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Evening star., 1940-03-21

the Moselle River and the Pala-
tinate Forest, local artillery and re-
connaissance activity.
German fighting planes late yes
terday afternoon successfully at
tackled off Scapa Flow a British
convoy heavily protected by cruisers
destroyers and airplanes. Another
armed merchant ship was attacked
in the English Channel.
The convoy was dispersed. Nine
navy vessels and merchant ships
with a total tonnage of roughly A.
900 tons were sunk.
I'm addition, two merchant ships
with a total tonnage roughly Of H.
900 tons were badly hit. One enemy
plane was shot down in an air fight
One of our own planes is missing.
yesterday forenoon British scout
ing planes were spotted near the
East and North Frisian Islands and
repulsed by the German defense.
THE losses. of the British air force
during its attempted attacks on Sylt
Island during the night of March
20 after final investigations rose to
three planes"
Evening star., 1940-03-21

valuable aircraft - seaplanes and
bombers-were destroyed" declared
the Daily Mail in reporting on the
Sylt raid.
THE attack had been delayed so
that it should take place when the
maximum number of German planes
was concentrated on the island. For
some time the allied command had
known that the Nazi authorities
were feverishly building hangers on
Sylt-and storing hundreds of planes
there.
To-day a number of those hangers
are in ruins = pilots returning
told of wrecked barracks, blazing
oil tanks, crippled railways"
New German Device.
The flyers also described new
German defense device-the fam
ing onion'-an incendiary anti
aircraft projectile which bursts into
fiery fragments in midair, like a
rocket.
"They look pretty but they are
not very effective" said the pilots.
Evening star., 1940-03-21

I set out and about 10 pounds over
when I arrived"
Headed Division Since 1920.
Mr.. Calvert, widely known in Gov
ernment and scientific circles, has
been head of the Forecast Division
since 1920, and is the dean of Wealth
er Bureau officials in length Of
service.
He has served under every chief Of
the Weather Bureau and knows per-
sonally more than half the chiefs of
meteorological services throughout
the world.
Mr.. Calvert has been largely re-
sponsible for the development of
weather reporting systems from
ships at sea. He has had a larger
part than any other single individual
in perfecting the daily weather fore
casts to the general public.
Under his supervision this branch
of the service has expanded until
its reports represent an annual
monetary value of hundreds of mil
lions to businessmen, farmers, fish
ermen, fruit growers, forest-fire
fighters, shippers and others.
Native of Virginia.
The hurricane and cold wave
warning service under his super
vision have come to be depended
upon by millions of residents in
danger areas. The service has
progressed from the point where
mail, press and signal flags we're
the principal warnings to the pres
ent use of radio broadcasts and
automatic telephone forecasts OBJ
tainaple in many cities.
A native of Virginia, Mr.. Calvert
served briefly in the Signal Corps
here before being transferred to
Chicago. He returned to the GEN.
trail Office in 1895, and has served
there since.
Asked if in so years he had en-
countered persons disposed to crit
icize the accuracy of the bureau S
weather predictions, Mr.. Calvert
said that he once rode a Pullman
train to Chicago and tipped the
porter nickel
Il knew if I could survive the
look he gave me, I could survive
other things as WE'LL"
Evening star., 1940-03-21
Queen Mary Follows
Maurefania 10 Sea
On Mystery Trip
Fr
Two Big British Liners
Expected to Serve
As Troopships

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 21.-Two of
the proudest liners OF the British
merchant fleet ploughed uncertain
waters today in a gamble with war
time hazards of the high seas.
Slightly more than IL hours after
the 35,739-ton Mauretania slipped
out through a misty rain from the
pier where she had been tied up
for three months, the giant Queen
Mary nosed out into the sunlit
Hudson and passed down the bay.
The destination Of the two liners
was unknown. Their commanders
sailed under sealed orders, presum-
ably sending them on dangerous
missions as troop ships.
Sighted Heading South.
The Queen Mary later was sighted
5 miles off Long Beach, N. J.s Coast
Guard observers said she was steer
ing southerly Bermuda" course
and was proceeding at % knots.
Both Ships Camoufaged.
Rain, wind and hail swept the
Mauretania's decks last night, when
she signaled her departure by two
sharp blasts of her whistle, but this
morning the 8l,235-ton Queen Mary
sailed under a clear, cloudless sky.
Both liners were drab in their
camouf1age gray, their windows
blackened and all signs of identity
blotted out.
The Queen Mary had been at her
berth here since September 4-the
day after war started.
Transport Duty Rumored.
Where the two vessels were bound
and for what purpose the British
Admiralty planned to employ them
remained mysteries, although per-
sistent rumors among the waterfront
had it that they had been assigned
to troopship duty between Australia
and the Near East, where France
and Britain are massing a huge
army.
Seamen to augment the skeleton
crews of the Queen Mary and Maure-
tania arrived Monday on the An
tonia and yesterday a large ship
ment of corned beef was taker
aboard.
Staying behind at their New York
piers were the giant Queen Eliza.
beth and Normandie, the world.
first and second largest ships.
The 85,000-ton Queen Elizabeth
arrived here March 7 after a secre
Evening star., 1940-03-21
President. Will Stay
Out Of Pennsylvania
Race, Early Indicates
Secretary Declines
Comment on Farley
Announcement
BY JOHN C. HENRY.

