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Evening star., 1941-09-14
By NELSON M. SHEPARD.

Starting tomorrow under strict
military secrecy. 10000 men of the
I'd and Sd Armies will engage in a
simulated life and death struggle for
mastery over 10000 square miles OF
East Texas and Louisiana in the
greatest field maneuvers ever con-
Quoted by any nation, either in peace
or preparation for war.
For the next two weeks these sea-
soned ferces, eliminating nearly a
year of training. will match leader
ship, military prowess and physical
endurance on the ground and in the
air to demonstrate how much they
can give and take in this American
lied version of "blitz" warfare. Each
will have to outguess the other to
gain an advantage, for the war
game is not to be played according
to any preconceived plan in which
the outcome of the fight is fixed" "
1t is strictly a catch-as-catch-can
affair with no holds barred.
At a specified H" hour-known
only to the principals-Lt. Gen. Les
lie j. McNair, General Headquarters
Chief of Staff, will disclose the mill
tary objective to the two opposing
commanders. But each army knows
that it's primary mission is the true
mission of all combat armies any
where-to annihilate the other or
drive 1t from the field.
The two field generals on whose
shoulders rests the responsibility for
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Germans Sentence II
Norwegians in Effort
To Halt Opposition
Two DEGREES of Death Are
COMMITTED to Life Terms:
Arrests Continuing
Rv the Associated Press.


STOCKHOLM, Sept. 13.-Reports
from Oslo tonight said a German
court-martial today sentenced two
NorWegianS to death and 10 others
to prison sentences in efforts to
stamp out opposition to the Quis-
ling, German-Supported regime.
The two death sentences. i'm
posed for acts against the regime,
were commuted to life imprison-
ment by Nazi Gauleiter Joseph Ter
bowen. The other sentences given
workers and trade union leaders
ranged from 10 years to life in
prison. One of the men sentenced
to life in prison was Fredrik Ramm,
a Journalist, who accompanied
Roald AmundSen in his polar flight
in the dirigible Norge in 1926.
Widespread arrests were reported
continuing. Oslo dispatches said
inhabitants of the town of Skien
we're fined $4,000 crowns and pro-
hibited from leaving their homes at
night because of demonstrations
against Quisling leaders and the
German forces.
Because so many Norwegians were
leaving the trade unions, while 9TH
ers were refusing to pay their SUBJ
scriptions, Oslo dispatches said, the
Germans ordered no one be permit
ted to withdraw or to refuse pay
ment.
With stoppage of milk deliveries
for factory workers Monday, rumors
spread in Oslo the milk was being
sent to German soldiers in Finland.
A Nazi party statement today blamed
these rumors for Tuesdays steel and
shipbuilding strikes in Oslo.
Evening star., 1941-09-14

southeast Of Smolensk and about
midway on the main highway be-
tween Moscow and Kiev. was esti-
mated by the Russians to have cost
the Germans nearly 10000 officers
and men, more than 260 tanks, 600
vehicles and hundreds of field guns.
Last night the Russians were re-
ported hot on the pursuit of the
Germans west of the Desna River,
the Nazis' plan for blitzkrieg cap
ture of Bryansk having failed de-
spite the fact that they pushed II
infantry divisions (about 10000
mem and great tank and airplane
forces into the battle, the Russian
dispatches stated.
Drive Began September /.
The Germans broke through in
the direction of Bryansk late in
August, the dispatches said. and the
Russian counterattack began Sept.
/, the opening major encounter ap-
parently being fought on plains
in the approaches to Trubchevsk,
62 miles southwest of Bryansk.
Russian correspondents said the
Germans concentrated their 47th
tank corps and three infantry di-
visions for an assault toward
Bryansk. and then added another
tank corps and many planes and
built the infantry force up to IL
divisions.
Red infantry, artillery, tanks and
planes combined to rout the Ger
man forces, executing pincers move
ments against armored wedges and
(See MOSCOW, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Gulf Storm Shifts,
Expected 10 Miss
War Game Area
Mornings Ordered Hoisisd
On Texas, AIobomo
And Florida Cousts
BY the Associated Press.

