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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-06
GERMAN AIRMEN
 OCCUPY ALEPPO
French Takes Stern Meas. ures to Suppress Pro.
 British Activity
By DANA SCHMIDT Limited Press StafR COrrespondent)

Ankara, Turkey, June e.-(UP)- German air force men are occupying three of the chief airports of Syria -At Damascus, Aleppo and Palmyra and French authorities are taking stern measures to suppress pro- Brit ish activity, diplomatic and private reports said today,
 Reliable diplomatic informants said that the Germans occupied Damascus airport after having oc- cupied the other two, and that they were maintaining Q shuttle plane service between the Italian Dode- canese Islands and Syria to trans- port war materials and soldiers dis guised as civilians. Alleged German civilians also continued to enter Syria through Turkey, informanta said. Syrian authorities were said to be fortifydng the Syrian frontier opposite Palestine and fraq,
 Travellers who reached Istanbui from Syria said that hundreds of officers In the French army in Syria had been arrested or put under ob. BaHNWvAVAA, NAlkA vAiNV tAAV AAhAhbSA VA secret agents among army units had been increased.
 They said that . large part of the French population at some iron. tier points had fled Inland, and that the authorities now were trying to suppress uneasineSs among the peo. pie
 The travellers said that service on the railroad which extends from Syria along the Turkish frontier into Iraq had been suspended since the first days of fighting in Iraq, because British planes had blown up a bridge, but that the service would be restored soon.
 Usually reliable informants here said that though Germany had pos- slbly not more than 5000 men in Syria, including ground personnel for 200 planes, the Germans were busy preparing airports and that German teshnicians were studying tho problem of supply,
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Deadline Nears For
 Demands Acceptance
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Tshii said that Japanese deiegates 8o the Netherlands East fndieG wcuid hold e final talk with Nether- Banda delegates at Batavia today.
 lt w&s apparent that no hope had Neen offered of Netherlands Indies Acceptance of the Japanese dee |niands, and that the government 'was faced with failure of months Of efforts to obtain important ccn- cesslons including big supplies of &ln, rubber and high quality oil.
 As the Netherlands East Indies nltuAtion became more serious, Jap. niese talked of the possibility of Better relations with the United States.
 A government spokesman denied ~ report from Washington that Japan had been vainly seeking q nutrality and non aggression treaty with the United States
 1 Political observers intimated that great significance should be attach- l@d to . conference between Mat wncka and Joseph Clark Grew, American ambassador, last Wednes- day They said that the conference might led to active negotiations to- ward improvement of strained Jap- nnese.A American relations,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-06
HARVARD LOSES COLONEL APTED
Caretaker Always Slept With Roll of Bills, Ready
 to Bail Out Students

Cambridge, Mass, June e.-CUP) --"Oolonel" Charles R. Apted, 67, former head of the Harvard yard police and superintendent of care takers, died last night at his home after Q serious throat ailment pre- maturely forced his retirement in March ie40 following So years seFv. fec with the university,
 Probably better known to Har- yard men than President James B. Conant, Apted had spent c quarter century in breaking up inclplent student riots and was the subject of more class day anecdotes than such traditional characters aS Profs. Charles Townsend Copeland and George Lyman Kittredge.
 To preserve order in the yard was his job, and he did 1t gruffly but kindly, usually only by saying Break 1t up, boys"
 Always the friend of the under. graduate in minor trouble, Apted received the title of Colonel" from the Crimson, student daily news- paper. in 1888 when he personally returned the sacred cod, which had been removed from It's place in the public gallery of the Massachusetts, House. Apted never revealed how or where he found the missing wooden codfish.
 When Harvard students Kidnapped the Yale bulldog mascot, Apted did not fail them. He sent al his of- iioers on errands that would take them from the yard and then turned his back while the youths photo- graphetN the missing dog tapping the boots of John Harvards statue.
 According to college tradition Apted always slept with c telephone and roll of bills close by his bed ready to bail out students,
 Apted first came in the public eye In 1915 when he Identified Ericl, Muenter, Q former Harvard German instructor, as the man who shot j. P. Morgan at his Glen Cove, L., |, home, He also had been publicized for his associations with President Roosevelt on his visits to Cam. bridge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-06

