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Evening star., 1941-09-27
Briton's S Abducted Wife
Is Found by japanese
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. PA British
radio report heard today by G.
B. S. said Japanese police had
found Mrs. Denzil Clark, Japanese
born wife of a British Embassy
press attache, at Peiping and were
making arrangements for her re-
lease from Japanese extremists
who had abducted her" Mrs
Clark had been missing for q week.
Evening star., 1941-09-27
Gen. WoveH Flying
To Ironion Capital
On Secret Mission
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TEHERAN, Iran. Sept. a.
The British Legation said today
Gen. Sir Archibald P. Waveu,
British commander in chief In
India, was flying here on an ur-
gent, secret mission. The Lega-
ton acknowledged that many
difficulties had been encountered
in arranging movement Of sup
plies into Russia.
Evening star., 1941-09-27
Patrick Henry Launched,
First of Liberty Fleet
Admiral Lund Praises American Labor
For Building Ship Ahead Of Schedule

mont and Star of Oregon brings our
program nearer to two ships a day"
Around the ceremonies here today
centered a celebration of Liberty
Fleet Day, by which the Maritime
Commission established post
World War record of launching IA
vessels, including the three Liberty
ships at widely scattered points.
Celebration of the launching of
the Patrick Henry was world wide.
commission officials said. At the
time she was taking to the water,
American ships throughout the
world were to stand by and give
whistle salute.
Ahead of Schedule.
Other private shipyards and navy
yards and naval stations joined in
celebrating the beginning of another
epoch in American shipbuilding,
which permits the commission to
get the vessels into the water days
ahead of the original schedule. And
for this, both Admiral Land and
(See WHEATLEY, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1941-09-27
Windsors Leave Chicago
For Ranch in Canada
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, Sept. 27.-The Duke
and Duchess of Windsor sped away
from throng of admiring Chicago
ans this morning aboard a North
Western Railroad train on another
leg of their trip to the Dukes ranch
in Alberta, Canada.
The world-famous couple spent
little more than three hours here.
They will make another short stop
at Minneapolis tonight.
Lewis Bernays, British consul gen.
eral, escorted the Duke on a brief
automobile tour of the lake front
between trains. First the former
King of England was whisked up As
floors of the Board of Trade Build
ing to view the city.
The Duchess did not accompany
the party on the automobile
trip, since she is suffering from
a sty. She remained aboard one of
the three private cars on the train
from Washington to receive medical
treatment from a Chicago eye spe-
cialiSt.
Evening star., 1941-09-27
Nuzis Sentence Z to Die
For Hearing Alien Radio
By the Associated Press.


BERLIN, Sept 27.-Two persons
were sentenced to death by German
. courts today for listening to foreign
broadcasts and spreading the news
they heard.
Evening star., 1941-09-27
Neutrality Repeal
Demanded by Knox
And Senator Thomas
Secretary Declares U. S.
'Stonds on Threshold
Of World War No. z
BY the Associated Press.

