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Evening star., 1940-05-20

would join them and together they
might save Poland.
He was sent instead to his old
stamping ground-Syria. There he
was given a heterogeneous army of
Hindus, Senegalese, Australians,
foreign legionnaires and what not
to attack some day. somewhere, the
italians and the Germans if and
when these would reach the shore
Of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Frances best military mind was
relegated to secondary post.
1t may be that Weygand, who is
said to have inspired Foch or at least
to have fully concurred with the
victor of 1918 in the strategy attack,
always attack" will perform mir
acles.
But there is no question that at
the present time his task is super
human.
If the allies could win from the
Germans by agility of mind the war
would have been won some time
ago. But the best strategic con-
ception can do little when there
are no airplanes to oppose the Ger
man swarms and not sufficient tanks
to oppose the thousands the Ger
mans are sending into action.
Chance to Show Mettle.
Still, Weygand has a chance to
show his mettle. At the present
time the military men are trying
to guess whether the Germans will
concentrate their main efforts to-
ward Paris and give a moral blow
to the French by occupying their
capital which is also the nerve
center Of the country, or whether
they will push northward toward
Abeville and the Channel ports.
In that region there are at the
present time four French armies,
one British army and the whole of
the Belgian army.
+ The Germans are believed trying
to surround that enormous force
and compel 1t to surrender. For
this purpose they are advancing
from Antwerp with powerful mech
anized forces and may succeed in
closing in on the allies from the
Laon region, attacking the allied
forces simultaneously in front and
from the rear.
It is up to Weygand to outguess
Evening star., 1940-05-20

push toward Paris to take advan-
tage of that supposed situation. 4.
Britain and France have given
no sign of anything but closest
harmony on the western front.
At the same time, the Germans
are taking fullest advantage of air.
ports in Holland near the Channel
to harass British efforts to strengthen
their expeditionary forces.
New Attacks by Air.
The high command said allied
air bases again had been attacked,
two destroyers had been destroyed
of the French-Belgian coast and
one destroyer, a French torpedo boat
and three merchant ships damaged.
The only evidence here that the
allies position might be improving
slightly was that the high command
now reports inflicting about four-to-
one air losses-14l against 31-yes-
terday-as against 6-to-1 in the first
days Of the drive.
Allied night raids over Germany
were dismissed as planless and un-
important militarily, but spokes-
Evening star., 1940-05-20
Definite Policy
OF Defense Called
First Necessity
Mere 6 Construction of
Huge WorpIone Fleet
Declared Inadequate
(Te1t OF Col. Lindbergh's Address
on Page B-8)

(Tert OF Col. Lindbergh's Address
on Page B-8J
BY the Associated Press.
America need not fear invasion,
IN the opinion of Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh, unless the American
people bring it on through their
own quarreling and meddling with
affairs abroad"
Declaring "a definite policy of de-
tense" is the first necessity, the
famous aviator called in a radio
broadcast last night for an end to
"hySterical chatter of calamity and
invasion"
I'VE are in danger of war today"
he said, mot because European peo-
pie have attempted to interfere with
the internal affairs of America, but
because American people have at
tempted to interfere with the in
ternal affairs of Europe"
Col. Lindbergh, an Army Air Corps
Reserve officer, asserted America
needs "a greater air force, a greater
Army and greater Navy" but
added:
Until We have decided upon a
definite policy of defense, the mere
construction of large numbers Of
aircraft will not be adequate for our
national safety"
For defense of the Nation alone,
he continued, the United States
would need large numbers of small
bombers snd pursuit planes" but
this eventually would leave us as
vulnerable to air attack as the ma
tions of Europe are today"
For defense of the Western Hemi-
sphere, he said, the United States
would need long range bombers Ca
pable of attacking hostile fleet
1000 miles at sea-"
Let us form with our neighbor-
ing nations a clear and definite
policy of American Defense" he pro-
posed.
"An adequate defense of the West
ern Hemisphere necessitates the CO.
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Berlin

