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Evening star., 1941-05-18

and Viola Hooker were initiated and
Mrs. Mary Lister transferred from
Altoona, Pa.
The post and auxiliary jointly will
| sponsor an evening of games Tues
day at Confederate Memorial Hall,
1922 Vermont avenue NV.
Mrs. Mary Campbell, past presi-
dent. has been Endorsed by her aux
| iliary as candidate for junior vice
president of District of Columbia
Department.
Auxiliary and post members are
invited to attend the opening of
Beverly Beach on May "a. Bring
picnic lunch to the cottage of Pres
ident Schaumleff1e. Meet in front
Of Sears, Roebuck g. Co at pm.
A musicale will be held at Mount
Alto Hospital on May 90 at 7:30
pm.
The department auxiliary presi-
dent requests all presidents to have
their flags and banners at Cedar
Hill Cemetery on May 25, at 1890
m. for services held by the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars. The serv-
ices will start at IL am. There will
be the massing of the colors at
Mount st. Alban. Color bearers
should report not later than 3:15
pm. at the flag pole in the grove
along Wisconsin avenue, just north
of ST. Alban's Church.
National Capital Auxiliary met last
Thursday with President Edith
Hiser presiding. The delegates to
the department encampment are
Florence Grubb, Laura Weaver,
Maud Wright, Mrs. Margullis. and
alternates, Mary Hagan, Fannie
Clark, Ruby Hierionums and Laura
Atheson. Comdr. Marguillis spoke
An evening of games will be held at
the home of Florence Grubb, 427
Garfield avenue, Hyattsville, Md, on
May "a. The proceeds will go to
the auxiliary's quota for the ma
tional home fund. The next meet
ing will be May % when Memorial
services will be held. The president
requests members taking part in
the floor work be there at 7 o'clock.
Federal Auxiliary met with Presi-
dent Betty Williams presiding. Dele
gates to the department encamp-
ment are Carrie Irving and Charo-
lett Strathern. The president of
Treasury Auxiliary. Devota Klein,
spoke. A Memorial service will be
held by the auxiliary on May %,
7::30 pm. at the Thomas Circle Club.
The Daughters Junior Unit of
Federal Auxiliary held installation
last evening. The auxiliary presi-
dent, Betty Williams, acted as the
installing officer. The new officers
are Mary McCallum, president;
Dora Rosetta, first vice president;
Lois Long, second vice president;
Thelma Lohman, treasurer; Florence
Hayes, secretary; Thelma Long,
chaplain; Hilda Clementson. con-
ductress: Connie Tyrren, guard;
Mary Louise Peck, patriotic instruc-
tor, and Catherine and Natalie
Rosetta, color bearers.
Treasury Auxiliary will meet to-
morrow a 1414 I street NV. Past
Department President Eola Wright
will give the officers their charges.
Police and Fire Auxiliary will meet
Tuesday at 1414 I street NV. for
election of delegates and alternates
to the department encampment.
The department president will give
the officers their charges. The
auxiliary will hold a moonlight boat
ride on June 10.
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Americanism Officer j. A. Walker
announces that Fort Stevens Post,
in cooperation with all citizens
associations in the North Washing
ton area, will conduct exercises in
observance of II Am an American
Day" today at pm at the Roose-
welt High School stadium.
Department Comdr. William H.
Hargrave will deliver the address of
welcome. The guest speaker will be
Dean Henry Grafton Doyle Of
George Washington University. Milo
Christensian, co-ordinator of recre-
alton for the District of Columbia,
will read the Commissioners procla-
nation. New citizens will be pre-
sented with the National Headquar-
ters American Legion Certificate Of
Recognition. A musical program will
be rendered by the Roosevelt Cadet
Corps Band, the Fort Stevens Drum
and Bugle Corps and the Junior
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JUNE 2. 1921

