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Evening star., 1941-06-05
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Whether the British general
staff will attempt to stave off
the forthcoming Axis onslaughts
on the present positions in Asia
Minor and North Africa, or fol.
low the more logical course of
defending shorter line is a
matter believed to be under dis
cussion at the moment in Eng
land.
Gen. Wavell's command can
not hope to obtain substantial
reinforcements soon. While the
exact strength of the imperial
force in the Eastern Mediter-
ranean is a military secret, it is
generally believed that it cannot
exceed 100000 to $50, 900 men. The
equipment of this force is ade-
quate, but there is not much ex-
cesses war material from which to
draw in the event of heavy losses.
The line the British must hold
is much too extended for a COM
paratively small force.
Axis Superior In Air.
Against this force the Axis dis
poses of some 100000 men in
North Africa alone. The num-
ber of troops to be used in the
Near East depends on the trans
portation facilities. 1t is gen.
orally believed that the Germans
could draw from their Balkan
armies between 100000 and 50O,-
600 men for an intensive CAM
paign in Palestine, Transjordania,
Syria and Iraq.
The disparity of the air forces
Is more acute. The German su-
periority is believed to be 3to1.
Furthermore, the Axis main
tains the initiative. This means
that it can concentrate a ma jor
effort at given point whenever
it chooses to do so. The British
will have to meet the threat with
everything available and must
draw for that purpose men and
war material from weaker
force to the detriment Of other
sensitive" points.
The inevitable war with the
French might bring about
further unpleasant surprises. The
possibility-vague as it appears
Evening star., 1941-06-05
This Changing World
British Face Hard Decision on Defense Of
Eastern Mediterranean Against Axis Forces

at present-that the entire
French North African Army
under Gen. weygand's command
should turn actively against the
British forces is not being dis
counted,
Under the circumstances, the
wisdom of defending the Eastern
Mediterranean is being ques-
toned not only in American but
also in many British military
quarters. 1t would be unques-
tionably a painful blow to
British pride to be compelled to
give up a position which was
heretofore considered impreg-
nable. Napoleon at the height
of his military glory was not
able to diSlodge the British from
their Mediterranean hold.
Strategic Withdrawal Weighed.
In certain military quarters
where the situation is being
studied carefully, it is believed
the British could establish an
almost impregnable position if
they were to withdraw from Up
per Egypt and establish a line
running more or less from Port
Sudan, in the Red Sea, to Khar-
toum, the capital of the Anglo
Egyptian Sudan.
The Italians have been cleaned
up from Eritrea, Somaliland and
Ethiopia. Between that posi-
tion and the Mediterranean shore
are the Nubian and the Libyan
deserts, which at this time of
the year offer a natural defense
against potential invading
army. Furthermore, 1t is argued,
the authority of the Vichy gov
ernment does not extend-or is
only nominal-over the whole
region of West Africa. This
means that the British and the
followers of Gen. de Gaulle could
maintain contact over Central
Africa to the Atlantic without
serious handicaps.
Forces Adequate.
The present forces of Britain
ana the existing war material is
considered more than ample to
meet any possible menace from
the Axis powers-including the
French.
Evening star., 1941-06-05
Grants Wide Powers.

OTdHtS Uiuc fOWeTS.
The administration has not
been willing to have Congress
pass law which would outlaw
strikes in national defense plants
strikes and lockouts both-during
period in which mediation
steps could be taken. Now it
comes alcng with a proposition
so drastic in affecting every
citizen of the country that it has
left Senators and Representatives
gasping. The bill, prepared at the
War Department, it is said, and
introduced by the chairmen of
the House and Senate Military
Affairs Committees-by request
gives the President authority,
when he deems it in the interest
of national defense, to requisi-
ton and take over, "either tenn
porarily or permanently" any
property, real or personal, tangi-
BILE or intangible. belonging to
any one. Under the terms of the
bill as introduced, he could take
a citizens bank account or a rail-
road, a manufacturing plant or
a home. e---
1t will be said the President
would never take bank account
or a home. But the power is
there, and when power is given,
there is no telling whether it
will be used or not-generally it
is used. Furthermore, the Presi-
dent is authorized TO take any.
thing he believes necessary and
to sell it to another person. He
could take a factory and sell it
to competitor of the owner.
1t would make far more sense
If there were written into the
bill a list of things which the
President would be empowered to
take for national defense than
Evening star., 1941-06-05
.McLemore-...
Coteehism to Keep
Peuce About the War
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

