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Evening star., 1941-09-04
Two British Freighfers
Sunk, Germans Assert
Rr the Assoclated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Sept. 4.-The German
high command today said two Brit
ish freighters totaling 10000 tons
were destroyed last night in Luft-
waite attacks off the English east
coast.
A communique also told of the
bombing OF an east coast port, a new
raid on the Suez Canal and foray
against British North African air
port, which destroyed runways and
shelters and set munitions dump
af1re.
No British planes flew over Reich
territory last night, the communi-
que said.
LONDON, Sept. 4 P).-Royal Air
Force bombers attacked docks at
Brest, occupied French port
and naval base. during the night,
British authorities said today.
German air activity over Britain
meanwhile was on a small scale.
Bombs fell at points in Northeast
England. a government communique
said, but there were no casualties
and only very slight damage was
acknowledged.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
q, the Associated Press.

BY the Associated
A British invitation for members
of Congress to visit Britain to in
vestigate use of lease-lend materials
was received with little enthusiasm
in the Senate today.
Brendan Bracken, British Minister
of Information. said members OF
Congress would be welcomed IN
Britain ito make their own in
uuiries on the use of lease-lend
materials" and that they would be
under no obligations" Mr.. Bracken
added that the British ARE anxious
to find independent witnesses and
critics, but not peacemongers."
Chairman Connally of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee said:
The expenditure of lease-lend
funds is an executive function and
1 assume the President has made a
proper check on such expenditures
in Great Britain. Under the law.
the President must report to Con-
gress on such lease-lend expendi-
lures, and when that report is filed
the Congress will have an oppor-
tunity to criticize or attack the
methods of spending. Little could
be accomplished by Congressman
visiting Britain as an independent
investigating body"
Senator Taft, Republican, Of Ohio
Evening star., 1941-09-04
Members
Invited 10 Britain on
Tour
information Minister
Says Group Would Be
Allowed to See Plants
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. A. Brendan
Bracken, Minister of Information,
today invited members of the United
States Congress to visit Britain to
investigate use of lease-lend ma
terials.
II gladly accept the suggestion
that members of the United States
Congress come to Britain to make
their own inquiries on the use of
lend materials, and they would
be under no obligation" Mr.. Bracken
said.
I'VE are ANXIOUS. he said, ito
find independent witnesses and
critics but not peace mongers.
This remark was made when
newsmen asked the minister if his
invitation would hold good If the
same members of Congress went on
to Germany.
Mr.. Bracken said the Americans
would be allowed to visit British
factories, but would not be shown
war secrets.
we do not allow members of
Parliament to see them" he said.
Turning to the topic of the forth
coming Moscow conference on Brit
ish and American aid to Russia. he
said the British were anxious that
it take place as soon as possible.
The United States delegation
would come through Britain and
probably confer here before leaving
for Moscow, he said.
The invitation by Mr. Bracken was
interpreted here as almost like an
open invitation by Prime Minister
Churchill himself.
Mr.. Bracken, who made the state
ment from notes or text of state
ment prepared before the confer
ence, formerly was Mr.. Churchill's
private secretary.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
Vichy Sets Aside Funds
For Dukur Bose Work
BY the Assoc ted Press.

