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Evening star., 1940-02-25
Turkey Mobi|izes
Civilians in New
Emergency Plans
Newspapers Predict
Thot War Is Certoin:
Russion Oil forget
Sy the Associated Press.

ISTANBUL, Feb. IS Sunday. -
Taking steps amounting virtually to
civil mobilization. Turkey today ap-
piled new emergency measures as the
possibility of war in the Near East
was regarded with increasing ap-
prehension in this country.
The Government Co-ordina ton
Committee. which was formed to
place industry and commerce on vir-
tual wartime basis. inaugurated
obligatory labor system in the Eregli
coal basin.
Under the plan, expected to be
extended quickly. workers In ali in
dustry would not be permitted to
leave their jobs.
Staff Officers Arrive.
General staff officers arrived from
Ankara for final steps in organiz-
ing Istanbuls defenses against any
possible air and sea bombardments.
More British and French techni-
clans arrived to help make the coun-
try ready for war.
Turkish newspapers predicted
that war between the allies and
Soviet Russia was certain, espe-
cially if Russia becomes an impor-
tant source of supplies.
1t was asserted that in such case
the allies would move Immediately
against the rich Baku oil fields OF
Russia, on the Caspian Sea.
Ready to Defend.
The newspaper Yeni Sabah,
closely connected with the Turkish
government, declared: Both the
logical and legal justification al
ready exist for Britain and France
to declare war on Russia"
Official quarters reiterated that
Turkey was ready to fight to defend
her own security.
Turkey earlier had been virtually
isolated by a storm which swept
across Southeastern Europe, and
Turkish officials had denied rumors
of impending war which circulated
in anxious Balkan capitals as the
result of prolonged interruption of
communications.
Evening star., 1940-02-25
A. FL. Ready TO Resume
Peace Talks, Green SAYS

President william Green reiter-
ated yesterday that the A. r. l.
was ready to resume peace negotia-
tions with the G. I. O.
In a letter to a group Of clergy
men who had urged renewal Of
peace negotiations, Mr.. Green said
the A. F. L. Peace Committee
stands ready to accept and con-
slider any proposals designed tc
bring about q settlement of existing
difficulties"
His letter was addressed to Msgr
John A. Ryan, director Of the de-
partment of social action Of the
National Catholic welfare Confer
ence.
Evening star., 1940-02-25

because our public assistance divi-
sion staff has had neither the time
nor the facilities to obtain a compre-
hensive picture Of the local needs.
Our case workers are handling an
average of 100 cases each, as COM
pared with the Social Security
Boards recommendation of an av-
erage case load of 100, so naturally
they cannot do as complete an in
vestigation and advisory job as would
be desirable in all cases."
Known factors in the current pub
lie welfare situation include:
In January public assistance was
given in 6.235 cases. most of which
involved family groups; 1887 of these
cases came under general relief,
the remainder under Federal-local
social security programs of aid to
dependent children 1909 cases., old
(See RELIEF. page A-IO)
Evening star., 1940-02-25


Until today I was one of those
who rather marvelled at the SEEM
ingly unnecessary speed with which
people in the small Finnish towns
always dash for the shelters, or the
neighboring woods, when the air
alarms sound. Tonight am cured
once and forever of my ignorant
boldness and my studied casualness.
Hereafter, the only thing that will
annoy me about anyhpdy's air alarm
conduct will be if he can hike for
safety faster than I can. Even if
remarkably educational, it is ex-
tremely unpleasant to lie on the
ground looking up at a bunch Of
five bombs which are apparently
coming directly down upon you.
100 Bombs Poured on Town. =
This was not the official schedule
of the Odyssey upon which Wade
Werner of the Associated Press and
myself unwittingly embarked when
Evening star., 1940-02-25
SoiIings Are Cancelled
As Strike Goes Into Effect

