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Evening star., 1941-02-23

Disgustedly he reached for the switch of
the car radio and turned it. The strains of
Whitley Paulmans dance orchestra playing a
sign-off number backgrounded Whitey's own
voice saying good night. Then came stac-
cato announcement of last-minute radio news.
With half an ear Bumper listened as he
drove to the terse bulletins that followed
London, Berlin and Rome date lines. Next,
in crisp radioese, the announcer's voice
clipped: New York = Robbers early this
evening got away with over two hundred
thousand dollars in jewelry from the Park
Avenue apartment of Mrs. H. Townsend
Van Horne. Included in the loot was the fa-
nous Van Horne necklace of matched pearls
valued at seventy-ive thousand dollars, and
the priceless Rajah's ruby.
Police suspect an inside job and have tele-
typed an eight-state alarm for Sophie Avalon,
Mrs. Van Hornes maid, and Harry Brooks,
chauffeur. Both have disappeared. Mr. Van
Horne has offered a reward of ten thousand
dollars for the capture of the robbers and re-
turn of the loot. The Avalon woman is de-
scribed as about twenty five, five feet five,
weight about one hundred and twelve, blonde
(Confinvsd on poss 20)
2-23-4I
Evening star., 1941-02-23

That's fine" said the girl, in low voice.
Bumper noted, in the lights of the hack,
that she was golden bantam blonde with
gentian blue eyes. And young, around twenty,
he guessed. The man was young too, twenty
five or six, of medium height, slender but very
square shouldered. Bumper started to open
the luggage rack at the rear of his cab.
The girl said, Put the bags inside the car
There's plenty of ROOM
They got into the hack. Bumper switched
off the dome light and started As he shifted
into high he spoke over his shoulder. 'Wanta
stop at garage in East Lawn an get 'em
t tow yer car in?"
mo" said the man. mo. Can't waste any
more time. I'll phone back from Maplefield
to have it picked up. You'll have to step on
it to get us there by three o'clock. And that's
vital"
'Okay."
While Bumper ooaxed the heavy old hack
up to sixty and held it there, his Irish curl
osity began to work. The couple on the back
seat weren't doing any talking - out loud
at least " which gave Bumpers speculation
no nourishment
Whats anybody wanta get t. a hick town
Evening star., 1941-02-23

like Maplefield fer at three o'clock in the
morning." he asked himself under his breath.
''Bet they're no more brother an sister than
l am. Runnin' away from somethin', that's
what. Maybe elopin'." He sighed. "An usin'
me hack t do it in. Wisht I'd never stopped
back there on the parkway. Oh, hell fifty
bucks is fifty bucks. But hate t. earn it this
way. Why guys have t go overheard fer james
is more than kin add up. Nice lookin' feller,
too. If he wants orderin' around he oughta
60 in the army"
0UMPER twisted his head slightly. the while
keeping his eyes on the road. He addressed
the back seat. "Uh course l can't guarantee
t. get va t. Maplefield by three o'clock. We
might have blowout or get picked up by a
cop or some other act of God. Jest wanted t
tell va case somebody's sick or dyin' or yer
tryin' to catch a train or somethin'," '" he added
lamely.
The man said, We'll chance it, Bud. Just
keep stepping on it,
'Umps!" said Bumper to himself drawing
down his upper lip and making face at the
rear-vision mirror. "Confdin' sort of guy,
amt you - like a clam!'
Evening star., 1941-09-03
Nazi Drives Against
Leningrad, Moscow
Held Hurled Back
II Villages Retoken
In Central Sector,
Russians Claim

