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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-30

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Aside from the battle for first
place in the team standings, a
lduel between Pete ReiSer and
EnoS Slaughter for individual
league batting honorS intrigueS
ithose who follow the fortunes of
the National League. With
Slaughter Of the Cardinals early
in July. hitting a ptltry .274. it
looked like Reiser. the young
Dodger star. would have things
his own way. Pete noSe-dived into
Ia slump and Slaughter came on.
Now Enos is banging the ball we'll
over 800, only a few points be-
hind Reiser.
If Reiser repeats he will be the
fourth player in modern National
League history 10 defend his
crown successfully. The others
were Rogers Hornsby, Honus Wag-
ner and Jake Daubert. Incl
dentally. Slaughter is an air corps
cadet, but is expected TO be able
to finish the baseball season.
With Leo Durocher the most un-
popular manager in baseball. it
appears from all reports that the
Dodgers are alone in their fight
for the flag. The press, abroad
and at home, are down on Du-
rocher. And most of it down on
Larry McPhail. for that matter
Rival managers are down on them,
and the fans in general seem TO
be pulling for the game kids
from ST. Looie town.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-30
FIRST GAME

Totals II AT Totals "a J. ~
New York oO1 Uoo u-z
p,,,shureh 600 600 o0o--0
Runs-Werber Ghncuso. Errors-Gus-
tine Dietz Runs hated in-~Witek ?. Two
base hit Witek. Stolen base-Mife.
Schumacher, Dltt1- Double play
-Witsk % Jurges 10 Nine Left On oases---
New York &. Pittsburgh .. Bases on balls
OF Schumacher I, OF DtetL Struck
out-By Schumacher >. by DtsU >. I'm
nines --SeAEa-S Stewart and Dunn -1imA -
~, Abundance. 500.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-30
National League
ST LOIS

Totals 81 7 - " Totals ~ 10 a.
sBated tor Hoetst In seventh,
rhti.detchia 200 10 600
81 Toois 600 2o2 iOx-5
Runs Ittwhiier Glossop, Ausial. W.
cooper. Hopp. Kurowski Runs bai'ed In
Etten. May kurOwsk, Hopp, Marion J.
Two-hase hits=Nayl1r, iiiwhiler, Bragsn,
Kurowskl 2 Marion 4 Stolen Hopp.
sacrifice-May. Double plays-hurtaugh
to Glossop 10 Etien, Marion 10 Brown To
Hopp. Left on bases-St Louis II. Phils-
delrhta 4 Base on bailS-On N. Cooper !.
OF Pearson g. % Beck 2. Struck out BY
M Cooper 2. nv Peck I. Hits-on Pear
son q in S % innings. on Hoerst none In
LIS inning OF Beck In innings wild
pttch--Beck Passed ball-BrAgan. Losing
pitcher-Pearson. Umpires-GoetI, Conlen
and Rsardon. Time-i;53. Attendance
/ sos paid.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-30

Open round of the Episcopal
Games League softball playoffs
starts Sunday at Northwestern
Field with game at 3 p. m. Grace,
west side champions, meet Epiph-
any and 81. Columbia, east side
champions, faces Ascension. Last
years champs. st. Matthias, did
not qualify.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-30
Crews Change Boats

The three crews change boat,
with each race Three were Sailec
Saturday the third being a Sail-ofl
of Friday mornings affair which
VAS called eff when the wind died
Shamrock. owned by Ernif
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-30

Glare Udeil's Lake Michigan out
a. after winning two out OF the
three races sailed Saturday. went
INTO the lead with nine points in
tho Barthcl Trophy series for the
Great Lakes ciCht-meter crew
championship at the Crosse Pointe
Yacht Club.
The Lake Ontario crew, skip
percd by Bud Doyle. winner in last
years series held in Chicago. Is in
second place with eight after TAX
ing a first with Shamrock in the
morning race and finishing second
with Warrior IN both OF the after
noon starts.
Fred Temple, Lake Eric repre-
sentative has seven points. He and
his crew were second with Warrior
in the morning race and trailed
with PintaIl in the next two trips.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-30
Still Not Enough