NEW YORK, Feb. "a N.-SeverAl
coastwise sailings were Cancelled to-
night and one shipping company
placed an embargo on cargo NOV
ing out of the port of New York as
5000 longshoremen In eight South
ern ports walked out.
Clyde-Mallory Line Cancelled sail
ings of the Seminole, scheduled to
leave Tuesday for Charleston and
Jacksonville, and the Iriquois for
Miami and Galveston on Wednes-
day. It also put an embargo on
cargo from New York.
The new shipping impasse came
slightly more than three months
after the International Longshore-
mems Association "a. r. Id In New
York signed an agreement ending
q widespread coastal dock strike.
John E. Craig, vice president Of
the Clyde Line, said revenues on
coastwise ships had declined seri-
ously, partly because Of the poor
fruit season in the South.
Freight and passenger business
are both poor" he added. THE
lines cannot afford new expenses,
any more than they could last fall. =
Evening star., 1940-02-25
5000 Longshoremen
In Southeast Ports
Stage Wa|kout
Lost-Minute Mediation
Fails in Fight for
l0-Cent Wage Boost
BY the Associated Press.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Feb. Is
Sunday strike of 5000 long
shoremen asking wage increases went
into effect at eight Southeastern
ports last midnight as last-minute
mediation efforts failed.
James L. Bernard. mediator from
the Maritime Labor Board at WASH
ington, said v. E. Townsend, vice
president of the International Long
shoremen's Association, would ar
rive today and a conference had
been scheduled for the afternoon.
The walkout, affecting coastwise
shipping only, was voted Friday
after several months of negotiations
between wharf workers and ship
ping interests on a new contract
The old agreement expired last Oc-
tober.
Mr.. Bernard said Mr.. Townsend
told him in a telephone converse
ton from Charleston that many
ships due in ports today would not
be unloaded.
Ike Grayson, leader of the long
shoremen's local, an American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor afiliate, explained
the longshoremen who work coast
wise ships want a wage boost of 10
cents an hour so their pay will be
In line with that received by wharf
workers who load and unload deep
sea and intercoastal vessels.
Union longshoremen in Whining
ton, N. c.; Charleston, s. c.: Savan-
nah, Ca; Jacksonville. Fort Pierce,
Port Everglades, Miami and Tampa,
Fla, are involved.
Evening star., 1940-02-25

No one knows how much money
would be required to provide an
adequate" public relief program in
Washington.
In short, things that are not
known about the public relief sit
uation here present as great a
problem as DO the sober facts that
are on the record.
These assertions do not come
from uninformed critics or carping
outsiders. They we're made by Rob-
ert E. Bondy, director Of the Dis
trict's Board of Public Welfare.
If said Mr.. Bondy, congress
sional authorities were to ask me
tomorrow to fill in 4 figure on a
blank check they would give me. If
they should say to me, You are the
new director of public welfare
and we are prepared to back you up
on any amount you need-just say
how much I would be forced to
say, I don't know
Il don't know" he explained,
Evening star., 1940-02-25

we set out from Helsinki for Sor-
tavala. After two nights and one
day, it looked as If the Russian
bombers had us boxed for good. This
morning, when at last our train
crawled into the village of B near
the western coast of 'Lage Ladoga,
we saw some of the explanation. The
Soviet planes had raided B five times
in three hours last night and had
poured down 100 bombs upon it. The
station was sad-looking spectacle,
and many of the streets too.
At II o'clock this morning we were
sitting in the Sortavala train; had
been sitting there for an hour, In
fact, waiting for it to start. Then
the engine whistles began shrieking,
one after another for miles along the
track. It was another air raid warn
ing, the second of the day. Every
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Sea Scouts Rescue 4
When Army Plane
Noses Into River
Flyers Extricuted
From Amphibion
In Anocostiu
Pictures on Page Biz

