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Evening star., 1941-09-11
German Troops EncircIe Oslo
As Morse Nozis Battle Strikes
Quisling Regime Takes
Over Both Labor and
Employer Groups

BY the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. II.
With all of the Oslo area encircled
by German troops and two Nor
wegian labor leaders already dead
by firing squad, Vidkun Quisling's
NaE-sponsored regime today took
over complete control of both work
ers' and employers organizations in
German-occupied Norway.
The status of a general strike
called for today was uncertain.
"a dispatch from Oslo, censored
by the Germans, claimed work
was resumed after two days of
strikes in iron and shipbuilding
industries. There was no am
plification. Dispatches coming
through the German censorship
at Oslo have not mentioned the
general strike threat and have
minimized the labor trouble
angle)
The head of the norwegian Fed
Grafton of Labor was ousted, ar.
rested and replaced by Odd FoSsum,
leader of Quisling's Nasjonal Sam
ling labor organization. This put the
nations Federation of Labor into
Quisling's so-called cooperative state
structure.
The entire board of the employers
organizations then was removed and
placed under police surveillance. A
Evening star., 1941-09-11

Back from Army maneuvers in
the Northwest Secretary of War
Stimson charged today at a press
conference that criticism of "agita-
tors" objecting to all purposes Of
Army training had been more re-
sponsible for lowered morale in the
ranks than any other factor.
Quoting from Abraham Lincoln,
Secretary Stimson contended it was
just as legal in 1941 to silence the
agitator" as it was in 1868, when
the Civil War President resorted
to doubtful constitutional measures
to protect the lives of soldiers from
agitation on the part of politicians.
Mr.. Stimson, who had commented
favorably on the attitude of soldiers
in the maneuvers he had witnessed,
remarked that he was glad to see
that people are beginning to realize
the question of morale is not such
a hopeless situation as many critics
seem to think
His remark was caused by failure
of reporters to question him during
the conference on the morale OF the
troops, subject to recent Nation
wide controversy In Congress and
the press.
Evening star., 1941-09-11

