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VOL. XXXVI jUWhole No. 10,651 TWtt Paom GLENS FALLS, N. THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 1941 Twxjrrr Piatt Psia Thezx Cum STASSEli URGES LAW PUKHED TO CURTAIL STRIKES House Votes Ship Seizure Bill 266-120; Nazi Press Hits Stimson Talk; Tokyo Is Disturbed by Reports of Canal Closing IRAQI CONFLICT IS HEARING END, BRITISH ASSERT RAF and Troops DealAHar(j Blows to Rebel forces, Cairo Sources Claim WAR FERVOR SUBSIDES NINE FOREST FIRES REPORTED IN STATE; UNDER CONTROL ALBANY, H. May 7.

V-Th State Conservation Department reported tonight nine forest fires burning throughout the state, all of them email, and all under con troi. Forest rangers said light show-era relieved the Northern Adirondacka and In Allegany, Cattaraugus and Steuben 3emtfeh3e-largest fire boiued 2a acres in Delaware County. The Albany weather bureau, meantime, forecast scattered ahowera and cooler weather within the next 24 hours. -The department still viewed the aftuatlon- as critical and added that only a heavy rainfall would bring about reopening of the woods, closed last week by Governor lhman, Minnesota Governor Claims Js Boon inHis State Ship Losses Insufficient to Warrant Escorts WF.L. HEAD OPPUbtS 11 Board Continues Efforts to Settle CMC i Wage Dispute Br The Associated preaa GOV.

Harold Stassen ot Minnesota told ConKress yesterday (Wednes day) that a law designed to curtail U. S. IS COMMITTED TO KEEPING BRITISH NAVY AFL0AT-KN0X WASHINGTON, May 7 Mi-Secretary Knox, asserting "we are living hi fearful danger," declared tonight "the only safety for us is to supplement the forces of Britain." He told a banquet meeting of the American Booksellers Association In an extemporaneous address that "a Nazi victory means the ringing down of the curtain on civilization as we know it." Destruction of the British navy, Knox said, would mean that "we would have to. face a seapower Immediately superior to our own the combined navies of Germany, Italy and France on one side and, on the other, the powerful fleet of Japan'." "The United States Is committed to see that that (British) sea-power is destroyed," he added. "You see what it "would mean if this bridge of ships was not strikes by compulsory waiting per jf, I lcds had been a boon to labor in his it state, but AFL President William Oreen argued that such legislation I was founded on the principal that men could be forced to work against 1 their will AUSTRALIAN PREMIER REACHES U.

S. within the shadow of the big clipper that flew him from Europe to New York, Australian Prune Minister Robert Gordon Monies (left) points out eonK thing at -interest to Frederick. Sneddon, Australian official who accompanied him on the flight, Menries said "it will take the great genhu of the people at America" to help Great Britain win the battle of the Atlantic, WASHINGTON, May 7 266 to 120, the House passed President Roosevelt's ship seizure bill today and sent it on to an uncertain future in the Senate. The measure, requested by the administration, would empower the President to seize foreign vessels idle in American porta and put them to any use he sees fit. Thus he would be enabled to use Italian, German and Danish vessels recently taken Into protective custody, and others not yet requisitioned, in the help to England program.

Voting in favor of the bill were 212 Democrats, SI Republicans and 3 Progressives; opposed were It Democrats, 100 Republicans and One American Laborite. Defeat Transfer Ban The bill was passed after the chamber had defeated 220 to 160, a motion by Rep. Culkin (R-NY) to send it back to committee with instructions that a provision be add ed forbidding the President to turn Axis -owned vessels over to Great Britain. This proposal, presenting the big gett dispute connected with the measure, had previously been rejected, but without a record vote. Those behind it contended that to seize the ships of one belligerent and transfer them to its enemy would be an act of war on the part -i States.

