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Evening star., 1941-04-02
Report for Last "A Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today:
Highest, 5s, at IL am. yesterday. year
i; Lowest, @ 4s. at $50 Am. today. Year
ago, 80.
Record Tsmperatures This Year.
Highest 6s, on March 8.
Lowest. Is, on March 1e.
Humidity for Last a Hours.
CFrom noon yesterday to noon today;o
Highest. 80 per cent, At pm. yestef-
Lowest, "a per cent, at 10 noon today.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac slightly CLOUDY
at Great Falls today.
Tide Tables.
Furnished BY Omitted States Coast ana
Geodetie Survey
Today. Tomorrow
EiEh - IL 81 Am. 1908 Am.
Low ---------- B:4s an. ,s:S9 a.m.
hlkn ---------
Low ---------- O.~f pslns f.AH F'AAA'
The Sun and Neon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun, today - $3.50 6;32
Sun tomorrow 5:Sl 6:33
Noon, today ----- 9:24 am. 11:o2 p.m
Automobile lishts must be turned on one
half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1941-04-02
Need for Tunnel Studied.

Arlington County representative
discussed highway developments
near the new Federal office build
Ing now under construction near
Arlington Memorial Cemetery.
County Manager Frank C. Hanra-
han said the State Highway Com
mission had allocated funds for
widening of Columbia pike near the
building.
Commissioner Young represented
the District of Columbia. Others
present besides Mr.. Smith, Mr.
Carmody and Mr.. Hanrahan in
cluded Frank Dieter, Arlington
County planning engineer; Mayor
w. T. wilkins of Alexandria, City
Manager Carl F. Budwesky Of Alex
andria, Armistead Boothe, Alex
andria city attorney; Martin E.
Green, secretary of the Alexandria
Chamber of Commerce, and Howard
Smith, jr., representing the Junior
Chamber of Commerce; j. Martin
Phillips and Richard Marshall and
Delos Smith of the Alexandria Hous-
ing Authority; F. Freeland Chew
of the Arlington County board and
John S. Howard of the Chamber OF
Commerce.
Evening star., 1941-04-02
Reich, Italy, Japan
Reported in Accord
To Act Against U. 5.
Won't Await Declaration
Of War by America,
Goydo Indicates
BACKGROUND.

Japanese Foreign Minister Mat
suoka is on Uisit to capitals of
Japan's aris partners, and ,Dhile
in Berlin conferred t0ith both
Reichstuehrer Hitler and Foreign
Minister Joachim Don Ribben-
trop. He Uent TO Rome and has
conferred 10ith Premier MuSso-
lini.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-27

WITH q, 200 staS3olD
York University ~ (g I
largest snrollmsut - -
States.
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.
eANSWERS


/. New Guinea Il and island
also called Papua, Just north Of
Australia. Portuguese Guinea is
on the west coast of Africa. Brit
lsh Guiana il on the east coast Of
South America.
2. Borneo, Sumatra, italian
East Africa. Kenya, Uganda. Bel
gian Congo, French Equatorial
Africa, Brazil, Colombia, Peru.
and Ecuador are crossed by the
equator.
3. Uruguay, South America,
and the island Of New Zealand
are only major countries lying
completely south Of the Tropic Of
Capicorn. Two states In the I'm.
lon Of South Africa and Tas-
mania, appended to Australia,
also lie below the line.
4. The Shetland Islands lie
north Of Scotland; the South
Shetland islands are . Hrihah
group lying south Of South
America in Antarctic.
3. The Hawaiian Islands were
once known @ the Sandwich
Islands. The present Saudwioh
group lies off Antarctica, east a.
the southern tip Of South Amer
lea.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-27
Sport
Shorts

OSAM sNEAD shoots e7-eo-
1876, eight under par. TO win
Bling Crosby golf tournament by
one stroke from Craig Wood Ut
Rancho Santa Fe. Calf.
%
DRANK KOvACS captures
third straight winter te n a Is
tournament, beating B OBJ by
Riggs, l3-il, 40, 90, 0-ls in
final OF Florida West Coast
tourney; Mrs. Sarah Palfrey
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-27

