The Columbus Telegram from Columbus, Nebraska • 1

Bushnell Man Was Anxious to Get to His Draft Board Battle for Control of EDahjly Telegeam The Weather NEBRASKA and SOUTH DAKOTA: Generally fair tonight and Friday; slightly colder east tonight. VOICE OF A FRIENDLY CITY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1941 SIXTIETH YEAR Italy Asks 9 Nazi Help Italian Air Defense at Tobruk -wis- According to the Italian-censored caption, this is an Italian antiaircraft gun in action against R. A. F. at Tobruk, Libya.

British bombers, according to communiques, are giving the Italian stronghold an intense straffing while the British Army of the Nile batters away "at Bardia. Guard Leaves for Camp, to Be Gone Year 500 Relatives at Station for Departure of 65 for Arkansas More than 500 relatives nrt friends turned out this morning at the Union Pacific depot to bid farewell to the members of company 110th medical regiment, as it entrained for Camp Robinson, Ark. The special train, containing three cars detailed for the Columbus company, and carrying other former national guard units from the west part of the state, pulled out about 9:30 a. m. 66 Leave From Here In the grouo leaviner bv train this morning from Columbus were 65 men, including three commis sioned officers and 62 enlisted men.

Included were Mai. C. An derson, MC, commander of the second battalion of the 110th medical regiment; his adjutant, First Lt. Roy Matson, MC, former Hold-rege physician; First Lt. Gene L.

Teply, MC, company A commander and former Howp.lla nhvsifian and the 62 enlisted men of com- pany A. Maj. J. North Evans, lia- son officer for the 35th division surgeon's office, left from Lincoln on an earlier train for the camp. Finish Packing All packing of company eauiD- ment and personal effects, with the exception of several portable radios, Had been completed yesterday.

The company will spend about 30 hours on the train, scheduled to arrive in Camp Robinson in mid-afternoon Friday. Immediately before the depar ture, several business firms made presents of cigarets, reading mat ter and other articles to the company, and many family packages were presented individual mem bers. Families to Follow Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Teply left for Camp Robinson early this morning, each driving the family automobile.

Major and Mrs. Ander son and First Lt. and Mrs. Teply will reside in a residence which they have jointly leased in Little Rock. Major Evans will be joined by his family at an early date.

First Sgt. Ferdinand G. Brod- fuehrer, the only married man of the enlisted personnel of company said his wife and son would join him in Little Rock in about two weeks. Only Side Arm Brodfuehrer, by the way, will be the only member of company A who will carry side arms. He said the rule book provides the first sergeant in a medical regiment company is supposed to carry a revolver.

"I don't know what the 'gat' is intended for, and I'm not going to pack it any more than I must," Brodfuehrer said. In the early years of the medical regiment the army rule was that members of the Columbus com pany were to be issued side arms, but none were ever forthcoming. Later the rule was changed, and only the first sergeant is now issued a combat weapon. County Agents at Annual Convention LINCOLN, Jan. 2, (IP) Nebraska county agents and home demonstration agents convened at the state college of agriculture today for the annual extension service conference.

Committees met this morning before director W. H. Brokaw formally opened the eight-day conference on Agriculture's part in the national welfare, homemaking problems and livestock. Speakers scheduled for today's program included Dean W. W.

Burr of the agricultural college. Director Paul Miller of the Minnesota extension service, Miss Mary Rokahr of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and Miss Elin Anderson, director of the Nebraska health study. GLASS MAKER DIES OMAHA, Jan.

2 IP William Naylon, 56, owner of the Omaha Mirror and Art Glass irm, died here New Year's day after a long illness. The firm has operated for the past 30 years. Jan. 2 (IP) Edwin F. Black of Bushnell believes there is not a man living who was as anxious to see the draft board as he was this week.