Stassen told a Senate Labor Sub-Committee that similar "cooling off" legislation In his state had reduced strikes materially, and had strength ened the position of organized labor. In addition, he said, collective bargaining contracts had increased un- (a der the law. Oreen took the position, while Jtestif ying before the House Judiciary Committee, that the Minnesota law and a somewhat similar Michigan statute had proved 'ineffective. i j- The Senate has under considera-f tkm a bill by Senator Ball (R-Mlnn) requiring a waiting period, of Id to 40 days before a walkout could bevy come effective. Before the House is I a measure by Rep.

Vinson (D-Ga) lv requiring J5diy period. these strike 4 developments: 4r Charlerol, Pa. -A one-day walk-J out at three mines of Industrial Colli Heries was settled after a miner. agreed to join the CIO United Mine Workers. Approximately 2,875 men stayed away from their jobs at Ells-; worth, Marianna and Cokesbunc.

af- ter CIO members had refused to- work with the miner who did not be- It was this aspect of the controversy that held promise of trouble for the measure in the Senate. Al- ready a group within the Senate 1 Commerce which 1 handling the bill, had adopted the same attitude and shown itself so sizable that Senate leaders were talking of a compromise on this point. WiU Fay for Ships The Italian and German vessels taken several weeks ago were seized -under a law giving the government such power if sabotage were suspected. Additional legislation waa needed, however, before the govern- ment could put them to work. The bill provides that just com- nensatlon most be paid for ships re- SSL i.

tadAutrial Coln, tw0 desperate at sidiary. -tralsitioned, but the House attached 1 Washington CIO President Philip Murray Joined discussions before the I Defense Mediation Board looking toward settlement of a threatened strike of 165.000 General Motors em- ployes." The CIO Auto Workers i Union and the company had inable to agree on a new wage scale. Washington threatened strike at the Bendix Aviation plant, South Bend, was certified to the if Mediation Board by the -Labor rDe- partment. and shortly thereafter the I board telegraphed union and com-I pany representatives to "make every possible effort to see that produc-j Son is maintained." ESPOSITOS TRY TVICE TO ESCAPE But Guards Blackjack Con-- victed Killers and Drag Them Into Prison OSSINING, N. May 7.

(ffK The Esposito brothers, tough; products of New. York's "dead end" streets, came back to1 Sing Sing todaybut this time horizontally. They were dragged and carried into the prison by five deputies who blackjacked them after prison- tempts to escape. The guards had them "up the river" from New York where they were sentenced to die in the electric chair for a Fifth Avenue holdup slaying last January, At the Ossining railroad station, guards and prisoners squeezed into a taxicab as the. cab neared the prison, both Anthony, 38, and WU- toeett forward in a-futBis attempt to butt their beads at the cab driver The driver stopped his car quickly and the guards yanked me urotners out.

Guards FeU. Brothers As they walked toward the ad ministration building, Anthony broke away from bis guard and swung viciously at another. His punch missed and the deputies swung blackjacks at both brothers knocking them to the ground. Then the prisoners were hustled inside half carried and half dragged. For years, Anthony, gorilla who ever walked the streets of New York," Jhe district attor ney's office said) and William, rob bed and killed for a living always togeuier.

Here tney were separat ed placed in "private" death cells far from those housing other killers, there to stay until they go to the chair the week of June 16. On January 14 last they shot to death Alfred Klausman as he carried a payroll in an elevator of a New York midtown Then they raced onto crowded Fifth Ave nue, terrorized throngs of-noon-day shoppers, killed a patrolman and shot a taxi driver and a bank employe. A chase ended in their capture. Feigned Insanity at Trial All through their trial, both brothers, basing their defense on insanity pleas, feigned By turns they shouted, screamed and exhibited surly bravado and sullen defiance General sessions Judge John 3. Freschi, who sentenced them to die for first degree murder, said the Espositos "put on.

