Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1941 — Page 1
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VOLUME 53 NUMBER 63.
14 Bodies
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WT CHEAT DEADLY GAS IN | N SHAFT
Relatives, Friends Stunned By Second Tragedy in - Two Weeks.
BICKNELL, Ind.,, May 23 .(U. P.).—Rescue workers, battling deadly mine gases, today recovered the bodies of 14 men killed last night in an
explosion’ at the Panhandle|
Mine 21% miles south of here. Relatives and friends of the victims looked on in stunned silence as the last two blackened bodies ‘were brought up on the lft. The explosion shot through the fifth vein of the mine where the men were working shortly before 11
p. m. : The Death List
Two of the bodies were identified immediately as those of James Smith, 65, and Charles Wright, 38, both of Bicknell. E. J. Stivers, sec- . retary-treasurer Coal Co. which operates the mine, listed others who were killed by the explosion as: * Richard Smith, 41; F. M. Vincent, 47; hur Gourdouze, 44; Dewey Stinnett, 43; Morris Taburfaux, 40; Charles B., May, 50; Floyd Harper, 30; Wilbert Redmond, 24; Charles Harrington, 47, and Charles Osborne, 24, all of Bicknell; E. R. Cole, 48, of Vincennes, and "Virgil Sager, 30, Freelandville, Rescuers were able to | get Tess ; ; e the
blast. before poisonous * gases ‘made it necessary 1o-begin a slow process of erecting brattices as they went along. The brattiees hold back the foul air and permit worke ers to operate in a comparatively safe zone. All of the victims except James M. Smith and Mays were married.
Marsh Gas Blamed
C. A. Herbert, in charge of the United Statés Bureau of Mines at Vincennes, speculated that the. ex--plosion: might have been caused by
marsh gas set off by a spark-“from ing
a pick or a shovel. The . explosion was the second fatal blast in the mine within two weeks. On May 9 Daniel Berry, 50, and William Lloyd, 51, both of Bicknell, were killed when a similar accident occurred in the sixth vein. Last night’s blast occurred in a tunnel 325 feet below the surface, according to Mr. Stivers.” It ripped - away partitions separating the tunnel from old workings and released heavy accumulations of ' deadly gases. The men were working about 2500 feet from the main shaft. Sevehteeh other men were working in the mine at the tithe, Mr. “Stivers said, but made their way to _ the surface.
"Mine Victim Former
Resident Here
Richard Stith, killed in the mine explosion at Bicknell, is a former Indianapolis resident. He + lived here for three years until . 1926, when he went to Bicknell to work in the mine. He has a sister, Mrs. Mary Neidlinger, who lives af 1902 Sharon Ave, and a brother, Joseph D. Smith, living on R. R, 6, Box 330 D. Earl Cole of 522 S. Meridian St., a 21-year-old Indianapolis printing apprentice, was one of those who rushed to Bicknell today for news of a relative. While he was on his way, it was learned here that his afather, Eu= gene R. Cole, was one of the mine blast victims. The father had worked at the mine since November, 1935. He livéd in Vincennes with his wife
- . and two other children, Ruth, 16,
and Carl, 19.
GRIFFEY FAVORED AS COUNTY SCHOOL HEAD
Marion County fownship frustees - are to elect Harvey F. Griffey, acting superintendent, as County Superintendent of Schools for a four-year term.
A meeting of trustees has béen|
‘called for June 2 by County Auditor Glenn B. Ralston especially for ‘the election of a rite iodt,
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Knows Streets
James E. Loer
LOER TO BEGIN WORK MONDAY
‘Do It Right’ Is Creed of New Traffic Engineer; . His ‘No’ Means ‘No.’ By RICHARD LEWIS Monday morning at 8 o'clock, a 4all, dark, young man will walk into
the Engineering Department at City
Hall, put his hat on the desk and proceeded to work at his new job as City Traffic Engineer. He is James E. Loer and he chews pencils. His principal qualification
for the un ARR task of un-|.
ing
Ler
City's. streets than ‘He ought to, because he has been if charge ‘of street design and construction for the City since 1935. He also has designed and supervised road construction for the ' State Highway Commission and has specialized ‘in sub-division as well as road’ ‘planning. The most surprised individual at the City Hall yesterday at Mr. {.0er’s appointment was Mr. Loer. About 11:30 a. m. Mayor Sullivan called him into the. inner sanctum and said something like ‘the follow-
rim, I don’t know what your poli: tics are and I don’t care. But I think you know more about streets (Continued on Page Four)
80,000 WARPLANES NEW GOAL OI OF U. S
16, 000. Tanks ike Alen. Sought For ‘Army: of 2,800,000.
