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Evening star., 1940-06-01

joked and played cards, and even
started a football game to keep up
their spirits.
An officer said that, when the Nazi
bombardment was at its peak, II
spent hours lying in bitches, with
my teeth clenched and my fingers
wedged in my ears, my face buried
in the weeds"
Truce to Bury Dead Refused.
Another artilleryman said:
THE Germans asked for a truce to
bury their dead after a 36-hour bar
rage had held up their advance.
We replied, There's no truce and
gave them another seven hours of
barrage."
But If the Tommies were CHEEKY.
the lines of women and children that
lined station platforms as the troop
Evening star., 1940-06-01
'Aid-the-AIIies' Drive
Due Among Students
And Women S Clubs
William Allen White
Organization Sets
Up Unit in Capital

A campaign to enlist support of
college students, women's clubs and
other educational and civic groups
will be launched here soon by the
Washington branch Of William
Allen Whites National Committee
to Defend America by Aiding the
Allies, Huston Thompson, head of
the local unit, said today.
The organization, formed here
yesterday, believes the United States
must in its own interest make every
effort to send far greater quantities
Of airplanes, tanks and other sup
plies to the Allies, according to Mr..
Thompson, lawyer and former spe-
cial Assistant Attorney General.
I'VE are convinced that, despite
the actions of few isolated groups,
most college students heartily favor
helping the Allies" said Mr.. Thomp-
son. He declared a committee led
by DR.. Charles Collier of George
Washington University would begin
organization work among college,
age groups in the next few days.
DR.. Brunnauer to Assist.
DR.. Esther C. Brunnauer is to have
charge of the Women's Clubs SUBJ
committee, Mr.. Thompson added.
AS the local group was formed at
the Metropolitan Club, a telegram
to Congress from Mrs. Dwight Nor
row, mother-in-law of Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh. isolationist advocate,
was made public.
Mrs. Morrow urged that the
United States make available to the
Allies as many planes as possible
without impairing national defense,
that 500. 100000 be appropriated to
aid millions of refugees in the
French war zone and that export OF
all war materials which may find
their way to aggressor nations be
stopped.
Mr.. Thompson asserted that Mr..
White, editor of the Emporia
(Kans0 Gazette and founder of the
movement, had been invited to set
up HaClOnal neaOQuarterS In wash
lngton. Local headquarters are in
room TIA of the Evans Building, 1920
New York avenue NV.
Roper Among Members.
Membership of the Washington
branch includes Daniel C. Roper.
former Secretary of Commerce; Dean
Acheson. former Undersecretarv of
the Treasury; Philip Marshall
Brown, educator: Dwight F. Davis,
former Governor General of the
Philippine Islands, and Dean Will
liam Crane Johnstone of George
Washington University Junior Col
lege.
Thomas P. Morgan, jr., was named
treasurer OF the local group, and
Melvin D. Hildreth, secretary.
Evening star., 1940-06-01
Hitler Biting on Granite,
British Minister Says
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 1.-Arthur Green
wood. minister without portfolio, as
sured radio listeners last night that
Adolf Hitler is biting on granite"
and told them there lis no need to
be downhearted."
THE enemy beats on our verv
gates with his mailed fist" declared
the Laborite member of Prime
Minister Churchill's war cabinet.
I'VE have suffered grievous losses,
We have inflicted greater losses on
the enemy.
Our power in the field. on the
seas and in the air wakes as his
wanes. Our economic resources ex-
pand as his are eaten up. Our eco
nomic stranglehold makes 1t more
and more difficult for him to replace
his weapons of war"
A hint OF new call on the serv-
Ices OF civilians In the British war
ef1ort was given when Greenwood
told the nation we must face far
reaching changes"
More and more" he said, I'VE
shall all become active combatants
IN the war, serving the national
cause in different ways"
Evening star., 1940-06-01
German Troops Advance
Into Bodo, Norway
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, June 1.-German
troops moved into Bodo, Norway,
end Of the road north, yesterday,
after bombing its defenders out of
town.
Other German units fought des-
perately along a railroad through
the mountains near Narvik, 1l8 miles
northeast of Bodo, to keep line of
retreat open to the nearby Swedish
frontier. The Allies captured Narvik
earlier this week after a long siege
Of the ore port.
un communique dated some
where in Norway the Norwegian
Army headquarters reported cap
ture of several hundred Germans
driven east from Narvik and said
others fled in civilian clothes.)
A Norwegian spokesman said Bodo
was abandoned after systematic
bombing which virtually wiped the
city off the map" Norwegian SOL
diers fell back into the roadless
mountains north of the city to block
any attempt to break through toward
Narvik by land.
Norwegian sources said the Allies
were steadily widening their hold
around Narvik. The town was pic
tured as wrecked.
Evening star., 1940-06-01
Senate Action Sought
On Investment Trust
Regulation Bill
S. &C. and Spokesman
For Industry Present
Joint Program
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Agreement between the Securities
and Exchange Commission and a
major segment of the investment
trust industry cleared the way today
for possible congressional action at
this session on regulation of invest
mcnt trusts and investment COM
panies.
Spokesman for the industry and
S. E. c. officials appeared before a
Senate Banking Subcommittee yes
terday to present joint recommended
tions for a regulatory measure
which they said they had agreed on
in series of informal conferences
after the conclusion of hearings.
Chairman Wagner of the subcom-
mittee called the joint proposals a
magnificent" example of how Co
operation between Government and
industry may achieve reasonable
and sound legislation"
The compromise measure was a
modified version of an original S.
E. G. proposal to which industry
witnesses objected during hearings.
Some Of the major provisions Of
the new bill follow:
All investment trusts and invest
ment companies would be required
to register with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, supplying
detailed information as to the char
acter Of the business, its officers, etc.
Certain practices, such as pur-
chases on margin, short selling and
trading in joint accounts would be
prohibited.
Approval of a majority Of stock
holders would be required before an
investment company could change
its basic investment policy or bor-
row money.
Restrictions would be imposed on
transactions with affiliated persons
and "self-dealing" would be pro-
hibited.
Evening star., 1940-06-01