President Roosevelt will take no
hand in the bitter Pennsylvania
senatorial fight, Secretary Stephen
T. Early indicated at the White
House today.
II am quite certain" Mr.. Early
said, that nothing is going to be
said from here to project the Pres
ident into the Pennsylvania primary
battle"
Mr.. Early said there was no COM
ment to be made on yesterdays dec
laration by Postmaster General
Farley that he is in the presidential
race to stay and that his name will
be submitted to the party conven-
ton in July. Asked if it would be a
fair assumption that Mr.. Farley had
discussed the question with the
President, Mr.. Early repeated his
mo comment" reply.
Edison Talk Indicated.
Yesterday Mr.. Early conceded a
fair assumption might be made that
Secretary of the Navy Edison had
discussed with the President his
decision to run for Governor of New
Jersey, but the White House spokes-
man fatty declined to go this far
with regard to the Farley develop
ment.
Mr.. Early likewise said that thus
far James H. R. Cromwell, Minister
to Canada, has no appointment
with President Roosevelt to discuss
his much-debated Toronto speech
OF Tuesday, in which he expressed
in positive fashion his support for
the allies in Europe's war. It has
been reported that Mr.. Cromwell
will visit Washington before return
ing to Canada from short vacation
in New Jersey.
The Pennsylvania primary ques-
ton arose today at Mr.. Early's press
conference in the wake of a speech
by John B. Kelly, Philadelphia Dem
ocratic chairman, in which he as
serted the President had remarked
that Pennsylvania Democrats had
better pick the right man or another
one might be chosen for them.
Guffey and Jones Candidates.
At present, the two avowed candi-
dates are the incumbent Senator
Guffey and Walter A Jones, with
the Democratic party bitterly split
in its State factionalism. Senator
Guffey declared yesterday he would
not withdraw, if nominated.
| Mr.. Roosevelt declined any COM
ment on the Kelley speech or the
pennsylvania situation at his Tues
day press conference.
Still running a slight temperature
from the cold which has bothered
MIN for nearly two weeks. the Presi-
dent remained in the White House
proper today, but planned to see
two callers, Federal Loan Admins
traitor Jesse H. Jones and Mayor
La Guardia of New York City.
Mr.. Early told reporters the Presi-
dents temperature was normal last
night, but was up about a half
degree this morning. No concern is
felt, he said, and the President him.
self has jokingly diagnosed his ILL
ness as swamp fever"
Evening star., 1940-03-21

dash from England on her unoficial
voyage. The SO, ,423-ton Nor
mandie, pride of the French fleet,
has been tied up here since out
break of the war.
Evening star., 1940-03-21
Massachusetts Valves
Penalty on Tax Delay

lnaugurating a tax drive in the
District of Columbia, Massachusetts
is waving the s5 penalty on delayed
returns from workers here who
claim residence in Massachusetts,, to
encourage payment Of the States
income tax by those who previously
nave evaded this levy.
The waiver was disclosed today by
publication in the Congressional
Record of telegram sent yesterday
to Representative Treadway, Repub-
hcan, Of Massachusetts,, by Henry F.
Long, commissioner Of corporations
and taxation for Massachusetts, who
said that ANY return filed on or be-
fore April will be accepted without
any penalty because of lateness in
filing the return which was due
March l." Mr.. Long added that
tax forms will be forwarded
promptly to all applicants.
The period of grace was suggested
by Mr.. Treadway to aid Massachu-
settS revenues as the result of the
Court of Appeals ruling on local
taxes which has been construed as
meaning that local residents claim
ing domicline elsewhere could escape
the District income tax.
Evening star., 1940-03-21

