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The Nome nugget., 1940-11-06
Greeks Capture Italian Key Supply Base Karitza
Wendell Willkie Comedies Defeat In
 Congrat1latory Message to President

UNDATED, Nov. 6 (P)-Roose velt and Willkie exchange d per sonal good wishes as the election swept by in which the President smashed the third term tradition and extended into all but nine states.
 .Willkie's states were: Colorado Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Maine Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Vermont with 63 el- ectoral votes. The Roosevelt stat s have 468 electoral votes.
The Nome nugget., 1940-11-06

tack may be expected at any mo ment. probably one on Kalamas River on the Ioannina front in northwest Greece.
 British RAF Warplanes bomb ed the Naples area and southern Italy last night. The Fascist com mand disclosed that 14 were kill ed and 10 wounded in the third night raid on Naples in less than a week.
 Other RAF bomberS struck punishing blows on the big Ger man naval base at Emden, the London air ministry reported, starting 30 spectacular fires ann ong the petroleum tanks there, and heavily bombing the ship yards at Bremerhaven and Ere men.
 London itself underwent the longest night air raid alarm of the war as Hone wolf Nazi fly . CTS droned overhead til dusk yes tarday until the all clear signal sounded at 8:3O am. in a fore taste of what may be in store fer London in the long winter nights ahead. Next weeks Eng fish night are heightened to ap proximately IA hours.
The Nome nugget., 1940-11-06
Possible Successor

PITTSBURG, Nov 6 l4) - Philip Murray, vice president of the CIO one of the labor leaders mentioned as a possible Lewis successor sad It is a happy note in history, making for vic tory of labors friend, MT. Roose velt." Murray had endorsed Roosevelt but declined to make a statement regarding Lewis.
The Nome nugget., 1940-11-06

NEW YORK, Nov. 5 P - Bruce Barton. Repubs.can candi date to the Senate conceded de feat by incumbent James Mead at 1915 pm. PSF.
The Nome nugget., 1940-11-06
Retires at 1O:3O pm. PSF

NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (P)-Will kie retired at 10:3O PSF after an nouncing that he would have no further statement on the election until he awakened.
The Nome nugget., 1940-11-06

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 5 tP)- With one4ifth of votes counted Roosevelt led in Willkie's home state and 811 precincts gave Roosevelt 275,235 votes to Will kie's 258,318.
The Nome nugget., 1940-11-06

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5 (P) . 173 precincts showed 665,8l8 votes for Roosevelt and 60,783 for Willkie.
The Nome nugget., 1940-11-06
McNary Comedies Election To Wallace--Bruce Barton Defeated
 Sen. Key Pullman Is Reelected

SALEM, Oregon, Nog. ,. 10.55 pm. (Hol -McNary conced d de- feat at 10:40 pm, PSF.
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Sen. Key Pittman Reelected

RENO N0V. 6 T4' = Senator Key Pittman. chairman of the foreign relations committee was rec. .ccted by a plurality of about 60l0 over Republican Samuel Platt, Platts campaign managers conceded.
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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-01-12
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come around to agreeing that
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MURPHY CALLS ANIL
SESHTISM SMOKE SCREEN

Addressing the Palestine CO..
ference q The Challenge q II
tolerance Murphy declared tie
Jews were serving ro- merely
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
War Costs Britain
Daily,
Treasury Head Says
Increase Is Laid to New,
Expensive Arms; Plane
Price J Times Higher
By the Associated Press.


GLASGOW, Scotland, Nov. 25.-
Describing this as the most costly
war the world ever has known, Sir
KisgSley Wood, chancellor of the
exchequer, said today that Britain S
average daily war expenditures had
risen from f5300,000 1921 200 ,00O)
for the first year to f9,100, 900 $685.
10000 for the first II days of the
second year.
Lord Lothian. British Ambas-
sador to Washington, declared
Saturday on his return from Eng
land that Britain was beginning
to come to the end of her financial
resources" and that her finance
problem was becoming urgent"
British authorities hurriedly
added that Lothian referred only
to dollar resources and not re-
sources in generally
Sir Kingsley, speaking at the
opening of War Weapons Week in
Glasgow, said the rise in expendi-
lures was cause for qualification
provided always that the increase
means output and not merely sense
less increases in prices or wages or
wasteful use Of resources"
The chancellor explained that new
and expensive weapons had resulted
in the big increase of war costs.
AN airplane costs something like
seven times as much as it did be-
tween 1914 and 1913" he said.
Referring to losses suffered by
the italian air forces in the battle
OF Britain, Sir Kingsley asserted
that IAN inferior airplane, as the
Italians are discovering to their cost,
is largely money thrown away"
Pointing out that taxation in
Britain already has reached very
considerable proportions" Sir Kings
ley said the gap between income and
expenditure must be bridged by the
people Saving every pound and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
Wilbur Duane Shaw Dies;
Was j. 5. H. A. Attorney

