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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-04
eNH.War Aid
Scholarship Fund Am p e
to Buy a Bomber

ANN ARBOR. March 4-The
University of Michigan faculty to-
day announced d bomber scholar
ship plan 10 raise 500 600 fol-
the purchase of defense bonds
enough to buy a bomber. from all
campus affairs and special collec-
tons.
1t is planned 10 cash the bonds
after the war 70 provide scholar
ships FOR students forced to leave
xhnnl hccause OF the var
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-04

look at your hands! She does. Are they
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Then, quick, get LAVA SoAP-if you want
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il That's why hands look grimy all the time.
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really gets that grime-but fast, In 20 to
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off -. down the drain.
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Portable.
Put LAVA to the test tonight In hot water
or cold, watch it foam into rich, snow-white
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-04
Bomber Fund
Near $4,000

Here are the most recent cash
contributions 10 the Buy a Bomber
Fund of Detroit Times readers:
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-04
River Yields Mans Body

IAN attempt was being made to-
day to identify the body OF man
about so years old. which was
found floating in the Detroit River
opposite the Michigan Alkali Com
pany in Wyandottc lie had been
dead more than two months, police
said
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-04

ADVERTISEMENT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-04
Honor for Phone Drivers

The Michigan Bell Telephone
Company Will honor l06 men In
the Detroit division who have
driven 10 years without accident
at a dinner Friday night IN tho
Bell auditorium. II was announced
today Gov Murray ID. Var
Wagner will be the speaker. --A-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-04
Object 10 Anthem

NEW YORK, March a (INS).-
because some members OF the
king's Highway Congregational
thurch objected 20 inclusion of
frhe Star Spangled Banner in
he regular church service. the
kew. Or. Irving ID. Wildey re-
kcned today as pastor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-04
Denies Killing Daughter

Mrs. Mary Bernett today with
drew her confession that she had
strangled her 8-year-old daughter
TO put her out of her misery and
denied a murder charge before
Circuit Judge Ira w. Jayne. She
said her mind was blank when she
pleaded guilty on arrangement.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-04

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-04
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Only 7e buys LAVA at your regular store.
Ear outlasts regular toilet sQaPs-on real
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work, one for home - today! (Procter &
Gamble.)
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Evening star., 1942-07-02

On 18th there came change.
We had about 200 tanks in action.
BY nightfan no more than 10 re-
mained and this happened without
any corresponding loss having been
inflicted on the enemy. I do not
know what actually happened in
fighting on that day.
1t is for the House to decide
whether these facts resulted from
faulty direction of the war for which
I take responsibility or whether
they resulted from the terrible
hazards of battle and the unforesee-
able accidents of battle.
With this disproportionate de-
struction of our armored strength
Rommel became decisively the
stronger. His advance enabled him
to repair his wounded tanks while
our wounded tanks were lost to us.
Among the evil consequences which
| followed from this was that the
South African division had to be
withdrawn from Gazala and they
went on to Tobruk and further
east and our 50th British Division
extricated itself by proceeding
l2o miles on southern flank of
enemy.
Tobruk went after single day
fighting and this entailed with
drawal from the Salum- -Halfaya line
to Matruh and 120 miles of desert
was thus placed between 9th Army
and its foe. Most authorities imag.
ined THAT 10 days or fortnight
would be gained by this. However
on June 26 Rommel presented him.
self with his armored and motorized
forces in front Of this new position
Battle was joined on 9th along
whole line and for first time oul
whole army which had been rein.
forced had been engaged altogether
at one time.
I am not in position to tell tht
House about reinforcements reach
ing our army or approaching then
except that they are very consider
able. After the lecture have
been read by Hore-Belisha it is per
haps wrong of me to say we viii
hold Egypt but I will go so far a.
to say we do not regard the struggle
as in any way decided.
New Zealand Division
Praised as Hard fighters.
Although I am not mentioning
the reinforcements, there Is ont
reinforcement that has come II
close contact with the enemy al
ready, which he knows. That il
a New Zealand division. The New
Zealand government, although the.
were in potential danger of in
vasion, authorized the fullest us'
being made of their troops and the,
Evening star., 1942-07-02

