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Evening star., 1941-06-02
Britain Lost $4,000
In Battle of Crete,
Goydo Declares
e, the Associated Press.

tnc hsSOCldleo HEcSAs
ROME, June 2. Virginia
Gayda, authoritative Fascist
editor. estimated today that
Britain lost $4,000 men killed
or captured in the battle of
Crete.
Gayda asserted that Britain
claims to have withdrawn $4,000
men by sea were false because,
he said, Britain lacked ships
and freedom Of action to trans
port so many.
His figure of IS 900, based on
an estimate of IS per cent losses
in an original British strength
of $4,000, however, did not ac-
count for the other $4,000 men.
Previous unoficial British es-
Inmates had placed the Mediter-
ranean island defenders total
strength, British and Greek, at
10000.
Evening star., 1941-06-02
President Requests
$125,O00,000 Fund
For Defense Roads
Urges Thot No Attempt
Be Made to Apportion
Access Highway Money
(Tert OF highway fund plea on
Page Bill

Tugo o-IIo
President Roosevelt asked Con-
gress today to authorize Federal
expenditure of $l25 900 900 to de-
velop access roads" and strengthen
bridges and widen highways In
strategic defense areas.
He urged that no attempt be made
to apportion these special funds as
is done under the Federal Highway
Act. but that the appropriation be
available for use only in areas
certified by the War or Navy De-
partments or the once for Emer-
gency Management.
In special message to Congress,
the President estimated that the
overall cost of providing needed
road improvements in key military
naval and industrial areas would
amount to $3.50, 10000
Part of this work is being financed
by the Work Projects Administra-
tion, by regular Federal-aid high
way funds and by contributions Of
counties and States, the President
said.
1T is my hope" he added, that
readjustments in highway programs
now authorized may release addi-
tional funds for meeting in part
these new requirements.
Pointing out, however. that the
requirements are greatly in excess
of local resources and present avail
able Federal funds, the President
informed Congress that additional
funds will be required Immediately
to relieve the existing traffic con-
gestion in important areas"
His message recommended that
$100 10000 be authorized "specifi-
cally for assisting in the develop
ment of access roads" and that an
additional s25 900, 900 be authorized
ito strengthen bridges and widen
surfaces in key areas"
There is a need" Mr. Roosevelt
said, "for giving immediate atten-
ton to strengthening bridges in key
areas"
Evening star., 1941-06-02
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME. June adolf Hitler
and Benito Mussolini met today
at Brenner Pass for the sixth
time in 81 months of war. and
informed Fascists said plans for
meeting any move by the United
States presumably formed at
least part of the conversations.
Observers said the Axis leaders
probably were concerned with the
prospect for further action by the
United States in line with Presi-
dent Roosevelt's program to defend
the Western Hemisphere with the
Navy, involving French West Africa,
the Azores and other Atlantic is
lands.
A terse announcement made no
mention of specific topics, but said
merely that Hitler and Mussollni
were fully agreed on the political
situation"
Informed sources predicted that
Italian forces would use crete as
springboard for new attacks by air
on British positions in a triangle
formed by the island Of Cyprus, the
Egyptian port of Alexandria and the
Palestine port of Haifa.
But they said greater questions
must have brought the two war
leaders together and cited, besides
United States policy, such major
Near East objectives as the oil fields
of Iraq, with their pipeline through
Palestine, and French-mandated
Syria and the Suez Canal.
Fascists said the Axis forces cer-
tainly would not remain idle after
the conquest of Crete. and Virginio
Gayda, often the editorial spokes-
man for Fascist policy, wrote in II
Giornale d'Italia that new devel-
opments in the Mediterranean war
will be seen soon as consequence
of the new Axis victory"
Evening star., 1941-06-02
Nazi Planes Shower
Thousands Of Bombs
On Manchester
Rescuers Handicapped
BY PuII Of Smoke;
Nurses Feared Buried
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MANCHESTER, England, June 2.
German planes poured thousands
of incendiaries and high-explosive
bombs on this manufacturing city
early today.
Rescue crews were handicapped
bv a heavy pail of smoke as they
dug for victims under the wreckage,
but. although several fires were
started by the bombs. none got out
of control.
A number of nurses were feared
to have been buried in the wreck
age of nurses home, which received
a direct high-explosive hit. Two
hospitals were damaged in other
areas and three churches and sew
eral shelters were hit, in addition to
numerous homes.
Three hotels and a movie theater
also were hit.
In one district. man, his wife
and their 10-year-old daughter
were hurrying to a shelter when
bomb dropped The mans body
was found behind a wall. his wife
was found dead across sign
suspended from the second story Of
a pub and there was no trace of the
child.
A physician took miners lamps
and crawled into the wreckage of
hospital to amputate the arm of a
nurse who was pinned by fallen
beams. The shock was too great,
however. and she died.
Among the other casualties were
five wardens on patrol and young
curate on shelter duty outside his
church. Persons taking shelter in
the church crypt escaped with
slight injury,
Evening star., 1941-06-02