Continued From First Page)
went to the front approaches of
Leningrad at night, worked out a
plan of attack, and launched it the
next dawn
Evening star., 1941-09-03

effort to battle the F. B. I. the de-
PENDANTS maintained a large va
riety of aliases and gave a number
of fictitious addresses.
Some OF the communications with
persons unknown to the grand
jury" in Spain. Portugal and Ger
many were in code, the indictment
charged
1t said further that the ring care
fully culled from trade magazines,
military publications and the daily
newspapers information of Amer
ican troop movements and DISPOSE
tons and sent it along to the Euro
pean agents.
Ludwig. the indictment charged,
had travelled the Eastern seaboard
making sketches and taking pictures
for Germany. which country, accord
ing to the indictment, paid him for
his work. He entered the United
States most recently in 1940
AS 16 members OF a ring accused
of espionage activities went on trial
in Brooklyn Federal Court today,
three more defendants pleaded
guilty to one of two counts against
them
The pleas brought to IT the total
number of persons who have
acknowledged guilt. Four so pleaded
yesterday and the others previously
Those entering guilty pleas before
Federal Judge Mortimer F. Byers
were Richard Eichenlaub, 35, Ger
man-born proprietor of the Little
Casino restaurant; Paul Bante, SO,
Germanborn iron worker, tool and
die maker, and Felix Jahnke, 48,
German-born soda clerk.
Four Change Pleas.
One of four defendants changing
their pleas to guilty yesterday was
Everett Minister Roeder, AZ, who
worked in the Sperry Gyroscope fac
tory as an inspector of the famed
Sperry bomb site. The others were
Max Albrecht Blank, 38, former en-
ploye of the German Library of In
formation which has been shut by
Government orders; Gustav Wilhelm
Kaercher, 35, employed in a New
Jersey powder plant, and George
Gottlob Schulz, 54, who worked in
the German Bund Camp Nordland
in New Jersey.
Roeder pleaded guilty to the Sec
ond count of the indictment-that
he helped gather information and
send it to a foreign power. The
other three pleaded guilty to the
first count--that of being unregiS-
tered agents of a foreign power. All
were remanded in bail of $25 900 for
sentencing.
The Government charges that the
ring sent information about ship
movements, developments in United
States naval, Army and aircraft
products, and transmitted, by means
of courier, samples of the latest arm
aments.
Conviction carries sentence up to
20 years.
Evening star., 1941-09-03

(ThiS is the second inStdllment
In a ne,O series OF articles by a
noted foreign correspondent
BY JOHN I. WHITAKER,
(Foreign Correspondent Of The STAR
and Chicago Daily NewsD
Evening star., 1941-09-03

ately, officials felt they could take
more time and do the job right.
Mayor La Guardia, chief of the
o. C. D., agreed with her, she said,
that the civilian defense program is
not yet satisfactory and will not be
until every man, woman and child
is participating.
Many people, she said, are inter-
ested in doing something tangible in
military way, such as preparing
for air raid warden service or fire
watching, but, she added, there are
many equally tangible services to be
rendered in giving the people of the
community sense of what they are
defending.
She recommended greater partici-
patton in Nationwide nutrition
program, stressing closer co-opera-
ton between urban and rural COM
munities in working out a school
nutrition program, over and beyond
school lunches.
She also told her press conference
Evening star., 1941-09-03
-Four More Indicted
AS Espionage Trial
OF 16Gets Under Way
Girl and Three Men
Named in New Cuse;
II Await Sentence
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-Three men
and an 18-year-old girl were in
dicted today on charges of con-
spiracy to violate the Espionage Act,
as the Government moved to break
up what Federal agents described as
an international ring of spies op-
Grating here and in Spain, Portugal
and Germany.
The Government charged that the
defendants, all in custody, had
gathered and transmitted to COL
leagues in Europe information on
the movements and disposition of
American forces together with pic
lures and sketches of strategic
points along the Eastern seaboard.
Named in the indictment as ring
leader was Kurt Frederick Ludwig,
about 40, who was born in Ohio of
German parents. He was educated
in Germany from childhood, made
several trips to the United States
and in 1884 was arrested in Au-
straha on charge of photographing
bridges. The charge was later dis
missed and Ludwig was released.
Others Indicted.
Working under Ludwig, according
to the indictment, were:
Miss Lucy Boehmler, 18, of Mas
peth, Queens, New York City, who
was born lin Stuttgart, Germany
and came to New York with her
mother and sister in 1929
Hans Pagel, 20, of Brooklyn, a
brewer who was born in Wunstorf
Germany, and came here in 1881.
Frederick Edward Schlosser, 10,
who was born in New York and lived
in Brooklyn.
The indictment, returned few
hours after 16 other persons went
on trial in Brooklyn Federal
Court on espionage charges, said
that Pagel and Schlosser were active
members of the German American
youth movement, which later be-
came a part of the German Amer
ican Bund. The Ridgewood Brook
ly) branch, to which they were at
tached was among the most active
units in drills and camping activi-
ties.
United States Attorney Matthias
Correa said that Federal Bureau of
Investigation agents, in arresting
Ludwig, discovered that he had a
short-wave radio in his car.
The indictment charged that in an
Evening star., 1941-09-03

