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Evening star., 1939-08-22
Moonlight Cruise Set

Members Of the G. C. Murphy Co.
Employees Association will take a
moonlight cruise this evening on
the S. S. Potomac, with Thomas
Ganey, Kenneth Paxton, William
Harvey, Fred Greenleaf and other
executives as guests.
Evening star., 1939-08-22
Boys Bond Gives Concert

The Washington Elks Boys Band
gave their final concert of the year
last night at the home of Peter
Rosch, 322 Douglas street NE. Re-
freshments were served following
the music.
Evening star., 1939-08-22

Traffic lights protect you. Watch
them.
Evening star., 1939-10-28
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 28.-Two German
airmen were killed. one wounded
and Nazi pilot captured today in
an aerial drama of the skies wit
messed by hundreds of Scots near
Edinburgh when British fighter
planes engaged and forced down a
German Warplane.
The air ministry announced that
"a German aircraft which was at
tempting reconnoissances was forced
down by our fighters this morning
east of Dalkeith (about 612 miles
southeast of EdinburghD.'
The invader apparently was head
ed for the strategic Firth of Forth,
objective of previous German raids.
Display of Aerobatics.
Immediately after the Nazi plane
was sighted, British ships went aloft,
with resulting rare display of aero
battles as the German pilot tried des-
perately to shake off his attackers.
Finally the German plane came
down on a hillside and struck a
stone wall and even then the pilot
would not give up" one witness said
He tried to get his machine into
the air again and ran along the
rough ground for about a half mile
before he had to STOP"
Evening star., 1939-10-28
Sinking Of Nazi Sub
Claimed by French;
Six Bodies Are Found
Two Spy Executions,
First Since Stort of
War, Reported
By the Associated Press.

by ire Associated PreSS.
PARIS, Oct. 28.-Prpof of the
sinking Of a German submarine
last Thursday was said by French
military sources to have been estab-
lished today coincident with semi
official announcement that French
armed vessels and seaplanes had
been particularly active.
Several direct attacks have been
carried out and it appears one OF
these at least has been successful"
the statement said.
Bodies Found OF Coast.
Bodies of five German sailors and
a German officer were reported
found off the coast, establishing
proof. the French said, of destruc-
tlon OF the submarine, which ZAP
parently had been literally, torn
apart by the explosion of a depth
bomb"
The location of the attack was
not disclosed.
dispatches from Dover, England.
reported yesterday the bodies of
more than so German seamen had
been recovered from a submarine
washed up on the Goodwin Sands, 5
miles from the Kent coast. It was
not Immediately clear whether the
French announcement referred to
this incident.
First Espionage Executions,
Sharing attention with the an
nouncement of this naval success
were two executions for espionage
the first reported in France since
the start of the war.
A firing squad carried out the
sentence of death on DR.. Karl
Roos, 6O-year-old Alsatian autono-
mist leader, and a soldier compan-
ion named Lobstein, who were con-
victed of treason and espionage in
behalf of Germany.
Six other defendants, convicted
by the same court martial, were
(Coo DADTC nooa .
Evening star., 1939-10-28
Woman Acquitted
In Poison Ring Trial
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 28.-Dark-
eyed Stella Alfonsi, youngest of the
woman defendants in Philadelphia s
insurance murder cases, was acquit-
ted today of the fatal poisoning q
year ago Of her husband, Ferdinand
w. P. A. worker.
The jury deliberated throughout
the night.
Mrs. Alfonsi, attractive 3O-year-
old mother of two, was the 14th de-
fendant called to trial and the first
acquitted. Five were convicted and
eight others pleaded guilty. Nine
await trial.
Among those convicted was Her
man Petrillo, 40-year-old forme,
spaghetti salesman charged with
completely in Alfonsi's death. He
was sentenced to die in the electric
chair.
1t was Alfonsi's death a year ago
that prompted an investigation and
disclosed the operations of a murder
ring that bludgeoned and poisoned
on wholesale scale for insurance
Detectives estimate between SO and
100 were slain.
Evening star., 1939-10-28
Czechs Battle
German Police
In Prague
800 Reported Held :
As Rioting Marks
Anniversary
By the Associated Press,