Continued From First Page.)
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Paris
Continued From First Page.)

gion between La Fere, about IL
miles south of st. Quentin, and
Lanrecies, about Is miles north Of
that city.
Steel met steel in this see-saw
battle, in which the Germans have
continued to advance with the aid
of four or five armored divisions.
The situation, said the War Ministry
spokesman, continues grave"
At Montmedy, some 20 miles
southeast of Sedan, at the hinge OF
the main Maginot and little Magi-
not Lines, German infantry came
over in two massive attacks on the
main Maginot Notifications after
very heavy artillery preparation.
This attack was interpreted as a
diversion to the flank of the general
drive toward the west.
In the Paris region the drone OF
airplane motors was heard this
morning, followed by gunfire, but
there were no immediate reports OF
incidents apparently the cor
respondent wanted to say bomb
ings" at this point)
News of the German crossing OF
the Aisne River was followed by an
nouncement of the dismissal Of the
prefect of Aisne Department.
Paris newspapers were ordered to
reduce from four to two pages start
ing tomorrow as a measure OF war
time economy. =
Under the leadership of the new
commander. in chief, Gen. Maxine
Weygand, the armies of France
braced for a "do or die" fight to
halt the German invaders hammer
ing at their lines 80 miles from Paris.
Battle Near Critical Stage.
Gen. Weygand, 73-year-old vet
eran of the World War. was called
to supreme command of the allied
land forces yesterday to succeed
Gen. Maurice Gustave Gamelin as
the bitter battle in Northern France,
described by military experts as "the
greatest in modern times" rapidly
approached a critical stage.
The situation facing the new allied
chieftain closely paralleled the dark
days of 1918 when, as an understudy
of the late Marshal Foch, he helped
map the strategy which saved Paris
and broke the back of the Kaiser's
last great offensive.
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tary situation said the allies had
yielded more than 100000 prisoners
and suffered heavy casualties over
the week end
In addition to widening the pockei I
which has been carved out Of North
ern France, the Germans said their
troops succeeded in capturing an
important" fortification in the
Maginot line northwest Of Mont
medy, near the junction Of the
French, Belgian and Luxembourg
frontiers.
She position, described as Fort
$685." was said to have been taken
by direct frontal attack.
according to the French,
Montmedy Is not strictly a part
of the heavily fortified Maginot
Line, which they say ends at the
Luxembourg frontier.)
Raid Report Minimized.
British reports their planes again
had raided Northern Germany, in
f1icting heavy damage on oil depots
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operation of the other nations O.
this hemisphere. Our military air.
craft must have access to thei,
bases. Their foreign policy mus
have some relationship to ours. W.
cannot hold this hemisphere fre,
from foreign war if nations which
lie within it declare war on foreign
powers"
CEarly in 1899 Col. Lindbergh
gave Government officials a con-
fldential report on Germany's
air strength and a member of the
organization of the National Ad-
vlsory Committee on Aeronautics
described his reports as very
informative" Previously, he
had been criticized by Secretary
Ickes and others for accepting a
German model, and had been
called a stupid liar" by Russian
spokesmen after he compared
Russia's air power adversely with
that of Germany.
{Senator Brown, Democrat. of
Michigan, and others, also Sec
tions of the British press, were
particularly critical of a radio
speech in the fall of 1889 in
which Col. Lindbergh virtually
demanded that Canada cut her
link with the British empire.)
Col. Lindbergh spoke on the eve O
Evening star., 1940-05-20
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