q
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. ia
tropical storm attended by winds
of gale force was moving west or
west northwestward in the Gulf of
Mexico tonight, the Weather Bureau
said, and probably would strike the
Texas coast sometime tomorrow.
The Weather Bureaus night ad-
visory said the tropical disturbance.
which has skirted Louisiana's Gulf
Coast for several days, was about
80 miles south of Morgan City. La,
moving at about IS miles an hour,
attended by shifting gales of so to
60 miles per hour at its center. and
by 30 to 40 mile squalls north OF its
center.
The advisory cautioned persons
in low, exposed reaches between
Morgan City and Galveston, Tex. to
seek safe locations from high tides
expected to sweep in, an0 ordered
northeast storm warnings hoisted
west of Sabine, Tex. to Velasco,
Tex. and southeast storm warnings
continued from Mobile, Ala, to Car
rabelle, Fla.
w. R. Stevens, meteorologist In
charge of the Weather Bureau at
New orleans Airport, revised previ-
Gus calculations that the storm
would pass inland after midnight at
the Texas-Louisiana border, between
Bayou Vermilion and the Sabine
River, and placed its approach in
land on the Upper Texas Coast
sometime tomorrow
Thus thousands of troops of the
Sd Army encamped for maneuvers
near Lake Charles, which expected
to be IN the storms path, apparently
would miss the gales full force.
The disturbance had picked up
speed since the Weather Bureaus
afternoon advisory, when it was re-
ported moving west northwestward
at about 10 miles an hour.
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Senators Call Chaplin on Great Dictator
In Probe Of War Propaganda in Films

developed by the investigation. 1t
is he who makes racial prejudice an
issue. 1t is he who would accom-
pish one thing-namely, stop this
investigation of moving picture
propaganda before all the facts are
in the open.
ut is not strange that Willkie
would want to stop this investigat-
ing before monopoly strong enough
to almost completely guide Ameri-
can thinking was shown up in full
light in an hour such as this"
Litvak Also Called.
Chairman Clark, Democrat, of
Idaho said the Senate Interstate
Commerce Subcommittee in addi-
tion to subpoenaing Mr.. Chaplin
would call Anatole Litvak of Warner
Bros. who produced Confessions
of Nazi Spy" and William r. Will
kerson, editor and publisher of the
Hollywood Reporter, trade journal
which has been critical of commit
tee procedure.
During the day, p. H. Peter Gu
sick, executive secretary of Fight
for Freedom, Inc, made public a
letter he said had been sent to
Chairman Clark and to Senator Nye
asking if they had ever protested
against the showing in the United
States of the German film Victory
in the West"
-Four days of inquiry and state
ments," Mr.. Cusick, added, have
failed to clarity what it is the iso-
lationist Senators conducting the
investigation of anti-Nazi propa-
ganda in the motion picture industry
seek to achieve, unless it be to force
the industry to present the Axis in
a favorable light regardless of the
facts.
Telling the truth about Nal con-
duct Is bound to make decent peo-
pie feel like destroying the Axis"
Evening star., 1941-09-14

