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R. A. F. Hits Bengasi Harbor and Airdrome, British Declare 3 Other Landing Fields Held by Axis in Libya Raided, English Say Sfc %be Associated Press. CAIRO, Egypt. May 6—Bengasi Harbor and the airdrome at nearby Benina, as well as German-Italian landing fields at Barce. Derna and Oazala, all in Libya, were the tar gets of a "very heavy bombing at tack” by the R. A. F.. it was an nounced today. At least five Axis planes, including ene or more large troop carriers, were destroyed at Benina, said the R. A. F. communique. The Libyan offensive was staged night before last. The communique aaid troop planes also were machine gunned at Derna, "while fires and explosions occurred at Bengasi and Barce." Touching on yesterday's opera tions, the R. A. F. reported fighters and bombers attacked mechanized Knits in the Bardia, El Adem, Fort Capuzzo and Salum areas. The last ts .iust within Egypt's Libyan fron tier. "Considerable damage was done to vehicles and personnel.’ 'the commu nique summarized. In an Axis raid on the Greek Island of Crete two days ago. the1 R. A. F. reported, one Junkers dive bomber was shot down by inter ceptor planes, and several others were damaged by fighters and ground fire. Sandstorm Halts righting. A heavy sandstorm has forced a hill in fighting on the Libvan-Egyp tian frontier in the Salum sector, the Near East command announced. At Tobruk, 80 miles west of the frontier, where the Germans and Italians have been besieging en circled British defenders, the daily war bulletin said "there is no change hi the situation.” Further progress was reported by imperial columns marching north ward from Dessie, on the East African front, toward the rear of Italian positions at Amba Alaji, 280 miles northeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopian capital. British troops advancing from Neghelli ejected and inflicted heavy losses on Italians holding covering positions at Adola, the communique asserted. In other sectors, it added the British advance was continuing. Axis Warplanes Resume Tobruk Dive-Bombing LONDON, May 6 (TPr—Axis planes have resumed dive-bombing attacks on the British at the Libyan port of Tobruk, but no major land fight ing is in progress there, an authori tative British source said today. Fighting in Ethiopia was said to be continuing around Amba Alagi., one of the Italians’ last Ethiopian strongholds northeast of Addis Ababa. The Italians were reported hemmed in on a stretch of from 30 to 40 miles of road, cut off by Brit ish forces north and south. Italian strongholds at Gondar and Jimma were said to be holding out. British Are Declared Repulsed at Tobruk ROME. May 6 i/P>.—Italian-Ger man forces have repulsed a new British attempt to force a way out of the besieged Libyan port of Tobruk and have beaten off a British tank thrust in the Salum sector of Egypt., the Fascist high command •aid today. •'Extremely grave losses” were in flicted on the British in the fighting around Tobruk, a communique de clared The Italian high command ac knowledged that new British air raids have caused some damage in Western Libya, but asserted that Fascist airmen had got in a heavy blow by damaging a big steamer in British-held Tobruk. In East Africa, the daily war bul letin said, Italian forces were suc cessfully resisting British pressure In the Amba Alaji sector. 280 miles northeast of Addis Ababa. Missing, • Continued From First Page.) those lost might have been aboard more than one vessel. Sam Robertson, manager of the London bureau of the Canadian Press, who was returning to Eng land after a Canadian vacation, was among those listed. It was possible that the ferry pilots, assuming they were aboard a sea vessel, were en route to Eng land to engage in ferry work there. This possibility was supported by the fact that one of those missing. Irvin Landis of Boyertown, Pa., was said by his parents to have sailed for England on a transport to ferry planes from factories to combat Sones. Another of the missing appears to be Capt. Kenneth B. Collings, for mer United States marine flyer and magazine writer, who was in Ethi opia and who. at the start of the present war. was arrested on the German-Soviet border by the Rus sians. Will Speak on Health Ray H. Everett, executive secretary Of the Social Hygiene Society of the District of Columbia, will speak on "health guidance” at a meeting of the Robert E. Lee Parent-Teacher Association at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the school, Lexington street and Lee highway, Arlington, Va. Offi cers will be elected. 