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The Nome nugget., 1941-05-16

UNDATED, May 16 (A0 - Ger man tanks and bombers escorted by French fighting planes were re ported moving across French mandat.d Syria toward the an- cient "Garden Of Eden,' kingdom of Iraq The British middle east headquarters announced that RAF warplanes attacked the Ger man aerial invaders yesterday in a seriz s of raids on Syria, includ- ing Damascus, Kayak and Palm yra, where some of the principal airports are situated.
 Nazi troop transports as well as giant bombers were said to have arrived at the French-ruled colony. Countering the Axis thrat, British endorsements were reported to have arrived beth at Iraq and Palestine.
 Dispatches from Beirut and Le-
The Nome nugget., 1941-05-16

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The Nome nugget., 1941-05-16
Pres. Points History U s. Protecting Its Commerce
Reminds Twice In History Navy Protects Shipping g

WASHINGTON, May Is (F) - Presid nt Roosevelt injected a discussion of the German declar ation that the Red Sea is a dan ger zone for foreign ships and pointed to T reminder that twice before in history, the United Stat
 s used Warships to protect Ter commerce. to obtain freedom of the sex s. IIe mentioned the 9c- ton of the new American repub- lie against the Barbary pirates in the Medit rranean a century age, a naval action, as well as against privas COTS in the Caribbean. The President, in citing the eases from history, said he was merely providing a lead for newsmen to follow up. Tn freedom of the seas, he said, was historic Am erican policy, but didn't indicate just what the United States might be prepared to do about the Red Sea --..Has.---H.ss-..
The Nome nugget., 1941-05-16
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 WalkOut Settled By Mediation Bd.

UNDATED, May Is (P) - A threatened strik- against the Gen eral Motors Corporation, holder of $75O,00O,00O defense contracts, was averted when the company accepted a National Mediation Board peace formula, a few hours b. fore the scheduled headline for a Walkout and the Mediation Board tentatively scratched an other labor dispute off the books.
 Word of the union acceptance of the terms will settle the strike at the EXczllo Corporation, De troit die and tool plant.
The Nome nugget., 1941-05-16
Pres. Roosevelt Appeals France Not Aid Germany

WASHINGTON, May Is (P) - President Roosevelt appealed to France tonight not 10 deliver her self to Germany, who is 'bent on the utter destruction of liberty
 At the same time the Coast Guard took dozen or more French merchant vessels in Am erican waters, into protective GUS tody. The vessels included the liner Normandie.
 These steps are Washington 5 swift reaction to dispatches in- dicating that Vichy is throwing her lot in with the Nazis, the British virtually accusing the French of acting as a German ally in p-rmitting Nazi planes to cross Syria to Iraq.
 President RooSeveltS state ment implied that France is about to enter a German alliance, involving the peace and safety of the west m hemisphere"
The Nome nugget., 1941-05-16
Int t'natnl Situation Too Serious For FDR Interpret

WASHINGTON, May l6 NP) - President Roosevelt said interna- tionaI conditions wsre too serious for him to interpret or comment further on the implications of his appeal last night to the French people, to turn down collabor- ation with Germany. He dismiss ed a barrage of press conference questions, seeking to draw him out, as too hypothetical. Among the queries he put in that cate gory, are these: Is there likely to be a change in the status of Martinique, the strategic French island in the eastern end of the Caribbean; and: Will Admiral Leahy, American ambassador to Vichy, be asked to come back to Washington to report?.
The Nome nugget., 1941-05-16
Axis Drive In North Africa Gets Setback

UNDATED, May Is (P) - On the north African war front, the German command acknowledged that British tanks stormed back to key frontier post of Salum, just insid Egypt the scene of fierce fighting for weeks. The Nazi communique also noted strong British forces advanced on Fort Capuzzo, across the border in Libya. This indicates a serious setback to the Axis drive toward the Susz Canal, which only a few days ago knifed 45 miles into Egypt.
The Nome nugget., 1941-05-16

ering from a messiah complex" and flew to the Scottish estate of Duke Hamilton, an old friend, in the hope of bringing about an end to the war.
 Informed British h quarters then accepted this version only to have it cast in doubt by high officials.
 Churchill was expected to make a statement on the case today but later it was reported he had decided to postpone it, ap- parently wanting more informa- ton from Hess before laying the affair before Parliament.
 A highly placed American source in London declared that Hess arrival coiStituted a threat to the defense of the British Is- les, as he might be the harbingsr of new smashing attacks by the Germans. Blaming the British with casting too rosy a glow on the incident, the American said it might Hull the people and soft en them for new blows by G-r- many.
The Nome nugget., 1941-05-16
LuftWaffe
 Assaults Greek of Crete