BY the Associated Press.
A Senate committee inquiring into
alleged movie propaganda for war
yesterday called Charles Chaplin,
movie comedian, to testify october
6 about his picture, THE Great
Dictator" as, meantime, Wendell L.
Willkie and Senator Nye, Republi-
can, of North Dakota each accused
the other of injecting racial pref
udice into the hearing.
Mr.. Willkie, counsel for the movie
industry, asserted in a statement
that he was shocked" at what he
described as the race prejudice
exhibited by Charles A. Lindbergh
in talk at Des Moines and by Sen
ator Nye in testimony before the
committee.
The talk of Col Lindbergh in
Des Moines was the most un-Ameri-
can talk made in my time by any
person of national reputation" Mr..
Willkie declared. eff the American
people permit race prejudice to ar
rive at this critical moment, they
little deserve to preserve democracy.
Shocked at Nye Stand.
Il was shocked to hear the same
sentiments expressed by Senator
Nye, another isolationist, before
Senate subcommittee. He remained
unrebuked by any of the isolationist
members of the committee. Surely
these people, in their desperate
effort to sabotage their country's
foreign policy, will not seek to pull
down the temple of liberty"
Mr.. Lindbergh had charged that
the British, the Jewish and the
Roosevelt administration groups"
were leading this country toward
war. Senator Nye had testified that
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Nazis' Moscow
Push ThrottIed,
Russians Claim
Germans Hurled Back
10 to II Miles,
Soviet Asserts
BY the Associated Press.

.
MOSCOW, Sunday, Sept. 14.-Red
armies of the western front, usher
ing in the 18th week of the war
with slashing counter attacks, erased
a new threat to Moscow by throt-
ting giant German offensive 220
miles southwest of the Soviet capi-
tai and hurled the Nazis back 10
to II miles, the Russians reported
today.
These massive operations climaxed
two-Weeks battle near the i'm
portant rail center of Bryansk.
Frontline dispatches said the Ger
mans still were in retreat westward
before the ceaSeless hammering of
Red infantry, tanks and planes.
TwentysiX towns and villages were
declared recaptured in bitter fight
ing.
The Russians reported the 47th
and oath German tank corps, COM
manded by the Nazi panZer expert,
Col. Gen. Heinz Guderian, were
routed on this front by Red forces
under Gen. Jacob Kreuzer, hero
of the Soviet Union.
Bucharest Raided Again.
The Soviet Information Bureau,
itself silent on details of the fight
ing, reiterated early today only that
the fierce struggle continued without
let-up along the entire western
front.
1t credited the Red Air Force with
its second raid on Bucharest within
a week. The latest attack on the
Rumanian capital was carried out
Friday night and the previous one
on Monday night.
In the Baltic Sea, speedboats of
the Northern Red feet sank large
German transport and a coast guard
vessel, the communique said
The battle for Bryansk, a rail and
communications center $50 miles
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Leningrod District
Gets First Snow,
British Report

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-The
first snow of the season has
fallen in the Leningrad area,
the British radio reported to-
night.
"It is a warning to the Ger
mans that time is running short
before the dreaded winter be-
gins" the British announcer
said in a broadcast heard here
by c. B. s.
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Posser-by Shot as Bronx
Hunting Season Opens
By the Associat ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Sept. 13.-Stalking
a pheasant in the Bronx. young
man with a 20 caliber rife opened
the unofficial hunting season here
today by plunking two bullets into
the left thigh of a passing citizen.
Two youths who fed the scene in
an automobile were arrested later.
The wounded man was Anton Yam
ker, So.
Police said that although numer-
Gus pot shots were taken every year
at pheasants wandering in the
Bronx, it was strictly illegal.
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Two D. {. Men Struck
By Sfreetedrs Die;
Traffic Toll Now 50
Wife of Telephone Co.
Official Is Killed in
North Carolina Crash

