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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-23
ATTACK on Soviet
Called Success
By Germans

BERLIN. June %. -- Reporting
only briefly on the RuSso-German
War. the high command COM
Imunique today announced that the
attack on the Soviet was every
where proceeding according TO
plan and successfully"
The communique on Russia
read:
"In the East, the fighting Of
the army and air force against
the Red Army Is proceeding ac-
cording to plan and successfully.
'In the Eastern Baltic, motor
torpedo boats advanced into the
coastal waters of the Soviet
Union and sank one coastal
patrol boat and four enemy mer-
chant ships.
lin the Black Sea. German
and Rumanian formation of
light naval units was unsuccess-
fully shelled by Soviet coastal
batteries while making a recon-
naissance tour"
RACES ON ALL FRONTS
But the Battle Against Britain
reported the communique, rageo
on at all fronts.
German submarines sank Si>
| British merchantmen totaling 26,.
500 tons in the North Atlantic and
South Atlantic. Three British
lfreighters totaling 1000 tons
were sunk by NaZi planes in Brit
fish coastal waters.
Nazi planes ranged over Eng
land again last night. bombing
dockss in the Thames Estuary
air fields in North Scotland and
military detectives on the British
southeast coast.
IL PLANES FELLED
Eelven more British planes were
shot down yesterday, the com
munique claimed, while attempt
ing TO attack German bases or
the French coast.
German and Italian plane!
again attacked Tobruk, in Libya
where the British garrison is sur
rounded. The British naval bas'
rat Alexandria again was ra1det
last night.
The British attack on Bremen
and other points in western Ger
many was dismissed as causini
only minor damake in Residential
sections,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-23
Soviet Mystery Man
Red Armys Boss, Tin1oshenko, Won Finnish War,
Then Recognized Whole Military Setup

1.-THE purges and the Finnish war.
Then he replaced Voroshilov as
war commissar.
The new leader Of the Red Army
tore the entire military organiZa-
tion apart in reorganization
which eliminated the Bolshevik
ideas which had been unsuccessful
in Finland.
CURBS COMMIssARS
He stripped the political COM
missars of their power and let
the soldiers run the army. He
reinstituted the system of rank,
right down TO the non-commis-
stoned officers. putting an end 10
the old "comrade" idea under
which a buck private might have
felt free TO dispute an officers
command
The military salute was brought
back. discipline frightened drasti-
cally and the guard house brought
back TO prominence for evil-doers.
In short, the Red Army was
brought back TO the working basis
of an army instead of A Commu-
mist politicians idea of what an
army could be made to resemble.
Born a peasant in Bessarabia,
Timoshenko is familiar with every
nook and Granny of the battle
lground over which the German
invaders must pass if they are 10
reach tho Ukraine.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-23
HITLER's HOPES

Hitler hopes, no doubt, that
all this can be accomplished be-
fore Winter comes. and If he can
overwhelm Great Britain before
the fleets and air power OF the
United States might intervene,
he hopes that he may once again
repeat. upon a greater scale than
ever before, that process OF de-
stroying his enemies one by one,
by which he has so long thrived
and prospered, Churchill said.
so now, this bloodthirsty
guttersnipe must launch his
mechanical armies upon new
fields of slaughter F.. Even the
carnage and ruin which his vic
tory, should he gain it--and he
has not gained it yet-will bring
upon the Russian people will he
only a stepping-stone 10 the at
tempt 10 plunge the 400, 900
or 500, 600. 900 who live in China
and the 350.000.000 people who
live in India into that bottom
less pit of degradation over
which the diabolical emblem Of
the swastika flouts itself
The Nazi regime is indistin-
guishable from the worst features
of communism. II is devoid OF
all principle except appetite and
racial domination No one
has been a more consistent OPP
ponent OF communism tn a n ]
have for the last 25 years
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-23
The Weather
HOURLY TEMPERATURES

The sun Will set pt So p m TODAY.
and rise tomorrow an $50 a. M
The moon sets today a. 05 p m
and rises tomorrow 81 sos a m
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-23
Britain i'm Dilemma Over Poland.
.Japan After Pledge I'D Aid Soviet
Finland Not at War,
but Poles Still Foes
of Russians
BY GEORGE LAIT
I,tl News Service stan correspondent

