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Evening star., 1941-04-21
Reduced Auto 0utpu'
May Put Premium
On That Old JaIopy
Manufacturers to Cut
Production 20 Pct, So
Hang on TO Your Cor
By JAMES FREE.

II you haven't arranged to trade
In your car on new model, you'd
better make certain Of the deal be-
fore you get rid of your old auto
mobile. For used cars, even jalopies,
may also be in demand If the defense
emergency continues well into 1912,
automobile authorities agreed here
today.
In announcing that manufacturers
have agreed to make 20 per cent
reduction in automobiles produced
in the year beginning August l,
William S. Knudsen. defense produc-
ton chief, explained that this meant
about 1000, 600 fewer new cars would
be made.
Two facts clearly indicate that
the need for automobiles will be
greater than normal during the eX-
panding defense program.
Half Million Less Cars.
One is, of course, that virtually
all business activities are expanding.
The other is that, according to
ulrveys made by the Bureau OF
Public Roads, more than half of the
current automobile mileage is Tor
business purposes.
In other words, as cars are used
mainly for business and business Is
expanding, then the necessity for
automobiles will be greater. And If
fewer new cars are made, there
must be even more widespread use
Of older automobiles.
At present there are approximate
" 32000,000 automobiles-of all ages
registered in motor vehicle bureaus
oil over the country.
Mr.. KnudSen'S estimate Of 1912
model production would indicate
that some 100000 new cars will be
placed on the market in the year
beginning August l, 1941. That will
be nearly half million less than
were made in the calendar year 1910.
Better Hang on to Yours.
Production In the first quarter of
is41 ran ahead of figures for the
same period last year, pointing TO
q general increase in demand.
Defense production officials said
that. so far as possible, each auto
mobile manufacturing company will
be allowed to work out its own re-
duction schedule. The individual
companies are to work out plans Tor
an overall 20 per cent curtatlment
of their output, and unless their
PROPOSALS conflict they will be per-
nitted to cut down heavily on the
number OF cars Of one particular
make and retain normal production
OF other makes.
Reports from all companies are
expected in about two weeks, 1t was
said, and any necessary revision IN
individual company proposals Will
be made at that time.
There are a lot of angles to the
s,tuation. But the main idea, just
now Is this: II you've got a car,
you'd better hang on to 1t until you
make certain you can got another
without dificulty.
And this, according to automobile
experts, is neither sales talk nor
viewing with alarm. It's sommon
sense.
Evening star., 1941-04-21

sea voyages have recently gone into
hospitals, clinics, universities and
a few homes in this country and
their results were summarized to-
day.
An elderly executive, who could
not walk more than half a block on
account Of arteriosclerosis, slept on
one with remarkable results. He
played golf again and his brain
cleared of a fogginess due to pre-
vious poor circulation.
The bed has relieved a number of
cases of Buergers disease, an all
ment usually of young men, rarely
OF young women. Poor circulation
Evening star., 1941-04-21
Sports Stars 10 Attend
Father and Son BANQUET

Many sports stars and Clyde
Beatty, wild animal trainer, will be
among the guests at the 18th an
nual father and son banquet Of the
Washington Hebrew Congregation
Brotherhood at the Mayfiower
Hotel at 6 pm. on May 4.
Clark Griffith, owner Of the WASH
ington baseball team; Coach Eddie
La Fond of Catholic University,
Coach Jack Hagerty OF Georgetown
Evening star., 1941-04-21

University and Coach Ray Flaherty
Of the Washington professional
football team, will be there, as well
as many football players.
Alvin L. Newmyer will be toast
master OF the dinner. Sidney Lust
is general chairman, with Stanford
Abel, president of the brotherhood,
and Allen De Ford as co-chairman.
Evening star., 1941-04-21
Bed Motorized to Initiate
Sea Trip Found to Relieve Ills

pitch of a ship going over the crest
of wave.
A motor drives it, in three speeds,
one-and-a-half minutes, two min
utes and five minutes, for a round
trip tilt. The motion uses the force
of gravity to help the circulation of
sluggish blood, and to cure or re-
lieve a number of serious ills.
Nearly $50 of these stand-still
Evening star., 1941-04-21

in this disorder results in painful
ulcers in the extremities. Diabetic
and congestive heart failure cases
also were reported relieved
This way Of using gravity was
started by DR.. C. E. Sanders of
Kansas City. He hooked a motor
so as to rock long board, on which
reclined a school teacher whose
arteriosclerosis had kept him from
working afternoons. The teacher
went back to full time.
Evening star., 1941-04-21
BY the Associated Press.

