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Evening star., 1941-05-20
Thieves Ransack Baptist
And Mormon Churches

Church thieves were active again
last night, but preliminary check
up indicated nothing was taken.
Intruders visited the National Bap-
tist Memorial Church and the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints, both at Sixteenth street
and Columbia road NV.
In the former a basement vault
was unchanged, but the thieves at
tempted to pry open a safe in a
second-foor office. Failing, they
rarsacked desks and filing cabinets
A fireproof steel door to study
III the Mormon Church was taken
off it's hinges. a desk drawer was
forced and papers were scattered
about.
Police we're unable to say how
entrance to the churches was gained
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Shipyard Showdown
Imminent; Ohio Strike
Holds Up 6 Navy Boats
Two Of II Coast PIonts
May Be Opened Today;
Chemical Firm Picketed
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A showdown appeared imminent
today in the West Coast shipyard
strike, while another walkout held
up work on six submarine net tend
| ers being built at Lorain, Ohio.
In Lorain, two A. F. L. leaders
said they would take immediate
steps to end what they termed a
wildcat strike at the American
Ship Building Co. Representatives
of two of the seven A. F. L. Unions
at the plant. conferred with Federal
labor conciliators and planned an
afternoon meeting of the idle work
ers.
An employe spokesman attributed
the tieup to the companys failure
to give written guarantee that any
pay increase agreed on in negotia-
tions would be made retroactive to
April Is, expiration date of an old
contract.
| John Frey. president of the A.
F. L. Metal Trades Department.
indicated that of the II struck
shipyards in the San Francisco
Bay area might be reopened today
| and the other nine tomorrow. Both
| c. I. o. and A. r. L. machinists
walked out of the yards in what
A. F L. officials declared was an
| unauthorized strike The strikers
sought a wage boost from 81 to
| S1.15 an hour and continuation OF
! double pay for overtime.
The Bay Cities Metal Trades
Council has voted to send, if nee
essary. its $4,000 affiliated workers
| through the "illegitimate picket
lines" of the loo striking machin-
lists. Half billion dollars worth
up.
The Lorain yards have a $1,000. .00C
order for Navy minesweepers as well
as fir six net tenders.
The Lorain strikers were report
ed to have asked an increase of ~
| cents an hour over reported current
wage scales of 81 cents to s1.35.
About 100 c. I. o. welders con-
Quoted work stoppage yesterday
at the Dunkirk, N Y, plant of the
| American Locomotive Co. to en-
! force a demand for a l0-cent hourly
wage boost and a union shop. The
company said the present scale was
90l2 cents. The firm has a $4,000 ,00C
order for Army gun carriages.
Chemical Plant Picketed.
At Fairport Harbor. Ohio, last
night 300 to 400 men established a
picket line at the Diamond Alkali
Co. plant, where 1910 workers are
employed. Rival A. F. L. and
c. I. o. labor unions have been try
ing to organize the plant. Company
officials did not state Immediately
whether they would attempt to con-
tinue plant operations.
Members of the A. P. L. Rub
Der Workers Union picketed the
General Tire and Rubber Co. plant
at Wabash, Ind, but the unions
demands were not disclosed The
management said that 95 per cent
of its 1.100 employees stayed on the
job. The plant has orders for Army
gas masks.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
BruziI
Continued From First Page)