UOlSIcI VI hey SIdllu.
Authoritative quarters expressed
confidence that Turkey would never
yield either to Axis threats or
blandishments-she is Britains ally
on paper-but it was acknowledged
that the British were determined to
get head start in any scramble
for Syria.
This, it was said, would help to
stiffen Turkeys attitude Bordered
on the European side by German
occupied Greece and Bulgaria, Tur-
key is a pathway to the oil fields
of Iraq and the Suez Canal.
Qualified observers agreed that
Adolf Hitler already was in posi-
Evening star., 1941-06-02
Roosevelt Signs Bill
Forcing Industry 10
Obey Priority Rulings
O.P.M.Cun Now Tell Firms
Whot Must Be Produced
First; Scope Broodened
By JOHN c. HENRY,
Star Staff Correspondent.

HYDE PARK, N. Y. June a.
President Roosevelt today gave
green light" backed up by law. to
the ONCE of Production Manage
ment to impose on American indus
try a schedule of mandatory prior
tiles for virtually all production.
Signing legislation recently en-
acted by Congress, the President by
his action today broadens priorities
system which heretofore has been
legally applicable only in the case of
actual Army and Navy contracts.
Specifically. the new statute
authorizes and makes legally binding
the granting of preference ratings
to production for nations benefiting
by the lease-lend program, for Gov
ernment agencies other than the
Army and Navy, and for civilian
needs which may be considered of
extraordinary importance. Subcon-
tractors as we'll as direct contractors
will be affected.
Voluntary Up to Now.
Up to now the priorities division
of o. P. M. has been dependent on
voluntary cooperation of industry
for the effectiveness of its prefer
ence schedule in all production other
than prime contracts of the Army
and Navy. While the voluntary
system for the most part has been
satisfactory to this point, advocates
of the statute Just passed claimed
that in some cases there has been
reluctance to sidetrack existing con-
tracts in favor of those judged by
Government production chieftains to
be more important. Among the
latter have been certain British
orders, and some for United States
agencies other than the Army and
Navy.
From now on o. P. NJ can tell
American manufacturers what must
be produced first-and make the
orders stick
Clearing up another weakness Of
the voluntary system, the new
statute also accords protection from
damage suits to manufacturers COM
plying with priorities directions.
Heretofore, manufacturing concerns
which abided voluntarily by prefer
ence requests from the Government
were subject to damage claims from
customers who felt their interests
harmed by delays in meeting their
particular orders.
Other Bills Signed.
A bitter fight developed during
congressional consideration of the
legislation signed by Mr.. Roosevelt
today, the issue being proposal that
priorities control be vested in spe-
cial Army Navy board rather than
in o. p. M. Key officials of the
emergency agency were represented
as preparing to resign from Govern
ment service if this change were
made and the suggestion finally was
beaten down.
In addition to signing of the
priorities bill, White House head
quarters here also announced today
that the President has approved the
1912 Treasury and Post ONCE ap-
preparation bill and measure per-
mitting ships of Canadian registry
to transport iron ore between United
States ports on the Great Lakes.
This latter privilege. in the interests
of pooling United States and Cana
dian shipping facilities for emer-
gency purposes, is authorized only
for the 194l lake shipping season.
The departmental supply bill pro-
Evening star., 1941-06-02

