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Evening star., 1941-05-23
5 British Bottleships
Reported Sent to Bottle

ROME, May % CP,.-One British
cruiser was sunk and three others
hit in bomb and torpedo attacks on
Brltlsh WarshipS in the Eastern
Mediterranean, the Italian high
command announced today.
The communique failed TO state
exactly where the attacks took place,
put they were presumed to have been
IN waters near Crete. The attacks
were said to have been made Tues
day night and Wednesday.
Virginio Gayda, authoritative
commentator in II Giornale dTtalia.
said two other cruisers were prob
ably hit"
Without mentioning Crete. Gavda
said the British fleet sent from Alex-
andria for this great complex battle
OF defense in the Mediterranean in
Guides at least five big battleshipS
fWo aircraft carriers and considerable
numbers, still undetermined, of
cruisers and destroyers.''
Today's war bulletin said that in
the first attacks, carried out bv
torpedo boats Tuesday night, two
British cruisers were hit. The next
Gay, 1t asserted, Italian bombers at
tackled British naval formations.
sinking one cruiser.
Returning to the assault Wednes-
Gay night, Fascist torpedo boat was
said to have encountered six cruisers
and deStroyerS, hitting one cruiser.
In East Africa, the high command
said the British were continuing to
exert pressure on Gala Sidamo.
Itallan-held area in Western
Ethiopia.
Evening star., 1941-05-23
Police Can't Find Glue
To Girl Missing ; Days

Police still were without infor-
nation today concerning the where
abouts of Miss Ruby Wilbourne, %
year-oId telephone operator, who has
been missing from her home at 5000
Connecticut avenue NV. since
Tuesday.
Miss Wilbourne's disappearance
was reported by her roommate
Miss Dorothy Lievsay. She was
seen leaving the Cathedral Mansions
Apartment. where the girls live
by the telephone operator about
4:30 pm. Tuesday, more than two
hours after she was scheduled to
have gone on duty at the National
exchange of the Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co., police were
informed.
Police said Miss Wilbourne, who
came to Washington from South
Hill, Va, left no word concerning
her departure.
Evening star., 1941-05-23
Berlin
,Continued From First Page J


GoerlngS airmen welcome any con-
centration of British Warships as
excellent targets for dive bombers
Meanwhile, the battle for Crete
ragged on amid official silence. a
silence explained as a part of the
German high commands policy not
to reveal anything which might be
helpful to the foe until the objective
had been gained.
The German press and radio OBJ
viously are preparing the German
people for important announce
ments regarding Crete.
Nothing much has been made
known except unofficial statements
that an air-borne invasion was un-
der way.
Hints dropped in responsible
quarters indicated that whatever
statements were coming would be
pleasing to the Reich.
Berlin newspapers published ar
ticles about the Greek island and
there was speculation on the islands
military importance.
Boersenzeitung hkened Crete to
gigantic aircraft carrier which
has the advantage in that it cannot
be sunk, Crete's value as an air
base for operations to the east and
south was stressed.
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
called Crete Europe's outpost ship, "
dominating the Eastern Mediterran-
can, the mouth of the Nile and the
entrance to the Suez Canal.
Lokal Anzeiger said German all
and sea operations were fast forcing
Britain to the conclusion she would
have to take her fleet out of the
Mediterranean if she wants to save
part of it.
Evening star., 1941-05-23

ner meeting last night that Europe
lis being pursued by its own nem-
eSiS." Human nature lis asserting
itself to demand the surrender OF
an acquisitive political habit and
an aristocratic and feudal and avid
ious economic ethics to a genuinely
democratic human fellowship"
There exists in Washington at this
time a conception of dynamic de-
mocracy that can not be matched
in any other city, he declared.
Guy Greer of the research and
statistics division of the Federal
Reserve Board discussed post
defense economic problems and de-
clared that IF we escape imitation,
the entire cost of defense will be in
effect additional saving in the sense
that this portion of the national
income will have been withheld
from normal consumption or in
vestment."
Evening star., 1941-05-23
Funds 10 Be Asked
For Security Fleet
OF 1900 Planes
War Department Plans
81, 500, 900, 900 Program
Above Present Goal
N the AsSnciated Press

