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Evening star., 1941-01-17
Malta Island, Too,'
Italians Retort to
German Jibe

BY Cable to The Star.
ROME, Jan. II (CD.N)-
The fact that the Island OF
Malta has stood like a second
Gibraltar III the Mediterranean
warfare is the subject of an
anecdote here in which a Ger
man asks why the Italians have
not been able to take this Brit
ish base.
Malta, too, is an island" the
italian replies.
Evening star., 1941-01-17
Grafton Wilcox Quits
New York Editorship
BY the Associated Press,


NEW YORK, Jan. Iteration
S. Wilcox, managing editor of the
New York Herald Tribune for many
years, resigned today because of i'll
health and was succeeded by George
Cornish, assistant managing editor.
Mr.. Wilcox formerly was a staff
writer of the Associated Press in
Washington and later worked fnr
the Chicago Tribune before joining
the Herald Tribunes Washington
bureau.
Evening star., 1941-01-17
Leohy, III of Bronchitis,
Reported Improved
a, tbs Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VICHY, France, Jan. 17.-United
States Ambassador Admiral VIII
liam D. Leahy's condition was re-
ported improved today as his tenn
perature dropped to normal for the
first time since he became Ill Of
bronchitis January II.
The Embassy said he would re-
main indoors at least until Monday.
Evening star., 1941-01-17
Talks With Mexico
On Joint Defenses
To Start Next Week
Negotiations Also Will
Seek Stronger Bond
OF Friendship
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Long controversy oUer CON-
penSdtion has follo10ed MeIicdn
appropriation OF American. Brit
ish and Dutch oil properties in
March, 1898. MeTtco rejected
Secretary OF State HuUs proposal
for arbitration OF the dispute last
spring. In addition, United
States has ertenSiDe claims
against Merico for appropriation
OF farm lands prior to August 80.
1927,
Evening star., 1941-01-17
Stimson Pleads for Free Hand
For President in Emergency,
Opposing Leose-Lend Changes
Stresses Confidence
In Roosevelt Amid
Committee Clashes
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
American policy of aiding Brit
ain BY euery means short OF
uar" has steadily advanced to
point ,Uhere legislation nolU pend
ing 1Uould permit this Govern
n1ent to build or buy all types OF
equipment and transfer it Nth
out immediate compensation.
To support measure, Secretary
Morqenthdu has informed House
committee that British cash bal
nnce here 1CiN be near exhaustion
By end OF year.
Evening star., 1941-01-17

BY the Associated Press.
SAIGON. Indo-China, Jan. IL
The French Asiatic squadron was
declared by French sources today to
have sunk two Thai warships and
severely damaged third in the first
important naval engagement in the
undeclared war between Indo-China
and Thailand (SiamD.
The encounter was said to have
occurred in the Gulf of Siam, where
the Thai ships we're said to have
been firing on French patrol plane.
The size and classif1cations of the
ships we're not stated. Several
French units participated.
Air Successes Claimed.
The French claimed aerial sue
ceSses. also, against the Thai forces
but admitted they were forced to re-
treat on land as the invading Thai
soldiers forged toward Sisophon
Western Cambodia railhead.
Fighting a rearguard action against
strong tank and infantry forces, the
French withdrew to what they call
their little Maginot Line" defend
ing SiSophon, where the railway
from Southeastern Indo- China meets
the highway running to the Thai
border. The French admitted sc
casualties. but said the Thailand
forces lost 600 men.
French planes severely bombed
three main Thailand airports, Aran-
va, Wadhana and Prachinburi.
600 Lost in Trap.
The American representative of
the Texas Co., who returned from
the Cambodia front, told of French
military death trap in which nearly
800 green Thai cavalrymen lost their
lives January 10.
He said the French, retiring from
Poipet along the road to Sisophon
set up machine guns on both sides
of a jungle-lined lane. When an
entire column of Thai horsemer
were within 500 yards of the death
stretch, the French Foreign Legior
gunners opened fire, moving dowr
men ana nOrSeS IN 10 minutes 01
slaughter.
Only three of the Thailand troop
ers emerged alive, he said.
Bangkok was under a blackout last
night.
The Thai high command an
nounced "a highly successful ad-
vance" into Cambodia in which
several French prisoners and the
colorS of the 5th French Indo-C China
Battalion were captured.
1t is doubtful if any French naval
units larger than destroyers remain
in Asiatic waters. The Thai Navy
has 4 cruisers and IA destroyers.
Most of these were built in Japan or
Italy.
Evening star., 1941-01-17
Two Thai|and
Warships Sunk,
French Claim
Third Is Reported
Severely Damaged
In Gulf of Siam

