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Voroshiloff, Builder 0f Red Army, Is Out As War Commissar Timoshenko, Commander Of Kiev Military Area, Named Defense Head By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, May 8 —Soviet Russia’s War Commissar, Klementi Efremo- vich Voroshiloff, generally credited with a major part in building up the Red Army, has been transferred to the post of assistant chairman of the Council of Commissars and chairman of a committee of defense under the council. As chairman of the newly-created Defense Committee, the veteran fighter presumably will co-ordinate and control the various branches of Russia’s defensive machine. Creation of the committee ap- parently is an extension of the au- thority of the defense machine over the industrial and agricultural councils. Marshal Semyon Timoshenko, commander of the Kiev military district in Southwestern Russia, was named Commissar of Defense and marshal of the Soviet Union. Military Titles Change. ‘That military title also was given Comdr. Boris M. Shaposhnikoff, army chief of staff, and Comdr. Grigory Kulik. The government, through Tass, official Soviet news agency, an- nounced that Russia’s higher army officers, heretofore designated only as commanders, will be given titles ranging from marshal of the Soviet Union to major general, and naval officers of higher rank will be desig- nated in ranks from fleet admiral to rear admiral. Voroshiloff Buil{ War Machine. Voroshiloff, convinced that Red Russia could expect at any time a war at the hands of a capitalist power or a group of powers, had organized a general staff, had mech- snized Red army forces, had built up a large air arm and had backed such novel military ideas as para- | chute infantry. Voroshiloff’s tenure as War Com- missar covered the 105-day war with Finland, concluded March 13. At one time during the Finnish war | Voroshiloff attended the Moscow opera with Josef Stalin. Many Times a Prisoner. Born in 1881 into the family of a railway watchman he learned his soldiering on the battlefield. Before that he was a mine boy, shepherd, farm laborer, factory hand, revolu- tionist and many times political prisoner. He was considered the ablest com- mander to emerge from the Russian civil wars and was promoted to in- creasingly important posts. He is a handsome figure in Rus- sian eyes, well built, powerful look- ing, cheerful and easy to talk to. Lansbury, Labor Leader. Peace Crusader, Dead By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 8—George Lans- bury, British Labor politician and peace crusader, died yesterday in a London hospital at the age of 81 while his colleagues on the Labor benches of the House of Commons were decrying the Chamberlain gov- ernment’s war leadership. Mr. Lansbury, one of England’s elder statesmen who had fought against “the system” since he was a child, was a Laborite member of Commons representing the Bow and Bromley divisions. Direc{ action was his method in the later years of his career, dedi- cated to battle against the system of war as an instrument of national policy, just as it was in 1912 when he went to jail for his fight for woman’s suffrage—but won the fight. ) Peace had claimed Mr. Lansbury’s last efforts, both before and after Britain took up arms against Ger- ny. mx;ny March, 1939, when the war clouds were gathering over Europe, Mr. Lansbury wrote to Pope Pius XTI asking that he call a world con- ference together with Protestant and -Jewish religious leaders to “discuss in what way pressure may be brought upon the statesmen of the world” to end the armaments race. Funeral Tomorrow For Harold Haig Sims Funeral services for Harold Haig Sims, honorary attache at the Brit- ish Embassy, who died suddenly Monday, will be held at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Church of St. An- drew and St. Paul, Montreal, Can- ada. He will be buried there. A memorial service will be held here Wednesday in the Church of the Epiphany, with the Rev. Ze- Barney Phillips conducting. The honorary pallbearers will include the following: Ambassador Espil of Argentina and Ambassador Cardenas of Spain, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Nor- wegian Minister Morgenstierne, Capt. George D. Murray, U. S. N.; George Garrett, Sir Willmott Lewis, Capt. L. C. A. St. J. Curzon-Howe, British Naval Attache; F. R. Hoyer Millar, first secretary of the Brit- ish Embassy, and Leander McCor- mick-Goodhart of the British Em- bassy staff. Apple Blossoms Due To Be at Best Tomorrow Bpectal Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, May 8—Tom MARSHAL VOROSHOLOFF. Vorosholoff. (J. Norman Lodge, veteran As- sociated Press newsman, reached England yesterday with allied troops returning from Central Norway, bringing back the first eyewitness account of the Ger- man bomber attack in which three allied destroyers were sunk. Lodge had earlier reported at first hand on British action around Narvik. He reached Namsos just in time to get out the story of the British with- drewal.) By J. NORMAN LODGE, Associated Press Forelgn Correspondzat. LONDON, May 8.