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further work is necessary for air
protection and warding off sabotage.
He pointed out that Congress now
is asked to appropriate for con-
struction Of an additional set of
canal locks Is per cent larger than
the present ones and separated from
them by distance of over quarter
mile. Present plans envision COM
pletion OF these not before 1945, he
said, warning that IF the present
troubled international situation be-
comes more menacing, we will face
an engineering problem which will
tax the ingenuity and skill Of the
engineering profession" in demand
ing speed.
Sabotage Chief Fear.
The main reason for these ad-
ditional locks rests in the DANCE,
Of sabotage, he asserted.
"A vessel might be blown up in
the locks; time bombs might be
dropped in the locks: dams might be
blown up; vital installations, such
as control mechanisms or power
sources, might be damaged or de-
stroyed," he said. There is always
the possibility that brain bent
on destruction may be one jump
ahead of measures for protection"
Gen. Strong surveyed possibilities
Of attack upon the United States.
AS far south as Washington air
operations could be launched from
Newfoundland, he reported. dis
lodging an enemy once established
on Newfoundland would involve
continued air operations from the
northeastern part Of the United
States, and q joint military and
naval expedition from our terri.
tories" the general predicted. There
Evening star., 1940-05-06

cast that the allies were honor.
bound to give Norway the fun aid"
promised her.
Koht, with Col. Ljunsberg. came
to London after landing at . Scot
tish port from warship.
In his broadcast, addressed to
Norway, Koht declared he would
go to Paris for further consulta-
tions and then back to Norway,
where King Haakon VII and his
fleeing government are In hiding.
Observers believed Britain's task
in Southeastern Europe would be
increasingly difncult. "A nation
doesn't want help after the Ger
mans have overrun the country
they want 1t before"-was q COM
mon remark In legations Of these
countries.
Balkans Reported Uneasy.
The Balkans were understood to
be uneasy over the slow start Of
"Enco." the newly organized Brit
ish trading corporation. Sources
close to the Foreign ONCE con-
tinued to remind these nations that
"Enco" is based on q long-term
policy.
1t is evident that Britain's trade
with Sweden has disappeared, de-
spite assurances from Foreign Once
circles that Britain is eager and
ready to continue.
The realistic view is that Sweden
has no free outlet, since Swedish
ports are on . German n-controlled
waters, Finlands Northern port of
Petsamo has been mined and Mar
vik, in Northern Norway, Is q battle
zone.
As these facts have dawned slow.
~ on politicians and the people,
the outcry against "complacency"
In high places has become greater.
Evening star., 1940-05-06
Berlin
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last week by, the allies, gives no
idea of the magnitude of the task.
That Germany regards Narvik
again as of major importance is
indicated by the fact that power
divers went directly from Namsos
after they were reported to have
sunk battleship of the Queen Eliz-
abeth class and heavy cruiser, to
Narvik to do their stuff there.
Germany believes England is in
terested chiefly in two things-ores
and oil.
Hitler apparently has decided he
must make doubly sure of remaining
in possession of Narvik as the west
ern outlet port for ore from the
Swedish Kiruna mines.
Meanwhile authorized sources said
they were wondering whether and
where England next would try to
widen the area of conflict. Since
England desires to cut Germany
off from oil as we'll as ores, the
Mediterranean still is considered the
likely scene Of major impending
events.
At the same time authorized
sources kept warning that all talk
about the Mediterranean might be
a blind and that the alleged British
plans really are focused elsewhere.
Raid Near Harstad.
DNB reported that Nazi warplanes
had raided British naval units and
troop concentrations in the vicinity
of Harstad, about IS miles northwest
of Narvik.
The air force, which received the
major credit for smashing allied
positions in Central and Southern
Norway, appeared bent now on ex-
tension of aerial supremacy to the
Far North before the allies could
close in on Narvik.
Nazi bombers swept hundreds of
miles north from the now quiet
Trondheim sector to assail allied
positions there. In the bombing of
an encampment there, it was said,
a store of allied munitions was blown
up yesterday.
"a Norwegian news agency els
patch said German bombers had
passed Narvik early Saturday to
attack Kirkenes, on the Arctic
Coast, near the Finnish Petsamo
district. Little damage was re-
ported from four bombs dropped
at Kirkenes. but nearby COM
munities also were raided)
Claim Attacks Repulsed.
The German high command an
nounced yesterday that the Narvik
garrison-after days of pressure
from Norwegian, British and French
forces on land and water-had, with
the aid of the air force, repulsed
repeated attacks of strong enemy
forces supported by flyers"
The German forces of occupation
in Central Norway have pushed to
the railroads Of Namsos and Grong,
north of Trondheim, while contin-
uing to mop up Norwegian die-hards
and stragglers still showing fight
chiefly in the Trysil area east of
Llllehammer and around Roros,
southeast of Trondheim.
Surrender of 160 men and IS Of
ficers who had fought of German
attacks from the rocky fastness of
Hegra Fortress, 20 miles east of
Trondheim, was announced by DNB.
The fortress, under German pres
sure for more than two weeks, had
been ringed by mountain troops.
Evening star., 1940-05-06
Mrs. Roosevelt
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BY the Associated Press,