weapons had much to do with the
reputed lowered morale among SOL
diers in training. He replied that
undoubtedly it did.
"It is a self-evident obstacle to
training that we are making every
effort to get rid Of" he said. At this
point. Secretary Stimson said the
training of the 194l Army had pro-
gressed much swifter and beyond
the elementary training given %
years ago.
"The fact remains" he added.
syou cannot arm an army with mod
ern technical weapons In less than
a minimum, / would say, of one and
one-half years" In contrast with
23 years ago, when conscription
training began after a declaration
of war, he reminded that the difii-
Guilty now confronting the men is
that the Army is being trained
without any concrete objective. /"
That Is much the same as training
q football team without having a
schedule of games, he suggested.
Mr.. Stimson said that on his in
spections on the West Coast he
(see sTIMsON, Page A-l2)
Evening star., 1941-09-11
Clark and Nye Ask
Greer Log Be Shown
Senate investigators
True Facts of Incident
Available in Record,
Missouriun Asserts
By G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Demands that full information re-
garding the attack on the United
States destroyer Greer by German
submarine be furnished the Senate
were made in resolutions introduced
today by two of the leading isola-
tionists, Senators Clark, Democrat,
of Missouri. and Nye, Republican, of
North Dakota.
The resolutions were offered only
a few hours before President Roose-
welt makes a radio address tonight,
expected to deal with the Greer
incident.
Senator Clark's resolution de-
manded that the log of the Greer
covering the period of the attack
be submitted, so Congress and the
American people may know exactly
what happened.
The log would show just where the
conflict took place and when and
by whom the first attack was made.
The Navy has asserted that the
submarine fired torpedoes at the
Greer and that the Greer responded
by dropping depth bombs. An
official German communique de-
clared, on the other hand, that the
first attack was made by the Greer.
which dropped depth bombs.
Clark Rejects Navy Statements.
Senator Clark told the Senate that
he would not desire to give away
military secrets, but the American
people are entitled to know all the
facts in this case. He said the log
of the Greer would give all those
facts, that no naval officer would
write anything but the truth in the
log of his ship.
IT am not willing to accept state
ments of the Propaganda Bureau OF
the Navy Department" said Sena-
tor Clark, adding that Secretary OF
the Navy Knox at one time denied
to the press there was any truth in
reports that another American de-
stroyer had dropped depth bombs
because an unidentified submarine
was thought near, although it later
developed that such an incident had
taken place.
Both the Clark and Nye resolu-
tions were referred to the Senate
Naval Affairs Committee. The Nye
resolution recited the facts that the
President and high authorities OF
the Navy have reported on the Greer
incident and that the President has
issued orders that the submarine be
hunted down by the Navy and
eliminated"
"Grave Uneasiness" Seen.
It added: Numerous groups In
America, many of them high public
officials, have been calling on the
Navy to shoot first on the Atlantic,
all of which has resulted in grave
uneasiness in the public mind affect
ing the conduct of our own Govern
ment."
The resolution said that the Greer
and similar incidents might well
bring about a situation resulting in
actual war and that it was i'm
portant there should be no question
in the public mind respecting the
propriety of the conduct of the
American Government and the
Navy" For these reasons the resolu-
tion urged that the Senate Naval
Affairs Committee ascertain all facts
of the Greer incident through direct
questioning of the officers and crew
of the Greer and an examination of
ifc nycorc ond ite 1oU
Evening star., 1941-09-11
Churchill Is Called
BLACKBOARD by Red
In Commons Debate
GoIIoeher Charges Dirty
Action in Incident, but
Later Apologies
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LONDON, Sept. 11.-William Gal
lacher, the only Communist mem
Der of Parliament, today called
Prime Minister Churchill a "black-
guard" to his face and accused him
of dirty, cowardly. rotten action"
in an angry outburst in the House
of Commons.
Mr.. GALLAGHER later apologized. to
the House.
The incident came over charges
that Col. J. T. c. Moore -Brabazon,
Minister for Aircraft Production, had
expressed hope that the Russian
and German Armies would annihil-
ate each other.
Florid and excited, the Communist
first told the House that very deep
and bitter feeling exists among
trade unionists" over statements at
tributed to Col. Moore-Brabazon.
He asked Mr. Churchill to clear
out of this government any one
who is not 100 per cent for CO.
operation with Russia"
The Prime Minister replied to
this:
Il do not think I should be pre-
pared to receive guidance in policy
or conduct from an honorable
gentleman who, it is notorious, has
to change his opinions whenever he
is ordered to by body outside this
country"
Mr.. GALLAGHER retorted that "I
have never at any time taken orders
from any one outside this country
and he shouted demand for with
drawal of the insulting remark"
1T is a dirty, cowardly, rotten
action on the part of the Prime
Minister" he said. "It is the action
of a blackguard. 1t is a foul and
dirty lie"
The debate, which thus brought
the hardest words leveled at Mr..
Churchill since he became Prime
Minister, was the aftermath of an
accusation against Col. Moore
Brabazon in speech by Jack
Tanner, president of the Amalga-
mated Engineers Union, to the
Trades Union Congress at Edin-
burgh September 2.
Mr. Churchill asserted that he
had telephoned Col. Moore -Braba-
zon the day that Germany attacked
Russia and had told him ''the line
I was going to take that night" in
his worldwide broadcast pledging
aid to the Soviet Union.
The Aircraft Production Minister
"Wholeheartedly supported that line
and he expressed enthusiastic as
sent Mr.. Churchill added.
Moreover" Mr.. Churchill con-
tinued. ''he has been ardently at
work sending hundreds of fighter
aircraft to Russia, many of which
have already got there"
Evening star., 1941-09-11
Hurley Urges Congress
Repeal Neutrality Act
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Patrick J. Hurley, Secretary of
War under President Hoover, urged
today that Congress repeal the Neu-
trality Act, which he called "a cow
ardly surrender of the freedom Of
the seas"
Every American ship and individ-
ual going into the war zone or at
tempting to run the Germans
blockade, Mr. Hurley said, is violat-
ing the act. He added:
I'VE are a democracy and a de-
mocracy must survive on its integ-
rity. If we are going into this war
we should not back into 1t. We
should repeal the Neutrality Act
and 60 into 1t face forward"
Evening star., 1941-09-11
Cool Weather to Stoy
Through Tomorrow

