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BATTLE CREEK MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Full Leased Win Report of THE CNITED PRESS The Weather Snow Tonight, Continued Cold ENQUIRER and NEWS VOLUME XLV1. NO. 238 BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1941 CITY FDITION PRICE 3 CENTS mm THE fEAR mm mm 4 Killed, 100 Injured When Train Plunges Into RiverMimA Blocks Guard Hunt for 60 Percent Gain In Output Seen Country's Need Famed St. Patrick, Sonic Say, Was Englishman Today Coldest St. Patrick's Recorded Here Blame Sabotaoe In Fatal Wreck Near Pittsburgh -Wh 1 By the Associated Press! The facts about the man who made the shamrock famous are hard to determine.

Some persons even say St. Patrick, whose day is Match 17 as every pood Irishman knows, was born an Englishman. Others point to his alleged birthplace in Scotland. His British name was NflL, j. A week-end storm, borne in on winds that reached velocities as high as 50 miles per hour at Kellogg airport Sunday night, brought Battle Creek the coldest St.

Patrick's day in more than 40 years. The mercury dropped to three degrees above zero early this morning, record no? eoualed here on this date since records were first kept in 1898. The coldest previous March 17 on record here was in 1916 when the thermometer registered five degrees above zero. The coldest dav this winter was February 10, when the mercury stood at zere. Bitter weather, coupled with shortage of insulating board, caused the A.

W. Kutsche contractors on the Lakeview defense housing project, to suspend operations for the day, with upwards of 350 cr.rpenters. masons and laborers idle. A similar lay-off was in force at the WPA project at Kellogg air-ncrt. where 350 men normally work.

Today was payroll day and the next work period begins tomorrow, so in reality there was no time lost on this job. The storm was ushered in at 7 a. m. Sunday when the mercury szartea tailing irom a nign oi (Please Turn to Page 7, Column 4) British Forces Retake Berbera Capture of Somaliland Capital Seen As Sealing Fate Of Italian Empire. CAIRO U.R Gen.

Sir Archibald i I- Jt-v V.Tl I HnB Wavell's armies have recaptured Temperatures plummeted to be-Berbera, capital of British Somali- low zero from aoove normal read- He mav have been captured by Irish marauders when he was 16. St Patrick served as a herdsman, possibly near the Slemish mountain. in Countv Antrim or in Connaught. There he saw visions which led him to leave this work after six years. He became a deacon at Auxerre.

A good organizer, he brought about the conversion of Ulster. If War Aid Speech Cheered, Flayed British See U. S. As 'in the Nazis, Fascists Charge By tti Associated Pra President Roosevelt's Saturday night speech wag cheered by the British press today as bringing the United States virtually into the war and denounced in German and Italian broadcasts as the start of a "dictatorial policy of expansion." Roosevelt urged "total effort" to arm the democracies and railed upon his countrymen for sacrifices to produce "unqualified, immediate and all-out aid'' to nations fighting aggressors. These were comments from the Axis capitals: The Berlin radio, heard in New York by CBS, said the President onlv gave a new edition of his baseless attacks on Germany Roosevelt has embarked on a dictatorial policy of expansion he is called a dictator even in his own country." The Rome radio, heard by CBS.

said "the speech is interpreted here as the announcement of direct participation of American soldiers on both continents (Europe and Asia) (Please Turn to Page 7. Column 3 Hank Placed In Clas? IA "vr DETROIT Hank Green- berg, who was reported to have been recommended for a deferred status under the selective service act, has been placed in class 1A and is subject to Immediate call for army duty when his number comes up. Green-berg's draft board announced today. Ben O. Shepherd, chairman of board No.

23 In Detroit, Issued the following statement: "Henry Greenberg has been classified in class 1A. but his case is being referred to the medical advisory board for a report. If that board re- ports that he Is not fit for general military service, the classification will be reconsidered by the board." i ill II I TT-'-'ll i land, and key heights commanding ings of Saturday and biting cold Keren in Eritrea, virtuallv sealing added to the discomfort of the hun-the fate of Italy's East African em- areds of rescue workers in North pire. (Dakota and Minnesota. Forecaster It appeared doubtful that anylR.

