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Evening star., 1940-03-27
U. 5. Tries Ship Market,
Offering Il Craft for Sale
BY the Associated Press.


The Maritime Commission de-
cided yesterday to sample the mar
ket for old ships by offering for sale
IL Government-owned vessels under
three different propositions.
The vessels are being offered for
sale on a where Is, as Is" basis. All
are of World War origin and have
been In the commissions laidup fleet
for some time.
The commission invited bids from
American citizens on the Bayou
Chico, Salaam. Yapalaga and Mon
roe. The bidder must agree to pur-
chase all four Of these vessels and
operate them over a route regarded
by the commission as essential. The
bidder also must agree to replace
the vessels with new ones within
three years.
The Monroe is laid up at Norfolk,
the other three at New Orleans.
Another invitation was for bids
on the Janelew, Mosella. Narcissus
and Jalapa. This invitation also is
limited to American citizens, but
the bidder need not agree to operate
the vessels on any particular route,
or agree to purchase new ones.
The Jalapa is laid up at Norfolk,
the other three at New Orleans.
In its third invitation the COM
mission called for bids on the Gal
weston, Oldham, Tolosa and West
Kedron, all laid up at Norfolk. This
bidding is opened to foreigners, but
the commission said beligerent ma
tions were not eligible.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Mrs. Bette B. Heal, IS,
Resident 80 Years, Dies

Mrs. Bette Becktel Heal, IS, widow
Of william E. Heal and q resident
Of Washington for some 30 years,
died yesterday in Emergency Hos
pital after q brief illness.
Born near Natchez, Miss, Mrs.
Heal came to this city shortly after
her marriage to Mr.. Heal. He was
a mathematician with the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey.
He died in 1926.
For many years Mrs. Heal lived at
3747 Huntingdon street NV. Re-
Gently she had been living with her
sister, Mrs. Nathalie Walkley of 1928
G street NV.
Funeral services will be held at
3 pm. tomorrow at Gawler's funeral
home, 1856 Pennsylvania avenue
NV. Burial will be in Memphis,
Tenn
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Church Is Impressed
By Bar|ow's Bomb
By GARTER BROOKE Homes,

Representative Church, Repub-
lican, Of Illinois, a member Of the
Naval Affairs Committee, said today
he was deeply impressed by the test
of Lester P. Barlow's liquid oxygen
carbon explosive which he witnessed
yesterday at the plant of the Glenn
L. Martin Airplane Co. at Middle
River, Md.
Mr.. Church is author of a resolu-
ton authorizing an expenditure OF
SIS, 900 to make exhaustive tests of
the new type Of bomb.
Pointing out that the deadliness
of the bomb-which Mr.. Barlow says
is the most lethal ever developed
is yet to be demonstrated, Mr.,
Church said:
I'm trying to keep an open mind
and trying to give an inventor en-
gineer a chance. He gave us a
demonstration of the safety of his
bomb was very much impressed.
This safety element in bombs
seems to me highly important. If
we are going to authorize construc-
tion of large number of bombing
planes, they will be hazardous in
vestment if they carry bombs which
can be exploded easily"
Evening star., 1940-03-27
BrookIond Committee
lndorses Donovan

Members of the Executive Com
mittee of the Brookland Citizens
Association last night unanimously
indorsed Maj. Daniel j. Donovan
District auditor and budget officer
for appointment as Commissioner
to succeed George E. Allen.
Marvin M. Mclean, president
voiced high praise for Maj. Dono.
van, declared he has sound COM
mon sense. plenty of courage and
pronounced executive ability" Mr.
Mclean said the committees action
would be reported at the next meet
ing of the association for ratifica-
ton.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
4n Mrmnrtant

ADAMS, ELLEN A tribute to the
sacred memory of my mother ELLEN
ADAMS. who departed this life ten years
ago today. March q, 1890:
HER DAUGHTER. A. AGNES HOLMES. >
u BEALI; A ,o,s., VIOLA vIf1 In loyns meme5s ss
passed away March 27, 1896.
God in His wisdom called you.
Knowing 1t was for the best,
BY closing your eyes in slumber
To send you peaceful rest.
Sadly missed.
DAUGHTER. RUTH.
CONES, BESSIE v. Sacred to the lev
ing memory Of our dear wife and mother,
BESSIE v. CONES. who died March ~
1899.
You left behind broken hearts
That loved you 20 sincere.
That never did anlN never will
HER f95Sft noVisG SGq HJsS R4s 3Np 32sa5 CHILDREN.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Charles H. Sizer Death
Pronounced Suicide

