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roared ahead Of us and three more
exploded behind. Schrapnel fell on
our decks.
We all got around the corners
the tankers. coasters and tramps-
and well beyond the range of the
big German guns.
Bombers Come to Finish Job.
A few minutes later German
bombers came to finish the job
which the long-range guns failed
to do. But the bombers failed, too.
AS they dropped their bombs, deaf
ening bangs took place of the roar
ing detonation of the shells.
Our fighter planes were high up
in the sky as the first bomb dropped.
Now we start getting our own
back" shouted the gunnery officer
a split second before our guns
started roaring.
Fighters, twisting, racing and
roaring through the sky, went after
the Nazi bombers. The clouds were
dotted with aircraft, while tin
hated men on every ship in the
convoy-from warships to the small
est cargo vessel-watched the fierce
battle raging overhead. That is,
until the bombs started dropping
near. Then all but the captain and
the officers of the watch went down
on their stomachs on the deck.
The bombs came a little nearer
than 100 yards of our ship. They
just crunched into the water. shook
the seas and seemed to bang the
sea bed. But, like the shells, they
all missed.
We in the convoy watched two
NaZi planes crash into the sea
There was nothing we could do
The pilots had had no time to baiI
out. Their wrecked machines struck
the sea and were seen no more.
1t did not take long before the
warships' guns and machine guns
of the conveyed ships and the Spit
fires and Hurricanes had chased The
bombers away. After darkness fel
we were all safely back in port.
The English Channel is still open
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$4,000 Are Enrolled
In Training Courses
For Defense Jobs
First-Month Report
Also Shows 5000 Men
Have Been Placed

More than 10000 enrollees in the
National Defense Vocational Train
ing program during its first month
of operation were reported today
from 40 States and the District, with
Washington's total enrolment OF sos
leading IT States.
Federal Security Administrator
McNutt forwarded the report to the
National Defense Advisory Commits
sion after receiving it from John w.
Studebaker, United States commits
sioner of education, who is admin
istering the program.
The project was launched July !,
four days after President Roosevelt
signed bill appropriating SIS 900 900
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stood out in the sunlight against
the white cliffs of Dover.
OF the las shells the Germans
aimed at us from the French shore,
which was clearly visible without
glasses, not one found a target.
But not one man who was in that
convoy does not appreciate the mar
row escapes we had.
From the bridge of the warship
the lookout man called, Flash,
sir"
About q minute later followed a
direct impact. Shells were hitting
the waves, sending up great columns
of water to mark the spot. From
the moment of the detonation OF
the first shell signals by lamp and
flags had been flashed from the
escorting warships, telling the con-
voy to proceed with utmost speed.
You can imagine the stokerS in
the little cargo ships. shoveling coal
as they never shoveled coal before.
Smoke Screens Laid Down.
Ahead lay temptingly the corner
of the Dover cliffs. Around the
south foreland our warships. raced
at 80 knots, up and down the lanes
of the British shipping, guiding
and shepherding the ships and
waving their greetings to the stolid
shippers of the tramp ships, who
waved back and gave us thumbs
up signal as each shell missed them.
Each warship acted instantly with
smoke screens. The sky from the
level of the sea upward was full
of smoke. The colliers, tankers,
coasters and tramps were blacked
out behind the wall of smoke. 1t
completely obliterated their move
ments from the enemy's long-range
guns, but Jerry still tried hard to
register hit.
The warship in which I sailed
raced to the head of the convoy
and ran the gantlet back again to
protect the stragglers. Another shell
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,ducation in the initial phases" OF

education In the initial phases" Of
the program.
Two types Of training are pro-
vided-pre employment short courses
and supplementary courses that aid
workers already in employment.
The latter courses now have 2o,o10
registrants.
More than 1900 advisory commit
tees Of representatives of industry
and labor have been organized in
various communities to work with
educators in making local surveys
Of employment needs. The commit
tees also determine the training pol
icies best suited to the particular
needs of their communities.
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Lawrence Smith Wins
Public Speaking Contest

Lawrence Smith, secretary Of the
Junior Board OF Commerce, won first
place in a public speaking contest
held at the end of the Institute of
Commercial and Trade Association
Executives which he attended at
Northwestern University last week.
Mr.. Smith won the Ralph He'll
man contest open to institute stu
dents with his Interpretation of the
subject. "Our New Frontiers" He
plans to return to Washington after
Labor Day.
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By A. ]. McWHINNIE.

