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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01
Rumanian Wounded
Reach Bucharest
By Train|oads
Russians Are Reported
Increasing Tempo Of
Their Occupation

BUCHAREST, July l. Train
loads of Rumanian wounded arrived
in the capital shortly after noon
today for disqualification. They
were understood to have been
wounded in clashes with Russian
troops on the Prut River.
At the same time military quar-
tiers declared the probability of fur
ther clashes between Ruman!an and
Russian forces was heightened by
the fact the Russian Army was in
creasing the tempo of its occupat ton
OF coded Bessarabia and Northern
Bucovina.
Today, it was reported, parachute
troops were "rained" on parts of the
two provinces not yet occupied. But
whether fighting still was going on
could not be determined. The best
available information was that the
occupation was proceeding in more
orderly fashion.
The Russians, however. were re-
ported still showing haste.
Troops Dropped in Many Towns.
Refugees said Russian state police
agents and Soviet shock troops were
dropped by parachute in many towns
and villages.
Rumanlan officials expressed be-
lief this was to round up aristocrats
and large landowners and proven,
removal of gold and other valuables
from the occupied area.
AS the Russian advance continued
Rumanian police sought to prevent
rioting.
Thousands of arrests were made in
Bucharest and other cities under a
new regulation prohibiting citizens
from congregating in groups of four
or more or assembling in any num-
Der OF cafes and other public places
Rumanian officials returning from
the occupied territories declared
that Russian military trials were
condemning Rumanians lin whole
sale patches"
They reported refugees had been
shot while attempting to sneak
through Russian lines into old Ru-
mania.
Reports were brought in that the
Russians were setting up military
governments in the most important
centers and that, in other places,
they were turning over management
to hastily organized Soviets.
Curentul, pro-German Bucharest
newspaper, charged editorially that
Russia was planning destruction of
Rumanian oil fields from which Ger
many otherwise would receive gaso-
line.
While the Russian occupation of
Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina
went on steadily, the lower Danube,
(See RIJCHAREST pooo A-o0
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01
Comedian Ben Turpin
Dies in Hollywood
BY the Associated Press.


HOLLYWOOD, July ben
Turpin, old-time screen star famous
for his crossed eyes, died today. He
was IS years old.
A native of New Orleans. Turpin
was one of the screens first slap
stick comedians. Before that, he
played burlesque for Sam T. Jack in
Chicago and spent IL years in
vaudeville.
He made scores of one and two
reelers in the old days. He topped
off his career with Swing High"
in 1880; came back in 1885 for an
educational short. then made an
appearance last year in Hollywood
Cavalcade."
Turpin had been i'll for some time.
He was discharged from a hospital
June % and apparently was on the
road to recovery, doctors said. Early
today he was stricken and died in
a hospital to where he was hurriedly
taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01
BY DANIEL DE LUCE.

Assoeldteu FTeSS war correspondent.
JASSY, Rumania, July IA food
OF human misery poured into this
town from Bessarabia as spike
capped Russian troops took control
at the frontier bridgehead IA miles
north of here at o'clock this
afternoon.
The desperate refugees carried
their bedding and a stick or two of
furniture on their backs while bare
footed children trudged alongside
their homeless elders on many coun-
try roads.
Drenched by rain until their
clothes hung as shapeless and aim
less as their hopes for the future,
this latest refugee horde in Europe
streamed endlessly into old Ru-
mania.
1t was estimated that at least
SIS 900 peasants and townspeople, up
rooted from the land of their birth,
have passed through here since the
Red Army began on June % to
occupy Bessarabia and Bucovina.
This provincial capital overnight
assumed the aspect of a vast refugee
camp, as well as a vital military
garrison. Trains from the interior
brought additional conscripts to
bolster Rumania's hand in any
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01
D. {. Residents Saved
As Launch Sinks in BAY
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, July Capt.
George Sidon of the freighter
MAIZENA, reported today the rescue
of six Washingtonians from a sink
ing launch in midi Chesapeake Bay.
Capt. Sidon said two young
women, a 6-year-old girl and three
young men were taken off the in
bound MAIZENA, at 6 o'clock this
morning by the Coast Guard and
members of their families came from
Washington to take them home.
Their names were not learned.
The launch was sighted off Plum
Point, 40 miles below Baltimore, the
captain said, and the rescue effected
just before midnight last night. An
effort was made to tow the launch,
but it began to sink rapidly and the
towline was cut.
Members of the party told Capt.
Sidon their boats motor failed at
4 pm. yesterday and they had been
drifting helplessly before the high
wind until the freighter picked them
up. All were in bathing suits and
cold and shivering," Capt. Sidor
reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01
President Asks
Excess Profits
Tax for Defense
Coils on Congress
To Act as Aid to
Financing Defense

