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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-03

cleared Of all local debts by bankruptcy and
hence was leaving the bulk Of his S4OOoo in
surance TO his wife.
The colonel had not been entirely able TO
restrain his generous nature, however Tor
tackled into a codicil were a number of friend
" beduests including 5000 TO the coroner and
$4,000 TO the surrogate who would handle
the will 1t was these which started an angry
rumor that Denmark wasn't the only place
where something was rotten. So agreed the
Germania Insurance Company of nearby Nor
witch, which carried a $4,000 policy.
Germania sent adjustors to investigate the
coloneTs affairs Suspicion mounted when
these actuaries discovered his life had been
insured by fewer than twenty-one other
companies! Furthermore he had applied to-
nearly every company in the Union but
had neglected TO say SO in his applca-
tons.
The investigator found also that his
premiums. amounting 10 around $4,000
year were due on the end of the
month in which he expired. And that
Just a week before he passed away he
had been discharged from bankruptcy.
Concerning the colonel's passing, they
learned that 10 years previously his
death-bed friend Mr.. Hull had promoted
the great Cardiff Giant Hoa%' They
thought it strange that a man of such
proved athletic stamina should die OF
fifteen minute chill They learned
that one of the hotel employees called 90
the room by Mr. Hull had thought ne
saw the colonel pull breath Then
they turned the matter over TO the Ger
mania doctors.
: Five months after burial, the body
:. was exhumed and his post mortem re-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-03

mortuary next morning 10
give three cheers. 1t was
not in lack Of appreciation
for a noble act Of self
sacrifice. il having been
limited that the colonels
insurance was consider
able. They knew-even
though the coroner's ver-
dict was death from
chills and gastric fever.
Publication of his last
will and testament must
have Immediately dried
all civic tears.
Along with it was a
note explaining he felt
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-03

spirit departed, although by just what means
OF exit we do not know.
Mr. Hull said that he heard a gasp, followed
by a drumroll in the colonels throat.
The hour was II so when Mr.. Hull banged
in panic on Mrs. Dwights door. At 1881 that
lady, followed by her sister, arrived in the
colonels chamber TO find herself a widow.
Hotel Proprietor Spaulding was already on
hand, and Colonel Dwight in bed gave no
sign of life
If half Of Binghamton did gather at the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-03

suited in a four-year
legal wrangle t h a t
crowded tn e court
with detectives, cor
oners, undertakers,
scientists and medical
men. For it was the
contention Of the
Germania doctors,
after due inspection
Of the subjects liver
and lights, that the
deceased died Of
strangulation." This
was in direct conflict
with the previous
verdict of death in
duced by chills and
gastric fever"
The question then
naturally arose: how
did the colonel die ?
Stomach trouble or
by the rope?
In testimony to the
form err, two old
ladies were intro
duced who declared
they had seen the
colonel, in the week
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-03

Culation Of a story that the
colonel was deliberately
counting pneumonia 70 eX-
plot insurance policies
which would liquidate his
debts. No creditor could
belittle such heroic gall
lantry.
Unfortunately his health
was better than his good
intentions, for he emerged
as invigorated as an Arctic
sea lion. He purchased
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-03

more gelscmium at the drug store and con
tinued his polar dips TO the point where ar
insurance salesman, witnessing his capers
would have had nervous breakdown.
The colonel was at this time living with his
wife in a wing ground floor, rear of the
Spaulding Hotel on Nov. IS 1873, rosy
checks masking broken heart over his stub
born longevity he invited in numerous friends
shook hands all around as though in solemn
good-by, and went over his papers with his
attorney.
In plain sight he left his insurance
policies and his will. Then he did a
curious thing.
Summoning his favorte barber he
ordered his beard off.
But colonel You mean you want
me 70 shave your beautiful"
Don't stand there, my good fellow
Take it away
Fifty strokes Of the razor and the
colonel's prize whiskers lay dead in the
whisker-dish Sole witness 20 this eX- -
traordmary operation was his friend
George Hull, who leaves us no eXplana-
ton for the strange shearing.
It occurred about 1000 p. M, after
which the colonel donned nightshirt
and crawled into bed. complaining that
he'd had a chill and didn't feel well
According 20 Mr., Hull he fingered at
the bedside because the colonel wanted
him around in case anything should
happen" So he tilted back in his chair
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-12

ANSWERS on Opposite Page
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-12
rELEPHONE-CHERRI q

