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Evening star., 1940-01-14
Nozis Returned
To Liner Find
| Bomb Quickly
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated PreSs.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Jan. 13.-
How the crew Of the captured Ger.
man liner Dusseldorf tried to sink
her with time bomb while British
prize crew was aboard was told to-
day by an authoritative source.
The 4,930-ton prize of war, cap
tured of Chile December Is, arrived
here yesterday under British ma
tionality and renamed the Poland"
In honor of Comdr. John r. Poland
of H. M. s. Despatch, which seized
her.
This is the story related by the
informant: :.
At the time of the capture the
Nazi crew was transferred to the
Despatch and the prize crew put
aboard.
AS the Dusseldorf proceeded, the.
German captain was overheard to
remark in German to one of his
crew: They won't get far" ;.
A British officer reported to
Comdr. Poland who at once sus-,
pected a time bomb had been
planted.
Comdr. Poland ordered the Ger;
man crew back on board their ship
and told the men to find the bomb
or they would be left to blow up.
They found the bomb.
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Losses in War at Sea

I
The following box lists
| 18th week. from January 7 to January 49, Inclusive
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10000 have been assigned to street
cleaning, snow shoveling, road build
ing and other manual work, in
Guiding forestry and gardening
tasks. They are strictly separated
from non-Jews.
JeWesses, ousted from work earlier
in the Nazi regime, have been
pressed into work also. serving
chiefly as maids, farmerettes and as
textile workers.
Apparently eariy-morning raids
upon the Jews and their imprison-
ment in concentration camps no
longer occur wholesale.
1t has been pointed out that the
regime knows the status of every
Jew, has seized virtually all Jewish
wealth and has but one more in
terest therefore, namely, to get the
Jew out of the country.
Stern Treatment in Camps.
Jews who are delivered to con-
centration camps meet with stern
treatment, which is even more Sc
we're If the warden is particularly
anti-Semitic.
But no Jew likes to talk about his
experience in such a camp and gen.
orally speaking, the Jewish
Germans know little about the
status of the Jews since restrictive
measures no longer take the form of
DEGREES, but rather orders for which
the Gestapo (secret police holds
officers of the Jewish community re-
sponsible.
Each Jew therefore learns of new
measures by letter from the leaders
in his community.
Adolf Hitler in his Reichstag
speech last January 80 threatened:
To-day I will once more be a
prophet: If international fnanciers
in and outside of Europe should
succeed in plunging nations once
more into world war then the re-
suit will not be the bolshevization of
the earth and thus a victory of
Jewry but the annibilation of the
Jewish race in Europe"
Apparently his followers are TAX
ing those words rather literally so
far as conquered Poland is con-
cerned, for such details, as do leak
out, indicate short shrift is given
any Jew who runs afoul of Nazi or
derS.
Many Struggled to Russia.
Disease is a potent ally in the
elimination process, and wholesale
smuggling of Polish Jews from the
German-occupied portion Of Poland
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Action on Pay Proposals
OF Services Promised

Early action on proposals to in
crease pay of regulars" in the
Nations armed services and obtain
other benefits has been promised
by Chairman Sheppard of the SEN
ate Military Affairs Committee, ac-
cording to Leroy P. Chittenden, ma
tional educational director of the
Regular Veterans Association.
Mr.. Chittenden said Senator
Sheppard told him he was await
ing reports from the agencies in
volved before formulating any def
mite legislative plans.
J. Carl West, national service off,
Ger of the association, will assist
disabled regulars in pressing legiti-
mate claims, Mr.. Chittenden an
nounced. The organization main
tains an Office at Ills Fifteenth
street NV.
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to Russia further rids the German
conquerors of responsibility for many
Jews.
Polish Jews are being ousted rap
idly from areas annexed perma-
nently by the Reich while in the
so-called Governors Area wholesale
transportation is taking place to the
region around Lublin which evi-
IDENTIFY is being converted into a Jew
ish reservation.
Since the movement of several
thousand Jews from Vienna, Prague
and Maehrisch-O -Ostrau, however, ap-
parently no efforts are being made
to send others from greater Ger
many to the reservation.
In the Bohemia -Moravia protecto-
rate which was joined to Germany
on the dismemberment of the re-
public of Czecho-S -Slovakia, the Jew
ish community has been informed
that all Jews under 60 years of age
must leave before the end of May.
Seventy thousand Jews in all are
left there. Those left when the
deadline is reached face the threat
Of being imprisoned in concentra-
ton camps.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
II Ships Reported
Sunk During 18Th
Week Of Warfare
Brituin Is Main Loser
With II; 40 Persons
Killed or Drowned