Naval Correspondent, London Daily Herald.
LONDON, Aug. 26 CNA.N.A).-
7 was in the British convoy which
was shelled and bombed for nearly
four hours in the English Channel
last Thursday. With the finest con-
voy sailors in the world. we ran
Chancellor Hitler's multiple gaunt-'
let little more than a dozen miles
beyond his new doorstep in France.
Germany's long-range guns she'll
ed us in the Strait of Dover for
more than four hours; his bombers
rained bombs all around us. We
fired six German mines as we ran
through his U-boat and E-boat
beat. But we made it.
There were no losses. The chan
mel is still open for British shipping.
The captain of the crack war
ship from which I saw it all has
just said, well done, boys"
The long-range guns. firing shells
that travel at the rate of 1000
miles an hour, we know now, are
planted around the Cape Griz-Nez
area of the French coast. Cooper
ating with them were German
Spotting planes.
Some of the shells whizzed past
us; others stopped short, they fell
aStern. Sometimes q shell would
smash into the sea and explode
with an ear-splitting, thunderous
roar within 100 yards of our bow.
Everything in Nazis Favor.
Everything was in Jerry's favor,
but still he scored no hits on the
most important of the conveys of
this war. Visibility was excellent.
We sailed almost midway between
two coastlines. The black shapes
of the cargo ships, coasters, colliers
and trawlers and the deep gray of
the escorting warships must have
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Civil Disobedience
Threatened by Gondhi
BY the Associated Press.

BOMBAY. India, Aug. 26.-Mo-
handas K. Gandhi declared yester.
day that the government of India
Is inviting Congress (the Indian
Nationalist Party to start civil dis
obedience" by arresting certain Of
its members on charges of making
seditious speeches.
1T is pity" Gandhi observed in
his newspaper, Harlan. adding that
the government should have reserved
the invitation" for "a better day
better for the British
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Named by Costu Rico

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Aug. %
DISAPPOINTMENT of Octavio Beeche,
finance minister and former Min
lister to Washington, as Costa Ricas
delegate to the Inter-American FL
nancial Committee was announced
Yesterday.
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Burburu Denny Weds

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 26 P.-Bar-
bara Denny, "a, actress daughter of
Reginald Denny, veteran film actor
and James w. Simmons, news writer,
were married yesterday. They will
make their home In Beverly Hills.
Evening star., 1940-08-26
Witness Describes
How Convoy Ran
Berfhas' Fire
Ships Were ShelIed for
More Than Four Hours,
Says Writer on Wurship

The jollo,ring eyewitness de-
scriptfon of the first serious Ger
man artillery attack from the
French coast on a British conDoy
IN the English Channel last
Thursday iOds tDritten by the
naual correspondent OF the Lon
don Daily Herald, iOILo iDaS on
one OF the eScorting t0arShips.
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TO REPRESENT d. C.-Miss
Marie Shepherd, "a, of 1910
Kalorama road NV, who has
been named a princess in the
queens court at the annual
tobacco festival at South Bos-
ton, Va, September 5-6. Miss
Shepherd, a bookkeeper at the
City Bank, is Washington's
first representative in the
event. Star staff Photo.
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EYES OF YOUTH
see vistos Of O joyously
useful future mode oc-
L. ELA
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soy there must be
peoce ond comfort in
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r
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RuhI and Mosconu Give
Concert Tonioht

