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AKRON BEACON JOURNAL JL EDITION EATHEE Continued cold today. Tomorrow somewhat warmer. ht temperature yesterday SfKdesX: lowest was 16. Associated Free TeJeyhetssj United rrest LN.S. VXJL, Ohio's Most Complete Netcspaper- Saturday, March 1, 1941 NO.

86 102nd Year 18 Pages Three Cents i 4, 0) Sofia Government Joins Axis 'To Keep Balkan Peace THE PARTNERS PLENTIFUL AT MILITARY BALL Hitler Witnesses THE' SEEN TRUGE HALTED He's In The Army Now And Glad Of It ARMED HORDES INVADE NATION IN IIM-MIM Sia fiiiiiff In Vienna 111 II1UU uiinin Greek Break Is Reported Near By Italian Newspaper By ROBERT II. BEST United rreii 8111 Writer VIENNA, March 1. Bulgaria adhered to the German-Italian-Japanese axis today, following the lead of Hungary, Rumania and Slovakia, at a ceremony in the Belvedere palace. As Adolf Hitler watched, Joachim von Ribbentrop, German foreign minister; Bogdan Filoff, Bulgarian premier; Count Gale-azzo Ciano, Italian foreign minister, and Gen. Hiroahi Oshima, new Japanese ambassador to Germany, affixed their signatures to the pact.

The Bulgarian move was designed to keep peace In the Balkans. The first news that Sofia, Bulgarian capital, had had of the plan for adherence came in an official announcement that Premier Filoff had gone to Vienna to sign. The ceremony, by which Bulgaria in the role of silent junior partner cast her lot with the axis as she had done with imperial Germany in the last war, was held at 6:30 a. Akron time. An hour later Hitler and Ribbentrop were hosta at luncheon to the visitors.

As the pact was signed, aligning Bulgaria with the "new order" in Europe, Rome's authoritative newspaper, Popolo di Roma, asserted in a Sofia dispatch that a rupture of diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and Greece was imminent. MISS WALSH MISS MISS HORSEY Von Ribbentrop and General Oshima had preceded Hitler, Ciano and Filoff to Vienna for an accord which Nazis hailed as a new and important German diplomatic victory, calculated to remove the last trace of British in-4 With much of the eligible male population of Akron rapidly leaving for military service, James Ray, of Troop 107th cavalry regiment, had no lack of feminine admirers at the troop's military ball last night. Betty Walsh, Alameda Slater and Helen Horsey have the military man what might be called beseechingly besieged. FIGHT FOR TAX II si NGftS STRIKE Truck Drivers Circle Summit, Medina Counties To Halt Supply Shipments ATTENDANTS MAY JOIN Some Filling Stations Already 'Dry'; Autoists Rush To Fill Tanks A gasoline "famine" threatened Summit and Medina county motorists today as striking gas truck drivers shut off bulk supplies to 900 filling stations. motorized picket line girdled the two counties, patrolling main rosdj and turning back gasoline trucks headed for points within the strike area.

The Kent headquarters of the itate highway patrol received a call about 9 a. m. from a driver who complained that his gasoline truck had been stopped at Tall-madge. The state police explained they could not function within municipal boundaries. Tallmadge authorities knew nothing of the Incident and the sheriff's office had no report on it.

There was no violence, but both company and union officials agreed that bulk gas shipments had been shut off, exctpt for fire, police, ambulance and other emergency vehicles. A number of the 700 Summit county filling stations were out of tu today, following a rush to the pumps last night and early today by motorists. Attendant May Join Company officials said all sta-tonihad been kept "full" for days a anticipation of a possible atop-. Wf igat.shipnuntfv 0t lhat wit tf the stations would probably run dry during the week-end tetause of the sudden Increased demand. the dispute Is not settled by the first of the week, Paul Lavo, business agent of Truck Drivers' sam that filling station attendants would probably join the strike.

