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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
Would Speed Shipments

Should the President get con-
greSSional approval to reopen the
heavily fortified port, i would
facilitate movement Of British
war and FOR transshipment across
the Atlantic
Power and navigation develop
ment Of the ST. Lawrence River
also was considered a certain topic
OF discussion.
Mackenzie King saw the presi-
dent briefly Wednesday at a White
House tea. but Mr. Roosevelt re-
ported they did not at that time
take up any Of the questions
which affect the United States and
Canada.
Alongside the President at the
Hyde Park mansion as latest war
bulletins came in from abroad was
Harry Hopkins. White House init
mate and principal director of the
nations $1,000, 100000 lease-lend
effort 10 assist the old world de.
mocracies in battling the AXis
bowers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
Safeguard Wells

Thus Britain moved rapidly to
safeguard the British-controlled
Iraq oil Wells Which provide The
fuel for the British eastern Medl-
terranean fleet and British planes,
tanks and other machines in Egypt
and Greece
Most of the petroleum from the
Iraq fields flows through the long
pipeline that runs TO the British
naval port of IIaifa on the Pales-
tine coast.
BrltainS display of arm d
force in the Near East came amid
rising apprehension in London
lest the Rashid Ali regime in Bag
dad shun the British and turn TO
the Axis
Berman and Italian sources
earlier this week put out re-
ports about the seizure Of Brit
ish air bases IN Iraq by the new
Bagdad government. There also
were rumors that Germany was
pressing France for port and
aerial facilities in French Syria
from which a drive on Iraq
could be based.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
In Mount Olympus Area;
Claim Neu Line Holding
Quit Greece
So Advises London Editor
in Influential Paper

LONDON. April 20 Sunday --
A call on the British government
10 evacuate the British imperial
expeditonary force from Greece
as quickly as possible appeared
today in the influential newspaper,
Sunday Express. in an editorial
signed by its editor. John Gordon.
Gordon wrote:
I'VE should get our army out
of Greece a. swiftly a. we can
ship 1t. 1t should never have
been there"
Gordon warned that disaster
may face the British forces fight
ing beside the Greeks
THE problem now is whether
we can get out.
1.-THE blunder of sending our
army into Greece has had two
consequences. IL has put our
army needlessly into a position
of great peril and it has lost US
Libya."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
Demands Expense Cut

Senator Byrd Id Of Virginia.
while pledging his aid in increaS-
ing taxes TO help stabilize govern
ment finances. demanded that Con
gress cut deeply into approprIa-
tons
If the added farm appropria
tions il voted, non-defense eX-
penditures of the government
will rise to the highest level
in history at time when they
should be reduced said Byrd
Representative Disney Cd OF
Oklahoma. also demanded strict
He suggested that gov
eminent publicity bureaus could
be abolished at a saving Of $40
100000 annually Another Sl00,-
600 900 could be saved in the Ma
uonal Youth Administration and
500 100000 in the Civilian Con-
servauon Corps, he said
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
Marilyn Miller Left
S99, $40, Court Told

NEW YORK. April 10 ms
The gross estate left by Marilyn
Miller the actress who died April
T. 1886 amounted 10 S99 $40. ac-
cording To- a final accounting on
file today in Surrogate'S Court
The accounting showed Thai
payment of debts. administration
and other expenses left balance
of S}0S7l. including S1S.0i2 IN
cash and S12.S29 IN securities.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
Storms in West Canada SEXES 9
Claim 7 Lives OF Escaped Ndzis
.0ter0ment Camp Chief
Of to Aid Search
Int.rnatlensl 90. 80. W..

