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I 4 Flash Sussex Wins At jLjCIJTIOTIT-Results On Pages 8-9 London. May 23 (P) The Vichy radio broadcast a report today from Turkey that two members o( the Turkish Embassy staff at Kuibyshev had been arrested by Itussian secret police. EVENING PAID CIRCULATION APRIL eTOI 327,669 Sunday 239,056 Vol. 65 No. 31 BALTIMORE, SATURDAY; MAY 23.

1912 Entered second-cliss matter at Baltimore PostofTlce 16 Paces 3 Cents mis MB WE SUN mm m9 mm tvzrui MS Hi: mm Boy Says Sub's Riflemen Shot Men In Sea Pennsylvania Floods Kill 3, Halt War Plant Work By the Associated Press! Shifting To Offensive In Fight For City Nazis Declare London, May 23 (JP) The Russian army had occupied four populated places and strategic positions "suitable for further offensive operations" on the northwestern front, the Moscow radio announced tonight. gas fumes escaping when the flood Nazis destroyed 452 Russian planes between May 14 and May 21, while the Germans lost 45 planes. The high command, briefly reviewing the Kharkov fighting, declared that the Russian mass attack in the area around that city began May 12 with the Russians using twenty infantry divisions, CIO Is Cautious On New AFL Peace Bid (By the Associated Press! Washington, May 23 The AFL today held out a flew offer to its offshoot, the CIO. asking the rival labor organization to come back home again "because of the war." Old wounds in the side of labor immediately became apparent in the response of Philip Murray. CIO president, who said that obstacles to reunion were perhaps the same the organization "had to meet back in 1935." It was then that John L.

Lewis, towering figure in the United Mine Workers, led a dozen unions away from the AFL in the controversy over craft versus industrial union organization. "Ought To Be Unity" William Green, AFL president, announced at the end of the organization's executive council meeting yesterday that the council had instructed him to advise ClO representatives that "the peace commute of the AFL stands ready to meet with them for the purpose of negotiating peace and unity." "Such action is necessary first because of the war," Green said. There ought to be unity and solidarity which would help to win the war. The meetings should be started immediately for the purpose of seeking a basis of accommodation." Murray See Obstacles In Cleveland, Murray cautiously explained that the proposal would have to be submitted to the CIO board. a -frvri hp win? ot tnp organi zations, he said, would face obstacles.

He expressed unwillingness "to accept the kind of unity that is calculated to bring about the destruction of these huge mechanisms that have been created within the CIO during the past six years." The peace committees of the rivals have not met together since a unity effort failed in 1939. The AFL members are William L. Hutcheson of the Carpenters' Union. Daniel Tobin of the teamsters and Harry Bates of the bricklayers. Green said he would communicate with Murray immediately to suggest a resumption of the parleys.

Whether there comes what Murray described as a "fixed welding." or permanent reunion of the organizations, appeared to depend upon future conferences of the union leaders. Earlier peajp efforts, in 1937, failed as did) 1939 talks urged by President Roosevelt. In 1940 Lewis stepped out of the CIO presidency as he said he would do if Mr. Roosevelt were reelected, but he remained on the CIO negotiating committee. Last January he urged Murray and Green to get a Murray replied that any negotiations would have to be initiated through his office, and no formal resumption of peace efforts took place.

New York, May 23 The Associ ated Press listening post here today recorded a Berlin broadcast in which the German high command declared that the Russian mass at tacks on Kharkov had collapsed completely, and military quarters added that German troops have shifted to the offensive in the gigantic battle for the Russian city. (A Vichy broadcast recorded by Reuters said today a powerful German counter-attack had thrown Russian troops back their origi nal positions on the Kharkov front. There was no confirmation of this declaration from Berlin, Moscow or other sources in touch with the battle. On the northwestern front, the German high command added, the Russians were continuing attacks southeast of Lake Ilmen but without success. 452 Plants Claimed The German communique said, according to the radio, that the Reds Admit Nazi Success South Of Kharkov By Henry C.