Edbert Ruhl, young tenor of this
city, and Nicola Moscona, Greek
basso of the Metropolitan Opera Co.,
will appear at $3.50 o'clock tonight in
concert in Constitution Hall.
Mr.. Ruhl, who will be making his
first professional appearance. is a
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Ruhl of
670l Western avenue NV. He has
been studying voice for nearly eight
years. His part in the program will
include the singing of two operatic
arias in italian, a group of songs by
Brahms, two numbers in English by
Roxas, and the leading aria from
the Texan opera, Cynthia Parker" I"
by Miss Julia Smith, who will play
the accompaniment for the latter
number.
Mr.. Moscona will sing several WE'LL
known operate arias, group of
songs in Italian and three numbers
by modern Greek composers.
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tinguished knitters. They keep up
with their knitting, but one is also
distinguished air-bomber, with
several notches on her control stick,
while the other knits and rallies
knitters to make warm garments
Tor unhappy folk where the bombs
are falling. Both are skilled in all
womanly arts and graces. The
former Is 1t. Sabiha Guekchen, fos.
ter daughter Of the late President
kemal Ataturk of Turkey, and the
latter Miss Gertrude Lawrence, Eng
lish actress, busy with the new
American theater wing of the
French and British relief funds,
knitting, shipping. stitching and ex-
horting as she recruits women for
similar endeavors against the misery
Of war.
The 25-year-old Miss Guekchen.
IN the news with the account Of
her marriage, holds the highest
aviation awards OF the Turkish
government for blowing up q fam
lily OF Kurds in June, 1898. She Is
one OF six children adopted by
Kemal Ataturk, all OF them skilled
IN music and embroidery. Corre-
spondents have made much of hsr
chic bombing suits, and the mod
esty with which she goes about her
humdrum bombing tasks. She is
said to be pretty little thing,
venturing timidly out of the kitchen,
and has been described as "shy and
demure, always with quick recourse
to her modish little vanity case, and
her ever-ready powder puff" At last
accounts, she was the only woman
air force officer in the world.
We saw the merry and piouant
Miss Lawrence in q bit of spoffing
at a midtown luncheon club yester-
day. 1t Is certainty that every
man there wished he could knit.
Miss Lawrence, who was born
Gertrude Klasen, toured the Brit
ism mldlands in clothes basket
at the age Of 2 or under with her
trouping parents. At the age of
. she had some cards printed in
which she set up as an ACTRESS and
toe dancer" Her stage career went
on from there.
'Released by Consolidated News Featurss)
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the United States to get foreign ex-
change to Germany through letters
containing checks and cash.
S2,510,167 in Paper Found.
During the three-month period
ending January IL, between 10000
and 1900 parcels from the United
States were examined and of 5000
letter items seized. more than half
were from the United States.
In them, it was said, was United
States currency totaling $4,000
checks in dollars, pounds and marks
aggregating the equivalent of $2,-
510,167, and a pearl necklace valued
at S32, ,32O.
The seizure of money, the British
informant said, was a double blow
to Germany since the Nazis would
be deprived of it while it enriched
Britain's war chest.
New Control Station Planned.
1t was learned meanwhile that
negotiations were in progress be-
tween London and Ottawa for the
designation of st. John, New Bruns-
wick, as a contraband control sta
ton for examination of American
ships.
1t was understood soundings had
been made in Washington to deter
mine whether a contraband control
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ship" was adopting pressures Of
1900 and 1900 pounds-the Amer
lean Navy was experimenting with
900 pounds.
Today, when the 1,200-pound
high-pressure La Mont-type boiler
has been installed In at least one of
Germany's pocket battleships"-
despite the Germans prediction
for Dieseland is commonplace in
other navies OF the world, the Amer
ican Navy's "top" pressure is 800
pounds.
In the face Of this international
trend toward high and still higher
pressure boilers for naval use, Amer
ican naval bureaucracy continues
to offer these objections:
n High pressure is dangerous.
(2) High-pressure steam lines
cannot be kept tight.
90 High pressure Is unreliable
and has short life.
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WdS Auleciy Ill.
strumental in the organization OF
Labor's Non-Partisan League, and
for the organization in New York
of the American Labor Party. The
league has frequently been called a
creature Of the C. I. 0.
The Communist party in 1896 put
in the. field Earl Browder as its
presidential candidate. He polled
only 80,159 votes-as compared to
102,99l cast for Foster, the Com
munist party candidate in 1882. The
socalled Socialist Labor candidate
for President in 1896 also polled
less than half the vote 1t did in 1882.
These minor parties were, 1t seems,
far less hostile to Mr.. Roosevelt in
1886. for the votes they lost are be-
lieved to have gone over to the Presi-
dent. Certainly. in 1898, the Com
munist party did Its best for the
New Deal administration, for it did
not put a candidate in the race for
Governor of New York and ap-
parently got behind Gov. Lehman
in the desperate effort which beat
the Republican nominee, Thomas
E. Dewey, by a scant $4,000 votes.
Browder Claims Credit.
In a speech in Madison Square
Garden Monday night, Browder,
who had just been convicted for
passport fraud, attacked the New
Deal and President Roosevelt,
charging they had accepted Com
munist party aid, and In recent
months had turned their backs on
BroWder and his party. In that
speech Browder said it was the
Communist vote that had defeated
Dewey and elected Lehman. Leh-
man, to whose aid the President
himself went in the gubernatorial
election.
How far the attack made by Mr..
Lewis on the President and the New
Deal in his address at Columbus
yesterday will influence the c. l. O.
against Mr.. Roosevelt remains to
be seen. Already some of the c. I. o.
unions have indorsed the President
for third-term nomination. What
they will do in the future remains
to be seen.
Mr.. Lewis and the President had
a falling out after the 1886 elec-
ton, because Mr.. Lewis did not
believe the President backed up the
c. I. o. sufficiently, especially in the
matter of the "little STEEL strike
The President commented, "a plague
on both their houses" Mr.. Lewis
response was that the Presidents
attitude came i'll from one who
had "supped at labors table" Lewis
was referring to the support given
the President in his campaign for
reelection, and also to the fact
that the United Mine Workers had
contributed $4,000 to the Demo-
cratic National Committee campaign
fund. 1t was reported also that
the union had put up some $780,
900 to help out in other ways. The
Lewis statement, made in a radio
speech declared "it i'll behooves one
who has supped at labor's table
and who has been sheltered in
labor's house to curse with equal
fervor and fine impartiality both
labor and its adversaries when they
become locked in deadly embrace" !"
Two Others Criticized.
The c. I. o. president, before he
delivered his more recent attack
on the President and predicted
defeat for him in the event of
his denomination, was tremendously
critical Of two other outstanding
Democratic presidential possibilities.
Vice President John N. Garner and
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cavalier disregard opinion.
Lord Lothian who must the American of view
the
Washington Sir Ronald Lindsay had much task he
supported
understand this country
will
while he dufu defending the
questions chiefly
hoped that generally agreeable settlement
I'M niance Inc)
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Mr.. Franklin hqs told The
Star that careful research has
preceded the preparation of this
series OF articles. The Star
finds the articles interesting,
and the facts outlined by Mr..
Franklin speak for themselves.
Whether the articles me,elu
reflect a difference OF profess
sional opinion among experts
on a highly technical subject,
however. or ,Dhether they bear
out Mr.. Franklin's diagnosis of
"naval bureaucracy" Is, OF
course. a matter OF opinion.
The Star has inpited oMcials
OF the Many to reply, Officially or
nnoNcially, through a Star re-
porter, should they care to pre-
sent the Napy's side OF the
case.
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the president OF
the C.. I. o. and
the United Mine
w ork ers of
A m e r ! ca, de-
Cl ed tn a t
should Presi-
dent Roosevelt
be nominated
again he would
be "ignomin-
iously" defeated.
Four years ago
Mr.. Lewis was
an ardent sup
porter Of the
President. Fl e
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station on the American side of the
Atlantic would be welcomed.
This move was believed to have
been taken in an effort to appease
the Washington government, which
has protested vigorously against the
delay encountered by United States
ships halted at Gibraltar and other
control points on this side of the
ocean.
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uloSt uIlpOIId IdII
question is why
the head of the
c. I. o. has come
out in open at
tack on the man
who has done so
much to befriend
the G. I. o. and
the union move
ment in Amer
lea.
The National
Labor Relations
Act, W i t h O u t
which the G.. I.
o. would never
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Conference to Discuss
Low-Income Housing

