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Evening star., 1941-05-05
German Planes
Cause Heavy
Belfast Damage
Explosions Set OFF
In Plane Plants,
Nozis Declare
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 5.-Resurgent ir
widespread daylight activity, the
German air force today followed ur
last nights pounding of Belfast
capital of Northern Ireland; Liver
pool and other targets in England
and Scotland.
British fighters were said authori-
tatively to have d0wned a German
fighter over the Channel this after
noon.
The daylight activity appeared
to be mostly reconnaissance, but four
Messerschmitts made hit-run raid
on village in Southeastern England
this afternoon. dropping few bombs
and firing a few machine gun and
cannon rounds. Little damage was
reported.
Again Over North Ireland.
German planes also were sighted
over northwest England and bodies
were still being hauled from the
wreckage at Belfast, when raiders
again were reported over Northern
Ireland.
In Berlin, the German high
command claimed that Luftwaffe
planes set fire to four ships in
Belfast harbor and started big
fires and caused explosions in
aircraft industrial plantsD
Many business premises in Belfast
were reported in ruins and the gov
ernment there acknowledged much
damage to commercial, industrial
and residential property"
Ambulances from Dublin were or
duty throughout the raid and Ire
land tEire) also sent f1re-hghtine
equipment as she had done before
Liverpool Pounded Again.
Nazi bombers pounded also at
Liverpool-for the fourth successive
night-in apparent continuation of
the German effort to wreck British
ports at which United States aid
might be received.
The air attack on Belfast last
night was heavy and sustained"
said the second communique of the
day from the Northern Ireland Min
istry Of National Security and
Northern Ireland r. A. F. head
quarters.
Large numbers OF incendiafies
and high explosive bombs were
dropped and there was much dam
age to commercial, industrial and
residential property.
Casualties will not prove as heavy
as was at first feared and the loss
of life has been less than was ex-
pected in view of the intensity of
the attack"
British Defense Active.
Other raiders ranged generally
flower England and Scotland.
BYitain's defenses were active
however, and the government said
"a raiders had been brought down
during the. week end-16 Saturday
INSIlJ, llSIlOcI UclOtC OuSk ycSlcI =
day and seven bombers last night
OF this total, the British asserted
19 could be credited to night fight
erS.
High-hying planes. apparently err
route to Liverpool and the Mersey-
side, caused an alert in London al
midnight, which lasted until 5:3(
am, but there was little activity
in the capital. The attack on Liver
pool, while heavy, was not so severe
as the one the night before. wher
hundreds of Nazi raiders blasted the
big port.
(The Germans said the Satur-
day night attack on Liverpool
was the heaviest yet made on
any English city,
The same night British raiders
showered Cologne with Britain,
new high-powered bombs and the
Air Ministry said they must have
done immense damage" in the great
Rhineland industrial center.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Kinq Christiun III

COPENHAGEN (via Berlin), May
S CP-A stomach disorder confined
70-year-old King Christian x Of
Denmark to his palace today, but
physicians said his illness was not
alarming.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Summary of Todoy's Star

Foreign
German battleships hit by bombs at
Brest, British claim. Page Az
Canadian press executive missing in
sea action. Page ALL
Notionol.
N. B. C. threatens court fight to save
network. Page Az
Weekend talks fail to break G. M.
deadlock. Page AS
Washington and Vicinity.
Potomac tube held best of 3 pos
sibilities. Page B-1
Three killed in Washington area
traflic over week end. Page B-1
Randolph asks D. c. Committee to
support Overton plan. Page B-1
Dr.. Gates, "fiddling dentist" is dead
At II. Page b.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
By JAMES FREE.