Cooke beats Dorothy Bunny,
rs, OIL. In womsn's final.
oWALTKR MEuL runs fastest
mile ever run indoors In Boston.
4:0o.7, to beat John Munski at
Prout Memorial games; Camp
bell Kane sets meet record Of
2:ll.8, for 1000 yards to beat
Jim Kehoe.
oALlCE MARBLE beats Mary
Hardwick for ten.~ time in IL
matches Of pro tennis tour, 6-3,
6-3, In Buffalo.
Oh. C. HILLS Sweepida.
paying $7.20 for 50, outruns Is
/ shot, Vayenne, TO win $4,000
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-27

a person sdrift at sea will
nve longer By. taking no wstsr
q oil than BY drinking sea wa
~. Seo water 10 % salty that,
vale the Kidneys ore elimi-
|1oting NE exesss salts water
99m To blood plasna n lost
bus hastening 0eoth.
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MAKES A DRrERKNcE

An automobile that 10 stream
lined perfectly for . speed Of 30
miles IN hour y not streamlined
Perfectly for . speed Of 90 miles
m hour.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-27
Rodio - Vacuum Cleaner .
and Washer Repoivs

Complete Stock, One Day Service. New
Vecssum C1saners and Radios
o1D LACAolx SALES 4 SERVICE
= zone Nj. c is3e opsn Evenings
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-27

Santa Catalina handicap for
Californis-bred horseA running
mile and one sixteenth In 1:4S.
81. \. PAR11IDG.1'S Robert
L. gallops mile and one six
tenth over turf course Ut Hia-
leah 70 win - 900 Miami Beach
handicap with Tallyho stables
Topse second.
oHENRY FRNKA, former as
sistant coach 1t Temple, signs
four-year contract a. athletic
director and football coach at
University Of Tulsa.
oJAMES YkA0ER of Iowa
state chosen rs University Of
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-27

Noshaao s = r.
II eouneels VT fo1N
whilst tIs6y ~ ~
asgrsvste ~ evll6 t9(
i would ~. o>sekg 1.,I
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FINANCIAL


GustAve A. Schalm
PAINTING and DECORATING
1T CrockeS Blvd. Phone 81
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-27

COLORADO Sostboll ecGeh; ~
placed % Iowa etats b ~
Donels. formse freshman ccoeG
o1AR1Y q. NYR Of wilmelte.
H., reported ths south Lake
Michigan fleet, yesterday snaltd
his sl0op Gale TO victory IN the
second race of the series Of three
l0-mile. eoutests for the Ba.ardi
cup in the .annual international
star class ranatta at HAVANA
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-27

RADIO-vACUuM CLEANEn-wAsHER
SERVICE
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-27

During M World War. infan-
trymen used pontoon bridges, or
bridges that hoat on water. They
were. made by using floats Of
cork. or empty gasoline tins.
held together in light crates.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-01-27

OJAMES WAGER of Iowa
state chosen rs University Of
Evening star., 1941-05-17
British Hold Blockade
Stricter in This War
BS the Associated Press.


LONDON, May I'D. M. Foot,
parliamentary secretary to the Min
istry of Economic Warfare, said in q
speech in Cornwall today that, de-
spite leaks through France and Rus
STA. the British had enforced a far
stricter blockade than in the first 20
months of the last war.
Early in that conflict, he said,
goods flowed to Germany through
Holland, Denmark, Norway and
Sweden.
But he acknowledged that the pres
ent blockade was "by no means so
complete as we should like it" and
that British naval strength must be
concentrated chiefly in the Atlantic
and Eastern Mediterranean for the
time being.
He said French Vice Premier Ad-
miral Jean Darlan had taken ad-
vantage of the present situation to
use French vessels as blockade run
ners which brought into Marseille
cargoes of African produce the Ger
mans were glad to get.
That certainly is not the least Of
the services the Vichy government
is rendering Hitler" he said.
Evening star., 1941-05-17
Smoot Strike Settled
As Men Win Pay Boost

