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MOVPAT, march I roi DES MOINES REGISTER. HOLES BORED IN BOTTOMS OF BOILERS- Torches, Axes and Chisels Used by Crews to Damage Italian Sk 'BOMB' PROVES TO BE A CLOCK Ships Contvutri from Page 1. r- imiw mm p-J 8 lift1 "a ate km chief of the Newark fire depart ment, who accompanied roast LIVESTOCK li KILLEOINC! Truck and Car Near Aniti Th Rif iiur'i Inwa ni i ANITA, A. member of the Hans Livestock Commission Omaha, was killed cldent on Highway 6, miles west of Anita, night McKee, westbound, pass two other cars. struck a loaded eastbo' truck from Omaha Basil Hlgglns, officers The truck tipped over, McKee'a car.

Higglm Jured. McKee's body in the back seat of knocked there by the im The highway was bio eral hours at the accidi guard officers on an inspection. "Thpy must have spent at least a week tiniasliini; mac hinery," Sommers said. "AtTtjIene torches were used to cut pistons, (en-fTators were chopped and hacked with axes. Bearings were, unholted and chisels used to put them beyond Newspaper mrn saw smashed engines and machinery on an Italian freighter seized in BaitirW.ji 1941 Motor Vehicle Toll In Iowa Same Date a Year A One crew member (right) of the Leme attempted to take along two bottles of wine but a guardsman gave pursuit, told him not to do It.

WIREPHOTOS (Pi. Seamen of Die Italian motonthlp Leme were hauled away In a police patrol car after coast guardsmen hoarded the ship at Portland, Ore. Note youth of crew members. these five freighters, said of the Where U. S.

Took Ships damage: harbor. During the tour through the Pietro Campanella, a coast guard officer picked up a small can stuffed with kerosene-soaked waste and threw it into the bsy. Similar pieces of wast were observed In other parts of the ship. Kire riot Asked If it appeared the Italians had planned to set the vessel afire, the guardsmen said, "I don't know, but yqu can try to figure out just About anything1 you want to." A sledgehammer lay on top of the still-warm engines of the AFTER ATTEMPT TO SEARCH CONVOY French Fire on British "Acetylene torches were ued to cut pistons, generators were chopped and hacked with aiea, Warsh hearings were, unboiled and chisels were used to put them beyond Repair. "Holes were bored In the hot BOSTOM toms of the boilers, making it lm PORTLAND ENGLISH PLANE possible for them to hold Tha guardsmen and firemen searched the vessels for Inflam 1 V00NN.

Pietro Campanella. Cylinder heads had been unbolted and smashed, along with pistons. One cylinder block was filled with cinders and fire clay. The ateani steering apparatus SINKS NAZI SHIP niablea and bombs but found nothing to indicate that the plans of Ve'NEWVOOKJ PHILADELPHIA those who wrecked the engine and boiler rooms called for damage by Survivors of 4 Italian Vessels Landed. saAJ NEWPORT Newai iliijl range ssv if SPAIN Corsica? "XiOv JS, ROME.

I for SARDINIA FRNCH BRITISH Su8 SINKS I I i GUNS FIRE ON 2 1 TALI AH SUPPLY SHIPS tn BRITISH SHIPS I 1 viSFTw'' sicily i MOROCCO TUNISIA BRITISH CLAIM Si mwnWVJ ALGERIA 1 OF KALIAN WARS fire or explosion. A small valise found on one of the ships created a flurry of eicllenient. It contained an Instrument that ticked and vta turned over to Newark police for examination. llkewtsa was smsshed, with another sledgehammer lying nearby. Gears were broken, axle-rods bent.

Evidence of the hurried depar-tuie of the Italian seamen was seen in cabins, bunk quarters and messrooms. No Trouble. Lieut. V. C.

