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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-26
Berlin Blast
Revises Chat
By Roosevelt
BY GEORGE DURNO
M NcM. ser,Ire sad Corre.pnndtnt

WASHINGTON MAY 26-The
White House today accused Berlin
OF attempting 10 "bccIaud Presi-
dent RoScvclt'S fireSidc speech in
advance Of It's delivery tomorrow
as the Chief Executive tore up an
original draft and began a general
revision I'm tho light of rapidly
changing conditions abroad ~
White House Secretary Stephen
r Early in declining 10 comment
on the statements of Grand Adj
miral Erich t'acdcr. commander
Of the German navy warning that
American conveys for English war
gods would constitute an open
war act. told reporters:
II have An idea that Berlin
today IL trying tn do anything
II can Ia becloud the Presidents
speech and precipiate something
for YOU gentlemen between now
and Tuesday night. ] would not
he surprised II mis- il only one
of the things YOU will he query
ing me ON A. coming from Der
lin before taaarrnn- night"
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ChutiStS Advance
Break Through British Defenses West OF Canea
NeU Zeolanders Counter-Attack

sharp hsnd-to-hand fighting Is
continuing. There were day
long and intensive dive-bomblng
attacks by the enemy. Heavy
losses were inflicted on the
enemy. including the continued
destruction OF their aircraft by
our shellfire on the ground"
The communique also admitted
that German air-borne troops car
ried out successful landings" Sat
urday, though on much reduced
scale" in the Gambia and RetimC
areas.
The London News Chronicle
reported from Cairo that more
man $50 German aircraft have
been destroyed in the battle Of
Crete
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-26
SWARM OVER CANEA

Devastating results were
claimed in the series of Raj
thruSts at Maleme. which lies on
the Bay of Canea 10 miles south
east OF the capital city and is the
only area where the Germans
have been able TO effect foothold
on Crete.
Despite the fact that numbers
of German troop planes were de-
stroyed, the NaZi invaders appar-
emily were able TO land sufficient
reinforcements 10 launch an Of
fensive against Canea itself.
Throughout yesterday, luftwaffe
dive-bombers swarmed over the
Canea area. laying an advance
barrage for German ground forces
seeking TO push into the Canea
area and Suda Bay. four-hour
aerial bombardment was said 10
have caused considerable havoc
in Ganea. Retimo and Gambia.
Casualties were heavy.
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.Ndziis Land
Small Tanks
In Crete
By CHARLES A. SMITH

INV News service stau 'ofrrspohufht
LONDON. May 20. - German
losses in the campaign for posses
sion of Crete were estimated at
nearly 10000 today as Nazi planes
landed a number Of small tanks
and the British apparently man
aged some slight reinforcement Of
their garriSons.
Information that British ma
rineS and artillerymen are now
engaged in the increasingly heavy
fighting indicated that one or
more British ships had succeeded
in slipping through the German
guard 10 land a number Of men
probably at some point on the
southern coast outside the present
area Of hoStilitieS.
Authoritative circles admitted
-tsfat r-borne tanks have been
landed They are believed 10 be
scven-ton tanks known as the
"Cheniette. each Of which carries
only TWO men.
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ton. sleeps milk, cheese and a
little bread.
The following day they made
their way down the southern slope
Of the mountain. over a path SO
steep and difficult that even goats
would have found the task a diff
ficult one.
While awaiting a ship TO take
the king and his party 10 Cairo
they ate eggs cooked by Lady
Pslsiret. wife of the British minis
ter to Greece.
Eventually. said Haywood. ne
saw a flare,outlat sea and a young
diplomat in the party put ont in
Greek caique to ascertain II the
vessel was friend or foe. II was a
British warship sent TO take the
party off.
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NIGHT IN HUT

The party spent the night in a
little shepherds stone hut on the
summit of the mountain, Haywood
revealed. 1t was bitter cold and
the party's food consisted Of NUT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-26