trains rolled in were strained and
tense. They piled the men with
fruit. cigarettes, tea, sandwiches
but at the same time they searched
frantically for sight of husbands,
sons and brothers.
Elsewhere they waited, their hearts
filled with dread, for publication of
the inevitable casualty lists.
One Of the rescue ships carried
several hundred French artillery
men who had been firing heavy guns
in the Ypres sector up to the last
minute.
They were part Of some thousands
OF the French rear guard and in
cluded a shipload of dusky colonial
troops, who defled the threat of Nazi
annihilation and fought their way
out to the Channel.
Evening star., 1940-06-01
Nozi Groups Revealed.
Uruguay on Guard
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MONTEVIDEO, June Uruguay
pushed home defense program to-
day with arms purchases and COM
pulsory military training in the
schools as. special parliamentary
commission reported finding evi-
dence of Nazi organizations bossed
from Berlin.
Hugo Fernandez, who heads the
commission, said 5000 Germans in
Uruguay were dominated by such
organizations. He told of raids in
which evidences Of espionage were
uncovered.
Evening star., 1940-06-01
Morcontonio Bets 81
To $40 u. S. Enters
War by July IS
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Representative Marcantonio,
American Labor, of New York
bet 81 to a rewspaperman's
SO yesterday that the United
States would be in the Euro
pean war by the time of the
Democratic National Conven-
ton provided there still is a
war"
The Democratic convention
starts July IS.
Representative Marcantonio
has voted against some military
bills recently on the ground
they were likely to involve the
country in the conflict abroad.
Evening star., 1940-06-01
British Flyers Claim to Score in Air Battles With Germans
Belgian Pavilion
At Fair Is Closed
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 1.-The Bel
gian Pavilion at the Worlds Fail
was closed to the public yesterday
No ofncial explanation accom-.
panied the closing. DR.. Joseph
Gevaert, Belgian commissioner gen.
eral to the fair, retired from the
building and members Of his stan
declined to comment on the closing
A Belgian restaurant in the build
ing remained open.
Evening star., 1940-06-01
Archduke Felix Visits D. c.

