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regret that energies and expert
ences so diverse as those of Mr..
Lloyd George and Mr.. Hore-Be-
lisha are still left unused, but we
hope opportunities will offer to
employ them ."
Leslie Hore-Belisha resigned as
War Secretary in a cabinet shift
made by Mr.. Chamberlain last jan
uary. David. Lloyd George. World
War Prime Minister, has not been
a member of the war government,
but reports yesterday said he might
be brought in in the anticipated
shake-up. -.
The Conservative Evening News
said 80 = the absence of new blood
is regrettable. Further recon-
struction will be necessary to trans
form the government into the ideal
instrument for winning the war.
New men should, indeed must,
be thrown up by events
Letter of Resignation.
Mr.. Chamberlain letter of resig-
nation, addressed to Prime Minister
Winston Churchill under date of &C.
tober /, read:
My Dear Winston:
when I returned to London six
weeks ago after my operation I
hoped to be able steadily to in
crease my capacity for work until
I could answer any call you might
wish to make upon me.
"Unhappily this hope was. not
realized and the minor difficulties
that so often supervene after an
operation, together with the unusual
stress of wartime conditions, COM
bined to cause progress in a back
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Patriot, reported to have survived a
submarine attack early in the war.
The Royal Mail vessel last January
/ arrived at Rio de Janeiro, where
officers reported a U-boat attack on
her December 20 off the Canary
Islands.
Passengers said the submarine
fired two torpedoes, but officers re-
ported the undersea raider used only
her deck gun and was put to flight
after a two-hour chase. The High
land Patriot was armed with g.
inch gun and an anti-aircraft gun.
Yesterday German bombers hit
railways, storehouses, oil tanks,
shipping and industries necessary
for waging modern war, the COM
mands communique set forth. 1t
declared British bombers had little
luck in bombing Berlin.
Last night planes driving on Berlin
were diverted from their course by
anti-aircraft fire and one bomber
was shot down, crashing in flames
north of Berlin, said the high COM
mand. The city's 100000 residents
underwent an hour and II minutes
of alarm, routed from their beds
for the fifth consecutive night.
Industrial Section Raided.
The heaviest firing was centered
in the great industrial section on
the northern outskirts, where bat
teries of light and heavy guns blazed
away for minutes at a time. There
were no immediate reports of dam
age, however.
The German air force was reported
to be keeping London under almost
continual bombardment. DNB, Of
fetal German news agency, said
targets along the Thames River had
been the object of particularly heavy
attacks yesterday.
The NaZi welfare organization has
opened soundproof and bombproof
shelters for children up to 10 years
of age in Berlin homesteaders' settle
ments where no adequate private
shelters are available. There the
children will sleep and eat, remain
ing under constant medical super
vision. Similar arrangements are
being made for expectant mothers.
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ward instead OF a forward direc-

ward instead Of a forward direc-
ton.
Since I have been back in the
country my condition has consider
ably improved, but it has become
evident to me that it will be a long
time before I could hope to be able
TO perform the duties which are
essential for a member of the war
cabinet.
I'm these circumstances I feel
bound in the national interest to
ask you to release me from my pres
ent responsibilities and to submit my
resignation TO the King for his
majesty's approval.
Il would like to add an expression
of my warm appreciation of the
kindness and consideration you have
consistently shown me since the for
nation of your government and Of
my mistaken confidence that under
your leadership this country. with
her allies and associates, will sue
coed in overcoming the forces of
barbarism which have reduced
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Destructive Pounding
OF British Transport
Claimed by Nazis
9Armed Merchantmen,
Great Domuee to Roll
Centers Reported
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSoclaleu ffesS.
BERLIN, Oct. 8. - Destructive
hammering of Britain's transport
agencies-her railways, docks and
shipping-in raids by sea and air
was reported by the German high
command today.
The Highland Patriot, 14,172-ton
armed British merchantmen. it said,
was among nine such vessels sunk
by U-boats in the Nazi counter
blockade.
There was an Official admission,
however, that seven German planes
were lost yesterday, against only six
British planes known to have been
shot down.
The Nazi war directorate said spe-
officially that German operations in
the past "a hours included great
damage" to railways in the center
of bomb-battered London and heavy
hits in the bend of the Thames east
of the city's heart, where the great
East India and Millwall docks are
situated.
The high command gave no de-
tails of the sinking of the Highland
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great part Of Europe to condition
little better than slavery.
Yours ever, Neville Chamberlain"
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Shift Shows Something
Rotten Germans Think

