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German Bombings Have Failed
To Halt British War Industry
Columbia Historian Describes Futility
Of Vast Destruction Inflicted by Nazis
A Pultizer prize-winning his- i
iorian reports on history in the
making *r: a series of sir articles,
of which this is the first. Prof.
Kevins, who has just returned
from six months in England as
1941 Harmsworth professor of
American history at Oxford Uni
versity. is a history professor at
Columbia University.
By ALLAN NEV1NS,
North American Newspaper Alliance.
NEW YORK, July 29.—“It is im
possible.” wrote the lady Mayoress
of Plymouth (Lady Astor) on April
4 “for the ordinary person to vis
ualize a blitz unless he has lived
through one.” That is true, and
true in the sense that a blitz is far
worse than most people can imagine
Before it occurs.
Again and again in Great Britain
a city has made what it considered
to be adequate preparations. Then
when the German bombers swept
over, the inhabitants found that
some aspects of the disaster were
more terrible than they had antici
pated. and that their measures were
insufficient. Yet great as the suf
fering and social dislocation have j
been, the raids have not materially
affected the war. All the savage,
indiscriminate German attacks have
failed to do that because, first, the
damage to vital war industries has
been small, and because, second and
more important, they have not
broken the spirit of the people.
In six months in Great Britain I j
saw most of the worst stricken cit
ies. The centers which had suf
fered most heavily in proportion to |
their extent and population seemed ,
to me to be Clydebank, Birkenhead, ;
Coventry, Southampton and Bristol, j
Plymouth and Portsmouth should
undoubtedly be added to the list,
but them I did not see.
War Facilities Function.
The damage in great parts of
Liverpool and London was appalling,
while in Birmingham, Manchester
and Glasgow it was very heavy, and
in Sheffield far from light. Belfast
(which I did not visit) has also been
hard hit; late in April one raid
cost 500 dead and more than 1.500
Injured. Yet in not one of the
centers which I was able to inspect
had the important war facilities
been put out of action or badly
crippled. In most of the cities fac
tories. docks, shipbuilding works and
wharves were operating much as
usual.
Clydebank, which was particularly
vulnerable because of its masses of
tall stone tenements, suffered two
appalling raids on March 13-15. I
happened to reach the city the
morning the second was ending.
Glasgow hospitals were choked with
the wounded. Glasgow homes filled
with evacuees. Herbert Morrison
later made a special announcement
in Parliament that on these two
nights about 1.100 people were killed.
The Lord Provost of Glasgow. Sir
Patrick Dollan, said that 60 per cent
of the houses in this community of
about 95.000 people were destroyed
or uninhabitable. Yet the great
John Brown Shipbuilding Works and
others, the wharves and docks that
make Clydside so busy a port area,
the vessels in the river itself, were
hardly touched. The Germans had
come over at a great height. 20,
000 to 30.000 feet: they had ringed
Clydeside with incendiary bombs
and then they had poured incen
diaries and high explosives inside
the blazing oval. Accurate aim- had
been impossible.
The moon was full and a blazing
timber yard supplied light like a
gigantic torch; yet from their high
altitude the bombers could hit
nothing but the general target, j
Work in the area limped for a few
days because many hands were
killed, wounded or exhausted. Then
it fell intb its old stride again.
Historic Buildings oone.
The situation seemed much the
same in other centers. In Bristol
damage from repeated raids was
heartrending. Architecturally, Bris- !
tol is not unlike a small edition of
the older, more historic part of
London, with winding streets, fine
old churches and lovely backwaters
holding quaint survivals of the past.
Many of its finest structures now
are gone. They range from that
beautiful relic of the renaissance, j
St. Peter's Hospital, with its ornate
timbering and its entrance curiously
embellished with scriptural designs,
to the recently built Great Hall of
Bristol University, which went up
in flames along with the fine library
of King's College that London
brought thither for ‘ safety.” They
include 14th century almshouses, the
Temple Church with its memories
of the Crusaders, the Hole-in-the
Wall Tavern, where Stevenson Is
said to have invented Long John
Silver.