howitzer which throws 55-pound
shell 10000 yards.
There are other artillery weapons
of which I cannot speak which were
also available. 1t is not true, there
fore. as I have seen stated, that
We had to face the 50-pounder guns
of the enemy only with the 25-
FOUNDER. The 25-pounder, many
say, is one of the finest guns in
Europe and a perfectly new weapon
which had only begun to flow out
since the war began. 1t is true the
enemy, by the tactical use he made of
his 88-millimeter anti-aircraft gun,
converting them to a different pur-
pose, and with his anti-tank wea-
pons, gained a decided advantage,
but this became apparent only as
the battle proceeded.
Our army enjoyed throughout the
battle, and enjoys today, superiority
in the air. Dive bombers of the
enemy played prominent part at
Bir Hacheim and Tobruk, but it is
not true that they could be regarded
as decisive or even as a massive fac
tor in this battle. Lastly, we had
| better and shorter lines of COM
munication than the enemy, our
railway being operated beyond Fort
Capuzzo and separate line Of
communications running by sea to
the well-supplied base and depot of
Tobruk.
We were. therefore, entitled to feel
confident in the result of an often
sive undertaken by us and this would
have been undertaken in the early
days of June if the enemy had not
struck first.
When these preparations for an
offensive became plainly visible it
was decided. and I think rightly, to
await the attack on our fortified po-
sitions and then deliver counter
stroke in the greatest possible
strength.
The forces assembled on both SIDES
would have represented, in any
other theater, four or five times
their strength. Such was the posi-
ton May 26 when Rommel made his
first onslaught. 1t is not possible to
give any final accounts of the bat
tie.
The Free French about Bir Hac-
helm who held on bravely were
faced with a. struggle which surged
for eight or nine days and finally
it was decided to withdraw. Here nc
doubt was the turning point in bat
tie. Whether anything could have
been done we cannot tell
Our (tank) recovery process had
worked well. Both sides lost pro-
portionately and perhaps ours were
greater, as we expected to lose more
| as we had more tanks.
Evening star., 1942-07-02

had not withdrawn or weakened
them in any way.
The New Zealand forces have
acquitted themselves in a manner
equal to their former records. They
are fighting hard.
Although the army in Libya have,
so far, been overpowered and driven
back I must make it clear that
this was not dye to any conscious
or willing grudgfng of forces in men
and materiel. Of course. the emerg-
ence of the japanese into the war
led to the removal of Australian
forces to defend their own home
land, and very rightly.
In fact, it was l who suggested
/ they should consider themselves
open to return, having regard to
| danger of their own country.
Extreme demands had been made
on our forces in all theaters Of the
war, but in the last two years we
| had sent from this country and from
! the empire, and to a lesser extent
| from the United States, 950,000 men,
4,500 tanks, 5000 aircraft, nearly
5000 pieces artillery, $4,000 machine
/ guns and over 100000 mechanical
| vehicles
For more than year until Hitler
attacked Russia the threat of in
vasion hung over us, imminent, po-
tential and mortal. There was no
time to make improvements at the
expense of supplies. We had to con-
centrate on numbers-quantity in
stead of quality That was a major
decision In which think there can
be no doubt that we were rightly
guided. We had to make thousands
of armored vehicles.
have been asked to speak about
dive -bombers and transport air
craft. Of course you cannot
judge whether we should have had
dive-bombers by any date without
also considering what we should
have given up if we had had them
Most of the air marshals l have
met, leading men in air force, think
lowly of dive bombers and per-
sist in their opinion. They are en-
titled to respect for their opinion
because it was from the same source
that the eight-gun fighter was de-
signed which destroyed so many
hundreds of dive bombers in the
battle of Britain. -.
The dive bomber against ships
at sea appears to me to be still
more dangerous weapon. I say
that because that is my own opin-
ion on the matter, but as to trans
port aircraft I wish indeed we hac
thousand transport aircraft, but
if we had built thousand unarmeo
transport aircraft it would have
Evening star., 1942-07-02
Part of Churchill Speech Defending War Conduct
Fall of Tobu Was Entirely Unexpected Prime Minister Tells Commons
Gravity Of Eeypion Situation Stressed Critics Denounced