UNDATED, May IS (P) = vlo- lent two-day assault on the Is land of Crete, the seat of King Georg's s Greek government was reported. Hitler's command said the Nazi LuftWaffe effectively bombed military objectives on the islands of Malta and Crete by day and night destroying l5 British planes on the ground in the attack on two Crete airports and shooting down 8 others in fights over the island.
The Nome nugget., 1941-05-16
U. s. Reaches 0pen Break With French

UNDATED, May l6 (F) - Elk cept for diplomatic formalities informed quarters said that the United States had reached an op- en break with the French gov ernment.
 In London the British govern ment is reported to have warned France against further collabora. tion with Germany, especially ir view of developments in the mid de east.
The Nome nugget., 1941-05-16
Rescues Man Dangling From Plane in Air

SAN DIEGO, May Is (P) The daring flying of two Navy pilots effected the spectacular mid-air rescue of Lieutenant Walter Oss- poff while he dangled head-first for thirty minutes ov,r the ocean, from a parachute caught on a marine transport plane.
 The rescue was made by Lieut.. wv. Lowrey and J. R. McCants, aviation chief machinists mate, in dive bomber at an altitude of 1,500 feet. LoWrey's precision fly ing involved cutting the para chute shroud cords with his pro pelIor while operating with a leeway of about 20 feet.
The Nome nugget., 1941-05-16

Proof of Labor Blanks can now be had at the Nome Nugget office
Evening star., 1941-10-16
S6O,0OO Oil Judgment
Entered Against |ckes

Litigation over oil royalties in
Oklahoma, carried through courts
of that State and Federal tribunals
for 13 years, came to a virtual end
yesterday in District Court when
Justice Bolitha J. Laws entered a
$50, 900 decision against Secretary of
Interior Harold L. Ickes.
Mr.. Ickes was directed to pay the
100000 to H. E. Ledbetter of Ard
more, Okla, trustee for a group of
plaintiffs.
Representing the plaintiffs were
Attorneys Neil Burkinshaw, Daniel
B. Maher and Frank Goodwin, who
made the motion for summary
judgment against Mr.. Ickes, which
Justice Laws granted. The plain
tiffs contended that the Secretary
wrongfully withheld the royalties. A
group of Choctaw Indians originally
held the oil rights on lands con-
stituting the tribal property in Car
ter County, Okla. Later these rights
were assigned to a group of Okla
homans, represented by Mr.. Led
better as trustee.
Justice Laws permitted the Gov
ernment, if it sees fit, to file another
answer.
Evening star., 1941-10-16
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

In an atmosphere of mounting
tension over the course of United
States-Japanese relations, President
Roosevelt today summoned his lead
ing military and foreign affairs ad-
visers to an extraordinary White
House conference arranged for 2
pm. The President Cancelled his
scheduled cabinet meeting to make
possible this council of war"
Those asked to participate in the
meeting are Secretary of State Hull,
Secretary of War Stimson, Secretary
of Navy Knox, Gen. George Mar
shall, Army chief of staff Admiral
Harold Stark, chief Of naval opera
tions, and Harry Hopkins, special
assistant to the President and lend
lease generaliSSimo.
When the news of the change in
the Japanese cabinet reached Wash
ington, Secretary of State Hull ar
ranged with the President to talk
with him at the White House at
noon. Until late in the morning this
conversation was the only special
arrangement precipiated by the Jap
anese problem, but at 11::3O m. the
war council was announced.
Mr.. Hull spent the hour before
lunch with the President. un-
doubtedly reviewing the Far Eastern
situation and studying its impli-
cations for the United States and
all our policies relating to the whole
field of international affairs.
Although officials here remained
uniformly silent on the Far Eastern
Evening star., 1941-10-16
Diplomats to Move to Kuzun,
$50 Miles East of Moscow