Cassidy Associated Press Correspondent! Moscow, May 23 Marshal Sem- eon Timoshenkos snock troops were reported fighting from newly fortified positions before Kharkov today, and a Red Star dispatch said the Germans were "having alter nate successes" in flanking counterattacks to the south, despite a loss of 15,000 killed there in three days, One Soviet gain was reported officially in the Kharkov sector. "Our units dislodged the enemy from a powerfully fortified posi tion," the Soviet Information Bureau said. "In retreating, the Ger mans abandoned five field guns. twelve machine guns, a mine dump and a radio station." Several Nazi Attacks Red Star, the Soviet army news paper, reported a see-saw battle in the Izyum-Barvenkova sector, a Ukrainian region below Kharkov, in which the Germans concentrated huge forces to attack several points Continued On Page 3, Column 2 ru Mexico Decides On War Upon The Axis By the Associated Press! Mexico City, May 23 President Manuel Avila Camacho's office announced that he would make pub lic late today a call for a special session of Congress to declare war on the Axis and enact all measures necessary to put this country on a "full war footing." Congressional approval was be lieved to be certain, for the public was furious over the news that Axis submarines had sunk a second Mexican ship within eight days. To Seize Axis Holdings A responsible Government source said the wartime measures to be recommended by the President would include seizure of all Ger man, Italian and Japanese holdings in Mexico; strict surveillance over Axis nationals, control of communications, delineation of restricted military zones, and suspension of certain constitutional guarantees.

There were reliable reports that troops already were moving to strategic points to guard against sabotage. Thursday Tentatively Set The Cabinet announced after a three-hour meeting that Congress would be called, in special session "to authorize the President to de clare the existence of a state of war." Next Thursday was tentatively set, but there were indica- tions that the public might insist on an earlier date, possibly Monday or Tuesday. The Government's statement gave the reasons that swept Mexico toward war the Axis' sinking of the Mexican tanker Potrero del Llano off Florida, its refusal to accept a protest against that sinking, and then its sinking Wednesday of the tanker Faja de Oro, all within eight days. Survivors Awaited Survivors from the ships still had not reached the capital when the war decision was made last night, but a great patriotic demonstration was organized to greet their arrival today. Even before the announcement that Mexico was declaring war "in consideration of the aggression of which the country has been victim," there were indications that Government departments were ready for swift action to meet war conditions.

Nazi Stores Guarded Acting on reports that Axis nationals had foreseen such an event and had converted their cash into United States currency, the export of United States money was forbidden and banks refused to change dollars into Mexican pesos. Policemen remained within sight of the largest, German business places to guard them from the public. Senators and Deputies voiced demands that these be seized to reimburse Mexico for the loss of the ships and vpay the families of twenty-one seamen who died in the sinkings. Mexico's entry into the war would place on the Allies' side a nation of the most populous in Latin-America except for Brazil. Mexico has a standing army of 70,000, has 400.000 more semi-trained men ready to be called, and has a navy of fifteen ships already active on patrol In the Pacific.

Nazis Report Libya Air Success New York, May 23 The Asso ciated Press listening post has re corded the following broadcast from Berlin: "German planes operating on the Libyan front shot down ten enemy planes in air battles yesterday, the German high command reports. The Germans returned from the fights without a loss. "Light German bombers raided Malta's airfields again and hits were observed on hangars, DNB states." The Weather Moderately cool tonight, with moderate winds and no rain. Detailed report on Page 12. Allies Smash 13 Jap Planes, 2 More Ships By the Associated Press! Allied Headquarters, Australia, May 23 Allied bombers have knocked two more Japanese ships out of the potential invasion forces gathering above Australia and have smashed thirteen more Japanese planes.

General MacArthur's headquarters announced today. Both ships were in the principal Japanese invasion bases among the islands north of Australia a large transport at Rabaul, New Britain, which was reported "left in a crippled and a tanker at Lae, New Guinea, which was "severely damaged." All Allied Planes Safe The Japanese offered only feeble resistance to these new air smashes, part of the positive defense plan by which Allied airmen have hammered at Japan's chief advance concentration centers without respite since the enemy moved into Aus-tralia's island roof. Eight Japanese fighter planet rose to challenge the raiders at Lae, the communique said, but five were shot down and "all our planes returned safely." Besides the tanker and the fighter planes bagged in two enemy bombers were destroyed aground on the Lae airfield. The Rabaul Raid At Rabaul, the communique said, "enemy interception was ineffective," and "six heavy Japanese bombers were badly damaged." The Australian Government, meanwhile, approved plans to treble the corps of volunteer plane spot ters who now keep watch twenty- four hours a day. Air Minister Arthur S.