Aircobra, tho Curtiss P.4O and p-40, and the North American NA-TS fighter planes, all of which fly SS6 to 400 miles an hour.
 With the increased power an- nounced yesterday, 1t will be pos- slble, 1t was said, to add consider ably to the armor and armament of the Army's fighter craft. Once the planes have been equipped with tho new engnie, plant ofiloials said, they will be superior to any foreign fight- CT now in service ''so far as we con tell now"
 The improvements which made the power increase possible were relatively simple" Allison said, but are nevertheless 6 secret. Produc. ton of the stepped up engine In numbers Is expected about nine months hence.
 The Allison factory also has de- veloped a 24-cylinder liquid cooled engine developing more than 1000 horsepower, but this power plant is not yet In production. Current pro- duction of the smaller engine is 400 . month and Is expected to reach 1000 by December.
 Two years ago the company was diekering with farmer for ground on which to build the plant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-06
BRITISH FORESEE
 BREAK VERY NEAR
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(rn Washington, Winant denied to the State Department that he had said in London he would recom- mend Q United States French dips lomAtie break. No such conversa- tions took place." the department said Winant had told 1t, "Thero Is no truth whatever In the statement, I never heard tho subject mentioned In London.D
 As part of the problem of rela- tons with France, the Syrian site uation continued to occupy atten. ton here, but for the first time since the fall of Crete, the news- papers today, whether by accident or otherwise, neither mentioned nor urge the possibility of c British inc vasion of Syria,
 It was noted that British planes had attacked five conveys between Italian ports and ports in Italian and French North Africa since the fall of Crete, Such conveys would be necessary to take supplies for any big derman.Italian drive from Ltbya.
 Members of Parliament and news- papers watched this situation closes ly and demanded that the govern- ment make sure that this time 1t was prepared to meet attack.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-06
SCHOLZ'S TEA PARTY
 GUESTS "TRAITORS''

Manchester, N. H., June 6-(UP) Back Bay Society women who at- tend tea parties of Dr. Herbert Scholz, German consul at Boston, are labeled traitors by Royal K. Hayes of Lowell, Mass, National Americanism officer of the Yank- ee Division Veterans Association.
 Hayes told the association,s 22d annual convention here yesterday that those who sip tea with the Nasa consul "are not practicing the true tenets of democracy"
 'sThis is no time for persons to fraternize with anyone who is op- posed to the democratic way of life, " he said.
 More than 10000 World War vet erans are here for the four day convention.
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 uation or Syria but as always In in- tervalS between military campaigns Europe Seethed with rumors of every variety, many obviously set adrift by Axis propagandiStS aS part of the customary war of nerves.
 Many of these had to do with vague suggestions Of some kind of Axis peace gesture, possibly coupled with an Axis plan for complete or- ganization of Europe upon Q quasi- peacetime basis.
 Vichy, always @ center of rumors was the chief point of tho peace talk, some of 1t doubtless springing from wlshful French desires for the war to end so that France might enjoy some relaxation of the pres- sure which squee2es her from both belligerent camps.
 However, there was nothing in either Berlin or London to give any credence to the Vichy rumors.
 It was plain that France was the center of a rapidly deepening crisis | in her relationship with the Axis and Britain and the United States
 Ministers Meet
 Marshal Henri Philippe Petain met with his council Of ministers and virtually the full slate of French Colonial commanders, including Gen, Maxine Weygand, Pierre Boisson, West African commander charged with defense of Dakar, and Admiral Jean Esteva, commander at Tunisia.
 Absent was Gen. Henri Dentz, high commissioner in Syria, who was at his post in Beirut issuing proclamations calling on French forces to stand firm in event of British attack and denying that any German military groups are estab- lished in his territory. Rumors that he had been relieved of his com- mand by Vichy proved groundless.
 The Vichy censorship was so tight that there was little indication what. if any, decisions were taken by Petain and his advisers. They faced not only the imminent possi- bility of British invasion of Syria, but had a forceful warning from Secretary of State Cordel Hull which seemed to imply that the United States might undertake protective occupation of French possessions in the Western Hemisphere and pos sibly severe relations with vFichy if France did not halt her swift ad- vance toward the position of junior partner in Adolf Tiitler,s Axis order.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-06

times what he termed the amazing coincidence that certain newspapers would have published exactly what Berlin had ordered shortly. He said he was not critieizlng all the press but rather certain types of newspa. pers In whose columns such amazing coineidenees have occurred.
 Actually, he said, Winant return cd here for Q two-fold purpose:
 1. To report on 26 or 30 major topics relating to the conduct of the war in Great Britain.
 g. To get information on 35 or 30 topics relating to the defense of the United States.
 But, MT. Roosevelt said, 1t SO hap. pened that just before Winant or. rived here, he (the president) re- caived two memoranda relating or. ders that had been given out in Berlin to Nazis and Faseists in tho United States and to various kinds of people In this country who are in favor of AppeaBement.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-06
"Token Charge"
 On Income Tax

