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Evening star., 1941-04-02
Income Tax Receipts
Reach Monthly High
OF S1,100,000,000
March TotoI Is Double
Thot of March, 1910;
Spending Tops Revenue
BY the Associated Press.

The Treasury said today income
tax collections reached monthly
record of about $1,100,000,000 in
March.
Income taxes, officials said, ac-
counted for nearly all of the ST.
POT ,5l2,89l income and excess profits
tax collections recorded during the
month. Segregation of the two types
of taxes will be made on Treasury
books later.
March income tax collections are
the most important guide to annual
Federal revenues, because in that
month many individuals and cor
porations pay their full years in
come taxes, while others subject to
the tax pay their first quarterly in
stallment.
Double Last Years Figure.
The March total was nearly dou-
Bile the $685., ,486.755 collected in
March of last year. The figure ex-
ceeded collections made during the
whole of several recent fiscal years.
The March total was believed by
some officials to be at least $500, ,000.-
900 in excess of budget estimates.
With three months of the fiscal year
yet to go, during which lime an
other quarterly payment date will
arrive, income tax collections already
amount to about s2.3000 100000 of
the s3,055 900 900 predicted by Presi-
dent Roosevelt in his budget for the
fiscal year which will end June 80.
Revenues, however, were still far
behind expenditures, and admins
tration leaders were preparing to ask
new taxes Of Congress.
For the first nine months of the
fiscal year total revenues from all
taxes amounted to IS .372 ,l01, 100. but
expenditures amounted to S8,770,-
628,952, leaving a deficit OF So
1913, ,527,16
The spending program was led
by ver-growiEg defense costs,
March defense expenditures totaling
s744.8O4, 1853. This figure was sl52,-
100000 above February's and was
the ninth consecutive monthly rise
in such expenditures. The rate of
this monthly gain was shown by the
fact that the March total was more
than four times the size of such
costs last July, when the current
defense program started.
Borrowing to finance the resulting
deficit today pushed the Federal
debt over $4,000 OOO,oOO also a
record. After completing bookkeep-
ing on a recent $500 900 900 borrow
ing operation, the Treasury said the
public debt on March 81 was
s47,172 ,s8s,61s.
Evening star., 1941-04-02
Refusal 10 Negotiate,
Anti-Union Fight Held
Issues in Ford Strike
Discharges, Pay Raises
And Spy Charges Also
Figure in WoIkout

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, April Tissues in the
United Automobile Workers &c. |.
o. strike at the Ford Motor Co. S
huge Rouge factory stem from four
years of attempts to organize en-
ployes Of the only large automobile
manufacturer who never has had a
contract with the union.
Henry Fords expressed opposition
to labor unions as unnecessary for
his employees, and union charges
that the Ford management has en-
ployed espionage and intimidation
to prevent workers from joining
unions, are the issues of long stand
ing in the dispute
The immediate issues, union de-
mands which r. j. Thomas, U. A. w
president, said the Ford company
for months has refused to nego-
tiate." are:
Immediate reinstatement of al
workers discharged because of theil
union affiliations.
"A wage increase of 10 cents ar
hour to bring the wage rates OF
Ford workers up to the standard
of those paid by General Motors
and Chrysler.
Establishment of seniority sys-
tenn to govern layoffs and rehirings
Establishment Of a shop steward
system to speedily and justly han
die grievances as they arise.
Abolition of the Ford spy system
and its (the company's) Infamous
service department.
And other elements Of con-
tractual agreement which will make
possible operation of the River
Rouge plant on a basis of equity
! for the workers"
Evening star., 1941-04-02

In peacetime, England handled
an average of 25,000,000 mole pelts
annually. Most of them came from
Europe and many were re-exported
to the United States, Canada and
South America.
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rushed into the operating room.
Flying squadrons of pickets
roamed over the county and staged
a mass meeting at the Mary Helen
Mine at Coalgood, where guard
was slain yesterday.
Evening star., 1941-04-02
Biqqest Germun School
In Mexico Is Closed

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY. April q The
most important German school in
Mexico, Colegio Aleman, with 1900
students, suspended classes today.
School officials referred inquirers
to the foreign ministry, where no
explanation was Immediately avail
able.
Anti-Nazis have assailed the
school as a source of pro-Nazi prop
aganda.
Evening star., 1941-04-02
Coal

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1941-11-30
Rebuilding Men for Army Service
Bv Thomas G. Hardman.

