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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
BY
Kenneth Downs

The Germans bought into
Havas, the great French official
news agency and national adver-
Using monopoly, so heavily that
the company had to reorganize to
avoid falling completely into Ger
man hands. Under the reorgani-
cation, HaVas turned over control
of the rich advertising monopoly.
but kept control of the news end
Of the agency.
Hachette's, the big publishing
and circulation trust. resisted
German efforts TO buy it up. The
Germans were particularly an
xious TO get control of this COM
pany in order to manage the
publication of school books.
Since thwarting German efforts
to buy in. Hachettes has been the
object of the most violent attacks
from Paris-Soir and other Ger
man-owned newspapers in Paris.
These attacks accuse Hachettes of
every known kind of villainy and
corruption in the most inflamma-
tory language imaginable. The
attacks 60 on day after day.
WILL HAVE TO YIELD
1t would seem to be a rather
safe bet that this company, even
with its great resources, will have
to give up eventually. II has no
means of defense and the press
attacks, if they don't work fast
enough, will be followed by off
cial investigations" and all man.
ner of ham-stringing until the
company h forced to Yield.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
Truce Rejected
ByAostd

ROME, April 21.-INS)--The
Duke of Aosta, italian viceroy for
Abyssinia, has refused British
terms for an armistice and has
sent a message to Premier Mus
solini saying, Il will fight to the
end" it was officially announced
today.
The duke, Il was said. sent an
emissary to British authorities at
Diredowa, acceding to British
request for negotiations.
The Italian emissary, II was
said, was verbally told that the
British would not accept RESPONSE
bility for the civil population Of
Abyssinia unless Fascist troops
laid down their arms.
On the request of the Italian
viceroy for a written communica-
ton. the British commander re-
piled that the British could not
accept responsibility for civilians
outside British occupied zones un-
less the Italians surrendered.
Aosta, according to the official
announcement, replied:
II reject your military pro-
posals. The British must &C.
cept responsibility for the safety
Of the white popuIafion.r
(Reports In recent weeks have
told OF numerous cases Of lonRs
snouldering Abyssinian wrath
being vented against Italian
colonists. When the British
marched into Adds Ababa. the
Duke OF Aosta was quoted =
official communications a.
thanking the imperial com.
mander for saving the captain
white inhabitants from ponsfh1o
native vengeance.l q.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
France Under Hitler

(Franee 10 losing it's great in
dustries to Gsrmany-ond is
paying for the privilege through
the methodieol juggling Of Ger
man army Of occupation costs
levied upon the French people.
How insxorabIy the sehsms
operates 10 described in the fol-
lowing article, fffh in series
by Kenneth Downs, ace foreign
correspondent for international
NeWs SsrUics.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
Army Aides 10 Test
A 'TraCkIess Tank

FORT MYER. Va, April 21.-
(INS)-A "trackless tank con-
sidered a new departure in con-
struction of the moving land
fortresses, will be inspected by
army officials today.
Preliminary tests repeatedly in
Dictated the new tank may be
adaptable for reconnaissance pur-
poses" according to an army an
nouncement. Further exhaustive
tests will be made" it was said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
CHICAGO
DETROIT
Hunted in KiIlinq

PONTIAC. April 81. - Hughey
Jackson Crawford, 30. factory
worker from Missouri, was sought
by police today in the fatal shoot
ing of Samuel E. Mcleod. 20, in
an argument over noise in a ROOM
ing house..
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
Foot Caught in Rail,
Man Killed by Train

JACKSON. Apri, Pills foot
caught in the rails at a crossing.
Joe Sheuman, go. of Cement City,
was killed by Michigan Central
freight train today. Mr.. and Mrs.
George Tyler worked frantically
to eXtricate Sheuman as the train
approached, stepping out of the
way only when the engine was
within a few feet of them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
Expected
To Refuse BRIDGES

SAN FRANCISCO, April 21.-
QNS)-Australia will refuse TO
admit Harry Bridges il the United
States government is successful in
proving the alien-born longshore
leader of the Pacific Coastas sub
ject to deportation as a Commu-
mist.
This was the prediction left In
San Francisco today by Richard
Hughes, editor in chief of Aus
tralia's Consolidated Press Serv-
ice.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21

