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Italian Warplanes
Bomb Gibraltar
For 30 Minutes
Attack Is 'Effective/
High Command in
Rome Declares
By the Associated Press.
ROME. July 26.—A second bom
bardment of the British naval base
of Gibraltar, after a long flight from
airdromes somewhere in Italian ter
ritory. was reported today by the
Italian high command.
(A Gibraltar dispatch said in
vaoing aircraft again bombed
that British base in a 30-minute
raid before dawn today. An un
disclosed number of bombs were
dropped, but no casualties were
caused. Searchlights spotted the
attackers quickly and anti-air
craft fire drove them off.
Bombs rained on Gibraltar
early today by Italian raiders
struck in the vicinity of an arse
nal and barracks buildings, re
ports to Algeciras, Spain, said.
These advices failed to disclose
the extent of the damage or
possible casualities
Bombed on July 19.
Gibraltar previously was reported
bombed on July 19, when, the high
command said, bombs started hires
In the arsenal and dockyard with
the British battle cruiser Hood
and aircraft carrier Ark Rojal
there at that time.
Today's communique said Gibral
tar was "bombed effectively" and
that all the Italian planes returned
to their bases. There were no
further details.
The high command acknowledged
“several casualties but slight dam
age'' in a British air raid on the
seaport of Derna. Libya, and claimed
one of the raiders was shot down by j
Italian fighters.
The communique also said "enemy
admissions" confirmed "consider
able" damage done to oil reserves at
Haifa, seaport in British-mar.dated
Palestine, in Italian raids last Wed
nesday.
Oil Tanks Reported Fired.
The war correspondent of the
newspaper II Messaggero claimed
that Italian bombers in their last
raid on Haifa, set fire to gasoline
nnd oil storage tanks of the Shell
and Socony-Vacuum Oil Cos.
'Dispatches from Haifa said
46 civilians were killed and 88
wounded in the raids Wednes
day.!
The correspondent listed among
the targets struck nine Shell gaso
line reservoirs with a total capacity
of 36.000 tons; an oil tank, capacity
10.000 tons, and Socony-Vacuum
gasoline tanks, capacity 6.000 tons.
He said a potassium loading dock
nlso was hit.
The correspondent reported the
first wave of bombers dropped their
missiles and got away before the
anti-aircraft guns could get into
action.
American Among Dead
In Bombing of Haifa
JERUSALEM. July 26 oPL—An
American citizen. Meyer Herman
Lax, was disclosed yesterday to have
been among the 46 civilians killed in
Wednesday's bombing raid on Haifa,
port city of British-mandated
Palestine.
His address in the United States
was not learned.
Widespread Air Attacks
By British in Africa
CAIRO, Egypt. July 26 '7Ti.—
Widespread air attacks on Italian
colonial objectives in Africa were
reported in a Royal Air Force com
munique today to have resulted in
damage to a storage depot and air
drome hangars.
The text of the communique
follows:
"Royal Air Force bombers raided
A storage depot at Massawa yester
day. Although they met strong
anti-aircraft fire and were attacked
by many fighters, they pressed home
their attacks, bombs falling in a
cluster on the target. One building
was demolished. All of our aircraft
returned safely.
“Four separate raids were carried
out by Blenheims on the Macaaca
area. At dawn airdrome hangars
were attacked. At midday naval
barracks at Assab were raided. In
the afternoon there was another
raid on the Macaaca airdrome, with
direct hits on hangars, resulting in
a large cloud of black smoke rising
to a height of 1.000 feet. In the
evening, in the course of raids on
both Assab and Macaaca, a number
of bombs fell on a naval compound.
“Valuable reconnaissances were
carried out by aircraft of the South
African Air Force in the Morale dis
trict, and motor transport was at
tacked by the Moyale-Buna road in
Northern Kenya, direct hits being
registered on a number of lorries."
Maniac Slayer of Sheriff
Surrenders Peacefully
Bv thp Associated Press.
ALAMO. Term., July 26.—Finis
Avery, 35. former asylum inmate
who yesterday killed Sheriff E. G.
McLean because he thought Mc
Lean had come to take him to war.
was trailed into the hills near here
today and surrendered to a posse
peacefully.
Avery, a tenant farmer, was bare
headed and barefooted. He was not
armed. Several shotgun pellets had
hit him while he was barricaded in
his home, but these injuries were
minor.
Magistrate Elmo Randle said
Sheriff McLean was slain yesterday
by a gunshot fired from behind a
porch vine by Avery, recently re
leased from an insane asylum.
