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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-03
WAR INTERPRETIVE
Continued from Page One

they revel in a four-to-one advant-
age in general air war effective
ness over the isles defenders.
Conceding that mere numbers
are a poor gauge, it is a fact that
American air officials are far from
unanimous in accepting the odds.
A rival. official calculation is that
the Axis European powers together
can muster about Al, 1000 planes to
some $4,000 for Britain.
The published estimate had it
that the LuftWaffe possessed an
operating force of 18, 1000 combat
planes, with as many in reserve.
Now London, in a detailed break
down, halves these figures.
There need be no suggestion of
intent to mislead in noting that
in view of wartime secrecy all
such figures tend to be in effect
mere ''educated guesses."
By calculations the navy submit
ted to congress last month, the
Axis can count 284 submarines
more or less to enforce Hitler's
threat to torpedo all supply ships
bound for English ports.
1t may be noted, however, that
this total includes Italian and jap
anese submersibles; that the Ital-
ian are based in the Mediterranean
and are of limited effectiveness;
that Japan is not yet at var with
Britain; that in the World war Ger
many sent 800 u-boats to sea with
out ultimate victory; and that by
the precedent of that period, only
a third of a submarine force is
normally on the firing line at any
one time.
Offsets Menace
Tending to offset the menace of
the occupied French ports as adj
vanced u-boat bases is their vul-
nerability to such air raids as Brit
ish bombers loosed in daylight on
Sunday against Brest and Bou-
lougne.
Adolf Hitler could boast that
Germany had some $50 divisions
of land troops, comprising the
worlds mightiest army, in tn
peak Of readiness. But not even
Herr Goebbels would contend that
more than a third of these could
be employed in a frontal attack
on the British Isles. The force that
counts is that which can be
brought to bear on a decisive
front.
The Nazis' long range guns have
resumed their cross-channel firing
and from Berlin come photographs
to impress the world with their
power. Ordnance experts are only
moderately awed. The Big
Berthas' are just another weapon
under the circumstances, short
lived and difficult to aim.
Aside from specific instances
which warrant close scrutiny, a
number of general considerations
would appear to have a direct
bearing on the current stage OF
winter var of nerves.
One is that Nazi propaganda
technique still seeks to undermine
and paralyze enemy morale by
Boosting of Nazi might and i'm
minent victory.
For the moment, it is to Britain's
apparent interest to make the most
of her dire need for quick Ameri-
can aid. Too. the British often r
not in a position to counter boasts
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-03
REFUSE REQUEST

MILWAUKEE,, Feb. 2.-R-
Max w. Babb, president of tn e
strike-bound Allis-C halmers Manu-
featuring Co., Sunday refused a
request by R. J. Thomas, interna-
tional president of the CLIO United
Automobile Workers union, a t
the company executive committe
discuss company policy with union
leaders. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-03
A TEPELENI

