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The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
BY ROY p PORTER

o1 hOY r. FOkIER
NEW YORK, Jan. 3D. Ask
almost any Frenchmen you meet
in Paris what he thinks Of the atti-
tude of the German occupation
forces, and his reply will be: Very
correct"
What he means is that the in.
dividual German officer or soldier,
obeying strict orders, has b e e n
conducting himself politely a d
courteously.
He doesn't shove women a n d
children out of his way off the
sidewalk, He doesn't order the best
table in a restaurant vacated be.
cause he and his blonde secretary
want to sit there. He doesn't smoke
in the subway any more, since the
company put the "Rauchen Verbo-
ten' signs.
He does sometimes give up his
seat to French women in subway
trains and busses, often more
quickly than his French or Ameri-
can companions. If he is an officer,
he often takes his foreign. friends
in his car if they have neither an
automobile nor gasoline. He has,
on certain occasions, helped out
his French acquaintance by
lending" them meat or butter
tickets from his more than ade-
quate food coupons.
Outside of the fact that he has
been ordered to behave himself
and try to make the French like
him, he does this because he likes
Paris, its world famous food, its
beautiful, well-dressed women and
its returning atmosphere of gaiety
and amusement.
The French have been slow to
react to this correctness. Sus-
picious by nature, they see an OBJ
vious German attempt to win them
over.
The French have progressed
through three distinct periods since
that June morning when German
mechanical and motorized units
rolled into the capital.
The first, during the long pro.
cession into Paris, was complete
apathy. The second reaction follow
ed quickly, perhaps a week or ten
days after the occupation, when
they awoke from their stunned
state to realize that the German
military actually had taken con-
troll of all public and private bust
ness under strict military regula-
tons.
This gave rise to a series of in
cidents. German soldiers were at
tackled, not with weapons because
the French have none, but with
the hard heels and fists of groups
of wine-inflamed patriots" Ger
mans yer showed accidentally"
off street corners, jostled in SUBJ
ways, insulted and laughed at i'll
French, and generally plagued"
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afternoon-after three radio APP
peals by Antonescu in which he
had stressed that he was "a friend
Of the Axis" and mo tool of the
Jews and Masons."
Sima's capitulation order S a / {
he had given in in order to STOP
the bloodshed which does not serve
the interest of the Axis and be.
cause we know the policy of Ger
many and Italy requires special
conditions"
There was no explanation Of that
enlgmatic statement. Sima or
dered an immediate halt to the
to evacuate all public buildings
and return to normal life al
once" 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
Go Loses in Vote
Battle With Workers

SAN DIEGO. Calf, Jan. 24.-QR-.
The aviation division of the CLIO
United Automobile Workers met a
setback today when the Solar Elm.
ployes' association won bargaining
rights for SS4 employees Of Solar Air
craft Co, in a labor board election.
The Employees association, char.
tered as a corporation to bargain for
employees Of the company, received
224 votes to 1875 for the CLIO union.
Thirteen workers wanted neither
union.
Solar Aircraft employs 1872 persons.
The election had been sought by
the JAW in a petition filed Dec. 20.
W.T. a backlog Of $3,5O0,00 in
orders, Solar makes aircraft access
series for many firms.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
One Dies, One Escapes
In Automobile Mishap

FRANKLIN, Jan. 24.-tR-John
May, 80, Of the Kyle section Of Ma.
con county, died Friday night in a
local hospital of a broken neck sui
fered Thursday night when the au-
tomobile he was driving left a road
in his home community and plunged
down a 50-foot embankment.
The automobile, which overturned
several times, landed in White Oak
Creek. Roy May, a cousin who was
in the car, was not injured.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
COTTON

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-R
"A group of inland warehouse
men testified before the senate
agriculture committee today that
the Commodity Credit Corpora
tons proposal to recOncentrate
government owned cotton by
competitive bids would force
them to charge higher rates to
farmers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
BY EDWARD ENNED