The 61-vear-old Sheriff, father of
five children, had gone to Avery’s
tw'o-room cabin to arrest the man
for another shooting.
Avery even barricaded himself in his
ahack with his wife and five small
children. When deputy sheriffs fired
at an opening from which a gun
protruded, the farmer yelled, ran
through a back door and escaped.
J. S. Schwinn, Famed
As Flycaster, Dies
B> the Associated Press.
LAKE HOPATCONG, N. J.. July
26.—John S. Schwinn, 62, former
world champion flycaster, died of
ft heart attack last night.
He won the national accuracy
championships at Detroit in 1927
and Cleveland in 1928. Three years
later he won the national surf ac
curacy title at Philadelphia.
DEFENSE IN A HURRY'—This combination bombproof shelter and anti-tank pillbox, which ordi
narily would have taken three days to build, was completed in about five hours as result of an
invention by Karl Billner of Philadelphia, demonstrated yesterday to Army and Navy officials and
members of the House and Senate Military Affairs Committees.
Anti-Tank Pillbox
Built in Five Hours
Demonstrated Here
Army, Navy and
Congress Leaders
Watch Procedure
That a ‘‘defensive blitzkrieg" can
balk lightning offensive war opera
tions was the thesis propounded be
fore Army and Navy officials and
members of the House and Senate
Military Affairs Committees yester
day by Karl Billner of Philadelphia,
inventor of an anti-tank pillbox
which can be built in less than five
hours.
Mr. Billner demonstrated his con
struction method at First street and
Potomac avenue S.W.. fashioning a
tank-defense turret which, he said,
would require three days to com
plete by conventional procedure.
In case of national emergency,
the Capitol, the White House, or
any public building needing pro
tection against, bombs from the air
or land could be covered by the
same bombproof material in 24
hours. Mr. Billner said.
The pillbox built yesterday weighs
50 tons and is large enough to hold
a crew of six men operating a 3
inch gun. With turret holes in
three places there is an opening
on top loaded with magnetic hand
grenades which would destroy a
tank that happened to pass the
marksmen in the tower.
Built on the order of a dome, the
bombproof pillbox is so shaped that
any gunfire would glance off it.
according to ballistic experts. Its
weight is such that no tank could
upset it.
Similar bombproof shelters wic
difficult to build in the old days,
it was stated yesterday, Decause
they required massive molding of
steel or wood, whereas under the
new method only a huge rubber
balloon, operated on the principle
of an automobile tire, is required
to hold the freshly poured concrete
in place against a movable steel
casing. When the concrete is dried,
bv suction pumps, the balloon is
deflated and the pillbox is ready
for occupancy.
To prevent representatives of
other nations from witnessing the
operation, the utmost secrecy sur
rounded the experiment yesterday
which, observers said, came through
with 100 per cent rating. The in
ventor, Mr. Billner, who is president
of the Vacuum Concrete Co. which
built the new Census Building, an
eight-story structure on an entire
city block, in less than three months,
claims that with more practice a
crew like the one used yesterday
could build a 50-ton fortress in less
than three hours. The pillbox
measures two feet thick all around.
Franchise
(Continued From First Page.)
minority leader and the vice presi
dential nominee on the 1940 Re
publican ticket.
Me Nary for Suffrage.
Senator McNarv said he favored
suffrage for the District and believed
most of the other Republican mem
bers of the Senate shared his view.
Recent developments in connec
tion with the suffrage situation—
the action of the Democratic Na
tional Convention in placing a
plank in the party platform favoring
a vote for District residents, coupled
with the steadily mounting tide of
sentiment in Congress for the fran
chise—has served to buoy the hopes
of Washington's civic and business
leaders that the national represen
tation goal is now not far away.
The subject of the suffrage plank
in the Democratic platform and the
legislation necessary to enact it came
up today at President Roosevelt's
press conference.
Asked for his views, Mr. Roose
velt said he considered the whole
subject in the study stage. He said
that personally he had not yet given
any considerable thought to it as yet.
Interviews with heads of the va
rious civic and business organiza
tions indicate they are elated over
! the recent turn of events, and feel
confident Congress will act on the
national representation resolution
before adjournment. The consensus
of these leaders is that Congress
cannot adjourn without passing on
the suffrage question.
Colliflower Sees Chances Better.