a show here, the like of which we have never seen before." He urged an amendment to the law requiring tile presence of defendants during felony trials. Saying that such an amendment would hold "that a defendant who disturbs and prevents an orderly trial, will be deemed to have waived his right to be present thereat." i Detroit The -Jlichlgan Labor iediation Board announced that United Automobile Workers (QIO) had filed notice of intention to strike against the Hudson Motor Car Co. of Detroit. The strike notice said the union is asking a blanket 15-cent-an" hour wage Increase for the 8300 hourly-rated employes. Hudson Is working on $10,000,000 worth of plane parts and Is con- Ships Carrying Aid to England Are Fair Prey By The Associated Press BERLIN, May 1.

The German press tonight revived an old theme "England Will Fall" as the Wilhelmstraase reiterated, "the consequences we have often talked about will follow attempts of the United States to come to her aid." A spokesman said these "consequences" meant the repeated declarations by Adolf Hitler and his aides that any ship taking materials to England, whether convoyed or not, la considered fair prey for German submarines. The suggestion by U. 8. Secretary of War Stimson that the navy be used to insure delivery of American materials to Britain was placed by Germans in the category with previous speeches by Secretaries Hull and Knox: "Attempts of United States policy to involve that nation in a war which Germans consider England has already- practically lost." Elucidate Beeaevelt Policies Dienst Aus Deutscbland, well-placed German commentary which is a frequent mirror of the official German attitude, asserted: "Stimson's declarations are considered to be a noteworthy contribution to the elucidation Of White House policies and their tendencies." The Deutsche AllKemeine Zeituni. terming Stimson's address "the third emanation of his master's voice." added: "Significant is Stimson's effort to Invoke the U-Boat psychosis of the The paper said his speech was In effect repetition of addresses by Hull and Knox but, "it uncovered the cards of RoosevelUan war politics and, at the same time, disclosed the utter weakness ef England, whose threatened collapse really a in Washington.

America would like to win time at any cost, but the hourglass of Churchillian England Is running down with in exorable1 rapidity." Battle Not at Hirst reint Tier Angriff, paper of Propaganda Minister Goebbels, declared-the bat tle of the Atlantic had not yet reached Its highest point and that "old tubs being brought out of shrps" graveyards will be easier marks than ever." Dienst Aus Deutscbland stressed the importance in the German view of the current action against the British Isles, saying port facilities at Glasgow and smaller points have been "heavily hit." It said the German air force was turning to smaller ports because "England now is forced to use them more and more as terminals to substitute for the destroyed er overburdened major ports." 1 Tokyo Fears Canal Closing TOKYO, May 7 W) The Japanese gave evidence today of Increasing uneasiness over their relations with the United States. Marked declines on the Tokyo Stock Exchange were attributed to reaction to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson call for protection of shipments to Britain by United States naval forces. Shipping circles discussed with evident anxiety unconfirmed rumors that the United States may close the Panama Canal to Japanese shipping within ten days. Shipping men said the Panama Canal rumors reached Tokyo from their agents in San Francisco.

(But no confirmation was forthcoming from Washington, the Canal Zone itself or even San Francisco shipping authorities. Stephen Early, presidential secretary, said "I never heard of Despite the lack verification, widespread concern over the reports was taken as evidence that important Japanese elements still feel that, despite the Empire's ties with the Axis, peace with the United States and continuation of her bans-Pacific trade are vital to Japan's well-being. The influential newspaper Chugai Shogyo, organ of big financial in terests, continued its campaign lor improved Japanese-American relations, suggesting that Tokyo open negotiations with Washington and London for settlement of the war in China, The newspaper asserted that China continues to fight only, because of American and British aid and that agreement with the Anglo-Saxon powers is a necessary prelude to peace in the Far East. Manv Influential Japanese are in sisting that a settlement with China must precede any other major diplo matic move. Recent developments, press comment and Informal expressions of leading Japanese have reinforced the belief that Japan intends to stand firmly on her owh feet in dealing with the problems that confront her in East Asia and the Pacific and will reject any attempt to dictate to her either by the United States or by her Axis partner, Germany.

