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Evening star., 1940-07-17
Axis Seen Resortinq
To War Of Nerves in
Peace Offensive
Possible Attempt to Split
Britain and U. S. Also.
Found in Reports
BY the Associa ted Press.

LONDON, July 17-Reports that
a German-Italian peace offensive"
is likely before any attempt to in
wade Britain were interpreted by
some Britons today as an axis. re-
sort to a war of nerves.
London newspapers, published
under Rome or New York date lines,
reports attributed to italian sources,
that the axis powers would make
a 'last chance" armistice offer be-
fore launching an invasion, prob
ably next Friday.
The Daily Mail pointed out that
Friday, July 10, will be the ami
versary of Britain's victory over
the Spanish armada in. 1888.
Interpretations Varied.
The press declared Prime Min
lister Winston, Churchill had served
notice in his broadcast last sun
day night that Britain will toler-
ate no parley."
Peace offensive" reports were in
terpreted variously by the British
as intended to create q division of
opinion between Britain and the
United States, as rejecting an 1tal-
ian desire to avoid q long struggle
and as 8 German attempt to throw
the British OF guard before start
ing an offensive in force.
An aerial battle was fought over
the southeast coast of England this
afternoon, with a number of planes
engaged and with the Germans
dropping bombs.
The fight took place after other
planes were reported flying over
the northeast and southwest coasts.
British and German warplanes
fought over the English coast again
yesterday, and last night the sound
of anti-aircraft fire over Northeast
England indicated the presence of
more hostile planes.
Three Bombers Shot Down.
The British reported three Ger
man bombers were shot down yes
terday following attacks in which
some houses were wrecked but the
only casualties were a few persons
injured" along the northeast coast
of Scotland.
Britain's Mediterranean fortress of
Gibraltar was raided four times yes
terday by bombing planes. The ex-
tent Of damage was not reported.
Italian bombers made a moon
light raid last night on the British
eastern Mediterranean fleet at Alex
andria, Egypt, but failed to hit any
warships, Alexandria reports said.
On the diplomatic front, q state
ment on negotiations between Brit
ain and Japan for closing supply
routes to China was expected today
In the House of Commons,
Evening star., 1940-07-17
U. S. Envoy to Holland
At Bern on Way Home
By the Associated p

By the Associated
BERN, Switzerland, July 1.-THE
United States Minister to the Meth
erlands. George Gordon, with his
Legation staff and the ministers
and personnel Of seven other lega-
tions at The Hague arrived here
last night from Germany en- route
home.
They left The Hague on the
German suggestion that all lega-
tions have their omces closed by
yesterday.
Ministers arriving with Mr.. Cor
don included those of Brazil, Uru-
quay, Venezuela, Colombia and Ro-
Nvia.
Mr.. Gordon's aides said they
planned to fly to the United States.
Evening star., 1940-07-17
-Four Men Arrested
In Gambling Raid
AT Hyahsvi||e
Police Court Hearing
Set for Tomorrow;
Cleanup Promised