YOUTH. with the power of its
i energies boiling within IT,,
wants action, wants adventure.
II must either have action and
adventure or II must at least
read about them or see them In
pictures or listen To them over the
radio.
You cannot keep a good youth
down.
Youth must have its physical or
else its imaginative fling, and
perusing adventure series even In
'Iurid color" II harmless salts
faction OF the urge for action.
Your columnlst does not think
II offers the danger of anything
~ vaguely serious as false
Ideals
Indeed. even lamcnted "over-
emotionalism' would appear 10 be
mainly In the highly imaginative"
mind OF the good lady who fancics
all these dangers.
In fact, when We consider the
present licentious condition OF lit
-erature and the stage. and the in
cIlnatiOn OF the radio To lnculcate
tho doctrines of communism, the
comic magazine with its action
and adventure series. even pre-
sented In "lurid color" does not
seem much OF a menace 10 youth
hut rather relief from actual
dangers which lie along its path.
your coIumnist was a youth
once "A mighty long time
ago % be'Nsure, hut having good
memory he recalls the emotions
Of youth the pent mp energy,
the urge 10 action and adventure.
Your columnist. at the age of
eight. ran away from his grand
fathers farm I'm the San Jose Val
lev 10 the petty port Of Alviso
some five miles distant where ne
Intended TO ship a. sailor on
vessel bound for the South Seas.
Alviso was small shipping sta
J ton for butter and eggs and other
farmers produce.
IL II located In the mud flats
ut the southern end OF san Fran
cisco Bay.
No vessel piled out Of II but a
flat b0ttomed stern-whccler -
hearing the farm produce 10 san
Francisco in fact. no other
kind Of vessel could maneuver IT,
self in or out of the shallow chan
mel.
There were no picturesque
pirateS stretched out on bales 81
silk, Laying around the old ram
shackle wharf OF AlViso-nOthing
nearer to n pirate than a commits
sion merchant.
There were no long and rakisl
black craft lying omin0usly a.
the mouth of the lagoon.
There were no sturdy whale
ships taking on stores for lonl
voyage To the Arctic Circle.
There were no clipper bull
traders about 10 depart for {
voyage Of romance To the SoutI
Seas - nothing hut the flat bot
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incldc with Axis jubilatlon over
the sinking Of the great British
battle cruiser Hood in the North
Atlantic Saturday, Raeder's inter
view given IN Bcrln-Struck neu-
trail diplomatic circles in Toxic as
prelude TO forthcoming Nazi
action.
These circles saw the possibility
Of a spread Of the German war
fare upon Brilaih-S Atlantic life
line TO the waters off the
American coast.
II agree with President
Roosevelt's opinion that use of
United States conveys means
Shuuting, Pardcr declared
tie asserted that Germany had
no intention OF attacking tfrr
United States. Such charges are
put forth by high American
sources seeking 10 Justify their
own aggressive plans for inter-
yention, he added.
DOUBTS THEIR WORRY
These warmongers are not
worried over the possibility of
German attack" Raeder said
"but whether they can succeed
in creating desired incidents"
Referring 10 what he termed
categorical demands for extension
OF the American patrol areas and
conveying Of leasc-lend AID "a
British ports made recently by
-NTEf authoritative sources III
Washington Racdcr declared
since the conveyed cargoeS.
by American admission. would
consist OF contrabrand. this
would mean an open and un-
provoked act of war. Therefore.
another serious warning must
he sounded while there yet is
time.
German naval vessels would
be justified in acting i'm accord
ance with regulations governing
sea warfare and resortiDg 10
arms against conveying Ameri-
can warships II necessary.
The patrol system serves no
purpose Of American safety, hut
merely supplies the British with
tutoEmation. German merchant
vessels. including the liner Co
lumbuS tSCuttled off the Amcri-
can coast IN the early months
Of tho war. have become VIC
Tins Of this patrol.
The United states cannot
expect the commander Of "A Ger
man warship To permit
patroling American war vessel
To report his position to the
British. In such n case. the
German commander would he
justified i'm forcing the other
warShip 10 stop this hostile
practice"
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BRITISH PURSUIT

Meanwhile. the British North
Atlantic fleet. bent on avenging
the Hood and the more than 1900
officers and men lost with her,
pursued the German naval squad
ron as the greatest sea battle OF
the war roared into its third day
This morning British warshipS
and naval aircraft were pressing
their chase to bring the Nazi YES
sells TO close and decisive combat.
British experts expressed the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-26
SILENT OK DETAILS

