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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-24
Michigan Lakes
Claim olives

Two more drownings in Michi-
gan inland lakes were reported
today.
Thomas Skutt, 14-month-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Galen Skutt, and
grandson OF Macomb County
Charles Sparks. was
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-24
Seek Fire Victims Kin

Police today are seeking rela-
tives Of Herbert L. McCreary, 81,
itinerant moving man, who burned
to d h yesterday as fire de-
stroyed an abandoned moving
truck at the rear OF 440 Peterboro,
in which he made his home. q
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-24
Rites Planned Today
For Alice Duer Miller

NEW YORK, Aug. "a QNS).-
Funeral services will be conducted
today for Mrs. Alice Duer Miller,
noted American author. who died
Saturday night at her New York
horne. She was So years old.
Mrs, Miller achieved her great
est success at the age of 66 by
writing the romantic short novel
in verse, The White Cliffs"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-24

plane crash while on routine
Scarchhght mission fight.
McChord Field officials said his
plane crashed in flames IN the
vicinity of Newcastle Mountain
Saturday night.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-24
PILOT is KILLED

T COM A, Wash, Aug "a
QNS). - Second Lieutenant Will
liam Henry Wilson, p a pursuit
pilot from Chattanooga, Tenn,
was dead today, the victim Of a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-24
PROBE DEATHS OF I

Ell PASO, Tex, Aug. "a GNS)
The crash Of a four-motored
Flying Fortress near Las Cruces,
n. M, in which seven members
of a crew of nine were killed, was
investigated today by a military
board of inquiry from Biggs Field.
near Fl Paso.
The huge bomber crashed and
exploded on a mesa is miles west
of Las Cruces while on a routine
flight from Biggs Field yesterday.
Six army officers and an enlisted
man were killed and an officer
and an enlisted man parachuted
70 safety.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-24

Miss Stoponowice, Is, of
7645 Kentucky avenue, Dear
born, selected from among %
contestants as Miss Lith-
uania Of Detroit, 1912" at the
annual outing of the Detroit
Lithuanian Dramatic Club.
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Fine Chenille
Bedspreads
1888

While Stock Lasts
Our s4.95 spreads
In multicolors and
solid tones. Savel
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Factory re built
B e e-V &C electric
va e uum sweeper.
Complete with 10
pie q mop set.
An efficient set.
No Carrying Charge
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Fresh RufIed
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Priscillas, sheers.
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Our regular $685. rugs-they must go in a hurry.
9x12-ft. size Fine, thick, durable pie-the
both sides. You turn them and get extra
wear. Seamless. Beautiful coorings and patterns.
But the stock is low be early. Some are first
quality, some are seconds Removal Sale saving.
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Casual Chair
or Rocker
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ing design. Save,
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Proposes Use Of Post Onlces
In Rationing Of Gasoline.
To the Editor OF The Star:
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
It is stated that there is to be a new
registration for gasoline cards or books,
which will follow substantially the
method that was employed before.
The previous method took much pre-
cious time from the school teachers and
their helpers and also caused great in
convenience and loss of time to all
those car owpers who applied for ration
cards. 1t was an uncomfortable expe-
rience for all.
Why not use an appropriate Govern
ment agency already in existence? Every
car owner must apply at the post ONCE
to pay his IS tax and receive his receipt.
He is required to have this receipt be-
fore he makes application for gasoline
ration card or book. He, therefore,
could. at the same time and place, obtain
his application form for gasoline. This
he could fill out at once or later, at his
convenience, and file at the post ONCE.
His ration card or book could then be re-
turned through the usual post ONCE
facilities by registered mail.
Since only those entitled to "A" cards
are to be served at the schools, there is
no need for consultation. Therefore.
the filling out Of the book or ration card
is . formality which should require
the simplest kind OF clerical skill.
Time is considered 20 valuable for
every one-why should We waste it7
T.. PARSONS.
Evening star., 1942-06-24