That is the spirit of the young
mother wheeling her baby in
pram along the Dover sea walk
which Jerry" shells every day and
strafes with machine-gun bullets
every week or so. why should I
be takin' baby along 'ere?" she
said And why not? Baby's
blitz baby, e is Born on the 14th,
and wasn't that a bad blitz row?
'E's little nervous All blitz babies
are. But amt e the darlin'?"
The old woman I met in Bristol
showed the same courage. Her
son died as a sailor at sea, her
daughter died under bombs with
two children. But that amt the
worst of it," said the woman. Me
old man turned against me. Said
we ought to kill ourselves. said we
didn't have anything else to live
for. What! said 1 to him. kill
ourselves and let 'Itler win?' I must
see that man beat"
That is the spirit of the man
saw standing ruefully before the
smoking ruins of his house in Lon
donS East End. l offered sympathy.
1T might have been worse" he said
with a Shrug.
Consider the fighting pilot who
has the D. S. o. and 20 German
planes to his credit-a former news
paperman. We discussed the math-
ematics of the chances for a fight
ing pilot to live. He had made his
peace with death long before. he
explained, and every flight since
was lust another gratuitous day of
life
Spirit of Dunkerque.
The same spirit was shown by the
leader of a crack bombing squadron.
We've enjoyed having you here at
our command" he said. We want
you to promise to come back and
visit us when you return to Eng
land. Wen all be gone, but the
squadron will still be here"
That is the spirit of every man.
woman and child with whom I
talked in hundreds of daily conver-
sation-the spirit of DunkerQue,
which Germanys most important
airplane manufacturer described to
me as the greatest feat of military
history, with the possible exception
of the German conquest of France
which was psychological rather than
military"
The popular press of Britain has
been demanding that Britain bomb
Germany so hard that Hitler must
bring planes back from the Russian
front and start the nightly terror
over Britain again.
One AFRAID warden-when Hit
ler's planes did return after a six
week layoff-cried to the people in
the neighborhood: Just like old
times . Jerry's back again"
A cab driver, who answered my
telephone call in the midst of an
air raid and took me across town
to the East India docks with bombs
falling in the streets, refused my
double fare tip. Just a normal
trip, sir. We've all got to carry on,
you know, sir"
Then - there's Margot Asquith.
| When I pleaded that she ought to
move to the country and not spend
another winter in London, this great
old lady answered: Il shouldn't
like any one to say that the widow
of wartime Prime Minister had
moved away from danger"
Prayers by Lady Astor.
That's the spirit of Lady Astor, as
described by one of her servants:
My lady made us all join her in
Evening star., 1941-09-03
III. BRITISH MORALE.


