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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Ex-Kaiser Slightly Better;
Family al His Bedside
BY the Associated Press.
BY the Associated Press.

oy Tie hSSOCldtcu FIcoSs
BERLIN, May 3O.-Slight improve
ment in the condition of former
Kaiser Wilhelm II was reported to-
day as members of the family has.
tened to the bedside of the 82-year-
old World War Emperor who is in
exile at Doom, Holland.
A telephone call from Doom to
the Hohenzollern estate here said
Wilhelm appeared slightly stronger,
but that his condition was still
serious.
He was stricken several weeks ago
with an obscure intestinal disorder,
and artificial feeding has been re-
sorted to while physicians sought to
diagnose the exact nature of the
complaint.
The ex-Kaiser's sons, Oscar and
August Wilhelm, have arrived at
Doom, as we'll as his only daughter,
Victoria Louise, and grandson.
Prince Louis Ferdinand. Crown
Prince Frederick Wilhelm is sched-
uled to leave here tomorrow morning
to join the group.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30

pected docking on Tuesday at Mar
Unique.
Suddenly, they said, at 2:30 am,
a shot came across the Winnipeg's
bow.
Soon thereafter. they reported,
scores of Germans rushed to the
portfolios and threw out letters and
other papers.
Throughout the next day, en- route
to Trinidad, papers continued to be
thrown out until a trail of letters
bobbed in the vessels wake. Even
typewriters went overheard, Mrs.
Peissel sadie
While the Germans were informed
pending investigation, officials said
all with genuine American visas
would be allowed to continue to the
United States.
Among the passengers still aboard
was a French girl reported to be a
granddaughter of Sarah Bernhard.
Among those released was Capt.
Antonio Olivia, Mexican military
attache at Vichy.
Officials were silent on what would
be done about the Winnipeg herself.
The seizure of the French ship
was reported Tuesday in Washing
ton and French Ambassador CASTOR
Henry-Haye called at the State De-
partment for information.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Rainfall and Breezes
Continue 10 Give D. T..
Relief From Heat
Boy browns in Storm;
Drought Is Reduced,
But Not Enough

Cool breezes and occasional driz-
tons relief from the heat today. The
Weather Bureau promised comfort
able temperatures for the week end.
Mostly cloudy, with high of 70 de-
grees today and low of about 60
degrees tonight, was the prediction.
A colored boy, playing on the
Georgetown waterfront, was drowned
yesterday afternoon as strong winds
bore brief rainstorm into the Capt.
tai. The mercury fell 20 degrees in
an hour, and 81 of an inch of rain
was registered up to 7:30 pm. In
termittent precipitation through the
night pushed the figure to "a Of an
inch by 7:30 am.
At 7:3O am. the temperature stood
at so degrees.
Rainfall also was considerable on
the parched fields and forests OF
Maryland and Virginia, reducing the
fire hazard and aiding thirsty crops.
Farmers hoped for a heavy fall OF
several days duration, however, and
this was not in sight today, the
Weather Bureau stated.
Maryland State Forester F. w.
Besley declared a really big rain is
necessary to forestall drought pos
sibly worse than that of 1880, the
Associated Press reported from
Baltimore. The State has a higher
accrued deficiency of precipitation
up to May 20 than any other East
ern State except New York and New
Jersey, he said.
Drowning Victim Identified.
The drowning victim was Calvin
Peters, II, colored, 2lOO block OF
Newport place NV. Police said he
apparently fell off sand barge at
the foot of T'hirtieth street NV.
DR.. Christopher j. Murphy, deputy
coroner, issued a certificate OF &C
cidental death.
Two heat prostration cases were
treated at Providence Hospital.
Those stricken were Benjamin F.
Roach, 81, Cheltenham, Md, and
William Brown, So, colored, 200
block of K street S.W.
The afternoons first shower was
borne by wind which reached a
velocity of 80 miles per hour in
gusts. A sailboat capsized of Hams
Point, but the occupants were res
cued promptly. A number OF trees
were felled about the city and the
pace OF homeward- bound traffic was
reduced to a crawl as sheets of rain
obscured vision.
The 20-degree temperature drop
was from o. at I pm. to rs shortly
after pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Woman Shot in Chest
In Inn al Muirkirk

