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UrS. Tariff Barriers
And Ban on Beef
Irk Argentines
3Steak a Part of
3Like Bread; Their Pride *
Tn Them Is Justified
“Afr. Edgerton is touring South
America as a guest of Pan
American Airways. His articles,
tent by mail, will be published as
they are received. This is the
tenth of a series.
By JOSEPH S. EDGERTON,
Star Aviation Editor,
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (By
Airmail).—A more complete conw
mercial accord between Argentine
and the United States must be the
prelude to any thorough-going mili
tary agreement, even for mutual
protection of the American nations,
according to business leaders here.
The cordiality of relationships
between the two countries is af
fected directly by the trade balance
aQd a balance which is materially
unfavorable to Argentina directly
affects a relationship which is not
ygt based upon any deep cultural
understanding.
■While the United States ban
against Argentine beef rankles with
Argentine business men virtually
without exception, there are other
sources of Irritation—tariff restric
tions against Argentine products
which it is felt are imposed to pro
tect very minor United States in
dustries to an unjustly discrimina
tory extent.
The fact that Argentine exports
to the United States during the last
month have increased in value and
that during the last six months have
increased by $41,657,816, or 49 per
cent, as compared with the first
half of 1939, is cause for favorable
reaction throughout the Argentine
at what may well prove to be a most
critical period in the history of re
lationship between the two nations.
Biggest Rise in Wool.
The biggest increase was regis
tered in wool, which showed an in
crease of 193 per cent, to $13,567,053
during June, according to reports
t eceived by the United States consul
general here. The largest increase
in percentage, though not in total
value, was in maize products, which
went up 643 per cent, to $163,000.
Dairy products increased by 500 per
cent. There was^ a heavy decrease
in linseed shipments.
The Argentine Ministry of Agri
culture, however, has reported ex
portable surpluses of wheat amount
ing to 1.015.125 tons; linseed
amounting to 183,992 tons and maize
amounting to 7,344,060 tons as of
mid-July.
Pride in Their Steaks Justified.
There is something more than
mere commercial advantages in the
minds of the Argentine* when they
consider their relationship with the
United States. The Argentine cattle
growers are extremely proud of the
quality of the beef they raise and
would like very much to introduce it
Into the ynited States market in
competition with the best American
beef.
Their pride appears to be justified,
If the steaks one gets in the Buenos
Aires restaurants and hotels are
any criterion. It would be very dif
ficult to imagine anything better
than the famous Chateaubriand
steaks, an inch and a half thick,
which are served with parsley but
ter at the Cabana here during the
dinner hour, which does not really
get under way before 9 pm.
It is not necessary to order steak
In Buenos Aires. Unless the visitor
distinctly orders that no steak be
brought, it seems quite likely that
one would come in as a matter of
course, from long-established habit,
as inevitably as the English rolls
and marmalade or jam for break
fast. The sirloin and T-bone steaks
which come off a Buenos Aires grill
are not quite the size of a horse
blanket, but are, quite large enough
to make the uninitiated visitor re
gard with some degree of respect
and admiration the appetite and
capacity of a population which goes
through a life surrounded by such
culinary masterpieces.
Steaks at Every Turn.
Make no mistake, the visitor to
Buenos Aires sees, smells and tastes
Argentine steaks at every turn; he
hears about them everywhere; if
he feels them, particularly about
two hours after mealtime, he is no
worthy trencherman, in Argentine
eyes.
A very great ana steaany increas
ing acreage in the Argentine
pampas is being devoted to ' the
growing of alfalfa, which is the
staple cattle fodder. Sheep raising
Is carried on almost wholly in the
less temperate, rocky pasturage
land of the Southern Argentine
and there is little or no competition
between the sheep and cattle men.
What is more needed than any
thing else to improve commercial
relations between the United States
and the Argentine, however, accord
ing to members of the American
colony and Argentine business lead
ers here, is a stable, continuing
trade policy based on a just, un
biased survey of conditions.