E. Gumpf of Chicago said the possible maneuver bv Italy could 1 cold wave would moderate within prevent her entire East Africa-i n--. fr0m 24 to 36 hours, sessions land covering 1,725.300 Yugoslav Stand Seen Upsetting Hitler's Plans U. S. Pledges Believed Factor in Slavs' Strong Opposition To Germany.

GREEKS ARE JUBILANT BELG A DE (JP) Yugoslavia's resistance to Nazi pressure has stiffened suddenly, diplomatic observers declare, influenced by United States pledsres of anti-Axis aid and by reports that a British expeditionary force is streaming into Greece. In consequence, these said last night, the divisions Germany poised across the Bulgarian border from Greece apparently are hesitating despite declarations from Eerlin they would strike if British forces set foot in Greece. Press More Firm If they did attack, it was pointed out. their communications would be extended down a 500-mile corridor flanked by still-neutral Yugoslavia and watchful Soviet Russia. Yugoslav newspapers printed editorials reflecting a renewed will to retain national Independence.

Typical articles denounced those who "by threats, deceptions and promises which humiliate the Yugoslav people" try to divert the nation from "neutrality and peace." Decrying "insults to Yugoslavia which cast doubt on her moral and material strength." the usually pro-German newspaper Vreme declared: "Yugoslavia is strong. Yugoslavia can be resolute. Yugoslavia, by her open, honest and determined attitude, will contribute to the consolidation of her national destiny and her own peace." Some diplomatic sources expressed a belief that sinre Yugoslavia has refused so far to join the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo alliance Germany might try to release the forces she has across the frontier from Yugoslavia by offering to accept a non-aggression or friendship pact instead. A strong bloc of Serb military and political leaders has taken the po- Please Turn to Page 7. Column 2 President to Accept Mellon Art Gallery For U.

S. Tonight WASHINGTON President Roosevelt will accept on behalf of the nation tonight the new national gallerv of art where workmen have Just finished hanging a magnificent collection of old masters, worth between $50,000,000 and $80,000,000. The huge marble gallery, located on Constitution avenue along the tourists' path between the White House and the Capitol. Is the gift of the late Andrew W. Mellon.

Pittsburgh financier, art collector and secretary of the treasury under three Republican presidents. Tonight's showing is by invitation, and these have been sent to 6.000 diplomats, government dignitaries, heads of art museums, noted artists, distinguished art scholars, critics and collectors. President Roosevelt is scheduled to speak for 10 minutes and the dedication will be broadcast by the National, Columbia and Mutual networks at 10 p. m. (E.

S. Paul Mellon, son of the donor, will present the gallery and the Mellon collection to President Roosevelt on behalf of the trustees of the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable trust. LOOKING BACKWARD (By tilt Auoetated Preas) One vear ago today, March 17.

1940 British planes fly over Poland. Twenty-five years ago today, March 17. 1916 Brazil seizes 42 German ships lying in various ports. A Word Picture Of Churchill You will know Winston Church-Ill almost as well as if you were working beside him. once you've read Paul Manning's fresh, intimate story or the solid, driving British prime minister.

Mr. Manning. NEA London correspondent, has written a series of three articles giving a word-portrait of Churchill in action. The prime minister's monumental working day, his amazing personality and his fabulous career are described In Manning's story. The first article will be found today on page S.

16 Adrift on floe Attempt to Reach Group of Ice Fishermen, Woman in Lake Superior Fails. 31 DIE IN NORTH DAKOTA MARQUETTE (Pi Seven men and a woman, badly frozen after 23 hours in sub-iero gales on a broken ice floe, reached the Lake Superior shore in the Huron mountains this morning. Coast guards redoubled their search for an undetermined number of other fishermen still unaccounted for. JBy the Associated Press) Winter's lading breath blew strong winds and frigid blasts into the mid-west over the week-end, snuffing out the lives of at least 46 persons in two states and endangered the lives of 16 others who were adrift on ice floes in northern Lake Superior. VrirtVi flotntQ wHirh hnrp tha the storm counted 31 dead, with fears expressed the toll might be increased, while in neighboring Minnesota 15 persons perished as they sought shelter from one of the worst blizzards to strike the region in years.