Secretary of the Navy Knox and
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Utah
urged, in separate declarations to-
day. that Neutrality Act restrictions
be lifted to give the United States a
free hand in protecting its world in
terests.
Mr.. Knox asserted in an article in
the Foreign Commerce Weekly that
"the United States stands today on
the Threshold of world war No. g."
Il was against the Neutrality Acts
at the time of their passage" he
said. Il can only once again urge
their repeal"
The magazine for which he wrote
is an official publication of the Com
merce Department.
posed to tying the hands of the
Chief Executive in this time of
crisis" and proposed that President
Roosevelt be given complete dis
cretionary authority to scrap the
neutrality legislation.
Says Act Is Being Dropped.
I'VE have been abandoning our
neutrality step by STEP" Senator
Thomas. a high-ranking member
of the Foreign Relations Commit
tee. told reporters
There is not much left of the
Neutrality Act now except the pro-
hibitions against the arming of mer-
chant ships, against sending ships
into belligerent ports and against
Americans travelling on belligerent
vessels.
There are some parts of the neu-
trality law which might be retained
such as that providing Government
control over munition exports, but
I think the President should be
given a free hand to decide what
is needed and what is not"
The Utah Senator said g. simple
bill could authorize the President
ito fix such regulations regarding
neutrality as he deemed necessary
in the national interest according to
the circumstances of the time"
Secretary Knox followed up his
declaration that war was near with
an assertion that ut is imperative
that we take every necessary meas
ure to preserve our foreign COM
merce and the lives of our merchant
seamen from destruction by COM
merce raiders"
Two Big Jobs for Navy.
Discussing the Nays role, he add
ed, I'VE must both hunt down enemy
raiders and at the same time con-
voy our ships to protect them
against such hostile craft as elude
our patrols.
The proportion in which the two
methods might be combined is. of
course, military secret of the first
Importance. Suffice it to say
that our naval experts are studying
both offensive and defensive meth
ods of protecting our shipping and,
if necessary, will combine them into
the most efficient system
He referred to President Roose-
velt's promise to protect shipping in
the defensive waters" of the United
States, and gave an indication of
where those waters are by saying:
There are three principal routes
along which we must protect our
ocean trade: The North Atlantic
route to Europe, the sea lanes south
ward to both coasts of South Amer
lea and the long sweep across the
Pacific westward to Australia, the
East Indies and India
In this connection he said the
Nation was deficient" in naval
(See NEUTRALITY Page A-6O
Evening star., 1941-09-27

BALTIMORE, Sept. 27 R.-The
Duke and Duchess of Windsor yes
terday made but a brief train ap-
pearance at Baltimore, home town
of the Duchess. They came to the
observation platform for five minutes
while a crowd of several hundred,
many of them railroad workers,
greeted them from an opposite plat
form.
Evening star., 1941-09-27
Italy 10 Start
Rationingo Of
Bread Oct. |
4ICrop of Grain
Is insufficient,
Duee Reports
By the Associa ted Press.

By the Assocla ted Press.
ROME, Sept. 27.-Italy's bread
was ordered rationed today, starting
next Wednesday, and a group of
measures was approved by the cab
met to conserve material, defend
the lira and pay for the war through
heavy taxation of profits.
The rationing was announced after
Premier Mussolini informed the cab
met that the 1941 grain crop was
insufficient for the country's needs
Most of the measures revised and
reinforced previous DEGREES in
tended to discourage italians from
investing their cash in property Or
industrial securities rather than
government bonds with which Italy
Is paying for the war.
Evening star., 1941-09-27
Ahead of Schedule.

(See WHEATLEY, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1941-09-27

(See DOCUMENTS, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1941-09-27
Leningrad Repulse Claimed.

A Soviet communique, on the
other hand, announced Red Army
successes in a sustained drive on the
central front-north of the Kiev
Evening star., 1941-09-27

NATI0NAl-FORElGN
Associated Press and up wirephotos. North
American Newspaper Alliance. Chicago
Daily News Foreign Service and The Stars
Staff Writers, Reporters and Photographers
ppp Means Associated Press
Evening star., 1941-09-27

See SHIPS, Page A-6)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-06
A Thought for Today
Peace on Earth

Casey Jones is not going to leave the throttle after all and the wheels of de- fense will roll over the nations railroads without interruption. Settlement of the railroad dispute, by dint of 34 hours of continuous conference and within five days of disastrous national strike, averts once more major threat to the national defense plans At the time of the railway settlement, the OPM reported only three strikes involving 1,700 workers which were directly hampering defense production. We go into the Christmas season, if not with peace on earth, at least with comparative peace in our own field of industrial controversy.
 While the rail situation came unpleas- antly close to strike, and while agreement was reached only after the most strenu- ous mediation efforts, nevertheless the country had some confidence all along that the disastrous strike would not be allowed to develop. Why? Because there has been no widespread, disastrous strike on the railroads since 1922, almost 20 years ago. The technique of industrial adjustment has been better learned by the railroad men, both those on the trains and in the shops, and in the general offices, than in any other field, possibly ex- cepting the needle and clothing trades, printing, and others where collective bar gaining has long been an accepted manner of industrial procedure, not bugaboo. There is the additional fact that the leaders of railway labor are not person. ally ambitious, are not aggressively try ng to add meat-cutters, fathers, and !r- yurance clerks to their ranks, or dabbling n international politics They represent railway labor, and they are content to do that and do 1t well.
 No doubt there will be some disappoint- ment among rail workers at the raise obtained, 9 1-2 and 10 cents an hour. No doubt there will be some disappoint- ment among rail executives at the addi- tional wage bill implied, possibly $325,- 100000 a year. Yet both are probably convinced that this settlement is in the main fair, and infinitely preferable to a strike, with It's bitterness and loss to both sides and It's never-to-be-regained set back to national defense The railroads, employees and employers, are to be con. graduated on having equitably settled what might have been nasty problem, and on furnishing to the country and to the world a renewed example of the fact that, given goodwill intelligence. and Q sense of responsibility, IT CAN BE DONE
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-06
Helping Reliefers