Fair and moderately cool weather
is in prospect through tomorrow,
giving Washington welcome relief
from yesterdays record-breaking
heat.
The mercury touched 96 yesterday
afternoon, making it the hottest
September 10 in Weather Bureau
history The previous mark was
$50. established in 1897.
The temperature dropped to 81 at
tbs am. today, and during the rest
of the forenoon was lowering in the
low 70s.
Evening star., 1941-09-11
Fy the Associated Press.

Fy the Associated Press.
VALLEY FALLS, r. l., Sept.
Thames Henry Johnson. home
on leave from the Navy, spent
good part of his free time trying
to keep out Of the Army.
He had just arrived back here
after completing his eight weeks
training at the Newport Naval
Station when policeman
knocked on his door.
please hurry to Town Hall"
the officer instructed.
What for?" johnson wanted
to know.
You're going in the Army"
But I'm in the Navy" pro-
tested johnson.
He produced his naval uni.
form, but the policeman was not
convinced.
Evening star., 1941-09-11

dead and wounded and hundreds of
planes, tanks and guns, Red Star
estimated.
1t said the Germans at first tried
to storm the city, relying on an
enormous concentration of forces to
take it with on sweeping blow, but
the frontal assault failed.
Kiev now is surrounded by a
steel ring" of Notifications and
anti-tank obstacles and has un-
broken circles of artillery fire and
trenches manned by Red Army and
civilian soldiers of the Peoples
Army, the newspaper said.
Maxi Resistance Fierce.
The Germans and Firms were re-
ported resisting flercely on the
north, but the dispatch said they
were being driven back to the west
with heavy losses.
Russian counterattacks. Red Star
declared. have pushed the line back
toward the Russian Finnish frontier
in the Kesteng sector on the shores
of a Karelian Isthmus lake. 1t said
the Russians retook one position,
destroying an opposing infantry bat
talon and taking considerable booty,
including radio-transmitting appa-
ratus.
CThis apparently is in the re-
gion of the Svir River where the
Leningrad- -Murmansk rail line
curves westward to parallel the
Stain canal system. The Ger
mans have reported both the rail-
road and the canal cut in the en-
circlement of Leningrad)
The advances of the central front
were claimed on the sector where
the Russians said three wedges had
been thrust into the German lines
to relieve pressure on the Red
Army's flanks.
10 Villages Retaken.
BY last night, one report said,
Russian forces under Comdr. Ere
menko had regained 10 villages and
had driven forward roughly 10 to II
miles, overcoming stubborn German
resistance with the help of the Rus
sian air force.
Soviet bombers, Red Star said, "do
not allow Fascist troops moments S
respite, dropping tons of metal on
their heads continuously. destroying
tank columns and exterminating the
enemy's man power"
The Red Army said it had frus-
trated q German attempt to cross
the upper Dvina River at the town
of Zapadnaya Dvina and had driven
the invaders not only from the town
but also from nearby Starina in a
determined counterattack.
More than TOO Germans killed
and large amount of armament
were left on the battlefield, it said.
This dispatch, coupled with a Tass
report of fierce fighting in the
Velikie Luki area, indicated an ac-
tive front of considerable depth
about 300 miles west of Moscow
(See MOSCOW, Page Aid
Evening star., 1941-09-11
By GARRETT ID. HORNER.

President Roosevelt will leave no
unanswered questions when he
broadcasts to the world at o'clock
tonight a speech expected to chart
this Nations course in the face OF
new Axis challenges to American
shipping without calling for revision
of the Neutrality Act, newspaper
men were informed at the White
House today.
THE speech will mean what 1t
says" Stephen T. Early, White
House press secretary, told reporters.
att will be written in English-Eng-
iish that will not need translation. u
Word that modification of the
Neutrality Act, which bans arming
of American merchant ships and
prohibits them from going into pro-
claimed belligerent waters, was not
discussed at a conference in which
Mr.. Roosevelt went over his speech
Evening star., 1941-09-11

new employers leader, one Lippesad,
a Quislingist, was appointed.
The German forces were prepared
to meet all strike eventuahties under
a state of civil siege, proclaimed for
the capital and its environs yester-
day. Quisling spies betrayed the
plan to authorities, bringing on the
state of siege.
In last nights darkness, a firing
Evening star., 1941-09-11
Largest Flying Boat
In World Unveiled
During Navy Tests
$50 Engineers Measure
Wing Strength os Plane
Is Shown to Reporters
BY CLAUDE A. MAHONEY,
Star Staff Correspondent.