There is a real resentment toward
the United States because of a
feeling that the United States at
tempts to build up Argentine trade
only when the domestic market is
bad and that they abandon all con
sideration for Argentine friendship
and trade stability when the domes
tic markets are good. It is the old
cry against dollar diplomacy.
There is a growing feeling that
the United States Government, for
the sake of sounder economics and
better feeling; should take an ac
tive leadership in the export trade
problem, to stabilize the market, to
permit Argentine business to plan
for the future with greater assur
ance and to meet a European com
petition which is government sub
sidized, particularly by Germany,
and which has been placed on a
barter, rather than a cash basis.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
Meets briefly before week-end
recess.
Military Committee continues work
on compulsory training bill.
House:
Meets briefly.
Military Committee hears testi
mony on co6t of conscription.
Appropriations Committee con
tinues study of $4,000,000,000 defense
bill.
Foreign Affairs Committee starts
hearing on bill to let United States
vessels bring children from war
aoneac •
WEST BASE, NEW LITTLE AMERICA.—OFF TO STUDY AURORA DISPLAYS—Radiophoto of
three members of the United States Antarctic Expedition before setting out recently in almost
complete darkness and with the temperature at 47 degrees below zero, for a point 15 miles
east of this base to establish an observatory in a search for new data on the color, intensity
and height of the Aurora Australis, or “Southern Lights.’*
They are, left to right: Roy Fitzsimmons, Newark, N. J., magnetist and navigator; Felix Fer
ranto, Brooklyn, radio operator, and Murray Weiner, Bradley Beach, N. J., observer. Behind
them, mounted on runners, is the small hut which served as quarters and observatory during the
stay at the new location.
The radiophotos were transmitted diretly,1 from the West Base, New Little America, to New
York, a distance of approximately 12,000 miles.
Rumania Shipping
Oil to Germany
At Record Rate
July Total of 180,000
Tons Bolsters Reich
For Attack on Britain
By LELAND STOWE,
Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent.
BUCHAREST, July 25.—All war
time records for shipments of Ru
manian oil into Germany are being
broken this month as fuel for the
Fuehrer’s offensive against Great
Britain is being sped northward in
unprecedented amounts by barges
and tank cars. Petroleum officials
estimate the July shipments at ap
proximately 180,000 tons, whereas
Germany was only able to obtain
388,000 tons during the first six
months of this year. It was said
that the Nazis' July purchases alone
would keep 6,000 airplanes com
pletely fueled for more than a month.
But Rumania’s huge oil faucets
have just begun to spout in the
direction of the Third Reich. Jff
taking over the operation of th#~
British-Dutch companies of Astra
Romans, yesterday, the Rumanian
government has gained administra
tive control of the enterprise which
produces 20 per cent of the country’s
oil.
Nationalization Door Open.
It seems probable that the govern
ment oil commissar, acting under
the wide powers of the July 9 decree,
will eventually become overseer of
other foreign-controlled companies.
At least, the door is open for na
tionalization of oil companies to as
great a degree as present or future
Bucharest governments may decide
it is necessary.
Foreign officials in the oil indus
try fear that similar action is most
likely against two other important
British-controlled companies, the
Steaua Romana and the Unirea,
which together account for another
22 per cent of Rumanian oil produc
tion. It is believed that govern
mental operation of the two French
controlled companies, with their 24
per cent of production, may not be
come expedient since France is now
out of the war. But British-con
trolled companies, which have been
producing more than 42 per cent of
the nation’s output, are certainly
due to be scrutinized and supervised
most carefully.
Until' yesterday the Britlsh-Neth
erlands firm of Astra Romana had
refused to sell a single tank car
of oil to Germany since the war
began. Since Astra Romana is the
biggest oil-producing company in
Rumania it played a major role in
keeping down Germany’s oil pur
chases here to a’ mere fraction
of her monthly allotment of 130,000
tons. Thereafter the Rumanian
government’s commissar will de
termine how large a proportion of
Astra’s production will be sold to
Hitler’s Reich.
