently in my yard saw an unusual
looking bird about the size Of sparrow
It was not sparrow color, however, but
a peculiar blue, with maybe q touch OF
black on the wings.
~ have never seen bird like this, and
do not know what 1t was, and thought
would write to you to ask If you could
identify it for me.
"It was hopping around on the gravel
on our driveway. The blue color was
entirely different from the blue OF the
bluebird. 1t seemed unreal, some way.
"The bird did not remain long. but
flew away, and have not seen 1t since.
would appreciate it If you could tell
me what this bird was.
sVery truly yours, E. T. L."
The bird was the indigo bunting.
It belongs to the large family Of finches.
The blue color is great deal like the
paper wrapped around absorbent cotton.
We will never forget the first time we
saw this bird.
1t. too. was on a driveway, where
crushed stone and grass were mixed.
This is favorite place of these birds.
At first we did not realize We were
looking at a bird, but thought, NOV,
who left that piece of blue paper on the
driveway"
Soon we saw the piece Of paper" move.
and realized that we were looking at
for us-a new one.
Since that time, perhaps eight years
ago, we have seen the male indigo bunt-
ing-the colorful one-two more times.
Each time it was on the driveway.
These birds come to Washington and
vicinity between April 18 and May 80,
on an average. They are regarded as
common summer residents, visiting the
suburbs mostly.
Nesting begins about the last of May.
The nest is hung in some low place,
preferably in maple sapling, witch
hazel bush, or viburnum.
Why don't we use the witch hazel bush
more?
This is a classical American shrub.
It still holds its place as the giver OF
the favorite witch hazel liquid, although
the latter no longer enjoys the vogue
it once did. All the antiseptic powers
it has depends upon the alcohol which
Is mixed with it.
The bush Is a pleasant one, with yellow
flowers in the fall when few blooms are
to be seen.
Perhaps its somewhat sprawly char
acter has kept it from general use as
yard shrub.
The indigo bunting lays four pale
bluish-white eggs in a nest which is
lined with fine grasses and hair, and
made principally of leaves, stalks, strips
of bark and grasses.
Evening star., 1942-05-28
equally important into shipping TO CaTTy
them to the battle fronts.

them to the battle fronts.
This Is a showdown year. Each gun,
shell, bomb, plane or cargo ship turned
out in 1912 will affect the outcome more
powerfully than an identical item pro-
duced in 1943 or 1914. Government
high-ups warn that this decision does
not reflect official hope for a short war.
Yet to realize such hope it is neces-
sary only that the history of the First
World War repeat itself.
But few weeks after the Allies seized
the military initiative in 1918, and while
Allied forces still fought west of the
Rhine, the Kaiser fed, and a newly
formed German government sued for
peace. Had the German surrender come
only after complete military subjugation,
the war might have gone on for years.
Germans are not last ditch fighters.
Once the tide sets unmistakably against
them, they will surrender. Especially If
the United Nations are wise enough at
once to offer to the German people, over
the heads Of their Nazi masters, a pro-
gram containing assurances thai their
lot under 1t will be superior to the lot
that awaits them If they continue to
fight for Hitler. And every blow at
Naziism from within the Reich will save
lives, time and wealth for the United
Nations.
Meanwhile, an Overwhelming weight
Of United States munitions delivered at
the actual fighting lines this year will
do more to turn the tide against the
Axis than several times that weight de-
livered next year. HARRY STARK.
Evening star., 1942-05-28
Reports an Example
OF Pioneer Flyers Faith.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Raymond Clapper, in an article In
the May % issue Of Editor and
Publisher, states that future postwar
international news assignments will be
covered by reporters In airplanes and
on air transports.
Back in 1910 an aspiring young re-
porter predicted the same thing after
Beachey, the experimental flyer, and his
open-crate with the steering wheel oper-
alton ran head-on into the stone wall
of Scott's Hill alongside the old New
burgh, New York Driving Park.
The aspiring reporter, then a kid Of
8, told youngsters who surrounded
Beachey and his damaged airplane that:
"Some day machines like this will be
flying all over the world and carrying
messages to our newspapers" Some of
the youngsters laughed and said, "Mebbe
so, but look what happened to this one, ;"
and, Listen to the prophet" and there
were some, doubling, "Oh yeahs?"
But Beachey didn't laugh. He sur
veyed the damage done, and said, with
q smile, "I know what Is wrong. It can
be corrected, and I'll fly from here yet"
He did. It was his confidence In flying
that did the trick.
FREDERICK G. FROST.
Evening star., 1942-05-28
Freezing Employment

