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Evening star., 1941-02-08
British Warn Sofio
Of Bombs If Nozis
Cross, Turkey Hears
Delivery Of Note
By English to Bulgaria
Reported in Istonbul
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ISTANBUL. Turkey. Feb. g.
1t was reliably reported today,
but without official confirmation,
that Britain had warned Bull
garia that passage of German
troops through that nation would
bring British bombing of Bull
garian military objectives.
In London, authoritative For
eign Office circles said today there
was no confirmation" there of
the reports that Britain had de-
livered warning 10 Bulgaria.
The report circulated in diplo-
matte quarters that a formal note
delivered TO the Bulgarian Foreign
Office by the British Minister in
Sofia, warned that Nazi military
penetration of Bulgaria in order to
attack Britain's ally, Greece, would
bring British aerial action.
Britain was understood to have
specified that the r. A. F. would
bomb railways and other communi-
cation facilities if Bulgaria allowed
Nazi troops on her soil.
The official Turkish press, which
until recently insisted Bulgaria
would resist German demands for
passage Of troops. now is declaring
Sofia may submit 10 axis pressure.
The press. which generally reflects
official views. has warned repeatedly
that Nazi advance toward the
Aegean would bring Turkey into the
war.
This change in the attitude of ths
Turkish newspapers conceded with
rumors in Sofia that German action
may be imminent in the Balkans.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Pr the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8.-Work-
ers who refuse to cross picket lines
to get to their jobs-and thus be-
come unemployed go with
out jobless insurance under new
ruling of the California Supreme
Court.
The decision, handed down yester-
day, ends a long controversy over
Interpretation of the State Unem-
ployment Insurance Act, which pro-
vides that those who leave their
work in a labor dispute must forfeit
claims to compensation while idle.
Labor unions have contended that
non-striking employees, barred
from their work by picket lines, were
entitled to the insurance payments.
Referees of the State Unemployment
Insurance Commission have agreed
with them in some cases.
One of them recommended bene-
fits amounting to about 100000 to
c. I. o. longshoremen idle here in
the 1899 water front tie-up because
they refused to pass the slender,
sometimes mythical. picket lines OF
the small C. I. o. Ship Clerks Un-
ion. Payment was held up by litiga-
ton, however.
The court indicated there might
be some justification for confering
different status on non-strfkins
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Co|iforniuns Who Won't Cross
Picket Line Lose Job|ess Aid

employees deprived of work by clos
ing down of plants in industrial dis
putes in which they had no part.
But that is not the situation
here" wrote Chief Justice Phil Glib
son, in directing the Unemployment
Compensation Commission to reim-
burse the Bodinson Manufacturing
Co. of San Francisco for benefits
paid two machinists who would not
cross a welders' union picket line
in 1899.
Curb on Court Acts Urged.
"If the picket line was maintained
within the limits provided by law
no physical compulsion was
exerted to prevent correspondents
from working. They were unem-
ployed solely because, in accordance
with their union principles, they
did not choose to work in a plant
where certain of their fellow en-
ployes were on strike"
Also significant was a separate
ruling by a majority of the court
in two companion cases, one in
volving the longshoremen and the
other the Gantner & Natter
Knitting mills here. holding that q
State administrative board should
be allowed to complete it's procedure
in a case without interference from
the courts. Two judges dissented tc
this.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Park Police Arrest ID
For Walking on Grass

Sergt. o. R. Reese and Pvt. b
J. Beckman of the park police
arrested seven persons yesterday
and seven more today for taking
shortcuts across parks.
Practically all those apprehended
forfeited the So minimum collateral
required.
Last spring, at the instigation OF
Secretary of the Interior 1ckes, the
Office of National Capital Parks
began a save the grass campaign
and ordered policemen to arrest
violators of the park regulation
forbidding walking on the grass.
A number of persons were fined
then and during the fall when the
drive was renewed.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
18-Degree Temperature
Forecast for Tonight

The mercury will drop to 18 de-
grees tonight, the Weather Bureau
forecast today.
Tomorrow will be fair and cold
with the possibility of rain or snow
early next week. it was predicted.
The Atlantic Coast was being lashed
by a storm, which extended from
Block Island to Delaware Bay and
which may move on Washington.
The temperature reached q low
Of "a degrees at Z am. today.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Problems of Modern Youth
Occupy Mission Conferences
Questions on Peace and Marriage Asked
Of Leaders; Loyalty Is Stressed