The strike he can vpstnrri final conference with employers, climaxing a four-week dispute, had filed to hrinc ao-r-smant Th drivers had asked an 8 per' cent employers refused to go Higher than 4 per cent. Ten "Cttlinpra" mann MM uj, I 1 1 1 wrs of the truckers' union were out onto county roads to Check lncnmlnrr -A i.i, omiiiiciivo vi as ugh the night the motorized ime continued its patrol, turned back a few drivers who i'u not hn u. strike. Wf no violence or "reata," Paul Birney, chair- situation and they cooperate. End Not In Sight Ten tfriitaA.

i munnea ny some tL 'J'' continued the patrol ou me oniy ouiK gaso- TP through countv m.l 8hlpped tTom SUndard nd Sun Oil pipeline terminals Ki "tiea not In the strike. agreement with the unlonr 'PontlnuK On Ps Two! Cold, Cloudy AKRON AND VICINITY scattered clouds, continued rold cireai nd, tonint- Sunday, and somewhat 1 ecord ni- this "Hat: Wo 190; lw was i Pressure, 30.18: relative 83 30.22; humidity, lr ct. Sunget to(J tomorrow, a. m. "OtlRl.T REAniNOS 91 I m.

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p. 1 Hnihk 'III, TCMPERATDRE itrroiiT Planes Soar Over Capital While Military Cars Swarm Sofia HITLERITES HOLD VARNA British Envoys Ready To Leave As London Break Nears By HUGO SPECK I'niod Fmt Staff Wrllar SOFIA, March 1. -German military cars clattered, down Sofia's main street tonight, Nazi warplar.es droned over the city and it was believed that rekh troops have already occupied thi strategic Bulgarian Blaafc MA port of Varna. It appeared that full-scale Gr man military occupation of BuU garia had started. Great Britain was believed to bt prepared to sever diplomatic re- lations with Bulgaria almost tm mediately, possibly within a tew hours.

These developments followed swiftly the adherence at Vienna today of Bulgaria to the German-Italian-Japanese alliance and, it was indicated, already had start ed before Premier Bogdan Filoff affixed his signature to the document in Belvedere palace In Vienna. Four Into Varna Rumors circulated last night that German troops aboard trucks were pouring into Varna, the BuU garian Black sea port just south of Rumania. The report were denied- by BHw; garian authorities, but eventa late this afternoon and eveninf Ufa regarded as full confirmation ttt the reports end it was thought -that German forces already have established themselves in Varna. The military automobiles appeared on Sofia streets after German war planes sometimes aa many as 30 at a time droned over the city almost all day. The first Nazi war machines appeared in the sky over Sofia about the time word was flashed from Vienna that Bulgaria had signed the tripartite alliance.

1 Matter Of Hours A British legation spokesman said after the military cart had appeared in Sofia that: "The breaking off diplomatic re- lations between his majesty's government and Bulgaria can only be a matter of hours if the German entry is, as it seems, the possible advance unit of an occupying Bulgarian officials hardly had finished denying that German troops were moving into the country when citizens on the main street of Sofia saw three mud-f spattered military cars appear; In each car rode four uniformed soldiers. The cars clattered through tha street and pulled up at the German chancery. German planes flew too high for ground observers-to determine In Sf BALKANS Pact 1 1 ryJo fntinurinr the BafJA, SLATER RAY 1-2 Billions? Yes, Bui Why The 22 Cents? Br The AiMeiftted Prr WASHINGTON, March 1. The bombproof treasury vaults at Fort Knox, Ky, now hold $14,579,591,387.22 worth of gold about half the monetary gold in the world, This was revealed by the treasury today after completing the movement of $9,055,884,651 of the metal from New York to Fort Knox by "registered Movement of the metal started last July. Weighing about 9,000 tons, the "mail" W8S shipped with unprecedented secrecy aboard 45 special trains, guarded by hordes of postal inspectors, secret service agents, and army units.