BY the Assoc ted Press.
VICHY, Unoccupied France, Sept.
4.-The government today appro-
priated 5000 900 francs for work
on the French West African naval
base at Dakar and its overland
communications with the Mediter-
ranean.
Besides port installations, one of
the chief uses of the money will be
to help make communications be-
tween Europe and Africa indie
pendent of naval control in the
Atlantic by improving the Dakar-
Niger Railway and completing a
standard gauge railroad to the
Saharan Railhead at Colomb-
Becher, Algeria, which now is con-
nected with the Mediterranean by
a narrow gauge line.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
Leahy and Taylor Plan
To Confer in Barcelona
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
VICHY. Unoccupied France, sept.
Admiral william D. Leahy,
United States Ambassador, disclosed
today he would make a quick week
end trip to Spain for conferences
with Myron C. Taylor. who Is re-
turning to Rome as President Roose-
velts personal representative at the
Vatican.
The conferences, at which Admiral
Leahy is expected to receive the lat
est advices from Washington on the
international situation, will be held
at Barcelona. The Ambassador
plans to leave here tomorrow morn
ing by train.
Mr.. Taylor, completely recovered
from an illness which interrupted
his mission to the Vatican. planned
to leave New York for Europe today
beard a transatlantic clippor.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
Italian U-Boot Sunk
By Cruiser, British Soy
Ry the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. A British
cruiser has rammed and sunk an
Italian U-boat in the Mediter-
ranean, the Admiralty announced
today.
The 5.450-ton cruiser Hermione
sighted the U-boat on the surface
and cut it in half while plowing
ahead full speed, the Admiralty
said, carrying part of the wreck
age away on her prov. There were
no survivors. it was announced.
The attack was described as so
sudden. that the submarines at
tempt to crash dive was prevented.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
u. S. Oil Reaches V|odivostok;
Churchill and Mackenzie Kinq
Urge Full American Support
Nozis Claim Sinking
OF 13,088,283 Tons
Of Ships Thus Far
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN. Sept. 4.-DNB..
official news agency. declared
today that 13.088,283 tons of
British shipping and shipping
in British service we're lost
during the first two years of
the war.
The news agency's review
credited the German Navy with
sinking 9,532,700 tons and the
airforce 1855, ,583 tons.
Earlier, the German high
command said $4,000 tons of
enemy shipping were sent to
the bottom during August.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
Aid Of All Nations
Outside Nuzi Realm
Urged in Appeal
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 4.-Prime Min
lister Churchill of Britain and
Premier w. L. Mackenzie King
of Canada both called today in
diplomatic, but strong, terms for
full United States backing in
the struggle against Nazi Ger
many.
Addressing a Lord Mayors lunch
con in honor of Mr.. Mackenzie King,
Mr.. Churchill declared that no last
ing or permanent solution Of the diff
ficulties with which we are now con-
fronted-with which the whole
world Is confronted-no diversion of
that sad fate by which the whole
world is menaced can be achieved
without the full cooperation in
every field of all nations which as
yet lie outside the range of the
conqueror's power"
Mr.. Churchill linked his state
ment with that of Mr.. Mackenzie
King, who had preceded him and
vino. after recalling President Roose-
velt's pledge to defend Canada,
stated:
Your declaration. Mr.. Prime
Minister. that in the Far East Brit
ain would stand at the side of the
United States is a sure sign of the
deepening interdependence of the
free world.
Urges Similar Declaration.
"A similar declaration on the part
of the United States as respects
Nazi Germany would, I believe,
serve to shorten this perilous con-
flict. Such a declaration would be
full of meaning for the German
people At the same time it would
constitute a realistic recognition
that Britain is the one obstacle III
the way of Nazi attack upon the
New World"
Before he made the reference to
Mr.. Churchill's Far Eastern pledge
and called for a similar United
States declaration concerning Ger
many, Mr.. Mackenzie King said it
was the best of news when the
United States took share in keep
ing open the northern bridge
across the Atlantic to Britain, and
added:
we in Canada we're greatly
heartened when three years ago
the President, after referring to the
Dominion of Canada as part of the
sisterhood of the British Empire,
declared the people of the United
States would not stand idly by if
domination of Canadian soil were
threatened by any other empire.
Starting Point of Agreement.
In the name of our government,
I reciprocated at once by recog-
nizing Canada's responsibility to do
what lay within her power to pre-
vent attacks through our territory
upon the United States. These dec
larations were the starting point of
our agreement for joint defense.
To-day, fortunately, we are wit
Messing the birth of still wider ar
rangementS for defense between the
British Empire and the United
States"
Following Mr. Mackenzie King as
speaker, Mr. Churchill lauded
Canada as "the linchpin of the Eng
disappearing world" and stated:
To-day you have listened to 9
memorable and momentous declara-
ton, made here amid our ruins OF
London, but it resounds through
out the empire and is carried to ali
parts of the world by the marvellous
mechanism of modern life and mod
ern war"
Mr. Churchill continued: II am
(See LONDON, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1941-09-04
l8 Poles Are Sentenced
To Death by Germans
2. the Associated Press.

