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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-18
CONFRONTED BY PROBLEM

Dressmakers and outfitters were
making small fortunes everywhere
in July and August, but suddenly
they were faced with one Of the
minor aspects of the British block
AIDE: No sewing yarn, no steel
needles.
At first there was some grum-
bling. but gradually the wise
women of France made the best of
ii and said:
"We'H manage somehow to
drape and pin things together
And | have seen them carefully
unravel old silk garments. store
away threads. hooks and eyes,
polish up old buttons, and do a
hundred and one things which only
a woman -the-mest dire need
would think Of doing
II is that same resourceful spirit
which helps the women Of France
TO meet the fuel shortage. lr
cities. the problem of cooking Is
partly solved by gas and electric
power. But in the countrysgthingS
are entirely different In the de-
partment of Haute-Garonne. fol
instance. the monthly coal allow
ance per household. for all pur'
poses, was so kilos month. ir
October and November, Fifty
kilos amount to about 40 pounds
with which one had TO provide
heating as well as means of cook
ing food.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-18
Armistiee Day
Fete in France
Despite Ban
-tContlnued from Page seven)

from Page Seven)
even greater luxury than to buy a
new one. and very soon there will
be precious few new garments for
sale. As far back as September
a leading tailor in Toulouse re-
fused to take my order for suit.
not because he had no cloth. but
because he had no yarn with which
TO sew il up.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
| Sleepy Walker
| Gets Slapped
| And It's q Riot

Don Donovan of Chicago, a walk
athon" contestant who has been
trudging, hopping. running and
dancing around Riverside Stadium
ever since April IA, became little
groggy last night and police riot
call resulted.
Scout Cars II, 72, 81, 80 and II
and motorcycle police from Precincts
/. 2, 8, 7, 8 and 13 rushed to the
scene with sirens open. An audience
of 4,5O0 was alarmed when the
police charged into the stadium as
q body.
-, Police found that an overnervous
member of the audience had turned
in the riot call after he had misin-
terpreted the actions of walkathon
Judge. The judge had slapped Mr..
Donovan around when he appeared
TO be getting sleepy during the
.Australian sprint" a 25-minute
elimination grind, officials explained.
The riot" was reported at 9:58
pm, and by 1918 the police radio
dispatcher announced that "the sit
uation is well in hand"
Evening star., 1941-06-14
(See STRIKES, Page A-8)
o. P. M. Offers Two-Yeur Plan
To Avert Shi Strikes

of employers nor suspension Of work
on the part of employees; no restric-
tions on production; grievance ma
chinery to be set up by local agree
ments and to provide for arbitra-
ton
The proposed standards were
drafted by a special Government
| a b or management subcommittee
appointed by Gerard Swope, chair
man of the Atlantic Coast Ship
building Sterilization Conference.
The proposal was sent to the ship
yards with letter signed by Secre-
tary of the Navy Knox, Chairman
Emory S. Land of the Maritime
Commission and william S. Knud-
sen and Sidney Hillman OF the o. P.
NJ, asking prompt consideration Of
the standards prior to their sub.
mission to the Atlantic Coast con-
ference for final ratification.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
| Youth Speeding
| To Inquest Is
| Arrested Aqoin

BY the Associated Pres.
CHICAGO, June 14-On June 6
Mrs. Ella Cleary, 70, died in the
county hospital and Raymond Mes
tlehut, jr., l6 driver of car which
struck her May 90, was charged with
reckless driving and failure to have
a State license, city license or safety
sticker.
Sergt. Ralph Riley yesterday
chased and halted a car after he
said he had clocked it while going
55 miles an hour and weaving
through heavy traffic. 1t was driven
by young Nestlehut, and the officer
quoted the youth:
You can't arrest me. I've got to
get to an inquest on time"
Sergt. Riley took Nestlehut to the
morgue in a police car. There wit
nesses testified he was driving at
high speed when he hit Mrs. Cleary
A coroner's jury held him for the
grand jury on a charge of man.
slaughter.
Police said Nestlehut's 1881 model
car still was without licenses and
sticker.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
British Coasts Targets
Of Nozi Oyerniqht Raids

BERLIN, June IA CPl.-The Brit
ish east and south coasts, including
the mouth of the Thames, were tar
gets of Nazi overnight air raids on
Britain, the high command reported
today.
The communique said airpnrts
centered in Eastern England also
were attacked and three British
planes were shot down in dogfights
over the North Sea and the English
Channel.
On the Mediterranean air front,
it said, Nazi flyers revisited Tobruk,
British-held, besieged Libyan port,
and Haifa. Palestine, with good
success"
Two British bombers were shot
down last night during raids by
small r. A. F. forces on Western
Germany and the northern coastal
area, the Germans reported.
Explosives and incendiary bombs
caused little property damage and
no important targets were hit, they
said, but some civilians were killed
or wounded.
A large British ocean steamer was
said to have been torpedoed and
sunk by a German submarine. No
details were given. Informed sources
said the scene of the sinking was
the South Atlantic.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
Ickes Calls Oil Industry
To Emergency Meeting
By the Associated Press.