A certificate of suicide was issued
yesterday In the death Sunday at
his home in Cumberland, Nd, OF
Charles H. Sizer, 38, son of Lynn G
Sizer, 1929 Wyoming avenue NV.
former manager of the Raleigh.
According to DR.. Lime H. Corson
Allegheny County medical examiner
Mr.. Sizer took his life by drinking
poison obtained at a timber preserv-
ing plant where he had been en-
ployed the last three years.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Church Thief Sentenced

BRAINERD. Mimi, March 27
@.-Melvin Schmidt, %, st. Cloud,
Mimi, was sentenced to six months
in Jail after he confessed he knelt in
church pews as though awaiting
confession. then rif1ed the purses of
women in the seats ahead of him
while they were in the confessional
booth. Among the victims were the
wives of two police officers.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
PostuI Revenues Set Mark

February postal revenues amount
ed to $60,696. .458, a record for the
month. The Post ONCE Department
said today that the receipts were
$4,000, 900 above February, 1899.
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Firth

aELBLING. Mr.. and Mrs. Irving
Helbling of 1902 North Mckinley rd., Ar
iington, Va. announce the birth Of twin
girls. KATHERINE and MARGARET.
March 10, 1910, at George Washinston
University HoSpital,
Evening star., 1940-03-27
Rubenhorst Reelected

w. E. Rabenhorst was reelected
president of the Revenue Camera
Club of the Bureau of Internal Rev.
enue yesterday.
Evening star., 1940-07-31
be served to rich and poor alike. and

be served to rich and poor alike, and
the proposal is welcomed particu.
larly in labor quarters, where crit
icism has been vented against "lux-
ury dining out" by persons able to
pay the price despite the wars
stress.
This is how the communal cook
ing plan has been working in the
Welfare Institute adjoining the
dAlgarno estate, where there are
1000 apartments housing 1000
adults and 5000 children:
Volunteer women caterers served
2,3O0 meals the first week. They
were cooked on one large gas stove,
and ran up fuel bill of only $500.
A surplus Of $l6.10 was recorded.
A typical 20-cent meal consisted
OF soup and a piece of bread q
cents, stewed steak, carrots, pota-
toes, dumping and gravy (12 cents,
milk pudding (6 cents.
For children the meal cost only
IT cents, the pudding costing 3
cents instead of cents.
The experiment has shown, off,
clals said, that vast extension of
the scheme could be introduced
easily and made entirely self-sup-
porting, assuring cheap, wholesome
food as the nation girds for attack
by Germany.
Evening star., 1940-07-31
Formerly
SI30.75

Many great new fea.
lures including fast
freezing Sanalloy Super
FIR eexer, hermeticaIly
sealed Economixer Unit.
2-t0ne Froster Door and
Acid Resisting porcelain
Enamel Interior.
Evening star., 1940-07-31

impressed with the greater degree
of planning being done by the Army
than before American entry into the
World War, comparison of condi-
tions at that time with the present
"crisis" made it seem almost as if
we had been going backward instead
Of forward in the intervening
years"
MY only fear Is" he said, mot
that we began tpreparing) too soon,
but my fear is that we have not
begun soon enough"
Secretary Stimson said the funds
sought to complete equipment for
an Army of 100000 men in the
field were just about thirds of
the sum that ultimately would be
needed.
Discussing the Navy's 6,l76, ,00O
share Of the appropriation request
Admiral Harold r. Stark, chief of
naval operations, said it was hoped
that most of the 200 combat ships
for the proposed "two-ocean" navy
would be completed in four years,
although the full program would
take six or seven years.
Some Ships Delayed.
Rear Admiral S. M. Robinson,
chief of the Bureau of Ships, testi-
fed that while half of the new air.
craft carriers were to be duplicates
of those now under construction,
the others were to be held up pend
ing possible design changes. Ten of
the light cruisers also will be de-
layed, he said, because a new type
may be decided upon.
Rear Admiral w. r. Furlong.
chief of ordnance, testified that the
Nations armor producing capacity
had been doubled in the last two
years and that it must increase al
most as much again to meet the
demand.
A new semi-automatic rife which
would cost half as much as the
Garand, now the Army's standard,
was described by Maj. Gen Thomas
Holcomb, commandant of the Ma
rine Corps. He said that in a DEM
onstration by the makers, the VIM
chester Repeating Arms Co., the
weapon appeared to us to be a
complete answer to what W. need"
Evening star., 1940-07-31

