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Evening star., 1941-01-26
u. ). Cruiser Brinqs
Gold Cargo From
South Africa
Ship Accidentally Net
BottIeship Bearing
Halifax, Paper Says
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-The Daily
News said tonight that the United
States cruiser Louisville brought
$3.50 100000 in foreign gold into port
when she docked at the Navy Yard
in Brooklyn last Thursday.
At the same time, the News said
the Louisville accidentally met
the King George V, British battle
ship which brought England's new
Ambassador, Lord Halifax to the
United States. outside the 300-mile
neutrality zone and proceeded with
her to the Virginia Capes.
The News said it was not known
where the gold was loaded or to
whose account it would be deposited
but the newspaper asserted the gold
was removed from the vessel by
sailors the night the Louisville
docked.
A terse Treasury-Navy' Depart
ment announcement last night dis
closed that the cruiser Louisville
brought "a sum of gold" which the
United States had purchased from
South Africa when it docked at New
York last Thursday.
Some time ago the United States
purchased a sum of gold in the
Union of South Africa" the an
nouncement said. 1T was trans
ported to the United States by the
U. S. S. Louisville which had been
operating in South Atlantic waters.
Officials declined to ampIify the
announcement and the latest Treas
ury statement available, which was
issued yesterday as of January %
did not reflect the amount of the
gold. 1t showed the treasury's golc
assets at $4,000, 1885.
Warships have been used severa,
times to bring gold to the United
States from abroad The last big
shipment of this nature was brought
from France June Is by the cruiser
Vincennes.
Evening star., 1941-01-26
German Reported
Carrier of Simo's
'Ceose-FHe' Order
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, Rumania, Jan.
25.-The cease firing" order
from Horia Sima, rebellious
Iron Guard leader, Thursday
was brought into Bucharest
from his mountain hideout by
a German officer, it was re-
ported tonight.
The officer, it was said,
offered to act as courier
between the hideaway where
Sima was directing a nation
wide rebellion and the govern
ment here, to help restore
peace.
Surrender of the prefecture
of police, held for a while by
Sima's legionnaires, also was
reported accomplished through
a German officer who volun-
teered to go through the fight
ing lines with his own pledge
that nothing would happen to
the insurgents II they retired
Evening star., 1941-01-26

fill the McReynolds vacancy and
later to elevate him TO the office of
Chief Justice. The court, however,
already has in its membership two
New Workers. the Chief Justice and
Associate Justice Stone. While this
is no inSurmountable obstacle to the
appointment of Mr.. Jackson. geo.
graphical consideration in the make
up of the court has some place in
making appointments.
Secretary of State Hull has been
mentioned in some quarters as a
possible appointee. Mr.. Hull, how
ever, has given no sign whatever
of relinquishing the important post
he has filled with great ability for
(See BYRNES, Page A-30
Evening star., 1941-01-26
Grower Is Overpoid
100000 Through
Treasury Error
By the Associated Press.

DUXBURY, Mass, Jan. 25.-
Andrew Paanenen, 40, who owns
a small cranberry bog, received
a S1,000,01525 check from the
Government today for COM
plying with the Federal soil
conservation program.
Overpaid by exactly S1,000000
because of a Treasury check
writer's error, MI. Paanenen ex-
tracted all the fun he could out
of the situation. He walked
into Plymouth National Bank,
pushed the check in front of
Teller Walter Roberts, and
calmly asked for the cash.
Mr.. Roberts blinked and raced
for bank officials. They pofed
over the check. found it valid,
and worried about how to pro-
duce 81 100000 on demand.
Only then did Mr.. Paanenen
admit he was joking. Instead
of trying to cash the check, he
mailed it back to the Treasury
to be corrected.
Evening star., 1941-01-26
Bombs Loosed on Britain
After Lu|I Of a Niqhts

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 26 Sunday
lone air raider dropped two high
explosive bombs on town on Eng
lands west coast during the night
the first evening air attack any,
where in Britain after a lull of four
nights.
There were no serious casualties,
it was reported, but some property
was damaged and gas main was
punctured.
Up to midnight, London still was
without an alarm, making the
capitals sixth raidless night In sue
cession.
Evening star., 1941-01-26
BY ROBERT ST. JOHN,