To Oppose
Lee Today
BY LEO MAcDoNELL

Buck Newsom was scheduled 10
pitch for the Tigers against the
White Sox at Briggs Stadium to-
day. the ace fingers first home
start of the season.
Thornton Lee. a left-hander, was
TO hurl for Chicago.
Newsom lost his first start of
the current campaign in ST. Louis.
He beat the White Sox four times
in five starts in 1910.
Lee won none and lost one
against the Tigers.
The probable lineups:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
Shot Examining Gun

Marvin Kemp. 30, of 1916 Vine
wood avenue. is in Saratoga Gen.
eral Hospital with bullet wound
in his foot. suffered when a IA
caliber revolver he was examining
was fired Kemp and John Nc
Coskey. %, of 1917 Faircrest
avenue. al whose home the acct
dent happSned, told police they
believed th1 revolver was empty,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21

TO stand, It will slow down the
gobbling up of French industry.
However. it won't stock the sale
of privately owned industry which
does not have its stock listed on
the market. Much of French
heavy industry is so owned. The
week the decree was passed, a
family-owned Lorraine mill was
sold for 100000 francs cash.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
u. s., Canada
Pool Arms
Resources
BY GEORGE DURNO
Int1 News Service stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON. April 21.-
President Roosevelt returned to
Washington this morning to put
into immediate effect the mo-
mentous agreement he reached
with Canadian Prime Minister
w. L. Mackenzie King to pool the
productive facilities of North
America in an about effort to
help Great Britain defeat the Axis
powers.
Likewise. the President conf
IDENTIFY awaited favorable reaction
TO another weekend move to aid
Britain-a public appeal that a
thousand young American doctors
volunteer for service in a medical
expeditionary force that will enroll
under the British Red Cross in
both military and civilian hos
pitfalls. England, said Mr.. Roose-
welt, desperately needs" this
number of medical men.
Harry L. Hopkins, director of
the S7000,000.000 war aid pro-
gram. and Secretary of the
Treasury Henry Morgenthau, both
of whom had been present at the
dramatic Sunday meeting of the
TWO leaders at Hyde Park. accom-
panied the President back to the
Capitol. They were prepared dur
ing the day to set necessary
machinery in motion.
U. S. TO PAY CASH
Prime Minister Mackenzie King
was returning to Ottawa to re-
port TO the Canadian people that
the Dominion henceforth would
benefit directly from the lend-lease
program, and to arrange his part
of the mobilization of all resources
in the last-ditch struggle of the
democracies.
Speed and more speed in every
line of defense production was the
urgent word brought back from
Hyde Park by the President and
his aides.
A joint statement issued by Mr..
Roosevelt and Mackenzie King re-
vealed that Canada during the
next twelve months will supply
the United States with from $780,
100000 to S300,000,000 worth of
such materials as munitions. ships
Continued on Page Four)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
Hits
MCCred in
Rebuttd|

Harry Co1burn, rebutta1 Witness
at the county graft conspiracy
trial today, testified that former
Prosecutor Duncan c. McCrea, a
defendant, told him TO pretend he
was mentally i'll in order to delay
the trial from six months to a
year.
Colburn. who was McCrea's chief
investigator and who turned states
witness. said McCrea told him he
didn't have a chance at the trial
and that il would be better if he
wound up crazy than to go to
jail.
The idea of feigning illness was
advanced by McCrea after he
heard the testimony OF Bernard A.
Boggio. McCrea's former chief as
sistant. Colburn said. Boggios
testimony contained sensational
charges against both Colburn. who
was then a defendant, and McCrea.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21

(Kenneth Downs con-
tinues his sensational reve-
latiOns of France under the
Nazi boot in tomorrow's
Detroit Times.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
Pdnzers Race
To Enciirc|e
: Allied Unit
BY PIERRE J. HUss
init News servics Star Correspondent