Secretary of the Interior Ickes
asked the petroleum industry to-
day to send representatives of all
phases of its operations to meet
ing here next Thursday to discuss
plans for more effective utilization
of our petroleum resources in the
national emergency"
This was Mr.. Ickes' first major
move since President Roosevelt ap-
pointed him defense petroleum ad-
ministrator to head of, If possible,
a threatened oil shortage in the
East.
THE invitation to this meeting
is general in scope" Mr.. Ickes said
in a statement. TT is my hope that
all branches of the industry will
respond to the invitation in order
that there may be a full discus
sion of the problems confronting
both my Office and the industry"
Mr.. Ickes said it was physically
impossible to extend or telegraph
invitations to all who should at
tend, and therefore he had issued
the general call through the press.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
Berlin Terms Hull
Warning on Syria
Political Paradox
Bv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June 14.-Secretary
of State Hull's statement that
Syria's defense is evidence of
French-German collaboration
was described by a Berlin COM
mentator today as a political
paradox"
"It is hard to follow such
thinking" said this authorized
spokesman. Il can't conceive
how the French decision to re-
sist invasion should indicate
any French cooperation with
Germany"
German sources interpreted
recent Vichy utterances as an
indication that the French re-
main determined to defend
their mandate.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
Matsuoka Reaffirms
Japan S Axis Tie in
Message 10 Duoe
lndorses Statement Toxic
Would Not Be Indifferent
TO u. 5. Aggression

ROME, June IA reaffirmation
of Japans ties with the Axis has
been given Premier MuSSolini in a
personal message from japanese
Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsouka,
it was announced today.
Matsuoka's message was in praise
of Mussolinis speech in which II
Duce declared the japanese would
not remain indifferent in the face
of American aggression against the
Axis
The Japanese Foreign Minister
specifically Endorsed Mussolini's
view on Italian-Japanese relations
and added that Italy's solid COL
laboration with Germany, which
cannot be disturbed by any country
or man, will bring to a finish the
common mission which was the
original purpose of the German
Italian alliance and which after
ward was clearly specified further
by the tripartite pact"
Delivered in Toxic.
MatSuoka's message, delivered to
the Italian Ambassador at Toxic,
referred to Mussolini's speech June
10 before the Chamber of Fasces and
Guilds on the first anniversary of
Italy's entry into the war.
II share completely II Duce's view
point insofar as Italian-Japanese re-
lations are concerned and there can
be no greater honor for me than
to state that my thoughts have been
understood and strengthened during
my recent visit" Matsuokas state
ment said.
1T is superf1uous to add that the
whole japanese people, without any
doubt, share my feeling, especially
after they heard II Duce's voice on
the radio and read the text Of his
words published in the papers," it
continued
Renews Congratulations.
Mussolini's words, referring di-
rectly to the japanese Foreign Min
lister, were: The attitude of Japan
through what Foreign Minister Mat
suoka said at Rome and more re-
Gently at Toklo-is in perfect line
with the tripartite pact"
Matsuoka's message said he wished
to let Mussolini know his emotion"
over the speech and added
"On this occasion I wish to re-
new my heartfelt congratulations
for the splendid successes which the
italian armed forces have had on
all battlefields."
Evening star., 1941-06-14
Men Tossed in Air
As Ship Blows Up
In Philadelphia
Five Injured in Explosion
On Venezuelan Tanker
Blamed on Vopor
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, June IA
terrific explosion aboard the Venez-
uelian oil tanker Caroni today in
jured five crew members and caused
extensive damage to the 3,164-ton
ship.
The blast, which occurred in the
forward storage tank while the crew
was preparing to enter it to COM
plete cleaning operations. lifted the
entire bow of the ship out of the
water at the Gulf Refining Co.'S
Schuykill River pier The men were
tossed in the air and dropped back
on the deck several feet from deck
hatch where they had been working.
Detective Sergt. John Mccarthy
of the Philadelphia police reported
Capt. Santiago Rodriguez, flag cap
tain of the vessel, said the only
possible explanation" for the explo-
sion was an accumulation of vapor
touched of by light bulb which
was being lowered into the tank.
The crew members had waited un-
til live steam used in cleaning the
tank, one of three in the ship, had
been turned off, Sergt. Mccarthy
said, and then started lowering the
bulb on light cord into the tank.
1t is believed, the detective said,
that the bulb shattered against
side plate and its hot filament set of
the vapor.
Forty feet OF steel and wood deck
ing between the bow and galley was
torn and splintered. Several side
plates buckled and several were
ripped off. A heavy anchor chain
snapped and the anchor dropped
into the river.
The explosion was heard for miles
throughout South and Southwest
Philadelphia.
The vessel, registered out of Mar
acaibo, Venezuela, docked yesterday
and unloaded crude oil from the
Venezuelan island of Margarita.
Those injured were Luciano Mar
lano %: Jose Antonio Vulieri, At;
Ypolito Mundoria. Sc; Inger Rolen-
do, As. and Colo Antonio CAL
lardo, A.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
Irene FrunkIin Stricken;
Ex-Stuqe Stur Destitute
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ENGLEWOOD, N. j., June IA
Irene Franklin, once the toast of
three continents, lay near death
today in an Englewood hospital
ward.
She was taken there yesterday
after she had suffered a cerebral
hemorrhage at the Actors Fund
Home, where the one-time principal
of stage, screen and vaudeville made
her home with other destitute men,
bers of the craft.
Now 81, Miss Franklin started
her stage career as child actress,
toured Europe and Australia, starred
In New York musical shows and
closed her active life in Hollywood
in 1910.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
BY the Associated Press.