No less authority for that state
ment is James Hobbs, president OF
the Bowling Proprietors' Associa-
ton of Detroit In fact, choice
bowling hours are at such pre-
MUM common council is consider
ing permitting alleys in non-resi-
Dental districts 10 remain open
later than the 2:30 a. m closing
time in order that night workers
will be able to enjoy their favor
lite recreation
During the past few years new
establishments have been popping
I'D like mushrooms and still there
appears 10 be not enough TO take
care of the demand. Since the
start of the 1941-42 season five
more new houses have been built,
making total of $50 IN the
metropolitan district.
They are Crest Lanes, 127O7
Fullerton. II alleys; Hall-Dodds,
$50 West Grand boulevard. 10:
Grandway. 15942 Grand River. and
NOTTINGHAM, 15430 East Warren,
each six, and Paradise Bowl. 64O
East Adams, owned by Joe Louis,
20. Falkland 1920 West War
rem. Is, sixth, is under construc-
tion:
Other houses that will operate
for their first fun season are Vic
tory. Palm Beach. Vogue. T1anda.
Ramona. Great Lakes and WASH
ington Bowl.
Girls Replace Boys
In some sections of the city
there Is a shortage OF pin boys,
while in others they are plentiful.
Owners having trouble might take
a tip from Wayne Spaulding. man
ager Of Strathmoor Recreation.
also known as Bowling School.
Spaulding advertised for boys
and only two responded. The next
day he advertised for girls and 10
showed I'D. When the boys heard
about IL 20 turned out the follow
ing day. OF the is girls Spaulding
has retained six and reports the
.'pinnerettes" are doing their work
nicely. So il looks like the gals
now have invaded the bowling
game as workers.
OF the all-star leagues the
Greater Detroit will he the first
TO get going with 16 clubs at
Olympic Recreation, September IL.
The Metropolitan Classic will in
sugurate its second travelling sea
son with II outfits again at Bud
Ritter's Recreation. September ID.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-30
Drob Affairs

On the other hand, with the
Yankees hogging most Of the
championships, the A err c n
League races have been compare
lively drab affairs. Only in 1910
when the Tigers pushed the In
dams aside by a single game, did
the junior circuit boys put on a
show in the last eight years. In
winning five titles in that time,
the Yankees were far in front.
Once. in 1896 Joe McCarthy's
boys finished 1871 games ahead of
the Tigers, who were in second
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-30
American League
CLEVELAND
NEW YORK

Totals 81 n ~ Totals 5 7 "a A
sRatfed for IindeII In ninth
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-30

TOtais 81 9 q L = TotAIs -
sRatfed tor Dietrich In ninth.
Evening star., 1942-12-18

War Joffre gave place to Foch;
IN the German Army the young
er Won Moltke was replaced first
by Falkenhayn and then by Hin
denburg and Ludendorff, In this
war the British have changed
the command of the Middle
Eastern armies on several occa-
sions. The Russian armies began
their campaign with three lead
ing generals, Voroshilov, Timo-
shenko and Budyenny, and two
OF them have been dismissed
from leading roles.
Why, then, are the changes in
the German high command of a
different significance?
The German Officers Corps
was the only one in the world
really prepared for war. The
army they commanded was a
new army, Quilt up from scratch
after the disarmament following
the treaty Of Versailles and en-
ploying, in its reorganization, all
the lessons Of the previous de-
feat. The late Gen. Won Seekt.
in reorganizing this army,
dropped out, at the beginning,
those men who held old-fash-
1oned military ideas. He re-
tanned only the most able and
imaginative, whose task it was to
create new war doctrine.
Russian Action Similar.
Something very similar oc-
CURED in the Russian Army,
though the new army retained
the old leaders who had been
successful in the Russian civil
war, chief among them Voro-
shilov and Budyenny. The pres
tige OF these men derived from
the civil war experience and
there is nothing extraordinary
In the fact that they gave way
to new leaders in this war.
And at any rate, the Russian
Officers Corps could not be COM
pared in tradition, science and
experience, with the German.
Actually, during the period of
the creation of the Red Army,
when there was close collabora-
ton between Russia and Ger
many, the Russians were in the
role of pupils, learning from the
superior techniques of the Ger
mans.
In every other army, the French
and the British, for instance, the
officers corps was created on the
principle of seniority-a principle
that invariably breaks down in a
time Of great technical develop
ments. All such armies undergo
a continual purge in the course Of
a critical war. But the German
Officers Corps was the inventor
and master of these new tech
niques, and proved it on every
Evening star., 1942-12-18