Drive slowly - expect the unex'
pected.
Evening star., 1940-03-21
Appropriations
(Continued From First Page. J

special House committe investigat-
ing the board presented evidence re-
Gently designed to shcw that Mr..
Saposs held radical views.
"Overstaffed."
"The committee is of the opinion
that the National Labor Relations
Board is overstaffed,' the appropri-
ations group said in it's report to the
House. "On the basis of the record
of a continuing reduction in the
number of cases received and the
firm belief -" that both the field
service and the departmental serv-
ice of the board have entirely too
many employees for the work load,
the reduction has been made"
Testimony before the subcom-
mittee brought out these state
ments:
Isadore Lubin, Labor Department
statistician, said that if war con-
tinues retail prices will go up and
labor will demand higher wages.
An end to war, he said, would in
crease unemployment and cause
prices to drop.
Madden Opposes Union Penalty.
Labor Board Chairman Madden,
in reply to question by Repre-
sentative Tarver, Democrat, of
Georgia, expressed the opinion that
outlaWing labor unions which vio-
late contracts with employers would
be too drastic a penalty.
George C. McNulty, general coun-
sci of the Wage Hour Division, said
that 29-year-old Joseph Rauh had
been out of law school only four
years when put in charge of writing
the divisions opinions.
Representative Engel, Republican,
of Michigan commented that he re-
garded Mr.. Rauh as very brilliant" +"
but added, In my judgment, he is
trying to assume responsibility
which is beyond his age and be-
yond his immature Judgment"
Commissioner of immigration
Houghteling said a Supreme Court
decision holding that Joseph Streck-
er, former Communist, was not de-
portable had contributed to a drop
in deportations from Al in 1886 to
! in 1899.
Arch A. Mercy, assistant director
of the Government Film Service,
said that $33l,0OO was supplied by
w. P. A., P. w. A. and Farm Sc
curity Administration for film pro-
duction. but that no relief workers
were hired.
The Public Health Service re-
ported it was developing a new
method of producing vaccine for
Rocky Mountain spotted fever from
embryonic chick tissue.
Evening star., 1940-03-21

BY the Associated Press.
SALEM, Ohio, March 21.-Repre-
sentative Shafer of Michigan, in
jured in an automobile crash, was
reported to be in serious but not
critical" condition today.
The Republican Congress men,
ber's car plunged through a guard
rail 6 miles south of here as he was
driving from Washington to Three
Rivers, Mich, where his father. John
Mcclellan Shafer, died yesterday
Representative Shafer is suffering
from a back injury and severe lac
erations, but the complete extent of
his injuries has not been deter
mined. He was driving alone.
Salem City Hospitals report said
Mr.. Shafer spent restless night
The accident occurred between
Lisbon and Salem.
Representative Shafer's coupe
plunged down a 15-foot embank-
ment and landed in shallow creek
Representative Shafer is a men,
ber of the House District Committee
Evening star., 1940-03-21

The first rule of the road Is cour-
tesy.
Evening star., 1940-03-21

1t won't be long before Edgar B.
Calvert can go home and write the
boys at the Office a letter about
their weather predictions.
The veteran chief of the Weather
Bureaus Forecast Division, cele-
brating so years in the service today,
warned his associates that when he
retireS he will check up on their
prognostications on the radio.
They'd better be 100 per cent cor
rect he chuckled, "or I'll write you
letter about it,"
Mr.. Calvert's remark got a big
laugh from the Weather Bureau en-
ployes assembled in his office to do
him honor on the 50th anniversary
of the day he entered the meteoro-
logical service of the Army's Signal
Corps.
The Weathermen took their chief
at his word and presented him with
a fine radio.
You can listen to all the weather
reports said Francis w. Reichel-
derfer, chief of the Weather Bureau
"and check up on US
Won't Talk About Weather.
Mr. Calvert admitted he was
thinking of retiring to a home and
little workshop near Annapolis
but he doubted if he would talk
very much about the weather. After
all, half a century of it is quite a
while.
You must all come to see me after
I retire" Mr.. Calvert said. I'll tell
you all about the perfectly useless
articles manufacture in my shop
I'll even tell you about the flowers
my wife and I plan to raise. But
don't press me too much about the
weather."
MI. Calvert recalled the day SO
years ago when he stepped into the
same Office in which the group as
sembled this morning.
Il was full of milk and pie" Mr.
Calvert chuckled. I'm those days
there was a weight requirement at
tached to the job. I walked out
from downtown and stopped at every
lunch stand. I took on all the milk
and pie I could hold.
II was 4 pounds underWeight when
Evening star., 1940-03-21
Convoy Dispersed,
Nuzi Command Claims