The Labor Division of the Off1ce
of Production Management SUBJ
mitted to IS Atlantic Coast ship
yards today a proposed two-year
agreement designed to stabilize en-
ployment and avert strikes.
The suggested agreement includ-
ed the following terms:
Uniform wage rates for construc-
ton and repair workers; basic
wage rate of SLIP for first-class
skilled mechanics, with percentage
changes for other employees; adjust
ment of wages after one year on the
basis of changes in the cost of liv-
ing index; overtime rates of time
and a half above a 40-hour stand
ard week, with double time for work
on Sundays and holidays; 7 per
cent premiums for the second and
third shifts: no lockouts on the part
Evening star., 1941-06-14
Nazi Prisoners in Canada
Receive Many U. 5. Gifts
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Fress-
SOMEWHERE IN ONTARIO,
June 14.--Germsn sympathizers and
organizations such as the German
American Bund in the United States
are sending many thousands of
dollars" and many packages for
German war prisoners to Canada.
Col. Hubert Stethem, internment
camps director, said last night.
Cash sent to a war prisoner is
placed to his credit, against which
he can charge canteen tickets, Col.
Stethem said. Only packages sent
through the International Red Cross
and the International Y. M. C.. A.
are accepted.
Military authorities in Canada
know what contacts each prisoner
has, Col. Stethem said, and we are
not taking any chances on his form
ing new ones One Of the stens
to prevent new contacts Is to delsts
the names Of senders from packages
sent individually to prisoners.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
Trash Collectors on Strike
| Aqain in Baltimore

by the AsSOClaleu HIeSs
BALTIMORE, June 14.-More
than 1000 men in the city trash and
garbage collection force failed to 60
to work this morning after reporting
at their garages.
William Boyd, president Of Local
825, Chauffeurs, Helpers and Garage
Employees Union of the A. F. l..
teamsters' organization, said the
strike was called to obtain recogni-
tion for the union and a wage raise.
Members of the Independent Bal
timore Street Cleaners Labor Social
Association also refused to take out
trucks more than 200 of which were
idle in their garages. Ten trucks
went out early today.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
Roosevelt Continues
Treatment Of Throat