“WASHINGTON, May 23. (UP.).— The -Administration has set a new goal of 80,000 planes and 16,000 tanks for its armament effort—a 60 per: cent increase over estimates of a year. ago which called ‘for 50,000 planes and 10,000 tanks, defense: officials said today. ‘Increased demands for British. aid under ‘the lend-lease program and for: our own defense program, a defense official said, have caused |.
said the 80,000 plane figure did not represent ‘the ultimate top. Upwards of 20,000 of those planes will be produced this year for the United States and Britain. Plans also are underway to provide full war equipment for an army of 2,000,000 men and :ecritical equipment, such as planes; tanks Was and ordnance, for 2,800,000 men. Initial estimates for the new -program ‘total $4,000,000,000. .
By WILLIAM R. CRABB Times Staff Writer.
CROWN CENTER, Ind., May.23. "—The oldest printer ‘at . the ‘shop back in Indianapolis probably won't remémber composing a story out of this town before. “There wouldn't be a story out of Crown Center this time if Elias® White hadn’t had a problem. And Elias White’s problem would have been fairly simple if ‘it hadn’t been all wrapped up in a lot of red tape known as “journalism.” " . Crown Center is an old town— probably a hundred years—but its peak population of.50 or 60 has dwindled to about 25. Mr. White
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“here. Mr. White has been reading newspapers for 50 years or more— line for line.’ It's been quite a task’ recently because he is ng _on 80 and his eyes aren't as good as they once were.
died. It was a tremendous shock since the couple had lived Jogether happily for 53 _years—in fact, 52, years withouf a
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{CUNNINGHAM IN
MAYOR'S RACE |
Feud Which Last Year ed to Fist Fight. .
By NOBLE REED James F. Cunningham, who almost ‘ “beat - the . machine” in the
11940 Democratic primary race for | County ‘Treasurer, is warming up | for another fling against “boss rule”
in ‘local’ ‘politics—this time in the
Mayor race. His announced candidacy renews the factional feud which \ reached the fisticuffs. stage last year when he lost to Walter C. Boetcher, the reguldr organization candidate. Mr. Cunningham was defeated by only 1600 votes out of the more than| 80,000 Democratic ballots cast. He says he received a majority of the votes from City precingts but lost the nomination in the township precincts outside the city.
Confident of Victory
“On that record I'm confident that I can win over any candidate that the bosses put in the Mayor's race next year,” he said. Three others. have been menprobable candidates for the Democratic nomination, with Criminal Courf Judge Dewey E. Myers reported as the County organization’s present fagorite. Others are Albert O. Deluse, City. Councilman, and Sheriff - Al Feeney.
Centér Township assessor, Mr. Cun‘said his campaign will be
pring ox time to break up the selfishness and greed developing ‘in a small circle of pirty bosses,” he
said. ‘Go Sign’ for Myers Hinted
Last week, word was sent out a8 quietly that organization leaders had given the “go sign” for Judge Myers. As for Mr. Deluse’ some party leaders say that he will be ‘induced to run for something else, preferably Secretary of State. Up to now Sheriff Feeney has refused to say whether he will be a candidate, insisting that he is “not a candidate for anything.” Mr. Cunningham carried the torch for the anti-organization boys in 1940 with such heated campaigning that’ he became involved in a fist fight with County Clerk Charles R. Ettinger over tabulation of election returns the night of the Primary. Proposes New Police Setup The township. assessor said he will advocate in his campaign, a general revamping of the Police Departmen “The City “has been ‘run by a policeman long enough,” he said. “I will propose that a Commissioner of Police: be created to handle the executive’ functions\ of the Police Department and leave the Chief of Police t6 handle police matters only. He also said that he will advocate a mqQre “progressive city administration than Indianapolis has had for several years.”