International NeWs service Wire
TORONTO. April 10 Nine Of
the - Nazl airmen who tuneLd
their way 10 freedom from an in
tcrnment camp IN the wilds OF On
tario last night were recaptured
today amid growing indications
that the escapes were aided by
fifth column activity outside the
camp
Three Of the prisoners we're
brought out of the wilderness by
Il railroad section foreman who
used q track shovel as a weapon
and talked the Germans into sub
mission without difficulty An
other was shot by guards sS he
WdS TeCdpturcd.
The Nazi airmen, captured in
England when their planes were
shot down, escaped through a tun-
mel under barbed wire. The first
five rctaken were caught by vet
Grams of the camp guard.
Col Herbert Stethem. director
or pternment camps, left To-
ionto this afternoon in an RCAF
bomber 10 direct the roundup Of
the missing 70 prisoners who are
at large IN a section called the
rock and Christmas tree country" "
north of Lake Superior and east
of Schroeder.
Apparently the prisoners scat
tered after the break Some Of
them were captured west of the
camp and others east. IT was said.
None of those recaptured offered
The break was carefully
planned When the airmen crept
out through the tunnel. they left
dummies stuffed under their
blankets 10 deceive the night
Sentrics once outside. they
changed into civilian clothes with
which they had been supplied.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
Snow Rain a7d " q
Sweep 8 States
u, International >ep. service

Late Spring snow storms biz
yards wIndstorms and flash floods
struck Saturday in eight Midwest
en states leaving a t1all of death
and heavy property damage
In the wake Of floods, high
l,4pa1 aad=erreHHal rains III Mis-
souri, and Arkansas al least seven
persons were dead while in central
and southern Illinois barns and
other farm buildings were razed or
damaged by winds Of near tornado
velocity
SNOW storms that swept thouch
Montana Wyoming. Colorado. No
bra>ka and Kansas paralyzed com
muaeation lines blocked high
ways and ISOLATED many commu-
mites
The snow in central and north
west Nebraska was borne by winds
al, hugh as Al miles an hour.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20

with the sudden landing of
powerful forces in lraq, home
of vital oil fields.
Revealing this swift stroke TO
foil an anticipated German thrust
toward the coveted Mesopotamian
petroleum sources. the government
announced that strong imperial
forces have arrived al Basra Uraq
port at the top of the Persian
Cuff to open lines -eemmHHiea-
lion in that country where a coup
Is days ago overthrow a prohibit
ich rpuir1p
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20

cision. while expected. neverthc-
less was extremely welcome
new"
\ Ford spokesman observed
that the entire industry has been
of the opinion that there would
be- no new models for 1913"
*. T. Keller, president of Chrys-
Ter. stated that I'VE have been so
busy with defense work that we
have not had chance to think
about 1913 models
General Motors decision was
made known in "A letter by Board
Chairman Alfred p Sloan u. TO
William S. Knudsen OPM di-
rector 20.
Elimination of the 1913 model
changes. Sloan said. would free
100000 man-hours and 90 per
rent of the firms toolinE capacity
for defense work.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
Under Treaty Terms

The announcement evoked an
intensively favorable response in
the British press and public. The
London Dispatch printed banner
headline declaring. AT Last-We
Got In First"
The landing of British Empire
troops at Basra was carried out
under the terms OF the Anglo-Iraq
treaty of military alliance.
The new Iraq regime, under
Premier Sayid Rashid Ali. who
came TO power in the Bagdad coup
a fortnight ago. was declared Off
ciallv TO be aaffording full facili=
ties to the British and to have
sent a high-ranking officer TO
Basra to welcome and collaborate
with the British commander
The announcement sand further
that the population at BaSra
warmly welcomed our troops
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
Swift Move Brings Powerful Forces
to Safeguard Vital Oil Supply
for England's War Machine
BY THOMAS c. WATSON

LONDON, April 19-Whe Naz egions battled to subdue
Greece within striking distance Brans Near East
felne Empire tonight march Germany
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20

slavia already knocked out Of the
arena.
Some iubilant Nazis limited that
a German-Greek armiStice might
even be announced tomorrow, al
though n was admitted by au-
thoritative Berlin sources that the
British and Greek forces might
attempt 10 make a stand around
Athens. which now lies less than
$50 miles south of the Reich van
guSd
Rome rumorS that Franz Won
Papen. German ambassador 70
Turkey. was on his way 10 Berlin.
bearing Greek plea for an arm
istice were not confirmed in
Berlin.
The official German news
agency. DNB. inslnuated however,
Continued on Page ~
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
britain East Foe.
.EH=iS Proclaim