The War Man Power Commissions
decision to freeze skilled workers in
existing jobs in critical war industries
is designed to correct lob piracy"
situation that has been giving pro-
duction officials cause for increasing
concern. AS new war plants go up
and new and ofttimes more favorable
opportunities for employment are
made available, skilled workers in
established plane, gun; tank and
other war equipment factories have
been lured in large numbers to new
jobs. Federal authorities have found
that not only higher salaries but
bonuses are offered as an inducement
to workers to leave their present
places. This disturbing state of
affairs in the field of what is termed
critical employment has tended to
disrupt production schedules and
breed wage discomfort in the older
plants, a condition certainly not con-
ducive to maximum efficiency in war
industries.
BY freezing certain classes of
skilled workers in vital jobs, the
commission hopes to stabilize wages
as well as employment, and wage
stabilization is one of the objectives
in the Federal battle against inf1a-
ton. Administrative details OF the
freezing process are yet to be an
nounced, but it was indicated the
bulk of the task will devolve upon
the United States Employment
Service. The tentative plan is to
have the service pass on all applica-
tions of workers for transfer from
one war plant to another. If the
service finds that the transfer would
be harmful to the war effort, the
application would be disapproved
and the applicant and prospective
employer would be so notified.
The commission apparently is of
the belief that no compulsion will be
needed to effectuate its job stabiliza-
ton policy, and it is not the present
intention to ask for specific legisla-
tion covering the new program. 1t
presumably has in mind the fact that
critical war plants are engaged In
Government contracts and conse-
quently are not likely to balk at the
new control plan. Moreover, the
plants themselves will benefit in the
end by the abolishment of "job
piracy" tactics by a few Of their
number And a public plagued by
imitation dangers will be the bene-
ficiary of wage stabilization in the
booming war factories of the Nation.
Evening star., 1942-05-28

mean an ultimate capacity OF ap-
proximately 100000 tons, but con-
servative estimates put that goal as
far away as the middle of 1914. And
concurrently, steel men argue, con-
suming sources must be stepped up
to prevent lag.
Despite the recent charges of the
c. I. O. steel workers that production
had been stifled, Mr.. Tower told his
associates that the industry now is
turning out nearly twice the tonnage
in plates that all the rest of the
world can produce, and emphasized
steel can meet the ambitious con-
struction program Of tanks. planes
and ships which the President has
outlined fer this year and the next
a program that dwarfs into insig-
nificance the Nations effort in the
First World War.
Evening star., 1942-05-28

immediate and unusually violent, in
dicating a desire to shatter Amer
ican morale. Counterattack after
counterattack was launched against
the newly won positions.
Starting about noon on May %, the
American lines around Cantigny
were subjected to an intense To-
hour bombardment from hostile
guns of all calibers. At the end Of
that time the Americans still held
every inch of ground they had
gained" The division remained in
line a total Of 73 days and suffered
almost $500 casualties Survivors
returned home after the armistice
with the proud record of having
furnished a concrete example of
the fighting ability of American
troops" operating "on their own"
In recognition of the historic sig
nif1cance OF the place the American
Battle Monuments Commission sub
Sequently erected in a public square
at Cantigny shaft of white marble
designed by Arthur Loomis Harmon
OF New York. The upper corners
are sculptured eagles with a row of
stars behind them. Visitors to the
spot-only 54 miles north of Paris
find little else to remind them Of
the struggle of 1918. Peace healed
the landscape soon enough. What
was not corrected was the greed,
the fear and the malice of a few
evil men.
Evening star., 1942-05-28
Steel Production

