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Evening star., 1941-02-12

that fight in full detail. The men
who we're in the thick of 1t have
only scattered impressions of noise
and a chaotic tangle wherein the
British tanks thwarted every effort
by the Italians to break through.
Tanks Break Up Enemy.
At one stage six British cruisers
moved around to meet the column
which was reported advancing with
Is tanks in the lead 1t was discov-
cred there were Is more tanks at
the end Of the column and 80 inter-
spersed through it.
The British tanks went in and
broke up the enemy after IS minutes
of hot fighting, knocking out num-
ber Of Italian tanks and scattering
others in confusion. Twenty-six
Italian tanks were roaring toward
the headquarters position at another
stage of the battle. They were with
in a few hundred yards thereof when
four or five British cruisers took
them in the rear and sent them
scuttling OF.
The road was choked with trucks
and 1orries, and in areas near the
road there were scores of knocked
out Italian tanks by nightfall. But
the battle was still not won. About
80 enemy tanks managed to break
through the British lines in the
darkness.
1t was hardly surprising. There
were times when only eight British
tanks we're functioning together.
Only four were knocked out during
the entire battle. But after the first
few hours temporary mechanical
breakdowns made the striking force
considerably smaller at any time
than the original 26.
The enemy force that broke away
headed toward the coast and dropped
south through the sand dunes, en-
deavoring to reach point a few
miles beyond where they could turn
the corner into Tripolitania.
They came up against the stop
line at dawn and were met by a hail
of fire. They fought back. trying
every means of slipping through.
But the armored cars, anti-tank
guns and rifles held them until the
British cruiser tanks. coming up
from behind, were within range.
Two May Have Escaped.
1t was the last straw for the Ital-
ians, who hastily raised white flags
and jumped out of their tanks.
Twenty eight enemy tanks were
counted here. II is believed the
other two got through the stop-line
in the confusion of the early stages
of the dawn fight.
The brigadier commanding the
British striking force told me that
the bag in the whole battle was at
least 86 medium tanks, probably
many more: an uncounted number
of vehicles and between $4,000 and
10000 prisoners. including a number
of specialists. AS an instance. the
entire ground staff OF the Benins
airdrome was captured.
Many civilians, fleeing from
Bengasi. were travelling with the
vanquished column. Women and
children were among them. These
people have been sent back in
trucks. l passed many returning
along the road. The captured SOL
diers are being marched back under
an escort. Many spent the night
ironically in barbwire-fenced
compound about so miles from
Bengasi, which the Italians had
built as a prison for British in
ternees.
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Balkans
Continued From First Page

charest now is under permanent
blackout and military patrols are
making sure that all buildings are
equipped with afraid shelters.
This order followed the British
break Of diplomatic relations with
Rumania Monday.
The Bucharest military COM
mander forbade all persons to walk
or ride through the city's streets be-
tween 10 pm. and am. except with
military permits.
Observers at Ruse, Bulgarian port
on the Danube, reported that the
German troops on the north bank
still were busily building pontoon
bridges and assembling military sup
plies near prospective Jump of
points leading into Bulgaria.
In the movement OF fresh Nazi
divisions across Hungary. competent
observers said, much equipment, es-
peclally motor vehicles of French
types, has been carried on French
freight cars. apparently confiscated
Evening star., 1941-02-12
British See Request
By WussoIini for Aid

LONDON, Feb. IL (P.-British
diplomatic sources speculated today
that Premier Mussolini, ut his meet
ing with Generalissimo Francisco
Franco, might ask the Spanish lead
er for aid in the form Of an attack
on Gibraltar or the dispatch Of q
Spanish legion to one OF Italy's
water fronts
This might be asked, these sources
said rs repayment for favors rem
dered by Italy in the Spanish civil
war"
Diplomats denied q report by one
London newspaper that Britain had
made peace offers to Italy. and said
that Gen. Franco carried no British
peace suggestion to II Duce.
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1000 German WorpIones
Reported in BULGARIA

LONDON, Feb. IL PA Reuters
British news agency dispatch
quoting reliable sources in Belgrade.
Yugoslavia, said 1000 German air
planes had landed in Bulgaria up to
Monday and that most Bulgarian
airdromes had been taken over by
the Germans.
Thousands of German troops, the
dispatch said, have entered Bull
garia from Rumania since February
l. 1t was believed, also. that soms
tanks had been shipped up the Dan
ube.
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Greek -ItoIion Peace
NEGOTIATIONS Reported