and Yarmouth could be counted
upon to survive. Roughly II ,000, 900
Inhabited houses were listed In the
most recent peacetime census. Mr..
Buffers Affirmation indicates that
100000 buildings have been wrecked
or injured by aerial bombardment
and resultant fires. The character
OF the properties lost ranges from
mansions like that of Sir Josiah
Stamp to the humblest of roadside
tenements.
But each was a home, and to a
British citizen there is nothing more
precious. The Earl of Chatham,
speaking in the Commons in 176O, did
not invent the idea that "the poorest
man may in his cottage bid defiance
to the crown" He merely
put into language on that historic
occasion a principle of British life
which traces back to the time when
barbarous raiders from the CONT
nent periodically appeared upon the
coasts Of Norfolk, Kent and Sussex.
The raiders OF today are equally
savage. but Mr.. Butler declares: 1--WE
have taken some hard knocks. We
may take some more. That only
hardens the determination . to
win at any COST" Contending for
their hearthstones, the British peo-
pie, strengthened rather than weak
ened by misfortune, will carry on"
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Wars Cost to Britain

According to Harold Beresford
Butler, newly appointed director
general of the British Information
Services in the United States with
rank of minister, "the United King
dom has lost over 100000 lives in
action or in raids, and every fifth
house has been destroyed or dam
aged by bombs"
Momentary consideration of the
figures thus announced suggests that
the cost of the war in terms of
human casualties, so far as England,
Scotland and Wales are concerned,
has been relatively light, whereas
the cost in terms of the destruction
Of private property has been ex-
ceedingly heavy.
The population of the United
Kingdom at the start Of the present
conflict was approximately IS, BOO 900.
1t follows that one person in every
$50 has died because of the fighting.
During the same period a greater
number of Americans have been
killed in traffic accidents, and the
fact Of their perishing has been
Realistically accepted by their sur
viving contemporaries as natural
phenomenon about which very little,
If anything, could be done.
Britain, of course, is guilty of no
such indifference toward her mar
tyred sons and daughters. Every
soldier and every civilian sacrificed
for freedom has been mourned None
Of them will be forgotten. Mean
while, however, attention must be
centered on the problem Of winning
the victory which must be had. Were
hostilities to continue for ten or
fifteen years, as some observers have
Indicated they may, no dwelling in all
the territory between the Isle Of
Wight and Cape wrath, TishgaaRd
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Traffic Enforcement

The alarming increase in bus and
streetcar accidents in recent months
provides ample Justification for the
special enforcement order just issued
by Major Edward j. Kelly, Superin-
tendent of police. Police have been
ordered to direct "every effort and
attention to the problem of curbing
speeding, reckless driving and other
traffic violations by operators Of
mass transportation vehicles. Fifteen
persons have been killed so far this
year in bus and streetcar accidents
three times as many as lost their
lives from this cause during the first
five months Of l941. In May of this
year there were 145 accidents in
volving buses and StreetcarS, as COM
pared with SO in May Of last year.
This dangerous situation probably
owes its development in part to the
difficulties which transportation
companies are encountering in keep
ing buses and StreetcarS manned
with trained personnel. Many ex-
perienced operators have left to join
the Army or Navy or to engage in
war work of various kinds. This has
presented a personnel problem which
threatens to grow worse and worse
as the drain on manpower becomes
greater. Many bus drivers and
motormen with long records of
efficient service and safe driving
have been replaced by newly trained
operators, relatively unaccustomed
to handling large vehicles.
1t is not surprising that Major
Kelly should have found it necessary
to issue special order with respect
to traffic violations by bus drivers
and motormen, because it has been
plainly evident that many police
have the habit of shutting their eyes
to even fragrant breaches of regula-
tions by the public carriers. Arrests
Of offenders in this category have
been remarkably infrequent. This is
odlO w VIC OCSouoC WIG POliIC 1ldNC
been reluctant to interfere with
scheduled operations of the carriers
This policy may be justified in case
OF minor infractions, when numbers
of the vehicle can be taken and
warnings issued. Speeding, weaving
and light-jumping certainly are not
infractions that can be passed off
with a warning, however. The op-
orator who endangers the lives of
his passengers and of persons on the
street by such reckleSsness should
expect no leniency. 1t is the re-
sponsibility Of the police to see that
these drivers comply with all regu-
lations. And while Major Kelly is
about 1t, he we'll might broaden his
order to include reckless drivers of
every description. Washington's
general accident record this year is
not such as to warrant the slightest
letup in enforcement activities any,
where along the line.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Hospital PIun