Young people from all over Wash
lngton. attracted to an all-day Ma
tional Christian Mission youth con-
ference. gathered today at the Lu-
ther Place Memorial Church TO
learn how their problems could be
solved through their adherence TO
the Christian faith.
At mission seminars. they pounded
the leaders with questions varying
from the possibilities of peace to
the best method of choosing a mate.
A call to find Elimination of prob
lens through faith was sounded by
Dr. George Heaton. pastor of the
First Baptist Church. Lynchburg,
Va, who launched today's program
for young people.
Urging the Young people to give
the same devotion to the cause of
Christianity that the followers of
paganism give to their faith, DR..
Heaton asked:
Evening star., 1941-02-08

How can We hope to participa te
in the Kingdom of God with our
desires for convenience, our loath-
ing of hardships. and our loathing
TO make sacrifices. when our enc
mics are willing TO live only for
their cause?
Until Christian youth are willing
to devote themselves to revitalizing
their faith. DR.. Heaton warned that
it could not expect to compete in
the conflict between paganism and
Christianity.
He quoted the disillusioned young
author of Out of the Night" as
an example of one who gave up
his whole life for a cause.-the
effort to establish Communism in
Germany after the World War,
and he urged that Christian youth
tSee MISSION, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Nozis Reported Poised
To March Into BuIqorio

SOFIA. Bulgaria. Feb. 8 (P).-Bul-
garla ordered a new restriction Of
train service last night amid wide.
spread reports that the German
army was planning to enter this
country.
Foreign Minister Ivan PopoH,
taking cognizance of such rumors
was understood to have told Parlia-
ment members at a private meeting
that he was unable TO say what
may lie in the future"
The foreign minister's statement
was made as rumOrs of impending
German action flooded Sofia
One traveller from the Rumanian
frontier said German troop activity
indicated an intention of moving
soon. perhaps in 48 hours. But an
American traveller said a pontoon
bridge being laid across the Danube
had not been completed. and that
troop movements across the river
from Rumania into Bulgaria would
not be possible in the near future.
At any rate. residents along the
Bulgarian bank of the Danube said
all was quiet at a late hour last
night.
Amidst the fog Of rumor this
much was known definitely-Bul-
garia for the second time in a month
curtailed passenger train service on
routes toward the Rumanian Greek,
Yugoslav and Turkish borders ef-
fective today
While 1t was announced that the
Curtailment by 80 per cent of the
trains on these routes was to permit
transportation of new Bulgarian
troops called this week to replace
others on duty, observers said the
same action could be taken TO pre-
pare for an emergency. Curtailment
of service two weeks ago it was
explained. was to permit repair Of
locomotives.
Highly reliable political inform
ants said Turkey possibly has 20
divisions on the Bulgarian frontier.
Greece. which had withdrawn troops
from the Bulgarian frontier, now
has returned some of them to thoSs
posts. presumably because of the
presence of German troops in Ru-
mania.
In his private address to the par
See BULGARIA, Page ABB
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Foreign Language Press
Forbidden in Bruzil
Nv the Associated Press.


RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. B.
Brazil's foreign language press ap-
peared doomed today under a de-
cree by President Getulio Vargas
requiring that all newspapers and
magazines be published exclusively
in Portuguese.
The decree, announced yesterday,
allows publications affected six
months in which to comply.
Since 1899, foreign language
papers have been required to print
part of their news in Portuguese.
Rio de Janeiro has two English
language publications-The News,
a tabloid daily owned by Ralph B.
Ross, and the magazine Brazilian
American-and the German Deut-
sche Rio zeitung. The Italian
Daily Fanfulla is published at Sac
Paulo, and there are German pub
lications In Southern Brazil.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Ex-Convict Confesses
Writing De Tristan
Extortion Notes
F. B. !. Crime Laboratory
Ensnores Man Who
EIuded Garden Trop
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
J. Edgar Hoover announced today
that F. B. I agents had obtained
a confession from Raymond Parker,
So, convicted bank robber and
forger that he was the man who
attempted to eXtort $4,000 from
the Countess Marc de Tristan of
Hillsborough. Calf. last year.
Mr.. Hoover said Parker was being
held at Stockton, Calf, and had
admitted writing three eXtortion
notes after being confronted with
evidence developed at the Federal
Bureau of Investigation crime lab
oratory here.
Parker. Mr.. Hoover said. had
threatened Baby Marc de Tristan or
some member of the family with
death unless $4,000 was paid in
cash.
Eluded F. b. I. Trap.
The baby had been kidnapped less
than a month before the eXtortlon
notes were received. but was re-
turned three days later after two
woodsmen captured the kidnaper'
Wilhelm Jacob Muhlenbrolch. who
was sentenced to life in a California
prison. ...
The first extortion letter written
bv Parker. Mr. Hoover said, was
received November 18, and a second
was received December 6. When no
contact was made. third letter
was received December l6 and act
ing on instructions contained IN II,
F B. I. agents at Santa Rosa. Call
set up a trap for the eXtortloner
around a cabbage patch where the
pay-off was to take place.
The extortioner appeared, grabbed
a package containing worthless
paper and fed up gulley. The night
was dark and rainy and the eX-
tortioner slipped through the ring
of police.
Twice Imprisoned.
Mr.. Hoover said Parker had used
the alais of Joe Recheson and Joe
Richardson. They said ne was a
native of California.
Mr.. Hoover said the man was
sentenced to the San Quentin Penl-
tentiary in 1923 for forgery and
paroled in 1925. The following year
he was sentenced to Folsom Penl-
tentiary at Represa, Calf. the F.
B.I. chief said, after pleading guilty
to bank robbery and was sentenced
to five years to life. He was released
last November 9.
The bank robbery for which he
was sentenced. Mr. Hoover said
occurred at the Roseville branch
of the Farmers and Merchants
Bank. and was preceded by the
burglary of an armory at LODI,
Calf.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

House leaders virtually decided
today that no effort would be
made to diSlodge from the lease
lend bill the Dirksen amend
ment, which provides that by
concurrent resolution any or all
the powers delegated in the bill
may be repealed.
The decision of the leaders was
based. 1t was said. on their belief
that the amendment would not in
terfere with the operation of the
law under existing circumstances
Furthermore. a question of the con-
stitutionality of proposal to re-
peal any legislation by concurrent
resolution is involved, and might
cause the amendment to be ineffec-
tive in any event.
1t was decided by the House lead
ers to remain in session today or
tonight until a final veto is taken
on the measure.
1t also was decided at a meeting
of the Democratic Foreign Affairs
Committee members with Speaker
Rayburn and Majority Leader Nc
Cormack TO change the Bloom
amendment adopted yesterday so
that it will specifically fix the limit
at $1,000, 100000 of Army and Navy
material that may be transferred
| under the bill. instead of 10 per cent
of the 194l appropriations. This will
be done. the speaker said, in the
interests of clarity.
To Fight Notifications.
The Speaker also announced It
had been decided to fight all other
notifications of the bill, including
the Wadsworth proposal for a
ceiling on total authorizations OF
appropriations under the bill.
In explaining their reason for
seeking to change the Bloom
amendment. the leaders said a
subsequent study of appropriations
for the fiscal year ending June 80
had shown that the limit of foreign
aid might actually come to less than
s50O,000.0O0.
In their calculations yesterday,
they figured that the total would
come to approximately Sl,300,000,-
900. This figure was arrived at by
taking 10 per cent of the approx
mately $4,000 100000 for national
defense which they said had been
appropriated for the current fiscal
year.
Congressional authorities explained
that under the leadership's original
proposal, large sums for pay and
feeding of the Army and Navy and
other items not strictly defense
articles could not be included in
estimating the 10 per cent limit.
AS soon as the House turned to
further consideration of the meas
See BRITISH AID, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Selecting a
Newspaper

People who move to Wash
ington select their homes,
their doctors. their churches,
their stores and their news
papers largely on the advice
of Washingtonians who have
lived here for years.
Most of these Washington
ians will suggest The Star
because it has a we'll eStab-
lished reputation for honest
dealing in the news and ad-
vertising it prints. Both are
clean, reliable and complete.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Fire Takes 3 Lives,
Is Hurt in Stampede
Al Dallas Mission
Nude Men Trapped on
Second Floor as Clothing
Was Being SteriIized
By tie Associated Press.


