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Evening star., 1941-02-07
Suner Reported Going
To Vichy 10 Aid Nazi
Pressure on Petain
Spanish Cooperation With
Axis Rings France With
HitIer-ControIIed Powers
BY JOHN T. WHITAKER,

Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent.
ROME, Feb. 7.-Spanish Foreign
Minister Ramon Serrano Suner has
gone to Vichy, it is learned in in
formed quarters here today, to join
the German chancellor there in
bringing pressure to bear on Mar
shal Henri Petain.
Spanish cooperation with the
axis will mean that France is en-
tirely surrounded by Hitler-con-
trolled countries so that resistance
to German demands would meet
swift and complete occupation.
The Germans want the French
Navy, the armed forces in French
North Africa and the all-powerful
naval base of Bizerta in French
Tunisia, it has been indicated in
the course of repeated diplomatic
negotiations between Berlin and
Vichy.
The French will find it doubly
difficult to resist if the Spaniards
agree upon the passage of German
troops eastward from French Mo-
rocco, at time when the Italians
have turned Sicily over to Hitler
as an airbase scarcely more than
100 miles from Tunisia.
Any possible movement by MuSso-
lini cannot be reported by foreign
correspondents.
Axis quarters, speaking privately,
have made it plain for some time
that Hitler must gain control of
French Africa and the French fleet
before the possibility of American
aid to Britain heartens the anti
German elements in France.
(Copyrisht, 1941, Chicago Daily News, Inc)
Evening star., 1941-02-07
By DREW MIDDLETON,
Associated Press War Correspondent

ASSOCldleu "ai Noi4SSPoHoeiiU'
WITH THE BRITISH HOME
FORCES IN THE FIELD. SOME
WHERE IN ENGLAND, Feb. T.
British long-range guns are pound
ing the German-held French Port
of Calais from several positions in
the girdle of steel and concrete that
encompasses Britain.
For more than a month the
crouching monsters have talked
across the Channel, tossing tons of
high explosive and steel into that
Invasion port" and surviving
counter-fire of Nazi railway bat
teries in that vicinity.
Everywhere I went in a tWo-day
tour of the area the soldiery, from
brigadiers to buck privates, had the
same desire. 1t was best expressed
by one trooper who said: I hope
old Jerry will have a go at tive
will brown his hide for him."
I counted many field guns-light,
medium and heavy-in a stretch.
Farther along heavy and light ma
Evening star., 1941-02-07
Strikes Haven't Hurt
Defense Program,
HiI|man Declares
None of the Handful Has
Been Serious, He Says,
Calling Situation Good
Bv JAMES FREE.

There has been no interference
with the defense program on &C
count of strikes, Sidney Hillman,
associate director general of the
Office of Production Management,
said today.
None of the handful of work
stoppages has been of a serious ma
ture, Mr.. Hillman declared, adding
that there is no need now for addi-
tional legislation covering labor
problems in defense.
when a situation is in good con-
dition, don't NEEDLE with it," Mr.
Hillman commented.
During 1910 less than two hours
per worker were lost because of
strikes, according to a special study
made by the Bureau of Labor Statis-
tics, Mr.. Hillman said. This loss
was less than one-quarter of that
due to industrial accidents, accord
ing to the survey.
Mr.. Hillman said relations between
management and labor are the best
in the 80 years he has been observ-
lllSS lllC IldlIOlldI llCld
Incorporation between labor and
management has never been better" ;"
he said.
Few Important StOppages.
Of about 300 disputes threatened
since the defense program began, in
which the Labor Department Con-
citation Service and the Labor Dl-
vision of the Defense Commission
have intervened. only a handful
nave resulted in appreciable stop
pages, Mr.. Hillman explained.
Most of the stoppages have been
brief and collectively have not in
terfered with defense activities in
any industry, Mr.. Hillman stated.
Expressing the belief that man
agement obtains the best results
where labor actively participates in
its production program. Mr.. Hill
man said his primary goal is to pro-
mote greater cooperation between
these two essential groups.
He reported that his labor division
is being enlarged to include about
80 full-time experts recruited main
ly from major union organizations.
The main task of these men will be
to keep in contact with the situ-
ation," he said.
Mr.. Hillman said further that he
(See HILLMAN, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1941-02-07