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
BUCHAREST. Rumania, Jan. 25
Gen. Ion Antonescu. Rumania I
victorious dictator, offered the lead
ers of the Iron Guard rebellion to-
day the bleak alternative of suicide
or mass punishment" at the hands
Of the state.
Their chief. Vice Premier Horia
Sima, was reported variously as
under arrest or in flight across So
Wet Russia, but he and his asso-
ciates were summoned by the pre-
mler to this strange self judgment
e.. You rebels! If you are true
Iron Guardists punish yourselves
with true legionary punishment
land that by tradition is suicide)
or otherwise you may be sure that
l shall apply mass punishment my
self"
First it was understood in Bu-
taken into custody. The subse-
Quent suggestion that he might
have found refuge in Russia was
interesting in the light Of Gen.
Antonescu's earlier assertion that
hold-out rebels had been under
communist infuence.)
Embezzlement Laid to Sima.
Tonight rumors still few as to
Sima's whereabouts. A photograph
sent to newspapers here for publi-
cation represented that he had been
arrested with several other Iron
Guardists in sleeping car in the
provinces in possession of 3,5O0.000
lei (the lei, now unquoted in for
eign exchange, was worth a fraction
of a cent?
The picture showed him with the
other guardistS. Newspaper editors
received statements from several
guardists accusing Sima of having
appropriated for his own use 300
100000 lei of the Iron Guard poor
relief fund
Gen. Antonescu conferred during
the day with the German Minister,
Baron Manfred Won Killinger, and
put every dock, airport and railroad
depot under military control. All
save international railroad traffic
was halted; 10 pm. curfew was
imposed; soldiers we're ordered to
shoot instantly any person failing
to halt in response to challenge
The government also ordered all
holdings of foreign money turned
in to the national banks by Janu-
ary 81, and decreed that all trans
actions on the BLACK Bourse" cease
Immediately. The BLACK Bourse" is
an unofficial foreign exchange mar
ket, where the Rumanian currency
the leu, is dealt in in terms of other
currency, without regard to the Of
f1cially established rates of ex-
change.
Long lines of Jews filed all day
into the morgues to identify rela-
(See RUMANIA, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1941-01-26
Organized Sabotage
Denied by F. B. |. Agent

BY the Associated PreSS
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-B. E,
Sackett, agent in charge of the
Federal Bureau of Investigations
New York Office, said today there
had been no wave of organized sa-
botage against American industry
by foreign agents and that Fed
eral investigation had shown that
98 per cent of recent explosions in
industrial plants we're due to speed
up of industry, inexperience of en-
ployes with machines or careless
ness.
Mr.. Sackett advised delegates to a
conference of New York State COM
mercial secretaries not to become
'overhystericar' but added that it
would be Just as ridiculous to feel
there is no danger of sabotage"
Evening star., 1941-01-26
Kenneth F. Simpson,
COP. House Member
From New York, Dies
III Health Attributed
To Overwork During
Recent Campaign
By the Associated Press.

y.
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-Kenneth
F. Simpson. A, Republican Repre-
sentative from the seventeenth New
York district and former New York
Republican chairman, died tonight.
Death, doctors said, apparently
was due to heart trouble. Mr.. Simp-
son had returned i'll recently from
Washington, but his condition was
not thought serious.
Former associates of Mr.. Simpson
attributed his i'll health to overwork
during the recent national political
campaign.
Evening star., 1941-01-26
Red Probe in California

SACRAMENTO, Calf, Jan. 25 LP).
The California Senate today
adopted an Assembly resolution
creating little Dies" committee
for an investigation of alleged sub
versive activities in State agencies
and the public school system.
An appropriation of $4,000 was
provided.
Evening star., 1941-01-26
Halifax Emphasizes
Need for Speeding
Aid 10 Britain
New Ambassador Holds
Hour-Long Conference
With Secretary Hull
By GARNETT d. HORNER.

