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Evening star., 1941-03-01
Russia Protests
Against Seizure Of
Alleged Propaganda
Envoy to See WeIIes
Today on Post Office
Departments Action

The Soviet government has pro-
tested to the State Department
against seizure by Post Office au-
thorities of alleged Russian propa-
ganda mailed into this country, Sec
retary of State Hull disclosed today.
The Secretary said he was giving
attention to the protest, but had not
yet formulated a reply. 1t was de-
livered by Constantine Oumansky,
Soviet Ambassador here, who was
scheduled to confer with Undersec-
retary of State Welles today after
two previous conferences this week.
The Russian protest apparently
was based on action by the Post
Office Department in confiscating as
mon -mailable" pieces of mail sent
to this country by agents of foreign
principals who are not registered as
such with the State Department.
Is Tons Seized.
Postmaster Walker announced last
week that Is tons of such propa-
ganda had been seized during the
last two months. Most of the ma
terial has emanated from Germany
and Russia, coming to the United
States by way of the Pacific, Mr..
Walker said.
"All of the material declared to
be non-mailable because of nom
registration of the sender" he
added, appears to have been care
fully planned to follow the familiar
lines of foreign propaganda organ
iZations"
Anticipating that foreign agents
whose mail had been seized would
hasten to comply with registration
requirements in order make their
material mailable, Mr.. Walker rec
commended that Congress consider
additional legislation to assure full
disclosure of the origin and type of
all propaganda mailed here and to
whom it is addressed.
Being Investigated.
Mr.. Hull said the entire situation
in regard to the mailing of such
propaganda as it relates to the
State Department was being in
vestigated.
Small amounts of similar mail
from Japan, England and Italy
were said to have been seized also
but department officials were unable
to say at the moment whether any
of those countries had protested.
Evening star., 1941-03-01

and take-offs were spaced at about
10-minute intervals. Buses from the
north were late because of slippery
country roads.
The storm swept into Washington
from the Virginia Capes, causing
many accidents.
Automobile clubs and drivers
warned of the need for care in driv-
ing in and near Washington. Sand
and cinders placed on streets helped,
but motorists without chains sent in
many calls for help.
Schools were closed in parts of
Virginia as a heavy snowfall swept
the State from the mountains to the
coast. At Newport News, the city's
new snowplow was used for the first
time to clear the 5-inch fall, and in
the Heathsville area schools were
dismissed.
Maryland Roads Hazardous.
Maryland State police warned mo-
torists that automobile driving was
extremely hazardous" The storm
caused many accidents and threat
ened to isolate some communities
Heaviest snowfall was reported on
the Eastern Shore and in Western
sections of the State.
Crisfield reported inches of
snow, as did Easton. On the road
between Easton and st. Michaels
a snowplow damaged the flooring
of the Oak Greek drawbridge, max
ing it unsafe for passage. and cut
ting off the st. Michaels, Tilgh-
mans and Claiborne sections.
Evening star., 1941-03-01
British Shoot Down
80 Italian Planes
Over Albania
Largest Bog for Single
Squadron in Greek
War Reported
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATHENS, Greece, March IA
British fighter squadron closed out
the fourth month of the Greek
Italian war yesterday by shooting
down more than 80 Fascist war
planes over the Southern Albanian
front without a single loss to itself,
the Greek high command announced.
A British communique said 26
planes in "a numerically much
larger" formation of italian bombers
escorted by fighters were known to
have been destroyed while nine
others were so seriously damaged
as to make their return to base i'm
probable"
1t was the largest bag reported for
a single British squadron in the four
months of fighting in Albania and
Greece. The Greek high command
said the aerial success was paralleled
by successful local efforts" of
ground troops in which "the enemy
was dislodged from his position"
Some prisoners were said to have
been taken and italian tank attacks
were reported to have been repulsed.
One tank, the communique said. was
destroyed.
Evening star., 1941-03-01
Transit Employees End
Strike in Honolulu
By the Associated Pre-.