Two Washingtonians died yester-
day of injuries received when struck
by street cars. bringing the l94l
traffic toll to SO. and the wife Of a
telephone company official here was
killed in an accident near ReidS-
vile, n. c.
An infant was killed in a two-car
crash near Manassas, Va. late last
night, while a Washington youth
was fatally injured in an accident
at Oxon Hill. Md.
A man identified by police as
Thomas J. Coleman. about IS, Of 500
Fifth street NV. died at Casualty
Hospital several hours after he was
knocked down by street car as he
stepped from a loading platform on
Indiana avenue in front of police
headquarters.
Police said the car was operated
by Lloyd B. Wilbank. %. of 327
Fourteenth street NE. The victim
suffered a fractured skull and leg.
The other street car victim was
Frederick Vassaw. 70. of 625 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV. who died in
Emergency Hospital Of a punctured
lung and other complications re-
sulting from seven rib fractures. Mr..
Vassaw was struck Monday at Con-
necticut avenue and L street NV.
by a car operated. police said. by
John D. Jacobs. CT 2039 Thirty
eighth street Sc.
Toll Was so Year Ago.
There we're so fatalities in the
District at this time last year.
Mrs. Ruth De Barbieri was killed
and her husband. George j. De
Barbieri, American Telephone &
Telegraph Co. official here, was in
iured yesterday when their auto
mobile skidded off highway 29 near
ReidSville, N. c.
The couple, whose home is at 1913
North Fourth street, Arlington, were
going South on a vacation trip when
the accident occurred. With Mrs. De
Rarbieri at the wheel. the car left
the road and went out of control
when she attempted to get it back
on the highway.
Mr.. De Barbieri received minor
back injury. according to the Asso-
ciated Press, and probably will be
able to leave the hospital in day
or two. He is commercial repre-
sentative in the division managers
Office, long lines division, of the
A. T. & T. in Washington.
Burial in Pennsylvania.
A native of Pennsylvania, Mrs. De
Barbieri had lived in the Washing
ton area since her marriage to Mr..
De Barbieu nine years ago. Her
body is to be sent to Troy. Pa, for
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Dodgers Win, 10;
Whirlawoy Beaten

The Brooklyn Dodgers nosed
out the st. Louis Cardinals,
! to 0, yesterday to go two
games in front in the stretch
battle for the National League
pennant. Whirlaway was up
set by War Relic in the $4,000
Narragansett Special, while
AlSab, red hot MidweStern q
year-old, had to be content
with a dead heat for first
money in the Eastern Shore
Handicap at the Havre de
Grace opening. The Mats won
an thinning victory over
Cleveland, 6 to 5.
"Details IN Sports Section.)
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Admiralty Describes
Gallant Rescues in
Running Fight
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 13.-The Ad-
miralty in an unusual announce
ment tonight disclosed that a
large British Atlantic convoy
had claShed with German sub
marines and four-engined
bombers in a running battle
which began in mid-ocean and
continued for three days, the
British losing eight ships and,
it was indicated, scores of lives.
The majority of the convoy has
now arrived safely, the Admiralty
said, but it told a spectacular story
of bitter battle at sea, in which
the weather combined with German
torpedoes and bombs to plague the
long string of merchant vessels, a
story of gallant rescueS under fire
of men whose lives were only to be
lost a few hours later in subsequent
attack.
The Admiralty as usual failed to
specify the dates of the attacks and
was silent on the number of ships
in the convoy, but qualified sources
insisted it was impossible that this
convoy could have been the same
which the Germans claim has lost
81 vessels, including three warships,
under their attack in the past few
days.
Torpedoes Sank Three Ships.
The Admiralty has never been
known to disclose anything relating
to conveys until number of days
after they have reached port and
been unloaded, whereas the Germans
reported their big attack was con-
tinuing Friday
Briefly it was story of three
ships being sunk by submarine tor
pedoes, four by bombs from the air,
and an eighth, damaged under fire,
going down in a gale.
The details were told by the Ad-
miralty in circular OF a type used
only in extraordinary circumstances.
Far out in the Atlantic early one
morning, it said. submarine struck,
and two ships we're sunk within a
few minutes. The little 1.473-ton
steamer Brandenburg left the con-
voy string and went to the rescue.
picking up nearly all of the crew of
one ship.
The 900-ton naval escort sloop
Deptford lowered a boat for the
others, left the boat, and went sub
marine hunting. Later she picked
up her boat, loaded with survivors.
'The convoy sailed on the Ad-
miralty said. but only to be attacked
IL hours later by six -engined
Focke-Wulf bombers which pressed
home their attack" relentlessly de-
spite "a fierce fire" from the armed
merchant ships and their escorts
Four ships went down. a fifth
was damaged. Survivors were
picked up, and again the convoy
sailed on"
The next morning came the Sec
ond submarine attack. and the
gallant little Brandenburg, now
carrying with the men she rescued
more than double her own compile
ment, was hit and sank Immediately.
only one man was saved,' the
Admiralty statement said.
The ordeal still was not ended.
On the third day came wireless
messages showing that a "raiding
German warship" was in the vici-
nifty Luckily for the British, it
(See CONVOY, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Mrs. Roosevelt Named
As Aide by La Guordio
BY the Associated Press.