Encouraging reports have come
from the steel industry in the past
few days, with spokesmen optimistic
over the outlook for both ingot and
plate production.
Predictions on ingot output range
as high as 100000 tons this year,
as compared to 100000 in 1941, and
while there are indications that the
larger figure is too much on the
bullish side, the 1941 total seems
likely to be exceeded. Steel plate
production, which has been a bottle
neck in the shipbuilding program, is
expected to reach 100000 tons in
June, according to figures furnished
the general meeting of the American
Iron and Steel Institute by Walter S.
Tower, the president. What this
means in the way of an accelerated
program is best judged by the fact
that production of 100000 tons in the
week ended May 16 established a
world record, according to state
ment at the same meeting by Charles
E. Adams, retiring chief of the iron
and steel branch of the War Produc-
ton Board.
While Ernest T. Weir, chairman of
the National Steel Corp, has been
quoted as forecasting ingot output
this year at $1,000, 900 tons, Mr.. Tower
Is skeptical as to the present rate of
B5,000,000 tons being maintained
throughout 1912, believing that the
shortage of raw materials, especially
scrap and ore, will be felt increas-
lngly until additional blast furnaces,
now under construction, are put in
service. The industry started this
year with rated capacity of 88 $780,
900 tons, and, as is evident, current
output is off about 3,500,000 tons
from this figure. The industry on
the West Coast has gone as far as
Hawaii and Canada in the salvaging
drive for scrap, which recently got
q slight lift when the washington
State Toll Bridge Authority ordered
the sale Of the twisted steel of the
Tacoma Narrows Bridge which COL
lapsed spectacularly in a high wind
more than year ago.
The War Production Board had
contemplated new construction that
would add about 100000 tons to
ingot production capacity, but the
recent decision to curtail plant con-
struction and concentrate on produc-
tion with existing facilities is liable
to halve this program. This would
Evening star., 1942-05-28
PhiIuteIy in the Raw

Philately, strictly speaking, means
the collection of stamps. But what
are stamps except concrete evidences
of postal service? If, then, philately
in it's broadest sense includes the
collection Of all such evidence, the
surprising fact comes to light that
the most successful philatelists of
the world dwell not in it's civilized
portions but in the wilds of Ecuador,
where fifteen savage Indian tribes,
scorning mere postage stamps, 60
right to the heart of the matter and
collect postmen.
They have been doing this for
seven years, ever since the inStitu-
ton of jungle service extending
miles beyond the nearest official post
Office. Postmen on this route, real
izing their unique value as collectors
items, 60 heavily armed, but all too
often wind up in the album. When
one fails to return, the Post Office
Department realizes that some re-
mote philatelist is gloating over a
newly perforated addition to his
collection, and lovingly preparing it
for exhibition at the local philatelic
society by decapitation and shrink
ing the head to the size of an orange
to save exhibition space.
There is, however, little future for
the industry. The Post Office Depart
ment has just instituted sort of
follow-up philatelic branch which
goes out grimly and collects the
collectors.
Evening star., 1942-05-28
Debutunte Spring

