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Evening star., 1941-01-31
Machine Tool Makers
Asked 10 Follow
Defense Priority
Deliveries After Feb. 28
To Be Made Only to
Qualified Concerns

Edward R. Stettinius, jr., director
of the Division of Priorities for the
Office of Production Management,
announced today that all machine
tool builders have been requested
not to deliver machine tools to any
customer after February % unless
that customer has obtained a pri-
ority rating.
The effect of the request, which
has all the effects of an order, is
that only industries engaged in de-
fense operations which have OBJ
tained immediate priority for the
tools can obtain them. Others
must wait until a supply becomes
available after defense industries
have been completely serviced-
possibly year or more. The let
ter sent by Mr.. Stettinius to all ma
chine tool manufacturers read:
'Inasmuch as machine tools are
so urgently needed, it has been de-
cided, in order to conserve the sup
ply for national defense needs, that
we ask you to cease making ship
ments of machine tools beginning
80 days from the date of this letter,
except to those customers vino have
by that time or thereafter secured
official priority ratings.
Please communicate with this Of
flee If you experience difficulty in
the application of this request"
The greatest industry affected will
be automobile manufacturers, who
annually make up machine-tool
makers largest customers. 1t hao
been widely reported that automobile
manufacturers had already agreed t6
utilize very few new machine tools
Defense industries have reported
an increasing shortage of machine
tools and all makers are now &C.
cepting orders for delivery only six
months to one year hence.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Bengosi Is Britons'
Next Objective

CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 81 CP).-Brit-
ish operations on all African fronts
were reported today by general
headquarters to be developing ito
our advantage"
The British Army of the Nile had
turned its back on the Eastern
Libyan wastelands after driving the
Italians from Derna and pressed
on westward and southwestward
through the fertile upland country
with BengaSi as its next objective.
The Royal Air Force announced
heavy bombardment yesterday of
the italian airdrome at BARGE, on
the road from Derna to Bengasi.
The Libyan activities of the
R. A. F. were centered on BARGE, so
miles west of Derna, the COM
munique said. In several attacks
hits were observed on hangers and
other buildings around the air field,
the report continued, and an italian
plane was shot down by fighter
escorting the British bombers.
East African Air Operations.
In air operations against East
Africa the British reported dive at
tacks with heavy explosive and in
cendiary bombs on Italian artillery
and infantry positions in the Moyale
area of the British Kenya colony,
a section of borderland held for
months by Italian invaders from
Ethiopia.
Other planes bombed and ma
chine -gunned Italian posts and
buildings in Moyale itself, the COM
munique said.
Stiff resistance encountered at
Derna, which fell yesterday after
four days of the flercest fighting Of
the North African campaign, warned
the British that the going may prove
increasingly hard.
The belief prevailed in military
circles here that the Italians, who
have been rolled backward across
$50 miles of arid, sandy terrain in
the past So days, intend to make a
determined stand in an effort to
save Bengasi-a city of $4,000, i'm
portant as a naval base and the
capital of Eastern Libya.
Face Heart Breaking Retreat.
Military strategists pointed out
that Marshal Rodolfo Graziani's
troops must stop the British at
Bengasi or face the alternative of
heart-breaking retreat along the
Gulf of Sirte-an inhospitable waste
of desert and rocks stretching all
the way to Tripolitania.
Belief that the Italians might
make a stand at Bengasi was en-
hanced by the fact it is only 500
miles from the Sicilian airdromes
from which German dive bombers
began operating recently.
In their favor, however, the Brit
ish contend, is the fact that the
country between Derna and Ben
gasi has more and better roads than
territory so far conquered, which
(See LIBYA. Page A-9O
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Senate Committee Votes
$50 Million for 200 Ships
Nv the Associated press

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate Appropriations Com
mittee approved today a $3.50, ,000, ,00C
emergency program for construc-
ton of 200 steel cargo vessels.
The committee recommended en-
actment of House-approved legis-
lation which would appropriate
$315, ,500,0 900 to be used with $685.
soc, 900 available from other sources
for building the ships and con-
structing new shipyards.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Senator Miller Wins
Quick Confirmation
As Arkansas Judge
Col. Fleming Promoted
To Brieudier General
In List of Nominations
Ry the Associated Press,