eign CommiSsariat at whatever time
it secretly designated.
1t is hard journey from Moscow
to Kazan across boggy steppes swept
by icy winds.
For three months Kazan's munich
pal hospital and schools have been
jammed with wounded soldiers and
foreign sources further reported
that even in August the city's stores
were short of food.
Long lines of civilians waited
hours to buy bread and potatoes, it
was stated, and vodka was almost
the only article not rationed.
According to their descriptions,
streets were deep with mud and
hotels bedded as many as 10 guests
in one room.
Peasant conscripts drilled contin-
ually on the outskirts and the for
eigners reported that while their
uniforms were ragged their morale
seemed high.
There have been no reports of any
German airforce attacks on Kazan
but foreign sources said they be-
lieved aerial bombing would begin on
heavy scale If the government es-
tablished itself in Kazan, thus prob
ably forcing a second move, to the
eastern side Of the Urals.
Evening star., 1941-10-16
Military and Policy Advisers
Summoned to White House
President Known to Expect Resurgence
Of japanese BeIIeerency After Truce

I situation for the time being, it was
known that the President and his
advisers have been expecting for
some time resurgence Of Japanese
belligerency, especially in view of
the military distress of Russia.
The administration realizes that
the Seven-week period of breath
ing spell in tense -Japa-
neSe relations was ready to end
as soon as the Toxic government
found out that it could not bargain
for friendship with the United
States without an almost complete
reversal of Japans ASiatic policy.
The temporary era of good feel
ing was inaugurated by visit of
Ambassador Nomura of Japan to
President Roosevelt, to whom the
Ambassador brought a letter from
Prince Konoyo. the Prime Minis
ter of the japanese cabinet that fell
last night.
The two countries have been un-
able to find a sound basis for nego-
tiatlng an end to their differences.
But diplomats here consider the
short-lived era of good feeling a
triumph for the United States, be-
cause it immobilized Japan in SOUTH
eastern Asia at a time when the
japanese threat there was growing.
There is some disposition in Wash
ington to think that the new cabinet
may clear the way for Japanese ac-
ton in another quarter by informal
reputation of the Japanese-R Rus
sian non-aggression pact and prep
aration for an attack on Siberia.
But that is only a guess.
Evening star., 1941-10-16
Passage Tomorrow
OF Ship Arms Bill
Assured in House
Special Rule for Vote
Adopted os Big Majority
Is Predicted by Royburn
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

The House today adopted without
a record vote the special rule inSur-
ing passage by tomorrow of the bill
to arm American merchant ships.
Action came on the heels of a
prediction by Speaker Rayburn OF
majority for the bill of between
100 to $50 votes. Even Represent
ative Hamilton Fish, Republican, OF
New York, leading opponent of the
administrations foreign policy. ad-
mitted on the floor he will vote to
arm American ships to defend them
selves.
Mr.. Fish intimated, however, that
limiting the bill to the question oi
arming merchant ships may be part
and parcel of conspiracy to have
the measure broadened by amend
ment in the Senate to permit Ameri.
can vessels to carry lease-lend sup
plies into belligerent ports. If that
happens. he said, he will fight final
enactment of the bill when it comes
back to the House.
Expect Separate Bill.
Close observers of the situation,
however, do not believe this course
Is being contemplated by the sup
porters of the Presidents foreign
policy. They believe the question of
lifting the barrier against entering
belligerent ports will be presented
separately after the armed ship bill
has become law.
Under the rule just adopted, gen.
eral debate will continue through
out today and for one hour tomor-
row, after which voting on amend
ments will be in order.
Chairman Bloom of the Foreign
Affairs Committee told the House
that Representative Tinkham, Re-
publican, of Massachusetts,, who
signed minority report against the
pending bill, voted for an identlcaI
ship arming bill in 1917.
While running through the list
of well-known Democrats and Re
publicans who voted for the armed
ship bill in 1917, Mr.. Bloom said
Mr.. Tinkham was so anxious about
its passage at that time he voted
(See NETJTRAIITY. Page A-4)
Evening star., 1941-10-16
BY DANIEL DE LUCE,

TEHRAN, Iran, Oct. 16.-With
Moscow imperiled, authoritative
sources here said today the Soviet
Russian government and foreign
diplomatic missions were prepared
to move $50 miles eastward to the
squalid and overcrowded provincial
city of Kazan.
Since early June both the United
States and British Embassies have
had skeleton staffs in Kazan ready
to take over their functions when
Moscow was evacuated, they said.
Other foreign powers, it was
added, sent representatives to Kazan
with the understanding that it was
to be the temporary seat of the
Soviet regime when needed.
The latest information here from
Moscow indicated today that most
of the foreign diplomatic colony was
leaving in fear that another Ger
man break through would result in
the capital being completely en-
circled.
Each mission was said to have
named one or more diplomatic OFF,
GERS to travel with the Soviet For
Evening star., 1941-10-16
Pefain Decides 10 Intern
Ex-Leaders Indefinitely
BY the Associated Press.