international economic structure has
necessitated the imposition by many
countries OF even more drastic trade
control measures than existed before
the war.
Principles Not Lost.
Nevertheless, the substantial
progress made during the past six
years in our efforts to maintain
trade between free nations on the
basis OF the liberal and democratic
principles which underlie our trade
agreement program has not by any
means been lost. In order to safe
guard the progress made thus far,
and to meet any external threat to
our economic security, we must re-
double our efforts to bring about, by
every practicable means, the closest
possible economic cooperation with
other countries, particularly with
those in the Western Hemisphere.
1t is my profound conviction that
such vigorous program of economic
defense is an essential part of our
national defense program.
TT has been suggested or implied
by few faint-hearted defeatists in
recent weeks that we should aban-
don our efforts to conduct our for
eign trade on the basis of liberal
and democratic principles. The
logic of such implications, If they
be true, would lead us to embark
upon course Of action which would
subject our producers, consumers
and foreign traders, and ultimately
the entire Nation, to the regimen
tation OF totalitarian system. For
1t Is naive to imagine that we could
adopt totalitarian control of our
foreign trade and at the same time
escape totalitarian RECOMMENDATION of
our internal economy. I, therefore,
reject any implication that we have
been defeated in our efforts to main
tain liberal trade principles and, to
the end that our continued efforts
to MAINTAIN those priciples may be
crowned with lasting success, I
pledge you the whole hearted CO.
operation of your Government"
Nazi Blockade Held Inadequate. .
Sir Louis Beale, member of the
British Purchasing Commission, told
the conference "the mistake should
not be made of assuming that the
war can be won merely by with
holding supplies from Germany.
Now, even more than six months
ago, it is certain that direct attack
upon Germany will be necessary to
bring about her defeat"
Nevertheless, Sir Louis said, the
blockade Is still "our essential
weapon, necessary to reduce Ger
many'S striking power"
Evening star., 1940-07-31
Gypsy Charm Trick
Costs Victim $3.50

