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Evening star., 1940-03-15
Bus Terminal Site
Bought by c. T. c.

E. d. Merrill, president of the Cap
ital Transit Co., announced today
that the company had purchased q
vacant lot just south of Chevy
Chase Circle on Connecticut ave.
nue. and planned to build bus watt
ing station on the property similar
to stations now maintained at Wis
consin avenue and the District line
and at Fourteenth street and Colo-
RADIO avenue NV. The terminal
will extend along the north side
Of Northampton street from Con.
necticut avenue to Belt road.
The cost Of the project. includ-
ing land, probably will be about $685.
coo.
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Teacher Shot At,
By Boy Because
Sister FIunked
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated preSS.
NEW YORK, March 15.-A 13-
year-old schoolboy today faced
charges of firing gun at Brook
lyn public school teacher. Miss
Marie Schretzlmeir, because "she
di.ln't promote my sister,"
AS police described it, the boy,
Vito Gambino, climbed to the roof
of his home and took aim at the
teacher, who was seated in the
second floor bedroom of the house
where she lives, across the street.
A bullet from a revolver shattered
a window and lodged in the wall,
after narrowly missing the teachers
mother.
Vito. shaking and sobbing, told
police his sister, Marie, wasn't pro-
NOTED last January, but stayed be-
hind in Miss Schretzlmeir's 5-B
class. Vito is in Glass 6-B.
He was sent to the observation
ward at Bellevue Hospital.
Evening star., 1940-03-15
President Criticizes
Senator for Advisino
Census sLaw.vio|ations
Income Questions Are
Defended as Vital for
Getting Jobs Doto
BY JOHN c. HENRY.

Speaking critically of the example
of United States Senator advising
the American people to violate law
of the land, President Roosevelt to-
day defended the income questions
of the forthcoming decennial popula-
ton census as essential for the COM
pilation of vital information on low
income workers of the country.
The Presidents views, handed to
the press by his secretary, Stephen
T. Early, after the Chief Executives
physician ordered him to cancel all
engagements in treating a cold, fol-
low a modification of the census
plans announced last night by Secre-
tary of Commerce Hopkins.
BY Mr.. Hopkins action, persons
questioned are now to, have the op-
ton of inclosing unsigned answers
to the income questions in sealed
envelopes to be handed the census
enumerators.
With the count to start April IL,
Senate Majority Leader Barkley in
dicated today that the relaxations
promulgated by Secretary Hopkins
add further weight to the disin-
clination of the Senate to act on
the resolution sponsored by Senator
Tobey, Republican, of New Hamp-
shire, expressing Senate disapproval
of the income questions.
Information Is Vital
In his defense of the present CEN
sus form, President Roosevelt said
the controverted questions had been
requested and indorsed by a wide
range of organizations and business
interests. Actually, he said, they
will develop the comparable basic
statistics on low-income groups that
are now available for the higher
brackets from Federal income tax
returns.
This information, he continued,
is vital as a guide to mass buying
power and as measure of full un-
employment
In celebrating on the latter point,
the Presidents statement declared
that millions Of part-time and piece
workers have only one common de-
nominator for their degree of en-
OVERWHELMINGLY, the amount of
wages received intermittently.
Tobey Raped by Implication.
Although Senator Tobey's name
was not used by Mr.. Early, the Sec
retary said the President had. re-
marked on the fact that, for the hrst
time In his knowledge, a United
States Senator was openly advising
American people to violate the law.
(Senator Tobey has advised against
answering the income questions.)
As for the Senator's own intention
to ignore the income questions. the
President pointed out that the legis-
lator is fully aware that in his own
case no answer is necessary. An
enumerator would know, the Presi-
dent continued, that the Senator
earns more than 5000 . year, and
a mere notation of this fact would
cover the census requirements.
Mr.. Early said he knew of no
other notifications contemplated
beyond those disclosed last night by
Secretary Hopkins.
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Senate Is Asked
To Advocate Endinq
Relations With Russia
Direct Gosh Loan to
Firms, With No Strings
Tied to 1t, Also Urged