The strike of Smoot Sand and
Gravel Corp. workers was brought
to a close last night. United States
conciliation officials reported, by the
unions acceptance of an agreement
involving pay increase and shorter
hours.
The agreement was proposed at
a meeting Thursday with Howard T.
Colvin and Frank J. Sheehan, both
OF the Cancellation Service, who
had been asked by the National
Defense Mediation Board to inter-
cede in the dispute. AS result
of it's acceptance, a hearing set by
the board for 10 am. Monday has
been Cancelled.
The strikers were granted "a wage
increase, the officials said, of from
3 to 10 per cent, time and a half for
overtime and reduction in hours
of from 10 to 64 a week for tugboat
operators and dredgemen; from 581a
to 55Ia for unloading men and
lighters and from 81 to 81 for ship
yard and shop workers.
The strike marked the third labor
trouble that Mr.. Sheehan has helped
bring to a close during the last 10
days. On May Z, he directed set
tlement of a dispute among cement
finishers and the following day
helped to end a threatened walkout
of building laborers.
Evening star., 1941-05-17
Iroq Troops Attack
British Near Bosro

BEIRUT, Lebanon, May II (P1.-
1raq Army headquarters asserted In
communique received here today
from Baghdad that battle was
raging outside Basra, near the Per-
sian Gulf, with Iraq forces trying to
hammer southwark to the gulf.
The battle began, the communique
said, when Iraq troops attacked
British forces in their positions at
Basra.
The war bulletin did not make
clear whether the engagement had
been terminated or which side had
the upper hand and said details
would be given in a later COM
munique.
An Iraq Army communique men
toned important bomber activity
against the British for the first time
today.
(This probably means that
German or italian Warplanes al
ready are fighting with the Iraqis,
British have declared virtually
destroyed.
CThe Italians acknowledged Of
ficially today that their planes
have reached Iraq)
Indicating a devastating attack
by "a number of bombers" on the
British-held Cineldebane camp, the
communique said what remains of
the camp installations was hit and
damaged badly" Fires visible for
miles broke out, it said, and several
British planes were destroyed, i'll
cluding one shot down in an air
battle.
Evening star., 1941-05-17
Birmingham Is Bombed
For ; Hours, Nozis Soy

BERLIN, May II Cp).-The main
weight of Nazi night air raids on
England was directed at Birming-
ham, which was bombed for three
hours by more than 100 planes, the
Germans said today.
The attack on the important Eng
lish industrial center was a COM
plete success, they said, and many
fires were observed.
Smaller Luftwaffe formations
bombed Northampton, Ipswich,
Brighton, Great Yarmouth, South
ampton and Harwich, they added.
A British plane was said to have
been shot down during the
operations.
In the war at sea, the high COM
mand said, three British merchant
ment totaling 10000 tons were sunk
and two others damaged overnight
and submarine raider has report
ed sinking five more, totaling 49,
612 tons.
Informed quarters said several
apartment houses and an ''unim-
portant" industrial plant were dam
aged by British air raiders last night
in Western Germany. and a num-
ber of civilians were reported in
jured. One four -motored British
bomber was reported shot down
near Venloo. on the German-Neth-
erlands border.
Evening star., 1941-05-17
PayDisputes Continue
In Shipyards and
Coal Industry
Army and Navy Step In
To Aid Negotiations
On West Coast
By the Associated Press,

