Rome Police Rout
Demonstrators
Against Allies
Rank-and-File Italians
Showing Nerve Strain
Of Awaiting War
*y the Associated Press.
ROME, June 5.—Fascist students
attempted to organize new anti-Al
lied demonstrations today as Italy
marked time on the edge of war,
but were disbanded by police in the
Vicinity of the British consulate.
The youths, many of (whom had
,1ust completed their examinations
In the early closing of schools,
formed a procession in the down
town streets.
After they were dispersed, armed
troops were stationed at doorways
near the consulate, and the guards
at the French and British Embas
sies were reinforced.
Turkish-Greek Tension.
An Athens dispatch to II Messag
gero reported that Turkey, despite
her denials, had sought permission
to disembark troops on the Greek
Islands in the Aegean Sea. The
troops were said to be already con
centrated and ready to embark,
while Allied war vessels were cruis
ing among the islands.
The papers said the Greek gov
ernment had rejected the request,
but that it had been urgently re
newed.
Turkey’s reasons were reported to
be first, to prevent the islands from
falling into Italian hands in case
Italy entered the war and then be
ing used as bases for an attack on
Turkey; and second, to make it pos
sible for Turkey to protect Greek
territory from attack, since Greece
lies within Turkey's safety zone.
Tension was reported growing be
tween Greece and Turkey as a re
sult of the supposed demands.
The soldiers guarding the British
consulate in Rome were withdrawn
in midmorning.
About 20 British Leave.
About 20 British, mostly members
of the Embassy’s commercial staff,
and their families left today for
home. Fellow-countrymen who
bade them farewell at the station
shouted, “Hurrah for England!” as
the train departed.
The government issued instruc
tions for blackouts in case of air
raids.
The Fascist press continued to
publish reports or alleged Allied per
secution of Italians. The latest ac
cusation was contained in a Stefani
news agency dispatch from Brus
sels, charging French troops had
executed seven Italians and Bel
gians after a court martial con
victed them of espionage.
The victims were reported to
have been part of a group, which
Included women and children, who
were lined up against a wall for
summary execution. This, according
to the dispatch, was postponed at
the last minute pending the court
martial, which then passed the
death sentence.
Strain on Nerves Shown.
Rank and file Italians, admitting
privately that the on-and-off state
of Italy's war preparations was get
ting on their nerves, took the view
that “if we’re going to fight, let’s
get it over with.”
This comment highlighted clamor
for an Italian blow for her terri
torial aspirations—stirred by Fas
cist writers’ descriptions of plans for
attacks on British and French
Mediterranean territories, with con
quest of the Suez Canal as a main
goal, perhaps to be followed by a
move into the Balkans.
A cabinet meeting presided over
by Premier Mussolini yesterday pro
duced only secondary preparedness
regulations and left still undis
closed the date and place of possible
Italian intervention in the war as a
German ally.
Speculation regarding the time of
an Italian plunge into war ranged
from the end of this week to the end
of the month and one source close
to the government declared that no
immediate move was likely.
Italian lines sold tickets for sail
ing of the liner Rex for New York
June 11. after nearly every one had
concluded that the United States
liners President Harrison and Ex
cambion, now en route to America
would be the last ships to leave for
the United States before extension
of the war to the Mediterranean.
Mrs. Linn R. Blanchard
Funeral Services Today
Mrs. Sara Johnston Blanchard, 67,
Wife of Linn R. Blanchard, chief
of the accessions division of the
Library of Congress, died Monday
in George Washington University
Hospital after a brief illness.
Funeral services were to be held
at 3 p.m today at the Hines funeral
home. 2901 Fourteenth street N.W.,
with burial in Fort Lincoln Ceme
tery.
Mrs. Blanchard, a native of But
ler, Pa., was graduated from West
minster College, New Wilmington,
Pa., with B. A. and M. A. degrees.
She afterward taught school in But
ler and Monesen, Pa. She was mar
ried to Mr. Blanchard in 1911. They
had lived in Washington since 1927,
making their home at 3714 Windom
place N.W.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Blan
chard leaves a son, Alan J. Blan
chard, and a grandson, Alan F.
Blanchard of Arlington, Va.; a
daughter, Mrs. Alice Barnes of
Washington: a brother, Wesley
Johnston of St. Louis, Mo.; three
sisters, Mrs. Robert Shomo of But
ler. Mrs. Samuel J. Levy of Gallitzin,
Pa., and Miss Flora M. Johnston
of Lincoln, Nebr.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
Considers Army promotion bill
and other defense measures.
Appropriations Committee acts on
•1.055,000,000 relief bill.
Foreign Relations Committee con
siders Pittman-Bloom bill reaffirm
ing Monroe doctrine.
Naval Committee holds hearing
on bill to expedite shipbuilding.
Military Committee considers bills
aimed at “fifth colnmns.”