In q new effort to stamp out
gambling in Prince Georges County,
Md. county police yesterday ar
rested three men on gambling
charges and q fourth as a State wit
ness in raid in Hyattsville.
The three men, according to po-
lice, are Julius Lohman, 4S, of Bla-
densburg; Charles MULTI, As, of the
400 block Of Oak street NV, and
Morris Pittle, IS, of the $500 block
Of Fourteenth street NV. AL were
charged with establishing and keep
ing place for the purpose of
gambling and betting in Hyattsville.
The fourth man, held as a State wit
ness, is listed as Frank Poleto, "a.
of the 100 block of North Capitol
street.
Hearing Tomorrow.
MULTI, Pittle and Lohman were
released after posting bond Of $500
and Poleto was released after post
ing $500 bond. The men will ap-
pear for a hearing in Police Court
tomorrow.
Police who participated in the raid
were Corpl. John F. Dent, Pvts. C..
N. Thomson, Earl j. Huber and E. r.
Thompson, all of the county police,
and Howard Holmes of the Hyatts-
vile town force.
Corpl. Dent said the four men
were arrested in q room on the
second floor Of building in which
there were about Is people when
police entered. Mr.. Dent said sew
eral escaped by a rear door when
the police arrived and that a dice
table, a chart apparently used for
racing results and a number of
racing forms were found. No cash
was found, however, he said.
Cleanup Is Promised.
Chief Arthur w. Hepburn Of the
county police said that wherever
such activities are found in the
county we are going to break them
up."
Mayor E. M. Cover of Hyatts-
vile said he planned to confer with
police tonight.
If there is any gambling going
on IN Hyattsville I am certainly
going to clean it up," he said.
Yesterdays raid was the fourth
IN = series conducted by county po-
lice in the last two weeks. A total of
eight men have been arrested.
Evening star., 1940-07-17
De Goulle Takes Over
French Ships in Britain
BY the Associated Press.

~ tbs Associated Press. sts
LONDON, July 17.-P. Demalg-
laive, managing director OF the
French Line in London, will lake
charge of all French mercantile
shipping In British ports, 1t was
learned yesterday, rs an associate Of
Gen. Charles De Gaulle, head of
the National French Committee. !.
Demaiglaive said the Normandie,
largest French transatlantic liner,
would be very useful to US, but she
still Is In New York" !.
The Normandie, tied up at a Net
York pier, apparently awaits dispo.
sition by the new regime Of Markh12
petain, which does not recognise th
De 0aulle organization.
Evening star., 1940-07-17
British Union Opposes
Ousting Of Chamberlain

By the Associated Press.
BLACKPOOL, England, July IT.
A resolution demanding the retire.
ment Of former Prime Minister
Chamberlain and his Tory colleagues
from the government was defeated
by the. British Mineworkers Federa.
ton yesterday. ~ s
The vote vas $4,000 10 isl 900. s
Evening star., 1940-07-17
French Demond Britoin
Poy for Fleet Damage
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 1.-THE Petain
government of France has de-
'manded reparations from Britain
for damage done to the French
fleet, the Daily Mail reported yes
terday.
This was said to be one Of several
conditions which French Foreign
Minister Paul Baudoin Insists must
b satisfied before there can be 4
hasis for settling future diplomatic
relations with Britain.
Evening star., 1940-07-17
Admiral Richardson
Flies Back to Huwuii
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, July l7.-Ad-
miral James o. Richardson, who
last week appeared unexpectedly In
Washington for . talk with Presi-
dent Roosevelt, was aboard the Cali
fornia Clipper Is 1t took Oh yester-
day afternoon for Hawaii.
The commander In chief Of the
United States Fleet and his aide,
Comdr. Vincent r. Murphy, who ac-
companted him, were listed on the
passenger list merely o. Honolulu
residents returuiug.s
Evening star., 1940-07-17
Surgeon in Poris Kills
Self to Escape Nuzis
~ the Associated Press,

LONDON, July ia Reuters
british news agency dispatch
from France said yesterday that
Count Thierry de Martel, chief sur.
geon OF the American hospital III
Paris, ended his life with poison the
day the Germans took Paris. y n
DR.. Martel was said to have been
unwilling to risk being required to
serve the German cause. 4a,
Evening star., 1940-07-17
Food Troin Leaves
Geneva for France
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, July
ia trainload of food supplies,
provided by a 100000 fund for
French refugees, left Geneva yes
terday for Lyon, Toulouse and other
parts Of France unocupied by Ger
man troops. A second train OF IL
cars is being loaded today.
Evening star., 1940-07-17