Wilbur Duane Shaw, So, United
States Housing Administration at
torney, Of 1854 Kanawha street NV,
died of o heart attack last night
on q railroad train near Edgewood,
Md. He was going North on busi-
ness. The body was removed from
the train at Wilmington, Del.
A native of Bangor, Me-, Mr..
Shaw was a graduate of the Uni
versity of Minnesota. He practiced
law in Minneapolis for a number of
years before coming to Washington
about seven years ago. His wife,
Mrs. Marion Wetherby Shaw, died
two years ago. He leaves two sons.
Robert w. and John P. Shaw, and
a daughter, Miss Janet L. Shaw, all
of Washington. and another daugh-
ter. Mrs. Harrison Randolph Of
Minneapolis.
The funeral will be held Wednes-
day afternoon In Ainneapolis
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25

b the Associated Press
BERLIN, Nov. 25.-Lt. Gen. Karl
Bodenschatz, representative of Air
Marshal Hermann Goering, took
foreign correspondents and military
observers today on tour of rail-
road stations which the British
claimed to have damaged by bombs.
The railroad yards to which he
conducted the foreigners, including
United States Army attaches, all
appeared to be busy and unframed.
Prior to the tour, DR.. Otto Diet
rich, Chancellor Hitler's press chief
denounced the British press policy
as ''untruthful." With a hint to-
ward the United States, he said
such dying reports had an inf1u-
ence on the politics of other coun-
tries.
A communique of the high COM
mand, meanwhile. said, THE re-
port of the British Ministry of In
formation that British planes
bombed Berlin railway stations on
the night of November 1924 is false.
Not a single enemy plane crossed
Berlin that night"
Taken by motorcars to the Pulitz-
strasse station and freight yard,
which Reuters British news agen-
Cyl said had been bombed, the cor
respondents looked down from a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
U. S. Army Aides Tour Berlin
To See British Claims Disproved

bridge and found the yard appar-
emily unchanged. No bomb craters
were visible and, as far as they
could ascertain, the nearby harbor
was operating as usual.
Next at the Lehrter freight sta
ton, where the British claimed to
have started 10 big fires, the yard
was busy and no Quilted walls or
charred buildings appeared. Ad-
joining blocks of apartment houses
showed no signs of even a bomb
splinter scratch. Workers at the
railroad yard were unloading hun
dreds of cars of iron girders and
bars and heaps of cabbage.
At the Potsdamer main station
and its huge freight station, where
the British claimed to have dropped
1000 incendiary bombs and made
direct hits, the same sort Of scene
was revealed.
Gen. Bodenschatz told the military
attaches and correspondents that
anyone wishing to do so might go
through any station or storehouse
for further scrutiny.
Turning to American newsmen, he
said he wished relatives in America
to know the truth about air attacks
on Berlin. He said he had brother
in Jersey City, N. j., and a sister
living in Louisville, KY.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
British Ship She||ed
By Sea Raider Near
Neutrality Zone
Attucker Is Believed
Pocket BottIeship or
Armed Nozi Freighter
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-Somewhere
IT, West Indian waters a belligerent
raider cruised today after bringing
the war at sea to the outskirts of
the pan-American neutrality zone.
At a point about 500 miles north
east of Puerto Rico, the raider in
vaded a crossroads of Great Britain's
sea lanes yesterday and shelled the
9,430-ton British freighter Port
Hobart.
The attack was made about rs
miles outside the neutrality belt at
q point where British ships from
South America converge with those
from the Panama Canal.
CA German high command COM
munique today said a Nazi surface
raider operating overseas" had
sunk 95 900 tons of British ship
ping. The communique did not
designate the scenes of opera
tions, nor did it give any dates.
Two brief messages from the at
tackled ship, picked up here by
Mackay Radio Is minutes apart, said
first the Port Hobart had sighted "a
suspicious vessel" and then that she
was being shelled by raider"
The fate of the freighter and
the identity OF its attacker was then
blanketed in silence.
Shipping circles advanced the
theory that the attacker might be
one of Germany's two known pocket
battleships or one of a dozen fast
new Nazi freighters believed to have
been armed and dispatched into
the Atlantic to prey on British ship
.ping.
Presence of at least one other
enemy raider operating in the At
lantic was indicated yesterday, when
two vessels reported they had been
torpedoed and a third radioed she
had sighted "a suspicious vessel 500
miles west of Ireland.
The Port Hobart attack marked
the first appearance of a surface
raider since November S, when a
German warship of the Admiral
Graf Spec class leisurely attacked
38-ship convoy midway between
Newfoundland and Ireland.
Several hours before the Port
F1obart's appeal, Mackay intercepted
ID call for help from the Swedish
freighter Anten.
The Anten was crippled Satur-
DAY by submarine after picking up
survivors in an area of the new
'graveyard of the Atlantic" off the
Irish coast in which two British
steamers had been torpedoed earlier.
Unknown Vessel Torpedoed.
The Swedish ship reported it was
Drifting due east and in need of
compass bearings and assistance"
Another vessel, which Mackay said
Identified herself by the call letters
CLEO, messaged that an "un-
known vessel" had been torpedoed
10 miles of Inishtrahull," the
horthernmost tip of Ireland.
The position given indicated an
unusually daring attack within ready
range of naval shore patrol vessels.
Most submarines have piled much
'arther from land.
The call concerning the "suspi-
kious vessel" came from the 4,718-
on British freignter Trehata. No
(urther word was heard from the
rrehata.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25