House:
Continues debate on Wagner Act
amendments.
Ways and Means Committee stu
dies billion dollar tax increase.
Foreign Affairs Committee dis
cusses Pittman-Bloom bill.
Eire keeps imports of women’s
hats on a quota basis.
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Red Cross Is Far Short
Of $300,000 Fund Drive Here
Capital Declared Not Yet Awake
To Need for Larger Quota
Contributions to the Red
Cross war relief fund will be
received and acknowledged in
the news columns if sent to the
cashier’s office of The Star.
The desperate, need of Europe’s
war victims was epmhasized today
as District Red Cross leaders re
minded Washingtonians their orig
inal quota of $150,000 in the war
relief drive has been doubled and
that donations to date are only
$112,762.43.
Among large contributions reported
yesterday was one of $852.55 from
the headquarters staff of the Ameri
can Red Cross. Mrs. Newland John
ston gave $500. as did Miss Edith
Allen Clark, while a total of $3,243
was reported from the booths in
banks and stores.
Pointing out that less than half
the local quota has been raised,
Bruce Baird, general campaiagn
chairman, declared "Washington has
not yet fully awakened to the fact
that the original quota of $150,000
has been doubled.
Plight of Refugees Cited.
“Washingtonians should compare
their own safety and freedom with
that of the refugees who are being
bombed out of home and city; who
are being maimed and starved; who
are. in many instances, little chil
dren and helpless old people. I am
sure that if they consider this pic
ture. Washingtonians will give freely
until the goal is reached.”
Meanwhile, contributors from all
over the country had swelled the
American Red Cross war relief fund
to $6,591,160.
While money and relief supplies
went forward, the British Red Cross
cabled grateful acknowledgement for
50 ambulances which are being dis
patched to replace losses in the
battle of Flanders.
Letters have been received from
contributors in every station of
life—road gang convicts, couples
celebrating their golden anniversary,
charwomen and school children.
$60 From Eskimo Village.
From the remote Eskimo village
of Gambell in Alaska came a check
for $60.50 from the village's fund
raised by sale of ivory carvings.
Funds ordinarily used for “smokes
and otlfter few luxuries and necessi
ties” were sent to the Red Cross by
90 convicts at the State prison camp
at Sandy Ridge, N. C.
A public school class in High
Point, N. C„ donated the sum it
had raised for a graduation party,
and an elderly couple asked friends
who planned to give them golden
wedding anniversary presents to send
the money to the Red Cross instead.
From West Felinciana Parish, La ,
where flood victims have been helped
by the Red Cross in the past, came
$2 from a resident to "enable the
Red Cross to do for somebody else
what you did for me.” A scrub
woman sent her day s wages and a
Polish resident of Rochester hit
upon the idea of selling flowers from
her small garden to raise a contri
bution.
Other donations reported yester
day from Washingtonians included
“anonymous” sums of $500 and $200,
a $200 gift from Mr. and Mrs. Milton
King. $497.35 from L. R. Harris «fc
Co., and $5 from a girls’ club of
eighth grade students at Holy Cross
Academy.
Reports from Government depart
ments were as follows:
Federal Work Agency, $83.50;
Treasury. $330.90; Federal Housing,
$393: Public Library, $103.14; ex
ecutive office Government repre
sentatives, $59.10; White House,
$385; Library of Congress, $299.75;
Interior Department, $2,667.90;
United States Tariff Commission,
$113; Walter Reed Hospital, $203.20;
Public Utilities Commission, $58;
Maritime Commission, $211.75;
Smithsonian Institution, $119.36;
General Accounting Office. $900.10;
Suveyor’s Office, $35; District of Co
lumbia Health Department, $52.75.
Defense Commission
Starts Conferences
With Army and Navy
Industrial Mobilization
Plan Reported Sifted
For Production Clues
The National Defense Commis
sion today began a series of confer
ences with the Army and Navy to
i find a basis for production of the
i most pressing rearmament needs of
the Nation.
Acting with renewed assurances
from President Roosevelt that they
would meet no interference from
cabinet officers. Edward R. Stet
tinius, jr., charged with acquiring
industrial materials, and William fe.
Knudsen, in charge of production,
alternated the conference between
their new offices in the Federal Re
serve Building and th Navy and
Munitions Building across thg street.
It was reliably reported they also
were examining the Army’s indus
trial mobilization plans, long in
preparation for war-time use, which
would furnish the Defense Com
mission wnth immediate information
for producing much of the im
portant material.
Air-Cooled Engine Studied.
Most pressing was increasing pro
duction of airplane engines. Mr.
Knudsen, now on leave from his job
as president of General Motors, was
reported examining the possibility
of placing in production by the au
tomobile industry an air-cooled
engine for warplanes. It was ru
mored this might be the Rolls Royce
engine design sent here by England
last month.