Strong winds and a mass of cold air which moved slowly out of far-off Hudson Hope. B. struck suddenly with gale-like force in eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota Saturday night. Tpe winds Df near-hurricane velocity gales of 85 miles an hour being reported-spent their fury in the two states and mcved swiftly across the upper Mississippi valley, over the Ohio valley and into the Atlantic seaboard and the New England states today. BLIZZARD BLOCKS RESCUE MARQUETTE tPj A raging blizzard this morning turned back coast guardsmen in their attempt to reach 16 ice fishermen and a woman adrift on a storm-tossed floe in Lake Superior.

The gale, which reached a 50-mile velocity in some places late yesteruay. snowed no signs of abating today and visibility was so poor that coast guardsmen said no attempt could be mace by airplane to locate the marooned llshermen. Shore patrols were redoubled along the beaches in hopes that parts of the main floe on which the 16 persons were believed stranded had been swept against the mainland of Michigan's upper pen- fishermen from L'Anse who drifted to shore on a small floe that up-j wards of 20 persons were gathered ion a large fioe which broke away from the main iield near Skanee. Drvillp Kch-oi-der and I lne men Jrviue ijcn.otaer au his son, William; tail Schulte, Har- rinnnlii Knsl'i fatapleloi and Donald -0Sia were found at 11:30 p. m.

(C. S. I Although uninjured, they were suf- rvnosurp 1 taring irom exposure. Revise List of Missing The revised list of the missing included: Dave Kauponen and David Maki. I'Anse.

and Thomas Ross. Francis Ross, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Koivunen, Ed Charles Gull, John Ostermann. Ray Arch- lomhonu Martin Klftnith.

William (Please Turn to Page 7. Column 6) should be completed within the next two weeks. Informed legislators dismissed the possibility that the administration would give serious consideration to a suggested five percent payroll tax which would hit all wage earners to raise defense funds. For strictly political reasons. If for none other, administration spokesmen said a payroll tax would be almost the last resort of the government.

They said a further increase in the normal tax rate on incomes in the middle bracket and additional reductions of exemptions were much more likely to come first. Including the $7,000,000,000 British-aid appropriation, the present (Please Turn to Fagi Column 7B Knudsen Says British Aid, U. S. Defense to Require Unprecedented Production. TALKS TO CONFERENCE WASHINGTON (P) William S.

Knudsen. defense production chief, disclosed today that the seven-billion-dollar British-aid program plus defense contracts yet to be awarded would require a 60 percent increase in American industrial activity. Knudsen. director of the Office of Production Management: Sidney Hillman, associate director: Secretary Perkins, and other government officials addressed a conference called to consider how to increase the number of trained workers in the vital metal trades Industry. Opening the meeting.

Knudsen reported that defense contracts let from the beginning of the emergency program last June to date called for 18.000.000.000 man hours of industrial production. "We've got to go into production." Knudsen asserted, "on a scale In America that has never even been approached before." Knudsen introduced Hillman. who asserted that "we here under our democratic institutions can do the )ob much better in the long run than it Is being done in other countries where the totalitarian governments are in power." With regard specifically to the training of workers, Knudsen said that "last June there were many people who still thought in terms of unemployment," but that the conditions which resulted in such were no longer true. What's the Real News in Public Affairs Day-by-Day History of These Momentous Times Interpreted for the Home Reader by a Skilled News Observer. -BY PAUL MALLON WASHINGTON A WELL-PLACED government official of exceptional financial Judgment figures this S7.CO0.C0O.-0CO as only the first 25 percent advance on aid to Britain.