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MISSING MIR. BIG

AS one high military expert just back from Europe expressed it: Our rate of production is too slow and our program too small' But if the defense program were under the di- rection of a single competent head, he would know what is needed and would act to get it.
 Plenty of expert information is available. Several detailed programs have been prepared. But all these data get nowhere because there is no centralized authority to do some thing about it.
 OPM chiefs Knudsen, Hillman, Biggers, Nelson, Bait are abundant ly aware that the defense program is sorely inadequate to meet the menace of Nazi might. But, over burdened with their immediate job of mobilizing the colossal war in- cuStries machine, they have neither the time NOR THE RESPONSIBLE ITY to formulate new programs.
 This power is dispersed among a number of overlapping and conflict ing authorities Army and Navy brass hats, jealous of their preroga- tives and resentful of outside prod ding; dollar-a-year generalissimos, like Samuel R. Fuller. chief of raw materials, who is so industry mind ed that he is blocking expansion of power, steel, copper. and other es-
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vason of Crete may in one sense, have even great- CT significance. For Crete like England, is is land; Crete like England, lies close to the mainland of Europe (6O miles from the nearest point in the Greek Peloponnesus); Crete, like England, de- fended by determined men. Since the invasion of Crete succeeded the threat of invasion hangs even more heavily than in the past above England. But, unlike England, Crete defended by only very small part of Great Britains military strength The number of under Major Gen. Bernard c. Freyberg New zealander who commanded the Allied forces on the island is not known. But they could not be large General Freyberg may have had a partly reorganized New Zealand brigade (evacuated from Greece, British coast and field artillerynen antiaircraft gunners and supporting troops several squadrons of the Royal Air Force and an unknown number of Greek and Yugoslav troops-still prob ably in the process of reorganization and re-equip- ment-who evacuated from Greece. In addi-1 tion of the islands population of 350OO0 could be armed to form home guards against just such attacks.
 The chief British difficulty in the defense of Crete unquestionably the problem of finding suf ficent troops guard all of the islands serrated terrain against the vertical envelopment" attack from the skies Furthermore, the defenders were probably handicapped by the speed of the German attack; it has been only month since the evacua- tion of Greece, and it is doubtful whether the re-
 