The need for speed in making
American aid to England effective
was emphasized by ViScount Hall
fax. new British Ambassador, after
long conference with Secretary
of State Hull yesterday.
Reporting that he and Mr.. Hull
"see things very much alike" Lord
Halifax said he had no doubt that a
desperate intensification of Ger
many's war effort this spring would
be repulsed with the help of vita
supplies" from this country.
While the tall, angular former
British Foreign Minister who re-
mains member of the war cabi-
net while serving as Ambassador
Secretary, the 35,000-ton battleshiE
King George V, which brought him
to an unexpected meeting with
President Roosevelt off Annapolis
Friday headed back down Chesa-
peake Bay for an undisclosed des-
tination.
Talks With Hull Over Hour.
Lord Halifax talked briefly but
frankly with reporters at the State
Department after comforting for
more than an hour with Mr.. Hull or
his first official visit in Washing
ton.
He appeared eager to cooperate
with the press in the fashion es-
tablished by his predecessor, the
late Lord Lothian. who broke ira
dition of cold formality which hac
prevailed at the British Embassy
here for years.
Il think we are going to have {
hard time" he said. 1--WE are under
no delusions about German strength
or the plans Hitler may be making
but we know they will not succeed
When history comes to be writ
ten, I think it will show that Hitlel
lost the war last June, when h,
failed to take advantage of the sit
uation existing after the collapse O.
France. That was a better chanc,
than he ever will have again, bu
he did not cash in on it."
Supplies Needed Most.
The Ambassador said it was s
great encoura agement to come here
and keep in touch with what yol
are doing, and will be doing, I hope
to aid u.s." When opportunity pre-.
sented, he continued, he hopes II
see different parts of the United
States.
In general way, he said, the mos
immediate needs are mobilization
of your great industrial strength
and translation of that into vita
supplies
1T is quite clear" he emphasized
that Hitler is making a desperat,
effort to intensity his sea blockade
of England, by submarine and air
That means, from our viewpoint, {
(See HALIFAX, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1941-01-26
Honduras Asked to Bon
Waitress Book on Hitler

BY the Associated Press.
TEGUCIGALPA. Honduran Re-
public, Jan. 25,-Christian Zinsser,
German Charge d'Affaires, has
asked the Honduran foreign office
to halt the sale of the book II Was
Hitler's Waitress" a best-seller in
the city's bookshops. No decision
was announced.
Evening star., 1941-01-26
Fascist Council Member
Joins Fighting Forces
By the Associated Press.

BY Ille HSSOCIaIeo PreSS.
ROME, Jan. 25.-Roberto Farinac-
CT. member of the Fascist grand
council, editor of the Regime Fas-
cista and former secretary of the
Fascist party, has joined Italy's
fighting forces "in the line of opera
tions," communique said tonight.
1t did not say where Farinacci was
fighting.
Evening star., 1941-01-26
Gen. Antonescu Tells
Rumanian Insurgents
To Kill Themselves
Face Mass Punishment
Otherwise; Simu Reported
Fleeing Across Russio
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Rumanian Iron Guard came to
po1Uer last September Wtth rise
OF Gen. Ion AntoneScu as chief
OF state upon dbdicdtion of King
Carol after ceSsion OF territory to
Hungary. Split has developed
lrithin guard, one faction led by
Horia Simd, Vice Premier, ma
neuuerino to obtain tuH power.
Sin1d led reUolt this Ueek uhich
fdred throughout country.
Evening star., 1941-01-26

