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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-20
President Leads
Morale Drive
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all others need expect 10 serve
only from u 70 Is months in all
This army plan Of progressive
rehabilitation came only "a hours
after Mr.. Roosevelt signed the bill
extending from II months 10 80
the time men can be kept in camp.
Only by the critical margin Of 203
10 202 had administration leaders
forced the 30-month service act
through the House.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-20

The Tiger moundsman
and his wife registering for
the convention of the
American Pharmaceutical
Society at the Hotel Stat
Ter. Johnny is the proprie-
tor of a small drug store at
Beckley, w. Va, which he
operates in the Winter.
Evening star., 1941-12-25

Sugar is still Fiji's main industry
and 10000 acres are devoted to it.
Evening star., 1941-12-25
St. Pierre
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-
World outposts having total area
of only SO square miles and a total
population of about 5000.
They are under command OF
Admiral Georges Robert, French pro-
consul for Western Hemisphere
colonies, who. with headquarters on
the Caribbean island of Martinique,
on December 18 was disclosed to
have reached an agreement with the
United States providing that all
French colonies in the Western
Hemisphere would maintain their
neutral status.
The status of st. Pierre and
Miquelon has been a subject of dis
cussion ever since Canada went to
war, lying as they do definitely
within Canadian defense waters
Canada unofhcially has taken the
position that the islands have little
military value. An Ottawa spokes-
man said last May Is that regard
less of what happens in France, the
islands lie within Canadas defense
area and that it was difficult to see
how they could be of any practical
use to the enemy, regardless of who
had nominal control Of them.
The islands are mostly barren
rock and are unsuited to agriculture
The chief industry is cod fishing.
Last August 26 Canada decided to
open a consulate at st. Pierre, CAPT.
tai of the group, so as "to keep more
closely in touch with developments
In the islands"
Evening star., 1941-12-25

Despite the limitations put on
Christmas giving this year, despite
the curtailment of The Star-N. B. c.
Warner Bros. Christmas campaign
by the war emergency, the people Of
Washington brought Christmas to-
day to thousands of needy children.
The funds sent to The Star and
distributed through the Christmas
Committee of the Council of Social
Agencies meant Christmas dinner
and toys for approximately 1000
children.
The Christmas Committee, which
sped checks by special delivery until
late yesterday, announced that all
the neediest families known to well
fare agencies received Christmas
money.
Through The Star-N. B. C.-Warner
Bros. "toy matinees," held at IL War
ner Bros. theaters last Saturday,
and through the collections of toys,
canned goods and clothing in Gov
ernment departments, approximately
10000 other youngsters received
Christmas gifts.
Mothers Take Toys Home.
The toys were distributed from
schools and settlement houses, with
the mothers picking up the toys
and taking them home to their
youngsters, just as if they had
bought them themselves.
The arrangements made for the
distribution of both checks and toys
made it possible for mothers and
fathers really to play Santa Claus
to their sons and daughters.
Not only through their toy COL
lections but through gifts of cash.
the Government departments played
major role in assuring Christmas
for the neediest children. The Com
merce, Navy and Treasury Depart
ments each contributed gifts that
ran well into hundreds of dollars.
Other Government departments
came near to matching them.
The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton, for instance, added another
gift yesterday to the substantial one
1t had already made. Attached to a
Christmas card from J. Edgar
Hoover, F. B. I. chief, was $50. Many
Of the employees, particularly those
In agencies under the Office of
Evening star., 1941-12-25
War Department Ordnance 500
Previously acknowledged - 3,319.38
Total | $3,s21 SO
Hong Kong
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hold out indefinitely without sup
port
The sinking of the British bat
tleship Prince Of Wales and the bat
tie cruiser Repulse of Malaga. which
cost Britain her heaviest naval units
known to be in Far East waters,
prevented any naval stroke to save
the colony.
Chinese Try Two Sorties.
The Chinese Armies of Generals
simo Chang Kai-shek attempted
two sorties toward Canton, striking
at the rear of the japanese lines
and forcing diversion of some troops.
but a Chinese spokesman said these
attacks were not in the strength Of
a general offensive and probably
could not save the British colony
In the first week of fighting the
British were forced to withdraw
under artillery fire, aerial lombard
ment and tank attack, from their
foothold on the mainland.
The Japanese claimed the capture
OF Kowloon, big mainland COM
munity of the colony across Victoria
Harbor from Hong Kong Island,
December IA.
At once the fight for the island
began, with japanese landings made
across the narrow water barrier
Evening star., 1941-12-25
Walker Seeks Free Mail
For Soldiers Outside u. :.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
If Postmaster General Walker has
his way members of the armed forces
on duty outside of the continental
United States will be able 70 mail
letters free of postage.
He recommended yesterday that
Congress place such soldier letters
on the free list. At the same Time
he announced that the Post Office
Department would place in effect
Immediately reduced rates on air
mail and parcel post to and from
service men in United States out
posts.
The domestic rate of 6 cents a
half ounce for airmail will apply
to matter carried to and from men,
bers of the armed forces outside
the continental United States, and
for fourth-class postal and parcel
post matter sent by air the Post
Office will charge the domestic
fourth-class rates between the post
Office of mailing and the office where
airplanes unload the mail.
Evening star., 1941-12-25