The Art Gallery and library have
been damaged; the City Museum
was so heavily blasted that for a
time its stuffed giraffe leered crazily
from the roofless, wall-less upper
floor.
Yet in Bristol nearly all the im
portant war facilities w-ere un
scathed. The General Hospital was
half destroyed, but ships were un
loading and loading at the great
basin in the heart of town. Many
fine old Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Century houses were reduced to
flinders; but the factories which
ring the city outskirts had been
little hurt. Some Idea of the ruin
in the shopping and residential
area may be gained from the fact
that at various intersections shop
pers became lost. Nothing but rub
ble stretched on either hand and
the familiar landmarks were gone.
Even they had not learned of all
the city's losses.
War Industries Hurt Little.
Yet the industrial districts were
mainly intact. Down Avonmouth,
a few miles distant, the wharves
and port installations were safe.
As a wartime asset Bristol was lit
tle hurt.
In Southampton it seemed to me
that fully one-third of the business
area was demolished or rendered
unusable. At one point in the poorer
residential district a rough rec
tangle of nearly ten acres was one
level desert of broken brick and
mortar. At another a citizen point
ed ruefully to a broad depression,
littered with stone, "that used to be
the public library.” he said.
Yet the great piers w^ere obviously
for the most part in working order,
their cranes and tracks, their sheds
and warehouses, little damaged. The
custom house still stood. The great
station-hotel of the Southern Rail
road near the wharves was open
for business. A different story could
be told of Plymouth and of parts
of Liverpool, where real war dam
age has been done. But In South
>.
ampton the bombing had obviously
been widely indiscriminate, had
fallen ma nly on shopping and resi
dential areas, and had left the port
little harmed.
In Sheffield the visitor looks out
from Victoria Station, on one of the
hills rimming the town, upon an
expanse of smoking chimneys that
rivals Pittsburgh, In Birmingham
a few factories have been gutted,
but most of the great plants are
intact: the main damage is to
houses, hotels, hospitals and shops.
But Coventry is the most extraordi
nary illustration of the inability of
the bombers to do real vital damage.
As a city Coventry is mutilated be
yond all recognition: as a manufac
turing area it is still practically un
harmed and vigorously busy.
The tremendous raid at Coventry
on November 13-14 last fall was
followed this spring by another sav
age blow. I was shown about the
city by Alderman W. Halliwell. who
has won a national reputation by
his impetuous energy. He told me
that when the war began Coventry
had about 74.000 houses. In the
great blitz between 4.000 and 5.000
were demolished and about 50.000
were more or less damaged: many
suffering only smashed windows and
sprung doors.
TVio Hpq t Vi mil fnr tViat Nnvpmhpr
night was more than 500. The great
blitz of April 16, which I witnessed, j
was simply a piece of German spite- j
fulness, a vindictive attempt to
smash as many as possible of those
artistic and historical monuments
in which London is so incomparably
richer than Berlin.
Almost equally barbarous were the
attacks in May. Happily, the finest !
structures are less hurt than Amer
icans might suppose. The bomb that
went-through the lantern tower of
Westminster Abbey did such restrict
ed harm that damage is hardly
visible from the outside Only a
small part of the roof of Westmins
ter Hall has been shattered. The 1
main structure of the House of
Parliament is intact: so is the main i
structure of St. Paul's. But it is sad
to look at the ruins elsewhere— j
the Guildhall, the Middle Temple
and Inner Temple, Gray's Inn.
Westminster School. St. Clement
Danes, Chelsea Old Church and
Chelsea Hospital, a great part ofj
Lamberth Palace and many another
lovely and storied building.
Little Military Harm.
These blows, with the deaths that
they caused—for on April 16 the
British lost more lives in London
than in the main Greek campaign—
did practically no military harm.
They were blows at civilization
which left Germany as well as the
rest of the world permanently
poorer.
Of course it would be incorrect to
say that no important war damage
has been done in Great Britain.