BERLIN, Oct. 3 LP,-The British
cabinet shuttle drew from authorized
German sources today a curt COM
ment to the effect that ut shows
something's rotten in England"
Prime Minister Churchill, under
pressure, had to sacrifice some one
to show that he's active. and old
man Chamberlain came in handy.
declared these sources.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-03
Gets Birth Dute WRONG

FLORENCE, S. C. fFl.-One young
fellow made slight error in his
application for civil aeronautics
training. He gave his date OF birth,
as October Is, 1910.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-03
Toqore, Indian Poet. Weak

CALCUTTA, India, Oct. 3 CP)-
Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet.
was reported extremely weak to-
day.
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Move Grows to Sweep France
Into Complete Aid for Firms
WorpIones Already
Sent by Britain,
Commons Told
Hy the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 7.-R. A. Butler,
undersecretary for foreign affairs,
asked in the House of Commons to-
day If the government would con-
slider sending bombers and crews to
Finland, replied that Britain already
was sending planes and that he
understood flyers were available in
Finland.
The House cheered Maj. Gen. Sir
Alfred Knox, Conservative, when he
asked If every possible step was
being taken to send aid quickly to
Finland, who, he said, was fight
ing for the whole of civilization.
Mr.. Butler recalled that Prime
Minister Chamberlain said yester-
day that the government realized
the urgency of the question.
The first lord of the admiralty,
Winston Churchill, announced spe-
cial measures would be taken to
protect lightships as the result of
German air attacks in which some
members of lightship crews have
been killed.
LightShipS, Mr.. Churchill said,
were never specially protected in
wartime before and had always been
regarded by civilized nations as out
side the scope of bombing, and con-
sequently immune from attack.
He declared light floats would re-
place ships in certain cases.
Evening star., 1940-02-07
By ]. A. FOX.

In an unusual rebuke to the
Department of Justice, the House
Appropriations Committee has re-
fused to make an $11, 1000 appropria-
ton in the 1941 bill for the salaries
of two officers who for the past year
have been paid from funds the COM
mittee said were intended for an
other purpose.
The officials affected are William
Brownrigg, director of personnel,
at $500, and a $4,500 assistant, who
were appointed by Attorney General
Murphy last spring when an expan-
sion of the personnel administration
staff of the department was under
taken in conformity with President
Roosevelt's plan to improve civil
service generally.
The committee, in the report ac-
companying the bill, which was be-
ing studied at the department today,
said their salaries had been paid
out of an appropriation for employ
ment of other personnel, and added
tartly that appropriations made IN
rood faith for particular purpose1
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Funds Refused for Salaries
Of 2 Justice Personnel Chiefs

must be used in good faith for such
purposes"
Mr.. Brownrigg, who developed the
Michigan civil service machinery
while former Attorney General Muir
ply was Governor of that State, was
appointed to the Justice Department
post last March after topping the
register in an examination held by
the Civil Service Commission for
personnel officers. Hearings on the
bill disclosed that Representative
Caldwell, Democrat, of Florida Wig
orously criticized the fact that the
Brownrigg appointment had not
been brought to the committees at
tention when hearings on the 1910
appropriations bill were in progress
in April.
In doing away with these two
positions, the committee strikes an
other blow at the personnel improve
ment program contemplated by the
President. Almost all of the new
money proposed to be used for this
purpose is being stricken out Of ap-
Lpropriation bills. Il
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Columbus Crewmen
Left in Quondory

