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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Women, Children
Reach Haifa

HAIFA. May 3.-CINS)-British
women and children, fleeing en-
battled Iraq, were arriving al
Haifa tonight. and it was believed
the evacuation was nearing COM
pletion.
The refugees have been arriving
at this British Palestinian naval
seaport aboard Royal Air Force
transport planes since yesterday
when the fighting broke out in
1raq.
Most of them were wives and
children of British diplomats and
oil technicians and executives.
They had been brought from Bag
dad and other Iraq centers to the
Raj base at Habbaniya where
they began boarding the planes for
aerial evacuation as native artil-
lery and troops launched siege
attacks upon the British air base
ANKARA. Turkey, May B.
The attack by Iraq forces on
British troops aroused Indignation
in Turkey today on grounds that
it has endangered lines of COM
munication for transport of goods
to Turkey.
Informed quarters in Ankara
said they feared the appeal of the
Bagdad government for German
assistance against Britain might
lead to serious political compli-
cations and lead to Nazi drive
toward Iraq across Turkey, Syria
or Palestine"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
NeW Line Setup

A substitute lifeline for Britain
across the north Atlantic TO the
United States was established be-
fore the Mediterranean fell. Brit
ish tin. rubber and oil shipments
from the Far East have been 60
ing recently through the Panama
Canal for transhipment at New
York across the new lifeline. The
Germans will have to cut this one
if they want victory.
Gibraltar has been regarded as
the rock upon which the British
empire is built Developments in
the eastern Mediterranean have
made il Just another rock.
The Germans will testify to
this. For more than three months
they have been ready to move
through Spain OF take Gibraltar.
1t is not the friendly Spanish gov
eminent that has been holding
them back but the military prob
lem of supplying their troops and
the people of that starving country
as well. Gibraltar was just not
worth that cost.
Whenever the Nazis think they
can feed Fascist Spain, they will
knock off Gibraltar as easily as
thew captured italy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Manufacturers Head
Beqins Defense Tour

NEW YORK. May 3.-(INS)-
Walter D. Fuller president of the
National Association of Manufac-
turers, today began a tour of de-
Tense producing areas to stimulate
machine tool and other defense
producing pools similar TO those
already established by the n. A..
NJ. in 1S1 communities.
Fullcr'S tour followed his report
to President Roosevelt that an
y. A. NJ. survey Of 1902
previously unSurveyed industrial
plants in a. states had revealed
that 22s0.095 machine-hours were
lost daily owing 10 idle machines.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Pact Invalid
Tax Treaty With Canada
No Longer Operative
International New. Service wiz.

WASHINGTON. May - The
state department announced today
that it now considers tax treaty
between the United States and
Canada no longer valid.
The department stated that the
action of the Canadian govern
ment in increasing tax rates on
certain types of Canadian incomes
of American residents had abro-
gated the five-year-old agreement.
Under the agreement. a United
States citizen. resident in this
country but obtaining income from
Canadian sources in the form of
dividends, interest or remittance,
was taxed limit of 5 per cent by
the Canadian government instead
of the higher rates which may
have applied to the form of
income.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
u. s. Aid Plan Blocks
Peace, Jap Declares

TOXIC, May 3.-GNS)-Amer-
lean withdrawal Of further aid TO
Great Britain and China would
Immediately bring peace TO the
world. Soho Tokutomi. veteran
japanese journalist. wrote today.
Great Britain in such an event
would Immediately yield TO Ger
many and Gen. Chang Kai-Shek
of China would do an immediate
about-face. ending resistance to
Japan. Tokutomi reasoned.
President Roosevelt was de-
scribed by the writer as the arch
distUber of world peace"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Lost Dog TO Mar
Soldier S Return