pS tHe heSUCldltu FIeoe,
BOSTON, April 21.-The motor
lied bed, which initiates a sea voy-
age right in the bedroom, was
shown to the annual meeting of the
American College of Physicians to-
day.
Standing in the favorite corner,
the bed tits, head up. head down,
IN sloW-motion yersion of the
Evening star., 1941-04-21
Peru Wheat Substitute

Quinua, a grain much smaller
than wheat, which is said to have
been grown in the Andean high
lands since remote times, is now
being mixed with wheat in Peru
In order to reduce that country's
dependence on imported wheat.
Evening star., 1941-04-21
Lecture to Aid China

Rey Scott, cameraman and war
correspondent, will give an illus
trated lecture on Frontiers in New
China" at Constitution Hall at 8:45
pm. Sunday under the auspices Of
Evening star., 1941-04-21

The Caribbean entrance to the
Panama Canal is actually west OF
the Pacific entrance,
Evening star., 1941-04-21

the United China Relief. Mr.. Scott
will show a natural color filrn of
the Chinese in war-scarred areas.
Evening star., 1941-04-21

The ideal spread for Summer -.
fiowered motifs bordered with dusty
rose, blue. green, peach and wine
shades. Made on good grade un-
bleached sheeting, thickly covered
with fluffy chenille tuftings. Twin
and double bed sizes.
Kann's-Street Floor.
Evening star., 1941-04-21

Full size, enameled case car
pet sweeper with rubber bumper,
easily emptied dust pans and
other higher priced features.
Evening star., 1941-02-25
Believes Germany Possesses
Equipment Superior to Britain's.
To the Editor of The Star

AZ Luc EultOr OF Inc Star.
Of all the testimony given before the
House and the Senate committees on the
leaSe-lend bill, that of Col. Lindbergh
and Maj. Afford j. Williams rings the
most true.
1t is not question of what we have,
but OF the quality of 1t. Quality of
equipment is going to determine the
outcome OF the battle OF Britain.
If you will add to the testimony Of
Col. Lindbergh and Maj. Williams the
gist of the article by Norman M. Littell,
assistant attorney general, published in
The Star, February 8, you can see how
useless will be the borrowed equipment
of poor quality with which English
men will have to defend themselves.
We do not doubt their valor, but we do
doubt outmoded equipment against the
very best that science has produced.
Would 1t not be better to stop the
fight now? Why sacrifice any more lives
in an unequal struggle? No one who
cares for mankind wants to see England
or Germany beaten down to the ground.
MRS. M. 4. HOLLEY.
Evening star., 1941-02-25
Sir Frederick Buntino

The second World War already has
cost the lives of a vast number of
persons who could i'll be spared. But
no career terminated in the prevail
ing struggle was more truly Signifi-
cant of precious value to humanity
than that of Sir Frederick Grant
Banting, killed in the wreck of a
military plane on the coast of New
foundland on Friday last. While
proceeding to Britain on a mission
of high national and scientific i'm
portance," he crashed in drifts of
snow a hundred and forty miles
northwest of st. Johns. Two fellow
passengers perished with him. No
other tragedy of recent months has
brought more poignant grief to
multitudes of people.
Until he received his knighthood
from King George v in 1884, the CO.
discoverer of insulin was known
merely as DR.. Banting, a modest,
earnest, hard-working laboratory
oGuoCIlC dO o1lC OlllNClolVy VI 4OlOIlUU.
The achievement which won him
fame was the development of the
theory that a substance could be
extracted from the pancreatic ducts
of animals for the assimilation of
sugar in the treatment of diabetes.
His basic enterprise began on October
80, 1920. During the next two years
he demonstrated the practical i'm
portance of his find to the applause
of the only jury truly competent to
appraise this peers in medicine.
The Nobel Prize was an almost in
evitable reward. 1t was shared with
DR.. J. R. Mcleod, DR.. Charles H. Best
and DR.. J. j. Collip, all of whom had
been associated in the labor.
The net effect of Sir Frederick's
researches was to rob diabetes of it's
terrors. A disease which hitherto
had been regarded as fatal might
not be altogether cured by insulin,
but its ravages were held in check
and the tolerable existence Of suffer-
Evening star., 1941-02-25
A Fortnight Appeal