Selective service officials explained
that in Boards 10. II. 10, 81, % and
25, order numbers of colored reg
istrants would have to be skipped
far down the list in order to fur
nish any appreciate number OF
white selectees. Colored men in sew
eral of these boards outnumber
white registrants nearly 10 to l in
low order number brackets.
Inconsistency in Act.
Boards omitted in filling the
March call will be required to fur
nish the bulk of colored men when
the War Department issues requlsi-
tions for such registrants later in
the year.
In many of the boards which will
supply men for the LOO quota, there
will arise the necessity for skipping
varying numbers of colored reg
istrantS, although the latter will be
given physical examinations. With
this factor an inconsistency develops
in the Selective Service Act itself
The law stipulates that men shall
be called in the order which they
appear on lists drawn up follow
ing the national lottery, but at the
same time points out that selectees
shall not be inducted into service
until adequate facilities are avail
able to take care of them.
Army Issues Calls.
AS these facilities are made avail
able, the War Department issues
calls for men. Facilities are being
constructed separately for white and
colored soldiers, and as a result calls
are being received at different times
for white and colored men-and in
varying proportions.
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, selective
service executive for the District,
explained that physical eXamina-
tions are given to regiStrantS strictly
according to order numbers.
More than 5000 regiStrants will be
examined February 13, II, 20 and q
to provide reservoir of Glass Ia
men from which to draw the 1,100
selectees for March induction. All
boards will be represented in the
physical examinations, officials en-
phasized, adding that it is deemed
(See D. c. DRAFT, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1941-02-07
Stimson Says Defense
Unhurt; Williams
Denounces Transfer
BY J. A. O'LEARY.

Secretary of War Stimson de-
MED today in a letter to the Sem
ate Foreign Relations Committee
that delivery of planes to Great
Britain has impaired the defen-
sive program or the safety of the
United States.
Secretary Stimson also declared
the War Department expected "ac-
celerated deliveries" to the Army
Air Corps of the latest type of COM
bat planes within four to six
months"
While the committee heard further
testimony against the administra-
tions lease-lend bill from Maj.
Afford j. Williams, former Navy
flyer, and from Kingman Brewster,
jr., Yale University senior, Chair
man George produced the Stimson
letter, which the Secretary said was
written to correct what he called
Misrepresentation of the actual
situation" in a newspaper account
of his testimony in closed session
last week.
Maj. Williams declared that the
United States armed forces have no
single-seater fighting plane that can
hold candle to the British and
German pursuit ships now clashing
in combat over England.
Saws Air Force Stripned
He asserted this country's air
forces were being stripped" of planes
needed for the secondary training
OF military pilots because such ships
were being turned over to Great
Britain.
Far from constituting an inter-
ference with the purchase of planes
by our Air Corps" Secretary Stim-
son wrote, "the purchases made in
this country by Britain and France
in particular over the past two years
have been primarily responsible for
the expansion that has taken place
in the aircraft industry in this
country"
The Secretary took the position
that air power depends on produc-
tive capacity and not merely on
number of planes on hand, and
that the British and French orders
paved the way for expansion of
American productive capacity which
would not have been possible other
wise.
Mr.. Stimson's letter went into the
record only after Senators Gillette,
Democrat, of Iowa; Johnson, Re-
publican, of California and Clark,
Democrat, of Missouri had protested
that the Secretary was being per-
mitted to make an additional state
ment without subjecting himself to
ross-eXamination.
Agrees With Lindbergh.
Charges by Maj. Williams that
planes worth their weight in gold"
to this country were sent abroad as
"obSolete" led to an extended cross
examination by committee members.
Maj. Williams was questioned by
several Senators on his testimony
that he stood at Mitchell Field, N. Y,
late in 1889 and saw dozens of
active service Air Corps planes de-
part for Canada"
Maj Williams told Senator Nye,
Republican. of North Dakota he
agreed with Col Charles A. Lind
bergh that Great Britain cannot
win the war.
He explained. however, that he
draws a distinction between her
ability to defend the British Isles
from invasion. and the stated war
aim of crushing Hitlerism."
That war aim, he said, would re-
quire invasion of the continent of
Europe, land that cannot be done"
Meanwhile, at a White House
press conference, a reporter told
President Roosevelt that Col. Rob-
(See HEARING, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1941-02-07
Unearihed Body Identified
As Missing Labor Leader
Ry y t Associated Press.

By - Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Feb. THE body
unearthed last week from quicklime
in the meadows near Lyndhurst,
N. j., has been identified as that
of Peter Panto. an insurgent long
shoremen's labor leader who disap-
peared 10 months ago.
At the office of William ODwyer.
Brooklyn district attorney, whose
men found the body. it was said the
identification was made yesterday
by Peter Mazzie, a close friend and
successor of Mr.. Panto as chairman
Of the Rank and File Committee Of
the International Longshoremens
Association.
Three men sought by Mr..
ODwyer's Office in connection with
the case were named as Albert Ana
stasio, Emanuel 'Mendy" Weiss and
James Ferraoo. known variously as
Dirty Neck" and Dizzy" All are
fugitives.
Evening star., 1941-02-07
Reputation Damaged,
Hearst Claims in Suit

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. IA $500 900
libel suit has been filed in State
Supreme Court by William Randolph
Hearst and the International News
Service against Friday, Inc, pub
fishers of the magazine Unbeliev-
able.
The publisher asked $250,O0O, al
leging damage to his reputation as
a newspaperman, and the news serv-
ice asked a like amount, claiming
damage to it's prestige, as the re-
suit of an article published in the
magazine.
Evening star., 1941-02-07
19 Draft Boards
To Supply 1,100
Men in March
Six Areas Omitted
Because of Heavy
CoIored Listing

The 1,100 selectees the District has
been ordered to supply for military
induction next month were appor-
toned among 10 local draft boards
today, with six boards omitted from
the call due to a predominance of
colored registrants.
The record quota, received in a
Third Corps Area order yesterday,
calls for white selectees exclusively
to be sent eventually TO Fort Bliss,
Texas. where they will fill out to
war strength the ranks of the 26oth
Coast Artillery, anti-aircraft regi-
ment of the District National Guard.
The quota breakdown follows:
Board No. Quota. Board No. Quota.
Evening star., 1941-02-07
By EDWARD KENNEDY,
Associated Press War Correspondent.

CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. Ben
gasi, Italy'S last big stronghold
in Eastern Libya, has been cap
tured, British general headquar-
tiers announced today.
The British now claim control
of all Eastern Libya, with Italian
forces there capitulating or flee
ing.
Bengasi, military and naval base
and a provincial capital in ter
ritory which Italy regards as a part
of herself, was taken yesterday by
British forces, which cut through
a binding sandstorm to strike at
the city from two directions.
Knife Across Highway.
After skirting the Jebel El Akdar
range on the inland side. TO Ben
gasi's east British armored forces,
including swift Bren gun carriers.
armored cars and tanks, knitted
across the main coastal highway
south of Bengasi and straddled that
road while Australian assault troops
lunged against the city'S defenSes
on the northeast.
The first communique on the VIC
tory said merely: "Bengasi is in our
hands" A later communique gave
the plan of attack This commu-
nique, reporting on other African
war fronts, said in part that more
than $500 prisoners had been taken
on the British advance into Eritrea,
Italian East Africa.
At Bengasi, about 1900 miles
northwest of the Eritrean battle
front, the Italians were said to
have been "demoralized and out
maneuvered" and unable to put
into effect their plans for defense"
Bengasi and that region had been
heavily bombed by the R. A. F. in
recent days.
61st Day of Offensive.
This was the 6lst day of a British
offensive which started out as a
tentative effort to drive the Ital-
ians out of Egypt. which they had
penetrated more than 70 miles along
the coast.
Now the British offensive has
carried about $50 miles into Libya.
Bengasi is the second of Libya's
provincial capitals to fall. Derna
fell a week ago.
Some British circles have said
that the biggest and, as they put it,
final Italian stand probably will be
made in defense of Tripoli, capital
of Libya. TripoH is about 400 air.
line miles west of Bengasi, consid-
erably farther by the curving coastal
road along the Gulf of Sidra
The R. A. F. reported it gained
control of the air at Bengasi with
out challenge from the italian air
force on the eve Of Bengasis sur
render.
Night Bombardment.
The British planes ushered in yes
terday's land assault on the town
with night of bombardment in
which several tons" of bombs we're
dropped at Bengasi Berka and Age
data (Jedabya) and Benina Air
drome was Strafed with machine
guns so that "a number" of bombers
were damaged.
1t also reported a battle between
South African and Italian planes
near Asmara, Eritrea in which two
Italian planes were shot down.
The British said the fall of Ben
gasi, an important naval and army
base in italian North Africa. marked
collapse of the Italian grasp on
Cirenaica, an older division of Libya
now making up the provinces Of
lSnn IIRXA pane A5l
Evening star., 1941-02-07
Sabotage Is Doubted
As Army SeeksCause
OF 4th Bomber Crash
New Craft Was Carrying
Experimental Equipment;
Crew Of Eight Cremoted
(Picture on Page A-4)
(Picture on Page A-4.)
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOVELOCK, New, Feb. 7.-While
a Gordon of c. c. c. camp enrollees
stood guard and campfires lit the
gruesome scene, Army investigators
early today sought to determine
why new-type bomber crashed on
mountainside near here Yesterday,
cremating its crew of eight.
1t was the fourth air disaster In
the West since December involving
United States warplanes.
The plane, one of the Army's new
est four-motored bombers, carried
equipment for experiments IN cold
weather flying and might have had
installed the Air Corps jealously-
guarded secret bombsight.
Scene of the tragedy was a noun
tain which rises abruptly 1000 feet
from the desert II miles southwest
of here.
Sabotage Doubted.
Possibility of sabotage was dis
counted by Col. F. c. Nelson, COM
manding officer of Mcclellan Field
at Sacramento, Calf, starting point
of the ill-fated flight.
A rumor that an attempt to
sabotage planes at the field had
been discovered about week ago
was neither confirmed nor denied
by Col Nelson.
The four-motored. % 2-ton bomb
er left Sacramento at 1928 am. yes
terday en- route to Denver with Capt.
R. S. Freeman, commandant of Ladd
Field, Alaska, at the controls. The
plane and crew had arrived in Sac
ramento last month from Alaska,
and planned to proceed to Wright
Field, Dayton, Ohio, before return
ing to the Territory.
The last report was heard from
the plane at $50 am, and news of
the crash came soon after as eye
witnesses raced to telephones to no
tify authorities.
"Deafening Explosion"
Lloyd M. Carpenter, foreman of
the Lowery Wells C. c. C. Camp. 10
miles west of here, saw the plane
plow into the mountain, shortly after
hearing it among some clouds.
II couldn't see it at first" he re-
lated, but pretty soon it came out
of the clouds and went into dive.
They gunned the motors, but they
(See PLANE, Page AID
Evening star., 1941-02-07
Persons Entering Italy
Now Must Give Reasons
By the Associated Press.