BITOLJ, Yugoslavia, Feb. 2.-R!
The Italians have almost finish
ed the evacuation of Tepeleni, AL
bania, and are burning the last
stock which they have been unable
to move, frontier advices reported
tonight.
Tepeleni is the next immediate
big objective of the Greek troops
in Albania and reports last week
said the Fascists we're abandoning
the town.
While now and rain held up
operations, both sides were rein
forcing ranks depleted by fighting
and exposure during the recent
cold weather. 3
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LEASE-LEND BILL
APPROVAL EXPECTED
IN THE HOUSE SOON
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out further amendment and then
to horse trade" on other changes
with those senators inclined to op-
pose the legislation in it's present
form.
Some Amendments
The House foreign affairs COM
mittee already has written in some
amendments, including provisions
terminating the legislation e r
two years and requiring the ap-
prevail of Army and Navy chiefs
before Mr.. Roosevelt can release
American military equipment for
export.
Senator Nye tR-ND), a leader of
the senate opposition, declared
that 1.-The amendments are entire
ly meaningless, and we will strive
with all our power to defeat the
whole bill"
Nye said that he did not want to
see the bill on the statute books
for two years, two months, two
weeks, two days or two hours"
It was expected that the admin
istration bill would receive SUBJ
stantial support from republicans
in both houses. Senate republican
leaders declared their party men,
bers probably would divide about
evenly on the measure.
They said that if the bill were
amended to prohibit the use OF
American warships to convoy ship
ments to Britain it might receive
a majority of the republican votes.
AS approved by the house foreign
affairs committee, the legislation
merely states that it %confers no
power under which the chief exc
cutive could order convoys-a pow
err which administration supporters
say the President has already.
While the congressional fight ap-
preached, the National League OF
Women Voters announced support
of the British aid measure. Mrs
Louise Leonard Wright of Chicago,
the leagues foreign policy chair
man, said in a statement that the
organization supports this bill be-
cause we see in it a way to assist
the British by non-violent means"
A busy schedule was arranged
this week for various COMPRESSION
al committees.
The house ways and means COM
mittee expects to recommend for
mally tomorrow legislation to in
crease the public debt limit to $685.
O0O, 600, 900 to enable the treasury
to finance the huge armament pro-
gram. The present statutory limit
is $40, 900, 900, 900.
The bill also would make most
future government securities SUBJ
ject to federal taxation and permit
the treasury to sell a wide variety
of them to raise defense funds
even the 25-cent savings stamps Of
the kind current during the World
war.
Secretary Knox was called as
the first witness at the opening of
hearings tomorrow by the house
naval appropriations subcommit-
tee on the Navy's request for 3d.
SIS, 400, 080 in cash and contractual
authority to carry on the fleet
building program during the year
starting July /. 4
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NUMEROUS BRITISH
PLANES ATTACK
INVASION COAST
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ers up to a late hour. Fog shroud-
ed the Strait of Dover after a clear
winter day.
The daylight raids were a carry
over from attacks Saturday night
and today at dawn. In the night
sortie, the ali ministry said, "a
small force of coastal command
aircraft attacked the docks at
Brest." That is the old French
naval base from which the Ger
mans are now believed to be oper-
ating submarines.
At dawn another small force of
Raj bombers raided the docks at
Boulogne, France, and Ostend,
Belgium, according to an authori-
tatlve source
The Germans were active only
in a small way. A German Dornier
flew over East Anglia, dropping
eight bombs on the outskirts of a
town. Most fell in an open field
and there were no casualties. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-03
APPROPRIATIONS AND
FINANCE COMMITTEES
COMPLETE WORK SOON
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report will probably be submitted
Tuesday or Wednesday,; and the
referendum measure may be intro
duced late in the week.
The house education committee
has scheduled a hearing Tuesday on
the ninth month proposal.
The finance committee has its
last hearings set for Tuesday, and
the appropriations committee has
set Wednesday as its hearings dead
line, with the Greater University of
North Carolina scheduled as the last
to appear.
The finance committee has ap-
proved all parts Of the revenue pro
posals except the section to exempt
basic foods and Bibles from the
sales tax.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-03
COPPER FACTORY
STRIKE SETTLED
,,.;or Workers Also Agree to
poturn to Work at Ship
yards in Mobile
~, The Associated Press

