Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1940, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D..C., FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1940, A—14 #» fenses facing east) and south there- rWarranfs Issued 'For Five Communists ilent Before Dies { i/ Curran Acts to Bring i'! Defendants to District ; For Arraignment . Bench warrants for five alleged Tommunists, charged with declining to answer questions before the Dies Committee, are on their way to United States attorneys in their home jurisdictions, United States Attorney Edward M. Curran an- nounced today. The bench warrants are designed fo aid in bringing the defendants to 'ashington for arraignment in Dis- ttict Court. ‘Assistant United States Attorney John C. Conliff, jr. who handles ovals and extradition hearings the district attorney’s office here, d that bench warrants for the arrest and removal of Philip Frank- féld, executive secretary of the Com- munist party in New England, and Thomas F. P. ODea, president of the Young Communist League of Massachusetts, have been sent to the United States attorney at Boston, .; for George Powers and James ‘Dolsen of Pittsburgh, Pa., ta the United States attorney there, and for Pr. Albert Blumberg of Baltimore, Md., to the United States attorney hTthmore. " The quintet did not post bond here, Mr. Conliff explained so bench warrants were issued and certified copies of the indictments in each case were forwarded to the United States attorneys interested. Mr. Conliff thus explained the pro- cedure: The United States attorneys will turn the warrants over to the United States marshals in their Jurisdictions. The marshals will se- cure local warrants from United States commissioners. The defend- ants will then be apprehended, if they can be found, and brought be- fore a United States commissioner for a removal hearing. The de- fendant can waive a hearing and post bond for his appearance in the District of Columbia or dernand & hearing before the United States edmmissioner. The Government is required to thow the proper identity of the man, the fact of the charge against him and probable cause that he is guilty of the offense charged. Jf satisfled, the commissioner holds the accused over for the ac- tion of district court in that juris- diction, which also holds a hear- ing. The Federal judge, if con- vinced the proceedings are proper, then signs an order of removal to the District of Columbia. Laborers Settle Row, End One-Day Strike Two hundred members of the Hod Carriers and Building Laborers’ Unlon returned to work on the new Bocial Security Building today, after settlement of & one-day strike that yesterday threatened to spread and stall the $14,250,000 project. . The laborers walked out in a dictional dispute with the iron- kers, another A. F. of L. affiliated n, over which group should ad steel reinforcement rods. rers’ Union officials said that the work was awarded their men after A. F. of L. high executives reaffirmed a 20-year-old A. F. of L. building trade department decision holding that this work belonged to the laborers. Berlin __(Continued From Page A-3) and railways to both borders were choked. At Aachen, for instance, all roads to the Belgian border were closed to civilian traffic. 7 Patriotic Germans openly boasted to foreign correspondents that Ger- many had completed the minutest details, down to supplying 185,000 rubber boats for navigating the flood areas of Holland. A careful reading of the press and a careful following of the comments a{] ltugeorized persons also indicated af Tmany was not aiming pri- marily at striking or counter strik- ing in Southeastern Europe for the moment, but was thinking primarily of her western borders. New Meaning on Charge. In retrospect, the German prop- aganda minister's release of the re- ported telephone conversation be- tween Prime Minister Chamberlain of, with the vanguard along the Ijssel Line (also facing Germany). * Added obstacles were built against | Germany, he said, and non-effective standing ready in railway stations for an attack via Belgium. He charged that British soldiers have been occupying important positions, such as airdromes, in Belgium. Section 2 of Gen. Keitel's rpeort took up the Netherlands. At the beginning of the war, he said, the Dutch Army was so0 deployed as to indicate the possibility of a British landing, constituting the chief danger to the country. By the middle of November, he said, the picture had changed. The Dutch troops stood at the Grebbe Line (the Netherlands' water de- and Premier Reynaud of France ac- | § quired new meaning. Apparently German authorities & were anxious to impress the German people with the Reich’s intelligence service. This was done so the Ger- man people would believe more im- plicitly that that service again bad succeeded in forestalling allied ac-| tion. In the Foreign Office supreme confidence was shown that Holland “will be pacified” within 20 hours. Nobody would entertain the view that the Netherlands and Belgium | : would hold out. Informed sources also asserted| : Premier Mussolini of Italy would not enter the war for some’ weeks | } now. To back up Ribbentrop’s asser- tion that Germany had absolute| i proof of the marching plans of the French and British armies, there was handed to the foreign corre- spondents a report by the German high command. This was dated May 4 and correspondents were told there would be a fuller report by | § the German Ministry of Interior dated March 29. The high command’s report, signed by Col. Gen. Wilhelm Keitel, com- mander in chief of German defense forces, comprises 29 typewritten pages. Section one attempts to prove| i that Belgium was unneutral from a military viewpoint. This report said Belgium land defenses since the World War were “directed solely