BY tne Associated freSS.
Wage disputes continued today in
important West Coast shipyards and
in the Appalachian soft coal industry,
although one of the biggest po-
tential threats to production of ma
tional defense material was removed
by settlement OF a General Motors
pay controversy.
officials of the motor corporation
said the agreement, reached at
Washington yesterday. would give
165 900 employees. represented by the
G. I. o. United Automobile Workers,
an additional $35 100000 annually in
wages. The agreement included a
blanket wage increase of 10 cents an
hour over an average hourly base
placed by the company at about ST..
The G. I. O.-U. A. w. has bar
gaining rights in 7S plants and had
threatened to call out non-defense
employees in 60 of these units.
Technical difficulties, it was said,
would prevent reopening of Buick,
Chevrolet and Fisher Body No. and
2 units in Flint, Mich, before Mon
day. Workers at all but the Fisher
Body No. unit had struck over
what union officials said was mis-
understanding The four units en-
ploy 34,100 men.
B. D. Kunkle, General Motors vice
president in charge of personnel,
said the firm was prepared to ne
gotiate with other unions holding
collective bargaining rights. The
corporation has about 250,000 en-
ployes in all.
The possibility of another shut
down in soft coal mining operations
(See STRIKES, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1941-05-17
R. A. F. Planes Pound
Rhine Industrial
City Of Cologne
Boulogne Docks Blasted;
Nozi Roid on England
Heaviest of Week
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, May 17.-R. A. F. bomb
ers concentrated a sharp attack
last night on the Rhineland in
dustrial city of Cologne and also
blasted docks at Boulogne on the
German-occupied French coast, the
British reported today.
United States-built Havoc Doug
las) bombers participated in attacks
on German airdromes, the Air Min
lstry news service said.
At the same time the Luftwaffe
gave England her heaviest air raid
of the week, striking mainly at the
Midlands and dropping bombs on
other widely-separated areas.
During the attack on Cologne, the
British declared, large fires were
started in manufacturing areas on
both sides of the Rhine. The raid
followed a series of daylight forays
by the r. A. F. during which num-
Der of vessels were reported at
tackled off the Norwegian coast and
one 2,500-ton supply ship was sunk.
Battle High in Clouds.
In a running battle high above
the clouds, British fighter planes
were reported to have turned back
a German fighter patrol attempting
to cross England's southeast coast
today.
Watchers from the ground said
they heard cannon and machine
gun fire, then saw the German
planes head back.
The Air Ministry said two British
aircraft were missing from the
offensive against coastal shipping.
1t declared seven German fighters
were destroyed over the southeast
coast of England yesterday.
Although the Nazi raid was the
first extensive attack on England
since the parachute landing of
Rudolf Hess week ago became
known, the government said it was
not concentrated, large-scale
bombing,
Evening star., 1941-05-17
Son Of Won Blomberg
Reported Killed in lraq
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May ia British
radio report said today lit is learned
that the son of Field Marshall
Werner Won Blomberg has been
killed in action in Iraq" The broad
cast was heard by C. B. S.
He was a member Of a German
air mission which left to help the
Iraq rebels, and Rashid Ali Qraq
Premier) attended his funeral at
Baghdad," the broadcast added.
Berlin dispatches this week re-
ported that the field marshal, who
was ousted as War Minister in Feb
ruary, 1898, as result of his mar
riage to a carpenters daughter, had
published a notice of the death
of his son while in action at an
undisclosed place.
Evening star., 1941-05-17
Hess Wife Free From Probe
OF His Flight, Nozis Say
Fruu Hess at Office
To Get Husbands
Personal Effects
BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER,