The grief Of boy for his lost
dog-even if the boy is a hard
boiled" soldier in the United
States Marines-faces 19-year-old
Private Herbert Thompson when
he returns to Detroit for his first
leave after years service in
Cuba.
For Mickey Mouse. four-year-
old fox terrier, to whose joyful
leaping Private Thompson is look
ing forward. was kidnapped last
week from his home at 5616 May
bury Grand avenue.
Mrs Mary ChaveS. Herbert $
grandmother and adopted mother,
said he locked yesterday in Los
Angeles and when she telegraphed
him the money to come home, he
wired back:
BE sure TO tell Mickey I'm on
my way"
But two men in car picked up
Mickey Mouse while Mrs. ChaveS
was in the house for a minute
That was the last seen of him.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Noel Fox Slated to Get
State Labor Board Job
Young Muskegon Attorney to Swing
Balance for Democrats
CONTINUED from Page one)

High Commissioner G. Donald
Kennedy when Kennedy was city
engineer of Pontiac.
When Van Wagner was high
way commissioner, Seeley first
was director of personnel and late
assistant to Deputy Commissioner
Kennedy.
Elected governor. Van Wagner
insisted that Seeley leave the
highway department and take
charge of the executive office, but
he loaned" his secretary TO Ken
nedy during the high commits
sioner's campaign. which Seeley
managed.
Because of his popularity, state
officials are reviving the title OF
Major" which once went with
the appointment as executive Sec
Rotary.
Maj. Elton r. Eaton. secretary
10 former Governor Groesbeck, IS
known even today by that title.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
SIovania Too Poor,
Taken Over by Axis

ROME, May 3.-QNS)-Modern
history has demonstrated that it
is impossible for small nations to
lead a successful, autonomous exist
ence. Virginia Gayda, Fascist
propaganda, explained today, and
for this reason Slovania is being
taken under Italian and German
protection.
Slovania is too poor TO exist
independently and too small to save
herself from propaganda aimed
at her and therefore. Gayda said,
she will be protected by Italy and
Germany.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Has Enough Strength

Obviously he now has the
strength TO hold Britain with air
and sea attacks while moving
against Russia. Selling Gibraltar.
and extending his Conquests IN
the Near East.
Another Clche that must now
be doubted is the one that Ger
many must win in 1871 or else
- The conqueSts which the
NaZis have recently made and
those they can easily make will
strengthen Hitler materially for
a long pull
Invasion of England is no doubt
a temptation to military Strate-
giSt. But the risk of failure is
great, and the psychological re-
action would be devastating to
Hitler'S successes so far.
A better game would be TO con-
quer Russia and the Near East
and then sue for peace with some
very sweet concessions to Britain
and the United States.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Flight TO Sell Plane
Marks Divorce Suit

Francis S. Spring, S15,000-a-
year motor company engineer
being sued for divorce by Rita
Coakley. Spring, Saturday was
given permission to fly his plane
10 California and sell II, placing
the proceeds in escrow pending
outcome of the divorce.
The plane comes under the
terms of an injunction obtained
in connection with the divorce
suit. which is suppressed, and
Spring had TO obtain permission(
of Circuit Judge Joseph a. Moyni->
han to fly it TO California. Mrs.
Spring lives at 46l Burns drive.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Surprised Enemy

The mechanical column. a Cairo
bulletin said, made a wide detour
and surprised a considerable body
of-the enemy"
Referring 10 the fighting at To-
bruk, 80 miles behind the farthest
point of the Axis advance. the
communique said the Axis forces
Friday made determined efforts
10 exploit a previous penetration
of the city's outer defenses, add
ing:
Although n large number of
tanks was employed. the British
troops held their ground and in
fiicted heavy losses on the
enemy"
"a great number OF case
mates and several hundred priS--
onerS, the German high
command claimed. were seized
by panZer troops in a deep
penetration of the defenSeS of
Tobruk against strong enemy
resistance. y
Raj bombers and fighters. ac-
cording to a Cairo communique,
continued to Strafe Axis forces in
the western desert. They claimed
many hits on motor transport con-
centrations, supply stores and
moving motorized conveys in Fa-
laga Pass in the Lake Afciangi
area of East Libya.
Ualdia. 80 miles north of the
BritiSh-captured Abyssinian center
of Dessye, was reported captured
by South African troops.
NAIROBA, Kenya Colony, May
3.-QNS)-British forces mopplng
up in Abyssinia have captured
Ualdia. about 80 miles north of
Dessye, and Fike, a small post in
the outlying defense of SCia Scia-
mama.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Reds May Be Next