Onc OF Cne serious WarClme prob
lens Of the Washington area-the
hospital bed Shortage-will be greatly
alleviated If the tentative agreement
between District and Federal officials
leads to the construction of several
hospitals in the nearby counties.
Under the tentative plan a hospital
Of $50 beds would be built in Airing
ton County, one Of 100 beds in Prince
Georges and one of similar size in
the Bethesda Chevy Chase area. A
twenty-five-bed addition would be
constructed at the forty-bed Mont
gomery County General Hospital, in
Sandy Spring.
The plan also includes the con-
struction and stating OF an addition
at Gallinger Hospital which may
contain as many as $50 beds. In
digent patients now cared for in
private hospitals at District expense
would be transferred to this addition.
More beds would be made available
in District hospitals, too, If officials
carry out a contemplated plan to
build temporary nurses dormitories
at several institutions and convert
the present nurses quarters into
hospital use.
Altogether, il the plans materialize,
between 800 and 900 more beds would
be added to the estimated $500 now
serving the Metropolitan Area. This
Is far short Of the 1000 more re-
garded as needed, but it is a sub
stantial addition to present facilities
and, perhaps, the best that can be
done in view Of priorities and the
funds available.
All of the suburban areas slated to
get hospitals have been pressing de-
mands for such institutions in recent
months. In Arlington and Prince
Georges the effort has been under
way for years. District Commissioner
Guy Mason estimates that 35 per
cent Of the patients in local hos
pitals are non-residents He thinks
that the nearby hospitals would
make 300 more beds available here
for District residents.
Construction Of hospitals In Mary
land and Virginia would enable the
jurisdiction involved to handle their
own INDECENT cases and MANY OF
their emergency cases. 1t is well to
bear in mind, however, that most
patients 60 to the hospital where
their physician practices rather than
the one that is nearest their home.
In the campaigns for hospitals in
The suburban area it has been pointed
out repeatedly that good hospital
requires modern equipment. There
fore it is impractical to build too
small an institution. The buildings
contemplated, Of 100 or more beds,
will be large enough to justify proper
equipments. The structures them
selves will not be as up-to-date as
the localities had hoped for because
substitutes for critical materials
must be used. They will meet a vital
need. however, until such time as
more lasting buildings can be erected.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS.

Dear Sir:
Recently have come to . new con-
ception Of the mockingbird. Hitherto I
had not admired this bird, owing to its
habit Of chasing other species away from
feeding station in the cold.
"One particular bird, however, changed
my opinion of mockingbirds entirely. I
have watched him, day after day, patrol
my garden. with one particular gray cat
as his enemy.
This cat has kitten-1ike face, but he
is really very bad cat when 1t comes to
catching birds. You have pointed out
In your column in The Star, upon various
occasions, that not all cats are really
bad when 1t comes to bird catching. This
I believe to be true: but this particular
feline Is one which spends q great deal
Of time stalking birds.
THE mockingbird knows this, eW-
IDENTIFY, and is determined at all costs to
shrubbery about half way back through
the yard.
ut is how he does this that has won
my admiration.
Total war it is, and nothing else He
must leave the feeding Of the babies to
his wife, because he spends all day long,
from dawn to total darkness, stalking
this gray cat.
The way he keeps after the cat is ad-
mirable enough, but that Is not the
bravest part.
II wish you could see him come flying
in, the white in his wings showing, and
then drop down on the lawn just a few
feet from this cat.
Usually he does this after he has
spent several minutes making power
dives at the cat These dives are di-
rectly at the middle of the animals
back, or at his rear. The bird has enough
sense to keep out Of the reach Of those
front paws and the cats usually wide
mouth
1T is when he hits the ground that my
admiration swells to the bursting point.
Then he is really magnificent.
He reminds me of David and Goliath
Down he comes, not more than six
feet away, and this is just the start OF
it. He walks forward, flirting his long
tail and f1uttering his wings.
"All this time he is cussing a blue
streak.
Yes, there is no other word for it
except 'cussing'
The word swearing would not do at
all. You have to hear this particular
mocker to realize just what fancy swear
words, or cuss words, If you please,
bird can use
Il honestly believe that 100 out Of
every hundred persons who would hear
this bird would agree that it is bawling
out the cat in perfectly outrageous Ian
guage
IAN this time the bird is hopping
slowly toward the cat
Evening star., 1942-06-24
THIS AND THAT
By Charles Z. Trace1DeH.
THAT mysterious creature Is not ex.
actly afraid.