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent
BERLIN, May 17.-Frau Ilse Hess,
the brunette, mannishly dressed
wife of Rudolf Hess, does not fig
ure in any way in the investigation
of her husbands sensational flight
to Scotland, authorized sources said
today
With her jaw set in determina-
ton she has been observed in the
past two days at her husband S
Berlin Office in the Wilhelmstrasse.
Unmolested, and accompanied only
by her usual brown-shirted chauf-
feur, she apparently was removing
personal things from the headouar-
tiers of Adolf Hitler's erstwhile
shadow
Frau Hess is in almost every re-
opect the very antithesis of Emmy
Goering, wife of the No. 2 Nazi
leader, or of Magda Goebbels. blond
wife of Propaganda Minister Paul
Joseph Goebbels.
Frau Goering extremely womanly,
is devoted to the theater and arts.
and Frau Goebbels dresses in chic
Evening star., 1941-05-17
US. Muy Ask Philippines
To Hold Iron From Axis
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA, May II. - Reliable
sources say the United States high
commissioners office may suggest to
the Philippine Bureau Of Customs
that it withhold permits for ths
shipment of scrap iron to Axis pow
ers pending enactment of licensing
control bill now before Congress.
The measure would extend the ex-
port control licensing system now
in effect in the United States to the
Philippines.
The informants said recent pur-
chases of scrap iron in Manila and
the PROVINCES had been heavy, with
most of it intended for export to
Japan.
High Commissioner Francis B.
Sayre was not in Manila today, and
attaches at his ofice refused COM
ment on the report.
Evening star., 1941-05-17
Signs in Hong Kong
Point 10 Step-Up in
u. ). Aid 10 China
U. S. Air Force Chief in
Philippines Goes to
Chungkine by Plane
BY r. A. STEELE.

Foreisn Correspondent of The Star and
Chicago Daily News.
HONG KONG, May 17-All signs
here today indicate the immediate
speedup in the implementation of
Americas policy of greater material
aid to China and closer collabora-
ton with the Chinese government
"a potential ally.
Before daybreak this morning
Brig. Gen. Henry Clagett, COM
mander of the American Air Force
in the Philippines left by plane for
Chungking. A few hours later
Clarence E. Gauss arrived in Hong
Kong by ship for a stay of a few
days before proceeding to Chung
king to assume his new post as
United States Ambassador to China.
Ambassador Gauss, who was
greeted at the steamer by his pre-
decessor Nelson johnson, came
armed with fresh instructions from
Washington for the future handling
of Chinese e-American relations.
These events, combined with others,
show pretty plainly that the
strengthened American policy toward
China has progressed from the talk
ing stage into the phase of real
action.
Gen. Clagett to Stay Month.
At the same time news comes
from reliable Chinese sources that
the American airplanes urgently
needed to cope with the merciless,
indiscriminate japanese bombing
attacks are now beginning to arrive
in China. Gen. Clagett declined to
disclose the purposes of his mission
to China, but this much is known
that he intends to remain in China
one month and will thereafter fly
to Washington.
The Chinese understand Gen.
Clagett's job primarily to be one of
fact-finding. He will do in his field
what Lauchlin Currie, administra-
tive assistant to President Roosevelt,
did in the field of economies and
finance The Chinese anticipate
that he will devote his efforts to
studying China's aerial needs and in
determining how best the United
States can be of assistance. His
suggestions will be invited by the
Chinese, who hope also that during
his visit basis can be laid for pos
sible future Chinese American
aerial cooperation in case Japan
and the United States enter the
war.
Obviously, in such eventuality,
Chinese airports would be of great
Evening star., 1941-05-17
Battle Reported Raging in |roq
As Natives Drive Toword Gulf;
SoIum Recoptured, Axis Reports
Italian WorpIones
Declared to Have
Reached Country