Not all of the bombs failed to find
military objectives. The docks at'
Liverpool have suffered heavily at
one point. A munitions ship is said
to have blown up. therewith terri
ble results. Docks and port facili
ties in London have been badly in
jured. Any one who goes through
Birmingham on the Great Western
passes within a few feet of a huge
factory completely gutted. Great
warehouses full of valuable goods
have been destroyed.
The British method of concen
trating on military objectives is bet
ter than the German method of in- J
discriminate bombing. The former ;
may yield important results: Brit-4
ain's endurance shows that the lat- j
ter never can Winston Churchill |
is reported to have said, when asked
why the R. A F. did not begin re- :
prisals against civilians. "Business
before pleasure.” In bombing, the
business of hitting military targets
alone counts. Germany's disregard
of that rule is both criminality and
folly.
Training School Transfer
Bill Wins Approval
The Senate Judiciary Committee
reported favorably yesterday a bill
urged by the Justice Department to
authorize the Attorney General to
transfer "tough cases" from the Na
tional Training School for Boys to
other Federal institutions.
A Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
reported similar action last week
after an amendment giving the At
torney General authority to transfer |
a boy "whether or not the prisoner
was committed by the Juvenile
Court of the District" had been ac- J
cepted.
Justice Department advocates.
have pointed out the bill will help
the “crime situation” in the District. \
The committee yesterday also re
ported a bill to make October 9,
1941, Lief Ericson day in Washing
ton. As originally drawn this would
have been an annual celebration.
The bill was amended, however, to
cover only this year.
South Americans Held
Tired of 'Officialdom'
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 29 —John Ers
kine, the novelist, who went to
South America as an observer for
! the State Department, returned
j yesterday with the observation that
South Americans "are getting fed
j up with officialdom.”
Mr. Erskine. who left this coun
■ try May 9 to visit Uruguay and Ar
gentina. said there were too many
governmental missions. He added
| that his next trip to South America
probably would be on his own.
Mr. Erskine said he would recom
mend that this country, in further
i ance of a good neighbor policy, ar
: range for the sale of American
books to South Americans at greatly
reduced prices.
Congress in Brier
TODAY.
Senate:
Considers wheat quota legislation.
Defense Committee resumes in
vestigation into camp construction
program.
Agriculture Subcommittee contin
ues hearing on parity price legisla
tion.
House:
Considers #3.529.200,000 new tax
bill.
Military Affairs Committee con
siders legislation to retain selectees.
Guardsmen and Reserve officers in
training beyond a year.
Rivers and Harbors Committee
continues hearings on St. Lawrence
seaway.
*
WELCOMING NEW D. C. DRAFT HEAD—William E Leahy,
attorney, who has taken over direction of the District’s selective
service program, was greeted by the executive staff at the Na
tional Guard Armory yesterday for his swearing in. Mr. Leahy
is shown seated (center) at his new desk with Brig. Gen.
Albert L. Cox (left), his predecessor, and Col. Charles A. Dravo,
deputy director. Staff members standing include (left to right)
Lt. Col. A. C Gray. State medical director; Comdr. A. C. Flather,
personnel director; Lt. Col. Edwin S. Bettelheim, jr., executive
officer in charge of public relations; Lt. Col. Walter S. Welsh,
legal adviser and commander of the State Enlisted Detachment;
Ensign Edward J. Clarke, head of the man power division, and
Frank D. Norton, liaison officer. —Star Staff Photo.
Cold Air Sweeps In
From Canada, Ending
East's Heat Wave
High of About 85 Degrees
Expected in D. C. Today
After Yesterday's 100
Washingtonians breathed more
easily today with the thermometer
at noon registering 14 degrees less
than yesterday.
The Weather Bureau reported the
temperature was 82 at 12:35 o'clock,
compared with 96 at the same time
yesterday. A high of about 85 de
grees was predicted for today, 15 de
grees less than the season's high of
100 degrees at 2:30 p.m. yesterday.