Also reported under discussion
were plans for increased produc
tion of General Motors’ own Alli
son engine, an air-cooled type for
which all new Army pursuit planes
are designed. This, it was said, would
be accomplished by permitting other
automobile companies to produce
the Allison engine through retooling
plants, an expensive procedure
which could not be completed ordi
narily in less than a year. The un
official embargo on machine tool
ing disclosed yesterday to have been
placed in effect may speed the re
tooling process.
So busy were Mr. Knudsen and
Mr. Stettinius they scarcely had time
to select secretaries and office per
sonnel. Other offices in the air-con
1 ditioned building were being pre
| pared rapidly for Sidney Hillman,
; who will have charge of defense
personnel. Now ill, he is expected to
j arrive in Washington near the end
of the week.
Others Due Next Week.
Miss Harriet Elliott, dean of
women at the University of North
Carolina and charged with con
sumer protection in the Defense
Commission, and Ralph Budd,
charged with supervising trans
portation for the needed materials,
are expected early next week. Their
arrival will complete the com
mission.
Shortly after Mr. Stettinius re
signed from his $100,000-a-year job
yesterday as chairman of the United
States Steel Board, President Roose
velt refuted at his press conference
assertions that Secretary of Com
merce Hopkins and Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau would retain
control of the defense plan. The
Treasury, he said, would retain the
task of co-ordinating military pur
chases by foreign nations which Mr.
Roosevelt said will remain outside
the Defense Commission’s jurisdic
tion because of financial problems
and the fact that the Treasury has
been dealing continuously with the
I Allied Purchasing Board.
Meanwhile, a national inventor’s
council was reported being created
as a defense measure by Secretary
Hopkins and will include scientists.
A similar group was organized dur
ing the World War. The council
will have representatives of the
Army, Navy and Patent Office.
Three D. C. Youths Graduate
Three Washington students were
graduated from Staunton Military
Acamedy at exercises in Staunton,
Va., yesterday. They are Robert
A. Chambreau, 5704 Sixteenth street
N.W.; Stephen H. Smith, 4211 Mili
tary road N.W., and Layne Loeffler,
3109 Nichols avenue S.E.
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Biddle Seeks Unity
Without 'Hysteria'
In Alien Control.
Solicitor General Aims
At Co-ordination of Work
Of Six Department Units
By the Associated Press.
Solicitor General Francis Biddle
said today that he would endeavor
to co-ordinate the work of the six
Justice Department units responsible
for dealing with aliens and combat
ing subversive activities.
Mr. Biddle said m an interview
that there was no thought of merg
ing these units—civil liberties, neu
trality, immigration, naturaliza
tion, border patrol and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation. What he ,
would seek to do, he said, would be
to keep a "balance” in their work.
“The problem of subversive activ
ity,” he declared, “is not greatly an
alien problem. Many of those to be
watched are recently naturalized
citizens.”
Department “to Keep Calm.”
He added the department's aim ‘
would be to "convince the immi
grants that what is being done is '
for their protection and to tie them
into the American way of life.”
The department, he said, “will be
extremely ready to follow' up evi
dence of sabotage or espionage, but
will attempt to keep calm in what
may become an hysterical situation.”
Transfer of the immigration and
naturalization service to the Justice
Department from the Labor Depart
ment becomes effective June 14. At
torney General Jackson has made
Mr. Biddle responsible for fitting
the new division into the depart
ment.
Personnel to Be Checked.
Mr. Biddle said he already had
ordered a “careful check” of the bor
der patrol personnel and effective
ness. particularly in view of the
strain which might result if Canada
ordered conscription.
The solicitor general likewise said
he had started to work with the
Post Office Department and the
Census Bureau in anticipation of
congressional enactment of legisla
tion calling for registration of all
aliens.
This bill would require finger
printing of all aliens before admis
sion to this country, registration and
fingerprinting of all aliens now here,
reports of change in address of
alient permanent residents, and re
ports every three months from other
aliens
Mr. Biddle estimated eight months
would be required for registration
of the 3,500,000 or more aliens in
the United States.
Heat Overcomes Four;
Cooler Is Forecast
Cooler weather and thundershow
ers were in prospect tonight and to
morrow following yesterday after
noon’s heat which sent the mercury
to a new high of 92 degrees and
prostrated four persons. Only one
of the four heat victims was seri
ously affected.
The forecast said: “Cloudy tonight
with local showers and thunder
showers; tomorrow partly cloudy
followed by local thundershowers
in the afternoon. Not much change
in temperature.”
The low this morning was 70 de
grees, some eight points above that
of yesterday, but cloudy skies kept
temperatures in the 70’s throughout
the forenoon.
John Dixon, colored, 30, 1100 block
of Fifth street N.W., remained at
Garfield Hospital today for treat
ment after he was overcome while at
work on the Naval Medical Center
Building under construction on
Rockville pike. He was brought to
the hospital by the Bethesda Rescue
Squad.