His reasoning: Britain Is likely to win but will require about four years. The $7,000,000,000 figure was a rough estimate to cover the first year of new British orders. Probably nowhere near that amount can be actually spent the next 12 months, but increasing productive capacity will enable larger expenditures next year and thereafter, so the average Is apt to be around $7,000,000,000 an nually. This figuring would make the plausibly expected expenditure Our own contemplated three year defense program has al ready reached 32.CC.CCC.GCO. The two together could thus approxi mate S60.0C3.000.000 twice the total of all government appropria tions in the last war years of '17 '18.

and "19. Quite a Job A magazine, the American Investor, has figured a new way of trying to tell people how much a billion dollars is. Their system: If an unusually alert and industrious young man of 15 started counting one dol lar bills at the rate 100 a minute he would be able to count a billion dollars by the time he was 96 years old (working eight hours a day, five days a week.) '55. profound Internal disturbance has been caused here by the arrival of the last London Economist show ing Britain's financial predicament. The federal reserve board survey of periodicals is devoting extraordin ary space to the Economist article and financial officials are handing It around.

The gap between British revenue and spending will reach $1,200,000. OCO a month on the basis of a $4 pound) this coming fiscal year, beginning April, the article says. Only half can be raised by means now visible. The other half must come from Inflation, compulsory savings or additional taxes (the limit of taxation already having been approximated Inference Is Inflation may have to come. British national income for the coming year Is estimated at 136.000.-0O0.0C3; government expenditures at square miles and with a population of 12.100.000 from falling under the successive blows struck by the imperial forces.

The occupation of Berbera. yesterday, understood to have effected with slight opposition, virtually completes the encirclement of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Italian Somaliland Is already in British hands. The recapture of Berbera, taken by the Italians last August 19. In their quick, sharp drive against tiny British garrison forces, was effected by troops landed by warships and protected by Royal Air Force planes.

(In London it was said that the British landing was opposed by ma chine gun and artillery fire from the shore hut that Italian resistance Engineer, Woman and Baby Among Victims As Train Plunges Down Embankment. RAIL SPIKES REPORTED OUT BADEN. Pa. (JP) Penn-slyvania railroad officials today blamed saboteurs for the derailing of a crowded passenger train three of whose cars plunged into the freezing waters of the Ohio river killing four persons and injuring more than 100 last night. W.

Smith, vice president of the raiircaci, said "all the spikes were removed from one rail" and the wreck wa3 "very definitely caused by sabotage." The Cievcland-PitUburgh train, carrying 112 passengers and a crew of 11, was roaring along at 60 miles an hour through a blinding snowstorm when it met disaster near this small town about 22 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. Jumps Tracks The locopiotive jumped the tracks and overturned with a terrific crash, whipping its four coaches and baggage car over a 50-foot embankment to the river. The baggage car and two coaches were partially submerged. The other cars lay twisted along the river's edge. Screams of the injured men.

women and children rang out in an atmosphere made eerie by the wind and snow and orange-red glare of steel furnaces at mills on the opposite side of the river. The least hurt passengers and crewmen quickly scrambled to the aid of the seriously injured, some of whom lay submerged in the icy water that flooded the cars. Authorities learned of the tragedy when an injured passenger, ius (Please Turn to Page 7, Column 5 Lloyds Seys Ship Loss Neariy 5 Million ions LONDON tP) Lloyds reported loaay that British, Allied ana neutral shipping losses in the first 18 months of the war were nearly tons tons more than in the first two and a half years 31 the World war. Lloyds list and the Shipping Gazette gave British Allied ana neutral lasses up to March 2 as 1.245 ships of 4,962,257 tons. lolal German, Italian and Axis-controlled vessels lost were given as 422 ships Of 2,028.140 tons.

(The authoritative German commentary Dienst A us Deutschland declared March 13 that German armed forces had sunk more than 3.000.000 tons of British shipping since the war began. (Lloyd's Register of Shipping listed 21.u01.925 ions of British empire shipping at the start of the war 3.S77 steamships and motorsnips of 100 gross tons or more. (The British reported that at the of the var Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland and France hau iijiU.bttb tons of shipping, of which Britain obtained an undisposed number of vessels.) Germans Are Silent On Greek Relations BERLIN (Pj A new answer of auuioiiiea sources to the stock question, 'Is there any change in German-Greek relations?" led observers to believe today that relations had become worse. The daily question was asked by a correspondent in a discussion of reports of British landings in Greece. Authorized sources hitherto al ways had replied: I "No change.

