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Evening star., 1941-05-05
Cadets Snap Through PAGES
In Hioh School Drill Contest

to do their best to win from West
ern, which already has gold medals
in its trophy cases, won by its colonel
and one of its majors. Western, and
the other schools as well, have their
eyes on the diamond-studded Alli-
son Nailor Medal, which goes to
the winner of the drill.
Eastern started the competition
today with Companies A, c and B
in that order appearing at 20-min-
ute intervals. They were followed
by Companies K, E and G of Roose-
welt and B and A of the separate
battalion at Calvin Coolidge. The
"non-com" competition followed the
company drill.
AS the companies marched on to
the field in columns of threes," a
formation from the new drill manual
of last year. an old-timer in the
stands was heard to remark: That's
q new one on me. We used to
march by fours."
The columns proceeded to the
southwest corner Of the field and
were then presented to the judges
by their commanders. A rigid in
spection of clothing and equipment
followed, the inspection accounting
for rs per cent Of the final score in
the entire competition. After that,
(see CADETS, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1941-05-05
German Air Attack
On Isle Of Crete
Reported by British
Four Nozi WorpIones
Declared Shot Down
Over RoyoI Refuge
By the Associated Press


CAIRO, Egypt, May 5.-British
planes have shot down four Nazi
raiders over the Greek island of
Crete, the British Royal Air Force
reported today, indicating the Ger
mans were beginning a long-ex-
pected intensive attack on Greece s
new headquarters.
The war bulletin said anti-air-
craft guns destroyed other Nazi
planes over the island to which
King George II of Greece and his
ministers fled before the fall of
Athens.
Imperial forces counter-attacking
the Germans and italians at Tobruk
were reported by the British Near
East command to have broken up
Axis preparations for renewal of
assaults on the encircled Libyan
port.
Heavy casualties were inflicted on
the Axis forces. which still are hold
ing small sector in Tobruk's outer
defenses, the war bulletin said.
In East Africa the high command
announced a further advance against
Amba Alaji, some 280 miles north
east of Adds Ababa.
Fresh fighting has broken out in
the Salum sector of the North Az
rican front, along the Egyptian
Libyan border, with losses inflicted
on Axis troops and vehicles, it was
announced.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
RooseveIt'sLetter
On Taxes Useless
Crowther Asserts
Offers Little Guidonce,'
House Member Declares
As Hearings Reopen
BY the Associated Press.

by tnc hsSoSldlcu EIeoS
Representative Crowther, Repub-
lican, of New York today termed
perfectly useless" letter by Presi-
dent Roosevelt asking Congress for
a So, 500, 600, 900 tax bill which would
not make the rich richer and the
poor poorer"
Criticizing the letter at the re-
opening of tax hearings by the
House Ways and Means Committee,
Mr.. Crowther declared 1t gave the
committee very little guidance"
1T doesn't say word about re-
duction of expenditures in connec-
ton with writing the tax BILL" he
added.
Representative Cooper, Democrat,
of Tennessee replied that the letter
was splendid and appropriate
Letter Sent Friday.
The letter was sent to Chairman
Doughton Friday. In it, Mr.. Roose-
welt said in part:
The income tax cannot fix the
tax liability of individuals and cor
porations with equity as long as the
tax basis is defined to exclude sub
stantial and significant elements of
income.
II hope your committee, with the
help of the Treasury. will formulate
a tax bill which will convince the
country that a national defense pro-
gram intended to protect our de-
mocracy is not going to make the
rich richer and the poor poorer"
Representative Jenkins, Republi-
can, of Ohio commented that Its
the general consensus" that Mr.
Roosevelt might as well not have
sent the letter"
Chairman Doughton expressed the
view that if the President had laid
down any hard and fast rule we
would have resented it"
Excess Tax Revision Urged.
The first witness. Hugh M. Bennett
of Columbus, Ohio, asked that the
excess profits tax law be rewritten to
permit property acquired in reor-
ganization to be valued, for excess
profits tax purposes, at higher
figure than the prices paid at the
reorganization sales. Higher valua-
tions would give the taxpayer a
higher excess profits tax credit.
Mr.. Bennett said he appeared on
(See TAXES, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Garment Workers Unit
CHARGES News Guild Gag
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 5.-The Inter-
national Ladies Garment Workers
Publication Unit of the New York
Newspaper Guild charged today that
guild leadership was attempting to
stifle free speech and subjecting
the unit to "a typical Communist
NaZi purge"
The charge was made in formal
answer to earlier guild notice to
the unit to explain the stand Of IL
unit members who had criticized the
guild strike against the newspaper,
the Jewish Day.
The unit, composed of employees
on the Garment Workers Union CA.
F.. L. publications. had criticized
the New York Newspaper Guild &C.
I. o. for 'precipitating" a strike
against the Jewish paper.
Nat Einhorn, executive secretary
of the guild, said the first question
to be decided by the membership
is whether members of the guild are
to be permitted to engage in strike-
breaking activity against o strike
called by the guild"
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Special Dispatch to The Star.