against Germany.” Exchange of Information Charged. Col. Gen. Keitel said documents found in Warsaw after the capture of that Polish capital showed there was a regular exchange of infor- mation with regard to Germany on the part of Belgium and Holland. Since October 2, 1939, of 21 mobil- ized divisions of the Belgium field army, approximately 14 stood on the northern and eastern frontiers. Local populations, he said, were prepared for removal from their homes only along the German border. Evidence kept accumulating, the commander charged, that the Bel- gians more recently had entered upon military arrangements with the English and the French and general staff talks occurred regu- larly with the Western powers. As a result, orders had been given for the Belgian gendarmery to clear the roads along the French border to enable French troops to enter quickly, the commander said. Belgian empty railway cars were placed at the border for French use, L " 1107 “F" STREET ones directed toward the Nether- land, too, according to Gen. 's reports, came British officers who posed as tourists. The intelligence services of Eng- land and Holland co-operated withe out stint, and countless neutrality violations directed against Germany went unchallenged, he complained. & Various reports reaching the Ger- man general staff led to the sus- picion that the Dutch and English air forces general staffs were co- operating, with British omcers in- specting Dutch- aviation units and supplying anti-aifcraft formations with guns. Transports were moving con- stantly from British and French harbors toward the northeast. Com- mercial shipping in the- English Channel was forbidden. French and English officers, ac- companied by Dutch officers, recon- noitered around Utrecht. Panama City's new tourist hotel will have air-conditioned beauty parlor and cocktail lounge. BROWN CALF SLUE CALP BLACK PATE| : it | Stores Throughout NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO, ILLINOIS ‘ The Writers Most Talked About Are Writing For Che Sfar LLOYD GEORGE —cn gland’s “unreconstructed rebel”’—personification of the Opposition whose right to speak Elainly in war or in peace is a symbol of Democracy—is making eadlines in World War II, just as he did 25 years ago in World War I. The Associated Press quotes his speeches in Parliament and sends his sizzling words over the cables. But only in The Star can Washington readers find his signed articles—a feature of the Sunday Editorial Section—which make dinner-table con- v]frsation here and make His Majesty’s Government squirm over there. LELAND STOWE —uis stories from the Norwegian fronts—his great scoop on the “Trojan Horse” occupation of Norway—his dramatic, and prophetic, eyewitness account of British withdrawal before Nazi planes and naval artillery—these stories are still the talk of the town. Where will Stowe go next? To follow him you must read The Star, for in Washington it is only The Star which gives you the dispatches of Leland Stowe and his colleagues of the Chicago Daily News Foreign Service. BILL WHITE_Until this war started he was just an- other good newspaperman, known chiefly for the fact that he is the son of the great William Allen White, editor of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette. But when this war started, he went abroad as a free-lance writer and he is making himself a name through his colorful, personal, anecdotal dispatchés. He’s on his way now from Finlamf to Southeastern Europe where more trouble is brew- ing. His stories appear, in Washington, only in The Star. People are reading them and talking about them, JAMES P. ALDRIDGE A letter came o The Star last winter from an angry reader. He read a story in The Star by Aldridge of the North American Newspaper Alliance, describing the horrors of fighting in Finland’s sub-zero weather which left the frozen dead in the fantastic positions of some mad sculptor’s dream. The subscriber protested. Such things could not be, he said, and he thought that The Star was an honest news- paper! Later, other writers and the photographers, with films that do not lie, backed up Aldridge’s word picture in every detail —one of many that stick in Star readers’ minds. Aldridge is a N. A N. A. correspondent, and N. A. N. A. dispatches appear only in The Star in Washington. GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT-5He st the country to thinking and talking last year with his best-seller book, “The Ramparts We Watch.” And in his thrice-weekly stories which in Washington are found only in The Star—Major Eliot is writing informed and interesting explanations of the war’s strategy, what it is and why it is, as it unfolds. ECONOMY e . el diada ™S FORD V& HAS (T !* @ These are some of the men—free-lances, we might call them— whose dispatches, colored by the personality of the writers, bring home to you the headlights and the sidelights of the war. They write as they please. Their names make news. You find their stories here only in-The Star, But The Star is most proud of the splendid, day-by-day news gathered by its representatives abroad of The Associated Press—cool, disciplined news- paper reporters—trained in the great traditions of the world’s greatest newsgathering organization—ready for each zero hour of press time— fighting the battles of censorship—risking their necks with every story— striving to tell you what happened when it happened, but striving most to tell you the truth—without bias, without rancor, without editorializing, Not for glory, but because it’s their job, And they are doing a swell job! 85 H.P. Ford V-8 gave best gasoline economy of all _lmndard -equipped cars at its price in official Gilmore- f Yosemite Economy Run! Owners report no oil added between regular changes! 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