President Roosevelt today called
on Congress to enact "a steeply
graduated excess profits tax, to be
applied to all individuals and cor
porations without discrimination" to
help finance the national defense
program"
just the bare recommendation
that the tax be enacted was con-
tanned in the hundred-word message
the President sent to the Capitol
shortly after he had conferred at
the White House with congressional
leaders, whose spokesman, House
Majority Leader Rayburn, had in
formed newsmen that the course was
contemplated. The President said:
ITO the Congress of the United
States:
1--WE are engaged in a great finan-
cial effort to build up our national
detenses to meet any and every
potential attack.
I'VE are asking even our humblest
citizens to contribute their mite.
"Equitably Distributed"
1T is our duty to see that the
burden is equitably distributed &C
cording to ability to pay. so that
few do not gain from the sacrifices
of the many.
II therefore, recommend to the
/ Congress the enactment of a steeply
graduated excess profits tax to be
| applied to all individuals and all
corporate organizations without dis
criminat ton"
In announcing the imminence of
the tax message, Mr.. Rayburn said
the levy would follow that of the
World War era which, he comment
ed. raised a lot of money"
! Before the message was sent to
the Capitol, the President con-
ferred with Representative Rayburn.
Vice President Garner, Speaker
Bankhead and Senator Byrnes,
Democrat, of South Carolina, APP
pearing in the absence of Senate
Majority Leader Barley, who is at
his home in Kentucky.
Plan Rejected Once.
When the tax bill that went into
effect today was before Congress,
the conferees rejected an excess tax
proposal by Senator La Toilette,
Progressive. of Wisconsin, which
would have levied up to 40 per cent
against the excess profits of cor
porations.
At that time Chairman Doughton
of the House Ways and Means Com
mittee told the House excess profits
would be considered between now
and the beginning of the new ses-
sion of Congress. Tax conferees
directed the Treasury to report by
October on such measure.
At the Capitol. Speaker Bankhead
said the excess profits tax legislation
was designed to prevent creation Of
war millionaires." The Speaker
prefaced this statement with the re-
mark there is little likelihood of an
early adjournment of Congress
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01
New Deal Must Be Jittery,'
Says WiNkie, in New York
6. O. P. Candidate Returns From Voyage
For Round Of Pre- Campaign Conferences

as president of the big utility hold
ing company at meeting this
afternoon.
Landing here this morning from
the yacht of Roy Howard. publisher
on which he cruised from the con-
vention city, Mr.. Willkie said he
hopes to wind up his private affairs
and complete preliminary confer
ences with party leaders within
three or four days and then take
two or three week vacation before
plunging into the presidential race.
To questions about the unsettled
Craftsmanship of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, Mr.. Willkie said
he regarded John D. M Hamilton.
the present chairman, very kindly,
| but would not venture a guess about
the man chosen ultimately. He is
slated to confer. probably Wednes-
day, with the group of IL National
Committee members appointed to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01
WiIlkie 'B|itzkrieged'
6. 0.P., Says Pepper
In Senate Blast
Employed Same Tactics
On T. V. A., FIoridion
Warns Country
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Likening his winning of the Re-
publican presidential nomination to
the blitzkrieg technique of Adolf
Hitler, Senator Pepper, Democrat, OF
Florida attacked Wendell L. Will
kie in the Senate today, shortly
after the first session since the
Republican National Convention
opened.
Senator Pepper commiserated with
Senator Vandenberg of Michigan
and Senator Taft of Ohio, both of
whom were in the Senate. He said
they had gone out before the people
in an effort to obtain support in
the old-fashioned American way. He
made the same comment on the
candidacy of Senator Bridges of
New Hampshire.
Mr. Willkie. whom Senator Pep
per dubbed "a colorful figure from
Wall Street." adopted a new tech
nlque. he said, remaining under
cover and coming forward finally
with the same kind of campaign
which he waged against the Ten
nessee Valley Authority, with tens
of thousands of kilograms sent to
the delegates at the Republican
Convention.
Unity" Purpose Questioned.
Mr.. Willkie has been named the
standard bearer of the Grand Old
Party" said Senator Pepper, though
he is not so old figure in that party.
He has declared that his purpose is
unity in America What kind of
(See LINCOLN, Page A-6D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01
Germans Te|IU :.
To Recall Missions
From 4Countries
Representation Is Barred
In Luxembourg, Norway,
Belgium and Holland
BY the Associated Press