WARRENTON, Va, May s.
Walter P. Chrysler, jr., son of the
late automobile magnate, bought the
North Wales estate for $175,00 to-
day, shortly before it was to be sold
at public auction.
His purchase includes more than
10 buildings, including racing stable
with a 34-mile track on the estates
1000 acres.
The private sale. which halted the
auction, was made through Robert
c. Winmill, president of Colonial
Estates, Inc. The estate, show
place of the Virginia hunt country,
has been a club since 1929.
The new owner, Mr.. Winmill said,
planned to use the estate as q breed
ing place for horses.
The sale was completed by long
distance telephone eight minutes
before the auction was to start. Mr..
Chrysler, who had visited the estate
several months ago, was in New
York and Mr.. Winmill in Warren
ton.
A number Of prospective buyers
Evening star., 1941-05-05
10000 Made Homeless
Bv Brazilian Floods
RY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, May S.
At least 10000 persons were home
less today and the entire business
district of this port city was inun-
dated by the worst floods ever
recorded in the Southern Brazil
state of Rio Grande do Sui.
More than 1000 houses were
flooded here yesterday and more
than 400 homes were under water
in the western town of Alegrete.
Much damage was caused by the
waters on rice plantations near the
town of Cachoeira.
Street traffic is paralyzed in Porto
Allegro and water covering the rail-
road tracks has kept numerous
trains from running.
So far, however, only one person
has drowned in this city. Three
rice farmers committed suicide at
Cachoeira.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Nozis Think Position of u. S.
Makes Peace Date Uncertain
Intervention Would Proone Conflict, but
Not Alter Result, Germans Declare

to the Reichstag were pondering the
prospects of the United States be-
coming belligerent.
The Fuehrer's emphasis on Ger
many's determination to hold her
lead in "history's greatest armament
race" induced many to consider the
prospect of a longer war and more
enemies which stand in the way OF
complete establishment of a new
order"
Thus the Deutsche Allgemeine
Zeitung considered the statement
attributed to a number Of American
generals and admirals that German
armament production is at its maxi
mum while the United States is "a
nation on Wheels" and, therefore,
enjoys advantages in the mechanical
field which would be decisive in
military action.
But one cannot swim over the
ocean on wheels" the newspaper
observed, insisting that not ma
Evening star., 1941-05-05
World Gets WARNING
u. 5. Is Ready 10 Fight
For Freedom Again
Speech at Wilson Shrine
Is Brief and Positive in
Stond Against Dietotors
fTert OF Presidents Speech on
Page A-7.)
fTert OF Presidents Speech o,
Page A-7.)
By JOHN c. HENRY.

