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Evening star., 1940-06-15
Hull Pushes Probes
OF Consu|s Despite
Italian Protest
Ambassador Charges
Campaign Under Way
To Arouse Feeling
BY GARRETT d. HORNER.

Secretary of State Hull made il
clear today that this Government
will continue investigating reports
of subversive activities by foreign
agents in this country despite a
protest from the italian Ambassador
yesterday against what was termed
a campaign to stir up anti-Italian
feeling.
Mr.. Hull said he believed the Am
bassador, as we'll as nearly everyone
else, knows that the Government is
attempting to assemble the true
facts in regard to reports of trans
gressions of the diplomatic code by
Italians and other foreign repre-
sentatives.
The facts developed by the Gov
ernment will show whether or not
the reports of widespread anti
American activities are true, the
Secretary added.
German Statement Studied.
Asked about newspaper reports
quoting Baron Edgar Won Spiegel,
German Consul General at New
Orleans. as warning that Germany
would not forget" American aid to
the Allies, Mr.. Hull said attention
was being given to the matter. He
said there were conflicting reports
about what the German official &C
tually said. Baron Won Spiegel was
quoted today as denying he had
made the statement.
Each individual instance of ques-
tionable actions by foreign diplo-
matte representatives in this country
will be treated on its merits, Mr..
Hull said.
He declined to disclose how far
reaching the investigation under
way may be, or exactly what Gov
ernment agency is making the in
vestigation, indicating that various
departments are cooperating with
the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Envoy Denies Improper Activity.
Although the Italian Embassy
said Prince Ascanio Colonna, the
Ambassador, lodged a vigorous pro-
tesv' with Secretary Hull yesterday
against what was termed an anti
Italian campaign, Mr.. Hull appeared
to regard the Ambassador state
ment as more of a denial of i'm
proper activity by Italians than a
protest.
The Secretary said the Ambassa-
dor left with him a statement SINH
lar to one later made public by the
Embassy, which declared Italian
Consuls have always strictly linn
tied their activities to their legal
consular functions" and that
Italians in the United States have
kept themselves apart from so
called un-American activities"
In his protest. Prince Colonna OBJ
jected specifically to press reports
that New York police had been or
dered to intensity their vigilance
after reports that Italian consuls
were acting under instructions to
further the cause of Fascism in this
country.
The Embassy made it clear the
Ambassador confined his remarks to
the matter referred to in the subse-
quent statement, thus excluding any
mention of President Roosevelt's
speech at Charlottes Vile in which
the Chief Executive said of Italy's
entry into the war that "the hand
that held the dagger has struck it
into the back of its neighbor."
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Roosevelt Starts Cruise
Down Potomac Todav

President Roosevelt planned to
leave the White House late today
for an overnight cruise down the
Potomac River.
Invited to be his guests on the
presidential yacht Potomac were
Mr.. and Mrs. Averell Hartman.
Secretary of Commerce Hopkins and
Capt. Rene de Chambrun, Assistant
Military Attache st the French EN-
bassy.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
French Naval Force
Beaten Off From
Genoa, Rome Claims
Destroyer Declared Sunk;
Planes Said to Have
Dropped Peace Leaflets
Ry the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
ROME, June l5.--An italian tor
pedo boat and the coastal batteries
OF. Genoa were reported today to
have driven off a French naval
squadron which bombarded the
Ligurian Riviera at dawn last Thurs
day. One French destroyer was re-
ported torpedoed and sunk and an
other damaged
The Rome radio said today three
persons were killed and IL wounded
in the Genoa engagement and that
6 persons were killed and Is
wounded in an air raid on Savona at
an undisclosed time. Savona is near
Genoa on the coast.
Rome authorities also said air.
planes flew over Rome early yester-
day and dropped leaflets indicating
the planes were French. The leaf
lets called on the Italians to quit
the war. One woman was killed by
anti-aircraft fire directed at the
plane.
Account by Stefani.
A belated account of the Genoa
fight was given today by Stefani,
official Italian news agency.
At the same time, the italian high
command reported the occupation
of some localities in France along
the Alpine frontier by Italian troops
who overcame enemy attempts to
hinder our action" Some prisoners
were reported captured
In the air. the high command
said. bombers attacking in waves
scored direct hits on the British
air and naval base at Alden. near
italian East Africa, while other
Italian bombers successfully as
saulted the military works of Malta,
British Mediterranean base.
The command also said an en-
emy submarine was sunk by italian
seaplanes.
Coast Batteries Open Fire.
The Stefani account said the
French naval group turned around
and steamed out to sea when coast
batteries opened fire in support of
the torpedo boat.
The news agency said the torpedo
boat, described as the 17-year-old
(See ROME, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1940-06-15
u. ). Legation Courier
Killed in Mysterious
Finnish Air Blast
Sabotage Clues Sought;
Messages From Berlin
May Have Been Aboard
BY the Associated Press