BY the Associated Press.
The 10th week of sea warfare, like
the 18th, produced reports of II
ship sinkings and brought intense
German aerial raids on North Sea
commerce.
British again was the principal
loser with II ships; Germany lost
two and the Netherlands, Italy and
Norway one each. Total tonnage
lost was 64,830 and at least 40 per-
sons were killed or drowned.
Nazi planes, according to the Brit
ish version, accounted for four
small vessels while mines sank 10.
Germany said her planes sank IL
ships.
Toll Now 30S Ships.
A recapitulation for the war to
date showed 308 ships having an
aggregate tonnage of 1,O97 1897 sunk,
and 2,768 deaths.
Largest loss of the week ending
yesterday was the Dunbar Castle,
10,002 tons, a mine victim. Three
were killed and two reported missing.
The latest victim was the British
trawler Lucida, 251 tons, blown to
bits when she struck a mine Friday
off the northeast English coast.
Witnesses said her crew of - per-
ished
The 10,517-ton Danish tanker
Danmark was damaged by an unex-
planned explosion yesterday that
caused her screw to abandon ship.
No details were available.
France Building 126 Warships.
Other developments:
France announced that she had
1875 warships under construction and
that she had kept her sea lanes to
the colonies open officials said
the French had lost only II vessels
to date.
British warships took the 2,492,-
ton Russian freighter Selenga into
Hong Kong for contraband search
in the first action of its kind in
Chinese waters.
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Jews

Continued From First Page.)
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1000 Quontico Marines
Leave for War Games

BY the Associated Press.
More than 1000 marines are en-
route aboard battleships for two
months war games in the Carib-
bean, officials disclosed yesterday,
The force. from the Quantico
Va, base, sailed Thursday from Nor
folk, Va. Under command of Brig.
Gen. Holland M. Smith, the marines
Will engage at Culebra Island, east
OF Puerto Rico, in landing exercises
similar to those in which the fleet
took part last winter. Atlantic
squadron vessels will take the part
OF the main fleet, which is massed
in the Pacific this year.
The force includes the First Ma
rine Brigade of the Fleet Marine
Force and is made up of regiment
OF infantry, field artillery batta-
lion and auxiliary troops. The First
Marine Aircraft group, commanded
by 1t. Col Field Harris, is scheduled
to fly to the maneuvers scene later
this month. Maj. Gen. William
P. Upshur will be chief umpire of
the exercises,
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by noon or only second-rate goods
may be left.
Every German must have a clothes
card to obtain wearing apparel, but
Jews have been denied such cards
on the grounds that they have been
so well-to-do in the past they un-
doubtedly have reserves on which
to draw.
The Jews reply is that the seven
year-old Nazi regime marks period
in which their standard of living has
dropped continuously and restock-
ing of clothing became almost i'm
possible.
Canot Repair Clothes.
Those still possessing adequate
clothing say they will not be able to
keep it intact because they are not
able to buy thread or yarn ans they
do not know how their shoes can be
repaired once the soles are worn out.
Jews are required to remain in
doors after o'clock each night, hut
the hardship of this is less than it
might be since they are barred any,
way from the theater, concerts and
the opera.
However, many are now required
to stay in apartments which often
are crowded since the Jews are be-
coming more or less herded TO-
gether in smaller living space than
they formerly had.
just how many landlords have
availed themselves of the possibility
given under Nazi law of breaking
leases with Jews cannot be deter
mined. Often, however, court ver-
diets are published aiming to justify
action by this or that German land
lord in ousting Jewish tenants.
The Nazi idea is that any apart
ment house constitutes a miniature
community in which the Jew will
be disturbing factor.
Ghetto Idea Abandoned.
Originally it was intended to
establish virtual ghettos in all cities
where Jews still were left. But this
idea apparently has been abandoned
because the principal effort is in the
direction of Kidding Germany alto
gether of Jews.
Courts also have held that the
lease of non-Jew may be Cancelled
if he persists in inviting Jews to his
apartment, thereby giving offense to
non-Jewish co-tenants.
OF Berlin's $4,000 Jews, some
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Dinner Will Honor
Donald B. GiIIies

