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closed in advance. Each train will
bristle with guards and guns and
will be equipped with special lights
to detect. curious strangers at any
night stops.
The vaults at Fort Knox are
largely underground, built mostly
of reinforced concrete and steel, and
are surrounded by stout building.
The main vault door weighs 20 tons,
and the vault casing-not the ex-
terror Of the building-is Is inches
thick.
The establishment was built in
1886 at a cost of $56O,00 Early in
1887, one series of shipments brought
S, 500 900 900 worth of gold there,
but no more has been added be-
cause of the cost of moving the
metal.
Gold weighs roughly a ton per
81 100000 1t will 60 to Fort Knox
in bars about the size and shape of
a brick. Each bar will be packed
carefully in an individual wooden
crate.
When the new shipments arrive,
Fort Knox viii hold about half of the
Nations $50, 400, ,000, 900 worth of gold
about 80 per cent of the world S
monetary gold.
Evening star., 1940-07-25
Dwind|ing Of Food
Bringing Crisis in
Unoccupied France
Fate Of Nation Declared
In Hands of Armistice
Commission at Wiesbuder

Ry the Associated Press.
BASEL, Switzerland, July as
Rapid dwindling Of food supplies in
that part Of France not under Nazi
occupation has led even the CEN
sored press there to report "the fate
Of France for months to come is In
the hands of the German ArInistice
Commission at Wiesbaden, not the
government at Vichy."
But those same newspapers hold
out hope the Germans soon will
permit food supplies to move freely
from the occupied to the refugee
swollen unoccupied zone.
Other sources, however. assert the
tragedy of this hope is that the
German-held areas apparently are
very little better OF and soon may
be In worse condition than the
southern zone.
Farmers and inhabitants Of rural
Evening star., 1940-07-25
Miss Ethel Fuss Dies
In Springfield, No.

Miss Ethel Fuss, 47, native of
Washington, formerly engaged in
work for the Salvation Army here,
died Tuesday of heart attack in
Springfield. Mo-, where she had been
engaged in work for the Full Gospel
Tabernacle Publishing House.
Funeral services will be held here
at 2 pm. tomorrow in the Lee fu-
neral home, Fourth street and Mas
sachusetts avenue NE. Burial will
be in Congressional Cemetery.
Miss Fuss left here in 1896 to en-
gage in missionary work in China.
On her return to this country she
went to Springfield. She is survived
by brother, Calderon Carlyle Fuss,
Oakland, Calf.
Evening star., 1940-07-25
FurgoI Eliminates
5timits, ; and 7, in
Public Links Golf
Harris, Clark. Jennings.
Stefonchik Also Win;
I l94l PIoy to Spokane
b the Associated Press.