A mass of cold air moving south
ward from Canada and bringing
relief to the tortured East reached
Washington at 6:40 o'clock and
dropped the thermometer from 81
to 79.
Twenty-seven persons were treated
yesterday for prostration: a colored
man was drowned near Shady Side.
Md., seeking relief in the West River,
and another man was struck by
lightning in Bethesda, Md., scene of
a brief but violent electrical storm.
Surveying damage throughout the
Nation after 1941 s worst heat wave,
the Associated Press reported the
loss of 259 lives—127 by heat pros
tration and 132 by drowning.
In the Washington area the rush
for relief from the oppressive heat
that began in the early afternoon
with the dismissal from work of
employes of Government agencies
not equipped with air conditioning
continued through the night.
Thousands Sleep in Parks.
Park police reported thousands of
persons sleeping in the parks. Not
until 4*30 a.m. today did the mer
cury reach its low of 79 degrees
This morning an 18-mile-an-hour
brepze from the northeast helped
matters.
Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald
said this morning an investigation
of several deaths in the city, at first
thought to have resulted from heat,
disclosed other causes.
The drowning victim was Garnet
Stooks, 21, colored, of the Sacred
Heart Home, Hyattsville. Md. Police
said he fell overboard from a small
rowboat and disappeared before
help came.
Struck by lightning while unload
ing lumber in Bethesda. Lacey
White, 50, of Thomsburg. Md„ was
reported in "fair” conditon at
Georgetown Hospital. A fellow work
man. Alfred Badgrift, colored, of
Alexandria, was dazed by the same
bolt.
nit Muim wmcn swept nearDy
Maryland resulted in eight calls for
the Silver Spring volunteer fire de
partment. Lightning set fire to an
electric motor in a laundry: tore a
hole in the roof of the home of
Francis Roache, 8400 Fenton street:
caused several minor blazes and
felled a number trees.
Torrential rain fell on College
Park, Md., for abont 30 minutes
but reduced the temperature only
briefly.
The Baltimore weather bureau re
corded a high of 103 degrees.
Accompanied by a truck carrying
iced tea and salt tablets, 100-odd
men of the 175th Infantry's anti
tank company of Fort Meade. Md„
set out on the first leg of a 76-mile
return trek to the fort from Camp
Ritchie, Md., during the hottest
part of the day.
Maryland beaches were crowded,
as were the roads leading to them.
Virginia fared a little better, with
a season high of 98 degrees reported
at Richmond and Langley Field. In
the north, however, Alexandria. Ar
lington and Fairfax Counties swel
tered under the same temperature
as Washington.
Iowa Has High of 106.
Nine Northern States had readings
above 100 yesterday, led by an
official high of 106 at Fort Madison,
Iowa.
Minnesota led in heat deaths
with 26. Illinois had 16 and New
York 14. In drownings Michigan
led with 26. Wisconsin had 13 and
Ohio and Illinois 13 each..
In Washington, employes of the
following departments were allowed
to go home early: War, Navy, Agri
culture, ’ Treasury, Commerce and
General Accounting Office, all Dis
trict employes and the Weather Bu
reau. Workers in the new Municipal
Center, both District and Army, were
let oil when the aid-conditioning ap
paratus broke down. It was re
ported repaired this morning.
Despite lack of temperature con
trol, the State Department re
mained open, as did the air-condi
tioned Justice, Labor and Interior
Departments.
Heat prostration victims, not
listed yesterday, treated at Casualty
Hospital included Marion Newsom.
36, 614 E street N.E.; Bernard Bat
son. 19, colored. Upper Marlboro,
Md.: James Anderson, 31, colored,
744 Fairmont street N.W.; James
Parks. 54. colored. 528 Third street
S.W.: Wadsworth Forcev. 20, colored,
413 Fifty-ninth street N.E., and Os
I borne Spriggs, 23, colored, address
| not listed.
Nazis Find Fighting Reds Is Driest of Wars,
With Wells Holding Only Mud or 'Brown Broth'
(The author of the following,
a 28-year-old member of a propa
ganda company in the German
Army, before the war was editor
in chief of Junge Dame, a maga
zine for girls in the high teens.
