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BOSTON, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 22, 1940-FORTY PAGES (2) TWO CFiXTS A V7 ULAIO IN METROPOLITAN I THREE CENTS BOSTON ELSEWHERE Entered a. second cla mail matter at Boston. Mas under the act of March 3 1879 242 Washington St. CooyriKht. 1840.

bv THE GLOBE NEWSPAPER CO. ou cxxxvn NO. 53 Kills Optometrist in South End Store; Trapped in Home British Marines Seize U. S. Mails At Bayonet Point Clipper Captain Ordered Bermuda Censors Ashore Officer Wounded as 75 Besiege House; Victim Said Fatal Shot Accident LONDON.

Feb. 22 (Thursday) (API A source close to the Ministry of Economic Warfare today expressed regret oxer the bayonet-point remoxal of United States mails from a transatlantic clipper ship by British censors at Bermuda. Jan. 18. "You -an be certain it v.

on't happen again. this source said. NEW YORK, Feb. 21 (AP) The British began censorship of United States air mails at Bermuda on Jan. 18 by seizing 2600 pounds of letters from a Pan-American Airways clipper at bayonet point, it was learned from reliable source tonight.

Capt. Charles A. Lorber of Bal- timore, in gpmmand of the flying boat plying between the United Trapped by police after he fatally shot an optometrist in a Washington-st. store, a jobless truck driver, blazing away with his pistol in a South End tenement building, last night wounded a police sergeant in a furious 30-minute running battle before he was felled by a bullet in the chest. Ranting and raging, Charles E.

Spencer, 24, of 30 East Springfield South End, was captured as he lay in a pool of blood on the stairs at his lodgings, his weapon flung aside. A moment earlier one of his bullets had found a mark in the jaw of Sergt. James L. Culleton, who had bravely pursued Spencer into the building. Neither was critically wounded, City Hospital authorities said.

Fatally wounded by another bullet from Slayer and Officer Wounded Continued on Page 15 W. L. White in Finland A Ride Back From the Front Line at 32 Below Zero New Haven Must Open 32 Stations Abandonment of 56 Allowed by Commission In a unanimous decision, the State Public Utilities Commission late yesterday ordered the trustees of the New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad to restore train service to 32 of the 88 railroad stations that haxe been closed since July, 1938. The trustees were given until March 10 to comply. At the same time the commission gave written permission to the railroad to abandon the other 56 stations, which considerably modified a previous decision to the effect that the railroad would have to open all but nine of the 88 stations.

The stations to be reopened follow: East Foxboro, Plymptonville, Boylston Jamaica Plain, For- 32 Stations Continued on Page 6 Swedish Village Set Aflame by Soviet Bombers Destruction Spurs Campaign to Send Aid to Finland STOCKHOLM, Feb. 21 (AP) Sweeping Russian planes today bombed and fired the little Swedish border town of Pajala, an incident that threatened to rekindle the fiery Swedish movement for intervention in Finland. Although all of Pajalas 3000 residents escaped death and the shower of 134 bombs was believed aimed at Finnish territory just six miles away, neutral observers expressed the opinion that Swedish activists now would reopen their drive to help Finland so vigorously that any other help is unnecessary. Townspeople estimated that 34 of the bombs from the heavily laden raiders were explosive, the remaining 100 incendiary. The fact that there were no casualties was credited to a timely warning flashed from the border and by the heroic work of a girl tele- Russian Bomb Continued on Page 13 Page 2 British ship brings 145 Jewish refugees here.

N. L. R. B. regional chiefs aided drive against amending Wagner act, probe reveals.

Senator Wheeler leaves Ohio fight to Roosevelt and Garner supporters. Page 3 Ambassador Kennedy given high rating in health; entrains for New York. Representative Brewster of Maine charges fish imports concession bought by $21,500 campaign contribution. Financial trouble of Empire State Building described before Monopoly committee. Page 4 Geery suicide inquiry discloses odd melodrama.

i I FREE! WILSON ELECTRIC SHOW I I Stuart Tremont Sts. Nightly mi At I SHOOTING VICTIMS AND SCENE OF GUN BATTLE Charles E. Spencer (top) xvho xvounded Sergt. James L. Culleton (center) and killed Dr.

Bernhardt B. Glickman (bottom). Spencer said he then shot himself. At right, house at No. 30 East Springfield xvith crowd gathered at door after wild gunfight.

Rumania Yields to Allies, Germany Insists on Oil All but Eight of 72 Pledged SOMEWHERE IN FINLAND We have driven perhaps 15 minutes away from the front lines always through a snow-laden forest of tall spruce. It is bitter cold 33 below zero all car windows arc shut, our hands and feet already cooling despite gloves and boots. We see, over the drivers shoulder through the windshield, a clearing ahead, and a cross-road. Suddenly the leading car stops. Maybe to look at a sign.

So we stop, too. In the war zone cars usually drive far apart, for a cluster will tempt a Russian plane to dive and machine-gun the road. But this one winds through a dense wood, so we arc fairly close together, in order not to lose the pilot car at a fork. AV. L.

