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89th YEAR. No. 35,350. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1941 xx THREE CENTS. Nazis Speed Fleets of Planes (WE WANT To HELP BRITAlM'A Joint U. S.-Canadian To Balkans as Tension Rises; Defense Plan Ready, British Warships Shell Ostend La Guardia Discloses

y Germans Are Reported Salvoes Fall on Harbor Works, Bocks Aid Bill; Arriving Steadily Krivitsky Case Conant for War In Bulgaria ?» Admiralty Reports in London As Last Resort Bombard Hannover for Studied BACKGROUND— English Warplanes Closely; By J. A. OLEARY. Tension has risen in Balkans Six Hours; Numerous Fires Started Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of New last tew days, starting with Brit- York informed the Senate Foreign ish warning to Bulgaria Saturday B* the Associated Press. mand reported that British planes Relations Committee today "com- Believed Suicide are that in existence for the Bulgarian military objectives LONDON. Feb. 11.—The Admiral- had bombed Sicily and Southern plete plans' would be subject to bombardment last some joint defense of the United State* ty announced that British warships Italy night, causing if German were at an unidentified town and Canada. troops permitted ! bombarded Ostend, on the German- damage to cross that country. Yesterday in and near Avolino. were Dies Calls Mayor La Guardia chairman of a held Belgian coast, early this morn- Apulia Shooting British broke off diplomatic rela- four were killed and sev- joint commission created to co-ordi- ing. persons tions with Rumania in move in- eral Of Ex-Soviet nate defense plans of the United The Admiralty's communique said: injured. Agent terpreted as preliminary to air (Anti-aircraft guns at Batti- States and Canada, made the state- ‘Units of the Royal Navy earned > Year's raids on German-held Rumanian were ment as he joined with President out a bombardment of the German- taglia reported to have shot Biggest Story oil James B. Conant of Harvard Uni- fields. of Ostend in the down one British plane. Its crew occupied port early While District authorities parachuted to the ground and ap- versity in urging passage of the hours this morning. Our salvoes to list the case Bs tt« Associared Pres*. was the command peared ready today lease-lend bill. fell on the harbor works and captured, high many as suicide, the shooting of Gen. said.) j1 In to an Sen- — fires were observed No casualties response inquiry by BELGRADE. Yugoslavia. Feb. 11 Walter G. Krivitsky in a hotel room Fires “too numerous to count” ator Vandenberg. Republican, of Fleets of three-engined German or damage was sustained by our here was described were at Hannover. early yesterday were forces.” reported started Michigan Mayor La Guardia said troop transport planes reported : as "the of the than 90 cent of the biggest story year by over tin Berlin the German More per the plans embraced tactics, ques- sighted Hungary today, speed- high Chairman Dies as he prepared to pianes engaged in the massive at- tions of territory and co-ordination ing southeast in the direction of command reported that German ask the House for new funds to con- tack reached their objective despite of forces. are based, he ex- Rumania and Bulgaria. coastal batteries had turned tinue the work of his committee in- They the British which dirty weather early in the night, plained. on the assumption that Thirty-one of transports— away worships vestigating un-American activities. the announcement said. would be their markings clearly visible—flew shelled the Flanders coast in the Representative Dies indicated he eqipment and personnel As the night wore on. the Air Min- available to them out. low over Budapest, reports from the night.) would produce "evidence" later re- carry istry reported, the weather cleared Dr. Conant. who testified before Hungarian capital said. British bombers raided Hannover, lating to the former chief of Soviet somewhat and the R A F staved at Exiled Greek General Mavor La Guardia. took the The planes were identified by mili- German oil and rail center, for six military intelligence for Western stand, its task, starting fires in the north, Five 40 declared the American should tary observers as transports of the hours last night in the heaviest of Die, Injured Willkie Flies Here Europe. people south and west of the target area. to type the Nazi army used to ferry a series of assaults extending from Returning Fight Meanwhile Coroner A Magruder go to war if necessary as a last re- (The Germans reported 12 Brit- By ihe Associated Press. sort to Hitlerism "innocuous.” parachute troops in campaigns on Cherbourg, in Northwestern France, MacDonald has drawn up a suicide render ish were downed over Ger- — the western front. to the German city, the Air Ministry planes As Three Blasts Raze ZAGREB. Yugoslavia. Feb. 11 To Give Senators certificate which he is withholding Just before he left the statid. many last night, bringing to 33 Dr. clear under tin Istanbul the Turkish offi- announced today. Gen. Nicholas Plastiras. exiled by until homicide squad detectives can Conant made it cial newspaper Otrat Politika iIn Rome the Italian high com- 'See RAIDS. Page A-5.) sift clue at the insistence of questioning by Chairman George, the Greek government of the late every said today that German troops Homes on Bill Louis Waldman. Gen. Krivitsky* however, that he does not see any- Philadelphia Premier John Metaxas since 1935. Views Aid were arriving steadily in Bulgaria, New York attorney. thing in this bill that takes the their officers declaring: “Our passed through here from France Mr. Waldman has tried unsuccess- United States into the war. He is the and Medi- Fire to enlist the aid of the Federal drew a distinction between what he goal Bosporus Two Merchant Ships 'End' oi Group Health Quickly Spreads; today en route to Athens to place Statement Is Completed fully terranean."’ About 200 truck Bureau on the be- thinks should be the attitude of the himself at the of Investigation Rescuer Is disposal of the Greek American loads of German soldiers, wearing Crushed; During Trip; Will See lief that Gen. Krivitsky might have people and what this bill Army. contains. civilian overcoats, were reported Sunk in Air Attack Predicted A. M. A. Blamed Roosevelt After been assassinated by Ogpu agents seen passing through a Dobruja by Leaky Pipes Hearing for Soviet Mavor La Guardia began his tes- Gen. Plastiras. once under sen- exposing alleged espionage 1 timony with the declaration he 1* village B* the Associated Press. In this country. The former agent, tence of death for leading a Greek Wendell L. Willkie flew into Wash- for Telephone exchanges in other Bal- his friends said, lived in great fear the bill "for purely selfish Amer- On Nazis Court Told PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 11—Three revolution, was responsible for the ican kan that communi- Suez, Official, ington from New York today to the interests and for no others capitals reported Say banishment of of of "liquidation" by Soviets. cations with w-ere cut off shattering gas explosions, followed King George Reminding the committee that he Bulgaria testify before the Senate Foreign Dies Witness In 19.19. Greece in 1923. The monarch re- Was is the during the morning. They were re- a fire in a row- executive of the Nation* Successful Raids Also Attitude by fierce-burning turned later to his throne. Relations Committee this afternoon established in the Woodward's Gen. Krivitsky was a witness be- largest La Guardia early afternoon, house street of dense- city. Mayor Philadelphia’s For the past eight years he has on the British-aid bill and later to fore the Dies committee in October but there was no explanation of the Declared Carried Out added in serious tones: 'Clearly Antagonistic,' ly populated South Side, killed at been living in exile, directing his of 1939 Mr. Dies told he rupture. report to President Roosevelt on reporters "I cannot afford to theorize about at least five and revolutionary campaign from France, probably would have a statement On Base Malta G. H. A. Founder Says persons today injured his observations during trip to Eng- the date of an attack, or the con- Events Moving Swiftly. Italy, Switzerland and Yugoslavia. to make as to "what to of the latter happened or of the twoscore—many spec- re- sequences. probabilities the Associated Pres*. land from which he has just and what to Military and political observers in By By HAROLD B. ROGERS. tators who poured from nearby I Krivitsky may happen Dr. Conant told the committee the turned. a lot of others." this neutral Balkan capital ex- Feb. 11—German com- An officer of the American Medical homes after the first detonation. present war is not just another im- BERLIN, was in the belief that events were The blast let at 5 am The 1940 The committee chairman pressed bat were reported today by first go Republican presidential perialistic struggle, but a religious planes Association once predicted that the Pastor closed conference today with his moving swiftly in Southeastern Eu- the Nazi high command to have in a brick house at 1112 Greenwich Msgr. Thomas, candidate smiled and waved to a war—a war between good and evil. A. M. A. would put “an end" to aides, including Dr. J. B Matthews rope following Britain's rupture of sunk two merchant vessels in an street, rocking the neighborhood small crowd that spotted him as the of Time Strewed. Health medical w'ith a roar for an investigator, who helped identify Importance relations yesterday with Rumania attack on shipping in the Suez Group Association., heard miles. Fif- door of the Eastern Airlines plane the body as that of Gen, Krivitsky and reports that Soviet Russia had Canal. co-operative of government workers teen minutes later—as hundreds of Of St. Patrick's, Dies The educator warned opponents of terrified women and was Mr. Dies is preparing data for sub- notified Bulgaria she would not Successful raids also were carried men. children opened. the bill that if Congress follows their here. Raymond R Zimmerman, one mission to the House in support of oppose a movement of German out German bombers on the stumbled into the fire-lit street—a Mr Willkie said no definite time advice and they prove to be wrong, by a for *150.000 and of the founders of G H. A., today second blast flamed from a house resolution calling it be too troops through Bulgaria British base at Malta, in the cen- In at 82 will late to correct the Hospital had been set for his visit to the to continue the investiga-