1nterventionists! IsolstionistsI
The country is full of them, the
Senate is full of them, Congress Is
full Of them, and now my home is
full Of them.
Yours must be too. They are be-
coming a problem.
Arguments spring up without the
drop of a hat, fights develop from
Evening star., 1941-06-05

by the Federal
Government vir-
tually took over
the Oil business
and appointed
the Secretary of
the In t erior
Ickes as Admin
istrator.
Some oil eX-
ecutives e say the
dis organizat ton
in Washington
with reference
IN the handling
of petro leum
Evening star., 1941-06-05

tor In modern
war. This is a
lesson which the
Germans learned
long ago, and
have ppli e d
with almost un-
varying success
to every move
they have made.
1t is a lesson
which the de-
mocracies, in
cluding our own,
seem to learn
Evening star., 1941-06-05

home becomes his battle-ground as
Crete falls over by the piano and
Ethiopia is retaken near the radio.
More often than not these argu-
ments are started when the host or
hostess has convictions opposite to
those of some of the guests. AS a
public service, as believer in the
sanctity of the American home. I
have prepared series of questions
and answers for either side.
Controversial subjects are treated
and interventionist and isola ationist
answers are given for each. Here
it is:
What do you think OF Lind
bergh?
Interventionist: He is a man who
will be remembered for his Spirit
of st. Louis but not for his Spirit
of 1776.
Isolationist: He is a patriot who
knows from experience the perils
of flying alone against the world.
Who is Petain?
Interventionist: A French general
who raised He'll with his, own
people.
Isolationist: A great leader who sur
rendered his sword but not his
heart.
What do you think OF LdUdI?
Interventionist: He is nothing but
country" salesman.
Isolationist: consider him far
thinking Frenchman who did the
the only Reich thing under the
circumstances.
How do you feel about Eng
land?
Interventionist: 1t is tiny little
island fighting to preserve de-
mocracy's last foothold in Europe.
Isolationist: England is tiny little
island fighting to retain possess
sion of much more than her share
of the worlds surface and would
like to solicit Americas aid in
doing this.
What is your estimate OF
Roosevelt?
Interventionist: He is great leader
whose picture of the world does
not include any touches by a
housepainter.
Isolationist: To me he is just a man
who is tired of toying with mil.
lions of dollars, and who now has
turned to lives.
Ho11 do you feel about con-
poys?
Interventionist: They are boats
which will put Davey Jones on a
diet.
Isolationst: To me they are boats
which will put Davey Jones on
a diet, yes, a diet of American
sailors.
HotD do you feel about Burton
Wheeler?
Interventionist: He is a Senator
who never played follow the lead
er as child.
| 1solationiSt: To me he is a man
who rightfully refuses to believe
that European democracy is so
dead that 1t needs a blood trans.
fusion from the United States.
What do you think OF Gen.
De Gdulle?
Inteventionist: A gallant French
man who maintains that 50,00O,-
600 Frenchmen can be wrong.
Isolationst: A misguided man, and
all of DeGaulle will be divided
into three parts before he realizes
his mistake.
Do you admire Claude Pepper
Interventionist: I consider him a
right-thinking Senator who be-
lieves that Uncle Sam should slap
all cheeks but turn none.
Isolationist: To me he is something
that escaped from Florida when
the Everglades were drained.
What is freedom OF speech?
Interventionist: A priceless Ameri-
can heritage that is menaced by
allowing isolationists the freedom
of speech.
1solationist: A priceless American
heritage that is menaced by all
lowing interventionists the free.
dom of speech.
Evening star., 1941-06-05
GreenbeIt Physiciun Leaves
By q staff Correspondent of Tn. star.

