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Evening star., 1941-05-18

heve, be shocked to learn that they
have public servants who have their
savings invested in Stains brutal
totalitarianism at the very time
that the American Government has
embarked on q campaign to sell
bonds to meet our enormous emer-
gency expenditure.
There is a significant overlap
ping of these holders of Soviet Gov
ernment bonds and the member
ship of the Communist front or
ganizations whose records we have
obtained"
After asserting that "the time has
come when we must have a final
showdown on the question Of our
Federal Governments employees par
ticipating in the activities of Com
munist front organizations" Mr..
Dies warned that the fellow. trav-
elers" and ''so-called innocents" in
such groups must bear full RESPONSE
bility "for their continued associa-
ton with subversive movement
which threatens the very existence
of democratic institutions in this
country" He said they have had
almost three years ''in which to
see the light"
Mr.. Dies statement last night fol-
lowed seizure by a committee in
vestigator of the membership list
of The Bookshop, a cooperative
store at 9l6 Seventeenth street
NV, from Mrs. Charles w. Putnam,
president of the District of Column
bia Cooperative League.
The league, which had custody
Of the membership list because of
the bookshop's afflliation with it,
announced last night that the
bookshop had resigned from the
league.
Leagues Explanation.
In its announcement, the league
explained that its board of directors
had adopted resolution on April
9 stating their impression that "the
bookshop's main purpose is not the
advancement of the cooperative
movement, but the pursuit OF other
ends for which the cooperative
machinery of the bookshop is merely
the means"
At that time, the league asked
for complete record of the past
experience and Affiliations OF the
managers Of the bookshop. This
request was not complied with, the
league said, and instead the book
shop presented its resignation,
stating that its membership in the
league no longer served its needs"
Jules Yanover, executive secre-
tary Of the bookshop. issued a state
ment, meanwhile, asserting that the
bookshop had resigned from the
league because 1t attempted to
exercise control over the bookshop
in a manner which had no justif-
cation"
This meddling with the affairs
of an affiliate body. in undemocratic
fashion, led the bookshop to fall
back on its rights as an Independent
cooperative, and sever its relations
with the league" he added.
Mr.. Hanover also described as
"dime-novel detective nonsense" the
Dies committees roundabout meth
ods" of securing the bookshop's
membership list of 1900.
THE committees attack" he
charged, sis an attempt at censor
ship of ideas-an attempt to de-
termine for the reading public what
tbpv Sboll or shall pot he ohle tn
buy from their bookshops."
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Bombings Successful,
Iroq Government Saws

BEIRUT, Lebanon, May IT Up
Bombers presumed to be German
and Italian attacked the British
positions in Iraq today in a stern
resurgence of the war in that OIL
wealthy kingdom.
The pro-Axis Iraq government,
which has heretofore been "on its
own" in the is days OF fighting with
Britain, claimed results were vastly
successful, notably that the British
air base at Dhibban on Lake Hab-
baniyah was set afire, and said
Iraq land forces were locked in
battle with the British at Basra.
What remains of the Dhibban
(Cin El Debane) base after heavy
Iraqui shelling was badly damaged
by the bombers, and several British
planes were destroyed, the Iraquis
said.
The Iraq communique, received
here from Baghdad, did not men
Evening star., 1941-05-18

ton the Axis in any way, but Its
announcement OF air war was the
first sent since the British last week
announced virtual annihilation of
the small Iraqui air force, and it
was acknowledged here that Axis
planes already had gone to Iraq.
(Rome dispatches said Italian
planes had reached Iraq.}
Gen. Henri Dentz, high commits
sioner from Vichy to the French
inundated states of Syria and Leb-
anon, said the Axis planes which
stopped off at airdromes in these
two countries en- route to Iraq had
all departed. and he thus hoped
there would be no repetition of the
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
attacks on Syrian and LebaneSe
airdromes by the British.
The Axis planes-he mentioned
Is of them-merely were forced
down in these countries while in
transit to Iraq, he asserted. He has
protested to the British Consul
General at Damascus, and the
Syrian and Lebanese governments
are expected to do likewise.
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Peace Pickets Continue
Parade al White House

