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Detroit evening times., 1943-01-01
5 Pounds
Heavier for
LaMotta Bout
BY CLAYTON HEPLER

When Jimmy Edgar weighs in
today for his fight with Jake La
Motta. he'll tip the scales around
154 pounds.
That's five pounds heavier than
he was when he fought the Bronx
Riot last September in Madison
Square Garden. It's heavier than
he's ever scaled before.
And it's one of the chief rea-
sons why his trainer, Eddie
Futch, is predicting the Little
Brown Bomber will erase his only
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-01

Michigan 90, seifridge Field 80.
Indiana a. Nebraska 90
Rochester SO. Ohio state 81.
Bradley 81. Harvard 80.
Great Lakes 81. stanford Al.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-01

has been some criticism by
Toronto Of the Rangers aban-
donment of their traditional
free-wheeling attack, but there
will be none from the Wings.
Manager Jack A d ans used
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-01
SPOR 7 s
BY LEO MACDONELL-

Movement 10 Combine
Racing, Boxing 10 bs
Appears InadvisabIe
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-01
Basketball Results

THIRSDAY's GAME
, DETROIT a. New York.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-01

Bic Racing Year. Sign.
Jof BOxinq Revival Show
Need Of Commission.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-01

Jack Zeller. general manager OF
the Tigers HWhe spending the
holidays AT his home in Fort
Worth, Tex. In announcing the
Tigers had abandoned Florida as
training site, owner Walter 9.
Briggs stated that announcement
of the new Tiger camp would
come from the general manager.
DELAY SELECTION
II any site has been picked, u
may be Zeller viii delay procla-
nation OF the selection until he
returns 10 Detroit shortly after
the first Of the year.
Both Michigan State and Michi-
gan have big field houses suitable
for indoor training. The field
house at Ann Arbor is the size of
a football field. which is 100
yards long, and that az East
Lansing. "A newer structure, IS
even bigger.
At present Coach Ray Fisher o.
working out his Wolverines at
Ann Arbor with Dick Wakefield
drilling with the squad. Wake
field. S51 900 Tiger recruit out
fielder. who came from the uni
versity and who last year starred
with Beaumont in the Texas
League. is being pointed for right
field in the Tiger lineup If he iS
not in the army. He currently
is in 3-A. with a possibility that
he may be reclassified.
ALREADY BID
If the Tigers are interested, II
is not the first big league clBb
TO make overtures 20 the athletic
heads al Michigan for the use pf
the fieldhouse for training ptir-.
poses. One other major leaf =
club made inquiry. but that CT "
since has made other arrange
ments. it was revealed by spokey-
men at Ann Arbor. who declinef
TO pane the club in the absence
OF Fritz Crisler, director of ath-
letics. in New York for a meeting
OF the executive committee Of the
National Collegiate Athletic AS
sociation.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-01

Totals rs 9 IS Totals - 80
Free throws missed-Gibert 1, Wiese q,
Fuetsch / Mullaney l. Waddell 1. Doyle j,
Roth 2 Strack l. Reiman l. Comm ].
Score AZ half Michigan 81 Selfridge Is.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-01
SUGGEST HOME-AND-HOkAES SERIES FOR PROS
But They'll Wait and See Says Hunk Anderson

thought Baugh's presence wasn't
important, 80 he didn't try too
hard to get there.
Detroit evening times., 1943-01-01
Hockey Standings

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Evening star., 1943-06-12
Acknowledgements

From the London Daily Teleeraph and
Morning Post
While we have reasonable Justification
for pride in the management of our war
economy, We must not forget the ac-
acknowledgement due to the generous help
OF our friends overseas. Canada, who
had already earned our signal gratitude
for her gift last year of f225 900 900, is
now allocating a similar sum in a some
what different form. Magnificent in
total and great-hearted in the manner
of doing" was the Chancellor's tribute.
which the country will cordially indorse.
Appreciation is likewise due to President
Roosevelt's immensely beneficent device
of LendLease, introduced, be it recalled,
before the entry Of the United States into
the war That has served as the model
for the whole inter-Allied war economy,
and it was interesting to learn that our
own Lend-Lease deliveries to our Allies
now equal those received from the United
States, and gratifying that all the United
Nations are concerned in this matter
more with the actualities of mutual aid
than with meticulous accounting for
their mutual services. Both in the do
mestic sphere and in our relations with
our Allies we have made finance pillar
of victory and corner -stone instead of q
stumblins-blo In our war economy.
Evening star., 1943-06-12
Call for Mr.. Bell