VICHY, Unoccupied France, Oct.
16.-AuthoriZed sources said tonight
that Marshal Petain had decided on
indefinite irternment, until the Riom
Court begins their trial, of three
men held responsible for the French
defeat - former Premiers Edouard
Daladier and Leon Blum, and the
ousted generalissimo, Maurice Gus
tave Gamelin.
These sources issued the state
ment more than an hour before Pc
tain was scheduled to broadcast to
the nation what was described in
advance as an explanation Of his
decisions in the cases of several
men involved in the war guilt cases.
Daladier, Blum and Gamelin will
be held indefinitely in the Fort de
Portalet. near Pau, it was said.
Guy la Chambre, Daladier's Air
Minister, and Pierre Jacomet, former
administrator in national defense
industries, will remain at Chateau
de BourbaSsol, it was said.
Paul Reynaud, the last Premier of
the republic, successor to Daladier,
and Reynauds Minister of Interior.
Georges Mandel, will be held in an-
other fortress until they are in.
dicted, the authorized sources said.
Evening star., 1941-10-16
Toxic Cabinet Our; Tension High;
Roosevelt Calls Council Of War :;
MoscowLines Holding AfterBreak
Germans 81 Miles
From Red Capital,
Berlin Reports

By the Associated Press.
Moscow stood in extreme danger
today, with NaZi forces reported
within 81 miles of the city, but the
Russians indicated their battered
lines were holding west of the capi-
tai after yielding Tuesday night at
one undisclosed point before the
German attack.
Despite a deterioration" of de-
fenses west of Moscow, Russian dis
patches declared that the Red
Army's resistance had not been and
could not be broken. Germany, they
said, now is exerting her fullest Of
fensive power.
The official midday communique
announcing that the defenders
continued to fight the enemy along
the whole front" said that action
was particularly intense in the
western direction. the locale where
the deterioration" was reported for
the night of October 14-15.
This might indicate that the
breach had been closed in the last
"a hours.
Far to the south, the Rumanian
Army announced its forces had
broken the defense lines of Odessa
and the Black Sea port was in
flames. The Rumanians and Ger
mans have been before Odessa
since August 10.
The frank admission by the Rus
slams that their capital was in peril
was sharpened by an announcement
by the Japanese foreign office in
Toxic that the Russian foreign COM
missariat had advised the Japanese
Embassy staff in Moscow to pre-
pare to withdraw.
Nazis Report Gains.
Authoritative sources in British
and Russian-guarded Iran said the
Soviet g 'rnment and foreign Dip
lomatic mission had completed ar
rangements to move $50 miles east
of Moscow to the crowded provin-
cial city Of KaZan if Moscow could
not be saved. The Japanese EN-
bassy already had quit Moscow for
an undisclosed destination.
The Russians already have be-
gun moving women, children and old
men from the city.
The German high command pic
tured the entire Russian defense
line as reeling from the fury Of
two weeks of intensified assault
with dive bombers, tanks and
masses of infantry.
1t declared that Kalinin, 95 miles
northwest of Moscow, and Kaluga,
80 miles southwest of the capital,
were in German hands. These ap-
parently were the flanking forward
points of the semicircle Of steel
being closed on the hard-pressed
capital.
Battle Near Crisis.
The German statement that Nazi
troops were 81 miles from Moscow
referred apparently to the sector
west of the city, where fighting had
been reported along the old Napo-
(See MOSCOW, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1941-10-16
|ckes Fears Serious
Gasoline Refininu
BottIeneck
Hopes Plant Expansion
Will Prevent Wider
CurtoiIment of Use
BY the Associated Press.