NEW YORK, Feb. IL (P.-The
NJ B. C. representative in London,
in a broadcast last night, said 1t
was reported on good authority that
the Germans are negotiating with
Greece for An immediate peace
which would permit the Greeks to
keep all the territory they have won
in Albania.
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Peace Proposal Report
A Joke, Germans Soy

BERLIN, Feb. II P.-An au-
thorized German spokesman today
characterized as "the best joke In
the worlds history" foreign report
that q British Italian peace pro-
posal was In the air.
Nazi sources said they had no
knowledge Of an impending confer
ence between Generalissimo Fran
cisco Franko Of Spain and Premier
Mussolini, and denied emphatically
that Gen. Franco would visit Ger
many.
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ATLANTA. Feb. IL (P).--It must
have been a case of arms or no arms
with the person who hauled a stone
Venus de Milo from an Atlanta
dancing school and ignored shot
gun standing beside the classic lady.
School officials are inclined to
suspect pranksters, not pilferers.
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PurIeys
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to aid the axis with her navy and
North African bases.
Germany's hand has not beer
shown in the conferences, although
Spanish at Vichy reported last night
the Reich might be represented
While some observers expressed
the belief the conferences indicated
the axis still was exerting pressure
on France for the use OF her navy
or bases. others said Italy might bt
Evening star., 1941-02-12

Balkans TO the Reich and for the
movement of the heaviest military
equipment from the Reich to the
southeast.
Evening star., 1941-02-12

Fight the menace Of colds intelli-
gently! Remember that in tests con-
Quoted during nine years of research,
those who gargled Lsterine Antisep-
tic twice a day had fewer colds,
Be WISE. . AT the FIRST sIel
Evening star., 1941-02-12
-Four Supreme Court
Justices as Guests
Al Barristers' Banquet
Justice Dobie Speoks
AT Annual Event
For the Judiciary

Four members of the United States
Supreme Court and members of the
Court of Appeals here, District
Court, Municipal Court and Police
Court were guests of honor at the
18th annual banquet of The Bar
risters, held last night in honor of
the judiciary amid a patriotic set
ting in the Mayf1oWer Hotel.
The Nations highest tribunal was
represented by Justices Harlan F.
Stone, Owen J. Roberts, Stanley F.
Reed and William o. Douglas.
Sole speaker of the evening was
Justice ArmiStead M Dobie, former
dean of the University of Virginia
law school and now member of
the United States Circuit Court of
Appeals for the Courth Circuit, To-
Gated at Richmond Va.
Speaking on Law and Language" )"
Justice Dobie told a series of anec-
dotes that amused the audience of
more than 400 persons, including
numerous prominent Washingto-
mans He elaborated on the theme
that a word may have directly op-
posite meanings when used in diff
ferent sentences, citing various court
decisions
He concluded with, There is no
hope ahead for the judge-he will
always have foolish questions hurled
at him"
Model of Court Shown.
An Illuminated model of the ST.
preme Court Building was arranged
in front of the long speakers table,
which carried red, white and blue
candles. Walls of the ballroom were
decorated with American flags and
several State flags.
Richard H. Wilmer, president of
The Barristers, an organization of
younger members of the bar here,
acted as POSTMASTER.
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trying to get the use Of Spanish and
Moroccan bases.
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Venus Stolen, Gun Ignored

Y.
Young. comdr. W. 3. Young. John r.
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Hewes. Thomas
HltZ, William
Holland, T. Stanley
Homann, Robert F. S
Hopkins. Wellv K
Horton James A.
Houck. Earl
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Guests invited were

Whitaker, judge S. Y
Jones, judge Marvin
Madden. judge J. w.
Wheat. Chief
Justice Alfred A
E Adkins, Justice J. c.
Luhring. Justice
Oscar r.
Proctor. Justice J. NJ
Laws, Justice B. J.
Goldsborough,
Justice T. Alan
Morris. Justice J. w.
Pine. Judge D. A.
Aukam, judge G.. c.
Cayton, Judge N.
Mcmahon. Justice
John p
Casey. judge w J.
Nelson, Judge G, D.
Evening star., 1941-02-21
Brotherhood Week
Observance TO
Start Tomorrow
Christiuns and Jews
Seek United Religious
Front to Save US.