SS VIZ hSsoCIdtcu TTcSS.
PRAGUE, Oct. Fisherman police
and Czechs clashed here this after
noon while Czechs we're celebrating
the 2lst anniversary of the founda-
tlon OF the Czecho-Slovak Republic
There were numerous arrests. One
estlmate was given that 800 persons
were taken to German police head
quarters as the result of this Incl
dent and others in other parts OF
the city.
The clash occurred in midafter-
noon when Czech crowds broke
through police Gordon roping of
Wenclesias Square, before the city
nall. to prevent demonstrations be-
tore the statue of St. Wenceslas
patron saint of the CzechS.
An argument between German SA
men Drown Shirts and Czechs de-
veloped with especial violence be-
fore the Hotel Sroubek.
Prague Germans tried to tear of
the Czech insignia worn by demon
strators, witnesses said, and the
Czechs fought back.
German police were summoned
and they, with the aid of Czech
state police, dispersed the crowd.
The Germans had placed a ban
on public demonstrations and Wen
ceslas Square. in the heart of Prague
was barred off early in the morning
A group of youths attempted to
enter the square but were turned
back. A smaller group, said to have
been Communists, took advantage
OF this incident to shout Long live
Stalin!" But they were drowned
out with cries of Long live the
republic"
In other cities of the Bohemia
Moravian protectorate there were
quiet observances of the day despite
the German ban.
Evening star., 1939-10-28
25, 900 to See G. VIC. u. Tilt:
Ideal Weather Expected
Hoyos Are Fovorites in First Clash
On Gridiron Since 1923

Two local gridiron rivals were
doing their best today to turn this
hub of national affairs into just an
other college football town.
The Georgetown University Hoyas
and the Colonials from George
Washington University were set for
their first clash on the football field
since 1923 and thereby prepared to
give the Nations Capital its first
taste of all-District college football
in Is years.
The contest was scheduled for
2::30 pm. on the Griffith Stadium
playing field, covered with canvas
overnight to protect the firm sodding
from intermittent showers.
A strong northwest wind, which
reached velocity of Al miles an
hour at $50 am, partially cleared
the heavily overcast skies and the
weather was expected to be ideal
for the game.
Light rains which sprinkled the
Evening star., 1939-10-28
Gas Bomb Thrown
Through Window
Routs Six Persons
Occupant of Dwelling
BIomes Private Crouch
Of Neiehbors
Pictures on Page Az

A tear gas bomb was thrown
through the window of the home of
Johann Manzenrieder, a., at 470 K
street NV, about 2:15 am. today
routing six persons from bed.
Mr.. Manzenrieder told police he
believed the bomb was thrown be-
cause OF a private crouch" with
some one in the neighborhood. The
bomb was an old type regulation
army missile.
Mr.. Manzenrieder, his wife Emma
and his daughter Evelyn, 7, were
sleeping on the first floor of the two
story house when the bomb was
thrown, and three roomers were
asleep upstairs. The Manzenrieder
bedroom is in the rear of the house
and the bomb was thrown into the
front room.
Heard Glass Break.
x heard the glass break" Mr.
Manzenrieder said, land then the
bomb started kissing. rushed into
the room and it was filled with
smoke. I thought a fuse had blown
out and started a fire at first, but
then I recognized the smell of the
gas.
Il ran out and turned in a fire
alarm. The three roomers upstairs
couldn't get out because the smoke
was so thick around the door. They
had to stick their heads out of the
window"
Firemen had to don gas masks
before entering the house and re-
mained at the scene for an hour
before the atmosphere cleared
somewhat and the residents could
get back in.
Dropped Where Bed Stood.
The child's bed, Mrs. Manzen-
rieder said, had been at the exact
place where the bomb dropped until
few days ago.
Reporters and photographers, Wis
iting the house several hours after
the bomb exploded, emerged red
eyed, with tears streaming down
their faces.
The bomb shell was taken to the
first precinct, where it awaited the
attentions of 1t. John Fowler, the
police departments ballistics expert.
Police said it was an Army type and
could not produce fatal effects.
Mr.. Manzenrieder, who Is a natu-
rallied citizen, came to this coun-
try from Germany in 1925 and
makes his living as a hat cleaner in
an establishment at 507 Fourteenth
street N. w. He said he had been
having trouble with some of his
neighbors recently and predicted
that police would have no trouble
finding the guilty party.
Evening star., 1939-10-28
Flyers Disappearance
Broadcast by Police
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BROOKF1ELD, Mo. Oct .28.-A
flying instructor took of in his
yellow monoplane with an ut-of-
town visitor-and the mystery sur
rounding its disappearance prompt
ed police broadcast for airports in
surrounding States to watch for it
today.
The plane. carrying Instructor
Carl Bivins and the passenger, went
up at 5 pm. yesterday with only
enough gasoline for 1O0-mile
flight. The stranger had asked
for a flying lesson.
Police Chief Ed Carroll said he
decided on the broadcast to other
airports because the whole thing
looks funny" A careful search over
radius of so miles brought no
trace.
Evening star., 1939-10-28