 lending Crete had been completed, whether casu- alties had been fully replaced. Still another dis advantage-and perhaps the most important one-I British inferiority in the air. The British could be attacked from numerous bases in the Peloponne- sus from bases in the Italian Dodecanese by and perhaps, from some in the Cyclades, recently seized by the Germans
 The German disadvantages the other hand, were considerable. The British had naval superior ty that the Germans overcame by air power. Air fields and most of the best seaplane harbors were heavily guarded And the rugged, mountainous ter rain of Crete, with peaks rising to 8lO0 feet and valleys scanned by many rivers made quick concen- tration of forces landed from the air difficult and defense relatively easy.
 But Crete is lost The conquest of Greece is now complete. Most important of all, the Germans have demonstrated again that they deal decisively with the foe no matter what problems the attack presents. The Germans lost heavily in their attack upon Crete But the English lost vastly There very little satisfaction the democratic world in reviewing the Cretan campaign.
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problem of centralized, dynamic control of the defense machinery.
 All the balls are still in the Presi- dents hands. He can't keep them all juggling at the same time. No one man could. Wilson tried it, but had to make Bernard Baruch his de- fense czar.
 It takes super-man just to di- rect the diplomatic and military strategy of the nation in such fate full times. Physically and mentally it is impossible for one man to cope with these mighty foreign problems while at the same time trying to run a gigantic industrial program. The economic, social, labor and financial questions are too complex.
 There are outstanding. patriotic and devoted chiefs in the OPM Given production job, there is no | man in the U. s. better capable of executing it successfully and speed lily than Knudsen. The same goes for Hillman, Biggers, Nelson, Stet- tinius, Bait, others in their fields But there has got to be somebody to tie them all together to give the whole a steady. smashing, direct drive, day in and day out.
 There isn't now and there won't be until Franklyn Roosevelt relin- pushes some of the balls he has been trying to 'juggle.
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trained in the coffee trade, and when he made his first trip to Brazil as young man, he was entranced with the country and with certain young Brazilian lady, and he remained to live there and to marry.
 He saw great possibilities for Bra gil in the development of the coffee market in the United States. He could smell good market as he could smell good grade Of bean, and the A and P spotted him as the right man to select and buy their coffee in Brazil. This connection brought him to New York. 7~El@ You can't touch the Rockefeller office at any point without having an expert pop out at you. Rockefeller has experts in everything from mov- ies to manganese. and when he was looking for a coffee expert, James Forrestal said: T have the man for you" and he produced Berent Friele.
 Copyright, 1941, by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
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In itself, the island of Crete is not large inn portant. It has no resources of any military impor tance. But its location, commanding all the ap breaches to the Aegean, makes it an extraordinarily important prize in the Nazi campaign for control of the Near East.
 The first news of descent from the air of 15OO German soldiers disguised as New Zealanders seemed almost mythical legends of the mnotaurs that haunt the mountains of the island. Like the flight of Rudolf Hess into England, this bold aerial excur sion into enemyheld territory emphasized again the oddly mythological character with which modern weapons invest the ancient art of
 Glders troop-carryng transports and finally ships to broaden and strengthen the hold which parachutists first seized. The British found it impossible to keep their navy in Cretan waters under the bombs of German planes. Today Berlin claims, and London admits, that Crete has been taken 100 percent by the Nazis. The island joins Poland Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, France Libya Yugoslavia and Greece on the list of lost causes of the present war.
 Now that they have Crete the Germans have a strong base for air attacks the Suez Canal and also bridge from Greece to Syria. The next pier of this bridge is the island of Cyprus, and at tack there may be expected at any moment
 The defenders of Crete found themselves unable to deal with each contingent of Nazi troops as it arrived The Nazis obtained footholds at numerous places the island and proved their ability to send additional thousands of air troops each day. That this was exacting strenuous effort from Germany was proved by the fact that aerial operations against the British Isles and military operations in Lbya and Egypt were completely suspended during the at tack on Crete.
 Crete not only of strategical importance in the Mediterranean scheme outflung British bastion that like Cyprus and Malta, permitted of fensve action against the Hanks of the Axis supply and communication lines; it was also a symbol-a symbol of British strength Since it has been re- duced the British defeat will have repereussons in the Arab world; an Axsheld Crete will provide an- other stepping for the Germans in their Drang mach Osten" and the 160-mie-long island will be another sprngboard for Axis attempts to control the Eastern Mediterranean. Moreover, this ar-borne n-
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sential facilities; remnants ol the old National Defense Commission, which for months has held up hum dreds of millions of dollars worth Of new plants in a hair-splitting wran- gle over the amortization provisions of last years defense tax act.
 To date only thirteen out of 48O pending "certificates of non-reim- bursement," to start new plants, have been approved. Unless the Pres ioent himself pushes the button, nothing happens.
 DELAYED BOMBERS
 For six months, military authori- ties have known that the chief U. S. and British air need was long range heavy bombers to strike at the vitals of the Axis. But nothing was done-until several weeks ago, when Roosevelt finally got around to or dering action.
 There are other examples of this kind, equally grave. One is the fail ure to require sub-contracting of Army and Navy orders on suffi- ciently large scale really to acceler- ate the productive tempo.
 There are thousands of plants all over the country, fooled and staff ed, eager for defense sub-contracts (orders to supply parts to major contractors). Experts estimate that by this means of distribution defense output could be tripled and quad- rupled. But big contractors, sup ported by industry minded bras hats and certain $l men, have per- sistently opposed sub-contracting.
 For months the issue has been argued in inner circles, and only now steps are being taken to do some thing drastic.
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Daily Lessons in English v. v L. GORDON

He would not hear leaving so Say He leaving  OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Comparable pa tonf first MISSPELLED: ength).  SYNONYMS Accomplish, manage, conduct, direct. yours" us
 
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HOROSCOPE. "The stars incline s'' t'"ss
 but do rot compel'
TUESDAY. JUNE 3