lalidns Battle oe: . " . > \ English Sparrow. ROME, May 23 (U. P.).—Ttaly declared war teday on English sparrows which were said. to be ting too much ‘Italian grain. {-Agriculture . Minister. Giuseppe ari addressed. orders to all provincial governors to “kill spar
rows by any method (traps, snares, nets, med wigs and
, ‘a long time. . sufficiently to go back to reading
lives in one of the five houses
Last March Mr. White's wife
firearms. a
‘When he recovered his Times he got fo thinking that
the death of Mrs. White should -
be mentioned in the paper. She had many friends in Owen and Morgan Counties and they should know about it—something that: would tell the friends what a fine woman she had been and how much he loved her. He thought about it for many .days and then spent almost a hile
. day’ writing the obituary.
the time it was finished, vo months had elapsed, ‘ but Mr. White sent it to The Times anyway, not knowing very much about “journalism.” Newspapers, you see, have funny habits. One. en, is a reluctance to s that are not “timely.” the obituary about Mrs. White was certainly not “timely.” : ‘The ‘obituary sat on the ‘eity
editor's desk for five days. No one seemed to know what to do about
: Then came another letter from.
White wanting to know why ‘not been pub-
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BUENOS AIRES, May
FAVORS FORGE
IN SHIP TIEUP
Maritime Commission Head - Assails Strike of West Coast Machinists. (Other Labor News, Page Three)
‘WASHINGTON, May 23 (U. P). —CHairman Emory S. Land of the Maritime Commission today called for the use of every resource of the Government “up to and including
: the use of United" States forces,” to Now. serving his second term as
end the strike of machinists which has tied up shipbuilding in San
Seonse Mi Bn psserted”
strike of 1700 A. F. of L. and C. L 0. machinists is an “outlaw st “gs flagrant as any in my e rience.” -
Five Yards Tied Up 1 believe there is justification for
can take, up to and including the use of United States forces, to take those picket lines away sO people who want to go work can: go to work,” he said. 3 The striking machi ists, Land declared, have tied up|five major shipbuilding yards and a number of smaller yards possessing $500,000,000 worth of merchant marine contracts. Much naval | construction also is involved. “1 do moi see how Wwe can possibly tolerate’ 500 men. from one show and 1200 men from another: show preventing ten times that number of men from working—especial- | ly when they are working for the national Government.” 2
Connally Disturbed
The two groups he referred to are the A. F. of L. and C., I. O. machinists who established picket lines. * : 4 Senator Tom Connally - (D. Tex.) | asked if Land believed the Government should use its powers under the Selective Service Act to “step in and operate plants when it is not getting the production we need.” “It wouldn't be easy to do that,” Mr. Land said. Banging his fist on the table, Mr Connally said: - “By. God, I believe that the Government . ought to be, producing ships itself. If these fellows don’t want ‘to work, let them go work on farms.”
NAMED AUXILIARY OFFICER
CHICAGO, May 23 (U. P)— Mrs. Roy: L. Craig of Indianapolis was installed as grand recorder of the Women’s Auxiliary to the Masonic Shrine Order at the close of the organijzation’s 27th annual convention : -last night. 4 1
'Clara White, Beloved Wife of Elias White, Died March 15, 1941, at the Age of 72'
a plaintive one. He mentioned
dein wnat a good woman bis | wife had been.
The “rules of journalism” ‘said it. was an insane thing to do, but I was sent down here anyway by a hard-boiled office to. talk to Mr. White and try to tell him why the : obituary had not been published. ye Just talked with Mr. e is a very kindly man. He misses his wife very much. “Journalism will have to take a holiday 'in his case. Here’s what ‘Mr. White wrote and what we ‘thought couldn’t be printed: © “Clara. White, beloved: wife of Elias White, passed away® March 15, 1941, at the of 72 years, seven months. She wes a_peace< ful, loving wife all these years. She was always cheerful and happy and never grumbled about things. She was a gobd singer. Land would go - about her work
ging. “We lived a life and yf “ever 8.0 pestet oa re
lonely
Nazi News Free to Argentine’s Papers
Transocean Furnishes Features and Photos oid Bribes Reporters le Assure ‘Slant.
1 IU. Ih testimony before the ‘Senate Countr:
every possible step the Government |
rs ar a oe ed EE
This is the second of series of asticles’ ‘on the wave of piopagands ; which has been loosed against the United States by Nazis in Argentina,
v By ALLEN HADEN Copyright. 1941, by The: Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.