One hundred and forty dwelling
units for families of enlisted men
at the Army Medical Center, the
Army War College and Boiling Field
were included in defense housing
program approved for l3 localities
by President Roosevelt today.
The program, recommended by
Defense Housing Co-ordinator c. F.
Palmer, provides for construction
with public funds of a total OF
ll,625 units, which would cost an
average of about $4,000 each.
Seventy of the local units are to
be for the Army Medical Center
personnel. so at the Boiling Field
Army Air Station and 20 at the
Army War College. Building of the
houses at the medical center and
war college will be supervised by
the Federal Works Agency with
funds available under the Lanham
Act, while the air station houses are
to be constructed under the F. w. A..
ChICllS4Oll VI q NOAASA oNh 0o
signed to thesNavy.
$500 Units Now Total.
The new allocations bring the
total number of family dwelling
units scheduled for the Washing
ton are in the defense public hous.
ing program to more than 1900.
.f 70 Ia c,iry1inI hu
private enterprise and 1000 units in
dormitories for single girls.
Other localities with their units
under the program are:
Pittsburgh, 5000; Bridgeport,
Conn, 1900; San Diego Calf, 1,5003
Wilmington. N. c., 900; Hartford,
Conn, 585; Long Beach, Calf, 500;
Dallas-Fort Worth. Tex, 400; Nash
vile, Tenn, 300; New Britain, Conn,
200; Weldon Springs. Mo. 200, and
Gadsden, Ala, and Cory, Pa, 100
each.
In his letter to the President, rec
ommending the ALLEGATIONS, Mr..
Palmer stated that in most Of the
13 areas the co-ordinated defense
housing program includes the use
of private residential construction.
Sudden Need Stressed.
Mr.. Palmer pointed out that. IN
general. National defense activities
of the localities involved have caused
sudden and immediate need for
the number of dwelling units indi-
Gated for occupancy by persons OF
limited incomes engaged in national
defense activities
As The Star pointed out yesterday,
the public defense housing program
in the Washington area has been
complicated by discovery that houses
built with Lanham Act funds ap-
parently will not be available for
defense agency workers. All dwell.
ing units approved for this section
to date have been specifically in
tended for families of Army and
Navy enlisted men or workers in
military posts-except the 1000
houses projected for Greenbelt, Md.
Defense housing authorities here
have indicated they will seek amend
ment of the Lanham Act to make
the 1000 Greenbelt homes available
to Government defense workers.
Such an amendment is also needed
to assure that future public housing
can be used for this purpose, it was
said.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Irdq Air Force
IsCriipp|ed,
British Claim
Turkey Is Reported
Planning Offer
Of Mediation
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Fighting bet1Ceen IraQi and
British troops broke out last Fri
day as result OF continued British
landings at BaSra, at head OF Per-
sian Gull. Iraqi forces beSieged
English air base at Habbaniyah,
so miles 1Dest OF B1ghddd. Co..
ernn1ent OF Iraq, headed by RaS-
child Ali Al Gallant, Dho came in
by coup a month ago, is reported
to be pro-Germdn. IraQ is rich
in coveted oil.
By the Associated Press.
CAIRO, Egypt, May 5.-Most OF
Iraqs air force already has beer
destroyed" the British Near East
command said today, and Iraq ar
tillery which mad pounded the be-
sieged British airport at Habbanlyah
was rendered comparatively mac
tive yesterday by our aircraft"
The British garrison at Habbani-
yah Is intact and has suffered very
few casualties" the communique
said, and British troops remain
without interference" in occupa-
ton of the Basra area, at the head
of the Persian Gulf.
The Royal Iraqi Air Force consist.
ed of two army-air cooperation
souadrons, a transport
squadron, a fighter squadron and
communication SQUADRON, besides
planes attached to training school
THE greater part of the Iraqi All
Force already has been destroyed by
our air action, either while attempt
ing to attack British camps or as g
result of attack by our air forces or
1raqi airbases,' the communique
said, adding:
After attacking an unarmeo
British construction party, which
was in the vicinity, Iraqi forces on
May 2 occupied Rutba.'
Evening star., 1941-05-05

(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1941-05-05

(See BERLIN, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1941-05-05

Increasing cloudiness. slightly warmer,
lowest about Sc tonight; tomorrow
mostly cloudy; gentle winds, mostly
westerly. Temperatures today-Highest,
81, at pm; lowest, So, at 6:15 am.
From the United States Weather Bureau report.
Full Details on Page Az.
Evening star., 1941-08-03

for handling. 1t offers this informa-
ton to its inquirers.
Let us take hypothetical case and
see what happens. Well say you have
not heard from brother who is, as
far as you know, still residing in
German-occupied Poland. You imme-
diately go to the Red Cross Chapter
in your county or town and ask what
can be done
Your request, and any information
that may be of aid in locating your
brother, is dispatched Immediately to
the national Red Cross at Washing
ton, D. c. There the Information and
Inquiry Service scans it quickly for
disposition. The chances are that your
inquiry will 60 directly to the Gen.
trail Agency at Geneva. But if you are
inquiring about an American citi-
zen, the American Red Cross will
probably shoot your letter to the
State Department. Under certain cir
cumstances your inquiry might go
directly to the Red Cross society of
another nation, or to American Red
Cross committees in London and
Paris.
But we'll assume that your inquiry
is cleared through the International
Red Cross. Volunteers at the P0l0is
Evening star., 1941-08-03
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