Archduke Felix, 23-year old
brother of Archduke Otto, pretender
to the Austrian throne, was at the
Wardman Park Hotel today on a
brief visit to the city. He is here
to see friends. He plans to 60 to
France, but expects to return in
September for a lecture tour.
Evening star., 1940-03-11
J. A. Ball, Jf., Economist,
Found Dead in Home

John A. Ball, jr., an economist at
the Labor Department and a teacher
Of economics at Georgetown Uni
versity, was found dead today in the
kitchen Of his home at 1904 Tenth
street NE.
His body was discovered by q gas
company employe who had gone to
the house to read the meter Three
burners and the oven of the kitchen
stove were burning, Mr.. Ball appar-
emily having been cooking.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald,
after viewing the body, said death
may have been due to a heart at
tack or to carbon monoxide gas. He
withheld a verdict pending an au-
topsy.
Mr.. Balls wife, Mrs. Patricia Ball,
and a young son and daughter have
been visiting in Baltimore over the
week end and Mr.. Ball had been
staying in the house alone, police
said. He was last seen by neighbors
about 2 pm. yesterday.
Mr.. Ball, about IS years old, was
educated at Johns Hopkins and
Harvard Universities, friend said,
He had been engaged in research
work at the Labor Department in
his position as economist. Mr.. Balls
father is engaged in construction
work in New Jersey.
Evening star., 1940-03-11
Bill Restricting -f
CongressionaIAuto
Tags IsPassed
Liquor Dealers Given
Right to Appeal
Suspended Licenses

Bills restricting the Use of special
congressional automobile tags to the
session Of Congress for which they
are issued and giving District
alcoholic beverage dealers whose
licenses are suspended the right Of
appeal to the Board of Commits
sioners were passed by the House
today without debate.
Two other measures also were
passed in the same way. One would.
change the name of a block Of
Twenty fourth street NV, to Will
liamsburg lane, and the other would
amend existing law relating to adop-
tions which would require that a
certified certificate of the final
decree Of adoption be issued by the,
United States court for the District
In cases in which the adoptee is
born outside the District.
In addition, the House adopted
two resolutions making provisions
for the presidential inaugural cere-
monies in 194l. One authorizes an
appropriation of $25 900 for employ
ment of special policemen, and the
other authorizes the granting Of
special permits to the committee in
charge of the inaugural ceremonies.
All the bills and resolutions re-
Quire Senate action.
Evening star., 1940-03-11

been distributed this year, totaling
$l,349.35.
Mrs. Harry c. Oberholser, 2SO5
Eighteenth street NV, was prac-
tically assured Of election as state
regent. She was the only one Sc
lected for that post by the Nominat-
ing Committee.
Other Nominations.
Other officers nominated are:
State vice regent, Mrs. Geoffrey
Creyke, 3525 r street NV, and
Mrs. Tonnis j. Holzberg, 1921 Up
shur street NV; for state chaplain,
Mrs. Andrew M. Bunten and Mrs.
Joseph N. Saunders; for state re-
cording secretary. Mrs. Roy c. Bow
ker and Mrs. Brinkley E. Callicott;
for state corresponding secretary
Mrs. r. Winston Holt and Miss Mar
garet Naylor; for state treasurer
Mrs. Edgar E. Good and Miss Alice
Jones; for state assistant treasurer
Miss Catherine Mills and Miss Ruth
Ann Parker.
For State registrar, Mrs. Claude
A. Cook; for State historian, Miss
Jessie Scott Arnold and Mrs. Marie
Lomas Bockoven, for State librarian,
Miss Phoebe Ann Ross and Mrs.
Robert Van Denbergh.
Elections will be held tomorrow
at the Memorial Continental Hall.
A table case" filled with many
antiques was presented to the ma
tional D. A. r. museum in honor of
Miss Lillian Chenoweth, retiring
State regent of the District. An
other case of museum pieces was
presented by the Our Flag Chapter
Among the curiosities, all more than
a hundred years old, were three snuff
boxes which will be added to the
museums collection of SIS.
Evening star., 1940-03-11
William Coates, Soldiers Home
Jonitor, Marks 87st Birthday
Pride of the Force
Served in Cavalry
In West in 1906

