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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-03-14
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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-03-14

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The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1941-03-14
ON AND OFF THE AIR.
- UHICH SELF IS he TALKING ABOUT2 -
Ry Fred Emery.

BIG, BLUE-EYED, rangy Jay Jostyn's favorite
quotation is from Hamlet TO thine self be true
and thou canst not be false to any man..
But to which self is Jostyn being true? Around
the NBC studios they still gossipng about the record
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Evening star., 1941-03-17
American Liner Clears
With Food for France

JERSEY CITY, N. j., March IT
P.-The American liner Exmouth
cleared port today loaded to her top
decks with 81 $50 900 American Red
Cross cargo of food, clothing and
medical supplies bound for Mar
seilles in unoccupied France.
Three hundred tons of oatmeal
and farina remained on the dock,
refused passage through the block
ade by the British government.
All space in the liners hold and
six stateroomS was utilized to carry
$4,000 pounds of evaporated and
powdered milk, 10000 pieces Of
clothing made by the $500 Red
Cross chapters in the United States
and possessions, $4,000 units of in
Sulin, 10000 bottles of vitamin con-
centrates and surgical supplies.
The liner carried no passengers.
Clearance, granted by Germany
and England for March 7, was de-
layed upon Italys notification that
it needed more time to communi-
cate with naval units.
Evening star., 1941-03-17
4O-MiIe Wind Holds
Thermometer 10 q;
Worst Yet 10 Come
Drop to IS Is Forecast;
Emergency AirfieId
Used by Planes
Earlier Story on Page Ally

Whistling winds from the north
west-which blew in gusts that
reached 40 miles an hour-held the
mercury at around q degrees today
as the Weather Bureau warned that
the worst is yet to come.
The forerunner of the cold wave
which hit the north-midwest Sec
ton of the Nation yesterday roared
into Washington early today, drop
ping the temperature to 26 at 9 am.
At 8 pm, the mercury had climbed
only two degrees. Tonight's low will
be about Is, the forecaster said.
The high winds forced all incom-
ing and outgoing planes, including
one bearing Wendell L. Willkie to
New York, to use the uncompleted
emergency airfield at Gravelly Point
Airport.
Eighteen planes had landed in
the east-west runway at the un-
completed airport by 2 pm. today,
while 16 had taken off since the
word was passed by the Washing
ton Airport that high winds made
landing there unsafe.
AT 8:42 am. the first plane landed
at the emergency field, few min
utes before Engineer Office officials
received notification of the emer-
gency schedule.
Guards at Gravelly Point said it
was the sixth time this month that
plane fights had been ordered tn
use the new field. Maintenance
crews gasoline trucks and movable
air-ccnditioning units kept an open
air vigil at the emergency field,
while Engineer Office guards
directed the trepled traffic in taxi
cabs and private autos which
thronged to the field.
Evening star., 1941-03-17
Two MonfgomeryB Bills
Follow Suggestions
In Brookings Report
Liquor Board Transfer
And FuII-Time County
Attorney Requested
Earlier Story on Page Alb
BY BEN III. PEARSE,

ANNAPOLIS, Md, March IT,
Delegate Charles c. Jones of Rock
vile introduced three bills today
which would transfer the Liquor
Control Board to the Montgomery
County commissioners, create full
time county attorney to the County
Board and abolish what remains of
the job of county press agent.
The measures were the first spon-
sored by Mr.. Jones this session and
those relating to the Liquor Board
and county attorney apparently were
inspired by the Brookings Institu-
ton survey of Montgomery County's
government released for publication
yesterday.
The bill proposing to abolish the
Liquor Control Board and transfer
its duties to the Board of Commis-
sioners follows a recommendation
of the Brookings report. 1t has also
been urged for several years by the
Montgomery County Civic Fedora
ton.
The bill creating full-time county
attorney provides for a four-year
term and stipulates he shall be re-
moved only for cause. The present
counsel to the county board, Joseph
A. Cantrel, is appointed at the
boards pleasure and devotes only
part of his time to the position.
The bill provides that the new
official will advise "all other gov
ernmental agencies" of the county
and devote his personal attention
exclusively" to the duties of his
Office.
The salary of the county attorney
would be $4,000 per year under the
proposed bill and he would have
secretary appointed by him, receiv-
ing a salary of not more than $1,000
per year. In effect, the proposed
Office would eliminate part-time at
torneys now advising the county
board, Liquor Board, Board of Ed
ucation, Board of Supervisors of
Elections, county treasurer and the
Maryland-N National Capital Park
and Planning Commission with sal
aries ranging from $500 to $4,000 a
year. This also was recommended in
the Brookings survey.
The third measure repeals law
enacted at the 1899 session creating
the Office of secretary to the presi-
dent of the Board of Commission
ers. This post was formerly held by
Ralph H. Chase, who received $2,700
per year.
Evening star., 1941-03-17
u. S. Must See British Children S
Diet Is Kept Up, Dr.. Eliot Says