init News servics STAR Correspondent
BERLIN. April 21.--After a
weekend Of heavy fighting. Ger.
man shock divisions swept souths
ward across the Grecian plain Of
Thessaly today to points below
Larissa on a broad front.
Mechanical forces, including
tank corps, raced forward under
full pressure in a wild dash to en-
circle and trap retreating Anglo
Creek troops, German authorities
said.
LINE RIPPED TO SHREDs'
With the advanced German
forces only 100 miles from Athens,
the Greek government was re-
ported sending out armistice feel.
Eers through an unnamed third
party" ,.l.s.
German forces advancing south
of Larissa and Trilxlxala were re-
lp0fred advancing rapidly down
toward the Gulf OF Corinth and the
eastern Greek railroad center or
Lamia adjoining the Talanti Canal
On the western wing of the
front, an official announcement
stated. German troops pushing
westward across the Pindus Noun
tains captured an important pass
near Metsovo, about Is miles
northeast of Yanina.
The ''Wavell Line" in Greece
was ripped to shreds, It was
claimed, British defenders were
routed and German planes steadily
harassed the Withdrawing Allied
armies.
BLAST HIDDEN SHIPS
On the roads leading south from
Trikkala and Larissa to the south,
German sources claimed, the Brit
ish suffered terrific losses in Ger
man air attacks. German troops
were said to have advanced far
below these two key points.
Latest reports indicated the
panzer divisions We're approaching
the railway town of Lamia and
historic Thermopylae Pass, where
\ in ancient times Leonidas and 900
Spartans fought the Persians to 3
1 FU~-kf--l u<--~-t
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
president ROOSEVELT ha,


i asked for efforts TO develop
good will between good neighbors.
This catastrophe Is an opportu-
nifty to display some practical evil
dences Of good win on the part OF
Mexico's friends and associates In
the United States.
We could at least express as
much sympathy and interest as we
did when distant Italy suffered
under similar affIiction.
1t Is sad TO hear OF a large and
lovely city being destroyed-of
many lives being lost, and of
homeless people living or trying TO
live In the wreckage of their
homes In the ruins of their
stricken city.
Shall we pass Idly by and show
no sign of sorrow or sympathy:
Collma was n beautiful city,
spread out on the plain not far
from the base of the great quies-
/. cent volcano and buried In the
midst of palms and other dense
foliage so only the red roofs of the
town could be SeeR above the
green.
But underneath the roofs were
white walls with tall grilled win
dows and iron-barred gates lead
Ing into Towering patios.
And between the walls were cob
bIed streets and public squares.
And In these houses and squares
lived a pleasant people who would
take time from their labors and
pleasures to be kindly to strangers.
THE especial industry of the
i country lay In the coffee plan
tations which stretched from the
town to the base of the volcano,
and indeed, climbed well up Its
sides.
The round bean Of COlima cof-
fee ranks among the finest and
rarest c0ffees in the whole world.
It produces n delicious beverage;
and friends, IL you want individu-
ally to help Colims-and inciden-
CONTINUED on Page Seyenl
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
CONTROL PRESS

French heavy industry, mostly
located in the north, and publish
ing enterprises also have been
purchased on n large scale. A large
part of the press in the occupied
region is either partly or wholly
German-owned.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21

THE very lovely city Of Colima,
i Mexico, has been destroyed ny
q severe earthquake and by the
eruption of tine adjacent volcano of
Colima.
When the cities at the foot of
Vesuvius In Italy or In the vicinity
OF Aetna in Sicily or near Mount
Pelee in Martinique were de-
stroyed by eruption, America
rushed to offer aid.
Mexico IL n rich country and a
proud country, and doubtless can
and will take care Of Its own
dead and destitute.
But aid might well be offered by
Mexico's friends and neighbors as
q generous gesture-as token OF
sympathy and kindly interest.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
HE TELLS OF VISIT

Colburn testified:
AT noon recess McCrea said
he had a matter of great Inn
portance 10 take up with Mrs.
Colburn and me. We drove to
my house that night and Me-
Crea said TO my wife:
Esther. 1 don't want you to
labor under false impressions.
I don't like the looksaf things.
Listen carefully. Harry hasn't
a chance. He will be convicted
and get a long prison sentence
Il said, You always let me
believe l had a fighting chance
and he said he hadn't wanted to
upset me. He said, After you
get the prison term the federal
government will jump on you.
You're a sure pop to go.
You're a pretty sick man and
You have got to be sick or
neither of us has a chance.
You've got to go to bed and stay
there
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
IN THE
NEWS
"W. r. Hearst,