Competent authority had MS
closed that the first draft of Mr.
ROOScveltS speech would have
on a smashing al
tack on opponents OF the admins
IratIon foreign policy and the
defense program
Early however, told has pres,
this morning
THE President will he en-
gagged most Of the day. tonight
and tomorrow I'm revising his
speech In the light Of rapidly
changing conditions abroad.
Don't ask me to 70 into details.
You will get the details when
YOU get the speech"
PRESIDENT GETS HELP
4 question was then pat 20 tho
secretary about Adj
mral Racder'S warning
THAT would be going into
details" Early said someW hat
significantly. He then made hiS
charge that tho Germans were
aI1emn1inG to confuse Tho issue.
Assisting tho President IN whip
ping has revised address into
shape arc New York Supreme
Court Judge Samuel RoScnmar
and Robert Sherwood noted play.
wright
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-26
Maj BdttIeship
Believed Hit
BY EARL REEVES
Int1 News Service staff Correspondent

LONDON, May 26.-Belief that
the new 35.O00-ton German battle
ship Tirpitz may have been hit by
a British aerial torpedo was ex-
pressed in IlHndon today.
The Tirpitz, launched April l..
1889 is a sister ship of the Bis
marck. the powerful Nazi Man o.
War that sank the giant British
battle cruiser Hood in Saturdays
battle.
Today naval experts in London
said they believed the TirpitZ was
accompanying the Bismarck and
that it probably" was the target
of an aerial torpedo which hit a
German vessel Saturday evening
The admiralty's communique an
nouncing the torpedo hit did not
state what German ship had been
struck. 1t said merely that IAN
attack by our naval aircraft re-
suited in at least one torpedo hit
on the enemy A previous British
announcement said the Bismarck
had been damaged in the battle
which resulted in loss of the Hood
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-26
HAND-To-HAND FIGHTING

\ British communIque related
Between Maleme and Canea
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SAvarms Of Nazi planes appcare
early Tuesday morning.
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BLACKOUT TIPS

l. When the alarm sounds, immediately either darken your windows or extinguish your lights. If the signal is confusing and you think it may be a fire alarm rather than blackout signal, watch to see whether the city street lights put out. If they are extinguished you may be sure the signal is for a backout.
 2. After you have darkened your windows, to allow the use of light inside, go out and circle the house. inspecting edges of windows to see no light is leaking out
 3. Don't use the telephonel Juneau and Doug las telephone exchanges operate on storage bat teres and it is impossible to maintain service if a flood of calls placed. Besides, the telephone lines are vital channels of communication between squads of civic defense guards, who must keep in touch with their headquarters to most efficiently in of emergency
 4. If you on patrol use your flashight only in case of vital necessity. Flashlights like searchghts when all other light is extnguished.
 5. Don't light cigarettes where the flare of the light be outside match struck in the surrounding darkness is visible to occupants of a plane 1000 more feet in the air
 6. If you have gone to bed before any blackout signal has sounded, remember when you arise in the morning that alarm may have gone out while you slept. Don't turn light until you have looked out to whether street lights
 2. Don't believe alarming stories of approaching enemy planes until you have heard them from some one in authority, who should know. Then be calm.
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IT'S AMAZING

Budget Director Harold Smith looked up from his desk in amaze ment one day last week. He be- held in front of him two men rep- resenting government ncies which actually wanted to merge.
 One man was Milo Perkins and the other Nelson Rockefeller. As Export Control boss under the Economic Defense Board, Perkins needed Latin American advisers. He went to Rockefeller. This dynamic young millionaire, who heads the Office of the Coordinator of Inter- American Affairs, resolved Perkins perplexity by handing over the best he had. He promptly transferred to Perkins office his right hand men, Carl Spaeth and Joseph Rev. ensky, both high class experts in the Latin American field.
 To accomplish this shift, Rocke- feller was made member of the Economic Defense Board-the only non- -Cabineteer on the Board.
 What amazed Budget Director
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HOROSCOPE "The stars incline
 but do not compeW
THURSDAY. DECEMBER