LONDON. June q. - PnSc
Minister Winston Churchill :
pledge Of assistance 10 SoNlet
Russia in IT'S conflict with German
invaders left the British foreign
office in a rather difficult as well
as pulling situation. TO-DAY N us
relations with Finland, the Polish
commandments. Turkey and
Japan. .,
As a result Of the Churchill
pledge Joint British Soviet battle
plans were predicted rs soon a.
conferences between the British
and Russian general STATS can be
arranged.
Foreign office officials said au-
thoritatlVe advice reaching them
indicated Russia and Finland were
not al war despite the German
claims 10 the contrary. Adolph
Hitler's statement that Finland
was marching with Germany
against Russia they dismissed as
'wistful thinking
The Films" said a foreign Of
fetal. "are not allied with Ger
many and there IL no confirma-
ton of reports they are fighting
with Germany. hut Britain re-
serves the right 10 attack the
Germans wherever she finds
them"
POLES STILL AT WAR
The Polish government-in-eXile,
moreover. still has a formal decla-
ration Of war i'm effect against
Soviet Russia which Churchill now
proposes to help. This declaration
has been in effect since 1889 when
Moscow received a share oil 20
land from Hitler.
Another troublesome question
was what position Britain should
take il Japan helps Germany
against Russia.
Turkey has given the British
government an assurance that she
viii net permit the passage oil
Axis troops and materials through
her territory.
AIluIGlllh piCASN Va 49,
STA was made IN a radio ADDRESS
10 the world which called upon
the United States and Britain $
trends and allies in every part OF
the world 10 take the same course
and pursue it steadfastly to the
end.
He pledged that Britain will
bomb Germany night and day with
cver-increasing ferocity, and de-
clared that within six months The
weight of American lease-lend aid,
especially in heavy bombers, VIII
begin 10 swing the scales toward
Britain and her allies.
Denouncing Hitler as monster
- wickedneSs. Churchill said Ger
lnany's invasion Of Russia came as
no SUNRISE to him. In fact, he
aid he had warned Soviet Premier
oSef Stain that Nazi invasion
as coming.
Churchill described the latest
erman outrage" as = prelude TO
attempted invasion of the Brit
h Isles.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-23
MUST DESToY NAILS

"I will unsay no words that I
have spoken about II tcommu-
nism). But all this fades away
before the spectacle which Is
now unfolding. The past with
it's crimes, its follieS, lis TRACE
dies flashes away
None can doubt what our
policy will be. We have but one
aim. and one single, irrevocable
purpose-we are resolved 10 de-
stroy Hitler and every vcstige
Of his Nszi regime
From this, nothing will turn
nothing. We will never par
ley. we Will never negotiate with
Hitler or any OF his men
1--WE have offered the govern
n1ent OF Soviet Russia any iech-
meal or economic assistance
which is in our power and which
Is likely 70 be Of service 10 them
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-23
FORECAST

For Detroit and
vicinity:
Partly cloudy
with occasional
showers and
cooler today;
Tuesday fair
with seasonal
temperature.
Todays pollen
count is 112
Evening star., 1941-03-04
House to Demand
More Details on
Arms Progress


Congressional resentment over
War Department silence on many
aspects of the defense program crys-
tallized today when the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee voted Sc
cretly to summon Secretary of Wal
Stimson and Gen. George c. Mar
shall, chief of staff, for questioning
Thursday.
Specifically, members said, the
group was anxious for details on the
progress being made in rearmine
the land forces and on the amount
of equipment already sent to Great
Britain.
Informed sources said the refusa
last week of Secretary Stimson tc
furnish such information to COM
mittee members prompted the in
PRODUCTION of today's resolution
which, it was learned, was adopted
unanimously.
One committeeman expressed be-
lief after today's meeting that the
tight-lipped policy adopted by the
War Department and Army officer;
had President Roosevelt's approval.
In recent weeks members of the
committee also have complained ir
open sessions of their inability tc
obtain information from the de-
partment relative to constructive
projects and other phases of the
defense program.
Evening star., 1941-03-04
u. 5. May Rest Case
AGAINST Medical
Defendants Today
Doctors Counsel Expected
To File Motion for
Acquittol Verdict
By HAROLD B. ROGERS.