WITH THE BRITISH FORCES
|BEYOND TOBRUK, Libya, Jan. %.
- (delayed) -R-With the strong
hold of Tobruk safely in the bag,
British armored patrols and col
umns of Australian infantry are
pressing on westward.
Now that two-thirds of Marshal
Rodolfo Graziani's army has been
destroyed, vast desert distances
and the problem of keeping sup
plies moving mainly stand be-
tween the British and the rest of
Libya.
West Of the present theater of
operations stand the barrier of the
Akdar mountains.
The fires of Tobruk continued to
burn but were subsiding. Ammuni-
ton was still exploding aboard the
burning cruiser San Giorgi in the
port. 1t vas found that the harbor
entrances had been mined and
blocked by chains supported by
bucys.
The Australians who took up the
advance into the west were troops
held in reserve outside. Tobruk
during the recent attack. Other
Australian and British troops who
stormed the stronghold relaxed in
the town today.
Bikes Abandoned
Many abandoned bicycles were
found and the streets were full of
bike-riding Aussies. Others in the
full flush of satisfaction over the
victory strolled the streets after
fine meals of captured Italian food
end wines, stopping t o greet
friends and exchange notes on the
battle.
General Sir Archibald P. WavelI
visited Tobruk today, inspecting
the forces and congratulating the
Australian brigadiers who led their
men into the town, and the chiefs
OF the British tank and artillery
units.
While enormous stores of SUD.
Plies were captured, the Italians
deprived the British of consider
able material by destroying it
Wednesday before surrendering
the town. One group Of trucks was
set afire after being drenched with
oil. This was the first instance
since the desert campaign began
where the Italians found time to
destroy their material. a
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Raj FORCES DUCE
GENERAL TO RUN
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CONTINUED From rage Uuej
Garrison in British hands, the mid
dlc east command said .succinctly
of the Libyan offensive: "our
troops are continuing their advance
westward"
British and Australian patrols
were reported already west a
south of Derna, Libyan port 70
miles beyond Tobruk, and military
observers believed the drive might
be aimed straight across the Clrefl-
aican hump" skirting Derna for
a direct assault on Bengasi, an
other $50 miles to the west.
Aided by the willy Halle Selassle'
the dethroned lion of Juda now
back on his native Ethiopian soil,
the British reported new blows
against the Italians both INSIDE
and around Ethiopia. .
To the. north of the fascist-con-
quered kingdom, the high command
said the Italians retreating east
ward in Eritrea abandoned tn e
outposts of Keru and Aicota be-
fore advancing British forces.
In Kenya colony, which borders
both southern Ethiopia and Italian
Somaliland, today's war bulletin
said vigorous patrol activity had
req ched across a large portion OF
the frontier, but that few Of the
enemy were encountered"
Casualties Inflicted
Casualties were reported inflict-
ed on the italians in Ethiopia It.
self by Ethiopian patriots on the
warpath south and east OF Lake
Tana, in the northwestern corner
of the country.
Halle S4lassie, who nine days ago
proudly raised the red yellow and
green flag of his former kingdom
somewhere in Ethiopia, followed
his dramatic return with a procla-
nation to his warriors:
"Raise arms against the enemy
who have come to destroy your
race, rob you of your property, be-
little your glory, pollute your blood.
Wipe. him from the face Of Ethio.
pia!"
The bearded king OF kings, who
boarded a train on the rickety
narrow = guage railroad to Jibuti
and lied a jump ahead Of the Ital'
ian conquerors in 1896, came back
home aboard a British army pla.e
which set him down in an undis-
closed mountain clearing.
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The Germans proved n
French that they could tal " Il.
well as give it, and the third II az
an amlcable relationship bo 0,'A
ing in many cases on SGOEceS
slowly is developing. Then too
French have taken a new v viz, N.
the situation for two reasons. Nn y
ness, always under sunerv DaS'
has been expanding gradualIv W.
til most Of the stores and sbO ~
are operating as nearly nor o, W
as possible. This means monav
French pockets and conseoy.. y
happiness in French hearts,
The number of German tro,..
particularly in the Paris reojss
has been steadily declining, Isss
ing Frenchmen to believe the v m's
days of the occupation are abos
over. N'8
No official figures ever bav,
been given as to the actual MN.
Der OF troops brought in with H..
occupation forces, but a good ca'
man military source hinted
around 800, 600. Today it seems ss.,
to estimate that not more ths,
$50, 900, including staff officers ,rI
men, are on regular duty in tb.
northern occupied zone. There ars
OF course, many, many thousanS
more in the military zone alor,
the English Channel ports and H.
French-Belgian frontier, but tbe,,
are air force and combat tro,n
engaged in operations against n.
British Isles.
All these occupation troops ar
under the direct control OF tb.
Wehrmacht-the German nation
defense forces-as distinguish
from the National Socialist Pary
organization. They are soldiers and
disciplined like soldiers. They ar,
under orders to wear their I'M,
forms at all times so that taer,
can be no mistake about their ides.
tity.
But even then little misundep
standings occur. The wife Of a,
American correspondent, who
speaks German better than sh,
does French, bumped into a non
commissioned officer one evenns
watch where you're going" h
growled.
Whom do you think you're talk,
ing to-" she retored.
"Just because you speak Ger,
man, don't try to start an argg
ment with me-" he answered.
IF you don't like it, take me
to your superior officer, and well
see," she answered spunkily.
The German backed away, sa
luted and disappeared.
One of the major French com,
plants against the Germans is the
buying they have done in French
shops with their "occupatiu
marks" This money, Distribute
by a reichsbank office in Paris, Is
the official currency with which
the occupation forces are paid. Il
is stabilized at the rate of or;
mark to twenty francs, but has
little real value because the ban:
of France will have to retire it all
when a peace treaty finally j
signed. Financial authorities hav
estimated the cost of the occupa
ton at about 1900, 900 francs
day. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25