Experienced observers say there are signs the Japanese are realizing what growing German influence here may mean. A German mission headed by Dr. Helmuth Wohlthat, ace negotiator for Marshal Goering, the reich's economic dictator, Is now In Tokyo. Its purpose has been called economic but observers have seen In Wohlthat interviews published in the Japanese press indications of political meaning. KODAK OFFICERS NAMED ROCHESTER, N.

May 7 Directors of Eastman-Kodak today elected Thomas J. Hargrave, president, named Frank W. Love joy chairman of the board and advanced William F. Stuber to the newly created office of honorsfj chairman. lost Three Italian Strong- -holds Hiv Ethiopia- Are Being Threatened By The AmeUted Frees CAIRO, Egypt, May 7.

British troops and the RAF were declared officially tonight Us have dealt crushing blows to the Iraq forces of Premier Rashid Ali Al Gallant, ana military quarters expressed belief that the conflict was near an end because Germany sent him no am. British airmen, systematically destroyed most of the Iraq air force, ground troops regained control of a pumping station near Rutba on the vital Mosul-Haifa oil pipeline, and the Iraq siege of the RAP ban at Lake Habbaniyah was broken. Howitzers and cannoneers flown by plane from Basra, near the Persian Gulf, helped the Habbaniyah garrison and Iraq levies fighting with the British to root the Iraqis holding dominating plateau positions around the airdrome yesterday. Heavy losses were inflicted by a cioseiy coordinated British ground and, air attack, the British amid, and mora than 100 Iraqis were cap- Iraqis is Retreat The shattered forces retreated eastward toward Al Falluja, across tne Euphrates River in the direction of Baghdad, the capital Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons In London that approximately 1,000 Iraqis had been xiiiea or wounded, and that 434. in cluding 26 officers, were captured.

British losses were officially -described as negligible. Dispatches from Beirut. Lebanon. said that Iraq war fervor apparently was subsiding and that Baa-hdad circles were seeking to lay the Diame-mr-tne wruggle on a "mis understanding" over treaty- rights oi tne jsniun and Iraqis. Military quarters here said no German planes or troops had yet appeared la Iraq, and they said It was difficult to see how the Naadi- tatheretortunel rlinder effective assistance.

The Iraq Dreraier'a boaitlon was described as "vulnerable" because his people failed wholly to support ma anu-Bnusn course. The British reported all three re maining strongholds of Italian re sistance in Ethiopia were threatened. with progress indicating then- re duction soon. In the northwest, one of three -columns converging on Amba Alaji was said to be only 30 miles away and the 30,000 odd Fascist defenders of the town were described as in a "distinctly uncomfortable" position. Other British troops were said to have occupied Debased! near Gon- dar, the second big Italian post in the north, while in the south a strong British force challenged Italians holding Kaddara, near Jimma major Southern Ethiopian post of tne Italians.

In the North African fighting around Tobruk, Libya, the British claimed a successful attack by the British defenders on Axis posts, but added that operations there and at Salum, Egypt, to the east again were hampered by severe sand storm. The RAF again heavily attacked Axis airdromes at Benina, Derna, Gazala, Bardia and Berka. as well as the harbor of Bengasi, it was reported. Ranging out Into the Mediter ranean, RAF bombers also attacked Calato Airdrome on the Italian island of Rhodes and "a number of large fires were started." Imperial troops driving north in Ethiopia were officially reported only 30 miles from Amba Alaji, one of the last Italian positions left in East Africa. Other troops were driving southward from Asmara, Eritrea.