by tne hsSOClaleQ fIebS.
Petroleum Co-ordinator Ickes said
today bottleneck Of potential Sc
robustness 'is appearing" in the Ma
tion's gasoline refining capacity.
If it develops as grsvely as it
might he said at press conference,
it would necessitate a quick increase
In refining curtailment or curtail-
ment of nom essential civilian motor
fuel consumption on a Nationwide
basis.
Mr.. 1ckes expressed the hope that
expansion of refining capacity could
obviate any necessity for widespread
rationing of gasoline.
Saying that the refining situation,
if the shortage becomes extensive,
would be the most serious phase yet
encountered in the relation of gaso-
line to the defense program, he
added that there had been recent
large increases in the demand for
all motor fuel.
Don't forget that our armies and
navies are calling for enormous
quantities of gasoline" he said.
Mr.. Ickes also told his press con-
ference there might be a definite
curtailment in high test gasoline
consumption in civilian uses, to
make the ingredients for high test
production available for increased
output of aviation gasoline.
Meanwhile, high priority rating
was announced on seven new plants
for production either of 10O-octane
aviation gasoline or of the base stock
and blending agents used in that
vital fuel.
Mr.. Ickes said "the action clears
the decks for final, rapid consider
alton of plans to triple" the Ma
tion's aviation gasoline refining ca
pacity.
Mr.. 1ckes said means of multiply
ing the fuel output for the Ameri-
can, Russian and British flying
forces would be discussed here Mon
day with chairmen of aviation gas
oline subcommittee representing
the refining branch of the oil in
dustry. He reported also that con-
ferences were being held with the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. on
methods of financing more new
plants and methods of providing
term contracts for output.
Today's announcement of the
priorities action, by the Office of
Production Management, brought to
Is the number of aviation gasoline
plants now building or which may
be commenced, and the co-ordinator
said a backlog of project applica-
tions which had accumulated in re-
cent weeks was practically elimi-
mated.
The Nations 1OO-octane refining
capacity now is about 10000 barrels
daily, and Mr.. Ickes proposes to
make 1t 10000 barrels.
Evening star., 1941-10-16
Abramowitz Tells
Catoe Jury How He
Found Wife, Body
Bride Slain Month After
Wedding on Day Couple
Planned Celebration

Barney N. Abramowitz took the
witness stand in District Court to-
day at the murder trial of Jarvis r.
Catoe and told of the tragedy which
brought his marriage to an end last
March 8.
Mr.. Abramowitz. seated almost
directly face to face with tSle COL
ored man who is on trial for Grim
inally attacking and Staying Mrs
Rose Abramowitz. told the jury of IL
men and one woman how he had
come home from work on a snowy
Saturday afternoon to find his bride
dead.
Mr.. Abramowitz, under questioning
by United States Attorney Edward
M. Curran, revealed that he and his
bride had been planning a party
with friends on the night of March 8.
Had Been Married Month.
This day was exactly one month
after We had been married" he
said. I'VE had planned to go out
that night with some friends. They
had planned to come over to our
apartment"
At this point defense counsel OBJ
jected and Mr.. Abramowitz' testi-
mony on the proposed party was
cut off. He told the jury that the
floors in the small apartment at
1901 Sixteenth street NV. were in
bad condition and that his wife had
been trying to hire some one to
polish them.
According to police, it was this
chance circumstance which led to
Mrs. Abramowitzs death. In Catoe's
alleged confession, which Mr.. Cur
ran announced he would present to
the jury, the defendant said he was
called into the apartment by his
victim to fix the floors.
Death Penalty Demanded.
Catoe listened closely, but with
out show of emotion, earlier today
as the prosecutor detailed the cir
cumstances of the murder and GRIM
lnal attack on Mrs. Abramowitz, and
thundered demand that Catoe be
sent to the electric chair.
Mr.. Curran, in his opening state
ment to the jury, chosen after a long
court session yesterday, declared that
the Government will show that
Rose Abramowitz was ravished and
murdered by this defendant" and
Evening star., 1941-10-16
$500 Given Wage Increases
At NovyYord and 7 TorpedoPIont
Raises, Made Effective Monday, to Bring
Rates Into Line With Poy in Private Firms

Pay raises for about 1880 civilian
workers in the Washington Navy
Yard and the torpedo station at
Alexandria, Va, have been auth
orized by the Navy Department, ii
was learned today.
Many of the increases amount to
more than 10 cents an hour, and at
least two are 19 cents.
The increases were made effective
as of last Monday, and have been
designed, the Navy Department an
nounced last night, to bring the
navy yard rates from Maine to
Georgia into line with rates paid in
commercial yards.