trict institutions on visitors. She
said she couldn't understand why
visitors from other States don't reg
lister with their Congressman an in
terest in the human side of the
National Capital"
Even at the peak of prosperity, she
went on, nobody paid much atten-
ton to building up District institu-
tions. The prosperity which might
have affected institutions in other
places had no effect on the District,
she added.
Three-Plank Platform.
Mrs. Roosevelt also outlined at
her press conference a three-plank
political platform in which, she said,
the women of both parties should
be interested.
She advocated, first, the formu-
lation of a program by which en-
ployment can be increased, but
which would include a continuing
program whereby emergencies can
be met by joint action, using Gov
ernment to take up the slack of en-
ployment at any time.
Her second plank was to work out
a program for more permanent
peace, and her third was to estab-
lish better health program
throughout the Nation which would
be of value both to the medical
profession and to the people VINO are
at present deprived of adequate med
ical care.
Quieting the fears of newspaper
women who were disturbed over a
letter sent out by the Red Cross
seeking to mobilize qualified tecllni-
clans for the medical unit, Mrs
Roosevelt said the tie-up between
the Army and Navy and the Red
Cross has always been close, but is
closer now because I'VE have to con-
slider the world is more or less in q
state of war and the natural thing
for branches of the military service
is to be in a condition Of prepared
ness"
She said the proposed mobiliza.
ton, made at the request of the
Army and Navy, was no different
from a national defense program.
Evening star., 1940-05-06
Hegra Victory Gives
Nazis Vital Airbase
Near Trondheim
Defenders Ran Short Of
Food and Ammunition,
Refugees Report
P. Wirephoto.
BY the Associated Press.

OSTERSUND, Sweden, May g.
Norwegian refugees focking across
the nearby border into Sweden said
today that German capture of Hegra
fortress had given the Nazis pos
session of vital air base at Varnes
Helgra's fall was announced by
DNB, official German news agency
last, night.
This base, adaptable for German
bombing planes, is only 30 miles
from the Norwegian Swedish
frontier and only 375 miles airline
from the northern ore port of
Narvik, where a small German
garrison is standing of an allied
attack.
On Verge Of Starvation.
The refugees said the big guns
OF the Hegra fortress kept the Ger
mans from establishing a bombing
base at Varnes through three weeks
OF incessant fighting, until the de-
tenders were left ION the verge of
starvation and without ammu-
nition." t
These accounts said the Germans
pushed east from Trondheim deep
up the Stjor valley, between ice and
snow-cloaked mountains, in the
early days of the war.
Hurled back by big guns, the Nazis
called on their Alpine troops to en-
circle the fortress and the adjoining
village of Hegra, on the Trondheim-
Storlien railway 20 miles east of
Trondheim, and launched an attack
supported by light field artillery
machine guns and planes.
The refugees said that within a
few days the fire from the German
guns left most of the village a mass
OF smoking ruins and the fortress
itself pock-marked. The German
fire was almost continuous, the
refugees declared.
Heavy Losses Reported.
They said the Hegra defenders,
forced to conserve their scanty
stores OF food and munitions, held
their fire until the Germans tried a
direct assault and then inflicted
heavy losses on the attackers.
Our troops could have held out
indefinitely" said one refugee
proudly, but they ran short of food
and munitions"
With the food apparently gone
and only few rounds of ammuni-
ton left, the Is officers and 160 men
finally capitulated.
Farther to the north, many tired
and bedraggled Norwegian volun-
teers and civilians continue to pour
into Sweden across mountain passes.
Evening star., 1940-05-06
"the government would treat it as a
vote of confidence