lllCll Y II III
selves. 1t Is admitted in these
professional quarters, which have
never been given to over-optim-
ism and wishful thinking. that
we still have hard road ahead,
full of dangers and heavy sacri-
fices. Yet the admirals and gen.
erals on whom rests the RESPONSE
bility Of leading our forces to vic
tory are now convinced that the
Axis defeat Is nearer than many
people think.
These are the people who are
urging our policy trainers to be-
gin behind-the-door negotiations
and conversations SO that they
shall not be caught unprepared
should the war-in Europe at
least-come to a sudden and dra-
matte end.
In the light of what has oc-
CURED in the last few months,
it appears to the realistic mill
tary minds that the peace
makers will have an even tougher
time than those who are fight
ing on the battlefield.
The Mihailovic and Darlan
cases are two examples OF what
may happen If the political and
diplomatic leaders Of the United
Nations do not frame some sort
of peace strategy while the
fight is still in full progress.
From the strictly military point
of view, the actions of both these
military men appeared logical
and extremely helpful in achiev-
ing the main purpose which
brought us into the war-the de-
feat OF the Axis. Yet in both
cases petty political quibblings
and intrigues almost rocked the
ship.
Idealogy vs.. Realism.
The case of Gen. Mihailovic
probably is the most vivid exam
pie of what can be done by ideo-
logical interests. The Serbian
guerilla commander happens to
be a first-class strategist and not
the usual band leader who has
courage and initiative but is in
tent mostly on hit-and-run STRAIT
egy. In fact, Gen Mihailovic's
forces cannot best be described
as guerillas; the great majority
Is formed by regular Yugoslav
soldiers who escaped capture by
Evening star., 1942-12-18
Senior Wordens' Session
Here Set for Tomorrow

Senior wardens of office buildings
banks, stores, hotels, hospitals, in
dustrial plants and apartment
houses with 100 or more units will
meet at 1:3O pm. tomorrow in the
United States Chamber Of Com.
merce Building.
Principal purpose of the meeting
according to Rufus S. Lusk, assist
ant chief air raid warden In charge
Of commercial and industrial estab-
lishments, is to explain the estab-
lishment of incident telephones.
Chief Air Raid Warden William
j. Mileham and several Of his as
sistants will discuss training, COM
munications, recruiting of fire
watchers and messengers, shelter
designation and other warden duties,
Evening star., 1942-12-18
The Great Game of Politics
Change in Personnel Is Seen Helping OPA,
But New Policy Is Called Real Need