1t was necessary for the Ger
mans to arrive almost within gun
range Of Paris before the French
decided to place Gen. Maxine Wey-
gand at the head of their battered
armies.
If any one man can do something
to save the situation, that man is
Weygand, whom many officers, even
during the last war, considered the
equal OF Marshal Foch.
Gen. Weygand has had checkered
career since 1918 with ups and
downs. He saved Poland when the
Bolshevist armies were at the gates
of Warsaw. He may save France
when the Germans reach the gates
of Paris, although here he has
a totally different problem.
Organized Syria.
He organized, between the years
1923 and 1925, Syria and had planned
to make out 0 that French man.
dated territory one of the most
powerful outposts for Frances next
war. He was recalled to Paris and
sent into oblivion by the Herriot
administration because he was too
much of a Catholic. Herriot did
not object to religion among the
officers, but considered Weygand, a
danger to the republic because he
went to mass every morning.
The parties of the right intended
to use Weygand. He could have
been an important card in their
hands because all those men who
had served under him loved and
esteemed him.
Weygand, thorough soldier, re-
piled when he was asked to stand
for a seat in the chamber that a
soldiers business is to obey orders
and show no i'll feeling when an
apparent injustice was done. And
he lived in retirement ever since.
Urged Salonika Occupation.
When the war broke out in Sep
tember he urged his government
to- give him the necessary troops
to occupy Salonika and begin a
campaign against Germany from
there. He was confident that If
London and Paris played their cards
carefully and intelligently and If
he had an adequate army in that
region Yugoslavia and Rumania
Evening star., 1940-05-20

near Bremen and Hamburg, were
unlimited by the German official
news agency, DNB, which said that
anti-aircraft fire had driven cf the
enemy.
DNB said q raid on Bremen had
resulted in destruction of one house,
damage to another and serious in
jury to two persons.
The Germans said the allies were
suffering heavy losses both on the
ground and in the air, compared
to which their own losses were
slight"
Moose Pass miner., 1940-12-24

Verne Saxt on now resident of Fairbanks was an out g oine boat passenger last week.
 Mrs. Hoe Franich of Fair banks, visited her si st CT ,Mrs Warren Neil at Lawing recent 1y.
 Both Mr. end Mrs. Oscar P1 ownan were victims of bad falls week before last and hae to be treated at Seward Gener- al hospital. Mrs. P1oWaarl broke her left arm and Mr. Plownan several ribs. What a bang it gives when one of those window envelopes has a check in it instead of g bill. --Des Moines Reg
Moose Pass miner., 1940-12-24

Mrs. Dolly Flickinger is now a stewardess on the ss Mount Mckinley.
 MT. and Mrs. Robert Freeman of Billings, Mon., and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nego- van of Spokane, Wash. have recently located in Seward. They paid Moose Pass a vis- it early in the month.
 Lyman Graves has greatly improved the int terior of his cabin - ceiling walls and overhead with p1yboard, adding new cupboards, shelves and the like. It is one of Moose Pass most attractive cabins.
Moose Pass miner., 1940-12-24
HOPE HAPPENINGS

hoSp1ta4s
 The annual Community Dinner and Chri stmas dance will be held at Town Hall Chri stmas night. More than loo are expected to be sent.
 A Chri stmas play will be given at the schoo1hou se| Monday night.
 George Roll is selling the stock at his st ore. Hi s| patro hope and expect hina| to reopen his store in theI not -far-di st ant future.
 Warren Nutter reports the highway between Sunri seI and Mile 38 as thoroly g1a-| ciered.
 Charles Curtis and chas.I Davis, Jr. ,are down from Anchorage to spend the hol = idays.
 Roy Mitchell is again at work with the Public Roads Admini st rat on.
 Mrs. Joe Richards was a Seward visitor last weekend
 Elmer Carson has our vot as Hopes most indu st ri ous and early-rising citizen.
 Hope has 8 Public Enemy No. l in the wind charger installed by the Board of Educ ation. Not enough wind and it had to be sup plement ed with an engine and the noise it makes eithI keeps the town awake at night or chasing outdoors during the dayt inc to see if there are planes in the offing. The B of E gould either lock it or sell it.
 < x x
 Harry Conkey is in Juneal and for the last three months has been mployed at the Ale ska Juneau mine.
Moose Pass miner., 1940-12-24