San Francisco Examiner,
San Francisco, California.
UIOLIMA, the para
u disc you so aptly
o described, is Suffering q
catastrophe bigger in pro-
portion than San Francisco
thirty-tiUe gears ago today.
"You haze re-conquered
the old affection MeTicans
had for you and your good
mother ,Oith your tOonder-
fuI articles.
will you nolO help Mer-
leo and Colinidr by appeal
ing to your millions of read
ers daily, starting neTt
Monday at the head Of your
column, to send money,
clothing, food, furniture,
building materials to the
Colimd victims?
MEXICAN Consul GEN
eral, San Francisco, WiH act
as depositor and transmit
ter of funds and goods.
First dUdildble boat for
Mdnzdnillo leaVes San
Francisco end April
grants free transportation.
please reply and God
bless you for the good you
are doing Merico.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
CALLED GOOD ACTOR"

IL told him I couldn't fool the
doctors and that the court would
send physicians to check on me.
too. He said. You have a good
background and are good
actor. You have been to psy-
chiatrists.'
II had been TO them because
Of nervousness from overwork.
McCrea said, If the court sends
out men TO examine you, don't
let them. You don't have to-
i told him the court would for
felt my bond and call me falCer
and the newspapers would take
up the chant.
"McCrea said, Tell the doc
tors you've got a humming in
your head and that you don't
know what they're talking about.
Jump out of bed, pound on the
wall and tear out your hair, fall
on the floor.
"'YOu can he sick for from
six months to a year and you'll
CONTINUED on Page Fourl
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
BUY FRENCH PLANTS

One of the main uses they are
making of this great sum is the
purchase of French industries. By
the end of the war they expect to
be in control. with clear legal
title. of French heavy industry,
publishing and radio.
All French industry on the con-
tinent outside of France is being
bought up, including the French
interests in Skoda in CZecho-Slo-
vakia and the fabulous Mines de
Dor, Europe's Hchest copper
mines. in Yugoslavia. Laval con-
cludeG the Mines de Dor deal with
Ribbentrop and Abetz in Paris
shortly before he was thrown out
of office last December. When
Marshal Petain learned of this
deal, he is popularity credited with
having said:
an. Laval Is selling France
piece by piece"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21

day. Thus. each and every day
the German authorities have 275,-
100000 francs clear after paying
expenses of the army of occupa-
ton.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-21
BLAST HIDDEN SHIPS

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-06
New German Tire Is Filled
 With Holes

STUTTGART. Germany, March GA new, air cooled automobile tire has been developed here by Alfred Spencker, former German naval officer.
 It is solid rubber with a honey comb of holes or corridors which make it lighted in weight than some of the ordinary castings with inner tubes.
 The holes are placed so that air constantly drives through them while the car is in motion. The air is taken in through valve on the wheel
 Tests reported by the Stuttgart Technical High School gave some remarkable results. Where solid rubber tides heated to 455 Fahren- heit in an hours run at 50 miles an hour carrying a load of 1900 pounds, the air cooled tire under the same stresses didn't rise above 1858 and it's surface did not go above 150, the report said.
 At 75 miles an hour, over a two-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-06

Wide applicability not only to peacene requirements but also to problems of defense is claimed for the traffic divder which M. F. Norris Chevrolet executive, is i- newest stretch of Chcagos famous Outer Drive and is unique in the fact that be raised lowered to pro- vide lanes of varying width that the road becomes effect, adjustable highway.
 Three parallel dividing -curbs recessed into the pavement that its 100 foot width can be split into four 25-foot lanes. The mechanism operates hydrauIcay. Control stations like that at which George Van Dorpe and Michael G0run, Chicago city employees are standing
 pper Jeff nse make possible to reract each dyider flush with the pavement surface, raise it eight inches to the position shown in the larger photo Each control operates 600 feet of dyder in 2 foot sections raising 1t in 11H seconds. Cross-section diagram shows con- sructon of diyder and inner point glass bus- eyes through which light shines when curb is raised.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-06