Drakeford said the corps would function in close liaison with the United States' Army air force and would absorb a large number of Australian air force officers to maintain contact with the vast network of observers. John Barrymore's Sleep Fitful Hollywood, May 23 (.7) Al though John Barrymore slept fitfully, he had a better night than any of the previous three since he was stricken with hypostatic pneumonia. The morning bulletin from Hol lywood Presbyterian Hospital re ported that the 60 year-old actor was slightly improved for the sec ond successive day. His physician. Dr.

Hugo M. Kersten said, "we feel quite hopeful. He still has a chance to pull through." Barrymore also is suffering from a chronic liver and kidney ailment. definitely delayed the Japanese southward drive believed aimed at invasion of Australia and the cutting off of the all-important Arncr ican supply route to that continent. Salamaua, only about 430 miles from the northeastern Australian mainland, is an important point from which raids could be made against "Australia as well as against the Australian stronghold of Port Moresby, on the southern coast of New Guinea.

The United States has now thrown its naval strength directly into the "hot corner" of the Pacific war. The American aviators encountered no air opposition, for apparently the Japs had become so overconfident that they had withdrawn air support for the invasion forces. As one young United States flyer told me: "It was a cinch a dive-bomber's field day. The Jap ships were going crazy down there trying to get away, but we nailed them and how!" I can testify that the dangerous Continued On Page 3, Column Washington. May 23 The navy announced today that enemy submarines had torpedoed one ship and shelled another in the Gulf of Mexico.

Both were small United States merchant vessels. Survivors have been landed at Gulf Coast ports. By the Associated Press! Miami, May 23 Robert Emmett Kelly's eyes flashed but his Voice was calm as he told how Axis submarine crewmen picked off his shipmates with rifles while they strugled in the water after their ship was torpedoed last January. "I'm going to join the navy and pay them back," said the 18-year- old Kelly, of Philadelphia, one of three men who survived. Kelly returned to his homeland after spending two months in a Panama hospital.

The two others reached Colombia. Thirty-three others died, some crushed by the churning propeller, some shot and nine in Kelly's life boat victims of starvation or suicide while crazed by heat and thirst. Some "Cut To Pieces" "We were attacked 300 miles from land," he said. "The ship burst into flames but churned forward. A number of men were sucked into the propeller and cut to pieces.

Then the submarine surfaced and some of the crew came up with rifles. I know they shot at least four of the men strug gling in the water. Eleven of us swam to the overturned lifeboat and got under it. We stayed until dark. "Then we righted the boat.

One man was lost in the darkness. For the next twenty-one days the lifeboat, with a sail but with no oars, drifted aimlessly. There was very little food and our water was lost. Died "One By One" "One by one they died until there were only four of us. We came within sight of land, but the wind was wrong and the sea rough.

For four days we watched the shore line we could not reach. "The last man with me died on the twenty-first day. Ve had kept track of time by cutting notches for each day that passed. I put his body over the side and I lay down to die. I knew I could not last another day.

"Something bumped into my boat, scraped along its side, I looked. A little Panamanian banana boat was alongside." Quake In Guadalajara Guadalajara. Mexico, May 23 (JP). An earthquake shook this capital of Jalisco state for five seconds last night. There were no reports of damage or injuries.

'Surprise Coming' Havana, Cuba, May 23 (JP) A mysterious broadcaster, who identified himself as the commander of a German submarine lying only a mile and one half off the Havana water front, told the Cuban people last night that they were in for "a surprise," Havana newspapers reported today, "This is the second time we have visited Havana and very soon we will give you a surprise," the broadcaster was quoted as saying in perfect Spanish after giving his identity and the location of his vessel. "It Isn't fair," he added, "that, while the German people are suffering the consequences of the British blockade with the support of the United States, American girls should be enjoying themselves on the beaches. "Our submarines will take care of that." The broadcaster was said to have gone off the air after making this threat. Another version quoted the broadcaster as saying American girls were "enjoying themselves on the beaches of West Palm Beach," but that "our submarines will see to it they learn this is not right." Philadelphia, May 23 Flood waters racing from mountain streams inundated scores of eastern Pennsylvania communities today, took three liVes definitely and possibly another eight ornine, and halted vital war effort work at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation plant in Bethlehem where the power station went dead. Communication lines were disrupted, isolating many places, including the borough of llonesdale where six persons were reported missing, possibly drowned.

