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robin moor the sunken ship Robin AO accounted for today with the jioor were ddltlonal survivors at Cape-ot Bouffl Alrlca. THE WEATHER Considerable cloudiness, occasional rains tonight and Tuesday; highest temperature Tuesday near 80 degrees. Volume XXVIII, No. -13 "GERMANS TAKE ENGLAND WITH CAMERA CONSOLIDATED LAFAYETTE GAZETTE JULY 1ST. ISM LAFAYETTE, MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1941 FULL WIRE NEWS SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED FRESS SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS USELQUai Nationals Connected With Agencies Must Be Removed OPM Ordered To Utilize All Manpower President Declares Race, Religion Or National Origin Must Be Disregarded SURVIVORS OF SUNKEN SHIP REACH SAFETY Picked Up By British Ship; All Aboard Vessel Robin Moor Accounted For ATTEMPTS 1 SETTLE STRIKi ARE BALKED 3 Ss-.

Zf S'4 '2 A. 1 -'-'V w. Mediation Board To 'i Recommendations To tie Machinists Tie-Up vO'' (By The Associated Press) CAPETOWN. Union of South Africa, June 16 Thirty-five survivors of the American freighter Robin Moor-all those hitherto unaccounted for landed late today at Capetown from a British ship which rescued them. The American legation announced the arrival of the survivors.

Including seven passengers four of them Americans and 28 crewmen. This group, along with 11 others who had reached Recife, Brazil, had abandoned their ship for lifeboats May 21 ln mid-Atlantic Just before the Robin Moor was torpedoed. (Eleven survivors which had reached RtVfe, Brazil, aboard a Brazilian steamer, already had identified the submarine which sank the ship as German. The Brazilian group was leaving for the United States today.) (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 16 President Roosevelt has ordered the OPM to see to it that defense industries fully utilize the nations productive manpower without regard to race, religion or national origin. In a memorandum addressed to William S.

Knudsen and Sidney Hillman, OPM directors, the chief executive last night said many complaints had reached him that "fully qualified negroes and others were being turned away from the gates of industry on grounds entirely unrelated to efficiency and productively. This situation, he declared, is a matter of grave national importance, and Immediate steps must be taken to deal with It effectively. The president said he had been told that the discrimination against negro workers has been natonwide and other minority racial, national and religious groups have felt Its effect ln many localities. With labor stringencies appearing ln many areas, he asserted that ln the present emergency It was Imperative that we deal effectively afad speedly with this problem and that he expeited the OPM to take Immediate steps to facilitate the full utilization of our productive manpower. L.

i3lL Highly unusual war picture showing English coast was made from occupied France with a new long-distance camera, according to German-censored caption. Barrage balloons are seen and smoke at right is from bomb-set fires in city ol Canterbury, about 15 miles inland, the caption claims. Action Taken Because Consulates And Members Active Against his Country (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 16 The United States today ordered the closing of all German consulates in this country and the removal of all German nationals connected with those agencies. Sumner Welles, undersecretary Of state, made the announcement after ho had handed a note to an official of thO Germany embassy. The order, requires the closing also of the German Library of Information and railway tourist bureau and the German transocean news agency before July 10.

Welles asserted that this did not Imply a break ln diplomatic relations with Germany and in no way affected thO German diplomatic staff in Washington. The action was taken, Welles stated, because German consular officials and the other Nazi agencies named have been. ngaged in activities harmful to the United States. The text of the note as directed to Hans Thomsen was Issued by the State Department as follows: Sir: It has come to the knowledge of this government that agencies of the German Reich in this country, including German consular establishments, have been engaged in activities wholly outside the scope of their legitimate duties. These activities have been of an improper and unwarranted character.

They render the continued presence In the United States of those agencies and consular establishments inimical to the welfare of this country. I am directed by the president to request that the German government remove from United States territory all German nationals in anywise connected with the German Library of Information in New York, the German railway and tourist agencies and the transocean news service, and that each of these organizations and their affiliates shall be promptly closed. I am also directed to request that all German consular officers, agents, clerks, and employes thereof of German nationality shall be removed from American territory and that the consular establishments likewise be promptly closed. It is contemplated that all such withdrawals and closures shall be effective before July 10th. "Accept Sir the renewed assurances of my high consideration.