MIDDLE RIVER, Md, Sept. III
The Glenn l.. Martin Co. unveiled
the VOL Ids largest flying boat here
today, the Navy's xPB2M-1, which
is heavier than the Russian Clipper
and China Clipper combined.
The company showed the ship,
not completed and dressed for
show, but in the midst of structural
tests being administered by group
of $50 engineers with complex ar
ray of instruments. The gigantic
boat, designed to cross the Atlantic
and return nonstop, was being
given wing tests to equal the gusts
of any North Atlantic gale or Pa
cific typhoon.
The 200-foot wing spread was
incloSed in a steel structure that
had been built around the ship and
engineers, dwarflike when COM
pared to the ship they were testing.
manipulated hydraulic jacks that
bent the wings upward with force
greater than any the designers
believe nature will use in chal-
lenging the boat.
Hull Is III Rect Long.
The Navy tells only a certain
number of details about the big
flying boat and the Martin people
tell few more. They admit it has
q 117-fnnt hull rratrI,t 1f
pounds and power plant of four
2,000-horsepower Wright Duplex
Cyclone engines. The engines, head
high to observers, are still on the
floor beneath the ship.
The ship, of course, hasn't flown
yet, but Joseph T. Harrison, execu-
tive vice president of the Martin
Co, trusts the Navy to fly it." He
believes it will be a good piece of
| military equipment"
Mr.. Harrison belongs definitely to
the big airplane" school of thought.
He remembers that the British avia-
tion experts scoffed at the American
| four-motored planes when they first
came out and now wish they had
many, many more "of a ship that is
seven years old in design" Mr.. Hart
son reviewed with a pride he said
himself was pardonable the flying
careers Of the two China Clippers.
The last report he had on them, he
said, showed that they had flown an
average OF seven hours a day since
their delivery in 1885. He throws this
flying record into the face of any
body who does not think large ships
| practical.
Navy Appears Confident.
The Navy is not as positive as the
Martin people, but seems to be smil-
ingly confident.
This boat might be the answer to
a maiden's prayer, and it might be a
'dud," one naval observer said today.
Mr.. Harrison led a group of news
men on a tour around, but not be-
meath, the big boat.
"See that wing" he asked, pointing
to the left, that's straight, under
ordinary conditions. Now they have
jacks under it, and look at it bow
up. The engineers know just how
much pressure is causing that. And
see those skin ripples. The ripples
are all that show when we give her
those hydraulic tests. Not a rivet
has popped yet
Too Big to Upset.
He explained also why such meth
DDS of testing were necessary. If the
ship was a small fighter it would be
turned upside-down and sandbags
would be piled on the wings for the
weight test But you can't well turn
Evening star., 1941-09-11
Roosevelt Talk
Tonight TO Be
'AI|-Coveriing'
President Not to Call
For Neutrality Act
Change, BorkIey Says

BACKGROUND
Plans for President Roosevelt
to broadcast important 15-minute
speech tonight t0ere announced
soon after Atlantic clash betiDeen
United States destroyer Greer
and q German submarine. Fol-
lotUing netos of sinking of Ameri-
cdr treighter Steel Seatarer in
Red Sea and OF Americdn-otDned,
Panama-fao treighter SesSa in
North Atlantic, President er-
tended time OF speech to rs min
uteS.
Evening star., 1941-09-11

President Roosevelt's speech
tonight will be broadcast over
all six Washington radio sta
tions, as well as all national
networks, beginning at 9 o'clock.
Evening star., 1941-09-11
Two Civilians Are Killed,
Italian Command Soys