Richards was recently called to his birthplace in Cass county by the death of a relative. While there, discussion led to birth dates of members of his family, where upon he was told he was born in 1905 not 1904 as he had believed for years. The family bible recorded Jan. 3, 1905, as the date and year of his birth and subsequent investigation of records on file at the Cass coun ty court house verified this. It meant that Richards is 35 years of age, within the draft-age limit, and not 36, as he believed and which would have excluded him from registration for compulsory military service.

When Richards came to the Kim ball county draft board he brought with him legal papers insurance policies, driver licenses, all issued to him years ago before the thought of conscription. The board was convinced that Richards' mistake was unintentional that he was not seeking to evade the draft. Richards became Kimball county's 453rd draftee with order number 467. I TL i i ot numpnrey, Attorney, Dies Former State Senator, Member of Constitutional Convention Attorney Charles J. Thielen, 58.

of Humphrey, prominent member of the Platte county bar and former state legislator, died suddenly at has home about 9 a.m. Wednes day. Mr. Thielen had suffered a heart attack about a year ago, tout had recovered so satisfactorily he was atole -to resume his law practice. Tuesday evening he had not felt well and retired about rather earlier than usual.

Mrs. Thielen went to his (bedroom about 9 a. m. Wednesday to ask him if he wish ed to attend church services on New Year's day and found him dead. A physician said apparently he had died only a few minutes before.

Creighton Graduate Charles J. Thielen was 'born Sept. 1882 in- Earfling, the son of John and Clara Cramer Thielen. As a youth, he attended Creigh ton preparatory school in Omaha, graduating there in 1904. He then attended University of Michi gan, and later Creighton University, where he received) his bachelor of arts degree in il908, and his mas ter of arts degree in 1911.

Following his college graduation. he was principal of the high- school at Sundance, for a year and then took up the practice of law in Humphrey in 1912, at which he continued to be engaged to the time of his death. Song Service During most of his professional career lie was in business for (but was associated with Platte County Attorney Jesse L. Dougherty, and the late Attorney W. L.

Dowling of Madison from August, 1936 to August, 1929. During these years Mr. Dougherty was located in Columbus in 1926 and 1927 and in Madison in 1928, Mr. Dowling remained in Madison, and Mr. Thielen, in Humphrey.

Prominently identified in the democratic party throughout his life, Mr. Thielen was a power in both county and1 state circles. Convention Member He was a member of the important Nebraska constitutional convention in 1920, serving in the legislative session of 1923. During the World war, Mr. Thielen was chairman of the 4-Minute Men for Platte county, the volunteer organization of speakers who devoted their time to patriotic addresses, and! was second lieutenant in the Nebraska home guard.

He served 20 years as city attorney of Humphrey and' was for 10 years a member of the Humphrey school board. Organizations A lifelong member of the Catholic faith. Mr. Thielen was closely identified in the affairs of St. Francis church in Humphrey.

Fraternally, Mr. Thielen was a member of the Humphrey council of the Knights of Columtous, being grand knight at the time of his death. He was also a 'member of the Catholic Order of Foresters, and was a member of the Humphrey Lions club and of the Nebraska Bar association. Family Life Mr. Thielen was married to Miss Ava F.

Shober July 23, 1912 at Spearfish, S. D. Surviving are his wife; two sons, Arthur, 20, and Robert, 15, both at home, and one daughter, Mrs. Gene BiBerbeck of Lewiston, who is expected in Him phrey this evening. Funeral Saturday The (body was taken to the Dues-man Funeral home in Humphrey and will toe to the Thielen home Thursday evening, where it will he in state until the hour of the funeral at 9 a.

m. Saturday at St. Francis church in Humphrey, Rev. Ft. Albert, O.

F. officiating. Burial will be in the Humphrey Catholic cemetery. UAW MAY STRIKE FLINT, Jan. 2 (IP) The United Automobile Workers (CIO) today called upon its membership in Chevrolet plants to vote early next week on a strike proposal.