many instances, the Central Agency
sent the report directly to the in
quirer.
Most inquiries in the United States
have asked about relatives in Poland.
with France, Holland and Belgium
next in line. Similarly most of the re-
quests for the Red Cross to accept
money, packages and letters have been
directed to Poland. Incidentally,
neither the American Red Cross nor
the Central Agency of the Interna-
tional Red Cross has facilities to as
sure delivery of money or articles,
except to known prisoners of war or
interned soldiers.
The Inquiry and Information Serv-
ice, however, is informed concerning
government and commercial facilities
Evening star., 1941-08-03

Electoral open your letter and assign
it to the section handling inquiries
that deal with Polish refugees - for it
will probably be assumed that your
brother fled to a nelghbonng neutral
nation. Ii is then checked against a
list that the neutral countries furnish
the International Red Cross. Most of
them keep an up-to-date file of newly
arrived refugees. Another reason for
first checking with these lists is that
it is obviously much easier to find
missing person outside of Poland than
someone within, although the Ger
man Red Cross is cooperating to facili-
tate the finding of persons still resid-
ing in German-occupiedP Poland.
You do not receive news of your
brothers whereabouts Immediately.
The chances are that weeks and even
months will pass before your fears
are allayed-or sometimes confirmed.
But it is likely that eventually you
will hear.
AS Warren Irwin said from Geneva:
''In nations at war, the Red Cross
on the field of white floats over hos
pitals and ambulances as an emblem
of mercy. Here it is tine emblem oi
hope"
The End
Evening star., 1941-08-03

tor in Europe, gave this vest-pocket
description of the Red Cross setup in
Ceneva's PaLoi, Electoral, for years
the site Of League of Nations assem-
blies:
This afternoon l visited the tenn
porary headquarters of the Interna-
tional Committee. Here there we're
scores of stenographers pounding out
replies to requests for information
about war prisoners. If a French
mother hears her son is missing, she
may write the International Commit
tee to inquire about him. If he has
been taken prisoner the Red Cross
will know, for lists of prisoners in each
country are filed here Immediately by
the Germans, British and French.
''Or if a British mother wants to
send box of foodstuffs to her son
who is a prisoner in Germany, this can
be sent through the International
Committee"
The Red Cross Central Agency for
Prisoners of War is patterned after
it's famous predecessor of World War
days, which obtained information con-
cerning hundreds of thousands of
missing men, both prisoners and civil
ians; furthered the exchange of the
severely wounded, of medical per-
sonnel and heads of families; and dis
patched delegates to visit prison
camps in more than a score of coun-
tries to improve the plight of prison.
ers.
Today in the PalGis Electoral an
army of some 5000 workers, most of
them volunteers, is writing another
chapter in the story of Red Cross
world service. Virtually all the sixty
three member Red Cross societies of
as many nations are part of the Inter-
national Red Cross web of communi-
cations to humanize war for combat
ants and noncombatants alike. In
coming mail is sometimes as high as
$4,000 letters daily.
The International Red Cross Cen
tral Agency has communicated with
Evening star., 1941-08-03

missing" recently showed the de-
partment under.
These replies are usually brief. They
are always poignant. Their terse
phrasing hints at fear of censorship,
and there is much to read between the
lines. Scovell and his forty-odd assis-
tants one day weeded out the follow
ing representative letters from a
batch of Clipper mail:
Leon was killed. The rest of the
family well. Home was burned. They
are living at Radomaka 5/7. Desire
children to be taken to family. We are
not in good circumstances without
husband Leon
II must send very sad news. s.
died suddenly. Burial day February
%. -"
"Ssnd Help. -"
Z ATIER is not living, my husband
is i'll, but the rest are well. Send US
help in the form of money order under
the name of Mother ="
I'VE are all we'll. Jakub has re-
turned. home destroyed, living with
relatives -"
Dear family. we are in straitened
circumstances. Pray for us, as we have
nothing to live for -.
1--WE are all healthy; are in very
great need. We have only that which
is on our bodies. You can help with
clothing -"
Mother, Ruchfa, Laja all living.
and well. Home burned. We have
enough food. Please write to broth
erS.
I'VE are all well, except that Mother
died the 26th of February, Father
died the 2lst of November, 1899.
Send love to all :" ..
These reports, received from the
International Red Cross Central
Agency. could be quoted ad infnitum.
The American Red Cross Inquiry and
Information Service has received
about $4,000 to date. This figure does
not paint complete picture since, in
Evening star., 1941-08-03
HOW TO FIND THEM
Uprooted. exiled, whole populations
Red Cross is locating refugees fast
by AlwYn w. Knight