Donald B. Gillies, recently elected
president Of the American Institute
OF Mining and Metallurgical En-
gineers, will be honored by the
Washington branch of the organiza-
ton at a dinner at 7 pm. Thurs
day at the Shoreham Hotel.
Mr.. Gillies. who is vice president
Of the Republic Steel Corp, Cleve-
land, Ohio, holds the honorary de-
gree of doctor of engineering from
his alma mater, the Michigan COL
lege OF Mining and Technology.
He will take Office as head of the
A. I. M. E., along with the new di-
rectors, following the annual meet
ing Of the institute next month.
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road has not suspended work for a
single minute.

single minute.
"Fourthly. the same foreign agen-
cies, referring to the same mythical
sources unknown to anybody, al
lege that Russians lost Petsamo,'
and that Russians called Germans
to their assistance and that 20 or
40 or 140 German military instruc-
tors arrived in the U. S. S. R. for
reorganization of Soviet troops
I'VE find it necessary that this
extraordinary gossip exceeds in its
falsehood all other gossip by the
gentlemen of the foreign agencies.
Troops South of Petsamo.
Soviet troops, jointly with units
of the lst Finnish Peoples Corps,
which recently arrived at Petsamo,
not only occupy Petsamo, but have
advanced l30 kilometers south of
Petsamo.
"As to German military instruc-
tors who allegedly arrived in the
U. S. S. R. for reorganization of
Soviet troops we think embarrass-
ing even to deny this fantastic and
stupid prattle.
I'VE believe that only animal fear
before the prospect of a military bloc
between Germany ans the U. S.
S. R. could dictate to the gentlemen
from the French agency this stupid
and extraordinary lie.
I'VE realize that the foreign agen-
cies are authorized by their masters
to conduct propaganda against So
Wet troops and they conduct this
propaganda, heaping one false
fabrication upon another in order
to justify their existence.
But what is the value of propa-
ganda based not on facts, but on
deception?
Doesn't the propaganda of the
defenders of civilization consist in
systematic deception of public
opinion?
I'VE didn't think representatives
of the foreign press could sink so
low"
Evening star., 1940-01-14

N"Hy 5IIu8 BIcU 70 NUSSId.
Disease is a potent ally in the
elimination process, and wholesale
smuggling of Polish Jews from the
German-occupied portion of Poland
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Mrs. CIopper to Speak

Mrs. Raymond Clapper, secretary
treasurer Of the Montgomery Coun-
ty (MdJ Housing Authority, will
speak before the North Woodside-
Montgomery Hills Citizens Associa-
ton at pm. Friday in Montgom-
cry Hills Junior High School. A
business meeting will follow
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Wedding Ring Found
In Imported Hot Dog
Returned to Denmark
BY the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. ia
wedding ring, discovered in an
imported frankfurter, is en-
route to the rightful owner in
Denmark. thanks to Miss Eliza
bath Leaf, of the State Planters
Bank & Trust Co. Of Richmond.
After finding the ring, she
ascertained the brand of the
hot dog. and traced it through
a New York importer to a Dam
ish packer who had lost it two
years before.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-06
Government Employees
Exceed One Million

Washington, d. c. For the first
time in the country's history, the to-
tai of federal employees listed under
Civil Service has risen above the
million mark, exceeding alike the
World War mark of 917,960, and the
previous all-time "high" of 987,857
reached in n.December.
Employment in the executive branch
during the last half of June, totaled
1,011 ,066, net increase of 33,076, or
3.4 per cent over the May figure of
977,99O.
Almost 60 per cent of the increase
was in the War and Navy Depart
ments, the Panama Canal force and
the Civil Aeronautics Authority, agen-
cies characterized by the commission
as in "the forefront of the defense
program"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-06
WAR ORDERS HELP
PUT MEN TO WORK

Washington, d. C. (ILNS). - Con-
tinued stimulation of industry by war
work and additional gains in construc-
tion helped give jobs to 10000 more
workers in non-agricultural industries
between June Is and July Is, Secre-
tary of Labor Perkins reported
She estimated the number at work
as 35,600,000, about 100000 more
than in the same period last year.
The secretary said that private and
public construction had added $4,000
workers, a figure which was offset by
a similar decline in wholesale and re-
tail trade employment.
However, around $1,000 new jobs
were said to have been added in in
dustries aided directly or indirectly
by the defense program.
The number of workers employed
in arsenals and navy yards increased
about 1000. The total for all federal,
state and local governments increased
by 95,000
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-06
10000 Painters Strike
For 30 Hour Week