—The censor has my diary for the time being, but I won't need it to remember the events of the past two weeks. I landed at a Northern British port yesterday with an allied expe- ditionary force from Namsos, Nor- way, which reached home intact de- spite an attack by 39 German planes which sank three allied destroyers— the British Afridi, the French Bison and the Polish Grom. A “good.deed” got me into my first trouble. On my way to Namsos from Formofoss, near the Swedish fron- tier, I stopped an American ambu- lance hospital unit at Grong to get a story of the day’s bombing. ‘When I was asked to take some letters to Col. “B,” a British med- | ical officer, I agreed readily, think- ing they might be an open sesame for sleeping quarters. They were— under British “protective arrest” in Spillum. Got Tip on Offensive. I had gone to Namsos on a re- liable tip that an allied offensive was about to begin north of Trond- heim. That was just one week ago. The next day, French troops streamed back from the front and embarked, as I later learned, the same night. The British, however, assured me they had no intention of leaving. They told me to get some sleep. But before I could close an eye, I was ordered to pack my kit and be ready. We were set to sail May 3. Steaming up the road from the Steinkjer front about 50 miles south of Namsos, we entered the pert as a terrific bombing was taking place. Incendiary bombs set fire to the whole water front, with swift pursuit planes intermittently swooping down on the ghostly city to strafe the roads with machine guns. To fool the Germans, the French had sent trucks toward the front while their soldiers, on foot, were leaving it. All the trucks were empty and, arriving at secluded spots, they were smashed, their tires slashed and their gas tanks riddled. The chauffeurs walked back, too. British Leave Equipment. Immediately after the French had withdrawn, the British received orders to proceed to the docks. Leav- ing behind equipment, personal be- longings and much material which had arrived only that afternoon, the troops began embarking. Various regiments which had abandoned the Steinkjer front un- der forced march through knee- deep snow covered 52 kilometers (about 32 miles) in less than 14 hours. Dog tired, they boarded the trans- ports in the eerie light of burning supplies and flopped where they could on every deck. The last aboard were the com- manding officers and three Amer- jcans—two newsreel cameramen and myself. Our heavily-laden ship was im- properly trimmed and we had an anxious moment when we found her nose was stuck in the mud of the fjord. Hastily herding the troops aft and ordering full speed astern, the British pulled the ship out of the mud and she joined the home- ward-bound convoy. 1t still was light when we left. No German planes were in sight. But peace was not forus, Heavy Bombing Starts. Just after a breakfastless early morning departure, the first Heinkels appeared and the cannonading be- gan. Bombs dropped all around the convoy ships, especially ours, which was the flagship. One bomb—apparently a 500- pounder—fell less than 50 yards astern—so close its splash fell on the afterdeck. Not content with that miss, three Baldridge, director general of the 17th annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival held here last ‘week, was informed today by officials of the Winchester Research Lab- oratory that the majority of apple trees in this section would be at the height of their bloom by to- morrow and Friday. Arlington Firemen Battle Field and Woods Fire Five Arlington County fire com- panies this afternoon were fighting a fleld and woods fire near North ‘Washington boulevard and Ingle- wood street after it burned over several acres, The blaze was with- in sight of the Jefferson School, but firemen said the structure was in no way endangered. Companies that fought the fire more Heinkels dropped a series of missiles—which formed & perfect spray framing the ship. Fire from accompanying ships fell on either side of us and it seemed as though they might spray our decks with falling shot. The troops were ordered inside and the doors bat- tened. I and the American cameramen— Fox Movietone’s Bonny Powell and Paramount’s Arthur Menken—re- mained as much under cover as we could, but still on deck, they grind- ing out a pictorial history while I included two from Ballston and one |- from Halls Hill ] THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1940. MARSHAL TIMOSHENKO. MOSCOWZRUSSIA GETS A NEW COMMISSAR OF DEFENSE —Transfer of War Commissar Vorosholoff to a post as assistant chairman of the Council of Commissars and chairman of a committee of defense was announced last night. Timoshenko was named Commissar of Defense to replace Marshal —A. P. Wirephotos: Rain of Bombs Sank Warships Fleeing Norway, Says Newsman 39 German Planes Attacked Incessantly To Down Three Allied Destroyers made notes—of which I was re- lieved promptly by the Admiralty when I arrived in Britain. Bombed 39 Times. The bombings continued. We were paid 39 visits in all with from 15 to 20 bombs on each visit. Our ship alone fired more than 100 3-inch shells and several thou- sand rounds of machine gun bullets. Seemingly from nowhere a dive bomber laid a perfect shot on the Bison. British cruisers and de- stroyers removed the survivors and wounded. Returning again and again, Ger- man Junkers and Heinkels finally singled out the Afridi. Disabled and lagging, she sank, too. As night fell the attacks ceased and only once the next day did we see & plane. It promptly retreated when anti-aircraft shells framed it. During the first day’s fighting one Heinkel was struck behind the cock- pit and dived into the ocean. As a destroyer speeded over to rescue the crew the plane's nose turned down