Mrs. Margaret Robinson, "a, of 706
Seventh street NE, was brought to
Casualty Hospital early today with
bullet wound in the left side of her
chest and was reported in a critical
condition.
Prince Georges County police are
investigating the shooting, which
occurred at an inn near Muirkirk,
Md, after closing hours. Mrs. Rob-
inson gave conflicting accounts of
the shooting, according to members
of the Branchville Rescue Squad who
took her to the hospital.
Her husband, Minor Robinson,
said she had been working as a
waitress at the Muirkirk Inn recent
ly, but that because of her condi-
ton she had not been able to give
an account of the shooting when he
called to see her at the hospital. He
said they had been married three
years and have 16-month-old
daughter, Barbara.
Prince Georges County police
were planning to question Mrs. Rob-
inson as soon as her condition per-
mitted, but had made no arrest this
morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Anti.British Premier
Has Fled From Iraq,
London Announces
Troops Have Driven to
Within Five Miles Of
Boehdod, English Soy
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 30.-The anti
British Premier of Iraq, Rashid Ali
Al Gallant, has fed into neighbor-
ing Iran, it was authoritatively an
nounced here tonight.
Rashid Ali, in power through a
coup d'etat, had been leading Iraq
forces against the British since they
first opened fire on Britain's treaty
airdrome at Habbaniyah, Iraq, on
May 4.
He called for Axis aid to his
cause Of expelling the British from
Iraq, but apparently on account of
Germany's preoccupation with the
conquest of Crete, Axis help was
limited to a trickle of warplanes
and technicians.
The text of the London announce
ment follows:
1T is learned in official quarters
in London that Rashid Ali has
fed from Iraq.
Accompanied by Chief of Staff.
He has crossed the frontier into
Iran, accompanied by Amin Zaki,
his chief of staff, and the self
styled regent Sharaf whom he
purported to appoint regent in place
of the Emir Abdul Ilah."
Authoritative sources reported to-
day that British forces had driven
1Soo IpAO pooo A-7I
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30

Two Americana born women told
today how scores of Germans bound
for the French colony of Martinique
threw hundreds of letters and other
papers into the ocean after the
cruiser had fired a shot across the
Winnipeg's bow and escorted her to
Trinidad.
OF the Isl passengers aboard, 2l0
Germans, rs Austrians and 10 I'M
classified persons have been in
termed pending investigation while
the remaining passengers are being
examined aboard the vessel.
The two American-born women
among those already examined and
released are Mrs. Antoine Peissel,
the former Martha Scale Of Dallas,
Tex, and Mrs. Marcel Lowenstein,
bound from Paris to Stamford,
Conn.
The women, who are accompanied
by their French husbands, told a
dramatic story of their 26-day voy-
age from Marseille to Trinidad by
way of Oran, Algeria. and Casa
blanca, French Morocco, in a vessel
they said was intended to carry
only a small fraction of the ISL
accommodated.
Food was running low, they said,
but champagne flowed freely Mon
day night in celebration of the ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Freyberg, Crete Commander
Reported Killed in Crash
Nozis Quote Cairo
Radio as Telling
Of Leaders Death

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 30.-The Ger
man radio quoted a Cairo radio
station today as announcing that
Gen. B. C. Freyberg, commander OF
British imperial forces on Crete,
had been killed when his plane
crashed en- route to Alexandria.
c. B. S. recorded the German broad
cast.
(The Cairo radio was quoted in
a dispatch by DN.B, official Ger
man news agency, as reporting
that Gen. Freyberg had been
Killed.
Berlin report said DN.B.'s
dispatch came from Damascus,
SyrlaD
The German radio declared that
Gen. Freyberg had fled" and that
this at first hardly believable fact
has been confirmed at Cairo" by
the news service of the Cairo radio
station.
The news service announced that
the plane, with which Gen. Frey
berg and his aide, Garberg, were on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
picture on Page Az