William Coates, pride of the Sol
diers' Home janitor corps, is 81
today.
This modest colored man has
Travelled long road since he left
the old plantation in Westmoreland
County, Va, in 1887, and came to
Washington.
Two years later Coates was serving
with the 10th Cavalry unit in wild,
straight-shooting Montana when he
got in the way of stray bullet.
Il didn't see nobody" he recalled
today. Il just heard the shot and
my leg started burning"
It, was night and the colored cav
alryman was walking to his post at
Fort Keyo from Miles City.
That bullet ended his military
service, but gave him a chance to
do some real laboring." Coates
came back to Washington in 1893
and started an odd-job career which
ended about eight years ago.
Il came here then" he said, and
any officer at the home will tell
you the janitor business at the
king Building, where Coates is on
duty, started picking up. =
Cuates customarily spends his week
ends with his wife, daughter and
grandchild at s424 Six-and-a-half
Evening star., 1940-03-11
Japanese Claim 10000
Slain in 3-Day Battle
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
HONG KONG, March 1.-THE
japanese Army in South China to-
night stated that the Chinese had
abandoned 10000 dead after three
days of fighting with the japanese
in the Swatow area.
The japanese said masses Of Chi
nese troops were attracted" to this
region and then decisively
smashed"
japanese headquarters at Canton
announced that 1892 Chinese had
ben killed in South China engage
ments from February to February
%, not including losses in! the vicini-
ty of Pingyang, in Kwangsi Province.
japanese losses in the same fighting
were given as only II men.
The japanese reported they cap
tured much booty as we'll as killing
many Chinese in the fighting near
Swatow.
But the Chinese version of the
fighting said heavily reinforced jap
anese troops were repulsed in an
attempt to recapture Tenghai, IL
miles northeast of the port city.
The Chinese announced they had
taken Tenghai by scaling its walls
February 29 The Japanese seized
it five months ago.
Chinese dispatches said further
that Japanese forces operating
south of Suihsien in North Hupeh
Province had been crushed in a
four day battle. When it ended
March 8, the Chinese said, 1,400 in
vaders were killed.
Evening star., 1940-03-11
Baltimore Judge Holds
Auto 1ag-1ax Law Void
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, March 11.-Su-
perior Court Judge Emory H. Niles
held today that Baltimore has no
right to require payment of 1910
personal taxes before new 1910 auto
mobile license tags can be issued.
The city's practice of refusing to
certify license tag applications If
any personal property taxes are
owing, whether on an automobile or
not, is contrary to law, he said.
The part of the decision concern
ing payment OF 1910 taxes was con-
trary to the recent decision of Chief
Judge Samuel K. Dennis. Judge
Niles held that the title of the re.
cent law purporting to require the
early payment was defective and
made the act unconstitutional.
An appeal was indicated by the
city, which had interviewed in origi-
nal mandamus cases brought by
taxpayers and sponsored by the Au-
tomobile Trade Association.
Thousands Of motorists already
have paid their taxes, including 1910
automobile and personal taxes, in
order to get new license plates.
Evening star., 1940-03-11
Adventist Medical Corps
Will Serve as Model "

The Seventh-day Adventist Med
ical Corps, formed here from lay
members Of the Columbia Union
Conference. will serve as a model
for other similar groups throughout
the conference, oficials of the
denomination said.
w. B. Mohr, head of the confer
ence, with headquarters in Takoma
Park, Md, said enrolment for the
first corps organized here has
passed 300 and the success of the
campaign has led to plans for ex-
tending the program to other large
conference cities, including Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and
Columbus, Ohio.
The corps will hold its initial first
aid class tonight in the Seventh
day Adventist Elementary School.
with Frank Marsh, instructor for
the American Red Cross, in charge
of q group of teachers. Certificates
will be given to those completing
the work.
Evening star., 1940-03-11
Lost Rites Tomorrow
For Mrs. Clements

Mrs. Mary Alice Clements. SO, died
Friday at the home Of her daughter,
Mrs. George w. Thompson, 343
Tennessee avenue NE. Funeral
services will be held tomorrow. with
high mass at Holy Comforter Cath
.olic Church at 9 am. Burial will
be In the cemetery adjoining st.
Josephs Church at Pomfret, Md.
Mrs. Clements was born in Alex
andria, Va, the daughter of Robert
and Martha Hunt. When she was
a child the family moved to Charles
County, Md. She was married in
1881 to Thomas Alvin Clements,
Charles County farmer. He died in
1902. Two years later she came to
live in Washington
Besides Mrs. Thompson, she leaves
a son, Robert Keith Clements of
Baltimore. and three step children,
Vivian and Henry B. Clements and
Mrs. Robert Mccarthy, all Of this
city,
Evening star., 1940-03-11
Congress in Brief.
TODAY.