HELSINKI, June 15.-Henry w.
Anthiel, jr, of Trenton. N. j., at
tached to the American Legation in
Helsinki, was killed in the mys-
terious explosion of a Finnish air
liner yesterday in which nine other
persons lost their lives.
Spokesman said Mr.. Anthiel was
on courier service" but had no au-
thority to say whether he was acting
as courier carrying any special
documents from Berlin. His identity
was not made public until today.
The governments of Finland and
Estonia began an investigation to
determine whether sabotage was in
volved in the loss of the plane, bound
from Tallinn. Estonia, to Helsinki
Gunnar Stahl, director of the Fin
nlsh-Aero- Transport. said the plane
was carrying $50 pounds of "diplo-
matte matter"
Two French diplomats whose
names could not be learned were
said to have been aboard.
A private source expressed belief
the diplomatic matter included i'm
portant material from Berlin in
tended for shipment to America
through the Finnish port of Petsamo.
Witnesses on the mainland said
the plane exploded with terrific
force and then plunged into the
Gulf of Finland. Airline officials
said there was no indication of
trouble in the planes regular radio
contacts with Finland and that it
disappeared so quickly there had
been no time to send an sos.
In addition to the two Frenchmen
and the American, the other pas
sengers were said to include two
Germans, two Swedes and an
Estonian. Their bodies, in addition
to those of the two Finnish crew.
men, were recovered from amidst
Wreckage floating on the water.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
BY the Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA, June 15.-Can-
didates seeking the Republican
presidential nomination at the ma
tional convention June "a have re-
served hotel space here ranging
from a double room for Utilities
Executive Wendell L. Willkie to 102
rooms for Senator Robert A. Taft
of Ohio.
Taft hackers, exclusive of Ohios
voting delegates, have accommoda-
.tions in at least six hotels and have
already opened headquarters in one.
Next to Senator Taft on the room
reservation roster comes Thomas E.
Dewey of New York with 78 in two
hotels. Frank E. Gannett, New York
State publisher, has rented the Har-
ward Club In addition to % hotel
rooms. Michigans Senator Arthur
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Anthiel in Service 6 Years;
Was With BuIIitt in Russia
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
TRENTON, N. j., June 15.-
Henry w. Anthiel, jr., 27, killed in
a Finnish airliner explosion, had
been in the United States diplo-
matte service since 1884 when he
was one of "a persons selected to
accompany William C. Bullitt, the
United States first Ambassador to
the Soviet Union, to Moscow.
When the Russo Finnish war
broke out Mr.. Anthiel was trans
terred from his clerical post in
Moscow to the American Legation
at Helsinki.
Son of a Trenton shoe merchant,
Mr.. Anthiel was a graduate of Tren-
ton High School and attended Rut-
gers University.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Sweeping UItimotums
Presented by Soviet