New York City (ILNs).-More than
10000 painters, members of the Broth
erhood of Painters, Decorators and
Paper Hangers of America, went on
strike August 26, tying up union paint
jobs in the boroughs of Manhattan,
Bronx and Richmond.
The strike was called after failure
of the union to reach an agreement
with the Association of Master Paint
ers and Decorators on the unions de-
mands for six-hour day and five
day week, an increase of 25 cents an
hour over the prevailing hourly rate
of $3.50, the ALLEGATION of so per cent
of all hiring to the union and elimi
nation Of "chiseling."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-06
Accent Pay Rate Set
For Leather Workers

Washington, D. C.-Col. Philip B.
Fleming, wage hour administrator,
issued an order calling for the pay
ment of minimum wage of 40 cents
per hour in the manufacture of
leather, effective September Is. The
minimum was recommended by an in
dustry committee composed equally of
representatives of the public, en-
ployes and employers under the chair
manship Of Monsignor Francis j.
Haas, dean of the School of Social
Science, Catholic University of Amer
lea, which investigated the economy
of the industry. 1t is estimated that
the minimum wage will increase the
hourly wage rates of more than
2,70O wage earners out of $4,000 en-
ployes in the industry.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-06
Hearing Date Set For Sept. q On
Recommendation To Increase Pay
OF R. r. Workers In West, South
All Interested Persons Will Have Opportunity to Appear
for or Against Recommendation at Public Meeting
Roads Unquestionaby Have Available Funds.

Washington, D. C. ILNS).-Hear-
ings on a minimum wage recommen-
dation, which would increase the
wages of more than $4,000 railroad
workers in the South and West, will
be held in Washington on September
%. The recommendation would pro-
vide 36 cents an hour for trunk line
railroads and 33 cents for short lines.
Announcing the hearing, Col. Philip
B. Fleming, wage-hour administrator,
made public the conflicting reports of
the majority and the minority of the
Railroad Carrier Industry Committee.
A majority of the committee, four
members representing the public and
four the employers, signed the recon-
mendation. A minority report made
by the four members representing
employees expressed the opinion that
the minimum should be 30 cents per
hour, at least for the Glass | rail
roads. However, the minority report
does not request that the recommen-
dation of the committee be rejected.
Decision Up to Administrator
At the public hearing September %
all interested persons will have an
opportunity to appear for or against
the recommendation. Thereafter, the
administrator may approve or disap-
prove the minimum wages recon-
mended.
1t is estimated that more than 10000
out of about 100000 persons en-
ployed in the industry, will receive
wage increases under the recommen-
dation.
The great majority of railroad en-
ployes are paid much more than 36
or 33 cents an hour. Those who re-
ceive less are mostly section hands
and other maintenance of way en-
ployes and unskilled labor. Railroads
in the Southeast and Southwest
where wage scales have been lower
than in other parts of the country
will be affected most by minimum
wage increase.
Carriers Plead Poverty
The public hearings of the Railroad
Carrier Industry Committee, upon
which both majority and minority re-
ports are based, continued longer
than those of any industry committee
so far appointed and produced the
most extensive record of evidence and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-06
Geneva Labor Office
Located In Montreal

Ottawa, Can.-Labor Minister Nor
man A. McLarty announced that the
international Labor Office, formerly
of Geneva, Switzerland, will be To-
Gated temporarily at McGill Univer-
sity in Montreal. Mr.. McLarty ex-
planned that the government hao
agreed to the transfer to Canada OF
the personnel necessary to transact
the work of the l. L. o., and that Nc.
Gill University had agreed to pro-
vide accommodations of the staff con
sisting of between 40 and SO persons
under Director John G. Winant, for.
mer Governor of New Hampshire
The Geneva Office became isolated BY
the European war.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-06
PHOTO-ENCRAVERS'
UNION NAMES NEXT
CONVENTION CITY
Rochester, N. Y, Chosen as Meeting
Place Next Year; Condemn Dictators.

