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Evening star., 1942-05-02
Stark Sees Steady Rise
In Allied Naval Power
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May Admiral Har-
old r. Stark, commander of United
States naval forces in European
waters, expressed confidence today
in his first press conference that
Allied naval strength, despite losses,
would rise steadily until it over
whelmS the Axis.
This year will be a tight year"
said the former commander of the
United States fleet, but there will
come a time when we will be in a
position to strike and carry through
no matter what the losses"
Evening star., 1942-05-02
Detroit Cate Owner Held
For Horborinq 1t. Kruq

DETROIT May 2 (P,.-With the
arrest of 1t. Peter Krug. escaped
war prisoner. in San Antonio, Tex,
last night, preparations were made
here for the prosecution of a De-
troit cafe proprietor charged with
aiding the Nazi in his fight.
1t Krug escaped from a camp
at Bowmanville, Ontario, on April
Is with Erich Bohle, another Ger
man flyer. Bohle was recaptured
at Niagara Falls, N. Y. but Krug
made his way to Windsor, Ontario.
(See KRUG Page AL
Evening star., 1942-05-02

Late news and sports are covered on
Pages Tx and 2-X of this edition of
The Star, supplementing the news of
the regular home delivered edition.
Evening star., 1942-05-02

(See KRUG, Page A-2D
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02
IN MISC
Men Made
Officers

EAST LANSING, June 2.@The
United States Army today has 144
newly commissioned second lieu
tenants-all from Michigan State
College and II Of the group from
Detroit.
The new men were sworn in AT
an informal ROTC ceremony last
night by divisional heads Of the
field artillery, coast artillery, cav
airy and infantry units.
All of the new officers are
graduates of the four-year course
in military science at the college
and will be formally awarded their
letters of appointment on June ID
as part of the commencement day
Those from Detroit are. David
III. Browne, Edward L. Edison,
Harry J. Gilliver, Derald B.
Harry II. Jackson. James
E. Keith. James T. Kim. Edward
Charles o. LeBaron,
Robert w. Roeder and Donald w
Runquist.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02
Mexico at War
Officially Today

MEXICO CITY, June 2 (UP).-
Mexico formally entered the war
against the Axis today, just 20
days after the first Mexican ship
was sunk by an Axis submarine.
President Manuel Avila Camacho
signed a declaration OF, war--re-
troactive to May 22-against Ger
many, Italy and Japan.
The government compiled with
the last technicality of becoming
a belligerent by publishing the
declaration in today's issue of the
Official Gazette.
Camacho also signed special leg
islation, giving him extraordinary
powers and almost suspending civil
rights for the duration.
Congress had voted unanimously
TO declare war; the Chamber OF
Deputies last Friday and the Sen
ate Saturday. Actually. Mexico
had been a belligerent since May
%, when Camacho and his cabinet
decided to ask Congress for dec
laration.
On May -, a German subma-
rine had sunk the unarmed Next
can ship Potrero del Llano. The
government sent Germany an ulti-
matum. IT was answered May %
by the sinking of the tanker Faja
de Orc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02
Chest. Pays
State Office Cost
Times star Correspondent

LANSING, June 2.-Defense
committee members voted to open
the states war chest today to hand
out 1854 to the governors office
TO make up current operating
deficit.
Request for the extra funds was
made by Edward Kennedy. exec
utive office manager. on grounds
added telephone and telegraph ex-
penses have been incurred because
of the war.
Although no voice was raised
when II came time to vote. Au-
ditor General Vernon j. Brown
produced records purporting to
show the office budget went into
the red because OF civil service
raises granted to Kennedy, execu-
tive secretary Ronald w. Seeley
and press secretary c. w. Lucas.
Kennedy said office expenses
went up $700 per month since
Pearl Harbor. The governors an
nual budget Is So. 6S9.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02
Honored Officer
Retires June 8