An Army amphibian plane nosed
over in attempting to land on the
Anacostia River of Buzzards Point
yesterday, but its four occupants
escaped with minor cuts, bruises
and a wetting when five Sea Scouts
took their 16-foot whaleboat, supplied
by the Red Cross, on its first rescue
mission.
The Sea Scouts had just launched
a catboat at the Corinthian Yacht
Club when they saw the plane strike
the surface. They manned the
whaleboat under direction of Scout
master Frederick Tip and reached
the stricken craft ahead Of Navy
crash boats dispatched from the op-
posite shore.
Extricated from the cabin Of the
sinking four place OA-9 type amphi-
bian were Maj. Thomas D. White
of 4514 Connecticut avenue NV,
attached to the ofiice Of the chief
of the Army Air Corps here; Capt.
G. w. Mccoy, Boiling Field; Tech
nical Sergt. w. E. Langston, also OF
Boiling Field, and Sergt. w. K. Ett-
linger, Arlington (va). Cantonment.
Plane Towed to Base.
The Sea Scouts transferred the
flyers to a Navy craft. and crash
boats later towed the plane, which
had settled by the nose, to the Naval
Air Station.
Those participating in the rescue
were Richard A. Winfield, 20, Sea
Scout mate, Of 1920 Irving street
NE; Phillip Osborne, Is, of 1917
Seventeenth street NV; Joseph
Tevis, Is, of 25l8 Seventeenth street
NV; Jack eager, 18, Of 1901 Mas
sachusetts avenue NV, and Ray
Thesis, Is, of 903 Flower avenue, Sill
yer Spring, Md.
Maj. White was at the controls
when the mishap occurred at the
end of a routine training flight. He
is well known in service circles here,
having had several tours Of duty in
the Capital prior to his present as
sienment.
Went to Russia In 1884.
In 1884 he became the first as
sistant military attache to be sent
to Moscow after diplomatic relations
had been established with Soviet
Russia. Subsequently, he served for
several years as assistant military
attache to the United States EN-
bassy in Rome and as assistant mil
itary attache for air in Greece.
He is a descendant of Gen. Fran
els Marion, "the Swamp Fox" and
John G. Calhoun.
Maj. White declined to comment
on the nlishap last night, but q
Boiling Field spokesman termed II
"a minor accident in landing" The
latter ofiicer added a board Of in
quiry to attempt determination OF
the cause probably would be ap-
pointed from among officers at the
field, pointing out this was merely
a routine procedure.
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Artillery Reported Taken.
Firms Report 5000
Russians Killed
b the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
HELSINKI, Feb. 24.-A strategi-
cally spread Red Army, its dead re-
ported littering the snow at the
rate of 5000 in two days, was said
tonight by the Finnish high COM
mand to be striking massively at
the island environs of viipuri from
captured coastal base only 71a
miles away.
From Kaislahti, nestled on the
wrecked Gulf of Finland Rail-
way just below Finland's erstwhile
second city and from Koivisto, 17R
miles further south, once the west
ern anchor of Finland's Mannerheim
Line, the Soviet offensive stretched
out over the gulf ice to hammer at
(See FINLAND, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1940-02-25
j. ). District Attorne,
Gets Dies Evidence
On PeIIey Letters
Pine Urged to Present
Documents to Grund
Jury for Action
BY the Associated Press.

6S the ASSOClAteQ fIeSS.
The Dies Committee yesterday
turned over to the United States
District Attorney all its information
concerning allegedly forged letters
which purported to link its chair
man, Representative Dies. Democrat,
Of Texas, with William Dudley Pei
ley, the leader of the Silver Shirt
legion.
Mr.. Dies himself transmitted the
committee evidence to District At
torney David Pine, and asked him
to present the documents to the
grand jury for appropriate action
Meanwhile it was revealed that
Attorney General Robert H. Jack
son has agreed to turn over to the
Dies Committee copy of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigations report
of its inquiry last May into the ac-
tivities of Mr.. Pelley.
Mr.. Jackson emphasized, however,
that the reports should be kept con-
fidential in a letter to Representa-
tive Starnes of Alabama, acting
chairman of the Dies Committee.
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Berwyn Man Is Killed
By Car on Boulevard

