Evening star., 1939-09-22
Pro-Nuzis Taken
From Camps to
Face Death
BY LLOYD LEHRBAS,

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
BUCHAREST, Sept. 22.-Thou-
sands were reported executed today
as Rumania's virtual military die
tatorship eXacted a heavy blood
price from the pro-Nazi Iron Guard
for the assassination of Premier
Armand Calinescu.
CalineScu, advocate of closer Ru-
manian economic cooperation with
Great Britain and France, was shot
to death yesterday in his automobile
by masked band, allegedly men,
bers of the Iron Guard, on a main
Bucharest street.
Reliable sources said thousands
of members of the outlawed Iron
Guard had been taken from con-
centration camps throughout the
country and shot to death to avenge
yesterdays killing of the premier,
who was an implacable foe of the
guard. Hundreds more were ar
rested in the whirlwind cleanup
Of alleged pro-Nazi elements.
Some women had been shot, it
was said.
Mass Executions Continuing.
1t was announced officially that A
Iron Guardists were executed at the
Merkurea -Ciuk concentration camp
while 80 were shot by firing squads
at Prahova. Mass executions we're
said to be continuing.
Reliable sources said a minimum
OF three Iron Guard members were
being taken from each of Rumania's
u administrative districts for the
firing squads.
At the head of the government
stood Gen. George Argesanu, tough
disciplinarian" of Sc and a friend
of Calinescu. Observers expected
Argesanu to follow CalineScu's
advocacy of closer Rumanian eco
nomic cooperation with Great
Britain and France.
Bodies Lie in Streets.
Bloody bodies in one of Bucha-
rests main streets provided evidence
of the governments vengeance for
Calinescu's assassination.
Around the roped-off, oblong area,
under dreary sky, hawkers were
selling cakes and beer and cold
drinks to wide-eyed stream of Ru-
manians come to see an object les
son in swift Balkan punishment
A banner nearby carried the
words:
Such will be the fate of all as
sassins and traitors of the country"
All the dead had the young faces
and youthful figures of college stu
dents. No one attempted to claim
the dead.
Seven of those whose bodies lay
In the streets were allegedly men,
bers of the Iron Guard.
Police transported them at II pm
last night to the spot where they
were charged with ambushing and
killing Calinescu.
police said, had killed themselves
when troops surrounded the house
in which they had taken refuge were
carted to the scene and dumped on
the asphalt avenue.
Seven Lined for Execution.
AAiS oCFCll ~ GCllOl SllOW.
Ing in their eyes, were stood in
line nearby. A small crowd gathered
on the sidewalk ;. Clouds obscured
the moon Only Pickering street.
lamps lighted the strange midnight
scene.
Uniformed executioners walked
behind each straining figure sill
houetted in the fantastic light Then,
using the alleged assassins' own re-
volvers, each eXecutioner thrust his
weapon behind a mans ear and
pulled the trigger.
Police quickly roped off an oblong
area inclosing the nine bodies and |
a neatly-lettered warning to others
with possible anti-government ideas
was hung nearby.
An official bulletin gave the names
Of the dead as:
Caesar Popescu, law student; Ior
Moldobeanu, polytechnical student;
Marin Stanciulescu, mechanic; Pra-
gan Popescu, law student; Lazar
Lurece, chauffeur; Isaia Ovidu, pho-
tographer, and Ion Ionescu, law
student.
All through the night men, wom-
en- and children came to the scene,