Formal diplomatic relations continue." Today, however, they said significantly: "We can no longer discuss this question." Attention was called by newsmen to a Greek-language broadcast from Belgrade yesterday, asserting that there would be an Italian-Greek armistice in two days. Authorized 'sources said they did not believe this report. Authorized sources declined to dis-i cuss the question of Turkish President Ismet Inonu's messenger to 1 Hitler. They would not say whether he had arrived in Germany, what 'the program for him was or what contents of Inonu's message 'might bo. His church is reported to have been a barn.

He seems to have visited Rome and returned with relics. His greatest work In Irish history and the Irish church was in putting Ireland in touch with western Europe, especially with Rome. He Introduced Latin Into Ireland as the language of the church. tSU Hitler Says 'No Power' Can Save England BERLIN Adolf Hitler declared Sunday that "no power" on earth ran save England from detent. "No power and no support coming from any part of the world can change the outcome of this battle In any respect." he asserted In a Memorial day speech in the historic Zeughaus.

or armv museum. "En-land will fall." (The speech followed bv less than 24 hours President Roosevelt's Saturday night declaration that Britain and Greece would get ships, planes, food, tanks and guns and ammunition and supplies of all kinds Irom the United States. He exhorted Americans to "all-out" efforts until "our final victory is Hitler made no direct mention of the United States except to comment on some remarks he said were made before a consresslonal com- minee thal Ministor Churchill declared In 1936 Germany mast be destroyed because she was growing too strong. Germany enters 1941 "cool and determined to end what started the year before." the fuehrer said, add- Please Turn to Page 7, Column 7 Duce's Daughter on Ship Reported Sunk ROME iPi British air raiders are reported to have sunk an Italian hospital ship on which Countess Edda Ciano. eldest daughter of Premier Mussolini, was serving as a volunteer Red Cross nurse in the Albanian port of Valona.

official Italian news agency, said the alleged incident occurred Fridav night and called It "an ignoble new crime." The countess was among tne last to leave the sinking ship Po. Stefanl asserted in its report yesterday. (The countess returned to Rome last November after two months of work as Red Cross nurse in Libya, and apparently resumed her work in Albania. Her husband. Count Galeazzo Clano.

Italy's foreign minister, also has been on active duty as air rquadron commander in Albania. great air force in the eastern thea ter. The fuehrer failed last summer to gain control of the air from a comparatively small British aerial navy and thus permit of his planned Invasion. Now. with the Royal Air Force strong and taking the initiative, he needs every plane he can muster for his offensive against England.

In other words, the Nazis are spread out a bit too thin. If the Balkan show develops into something big. and Germany finds herself at war on two fronts, the tension will be greatly eased on England, thereby vastly Increasing the Anglo-Allied chances of winning war Much depends on whether Yugo- (Pleas Turn to Page 7, Column i was quicklv smashed by salvoes from insula near the Huron islands. British naval guns. About 100 prls- A revised list of the missing com-oners have been counted so far and piled by state police at Anr? nd more are said to be coming in.

Brit- the Baraga county sheriffs office ish casualties were reported' negligi- included names p.oi, a He. London authorities pointed out to be missing. Earlier scattered re-that Italian forces in East Africa ports indicated between 20 to 28 are almost completely ringed since i persons unaccounted for. the coastal waters of Eritrea have Adding to the confusion was the been mined In that, area where the report late last night from five St Patrick Willkie to Fight 'Isolation' Drive Moy Follow Wheeler Around U. S.

If Senator Starts Anti-Foreign Policy Trip. WASHINGTON ai Wendell L. Willkie. determined to fight against what he considers American "Isolationism." Is thinking of following Senator Wheeler from city to city if the Montana Democrat conducts a country-wide speaking campaign in opposition to administration foreign policy. Wheeler has said he would travel from "Boston to San Francisco" to speak against American involvement in war and against the administration's conduct of foreign policy.