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-Dele-
gates to the forty-frst annual con-
vention of the international Photo
Engravers' Union of North America
here ended their sessions by condemn
ing relationships and voting to meet
next year in Rochester, N. Y.
Edward ]. Volz, president; Henry
F. Schmal, secretary-treasurer, and
other officers were reelected.
Secretary Treasurer Schmal re-
ported that an income of $428,279.3O
was recorded by the international
union in the last fiscal year, the high
est in the organizations history ex-
cept for 1882 and 1888.
while we did not lessen our or
ganizing and other activities during
the year," he reported, "but rather
intensified them, the cost of admin
istration and organizing were not in
creased but decreased, indicating the
application of an economical policy in
carrying on our work"
Command of Seas Urged
In a speech before the convention,
Matthew Woll, vice-president of the
Photo -Engravers, advocated American
command of the Atlantic and Pacific
whether the British Isles continue
to resist or not
He said it was essentially impor-
tantn to the United States that the
sea command of the Atlantic shall not
pass into German hands and the Pa
cific into the hands of Japan.
With American control of both
oceans, Woll said that the United
States would be in a good position to
enact further social, economic and in
dustrial legislation as well as to safe
guard American institutions.
"Thus we will likewise protect the
American workers from an alien and
ruinous competition and avoid the
destruction of standards of work and
of working conditions through the
threatened ruthless competition of re-
pressed, regulated and slave labor
from abroad" he added.
Warns of Danger to Unions
While danger from fifth column ac-
tivities should be recognized, said
Woll, the danger of possible foreign
invasion should not blind this nation
to the possibility that there are some
who would use the present situation
to destroy the free trade unions.
President Volz urged support of the
national defense program. He ia.
vored conscription of industry anc
wealth if necessary, but as far as
possible suggested that compulsory
military service be avoided or re-
duced to a minimum except in event
of invasion or threatened invasion Of
America
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-06
Control OF Labor Movement
And Party Handed Over To
Native Nazis; Paper Seized
Seal of Death Dutch Trade UnOns Hertes Move for
Destruction of Workers Rights and Liberties-Bay-
Onets Have Taken Place of Free Trade UniOnsm.

London.-The workers of Holland
are beginning to feel the full impact
of the Nazi system.
When the Nazis established them
selves in Holland, they solemnly and
emphatically declared that the Dutch
people would be allowed to live their
own lives under their own institu-
tions.
Like every Nazi promise, it has
been broken.
The fourishing trade union move
ment Of Holland, with a membership
of over 100000, is now controlled by
an obscure Dutch Nazi named Wou-
denberg.
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arguments-some 1000 pages. More
than so witnesses appeared
In substance, the Representatives of
the carriers contended they are fnan-
cially unable to stand any minimum
wage increase, and if required to do
so would have to dismiss low-paid
workers, thereby increasing unem-
ployment. Upon the contrary, labor
union representatives insisted that the
railroads are able to pay higher wages
to low-bracket workers, and asked
that the minimum be 40 cents per
hour.
Labor Asks 4O-Cent Rate
The labor representative said that:
"The evidence before the committee,
properly weighed, fairly supports a
finding that employment in the in
dustry would not have been substan-
TALLY curtailed by the establishment
of Accent minimum. The evil
dence shows that the Class | rail-
roads at the present time, as group,
are in a better position financially
and economically than they have been
at any time since the depression ).
and the prospects for the continua-
tion and acceleration of their in
creased revenues and traffic are in
deed bright. Collectively and individ-
ually the roads unquestionably have
available funds with which to meet
the small added cost of Accent mini
mum, which except in few cases
would be scarcely felt"
The minority signers were: George
Wright, general president, Inter
national Brotherhood of Firemen and
Oilers, Round House and Railway
Shop Laborers; T. c. Carroll, vice.
president, Brotherhood of Mainte-
nance of Way Employees; H. A. Bacus,
research director, Brotherhood of Rail-
way and Steamship Clerks, Freight
Handlers, Express and Station En-
ployes; James Mcnamara, vice-presi-
dent, Hotel and Restaurant Employees
international Alliance.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-09-06
Union Leaders Replaced

Woudenberg is the brother of c.
Woudenberg, and secretary of the
Dutch Labor Party. He was taken
up by the Dutch Nazi Party because
Of his name In the years before the
war, the Dutch Nazis stopped to the
trick of announcing meetings at
which "Woudenberg" was to speak.
They hoped that an audience would
assemble in the belief they were go
ing to hear Woudenberg, the trusted
labor leader. The Nazi Woudenberg
formed his own National-Socialist
Continued on page twol
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denberg