BERLIN. ApTII I9.-IINSJ--
Implying that Germany plans no
new conqueSts if Britain Is
beaten. commanders of the Nazl
fighting forces today issued or
ders of the day for Chancellor
HitlerS birthday tomorrow
pledging defeat of Britain as
"our last enemy"
Field Marshal Walther Won
BrauchitSch, Grand Admiral
Erich Raeder and Air Marshal
Herman Wilhelm Goering signed
the orders
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20

railway junction city of Larissa,
but the admission of German
advance seemed TO substantiate
indirectly a Berlin announce
ment that the peak of Olympus
and Larissa had been captured
and the Panzer divisions had
reached the tablelands of Thes-
saly1
AS the Balkan conflict entered
its third week this morning, a
sorely-trie Hellenic nation learned
from its government that Premier
Korizis, whose death
Friday shocked the people, had
suicide under the stress
OF the greatest crisis Greece has
since she won her freedom
from the Turks more than a Gem
fury ago.
King George ii assumed the pre-
and took supreme dicta-
torial power within his hands, Gre
ating- -militarX, regime TO steer
the state through its life-or-death
against the combined
forces of Germany and Italy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
Gen. Camaeho Visits
LaGudrdid in N. Y.

NEW YORK, April 19.-INS)
Gen. Maximino Avila Camacho,
brother of the president of Mex
iee. visited Mayor F. II LaGuafdia
today at the City Hall. Camaehe
will return to Washington early
next week. He plans to go home
TO Mexico after a .cross-country
tour and a visit to California.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
Declares
Fall Of Athens
Is Imminent

BERLIN April 70. Complete collapse Of
British and Greek resistance throughout The
Hellenic Peninsula within few days was pre-
dicted in Nazi circles tonight after German troops
hoisted the swas,ika atop tabled Mount Olympus,
swept on to capture the key railway junction city
OF Larissa and surged down the Aegean coast
With Greek and British imperial expedtional
forces reported in fun retreat, talk Of an i'm
minent German-Greek armistice filled the air in
Berlin as Adolf Hitler took personal command of
his legions in the field the eve OF his fftysecond
birthday tomorrow,
After stormlng and seizing the 9000-foot. snow
capped pinnacle of Mount Olympus, legendary home
of ancient Hellenic gods the German troops pushed
ON 10 occunv Larlssa principal CITY Of Thessaly.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
A boIish Income Credit

The normal income tax rate
would be- boosted from 10 g per
cent but surfaces would be I'M
posed at a much lower point than
under the present laW and the
earned income credit would be
abolished or SlaShed 10 a point
that the tax increase on low IN
come would be drastctally boosted.
a. congress unal tax expert SAID
that under Inc new program q
senator or representative who
makes SO 000-a year would pay
three times the amount Of taxes
Boz noW pays
a one cent a gallon increase in
federal gasoline tax Was definitely
reported 10 be a part OF the pro-
gram
The proposed tax bill injected
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
Linked by Phone

Mr. Roosevelt was at Hyde Park
for a x1lnlz-oraG---z- ..zs.i E4===.-a- 49,
high tension of official Washing
ton Direct telephone wires. never
theleSS. conveyed 10 him last
minute information about the prog
rcSS Of the German push into
Greece
The President minced no words
IN saying that large sections of
the United States were viewing
the reverses of Britain and her
allies with toe mitch apathy For
tunately added the President.
there seemed to be a growing
awarenesS of the domestic impli-
cations Of AXIS victories in Europe
and Africa He suggested Sull
more education was needed ma
tionailV.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
Aid to China

Hopkins took advantage Of the
Hyde Park solitude to canvass
urgent requests from the be-
leaguered democratic defenders.
Among those for whom definite
allotmentS have been made for
American war aid is China, &C
cording 10 the President.
Present plans called for the
President to remain at Hyde Park
until the start of next week. He
Will then return TO Washington
and pause only long enough 10
issue latest instructions 10 his
aides before turning south 10
Warm Springs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
Mr.. Roosevelt
RusFhes P| dns
With Canada
Calls Mackenzie King
to Hyde Pa TX for
Sunday Conference
BY GEORGE DURNO
bee Stan Corrsspondeni

intl News Service star Correspondent
HYDE PARK, n. Y, April 10
President Roosevelt today invited
Canadian Prime Minister w. /.
Mackenzie King TO come TO Hyde
Park for Sunday conference on
mutually grave problems of North
American defense.
King VIII arrive tomorrow after
noon and remain at the Roosevelt
family home for dinner.
Although attaches Of the tenn
porary executive offices gave no
intimation Of specific subjects that
would be debated it has been re-
ported persiStently that President
Roosevelt was considering open
ing the Nova Scotian port Of Hall
fax to United States shipping.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20