and the last seen of it was its tail with the Nazi cross and black-red- black striping. French Hunt Souvenirs. Men and officers bunked where they could, mostly in corridors of what were dining rooms when the ship was in passenger service, and in the crew's quarters without water and with little rations. The French crew, which had been away from its home port for three months, carried on almost without sleep for the entire trip of five days. They were uncomplaining fellews, but the most souvenir-hunting sailors afloat. Everything mysteriously disap- peared, my pukka from Finland—a hunting knife—and the Tommies’ regimental insignia. From the third day out the trip be- came a pleasure cruise—for the re- turning troops, that is, but not for us Americans, who still were in “protective custody.” Nearing-a secret northern military zone, a French naval officer herded us together and explained we were entering a secret area and must go below. Detained 24 Hours. We did—into a small detention room, where we were kept without food or water for 24 hours, appar- ently forgotten. Finally, Capt. “K,” who had been our custodian, learned of our fate and personally brought us hardtack and red wine. He tried to get us turned back to the British, but without success. However, the troops transferred to a British ship and when we sailed from the prohibited area—of which maps are readily obtainable in Fleet street—we were taken to the ward- room mess, wined, dined with pro- visions brought aboard that night, apologized to at every turn and treated like ranking diplomats. Dead Buried at Sea. While we were hove to in the “prohibited area” last Monday, serv- ices for the dead of the Bison and Afridi were held aboard the flagship. As a slight breeze flickered the candles on the altar, Abbe Parquin, spiritual’ adviser of the French sailors, chanted a requiem mass and sprinkled water on the sea for those whose last resting place was beneath the waves. Earlier, Protestant services were held aboard the British cruiser York. The sound of the low chant of the service cculd be heard in our deten-' tion room, and, through a minute crack in our battened porthole we could see the flickering candles. For the next 36 hours we had the run of the ship, hammocks for sleeping and plenty of food. Arriving at a northern British port, however, trouble appeared again in the form ofentry officers. Landing permission readily was given. But how do you do it? Promised a Dinner. The French, who had refused to turn us over to the British, insisted now that the British should send a gig for us. The British insisted the French were our custodians. We fumed and waited. Finally, after waiting offshore in sight .of the first gree grass we had beheld in many months, we were taken ashore, turned loose and promised a difiner in London by the headquarters major who orig- inally had prevented our return to Formofoss. Throughout the entire shot-ridden trip, both in the Namsos area and Sold, Serviced and Guaranteed by L. P. Steuart & Bro. INCORPORATED 139 12th St. NE. Lincols 4300 Natis Report Raids Cn Allied Columns Near Narvik Two Cruisers Are Hit By Aerial Bombs, High Command Says By the Associated Press, BERLIN, May 8—German airmen were reported today to have made “successful” raids on marching col- umns of allled troops near Narvik, Northern Norway, and to have scored new bomb hits on two British cruisers. ‘The reports were given out by the German high command, whose daily comimunique follows: “Another German air attack on enemy naval vessels outside Narvik was carried out. Two cruisers were hit. y “Enemy positions and marching columns were successfully. bom- bar¢ed. One English chaser (pur- suit plane) was shot down in an air fight east of Narvik. “The situation at Narvik is un- changed. “Among large quantities of booty recently captured in the Andalsnes region were 460 English tankguns with ammunition, 49 other guns, among which were 40 English anti- aircraft guns; 60 grenade throwers, 355 machine-guns, 5300 rifles, 4,500,000 rounds of infantry am- munition and a munitions train with 300 tons of ammunition. “The last vestiges of Norwegian resistance in South Central Norway have now vanished. Parts of a Norwegian infantry regiment sur- rendered at Vinje. A large amount of equipment, weapons and explo- sives was captured there. “On the west front an attack south of Saarlautern by enemy shock troops was repulsed with heavy loss for the enemy.” DNB, the official news agency, in & supplementary war report, told of heavy artillery exchanges, a French infantry thrust against a German position and “occasional fights” between patrol units on the western front. ‘The agency said a French com- pany attacked the German-held village of Merten yesterday morn- ing. but was thrown back after losing between 15 and 20 men. One wounded French corporal who was taken prisoner died later. DNB said that in the mountainous Warndt region there was much reconnoitering activity by both sides, leading to several clashes. Nazi Patrol Withdraws. South of Forbach, DNB reported, & German patrol withdrew fighting after being attacked by a superior French force of 70 men. The agen- cy sald the enemy lost several men in this action but there were no German losses. DNB said heavy artillery action developed yesterday between the Moselle River and the Palatinate Forest when enemy batteries opened fire and German guns re- plied. The agency also asserted that German planes shot down and re- ported missing in the Norwegian campaign did not exceed 33, but that | 79 enemy planes were brought down. It said enemy assertions that the Nazi air force lost 235 war planes in one month “obviously was in- tended to weaken the impression of German control of the air over Norway which even the enemy now admitted.” Atlanta Realty Man Found Slain on Street By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, May 8.