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Evening star., 1940-04-14
Senate Hearings
On D. {. Supply Bill
Likely Next Week
Overton and Donovan
To Confer on Changes
In House Measure

Senate hearings on the $4o,276,.
TIT District supply bill for the next
fiscal year probably will get under
way a week from tomorrow. Chair
man Overton of the District Ap-
preparations Subcommittee. indi-
Gated yesterday.
BY that time, the Senator pointed
out, District officials should be able
to give clearer picture of the local
revenue situation for the coming
year, with returns in for the first
half of the current years new
income tax levy.
Reply Expected Tuesday.
Senator Overton expects to re-
ceive from the Commissioners Tues
day a reply to the subcommittee
recent letter, inviting them to sub
init justifications for any changes
they believe the Senate should make
in the detailed provisions of the
House bill.
On the basis of data available
when the bill was being drafted in
the House, the District would face a
probable deficit of 100000 at the
end of the fiscal year 194l without
any Senate increases.
Overton to Confer With Donovan.
When the Commissioners justifi--
cations are ready Tuesday, Senator
Overton plans an informal confer
ence with District Budget Officer
D. j. Donovan to consider in a gen.
eral way to what extent the Senate
could change the bill in view of
the revenue situation.
Since the House continued with,
out change for another year the
$1,000 900 lump-sum figure agreed
upon last year as the Federal share,
the Senate subcommittee is expect
ed to accept that figure also. there
by eliminating controversy between
the two houses over fiscal relations
for this session.
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material Especially artillery they
sent into Finland, and perhaps In
the longer view on the attitude OF
Russia. Certainly the Germans at
Oslo are showing q tendency to con-
solidate their positions along the
Swedish frontier, and are reported
to have moved clear down to Hal
den, the first important Norwegian
station on the Malmo railway.
The situation hangs in the bal
ance. The allies cannot afford to
let Norway 90 under. The Germans,
having made their cast, cannot
afford to lose and see the allies In
possession Of one side of the Baltic
entrance, the blockade frightened,
the supplies Of all the north taken
from them.
(copyrisht. 1910. By New York Tribune.
1nc.)
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mans, must think FIRST Of al Of the
communications Of such 4 force
They have the German surface navy
pretty well In hand. The Withdraw
al Of the home fleet after the air at
tacks on 1t Wednesday was prob
ably partly to repair damages, but
partly also to escort the expedition
ary transports across, as soon as
ready. (Remember that 1t takes
time to assemble troops and mate
rial and shipping, to embark, to
form conveys, to select and recon-
noiter a place Of Decentralization,
and so on. These things cannot be
done over night, as pointed out
when we said that If Bergen and
Trondheim had really been re-
captured, 1t was by no more than
a party Of royal marines with per-
haps a few hastily snatched up in
fantrymenS There remains the
submarine peril, to be warded OIL
by strong destroyer escort, and
the air peril, which presents q very
neat tactical problem.
The German air force Is not Sc
curely established in Norway. It
has seized certain Norwegian bases:
none Of these are of great capacity.
1t must bring in, now very largely
by air transport, its own supplies,
spare parts, fuel, bombs and lubri-
cants Except such captured sup
plies as It can use). It's own home
bases are twice as far from Bergen
(more than twice from Trondheim)
as are the British in the Shetlands.
BY using advance bases in Den
mark this distance can be much cut
down, but again these are tempo
rary bases as yet, without the re-
sources of the home bases.
Must Continue Movement.