BY lnOmdS u. 1dTOIndll.
which, in turn, will authorize treatment
and refer them to dentists in their com.
munities.
Similarly the medical profession will
cooperate later in wiping out physical
defects, other than dental, in thousands
of additional rejected men. For the
sake of comparison, the following rejec-
ton causes and percentages in the Sc
lective Service program thus far may be
noted: Eye defects. 1877; heart ailments,
lO7: musculo-skeletald defects. 6.6; ven-
ereal diseases, So: mental and nervous
disorders So: hernia, 50; ear defects.
as: feet defects. 40: lung defects. in
cluding tuberculosis, %, and all others,
1T.
Although 1t must be granted that the
majority of potential selectees turned
down for physical defects not only are
willing, but are eager to be fitted for
military training. not few men have
wilfully neglected, even deliberately in
duced their physical shortcomings to
evade the draft.
But as Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey.
national director of selective service, has
expressed it, in all cases it is the duty
and the authority of the Selectlve SerV.
ice System to see to it that every man
who should bear arms for his country
is fit for that purpose"
In some cases of deliberate attempts
to evade service officials have not waited
for the rehabilitation program to take
effect. Waivers have been obtained by
local boards from national headquarters
and men with remediable defects In
Quoted on schedule, with the prospect OF
spending their first few weeks in the
Army as medical patients. This pro-
cedure has been the case in some in
stances of registrants purposely con-
tracing gonorrhea a short time before
reporting for induction.
Moreover, it is known that the District
of Columbia has had its share Of these
cases.
Washington health officials some time
ago charged that this city's relatively
high percentage of draft registrants re-
jected because of venereal diseases was
due in large measure to deliberate ef-
forts to dodge military service.
The rehabilitation program Is by no
means a new idea to selective service
authorities. They have repeatedly advo-
Gated such a plan, but 1t has taken fig
ures to produce the necessary approval
for its active beginning. AS far back
as last May Gen. Hershey said that the
Evening star., 1941-11-30

peace and wartime the United States
Navy depends a great deal on the
Weather Bureau warnings. And in
wartime, it is even more important that
ships of our fleet, patrolling within the
hurricane belt, receive these reports. Ma
val and Weather Bureau officials are
working now on plans for just such an
eventuality But, obviously, details are
a military secret and cannot be re-
leased.
This much can be told, however. The
Weather Bureau is seriously considering
the establishment of robot stations, ra.
dio-operated from control point per-
haps hundreds of miles away. A radio,
beam would set off delicate mechanism
in these unmatched units whenever es-
sential data was required and in short
time weather conditions at some island
outpost would be available for the hur-
ricane mappers.
The bureau will continue to lean heav.
lily on the shore stations already in
operation through the islands. Only II
they fall into hostile hands will these
stations cease operation, it is believed
here.
Airplanes might even be used to scout
over the Caribbean and Gulf Of Mexico
in search of the first indications OF a
hurricane, according to one of1cial OF
the bureau here, should ships OF many
more nations become silenced.
The Federal Hurricane Warning Serv-
ice is just six years old, although the
bureau has engaged in such work since
the Spanish War. In July,
1885, the service was reorganized and
expanded into the present organization
Since that time a special teletype cir
cult has been established to connect all
Weather Bureau city and airport offices
from Brownsville, Tex, to Jacksonville.
In addition a telemeter circuit connects
the three forecast centers of Boston,
Washington and Jacksonville to the hur-
ricane teletype circuit.
The Weather Bureau is so years old
this year-in 1891 the Department of Ag-
riculture took over weather forecasting
from the Army Signal Corps.
Evening star., 1941-11-30