During the height of the fight
ing, the home of the first secre-
tary Of the United States legation,
j. Webb Benton of Fort Myer, Va,
was twice invaded-by troops and
then by civilians who used it as a
fortress from which they shot at
the soldiers.
!, The Rumanian army later pro-
vided protection, %stationing a tank
in the yard. All Americans-in-
GLIDING Benton and his mother
were reported safe. The American
legation was untouched, but
former quarters were mounted
with machine-guns which for a
time peppered the home of tn e
United States Consul Fred Hunt.
M. Franklin Gunther, the Ameri-
can minister, was enroute to Buc-
harest from his mountain villa
Z when the revolt broke out and was
LIN the army barracks at Ploesti,
making a telephone ell, when be-
gan fighting there. He escaped I'm.
hurt.
PNo41S was Wd11lSu 10 Uuy
no jejwelry Or furniture or any
thing else from secondhand stores
all Of it, the government said,
I might be loot from homes
Face Army Courts
ALI arrested 60 before military
courts. They must be tried within
"a hours of apprehension, and
spunishments must be carried out
within the succeeding 10 h o S.
Looters or Shippers firing FIR
houses on military men, citizens
or public buildings were put under
what amounted to an instant SEN
tence of death: it was announced
that they would be executed on
the spot. State employees not i'm
mediately reporting for work were
made subject to discharge; army
generals were put in charge of the
secret police; the Bucharest police
took over the gas and electric com.
panies; all public gatherings were
outlawed.
The situation in the provinces re.
manned in doubt-particularly in
such cities al Brasov, Giurgiu,
Constanta, Ploesti, C:sntina and
Craiova, all of which the Iron
Guardists had claimed to h a
oesY.Ied completely. Army head
quarters asserted, however, that
order was being restored rapidly
IN those ~centers.
The number of dead and wound
Cd was unknown; but in Bucharest
aolne, the hospitals were filed
with wounded and partial lists of
he dead were posted outside.
This was the first day since Sun.
dy that had not be, filled with
the din Of revolver, rifle, machine
gun and artillery fire, although
yesterdays action was largely a
sase Of hopping up and driving
the Guardists out of snipers' nests
and public buildings.
Orders Surrender
Sima called on his followers to
surrender at 5 o'clock Yesterday
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
BROTHERS IN ARMS

ROME, Jan. 24-[R-T0 en-
phasize Italian = German unity
Italy will release on Jan. 30 a
new stamp bearing pictures of
premier Mussolini and Adolf
Hitler as well as of an Italian
and German soldier. A similar
stamp, it is understood here,
is being issuel in Germany.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
French Pleads Guilty
In Span Crash Fraud

SEATTLE, Jan. "a R-Hallett
r. French pleaded guilty today to a
charge he embezzled $1,217.88 in
premiums on insurance he wrote on
the Tacoma Narrows bridge, which
collapsed during a gale last Novem-
Der.
In a brief appearance before pre-.
siding Judge Malcolm Douglas, he
changed his former plea of innocent.
He was arrested December 3 at his
Broadmoor home.
Sentence was deferred.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
PROFITEERING

BERLIN, Jan. 24.-tR-The
ministry of justice proclaimed
tonight a regulation providing
the death penalty for extreme
cases of war p~rofiteering. The
courts were given sweeping pow
ers to combat price raising DEEM
ed to be unwarranted.
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TEN REASONS