nv Int
.~nionists ratified strike set
sor+s Yesterday at the Phelps
s p'5se Copper Products Corpora
1--WE .,ont in Elizabeth, N. j., and
'"D Alabama Dry Dock and Ship
'';,dins company yards in Mobile
.areed to return to work this
morning uoh
s.l+ed work for more than a week
$4,000, 900 of defense produc-
Of the Allis- Chalmers Manu-
occurring company in Milwaukee
1.o.red far from settlement. The
, H Automobile Workers I'm
tbere is demanding a union
shop. hos hooa
10 toward a settlement due to
Inv seriousness of the SITUATION
NV .1ohn R. Steelman, chief of the
t,deral Cancellation service, said IN
Washington. -
u.ss and James P. Holmes. fed
li'G .od;ators. to come to Wash
'nston and give us a detailed re
nart on the dispute. The next step
sr;l, he determined after we have
eons;dered the report"
The settlement of the strike at
4,o Mobile s%hipyards, which had
l ON 3,4oo men idle for 10 days,
arsnted a minimum wage of so
esnts an hour, a lucent increase
aver the previous minimum, and
an increase of four cents an hour
n all men now getting more than
n cents. with top pay of 81 cents
an hour for machinists.
,rohn Green, president of the
Industrial Union of Marine and
Sbipbuilding Workers of America,
told members it represented the
highest pay rate south of Balti-
more and promised to fight a 60
cent minimum"
The Phelps Dodge strike, which
company officials said had halted
work on S74,3 1913 in navy contracts
and threatened other defense work
amounting to $3.50, ooo, 900 was set
tied with an agreement for i'm
mediate negotiation Of a contract
TO become effective if the United
Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers of America wins certif-
cation as bargaining representa-
tive.
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GROUNDING SEES
HIS SHADOW HERE
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ton, then it's a good idea to look
in the coal bin and keep that over
coat handy.
However, weather bureau Off
Gals here don't put much stock
in the Grounding variety of fore
casting. And to prove it is the fore
cast for clear and warm weather
today. A low of as degrees was
forecast for early this morning.
AS for yesterday it was balmy
enough. The high was SO degrees
and the low was SO. The mean and
the normal got together at At de-
grees. u.
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of their foes with their own figures.
Further, it is almost a racial
trait TO rBritons, and some Ameri-
cans at least, to depreciate their
own strength and to leave hosting
to the foe - 3
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to his hole for another six weeks
Of slumber.
And that, to the Punxsutawney
clubmen, settles the weather prob
lem until mid-March.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-03

Lamb is the flesh of sheep un-
der n year of age; mutton is the
flesh of sheep older than n year.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-R-Weath-
er bureau records of temperature and
rainfall for the "a hours ending s D.. NJ.
in the principal cotton growing areas
and o1eou-horo.
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trated on consolidating and fortify-
ing new positions to which they
had Withdrawn,
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-22
Rector Held,
u. S. Protests

Washington, Nov. 22--AP-The
United States has lodged strong
protest with the Italian govern
ment against the arrest and con.
tinued detention of the Reverend
Hiram Gruber Woolf OF Elmira. N.
Y, rector OF st. Paurs Protestant
Episcopal Church in Rome.
Secretary Hull instruced George
Wadsworth. American charge DAFT
fairs in Rome. to deliver the formal
written protest, 1t was learned to-
day, as soon as the embassy had
made a full report of all known
circumstances surrounding Mr..
Woolfs arrest.
Wadsworth, made verbal repre-
sensations against the clergyman's
arrest on Tuesday. soon after tia
liam police, allegedly under orders
from the minister Of the interior,
had taken him into custody at
the rectory OF the church.
The embassy was informed at
that time that Mr.. Woolf had been
arrested and was held for investi-
cation ION seriously discriminating
information.
Press dispatches from Rome re-
ported he was being held incom-
municado on suspicion Of intellig-
ence activity, but provided no de-
tails.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-22
Railroad Negotiations Checked
House Turns to Plans For
Prevention of Initiation

under which an administrator could
establish ceilings rur commodities
whose prices got out Of line with
the rest OF the price structure. 1t
would not regulate wages. The
Gore bill would freeze all prices.
wages and rents as Of a given date
and permit necessary adjustments
thereafter.
Martin said the Republicans
wanted an effective" price control
bill which would curb initiation and
one which would be effective af-
ter the emergency In preventing
serious deflation as an aftermath
OF the defense boom.
In that connection, Bernard NJ.
Baruch. World War head OF the
War Industries Board. told the
rules Committee yesterday that
Congress should take a iong-ranxe
view OF the price-control problem.
emphasizing the need for q low
price structure to insure that AZ.
ter the war. American products
will be able to compete in all mar
kets.
What is the use OF surviving the
war;" he asked, ~ we cannot sur
vive the peace?".
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-22

Washington. Nov. 22-AP-The
controversial problems of regulat-
ing prices to prevent initiation
held No. spot on the House caleu-
dar today and Minority Leader
Martin OF Massachusetts said the
republican membership probably
would meet Tuesday to map their
strategy toward 1t.
Climaxing four days OF hearings,
the House Rules Committee grant.
ed preferential status yesterday to
the price-control bill recommended
by the Banking Committee and
the Democratic leadership announc.
ed that the allotted two days OF
debate would begin Monday.
Under the procedure approved
by the Rules Committee. the bill
will be wide open for amendments
ak-long, as they are germane and
Rep. Gore (D-Tepn-) said he would
offer rs a substitute his universal
price control bill, stripped OF the
provision calling. for recapture by
the Treasury OF defense profits in
excess OF eight per cent.
The bill recommended by the
Banking Committee would author
Ice selective form of price control
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-22
Three Acres, Storm Cellar
Advice Given City Dwellers