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Federal Attorneys Are Told Major Task Is to Aid Defense Duties Qualify Them to Formulate Policies, New President Says The major task now facing "every loyal citizen is that of giving the Government all possible aid in its preparedness program.” William E. Reese, newly elected pr.seident of the Federal Bar Association, told its members last night, adding that the duties of Federal attorneys "effectively qualify them to assist in formulating and in carrying out national policies.” Mr. Reese, who succeeds Col. Heber H. Rice, spoke following his induction at the association’s ban quet at the Harrington Hotel. Re garding the association's program for the year, he said: • "Even’ effort will be made to continue the interest of the mem bership in the broad objectives of the Inter-American Bar Association * * * and to aid in every possible way all defense efforts of the United States.” He asked "hearty co-operation' of member:-, in carrying out these phases of the group's program, which he declared would be essential "in view of the unusual demands in. the performance of Government duties in the present emergency." Mr. Reese, a member of the legal staff of the controller general, for merly was a vice president of the association. Other officers inducted are: Rob ert N. Anderson, special assistant to the Attorney General, first vice president: Miss Marguerite Ratvalt. attorney with the Bureau of Internal Revenue, second vice president: Wil bur Baughman, attorney with the Federal Trade Commission, third vice president: Bernard F. Burdick, head of the Panama Canal office, fourth vice president: D. S. Davison, Civil Service Commission, secretary; Edward Hicks. Securities and Ex change Commission, treasurer, and w. F. Thompson. Federal Loan Agency, financial secretary. William R Vallance. legal adviser in the solicitor's office. State De partment. was named delegate to the American Bar Association con vention. Representative Ramspeck. Demo crat. of Georgia spoke on his bill regulating retirement of Federal em ployes. Swedish Foreign Chief Arrives in Helsinki By the Associated Press. HELSINKI, Finland. May 6 — Sweden's Foreign Minister Chris tian Gunther arrived here by air plane today at the invitation of the Finnish Foreign Office for his first visit to Finland. Press comment indicated Gun thers purpose was the promotion of personal acquaintance with lead ers of Finland's foreign policy and general improvement of under standing between the two nations. Iraq (Continued Prom First Page.) Are of Iraq artillery since last Thursday. Iraqi troops massed near the air port were reinforced last Thursday, I according to the British, and opened 1 artillery fire the following morning. British Forces Step Up Campaign Against Iraqis LONDON May 6 yp>.—Turkey's offer to mediate the British-Irak fight and Egypt's appeal to the Iraqis to seek terms peaceably were sidetracked today in favor of a hard- j hitting military campaign in the oil-rich Near Eastern kingdom. As Britain's land and air forces! stepped up their efforts to subdue what the British termed the •‘illegal" regime of Premier Raschid Ali A1 Gailani. some sections of the Lon don press called for results and took a critical view of the govern ment's handling of Iraq relations. The Daily Herald described the diplomatic prelude to the outbreak oi fighting last Friday in Iraq as "the latest example of inadequate British methods’’ and said there had been "either complacency or incompetence somewhere.” The Daily Mail asked if Britain's diplomatic representatives in Iraq had been "taken by surprise" and said members of Parliament would "demand a prosecution of the Iraq operation with the utmost vigor— something stronger than leaflets on Baghdad." 24.000 Leaflets Dropped. The R. A. F. Near East command had announced yesterday that 24 000 leaflets written in Arabic had been showered on Baghdad by British bombers. A communique last night, how ever. told of raids elsewhere with blazing machine guns and the thunder of bombs, reported heavy attacks on Iraq artillery which had been shelling the British air base at Lake Habbaniyah. and said the R- A. F. largely through attacks on air fields, had put out of action "the greater part of the Iraq op erational aircraft." Turkey's offer to mediate in the war at her backdoor, disclosed yes terday, came to naught—for the time being at least. An authorized British statement said the "friendly motives” of the Turkish government fvere appreciated, but the with drawal of Raschid Ali's troops from -the siege of the Lake Habbaniyah base was "an essential prerequisite” to any negotiations. At the same time the German radio was heard in London quoting the Baghdad radio that Iraq also rejected the offer on the ground a settlement could not oe discussed until British troops withdrew from the kingdom. Dispatches last night from Cairo said Egypt's appeal, as one Arabic speaking nation to another, that Iraq seek a peaceful settlement was made after a lengthy session of the Egyptian cabinet. 