WASHINGTON, April 10 The
administration $500, 900. 900 tax
program, scheduled to be laid be-
fore the House ways and means
committee on Monday, will call for
drastic increases in income taxa
ton on citizens earning between
1000 and $4,000 d year, It was
learned today
Confronted by the fact that sur
tax rates already are so high that
little more money Can be obtained
from upper incomes brackets. treas
ury experts 1urnFd 10 the ilittle
fellow and middle class TO obtain
several hundred. million dollars
revenue.
The program. il was stated au-
thorIlatIvely calls for cutting the
present ST 600 exemption for mar
red persons To $500 with the
$500 exemption for single persons
remaining as al DTpeent
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
Middle Class to Pay
In Income Tax Boost
Persons Earning $4,000 to $4,000 Year
to Bear Greatest Load Since
Higher Brackets Depleted
BY WILLIAM =. NEAL
I'M NV. SerNice stan Corre.pondent

new life into the sleeping congress
Sional economy bloc with the
result that fresh demands were
made 10 cut nondefense expendi-
lures and To reject proposed in
creases over the budget
President Roosevelt. il was said.
Will Join the movement by openly
fighting the proposal TO increase
farm benefit payments by $780,
900 600 This increase on the
mountaineering farm bill IS be-
fore conference committees
Word that Mr. Roosevelt would
fight this which under the
treasury program would require
still more taXcs-was given 10
Cconomy-minded senators by Sec
Rotary Of the Treasury Morgen-
I han
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
France Quits League

VICHY. France. April 49,
GNS) - Resignation of France
from the League of Nations was
announced officially in Vichy
today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
Athens Version Diff ers

In Athens. however. il was
announced that new and
shovter Allied defense line was
still resisting tremendous Ger
man attacks and had not been
pierced at any polnt)
Thus. a total German victory
in the Balkans. doomed as a birth
day gift for Chancellor Hitler a
the war in southeastern Europe
ended It's second week. with Yugo-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20

40 miles south of the Olympus
Range. and were believed to have
staged another 40-mile advance
todayfo capture the key Aegean
port Of Volos and the inland high
way center Of Pharsala.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
A Omit Nazi Push

Without revealing the extent of
the German advance through
Macedonia nor saying whether the
vital railway cities of Larissa,
Kalabaka or Trikkala were threat.
ehed. the high command erypti-
cally referred to the fighting on
the Olympian front with these
words:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
Germans Hurled
Back, Ignore
Huge Losses
BY A. T.. ANGELOPOULOS

ATHENS, April 20 (sunday)-A German south.
ward advance on the crucial Macedonian front was
admitted by the Greek high command early today.
but the battered Brish-Greek defense line, though
drawn back and shortened reported still hold
ing firm in the face of cyclonc but costly Nazi
assaults
midnight communique acknowledged push
of German forces to the south in the Olympus
mountain region after heroic Greek and Amaze
troops were declared to have beaten massed Ger
man tank and infantry units into bloody retreat
with fierce counter-attacks in two key sectors.
Editors Note--The latest Greek communique
made no mention of Mount Olympus and the vital
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
Regarding the operations in
Macedonia, a push of German
forces was made to the south"

This announcement appeared at
the very end of the communiQue,
the first and greater part of which
was devoted 10 describing a Sue
cessful retirement of Greek troops
in southwestern Albania during
which all Italian attempts to
harass the withdrawal were re-
pulsed with severe losses to the
Fascists. many of whom were
taken prisoners.
An effort by German motorized
columns to strike southwestward
from Monastir tBitolD gap and aid
Continued on Page 12)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20

General News
Sports, Finance, Hobbies, Thcaters
3-Socicty, Fashions, Travel, Radio
Real Estate, Classified
Pictorial Review, March Of
Events, War Pictorial, Autos
6-Ameriean Weekly
7--Comios
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-20
FINAL
Features