British morale, plus American
aid, has made an invasion of Brit
ain impossible in the past, and toc
costly for Hitler to undertake in the
| immediate future.
That is why Hitler has invaded
Russia in preparation for show
down with America. and why, with
the Russian campaign once ter
minated, he will attempt to cleal
! the Mediterranean. conquer Africa
and establish U-boat and bomber
bases against the United States.
Germans in Italy, Spain and Port
ugal are confident that America will
not enter the war now. They pre-
/ dict that later, when Hitler is in
| a position to deal with America, the
morale in this country will collapse
They say with absolute confidence
that their fifth column is paralyzing
/ democracy in America already, and
that it will ultimately force Wash
( ington to call for a British sur
render.
Their confidence already has won
over important Frenchmen and
/ Spaniards as well as Italians with
whom I have talked-that is the
only reason why French Chief OF
State Marshal Petain went over to
the German camp-and l imagine
that it is the basis of JapanS
present policy. In short, the Ger
mans have decided that the Amer
lean people. not the British, are the
weak blockhouse in the beleaguered
fortress of democracy.
No Defeatism in Britain.
I think the Germans have sized
up America wrong. l know they
have got Britain right. After spend
ing one month with the British, !
marvel that any nation in the world
can achieve such morale. I found
no defeatism in any class or group
in England The heart of city after
city is raZed to the ground, but in
stead of being terrified by bombs
the people have discovered that they
can take it." 1t wasn't half as
bad as last winter, as their imagina-
tions led them to expect. or, as they
add. half as bad as it's going to
be this coming winter" Standing
in the ruins of their homes, they
are lifting their fists and swearing
to dish it back"
That is the spirit of the British
aristocrat, once pro-German. whose
! lovely debutante daughter was killed
by a German bomb as she drew the
blinds of her London home.
That is the spirit of a formerly
Communist dock worker in Plym-
outh who said: Jerry, he killed my
wife and child. That's why we
workers on the docks carry or
whether he's bombing now or not
| We don't go down to the shelters.
There is the British bombing pilot
a former school teacher, who showed
me pile of bricks under his co
at the bomber command. It's par
of the masonry of the home il
which the Germans killed my
mother, he said Il take a bricl
and drop it on Germany every time
I take over a load of bombs. I've
dropped 122 bricks and we haven't
half started yet. We have to teach
Jerry, you know"
Evening star., 1941-09-03
Roaring Rock Slide Buries
Old Colorado Mine Shafts
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OURAY, Colo. Sept. "a vast,
rumbling rock slide down the face
of middle Red Mountain is bury
ing dozens of old mine shafts which
were worked in Southwestern Colo
radios mining boom of so years ago
The slide started at midnight last
Friday with booming reports that
awakened sleeping workers in Min
eral Basin, 2l2 airline miles across
the valley, F. L. Peart, Denver min
ing engineer, reported.
Continuing steadily since, the dis
turbance has sliced a quarter mile
wide cash on the mountainside.
Several acres of spruce timber have
been covered.
Mr.. Peart warned curious obServ-
ers from venturing too near the
slide area, because, he said, "the
whole side of the mountain seems
to be moving"
Evening star., 1941-09-03
Mrs. Roosevelt Saws
Civil Defense Is Slow
Due 10 Lack Of Crisis
Since There's No DeodIine,
Time Can Be Token to Do
Job Well, She Declares

The civilian defense program Is
moving slowly because there is no
"deadline" to compel immediate
action, Mrs. Roosevelt told her press
conference today.
Expressing gratitude that the
"deadline" did not exist, the Presi-
dents wife commented that Office
of Civilian Defense officials were in
clined to be "perfectionists"
If it were necessary to feed and
evacuate 100 children here tomor-
row, she went on, the program would
be rushed through in some way and
the children would be fed, but with
out the compulsion to act immedi-
Evening star., 1941-09-03