MOSCOW, June IS (P,.-Sweep-
ing ultimatums from Soviet Russia.
including the custer of the existing
Lithuanian government and free
passage into that country of Soviet
troops, were accepted today by
Llthuania, it was officially an
nounced here.
Llthuania was declared to have
given in one hour ahead of the
deadline set by Moscow.
An official communique distrib-
uted by Tass, the Russian news
agency, accused the Lithuanian gov
ernment Of having prepared to at
tack the Soviet garrison stationed
IN that country, of having "rudelv
violated" its mutual assistance pact
with Russia and of having entered
with Latvia and Estonia into a
military alliance directed against
tee Soviet Union"
Consent to 3 Demands.
The communique said Juozas Urb-
syS, Lithuanian Foreign Minister who
has been in Moscow for several davs.
gave the consent of the Lithuanian
government to three Soviet de-
mands:
l. That the Lithuanian Minister
Of Internal Affairs and the head OF
the political police department be
tried as those directly guilty Of
provocative actions against Soviet
garrisons in Lithuania.
2. That Lithuania form immedi-
ately a new government which
would be capable and ready to real
ize honestly the Soviet Lithuanian
mutual aid pact agreed upon last
fall and to hold in leash the enemies
of this pact.
s. That Lithuania guarantee fully
the free passage of Lithuanian ter
ritory of Soviet troops in numbers
sufficient to realize the pact.
The Lithuanians had until 10
am. to reply and her decision was
communicated to Premier Foreign
Commissar Vyacheslaff Molotof at
9 am.
Russian Allegations.
Llthuanlas consent to the Soviet
demands was given after Molotoff
had presented the Lithuania gov
ernment the following facts, which
the Russian government said it con-
sldered had been established:
l. That Lithuanian authorities
kidnapped number of Red Army
men garrisoned in Lithuania and
tortured them in order to obtain
military secrets.
2. That one army man who was
kidnapped was "murdered'
3. That these actions were aimed
at making impossible the presence
of Soviet troops in Lithuanian ter
ritory and that Lithuanian citizens
who were hired to help build bar
racks for the Russian troops were
sent to concentration camps.
Russia also charged that soon after
signing the mutual aid pact with the
Soviets, Lithuania entered into a
military alliance with Latvia and
Estonia which was directed against
Russia.
The Russian charges said the gen.
eral staffs of the three small Baltic
countries contacted each other
secretly and had published a maga-
zine in English. French and German.
The Tass communique said these
facts were stated to prove that
Lithuania had not adhered to the
pact despite the favorable pro-
Lithuanian Soviet policy.
The government of Premier An
tanas Merkys of Lithuania, was re-
ported to have resigned last night.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Berlin Spokesman
Sees No Occasion
Now to Stop War
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June 15.-Asked
about the possibilities of a
French capitulation, an author
lied spokesman said today that
France and England wanted
this war and at present there is
no occasion to stop it,
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Vargas Pledges
brazi|'sLoya|ty
To u. ). Stand
Talk Not Pro-Fuscist,
Nations President
Tells Roosevelt
BULLETIN.

The French and British
Ambassadors in the United
States conferred for more
than an hour with President
Roosevelt at the White House
today, but declined on leaving
to disclose the precise nature
of their visit. Both Lord Lo-
THAN and Count de St. Quen-
tin, British and French en-
voys, respectively, said con-
versations had been general,
with no decisions reached.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Earl of Coventry Missinq

LONDON, June Is LP).-The Earl
og Coventry, 80, a lieutenant in the
Worcestershire Regiment, was listed
as missing today. The tenth earl
of the line, he was well-known
huntsman. His heir is Viscount
Deerhurst, 6, his only son.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Ship Reported Sinking
With "a Men Aboard
By the Associated press

By the Associated Press.
ASTORIA, Greg. June IS The
lumber schooner Claremont was re-
ported sinking today 8 miles off
Willapa Harbor, Wash, with IA men
still aboard.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Senate Finance Unit
Votes 10 Increase
Amusement Tax
Committee Eliminates
Tobacco Excise Levy
Approved by House
BULLETIN.

The Senate Finance Commit
tee unanimously approved today
s1,007 .O00. 900 emergency tax bill
designed to finance the S5,000.-
100000 defense program over the
next five years.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Soviets March In
After lithuuniu
Accepts Demands

By the Associated Press
BERLIN, June 15-Red Army
troops began to enter Lithuania this
afternoon after that country had ac-
copied a Soviet Russian ultimatum
demanding permission to reinforce
Russian garrisons on Lithuanian
soil.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Vital Decisions Taken

