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Weather Forecast
Fair, not quite so cold; lowest tonight
about 33; tomorrow Increasing cloudi
ness, warmer; rain tomorrow night.
Temperatures today—Highest, 41, at S
p.m.; lowest, 28, at 6 a.m.
From the United States weather Bureau report.
Fun Details on Paae A-2.
Closing New York Markets, Page 22.
'From Press to Home
Within the Hour'
Most people in Washington have The
Star delivered to their homes every
evening and Sunday morning.
iA*) Means Associated Press.
88th YEAR. No. 35,283.
WASHINGTON, D. C.t FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1940 -SEVENTY-TWO PAGES. ***
THREE CENTS.
Greeks Reported in Argirocastro;
Badoglio Out as Duce's Staff Chief;
British Battle Raider in Atlantic
1
Hellenes Push On
After Capture
Of Porto Edda
By the Associated Press.
BITOLJ, Yugoslavia, Dec. 6.—Dis
patches reaching the Yugoslav bor
der said Greek troops occupied
Argirocastro, Albania, about noon
today after bloody fighting, and
took more than 1,000 prisoners.
A number of heavy cannon, ma
chine guns and other war material
were reported captured by the
Greeks as they swept into that for
mer base of the Italians in South
western Albania.
The report that Argirocastro was
occupied has not been confirmed
officially or unofficially in Athens !
or Rome.
Porto Edda Capture
Officially Announced
ATHENS, Dec. 6 UP).—An official
announcement today said Greek
troops had occupied Porto Edda. one
of the Italian Army's main bases in;
Southern Albania.
The fall of Argirocastro, another
Important Italian military base. 15
miles northeast of Porto Edda. was
expected at any moment, the Greek
high command said.
Greek troops also were reported
advancing rapidly westward from
Premet, on the Central Albanian
front, where the mountain pass
south of Klisoura was said to be
under the Are of their artillery.
Klisoura is about 10 miles west of
Premet.
Reports from the front previously
had said both Porto Edda and
Argirocastro were aflame and Greek
leaders expressed belief retreating
Italian troops had set fire to equip
ment and supplies to keep them
from falling into the hands of the
Greek Army.
Reports from Porto Edda said the
Greeks entered the town early today
after the Italians cleared out hur
riedly, leaving behind virtually all
their vast war material assembled
there. They placed the torch to
what supplies they could before
J leaving, however, the Greeks said.
The Greeks found in the harbor
an Italian destroyer they declared
• had been sunk last Wednesday by
British bombing planes shortly after
It arrived to take out Fascist staff
| officers.
1 The Italian position in Porto Edda
became untenable, the Greeks ex
plained, when their forces captured
the nearby towns of Lykursi and
Vyroni.
The main battle in the southern
sector, meanwhile, appeared devel
oping in the vicinity of Klisoura. j
road junction north of Argirocastro.
Annies Moving Forward.
The Greek high command, in a
terse communique, declared its
armies were moving forward along
the entire 100-mile front in Albania
extending from the Adriatic Sea to
the Yugoslav border.
The Greek advance westward from
Premet toward Tepelini, 30 miles
Inside Albania, threatened to cut
the line of retreat for Italian forces
reported falling back from Argiro
castro, which is situated about 15
miles southwest of Premet. Greek
columns were said to be driving on
Argirocastro from both the south
and east.
A Greek spokesman said reports
from the front indicated a "persist
ent” Itajian retreat from Porto
Edda.
The high command indicated the
Italian air force was offering stiff
resistance to the Greek push on
this front.
On the northern wing of the front
the Greeks said the last Italian
troops had been dislodged from
mountain positions in the Pogradetz
area and that the Greek advance
was continuing toward Elbasani.
Italian losses in this area were de
scribed as heavy and the Greeks
said they had captured more than
500 prisoners.
(Reports from Yugoslavia,
which also told of continued
Greek advances toward Elba
sani, placed the number of Ital
ians taken prisoner at 1,500.)
500 Machine Guns Seized.
The Greeks estimated they al
ready had seized more than *8.000.
000 worth of equipment abandoned
by the retreating Italians. More
than 500 machine guns were said
to be among the loot.
Some of the captured arms, in
cluding six heavy guns seized in the
advance beyond Premet, have been
turned on their former owners, the
Greeks said.