By the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, March 1.-Striking
employees of the Honolulu Rapid
Transit Co. returned to work today
after accepting compromise set
tlement proposed by the company.
The 2S-day walkout ended yester-
day when members of the Street
Electric Railway Employees Union
"a. F. Id voted 265 to Is in favor
of the compromise, Daniel P. Lopes,
local union president, reported.
The strike had been called after
negotiations had failed to settle
difficulties over the closed-shop issue.
The company put busses into service
last Monday manned by non-u union
men.
Establishment of a union-com-
pany committee to rule on employe
discharges was reported to be part
of the compromise plan.
Evening star., 1941-03-01
Pan-American Union
Novel Contest Won
By ExiIed Peruvian
$500 Prize Awarded to
Giro Aleerio, Ousted for
Part in 1882 Revolt
By the Associated Press.


Giro Algeria, exiled Peruvian nov
elist, today was awarded the S2,500
first prize in the Latin American
novel contest for his book, Eel
Mundo es Ancho y Ajeno" BROAD
and Alien Is the World.
Algeria, 32-year- native of Tru-
jillo, Peru, is one of the most out
standing South American novelists,
and in the last six years he has won
two novel contests in Chile, where
he has made his home since being
exiled in 1884.
A member of the AprlSta party,
now outlawed in Peru, Algeria par
ticipated in the 1882 revolt and was
imprisoned for several years before
going into exile.
He is also a poet and journalist.
His most recent works which won
for him a continental reputation as
an author were La Serpiente de
Orc" (The Golden SerpenO and
"Los Perros Hambrientos" (The
Hungry Dogs. Neither has been
translated into English, the Pan
American Union said.
The Latin American contest was
conducted by the Division of INTEL
lectual Cooperation of the Pan
American Union, which announced
the winning novel.
In addition to the S2,500 prize
given by the publishing firm of Far
rar & Rinehart, Algeria may receive
an additional $4,000 if Redbook
Magazine accepts the novel for pub
lication in serial form, the Pan
American Union said.
The unions announcement said
that the abundant excellent manu-
scripts" submitted in the contest
caused Farrar & Rinehart to give
honorable mention to three others
They we're, first, "Nuestro Pan" (Our
Daily Bread, by Enrique Gil Gilbert
of Ecuador; second, "a Fogueira'
(the Bonfire), by Cecilio j. Carneiro
of Brazil, and, third, Magyar" by
Miguel Angel Menendez of Mexico.
''The high caliber of these works
has decided Farrar e. Rinehart to
negotiate with the authors for the
possibility of publication, the union
said.
Evening star., 1941-03-01
East's Storm Toll H.;
Gale Hits California;;
Ice Coats Capital
Temperature Here Drops
To 20; Vehicles Creep
On Slippery Streets
BY the Associated Press.

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A snowstorm of blizzard proper
tions abruptly rushed out to sea to-
day after taking II lives along the
Atlantic seaboard, disrupting land,
sea and air traffic and depositing a
near-record snowfall of IA inches in
New Jersey.
Gale winds began diminishing be-
fore dawn and clearing skies gave
hint of a more moderate day
throughout the region.
Washington, on the fringe of
the storm, had no fatalities, but
traffic accidents were numerous
as public and private vehicles
crept along ice-coated streets.
(The Weather Bureau forecast
for the Capital today was fair
and continued cold with rising
temperatures tomorrow. Last
nights low was 20 degrees and
the same minimum was predicted
for tonight.)
The storm swept up yesterday
from the Virginia Capes, whipped
along by 50-mile-an-hour winds
that piled drifts a dozen feet high
on some highways and caused in
Vulnerable traffic accidents.
Death Toll Mounts to IL.
On Pennsylvania roads seven pei
sons were killed in automobile ac-
cidents. Three lives were lost in
Virginia, three in New Jersey and
two each in Maryland and New
York.
New York City was spared the
brunt of the storm, but Philadelphia
reported its worst attack of the win
ter and Southern New Jersey had
its most severe storm in 20 years.
The Wildwood, N. j., City Hall was
closed at noon to permit workers to
reach home.
The town of Rehoboth Beach in
Delaware was completely isolated
by drifts, and somewhere off the
coast near there IS fishing boats
from wildwood, NJ j., were attempt
ing to ride out the storm.
In New England electric and COM
munlcatlon lines were blown down,
leaving several Rhode Island towns
without light
Gale Lashes Pacific Coast.
While the East was counting its
losses California was recovering
today from the worst gale in years,
which reached tornado force at
some points and lashed virtually
the whole State for hours yesterday
Fifty families were evacuated by
the Red Cross from three flooded
towns in the San Fernando Valley
as driving transforms accompanied
the gale.
Scores were injured as the storm
damaged buildings and buffeted pc
destrians in San Francisco and else
where. Los Angeles reported more
than 20 inches of rain for the sea-
son, double the normal amount.
Evening star., 1941-03-01
Island in Dodecanese
Is Recaptured From
British, Italy Says
Enemy Gorrison Reported
Destroyed by Troop
Reinforcements
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, March 1.-The high COM
mand today said Italian reinforce
ments landed from torpedo boats,
regained possession yesterday of the
island of Castelrosso from British
who seized it Tuesday.
CThe British announced in
London last night that their
forces were withdrawn from the
island-one of the Dodecanese
in the Eastern Mediterranean
after the troops accomplished
their object.")
The high command bulletin said
the British overwhelmed the italian
force stationed there, but when
Italian reinforcements landed they
regained possession, rapidly de-
stroying the British garrison"
The Italians said no seaplane
base exists on the island, a few
miles off the Turkish coast.
CThe British had indicated
that destruction of a seaplane
base was their objective in the
landing)
Evening star., 1941-03-01
Oldest Outfit Celebrates