The union accused the company of ignoring its bargaining agreement at the plants which are turning out army truck motors. A walkout could affect 12,000 workers. 'THE COLUMBUS, Nation Starts New Year With at Least 226 Violent Deaths By UNITED PRESS The nation embarked upon the new year with at least 226 deaths from violence, most of them in traffic accidents, a national sur vey showed today. A toll of 142 traffic deaths on New Year's eve and the first day of 1941 was counted. Eighty-four others were dead from airplane accidents, shootings, fires, suicides and other violence.

In the face of heavy holiday traffic and hazardous driving conditions over much of the untry, the national safety council saw indications motorists were paying heed to pleas for caution. The New Year traffic fatalities appearea iq be 100 victims less than tne Christmas holiday tolL California led the states witn zi dead, 13 from traffic accidents. New York had a toll of 24, Pennsylvania 23" and Illinois 21. Four members of a mountain ski ing party in Utah were believed dead under an avalanche of shift ing snow-walls, but they were not included in the fatality list pending a report of rescue workers. Bund Entirely Military, Says Dies Reports WASHINGTON, Jan.

2 IP The German-American Bund was described toy the Dies committee today as a "completely military" organization patterned after the "ruthlessly efficient" machine set up in Germany (by Adolf Hitler. The committee made public what it said was an exact translation of the official confidential manual of the Bund, which it offered' as "fresh proof of the un-American character" of the organization. Asserting that while its three years of investigation) of the Bund had established its tie-up Nazi the committee asserted this was the first time the Bund's military character had 'been exposed. Signal to Attack The document, according to the committee, was obtained "after it had toeen taken from the personal effects of G. Wilhelm Ktunze, fuehrer of the German-American Bund." The military service of the Bund was shown to (be governed toy minute regulations governing drili, commands, and signals.

The "'signal to attaclk" was given as three long 'blasts on a whistle. Propaganda The paper outlined in detail the organization of the orderly service (known as Od) of the Bund. The Bund fuehrer is the ranking fuehrer of the Bund, tout as his deputy in charge of Od matters he appointed a national Od fuehrer. The nation Od fuehrer's jurisdiction includes authority over administration, procurement and distribution of "equipment of the Od, its homes, audit and control, personnel, employment health, insurance, legal administration athletics, publicity, education and "propaganda and kuttur." No Criticism Outlining the duties of a fuehrer, the manual asserts: "He will never criticize his superiors in the presence of his kam-erads, tout exhibit at all times an attitude of absolute loyalty and irreproachable conduct such1 as he would expect from his subordinates. "Od men and particularly Od fuehrers must sulhmit proof of Aryan origin.

"The Od man guarantees the assurance, at the risk of his life if necessary, that our movement will continue to remain the relentless opponent of Jewish Marxism and the uncompromising champion of everything that constitutes Ameri-can-Germania." FORMER NEBRASKAN DIES IOWA CITY, Jan. (IP Rev. Charles Rollin Sherck, 74, formerly an English Lutheran pastor at Lincoln, died here yesterday foEowinig a four weeks' illness. Rev. Sherck retired here in 1925.

He had served in the Iowa City, Sioux City, Indianapolis, Illinois and Pennsylvania pastorates. in fear of being captured and my conscience always bothered me, particularly at Christmas." Under several different names, Hodge said he travelled throughout the United States, in Canada and Mexico, working as a harvester, farm hand, brick mason, carpenter and odd'-jobs man during bis fugitive years. Clean Life "I Kved a clean, honest life during my free years and stayed out of trouble," he said. The warden told young- Hodge his father would be made a trusty and assigned to work in gardens witii full consideration for his voluntary surrender. The elder Hodge was convicted in 1914 of shooting a man to death.

He explained that the victim had "picked a fuss and I shot in self-defense." He escaped in 1919. Credit Seen Reserve Board Moves for Repeal of Many Powers of Presidency WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, (IP) The treasury department and the federal reserve board prepared to day for a great tug-of-war over control of the nation credit and currency during- the rearmament period. The board's recommendations for repeal of many treasury and pres idential fiscal powers, including me president power to devalue the dollar, and its bid for broad power to combat inflationary tendencies may simulate the famous battle in the 1830's between Andrew Jackson and the Bank of the United States. All Silent Principals in the conflict President Roosevelt, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, and federal reserve board chairman Marriner S.