On exhibition in New York is the
oldest telephone in the world-and
Alexander Graham Bell had nothing
whatever to do with it. The subscriber
was the ancient king of the Peruvian
Chimas, whom the Incas later dis
placed, and presumably the tele-
phone number was Chan Chan /, for
it was first set up in his palace at
Chan Chan about the year 943. 1t
consists of two gourds shaped almost
exactly like the modern telephone
receiver, with skin bound taut over
the closed ends, connected with a
hundred and fifty feet of string. In
the original installation the string
was stretched tightly between the
kings bedroom and some other part
of the palace. Moving either receiver
called" the other with a growing
noise, and when answered, speech
would travel over the wire" Incl
dentally, though it is a thousand
years old, the ga6get still works
In TACT, 1t may have worked even
better than many modern phone.
It's range was limited, but there were
advantages often lacking today. No
one ever cut the king off right in the
midst of talk; it would not have
been healthy. Nor did his majesty
ever get a wrong number, with an
offer to excuse it, please" which was
just as we'll, for kings in those days
were not in the habit of excusing
anything, And we may be sure that
no matter who was on the other end,
be it favorite wife, prime minister or
valet, the line would never be busy
with aimless chitchat or gossip, so
that he would have to call at inter-
walls for an hour to get his party.
Evening star., 1943-06-12

array OF military talent working
under the orders of the greatest
soldier of the time. On the other
side were Blucher, Ruchel and
Hohenlohe, handicapped by insuffi-
cient authority. The Prussians and
their Saxon allies went into the fight
with empty stomachs. A dense fog
hid the French on the Landgrafen-
berg to the north of the city. When
the mist lifted, "the troops of Soult
and Augereau were working up the
ravines on either hand. In view 6f
these troops the Prussian line, which
had advanced faultlessly as if on
parade, halted to prepare it's bayonet
attack by fire, and, once halted, it
was found impossible to get them to
go on again. The French picked
of the officers, and the 1anks of the
long Prussian lines swayed and got
into confusion. The rival artilleries
held each other too thoroughly to be
able to spare attention to the in
fantry, while the Prussian cavalry,
which had forgotten how to charge
IN masses of eighty or more squad
rons, frittered away their strength
In Isolated efforts" BY ten o'clock
IN the morning the Prussians were
outnumbered three to one. At two
o'clock in the afternoon, "the psy-
Geological moment had come, and
Napoleon launched his guards and
cavalry to complete the victory and
initiate pursuit" All resistance had
ceased two hours later.
Coincidentally, the Prussians took
another fearful beating at Auerstadt
few miles away News of the double
defeat spread like wildfire over the
countryside. The morale of the civil
ian community was shattered. The
French were received with
open arms, the people even turning
their own wounded out of doors to
make room for their French guests.
Their servility awakened the bitterest
contempt OF their conquerors and
forms the best excuse for the un-
PARALLEL severity of the French yoke"
When Davout occupied Berlin, the
inhabitants, headed by their mayor,
came out to meet him, and the
newspapers lavished adulation on
the victors and abuse on the beaten
army"
Evening star., 1943-06-12

Prime Minister Winston Churchill,
In his most recent speech before the
Congress of the United States,
alluded to the possibility that Ger
man morale again might collapse in
the face of defeat as it did after
Jena and in the closing stages of the
First World War. OF course, it was
to the battle fought in the neighbor-
hood of the old Thuringian university
town on the Saale, October IA, 1906,
that he primarily referred.
The forces involved at Jena were
those of France and Prussia, directed
respectively by Napoleon and Fred
erick William III. Bonaparte forced
the fight as strategic development
after his victory over the Austrians
at Austerlitz. His spies had told him
that the Prussians were weak, so he
permitted his men to rest in Southern
Germany during the whole of the
summer. When autumn came, the
Grande Armee was ready for action.
The enemy was ill-armed, ill-sup-
piled, ul-fed, whilst the French
everywhere took what they wanted"
At last on October "the cloud burst.
Out of the forests which clothe the
northern slopes of the Thuringer
Wald, the French streamed FORTH"
The lieutenants of Napoleon in
cluded Davout, Soult, Ney, Lannes,
Augereau and Murat-a capable
Evening star., 1943-06-12
MOUNT RAINIER, Md.

