Two Extra Pages In This Edition Late news and sports are covered on Pages 1-X and 3-X of this edition of Hie Star, supple- menting the news of the regular borne delivered edition of Hie Star. Closing N. Y. Morkets—Soles, Page 16. 89th YEAR. No. 35,457. THREE CENTS. NAZIS CAPTURE TWO KEY CITIES IN CRETE Late News Bulletins Former Nazi Eden Outlines Defense and 'Essentials' Get Steel Priorities The Office of Production Management late today issued Britain's Aims an order designed to give defense requirements and all “essen- Diplomat Held tial” civilian needs first call on all forms of steel. E. R. Stet- tinius, jr.. defense priorities director, said he issued the order because the general demand, including defense and civilian In New York In Present War orders, “is greater than the apparent capacity to make de- liveries of certain of steel and steel products promptly.” types Seizure of Suda (Earlier Story on Page A-47.) Rieth, Reportedly Bay Gives German Forces Carol Due in Havana Tomorrow Here on Oil Mission, Island HAVANA (/P).—Former King Carol of Rumania and Mme. Taken Into Custody Bridgehead Elena are expected to reach their home in exile Lupescu By the Associated Press. BULLETIN. here tomorrow afternoon instead of Saturday, as pre- NEW YORK, May 29—Kurt Hen- UP).—More liner America. The CAIRO, Egypt viously scheduled, on the United States rich Rieth, German Minister to than 100 German planes on United States Lines here explained that the America’s Austria at the time Chancellor the beaches of Northwest cruise schedule had been revised to prmit only a brief stay Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated, was taken into custody today and Crete were successfully at- here before she goes to New York to enter United States naval KURT HENRICH RIETH. hurried to Ellis Island by immigra- tacked Tuesday night and service. tion authorities. Wednesday morning, the R The Justice Department at Wash- A. F. announced tonight, in Davis-Kaufman Case Goes to Jury ington said he was being held with- 11, Is Drowned, out bail for deportation proceed- the wake of British admissions PHILADELPHIA (A5'.—Criminal charges against retired Boy, ings. of the loss of Suda Bay. Sev- Court J. Warren Davis and Mor- seizure United States Circuit Judge Tire department said his eral fires were started and a were to a Federal court jury today Sailboat today was on the ground that he gan S. Kaufman given Capsizes number of explosions had come to this country for pur- resulted, after a trial lasting 10 days. Judge Davis, 74, who rettred poses other than that stated in his a communique said. and Kaufman. Scranton, Pa., attorney and two years ago, application for a permit, which was to In Sudden Storm former bankruptcy referee, are charged with conspiracy listed simply as personal business. (Earlier Stories on Page A-l.) obstruct justice and defraud the United States. Dr. Rieth's presence in the United By the Associated Press. Little Rain States was revealed last Falls Saturday by With newly-arrived Italian the New York Herald Tribune, which Reds in Plants As troops striking from the east end Vigilantes Reported Ousting Mercury Drops said he was here to buy American- of the island, Adolf Hitler’s aerial Testimony that "100 per cent Americans” working in vital 21 to 74 owned oil properties in Eastern Eu- Degrees rope. invaders Crete’s defense industries are organizing vigilante groups to purge captured prize The Herald Tribune said Dr. was heard by a special BULLETIN. harbor of Suda Bay on the west their plants of Communists today Rieth used the name of Walter C. and Candia, in subcommittee of the Dies Committee amid several dramatic A colored boy, about 11, was Teagle, chairman of the board of today occupied j Central as the British incidents precipitated by witnesses and spectators. drowned in the Potomac River | the Standard Oil Co. of New York, Crete, when he entered this country. That struggled desperately in the jaws (Earlier Story on Page A-5.) at Thirtieth and K streets and ENVOY INSPECTS FIRE ENGINE—Viscount Halifax, the British Ambassador, mounted to the company subsequently denied know- of a closing vise. a sailboat capsized off Hains him. seat of this fire engine beside Driver J. W. Bunch at No. 16 Engine Company while looking over ing Candia is the island’s British a storm Dr. biggest Capture of Iraq City Reported by Point, when sudden Rieth entered the United the" company's equipment. —Harris & Ewing Photo. States at Brownsville. Tex., on A- ■ city, with a population of 33,000, CAIRO, Egypt (A5).