James E. Colliflower, president of
the Washington Board of Trade and
head of the largest organization of
businessmen in the city, said:
"I'm for national representation
for the District. The Democrats
wrote a plank in their platform
j favoring suffrage, and if they are
! sincere they will give it to us. I
1 really believe there is a better
| chance now than ever before for
! congressional action.” The Board of
I Trade has long been an advocate of
Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania and Chairman Sheppard of
the Senate Military Affairs Committee shown standing on the
inside rubber form of the shelter just before concrete was
poured. —Star Staff Photos.
national representation and has'
favored the Sumners resolution.
In the midst of a vacation at
Rehoboth Beach. Del., Harry N.
! Stull, president of the Federation of
Citizens' Associations, wired The
Star:
“The renewed interest by Congress
in suffrage for the District is most
gratifying. The Federation has long
been an advocate of complete suf
frage and will join other organiza
tions in any effort to bring prompt
adoption of the Sumners resolution.
This should be followed by some
form of local suffrage.
“The Star is subject to congratu
lations for its long and continued
advocacy of civic rights for the resi- j
dents of the District. At this dis
tance I can only root for success
of our long fight. Contact Harry
: Wender for any action of the Feder
ation until August 1.”
Mr. Wender, who is acting presi
dent of the Federation during Mr.
Stull’s absence, not only shared
nis views, but added: ’•This new
move for suffrage is rolling down
the hill like a snowball. Everybody
is jumping on the band wagon. It
seems to be the fashionable thing
to do. The men in Congress who
have been lukewarm on the subject
in the past are now jumping off the
fence since the leaders have made
known their views. I believe we are
going to get somewhere before Con
gress adjourns.”
Sees “Best Solution.”
Mr. Wender, in addition, said the
; Sumners resolution is the "best so
lution" of the national representa
tion problem.
Paul E. Lesh, a vice chairman of ]
the Citizens' Joint Committee on
National Representation—the organ
j ization that has campaigned for
! many years to “Americanize the
| Washingtonian’’—believes, in view
of developments in the last week,
| that the goal is near. He said:
| “Recent developments in the long
campaign to give the people of
t Washington the privilege of voting
j are wonderful. I have high hopes
| that action will be taken at the
present session of Congress on the
Sumners national representation
resolution. That resolution con
tains the best plan ever proposed for
solving the suffrage situation.
“My hopes are founded not alone
on the efforts of Representative
Sumners to have his Judiciary Com
mittee approve his own resolution,
but also on the series of inte.'views
I have had in the last year with
members of the House.
“The fact that the recent conven
tions of the two major political
parties at which delegates from the
District attended and voted for can
didates for President and Vice Presi
dent, makes it a particularly appro
priate time to brnig to the attention
of Congress and the country that
we who live in Washington do not
have voting representation in the
national Government.”
Finch Hopes for Action.
Wilbur S. Finch, president of the
District Suffrage Association, made
this comment:
“I am glad to aea that our friends
in Congress plan to do something
at the present time to give the
people of Washington the privilege
of voting. I hope Congress will go
as far as is possible to comply with
the plank in the Democratic plat
form to extend the right of suffrage
to the voteless people here.
•'The Sumners resolution is the
best solution of the national repre
sentation problem. Every one seems
to believe the plan it proposes to
provide national representation for
the District is the one that should
be adopted. Of course, our organ
ization is working for local suffrage
as well as national representation.
We want the whole hog."
Senator Capper. Republican, of
Kansas and a veteran congressional
champion in the long battle for a
franchise for District residents, sug
gested that civic and business
leaders who are in favor of a vote
for the people here stage a demon
stration before the Judiciary Com
mittee Tuesday. He said he would
attend the meeting if there appeared
to be any necessity for it.
Would Shift to Resolution.
He also said the Sumners resolu
tion embodied the national repre
sentation plan the people of the
District appear to want and that he
would be willing to shift his support
to that one instead of the resolution
he has long sponsored for national
representation.
"We want to stand together on
this thing,” he declared. "And the
Sumners resolution seems to be
sound.” •
As Senator Capper made his state
ment, Representative D'Alesandro,
Democrat, of Maryland, a member
of the House District Committee,
prepared to introduce a bill provid
ing for an elective general assembly
of 21 members to act as a legislative
body for the District. He later
changed his plans, however, and de
cided to support the Sumners reso
lution for national representation.
Britain Will Ration
Commerce of Neutrals
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 26.—Great Britain
has decided to reinforce her eco
nomic blockade of all German
dominated Europe by rationing the
trade of neutral countries “to the
bare minimum necessary to their
existence,” it was reliably reported
today.