John Henry levin, special assist
ant to the Attorney General, an
nounced in District Court today that
Federal prosecutors in the medical
antitrust case planned to conclude
evidence and rest Professionally"
this afternoon.
The trial, of Nationwide impor-
tance, involves four medical groups,
including the American Medical As
sociation and 20 doctors of Chicago
and Washington, who are charged
with conspiracy to destroy Group
Health Association, medical coop
erative of Government workers
here, in violation of the Sherman
Act. The trial began February S.
Mr.. Lewin's announcement came
as court recessed for lunch today.
Acquittal Motion Expected.
Defense counsel plan to file a
series of motions, it was understood,
including, in all probability, one for
a directed verdict of acquittal.
The morning session was devoted
principally to the story of another
woman patient who was taken to a
hospital and denied use of the serv-
ices of the Group Health Associa-
ton surgeon, DR.. Raymond E.
Selders.
The prosecution read into the rec
ord in the presence of the jury a
series of letters in an attempt to
link DR.. Selder's own medical organ
ization, the Harris County CTex.)
Medical Society with the alleged
conspiracy. The documents dis
closed that charges had been pre-
ferred against DR.. Selders for "un-
ethical conduct because he joined
the group practice of G. H. A. But
the society in Texas, it was shown
in documents read by Walton Allen
of the prosecution staff, later dis
missed the charges due to the vari-
Gus legal questions involved in the
case"
DR.. Selders, who resigned from
G. H. A. later on, is now reported to
be practicing medicine in Texas.
Woman's Case Submitted.
The hospital case presented to the
Jury this morning was that of Mrs.
Harriet A. Austin, 72, now of Chevy
Chase, Md, who in 1888 had been
struck by an automobile and taken
to Emergency Hospital. She recalled
briefly her experience, but the story
was unfolded to the jury in detail
by her daughter, Mrs. Edwina Aus
tin Avery. Mrs. Austin was received
at the hospital, her daughter said,
and was examined by an inferno and
(see MEDICAL, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1941-03-04
BY JOHN C. HENRY.

Linking the developments with
present opposition to the lease-lend
legislation, a charge that efforts are
being made to inject poison" into
the Nations mobilization for defense
was made today by Stephen T.
Early, secretary of President Roose-
velt.
Mr.. Early's accusation was made
at a press conference this morning
in response to questioning about re-
ports that the President planned to
dismiss the present executives Of
the Office of Production Manage
ment and to administer the defense
program jointly with a special cabi-
net group.
For weeks, Mr.. Roosevelt has con-
suited regularly with the Secretaries
of State, Treasury, War and Navy
and their principal advisers on the
status of the defense program and
all aspects of this Nations readiness
to defend itself.
Evening star., 1941-03-04
Abandoned Baby Found
On Sidewalk Here

A 6-week-old girl was being cared
for at Gallinger Hospital today after
having been found abandoned on g
street S.W. last night.
Leon Case, of 703 S street S.w..
said the child was found in paste
board carton on the sidewalk in
front of his house by friend, James
Chapplear.
Mr.. Case said Mr.. Chapplear had
just left his apartment about / am,
when he found the box placed near
a tree. Mr.. Chapplear ran back
upstairs with the baby, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Case tried to feed the child
with little warm water from an
eye-dropper. They called the police,
and Miss Rose M. Richards of the
Women's Bureau, took the child to
Gallinger.
DR.. Edgar A. Bocock said the
child's condition seemed normal and
satifactory, with no evidence of
fever. When found, the child had
bruise on its cheek, police said.
The baby wore a pink cap, one
pink crocheted bootie, thin white
jacket and a turtle-neck sweater.
A brown ragged comforter was in
the bottom of the carton, and the
child was wrapped in four crib
blankets. There were no marks
of identification.
Evening star., 1941-03-04
Early Denies Plan to Exclude
O. P. M. From Defense Action

AT the same time, responsibility
for the production end of the de-
fense program has rested primarily
in the o. P. M. and the Chief Exec
utive likewise has maintained con-
slant contact with William S. Knud-
sen and Sidney Hillman, directors
of this agency.
In effect, Mr.. Early's remarks this
morning we're that this arrange
ment will be continued.
"It is very natural" Mr.. Early
said, that when the lease-lend bill
passes the President will act with
an advisory group of his cabinet.
There is nothing new about that;
he has acted up to the present with
such a group and will continue to
do so.
''It cannot be taken to mean in
any way that in advising and act
ing with the cabinet he will do so
to the exclusion of the o. P. M. off,
cials. They have very specific and
(See DEFEMSE, Page A-6)
Evening star., 1941-03-04
Cold Wave Due
Tonight; Mercury
To Drop to 10