A9S VIC SAhoOSAdtc0 4ScSs
y DETROIT, July 25.-In a bristling
match between the co-holders of the
qualifying record, Edward j. Furgol
of Utica, N. Y, today defeated
Worth Stimits. jr, Of Colorado
Springs. Colo, 3 and 2, to lead the
parade into the fourth round Of the
national public links championship.
FurgoL, metal polisher. and Stimits,
college student, tied for. the
qualifying medal Tuesday with
record SCORES Of 1873.
La Bron Harris, Guthrie (Okla.)
wrestling coach and schoolteacher
shot subpar golf to subside Walter
Smola of Omaha, 4 and 3.
Furgol fired a one-under-par "a
going out to gain a three up ad-
vantage on Stimits, who was trou-
bled by his approach shots. Stimits
won the tenth with a birdie 4, Fur
gol took the twelfth with a birdie
3 and the other holes were halved.
Harris and Furgol meet in a quar-
ter-f1nal contest this afternoon.
In other matches this morning
Robert Clark, st. Paul, defeated
Charles Lind, Denver, l up, 10
holes; Louis Jennings, Portland,
Oreg., defeated william Bublis,
Chicago, S and 3, and Michael Stef-
anchik, Gary, Ind. defeated John
Pasikowski, Pittsburgh, and 3.
The Public Links Committee OF
the United States Golf Association
announced this morning that the
1941 tournament, subject to the ap-
proval of the Executive Committee,
would be held at Spokane, Wash.
Indian Canyon golf course will be
the tournament site. Los Angeles
and Sacramento also had entered
bids. =
Earlier story in Sports SectionJ
Evening star., 1940-07-25
British Plane Plant
Near London Bombed
Berlin Chiefs Claim
Sinking Of -ls,ooo-Ton
Armed Merchant Ship
Also Reported
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN. July 25-Bombing Of
the British Vickers aircraft factory
at Weybridge, IL miles from the
southwestern outskirts of London,
and sinking of an 18,000-ton armed
merchant ship by German torpedo
carrying motorboat near England's
Portland naval base were announced
today by the German high COM
mand.
Ten British planes were shot down
or wrecked in the days operations,
the high command said, including
four which were destroyed on the.
grounds at the Vickers works. The
loss of six German planes was
acknowledged.
Industrial Plants Bombed.
Besides the attacks on the air
plane factory, bombing raids were
carried out on British industrial
plants at Great Yarmouth and
Glasgow in Scotland, the Germans
said.
In more complete report on yes
voy in the Thames Estuary the high
command said five merchant ships,
altogether $4,000 tons, were sunk.
Three other ships were so serious
ly damaged, the Germans said, that
their loss could be counted.
Fierce air battles as result Of
this attack, said the high command,
resulted in six British planes being
shot out of the air.
Operated Against South Coast.
The speed launch which sank the
18,0OO-ton armed merchant ship was
operating against the south coast Of
England when she encountered the
vessel, the Germans said.
Portland, which Is about 60 miles
across the Channel from Cap de La
Hague and other Of Germany's new
jumping of places on the French
coast. is one Of Britain's largest
naval bases, and is heavily defended.
However, Britain's big guns ap-
parently were not equal to hitting
Germany's mosquito boats which
can travel so miles an hour.
The British said yesterday one of
their own speed launches had at
tackled a fleet of six of these fast
little boats in the Channel. put one
out of action and sent the rest into
flight.
Evening star., 1940-07-25
R. A. F. Raids Hammer
Nazis Establishing Y
Bases, British Say
Organization Of Attacks
Is Made Extremely
Difficult 1t Is Soid
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 25.-The British
air force, in repeated attacks
against Germany and German-
occupied countries, has made it "ex-
tremely difncult" for the Reich to
organize mass attacks on Britain
from existing airdromes and bases
she hoped to establish" just across
the English Channel and the North
Sea, an informed British source said
today.
More than 1000 British attacks in
the last three months have ito q
great extent succeeded in breaking
down the scheme Germany hoped
would culminate In devastating at
tacks on these islands following her
sweeping victories" on the conti-
nent, it was stated.
This source said important mill
tary and industrial objectives had
been struck daily and nightly mot
in isolated raids by single aircraft
but large scale operations"
Germany repeatedly has charged
the British with attacking nom
military objectives.
Superior In Machines.
The raids, this source said, were
planned to cause "the greatest pos
sible destruction to the enemys
vital war supplies" and make new
air bases acquired nearer our
shores practically untenable."
They have made the enemy
realize that if our air force Is
numerically inferior to his own
it is vasely superior in both ma
chimes and personnel he asserted.
British raids, it was said, have
made it extremely difficult for Ger
many to organize massed attacks
on this country from airdromes
in Holland, Belgium and France
or from bases the enemy hoped
to establish in Norway"
From the first day of Germ any's
blitzkrieg on the continent, this
source said, the Royal Air Force ito
great extent succeeded in breaking
down the scheme Germany hoped
would culminate in devastating at
tacks on these islands following her
sweeping victories"
Between May 10 and June IT, he
reported, there were 416 big raids on
German territory, and in exactly
month since the capitulation Of
France SIT "thrusts" were made
against Germany's main military
and industrial centers.
In addition to targets on land, this
source said. the German Navy has
been attacked 66 times since the
start OF the war. He said 64 raids
were made on Norway while British
troops were there.
Evening star., 1940-07-25
First Red Cross Aid
Goes to Nozi France

By the Associated Press.
Red Cross officials said today the
first trainload of supplies to be
shipped into occupied France had
left Basel. Switzerland. last night
for the Paris area for relief of
children, the sick and wounded"
With the exception of Poland,
supplies heretofore had been shipped
only into unoccupied territory and
Saturday Norman H., Davis, ma
tional chairman, said problems
most difficult of solution" made
impossible the extension Of relief
work into occupied France.
Ohicials said today the shipment
Evening star., 1940-07-25