lege, the home of the Minister of France.
Judge Duvall, the Secretary of State:
the Caldwell House ct 206 Pennsylvania
avenue and the Navy Yard. where he
dined at the quarters of Commodore
Tingey. He also called on Secretary
Crawford "and breakfasted with him at
his cottage residence in the country
which, strange as it may seem, was then
on the northwest corner of Massachu-
setts avenue and Fourteenth street, which
is today in the heart of the city.
Lafayettes welcome in Alexandria
where he arrived on october 16-Was a
part of the entertainment accorded him
by the District of Columbia, since this
historic city was then a part OF the 10
mile square, and here he was received
amidst the shouts and welcome OF thou
sands of voices" as he was escorted
through the town The women, always
as loyal and enthusiastic as the men,
filled the windows on the line of march.
being dressed in their best attire as they
waved their handkerchiefs to the vet
eran as he passed, in token of their par
Al INC Jos aiAoAAAASSVSA ~ eA4S
multitude in the streets"
He was also entertained at Gadsby's
by Alexandria Washington Lodge. F. g.
A. M for it is well known that Lafayette
was a member of the Masonic order.
having received his degrees when he
was l8 years of age, in one of the lodges
composed in whole, or in a large part,
by the members of his regiment, either
when he was with the Black Musketeers,
or later with the Noailles Regiment Of
Dragons.
1t was not until December 8. 1925, that
Lafayette sailed down the Chesapeake in
the u S. frigate Brandywine, sad at
heart in leaving behind his multitude of
friends in the United States, but on the
other hand. longing to see his children,
grandchildren and great-grandchlld back
on the LIE Grange estate in his beloved
ssance.
Evening star., 1941-11-30
Detecting Tropical Hurricanes
Proceeds to Washington
By Malcolm D. Lamborne, Jr.


Quickly, the hurricane mappers at
Jacksonville 60 to work, the data is COM
pared, and soon the hurricane becomes
an identity. All ships in the vicinity
or in its path are put on an alert, and
because lending hand is the univer-
sal rule of the sea, they continue to send
in reports, quite often hourly, until the
storm is out of their range of observation.
Should the hurricane leave the track
of steamers, however and point its mad
center landward, then the shore stations
so into action
A trained native observer on some
lonely island, notes that the wind, sea
and barometric pressure portend the
center Of the blow will pass nearby. From
his small radio often portable affairs,
goes out weather conditions to Nassau,
the government seat. Nassau relays the
warning to Miami and from there to
Jacksonville.
Unlike the skipper of ship who is
able to outmaneuver hurricane over
the wide expanse of ocean, once he knows
its location and direction of travel, these
men of the shore stations must stay put.
Their position can be compared to
trench warfare-they have dug in and
there they remain.
Many of these observation points are
run almost singlehanded. But whether
it is homespun affair or an up-to-date
station such as maintained in Cuba and
Puerto Rico all are dedicated to the
purpose of tracking down disturbance
and giving ample warning. Nationality
lines are broken down, too. British,
Dutch, French and independent coun-
tries in the West Indies and Central
America cooperate fully with this coun-
try and each other in the assembling OF
weather data.
But here in Washington officials are
beginning to worry No longer do they
receive reports from ships of belligerents.
War requires that radios be silenced ex-
cept for the sos or SSS submarine
attack calls This season observers have
had to depend solely on reports from
South American and United States
ships.
But the work must 60 on. In both
Evening star., 1941-11-30

American sister-in-law even led him to
attempt to mislead the Pope. when he
wrote to him as follows:
"I have frequently spoken to your
holiness of young brother, l9 years Of
age, whom I sent in frigate to America,
and who, after a sojourn of month,
although a minor, married Protestant.
the daughter of merchant Of the
United States. He has just returned. He
is fully conscious of his fault. I have
sent back to America Miss Patterson,
who calls herself his wife. BY our laws
the marriage is null. A Spanish priest
so far forgot his duties as to pronounce
the benediction. desire from your holi-
ness a bill annulling the marriage. I
could easily have his marriage broken
in Paris, since the Gallican Church pro-
nounces such marriages null. But it ap-
pears better to me to have 1t done in
Rome, on account of the example to
Evening star., 1941-11-30