The preview of spring yester-
dav that had Washingtonians
shedding their coats will end
abruptly tonight with an expect
ed low of 16 degrees, according
to the weatherman. This repre-
sents a drop of So degrees from
the high of IS reported yesterday.
At noon, the time the Presi-
dent would have taken his oath
of Office ur er the old March 4
Inauguration date, the thermom-
eter stood at 46 degrees. At
the same time on the new In
auguration Day, January 20, citi-
zens, gathered to hear the Presi-
dent, shivered in a 29-degree
cold.
Weather officials said, however,
that today was not typical March
4 weather. The temperature
should be much lower than what
it is, they declared.
The cold wave, bringing the
city back to normal and then
some, is expected out of the
Northwest.
Tomorrow will be fair and con-
tinued cold, with slowly rising
4 temperature on Thursday.
Evening star., 1941-03-04
Man Held in New York
Staying Confesses
Choking Dc. Woman
Washington Victim
Was Attacked and
Robbed of JeweIry

A 23-year-old man arrested in
New York City has confessed the
strangulation Staying of a woman
in New York and the choking and
robbing of Mrs. Ruth Franco, 90,
in her Washington apartment in
the 300 block of Rhode Island ave-
nue. NE, on February IT, New York
authorities reported today.
Chief of Detectives Bernard
Thompson said he had received
word from New York that George
Joseph Cvek of Harrisburg, Pa, had
admitted the Washington attack.
The Associated Press quoted Dis
trict Attorney Samuel j. Foley of
the Bronx as saying that Cvek had
admitted these and 13 other attacks
on women throughout the East.
Inspector Thompson revealed that
six New York detectives had come
here for several days last month to
"scour" the city for the man who
attacked Mrs. Franco in the belief
that he was also the slayer of the
New York woman, Mrs. Catherine
Pappas. in her Bronx home on Feb
ruary 4.
District Attorney Foley told the
Associated Press that Cvek, who
was arrested in the early morning
hours yesterday by Bronx detec-
tives, used the pretense of friend
ship with the husband to gain en-
trance to the women's homes-the
same used in Mrs. Frances case
here.
Mrs. Franco told police of the
time that the man called at her
apartment about 2 pm. on the day
of the attack and inquired about
"Joe"-her husband, Joseph Franco,
a hotel employe. Leaving after be-
ing told Mr.. Franco was not In
the man then returned about three
hours later, and Mrs. Franco chat
ted with him for nearly an hour
before he forced her into a bed
room, according to Capt. Ira E.
Keck, assistant chief of detectives.
Police here theorized that Mrs.
n
Evening star., 1941-03-04
Port Of Cardiff Raked
By Nazi Planes in
Great Fire Raid
Smoking Ruins Mark
Trail of Destruction;
BIuzes Are Put Out
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOClaIeQ FIcSe
CARDIFF, Wales, March 4.-This
important southwest port was raked
for hours last night by hail of in
cendiary bombs in what officials de-
scribed as one of the greatest fire
raids of the war.
Great fires were raging at the
height of the attack, but all were
under control this morning. Smoking
ruins marked a trail of destruction
across the city.
During the night the American
Red Cross sent ambulance units
from London, $50 miles away.
The number of casualties could
not be determined Immediately.
With widespread fires lighting the
city, the German bombers followed
up with high explosives.
Real Pyrotechnic Display.
Cardiff's Chief Constable James
Wilson said, 1T was real pyrotech-
mic display. I doubt if any town
has had more incendiary bombs
showered upon it in any one raid"
In one hospital where surgeons
were working over bomb casualties
one Of the operating theaters was
struck, but no casualties resulted.
Motion picture theaters were
showing to capacity crowds when
the fire bombs began to fall. In
some the audiences remained seated,
joining in community singing while
nearby business blocks were burning.
Britons said the assault was in line
with the new German strategy of
using bombers to fight the British
sea blockade by raiding ships, har-
bors and harbor facilities. The
Luftwaffe was said to have been
using about $50 bombers nightly in
these forays.
1t was officially stated that one
of the German raiders over Cardiff
-
Evening star., 1941-03-04
New Wright Field
Strike Breaks Out;
Army Denounees Il
'EssentiuI' Defense Work
Held Up; Ford Mediation
Attempts Continued
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
An A. F. L. strike broke out again
today at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio
and War Department officials for
mally blamed it for holding up work
essential to the expansion" of "one
of the most important military air.
craft centers in the United States.
The department said in state
ment that the strike was called as
result of resumption of work by
the Penner Installation Corp. un-
der it's s36,800 contract for in
stalling electrical equipment in one
building.
A previous A. F. L. strike at Wright
Field ended late in January when
the Penner firm, which uses G. I. o
labor, withdrew its men from the
job.
S5,900,00 Work Affected.
Today's strike affected construc-
ton work totaling about S5 900, 900
It halted work, the department
statement said, on a wind tunnel,
torque stand, aircraft radio labora-
tory, the Administration Building
and the dynamometer laboratory.
John Briedenbach, local A. F. L.
leader who called the strike, was
out of the city and not available
for statement.
Seek to Avert Ford Strike.
The State of Michigan and the
Federal Department of Labor strove
independently today to head off
strikes at three Ford Motor Co.
plants in the Detroit area.
Gov. Van Wagner named a spe-
cial commission to try to conciliate
the disputes, although the State
Mediation Board ruled at about the
same hour yesterday that the strikes
could not become effective for 80
days after the call.
James +. Dewey, Federal concili-
ator who has entered into previous
controversies between the company
and the union, was expected to meet
Michael F. Widman, jr., director of
the unions organizational drive at
the Ford plants.
Later Mr.. Dewey was to confer
with Thomas j. Donahue, chair
man of the State Mediation Board,
and members of the special COM
mission appointed by Gov. Van
Wagner.
The fact that Ford has $154,-
900, 900 in national defense orders
and employs about $4,000 men at
the Rouge, Highland Park and Lin
1Cao cTPIKES pane ~
Evening star., 1941-03-04
Turkish Cabinet Holds Session
To Study Message From Hitler
Meeting Called After German Mission
Confers With President Inonu