English have done a fine job in
evacuating mothers and children
from the large cities, and the
women's volunteer services have
made a tremendous contribution to
the civil defense program.
In addition to looking into meth
DDS used in evacuating children from
the cities and caring for them in
rural areas, DR.. Eliot also studied
wartime maternity and child health
services in England, and the prob
lens and work of women in indus
trial defense.
DR.. Eliot, who returned to the
United States by clipper plane, will
help prepare the commissions re-
port, and will devote herself chiefly
to the sections relating to women
and children. Each member of the
commission, she pointed out, studied
a particular aspect Of the problem
OF civil defense In Great Britain. =.
Evening star., 1941-03-17

Though there is little evidence
OF gross malnutrition among Eng
hsh children, the United States
must make certain that their diet
Is kept up to its present standard,
through the shipment of the proper
foodstuffs, DR.. Martha M. Eliot,
assistant chief of the Children's
Bureau, said today on her arrival
in Washington following a months
visit to Great Britain as member
of the War Departments Civil De-
fense Commission.
During her stay in England Dr.
Eliot spent much time visiting
rural areas. to which hundreds of
thousands of children from London
and other large cities have been
evacuated. She also visited Edin-
burgh and Glasgow.
THE morale Of the British people
is splendid" DR.. Eliot said. "The
Evening star., 1941-03-17
Bethlehem Workers Begin
WaIkout al Cambria Plant
By the Associated Press.

~ WIG noootIdttu EItoSs
JOHNSTOWN, Pa, March IT,
James Gent, subregional director
of the c. I. O.'s Steel Workers Or
ganizing Committee, reported sew
eral hundred men had halted work
at the Bethlehem Steel Co.'S huge
Cambria works today in protest
against an employees election.
Mr.. Gent said the election was
being held by the Employees Repre-
sentation Plan, which he claimed
was ruled illegal and ordered dis
established by the National Labor
Relations Board in August, 1889, on
the grounds that it was a company
dominated union. The E. R. P.
has appealed the Labor Board de-
ciSion.
The Cambria works, employing
about $1,000 men, shares in several
million dollars worth of defense
contracts held by the Bethlehem
firm.
Mr.. Gent reported that some of
the men who quit work had left
the plants and others had remained
until the steel now in preparation
has been completed.
Included in the units affected, he
said, were the plate, slab, bloom
ing and 34-inch mills, and all open
hearth furnaces in the Franklin
plant Of the Cambria works; the
9 and 12-inch mills and laborers at
the Gautier plant; and the wire
mill. In addition, he said half the
crews of an inter-plant narrow
gauge railroad had quit and the re-
mainder would leave their jobs later.
The management withheld COM
ment on the situation.
Evening star., 1941-03-17
Viscount Halifax Says
Hitler Cannot Stop
SUPPLIES From U.S..

Viscount Halifax, British Am
bassador, said today that Hit
ler's threat that he can and will
stop all supplies to England
from America will be proved an
empty threat"
The Ambassador added In
talking with reporters at the
State Department that he was
confident Germany will not be
able to substantially interrupt
the steady flow" of supplies,
Lord Halifax described Presi-
dent Roosevelt's speech Satur-
day night as "a magnificent
statement which put new heart
into all those countries Of the
world that intend to remain free
or to become free again"
Il was particularly struck"
he added, with the emphasis
he laid on the vital urgency for
speed now"
Evening star., 1941-03-17
Roosevelt Expected
To Appoint II for
Mediation Board
Will Select Group on
Labor Rows Tomorrow
Or Wednesday
.rlier Story on Page ABB