Thus the Germans must keep up
the movement, from point to point,
of their air-borne supplies. and must
retain at each point held a suf-
ficient capacity to defend them
selves against incessant attacks
from seaward; must endeavor to
keep up some sort of offshore pa
troll as warning against a British
attack in force, and must seek to
have in hand, for quick assembly,
something in the way of q strategic
reserve against the possible coming
Of a British expeditionary force,
which can assuredly make good its
landing unless stopped by German
air power. Thus the Germans must
now be feverishly laboring at i'm
proving and extending their air.
base capacity at Stavanger, Bergen,
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this, the Germans admit the loss
of two cruisers (Bluecher and Kalr-
sruhe), and there is a possibility
that Emden is also gone; one and
possibly two additional cruisers have
been damaged by air attacks; the
battleship Scharnhorst probably
sustained serious damage in her
fight with Renown, and the Nor
wegians now claim the loss to their
coastal batteries of the sister battle
ship Gneisenau (possibly this is
mistake for Bluecher, as the sill
houettes of the two ships are not
vastly dissimilar, and visibility has
been generally bad); several de-
stroyers have been lost or damaged,
as we'll as transports. Finally,
considerable number of German
naval units are blockaded in Nor
wegian ports by superior British
forces. Thus the German surface
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Trondhein and Narvik, as well as
ct Oslo and In Denmark.
But time Is the factor Of first
importance, and the use the Ger
mans can make Of the time they
have gained by their initial surprise
very largely depends, as said above,
on their opening up Of q better line
Of communications than the air
route. II they can reopen the Skag-
errak, well and good, but the Grip
ping OF their surface fleet renders
this unlikely. Their. air force can
perhaps protect their mine sweep
ers by day, but cannot prevent the
allies laying more mines at night,
Hence, the possibility must be
faced that they will seek the only
other good line Of communications,
the best, indeed, that is available
the Swedish railway from Malmo
through Helsingborg and Gothen-
burg into Oslo. Malmo is connected
by rail-ferry with Sassnitz in Ger
many and with Copenhagen in Dem
mark; there is much shorter rail-
ferry between Elsinore Denmark,
and Helsingborg. If the Germans
could get the immediate use of this
rail and ferry system, they could
pour their forces, "Blitzkrieg"
equipped, into Oslo and so to the
north and west at really decisive
rate.
Have Timing Advantage.
They would then have the advan-
tage in timing over the allies. espe-
cially II the latter landed well to
the north, up around Trondheim.
They might be able to assemble
forces in Norway faster than the
allies could, even counting the
Norwegian help to the latter: and
especially in view of the fact that
the allies have available no we'll
equipped Norwegian port in which
to get their own heavy material
ashore (though, of course, such a
port may at any time fall into their
hands, and, indeed, the taking of
one is almost prerequisite). Thus
while the allies assemble their ex-
pedition, or perhaps have it already
at sea, it is possible that in Isle
Rugen, where Sassnitz is. or in the
Danish island of Seeland, German
troops are assembling to give point
and force to an ultimatum to the
Swedes.
Will the Swedes resist? Probably;
1t Is doubtful whether even the King
could. if he would, carry through
a policy Of non-resistance. Can they
resist successfully? That depends
very largely on the amount of
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bor batteries and, Of course, some
anti-aircraft.
The loss Of at least half Of the
first reinforcing convoy for Oslo
which is the main German advance
base-leaves In doubt just what was
in the ships which went down, but
certainly would badly disorganize
and hamper the force which got
through-reported as being 10000
men, probably somewhat less. It is
stated that for the last three days
1000 men per day are coming IN
by air, partly to Oslo, partly to
Atlantic ports. These will be largely
infantry, with perhaps a few light
guns. In other words, the Ger
mans are not going to have any
"blitzkrieg" in Norway, unless and
until they can open up lines of
communications which will permit
them to bring up the machines and
material on which a "blitzkrieg" de-
pends, and which was the chief
German advantage (other than air)
over the Poles.
1VA AAdAA AA4lCUldA1 Vi
gunner is no better than a Norwe-
gian similarly armed-probably he
has more training, against which
the Norwegian knows the ground
better and is likely to be a better
shot. In the mountainous country
toward which the Germans are try
ing to advance, their air force
cannot help them as it could In fiat
Poland. Moreover, their air force
as being given other things to think
Of by the incessant allied assaults
on the German-held coastal posi-
tions and shipping.