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24.-lR
Sally Payne, q hard riding,
straight shooting comedienne in
western movies, presented 10 rea-
sons today why she would have
a divorce. And she got it.
She testified that Gag Writer
William Telask, her husband,
would not let her drink milk, eat
liver, oysters, hot dogs or onions;
read, knit, vote talk in company
or have babies.
He wouldn't let me knit" she
elaborated to a superior judge,
because he said I had a stupid
expression while knitting"
Sally came to pictures via a
Detroit beauty contest.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
Red Is Denied Place
In Washington Senate

OLYMPIA, Wash, Jan. 24.-(R-
The senate senate voted late today
to deny a seat to Lenus Westman,
elected on the democratic ticket from
E.-ohomish county, on the grounds
he had not renowned communist
party beliefs.
Westman said he formerly was a
member of the Communist party.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
World
Bulletins
BURNS

TRENTON, N. j., Jan. 24-R
"A careful study of Georgia's
request for extradition of Robert
Elliott Burns, w1deIy.puDliclzed
chain gang fugitive, was prom.
ised today by Governor Charles
Edison, but the new chief ex'
ecutive said he did not believe he
would call a public hearing on
the request.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
BOY MISSING

Officers were asked last night
to aid in the search for FL
mer Jones, age IL, of 15-K
Nesbitt Courts, who has been
missing from home since
Thursday morning. He is four
feet tall, weighs IS pounds and
when last seen was wearing
overalls and a khaki jacket.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
Chamber of Commerce
Opposes F. RS Bill

CHICAGO, Jan. 24-R-Directors
of the chamber of commerce Of the
United States tonight endorsed aid
to Great Britain but expressed op.
position to the lease-lend bill before
congress because the President was
specifically excluded from the re-
straining 'r5.uence of any law
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
PRACTICALLY
la PESSIMIST

SALEM, Mass. The attorney,
entering superior court, was
stepped by a client who rendered
a note.
The attorney read:
Sat my wake I want five quarts
Of whiskey, five gallons of wine,
two cases Of beer and plenty OF
sandwiches of all kinds. I want a
proportional number of pallbear-
ers."
When the attorney glanced up,
his client was gone. Police. were
asked to search for him lest he
be contemplating suicide. Discov-
cred, he readily explained:
"Just put it in my will. Hitler
may be over here any time" /
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
HEY!
r YOUR MAN

PUEBLO, Colo. R-Robert Hen
ry Pfotenhauer doesn't expect time
and tide to wait for him; neither
is he a slave to the calendar.
After he failed to mail hi:
Christmas cards on time he sim
ply printed this message across
the face and sent them along to
his friends:
BE it known to all, 1 hereby
declare Jan. Is, 1941, as Christmas
Day. Reason for this d a S {
change. I have just been too
Busy to mail my Christmas cards
at any previous date"
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REBELLION GOES
ON IN RUMANIA
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ecutors'' Of the revolt would be
treated as an accomplice and
made to suffer the full penalties
= of the law"
Joining in the condemnation OF
Sima and other rebellious leaders,
General George Begelescu, chief
tain of Rumania's war veterans,
declared that if the trouble had
continued for another two Of three
days Rumania would have been
reduced to the fate of Poland"
General Ion Antonescu, the chief
OF state, whose authoritarian re.
gime now apparently has weather
ed the greatest crisis it yet has
faced, described the rebels still
holding out as under communist
influence"
Tanks of the German and Ru-
manian armies patrolled in Bucha-
rest streets filled with glass and
broken masonry and the rubble
left by heavy fighting. German
fighter planes occasionally swoop-
ed low over the city.
Scores Of Jews were reported
slain in basement executions in
their homes. Iron g%uardists took
over the home of Magda Lupescu,
the red-haired woman friend Of the
fdeposed King Carol who now is in
exile with him in Spain.
The governments order for the
= apprehension of Sima was of
double significance, since he is not
alone head of all iron guardists but
vice premier of Rumania as well. 8
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
BAPTySTS

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. "a.
-RD-PIans for the Southern
Baptist convention, to be held
here May 14-18, were mapped to-
day at a meeting of the conven.
ton arrangements committee and
the host committee from Bir-
mingham.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
Col. Donovan Plans
Visit to Greek Front

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Jan. "a.
William J. Donovan, in
Europe or a mission from the Unit
ed States, said today that he planned
to visit the Albanian front during his
stay in Greece.
He concluded the official part of
his visit to this Yugoslav capital %
day with calls upon the chiefs of
the nations armed forces. He said
he would leave tomorrow for Athens.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
Capt. Train Is Named
To Battle Force Staff