He was not sent to the front as
a war correspondent, but was
drafted as a soldier and assigned
to a propaganda company and
sent into battle with the rank
of an officer. The following is
reprinted from a Berlin news
paper./
Bv HANS HL'FFZKY,
German Journalist.
WITH THE GERMAN ARMY ON
THE EASTERN FRONT. July 29 <JP).
—This is the driest of all wars.
That is because it leads past too
few water mains, fewer than in
Poland and fewer than in France.
Flap down your dust-coated eye
lashes, comrade, and think back
think of France: Wasn't that then
one vast water fountain compared
with this country?
Yesterday we passed a village as
we rolled along the marching route
of our panzers For hours before
we had located it on our map. Now
it must still be 10 ktlomoters away,
now only 5, now just one more—
there it was. the village: there was
the first house and there, too, was
the first bucket-well.
Down deep with the pail—up It
came with mire and mud On to the
next well! It yielded only a brown
ish broth.
The wells already had been drawn
dry’ by our comrades. So once again
we cannot wash ourselves tonight.
Wash? Why for Heaven's sake, we
haven't the faintest intention of
washing. There isn't water for that.
All we want is to just dip our hands
once, just to cool our burned backs
and necks a bit.
This morning we were to drive
through the city of "M" (obviously
Minsk(. We figured it out: There
must be so and so many hydrants,
for drinking, for cooking, for wash
ing. for filling our field flasks.
When we reached "M" we didn't
come to "M." for it is something
that doesn t exist any more and you
can't come to it. We reached "M"
only according to our maps. For “M"
was in reality nothing but a bit of
smouldering landscape. I say land
scape because the chimneys which
remained standing between the
wooden houses looked from afar like
trees. The fleeing Soviet had with
his artillery shot "M" into the
ground and burned it down com
pletely.
Back home in our German gar
risons a field full of water isn't
worth a straw. There it merely
weighs down the belt from which so
many other things are already
hanging.
But a field flask with drinking
water, tea or coffee today in the
East is worth more than anything
that can happen to you.
That comrade begs as though he
wanted to borrow' 100 marks from
you. Or he offers you other luxuries
in exchange, a whole frying pan full
of butter, one dozen eggs. 100 cigar
ettes—whatever he just happens to
have.
The other day one lad offered lor
one field flash full of tea one pair
of boots which he had found aban
doned in Soviet barracks and which
he really intended as a substitute
] for his own. which already were
! pretty dilapidated.
Field Kitchens Loveliest Vehicles.
The loveliest vehicles in this war
are those from whose tops protrude
little stovepipes—the field kitchens.
Not on account of the pork roast
which they offer you, and not on
1 account of the pea soup, but solely
on account of their tea. Whether
the field kitchens are standing or
moving they are always surrounded.
And if it be only three swallows,
comrade!
In peacetime the field kitchens
usually heat their kettles for drink
i ables twice daily, once for the morn
ing, once for the evening coffee. In
this war they haven't become cold
for a single hour. They boil 10 and
12 times during the day and night.
One can come to them of mornings
at 4, or nights at 11. during the
pause between skirmishes, or in the
midst of the din of battle—their
chimnevs invariably exuding smoke,
and their kettles will grow cold for
the first time only after the last
shots of this campaign have bean
fired. *
How- was it, anyway, at home?
How many meters of waterspout did
one need every morning for wash
| ing a face that after all was really
quite clean?
Yesterday for the first time In
a long while I was privileged really
j to wash and shave myself. It w’as
i a veritable dissipation I indulged in
with that water. Wrhy, I had two
whole drinking cups full of water
‘ for it!
i The other day in an abandone4
villa of high Soviet commissars we
ran into a tremendous booty: We
i didn't take the phonograph, not
the books and cutglass candelabra,
but five empty wine bottles. Then
one comrade panhandled his way
up and down our materials avenue
and "touched” the field kitchens.