3,000 More Cars Available.
The sharp upward increase in oil
shipments to Germany dates from
the establishment of the Gigurtu
pro-Nazi government here on July
4. Since then 3,000 additional tank
cars have been placed at the dis
posal of the Germans, and they are
also using more than 200 oil barges
on the Danube with impressive ef
ficiency.
According to every indication, the
Germans have won the battle for
Rumanian oil, and they Will bend
every effort to improve transporta
tion facilities in order to absorb a
constantly increasing amount of
the 500,000,000 gallons which are
now stored in Rumania. Active in
tervention here by Soviet Russia
would seem the only means by
which oil shipments to Germany
might be diminished or jeopardized.
It is still unpredictable how far
the Soviets are willing to go against
German Interests in Rumania. It
cannot be doubted for a moment,
however, that Russian ambitions
and desires in this country have
been by no means satisfied as yet.
(Copyright. 1840, by Chicago Dally News,
Inc.)
Leesburg Resident Dies
LEESBURG, Va., July 25 (Special).
—Mrs. Henrietta Harrison Plaster,
49, died at her home here Wednes
day night following a brief illness.
A lifelong resident of Leesburg, she
was the daughter of the late Walter
J. Harrison and Nannie P. Benedict.
She eras a member of Bt. James’
Episcopal Church.
Miss Ethel Fuss Dies
In Springfield, Mo.
Miss Ethel Fuss, 47, native of
Washington, formerly engaged in
work for the Salvation Army here,
died Tuesday of a heart attack in
Springfield, .Mo., where she had been
engaged in work for the Full Gospel
Tabernacle Publishing House.
Funeral services will be held here
at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Lee fu
neral home, Fourth street and Mas
sachusetts avenue N.E. Burial will
be in Congressional Cemetery.
Miss Fuss left here in 1936 to en
gage in missionary work in China.
On her return to this country she
went to Springfield. She is survived
by a brother, Calderon Carlyle Fuss,
Oakland, Calif.
Furgol Eliminates
Stimits, 3 and 2, in
Public Links Golf
•
Harris, Clark, Jennings,
Stefanchik Also Win;
1941 Play to Spokane
Bl the JUtoclated Press.
DETROIT, July 25.—In a bristling
match between the co-holders of the
qualifying record, Edward J. Furgol
of Utica, N. Y., today defeated
Worth Stimits, jr., of Colorado
Springs, Colo., 3 and 2, to lead the
parade into the fourth round of the
national public links championship.
Furgol, a metal polisher, and Stimits,
a college student, tied for the
qualifying medal Tuesday with
record scores of 138.
La Bron Harris, Guthrie (Okla.)
wrestling coach and schoolteacher,
shot subpar golf to subside Walter
Smola of Omaha, 4 and 3.
Furgol fired a one-under-par 34
going out to gain a three up ad
vantage on Stimits, who was trou
bled by his approach shots. Stimits
won the tenth with a birdie 4, Fur
gol took the twelfth with a birdie
3 and the other holes were halved.
Harris and Furgol meet in a quar
ter-final contest this afternoon.
In other matches this morning
Robert Clark, St. Paul, defeated
Charles Lind, Denver, 1 up, 19
holes; Louis Jennings, Portland,
Oreg., defeated William Bublis,
Chicago, 5 and 3, and Michael Stef
anchik, Gary, Ind., defeated John
Pasikowski, Pittsburgh, 5 and 3.
The Public Links Committee of
the United States Golf Association
announced this morning* that the
1941 tournament, subject to the ap
proval of the Executive Committee,
would be held at Spokane, Wash.
Indian Canyon golf course will be
the tournament site. Los Angeles
and Sacramento also had entered
bids.
(Earlier story in Sports Section.)
Dr. Funk Reveals Europe
Plans to Barter Overseas
By the Associated Press.
“BERLIN, July 25 (By Radio) *—
Walter Punk, German Minister of
Economics, asserted today that it is
up to the United States itself to de
cide whether, and to what extent, It
will trade with Europe after the war,
but it must abandon the idea it can
force its economic terms upon Ger
many or Europe.