ROME, Sept. II (P).-Two civilians
were killed and several others in
jured when British planes dropped
bombs around Genoa and Turin
last night in the first raid on north
ern Italian cities since last winter,
the high command reported.
A communiuue said the raiders
(See RAIDS PAGE A-O
Evening star., 1941-09-11
Italian Tanker Is Sunk
By Sub, British Claim
y the Associated Press

d! Ine hsS0cIdVeu PreSS.
LONDON, Sept. 1.-THE 1887 ton
Italian tanker Maya has been tor
pedoed and sunk by a British sub
marine in the Aegean Sea, the Ad-
miralty said today.
Evening star., 1941-09-11
British Bomb Turin
In Heaviest Attack
On Northern Italy
RoyoI Arsenal Principal
Objective; Large Fires
Reported Left Burning
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 11.-Royal Air
Force bombers raided Turin last
night in the heaviest attack yet
made on Northern Italy, authorita-
tive British sources said today.
The main objective of the many
heavy bombers taking part in the
assault was given as the royal arse
nal. British officials said large fires
were left burning. Other targets
also were blasted, the British said.
The attackers we're led by Brit
aims new Stirling and Halifax four
motored bombers. 1t was the first
time they had crossed the Alps, al
though some of the crews which
bombed Turin were over Berlin Sum-
day night. They described the trip
to Italy as like an air-liner trip in
peacetime.
81 Fires Counted
The pilot of a two-engined Well
ington which took part in the raid
came down to 1000 feet to plant five
large fires, the Air Ministry said. An
other crew counted "a fires and said
that smoke was rising 1000 feet from
single blaze in the center of the
city. Other bombs hit a big factory,
it was stated.
One pilot said: Things seemed to
burst out of the fire and explode at
heights from 1000 to 5000 feet.
Flashes were visible from the French
side of the Alps on the homeward
journey.
The last previous attack on North
ern Italy occurred the night Of jan
uary 1918 when Turin was raided
for the 18th time.
Italian objectives in Southern
Italy and Sicily have been bombed
frequently, but these operations were
carried out by planes based in the
Mediterranean area.
Evening star., 1941-09-11
Hundreds of Planes
Going to Russia,
British Report
Bs the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 11.-Hun-
dreds of British fighter planes
are being sent to Russia and
many already have arrived, it
was stated officially today.
Evening star., 1941-09-11
NoGas Shortage
Exists, Senate
Probers Report
Lift Curbs, They Ask;
Ickes and Aides Held
'Overenthusiustic'
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Since appointment OF Secretary
Ickes as petroleum co-ordtndtor,
need for conservation OF gasoline
and fuel oil in the East has been
drilled into population by officials
and denied by some oil men. Re-
ported shortage tOds laid to trans
fer of tdukeTs to Britain. Claims
and counterclGimS OF shortage
plus Development of quota system
for dealers prompted tnpesttga-
ton by Senate Commerce Com
r1tttee.
Evening star., 1941-09-11

Presumably the planes are
being flown to the U. S. S. r.
via the Near East, across Iran.
Evening star., 1941-09-11

(See RAIDS, Page AID
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(See MOSCOW, Page Aid
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(See NORWEGIANS, Page AID
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(See FLYING BOAT, Page Asp
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GUIDE FOR READERS

(see ROOSEVELT, Page AID
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Too Biz to Inset.

He explained also why such meth
DDS of testing were necessary. If the
ship was a small fighter it would be
turned upside-down and sandbags
would be piled on the wings for the
weight test. But you can't well turn
Evening star., 1941-09-11

(See GASOLINE, Page A-i20
Evening star., 1941-11-28
Amateur Movie Group
To Hear PHOTOGRAPHER

Richard c. Green, Coast Guard
and March of Time photographer,
will relate some of his picture-tak-
ing experiences at meeting OF the
Washington Society of Amateur
Cinematographers at the Mt. Pleas
ant Library, Sixteenth and Lamont
streets NV, at pm. Monday.
AS other features on the program
for the session, Edward Cross will
show a color movie, Florida-Foun-
tain of YOUTH" and Miss Marion