Housing needs of low-income wage
earners will be discussed at the
ninth annual meeting of the Ma
tional Public Housing Conference
which opens tomorrow at the Will
lard Hotel. Attending will be rep
resentatives of business. labor,
church and social service groups.
Speakers for the conference in
clude Senators Wagner and Capper,
Representatives Jerry VoorhiS and
Henry B. Steagall and members Of
the United States Housing Au-
thority.
Evening star., 1940-01-25
All to Send Dimes

LEWISDALE. Md, Jan. Is (Spe-
ciaD Every member Of the Lewis
dale All Club will send a dime to
the Mile O. Dimes infantile paral-
ysis project, it was voted at q
meeting of the club at the home of
its president, Miss Jolce Day.
The meeting marked the groups
first anniversary.
Evening star., 1940-01-25
Tobocco and the War

ioho"Hs suggestion White
Tobacco and the War
OF attitude though unwse easiv understand
aoe Leaving shipping for the moment the best illustration
oes oehnd British policy to be found
to grant import licenses for American tobacco This
10 De extremely serious American
export trade amounts to $70O0OO00
nave large supplies of American tobacco
British smoking tastes will have
against import license been changed
the market will be lost: - -
ON the other hand the Brithare engaged
lher reserves OF foreign exchange limited
money IN tins TINS country American manufacturers driving such
bargains That IN instance the Allied
asked to build 100000 worth
apes They want to their foreign
ana commodities like
were forced offer credit pounds which can be partly
repaid Turkish
OF American tobacco seems natural
Inc same sort OF conflict found questions
now IN The main ones are O Long delays American
British contraband
neua such Italy passed rapidly through opening
Germany found American
90 Bringing to the American ship British
aoan slon at kkWa direct provision
the revised Neutrality Act forbng combat
f W. ~ '
Unhappy Lord
There known
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|HeudlineFoIk
And What
They Do
Two Distinguished
knitters Show the
Feminine Cleavage
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