FN the Associated PreSS.
BERLIN, Sept. 5.-Eighteen former
members of the Polish police at
Poznan were sentenced to death by
a special court today on charges of
numbering German nationals.
The court heard evidence bearing
on the reported deaths of 672 Ger
mans who were said to have been
abducted from their homes in
Poland and slain as the German
Army moved across the Polish border
in the fall of 1889.
A captain and sergeant of police
among those condemned to death
were convicted of 1873 killings. Six
teen others we're convicted of one or
two killings apiece. Ten we're ac-
suited.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
America and England
Seeking World Rule,
Toxic Paper Says

By the Associated Press.
The Maritime Commission to-
day said it had been advised that
an American oil tanker arrived
at Vladivostok yesterday with
fuel for Russia. The commits
sion did not amplify the brief in
formal announcement.
Secretary Ickes announced on
August ID that the first shipment
of aviation gasoline for Nazi-be-
leaguered Russia left Los Angeles
that day for the Siberian port OF
Vladivostok, aboard a tanker flying
the American flag.
Authoritative spokesmen in Japan
soon afterward expressed concern
and some suggested that the fuellng
of Russia was part of a policy OF en-
circlement of the Nipponese empire.
with Britain and the United States
the leaders.
Presumably the tanker which ar
rived at Vladivostok was the same as
that referred to by Mr.. Ickes.
It's safe arrival would indicate that
Japan has not yet put into effect
q safety zone, which some japanese
sources have limited might be set up
around the island empire. Vladivo-
stok is so near to the japanese
islands that any such zone would
affect passage of ships into Vladi-
vostok harbor.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
Laval and Deaf Ask
For Papers TO Learn
OF Their Conditions
Doctors Have Difficulty
Keeping News From
Two Wounded Leaders

Concern of German authorities
OUer the shooting OF the tUo
leading French collaboration
lists" Pierre Ldual and Marcel
Deaf. and interesting details OF
the hospital conUaleScence OF the
ttCo men are told in the tollolU-
ing dispatch By an Associated
Press stat correspondent in Paris
Uho has Just drriued in Vichy
from the Germdn-occupied zone.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
BY ROY P. PORTER,