Police Sgt. Otto F. Diaball, as.
signed TO detective bureau head
quarters, viii conclude a dis
tinguished career June s when he
retires on . pension after 26 years
and three months of service. He
is 81.
Dieball. who Joined the depart
ment Nov. /, 1914. has received l9
citations. including the Walter
Scott Distinguished Service Medal.
He escaped death in February,
1910. when a bullet shot AZ him
in dope den glanced off his
holster. Twice previously he was
wounded in gun battles.
Two sons, Lester and Nelson
Dieball. are patrolmen Another
son, Willard. is in the army while
a fourth. Fred, is a member OF the
Michigan State Troops.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02

the British air offensive against
Germany, and this will mark
edly increase In scale when we
are Joined. as we shall soon he,
nv the air force Of the United
States.
German cities. harbors and
centers Of war production will
he subjected to An ordeal the
like Of which has never been
experienced by any country on
continuity, severity or magni-
tude."
MANY Americans serving in
the Royal Air Force took part.
and many planes engaged in the
ralding operations played their
part nearer home)
The results have been Of n
devastating character" he said.
The Essen Krupp Works are z
city within a city, and are rate
the greatest in the world-unt
the United States got started.
They have their own railroad
power plants and hundreds {
workshops. all enclosed by a l.
foot wall.
They arc one Of Germany's mai
sources OF arrnor plate for tank
submarines and ships.
The entire region Il hone,
combed by rich coal pits.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02
Gen. Ronnnne|
Escapes British
fContinued from PAGE Onel

CONTINUED from Page One)
conservative estimate, about 260
Axis tanks had been destroyed
or captured. There is not. a
shadow of doubt, Churchill said,
that Rommels plans for an OF
fensive have gone completely
awry. He also disclosed that
Rommels efforts TO land forces
on the Mediterranean coast
west OF Tobruk had been
thwarted by the guns OF the
British fieetD
The British tank forces include
American 2S-ton tanks mounting
three-inch guns and known as tho
most deadly medium tank in the
world, having a great advantage
in fire power over the German
Mark a" tanks which were mas
tiers of the Libyan battlefront 81,
months ago.
During the last big Libyan cam
paign Rommel suddenly threw
large tank reinforcements into the
battle and turned the tide, dis.
astrously for the British. around
Sid Rezegh and Ell Duda and
finally forced the British to aban.
don several hard-won positions.
In the Knightsbridge battle area
Rommel left a trail of burning
stranded tanks and a tank concen.
tration Of undetermined strength
to fight rear-guard action while
his main forces strengthened their
positions along the two gaps.
ut was clear from captured
documents, Churchill said, that
Rommel intended to defeat the
British armored forces and cap
ture Tobruk, the coastal strong
hold 100 miles from the
Egyptian border.
Churchill said the enemy at
tempted landing on the Libyan
coast. presumably intending to
join with tanks which drove TO
the coastal road but the British
navy, closely cooperating with
the army, drove of the landing
craft.)
british naval forces were ac-
tive in the Libyan theater,
international News Service re-
ported. The admiralty In Lon
don disclosed that British
submarines sank 10000 tons of
Axis supply ships and forced the
Bleaching OF another through
torpedo hit. One other vessel
was believed seriously dam
aged.)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02

wrong but I hope not. AS far
~ capture is concerned" she
said. at would be all right II
knew he would be treated right"
Mrs. Wermuth. who was notified
last Wednesday that her husband
is missing. said the war depart
ment reported they had not yet
heard through diplomatic circles
about the prisoners taken on
Bataan by the Japs. The war de-
partment said that Captain Wer-
muth was last seen on March 2.
Mrs. Wermuth said she had
three letters from her husband
week before last the last one writ.
ten on March l. when he said he
was AL right"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02
Some Fun
U-Boet Crew Laughs
at Torpedo Victims

KEY WEST, fla, June 2 nNs).
Stories of the enemy's attacking
speed and the warped sense Of
humor of Axis submarine crews
were told today by survivors of
two torpedoed United Nations
merchantmen.
Crew members OF a medium
sized American tanker. sunk in the
Caribbean May II. jumped to their
deck gun after one torpedo rocked
their ship. But in a few seconds
while the gun crew waited for the
submarine 10 surface, a second
torpedo ripped through the tanker,
setting it afire.
Although the fate OF % seamen
and three members OF the navy
gun crew remained unknown. it
was believed that all Of the 43 men
aboard the ship reached lifeboats
and RATS. A Latvian steam r
landed Is survivors at Key West
after having left three injured men
at ST. Thomas. Virgin Islands.
Survivors OF medium-sized
Brazilian freighter related how an
Axis U-boat surfaced after sinking
their ship south of Haiti May "a
and how the subs officers climbed
atop the coming tower and
laughed
A goats head. complete wit h
long horns and a rose in its mouth.
stared blank-eyed from the raid
er's superstructure, survivors said.
Six crewmen aboard the Brazil
ian vessel were known 10 have
persisted. One survivor said he be-
lieved the attacking U-boat was OF
Italian construction.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02

