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Evening star., 1940-05-29
Police Ordered to Clamp Down
On Careless Auto Horn-BIowers

about the unnecessary blowing of
automobile horns and have directed
the major and superintendent of
police to issue instructions to the
members of the metropolitan police
force to enforce strictly the regula-
tions prohibiting the use Of automo-
bile horns otherwise than as rea-
sonable warning of danger, and re-
stricting the sounding of automo-
bile horns between 1901 am. and
z am. The major and superintend-
ent of police also has been directed
to issue instructions that the mini
mum collateral in these cases shall
be $40.
'The Commissioner would appre-
ciate very much the cooperation of
the judges Of Police Court is assist
ing the Police Department in bring
ing about substantial reduction in
this kind of nuisance"
Following an "anti-noise cam
paign," the Commissioners adopted
bans on blowing auto horns except
as reasonable warnings Of danger,
and the blowing of any horns from
1901 to Z am, except by emer-
gency vehicles, in February. 1898,
but like many District regulations
interest In enforcement dwindled
after Q time.
Evening star., 1940-05-29
Congress in Brief
TO-DAY.

Senate:
Considers minor bills before acting
on hospital aid measure.
Finance Committee begins work
on defense tax bill.
Foreign Relations Committee con-
siders nomination Of ]. Pierrepont
Moffat to be Minister to Canada.
Appropriations subc o m m ittee
works on $1,111 ,000, 900 relief bill.
Irrigation Committee considers
revision Of Boulder Dam power rates
House:
Resumes debate on $133 900, ,000
Interior Department appropriation
bill.
Ways and Means Committee starts
study of defense tax bill.
Judiciary Committee considers
extension Of Hatch Act.
TOMORROW.
May consider naval expansion bill,
Banking and Currency Committee
meets; 10:30 am.
House:
Considers conference report on
civil functions appropriation bill.
Ways and Means Committee re-
sumes consideration Of national de-
tense tax program; 10 am.
Public Buildings and Grounds
Committee considers bill to prohibit
sale Of the customs house In Detroit
1880 An.
Evening star., 1940-05-29
Aliens Fearing War Call
Seek U. S. Citizenship
BY the Associated Press

by the Associated PreSS.
MINNEAPOLIS, May 29.-Fearful
of call to military service in home
lands some of them haven't seen for
20 years, thousands of northwest
citizens of European nations now at
war are f1ocking to naturalization
Offices to get under Uncle Sans pro-
tective wing.
Up until Tuesday Federal natural
iZation officials estimated that 1000
persons of foreign birth have applied
for American citizenship during the
last few months. This Is q 20 to rs
per cent increase over applications
year ago..
The bulk of the applications, Twin
Cities immigration officials said
have come from Scandinavian, Brit
ish, Polish and German nationals
although some 20 nationalities are
represented. Many are from persons
who have lived in the United States
more than a decade.
Evening star., 1940-05-29

Without any fanfare of advance
warning the Commissioners today
ordered the police to get tough" in
the enforcement Of regulations
against unnecessary auto horn blow
ing and asked judges of Police
Court to cooperate in penalizing
lawbreakers.
Reporting that they had re-
ceived flood Of complaints about
motorists who seek to blast pedes-
trians and other motorists out of
their way the Commissioners di-
rected Police Superintendent E. w.
Brown to instruct his men to de-
mand posting OF a minimum collat-
eral of $40 in each case of person
charged with unnecessary horn
blowing. The present custom is to
require the posting Of but 81 or So
In such cases.
There were reports that Scott Cir
Gle was the center Of considerable
annoyance by the horn blowers.
In q letter to Judge John p. Nc
Mahon Of Police Court, Commission
er John Russell Young, acting pres
ident Of the Board Of Commission
ers, said:
"The Commissioner have re-
ceived . great number Of complaints
Evening star., 1940-05-29
American Ambu|ances
Captured, Nazis Say
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
BERLIN, May 2o-German
sources reported yesterday that
numerous American ambulances and
hospital equipment have fallen into
Nazi hands.
German wounded are using some
of the American hospital facilities
provided by the Franklin Founda.
ton.
The Voelkischer Beobachter said
some American non-military per.
sonnel had been ,overtaken in the
German advance.
NEW YORK, May % tP.-Repre-
sentatives of three American am
bulance corps in France said last
night they had received no inforna-
ton regarding capture of either
equipment or personnel as reported
In dispatches from Berlin.
A spokesman for the American
Volunteer Ambulance Corps said that
10 ambulances comprising a part of
the Benjamin Franklin section of
the corps had been rushed into
the Belgian sector week ago. Ber-
lin reported that American hospital
facilities of the Franklin Founda.
ton were being used by German
wounded, but sources here could
not identify the foundation.
The American Field Service in
France group has % ambulances in
the fighting zones and 20 more
leaving Paris shortly, while the
American Volunteer Ambulance
Corps has sent ITO ambulances to
France, of which 66 are now in ac-
tive service.
Miss Anne Morgan's organization,
the American Friends of France,
has 40 light cars and 20 convertible
truck-ambulances-the French Ca
mion-in service. Four of these
were lost recently in bombardment.
Evening star., 1940-05-29
Lack Of Education
For All Is.CaIIed
0minous for Future
Dr.. Carr Says Selection
Of Broins for College
Troining Is Undemocrutic