Harry Conkey is in Junes and for the last three months has been empl eyed al the Ale ska Juneau mine.
 Frank Hie1o sailed for the States on the ss Mount Mckinley.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
Bond Averages
By the Associate6 Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April ia strong
upsurge in dollar bonds Of Norway,
Denmark and other North countries
in the wake of claims Of Allied
progress in dislodging Germany
from recently occupied territory
gave today's market general ap-
pearance of strength.
Going into the final hour Norway
IS extended early gains to nearly
13 points; the 41as were up nearly
10, Denmark 5l2s were up more
than and similar gains were
held by Oslo City 4i2s, Estonia Is
and several others. Helsingfors IS
dropped about 18 points on light
offerings, however. and Finland IS
were down around II. There was
no specific news to account for
these reyerses, brokers said.
Domestic loans were mostly higher
but trading was less active than on
Wednesday and price changes were
generally small. Interest continued
brisk in International Hydro & Elec-
trio IS, which gained another 2
points. Others ahead included Great
Northern 4s, Commonwealth Edison
31as, Erie SIS, Third Avenue Adjust
ment SIS, Shell Union 212s and Mis-
souri, Pacific SIS. Losers included
Boston & Maine SIS and St. Paul 4s4s.
United States Governments were
up 2/32 to 1882 of a point in slack
trading.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
March Imports Of Gold
Largest Since Last April
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Commerce Department said
yesterday that March imports of
gold, totaling $459, ,844,673, were the
largest for any month since April,
1899.
The March total was double the
February figure and was nearly
$lO0, 900, 900 larger than the March,
1899, total.
British shipments of metal in
preparation for purchases of air
planes and other war supplies ac-
counted for most of the imports.
Canada shipped $249, ,873, 900, the
United Kingdom, $35 ,268, 900; South
Africa. $24 ,406, 900; India, $11,813, 900,
and Australia, $7,409, 900.
Other principal shippers included
Sweden with $65, ,991 600; Switzer-
land, $28n n907 900; Italy, $11, ,76O, 900,
and Japan, $5,797,O00
Silver imports totaled $5,724 900
in March. compared with $4.070,317
In February and $7,206, ,579 in March,
1899. Principal shipments were $2,-
$50 5000 from Mexico, $46s, 900 from
Canada, $1,419.000 from Japan and
$612 900 from Peru.
Since a large part of the British
gold shipments was deposited in the
New York Federal Reserve Bank
"earmarked" gold in the country
increased $213, AT 900 during March,
to total of 81 ,299, 1853, 900.
Exports In the month included
ST. 1881 Of gold and $657 ,274 of silver.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
Three Loon Concerns
Take New Names

Change in the names of three loan
companies affiliated with South
eastern Industrial Bankers, Inc, is
announced by Lewis Eisele, vice
president.
The Bethesda Industrial Savings
& Loan Co. becomes the Southeast
ern Discount Co. of Bethesda, the
City Industrial Savings g. Loan Co.
of Hyattsville becomes the South
eastern Discount Co. of Hyattsville
and the Silver Spring Industrial
Savings g. Loan Co. becomes the
Southeastern Discount Co. of Silver
Spring.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
Boston Wool Market