An old gypsy charm trick was re-
vived in Montgomery County yes
terday and at least one victim
robbed of $3.50.
The victim, a pedestrian, gave
three gypsies in an automobile direc-
tions to Baltimore when they STOP
ped to ask directions on the old
water tower circle In Chevy Chase
BY way of thanks, one of the gypsies,
woman, proceeded to give the
pedestrian a charm" which in
volved tapping his coat-and re-
moving his pocketbook.
The trio drove away before he
noticed his loss. The pocketbook,
minus the cash, later was found on
lawn and returned to the owner.
Montgomery County and metropol-
itan police are seeking the gypsies.
Taxes ON tobacco and drinks have
been increased in Estonia.
Evening star., 1940-07-31
Industry Urged 10 Aci
To Meet 1ofaIitarian
Trade Competition
National Convention Told
To Stop Loxness and
Trend to Higher Costs
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSOclateQ FTeSS.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 81
American industry can meet totali-
tartan competition in the worlds
markets and protect the future of
free enterprise If it will begin now to
rid itself Of "laxness and our un-
economic trend toward higher costs" {"
Edgar w. Smith Of General Motors
Corp. told the National Foreign
Trade Convention today.
Looking forward to an early end
Of the European war, Mr.. Smith
warned the United States against
committing itself to any system of
barter. cartelization or other un-
proved economic process in would
trade.
When peace comes, he said, "the
world once again will be in the mar
ket for bargain-and Americas
hope and destiny lie in the fact that
the free enterprise system has DEM
onstrated its ability over all other
systems to provide bargains"
Mr.. Smith asserted that Germany,
in seven years of Nazi regimentation,
had failed completely to show its
ability to compete on terms of equal
cost and value with the free enter
prise industries of America"
RO0sevelt's Message.
President Roosevelt sent written
message to the convention. 1t said:
1T is a great pleasure to offer my
warm greetings to the delegates as
sembled for the 9th national for
eign trade convention at San Fran
cisco. I am confident that your
deliberations, which are character
istic OF our democracy at work, will
contribute substantially to the sue
ceSsful solution of your common
problems-problems which are to-
day of grave concern to the entire
Nation.
Producers and workers in our
export industries, both agricultural
and industrial; consumers of i'm
ported products, foreign traders,
banks, insurance and shipping COM
panies, all of the millions of our
people who have a vital stake in
the Nations foreign trade, realize
the seriousness and the difficulty
of the problems confronting us in
this field today. You are all aware
of the dislocations suffered by our
foreign trade as a result of armed
conflict in other parts of the world.
Established trade channels have
been disrupted, our exports of many
important products, particularly ag-
ricultural, have been severely cur
tailed, our trade with virtually the
entire European continent has dwin-
died to small fraction of its former
volume, and the weakening of the
Evening star., 1940-07-31
Britain Considering
Communal Cooking 10
Save on Food, Fuel
Government Encouraged
By Experiment With
'AssembIy-Line' Meals
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 31.-Government
leaders, considering imposing COM
munal assembly line" cooking on
the British population, are encour-
aged by a week-old experiment
which has shown that by substitute
ing one stove for 1000 stoves a
healthful three-course meal can be
served for 20 cents.
High sources disclosed last night
that government-controlled mass
production" dining halls may be
substituted for home cooking to
strengthen the war effort by econo-
mizing on both food and fuel. The
move is being seriously considered.
The assembly line" meals would
Evening star., 1940-07-31

Taxes ON tobacco and drinks have
been increased in Estonia.
Evening star., 1940-07-31
Appropriations
Continued From First Page.)

the committee recommended ap-
proval of the Budget Bureaus re-
quest for 14,394 airplanes of various
types, of which 4,028 would go to
the Navy, giving that service ,ap-
proximately 5000 serviceable planes.
IL Per Cent Profit Limit Urged.
Although the Navy's share of the
new money would be only $1,058, 1885,
$40, the measure would commit the
Government, through contracts to
be filled later, to expenditure of
$4,442 100000 for 200 new fighting
ships and accompanying auxiliaries
and aircraft for the proposed 10 per
cent expansion of the Navy.
The committee recommended res
toration of the IL per cent profit
limitation on airplane procurement
for both the Army and Navy. Con-
gress reduced that figure to or
in some cases 8 per cent last month,
but Government spokesman said it
had seriously interferred with the
acquisition of aircraft, chiefly be-
cause subcontractors were refusing
to take contracts for avitaion ma
terial.
Except for a $1,000, 900 item for a
large craving drydock in New York
Harbor, the subject of pending au-
thorizing legislation, the committee
approved the Presidents requests
without change.
81 More Ordnance Plants.
In broad outline the new funds
and contractual authority would
be as follows: New ship construc-
ton, 100000: alteration and
conversion of naval vessels, $75,-
100000; aircraft for both Army and
Navy, $2,068 ,402 ,304; materiel for
Army, Navy and Marine Corps.
$2,057, ,705, ,0l7; public works projects
for Army and Navy, including hous-
ing and storage facilities, $158, ,352,-
800; additional production facilities,
$685. 900 900.
The new production facilities pro-
posed would include 81 additional
ordnance plants, as well as ex-
pansion OF shipbuilding facilities at
various points. Although specific
locations have not been selected
for the ordnance plants, officials
said they would be built west of
the Alleghanies, partly for reasons
of inland security.
The bill also carried $3,l8l, ,780 to
finance the training of 5000 Naval
Reservists.
In his testimony Gen. Marshall
said:
MY greatest concern at the mo-
ment is for the next few months
on which this material, except for
some of the commercial items, can
have no bearing.
Personnel is our only immediate
resource. The mobilization of the
National Guard is the first thing
and compulsory military training
is the second thing to do, as quickly
as this can be managed. .
ut seems to me that, if our esti-
mate of the situation is at all cor
rect, we have not even time to
debate compulsory service today. We
have got to do something of that
sort Immediately"
Although committee members de-
clined to reveal specifically what
Gen. Marshall had to say further
about the situation" some said they
were not unduly alarmed. One
member said the General said Moth
ing about any danger of invasion lin
the next few months"
Two-Thirds of Sum Needed.
Secretary of War Stimson told
the subcommittee that while he was
Evening star., 1940-07-31
Rumanians, Seeking
Accord, Bar Broad
Territorial Changes
Readiness to Negotiate
Hinted by MonoiIescu
After Cabinet Session
By the Associated Press.