Italian warplanes were reported to
have bombed the Greek island of
Corfu again yesterday, but damage
was officially described as slight.
The Greek Admiralty denied today
As "a fantastic invention” the Italian
Claim yesterday that the Fascist
submarine Delflno sank a Greek de
stroyer November 29 in the Aegean
6ea.
' The naval announcement, report
(See GREEK, Page A-7.)
Bulletin
NEW YORK, Dec. 6 </F).—A
giant Army bomber, dispatched
by President Roosevftt on “a
mission which might save a life,”
took off from ice-encrusted
Mitchel Field today with Senora
Carlos Davila, ailing wife of the
former President of Chile. It was
bound for Santiago and its late
springtime. The first stop was to
be Miami.
English Say Nazis Fled Scene,
700 Miles Off Uruguay
Atmed Merchant Cruiser Carnarvon Castle
Damaged 'Slightly/ Admiralty Admits
Bj the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 6.—A fierce, long
range encounter between a German
‘Q-boat”—disguised raider—and the
British armed merchant cruiser Car
narvon Castle, in which the British
ship suffered “slight damage” and
the German was said to have fled,
was reported today by the Admiralty.
It was learned authoritatively the
battle occurred in the South At
lantic approximately 700 miles
northeast of Montevideo. Uruguay,
where three British cruisers drove
the German pocket battleship Ad
miral Graf Spee to self-destruction
last December. This would be well
within the American neutrality zone.
(Informed quarters in Monte
video placed the battle 1,000
miles northeast of Montevideo. It
was said the Carnarvon Castle
would reach Montevideo next
Monday, presumably for repairs.)
The Admiralty acknowledged “some
casualties” aboard the Carnarvon
Castle, 22.122 tons. It left open the
question of damage to the oppo
nent—“a fast and heavily armed
Many Made Homeless
As Waves of Planes
Raid Portsmouth
Private Property Suffers
Heavy Damage During
3-Hour Nazi Attack
By the Associated Press.
PORTSMOUTH. England. Dec. 6.
—German bombers sweeping over in
waves killed a number of persons
and inflicted heavy damage to pri
vate property in this south coast
naval base last night in a con
centrated, three-hour assault.
A large number of persons were
made homeless by the bombs which i
were declared to have been aimed at I
the civilian population. Rescue
workers dug into debris of leveled
homes throughout the day in search
of possible victims.
Home Secretary Herbert Morrison,
here for a speech, inspected the
damaged areas and afterward
asserted:
"All ranks seem to be animated
with the right spirit, which is:
‘We are going to stick this business
out and the enemy is not going to
get us down.’ ”
Congratulates City.
“I really congratulate the city for
the brave -spirit with which it has
stood up to the attack.” the Home
Secretary continued.
"Portsmouth is a city of great
civic tradition and long associations
(See RAID, Page A-4.)
German raider disguised as a
merchant ship.*”
(A German announcement said
a British auxiliary cruiser had
been "severely damaged” in an
engagement in the South At
lantic with a German auxiliary
cruiser.)
"It is not yet known what damage
was inflicted on the enemy raider,
and she was last reported to be
steaming north at high speed away
from the scene of action,” the com
munique said.
The British themselves developed
the Q-boat in the World War when
the name was given to mystery war
ships masked as innocent tramp
steamers. They were one of Brit
ain's great weapons against Ger
man submarines.
It was the second engagement
between British and German ves
sels within the Western Hemisphere
neutrality belt since the Graf Spee
i battle. On July 29 the 22.209-ton
British merchant cruiser Alcantara
fought it out with a German mer
I < See BATTLE,"Page A-4.)
Famous Observatory
And Windsor Castle
Nazi Bomb Targets
Time Ball Continues
To Function; Globe
And Clock Damaged
By the Associated Pres*.
LONDON. Dec. 6.—Greenwich Ob
servatory waa damaged in a recent
air raid, but the famous time ball
continues to function, British
sources disclosed today.
The revolving globe, the observa
tory clock and parts of the tele
scope room were damaged by high
explosive and Are bombs.
It was also disclosed that three
bombs fell in the grounds of Wind
sor Castle, residence of English sov
ereigns up the Thames from Lon
don, in a recent air raid.