DALLAS. Tex. Feb. 8-Death
toll in the fire that swept the Sal
vation Army's Men Lodge and Mis-
sion reached eight early today as
rescue workers poked through the
smoking shell of the two-story hoteI
in the heart of Dallas business dis
trict.
None had been identified.
Maj. Ernest Pickering of the Sal
vatlon Army said 25 other men were
badly burned or otherwise injured
in the sudden, roaring blaze origi-
mating in a room where the cloth
ing of 81 transients was being de-
loused.
Witnesses said the scene was one
of unspeakable horror
A few minutes after the fire broke
out, one nude man. badly scared
ran screaming to a garage a block
away and fell to the ground. his
arms Spasmodically clutching at a
pillar.
Ambulance Called.
The manager of the filling station
called an ambulance, while an at
tendant threw a blanket about the
burned man. who was crying for
water.
Another. also nude and badly
burned stood at the center of a
street intersection begging for help,
while firemen rushed to give him
first aid.
Witnesses said the transients
crowding the lodge to capacity be-
cause of cold weather, dashed to the
rear of the upstairs floor when the
flames suddenly burst from the de-
lousing room, thinking there was an
exit.
Finding none, many of them
wrapped blankets about their
bodies, or flung themselves nude
through the wall of chemical-fe1 i
fire. stampeding down the stairs and
(See HOTEL FIRE. Page ABB
Evening star., 1941-02-08
London Denounces President S
Attack on Wheeler, Hits Aid Bill;
Final House Action Set Today
Dirksen Amendment
To Be Retained,
Leaders Decide

BACKGROUND
administration British aid bill
empowers President to hare 1Udr
materials produced and to lease,
lend or otherwise dispose OF them
to nations lUhoSe defense he con-
SiderS Dital to defense OF United
States. Opponents haze COM
planned that under the measure
President could diSsipate entire
military and napal establishment
in effort TO bulWark England,
and thus ledUe United States de-
tenSeleSS II England ultimately
shOuld fail
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Trapped Italians
Are Yielding,
British Report
Fascist Resistance
Declared Broken
South Of Bengosi
B, the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 8.-British
headquarters announced today that
operations south of Bengasi are
proceeding satisfactorily and 1tal-
ians cut off from retreat after the
fall of that last big Eastern Libya
stronghold were reported "Surrend-
ering in large numbers"
Italian resistance south OF the
captured naval and military base
has collapsed completely, the British
said
In Eritrea. on the East African
front, the British communique said,
pressure is increasing against
Cheren, the key mountain defense
point of Asmara. the colonial cap
ital.
Pursuit of the force which with
drew Sunday from Barentu is be-
ing pressed. the British said, with
the Italians attempting 10 reach
Arreza, so miles south of Cheren.
on a circuituous route through Adj
Ugri toward ASmara.
Mobile Units Press Forward.
Mobile British units were reported
pressing forward toward Gondar in
the area north Of Laka Tana in
Ethiopia, and British patrols were
said TO be extending their penetra-
ton of Italian Somaliland on the
extreme southern part of the East
African front.
There was no indication. as mop
ping up operations proceeded
swiftly along the coast south of
Bengasi, whether the British
planned to continue the westward
drive which has covered approx
mately $50 miles since December 8
Tripoli, the last major stronghold
of Marshal Rodolfo Graziani's once
powerful North African army, is 40(
miles west of Bengasi by air but t
reach it British ground forces Voulc
have to travel 600 miles along tht
twisting coastal road which run!
through small. widely separated
| towns.
Number Escaped Unknown.
How many of the Italian garrison
of $4,000 escaped from Bengasi b.
sea or land before the city fel
Thursday is unknown, but the Brit
ish predicted only stragglers woulC
reach Tripoli
Any Italian forces that got through
before the British closed the coasta
! road would be slowed up by scarcit,
of vehicles and fuel and in DANCE
/ of attack by the British feet anC
I air force. it was said
} The British high command de
clared that among the prisoner
taken south of Bengasi were al
army commander. a corps com
mander and many senior officers
1 The last resistance in the area crum
bled, communique said, when tht
Italians failed despite numerical SUI
periority TO break through the Brit,
iSh line.
The high command gave this ac.
count of the trap:
In operations leading up to tht
capture of Bengasi, an armorec
formation made a forced march
of $50 miles in 30 hours. brushins
aside resistance en- route, to cloSt
the last line of retreat.
Surprised by the speed of thi;
brilliant exploit. the enemy en-.
| deavoring to withdraw from Ben
gasi found themselves finally hem
med in.
Attempt to Break Through.
Numerically superior Italian ar
mored forces supported by infantry
and artillery then made determined
efforts to break through our Gordon
Every attempt was repulsed with
| heavy losses to the enemy Aftel
so of their tanks became battle cas-
tSee AFRICA. Page A-5)
Evening star., 1941-02-08
103 Catholic ChopIoins
Are Awarded Iron Cross
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Feb. 8.-Thirty-two
Catholic chaplains have been award
ed the Iron Cross. first class, and
seventy-one have received the Iron
Cross, second class. the German
episcopacy announced today.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Donovan Reaches Cairo