A large percentage of the people now on relief are unable to work. But not all of them. As the nation approaches total mobilization Of its manpower and a possible shortage of labor, 1t becomes desirable to help all relief clients to get jobs whenever possible. Minneapolis is one city making scientific effort to achieve this, according to the Ameri- can public welfare association. More than 500 relief clients have taken tests in the vocational guidance clinic set up there through the city relief admins tration and WPA. And of those 600, one of every three has been placed in a steady job. That means 200 families off the relief rolls, and saving to the city Of $6,000 a month.
 The clinic was started a year ago, and by uncovering aptitudes, has opened the way for job-training even for many who aad been believed unemployable. For the :alze of the nation, for the sake of the AtieS, for the sake of the relief clients themselves, this sort of work wants en- AOuragement.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-06
Relentless River

The Connecticut River continues to resist all efforts to confine 1t within n1an-made dikes or to span it's broad expanse with man-made bridges. The latest disaster at Hartford Is just another in the series of catastrophieS which may be linked with the history of the river and mans efforts to control 1t, Not that we expect the ultimate finding on Thurs days fatal crash of the bridge girder to show that 1t happened as result of the river itself, although this is possible. But 1t does seem as If Hartford has had a long chain of unfortunate circumstances linked with the Connecticut River.
 Construction of dikes along the river and over which it was planned to con- struct a modern highway leading to the proposed new bridge was dogged with i'll luck eliminating in the collapse of Sec- tions of the dike earlier this year, Thurs days accident, though, was even worse than any previous because of the heavy loss of life involved. It was bad enough to see huge girder and mammoth travelling crane dumped in twisted mass in the river, but the fact that workers were carried to their deaths in this nael- strom was of more tragic importance.
 Of course thorough investigation will be made and probably we shall soon know why the collapse occurred. But 1t won't remove the gloom surrounding the com pletion of this new highway span nor Will 1t convince some people that Hartfords continuous effort to control the Connec- ticut River is a never-ending one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-06

more than usual significance may be At- tached to this simple cermony. Certainly not in several years have the clergy been aroused to the point where they have singled out a picture for intense criticism and have informed their parishioners that attendance at the same may be regarded as on occasion of sin.
 This is serious; we hope that the movie magnateS realize 1t to be such. We hope, too, that the weight of great body of church-goerS, not necessarily all Catho- lies, will be thrown into the fight to main tain the morale of this nation on as high a plane as is possible. We need morale today more than at any other time. And we can only have it when we are sound within as well as without. Pictures that tend to upset all thoughts or ideas of civilized conduct, particularly within the home, are no contribution to national morale. Hollywood should be the first to know that, They certainly will very shortly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-06
National Morale