! By the Associated PreSS.
Discarding traditional rules, the
Senate today promptly confirmed
the appointment of Senator Miller,
Democrat, of Arkansas as Federal
district judge in Western Arkansas.
Within few moments after Presi-
dent Roosevelt S surprise nomination
of the Senator arrived in the cham
ber, Chairman Van Nuys of the
Judiciary Committee asked unan-
imous consent that rules be waived
in favor of immediate confirmation
| Senator Austin of Vermont, acting
Republican leader. readily agreed
and confirmation came on voice
vote, to which no dissent was heard
Col. Fleming Promoted.
In a list of Army promotions, the
President also nominated Col. Philip
B. Fleming. present wage-hour ad-
ministrator, and Col Russell l..
Maxwell, export control administra-
tor, to be brigadier generals.
Senator Miller, who was elected to
fill ths vacancy caused by the death
of Senate Majority Leader Robinson
in 1887, is a native of Missouri and
has been a practicing attorney since
| 1912 He was a member OF the
House from Arkansas from 1881 to
1887.
Mr.. Roosevelt also nominated
Peter Woodbury. of New Hampshire
to be judge of the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals for the 1st
district. To be associate justice OF
the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
he nominated Roberto H. Todd, jr.,
of Puerto Rico.
1t. Col. Brehon Somervell, also
nominated to be brigadier general
is the engineer officer recently put
in charge of the Army's huge can
tonment construction program by
Secretary Stimson. In recent weeks
he has been speeding up construc-
ton work, which had been Tagging
in many instances.
Col Somerven was a former AS
sistant Engineer Commissioner In
the District and more recently w. P
A. administrator in New York.
Major Generals Chosen.
In all, four brigadier generals
were nominated for promotion tc
major generals and 20 other officers
with the present rank of lieutenant
colonel were promoted to brigadier
generals. Those advanced to major
general included:
Brig General Walter E. ProsSer
commander of the Panama mobile
force safeguarding the Canal Zone
Brig. Gen. Donald G. Cubbison
recent commander of the Army's
Field Artillery School, assigned to
command the 1st Division at Fort
Devens, Mass.
Brig. Gen. Clarence S. Ridley, one
time Panama Canal commander
who will command the 9Th Division
Fort Smelling, MINI.
Brig. Gen. William E. Shedd, nov
assistant chief of staff in charge oi
Army personnel, who will command
the 9th Division, Fort Jackson, S. c
Brigadier Generals.
Nominated to be brigadier gen.
erals were:
Col Ralph Met Pennen of Bolton
S. c., assigned to command the
(see NOMINATIONS, Page A-14J
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Heaps of Italian Dead
And Wounded Found

ATHENS, Jan. 81 [P.-Greek
forces, pushing forward in the area
north of Klisura were reported to-
day to have found heaps of Italian
dead and many wounded in aban-
doned Fascist positions.
A Greek spokesman said four Ital-
ian counterattacks had been re.
pulsed with 200 Italian prisoners
taken in two days and later reports
from the Albanian front said the
charges had such disastrous results
that Italian commanders had to
call of the offensive action in order
TO reorganize their forces.
Some Fascist units were said to
have lost as many as half their
men. Among their captives, the
Greeks said, were several officers,
all belonging to units freshly ar
rived from Italy. Much war ma
terial, including machine guns and
automatic rifles, also was seized
the spokesman asserted.
Border reports from Bitolj, Yugo-
Slavia, said the Italians had used
tanks in the Klisura region but that
the machines begged down in the
soft ground and had difficulty IN
getting back to their bases.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Senator Asks Data
As Fourth Man Admits
Guilt in Files Case
U. S. OffieiuIs Requested
To Tell of Precautions to
Safeguard Records