Dr. Punk, in an interview, pub
lished in Vienna and broadcast by
the German radio, gave for the first
time an authoritative outline of
the new economic system which
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler plans to impose
on the continent.
He said there would be no at
tempt to make Europe entirely self
sufficient, since "certain products
always will be lacking in Europe.”
But trade with overseas countries
will be on the barter basis.
"To what extent we shall trade
with the United States,” Dr. Punk
said, “is absolutely left in the hands
of Americans themselves.
“If the United States wishes to
contribute again to the development
of an International economic sys
tem, it will have to get rid of Its
false method of trying to make the
United States the biggest creditor
nation, and, at the same time, the
biggest export country in the world.
“The United States must abandon
the idea that it can force its
economic, terms upon Germany or
Europe. Par trade with South
American countries we do not re
quire North American mediation,"
British Plane Plant
Near London Bombed,
Berlin Chiefs Claim
Sinking of .18,000-Ton
Armed Merchant Ship
Also Reported
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July 25—Bombing of
the British Vickers aircraft factory
at Weybridge, 12 miles from the
southwestern outskirts of London,
and sinking of an 18,000-ton armed
merchant ship by a German torpedo
carrying motorboat near England’s
Portland naval base were announced
today by the German high com
mand.
Ten British planes were shot down
or wrecked in the day's operations,
the high command said, including
four which were destroyed on the
grounds at the Vickers works. The
loss of six German planes was
acknowledged.
industrial Plants Bombed.
Besides the attacks on the air
plane factory, bombing raids were
carried out on British industrial
plants at Great Yarmouth and
Glasgow in Scotland, the Germans
said.
In a more complete report on yes
terday's air attack on an armed con
voy in the Thames Estuary the high
command said five merchant ships,
altogether 28.000 tons, were sunk.
Three other ships were so serious
ly damaged, the Germans said, that
their loss could be counted.
Fierce air battles as a result of
this attack, said the high command,
resulted in six British planes being
shot out of the air.
Operated Against South Coast.
The speed launch which sank the
18,000-ton armed merchant ship was
operating against the south coast of
England when she encountered the
vessel, the Germans said.
Portland, which is about 60 miles
across the Channel from Cap de La
Hague and other of Germany’s new
Jumping off places on the French
coast, is one of Britain's largest
naval bases, and is heavily defended.
However, Britain’s big guns ap
parently were not equal to hitting
Germany’s mosquito boats which
can travel 50 miles an hour.
The British said yesterday one of
their own speed launches had at
tacked a fleet of six of these fast
little boats in the Channel, put one
out of action and sent the rest into
flight.
Optometry Examinations
An examination will be held by
the District of Columbia Board of
Optometry at 6 p.m. today, tomor
row and Friday in the Jefferson
Room of the Mayflower Hotel.
A few members of the expedition as they got together for a bit of harmonizing in the bunk
house at the West Base. The vocalists are, left to right: Jack E. Perkins of Washington, biologist;
Murray Weiner, Lawrence A. Warner, Monroe, Ohio, geologist; Dr. F. Alton Wade, Oxford, Ohio,
senior scientist and snow cruiser leader, and Harold P. Gilmour, Boston, recorder at the West
Base. Charles Passel, the olarinet-playing geologist, is from Indianapolis.
—Radiophotos Copyright by U. S. Antarctic Service: Transmitted by Wide World.
Dwindling of Food
Bringing Crisis in
Unoccupied France
Fate of Nation Declared
In Hands of Armistice
Commission at Wiesbaden
B» the AuocUted Press.
BASEL, Switzerland, July 25.—
Rapid dwindling of food supplies in
that part of France not under Nazi
occupation has led even the cen
sored press there to report “the fate
of France for months to come is in
the hands of the German Armistice
Commission at Wiesbaden, not the
government at Vichy.”