By the Associated Press.
The War Department soon will
ask Congress. informed quarters
said today, for $2500,00O. 900 ap-
preparation for a new security
fleet" of $4,000 bombing and fight
ing planes. part of which will be
ready for action in about 18 months
AS outlined by defense officials,
the 13000-plane program would be
superimposed on the present 21000
Army goal, as well as other un-
disclosed additions already pro-
posed in the regular military ap-
propriationS bill now pending be-
fore a House committee.
Interested legislators said they
had been assured that plane deliV-
cries would be in full swing 18
months after construction started.
They said they had no details about
how this would be accomplished eX-
cept through a tremendous eXpan-
sion of production capacity and
through Standardization Of models.
If approved by Congress, the "se-
eurity fleet outlay was expected to
give fresh impetus to President
Roesevelt's recommendations for
the production of 500 bomberS a
month and to put the Army Air
Force in a position to cope with
any turn the European war may
take in the next TWO years.
Additional to British Needs.
LEGISLATORS who were consulted
about the program said it was their
understanding that request would
be made for funds to construct, arm
and equip the planes for the Army,
without any reference to British
needs. ~'-
They explained that if war still
was going on when the planes
started to roll off the assembly lines
and Britain needed them, there ap-
peared to be little doubt that she
would get substantial share under
the lease-lend program.
II anything happened to Britain
IN the meantime, they added, the
United States would have an en-
larged modern air fleet calculated to
bolster its security against any
threat.
Financed by r. F. c.
Much of the construction. it was
understood, would be undertaken in
new Government plants TO be
financed with $350,000,000 allocated
for that purpose by the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corp.
In addition, legislators said the
new program would enable the Of
flee of Production Management to
assure plane manufacturers now
expanding their plants that even be-
fore their present contracts were
fulfilled, new orders would be FORTH
coming to keep them busy months
longer.
Emphasis in the new program is
expected to be on the production of
heavy long range bombers. The
Army already has asked for an I'M
disclosed amount of funds for these
ships in its regular appropriations
bill.
Evening star., 1941-05-23
3. Johnson's Senate campaign In

3. Johnsor's Senate campaign In
Texas.
Mr., johnson is seeking the seat
left vacant by the death Of Sena-
tor Sheppard. with several other
candidates actively in the race
Among these are Gov. ODaniel
and Representative Dies, who fire.
quently has been at odds with the
administration.
Representative johnson, Demo-
crat, has been consistently friend
of the New Deal administration and
was active on behalf of the Demo-
cratic national ticket In 1910. He
first came to Congress in 1887. Al
a recent press conference, President
Roosevelt described him as good
friend.
Mr.. Writ resignation was to be
submitted to the President in q
Evening star., 1941-05-23
White House appointment early this

White House appointment early this
afternoon
The President also received a
resignation today from a member
of the Tariff Commission, A. Manuel
Fox.
Effective May 26, this resignation
was prompted by Mr. Fox's appoint
meht to be an American member
of the board managing the Ameri-
can-Chinese currency stabilizatio
fund.
With press conference scheduled
late today, the President called in
his Cabinet for consultation this
Evening star., 1941-05-23
Sacrifices Greater
Than Germans Made
Seen Facing u. 5.
Management Society
Continues Defense
Discussions

The spring conference of the So
ciety for the Advancement of Man
agement today continued discus
sions of public and private leader
ship needed for national defense
production.
Meeting in the Wardman Park
Hotel, the organization took up
topics of coordination necessary to
| national defense and had listed sew
eral Government officials as guest
speakers.
The country was warned that I'VE
may have to deprive ourselves of
more butter than did Hitler TO get
rector of information in the Office
of Emergency Management
The speech. prepared for delivery
at the morning session, declared that
Hitler with conquest on his mind
and on his drawing board for years
on end was able TO build up his ma
chine slowly by comparison with the
time allotted to us, and I may say
we do not know how much time is
a4lotJeQ 10 us.
For that reason It is vital that
not one hour of it be lost. We must
do in a maximum of two years what
Hitler has taken at least eight to
do" he declared.
Germany, he claimed, now was
spending about $4,000 100000 a
month on armament. or between go
and 65 per cent of its national in
come.
Stacy May. chief of the Bureau of
Research and Statistics of the o. P.
M, told the conference that to meet
and intergrate our national defense
requirement schedules we shall
need all Of the wisdom and immagi-
nation of management technicians
both within the agencies of defense
and the industrial establishments
which control production
In our effort TO build competent
defense machine, he pointed out.
we shall not succeed unless we are
Wiling to tighten our belts and to
do without some things which are
gadgetS even though they are among
the desirable and pleasant amenities
of life"
Mr.. May declared We are plaving
IN game in which the stakes ARE
the highest in modern history for us,
and for our children. and for our
childrens' children"
He predicted defense production
schedules generally will be raised
to a point where this country is
"deVoting to military production a
fraction of our economy comparable
to that employed for this purpose
In England. I am sure we can
crowd the new schedules on top of
our present ones" Mr.. May said
in predicting huge increases of ma
tlonal effort for total defense.
The morning session. under the
chalrmanShip of A. E. Stockberger,
executive officer of the Civil Aero
nautlcS Authority, following the two
main addresses. was given over to
warm discussions under the leader
ship OF Sanford E. Thompson, con-
sultant TO the Secretary of War, and
Wallace Clark, New York manage
ment conSultant.
ERIC Nicol, executive assistant to
the associate director general of
the Office of Production Manage
ment, told the afternoon session
yesterday that in the time of world
crisis We find ourselves face to face
with fundamental issues that chal-
lenge the whole of our democratic
principles and institutions"
Paul F. Douglass, president of
American University, told the din
Evening star., 1941-05-23
50-Ship Conveys Arrival
In Britain Reported
BY the Associated Press