Others less seriously affected were
Dexter Brady, 39, 1500 block of A
street NB.; McKinley Chapman, 38,
600 block of Callan street NB„ and
Ernest Ellington, 55, 800 block of
Second street N.W. They were given
first aid at Casualty Hospital and
sent home.
Fish friers of Britain want a
14,000,000 subsidy.
M
President Expected
To Fill Edison's
Post Promptly •
Navy Secretary's Letter'
Of Resignation Paid
Tribute to Compton
By JOHN C. HENRY.
Quick selection of a new Secretary
of Navy to replace Charles Edison,
resigning, in order to prevent any
break in continuity of the defense
program was being forecast today
in quarters close to the White House
and the Navy Department.
Mr. Edison, leaving the cabinet on
June 24 to open his campaign as the
Democratic candidate for Governor
of New Jersey, actually submitted
his resignation to President Roose
velt on May 24. Its receipt and ac
ceptance were announced by the
President at a press conference late
yesterday.
Thus far no definite indication
has been given as to who Mr. Edi
son’s successor may be or whether
the President has even decided on
the choice.
Paid Compton Tribute.
It was noted, however, that in his
letter of resignation Mr, Edison paid
particular tribute to Assistant Sec
retary Lewis Compton, and selection
of Mr. Compton for the post would
not be surprising.
Also from New Jersey, Mr. Comp
ton came to the Navy Department
as an old associate of Mr. Edison,
having served from 1936 to February,
1940, as assistant to the present
Secertary in his capacity as presi
dent of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Previously, Mr. Compton was New
Jersey State relief administrator
and assistant W. P. A. administra
tor. He served in the Navy during
the World War.
In recent months, Mr. Compton
has occupied a key post in the Navy
Department, exercising immediate
supervision over the construction
program of the department. Con
tinuity in this phase of the Navy’s
preparedness plans is considered
particularly important now.
Likewise mentioned as a possi
bility for the cabinet post is Ad
miral William D. Leahy, retired,
now the Governor of Puerto Rico.
Admiral Leahy preceded Admiral
Stark as chief of Navy operations
and is considered one of the top
authorities in naval matters.
Would Break Precedent.
His appointment would be a de
parture from precedent, however, in
that it has not been customary to
name men from the services to
either the War and Navy Depart
ment secretaryships.
It is a fact that the President
some time ago sounded out Col.
Frank Knox, Chicago publisher and
Republican vice presidential nomi-:
nee in 1936. for the Navy post, but 1
no understanding was reached. It!
is now understood that the Chi
cagoan would not accept the job.
In submitting his resignation, Mr.
Edison wrote the President that:
"In general, the objectives we
have striven for, over the past three
and a half years, have in great part
been realized or will be when the
present Congress finally passes the
current legislative program. The
shipbuilding program and plans for
its expansion are in good condition, i
as is the fleet in being.
“In Good Hands."
“The affairs of the Navy are in
the hands of an exceptionally able
group of men at this time from
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Mr.
Lewis Compton, the Chief of Naval
Operations Admiral Harold R. Stark,
the bureau chiefs and department
heads on.’’
I Wishing him success in his gu
! bernatorial campaign and con
gratulating him on his "splendid
| record” in the cabinet. Mr. Roosevelt
; replied to Mr. Edison:
| “I want you to know that I will
i continue to count on your advice in
many matters which relate to fhe
defense development now under way,
and I hope you will find time during
the next few months to come to
Washington frequently in order that
I may talk things over with you.”
Georgetown Citizens Win
Fight for Street Name
Georgetown residents have won
another battle to preserve senti
mental attachments to their his
toric community. The Commis
sioners decided yesterday that the
two-block street running north and
south from K to M street N.W.
parallel with Thirtieth street will
continue to bear the name of
Jefferson.
However, under a compromise in
tended to prevent confusion with
Jefferson street N.W., which runs
east and west, a block above Ingra
ham street N.W., or with Jefferson
place, off Connecticut avenue above
M street N.W.. the Commissioners
decided the street in lower George
town should be called Thomas
Jefferson street.
Commissioner John Russell Young
lives on Jefferson place, but did
not make the original suggestion
that Georgetown's Jefferson street
be renamed Thirtieth place. This
proposal, which brought protests
from a long list of Georgetown
residents, came from F. F. Healey,
District surveyor, and it was he
who submitted the compromise
which was adopted.
_
Baden-Powell Urges
Scouts to Further Effort
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 5.—Lord Baden
Powell, head of the Boy Scouts, sent
a message to all Scouts today calling
for “still further effort” to help the
Allies win the war.
“You have done grand work behind
the scenes already," he cabled from
his home in Kenya colony to imperial
headquarters here, “but as the fight
ing has grown more desperate it calls
for still further effort from you.
“So with tails up and sleeves up,
go to it in every way you can to
help win the war.”