THURSDAY, DECEMBER II
 Adverse planetary aspects rule today. The stars presage conflict of many sorts. Clashes of ideas and firearms are presaged. Acci- dents may be numerous.
 HEART AND HOME: Under this configuration women may be dis satisfied and difficult to please. It is an unsatisfactory day for shoppers who may not have a clear conception of what they de- sire to buy. Girls need not expect much attention from young men, for war and defense preparations will engross interest. It is not a fortunate rule for the head of the family who may be weighted by anxieties as he takes stock of his financial possibilities in the com ing year
 BUSINESS AFFAIRS: Although there may be slower business trade in certain lines, relief exports will reach an amazing volume Foods will be sought by residents of the United States in great quantities as they entertain lavishly through the holidays.
 NATIONAL ISSUES: Criticism of men who hold prominent places in the nation will be misjudged as the war peril becomes widely rec ognized This is time when speech should be guarded With honest motives men and women may prove themselves real enemies of the nation, because of points of view based upon prejudices and limited understanding. There is an aspect presaging armistice or peace gestures which should be repulsed.
 INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS s :: New causes for sharp warnings to be sent to aggressive nations by President Roosevelt are forecast. Labor strife will furnish many an- xieties at home while abroad there will be criticism of the efficiency of our aid to Russia. Secret fifth column work will cause added re- luctance where aid to Stalin is in- volved. The end of the year will be especially difficult for Congress where emergency measures must be resolutely pushed before January ]. Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of a year of good fortune which may be attended with severe nervous strain Cau- tion in business affairs is advised
 Children born on this day may be emotional and high strung but exceedingly talented. Special care when signing contracts or enter ing into new associations will be imperative in mature years.
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stalled his younger brother, A. D. c.Denny') Lewis, who gets $10,000 a year. UCW has never got any where in the building industry, but is now engaged in a hot organiz- ing campaign among cafeteria, transportation and apartm n workers. CIO anti-Lewisites claim that District 50 money is financing this UCW activity.
 They also declare that there is more behind the big UCW and District 50 organization drives than merely to build up these unions.
 The charge is made that Lewis is secretly preparing the ground for an eventual bolt from the CIO and the setting up of new labor organization, composed of the Unit ed Mine Workers, District 50, the United Construction Workers, plus certain AFL unions. Lewis and Will liam Hutchinson, Roosevelt hating boss of the AFL carpenters, have been in close secret touch in re-
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the Chicago Tribune's expose of the secret war plan of 10,000000 men" was that Congressman Philip A. Bennett of Missouri paid $400 for similar information which he used in a speech exposing the army's giant plan. }
 Congressman Bennett's source, presumably inside the war Depart ment is reported also to have spill led similar information to the Trib- une, double cross which aroused the Congressman's wrath.
 Questioned regarding his pur- chase of the informat tion Congress man Bennett said: T don't want to discuss the matter now. The man and l are friends again, after a dressing down from me. Further more, l dug up some of the figures myself"
 NOTE: When the War Depart ment was warned not long ago of certain Fascist sympathizers within its own ranks, Army investigators started counter investigation of the man who had tried to warn them. q"
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cent months.

cent months.
 With his burning political am- bitions, such an organization, in which he would be the king bee, would give Lewis powerful poli- tical weapon in the coming event. ful elections. Also for the political operation of the America First Committee, of which he is an ar dent supporter.
 NOTE: The busted District 50 officials have started rank and file revolt to go over to the CIO Mine, Mill and Shelter Workers. Headed by Reid Robinson, who is in the Lewis doghouse because of support of Roosevelt's foreign pol icy, the MN1SW is up in arms at Lewis because of his alleged raid- ing of the unions field.
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WHAT MAY WE BELIEVE?