Subscription rate On aiyaneei by mari
70 any place IN the United states Canada
or Mexico con Canadian subscriptions
add 100 20 cover war import tax.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-12
West6rook PegLer Says:
Family Car Goes Garage Crazy in East

strictly Verhoien under penalty
Of gossip, scandal. cmbarra>>-
mcnt and possible rceeeaftorr -04
The ticket. our people arc bc-
ginning 10 chew BITS OF paper
and gaze off INTO space.
TlIE enforcement may have
something 10 do with this
nervousness. If YOU have
ticket YOU may take a vacation
trip II YOU can convince Your
nelghborS on the board that no
train or bus can take YOU
where YOU want 10 60. provided
you can get the gas.
Or going 10 the store 10 lay
In a slab of gin, a loaf Of bread
and some CICaretS. some
stranger may up and ask you
whittier away and You feel COM
PEELED 10 tell HIM that's your
business and what Is this. any
way. the GeStapo
And all this adds up 10 some
thing on the order Of cark
But ] still don't think that is
our main trouble now
Our trouble is that II ha,
been 50 long since We could step
on that starter back her Out,
whip her around and head her
away just following the roads
for maybe 10 or 80 miles on no
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-12
Industry Sees New Era
Of High Wages, Profits
BY PAUL MALLO\

THESE arc Just the beginnings
Il of thought on the subject.
but probably the most heartcn-
ing evidence that postwar
maladluStment can be Avoided
as has been brought forth.
The assumption by private
business leadership Of RESPONSE
bIlity for employment II seems
10 me, Will not. however, relieve
the governments of considerable
overall responsibility for the
success Of such a plan The
government, too, could well
cooperate.
Its tura ! responsibility
would be 10 maintain the sharp
est competition in private hu~l-
ness. thus furthcrlnC the low
cost policy and exert various
mild but rigid prCSSureS 10 keep
II on the line Of stability.
For instance. a cooperative
government might institute a
sliding scale tax policy 10 help
the program work. raising rates
if over-cNpanSion appeared. and
reducing rates If symptom, of
undcr-productlon became cyl-
dent.
INDEED. 2 benevolent govern
L ment could police the low
price policy effectively and thus
assure its success. II could hold
back its own plan Of vast public
works expenditures National
Resources Planning Board re-
port and shut off spending
entirely. and cConomizIng
sharply in government as bust
ness proceed on a satisfactory
course
Later il could release public
works projects 10 whatever
extent declining situation
might eventually require. The
realities Of the current outlook
logically ncCCSSitate this, any
way
This country now us out Of
everything. as an editor has
written 10 mo. II viii take at
least three 10 FIVE postwar years
or moro 10 Get the things We
need In those days There VIII
be plenr| of work for every one
with high wages. thus no need
for new deallSm
Democracy can he made to
work, II we only try.
Distributed by King Features Synt Inc.
Reproduction In whole mr. 10 part
strictly prohibited.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-12

thesis that the final arbiter of battle is the
infantry.
THIS war is struggle between man and
j machine Powerful as the machine has
become it is still the man who wins or loses.
The weakness of machine warfare after
all, lies in its limitations.
Air power is limited by its bases and by
weather; tanks are limited by the terrain
as we'll as by counterweapons.
Mechanical arms are useless when ammu-
milton runs out as 1t invariably will.
Every field of battle is strewn with the
wrecks of tanks.
But the dismounted man fights on and
be can doubtless fight longer on foot than
can the motor-powered machines of modern
war.
The old motto of the American foot soldier
can still be repeated:
The infantry is never exhausted. II can
always take another step and fire another
shot"
1t is the last element in battle to break
down or to cease fighting.
THE weapons of this typical soldier fall into
L two categories. They are the missile and
the blade
They make his fight at distance and his
fight face 10 face and close at hand.
Mans conquest over the animal kingdom
his conquest one over another rested upon
his ability to hurl missile and to stab with
a blade.
He began warfare by hurting stones.
He gradually invented the dart the bow
and arrow the cross bow and, finally, the gun,
the pistol and rifle and the hand grenade.
His blade likewise had long evolution.
II began with Clipped stone, filling the
hollow of the hand.
II advanced 10 A stone ground celt fitted
in a wooden handle a tomahawk, 70 a spear
or lance, held not hurled to a sword IN
manifold shapes and designs
Il included clubs the mace, the AK the
halberd,
After the invention Of the musket Il
produced the bayonct
BY these man won his battles through
which not only nations but also races sur
vived
LIE HAS always trusted 70 these weapons
III the missile which ne could hur or dis
charge, and the blade which he could grasp.
He trusts to them still and whatever be
the mcchanisms Of warfare he VIII never
throw them away.
Battle consists for him Of two movements
to advance and TO engage hand 70 hand
To do the first, he needs the help Of the
missile
For the second and final phase Of fight.
he relies on the blade
Fire and 60 forward-this is the nvariable
rule by which battles have been won and
wars concluded
Everything else and all Of mans military
inventions seem 20 be auxiliary 10 the funda-
mental operation that has determined fighting
IN all ages and promises 20 determine it in
this war
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-12