On the northeast coastal sector of Italian Somaliland the British claimed 100 prisoners in occupying Bender Kassim. TRIAL GOES ON AT NIGHT NEW YORK, May 7 (JP) A second night session was ordered tonight in the three-day-old trial of William Solomon, Tammany district leader, and Charles H. Mullens, former Assistant State comptroller, on charges of bribery in letting state printing- contracts. At the dinner recess eight jurors had been chosen. In the News 20 Years Ago May 1, 1821 Federal officers arrested a bartender in an Elm Street saloon, refused to accept the assertion of a local lawyer that- they had no authority to do so without a warrant, and took the man to Saratoga to arraign him before a United States Commissioner.

Mrs. Irene Coe and Elmer Tid-marsh took prominent part in the minstrel show staged at Schuylerville to benefit the Old Saratoga post, American Legion. A. N. Jones was appointed principal of Greenwich- High School -to succeed C.

L. Morey, resigned. Mrs. Roscoe Granger was elected president of the Hudson Falls Mothers Club. ---At the movlesf Milton Sills, B-liott Dexter, Mabel Scott, CHURCHILL WIIIS CONFIDENCE VOTE Com mane Aivac Premier Mandate to Carry On; 1 George Rebuked By The Associated Preaa LONDON, May 7.

Warned In the anxious tones of David Lloyd George that America's war help Is yet innnitery too little to beat Ger many, the British House of Commons today gave Prime Minister Winston Churchill 1 new mandate to carry on with a confidence vote Of 447 to 1. For nearly two hour and a half the white-maned World Wax premier and the prime minister of this war engaged in a sober oratorical due before an intent chamber. It we -cue vox. a rro-da debate. a toting up or Britain's newest reverses and a summation of her determination and hopes, and it left Church ul te ail appearances unshaken before Parliament and country.

He walked from, the crowded house in the midst of a rousing and rare demonstration by the members. Churchill's speech in the main was pledge-that Britain will "fight to the death, without thought Of retirement," en the beaked Greek Island of Crete sad in the. beleaguered Libyan port of Tobruk, main pres ent barrier to an Axis advance, through Egypt toward Suet; announcement that nearly 600,000 British "and Imperial soldiers now are in the Middle-east to block the Axis, and the disclosure that Amer icav. hue plumed atawigls. new ships to heir Britain through 1M1 in the battle of the Atlantic.

Need More Naval Help Churchill admitted, in answer to Lloyd George; that Britain needed much more naval help from Amerirfc but be added: "I expect we shall get a good deal more help in many ways." When a mighty democracy of 130.000,000 gets on the move," he said, "one can only wait for full development of those vast psychological, manifestations and their translation into physical means." He concluded: I feel sure we have no need to fear the tern pest. Let it roar, let it rage 1 We shall come through." It waa toward the battle of the Atlantic that Lloyd George directed his warning. I thank God, he said, "for sec retary of 'War Stimson's speech Tuesday night suggesting that unit ed States naval forces be used to Drotect shiDments to Britain. America can do morel II shs is going to enable us to catch up and then overtake Germany she has got to do infinitely more than any indi cation I have heard of up to the present moment. It Is clear from the changed atti tude of President Roosevelt and especially from the remarkable speech of Mr.

Stimson that they realize how grave the position is Demands Seal War Cabinet But, he went on, his experience has taught him that American war organization is "full of disappointments." "You must remember," he said, the USA. has never had Europe's experience of preparing for wars with millions." The old Welshman demanded "a real war cabinet," an end to governmental blunders, an Intensified effort for food production and better manned and 'equipped factories. Obviously restive during Lloyd George's hour-long speech, Churchill began to speak in a breezy manner, but bis tones turned solemn. He rebuked Lloyd George for his speech one which, he not the sort of a speech one would nave expected from a great war leader of former days who was accustomed to brush aswe despondency ano push onward to a distant goal He reviewed the Balkan defeats. recalling that Adolf Hitler bad said it was a crime for Britain to sena help to Greece against the over whelming strength- of "no fewer than -40 divisions." This." he said, "is kind of crime of which he is a good judge." He and all the Churcmii went on, would, do the same thing again, even with the knowledge they possess today, GIVEN MASONIC HONOR-' NEW YORK, May 7 For "un derstanding and good will to all mankind," the Right Rev.

