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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-16
CONSULATE UNAWARE"

NEW YORK. pril 16.-QNS)-
a representative of the Italian
consulate in New York City to-
day said he knew nothing" about
Chicago reports that John F.
Arena, slain Italian editor, had
been the recipient of warnings
from the consulate regarding the
publishing of his anti-Fascist edi-
torials. The spokesman referred
all questioners to the consul gen.
available for comment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-16

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factories working on national
defense contracts.
STORY OF INTRIGUE
"For two hours yesterday I
sat with the fiery editor and n
Dies committee investigator In
a Ia Sale street restaurant,
while Arena unfOlded an amaZ-
ing story OF bribery, intrigue
and intimidation.
"He disclosed that he had sent
evidence of the spy plot 10 J.
Edgar Hoover. director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
and that he had been In confer
ence recently with FBf agents
here.
"a Dies committee spokesman
in Washington told the Herald
American by telephone this
morning;
"'Arena was murdered only a
few hours after he furnished this
committee important informa-
ton. There is no doubt he was
sfaiu for his patriotic stand
against subversiye plotters.
aTTRoNT TO L. g.
This crime Is gfarfng
afront to the government of the
foreign dictator now waging n
war TO destroy the Ideals for
which the country stands.
During his conversation with
Arena, Parks said. the editor told
him:
Agents of the ORNA, the
Fascist secret police agency
which compares with the NaLi
Gestapo, have been wringing
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-16
Receiving Hospital
Strike Threatened

Two hundred nonprofeSsional
employees of Receiving Hospital
today threatened to walk out I'M
less their working time is cut from
40 to % hours a week to conform
with the hours of other city en-
ployes.
Representatives Of the workers.
members of the State. County and
Municipal. Employees Union of the
Go. made their demands to the
welfare commission and an
nounced that unless the work
week is cut union members will
leave their jobs at the completion
of IS hours.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-16
Anti-ConvoyB Bloc
Seeks 10 Force
Senate Vote
BY WILLIAM =. NEAL
Int1 News service stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON. April 16. -
With the Senate foreign relations
committee slated to shelYe the
Tobey anti-convoy resolution to-
day. leaders of the non-interven-
ton bloc mapped plans to force
a clear-cut decision on the Senate
floor.
Senator Nye (R) Of North Da-
kota, proposed that the commit
tee, if il decides TO reject the res
olution, report it adversely so that
the measure can be debated and
put to a vote.
Administration leaders, however.
were reported to be following adj
vice of Secretary of State Cordell
Hull TO avoid a bitter fight over
use Of American warships to con-
voy lease-lend war materials TO
Europe, on the ground that it
would give the world an impress
sion of disunity.
VIOLATES NEUTRALITY ACT
The administration plan. II APP
peared, was to hold the resolution
in the committee on the ground
that there is no likelihood OF Pres
ident Roosevelt ordering conveys
without first asking authority Of
Congress.
A Senate leader in foreign
affairs declared that Mr.. Roose-
welt lacks power 10 order conveys
since this would be a violation Of
the Neutrality Act. Should Mr..
Roosevelt decide that Conveys are
necessary TO defeat the German
submarine and air menace. this
leader predicted. he will lay the
problem before the country and
Congress and call for a decision.
While tstiiteff44 IA ives were
cussed. such as transporting war
materials to Greenland or South
America. Senate leaders generally
dismissed these proposals as fall
ing to solve the problem.
Senator Tobey (R) OF New
Hampshire planned to appear at
the foreign relations committee to
urge action. He was promised the
support of Senator Vandenberg
tRl of Michigan, Nye. Senator
JOHNSON M or CdfIfOTTIId, and
other non-interYentionistS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-16
Staebler Denies, Too
On Stand in Graft Trial, Says He Took No Cash,
Has No knowledge of Corruption
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81 bear him no III will now"
said McCrea.
what were you doing up at
COlburn's home after BOggio
testified I'm this case?"
(Boggio is Bernard A. Boggio
former chief assistant to McCrea
who made sensational charges
against McCrea in his testimony.
81 visited him because i
knew he was mentally and ply
sically ILL.," said McCrea.
ANOTHER DENIAL
"You told him IL was up to
him to get sick and stay Sick"
said O'Hara, $50 that this case
would never get to the jury.
You told him that he was a good
actor and that he was to feign
sickness when the doctor
called"
McCrea denied the charges anc
cross-examination ended.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-16

yesterday by denying a charge by
Special Prosecutor Chester p.
OHara that he told Harry Col
burn, his former chief investigator,
to get sick and stay sick so that
this trial will never 60 to the
jury.
"YOu set up a gambling COM
plant record system so that you
would have an alibi ready II they
ever caught up with you and
that 100000 you got that Col
burn told us about, didn't your"
asked O'Hara.
DENIES GETTING CASH
"NO, and never got the
100000" said McCrea.
"You were friendly with Col
burn until he testified against
you, weren't yOu?"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-16
Fascist Foe Slain
After Dies Talk

