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Closing N. Y. Morkets—Sales, Page 16.__ UP) Meant Associated Press. 89th YEAR. No. 35,433. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MAY 5, 1941 THREE CENTS.

Nazis Think Position of U. S. fPUT THIS ON EACH ONE Of THEM?\ Air Force German Planes \UHCU.THEYVE (TOT Tb GET THE R&J Defense Housing Makes Peace Date Uncertain Is Crippled, Intervention Would Prolong Conflict, but Cause Heavy Order Provides Not Alter Result, Germans Declare

Br the Associated Press. to the were the British Claim I Reichstag pondering Belfast BERLIN, May 5.—The chance of prospects of the United States be- Damage 140 D.C. Units American intervention in the war coming a belligerent. The Fuehrer’s on Ger- Is makes it impossible from the Ger- emphasis apt ‘““f Turkey Reported man side to speculate on the dura- many’s determination to hold her Explosions Set Off Families of Enlisted tion of the conflict, the well-posted lead in “Ijistory's greatest armament Offer In AID Planning commentary Dienst aus Deutsch- race" induced many to consider the Plane Plants, To Men to Get Homes land said today in comment on of a war and more Of Mediation prospect longer Nazis Declare i Britain Adolf Hitler's speech yesterday. enemies which stand in the way of At Three Posts which has complete establishment of a “new _ \ BACKGROUND— Dienst, close Foreign By the Associtted Press. order.” BACKGROUND— between and Office connections, hinted at the Fighting Iraqi Thus the LONDON, May 5—Resurgent In Shifting of population because possibility that the war may extend Deutsche Allgemeine British troops broke out last Fri- the aid to &ia of national defense program has into 1942. Zeitung considered the statement widespread daylight activity, day as result of continued British | caused in many "Involved in of attributed to a number of American German air force today followed housing shortages landings at Basra, at head of Per- the assumption up HaIM i 5^ibi generals and admirals that German communities near industrial and sian such a possibility,” it said, "lies un- last night’s pounding of Belfast, Gulf. Iraqi forces besieged at military establishments. Defense calculation on the armament production is its maxi- air base at , doubtedly possi- of Northern Ireland; Liver- have obtained English mum while the United States is “a capital housing authorities 60 miles west Gov- bility of American intervention. of Baghdad. on and other in appropriations ol $150,000,000 and "Such intervention is appraised nation wheels,” and, therefore, pool targets England ernment of Iraq, headed by Ras- allocations of a similar sum under as an enjoys advantages in the mechanical and Scotland. chid Ali Al Gailani, who came in by Germans influence which field which would be decisive in Lanham Act to relieve emergency a month is could prolong the war. but under no British fighters were said authori- by coup ago, reported action. situation. Washington's expan- circumstances alter the ultimate re- military to a German to be pro-German. Iraq is rich tatively have downed in that it is due "But one cannot swim over sion is unique sult.” the over the Channel this after- in coveted oil. fighter to influx of defense agency From other sources there were ocean on wheels,” the newspaper noon. than industrial observed, that ma- workers rather By the Associated Press. indications that Germans who gave insisting not The daylight activity appeared or military personnel. CAIRO, Egypt, May 5 —Most of thoughtful study to Hitler's report i See-BERLi N~Page-A-47) to be mostly reconnaissance, but four Iraq's air force "already has been j Messerschmitts made a hit-run raid By JAMES FREE. the British Near East on a in Southeastern destroyed,” j village England One hundred and forty dwelling command said today, and Iraq ar- ] this afternoon, dropping a few bombs units for families of enlisted men tillery which nad pounded the be- German Air Attack World Gets ! and firing a few machine gun and sieged British airport at Habbaniyah ! Warning cannon rounds. Little damage was at the Army Medical Center, the inac- was "rendered comparatively reported. Army War College and Bolling Field tive yesterday by our aircraft.” On Isle of Crete U. S. Is to Again Over North Ireland. were included in a defense housing The British garrison at Habbani- j Ready Fight for 13 localitiea yah is intact and has suffered very German planes also were sighted program approved few casualties.” the communique over northwest England and bodies by President Roosevelt today. British For were still being hauled from the said, and British troops remain, Reported by Freedom The recommended by Again program, at Belfast, when raiders “without interference,” in occupa- wreckage Defense Housing Co-ordinator C F. were over Northern tion of the Basra area, at the head Four again reported Palmer, provides for construction Nazi Warplanes Speech at Wilson Shrine Ireland. of the . Coast Guardsmen Court to with public funds of a total of