Dear Sir:
Il am slave to the birds in our yard.
whether our birds are particularly
precocious or not, hesitate to say; but
let their actions speak for them.
"As all bird lovers know, this is nest
ing time, and the parents are very busy
I have started a long -put-off job of
changing several flower beds which have
run wild and every time I start digging,
I am practically assaulted by pair of
wood thrushes.
They snatch worms from my hands,
stand within foot of me, and begrudge
me every moment have to stop and rest.
Just little while ago I stopped raking,
and was leaning on the rake, and they
sat on the end of it.
I'VE had quite a conversation, rather
one-sided, as I did all the talking, but
they heartily agreed with everything
said about the worm crops, CATS etc.
my big German shepherd dog was
lying within six feet of me during this
particular confab
I'VE have five dogs and they have all
been taught to let the birds alone and
stay out of the flower beds.
In fact, since we have had the dogs
our bird population has greatly in
creased, as the cats give our place a wide
berth usually.
tc chnl ol
bird baths and 12-by- l8-foot lily pool.
"A bird haven, indeed!
The worst time I have, though, is
being frantically called by harassed bird
parents. when the young ones start to
fly.
Cats came into the next-door neigh
bors yard. Such fuss you never heard
from my front door to the back until
came out
Yesterday a cardinal kept banging
against our dining room window, then
pecked on 1t. So out I flew. 1t then
sWooped down to a clump of evergreens
and then up into our weeping cherry.
Sure enough. black pussy was there,
but was driven off before any damage.
This happened four times later in the
day, twice by the catbrd.
May I presume to add one more
thought to the answer you sent the
gentleman who had very small yard
and bird bath?
Il would suggest the planting of either
dogwood or weeping cherry right be-
side the bird bath, as it offers a place
for the birds to fly up into. until they dry.
"As you know, they like to sit and
preen their feathers after bathing. Also
1t helps to keep the water cooler than if
exposed to the heat of the sun.
MY preference is dogwood, as it grows
quickly, is lovely shape, offers beauti-
full flowers in early spring and cheerful
red berries in fall.
I'VE keep several cornucopias made
from half-inch wire mesh filled with
suet and sunf1ower seeds in our tree In
the winter, and have quite following,
I'VE do so enjoy your column, and
wish you and all its readers success and
Evening star., 1943-06-12
Cooperation Considered
Imperative for Peace.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Your correspondent "Commonsense," !"
Ventures the assertion" that: STU
dents of the conditions which provoked
the war-conditions Che adds) with
which the American people had nothing
whatsoever to do-will know that it was
not caused by anything that the United
States did. or failed to do
Why then did the Japanese attack
Pearl Harbor? Why then did Germany
and Italy declare war on the United
States?
I suggest that the United States, quite
rightly and not only in her own interests
but for the benefit of the whole world,
was assisting the democracies with arms
and supplies; and that this was "a con-
dition which provoked the war" in which
1t now is fighting. Something, in fact,
which "the United States did"
Or to go back earlier, the United
States, like Great Britain, had failed to
cooperate with other nations In re-
Evening star., 1943-06-12

stralnlng aggression at the time of the
japanese invasion of Manchuria. the
Italian invasion of Abyssinia, the
German-Italian invasion of Spain, and
the German invasion of Czechoslovakia.
something in fact, which "the United
States-With others, failed to do"
Ihere Is no doubt that the inclination
OF the American soldiers, as of the SOL
olers OF all nations, at the end of the war
Will be Ito get home to his job and his
family and forget about the rest of the
world and the war; And it is precisely
because OF this that the soldier, like the
rest OF us, must now, without waiting
Tor the end of the war, study the prob
leHlS OF peace making. If we "forpet
ABOUT the rest of the world" our action
WILL not be "commonsense" but uncom.
mon foolhardiness; and the soldier
might as we'll not put off his harness
Tor his sons will certainly have to fight
another, and even more appalling. war
generation hence.
Feace and war are indivisible. The
authorities are not wasting time in in
structlng soldiers in problems of the
peace. A soldier will fight the more
eHectlVely If he knows what he is fight
Ing for, why he is fighting, and that his
hghting will insure ultimate peace for
his fellow men. Would "Commonsense"
nave men driven as dumb cattle to the
slaughter?
Modern inventions have annihilated
space and distance. The Atlantic has
oeen traversed in little over six hours
about the time it took hundred years
ago to sail from England to France.
No country today can live in isolation.
violence in any one country sooner or
later will become the concern of ALL The
citizens of all countries must make it
their business to study and solve the
problems of war and peace. Every na-
ton is his brothers keeper, and only
by the cooperation OF all will each
insure his own security.
BRIDGE BUILDER.
Evening star., 1943-06-12
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Tracepell.
Joy IN your study and furthering tn
interests in bird lore,