Each filled one bottle for him.
Eye Water Sadly.
Unfortunately the fifth bottle sus
tained a crack from hot tea. The
comrade was roundly blamed for
acting so carelessly—why didn t he
warm up the bottle slowly?
The saddest soldiers’ eyes I have
encountered anywhere were on the
bridges across the large rivers,
across the Berezina, the Dnieper.
Eyes of men who for days hadn t
come off their dirty, grimy vehicles
and out of their hot. dust-covered
jackets and trousers, and who no^ —
the burning sun on a sweaty mili
tary cap—were crossing the cool
water.
Never have there been such sad,
thirsty eyes during so proud a ride,
during their ride across the great
streams of an opponent who is for
ever retreating farther eastward.
We yearn for so much—for ex
ample one hour without the dm of
battle, for one stretch of summer
landscape that doesn't smell of
conflagration and death, for one
walk through a street of peace with
children s laughter and clinking of
glasses reaching your ear from a
jolly window. Yet all this becomes
threadbare and infinitesimal com
pared with the yearning for the
great water, for water for drinking,
for bathing, for nonsensical wal
lowing.
For:
This war i* the driest of all wars!
Weather Report
trurmshed by the United State* Weather Bureau.)®
District of Columbia—Mostly cloudy and cooler, with lowest tempera
j ture about 68 degrees tonight; tomorrow considerable cloudiness and
slightly warmer with likelihood of local showers in afternoon; gentle to
moderate northeast and east winds, becoming gentle variable by tomorrow,
Maryland and Virginia—Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, with
local thundershowers tomorrow afternoon; cooler tonight, slightly warmer
! in east portion tomorrow^. ......
West Virginia—Generally fair and continued warm tonight and to
morrow, except for local thundershowers and not quite so warm tomorrow
a ftamtvin
Five-day forecast for the period from*
7:30 p.m. Tuesday. July 20. 1941. to . 3o i
pm Saturday. August 2. 1941. inclusive. ;
Middle Atlantic States (District of Co
lumbia. Virginia New Jersey. Delawares
Maryland Eastern Pennsylvania and New
Y0rk>—Local showers and thunderstorms
Wednesday and Thursday, followed by ten- |
erallv fair weather remainder of weelc
Cooler in Maryland and Virginia tonight
and aomewhai warmer Wednesday nearls
all sections Cooler by Thursday night or
Friday. The temperature will average j
slightly above normal during next four '
C,aOhio Valley (Kentucky Ohio West Vir
i ginla. Western Pennsylvania, and Tennes- |
see—Local showers and thunderstorms
Wednesday and Wednesday night and
Drobably over east portion
Generallv fair thereafter until late Sat
urday or on 8undav when showers are
again indicated Cooler Wednesday night ;
and Thursday and somewhat warmer by ;
Saturday. The temperature will average
above normal during the next four days.
Weather Condition! Laot 24 Hours.
Cooler air has pushed southward over
New England. New York and the Atlantic
States in the rear of a disturbance that
developed over New York and Southern
New England Mondsv and then moved
rapidly past-southeastward over the ocean
It* center this morning is about 390 miles
southeast of Nantucket. Mass^ and the
lowest pressure is about 1.01*9 millibars
! (29 53 inches). The highest pressure m
i the cool air mass is 1.014.9 millibar*
I (29 97 inches*, at Rochester. N. Y. An
other disturbance is advancing eastward
over the upper Mississippi Valley and the
upper Lake region. La Crosse. Wis., 1.008.5
millibars (29.TS inches). These disturb
ances have been attended by showers in
the Northeastern States. Minnesota. North
Dakota and the northern Rocky Mountain
region. Showers have occurred also in
portions of Tennessee and the Gulf States.
Pressure Is high and rising over the North
Pacific States Tatoosh Island. Wash..
1.024 4 millibars (30.25 inches*. *nd
pressure remains high from the Gulf of
Mexico and th? lower Mississippi Valley
eastward beyond the Bahamas Port Eads,
La. 1019.0 millibars (30.11 Inches).