But those same newspapers hold
out hope the Germans soon will
permit food supplies to move freely
from the occupied to the refugee
swollen unoccupied zone.
Other sources, however, assert the
tragedy of this hope is that the
German-held areas apparently are
very little better off and soon may
be in worse condition than the
southern zone.
! Farmers and inhabitants of rural
Tuesday Is Added
To Meatless Days
By Italian Decree
By the Asaociiled Presa.
ROME, July 25.—The Italian
government decreed today that
Tuesday shall be a meatless
day, matting four such days a
week, and ordered sharp ration
ing of bread served in restau
rants
Luxury restaurants were lim
ited to portions of 80 grims
(less than 3 ounces) per person
and lower-class restaurants to
150 grams (slightly more than
5 ounces).
The Ministry of Agriculture
announced at the same time
that eating of more fruit would
be encouraged.
villages have been the first to feel
the pinch, rather than residents of
big cities and towns.
Food Already at Premium.
In Alsace, hand-picked groups of
farmers, taken back to their homes
by the Germans, still are being fed
and supplied by the German army
of occupation. In the great central
northeastern section, overrun by
refugees and demobilized troops,
food already is at a premium.
Farmers sent back to work theii
land were reported in some cases to
have returned to the cities within
a few days.
“We cannot plow on empty stom
achs," said one who came to the
Swiss frontier seeking food.
Independent economic experts in
Switzerland say Germany soon may
be forced to draw on her own food
stocks to feed the French.
If England still is blockading the
continent by winter, these sources
report, all of France's millions may
be dependent on axis aid and relief
STAR NEWSPAPER ROTS FROLIC AT GLEN ECHO—The kids who deliver The 8tar to your door
step had a large evening at Glen Echo Park last night. Bobby Henderson, one of the young
guests, is about to take off on a trip Into the swimming pool —Star Stall Photo.
$5,000,000,000 in Gold
Will Be 'Mailed' to Fort Knox
Bt the Associated Press.
The Treasury started packing
about $5,000,000,000 worth of gold at
New York today for “mailing” to
Fort Knox, Ky.
An army of guards, composed of
postal inspectors, Secret Service
men and Regular Army squads, is
being mobilized to accompany the
metal. Technically, Postmaster Gen
eral Farley will be in charge, be
cause the gold will go as “regis
tered mail.” The Treasury will pay
the post office about $1,000,000 in
postage.
Gold has been coming from Eu
rope to New York so fast—as much
as $400,000,000 in one week—that
vaults in the big city are crowded.
The Treasury accordingly ob
tained a $1,608,000 appropriation to
ship some of it to the bombproof
depository located on the Army’s
mechanized cavalry center at For:
Knox.
As soon as packing is completed
and other arrangements are con
cluded special trains will carry the
metal in about $100,000,000 lots,
but the schedule will not be dis
closed in advance. Each train will
bristle with guards and guns and
will be equipped with special lights
to detect, curious strangers at any
night stops.
The vaults at Port Knox are
largely underground, built mostly
of reinforced concrete and steel, and
are surrounded by a stout building.
The main vault door weighs 20 tons,
and the vault casing—not the ex
terior of the building—is 25 inches
thick.
The establishment was built in
1936 at a cost of $560,000. Early in
1937, one series of shipments brought
$5,500,000,000 worth of gold there,
but no more has been added be
cause of the cost of moving the
metal.
Gold weighs roughly a ton per
$1,000,000. It will go to Fort Knox
in bars about the size and shape of
a brick. Each bar will be packed
carefully in an individual wooden
crate.
When the new shipments arrive,
Fort Knox wil hold about half of the
Nation's $20,400,000,000 worth of gold
—about 80 per cent of the world's
' monetary gold.
from such outside agencies as the
American Red Cross.
Although France normally is rich
in agricultural products, even in her
best peacetime years, such as 1937,
she imported 7,000,000,000 francs
worth of foodstuffs more than she
exported.
Now, with swarms of refugees
added to war-diminished production,
imports should be 10 times normal,
these experts say.