FORT DEVENS, Mass, March /
R.-Officially recognized by the
q. S. Army as the Nations oldest
continuous military organization,
Battery D, 5th Field Artillery Bat
talon, observed its 165th birthday
today.
The outfit was originated as Capt.
Alexander Hamiltons Company,
formed in 1776. 1t was the entire
military force Of the Nation in 1874,
while 1t was stationed at West Point.
Evening star., 1941-03-01
Eastern Stor Porty Tonight

Harmony and Hope Chapters Of
the Order of the Eastern Star will
hold jointly sponsored card party
and dance at $3.50 o'clock tonight at
Wardman Park Hotel Hilliard C.
Myers of Harmony Chapter and
Mrs. Lucille Purdy of Hope Chapter
are co-chairmen. Proceeds will be
used for maintenance of the Eastern
Star Home.
Evening star., 1941-03-01
Germans Report Bombing
Eastern Libyon Ports

BERLIN, March / (P).-German
warplanes have effectively raided"
three ports held by British in East
ern Libya, the German high COM
mand announced today.
Successful attacks on grounded
British planes in North Africa also
were reported.
DNB, official news agency, quoted
a military authority as saying that
although British planes attacked
Wilhelmshaven, Germany's great
naval base, early today only three
high explosive and 10 incendiary
bombs were dropped. One apart
ment house was slightly damaged,
the agency said.
Evening star., 1941-03-01
Alfonso TO Return
In Death 10 Realm
He Fled as Exile
Franco Sets Aside Day
OF Mourning for
Former Monarch
BY the Associated Press.

DJ bltr AooONArSto ANoo'
MADRID, March 1.-For1ner King
Alfonso XIII is expected to return
in death to the realm he fed
decade ago, a voluntary exile.
Under a decree to be issued by
Generalissimo Francisco Franco to-.
day permission will be granted to
bury the ex-monarch in the Royal
Pantheon at Escorial, traditional
burial place of Spanish Kings. This
mausoleum is 81 miles from Madrid.
Franco also set today aside az
a day of national mourning and
ordered all flags on public buildings
flown at half-staff until March 8
when services will be held in Madrid
and provincial capitals.
Alfonso died yesterday morning OF
angina pectoris in the Rome hotel
room that had been his home In
exile since 1891
Evening star., 1941-03-01
Bryn Muwr Head to Stuy

PHILADELPHIA, March / (P.-
The Board of Directors of Bryn
Mawr College has announced Miss
Marion Edwards Park will continue
as president of the college for at
least another year. President Park
some time ago announced she would
retire at the end of the 1940-41
school year.
Evening star., 1941-03-01
Tulmud Torch Graduation

Graduation exercises of Beth Sha-
lom Talmud Torah will take place
tomorrow at 7:30 pm. at the temple,
Eighth and Shepherd streets NV.
Erwin Shalowitz will deliver the in
vocation and Ernest Kipness will
speak. j. A. Kamerow, president of
Talmud Torah. will preside.
Evening star., 1941-03-01
Complete News
Of the Day