One of the sections damaged in
the observatory bombing was built
in 1675 from designs by Sir Christo
pher Wren.
Bones were blasted recently from
graves of ancient ScotUsh Kings and
Queens by bombs dropped on Edin
burgh’s Holy rood House, it was also
learned. Windows of the palace
were broken by bombs striking close
to the ruins of the old chapel.
“The Ring.” one of London's
famous boxing halls, also was dam
aged. On Blackfriars foad, it was
built in 1782 and originally was a
chapel.
In the Windsor Castle attack one
(See OBSERVATORY, Page A-7.f
U. S. to Fall Easily After Europe,
Says Speech Laid to Key Nazi
\
Economic Dictatorship Promised;
Actual Slavery Pictured as Lot of Conquered
'How the North American Newspaper Alliance and Life Maga
zine came into possession of this amazing speech, delivered in May,
1940, by Walther Darre. Germany’s Minister of Agriculture, to a
group of high Nazi officials, cannot be divulged. Nevertheless, after
thorough investigations, it has been learned that there are satis
factory reasons for believing that this speech is authentic as briefed
here. It is being published simultaneously by The Star and Life
Magazine.
Herr Darre is a key man in the Nazi party—he was listed among
the first 10 candidates on Hitler’s "unified ballot” back in 1933—and
has long been known as a representative of the extreme wing of the
party. In a dispatch to the New York Times on June 28, 1934, Fred
erick Birchall made reference to "the more radical Nazi element
personified by Dr. Joseph Goebbels (Minister of Propaganda), Wal
ther Darre (Minister of Agriculture) and Dr. Robert Ley (head of the
German Labor Front).” Darre and Dr. Alfred Rosenberg have been
the principal supporters of the neo-pagan German faith movement,
harking back to the pre-Christian religion of the ancient German '
tribes.
Resume of a speech by Dr. Walther Darre, Reichsminister
of Food and Agriculture, to a number of high German officials
May, 1940—
As important officials of this country in which you have suffered for
20 years under the oppression of a foreign race and which has now been
returned to us by God, I deem it proper to inform you of the nearest
future of our great nation.
The greater part of the members of our National Socialist Party is
not yet sufficiently ripe fully to comprehend the innermost plans and
intentions of our government, nor can such plans and intentions be
imparted to the masses. I Appeal to your sense of solidarity, to the
knowledge that you are kinsmen (volksgenossen) of a nation predestined
to rule the whole world, and to your conscience, not to divulge to others
anything that I will say here today. Such action would forever exclude
any one of you from our midst/
would exclude him from living in
the sphere of our blessed union
(gemeinschaft), and most certainly
would cost the traitor his life.
I do not wish to elaborate on this
further, as, being selected members
who are faithful unto death to the
Fuehrer and to our ideal, I have
complete confidence in you, and
make this private address to you in
order to pour into your hearts the
confidence which you will need in
the near future. In fact, in the next
hours.
We are facing a great phase of
our further offensive. In the next
few days our armies srtll strike
hard on the west of Europe and
will destroy with one blow our
eternal enemies. Everything is most
carefully prepared entirely and
totally to crush our opponents. With
complete deliberation and without
sentimentality we shall destroy
France, as this wretched nation de
serves no other fate. The Trench
*
are a nation of fanfarons and idlers,
and the fists of our good soldiers
will teach these greedy pleasure
seekers and rotters to work hard for
us.
After the military defeat in this
state, a complete social revolution
will follow therein, and the French,
who for years have spread poisonous
and loathsome lies about our na
tion and our Fuehrer, will welcome
us as saviors who will deliver them
from the hell of war. We have
many friends in France, in Belgium,
and most of them in Holland. These
friends are not only our kinsmen
resident there, but also many mem
bers of those nations. Some of
them have adopted the Fuehrer’s
doctrine; some of them are dis
placed officials of former regimes;
some of them are ambitious to gain
prominent positions; some who will
not resist the temptation of money;
(Baa DARK*. Fags A-iJ
Cavallero Named
Successor Amid
Reversal Reports
B» th« Associated Preaa.
ROME, Dec. 6.—The resignation
of Marshal Pietro Badoglio as chief
of the Italian general staff was an
nounced officially today.