The first bombs which dropped on Pearl Harbor Sunday morning launched chain of events so swift and far-reachng that reports have been gar bled and confusing.
 Coupled with Navy censorship is the fact that Japanese action in the Pacific has been lightning like reporters almost unable keep abreast ot the news Further compcatng matters for the newsmen has been the fact that communications from many U S. possessions have been discontinued, just as radio transmission has been halted several times in Juneau, in order that the radio signals would not lead enemy planes key cities.
 And just as always happens under these con- flcting circumstances, flocks of garbled and only partially accurate reports bound to be circulated and given credance.
 Still, there is preponderance of evidence to lead us to credit the fact that Japanese plane car riers and warships are not far off coast lines And we have just as much right to believe that re- ports of intensive maneuvers the part of Ameri- can patrol planes, all along the coast well founded
 It is unavoidable that wild stories of approach ing enemy bombers will be circulated in these times. In Juneau in other cities along the Pacific Coast, such rumors will be given widest report around the time air raid warnings are sounded and blackouts ordered So often, these emergency signals will merely be a precauton necessary precaution but not definitely indicating that enemy planes are about to appear the city
 Whenever backout signal is given, here or elsewhere it is the duty of civilians to take their stations as defense guards or turn off their lights and be the alert for emergency Their actions
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DEFEN B, n .n SEE QUIZ

the Savings the of and Stamps acrried on nationally?
 Through Savings up States enlist the cooperation of industrial agricultural labor social stimulating everybody through Defense Stamps for National Defense.
 O. What why Government borrows Defense
 The Government wants be national defense which participates Savings possible American liberties
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DISTRICT 50 FUNDS

With coke, chemicals and muni- tions production soaring under the defense program District 50 mem bership also is zooming. So too are it's dues-into the treasury con- trolled by Lewis.
 What these funds amount to is his secret There has been no re- port of either income or outgo. District 50 insiders charge that big chunks of the unions money have been channelled into the United Construction Workers.
 The UCW was set up several years ago by Lewis to fight the powerful AFL building trades un- ions. As head of UCW Lewis in
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Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

OFTEN N1IsUsED The professor The professor several times during OFTEN MIsPRONOUNCED Hghwayman Principal accent is first syllable. MsSPEILED Terpsichorean dancng) vowels, also the pronounced K SYNONYMS: Revove roll, whrl. a times yours" u
  HUMANITARIAN (adeve) pertaining philanthropy T had moved by humanitarian impulses"
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should be the same, whether the signal is in the nature of a precaution of bonafde attack
 The pages of newspapers for years have told the tragic tale of death caused by rioous stamped ing, hysterical persons who faced with some danger, thought they were, and obeyed the first impulse to bolt and run
 Hysteria may be more deadly than bombs. Let's be sure story is from a reliable source before believe it. then let's keep cool.
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CAPITAL CHAFF

Major General Stephen O. Fu- qua, U. S. Army Retired, will leave his military exporting for News week, and fly to England as aide to w. A. Hartman <. =. The bright boys of New York's Democratic Party hop to heal the rift be- tween New Deal and Tammany in the campaign for governor by pick ing Owen D. Young as their can didate Sue Ryan, vaudeville comedian, prepared a new act with satirical studies of curious types of Congressmen. But a theater man. ager, waving his new tax statement,l said, There ain't anything funny about Congress A blow to the Irish Legation fin Washington was the death last month of Agnes Mullady, who, though not on. the diplomatic list, had served Ireland in Washington longer than any other member of the Legation staff.
 SECRET ARMY INFORMATION
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Hope
Philadelphia Record)

Philadelphia Record)
 We felt pretty confident that scientists, once given their heads, would through with devices to use our $22 778 000000 in buried gold
 In one week they have offered the following: CD Gold as a backing for mirrors instead of silver aluminium
 @ Gold on sound track film for moving pie lures in color.
 We'll if they want to make Fort Knox the new Hollywood and new beauty salon center, that's all right with us. But theyn need more ways than that to use up all our gold
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Smith was that these two men, Perkins and Rockefeller, instead of yielding to the usual lure for more power, had come in with request to sacrifice power in a merger.
 Its the most amazing thing I've ever seen in the government, " said Smith.
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20 YEARS AGO f frfm M F. EMPIRE

DECEMBER Mrs James Faherty the South spend the holidays with her daughters Seattle and Jane in Bellngham
 Mary Jeanette Whittier Alice Merritt Barbara Vim attended a party for Margaret Clare birthday The Douglas Bremen a n the Eagles Hall Miss Marie Goldstein University of Washington assisted at the Varsity Ball.
 The American Legon observance American week was ccuoe the night before given at the Els Hall under it's auspices
 Weather report High low, rain.