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7 tR.-
Diplomatic action in Toxic left 512
Nazi seamen, former crewmen of
the scuttled liner Columbus, in
quandary today.
The Germans were puzzled over
their future in the light of Japanese
Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita's
announcement that Japanese ship
ping firms had been instructed to
refuse passage to belligerent ma
tionals subject to military service.
A spokesman at the German con-
sui generals office said Arita's an
nouncement changed the whole
situation" for the Columbus crew
The spokesman Indicated the Ger
man Embassy at Washington might
ask the immigration department to
reconsider restrictions placed on the
sailors last week. The department
said the Nazis' status had changed
from distressed seamen" too sex
cludable aliens" and ordered them
deprived Of shore leaves they had
enjoyed in San Francisco. ~
Evening star., 1940-02-07
President Names Earle
Minister 10 Bulgaria
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt sent to the
Senate today the nomination OF
George H. Earle, former Governor
of Pennsylvania, to be Minister to
Bulgaria.
He also nominated David Gray of
Florida to be Minister to Ireland
and Louis G. Dreyfus, jr., of Cali
fornia, now Minister to Iran, to be
Minister also to Afghanistan.
Mr.. Earle at one time was Min
lister to Austria. During his gov
ernorship he was an ardent sup
porter of the New Deal. Senator
Guf1ey, Democrat, Of Pennsylvania
had been urging diplomatic ap-
pointment for him for some time.
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Stote Senator's JobIess
Pay Claim Rejected
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Feb. T.
State Senator William j. Eroe's
claim for unemployment compen-
sation was rejected today.
Eroe, a Lawrence County Dem
ocrat, contended he has been
totally unemployed" since he lost a
job as a salesman last December.
His $2,500 salary as State Senator,
he said, was paid solely for at
tending legislative sessions.
The State Board of Review, up
holding decisions by its New Castle
office, ruled unanimously that pay
ment of unemployment benefits to
Eroe would be entirely contrary
to sound public policy"
The State Senator may appeal
to the courts from the boards de-
cision that he is mot totally un-
employed" and therefore is 'in-
eligible for compensation benefits" :"
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Drive Is Assuming
Proportions Of q
SteumroIIer
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Feb. IA popular move
ment in France to sweep the gov
ernment into complete" aid for
Finland in her war against Russia
assumed steamroller proportions
today.
The authoritative newspaper lie
Temps devoted both its editorials
to aid for Finland, asserting this
must be effective, complete and
total"
The newspaper said fatty it was
no longer possible to separate the
"Russian-Finnishw war from the Eu-
ropean war properly speaking"
The newspapers demand for
quick aid to the Firms came on the
heels of insistence by Premier Dala-
dier's own Radical-Socialist party
that France go to the aid of the
little Baltic state.
ut is under different names one
and the same conflict which had
its origin IN the Russian-German
collusion," LIE Temps declared.
Germany is leaning on Russia for
effective military and economic aid
the newspaper continued, "the two
forces OF oppression now are only
one, it is already impossible to sep
arate them: their destinies are
linked"
ANY blow against the aggressor
(See PARIS, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Taft Announces
Decision 10 Stay Out
OF Illinois Primary
Senator Declares He Lacks
Time to Conduct
Personal Compoien
KEY REPUBLICANS favor Chicago
convention, differ on meeting date.
Page AS
By G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Senator Robert A. Taft Of Ohio
announced today he would not en-
ter the Illinois presidential pref
erence primary to be held April 8.
Senator Taft's decision virtually
leaves the Illinois primary, on the
Republican side, to District Attorney
Thomas E. Dewey of New York.
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg Of
Michigan has already indicated his
name will not be entered in that
primary.
Said Senator Taft:
II shall not enter the Illinois
presidential preferential primary,
first, because it is merely advisory
under the Illinois law; second, be-
cause I cannot possibly be away
from the Senate for the time neces-
sary, in a large State like Illinois,
to make the kind Of campaign I
should wish to make If my name
were entered.
"The only decisive popular verdict
on candidates results from a per-
sonal campaign in which the voters
get chance to see. hear and meet
the candidates. This is the kind of
campaign I conducted in Ohio, and
the kind I would conduct in the
Nation If nominated, but I can't do
it between now and April 8 in
Illinois"
May Enter Wisconsin Primary.
Senator Taft, one Of the three
foremost candidates for the Repub-
lican presidential nomination, still
has under consideration entering
(See TAFT, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Vatican Paper Urges
Speedy Aid for Firms

VATICAN CITY, Feb. 7 R.-
L'Osservatore Romano, Vatican City
newspaper, yesterday urged Fin
lands friends to hasten aid against
what it called "the most cynical
aggression of our time"
= While the Firms fight, rOsserva-
tore said, 1.-The allies aid amounts
only to too facile praise Of Finnish
heroism."
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Alaska Farmers
Making Hay: in
February
By the Associated Press.