An air raid alarm in the Firth OF
Forth area of Scotland lasted half
an hour.
Bullets Fall in Street.
Machine gun bullets fell in the
main street of one town and several
spent bullets spattered few yards
from the police station.
The only warning given the
towns inhabitants was the sound of
the firing. Some residents said this
was the second occasion on which
raiders had been driven of without
the alarm sirens sounding
One siren was sounded, but there
was no general warning given the
civilian population.
Taxpayers in an East Lothian town
protested to the authorities over
failure to sound the sirens. They
said the firing came so quickly there
was not sufficient time to take to
cover.
A laborer at work on the roof of
the police station said he picked up
three spent bullets.
No bombs were dropped in popu-
lated centers
Air raid precaution personnel also
was put on the alert for half hour
in Northern Ireland
The warning in the Firth of Forth
area was the first since October %.
Evening star., 1939-10-28
Three Prisoners Flee
Manassas Jail

Sheriff j. T. Kerlin of Prince Will
liam County (VaD and his deputies
today were searching for three pris-
oners who escaped last night from
the Manassas Jail by digging
through brick wall with a stove
poker. Washington police were
asked to aid in the search.
The escaped men, police said, are
A. Keller, AZ, and two youths about
20 years old-Charley Hall and Os-
car Verren. 1t was believed they
caught freight train out of Manas-
sas
Jailer Joseph Garner said three
other men in the Jail did not join in
tho break,
Evening star., 1939-10-28
Lineups,

Scorin two touchdowns on running
plays. st. Adams eleven was lead
ing Church Farms School of Phila-
delphla, 13 to 0, at the half of their
game here today Favored St. Al
bans ran in its entire second team
after scoring a touchdown in the
opening quarter.
Schoenfeld. st. Alban's quarter
back, plunged over from the 3-yard
line after sustained drive from the
opening kickoff. LeFevre ran the
ball over for the extra point.
st. Adams was in scoring position
IN the second period after Chewing
made brilliant 2O-yard run to the
Philadelphians' 10-yard line. Chewn-
ing carried the ball across on the
next play for the second touchdown.
Evening star., 1939-10-28
Nett|ed by Soviet
Sights, u. 5. May
Order Envoy Home
Steinhurdt's Difficulty
In Getting Flint Doto
Is Hard to Understand
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt
may be ordered back to Washington
shortly to report personally about
the difficulties of communications
between Moscow and Murmansk" tc
President Roosevelt.
The administration is incensec
over the rough handling the Am.
bassador received from the vice
commissar of foreign affairs, To-
varish-formerly Prince-Potemkir
in connection with the City of Flint
incident.
While it is recognized that the
Soviet government had a difficult
problem on its hands, it is incon-
ceivable why the Russian foreign
office should have refused to see
the Ambassador at time when he
had to obtain f1rst-hand informa
ton on a problem of vital interest
to the United States.
Regardless of how busy a State
department may be, it is without
precedent that an Ambassador, who
besides representing his own sorn-
try is also the personal representa-
tive of the head of state, should not
be received by somebody in authority
in the country to which he is ac-
credited.
Courtesy Long Deferred.
Ambassador Steinhardt's report to
the State Department indicates that
the Russians had treated him worse
than they would have treated a
reWspaperman in quest of confden-
tlal information. When he was
finally received by Comrade Potem-
kin, hours after decision regarding
the City OF Flint had been taken
and hours after he demanded to see
some responsible official in the for
eign office, the Russian diplomat
was courteous and almost apologize.
But Mr.. SteinhardU is not concerned
with courtesy. He was concerned
with the fate of the City of Flint
and with reporting to the State De-
partment the latest informations re-
gar ding the seized ship, so as to en-
able the Government to take certain
actions.
Mr.. Steinhardt may come back to
Washington soon and may stay
away from Moscow as long as Mr..
Hugh Wilson has stayed away from
Berlin.
Task a Difficult One.
The job of the American repre-
sentatives in Moscow, regardless OF
their capacity, is not an enviable
one. They are quarantined. They
live among themselves and only oc-
casionally see officials in a purely
official capacity. When they travel
they are followed and treated like
spies. Any Russian who appears to
be too close to the members of the
American Embassy staff is suspected
and, eventually, purged.
These conditions, which contrast
with the freedom of action of the
members of the staff of the Russian
diplomatic and consular Offices in
the United States, were overlooked
by the State Department. But the
treatment given the American Am
bassador at Moscow this week is
more than even our State Depart
ment can stomach.
Evening star., 1939-10-28
premiers Of Rumania.
Yugos|avia Discuss
Territory Claims
Threut of Balkan
War Seen in Views
Of Bulgaria
BY the Associated Press.