BY the Associated Press.
The war in Iraq appeared NOV
ing into a new and more ominous
phase as an Iraq communique re-
ported a smashing attack by
many bomberS on the British
held Cineldebane camp, and said
a big battle was raging near
Basra, at head of the Persian
Gulf, between British forces and
Iraqi troops pushing toward the
gulf.
Inasmuch as the British several
days ago announced the practical
annihilation of Iraqs weak airforce
by British squadrons, the first Iraq
mention of important bombing
activity against the British indi-
Gated Axis warplanes not only had
arrived in the oil-rich kingdom but
were already in the initial phase
of an air offensive against the
British there.
This was further indicated by an
official Italian dispatch revealing
that italian warplanes had arrived
in Iraq via Syria. Movement of
whole squadrons of German planes
over the Syrian route to Iraq al
ready had been reported this week,
and the British yesterday an
nounced r. A. F. planes had
attacked German bombers on
Syrian airhelds.
The German news agency D.N.B.
meanwhile reported Luftwaffe
squadrons had driven off units of
the British Mediterranean fleet ap-
preaching Bengasi, in Libya, and
attacked and badly damaged several
transports at the British-held
African port of Tobruk.
The SeesaW struggle for control of
Salum, heat-ridden advance point
of the Axis drive into Egypt. has
swayed again to the Axis advantage.
German and Italian forces were
reported to have recaptured the
town yesterday after the British
had taken 1t only the day before.
However, a besieged British gar
rison still held out in Tobruk where
motorized units were repeatedly
fighting back at German and Italian
forces which have been hammering
the towns defenses for month.
Evening star., 1941-05-17
French Deny Hitler
And DarIan Discussed
Occupation Of Dakar
High Sources at Viehy
'Astonished' at Signs
U. S. Moy Take Colonies
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the AssOclated FTeSh
VICHY, France. May 17.-A gov
ernment statement today said cate
gorically that the question of Ger
man occupation of Dakar, French
West Africa, was not even raised
in the interview last week end be-
tween Adolf Hitler and Vice Premier
Admiral Jean Darlan.
'Dakar belongs to France, France
has already guarded 1t: she will
defend it against any aggression, -
the statement said.
Meanwhile, high French sources
regarded with "aStonished" concern
what they described as semi Official
declarations" in the United States
indicating that occupation of French
Guiana and Martinique is under
consideration.
Circles close to the French gov
ernment interpreted the attitude in
the United States toward Frances
colonies as resulting from a misun-
derstanding of French collaboration
with the Reich.
Britain Also Closely Watched.
Britain's moves also were watched
closely after an official statement
acknowledging yesterday for the
first time the British bombing of air
fields in Syria. The French declared,
however, they would not regard the
bombings as aggression.
A semi Official statement express
ing astonishment at American in
terpretation of the status of French
colonies inquired also about the
taking over of the Normandie and
other French merchant ships by
armed American guards"
Frenchmen close to Chief of State
Henri Philippe Petain's administra-
ton expressed the greatest surprise
that President Roosevelt apparently
interpreted Marshal Petains talk OF
collaboration "as putting French
colonies at the disposal of Ger
many"
One semi Official statement gave
this as Frances position:
In May, 1910, when France had
been abandoned by England. Amer
Evening star., 1941-05-17
Planes Are Reported
To Have Aided Troops
In Salum Recapfure
Axis Claims RepuIse of
British Wurships by
Aircraft at Bengosi
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN, May 17.-Axis desert
forces in an audacious counterattack
against the British in Salum have
recaptured that frontier outpost in
Egypt after it had been in British
hands for a day, the German high
command said today.
The Axis ground forces, supported
by warplanes, drove the British east
ward from Salum and "all positions
previously held again are in the
Africa Corps, hands" the daily COM
munique said.
tThe Cairo communique failed
to mention Salum.
(The British said yesterday that
their gain on the North African
front included control of Halfaya
Pass, the narrow strip between
the Mediterranean shore and an
inland escarpment southeast of
Salum through which runs the
road eastward toward Sidi Bar
rani)
The Germans also claimed a tri-
umph over British seapower in the
North African fighting, D.N.B., Off
cial German news agency, reporting
that Nazi planes drove off British
warships approaching the Axis-held
Libyan port of Bengasi. 1t also said
several transports at the British
held port of Tobruk were damaged
in an Axis air attack.
Two British tanks were said to
have been destroyed and IS men,
including 3 officers, captured at
besieged Tobruk, where a British
garrison has held out despite the
month-old Axis sweep eastward to
Salum.
In yesterdays counterattack the
Germans were said also to have
retaken Fort Capuzzo and Sidi Azeis
as we'll as to have captured more
than 100 prisoners.