He was replaced by Gen. Ugo
Cavallero, veteran of three Italian
wars and until recently commander
of the Italian forces in East Africa.
< Badoglio s resignation coin
cided with reports from Athens
of new Greek successes against
Italian forces on the Albanian
battle front.
< The Greeks claimed additional
advances in all sectors and re
ported that retreating Italian
troops had put the torch to their
Southern Albanian bases of
Porto Edda and Argirocastro to
prevent capture of war supplies
they could not take with them.)
During the Greek campaign Mar
shal Badoglio's name rarely has
been mentioned, although he was
second only to Mussolini in the
high command. Roberto Farinacci,
Fascist leader, criticized him. how
ever, in the newspaper Regime Fas
cist a on November 23. declaring vic
tory in Greece was certain despite
"some improvidence and untime
liness on the part of the head of
the general staff."
SUIT Chief 15 Yean.
Marshal Badoglio. Italy's most
famed soldier, sometimes called the
“Italian Hindenburg.” had been
chief of the general stall for 15
years.
As such, he had supreme command
of all three branches of the nation s
fighting forces. A communique an
nouncing the resignation gave no
reason, saying only that it was “on
his own request.”
Gen. Cavallero, who is 60 years
old. nine years younger than Mar
shal Badoglio. first fought in the
Libyan war of 1912-13 and won the
bronze medal for military valor.
At the beginning of the World
War he served as an aide to the
army chief of staff and later was
named chief of operations in the
high command. In this office he
was credited with playing an im
portant part in reorganizing Italian
defenses on the Piave after the Cap
oretto disaster and directing the
campaign which led to the final
Italian victory of Vittorio Veneto.
Given Highest Decoration. •
For his services in this critical
phase he received the nation's high
est military decoration, the military
order of Savoia.
Gen. Cavallero retired from active
service after representing Italy for
two years on the Inter-Allied Mili
tary Commission at Versailles. In
1925 Premier Mussolini named him
undersecretary of war. He occupied
this post three years, carrying out
extensive reorganization of the army.
He was made a senator in 1926
and was named commander of
Italian forces in East Africa in 1937,
but recently had not been on active
duty.
Marshal Badoglio, whom Mussolini
called upon to vanquish Ethiopia for
Fascist Italy when the Italian cam
paign bogged down, did not join the
Fascist party until he had sealed his
triumph over Haile Selassie's empire.
Chief of state when the Black
Shirts marched on Rome, Marshal
Badoglio was reported to have as
sured King Victor Emmanuel that
he could, if ordered, disperse them
with a single regiment. But the
King decided to invite Benito Mus
solini to form a government and
Marshal Badoglio offered no opposi
tion to the new regime.
Soon after Mussolini achieved
power he sent Marshal Badoglio to
Brazil as Ambassador, Badoglio re
ceiving the diplomatic appointment,
it was believed at the time, because
he was too useful, too strong with
the army and too popular with the
people to dismiss altogether.
His position as Italy’s foremost
military strategist was so strong,
however, that Mussolini called him
back to direct reorganization of the
Italian war machine in 1926.
Marshal Badoglio first marched to
battle as an artillery lieutenant
(See BADOGLIO, Page~/PT)
Louisville Firms Protest
Fort Knox Contract
Br the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, Ky„ Dec. 6.—Three
Louisville electrical contractors pro
tested today that the War Depart
ment granted a Port Knox contract
to a New York firm at a figure ap
proximately $59,000, or 40 per cent
above their bid.
The protests were sent to Senators
Barkley and Chandler and Repre
sentative O’Neal by the Marine,
Walter B. Diecks and Theobald elec
tric companies, which said their bid
was $142,945.60 and the bid of the
New York concern $201,863.60.
Senator Barkley telegraphed from
Washington that Army officials had
told him because of the “size of the
job and speed necessary in comple
tion of contract within 24 days” they
did not think the Louisville com
panies “sufficiently strong finan
cially” to undertake the work.
The companies said material for
the job would not cost more than
$49,000 and that this had been
pledged by Louisville jobbers.
Two banks, they added, wired the
War Department that the firms had
ample, credit and Dun A Bradstreet,
credit-rating concern, listed one of
the companies for first-class credit
up t* $50,000. £ ..