—Capture of Khanuqta. Iraq, half way hit the city late this after- March 22 after flying from Mexico about 55 miles east of Suda Bay. » between Fallujah and Baghdad, was reported today by the noon, sending the temperature 1, City. Previously he had been in British military headquarters, con- British Air Force. down 21 degrees to 74. There South Royal ; America. /anks ceding that the heavily-reinforced He 'Great Lord Nats, (Earlier Story on Page A-4.)- was little rainfall. *The drown- entered the German diplomatic Show/ Says Halifax, Leading Germans had scored major gains, ing victim was believed to be service in 1918, serving in Rome and declared that violent hand-to-hand Paris before he went to Austria. Held Calvin Peters, 210 block ol As Firemen Demonstrate Skill as Time Is fighting was continuing. Relief Request Approved Seized in the midtown area, Dr. 7-2, Called N.W. The Later, German planes raided Brit- A House Subcommittee was said by an Newport place boy Rieth was permitted to visit his ish Appropriations District firefighters staged an im- made an informal statement to re- troops concentrating on the President Roose- fell off a sand barge. The suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Informed source today to have approved porters. southern coast, D.N.B.. official Ger- and obtain his promptu demonstration today for Due to Rain in Sixth wind a of 39 personal belongings man news velt’s for $886,000,000 for relief during the year which reached velocity "We in London have had occasion agency reported. request before taken to Ellis Island. Lord the British Ambas- miles an hour. being Halifax, to learn the value of efficient equip- begins next July 1. B. E. Sackett, in Buildings Set Afire. special agent sador. ment and the value of the people Masterson charge of the New York office of Replaces Buildings were set afire at Sphakia A sudden drop in temperature was Lord Halifax had dropped in at who work it,” he said. Park the Federal Bureau of Investigation. and two British bombers and two President Off for Hyde welcomed in Washington shortly "I am immensely grateful, as are Sundra on Mound disclosed that the G-men had the engine house, on Thirteenth ; British bombers and two fighters President Roosevelt left today for a week-end visit at after 4 p.m. today as a “cold front” the people of England, for the help in from northwest. The ‘'known about'’ Rieth but declared near K streets N.W.. at the invita- in Wash- For were destroyed on the ground at as far as moved the which fire establishments Washington his Park (N. Y.) home. A fellow traveler his office had to do with tion firemen who are airfields near on Hyde Weather Bureau forecast was “cloudy nothing of District ington and elsewhere in the United Tympakion the I. Rosenman, who his seizure. Gulf of Weehawken, N. J., was Judge Samuel and cooler” tonight and tomorrow. raising funds for widows and or- States are giving to the widow's and At 5:30 o'clock, more than 45 Mesara, D. N. B. said. his of Tuesday night. The thermometer had soared to "I can't comment about Rieth,” i phans of their comrades in England. of firefighters who minutes after time was called, Reuters, British news agency, re- helped Mr. Roosevelt prepare speech 1 orphans English 94 at about 4 o'clock and then cool I Sackett said when queried on his de- He and Commissioner Melvin C. have lost their lives.” play had not been resumed. ported a DN.B. radio claim that (Earlier on Page A-l.) 1 Story tention. “All I can is we’ve in sun "The British are winds sent the mercury tumbling 10 say Hazen watched the blazing Lord Halifax was introduced to making every prep- BURTON HAWKINS. degrees in about 15 minutes. known about him for some time.” while the firefighters attached to Capt. J. W. Kay, in charge of the! By aration for escape across the sea.” Only light showers—if any—the No. 3 Truck Company and No. 16 truck and engine house, by Fire The Washington Nationals and Casualties in the Crete fighting out the were Weather Bureau said, are expected Engine Company drove Chief Stephen T. Porter. New York Yankees tied in their were heavy on both sides, the Bnt- Greece House Unit District's new ladder truck this afternoon. Nazi Gliders Over North to accompany the "cold front,” but Approves $16,000 Capt. H. P Harding, general game here | ish said, with New Zealand and lad- 7 2 tonight it may be as cool as 60 de- and raised its powTer-operated chairman of a drive to raise $6,000 to The score was to when time j other imperial forces fighting bit- Bill on Oil air. Firemen on ! grees. Pipelines der 100 feet into the $7,000 in Washington for the fund, was called in the sixth inning terly east of Suda Bay.