products inadequately controlled,
Mr.. Henderson tried to keep down
living costs and avert imitation by
putting ceilings over retail prices.
Instead Of dealing with 20 COM
modities, he has about 10000 with
which to deal. AS result, of course,
he has to have vast organization.
There are more than 10000 men in
it now, and his plans were for more
than 10000. Among them are
hundreds of alleged experts and
''technicians" who are turning out
an unbelievable number of pro-
nouncements, proclamations, orders
and directions, so complicated as
to be impossible Of comprehension.
For an example, take the most
recent OPA proclamation on the
subject of wholesale beef regulation.
This document contains approxi-
mately 10000 closely printed words,
which go into such intricate detail
that 1t is safe to say no human
being will ever read 1t all.
Meat Order Quoted.
The directions as to how the meat
shall be butchered are, in them
selves, almost volume. Here is a
sample:
THE excess loin Qumbar) and
pelvic (sacraD fat shall be trimmed
from the inside of the full loin by
placing the full loin upon a fat sur
face, with no other support to
change its position, meat side down,
and removing all fat which extends
above fiat plane parallel with the
fiat surface supporting the full loin
and on a level with the full length
of the protruding edge of the lum-
bar section of the chine bone. Then
all fat shall be removed which ex-
tends above a fat plane, using the
following two lines as guides for
each edge of the plane; an imagin-
oi AtAlC pdi dllCl Wltll tllC 1ull lCllktIl
of the protruding edge of the lum-
bar section of the chine bone which
line extends one inch directly above
such protruding edge: a line on the
inside of the loin two inches from
the flank edge and running parallel
with such edge for the full length of
fha lnin All fof
measurement Of the second line
shall first be removed. In addition
to the foregoing. all rough fat In the
pelvic cavity of the heavy end of
the loin (sirloin) shall be trimmed
smooth and trimming by a knife
shall be apparent. No fat remaining
in the pelvic cavity shall exceed one
inch in depth"
Regulations Called Comic.
That is typical passage. Liter
ally, there are pages like that. It is
the sort of thing that can't be be-
lieved until it is seen. 1t is as in
comprehensive as it is unnecessary.
No such organization existed in
the last war, and no such comic
detailed regulation was attempted.
Certainly no such absurdly volumi-
nous and unintelligible documents
were issued.
1t Is not surprising that q serious
YNrnNInt1 ~
arise when regulation is attempted
by such literary monstrosities. Nor
is 1t surprising that there should be
mounting resentment against the
whole business, reflected in the re-
cent insistence by Republican lead
ers that reorganization of the OPA
come first on the program of the
next session of Congress.
Evening star., 1942-12-18
Admiral Robert May Quit
And Leave Ships 10 Allies
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Dec. ID
Well-informed sources expressed be-
lief today that Admiral Georges
Robert would resign shortly as high
commissioner for the French colo
nies in the Caribbean and that
French merchant ships now tied UP
in Martinique subsequently would be
placed at the disposal of the Allies.
These sources said that Admiral
Robert undoubtedly would be sue
ceeded by man mutually accept
able to both Admiral Jean Darlan
and the United States, and that
such an agreement would naturally
follow.
1t is even possible, they said, that
French warships now immobilized at
Martinique under an agreement be-
tween Admiral Robert and the
United States Government might be
turned over to the Allies. These
vessels include the 22O00-ton air.
craft carrier Bearn, the 10,OO0-ton
cruiser Emile Bertin and a number
of smaller craft.
Evening star., 1942-12-18
legIess Briton, II, Wins
Front|ine Flying Duty
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LONDON, Dec. 1S.-Legless at %,
Pilot Officer Colin G. S. Hodgkinson
has been assigned to a frontline
fighter squadron by the Air Min
iStry.
He lost his legs three years ago
In a crash while blind flying. His
determination to fly again finally
won out and he was fitted with spe-
cial steel legs and returned to the
feet arm. After flying with the
fleet several months the Admiralty
granted his request for transfer to
the Raj. Hodgkinson Is the first
legless pilot in the RAF since Doug
las Bader was captured by the Ger
mans, who shot his plane down.
Hodgkinson was a rugby PLAYER
and was three times champion OF
the Panbourne Nautical College.
Despite his handicap, he still dances
and plays golf and squash.
Evening star., 1942-12-18
This Changing World
Allied Mi|itory Leaders Give Diplomats
Green Light to Formulate Peace Policies

the Nazis during the short war
leading to destruction Of the or
ganized Yugoslav forces.
Instead Of using this group
of men as half brigands and half
fighters, Gen. Mihailovic has
made Of them a unified force
which is fighting only when
fighting is necessary and remu-
nerative. This strategy has
brought good dividends to our
British Allies, who despite criti-
cism. have never risked some 30
to 100 divisions in the United
Kingdom until such time when
they knew that they could really
hurt the enemy.
While the Nazis and the Ital-
ians show every indication of be-
ing tired out, the British are as
fresh and full of fight as the
Americans. This would not have
been possible had the British high
command yielded before the Oft
heard of criticism that 1t is keep
ing its forces in cotton wool for
postwar parades in the Lon
don's Hyde Park.
Forces Kept. Intact.
Gen. Mihailovic is keeping his
force intact and homogeneous
for the day the Allies reach the
northern shores Of the Mediter-
ranean. 1t Is then that his army
of 10 or Is divisions can be Of
great assistance to the common
cause.
Communist clements unques-
tionably working without speci-
fic orders from the Soviet high
command have formed an army
OF their own-the Partisans-
who are engaged in fighting the
Axis and Gen. Mihailovic. Their
sympathizers in the United
States and England are respons-
ible for the campaign showing
the general as a dangerous Fas-
cist.
But in the event there is truth
in these stories, there must be an
utter misconception in Moscow
regarding the ultimate objectives
of the Allies.
Consequently, the formation Of
a permanent Allied council to
consider these matters is now
urged. Otherwise we may find
ourselves at loggerheads re-
garding the purpose for which
millions OF lives and hundreds of
billions of dollars are being spent.
The "realists" who look on the
war as dirty business which
must be concluded as soon as
possible are frequently called
day dreamers because they re-
fuse to embrace ideologies which
may be all right after the enemy
Is defeated but are silly now when
winning the war is the chief OBJ
jective.
Those who maintain that we
must inject lofty ideals even
while we are fighting a desperate
and strong enemy complain bit
terly about compromises which
are not compatible with their
theology.
Evening star., 1942-12-18