Eccles were silent over the holiday on the board's report which was released by Eccles. Fragmentary congress ional reaction from conservative senators favored Eccles' proposal But there is little doubt the re port will touch off a major contro versy in the new congress conven ing tomorrow, and that it may become a close second in congressional debate to the question of greater aid to Great Britain. Where's FDR? There is no indication which side the president will support. But if the treasury department opposes most of the program as spokesmen say it will it is reasonably certain the president will, too. Treasury sources revealed that Eccles' recommendations to congress the first time in history that the board has sent a report to congress had been announced with the full knowledge of Morgenthau.

Oppose All Treasury' officials frankly admitted they would oppose virtually all of the reserve board's recommendations, but considered it proper that the disagreement over basic fiscal policy be brought into the open for discussion. The treasury's position was outlined by these officials as follows: The president should retain the right to revalue the dollar for post-war economic emergencies. Some of the fiscal controls the board recommended repealed are not needed now when the nation's economy is rising toward full capacity, but the trend may shift suddenly and it would be helpful if the secretary of the treasury had "his shotgun in the closet." Needs Power "We are living in a chaotic world," said one treasury official, "and it is essential that the president hold his monetary authority, which is a powerful economic weapon. It's true the power may not have to be invoked in these days when major world powers have exchange control. But the time element will be important when peace comes and the president will need authority to act quickly." The treasury, the officials said, would resist any attempt by the board to "run rough-shod" over, the treasury which so far, they added, has handled its monetary authority efficiently.

No Inflation Treasury officials said they would not object seriously to repeal of the Thomas amendment the printing of $3,000,000,000 in greenbacks. Ecces had asked that. This power never has been utilized. The board recommended, in addition to greenback act repeal and lapse of the president's dollar devaluing power, these moves: gradual increase in taxes until the federal budget is balanced of the treasury's power to issue currency against foreign silver and of the power to issue silver certificates against seigniorage of silver; use of the stabilization fund to absorb and control excess reserves in domestic banks; increase of the amount of reserves required of member banks with authority to double their present amounts to absorb idle money, and extension of reserve requirements to all banks; segregation of gold imports to stop issuance of gold certificates which results in more idle credits. 100 Rescuers Dig for Four Skiers Buried by Slide ALTA, Utah, Jan.

2 IP More than 100 resoue workers today dug with shovels and their iiandis for the bodies of at least four skiers, hurled into a gulch and buried beneath 50 feet of snow, ice and boulders 'by an avalandhe. They worked in relays through the night by lanternlight. flares and searchlights. Sub-zero temperatures greatly hampered the rescue workers, many of whom were pulling aside splintered trees and rocks with their gloved hands. Authorities had no hope of the victims 'being- recovered alive.

If they are not smothered or crushed, it was said, they had Ibeen frozen to death. Deputy sheriffs said they had found some ski equipment in the debris which (belonged to Kenneth Wright of Salt Lake City. Witnesses saw at least "four boys" swept away and it was reported that another skier had been with the group. Identification was difficult because 1.500 had spent New Year's day at the fashionable winter resort and many had scattered to their homes. They were halfway up a 150-foot slope, which had previously been marked dangerous, when the avalandhe broke late yesterday.

