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IN THE NEWS Mexico city u on* of the moot attractive cities In the world. It hi also one of the fastest growing cities In the world. The climate of the city Is de lightful. It Is never unpleasantly cold and the heat of < Summer Is re lieved by cooling showers. The Mexican people like the Spring, Summer and Autumn sea-j sons best, but the people of thej United States generally flock to Mexico during the Winter months, because It Is such a Joyous relief from the cold weather of the North. January, February, March and even April are generally the most disagreeable months of the year; In the colder regions of the United States. In Mexico City they are exceed ingly agreeable. Climate is building Mexico City, very largely as It built I»s An geles. Most people are sun worship pers. They follow the genial rays of that life giving orb. And why not? We greet the Spring. We delight In the first warm days of the year. We welcome the arrival of the flowers. We are happy In the bright sun light under the blue skies. We have been bereft of all these charms of life during the cold M Inter. We are glad when the Spring brings them back to us again. Well, then. If we like Spring why not go where Spring ever abides—where the air is warm and the skies are blue—where the flowers are blooming. Days are dark and drearv in the cold North In Winter. IT IS hut natural that many peo ple should desire to exchange the chill of Winter for the thrill of continual Spring. "But the altitude ," toy you, "it will at fret vnj heart." Wrll. to begin with, your col umni«t I* prepared to glv* odds of 100 to I that there la nothing tho matter with your heart. You may work too hard trying to make enough money to »up l>ort tho polttkian*. You may have a rertain nerv ou« exhaustion after worrying over the 57 varieties of taxes your free-handed government imposes upon you. Your heart may give a hop. skip and a jump when you rend of the continually rising national debt and realise that you good hard working folks will have to pay It. But you have not really got heart trouble. You have Just got work and worry trouble. Como down to Mexico where people lake things a little easier and where a dollar goes a little further and where the sun shines a little brighter and life Is calmer and happier. This altitude stuff is mostly Imagination anyhow. MANY years ago your columnist thought he had heart trouble. He probably had Welsh rarebit trouble or something of that kind. Anyhow he was on a train going to the Grand Canyon and woke up in the middle of the night. Hia heart was pounding. The train was standing still. He rang for the porter and gasped: “ Porter: Get me a tittle brandy or something— i/uirk. My heart can't stand —the hiph altitude — of the Grand Canyon.” *'Mister man” said the porter, “dry ain’t no brandy and dry ain’t no altitude, and dry ain't no Grand Can- (Continued on Next Page, Col. 2) In the Times Today Pigt* R*ftpr J.% "Bug*” B«*r 30 Comics ... 22. 23 Cpom-WoM Puzzle 21 Dally Short Jtury H K V. Purlin* : 14 Financial ... 24 2.‘i K/lwln C. Hill ....... 14 Hal In's Cartoon 14 llroacop* General Johnson .. 3<i Ida Jran Kaln . . Letter* to Editor ... .30 Magailne Page . 14 Paul Mallon .30 Movta Programs 20 Obituartaa 11 Paltarn .. n "Pitfall* of lyire" ... .. 23 Weatbrook Pe*ler 3n Radio Procrame s Ripley 23 Kill* Robinson ~ 14 Demon Runyon 30 Sorlel y || Sport* I? IS 19 20 Ft***. Screen 21 Dorotbv Thompson . . 22 Vital Statistic* . 23 Want Ad* 2J> 2* J 7. 2*. Wiaclirtl ...... 22 Wishing Wail 14 Wb**'» the Snew*rl» . v ... . 12 Women'* Page* 13, 13 Anzac Army Rushed to Save Greece ★ ★★★ ★★★★★★★★★★ ROOSEVELT CALLS AID PARLEY Parley Sought In Defense Strike Here Third union enters Ford dis pute ..I’age X GOP act* to kill Van Wag oner's labor hills Page (I An attempt is being made today to resume negotiations between officials of the Federal Motor Truck Company and representa tives of the UAW-CIO in an effort to settle the strike which is tying up a $5,000,000 defense order for army trucks. Negotiations were suspended yesterday when the union insisted on a union shop and company -offtrials said they would make no further concessions to the union other than those guaranteed by the National Lalior Relations Art. T. R. Lippard. president of the company, and Albert E. Meder. company