Solid comfort sturdy
construction and attractive
modern design. Sagless
spring base reversible
spring cushion. Beautiful
ly covered in tapestry.
Evening star., 1941-09-03

in answer to questions that she had
no foreknowledge Of the sea meet
ing between the President and
Prime Minister Churchill. that her
new broadcast series, sponsored by
coffee combine, would start Sep
tember %, and that the White
House kitchen bought in such large
quantities that she had not yet
noticed the increase in food prices.
Evening star., 1941-09-03
Munnerheim Thanks Hitler

BERLIN, Sept. CP.-Finland'
Field Marshal Baron Mannerheim
sent a telegram of thanks today to
Adolf Hitler for the knights Cross
of the Iron Cross which Germany
conferred as an honor to the entire
Finnish Army.
Evening star., 1941-09-03

Civilian pilot training schools in
Colombia now have a total of only
four planes and two gliders.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-01
Chairmen Appointed
By Italian Lodge

Appointment of the various COM
mittee chairmen to serve the Pro-
gressive Italisn-American lodge
No. /. Tacoma, during the coming
year vas announced Thursday by
Frank A. Reda, newly elected
director.
The lodge will hold its next
meeting on Tuesday evening. when
Reda will disclose plans for the
coming year. A social hour will
follow the business meeting.
Following are the chsirmen of
the committee: Sick. Nello Graz
zini. A. Lenzi and Mike P~snico;
social. Pat Cassandro. John Car
bone. Elio Bulleri, Dean Fabbry
and Nello Grszzini: civic and pub
licity. Louis Porto and Gabe Fera:
auditing. Gabe Fers, Louis Porto
and J. b. Antonetti: investigation.
Anthony Bertocehini, James Luzzi
and +. A. Reda.
Lodge membership Is composed
Of American citizens OF Italian
extraction who are devoted TO the
purpose Of unfolding the eonstitu-
ton Of the U. s. and in spreading
the gospel OF American ideals.
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Summer Star Groups Shine
= =
AUGUST EVENINGS Good to Learn These Consultations

have an exceptionally interesting
display Of planets. Venus is slowly
Frightening. remaining in view
later and later in the evening.
Mars, on the other hand. Is rising
earlier. and also increasing IN
grandeur. a. he approaches the
earth. In a few months Jupiter
and Saturn will also be visible IN
the evening hours.
The latter two are perhaps most
interesting through a telescope.
Even a modest-sized one s%uffiees
TO show the four large moons Of
Jupiter. revolving around that
great planet which Is 81. 900 miles
in diameter. The rings OF Saturn
al also be seen with such optical
aid.
These rings, really a vast swarm
Of tiny moonlets travelling around
Saturn together, vary in their
prominence. Sometimes they are
ifA'A'Atf NJ bAntF AAHAfN my ihIl
be observed much more easily.
This, however, is not due to any
actual change in their makeup.
but rather to the angle they pre-
sent to the earth. Though the
rings r enormous. about Ill 900
miles in outer diameter. the sys-
tenn is extremely thin. Probably
the thickness is about 10 miles.
Saturn revolves about the sun
once in 2eia years. Since the plane
OF the rings IL slanted to the
plane in which the planet encir-
Giles the sun, It means that their
angle changes.
Sometimes, as in the summer of
1896. they are exactly on edge, as
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A good place to start IL with
Vega. in Lyrs. the Tyre, which Is
directly overhead about 10 p. m,
Aug. /. and . p. m. Aug. Is
These are the times for which the
maps are prepared. and Vega,
brightest star visible In the sum
mer sky, Ia shown upon them.
Due east from Lyra you find
Cygnus. the swan, Of which the
most conspicuous stars form the
northern cross" Deneb Is the
bright star at the top Of the cross,
to the north. And 10 the south
east from Vega In Affair, most
brilliant orb in Aquila, the eagle.
Low In the west Ia Arcturus. in
Bootes, which can be found, II you
wish. by following the curve OF
the handle Of the big dipper."
Directly above Arcturus 10 a semi
circle Of stars, Corona Borealis.
the northern crown. mythologically
the n worn by Ariadne. And be-
tween Sorona and Lyra In Hercu-
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/ les. famed strong man Of Grecian
lore. Somewhat appropriately,
perhaps. six OF the stars in his
group form the outline Of a but
terfly, heading 10 the west. And
Just below Hercules. to the south.
II another celestial giant. Ophiu-
chus. holding the snake. Serpens.
ophiuchus Is represented as tread
ing on the scorpion, scorpius. low
In the south. with brilliant and
ruddy Antsres. This figure can be
recognized by the hook-shaped tail
Of the scorpion. Just below the tea
pot-shsped group Of Sagittanus.
the archer.
Nc planets are shown on the
maps. but Venus Is seen earlier, in
the west, shining brighter than
any other star or planet, and set
ting more than an hour after the
sun. Later in the evening. as the
constellation Of Pisces. the fishes.
climbs into better view in the east.
Mars appears. not quite as bright
as Venus, but surprising any star.
and conspicuous by its redness.
BY midnight Saturn rises into
sight. and an hour or so later you
can see Jupiter in the east, be-
tween Mars and Venus. in SPLEEN
dor. Mercury is not visible at all
this month.
This coming autumn we are to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-08-01