In urging his colleagues in the
House to concentrate on securing
adoption of the Summers national
representation amendment to the
Constitution at this session, Chair
man Randolph of the District Com
mittee made fortnight and real
istic appeal on behalf of the voteleSs
residents of the National Capital.
Mr.. Randolph made it plain that
his remarks were not in any wise
intended to imply criticism of the
various other similar proposals which
have been submitted to Congress in
the past. On the contrary, he paid
tribute to those who have worked in
behalf of these proposals, but pointed
out, by way of emphasizing the de-
STABILITY of uniting behind one plan,
that Senator Capper of Kansas, who
had sponsored an amendment of his
own for many years, is preparing this
year to support the Summers resolu-
ton.
The amendment which has been
proposed by Chairman Summers of
the House Judiciary Committee
would empower Congress, in it's dis
cretion, to give the District repre-
sentation in Congress and in the
Electoral College, and to delegate
to such municipal government as it
might set up the power it deemed
advisable. Since the effect of this
amendment, if adopted, would be to
enlarge rather than circumscribe the
powers of Congress with respect to
the District, its advocates have felt
that no reasonable objection could
be raised to it if the resolution were
to be brought to vote in the House
and Senate. 1t is realized, however,
that the best chance of achieving
this objective lies in rallying all ad-
Vocates of national representation
behind one proposal instead of di-
vldlng to support several plans, and
1t is for this reason that Mr.. Ran
dolph's recommendation should be
received favorably by all members of
Congress who would extend to the
people of the District the funda-
mental right of a voice in govern
ment.
Evening star., 1941-02-25
SuDerhiqhwuy

Plans now being considered by the
Maryland Legislature for a multiple
lane, high-speed boulevard between
Washington and Baltimore offer an
interesting solution for one of the
Middle Atlantic sections most serious
transportation problems Between
the North and the South, Number
l Highway, which in Maryland in
cludes the present Washington
Baltimore Boulevard, is the sole
traffic link. North of Baltimore, by
way of the new Philadelphia road
and the great highways of Pennsyl-
vania and New Jersey, the route COM
prises modern roads, with alternate
ways available for passenger cars.
South of Washington, Mount Vernon
Boulevard and Route 2 from Fred
ericksburg help to relieve congestion.
1t Is the Washington Baltimore
stretch which in normal times is
one of the busiest, most congested
and most dangerous highways in the
country. In period of emergency
1t could well become a dangerous
bottleneck.
With an estimated cost of $15,000,-
900 for the new road, plus another
$l5,000,000 for a bridge over Balti-
more harbor to bypass the city,
the question of financing is foremost.
Maryland now has a long-range
highway program which is expected
to exhaust all road funds for the
Evening star., 1941-02-25
"ALBEMARLE STREET

Dear Sir:
"At present we have IL different
kinds of birds coming to the feeding
stations daily. There is hardly a half
hour throughout the day when several
cannot be seen.
II wondered if perhaps this delight
full treat could not be shared with some
one who really wished to learn more OF
the birds commonly found in the Dis
trict.
"On the second story window sill
keep sunfower seed for the cardinals,
tufted titmice antl chickadeeS Juncos
come for the chicken feed Suet tied
to trees attracts the titmice, chickadees,
downy woodpecker, nuthatch and very
occasionally few starlings.
THE blue jays love it when cut up and
placed on the big stand, but they eat
too much, so that stand holds just grain
for all who wish to come.
Contrary to SO many reports, we are
not bothered by many English sparrows.
Until this year they were practically
non-existant in the garden but recently
have counted as many as seven feed
ing at one time.
They are not quarrelSome-th car
dinals, juncos and white-throats gen.
orally being around at the same time.
And am not inaccurate in stating that
the other birds are more prevalent
not in actual numbers, will grant. but,
in activity and cheerfulness.
There are seven blue jays q would
prefer fewer), two pairs of cardinals,
at least three titmice and three chicka-
dees, two nuthatches and two mocking-
birds.
white throats and juncos are more
numerous.
lowing to illness, I have had time to
observe the comings and goings of birds
within our lot. and last spring and
summer evolved my little checking sys-
tenn.
Il would list the names of all the birds
I knew TO be In the garden, then as they
came to the feeding station for food.
Sometimes they few back and forth
almost too rapidly to be counted, but I
discovered that during the daylight
hours of spring and early summer they
averaged one per minute at the feeding
station.
Some, Of course, never came to the
station. Last week, on cold cloudy day.
for the first time I saw the cardinal
taking bath
1T was II o'clock in the morning. He
squatted in the water for an interval,
then frisked the water in every direc-
ton, repeating this procedure again and
again. He stayed in several minutes.
Il incloSe list of the birds I saw this
year within our own garden. 1t may
interest you.
Yours very truly, I. w"
The list Of birds seen in a suburban
garden lot, 80 feet by las feet, during
the season of 1910 follows:
Hummingbird, goldfnch. Maryland
Evening star., 1941-02-25
Mr.. Franklin CriticiZes