A most logical presentation of the case Of those who guard the morals of the nation against the motion picture ir- dUstry was contained in a recent edition of the Catholic News of New York when the editor said that Morale is funda- mental in national defense and morality is 90 essential to morale that it is a major concern of the nation. The na- ton knows that there is no more effective way of weakening people than to under mine their morals, thus making them prey for all the intellectual and physical Ills of tine time.
 Tomorrow Throughout the land thous- ands of Catholics will be called upon to renew their vows in the Legion of De- cencv. Tn view of the recent stand taken in this diocese against presentation of tho latest picture starring Greta Garbo
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-06

imprisonment, the ambassadors sense of humor prompted him to hang this sign on the door of his cell:
 ';AHiiitary Guest of Ills Majesty"
 Afterwards, Litvinoff was dee ported, and returned to the Rus. sian Foreign once where he served under the famous Tchit. cherin, The two were in con- stant conflict, each with his own personal following which tried to dominate the Foreign once.
 Finally, Tchlteherln became insane, retired from office and was kept under guard for four years.
 But just as Litvinoft achieved his ambition of becoming foreign minister, ho suffered the terrible experience of having almost his entire staff purged from under him. Twenty-Five chiefs and as- siStant chiefs were shot, exiled or committed suicide. Every inc portant divislon except three was cleaned out completely, Most conspicuous was First Assistant Commissar Krestlnsky who had been Soviet Ambassador to Ger many. lie was shot.
 Many Of Lltvlneff's friends consider him lucky Co have weathered this storm. Elis poll- tlcal eclipse did not come until stain got ready to make . mar. Flage of convenience with Ger many. And considering the fate of his associates, Lltvin0ff's mere relegAtlon to . back seat, and hls present comeback as Ambassador to the U. s. 4. stamp him As something Of Q phen. OmenOn ln Soviet Russia.
 Copyright, l94l, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-06

Governor Robert A. Hurley doesn't think a higher wage scale for employees of the state institutions would rid them of the problem they now have of obtain ing men and women of the right type needed for this sort of work. He Is prob ably right in this respect. A good many years ago the state should have started to build up employe personnel in It's state institutions just as 1t should have started its program of building up the institu- tions themselves about ten or fifteen years before the job really began under sponsorship of eX-Governor Wilbur L. Cross and Democrats in the Legislature. Actually you can trace lot of the faults that are now coming to the surface not to improper management, but lack of fore sight on the part of some oi our state officials and legislators. All of them weren't of this mind, but enough were to carry the day and postpone forward. looking institutional program until 1t had become vitally necessary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-06

Says the Meriden Journal: Mayor Danaher edges forward to becoming a perennial mayor, joining the Sl!Sda distln- guished company of McLevy Of Bridge. Bort, Murphy of New Haven, spellacy ot Hartford, Scully of Waterbury, Coyle of New Britain, and so on. But there is g striking difference. Hizzoner Fran Of the now famed house of Danaher IS really a seventh wonder because he Is the Re: publican ruler of an important industrial center of the East in Rooseveltian era"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-06
Selected Poem
MEDALLION

MEDALLION
 (Oscar williams in the New York sun) The limpid swan of music on The black medallion of the night Is frozen deep in lines of sleep Upon the flesh Of this delight Tn silks of song she walks among The dew-eyed tigers where they crowd; The purring rains claw ct the skeins And fail from frontiers of the cloud. With pools for boots the moonlight Iootg The landscape now collapsed and pale, While ringed by miles of odd round smiles Comes Woman and her golden Male. The nmpid swan of music on The black medallion of the night Stirs in the deep Of frozen sleep And shakes a dewy neck in fright
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-06

The story of the floating mine which finally exploded in the lee of Tuskar Light, @ small lighthouse off the south eastern corner of Ireland Is one of those tales that sound like fiction only. It IS also a story of courage supreme on the part of the three men who waited pa tiently while waves washed the death carrying device closer and closer to tneir s,l' struck and exploded the entire spot raieft have been completely wiped out, but 1t wasn't and the light stlll shone, One man was killed, but two lived through the blast to tell the grim story.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-06
Current Comment

We cannot for strategic reasons publish many details about the destruction of enemy submarines, but Hitler and Mussolini know the extent of their great losses. A. V. Alexander, Britain's first
 lord of the admiralty.
 If we are going into the war we should not back into 1t, but go into it straight forward in keeping with the character of our nation. Patrick J. Hurley, former secre-
 tary of the Navy.
 haven't been in a shop since May, 1o40. I'm trying to collect money for another clinic, but I hope you don't mind if I buy one or two dresses.
 Duchess of Windsor to reporter
 asking about her shopping plans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-06