leak in the blockade by shutting
off gasoline supplies to the Cape
Verde Islands, but the Portuguese
government Communicated all COM
mercial stocks and handed them
over to Lati Those stocks were
exhausted last January.
Reconnaissance for Nazis.
But the Italian consul in the Cape
Verde Islands makes a weekly trip
in his own large yacht to the Span
ish port of Rio de Orc, where sup
plies of French military gasoline
are picked up. These have been
sent there, presumably, by the Ger
mans from France, but possibly by
the French authorities acting under
Axis orders.
On more than one occasion, Lati
planes have acted as reconnaissance
for the German Navy. The most
notable instance was the effort of
Lati plane to warn the Graf Spec
of the presence of the Ajax and
Exeter off the Uruguayan coast, in
December, 1899 The authorities
prevented them from doing so. but
they had the previous day signaled
the German S. S. Monte PASCAL OF
lurking British warships. The Monte
Pascal was carrying about 200 Ger
mans to Germany for military
service.
Afterward the Brazilian courts
fined the Lati service $1,000 because
one of its planes made a 7-hour
reconnaissance flight before the
Italian S. S. Franco Martelli left
Recife in an attempt to run the
British blockade.
The British believe Lati planes
warned an Atlantic raider of the
sailing of the S. S. zamzam from
Recife for Capetown.
From the viewpoint of the Min
istry of Economic Warfare the Lati
route represents a serious blockade
leak. BY this route the Germans
obtain industrial diamonds and
platinum. essential for the aircraft
industry. and considerable quantities
of high grade mica for radios. Ap-
proximately four tons of mica are
believed to be carried on each trip
to Italy. On westbound trips Lati
carries diplomatic bags, agents for
German films, drugs and dyes. The
line is also an important gap in the
censorship and enables German
firms to keep in the closest touch
with their South American branches
to organize blockade evasion and to
prepare for resumption of trading
on a large scale by the Axis after
the war.
An official of the Ministry of
Economic Warfare discussing the
matter. today said:
The Lati airline also provides
fine training for pilots who may
one day be set to the task of occupy
ing a bridgehead in the Western
Hemisphere. The airdrome at Natal,
Brazil, is 10 miles from the town
itself and is only guarded by few
watchmen. Small arms, machine
guns. and ammunition could be
flown over without difficulty. If NaI
gold. flown over by Lati, can SOW
seeds of Quislingism in Brazil, land
ing there on a small scale might we'll
set the spark to the tinder."
The map of AXis-controlled routes
to South America is accurately set
forth in the January issue of the
American quarterly, Foreign Affairs,
with a careful article. wings for
the Trojan Horse describing the
services.
If the Germans were able to open
up another line from Dakar to South
America under the guise of Air
France. the leak in the British
blockade would really be serious and,
the British believe, an exceeding
grave menace to the hemisphere
tCopyrieht, 1941, Chicago Daily News, Inc)
Evening star., 1941-05-20

the White House, where she is
Tommy" to all members of the
Roosevelt clan. She usually dimes
with the family.
Since the Roosevelts settled in
Washington, Tommy has moved
among kings and queens and princes.
dignified. heavy-set, 48-year -old
woman with a sense of humor.
She pours for White House at
homes. She is always hovering in
the background when Mrs Roosevelt
makes radio speeches or lectures.
Her job is civil service one listed
as the Presidents wifes secretary" j."
which rates $4,000 a year, but Mrs
Roosevelt pays her extra out of her
own pocket for doing her personal
work.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Zumzun
Continued From First Page J

evacuating them, wherever they are
being held.
In New York, Thomas Cook &
Sons, passenger agents for the Zam-
Zan, announced they received q
message from their Cairo Office this
morning stating: Understand Capt
Smith safe. Hope advise you further
shortly"
The agency said it was its GUS
tom to use the names of captains
instead of the names of ships in
messages and that this message
therefore would mean to them that
the Zanzam was safe.
Also in New York, the American
Export Lines, freight agents for the
Egyptian line, declared the Zamzam
carried a general cargo containing
no war materials, unless the ambu-
lance unit was considered as such by
the Germans.
There were absolutely no NUM-
tions or chemicals taken aboard in
United States ports" a spokesman
said. adding it was felt certain none
had been loaded in South American
ports.
Even paint with low flash point
was not permitted on the boat be-
cause of the war and the number OF
passengers" he said.
Argument for Conveys.
While missionary and British
American Ambulance Corps officials
expressed relief when told of Ber-
Inns announcement, the president
of the latter. William " c. Ruxton,
said the loss of nearly 100000
worth of equipment on the vessel
was an argument for United States
Navy conveys.
The Rev. DR.. Emroy Ross, gen.
eral secretary of the Foreign Mis-
slons Conference of North America,
said his organization was hoping
''for further confirmation" of the
Berlin information.
I'VE have notified various mis-
sionary boards and societies and
are seeking by every means to fol-
low up this lead through our or
ganization and the State Depart
rent," he said.
Mr.. Ruxton said his organization
would 20 all in our power to find
the location of these men and see
that they are supplied through the
international Red Cross with what
they need to make them comfortable
while in captivity"
The loss of nearly 500 900 worth
Of much-needed materials donated
by generous Americans will be re-
placed" Mr.. Ruxton said, "and we
hope that by the time this is ready
for shipment Congress will have
seen the necessity of conveying and
that further shipments will go over
guarded by our Navy"
No New Reports in London.
In London officials said this
morning no information had been
received superseding that which
prompted the Ministry of Informa-
ton to announce yesterday that the
Zan1zam was overdue" and pre-
sumed to be lost" They asserted
everything possible was being done
TO trace the ship.
They added, however, that even
II the vessel were not sunk. the Brit
ish would be unable to issue any
official statement until she had ar
rived in port. They pointed out that
the Zamzam would not use her radio
while at sea
Last night conflicting reports
about the vessel we're heard In
broadcasts from London.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Roosevelt Denies
Plans for Special
Message 10 Congress
Tells Press Conference
He Has No News on
Convoy Issue
By the Associated Press.