Witnesses who turned when, they heard the deep rumble of the swift-lv-moving snow and ice said the victims had no chance. NUMBER 310 Gets lyfAir Status of Ireland is Questioned By UNITED PRESS Germany today rushed powerful air units to her be-leagured axis partner, Italy, in a move which may presage new winter campaigns in the Mediterranean theater of war. The German action and the recall of several hundred fascist war-planes from the English channel front coincided with the publication by the nazi high command of a recapitulation claiming nearly 100,000.000 pounds of bombs had been dumped on Britain. 25 to 1 Ratio The Germans claimed the raUo of German bombs on Britain was 25-to-l over British bombs on Germany and claimed that an average of three Royal Air Force planes were destroyed for every nazi craft lost. Berlin claimed also the sinking of 3,900,000 tons of merchant shipping, damaging of 2.000,000 tons and the sinking of 190,000 tons of British warships in the last six months of 1940.

German losses were stated to be infinitesimal: Three Irish Killed Neutral Eire reported widespread activity by officially unidentified planes which dropped bombs killing three persons. At least one of the bombs was officially identified as of German origin. The plane activity accompanied increasing anxiety over the status of Eire. The British are eager to obtain Irish naval bases to use in protecting- sea lanes against German air and naval attack. British Forces High Lord Beaverbrook, British min ister of aircraft supply, told American correspondents United States bombers are being flown across the Atlantic to Britain in "a steady stream" and British airplane forces now are at an all- time high.

Reports from the Jugoslav fron tier said Greek artillery now had the central Albanian Bastion of Elbasan under fire and that British planes set fire to an Italian ship in the Valona harbor. The British reported widespread air action in North Africa and an ever-tightening ring around besieged Bardia. Order Germans Home Turkey ordered German nurses and governesses estimated to number several hundred to leave the country. How large a proportion of the nazi Luftwaffe will be diverted to the Mediterranean war theater was not indicated. Only one unit of fascist fighter planes will remain with the German air force on the English channel fighting front.

Previously, Italian spokesman had indicated German transport planes and crews had aided in bringing Italian reinforcements to Albania and said some Luftwaffe planes "might" be fighting against Greece. France, Africa The Italian announcement did not limit the German air coopera tion to the Albanian and Libyan fronts. One sphere is the French-held territory both in France and in North Africa. German operations from French bases would make possible heavy attacks on the British naval trains operating west from Gibraltar to Alexandria. The second sphere is Spain and the western gateway to the Mediterranean, Gibraltar and Tangier.

There have been persistent fears of a German thrust in this region. Germany is generally believed to be speeding up plans for new lightning blows against Britain on many fronts. At Standstill In this situation the status of French-German relations assumed great Importance. Vichy dispatch es described Franco-German ne gotiations as at a standstill and reported evidence of nazi displeasure. Vichy said that the Germans are 'preoccupied with preparations for a great attack on Britain but did not indicate whether the nazis expected to utilize French collaboration.

What Prescription? On the Balkan front chief Inter est was centered on sudden departure of Bulgaria's foreign minister, Bogdan Filoff, for Vienna for reasons of "health." Bel grade reported that Filoffs "treat ment would be administered by nazi Foreign Minister Joachim Von Kibbentrop. Bulgaria has been the object of a diplomatic tug-of-war involving Germany and Russia. Germany has been concentrating increasing numbers of troops in Rumania and Hungary, possibly for the psychological effect such concentrations might have on recalcitrant statesmen of adjoining countries. OIL RATES ASKED LINCOLN. Jan.

2, (IP) Nebraska railroads asked the state railway commission today for authority to establish intrastate rates on petroleum products from Falls City and Salem to all points in Nebraska. The proposed rate schedule would be the same as that now in effect for shipments from County Agent Office Again Opened Here Receives County Tax and No Longer Dependent on Contributions The office of the county agri natural agent, which had bean operating solely on private con tributions since Aug. 1, is back on the county payroll." Although county tax funds. which partly financed the office, were discontinued in August, the office was kept cpen until Nov. 16, then closed for nearly a month until Dec.

9, when enough private donations were received to war rant its reopening on a limited scale. The November election however, resulted in an over whelming "confidence" vote on part of the voters of Platte coun ty, and, accordingly, the office again receives county tax aid starting Jan. 1. Match Federal Money Although county aid had not been forthcoming for the past five months, the private contributions aided in a degree to match some of the federal money coming into the office, and, rather than close up entirely. County Agent Walter E.