SAoA<EA4y o oANEl o .-A ffi
 Labor comes under a promising aspect today. Neptune is in threat ening sway which bodes ill for ships at sea. There is a sign read as. indicating poor judgment and an inclination to criticise sgf
 Heart and Home: Women are under a sinister sign while this configuration prevails. It is a day when they may be easily deceived or may be determined to do what is deemed unwise by the members of their families. It is a time to prepare for a summer of wise ser vice for the nation. College girls should concentrate on studies and should forget dates" which may be disappointing. The stars seem to indicate much happiness and cor responding anxieties for women of all ages through the next few months. G
 Business Affairs: Advertising and propaganda are to become more and more forceful in the summer months. Newspapers and magazines should realize unusual profits. Peace organizations will suffer through sinister implications Fund-raising efforts will arouse suspicion as boe gus philanthropies flourish. For tune-telling devices and persons who prophecy will gather large amounts of money while prosperity spreads. .5 4pYa
 National Issues: Jealousies a nd rivalries among draftees will begin to show themselves as certain fR- vored young men obtain conansls- sions and promotions. Political in- fluence will be invoked, but Wash- ington will be determined to pre- vent special privileges for young men of any class. Democracy isto rule in the gigantic defense move ment which is to prove worldwide in its effects. Brilliant results are to be obtained in all branches epf the service. sliqdt
 International Affairs: In ethe house of administration in Presi- dent Roosevelt's horoscope there is planet which presages wise use of the great powers bestowed upon the Chief Executive. Despite strikes industry is to produce an amazing amount of war machines and nau- nitions. Mars is in a place in the horoscope which promises rapidity in the expansion of the great man. ufacturing plants. Europe is to be astonished at the accomplishments of peace-loving nation in nndts preparations for war. laqs9e
 Persons whose birthdate' itifis have the augury of a year of in tense activity. Gain in professional or business returns is prognosticat- ed. siiss
 Children born on this day pr6b- ably will be skillful in designite and in technical attainment. They will be generally fortunate throagh i life. q.
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RoCKEFELLER's COFFEE MAN

You buy 50 or 100 pounds of cof- fee year, but Berent Friele buys 300 million pounds. Rather, he did until last January, when Nelson Rockefeller borrowed him from the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea com pany and put him into a little office in the Department of Commerce.
 Today he is a member of that select company known briefly as the Rockefeller Office,' which is try ing. to improve relations with Latin America. Just as the Chase National Bank lent Joseph Rovensky to Uncle Sam for dollar year, so the A and P lent Berent Friele.
 Friele is an American citizen to- day, but he was Norwegian born Ever since 1890, B. Friele and Sons, of Bergen, NofNaGy, have sent ships to South America laden with cod-- fish and brought they hAeks Aden with coffee. Berent Erieje, toos was
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American Wings
(New York Times)

(NeW YOrk I1meS)
 Pan American Airways announces that it has in prospect ten-hour daily service from New York to Lisbon and daily services between San Francisco and Honolulu, Seattle and Alaska, and on all its lines throughout Latin America. The foreign service of this system has been extended to 72645 miles of routes by far the most extensive international air service in the world. Indeed, under the American flag airways three times the extent of those gained by any of leading compettors-British Overseas AirWays, Air France the Deutsche Luft- hansa-before the war broke out.
 In Latin America Pan Americans routes total 40578 miles and the South American continent itself some 30,000 miles. This is about 5000 miles more than the total of the Axis Powers combined. Those Powers have actually extended their Pan- American operations by nearly 5000 miles since the war began But this effort is meeting increasing difficulties with the growth of unity in outlook among our neghbors to the south; witness, for ex- ample, the appropriation by Bolivia of the German airline, Lloyd Aereo Bolviano.
 Our own international airline maintains naviga- tional training schools for Army and Navy fers at Miami and school for mechanics at San Francisco. It is proving of direct aid to hemisphere defense through the use of its airports in Latin America and Alaska by our services and by air fleets of the Iatn-American republics. In event of an emergency these facilities would be of major value
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sum only 100000 actually has been expended.
 But overshadowing all else, grave deficiencies stand out:
 1. The lack of dynamic boss of the whole defense program, to keep all it's component parts forging ahead in unison at high speed.
 2. The lack of carefully formu- lated new program to meet the ti- tanic Nazi war resources, which to- day outstrips ours, vast though they seem, by at least two to one.
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OvERwORKED JUGGLER