Surprise Advantage Lost.
Finally, the Germans have now
lost the advantage of surprise, and
Norwegian numbers are growing as
the reservists and volunteers pour
IN. If this situation continues, and
an allied expeditionary force ar
riveS in Norway, the German forces
there will be in desperate straits;
their immediate situation cannot be
described as desperate, but it is GER
talnly critical.
There Is no evidence that such an
expedition is in course of prepara-
ton, but the presumption that it
must be is so strong as to amount to
certainty, unless the allies are ready
to throw up the sponge, or unless
they have a better reason than ap-
pears here to anticipate an imme-
date attack in force on the west
ern front. Even so, they might we'll
spare half dozen divisions for
Norway. But they, like the Ger
Evening star., 1940-04-14
Nazi Communications
Biggest Problem in
Invasion Of Norway
Links With Scattered
Units Are Precorious,
Maj. Eliot Says
BY MAJ. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.

ELlOI.
Some clarification of the Norwe-
gian situation is now available, and
to begin with it may be well to clear
up some of the misconceptions of the
last few days. The fog of war mis-
leads commentators as well as COM
manders, and in writing of oper-
ations still in progress the reader
must always bear in mind that in
formation is incomplete, uncertain
and perhaps altogether misleading.
In evaluating this information and
presenting it to the reader, the best
that the analyst can hope for is
to seek guidance from experience
in order to make as few mistakes as
possible. Some he will certainly
make in any case, unless he waits
until long after the event.
In principle, however, and as to
the character of the major develop
ments, our reports so far of the Ger
man thrust to the north have been
accurate. The Germans have car
ried out boldly and with initial sue
cess bold and well-conceived plan
for the attainment of its objective
Whether that objective should ever
have been sought by such means is
another matter. The allies have
reacted with energy and determina-
ton, and their operations have in
spired the Norwegians to stout re-
eistance. The German commune
cations with their scattered units in
Norway are precarious. There can
be little doubt that further allied
measures are in course Of prepar-
alton, and that time is the controll-
ing factor in the situation.
Ports Not Retaken.
In detail, however, 1t is necessary
to point out that Bergen and Trond-
helm have not been retaken, as was
reported; that the allied naval at
tack in the Skagerrak was not a
major fleet action, but was most
successfully carried-through attack
by allied submarines on a German
troop convoy, more than half of
which was disposed of; and that
the British destroyer raid on Mar
vik Wednesday scored a consider
able measure of success, instead of
being a defeat without compensat-
ing gain.
The naval situation at the mo-
ment appears to be as follows:
Following the attack on the con-
voy, the allies mined the Skagerrak
and the Kattegat (at least the
entrance Of the latter; they are
continuing and extending their
mining operations, and patrolling
their mine fields with air and light
surface forces; they nave blockaded
the German warships and trans
ports which have reached the Nor
wegian Atlantic ports while those
in Oslo Fjord are hampered by
the mine fields.
No British heavy units (battle-
ships, cruisers, carriers) have been
admitted lost, though damage to
one battleship Rodney) and three
cruisers is admitted, with the loss
OF at least four destroyers. Against
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Senior high school pupils voted
in Russia's last election.
Evening star., 1940-01-16
CHICAGO Livestock

CHICAGO, Jan. 16 fF0.--(United States
Department Of Agriculture )-Salable hobs,
$4,000. total, $4,000: open 1926 lower
than Mondays average. Closing generally
$3.50 off; top. 5.75 bulk good and choice
160-.240 pounds, 5.5O-5.75; 240-270
5.o0-35; good 36O-55O packing sows. 4.25-
Salable cattle. 10000: salable calves.
POO: receipts exceeded expections: very
liberal run good and choice steers and
yearlings here, most other killing classes in
sizable supply: comparatively little done;
strictly choice steer and yearlings steady
at l l 90 upward. all other 25 lower; early
top choice yearlinRs scaling $50 pounds.