(Signed) "Sumner Welles. British Troops Cross Into Libya And Attack Axis Forces (By The Associated Press) The National Mediation Board, balked in its attempts to settle a machinists strike involving 11 shipyards of the San Francisco Bay area, proceeded today to prepare its recommendations for publication. The board has no power to enforce these, but President Roosevelt has told both management and labor that the American people expect the impartial recommendations of the board to be accepted. Strikers at the yards belong both to the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the AFL members voted 585 to 400 yesterday to continue the strike and the CIO contingent went along by a vote of 359 to 56. Both want $1.15 an hour and double pay for overtime.

They have been offered $1.12 and time and a half. The strike has held up a $500,000,000 ship building program. Better news for government agencies seeking to prevent delays in defense production was the action of 33 locals of the CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers who ratified two-year agreement designed to prevent labor strikes ln 55 Atlantic coast shipyards. The agreement provides for a basic hourly wage of $1.12 for skilled mechanics; adjustments for changes ln the cost of living; higher pay for night workers: and nc strikes or lockouts. 'The present basic wage for the mechanics is $lan hour.

Senator Norris For War If It Is Necessary Believes Action Should Be Taken To Escape Becoming Slaves To Hitler GERMAN-SOVIET SITUATION NEAR CRITICAL STAGE Source Indicates Closer Cooperation Or Open Break Near Between Countries 0. S. PROTESTS Indicate Gen. Wave May Have Launched New Offensive To Take Libya RAINFALLS IN SOUTH AIDING POWER, CROPS Drouth Situation Greatly Relieved As Overcast Skies Bring Much-Needed Rain (By The Associated Press) LONDON. June 16 A reliable foreign source said today that German-Russian relations are rapidly approaching a critical stage where they must either he cemented more closely In- a pan-European economic scheme or break into open hostility.

The situation, this source said, has arisen from Germanys pressure for more oil, grain and ore from Russia and the conviction of certain Russian leaders that the spread of German influence through repeated European victories was endangering the Soviets own ambitions as a world power; Anti-German Russians were said to express fear that German domination of the Balkans and Black' Sea, 11 further extended, might reduce Russia to second rate place among nations. Russian diplomatic sources In London, however, refuse to go beyond the insistence of Tass, official Soviet news agency, that German-Russian relations continue amicable. (By The Associated Press) WOOSTER, Ohio, June 16 Americans, to escape becoming the slaves of conquering Hitler, should help--, England now by going to war if necessary Sen. George W. Norris asserted today.

If we can supply her with airplanes, with food, and with military material, I believe she can and will win, and the war will be over, the Nebraska Independent said in an address prepared for Wooster Colleges commencement. If she fails and we must go on with these years of preparation for greater armament, the probabilities are that we will fall, but even if we do not, we will be sending soldiers to South America and we will be sending soldiers to Central America. Should England fall and the United -States get into a race with the Axis powers for military supremacy, Norris said; The chances are that we would go down at the end of the struggle and become the slaves of conquering Hitler. It seems plain that, even at the risk of war which will not extend, so far as I can see, to the sending of. an army to foreign lands but will be confined to warfare upon the seas and in the air, it will be far better to take that chance than to see England fall and compel us to go through the preparation which will be necessary to meet the foe later.