Earlier Story on Page abb
b tbs Associated Press.
Secretary Perkins and Sidney
Hillman disclosed today that PreSl-
dent Roosevelt would appoint me-
diation board of II members to
handle defense labor disputes either
tomorrow or Wednesday.
The Labor Secretary and the as
sociate directors of the Office OF
Production Management spent more
than an hour with the Chief Execu-
tive. Miss Perkins said they were
talking about the form of the board,
very largely"
They were silent as to personnel,
however. and said they did not
know whom the President would
select as chairman.
They said it would be strictly a
mediation tribunal, indicating that
the President perhaps has changed
his mind about its character. Mr..
Roosevelt originally said he was
considering establishing an agency
with broad powers not only to
adjust disputes but to plan ahead
for the disposition of labor after
the current emergency ends.
Evening star., 1941-03-17
More Germans
Declared Sped
From Austria
Hitler Believed Caught
Unaware by Scope Of
British Landings
RITIIETIN

MOSCOW, March II (Pl.-
Turkish Ambassador Haidar Ak
tay conferred with Vice Commits
sar of Foreign Affairs Andrei
Wyshinsky Saturday, it was
learned in diplomatic quarters
today.
Earlier Story on Page A-1)
Fy tbe Associated Press.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, March
IA military expert just arrived
from a tour of the Balkans esti-
mated tonight that 16 Nazi divi-
sions-perhaps 240 900 men-now are
massed or are within striking dis
tance of Bulgaria's frontier with
Greece.
These, he said, are in addition to
u divisions-about 10000 men-in
Nazi- occupied Rumania.
against these German forces
the British are said to be pouring
100000 men into the Greek MAIN
land and already to have disem-
barked about 100000 with fighting
equipment)
This source said the NaZi forces
in Rumania are divided as follows:
Two divisions still actually in
structing the Rumanian Army or
defending strategic points;
Four on the Rumanian frontier
with Soviet Russia or moving in
that direction:
Two near Yugoslavia,
And four scattered along the Ger
man supply line ready to be moved
in any direction needed.
The expert said Nazi troops still
were pouring down from Austria
through Hungary and Rumania
toward Greece, apparently to match
British preparations.
He said the nature of the militars
activity indicated no attack was to
be expected within the next few
days. at least, and that the Germans
apparently were preparing for a
large-scale Balkan battle in the hope
of dislodging the British from the
continent and to thwart any Brit
ish plan to attack Germany through
her back door.
The sudden moving down of rein
forcements was an indication, he
said, that Germany had been caught
unaware last week by the scope of
the reliably reported British land
ings in Greece.
AS soon as the Decentralization of
the first troops in Greece had been
reported to Berlin. the British had
reason to expect instant attack by
the sizeable Nazi army along the
Greek frontier. Adolf Hitler him.
self had issued such a warning.
The German hesitation, this mill
tar source said, is giving the British
an unexpecteded opportunity to
prepare for any attack.
Observers here expressed conf
dence that Turkey sooner or later
would support any Greek
effort against the Germans.
But the best they can hope for
from Yugoslavia, these sources said,
is that she will continue to refuse
to demobilize at Germany's behest
or permit passage of troops and war
supplies through her territory.
Evening star., 1941-03-17

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March ia DNB (of-
ficial German news agency dispatch
from Paris today said that Jay AL
len, correspondent for the North
American Newspaper Alliance. had
been arrested by German military
officials.
The agency. without giving the
date of the arrest, said the charge
was that he attempted to recross
the demarcation line between Paris
and unoccupied France without cor
rect papers. Another American,
whose name was not given, was re-
ported arrested with him.
(The N. A. N. A. Office in New
York said the last it had heard
from Allen was a week or so ago
when he was at. Vichy, capital
of unoccupied France)
DNB said that an official of the
United States Embassy at Paris,
after investigating the case, decided
not to take diplomatic steps.
Evening star., 1941-03-17
CapitaI-Ba|timore
Put
Before Congress
National Planning Board
Says Rood Nay Be Most
Important in Country
Earlier Story on Page A-U.