under cover Of heavy bombardment.
London newspapers summed up
the situation at once as critical and
prepared the British public for
eventual word that the colony
Britain had held for a century had
been lost.
They said the islands strongest
defenses and biggest guns were fixed
to beat of attack by sea and had
not been intended to Withstand
heavy assault from the mainland.
British, Canadian and Indian de-
| fense troops-their number estimat-
ed by the Japanese at more than
20,000-were pushed back slowly to
strongholds on heights rising 1,70O
feet. back from the beaches.
Stubborness Praised.
japanese broadCasts praised the
stubbornness of the British gaIrl-
sons defense, and the defenders, who
twice rejected ultimatums to SUI
render. claimed a heavy toll of the
attacking forces.
Crippled communications made
their contact with the outside world
slow and interrupted. The last wuid
from them came In communiques
dated Tuesday and Wednesday.
The first said fighting was contln-
uing with undiminished fury, with
the enemy attacking continuously
and making a slight penetration into
the Mount Cameron area.
The second said the Japanese HAD
made no further important advances
and that the lines at Mount Cam
eron were being maintained.
Britain took over Hong Kong Is
land in the Opium War from 1889
1842 and the mainland district was
ceded later by China.
Hong Kong Island, slightly larger
than New York CITY, had nornial
Evening star., 1941-12-25
Stick 10 Posts,' GoebbeIs
Appeals 10 Nazis Abroad

BY the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, Dec. 25.-
Paul Joseph Goebbels, Germany S
Minister of Propaganda. appealed
openly last night to Germans in
countries abroad to remain at your
posts!"
- You pioneers" he said
serve our fatherland."
Acknowledging that they would
have to see their films in secret and
to gather in secret, he assured his
invisible column of listeners that
time will not witness a German
breakdown" as in 1918.
But, he admitted, the German
task at home is not easy either be-
cause OF the air raids in many
areas.
Goebbels' radio speech was ad-
dressed not only to the Germans
abroad but to all soldiers and to the
home front.
Stressing that the restrictions in
the third Christmas of war were
much more severe in Germany than
ever before, he said the task re-
quires every ones efforts, not only
the soldiers"
Evening star., 1941-12-25
Thousands of Christmas Gifts
Distributed Among Needy Here
1000 Children Get Dinners and Toys
From Funds Sent to The Stur

Emergency Management, were par
ticipating in their first Washington
Christmas campaign and they, too,
responded generously.
Matching the gifts from Govern
ment departments, were those of
private citizens, clubs of all kinds,
sports promoters and employees of
number of business firms. The
war wrought many changes in WASH
ington, but it could not affect the
Christmas spirit.
Contributions Acknowledged.
The following contributions are
acknowledged today:
National Capital Kennel
Evening star., 1941-12-25
Peace Further Off
Than Ever, Petain
Says in Broadcast
Extension Of Fighting
DepIored in Christmas
Message to Prisoners
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VICHY, Unoccupied France. Dec
25.-Marshal Petain told the French
in tones of deep melancholy last
night that "the night grows darker
over the world-peace is further of
than ever"
In a Christmas eve message ad-
dressed primarily to Frances priS-
oners or war in Germany, the old
chief of state deplored the exteh-
sion Of 1ghting 10 new continents
and "the everyday bereaving of
thousands of families"
He said his hopes of reuni,lng
most of the French prisoners with
their families by this Christmas had
been dashed, but he assured the
soldiers he was working for tneir
liberation "by showing our van
quishers of yesterday how much YOU
The broadcast appeared to prJ.e
that rumors of Marshal Petair's
resignation, under German pressure
for fulfillment of his December
agreement with Marshal Hermann
Goering, were at least premature.
In London, Foreign Office
spokesman charged yesterday that
the Nazis were pushing these rumors
and others of an impending German
invasion of Spain and perhaps
French North Africa as a war of
nerves" ruse.
The rumors of Marshal PetaiI.'s
resignation had been circulated by
the British news agency. Reuter-;
the reports of a German troop move
ment to the Spanish border came
from Switzerland. The latter per-
sisted yesterday, the Gazeta de
Lausanne hearing one unconf1rmed
report that the Germans had crossed
the SnaniSh border
Evening star., 1941-12-25
japanese Offensive
In China Reported
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Dec. 25 Official Broad
casD.-A dispatch from Hankow
said today a large-scale japanese
offensive was started last night in
Kiangsin and Human Provinces.
Field dispatches show that de-
fenses of the Chinese Sd, 18th and
1880 Divisions, near the Kiangsin
capital, Nanchang, already are
crumbling before the rapid Japanese
advance"
Evening star., 1941-12-25
Boys Club Bond Makes
Concert Tour of City