The Presidents method of trying to solve this administrative chaos is to pile new agencies and assistants on top of the old, without removing the debris
 Recently, in an apparent effort to keep himself better informed re- garcing the -whirling defense maze he added to his personal staff pr. | Lubn, deputy to Sidney Hill n@ns "A pilliant analyst, Lubin knows the ins and outs of the de- iense, Will be invaluable. But this does not solve the fundamental
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HAPPY BIRTHDAYS

JUNE 2 Curtis G. Shattuck
 Carl Stallard :" Mrs. F. c. Talmadge Mrs. Katherine Hampstead T. s. Oliver Mrs. F. M. Graves Henry H. Hargreaves ssu Ted D. Leonard 1Elgi Christie Molver
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FUUCKN LlIUULIlL ROBERTA LEE

justified resening when he knows he has done something for which he deserves praise?
 A persons prefer which them which decve them you playing a point you suggest that 1t be played over?
 The good will call the his opponents favor a a thanks a 
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TOOK and LEARNszsyy (. eco GORDON

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Former Alaskan
 kGiven Damages,
 Road Consiruciion

WASHINGTON, June 2 The House has passed and sent to the Senate a bill to appropriate $2,5O0 for Mrs. Paul Liebau Anderson, of Little River. Cal, for damages re- sultfng from construction of a road by the Alaska Highway com-1 missien across her land at Wonder Lake. .t-isJssit -. - :,
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-07
Girls Swing for Navy
I25 Beauties Dance AUay Loneliness for Sailors al
Isle Casino >. Then Go Home Alone

Some Of the city's better look
ing girls today recalled the thrill
of their first dance with sailor
boys. although they had to 90
home without the manly protec-
ton Of the ship-ahoy lads.
The girls-125 Of them--were
selected by the department OF rec
reation to act as dancing partners
for the department-sponsored Sea-
mems Swing at Belle Isle Casino
last night.
They were the cream OF the
crop from recreation centers and
business girls clubs. The sailors
were some of the 900 quartered at
the United States Naval ArInory.
The affair. which probably will
be a weekly event, was designed
10 keep the sailors from becoming
too lonely. The girls came and
left without escort.
At the conclusion. Mrs. Willis
O'Hair. recreation commissioners,
said:
This was success beyond our
widest dreams
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-07
Must List
ViOlatOrS
OfTraffic

To prevent a repetition Of the
"Cyriel Devriendt case" State
Police Capt. c. ]. Scavarda today
to all prosecuting attorneys
and other law enforcement officers
in the state a warning that all
moving" traffic violation convict
tions are 10 be reported promptly
TO state police so driving licenses
can be revoked IL necessary.
After citing the state statutes,
Captain Scavarda set forth that
reports should be made on every
motorist who:
Has been convicted OF three
moving violations within the
last II months.
Has been convicted OF five
moving violations within the
preceding "a months.
Is arrested driving In VIOLA
tons of license restrictions
without glasses when required,
etc.
Commits one or more acts In
dicating lack OF responsibility,
such as stunting with a car.
Is suspected of being generally
incompetent-either mentally or
physically.
Who is between ii and II and
who has been seen TO commit
any traffic violation which en-
dangered or was likely to have
endangered any person or prop
erty.
Captain Svavarda cited the case
Of DeVriendt, who fatally injured
Janet and Juanita Cress by driving
his car into a Macomb County
field, where the children were
playing, while he was allegedly
drunk. DeVriendt had three prev-
Gus reckless driving convictions,
one only a month before the ac-
lcident.
II these had been reported as
Captain Scavarda said they should
had been, DeVriendt's license
probably would have been revoked
and he would not have been driving
at the time of the accident, the
officer said.