Dispel from your mind the COM
mon supposition that Hitler does
not want Russia. The Reds are
likely TO be next, if the invasion
of England fails or is not at
tempted.
Russia is the raw material
storehouse of Europe and Asia.
Hitler has been conquering mostly
empty breadbaskets so far. II he
finds this is going 10 be a long
war. he will arm himself for it
by imposing German efficiency
upon that treasure house of the
world.
The Germans seem very anx-
ious to keep the United States
out of the war until the Nazi con-
quest is complete. No attack Hit
Ter could devise would be less dis
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Students Life PeriIed

ANN ARBOR. May 3.-Univer-
Sity of Michigan health service
physicians are fighting 10 save the
life of Romeo H.. Freer of 1864 La
Sale boulevard, Detroit. 19-year-
old engineering student who today
took an overdose of sleeping
tablets
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Called Rebels

Arab leaders generally, II was
argued, are not likely to give any
solid assistance to what the Brit
ish described as a rebel Iraqi
movement that defies even the
wishes of the Iraqi people"
The British Broadcasting Cor
poration addressed to the people
of Iraq second appeal to over
throw the ursurpers" in Bagdad.
The British radio called Rashid
Ali and -four ambitious generals
who helped him seize power trail
tors"
1t promised that Britain would
defend the independence of Iraq
at all costs"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04

WASHINGTON. May 3.-Nou
arc not keeping up with the latest
military facts If you let yourself
become melancholy over Britain's
prospective fate in the Mediter-
ranean. \ complete revision OF
popular theories on the war IS
necessary as result Of recent
breaks.
The Mediterranean has been Tor
centuries a vital lifeline of the
British empire. Popular pcsSimiSm
is evident because they are about
TO lose il.
Censorship has fooliShly con-
cealed the truth that they lost
il weeks ago Even the Suez has
been of little use To the empire
for months because Of mines laid
from planes. No conveying Of
British commercial shipping has
been attempted through the Med
iterranean since the ANS eStab-
lished bombing bases in Sicily.
Conquest of Greece viii merely
give the NaZiS more bombing
bases. The only thing now vital
TO the British in that area is the
large British naval base at Alex
andria.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Banks Also Selling

Peter Wiggle. assistant poStmas-
ter. commented on the sales:
"We're going fine and the peO-
pie are for these In a big way"
Wiggle said a large number of
school children were buying the
smaller stamps.
Detroit banks had not finished
tabulating their sales of stamps
and bonds but officials of banks
contacted were gratified with sales
during the first few days.
Bonds are sold in denominations
of S25 to $1,000 in Series F., 500
to $4,000 in Series F and Series G..
The latter type bonds are devised
for persons who want an annual
income from their investments.
The smaller bonds do not pay
annual interest but increase in
value until maturity,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
No Evidence of Aid

The district around the Persian
Gulf port of Basra, it was de-
clared, remains quiet. notwith-
standing Bagdad assertions that
Iraqi troops were surrounding the
city and artillery had opened fire.
The British called the Iraqi
action a rebellion abetted and
financed by Germany.
Notwithstanding reports Of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Defense Bonds,
Stamps Slump
After 1st Boom
6 hill dren Customers
of Smaller Issue,
Sales Record Shows

Public support Of the defense
stamps and bonds during the first
days of their sale was highly sat
isfactory, post office and bank Of
ficials said Saturday.
The defense offerings went on
sale Thursday and an enthusiastic
response was noted. Sales fell off
considerably Friday, especially in
the small stamps sold in post Of
fiees and branches.
On the first day of public sale
at post offices, the public pur-
chased $36,435 worth of stamps
which are issued in denomina-
tions of 10. 25 and so cents, 81 and
IS. Bond sales at the same loca-
tions were Sll0,210.
Friday, samp sales at post Of
fees Slumped to about $500 and
bonds TO S54 900.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Refugees Safe