Five women in nearby Hawley also were missing. Millions In Damage Lester Male, assistant for the Red Cross committee in Honesdale, told the office of Gov. Arthur H. James that "several" persons were killed there. He reported eight feet of water in the town.

Two women died from heart attacks. A man was killed by sewer- Conferees Vote $42 Minimum Soldier Pay By the Associated Press! Washington, May 23 A Senate-House conference committee agreed today on a general pay-increase measure for men in the lower ranks of the armed services to a minimum of $42 monthly. This tentatively rejected House attempts to raise the minimum pay of buck privates and sailors to $50 monthly, from present minimums of $21 and $30. Estimates Cost And Saving Senator Johnson one of the Senate conferes? said the pay 'raise, as agreed to in conference, would cost the Government about $285,000,000 additional each year based upon the number of men in the army, navy, marines and other armed forces on January 1. Johnson said elimination of the House attempt to boost this minimum another $8 monthly would save an estimated $175,000,000 on the same basis.

Officer Raises Included The conference agreement carries pay increases for all the lower-paid men in the armed forces and base-pay increase for second lieutenants in the army and marines and ensigns in the navy and Coast Guard. It also carries increases in subsistence and rental allowances for officers generally. to ultimate and complete victory "I have said it recently but I repeat because it is most important: 'Victory will come sooner and with a vast saving in suffering, in life and in property, in proportion as every man and woman in this country and each of the United Nations realizes the extreme danger from the purposes of the worst barbarian leaders in all history, who plan to conquer and brutally subjugate the world by methods of unparalleled savagery. 'Victory will be hastened by every additional ounce of effort which each one of us puts forth in a situation that is as threatening as if his house were on fire. It will be delayed and will involve an incalculable and unnecessary increase in suffering and in losses with any weakening of such realiza Ition and with any lagging in effort I and clogged pipe lines.

Damage over the area along the Susquehanna, Lehigh and Schuylkill rivers was placed at millions of dollars in tentative estimates. The Lehigh river at Bethlehem overflowed and disabled the power plant of the sprawling four-mile long Bethlehem Steel plant, navy inspectors stationed there by the Government, said. How soon operations could be restored to normal was a matter of conjecture. City officials called an emergency meeting to plan "all aid possible" to the management. The Lackawaxen river, fed by recent rains, burst through the Seeleyville Dam three miles above this northeastern Pennsylvania community and sent a six-foot wall of water rushing through the streets just before daybreak.

Telephone company officials reported several houses were toppled Continued On Page 2, Column 5 Building Halted On Ball Parks, Race Tracks By the Associated Press! Washington, May 23 Construction of amusement parks, race tracks, theaters, baseball parks, and similar projects costing more than $5,000 must be stopped before June 6, regardless of how much of the work has been completed, the War Production Board ordered today. The only exception permitted under the drastic order, which marks an extension of the' already strict Government control over construction, covers children's playgrounds. Further Curbs Hinted Last month's order, barring virtually all new construction, exempted work substantially under way. Today's ban covers all projects "primarily for the amusement of the public," whether tinder way or not. without specific WPB authorization.

Simultaneously, WPB warned that "other kinds of nonessential construction, not covered by today's order, may be halted by subsequent orders to free additional material and equipment for war production." Heat, Plumbing Bans Relaxed By the Associated Press! Washington, May 23 The War Production Board today modified its prohibition on sale of plumbing and heating equipment to permit distribution of such items as cooking and heating stoves, water heaters, radiators and certain other types of equipment. At the same time, in a move to facilitate conversion of oil and gas burning equipment to the use of coal, the amended order permits sale and delivery of any equipment required in such conversion. Limits On Sale Further, sale or delivery of any item costing no more than $5 is permitted, provided it is part of an order totaling no more than $10. Sales and delivery of any equipment specifically designed for hospitals or for surgical, dental.veter-inary, barbershop, or beauty-shop use also is permitted. Under the original freeze order, all sales of more than $5 were prohibited except on military priority ratings.

