Weather Forecast From *he irutted Stages Weather Bureau report. The Evening and Sunday Star is Full Details on Page A-2 delivered In the city and suburbs at Cloudy today; tomorrow cloudy, not quite 75c per month. The Final so cold, followed by rain; gentle to mod- Night erate northeast and east winds. Tem- Edition and Sunday Morning Star at peratures yesterday—Highest, 38, at mid- 85c per month. night; lowest, 34 at 8 a.m. No. 1,865-No. 35,292. WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER 1940—160 PAGES. TEN 15, cents j Wynken and Blynken and Nop^ Laval Ousted From Cabinet; Enemy Crushed a rx January Draft | Reported to Have Plotted All Along Front, Quota for D. C. Revolt and War on Britain Greeks Raised to 202 A Report ▲ __ Defenses Flandin, Successor, Laval Move to Get Deposed Petain Aide Mountaintop 1,000 to Get Physical Declared Tumbled To Keep Policy of French Fleet for Said to Be Under Examinations in Snows Tie With Nazis Nazis Reported Arrest at Home Despite 1 Response to Call Bj the Associated Press. t By the Associated Press. BttUTiFuCN A B> the Associated Press. By the Associated Press. SN “warning order” for 202 Wash- NEW Dec. 14—Max Dec. 15 — l 6nJ SNowHat'A YORK, ATHENS, (Sunday). men to be made VICHY, France, Dec. 14—The BERN, Switzerland, Dec. 14.— V*E*{ Wtut You V ington young ready Jordan. N. B. C. correspondent, Greek troops slogging through heavy wwtstiwjroitMji for induction next to learn to- Pierre Laval to or Nov. Army early world was permitted in a broadcast from Swit- Charges that plotted snowfalls have crushed fierce Italian .5 ? A Basel, month was issued 3d 2 man with pwr13 that by Corps Area night that Pierre Laval. No. zerland, said Pierre La- set up a separate government defenses all the tonight mountaintop along l V/*TtR headquarters late yesterday in a of the Vichy government, had been himself as head and even lead val was lodged in a jail at Vichy, Albanian front, capturing more sudden acceleration of the selective ousted, but that his policy of col- France into war against Britain France, and that his resigna- prisoners and armament, the Greeks j| >Ti service in be from program the area. laboration with Germany will tion as vice resulted were behind his dismissal the declared premier officially early today. The 202 figure, set tentatively continued under Pierre-Etienne an Vichy government, authoritative from unsuccessful attempt Italian resistance was said to be pending dispatch of official notice Flandin. sources declared to persuade Marshal Petain to tonight. especially stiff in the Northern to District draft officials tomorrow M. Laval was deposed as vice pre- the aid of the Marcel area on the give Germany Interior Minister Peyrou- Pogradetz route lead- or Tuesday, marked an increase of mier and foreign minister last night. French fleet Britain in ton and other these to but a against ministers, ing Elbasani, government more than 100 per cent over the M. Flandin took over the foreign return for liberal Nazi peace sources accused M. Laval of said it was not said, spokesman holding “tentative maximum" proposed as The vice was ministry. premiership terms. scheming to set himself up as lead- up the Greek advance. L_ Flynh Washington's share in the January left Two inclot hesmen en- Other Greek units J empty. pla er of an independent regime at Paris were battling call several days ago. As hectic events of the last tered the Hotel du Parc in the and of using his ministerial rank to their way northward along the Ad- Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, selective full led M. Laval to 24 hours unfolded—their story Vichy and jail build up his prestige for war on riatic coast line toward Chimara en! fwmjs service executive for the District, still not be told—informed per- about midnight, he said. route to and also s~ » may Britain. Valona, cutting j was notified by wire of the quota sons said the action was directed Marshal Petain was quoted toward those from inland The one-man purge which washed ports | revision and plans were launched M. Laval's activity as saying Germany's latest trails in the mainly against M. Laval out of the Vichy cabinet Tepeleni region, reports immediately to speed up local draft at home and not against the prin- peace proposal as advocated by here said. left M Peyrouton chief of police as boarfl work to provide the necessary of German collaboration, which M. Laval came at too high a The Greeks have claimed ciple well as the already men. said. interior minister, as NATIONAL DEFENSE ACT Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, price, the correspondent a total of 7,250 and strong man under Marshal Petain. troops captured 1.000 to Be Examined. Chief