United States Supreme Court In
1871 put the country on the road
to initiation by permitting issuance
Of paper money and the present Ad-
ministration is pounding down that
route.
Down in the southeastern Okla
homa mountains Murray has a
farm on Yashau Creek and when
and IL the storm gathers that's
where he will be. He thinks he'll
be using his cellar in four or FIVE
years.
There will be tremendous dis
orders in the cities" he asserted,
Il wouldn't want to be in the city,"
But Murray's picture OF things 10
come was not all deep indigo.
81 think" he said, that the re-
public Is gone. But It will come
back. just as the French republic
came back after Napoleon. But 1t
will be generation before we will
dare to be free again"
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-22
Axis, U. S. Principles, Baking Diplomats

Washington. Nov. GINS Re
sponsible quarters in Washington
today disclosed that Japan's re-
luctance TO renounce the Axis Al
lance and Secretary OF State
Huil's insistence on four funda.
mental American principles now
constitute the main differences OF
opinion in the exploratory talks be-
tween the two countries.
With slow progress being made
In the discussions because OF these
differences OF opinion, the State
Department planned a Joint con
sultation with the diplomatic rep
resentatives OF Great Britain and
Australia on the far eastern sit.
uetion.
Undersecretary OF State Sumner
Welles made tentative arrange
ments to confer with British Am.
bassador Lord Halifax and Aus.
tralian Minister Richard G. Casey.
Japan's unwillingness TO re-
nounce her alliance with the Axis
powers is understood to be loom.
ing now as the main obstacle to
an agreement.
The two Japanese ENJOYS, Sab.
uro Kurusu and Ambassador Kich.
isaburo Nomura, are proving more
adamant on this point than they
did on the question Of Japan's with.
drawal from China. which appear.
ed to be the main stumbling block
during the early stages Of the dis
cussions.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-22

Oklahoma City, Nov. Pap -
William H. Murray advises city
jewellers to get three acres in the
country and storm cellar
there's initiation ahead land that
means dictatorship.
Thus spoke oklahoma's former
governor as he turned his land
year, still vigorous, still interested
In politics. still critical of the New
Deal he has fought SO long.
Now II were a city dweller,"
he told an interviewer, "I"d get
about three acres somewhere out
in the country, away from a main
highway. I'd have a cellar and
Id begin to can vegetables and
fruit.
I'D get all the species I could.
Paper money won't be worth any
thing. I'd put those canned yegeta.
bles in a hole in the ground. bury
them, so I'd have something to eat
when the trouble comes"
Murray said a 5-4 decision OF the
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-22
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Mrs. Cook New
Court Friend

Mrs. Carruth Cook. clerk Of the
county's board OF supervisors. this
morning took her oath OF once is
Washtenaw'sN new Friend OF the
Court, succeeding Mrs. Maria Peel.
The oath was administered by Mrs.
Luella Smith. county clerk.
Mrs. Cook has been doing Mrs.
Peels work since Mrs. Peel became
Ill last January. The board ac-
cepted Mrs. Peel's resignation at
the annual meeting In October.
Mrs. Cook was born In Port
Hope. Canada. and attended the
University OF Toronto for one year.
She has an excellent background
for the work in which she will be
engaged. She did personnel work In
the employment office Of the Re-
public Rubber Co. in Youngstown.
later was employed as a private
secretary in Rochester. n. Y. and
during the first World War was IN
War Camp Community Service
work in New York City. For the
past ~ years she has been deputy
clerk.
She is married and has three
children. one in college and two In
high school. Mrs. Cook resides at
222O vinewood Ave. Ann Arbor..
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-22
Death Terminates Illness
of Prof. Charles vi. Elliott