The Might Final" edition
OF The Star. containing two
additional pages of the latest
news, is delivered by carrier
throughout the city between
8 pm. and 7 pm.
OF The Stars circulation
of over 10000 daily and
Sunday. 125,0O0 are regular
subscribers and more than
10000 in Washington have
this special late service.
In addition, thousands of
people carry The Star home.
Call National 5000
Evening star., 1941-03-01
WiIheImshaven Base
Raided by British
For 44th Time
Ports Of BouIoene and
Emden and Airdromes
Also Are Attacked
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, March british
bombers attacked points in Brittany,
in Northwest Germany and in the
Nazi-occupied Netherlands yester-
day, the Air Ministry announced to-
day.
The big submarine and naval base
at Wilhelmshaven was described as
the principal objective" of last
nights raiding, being subjected to
its 44th attack of the war.
weather made exact observations
very difficult" a communique said,
but some very large bombs dropped
in the target area"
The port of Emden and several
airdromes in Northwest Germany
and Holland also were attacked, the
Ministry said, and the invasion port
of Boulogne, on the Nazi-held French
coast, was raided for the 77th time.
One British plane was reported to
be missing.
Quiberon Is Target.
Quiberon, on the south coast of
the Brittany peninsula not far from
the Nazi submarine base at Lorient
was identified as one of the targets
of the raiders.
Objectives on the Dutch coast also
were said to have been bombed and
the communique declared several
Hirppf hits uyoro phcorvoI -
A German gun on the French coast
hurled several shells across Dover
Strait this morning, but no casualties
were reported. Coastal observers
said they believed the Germans
were trying out a new gun.
German planes flew up the Thames
Estuary today apparently trying to
reach London, but British reports
said they were driven off by anti
aircraft fire before they could reach
the capital.
Thick mists and high winds over
the Channel kept air attacks on
Britain last night to minimum.
The government said some bombs
were dropped in the home counties
around London and in East Anglia,
causing "a few casualties.
London had an alarm soon after
dark, but the all-clear was sounded
before midnight.
Destroyer's Loss Announced.
The Admiralty announced mean
while loss of the 900-ton destroyer
Exmoor during a German submarine
attack on a convoy in the North
Sea Tuesday night.
The attackers were driven off, the
Admiralty said, without inf1icting
any other damage The announce
ment did not make clear whether
any of the Exmoor's crew had sur
vived.
1t was the 38th acknowledged
British destroyer loss since the start
of the war, although this figure in
cludes two lost by collision.
Evening star., 1941-03-01

Cuba will erect two radio stations
purchased in the United States.
Evening star., 1941-03-01
Three Days Mourning
Ordered in Italy

Sile since 1881
Evening star., 1941-09-20
Chinese Acknowledge
Joponese Successes

CHUNGKING, China, Sept. 20 up.
Chinese field dispatches today
acknowledged japanese successes in
severe battle in North Human
Province, where more than 10000
Japanese troops based on Yochow
are driving southwark in a power
full offensive.
The dispatches said part of the
japanese force landed Thursday at
the southeastern tip of Tungting
Lake, so miles north of the pro-
vincial capital, Changsha.
Three shallow-draft japanese war
ships shelled the Chinese positions
and planes bombed them while the
invaders landed from barges.
Meanwhile, the bulk of the Japa-
nese force crossed the Hsinghing
River west of the Canton -Hankow
Railway and were reported making
some progress against tenacious
Chinese resistance.
1t is not yet clear here whether
the japanese drive is aimed only at
seizing the rice harvest in one of
China's richest producing areas or
is a more ambitious campaign for
capture of Changsha. That capital
was the objective of an abortive
drive in 1899, the Japanese suffering
one Of their most crushing defeats
of the entire war.
Evening star., 1941-09-20
Nazis Shoot Z More
In Paris in ReprisaI
For Soldier S Staying
Won StueIpnoeeI Worms
Others Face Death if
Further Attacks Occur
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, German Occupied France,
Sept. 20.-The Germans announced
today the shooting of u more
hostages as the reprisal for an at
tack in which a German non-com-
missioned officer was killed Septem-
ber is.
For the first time the Germans
announced the specific reasons for
the selection of hostages.
Col. Gen. Heinrich Won Stuelp-
nagel, commandant of the occupy
ing forces in France, said Z of the II
were picked and shot as Communists,
2 for attacks against German SOL
diers and for illegal possession of
arms.
Two of those shot were formerly
minor government employees.
One of the II was listed as a Jew
who allegedly had engaged in Com
munist propaganda.
Won Stuelpnagel in curt phrases
warned that in case of further at
tacks many more hostages will be
shot"
The new executions raised to 25
the number of hostages brought be-
fore Nazi firing squads, and to IS
the number of persons executed as
hostages and on charges.
The 10 were the most executed at
anv ope time
Evening star., 1941-09-20
U. A. ". Board Approves
Week End Work Plan
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Sept. 20.-The Inter-
national Executive Board OF the
C. I. o. United Automobile Workers
has approved a proposal to add an
extra 40-hour shift to defense fac
tories so that they can operate
seven days a week, union official
announced last night.
Use of a fourth work shift would
permit such plants to continue
operating Saturdays and Sundays,
ending the idle period which has
been called the blackout Of defense
production.
George Adde's, secretary-treasurer
of the c. I. O.-U. A. W., said the
board adopted resolution favoring
such a plan and that union repre-
sentatives would iron out details
with defense officials in Washing
ton.
The board, which is meeting here
to shape union policies, did not dis
close what position it would take
regarding payment for week end
work. An official said the union
might not waive the provision in
some contracts requiring time-and-
a-half or double-time for work on
Saturday or Sunday.
Evening star., 1941-09-20
British Bombers RepuIsed
At Berlin, Germans Say