The postage was about $1,800,000. Altogether the treasury owns more than three-quarters of the monetary gold in the world. The remainder of its $22,200,000,000 total gold holdings is scattered between New York, Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco. RAF. DOWNS 26 ITALIAN AIRPLANES ATHENS, March 1.

(INS) Wreckage of at least 26, and possibly 35 Italian warplanes, was strewn over a southern Albanian battle sector today as authorities in Athens hailed the greatest sin gle aerial victory of the Italo-Greek war. While Hellenic land forces pushed forward on several important fronts and hurled back one-Italian heavy tank attack, British warplanes ripped into superior Italian forces to attain their great single day's bag. 26 Known Destroyed The battle broke out when a patrolling force of British Hurricane and Gladiator, fighters at tacked a large force of Fascist bombers and combat planes. An official R.A.F. communique said at least 28 Fascist planes were shot down and "have since been confirmed as destroyed." Another nine enemy planes were fOnnllniifd On Two) Last-Minute Hitch Delays Peace Between Vichy And Thailand NOTE IS CONCILIATORY Motel lftll tAqite In Ti I maiouurxa iiauo ill vain Receive Envoy Of Petain By Tho AiMtirtad PrtM TOKIO, March 1.

A hitch in last-minute negotiations of a Japanese initiated peace agreement between French Indochina and Thailand was authoritatively declared to have developed tonight. The Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka waited at his private residence from 4 p. m. until 10 p. m.

for French Ambassador Charles Arsene Henry to keep a scneauiea appointment, it was said, but the meeting did not take place. It was believed in authortative quarters that the absence of instructions from the French government at Vichy caused the ambassador's delay. Had Exported Peace Previously authoritative quarters had suggested that a peace agreement was nearing completion and that a final settlement might be announced tonight or early tomorrow. A Japanese ultimatum expired at noon yesterday. France's conciliatory note arrived last night.

Matsuoka, Under Foreign Minister Chuichl Hayashi and other high foreign officials conferred for two hours over the French reply. It was believed that further negotiations would result, despite the fact that the reply had been received after the Japanese "dead line" set at midnight last night for full French acceptance of the demands. Fa Deadline It wm indicated also that any negotiations necessarily would extend beyond the ultra-final dead line, Intimated to be midnight tonight for a definitive agreement between Indo-China and Thailand. There had been signs that the French Indo-Chinese delegates here were weakening in their stand against the Japanese terms. Japanese sources attributed this weakening to Japanese determinant JAPAN ria Two GREEK EARTHQUAKE TOLL FEARED HIGH Sr Tha Anoelilfd Prm ATHENS, March 1.

Northern Greece was shaken by a destructive earthquake today and early reports indicated casualties would prove heavy. Buildings collapsed in Larisa, a town with about ,10,000 inhabitants. The panicky population fled their homes when the shocks were felt. LariRa authorities telegraphed ror tents for 15,000 homeless Troops were engaged In removing victims trapped by debris. Buildings desroyed at Larisa Included a hotel.

Premier Alexandros Korizis sent Minister of Public Aid Krimbaa to the scene. 4 86, She Attends Party For Mother RLOOMTNGTON, March 1. (INS) Mrs. Jean Staggers, 86 years old, of Fort Madison, Ja today came to Bloomington to at-' tend a birthday party for her mother. The mother, Mrs.

Mar garet Taylor, will be 102 years old tomorrow. Mrs. Taylor's first husband split rails with Abraham Lincoln near Petersburg, 111,, and she still has a gun which Lincoln gave her husband. WIIAT PAGE? Here' Where Vnu Will find What You're Looking For Page Page Helen-Warren 7 Akron, Jr. 6 Amusements Astrology Brady Ned Brant 8 7 7 Johnson 18 Markets My Day Pealer Radio Recipes Schneider 12, 13 18 18 5 7 12 3 11 18 4, 8 Ernie Pyle Churches, Clubs Comics 18, 17 Crossword IS Editorials 8 Jimmy Fldler 8 Girl Reporter 17 Society Snorts 10, 11 Town Crier 0 Wlnchell Your Garden Whittemore 'In Middle' In Drive To Stop Bricker's Bill WILLIAM V.