"the government would treat it as a
vote Of confidence"
Informed sources reported min
isterial changes were in the offing,
but doubt was expressed whether
minor cabinet alterations would
satisfy critics demanding recon
struction, not reshuffle."
The tenor of press comment indi-
Gated the Chamberlain government
was facing its severest political
crisis.
Even the Conservative Times,
which often does duty as a govern
ment soundingboard, said the con-
clusion everywhere has been that
there is abundant room for improve
ment' and declared "the war cabinet
is still too large and its meetings
attended by too many experts and
advisers.
The more important ministers
such as Winston Churchill, First
Lord OF the Admiralty, are being
overworked, the Times said, adding
that the brunt of the attack was
falling on Mr.. Chamberlain, whose
weakness has always been his de-
votion to colleagues who are either
failures or need a rest"
The chorus of press criticism ac-
cused the government of timidity,
mlsmanagement. neglect and plan
ming "on the level of small unimagi-
native minds. r,-.~ r-o.
BY comparison with Germany s
"assiduous care" In prosecuting the
war "our easy nonchalant methods
look like a nursery game of hide
and-seek," said the Manchester
Guardian.
More Than Courage Needed.
There seemed no doubt Mr.. Cham
berlain would like to broaden the
base of his government by including
opposition Labor and Liberal lead
ers, but thus far they have remained
cold to overtures. The Labor party
at conference next week end prob
ably will determine its stand con-
corning participation In the war
government.
Praising British bravery under
Evening star., 1940-05-06

fire, the Guardian declared that
"Unhappily more than courage is
needed in this Sophisticated and
mechanical world.
"All that courage may be wasted
if the nations policy is ill-directed,
imperfectly considered, inspired by
small minds and guided by day-to-
day reckoning. What is needed is
a government that can organize the
nations strength, touch its imagi-
nation, command its spirit of self
sacrifice, impose burdens fearlessly
on all classes, put the war ahead of
everything else and look ahead with
cool deliberate courage. Nobody
can pretend the government an
swers to these needs
Neutrals Become Doubtful.
Britain's task of organizing neu-
trail nations to resist Germany has
become increasingly difficult in face
OF the Nazi triumph in Norway. in
formed diplomatic observers believe.
These sources declare two doubts
are growing in the minds of neu-
trails, doubts encouraged by German
propagandists.
One is that Britain and France
lack planes capable of overcoming
the Nazi air force and have found
imports from the United States in
sufficient for their immediate needs.
Second is distrust of the ability
OF Britain's leaders to deal speed :
lily and effectively with Nazi strokes
on either military or diplomatic
fronts.
Koht Urges Faith in Allies.
Foreign Minister Koht advised in
vaded Norway to have faith in the
allies, however, and said In a broad
Evening star., 1940-05-06

CREW OF FREIGHTER RESCUED AT SEA-Members of the
crew OF the Inflated British feighter Maakana pictured in
life boats they made ready board the Railroad
Steamship Co. liner Panama The ship wrecked went
aground in stormy of Pana Gays Island
IN the Bahamas early the morning of May l. The vessel
8048 TONS returning England with
general when disaster overlook herWde Photo
Evening star., 1940-05-06
Brown Alumni to Dine

The Brown University Alumni
Club Of Washington will hold q din
ner meeting tonight at $50 o'clock
at the Methodist Building, after
which the members will visit the
Library Of Congress.
Evening star., 1940-05-06

Germany plans to hold most of its
international fairs this year.
Evening star., 1940-10-13
YOU
And the DRAFT

The Stars recent series OF
questions and answers on the
draft has now been printed In
convenient booklet form and
is available for distribution to
those who apply.
The series Of questions and
answers presents, clearly and
accurately, information about
the draft as 1t affects those
soon to register. It was COM
piled from scores of queries
that reached The Star ONCE,
the answers being run down
through personal conferences
with officials at Selective
Service Headquarters. The
booklet answers practically
everything you may want to
know about the draft, with
maps showing registration
places for Washington and for
the Counties Of Montgomery,
Prince Georges and Fairfax.
The book Is on sale every
day, for 5 cents, at the counter
In The Star lobby.
For mail delivery inclose 8
cents in coin or stamps, write
your address plainly and mail
TO the Conscription Editor,
4 Sening Star.
Evening star., 1940-10-13
Jubilee Plans Discussed
By DAUGHTERS Of 1872