airy and economic alliance with the
customary ceremony in Berlin yes
|erday.
Premier Bella Tuka signed for the
o-month-old republic and pledged
he blood of Slovakias sons" in up
holding the pact, which requires the
pation to come to the aid Of Ger
many, Italy and Japan If they are
attacked by some other power not
low at war.
Metaxas Is Quoted.
Deutsche Diplomatisch-Pol itische
uoted Metaxas as saying that he
vas fighting for all the Balkans and
declared the statement was "extraor-
Linarily risky and dangerous"
Europe today stands against
England" Korrespondenz said.
whoever in the face OF conse-
|uences wishes to stand outside (of
he German sphere) and sacrifice the
kehare of his own people should
lot be surprised if the changing
rider OF the DAY brings rum 10 tne
Inc at fault"
Germany has maintained diplo-
natic relations with Greece through
Tut the Greek italian conflict.
In Rome, Virginia Gayda, au-
horitative Fascist editor, limited
yesterday at new military offensive
a Southeastern Europe. Observers
here took his words to indicate the
possibility of a showdown demand
N Turkey, backed by Rumanian
German and Bulgarian armies.
Turkey and Greece are the only
Southeastern countries remaining
outside the axis orbit.
The military attache of the Ger
nan Embassy in Istanbul, mean
rhile. left for Berlin by plane anc
vas reported to be carrying conf
entail memoranda on the results
+ a conference between Ambassa'
or Franz Won Papen and the Turk
sh Foreign Minister.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
Baltimore Garbage Strike
Ends With Scent Raise
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 25.-A general
strike of Baltimore garbage and
trash collectors ended in compro-
mise yesterday and trucks began
moving today to gather up piles Of
refuse accommodating since Thanks
giving Day.
City officials announced after =
two-hour conference with Mayor
Howard w. jackson that fve-cent
per hour wage increases would be
granted laborers and truck drivers.
Ten-cent increases had been asked.
The new hourly wage of laborers Is
so cents, and for truckmen IS cents.
A 44-hour week also was agreed on.
Approximately LIPS city employees
walked out in the four-day strike,
paralyzing all work Of the Bureau
Of Street Cleaning, which included
trash and garbage collection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25

Blk thousand men and women
baraded to open a sports festival in
Frunze, Russia, and q mass para
khuts descent closed 1t.
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Axis

Continued From First Page0
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
bulgarian Revisionists
Warmed by Yugoslovs