the Museum OF
Natural History,
I have been ex-
ploring one Of
the mysteries Of
modern civiliza-
ton.
With no one
to guide me,
with no thought
to my own safe
ty, I plunged
into the intrica-
cies of wage sta
bilization. Before
Evening star., 1942-12-18
Documents Clear Up
Mystery About Cuxton

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 18.-Lord Kems-
ley presented to the nation last
night documents 500 years old, clear
ing up the mystery surrounding the
first years of William Caxton,
Father of English Printing
The documents were expected to
fill in previously vague records of
Caxton's early life and clear up the
date of his birth, variously reported
between l412 and 1923.
The manuscripts had been in the
possession of the Turnour Suffolk
family, of which the Caxtons were
nieghbors.
Evening star., 1942-12-18
Deposing Of Nozi Military Leaders
Proves Hitler Has Failed, Not They

front, during the first two years
of the war.
And the defeats and set-backs
of the German armies have oc-
CURED precisely at those points
when the war plan of the officers
corps has been changed by Hitler.
In normal state, if the polit-
ical leadership insists upon war
plan, in contradiction to the ad-
vice Of the officers corps. and if,
then, the war goes sour, it is the
political leadership that changes,
and not the military. That, of
course, is impossible in the Ger
man state.
In every other army-for in
stance, the British-the replace
ment of one command by
another has been obviously and
demonstrably an improvement.
1t has represented revolt
against brass hats and the prin-
ciple of seniority. But in the
German army. the changes have
all represented a decline in the
quality Of military leadership.
All the famous battles which the
German Army, the changes have
war have been won by the dis
missed generals. The new gen.
erals have no record at all
either in this war or in the last
one. Actually they have been in.
volved in all the defeats.
The German propaganda says
that the changes indicate
"rejuvenation."
But the German Army was the
youngest in the world, and need
ed no rejuvenation. It was it.
self the rejuvenator of military
science. What real rejuvenation
means we can see in the Russian
Army, where minor officers are
promoted according to their sue
cess IN campaigns. But the real
head OF the army, the chief Of
the Russian general staff, is not
changed-it is the old planner
and technician, Shaposhnikof,
who was a young officer in the
Czarist army and who elaborated
the plans for this campaign as
early as the 20s.
Change Reasonless.
In every change in the Rus
sian Army, as in the British,
where a man has been promoted
or denoted one can discern a
military reason for it. But one
can discern no military reason
for supplanting the German chief
OF staff, Franz Halder, by Zeit-
zler. And the reason one cannot
discern 1t is that there is no
military reason. 1t is a political
reason.
Hitler has not dissolved the
officers corps because they have
failed. He has dissolved 1t be-
cause he has failed. Out Of eight
field marshals, promoted after
the successful campaigns in the
west and in the Balkans, Hitler
has dismissed five. They are the
five most distinguished-the five
who did not believe in conduct
ing a war according to the
Fuehrer's intuition" and we're,
like the other three, incapable of
drawing victories out of Hitler's
personal war plan.
Since 1t Is too late now to
change the war plan, Hitler
must have yes men, and since
defeat is possible, he must re-
move from positions Of power
those who might rise against
him. The changes, therefore,
have both military and political
significance.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1942-12-18

way IL WAS uOIle
in the last war
has been evinced
so often that his
intimate friends
as well as de-
tached observers
h e re recognize
the fact without
being able to Of
fer adequate ex-
plana ton.
From time to
t m e he has
been compelled
to reOrpaniZe