Joy In your study and furthering the
interests in bird lore.
Sincerely, H. J. B."
X X
Nearly 100 species of birds are fond of
the dogwood tree.
Most birds like small trees, and many
songsters enjoy the dogwood berries.
Bush dogwood is a favorite of cat
birds.
Robins find the dogwood tree berries
much to their taste when they arrive
in the spring.
When late SHOWS catch the robins
the birds eat dogwood berries, high and
dry out of the whiteness.
Truly there are few trees which give
greater welcome to the flyers.
Cedar waxwings like to perch in them
In the spring when they come through
on their way North.
The dogwood is especially good for a
small garden on account of its size.
The wood thrush finds the dogwood
good perch.
What our correspondent says concern
ing the lack of fear Of this thrush is
| quite true.
We have had wood thrushes so tame
that they were in danger of having their
tails cut of by the lawn mower.
1t is no unusual thing to have this
beautiful bird remain within a few feet
OF persons in the garden.
1t hops around beneath foundation
planting, looking for worms 1t seldom
visits the usual feeding station. Being
among the group of songsters called
"soft-bill BIRDS" it does not eat seeds
and grains
In the garden they will eat raisins,
preferrlng the seedless sorts. The large
seeded raisins are gummy, and give the
thrush some trouble in getting them
down.
The seedless raisins are smaller and
dryer, and seem to be liked best by most
OF the birds cat least in our yard.)
AS our correspondent states, 1t is nos-
slble to train dogs to leave birds severely
alone.
The same may be done, although to
a lesser degree, with cats The trouble
with cats comes when they roam out of
their home yard. They are then adven-
turing, and tend to revert to their
normal status as wild animals. A dash
OF cold water on interlopers will do
much to discourage them At home 1t
is possible to see to it that no birds are
caught by cats, but it requires some time,
work and intelligence, and often one or
more of these ingredients is lacking. un-
fortunately.
Old Tigey lies within a few feet of
cardinals, thrushes, robins, catbirds.
mockingbirds, song sparrows, as they eat
raisins.
Only now and then does he look at
them with meditative eye. We believe
that all cats could be so trained, if the
time and work were put on it. Birds
as class, are not nearly so perturbed
by cats as some of their human friends
They have been living with them for
thousands of years, and understand
what great advantage wings give the
teathered folk.
Evening star., 1943-06-12

@, Can an electric eel produce enough
current to kill man?-P E. L.
A. When an electric eel gets really
mad" 1t can discharge shock Of about
$50 volts, enough to kill man.
O. How long is the longest day of the
year at Fairbanks, Alaska?-W. L.
A. On June 81 the sun rises about l
am. and does not set until about II pm.
This day is one of general celebration
featured by midnight baseball game.
Fireworks are not popular on the Fourth
OF July for the light is too bright.
Q. Can you give the tribute paid by
Winston Churchill to the men of the
English flying service?-E V.
A. Mr.. Churchill said: THE gratitude
OF every home in our island, in our en-
plre and, indeed, throughout the world
goes out to the British airmen who,
undaunted by odds, unwearied in their
constant challenge and mortal danger.
are turning the tide of the World War
by their prowess and by their devotion.
Never In the field of human conflict was
so much owed by so many to so few"
@. What Is the time interval between
the ticks OF watch?-E. L. H.
A. The interval between ticks of a
watch Is one-fifth of a second.
Q. Are any descendants of Abraham
Lincoln living?-T. LII.
A. Mrs. Robert J. Randolph, a resi-
dent of Washington, is granddaughter
OF President Lincoln. There are three
great-grandchildren living Mary Lin
coin Beckwith and Robert Lincoln Beck
With daughter and son of Mrs. Ran
dolph and Lincoln Isham Of New York
City.
@. Was Sir Robert Baden-Powell.
founder of the Boy Scouts, spy in the
last World War?-F. T.
A. 1t is said that he performed sew
eral daring exploits as a spy On one
occasion, spying along the Kiel Canal in
Germany, he concealed himself for hours
submerged up to his neck in icy water,
by clinging to side of the canal.
Q. Where is the bookstore that Is
owned and operated by the Federal
Government?-J. S. S.
A. 1t is in the Government Printing
Ottlce. Here the superintendent Of
documents conducts a regular book
store with only Government publica-
tions on its shelves. Many valuable
works are issued and these publications
are sold little above the cost of pro-
ductlon. One of the best sellers is the
Official Postal Guide which circulates
about $4,000 copies a year. The best
selling publication of all is booklet on
infant care.
Evening star., 1943-06-12
These Are the Kids