| structure. turns, twists and tunnels, and SC cn, which may provide easy points cf sabotage by which the railroad could be wrecked and put out of commission in a short time Cal sherin said it was the gen. eral opinion of the General Staff that raad should be constructed ! rem the Richardson Highway to the i Alaska Railroad at Palmer to permit of landing supplies at Valdez from where they could be transported over the Richardson Highway to the Alaska Railroad, then to An chcrage
 Gel. Sherill said he believed the rcad could be kept open the year { around.
 ! Paul Gordon. Supervisor of All askan Affairs for the Department of the Inferior. said the highway pro posed will be a feet wide with a gravel surface
 Beth Gordon and Col. shcrlll tes- tificd regarding substitution of a pert cn Passage Ccnal for Seward as terminal for the Alaska Rail- road and admitting it was under consideration. This, they said. would also give the Army an alternate bert as which to land supplies. Such ' 6 plan they said would however leave Seward without reason fer ex- listenee because about @ miles of the lever end of the Alaska Railroad wonld he abandoned.
 Cost Of Highway
 Col. Shcrll. testified that the pro posed highway from the Richardson Highway to Palmer to permit ship ment of supplies from Valdez tc either Anchorage or Fairbanks would cost about $1,5O0,0OO.
 That Other Route
 Gel. Sherill said facilities at Port. } age on Passage Canal, the same a. now exist at Seward, would cos about S5,300,000 and could be com. pleted by autumn, 1942 or 1943. H. said it would require construction il for a short distance of new track. n The testimony was revealed a d given at hearings on the deficienc! if appropriation bill.
 The cost of changing the terminus J of the Alaska Railroad has beei submitted by the committee in tn, !, regular 1942 budget
 Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di o mond has urged the committee t,
 rehabilitate the lower end of the Al :, aska Railroad and prevent aban
 donment of Seward
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-06
By RAY PEACOCK AP Feature SerUice Writer

GRANDMA was a great believer in patch 1 work quilts A home just wasn't home without one, she always said
 Every time one of the girls got married, or one of the boys brought home bride, Grand ma would give them patchwork quilt-and little talking to.
 "You see those diamond pieces of blue?" she would say. Well, they're off one of your Uncle Wills shirts. Those squares of check cred red and white they're from one of your own Mas dresses when she was girl pretty girl she was too. And that brown, that used to be one of your Aunt Lucys aprons" ,"
 If you didn't get the idea right away, Grandma would be patient. "Those little pieces of cloth-theyre the family" she would say Its more than just sewing that holds them together Store boughten comforters are
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-06
elAIss ONlOIs aM,so tdk sAlAsele 1sAtEic tlow
EVENING RUSH olalc1loNAl rRAffIo
MORNING RUSH olRec1ionAl TRAFFIC
U
-

The lower diagram shows cross-section of road with dvders in various positions to handle direconal traffic
 flow at various hours of the day. One adaptation of the idea, it is pointed out, could be used to separate military from civilian traffic, when this is desirable, while
 other would close arports against landings by hostile panes In normal use however it not only capacities work of much wider especially important point in congested where land for widening High.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-06

mighty fine, but they haven't got m 'em What this quilt has got
 And then she would look out the window and forget all about you for while. T re- member when your Uncle Will got that shirt. He looked so nice and dressed up in it. And your Ma wanted that dress awful bad. She saved her money for six months sos she could buy it. . Now you young people take good care of this quilt Itll do more for you than just keep you warm"
 Somehow, it turned out that Grandma was right too She didn't let on she was tickled when the neighbors would speak up about her fancy patterns, nor get excited when her quilts won prizes at the county fair, year after year. All she cared about was how the young folks were getting along
 Seems like nobody who has a patchwork quilt ever gets dee-vorce," she would say. q got peck of work to do here yet guess"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-06

hour period with 1900 pounds, the interior temperature was not higher than 1858 while the surface dropped to l46.3
 The inventor asserts the coolins prolongs the life of the tires.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-06
DOG DIPLOMAT
 DEMONSTRATES

 NEW YORK, March 5.-Magis- trate Joseph c. H. Flynn decided to settle a dispute over ownership of a dog by the time-honored method of having each claimant call the dog in the courtroom. The brown cocker spaniel rushed enthusiastically across the court room in response to calls from both claimants.
 ''Hey, youl" shouted Magistrate Flynn
 The spaniel leaped up and licked his face.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-06
WANTED

TWO LADIES wish employment in Juneau Both good cooks, wait resses, housekeepers. willing, good workers. Want to go north to- gether. Write Box 723, Wolf Creek, Oregon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1941-03-06

GUARANTEED Realistic Prema- nents. $4.50. Finger wave, Csc. Lola's Beauty Shop. Telephone POI, 315 Decker Way.