oy tLc hooOSlNlCA > 1900
PALMER, Alaska, Feb. 7.-Alaska' S
unpredictable weather brought pre-
dictions today that one Of the mild
est winters in many years would put
additional dollars in the jeans OF
Matanuska Valley farmers.
Settlers in this Federally-founded
colony witnessed the rare sight Of
farmers making hay in February. A
major thaw left the ground nearly
bare of snow and ice. Farmers have
cut down on their livestock food bill
by turning their cattle out for early
grazing.
Winters mild manner. weather
authorities explain, has been due to
a struggle of high and low pressure
areas over surrounding mountain
ranges.
Evening star., 1940-02-07
B uII etin

The House refused today to
withhold money intended to pay
the salary of an Ambassador to
Moscow. It turned down, 108 to
los on a teller vote, a proposal to
eliminate that item from an ap-
preparation bill-the first of sew
eral proposals planned by a group
seeking to shut of this country's
diplomatic relations with Russia.
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Secret Conferences
To Alter Labor Act
Charged by Lewis
CLIO. Head Offers Letter:
To Show Industry Helped
A. F. l. Attack Law
$50, 900 ADDITIONAL SOUGHT for
Labor Board probe by House unit.
Page AS
BULLETIN.

Legislation to subject orders
and regulations of all Federal bu-
reaus to court review was cleared
to the House today by its Rules
Committee The bill must await
a decision of House leaders as to
when it will reach the floor. A re-
view of the bill by the Judiciary
Committee also was received.
John L. Lewis offered "docu-
mentary proof" to the Senate Labor
Committee today that American
Federation of Labor proposals te
amend the Wagner Act were pre-
pared with the aid of attorneys fol-
"reactionary and anti-labor" cor.
porations.
The c. I. O. leaders exhibit ap-
peared in a long statement present.
ed by Philip Murray. Congress OF
Industrial Organizations vice presi-
dent.
It charged that Joseph A. Pad
way, A. F. L. general counsel. pre-
pared the Federation's amendments
after a series of secret conferences
with Gilbert H. Montague Of New
York. Earl Reed of Pittsburgh and
Ernest S. Ballard Of Chicago.
The three attorneys were de-
scribed by Mr.. Lewis as represen-
tatives of many corporations which
have been the most fragrant and
notorious violators of the National
Labor Relations Act"
Cites La Toilette Inquiry.
Mr.. Lewis listed IA companies
which he said were represented by
Mr.. Montague. Mr.. Reed and Mr..
Ballard, and added:
THE anti-labor activities of many
of these corporations have been re-
vealed through the La Toilette Civil
Liberties Committee, which diclosed
their widespread industrial espionage
and purchase and use of guns and
ammunition in industrial disputes
These same corporations and
their executive heads have also
been active members of the Ma
tional Association of Manufac-
turers and actively participated in
the determination of the policy OF
the N. A. M. to advise industry
generally to deliberately violate the
National Labor Relations Act"
Mr.. Lewis declared in his state
ment that one of the secret con-
ferences" was held July 10, 1898
at luncheon in the Union League
Club in New York City and another
in Chicago November l, 1888.
In its October, 1888, convention
the A. F. L. voted to ask Congress
for a series of amendments to the
Wagner Act.
Mr.. Lewis charges that the A.
F. L. and business interests had CO.
operated in the preparation of
(See LEWIS Page A.5D
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Lively Scout Activity
on Front, Soy Germans
~ the Associated p-.