Senator Clark, Democrat, of Idaho
today demanded that this country
sever diplomatic relations with
Russia. following the Soviet gov
ernment's victory over Finland.
At the same time Senator Brown,
Democrat, of Michigan offered a
bill to let the EXport-Import Bank
make its proposed financial aid to
Finland in the form of a direct
cash loan without restrictions
Under past policy, the banks funds
have been available only to pur-
chase supplies in this country.
Now that Finland is at peace
Senator Brown said, II see no reason
why we should not permit the bank
to make cash loan, without any
strings, that the Firms can use in
rebuilding their bombed cities. I
am not so much interested in the
question of permitting them to pur-
chase military supplies here, but I
see no reason why they should not
do so if they wish to build up their
defenses against possible future ag-
gression."
Senate Resolution Asked.
Senator Clark offered resolution
asking the Senate to go on record
as urging the President to recall the
American Ambassador to Russia.
The Idaho Senator charged that the
Soviet Union has "f1agrantly and al
most admittedly" violated the prom
Use on which recognition was based
in 1888 not to itnerfere in the in
ternal affairs Of the United States.
Declaring that Finland was forced
into tragic peace that destroys any
remnant of international honor in
Europe, he added:
Finland chose peace rather than
commit suicide like Poland"
He said he was glad the Fin
nish government acted to spare the
lives of thousands of its people
rather than 60 forward as bloody
pawn on the chessboard of Eur
ope." He said Finland despaired of
waiting for aid that never came
Senator Clark said he realized he
was proposing a serious step but
predicted it would be for the ulti-
mate good of the entire world.
$10,000,0OO Asked.
Earlier, Chairman Pitman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee said he was considering asking
Congress to vote $4,000, 900 for Fin
nish relief. The money would be
spent through the Red Cross not
only for amelioration of suffering
but for reconstruction work.
He said the proposal might be
linked with a bill by Senator Ma
loney, Democrat, of Connecticut, to
make $10,O00,000 available for the
relief of sufferers in Poland. SEN
ator Pittman predicted that the
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Seven Die, Eight Hurt
Ii Apartment fire
Al Charlotte
Two Killed in Leops
From Structure;
Loss 100000
BY the Associated Press.

CHARLOTTE, N. c., March Is
Seven persons, including four women
and a child, were killed and eight
others injured, several critically, in
an early morning fire which spread
rapidly through section of the &c.
unit CUTLERY Apartments here to-
day.
The dead:
Mrs. Hazelle E. Martin, Charlotte,
manager of a gift shop.
Miss Rowena Sharpe Dickinson,
rs, of Wilson.
Mrs. H. Russell Eley, 80, department
store employe and native of Nor
folk, Va.
H. Russell Eley, clerk with the
Standard Oil Co., and husband of
Mrs. Eley.
Miss Lucy Walton, 43, Charlotte,
a private nurse.
Tommy Charity, IS, Charlotte,
son of Mrs. Winfred Charity, a hair
dresser.
Edward Martin, 81, Charlotte,
business college student and son of
Mrs. Hazelle Martin.
Two of the dead were injured
fatally in jumps from the blazing
building.
Girl Seriously Injured.
The most seriously injured was
Miss Mabel Rocket, 10, who was not
identified for several hours.
The other injured persons, taken
to three different hospitals, were
identified by attaches as follows:
Miss Aubrey Charity, an employe
of an engraving company.
Mrs. Ruby Fleming, secretary of
the local branch of Sears-Roebuck
& Co.
Miss Margaret L. Parnell, book
keeper.
Miss LYDIA Pittman, a stenogra-
pher.
w. P. Pittman, a fireman.
Adolph Consolana, 22
Trapped on Upper Floors.
Firemen, who reached the scene
shortly before 2 o'clock, found the
block-long, three-story brick and
stone structure a blazing inferno,
with many persons. clad in their
night clothes, trapped on the upper
two floors. =
Screams rent the chill, damp MORN
ing air as the upper-story residents,
choked by clouds of smokej< leaped
to the cement alleyways on the sides
Of buildings. Ambulances sped the
dying and injured to hospitals as
100 firemen fought the conflagratien.
The fire apparently started in the
basement. Fire Chief Hendrick Pal
mer said, however, he was at loss
to explain how the blaze spread so
quickly. When the first alarm came
in, the entire half of the big build
ing was In flames.
Firemen rescued q number of
trapped persons with ladders. Many
of the occupants Of the building
said they were first awakened by
screams and the wall Of countless si-
rens, to find their rooms filled with
smoke and flames.
The CUTLERY, situated on Tryon
street, one Of the city's two princi-
pal thoroughfares, Is only about q
block from the business section.
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Allies Halt U. 5. Warp|ane
Purchasing NEGOTIATIONS
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 15.-Negoti-
ations by the French and British
for the purchase of additional
thousands of American warplanes
suddenly were suspended today.
The move was believed to be con-
nected with the forthcoming con-
gressional inquiry into the sale Of
airplanes to European belligerents.
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Russians Withdrawing
In Petsumo Area