'tion to bring extreme pressure on
Turkey. BY occupation of Crete and
the Aegean Islands the Axis ap-
peared to have isolated the Darda-
nelles from any hope of British
fleet assistance.
In addition, the success in Crete
might be used by the Fuehrer to
argue the ease with which his troops
might attack along the whole west
ern end of Turkey.
The end of fighting in Iraq was
expected to clear the way for quick
dispatch of additional British forces
through Iraq for possible duty along
the Syrian frontier to block any
(See MEDITERRANEAN, Page A-50
Evening star., 1941-06-02
Workman Goes on Trial
In Dutch Schultz Murder
By the Associated Press.

bs tfic AssUCIaVtu TIcsss
NEWARK, N. j., June 2.-Charles
(The Bug Workman. arrested
year ago as a suspect member Of
Murder, Inc, New York crime syn
dicate, went on trial today for the
murder of Arthur Dutch Schultz
Flegenheimer.
Schultz, prohibition era beer
baron, was shot down as he sat
drinking with companions in New
ark tavern on October q. 1885.
Evening star., 1941-06-02
Funds for Training
4,5O0,000 Youths
For Defense Asked
S1,1e1,776,000 Sought
For Labor and Security
Agency in House Bill
By the Associated Press.

An appropriation of Its 900
for the Labor Department, Federal
Security Agency and related activi-
ties was sent to the House today by
it's Appropriations Committee The
legislation also provided for national
defense training of more than 4.500,-
900 youths.
The total was about $50, 600, 900
more than the present appropria-
tions, but S31 900 900 less than Presi-
dent Roosevelt had recommended in
his budget message.
c. c. c. Estimates Cut.
The committee, noting that ris-
ing employment had caused a short
age in recruits for the Civilian Con-
servation Corps, cut s23 OO0, 900 from
budget estimates of $270 0.000. 900 for
that agency. The c. C. C. and the
National Youth Administration were
among the agencies which Secre-
tary Of the Treasury Morgenthau
suggested Congress might look at
in connection with his proposal that
non-defense expenditures be re-
duced 81 ,00O, 900 900.
The committee said the C. C. C.
appropriation would provide 1926
camps and 235 1000 enrollees. COM
pared with the present total of about
$500 camps and 270,000 enrollees
j. J. McEntee, c. C. c. director
told the committee that the agency
had failed for the first time to OBJ
tain its maximum enrolment of 300,-
900 due primarily to the improve
ment in private employment condi-
tions."
10 Million Fund Shift.
The committee made an appar-
ent $10000,000 reduction in N. Y.
AS budget request for s161 900 900,
but the reduction actually was only
a transfer of funds. That sum was
switched from the N. Y. A. to the
ONCE of Education for youth train
ing.
The committees report showed
(See APPROPRIATIONS, Pg. A-10D
Evening star., 1941-06-02

Whether publication of comment
on court cases prior to final set
tlement constituted contempt of
court was the issue presented by
the separate controversies.
No explanation of its action was
given by the court. Arguments
were first heard by the tribunal
last October. 1t is unusual for cases
to remain undecided this long. In
another decision handed down to-
day, the last session of the 1940-4l
term, the court held constitutional
Federal construction of q dam in
Evening star., 1941-06-02
Next Mediterranean
Step Believed Topic

BERLIN, June 2 LP).-An unher-
aided meeting between Adolf Hitler
and Benito Mussolini was held today
at Brenner Pass, on the frontier
between their countries, and it was
officially announced the Axis leaders
parted in perfect accord on the
political situation"
The first guess of most observers
was that Hitler and Mussolini ex-
changed views on the next step in
the Mediterranean region following
the successful conclusion of the
Balkan, Greek and Crete campaigns.
Participating in the fve-hour con-
ference were Gen. Field Marshal
Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the Ger
man high command and Gen. Ugo
Cavallero, chief of the Italian gen.
eral staff.
Thus, the new military situation
with the Axis avowed determination
to attack the British wherever they
find them opening broad vistas in
the Mediterranean, Red Sea and
Near Eastern sands-could have been
discussed with expert opinion close
at hand.
Foreign Ministers Attend.
The German and Italian Foreign
Ministers, Joachim Won Ribbentrop
and Count Galeazzo Ciano, also at
tended the parley at the little AL
pine village of Brennero, which has
become the two leaders favorite rem
devious.
No word of the conference was is
sued in advance and the only re-
ports on the deliberations were the
statements of DNB, official German
news agency, and parallel Italian
communique. DNB's statement:
"The Fuehrer and the Duce met
today at Brennero and had con-
versation of several hours about the
political situation in the presence
of German Foreign Minister Won
Ribbentrop and Italian Foreign Min
lister Ciano
"The conversation was carried out
In a spirit of cordial friendship and
showed complete agreement of the
views of the ruling heads of the two
allied nations"
Despite observers speculation that
q new phase Of the war may be i'm
= minent in the Mediterranean arena,
there was no mention of any mill
tary aides attending the parley at
the little Alpine village of Brennero,
which has become the two leaders
favorite rendezvous.
Experience has shown that these
periodic meetings between Hitler
and Mussolini invariably are por-
tentuous.
But only subsequent developments
divulge what may have brought
them together. Their wartime prac-
tice has been to meet with mini
mum of advance notice and cere-
mony and conceal their specific
topics with perfunctory announce
ments in Berlin and Rome that
they have met and concurred on all
matters.
Each has signaled the beginning
or end of a major phase of the
conflict.
Their most recent meeting, at an
undisclosed place, took place Janu-
ary 20, when Southeastern Europe
was in political ferment preceding
NJ the German attack on Yugoslavia
and Greece.
Evening star., 1941-06-02