The National Resources Planning
Board recommended to Congress to-
day as an urgently needed project
the construction of a superhighway
between Washington and Baltimore
1t also proposed construction of a
new highway between Washington
and Annapolis.
The proposed Washington -Balti-
more superhighway, it was esti-
mated, would cost about $1,000 900
The board said it should have 400
foot right of way. No estimate of
cost was given for the proposed new
highway between Washington and
Annapolis
The Washington Baltimore sec
ton would form a link in a proposed
Atlantic coastal highway, another
project recommended by the board,
which would connect Baltimore with
New York and extensions north into
the New England States.
Because of the area to be served. -
the board said, this proposed high
way is likely to be the most i'm
portant ever to be built in this coun-
try. 1t is eminently fitted for both
peacetime and defense purposes.
Properly designed and properly
located, it will become the backbone
of the highway system of the East
Coast. AS facility for efficient
mobilization of military forces and
for the rapid movement of troops
and munitions. it would become in
dispensable."
Much of the right-of-way of the
proposed super-highway between
Washington and Baltimore. the
board indicated, could be located on
Federal-owned property which would
reduce the cost to minimum.
The board also recommended con-
tinuation of the George Washington
Memorial Parkway from its present
projected terminus at Great Falls
to connect with the Blue Ridge
Parkway in the vicinity of Harpers
Ferry, w. Va. and the extension of
the George Washington Memorial
Boulevard from Mount Vernon to
the Washington birthplace national
monument at Wakefield, Va.
The Resources Board report on
the highway was part of a six-year
post-emergency" public work pro-
gram submitted to Congress today.
Evening star., 1941-03-17
Markets at q Glance

NEW YORK, March II up.
Stocks mixed; utility preferreds
higher. Bonds firm; United
States Governments and rails
advance. Foreign exchange quiet;
Far Eastern currencies dip.
Cotton heavy; Bombay, South
ern and commission house selling.
Sugar higher; firmness in raws
and freight market. Metals
steady; steel operations at record
high. Wool tops steady; trade
support, local selling.
CHICAGO.-Wheat lower; prof
it-taking. Corn steady; cold
weather helps feeding. Hogs ac-
tive, 1925 higher; top $500. Cat
tie steady to strong; steer top.
$500.
Evening star., 1941-03-17

Food Relief
Will Start Soon
Believes Roosevelt
Has Agreement on
Relaxing Blockade

Arrangements are being worked
out by France to buy American
wheat here with some of her frozen"
funds and ship it through the British
blockade for distribution in unoc-
cupied France under Red Cross su-
pervision on a trial basis. CASTOR
Henry-Haye, French Ambassador,
reported after a conference with
President Roosevelt today
This is not definite yet, but it is
a plan" the Ambassad dor told re-
porters as he left the White House.
From what heard from the Presi-
dent expect some kind of relief will
start soon"
The President is realizing that we
have waited until we have reached
the limit of physical resistance" the
Ambassador said.
France has been seeking food relief
from this country for months. but
has been baked by British reluc-
tance to allow shipment through
the blockade of supplies which might
indirectly aid Germany. Under an
agreement with the British one ship
load of American condensed milk,
clothing and medicines for French
children already has reached un-
occupied France and another Red
chartered vessel sailed today
with a similar cargo.
Believes Agreement Reached.
The French Ambassador said he
supposed from what Mr.. Roosevelt
told him about the prospective ar
rangements today that British agree
ment had been obtained for further
relaxation of the blockade to per-
NIT shipment of other vital food
Stuffs.
He said the major need was for
wheat, because the bread ration in
unoccupieo France was getting less
every day.
The Ambassador reported that ne
had agreed for the strictest kind of
controls to be organized for super
vising distribution of the American
| supplies so that no one could have
| any fear about their ultimate des-
tination. He said the French gov
ernment was open to any suggestion
/ for effective controls.
He made clear that France was not
seeking a gift of wheat, but wanted
to use part of its funds which were
frozen" in this country by execu-
tive order when Frence surrendered
to Germany to buy whatever
amount was possible.
No quantities have been fixed for
the program as yet, he said. The
first shipment will be on a trial
basis, he indicated, and he expects
this to show that there is nothing
to fear from the British viewpoint
in the arrangement so that the pro-
gram will continue.
Il know the trial will be success.
full and properly handled" he added.
Asked if French ships might be
used to transport the supplies to
France, the Ambassador said such
details were to be worked out with
the Red Cross and he had not dis
cuSSed them with Red Cross Chair
man Norman H. Davis.
I'm expecting a quick solution"
he said, because in this time Of
misery the old expression to give
quick is to give twice is truer than
ever"
Il am very thankful to the Presi-
dent" he added, who has shown
the greatest human sense, and
want to express the gratitude of
the French women an children for
his understanding.
Evening star., 1941-03-17
Cooperative Peace Goal
After War, Pepper Says
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TORONTO, March 17.-Senator
Pepper, Democrat, of Florida de-
clared today the first task of "de-
mocracy" is to throw back the beast
who leaps at us all" and when that
is done I'VE shall have to think about
what we ought to do to encourage
cooperative peace and progress in
the world .-.-
He told the Canadian and Empire
Clubs that new structure could be
built upon "the principles of the good
neighbor policy which prevail with
us here" needing no other founda-
ton than willingness to admit the
other mans rights while you insist
upon your own"
Evening star., 1941-03-17
Gypsy Rose Lee Wins
Divorce in Chicuoo
RS tLe Associated Press.