81 star correspondent Of Ths Star.
GREENBELT, Md, June 5.-Dr.
S. R. Berenberg, Greenbelt physi.
clan, has taken a leave of absence
from the local hospital to accept a
civil service post as physician on
the Pribilof Islands in the Bering
Sea. DR.. Berenberg, who will be
accompanied by his wife, has left
the community for the West Coast
where he will board a steamer at
Seattle on June 13.
Evening star., 1941-06-05

the icebox to the
loveseat, and no
m a t t er what
their convictions
may be the hosts
and hostesses of
America today
have to spen d
their time act
ing as If they
were Mr.. and
Mrs. A r I h u r
Donovan.
Eyes and char
acter are black
enpd A mans
Evening star., 1941-06-05
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lND II
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Evening star., 1941-06-05
BY MAJ. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.

Hardly a week-indeed. hardly a
day-of this war goes by without
some fresh illustration of the tran
scendent Importance of the time fac
Evening star., 1941-06-05

necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented In The
Stars effort to gDe all sides OF questions OF interest
readers although opinions may contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1941-06-05
Wedge Seen
ToControI
Industries
Oil Trade Poper
Sees First Step
In Naming Ickes
BY DAVID LAWRENCE,

Differing views are expressed
within the oil industry as to the
wisdom of President Roosevelt's
executive order last Saturday where
Evening star., 1941-06-05

Defense Mediation Board and the
board has been effective in get
ting many plants in operation
but almost invariably after there
has been costly delay, due to the
strike.
Evening star., 1941-06-05

Will lilc GREAT MAJ. u. rieioinE ELIOT.
est difficulty, and whose application
to the immediate problems con-
fronting them seems still more
difficult.
The proper use OF the time factor
in war is not necessarily concerned
with actual velocity of movement.
1t is rather matter of careful
preparation and planning, the elm
lnation Of waste motion and waste
effort, and in the conduct of opera
tions what Mahan calls the unre-
mitting energy which wastes no
time"
What the Germans Did.
Thus when the German assault
on Crete began, and British naval
forces hastened to the threatened
island citadel, the Germans did not
wait to see the outcome before
starting their conveys moving to-
ward Libya.
Had they suffered repulse on
Crete they would at least have
gained by the reinforcement of their
forces in North Africa.
1t is the same with those political
moves which are so closely asso-
ciated with strategy these days.
Thus when the Germans perceived
that something would have to be
done about the Balkan situation
they did not risk a rebuff at Bel
grade until they had occupied Bull
garia.
Delay Is Discredited.
Indeed, in reviewing all that the
German government has done in
the prosecution of this war. it is
beyond belief that there should still
exist the school of thought which
favors delay, procrastination, watch
full waiting as an opposition policy.
Gen. Douhet once remarked that
in "sll-out" air warfare. any re-
serve held out is an advantage gra-
tuitously offered to the enemy" In
dealing with Nazi Germany, any
advantage of time permitted to the
Nazis is likewise an advantage gra-
uitously offered them.
Applied to the battle of Britain.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-10-10
Next
to be Slashed

Washington. Oct. 10-AP-Non.
defense construction in the United
States will have to be cut about
60 per cent next year because critic.
al materials must be allocated for
military and naval needs, experts
of the Office of Production Manage.
ment declared today.
They issued this forecast on civil
building prospects quickly after
the Supply Priorities and Alloca-
ton Board had prohibited the use
Of such vital materials as steel,
copper, bronze, brass and alumni
mum on construction projects not
deemed necessary to national de-
tense or to public health and safe
ty.
The volume OF non-defense con-
struction in 1912, they said, may
not exceed $1,000, 900, 900, com
pared with an estimated s5,000,000-
600 this year.
Construction workers In many
communities will be very hard hit,
OPM said, although those in other
localities will benefit by the shift
in activity. Building trades work
ers as a rule are more mobile than
industrial or commercial workers"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-10-10
WPA Wages up
Five Per Cent

Washington, Oct. 10-AP- The
wages of S34,S95 WPA workers
will be increased $500 a month.
effective Nov. /, because OF the IL
creased cost of living.
Orders for the increase were Is
sued yesterday by Howard o. Hunt
er. Works Projects commissioner
1t applies only to workers who are
employed 100 hours or less aud
who are now earning less than $50
each month.
Hunter said he was working on
a formula to increase those wages
now above 500. He indicated, how
ever. that any boost in this brack-
ct would be smaller and said no
wage would be put above 500.
The increase does not effect
1860 WPA employees who are
working 40 TO as hours a week on
defense projects, for Hunter ex.
planned that their incomes alrea-
dy had been adjusted. Nor does
it extend to WPA administrative
workers, $4,000 "non.security"
wage earners. and 10000 WPA
workers in the territories. The
commissioner said he was studying
wages in relation TO living condi-
lions In the territories.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-10-10
Held
inGOlf Deaths