A Critic.
To the Editor OF The Star:
In The Star for February 20 you pub
lished a letter from Otis j. Bouma in
support of the position taken by Senator
Wheeler and in criticism of my position
on the aid-to- England bill. In this letter,
Mr. Bouma said of me: From 1918 to
192S-according to Who's Who in Amer
ica-he lived abroad. He lived in Lon
don, Constantinople and Rome during all
that time. He has the European point
of view"
Mr. Bouma is entitled to express his
opinions, but he owes an apology to me
and to your readers for miSstating the
facts. who's Who in America" (Volume
2D states them correctly: Employed in
American Embassies, Rome and Con-
stantinople, 1918-19; private secretary
American Ambassador, Rome, 1920-21;
representative, WilliamStown Institute
of Politics, 1922; Rome correspondent,
London Daily Chronicle, 1929"
Between August, 1918, and May, 1923,
spent about three and a half years in
Europe-not continuous-and since 1928
have lived continuously in the United
States, save for two brief visits of few
weeks each to Europe in 1927 and 1882
respectively. Mr. Bouma may have be-
come confused by the fact that I was
employed by the New York Times from
1928 to 1928, in New York, but there is
no excuse for his assertion that had re-
sided in London. If it is his purpose to
suggest that I am an eXpatriate because
of prolonged foreign residence, he should
check his facts before making that sug-
gestion the basis for criticism of my po-
sition in public issues.
JAY FRANKLIN.
Evening star., 1941-02-25
Turkish Enigma

AS developments foreshadow early
"inflltration" of Bulgaria by German
troops, for the purpose of attacking
Salonika and assailing Greece's flank,
Turkish Foreign Minister Sukru
Saracoglu intimateS that his govern
ment will not stand idly by while
such operations proceed. His state
ment, on its face, is a negation of
the Interpretation placed on Bull
garla'S recent non-aggresSion accord
with the Ankara government. When
it was signed, Sofia was prompt to
herald that Turkey would not resist
Nazi march across Bulgaria as long
as the Turks own borders were not
violated. There was corresponding
jubilation in Berlin.
While there is no categorical evil
dence in the Saracoglu pronounce
ment that Turkey would consider
Hitler's armed presence in Bulgaria
Justification for belligerent action,
there is some reason for such a con-
Structlon OF Ankara'S purpose. Tur-
key, it is declared, would find it i'm
possible ito remain Indifferent to
foreign activities which might occur
in her security zone" Everything de-
pendS on what, in Turkish estima-
ton, constitutes such a zone. The
Turks have always considered Bull
garia to be territory coming within
that description. BY bringing his
army within striking distance of the
Dardanelles, across the Aegean Sea
from Salonika, Hitler would certainly
seem to be impinging perilously upon
Turkeys vital defense area, yet the
Saracoglu affirmation is devoid of
concrete assertion to that effect. To
that degree, it leaves the Turks posi-
ton enigmatic, as does even the
Foreign Minister'S assurance that
his country will oppose with force
any and all aggression which might
be directed against her territorial
integrity or independence When
the agreement with Bulgaria was
conSummated, both governments let
it be understood there was nothing
in it designed to nullify previous
commitments with other powers:
simultaneously, there appeared sup
poSedly government inspired press
statements that Turkey in particular
= has no thought of renouncing her
alliance obligations to Great Britain.
Yet, pending more specific avowal
than any so far made, Turkeys &C
tual intentions must remain a matter
of uncertainty. There will be ground
for suspecting that she hesitates to
incur assault by the mighty Nazi war
machine. Thus, the course of events
will continue to be subject of pure
speculation. Perhaps the reported
Forthcoming arrival of British For
eign Secretary Eden in Ankara, fol-
lowing his visit to Egypt, will clarity
a situation fraught with doubt and
ambiguity and one of paramount i'm
portance to Britain. Meantime, the
British high command in the Near
East shows no inclination to let the
Balkan situation go by default, as
disclosed by prospective troop trans
fers from Alexandria to Salonika and
conversion of the Greek island Of
Lemnos into an r. A. r. base.
Evening star., 1941-02-25
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles z. Trdce11eH.