The world stood Informed today
that the American people, who have
fought before for their faith in the
freedom of democracy, stand ready
to fight again.
1t was a pronouncement, broad
and yet positive, made yesterday by
President Roosevelt as he stood on
the sun-drenched front steps of the
restored birthplace home of Wood
row Wilson, the Nations Chief Ex-
ecutive during its last world cru
sade on behalf of the democratic
ideals, in the little mountain city
of Staunton, Va.
Close by him as he spoke was Mrs.
Wilson, widow of the World War
President; Secretary of State Hull,
principal adviser today on the mo-
mentous problem Of foreign policy:
and solemn-faced Viscount Lord
Halifax the British Ambassador.
And almost at the moment of
Mr.. Roosevelt's declaration, the in
dividual who is leading today's
world war against the democracies-
Reichschancellor Adolf Hitler-was
telling his listeners that the Ger
many of today is superior in power
to ANY conceivable coalition" of
enemy states and that her answer
to the democratic agitators" is that
1.-The German people will never again
experience such year as 1918"
Carefully Worded Speech.
Mr.. Roosevelt's address yesterday
was brief one, taking a scant five
minutes for delivery, but it was care
fully worded and weighted with his
manifest determination to record
this Government on the side of con-
tinuing, and perhaps more active
resistance to the powers Of force
and aggression.
And his concluding thought
seemed almost Complementary to
Hitler's spoken defiance of ANY con-
ceivable coalition" as he remarked
with deliberate emphasis that the
Wilson ideals of freedom were wide
enough to support democracy in all
the world. He taught that democ-
racy could not survive In isolation
We applaud his judgment and his
faith"
At other points, too, he accorded
broad tribute to the Wilsonian
vision splendid" of family Of ma
tions, embracing an emancipation
of conscience from power and the
substitution of freedom for force IN
the government of the world"
Ever Ready to Fight Again.
The very occasion for his speech
dedication of the Wilson home, Mr.
Roosevelt referred to as an action
bearing true witness to the faith
that is in us-a simple faith In the
freedom of democracy in the world.
"It is the kind Of faith for which
we have fought before" he added
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-30
Evening star., 1941-05-05
North Wales Club Purchased
By ChrysIer for Horse Farm

had been waiting for the opening
of the auction to purchase parcels
of the land. On Friday, some of
the furnishings of the 72-room
mansion had been sold at auction.
At the time of the marriage of
the Duke and Duchess of Windsor,
the estate was considered a possible
American home for the couple. The
Duchess lived there while obtaining
a divorce from her first husband.
The original house of field stone
was built in 1773. The land is part
of a 2,900-acre grant from Lady
Culpeper to two Welshmen in l7l9.
The place was sold by descendant.
Henry Ashton, to the late Edward
Weld, New York cotton broker, in
1918.
Mr.. Chrysler, a comparative new
conner to American racing, now
owns about so brood mares and has
an interest in the fine stallion,
Bahram, imported from England
about a year ago by group OF
Americans. Bahram now is at
Gwynne Vanderbilt's Sycamore
Farms near Baltimore.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
SeIossie Is Reported
Near Adds Abobo

Adds ABABA, Ethiopia, May
Oelayed (P.-Haile Selassie neared
this capital city today to reclaim
the throne from which he was
driven by the Italians in 1896, and
his subjects began celebrating ex-
citedly.
Thousands f1ocked to st. Georges
Cathedral for a double celebration
the imminent return of the King
(See BRITISH, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1941-05-05
SeIectees Switch 10 Train
As Strike Ties Up Buses

Because of strike on the Penn.
sylvania Greyhound Lines, 80 Sc
lectees from Montgomery County
Draft Board No. 3, who planned to
20 to the induction station in Bal
timore this morning by chartered
bus, were forced to make a last
minute change and take a train
from Silver Spring.
The men had assembled at draft
board headquarters at Bethesda
Chevy Chase Community Center for
final instructions when they learned
of the strike through a telephone
call to the company regarding their
destination. The board made hur-
ried arrangements with the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad to have the
men take the 8:22 am. train from
Silver Spring.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
BY the Associated Press.

The Supreme Court agreed today
to reconsider its recent 4-to-4 de-
cision upholding the wife murder
conviction of Robert S. James, Los
Angeles barber, at whose trial two
live rattlesnakes were displayed to
the jury.
In his petition for rehearing James
contended that no death penalty
should be imposed through what is
really a lack of decision by the
highest court of the Nation"
He asserted that where consti-
tutional questions are involved in
the conviction and death sentence
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Raschid Ali Attacked.
Forum Speaker to Talk
On Defense Savings

Harold N. Graves, assistant to
the Secretary Of the Treasury,
will outline the motives and OBJ
jectives Of the Governments De.
tense savings campaign in the
National Radio Forum at 9:30
o'clock tonight. The forum, ar
ranged by The Star and broadcast
over a National Broadcastins Co.
network. will be heard locally
over WMAL.
The vast program embarked on
by the Treasury to help finance
defense expenditures through the
sale of savings bonds and stamps
is in direct charge of Mr.. Graves,
who will make it clear why the
Government has chosen this
method of financing in preference
to borrowing the sums needed.
The campaign was launched
Thursday.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
b. the Associated Press.