BY the Associated Press.
CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 25.-British
armored cars, having fallen upon
and broken an Italian tank column,
we're reported tonight to have
reached Derna. Libya. ITS miles be-
yond the Egyptian frontier, under
circumstances suggesting that it had
been abandoned by the Fascists.
During the day they met no re-
sistance so far as could be learned.
The Italian tanks were dispersed
yesterday.
While troops and guns we're being
advanced along the coast road west
of Tobruk as fast as trucks could
carry them, armored cars and light
mechanical units swept past Mar
tuba Airdrome. which the Italians
had been occupying only three
nights ago.
Beyond stating that operations
were proceeding satisfactorily the
British command gave little infor-
nation of what had happened at
Derna, but the fact that R. A. F.
reconnaissance planes reported spot
ting eight Italian planes burning on
the landing ground there was con-
sidered significant.
Planes Fired Before Retreat.
1t appeared that the Italians had
fired the planes before retreating.
New British and Allied successes
across half the continent of Africa,
TO the south, also were reported.
Pursuing Italians into the Fri
trean foothills, the British were re-
ported over 100 miles inside that
East African colony yesterday, nearly
halfway to the Red Sea port Of
| MaSsaWa.
| In the southwest sector Of the
East African offensive, the British
were pushing into Ethiopia proper
| opposite Gallabat.
In aerial support of both spurs Of
the British offensive, the R. A. F.
reporting damaging aircraft on a
field at Magrum. IS miles south of
| Bengasi. In East Africa. it was said,
hits were scored on rail lines at
Bishia, Agordat and Keren. Italian
posts, airplanes and motor transport
also were reported bombed.
Martha, Rhodes Bombed.
Many bombs" were said to have
been dropped in a raid Thursday
night on the airdrome at Martha,
Rhodes, fortified Italian base in
the Dodecanese.
| In Italian Eritrea, which faces the
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, advancing
British troops were declared to have
taken 800 Fascist prisoners-includ-
ing a brigade communicative guns
and many transport vehicles
In Ethiopia, where the deposed
Emperor Halle Selassie is reported
rallying the natives in an effort to
regain his conquered land from the
Italians, the Fascists were said to
| have abandoned several additional
posts because of further British
pressure and that of rebelling
| patriots"
Across the frontiers of Kenva.
Italian detachments were reported
being driven back by British patrols
nov operating well across into
enemy territory
Four Tanks Claimed.
The tank action in Libya, which
occurred yesterday. was put by the
British at three miles east of Derna
-Four Italian tanks were declared
destroyed, two others captured and
the rest routed.
1n Rome the Italian high
command belatedly acknowledge
ed the fall of Tobruk and de-
scribed both British and Italian
losses as heavy" The Italian
(See LIBYA, Page A-50
Evening star., 1941-01-26
| Mrs. Hartman
Resigns as Envoy
To Norway
1s the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Mrs. j. Borden Hartman said to-
day that she had rendered her reslg-
nation as Minister to Norway about
six weeks ago and that while she
had received no official word she
felt sure it was accepted Tuesday.
Mrs. Hartman, the first woman
to represent the United States offici-
ally in a war zone, told of her resig-
nation while testifying before the
House Foreign Affairs Committee in
support of the British aid bill.
Mrs. Hartman, who is known as
"Daisy" to her intimates, returned
to the United States late last
summer.
She was appointed Minister to
Norway in 1887 and her eventful
tenure of Office included at least
one narrow escape from death. She
fled down roads under bombardment
by German planes on that occasion
and got over the border to Sweden
to telephone the Minister in Stock
holm. Then she returned to the
danger zone.
Evening star., 1941-01-26
Bu||itt and Mrs. Hartman Ask
Quick Aid Bill Passage as Best
Way to Insure Safety Of U. S.
A. Backs All Help
To Britain Short of
War, Green Says

BACKGROUND
Put tor1Dard by the udministru-
ton as a means OF promoting the
defense OF the United States by
aiding nations fighting totaH-
tartan aggression, the leaSe-lend
bill is approaching the end OF
House hearings early this 1ueek,
1Uhile Senate committee is
about to start hearings. All signs
point to the major battle to
amend it in the Senate.
Evening star., 1941-01-26
British Drive
To Derna With
.Armored Cars
Circumstances Hint
Abandonment by
Fascist Troops
BACKGROUND


British began offensive against
Italians in North Africa Utth
Sortie against ddUanced base OF
Sidi Barrani December 9. Move-
ment developed into almost a
rout, 1Uith British and Australian
forces capturing Italian bases at
Bardia, near Egyptian border in
Libyd, and Tobruk, 80 miles in
side Libyd. BengdSi appears to
be nert objecttue.
Evening star., 1941-01-26
Weather Forecast

Cloudy with slowly rising tempera-
ture tonight; rain by tonight and on
Monday; colder Monday afternoon and
night Temperatures yesterday-high-
est 35, at noon; lowest, 81, at 10 pm.
From the United States Weather Bureau report.
Full Details on Page Az
Evening star., 1941-01-26

CONTINUED on Page A-3, Column l.
Evening star., 1941-01-26

(See L1BYA, Page A-59
Evening star., 1941-01-26

The Evening and Sunday Star is
delivered in the city and suburbs at
75c per month. The Night Final
Edition and Sunday Morning Star at
85c per month.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-17
The Best Solution