BERLIN, July 1.-The German
Foreign Office advised the United
States Embassy and presumably all
other embassies today to discontinue
all diplomatic missions in Norway
Belgium, Luxembourg and the
Netherlands.
The Missions must be discontinued
by July Is.
The Foreign Office informed the
United States Embassy that all
political questions affecting these
countries must be taken up through
the mission in Berlin.
Consulates will be permitted to
remain. France is not included in
this group.
1t was noted that Denmark con-
tinued to have a different status,
with both diplomatic missions and
conSulates remaining.
Poland's case, in turn, was more
severe, for here even the consulates
AS we'll as the diplomatic missions
were required to close.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01

NEW YORK, N. Y. July l.
Wendell L. Willkie, the Repub-
licans' new standard bearer, today
accused New Dealers in Washing
ton of having the filters" He was
replying to Democratic criticisms of
the G. o. P ticket.
Asked ct press conference
shortly after his arrival here this
morning if he had read the COM
ments coming from the Capital
since his nomination, he came rack
without hesitation:
Yes, and l thought they were
wonderful. Those boys down there
must have the filters. It's Ike my
opposition at Philadelphia. Every
time they issued a statement 1 got
more votes"
Mr.. Willkie met the press in the
boardroom of the Commonwealth g.
Southern Corp. He plans to resign
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01

watched the army melt away along
the line of the Somme and Aisne
Rivers wept as the generalissimo
described how the Germans ao-
vanced, Strengthening men who no
longer have the means to defend
themselves"
The full collapse of France as a
military power is just beginning to
Continued on Page A, Column A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01
Mercury Drops to So;
June Record Dry Month

Washington's "see-saw" weather
took another dip this morning when
the temperature fell to SO degrees
at o'clock for the coolest July /
reading in three years. The temper
allure in 1887 was So.
Rain which fell last night failed
to keep the last month from being
the driest June on record since
1864. A scant .05 inch of rain
yesterday brought the record dry
reading to SO inch for the entire
month.
The Weather Bureau forecasts
partly cloudy and fair tonight, with
temperatures continuing moderately
cool
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01
GRAHAM Succeeds
Ba|bo as Chief Of
Forces in Libya
Several British Border
Positions Captured,
Command Declares

