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Evening star., 1941-04-16
Fascist Viceroy of Ethiopia
Sends Emissory to British
Duke of Aostu's Envoy
May Discuss Terms
For Surrender
P> the Associated Press.

P> the Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt, April 16-British
general headquarters said today that
the Duke of Aosta, Italian Viceroy
of Ethiopia, had sent an envoy to
the British headquarters in Southern
Ethiopia.
1t was not known here whether
the Dukes envoy was commissioned
to discuss terms of surrender or re-
moval of italian women and chill
dren from Ethiopia
The British said their columns
were still advancing from north
and south toward bessie, while
farther south other troops were pur-
suing the Italians.
On the North African front Brit
ish desert patrols skirmishing in the
area around Salum, Egypt, have
captured or destroyed some axis
vehicles and taken some prisoners,
British Middle East headquarters
said.
British military sources said to-
night that the Libyan strong point,
Fort Capuzzo, at the Egyptian from
tier, had changed hands several
(See AFRICA, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1941-04-16
High School Senior, With Mania for Fires,
Tells How He Set Three Bethesda BIuzes

fire to the Bethesda Chevy Chase
High School February 26; how he
started a fire in a vacant house on
Montgomery avenue near his home
March Is, and how he attempted to
start a blaze at a Bethesda hard
ware store.
Eyes, did it, and I'm sorry. I
don't know what made me do it
except that I just felt like it. I'm
sorry now"
Everhart told how he walked to
the high school on the night of
February 26 and climbed through
a window
Helped Fight School Blaze.
"I went up to the lunchroom on
the third floor and found a lot of
newspapers. stuck the papers in
the caves of the roof and set them
on fire"
The youth said he went home and
waited until he heard the fire alarm.
Then he ran to the firehouse, rode
the truck to the school and helped
fight the blaze.
He said he didn't help fight the
fire in the vacant house. After he
had set pile OF papers on fire In
the basement, he said, he picked
(see ARSON, Page A-so
Evening star., 1941-04-16
Army Prepares Plans
For 28 New Camps
To House 100000
Surveys Being Made
Only os Precoution,
Patterson Says

Undersecretary of War Robert P
Patterson disclosed today that the
Army had instituted surveys for 26
new cantonment sites which would
house an additional 100000 troops.
Mr.. Patterson told the Senate De-
fense Investigating Committee that
architect-engineers were being re-
tanned with the S15,000,000 recently
made available by Congress. He
predicted their surveys would elm
mate excessive cantonment eXpendi-
lures by making it possible to ask for
competitive bids if Congress ap-
proves construction of the camps
later.
The UnderSecretary explained to
reporters that these plans contem-
plated the possibility of calling 800,-
600 additional men to the colors.
He made it plain, however, that
this work was being done only as a
precautionary measure and said
there were no present plans to make
such a tremendous addition to the
Army's personnel, expected to reach
l 400 900 men in June.
mo Geographical Favor"
This is the sort of thing" he
said, which, if we could have done
two years ago, would have saved a
great deal Of expense and time in
getting camps ready when men were
called out"
If the need arises for additional
men, Mr.. Patterson said, the Army
probably will have to ask for addi-
tional legislation inasmuch as in
ductionS under the Selective Service
Act are not now geared to produce
that larger number.
The Undersecretary testified yes
terday that the War Department
had shown mo geographical favor
in procuring defense supplies and
also testified on how the Army
selects contractors and defense in
dustry sites.
Mr.. Patterson began reading a
prepared statement on the SUBJ
ject yesterday after the committee
had heard Secretary Stimson report
that the defense program would be
carried out 8 to u months faster
than the industrial pace reached
during the World War.
Taking notice of talk of undue
sectional concentration of defense
contracts, Mr.. Patterson told the
committee there has been no geo.
graphical favor in any phase of the
procurement program"
I'VE had to take industrial
America as we found it." he said
For steel we went to the estab-
lished steel mills. For automobiles
we went to Detroit. So does the
general public"
He also said that there have
been charges that the War De-
partment has unduly favored large
companies in placing defense
orders"
That charge is unfounded," he
continued. There has not been q
concentration of defense contracts
with big companies out of proper
ton to their share of the productive
facilities of the country.
I'VE have constantly tried to place
defense contracts with small busi-
ness firms"
Evening star., 1941-04-16
Germans Have Failed
To Reach Principal
Defenses, Greeks Say
Western Macedonia Forces
Are Withdrawn to New
Positions, They Assert
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATHENS. April 16.- Fighting
was general along the British front
in Greece today. British sources
said, but despite their vigorous
mechanical thrusts the Germans
had not yet reached the main Brit
ish-Greek defenses for the battle
which may decide the fate of the
Ionian Peninsula.
Authoritative sources said the
Nazis nowhere had overshot the
main defense positions in their drive
through the mountains which car
ried them to the western outlet
of Siatista Pass, opening between
peaks 5000 feet high to a corridor
of easier terrain to the south.
Greek general headquarters said
their troops in Western Mace
donia had been successfully with
drawn to the new defense posi-
tions.
Before the Greeks retired, head
quarters said, they inflicted heavy
losses on the mechanized German
forces.
Strongly Reinforced.
Strong reinforcements of men
and material were reported in po-
sition in the new defense line,
where the terrain makes mecha-
nized attacks extremely hazardous.
The main German drive appeared
to be directed down the central
section of the peninsula from the
Bitolj (MonaStir Gap, while the
column which crashed down the
Vardar Valley and took Salonika
was in contact with the Allied
forces to the east in the region
of Mount Olympus. Here, the
Greeks said, several thrusts by en-
emy mechanical forces were re
pulsed"
The penetration through the ST.
atista Pass was disclosed last night
by a Greek spokesman. The ad-
vance was said to have cost the
Germans many lives as they strug-
gled through tortuous mountain
routes harassed by sharpshooters.
The dent the Nazis drove in the
point of the original V-shaped Hell
(See ATHENS, Page A-12)
Evening star., 1941-04-16
r. A. r. Planes Blast KieI
For 38th Time in War