Poles Plan to Transfer
Refugees to Syria
By the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, June 5.—Polish dip
lomatic circles early today disclosed
plans to transfer to Syria all the
13.000 Polish refugees in Rumania.
Many Polish refugees recently
have been arrested in a drive against
possible “fifth columists.”
The Polish circles said that nearly
50.000 refugees, the majority men
of military age, had left Rumania
since last September, mostly for
Trance.
k
MODEL OF WAR DEPARTMENT BUILDING—Judges at the architectural exhibit of the Associa
tion of Federal Architects, being held all this month at the National Museum are shown examin
ing a model of the proposed new War Department building. The structure will be bounded by
Twenty-first, Twenty-third, C and E streets and Virginia avenue N.W., and is expected to cost
$26,000,000.__—Star Staff Photo.
Raid Alarms Sounded
As Planes Fly High
Over Swedish Port
Allied Forces Smashing
East Along Norwegian
Railway to Border
By the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, June 5 —Air raid
alarms were sounded briefly in
Northern Sweden today, when at
least two foreign planes were sighted
at great height over the iron ore
port of Lulea, heavily fortified Boden
and Pitea. another northern port.
The planes disappeared before
they could be identified.
British, French and Norwegian
troops smashing eastward along the
Narvik Railway were reported in
Swedish press dispatches today to
have stormed the German defenses
at Sildvik, about halfway between
the Arctic ore port of Narvik and
the Swedish-Norwegian frontier.
Narvik in Allied Hands.
Narvik now is in Allied hands and
Allied forces are trying to free the
railway into Sweden from the Ger
mans.
The dispatches said the Germans
were yielding under the heavy rain
of shells from British destroyers and
land batteries.
A final onslaught against the main
German forces at Bjomfjell, about 2
miles from the Swedish frontier. Is
expected within a day or two If the
present advance continues.
The Allies and Norwegans are now
moving in accordance with well-laid
plans.
The battleground is a mountain
railway which burrows through 14
long tunnels.
Casualties Reported Heavy.
Inside these tunnels the Ger
mans are fighting furiously, in many
instances heroically holding on to
the last man. Into the mouths of
the tunnels fly showers of shrapnel
from the guns of British destroyers
lying in Rombakfjord. alongside the
railway, and from Allied mountain
artillery.
Taking advantage of this bar
rage but still exposed to German
air attacks, the Allied troops are ad
vancing along the railway from
Narvik to force their way through
and around the captured tunnels.
Casualties are reported heavy on
both sides.
Nazi Air Reinforcements
Blocked, British Say
NEW YORK, June 5 British
pursuit planes have forced the Ger
mans to abandon the landing of
reinforcements in Northern Norway
from transport planes, it was an
nounced today in a broadcast on
the wavelength of the official British
wireless heard by C. B. S.
The British also reported that the
Germans were frustrated in at
:empts to land troops, provisions and
ammunition by means of para
chutes.
C. 1.0. Asks Dismissal
Of Republic Steel Suit
By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, June 5.—The Con
gress of Industrial Organizations
asked Federal District Court today
to dismiss a suit for $7,500,000 dam
ages brought by Republic Steel Corp.
under anti-trust statutes resulting
from the' 1937 “little steel” strike.
Counsel for C. I. O. cited the
recent United States Supreme Court
ruling that a C. I. O. union’s sit
down strike “of the most brutal and
wanton character” against the Apex
Hosiery Co. did not constitute viola
tion of the Sherman act.
In his written motion Attorney
Marvin C. Harrison contended the
Apex decision established a precedent
under which acts of violence alleged
by Republic ’’do not create a cause of
action under the anti-trust laws.”
Republic has 10 days in which to
file a reply. It named 750 organiza
tions and individuals in its suit and,
like Apex, asked treble damages.
Ambulance Volunteers
To Train in New York
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 5.—The Amer
ican Volunteer Ambulance Corps,
which has sent 110 ambulances and
40 drivers to France, will train its
drivers henceforth in New York in
stead of In Paris, to avoid delay
after the men reach Europe.
The A. V. A. C. is one of several
volunteer organizations sending men
and ambulances to the war zone.
i
Green Bay Packers
File Tax Protest
As 'Charity' Group
By the Associated Press.
Green Bay Packers, Inc.,
operator of the National Pro
fessional Football League team
of Green Bay. Wis., has told the
Tax Appeals Board it should
not have to pay a Treasury
claim for $5,865 of undistrib
uted profits taxes for 1937.
Its petition contended it was
a non-profit sharing organiza
tion. that any proceeds from
its operations went to the Sulli
van Post of the American
Legion or to Green Bay chari
ties. and that as a charitable
organization it was not subject
to tax.