Be
15.—(By Clipper) .—German
propaganda reaches and is published in country newspapers by a flexible: combination of free news, free features
and money supplied by Transocean, official German news .
agency, or its two wolf cubs, Euramerica and Correo Periodistico Sudamericano, Euramerica mushroomed in Buenos Aires last month and is ' designed to continue the work in case Argentina should follow the example of Peru and expel Transocean from the country.
Luxurious Transocean offices are located on Avenida de Mayo, a main thoroughfare, and the building is decorated by a huge electric sign.
press fluctuate : ‘—according to : local estimates —between $12,‘000 and $15,000 monthly. © News re given Toes: telegraphic charges being .prepaid in Mr. Haden Buenos Aires. In those villages where telegraphic eommunication is still faulty or insecure, the news is sent by radio. Transocean ; broadcasts over ‘Radio Prieto and Radio Cultura,
press notices. are read daily as they were news bulletins. ‘newspapers are urged to ‘listen to the newscasts and print the notices. hat service is also free to newspaper : ' “This method ee rasts with the practice of other radio stations in Buenos Aires which pay reputable news agencies for newscasts. o = ”
Editorials. Are Free
CANNED EDITORIALS, photographs, mats and metal casts are distributed free to about 150 newspapers throughout Argentina, Cuts already cast are popular, for: the lead and- antimony alloy: cost ‘money. - After. using the cast; the newspaper: can then, melt the metal for re-use in the linotype ‘machines. . To indicate the refine‘ment of organization, only newspapers which have linotypes receive cuts already cast in metal. Originals of articles on international affairs are prepared ‘in _either Rome or Berlin and are received and distributed by Transocean or its two affiliates. An exclusive Transocean service from Berlin to La Razon, potent Government mouthpiece, is simply marked “special.” Transocean is expanding. It is (Continued on Page Four)
MERCURY DROPS BUT DROUGHT CONTINUES
| Night Showers Too Light
To Help Crops.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am. ....67 10am... 69 a.m, .... 67 lam ..7 8am. .... 67 12 (noomn).. 74 Sam. .... 67 ip.m ... 74
* Cooler temperatures arrived today but failed to bring with them the rain needed to repair the damage done to Marion County crops by the record heat of the'last few days. “The city felt scattered showers last night but the rainfall was too light to help the young clover and alfalfa which have been curling up from the heat. The Weather Bureau station at tne Municipal Airport measured the precipitation at 09 of an inch. Horace E. Abbott, Marion County agricultural agent, said the newlyseeded clover and alfalfa is planted mostly with the wheat and oats, which have longer roots and “get whatt ‘little moisture the ground contains. Even the wheat, which {has headed, is “firing” — turning brown—according to Mr. Abbott.. The mercury yesterday afternoon reached 93 degrees — three points over the previous May 22 record and within' three degrees of the all-time May mark. The heat wave extended from Florida to New ‘England. The drought menaced berry, vegetable and hay crops in the Northeast and in some areas water supplies were endangered.
: WOODFIRE PERILS TOWNS
— Nearly lo
_|Government. ' |figuratively, against Uncle Sam and
three Buenos Aires stations, and
ISE i LTED
IN ARMY CAMP
Blanding Hes Has 36,000 Draftees, but Land Is ‘Posted’: Against U. Ss,
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
CAMP BLANDING, Fla, May 23.
are in the Army now in this huge draft camp in the Florida pine barrens, training for whatever may come. : Eventually - there will be nearly 60,000 here. Although the camp ranges over 130,000 acres, no guns can be fired
on large sections of it, and heavy mechanized equipment so essential to modern warfare is barred from moving over nearly three ourihs of the camp terrain. Florida land owners, even mn this sand, pine and swamp region far from the Gold Coast resorts, are very jealous to protect their cattle, turpentine and cord wood preserves. So they placed restrictions about the: and which they leased to the. It is still “posted,”
his strenuous efforts to build a strong: national defense.
Senator Is Amazed
Senator’ Harry 8S. Truman (D. Mo.), chairman of the Special Senate Committee Investigating National Defense, was-amazed when he: discovered th#t the Government owned only 100 acres of this camp. He ois Tr suas Whol oe discovered ‘the . re ctions ed about the use of the camp ppd
invested 330500, wo when the ‘camp is comple! Arn here dgreed with sible to maneuver sufficiently in the vestricted area to provide adequate training in modern mechanized warfare. He suggested that the Government might find it necessary % condemn the necessary acreage. Turpentine Comes First
The Government has leased the land; at prices ranging from 30 cents to one dollar an acre for a period of 25 years, with nothing in the agreement prgviding for renewal at the expiration of that time. The bulk of it, 90,000 acr 5, belongs to the J. C. Penney (Continued on Page Four) pinion
INJURIES IN CRASH ON ROAD 67 FATAL
"The death last night of Mrs.