tended to manufacture power for
sale as well as to control floods.
Justice Douglas delivered the de-
cision, applying specifically to the
s54 900 900 Denison Dam across Red
River in Texas and Oklahoma. No
dissent was announced.
Construction of the Denison Dam
was challenged by Gov. Leon C.
Phillips of Oklahoma on the ground
that it violated States rights,
would inundate approximately l00.-
(See COURT, Page A-5J
Evening star., 1941-06-02

had been destroyed In as many
days of the struggle for the i'm
portant eastern Mediterranean is
land.
The high command said the Axis
pincers which closed about the Brit
ish and Greeks met at Ierapetra,
best of the few ports of Southern
Crete
German sources said that mop
ping up of the island hostile bands
(See CRETE, Page A-50
Evening star., 1941-06-02
Capt. james Roosevelt
Leaves Cairo for Home
By the Associated Press.

by the ASSOClsteQ fIcSS.
CAIRO, Egypt, June 2.-Capt.
James Roosevelt and Maj. Gerald
Thomas of the United States
Marines left yesterday for home
after three weeks as special OBJ
servers with British forces in the
Near East. They came here from
the Far East,
Evening star., 1941-06-02
Stukos Reported
Concentrating
On Evucuees

Germans lduncneG OltCzkrteq
against Island OF Crete, last
refuge of resisting Greeks, nearly
t,Uo Ueeks ago, using thousands
OF parachutiSts borne to their
destination by transport planes
and trains OF gliders. British
1Dithdre,D air force in early stages
OF struggle to saDe them from
destruction, as the Germans
quickly assumed control OF the
air OUer Crete.
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June 2.-The German
high command proclaimed today
that "the battle for Crete is end
ed" and declared the only de-
tenders left on the island were
$4,000 prisoners of war.
The last resistance was smashed,
the communique said. when German
forces occupied the harbor OF Spha-
kion, on the south coast toward the
western end of the island. which
was the last center of Allied de-
fense.
To reach Sphakion, it said, Nazi
mountain forces had to subdue last
ditch British fighters in the noun
tains north of the city and 5000
more prisoners were taken there.
These were in addition to about
crenEe r1o ad
Yesterday by the high command as
captured in the fierce l2-day wind
up of the Axis Balkan campaign.
Fleeing Troops Attacked.
German dive -bombers were said
to have concentrated on remnants
of British Greek defense forces try
ing, in the final stages of the bat
tie, to escape from Crete's southern
shore. where German and Italian
drives met from opposite ends of the
island.
The war bulletin said a British
destroyer, presumably covering
British attempts at sea flight from
the island, was destroyed with
three full hits" while working with
a unit of Britain's eastern Medi-
terranean feet.
Observers in Berlin expressed be-
lief Britain's naval forces would
be unable to soften the bombing
blows on little fishing vessels in
which the last defenders were said
to be trying to reach North Africa.
These sources pointed to German
reports that II British warships
Evening star., 1941-06-02
High Court Orders Reheoring
In Bridges Contempt Case
Reoreument Of Los Angeles Times Also
Slated; Dam Project Is Upheld