refugees from France, Rumania, Es-
tonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Scandi-
navian countries, Poland, Austria,
Greece, Yugoslavia, Holland, Bel
gium, occupied France and Germany
itself
With civilians bearing the brunt of
hostilities at present, the communi-
cations end of International Red
Cross work is particularly significant.
What is the Red Cross society of our
own country doing in this field?
The Inquiry and Information Serv-
ice of the American Red Cross was
established early in September, 1899.
Already it has received more than
$4,000 inquiries from people through
out the United States and its insular
possessions, frantic for news of friends
and relatives in war-affected nations.
Most of the requests for communica-
tions aid come from the large central
and eastern cities having considerable
foreign-born populations.
Evening star., 1941-08-03

RT is SAID that bad news travels fast
But in time of war, when COM
munication lines are sabotaged
censored and carrying double loads
word of death itself comes slowly
Take the case of Jan Koslowsk;
Polish boy making good in the New
World. Jan hadn't heard from his
brother lcek. his sister-in-law Bron.
islawa and their child Stanislawa since
a scrlbble from Warsaw in July. He
grew desperate and went to the New
York Chapter of the American Red
Cross. Could they help?
Within a few days JAMS inquiry had
been routed through Red Cross ma
tional headquarters at Washington to
the international Red Cross in Gen
eva. But two months passed before
report came back - these few
cryptic words in Bronislawa's own
writing:
lcek badly wounded and in hos
pltal. II you can send US clothes, do
SO. as we have none. Same address.
Bronislawa."
Bad news, yes. but better than none.
so much better than drawing blank,
not knowing whether you would hear
anything ever. And the address -
that. at least, had not changed.
The address was somewhere in Pol
and. and it was possible for Jan to
reach Bronislawa because even war
ring nations respect the neutral efforts
OF the international Red Cross Com
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Disclosed by Scientific Reseoreh

These startling facts were recently
confirmed by scientific research. Emf
nent independent scientists made lab
oratory toothbrushing tests with num-
Der of dentifrices containing abrasives.
Every one cut cavities into the soft
part of the teeth.
In the same manner, these scientists
tested the new liquid dentifrice-Teel.
In no case did Tee injure the teeth in
Evening star., 1941-08-03

Expansion has
forced this serv-
ice to move from
the organizations
fve-story marble
Office building in
Washington to
the nearby elite
M etropolitan e n
Club building.
Robert ]. Scov-
ell, VINO repre-
sented the State
Department in
relief work for
German and Aus
trian civil prison
ers in Russia dur
ing the last war.
heads the fast
growing depart
ment.
A batch of
more than 600
letters, trans
shipped by the
International
Red Cross in re-
ply to American
Red Cross in
quiries about the
I e m pora arily
Evening star., 1941-08-03

X Recent clinical studies con.
Quoted by dentists under a
Research Foundation showed
that 8 out of 10 adults ex-
amined had the soft part of
one or more teeth exposed.
with no hard enamel or gum
to protectit Proctor K Gamble.
Evening star., 1941-08-03

mittee's Central
Agency for Pris-
oners of War.
This agency does
what it's name
implies. 1t also
acts as clearing
house for men
and women in all
parts of the world
who want desper-
ately to know
how relatives in
occupied terrific
ries and neutral
nationsharboring
refugees are far
ing.
The busy Offices
of the Central
Agency have re-
ceived nearly
three million let
ters of inquiry
since the harvest
moon Of destruc-
tion rose over
Europe's fortified
skyline two years
ago. Warren IT.
win, American
news cOnmenta-
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Millions Risk Injuring Their Teeth
Be Safe! Brush Your Teeth the Liquid Way

Liquid Dsnfikice Connos Inivre
Confoins AbsoIvfsIy No Abrosivss
Today millions of people are unknow-
ingly causing serious damage to their
teeth-by regular brushing with denti-
frices containing abrasives or securing
materials.
Gradually, as months go by, these
abrasives cut cavities into the soft part
of teeth along the gum line exposed by
shrinking gums, where there is no hard
enamel to protect them.
In fact, among people who brush their
teeth regularly, very large percentage
of all cavities along the gum line that
require filling are probably the result of
this injury. This was shown by clin-
ical study in a leading dental journal.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Sturf This Ssfe liqsid Wey Tsdg,