President Roosevelt said today he
had no news on the issue of convoy
ing supplies to Great Britain and
further declared there was nothing
to reports that he would submit a
special message to Congress soon.
Mr.. Roosevelt touched only lightly
at his press conference on the argu-
ment whether American warships
should escort the supplies, but did
question whether Senate Majority
Leader Barkley had asserted that
war materials were reaching Britain
satisfactorily.
Told of this, Senator Barkley said
he had not known that reporters
would quote him when he said tnat
American war equipment seemed to
be reaching Britain satisfactorily.
Just Talking Casually.
"Of course" he said, Il have no
expert opinion. I was just talking
casually and I was basing my state
ments on figures by Admiral Land
chairman Emory S. Land of the
Maritime Commission that only 4
per cent of shipments had been
sunk
OF course, the more goods that
get over the less likelihood there is
that we will have to take new steps.
But equally obvious is the fact that
the situation might change at any
moment
Mr.. Roosevelt was informed that
Representative Fish. Republican, of
New York. who represents his home
congressional district, had said he
was about to proclaim a state of
full national emergency. The Presi-
dent dismissed this by asking who
told Mr.. Fish.
Will Watch Vichy Steps.
Senator Barkley said the Govern
ment would keep a close watch on
the progress of Franco-German
collaboration" and added that "of
course it would be necessary for us to
take some action if Germany sought
to establish herself on Martinique or
other French possessions in this
hemisphere
He said that although the original
srmistice terms between France and
Germany had prevented Nazi con-
troll of the Western Hemisphere pos
sessions, this arrangement might be
superseded by the new "collabora-
ton" agreement.
AS long as there is no change in
the status of the possessions, Sen
ator Barkley observed, then there
would appear to be no need for the
United States to seize them.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Ruuh Leaves F. c. c.

Resignation of Joseph L. Hauh as
assistant general counsel of the Fed
eral Communications Commission
was announced yesterday by the
commission. It said he resigned to
become a member of the legal stan
of the Lease-Lend Administration.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Franco Changes Cabinet
Third Time in IS Days
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MADRID. May 20-For the third
time in Is days Generalissimo Fran
cisco Franco has made changes in
his cabinet.
Labor and Agricultural Minister
Joaquin Benjumea BURN was made
minister of finance, and Miguel
Primo de Rivera. brother of the
founder of the Phalange Fascist
party Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera
became minister of agriculture
Miguel Antonio Giron became min
Aeter Of labor.
Evening star., 1941-05-20

Thompson, who
has been her
friend since 1922.
Today almost
e V cry W h e + e
Americas cham
pion traveller,
Mrs. Roosevelt,
goes, there goes
Malvina with a
typewriter S h e
has thumped in
n e a r ly every
form of convey
ance known to
man.
Miss ThOnD-
son now lives at
Evening star., 1941-05-20

Who are Mrs. Franklin d.
Roosepelts best triends-mem-
bers OF the "petticoterie." the cir
Gle closest to the Presidents
pife2 They come from all walks
OF life, as VeSta Keeling discloSes
in a series OF four stories for The
Star. Here is the first, describing
Maluina Cynthia Thompson, Mrs.
RooseUeltS personal secretary.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
Gold SuIes Restricted in Fire

The sale of gold coins, except to
the currency commission and the
banks, has been declared illegal in
Fire. The Dublin government has
announced lists of authorized prices
for gold coins and for the author
lied buyers throughout the country.
Evening star., 1941-05-20
By VESTA KEELING,

The star Special NEWS service.
When Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
says we arrived" or I'VE departed"
the other half of the we" is most
often her secretary, Malvina Cynthia
Evening star., 1941-05-20

The war interrupted Turkeys sec
ond flve-year industrialization pro-
gram.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-09
New Problems
Given Troops
In Maneuvers

Camden, S. G., oct. 9,-lAP)-A
new set of problems laced the men
and Ulcers of the FIRST Armys three
corps as they returned today to sep
arate training exercises after a short
lull in operations following the mi
tial phase of training maneuNerS.
Preparatory to the resumption OF
field work, the second corps, COM
manded by Major General Lloyd Il,
F~redenhalI, was reduced t two dlVl-
sions instead of three, losing the 44th
temporarily in order that the latter
might furnish opposition for the
sixth corps, commanded by Mayor
General Karl T~ruesdell.
Public relations headquarters here
was without details of the exercise
planned for the sixth corps but it was
believed that the 44th, made up of
Guardsmen from New Y rk and New
Jersey. would act as a red army in
opposing the return of the blue 26th
div;-rGo New England Guard unit,
to IFS base near Norman from the
defensive position il took up west of
Norwood. n. G.. as a concluding
phase of the first field cperations.
In the first corps area between
(Cortinued on PAGE Five
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-09
Eighty T h O u S a n d
Chungking Troops At
tack Japanese Along
All Fronts.