Washington, June 6,--(UP)- The administration today coun. tered criticism of It's defense savings program with figures Indicating that the new govern. ment securities are selling at a rate of about Sl00,0O0,000 q week,
 "Thls Is Q wonderful start" l" said Secretary of Treasury Henry MorEenthau last night in . radio report on the first months sales,
 May sales amounted to S4SS,- 230,000 In defense savings bonds and S3,bB2, ,0O0 In stamps, MOrgenthau said.
 Congressional critics of the program, however, oontended that the program was falling short of It's 0bjectlves and that the response during the open- ing month was not satisfactory.
 M0rgenthau said more than 1000, 900 individual bonds were purchased during May, In Ad- dltlon to l0,000,000 savings stamps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-06
DRAFT PROPERTY
 BILL LIMIT SEEN
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be determined by the President. This disclosure came as Sen. Tom Connally, D., Tex, introduced an amendment to the coi1scriptlon act to permit the President to take over and operate any defense plant where produclon IS delayed, or threatened with dellv, because of Q strike, other labor dispute, or other cause.
 Connally's bill went to the senate military affairs committee, whore the war departments draft prop- erty" bill is pending. Chairman Robert R, Reynolds, D., N. C., who had set June ie for the start of public hearings on the measure, added ConnallyS blll to the agendA, T think" he said, "that we should consider Sen. 0onnallys bill ct the same tin,e." '
 Although the war department bill deals with the fequisitioning of property and ConnAlly,s deals with, impediments to defense production, the latter Is based on the belief that additional strike authority is tho primary purpose of the requisition. Ing bill.
 Congressional leaders who con- ferred with the President during the week said he told them his sole de. sire in connection with the bill was to "close the gap" left in the con. Scrlption Act by the section dealing with industrial requisitioning, plus . consolidation of World War requis. itioning power. .I.
 Under the conscriptlon act, the government may take over and operate a plant where there Is 0 refusal to carry out defense orders. But the Allls Chalmers strike at Milwaukee. in which both sides in. dicated willingness to carry out government orders under certain conditions, demonstrated that the conscriptlon net provision was not broad enough. @
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-06
HALLIBURTON'S AID
 NOW LEGALLY DEAD

Dcdham, Mass, June 0,-tUP)- Robert II. Chase, g, Of Milton, q crcW-member aboard Richard Hal- liburton'S Junk which vanished in the Pacific in 1899, has been de- clarcd legally dead.
 Probate Judge James P. Reynolds 70 ruled yesterday and ordered young Chases share in the 9760,000 estate of his grandmother, the late Editr w. Gallagher Of Milton, turned over to his father. the socially prom inent Frederick Chase, and Q broth- CT, Hugh.
 Chase was Q Dartmouth student when he signed with l2 others to sail the Junk from Hong Kong to San Francisco.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-06
NILES MAY ASSIST
 KNUDSEN, HILLMAN

Boston, June G. (U.P) David K. Niles of Boston, director of the Ford Hall Forum and leading new dealer in New England, has been chosen by President Roosevelt to break "bottlenecks" in the nations defense program, 1t was learned to- day.
 Niles will become a special assist ant to William s. Knudsen and Sid- ney Hillman in>the office of produc- ton management. it was believed, and probably will be given the title of consultant on defense production
 The president was expected to an- nounce the appointment Monday. Niles will serve as an OPM trouble shooter" and attempt to speed up defense production wherever it lags. He formally was special assistant to Harry Hopkins when the latter was secretary of commerce and also served as director of labor relations for the WPA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-06
BOY, ll, HERO