BUDAPEST. Oct. 28-Premier
Constantine Argetoianu Of Rumania
and Premier Dragisha Cvetkovich
Of Yugoslavia conferred for four
hours today discussing, diplomats
said, Bulgarian territorial claims on
Rumania which they feared might
plunge the Balkans into war.
Fears that Soviet Russian back
ing for Bulgarian claims on Ru-
mania might provide a spark that
would lead Southeastern Europe
to war brought intense diplomatic
activity.
Diplomats said Yugoslavia agreed
to warn Bulgaria that Irritation with
Russia might bring disastrous con-
sequences to the whole Balkan
area.
The two Premiers met in the
tiny village Of Vrsac on the Yugo-
slav-Rumanian border.
Confers With Kiosseivanoff.
At Sofia, it was reported, the
italian Minister was closeted for
jeveral hours with Bulgarian Pre-
mier George Kiosseivanof and ex-
pressed the Fascist government S
advice against allowing Bulgaria
to come under exclusive Soviet in
| f1uence.
Concern also was expressed in
official Yugoslav circles over,reports
Russia might sponsor Bulgarian de-
signs on Dobruja, fertile agricall-
tural area of 1000 square miles to
which Rumania's rights were con-
firmed by the treaty of Neuilly in
| 1919.
Advices from Bucharest said Basile
Stoica, Rumanian Ambassador to
Turkey, conferred at length yester-
day with King Carol and Foreign
Minister Grigore Gafencu. Informed
sources said they believed he report
ed on Russia's attitude toward Ru-
mania as it was told to Turkish For
eign Minister Sukru Saracoglu dur
ing his recent visit to Moscow.
It was believed in these quarters
that any Russian pressure on Ru-
mania first would concern the once
Bulgarian Dorbruja, rather than
former Russian Bessarabia.
ENJOYS to Meet Gafencu.
Rumania's ENJOYS to Turkey,
Greece, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, all
of whom have been summoned
home for consultations, were ex-
pected to meet Gafencu today.
For the second time in two weeks,
Sigmond Perenyi, governor of Ru-
thenia, came here from the Hun
garian province which has COM
mon border with Russia since the
partition of Poland. Perenyi went
into immediate conference with gov
ernment leaders.
In an interview at Ankara, mean
while, Saracoglu denied that one of
the Russian demands on Turkey
during the recent Moscow negotia-
tions was that Turkey get Bessa-
rabia for Russia or Dobruja for
Bulgaria.
The Turkish foreign minister left
unanswered q question whether the
U. s. s. r. had demanded that the
Dardanelles be closed to British and
French warships In the event Of
war hetVeen thA allieG and Ruasia.
Evening star., 1939-10-28
Byrd's Snow Cruiser
Is Halted Again
By the Associated Press

BY the ASSoclated Press.
FORT WAYNE, Ind, Oct. o.
Police Sergt. Paris Jackson reported
early today that Admiral Richard E.
Byrd's antarctic snow cruiser, en-
route to Boston, Mass, had halted
somewhere" along the 2l-mile
stretch of U. S. Highway 30 between
here and Columbia City.
Sergt. Jackson said he did not
learn the cause Of the delay. latest in
series which has befallen the
vehicle since 1t left Chicago. The
cruiser left Columbia City at l:20
am. today after its eastward journey
had been halted to make mechanical
repairs.
Evening star., 1939-10-28
Curran Calls Hearinq
Circus; Threatened
With Action by Dies
Must Show Respect for
Committee, Choirmon
Tells Union Leader