St. George Tucker, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, received today the Masonic medal for distinguished achievement, the highest Masonic honor. BIRTH RATE DROPS ALBANY, May 7 (AV-New York State's March birth rata of 14D per 1,000 population was one-tenth of -one per- cent below-the March, lSKsa, ten-year high record for the month, the state Health Department reported today, an amendment to tne cm saying that If any of the ships are owned by a government which Is in debt to this country, the compensation shall take the form ef a credit on the debt. The Senate committee, already conducting hearings on the bill to- day heard James W. Ryan oppose the application of the legislation to 1 the 38 Danish ships now in "protec- tive custody." He spoke as attorney for American trustees of the vessels.

The ships, and 28 others now idle in other neutral ports, are available service to the United States after the German invasion of Denmark, he added, but fear that Britain might seize them as prizes of war had kept them immobilized. Contend Convoys Not Needed WASHINGTON, May 7 tf) Foes Jr of assigning the United States Navy to convoy duty Joyfully seized upon figures originating in the Maritime Commission today as showing that comparatively few vessels carrying American help to England had been sunk in the Battle of the Atlantic. The statistics were contained in a letter from Chairman Emory S. Land oi that agency to Senator Vanden- berg (R-Mich). The communica- tlon.

prompted by an inquiry from -Vandehberg, said that "only 12" (twelve) vessels which left ports of this country for England between Jan. 1 and April 30 were sent to the bottom. Of 205 vessels sailing for r. England in the first three months of the year, the letter also said, eight were sunk. Senators critical of convovs or structing a t2e.O8O.0O0 naval ord- nahce nlant which will emDlov 7.000 BOMBERS, GUNS BLAST ENGLAND British, nones Attack.

Nazi Gun Emplacements During Shelling of Dover Bv The Associated fress LONDON, May 8 (Thursday) Germany long-range bombers and huge guns' joined force last night ano eariy toaay suddenly accel erated attacks which spread-death and destruction on England's coasts and in Liverpool, raided a. seventh straight night, Dover was shelled briefly but fiercely, by guns set up somewhere on the coast of France; two women were killed. German bombers follow ed- the- everting shelling with raids centering, on West Coast towns but also reaching Anglia and southeast coastal districts. The Liverpool wa described as of medium scalesimilar to that ef the previous night. f-3yeTp1iabdergInt a' week-long blitz in what appears to be a German attempt to smash ma jor coast ports before aid from the united states reaches the propor tions expected, by the- British.

The Germans lately have been giving London a rest while concentrating on British and Northern Irish ports.) 3 Bombers. Crash Three bombers were reported to have crashed, one in flames. A number of persons were trapped and houses were demolished by heavy bombs in one town. The night attacks followed day light air battles yesterday off the coast of England, reminiscent of the great combats of last autumn, and intense bombardment of the Dover area by German artillery emplaced in STance. The German cannonading, in 4 gun salvos at intervals of several mmutes, emptied movie houses and other gathering places as the public scurried to cover.

Two women were killed, and at least 12 persons wounded, including a naval officer who was seriously hurt when, his car was set afire. Several empty houses and a bus were British bombers and fighters sped immediately eastward, apparently to mast tne Nazi gun Bombers Head Over Channel While two German fighters swoop ed low to machine-gun the streets of a southeast coast section, another formation of British bombers and fighters passed over the southeast coast and out to sea in the gloaming, bound on an undisclosed mission of destruction against the German-held continent- One German bomber was shot down before dark off the northeast coast of England and another off the east coast of Scotland, bringing to eight the daylight bag. With better weather over the channel area, informed Britons. said the Nazis apparently were intensifying daylight patrols in an effort to thwart the British coastal bombers (Continued' on Page Six.) their status as treaty merchants under which they entered this country. Zapp 'and Tonn already were under indictment for failure to register as foreign agents.