Among other conlnm$| handled by
the firms was a $50if# jpb at the
Fort Knox gold vatd$||#
/IFAVOR MILLIONS \
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Puzzling Distinction
Circuit Court Upholds
Removal of Morgan
As T. V. A. Head
President Had Power
To Dismiss Chairman,
U. S. Judge Rules
By the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI. Dec. 6—The Sixth
United States Circuit Court of Ap
peals today upheld dismissal of Ar
thur E. Morgan as chairman of the
Tennessee Valley Authority.
Affirming lower court dismissal of
Dr. Morgan's suit, in which he
sought recovery’ of $4,583.33 alleged
due in salary'. Judge C. C. Simons of
Detroit cited a Supreme Court case
which said:
‘‘The power to remove executive
officers appointed by the President
is conferred upon him by the Con
stitution and so may not be abro
gated by statute.”
Removed for “Contumacy.”
Dr. Morgan, president of Antioch
College. Yellow Sprihgs, Ohio, was
removed by President Roosevelt
March S3, 1938. for "contumacy.”
Previously the tall, gray-hsired edu
cator had been at odds with fellow
members of the T. V. A. Board.
Dr. Morgan filed suit against the
T. V. A. and Board Members Har
court A. Morgan and David E. Lili
enthal, charging that his ouster was
illegal and void and “could be ac
complished only by concurrent ac
tion of the Senate and House of
Representatives.”
District Judge George C. Taylor
of Knoxville. Tenn.. dismissed the
action August 25, 1939, because of
its "failure ot state a claim upon
which relief can be granted.”
Predominantly Executive.
Today s opinion said in part:
‘'it requires little to demonstrate
that the Tennessee Valley Authority
exercises predominantly an execu
tive or administrative function • * *
The board does not sit in judgment
upon private controversies, or con
troversies between private citizens
and the Government, and there is
no judicial review of its decisions,
except as it may sue or be sued as
may other corporations.
“It is not to be aligned with the
Federal Trade Commission, the In
terstate Commerce Commission or
other administrative bodies mainly
exercising clearly quasi-legislative
or quasi-judicial functions—it is pre
dominantly an administrative arm
of the Executive Department.”
Reached at Yellow Springs, Dr.
Morgan said he was "not prepared
at this time” to say whether he
would appeal to the United States
Supreme Court.
“I shall have to consult my attor
neys,” he declared.
50 Flee Hotel Fire
WATERLOO, Iowa, Dec. 6 OP).—
Fifty guests fled to safety here
early today from a fire which de
stroyed the Hawkeye Hotel. W. W.
Gallup, owner of the building, placed
the loss at $40,000.
New Ship Joins
Fleet Every
72 Days
Bj the Associated Press.
New fighting ships are joining the
fleet at the rate of one every 12 days,
the National Defense Commission
reported today.
Making public an analysis of the
Navy’s $7,700,000,000 ship construc
tion and alteration program, the
commission said its study showed
shipbuilding time had been cut ma
terially.
“The 40-month building period for
completing cruisers has been cut as
much as one-eighth," it continued,
“and submarine construction time
has been cut from 30 months to 24
months. Destroyers under construc
tion are being launched three
months ahead of schedules."
Mentioning some short cuts, the
commission said a completed Diesel
engine was installed in one ship
being built at the Tampa (Fla.)
shipyards instead of being assembled
in the ship piecemeal.
The analysis showed contracts
awarded for ship construction to
date totaled more than $3300,000,000.
The remaining portion of the au
thorized total would be utalized far
armor, armament and equipment,
the commission said, to be con
1 tracted for as the ships approached
OOBBpletlOBa
U. S. Employes Stand Behind
Santa of Christmas House
Cash and Goods for Capital's Needy
Find Their Way to His Pack
*
Behind the whiskers of Santa Claus are the whiskers of
Uncle Sam.
Christmas joy for needy youngsters in this town is now flooding
from the rank and file of Government workers.
Up to the window of The Star’s
Christmas House yesterday hurried
a young man with a heavy burden.
He carried a great box filled with
bright, red sweaters, yellow-haired
dolls, warm, blue socks, tough little
footballs, toy pianos and games in
vented just to steal away the heart
of a child.