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factories working on national
defense contracts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-16
Briqhtmoor Minstrel Show

The Brightmoor Exchange Club
is sponsoring a minstrel show
Thursday and Friday evening at
the auditorium Of the Harding
School, 144450 Burt road, to raise
funds for the purchase Of now land
TOT INC BTIgnuUO0T community
Center
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-16
Mrs. SthOOnOver
Denies She Hid
Graft Witness

Accused Of conspiring 10 hide
a key witness in the county graft
trial, Mrs. Mary {. Schoonover
took the witness stand in Re-
corder's Court today and denied
knowing the witness had been
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-16
REVEALS THREATS

Arenas. wife, Dorothy, 30,
mother of a 7-year-old son. be-
came historical when informed of
the tragedy. She told officers her
husband had received many threats
against his life recently from I'M
identified telephone callers. The
last threat was received only a
few hours before Arena was killed,
she said.
Authorities also stated they
were investigating a report that
Arena had received a warning
from the Italian consuls office in
New York TO desiSt from publish
ing anti.t aScist editorials.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-16
AMERICAN CITIZEN

Arena became an American cit
izen last year and at that time
stated he was renouncing his Ital-
ian title, under which he was
known as the MarcheSe d'Arena.
The shooting occurred shortly
after II p. m. a few moments after
Arena had emerged from a motion
picture theater with Miss Eleanor
Herrmeyer. II. According TO Miss
Herrmeyer, she and Arena had
seated themselves in the editors
car when a man ran up TO them
and shouted:
Look out, you've got a fiat"
Arena and Miss Herrmeyer
stepped from the machine and. as
Arena walked behind the car to
examine his tires, the stranger
opened fire with a revolver. The
editor fell, mortally wounded. as
the killer fled in an automobile
driven by a second man.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-16

defense secrets from workers In
steel mills and other key indus
tries here for months. They have
been squeezing funds from the
city's $4,000 residents OF Italian
extraction, presumably for Mus
solini's war chest.
FUNDS KEPT HERE
But IL has been discovered
that this money was not sent
abroad. IL is being accumulated
here for espionage purposes and
TO finance a campaign of sabo-
tage II the United States be-
comes involved in the war"
Arena further told him Park.
said, that persons employed in
Chicago area defense industries
were ordered TO attend secret
with the Axis spies. and
then were coerced into disclosing
information about the plants where
they worked.
The editor charged. Parks said
that ORVA men held star cham
ber' sessions each week at such
vital industrial points as Gary
Whiting and East Chr
cago, Ind, and other important
manufacturing areas.
Chicago police stated Arena may
have been killed because of his
b lis hi ing activities" They
learned the editor had received
many threats against his life for
his anti-Fascist and anti-fifth col
1mn writings. Most of the threats
we're made by anonymous tele.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15
 I W 0 AIRPLANES
Both Machines Forced to Make Repairs After They
 Hit BuzzardS

Mangua, Nicaragua, Aug. 15-- (UP)-Two airplanes brought down by buzzards underwent repairs at the airport here today.
 A disaster was narrowly averted when a buzzard attacked Lock- heed-14 transport plant of the Taca Airways en route from here to San Yose, Costa Rica, with passengers. The pilot, Floyd Wright, had changed his course to avoid a flock of buzzards when one wheeled and swooped down on him, crashing through the metal nose of plane at a 200-mile-an -hour clip. Wright brought the plane down and the dead bird was extricated with dif- ficulty. A new nose for the plane was being flown here.
 A United States army Douglas DC-2 plane crashed with 8 buzzard earlier in the week and has been laid up for repairs since.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15