I BY the Assoclated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-Mayor F.
H. La Guardia, director of civilian
defense, today announced the ap-
pointment of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
as an assistant director.
Characterizing the Presidents
wife as Americas No. volunteer" !"
Mayor La Guardia said she would
report for duty September 90 and
would be stationed in Washington.
Evening star., 1941-09-14
U. S. Ship Hit in Raid on Suez;
British Declare Eight Vessels
Of Convoy Lost in 3-Doy Battle
Reich Orders Sale
OF All Snowshoes
And Skis to Army
BY the Associated Press.


BERLIN, Sept. 13.-Manufac-
turerS of skis and snoWShoes as
well as dealers were ordered to-
day to offer their stock to the
nearest army ordnance Offices.
The sale of skis, Snowshoes,
ski sticks and bindings was for
hidden except to the ordnance
offices or to the army quarter
master headquarters.
A decree to this effect. ap-
pearing in the official gazette,
reflected extensive preparations
the German army is making for
a winter campaign in Russia.
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Ambush by Ecuudoreons
Killed 26, Peru Charges

BY the Associated Press.
LIMA, Peru, Sept. 13.-An official
announcement today said three
Peruvian officers and % men were
killed in an ambush laid by Ecua-
dorean forces at Porotillo in a new
f1are-up of warfare in the long
border dispute between Peru and
Ecuador.
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Morse MoiI Ship Sunk
By British, Nuzis Soy

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Sept. 13.-The Ger
man radio reported today the sink
ing of the Norwegian mail ship
Lofoten, 1871 tons, off the Norwe-
gian coast by British airplane fire
and bombs Friday. Only a few of
the crew were rescued, the broadcast
said.
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Pe.uin Host to Leuhy

VICHY. Unoccupied France, Sept.
IS (P.-Marshal and Madame Pee
tain entertained United States AM
bassador Admiral Leahy and Mrs.
Leahy, along with other diplomats
at dinner tonight.
Evening star., 1941-09-14
'McCarran Asks
Delay Of Higher
Wafer Rates
Commissioner Young
Also Opposes Plan
For Raised Costs
BACKGROUND

OACh hGHOOND-
District Water Department,
ignoring major part expanding
defense population here has had
on necessity for ne1D plant ia
ctlitieS. last Wednesday proposed
in 1943 budget estimates that
cost for capital outldyS be met
by stOeeping increases in all con-
Sumers' 10dter rates. Also ignored
tUas possibility that Federal GoU-
ernment might aid by paying for
1UdteT it nO1O gets free.
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Educational
Section

Turn to Part F for the Stars
annual fall educational Sec
ton. The music section will
be found on pages F-s and
F-9.
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Plates Pierced by
Shells or Bombs,
Legation Says

BACKGROUND
Recent attacks on American
shipping and naUal UesselS by
AriS raiders brought announce
ment BY President Roosevelt
Thursday night that United
States Navy has been ordered to
protect all merchant ships in un-
defined American defensive lUd-
terS, sinking AriS submarines on
sight 1Uhen necessary.
Evening star., 1941-09-14

the movie industry contained many
of foreign birth who were interested
in involving this country in a de-
fense of their homelands.
In reply, Senator Nye said:
"Mr. Willkie gets down terribly
low when he seeks to blind those
who follow what he says, to the
facts which are being and will be
Evening star., 1941-09-14