‘Gladys Saylors, 30; of 813 Warren
Ave., brought. the county traffic death toll this year to 32 and the combined: city-county toll to 57. Last year the county toll stood at 13 and the city at 32—a total of 45. Mrs. Saylors died at City Hos-. pital of injuries received when two cars collided April 19 at Road 67 and Lyndhurst Drive «in .& severe wind and rainstorm. Two - other persons injured in the same wreck have died. They were Donald E. Jones, 22, of 510 Birch Ave, and Miss Irene Lee, 28, of the Warren Ave. address. All three were in the same car. The other car was driven by Paul Shelby, 25, R. R. 3, Box a, who also was injured.
MODERATOR CHOSEN BY PRESBYTERIANS
the, Presbyterian Church of the United States of America entered its second day today atfer selecting as its new moderator the Rev.
Presbyterian Church, ‘second largest. in the dengmination
ficient to prevent invasion. The British Mediterranean fleet,
so far from landing troops and m Bernard C. Freyburg, the island’s New Zealand defender, with a probable edge in manpower as well as mobile and heavy equipment. But the Germans seem to be overcoming the problem by mastery of the air. The inferior force of fighting planes had to throw in the nge. The Navy could not help
spo Iwith aircraft carriers because they,
are too vulnerable in a narrow sea
: which the’ Germans "dominate from TORONTO, Ont., Jay 23 LL. i
the air more troops
as reported in dispatches, they may
¢ [eventually win by sheer welght of lof
—Thirty-six thousand young men| |
which the Government will have
y his ‘conclusions that it is. impos~
~4,0UIS, May 23 (U. P.).—The week-long 153d general assembly of
‘Dr. Herbert Booth Smith of Los Angeles, pastor of the Immanuel
Today’ s War Moves
By United Press War Experts
.One inference which may reasonably be drawn from the Battle of Crete is that in present-day warfare, fleet superiority alone. is not suf-
Prien Missing |
BERLIN ADMITS ‘SUB! IDOL LOST
‘Little Hot Head’ Won Fame In Scapa Flow Raid: on Royal Oak.
BERLIN, May 23 (U. P.).—Lieut. Comm. Guenther Prien, one of Germany’s’ most famous submarine commanders, has failed to returh from a submarine trip and must be presumed lost, the Germagp High Command said today. Admiralty, sources in London said Prien had been missing since April| 13 : Prien achieved fame in the early stages of the war when his | sub-
base at onthe. old Oak.
Flow : ‘British battleship Royal
only to thé Royal Oak but struck at the British battle cruiser Repulse and escaped in the darkness without damage to his U-boat. Prien, 32, was known as “little hot head” to his.friends. He had commanded a° submarine - only since May, 1939, ‘but he became an idol of millions ‘in Germany. - He was married, the father of a 2-year-old daughter. On his return from the attack on Scapa Flow, Prien was taked to Adolf Hitler's private chancellery where he had : lunch with the Fuehrer - and received Germany’s highest military honor, the Enlight! Ss Cross. Even the London Admiralty
: termed Prien’s penetration of Scapa
Flow as a “remarkable exploint of professional skill and Qaring. ”
0, 5. JURY: INDICTS BIOFF AND. BROWNE
Union Leaders Accused of $550,000 Extortion.
NEW YORK, May 23 (U. P)— A Federal grand jury today indicted William Bioff, convicted pander and business agent of the International = Alliance , of - Theatrical Stage Employees (A. F. of L.), and George E. Browne, president of the union, on charges of extorting $550,000 from four motion picture companies. The indictments, embracing thrae counts, charged that 'Bioff and Browne, had extorted the $550,000 from 20th Century-Fox, Loew's, Inc., Paramount Pictures, Inc, and Warner Brothers under threats to call a strike in the motion picture industry. The indictments were handed up to Federal Judge Murray Hulbert and bench warrants were issued for the two union leaders immediately. United States Attorney Mathias F. Correa charged that Bioff and Browne had engaged in extortion for their own personal profit.