The eighth annual observance of
Brotherhood Week, sponsored by
the National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews, will begin tomorrow
in Washington and more than 1000
other communities throughout the
country, with Religion and Democ-
racy" as its theme.
DR.. Ernest S. Griffith, M. F. CAL
nan and JooSeph D. kaufman, CO.
chairmen of the Washington Round
Table of the conference, announced
the official slogan yesterday as
follows:
"A united front of our religions
for saving our United States"
The theme and slogan will fur
nish keynote for sermons in many
Capital churches Sunday, the COM
mittee explained. Church young
peoples groups will take notice of
the observance in their meetings
during the week, and a number of
special radio programs will be pre-
Sented.
In a statement DR.. Griffith de-
clared:
America needs solidarity among
ProtestantS, Catholics and Jews for
two purposes. First. to arouse citi-
zenS against the dangers to our
democracy from the activities of
individuals inciting hatred of par
ticular religious and racial groups;
second, to apply the spiritual power
ana vision and belief in the sacred
ness of personality adequate for a
democratic solution of the difficult
social and economic problems in
our own country which lie ahead.
The times demand a unity of
spirit binding citizens together in a
common devotion to American dem
ocratic ideals and unity of action
on matters of common concern to
Americans Of all faiths and classes
as citizens of the one democracy.
This does not imply the kind of
unity enforced in totalitarian coun-
tries where opinions on social, polit-
ical and economic matters must
conform with those promulgated
by the ruling powers"
Evening star., 1941-02-21
List Will Give Donors Idea
Of Presents for Schools

eraser; cookers, fireless, for teachers
rooms; cosmetology supplies;
couches, for teachers rooms: covers,
couch and tabe, for teachers rooms;
curtains, for teachers rooms; cush-
ions, chair, for teachers rooms; cut
lery, for teachers rooms; cutters,
paper
Dictionary stands; dishes, for
teachers rooms. .
Encyclopedias, approved by school
officials; evergreens, for beautifica-
tion of grounds.
Ferneries, for teachers rooms;
fertilizer, for grounds; flags Of suit
able size; furnishings for teachers
rooms, including dishes, china closet
and furniture.
Garden supplies; gliders for chairs;
Evening star., 1941-02-21
Visiting Bridegroom
Given Courts Courtesy

Judge John P. Mcmahon yester-
day suspended sentence on a speed
ing charge against Benjamin F.
Fiorendino of New Jersey after the
defendant pleaded guilty in traffic
branch of Police Court to the charge,
but explained he was here on his
honeymoon. Mr. Fiorendino also
told the court he was not aware he
wasn't within the citys low-speed
limits until he was stopped by a
policeman on Bladensburg road NE.
After hearing testimony, Judge
Mcmahon said: Il suppose we have
to make some allowance for persons
on their honeymoon, and expressed
regret the defendant had to spend
so much time in court when he
might have been seeing the city.
Evening star., 1941-02-21

Just In case anybody wants to
make q present to a public school,
here is a complete list of presents
which the Board of Education thus
far has authorized Supt. Frank w.
Ballou to accept:
Balls, base, basket, foot, play
ground and soccer; balopticons;
banners; bars, chinning; bats;
beams, balance; blackboards, port
able: blankets; blocks, building;
boards, balance and building; books,
library and reference, approved by
school officials; book covers; bulbs,
for Identification of grounds.
Cabinets. filing; cases, pillow;
chairs, folding; chairs, for teachers
rooms; charts. for eye tests; china
ware, for teachers rooms: cleaners,
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WASHINGTON FRIDAY FEBRUARY 1s41

ords,, Victrola; refrigerators. cleo
trio; rockers, for teachers rooms;
rolls, music, for player pianos; ropes,
jumping.
Scales, weighing; science mater
ial; seeds, for grounds; settees, for
teachers rooms; shades, light-re-
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gloves, baseball; gymnasium equip
ment Gf on approved list).
Linen, for teachers rooms; ma
chimes, adding; machines, gelatin
roll duplicating; markers. play
ground; musical instruments.
Needles, victrola; nets, tennis and
volley ball
Pads, couch, for teachers rooms:
pennants; percolators, for teachers
rooms; pictures, framed, approved
by the Art League; pillows, for
teachers rooms; plants, for beauti-
fication of grounds; poles, tether
ball.
QuoitS.
RacketS, tennis; radio sets; rec
Evening star., 1941-02-21

sisting, visual education rooms;
sharpeners, pencil; shrubs, for beau
tification of grounds; silverware, for
teachers rooms; slides. stereopticon:
soap, liquid, and containers; sound
equipment system; stage curtains
(fireprooD and equipment: stereo-
Evening star., 1941-02-21

graphs; stereopticons; stereosoopes;
stoves, gas.
Tables, for teachers rooms; trees
for Identification Of grounds; type
writer's; typewriting racks.
Victrolas
Watches. stop.
Evening star., 1941-02-21