Another revision permits delivery of plumbing and heating equipment-until July 31 for completion of projects started after July 31, 1941, and through April 9, 1942 provided the purchaser certifies such equipment is necessary. three cavalry divisions and fifteen armored brigades. Foe Smashed, Nazis Say "Suffering the heaviest blood and material losses, the enemy was completely broken up," the communique said, according to the broadcast. "The German counter-attack which started May 15 led into the rear of the strongest enemy group and has cut through the line of supplies. "For two days now German, Rumanian and Hungarian troops, backed by strong formations of the German air force, have been making counter-attacks the whole front of the hitherto defensive battle." Big Losses Reported The Russians lost heavily in the Lake Ilmen fighting, the high command declared.

It credited strong German fighter and bomber formations with inflicting heavy damage on the battlefields and in the rear of the Russian lines. In one sector, the Germans said, one Soviet group which was cut off from its lines of communication has been annihilated after fighting for several days. Air Victories Claimed In Lapland, the communique said, according to Jhe radio, a local attack by German and Finnish troops was successful. Of the aerial warfare, the com munique reported: "Between May 14 and May 21 the Soviet air force lost 452 air craft, 342 of which were in air combat, 65 to our anti-aircraft guns, 26 to other army units and the rest on the ground. Trains Damaged "During the same period forty-five of our own aircraft were lost.

"Anti-aircraft regiment No. 6 scored its two hundredth aircraft victim during the Eastern cam paisn on May 22." The radio said that DNB quoted a military source as saying that strong bomber formations on the Russian front raided Soviet lines of communication yesterday and severely damaged four freight trains. Hy William Hippie Associated Press Correspondent! crippled and five others severely damaged. (This action was described in some part in navy communique No. 57 issued in Washington on March 18.) The Japanese Losses Two cruisers were destroyed, five transports including one of 15,000 tons and two of 10,000 tons were sunk, beached or left blazing; one destroyer was blown up by heavy bombs, another sunk and others damaged by smaller bombs and strafed by machine-gun fire.

One auxiliary was listing heavily and left sinking and one seaplane was destroyed by our fighters. Many small boats and barges were damaged or sunk. Losses were high among Japanese navy personnel. One of the transports sunk off Lae was seen to have many men aboard. U.

S. Loses Only One Plane The only loss to the United States force was one scout plane, shot down by anti-aircraft fire. It was a bold and successful stroke the first by the United States fleet in this area which Big Smash At Jap Fleet Called 'Dive-Bomber's Field Day' Hull Cautions Those Who Expect Early Victory By the Associated Press! May 23 Secretary i and meet our reverses with a grim State Cordell Hull, saying that to fight all the "we can too easily be Aboard a Warship With the United States Pacific Fleet (De layed) The powerful air arm of the United States fleet on March 10 struck a tremendous blow against Japanese forces attempting to establish bases in New Guinea. Attacking within forty-eight hours after the announcement of the enemy's movement against the undefeated ports of Salamaua and Lae, aircraft descended in a lightning stroke upon Japanese war ships, troop ships and auxiliary vessels. Taken completely by surprise in the act of consolidating their positions, the ships attempted frantically to scatter.

"Sudden Destruction" But, as one high officer's report said, "all except unimportant units were sought out and visited with sudden and very unpleasant de struction." The box score of the Japanese losses at the two points Salamaua and Lae showed that at least ten ships were sunk or tic" about the war, issued a formal reminder to the people today that "we are in a hard fight which will be won only by the combined all-out efforts of our people and all of the United Nations." He made this statement at his press conference: "'I have noted with uneasiness that some of the American people, eeing the rapidly increasing strength of the United States and United Nations successes in various places, arc inclined to anticipate an earlier victory than they had heretofore expected. We can too easily be over-optimistic. We are in a hard fight which will be won only by the combined all-out efforts of our people and all of the United Nations. Urges Grim Determination We should accept our successes in a spirit of sober thanksgiving.