THAT mysterious creature Is not ex-
actly afraid.
He is just plain astounded.
Possessing q rather peculiar kitten
like face, not usually found on grown
cats, this animal becomes positively
astonished as he listens to the bird, and
watches 1t come on and on.
There is q moment, about along here,
when I usually become alarmed, be-
cause the mockingbird comes so close
that am afraid that the cat will
seize it.
Probably the cat Is trying to make
up his mind. Maybe he remembers one
of those hard pecks in the middle of
his back.
Always he stands his ground, but
makes no move toward the bird, which
now flies suddenly into the air.
"All this time the bird cuss words have
been flying without end.
THE time has come for something
new.
In magnificent volley of grating bird
words, the mocker leaps into the air, and
makes of around the garden.
Perhaps he is just touring. so that he
can look over the nest for few seconds.
"All the time the harsh. grating noise
swells eloquently in the late afternoon
breeze.
THE cat is wondering what next, when
suddenly he finds out.
Pop!
Down comes the mockingbird on his
back. He flies directly up again, as if the
cats back were made of that precious
commodity. rubber, and the very finest
and most bouncy rubber at that
He takes not more than four feet to
turn in the air, and power dive down
again at the cat. I would say poor cat
only this specimen deserves no pity.
Il think you and your readers will
agree with me that this bird Is wholly
admirable.
so little. yet so brave. in the face of
such a great foe, he might be regarded
as symbol of many of the brave little
nations of the world
Sincerely yours, T. NJ"
80 -
Surely our correspondent has elo-
quently presented the case for the
mockingbird.
Every home gardener who happens to
have one nesting close at hand has seen,
at some time or other, this amazing sight
Other species fly at cats, but none with
the persistence and grim determination
of the mockingbird.
1t spends not minutes but hours and
complete days trying to oust the foe In
some instances the time is more or less
wasted, since the cat is innocent Of any
intent of harm-doing
Yet no doubt every mockingbird thus
protecting his nest is on the side of the
angels, and deserves our sympathy and
help.
He knows the form of aggression when
he sees 1t. and is not willing to take a
chance. May we be as wise when the
time comes to separate the sheep from
the goats
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Drop In for Dinner

One Of the pleasanter surprises Of
the war concerns the reception Of
many United Nations flyers shot
down or forced to land on various
South Sea islands. In every case re-
ported, it has been cordial. The
stranded flyers have been welcomed
by the natives, and have been handed
the key to the jungle by the head
man. They have been well fed and
transported to their bases.
1t is the latter feature, transport
back to their own organizations, that
caused the surprise. 1t had already
been assumed that they would be we'll
fed, especially any skinny ones, for
these natives were reputed to be
cannibals-patient, epicurean canni-
balls who preferred fat to lean. Guests
who accepted pot luck with them
were supposed to find it bad luck. 1t
was believed that when visitors
dropped in for dinner, it was con-
Quoted on a super Dutch treat basis
in which the guests not only fur
nished the dinner, but were the din
ner. It is a relief to learn that pilots
who may have to bail out in the
future in that region may be in
trouble, but will not wind up In the
soup, and it is one of life's little jokes
that these primitive savages have
been weaned away from cannibalism
by peaceful means, while certain
civilized" nations planning to gobble
up free peoples can understand moth
ing but force.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
To the Hermit Thrush