NEW YORK-LARGEST DIAMOND ARRIVES BY MAIL
Edward Sumnick diamond merchant holding theney-
President Vargas diamond Jonker diamond at
his Office yesterday after arrived in 70cent registered mail
package the largest diamond world and the
fourth largest found Named after the President Brazil
where 1t uncovered weighs 7460 carats 2b
inches long and inches wide inch thick exceptionally
clear and blue white It discovered farmer and
diamond digger August 49, 938 auvia layer a region
formed essentially of Agonkan metamophic by
patches of cretaceous arenites. Wide World Photo
Evening star., 1940-07-17
French Government
Al vichy 0peraies
In Goldfish Bowl
Hotel Du Pare Is Scene
OF Open Conferences
And Regimes Activity
BY ROY p. PORTER,

Associated Press War Correspondent.
PARIS, July II (via Berlin).-
Frances new government at Vichy Is
operating as goldfish bowl" re-
gime-everything In plain sight Of
all onlookers.
From the new chief Of state, Mar
shal Henri Philippe Petain, down
to the lowliest undersecretary, the
process Of conducting the govern
ment has been brought into the
bpen.
For example, Vice Premier Pierre
Laval has made habit of handing
out communiques personally In the
lobby Of the Hotel du Pare, where
the principal government onices
are located.
A corner Of the hotel lounge has
been reserved for Marshal Petain.
There he receives all visitors. both
ofncial and unofficial.
Other ministers Of the Petain gov
ernment. particularly Foreign Min
lister Paul Baudoin, drift about the
lobby talking with politicians, Wis
itors and newspapermen.
About the only oficials remaining
out Of the public's sight are the
censors. who occupy fifth-hoor
suite.
Example Of Contrast.
An incident which observed on
recent trip to Vichy emphasized
the goldfish bowl contract to for
mer administrations.
The night after the National As
sembly had voted to give Marshal
Petain power to write q new con-
stitution those Of use who were
sitting in the lounge observed .
commotion in the lobby.
M. Laval and several Of his aides
were arguing heatedly. It turned
out that copies Of new decrees to
be published in the ofiicial Journal
were missing.
After q lengthy search, the miss
ing documents were found, and M.
Laval, clutching them firmly, hur-
ried out to have them signed by
Albert Lebrun, still nominally Presi-
dent.
Ten minutes later M. Laval re-
turned, still carrying the papers.
He stalked across the lounge to
Marshal Petain's corner. With a
flourish, he. produced fountain
pen, and, while about 100 persons
watched, the marshal countersigned
the Assembly's orders Every one
knew then the old constitution had
been abrogated.
Several hours later M. Laval was
heard in another discussion. even
more animated. Onlookers learned
M. Lebrun had declined temporarily
to sign his resignation in favor Of
Marshal Petain.
Petain Persuades Lebrun.
M. Laval called a session of his
aides-several cabinet ministers and
French newspaper men. They
talked quietly nearly half an hour.
Then M. Laval arose. To q query
from a nearby table, he replied
with a smile: Nothing new for
the moment. Wait until tomorrow.
Good night"
This was the signal every one
had been awaiting, since M. Laval
always announces when he is going
to bed, and then every one else
goes home too.
The next morning we learned
Marshal Petain had seen M. Lebrun
to induce him to sign.
When the marshal returned. he
expressed casually the French
equivalent of its all OK"
Thus it became known that the
President formally had resigned and
the new government could proceed.
One apparent reason for this
goldfish bowl" procedure is the con-
centration in one hotel of the major
officials. 1t remains to be seen
whether this continues when and
if the government returns to Paris.
Evening star., 1940-07-17
Weather Report