Following his Jackson, addressing the American Judicature Society in Washington, said tersely: "Under modern of warfare, the mdst critical period for a nation under, attack is the period preceding the actual employment of military force. "The' secret weapon of the Nazis has been the failure of nation after nation to recognize- and deal, with this non-military In New York, District Director of Immigration Byron Uhl said that the government no evidence that seamen had engaged in "propaganda or anything like. that" but hazarded a "guess" that the move might be a precautionary against fifth column- activities. Dhl granted a request ot German consulate representatives to visit the totemedGerman nationals on Ellis Island. The consulate made no comment on the swift arrests, effected by detectives, immigration agents and border'patrolmea, WILLKIE URGES NAVAL CONVOYS England Will Win If U.

Protects Britain, He days NEW YORK, May L. Willkie told a "freedom rally" in Madison Square Garden tonight that America must insure the safe delivery ot war materials to Britain by "convoying petroling airplane accompaniment or what not" and then flung this declaration at Adolf Hitler: You have never met any people like us. And you had best implore whatever pagan god you believe In, that vou may be spared the day. Never before in the history of the world, Willkie declared in his pre pared ewdreet, has there been a people as strong as "the people ef the United States of America, There never was any people so able to de cide concerning what is right and what is wrong. There never was any people so capable of success, once tneir decision is maoe.

Capacity Throng The Garden rally, sponsored by the New York Chapter of the Com mittee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, drew a capacity house of more than 18,000, Garden officials said, and police estimated 4,000 more were outside. There are some who say America is weak and unprepared, Willkie declared, but this Is a doctrine of confusion, fear and despair" which he said he rejected and repudiated utterly. England will win, he continued, if this country sees that its ever increasing production reaches the British Isles. He added: "We want those cargoes protected and at once and with less talk and with more action." The defeatists, Willkie added, de clare that German production "so far surpasses English and American production that all attempts except to build our defenses are futile and doomed to I know that the British common wealth of nations and the United States can outproduce all the boasted ingenuity and capacity of Hitler and his factories." Willkie said. "I have faith that they will do so.

If did not believe this I should be desperate indeed." His address was carried by tne uo- lumbia Broadcasting System. Mayor F. H. LaGuardia of New York, referring to the lease-lend law, said "the law was intended to aid England and not serve as a liv ing target for the Nazi submarines. Otherwise the law has no sense.

Eastman Warns U.S. May Take Over Railroads PHILADELPHIA. May 7. WH-The government will not hesitate to take over American railroads if any defaults or deficiencies develop in the carriers, Joseph B. Eastman, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, warned today.

A railroad leader at the same time urged that railroads be given chance to work out tneir own problems and a banker declared government ownership or management was the way to "state socialism." Eastman, In an address at a session devoted to transportation and National Defense at the anniversary conference of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks, said there are no indications of any plans for the government to assume controV'of railroads as was done during the World War, but added: "Nevertheless, transportation is of so paramount Importance in carrying out any defense program, to say nothing of actual war operations, that If any defaults or aenciencies develop, I Imagine that the government will not long hesitate to assume control, if by so doing it can see a way of correcting or averting dangerous conditions. Philip A. Benson, of Brooklyn, N. a member of the Association's Committee on Railroad Investments, told the bankers, that "any measure of government ownership or man agement oi tne raus would oe mcoi unfortunate," men. Sleel Executives Seek To Speed Up Production O.P.M.

Aide Confers with A I Art. ini fAol kAnlAr 111 CIVVI ITIUIbl9 NEW YORK. May 7. (rV-The nation's top steel executives met today to make certain that every ton of steel America can manu-facture is produced, and quickly. Eugene G.

Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel; Benjamin F. Pair- less, president of U. S. Steel; Ernest i T. Weir, president of National Steel, and Wildred Sykes, president of Inland Steel, were present, along i with Walter S.