One of four men arrested for re-
moving confidential personnel files
from the Civil Service Commission
pleaded guilty today as Senator
Brewster, Republican, of Maine, in
troduced a resolution calling on the
Secretaries of War and Navy and
the Civil Service Commission to
furnish the Senate with information
as to what precautions are being
taken to preserve Government rec
ords in view of the defense emer-
gency.
Pleading guilty when arraigned
before Commissioner Needham C..
Turnage was Walter Cloyd Jackson,
30, of the 400 block of Tenth street
NV, who was held under $500 bond.
He was arrested last night.
Senator Brewster's resolution also
provided that the officials make such
recommendations as they deem ad-
visable for new negislation to safe
guard Government records.
Brewster's Statement.
Senator Brewster said this reso-
luton was introduced directly as
result of statements in the press
that thousands of records of high
ly confidential character concerned
with national defense had been
taken from the Government files
without any authority OF law and
for an improper use.
During recent months, he pointed
out, catastrophes have occurred in
connection with the defense pro-
gram. He emphasized that "our
administrative agencies should De
moving rapidly toward a revised
conception of the protection that is
now required in view Of recent reve-
lations as to what has gone on
abroad in the new techniques OF
total war"
He said that in his opinion the
Senate may prudently receive as
surance that no action is required
in either legislation or appropria-
ton to provide for the proper pro-
lection of the men and materials
essential to national defense.
Haynes Held In $500 Bond.
Mr.. Turnage yesterday held Wal
lace Henry Haynes, 26, of the 400
block of Tenth street NV, under
$500 bond for the grand jury on a
charge of removing Government
papers and records. The arraign-
ment came shortly after his arrest.
The latter man is a brother OF
Lawrence Haynes of the Tenth
street address, who was arrested
several days ago with Harlan W..
Crandall, 20, of the first block OF
Todd place NE.
Commissioner Turnage set the
bonds of Lawrence Haynes and
Crandall at $1,000 each.
The agents, it was said. have re-
covered additional files as Govern
ment departments, especially those
dealing with the defense programs,
tightened restrictions on persons en-
tering or leaving buildings with un-
explained parcels.
Held Used for Mailing Lists.
Crandall, a former Civil Service
Commission employe, was said by
the agents to have sold confidential
personnel information compiled for
defense purposes to Lawrence
Haynes, who was using it for mailing
lists.
The documents, it was said, were
transported to the Office of the
Standard Business Service at 427
Tenth street NV. for copying.
The grand jury already has de-
voted two days to hearing testi-
mony in the case, and probably will
resume the inquiry in week or 10
days.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Bad Storm Kept Lloyd George
From Bedside Of Dying Wife

Georges illness was serious, but
his car was blocked by drifted snow
at several places along the 200
mile route.
At one village, policemen and cot
tagers cut pathway for 5 miles and
at another home guards and chill
dren turned out to extricate Lloyd
Georges automobile.
Dame Lloyd George died January
20. The husband and two sons at
tended the funeral January %. At
the time it was said that road mis-
haps" and obstruction" barred
| Lloyd Georges way home.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Luurenti Beriu Named
Russian Security Chief
B, the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. Jan. 31-Laurenti Be-
ria, commissar of domestic affairs,
was appointed general commissar
of state security of Soviet Russia
today.
The appointment was announced
from the Kremlin in decree Of
the presidium of the Supreme Soviet
Council, without any accompanying
explanation.
Beria, like Joseph Stain, a native
of Georgia, was secretary of the
Communist Party Committee in that
province before coming to Moscow
in 1888 to replace Nikolai Yezho6
as commissar Of domestic affairs
and NKVD (political police) head.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
By ]. A. O'LEARY.

The British aid bill was sped
to the House floor today for a
three-day debate, starting Mon
day, as Secretary of the Navy
Knox told the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee that Ger
many right now" is studying
long-range weather forecasts
and watching for a period of IA
vorable conditions in which to
launch an invasion of England.
The House Rules Committee re-
ported out the bill after brief hear
ing. 1t ordered procedure calling
for three days of general debate and
permitting unlimited offering Of
amendments. Committee members
said the action was by voice vote.
Certain "menacing developments,
Secretary Knox said, indicate the
British face an invasion crisis with
In so to 90 days. He added, I'VE
fear" the Nazis are contemplating
use of gas"
Secretary Knox also told the
committee reports the United States
was considering swapping 20 de-
stroyers for the new British battle
ship King George v were the most
cock-eyed" rumors yet brought tc
his attention.
He had been asked about it by
Senator Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota.
There is not a vestige of truth in
1t" Secretary Knox said of the King
George transfer.
Urges Quick Aid Bill Action.
Mr.. Knox's testimony also in
ciuded statements that it was wild
fancy" to talk as Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh has done, of negotiated
peace in Europe, and that Germany
and Britain alike are desperately
seeking a master of -the-skies type
Of airplane.
Although the committee hac
hoped to avoid a Saturday session
it recessed until 10 am. tomorrow
without finishing with Mr.. Knox
after Senator Nye announced he
could not complete his questioning
by 3 o'clock. Mr.. Knox said he had
to attend a cabinet meeting at that
time.
George Wants Speedy Hearing.
Chairman George served notice
that, if the committee would back
him up, he would consider imposing
come limit on cross-examination
"Otherwise We will never get
through" he said. While Senator
Nye was quoting long excerpts from
the writings of Mr.. Knox as an
editor Senator George several times
objected to argumentative examina-
ton.
Senator Connally announced he
would support the chair in a pro-
posed time limit. The committee, he
declared, should not be governed
''by one individual" who wants to
review the life of a witness.
In both Senate and House commit
tees there was talk today of the pos
sibility of the United States getting
into war through the legislation's ad-
mitted purpose of helping one side
in warfare.
Representative Cox, Democrat, OF
Georgia, of the Rules Committee, In
fact, said he was supporting it "or
the basis that it's a war measure
Michener Favors Shorter Bill.
Representative Michener, Repub-
lican, of Michigan, suggested that
the bill be shortened to read:
"The President shall do that which
1See BRITISH AID, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Air Attacks 'Eteetive,'
Italian Commend Says