An unsung legion of men spread from
Washington to the north coast OF South
America heaved sigh of relief on the
18th of this month as the so-called hurri-
cane season ended for this portion of the
Western Hemisphere. But mindful
of records showing that the dread
monsters of the sea strike even IN
winter, these men will not relax their
vigilance.
Since last July they have been on a
24-hour- a-day alert. Atop peaks OF
West Indian islands, on seldom-visited
Gays of the Bahama Islands, and along
our Atlantic coastline,. they have main-
tained their watch seaward and aloft.
The United States Weather Bureau
calls the organization the Federal Hur-
ricane Warning Service, but to those
people who live within the hurricane belt
it is known as the legion of mercy"
Here is what the bureau has to say of
the service: "The service has three
main functions: The collection of re-
ports, the issuance of forecasts and warm
ings, and the distribution Of this infor-
nation to the public"
Newspaper readers are familiar with
the occasional notice in the daily weather
report: "A tropical disturbance With
winds of hurricane force over a small
area has been located 200 miles north
east of st. Martins, moving in a northerly
direction at about IL miles an hour.
Caution is advised vessels lying in its
path"
The storm warning was sent out from
Jacksonville, Fla, by telemeter to Wash
ington and other stations along the East
Coast Within short time all interests
knew of its existence. That part is easy,
but how did Jacksonville learn of the
hurricanes presence and how is the
forecaster there able to keep such close
track of its progress?
The disturbance was first recorded by
the master of a ship in the vicinity of
the storm. BY radio to shore, he sent
such details as temperature, barometer
reading, wind direction and force and
condition of the sea. Perhaps another
vessel hundred miles away from the
first, radioed similar information.
Evening star., 1941-11-30

an American cannon, both of which were
used in the siege Of yorktown.
This tent was used few days later in
the exercises in this city outside the
Capitol, under which Layafette walked
upon leaving the rotunda of that build
ing, and this tent has been in the Ma.
tional Museum in this city since 1888
Describes Tents
George Washington Parke Gusts tells
us: The marques were made on Third
street, Philadelphia, under the direction
Of Capt. Moulder of the artillery, and
were first pitched on the Heights Of
Dorchester in August, ITS"
Regarding the tents generally, MIR.
CuStis also says:
The headquarters were under canvas
during the siege and after the surrender
of Yorktown. The marques of the
commander -in-chief were pitched in the
rear of the grand battery, just out of
range of the enemy's shells There were
two marques attached to the headquar-
ters during all the -. campaigns. The
larger, or banqueting tent, would contain
from 40 to so persons; the smaller, or
sleeping tent, had an inner chamber,
where, on a hair cot-bed, the chief re-
posed There is most interesting remi-
niscence attached to the sleeping tent.
The headquarters, even during the sum-
mer season, were located, in great ma
jority of instances, in private dwellings,
the sleeping tent being pitched in the
yard or very near at hand. Within its
venerable folds, Washington was in the
habit of seeking privacy and seclusion,
where he could commune with himself
and where he wrote the most memorable
of his dispatches in the Revolutionary
War. He would remain in the retire
ment Of the sleeping tent sometimes for
hours. giving orders to the officers Of his
disturbed save on the arrival Of an i'm
portant express
Gen. Lafayette arrived in the city Of
Washington, according TO previous ar
rangements. about ! o'clock on Tuesday"
and the National Intelligencer goes on to
say: He left Baltimore on the after
noon of Monday, with his son and sec
retary, accompanied by a part OF the
Baltimore committee of arrangements,
Col. Dickerson and Col. Lloyd. the aides
of the Governor of Maryland, and
escorted by Capt. Hollingsworth's hand
some cavalry company of grays from
Elk Ridge. Fourteen or Is miles from
Baltimore, at 8 o'clock in the evening,
they were met by the first Bladensburg
troop of cavalry, commanded by Capt,
Sprigg date Governor of the State of
Maryland), and the general and suite
were escorted by this fine company (the
Evening star., 1941-11-30
BY John Clagett Proctor.

sovereign families marrying Protestants.
1t is important for France that there
should not be Protestant young woman
so near my person. 1t is dangerous that
a minor and distinguished youth should
be exposed to such seduction against the
civil laws and all sorts Of propriety."
The Pope did not see the case as did
Napoleon, whose only desire for an an
nulment was to make . strategic royal
alliance, and declined to interfere In the
matter. Napoleon then resorted to .
civil decree, and subsequently married
Jerome to the German Princess, Fred
erica Catarina OF Wurttemberg, and
three weeks after the wedding he was
rewarded by being made King Of Wurt-
temberg.
Jerome Bonapare by Miss Patterson
had one son and by Frederica Catarina
one son, Prince Napoleon, who succeeded
his father as President Of the French
Evening star., 1941-11-30