At the peak Of the militant SUI.
fragist movement, there was a free.
and-easy assumption that women.
getting the ballot. would vote en-
bloc as women, clean up politics and
perhaps chase the boys in the back
room from their political strong.
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h olds. w he n
t h ey got the
vote, at the cli-
max Of the jazz
age. tn e y did
more syncopat-
ing than reno-
waiting, and split
on political is.
sues, even as you
and I.
TIL e cleavage
a m ng them
runs as deeply
as 1t does among
m e n. In the
n e W S together
are two distin.
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accusation of "non-co-operation"
with ill-concealed annoyance. The
matter of the mails Is doubtful,
since international law Is clear that
the British may search mail pass
ing through their territory, but not
clear as to whether mail brought
involuntarily into their territory
may also be searched. AS for the
Mooremacsun incident, the British
were wholly within their rights
under International law hut shou,ef|
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the allied cause. Furthermore, they
have run great political risks to
make the resources of the United
States. available to the allies. Yet,
being taken for granted is their
only reward.
Nor could the British have
found a worse point than a shipping
policy to begin the process of TAX
ing us for granted. The President
is a shipping man by second nature
and makes a daily hobby of the
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The Capital Parade
British Attitude Of Ticking U. 5. for Gronted
Regarded as Seed Of Controversy
TOeu uS See0 OF Controversy
BY JOSEPH ALsoP and ROBERT K1N1

men arises chiefly from the unfortunate British habit of taking
Secretary of State Code Hull in his interview with Lord Lothian
ignored miserable cold dobeyed
it.
Justification the President and other
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HE opinions OF the Orter page their oon not
necsssary The stars Such opinions presented IN The
stars eDort to gue all sides OF questions OF interest to its
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1940-01-25
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The united front" which trium-
phantly reelected President Roose-
velt In 1885 appears to be definitely
crumbling. Within the last 36 hours,
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Lewis Blast
Serves Up
New Riddle
Best Answer
Is He Knows
Party Is Split
BY DAVID LAWRENCE,

John L. Lewis may or may not
have good political Judgment when
he predicts the defeat of President
Roosevelt if renominated, but the
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american naval bureaucracy regards steam radical
with much less use Of this type Of steam generation.
In 1933when the modern
sure In the American Navy 300
1937-When
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Heavier Armament Possible

Even startling, space and
weight would in the of specific warshp
On 150Oon destroyer the high save
in weight Of boiler
saving OF 2O could be applied
battery OF destroyers. "
5nch with shield neghborhood of 2 tons
little simple division discoses gained
in saving 220 below o
On 10O00-ton cruiser the
TONS IN weight OF boiler alone 1000
mean IN terms OF additional
nree s-nch guns IN urretwghs approximately
saving below decks would
urret leaving 400 for added
Perhaps this perhaps mean nothing
naval supremacy
wegntganed through the use of highpressre bocould
crease the nrng power OF American cruisers 1875
could increase the firing Of American destroyes
ms what President Roosevelt and Secretary of the
nghtng their
perpetuatng naval bureaucracy. | ~
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Big Weight Saving

But the cardinal virtue Of hghpressure boilers
everything
heavier the propng machinery below
~
potential advantage in warsp During hearings
Hill the 1888 naval BILL
chief Of engineers admitted that adoption of boilers
mention made Of the
Navy
This figure is far below the
Bowen admitted that 400 below
baleshps to be equipped with additional 14nch
heavier 1t would he said
ing radius Of the ship since fuel could be carried
That in 1887 Today
boiler with $500
heat release PEI
cubic combustion
86 "
This technical description
American citizen should be able
such boiler: "
Cd Would weigh present States Navy
boiler: " ~ ''
Of that - "
CD Would about 40 in space;
C4 Would operate
boilers power: l
f5) Would per of fuel required