LONDON, June 2 (INS).-The
Paris radio has issued warning
that British troops may invade
the continent. the London Daily
Mail said today.
The broadcast from the Ger
man-controlled station added that
lin eight days the invasion troops
would be crushed" II was ad-
mitted. however. that important
United States reinforcements have
arrived in Britain with ornaments
and supplies"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02
Wermutll Missing
Hsro's WIFE Refuses 70 Give Up Hope, Doesn't
Think Husband Is Prisoner

Although Capt. Arthur w. Wer-
muth. Chicago's famed one-man
army of the Bataan Peninsula
campaign. today was listed by the
war department as missing in
action, his wife. Mrs. Jean wilkins
Wermuth, q nurse in Detroit at
Ardmore Hospital. doesn't think
her husband has been captured by
the Jsps.
Neither does she think that he
has gone down fighting. she said
to-day.
"You know they are still fight
Ing over there-guerrilla hght-
Ing" she explained. That's
where i think ne Ia. Maybe I'm
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02
Policewomen Get Uniforms

To make possible easy identi-
hcation in air raids and other war
emergency periods. Detroit police
women today are being fitted for
navy blue uniforms. Lieut.. Nell
Coolidge said they would be
plain, though not too plain"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02

LONDON. June 2 (INS).-Off-
cial German estimates state that
$4,000 persons will have TO be
evacuated from Cologne because
of the destructive Royal Air Force
raid Saturday. the Exchange Tele-
graph Company said today in a
dispatch from Zurich.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02
FIGHT IN 8 PROVINCES

AS fighting ragged in at least six
of China's "a provinces. the Chi.
nese information minister, Wang
Shih-Chieh, said:
'Tf Japan assumes that China
must fight alone because the
Burma highway has been sew
cred, the Japanese assumption In
badly. mistaken"
This indicated the Chinese were
confident of receiving Allied wal
supplies, particularly from tn,
United States.
Forty thousand Japanese massec
at Nanchang. capital of Kiangs
province, have started offensive,
eastward and southwark, the
spokesman revealed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02

called at the British foreign office
to notify his majesty's government
that a state of war exist Between
Mexico and Germany.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02

air raids precautions forces in the
Reich.
Britons remember the days
when they faced onslaughts by
hundreds OF enemy bombers. The
paper vendor at the gates OF the
ministry of information summed
1t up with the remark:
"It.s bloody marvellous"
The air ministry said a big
force of British planes drew Ger.
man gun Are on the TANKS OF the
main raid on the Ruhr by bomb
ing airields and attacking rail.
roads and shipping In Holland
Belgium and France. and shot
down a German Dornier-217. A
Dutch train was machine gunned
until IL stopped. T..
Douglas Boston bombers were
included in this force.
Army cooperation planes dis
located enemy fighter stations in
the Ruhr region throughout the
night.
SEE LIGHTS GO OUT
They bombed fields which the
Germans were just lighting SO
that planes could 60 up, and saw
the lights go out when their
bombs dropped.
Demolition bombs. some weigh
ing two tons or more. were mixed
with incendiary bombs. "
The last raid was made on
Essen March Is. when the Krupp
works were likewise the target.
German planes, in a second saw
age but small scale vengeance
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02
l,O36 Big Bonlbers
Blast Krupp Works
CONTINUED from Page one)

h In addition to blasting the Krupp
works, the British big, beautiful
bombs" weighing 4.480 pounds and
even more struck at the great net
work of railroads which serve the
entire Westphalian iron and coal
fields.
The krupp works are protected
one Of the most powerful anti-air.
craft defense systems in the world,
including hundreds OF heavy and
light guns which ring Essen SO
that raiding planes must fly for
many miles through or over a hall
OF steel.
But the Raj. It's sstonishingly
small losses showed, had saturated
even this defense. as il had the de-
lenses of Cologne, by sheer weight.
WORKERS ISOLATED
When the British, in a compare.
lively small raid, attacked the
Krupp works in December. 1910
they killed 400 workers and
wounded 1900 when bomb pene.
trated a shelter. 1t was reported
that for a I me production was
halved.
The Krupp works have had
other worries. A year ago it was
reported that 40 workers were
shot for sabotaging submarine Sec
tions by introducing chemicals into
molten steel so the plates corroded
after submarines had been at sea
for a few weeks.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02