attorney, said the com pany is willing to negotiate with the union a* a collective bargain ing agency and also to put in a wage increase of from three to five cents an hour. BAN CLOSED SHOP “The company will not consent to a union or closed shop." Lip pard said. “We will attend any negotiation meetings, but our stand will remain unaltered on this point.” Richard T UAW-CIO West Side director, said: “It is our belief that the Issues Involved In this controversy are not the real reasons why the company Is interested In pro longing this dispute. The union stands ready to resume negotia tions Immediately.” Federal Conciliator James F Dewey and State Labor Board Mediator Edward M. Owen today were endeavoring to settle the Midland Steel strike which started Monday when 1,700 UAW-CIO members quit work after wage increase demands were refused by the company. • The Midland strike is holding up delivery of steel side rails used in construction of army trucks by General Motors Corjxiration. No settlement has been reached in the jurisdictional disputes be tween two AFL union* at the Chrysler Tank Arsenal. Van Dyke and Eleven-Mile roads. ORDERED OFF JOB Four millwrights, members o( the International Association of Machinist*, have her ordered off the job by the Building Trades Council. Ed Thai, head of the Building T ades Council, said he would ask the Chrysler Corporation today which union should be assigned the work The rival union has agreed to submit the dispute to a referee. A strike threat by the United Mine Workers (CIO» at the Penn sylvania Salt Company's plant at Wyandotte was averted yesterday Both parties agreed to abide by an NLRB election to he held as soon as possible. Actor Wally Beery Courting Rich Widow HOLLYWOOD. March 12- <lNS*— Wallace Decry was blush ing like a schoolboy today. He let it he known that he was courting Mrs. Lorecn BufTum Robinson, wealthy Long Beach widow, and daughter of a depart ment store magnate. “I'll ask her every day,” he said, "until she gives me the right answer." 11 V* Wffo mm vn f/: "Wood violet Is the hue favored hv fashion and by girls of every complexion,” says Joan Dean. Page 13. “A strike which Indirectly involves the lives and ronvenlenre of |>otrntiall.v 7,000,0ftfl persons and which daily (directly) Incon veniences and ilistresses 1,000,000, becomes a pnblle Issue, outside the hounds of an employer-employe dispute,” comments Dorothy Thompson. Page 22. "I ntil nicer |>eoplc come along. I’ll lake Detroit,” Boh Tales about the Frank MaeDonell Memorial Fund game and a great hockey player and his son. Page 19. DETRWRiPTTMES Only Dstroit Newspaper Carrying International Ntwe Servieo and Completo Sport Dupatehei 41STYEAR, NO. 163 DETROIT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12,1941 30 PAGES THREE CENTS, Buckingham Grounds, Lodge Hit by Bombs RAF attacks Kiel ( anal. Page 2 Axis raid* Sue/.. Gibraltar as British bomb Tripoli . .Page 2 By JAMES E. BROWN Int'l .News torvtr# (Miff C'orrespondfnl LONDON, March 12. Three German bombs fell on the grounds of Buckingham Palace here during a recent Nazi raid, causing consid erable damage, it was announced officially today. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were not in residence at the palace when the bombs fell. It was the second time since the German “blitz" attacks began that lhe palace grounds were hit. TWO HUGE CRATERS Of the three bombs that hit the palace grounds, it was disclosed, two dug huge craters in the palace forecourt. The third damaged the North_ Gate Lodge, shattering the gate pillars and fatally injuring a po liceman. The lodge-keep r and his Ford Mediators , Launch inquiry The special commission ap . pointed hv Gov. Murray D. Van Wagoner to mediate the dispute between the Ford Motor Company and the UAW-CIO met today with James F. Dewey, federal depart ment of labor conciliator, and Michael F. Widman Jr., head of the union's drive to organize Ford The conference convened in the Motel Statler at Dewey's request to discuss the union's published demands upon the company. Later today Dewey and the commission will meet with Harry H. Bennett. Ford ftersonnel director, in Ben nett's office to go over the de mands with him. The commission members are the Rev. Albert H. Poeteker, S. J.. of the University of Detroit; John D. Lynch. Detroit attorney and regent of the University of