Capron, acting port Sea Battle Continued Jroni Page 1, Police took It to the Jersey i TV.u -4 meadows, fire 30 machine gun bill defense and hits were observed on the shore batteries. lets into it and then upon opening it learned it contained only an alarm clock and aome clothing. captain who led 45 heavily-armed guardsmen when they swarmed aboard the Fietro Campanella and a second Italian vessel, the Euro, said: "In view of the action taken SAVANNAH Personal effects of the officers and crews of the vessels were by the French batteries, our war shipa would have been fully justified In firing on the French mer TACKSONVIUE MOEMLE-A seized by customs officers for examination. At Boston, coast guardsmen re chant ships and their escort but in the interest of humanity did not do so and the merchant ships suc HOUSTON These series of naval clashes In the Mediterr anean sea was reported Sunday by the Near Gibraltar, British warships and French shore batteries In Algeria traded blows after thi attempted to halt and search four c6nvoyed French vessels. French bombers later attacked th( as they returned to Gibraltar.

Near the toe of the Italian boot, the British submarine Part: ported sinking two Italian supply ships. Latest British reports of the big sea battle In the Mediterranean said the British sank three Italian cruisers and two destroyers. Athens repo landing of survivors from a third Italian destroyer. "We had no trouble here use we made It plain we meant business." Crewmen hastily packed sea bags with belongings and were taken ashore. Partly-filled glasses and coffee cups in the officers' mess gave evidence of an Interrupted meal.

On the wall was picture of Premier Mussolini. In the seamen's mess pictures of ceeded in entering the nearby French port of Nemours, Algeria moved 27 crewmen from the Italian freighter Dlno and 16 from the German tanker Pauline Frlederlch. Immigration officials said charges of Illegal residence In the United Slates would he brought against the captains and crews on the ground that "During the return of our forces to Gibraltar they were twice attacked by French bomber formations but without suffering damage or casualties." continues, French ships would be Map locates ports on east, west and southern roasts of United Slates where Italian, German and Danish ships were taken into both Mussolini and Adolf Hitler convoyed. The encounter Sunday was the custody Sunday by the roast guard. Other Italian ships were were tacked on the wall Machine flun.

An informed British source said first report of force since then. boarded by roast guardsmen at San Juan, Puerto Itlco, and one of the four French ships was Three times before, however, Brit they have been In this country longer than regulations permit. A warrant of arrest charging illegal residence, officials said, had been Issued in each case. The men will be given individual hearings. Seamen are allowed to remain 60 At Port Everglades, Capt.

P. S. Cristobal, Canal Zone. The German freighter Arauca was boarded Zara, were landed in Greece Sunday aboard a Greek destroyer. The Alfiera If Identified correctly was a new destroyer as she was not listed In the latest issue of Jane's "Fighting Ships." Fragmentary British air and naval bulletins Saturday had listed a battleship of Italy's big, new 35,000 ton Littorio class among for slicing three more fighting ships from Ih ready badly dented sei and could not recall ul a feat ever had been pllshed before.

The battle brought Ttal losses since the war beg least four cruisers, eight ers and more than 20 su ish naval fas had been turned on loaded with rubber from Bangkok, Thailand, for Germany and em at Port Everglades, the German tanker Pauline Frlederlch Sllmson, accompanied by a coast guardsman carrying a machine France. phasized that the navy's action At Oran, last July 3, and at at Boston, Mass, gun, went aboard the German freighter Arauca shortly after 1 Dakar, French West Africa, five days later, the British attacked units of the French fleet to pre was no departure from its usual policy of "visit and search" for all ships carrying war material to a British enemy. NEW YORK, N. Y. CP) The 18 the men-o'-war damaged In the Italian ships In American ports a.

ran down tha swastika and replaced it with an American flag. A coast guard detail came aboard later and the crew and vent them from falling into Ger battle. boarded Sunday by United States days in thla country. The men were held at immigration detention quarters. Itoaat.

The Pauline Frlederlch has been at Boston since the start of the war In September, 1939. Her man hands. Again at Dakar, the The cruisers were sisterships of British helped Gen. Charles de Italy's Zara class. Except for the sunk; and three battleshi cruisers and an unde number of destroyers ba aged, the British said.

AKIS VEKSIO Gaulle, leader of "free French forces still allied with Britain, in engines were repotted damaged. The British lost no time explaining the incident to the French. A broadcast in the French language called the incident proof that the Vichy government was willing to collaborate with Germany not only economically but also militarily. an unsuccessful landing attempt. Gorizla, the class appeared to have been wiped out, 10 Years Old.