8 Street and Formal Dresses. Juniors
and Misses sizes. Were S795, S1Oo5
and Sl2.95. A marvellous opportunity
ot this low rice---------------S2.eS
Evening star., 1941-03-30

Next come those who make unique
use of their hands. Zasu Pitts. of
course, will be forever identified
with her f1uttery digits, and its an
off-stage habit as well. Hugh Her
bert and Melville Cooper have a
comparable trick among the males.
Wally Beery's is a fanlike gesture
with the open hand, which starts
on one side of his face, wipes across
the nose and eyes to the other side.
stop that dry-WaSh," is the cry
of frantic directors who don't want
it repeated too often in one Beery
picture. Beery never realizes when
he is doing it.
Among the easily identifiable teeth
in pictures are those of jeanette
Macdonald, Don Ameche and Cesar
Romero. All show their molars
plenty and no one can stop them.
Gary's . Shuff1er.
Some actors masticate their words.
Eric Blore and Herman Bing are
good samples.
Humphrey Bogart bitches his
trousers. Robert Montgomery often
strolls through a scene, giving the
impression that his coat is I'M
comfortable. He'll hunch it up
toward the collar several times.
Gary Cooper shuffles his feet and
has to be warned against this habit.
Ann Sothorn swings her hips in an
independent sort of faunt-not only
as Maisie but as Ann Sothern out for
a stroll in Beverly Hills.
Frank Morgan twists his neck in
his collar, q nervous habit that has
to be restrained or many costly re-
takes accumulate. Cary Grant pulls
the lobe of his ear. Bette Davis
throws back her forelock with her
right hand. For long time Robert
Taylor was beset by a scratch mania.
Patience and many reminders won
Bob that battle.
We might go on and on. it's that
fascinating and that generally
habitual, Watch 'em closely after
this. Then perhaps you can suggest
something that's never been done
before, for some new player to
adopt as trademark.
Released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance Ine.)
Evening star., 1941-03-30

languid count in Paris before the
war. The count drives high-speed
automobiles rapidly as we'll as his
own plane, so there would be that
and champagne and then the war.
Both the hero and the heroine
catapulted themselves into the war.
The count became a captain and
Miss Carroll-whose mother is
French, whose father is Irish and
who herself is a British subject
converted her pink Stucco chateau
rs miles outside Paris into a shelter
for war orphans.
Then War in Earnest.
In February, 1910. Miss Carroll
went to France to visit her captain.
That was at the time when the
war was believed to be "phony'
and, just before she left from New
York a number of her friends sent
her funeral-looking lilies as a bon
voyage gift. 1t seemed a good
joke and everybody laughed. in
Guiding Miss Carroll.
Then the war broke in earnest.
1t broke while Miss Carroll was In
Hollywood working on North West
Mounted Police" The cameras were
speeded up and Miss Carroll rushed
to New York to arrange for passage
to Europe. 1t was the first week
June and no one sent her lilies
that time. The joke was over.
Il had to get all kinds of special
things, visas and passage on the
Clipper and passage back and so
FORTH" she once told this reporter,
"and, naturally, I f1irted like mad
toying with q fate that is erroneous
ly known as worse than death"
while, of course, in her heart was
the echo of death playing its thou
sand dramas hourly in France.
She Also Could Dance.
There was scene at the Spanish
consulate here that would make
fodder for any camera. To get to
France, Miss Carroll had to have
a visa, permitting passage through
Spain. At that time, Spain had
decided not to like France. When
the heroine arrived to beg . visa,
everybody stared at her searchingly
and frowned. II thought" she said.
7 was unbuttoned somewhere. !
(ses CARROLL, Page F-55
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NEW YORK