Spilker "stayed with the ship." Also back on the payroll today is Miss Marian Flaherty, steno grapher, who was laid off in November. Attend Conference Mr. Spilker left this morning for Lincoln, where he is attending the annual conference of county agricultural extension workers at the agricultural college. The sessions end next Wednesday. The Platte county agricultural extension board will meet Satur day to make plans for the holding of the annual meeting later this month.

Railroad Wages to Jump $7,000,000 by Federal Order WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (1P Wage-Hour Administrator Philip B. Fleming today ordered wage rate increases of more than annually for 70,000 railroad workers, including red caps, pull-man porters and dining car waiters. Wage increases to become effective March 1, 1940, also will affect track, shop and terminal workers, watchmen, expressmen, office and other railroad employes. It is the third largest wage increase ordered by the administration.

The order will make effective recommendations of the railroad carrier industry committee for minimum wages of 36 cents an hour for employes on trunk line railroads and 33 cents an hour for short lines. Some railroads affected by the wage order and the amount of additional annual wages to be paid employes were announced as: The Seaboard Airline, the Atlantic Coast Line, the Illinois Central, the Misouri Pacific, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, International Great Northern, Missouri-Kansas-Texas, Texas Pacific, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, $81,000. Garner at Capital Wearing Dude Hat WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (LP) Vice President John N. Garner, returning from Texas after a long vacation, drove up to the White House today and almost didn't get in.

The reason: he was wearing a "man in the street" gray fedora hat in place of his usual wide-brimmed Texas sombrero. "I didn't know you," a White House guard said when Garner walked in, smoking his customary cigar. "I don't blame you," the vice president replied. He explained it was the first time he had worn the new hat which was a gift from Silliman Evans, Nashville publisher. "I thought when I left home that I ought to wear it," Garner said.

"Isn't it a dandy? It's a dude hat." Fashion Writer Says Men Wear Patriotic, Gay Clothes Soon OMAHA, Jan. 2 IP "Men of the nation may not know it," Bob Singer, esquire magazine fashion writer said today, "but they will be wearing gay and patriotic clothes this spring and summer." Singer, 26, former Omaha newspaper man and Nebraska university student, said, "many a man will eat his words if he claimed in the past that he would never be caught in such outfits." He is visiting here this week attending the International convention of Zeta Beta Tau, college fraternity. FIRST 1941 BABY WAHOO, Jan. 2 (IP) The small town of Wahoo lays claim today to Nebraska's first 1941 baby. A son was born to Mr.

and Mrs. Charles McEvoy, farmers near Yutan, one minute after midnight whistles had welcomed in the New Year. ASCAP Says Radio Tunes "Atrocious" NEW YORK, Jan. 2 IP The radio music war deluged the air waves today with old classics and semi-classics in swing time; folk songs, hill toilly songs, spirituals and Latin American music. These were substituted for the popular songs of the American So.

ciety of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) which were banned from the three major networks and many independent sta- tions Tuesday midnight because ASCAP tried to raise its license fees. John G. Jaine, ASCAFs general manager, said the substitute music was "atrocious" and predicted the public would not tolerate it long. He said the broadcasts of the foot ball bowl games yesterday were lifeless." The networks broadcast the games from sound-proof booths as a precaution against picking up any ASCAP music being played toy college bands. Sydney M.

Kaye, general counsel of Broadcast Music, set up by the neworks to provide music in competition with ASCAP, said everytihng was going along smoothly" and that he doubted whether the public noticed any difference. Virtually all the popular songs of the past 50 years, except those in the pufalic domain from copyright expirations or those produced by EMI writers the past few months, are toanned from about three-fourths of the radio stations, including the three major networks. Colder Weather, But Fair, Coming West wind and clear. .27 inch of moisture. 1 p.

m. 34. High yesterday 37. Low this morning 23. High year ago 15.

