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EATHER AKRON BEACON JOUTRNA FINAL JL EDITION AMoriated PreM Telepfeot I'nlted Press LV.S. NX. A. Chicago Daily News Cable Clear and warmer Sunday. Monday cloudy, warmer.

chest temperature Saturday was 62 degrees; lowest was 41. Ohio's Most Complete Newspaper- Sunday, May 18, 1941 NO. 164 102nd Year 104 Pages Ten Cents Fight German Economic Slavery, Roosevelt Urges French Planes Battle British In Syria 60.000 TROOPS DRAFT SySTl 31 FAILURE Crashing Trees, Jumping Gullies, Hell Wagon Stirs 'Killer Spirit' MASS ON FRONT Vichy Denies Nazi Entry Into Dakar Declares France Will Defend Base CITES THREAT TO yjMDE Dictator Aggression Menacing 'Democratic President Warns 1 1 it xatttt 8 Photo courtesy Firat Armored Division Tanks are rolling off the assembly lines, as evidenced here by the huge display of the first armored, division, Fort Knox, where hundreds of tanks are lined up for large scale maneuvers. double rainbow I have ever seen. The scene was breath-taking enough to touch the heart of a hard-boiled soldier.

Col. Alexander D. Surles, brigade commander, was moved to comment on it. The colonel is a tank man from way back, once an All-American football player at West Point. Tall, broad-shouldered, handsome Lt.

Col. Maurice Rose, second in command of the brigade, admired the rainbow, too. He is probably the best looking man In the army. 100,000 Are In Hard Coal By t'nlted JOHN L. LEWIS CALLED Reported Near Palestinian Border, Ready To Resist Any British Thrust IRAQ AIR BATTLES RAGE R.A.F.

Clashes With Nazi' Luftwaffe First Time; Airports Bombed Br United Preai Great Britain and Germany were moving swiftly today to tiro vA a A er ai ir A rl7 riilT in the Middle East which may involve France, Russia and the United States. In Syria British planes bombed Palmyra airdrome and were chased back to Palestine by French fighter planes which went into action for the first time against British planes. Turkey reported that Gen. Henri Dentz, Syrian high commissioner, has massed four divisions possibly 60,000 troops close to the Palestine frontier. If this report is correct it would mean that the) bulk of French troops In Syria have been massed in defensive po sitions to fend off any Brlltlsh drive from Palestine.

Report Border Skirmishes The Istanbul reports also spoke of border skirmishes between British and French troops, but there was no confirmation of this. Another Istanbul report was that R.A.F. planes had attacked train loads of arms and Syrian volunteers moving from Syria to Iraq. For the first time the royal air force and the Nazi Luftwaffe traded blows in Iraq. Report from Berlin said that the "creative pause" between Nazi mill tary offensives was now over and hinted that Germany was now on the eve of a sweeping drive against the British.

War reports from the middle east told of an attack by German bombers and fighters upon the R.A.F. airdrome at Habannlya, and of an R.A.F. attack upon Ger man planes at the Mosul airdrome tn the heart of the Iraq oil area. Italians claimed that Fascist warplanes have arrived to help the axis in Iraq. Battle In North Africa The Hungarian news agency reported in a dispatch from Beirut that Iraqi troops had crossed the frontier into Transjordanla and Iraqi planes had bombed Amman.

On the North African front, British and axis armored detachments, slashing across dunes and sands of the Egyptian-Libyan border region in swift attack and counterattack, were tangled In a battle in which both sides claimed the advantage. The British said they were hounding the defenders of Fort Capuzzo, battered fortress just Inside the Libyan frontier, and had inflicted losses with a limited offensive from the heavily fortified port of Tobruk, in the rear of the German and Italian lines. But the British had nothing to say of Salum, seaside Egyptian frontier village which they took yesterday, and the claimed to have recaptured today, Soviet, Iraq In Pact If both German and British re--ports represented up-to-date conditions at the front, the Germans at Salum were holding a pocket at the British rear, while the British, at Tobruk had a similar pocket behind the Germans and Italians. More than 500 prisoners have been captured and many armored cars smashed in the bitter fighting at Capuzzo, now baked by the desert heat, the British declared. Of importance equal to the military developments were the obscure maneuverings still going forward in the diplomatic field.

