Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1940, Page 5

300 British Taken With Documents, Germans Report Staff Commander Among Lillehammer Prisoners, Communique Says By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 27.—Capture of some 300 British prisoners in Nor- way, among them a staff com- mander carrying important opera- tions orders and documents, was re- ported today by the German high command in & communique on op- erations kept secret until now for military reasons. The staff commander, it was claimed, was one of nearly 200 pris- oners taken in the first encounter between German and British troops in a surprise. German attack on Lillehammer April 22-23. ‘The British, the communique said, were advancing from Andalsnes, their landing base, and were dis- persed and fled, leaving arms and equipment behind. Steinkjer Engagement. On April 25 two English officers and 80 men were reported captured in an attack of “another English landing detachment,” which was “thrust back” after an engagement near Steinkjer. The communique claimed that the officers of these troops, from the Royal Regiment, King'’s Own York- shire Light Infantry Regiment and | the 4th Lincolnshire Regiment, had “concealed” from them the presence of German soldiers in Nor- way. The communique said the Ger- man advance through the Osterdal | studied. vesterday had passed through Roros | H and now was only 62 miles from Trondheim. 144 More Captured. : | In other operations yesterday 144 | prisoners were taken by German | mountain troops who dispersed a| Norweglan battalion north of Nar-| vik; Voss, east of Bergen, was wrested from Norwegian forces; British naval units continued to| bombard the Narvik harbor and de- fense works; a British cruiser was| damaged by German bombs in| Sogne Fjord, and a British plane} was shot down in an “unsuccessful” raid on the Aalborg Airdrome in Denmark. | On the western front, the com- munique said, 32 prisoners were | taken in “lively” skirmishes of re- connaissance units. | Funeral Rites Held For Trujean H. Aud &pecial Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., April 27.—Fu- | neral services were held here yester- | day for Trujean H. Aud, 69, retired | school teacher and lifelong resident of Montgomery County. Burial was in Monocacy Cemetery, Beallsviile, Md. Mr. Aud is survived by his widow.1 Mrs. Eva L. Aud; three daughters Miss Kathleen Aud of the faculty of the Gaithersburg High School, Miss Susan E. Aud of the faculty of | Montgomery Blair High School and Sister Mary Veronica of the Visita- tion Convent, Washington; two sons Dr. William D. Aud, Silver Spring. and Edward T. Aud, Rockville, and | EDITH SNYDER. code name, and until embarkation has been completed the destination of the force will not be disclosed to any one.” The same order went into detail as to equipment to be carried. Under the head “maintenance,” the purported order said “it is pos- sible that a major British force will be operating from 512, in which case this force will be responsible for the maintenance of Stratford. The force will thus have to rely largely on local purchase.” Detailed instructions were given in a separate order for the opera- tion of radio and signal facilities in high altitudes amid cold such as “the voltage of dry batteries de- creases as the temperature falls. Batteries can be restored by warm- ABINGTON, PA.—HELD IN SLAYING OF SCHOOLMATE— Sixteen-year-old Robert Heineman, poetry-writing high school student, with policemen as he was taken to Montgomery County Jail on a murder charge in the slaying of Edith Snyder, 16-year- old classmate. “Do you think I'll get the limit for this?” he was quoted as inquiring of Police Chief Patrick McKee. Miss Snyder was killed by a shot fired through a window of her home as she THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1940 —A. P. Wirephotos. f#Yoth Weeps in Cell After Girl Is Slain; Jealousy Blamed Dates With Other Boys Cited in Reported Confession | By the Associated Press. | ABINGTON, Pa, April 27—A handsome, poetry-writing high school boy wept in jail today and | pleaded for permission to see the body of a 16-year-old girl classmate | he is charged with killing because he was “jealous.” Robert Heineman, 16, son of a col- | lege instructor, was jailed on a mur- der charge after Assistant District | | Attorney David E. Groshens said he | | admitted firing a shot through a | | window that killed Edith Snyder as | | she studied in her home Thursday | night, | “I was in love with her and she had dates with other boys,” Mr. Groshens | | quoted him. “On Sunday she told | {me she had met the most wonder- ful boy in the world. I couldn’t stand | it. 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Dies to Speak at U. of Va. | Vie was sald {6 be 2 page from | ¥4 1e ‘and shaken, Heineman was telle cover CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April|Lillehammer, Norway, carried the |taken to the county jail at nearby | Coffee Table, $17.50; End Table, $17.50 27 (@ .—Chairman Dies of the House | date “Saturday, April 6" and a | Nornsgown, m"tu.gh;" °" ;her S“:‘ Desk % % $ Committee Investigating Un-Amer- | three-word notation almost unde- | Séémed uppermost in his mind, for he | ' fcan Activities, will address the Uni- | cipherable. It appeared to be “Cock- | 5ked if Edith's picture was in news- | Livine Rook FURNITURE, SIXTH FLOOK. versity of Virginia “Little Congress” | field fell sta.” Under the date “Sun- | Papers. Told that it was, he said: Lounge Chair, cotton-and-rayon broca- Monday night. Mr. Dies has a son. Martin Dies, jr., who is a first-year student at the university. L;bo—riourd 1Con@1§d m Fir§t Page.) charged Mapes Davidson because of | the false and seurrilous attacks which he made on its personnel. | For two and a half years he served | on the board’s trial examiner staff | without revealing what apparently | became an authentic distress of | mind