(See TRAFFIC, Page A-41
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Weather Forecast

Fair and somewhat warmer today, gentle
southerly winds; partly cloudy and mod
erately warm tomorrow. Temperatures
yesterday-Highest;7 70; lowest, so.
From the United States Weather Bureau report
Full Details on Page Az.
Evening star., 1941-09-14

(See WILLKIE, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1941-09-14

Burial in Pennsylvania.
A native of Pennsylvania, Mrs. De
Barbieri had lived in the Washing
ton area since her marriage to Mr..
De Barbieu nine years ago. Her
body is to be sent to Troy. Pa, for
Evening star., 1941-11-29
Two Young Women Hurt
In Traffic Accidents

Two young Washington women
were in hospitals today after acci-
dents on streets here and in Mary
land.
Miss Eileen Collins, 81, of 1105
Forty-fifth place Sc. fell from an
auto shortly after midnight, police
reported, while it was being driven
in Kensington, Md, by Ralph j.
Brown, 1l51 Forty-fourth place Sc.
The victim was admitted to Casualty
Hospital in undetermined condition
with head injuries.
Miss Mary Chekan, II, of 1928 T
street NV, was struck by a truck
as she was walking across Seven
teenth street at X street NV,
police said. She was treated at
Emergency Hospital for shock, posi-
BILE conclusion and lacerations to
her scalp.
John D. Payne, II, Of 126 For
rester street S.W., was in a car
which struck a lamp-post on Chesa-
peake street S.W. near Nichols ave-
nue., according to police. He was
removed to Casualty with a possible
conclusion and face lacerations.
James A. Robinson, %, a colored
civilian from Fort Foote, Nd, suf-
fered q fractured right leg and face
abrasions when hit by a truck at
First and Atlantic streets Sc, police
said. He was admitted to Casualty.
Evening star., 1941-11-29
!. Bundles for BIuejaekets
incorporated Separately

Bundles for Bluejackets, which
had been functioning for several
months as a division of Bundles for
Britain, has been incorporated as a
separate organization in New York
State, according to an announce
ment received by the local Office of
the latter agency.
Bundles for Bluejackets, forma-
tion of which was suggested by the
Navy League of the United States,
g.. will devote itself to furnishing COM
forts to men of the United States
Navy and Merchant Marine. It's
first project will be provision of
knitted garments for sailors serving
in North Atlantic waters. All gar
mentS will be made in accordance
with instructions furnished by the
Navy. the announcement stated
The group is to begin establish
nent of branches Immediately, util-
izing existing quarters of Bundles
for Britain wherever possible and
aenlisting assistance of Bundles for
Britain volunteer workers. Others
interested in serving will be well
.eCmed, however.
; Mrs. Wales Latham, national pres
ident of the parent organization,
also heads Bundles for Bluejackets
Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham and
Brig. Gen. John Ross Delafleld are
the other incorporators.
Evening star., 1941-11-29
Week Of Prayer for Peace
Begins al Epiphany Church

Prayers for world peace began
last night in the Church of the
Epiphany and will continue "a
hours a day for a week Those
participating have been asked to
pray particularly for a peaceful
outcome of the present United
States-Japanese negotiations.
DR.. E. Stanley Jones, evangelist,
conducted the initial service last
night. Dr. Orris Robinson, pastor
of the Calvary Methodist Church,
has arranged the services and ex-
planned that more than so minis
ters will participate with each de-
voting at least four hours to the
work
Arranged through the District
Ministerial Union and the Fedora
ton OF Churches, the services are
believed to be the most extensive
of this nature attempted in this
country by Protestant churches.
Prayers will be read by rectors of
the Epiphany Church at noon each
day. Dr. Robinson further ex-
planned that some one will be offer
ing prayers in the church through
out the day and night.
Members of all participating
churches are asked to visit the
church and pray for peace, DIR.
Robinson said.