Naturally, you want to save
your teeth from this injury. If,
however, you feel that your
teeth need an abrasive scour-
ing, at least occasionally. we
suggest that you follow special
directions on the Teel package
Get Teel at any drug, de- 1
partment or l0c store. And
see your dentist regularly
for his professional advice. II
Evening star., 1941-08-03

any way, because Teel contains abb
solutely no abrasives of any kind.
Hsw TeeI Reveols seuvfy Of Ysvr Smile
Teel doesn't depend on abrasives for
cleansing. Instead, it uses newly-dis-
covered patented cleansing agent that's
almost magic-like in the way it helps
reveal the natural whiteness and beauty
of your teeth. 1t isn't soap, yet multi
plies into thousands of tiny, cleansing
bubbles in the mouth
These active bubbles amazingly help
remove the daily accumulation OF de-
caying food particles and dulling sur
face film. Thus your teeth look so much
whittier, more thrillingly beautiful. They
feel satin-smooth-your mouth glo-
riously refreshed
Evening star., 1941-03-04
National Veterans Council
Expects 10 Add 5 GROUPS

Five more national veterans
groups are expected within the next
few weeks to join the National
Council of Veterans Organizations,
which 10 groups formed here yes
terday.
Meeting at the Office of the Dis
abled American Veterans in the
Munsey Building, the council an
nounced plans to combat subversive
movements and cooperate with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Heading the new organization is
Thomas Walsh of New York, na-
tional commander of the Catholic
War Veterans. Millard w. Rice of
Washington, former national legis-
lative representative for the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars, who Satur-
day became the new national service
director for the Disabled American
Veterans, was chosen executive Sec
retary.
Organization of the national
council will be completed here
April 20.
Evening star., 1941-03-04
PiecemeaI Approach
To Road Problems
Hit by Kennedy
Ex-Representotive Urges
Defense Viewpoint,
Removed From Politics

State road-building programs
must be removed far from politics"
and viewed in new light as a vital
link in the national defense pro-
gram, Ambrose J. Kennedy, former
Maryland member of Congress who
helped authorize legislation giving
that State its primary bridge pro-
gram, declared here yesterday.
The former Representative, now
an insurance man in Baltimore,
sounded a call for elimination of
politics in road programs in an in
formal discussion of the proposed
"superhighway" between Washing
ton and the new Philadelphia high
way just beyond Baltimore.
He was the principal speaker at
luncheon meeting in the Washing
ton Hotel of the Highways and
Bridges Committee of the District
American Automobile Association,
which group Mr.. Kennedy requested
to consider Endorsement of the null
tiple-lane highway.
Calls for Full View.
Maryland no longer can approach
its road problems in a piecemeal
view," Mr.. Kennedy said. They
must be viewed in their entirety as
a part of our national defense pro-
gram"
Advocates of the highway, he said,
feel it can be built at a cost of $780,
100000, including a bridge crossing
of the Patapsco River. The two
would be financed by private capi-
tai and a toll charge, both for the
road and the bridge, would make it
self-liquidating in IS years After
that time, the project would be
turned over to the State, which
could make its own decision on con-
tinuing the toll policy, he said.
Few people realize they pay
hidden tax in starting and STOP
ping their automobiles through city
traffic" Mr.. Kennedy declared, in
pointing out the proposed highway
would eliminate passing through
Baltimore traffic which becomes
worse by the hour"
Cites Death Toll.
He also pointed out that traffic
deaths on the present Washington
Baltimore highway average 40 yearly
and that the new road embodied
the latest ideas in eliminating ac-
cioentS.
Representative D'Alesandro, jr.,'
OF Maryland, a guest of the COM
mittee, asserted he was opposed to
toll charges on public highways, but
that il it were the only way to
build the roads, he would waive his
objection.
Bennett Grain, an attorney repre-
Senting Baltimore engineering
| concern which has drawn up certain
plans of the proposed highway, ex-
planned that authorities considered
toll charge for the highway of be-
tween Is and 30 cents was equitable,
while about 20 cents was believed
to be the charge for the bridge
crossing.
P. Y. K. Howat, chairman of the
A. A. A. committee, presided and
introduced the speaker.