He jingled $12.50 in cash—and told
N. B. C. Announcer Dorian St.
George this, too, was going to The
Star's Yule campaign, so certain
Washington children will have the
experience (unusual for them) ot
tasting rich, nourishing food.
He was Hardaway Young, Jr.,
delegated by 100 unnamed workers
of the Treasury Department, Pro
curement Division, Emergency
Branch, to bring their gift. They
had collected it in two days, as soon
as they heard of the city-wide ap
peal of this season by The Star, the
tSee CHRISTMAS, Page A-3.)
Dictograph Figured
In Sniper Inquiry,
Detective Admits
Police Dehy, However,
Device Was Installed
To Hear Attorney
An admission that a dictograph
figured in police questioning of John
Eugene Eklund. 25, now under in
dictment in jthree “sniper” murders,
was made today by Chief of Detec
tives Bernard W. Thompson.
Inspector Thompson said, how
ever, that the device had not 4ieen
installed in a No. 3 precinct station
cell for the purpose of listening in
on a conversation between Eklund
and an attorney.
He said, further, that the dicto
graph was7 resorted to in an effort
to substantiate information given
police by an informer, that such
information had been substantiated
before the attorney entered the cell
and that "nothing of importance to
the investigation” was obtained
from the conversation between at
torney and client as picked up by
the voice recorder.
Police Officer Summoned.
The detective chief's statement to
reporters followed charges by James
Kirkland, Eklund s present counsel,
that investigators had used a dicto
graph to record a confidential con
versation between Eklund and an
attorney who preceded Mr. Kirkland
in the case.
Inspector Thompson is one of a
group of police officers and detectives
summoned to appear Wednesday at
a special hearing of a Senate com
(See SNIPER, Page A-2J
Christmas House
Broadcasts
If you're in the vicinity of ■
Christmas House, at Eleventh
street and Pennsylvania ave
nue N.W.. at any of the WMAL
broadcasting periods, stop by to
make a contribution and take
part. Representatives of or
ganizations can arrange to ap
pear on one of the broadcasts
by calling NAtional 5000 and
asking for Christmas House.
Today
4:29 to 4:30 P.M.
7:15 to 7:30 P.M.
Tomorrow
10:39 to 19:45 A.M.
8:30 to 8:45 P.M.
D. C. Needy to Get j
$6,800 From 1889
Inaugural Surplus
Commissioners and Civic
Leaders Agree to Use
Money for Poor
(Picture on Page A-2.)
Accrued interest of $6,800 on a
trust fund set up from a surplus
left payment of expenses of the in
augural of President Benjamin Har
rison in 1889 will be disbursed
through District welfare officials to
needy persons in the District.
This was decided today by the
Commissioners and a group of civic
leaders, who ordered that $3,000 be
spent in the near future and the
balance kept for later needs. Under
the terms of the trust the interest
can be spent only for fuel and
clothing.
Conrad Van Hyning, assistant di
i (See TRUST FUNDS, Page A-7.)“
Bulletin
VICHY, France (Jf). — The
United States Embassy was re
ported tonight to have protested
against 0 German detention of a
former Embassy receptionist, Mrs.
Elisabeth Deegan, on what were
unofficially described as charges
that she aided British officers to
escape from occupied France.
(Earlier Story on Page A-2.)
Summary of Today's Star
Page. Page.
Amusements, Radio .D-16
D-12 Serial Story C-6
Comics D-H-ll Society _B-3
Editorials __A-12 Sports _D-l-4
Finance_A-21 Woman’s
Lost, Found D-6 Page..D-5
Obituary __ A-15
Foreign.
Argirocastro reported captured by
Greeks. Page A-l
Badoglio resigns as Italian chief of
staff. Page A-l
British battle Nazi raider in Atlan
tic. Page A-l
Many left homeless in raid on British
south coast town. Page A-l
United States acts to protect Mrs.
Deegan. Page A-2
Britain's health declared better now
than during World War. Page A-3
National
U. S. reported ready to build Eng
land 60 ships. Page A-l
U. S.-British financial discussions
open at Treasury. Page A-l
Court upholds removal of Morgan as
T. V. A. head. Page A-l
Stewardess dies, raising airliner toll
to nine. Page A-l
Jones and Prentis address insurance
executives. Page A-Z
Washington and Vicinity.