Associated Press stan Correspondent.
VICHY, Unoccupied France. Sept.
4-When I left the occupied zone
yesterday Pierre Laval and Marcel
Deaf were both much better, al
though their doctors we're having
difficulty in keeping them from
learning too much about their re-
spective conditions.
Both men were demanding to
have the newspaper delivered regu-
larly so they could read bulletins
on their conditions. This led the
physicians to discontinue issuing
such details as the patients tenn
peratures.
But, even if patients in the civilian
hospital at Versailles were not Ill
when they entered. they probably
would be by the time they left.
The small, rambling institution
has elevators which creak and
groan. The noise is terrific. since
there is children's clinic on the
floor above the rooms of Laval and
Deaf.
One workman I saw puttering
around tapping water pipes with
wrench.
Hospital Guarded.
A small force of French policemen
guarded the hospital, but they were
easily persuaded to let visitors enter
When I last visited the hospital !
met Otto Abetz, the German Am
bassador, and his wife in the corri-
dor outside Lavals room. The AM
bassador had come to bring special
message from Fuehrer Hitler and
Foreign Minister Won Ribbentrop
wishing speedy recovery. Both
men had sent telegraphic instruc-
tions from Berlin to Abetz to convoy
their personal greetings.
A short time later Fernand de
Brinon. the Vichy Ambassador to
the occupied zone, arrived.
Visitors all register in a special
book, and the list of names looks
like the official roll call of the
French and German authorities of
Paris.
I had a brief glance at Laval
when one of his assistants let me
look inside his room. The former
vice premier was lying comfortably
in bed reading newspaper.
He looked up and said How are
you?"
I said How are you?" and he
replied in French slang. Damaged
good!" and waved good-by.
His personal secretary told me
"he's okay for the time being even
If he is full of lead"
Laval's principal trouble is slug
under his left breast which is
lodged inside an artery leading to
the heart. II surgeons should de-
eide to take it out there would be a
possibility of severe hemorrhage.
Laval has two other bullets inside
IL. OCdI OllC buAlCbB fooCOA
through his right arm and into his
stomach, already has been removed.
Colette Still in Jail.
Paul Colette, the man who shot
Laval and Deaf, remained in Jail at
Versailles pending a decision whether
he should be tried in regular GRIM
inal court or in the new special anti
Communist tribunal.
One thing the attempted aSsassi-
nation did was to introduce Nine
Laval to the French public. She
previous.,y was almost unknown
but she l. heen daily visitor tc
the hospital slcng with her daughter
Josie and Josie's husband. Count
Rene de Chambrun.
Mime. Deaf, who went two nights
without sleep after the shooting
w ~tches every one who comes to call
or her husband. She said Monday
"I am so tired I could drop, but
Marcel is getting well and that's all
that matters"
Laval and Deaf already had
started new "collaborationist
movement before the shooting.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
French Wheat Harvest
Is Menoced by Rot
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VICHY, Unoccupied France, Sept.
4.-The wheat harvest of blockaded
France is menaced by rot, it was
announced today, because of bad
weather.
Freak rains soaked sheaves all
summer and farmers were forced to
curtail the harvests for lack of bind
ing hemp.
The government gave farmers in
structions for minimizing the danger
and in Paris government officials
from the occupied zone met to
examine the food situation.
Evening star., 1941-09-04
U. S. Flyers in Butovio

TOXIC, Sept. 4 (P).-The Domei
news agency broadcast a dispatch
dated Batavia today. saying ITS air
pilots from the United States re-
Gently passed through Batavia en-
route to Rangoon and Chungking.
Evening star., 1941-09-04

Page. Page.
Amusements, Lost and Found.
B-1S-19 AS
Comics --C-10-1l Serial Story BIS
Editorials AS Society - -B-3
Financial A-15 Sports -D-1-2-3
Obituary ---A-10 Woman's, Pages,
Radio -C-10 'C-4-5-6
Foreign.
Karelian strip recaptured from Rus
sia, Firms report. Page AS
New draft of men between 18 and 40
planned in Britain. Page AT
National.
Oil and railroad men confer today
on use of tank cars. Page Al
Grand jury deliberates over Catoe
slayings evidence. Page Az
Petroleum export licenses granted
Spain, North Africa. Page AS
Girl and three youths admit spying
for Nazis. Page AS
Representative Taylor Of Colorado
dies suddenly. Page A.1o
Evening star., 1941-09-04
Summary Of Todoy's Star

Civilian airplane spoilers to be tried
out next month. Page B-1
Strikes hit California shipyard and
Is Alabama mines. Page Bib
Washington and Vicinity.
Pedestrian killed crossing wet
street. Page B-1
Evening star., 1941-09-04