BERLIN, Sept. 20 LP.--Berliners
sought refuge in AFRAID shelters
early today as British bombers
stabbed at the German capital, but
an official announcement said the
raiders failed to penetrate the city's
anti-aircraft defenses.
One of the British planes was re-
ported downed.
In Northern Germany, however,
the announcement said, British air
raiders dropped explosive and in
cendiary bombs on several cities,
causing "a number of dead and
wounded among the civilian popu-
lation."
The communique said: Strong
and well-aimed anti-aircraft fire
forced the enemy to drop his bombs
unaimed from great height"
German combat planes sank a
10,000-ton merchant ship and a
7,000-ton tanker in attacks on a
British convoy off the east coast of
England during the night, author
lied sources announced.
In daylight operations yesterday,
these sources said, the German air
force sank a 3,000-ton merchant ship
off the mouth of the Thames River
and another 80 miles east of the
Faeroes, Danish owned islands north
of Scotland,
Evening star., 1941-09-20
German Baltic Port
OF Stettin Raided
Again by R. A, F.
Many Large Fires Are
Left Burning in
Attack, British Soy
BY the Associated Press.

by lHt hSSoSldteu TItSs
LONDON, Sept 2o,-R. A. F.
bombers made Stettins Germany S
largest Baltic port and an impor-
tant Axis supply base for the eastern
front, their chief target for night at
tacks and left many large fires
burning among its docks, ware
houses and railroad yards, an Air
Ministry communique reported to-
day.
Coastal command planes, it said,
bombed Nantes, in German-occupled
France. overnight. The communi-
que said only two British planes
were lost, both in the Stettin raid.
German reports that Berlin also
was the object of air attack brought
from the authoritative press asso-
citation, however, the assertion that
the R. A. F.. had not attempted to
raid the Nazi capital.
The assertion stirred speculation
here that Soviet bombers might have
struck at Berlin.
Stettin, on the Oder, is the Ger
man seaport closest to Berlin Lying
about 100 miles northeast of the
German capital, it was last bombed
by the r. A. F. August II. At the
outbreak of the war it was third
among the nations Baltic ports.
In heavy raid there last October
the British said an important syn
thetic oil plant, producing 100000
metric tons of motor fuel annually,
was the main target.
The Germans apparently made no
attempt to attack Britain last night,
the morning communique of the
Ministries of Air and Home Security
being limited to terse Nothing
to report"
Evening star., 1941-09-20
Dutch Increase Anti-Nuzi Riots,
Using 'More-Choos' Slogan

troopers of the Dutch Nazi Party
were stoned by local air raid war
dens from a roof as they paraded
through the village of Wouw, and
the mayor and clergymen looked on
while police refused to interfere.
Special bicycle mounted park
guards have been called to duty to
assist police in Utrecht as a result
of rowdyism. robbery and vandalism.
The Rotterdam police prosecutor
announced during the trial the in
ability of the authorities to cope
with the wave of outrageous Of
fenses" and demanded heavy penal
ties to meet the unsafe situation
In several towns Dutch municipal
councillors have resigned in protest
at German measures.
In some cases Dutch sclergymen
refuse to administer religious serv-
ices to Nazis.