Just yesterday she played among
the hills
While her long, golden hair undiS-
cipHned,
So like a tangled skein OF silken floss,
Was flying in the apple-petal tOind.
Just yesterday, along the nlossy ledge
I sa,o the imprint OF her sandal,
found
A chain of dandelions she had made
While musing pensiuely upon the
ground.
Tonight her eyes are dreamy blue
lagoons
Holding a distant planets loneliness;
Against the rounded DhiteneSS OF her
breast
T1oin Dater lilies lay their stDeet
cdreSS.
In her first formal, under pale
moonlight,
She Is the tall nzdled blossonlinD
Dhfte.
ROSE MYRA PHILLIPS.
Evening star., 1942-05-28
Praises Macarthur But Objects
To 4 Political Career for Him.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Now that boom seems to be getting
under way for Macarthur for Presi-
cent" permit me to chip in my two-oits
worth on the subject.
Such a boom seems to be In very
bad taste, This letteT is not 'ntenoeo
to detract from the glory Of Gen. Mac
Arthur, but rather to preserve IN the
minds Of the American people the hlgn
station which Is his due.
Through his gallant stand in the
Philippines against savage hordes which
greatly outnumbered the forces under
his command, Gen. Macarthur at the
moment is one of the military heroes
of all time. BY almost superhuman
effort he and his brave colleagues
warded off the foe for weeks.
But now some group would make
political fodder of him. Once he en-
tered politics and did not make the
success of 1t that he has as commander
in the East, he Immediately would be
termed a political failure. AL that is
good in q man Is soon cast to the winds
once his first mistake is made and the
political opposition makes capital Of It,.
Gen. John J. Pershing is now revered
and honored grand old man. His due In
history is. that OF a great military leader
Of the war we now term the First
World War. Such he shall always be.
BY the Same token, let us revere and
honor Gen. Douglas Macarthur, once
this terrible ordeal through which we
are now passing has become a thing
to be recorded by the historians only.
As one Of the great military leaders
and heroes of all time, salute Gen.
Douglas Macarthur.
J. w. HEATHER.
Evening star., 1942-05-28
Younger SeIectees

Reports that the War Department
will renew its efforts to lower the
draft age for combat service-to nine
teen or eighteen years have aroused
some opposition in Congress. This is
not surprising, in view Of the fact
that strong criticism of the plan de-
veloped when it was first proposed by
Army authorities a few weeks after
Pearl Harbor. At that time the Senate
voted almost unanimously to lower
the combat age to nineteen. as had
been requested by the War Depart
ment, but the House voted for a
twenty-one year minimum. Senate
and House finally agreed in confer
ehce to compromise age of twenty
for fighting men, and this is the limit
now provided in the amended Selec-
tive Service Act. The registration of
youths in the eighteen and nineteen
-categories was authorized, however,
and this registration will take place
June 80.
In advocating a lower induction
age for selecteeS, War Department
officials say they are but profiting
from the lessons already learned in
World War II. One of these lessons
is that the younger soldiers are bet
ter able to stand the strain of modern
blitzkrieg tactics than their older
comrades in arms. The German
Army long ago put the accent on
youth, with highly satisfactory re-
suits. Secretary of War Stimson, in
advocating lower ages for drafted
men last December, succinctly de-
scribed modern warfare as "a young
mans game"
Senatorial opponents of the lower
draft ages are quoted as suggesting
that the younger men be put to work
In factories or the farm or that they
be allowed TO continue their eduCa-
ton. The wisdom Of putting youths
to work in plants from which they
would be subject to call for military
service in a year or two seems ques-
tionable, however. The tendency up
to now has been to fill these jobs with
older, family men, who are less likely
to be called into the Army. As for
education, college students already
have the opportunity to enlist in the
Army or Navy Reserve and continue
their studies, with view to becoming
officers after graduation. Continu-
ance of this policy in the event OF the
lowering Of the draft age would en-
able students to pursue their college
courses without interruption, except
In extreme emergency.
There Is, as Senator Austin Of Ver-
mont remarked, a human side" to
the question of drafting younger
men, AS matter of fact, it is re-
grettable that men of any age should
be compelled by events of this tragic
era to engage in mortal combat. But
there is no alternative but surrender
to our foes. Such being the case, the
decision on such important matters
as size of our armed forces and age
of fighting men should be left to our
military experts. Their arguments
should be given the great weight
they deserve in any legislative con-
sideration of the age problem.