" 4 few enlightened business
leaders and economists outside
the government are cropping
toward a new postwar plan to
furnish fun employment.
They are working in a dlrcC-
ton opposite 10 the depression
groove thinkers of the New
Deal, a direction suggested in
this column published July T.
which would make democracy
work efficiently instead OF
abandoning IT for centralized
government and totalitarlan con-
trolls.
80 Their idea seems to he 10
keep wages up, prices low prof
its up They would do this by
developing mass production be-
You'd anything we have known
up 10 now in this machine age.
NOR theoretical example.
L they would take refriger-
ator which sold formerly for
$500 plan to produce and sell
three or four times as many for
half as much They can hope
10 do this because industry now
has fast machine tools already
established on acres OF concrete
floors, and because the technical
cost Of manufacturing, AS every
one knows. decreases sharply as
mass production increases.
1t would be done without
much reduction in labor war
wages. thus maintaining pur-
chasing power and, therefore,
is something which the unions
might we'll got behind. Their
slogan could he
"Sell more at lower prices"
Technically. their scheme Is
known as a low price policy
THE initial idea has been
Il under unconCealed discus
SlonS among business people for
the past few months.
In March. an official Of Cen
eral Electric. David {. Prince.
advanced an idea of maintain
ing Sl1O,OO0.000,000 of purchaS-
ING power in American postwar
market by careful private bust
ness planning and chronological
improvements.
The Aluminium Company Of
America has published paid adj
vertlSementS since January urG-
ING a business system of 'lmagl-
necrinC. - for postwar based on
a low price structure
The United States Chamber
NJ Commerce has done some
promotion "a Get business mon
10 assume the responsibility for
working out some such private
enterprise formula
NOW comes the BrookInCS
y Institution economist. Ed
win G. NourSc. gathering up
these various stray lines Of
thoughts and setting them forth
in booklet called Basic Crl-
terra Of Price Policy In this
pamphlet. the theory begins 10
assume proportions Of a round
cd-out substitute philosophy for
New DeahSm, the old negative,
defensive way Of providing Cm-
ploymcnt by artificial economic
tricks such as unbalanced
budgets and share-thc-work
plans,
MyANourse concluded the cur
rent situation is ripe for action
n the now direction Technical
developments in war production
have putE business 10 years
aaad|l that respect he says
with an Unprecedented number
Of skilled workers available
Ne docs MOI know whether
prices actually can be reduced
That an depends on 'hc out
como al me current inflaionarN
War price trend Nor has hc
laid down anything more than
some NhaSIc principles upon
which me theory might he
worked ouL
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-12

THIS nothing on the order
Il Of a beef you understand.
but Just an innocent. wholesome
explanation or speculation hav-
ing 10 do with our lack of crulS-
ing radius here in these Eastern
States. where they measure out
the gas with an eycdropper and
people, when they do venture
on the road. 20 turtlng along
AZ - miles an hour and cut her
off entirely and coast ON the
hills 10 stretch their mileage.
People aren't sore about this.
But they are slowly going
nuts. not because Of the incon-
NenIence Of limited and cramped
transportation for necessary
travel. but from a suppressed
longing 10 sling the old lady and
the kids. If any. into that mop
ing old buggy 50 mournful and
silent there IN the shed and
Just 60 for summer nights
drive
I imagine that Our feelings
along the eastern Scaboard are
something like those OF the un-
derEradS in Sing Sing when
they SEQ the night boats chug-
ClDg past in the Hudson. turn
Ing cool white feathers Off their
bows. or hear the stylish. fast
trains growing through the
tunnel.
THERE she sits. IN the garage.
L the old Buick or tho Ford or
the ChrySler, still pretty good IN
the treadS but going stable
crazy like A barned-up Stced for
lack Of p pleasant, regardless
run 10 nowhere in particular in
the cool Of the evening. a sweet
refreshing thankful of ethyl at
one Of those heightened filling
stations, now going 10 rust and
weeds. a brcather IN the park
inE space while the family takes
on a few scoops Of beer with
checSe-on-rye and so home and
back TO the. stall
We may not have realized as
much but almost all Of us had
BECOME addlctS Of motion forUtS
OWN sane IN The Years since tho
other war as the roads grew
smoother and the tires almost
lnfallhlC.
Riding m tho car was one OF
our simple necessary rclaXa-
lions and. as this second sum-
NOR Of rationlng drag> along on
much smaller allowances and
with driving for pleasure
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-12
The World in ReDieW -
Infantry Faces Vital Test
BY MAJ. GEN. DAVID PRESCOTT BARROWS
Military Authority President Of the University california