4NH' OAtAhs
Although no scenario writer
thought up the plot of Madeleine
CAROLS romance with Count Rich
ard de La Roziere, late captain in
command of French bomber
squadron-whoever did left nothing
out.
Warning armies marched between
outstretched armies Battle sowed
terror in tender hearts. The beau
tiful heroine, wearing q black tai
lored suit with white blouse that
made her blue eyes and corn-silk
hair look like summer itself ripen-
ing in the sun. searched helpless
and stricken amid the chaos of
desperate events. The hero raced
along the brink of death to make
his way to her side and nearly died
and arrived exhausted.
There was even another man, in
this case d husband, Herbert
Marshall sort of husband, gallant,
civilized and standing wan, troubled
and supplicating in the shadow
Today only the happy ending re-
mains to be told. with a marrying
parson instructing the bride and
bridegroom to live happily ever
after. But there is a hitch there,
one of those things that seem to
be thought up to hold our breath.
Love Of La Patrie Is having its
say. 1t seems Miss Carroll must
share her captain with France. He
does not marry her, it is said, be-
cause he wants to leave himself
free to fight in the cause Of France.
They have had a vacation together
in Florida and now he Is in Canada
looking for way to enter the war
while she returns to the job of
being q movie star.
A Message to Miss Carroll.
Then, too. the husband has spoken
out from the shadow. The husband
is Maj. SPhilip Ashley. Miss Carroll
had begun divorce proceedings
against him before the war broke
out. In the spring Maj. Ashley and
the British Army engaged the Ger
mans in Flanders and the major
was reported missing. believed to
be dead. In October the final de-
cree was granted.
Now, abruptly, ~ major has
Evening star., 1941-03-30
COMING Attractions

EARLE"A Girl and Cob Harold Lloyds first
into the photopay production
George Murphy Edmond oBrien
comedy Stage headner will be Martha the movie
Broadway comedienne.
PALACEMen of scheduled
to follow the Tobacco Road
of the stage play Tracy and Mickey Rooney play lead
ing roles in the films
CAPIIoL"Ihe Penalty story of boy who must chose between
his criminal father right,
Lionel
Stage headlner arriving Thursday will Tommy Dorsey
famed trombone
Devil and Miss JONES' comedy starring Jean
Arthur, is scheduled to follow Grip"
METROPOLITAN adventure the
high during the will open Friday Brook
Penelope DudeyWard John Clements Chapman
Judy Campbell in the cast.
the Academy
Thursday for repeat
gotten Fontain Olivier.
cludes couple Of prize winning shorts.
Evening star., 1941-03-30
Those Pessimistic Essayists
Given an Adequate Answer.
Even Villain of New Play
Has Human Proportions.

The undesandabity Of the Rhi1
lies IN the TACT that they
quite
monster athough his
adopted as his philosophy but
wrong
the man, is despiCable.
Such an estimate this
10 imply at she has dressed with symbols
OF tne opaoe agent OF faSm refugee Judas who
hyperbole carefully of sympathetic characters
There nothing about the to it the
gentle Aan German War who must fight the new
regime In his
terrified by death He but
Drawer one-in spite of that denitn-vho times in
battle whose necessity he despises
Avoidance of Exaggeraion
Gives
Ih avoidance OF exaggeration is the Hman5
play She has had the wisdom the
The absence of anything figures of her
play its chief previous
around E.
No Night His intellectual Prof Valknonen professor brilliant wife
the
humans Their emotional reactions experience
little out OF the ordinary They appealing accordingly
those people who Watch advantage
stasecra OF beng written
Miss Henan home
to remain in Fin
Leading every ones Judgment for whatever prizes the year
dramasts prior to Watch On the Rhine
Rces Flight but
of anything like
Shumln will take to New York this
author the she narrowly two
Evening star., 1941-03-30

SdIldud Lee, VIII Is pIODdUly tIlc
best Negro actor in the land. and
James Morcom. as designer of set
tings that are better than life since
they are all-purpose, turned the
script into play. But the novel was
the better form for the story. Where
the novel was large-scale picture
of squalid life in America and dug
with claws into the brain of every
reader. the play is now an intelligent
melodrama about a Negro who be-
came afraid and accidentally .mur-
dered white girl.
So. to get all there Is of Native
Son"-and quite get" it is to get
it is better to read the novel. But,
If you insist on play-going, If there
is pleasure for you in the arts of
directing, acting, lighting and scene
designing, which novel-reading cam