PicketS of the American Peace
Mobilization continued their per
petual peace vigil" in front of the
White House without incident last
night. The line returned to its
normal complement of about a
dozen paraders, following an after
noon procession of about 200 sign
bearers who arrived in the Capital
from other cities.
A motorcycle policeman continued
to patrol the block. directing loiter-
ing motorists to move on, and pre-
cinct men kept pedestrians moving
along.
White House police and Army
officers watched from within the
White House gates.
The pickets did not have as large
galleries" as earlier in the week.
Evening star., 1941-05-18

Of the Franco German "collabora-
ton" tie-up, and that drastic steps
must be taken, with = full emer-
gency proclaimed.
Taft and Ball Speak.
Two Republican Senators, Taft
of Ohio and Ball Of Minnesota,
speaking last night. gave different
views of the situation, too. SEN
ator Taft, In a radio address, put the
question, Shall the United States
enter the European WARP" and an
swered 1t In the negative.
Senator Ball, speaking in Mime
apolis at the Norwegian independ-
ence day celebration, declared for
all-out aid to Britain, even If it
means the entry of this country into
war.
Shall we sit back and try to stop
Hitler at New York, Baltimore and
Charleston, or shall we stop him at
the cliffs of Dover?" Senator Bail
asked. His answer was that this
country should do everything pos
sible to stop Hitler on the other side
of the Atlantic.
I'VE hear much about a negotiated
peace with Hitler" said Senator
Ball. How any one can talk serious
ly Of that In view Of the plain facts
Of history during the past two years
is beyond me. Peace treaties and
pacts are part Of Mr..
Hitler's war strategy. He makes
them when they suit his purposes
and breaks them whenever he Is
ready to march.
Three Courses for U. s.
There are only three possible
roads for America to travel. We
can reverse our present policy of
aiding Britain and prepare to make
the best terms we can with Hitler.
The United States can journey to
Munich and buy peace at any price.
Or we can abandon Britain to her
fate and concentrate preparations
to meet Hitler's attack when it
reaches our shores. That road leads
to war, not peace, and to a war
fought right here in America. Our
defeatists would lead America down,
down one or the other of those
craven paths.
But there Is a third course. That
course is to drive forward on the
tremendous task of building an i'm
defense for this hemis-
phere and at the same time to use
the energy and productive resources
of this Nation to help Britain stop
Hitler on the other side of the At
lantic.
The best information I have been
able to obtain in Washington is that
the administration now is doing
everything that it believes wise and
necessary to carry out that policy.
1t may be that further steps will be
necessary in the future to make
certain that the guns and the air.
planes we are producing reach the
fighting men of Britain in time to
be used to stop Hitler"
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Irud
Continued From First page.)

Both N. B. c. and c. B. S., said
the Iraqi troops were being led by
German officers.
The British radio also quoted a
Rumanian broadcast as saying Ger
man infantrymen stationed in Ru-
mania were being transported
through the Bosporus, bound for
Syria and Iraq.
Gen. Georges Catroux, leader of
the free French forces In the Near
East, broadcast over a British radio
hookup to the French inundated
Levant States, begging Frenchmen
to take up arms against "the double
dealing and the shame of Vichy."
Planes Declared Disguised.
He declared the Vichy govern
ment had yielded up Syria to the
Germans for use as a base against
Britain and that some Of the Ger
man planes in Syria were staying
there TO take control.
The extent of the penetration is
not realized, he said, because some
OF the German planes are dis
guised in French colors.
Informed sources in New York
suggested that such a disguise for
Nazi planes might give rise to
belief that French and British
planes were fighting, thus further
widening the breach between Lon
don and Vichy.
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Senator Taft Calls
Stimson and Knox
The Real Defeatists'
Assumption That America
Must Rely on British Navy
Held Misrepresentation
By the Associated Press.

Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio
said last night that "the real de-
featists in this country are Secre-
taries Stimson and Knox who say
that this country, with the greatest
natural resources and the greatest
productive capacity in the world, is
unable to defend itself without the
British Navy"
Mr.. Knox, Senator Taft said in
an address prepared for an N. B. c..
broadcast, sis openly for war" The
Senator quoted Mr.. Stimson as ad-
vocating "the use of our Navy to
make the seas secure for the de-
livery of our munitions to Great
Britain"
The latter course, he added,
means the destruction of German
submarines, airplanes and raiders
which may attack British ships
over in European waters"
That" he said, "is frankly war"
Senator Taft prefaced his ap-
plication of the word "defeatists" to
Mr.. Knox and Mr.. Stimson with an
assertion that President Roosevelt
had called Charles A. Lindbergh a
"defeatist" for saying that England
could not win.
They (Knox and Stimson) assert
that for years we have been hiding
behind the British Navy" he said.
And that our naval policy has been
based on asking that navy to de-
fend our Atlantic coast while we
defend the Pacific coast. But this
is a complete misrepresentation of
the actual facts.
THE British Navy has not always
been friendly during the last hum
dred years. Since 1900 we have
assumed the British would not at
tack us, but we have built a fleet
able to defend US against any other
nation or combinations of nations,
and built the Panama Canal so
that it could move from one ocean
to the other on an interior line.
To-day that Navy is twice the
size of those of Germany and Italy
combined. We are this year adding
at least two of the most modern
battleships, while the German and
italian fleets are being steadily in
jured and depleted. Our Navy is
larger and more effective than the
Japanese Navy"
Evening star., 1941-05-18
going to have to follow it through
like men," he said
Value of Abstract Ideas

going to have to follow 1t through
like men," he said
Value of Abstract Ideas.
A sense of historical proportion
and recognition of the value of
abstract ideas must develop If the
United States Is to fulfill its des-
tiny in the world, that of leadership,
the college president asserted.
Il can see no sense of clear pur-
pose at this time he commented.
DR.. Morley explained he did not
agree completely with the principles
of the America First Committee,
but congratulated it on resisting
the easy course, the drift, I would
call it, that is being directed from
above
Il am not so sure that this
minority opinion is not shortly to
become the majority opinion" he
said Of the groups stand.
Mrs. Bennett Champ Clark, wife
of the Senator from Missouri and
chairman of the local committee,
presided. Senators Nye Of North
Dakota, LaFollette of Wisconsin and
Capper of Kansas were among those
present.
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Fat Men Can Join
Cavalry, but Horses
Yield to Trucks
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Army opened the cavalry
yesterday to fat men.
The War Department said 1t
had rescinded a 1928 regulation
which provided that no appli-
cant for first enlistment would
be accepted If he weighed more
than ITO pounds.
MANY cavalrymen now do
most of their riding in trucks
rather than on horses.)
Evening star., 1941-05-18

The longest chapter in the Bible
Is the 18th Psaln-l76 verses.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-06
Margaret Mitchell TO
ChriSten New Vessel

kesrny. y. +. sept. s AP Mar
garet Mitchell came north from
her Gone With Tho WING coun
tr, 10 christen the r. 5. 5. Atlanta
today. and confessed 10 some ner-
Vousuoss a5oHt her ability 10 swing
n bottle Of champagne against the
ships bow
What II / miss IT, she asked
Then again supposing ! hit n
and n doesn't move and the ad.
miral has 10 push
The Atlanta a new type Of light
cruiser. was the first ship TO 20
down the ways f9.37 a m. ESD
a, the Kearuy yards Of the federal
ShipbuiIding and DrfGock Com
pany since the Sayy took over
the yards last month in the settle
ment Of strike The launching
had been stpoued from August
8 because of the resulting tieup.
The ship, the third Of its name
was authorized By Congress March
81. 1891 The first Atlanta was an
lronclad- Of the Confederate Navy
in the Civil War day which Miss
Mitchell described IN her famous
novel The second was author
lied in 1873 as one Of four cruis
ers OF America s. new Navy
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-06
'Saddest' Ship
Reaches Port