AeSAAASR
 Anti-IIitler Communists were in bad odor, In especially bNd odor was Maxim MaXimovieh Lit- vinoff, one-time foreign minister,
 Of Jewish percentage, Litvlnoff was thoroughly out of sympathy with the NaA regime. Married to a British wife, he also fav. ored cooperation with Great Sri. tain, not Germany. So his wife was in exile in Siberia, and he himself had been stripped of his duties in the foreign office and relegated to an obscure member. ship on the Central Communist Committee.
 At this meeting of the National Party Conference, however, Llt- Vinoff was stripped even of his committee membership. He was busted on the grounds Of "lnabll. lty to discharge obligations
 Probably 1t Is typical of the ups and downs Of Russian politics that six months after this lowest point In Litvlnoff's career, he should become ambassador to the nation upon whose future policy the fate of Russia largely depends,
 TOUGH PARTY WORKER
 Maxim Ltvinoff, was born e5 years ago in Bialystok, q town in Russian Poland, now occupied by Germany. Ills real name was Nicer denokh Movsheer vallakh, but he has adopted . long row of Party" nicknames-Papasha, Luvinye, Felike and Nits--together with an equal assortment of as- sumed nAmeS-Davld Mordecai Flnklestein, Litvinoff Harrison, M.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-06

e. Harrison, Duckham and aus- taV Graf,
 Each of those names represents c chapter in . life which has been as touch and colorful as any mans in Russia, Like everyone who has forged to the front Of the Soviet government, Litvinotf came up the hard way-aevery inch of 1t. After 0 typical Rus- sian high school education, he joined the army at the age of i7 and served for five years, It was during his military service that he became interested in socialism. And when he got out, he imme- dlAtely began to propAgandi2o for the Russian Revolutionary Dem. ocratte party.
 Ny the time he was % he had become . member of the BOlysheVlk central committee In Kl0v, and a year later, In 1901, he was arrested and sentenced Co exile ln Siberia. BefOre he could be sent to Siberia, how ever, LltVln0ff escaped and fled to Switzerland,
 The next fifteen years of Ut. vlnoff,s life were spent In very dangerous visits to Russia or in the company of Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky and other exiles in Swit. 2erland, France and England.
 once, in 1906, Lltvinoff turned up In Paris with 6 huge batch of Russian paper money which tho Communists of the Caucasus, under the leadership of Stalin, had seized in e raid on the C2arS treasury In Tiflls. It was Litvin- off Job to change the money Into smaller denominations and dlStri. bute 1t to party members In Paris, But he was caught with some of tho money on him and expelled from France,
 Twice during hls years In ex. He he sent ships loaded with
 munitions to Russia to start 6 revolution. but In both eases the ships were sunk.
 MADAME LITVINoFF
 Nine of his years in exile were spent in London where he sold corsets, served As Q clerk In Q publishing company, and married Ivy Lowe, niece of Sir Edward Lowe and related to Sir Maurice Lowe, well-known to Americans as the Washington correspondent of the London Telegraph.
 Ivy Lowe LltvinOff has been one of the most controversial characters In Russia. After her marriage she became an ardent
 COmmunist - though, because
 of her bourgeois background,
 her loyalty always has been suspect in Moscow. There she
 conducted salon frequented
 by the literatl. She translated Russian novels into English and became Mosc0w's No. l hostess.
 Frequently she accompanied her husband to Geneva on his ap- pearances before the League of Nations, at which times she took great delight in tripping up U. s. Senator Hugh Gibson, ard other U. s. career diplomats who sound- ly hated her.
 Last year, however, Ivy Lit- vinoff was considered just . little to opro-Bgltish and 8 little too taIkatlve for q diplomats wife. So she very conveniently steOk up her abode" In Siberia, where she devoted herself to her pet hobby, teaching Russians ''baslc English"-the essential words of the English language. JAILED IN LONDON
 Because Litvinoff had lived in England for five years, he was made the first ambassador to London after the Soviet finally established diplomatic relations with His Majesty's government. As such, he spent Q month in jail, held as a hostage for the Bri- tish agent Bruce Lockhart, who was held in Moscow. During his