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,
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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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Florida declared today “It is time for the United States to get tough,” and urged that the United
States, in co-operation with Great Britain, occupy Greenland. Iceland, the Azores, the Cape
Verde and Canary Islands, Singapore and Dakar. President Roosevelt already has announced
Greenland figures in this Nation’s plans for protection of the Western Hemisphere.
—A. P. Wirephoto.
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.
The official French news agency,
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Baghdad that the Iraq government
had decided to resume diplomatic
relations with Germany.
Emigre Iraqi Regime
British Plan, Nazis Say
NEW YORK, May 6 i/Pi.—The
German radio broadcast today a
Beirut dispatch saying Britain plans
to establish an Iraq emigre govern
ment at the court of Emir Abdullah
of Trans-Jordan.
Negotiations were conducted yes
terday between the British and the
fugitive former regent of Iraq, Ab
dul Ilah, the report said, with other
prominent members of the former
government present. The counter
government would be established at
Amman.
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.
Benefit Cruise Planned
i ALEXANDRIA. Va.. May 6 >Spe
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benefit of the Alexandria police
charity fund will be held on the
evening of May 28. Sergt. George
Everly, chairman of the Cruise
Committee, announced today.
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C. 1.0. Strike Closes
Plants of Important
Tool Manufacturer
Federal Conciliator Says
95 Per Cent of Output
Goes for Defense
By the Aesocieied Press.
A strike by members of the United
Automobile Workers <C. I. O > Union
this morning closed three plants of
the Ex-Cell-O Corp. at Detroit and
stopped work on tools ordered for
defense purposes.
Federal Conciliator L. F Rye said
that more than 95 per cent of the
firms tool-making production was
devoted to defense contracts. He
estimated that the work stoppage
affected 3.000 men.
The union demanded a 10-cent
hourly wage increase. 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.
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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. O.i and former
president of the Congress of Indus
trial Organizations, had asserted
last week that the Government
should not expect too much co-oper
ation from labor unless it afforded
labor a greater voice in its councils.
The American Stove Co. plant at
Lorain, Ohio, wa*: closed by a strike
of C. I. O. workmen, who asked a
wage increase of 10 cents an hour.
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Wilmington. Del., Sunday.
More than 300 jewels from a
wide area have signified their inten
tion of attending the convention.
The business sessions will begin
Monday. More than a dozen speak
ers representing various branches of
the jewelry industry are scheduled to
appear
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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.”
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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.
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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
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jority, Hitler can do no wrong, make no
mistakes. Because all of Germany's NEWS
PAPERS must go on, day after day, agree
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