Lawyers Guild Is Hr)
By Berle for Refusal
To Differ With Reds
State Department Aide
Resigns From National
And Local Bodies
Expressing dissatisfaction with the \
organization’s refusal “to take any
stand which conflicts with the Com- !
munist party line,” Assistant Secre
tary of State A. A. Berle, jr., has
resigned from the National Lawyers
Guild, as well as its District of
Columbia chapter, his office dis
closed today.
Attorney General Jackson and
Nathan Margold. solicitor of the
Interior Department, resigned from
the organization a few days ago.
Mr. Berle gave notice of his resigna
tion in brief letters dated June 3
to John Gutknecht of New York
City, retiring president of the Na
tional Guild, and Merle D. Vincent,
president of the Washington chapter.
Mr. Berle wrote that “the guild was
formed in the hope that expression
might be given to the liberal senti
ment in the American bar.”
However, the latter said, as long
as the guild is not prepared to con
flict with the Communist party line,
“in company, I think, with most
progressive American lawyers, I have
no further interest in it.”
Asked today to comment on the
resignations, Mr. Vincent, who is di
rector of the hearings branch of the
Wage-Hour Division of the Labor
Denartment, said:
“So far as I am acquainted with
the view of members of the Law
yers' Guild—and I think I know the
views of a great many of them—they
are wholly at variance with the
implications of Mr. Berle's state
ment. So far as I know, a great
majority ’of them are emphatically
and decidedly in favor of the ad
ministration’s program of national
defense and the President’s state- 1
ment of the purpose of maintain- !
ing his legislative aims.
“I believe Mr. Berle is under a
misimpression created by the views
of a very few members.”
Mr. Vincent added that he j
thought the election last week of j
Judge Robert Kenney of Los An
geles to the national presidency of
the organization was the best an
swer to its critics. Judge Kenney,
Mr. Vincent pointed out, is a “typ
ical Democrat’ and a supporter of
the administration. The new pres
ident was chosen Saturday at the
national convention in New York.
Thomas Oriani, 75, Dies;
Was Retired Policeman
Thomas Oriani, 75. retired police
man of 1313 Irving street N.W., died
today in Naval Hospital after a brief
illness. He was a veteran of 43
years’ service.
Mr. Oriani performed about every
duty a private can. He was com
mended on numerous occasions. In
private life he was a collector of
stamps and antiques. Another of
his hobbies was the City of Wash
ington. His home was a storehouse
for old prints and historical trivia
of the Capital. He was a member
of the Association of Oldest Inhab
itants.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Mary Ellen Oriani; three daughters,
Mrs. John Dillon Fitzgerald, Mrs.
William Leo Collins and Miss Ethel
Oriani, and a son, William Oriani,
all of Washington.
The funeral will take place Fri
day, with requiem mass at the
Shrine of the Sacred Heart at 9 am.
Burial will be In St. Mary's Ceme
tery.
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Northeast Depositors
To Get Dividend of
5.16Per Cent
Final Payment Interest
On Claims Already
Paid in Full
Closing up receivership or another
bank here, Justus S. Wardell. re
ceiver of the Northeast Savings
Bank, today announced that he will
begin disbursement of the final divi
dend to 7.400 depositors tomorrow
morning.
The $54,712.98 dividend, authorized
by the Controller of the Currency,
represents 5.16 per cent interest to
depositors, who previously had re
ceived 100 per cent distribution on
claims totaling $1.062.089 73. The
last prior dividend of 5 per cent on'
principal was paid in November,
1938.
Post cards were being mailed out
today notifying depositors when to
call for their checks at the office of
the receiver, 1614 K street N.W.
Depositors were "urgently requested"
by Mr. Wardell not to seek payment
prior to the receipt of the post cards
and to be sure to bring their re
ceiver's certificates for surrender.
Still in the hands of the receiver
is $8,400 not yet collected by de
positors from previous dividends.
The amounts are comparatively
small, Mr. Wardell said as 5,238
checks have been issued to cover
this figure.
The Northeast Savings Bank is
the second bank under the super
vision of Receiver Wardell to have
disbursed to depositors full pay
ment of the amount due them. and.
in addition, a further payment of
interest. The depositors of the
Washington Savings Bank were paid
100 per cent of their claims and an
interest dividend.
First Newspaper
The first newspaper published in
Europe is said to have been sold in
the streets of Paris in 1494, during
the Italian war of that year. It
ceased circulation in 1495 and can
now be found only in -the public
library of Nantes.
Garment Workers
Vote Reaffiliation
With A. F.L., 640 to 12
Communists Are Only
Objectors to Action
Of Former C. I. 0. Unit
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 5.—By a vote
of 640 to 12, delegates to the For
tieth Convention of the Interna
tional Ladies’ Garment Workers
Union voted today to reaffiliate with
the American Federation of Labor.