1900 several loads 110O-S5: steers seal
ing 1880 pounds at outside prices: sprin-
King strictly lower grade sold at. 7.75-
1900: choice and choice light heifers
steady: best 1925: all other heifers and
cows weak to 25 lower; bulls and vealer
fuller steady; weighty sausage bulls up to
7.65;; due to storm very few vealers here,
mostly IL .00-50.
Salable sheep $4,000: total. 1880; late
Monday fat lambs and yearlins steady to
10 lower; sheep steady: bulk wooled
lambs, 100 pounds down; 9.00-25: top.
9.35: 103-10S-pound weights, S.75-90;
bulk yearlings, 500. native ewes. 4 .00-5O:
today's trade advance slow. undertone weak
to % lower: good to choice wooied lambs.
$1,000; best all held 9.10-15 and above
Load good fed yearlings 100 sheep Arm;
native slaughter ewes. 4.00-50: two doubles
toppy fed Western, 400.
Evening star., 1940-01-16
New York Produce

NEW YORK. Jan. 1s tqH.-Esgs. AHA:
2lH-23; standards, 81: firsts. 20; seconds.
ls-1Sla: mediums IS dirties. No /. 17ka-
is: average checks. 16ia-17 Refrigerator
fancy and heavyweishts. 17-1912: stand
ards. 1874: flrsts. 1912: seconds, 15Ia-I6;
mediums, 1917: dirties, 15
Whites: Resale of premium marks, 25-
2a,g: 2,.E. nearby gs p and Midwestern premium
21i2. Resale of nearby heavier mediums
2of2-23. Nearby and Midwestern me-
diums. 90, pullets, 1872. Refrigerator.
nes,a nearby and Midwestern. standards and
Browns: nearby fancy to extra fancy,
22,4-23la, Nearby and Midwestern spe-
GiaIs. Sais. 22Ea: standards. 21la: mediums.
,1Ss4 Ruster tn,n sss $40: steady Creamery ~
ssors, sI frsss 3ss-s}, soso,s3; ,s3'ss Seconds as
Cheese, 4ss'57s; steady. Prices un-
Dressed poultry irregular. Fresh and
frozen prices UNCHANGED.
Live poultry. by freight, irregular Fowl.
colored. lS-lsla: fancy 10: Leshorn, 13.
Turkeys, hens, Is; young toms s. Ducks.
13.
By express, generally quiet. Chickens,
Rocks. 1918; Southern. 13; colored II.
15: Leghorn. 16 Fowl, coiored. Southern,
I6-ls: Leghorn. 1914; Southern, II. Pul-
let's Rocks. %: medium 1921: crosses.
2s-23; medium. 21. Turkeys, hens. 20;
young toms. 16.
Evening star., 1940-01-16

Gold Shipments
Climb Sharply
During Week
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Gold imports totaled $67. .168, ,787 in
the week ended January 10, COM
pared with $57 1858 500 the preceding
week.
The Commerce Department said
today that principal shipments in
cluded $2,255,5 $40 from the Neither
lands, $4,775,991 from Norway.
$4,537 ,626 from the United Kingdom,
"a ,808 ,644 from Canada, $4O82 ,626
from India and $32,217,754 from
Japan.
The department also said the total
of gold deposited under earmark in
the Federal Reserve banks by foreign
governments and central banks de-
clined $l3,115, 1888 during the week, to
$1,139 10000.
Silver imports increased slightly to
81 ,149,5 ,543, including $638,120 from
Mexico, and $685. 1892 from Canada.
Exports amounted to $2,627 of gold
and $36,311 Of silver.
Evening star., 1940-01-16
Canada Is De|uged
With Subscriptions
For War Loan
Wide Distribution Seen
As Small Returns
Flood Bunk
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, Jan. 16 canadian
Press) The Bank of Canada was
deluged today by a wave of subscrip-
tions of 5000 or less for the first
Dominion war loan of the present
conflict, it was asserted in authori-
tative quarters.