Frenchmen from the occupied
areas have begun to appear at the
I Swiss frontier to beg and try to buy
i food. Those who have money find
their French francs, which had a
value of 10 to 1 Swiss franc before
the armistice, now are 20 to 1 with
few takers.
Swiss relief organizations at Basel
have sent truckloads of food into
neighboring areas. A big French
chocolate factory in the frontier
town of Pontariler was shut down
by official order and its supplies of
sugar seized for the civil population,
which had not yet received its July
ration of 500 grams a resident (about
1 pound).
A second relief train bearing con
densed milk and concentrated food
stuffs purchased with American Red
Cross money was loaded at Basel
today, to be sent into occupied
France. The first left for Paris last
night carrying 9T tons of supplies.
First Red Cross Aid
Goes to Nazi France
By the Associated Press.
Red Cross officials said today the
first trainload of supplies to be
shipped into occupied France had
left Basel. Switzerland, last night
for the Paris area "for relief of
children, the sick and wounded.”
With the exception of Poland,
supplies heretofore had been shipped
only Into unoccupied territory and
Saturday Norman Hr Davis, na
tional chairman, said problems
"most difficult of solution” made
Impossible the extension of relief
work into occupied France.
Officials said today the shipment
of $50,000 worth of food supplies
from Basel was based on an "emer
gency” and accomplished through
a “temporary agreement.”
Wayne. Chatfield-Taylor will
have charge of distribution of the
supplies in the Paris vicinity.
“This shipment was designed ex
clusively for relief of children, the
sick and wounded,” a Red Cross
official said.
“Cables received today from the
League of Red Cross Societies at
Geneva termed the situation at
Paris 'desperate' particularly among
children, the sick and wounded."
National headquarters here said
its representatives in the field have
authority to draw on funds for pur
chase of supplies in certain emer
gencies, without first obtaining or
ders from Washington.
Senator Key Pittman
Files for Sixth Term
By the Associated Press.
CARSON CITY, Nev./Julv 25.—
Senator Key Pittman, chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, filed yesterday for Demo
cratic renomination for a sixth
consecutive term.
He expects to return to Wash
ington Sunday from his Tonopah
home.
|R. A. F. Raids Hamper
Nazis Establishing
Bases, British Say
Organization of Attacks
Is Made 'Extremely
Difficult/ It Is Said
Br the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 25.—The British
air force, in repeated attack*
against Germany and German
occupied countries, has made it "ex
tremely difficult” for the Reich to
organize mass attacks on Britain
from existing airdromes and bases
she "hoped to establish” Just across
the English Channel and the North
Sea, an informed British source said
today.
More than 1,000 British attacks in
the last three months have “to a
great extent succeeded in breaking
down the scheme Germany hoped
would culminate in devastating at
tacks on these islands following her
sweeping victories” on the conti
nent, it was stated.
This source said important mili
tary and industrial objectives had
been struck daily and nightly "not
in isolated raids by single aircraft
but large scale operations.”
Germany repeatedly has charged
the British with attacking "non
military” objectives.
Superior In Machines.
The raids, this source said, were
planned to cause ‘‘the greatest pos
sible destruction to the enemy s
vital war supplies” and make new
air bases “acquired nearer our
shores practically untenable.”
They “have made the enemy
realize that if our air force is
numerically inferior to his own
it is vasely superior in both ma
chines and personnel,” he asserted.
British raids, it was said, “have
made it extremely difficult for Ger
many to organize massed attacks
on this country from airdromes
in Holland, Belgium and France
or from bases the enemy hoped
to establish in Norway.”
From the first day of Germany’s
blitzkrieg on the continent, this
source said, the Royal Air Force “to
a great extent succeeded, in breaking
down the scheme Germany hoped
would culminate in devastating at
tacks on these islands following her
sweeping victories.”
Between May 10 and June 17, he
reported, there were 416 big raids on
German territory, and in exactly a
month since the capitulation of
France 517 “thrusts” were made
against Germany's main military
and industrial centers.