(See BUDGET, Page Aid
Evening star., 1941-09-04

(See LEASE-LEND, Page Aid
Evening star., 1941-09-04

(See TANKERS, Page Aid
Evening star., 1941-09-04

Late news and sports are covered on
Pages TX and Ok of this edition OF
The Star. supplementing the news of
the regular home delivered edition.
The Omaha guide., 1941-01-04

end build the world they live in.
The kind of world they build will
be governed by the kind of people they
are. Consider the rae as but the mag
nified reflection of its smallest indiv-
idual. Explore that mans heart, faith
ON his secret aspirations, learn his
capacities and his limitations. There
lies the key to what we call mankind.
Even so, the fog still lies thick a.
bout us. We know beyond question
what marvellous capacities man has.
He can soar; he has scared. His story
is a chronicle of steady upward prog
ress, of endless striving toward the
better life, of new peaks continually
scaled. Against this background mans
present alterations, his wars and his
s~urrenders of freedom, may seem a
mere interlude.
But men, and men in societies, be-
have so differently. Does some fatal
defect prescribe mans ability to live
peacefully in asaociation with others?
Must he abandon his humility and his
dignity, yield to the commands OF a
dictator, march off to perpetual wars
in the service of a goddess state, mere
ly to find justification for his exis-
tence? Can he not solve his social pro
blems in any other way?
Faith alone can give the answer
Faith tells us that mar is a better Gre
allure than this, that he can surmount
his 1910 limitations as he surmounts
countless others. And faith must hope
that 1941 will bring the first faint rays
of sunshine to dissipate the fog of
doubt.
The Omaha guide., 1941-01-04
POOR VISIBILITY

From Omaha World Herald, January 1, 1941)
If at this season you are trying TO
peer into the future, you must feel as
M felt trying to penetrate the peal
soup fog that hung over downtown O.
maha Tuesday.
This new year. What does it hold?
No prophet dares answer. The future
shrinks into fog like a shadow, our nor
izonI vanishes behind impenetrable
clouds.
One instinctively thinks, at this
moment, of the great things. The at
fairs of nations, wars, the deep tidal
movements affecting mankind these
fill our thoughts.
We ponder the modern Attila's
boast that 1871 will bring him total
victory. And the cautious hope ex-
pressed by the late Lord Lothian that
1912, if not 1941, will see Britain tri-
umphant. And, above all, our relation
ship to this struggle. How can we play
the part our conscience demands, and
yet avoid the sucking whirlpool?
Such are the big things, the large
events with which this new year will
be concerned. Yet not all history un-
folds in heroic size. Nations are but
assemblies of people, peoples but agg-
regations of little men. 1t is not the
great who ultimately rule fate, but
ourselves. Not posturing demagogues
nor beribboned marshals nor self-an-
ointed duces, but the assembled masses
of humble men and women must in the
The Omaha guide., 1941-01-04
GUESTS

GUESTS.
Mrs. James r. Garrett and Ms.
U. S. Robinson, daughters of Rev.
E. V. Mcdonald, and sisters Of
Mrs Thomas H. Goodwin, are the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. T. H.
Goodwin, 918 North 9th ST. Mrs.
Garrett, who now resides in Buff
falo, New York, is a former Om-
ahan. She will be remembered as
the wife of Mr.. James R. Garrett
who formerly published the Advo-
cate paper in this city. He is
now the owner of the Buffalo
Printery in Buffalo, New York
Mrs. U. S. Robinson, who resides
in Chicago, ILL.,, is the wife OF
Rev. u. S. Robinson, who is one d
the leading ministers of Chicago
She will be remembered as the
widow of w. C. B. Lewis, whC
was formerly a President Eide
of the Omaha District.
The Omaha guide., 1941-01-04

TEA
The Ladies Auxiliary to the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por-
tiers gave a Holiday Tea on Sun
day, December 20, from 4 until 7
at the home of Mrs. j. C. Jones,
2724 Parkar Street. Hostesses
were Mrs. Louise Adams and Mrs.
Frances Cloud, who served alter
nately with Mrs. Christine Alt
house, and Mrs. Eva Ray. Mrs.
Irene Jones and Mrs. Eva Ray
served alternately as reception
lists at the door. Mrs. Selma
Clark, Mrs. l.. S. England, Mrs, R
Dawson and Mrs Catherine San
ders assisted in the dining o
All were beautifully attired in
tormals ranging in colors from The
pastel rainbow shades to midnight
black. The color scheme of pink
and white was carried out in the
refreshments with pink-frosted
white cake, and raspberry center
The Omaha guide., 1941-01-04
TIME FOR WORK