BERLIN, May 5.-The chance Of
American Intervention in the war
makes it impossible from the Ger
man side to speculate on the dura-
ton of the conflict, the well-posted
commentary Dienst aus Deutsch-
land said today in comment on
Adolf Hitler's speech yesterday.
Dienst, which has close Foreign
Office connections, hinted at the
possibility that the war may extend
into 1912.
Involved in the assumption of
such a possibility" it said, Lies un-
doubtedly calculation on the posi-
bility of American intervention.
Such intervention is appraised
by Germans as an influence which
could prolong the war. but under no
circumstances alter the ultimate re-
suit"
From other sources there were
indications that Germans who gave
thoughtful study to Hitler's report
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Supreme Court to Reconsider
Four-Four Murder Decision

OF man a rehearing ought TO be
granted so that the case may be
decided by majority of the court" a"
The 4-to-4 decision was made
possible by the retirement last Feb
ruary 1 of Justice James C. Nc
Reynolds. The tribunal has granted
rehearings in several other cases
decided by an evenly divided vote.
The State alleged that James
drowned his wife in bathtub, as
part of plan to collect insurance,
after failing to produce death by
thrusting her foot into box con-
tanning two rattlesnakes.
The Supreme Court assigned the
case for argument next October l3.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Coast Guardsmen
Board Yugos|av
Ships in New York
Precautionary Measure
Headquarters Says
Of Surprise Action
B. the Associated Press.

.
NEW YORK, May 5.-Coast
Guardsmen today boarded Yugoslav
ships in New York harbor as pre-
cautionary measure" Coast Guard
officers said, after having received
certain rumors."
Two ships were boarded, the Sreca
and Nett in Brooklyn, and a third,
the Predsednik Kopajpic, was said
to have been boarued off Stapleton,
Staten Island.
TIE Coast Guard several times de-
MED that the ships were seized" but
indicated they either were placed in
protective custody or were being
wached closely.
Boarding parties moved on the
ships during the early morning
hours, executing a surprise maneu-
yer. At the 2.908-ton freighter Neti's
Brooklyn dock, Coast Guardsmen
also took possession of the pier.
Sreca Recently Arrived.
The 5,355-ton freighter Sreca, re-
Gently arrived from st. Thomas, was
boarded few minutes later at a
nearby dock.
The Predsednik Kopajpic, a ,798-
ton ship, it ives reported, had at
tempted to sail from its Staten
Island pier before boarding parties
reached 1t of Stapleton.
Combined Argosies, Inc. operators
OF the PredSednik K0pajpic, said
the ship was preparing to sail for
Cuba in ballast when the Coast
Guardsmen boarded her. They said
the vessel was under charter to the
North Atlantic and Gulf Steamship
Co., an American firm.
After inspecting the ship officials
left three Coast Guardsmen aboard.
The action was similar to that
taken when the Government took
charge Of German, italian and Dan
ish vessels here. In Washington, the
Coast Guard also denied it had
seized" the Yugoslav vessels, but
added that the Guardsmen were
closely watching them.
New York Coast Guard headquar-
ters did not amplify its statement.
Determined Crews Stand.
In Washington its was understood
that the action was taken to deter
| mine whether the officers and crews
of the Yugoslav ships we're loyal to
King Peter or to the new govern
ment set up by Germany after in
vasion Of the little kingdom.
Inspections were believed it was
said, to have demonstrated that the
men were loyal to King Peter, and
hence Great Britain, and that no
further action would be taken to
seize the ships or detain the men.
A close watch will be maintained
over them, however, as in the case
of all other foreign ships.
There are II Yugoslav ships in the
United States at present.
The Coast Guard reported from
New Orleans the Yugoslav steam
ship Timok at anchor in the Mis-
sissippi River was boarded yesterday
| on a routine checkup."
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Luce and Clare Boothe
Arrive at Hong Kong
Ey the Associated Press.