LONDON, April 10 tP).-Ine n.
A. F. swept across the Channel
last night to attack Kiel, bombing
that North German naval base for
the thirty eighth time since the
start of the war.
The Air Ministry said many
bombs fell on shipbuilding yards and
fires were started" Kiel was the
principal objective of operations
against targets in Northern Ger
many
Along the German French
coast, the r. A. F. found gaps in
cloudy skies to hurl bombs on docks
at Boulogne, the Air Ministry said.
This attack by night capped often
sive patrols over the Channel and
Northern France during daylight.
British Admit Two Planes Missing.
The British acknowledged two
planes missing from the night op-
erations and three from the daylight
operations. But two German fight
ers and a bomber we're reported de-
stroyed in connection with the Of
fensive operations.
German long-range guns on the
French coast opened fire across the
Strait of Dover this afternoon for
the first time in more than two
weeks. The day was brilliantly
clear.
The shelling began just before
O'Clock and single shells landed in
the Dover area at intervals of two
minutes without doing much dam
age. Dover's shell fire warning did
not sound.
Half an hour after the firstgguns
opened up. the attack continued
spasmodically.
Fan Out Over Country.
Departing from their usual pro-
cedure, the NaZi raiders who at
tackled England last night famed
out over the country, instead of con-
centrating on single town.
The government said the raids
were on fairly heavy scale" and
reported some damage was done to
industrial premises, as well as to
private homes. Casualties, however,
were said to be not large.
One of the areas hardest hit was
the big northwest coast port of
Liverpool, where number of peo-
pie were killed and injured and
bombs destroyed many working class
homes
Authorities said casualties in the
Evening star., 1941-04-16