The British plan, it was said,
would make "virtually impossible"
re-export of goods to Gernian-oc
cupied territory through neutral
channels.
The details will be announced
early next week and will be im
plemented “very soon,” it was said.
The navicert system, hitherto
confined to shipments from the
United States and certain other
American countries to pre-certiflei
European destinations, will be ex
tended to cover “all goods proceed
ing from any part of the world
to European areas.”
German Speedboats
Sink Three Merchant
Ships, Berlin Says
15 Destroyed by Planes
Yesterday, Nazi High
Command Announces
B.v the Associated Press.
BERLIN. July 26.—The Ger
man high command announced in
a special communique today that
German speedboats had sunk three
merchant ships totaling 22,000 tons
off the southern coast of England
today in the region of Brighton.
Another merchantman of 2.000 tons
were reported set afire.
The communique said:
"In a new attack of German
speedboats against the British south
coast the following successes were
achieved in the region of Brighton:
Three armed enemy merchant ships
of 10.000, 7.000 and 5,000 registered
tons were sunk; one armed enemy
merchant shin of 2.000 tons was
fired. Immediate enemy defensive
fire was without success. The Ger
man speed boats returned un
damaged."
The German high command an
nounced that 15 merchant ships
totaling 63.000 tons were destroyed
by German warplanes in raids on
British shipping lanes yesterday
In the course of continued raids
on British shippinfi a number of
“hectic fights' 'occurred, the high
command said.
Total British air losses yesterday
were 23 planes, against 9 German
planes missing, it was said. 'The
British reported 28 German planes j
shot down yesterday, as compared :
with 5 of their own.i
Despite bad weather, the German
air force raided British airports in
Central England and attacked radio
stations at Dover, the high com
mand said.
No military damage was done by
continued flights of British bombers
over Northern, Western and Central
Germany during the night, but five
British planes on these missions
were brought down by anti-aircraft
fire and night chasers, the com
munique said.
11 of 23 in Convoy Sunk.
It declared that 11 ships totaling
43,000 tons were sunk out of one
strongly protected convoy of 23 ves
sels.
German military experts declared
bad weather this week hampered air
operations, but had not proved an
efTective protection to British ship
ping.
They said it was apparent that
the British had sought to take ad
vantage of the bad weather and had
tried to conduct a particularly large
and well-guarded convoy through
the Channel.
Cardenas Will Decide
Rival Congress Issue
By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY. July 26.—Presi
dent Lazaro Cardenas himself, the
government announced yesterday,
will decide which of the country's
two ^Congresses" is legal fey ap
pearing before one or the other to
read his presidential message Sep
tember 1.
[ After the presidential election
I early this month, both the admin
! istration candidate, Gen. Manuel
Avila Camacho, and the opposition
candidate. Gen. Juan Andreu Alma
zan. claimed a majority. Gen. Al- j
mazan. who had set up separate j
counting places after accusing the
government forces of manipulating
] the tabulation of ballots, later said
I that if his elected supporters were
not admitted to Congress, they
i would meet as a Congress anyway.
! "in my home, if necessary."
1 In the event that two Congresses,
actually meet, the one before which
Cardenas reads his presidential mes
sage would be considered the legal
one. the Department of Interior ex
; plained. The other gathering would
be considered illegal and subject to
| prosecution for usurpation of power.
Gen. Almazan meanwhile con
tinued his vacation in Havana and
called several of his aides to confer
with him there.
I
Refugees
|_(Continued Prom First Page!
obtain safe passage to this country.
The first step, he told a press con
i ference. involves providing perhaps
10.000 children in Britain with pass
i ports.
Tire next step, he said, would be
to find out what the British gov
ernment would be able to do about
sending the children to the United
States, or perhaps Canada, in
British vessels.
A little later on. the President
! continued, the stage might be
reached when the United States
would ask for reasonable assurance
j that if American vessels went over
f to evacuate them, there would be
no torpedoings.
There are three sides to the prob
lem, the President said, on being
asked for comment on the pending
legislation to permit the use of
American vessels in war zones to
bring out children.
First, he said, there is the attitude
of the British government, then our
own deep desire to do everything we
can. and finally there is the safety
of the children to consider. The
latter, he said, is the crux of the
matter.
It would be one thing, he said, if
the United States were reasonably
certain of getting American-flag
ships to England without torpedoing
or bombing. But. he went on. with
out reasonable assurance of safe
passage, it would be a pretty big
responsibility to take ships over, load
them with children and have them
torpedoed.