BOSTON. April II IN co. 3. Department
slow on the Boston market today. The
few buyers showing any interest were
bidding considerably below current quota
t1ons on spot woolS
Asking prices were steady to moderately
lower. Fine delaine bright Aeece wool WAS
offered from 33 to 81 cents In the Grease.
but buyers were reluctant to pay up to
Asking prices for Graded French combing
length hne territory woods ranged mostly
wools on forced sales brought only around
rs cents secured basis.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
Bank CIearings Show
Substantial Rise
Over Year Ago
New York Goin Lifts
National Total. for
Second Week
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. April 11.-With New
York again showing a rise over tho,
1889 level, check exchanges through
the clearing houses Of the country
maintained their advantage over
the corresponding period Of the pre-
vious year for the second consecu-
tive week.
Total bank clearings for 70 lead
ing cities during the week ended
April 10 amounted to 5000, ,032, 900,
a gain OF Iii per cent above the
s4,526, ,432 900 for the same 1899 week,
Dun & Bradstreet reported.
Clearings for the latest period
dropped $1,136.025, 900 from the to-
tai for the week preceding, as COM
pared with a decline of 1886, ,469 900
between the two similar weeks of
1899.
The turnover at New York aggre-
gated $3,011 ,4O5, 900, against $2,7o7,-
227,O0O a year ago, representing an
increase Of 11.2 per cent, while the
81 outside cities had a total of s2.s
018,627,000, or lilo per cent more
than the $1y819,205, 900 in the like
1889 week. ~.
The more important advances re-
corded at outside centers over the
1889 figures included: Philadelphia.
26.4 per cent; Baltimore, 24.O pei
cent; Minneapolis, 20.1 per cent?
San Francisco, liza per cent, and st
Louis, Ill per cent. Buffalo, Cin3
clnnati and Cleveland had declines
OF 81. 2.8 and 0.5 per cent, respec-
lively.
Bank clearings at leading cities.
together with percentage changes
from year ago, follow: Also, the
daily average bank clearings for the
months of February, March and
April to date:
Evening star., 1940-04-11
Westinghouse Orders
Advance 30 Per Cent
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, April 11.-George
H. Bucher, president of Westing-
house Electric g. Manufacturing Co.,
told stockholders at the annual
meeting yesterday the business out
look was very encouraging" and
that orders booked in the first
quarter were more than 80 per cent
above the same quarter last year.
He reported orders during the first
quarter totaled $65, ,250, 900, as COM
pared with $50, O,121 900 in the cor-
responding period, last year. The
company's backlog of untitled orders
on March 81 was approximately $685.
100000, an all-time high figure.
Mr.. Bucher said foreign business
was up SO per cent, sales to public
utilities up so per cent and sales to
industrial concerns up 30 per cent.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
Private Construction
Z Per Cent Ahead
Of Year Ago
Drop in Public Awards
Leaves TotuI Down
81 Per Cent
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, April 11.-Private
engineering construction awards dur
ing the week ended Tuesday totaled
$23 ,376 900, Engineering News-Record
reported today. This was a gain Of
4 per cent over the previous week
and IL per cent over a year ago.
A decline in public engineering
contracts, however, was responsible
for drop In total awards to $780,
800, 900, or 9 per cent, from the
previous week and 81 per cent below
the corresponding week last year.
Public construction awards for the
week were II per cent less than the
week before and 54 per cent under
q year ago.
Comparison of the weeks awards
follows:
Private.
kstss Ssst sEsysSrs Ssef i;ts
state and Municipal.
SCI ,746.oO0 $31,416,000 S56.42s,000
Federal.
S5,76s,00O S1909,00O S3.575.00O
$5o,s9o,ooO S55,s31oO0 $so.se7. 900
Evening star., 1940-04-11
American Radiator Sales
And Earnings Jump
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, April 11.-American
Radiator g. Standard Sanitary Co.
sharply increased f1rst-quarter sales
and profit over year ago, Henry M.
Reed, president, told stockholders at
the annual meeting yesterday.
Gross sales of all U. S. subsidiaries
increased 81 per cent over the first
quarter of 1899. Profits from do
mestic operations in the first two
months of the year were SPAS, 900,
against loss of $685. 900 in the SINH
lar months last year.
Foreign units, he added, were still
able to show black figures up to
and including February. Profits
the first two months stood at 1924, :
600, against $408, 900 in January and
February year ago.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
Paris Bank Changes