Mich igan. and Thomas J. Donahue chairman of the state labor media tion board. Walkouts Tie Up 14 Parking Lots A stlike of parking lot attend ants al 14 downtown lots was lie gun this morning. Mardy Polaner. organizer of the Parking Lot At tendants Local 22121 lAFLb said. About 10 employes are affected and all the lots will be picketed during the day. depending upon the time they are handling their peak load*. Polaner said the strike wa* called because the three compa nies involved refused to negotiate a contract, asking for a 40-cont an hour minimum and a nine-hour, *ix-day week. Mechanic Loses Pants As 300 Women Watch COLDWATER. March 12. Midst many a scream from 300 women employes. George Millard Inst hiv pants today while repair ing a machine in a Hillsdale manufacturing plant. Millard was repairing a revolving shaft when his trousers became entangled in the machine. Loosening his belt, the mechanic slipped out of his pants uninjured, but not un embarrassed. wife had taken shelter within the palace and were not hurt. Authorities also permitted reve lation today that during a recent Nazi raid on the South Wales port •f Cardiff, it. David's Cathed il. the Blind Institute and the Royal Infirmary were damaged. S 4 AREAS BOMBED Latest information received in London this morning said .14 sep arate localities were bombed last night and that concentrated at tacks were made on three towns Many persons were buried under the debris of their homes in one northwestern town, which '\xperi cnced its most sustained raid in months (A Berlin announcemei said German night raiders success fully attacked objectives ; Bir mingham and also at a port on the southeast English < Ist ) An official British a nounce ment said three bombers had been destroyed. In addition it was believed a fourth German Heinkel raider had" been shot down in Scotland during the night. Gibraltar, Tripoli Bombed Ul/rMßvMut Vrtirf C *bl# CAIRO, March 12.—A violent Royal Air Force bombing raid on Tripoli during which harbor build ings and shipping were attacked, was officially announced today shortly after authorities revealed new- Axis assaults on the Suez Canal and Gibraltar While a lone plane attacked Gibraltar. Italian and German craft raided the Suez Canal area, and dropped bombs near RAF air dromes but no damage or casual ties wpre caused at either spot, according to an official statement. On the land, the British Empire claimed further advances. MENACE CAPITAL Meeting virtually no opposition. British troops driving north through Italian Somaliland arc within 150 miles of Addis Ababa, the capital ol Ethiopia, it was an-i nounced today. Covering over 600 miles in something like two weeks from Mogadiscio in Italian Somaliland, these British forces reached Gagha Bur iwo days ago. Since driving acros* the Juba River from Italian Somaliland to invade Abyssinia, this single British column has cap tured 31,000 Italians, it was claimed. Other British column* are driv ing into Ethiopia from four other directions. One column driving south from Lake Tana is within 150 miles of Addis Ababa. Boy. 12, Slips in Front Of Car. Saves Himself A 12-year-old hoy probably saved hi* ow n file today when, slipping in front of a moving auto, he grabbed the bumper of the ear as it started to pa** over him and hung on until the driver stopped the ear. The hoy is Fred Schmitz of 15921 In verne** avenue. While ero ng the street at Inverness and Puritan avenues on his way to the Fitz gerald School. Fred dodged one auto, hut fell in front of the sec ond. driven by Jack Town, 25, of 15157 Linwood avenue. Fred was treated at Redford Receiving Hos pital for bruises and released. Town was not held. TODAY’S WINNING Baby Contest Pictures Page 7 British Blow In Greece Awaited Greeks advance In Albania j Page 2 Yugoslavia hold* out tor friend ship pact Page 6 Hitler may mediate Sino-Jap war, Von Wiegand cable* Page 6 International New* Servle* Cable LONDON. March 12. Hard boiled Anzac warriors—like those who smashed the Italians in Lybya —have now arrived in the Middle East, ready to make a stand against any Nazi drive through Greece or Turkey, the government indicated today. An official communique stated: “Contingents of the Australian, Imperial and New Zealand ex peditionary forre* which left England for duty In another theater of war arrived safety in the Middle East