ingenuity of defense and by the
fortitude of the people, they main
| tanned unbroken resistance. We
continued to reinforce them from
the Western Mediterranean as well
as from Egypt by repeated opera
tions of difficulty and hazard, and
maintained a continuous stream of
Spitfire aircraft in order to keep
them alive in spite of enormous
wastage not only in the air but also
in limited airfields on the ground.
AS part of this, hundreds of
fighter aircraft have been flown in
from aircraft carriers by the Royal
+ Navy and we were assisted by the
United States, whose carrier Wasp
rendered notable service on more
than one occasion, enabling me to
send message of thanks:
"Who says Wasp cannot sting
twice."
BY all these exertions Malta lived
through this prodigious and pro-
longed bombardment until at last at
the beginning of May, the bulk Of
the German aircraft, already weak
ened by most serious losses had to
be withdrawn for the belated Ger
man offensive on the Russian front.
." The enemy did not get Malta
but they got lot of stuff across to
Africa, and remember, it takes four
months to send weapon around the
Cape and perhaps week or even
less across the Mediterranean
viding it gets across.
British Outnumbered Enemy
In Number of Soldiers.
Remember also that great num-
Der of these Spitfres, If not involved
in the very severe fight in Malta,
would have been available to
strengthen our Spitfire forces in
the battle that has been proceeding
Thus, it may we'll be that we were
relatively no better off in the middle
of May than we had been in March
or April. However, the armies drew
up in the desert in the middle of
May with about 100000 side. We
had 100000 men and the enemy 90,-
600, of which $4,000 were Germans
We had superiority in the num-
ber of tanks-I am coming to the
question of quality later-of perhaps
7 to S. We had superiority in artil-
lery of nearly to S. Included in
our artillery were several regiments
with the, latest form of gun, a
Evening star., 1942-07-02

come of our already far from ade-
quate bomber force.
I know there Is tendency to
deride and disparage the bomber
effort against Germany. I think it
is a grave mistake because there Is
no doubt that this bomber offen-
sive against Germany is one Of
the most powerful means we have
of carrying on offensive war against
| her. -.
This attack is not going to
/ get weaker but is going to get con-
finally stronger until, in my view.
it will play perfectly definite part
! in taking strain off our Russian
ally and in reducing building and
construction of submarines and
other weapons of war.
To return to the main argument
that is before House l will willingly
! accept, indeed I am bound to ac-
cept. what the honorable lord has
called constitutional responsibility
for everything that has happened
and I consider that I discharged
that responsibility by not interfering
with the technical handling OF
armies in contact with enemy; but
before the battle began I urged
Gen. Auchinleck to take command
himself because I was sure nothing
was going to happen in the vast
area of Middle East in the next
month or so comparable in i'm
portance to the fighting of this
battle in the western desert and I
thought he was the man to handle
the business. He gave me various
good reasons for not doing so and
Gen. Ritchie fought the battle.
I cannot pretend to form a judg-
ment upon what has happened in
this battle.
I like the commanders on land on
sea and in air to feel that between
them and all forms of public criti-
cism the government stands like a
bulkhead.
They ought to have fair chance
and more than one chance.
Men make mistakes and learn
from their mistakes.
Men may have bad luck and their
luck may change.
We will not get generals to run
risks unless they feel they have
behind them strong government.
They will not run risks unless
they feel they need not look over
their shoulder or wonder what has
happened at home, unless they feel
they can concentrate their gaze
upon enemy, and you will not, ]
may add, get government to run
risks unless they feel that they have
, Continued on Page ALL, Column u
Evening star., 1942-07-02
Parking Lot
Continued From First Page0

facilities for the housing and COM
fort of the Government girl workers.
For some time, Mr.. Reynolds ex-
planned after the hearing, there
have been recurrent rumors crit
icizing the designs and plans as
too elaborate and too costly. The
working plans which are ready
for the builders to go forward
with construction as soon as con-
tracts are let are the most ell
fective answer to such criticism
he declared. These plans specincally
show that the structures were de-
signed on an economical basis, ne
insisted. AS a matter OF fact, ne
hoped that, on account OF such
economy, it may be possible to ouiio
more dormitory space with the
money in hand than had originally
been estimated.
While the phrase country clubs
Is abhorrent to Mr.. Reynolds, re-
porter heard it banded yesterday BY
staff members in the Office of the
PBA supervising architect, where
plans are being completed.
According to the National Cap
ital Park and Planning Commis.
sion, which granted approval, the
dormitories will include beauty par
lors, bridge rooms and lounges
among their facilities.
Evening star., 1942-07-02
Churchill
Continued From First Pageo