A British broadcast quoted the Moscow radio tonight to the effect that a Soviet-Iraq diplomatic and commercial agreement was signed today in Ankara, capital of Turkey. The Russian and German ambassadors at Ankara were exceedingly busy, Interviewing various (Continued On Page Two) C.I.O., from hard coal pits Saturday night and threatened to withdraw 325,000 men from soft coal fields to enforce the. union's Against All Force Br t'nlted Pren VICHY, May 17. The gov ernment today denied that Ger man troops already have occupied Dakar and declared that France will defend this key base on the West African coast "against all aggression." A dispatch issued by the official news agency denied, further, that German occupation of Dakar had been envisaged In conversations between Adolf Hitler and Admiral Jean Francois Darlan. Backing up this statement, a German source in Vichy claimed that Hitler had given Darlan "very definite guarantees" with respect to the French empire in north and west Africa, claiming that German penetration would be limited to that necessary under the armistice clauses.

Darlan Speaks Tn Nation Darlan, it was said officially, will speak by radio to the French nation tomorrow or Monday, presumably on the Franco-German negotiations. Dakar would be a convenient base for either submarines or surface raiders attacking the eouth Atlantic and African trade routes. French-American relations, which reached the point of tension yesterday after statements by President Roosevelt and Marshal Pctaln, seemed to have relaxed, at least from the French stand- (Oontlnued On Pa Two) IN 8JLS. CHS Charged With Overstaying 60-Day Leaves Br United Freni WASHINGTON, May 17. The immigration and naturalization service tonight sent its agents into every major seaport to ferret out aliens who have overstayed leaves in the United States.

Most of those taken into custody were seamen. Maj. Lemuel Schofield, head of the service, disclosed that the roundup would be concentrated in the areas of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Miami, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland. Although he declined to estimate the number of aliens who would be taken in the roundup, an immigration official participating in the New York City drive said that "We hope to get several hundred aliens in these raids." The roundup was directed principally against seamen who have overstayed the 60-day leaves granted them in the United States. The aliens were said by Schofield to be of "all nationalities." There was some indication that aliens who failed to comply with the 1940 alien registration act also were among those taken into custody.

The raids tonight were the third since Atty. Gen. Robert H. Jackson announced the justice department policy of checking upon aliens whose status in the United States was questionable. Reward Offered For Egyptian Chief CAIRO, May 17.

(V.T.) An in. tensive search was launched to night for Azis Masri Pasha, chief of the Egyptian general staff in 1937, after he and two Egyptian air force officers made an unsuccessful attempt to flee the country by air, a communique said. A reward of 1,000 pounds was posted for information leading to their arrest and a warning was broadcast that anyone aiding them would be severely punished. SEAMEN HUNTED OCCUPY DAKAR-PEPPER Senator Fears Bloodshed If U.S. Delays Until Hit-ler Seizes Port By T.

F. REYNOLDS United Preai Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 17. President Roosevelt warned to night that the dictator nations already have achieved serious economic encirclement of the United States and summoned all Americans to fight against the economic slavery to which Ger many and her allies would sub ject the world. America is heading into a worldwide crisis of "truly desperate intensity" and aggression is men. acing the economic, social and spiritual framework of "our democratic way of life," the president said.

It is Idle for us to talk of future foreign trade unless we are ready now to defend the principles upon which it Is and must be based," he said. "That defense calls most urgently on every American for his Immediate and utmost effort. Otherwise there can be no foreign trade of the future on fair terms, under democratic principles." Face fk-onomlc Serfdom Victory of totalttarianium, Mr, Roosevelt declared, would leave the world In a state of economic serfdom with international conv merce "rigorously controlled for the sole advantage of those na Hons and ruling groups which already have declared their determination to conquer the world and to subordinate to their own profit and welfare of all other people." "That this is the fact is attested by official or inspired German announcements," he said, "Trade in such a world would be merely another weapon for further ruthless aggression and subjugation!" The president's strong warning came" in a formal statement opening foreign trade week May 18 to 24. Reflecting Mr. Roosevelt's growing concern with economic aspects of the war and its impact on world trade channels.

Secretary of State Cordell Hull tomorrow night will follow up the warning with a major address on foreign trade, delivered at 9:30 (Continued Cm Pag Two) LOWER TAX PROGRAM REVISION DISCOUNTED WASHINGTON, May 17. (-Pi-Reports that the treasury would propose a substantial revision of its $3,500,000,000 tax program next week circulated in congressional quarters today, but were discounted by some administration leaders. John L. Sullivan, assistant treasury secretary, Is to appear before the house ways and means committee Monday to present suggestions for increasing the yield of the excess profits tax. Some legislators said there was talk that Sullivan would make a number of other proposals at the same time as a result of a sharp controversy within the administration over the original treasury program.