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-R-
Captain Harold c. Train has been
designated chief of staff to the
commander of the battle force, the
navy department announced today,
and will be succeeded as comman-
der Of the u. S. S. Arizona by Cap
tain Franklin Van Valkenburgh,
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
"AIR WELLS"

Already successfully used IN
southern France, air wells operate
on a principle the same as that Of
an ice-filled pitcher, on which wa
ter condenses. At night, cold air
enters the dome of the ''air we'll
through a central pipe and circu'
lates through the interior core
chilling it thoroughly by morning.
As the outside air warns up, II
enters and deposits its moisture.
which drains into basins.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
DELEGATION

LONDON, Jan. 4-(R-A
official announcement tonight
said a United States delegation
had arrived in the United
Kingdom to discuss problems
of administration and jurisdic-
ton arising from the original
agreement to least Western
Hemisphere bases in exchange
for American destroyers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
FAIRLY WELL"

Arthur r. Donat, 43, of
Charlotte, who suffered the
loss of his left arm at the
shoulder when it was caught
III a cable and drum while
working Tuesday at Camp
Davis, is doing fairly WELL"
the attending physician at
Bullock hospital reported last
night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25

CONGRESSIONAL POWER
Congress alone has the power to
declare war under the Constitution.
but It usually does so only on
recommendation of the president.
through custom.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
FILES SUIT

The Virginia Carolina Chemi.
cal corporation yesterday filed
suit against O. r. Mintz in
New Hanover superior court
seeking the recovery of ST.
l3l.67 in alleged indebtedness
OF promissOry notes executed
by the defendant in the pur-
chase of fertilizer materials,
records at the office of T. A.
Henderson, clerk of court, dis
closed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
CRITICAL

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24-R
I'm a report nightly critical
Of some current practices, a
special committee appointed
two years ago at the direction
of President Roosevelt recon-
mended today that judicial and
prosecutive functions of federal
agencies be separated and pro-
posed other far = reaching
changes in their procedure.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
ANNIE PRATT

Funeral services for Annie
Pratt, who died Thursday at
Community (colored) hospital
will be held Sunday afternoon
at 1 o'clock from the Ebenezer
Baptist church.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
REVIVAL

Evangelist Reynolds will on
tinue his series of lectures at
the regular hour of worship to.
morrow night at the Seven Day
Adventist church. His subject
will be, What Will Happen te
Wilmington When Christ Re-
turns" The public is invited to
attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
E

The time required to see a d
realize a danger signal and begin
to press on automobile brakes Is
about one-fifth of a second. In that
time, at 40 miles an hour, you
could travel nearly 20 feet. 8
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
PLUMBING BIDS

Public advertisements for bids
for plumbing work and fixtures
for the soldiers recreationaI
building, soon to be erected at
4th and Princess streets, were
ordered yesterday by the city
engineering department.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
WILLKIE

LISBON, Portugal, Jan. "a
R-Wendell L. Willkie, en- route
to London arrived here today
by Pan-American clipper.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
WHITE MENACE

Each year, about 42o icebergs
drift into the north Atlantic ocean
off the coast Of Newfoundland.
The area in which these 'bergs
float is about equal to the area
Of Pennsylvania.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
r AID CLASS

Mrs. Carl Powers is organic.
ing q First Aid class for young
married couples which will meet
at the home of Mrs. James X.
Paul, III Forest Hills. v. L.
Smith will be the instructor.
Definite dates will be announced
later.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
ADMIRAL

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Jan. "a.
-RH Authoritative sources SAID
tonight the Italian admiral cap.
tured by the British at Tobruk was
named Vietana. His chief Of staff,
Captain Salvasstronis, also W a S
taken prisoner.
Admiral Vietana was believed to
have commanded the old Italian
cruiser San Giorgio which W a S
sunk in Tobruk's harbor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
sEAWORTHY

SEVERANCE SEAWORTHY
The steamer, Severance, which
hit the piling at the Cape Fear
river bridge some time ago, has
been thoroughly repaired at
Newport News, C. ID. Maffitt,
agent for the ship while it was
in port, announced yesterday.
The Severance will put out to
sea again today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
Nazi Occupation Troops STRIFE
To Win Friendship Of Frenoz

Editors Note: Associated
Press correspondent Roy p.
Porter, back in the United
States after working for six
months under the German
military rule in the occupied
zone of France, tells how the
Nazi soldiers get along with
the French, in this second of
four daily stories.l