Recluse ,Dithin green torest palls.
Singer unseen, Uhose music falls
Upon my spirit - edrth-bound.
mute
Purer than uoice OF reed or fute...
Blessed thrush, pIo from, the clouds
may fling
A rain of song down- -shotDertrg
Into the ritual of 1pind,
Pine-intoned and hemlock -thinnec. :.
Why, bird, / sau the moon last night
Wash the sea and land in Unite
Wash rocks and surf and trees and
grass
In moonlight ,Dhite enough to pass
Ghostlike and magical and still
Above the dark pines on the hil.. ..
And yet could not pour crushed
song
Upon the night, nor sail along
A shaft OF moon on heaven bent
totng...
o hermit thrush, to soos and stngi
BARBARA WHITNEY.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Shades of Teapot Dome

It is an interesting skeleton in the
closet that has been discovered by
the Treasury Department in its in
vestigation of assets of persons living
abroad. This skeleton dates back to
the days Of the notorious Teapot
Dome oil scandals, which rocked the
Nation in the early twentieS. Treas
ury investigators have found in New
York City banks a $10,000,000 cache
Of cash and securities owned by
Henry NJ. Blackmer, whose disap-
pearance act in 1924 made him a
missing link" Of the oil prosecu-
tions.
Blackmer, then president of the
Midwest Refining Company, was
subpoenaed by Federal authorities to
tell what he knew about a. transfer
of 500 900 In Liberty Bonds to former
Secretary of the Interior Albert B.
Fall. When he failed to answer the
subpoenas, he was adjudged in con-
tempt of court and the Government
seized 100000 in Liberty Bonds
owned by Blackmer to cover fines and
court costs. Investigators learned
that the wealthy Colorado oil man
had fled to Paris. Efforts to have him
brought back were to no avail.
Meanwhile, Fall went to prison for
accepting a bribe in connection with
the oil frauds.
An indictment charging evasion OF
income taxes still stands against the
seventy-two-year-old missing wit
ness, although, through counsel,
Blackmer paid a Treasury tax claim
of $3,600,00 in 1892. He announced
then that he intended to remain in
France the rest Of his life. Il have
left the past behind me- he was
quoted as saying in an interview. He
was deprived of American citizen
ship, and denied French citizenship,
thus becoming indeed man with
out a country"
But the war frustrated Blackmers
Intentions Of remaining in France.
He ned to the south Of France when
the Germans invaded Paris and later
Evening star., 1942-06-24

went to Switzerland. And the vagar-
les OF war have resurrected the past
which Blackmer sought to put be-
hind him. The hoard in New York
may include the secret papers"
which Federal prosecutors believed
were hidden by Blackmer before he
disappeared and which were de-
scribed as the key" to important
evidence in the oil inquiry. II such
be the case, new light may be shed on
some of the still unexplored angles
of the sordid Teapot Dome episode.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Hoskin's Answers
To Questions
BIZ Frederic J. Hdsktn.

A reader can get the dns,Der to dnS
question OF fact by torittno The EDe-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Hasktn, director, Washington,
D. C. Please inclose stamp for return
postage.
@. Who was the philosopher who re-
fused to pay his debts to any one who
spelled his name wrong7-C. B. r.
A. This Is said Of Schopenhauer, who
became furious when his name was
spelled with . double "p."
@. What is the chronological order Of
Jesus Christ, Confucius and Mohammed?
%. r. M.
A. Confucius lived much earlier than
Christ or Mohammed. He died in 478
BIC. The date of the Crucifxion is be-
lieved to be about 20 or 80 AID. Moham-
med died in 632 AID.
Evening star., 1942-06-24
Home Law Book-A compilation

Home Law Book-A compilation
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Evening star., 1942-06-24
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the 1Uriter, although the use of
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permissible The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters Nth
Uie1U to condensation.
Evening star., 1942-06-24

Germans are not as smart as they
claim to be. II they knew their
neighbors better they would realize
that for every Czech hostage slain In
reprisal. they will eventually lose one
German and very probably more
SlaAn thak