American Secondary education to-
day is free only to those who have
money, DR.. William Carr, secretary
Of the Educational Policies Commits
sion, yesterday told the final meeting
of the welfare division of the Coun-
Gil of Social Agencies at the Y. w.
C. A.
Pointing particularly to the COL
lege field, DR.. Carr said education
here was not free mo matter how
we boast about it on the Fourth Of
July"
The fact that only certain students
can take advantage Of college educa-
ton introduces selection" Of
brains for the country which is
fortuitous, accidental, undemocratic
and ominous for the future" he
declared.
DR.. Carr was reporting specifically
on recommendation of the White
House conference ON children in a
Democracy. He emphasized four:
l. Overhauling school adminis-
tration to consolidate a superfuity
Of units, provide State aid to equalize
education in districts of UNEQUAL
wealth, and provide Federal aid to
equalize States of unequal wealth.
2. Free education so that even
the poor can get it.
3. Cooperation of educational
institutions dealing with the child.
4. Use the school system for the
defense and improvement of democ-
racy.
Mrs. Louis Gutenberg told the
group Representative Schultz of
Indiana is considering two bills
sponsored by the council for regula-
ton OF child placing and protection
of children of unwed mothers. She
said he would probably introduce
them this session. Mrs. Olive w.
Swinney gave brief review of tho
years work of the division. DR..
John w. Rustin presided.
Evening star., 1940-05-29
Health Code Dispute
o. Society and D. {.
Officials 10 Be Settled
Conferences Over Droft
Of New Regulations
Are Scheduled r.

Ofncials of the District Health De-
partment and the District Medical
Society today planned to hold con-
ferences to iron out disagreements
over the departments proposed
drastic new code of health regula-
tions and to settle dispute whether
the society has approved the draft
: the department has placed before
1.-The Commissioners.
/: ,Ofiicials of the Health Depart
n1ef1t, including DR.. George c. Ruh-
land, health officer, reported last
week that the newly proposed code
had been approved by the society.
. ssToday, an official of the society
declared that body had not seen q
copy of the present draft until sew
: eral days ago, when it asked for one
but that the society in February
of last year did indorse an original
draft then being considered by DR.
Rutland.
The Medical Society spokesman
said his recollection was the two
drafts were rather similar" al
though the latest draft, now await
ing action by the Commissioners,
went farther in some respects"
The original draft, which was ap-
proved by the society, the spokes-
man said, was laid aside last year
on the advice of the District cor
poration counsel. suggesting a gen.
eral law authorizing the Commis-
sioners to invoke new regulations
Such law was adopted, he added.
Officials of the department and
the society are scheduled to confer
soon to 60 over the draft of the pro-
posed new code, which, among other
things, would enable the Health
Department to require persons hav-
ing one of a list of diseases, in
Guiding syphilis and tuberculosis, to
submit to disqualification if the
health officer determined proper
care was not being received or ac-
cepted by the patient in his home.
Evening star., 1940-05-29
Democratic Delegate.
Candidates for D. T..
Are Unopposed
June 5 Election Issue
Is Whether Group
Should Vote as Unit