Finance Minister Ralston had pre-
viously expressed the hope the issue
would have wide distribution among
smaller investors.
Indications today were. it was de-
clared, that the $1,000 1000 loan,
which opened yesterday morning,
would be heavily oversubscribed, but
the books will remain open another
day at least in order that subscrip-
tions from the most remote districts
may be registered.
The first days canvass brought
subscription of ST per cent OF the
loan, investors turning over sl14,-
650,6OO to the Dominion's war chest.
officials of the Bank of Canada,
which is handling the loan, strug-
gled with mass of returns from all
parts of the Dominion and endeav-
ored to arrive at the total amount
subscribed.
Canadian branches of United
States companies figured largely in
the subscription list, including I'M
perial Oil, S. S. Kresge Co., William
JIy~;rIo,, IT, m Ko1vip q tor If Gam
ada and others.
NEW. YORK, Jan. 16 P.-Some
usually well informed financial
sources expressed the belief yester-
day Canada's 5000 100000 war loan
received substantial support from
Canadian units of American-con-
trolled companies.
Inquiries at the Offices of num-
ber of American concerns with in
terests across the border indicated
the tendency was to leave the de-
cision on subscriptions to the man
agement of the Canadian units to
avoid complications under United
States neutrality laws.
Investment houses, it was said,
took the neutrality restrictions to
mean American residents could not
participate and clients asking in
formation on the loan were so in
formed.
Canadian units of American COM
panies, on the other hand, were
considered free to subscribe out Of
their funds in Canada, investment
authorities explained.
Subscription books were opened on
Canada's first war loan yesterday.
Wall Street looked to Ottawa for
concrete information on the extent
of the support from Americana con-
trolled concerns.
Evening star., 1940-01-16
Fisk Rubber Tells
Protesting Group
Sale Completed
Holders Are Advised
To Support Move
For Dissolution
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan 16-The Fisk
Rubber Corp, in response to Minor
ity Stockholders Committee pro-
tests against the sale of the COM
pany for about S11,000,000 to the
United States Rubber Co. and COM
mittee demands for a higher price,
replied last night that the sale has
been fully authorized" and the
contract to sell is unconditional"
"A majority of the Fisk stockhold-
ers have elected to sell upon these
terms, and there is a binding con-
tract so to do said a corporation
statement issued here under a
Springfield, Mass, date line. 1T is
considered very unlikely here that
negotiations could be reopened or
that any better price could be OBJ
tanned.
'The only question remaining for
stockholders action is the matter
of dissolving and iquidating the
Fisk Rubber Corp. Following the
sale, the Fisk Rubber Corp. will
have no distributable assets except
the cash and shares of the United
States Rubber Co. stock to be re-
ceived from the SALE
1T seems more advantageous to
stockholders to have these proceeds
distributed promptly than to have
the Fisk Rubber Corp. continue to
hold them in its treasury"
The Fisk statement was a reply
to the Minority Committees circu-
lar letter of January II protesting
the sale and asking for new proxies
to demand higher price.
Evening star., 1940-01-16
Directors Reelected
By Rockville Bank
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, Jan. 16.-
Directors reelected at the annual
meeting Of the Farmers Banking &
Trust Co. yesterday, were: F. Bache
Albert, G.. Ellington Bell, Louis D.
Bell, Albert M. Bouic. Edwin w.
Broome, Dexter M. Bullard, Thomas
D. Darby, Henry F. Gibbs, Richard
F. Green, Charles c. Jones, Thomas
w. Perry, William Reuben Pum-
phrey and Edgar Reed.
Directors reelected these officers:
President, Mr.. Green; vice presi-
dents, Messrs. Bouic, Darby and
Perry; secretary, J. Hampton Jones:
treasurer, Mr.. Albert; attorney, Mr..