The Metropolitan Police Boys
Club Band started early today on a
tour of homes for the aged, hos
pitals and orphanages, at each of
which they gave a Christmas con-
cert. Before dawn, they had break
fast with j. Willard Marriott, a
member of the club board. and on
completion of the tour they will be
the guests at luncheon of Harry P.
Somerville, manager of the Willard
Hotel.
Evening star., 1941-12-25
Spain Declared in Grip
OF Typhus Epidemic

NEW YORK, Dec. 25 LP.-A Brit
ish radio commentator said in q
broadcast heard here last night by
c. B. S. that there is reason to be-
lieve that Spain is in the grip OF a
typhus epidemic" and that it was
therefore unlikely that Adolf Hitler
was planning a drive through that
country now.
There are too many German SOL
diers down with typhus in Russia
for Hitler to risk sending more
troops into fresh danger Of that
kind" the announcer observed.
Evening star., 1941-12-25
Mail Speeded to ireland

The new airmail service between
Northern Ireland and Britain en-
ables Londoners to mail a letter at
night and have it delivered. duly
censored, In Belfast the following
evening.
Evening star., 1941-12-25

population Of 1,o0O,00 persons-ap-
proximately 10000 Of them European
and American residents.
Evening star., 1941-05-04
The Travellers Notebook
Americans Can Stock Up With Documents,
If They Want to, for Crossing u. S.-Conodion
Border, but Ordinary Cards Often Serve

And Canada confidently looks for
ward to welcoming the greatest num-
ber of Americans in its history.
First, 1t should be realized that
no hard and fast rule can be applied
to every individual seeking entry
into Canada, or returning to the
United States. Consequently, neith-
er the United States nor the Do
minion has acknowledged that any
particular document, paper or card
entities one to cross the border
Certain identification aids have been
suggested informally. but even a
birth certificate, broadly interpreted
as an open sesame" both ways, will
not gain Canadian entrance, for in
stance, 70 ra saboteur, real, or sus-
pected Nor will United States I'M
migration Service officers permit the
bearer Of a birth certificate they
have reason to believe Is fraudulent
to return without challenge. Each
case is judged individually.
The only specific requirement of
officers on both sides of the border
is that the person who presents
himself be what he processes to be
an American citizen travelling on
business or in search of a holiday,
or returning from one, with no sin
lister motive. Just how can he prove
it? Proof" is hardly the word; sat
isfactory assurance is better, for
the officers have a wide range of
discretion in belief or doubt.
No passports are required of
Americans going into Canada, but
an old one Is valuable in smoothing
the crossing. both ways. Birth GER
tificates rank high as convincing
documents, but are not essential;
in fact, obtaining one smacks too
much of red tape and trouble to
appeal to the average American.
A letter received from a public Off
cial in ones home city has been
suggested informally as means
of speeding identification. But
cards the ordinary American carries
in his billfold-a drivers permit, a
credit identification card or such
can put the citizen across, provided
Evening star., 1941-05-04
Millions Of Tulips
To Inspire Festival
Al Holland, Mich.
Town to Go Dutch
For Week Beginning
On Moy II