despite German and Italian claims
of severe damage inflicted on it, seems to have prevented. the Germans
aterial by water; leaving Maj. -Gen.
on Crete and a similar future invasion of ‘England. , The problem would bé much the same, but conditions are different. Crete is a mountainous. island of 3320 square miles, about twice the size of Long Island. It has a few airfields, but not very good ones. Its defending air force was totally inadequate to meet the attacking Germans, based in large numbers in
Even if more planes could be spared y Britain’s thinly-spread alr. force | the East, Crete is out fighter planes operating the nearest bese.
uarine Peneiraed the British naval -and. torpedoed
Prien ‘entered Scapa Flow on the night of Oct. 14, 1639, when he not
nearby. Greece and the Dodecanese It it is trie that German planes | Islands
vege {are dumping more “and |into Crete on a 24-hour schedule,
Allies Regain Candia an 'Retimo; Damage to i. * Fleet Admitted.
War News Inside
Ship Sinkings Stoneman cn Crete "Darlan on “Collaboration”.
“U. S. Planes in Near East .
Gallup Poll on Use of Navy... Neutrality Act Dispute .....
By JOE ALEX. MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor NE
Great Britain’s land and sea forces reported today that they had gained the upper. hand—for the time beings against the German invasion of Crete except at the ime portant Malemi airport. Imperial troops, aided by their Greek . allies, defeated Germany's | air-borne forces in Candia, largest town in Crete, and Retimo, 1a ing the day at both points hand-to-hand conflict. * However, at Malemi, strategie. airport .near Candia and the ims portant Suda Bay shehotage, pvt Germans managed to d suffi=
cient reinforcements, en 5 2e stem a ‘British counter-attack.
* Greek Gallantry Praised
The repott of the British Mida dle Faster. eadquaitors at Cairo ; down to. last
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were ifigh aff the inv = spite ain i the tiuftw ruled thé Ctretan skies, Cairo, said. that 16 big German ‘transports’ : been shot down The communiqué reported that British fightihg men “never Tens
selves” and- that Greek forces fought with equal gallantry. : The Cairo communique did fok. report on the opera British flee? around Crete but the absence of any mention of seas borne reinforcements for the Nast attackers may indicate the Royal
man attempts to ‘land “urgently nieeded” troop reinforcements, tanks, artillery and munitions by sea.
Doubt 12 Ships Damaged
cide the question of airplane versus
navy heavily, it was admitted in London. ' But British officials dis= counted German statements that & dozen enemy warships had been damaged and that four cruisers,
boats had been sunk. Berlin communiques claimed ‘al unprecedented series of successes in
ers and torpedo planes against the Eastern Mediterranean Iieet. The German reports claimed tha twoebattleships have been hit, four cruisers sunk, 10 cruisers ‘damaged and several destroyers and. sib= marines damaged and sunk in the air-sea battles raging around Crete: Rome ‘chimed in with a claim that Italian motor-torpedo boats torpedoed three British cruisers and Italian bombers sunk one S000-tom British cruiser. ’ British Near Baghdad The London press was filled with grave warnings of the dangers Britain would face if Crete is lost. Many commentators indicated loss of Crete would be followed by. of Cyprus, the second important British island base in the Eastern Mediterranean. Some commentators suggested that the Battle for Suez would be half over if Crete ,and Cyprus. are lost. g In Iraq -the situation was me 8 favorable to the British.
defending their capital were | pected to retreat in the rection
However, there was a flare of Iraqi offensive power at. o 35 ‘miles from Baghdad. This phrates River crossing was: tured > the British several ¢ ago. An Iragi counter-attack ceeded in penetrating the tows again but the British reported t they had driven the Iraqi out, parently after some hard ‘figh A Berlin report claimed the m possession of Falluja.
4 STRIKE ENDS AT WABASH. 3 WABASH, Ind., May 23 (U.P) American Federation of" ‘Lah workers ended a four-day strike returned to work at the. Ge Tire and Rubber Ca. plant 1 after company and union offig agreed to a consent election to ; termine bargaining rights,
“0. K. GREENFIELD WASHINGTON, ; dent Roosevelt has penditure of $9772 of WPA for an athletic" field High 8
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dered a better account of _them=
tions. of the.
attacks by dive-bombers, level bombe
Navy sq. far has smashed all Gers
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The duel that may help to dea 3 warship obviously cost the British
three destroyers and five speeds i
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