WALLAC FranlTE. Whittemore, majority floor leader in the Ohio senate, was under strong fire today from city and county officials -who demand that he assist them in upsetting Gov. John W. Bricker's sales tax measure which would cut local governments out of big boosts in the tax's income. With a report from Columbus that the senate taxation committee will meet Tuesday and that action may follow quickly on the floor, Mayor Lee D.

Schroy called Senator Whittemore and arranged to join county officials in appearance before senate committeemen. County representatives, who will leave Akron Monday, are Commissioners J. B. Looker, Stanley Yale and Ralph Kibler, and County Auditor C. L.

Bower. The commissioners, republican two to one, were adamant on their stand that they will agree to nothing less than provisions of an amendment drawn by Senator Murray S. Parker, democrat, Whittemore's Akron colleague, which promises cities and counties $5,000,000 beyond the $12,000,000 the governor would allow. Senator Whittemore, torn between local pleas and obligations as the governor's floor leader, hs promised "to do all I can to get Akron some further money," but (Oonllnufd On Two) Run Over By Train, His Pants Are Torn HOT SPRINGS, March 1. UP) A torn pair of pants, minor bruises and a lightly lacerated hip were all that 52-year-old Oden Berthe of Hot Springs had to show today after being run over by a train.

Trainmen said he wair. struck yesterday as he walked along the track, snd that the locomotive anJ all csrg of the passenger train passed over him. I .1 'I '1 i I. I ir. i 1 1 1 4 TURKS, BRITISH Eden, Dill Head For Egypt After Assurance Tk AlmhM PrM Turkey.

March 1. A British mission headed for Egypt today with assurances of Turkey's adherence to a 2-year-old pact: of alliance as events in the Balkans moved rapidly toward a crisis. It was understood that after a flying trip to Cairo British For eign Secretary Anthony Eden and General Sir John G. Dill, chief of the Imperial general staff, would return to the Balkans for conferences at Athens on British military aid to Greece. Dispatches from London said Britain had received with equanimity a Belgrade announcement that Bulgaria had decided to join the Bcrlln-Rome-Tokio alliance today.

Hailed As Trlumpn The British leaders conducted their talks here In the wake of a new Turkish-Bulgarian non-agression treaty, which the axis hailed as a diplomatic triumph, and the Turkish press termed a 'check to Germany's southeastward drive. Britain said the pact, negotiated with her knowledge, did not affect the Turkish-British agreement, and as Eden and Dill left a communique reaffirmed that tie. "The two governments recorded their firm attachment to the Anglo-Turkish alliance," the statement said. si A tiff NflU': CEMENT PACT fluence from southeastern Europe except as regards Turkey and Greece. Ciano arrived first.

He, Ribbentrop and Oshima greeted Filoff, who arrived at 2:15 a. m. Akron time after a flight from Sofia In a special airplane. Ciano had been on duty with the Italian air force and had missed the recent conference between Benito Mussolini and Gen. Francisco Franco' of Spsln.

Hitler arrived at the Imperial hotel at 4:20 a. m. Akron time. News that he waa coming had swept through the city by word of mouth -and many thousands of people jammed streets about the hotel. Ribbentrop and General Oshima had conferred with Hitler at Berchtesgaden.

In the Bavarian Alps across from Austria, last night. The Belvedere palace, at which the ill-fated Archduke Fran Ferdinand, whose assassination preci-pated the last war, had lived for years, had been made ready for a full dress conference. Prior to the signing ceremony all information regarding the Bulgarian situation had been refused both here and at Berlin. Spokesmen at Berlin would say only that they knew nothing about the reports that Bulgaria would adhere to the axis and that German troops were already marching Into the country to occupy it at they had occupied Rumania. Pre Ignore Signing A United Press Berlin dispatch said that the Berlin newspapers this morning ignored the Bulgarian situation.