~ the Associated Press.
.ct;,,;... nt;I;nLiN, Feb. Lively scouting
'iSy 49, y. developed between Mettlach
r,ao. nau tne Palatinate Forest on the
western western front, the Official German
a,a stms agency DNB reported TODAY in
communique. 'ei ia'ii'aiS
h,,s Asrelllery oI fire was weak, DNB said,
eas.S oav Ilis is reconnaissance squad en-
saseo IN an energetic scuff1e east If
Gerran G nmUseile Rlver yesterday and one
..is -. .,n n'gn command communioue
eapo no special events :" "'4"e
Evening star., 1940-02-07
Two |. R. A. Members
Are Hanged Amid
British Tension
Police Keep VieiIont
Watch Against Fresh
Terror Outbreaks
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fresS
BIRMINGHAM. England. Feb. 7.
Two members of the outlawed
Irish Republican Army died on the
gallows today in bleak, fog -shrouded
Winton Green Gaol. and Great
Britain Waited vigilantly for the re-
action of Irish Nationalists.
AS a clock chimed 9, the hour of
doom, those in throng outside the
prison barred their heads in the
chill mist There was no sign of a
demonstration.
Silently the crowd watched when,
seven minutes later. a prison offl-
cial tackled up notices of the execu-
ton on a small door in the center
Of the prison gate. The notices dis
closed that the men, James Rich
ards. 20, and Peter Barnes. 80, went
to death at the same moment.
The watchers then were permitted
to form a line which filed slowly
past the gate and its slips of paper.
They read the formal statement
that "the judgment of death has
been executed"
Thousands of Police Ready.
Thousands of police reinforce
ments were held on overtime duty
in London and other large cities on
the possibility that the execution
might signal new outburst of ter
rorism-if not civil conflict in Ire
land.
Extra guards had patrolled the
prison grounds and Birmingham
police the nearby streets to block any
attempt at delivery of the con-
demned men, or any other attempt
to interfere with the process of the
law.
All vehicles were stopped some dis
tance from the prison, and officers
forced the waiting throng of several
hundred persons back into side
streets.
A priest who had administered last
rites for Barnes and Richards left
the prison a half hour before the ex-
ecution.
The rites we're administered last
night, and the priest told the pair all
hope for reprieve or clemency had
vanished. They were reported to
have spent their last hour quietly.
First Civil Execution Since 1867.
Theirs was the first civil trial and
execution of Irish Republican ex-
tremists since the 1867 hanging of
three men for the killing OF Man.
chester police sergeant. AS the
Manchester martyrs" their men,
ory is hallowed by Irish patriots.
Theirs also were the first death
sentences handed down since the I.
r. A.-outlawed in Great Britain
and Ireland-began its violent cam
paign a little more than a year ago
for the avowed purpose of driving
the British out of Ireland"
The I. r. A. wants union be-
tween Ireland (Eire) and Northern
Ireland CUlster), which as a part Of
the British United Kingdom pays
fealty to the British crown. Irish
Nationalists all share this desire,
and while many disavow the meth
ods of the l. r. A., its members
claim the tacit sympathy of many
non-member Irishmen.
Union between the six counties
of Northern Ireland and Ireland
proper is an aim of the Dublin gov
ernment-in fact, it is envisaged in
the Irish constitution-but Prime
Minister Eamon de Valera has adopt
ed stern measures to keep the I. r.
A. in check.
Barnes and Richards went to
1See EXECUTIONS Page A-40
Evening star., 1940-02-07
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

. The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee today approved the bill
making possible $50, ,000, 900 credit
to Finland, after amending it to
enable the Export Import Bank to
advance a similar amount to China.
The measure was reported out
by the substantial majority Of IL
to 6, following a week of careful
deliberation, in which the commit
tee heard State Department Off
cials. Federal Loan Administra-
tor Jesse Jones and others.
At the same time the 18 members
present went on record unanimously
in favor of the proposal of Senator
Harrison, Democrat. of Mississippi.
to have the Securities and Exchange
Commission expedite the fiotation
of any private bond issue in this
country if Finland should see fit to
make. such an application.
1t was emphasized that this ac-
ton was in addition to approval of
the Export-1mport Bank loan meas
ure, and not a substitute for it. The
Harrison resolution was not officially
before the committee, but the Mis-
sissippi Senator wanted an express
sion of the sentiment of the group.
Quick Action Sought.
Chairman Pittman of the Foreign
Relations group will seek to bring
the loan bill before the Senate as
soon as the pending independent Of
fees appropriation measure is out of
the way.
The foreign relations group made
only one change in the bill from
the form in which it already had
been approved by the Banking Com
mittee two weeks ago. That change
was for the purpose of making it
possible for Mr.. Jones to lend China
$40, ,000. 900 more. Before the amend
ment was adopted China could only
have obtained about 81 0O0, 900 of ad-
ditional credit
The bill does not mention either
Finland or China, but increases the
general lending fund of the Export
Import Bank by 100000, 900, with
discretion left to Administrator
Jones to pass on the proposed loans.
There was a restriction in the bill,
(see FINNISH AID, Page A-3)