White Writes Continued on Page 12 States and Lisbon via Bermuda, not only ordered British censorship officials off his craft but also refused to surrender the mail until the British made a show of armed force. The incident is only part of the story of censorship in the British colony, which has been cloaked in official silence for more than a month. Pan-American Airways, with head offices here, declined comment xvhen informed that a witness to the incident had agreed fo tell the story for publication. Unsuccessful efforts have been made to obtain details of the censorship setup at Bermuda, together wuth the story of the original seizure. News itself is subject to in the British British Marines Continued, on Page 21 prospectixe buyers of motor vehicles, to the showrooms of au- tomotive dealers in Boston and vicinity today.

Many other features will give Washington's an excellent back-i ground. Visitors to the showrooms will find they will not be inconven-1 ienced because of the snow storms. day after the big blizzard the dealers got busy immediately. their own men and trucks supplemented by workers and -ehicles hired for the occasion sidewalks ana the streets in front of buildings were attacked. Motor Shoxvs Today 1 Continued on Page 27 The Autompbile Advertisements Read Them Today BUCHAREST, Feb.

21 (AP) Germany tonight challenged Rumanias ban on shipments of high-test aviation gasoline to the Reich by deciding to send her ace economic negotiator. Dr. Karl Clodius, to Bucharest to insist in crucial conversations upon full delivery of her 1940 quota, it was learned authoritatively here. Not only will Germanys future attitude toward Rumania most likely depend upon the outcome of Clodius mission, but also her view of all other neutral southeastern European countries. Caught in a perilous economic grapple between German and Allied demands for the lions share of her war-propelling oil exports, Rumania earlier today was reported to have assured Britain and France she would prohibit the export of aviation gasoline to the Reich.

A Government decree to this effect was understood to have been issued in direct contradiction to a recent arrangement with Germany. The capitulation to British-French pressure was reported to have been decided upon in the face of serious loses of Rumanian industry unable to obtain cotton, wool, jute and iron ore from the Allies, who shut down on their Rumanian Oil Continued on Page 21 Motor Dealers Ready for Throngs foday District Cleared of Snow Globe Man Eye-Witness of Gun Fight By GEORGE W. McLEAN Globe Staff Reporter Just a few moments oefore the evening quiet of a side street in the South End was shattered by the tragic gun duel of police and Charles E. Spencer, 24-year-old odds-jobs man, boldly walked by three police officers and this reporter to enter his home. I had just left Spencers young wife at her apartment.

She had not seen Spencer since early in the afternoon and I was the first to tell her that her husband was being hunted by police for the fatal shooting of a Washington-st. optometrist. Eye-Witness Story Continued on Page 14 THE WEATHER Forecast for Boston and Vicinity: Thursday fair, not much change in temperature, with diminishing northerly winds; Friday increasing cloudiness followed by light snow Friday night. Weather Report Ti dm and Almanac on Back Paoe RIDEOUT SAYS: Todays Globe Contents to Farley Listed Delegates on Slate Announced by Burke; Mayor Tobin Accepts Names of all but eight of the 72 delegates to the Democratic national convention, pledged to Pcs' master Gen. James Farley if President Roosevelt fails to run again, were announced last night by William H.

Burke, chairman of the Democratic state committee. One of the last to accept a place on the slate as it stands now was All But Eight Continued on Page 14 GUIDE TO Burgess 30 Boake Carter. .31 Commercial 16 Cross-Word 29 Culbertson 26 Death Notices. 17 Dr Mggam 16 Editorials 22 Financial FEATURES Mox ies Stage, 38-39 Obituaries ....23 Port of Boston. 19 Psychologist 29 Radio 30 Serial Story.

.29 'Short 30 Sports ..24,25.31 Womens Pages, 36-37 Page 20 Obscene literature ring smashed by New York arrests. Page 23 Picketed store pickets pickets. Page 32 Rabbi Cohon denies refugee arrivals add to unemployment. Page 40 Patrolman Brauneis denies part in attempt to rob store. Six Haverhill Firms Suffer Fire Damage HAVERHILL, Feb.

21 Smoke from a fire in the basement of the factory at 103-114 Washington st caused heavy damage to six establishments today. The fire started when a spark from the furnace set fire to waste. Most of the damage was confined to the basement, where stored goods were destroyed. By JAMES T. SULLIVAN New and used cars of all m.akes and models will be the feature magnet which will again attract thousands of motorists, and 0 OVER 427.000.000.

business office OPEN THE USUAL HOURS TODAY for THE CONVENIENCE of GLOBE READERS AND ADVERTISERS Page 11 Braintree brothers back after their round-the-world cruise in a ketch is interrupted bv war. Italy sees war time prosperity in role of neutral Page 13 Five neutral vessels sunk in sea warfare. Tage 17 Boy Dalai Lama enthroned as ruler of Tibet today. Representative Barton, Republican, backs Hulls trade treaties program. Page 20 Tulsa firm gets 2,200,000 Soviet contract for oil-drilling equipment.

Gov. Saltonstall names committee tc fight possible preferential rail rates for South. Page 5 Creator of Mernwell faces dispossess action. Page 6 House Democrats and Republicans join in nonpartisan move to put jobless to work. Residuary charity bequests by Mrs.

Sarah Cheney. Page 8 Jones promises rehabilitation of Louisiana as tally shows defeat of Gov. Long. Page 9 Whitney case still plagues New York Stock Exchange. Page 11 Speaker at Massachusetts chiropodist-podiatrist convention criticizes Armys neglect of soldiers feet.

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