JAP PROPOSAL REJECTED BY BATAVIA GOVT. "Proposed New Order For The East" Not For The Netherlands East Indies tf AIMING Explosives Hit American Safety Zone, Narrowly Missing American Gunboat (By The Associated Press) TOKYO, June is United States Am-wador Joseph C. Grew personally de-jTd today a sharp 300-word note of pfcit to Foreign Minister Yosuke Mat-ata against Sundays Japanese bomb -f ct Cungklng in which bombs fell in it Aaertcan safety zone, narrowly miss-Sjito n. 8. gunboat Tutuila.

ambassador acted as soon as he fwiwd definite notification of the "-mg from Cungklng, and without for instructions from the State wpanment embassy declined to disclose the wording -of the communication took to Matsuoka. ne mitassador received word that at oms fsfi In the vicinity of jtE(wbassy at Chungking and of 2 was to have exploded from the entrance to the em-shelter, damaging offices making windows in the embassy (By The Associated Press) Quiet for weeks, the North African battle front flamed into action anew today as British troops punched across the frontier into Libya -and attacked Axis forces in the Gambut sector west of Bar-do, 10 miles from the Egyption border. In London, It was indicated that Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell, commander-inchief of the British army of the Nile, may have launched a new offensive to wrest Libya from the Axis.

The German high cqrnmand said 60 British tanks were destroyed and that a British attack in the Salum area, on the Egyptian -Libyan frontier, "collapsed under the combined resistance of Axis troops and warplanes. The British said their forces destroyed 12 Axis vehicles in the Gambut sector. Other details were lacking. Premier Mussolinis high command also described the battle as raging on the Salum front and asserted that the British, striking in force after several days of patrol activity, had been repulsed everywhere. Hitlers high command credited the Luftwaffe with shooting down 11 British planes, and It noted tersely that the fight Is still going on.

In the Middle East, Britain and free French columns were reported to have slashed through key defense positions of Damascus and Beirut, leading the British to predict early capitulation of both capitals ln the nine-day-old Invasion of Syria and Lebanon. Nazi warplanes, now openly aiding the hard-pressed Vichy French forces, were reported to have sunk a light British cruiser and damaged a heavy cruiser off the Lebanese coast. The German high command, in making this claim, also declared that Nazi aid formations raided airports on the British-fortified island of Cyprus, 70 miles off the coast of Syria. Other developments included: 1. Premier Mussolinis government froze American bank accounts ln Italy.

In reprisal for like action taken Saturday against Axis holdings in the United States. A Berlin spokesman cautiously termed President Roosevelt's order unjustified. (Turn to page 2 col. 1 (By The Associated Press) For the first time in many weeks skies were overcast generally and showers fell throughout most, of the south today. Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama.

Georgia and South Carolina reported rainfall which forecasters said was not ln sufficient amount to aid materially the power situation, but would be of real benefit to crops. "Low pressure conditions over most of the nation have brought clouds and rain, and especially is that true ln the south. one forecaster said. This is a condition we have been waiting for as a means or relieving drouth conditions. The showery conditions may continue for several days unless a high pressure area breaks through to disperse the clouds.

Abilene and Navasota Texas each had more than one inch of rain overnight, but numerous other points reporting had lesser amounts. Indiana and states eastward to Pennsylvania had rain also. The only clear area. was in Missouri and parts of Kansas. Temperatures were considerably lower than lor the past few days, the minimum ln the south being around 65 degrees and from 50 to 60 ln the north and middle west.

Maximum temperatures averaged around 75 in the northern states yesterday where 80 or higher would have been nearer normal. The south's maximum ranged mostly from 80 degrees up. PLAN TO BUILD FOOD STORAGE TUNNEL IN ISLE Former Stage And Screen Star Dies GOVERNMENT IS ATTACKED BY UNION MAD (By The Associated Press) LONDON, June 16 Charges of mismanagement, gross Inefficiency and ln-compeoency ln production of munitions and in other spheres were made today ln an attack on the government by Jack Tanner, president of the Amalgamated: Engineering Union. Despite the fact it prides itself on being a national government Tanner said, at the opening of the unions national committee meeting the unpalatable truth remains that employers and bankers are really the government. I know of no single Instance in which a worker has been given the position of controller of any commodity.