In addition to targets on land, this
source said, the German Navy has
been attacked 66 times since the
start of the war. He said 64 ralda
were made on Norway while British
troops were there.
Weather
_<Continued From First Page.)
ers and Congress in providing funds
for studies on a project to enlarge
the water supply plants.
The mamimum temperature yes
terday was 89 degrees, at 4:50 pm.
The low today was 73 degrees,
recorded at 6 am.
The toll of heat victims in the
city continued to mount. Emer
gency Hospital alone treated 11
persons overcome by the heat yes
terday.
Midwest Swelters.
In the Midwest yesterday, tem
peratures above 100 were common.
The mercury climbed to the dizzy
height of 116 in Beloit, Kans., and
Long Pine, Nebr. Denver saw a 68
year-old record for July 24 smashed
when the temperature reached 99.
Chicago registered 101—the high
est in four years, while La Porte,
Ind.. recorded 105. Other maxima
included: Tyndall, S. Dak., and Las
Vegas, Nev., 113; Logan. Iowa, 110;
Sioux City. Iowa. 107; Akron, Ohio,
106; Overton, Nebr., 109.
Severe thunderstorms struck last
night in New York. Pennsylvania,
Michigan. Minnesota and Ohio.
Streets were flooded in Schenectady,
Albany and Allentown, Pa., while a
hailstorm damaged berry crops in
Wisconsin.
Weather Report
(Furnished by the United States Weather Bureau.)
District of Columbia—Fair and continued warm tonight and tomor
row. except some likelihood of a local thundershower tomorrow afternoon;
Saturday showers and cooler; light variable winds becoming gentle south
erly tomorrow.
Maryland and Virginia—Generally fair and continued warm tonight
and tomorrow, except scattered thundershowers tomorrow afternoon;
Saturday showers and cooler.
West Virginia—Fair and somewhat warmer tonight; tomorrow gen
erally fair and continued warm, except scattered thundershower* in
afternoon; Saturday showers and cooler.
A trough of low pressure that extends*
from Colorado to the northern Lake re
gion Is moving slowly eastward. Spring
field. Minn.. »>),.() millibars (2!>.4(i inchest,
and Burwell. Nebr.. 1000.0 millibars (20.5:1
inches). To the east and south of this
trough the air is of tropical origin and is
quite warm and moist, while considerably
coolef and drier air of polar origin is
now overspreading the northern Rocky
Mountain region, the Dakotas and Min
nesota. Abnormally high maximum tem
peratures were registered Wednesday aft
ernoon over the greater part of the
United States, with Phillipsburg. Kars.
reporting the highest east of the Rocky
Mountains. 112°. Pressure is relatively
high along the North Pacific Coast, over
the Gulf States and over most of the
western Atlantic Ocean. Eugene. Ores.,
101P.6 millibars (20.11 inches), and Pen
sacola. Pla., and a ship about 600 miles
east of Boston. Mass . 1O18.0 millibars
(.10.00 inches). Local thundershowers have
occurred in the Ohio Valley, the Ap
palachian region, the Middle Atlantic and
North Atlantic States, the Lake region.
Minnesota, the Dakotas and portions of
Arizona and the Rocky Mountain region.
Revert fer Lett 24 Heart.
. Temperature. Barometer.
Yesterday— Decreet. Inches.
4 p.m._ 87 29.84
8 p.m. __ 83 29.85
Midnight_ 80 29.88
Today—
4 a.m._ 75 29.84
8 a.m._ 79 29.88
Noon --- 88 29.89
Reeeri fer Last 24 Heart.
(Prom noon yeiterday to noon today.)
Highest. 89. 4:50 o.m. yesterday. Tear
ago. no.
Lowest, 73. 8 a.m. today. Tear ago, 70.
Retard Tempcrataret This Year.
Highest. 97. on July 20.
Lowest 7. on January 29.
Humidity fer Last 24 Heart.
(Prom noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 92 per eent. at 1 a.m. today.