The decision of Mayor Vincent Scully to have the contract for construction of the city's second pipe line from its municipal water supply in Morris right away was, we think, the correct one to make under existing circumstances. While the city would like to receive fed eral aid if it is entitled to it under the provisions of the Lanham act guaran- teeing certain grants to municipalities for public works necessary to insure max innum defense production in industrial areas, still further delays in awarding the contract would only mean that much longer to build the pipeline.
 This new link to the Morris reservoirs has been a long time coming It was planned before the administration Of Mayor Scully. To delay it now when there is more need than ever for pressing a second pipeline into action would be extremely foolish. In the long. run the city will probably be better off to have proceeded with its existing plans. As it has been explained by the mayor, to wait for a federal grant under the Lanham act would have meant a complete change in the city's plans and specifications for the pipeline.
 The city has been and is still paying for expert advice in its plans for expansion of the water system. We have New York engineer, skilled and trained in such mat ters, on our city payroll. We feel quite confident that the presnet plans for the pipeline cannot be improved upon. Other than feeling perhaps some sense of loss at not being able to share in any federal largess the city doesn't actually lose anything, as it's plans from the outset called for complete local financing. We may continue along the selfsame path of financial independence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-17
Works Both Ways

The war news of the day involving the United States has shifted to the Pacific for a change. Already scare-lines have Japan invading the United States via Alaska. This is based on the supposition that the Nazis will overthrow Russia and consequently take over Siberia. All ot which means tremendous amount of planning and even more stocking up And there's one person who doesn't think even the Japanese could successfully invade the United States or even Canada from Alaska.
 The Rev. Bernard Hubbard, s. J., known far and wide for his explorations throughout Alaska, points out that any Invader must be able to maintain base of supplies if America is to be kept under constant attack or even few successful SorayS. He can't concieve of frozen Alaska becoming such base of supplies for Japanese or Nazis. That's one of the reasons advanced, too, for possibilities of invasion. A school of thought claims that the Americans couldn't prevent in- vaSion because Alaska is too far away from our supply bases.
 If it all comes down to which country is better prepared to resist attacks at Alaska, it would seem as if both Canada and the United States could offer the best defense. They are both established and attackers would be forced to do more than merely launch air or sea attacks. As a matter of fact too much belief can't be placed in the theory that Japan is go- Ing to become so warlike that iL will de- liberately start after the U. s. A. The contrary would seem more apt to come true.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-17

craft in English waters. "We've had our share of mining, bombing and machine gunning," he writes, land we've answered back as best we could. .. 'Last August was glad to be actively hitting back be- cause 8 random bomb ripped my lovely mother to shredS. My father was hurt, and I was recalled from sea to cope with the situation Gin 72 hours).
 "I found her hand, and some pieces, and these we buried in a sack. was glad to get back to sea. Perhaps it was merciful; 1t was quick, and she Sorrowed too deeply with the Sorrowful An other year of anxiety (to be fol- lowed, probably, by another similar year) would have broken her. q do not believe that, even granted Suc- ceSSful initial invasion, Hitler could ever conquer this country. He cannot win without invading and conquering this country. If he cannot thus win, then he must lose and be finally washed up, for we shall never let up"
 How many millions of people, gentle people without hate in their hearts, have been thus converted into people who will never let up? Enough, one trusts. For in Warsaw, Rotterdam, Coventry, Athens and Minsk, millions have seen and felt what the writer of that letter has seen and felt. Yet they know that there is a thing more horrible even than those they have seen - the prospect of living on their knees to the most ruthless, brutal regime ever to menace the modern world. They, like the man who can never forget what he buried in a sack in England, will never let up.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-17
Helping Hand, Mailed Fist

Priorities needed for the building of a $45 ,00O OO0 steel mill for Brazil are going to be provided. That underlines deeply the contrast between United States and Nazi policies. The United States is going to some pains to help build up a new industry in Neighbor Brazil, an industry that may even eliminate some of our own present exports of steel products to Brazil. The Nazi plan is to de-industral- ize conquered countries, making them mere hewers of wood and drawers of water for European industry completely centralized in Germany
 Is the U. S. policy foolish? We don't think so, in the long run. We believe we have the most to gain from the devel- opment of neighbor countries, in the mak- ing of them independent of Europe as well as ourselves. We believe that all of the American countries should go forward together; that all will be better off so than if one prospers at the expense of all the others. On that line, contrasting so strongly with the Nazi "new order" ]" we place the American ships.