Shanghai, Oct. 9.-(AP)-The
greatest offensive of the Chinese
army i'm four and a quarter years
of warfare is apparently under
way, japanese army sources said
today.
They reported that $4,000
Chungkirg troops attacked Jap
anese forces October 3 on all
fronts of central China and said
fighting was still in progress
north, west and south of Jap
anese-held HankoW, Yangtze
river port.
Japanese said the principal Chi
pcSe objective was lChang, which
Gcncralissimo Chang kai-Shck or
dcred recaptured, and it was ac-
knoWledgcd that a Chinese division
had occupied some frontal positions
there briefly. The Japanese declared
thov later rccapturcd those positions,
with Chinese losses of 300 dead and
100 prisoners.
(Chinese said Tuesday their troops
were battling with Japanese in the
streets of Ichang, a Yangtze treaty
port and WeStCrnmOSt zone OF jap
anese penetration. \ Chinese COM
m%uniQue late last night declared five
strategic points around lchang mao
been captured and that the Japanese
position in that city was p~recarlouS.)
Japanese sources admitted that
(Contlnued on Page Five;
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-09
Britain Sees
No Remedy
Pressure on Russians
Cannot Be Eased bv
Rec Opening Western
Land Front.

London. Oct. 9.-(AP)-Ger-
manNs mighty new drive to-
ward the heart of RusSia-im-
ncriling the armies that guard
NoscoW-WaS viewed today with
mounting concern by the British.
who saw no real hope of easing
the pressure or their Soviet al
hes by r%e-opening a western
land front.
With supply as the chief means
Of aid, British and United States
missions to Moscow returned to
England loaded with Data on Rus
Sia,s needs and pledged to deliver
the goods.
Newspaper military commentators
took the view that the next few
weeks, would decide the fate Of Rus
Sia's main armies, now locked in
one of the mightiest battles of his
tory.
Authoritative sources declared the
twin drive AdoN Hitler launched
northwest and southwest of Moscow
in a race with winter had created
pockets in which vast Russian forces
might be trapped.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-09

COMMANDS BRAGG

Fort Bragg, Oct. 8. - (AP) -
Colonel John T. Kennedy, a native
of Orangcburg. S. c., was named to-
day commander Of Fort Bragg, the
public relations office announced.
Colonel Kennedy, who ShaS been
commander of the GHQ field artil-
lery brigade at the post, succeeds
Colonel f, P. Parker. Jr., commander
of the field artillery replacement
center, who was acting as temporary
head Of the post until a successor 10
Colonel G. b Elliott was appointed
Colonel Elliott was transferred to
Mississippi state.
Colonel Kennedy is now on
maneuyer duty in the Carollnas.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-09
Steel Mills
Are Struck
CLIO Workers in One
Plant and AFL Union
lists in Another Halt
Defense Work.

(By The Associated PresS.)
The Buffalo On. W Forge
Company, busy with Sl3.41O,00O
in defense orders. was struck to-
day by CLIO steel workers in a
dispute over higher WAGES. bar
gaining conferences and rein
statement of three discharged
union men.
The Steel Workers organizing COM
mlttee. claiming a majority of the
plants 1900 employees, called the
Walkout "a hours after an authori-
cation vote of 387 to 81. Union sour,
Ces said their wage demands were
a ten cent increase in the present
basic scale of Al to 80 cents an hour,
Construction of the govern
ment 5000, 900 San JacintO
(TeX:s) ordnance depot was at
a standstill today because of an
Continued on Page Three
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-09
Million Reds
Said To Be
Encircled
Germans Claim no.
Day War on Eastern
Front is Virtually De-
cided, With
of Soviet Forces in Re-
treat.
(By The ASSOciated PrpSS ,