seriously I'll for the last four
months.
Prof. Elliott is credited with hav-
ing been the motivating force in
providing the Normal College here
with one of the most widely recog-
mixed special education schools In
America.
He was born in Perth, Ont. Oct:
IS, 1871, and was the son Of Tho
mas and Anna Elliott.
Surviving him are Mrs. Elliott,
the former Lucy Aiken Of Ypsi-
lanu, Eve children. Mrs. Clyde
Brown, Detroit, Ferris. Detroit.
Miss Bernice, New York City, and
Charles and Elizabeth, at homs.
Also surviving him are one sis
ter. Mrs. Catherine +. Ward. Port
Huron, and Eve brothers, J. d.
and George. Port Huron: and three
in Washington state, William H.,
Clear Lake; Robert, Arlington.
and Thomas. Everett.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-22
Conferences With
Roosevelt
Sought

Washington, Nov. 22-AP-Rep-
resentatives Of railroads and the
five railroad operating brother
hoods sought a conference today
with President Roosevelt after an
abrupt halt in negotiations to avert
nationwide strike set for Deem
Der Z.
The decision to report to Mr..
Roosevelt was reached last. night
In a five minute meeting and no
further conferences were schedul-
ed.
A. F. Whitney. president OF the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.
told newspapermen the meeting
broke up after the refusal on the
part Of the carriers to In any way
go beyond" q presidential boards
recommendation for settlement Of
the wage dispute. 4
]. J. Policy, president Of the As
ISOLATION of American Railroads;
George M. Harrison. president OF
the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks,
and Alvaney Johnston. grand chief
OF the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers were named to deliver
the report.
The Presidents emergency fact
finding board, referred to by Whit
ney, recommended that wages OF
operating employees be increased
temporarily by 71s per cent and
those of incorporating personnel Q
cents an hour, or an average OF
1874 per cent. The railroads &C
cepted.
Both labor groups, however, re-
jected the recommendations and
the operating brotherhoods issued
strike call for December Z. They
had asked 80 per cent increases
for their $4,000 members. Their
wages now range upward from
$500 a day.
No strike call has been issued by
the IA incorporating unions, rep
presenting 100000. They seek in
creases Of 30sto "a cents an hour
over their present scales, which
range from .35 TO IS cents.
The board estimated its recon-
mendations. IL adopted. would cost
the carriers s270. 100000 additional
each year. Railroad officials de-
clared the boosts demanded by
the workers might amount to as
much as s1,000,000.000 annually.
Mr.. Roosevelt has been confer
ring almost daily for the past week
With union and management
spokesman and interested govern
ment officials in an effort to avert
the threatened strike.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-22
Serum Being
Rushed South,

New York. Noy, 22-INS-A ship
ment Of special serum. rushed from
Milwaukee to New York on in
structions of the commanding Off
Ger OF the Navy Air Station here.
arrived by American Airlines plane
today, and was transferred to a
Navy plane for shipment south"
Navy officials refused to disclose
the destination Of the serum ship
ment They merely said II was being
sent to the south" At Columbia
Hospital. Milwaukee. 1t was said
that the shipment consisted Of $50
cubic centimeters OF poll conva-
descent serum for treatment Of in
fantile paralysis.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-22
Murray Again
CLIO President

Detroit. Nov. Gap The Con.
gress OF Industrial Organizations
pressed its annual convention to-
ward adjournment to lay In an ex-
ira session made necessary by a
flood OF resolutions that was inter.
rupted yesterday by a demonstra-
ton which marked the reelection
Of President Philip Murray and his
entire official family.
In accepting another one year
term. Murray called upon Presi-
dent Roosevelt to come just a lit
tie bit closer to labor, to have faith
in American labor--to understand
that American labor has a soul, a
heart, a mind, conscience. a
body"
"Labor's chief difficulty" he de.
clared, lies in the unwillingness,
the obvious unwillingness of gov.
eminent and business to accept
labor in good faith?
The SIS year old vice president
OF the United Mine Workers of
America fatty told industry not to
take advantage OF the present
grave national emergency to at
tempt to manacle labor"
Labor IL in no mood TO accept
the shackles Of mighty industry In
the United States either now or at
any other time" he asserted.