arriving at Essen IS miles away,
60 through a second night OF ter
rible destruction, but the home
front services still fighting fires
at Cologne, probably could hear
the explosions and see the flames
at the Krupp works during the
night
Duisburg. Bochum, Eberfeld and
the areas near Dusseldorf may
expect what the British term "a
lot OF unpleasant surprises in the
near future"
The steady pounding which the
Raj envisages with American aid
this summer was illustrated by
the renewal of daylight raids to-
day, when. the air ministry said.
Mritish fightrs made large scale
sweep over the Gravelines-Harde-
lote area of the French coast.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02
SEE LIGHTS GO OUT


LONDON. June 2 GNS).-The
Daily Mail today published car
toon showing Reichmarshal Her
mann Goering slumped bleary-eyed
in a chair while Adolf Hitler
strides about nervousiy. The. cap
ton read;
Insomnia. Ever tried count
ing British bombers going over
the Reich:"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02
ENGLAND REJOICES

The increasing tempo of the
Raj attack s was received with
enthusiasm by the British public
and newspapers. which emphasized
Berlin radio reports telling Of
frantic efforts 10 strengthen the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02

raid, attacked ancient Ipswich. sc
miles northeast of London. where
Cardinal Wolsey was born and
where Charles II hid from Crom-
wells men after the battle OF
Worcester.
- Churchill. In his Commons
speech, said about the offensive:
'T do not want II to he sup
posed that all raids on Ger
many In future will he above the
four figure scale.
TO VARY ATTACK
Methods Of attack will he
continually varied according to
circumstances. On the other
hand these two great night
bombing raids will mark he
introduction Of n new phase Of
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02

INFORMS BRITISH
LONDON, June 2 (INS).-The
Mexican minister TO London today
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02
laps Menace
Vital Chinese
Railway Link
BY ROBERT p. MARTIN
United Press staff CorresponAeAt

CHUNGKING, China, June T.
Five thousand Japanese troops,
spearheads of a main force OF 50,'
900. have pushed northward 9 Ia
II miles along the Canton-Hankow
Railway in Southern China's
Kwangtung province in the last AZ
hours. a military spokesman re-
vealed today.
Reporting renewed enemy drives
on four fronts. the spokesman said
the spearheads were pushing
northward from the Canton area,
attempting to seize the only major
communications link between Cen.
trial and Southern China.
The new offensive, which began
Sunday. marked the fourth Japa-
nese attempt in as many years To
open the Hankow railway. All pre-
vious drives were repulsed a few
miles from Canton.
PINCER MOVEMENT
The Chinese saw japanese ef-
fort to apply huge pincer on east
ern coastal China, seizinR all pos
sible bases from which Allied
planes might bomb Japan.
Communicates reported that the
main enemy columns were moving
from Tsengshing. 60 miles east of
Canton, toward Tsungfa. 10 miles
farther northeast, and from Sim
kai. on the railway 20 miles north
of Canton toward Yingtak.
Generalissimo Chang Kai-Shek
and his staff were said to have an
ticipated the Canton drive by ut
least a month and to have sent
veteran forces to the threatened
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-02

longer 10 have a telephone In.
stalled, a cord replaced, or repairs
made, you will understand.
In so far as war restrictions and
material shortages permit, we shall
continue to provide the best ser.
vice possible. We look forward to
the day when we again can give the
kind of service wanted, when and
where wanted" But now, and for
the duration, wGr needs come first.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-20

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-20
The Broadway Bugle
By DAN PARKER

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 EDDIE HOGAN former heavywcght Is making bOmbers at the Douglas Aircraft plant In San Diego Joe Nichols of Che
 to be in charge of the Dodgers back the Fort Houston. with the Medical Jacobs bought Who Reign
 eed beaten about 70 lengths Empire City Fa
 three with him. far continue the Eastern tracks It must be their superior condition sObe
 giving free golf lessons for three the the opaca Training a Mam Frankie
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 sports writer London just now Frank Butler of the Sunday of English boxing writer's who well respected fraternity this ddeo Paul Irwin, who get out brilliant section for Reynolds News London Sunday fighting with the Tank Forces h tho Eastern thea of war family party rbb refereed an exhibition bout between his sonnaw expecting