BUCHAREST, July 31-Rumania
under strong pressure from Ger
many, indicated willingness today to
adjust her differences with Hungary
and Bulgaria, but warned she would
resist any sweeping territorial de-
mandS.
Readiness OF the government to
open negotiations with the two ad-
joining countries to which it hitherto
has turned deaf ear was intimated
by Foreign Minister Mihail Manoil-
escu as he emerged from a cabinet
meeting.
"Rumania recognizes" he said,
that she must achieve a lessening
tension between herself and her Bull
garian and Hungarian neighbors."
Limits Set on Cession.
He declared, however, Rumania
would not consent to repetition OF
the unique circumstances" involv-
ing the recent cession of Bessarabia
and Northern Bucovina to Soviet
Russia, and added:
1T is necessary to maintain peace,
but if certain limits are exceeded the
Rumanians must use other ways"
His statement was taken in diplo-
matte quarters as indicating the
government was determined to drive
hard bargain with Hungary and
Bulgaria, who have been pressing
for return of the border provinces
of Pennsylvania and Southern Do
bruja, respectively, which they lost
to Rumania after the World War.
(The Berlin radio said last
night Rumania would open con-
versations with her two neighbors
within a few days" Previous re-
ports said Adolf Hitler had given
Rumania until September Is to
reach settlement. The radio,
quoting well-informed quarters in
Bucharest, said Rumania was ex-
pected to give Hungary a 50-mile-
wide strip of territory and also to
propose a transfer of popula-
tions.)
Plans Population Exchange.
Manoilescu, who recently re-
turned with Premier Ion Gigurtu
fro mconferences with axis leaders,
said his government intended to
suggest an exchange of populations
as step toward settling dispute.
"All Rumanians in Hungary and
Bulgaria must return to the mother
country and we must diminish the
minorities as much as possible by
categorical decisive measures" he
said. The government soon will
have practical suggestions to achieve
the aim of Rumania for Rumanians
only"
Evening star., 1940-07-31
Blockade Extension
Ordered in Effect at
Midnight Tonight
Order-in-CounciI Puts
Into Force Policy
Announced Yesterday
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 31.-Britain today
ordered a blockade extending from
the Arctic to Northern Africa, ef-
tective at midnight tonight, an order
In council giving effect to the policy
announced in Commons yesterday
by Hugh Dalton, minister of eco
nomic warfare.
In future, nor-British shipping
companies will have to agree always
to employ navicerts-a form of pass
port for ship cargoes-in order to
enjoy services such as coaling, dry
dock and insurance facilities at
Britain's worldwide ports. =
Ships Of offending lines entering
British ports may find difficulty even
In getting water.
The object of this system Is to
deter neutral shipping from at
tempted blockade running.
The Ministry of Economic War;
fare said the new system would
eliminate control bases such as were
established for examination of sus-
pected contraband at the start of
the war.
The order names Italy and Ger
many as enemies and states that
any vessel to or from a port through
which they might exchange goods
with the world may be deemed
carrying contraband and liable to
seizure as prize unless provided
with a navicert. The navicert is
issued by British Consuls prior to
sailing.
Exemption is provided for ships
which sailed from ports where
navicerts are not obtainable, un-
less the ships could easily have
called at such ports.