about Is. 900 men and that generally
British recources were much larger
than Those of the Axis. In Llbya,
at the start of the battle, he said,
the British had 100000 men and the
Axis 10000, of which $4,000 were
Germans.
"We had superiority in numbers
Of tanks of perhaps seven to flve
and superiority in artillery OF nearly
eight to FIVE" he added.
BY way of explanation OF the
debacle, Mr. Churchill said heavy
attacks on Malta, Britain's mid
Mediterranean island base aflank
the Axis supply line to Libya, made
1t impossible to impede the AXIS
reinforcements and the enemy got
lots of stuff across to Africa"
He asserted that the decision to
defend Tobruk had been made by
Gen. Auchinleck with concurrence
of the war cabinet and its profes-
sional advisers, and as a result y
am very ready on behalf of my
government to take my full share
of responsibility"
Criticism of Mr. Churchill's direc-
ton of the war has been associated
in the debate with the fact that Mr.
Churchill is both Prime Minister
and Minister of Defense. One group
of critics in Commons has been de-
manding that he yield the Defense
post to another who could devot'
more time to it.
While Mr.. Churchill assumed re-
sponsibility for the Tobruk disas
ter he nevertheless lashed out a
his detractors with charge tina
everything has been done to weak
en- confidence in the government.
He said his critics had tried II
prove that Britain's ministers wer'
incompetent" and Ito weaken the1
confidence in themselves and mak'
the army distrust the backing it !
getting from civil power"
Evening star., 1942-07-02
Ey the Associated Press,


.'.'s LONDON, July 2-FoHo,oing is
a partial tert couering the most
important passages OF Prime Min
lister ChurchiTs speech in the
House OF Commons today:
This long debate has now reached
Its final stage. What a remarkabl'
example it has been of the un
bridled freedom of our parliamen
tary institutions in time OF war.
Everything that can be thought O.
or raked up has been used to weak
en- confidence in government; ha!
been used to prove that the min
listers are incompetent and to weak
en- their confidence in themselves
to make the army distrust the back
ing it is getting from the civil pow
er; to make workmen lose conf
dence in the weapons they ART
striving so hard to make.
To represent the government as
set of nonentities over whom thu
Prime Minister towers and then t.
undermine him in his own hear
and, if possible, before the eyes O
the nation-all this has poured ou
by cables and radio to all parts O.
the world to the distress of all ou1
friends and the delight of all oul
foes.
l am in favor of this freedom
which no other country would us'
or dare to use in times of morta
peril such as those through which
we are passing, but the story mus
not end there, and make now my
appeal to the House Of Commons tt
make sure that it does not enc
there.
Although I have done my best
my utmost-to prepare full ane
considered statement for the House
I must confess I have found 1t yer,
difficult. Even during the bittel
animosity of the diatribe OF Mr.
Aneurin Bevan, with all its careful
and calculated hostility. l have
found it very difficult to concen'
trate my thoughts on this debate
and withdraw it from the tire
mendous and most difficult battle
now raging in Egypt.
At any moment we may receive
news of grave Importance.
But Mr.. Hore-Belisha, who ha
Just addressed us, has devoted
large part of his speech not to thi
immediate campaign and struggl
in Egypt but to the offensive startet
tn Libya nearly eight months ago.
He has. as did the mover OF thu
vote of censure, accused me O
making misstatements in saylnl
that for the first time our men me
the Germans on equal terms in mat
ter of modern weapons.
Loss of More Than $4,000 Men
In Last Fortnight Disclosed.
This offensive was not our fail
ure. Our army took 10000 prison
ers. They drove the enemy oacl
400 niles. They took a great fortl
fed position on which he had reste'
so long, they drove into the yer
edge of Cirenaica and it was onl,
when his tanks had been reduced t.
10 or perhaps 80 that by a brillian
tactical resurgence the Germal
general set in motion a series o
events which led to retirement t
a point $50 niles more to the ives
than our offensive had started from
Ten thousand Germans were cap
tured in that fight I was not pre-
pared to regard that action as othe
than highly creditable and highl
profitable to the army OF tn
western desert.
I do not understand why Thu
point should be made now, when II
all conscience there are newer ant
Evening star., 1942-07-02