Havana, Cuba. Sept. 6-AP-The
Spanish merchantmen Navemar. de
scribed as the saddest vessel ever
to reach this white-washed harbor
city. creaked. and groaned at an
chorage today awaiting immigration
officials who are to inspect 200
homeless Europeans packed into her
cargo holds, decks and lifeboats.
Normally. the Navemar carries
10 passengers. She took the refu-
goes aboard at Lisbon and reached
here last night after a 17-day voyage
which some passengers said was
an awful trip.
Four passengers died before the
ship reached Hamilton. Bermuda.
where British officials conducted a
rigid inspection. Two other passen.
gers were i'll, one seriously, when
the Navemar put in here.
About gao persons expect 70 land
here and the others will 20 on to
New York.
Cuban authorities permitted only
doctors to board the ship last night
They reported the passengers we're
in surprisingly good health "consid-
ering the extremely crowded con
ditions' and limited bathing 'facilt
ties
When she glided into the harbor
last night the NayGmar was dark.
Her electric generators went out OF
commission "a hours before.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-06
Zone Wording
=
to be Changed

More specific wording n s'r'Ionh
in the tentative county l1ai-I plan
was authorized By Cola'Y Plan
ming Commission a. d.solssi0n
meeting Friday IN The sloerFls. >
room In tho to1a'y Bg.'fn2 IT,"
session vas q continuation. -
meeting Wednesday
The zoulng plan pil establish
commercial. manI'a "'1rHz am
cultural and residential districts IN
NashtenaV county
Rulings for residential a.4tficiA
will attempt 70 prDas1f ,Jnt'fjn
ton Of undesirable hoIee. Pred T.
Broesaule. sylvan Township SO
perHsor Who is Commission helr-
man, says.
Pending written changes in the
ordinance made A. Friday sex
zion the Commission win not meft
until further notice.
The ordinance ~ expected 10 be
presented for consideration 10
county supervisors a. the October
session
Attending. tho meeting pefa
Henry sullivan Detroit Edison
[ Company engineering te1arlmenfi
I d.. Otto. X Engelke. county 7etlth
unit director Lyfr Trout. Detroit
architect and consultant FOR Va
lonal Planning Board and scn
inz expert from Michigan state
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-06
Biddle Named
L. S. Attorney


J. 7
Washington, Sept 6-AP Fran
els Biddle, 55-yearold member OF
widely known Philadelphia fam
lily, took over today as head Of
the United States Department #
Justice. Biddle. an ardent New
Dealer. is the fourth Attorney Gen.
eral named by President Roosevelt.
Two OF his predecessors. Frank
Murphy and Robert II. Jackson.
have been promoted to Supreme
Court 1usticeships. The third.
Homer Cummings, retired to pri-
waite law practice.
Biddle took the oath OF Office
in the White House yesterday. a
few hours after his nomination had
been confirmed by the Senate.
Jackson. under whom Biddle sery.
ed as solicitor general administer.
ed the oath.
Charles Fahy present assistant
solicitor general. was regarded as a
likely successor TO Biddle as so
licitor general.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-06

hE = Hit.tAtF'A iTEHNN
President Roosevelt's expected
action in a threatened strike OF
100000 railroad workers Was
awaited today as the defense
mediation board sought 10 settle
walkout Of some 10000 Ala
bama coal miners and several
other labor disputes
The railroad unions seekin z
wage increases. authorized a
strike Friday after mediation and
arbitration failed TO produce an
agreement with the companies
Under Law. that strike authori.
cation automatically placed tho
dispute before the President. who
is charged with the duty Of ap-
pointing a fact-flnding committee
to report back 10 the White House
within 30 days 4 Walkout can
not be called until month after
the President receives the CON
mittee report.
Five operating brotherhoods
are seeking 30 per cent boost
in basic pay rates and the = non
operating unions ask increases Of
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-06

WASHINGTON, sept. s AP-
Overcrowded school facilities IN
booming defense centers, together
with an impending shortage OF
teachers. today presented the ma
tons educators with a major
problem which they We're hopeful
OF sowing quickly with govern
ment help.
The huge population shifts 70
manufacturing cities and Army
camp areas, Incident 20 the arma-
ment drive. mean new c,assrooms
and schoolmates for an estimated
100000 boys and girls ~ elemen-
tarv and high schools
Acute shortages OF school Ia
ciities we're indicated i'm 500 loca-
Titles by an official survey. Next
Monday. when the fall term oaeas
in most parts Of the country. from
$1,000 20 10000 youngsters can
look forward 10 an extension OF
their summer vacations until new
schools can be completed. fur.
nished and stated
Congress recently appropriated
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-06