mission that Budenny's men had abandoned the towns of Kirovograd and Pervomaisk.
 -Ihe Russians are definitely with drawing to a line behind the Dnieper," a spokesman sad. "But there are no indications whatsoever that the Germans have crossed the Dnieper at any point.
 .Tn fact, the Germans may not have reached the Dnieper at some points south of Kiev.
 There is no \nflrmation of Ger man claims that Odessa and Niko- laev have been invested"
 InformantS said that the With drawal of the Russians behind the Dnieper, where they could make a strong stand behind the broad riveIA did not necessarily mean that they had abandoned the idea of defend- ing either Oessa or Nikolaev.
 Russian Report
 Moscow, Aug. 15-(UP)-BattleS ragged along the entire 1900 mile eastern front today with fierce fighting in three areas of the Lenin- grad front, on the Smolensk front and in the Ukraine, where Russian forces were reported making a strat- egic withdrawal. ..
 The L,eningrad front, after 8 Hull of several days, flared into action with fighting reported in Soviet war communique at KawiSalmi, 80 Iniels to the North, the Estonian sector to the southwest, and Staraya Russia, 150 miles to the south in the Lake linen area.
 The communique indicated that fighting had been reintenSified in the Smolensk sector on the road to Moscow, 235 miles distant.
 Russian planes, supporting land operations, blasted German tank and infantry units.
 An early communique admitted a German advance of more than 60 miles into the Ukraine and assert ed that the army of Marshal Sem yon Budenny was retreattng deliber- ately and orderly, making the Ger mans pay dearly for their gains.
 The days first war communique admitted the Russians had given up the city of Kirovograd and Perv- omaisk, and it was plain that the Germans were striking close to the great industrial district In the bend of the Dniepier river.
 Kirovograd is 90 miles east oi Uman. scene of fierce fighting TOT
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15
Congress Debates On Pledge Of Roosevelt
Continued from Page 1)

ing in the Roosevelt Churchill con- ferences, to make 8 personal ap- peal for a greater American war. aid effort.
 One of the top men he planned to confer with was William S.. Knudsen, director general of the Office of Production Management, a key agency in the American SUD- ply system.
 If you expect us to do as well as people on this side wish us God speed to do," Beaverbrook told 8 press conference at the British embassy, then send us as much as you can as quickly as you can.
 we are grateful for what we have received, but we need more. We are engaged in a terrible con- fict; we are fighting an awful enemy"
 He said the British have "tank brigades but no tanks" The need for bombers has increased as the Royal Air Force had stepped up its aerial offensive against the Ger man-held portions of the contin- ent.
 Make Your Own Decision
 Asked whether he believed Unit ed States entry into the war was necessary to insure victory, he re-. piled: You make that decision yourself"
 Beaverbrook stressed the import ance of continued food shipments, which he said had been of great assistance. He placed bacon, beef, and cheese high on the list of food needs.
 His talks here and the new biue- print of British requirements which he will lay before American offi- cials were believed in certain ad- ministration quarters to presage an upward revision in the lend-lease program beyond anything now con- templated and possibly a reorgan- ization of defense production agen- cies.
 Present plans call for new lend- lease appropriations of $6,000, 900, . 900, which would make the total of war-aid provided by congress to SIS ,000, 100000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15
PRESIDENT MAY
 LAND SATURDAY
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CCont1nued rom Page 1) seaboard towns along the Maine coast might be alternatives.
 Apparently again aboard his yacht, Potomac, after the Churchill conference aboard the U. s. S. Augusta and H. M. s. Prince of Wales, MT. Roosevelt was cruising leisurely today somewhere of the coast of Maine. Because of request from the State Department and Sec- retary of Navy Frank Knox, report CTS attached to the presidential party were precluded from specify ing information on the yachts po- Sition.
 Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles and lend-lease generalissimo Harry L. Hopkins, participants in the historic Atlantic conference, came ashore yesterday at Portland, Me, apparently fresh from a last minute conference with the Presi- dent.
 Await President
 RepresentativeS of most America s major newspapers were assembling here, waiting for word as to when the President would dock. They were pressing for first-hand details of what occurred during the Roose- velt-C Churchill conference-detailS beyond the announcement made yesterday in Washington and Lon- don on the new Anglo-American entente"
 Although White House attaches obviously could make no commit ments for the President, there was every indication that he would hold a press conference immediately after his arrival, presenting through the American press and radio the first direct account of his shipboard meeting with the British prime min- ister. The conference may be held on the Potomac at the debarkation point, on the dock, or may be de- layed until he boards the special train.
 The train was at Boston's south station, ready to leave on an hours notice. Railroad men handling the train said they as yet have received no instructions, and said they had made plans to take the President either to Washington or to Hyde Park, his Hudson Valley home. II appeared likely thatt he railroad or ders would be received by radio from the President some time this after noon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15
DEFENSE GROUP
 FOR NINE TOWNS

Hartford, Conn. August IS. - (UP) - State Defense Administra- tor Samuel H. Fisher today approved formation of special joint defense committee for nine towns in. the southwestern section of Connecti- cut.
 The communities are Greenwich, Darien, New Canaan, Ridgef1eld. Bedding, Norwalk, Stamford. Dan- bury and Wilton. These towns will act jointly with Westchester Coun- ty. N. F., areas on interstate mat ters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15