Flames Aboard Freighter Put Out WASHINGTON, May 17. (U.E) The coast guard said tonight tha the fire aboard the Canadian passenger freighter Chomedy off the Virginia Capes had been brought under control. The Chomedy sent out an S.O.S, earlier in the day, and three coast guard cutters were sent to her rescue. Beacon Journal Writer! Feels Tre' To Pull! Machine Gun Trigger By KEYES BEECH Beacon Joarnal Staff Writer FORT KNOX, May 17. If you have never ridden in a tank, which you probably have not, I'm afraid you won't get what I mean.

You won't be able to understand the excitement, the tremendous sense of power, the colossal recklessness that I felt this afternoon on my first tank ride. You don't give a damn about anything. You are a living part of the armored monster in which you are riding. You just hope that something gets in your way so you can crush it. You roll over gullies, climb ankments and crumple eight -inch trees with the case of a caterpillar crawling Beech up a tree trunk.

You feel that with this "hell uggy" you can lick anybody or anything, and here we have an important psychological factor in tank warfare but I'm getting ahead of the story. It was late afternoon. These Kentucky hills are always beautiful, but at this time a frustrated shower formed a double rainbow over the green woods toward the east. It was the most perfect STILLJlWilY New Synthetic Plants Here Only Partial Solution Akron's three scheduled government-owned synthetic rubber plants may be located adjacent to present synthetic plants operated by Goodyear, Goodrich and Firestone, Defense Plant Corp. officials ruled Saturday night.

The three plants, to cost 000 each, will add 7,500 tons a year capacity to present Akron synthetics production and can be stepped up for a year output. Officials of the Defense Plant Corp. said the three plants will be "entirely new" rather than additions to the small plants now operated by Akron's rubber "big three." Confront Rising Prices Announcement by the government marked a major victory for the rubber industry centered in Akron and leaves two other serious problems yet to be solved. They are the rising price of crude rubber, which is attracting the attention of the price-fixing administrator, Leon Henderson, and the need for conservation of rubber in order to permit the continued flow of all tires needed in private commerce a subject under discussion by manufacturers, dealers and the OPM. The decision to build synthetic rubber plants for the government finally concludes a 12 months' controversy.

More Ships Sought The rubber manufacturers will have only to show that they can produce synthetic rubber at a rea sonable price commercially to get the projects enlarged, assuming expansion is necessary. OPM officials are insistent that as many ships as possible be as signed to the rubber trade in order (Continued On Pago Two) Hull Is Criticized By Peru Newspaper LIMA, Peru, May 17. (U.E) The newsrjaoer El Comercial today edi torially criticized Secretary of State Cordell Hull for his explanation of the motives behind United States participation with Argentina and Brazil in an offer to mediate the t-eruvian-txua dorian boundary dispute. Hull said yesterday that the United States was "motivated by the most friendly desire to assist In settling once and for all" the controversy, and he categorically denied insinuations that the Unit ed States had discussed with Ecuador the question of bases on the Galapagos islands. 42 IN TARIS HELD PARIS, May 17.

UP Fernand de Brinon. French government representative in Paris, said today 42 persons were held temporarily for refusing to break up groups on police order on Joan RUBBER en Tn Produce Anticipated I OII Recruits: Amendment Soon Is Likely F. R. DEMANDS CHANGES Army Doesn't Want Men Over 27 Years Or Those Who Are Married IJV CLIFFORD A. PREVOST Beacon Journal Bureau, 1321 National Frew Bldj.

WASHINGTON, May 17. It has just dawned on the army high command that the selective service act, under which 000 men will enter camps as conscripts this year, was not what the country needed at all. It is also beginning to dawn upon the congress that voted the get that the men called up for a year will be subject to call for 10 years after they have concluded their training. Law To Be Amended As the army and the legislative end of the government finally get together on what the country needs in the way of a military machine, there is every indication that the selective service act will he drastically amended and with White House approval. Speed in changing the law is now being demanded by President Roosevelt and by Gen.

Lewi W. Hershey, author of the selective service system. During the week scores of regular army officers assigned to the various states to guide the boards set up under the conscription act have been in conference in Washington. All of them tell the same story the law is not producing Anticipated recruits. And these are the men who were supposed to have studied the selective serv-ic? system of raising an army for more than 20 years.