Lowest 64 per cent, at noon today.
River Report.
Potomac River muddy and Shenandoah
elear at Harpers Perry: Potomac muddy
at Oreat Palls today.
Tide Tablet.
(Purnlshed by United States Coast and
Oeodetle Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High__11:52 a.m. 12:26 a.m.
Low__ 8:34 a.m. 7:23 a.m.
High-- — 12:40 p.m.
Low- 8:40 p.m. 7:23 p.m.
The Sua and Mean.
Rises. Sett.
Sun. today _ 5:02 7:28
Sun. tomorrow_ 6:03 7:25
Moon today-10:40 p.m. 10:S7a.m.
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Preeipitatlea.
Monthly precipitation in Inches In the
Capital (current month to date):
Month. 1940. Ave. Record
January -2.12 3.65 7.83 '37
February- 2.77 3.27 6.84 '84
March - 3.42 3.75 8.84 '01
April- 6.19 3.27 0.13 '89
May- 3.10 3.70 10.69 '80
Juna -0.86 4.13 10.94 '00
July -6:38 4.71 10.63 *86
August_...._ 4.01 14 41 *9A
September- I” 3.24 1T45 '34
October -- 2.84 8.81 '87
November - ... 2.37 8.89 '80
December - 3.32 786 '01
Weather In Variant Cities.
_ _ Temo. Raln
Barom. Hlsh.Low. falL Weethar.
Abilene... 29.89 99 76 Clear
Albany... 20.83 86 65 0.93 Potty
Atlanta 30.00 05 74 Clear
Atlan. City 29.89 81 72 _ Cloudy
Baltimore 29 89 88 75 _ Clear
Blrm'tham 30.03 96 72 Cloudy
Bismarck . 29.83 93 63 0.07 Cloudy
Boston... 29.86 80 67 _ Cloudy
Buffalo_ 29.83 88 68 Cloudy
Butte 29.97 72 43 0.03 Cloudy
Charleston 29.89 101 75 _ Clear
Chicago _ 29.80 103 76 _ Clear
Cincinnati 29.94 90 74 _ clear
Cleveland- 20.89 97 70 . Clear
Columbia. 29.04 103 74 ... cloudy
Denver 29.68 100 69 . Clear
Des Moines 20.71 103 Cloudy
Detroit... 29.83 98 71 0.11 Weir
El Paso . 29.86 96 71 _ Clear
Galveston. 3000 93 81 “ cloudy
Huron 29.71 110 69 0.03 Cloudy
Ind napolis 29.91 06 72 Clear7
Jacks'vllle 30.00 100 78 cloudy
Kans. city 20.80 101 81 .. Clear*
L. Anteles 30.00 92 61 Cloudy
Louisville. 29.97 03 72 0 28 Clear*
Miami 30.06 01 74 0 35 cioSdr
p&assa s*, b ---1-*
ear.-as s ;s ** as?
Okie. City 20.86 95 75 I" clear
Omaha... 20.59 107 77 Claud*
Phlla. ... 29.09 88 72 018 ClaudI
Phoenix 20.91 108 65 0.10 CtoSdJ
Pittsburgh 29.94 93 66 0.25 Clear
P land, Me. 20.89 78 63 eland*
PTnd. Ora. 30.09 77 61 — §22dJ
Rplelfh - 20.80 95 73 "* oSr*
8t. Louis 29.89 08 70 — riMr
S' F 29.83 100 Cloudy
8. Antonio 29.07 07 73 I Cloudy
Ban Diego 30.00 82 64 - Cloudy
K ^'clsco 29.07 02 50 HI Clear
Beattie .. 30.06 68 68 _ Cloudy
Spokane.. 20.94 83 58 !" cloud* >
Tamo* 30.03 94 82 .II Cloudy
WA8H..D.C. 20.80 89 73 “I ClSSr*
rOBEIGN STATIONS.
(Noon. Greenwich time, today.)
Horta (Fayal). Asorea. 74 Cloudy
(Current observations.)
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