Mr. Roosevelt called attention to
reports of the sinking of a French
vessel taking Frenchmen home from
England. The British, he said,
claimed that the ship had been
guaranteed safe passage, while the
Germans, he added, said they had
guaranteed no such thing.
Bombings in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG. Union of
South Africa, July 26 (TP).—A series
of bomb explosions today shook the
Witwatersrand, famous Transvaal
gold-mining area.
Russians Fly to Belgrade
BERLIN, July 26 UP) (via radio)
The German radio reported an
eight-man Russian trade delegation
flew to Belgrade from Moscow today
for new Soviet-Yugoslav negotia
tions.
Avenol, Bowing to 'Realities/
Quits as Chief of League
Geneva's Political
Work May Be Ended
By Resignation
Ey Ihe Associated Press.
GENEVA, July 26.—Joseph A. C.
Avenol, French secretary-general of
the League of Nations since July 1,
1933, announced his resignation to
day. stating the “realities” of thr
present times made his office no
longer necessary.
Thus M. Avenol signed what may
well be the formal death sentence
of the League as a political body—a
death it has been dying steadily
since 1932. when Japan's armies
w’ere sent into Manchuria.
M. Avenol submitted his resigna
tion last night in a telegram sent to
the governments of the League's
member states.
Stating that until September,
1936, when he visited Premier Mus
solini at Rome, he had believed
“certain inevitable reforms would
enable the League * * * to regroup
the forces which were moving away
from it," M. Avenol's wire declared
the duties of his office now “no
longer justify maintenance of po- j
litical high direction, which no
longer is consistent with the reali
ties of the situation."
Will Make Proposals.
His telegram said:
"I am anxiously considering meas
ures to assure the administration
work of the League secretariat shall !
continue. I shall make proposals
on this subject in due course. * * *
The work of the technical section
well could be adapted to the needs
of the hour while involving sub
stantial economies.”
M. Avenol said he would announce
the date when his resignation be
comes effective after a meeting of
the Supervisory Committee he is
calling for next month.
M. Avenol's resignation is ex
pected to postpone a decision on an
invitation to the League's technical
sections to move to Princeton. N. J..
at least until after a meeting of the
League Supervisory Committee in
August. Until then the work of the
League will continue unchanged.
M Avenol was elected unan
imously as secretary general in Oc
tober. 1932, and during his term of
office saw Japan. Germany, Italy
and a number of smaller states
quit the League.
The League failed to bring peace
in the Chinese-Japanese War, the
Italian-Ethiopian War and the
Spanish Civil War and didn't try
seriously to save Albania. Austria,
Czecho-Slovakia or Poland.
Since the outbreak of the war last
September League activity has
dwindled to almost nothing, for both
Britain and France decided at the
j start the League should sit tight
and say nothing. What they want
ed. if it wasn't too much, usually
i was law at the League.
Led Economy Drive.
Though M. Avenol handled few
of the League's non-political ac
tivities himself, he took personal
charge of last year's economy drive
: and slashed 226 employes from the
i pay roll, leasing 303 on the
r its peak, in 1933, the League enr®
ployed 725
1 M. Avenol, a calm, bespectacled
| Breton, was paid $20,500 ( 90JQQ0
i Swiss francs) a year, plus $14,000
for entertainment and upkeep of the
official residence. In addition he
had free use of the mansion and its
extensive gardens.
Through the League's darkest
years, when each setback was labeled
the League's "last,'’ criticism literal
ly was poured on his head. Much
of it came from the League's
stanch supporters, who said M.
JOSEPH A. C. AVENOL.
1 Avenol was too negative, too much
at the order of London and Paris.
They said the League and its ideals
| might have been spared many a
shock with a man of energy and
initiative at its head.
M. Avenol took the kicks as they
came and went quietly about his
job. which he regarded as that of
an international civil servant.
When it became apparent the
League had little future as a polit
I ical institution, at least until the war
was fought, he directed most of its
energies into pon-political channels.
Fully 80 per cent of the League
budget, which totaled about $3,700.
000 in 1939, but only $2,450,000 this
year, went into international anti
narcotic. health, nutrition, housing,
1 financial and economic activity.
No Intimates at League.
M. Avenol seldom spoke publicly
and had few' intimates, none in the
League secretariat.