physical condition of this country's youth
is something Of which we nationally
should thoroughly be ashamed" and pre-
dicted that the day would come when
there would be widespread objection to
permitting men to escape military service
because of some minor and remediable
defect.
President Roosevelt was kept advised
of the growing number of men escaping
military training because of correctional
defects. and on October 10 announced
that the rehabilitation program would
be undertaken.
In his announcement the President
made it clear that the cost Of the pro-
gram would be borne by the Federal
Government as a necessary part OF the
national defense program and additional
funds would be made available to the
Selective Service System for this purpose.
Rehabilitation Aim
Gen. Hershey Immediately called in
representatives Of interested agencies,
both governmental and civil, and workd
out plans for the program. To the ma
tional director the general aim Of the
undertaking had been clear for months.
His contention may be summed up:
I'VE have called upon thousands OF
young men to give their services to pro-
tect this Nation in time of crisis. Is 1t
not proper that We utilize every means
at our command to return them to the
best possible position in civilian life when
the crisis is over, as it must be some
day? Is it not right and just also that
when we demand that they devote their
health and strength to build and main
tain our military establishment. that we
should do our utmost to protect their
health now and in the future?"
It must be admitted that failure OF q
large number of the rejected men to
make the grade at induction stations Is
due to high Army standards OF health
and mentality. But the move now Is to
correct defects in so many Of the men
turned down under those standards.
In height and weight measurements.
the United States soldier Of today differs
but little from the United States soldier
of the World War, and even the Civil
War. Pvt. John Doe in our present
Army is CTS inches tall and weighs $50
pounds; Doe who went after the Kaiser
was 67.5 inches tall and tipped the scales
at 142 pounds, and Doe Of the 1905 was
CTS inches tall and weighed 1876 pounds.
Evening star., 1941-11-30

ELK RlQRe troops NdVlIle tdheu lcd'e) W
Rossburg, which place they reached
about 10 o'clock at night, having been
joined at Evansville by Capt. Snowdon's
company of rifemen mounted. The
general lodged at Rossburg Hotel, where
preparations had been made for his COM
Portable accommodation.
Proceeds to Washington
about o'clock on Tuesday morning
the general and suite left Rossburg,
escorted as before, with the addition OF
Capt Clark's company of Prince Georges
riflemen, also mounted. and proceeded
to the District of Columbia, at the line
of which he was met by the committee
of arrangements from the city of Wash
ington and a number of Revolutionary
officers, escorted by Capt Andrews
handsome troop of city cavalry and Capt,
Dunlop's company of Montgomery cav
alry"
The Franklin Hotel, then at the north
east corner of Twenty-first and I streets
at its junction with Pennsylvania avenue,
was selected by the Citizens Committee,
on behalf of the city, as the stopping
place for the notable guest and his son
and secretary, and after the ceremonies
at the Capitol, in which he was officially
received by the Mayor of the city, Roger
C. Weightman, he called on the Presl-
dent at the White House, where liberal
refreshments" were served, and he later
repaired to his hotel, where dinner was
given in his honor toward evening and
where he delivered one of his famous
toasts: The city of Washington, the CEN
tral star of the constellation which en-
lightens the whole world
From the 9th of October, 1924, until
early in December, 1925, Lafayette was
in and out of Washington at various
times In the first few days he visited
Tudor place, Georgetown; Col. Cox,
Mayor of Georgetown; Georgetown Col
Evening star., 1941-11-30
Early Distinguished Visitors to Washington

Prom the time the Federal Govern
ment moved its departments to the City
of Washington in 1900, many of the
most noted men of the 10Th century
visited the Nations Capital, and were
received at the White House by the
President and entertained by the more
prominent residents of the city. To
mention all of these would be quite an
undertaking, but undoubtedly the earli-
est of the celebrated men was The we'll
known Irish poet, Thomas Moore, who
came here in 1904, and stopped with the
British Minister, Anthony Merry, at
that time residing in one of the Peter
houses. 26l5-2620 K street northwest.
Thomas jefferson, who was President
at this time. was not much for social
form and when Minister Merry called
on him for the first time in 1903, he
rather disgusted his majeStys envoy,
who, in writing about the incident, said:
Il, in my official costume, found myself,
at the hour he himself had appointed,
introduced to a man as President of the
United States not merely in an undresS.
but actually standing in slippers down
at the heels, and both pantaloons, cravat
and underclothes indicative of an utter
slovenliness and indifference to ap-
pearances."