BERLIN, March 81 (P).-The Ger
man high commands communique
today was devoted largely to yester-
days raid against British convey
off Scapa Flow in which it already
had been reported that nine naval
and merchant ships we're sunk.
The communique follows:
"On the western front, between
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-07-05

Mrs. Charles McNary
,o4;uslv assisting her husbands
ar Mrs. Charles ,a MGnatyi
~ifa Of Senator McNary, nominaeea
"lt 1o W vice presidential can
as a;d nt is shown during a pubic
dia annsar re in Salem, Oregon
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-07-05

Black Sea port of Constanta. Bull
garia, raising a loud voice for re-
turn of Dobruia, which she also
lost after the World War, masscd
troops on the border, determined
to regain the province. But the
Danube is very necessary to Hit
Ter, to bring in his oil and grain
from Romania and Southern Rus
STA to feed the millions already
starving because of the war, and to
kppn Cermanv's war machine roll
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-07-05

Monarch of all she surveys is Mrs.
Thomas Clare, recently-appointed
superintendent of the Saratoga
Race Track, Saratoga Springs, NY.
Only woman to hold such position
in the United States, she succeeded
TO the post at the death Of her hus-
band, Tom Clare, early this year.
central PrssN
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-07-05

The cause of practically every war
in the worlds history has been the
desire of one country to secure the
food and natural resources of an
other country This holds true, TO-
day, in the Balkans, where the over
flowing cauldron of hate and greed is
leaving black, oily stain of death,
destruction and exile. The course of
the Balkan crisis spreads from the
borders of the Danube, most impor-
tant river in Europe, beginning in
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-07-05

ing. Massing of Hungarian troops
on the Romanian border at Transyl-
vania (D), province lost by Hun
gary in the Trianon treaty, Is seen
inspired by Hitler, who is said never
to have rcIinquishcd his original de-
sirc-to dip his hands in the great
storchouse of corn wheat and cattle
that is the Balkans, and stretches
into that other great storchousc--
the Russian Ukraine. grab out
lined in "Mcin Kampf.'
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-07-05

the Black Forest of Germany, car
rying its trade and commerce down
TO the Black Sea through Romania.
In addition to covcting the mouth Of
this important waterway, Joseph
Stain and his Sovicts clamored for
return of Bessarabia OBJ and Bu-
kovina (C), cut from Russia after
the world war, and sent his troops
marching into the rich wheat area
after collapse of France. Stains
covetous eyes also turned on the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-07-05

Jean Paul Boncour, nephew of the
former premier and foreign minis
ter of France, arrives at New York
after clipper flight from Lisbon. He
will take up duties at the French
embassy in Washington.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-07-05

Police are instituting a vigorous
search for the slayer of pretty jose
phine Parsons, 16, victim Of . nays
FERROUS assailant. Her battersahSey
was found in a clump of bushes;a
the outskirts Of San Jose, gs
Evening star., 1940-06-05
5 Dead, 8 Missing
As Nebraska Floods
Rip 6 Counties
Hundreds Homeless as
Streams Overrun Banks
After TorrentioI Ruins
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
OMAHA, Nebr., June 5.-Stories
of suffering and heroism were told
today in the wake of Northeast
Nebraska's devastating food that
claimed five lives and in which
at least eight others were reported
missing.
Hundreds are homeless as a
result of torrential rains that sent
small streams raging out of their
banks to sweep houses and business
buildings fro mtheir foundations in
six northeastern counties, causing
damage as yet unestimated.
Homer, Pender and Winnebago
appeared the worst hit. Their total
population is approximately 2,1O0.
The dead are Leo Wilke, 30, night
marshal at Homer: Mr.. and Mrs.
George Lipp and their son, Paul,
16; Harry Crawford, 80, station
agent, all of Winnebago. Missing
are three other members of the
Lipp family, Mrs. HELEN Williams,
81; her mother, Mrs. Ann Shull, IS,
and George Zentmeier, Homer; Ly-
man Lory and Mrs. Louis Gatz-
meyer, Winnebago.
Survivor Tells of Disaster.
Edith Lipp, 20, only member of
her household of six either dead
or missing, told this graphic story
I'VE were out in the yard loading
goats in our truck when the water
hit us. We grabbed onto a clothes
line, all of us. One by one I saw
them drop off.
Finally I couldn't hold on any
longer. The water washed me down
into a tree-I don't know how far
I was there for at least eight hours
before they rescued me-"
Mrs. Nell Lazure, telephone opera
tor, and Mrs. Dave Hinman, a neigh
Dor, stayed at the telephone switch
board in Winnebago all through the
night, relaying messages to farmers
in the country and aiding in getting
pleas for help to the outside world.
Water Rises to Switchboard.
1--WE had to quit when the water
finally got as high as the switch
board" Mrs. Lazure said.
Red Cross workers were expected
to be in the area today, setting up
relief stations and taking precau-
tions against any spread of disease
Local authorities and State officials
| co-operated in the rescue work and
search for missing persons.
The area was flooded in 1920, but
some observers said the present in
undation was the worst in history.
Evening star., 1940-06-05