Wilson, Conn, June 6-tUP) = One man was drowned and two others were rescued late yesterday when their boat capsized in the Connecticut River.
 Cecil English, 27, Windsor Locks, was drowned when he attempted to swim to shore. Two others, Ray- mond English, %, brother of Cecil, and Raymond Breault, 25, South Windsor, were rescued by i4-year- old Allen Gaudet, Wilson, who came after them In Q roWboat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-06
26O Combat Vehicles Made Every 24 Hours
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crease In its size or weight of 1908 pounds.
 Allison motors, manufactured in the nations only between the mountains" airplano engine factory -safe from enemy bombing-powers the Arfny's Lockheed p-SS, the Bell
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-06
POLICE NAB FoRGER

Hudson Falls, N. Y., June B.
 (UP)-State police held Russell Cummings. 34 of West Fort Ann, in Hudson Falls jail today awaiting ar- rival of Vermont authorities to re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-06

turn him to the Windsor State Prison from which he escaped c week ago.
 Cummings was picked up at the home of his father. He was serving one and Q half to two years for forgery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-06
ROOSEVELT SIGNS ACQUISITION BILL

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PEACE RUMORS
 NAzI LIES-FDR

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AXIS EMBARK ON
 BOMBING RAIDS

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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-09
Roosevelt Teachers, Students
Resume Activities at School

End OF the holiday season at
Roosevelt School finds students
and teachers engaged in numerous
activities.
The final debate for Roosevelt
High School will. be Friday at 8
p. IN. in the auditorium with Rose
vile. Negative team speakers for
Roosevelt will be Richard Davis.
Robert Evans and Ben VandenBelt.
Chairman OF the debate will be
Herman Keller and timekeeper,
Betty Menzi. The question to be
debated is Resolved: that the fed
eral powers OF the government
shall be decreased"
Professor Kenneth Hance, form.
erly of Albion College speech de
partment and now at the Universe
ty OF Michigan. will be judge.
Musical numbers will be given by
Mrs. James Warner, piano, and
her two daughters, Barbara, violin,
and Mary Alice, cello.
Dolls Displayed
On display in the foyer of Roose-
welt school are nearly 60 dolls and
stuffed animals. representing coun-
tries throughout the world. The
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-09
Pot Luck Plans Discussed
at Boy Scout Round Table

The parents potluck for February
was the chief topic for discus
sion at the Boy Scout leaders
formidable Wednesday evening in
Charles McKenny Hall. The meet
ing was preceded at 8 o'clock by a
dinner for commissioners.
One of the outstanding features
will be a roundup of all new ten
derfoot scouts. They will be pre-
scented with their badges in a sep
arate group. Cub pack members
will also take part in the dinner and
program. The dinner will be at
$50 in the gymnasium with the
program following in the auditor
ium. Roosevelt Troop band will
play. Mothers of the Scouts will be
asked to organize the potluck din.
ner.
1t was decided that greater stress
should be placed on outdoor ac-
tivities and camping. Facilities
for week end trips TO Newkirk were
recounted and plans are being for
mulated for the summer camping
season.
More emphasis will be placed on
first aid and new book on first
aid for use in the troops was dis
tributed. Kenneth Wingrove and
Howard Fanslow explained the plan
Of the emergency service corps.
The annual council meeting Jan
p was announced and troops will
hold some special observances OF
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-09

| dolls and figures are dressed in
colorful costumes and set in lighted
display cases. The second grade
pupils brought and arranged the
exhibit.
Plan Four Plays
Misses Susan Stinson and Thel-
ma McAndless will direct four one
act plays to be presented by the
Roosevelt junior and senior classes
in February. Committees from
each class will be chosen to take
charge Of the plays. The dramatic
productions will be given in pla,e
Of the annual operetta.
To Show Pictures
Ernest Davis, director OF safety
and traffic division. of Automobile
Club OF Michigan, will show motion
pictures on safety to elementary
grades at Roosevelt School Tues
day at p. IN. in the auditorium.
Wearing Fade
Roosevelt High School students
are wearing tan gaberdine waist
jackets with the green leather r
on one picket. These are the SEN
ior fads for the year.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-09
THE vpsILANrr DAILY YpsLAnr MICH "r

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Kanitz and
sons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Woodbury.
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Woodbury., Bowling Green, Ohio
were Saturday night guests Of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry II. Cline and son
Frank.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merle Hazlett and
Mrs. Minnie Albright, Toledo. were
Saturday dinner guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Hazlett and children
Mrs. Hazlett and children visited
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Westcott, Milwaukee Rd., Sunday
day.
Rev. Luren Strait visited Mrs
Alma Stuart Sunday. Mrs. Stuart
has been very i'll. Mrs. Leon Hansen
and daughter Madelyn. Dundee
and Ralph Stuart. Petersburg. have
been helping their sister, Mrs. Inez
White. care for their mother.
Tavern Smith returned home with
his mother, Mrs. willard Smith
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-09