caused by his naive acceptance | of malicious rumors against two | board staff members and sweeping | generalities against the staff at| large. - His attack at the time| of his discharge was recklessly | launched and continues in the same | vein. It is to be regretted that Mr. Davidson remains in a state of mind | which precludes reasoned inquiry into facts.” ‘While the hearing was in progress yesterday the Senate restored $228,- 000 of $331,000 which the House, had cut from the appropriation of the N. L. R. B. President Roose- velt has asked $3,180,000 for the board. The bill containing the ap- | propriation goes back to the House. | The chances are it will be referred‘i toa conference committee of the| two Houses. Documents (Continued From First Page.) e R T be responsible for their own pro- | tection.” This order bore the date of April v, two days before the German oc- cupation. The “white book” was divided into groups, each with a separate head- ing as follows: (Group A) “Orders which were taken from English officers taken prisoners in Lillehammer.” (Group B) “Code telegrams in the original text from the control book of the British consul in Narvik.” (Group C) “Espionage orders of the director of the intelligence sec- tion of the British Admiralty to the BtXish consul in Narvik.” (Group D) “Excerpts from the papers of the French naval attache in Oslo.” (Group E) “Documents of the Norwegian foreign office found in Oslo.” Some groups were in two parts. Photographic copies of several documents have been furnished the press. “The Stratforce Plan.” One document headed “The Strat- force Plan” bore no date, but stated “This plan is for the dispatch of small forces of infantry, engineers and attacked troops to 512, 548,” which apparently were destinations kept secret by using numbers. Im- mediately under the numbers was & photograph saying “Most stringent precautions must be taken to insure the secrecy of the move required to put this plan into operation. In order to achieve this end the plan must never be referred to except by day, April 7,” the diary said “Rosyth, on to H. M. S. Devonshire. To go to Stavanger (Norway).” Subsequent entries in the diary indicated a delay in boarding the ship, but concluded “Saturday, April 13, on board about 1,700. Luxury.” Under a paragraph contained in group B and headed ‘“code tele- grams” was a document headed “from the Admiralty to the British consul at Narvik” and “repeated” to the naval attache at Oslo saying “please report by telegraph harbor facilities of port of Narvik including following details: Length of quays, number of cranes or other facilities for unloading ships” and many other details. The documents assembled under group D (papers alleged to be those of the French naval attache at Oslo) are intended to show, accord- ing to the Germans, that “the west powers had covered Norway with a tight espionage net.” One of these papers say that the | Norwegian military in answer to ¢ query put “under pretext of mile tary transport to Finland” advised against the use of the port of Bergen “in view of the long railway journey and difficulties arising therefrom. Only the ports of the fjord of Trondheim and the port of Narvik are suited, according to their view, for such operation.” Shipping facilities along Trond- heim Fjord are analyzed in a sec- ond document, giving the number of quays and the depth of the water. Airdrome Data Asked. Langsten, 50 miles from Trond- heim, is described in the document allegedly found in the French Lega- tion as “an ideal place for secret landings.” A document to the Consul at Tromso, purportedly from the Ad- miralty, asked data on the airdrome in the vicinity and bore at the bottom the figures 1724/31/12/39. A reply purported to be from the Consul at Narvik gave the date on Tromso as requested. Another document in the exhibit was dated February 14, 1940, and was said to be from the British Legation at Stockkolm. It was al- legedly sent to “Dear Consul Cap- tain,” who otherwise is unaddressed, and said “orders from the Admiralty are that this (afore-mentioned questionnaire) is to be put through Jildi jildi (apparently code) re- gardless of expense.” Queries on Narvik Defenses. In this purported questionnaire, which the Germans said had “evi- dently been directed by the British naval intelligence to the naval at- tache at Narvik,” were queries cov- ering the defenses of Narvik: “Can you confirm that five guns are placed above Ramsund, near the en- trance to Lofoten Fjord? State ex- act positions? Can you give details regarding caliber, range and arcs of fire of guns? Can you confirm that the defense of Narvik is one mbdbile battery of four anti-aircraft guns of Bofors type and give details?” Von Ribbentrop specially referred to the item in the alleged “Strat- force” general plan saying “a de- tailed order of battle and establish- il “I want them. I want all the; papers.” | . Later, Police Chief Patrick McKee said, he inquired: | “Do you think I'll get the limit for | ! this?” | |~ unger Pennsylvania law, he must | stand trial as an adult despite his | age. If convicted of first-degree mur- | der, he might be sentenced to death | in the electric chair. Breaks Down and Sobs. The boy broke down and sobbed when a priest brought him an over- night bag from his mother filled with little things to make his stay in jail more comfortable. Authorities with- held decision on his request to see the girl’s body. Crosser hockey sticks of Edith’s teammates at Abington High School, where both she and Heineman were described as brilliant students, will form an arch through which her body will be carried to the grave Monday. Six boys of her class will be pallbearers. Mr. Groshens said the boy, who penned poems for the school pub- lication, admitted the slaying after police found a note he wrote to Miss Snyder at school about three weeks ago. 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