BY The ASSOCiated Press.
NEW YORK, May %. - Safe
arrival in Britain of a convoy of
so ships carrying more than $780,
100000 in war supplies was an
nounced yesterday in a cabled report
to Golfers Weekly by Quentin
Reynolds, correspondent for the
magazine.
Mr.. Reynolds said he believed the
convoy was the largest ever to make
the Atlantic crossing. He Travelled
aboard one of the ships. and asserted
a submarine was sunk by one of
several guardian destroyers.
Evening star., 1941-05-23

Peru is urging the cultivation Of
fax fiber on an extensive scale.
Evening star., 1941-05-23
Wirtz Resigns Post
In Interior 10 HeIp
Johnson Texas Race
New Deal Blessing
For Senate Aspiront
Is Seen in Action

Believed to be bearing administra-
ton support for his candidate, Un-
dersecretary of the Interior Alvin
J. Wirtz resigned today to become
manager for Representative Lyndon
Evening star., 1941-05-23
Wunderbirds to Hike

A emile hike from Springfield,
Va, to Fort Belvoir will be held
Sunday by the Wanderbirds' Hiking
Club. Virginia Mauck and Sam Peel
will lead the mixers, who will leave
Washington by bus at 9 am.
Evening star., 1941-05-23
Electric Whiskers' in lndio

BOMBAY. India, May % GP-
Gen. Annibale Electric WhiskersJ
Berconzoli, italian Army leader
captured by the British last Feb
ruary at Bengasi, Libya, arrived to-
day in a contingent of 1000 Italian
prisoners brought to Bombay for
internment.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-25
Flying Dentists
Relate Adventures

MIAMI, Fla, March 25. CUP)-
Two California dentists told today
of the forced landing of their tiny
airplane in the jungles of Brazil
and of an arduous 90-mile journey
before they reached a village in
communication with the outside
world.
They were Drs. Cecil R. Smith
and DR.. Joseph H. Lorenz, of Bur-
lingame, Calf, who left there Feb.
18 on projected 25000-mile air
tour of South America in a rs
horsepower plane.
Smith and Lorenz had completed
about 1900 miles of the trip when
the motor failed over the dense
jungles of Brazil on March 16. They
were able to spot q small clearing
in the jungles and Smith, who was
at the controls, brought the plane
down safely.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-25
Mystery Of Body
Deepens Here

The mystery deepened Tuesday
as deputy sheriffs continued in
vestigation of the death of william
Lund, 38, Imperial rancher, found
with a bullet through the heart in
the charred remains of his home
near Imperial.
Two pet dogs. originally believed
to have been in the house with
Lund, must have burned to death
because they were trapped under
the house, officers said. Their
burned bodies were found near the
body of their master but investiga-
ton of the Wreckage revealed they
could not have been in the house,
but were under it.
The inquest was held up while
Deput County Coroner Herbert
Hughes and deputy sheriffs worked
with members of the state arson
squad in gathering information
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-25
Blast Hits Oregon
Chemical Company;
1 Employees Burned