some time ago.” From Greece, meantime, news of tremendous importance to the coming stages of the war caused optimism to rise sharply in London. F-XPECT NEW BLOW Reports from Athens indicated a smashing new war effort can be expected from that quarter within the next 48 hours. But just what form this will take was regarded for the time being as secret mili tary information. ’< For obvious military reasons. British sources refrained from j comment on persistent reports that a huge British army is be ing landed at Piraeus, the port of Athens, in preparation for an Anglo-Greek offensive. Prime Minister Churchill recently of fered to send an expeditionary force to Greece, and since that time the exact disposition and whereabouts of Gen. Sir Archi- , bald Wavell s North African J army have been unknown. (Italian newspapers frequently 1 have reported British landings in Greece. Virginio Gayda. Pre mier Mussolini's spokesman, re cently said that 20,000 Canadians had disembarked at Salonika.) All Balkan reports confirmed yesterday’s indications that Britain now has placed full responsibility for freedom of the Balkans in the laps of the Yugoslavian and Turk ish governments. Southern Vacation Planned by Roosevelt WASHINGTON, March 12 (INS)—President Roosevelt tndi- 1 cated today he may take a brief southern vacation, hut said that no date had been set. He told his press conference that he has been chained to his desk almost con stantly since January 1 and is still bothered with the effects of a cold. I'. S. as Nazi TVemesis Baruch Says Mobilized American Industry Aiding Britain Spells Disaster for Hitler’s Dreams By KINGSBURY SMITH Int'l >r*i Mnlr* Hlafl Corrf*p«Mident WASHINGTON. March 12. The United States, ‘‘without firing a shot.” can save Great Britain and defeat Germany's plans for world domination if the American people will buckle down to the job of industrial mobilization, Bernard M. Baruch, veteran behind-the scenes adviser to American presi dents and former chairman of the war industries board, said today. In one of his rare interviews, the man who has become known in Washington as America's “elder statesman,” asserted that Ameri can industry, properly mobilized and controlled, can give Britain sufficient help to hold out against Germany and can then economi cally defeat the Nazis in every market throughout the world. "The mobilized industry of I America Is a weapon of offense «r defense far more potent than ENGAGED FILM STARLET . f jk H / Jl i/ 11 \ OLYMPE BRADNA . . . SHE WILL BE WED ON MAY 14 ...he is Douglas Wood Wilhoit, socialite... Two Million Tons Sunk, Nazis Say laternational »*r* Cabla BERLIN, March 12.—Britain lost 2.017.000 tons of merchant shipping between November. 1940.! and February, 1941, the German high command announced today. Of this amount 1.524.000 tons were sunk by the German navy and 511.000 tons were sunk by the air force, it was stated. In addition, German planes heavily damaged 175 merchant vessels, the announcement said. These figures do not include British losses caused by German mines. Armory Fire Probed SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. March 12.—(INS)—Utah National Guard officials today were conducting an investigation into a fire that swept the roof and upper stories of the old $125,000 Salt Lake City armory, forcing 300 officers and men to flee to the streets. anything the world has e\er seen more terrible, I think, than the mind of man has ever imagined,” Baruch said. "If the American people want the defense program on which they have embarked to v -red. they must realize what they have got to do to make It a success. "We mu .t make ourselxes so strong that we shall be impr. g nahle against attack. At the same time, we must mobilize our Industry for economic war fare against the aggressors. If we do so we can save Creat Britain and defeat the Nazis in every market in the world. “If they sell a product for $lB. we run sell It for SIB and so on down the line until they come to the realization it will he belter to co-operate with us than try -to light us.” Greeks 1 Reported Yielding By HUGO SPECK Int’l New* Hmir* Staff (orrptp»n4fiil SOFIA. March 12.