81 the Associated Press.
Wide-open battle famed along
the entire British front in Greece
today and the Germans acknoWl-
edged that Hitler's blitzkrieg in
vaSion was meeting stubborn"
resistance after previously as
serting that the Allies were in
headlong retreat.
Our troops are now in contact
with the enemy along the whole OF
our front in Greece" the British
Middle East command said tersely.
Informed military quarters at
Cairo said this meant that British
and German forces were cautiously
testing each others troop DISPOSE
tions through patrols and small
columns operating in a no-man's-
land. In these operations it was
said the Germans generally were
taking the initiative.
1t was apparent that a climactic
struggle, which may decide the fate
of the Aegean kingdom, was fast
developing.
D.NB, the official German news
agency, said hundreds of British
prisoners, including engineers-from
the English Midlands, Australia and
New Zealand-had been captured by
Nazi infantry in hard fighting" in
the mountains.
British quarters in Athens said
German panzer spearheads were
executing savage thrusts, but de-
clared that nowhere had they over
shot the new Allied defense line.
Yugoslavia Appears in Collapse.
The apparent collapse of Yugo-
slavia, coupled with 65-mile Ger
man break into Northern Greece,
gave darker turn to events for the
Allies, however, in the 11-day old
battle of the Balkans.
London conceded that the situa-
ton in Yugoslavia was bad.
Hitler's high command reported
the capture of Sarajevo, Central
Yugoslavia, where the assassination
of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
touched off the 1914-18 World War,
and declared that thousands of
Serbs" were surrendering.
The British likewise acknowledged
that the pressure of Nazi panzer di-
visions s-striking on the Allied right
flank and pouring through the lofty
SiatiSta Pass to easier terrain to
the south-was increasing violently.
The Greek Legation in London
asserted, however, that several
weak and doomed" Greek forts,
isolated in Eastern Macedonia when
the Germans captured Salonika,
were still holding out under ter
rife artillery and dive bombing at
tacks
Information reaching London in
dicated that Yugoslavia no longer
had unified control over her armies,
but it was believed that they would
continue to fight as guerillas.
Premier MuSsolini's high COM
mand said Italian troops had cap
tured Yugoslavia's chief naval base
at Split in a 240-mile thrust down
the Adriatic seacoast, and that the
town of Erseke, Albania, 80 miles
south of fallen Koritza, had been
retaken from the Greeks. The
Fascists were said to be pressing on
toward the nearby Greek frontier
rapidly approaching a junction with
the Germans.
Greek front-line dispatches said
(See BALKAN, Page AID
Evening star., 1941-04-16

BY the Associated Press.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland,
April 16.-The Nazi air force
swept across Northern Ireland
like a tornado last night, leav-
ing a wide path of death and
demolition through Belfast and
smaller towns and even isolated
farms of the six counties.
A tour of the worst of Belfast's
bombed areas showed that hundreds
of working class homes had been
shattered in the four-hour RAID.
MANY persons were killed in a
direct hit on a bomb shelter.
Hospitals are Hit.
Several hospitals and churches
and newspaper plants were hit by
high explosives which fell also on
residential and shopping areas, ac-
cording to an official communlque.
Commenting on the aftermath OF
the attack, the communlque SAID:
"The recruiting officers are besleged
this morning"
Belfast is capital of Northern
Ireland, part of the United Kingdom.
The raiders came over in waves,
dropping flares which the ground
defense machinegunned. At one
time the whole sky was lighted up
with flares drifting earthward.
So extensive we're the fires In
Belfast and elsewhere that Dublin,
neutral Fires capital. sent fire
equipment to aid the fighters in the
north.
Belfast Bears Brunt.
Belfast bore the brunt of the at
tacks against Northern Ireland, an
official announcement said.
The communique said the German
assault on Northern Ireland, which
lasted several hours, was vicious
and indiscriminate" in some areas
and expressed fear casualties would
prove heavy. Damage to industrial
premises and Residential property
was acknowledged.
1t was the second sustained air
attack Northern Ireland has
suffered, following by exactly one
week a sharp assault in which nine
persons were reported killed.
Evening star., 1941-04-16
British Seize Nozi
Found Hanging From
High Tension Wires
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A NORTHEASTERN TOWN,
En- gland, April 16.-Home
guardsmen emerging from their
homes for duty at dawn today
rubbed their eyes and beheld-
a German airman, caught in
his parachute, dangling from
a high-tension wire tower.
Safely lowered into custody,
the aviator told his captors he
was a member of a bomber crew
and that his three partners had
escaped uninjured after their
plane was brought down
nearby.
Evening star., 1941-04-16
Capper andLesh
Appeal forD DC.
Representation
Senator Calls Refusal
Of Vote Un-Americon
As Hearings Open
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
With the Organic Act OF 1873
citizens OF the District lost
the right to Uote both To-
cauy and nationally. Since the
city has developed to hare a large
permanent population and is not
Just a city OF Federal employees,
citizens hare fought for many
years for their rights as American
citizens. The Constitution oiUes
sole jurisdiction oUer the District
to Congress and court decisions
hare held this po1Uer may not be
delegated.
Evening star., 1941-04-16
Miscount at Sing Sing
Causes Escape Alarm
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OSSINING, N. Y, April ia
miscount of prisoners in a cell
block caused Sing Sing prison
authorities to send out an alarm
early today that two convicts were
missing.
The prison siren and whistles
sounded the warning for 20 minutes,
and Ossining and State police sped
to the scene before the error was
discovered.
Evening star., 1941-04-16
Soviet Pledge Reported
To Continue China Aid