Washington. Sept. e. AP go
American officials watched the
North Pacific today for any sign
that Japan-after failing to stop
the first two American tankers car
rying oil for Soviet Russia-would
attempt to blockade .Vladivostok by
declaring safety zone" across the
sea lanes between the chain OF
Japanese islands which almost en-
circle the Siberian port.
International law authorities
said that aside from involving the
traditional American policy of free
dom OF the seas, any such action
by Japan might be interpreted by
Soviet Russia as a violation Of the
treaty OF Portsmouth, which ended
the Russo-Japanese war on Septem'
Der 5, 1905.
In reply to Japanese represen'
tations against the oil shipments
the Soviet Union has aireay inform
ed Tokyo that any attempt to In
terfere with trade between the
United States and the Soviet would
be considered an unfriendly actD
Ships Not intercepted
II the Japanese intended to take
any action to prevent American
oil deliveries to Russia, it was
said, they missed the boat at the
very start by failing to interest
the tanker l.. T. St. Clair, laden
with $4,000 barrels of high octane
gasoline, which locked at Nladi-
vostok Thursday.
A second American tanker, the
Associated. was reported to hay c
arrived at Vladivostok yesterday
with a cargo Of aviation gasoline
Still another tanker was said
to be due in the Russian port 70
morrow or Monday, but in view Of
the precedent set in the cases OF
the L. p. st. Clair and the Asso
ciated. diplomatic quarters here be.
lieve no effort would be made to
intercept the third vessel,
Although the State Department
never has confirmed that Japan
had lodged representations against
the oil shipments, it is conceded
that Admiral kichisaburo Nomura
the japanese ambassador, probably
mentioned the question in talks
with Secretary Hull.
Maintains Policy
II the question was raised, il
was said in informed quarters, Sec
rotary Hull in all probability in
formed the ambassador that the
| United States still maintains tn,
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-06
Only Step Toward
Huge Defense
Payment

Washington, Sept. 6-AP-Jubil
ant over the Senates 61-to-5 ap
prevail OF the record sS,5SS.900 ,00C
tax bill late yesterday, Administra'
ton lieutenants strove today TO
hurry along the adjustments OF dir
ferences between that measure and
similar legislation passed by the
House.
The bill. which would bring an
estimated 4,91l.000 additional per
sons under the income tax structure
and thus raise an extra S303,000,00C
OF revenue, was rushed through the
Senate In only three days.
Both proponents and opponents
said the measure was only steT
toward paying the nations huge
defense bills. The House Ways and
Means Committee has estimated
that all federal expenditures would
exceed ,0O000O000 during the
next fiscal year. which begins July
I.
Existing taxes. plus the Senate
approved levies, are estimated by
Treasury experts to yield about
$13.500.000 900 during the next cal
endar year. Chairman George Cd
Ga.) Of the Senate Finance Com
mittee predicted the total federal
income would approach $4,000, 600,
600. however.
To win fast Senate approval oil
the tax measure leaders had &c
make two important concessions
1. They dropped Finance Com
mittee amendment. estimated &c
raise $50.000.e0O year. which
would have prevented husbands and
wives in community property states
from dividing income for tax puf
poses. Such property division now
is permitted in the states Of Louis
lana. Texas. New Mexico. Arizona
Nevada, California. Idaho ant
Washington and usually results IN
lower total tax liabilities for mar
ried couples.
.. They promised pension advo
Gates that the Finance Committee
would consider promptly propose
to give s30-a-month pensions to al
persons over so. The pension plar
had been offered as rider TO thu
tax bill.
Both the community income ant
the pension issues had threatened
to develop prolonged debate Dem
ocratic Leader Barkley and Chair
man George tD.-GaD worried be
cause each days delay in enactins
the tax measure costs the Treasury
about 100000 in uncollectet
nuisance taxes. engineered tn'
agreements which made passage
possible.
The Senate and House bills nov
will 20 before a joint conference
committee for the adjustment o
differences.