tBN The Associated FreSS.)
Adolf HitIer's press chief de-
clared today that 1.-THE Soviet
Union is militarily finished" and
that the To-day old war on the
eastern front was virtually de-
clded, with nearly one million
req army troops caught in two
vast entertainments in the Ger
man drive on Moscow.
ne sensational pronouncement,
when was not elaborated by any de-
tails of specific land gains, came
from DIR. Otto Dietrich, arriving in
Berlin directly from the 1uehrer's
eastern front headquarters.
From the springs of the Volga
to the Sea of Azov,' he assert
cd, "remnants of Soviet armies
everywhere are in retreat"
The Berlin radio broadcast a
Shanghai dispatch quoting Soviet
quarters as reporting that the Rus
sian government was fleeing Moscow.
There Was no confirmation else
where.
Keyed with nazi claims of tri-
umph, the Germans published a
special order Of the day issued by
Hitler a week ago at the start of the
new offensive, declaring:
To-day (Thursday, October y be-
gins the last great. decisive battle
OF this year. 1t will hit the enemy
deStructively and with it the in
stIgatOr of the entire war, England
herself.
For if we crush this opponent,
we also emoVe the last English ally
on the continent"
A special high command bull
lctin, heralded by a fanfare of
trumpets, declared the Russians
had not a single division left
fully fit for battle on the entire
front.
DIR. Dietrich said between 60
and 20 Russian divisions-9O0,-
600 to l,C50,0 900 troops-were
hopeicssiy bottled up in the
Bryansk and wanna sectors,
facing imminent humiliation.
Once their destruction has been
completed. he asserted, the cam
palgn Will develop when and how
we WISH"
To Britain. he added this warm
ing:
Let the English attempt a land
ing in Norway, Holland, Belgium or
on the French coast and they will
learn what reserves We still have"
While the Germans thus proclaim
ed a chmactic turning point in
the worlds greatest military cam
paign, the Russians acknowledged
they had withdrawn from Orel, key
town So miles southeast of Bryansk
Continued on Page Three.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-09
BY ROGER w. RABSON
Copyright. l94l, Publishers Finan
Cial Bureau, Inc.)

New York. oct. 9.-Next to truth,
the greatest need today is for faith
faith in God, faith in America, and
faith in our fellow men. On the
other hand, the greatest danger lies
with fear-fcar of death, fear Of sac
ritice. and fear of losses of various
kinds, Yet there are many column
lists. authors, and ven POLITICAL lead
ers who make their livings crying
"Wolt. Wolff when there is no
wolf.
The Latest bad Wolf"
Even radicals are now pretty much
agreed that our generation has moth
ing to fear from socialism or com
munism. They have entirely changed
their tune as to this fear. Karl Marx
is no longer their idol and they have
lost faith in the proletariat, They in
stead talk u d managerial revclu-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-10-09
Resolutions
Introduced
lmmediately
President Declares it
is Time for United
States to Stop Play
ing l n t o Hitler's
Hands, and to Un-
shackle Our Own

Washington, Oct. 9.--(APo-
President Roosevelt, asserting
it was time for the United states
to stop playing into Hitler'S
hands, and to unshackte our
own" urged CONGRESS- today to
revise the neutrality act speed
ilv to permit the arming of
American merchant vessels.
In Il special message he also
left til" door ocen tor further
revision later to wine cut an
other major prohibition. tina:
preventing American caroc ships
to travel 10 b%";liecrcnt ports.
Savino that Adolf Hitler has Of
fcrcd a challenge which we as Amcri-
cans cannot and will not tolerate"
the President said:
eve will not let Hitler prescribe
The voters Of the world on which
or ships may travel. Tho Amoriran
flag is not Going to be driven from
the sea- either by his submarines
his airplanes. or his threats.
I'VE cannot permit the affirmative
defense of rur rights TO No annulled
and diluted hv sections Of the melt
tralj'v "ct which have no realism
in the light OF un%scrupulcus ambi-
tons of madmcn.
we Americans have determined
ON course.
"Wo intend TO m9intair the secur
Nv and ~" integrity ard the honor
of Our country.
"Wo intend TO maint9i0 49, nolicT
of pr tcctino tho freedom Of tho soos
against domination by any foroig9
power which has become cra7-d with
a d"Siro f. control the world. We
shall do so with all OUr strength
and al oar heart and all orr mind p"
Administration l"ad"rs NOV
cd rrnidIv &c implement the
Presidents message, introducing
bills IN hoth hc"SeS :" repeal tho
""utr"l;'" 90: provision against
tn" "r"'r" of American mer-
chant vessels.
Rcsoluti ms offered in the Senate
Nv ChairrNrO r ooa11v Dcmocrat
T"Nas. of tho FOREIGN relations com
~"i't"" and 10 tho House ht Chair
"1lr Bloom. D~m0rrat. Now York, Of
w" ~f"r"i"n affairs prorro would Sneci-
f'"a'1v a''hori1o tho Dro idont durine
the period Of national emergency to
"""'"'od IN nnco Five,