He has predicted that other senators would join in such a 'crusade." as he terms it. Friends of Willkie said today that if Wheeler and like-minded colleagues should make fuch a campaign, the 1943 Republican presidential nominee would like to "speak In rebuttal." Willkie. It was said, would like to arrange his personal affairs so that he could travel a few days behind the senate oppositionists and address meetings in every city where they had appeared. It was said authoritatively that Willkie believes American foreign policy should be crystallized on the idea that the United States cannot Isolate itself from the rest of the world. Such a policy, he was reported to believe, should be fixed finally and definitely so that all other nations would know where (Please Ten to Pnte 7.

Column 6 Bulletins ROME IP A reliable source said today Britain had warned Italy and Germany that RAF bomber would attack Rome if Axis planes bombed Athens. FARGO. N. D. Rescue crews working in sub-zero cold dug more bodies from a snow-drifted northern Minnesota highway after one of the northern plain's worst wind and snowstorms.

Four more bodies were found, bringing the total of known dead to 51 in North Dakota and Minnesota. WASHINGTON The roast guard cutter Bibb reported today the discovery of wreckage near Bermuda which mhtht Indicate the destruction of the American frirchtrr Mahnkona. De Valera Pent Eire's Greetings to America BY EAMON DE VALERA of Erie f- l'r Press! DUBLIN (UP) Ireland sends greetings to all her friends In the United States today. Just as our exiles' thoughts are naturally turned toward the home-; land on the national festival, so i Ireland's thoughts are. particularly in this time of difficulty, on them, Our people are facing the new i problems created by war with cour- I age and determination.

It will be a source of satisfaction to all our friends to know that the new sltua- tion is being faced with more unity of purpose than at any time in the past, 1 Italians still hold out.) HOW SMART ARE YOU? (Let eacn member of the family writa down bis or her own answer, or at let each pupil write down tne ah- swer to each question oi the io cues- tions. four correct answers 19 a fait aver- for adults, three for children under 12. The correct answers will be found on tha news notes page.t 1 How many repuhllcs are Included hi (he t'nlon of Soviet Socialist Republics? 2 What Is "rouse et noire?" 3 What color la denoted by celeste? 4 In what two continents alone are rattlesnakes found? weannc oranee blossoms for brides ordinate? "volw'e" Wb 7 Into hat ocean doe the Mackensw river flow. 8 In the Bible, who was Jacob's wife 9 What Is meant by "Verbum 8ap?" 10 What Is tripe? The War News Analyzed Balkan Upheaval, If It Comes, Will Enhance British Chances Manufacturers' Tax Urged To Help Foot Aid, Arms Bill WASHINGTON (-) A manufacturers' excise tax was suggested in congressional circles today as a possible source of substantial revenue to help defray the cost of the gigantic armament and British-aid programs. The manufacturers' tax was described as much preferable to a general sales tax, because it would be applied at the source and not levied directly upon consumers, like a sales tax.

No taxes were mentioned. This tax proposal, along with numerous others, will receive the attention of the house ways and means committee soon when It opens its broad study of the nation's entire tax structure. The committee has been waiting until the treasury had an opportunity to analyze the March IS Income-tax return task whioh BY DEWTTT MACKENZIE Britain's initiative In rushing a well-equipped expeditionary force to Greece, coupled with the sharp lilt given Anglo-Allied morale by America's aid program, has created a situation that may precipitate the Balkan unheaval which Hitler has been trying to avoid so as to concentrate on smashing England. A general conflict in the Balkans Isn't a certainty for no man knows what that muddled mess will bring forthbut It definitely is a possibility. Should it develop.

It would greatly change the trend of the war. As a matter of fact, even the possibility already has altered the course of events. For as Herr Hitler launches his win-or-lose drive against the British isles, he finds hlmaeli compelled to maintain a fPteaaa Turn to Pag Cttumn.