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The broadcast said Emir Abdullah was trying to raise an Arab army for the reconquest of Iraq, but had met little response. The Berlin radio, in a German language broadcast heard here last night by C. B. S.. reported that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who lives in Baghdad, Iraq, in exile, had ap pealed to Arabs in Palestine to bear arms against the British. Star Newspaper Boys Are Guests at Show More than 1,000 Star carrier boys were guests of the management last night at the Johnny J, Jones Ex position. showing on the circus grounds at Twentv-flrst and C streets N.E. The entire carrier organisation of The Star was invited to attend the performance. Two Killed in Crash Of Navy Plane in Hawaii By the Associated Press. HONOLULU. May A United States Navy plane crashed on the Oahu shoreline, killing two men aboard yesterday. The dead men were identified un officially as James R Collars, pilot, and Robert John Green, aviation machinist's mate. Their home ad dresses were not available. Naval officials would not discuss the probable cause of the accident. President May Issue New Solidarity Plea To the Americas / Governors of Latin Union To Hear Chief Executive Next Wednesday By BLAIR BOLLES. The announcement that President Roosevelt will address the governors of the Pan-American Union per sonally at their next meeting, a week from tomorrow, aroused ex pectations here today that he may make a new and invigorated pro nouncement on the ever greater need for a true policy of continental solidarity in the face of Nazi triumphs in Europe. The speech, it is thought, will be the occasion—although the speaker probably won't say so directly—for launching counter - propaganda against the subtle boastings of Ger man agents in the Latin American countries about the invincibility of the Nazis. The time has come, the administration holds, for the West ern Hemisphere to tell the Axis once again that it has no friends in the New World. The announcement came last night from the White Hr* se without i any official statement as to what the ! President would say. Stand on Axis Ships Waited. A first consequence of the speech, j the administration hopes, will be to i assure our fellow American republics that so far as the Western Hemi- ; sphere nations' policy toward Europe is concerned, it is a case of "one for all and all for one." Events have moved so rapidly since the Havana Conference of last summer that the United States has often acted swiftlv and independently in a way that has left many other American countries thinking they are only following the leader. Once the thought of true co-oper ation is planted. It is hoped here that some concrete instance of unity might be made public, such as a joint statement of inter-American policy concerning Axis ships in American harbors. Opportunities for improving the status of military and diplomatic co operation among the Americas will be provided within the next 10 days by two visits here—the first, of the chiefs of 11 South American navies, now in Pensacola, scheduled to reach Washington tomorrow: the second, of Dr. Enrique Ruiz-Guinazu, for eign minister of Argentina, next week for a talk with Secretary of State Hull. Argentina Most Apathetic. Argentina still remains the most apathetic of the South American countries toward the solidarity policy urged bv the United States. How ever. the country is in the midst of an armaments program of high sig nificance. The Argentine Congress has approved a bill appropriating 646.000.000 pesos for modernizing army equipment. At the same time. Argentina has taken diplomatic steps to solidify its own relations with other South American countries. The nation has raised her Legation at La Paz, Bolivia, to an Embassy and has wel comed the first Bolivian Ambassador to Buenos Aires. 