PORTLAND, Ore, March 25 CUP)
"A terrific explosion struck the
r. N. Chapman Chemical company
plant in northwest Portland this
morning, burning at least six en-
ployeS, one seriously
Six ambulances went to the
scene, while firemcn. with masks,
searched through flames for other
possible victims.
Houses three blocks away were
ratified by the blast, which tossed
debris and twisted metal 100 yards
in every direction
The company, which manufac-
lures sodium clorates, had been in
operation for only few months.
The blast, of undetermined origin
and extent, was followed by a fire
which shot flames 100 feet into the
air
Women in the neighborhood were
near hysteria. One woman who lived
more than two blocks away, said
her house ratified as though it was
being shaken by huge hand.
Damage was also done to the
General Metals company plant next
door and to the nearby Shelby Cycle
company plant.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-25
Lawmaker Seeks
New Movie Probe

WASHINGTON, March 25. (UP)
Rep. Lyle Boren, d. Okla, today
asked the house rules committee to
authorize an investigation of the
economic and social practices OF
The motion picture industry.
The committee deferred deci-
sion pending further hearings. Rep
Hamilton Fish, r. n. Y, asked
Boren if he would object to amend
ing his resolution TO provide an in
curry also into war propaganda"
in the movies, and Boren said he
would not. This should also be in
vestigated, he said, but added that
his resolution was "broad enough
to cover that, too
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-25
Farm Expert Here
Says |. '. GuayuIe
Results Doubtful
Rubber Yield Slight in
Irrigated Areas, Says
Experiment Farm Chief

Imperial Valleys agrlcul-
tural experiment station at
Meloland Tuesday prepared
to take part in the nationa.
defense program as arrange
ments were made to plant one
sixth acre of Guayule, Mexican
desert shrub, from which rubber can
be produced.
l.. c.. Goar, superintendent OF tne
experiment station, agreed to put
in The experimental plot following
agitation from the Salinas valley
where 1000 acres # Guayulc arc
presently under cultivation and fol-
lowing a discussion in the house OF
representatives which pointed to
a possible rubber shortage in the
U. S. because of the war situation
abroad.
Goar, however, was skeptical.
"Guayule will grow we'll in Salinas
valley" he said, but will not pro-
duce much rubber in areas where
ohe plants must be irrigated. A plot
at the experiment station several
years ago showed heavy growth,
but did not produce good quality
rubber"
Goar also pointed out that Qua
vlle could not be grown as money
crop by the average farmer because
it requires six or seven years to
develop the plant to become a heavy
producer of rubber. Government
subsidization was listed by Goar
Continued on Page 8; Column a
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-25


tracts.
City police drove back massed
pickets with tear gas in an early
morning skirmish. but suffered at
the hands of strikers in a 3 pm.
clash.
The pickctS, estimated to num-
Der 500, upset police car contain
ing four policemen, seized tear
gas gun in the car and turned t
on the officers. The strikers charged
the police deliberately ran the ca
into them in their effort to clear
the gate.
The policemen were stoned after
being pulled from the car and two of
them, Frank Donchez and Michael
O'Hearn, required hospital treat
ment. Other police rescued them
from the crowd No arrests were
made.
The violence broke out as a crowd
of 10000 was massed at the main
entrance to the plant. 1t came after
Sheriff w. Calvin Nickel of North
ampton county appealed to Gov.
IA liiul II. JdlllCo lOl diu Ill llldul-
tanning order
James Immediately dispatched Col.
Lynn G.. Adams, state motor police
commissioner, and Lewis G. Hines
labor and industry secretary, to
Bethlehem.
Nickel wired the governor when
striking members of the Steel
Workers Organizing Committee
(CIO) began strengthening their
picket lines around the mills along
the Lehigh river valley.
City police had brought tear gas
into play when 200 pickets, massed
at the main gate to the plant, at
tempted to prevent the first work.
man reporting for the 7 am. shift
from entering the plant.
Two of the pickets were blinded
by the gas, and four others affect
ed before police succeeded in driv-
ing them back from the entrance
The rest of the pickets retreated
to the street and made no attempt
TO interfere with otner men re-
Continued on Page 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-25
Ware, Heating on
Regional Civilian
Defense Council
Group to Make Survey
Of Vulnerable Points
In Imperial Valley