The union, claiming 250,000 mem
bers in the United States and Can
ada, left the A. F. L. to become one
of the most powerful units of tne
C. I. O. Then, a year ago, it with
drew from the C. I. O. in protest
afainst the C. I. O.'s setting up
a permanent rival organization to
the A. F. L., and has been function
ing as an independent.
Before the vote, the delegates had
loudly cheered the recommendation
of the union's Executive Board to
rejoin the A. F. L. The only op
position came from the Communist
bloc. This drew the denunciation
of the president, David Dubinsky,
who declared: "The vote indicates
again the conflict between the Com
munist party and the welfare of the
union.”
A message to the delegates from
William Green, A. F. L. president,
said that discontinuance of the 1
cent-per-month anti-C. I. O. assess
ment would be recommended at next
November’s A. F. L. convention in
New Orleans. It also said that the
A. F. L. Executive Council had
decided to recommend to the conven
tion that all suspensions of Inter
national unions be subject to action
by delegates at an annual conven
tion rtther than solely by the coun
cil. Both these points had been sore
spots with Mr. Dublinsky.
The letter was read by Samuel
Otto, manager of the Philadelphia
Dress Joint Board, who said 117.000
members, or 731. per cent, had voted
for resolutions favoring reaffiliation
with the A. F. L. Of the rest,
he said 26 per cent favored continu
ation of all union’s independent
status and one-fourth of 1 per cent
voted to return to the C. I, O.
The Green message, overcoming
I the Dubinsky objections to re
: affiliation, also cleared the way, Mr.
Dubinsky said, for a return to A. F
of L. good standing of the
1 Typographical Union, suspended
when it refused to pay the per
capita tax.
Allies Virtually Control
Ten Vital Raw Materials
| By the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 5.—The Ministry
| of Economic Warfare announced to
! day that Allied empires now virtually
| control the world production of rub
I ber, tin, diamonds, nickel, jute.
! kapok, tea, sisal, shellac and palm
1 oil.
The German invasion of the Low
lands and the resultant alliance
with the Netherlands empire and a
similar alliance with Belgian terri
tories have given the Allies a near
monopoly of these materials, he said.
Most of Belgium's oil reserve was
destroyed before the German con
j quest, the ministry' declared, bu the
Belgian steel industry and iron ore
: mines fell to the Nazi invaders little
j damaged.
The ministry considered it prob
able large stocks of gold and secur
ities privately owned in Belgium and
, the Netherlands have been seized
by the Germans. Most of the Nether
I lands’ shipbuilding industry was be
lieved destroyed.
j Besides products the Allies vir
I tually control, the ministry said the
Allies also have a large measure of
j control over mica, copra and wool.
The Bata tCzecho-Slovak) Shoe
Co. was placed on the Board of
Trade blacklist as being a concern
trading with the enemy. The order
applies to all of the 140 subsidiary
companies of the giant firm through
out the world, except six in Britain
and those in the United States and
in Allied countries not overrun by
i the Germans.
Weather Report
(Furnished by the United Stetej Weather Bureau )
District of Columbia—Cloudy, with local showers and thunderstorms
tonight, tomorrow partly cloudy, followed by local thunderstorms in after
noon: not much change in temperature: moderate southwest winds.
Maryland—Cloudy, with local showers tonight and in central and
north portions tomorrow: not much change in temperature.
Virginia—Cloudy, with local showers and thunderstorms in central
and east portions tonight and in north portion tomorrow; not much chance
in temperature. b
West Virginia Partly cloudy, with local showers in north portion
tonight; tomorrow local showers and thunderstorms; not much chance
in temperature. 6
The disturbance that was over Southern.
Minnesota Tuesday morning has advanced
east-northeastward beyond the Canadian
border with a trough extending soWiiwest
ward to Northwestern Texas. Alpena.
Mich.. 1,000.5 millibars <29.81 inches).
Pressure is low from Montana southward
to New Mexico. Lander. Wyo., 1,004.4 mil
libars (20.60 inchest. Pressure continues
high oil the South Atlantic Coast. Wilming
ton, N. C.. 1.012.0 millibars 1,10.15 inches),
with an extension westward over the
South Atlantic and East Gulf States and
the Ohio Valley. A high-pressure area Is
moving eastward over Minnesota, and the
Northern Plains States. Fargo. N Dak..
1.016.3 millibars (30.01 inches) Pressure
is also high over the North Pacific States.
North Head. Wash 1,023.4 millibars
130.22 Inches). During the last 24 hours
showers have occured in the middle and
northern plateau, the Rocky Mountain re
gion. the Upper Mississippi Valley the
South Atlantic States, the southern Ap
palachian region and In portions of the
upper lake region, the North Atlantic
States and the plains States. Temperatures
have risen In the Interior of the East Gulf
States and over the middle and northern
Rocky Mountain region, while thev have
fallen in the Upper Mississippi Valiev, the
interior of the middle plains States and in
Southern New Mexico.
Report for Last 24 Honrs.
