Evening star., 1939-09-23
Dictatorship Works
10 Bar Disorders
In Rumania
Funeral Tomorrow for
Colinescu; Executions
Estimuted at 1000
BY LLOYD LEHRBAS.


Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
BUCHAREST, Sept. 23.-Ru-
mAnia's virtual military dictatorship
worked to check any possible dis
orders in the country as plans for
the slain Premier Armand Calines-
Gus funeral were completed today.
Slight disturbances were remored
in the provinces, but they could not
be confirmed.
The nation as a whole appeared
to foreign observers to be reverting
to calm, with Rumanian authorities
asserting confidence that retaliatory
measures-in the form Of purge Of
Iron Guardists-have provided an
effective object lesson for any dissi-
dent elements.
High Officials Attend.
The entire nation will be In q
state of mourning tomorrow during
the Calinescu funeral services at the
Atheneum in the presence Of high
officials and members of Qalinescu's
family. The body then will be taken
in a procession to the railway sta
ton for the journey to Calinescu's
family home at Curtea de Arges, 80
miles northwest of Bucharest.
There, in accordance with CAL
inescu's wishes, the body will be
taken in a peasant cart and drawn
by six oxen to the grave.
While the government said 292
members of the pro-Nazi Iron
Guard have been executed in pun
ishment for the assassination
Thursday of Calinescu, informed
sources said the executions totaled
nearly 2,00O," including some
women.
The Iron Guard, an object OF
Calinescu's hatred, is an outlawed,
pro-Nazi organization which was
accused of plotting an uprising after
the Premiers assassination Thurs
day on Bucharest street.
Thousands of Rumanians con-
tinued to file past his glass covered
coffin, moving in a double line ex-
tending for blocks through a park
surrounding the Atheneum.
The bodies Of the nine assassins
seven of whom were executed and
two of whom committed suicide
were removed and cremated after
lying more than "a hours in the
street where they died-and where
Calinescu was slain. They were
taken away in a procession of in
fantry and cavalry passing through
huge crowds lining the streets.
Thousands viewed the bodies,
sprawled where they fell when shot
in the head with their weapons.
Finely dressed women and shabby
working women approached anc
peered at them. Some of the women
stepped out of limousines driven by
liveried chauffeurs.
Owned Two Estates.
Details OF Calinescu's will showed
he was far from rich. He owned two
landed estates inherited from his
father-both heavily mortgaged-
and house in Bucharest.
Among the messages of coincidence
received was one from Cordell Hull,
United States Secretary of State.
Foreign observers anticipated the
strong men" now in the cabinet
which was hastily formed after the
assassination would endeavor to fol-
low Calinescu's policies as far as
possible.
Gen. Gabriel Marinescu, the new
war minister, for example, has been
relentless foe of reactionary ele-
ments. One of his recent acts was
campaign against German bund ele-
ments around Cernauti, where 1t
was asserted the bund was openly
preparing to greet German troops in
Rumania after they crossed the
Polish frontier.
Neutrality Held Possible.
There was widespread opinion
that Rumania still could avoid being
embroiled in the war by steering a
carefully chartered course. Foreign
Minister Grigore Gafencu was de-
scribed as making strenuous efforts
to maintain neutrality.
Some observers believed the pres
ence of Soviet troops on the Polish
Rumanian frontier might bring
about swing of Rumanian policy
toward closer relations with the
SovietS.
The question of German interest
in Rumanian oil brought increasing
speculation. officials expressed be-
lief that Rumania already was pro-
viding Germany with all the oil she
could transport at present. A Ger
man economic mission still was here
winding up negotiations.
August {. Radue Dies