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Nov. Is
R.-The Yugoslav press last
light warned Bulgarian revisionists
(gainst engaging. in adventures
lined at annexing territory In
bouthern Yugoslavia and the indie
PENDENT paper Politika declared
countless graves mark only too
Hearty in the Balkans what is Serb
md what is Bulgarian"
The semi-offlcial newspaper Vreme
ccused Peter Doumanoh, who
faised Bulgarian claims of Mace
lonia during debate in the Bull
karian Parliament, of being an
fagent provocateur who sought to
mbroil Yugoslavia with Germany
md Italy"
"Doumanoff must know once and
Tor all that Yugoslavia is no house
bf cards and the united and pacific
Hugoslav people have strong muscles
Ind hard fists with which provoca-
eurs must reckon well"
Poltika declared Doumanoff's re-
marks and other utterances Of Bull
karian extremists could not har-
homie with the Yugoslav-Bul-
harlan pact of eternal friendship.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
Release of Americans
At Hanoi Expected
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Nov. 25.-American Vice.
Consul Robert w. Rinden and Mel
vim Jacoby, United Press CORE
spondent, still were being held by
French authorities in Hanoi, French
Indo- China, after their arrest in
Haiphong last week by Japanese
sentrieS who accused them of taking
pictures, but Yakichiro Suma,
Foreign Office spokesman, said to-
day local settlement of the Incl
dent was expected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
Roosevelt May Not Attend
Next Gridiron Dinner

By the Associated Press.
The White House said today that
President Roosevelt might not at
tend the Gridiron dinner, semi-an-
nual newspapermen's frolic, sched-
uled for December IA here.
Mr.. Roosevelt has been guest at
all previous Gridiron dinners since
he took Office in March, 1888.
Stephen Early, White House press
secretary, said the Gridiron Club
had issued its customary invitation
to the President this time, but "the
President told them there we're three
things he had in mind-if any of
the three things developed he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-25
Justice Department
Starts Nationwide
Food Price Inquiry
Exhaustive Investigation
Seeks to Aid Consumers
And Also Formers

A Nationwide investigation into
food price-fixing was under way
today by the antitrust division OF
the Department Of Justice, with 18
"situatio under scrutiny affecting
the price of bread. meat, poultry,
fish, milk, fruits and vegetables,
cheese and ice.
The department disclosed its in
vestigation, the second within Is
months affecting large items OF
household expense" at the culmi-
nation of an examination into con-
struction and construction material
costs which has resulted in SO in
dictments against 1888 defendants
under the Antitrust Act. In addi-
ton the department has filed %
civil suits, charging unlawful acts
in the building industry.
The new investigation will deal
with professors of food, commission
merchants, organized produce eX-
changes and auctions, truckers and
wholesale and retail distributors,
the department announced.
Inquiry Will Be Exhaustive.
1.-THE major items in a family
food budget will be investigated al
every stage from the farmer to the
ultimate consumer" the announce
ment declared. Particular atten-
ton will be given to bread, milk
meat, fish, cheese, canned fruit and
vegetables and fresh fruits and
vegetables.
1.-The purpose of the investiga-
ton is to eliminate violations OF
the antitrust laws and thereby to
reduce the expenditures OF Amer
lean families for food and increase
the incomes of American farmers. VI
The department based its investi-
CATION on recent evidence that the
food industries function badly for
both consumers and farmers" II
declared.
Consumers, Farmers Suffer.
Eat one end of the food indus
tries lies malnutrition among con-
sumers, due to their inability to
afford an adequate diet. At the
other end lies a population Of pre-
ducing farmers who must sell an
abundance of food at distress prices
so low as to threaten them with
bankruptcy.
Between are industrial groups
many of which are so powerful
that they have made satisfactory
profits throughout the depression
A rough indication of the relative
strength of such groups is the fact
that professors and distributors
now receive about So or go cents OF
the average dollar which the con-
sumner spends for food, whereas be-
tween 1918 and 1920 they received
only from 40 to AZ cents of that
dollar.
1.-THE prevalence and Importance
Of this situation is attested by
many complaints from consumers
and farmers, as well as from the
less powerful members of the
processing and distributing indus
tries"
Paul s. Willis, president of tht
Associated Grocery Manufacturers
of America, said at New York last
night that he was confident that
"monopolistic practices" would be
found "non-existent among the rep
resentative members of our in.
dustry." He asserted that ION be-
half of the food manufacturing in.
dustry we welcome an impartial in
vestigation Of the operations of our
member manufacturers"