EN tLt ESSOClaIed Press.
CHICAGO, March 17.-Gypsy
Rose Lee, the strip tease dancer,
obtained divorce today from
Arnold R. Mizzy, New York dental
supply manufacturer, to whom she
was married in 1887 in California.
Miss Lee filed the suit January
27, alleging cruelty. Superior
Judge Rudolph Desort took the
case under advisement February IT
to study her residence qualifications.
Evening star., 1941-03-17
D. T.. Committee
OF Senate Asks
0verton Plan
Tuxes in District
Are Not Lower,
Report Points Out
Earlier Story on Page B-1.)


The Senate was urged today by
the District Committee to pass the
Overton bill providing a formula
for regulating the Federal share of
the cost of operating the municipal
government here.
The plea was contained in a for
NAL report on the bill which the
committee Saturday voted to report
out favorably. The Senate is ex-
pected to act on the matter this
week
The formula is that the annual
payment of the United States to the
District shall bear the same ratio
TO the total general fund appropria-
tions as the land owned by the Fed
eral Government in the District
bears to the entire land area of the
District. Application of the formula
to the next fiscal year, the report
said, would result in a Federal pay
ment of SO, ,389 $40.
Interminable Controversy.
There has been an interminable
controversy throughout the years
from 1879 to the present in respect
both to the amount and method of
the Federal payments to the Dis
trlct," the report declared.
The purpose of this bill is to
put an end to this controversy by
providing fixed formula regulating
the payment.
No formula of such payment will
prove satisfactory or successful or
serve the purpose intended unless
1t is based upon the three follow
ing essentials:
Il. The factors of the formula
should be on-controversial, fixed.
certain and self-operating.
2. The factors should not be of
arbitrary selection, but should rest
upon reasonable and substantial
bases.
3. The application of the factors
should result in equal justice being
done to both the National Govern
ment and the District government.
In the opinion of the committee,
the formula proposed by S. GIT
meets the above mentioned require
ments."
Taxes Are Not Less.
The report pointed out that the
argument most frequently advanced
against the Federal payment is that
the burden of Federal taxation in
the District Is light as compared
With subdivisions of various State
governments. Then it said:
The committee requested the
Bureau of the Census to make a
study and institute a comparison
between the tax burden in the city
OF Washington and other compara-
BILE cities. The chief statistician,
Division of States and Cities, Bu-
reau of the Census, reported that the
tax burden in the city of Washing
ton Is not less than the average of
other comparable cities.
THE funds for operating and de-
veloping our National Capital are
inadequate and have been for
number of years. 1t is the opinion
OF the committee that the Federal
payment should rest upon a stable
basis, freed of uncertainty, bitter
controversy and ceaseless wrangle."
Evening star., 1941-03-17
House Passes Ship Bill

The House passed and sent to
the Senate today bill giving the
Maritime Commission emergency
powers to negotiate contracts for
construction and chartering of mer-
chant vessels. An amendment
limits all fees and bonuses to seven
per cent Of construction cost.