President Roosevelt was remaining
in his bedroom study in the White
House proper today. continuing
treatment of a sore throat and a
slight temperature.
Press Relations Secretary Stephen
T. Early told reporters the Chief
Executives condition was about the
same as yesterday when he was
first found to be suffering from a
slight cold. His excess temperature,
Mr.. Early said, is about one-half
of degree.
The secretary said that Mr. Roose-
welt was doing some work by tele-
phone and some paper work but had
been ordered by his physician. DR..
Ross T. McIntire, to limit himself
strictly to necessary duties.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
British and Nazi
Fighters Battle
0verChanneI
; German Worships
Bombed at Brest,
London Declares
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June Ar. A. r.
fighters shot down two German
fighter planes in widespread Of
fensive operations over the English
Channel this morning, authoritative
sources said
Following up night assaults on
Brest and the Ruhr Valley, strong
forces" of fighters, accompanied by
bomber squadron attacked two
air fields at ST. Omer, where direct
hits were seen on buildings, the
announcement said.
Downing of the German fighters
raised to three the number of Ger
man planes claimed in morning op-
erations
Warships at Brest Bombed.
Last night, the Air Ministry said,
strong bomber forces straddled the
berths of the Scharnhorst and
Gneisenau, 26000-ton battleships,
and a Hipper class cruiser at Brest
and struck for the third night In
a row at the industrial Ruhr.
Heavy bombs" 1t said, were seen
to burst in the (Brest) dock area
and to straddle the berths Of all
three ships
British sources have expressed be-
lief the Hipper class cruiser at Brest
is the Prinz Eugen, consort OF the
battleship Bismarck, which was
sunk in the Atlantic May D..
The Admiralty announced that
British warships have sunk the sew
enth raiding companion of the Bis
marck.
In all. six auxiliary ships and one
armed trawler of the Nazi raiding
f1otilla have been sunk since the
Bismarck was cornered by British
Warships of Brest May 81 and sent
to the bottom three days after she
sank the British battlecruiser Hood.
Extensive Damage Claimed.
"a heavy attack" the Air Min
istrv said. was made on the in
dustrial district at Schwerte and
extensive damage was done
Coastal command aircraft were
declared to have attacked Axis ship
ping in the English Channel and
bombed a Brittany airdrome.
In another phase of the far-fiung
aerial war, it was authoritatively
announced in London that an Aus
tralian fighter squadron equipped
with United States built Tomahawk
planes. had shot down three Ger
man dive-bombers off the Syrian
| coast Yesterday.
Britain's home defenses, mean
while, were credited with shooting
down seven German raiders-a score
which observers regarded as re-
markable in view Of the govern
ment's assertion that the Nazi over
night raids were on small scale.
These sources recalled that last
fall when as many as 500 German
planes came over Britain in a single
night, the British reckoned they had
done well if they destroyed three or
four planes.
Night Safety Promised.
Only last evening Labor Minister
Ernest Bevin told an audience at
Leicester that the day is not far
| distant when you will be equally
safe at night in your beds as you
are in daytime"
The Air Ministry definitely cred-
tied three of the destroyed raiders
to night fighters, but did not say
how the others were brought down.
Increasing numbers of anti-air-
craft guns and barrage balloons also
are being used, along with other
devices the nature of which has been
kept secret.
London had its second raid alarm
of the week Until just before dawn
the occasional sound of planes and
some gunfire was heard.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 14.-The Ad-
miralty announced today that
British submarines in the Medi-
terranean had sunk seven
enemy" vessels and torpedoed
three others in far-reaching
recent forays which carried un-
dersea warships even into Ger
man and Italian controlled
harbors.
Further successful attacks have
been reported by our submarines
operating against the enemy's sea
communications in the Mediter-
ranean." said an Admiralty COM
munique. The attacks not only
have been carried out at sea, but
Evening star., 1941-06-14
2 Waves of Planes Drop
Explosives on Hoifo

HAIFA, Palestine, June IA R-
Unidentified aircraft dropped bombs
in two waves early this morning in
the third prolonged air raid this
week
Anti-aircraft guns fired for four
hours while residents, now familiar
with night raids, made beds in shell
tiers and spent the night there. There
were neither casualties nor damage.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
Deadly, Invisible
Anti Weapon
Claimed by British
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 1.-THE
British have developed a new
deadly and invisible" secret
weapon to combat tanks, Ex-
change Telegraph, British news
agency, reported today.
The weapon was described by
the agency as almost childish
ly simple to make" There was
no official comment on the re.
port.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
British Subs Raid Axis Horbors
Sink 7 Vessels and Torpedo 3
Admiralty Reports Recent For-Reoehins
Foroys Against Mediterranean Shipping

our submarines have sought out
the enemy and destroyed him in
his harbors."
The vessels sunk included an
Italian armed trawler and two
schooners it was escorting, loa6ed
supply ship of about 1000 tons tor
pedoed in harbor and two schoon-
ers and large cargo supply lighter
torpedoed in an Aegean harbor.
In addition a submarine tor
pedoed and almost certainly sank
a large tanker of about 5000 tons,
another submarine torpedoed the
Strombo, a 5,232-ton vessel which
was reported to have reached
Istanbul having been seriously dam
aged" and an italian armed mer-
chant cruiser lying in the harbor
of Bengasi was torpedoed."
Evening star., 1941-06-14
Schme|ing Promoted
And Gets Iron Cross
By the Associated Press.