Pressure is high and rising also over
North Dakota. Garrison, 1.018 millibars
(30.08 inches*.
Renart fur l ast 71 Hours.
Temperature. Barometer.
Yesterday. Degrees. Inches
4 pm._ PR 29 80
8 p.m. _ 89 29.78
Midnight_ 85 29.77
Today—
4 a m._ 81 29 80
8 a m._ 78 29.90
Noon _ 82 2993
Record for Last 24 Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest 99. tt. 2 30 p m yesterday.
Lowest. 70, at 8.16 a m. today.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 100. on July 2*.
Lowest, 16, on March 18.
Hamldltr fot Last 24 Houra.
•From noon yesterday to noon today ) j
Highest. 84 per emt. at 7:66 a m today.
Lowest. 41 per cent, at 3 p.m. yesterday.
f
Till* Table*.
Purniahed by United States Coast snd
Geodetic Survey.)
« Today. Tomorrow
iiah _ - 11:33 a m. 12:10* m.
JOV__ 6:00 am 6:56 am.
iiah _ _ 12:30 p.m
jO-w __ 6:16 p.m. < :09 p.m.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to date);
Month. 1941. Average. Record.
January _ __3.04 3.55 <.83 37
rebruary _0.82 3.27 6.84 ‘84
arch _2.56 3.75 8.84 ‘91
^pril _ 2.73 3.27 9 13 *89
A&v __ _ 1.58 3.70 10.69 ’89
tune --II_ 4.38 4.13 10.94 ’00
July _ 6 43 4.71 10 63 ’86
August _ 4.01 14.41 '28
September _ 3.24 17.45 ‘34
October __ 2 84 8.81 ‘37
November _ 2.37 8.69 89
December __. - 3.3*2 7.56 *01
Hirer Report.
Potomac and 8henandoah Rivera clear
it Harpers Ferry; Potomac clear at Great
Palls today.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
3un, today _ 5:06 7 23
Sun. tomorrok 5:07 <;22
Hoon. today_ 10:44 a.m. 10:3< p.m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
>ne-half hour after sunset.
Weather in Various Cities.
Temp. Reln
Barom Hiih Low. fell. Weather
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Publishers Confer
With Defense Heads
On Need for Paper
Pledge Co-operation
In Plan to Help
Emergency Program
BJ the Auocitled Press.
Newspaper publishers and repre
sentatives of the printing industry
conferred with defense officials
today on plans for dealing with any
shortages which may develop In
paper and pulp.
The industry representatives
pledged full co-operation with the
defense program, officials said.
Nominations were made for a sub
committee of the Industry Defense
Advisory Committee. Basic pulp
manufacturers and paper converters
already have made similar nomina
tions.
After the nominees are approved
by Government agencies the full
industry committee will be named
by the Office of Production Manage
mPht
Among publishers invited to the
conference were:
Eugene Meyer, Washington Post;
Fleming Newbold. Washington Star;
Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, Washington
Times-Herald; Walter M. Dear,
Jersey Journal, Jersey City, N. J.;
Walter G. Chandler, Scripps-How
ard newspapers, New York; J. D.
Gortatowsky, Hearst newspapers,
New York; Frank E. Tripp, Gan
nett newspapers, Elmira, N. Y.
E. P. Adler, Davenport <Iowa»
Times: James M. Cox, Dayton
• Ohioi News; W. E MacFarlane,
Chicago Tribune: Arthur H. Sulz
berger, New York Times; Howard
uavis, afw i oik nei aiu-11 luune,
Edward H. Butler, Evening News.
Buffalo; Mark F. Ethridge, Courier
Journal and Times, Louisville, Ky. j
Ted Dealey, Dallas <Tex.» Morning !
News; Norman Chandler. Los An
| geles Times, S. R. Winch, Oregon
' Journal, Portland: Linwood I. Noys.!