—The game is up and Greece is ready to make peace rather lhan face the might of German legions massed on Bul garia's southern borders, a member of the Greek diplomatic mission in German-controlled Sofia said today. iln Athens yesterday all foreign reports or suggestions that Greece would accept a German-dictated peace with Italy were ridiculed. (Reports from the Thracian frontier region this morning said Grepk civilians were evacu ating that area and pouring toward Salonika, in evident ex pectation of hostilities between Greek and German troops. (German reconnaissance planes were said to be circling over Greek Thracian territory, taking military photographs.) German authorities in Sofia like wise expect Greece to come to terms rather than face the Ger man forces now set for an invasion. Weatherman Root Suffers Flu Attack Clarence J. Root senior meteor-' olngist in the United State* 1 Weather Bureau here for the past *even and one-half years, remained abed today with a severe attack of influenza after spending his birthday away from his forecast ing instruments. Root, who has been in the government service for 40 years, was 66 yesterday. He lives with his wife at 65 Tuxedo avenue. Highland Park. Snowbound Pupils Rescued SCRANTON, Pa . March 12. (INS)—Forty students on a Greenfield Township school bus today were rescued by a snowplow crew after being marooned five hours when their vehicle became lodged in a snowdrift. Another school bus at Scott Township was stranded two hours as the region was buried under six inches of snow. .*#*»p Sh •tiring ffoir >■:/* Hnre hnrirrlril Yugnalmrla . . .Pag* H (NIGHT! EDITION House Ready To Start on Tax Bill New-type United State* plane* strengthen RAF Page t Bv WILLIAM 8. NEAL Int i \rw* VrvW Staff Cnrmpnaff—t WASHINGTON, March 12.— • With Congress awaiting his $7,- 000,000,000 British aid request. President Roosevelt today sum moned his so-called “high com mand" for a White House confer ence, as House leaders announced they would start work on a new tax bill April 1 to help finance tht huge program. Developments were: —Mr. Roosevelt spent tha morning closeted with Budget Director Harold R. Smith, getting his letter ts Speaker Rayburn ready to bs read to the House formally re questing the $1,000,000,000 ap propriation. O—The President called Seere “ tary of State Hull, Secre tary of Treasury Morgen thau. Secretary of War Stlmsoa, Act ing Secretary of Navy Forrestal, I Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff; Rear Admiral Robert Ingersoll, acting chief *f naval operations, and Smith. —Chairman Doughton (D) of North Carolina, of tha House ways and means commit tee (which originates all taxing legislation), announced that hearings would commence April 1 on a new tax bill expected to boost federal levies at least $1,000,000,000 annually, possibly as much as $3,000,000,000. —Democratic leaders prs dieted Congress would pass Mr. Roosevelt’s requested sl,- 000,000,000 British aid appropri ation within two weeks, despite indications that the size of the request might precipitate a bit ter battle. In requesting the “high com mand" to confer with him, the President, according to the White House, planned to go over his plans in detail with the cabinet officers and defense officers who will testify on the appropriations request before the House appropri ation committee starting tomorrow Hull is slated to be the first wit* ness. WAIT TAX REPORT Doughton. in announcing hI • plans to start tax hearings, said: "The time Is approaching to begin work on a tax bill. Wa probably will make a start tha, last of this month. “First we want to await the result of March 15 lnc©r-3 tax collections to find out how the tax yield Is running. It is likely that a conference between mem bers of Congress and the Presi dent snd treasury officials will be sought soon.” The $7,000.000 000 request (Continued on Next Page, Col. S) Roosevelt to Delay Court Appointment W ASHINGTON. March 12— i INS)—The vacancy on the United Statrs Supreme Court caused by the retirement of Associate Jus tice J C Mcßeynolds will not be filled in the near future. President Roosevelt declared today. It hag been assumed that the Chief Ex ecutive intended to put Senator James F. Byrnes <D) of South Carolina on the bench. Mr. Roose velt's statement wm interpreted to mean that he the pres ence of Byrnes, recognized Whit# House spokesman, on the Senate floor until after the $7,000,000,000 British aid appropriation hiu been passed. In Britain with Burris Jenkins Jr. Sketches and Story Page 10