CARLO, Feb. 8 CP.-Col. William
Donovan, unofficial observer from
the United States, arrived here today
from Jerusalem. He is the guest
here of British Ambassador Miles
Lampoon.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Churchill to Broadcast
Tomorrow Afternoon

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. Feb. 8.-Prime Min
lister Churchill will broadcast over
the British Broadcasting Corp. home
and overseas services at 9 pm. g
pm. Eastern Standard Time tomor-
row, it was announced last night.
The ADDRESS will be carried in the
United States by the N. B. c., Co
lumbia and Mutual networks.
WMAL and WJSV will carry the
speech in Washington.
Evening star., 1941-02-08

Admiral Baron Mineo Osunni, 64,
had served as Japans naval min
lSter in several cabinets since 1881,
last holding the post in the govern
ment of Admiral Keisuke Okada,
which fell early in 1886.
In the midst of the 1886 military
extremist revolt, Emperor Hirohito
commanded OSumi to form a new
cabinet, but apparently he failed, for
Koki Hirota became Premier.
The Emperor made Admiral Osumi
baron late in 1885 for his part in
the Manchurian conquest and the
Shanghai conflict of 1898.
Consistently a big navy" man, he
always had opposed reductions in
the naval budget.
Japan withdrew from the Naval
Conference during his ministry and
the navy was instructed to prepare
for possible emergency at that time.
In June, 1885, he discarded all hopes
of naval limitation with the an
nouncement that Japan's future
naval construction policy would be
according to independent national
policy
His most recent public appearance
was as head of a japanese mission
sent to Rome for military, political
and economic discussions in 1889.
Evening star., 1941-02-08
$1,000 Reward

To protect The Star
Carrier Service from
newspaper thievery, The
Evening Star offers a re-
ward of $1,000 for infor-
nation leading to the ar
rest and conviction of any
person or persons stealing
The Star Newspaper from
carrier packs at the point
of delivery, or from door
ways or apartments after
delivery. Any one detect
ing newspaper thieves
should notify the police
Immediately.
Chr Eurntng Star
Evening star., 1941-02-08
Japanese Admiral
Dies in Crash Of
Plane in China
Mineo Osumi, Toxic War
Councillor, Was Going
To Huinun Island
By the Associated Press.

TOXIC. Feb. 8.-Admiral Mineo
Osumi, japanese supreme war coun-
cilor. has been killed in the crash
of naval plane in Kwangtung
Province, China, the Navy Min
istry announced today.
Six other naval officers. includ-
ing Rear Admiral Hikojiro Suga,
died in the crash.
The officers were inspecting the
Chinese war front and we're en-
route from Canton to Hainan Is
LAND when the crash occurred, the
ministry said.
The wrecked plane was discovered
Thursday on Huanyangshan Noun
tain, near the Sikiang River in
kWangtung Province, China, the
ministry said
Evening star., 1941-02-08

(See HEARING, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1941-02-08

Numerically superior Italian ar
mored forces supported by infantry
and artillery then made determined
efforts to break through our Gordon.
Every attempt was repulsed with
heavy losses to the enemy After
so of their tanks became battle cas-
tSee AFRICA, Page A-5)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-19
Tuna Prices Head
For Shakespeare

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Apple a Day Axiom
Loses Popularity

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