companied German mission which
presented the message, to thank the
Fuehrer.
Nothing, however, was disclosed
as to the contents of the message.
Qn Sofia, authoritative diplo-
matte quarters said the message
was an attempt to get Turkey to
trade her British alliance for one
with Germany-"since only the
Reich can protect Turkey against
the historic designs of Russia.")
The German plane is expected to
leave Ankara tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the government asked
all industries to report at once on
the maximum productive capacities
of their stocks of raw materials. The
Minister of National Defense and
the Minister of the Interior went to
Istanbul on an inspection tour of
European Turkey.
The German mission met Inonu
and Sukru Saracoglu, Turkish for
eign minister, at noon and remained
a half hour with them.
Speculation about the message
ranged from belief it gave assur.
ances that Germany does not in
tend to attack Turkey to belief it
(See MISSION, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1941-03-04
Britain 10 Shut Down
Civilian Industries
For Arms Making
Factories to Release
10000 Workers
To Munitions Works
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, March 4-Closure or
consolidation of dozens of factories
engaged in some of Britain's largest
traditional peacetime industries was
announced today by the British gov
ernment to release as many as 750,-
900 men and women for arms manu-
facture.
More than so industrial enterprises
employing a million workers will be
affected.
(This sort of economic con-
solidation for military purposes
was carried out in Germany long
before the war;
The program was announced to
the House of Commons by Oliver
Lyttleton, president of the Board of
Trade, a cabinet post.
The first industries to be affected
will be hosiery, pottery, textile and
leather.
Mr.. Lyttleton explained that the
government, through its absolute
control of raw materials, would
either force the factories to close
down or consolidate.
Leaders Being Called in.
Estimates of the number of in
dustries to be affected ranged from
so to 80. Their leaders are being
called in by the government to
draft details. They are expected to
make consolidation arrangements
among themselves with the govern
ment helping to absorb losses.
Mr.. Lyttleton explained that no
legislation was requested because
the Government already controls
the flow of raw materials and labor.
1t also has the power under De-
fense Acts to conscript manufactur-
ing plants.
He mentioned hosiery, pottery,
the major textile industries, boots,
shoes and some others" as the first
to be hit because they provide the
main source of factory trained labor
for munitions"
Part-Time Work Ruled Out.
The government, he said, has
ruled out part-time work in these
industries as uneconomical and, he
declared:
THE policy of the Government
must therefore be to concentrate
production in reduced number Of
factories working full time"
Under the plan, one firm in many
cases is expected to do the work of
three, preserving all three trade
marks.
The Board of Trade is to "do
everything possible" to see that
closed plants retain their good will
and restart in good condition" after
the war,