The congress gave the army the right to draft men from 21 to 35 years. The army doesn't want men beyond the age of 27 years. As a matter of fact the army will undoutedly recommend that the age limit be dropped to 18 years and may, If present plans go through, place a maximum at 24 years. Dnn't Want Married Men Congress also gave the army the right to draft married men and the army wants no married men. Ninety per cent of the headaches which the law has provided are the result of the drafting of men with dependents.

They don't make good soldiers, the regular officers report, as they are constantly worried about the folks hack home. No soldier can support a family on his wage of $21 per month, it is pointed out. But what concerns the high command most is that section of the law dealing with what becomes of the draftee after he has concluded his year of training. In thousands of cases the draftee will be in his mid-thirties when he gets his discharge. Well, here is what the law says about this draftee: "Each such man, after completion of his period of training and service, shall be transferred to a reserve component of the land naval forces of the United States, and until h.

attains the ape of 45 years, or until the expiration of a period of 10 years after such transfer, or until he is discharged from such reserve component, whichever occurs first, he shall be deemed to be a member of such reserve component and nail be subject to such additional training and service as may now i.neaiier oe prescribed by law." longress carefully added at "nothing in this law shall be (Continued On Page Eleven) Clear, Warmer AKRON AND VICINITY Clear and slowly rising temperature Sunday. Monday increases cloudiness and warmer. Record 'tnis date, 89 in 1911; low, 34 L.f Sunrise, 5:05 a. m. Sun-t 7:39 p.

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Atlnnta. Boston K'w ynrk 'hlnetoa C4 S3 79 tn 3 S8 57 71 64 5 S5 3 ti 15 a 59 59 65 55 51 7 45 60 48 48 53 48 54 58 48 57 47 83 41 rao Jfonvlll umi yilnnatl D'troit J'KnapoH, nnvr Phnenli tLk. City Annie, Portland tion planes that would soon be out to "spot" us. The sun came out for a farewell appearance as we ate at the officers' table chile, potatoes, salad, coffee. I thought: This is a game, but lt is a deadly, serious game.

This is as close to war as you will ever get without the shooting. The leaves of the oaks and the beeches rustled in the night wind that swept the Kentucky hills. It (Continued On Paf To) TOTAL $25,000,000 New Akron Employment Expected To Reach 17,000 By RADFORD MOBLEY Beaton Journal Bureau, mi National Freaa Blag. WASHINGTON. May 17.

Akron's industries have received nearly $25,000,000 worth of direct defense contracts, not including sub-contract work awarded to its manufacturers, a mid spring WPA report disclosed today. The city's direct contract awards amount to more than seven per cent of 'the $350,000,000 awarded to Ohio. As a result of defense contract production new employment in Akron will probably go as high as 17,000 by the end of the year, WPA estimated. Outside Akron, WPA points to the Ravenna arsenal as the chief employment asset in this area. The arsenal, the report says, will ultimately cost more than $60,000,000.

WPA sees a' temporary problem this summer In the layoff of workers in Portage county when the arsenal is completed but expects the situation to adjust itself quickly. Three rubber companies Goodyear, Goodrich and Firestone reported that about half of their production was in connection with national defense, including wheel and brake assemblies and tires. New Plants Planned Goodyear and Goodrich have also received government subsidies for the construction of synthetic rubber factories. Goodyear Aircraft, a subsidiary of the rubber company, is building a new plant; Firestone is expected to start the manufacture of gun carriages later in the year, and Bab-cock Wilcox of Barberton, and other large factories are likewise expanding. In addition, some 5,600 of the 13,000 construction workers employed in April at the Ravenna ordnance plant, in nearby Por tage county, were residents of Akron, WPA stated.

In spite of this activity, however, the active file of the state (Continued On Pag Two) DEFENSE ORDERS demand for higher wage scales. Acting suddenly, Lewis ordered miners in the anthracite fields to remain above ground after midnight Saturday, declaring a stalemate in negotiations "left no al ternative. The order came after nearly six weeks of negotiations. Miners demanded a $l-a-day wage increase, while operators offered a five per cent increase. Negotiators will meet Sunday afternoon, but expressed little hope of reaching an agreement.