A man, identified by a cousin as
Charles Haker, 80, of Berwyn, Md,
was killed early today when he was
struck by an automobile on the
Washington-B Baltimore Boulevard
near Berwyn.
Mr.. Haker, who had been en-
ployed by the Smith Gravel Co. at
Berwyn, formerly lived four miles
from Laurel, Md, on the LAUREL
Bowie road. He is survived by his
father, Henry Haker; two brothers.
Jerome and Fred Haker, and sis
ter, Miss Sophie Haker, all of near
Laurel.
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Fuce-ut-Window Mystery
Solved by Burglar Killer
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated FreSS.
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-Mrs. Ben
5amin Hebald saw grinning face
pressed against the window of her
fifth-foor apartment in Brooklyn
tonight.
When police arrived the face was
still grinning. They opened the
window and man toppled in from
the fire escape. dead
In an adjoining building Patrol
man Herbert Miller started for
his precinct station to report hav-
ing fired at a burglar. Noticing
fellow-patrolmen at the Hebald
apartment, he went in and identi-
fed the dead man as the one he
shot. Mr.. Miller thought the bur-
glar had escaped.
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Chamberlain Bars
Peace With Present
German Government
Pledges Allied Fight
Until Satisfied
Freedom Is Sufe'
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, Feb. 24.-Prime Min
lister Chamberlain today fiatly ruled
out any peace with the present Ger
man government as incapable of
guaranteeing future security to
Europe.
As he pledged fight to the finish
until we are satisfied that freedom
is safe" the conflict with Germany
produced these results:
The naval trawler Benvolio, 352-
ton vessel engaged in mine sweeping,
sank after hitting mine, with 10
of her men lost. The vessel was
the 30th of the British Navy to 60
down since the war began.
r. A. F. Planes Over Prague.
The air ministry announced Royal
Air Force planes secuted deep into
greater Germany for the second
successive night, ranging as far
afleld as Prague, capital of dismem-
bered Czecho-Slovakia. Oficials
said besides Prague, points secuted
included Kiel, Hamburg and
Bremen. One plane made a forced
landing in Belgium; the crew of six
was arrested.
The British press reported, with
ou tofficial confirmation, that Royal
Air Force planes had sunk three
German submarines and a mer-
chantman had rammed and sunk
another.
The toll of merchantmen victims
of the war rose with the foundering
of the British steamer Royal Archer,
2,266 tons. while being towed after
striking a mine.
Address Sharp.
Winding up series OF pep meet
ings by cabinet ministers with an
address in his Nome town of Bir-
mlngham, the gaunt, 70-year-old
Chamberlain delivered one of his
sharpest fight talks of the war.
Mr.. Chamberlain decried Nazi
aims as destruction of Britain and
domination of the world"
Britain, on the other hand, he
said to the cheers of the crowd,
is fighting a crusade" for freedom
and to abolish "the spirit of mill
tarism and accumulation of arma-
ments which is pauperizing all
Europe, and not in the least Ger
many herself"
How in concrete terms are these
aims to be secured?" he asked, and
answered.:
First, independence of the Poles
and Czechs must be assured.
Secondly, we must have some
tangible evidence that will satisfy
us that any pledges or assurances
given will be fulfilled. Under the
present German government there
can be no security for the future. /"
He called Finland's fight against
invading Russia heroic struggle"
against "a gigantic and unwieldly ad-
versary" and in an incisive passage
on the British raid into a Norwegian
(see CHAMBERLAIN, Page A-30
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Three Fortified Finnish Islands
Reported Taken in Viipuri Drive;
Hitler Revives 'Gott Mit Uns Crv
II Big Tower Guns
Captured, Russian
Communique Says

ALLIES CONFIDENCE In ITALY
shown by troop dispositions, says
Maj. Eliot; forces weakened at
several points to put 250,O00 in
Syria. Page AS
MUSSOLINI EXPECTED TO DE-
LAY giving Welles views on war;
may wait until American has visit
ed London, Paris and Berlin.
Page A-4
FOREIGN EXCHANGE CONTROL
is projected by Sweden; Riksdag
meeting today to act to halt flow
of gold abroad. Page AT
PARALLEL" ACTION on neutral
ity seen for Scandinavia; Nor
wegian and Danish Ministers hold
preliminary talks. Page Al
By the Associated Press
MOSCOW, Feb. Is Sunday
The occupation of the strongly for
titled islands of Koivisto, Turin
saari and Piisari, with the capture
of II heavy coastal tower guns, was
claimed today by the Russian Army
in communique issued by the Len
ingrad military headquarters.
The communique said that while
fighting yesterday Soviet troops "oc-
cupied the islands of Koivisto
CBjorkoea), Tiurinsaari and Piisaari,
strongly fortified with iron and con-
crete forts.
TWENTY-FIVE guns, including II
heavy coastal 10 and inch tower
guns and field and zenith guns and
q great number of heavy machine
guns and dumps of munitions, were
captured on these islands"
(Finlands communique covering
fighting on last Friday said the
Russians had launched attacks from
the regions of Koivisto, the western
anchor of the Finnish Mannerheim
Line, and Kaishlahti against Fin
nish positions on islands in the Bay
of ViipuriD
20 Fortifications Captured.
Russian troops captured % Fin
nish defensive Notifications on the
Karelian ISthmus, the communique
added. However, strong snowfall
and fog handicapped operations, it
asserted. ..-.
Unfavorable weather held the
Soviet airplanes to reconnoitering
flights, the army reported.
The communique:
February a. Strong snowfall and
fog handicapped operations of Soviet
troops on the Karelian Isthmus.
Soviet troops occupied on the front
2S of the enemy's defensive forti-
fications. including 10 iron and con-
crete artillery forts.
Artillery Reported Taken.
'While fighting, the Soviet troops
occupied the Islands of Koivisto
(Bjorkoe), Tiurinsaari and Piisaari,
strongly fortified with iron and con-
crete forts. Twenty two guns. in
cluding IL heavy coastal 10 and s
inch tower guns, field and Zenith
guns, great number of machine
guns and dumps of munition were
captured on these islands,
"On other sectors of the front
nothing of importance. Owing to
unfavorable weather Soviet avia-
tion made only reconnoitering
flights"
Evening star., 1940-02-25
BeIqion Loon Forecast