HOLLAND, Mich, May 3.-Mil-
lions of tulips starting to bloom are
gradually Transforming this little
city of $4,000 into a Dutch flower
bed of three centuries ago. The
local horticulturistS state that the
blooms will reach their peak dur
ing the 18th annual tulip festival
when the town goes completely
Dutch for an eight day period, May
II to "a.
On the opening day, a Saturday,
5000 men, women and children in
the colorful, billowlng trousers and
skirts of their forefathers will scrub
a mile of the city's streets, then en-
gage in clickety-clak wooden-shoe
dancing and finally behind the blare
of dozens of bands will march
through the city. And the festival
of flowers and folklore is on.
For lovers of gardens, there are
tulips lining eight miles of the
streets, in the city park and in
groupings of hundreds of thousands
in the tulip farms and private plant
ings-3000,000 of all varieties and
colors blooming at one time.
Six hundred costumed and wood
en-shoed dancers will give an open
air exhibition each day except Sun
day; tulip tales pageant will be given
on the opening evening and on Mon
day and wednesday evenings follow
ing; on Wednesday afternoon
school parade of l. 500 coStumed chill
dren will feature the days activities;
on Friday evening, May %, a musical
festival with Michigan States 100
piece band and floodlighted maneu-
vers by 500 selected bandsmen will
highlight this day; while on Satur-
day afternoon, May "a, a three
hour band review in which 1900 uni
formed participants will take part
will be followed by parade of these
bands and Dutch costumed units.
Several exhibits and museums
featuring early Holland history will
be other attractions for the visitors
In order to provide rooms and food
for the hundreds of thousands of
visitors, the S. S. North American
and the S. S. Alabama Of the
Georgian Bay Line, which are
docked at Holland during the win
ter, will be opened during this
period as floating" hotels.
Evening star., 1941-05-04
Park Rangers Educate
Visitors on Wild Life

DENVER, May 3.-If you would
like to meet a red-naped sapsucker,
a camp robber or a whistling mar
mot, United States rangers will be
gland to introduce you, if you go to
Rocky Mountain Nation Park in
Colorado this summer.
In addition to patrolling the park
to protect it wild life against hunt
ers and trappers, its trees and flow
ers against fires and infestation,
and its human visitors against mis-
haps. park rangers find time to ac-
quaint vacationistS with innumer-
able things that often escape the
unframed eye.
On trail trips off the beaten
tracks. ranger-naturalists lead Wis
itors to the habitatS of various
forms of park wild life, point out the
difference in appearance and habits
of the chipmunk, ground squirrel
and chickaree, how to distinguish
Evening star., 1941-05-04
Latest Planes on Route

MIAMI, Fla, May 3.-IWo latest
type airliners have been assigned
to inter- American transport service
by Pan American Airways between
Miami and Merida, Mexico, via Ha-
vana. Service over the route has
been increased from once to three
times a week
Twin-motored. 21-passenger Doug
las DC3A planes, first of that type
in trans-Carrlbbean service, are re-
placing baby clipper" on the 717-
mile Miami Havana Merida route.
Evening star., 1941-05-04

the traveller looks American, speaks
1t and acts it.
The more a traveller looks, talks
or acts non-American, the stronger
should be his identifcations as a
citizen Of the United States. The
one-tirne alien should by all means
carry his naturalization papers. Pos
sibly he could get into Canada with
out them, but he would have a more
difficult time re-entering the United
States.
Premier Mitchell F.. Hepburn re-
Gently issued an invitation to Amer
leans to visit Ontario, and in it ex-
pressed his willingness to rest his
case of an enjoyable holiday on the
travellers who visited the province
in the wartime Canada of 1910.
Mr.. Hepburn says: THE war has
made no difference to American
travel in Ontario. Entry to and
exit from 9 . is as free as in peace
time. No passports are required of
United States citizens. The simplest
form OF Identification Suffices for
border crossing purposes. For proof
of this-if proof be thought neces-
sary-one need but consult any of
the thousands upon thousands Of
delighted travellers who were our
guests in 1910.
Let none of the scare rumors'
of which you may have heard last
season interfere with plans for
further holidaying.
ITO Ontario, with its 100000
square miles of lakes, woods
streams, scenic Fairgrounds and
busy cities, its wonderful fishing
and hunting, its complete freedom
from bridge tolls. amusement taxes,
meals taxes and local sales taxes
and its primary desire to be good
host to friendly, understanding
neighbors, we cordially invite you
again this year. A far larger and
Evening star., 1941-05-04
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, Jr.,