BY the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, China, April 49,
1t was reliably disclosed today that
Moscow had informed the Central
Chinese government that Soviet
Russia aid to China is being con-
tinued.
Evening star., 1941-04-16

Foreign.
Nad planes blast Belfast in
waves. Page Al
italian envoy sent to, British, may
surrender Ethiopia. Page Al
In contact with NaziS all along front,
British declare. Page Al
Yugoslav naval base of Split is oc-
cupied, Italians claim. Page A
Nazi pressure grows, British admit,
but deny evacuation. Page Al
National.
Senate group puts of showdown on
anti-convoy bill. Page Az
Dies formally enters race for Shep-
pard's seat in Senate. Page A-3
Draft law change to take in younger
men being studieT Page Az
Quick break in soft coal wage dead
lock expected. Page A-3
Washington and Vicinity.
Strong appeals made for Capper-
Summers amendment. Page Al
Evening star., 1941-04-16
Destruction Left
In 6 Counties
Of Ulster
BACKGROUND

Germans hare delirered deUdS-
tating raids against British cities
and totUnS in England, Scotland
and Wales, but haze rarely er-
erted their strength against
Northern ireland. Only once
previously has LuttWafe struck
at Ulster. British raiding OF Ger
man and German-held territory
has been intensified in recent
peeks.
Evening star., 1941-04-16
D. A. R. GivesMobiIe
Blood TRANSMISSION
Unit 10 Red Cross
81 500 Check Presented
For Refrigeroting Vehicle
To Aid Blood Banks

PICTURES OF CANDIDATES for
D. A. r. vice president general.
Page AS
PAGEANT REPRODUCES half CEN
tury of D. A. r. history. Page AS
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS for D. A.
r. convention. Page AS
Purchase by the American Red
Gross of its first mobile blood trans
fusion unit was made possible to-
day when Mrs. Henry M. Robert,
jr., president general of the Ma
tional Society, Daughters of the
American Revolution, presented a
$1,500 check for that purpose to
Miss Mabel T. Boardman, secretary
of the Red Cross, on behalf of the
D. A. r.
The presentation accompanied a
surprise announcement during the
morning session of the daughters
50th Continental Congress in Con-
stitution Hall.
When bought and outfitted, the
refrigerated vehicle will operate
within a 24-hour-travel radius of
the Red Gross processing center in
(See D. A. R., Page A-5)
Evening star., 1941-04-16

WILSON E. EVERHART.
Star staff Photo.
haywire, I guess. But he's over 1t
now"
Everhart calmly told how he set
Evening star., 1941-04-16
Germans Blast Belfast in Waves;
Nazis and British h in Open Batt|e
Along Whole Of Front in Greece
Stout Resistance
Put Up by Allies,
Reich Admits
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Germans inUaded YugoSldDiG
and Greece on Palm Sunday, and
since then hdUe driven to the
Aegean Sea at tlDo places. cap
turing Salonika and haze pene-
trated into Greece from Southern
YugoSlaDia, 1Dhere they routed
small YugoSlaD forces. YugoslaU
troops haze suffered reverSeS in
north and south and along center
OF front.
Evening star., 1941-04-16

(See RAIDS, Page A-4O
Evening star., 1941-04-16

Continued on Page Az, Column %
Evening star., 1941-04-16
Summary of Todoy's Star

Bethesda youth charged with arson
in three fires. Page Al
Evening star., 1941-04-16

(See BERLIN, Page A-12.)
Evening star., 1941-04-16
From Press to Home
Within the Hour

Most people in Washington have The
Star delivered to their homes every
weekday evening and Sunday morning.
Evening star., 1941-04-16
Weather Forecast

Cloudy and slightly cooler with lowest
about SO degrees tonight; tomorrow.
showers and cooler Temperatures to-
day-Highest, 81, at 2 pm; lowest, So,
at 6:15 am.
From the United STATES Weather Bureau report.
Full Details on Page Az
Evening star., 1941-04-16

(See AFRICA, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Stimson and Knox
Press Nation 10 War,
La Toilette Charges
Ex-Governor Of Wisconsin
Reps Republican Jokers'
In Democratic New Deal
By the Associated Press.