CFurnshed
ending tomorrow morning. slightly cooler tonight gentle
east backing to north winds:
MarylandMosty cloudy with showers this tonight
PROBABLY ending tomorrow morning. little change
VgniaShowers
morning. slightly cooler portion tonight
West Vgna-Generay fair tonight preceded by
light showers in east portion this afternoon slightly
Evening star., 1940-07-17

a disturbance OF moderate intensity Is
moving eastward over Montana and the
Dakotas. Wiiliston. N. Oak. IOO4l milli-
bars t29.65 inches). minor disturb
Carolina Charleston, 1O15.9 millibars
5000 inches). and . trough extends
thence northeastward to the Bay Of Pun
dy. Pressure remains high over the
Western Atlantic Ocean and from the
Upper Mississippi Valley eastward to New
H.. lO23.7 millibars (30.33 inchesl. and
: ship about 200 miles southeast Of New
Pressure Is relatively high over Utah and
Western Colombo Blandlng. Utah. lO14.2
millibars (29.92 inches). Showers have
occurred In the Atlantic and East Gulf
States. Tennessee. the Ohio and Middle
Mississippi Valleys North Dakota. North
and Plateau reeions. The temperature
has fallen in the Ohio Valley. Tennessee,
the Appalachian region. the Plateau re-
gion and the North Pacific States, while
the weather has become warmer in the
Plains States and Minnesota.
Evening star., 1940-07-17
Race ofAir|iners
SymboIizes Struggle
In South America
Pun-Americun pIune
Defects Junkers in
1,7O0-MiIe Contest

Mr.. Edgerton is touring South
America as a guest OF Pan
American AirtDays. His articles,
sent by mail. wiH be published
as they are received. This Is
the sirth of q series.
Evening star., 1940-07-17

Record fer Last - aeurs.
Urom noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highsst. IS, at Pm. yesterday. Year
ago 81.
Lowest. 90, $50 am. today. Year ago,
So.
RsesrA Temperatures This Year,
Highest, %. on July IL,
Lowest, z. on January 90.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon Yesterday to noon today.o
Hishest, eS per cent At ! am today.
Lowest, 40 per cent, At l pm. yesterday.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED BY United States Coast and
C3Aodatie Runway
Evening star., 1940-07-17
River Report.

Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
Falls today.
Evening star., 1940-07-17
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to date):
Evening star., 1940-07-17

Report for Last "a Hsurs.
Evening star., 1940-07-17

IIle pAIc BIOuI1Q. 1nlS desert was
to be with us for 500 miles and
we were by now more than q little
interested when we overlook the
German plane on the airport at
Antofagasta-an airport which
might just as well be the worlds
largest since the sand stretches per-
fectly fiat for miles In all directions
except to the sea, where 1t falls of
In a sharp. water-carved bluff Of
intricate fantasy.
Took on With Flourish.
Just after we landed, the Junkers
took of with flourish which would
have resulted in the immediate
grounding Of its pilot by any Amer
tcan aviation inspector. Although
he had passengers aboard, the
Junkers pilot pulled OF the runway
into climbing turn, dove, and
roared right over the big United
States airliner before pulling up
again and heading OF south.
They always do that when Amer
lean planes are around" 4 by
stander commented.
Fifteen minutes later we, too,
took OH on the 700-mile flight to
Santiago. Unlike the German, how.
ever, we made stop for fuel on
the high. wind-swept field at Valle-
mar, where pack-mule train
crossed q corner Of the airport and
wound down the steep hill into .
white-walled town.
With his l5-minu4e start, the
Nazi pilot was nearlyA5 minutes to
the good by the time Fe left Valle-
mar and roared on Gown the in
creasingly snowy Andes and In
Evening star., 1940-07-17

FURNISHED BY United States Coast and |
Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1940-09-03
Little Pink SchooIhouse'
Again Open for Business