Born at La Motte St. Heray, In
Brittany, on June 9, 1879. he started
his career in 1905 in the French
treasury. He became inspector
general and was France's financial
representative in London during
the World War. From 1920-1923 he
was the French member of the
League Financial Committee con
cerned with the financial recon
struction of Austria and in 1923 was
appointed deputy secretary general
under Sir Eric Drummond. From
then until he succeeded Sir Eric
on the Briton's retirement on Octo
ber 15. 1932. M. Avenol headed a
number of League missions to Cen
tral and Eastern Europe. China and
Canada.
In January of this year he told
the Associated Press:
"The world cannot go on indefi
nitely in conflict. A settlement
must come sooner or later. When
it does come it will be found there
are certain perennial truths about
the League of Nations which man
kind cannot and will not forget.
"The principles of community of
interests and co-operation alone
offer the possibility of overcoming
difficulties which will face human
society when the war is ended.”
France's Withdrawal
From League Expected
. BERLIN.,July 2*<fP) (By Radio).—
-A Tumor that the resignation of
Joseph Avenol as secretary-genera 1
of the League of Nations will be
followed by France's withdrawal
from the League within a few days
was reported by the German radio
today in a dispatch from Geneva.
Financial experts of the League
secretariat were said to have gone
to the United States and the staff
to have dwindled to 65 persons.
Grand Jury Moving
To Police Court
The District grand jury will give
up its quarters in the District Court
Building and will move to the third
floor of the Police Court Building,
, Fifth and E streets N.W.. on Mon
! day. United States Attorney Edward
1 M. Curran announced today.
Under the change, witnesses ap
pearing in cases in which the Police
Court holds defendants for grand
jury action will be able to go di
rectly before that body in the same
building.
Assistant United States Attorney
Evan T. Davis, who is assigned regu
' larlv to the grand jury, will have his
office on the first floor of the Police
Court Building.
Finland Gives Soviet
Transit Privileges
By the Associate'* Press.
STOCKHOLM, July 26 —Finland
has granted Soviet Russia limited
transit rights in Southern Finland,
the Stockholm newspaper Dagens
Nyheter reported today.
The Finnish-Russian peace treaty
provided Russia commercial transit
privileges only in the far Northern
Petsamo region and in other parts
of Northern Finland.
A Finnish Legation spokesman
here said only food and other sup
plies were being transported by
the southern route. Troops are
reaching Hango by boat from Tal
linn, capital of newly Sovietized
Estonia, he said.
The Bahamas are proud of their
long history of self-government.
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Chilean Nobleman
Becomes U. S. Citizen
By the Associated Press.
TOMS RIVER. N. J„ July 26 —The
Chilean nobleman Marquis George
Piedrablanca Guanna de Cuevas has
renounced his title to become an
American citizen.
De Cuevas is the husband of the
former Margaret Strong, grand
daughter of the late John D. Rocke
feller. sr„ whom he married in
Paris in 1927.
He was one of 24 aliens who re
ceived their final citizenship papers
from Ocean County Judge Percy
Camp yesterday. He listed his age
! as 55.
Luxembourg Royalty
Reaches Haven at
Joseph Davies' Home
Prince Felix and Children
Are Luncheon Guests
At White House
Prince Felix of Luxembourg and
his six children were resting today
at the Long Island home of Joseph
E. Davies, former Ambassador to
the little duchy, after their arrival
in Annapolis and visit to Washing
ton and the White House yesterday.
The royal group, who fled Luxem
bourg only three hours before the
Nazi invasion commenced, were
brought to Annapolis from Lisbon
by the United States destroyer
Trenton. The Grand Duchess
Charlotte, ruler of the duchy and
wife of Prince Concort Felix, re
mained in Lisbon for an indefinite
stay.
At the White House members of
the royal party were luncheon
guests of President Roosevelt. Aft
erward they left by train for New
York, with little baggage, but with
plenty of chocolate bars in the
pockets of the children.
"They are living from day to day,”
explained William Hamilton, com
missioner general of the Luxem
bourg Pavilion at the New York
World's Fair, who traveled with the
family from Washington. Friends
expressed belief that scant resources
are left them.
The prince indicated that his chil
dren will continue their education
here. They are Elizabeth, 18;
Marie Adelaide, 16; Marie Ga
brielle, 15: Alix, 11; Juan, 19, and
Charles, 13.
The United States has consistent
ly refused to recognize the conquest
of nations by force, and the royal
family was accorded full official
honors, including a 21-gun salute
at Annapolis.
The prince came to this country
last summer to dedicate the Luxem
bourg pavilion at the fair.
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contest marking the opening of the
Timonium State Fair, September 1.
The contest will be open to one
representative from each of the 23
counties.
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