MIAMI, Fla, May 17.-Philip F.
La Toilette declared tonight that
"the two Republican jokers running
wild in the New Deal-Cols. Stimson
and Knox--are pushing the Nation
to the brink OF war"
The former Governor Of Wisconsin
made the statement in speech pre-
pared for a stay-out-of-war rally In
Bayfront Park, city-owned gather
ing place made available after q
heated debate in the City Commis-
sion. The commission first decided
to withhold permit for use of the
park until members knew what La
Toilette would say.
When the America First Commit
tee renewed its request for the meet
ing place, the commission voted 80
to grant use of the park-without
asking an advance copy of the
speech.
Recent utterances by the Secre-
tary of War and the Secretary of
Navy" La Toilette continued, ARE
designed to frighten and terrorize'
the American people into waging
a war they do not want.
For sheer hopelessness, for down.
right defeatism, there is nothing to
match the cringing speech of Secre-
tary Stimson last week. Nowhere
was there faith in America; nowhere
was there confidence in our ability
to meet our own destiny as a great
and free people.
Instead there was pathetic ad-
mission of failure; there was weep
ing and wailing that America is so
week and exhausted and yes, afraid,
that we must hide behind the British
fleet and hope that it will save our
skins for us.
This is not the spirit of the Amer
ican people. This is the counsel of
despair Of tired and worn out poll
ticians and jingoistic editors and
columnists whose war service is con-
fined to urging others to fight and
die"
La Toilette said Mr.. Roosevelt
should at once eliminate from his
cabinet those gentlemen who are
publicly urging him to break his
pledges to our people.
He should at once make clear to
our own people and to Britain that
he intends to keep our aid short of
war He should bring our ships
back into our side of the Atlantic
and thus abandon this attempt to
take us to the war"
Evening star., 1941-05-18
vandenberg AssaiIs
ber-Ratt|ing' Of
High Officials
Dr.. Morley Also Talks at
Meeting Of America
First Committee

Senator Vandenber5, Republican,
of Michigan, declared yesterday the
United States Is not committed to
aid Britain in more than the pres
ent measure, except in the incen-
diary utterances of certain high
officials, whose saber-rattlings have
never been taken to the people at
the polls"
Speaking at q luncheon in the
Raleigh Hotel sponsored by the
Washington unit of the America
First Committee, he declared the
group is asking the American pou-
lace not to enter "a pot-luck part
nership In the serial tragedies which
curse every other continent on
earth"
Of Britain, Senator Vandenberg
said:
IT hope and pray for her triumph
and success, for our sake as well
as fol hers"
Issues Warning.
He emphasized. however, he con-
sidered it would be the tragedy
of the ages If VIC were to lose our
own democracy in seeking to save
1t somewhere else"
Senator Vandenberg's remarks
came during his introduction of
DR.. Felix Morley, president of Hav-
erford pa College and former
Washington editor.
Attainment of a stability of
purpose" is the Nations prime
present need, DR.. Morley told the
240 luncheon guests.
Sooner or later, we are going to
have to decide the course we are
going to follow, and then we are
Evening star., 1941-05-18
Dies
Continued From First Page.

volved in the current investigation,
In a bitter denunciation of the
front organizations, Mr.. Dies said
their programs, policies and tactics
parallel those of the Communist
party itself and that the Communist
and Nazi party Lines" have become
identical in every important re-
spect."
whoever serves Stain in this
emergency serves Hitler" he added.
There is no longer any doubt that
Stains fifth column is Hitler's fifth
column. The most immediate bene-
fits of Communist sabotage and agi-
tation in this country are those
which accrue to Hitler.
"The extent to which Communists
and Communist sympathizers have
been able to obtain employment in
the Federal Government has Gre
ated shocking situation whose only
meaning is that an effective fifth
column, directed from Moscow, has
been. and still is. operating under
the very shadow of the dome of the
Nations Capitol"
In referring to the list of owners
of Soviet government bonds, Mr.
Dies said:
THE American public will, I be-