In the soft coal dispute, William H. Davis, vice chairman of the de fense mediation board, announced last night after a conference with FIVE ARE FOUND SLAIN IN INDIANA AURORA, May 17. (Pi Five persons were found dead with bullet wounds in the back on a farm eight miles southeast of here this afternoon, Police Chief H. Mains said tonight. The victims were identified by Chief Mains as Johnson Agrue, about 65; his wife; their son, Wil liam, about 30, who was helping with the farm work; a brother, Leo, about 25, who lived with Johnson Agrue; and a 12-year-old niece of the Agrues, Bessie Brea-don.

On The Inside SECTION A So there we stood. Around us, hidden by skillfully placed tree branches, were the ugly, destructive tanks with their death-dealing guns. The kitchen trucks were likewise concealed, as were the scout cars and the motorcycles. Deadly Serious Game The brigade command of the first armored division of the United States army aat on a hill 10 miles north of Fort Knox, carefully concealed from the observa Called Out Dispute Preaa 100,000 United Mine Workers, representatives of the union and the southern operators that the soft coal mines would continue in operation during negotiations until Friday at 10 a. m.

Negotiations for a contract collapsed on the issue of a 40-cent wage differential favoring southern operators and a new shutdown was in prospect for Wednesday, three weeks after resumption of work at the request of President Roosevelt. At San Francisco, Ell Oliver, office of production managment representative, said attempts to (Continued On Pago Two) FATE OF FAMILY DEPENDS ON HESS NEW YORK, May 17. UPl The Berlin radio in a Spanish-language broadcast directed toward South America said tonight that the family 'of Rudolf Hess, left in Germany when he flew to Scotland, would be treated "in accordance with Hess' behavior and utterances in England." The broadcast was heard by NBC. Authorized sources in Berlin said Saturday that Frau Use Hess, the brunette wife of the deputy fuehrer, does not figure in any way in the investigation of her husband's flight. She has been observed in the past two days in Berlin apparently removing personal belongings from Hess' erstwhile headquarters.

Finds Wife Dead; Shoots Dog, Self MONTEREY, May 17. UP). William Otis Raiguel, 66-year-old architect, took his dog for a walk last night. Returning to his home In an exclusive residential section, he found his wife had shot herself to death because of ill health. Raiguel shot the dog, sat at the desk and wrote several hours on his biography.

Then he penned a note on the night's occurrences and turned the gun on himself. The bodies were found today. Constable Frank Oyer told the story. Dog Barks Himself Into Master's Cell NEW BERN, N. May 17.

MP Old Rover howled and howled outside the jail. His master, charged with drunkenness, was spending the night inside. Finally the continuous howling of the dog plus the Intoxicated grumblings of his master was too much for Jailer Frank Holton. He brought peace by allowing Old Rover to spend the night in the bastlle under his mastfr'i cot Page Colleges, High Schools 6 News of Ohio 7 People in Industrie! 8 News of Veterans 9 Cable, Defense News 11 City Life 12 Radio is Music, Opera, Drama 14 The Arts in Review 15 Amusements 16 and 17 Walter Winchell 19 SECTION Page Society and Clubs 1 to 8 Glenna H. Snow 4 Kate Clapp 5 Fashions 6 Bridge 7 SECTION Page Sports 1 to 5 Motor World 6 Markets 6 and 7 Real Estate 8 and 9 The Youth Parade 0 SECTION Page Here's How Nazi Germany Takes Funds From U.

S. Citizens, Gets Hold On Our Industry Through Laxity Of Government Hans goes to Hans Utch one of half a dozen New York firms dealing in Rueckwanderer marks. (This sentimental term is supposed to exert a come-back-to-Germany-influence over Hans.) He is informed that a remigrant to Germany can purchase Rueckwanderer marks at the bargain price of four to the dollar. But first he must be "cleared" by the German consulate. At the consulate Schmidt's racial origin and political sympathies undergo careful scrutiny.

Once his status is approved, ho is assured that the reich foreign exchange office will generously compensate him for any losses he may incur rom the necessity of liquidating his assets in the United States under temporari'35 JContlautOn Pafi rout) By WALTER BLOND YN and KEYES BEECH Beacon Journal Staff Wrltera LET us introduce you to Hans Schmidt, a resident of New York City, a citizen of the United States, of unimpeachable Aryan extraction and German origin. Hans has saved $5,000 in cash and he owns a small house. He hasn't much liking for the way things are going in the United States German propaganda has whetted his discontent and his regard for the solvency of American banks is low. He has heard from fiiends that the German government is offering special privileges to persons of German origin and good character who would like to return to the reich after the war. He decides to go back to Germany, if he can transfer his savings under favorable terms.

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