LONDON, March is (Pj.-British
dispatches from Stockholm last
night said the $4,000 Russian troops
in the Far North Petsamo area had
begun their withdrawal from Fin
nish territory.
Finnish troops and foreign vol
unteers stationed in that sector
were holding their positions.
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Bull Kills Retiring Roncher

PARKER, Colo, March Is (R.--
Harlowe Clarke, 50-year -old rancher,
preparing to auction his cattle and
retire, was butted to death by .
heavy Holstein bull, sire of his
costly blooded herd.
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Washington and Vicinity

Pine named to D. c. court; Curran
new u. S.lattorney. Page Al
Policemen Brodie and Murray found
guilty by Trial Board. Page Al
Alexandra Police Court records
called "deplorahle." Page Az
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Summary of Todoy's Star

Foreign
Finnish Army begins withdrawal
from front. Page Al
Britain battles German-Russian-
Italian economic bloc. Page Al
Norwegian Parliament head arrives
in Stockholm. Page A
Scandinavians given aid promise,
says British paper. Page A-16
Notionol
Senate votes State employees po-'
litical ban, 1870. Page Al
Roosevelt defends census, criticizes
Senator's opposition. Page Al
Bank of Americas dispute settled by
compromise. Page A-S
Nye hits war trade In New York
address. Page A-19
Company promotes labor college" as
peace move. Page B-8
Large gain in light airplane produc-
ton reported. Page BIS
Evening star., 1940-03-15

(See FINLAND, Page A-11D
Evening star., 1940-03-15

(see APPOINTMENTS, page A-7)
Evening star., 1940-03-15

(See HATCH, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1940-03-15
films Begin
Withdrawing 10
New Frontier
Reds Mark Time on
226-Mile Front;
Civilians Flee

SCANDINAVIA GIVEN aid promise
two months ago, says London
paper; Chamberlain expected to
reveal assurance of help if Finn
aid spread war. Page Ais
EORWAY'S PARLIAMENT head ar
rives in Stockholm; first definite
step toward alliance seen in visit.
Page A-4
BRITAIN BATTLING German-Rus-
sian-Italian bloc; three new meas
ures utilized to thwart attacks on
trade. Page "A
Evening star., 1940-03-15

(See POLICEMEN, Page A.
Evening star., 1940-03-15
Estimates s3,00O,oo0 Outlawed.

Senator Bankhead, Democrat, of
Alabama, sponsor of the 5000 con-
tribution limit proposal, estimated
it would outlaw about $3,000,0O0 of
contributions in each presidential
ICna IIATCr1 nnno 1I
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Chest Leaders Voice
Confidence DESPITE
Hdndicdps in Drive
Wi|Iett Urges Givers
To Think in Terms
Of q Yeur'
(Auditor's Report on Page B-6J