This is the time for labor, no less
capital, to show its patriotism.
There car be no +-urther excuse
for unjustified strikes, which could be
prevented by honest arbitration, for
labor racketeering of any kind, or for
wage and hour demands which go be-
yond all reason, and which slow de
Tense production.
If labor has any just grievances,
Cancellation can cure them. Public op-
inion, that mightiest of corrective fore
es, will always support the exploited,
and see that the expfoiter is controlled.
And, by the same token, public opinion
will, and rightly, give short Shirt to
those who seek to pBomote industrial
warfare.
The Omaha guide., 1941-01-04
CHURCH OF GOD
POPS North oath Street
Elder S. S. Spaght, Pastor

Sunday school began at $3.50.
The lesson "Jesus requires Faith
fulness'. Life is uncertain; there
fore, be vigilant and faithful, is
the lesson of the parable. As we
enter the New Year, can we say
we are faithfully seeking to know
and to do the will of our Lord and
Master, day by day?
IL o'clock message by the pas
tor from st. John "a Subject 'The
Work of Jesus. We were made TO
think of our work as Christians
during the past IL months. Has
our work been of such a nature
that if we was called in to entern-
ity would we receive the eternal
prize.
6 o'clock YPM.
8 O'Clock Devotional and ex-
preston melting conducted by Mrs
E. M. Sawyer. Visitors for the
day were 2. You are welcome to
worship with us.
The Omaha guide., 1941-01-04
THE MODERN ART

The Modern Art Club held an
After Christmas party on Monday
night, December 30th at the home
of Mrs. B. H. Vanoy, 2510 Charles
Street. Each member invited her
husband and 2 other guests. The
members of the club exchanged
some very lovely handmade gifts.
A turkey dinner was served to all
those present. Mrs. Dale Riddles
President, Mrs. Frances Cloud,
Vice President, Mrs. Vassie Har-
rold, Secretary.
The Omaha guide., 1941-01-04
HOLIDAY VISITOR

Miss Katherine Clark of Saint
Joseph, Mo, was the holiday VS.
itor of her sister, Miss Korea
Clark. While here she enjoyed
Christmas dinner at the home of
Miss Versie Winston She was
also the luncheon guest of Mrs.
Cassie Rose Murrell. Those pre-
sent were: Miss Lula Williams,
Miss Margaret Gray, Mrs. Pearl
Riggs, Miss Korea Clark Later
they all made up a theatre party
and went down to hear Cab Gallo
The Omaha guide., 1941-01-04
SOCIAL NEWS
CHRISTMAS PARTY

The Sacrifice Club of Bethel
AME. Church gave their annual
Christmas party at the home of
Mrs. A. Bowler on Friday night,
December 81, 1910. A program
was rendered by members and
friends of the club and refresh
ments served to about so persons.
as usual members and friends ex-
changed gifts.
The Omaha guide., 1941-01-04
DAUGHTER OF MR.. AND MRS.
I'M REII. PASSES

WITT -~"T-T-TF
Miss Dorothy Bell, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Bell, died on
Monday December Both at a local
Iosulaa. Funeral services were
held on Fridays morning January
3. at $3.50 a. m. from Saint Bene-
diets Church. Burial was in For
est Lawn Cemetery.
The Omaha guide., 1941-01-04
PROUD PARENTS

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Buscn, of
1927 North 23rd Street, are The
proud parents of a baby girl, boii
on New Years day, January /,
1941, at $3.50 p. m. at the Uniyer-
sity hospital.