yellow throat, redstart, indigo bunting,
vireo, house wren, ruby crowned king
let, junco, white-throated sparrow, Eng
sparrow tree sparrow, song sparrow,
purple finch, chickadee, yellow warbler,
oven bird. wood thrush, brown thrasher,
robin, bluebird, flicker tufted titmouse,
downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker,
white breasted nuthatch, blue jay, mock
ingbird, cedar waxwing, phoebe, pewee,
swallow, chewink, bob-white, catbird
cardinal, orchard oriole, starting, crow
hawk.
This is a good list. AS we were reading
it over, we came to the notation of the
purple finch, and regretted that We had
not had these beautiful birds in our own
yard for several years
They ought to be showing up almost
any time now. in migration.
Purple f1nches are among the most
attractive of all the migrators.
This is not a large bird, being about
612 inches long, but it seems larger
The coloring ranges from deep wine
purple on the crown to a pale pink at
the rump.
THE back and shoulders are reddish
brown or ne-purplish, streaked with
darker color.
Altogether, he is extremely handsome,
and his first advent in a home garden
is something to be looked forward to
and long remembered
Some morning you look out the
window, and suddenly notice more color
in the part of the yard where all the
wildbirds are feeding.
Along the perennial border runs
streak of fire. 1t is the purple finch. 1t
is not bright fire, but a sort of dull
one, yet glowing.
Few birds strike the casual observer
as so different as this one.
It is a seed eater, of course, even if
it does eat fruits, too. If you get a close
view of its conical bill you know in
stantly that it is a hard-billed bird.
which means that it can and does eat
seeds.
Inc purple nncn mas pleasant song.
From now on, persons interested in
birds will be hearing more bird songs.
Already the cardinals are singing
their spring songs, and many a new and
strange chirp comes from any group
of birds in the yard
The starlings have an entire repertoire
of spring notes and whistles, some of
which already are being heard.
1t is impossible to make the birds be-
lieve that spring is not just around the
corner They know better. They. as a
race. have seen too many springs come
and go. What are few weeks to them?
1t makes no difference to a bird
whether the grounding sees his shadow.
The birds at any feeding station have
an urge far older than a snowfall.
They are bathing more too. as our
correspondent says. Whereas they have
been more content just to drink, in pans
and baths, now they are going in,
throwing the water all over them. Yes,
spring must be at hand, no matter how
1t looks out the window.
Evening star., 1941-02-25

ers prolonged indefinitely. Especially
for the treatment of children was
the discovery incalculably helpful.
Still young man, DR.. Banting never
dreamed of resting on his laurels.
Born at Alliston, Ontario, November
4, 1891, he was only forty-eight years
of age when the present strife began.
Investigation of the causes of cancer
and silicosiS which he had under
taken was abandoned when he heard
that Hitler had marched into Poland.
Sir Frederick, who had won the Mill
tary Cross for attending wounded
under fire at Cambria in 1917, again
put on his uniform. The next news
was that of the price which he has
paid for freedom. His friends are
well assured that he did not finch
the final test;
Evening star., 1941-02-25
Urges Consideration of Meaning
OF Danger to Liberty Today.

To the Editor OF The Star:
1t seems fortunate for the lease-lend
bill that it is designated H. R. 1776. The
bill should revive the spirit of 1776. We
need to rethink the American Revolution
and TO ponder again the cost of our
liberty. We have come to take this
precious heritage as a matter of course
Our ancestors considered it worth dying
for and we would not possess it had they
not given their blood for it.
We are not yet awake to full realiza-
ton of the priceless value of our liberty.
We do not understand that not only ours
but the liberty of every one throughout
the world is threatened.
The word liberty" suits our present
world situation better than does de
mocracy," for 1t is our very freedom
which is jeopardized. Patrick Henry
did not say, "Give me democracy or give
me death!" That would not have been
q winning slogan. A. 3. CANNADY.
Crescent City, Fla.
Evening star., 1941-02-25

next two decades. Since the new
highway would be of little direct
benefit to communities along its
route, only two or three access lanes
being provided, and would be used
principally by interstate or intercity
traffic, there is much justification
for levying toll charge which would
liquidate the cost in from twenty to
thirty years. Experience of Pennsyl-
vania with it's new cross-State super
highway, and of New York with its
gigantic Westchester approaches to
the metropolis, has shown that toll
roads of this type are practical and
that they are not unpopular.