A feeling of confidence was gen.
eral among leaders of the 18th Com
munity Chest campaign last night
as they awaited the fourth report
luncheon in the Willard Hotel to-
morrow.
Herbert L. Willett, jr., director of
the Chest. said reason for optimism
existed, although the reported to-
tai, $533,57702, is 26.67 per cent of
the 81 900 900 sought. as against 34.38
per cent of the same goal account
ed for in the third compilation of
the 1899 drive
Mr.. Willett pointed out inclem-
ent weather had cut down the num-
ber of calls made by solicitors in
units engaged in place-to-place can
vass, and beginning of the cam
paign just before pay day for Gov
ernment employees and workers in
business houses handling pay rolls
on a monthly or twice-a-month basis
had caused many persons desiring
to make cash lump-sum contribu-
tions to hold back.
Think in Terms Of Year
Mr.. Willett urged again that givers
think in terms of a year"
MANY who give IS or $40 now
probably would give a similar
amount in another six months If
they were approached" he said, but
that would mean another ap-
peal, another campaign and the
loss of the economies and efficiency
that a single annual campaign
makes possible"
Chest Treasurer John A. Reilly
reminded prospective contributors
that special arrangements had been
made for payment Of pledges on an
installment basis. He listed the fol-
lowing banks as those accepting
Chest payments:
American Security & Trust Co.
main ONCE; Anacostia Bank, Bank
Of Commerce & Savings and H
street branch, City Bank main Of
nee; Columbia National Bank, East
(See CHEST, Page A-30
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Italians, Fleeing in Albania Fire
Base ofKoritza> Greeks Announce;
Nazis Burn Ship to Escape British
German Big Guns
Are Battered by
R. A. F. Planes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Nov. 16.-Braving a
lashing Channel gale, r. A. F.
bomber squadrons battered at Nazi
long grange gun positions and inva-
sion ports on the French coast to-
night.
Watchers on the English cliffs
could see vivid flashes light up the
sky for miles along the opposite
shore and hear heavy explosions
above the shrek of the gale
Last night-just "a hours after a
huge flight of Nazi bombers had
hammered Coventry into a heap OF
smoking ruins-R A. F.. bomber
squadrons crossed the North Sea to
repay the visit in kind, and blasted
Hamburg from dusk until dawn, the
Air Ministry said today.
One Of X. A. F.'s Longest Raids.
The ministry news service de-
scribed the bombing of Germany s
second largest city as one of the
longest and heaviest raids of the r.
A. F. Instead of centering the at
tack on dock areas as previously, the
r. A. F.. struck inland at railway ter
minals, an oil refinery and public
utilities plants.
Listing r. A. F. objectives in
Hamburg. the news service said ::
The Riverside railway sorting yards
and the Billwarder and Moorfleth
districts were bombed repeatedly for
nearly two hours.
"A second wave of the attack
rained bombs on the Rhenania Ossag
mineral oil refinery at Grosbroock
for the next so minutes. Another
force concentrated on the Blohm
and Voss shipyards, where vessels
were under construction.
Munitions Train Exploded.
A dispatch from Vichy, France,
stated that British bombs recently
exploded German munitions train.
destroying 500 homes in GraviIle, a
suburb Of LIE Havre, German-held
port. A large number of casualties
was reported
AS the r. A. F. attacked Hamburg.
planes of the fleet air arm and
coastal command were said to have
ranged from Norway to occupied
France. striking at enemy airdromes.
the naval base at Kiel. and the
ports Of Ostend and Calais.
The Air Ministry said great fires
were left burning in Stavanger, Nor
way. and that there we're "substan-
tial results" in assaults on French
airdromes.
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Weather Cuts Short
Raids on London;
Hospital Struck
Attack Ends Soon After
Midnight os Millions
HuddIe in Shelters
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Nov. II Sunday. -
Nazi warplanes showered many in
cendiary and explosive bombs on
London last night from twilight I'M
til midnight, but in the early hours
today heavily overcast skies ham,
pered them and the raiders passed"
siren sounded about l am.
Millions had gone underground to
wait out what they expected to be
a second successive night of fierce
attack.
A second alarm sounded in Lon
don just before dawn.
Benefited by shortening daylight.
the Nazis appeared earlier than ever
before after a daytime lull. Hazi-
ness hampered them and they
seemed more intent than ever to
start fires as beacons for successive
bombers. but both fire bombs and
explosives rained down.
Overcast Hampers Raids.
The raids tapered OF as the night
wore on, however, apparently handi-
capped by the heavy overcast.
1ncendiarieS Showered on one dis
trict of the capital within an hour
after the sirens sounded the nightly
alarm at twilight. The city still
was clearing away the wreckage
from the night before when forma-
tions of bombers made a grand
scale" assault.
The Nazis apparently were spread
ing far and low over London. The
sharp clatter of anti-aircraft fire
came from large part of the Metro
politan area. The drone Of the raid
ers' motors indicated they were
dropping beneath the clouds.
One Of the first sticks of bombs
demolished three houses. A ''Molo-
toff breadbasket'-a bomb con-
tainer which bursts in the air and
sprays small bombs-fell on q hos
pital.
Another bomb hit a bus, and its
explosion damaged two others. Four
persons were reported killed.
The attacks Friday night ranged
the whole length of the British Isles
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Swiss Sentence Nine
To Life for SABOTAGE
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, Nov. 16.-Ths
army general stan announced to.
night that two Swiss and seven
foreigners, tried by military court
for treason and attempted sabotage
on Swiss Army planes, have been
found guilty and sentenced to life
imprisonment at hard labor.
The communique did not say
whether those convicted were work.
ing for foreign power.
The charge of military treason
covered an unsuccessful attempt to
destroy army planes
Among other things the nine were
charged with hiding and trans
porting explosives.
The two Swiss were former red.
dents Of foreign countries who had
returned to the confederation.
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Nv MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