Fort Worth. Tex. Oct. l0-Two
convicts were held today IN the
staying OF Marion Miley. 27.year-o'd
nationally known golf star. and he
mother at a fashionable Lexington.
Ky. country club Sept. Is.
Sheriff Ernest Thompson and Pc
lice Chief Austin b. Price OF Lev
ington started for Fort Worth aftor
receiving a telephoned description
OF the men last night.
Detective Capt. A. +. Dowell of
Fort Worth said Thompson told
him they're the men were look
ing for"
At Lexington Thompson declined
to discuss the arrests
The men who gave their ages as
80 and 43 signed waivers OF extra
ditlon.
They were arrested Wednesday
night by Detectives Theron Brooks
and y. T. Smith whose suspicious
were aroused by a Kentucky lie
ense on their car. Police identi-
ned the license number as that Of
an automobile reported stolen BY
Louisville night club operator.
Both men denied any knowledge
OF the Staying OF Miss M:ley and
her mother. They declared they
had left Lexington Sept. 3d. had
gone 10 Florida and from there -
Texas.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-10-10
Delinquency to
be Considered

A study institute on juvenile de-
linquency will be held each We'd
nesday beginning Nov. through
Dec. 10 in Ypsilanti High School.
Glasses will be conducted from 7
to 8 p. m.
Initiated by Ypsilanti Council OF
Social Agencies the study group
will devote each meeting to a re-
port and eyaluation OF an agency
in the city. Fifty seven represen.
tatives from police. schools, courts.
health and Salvation Army, have
been selected for attendance. Rep
resentatives and agencies from
which they were selected will be
notified by letter. Others includ-
ing parents interested in joining
the class are to notify a member
of the study institute committee.
Chairman OF the study institute
Is Superintendent OF Schools K. II.
Chapelle. His assistants chosen
with the aid of Ben n. VandenBelt,
head OF agencies council, will be
Floyd Smith, Mrs. II. Deb Barss.
Rev. Raymon Bair, Mrs. Vanden-
Belt, Miss Cornelia Everard. DR..
Francis Lord, Leonard w. Menzi,
Mrs. Laurence Thomas and Mrs.
Flossy Feiner.
A one dollar membership fee will
be required to join the study in
stituto.
Superintendent Chapelle and
Mrs. Feiner, director OF agencies
council, will schedule meeting pro
grams next week.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-10-10
Grain Storage
to be Problem

Chicago, Oct 10-AP-With the
nations vacant commercial grain
storage space near exhaustion, har-
vest OF the last 1871 crops, corn
and soybeans. is expected 10 cram
elevators and warehouses TO, ca.
pacity. trade statistics indicated to
day.
Because little room remains.
many elevator firms already tenn
porarily are out Of the market for
grain 10 be shipped into terminals
Although little OF the huge corn
crop goes to terminals for storage.
scarcely a cubic inch Of disable
space is expected to be available
after huskers are finished
Elevator men estimate at least
10 per cent OF the available room
should be kept open for handling
stored grain, particularly this year
because Of wet harvests. As a
result the latest figure. showing
commercial storage space at term
inals Sc per cent occupied. means
there is only a slight margin Of
ugabla Fpace
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-10-10
Hope Lost by
Those Against
Aid For Allies
Lend Lease Fund
Near Passage