But after that, the fathers of families affected will be deported to one part of Germany and moth- CTS and sisters to another.
 Placards announcing the depor- tations were posted throughout Lorraoine.
 CThe timing of the United Press dispatch indicated that Vichy cen .sors might have held it nearly 12 hours until shortly before noon Vichy time today 6 a. m., EDT).
 The refugee center of Lyons, in unoccupied territory, estimated to- day that 10000 people had been de- ported by the Germans from Lor- rail1e. But these had been sent to unoccupied France, not to Germany, and there was no indication how many people might already have been sent into Germany. Buerckel in his announcement said that in future all persons de- ported from Lorraine for any req son would be send to Germany, not to unoccupied France. Only Want Good Germans In his proclamation Buerckel said Germany could not afford to have any persons but good Germans" on its western frontier. Complain ing that some youths had fled to avoid German military or labor service, he said:
 we. must rebuild Lorraine. We need workers. I have already im- ported more labor into Lorraine than into other parts of devastated regions. Now we mobilize youths for work in other regions of their new country. It is logical that If Saarlanders and other Germans come to Lorraine to help rebuild war damage, Lorrainers can be sent to other provinces.
 "A small proportion of Lorraine youths preferred to flee to avoid labor service. Their parents carry the4responSibility for their sons. I am glad to give them the possibility of correcting the mistake. If the sons return by August 15 I will not hold 1t against them. But families whose sons do not return will start the journey into the Reich August 16.
 No SOlace To Families "T cannot assure those families they will not be broken up, because if parents agree to allow their sons to migrate to France, they prove they do not desire to keep the fam fly together. We will deport inland all families whose sons fail to do their labor service"
 As this proclamation was issued, the German-controlled Metz Zei- tung complained taht priests were not submitting to German rule. It said priest at Neuberg made his parishioners sing in French: that at Kahlhousen the village priest refused to preach his sermons while any of them wore German club insignia; that at Hochschloss a priest organized Free France demon- strations.
 Other priests, it was complained. refused to preach in German after they had been forbidden to preach in French.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15

(Continued from Page D ommendation of the state fisheries and game division.
 No investigation of the state pur- chasing department will be made, 1t was lerned authoritatively, and the survey will be confined to the fish and game department.
 Governor Interested
 Gov. Hurley and State Finance Commissioner Lewis W. Phelps also were reported interested in the in vestigation.
 Fish and game enthusiasts it was sid, were complaining that not enough birds and fish were being purchased by the department for the more than $200, 900 appropriation it has for such purposes.
 We're interested in more fish and birds for sportsmen," an informed source told the United Press. We're not getting them, and we're not sat- isfied. The question Is this: Why are we not getting them?"
 It was understood the special conl- mittee has broad powers of investi- gation and may summon many per- sons to testify ct both open and closed hearings.
 The recent general assembly was informed of some of these com. plaints. 1t was said, and quickly gave It's authorization for appointment Of an Investigating committee.
 Gov. Hurley named the five-man committee two or three weeks ago. and included among the member. ship Philip 0. Barney. Huntington. Q member of the state board Of fisheries and game. which appointed DF. Hunter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15
JAPAN CALLS IT
 ALL HICHHANDED

The trend of common changed suddenly. Political observers said President Roosevelt and Prime Min ister Winston Churchill were trying to alienate both Japan and small European nations from Germany.
 Japan should not be permitted to fall into the trap" one commen- tator said. Tt should proceed with its established policy. The true im- port of the Roosevelt-C Churchill dec- laration lies in some secret military understandings, covered by the eight point program. Otherwise it was not necessary to have military and naval experts.
 Used Many Adjectlyes
 "The declaration is a vague, high sounding, wise and cunning move to enable Britain and America to cope with future developments" the informant said.
 This is a high handed attempt by Roosevelt and Churchill to di- vide public opinion throughout Japan. to overthrow the Japanese government and to prevent Japan from having a strong government" said the newspaper Nichi Nichi. Tt was crafty diplomacy to avoid men, ton of the Far East. But we should not be misled because that would disunite us, weaken our morale and possibl estrange us from Germany and Italy"
 Yomiuri said the president and Churchill desired to become the po- licemen of the world.
 A Nichi Nlchi columnist wrote: If Japan shows good will toward the United States, the United States only takes advantage to tighten en- circlement. It simply wants Japan to return to the status which ob- tained before the seizure of Man. churla. Any talk on this basis Is useless"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-15

would be announced soon of joint organization of British experts to coordinate production and supply in the United states on the basis of American, British and Russian requirements. He said that head quarters would be in Washington.
 Tn popular newspapers, especially, the Anglo-American conference and declaration were made the basis for speculation whether or when the United States would enter the war actively.
 Importance of Meeting
 But the general tendency in well informed quarters was to emphasize