LONDON, June Is (P.-Allied
armies were reported hghting the
Nazi onrush in France today with
undiminished vigor while British
news agency declared that the next
"a hours were expected to disclose
strategic decisions of great mo-
ment" taken by the British and
French Army commands.
There we're no indications what
the decisions we're.
An authoritative British source
said the French government was in
transit" and it labeled untrue" a
story that the French cabinet would
make separate peace tonight. The
reports we're att. yed to German
sources.
This informed source said the
movement of the French govern
ment had interrupted communica-
tions.
Fighting Is Violent.
The French high command COM
munique as broadcast by the French
radio and picked up here said the
fighting was violent in the area
west of Louviers, city so miles
southeast of the German-occupied
port of LIE Havre.
Below Paris, the communique said,
"the army has been carrying out all
movements according to the order
of the command"
In the Champagne region east of
Paris German pressure was in
creased and violent fighting is under
way. The opposing armies have
contested that sector bitterly while
the German were taking Paris in
the great battle of France.
In the Alsace sector, the COM
munique added, the Nazis heavily
bombarded the front as we'll as
communication lines.
The German armies have reached
points 20 miles south of Paris both
to the east and west of the Nazi-
occupied capital. Reuters British
news agency reported from Tours.
In their advance west of Paris, the
dispatch reported, the Nazi forces
were driving in the direction of
Chartres, famous cathedral city IS
miles southwest of the capital and
only 30 miles northeast of Tours on
(see LONDON, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1940-06-15
vdun Also 7aen> as Su New Strategic Move by Allies Forecast
French Retreating Still Further
Onslaught ofReich Leqions
War Bulletin

LONDON (P.--The resigna-
ton of members of the for
mer Chamberlain government,
who are blamed for the
present reverses," will be
asked by Comdr. Locker
Lampson, Conservative MEM
ber of Parliament, Tuesday in
the House of Commons.
Evening star., 1940-06-15
Weather Forecast

Local showers and thunderstorms this
afternoon and tonight; tomorrow gen.
orally fair; slightly cooler at night. Tenn
peratures today-Highest, SO, at PM;
lowest, 70, at am
From the United States Weather Bureau report.
Full details on Page AZ.
Evening star., 1940-06-15

(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1940-06-15

(See ROME, Page A-4.)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-17
SEW
BY Ruth Wyeth Spears oR

The orange crates for the tables
are lined with green oil cloth and
each wears a green and white
checked skirt; and a top cover
frilled in white. The lamps are
white and the shades are old ones
covered with a plain ruff1e of
white held in around the top with
a band and bow of green cut
from the check material.
NOTE: Directions for making
lamp shades and bedspread are in
Book No. l; complete alphabet for
rnonograms in Book Q; streamlin-
ing old style bed in Book 8; and
Book 4 contains 80 pages of origi-
nal homemaking ideas. Books are
10 cents each. With each order
for four books will be sent FREE
a set of three Early American
Quilt Block patterns, including the
Ann Rutledge, which Mrs. Spears
sketched from the original in the
Rutledge Tavern at New Salem,
Illinois. Send order to:
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-17

unemployed shortstops be sent to a
Federal Shortstop Camp.
Jim has announced that his name
will positively 60 before the Demo-
cratic convention as candidate for
the presidency. He would have two
strikes on all the other candidates
if he could bring the Yanks into the
convention hall.
What chance would candidate
depending wholly on voice, pro-
gram and record have against one
who could face the convention with
the Number One ball club, a host Of
loyal rooters and a new type Of
windup?
We can even see Jim In the White
House, getting the peoples minds
back to baseball and away from
slumps, economic experiments and
programs to remodel society. We
can see him with Bill Dickey replace
ing Secretary Ickes, Frank Crosetti
on Harry Hopkins job and Charlie
Ruffing playing Madam Perkins old
position.
Jim, as a real baseball man,
would have a deep regard for the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-17

IN THIS column we have shown
4 how to make useful, attractive
things out of everything most
from spools to tin cans, but sew
eral readers have reminded me
lately that I have neglected or
ange crates. Here is a pair Of
tables to match a smart new bed
spread. aa.
The spread is made Of green
and white checked gingham
trimmed in bands, monogram and
frills of white muslin. The bed
is an old iron one that has been
cut down and then padded and
covered with the Bingham (de-
tailed directions are in Book 81.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-17
JIM FARLEY AND BASEBALL

JIM FARLEY AND BASEBALL
I'm FARLEY, chairman Of the
- Democratic national committee
and postmaster general, is reported
among others interested in an at
tempt to buy the New York Yanks.
Jim is reported in some quarters as
declining to comment and in others
as denying the story, but we can
all understand how, after the last
seven years, it would seem to him
to be out where it wasn't necessary
to depend on rumor to find who was
pitching.
Jim was q baseball player in his
youth back in Haverstraw, N. T.,
and all his experience since must
have convinced him more than once
that one inning in the diamond is
more refreshing than decades in pol
itics.
For one thing the rules remain
the same. Nobody thinks it would
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-17
Something

