1941-01-29 — Page 5

By BUD FISHER

YOU DIE IN THE BEGINNING OF THE

FIRST ACT!

ATRICA AGENT

URGENCY OF AID CHARGE OF

TO BRITAIN

THE COLLAPSE of France had doubled Britain's financial liabilities, declared the Secretary of Treasury, Mr. Henry Morgen- thau, testifying before the Senate Foreign Re- lations Committee on the Lease and Lend Bill in Washington yesterday.

Britain, he said, had taken over all French contracts in the United States, although she no longer had the help of French money to pay for them.

British gold and other dollar

assets

been

in

$2.316.000.000 mouths of the war.

of

depleted by first six

the

the

Mr. Morgenthau told committee that British pur. chases

war material had virtually stopped in December. Urging speedy approval of the Bill he declared it was a neces- sity demonstrated by a telephone which he had (!]

conversation Monday

'Plane Order

"Mr. Knudsen (Director-Gen- eral of the Committee to speed up United States arms produc- tion) called me up and asked if something could not be done to

permit a British order for 2,000

lanes, which they want but for which they had not been able to place orders"

Mr Morgenthau #dded Mr Knudsen told him plenty of capu- city was available for orders if they could only be placed. Reuter

BRITISH SUB. LOST

An Admiralty communique Issued in London

yesterday un- nounces that the British

sub- marine Triton is overdue

and must be considered lost. Next of kin have been informed. ter.

OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD

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HORIZONTAL

1 Poetic

contraction

4 Glacial ridges 8 Neat

12 Fish sauce

13 To make a

shrill sound

14 Teutonic. alphabetic character

15 Boring tool

16 Advantageous

18 Crow-like bird

20 Biblical

country

21 Part of "to be"

22 Owns

23 Indigo, dye

plant.

27 Sped

29 Beetle

30 Harsh.

31 Symbol' for":

áduplum

33 To petition.

33 'Colloqúlal:

to Josh

34 Babylonian

delty

35 Form

37 To. Knock

36-Distant'

30 Persian elf

40 Limb

41 Pronoun

42 Innermost

Sanctuary

44 Fop

VERTICAL

1 Former ruler

47 Deceit

61 Female deer

2 Western state

3 Located in the

52 Greek culn

33 Arabian

seaport

54 High note

55 French

ecclesiastic 56 Smooth

57 Cave

woods

4 To begin

5 Number

6 To scem

7 Tall grasses

B Principal

9 To regret

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

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10 Caravansary 11 Encountered

17 To act

19 Printer's measure

22 Digging

implement

24 Greek letter

25 Mental image

26 Ancient king [of England

27 To grate

20 Pain

29 Owing

30. Container

32 To grow Into

a long slender stalk

33 To silence 30 Land

measure 37 To dwell 3 Warded off 40-Not-wide- spread

41 Interjection 43 Molten laya 44 Unit of force 45 To apportion 48.To bring

forth young 47. Flightless

bird

48 To récède'

49 Protuberance

50 Década.

ILL-TREATING ff CONCHIES"

The War Minister, Captain Margesson, has decided that one officer and six N.C.O.'s, against whom allegations of ill-treating conscienti- OUS objectors had been made, be tried by court martial.

In announcing the decision in the Com- mons yesterday Cap- tain Margesson said the House would ap- preciate he could not make a further state- ment while the mat- ter was sub judice. Reuter,

Hitler's

Reply To Petain

re-

The Count de Brinon, Vichy Government presentative in Paris, has returned to Paris from Germany with Hitler's re- ply to the message him by Marshal Petain last month, according to the Swiss radio yesterday.

sent

Marshal Petain's message, which is understood to have concerned the Marshal's conditions

for Franco-German cooperation, was transmitted to Hitler by the Vichy Minister of Marine, Ad- miral Darlan, when he visited Paris during Christmas week. Previously there had been crop of unconfirmed reports that Hitler had made far-reaching de- mands, mainly concerning the future of the French Fleet. Reuter.

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