49, '4'S ENoSoSidHcd 1000
ROME, July Marshal Rodolfo
GRAHAM succeeded the late Marshal
Italo Balbo today as commander of
all italian forces in Libya as the
high command reported triumphs in
the air, on sea and on land.
GRAHAM, leader of the Fascist
conquest of Libya and chief of staff
Of the Italian Army, already has
flown to the North African colony
to replace Marshal Balbo, who died
in a flaming airplane with eight
military associates at Tobruk last
Friday.
Capture of several British posi-
lions along the Libyan-Egyptian
border was claimed by the high COM
.mand, which also said that an Ital-
ian torpedo boat had sunk a Brit
lsh submarine. 1t reported at least
eight British planes were shot down.
1t acknowledged the loss of the
destroyer Espero. a 1,073-ton war
ship with a normal complement of
l43. The Espero, it said, failed to
return to its base after "heroical-
ly battling three British cruisers
and several destroyers.
CA cOmmunique of the Brit
ish Air Force reported in Cairo
that r. A. F. bombers had scored
direct hits on italian troops near
Serderat, Italian East Africa, and
also had raided Accico, bomb
ing two naval vessels there)
In sharp fighting on the Egyptian
frontier, the high command said,
Fascist forces put tanks and ar
mored cars out of action.
Text of Communique.
The communique of the Italian
high command said.
Marshal Rodolfo GRAHAM, who
mas already reached Libya by plane,
has assumed command of all armed
forces in North Africa.
"One of our torpedo boats at
tackled, hit and sank an enemy
submarine with bombs.
"One of our submarines shot
down an English four-motored
plane.
THE destroyer Espero, after hav-
ing heroically maintained a fight
against three English cruisers and
several destroyers, failed to return
to its base and must therefore be
considered lost.
In North Africa clashes favor
able to us have taken place between
our attachments and enemy arm
ored formations. Various enemy
armored cars and medium tanks
were put out of action.
Our air formations effectively
bombarded group of armored cars,
automobiles, depots and troops be-
tween Sollum and Sisi Omar and
at Sid Barrani An enemy plane
was shot down by anti-aircraft de-
Tense. To four enemy planes re-
ported shot down in yesterdays bull
letin must be added another plane
known to be shot down. Two others
probably were shot down.
"In East Africa our bombing
planes carried out effective night
action on the station of Et-Teb.
The air naval bases at Alden and
Port Sudan were bombed. One of
our planes did not return. The
enemy bombed the city of Harrar."
The plane in which Marshal
Balbo met death Friday was shot
down by machine gunners in Brit
ish planes when it appeared over
Tobruk, Libya, while a British air
raid was under way, the newspaper
II Popolo di Roma reported.
Although II Popolo di Roma de-
(See ROME, PagesA-81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01
B uII etin

CHICAGO, July l (P).-M. L.
Annenberg, who climed from
immigrant newsboy to one of
Americas wealthiest men, today
was sentenced to three years
imprisonment for evading S1,2l7,-
296 in Federal taxes on his 1886
income.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01
Nozi Trade Agreement
With Sweden Reported
By the Associated Press

NEW YORK, July IA Berlin
wave length broadcast heard here
this morning by N. B. c. said a Ger
man trade delegation to Sweden
had concluded an agreement calling
for vast increase in cellulose and
paper products for Germany.
The announcer said the Nazi dele
cation now is on its way to Oslo,
Norway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01
B U | | e tin

Patrick E. McKenna, veteran
White House aide, died at George
town Hospital this afternoon, 81
years to the day from the time
he became doorkeeper to the
Presidents office. He was IS years
old.
Earlier story on Page B-1.J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01
French Loss in Dead, Missing
Is Estimated at I 100000
Weyeond Reported to Have Stated Army Had
Cartridges for Days When Truce Was Asked
BY TAYLOR HENRY,
Associated Press War Corresponden

SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, July French casualties
disastrous final month of the with
unociay today at 100000 most of them listed
or missing
Adolf Htlers mechanical approximately
month to destroy what 60 days still described the
efficient military machine the word-he French
and to and its bizkreg than half
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01

When France decided on June IL
to plead for an armistice the stu
alton was so desperate, it is reliably
reported, that Gen. Weygand told
the historic midnight meeting of
the French cabinet in a chateau
near Tours that the French Army
had only cartridges enough to last
three more days
French ministers who had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01
Summary Of Todoy's Star

New taxes in effect today raise prices
in Washington. Page B.
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Foreign
British Channel islands occupied by
Nazis. Page Al
Hungary mobiles along Rumanian
frontier. Page Al
Rumanian wounded arrive in Bu-
charest by trainloads. Page Al
French loss in dead and missing esti-
mated at 100000. Page Al
GRAHAM takes Balbos post as
Libyan chief. Page Al
Nazis tell U. S. to end missions in
countries. Page Al
Clash between Hungarians and Ru-
manians reported. Page Al
Five, possibly IL, German planes
felled, British claim. Page Az
British families quit Hong Kong in
fear of Japanese. Page A
NationoI.
Fleet returns Unexpectedly to Ha-
waiian base. Page AS
Wheeler predicts formation of anti
war party. Page b.
Washington and Vicinity
Three dead, many injured in week
end trafnc. Page B-1
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(See WILLKIE, Page ABB
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(See DEFENSE, Page A-5)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01
Weather Forecast