1 Each of the ships carried a normal crew of 750 men and had an In November, 1939, Captain Helnrich Heitzmann boasted he In a third, separate sea action Mar Glauco, 4.690. Baltimore, Md. Pietro Campanella, Euro, 4,867. Newport News, Va. Laconia, Vittorin, 3,349.

Norfolk, Va. Guidonia, San Gulseppe, Giiian, 5,473. Wilmington, N. VillarperoSB, 6,255. Savannah, tin, Clara, 6.131.

Jacksonville, Fla. Ircanla, 4.. 815; Confldenza, New Orleans, La Ada 5.234; Monfiore, 5,498. Houston, Tex. Mongiolia, 6,113.

Mobile, Ala. Ida Z. 4.935. San Juan, Puerto Rico Colora could get the Frlederlch back to Germany If given sailing orders. Sunday, the air ministry neys serv.

-st It? ROME, ITALY attacks by overall length of 599.5 feet. All were rated at 32 knots. They were coa.stguardsmen totaled 168,944 gross tons approximately 5 per cent of the prewar Italian merchant marine. The tonnage represented more than 50 per cent of Italian merchant ships lost through rapture and sinking since the war began. Latest figures show Italy had lost 59 ships of 317.551 tons.

Here are the ports, Italian ships and gross tonnsge of each ship taken into custody: Boston, Mass. Dino, 5,592. New York Alberta, Arsa, Aussa, Brennero, San Leonardo, 4,657. Philadelphia, Penn. Belvedere, 8.889; Antonietta, Santarosa.

about 10 years old. The two German planes on "enom forces In the eastern Medit "Blockade or no blockade, I get home snfely een If Ihe entire British navy were on my trail," he said- But the vessel remained at an destroyers each carried a crew of slightly more than 150. In the face of spirited were announced Sunday the Italian high command Capt. Frederick Stengler were removed to the coa.st guard base. The ship had not been dumaged.

The German freighter raced into Port Everglades Dec. lfl, 1039, for shelter after, the British cruiser Orion fired a shot across its bow. l.lner. At Cristobal, In the Canal Zone, United States military authorities removed fi05 officers and men from the Italian liner Conte Blan-camano. Soldier herded the Italian officers and men toward Internment ramps scattered through the Canal Zone.

The ship's berth is far from the Panama canal channel. To Kills M.inil. Cosst guardsmen msrrhed about 330 crew members from five Ital chor. A coast gflard officer at New The Flume and the Pola were among Italian warships visited by newspaper men last November when Premier Mussolini invited the inspection to dispute British Orleans who directed the taking ice said, one well-placed bomb from a British plane sank a German anti-submarine vessel off the Loire river estuary on the French west coast. With Its customary reserve, Britain's naval high command gave only the barest details of the great sea and air battle which swept the eastern Mediterranean from Friday until Sunday.

It listed the Italian victims as the 10.000-ton cruisers Fiume, F'ola snd Zara and the destroyers do, 5,039. over of the Italian freighters Ada O. and Monfiore, said: Portland, Ore. Leme, 8.059. Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone Conte Blancamano, 23,255.

claims of damage to Italian warships in another Mediterranean xhnrply dxttning Frrnth reisiou charged that "a largt Rritish. naval force' to French vatrr attacked tht coutoi, which had only the "symbolic" profecfion of the vessel Semoun, and that French fire itoi in defense against "aggressors." The convey, it declared, teas bound from Casablanca, Morocco, to Oran, Algeria, both French colonial ports, hence ils cargo was not destined for Germany Admit, -il Jean Dai lan, vice premier and foreign minister the Vichy government as well as commander of France's fleet, declaied Mar. 10 that it the British blockade "which I consider Idiotic" battle. Just where or how the Italian "All of them (the crew) were very pleasant and very happy that they'd done such a good Job nn the engines. I don't think here's a piece of machinery ii boar il that Isn't damaged." The crew apparently spent days, Both the Italian and high command siatemen day dove-tailed in rep the aea action 8aturday presumably was part of naval battle reported British.