of state, has indorsed. j the high command said additional M. Laval, yesterday's "crown On the basis of experience in the were taken in Hitler Told of Change. is said to be a in prisoners yes{erday's M4*m first more than 1.000 classified prince,” prisoner r> call, along with 60 automatic ./-«J Significant was the official an- Broken Italian his estate, guarded by soldiers and fighting, 1-A registrants will have to be given nouncement that the 'change had Army "GP" men, strong-arm squads built weapons. physical examinations before the News Called Satisfactory. been communicated to Reichsfueh- up by M. Peyrouton and other 202 selectees will be made available “The news from the front is rer Hitler before the public was told, French leaders who distrusted M. high- for induction. on Border ly satisfactory, the spokesman said. informing him that pro-German. Fighting Laval. A tentative order received by Gen. “In some we are the Rightist Flandin was "more apt" Over Paris place making Cox last Tuesday called for a maxi- Dispute Trip, usual advances, whereas in than his at "collabora- others mum of 82 men for the Jan- predecessor sources said the straw only Diplomatic the Italians are putting up stirt tion.” In Defense of uary call, but corps area officials Libya which broke the camels back of but, The old marshal himself told the resistance, everywhere it has decided to boost the call when it M. Petain’s toleration of his vice been crushed the fact that people the change would not affect despite became apparent that the Army premier and foreign minister was snow is in the French relations with Germany, al- Inside Country very heavy fighting housing construction program, re- Battling the simple question of who should though M. Laval was the man who regions.” ported lagging, actually was pro- Is On, go to Paris to represent the Vichy border I had done more than any one to Already Going (Yugoslav dispatches gressing almost on schedule in the government when the remains of from the Northern Lake Ochrid bring France close to the axis. British Indicate area. Napoleon's son are returned from said Italian were Yet Marshal Petain, in words region planes Gen. Cox said that as soon as offi- Germany to the Invalides at Adolf active there, with Press. heavily bombing cial notification of the quota is re- weighty significance, explained B> the Associated Hitler's order. Greek positions in the Pogradetz ceived the total will be broken down to France that the resignation" of CAIRO. Egypt, Dec. 14—The According to these reports, M. area ) for the 25 local boards. It w’as M. Laval w?as essential for reasons Italian African Army, broken into draft Laval said Marshal Petain himself The Ministry of Home Security of interior policy, for the country's bits, harassed by unending air attack believed a formula of proportionate should go. Marshal Petain refused, said Italian planes attacked some unity, and went on: and declared here to have been effec- registration would be followed in they said, and was backed villages, but that no civilian casual- Features of the December Dinner of the Gridiron Club “I remain at the helm! The na- tively driven from Egypt, fought on up by apportioning the quota between the other ministers, but that was ties were reported. case of tional revolution continues!" and about" its own colonial frontier only boards—just as in the the an incident the It also said that “according to a first call last month, the Dis- The best available diplomatic of Libya tonight in an action that following graver when M. Laval. supplementary telegram from ap- opinion saw behind the ouster a had become a defense of Fascist charges against trict was called on for 51 selectees. authorities, growing distrust by both Marshal soil. Tire stage was set for his ouster propriate police among President Indicate January 6 has been set tentativelv those abducted as hostages by Ital- Generous Children Deluge Petain and Gen. Maxime Weygand, The term "on and about" was used yesterday afternoon. as the opening induction date for the ians when they retreated from month's call of the powerful supreme commander in by the British command itself in an Here is tne sequence of events, ac- selectees. Greek' territory were four more Africa, for M. Laval’s negotiations official communique which did not cording to authoritative diplomatic Gifts Bill Greek notables from the Matinees' With Walter-Logan Station Here Abandoned. with Germany. Gen. Weygand, it is add the obvious implication that reports: Igournen- 'Toy itsa district.” Washington men called up to fill known, has been afraid France something very near to a counter- The other ministers’ insistence Official sources in Athens said D. C.