Two sailors were shipwrecked.
'Say, Bill" said one Of them,
"can you pray?"
''No," said the other.
''Well, can you sing a hymnf"
''No."
The first sailor thought hard for
a moment.
"Well," he said ut length, "we'd
better do something religious. Let's
have Q collection"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-17
HOW HE DID IT

"Yuh say that you got the same
for your old broken down car that
Bill got for his new 0ne?"
eyes! Yuh see Bills wife rum his
car into q ditch yestiddy and we both
sold ans ears to the Junk man."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-17

Immortal Bam-
bino, the former
Yank star, and
would perhaps
get the Babe on
the bench of the
Supreme court.
He would see
that the NLRB
got at least
some pitchers
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-17
DEDUCTION

CuStOmer-Sir yOu told me that
this tire was guaranteed to 90 10,00o
miles. / have only gotten 9,100 miles
out Of Il and look ut IL.
SaIesman--Well my dear sir you
forget that that tire Travelled ], 400
miles coming here from the factory.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-17

be better If the
player got four
strikes instead
of three, there
are no sugges-
tons that three
balls should en-
title a player to
walk, and mo-
where is it pro-
posed that all
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-17

with a change of pace. And he would
stop anybody in the administration
from using the "bean ball' DELHI
erately.
He might retain the fireside chat
idea, but if so he would include the
baseball scores and a short talk on
the league situation.
And-whO can tell?-he might ar
range to have Joe DiMaggio write
''My Day."
CAMPAIGN YEAR
Last night I heard upon the air
A candidate who wasn't there;
He wasn't there again today
Iwish that he would 60 away.
Advance models of the new spring
and summer hats for women are
here. Don't say you weren't
warned!
The attitude of Europe is, "Of
course we want peace, but some
body has got to suffer for it."
Police commissioner valentine or
New York urges his traffic police
men to be more polite to motorists.
He says the days when they could
bark, "Hey: Where's the fire?" are
over. Well, this department thinks
he is wrong. Motorists have be-
come accustomed to the rough ap-
proach. They have even perfected
their answers. There is certain
excitement in wondering how tough
a cop will be. The day when a
motorcycle cop says sweetly, "Par-
don me, but would you mind pull
ing over to the curb? I have an
idea you have broken the speed reg
ulations, sir" we will get even. We
will stop speeding. So therel
Washington is said to be con-
sidering return to the gold
standard. There comes a time
when the business Of using it
only for the purpose of decorat-
ing hole in the ground becomes
at least monotonous.
The revolt is being led by the
Broadway Association Of New York,
which asks the city to ban radios
in cabs this summer in New York
on the ground there are squeaks
enough in any cab.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-05-17
STREET SCENE

Two fellows were all over the gut
ter in a terrific fist fight. They
rolled and struggled and twisted,
fighting with fists, feet, arms, legs
and even teeth.
whats all the row?" asked .
bystander.
They're protecting each other"
replied the cop, constant Euro
pean war news reader.
.
There was this about the last war:
you could at least tell what nations
were NOT in It.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-08-16

him out ard get him out of your life
You are much too young to be worry
ing yourself to death about someone
who apparently doesn't care.
L L. p Recently I've become very
miserable and worried, I've been con-
templating moving away from my
mother. Give me the best advice
whereby, 1 will be the happiest.
Ans: Living with your mother has it
advantages and disadvantages. Reason
them all out before you leave. Yol
don't have the liberty to come and e
as you please-but you do have a con
Portable home and nothing to worry
about. Whether it is best for you Oh
not-I see you making a change thi
winter. Good luck to you.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-08-16

annual sermon preached by Gener
President E. F. Young on September
1910 at Blue Chapel Methodist Churc
of which Rev Harry Holston is pastor
at 500 pm The following lodges ar,
invited: Nos 354 Ind Sc, Rev. ].
GRACE president; and several cthe
lodges. Dinner will be served at o.
and there we'll be refreshments on tn,
grounds Come one, come all and en-
joy yourselves. Location mile ca
of Scooba on old highway No. As.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1940-08-16
NOTICE
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO H. B. A.
PRESIDENTS

All presidents sending any money to
the office for members who failed to
pay In the boards or Convention must
fill out an application blank for re-
newal. Hereafter, we will be compelled
tn charge each president up with the
postage when we have to return these
blanks to you to be filled out. We are
paying out too much unnecessary
money returning blanks to presidents
to be filled out. From now on. they
will be returned at your exense.