Summoned by Rashid Ali TO
rise in arms in a holy war
againSt Britain. PaleStinian
Arab extremists were reported
in Budapest to have resumed
anti-ScmitiC outbreaks such as
abduCtionS of Zionist leaders in
the Holy Land They were said
to have claShed with British
troops and police in several
parts of Palestine
Rescue of British women and
children from Iraq was understood
to have been completed. Haifa dis
patches said these refugees. mostly
families of British diplomats and
oil engineers, had been arriving at
the British Palestinian naval base
aboard transport planes since Fri
day morning. when the lraq fight
ing broke out.
The British governor of strategic
Cyprus, third largest Mediterra-
mean island situated off Turkey S
and Syria'S western
coasts. urged civilians there to flee
as soon as possible. The Cyprus
seaport capital of NicoSia. a
Reuters message revealed. under
went its first raid alarm of the
war Saturday
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
British Repulse lraqis
Attacking Basra Port
Several Planes Lost at Habbaniya as
Natives Surround Small Force
Continued from Page One)

luftwaffe formations seen flying
south along the Turkish coast in
the direction of French Syria,
London had no indication that Hit
Ter had begun responding to Rashid
Ais allegedly Nazi-inspired APP
peal.
Up until nightfall London had
no confirmation of reports that
RaShid Ais troops had seized all
the valuable oil wells and all sta
tions along the pipeline from its
source at Kirkuk to the Iraq-
Transjordan frontier.
Nor was anything known of re-
ports that the native forces had
stopped the flow of oil to Haifa,
Palestine.
But even II these reports are
true. authorized British spokes-
men revealed. the supply of oil and
gasoline to Britain's Middle East
land, sea and air forces will not
be materially affected
Plans were completed months
ago, these sources said. to provide
British Middle East forces with
equivalent quantities of fuel IN
case OF just such an eventuality as
appears now to have developed.
Rashid Ali was reported TO have
sent a commission to Transfer
DANA to request the help of the
Transjordan Arabs against the
British. London quarters. how
ever. contended Britain had little
to fear from the Arab populations
Of Transjordania or Palestine. as
sorting that these people remain
friendly to the British.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04

trolled by the chairman, Thomas
j. Donahue, and Fox. Donahue
was appointed to the post by the
governor last January.
Republicans are confronted with
an interesting political problem as
a result of the death of Mrs.
Charles Beecher Warren, national
committeeman.
1t has been agreed because Mrs.
Warren lived in Detroit, her sue
cessor should be from that city.
When Mrs. Fred M. Murphy. a
candidate for the post on two
occasions. announced she was not
interested, Republican women
united in support of Mrs. Dudley
Hay.
Mrs. Hay had the inside track
until this week when the whole
scheme was exploded by Hal
Smith, well known Detroit attor-
ney and COP leader.
Smith wanted TO be national
committeeman last year. but was
defeated for the job by National
Committeeman Frank d. Mckay.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
New Building Near
For POinte School

Ground will be broken about
June | for the industrial arts adj
dition 10 Crosse Pointe High School,
the suburban board of. education
announced Saturday. The addi-
ton is designed not only TO relieve
over-crowding but TO afford better
educational advantages 10 students
who are planning to go on to
college.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Vote for Ohio Strike

WARREN. O., May 3.-GNS)-
Representatives Of the Go United
Electric. Radio and Machine Work
crs of America said today that IS
per cent of the 300 union employees
of General Motors Sunlight Elec-
trio Company plant voted in favor
of a strike.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04

invasion Of Russia.
The notion that Hitler will not
fight on TWO fronts at the same
time has also become dangerous.
The German General~staff held
that view during this war only
as long as Germany was a small
country. Now Hitler as a world
power has go divisions under
arms tower 100000 mem. Armies
rot unless used. You can do any
thing with a hayonet except sit
on il is an old army saying The
only front on which his troops arc
now being used is a brief stretch
in the Egyptian desert. For the
complete conquest of the Greeks,
YucoSlavians and British in the
Balkans he used only 40 divisions,
leaving 90 to fight elsewhere.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Sought Revenge

Burned by the setback, Smith
has been quietly waiting for re-
venge.
Last week. his friends proposed
that the post of national commit
teewoman be left vacant until the
outcome of the trial of Mckay
in Federal Court. If Mckay is
convicted, he will resign. Smith
will then be a candidate TO sue
coed him.
But both the national commit
teeman and the national commit
teewoman cannot come from
Detroit. One or the other must
be from the odtstate TO balance
representation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Hitler Sends Planes