Methodist Church. conducted by
the California Joy Bringers.
Thurlow Heath visited William
Mason, near Maybee, Saturday. Mr..
Mason had just returned home
from the hospital. He is recovering
from a serious operation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter l.. Heidi,
Mr.. and Mrs. Theron Painter Mrs.
George Hammond and Mrs. c. w.
Cline attended the district evangel-
istic meeting at Saline Methodist
Church. Bishop Wade was the
speaker.
Mrs. George Hammond, son.
Ross, and Mrs. c. w. Cline visited
Mr.. and Mrs. G. a. Bird, Mrs. Their
on Painter. Mrs. Charles Ham.
mOnd and Mrs. Alma Stuart Tues.
day. They brought cheer from the
London W.S.CS. and Alpha Glass
since all in the home were Ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Gebbink. Ann
Ann Arbor. were Sunday guests OF
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-09

Hopkins. Gerald. Patricia, Garnetta
and Hattie Marie Hopkins, Guy
Fitzpatrick. Mr. and Mrs. Louie
Newman attended the Monroe Coun-
ty Brotherhood meeting Sunday
evening at the Milan Methodist
Church. The California Joybringers,
Miss Irma Herman and Miss Pan
sy Bray, began two weeks series
OF meetings at that service,
Miss Berneth Heath spent the
week end with Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Harris and Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Barnes, Ypsilanu. Mr.. and Mrs.
Thurlow Heath went 10 Ypsilanti
Sunday and Miss Berneth returned
home with them.
Tuesday evening. Mrs. Gerald
Hopkins, daughters, Patricia. Gar
META and Hattie Marie, James
Carey. Mrs. Clarence Cline and son,
Robert Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Zieske,
and daughter. Pauline Mae. and
Mrs. Laura Grassley attended the
evangelistic service at Milan
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-09

Boy Scout week Feb Z to 49, A
service to honor the late Baden
Powell Boy Scout founder is also
planned.
Those at the meeting included
Norris Wiltse, who presided. John
Duguid, Lawrence lager, Paul u.
Samson, Mr.. Fanslow, Mr.. Win
grove, Donald Mcmahon. Robert
Tower. Paul Clay, Duane Chamber
lain, w. j. Butzin, Orville Wolford.
Lawrence Miller. B. Jay Gauntlet.
Donald Stadler. William Womack
and Walter MacPeek, Scout exc
cutive.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-09
School Teachers Will
Review Educational Books

As the beginning OF five year
plan to review textbooks in the
educational field on all subjects,
Ypsilanti school teachers are plan
ming to make rotations on the books
distributed to them from the super
intendents' office. Group meetings
are planned later to discuss the
comments. Jack Lockwood, prin-
cipal Of Central School, has fur
nished textbook examination cri.
terra which will be produced in an
Institutional bulletin to the teach
ers
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-09
BENNETT ACCUSES UNION

Detroit. Jan. 9-AP-The CLIO
United Automobile Workers Union
Wednesday was accused by Harry
H. Bennett. Ford Motor Co. person
mel director. of presenting a dis
torted and false version" OF his
statements about the company s re-
hiring policies. In letter to Fed
eral Conciliator James F. Dewey.
Bennett declared the union had
enormously quoted him as saying
that all men laid off during a nlant
reorganization would be 'rehired
after Jan. l." Bennett referred to
a letter the union wrote Dewey.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-09

Sunday. He had been visiting his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harri-
son Smell during his vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Herrst,
Ypsilanti. Mr.. and Mrs. Francis
Herrst. Plat. and Mrs. j. Herrst
visited the latter's granddaughter
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald
Hopkins and children, Sunday.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-01-09
Consolidated School to
Have Assembly Programs

Representatives OF the Michigan
State Police. East Lansing, will lee
ture to Lincoln Consolidated High
School pupils on training methods
for troopers Friday at p. m. in an
assembly in the auditorium.
Ernest Davis. director of safety
and traffic division OF Automobile
Club Of Michigan, will lecture on
safety at an elementary school as
sembly Wednesday at . a. NJ.