PARIS April IL R.-Bank of France
statement as Of April showed Gin millions
Of trancs):
Gold reserve. s4e14. UNCHANGED; bal
ances abroad. SO. decrease q discounted
commercial bills, France, 5.O54, increase
40; negotiable bills bought in France.
1888, increase 5; advances against securi-
against government securities. 4S9, in
crease 169: temporary advances to state,
10000, increase $50; circulation. 157. .s95.
increase 1858; total credit to current ac-
counts, 14297. decrease 1.1l9; ratio Of
gold to sight Liabilities, 49.l per cent
compared with 49.35 last; bank rate. 2
Der cent.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
London Bank Report

LONDON, April IL. R.-Bank Of Eng
land statement as Of April 10 showed Tin
thousands Of pounds:
buon dss9ea S
500 increase 2,9S5; public deposits, %, $50,
increase 400; private deposits 166,50S,
1924. decrease $50: other securities,
2s,025, increase 1,643; ratio of reserve to
liabilities. 22.0 per cent compared with
2l.0 last week: bank rate, 2 per cent.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
Vice Presidents Named
By Montgomery Ward
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 11.-C. D. Ryan,
general merchandise manager. and
E. r. WINNER, retail operating man.
ager, yesterday were elected vice
presidents of Montgomery Ward g.
Co. at the monthly meeting OF the
Board of Directors.
No announcement on a new
financing plan suggested as a near
possibility by Chairman Sewell L..
Avery in a letter to stockholders last
month was made by the directors.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
R. H. Macy & Co. Reports
Biq Gain in Income
BY the Associated Press


NEW YORK, April 11.-R. H
Macy & Co., New York department
store, and its affiliated stores, for
the fiscal year ended February 5
last, reported net income of So .906,-
$40 after charges, equal to s2.36 a
common share, compared with ST.
$50, 0,227 or $1.42 a common share in
the preceding fiscal year.
Affiliated stores are L. Bamberger
& Co., Newark, N. j.: DAWSON
Paxon Co., Atlanta. Ca, and La
Sale & Koch Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Sales in the SO weeks of the 1899
fiscal year ended February 8 last
totaled s130,433, ,687, compared with
a 52-week total Of SIPS, ,223 300 in the
preceding year. The sales compared
as follows:
Macy's. Ny. ss4s4s's5o isSs $50 77sssssssss 77ssssss
Bamberger &. Co. 31,7s3, 594 301o4428
La Sale &; Koch
Co. and Davi
son-Paxon Co. 13,s76,542 12.ae1,212
Evening star., 1940-04-11
Libby-Owens-Ford
Reports Higher Net
By the Associated-Press

TOLEDO, Ohio, April 11.-Net
profit of s2.897,952 for the first
three months of 1910, equivalent to
$1.15 share, was reported by Lib
hey -Owens-Ford Glass Co. This
compares to $1,722, 1904. or SO cents
a share, for the same period in 1899
The board voted a 50-cent divi-
dend payable June Is to stock of rec
ord May 81.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
General Foods Earnings
Increase in Quarter

Ey tne ABsoctAted PfeBS.
NEW YORK, April 11.-General
Foods Corp. earned about 80 cents
a common share in the first quarter
compared with 745 cents a share
for the first 1899 quarter, c. M. Ches-
ter, chairman, told stockholders yes
terday.
He estimated dollar sales would be
10 per cent higher than for the same
period last year.
Evening star., 1940-04-11
New York Sugar

NEW YORK, April II (P.--War de-
velopments stimulated buying in world
sugar. futures today Prices we're firm at
the days highs around midafternoon. up
11a to 2la points. May and July each
traded $50.
Domestic futures also rose on war in
fears Of rising freight rates Prices in
the early afternoon were up l to 3
points: May. 1.93: July. 1877.
Raws were active and firm The spot
price advanced points to 2:s3 on con-
hrmation today of sales made late yes
Philippines today at 2.s5 and 2.ss cents
and also Puerto Ricos at 2.s5. Cubas
for May and June shipment were held at
200 cents c. g. F.
Refined was unchanged at 4.50 cents
Withdrawals were only fair.