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Crew Allowed Freedom : Of City as Mystery * Over Case Persists *' By the Associated Press.

\ WILMINGTON, N. C., Dec. 7.—

The German-manned sailing yacht Lakala was tied up at a pier today Tinder Coast Guard orders as specu- lation arose as to why she was

being detained. Coast Guard offi-

cials declined to comment. Her captain, Edward Kerling, a

naturalized American, and a crew of six Germans were allowed free- dom of the city and apparently the only thing they could not do was

sail away. Never, the crew told authorities,

had they intended to sail back to Germany in the 40-foot craft, but rather expected to sell it in Florida.

From an F. B. I. agent came word that “as far as I know this is still an immigration matter.”

Says Entry Was Legal. But Jennings Otts, immigration

inspector, said that the Germans entered this country legally and he knew of no reason why they should be further detained.

The Lakala was picked up by the Coast Guard near here Tuesday. Federal authorities said the Ger- mans had been questioned in at MAO L LIU CC jJVl LO.

Those authorities said the men had been employed on tankers of the Standard Oil Co. until the out- break of the war, when they decided to go home.

The Lakala was bought in New York and taken to Baltimore for supplies. But suspicions of customs agents were aroused when rations sufficient for six months were put aboard.

Washington Officials Explain. Federal agents said the crew ex-

plained they would sail all the way to Germany if they could not find a Nazi ship on the high seas. The Lakala has sails and an auxiliary motor.

Washington officials said that the craft was picked up near here and turned over to the United States district attorney for North Carolina for compliance with a law requiring nationals of a belligerent country who leave the United States to con-

tact belligerent vessels to supply bond before they depart.

But J. O. Carr, the district attor- ney, said he did not know why the Lakala was being held or when it would be re^ased.

New pedestrian crossings in Bombay, India, are indicated by yellow herringbone lines.

Hut, Parched Corn, Paper Author's Idea of Heaven

William Faulkner Here to Testify in Plagiarism Suit

A hut in the woods, some parched com, a can of tobacco and plenty of paper constitutes William Faulkner’s idea of his personal author’s heaven.

“If I could just be endowed,” he grinned. "But then I might just sit in the hut and never get anything written at all.”

A writer needs a fire under him like a mule, he explained in the soft-spoken drawl of his native Mississippi, where, between writing novels like “The Sound and the Fury” and “Sanctuary,” the author supervises his 35-acre farm.

Here to testify in the $1,000,000 plagiarism suit against Twent ieth- Century-Fox Film Co., Mr. Faulk- ner passed the time of day with a

reporter at his hotel. For the inter- view, the 42-year-old author was

arrayed in a yellow tie, blue shirt, brown vest, pepper-and-salt coat and some other color trousers, but he made it clear that he hasn’t “gone Hollywood.”

Finds Hollywood Depressing. In- fact, he finds Hollywood a

pretty depressing place. “About a third of the population,”

he explained, “are beautiful young creatures who seem to have stopped growing when they learned how to talk, and the rest are all old folks.”

He prefers to live on his farm, “thoueh. of course, it’s been years since a farmer earned a living farm- ing.”

When Mr. Faulkner quit school in the sixth grade because it just didn’t itnerest him, he never though he’d turn into a writer. Here’s how he explained the "accident” that got him started:

“I’d saved up some money and I though I’d like to go to Europe. So I went to New Orleans and tried to get a job as a deckhand. That took some time, of course, and in the meantime I ran into Sherwood An- derson.

“We used,to get together to tell each other good, wholesome, work- able lies and I thought he led a

very pleasant life being an author, so I told him I’d decided to write a book. He said if I wouldn’t ask him to read it he’d write a letter to his publisher saying it was the best first novel that had ever been WTitten.”

And so it happened that his first book was accepted and because he’d signed a contract to write three, he started another. He was on his third book before he discovered that it was fun to write about his own

country and his own people. “I could write about the sun

shining on a field and know just I where that field was,” he remi- nisced. “I began to like inventing

characters, creating folks that be- longed to me.”

Characters Declared Invention. He made it very clear that it is

just “invention.” The average per- son, he said, refuses to believe an

author invents a character instead of copying it from life.

He remembered that the father of Stark Young, the novelist, read one of his son’s books and said only, “Well, son, I don’t see how you re-

membered all those people.” “You see,” he explained, “I'm not

writing about somebody I think is tragic or comic. I invent a charac- ter to fill the form in which I con- ceived the book.”