The IL candidates for the Dis
trict delegate posts to the Demo-
cratic National Convention will be
unopposed in the June S primary"
it was announced yesterday.
The candidates, who will carry 4
voting power of six votes to the con-
vention on July Is, are Malcolm S.
McConihe, National Democratic
committeeman: Russell Balderson,
business man and chairman of the
local Democratic Central Commit
tee; Melvin D. Hildreth, lawyer and
vice chairman of the committee; !;
Walter F. Bramhall, committee Sec
retary and national committeeman
for the D. c. Young Democratic
Club; Robert w. Woolley, lawyer
and former director of the Mint;
Hugh v. Keiser, business man and
former president of the Democratic
League of the District: John Walsh,
lawyer and brother of the late Sem
ator Walsh; Leslie c. Garnett, for
mer District attorney; Brig.
Gen. Albert L. Cox, commanding
officer of the District National
Guard: Mrs. Arthur D. Condor, for
mer president of the Women's
Democratic Council for the District;
John Wattawa, lawyer, and William
Jett Lauck, economist.
Alternates will be Mrs. Eunice
Blake Thomas. director Of the Dis
trict Democratic League, and James
v. Boyer, member of the District
Central Committee since 1884. They
wer the only candidates.
Candidates for the Democratic
Central Committee, likewise unop-
posed, are DR.. j. Ernest Mitchell,
John Locher, Sam B. Bagnan, Frank
w. Cahill, Charles L. Hanowell,
Rowland Marshall, DR.. F. Thomas
Evans, John j. Mcconnell, Harold
H. Smaller, Richard A. Dickson, Ar
thur Schoenthal, Glen Preller, Har-
Ian Wood, Robert w. Burton, Mrs.
Arthur D. Condor. Sidney r. Katz,
Mrs. Thomas and Messrs. Balderson.
Hildreth, Bramhall, Boyer and
Keiser.
The only June election issue, it
was said, was whether the delega-
ton should vote as a unit.
Evening star., 1940-05-29
Gibbs Sees Great Power
In Army of the Somme
Brton Finds France Rebounding From
Stunning News of LeopoId's Surrender

Brussels, and was deeply impressed
by his intelligence, his charm Of
manner and his admiration Of Eng
land, where he was educated at
Eton.
Stuns French.
King Leopold seemed to me a
chivalrous and noble young man,
and I find it incredible that he
should be guilty of this betrayal of
his own people and of the British
and French Armies who rushed to
his aid when he called to them. He
is dismissed before all the world.
The effect of his action on French
public opinion has been stunning,
yet l am bound to say that I am
deeply moved by the general refusal
to show any despair.
I have been talking to the man in
the street and the man in the field.
I'VE shall win all the same" said
a veteran of the last war.
bad news?" asked one fellow.
'Why? France has been through
worse davs than this. 1 have two
sons at the front. I know that in
the long run we shall beat those
Germans"
Another man spoke to me with a
CHEEKY confidence, which I found
sublime
Perhaps this new blow" he said,
"is just what we wanted for victory
1t may stiffen us and give us an
extra urge which will carry us
through to a triumphant end, and
that beyond all doubt will happen. -
Only one man spoke with rage.
If King Albert were here" he
said, "he would kill that wretched
SON."
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Evening star., 1940-05-29
Defense Spending
Scored by Dewey
by the Associated Press.


: BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May 29.-
Thomas E. Dewey, candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination
declared today that the Roosevelt
administration "blandly proposes
to turn over the defense expendi-
lures ito the same miscellaneous
collection of incompetents that has
managed to squander $50, 600, 600 900
D., Mr.. Dewey said in a speech pre-
pared for Republican party men,
bers that after seven destructive
years" under President Roosevelt
I'VE must face the menace of a
warring world with our business life
restricted, our industry weakened
and our whole system suffering from
artificial economic anemia."
I'm this situation" he asked
what course does the administra-
tion choose?
1T blandly proposes to handle the
present emergency with the same
methods it has used to meet the
many emergencies of its own crea-
:tion. during the last seven years
It says all that is needed is that
Congress vote more billions of dol
lars.
This administration has already
expended six and a quarter billion
dollars in the name of national de-
fense. And yet today we find our
selves with totally inadequate de-
fenses.
What confidence can any of us
Democrats or Republicans - have
that the new defense program will
he efficiently conceived and admin
tstered?"
Mr.. Dewey attributed to Secre-
taries 1ckes, Wallace, Hopkins and
Perkins "unquestioned ability" tc
wage "a successful blitzkrieg upon
the Treasury" and IAN irresistible
war of attrition upon the business
life OF the Nation
He charged also that "a brilliant
red lining shows through the admin
lstrative fringe of Communists, near
Communists, fellow-travelers and
their kind" in the administration.
Evening star., 1940-05-29
C. U. Seniors to Receive
Club Council KEYS