Senate:
Puts aside legislation broadening
Hatch law to consider 1928 ,000, 900
farm bill.>
House:
Considers District of Columbia
bills.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Probably will debate agricultural
appropriation bill.
Judiciary Subcommittee hearing
at 10:30 am. on the anti-lynching
bill. -,
Commerce Committee, executive,
10 am. to act on Tobey resolution
to disapprove personal income
questions in the 1910 census.
Judiciary Subcommittee, hearing
at 10 am. on q tort claims bill.
Agriculture Subcommittee, hear
Ing at 10 am. on farm cooperative
legislation.
House:
Begins consideration of naval ex-
pansion bill.
Census Committee resumes con-
sideration of congressional reap
portionment bill, 1890 am.
Special subcommittee Of District
Committee resumes liquor investi.
CATION, 10 am. /;
Reorganization Subcommittee of
District Committee begins prepara-
ton OF legislation to revamp NUM-
cipal government, 1880 am.
Subcommittee on Appropriations
Committee continues hearings on
District supply bill 10 am.
Evening star., 1940-03-11
Trial Of U. 5. Newsman
Begins in Toxic Court
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, March 11.-After a brief
preliminary examination, during
which Judge Sanehiro Hotta said,
This case is liable to impair the
peace and order" James Young,
American newspaperman. went on
trial today in the Toxic District
Court on the charge of spreading
false rumors.
The courts doors. were closed to
the public. but exceptions were made
for Mr.. Young's wife and a United
States Embassy representative.
Three Japanese attorneys defended
the International News Service cor
respondent.
Arrested January 81, Mr.. Young
was held incommunicado for sew
eral days before he was accused
formally of sending to the United
States extremely slanderous news
reports regarding the Japanese
forces in various parts of China"
Details Of today's opening session
were kept secret. The trial is to
be resumed Friday, when, it is re-
ported, two Japanese character wit
nesses will testify for the defense.
Evening star., 1940-03-11
Lost z U. S. Prisoners
Are Freed by Spoin
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, March 1.-THE last two
American prisoners Of war in Spain
Conrad Stoweja and ALI Andreasen
were released today to John N.
Hamln, United States consul in
Seville.
The two, who fought for Repub-
lcan Spain as members OF the In
ternational Brigade during the civil
war, are expected to sail for New
York on the American export liner
Exford within a few days.
Stoweja is believed to be a Cali
fornian. Andreasen Is a r1aturalized
citizen Of the United States, but his
home address Is unknown.
Six other American veterans Of
the international Brigade, including
Harold E. Dahl, Champaign, ILL.,,
aviSsor, were freed February 22 and
already have sailed for home.
Evening star., 1940-03-11

"ACA VIC VACdVlCy EACAAACAAVeAy
School Orchestra performs at the
State convention Of the Daughters
of the American Revolution tomor-
row it will be hard to tell who will
be the prouder-the children or
their mothers.
The "A youngsters will be wear
ing for the first time smart new
maroon and blue uniforms, but
their mothers have established
something of a. record in sewing.
It was only last Wednesday that
Mrs. A. N. Waldrop, chairman of
the Parent Teacher Association
Costuming Committee, assisted by
Mrs. Herman Cohen, bought the Is
yards of material. Since that time
the mothers have made the smart
uniforms, consisting Of maroon
jackets, trimmed in blue braid with
gold buttons, and high-collared
maroon capes lined with blue.
The orchestra received the invi-
tation to play ct the convention at
9 Am. tomorrow et Memorial Cck-
tinental Hall when several D. A. r.
members heard it, music ct 4 re-