Instead, they devoted most prominent space to stories of the sixth anniversary yesterday of the new German air force, with pictures of air force leaders and fliers. Ten Bulgarians, all alleged to be of British sympathies, were arrested in Sofia yesterday. One, Michael Padeff, correspondent for The Times of London, was released this kUt vA nWic.GUrk Frit If i Troops like those above eovernment's action in signing were photographed on a happier born son and heir of King Boris, CALLS I IE Lucas Defends Administration Lease Measure By WILLIAM H. LAWRENCE I'nltfd PrtM SUff Writer WASHINGTON, March 1. Senator Scott Lucas, democrat of Illinois today defended the administration's British-aid bill as America's best insurance for peace and the perpetuation of democracy.

"By supporting Great Britain with tools, not men we can eventually compel the war mongers to keep the peace," he said. "We who support this bill are the real guardians of pt-ce the realistic, hard-boiled avoiders of war. We advocate the only practical method of making America first in naval power, first -4n national power, first in the power of those ideals which guarantee life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Lucas is expected to follow Sen- (Oonttnued On Pag Two) IN SUNDAY'S BEACON JOURNAL A Week Long Remembered NEXT week the lease-lend bill, passage, Roosevelt's approval and then what? Beacon Journal Washington Correspondent Clifford A. Pre-vost'has written another behind-the-scenes story for your Sunday Beacon Journal, telling what he thinks will be the Roosevelt International procedure In the next few weeks. BOBBY WHITE-PHOTO DELIGHT! Life on the college campus Is pretty complex these days what with queens, princesses, beauties, etc.

At Kent State It's no less complex and this week Roberta White was chosen to be the most photographed girl at the annual short course in news photography this month. A page of pictures in the Beacon Journal's Rotophotos Sunday Other Rotophotos features-Singapore: Key to the Far East Little Rookie Goes Big Time, the story of Phil Rizzuto, bound for the New. York Yankees And Akron Presents Fashions for NEWS, FEATURES AND PICTURES! Camera Caravan: Careers Blossom at Leggett the.fttory of an occupational school "This Is a World A full page map printed in colors In the Sunday Magazine "Joy As It Flies," a Lyn Arnold novel complete No Longer a Stepchild!" Jane Rieker't story of the long fight to keep them In the picture and their present rising star In defense And the most Important part of every newspaper the NEWS, from Akron, the state, the nation and the world all of It given to you until early Sundav morninr. You have the latest news with a Sunday Beacoii Journal. PEACE SECURITY THE WAR TODAY Bulgarian Action Seen As New Hitler Victory By DEWITT MacKENZIE AarUtr4 Trn War BULGARIAN adherence to the Berlin-Rome axis will serve to grease the wheels for Herr Hitler and thus make it easier and less risky for him to carry out his strategically sound plan of trying to gain complete military domination of the Balkan Success would mean that he had sealed this danger zone snd greatly lessened the possibility of a new 1:30 Ye'd jr'i Pondltlnn a m.

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It also Is true that Russia has a large Influence In that Slav country. Still Hitler's domination of the Balkans has been so great as to give him the whip hand. In the present instance he has proceeded cautiously to avoid causing an upheaval, and especially to try to parry out his operation with- (OontiBUW On Fata Two) battle-front neing openea up against him there. It would give him bases for operations against the British in the eastern Medit erranean. And it would rescue Mussolini from the Greeks.

On the whole the Nazi chief can credit himself with a diplomatic victory. Actually, however, the position hasn't altered greatly, since he long has had Bulgaria much under his control is a light-nlngbug in a bottle. It is true that Bulgaria would -jr. are me ivpe nemjr momiuwa in ruinxi dimrC aa a partner in the Rome-Berlin-Tokio axis. The wian as they marehed past tha royal psiac 11; to.

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