BACKGROUND
Thailand (Siam) raised claims
to parts OF French Indo-Chtna
tollo,Uino fall OF France last
June. Negotiations on Thai
Indo-China relations 1Dere car
ried on for some time, but broke
doUn, and tension recently fured
into open fighting, NTH Thai
troops inuading ndo-ChineSe
territory.
Evening star., 1941-01-17
Weather Forecast

Cloudy, slightly warmer; light rain;
lowest tonight about 40; tomorrow most
ly cloudy, colder: Sunday fair, cold.
Temperatures today-Highest, 40, at 2
pm; lowest, "a, at $3.50 am.
From the United States Weather Bureau report.
Full Details on Page A.
Evening star., 1941-01-17

(See ROME, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1941-05-31
362 D. T.. Selectees
Will Be Called in
Final June Quota
Requisition Advances
Washington Totol for
Year to Att

A call for 362 Washington selec-
tees to be inducted into the Army
from June 26 through 80 was re-
ceived today from Sd Corps Area
headquarters, completing the Dis
trict's share in the first years oper-
alton of the selective service pro-
gram.
The requisition advances the city's
quota for the year ending July l, to
Att men, or nearly 1000 more than
the estimated quota released by the
War Department when the draft
of manpower was begun last fall.
Under the new call. 208 white men
will be inducted in Richmond. Va,
48 on June 26 and 160 the following
day. A total of 154 colored selectees
will be sent to Baltimore for in
duction, 80 on June 26; 80 on June
27, SO on June % and 80 on June 80.
The complete June quota for
Washington now totals 1,091 men,
the second highest requisition for
any one month received thus far.
March still ranks as the peak month,
with it's special call for 1,100 Sc
lectees to round out the 260th Coast
Artillery at Fort Bliss, Tex, to war
strength.
Although July l was set as the
date for completion of the first
years operation of the draft pro-
gram, monthly acquisitions for Sc
lectees are expected to continue at
regular intervals after that time,
since the 900,000-man selectee army
permitted under the Selective Serv-
ice Act will not have been attained.
Evening star., 1941-05-31
Bismarck Reported as Worshiip
Of SO, 90 o Tons, 400 Aboard
Far Above Anything British Had Thought Of;
Question Of Size of Tirpitz Is Raised
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSOClateu fTeSS.
AN ENGLISH PORT. May 81
Statements that the German Bis
marck was a 50,000-ton superdread-
naught-largest fighting ship in the
world-with 2,400 officers and men
threw into new perspective today
last weeks mighty naval duel in
which she destroyed the battle
cruiser Hood and then was sunk
in vengeance.
A British naval officer who partici-
pated in the sea fight which cut short
the Bismarck s fierce challenge to
British naval supremacy gave the
first indication the Nazi capital
ship was bigger than the 35,000-ton
rating generally accorded her.
She was a 50.000-ton battleship,
the officer declared-''undoubtedly
far above anything we had thought
Of"
That statement shed new light on
an assertion by survivor of the
Bismarck that she was crowded with
2,400 officers and men, 400 of them
naval cadets. Approximately 100
were reported rescued.
previously, supposing the Bis
marck a 35.0O0-ton ship, it had
been estimated she carried no
more than 1900 officers and men.
The big ships fight with the
Hood and Britain's new 10000
ton Prince of Wales last Satur-
day was the Bismarck's first re-
ported naval action since her
completion during the war.
indications that she was far
bigger than the 35,000-ton listing
raised the question of the size OF
Germany's other new battleship,
Evening star., 1941-05-31
Il j. :. Survivors
OF zamzam Detained
In France by Nazis
No Explanation Made;
11e Others Cross
Frontiers Into Spoin
BY the Associated Press

SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, near the
French frontier, May 3l-A group of
119 American survivors from the
German-sunk Egyptian liner Zam-
zam crossed the frontier into Spain
today, but 81 others, American am
bulance drivers, were held by the
Germans at Biarritz, in Nazi-occu-
pied France, with no explanation ex-
cept diplomatic reasons"
Two of the ambulance drivers,
Charles Mccarthy and Langford
Harriss, were among the freed sur
vivors of the Zamzam who reached
Spanish soil.
Their passports were marked Stu
dent" and it was said the Germans
did not realize they also were ambu-
lance drivers. The corps was headed
for service with Gen. Charles de
Gaulle's Free French" forces still
warning against Germany.
The men who crossed into Spain
were compelled to leave all baggage
behind. The women were allowed to
bring hand luggage.
The ambulance men still detained
are confined in a hotel at Biarritz
The Americans who crossed into
Spain said the German navy had
been in charge of all survivors until
yesterday, when a representative of
the Berlin foreign Office arrived
and took over.
This representative, they said, was
the man who ordered the ambulance
drivers held, saying their case would
be decided in Berlin.
Germans to whom they talked. the
Americans said, referred repeatedly
to bad treatment" they said was
given German sailors arrested in
American ports.
Harriss, 20, and Mccarthy. 29, are
from New York. They sailed on the
Zamzam after months training
at the British-American Ambulance
Corps headquarters in New York.
Two representatives of the United
States Embassy at Madrid, Duwayne
G. Clark and George Poland, jr.,
were at the frontier when the sur
vivors crossed. Mr.. Clark said he
would 60 to BiarritZ Monday to find
out why the others were detained.
Evening star., 1941-05-31
Marching Orders
Clear Up Fort Dix
Leave Mystery
RS the Associated Press.

FORT DIX, N. j.. May 31.-Maj.
Gen. Clifford R. Powell announced
today that the entire 44th Division
would start out Tuesday on train
ing march to Fort Belvoir, Va.
which would be observed by general
headquarters.
The maneuver, involving a round
trip by $4,000 officers and men, prob
ably will require week, Gen. Powell
said.
His statement cleared up mystery
surrounding the abrupt cancellation
of Today furloughs which had been
granted to 80 per cent of the di-
vision effective last night.
Fort Dix officers understood the
entire movement would be motor
lied, with the division taking every
thing it would not normally leave at
its garrison post during wartime.
This will require a loan of trucks
from other outfits, since the 44th
has only about so per cent OF the
number needed to carry its infantry
regiments.
Evening star., 1941-05-31
81 Killed in Dublin;
Bombing Believed
UnintentionaI
Glass SkyIieht Near
Front Door of U. S.
Legation Blown Out
BY the Associated Press.


DUBLIN, May 31.-Fifty-two per-
sons were killed and between 100 and
200 injured early today in this neu-
trail capital when unidentified planes
dropped three bombs, one of which
blew out a glass skylight near the
front door of the United States
Legation.
In placing the total dead at 50, an
official statement said % bodies had
been recovered and that 80 persons
were unaccounted for and presumed
to be dead.
Premier Eamon de Valera walked
grimly through bombed districts to-
day. The tall, gaunt Premier viewed
the wreckage of bombed houses and
quietly asked questions of his police
escort.
Relief workers still were probing
the wreckage for survivors.
The loss of life was the greatest
Fire had suffered in an air raid since
the war began. Unidentified planes
bombed Dublin January and 8,
causing three deaths and injuring
IL persons, and bombs fell again
May S, but there were no casualties.
United States Minister David Gray
said one of the three bombs dropped
this morning fell about one-quarter
of a mile from the Legation, in
beautiful Phoenix Park, but no one
inside was hurt.
The same bomb blasted windows
out of the official residence of Fires
President, DR.. Douglas Hyde.
Anti-aircraft batteries began firing
just after midnight, when the planes
first were heard. No bombs fell
Evening star., 1941-05-31
Arrangements Made
To Expedite Return

Special arrangements for expe-
diting the return to the United
States of the American survivors of
the Egyptian ship ZamZam were an
nounced by the State Department
today.
The survivors will be taken to
Lisbon, where they will be given
preference in accommodations in
American Export Line vessels for
the return journey to New York.
The State Department had no in
formation that any of the 140 Amer
leans were being held by German
authorities.
Alexander w. Weddell, United
States Ambassador in Madrid, in
formed the Department that ar
rangements had been made in CO.
operation with the Spanish govern
ment to expedite the trip of the
survivors through Spain to Portugal.
They were to be met by represent
ative of the United States Legation
in Portugal at the Spanish -Portu-
guese border and escorted to Lisbon.
Evening star., 1941-05-31
Standard Restricts
Fuel Oil Sales Here

