IN THE [NIGHTS DETRBfKiPTffoIESOnly Detroit Newipaper Carrying International Newt Service and Complete Sport Dispatckee NEWS 41 ST YEAR, NO. 205 DETROIT, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23,1941 32 PAGES THREE CENTS EDITION ROOSEVELT de- PESIDENTplores the fact that the American people do not fully realise the seriousness of the war situation abroad. Possibly they do not—and the reason is very simple. Every time any Informed and conscientious citizen tries to' warn our people of the formidableness of the Axis forces and the possi- bility of their winning the war he Is denounced as pro-German. TWO GREEK ARMIES QUIT; Every time any sincere Amer- ican tries to tell his fellow citizens of the disaster of being Involved In this alien conflict, and the desirability of thinking of America first and working for America first, he Is assailed as un-American. Take for example Col. Lind- bergh and that good old-fsshioned American, Henry Ford. Col. Lindbergh, in his capacity of aviation expert, visits RussiaKING IN FLIGHT TO CRETE and Germany and Inspects their aviation equipment. He comes then to England and GERMAN warns the English, with every Governor SHADOW ACROSS GREECE good and friendly Intention, that Gen. Sikorski the German aviation is superior to Picks GM Enemy's that of Russia and more formid- Resistance able than that of England, and that England would better wake Mediators Sees Rebirth op. England denounces him as pro- As the UAW-CIO went ahead German, and practk-ally runs him today with its strike votes in Gen- country with bitter plants, despite ruling Crumbling-Berlin out of the eral Motors a Of Poland abuse. by the state labor mediation board A new Poland rising strong and What for* that a 30 days’ strike notice must majestic from her own ashes is For trying to make the English be given. Governor Van Wagoner the picture carried today in the realize “the seriousness of the war appointed a special three-man minds of Detroit Polish residents King George II Axis Arranging situation." commission to mediate the dispute. [ —a picture drawn for them by The governor named Thomas J. Cnl. Lindbergh comes Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski, Polish Donahue. Detroit attorney, as chair- On Way to Isle Surrender Terms here his native land. prime minister in exile. oxer to man, Dr. Henry Hitt Crane THEN and more 8,000 Perhaps he thinks: and Kenneth B. Burns as mem- Speaking before than By GEORGE BALINT By PIERRE J. HUBS “Well, if these English bers. Doctor Crane is pastor of persons last night at Naval Ar- lull New* IcrtlMnun CarmpHlnl lad Newt Service Staff CafTStsendSt# vant and abus- the Central Methodist Episcopal mory, General Sikorski climaxed BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 23. BERLIN. April 23.—Represent* to he blind Church, and Burns is cashier of ive. that is their affair. his brief visit here with a hopeful —The Greek government under atives of the German, Italian and The Detroit Bank. message that Poland willlive again King Greek high commands today ar- “I am under no obliga- is present of George II abandoned Athens Donahue chairman in other defeated tion to compel them to the state labor mediation board league with to the advancing Germans today ranged details of the surrender of and acted as chairman of the neighbors and serve as .a bulwark fleeing the Greek armies of Epirus and realize the situation. against the aggression of both and announced that it was three-man special commission ap- to on Brit- Macedonia to advancing Axis ~But I am under obliga- Russia and Germany. a temporary capital the i pointed by the governor in the ish occupied Greek isle of Crete, i forces. tion to till the plain, un- IrAW-CIO-Fordl r AW-CIO-Ford Motor Company UNITY WITH C ZECHS according to last-minute advices The high command also stated my own dispute. reaching Budapest. that the German army yesterday palatable truth to unity and "The of Poland reports indicated Greek “caught, surrounded and annihi- people PREPARES TO growing The the INTERVENE Czech o-Blovakla I* monarch and his government are lated” a British expeditionary So he comes home and tries to announcing mem- stronger each day,” the general force rear guard contingent in a In the board they determined to continue resistance tell the truth as he sees It to his bership. the governor said that be said. "Together will stand against the Axis powers from fierce but short battle at storied a* vigorous and powerful felloxv Americans, and meets with would intervene in the strike no- a Crete. But it appeared that fight- Thermopylae, where in 480 B. C, disagreement. nation, a bulwark between Ger- mainland, King Leonidas and 300 Spartans xery much the same reception he tice Bal- ing on the Greek for 11c said he would summon