Bouic; tellers, G. Hilton Darby and
Elmer Orme; bookkeepers, Mrs. v.
Lyndell Baker and Mrs. Lorene Sti-
mex; clerk, James White, and
stenographer, Miss Rose Williams.
Directors also reelected George L.
Smith cashier of the Kensington
branch, and Benjamin White
cashier of the Poolesville branch.
Evening star., 1940-01-16
Confidence Of Buyer
Held Vital Asset
For Retailer
Fronkness Is Urged
As Best Method in
Special Sales
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, jan 16-The prob
lem of convincing the public that
a sale is really a sale was studied
by hundreds of delegates to the
National Retail Dry Goods Associa-
ton convention today.
"The people," F. w. Stuart, jr.,
a New York retailer. told delegates,
'have been educated into taking
an active, inquiring interest in what
makes business tick There is a
liberal trend toward regarding all
business as a public service which
must justify itself on that basis"
He asserted: There has been a
change in some customers view
points. When the skeptic sees mer-
chandise offered at 'half-off,' sew
eral questions may arise in his mind:
rs there that much profit in the
item? Is the high valuation eX-
aggerated? Is it merchandise the
store is stuck with? Is is obsolete
as to fashion? If this bait to
be made up on other items?'"
The answer, according to Stuart,
Is for the store to tell mot only
nothing but the truth but also the
whole truth"
1T would serve many ends" he
said, "if we will not only tell the
customer that we are offering a
dollar value for SO cents but also
why and how we are able to do
II
"We should not present, in the
guise of having full value, any goods
which have an impaired market
value. We should say so frankly
when goods formerly worth more
now are being sold more cheaply
because, although still in good
taste, they have been carried over
from previous season or because
the selection is limited and incom-
plete.
IF an article was slow selling
at $40, it now is not $685., regu-
larly $40 but reduced to move our
stock.
1--WE, as purchasers of merchan-
disc, put our greatest confidence in
te vendors who are frank and open
with us. When they drop our prices
to us we want to know the reasons,
in order that We may have conf
dence in both the old price and the
new one. Our customers must be
made of the same stuff as We"
Evening star., 1940-01-16
Bankers
Continued From Page A-16)

of directors All former directors
were reelected as follows:
c. A. AspinWall, William L. Beale
Gist Blair, Harry K. Boss, George
w. Brown, Charles A. Garry, Fred
erick w. Coleman, William w
Everett, William j. Flather, jr., M
G. Gibbs, James M. Green, Gilbert
H. Grosvenor, William Montgomery
Howard Moran, NeWbold Noyes
John A. Remon, John Saul, Corcoran
Thorn, S. Percy Thompson, Benja-
min w. Thoron, John F. Wilkins
and Lawrence E. Williams
The new director, Mr.. Akers, has
lived in Washington since 1884 and
been engaged in the automobile
business for many years. He is a
Mason, an Elk, member of the Vari-
ETY. Club, Congressional Country
Club, Lions International, vice
president, director and chairman of
the Finance Committee of the Y. M.
c. A.; director, Southeastern Uni
versity, and trustee of the Sixth
Presbyterian Church. He was born
and educated in Indiana.
Evening star., 1940-01-16
Lower Assets Shown

NEW YORK, Jan. 16 R.-Na-
tional Bond g. Share Corp, an in
vesting company, reported net as
sets as of December 81, after de-
ducing a 15-cents-a-share dividend
payable January Is, were equal to
$25.35 a share compared with $26.45
on December 81, 1888.
Evening star., 1940-01-16
Terhune Is Reelected
By Virginia WooIen
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, Jan. 16-
Directors of the Virginia Woolen Co.
today reelected w. v. E. Terhune,
New York, president and general
sales agent, after stockholders had
met and elected the board.
For the first time in over two
years, the board declared a dividend
amounting to ST per share on out
standing capital stock.
More than half the population of
Panama is of mixed race.