Allied Powdermaklng Plant
In Tennessee Is Begun
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, June 5.-Pre-
liminary steps in construction Of 4
huge powder-making plant financed
by the British and French govern
ments were started today on a 6, ,OOO-
acre tract 10 miles north of Men,
phis.
Authorized sources said the plant,
consisting Of about 100 buildings,
would cost between 5000, 900 and
$50 900 900. Chairman E. w. Hale Of
the Shelby County commission de-
clared the project, which is ex-
pected to be completed by fall, would
employ about 10000 workers.
Announcement Of the project was
made in Washington yesterday by
the Anglo-French purchasing COM
mission, which said it would be con-
structed and operated for the newly
formed Tennessee Powder Co. by the
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
Spokesman declared the plants
manufacturing process would call
for the use Of quantities OF cot
ton and cotton linters as raw ma
terials.
A party Of engineers is scheduled
to arrive here Friday to take charge
Of construction.
Mr.. Hale said he hoped that at
the conclusion Of the European war
the factory could be converted into
manufacturing site for commercial
products.
Evening star., 1940-06-05
Bishop Hughes Work
Is Praised al Dinner
Marking Retirement
Roosevelt Letter Read
At Function Honoring
Methodist Leader

Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, resi-
dent prelate of the Baltimore Con-
ference of the Methodist Church.
soon will retire officially from his
duties, but, in the words of friends
and associates last night, will never
face actual retirement.
He was honored last night at
dinner at the Willard Hotel at
which Bishop Francis J. Mcconnell
of New York said:
You can't retire Bishop Hughes,
his friendship, his preaching meth
DDS, material and effectiveness"
Bishop Mcconnell added that
Bishop Hughes is never behind or
/! too far ahead of the times"
Name Successor June Is.
Bishop Hughes successor will be
chosen at the Jurisdictional Con-
ference of the Northeastern Juris-
diction of the Methodist Church on
June 18 in Atlantic City.
President Roosevelt was among
those who honored Bishop Hughes
last night.
Il wish you joy and happiness
in the years that are ahead >
and feel sure you will find work
to do for God. country and your
Evening star., 1940-06-05

fellow-men," the President wrote.
DR.. G. Ellis Williams, superintend-
ent of the West Washington Dis
trict of the Methodist Church, read
the Presidents letter at the banquet.
Methodist Union Sponsors Dinner.
The dinner was sponsored by
the Washington Methodist Union.
Among those present was former
Secretary of Commerce Roper.
Samuel w. Mcintosh, president of
the union, was toastmaster.
Bishop Hughes said the friend
ships he has MADE since coming to
Washington contradicted the say
ing that no one makes friends
after 40.
A book summarizing Bishop
Evening star., 1940-06-05

Hughes record was presented to
him on behalf of Washington Meth
odists by DR.. John r. Edwards,
pastor of Union Methodist Church.
DR.. Edward C. Beery, East Wash
ington district superintendent, gave
the invocation and DR.. Ralph D..
Smith, pastor of Woodside (Md)
Methodist Church, the benediction.
Evening star., 1940-06-05
Animal Army Abandoned
As Allies Flee Dunkeroue
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 5.-Left behind on
the duned beaches of Dunkerque is
a pathetic army of dogs, cats and
horses, late comers in the Allied re-
treat reported today.
The animals, terrified by explo-
sions, hungry and apparently sens
ing the flight of the soldiers, often
plunged into the sea and tried in
vain to board transports, the men
said.
Soldiers smuggled many small
animals on board, but these were
destroyed when discovered by off,
GERS, despite fearful pleas of the
rescuers. England has a strict quar-
antine on animals even in peace
time.
Evening star., 1940-06-05
First Secret Session Held

WELLINGTON, New Zealand
June tP)-The New Zealand
House of Representative met today
in its first secret session in history
to discuss the war.