Wal- many and Russia from the centuries one of the world's his- died fighting the Persian hosts. got In England. tic to the Adriatic. This unity ter Moers and Arthur E. Raab, toric battle grounds, has nagrly GREEKS ENCIRCLED He Is declared to be pro-German Republican members of the state will Insure the future peace and come to a close. security of Europe.” by a lot of alien sympathizers and board, to his office to discover why A special announcement issued General Sikorski warned against PIRAEUS BATTERED by hy bunch of noisy demagogues, the 30-day waiting clause was ap- Chancellor Hitler’s Balkan a the menace of Hitlerism on this (A headquarters revealed that the patriotism I* plied ‘prematurely.” Swiss radio broadcast the limit of xxhose The union filed notice of inten- continent should Great Britain be picked up in London today said Greek forces which laid down their disparagement of the truer pa- tion to strike last Friday. Moers destroyed, and told of President that before departing from arms had been trapped by a vast to triotism of others. announced Monday night in Lan- Roosevelt's assurance him that Athens, King George addressed encircling drive which brought Poland would arise again. to refugees and sing that the 30-day waiting pe- * ~ a proclamation his people, about their unconditional capitu- There are a lot of "England, however,” he said. est setter/' a lation. their relatlxrs and friends and riod would be in effect because stating: the “I* determined to fight to the (“The Greek armies of the left This communique stated: at GM was in defense manufac- Map by sympathizers who haxe suffered turing end. and Is very sympathetic Detroit Timet Staff Artist flank have surrendered. The “The encircled Greek Epirus business. Eng- the hands of foreign foes, and “This was announced too towards Poland’s cause. Greek government has gone to and Macedonian armies sur- land, victorious at the end of Greece today, with the vast ish allies. Nazis were driving naturally they are filled with Just soon." the governor said. "This Crete.”) rendered unconditionally.’* the war, will not permit Ger- by claiming wide- reported It was believed that the and understandable hatred of clause should not have been in- area virtually controlled the towards Athens, The decision of the Greek voked without many again to he the victim of Greek government to flee followed Epirus army of about 18 divisions oppressors. bringing In both German army, lined off to show spread victories, although they their sides for a hearing. a Hitler. a series of terrific German aerial —approximately 250,000 soldiers—- Blit they should remember that "The German government to- approximately how little of the had not yet consolidated the attacks on Piraeus, the port of which surrendered will be treated they find In America a refuge “PROBABLY SAME RESFI.T” day I* a government of treaty nation is left to the Greco-Brit- areas indicated here as theirs. Athens and the cities of Eleusis leniently in accordance with “I'm going to rail In breaker*. It* follower* are Rav- and Megara and other points in the Chancellor Hitler’s orders and will from oppression, a haven of peace Moers Ru**la, and Raab today and fell them age and brutal. too. : Attica district. be released soon. from the disasters of xxar. contrary her mottoes so. Donahue already feels as I works to Italian planes bombed and ma- Epirus embraces the northwest- Why should they want to en- and deserves no sympathy.” do, and I understand the an- Angered chine gunned rural districts in ern section of Greece below the Australians Cephalonia danger this land of last refuge* nouncement was made in ten- DEFENDING BRITAIN London Confirms and Corfu, according to Albanian border. they to peril a Greek communique. (An official Italian announce-, Why should want sing without the approval of being played Itonahue. He told of the part ment in Rome stated that d* |lhe peace nnd protection «f this hy in ATHENS OPTIMISTIC military "The result would probably Polish soldiers the defense Pres* and Laborites Ask: Why Were Anzacs Sent Greek delegation pre- one remaining safe harbor? world democracy Only the have been the same, hut hear- of Britain and a few hours before an- sented Greek surrender to Why they us to a “I believe in the great future to Greece With Inadequate Support? Greek Rout Romej should want ing should have been held.” nouncement in Berlin and the commander of the Italian fight their battles at the risk of of Poland because the untold j that the Greek armies of Epirus Eleventh Army on the Epirus The governor said he had se- people and Inlrrutlonsl X«i Srrrlr* C*M* liberty security—- sacrifice* by her and Macedonia had surrendered.! front. A second announcement losing our and lected Doctor Crane to be a mem- Insured It.