Plans for the golden jubilee cele-
bration of the United States Daugh-
ters of 1912 in April, 1912, were dis
cussed at a board meeting OF the
national society yesterday at head
quarters, 1851 Rhode Island ave-
nue. NV.
Mrs. Percy Young Schelly OF
Philadelphia, the national president
presided and later was honored at
a tea given by the District society
for members of the board. Mrs
Albion w. Tuck, president Of the
local organization, received with the
honor guests.
National officers and State regents
from as far away as Maine and
California attended the session.
Honorary presidents here in
cluded Mrs. Robert j. Johnston OF
Humboldt, Iowa, and Mrs. John
Francis Weinmann of Little Rock
Ark. The four national vice presi-
dents also attended: Mrs. Henry
Bourne Joy of Michigan, Miss Edla
S. Gibson of Buffalo, N. Y; Mrs
Llewellyn N. Edwards of Glen Echo
Md, and Mrs. John Porter Gibson
of Huntington Park, Calf.
Other national officers present in
cluded Mrs. Franklin M. Miller OF
Chicago, chaplain general; Mrs
Charlie Mayo Cobb of Norfolk, Va.
recording secretary; Mrs. Loren
Edgar Rex of Wichita, Kans., his
torian; Mrs. Harold Sayre of Point
Pleasant, w. Va, librarian; Mrs
Claude w. Pound of Toledo, Ohio
treasurer; Mrs. John Samuel Adams
of Dublin, Ca, curator, and Mrs
Lane Schofield of the District OF
Columbia, registrar.
Evening star., 1940-10-13
WILL SERVE DRAFT BOARDS-Here additional pictures
Draft Boards who will decide

ters. This probably will be about
five days after the lottery.
Failure to receive the question
naire is no excuse for not answering
it. Mailing dates will be posted
outside the local board Offices, and
it is every mans obligation to see
that he receives his form.
Advisory Board Appointed.
To assist Washington registrants
in filling out their questionnaires a
f1ve-man Registrants' Advisory
Board has been appointed. with the
power to name assistants where
needed in the draft board areas.
On the basis of information con-
tained in the questionnajres, the
various draft boards then will place
each registrant in one of the follow
| ing classificationsN Glass l. available
for immediate service; Glass 2, de-
ferred because of occupational sta
| tus; Glass 3, deferred because of
dependents, and Glass 4, deferred
specifically by law or because unfit
for military service.
Registrants who sfeel reasonably
sure they will be classified in the
first category should make ready to
be called out 20 or 80 days after re-
turning their missionaries.
For Washington registrants who
feel they have been incorrectly
classified. "a Government appeal
agents-one for each draft board
area-have been nominated to advise
such registrants as to the validity
of their claims and the manner in
which they may go about presenting
their cases to the Board of Appeals.
Both the corps of appeal agents
and the Board of Appeals have
been nominated by the Commis-
sioners but their appointments have
not been received from the White
House. The same is true of "a ex-
amining physicians-here again, one
for each board area-who will ex-
anime registrants as they are found
available for service.
Medical Advisers to Be Named.
Among other specific subdivisions
of the actual draft machinery of the
District will be members of the
Medical Advisory Board, yet to be
named, whose function will be on a
basis similar to the Registrants' Ad-
visory Board, and police officials who
are authorized to assist in the ap-
prehension of delinquents.
Back of all the Districts draft
machinery are the Commissioners
and their immediate assistants in
government, working with the Office
Of the selective service executive,
Gen. Cox. On Gen. Cox's headquar-
tiers staff are more than 40 workers
engaged in multitude of tasks-the
asserting of various printed forms
to be distributed by these same
workers to registrars Wednesday and
to draft boards later, the compiling
of draft machinery personnel lists,
Evening star., 1940-10-13
Dr.. Dykstra Takes
Leave Of Absence
For Draft Post
Wisconsin U. Head Has
Had Vast Experience
As Administrator
p the Associated Press.