First indications of possible
shortage of fuel oil in this vicinity
came today when the Standard Oil
Co. admitted having restricted de-
liveries of this commodity.
Deliveries are being made only to
those persons having immediats
use for the fuel" company officials
said.
Executives of the company were
not available for comment, and 1t
was not learned whether the COM
pany had made the restrictions be-
cause of a shortage in their own
supply or whether they had taken
the steps because of recent declara-
tions of Secretary of the Interior
Ickes that ''fuelless days" might be
necessary in order to conserve oil
on the Eastern coast.
Other major oil companies can
vassed today expressed surprise at
questions regarding possible curtail-
ment of deliveries of fuel oil. "Busi-
ness as usual" and plenty of fuel
OIL" were their comments. They
expressed opinion that shortage Of
oil was something we have been
hearing and reading about" but
which had not come to them.
Evening star., 1941-05-31
.Lumbermen's S Strike
MayForce U.S.. Action
To End Shutdown
Dykstro's Demand Thot
1900 Go Beck to Work
Puts 1t Near Showdown
By The Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The administration today faced a
strike problem which may force ac-
ton to back up President Roosevelt's
insistence that no disputes be al
lowed to obstruct defense production.
The strike involves some 10000
members of the c. I. o. International
Woodworkers' Union, who are en-
ployed in 50 Puget Sound lumber
camps and mills. The union seeks a
wage increase of 712 cents an hour
over the reported present rate Of
67i2 cents an hour for common labor.
Clarence A. Dykstra. chairman of
the Defense Mediation Board, pushed
the question toward a showdown yes
terday.
The board already has recon-
mended that work be resumed while
a fact-flnding commission makes a
survey of labor conditions in the Pa
cific Coast lumber industry. Yester-
day the board followed up with a
telegram calling attention to the
recommendation and also to the
Presidents statement Tuesday that
the American people expect labor
and capital to accept the Mediation
Boards recommendations.
Union officials replied that they
had no authority to accept the
boards proposal.
Mr.. Dykstra thereupon wired
them: "It does not appear that you
have complied with the request
made in the boards wire of May
%: The board requests that you
bring this telegram to personal at
tention of every one with the powel
to vote upon the acceptance or re-
| lection of the boards recommenda
tions.' Please inform this board by
wire whether or not it is your in.
tention to comply with this request.
This was the major Memorial Day
labor development, but elsewhere
two settlements were reached in
differences over wages while an
other was the return to work OF
hundreds of Phoenix Iron Co. en-
ployes who had been on strike for
16 days at the Phoenixville, Pa
plant. The C. I. o. Steel Workers
Organizing Committee had called
the strike because an employees asso-
citation, which holds contract, had
refused to agree to collective bar
gaining election.
S. w. o. C. officials said they
would not stand in the way of
workers who declared they had
needed the appeal of President
Roosevelt for continuance or work
in defense plants. The company
makes structural iron for ships.
Evening star., 1941-05-31
None So Blind
Gen. Freyberg Alive
And With His Troops,
British Announce
b. the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 31.-Gen. B.
C. Freyberg. commander of
British imperial forces in
Crete, is alive and with his
troops the War Office an
nounced today.
With reference to the Ger
man statements alleging the
death of Gen. Freyberg," the
announcement said. I'VE are
glad TO announce that he is
alive and with his troops"
The German radio reported
Yesterday that Gen. Freyberg
was killed in an air crash while
flying from Crete to Egypt and
accused him of deserting his
command at a moment of
peril.
Evening star., 1941-05-31
British Fleeing Crete
Pounded by Planes,
Germans Report
s,-
Some of Defenders
Have Reached Govdos,
Berlin Declares
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN. May 31-Some OF the
British defenders of Crete have fed
to the island of Gavdos, Is miles
off the south coast, and are being
pounded by the Nazi air force, the
German high command announced
today.
The LuftWaffe also was pounding
the south coast ports of Crete it
self, from which, the high command
said, other remnants Of the British
troops were attempting to flee.
A British destroyer was damaged
so badly off the south coast that It's
loss is apparent. it was said.
Those of the British who reached
Gavdos are cut off from communi-
cation with their main forces the
communique indicated. 1t said Ger
man bombs had destroyed the signal
station on the little islet.
Pursuing Enemy.
The main German forces on Crete
we're pressing along the northern
coastal plain from the west, pursu-
ing "the defeated enemy" the high
command said. They expected to
effect a juncture shortly with Italian
troops moving from the eastern end
of the island, stepping stone IN
the drive against Suez.
Already the German columns
have relieved parachutists estab-
| lished near Gambia, it was stated.
The high commands announce
ment that British naval units were
bombed south of Crete was taken
to indicate the British fleet had re-
! turned to the scene to cover with
drawal attempts.
British units still on the main
island were bombed constantly on
the rocky roads of retreat, the Ger
man announcement said.
The high command cited a lieu
tenant, two sergeantS and a private
of a mountain regiment for especial
bravery in the fighting at Canea.
the capital, at the west end OF the
island.
JutIand Anniversary.
Besides being the twelfth day of
bitter fighting for the strategic is
land, this is the twenty-f1fth ami
versary of the battle of Jutland
which Germans celebrate as a great
victory for their feet over the Royal
Navy. The entire German press de-
clared today that now the Luftwaffe
definitely had proved its supremacy
over the British Mediterranean
Fleet in the battle for Crete.
So far as the newspapers were
| concerned, the battle was decided.
In screaming headlines, they told
their readers: Enemy on Crete de-
feated, victory is ours"
German dive-bombers were said
to have swarmed over the island
Yesterday, smashing at the British
wherever they could be found. Troop
concentrations in the mountainous
interior and on the southern coast
were bombed and broken up, in
formed Germans said.
They listed among the Luftwaffe's s
targets camps and troops at Sphak-
ion and Tympakion on the south
coast, at Lutro, and on the road
from Retimo to Nefsamari.
The Germans now claim they hold
Canea, Gambia, Crete's largest city;
Suda Bay, former British naval base,
and the city of Retimo.
(Some defenders fleeing areas
around Canea and Gambia were
trying to get away in small fish
ing boats, the German wireless
reported last night, adding that
(See CRETE, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1941-05-31
Disabled Plane Makes
Landing on Golf Course
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, May 81. - Herbert
Holmes and Earl Peterson were
cruising at 1000 feet in rented air
plane when a cylinder head blew off
Holmes cut the ignition and peered
around for place to land. He put
his ship into glide and headed for
a golf course, alive with 300 players.
The ship made perfect landing
on the 14th fairway, just an easy
No. iron shot from the green.
Evening star., 1941-05-31
Scattered British Targets
Attacked by Luftwaffe