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 30.-Start
of the Memorial Day 500-mile auto
mobile race, scheduled for 10 am.
Central time) was delayed an hour
today by fire in the garage section
which destroyed three race cars and
80 garages, injured seven men and
caused damage estimated by Off
Gals at $4,000.
The delay in starting the race was
caused by damage to power lines af-
fecting the electric timing device by
which the cars are clicked
For a time there was doubt as to
whether the race would be run.
A crowd unofficially estimated at
about 100000 was on hand. filling
the mile-long grandstand sections
and most of the infield. The
weather was threatening.
Only one of the burned cars was
entered in the race. The other two
had not qualified.
Jim Pherice. a member of Race
Driver Kelly Petillo's crew; James
Lynch of Chicago, member of the
Technical Committee; Lloyd Barnes,
an Indianapolis mechanic; Ed
Steinbach, IS; Chicago radio an
nouncer; j. B. Gardner, Ports
mouth, Ohio, mechanic, and NAL
colin Mackenzie, Philadelphia, were
burned in the fire. All were treated
at the emergency speedway hospital.
Quinn Heron, 20, indianapolis, a
spectator, suffered cuts to his hands
when he jumped over fence to help
pull cars out of the flaming garage
section. Steinbach was burned about
the hands in pulling a midget race
car to safety.
The cars of Mauri Rose, Rex Mays
and Wilbur Shaw, the three drivers
holding first-row positions in the
starting lineup, were in the garage
section that burned, but all were
pulled to safety.
Hundreds of spectators, who had
streamed into the grounds when the
gates opened at am, watched the
fire from the grandstand across the
track and from the infield. India
napolis flremen hurried to help the
speedway f1ref1ghting crew.
The six-cylinder, rear-engine au-
tomobile which was to have been
driven by George Barringer of Hous-
ton. Tex, was destroyed. The blaze
started in the garage housing the
Barringer car. Mechanic-Ownel
Eddie Offutt said, as gasoline which
Offutt was draining from the tank
spilled and was ignited by static
electricity or a match.
The other two cars destroyed were
owned by Milt Marion of Hemp
stead, Long Island, and Joe Marks
of Gary. Ind.
Billy Devore, Indianapolis driver
(See SPEEDWAY, Page AID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Battle for Crete Won, Nozis Say;
Resistance Declared Broken;
Another Dunkerque Reported
Foe Trying to Flee
By Small Boots,
Germans Assert
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, May 30-Germany
claimed victory today in the bat
tie for Crete.
British resistance has col
lapsed everywhere" the high
command asserted, and Nazi
forces now are in possession OF
another vital north shore harbor,
Retimo.
The fierce 11-day battle, said
D.NB., official German news
agency, "has been decided"
By capturing Crete, the Nazi press
said, the Germans have wrenched
out one of the four cornerStoneS OF
Britain's defense of the Mediter-
ranean and Near East.
Ports Made Vulnerable.
The other three are all mainland
ports-Haifa, in Palestine, terminus
of the oil pipeline from Iraq; Alex
andria, British naval base in Egypt,
and Tobruk, Britain's besieged
stronghold in Libya.
All these now have been made
vulnerable, freedom of movement
for British naval forces is danger
ously hampered" and Crete, as a
German air base, becomes direct
menace to the British position in
Egypt, the press declared
"A union with parachute troops at
Retimo, who bravely withstood
strong enemy superiority for a
period of eight days, is completed -
the communique said.
british imperial troops and
Greeks, fleeing before the Ger
man conquest of Crete, now are
attempting to reach Egypt aboard
small fishing boats in another
Dunkerque. the German radio de-
clared today.
(The first group of fugitive
soldiers has already arrived in
Egypt" said the broadcast, heard
by G. B. S.
Hold Major Cities.
The Germans now hold Retimo,
Gambia, Crete's largest city, and
Canea, its capital, as we'll as the
former British naval base of Suda
Bay, on the side of the island near
est the Nazi mainland bases. All
these we're original targets of the
air-borne invasion.
At Gambia, the communique said
parachute troops took the city and
airport lin the face of stout enemy
resistance" and the Greek COM
mander offered surrender.
The communique pictured the
British defense as having crumbled
under the quadruple attack of Ger
man forces striking from the west,
Italian forces closing rapidly in from
the east, unceasing air bombardment
and sea-and-air assaults on the
British fleet.
Two more destroyers were claimed
(See CRETE, Page AID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Peggy Shannon's Husband,
Grief Stricken, Kills Self
BY the Associs ted Press.