A trough OF low pressure that extends
from Colorado to the northern Lake re-
gion is moving slowly eastward. Spring
held. Minn:. 991 g millibars (29.46 inches).
and Burwell. Nebr. 10000 millibars t295
inche). To the east and south of this
trough the air is Of tropical origin and is
quite warm and moist. while considerably
cooler and drier air Of polar origin is
now oyerspreadinE the northern Rocky
Mountain region. the Dakotas and Min
nesota: Abnormally high maximum tenn
peratures were registered Wednesday aft
United States. with Phillipsburs, Kars,
H fHsp0rtinE the highest east Of the Rocky
high along the North Pacific Coast. over
the Gulf States and over most Of the
western , Atlantic Ocean, Eugene. Ores..
sacola. Fla, and . ship about 500 miles
esst ess o Of Boston Mass; 1880 millibars
occurred in the Ohio Valley. the Ap-
palschian. region. the Middle Atlantic and
North Atlantic States the Lake region.
Minnesota. the Dakotas and portions Of
Arizona and the Rocky Mountain region.
Evening star., 1940-07-25
Report
FURNISHED by the Unite,

FURNISHED
District of Columba-Fair
likelihood
ery tomorrow.
Maryland and Vgnia-Generaly fair
and tomorrow except scattered hundehowers
Saturday showers
West vhginiaFair and tonight tomorrow gen.
orally fair continued
afternoon; Saturday cooler -
Evening star., 1940-07-25
Leesburo Resident Dies

LEEsBURG, Va, July as (speciaD
Mrs. Henrietta Harrison Plaster,
40, died at her home here Wednes-
day night following . brief illness.
A lifelong resident Of Leesburg, she
was the daughter Of the late Walter
]. Harrison and Mamie =. Benedict.
She was Z member Of st. James
Episcopal Church.
Evening star., 1940-07-25
Tuesday Is Added
To MeotIess Days
By Italian Decree
BY the Associated Press.


ROME, July 25.-The Italian
government decreed today that
Tuesday shall be a meatless
day, making four such days a
week, and ordered sharp ration
ing of bread served In restau-
rants
Luxury restaurants were linn
tied to portions of 80 grams
Uess than 3 ounces) per person
and lower-class restaurants to
$50 grams Slightly more than
5 ounces.
The Ministry of Agriculture
announced at the same time
that eating Of more fruit would
be encouraged.
Evening star., 1940-07-25
Senator Key Pittmon
Files for Sixth Term
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CARSON CITY, New, July 25.-
Senator Key Pittman, chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, filed yesterday for Demo-
cratic denomination for a sixth
consecutive term.
He expects to return to WASH
ington Sunday from his Tonopah
home.
Evening star., 1940-07-25
Congress in Brief
TODAY,

Sen4te:
Meets briefly before weekend
recess.
Military Committee continues work
on compulsory training bill.
House:
Meets briefly.
Military Committee hears testi-
mony on cost Of conscription.
Appropriations Committee con.
tinues study Of $4,000. .000, 900 defense
bill. ~
Foreign Affairs Committee starts
hearing on bill to let United States
vessels bring children from war
yoneess@
Evening star., 1940-07-25
villages have been the first to feel
the pinch, rather than residents OF
big cities and towns.
Food Already at Premium.

Food Already at Premium.
In Alsace, hand-picked groups of
farmers, taken back to their homes
by the Germans, still are being fed
and supplied by the German army
of occupation. In the great central
northeastern section, overrun by
refugees and demobilized troops,
food already is at premium.
Farmers sent back to work their
land were reported in some cases to
have returned to the cities within
a few days.
I'VE cannot plow on empty stom-
achs," said one who came to the
Swiss frontier seeking food.
Independent economic experts in
Switzerland say Germany soon may
be forced to draw on her own food
stocks to feed the French.
If England still is -blockading the
continent by winter. these sources
report, all of Frances millions may
be dependent on axis aid and relief
Evening star., 1940-07-25
Optometry Examinations

An examination will be held by
the District of Columbia Board of
Optometry at 8 pm. today, tomor-
row and Friday In the Jefferson
Room of the Mayflower Hotel.
Evening star., 1940-07-25
1eDsrt fer Last "a Hsurs.

Record for Last "a Hours.
(Prom noon yesterday to noon today
Highest. SO. 4:5O p.m. yesterday. Year
sgo. 90.
Lowest, 73, 6 am. today. Year ago. 70.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest 81. on July 20.
Lowest. 2. on January 20.
Humidity for Last "a Hsurs.
rrom noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, % per cent, at am. today.
Lowest. "a per cent. At noon today.
River RepSrt.
Potomac River muddy and Shenandoah
clear At Harpers Ferry: Potomac muddy
at Great Falls today.
Tide Tables.
Furnished By United States Coast and
0eodetic Survey
Today. Tomorrow,
High ----- 11:62 an. 1928 am.
Low W-----...-.-- 6:34 am. 7:23 am.
Low ------------ $40 pm. S:2S p.m.
The San and Mesn.
Rises. Sets.
Sun. today ---- 5:02 7:c6
eln. tomorrow - sos res
Moon today ------ 10:4O pm. 1857 an.
AutoHobils lights must b turned on
one.ha0 hour aftsr sunset.
Evening star., 1940-07-25
US. Tariff Barriers
And Ban on Beef
kk Argent!ines
35teok q Part Of the Men
Like Breed; Their Pride
In Them Is Justified