Ten Catholic University seniors
will receive Interclub Council Keys
from the Rev. Gerald F. Dillon,
dean of men, at the annual inter-
club dance tonight at $50 O'Clock
at Wardman Park Hotel.
They are Joseph 8. Witherow
Walter j. Donovan, Joseph G.
Michalowicz, Charles E. Chaney, John
F. OBrien, jr.; Albert ]. Gil Borges,
John F. Ertter, George s. Riechen-
bach, Peter p. Osinski and Carmon
?. Pirro.
Evening star., 1940-05-29
Fists Fly as Texans
Give Slate 10 Garner,
Indorse New Deal
Hours of TumuIt End
With Democrats Pledged
To Porty Harmony
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WACO, Tex, May 29.-Texas' 46
votes at the National Democratic
Convention bear Cactus Jack Gar
ner's brand.
Fist-swinging supporters of the
Vice President herded the votes into
his corral at the party's State con-
vention yesterday.
The Democrats strongly Endorsed
the administration of President
Roosevelt, lauding his "matchless
leadership" and promising not to
engage in any stop Roosevelt move.
Representative Sam Rayburn,
House majority leader, was given
the delegation Craftsmanship and
Representative Lyndon Johnson of
Austin the vice Craftsmanship.
Blalock Named Committeeman.
Myron Blalock of Marshall, a lead
er in the Garner-for- President move,
was elected national committeeman
to succeed the Vice President. Mrs
Clara Driscoll of Corpus Christi was
reelected national committee
woman.
Things started to pop before the
convention opened. Somebody
pushed rotund Maury Maverick in
front of the convention hall.
Mayor Tom Miller of Austin seid
1t was not push, but blow which
he aimed at Mr.. Maverick, one time
New Deal member of Congress and
now Mayor of San Antonio.
That little spat ended promptly.
But inside the hall the Texans yelled
so loud and so long that Keynoter
Tom Miller finally just read his
speech at bowling bunch of Demo-
Gratis.
Police Eject One.
Fists few Police whistles
shrieked. Battling men were sepa-
rated. One was elected from the
hall.
Delegates marched toward the
platform bearing a banner that read
Roosevelt again! To hell with
Germany" Friends of E. B. Ger
many, chairman of the State Demo-
cratic Executive Committee and a
Garner leader, wrested the banner
away and tore it up.
Three hours of tumult rolled by.
Then former Gov. Pat M. Nef1 of
Waco, now president of Baylor Uni
versity, called for peace and Roose-
velt- Garner harmony" forces won
control.
G. o. p. Slate Uninstructed.
Texas Republicans, meanwhile, Sc
lected an minstructed delegation
with 26 votes in the national con-
vention.
The action raised the Republican
delegate total to 900, only 10 short
Of the convention roster of 1000. It
also increased to 625 the number
of uninstructed delegates whose
presidential choices, If known today,
probably would determine the NOM
inee.
Evening star., 1940-05-29

Pressure is rising over the North Atlantic
States. Greenville Me, 1:021.7 millibars
t3O.17 inches). while the disturbance that
developed over the New ENGLAND States
Tuesday. morning has moved east-south-
eastward and it was centered this morning
accompanied by fresh to strong shifting
winds Pressure Is falling over the East
along the Middle Gulf Coast Mobile: Ala.
1.O11.2 millibars te9;S6 inches). This dis
ward Pressure is high from Minnesota
south-southwestward over the Southern
Plains. Duluth. MINI. 1,022 millibars
the Plateau region. Boise, Idaho. 1.007 g
millibars (29.76 inches). During the last
"a hours there have been showers in the
North Atlantic States and in scattered
areas over the Great Lakes region the
Ohio Valley and the Rocky Mountain an,a.I re-
Cured in the Gulf States Cooler weather
has spread southwark over the North At
lantic States and rather cool weather con-
tinues in the Central Valleys.
Evening star., 1940-05-29
Auto Plant Could
Produce 1000 Planes
|ADay, Ford Says
Freedom From Federal
'MeddIins' and Counsel oi
Experts Held Necessary