Judge Carpenter who makes his
home at Budd's. Greek recalls and
states that II spent many happy
hours in the pink school house.
teaching the children Of the coun-
tryside there during my 40 years
as teacher"
Some years ago when the school
board attempted to have the building
painted white, and not keep its nat
ural pink wash put back on, such q
protest aroused from all over the
country from Its patrons and for
mer pupils who had all gone there,
over the change in its color that the
board dared not change its color,
and so today its still pink, with its
white roof trimmings as it was and
remembered by some over so years
or more ago.
With its quaint coloring, roof, and
picturesque setting, some have called
it the little valentine School House"
and its fame has spread since Its
erection and the protest of its
change in color far. and wide
throughout the land. So many mo-
torists each year visit the Budd's
Greek section to get look at st.
Mary's famous little pink SCHOOL
house, where some of the county's
most famous boys and girls now
grown up once attended. there and
learned their A. B. C's as others will
do this year to take their places in
time rs future citizens Of these
United States
Evening star., 1940-09-03
By GEORGE MORGAN KNIGHT

BY GEORGE MORGAN KNIGHT.
LEONARDTOWN, Md, Sept. s.
Much has been written about the
three RS in song and story being
taught by "the tune Of the hickory
stick" in little red school houses
throughout all of America, but did
you ever hear of the famous little
pink school house" or the "Valen-
tine School house In st. Mary's"?
No, well there is one which has
just passed its 50th year In usage,
and when school doors opened here
today in the Mother County Of
Maryland this old school house
nicely freshened up with its pink
wash with white trimmings cut in
fancy work around the roof edges
like large scollops, and on Its en-
trance, again welcomed back pupils
for another nine months of learning
Although the school is just be-
low Budd,s Greek, near this city,
and Is being used by colored pupils
this year, 1t formerly was attenced
by the elite of the upper par. of
st. Mary's when white pupils went
there. For the past 40 years Judge
T. c. Carpenter, better known
throughout the Southern Maryland
peninsula as Teacher Carpenter"
now retired, taught the little pink
school house.
Among the well known families
whose children all attended the
school are: Buntings, Carpenters,
Coxes, Stones, Barberk and Budds,
Evening star., 1940-09-03
Committee 10 Fix Date
Of Railway Express Strike
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
District chairmen of the Brother
hood Of Railway Clerks have en-
powered q committee to fix the time
Of a Nationwide strike of some
10000 members employed by the
Railway Express Agency, Inc.
George M. Harrison, union presi-
dent, said last night the chairmen
Endorsed everything the Negotiat-
ing Committee had done" in connec-
ton with the failure of the brother
hood and the agency to agree on
how to establish the 44-hour week
The clerks now work 48 hours. The
44-hour week was recommended by
a finding board appointed by
President Roosevelt in July to avert
threatened strike.
The brotherhood contended the
company refused to apply the new
hours in "a fair and reasonable
way" and the agency asserted the
brotherhood was demanding it 60
beyond the fact-finding boards re-
port.
Evening star., 1940-09-03
Schafer Urges Using
Greenbe|t 10 House
Defense Workers
Wisconsin Member Of
House Opposes Sole
Of Model Community

A proposal that Greenbelt's model
housing units be used to house
national defense workers instead Of
being sold was made today by Rep
resentative Schafer, Republican, Of
Wisconsin.
The proposal was made before the
House Public Building and Grounds
Committee during a hearing on
bill embodying the administrators
plan to use $150,000, 900 for con-
struction of Nation wide housing
units for defense workers.
John Green, international presi-
dent of the Shipbuilders' Union, had
just told the committee that ship
yard workers were usually ineligible
for units in Federal housing projects
because their salaries are higher
than the standards set and also
often were unable to find proper
housing facilities because Of the iso-
lated location of many shipyards.
What about Washington, D. C.?"
inquired Representative Schafer.
"We have a big navy yard here"
"I want to see adequate housing
all over the country" replied Mr.
Green.
Citing statistics prepared by the
Farm Security Administration, Mr..
Schafer said:
This Tugwell town, Greenbelt,
cost 1884 ,406. It has 885 houses
and 574 units in groups of houses.
Uncle Sam rents four-room units
for $40 and seven-room units for
$39.
IF we are really interested in
national defense, don't you think
Uncle Sam should take Greenbelt
and other such projects and turn
them over to the defense workers.
Why sell it?"
Next, Mr.. Schafer pointed out an
admiral had previously testified be-
fore the committee that good me-
chanics are leaving the Washington
Navy Yard because they couldn't
find adequate housing facilities
nearby.
Let them go to Greenbelt," he
asserted.
Representative Eberharter, Dem
ocrat, of Pennsylvania explained
the housing projects were financed
by the United States Housing Au-
thority and are owned by local
housing administrations under con-
tracts which could be broken.
Lets keep the record straight" !"
Mr.. Schafer said. "The expensive
Tugwen towns, such as Greenbelt
within q few moments of the Navy
Yard, are al owned by the United
States ooReGnmGnk"
Evening star., 1940-09-03
D. c. Youth Shoots Self
Accidentally on Hike