From reliable non-British sources
in London it was learned Adolf
Hitler, responding TO Rashid Ais
allegedly Nazi-contrived appeal fol
help. has diverted some of his
luftwaffe squadrons to the Mean
East.
A heavy Iraqi artillery bonn
bardment. such as launched the
at dawn Friday. was
resumed this morning against the
holly beleaguered Habbaniya air
drome. the latest authorized Brit
ish bulletin said, but British de-
tenders of the base were declared
to be holding their ground.
turkish reports relayed by
the Berlin radio said Iraqi troops
had scored a break through
across the southwestern British
defenses of Habbaniya. The Ber-
lin radio was heard by CHS as
saying 500 British Indian troops
at the Iraqi port of Basra had
gone over with their equipment
to the Iraqi~
The Iraqi troops, guns and
planes participating in the siege
of Habbaniya were heavily rein
forced Saturday.
Planes Destroyed
A number of British planes.
the London bulletin admitted
were destroyed at the Habbaniya
on which, according 10
the Bagdad radio, Iraqi planes UNI
loaded 30 tons of bombs Friday.
Asserting nevertheless h a I
British-trained Iraqi fliers were
unsuccessful" in their raids on
the announcement
pointed out that the town, 60
miles west of Bagdad, was an
unprotected training base and
consequently most of the equip
ment is of an Institutional type. J"
No details of flooding were
given, nor was there any indica-
ton of how much damage had
been inflicted upon the oil prop
critics.
The Bagdad announcement that
several British tanks were de-
Stroyed and others captured in the
defeat of a British attack on the
Rutba garrison in southwest Iraq
was denied in London. Official
British quarters professed no
of such an attack.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04

throughout Saturday in a second
daylong bombardment, but the
pivotal base, 60 miles west of
Bagdad, was reported still in
British possession this morning.
The hoStihties assumed a wider
aspect with British reports stating
that former Iraqi Regent Abdul
Ilah. expelled in the April l Bag
dad coup that installed Premier
RaShid Ali Beg Galaini in power,
was organizing an Arab army in
Transjordania 10 advance against
the Bagdad revolutionists."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Triumph
In Fierce 3-Ddy
Battle al Tobruk
Axis Troops Hacked,
Forced to Retreat,
Cair o M a in t a in S

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merous prisoners and guns were
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04
Mediterranean Lost
To Britain Weeks Ago
Mined Suez of Little Use, Gibraltar
Becoming Much Less Important
BY PAUL MALLON
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WASHINGTON May 3You the United States than
arc not keeping up with the latest invasion Of Russia
military facts YOU yourself that Hitler will
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-01-13
Popular Girl Bride OF Army Officer Saturday
Annual Custom
To Be Observed
Mrs. Berger VIII Entertain
Women's Study Club

The Tacoma Woman 5 Study
club each year sets aside one
meeting for a play day and
this time will carry out their
long established custom at
u 80 luncheon Tuesday after
noon at the home of Mrs.
f. NJ. Berger, 1904 No. Wash
ington ST.
Hostesses for the day assisting
Mrs Berger will be Mesdames
William F. Dodge. Mrs. F. r. Hib-
bard. Mrs. Lillian c. Dillman, Mrs.
Ivan p. Balabanon.
Taking part also in the informal
afternoon are officers Mrs. J. II.
Kitla-, Mrs. w. L. Tucker, Mrs.
Hattie Rooms, Mrs. Birdola Ger
main and Mrs. A. r. Buchen. Mem
bers are Mrs. Ethel NJ. Dunseath
Mrs. G. Gilmore McMaster. Mrs.
Leona Allison. Mrs. James A
Blocker, Mrs f. J Hiberly, Mrs. A
Howard Smith. Mrs. D. c. Sum-
mers. Mrs. c. A Snyder. Mrs Eve
lyn Chantler. Mrs f.. F. Cushman
Mrs. F.. J. Hackett and Miss Bea-
trice Meddins