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, May 29.-Within six
months the Ford Motor Co., under
certain conditions, could be pro-
during 1000 planes Of standard de-
sign daily, Henry Ford, apostle OF
mass production and opponent OF
war, said in an interview here last
night.
The conditions, he said, are that
the company be left to its own
supervision. without meddling by
Government agencies" and have
the counsel Of such experts in avia-
ton as Charles A. Lindbergh and
Edward Rickenbacker.
Mr.. Ford made the statement In
discussing the present conflict in
Europe, which he said he was con-
vinced would come to an early end
because the United States won't
get into it." He warned that an
enormous defensive armament
program could become real dam
ger III hysteria were permitted to
rule"
Says Pressure Is Exerted.
"One of the thinks we must re-
member" he said, "is that pre-
paredness for defense is also pre-
paredness for war; we must also
remember that lot of pressure is
being brought to push us into a
conflict in which we should have
no part. There is an insidious mid
die group fighting neither Germany
nor England, but getting them to
fight each other solely so that this
group might profit financially.
1T Is this same group that would
like to push us into the war-per-
haps so that when it is all over we
could pay the bills.
1.-The real fifth columnists' in this
country" Mr.. Ford said, ARE the
financial interests that make money
out OF war, propagate it and peddle
destructive propaganda"
Told that the production of 1,O0C
airplanes a day seemed like tire
mendous undertaking" Mr.. Ford
said the same suggestion was made
when he first talked about assem-
bling thousands of automobiles 9
day"
Counsel Of Experts Stressed.
But we reached a volume oi
10000 cars day." he said, land we
also managed to get production Of
Eagle boats Submarine chasers) ur
to one ship day during the Worlc
| War.
The main essential" he said, ii,
that We have the counsel of mer
who know aviation and airplane
operation and that we be permitted
freedom of action, without dictatior
from men who haven't kept up tt
date in this science.
There must be also, agreement
upon just what is wanted. Ther
the manufacture of airplanes be.
comes simply an assembly problem
with these factors allowed fo
we not only can make 1000 plane.
a day but we can make them fol
about one-eighth Of the present
price,
Evening star., 1940-05-29
BY SIR PHILIP GIBBS,
British War Correspondent.

PARIS, May 29.-The tragic and
stupefying news Of the Belgian sur
render has been a shock to all of us
in France. There is no attempt
here to minimize the gravity of the
new situation. It is acknowledged
that the menace to England and
the Channel ports is more serious
and alarming.
There is deep anxiety for the
Allied troops in Flanders. Friends
of mine here have uttered no word
Of blame against the Belgian troops,
knowing how bravely they have
fought.
This downfall of Belgian resist
ance creates an entirely new situa-
ton for the French and British
Armies on the Somme and on the
Aisne The northward drive to link
up with the forces between Cam
brai and the coast, which seemed
likely and imminent, have to be
reconsidered because of the Belgian
breakdown.
Great Strength Available.
Whatever Gen. Maxine Wey-
gand's plan may be in view Of the
Allied situation, this is certain, as
can affirm from my own personal
knowledge: The Allied armies
south of the Somme are in great
strength. France still has tremend-
Gus and untouched reserves. Their
mechaniZed divisions and fleets of
heavy tanks are ready for both de-
tense and attack. British forces Of
no mean weight will be with them.
There is no spirit of defeat in
France despite all that has hap
pened during the past 10 days. On
the contrary, the French Army and
people have astonishing and heroic
confidence in the final outcome of
this struggle. That spirit is strong
have been closest to the enemy.
talked with some young officers
of the French tanks. They had
been fighting in Luxembourg and
later in the center of the line. They
had no terror Of German tanks
They had put many out of action
They had caught German infantry
at Longwy between two lines OF
their own tanks and slashed them to
pieces. They had taken many Ger
man prisoners and found that most
Of them were boys of 20. stupefied
and bewildered on finding them
selves In the front line Adolf Hit
Ter has been f1inging In his youth
ruthlessly.
I was on the roads of France
Monday-roads still crowded by the
endless columns of refugees, who
have been trudging in from the
north with their farm carts on
which the children are huddled. II
Is a heart-breaking sight. I was
told tragic tales by these poor peas
ants from villages around Arras ano
Amiens. One day that will make q
tragic chapter in history, not to be
written now.
But on the roads were also French
troops and British troops, with some
of whom I stopped to talk. They
were very CHEEKY and high-spirited
and If I could tell all know, which
cannot because 1t would reach the
enemy, it would be reassuring to
those who are downhearted because
Of the tragic news.
The war Is far from being lost
For Germany the main struggle be-
gins. France has the strength to
deliver terrific counterblows. They
will be delivered at the right mo-
ment and in the right place.
It has become clear that the ca
pitulation Of the Belgian Army was
due to the shameful surrender of
their King at the very time when
his men were fighting with heroism
and holding their lines. I know
that young man. A year ago he
sent for me to talk with him in
Evening star., 1940-05-29
Portuguese Exhibit Open

An exhibit of pictures of Portu-
guese monuments and maps OF
Portugueses discoveries has been
opened in the library at Catholic
University in connection with the
celebration of the 800th anniversary
of the founding of the country and
the 300th anniversary Of the restora-
ton of its independence. The ami
versary begins June 2. The exhibi-
ton may be seen daily except Sun
day from 8 am. to 9 pm. through
June 7.