Low year ago -12. Following days of fog, Thursday dawned clear in most of Nebraska as temperatures remained below freezing. Yesterday morning Genoa received .43 of an inch of rain, Monroe .43 and Columbus .20, the Loup Public power district reported. None had fallen since. The weatherman said the mercury would drop in the east tonight, with fair weather predicted for the entire state tonight and tomorrow.

Midmorning readings across the state ranged from 16 at Sidney in the west to 30 at Lincoln in the east. Other marks included Omaha and Grand Island 27, Overton 26, North Platte 20, Hayes Center 22 and Big Springs 19. The mercury plunged to 8 degrees at Sidney last night after reaching 43 at Lincoln yesterday. FIRST COUPLE WED OMAHA, Jan. 2 IP) Mr.

and Mrs. Ed. Roulier claimed today to be Nebraska's first married couple of 1941. They were wed at midnight New Year's eve in a quiet ceremony at the home of District Judge Frank Dineen. Roulier Is an assistant sales manager for the Sidles company.

His bride, the former Verdeen Larmer. has trav- elled through the state as a beauty Plan for U. S. Ships to Take British Routes LONDON, Jan. 2, (IP) Britain and the United States are re ported today to be considering a plan by which American merchantmen would take over for the dur ation of the war British trade routes in an extensive area of the Pacific, thus releasing British ships for service in the Atlantic and Mediterranean.

Under the plan, American ships might replace British ships" in routes criss-crossing the far Pacific between such areas as China, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and other places. Complete Plans It was understood Harvey Kel-emmer, representative of the United States maritime commission attached to the embassy here, would discuss the plan with high administration authorities at Washington and return here within six weeks to continue negotiations and if possible complete arrangements. Klemmer left London last week for Washington via Lisbon and New York. Extend Navicert As another move to strengthen its own position and to tighten the blockade of Germany and Italy, Britain announced the extension of its "Navicert" system to Ireland. The ministry of economic warfare announced that effective Jan.

22 Irish exporters must obtain certificates, guaranteeing their cargoes are not destined for enemy countries, for consignments to European neutral countries, Spanish and Portuguese Atlantic island possessions, French and Spanish African possessions and Liberia. Goods not covered by certificates would be liable to seizure. 5 Fined for Taking False Job Benefits LINCOLN, Jan. 2 IP) The state unemployment compensation division announced today that five former Nebraskans now living in Iowa had been fined $50 and costs for obtaining Nebraska job insurance benefits under false pretenses. County Judge Whitney Gillil-land fined the men after they pleaded guilty.

Nebraska's law allows persons moving to another state to file claims against the wage credits they earned in Nebraska. The five who moved to Iowa, however, filed illegal claims because they were working and were ineligible for benefits. Gasoline Tax Hits New High in State LINCOLN, Jan. 2 a Nebraska's gasoline tax collections rose to a new all-time high of in 1940, director John A. Ain-lay of the state motor fuel division reported today.

Monthly collections averaged $1,003,502, making 1940 the first year in which the average has exceeded $1,000,000. The 1940 total compared with $11,738,842 in 1939 and $11,278,849 'in 1938. Man, 74, Surrenders to Serve Out Life Sentence MONTGOMERY, Ala, Jan. 2 (IP) Tom Hodge, 74, the 'best part of his hfe past today asked to spend the remainder of his day3 in prison 'because his conscience had troubled him for 21 years. Accompanied toy his son, Clifford, the soft-spoken, little man walked into KiDby prison last night and surrendered to Warden Earl Wilson 31 years after he escaped from the Speigner prison farm.

He had been serving a life sentence for murder at Florala, Ala. Start Year Right Hodge said Clifford had been trying for a long time to persuade him to surrender, and "I thought I'd start the new year right, like son says." I suddenly decided to give up while spending Christmas with my wife and four sons at Florala," explained Hodge. "I had been thinking of it for several years. I lived specialist. Omaha and Superior..