Tower, president of trie American iron and Steel Initl other strong measures to safeguard Britain's Atlantic lifeline were quick to assert that exaggerated propa- ganda figures on sinkings had been used to stir up sentiment for throw- ing the navy into the battle of the A tuit and a dollar-a-year man in the Office of Production men's priorities division, iron and steel committee. The delegates included Marjorie Atlantic. Knox Says Navy Ready The controversy meanwhile was intensified by a statement from Sec wmord, treasurer of the Little At-5 lantio Company of Branford retary Knox that if the navy should only woman member of the Institute. 1'VJThe expected result of the meet ing, was a committee oi anout 35 steel makers, from plants of all sises, whose duty it would be to raise steel production to the limit of present capacity. 128 Nazi Seamen Held at Ellis Island, Others Are Being Sought Under Immigration Laws i If the demand for more steel continues to grow, more plants may be the only answer.

At the meeting, called at the request of the OPM, there was talk of expanding present annual capa-icity, approximately 85,000,000 tons now, iuuui national ueiense needs. The big companies say they are nearing capacity. Operations this week were estimated at 06.8 per cent of potential, 2J points above be called on to assure safe delivery of supplies to Britain it was ready to do the job. The Knox remark was made dur ing a press conference discussion of speech last night by secretary of War Stimson. The latter, with- out mentioning convoys or any other specific method, had called for use i.

of the navy to see that the supplies arrive safely abroad. Is the navy ready to do tne joo Stimson suggested?" Knox was ask- ed. "The navy is always ready readier now than ever," he replied. A Admiral Land's letter was read with wide interest on capitol hUl. i Between Jan.

1 and April 30, the Maritime Commission head said, records believed to be complete show that 138 vessels were sunk in all parts of the world, of which "only 12 of 66,782 gross tons" clear-ed from ports of the United States. Of the twelve, eignt were inciuaeu in a list of 205 ships which left norts of the United States for United Kingdom ports between Jan, 1 and March 10. "This indicates. Land said, "that only a very small proportion ef these vessels failed to reach their destina- i tion." ACQUITTED OF SLAYING NEW YORK, May 7 VP) A 14- year-old double slaying case waa wiped off the books today by Bronx County Court Jury which ac- quitted Francess Pezzuto, 44, of murder. the previous week, as the industry 1 recovered from effects of th coal strike.

I 4 NEW YORK. May 7. One hundred, and. twenty-eight German seamen seized in Manhattan and elsewhere In a sudden pre-dawn raid -were concentrated on Ellis Island tonight as federal operatives con tinued a search for others in the governmeht'st apparent i- effort to guard against fifth column activities. The aliens were accused specific ally of overstaying their leaves in this country and were among the ibu uerman sailors Attorney General Jackson ordered rounded ur under the Immigration law, A tew scattered arrests also were made in Chicago, Minneapolis, Phila delphia, Baltimore, Newarkv Jersey City, and N.

"Miami. San Francisco and Kansas City were other places the government directed a search ba-made. Jackson revealed also that Man fred Zapp and Guenther Tonn, German citizens and officials of Trans- ocean, a German news agency, were arrested on deportation chantes and were being held without bail at Ellis Island. Justice Department officials said their seizure was based on the contention- they had not -maintained NAVY FLIER KILLED SAN DIEOO, May 1 iff) Claude Gerald Haney, of Bellflower, was killed, and Lawrence M. Rampe, a seaman, of Wurtsboro, N.

seriously injured today in the crash of a Navy scout bomber while on routine bombing exercises. 3 TO CLOSE DRAFT STATION 1 NEW YORK, Ma? 7 (Pp3- The Selective Service Induction Station at Syracuse, N. will be closed May '17, Maj, Gen. Irving J. Phil-j lipson; cornmanding general of the Second Corps area, announced to-w.