These are the kids Ue vere shortzy
berating,
Shaking the head ouer, cluckino
the tongue,
They OF the dire and the iN-omened
futures,
Weaklings of toretathers ruggedly
sprung.
These are the kids of the snortino
jallopies,
They Who took corners ON t1uo OF
dads tires,
DaredeUilS, hoodlums and sotties to
duty,
Headless of all saue their o1rn fierce
desires.
These are the kids ,uho uere cvnics
at sirteen,
Blase and bumptious and pupils OF
jiDe,
Rebels from discipline, heirs to
bounty
Cars and a skyline and plenty OF
driUe.
But these are the kids Uho could rallv
to trouble
Same as their dads and their
granddads before;
These are the boys of the soft genera.
ton,
Hard as hammer and sound to
the core.
These are the kids tDho haze gone out
to meet it,
Gripping the peril by land, air and
sea;
They 1Uho had 1Dedk spines and too
much of treedonl-
These are the kids Dho are keeping
US free!
Isabelle BRYANs
LONGFEILOW.
Evening star., 1943-06-12
Staggered Half Holiday
Proposed to Provide "Advantage.s

cIdBSoTcu HdN dOu0Ay
Proposed to Provide "Advantage,s
To the Editor Of The Star:
The proposal of the Controller Gen.
eral for restoration of the Saturday half
holiday would be more satisfactory If
the Government were to approve a
weekly half-holiday, staggered among
different departments
IT all the Government people in WASH
ington are turned out on the same after
noon, the principal advantage of the plan
will be defeated. There will be so many
people trying to market, or shop, or do
personal business, or swim or play tennis
that we shall be just where we are now
every one trying to do everything at the
same time and no one getting anything
done.
And think what is getting every one
down is the pressure for time to do the
things that are necessary to keep body
and soul together.
NARY ooNNoR.
Evening star., 1943-06-12
The Poison Gas Threat

germany military leaders must
realize by now that defeat is inevi-
table unless they are able to launch
some effective form of counterattack
against the increasing intensity of
Allied bombardment from the air.
T h at cOunterattack conceivably
could take the form of some dreadful
new use of poison gas Obviously
the President and Prime Minister
Churchill have had something of the
sort in mind in their repeated warn
ings to Germany and to Japan that
their use of poison gas against any
Allied nation will lead to immediate
retaliation in kind
1t will be a fearful thing if Ger
many or Japan initiates the use of
a weapon that the President referred
to on Tuesday as having been out
laWed by the general opinion of man
kind" But it is fortunate that the
United States and our British Allies
are prepared to meet the threat.
And there is significance now in the
realization that had we, as urged
few years ago, agreed to outlaw the
use of poison gas by treaty, we might
not be so we'll prepared. We know
now what f1imsy material goes into
treaties.
AS far back as 1899 the United
States stood out alone, among the
great powers, in refusing to sign
Hague convention against the use
of poison gas. Admiral Mahan saw
no reason to condemn a weapon then
untried, and he saw no essential diff
ference between asphyxiating SOL
diers and drowning them by torpedo
attack A treaty of the Washington
Conference in 1922 contained
section banning poison gas, but
France refused to ratify it. The
Geneva protocol of 1925 against gas
was ratified unconditionally by Ger
many and France, and signed in 1880
by Great Britain and the dominions,
with the proviso that they would
observe the treaty only if an enemy
observed it. The treaty was endorsed
by several administra tions-for we
had played prominent part in pro-
noting it-but the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee refused to re-
port it out, evidently impressed by
War Department testimony that our
signature might leave us unprepared
to meet an enemy who broke the
treaty. And as late as 1889 the Sen
ate refused to adopt an amendment
to the Neutrality Act forbidding ship
ment of poison gas abroad.
The President and Mr.. Churchill
have been receiving reports for long
time that both Japan and Germany
might begin the use of poison gas.
Mr. Churchill first warned Germany
in May, 1912. that if gas were used
against the Russians the British
would retaliate exactly as if it were
used against ourselves" Less than
a month later the President referred
to reports that Japan was using gas
In various localities in China and
warned that if these reports we're
true the United States would retail
ate as though it had been attacked.
In March of this year the President
again referred to the japanese re-
ports and said they were being inves-
tigated. And on Tuesday he spoke of
the German preparations and our
own readiness to retaliate "in kind"