Travel Editor.
Those Americans who long had
looked upon Canada as favorite
vacation land, and others who had
planned some day to tour its prov
inces. brimming with eye-and-at-
mosphere appeal, had In reality last
year a perfect setting for happy
vacation. But not all of them knew
it. When the first summer Of
Europes travel blackout rolled
around, there was confusion as to
the possibilities of enjoying a va
cation in a foreign land at war.
There were rumors Of blackouts in
The picturesque cities and towns, Of
food rationing, of secret police giving
undue surveillance to innocent
travellers; even talk, which gained
wide circulation, that the prospec-
tive visitor had to be armed with
brief case full OF formal documents
of identity to gain entry after having
travelled northward to the border.
Topping it all was the apprehension
that, once having enjoyed Domin-
lOIl llOllQdyy <11llCI lCd14S WoOio ilAlo
the door of re-entry into the United
States locked.
One by one the rumors were dis
PEELED. There was plenty of food,
blackouts were a myth, travel un-
restricted except in the vicinity Of
military zones; entry and Te-entry
could be gained on informal papers
and cards, for nothing specific was
required either by Canadian or
American guardians OF the border.
But assurances seeped in slowly,
and the summer was almost gone
before majority of travel-hungry
Americans learned that there was
practically no difference between
Canada at war and at peace for a
holiday.
With the peak season of Canadian
travel approaching. it might be well
to review the conditions of entry and
re-entry, for the requirements are
the same as last summer; they have
neither been tightened nor loosened
Evening star., 1941-05-04

between a Colorado blue spruce. a
lodge-pole pine and a Ponderosa
pine. They know the haunts of the
famed Rocky Mountain bighorn
sheep. the elk, the deer and the busy
beaver. Likewise, they can explain
how nature, in ages past. formed the
sky-piercing peaks and the precipi-
tous canyons.
Evening star., 1941-05-04
Stor Apple Is Tosty

One Of 5he favorite fruits in West
Indian Jamaica is the star apple,
so called because when cut across
it shows a star-shaped design. The
fruit is actually dpple-shaped, with
smooth skin, and should be eaten
only when very ripe. The pulp of
the star apple is sweet, much like a
green grape in flavor.
Evening star., 1941-05-04

more satisfying return on your
American dollar than any mere
premium-substantial as that pre-
MUM may be-awaits you here
Come and see for yourself what
Ontario has to offer in vacation
pleasure. I know you will not be
disappointed.
Evening star., 1941-05-04
At Home Abroad

A young couple from lhe island
of Jamaica, British West Indies,
recently arrived in New York City
and were married. The newspaper
account Of the ceremony closed with
the words. After the reception the
couple left for Jamaica, Long
Island"
Evening star., 1941-05-04
Beech Club to Open

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va, May g.
The Cavalier Beach Club will have
its informal opening for the sum-
mer season. on Saturday, May IT,
while a fiesta will mark the formal
opening during Decoration Day
week end.
La gaceta., 1941-10-15
La mayoria del pueblo espahol
Despeciados los itaIianos; odiados los aleman
Sc opone a los nazls

revuelta contra ell "caudillo",
Serrano Suher y la Falange, los
nazis cruzaran la frontera. FL
tenor de los alemanes, que ha-
ce seis meses existia, ha desa-
parecido y no Sc cree va en- la
victoria de los totalitarios.
La p6rdida de prestigio de
los nazis, EN- la campaha de Ru-
STA, ha obligado a Franco, ape
sar de sus simpatias, a evitar
que Al5~ania use a Espaha CO.
punto de apoyo en- contra de
Gibraltar.
Sabese que unicamente los
miembros del gobierno conocen
la extension del pillaje aleman
en- Espaha. Ell presente estado
de miseria y hambre Sc debe a
las requisas de los nazis, mansa
mente consentidas DOR ell 60
bierno de Franco.
La gaceta., 1941-10-15

del "vicio organizado." Tn
juicio pGblico Sc %efectuara.
Fu6 aprobada la venta de
26 solares a personas cuyos
nombres fueron leidos.
Una petici6n ue la COmisi6n
Zonificadora en- pro de canoe
lar las contribuciones del eai-
ficio de la fabrica de tabacos
Marcelino Perez, de modo que
pueda convertirse en- una es-
cuela de artes Y oficios, pas6
a los cOmites de GALES y rela-
clones pGblicas. Sc aprob6 uL
cr6dito de $500 pra ell Carna-
val Latino. Fueron rebajadaS
las valuaciones personales de
c. c. Suarez y Fonte Dry
Cleaners and Dyers.
Sc otorgaron peSmisos para
vender who's y cerveza a Char
les A. Sulli, L. NJ. Monies y
Watts Sanderson.