ROME, Feb. 7.-PerSons seeking
entrance to Italy are being required
to explain their reasons for coming
under stiffened control of passport
visas, authoritative sources said to-
day.
The requirement. it was said, is
responsible for some travellers being
stopped at italian frontiers. Re-
ports from abroad that Italy had
closed her frontiers were denied au-
thoritatively.
Travel from Switzerland into Italy
was suspended yesterday because of
new Italian visa regulations, diplo-
matte sources said in Bern Early
resumption of travel over the bor-
der was expected.
Evening star., 1941-02-07
U.S.. Official Will Study
British Civilian Training
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Office of Education today sent
Dr.. Robert w. Handbook, its senior
trade and industry specialist, to
England for confidential reports on
British strategy of wartime morale
and civilian training.
Il expect to make regular con-
fidential reports to our Govern
ment," DR.. Handbook said, which
may give us a basis for whatever
changes we one day may have to
make in training police, f1re-fighters,
doctors, nurses, mechanics and
civilian leaders for rehabilitation
of bombed-out areas"
Evening star., 1941-02-07
Mother and ; Daughters
Die in Kerosene BIust
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NORRIS CITY, Ill, Feb. IA
mother and three of her four daugh-
tiers were burned to death today in
a fire which followed an explosion
of kerosene being used to kindle
fire. The father saved the fourth
daughter, but both incurred minor
burns.
The dead were Mrs. Ethey Bryant,
Al, and Dorothy, 10, Evelyn, 13, and
Alma Marie, 10.
Evening star., 1941-02-07
Germany to Repotriote
1900 French Prisoners

BY the Associated Press.
VICHY France, Feb. 7-Germany
mas agreed to repatriate 5000 French
war prisoners deemed mot indis-
pensable" to German prison camps,
the War Ministry announced yester-
day.
The prisoners, who will be re-
turned via Switzerland between to-
morrow and February 10, are part
of the French Army Medical Corps.
The ministry also announced de-
mobilization of another fraction of
the army class of 1888.
Evening star., 1941-02-07
Christians Urged to Exercise
Moral Control of Government
Mission Leader Soys They Have Balance
OfPower, but Don't Know How to Use 1t

The Christians of America hold
the balance of power in their Gov
ernment. but they don't know how
to use it, leaders in the National
Christian Mission and Washington
church workers were told today.
The church leaders. gathered to
appraise the work of the mission
during its week-long sessions here,
heard Dr. E. Stanley Jones, mis-
sionary-evangelist of Lucknow, India,
call for an organized Christianity
to exercise not ecclesiastical but
moral control of the Government.
He noted tremendous potentiali-
ties" in the Christian people of
Evening star., 1941-02-07
John Lord 0'Brian Named
0.P. N. General Counsel

John Lord OBrian of Buffalo, N
Y. head of the War Emergency
Division of the Department of JUS
tice during the World War, has been
appointed general counsel of the Of
flee of Production Management, 1t
was announced today.
An assistant to the Attorney Gen.
eral from 1929 to 1888, Mr.. O'Brian
also has served as special counsel
for the Tennesse Valley Authority.
He was Republican candidate for
the Senate in 1898.
Evening star., 1941-02-07
but said they were largely

America, but said they were largely
unorganized.
The processes of government" he
declared. ARE now decided with only
a secondhand reference to the
Christian way. Our destiny is be-
ing decided without us, yet We hold
the greatest power
The chasm between the essentially
moral and religious hearts of the
people of America and their Gov
eminent must be bridged with Chris
tian solidarity, he declared
More than once during the ap-
praisal it was pointed out that the
Continued on Page A-3. Column p
Evening star., 1941-02-07
Weygond Denies
Nozis Will Get
Use of Bizerte
BY the Associated Press.