Chairman Dies of the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities
threatened today to cite Joseph Cur
ran, president of the National Mari
time Union. c. I. o. affiliate, for
contempt after the husky seamen's
leader had called the hearing "a
circus"
Representative Dies and Mr.. Cur
ran engaged in an angry exchange
when Rhea Whitley, committee
counsel, asked the union leader il
the National Maritime Union was
a Communist front organization"
Il tell you I resent very def
nitely-" the witness began, his large
hands clenched on the top of the
witness table. Then, when Mr.. Cur.
ran demanded the right to read a
written statement. he and Chairman
Dies began shouting at each other
with the Texas Representative bang
ing his gavel futilely.
I'm an American, my American
ism is just as good as yours Mr.
Curran roared at the chairman. Am
I to be treated as an Americana"
Representative Dies retorted that
Mr. Curran had telegraphed the
committee demanding a chance to
refute testimony that the N. M. u
was a Communist front organiza-
ton, and would have to abide by
committee regulations.
What Circus, He Says.
What circus" muttered Mr.
Curran in an aside loud enough for
Chairman Dies to hear.
you've got to show some respect
to this committee" the chairman
demanded. IF you don't. we're going
to cite you for contempt. We want
to be fair. but you must show us
your respect"
Just before Mr.. Curran took the
witness stand, Chairman Dies in
formed newspapermen he planned
to make further reply to Presi-
dent Roosevelt's criticism of the
committees action in making public
the names of 563 Government en-
ployes alleged to be on the mem
bership and mailing list" of the
American League for Peace and
Democracy, Mr.. Dies will speak In
a Nationwide broadcast over the
Columbia Broadcasting System to-
night at 10 o'clock.
And I'm not going to mince any
words" he added.
The President had characterized
the committees action as rather
sordid procedure" at his press con-
ference yesterday. Mr.. Dies retorted
last night that Mr.. Roosevelt may
be correct, but from my way OF
thinking Government employees that
belong to any organization con-
trolled by a foreign power ought to
be exposed and the American people
ought to know about them.
Permitted Last Year.
In the middle of the hubbub al
today's hearing Mr.. Dies shouted
that the committee had a rule
against witnesses reading state
ments, to which Mr.. Curran replied
that some American Federation OF
Labor officials had been permitted
to read statements into the Record
That was last year." Chairman
Dies came back, adding that since
then the committee had made the
rule against statements.
The chairman appealed tn this
committee to say whether it wished
to vary the rule. Representative
Mason, Republican, of Illinois Of
fered at the top of his voice to make
Evening star., 1939-10-28
Nozis Sailing City Of Flint
Throuqh North Sea Blockade
Under German Worship Convoy
Bad Weather and Low
Visibility Favor
Reich Attempt
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Oct. 28.-News reached
Berlin this morning that all was
well aboard the United States-owned
freighter City of Flint as she
wormed her way through the Brit
-blockaded North Sea toward a
German port.
The freighter was being conveyed
by German neutrality-suspicious.
both submarines and surface craft.
Aboard her, it was believed, were
the American crew of Al and the
prize crew put in command last
week when the German pocket bat
tleship Deutschland captured her.
If she gets through to a German
harbor, prize court will pass on
the question of whether she was a
contraband carrier and decide as to
disposition of ship and cargo.
Germans recognized the danger
involved in the precarious jop of
slipping past British warcraft. Bad
weather and low visibility, however,
were on their side.
Sailed Thursday.
The City of Flint sailed under
Soviet Russian orders Thursday
night to leave the Arctic port of
Murmansk, where the prize crew had
taken her because she was-as the
Germans put it-"unseaWorthy."
Specifically what progress the
freighter was making was not dis
closed here Neither her route nor
final destination was disclosed.
Earlier Germans had said she
would be taken to Hamburg, but
authorized sources were vague on
that point today.
Foreign Office spokesmen said that
such a question remained a naval
secret, and it was emphasized the
British Navy was undoubtedly most
interested in the ship. Her cargo
of tractors and other goods originally
were consigned to England.
obviously they (the British
would try everything and would
rather attempt to sink the prize
than let it remain in our hands,"
these sources declared.
Speculation on Arrival Date.
The information that all was well
aboard the City of Flint was said
by foreign Office circles to have been
communicated to Washington.
There was much speculation on
the date of the City of Flint's arrival
in Germany. At present, however,
nothing was known except that it
was possible sometime next week.
Official advices last night placed
the freighter somewhere along the
Norwegian coast. The prize crew
was expected TO steer the City of
Flint close to the Norwegian coast
as far as the Skagerrak, arm of the
North Sea.
(Reports from Norway indi-
Gated the City of Flint was being
sailed in Norwegian waters to
minimize the possibility of run
ming afoul of the British Navy.)
AS to the war on the western front,
the German high command report
ed somewhat livelier artillery &C
tivity'' between the Moselle River
and the Palatinate Forest. and said
a small enemy advance west of
Warndt had been repulsed,
Evening star., 1939-10-28
Dean Elmer L. Kayser,

Dean Elmer l.. kaySer, pro-
fessor of European history at
George Washington Univer-
sity, will be interviewed on
political, strategic and eco
nomic aspects of the Euro
pean war in a special broad
cast over Station WMAL today
from 8:15 to $3.50 pm.
The interview, to be con-
Quoted by William Coyle, radio
director of The Star, will be
based on data contained in the
8-page War Map Supplement
to be issued as a part of the
regular editions of The Star
next Monday, Dean Kayser will
participate in a further dis
cussion Of this subject tomor-
row at Z pm. over WMAL.
(Story on Page A-2.l'