p the Associated Press.
MADISON, Wis, Oct. 12.-Dr.
Clarence A. Dykstra, commenting
that I'VE all should do our bit" took
an extended leave of absence today
as president of the University of
Wisconsin to become national draft
administrator.
The tall, aggressive, 57-year-old
educator notified Secretary of War
Stimson today he would take over
the position offered him by Pres
ident Roosevelt this week as soon
as the Senate confirmed the ap-
pointment. The university Board of
Regents consented to loan" him to
the Federal Government on an ex-
tended leave of absence.
DR.. Dykstra emphasized he did
not wish to sever his connections at
the university.
Experienced as Administrator
II said to the board that this
opportunity was in no sense Of my
devising but that recently I had
stated publicly we all should do
Ull, llS
DR.. Dykstra, who has had no
military experience, would take with
him to the job of supervising con-
scription a vast experience in ad-
ministrative and educational work.
The university sought DR.. DykStra
as successor to the late DR.. Glenn
Frank when the latter was dis
missed as university president in
1887. DR.. Dykstra at that time was
serving his seventh year as city
manager of Cincinnati, where he
had gained a national reputation as
q municipal administrator.
Popular on Campus.
DR.. Dykstra Immediately gained
popularity with the students and
faculty. His at home" receptions
for students became a regular fea-
ture of university life and his cham
pioning of faculty members who
were under fire from outside sources
for their political views drew wide
support in the State.
The only differences he expert
enced at the university-andt these
were ironed out peacefully-were
with Gov. Julius P. He'll over budg-
ct matters.
Unless the Board of Regents pro-
vides some means of remuneration,
the draft position will cost DR.. Dyk-
stra his second salary cut since he
left Cincinnati. He gave up a
S25, ,0O0-a-year salary as city man
ager to accept the Wisconsin post
at $4,000 and the maximum for
the Federal position will be $4,000.
Evening star., 1940-10-13
Conduit Bids Received

Contract for laying 24-inch
water main from the Anacostia
pumping station to the elevated
tank at Alabama avenue and Naylor
road Sc. may be awarded within a
few days. The District Commis-
sioners received bids yesterday on
the project. The lowest offer, $685..
2S2, came from the Warren F.
Brenizer Co.
Evening star., 1940-10-13

the swearing in Of officials and the
like.
In the District no so-called group
registrations are planned except in
the cases of hospitals, penal insti-
tutions and c. c. c. camps. Gen.
Cox said yesterday that several
nurses at the various hospitals likely
will be sworn in as registrars to list
draft age patients physically able
to be signed up during the day
Wednesday. Attaches at the c. c. C..
camps likewise probably will take
the oath as registrars.
Interpreter TO Aid Registrants.
Draft-age students at colleges will
register at centers nearest their resi-
dences, just as other prospective
draftees in the city, including Gov
ernment workers. In the case OF
the latter time allowances will be
made for them to register, though
it is anticipated that many of them
will be able to sign up before or
after working hours or during the
lunch period.
DR.. Holmes said last night a VOL
unteer interpreter will be stationed
at the Thomson School to aid regis
trants unable to speak English. The
interpreter will be transferred to
any point where needed, he said
The number of non-English speaking
registrants is expected to be small
but should this not be the case, DR.
Holmes explained, a real problem
may develop. The burden Of pro-
viding interpreters is left up to chief
registrars under the draft regula-
ton.
But such problems, bound to crop
up in tasks of such magnitude, will
be taken in stride, officials predict
optimistically. mainly because they
feel Washingtonians generally have
been and will be behind the con-
scription program.
Evening star., 1940-10-13
The Draft in Pictures . .

On Wednesday, at any time between 7 and pm, II
you 81 years old yet &c. you report to
draft registrars to fill registration The information
needed simple needing documentary
Filling out the card will require from Is
identification which you carry
at all times proof called for by police that you
ered You will NOT yet have the number by which you may
be drawn possible seectee.
Evening star., 1940-10-13
Lecture Series to Open

DR.. r. S. Steinmeyer of the Uni
versity of Maryland will give a
series of current events lectures un-
der the auspices of the Education
Association of the District, begin
ming at 8 pm. tomorrow in the
Central High School library. The
addresses will be made on the second
and fourth Mondays Of each month
,through Nafch 10,
Evening star., 1940-10-13

week 10 days after registration capsules containing
numbers from T to the highest number registered in the heav
registration district United
glass bowl in Washington by blndfolded One at
time all the capsules will be drawn thereby determining the
which regrants will be classified and called service
ruled for defermen BY referring number
will know after this drawing how high up you the list
Evening star., 1940-10-13

If you high up the list of numbers drawn you will
receive in the mail eghtpage QUESTIONABLE from
local board This must be filled out carefully and in detail and
your local board by the date marked the
tonnaire probaby within five days after receive it,
the the information in this QUESTIONABLE
local board will classify ready for service Immediately
occupation vital the national interest
ered of dependents deferred specifically by law
bcause you unfit for military service.