The retreat from Crete, he went on, was something more than a military mistake. It had some of its roots ip mismanagement on the home Industrial front. As members of the working class we have the right to be guaranteed that if we make the utmost efforts to produce munitions those efforts will not be turned to naught by a group of incompetents xxx. The government sends out men to fight but they are not adequately supported because it allows the reckless squandering of the nation's resources and energies." The union, one of Britains largest, has about 500,000 members. (By The Associated Press) BATAVIA.

Netherlands East Indies, June 16 The governor-general of these Dutch Pacific possessions, speaking in the midst of an economic crisis with Japan, declared today hs government had notified Tokyo it emphatically rejected thought of including them ln the Japanese-proposed new order for east Asia. Addressing the opening session of the legislative Peoples Council, Governor-General A. W. L. Tjarda Van Starken-borgh Stachouwer recalled Japans entry into the Rome-Berlin Axis and declared an Axis vetory would spell destruction of the kingdom of the Netherlands.

He asserted further that the East Indies government would guard carefully against direct or indirect leaks of war-important raw materials to Germany. Reviewing the stalemated negotiations with Japan, the governor-general said the Batavia government had refused to grant the Japanese extraordinary concessions because a change in our line of con duct, or half-hearted application thereof, could not be considered." WICK WORK Press) feiant1 H.C'ii,June 16 Police k. AUcn reported to 18 theft of his auto- ent out over the radio sja; on receiving the 11 vSet looed at the car 1 fthead ot them. missing vehicle. Five im car was returned tier arj two men In it were (By The Associated Press) HONOLULU, June 16 Plans for construction of a huge food storage tunnel on Oahu Island, which in emergency could be used as an air raid shelter, were disclosed today by army officials.

The tunnel, which would be 600 feet long, would be equipped with Its own power plant and water supply system. Cold storage and ventilation facilities would be provided. Food storage capacity would be at least 15,000 tons. Cost of the tunnel was estimated at $750,000. Excavation probably will begin August 1.

Construction will take about seven months. (By The Associated Press) ENGLEWOOD, N. June 16 Irene Franklin, former stage and screen actress who won worldwide fame and fortune only to spend the last days of her life ln a theatrical home, died today in Englewood hospital. Stricken Thursday with a stroke, Miss Franklin, who admitted being 57 years old whereas theatres Who's Who gave her age as 65, expired after fighting four days with all her waning strength against answering the final curtain call. She began her career as a tot of five and made her final appearance in the film Saratoga, wheih starred the late Jean Harlow.

neAL U. S. ACCOUNTS ARE FROZEN BY ITALIANJOVT. Reprisal Measure Ordered By Premier For Like Action Taken In America Threat Of Delay Is Facing wo Major Defense Measures British Applying New War Plan In North Africa Attack AXIS BOMBERS ATTACK EASTERN ISLE OF CYPRUS you could read what ttout newspapers are 2 would i gone to town and, description of this 1 1 8jijcertCk OI the Hesperus (By The Associated Press) LONDON, June 16 Dispatches from Nicosia today said Axis bombers attacked the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus last night. An official announcement carried by Exchange Telegraph Company said: Enemy aircraft crossed over Cyprus last evening.

A stick of bombs dropped on Nicosia caused a few service casualties, but no material damage was done. Bombs also were dropped ln the sea Paphos. No damage was done. saving Suez. British express fear German threat to Russia is a feint: This appears to reflet an attempt by the British leadership to dispel wishful thinking about a German-Russian conflict (Incurable British habit) and to prevent any relaxation of preparedness and watchfulness at home.

There Is solid ground for expecting another German-Russian get-together probably at Russias expense. But it also is apparent that Germany is applying tremendous military pressure to Russia in an attempt to get a free hand ln the wheat country of the Ukraine and perhap the oil fields of the Caucasus, if not even more. To the disillusionment of Russia, Hitler is proving again that no country on the borders of third Reich can in the long run maintain complete sovereignty, no matter how much friendship It offers. The pattern for Nazllands friends has always been the same: Infiltration by hordes of specialists from without; steady demoralization by fifth columnists and "quislings within. Stalin has resisted this process; indeed, he even has deco' rated the peasantry for thwarting stealthy violations of what is cautiously called "the Western Russian border by Age Limit On Selectee And Taking Over Industries Are Knotty Problems (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 16 The threat of delay today beset two major pieces of defense legislation one for lowering the maximum.