Wounded in the left leg when q
.22-caliber rifle he was carrying was
accidentally discharged, Hazen Ken
nedy, 20, of 1923 jackson street NE.
was treated at Georgetown Hos.
pital yesterday.
He was brought to the hospital by
a companion, James Downs, 426 Fiji
teenth' street NV, who told po-
lice he and Kennedy we're walking
through the woods near Great Falls,
Va, when the mishap occurred.
Evening star., 1940-09-03
Work Resumed
Here FOLLOWING
Ideal Holiday
PIoy Spots Crowded
Over Week End;
Sports Favored

1t was back to work today for
residents of Washington after a
sunny Labor Day which sent crowds
to the beaches and countryside and
to the favorite show spots of the
city.
Beginning Sunday, the weather
was clear and warm, and the mer-
curry scared to a maximum of SO de-
grees yesterday, bringing Joy espe-
cially to swimmers, golfers and ten
mis- players. The Weather Bureau,
incidentally, predicts the weather
will continue fair and moderate
today and tomorrow, with q high of
80 degrees this afternoon.
Particularly noteworthy was the
fact that Labor Day for the Dis
trict was marred by no trafiic fatal
ity, and there was but one injury at
all serious.
Special trains and planes, as well
as the thousands of automobiles
which poured in over the highways,
brought visitors into the city and
took residents temporarily away.
That favorite gauge of crowds, the
National Zoo, recorded a total Of
$4,000 visitors over the week end.
Probably second in popularity to
the Zoo was the Washington Monu-
ment, up which more than 1000
pilgrims went by foot and elevator
to look over the Nations Capital
Yesterday, about 5000 persons
elected, for some reason, to walk
up the giant shaft.
The Capitol, too, had its share Of
visitors as 5000 men, women and
children came to stare at the lofty
dome and to wonder, perhaps, what
the House is going to do about con-
scription this week.
They visited the buildings and
shrines of the city, but they were
glad to drive through the cool of
Rock Greek Park, If one is to Judge
by the number Of out-of State cars
which wound through its glades in
midafternoon.
On the whole the day was quiet
and peaceful and the local police
reported the holiday-makers ex-
tremely well behaved.
Evening star., 1940-09-03
Traffic Record

The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters for "a
hour period ending at 8 am.
Sunday:
Fatalities. ! pedestrian.
Accidents, 81.
Motorists injured, s.
Motorists arrested, $50.
Pedestrians injured, II.
Pedestrians arrested for viola
ton Of pedestrian control reg
u1ations, 5.
The trafiic record for 24-hour
period ending at 8 am. yester-
day:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents. rs.
Motorists injured, 2.
Motorists arrested, 116.
Pedestrians injured, none.
Pedestrians arrested for viola
ton of pedestrian control reg
ulations, 3.
The traffic record as revealed
at police headquarters for "a
hour period ending at 8 am.
today:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 38.
Motorists injured, 8.
Motorists arrested, 1888.
Pedestrians injured, Z.
Pedestrians arrested for viola
ton of pedestrian control reg
ulations, ;.