Fair and continued cool tonight and to-
morrow; lowest temperature tonight
about so; gentle to moderate winds.
Temperatures today-Highest, u, at
2 pm; lowest, &c. at am
From the United States Weather Bureau report
Full details on Page AZ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-07-01

(See BUCHAREST, Page AID
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.(see RUMAN1AN, Page A-40
Evening star., 1940-06-24

by unwanted guests from the out
side.
The cat-and, very likely, many
OF his Observation-Disclosures went
about his business at his own sweet
will. He belonged possibly to some
monks OF the church of Notre Dame
du Bourg and thus enjoyed q life
OF dignif1ed scholarship and spir-
itual grace. He was probably white
or tiger striped, not black, for in
those days black cats were regarded
as the familars of witches and the
embodiment Of black magic and evil.
Somehow the striped feline seems
tc fit the picture best-his markings
blending with the rays of sunlight
falling across. chancel steps and
flltering through high easements.
One pictures him arching his back
against the robes Of studious monks,
hunting down the inevitable church
mouse or slipping out in the cool
dusk through his own little door to
prowl in the moonlight and busy
himself about his always mysterious
affairs.
Memories must cling to the stones
Of the Chapel of the Cloisters. And
with the memories, might there not
be little striped ghost that slips
each evening through the massive
portal, to sit and muse about the
centuries that have gone, and to
dream again of mice and men that
lived so long ago?
Evening star., 1940-06-24
Answering
Readers
Queries
Initiating a Person
In Every Respect
Just Not Done
BY EMILY POST.

The saying goes that Imitation Is
the sincerest flattery," which up to
certain point is true, but which
like many other things can be over
done, and thereby lose its charm-as
this letter shows: please write
something to discourage friends from
copying dresses and rooms and even
manners. I have friend who does
this to such an extent that I feel
she Is robbing me of my individu-
atty.
In answer, I agree that the last
thing that people who have great
originality can bear is to have the
things that are individual to them
selves appropriated by others. Even
to copy a dress exactly is bad man.
ners. But to deliberately do over a
room in duplicate is unforgivable,
unless with the enthusiastic per.
mission of the originator. On the
other hand, buying duplicate dress
is almost unavoidable in this model
copying age. Copying your manners
might have been done unconsciously
and might moreover be called a
compliment unless she has copied
mannerisms instead of manners, and
to the point of mimicry.
X X
Dear Mrs. Post: I am going to
marry doctor of medicine and we
would like to know whether his title
should be engraved in full or alb.
oreviated on the wedding invita-.
tions.
Answer-Either way is equally cor
rect. Usually the length of
name determines this. That is, if
your fiance's name might be Doctor
Charles Titherington Breckenridge,
Junior, it would be better to engrave
the title DR.. and the suffix jr. On
the other hand, Doctor John Smith,
junior, would look better written
out.
Dear Mis-. Post: Is it proper to
wear hostess gown when one enter
talns friends at dinner who are sure
to come in street-length clothes?
Answer-Hostess gown-meaning
any dress suitable for receiving COM
pany-is certainly proper. The fact
that it Is long does not make it un-
suitable to wear at home even
though the others will have on
street-length dresses.
Evening star., 1940-06-24
Manners
of the
Moment

Now that the open season is upon
us, a mother must be prepared for
those moments when she must de-
eide whether it is best to have the
house overrun with tadpoles, frogs,
garter snakes and crawfish, or to
thwart the children's enthusiasm
for wild life.
OF course, much depends upon
the size of the house, the DISPOSE
ton of the neighbors, the nerves of
the parents and the servant prob
lem. I cannot, because of these
variable factors, give mother a def
mite answer as to what her decision
should be.
But this much I think can say.
Mother should train herself not to
jump and scream when she sees
what she has always considered
'loathesome creatures" Junior
might forever be thwarted from a
geological career. When she meets
frog in her own home, she
should school herself to look at it
calmly and to say to her son,
wouldn't it be happier outdoors
than locked up in the bathroom?"
AS for snake in the hallway
:. don't know. Perhaps scream
ing Is best after all. JEAN.