The Supreme Court today ordered next October 3
pending involving contempt convictions
Harry Bridges leader Of the Angeles
Times.
Evening star., 1941-06-02
Mediterranean Is Lost as Link
To Near East, British Admit
England Believed Ready to Take Swift
Action to ForestuII Nozis in Syria


LONDON June with qualified observers conceding Britain
loss of Mediterranean lifeline shipping link belief
voiced in London tonight that she to take swift action
substantial foothold and to
Evening star., 1941-06-02
Plans for Meeting AnyU.S. Moves
Believed Laid as Hitler Sees Duce;
13 >OOOHe|d on Crete Nazis Claim
Accord Reported
In Meeting at
Brenner Pass
HITYGPOUND-

6hI n hohOOND-
Fuehrer Hitler and Premier
Mussolini hare met frequently at
Brenner Pass, bet1Ueen Germany
and Italy, for discussions OF ATiS
policy and future moUes. Such
meetings hare usually preceded
striking developments in Europe.
Fine precious meetings had been
held betWeen the ATiS dict1torS
since the start OF the tUar in Sep
tember, 1889.
Evening star., 1941-06-02
Summary of Todoy's Star

Foreign.
Iraq again at peace as British re-
store ousted regent. Page A
Pope asks protection for individual
rights in new order Page A
Sir Hugh Walpole dies at 81 after
illness Of week. Page B-9
National.
U. s. bomber patrol across Atlantic
urged by Jouett. Page Al
Fly defends new broadcasting rules
as inquiry opens. Page Az
Sabotage denied In Jersey City fire;
loss $25, 900, 900. Page AS
Wheat growers vote to allow U. s. TO
control sales. Page ALI
Evening star., 1941-06-02

(See ROOSEVELT, page A-3)
Evening star., 1941-06-02

(See CRETE, Page A-50
Evening star., 1941-06-02
Weather Forecast

Cloudy, probably light rain; little
change in temperature; lowest tonight
about 80. Temperatures today
Highest r., at midnight; lowest, 64,
at l0:30 am; 66 at pm.
From the United States Weather Bureau report
Full Details on PAGE Az.
Evening star., 1941-06-02

(See COURT, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1941-06-02
From Press to Home
Within the Hour

Most people In Washington have The
Star delivered to their homes every
weekday evening and Sunday morning.
Evening star., 1941-06-02

(See DEFENSE, Page A-30
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-28
ANCHORS AWEIGH

Bottlenecks may be snarling some
phases of defense construction, but
not the two-ocean navy. Inside fact
is that battleships, cruisers and de-
stroyers-the "big three" of the
ship-building program-are being
turned out months ahead of the
schedules laid down when congress
approved the naval expansion last
year.
Two new battleships, the North
Carolina and the Washington, origi-
nally slated for commission late
this year, will join the feet in June,
increasing the number of battle
wagons" to II. Fifteen others are
under construction.
Naval chiefs estimated that the
top number of destroyers to come
off the ways this year would be IL.
But actually II will be completed
in the next nine months, bringing the
destroyer fleet up to 176, a large part
of them super-craft of the latest
design
Here's the present status Of the
whole fleet:
Ships on hand-l5 battleships; 10
heavy cruisers; 10 light cruisers, 159
destroycrs, including "a average;
los submarines, including SO over
age; and aircraft carriers. Total
combat ships in commissioning
Ships being built-17 battleships
GncludIng the North Carolina and
the Washington; IA heavy cruisers;
40 light cruisers; 2O4 destroyers;
30 submarines; and IL aircraft car
riers Total ships being built-367.
The 204 destroyers will be complet-
ed by 1915; II this year, as in 1912,
86 in 1913, So in 1914, and four in
1915.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-03-28
The ANSWERS

l. The secretary Of state has
charge Of the Great Seal.
2. If an electron and an orange
could be magnifed equally until
the orange was as large as the
earth, the electron would still be
too small to be visible to the I'M
aided eye.
3. "Alice's Adventures In Won
derland."
4. George v. The name of the
British royal family was changed
to Windsor in 1917.
8. Eclipses of the sun, visible at
some parts of the earth's surfaces,
have been recorded in every
month of the year.
6. A woman "a woman's figure
used as column in architectural.