PNht ii'AF IMAM Fb Ift ttHA OUT
standing stock Higher hard
floor covering price structure ben
efits C~ongoleum, Armstrong and
Paraffines Long-range earn
ings estimate: Texas & Pacific
will show more than 81 for second
half of year Despite increased
taxes. U. S. Rubber will show more
than IS for 1871 =. Long-range
earnings estimate: Douglas will
show S12 for 1871 against s1s.05
for 1910: IS in dividends likely
this year.
Snider Packing to expand froz-
en- food packing division: under
contract with General Foods a..
Akron says Goodyear may show
$3.50 a share for 1871 . Nation
al Acme's order backlog expand
ing despite increased shipments
l.. Despite increased shipments
and production. Grammar Aircraft
has S74. 500, 900 order backlog
against s63, 500, 900 as Of Jan. /.
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hoE
been depending upon commercial
and savings banks to take up the
large offerings. But now the pub
Hes increased earnings must be
tapped. Only higher interest rates
will attract that class of buying.
CONTROI-To prevent the pos
sible breaking away from reich
control, industrial plants of con-
quered nations are being moved
lock. stock and barrel to Germany.
Those which cannot be moved are
made subsidiaries of German or
CARNATIONS or control is taken by
securities purchases.
CAUTIOUS - The first six
months financia. reports of B. n.
Goodrich. General Motors. DUPONT,
Savage Arms. crucible steel,
Studebaker. United States Steel.
etc, reveal that despite the set
ting aside OF funds for increased
taxes and covering higher operat-
ing costs such as labor and raw
materials. American companies
will show better earnings this
year than for 1910. 1t accounts
for smart money going into securi-
ties. But all are cautious-keep-
ing an ear TO the ground and an
eye open for possible disturbing
foreign development.
REPORTS ARE THAT-McKes-
son a Robbins federal tax refund
OF 1852. 464 on 1888. 1885. 1886
and 1887 returns was based on
over-payments when figures were
tuggled upward by former Off
eials Thinker Roller Bearing S
1871 net estimated as under 1912
Of 1910; higher taxes -. Business
mans risk: Goodrich preferred
shares . . Long-range earnings
estimate: Addressogrsph Multi
graph 1e41 net will be 81 a share.
Indian Refining's 1e41 net esti-
mated at 81 a share; Texas Corp.
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PUD Begins Couri.
Action 10 Get Property

PORT TOWNSEND - Condem-
nation proceedings TO acquire all
properties OF the Puget Sound
Power & Light Co. in public uuli-
" district No. l Of jefferson coun-
~ were on file in superior court
Thursday. Prosecutor David z.
Rhea said similar action will be
filed Immediately in Clallam and
kitsap counties.