VICHY, France, Feb. Cen.
Maxine Weygand has denied in the
name of the French government
that France is intending to let Ger
many use the naval base at Bizerte,
French Tunisia, and has declared
that no negotiations are under way
for cession of Bizerte or the landing
of German troops there for Libya.
Gen. Weygand, supreme COM
mander of armies in French North
Africa, made these statements in
a radio address yesterday at Al
giers, Algeria.
Word OF the broadcast reached
here today.
Evening star., 1941-02-07
Held for Grund Jury

John A. Campbell, 81, of the 100
block of Kilbourne place NV, was
held under $2,500 bond yesterday for
grand jury action when arraigned in
Police Court on a robbery charge
He was accused of taking $50 from
James Callas. commission merchant,
on January 80.
Evening star., 1941-02-07
King Visits Portsmouth

PORTSMOUTH, England, Feb. 7
R.-King George vi and Queen
Elizabeth made three-hour tour
of afraid damaged areas in this
British seaport and naval base yes
terday.
Evening star., 1941-02-07
Final Action on Aid Bill Near,
Bockers Bar Further Chances:
Effect Of Plane Shifts Disputed
Democrats Decide
To Resist New
Amendments
BACKGROUND

BACKERUUND--
Administration BritiSh-nid bill
tDould empo1Oer President to oc-
Quire and lease or lend 1Uar ma
teridlS to nations 1UhoSe defense
he considered essential to safety
OF United States. Present statutes
require belligerentS to buy ma
terialS on caSh-and-curry basis
and British are reported running
short OF dollar exchange for cash
purchases.
Evening star., 1941-02-07

Foreign.
British capture Bengasi in sand
storm. Page Al
Europe's death rate among civilians
rising ominously. Page Az
Invasion ports docks are fired, Brit
ish claim. Page Az
Scores of Chinese reported drowned
fleeing Japanese. Page AS
New positions taken north of Trebes-
sina range, Greeks say. Page AS
Direct diplomatic relations with New
Zealand planned. Page AS
Matsuoka stresses East Asia security
as peace talks open. Page AS
National.
Stimson denies plane shipments i'm
pairs defense program. Page Al
House Democrats to resist further
aid bill changes. Page Al
Evening star., 1941-02-07
Bengosi Is Captured
By British, Cutting
Through Sondstorm
Armored Forces Strike
City From z Directions;
Italians Fleeing

British began offensive against
Italians in Africa in December
rith assault on Italian outpost
at Sidt Barrani. Egypt Outpost
ras captured. as 1Cere, SUCCESSIVE
n, Bardid, Tobruk, Dern and
Ctrene. In East Africa, British
are engaged in three-sided of
tenStUe against Italian territory,
progress being made into Eritred,
Ethiopia and Italian Somulilund.
Evening star., 1941-02-07
Summary Of Todoy's Star

Hillman claims strikes have not in
terfered with defense Page Al
U. S. production of new British war
plane considered. Page Al
Washington and Vicinity.
First witness testif1es in medical
case today. Page Al
SeapoWer to determine worlds fate,
Knox tells middies. Page Al
March draft call apportioned among
10 D. C. boards. Page Al
Editorial and Comment.
Letters to The Star. Page AS
Answers to Questions. Page AS
This and That. Page AS
David Lawrence. Page A-9
Frederick William Vile. Page A-9
PertinaX. Page A-9
Constantine Brown. Page A-9
Jay Franklin. Page A-9
Miscellany.
Vital Statistics. Page b.
Service Orders. Page B-8
Natures Children. Page BIZ
Bedtime Story. Page C-S
Winning Contract. Page CO
Uncle Rays Corner. Page C-9
Cross Word Puzzle. Page Clio
Evening star., 1941-02-07

(See LIBYA, Page A-5.0
Evening star., 1941-02-07

(See HILLMAN, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1941-02-07

(See D. c. DRAFT, Page A-20
Evening star., 1941-02-07

(See MEDICAL, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1941-02-07

(See HEARING, Page A-4.)