Washing ton, Oct. 10-AP-Re-
publican critics abandoned hope
today Of defeating or even amend
ing the new $685., 100000 lend
lease fund, and privately conceded
that the House probably would
approve the huge appropriation by
nightfall and send it on to the
Senate.
.QPpanentS- of the new spending
authority said. off the record, that
they were trying principally to
make better fnal-vote showing
than last spring when the cham Der
approved the first S7,000,000,000
lend lease appropriation on $50.
SIS rollcall.
AS the House met an hour earlier
than usual III a. M in an effort
to complete action in one day, these
mdjor revisions were proposed,
virtually without hope of adoption.
/. To forbid use of any part of
the money for Russia.
2. To reduce a $1,S75,000. 900
fund for agricultural industrial and
other commodities by 100000, 900.
3. To earmark 10 per cent of
the total for small factories which
have felt the pinch of priorities
and lack Of defense orders.
Two days of general discussion
OF the bill ended yesterday with
Republicans Gliding Democrats be-
cause less than a dozen OF them
were on the floor TO listen to the
arguments. But the Republicans
conceded, too, that only about so
Of their number were listening.
The amendment to bar use of the
money to aid Russia was to be
offered by either Rep. Rich (R-Pa)
or Rep. Jones (R-Ohio).
Rep. Day (R-lll). who until
yesterday had planned to sponsor
that limitation. told the House:
Every dollar of this appropria-
ton, in the sole discretion of the
President, can be given to the So
Wet Union II he so desires. Please
do not in this chamber haul down
the flag of the Constitution.
The scheme of lend-lease is to
have continuous flow of mo-
terials. This bill is one OF a series.
They will bring more initiation.
more disaster.
81 would rather not leave this
chamber and have it said that |
forgot my friends in Illinois and
became a close buddy to Joe Stain
when | got to Washington"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-10-10
Grading Over 80
Per Cent Done,
Runways, SO

Rapid progress has been made
the past few weeks on airport
construction at Ypsilanti bomber
plant.
Grading is over SO per cent com.
pleted and concrete-runways are
more than 38 per cent poured. Ap-
proXimately 22s.000 yards OF con
crete will be poured for the run.
ways which crisscross mile
square area from north to south
and east and west. Each runway
is 1850 feet wide and concrete Is
poured in 20-foot strips.
Drainage OF the airport Is more
than So per cent completed. Eighty
four miles OF storm sewer and II
miles Of sanitary sewer will be
laid In the airport. South OF Tyler
and Jacksonville Rds. for a dist,
ance OF several hundred feet, steel
piers TO prevent caye-ins have
been forced into the ground while
wOrkmen construct an underground
spillway for a storm sewer out
let The spillway. reaching a
depth Of 35 feet in some places
Will run diagonally across the air.
port toward Denton Rd. Eighty.
four inch concrete sewers will be
laid in II.
Workmen are laying the main
sewer line from the bomber plant
south 10 the sewage plant. The H..
foot sedimentation and aerating
tanks are being constructed rapid.
ly. One OF the two 2s-foot circular
digesting tanks is nearly completed.
The two round tanks will have
floating tops.
Sewer tile for the bomber plant
has arrived by truck and is stored
south Of the bomber plant.
Iron work on the manufactures
and assembly buildings is rising
rapidly. Because tile and floor
work is not completed over 1000
tons OF steel are stored on the
site. Due 20 rain Thursday. iron
workers we're laid of at 3 .. n.
See BOMBER PLANT-Page s
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-10-10
tBy the Associated Press)

(By the Associated Press)
A giant Alabama steel mill and a
forge plant at Bucalo. n. Y, we're
back in production today following
labor disputes, but the Bendix, n.
j.. plant OF Air Associates, Inc A..
faced the possibility OF seizure by
the government unless mediation
board recommendation for settle
ment of a Clio strike are accepted.
All major units OF the Fairfield
Steel Works at Birmingham, Ala,
were put back into operation last
night and the Tennessee Coal. Iron
and Railroad Company declared the
mills, largest in the South. would
be kept open. CIO steel workers
passed through the picket lines OF
ALL machinists and electricians
who struck yesterday.
The AFL men said they walked
out In protest to card inspections
by the clio Steel Workers Organic
ing Committee an action which
the ALL pickets declared was
"CIO wildcat lockout
The Fairfield mills normally en-
ploy about 1000. There was no
official statement OF the number
now at work, but a CIO spokesman
predicted operations would be at a
normal level by tonight. In con
trast. an ALL leader predicted that
the whole Tel operation in Birm.
ingham will be down by Saturday
night"
Another complication arose last
night when 5000 CIO-Unlted Nina
Workers employed in TCTs nearby
mines walked out. William Mitch
district. UNIV president. said the
walkout was unauthorized. but WAS
occasioned by the long delay IN
negotiating a permanent contract
covering Alabama coal fields. He
added that he would attempt to get
the men to return to work today