Continued on Page ALL, Column u
Evening star., 1942-04-26
Mrs. Fowler, Wife
OF Retired Teacher al
Naval Academy, Dies
Wus Active in Many
Women's Activities;
Had Been III for Yeur

Mrs. Clarence Vernon Fowler, wife
of Prof. Clarence Vernon Fowler OF
the Naval Academy, retired, died
yesterday at the Washington Sani-
tarium in Takoma Park, Md, after
years illness.
Private funeral services will be
held at 4 o'clock this afternoon al
the Universaist Memorial Church
Sixteenth and S streets N. w. Burial
will be in Newburgh, N. Y.
Mrs. Fowler was educated al
Ward-Belmont College. Nashville
Tenn, and Universite de Grenoble
France. She was a founder and
president of the Annapolis Weekly
French Club, president of the An
napolis and Anne Arundel County
League of Women Voters, State
chairman. international relations,
Maryland Federations of Women's
Clubs; director of the Young
Women's Christian Association,
treasurer of the Girl Scout Council
of Anne Arundel County, vice presi-
dent of the Southern District Mary
land Federation Womens Club, and
on the State boards of the League
of Women Voters and Maryland
Federation of Women's Clubs.
She was the daughter of the late
Gen. H. M. Robert, chief of en-
gineers, and author of Roberts
Rules of Order. Besides her hus-
band. she is survived by daughter,
Mrs. Bob Orr Matthews, wife of 1t
Comdr. Matthews; two grandchil-
dren, and two sisters, Mrs. Corinne
Robert Redgrave and Mrs. Helen
Robert d'Auria.
Evening star., 1942-04-26
Silver Spring Civic Groups
Indorse Ambulance Fund

rndorsing the campaign of the
Four Corners Citizens Association
to raise funds in its territory for
ambulance equipment, the Allied
Civic Groups of the Silver Spring
area has voted to ask its other men,
Der associations to take similar
action.
The drive for funds viii be waged
In cooperation with the Montgom-
cry County Civilian Defense Coun-
Gil program and sets of ambulance
equipment purchased with the funds
win be stamped with the name Of
the contributing organization.
Berry E, Clark, president Of the
Allied Civic Group. has appointed
the following standing committees:
Sanitation and public health, Frank
j. Felker. chairman; Kenneth
Bruner and Stewart Lashley Mem
bership, L. B. Moulton. chairman;
1t. c. w Schseffer and Stuart Arm
strong. Legislation and legal ac-
ton, Joseph B. Buscher, chairman:
Ira Laws and Robert E. Gayior.
Public safety. 1t. Setaeffer. chair
man; Stephen nlhy. jr., and c. L.
Bazzle. Internal county improve
ment. Mr.. Gaylor. chairman; Paul
H. Chesley and Donald B. Finotti
Schools and recreation. DR.. Harold
T. Morris, chairman: Mr. Armstrone
and Ernest woodchek. Constitu-
ton and bylaws. Philip J. Austen
sen, chairman; DR.. C. A. weigle and
Vern NJ. Smith.
Evening star., 1942-04-26
Fairfax Ration Board
Short Of Registrars
For Sugar Users
Commercial Consumers
Must Give Dotu on
Tuesday and Wednesday
Special Dispatch to The Star.


FAIRFAX, Va. April 25.--A scar
city of registrars faces the local
Rationing Board which will issue
sugar ration cards beginning next
week, it has been announced by
C. Pembroke Petit of Fairfax, ra-
ton officer.
Registration centers will be To-
Gated in the five high schools of
the county for the commercial
registration Tuesday and Wednes-
day, Mr.. Petit said. and elementary
centers viii handle the private con-
sumner registration on May through
May 7. Principals of the schools
viii serve as chairmeal.
Particular attention to the infor-
nation that must be brought to the
registration centers by retailers and
wholesalers, and industrial and In
stitutional users, was stressed by
Mr.. Petit. In view of the fact only
two days are allowed for this regis
tration, he urged registrants to have
all data necessary in order that
there may be no delay.
Because of the large amount of
information required, Mr.. Petit
urged that they call at the schools
during the morning of either regis
tration day, obtain blank and re-
turn during the registration hours,
4 to 9 pm.
High schools where the registra-
ton on Tuesday and Wednesday will
be conducted are located at Fair
fax, Herudon, Falls Church, Mount
Vernon and Mclean.