Liberal draft policy In working wife
cases indicated. Page B-l
Reciprocal credits on D. C. income
tax urged. Page B-l
Southeast residents win interline bus
transfers. Page B-l
Editorial and Comment.
Letters to The Star. Page A-1Z
This and That. Page A-12
Answers to Questions. Page A-1Z
David Lawrence. Page A-13
G. Gould Lincoln. Page A-13
Constantine Brown. Page A-13
Jay Franklin. Page A-13
Jay G. Hayden. Page A-13
Miscellany.
Service Orders. Page A-10
City News in Brief. PageB-24
Christmas Story. Page C-7
Nature’s Children. Page C-10
Vital Statistics. Page D-6
Bedtime Story. Page D-10
Letter-Out. Page D-10
Winning Contract. Page D-ll
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British Finance
Data Given in
73-Minute Talk
Vital Parley Held
By Morgenthau and
English Official
By BLAIR BOLLES.
Sir Frederick Phillips, Undersec
retary of the British Treasury, spent
an hour and 13 minutes with Secre
tary of the Treasury Morgenthau
this morning, outlining British re
sources and the cost of vital war
supplies for England in the United
States.
Specialists from the State and
Tresaury Departments attended the
meeting, believed to be a prelude to
a decision by the administration on
the question of arranging credits for
England in the United States.
Sir Frederick said after the meet
ing he had taken the opportunity
of finding what particular poin s on
the British balance sheet Mr. Mor
genthau wished him to cover. Hp
plans to see the Secretary again on
Monday.
Policy Matters Avoided.
The British expert said no ques
tion of policy had arisen during
today's conversation. He empha
sized that the discussion concerned
a “state of facts.”
However, in answer to a ques
tion he said the facts were directed
toward illuminating the problem of
British purchases in the United
States and resources available for
those purchases. No mention was
made. Sir Frederick said, of World
War debts and no reference aros»
concerning the transfer of British
island possessions in the new world
to this country in exchange for re
sources usable in financing British
buying.
The islands question “is outside
my scope altogether,’’ Sir Frederick
said.
Plans Not Disclosed.
The length of Sir Frederick s sta
In Washington and the names of
other persons with whom he will
discuss British financial affairs was
not disclosed.
He said no suggestion had come to
him from Congress that he appear
at the Capitol and added that it
would not enter into his head to
seek a discussion with Secretary of
Commerce Jones, the Federal Loan
administrator^
He indicated that his schedule of
conferences with American officials
rested in large part on the sugges
: lions of Merle Cochran of the Treas
ury Department, who was by hi=
side as he spoke with the press.
The conference in Secretary Mor
genthau's office was interrupted at
one point by the reporters waiting
in the anteroom.
A secretary was sent by Mr. Mor
genthau to the newsmen to ask
I them to be mere quiet.
G. H. S. Pinsent, financial attache
of the British Embassy, accom
panied Sir Frederick to the con
ference. Undersecretary of the
Treasury Bell and H.’ D. White,
Treasury expert, also were present.
Between now and Monday Sir
Frederick said he would be in touch
with the Secretary of the Treasury.
He said that his last visit, in July,
kept him m North America three
weeks—one week here, one in New
York and one in Canada. But at
that time tile British financial
problem had not been aired, and
his presence in this country caused
little public stir.
Before entering the Treasury. Sir
Frederick told newsmen who asked
about loans that he was "not up
to that stage now.”
Controversy Aroused.
%The Phillips visit was the climax
today of a controversy stirred up
a few weeks ago upon the return
to the United States of Lord
Lothian. British Ambassador, when
Lord Lothian said Britain was near
ing the end of its financial re
sources for purchases in this coun
try. and might soon need financial,
as well as material, help.
Before the discussions at the
'■ Treasury began. Senator Nye. Re
1 publican, of North Dakota an
nounced that he and a group of
colleagues were ready to battle to
the bitter end against any attempt
i to extend financial aid to the British.
Senator Nye told newsmen that
this opposition bloc would' base its
fight on the contention that loans
to Britain "mean actual entry into
| war.” He predicted that a proposal
for loans would be accompanied by
I one for "American naval convoy of
British supplies.”
As the financial talks opened, the
(See BRITISH AID," Page A-7.).
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