THE Germans seemed to strive to convince
/ themselves that the combined attack
should come on July 3.
What the SOURCES of their conviction were
we can only speculate.
Undoubtedly date had been set, but it
was unlikely that the German command had
learned it.
Was the representation then, built on a
sort Of mystic belief in anniversaries or COM
binations of numbers, such seem to i'm
press the clouded mind of Hitler?
An attack by Americans on July would
have brought decisive action on July 4, a
significant date in the military as well as the
civil annals Of the United States
Vicksburg surrendered at 10 o'clock on
July 4, 1868.
The three days at Gettysburg we're the
first, second and third of July, and Lincoln
announced the victory to the nation on the
morning Of July a.
The destruction Of the Spanish squadron
off Santiago de Cuba occurred on July 3.
DUT after ait, a clear military mind is not
ID governed by dates.
Other factors are more imperative in the
opening Of battles.
NJ uiSlil lNdl u dulNi'ilr- ANU lNdl WI
European gives any particular date better
chances Of fortune than another.
But the great battle to bring the Germans.
Italians and Japanese TO their knees was TO
start some time this summer
There must be preliminary actions the
gaining of islands and off-contnent footholds,
probably essential to continental invasion
which I've already discussed.
But certainly it would happen as
Churchill assured.
DEFORE this battle goes far, We will see
ID a type of action that in this war has not
been fully illustrated by American troops. 1t
will he a test Of infantry on both sides
We have grown familiar with attack from
the air, which has risen steadily in destruc-
tive power until apparently on every front
of this globa war, Allied airplanes are
supreme.
In the Tunisian campaign, interest CEN
tered around the employment Of tanks
The tank is essentially a shock weapon,
ike the elephants Of Hannibal, the chariots
Of the Egyptians and the phihstnes or like
the horses and riders that in A different
period of warfare, could be- used in close
charging squadrons to rupture the firm
masses Of an enemy
We have already in this war learned some
thing about tanks. We've learned what they
can do, and we are beginning to understand
what they cannot do.
notable conflict Of military opinion
preceded this war-an argument between adj
vocates Of small, mechanical armies. Of whom
the two most heard about were Won Seeckt
and De Gaulle and those that still believed
that battles are won by the heaviest bat.
alions. that man is never so formidable as
when fighting on foot, with a weapon he
can clutch in his hand
The conflict in Russia seems 20 sustain tho
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-12

I THINK tho people Of the
L last have been very game
and SportSmanllkc about II all,
although some necessary mNs-
terry is made Of the reason why.
There is general acceptance
Of tho proposition that the gas
wC don { get Is going 10 Europe
and Africa
n there were some way toN
drain of little from. say
Illinois and Indiana. TO raise our
allowance. that would be real
nice. Of course. but nobody has
shown that II can he done and.
IN the absence Of proof that it
can probably ~ can't
There is no g. reason ~ why
Harold IckcS should be sore at
the East lie always got good
pluralItJcS around here
II isn't anger or annoy
that is getting US down around
here.
We are Just going stlr-cralN
that's all
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-12