Mr.. Ed0erton is touring South
america as a guest OF Pam
american AirW1ys. His articles,
sent by mail, ,DiH be published as
they are received. This is the.
tenth OF a series.
Evening star., 1940-07-25

The British said yesterday one Of
their own speed launches had at
tackled a fleet of six of these fast
little boats in the Channel. put one
out of action and sent the rest into
fight.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-17

men are working on great air.
port at Fairbanks that will have
1O,OOO-foot runways, complete
base facilities, and quarters for
300 infantry in addition to the air
personnel.
More than TOO troops are on
their way to Anchorage, where the
arrny's other cir base is under
construction, with tons of equip
ment and modern artillery.
The navy is not idle. Seven
hundred miles north and west OF
Seattle lies Sitka, on Baranoff
Island Here navy air and sub
marine base is being rushed. An
other 700 miles west is the Pacific
on Kodiak Island repair base for
ships, submarines and planes is
well along And another TOO miles
west at Dutch Harbor is another.
Nearly $3o,000,000 is being poured
into these tasks as fast as it can
be spent
RUSSIANS
BUSY CLOSE BY
Why the hurry? For many years
300 infantry at Chilkoot barracks
were regarded as sufficient protec-
ton for Alaska's 100000 square
miles of tundra, forests and noun
tainS, with all their riches of gold,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-17

timber, furs, silver, lead, coal, plat
mum, palladium, anthony, tung-
stem, gas, oil, copper, tin and other
vital and valuable products.
No. longer. Developments In
Europe and Asia suddenly threw
into bold relief Alaska's situation
as an air route to the United
States.
Siberia Is less than an hour by
fast bomber, and there new army
bass and air posts are being es-
tablished. Il submarine base Is
being built on Boring Island IN
the Commander Islands, with Ger
man technicians reported super
vising this work only few hun
dred miles from the American
AleutianS.
Activity has been observed in
Big Diomede Island (Russian),
which is in sight Of Little Diomede
(American).
The Alaskan air bases will be
tremendous in size. Not so many
planes will be stationed there per-
manently. But clouds of them can
be flown to Alaska in a few hours
from Pacific northwest bases. The
Alaskan bases must be prepared
to handle them, and to do the ex-
ploratory and experimental work
that goes with flying where the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-17
GARDEN CLUBS
PLANT LAUREL
Civic Organizations, State
Official Join in Beautify-
ing Merritt Parkway

Hartford, July 1T.-Ten fairfield
county garden clubs and civic or
CARNATIONS are expected to par
ticipate during the next two months
in the most extensive roadside beau
tification program ever attempted
in Connecticut. The clubs will pre-
sent several thousand mountain lau-
rel and dogwood plants to the state
for planting along the Merritt Park
way. The public planting program
Is sponsored jointly by the roadside
development division Of the state
Highway Department and the State
Development Commission and has
been enthusiastically approved by
directors of the Federated Farden
Clubs Of Connecticut and the Fair
field County Planning Board.
State Cooperating
Designed to further beautify the
already beautiful Merritt Parkway
and to eventually be extended to the
new Wilbur Cross Parkway, garden
club in towns and cities bordering
the Merritt Parkway were invited
by the state departments to assist
In devising a plan for perpetuating
the scenic beauty Of the parkway.
The individual garden clubs have
agreed to coporate with the State
Highway department in selecting
appropriate sites for roadside plant
ing and to provide the laurel and
dogwood plants. The State Highway
department will lanscape and MAIN
tain the laurel an ddogwood. The
State Development Commission will
provide suitable markers acknowl-
edging the contribution of the var
ious clubs.
"This program is designed to ac-
celerate the Identification Of Con-
necticut's unsurpassed highway sys-
tenn" Charles e. Rolfe, chairman Of
the State Development Commission,
said. "Our Commission and the
State Highway department hope that
this program will prove so popular
that it may be extended to other
highways throughout the state"
Garden Clubs
Although nine Of the garden clubs
which have been invited to particle
pate in the roadside Qualification
program are in towns bordering the
Merritt Parkway, the Darien Garden
Club has received special permission
to plant laurel along the Boston
Post Road because the town Of
Darien does not quite reach the
parkway. Mrs. Thomas Holden,
president Of the Darien Garden
Club, has stated that because of
this the planting of laurel and
dogwood will be confined to the Post
road in the town Of Darien.
The garden clubs which have al
ready agreed upon the parkway
landscaping program include: the
Greenwich Garden Club, Mrs. George
Cooley, president; the Stamford
Garden Club, Mrs. Alfred Hender-
son, president; the Bridgeport Gar
den Club, Mrs. Howard L. Stone,
president.
The fundamental plan calls for
each club contributing minimum
of 100 laurel plants to be placed
along the Merritt Parkway this fall
Several Of the clubs has already In
dicated that they will plant many
more than the minimum amount
required. These initial paintings,
sponsored by local garden clubs,
will be added to from year to year
until the mass planting is complete.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-17
Business Uncertainty
Traced To War Plans
Agriculture Bearing Brunt of European Condition,
Declares II. H. Heimann Credit Executive Manager