There was no other indication from the A.i tals that Mich an emi had been fought and Ko mo word on British elm' three Italian cruisers a destroyers were suiifc ships were sent to the bottom, the brief, matter-of-fact admiralty statement am not tell. Mated admiralty officials said I vincenzo Gioberto and Maestrale. Sixth Ship. Athens dispatches said survivors were filed. The engine and auxiliary machinery of the Mon-glola "had been smashed coast guardsmen said.

In Savannah, Captain M. Fel-lini and 30 crewmen of the Hal-inn freighter Clsia were placed in three trucks. Tney seemed in high spirits. Joking and singing Italian songs, as they headed for hacksaws. There was no electric power aboard.

F'riini the anchor winch lo the boilers, the men had gone to work With hand drills, sledge hammers, chisels, sxes and files. Captain Ernesto and the Vrew of the Mnngloln, hoarded at Houston, were placed in jail at Galveston, Te. No charges ian freighters at Port Newsrk possibly weeks In destroying the aboard tugs and hraded for Ellis iship's working apparatus. Propel- of the destroyer Alfiers, as well ss those of the Pola. Fiume and they were astonished at the low price Admiral Sir Andrew B.

Cunningham's forces had to pay harbor imml- Island, New York grallon center. ler shafts of both vessels, 14 inches thick and of the hardest steel, had been cut through by One official, after inspecting Charleston, S. C. No damage waa reported done s-vJk- uimrl if. Dm 1 -JUlilW f- -p to the ship, At Portland, Capt.

Giovanni Polonio of the Italian mo-torshlp Leme and 53 other officers snd men were taken ashore and detained for the Immigration service. Harbor police said navigation Instruments, generators and engines had been damaged. Const guardsmen found the Italians on deck drinking wine and singing songs. I'nited Stales marines, armed 4. SiSNfc.

twTf British naval action in the Mediterranean has resulted in the sinking of the Italian cruiser Zara (above), the British admiralty announced Sund WIRL PHOTO (P). with bayonet rifles, and coast guardsmen with automatics strapped to their thighs seized the four Italian ships anchored at Philadelphia. the ships with acetylene torches, apparently only a few hours before the vi 1 EAST VALl guard is a unit of the treasury has broad powers under the world war' statute and a presl-dential proclamation to take protective custody of a foreign ves-sel In an American port. on vessels from Holland, Norway, Sweden or any other country attempted sabotage, the coast guard would follow the same course used in the case of Italy snd Germany. Senator Burton Wheeler Mont.

leading foe of the arlmm. A squadron of a dozen coast Although the way apparently was open for the I'nited States to assert a rlaim tn ownership of at least snm nf the shirif it guard boats, most of them bristling with light csnnon and nig-chine giyn, hsd been mobilized $5.0 during the night. sired to invoke the forfeiture British aid program, de There wbs no resistance. The clsred With COtTC boarding parties lowered the Italian colors, ran up tha American flag and took the 124 seamen to the United States immigration de clause of the world war lsw Chairman Walter George Ga.) of the senate foreign relations committee said he believed this would not be done. Our Famous "Wt have no right under law to scire those ships.

This is another act of war." Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau the coast $7.50 Yucca OilJO I "iLVrU tention barracks at Gloucester. PERMANENT George declared that if sailors N. J. In the Philadelphia boardings. Your FLU COAT nai.cfl,IIpn.red or llemodolod tr, any style.

Chsrs.s is low Hood workmanship snd matsrlsli will permit. ALSO PROTECTED Fi ll STOIt.U.i; NICHOLAS DE HECK 31 hr. RMc. AMATEUR RECORDERS.1 Special ASK OIR OPERATOI ABOUT OTHER SPECIALS! coast guardsmen said they found no evidence of actual sabotage. However, the Philadelphia Kec- 2 Dresses 90c 1 SUNS sflTs, in MEN'S PANTS, National Cleaners mitt mnt mm.

Klt Una nf -nMlnf supplltt la th Mlddla UNITED ARTISTS BUREAU oi ct said members of the boarding I party asserted the crews had OFEM KMNOS EX-GEL-CIS Bu In the engine room of the Italian 'burned through vital parts of the ITnltrd States roast guardsman Inspects a broken air pump freighter Albert after It waa boarded at Port Newark, N. J. LZlPhont 3-031 3 engines and the main shafts ak Eatoa. Mgr. es wsiest ra, VSSS3.