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 3l.-German air
raiders last blasted at oft-bombed
Liverpool, South Wales and other
scattered targets in Britain, but the
government said the raids were not
heavy and that damage and casual
ties were light.
Bad weather over the continent
apparently kept the Royal Air Force
at home.
Evening star., 1941-05-31

forbidden to fly over the White
House, even at great height, and
the nuisance of noise was given as
a major reason.
Fencing off Pennsylvania avenue
to keep land vehicles away from
the White House would be one solu-
(See ANTI-NOISE, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1941-05-31
Ex-Kuiser Much Better:
Fears for Life Eused
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, May 31.-Former Kaiser
Wilhelm I'd has rallied so well
against an obscure intestinal dis
order, administrators of the Ho-
henzollern estate here said today,
that momentarily there is no fear
for his life.
The 82-year-old World War en-
peror was stricken several weeks
ago at his Doom, Holland, exile.
He was fed artificially while ply
sicians sought to diagnose the COM
plant.
Evening star., 1941-05-31
Tobruk Munitions Dump
Blown Up, Germans Say
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, May Sherman desert
artillery has blown up big British
munitions dump in the beleaguered
garrison of Tobruk, Libya, the high
command announced today.
The Germans also repulsed an
attempt by the British to break out
of the garrison, it was claimed
German Stukas and fighter planes,
with Italian bombers, also assaulted
Tobruk, machine-gunned British
troop concentrations in the Egyp-
tian desert and bombed oil deposits,
the high command said.
ROME, May 81 (P-Italian and
German planes bombed British
forces at Tobruk yesterday, the Ital-
ian high command said today, and
damaged q large steamer north Of
Matruh, Egypt.
Evening star., 1941-05-31
No Transportation Unit
Set Up, Roosevelt Says
q. the Associated Press.


HYDE PARK, N. Y, May 31-The
temporary White House said today
'it is not true" that President Roose-
Velt had ordered creation of an
Office of Transportation and there
by wiped out the last remnant of
the old National Defense Commits
sion
Asked whether Mr.. Roosevelt had
implied that he did not intend to
create such an Office, Secretary Will
liam D. Hassett replied in the mega
tive, but said he had not inquired
about that angle.
Evening star., 1941-05-31
Even White House Is Subjected
To BIore and Din of Traffic
Maj. Brown Asks Public to Help End
Needless CIamor in Anti-Noise Drive

Even the White House and its occupants live in
noise
Automobile horns alone make 204 piercing sounds
hour the street at the Mansions front door-by reporters
count when traffic was busy but not at its peak
The thunder of motorcycles, rumble huge
construction trucks the grating oldashoned
and the jusabe ambulance times
Evening star., 1941-05-31

downed out this blare of horns, but,
it was judged that over six honks
each minute were of sufncient in
tensity to penetrate into the build
ing.
Evidence that presidential nerves
are not insensible to sound waves
came at the beginning Of the Roose-
welt administration. Planes were