LOS ANGELES. May 3o.-De-
spondent because of the death, May
II, of his wife, Actress Peggy Shan
non, Albert G. Roberts. 43, motion
picture cameraman, shot and killed
himself today in his San Fernando
Valley home
His sister, Mrs. Phoebe Genereaux
of Glendale, told police Il pleaded
with him not to, but heard a shot
and the dog bark"
Roberts left note saying he
wanted to join his wife, and would
die sitting in the same chair and at
the same table where he found her
dead when he returned from fish,
ing trip.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
COME Rosso, Laden
With Troops, Sunk,
Italians Admit
Most Soldiers Aboard
Reported Saved After
Hit by Torpedo
BACKGROUND

BACK
In London Wednesday British
said an unidentified Axis 16,000-
ton liner, carrying probably 5000
troops to Libya, 1UaS sunk In ,Chdt
admiralty called net0, heavy losses
dealt upon enemyS reinforce
nlentS and supplies for his army
in North Africa.
BY the Associated Press.
ROME, May 3o-The 17,879-ton
italian liner Conte Rosso, laden with
troops, has been sunk by torpedo
south of Syracuse, Sicily, but most
soldiers aboard we're saved, the
italian high command said today.
On the other side of the ledger,
the high command said the 1,340-
ton British destroyer Hereward had
been blown up by bombs dropped by
italian planes. The daily war
bulletin said 229 members of the
destroyer's crew had been rescued,
including 26 seriously wounded.
Transporting Reinforcements.
The 1e-year-old Conte Rosso,
travelling in convoy when she went
down, apparently was transporting
troop reinforcements to Italian gar
risons in North Africa, since the
newspaper II Popolo Di Roma said
fresh man power was being conveyed
across the Mediterranean by the
italian Navy.
At the eastern end of the Mediter-
ranean, the high command said con-
slant Italian aerial attacks were
forcing the British fleet-which had
been seeking to prevent the landing
of sea-borne Axis reinforcements in
Crete-to withdraw toward Alex
andria.
Italian troops already landed on
the eastern end of the beleaguered
island have captured hundreds of
prisoners and much material, the
daily war bulletin said.
Red Sea Subs Return.
In another phase of the war at
sea, II Popolo Di Roma said all
Italian submarines in the Red Sea
had returned to their Italian bases
after voyage of many weeks around
Africa, during which the crews were
on half rations.
Two of the subs narrowly escaped
disaster from mines, the paper said,
shortly after they left Nassau,
Eritrea, last April while that Red
Sea port was under blockade of the
British fleet.
The Conte Rosso, built in 1922,
was withdrawn from the Trieste
Shanghai run in 1882 and converted
into troopship.
Exchange Telegraph, British news
agency, reported last March that
shipping circles in Shanghai said
the liner had struck an Italian mine
off Sicily and gone down with a
heavy loss of life.
The vessel served as a troop trans
port in the Ethiopian war and had
been frequent visitor in the port
of New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Compromise Wage Boost
Ends Bendix Strike Threat
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, May 30
Acceptance today of compromise
wage increase by the Bendix local
of the C. I. o. United Automobile
Workers of America averted strike
and stoppage of defense production
at the Bendix products division of
Bendix Aviation Corp.
Union officials said blanket wage
increase of 712 cents an hour for
the 5000 employees had been &C
cepted by the union. Provisions of
the settlement are retroactive to
May 8.
Only last week the union rejected
a proposal by the Mediation Board
calling for increases similar to those
accepted today. The union had
asked 15-cent increase.
earlier story on Page A-4)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30

presented during the past montn
under section 7, article vi, of the
police regulations, according to the
best memory of Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel Glen A. Wilkinson.
This is a regulation which could
logically curb nocturnal blare OF
radios, needless noise of vehicles at
night and other clamor. Its Ian
guage follows:
ANY person, whether in or upon
public or private property, who at
late and unusual hours of the night
disturbs the peace or quiet of any
neighborhood by loud and unusual
noises shall be fined - ="
Hospital Areas Noisy.
Mai. Browns order to precinct
commanders declared the decision
to take firm measures followed re
ceipt of numerous complaints with
reference to annoyance and in
ability to sleep at night due to I'M
necessary noise"
No prosecutions have been made
this month under second law cited
by Maj. Brown in his order, accord
ing to Mr.. Wilkinson. This rule es-
tablishes a zone of quiet within $50
feet of all hospitals. Yesterday
the police superintendent declared
streets are in a needless uproar
around q number of District hos
pitfalls.
Only occasionally" do cases come
to Traffic Court under third reg
ulation cited by Maj. Brown, re.
quiring use Of muflers on motor
cycles and trucks - well - pleas
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Old House Office
BUILDING Fire Put Out