HONG KONG, May 5-Henry
Luce, publisher of Time and Life,
accompanied by his playwright wife,
Glare Boothe, arrived today from
Manila aboard Clipper for what
he said was to be "busman's holi-
day" at Chungking.
They intend to fly Wednesday to
the Chinese capital to be guests Of
DR.. H. H. Kung. Chinese Finance
Minister, and his wife.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Britain Advances
Clocks for Double
Daylight Saving
~ tho ASsaci,t,d Drase

By tire Associated Press.
LONDON. May 5.-To get
more daylight out of the wax
ing hours, Britain advanced her
clocks one hour yesterday on
government orders.
With the clocks already an
hour ahead. this meant double
daylight saving time.
BY utilizing more fully the
hours of daylight, the British
serve the double purpose of
conserving power and of con-
centrating most activity in the
hours least likely to be inter-
rupted by air attack.
Under the new time. there
will be a seven-hour difference
between British and Eastern
standard time.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
-Four Vessels Set Afire
At Belfast, Nozis { Jim

BERLIN, May 5 (P.--Luftwaffe
raiders pounding Belfast, Northern
Ireland. set afire four ships last
night in the harbor and started
tremendous fires and explosions in
aircraft industrial plants, the Ger
man high command announced to-
day.
The daily war bulletin spoke of
(See RAIDS, Page A-30
Evening star., 1941-05-05
British Reported Ready
To Accept Mediation

LONDON. May (PD.-Turkey has
offered, or will offer, to mediate the
undeclared war between Iraq and
Britain, reliable reports said tonight.
Informed sources in London said
Britain would accept mediation,
contingent upon Iraqs withdrawal
of forces menacirg the British-held
'Habbaniyah airdrome.
Of Raschid Ali AL Gallant,
anti-3ritish Premier of Iraq,
withdraws his troops from
threatening positions near British
bases and stops fighting 'rela-
tions of full cordiality" will be
restored between Britain and
Iraq, the British radio said to-
day. c. B. S. transcribed the
broadcast in New York;
Oil Reported Cut Off.
Iraq is reported to have cut the
vital pipeline flow of oil to the Med
iterranean from the high Mosul
fields, and authoritative British pre-
dicted that if Axis influences
triumphed against the British in the
Near East Kingdom they would
thrust next at neighboring Iran
fourth greatest oil producer in the
world.
A Swiss radio report heard today
In London quoted Baghdad COM
munique as saying that Iraq forces
encircling the British air base at
Lake Habbaniyah were closing in
the airport was under constant
artillery fire, and buildings were
efire.
Reports from Cairo earlier indi-
Gated the British troops still were
holding out last night at their Lake
Habbaniyah base, 60 miles west of
Baghdad, and that R. A. F. bombers
had taken the offensive-striking to
cripple Iraq's small air force.
(The German radio was heard
In New York broadcasting today
what it. called IAN official report
from Baghdad" saying that Brit
ish planes bombed that Iraq capi-
tai yesterday morning. One Brit
ish plane was shot down, the re-
port said.
CThe official British radio an
nounced, however, that 24,0O0
leaflets in Arabic had beer show
cred over Baghdad.
(The announcement did not
disclose what the leaflets said,
but it was recalled that propa-
ganda campaigns, referred to
derisively by the Germans as
confetti raids" were carried out
over the Reich in the early days
of the western front stalemate.
c. B. S. recorded the British an
nouncement in New York;
Raschid Ali Attacked.
What the British call the pro-
German government which Premier
Raschid Ali set up in a coup April
4 was attacked verbally, meanwhile
by the Emir Abdul Ilah, deposed
regent. He declared in Palestine
that he would return to restore
lawfully constituted government
The Emir urged Iraq troops to re-
turn peacefully to their posts.
The stoppage of Iraq oil, pumped
through pipe line to Haifa, in Brit
lsh-mandated Palestine, was said by
Reuters, British news agency, to
(See IRAO. Page Aid
Evening star., 1941-05-05
DefenseHousinq
Order Provides
140D.C. Units
Families of Enlisted
Men to Get Homes
At Three Posts
BACKGROUND-

BACKGROUND
Shifting of population because
of national defense program has
caused housing shortages in many
communities near industrial and
military establishments. Defense
housing authorities hare obtained
appropriations Of s150,000 900 and
allocations OF a similar sum under
Lunhdm Act to relieUe emergency
situation Wdshington's erpdn-
sion is unique in that it is due
to infur OF defense agency
WorkerS rather than industrial
or military personnel.
Evening star., 1941-05-05
Tongier Customs Rule
Reported Taken by Spain

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 5.-A Reuters
British News Agency dispatch
from Tangier said Spain assumed
control OF customs today at that
former international zone in Africa,
lust across from Gibraltar.