_ . . Temperature. Barometer.
Saturday— degrees. inches.
4 p.m.- 90 30.00
8p.m. 83 30.01
Midnight _ 76 30.01
Today—
4 a.m._ 72 20 09
8 a.m._ 74 30.04
Noon - 76 30.03
Record for Last 24 Honrs.
(Prom noon yesterday to noon today )
Highest. 92, 4:30 p.m. yesterday. Year
ago. 85.
Lowest, 70. 6 a.m. today. Year ago. 69.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 92. on June 4
Lowest, 7. on January 29.
Humidity for Last 24 Honrs.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest. 97 per cent, at 5 a.m. today.
Lowest, 31 per cent, at 12:30 p.m. yes
terday. ,
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac muddy at
Great Falls today.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow
High - 7:25 a.m. 8:05 a.m.
Low - 1:48 a.m. 2:28 a.m.
High - 7:50 p.m. 8:32 p.m.
Low - 2.34 p.m 3:13 p.m.
The Son and Moon.
Rises. Seta.
Sun today- 4:43 7:30
Sun. tomorrow_ 4:42 7:31
Moon, today_4:36 a.m. 7:07 p.m.
Automobile light# must bn turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
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Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in Inches In th«
Capital (current month to date);
Month. 1940. Ave. Record
January -2.12 3.55 7.83 '37
February - 2.77 3.27 6.84 '84
March - 3.42 3.75 8.84 '91
April - 6.19 3.27 9.13 '8P
May- 3.10 3.70 10.69 '88
June - ... 4.13 10.94 'OC
,- - 4.71 10.63 '8(=
August -- 4 01 14.41 '28
September ._ ... 3.24 17.45 '34
Oatober - ... 2.84 8.81 '37
November __ £ 37 8 69 'ni
December Illlir: “ 3!32 T66 '0^
Weather in Various Cities.
.-Temp - Raln
Baro High. Low lalL Weather.
Abilene 29.8.3 94 71 Cloudy
Albany ... 29.91 88 66 0.01 Cloudy
Atlanta __ 30.12 87 86 _ Cloudy
Allan City 30 00 82 61 ... Cloudy
Baltimore 30.03 92 71 Cioudv
Birm'gham 30 09 88 68 * cioudv
Bismarck 29.97 69 42 0.06 cloudy
Boston- 29.94 66 58 __ Clear
Buffalo 29.94 84 61 . Clear
Charleston 30 15 70 74 0 08 Cloudy
Chicago . 29.91 87 72 _ _ Cloudy
Cincinnati 30.06 91 60 _ Clear
Cleveland. 30.00 88 66 7 Clear
Columbia. 30.15 76 67 0.33 Cioudv
Denver 29.80 79 54 0 01 Cioudv
Des Moinea 29.94 82 62 0.03 Cloudy
Detroit _. 29 94 85 68 . Cloudy
El Paso... 29 74 93 63 . Clear
Galveston. 2991 84 71 0.11 Rain
Helena 29.83 70 S3 Cloudy
Huron . 30.00 63 48 0 22 Cioudv
Ind'napolis 30 00 84 62 Cloudy
Jacks'ville 30.12 77 72 1.19 Rain
Kans City 20.04 83 68 0.38 Cloudy
L Angeles 29 86 70 59 _ Cloudy
Louisville 30 06 88 63 . Clear
Miami 30.06 84 79 Cloudy
Mpls.-et. P. 29 04 74 53 0 15 Cloudy
N Orleans 29.07 86 75 Cloudy
New York. 29.97 91 72 0.02 Cioudv
Norfolk 30.09 Sf 87 _ Cioudv
Okla. City 29.86 85 87 Cloudy
Omaha_ 29.97 85 58 _ Cioudv
Phlla. .. 3000 91 70 _ Cloudy
Phoenix 29.7! 103 61 ... Clear
Pittsburgh 30.03 87 63 Clear
P'land. Me. 29.94 65 53 Clear
P'l’nd. Org. 30.21 66 45 .** Clear
Raleigh 30.12 81 66 _ Cloudy
St. Louis 30.00 88 68 Cloudy
S. Lake C 29.77 81 50 0.08 Cloudy
S. Antonio 29 80 92 65 . _ Cloudy
8an Diego 29.83 68 60 . cloudy
S Fr'cisco 29.86 67 52 Cloudy
Seattle 30.21 65 49 ..I Cloudy
Spokane 30.00 72 48 Clear
Tampa 30 06 84 73 0 70 Rain
WASH D C. 30.03 92 90 ... Cloudy
Foreign Stations.
(Noon Greenwich time, today.)
Horta (Payal). Azores 65 Cloud/
(Current observation!.)
San Juaa. Puerto Rico. 78 Cloud/
Havana. Cuba _ 76 thouay
Colon, Canal Zone_ 79 Cloudy
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