The author doesn’t expect to gar- ner any plots or characters from his experience in District Court.

“I’ve got more than I’ll write in a lifetime now,” he said. “I’ll never

get done with what I’ve got.”

Talk on Swing Music George Patterson will discuss

swing music at a meeting of the Lassale Club next Saturday. The club is a Jewish labor and fraternal organization of boys and girls be- tween the ages of 13 and 16. The meeting will be held at the Work- men’s Circle Lyceum, 1502 Four- teenth street N.W.

Pope Exhorts Clergy I Under Arms to Be 1

Models of Piety I Pius Calls Upon Priests To Fulfill Duties As Soldiers

By the Associated Press.

VATICAN CITY, Dec. 7.—Pope <

Pius XII today called on priests and ilerics who are under arms to fulfill

.heir duties as soldiers In an exem-

plary manner.

The Pontiff issued an apostolic ;xhortation in which he urged the

Members of the clergy who are sol-

liers to observe “especially strict"

conduct “in the field of morals.” Prior to publication of the ex-

nortation the Pope, in receiving Dino Mfieri, new Italian Ambassador to the Holy See, praised the Italian ,

government for staying out of war. ,

Exhorts Them to Piety. In his 2,500-word message to

priests under arms Pope Pius ex-

ported them to piety, telling them that they could, “even in the midst of so much ruin, draw souls to salvation.”

“Let there be seen in you at all times the minister of God,” the ex-

portation said. “This character of yours ought to make of you men of duty, models of obedience to au-

thority, without prejudice to the law ■

Df God, and of readiness for sacri- I lice, UUb lb UUgllb IlUb, liny, lb can-

not, in any way or for any reason whatsoever, let you yield to any of the frivolous, corrupt or blame- worthy Influences that may be found in your environment.

"In the field of morals your con-

duct should be especially strict, without compromise, concession or

weakness, that it may be at once an exhortation and an example.”

New Powers to Be Granted. The pontiff offered his advice and

comfort to the clergy who are sol- diers because he said he was “af- fected by the painful situation” of those suddenly removed from their “field of work for souls or from the quiet” of their studies to the "new world of camp and battles.”

That they may have “those spiritual helps” that they “have need of,” the Pope announced his inten- tion to grant "new and extraordinary powers” to all military vicars and chief chaplains of nations or dis- tricts where a state of war or

mobilization exists “or shall come to exist.”

Receiving Alfleri, former Italian minister of popular culture, for presentation of credentials, the Pope said the Italian people would ap- preciate their government’s wisdom in remaining out of war, which, he said, made it possible for Italy to

help bring about peace.

Mysterious Movement Of Russians Reported From Western China

Concern Provoked Among Authorities of Nearby British India

By A. T. STEELE, Chicago Daily News Foreign Correapondent.

SHANGHAI, Dec. 7. — Soviet Russia is playing a mysterious game in Far Western China. Reports ar-

riving here through British channels from Kashgar, historic caravan cen- ter near China’s westernmost tip, tell of unexplained movements of troops and supplies during the past fortnight. These movements are not large, but are provoking some con- cern among the authorities of ad- jacent British India.

1 Simultaneously, the Sinklang pro- 1 vincial government has begun requi-

sitioning and storing large quantities of food supplies in Kashgar and other towns in Western Sinklang. One of the centers of activity is Yarkand, starting point of the

caravan trail which crosses the Himalayas through the UfiOO-fdot Karakorum Pass to India.

The British are mystified by these activities, as penetration to India Is next to impossible during the winter months, when the passes are snow- bound. It is reasoned, however, that the Soviet bosses of Sinkiang may be putting themselves in readi- ness for possible future eventualities.

There is still nothing to confirm earlier rumors of a huge Soviet mil- itary influx into Sinkiang. Russian troops are seen only in small groups and those passing through Kashgar are mixed with native provincials.

Soviet political Influence has been predominant in Sinkiang for the past nine years, but lately there has been a tendency to consolidate more

firmly. Yet there is no evidence of the extension of Soviet control into the adjacent Chinese provinces of Kansu, Nlnghsia and Chinghai.

Communications between China and Russia were further strength- ened this week by the inaugura- tion of airplane and wireless tele- phone service between Chungking and Moscow.

Chungking—Chiang Kai-shek's government seat in Szechuan Prov- ince-remains cool toward the Chi- ;

nese Communists, but despite dlf- ferenees the united front is manag- ing to hold together. * (Copyright, 1939, Chicago Dally Mewi, Inc.)

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