Ironwood 'Mich.' Daily Globe; Wil
liam F. Schmick Baltimore Sun:
I John Cowles, Minneapolis Dailyj
‘ Times.
i Earl McCollum. Kansas City Star: j
Herbert Ponting. Detroit News; I
j John S. Knight, Detroit Free Press:
George F. Booth, Telegram Gazette.
Worcester, Mass : David W. Howe
Burlington <Vt.> Fress Press; Robert
Cresswell, Public Ledger, Phila
delphia.
E. Lan.<ing Rav, GlobP-Demncrat.
3t. Louis; E. K. Gaylord. Daily Okla- !
homan, Oklahoma City: Rov D^
Moore. Brush-Moore Newspapers
Canton. Ohio: Joseph E. Ridder.
Journal of Commerce, New York;
William L. Fanning. Westchester
County Newspapers. Yonkers. N. Y.;
j Ira C. Copley, I. C. Copley News
! papers, Los Angeles: Merritt C ,
Speidel. Speidel Newspapers. Inc..'
i Palo Alto, Calif : A. R. Treanor.
Booth Newspapers, Inc., Detroit;
Cranston Williams, general manager.
American Newspapers Publishers'
i Association, New York.
Silver Tea Thursday
FAIRFAX. Va . July 29 iSpeciah
—The Woman's Auxiliary of Truro
Episcopal Church will hold a silver
tea from 4 to 6 p m Thursday at
Singing Pinfs, the home of the
Misses Lewis.
U. $. Steel Corp. Nets
$24,814,751; Votes
To Pay $1 Dividend
Drop From $36,559,995
In Previous Quarter
Blamed on Taxes
By the Asm>c:» led Press. •
NEW YORK, July 29.—The United
I States Steel Corp. today reported
J net income for the June quarter of
$24,814,751. Directors voted a divi
dend of $1 a share on the common
stock. In each of the previous two
quarters $1 was paid.
The earnings were equal to $2 12
a share on the common stock.
For the March quarter net income
was $36,559,995, or $3 48 a share on
I common stock, the best first quarter
| since 1929. Profit for the 1940 June
j quarter was $19,201,008, or $1 48 a
j share.
Against March quarter income this
] year there was a deduction of $11.
i 800,000 for Federal income taxes and
$5,000,000 provision lor contingency.
Dec line Due to Taxes.
The drop in earnings was due to
j a huge increase in taxes. Provision
I for taxes in the June quarter
amounted to $52,958,292 This in
j eluded Federal income and excess
j profits taxes. State, local and social
j security levies.
The biggest June quarter In
| United States Steel's history and the
; second largest quarter on record was
I in 1917 uhis was after our entry
I into the first World Wan, when net
I income was $66,656,812, equal to
$11 87 a share on the common stock.
The record quarter for all time
brought net income of $90,711,424,
pr $16.61 a common share.
Shipments at New High.
High-water mark for big steel's
parnings in peace time was In *he
1929 boom period, and here asain
the June quarter was tops with
profits of $53,825,843. equal to $5.92
a. share on the common stock.
Shipments of finished steel prod
ucts in the quarter were a new
high at 5.101.606 tons, an amount
equal to 102.4 per cent of capacity ■
This compared with shipments of
4.951.271 tons in the March quarter,
or 100 6 per cent of capacity, anc
3.201 645 tons in the June quaff
of 1940, equal to 66.4 per cent of
capacity.
Today's dividend is payable Sep
tember 20 to stock of record Au
gust 20.
Army Gets Four More
From Prince William
Special Dispatch to The Star.
MANASSAS. Va . July 29-Four
more Prince William men have been
inducted at Richmond, making a
total of 63 accepted from this county
to date, according to C. C. Cine.
chairman of the local Selective
Service Board.
The new selectees are Harrv M
Ellison. Catharpin: Eugene Milton
Florv. Nokesville; George LawTencf
Moore, colored. Gainesville, anc
Ernest Franklin Hamilton, colorec
volunteer. Manassas.
The board has ordered nine men
to report for physical examination?
his week.
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