ROME, Jan. 81 P).-"Efective'
Italian air attacks against enemy
bridges, roads and batteries" in the
war with Greece were reported today
by the Italian high command.
1t said also that troops and motor
columns were attacked with shrap-
mel and machine-gun fire. One
Italian plane failed to return, il
added.
On land, it said, there was artil-
lery activity.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Nozis to Invade England Soon
With Gas Attacks, Knox Fears;
House Debates Aid Bill Monday
u. S. Is Not Neutral,
Bloom Says, Urging
Aid Bill Speed

Chairman Bloom of the
House Foreign Affairs Commit
tee today told the Rules Com
mittee the United States was
mot neutral as he urged the
group to allow quick action on
the lease-lend measure reported
by his committee yesterday.
In answer to a question from
Representative Cox, Democrat,
of Georgia as to whether he
thought this country is neu-
trail" Representative Bloom as
serted:
mo, but we are just as neu-
tral as any other nation"
Representative Cox declared:
The bill is a war measure,
not a peace measure"
Evening star., 1941-01-31
D. C.. 1910 Traffic Toll Lowest
For Cities Above 100000
1913 Fatalities Per 100000 Persons
Disclosed in Sofety Survey

Washington, off to bad start in
1941 with a motor fatality clip
nearly three times that Of last year,
had the lowest traffic fatality rate
among cities of more than 100000
population in 1910, the National
Safety Council reported today.
The rate for the Nations Capital
last year, the Associated Press re-
ported. was 1913 deaths per 100000
population, followed by New York
and Boston with lis and Milwau-
ke with 11.6
TRAFFIC fatalities over the Nation
as a whole in 1910 numbered "a, 400,
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Parents Fail to Save
Three Children in Fire
Rx the Associoted prass

BY IHe ASSOcIaIed PreSs.
WEYMOUTH, Mass, Jan. 81
Three small children-a girl and
two boys-died in fire early today
despite the efforts of their parents
and f1remen to save them as their
two-story frame dwelling was de-
stroyed.
The victims were Janet Gould, S;
James, 4, and Richard, 8.
Their mother, Mrs. James Gould,
was burned seriously in attempting
to reach them.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Navy to Build Huge
Worships at Brooklyn
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 31-The Navy
Department plans to double ship
building facilities of the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, Mayor F. H. La Guardia
says, by building at cost of ap-
proximately SIS 100000 two new dry
docks, each big enough to permit
construction of 45,000-ton battle
ships.
At present there are four dry
docks at the yard. none big enough
to accommodate ships OF more than
35, 900 tons.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Edison Refuses 10 Let
Georgia Have Fugitive
b the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TRENTON, N. j., Jan. 31.-Gov.
Charles Edison refused today to
grant the extradition to Georgia
OF Robert Elliott Burns, who twice
escaped from a chain gang.
Gov. Edison wrote to Gov. Eu-
gene Talmadge of Georgia that he
believed former Gov. A. Harry
Moore's refusal, after a public hear
ing, to grant the extradition was a
"finality."
This puts period on the Burns
case" Gov. Edison commented as
he announced his decision.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Jan. 31.-It can be re-
ported now that the worst snow
storm of years for Wales was re-
sponsible last week for the failure
of David Lloyd George to reach
the bedside OF his wife at Criccieth
until the day after she died.
(There are wartime restrictions
on reporting the weather of the
British Isles)
The World War Prime Minister
started out from Churt as soon
as he heard that Dame Lloyd
Evening star., 1941-01-31

s per cent above the 1889 figure.
This increase, it was said, was ac-
companied by an equal increase in
travel, so that the death rate per
100000,000 vehicle miles remained
unchanged at the record low of 100.
Traffic fatalities in Washington
during 1910 totaled 80, as compared
with IS for 1899 In sharp contrast
to this decrease, however. deaths for
this month have jumped to 13,
eight more than the number for
January of last year.
Cities in the 250.000 to 500 1000
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Italian Troops
Quit Tepe|eni,
Yugos|avs Say
Greeks Advancing
North of KIisuru;
a Attacks RepeIIed
BACKGROUND