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A tentative settlement, reported to include a 5 cent wage increase, was approved by the union president but the mem- j bers rejected it, and ordered the strike last night. Renew Mediation Effort. The Defense Mediation Board to day renewed its efforts to avert threatened strikes against General Motors Corp. and the Minneapolis- . Honeywell Co. Union demands for a closed shop and wage Increases figured in the General Motors dispute, with union recognition reported to be the chief demand of C. I. O. employes of the Minneapolis-Honeywell Co. Minneapolis-Honeywell has orders for $2,000,000 worth of artillery equipment for the Army. General Motors has about $700. 000.000 worth of national defense orders in its 61 plants which em ploy 160 000 workers. One G M plant, the Packard Electric l" vision at Warren, Ohio, was closed last Thursday by a strike i for wage increases, and in protest against dismissal of certain em ployes. Doors of the plant were re opened by the company yesterday. , but observers did not see any work men go through the picket lines. Strike Is Deferred. C. T. O. employes of the Allis ! Chalmers Manufacturing Co. at Pittsburgh notified the Mediation Board yesterday they would defer a threatened strike pending efforts by the board to settle the dispute. At issue are wage and contract renewal demands. In an echo ol the monthlong shut down of Appalachian soft coal mines, | C. I. O. coal miners of Arkansas and Oklahoma presented formal de mands on operators for basic wage increases of $1 a day, in line with the increase granted in the East. Prospects for an early settlement of Alabama’s coal deadlock appeared brighter today as operators and miners called separate meetings. Built fur | I’m Dry Linbrr. lsTurover ** 4VW Bcthc*da Avc. Lincoln A Md. Atm. Rrtbeida. Md. Riverdile. Md. Authoritative sources said the out look for putting the 21,000 miners back to work soon was ‘hopeful." W. H Ivey. State labor commissioner, and David Roberts, jr. chairman of the Alabama Coal Operators’ Nego tiating Committee, conferred with Gov. Frank Dixon in Montgomery yesterday. Sent Back to Mediation Board. The month-old strike of 495 C. I O. workers at the J. Sklar Manufac turing Co. plant at Long Island City, N. Y„ was referred back to the Defense Mediation Board after failure of direct negotiations in New York. President William Green yester day pledged the fullest co-operation of the American Federation of Labor in the national defense program. "I say that without reservations of any kind.” he declared in an ad dress to the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor at Harrisburg. Pa. Mr. Green said he felt “compelled" to make this statement because John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers (C. I. 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Spoon Fed •V NORMAN CHANOIER, CHAIRMAN, NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS COMMITTEE Suppose a majority 1 of the people of this democracy decided it wanted nothing but GOOD news about its government from now on. Suppose this majority was of one race, one creed, one color. Suppose it willed that ITS ideas were RIGHT, there fore other ideas were wrong—and hence were to be suppressed. This is a MAJORITY, don’t forget; and we abide, by the will of the majority in America. And, lastly, suppose this majority passed a law which said, in effect, “ALL of you must take the same medicine—from OUR bottle.” * w * WHIN THAT hapkns, democracy is finished. Our forefathers put free dom of speech and thought BEYOND THE CONTROL of a mere majority. Those rights are guaranteed in the Constitution and can be repealed only if THREE-FOURTHS of the states agree. The citizens of America have given their newspapers the task of reporting ALL the news, both good and bad. Look through the paper you are reading now. Notice how it reports facts, opinions, happenings of all kinds. If you do not agree with the WAY it sees the world, you are perfectly free to write the editors your strongest criticism. But don’t EVER deny ANY newspaper’s right to re port the truth as it sees the truth. * * * Don’t EVER demand that all papers must agree with, say, the MAYOR, or the town’s leading banker, or the University’s most learned professor—or with YOU. The majority of German citizens un doubtedly believes in Hitler. To this ma jority, Hitler can do no wrong, make no mistakes. Because all of Germany's NEWS PAPERS must go on, day after day, agree ing with all Hitler does! If ever the time comes here when all Americans are fed from a single spoon, we’ll have only one set of -opinions. * That might be DESIRABLE, but it’s not DEMOCRACY. 1 • « i ■ ■ « 1 Over 300 leading newspaper publishers join together to bring you this weekly message about the functiok of the press in a free nation. 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