They didn't tell 6-year-old Valerie
Beer why they were taking her to
the National Broadcasting Co.
studios here last night.
Mrs. Ada L. Smith, who has been
Valerie's guardian since she left
England in August, brought her into
the studio and Valerie slid onto .
chair facing a radio.
While she swung her short legs,
reporters asked questions.
do you 60 to school?"
"Who brought you to American"
do you have any brothers or
sisters?"
Have you ever been in an air
raid?'
Finds Every One Here "Nice."
I'm in the first grade at East
Silver Spring School," said Valerie.
smoothing her short pleated skirt.
Eyes, everybody is very nice except
q boy kicked me in the jaw.
THE lady that brought me to
America wasn't really my aunt but
she told my Mummy she would take
care of me. I called her Auntie."
Yes, she had been in air raids.
II didn't sleep. I just sat IN
the shelter"
There Is just Q baby brother 1t
home in England.
HE has q lot Of names but I call
him Tony. He sends me kisses"
"What did you say to your mother
and father when you left EnglandT'
prompted Mrs. Smith.
Valerie grinned.
"I said, tCheerio, Mummy and
Daddy"
Voices From Home Span Ocean.
Then there was another sound
in the room. Valerie stared at
the radio. It was q voice from Eng
land. Mrs. Smith sighed. They
had been able to pick up the short
wave broadcast.
She stopped and told Valerie what
was about to happen. She was going
to hear the voices Of her parents.
Valerie grinned and swung her legs
faster. Would she like that? She
nodded, listening.
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Leading Football Scores

Georgetown's first defeat in "a
games and Notre Danes initial
setback of the season provided the
shocks felt around the national
collegiate football world yesterday.
Boston College nipped the Hoyas
by one point, 1918, while Iowa,
beaten four times, upset the
naughty Irish, TO.
Michigan beat Northwestern, 13-
20, and Cornell had to depend upon
. last-minute rally to beat Dart
mouth, 7-3. Stanford beat Oregon
State, 28-l4.
Locally, Hardin Simmons Of Texas
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Estute Of Tom Mix
Valued at $115,OOO

~ the Associated Press.
LOS ANGLES, Nov. 16.-The es-
tate of Tom Mix will amount to
about $1l5y000. Ralph w. Smith,
attorney for the late movie and
circus cowboy, said today.
Preparing to file an application
Tor appointment of an appraiser,
Mr.. Smith said only about 500. 900
In real property and $4,000 IN per-
eonal property has been found so
lar. instead of the million dollars
Nix was believed to have possessed.
Mr.. Smith added that amount may
b cut in half when obligations Of
the estate are discharged.
The actor was killed In an auto
mobile crash in Arizona last month.
Evening star., 1940-11-17
Greeks CONDUCTING
Three -Pronged Drive
To EnveIop Koritzd
YueosIov Border Observers
Declare Fighting Is at
Fiercest Pitch
p, the Associated Press.

BITOLJ, Yugoslavia, Nov. l6.-
Observers on the Yugoslav border
said tonight that fighting on the
Northern Greek frontier had reached
its fierceSt pitch of the war with
the Greeks attempting to drive the
Italians from the strategic Albanian
town of Koritza.
Greek forces, they said were di-
vided in three-pronged offensive
aimed evidently at enfolding Ko-
rita and making the italian base
untenable.
Civilians were reported continuing
to withdraw from Koritza, but there
was no indication that italian troops
had as yet been forced out. Fires
started there by air raids apparently
were quickly brought under con-
troll.
The Italians. however, were said
to have slowed the Greek advance
with a counterattack.
On the Greek right wing, Evzone
highlanders and Macedonian noun
taineers we're said to have pushed
beyond Mount Ivan and to have cut
the main road north of Koritza in
a drive toward Lake Ochrid.
Many Italians were captured, in
cluding high officers. the Greeks de-
clared, and the Italians fell back to
the Koritza plain.
The Greek center was said to
have engaged the Italians heavily
in the Morova Mountains stretch
ing on the eastern side of the plain
and to have threatened Koritza
from in front. The left wings as
signment apparently was an encir-
cling movement through the noun
tain range south of the plain.
Observers said the Greeks prob
ably would try to surround the AL
banian city without directly attack
ing it. British and Greek planes
were reported to have bombed it
again and also a bridge near Ell
basan on the supply road from the
Albanian port of Valona.
italian planes continued to at
tack Phlorina and Greek frontier
roads.