Sheriff Robert w. Ware
and Constable Hugh Heating
of Ell Centre Monday were
appointed council members
of region No. l in the Cali
fornia Council Civilian Defense.
District Attorney Elmer Heald,
member of the state council, will
serve with them in making a sur
vey of all vulnerable spots in I'M
perial county, places where sabo-
teurS might strike and places to
guard in case of emergency. They
also will assist law enforcement
officers from five other counties
in southern California in the same
type of survey in those counties.
The appointments were made by
Chief of Police Clifford Peterson Of
San Diego at meeting of region
No. l in San Bernardino Monday.
AT the meeting the law enforce
nent offices telegraphed Attorney
General Earl Warren, who organ
lied the California Council for
Civilian Defense, to ask the legis-
lature and Gov. Olson to give the
organization legal sanction and help
line up all law enforcement agen-
cies in the various counties in a
cooperating group capable of oper-
atlng In an emergency.
Heald, Ware, and Captain Frank
Oswalt of the Highway Patrol in
Imperial county attended Mondays
meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-25
Prisoner Quizzed
In Morals Case

j. B. Wilkie 40, Riverside resi-
dent held in the Imperial county
Jail on a charge of committing a
morals offense against a feminine
hitchhiker and robbing her hus-
band, Tuesday was questioned by
officials of Sonoma county in con-
nection with a similar offense COM
mitted there.
The officials were questioning
him about an attack made on Eliza
beth Duprey in Sonoma county re-
Gently.
District Attorney Toland c. Nc
Gettlgan and Sonoma county dep
uty sheriffs were closeted with Will
kie for hours.
Wilkie is held in Jail in lieu of
$4,000 bail pending trial in su-
perior court on a charge of COM
mitting a morals offense against
Mrs. Jacob w. Johnson and rob-
bing her husband while they were
in the Wilkie automobile in the
sandhills west of Winterhaven.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-25

'but a very serious condition has de
yeloped and is getting worse the
letter read.
City Clerk Neal Gavin nodded his
head gravely, as though to say:
Il had feared as much, but we
must all make our sacrifices"
The letter continued:
This morning we received a let
ter from our Dog Tags factory,
stating that the government has
prohibited their buying any more
brass than they had last year
Our factory fears that the war
department within a month will
prohibit all further purchases of
No. l8 gauge brass j.. . Los Angeles
wanted to use nickel silver tags
but all nickel silver is for war pur-
poses -
City authorities Tuesday had not
yet decided which way to jump,
whether to send in hasty order for
dog tags before they all go into
making bullets, or whether to wal.
and try branding The animals.
C'eSt la guerre
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-25

Mas said IL claims maze 1Ot
Guayule rubber are true, the nation
could have freed itself of depend
ence on the Far East for one OF
its most vital strategic materials.
He argued that as a result of
this dependence we have been eased
into our present position in the
Orient. The United States consumes
more than 100000 tons of rubber
a year and most of it comes from
the East Indies via British inter
eStS.
Consequently. Mas said, this
country is now forced to maintain
Britain's position in the Far East.
He charged the state department
had frequently opposed domestic
and South American rubber devel-
opment TO preserve the British trade
balance
Mas said he would call to the
attention of the naval affairs COM
mittec a statement in yesterdays
congressional record by Rep. John
L. Anderson, r., Calf, another
member of the committee, quoting
an editorial III a San Jose, Calf,
newspaper, The editorial observes
that the government is now sub
sidizing South American rubber
production and has appropriated
$1oOO00,00O TO encourage American
synthetic rubber production.
1t states the government has re-
fused to send a representative to
investigate the possibilities of Quay
ule rubber which is now being pro-
cessed at a plant at Salinas, Calf.
Guayule plants can be grown,
Continued Oh Page 8; Column A.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-25
Gambling Assault
Prisoner Quizzed

Trial of Freddy. Robert, and
Sammy Taporco, FilipinOs charg-
ed with battery after fight in an
El Centre gambling resort. was
scheduled to begin late Tues
day afternoon before jury in
El Centre justice court.
Attorneys exhausted the ori-
ginal jury panel of % before
noon and Constable Hugh Kcat-
ing was instructed to bring 20
more persons into court at !:30
pm. to be questioned as pos
sible jury members by prosecu-
tion and defense attorneys.
Freddy Tap0rco was shot and
wounded by bullet from Spe-
ciaI Police Officer Archie Brat
tons gun. BrattOn's arm was in
jured in the scuffle with the
three TapOrco brothers.