Italian inDaSion OF Greece oc-
CURED last fall, and after short
period OF 1dpance into HELENE
territory Fascist forces ,Dere CON-
pletely expelled from the coun-
try. Greeks then pursued the
fight 1Uith inuaSion OF Albania,
and haUe conquered, roughly, a
third OF its territory, threatening
to erpel Fascists completely from
the Balkans.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Jan. 81.
Military circles reported today
that italian troops had withdrawn
from Tepeleni, on the Central Al
banian battle front. a key point in
the Greek drive toward Valona.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Three-Doy General
Limit Fixed by
Rules Committee
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Administration lenSe-lend bill
Dould empoUer President to hare
War supplies manufactured here
or elsewhere and then sell, lend,
lease or "othertUiSe dispose OF"
them to countries whose defense
he considered essential to the de-
tense of the United States. Four
amendments, proposed by admin
iStrntion leaders, 1Uere adopted by
House Foreign Affairs Commit
tee. All other efforts to change
the measure in committee 1Oere
beaten.
THE tert OF Secretary Knor'S
statement on page Az and the
tert of the House Foreign At
fairs Committee report on page
A.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, Jan. 31.-Authoritative
quarters said today British troops
were continuing to advance along
the Libyan coast from Derna toward
Apollonia, 40 miles to the west.
On the Kenya front in East Africa
British troops were reported clos
ing in on Moyale, where the Ital-
ians were said to be making a stand.
tMoyale is Kenya colony frontier
post opposite Ethiopia)
London military circles said they
had no confirmation of foreign re-
ports that Italian troops had aban-
doned Tepeleni on the central Al
banian front, but said it was pos
sible they had been forced to do
so to avoid being cut off by the
Greeks.
The British said their forces were
advancing also in the Sudan area
of operations, where they have been
driving across italian Eritrea, and
in Italian Somaliland.
The pressure in Eritrea, they said,
continues against Agordat and Ba-
rentu and the Italians were still
falling back in the Umm Hagar dis
trict, in Southern Eritrea near the
border with ethiopia.
British circles said British forces
in Italian Somaliland were well
inside the border and there doesn't
appear to be much opposition"
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Advance Continues
Toward ApoI|onia,
British Report
Army Declared Closing
In on MoyoIe, Where
Italians Make Stund
BACKGROUND

BACK hGROUNU-
British launched offensive
against Italians in Egypt Decem-
Der 9, forcing them out OF the
country after capture OF Sidi
Bdrrani. British and Australians
then took Bardid, Tobruk and
finally Derna. Forces hare split,
one spedrhedd driving along the
Libyan coast, the other directly
across the Libyan hump in dtrec-
ton OF BengdSi.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Army May Put
Labor Clause
In All Contracts
Patterson Testifies
'Coerciye' Curbs on
Strikes Aren't Asked
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
AUdrd OF Government con-
tracts for military supplies noto
is guided By Defense Commission
labor policy statement that all
Uork done under defense con-
tracts should be in compliance
NTH Federal statutes, such as
Wagner and Walsh h-Hedley Acts.
C. /. o. has contended that Labor
Board rulings against Ford Co.
make it Ineligible. William S.
KnudSen, defense production
chief, previously has held that
Labor Board ruling should not
bar a company from defense
contracts pending court appeals.
Sidney Hillnlan, Mr.. Knudse1's
associate, upheld C. I. o. Uiet1.
Evening star., 1941-01-31
Weather Forecast

Partly cloudy and colder, lowest tonight
about q; tomorrow partly cloudy and
cold; gentle to moderate west winds
Temperatures today-Highest, 80, at
pm; lowest, So, at 7 am.
From the United States Weather Bureau report
Full Details on Page Az.
Evening star., 1941-01-31

(See LIBYA, Page A-9)
Evening star., 1941-01-31

(See FATALITIES, Page A-140