Individual, is but the beginning Of
an ever increasing tax load. The
American people are willing to pay
the price to insure adequate defense.
They are, however, anxious that the
money be well expended.
In assessing the tax burdens 1t
should not be forgotten that, unless
scientifically levied, they may well
prove so burdensome as to unneces-
Sarily restrict normal business oper-
ations. One of the unfortunate sit
uations that undoubtedly will arise
out of the increased tax load is the
extreme difficulty individuals may
experience in continuing their nor
NAL contributions to charitable
programs.
I'm a measure the increased tax
burden cuts very deeply into this
type of helpfulness because it strikes
at the surplus from which such con-
tributions are generally made. Com
ing at a time when the need for
this type Of relief work is greater
than at any time perhaps in the
history of the world, 1t must be EVIL
dent to all that the levying of the
taxes must be carefully arranged.
''The second factor is an even
greater need for viewing every bus
mess problem from the standpoint OF
its social consequences. The pres
ent conflict abroad Is the outward
symbol of vast world changes aris-
ing from Embellishments of bygone
years.
Social Progress
"The third Iacscr IS the lesson OF
the present conflict, which teaches
us that social gains are valueless
when they are not based on bed
rock realism. Sound social gains
must be slowly evolved. The foun-
dalton for such programs must be q
peaceful and prosperous condition
with reasonable assurance as to II
remaining so.
1.-THE blitzkrieg type of social gain
simply jeopardizes previous progress
made for the benefit of the average
man and woman. 1t seems unfor-
tunate that this Is a fact but If we
are realistic we will recognize that
sometimes it is necessary to stop and
consolidate our gains.
Neither prosperity, preparedness
nor personal security is possible II
it is achieved without full consider
alton of possible consequences"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-17

temperature goes to u below zero
as 1t has done at Fairbanks.
ALASKA HAS
ONE RAILROAD
I'VE need troops and guns, air
and navy bases, but above all, roads
airports and planes" say Gov. Ern-
est Gruening. "In all Alaska there
is not one first-class airport. We
have no landing fields for large
commercial or fighting and bombing
planes"
All Alaska now has less than
5000 miles Of roads, though 1t is
one-figth as large as the United
States, and many Of these roads
are disable only in summer
Alaska's only operating railroad,
from Seward to Fairbanks, about
470 miles, is in no condition to
transport heavy guns or arma-
ment.
Alaskan defenses are at present
inadequate. With all FIVE new
bases in operation, and with be-
tween 5000 and 10000 adequately
armed and trained troops on hand
to guard against parachuters, Alaska
would be secure.
The Alaskan air bases have a
double value. In any naval action
fought in the north Pacific, the
support Of the American feet by
land -based planes would be In
valuable.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-17
BY BRUCE CATION
AND SHERMAN MONTROSE

Juneau, Alaska, July 1.-TWO
possibilities - a Japanese Russian
agreement and a European develop
ment that would require transfer OF
the bulk of the fleet to the Allan
tic-have sent the United States into
action to defend Alaska, vast, rich
territory so long undefended
AS the Japanese army trys to
build up an incident" over arrest
of armed japanese secret service
men by U. S. marines in Shanghai,
military experts point out that
Alaska Is as vital to west coast
defense against attack from Asia
as Is Hawaii. Alaska is a short
hop for bombing planes from the
Asiatic mainland.
Millions are being poured into
Alaskan defense. Six hundred