BRUSSELS, Feb. "a (P.-The Bel
gian Chamber of Deputies was told
today by Deputy Charles Jarsse it
must borrow about $490, ,000, 900 next
year to finance mobilization and
other expenses,
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Trapped in a Red Air Raid
Reporter on Back in Snow Stores
Death Full in Face as Bombs Fall
BY LELAND STOWE,
shicaeO Daily News Foreign Corresnopdent


SORTAVA1A, Eastern Finland (Delayed)What does
it feel like to look falling bomb straight
have wondered about that
for the past six months No need speculate about possible
reactions With the vividness nightmare know
how it feels to look bomb in the ace-certanly
cared to know BY the exact margin
sit here but uncathed ngle series
sensations which enough they come onlv
Evening star., 1940-02-25
No Accurate Figures Available
On Relief Needs, Bondy Says
Welfare Chief Doesn't Know How Much
Money He Needs for Adequate Program
First OF a Series.
By JAMES FREE.

No one knows how Washington residents destitute
and in need Of public private agency relief.
No one knows how public relief
District longer eligible for such aid
No give the District
getting his worth expenditures public relief
Evening star., 1940-02-25

(See POLITICS, Page AS,
Evening star., 1940-02-25

(See HITLER, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1940-02-25

(See UN-AMERICAN, Page A-14.)
Evening star., 1940-02-25

Continued on page AS, Column 2.
Evening star., 1940-02-25

(see RELIEF, Page A-lOJ
Evening star., 1940-02-25
Weather Forecast

Cloudy and colder, preceded by light rain
today, colder tonight; tomorrow fair.
Temperatures yesterday-Highest, 40, 1t
$3.50 PM; lowest, 80, at S am.
From the United States weather Bureau report.
Full details on PAGE Az.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-02
ON WITH WAR JOB

Perhaps the most significant news eminating
from Europe in these troubled DAYS is the an.
nouncement that a new British expeditionarv
force IS landing in France simultaneously with
the arrival of British troops in England from
the Flanders battlefield. They are to take
up positions on the Somme salient.
IL 1t means what it appears to mean, Great
Britain is far from defeated. whatever effects
the loss of Flanders may have had on British
clVlllan morale. We have, possibly, been 700
severe on England. To be sure, she withdrew
her troops from Norway, and retreated from
FLANDERS. And it is not stimulating to see such
a bulWark OF democracy as Great Britain hui
inflated by an enemy.
But, the two retreats are not identical nor
way, Great Britain vastly underestimated the
power OF the HITLER war machine. London had
not yet emerged from the pamphlet stage of
War-making, and was still under control of Mr.
CHAMBERLAIN, the worlds champion umbrella
toter. An inadequate expeditionary force was
sent to stem the Nazi tide and soon had TO
get out or be swallowed up.
But in Flanders the circumstances wera
dll1erent. So long as the Belgian army was
IN the lines, the British continued to fight
VaEantly and effectively against growing Nazj
ODDS. But when LEOPOLD cracked, and surren-
dered 100000 troops, British forces there were
left with one alternative. Either they must
get out or be annibilated. That they chose to
get out as best they could was the inevitable
decision.
NOW 1t IS solac1ng to learn that despite that
rout Great Britain goes forward with it's war
JOB and sends more soldiers to take up the
battle in an imperiled sector. 1t is even more
solac1ng to know that on the Somme they will
have the leadership and guidance of General
WEYGAND.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-02

tributions asked from the people OF this coun-
try. Many more millions of refugees will need
relief than was foreseen when the first ma
tional goal was set at $10,0OO,O00.
Wilmington's quota, originally liked at S5,-
900, is consequently doubled. 1t will be neces-
sary for us to dip a little deeper into our pri-
vate reserves to hold up our end OF war-refugee
relief. That we will hesitate, or even con-
tribute reluctantly, is unbelievable The call
of suffering humanity is too appealing for
that.
Six thousand dollars is not too much to
ask. If we gave dimes last week, we can
we'll afford to repeat this week. Or even,
without real sacrifice, we could make it quar-
ters this time.
1t is only necessary to vision our own loved
ones. our mothers and children and old faith.
ers. trudging roads strafed by alien airmen,
badly clothed and underfed, to understand why
cur gifts are needed.