Boomtown, How War Industrial Employment
and Spending Affect Delroit's Growth; Max
log Machine Guns, Flint Factory Turning
Out Guns .1All in PICTORIAL REVIEW.
Evening star., 1941-09-05

speech is heavily accented. He ex-
plains his broken English as the re-
suit of a determination not to be-
come a merchant like the other
members of his family. His two
brothers, one of whom, Carlos Glib
son, was a Charge d'Affaires at the
Peruvian Embassy here in 1920 and
is now vice president OF Peru, speak
English as Auently as Spanish.
But despite the ultra-English
character of both his names, Mr..
Gibson had a complex against study
of the language for business pur-
poses because he wanted to he a
poet instead. Constant questioning
about his English ancestry wearies
him.
"L have no preoccupation with
Evening star., 1941-09-05

these things" he said yesterday at
the Shoreham Hotel. He is inter
ested mainly in completing his first
book, which points out the common
Indian. background of the culture
Of both North and South America.
He hopes to see it published in
both Spanish and English, so that
both continents may read the re-
suits Of years Of study at the same
time. Much of the actual writing
has been done during the last eight
months in California.
Evening star., 1941-09-05

Percy Gibson, Peruvian poet now
visiting the Capital, has an answer
for those who express surprise at
his English name and Peruvian ma
tionality.
The puzzled ones, says Mr.. Glib
son, should 60 down to Chile and
meet the O'Figginses.
Sent by his government to study
American cultural Institutes and
writing book on the common back
ground of North and South Amer
ican culture at the same time, Mr..
Evening star., 1941-09-05
Peruvian Poet Traces Common
Culture of the Americas

Gibson is the descendant OF an
English pioneer who went with the
expedition Of Lord Corcorar TO
South America in 1921.
A similar expedition was led by
an Irishman named O'Higg1ns.
Just as the defendants or tie first
Gibson Carmichael have become an
established family in Peru, members
of the O'Higgins and Corcoran fam
lilies are prominent in Chile.
Despite his English name and an
English coat of arms, Mr.. Gibson's
Evening star., 1941-09-05

Movies low-brow? Ha! Shake
speare's classics have been adopted
some Al times since nickelodeon
days, Romeo and Juliet heading the
list with seven versions.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-03-07
SIDNEY SNOW will be glad to
answer any questions
on f0od
Simple Delicious Salads
For The Family Dinners

There is absolutely nothing unus-
ual about a woman having trouble
thinking of meals-many have the
same trouble in spite of the fact that
there are hundreds and hundreds Of
salad recipes for every and all &C.
casions. Complicated ones and SIM
pie ones-the simple ones being those
preferred for the greater number OF
occasions, mostly family dinners
Here are a few that housewives will
find well within her ability and time
limit.
BEET SALAD
6 or 8 beets, medium size
Horse radish dressing
French dressing
Celery curls
Boil beets until very tender. Peel
and set aside to cool. Slice, marinate
in French dressing and chill. Ar
ranage on crisp lettuce leaves and
serve with horse-radish dressing.
Garnish with celery curls. If de-
sired, canned beets may be used in
this recipe.
For horse-radish dressing, mix
2 tablespoons evaporated horse-rad-
ish with A tablespoons cold water.
Let stand ten minutes. Then add to
mayonnaise.
RADISH and SCALLION SALAD
A radishes for each serving
2 scallions for each serving
French dressing
Slice radishes very thin, leaving
one for each salad, to be made into
radish roses. Soak Gallons in ice
water for a half hour. Then slice
thin. Combine with radishes. Mix
with French dressing. Serve on crisp
lettuce leaves. Garnish with radish
roses.
PIMENTO OLIVE SALAD
IA cup ripe olives, chopped
IA cup pimentos, chopped
hard cooked eggs, sliced
2 TABLESPOONS green pepper, chopped
1-2 teaspoon salt
French dressing or mayonnaise
Mix olives, pimentos, celery, pep
pers and salt. Arrange sliced eggs
on lettuce and sprinkle with salt.
Place mound of the olives on top
of eggs. Serve with French dress
ing or mayonnaise.