BY LDe ASSOCldIco EISSe'
BERLIN, June 14.-Parachutist
Max Schmeling, the former world
heavyweight boxing champion, has
been promoted to sergeant and
awarded the Iron Cross of the Sec
ond Glass, it was learned today, for
bravery in the invasion of Crete,
where he was stricken with a slight
illness.
Schmehng received the news in
an Athens hospital, where he is re-
covering from a tropical ailment he
picked up soon after he dropped on
the Greek Mediterranean island.
He was expected to rejoin his unit
within a few days.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
Hungarian Ship Seizure
By Dutch Reported
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June IA British
broadcast, heard here by Columbia
Broadcasting System, said today the
Netherlands destroyer Kortenaer
had intercepted a 4,000-ton Hun
garian ship in Netherlands Indies
waters and had taken it to Sura-
baya for action by a prize court.
The broadcast quoted a Batavia
report as saying the pro-Nazi master
of the merchantmen was trying to
reach a neutral harbor with cargo
of British-owned flour.
Evening star., 1941-06-14

fighting" in Syria. Secretary of State
Hull declared last night that both
the French and American people
have a common interest OF tre-
mendous Importance to the future
in preventing France from assisting
Hitler in his effort to conquer Great
Britain and control the high seas.
The Secretary's statement. the
sharpest in a series OF warnings
to Vichy against becoming an in
strument of aggression" as Hitler's
ally, stirred new speculation as to
what action this Government may
take If France persists in what Mr..
Hull termed the scheme OF the
Darlan-Laval group
Possible Courses.
In the opinion of some authorities
the first and most immediate hkell-
hood was that the Vichy govern
ment might be refused further funds
from the approximately 81 500 ,000,-
900 in French assets frozen" in
this country.
Another possible course of action
is severance of relations with the
Vichy regime, paving the way for
recognition of the Free French
committee of Gen. Charles de
(See HULL-FRENCH, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1941-06-14
Gen. Dentz Is Promoted
For Defense of Syria

VICHY, Unoccupied France, June
IA (P.-Defense Minister Gen
Charles Huntziger announced yes
terday that Syrian High Commis-
sioner Henry Dentz has been pro-
NOTED to the rank of full general as
a reward for the ''masterful calm
with which he met British attacks
in Syria.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
Indo-Chinu CONSTRUCTING
Plane Base Near Saloon
BY the Associated Press.

SAIGON, French Indo-China,
June 14-French authorities an
nounced today that the Indo-C China
government is building an inter-
national seaplane base 8 miles below
Saigon "for the convenience of any
country's commercial air lines"
There have been reports that the
Japanese Dai Nippon air lines would
inaugurate a Tokio-Formosa- Sal
gon-Bangkok seaplane service late
in June with 4-engined, 20-passen-
ger planes and it was understood
the line would use the new base.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
By GARNETT d. HORNER.

A strong, new appeal to the French
people to renounce the "prepos-
ferrous status" of servants to Hitler
cleared the way today for possible
drastic action by the United States
to back up its warnings to France
against. complete collaboration with
Germany.
Charging that the Vichy govern
ment now was doing "Germany's
Evening star., 1941-06-14
Possible Courses.
Golf Murothoner Plays
27o Holes in 1869
BY the Associated Press.

I By the ASSOCIATED Press.
HANNIBAL, Mo, June 14.-That
golf madness is here again. Bob
Howell, %, started Thursday mid
night and ended his golf marathon
at $50 o'clock last night with 81
rounds on the Hannibal Country
Club course.
Howell used total of 1859 strokes
an average of approximately Al
for each round on the par-35 layout.
He lost eight pounds. Six caddies
worked in relays for him.
Evening star., 1941-06-14
Summary Of Todoy's Star

Sports.
Bargains loom with baseball trad
ing deadline tomorrow. Page ALA.
Cards sell, Dodgers buy, and both
thrive on deals. Page ALA.
Aroused Louis set to stalk Conn
in ring next week. Page Ais.
Brownell rated best of six from
D. C. for mid-Atlantic title. Page
Ais.