—Frank Adair, widely known Atlanta real estate man, was found shot to death last night at a street intersection a few blocks off Peachtree road under mysterious circumstances, Coroner Paul Donehoo said. Mr. Donehoo said police reports to him were that Mr. Adair's hand “loosely gripped” a .38-caliber re- volver, and the real estate man’s car had been involved in a colli- sion with another car. Adair's car was found slightly damaged. The other machine had disappeared. at sea, the troops and officers con- ducted themselves according to the truest traditions of their countries. The French first offcer who con- voyed the expedition from Namsos evidently was contrite over our treatment and told the whole story of the allies’ entry and withdrawal without skis or ability to run on them and their opposition by skiing Germans from the Alps who were perfectly at home on runners. The British, sinking knee-deep in melting snow, were fortunate that their casualties during their short stay on the Steinkjer front were kept s0 small, he said. See the Dogwood in SPRING VALLEY and the W. C. & A. N. MILLER DEVELOPMENT CO. 1119 17th St. N.W. 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A pool of blood in the vestibule and an empty shell indicated the shooting occurred at the door. Just inside the vestibule another shell was found and a trail of blood led into the sitting room. Primaries (Continued From First Page.) gations of 14 and 8 votes, respec- tively. With six States running elections during the day, principal interest aside from the presidential contests centered in the Florida senatorial race where Senator Andrews ap- parently must face a run-off against Bernarr MacFadden, magazine pub- lisher and New Deal critic. Senator Andrews is a supporter of President Roosevelt, although he has opposed administration meas- ures on several occasions. In third place was State Railroad Commissioner Jerry W. Carter of Tallahassee, who received the ac- tive support of Dr. Francis E. Town- send and most of his more than 500 old age pension clubs in Florida. Andrews’ Plurality Big. Gov. Fred P. Cone, who cannot seek re-election under the State con- stitution, ran fourth. Behind him were Attorney-Author Charles Fran- cis Coe of West Palm Beach and & fellow-townsman, Dr. O. O. Hazen. Unofficial reports from 893 of the 1429 precincts in Florida gave Senator Andrews 108,598, Mr. Mac- Fadden, 48,773; Mr. Carter, 44,921; Gov. Cone, 32,255; Mr. Coe, 24,576, and Mr. Hazen, 2,955. Florida law requires that one can- didate must poll a clear majority of the votes cast to receive the nomination. If he does not he and the runner-up must enter a second primary May 28. In Indiana two Republican Rep- resentatives rode over opposition of the Townsend old-age pension forces to win renomination intomplete returns showed today. All the rest of the State’s present House delegation, some of whom were indorsed by the pension or- ganization, also were apparently re- nominated in yesterday's primary, which was marked by a compara- tively light turnout of voters for presidential year balloting. Charles A. Halleck, youthful Rep- resentative from the 2d district, and Dr. George W. Gillie, tall Rep- resentative from the 4th dis- trict, defeated Townsend-backed opponents decisively to clinch Re- publican renomination. “California Demands Third Term.” Gov. Culbert L. Olson, head of the winning California ticket, told the President, the Associated Press re- ports, that “progressive democracy in California” thus has “demanded & third-term nomination. Returns early this morning from 11,764 of the 13,511 precincts gave the Roosevelt-pledged delegation 638,572 votes. A slate pledged to Mr. Garner received 96,102. An unin- structed “ham and eggs” ticket had 178,395 and a liberal left-wing unin- structed group headed by Lt. Gov. Ellis Patterson polled 43991. Because the slate headed by Gov. Olson contained two vacancies there BERLITZ 624 Year—¥rench. Spanish Italian, Ger. o e s iame casy by u-manm OF " LAN GUAGES, 11 Conn Ave. lll# Na THERE IS A BERLITZ SCROOL IN EV. 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It thus seemed that the California delegation would include two delegates nominally pledged to Mr. Garner. New Dealers Win. A sidelight of the Alabama con- 'test was the fact that the victorious candidates for four posts as dele- gates at large in the 22-vote group were campaigning as an outright New Deal slate. This nucleus is | expected to swing the full conven- tion vote of the delegation to Mr. Roosevelt if Speaker Bankhead steps aside in favor of the President. Four of Alabama’s Democratic Representatives were unopposed for renomination, tantamount to re- election, but Representative Jarman | apparently must go through a run- off in June and Representative Starnes, member of the Dies Com- mittee, was being pressed by Judge A. E. Hawkins. On returns from 124 of the 277 voting boxes, Mr. Starnes was leading by 8,868 to 7,074. 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