tr.Vning age ln the Selective Service Act, and the other for empowering the government to take over Industries where arms production was affected or menaced by strikes, lockouts or other causes. The administration-backed plan for making 27 years the top age limit for military service, instead of the present 35 years, was reported to have encountered formidable opposition from House members. Chairman May (D-Ky) said the House Military Committee would be ln "no hurry In considering this Senate-approved measure whch would permit the president to defer active services of registrants who reach their 28th birthday before July 1 of this and subsequent years without having been called Into the army. Some committee members who asked not to be quoted directly said they were opposed to excusing from service men in the higher age brackets, believing that the present 21 through 25 age classification should stand. The Senate Mlilitary Committee, meanwhile, made public testimony by Brig.

Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, deputy director of selective service, disclosing that 52 per cent of the men called for active duty ln the ages from 31 through 35 had been rejeced for physical dlsabllties. Hershey said that 24 per cent of those from 21 through 25 and 26 per cent of those from 26 through 30 were rejected for the same reason. Protracted disagreement ln the House Committee on the age limit measure would also have the effect of holding up House consideration on the proposal of Senator Connally (D-Texas) for empowering the government to take over plants where defense production was threatened.

The Connally measure was passed by the Senate as an amendment to the bill calling for the lower selective service age limit. The miltary committee approved the Connally proposal Friday, and also accepted some drastic amendments offered by Rep. Hem8 (R-Ind). Final action on these, however, was deferred until today when further changes were to be considered. Following Out Action Reported By Churchill Only Few Weeks Ago (This daily feature, conducted by DeWltt MacKenzle, Is being written In his absence on vacation by Fred Vanderschmldt).

(By The Associated Press) Tabloid interpretations of todays headliners: British attack ln North Africa: This Is practical application of Britains new war plan, expounded only a week ago by Winston Churchill "Fierce and stubborn resistance, even against heavy odds, even under exceptional difficulties and disadvantages. For two months the formidable axis forces have been astraddle the Egyptian border, completing every preparation for the assault on Suez, deterred only by the scrappy little Tobruk garrison Inside their lines. Nowhe British, reinforced by men and machines from East Africa, have attacked these axis concentrations in force, despite the blazing heat, despite the toll they knew the swarms of German dive bombers would be able to take. By doing so. the; may be (By The Associated Press) ROME, June 16 The Italian government froze American bank accounts ln Italy today in swift reprisal ordered by Premier Mussolini for like action taken against Italian holdings ln the United States.

Italys decision to retaliate was made known yesterday in a communique which said; Following the blocking of Italian and German funds and the registration of all foreign property by the President of the United States, the Fascist government, besides ordering suitable measures ln re ply, has ordered immediate registration of all property belonging to the United States and existing ln Italy. The only United States property ln Italy Is the embassy, which enjoys extraterritorial privileges, but Americans -thought the decree would mean the property ln Italy of all Americans. Those who sought to withdraw funds this morning were turned away and the Bank ot Italy instructed other banks to block their checking accounts. (The speed of the Italian counteraction prevented Americans from replenishing their cash by withdrawal from checking accounts. RECEIPTED CLUE '-a i the Italian press 2 inf are on the verge of out th the president had But they did not Y-he enOa nf 8tms mounted on hto Private train as t) gn nrw oSiCent 40 Brenner ew orders from Adolf.

mind having ln advance Just iot rneyinK3 will be. yk dvant Germany for dls-railway trlp by Nght Syndicate, (By The Associated Press) INTERNATIONAL FALLS, June 16 Attorney Lew Wilson remained businesslike even facing a gun. When two youths, one brandishing a gun, entered his office and demanded $10, he asked for, and got, a receipt. It was signed with fictitious names, but Wilson recognized the boys and wasnt long before they were arrested. (Turn to Page 2, Col.

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