Al money sent AZ sender's FISK DO not
send cash ur stamps. an checks. drafts
md money orders should he made paNanie
20 THE TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY
international News Service has The eNclu.
eve riErfs ~ use for reproduction m any
form an rsps disrafches credited - Il or
not otherwise credited IN this paper.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-12

any hOdN
NOBODY around these parts
y has done anything like that
for a year
And ! have noticed that some
public officials who have legitl-
mate crrand> Of more than 10
miles nowadays pack the loved
ones along 10 lct them review
old scenes and breathe some o.
that country air, and somehow
look moro like Sapger'S Circus
or Gypsy John Mitchell and
family than dlgnitarieS Of state.
We here may not realize Il
and the people IN the Middle
West. The West and South lust
can Get the idea not having
been through the experience
But after a while like those
boys IN sing Sing sou begin 20
pine for a glimpse Of an ordj-
nary crossroads over the ridge
or Tho bouquet Of jooS lunch
on the Post road 30 miles away,
hamburger lOlnt and a dump
of Tho purcSt ray, 70 he sure.
hat as dear 10 your heart IS
the scenes Of your childhood.
Fond recollection still pro-
ScntS them 20 view but the film
isn't distinct, and moreover tho
trip over and back was very
important
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-12

business whatever. but ws'
20 he MOVING and gong ard
WITTY no CNplan7lons or lies 10
any body
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-12
xl TIMES

Published every Week I1at kEeninE ana
sunday Morning rs The Times Furnishing
Company A. 1928 Times square. Detroit 81.
Michigan
Entered al Detroit Mich as second class
Mail Mater
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-12
GIN Unit Orders
10p 1OO NInl0n

Tho Electro-Motive division OF
General Motors Corp now has
outstanding Orders apptoxiirlatIilg
St05.660 for DIcSct-cieCtTT-
locomotives, according to a report
to employees in the company S
house organ, The Streamliner."
The backlog includes orders for
freight locomotives, SWitcherS and
passenger engines. but does not
include bookings for navy work
The firms La Grange. H., plant
is handling a large volume Of
contracts for the navy including
production Of variable-pltch pro-
pellerS.
This work gets precedence on
available supplies of raw ma
teriaiS and building Of locomo-
tives goes on with such other sup
plies as are obtainable
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-12
Records Forecast in
Beans, Peas and Rice

WASHINGTON, Sept II tUPt
War Food Administration off
cials said today that an indicated
1913 crop production second only
TO 1912 would meet essential mill
tary and-cfrtffat1- ffeeds.--
At the same time plans being
prepared for 1914 call for still
greater production. Officials eX-
pect that crop acreage viii be IN
creased next year but that live
stock production Will be less.
The agriculture department
forecast of 1913 food and feed
crops indicated total production Z
per cent less than last year but
4 per cent greater than In any
other year.
Record crops Of beans, peas,
soybeanS, peanuts. rice, potatoes,
flaXseed and grapes were fore
east. Prediction of hay, oats,
barley and grain sorghums will
be above normal, the department
said
The indicated corn crop Of
1885 100000 bush Q ;, although
nearly 8 per cent below that Of
last -year.=wiIi -be=the- second
largest since 1920 and the fourth
largest on record. The new eSti-
mate is 100000 bushels higher
than a month ago.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-12
Buyer-Se||er
Group TO Aid
On Pricing Policy

WASHINGTON, Sept. II tUP)
The Office of Price Admins
tration announced today that it
had invited 30 retail businessmen
and six consumer and labor
representatives 10 advise IT on
pricing policies in retail goods
sales other than food
The buyer-seller group will
meet for the first time with OPA
officials next Wednesday, The
OPA viii seek at that time in
formation and recommendations
looking toward the establishment
of an overall price regulation
designed TO simplify compliance.
Simplification IS one of the main
objectives of general manager
Chester BoWleS, R-additIon, OPA
is determined 10 hold prices al
the Sept. Is, 1912. level
For retail stores the committee
=to=mcpt-wItf1=efA-rT=r- nd c=S=
Bernard r. Glmbel of G.mbel
Brothers, Inc. New YORK, Edward
n Allen, president of the Ma
tional Retail DrygoodS ASSoci-
alton. and David r. Craig Of
the American Retail Federation,
Washington.
Consumer REPRESENTATIVES, are
Mrs. AShe |. Crane Of the League
of Women Shoppers Washing
ton: Mrs. Harriet Rowe American
II ONE Economics Association,
also Mashinftaft@Aifs-11hMhfd
T.. Perry Of the National Grange
Route 6. York. Pa, and Miss
Madeline Ross of Consumers
Union, New York City,
The committee VIII meet with
Director Reagan p Gonnatiy of
the consumer goods division OF
-0PA, c0nnattY formerly WIS
president of the Interstate De-
partment Stores