Fire broke out in the old House
Office Building today, but was
promptly put out. Guards said the
flames, confined to a desk in a
third-floor hall, were extinguished
before arrival of firemen.
Origin was cigarette accidentally
dropped in an open drawer, they
conjectured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Naval Bases in England
Attacked by Luftwaffe
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, May 30.-Naval bases at
Portland and Plymouth and the port
of Torquay we're the main targets of
Nazi air attacks on the English
western and southern coasts last
night, DNB., the official German
news agency, said today.
A 4,0O0-ton merchant ship was de-
stroyed by bombs off Pentland Firth,
the agency added.
The British government said there
was little German air activity over
Britain during the night, though
bombs were dropped at one point in
the south without causing damage
or casualties.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Police Tighten Up Regulations
In Anti-Noise Campaign Here
'Disturbers of Peace Face Quick Justice;
Needless Din Reported Near Hospitals

number of regulations vital in controlling Washingtons
flood tide of noise likely to be called active
virtual retirement by the strongly worded
issued yesterday by Police Supt
officials Police Court indicated that
have been presented during months
tons have been obtained.
single prosecution against bohersome din has been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Girl Under Observation
After Tidal Busin Plume

A 19-year-old Chilhowie Va0 girl
was under observation in Gallinger
Hospital today after plunging into
the Tidal Basin, according to police
She jumped from taxicab,
climbed over railing and jumped
into the basin, police said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Japan Hints Resort
To Force 10 Gain
Indies Demands
Motsuoku Declares
Peaceful Policy May
Be Reconsidered
By the Associated Press.

TOXIC, May 30.-Foreign Min
lister Yosuke Matsuoka, reaftirming
Japans adherence to the three
power Axis pact, declared at a press
conference today that she might
have to reconsider her peaceful
policy" toward the South Seas.
Informed quarters interpreted this
part of Matsuoka's statement as
direct warning to the Netherlands
Indies, in view of the current dead
lock in economic talks.
"As frequently has been affirmed"
Matsuoka told japanese reporters,
"Japan's policy toward the South
Seas is peaceful.
Should, however, untoward in
ternational developments render ex-
ecution of such policy impossible it
is FEASIBILITY that Japan may have
to reconsider her attitude in the
light of the changed situation"
Assails L. S. Rumors.
Matsuoka referred to what he de-
scribed as rumors in some American
newspapers that Japan was becom-
ing Indifferent toward the three
power pact with Germany and Italy,
in which Japan is pledged to go to
war against any new belligerent at
lacking any of the signatorieS. He
called the rumors an absurd mis-
conception"
There is no question whatever as
to the fact that the tri-partite pact
constitutes an immutable basis OF
Japanese foreign policy" he said
adding:
Il could hardly believe that United
States authorities were entertaining
such a misunderstanding. 1
| such erroneous views are current il
the United States they are ascribablt
to misleading information spreaC
wilfully."
Policy Unchanged.
Matsuoka said, "Japan's funda.
mental policy has for a long time
been firmly established and has un-
| dergone no change whatever.
Since conclusion of the tri-partite
pact September 81, last year, Japan's
foreign policy has consistently beer
conducted with this pact as its pivot
This should be clear to all from
statements on various occasions by
(Premier) Prince Konoye and myself
as well as from subsequent develop
ment of Japan's policy. There has
of course, been not the slightest de-
Election from this course of policy.
1T is therefore absolutely impos-
sible to imagine that Japan should
lCaa IApAM pona aoO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
$150,000 Fire
Delays Start Of
Speedway Race
80 Garages, Three
Cars Burned, Seven
Hurt at Indianapolis
BULLETIN.

SPEEDWAY, indianapolis
R.-The speed classic had
been under way only a few
minutes when cars driven by
Emil Andres of Chicago and
Joel Thorne of Burbank, Calf,
collided. No one was injured
seriously, but the two cars
were wrecked. After Is miles
Rex Mayes of Glendale, Calf,
was leading, with Wilbur
Shaw second and Mauri Rose
third.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
No Late Editions
Today

Due to the holiday today The
Star will not issue the $50,
Night Final and Night Final
Sports editions. Subscribers to
these editions will receive the
regular city edition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-30
Hundreds of Germans Seized
On Mortinique-Bound Ship
Nozis on Winnipeg Interned at Trinidad;
Threw Away Papers, Passengers Assert
BY the Associated Press.


PORT Trinidad May 30Intercepted at sea by
while celebrating with champagne
their expected Martinique the 8379on French
in Habor and hundreds of her
German passengers have been informed