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Evening star., 1941-04-30
235 Britons Killed
In London Hospitals
During Aid Raids
lo5 Injured Prior to
April ", Minister
Of Health Reports
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 30.-Health Min
lister Ernest Brown announced to-
day that 235 hospital patients had
been killed and 1875 injured in air
raids in the Greater London district
prior to April II.
The figures, which covered 4c0
hospitals of all kinds in London, were
issued, Mr.. Brown said, TO diSpel
public fears concerning risks in
CURED by hospital patients during
air attacks.
OF more than 100 casualty re-
ceiving wards included in London's
emergency scheme, only three have
been put out of action completely,
Mr.. Brown declared.
He recalled that total fatalities in
the whole country up to the end Of
March we're almost $4,000 and the
number of injured about 10000.
Only three doctors were killed and
eight injured as a result of bomb
damage to London hospitals, while
of 5000 nurses. 40 have been killed
and 124 injured, he added. Fifteen
hospital porters or attendants were
reported killed and rs injured.
Situation Same Elsewhere.
situation in regard to hospital casu-
altieS existed elsewhere in England.
In one area, where two ports have
been repeatedly bombed. six hos
pitals have been hit, but only one
is still out of commission, he said
Explaining the res son for his
announcement, Mr.. Brown told
press conference:
I'VE have all heard a great deal
about the bombing of hospitals. not
only in London but also in provin-
cial cities. Hospitals run no more
risk than other buildings.
During intensive and indiscrim-
mate attacks of the past eight
months many have, in fact been
damaged, but in the main this DAM
age has been slight.
More important still, the number
of cauSalties caused in hospitals. in
proportion to the intensity of the
raiding, has been very small. I do
not want people to think they run q
risk when they go to hospital.
Believes Hospital Risk Less.
IN fact, believe that, because OF
very elaborate precautions we have
taken to meet conditions of heavy
raiding, the risk is less than OUT
side of hospitals"
Mr.. Brown said about half of air.
raid casualties required operations
On the night of Londons heaviest
raid, he said, system of switching
patients prevented any hospital from
being overwhelmed. All patients
were satisfactorily dealt with"
within IL hours and by late after
noon of the next day rs per cent
had been removed to the country,
/ he declared.
Evening star., 1941-04-30
Senators Score Lack
OF Training Facilities
AT Fort Meade
Hospital Site Shifted
To Save Golf Course,
Testimony Hints
BY j. A. OIEARY.

fnadequacy of the air field and
training facilities at Fort George
G. Meade, Md. was scored today by
members of the Senate Defense In
vestigating Committee as they con-
tinued to question Army officers as
to how the camp was planned and
why the original site for the camp
hospital was changed.
During the examination of Col,
Leslie Groves of the Quartermaster
Generals Office, Senator Truman
of Missouri, chairman, questioned
the sufficiency of the air field, and
Col Groves testified he would not
like to land on it in any ship.
There is no artillery range. No
air fleld-What have you got over
there?" broke in Senator Wallgren,
Democrat, of Washington.
place to House Troops"
"A place to house troops" Col
Groves replied.
And you're going to have to take
them somewhere else to train"
Chairman Truman added.
Earlier today committee members
brought out by questioning officials
of the Consolidated Engineering
Corp. that its fee for the Fort
Meade construction job would be
about 100000 after deducting nom
reimbursable items of expense. The
non-reimbursable items were esti-
mated at $4,000.
Hugh A. Fulton, committee coun-
sci, said figures submitted to him
by the company for its operations
during the years from 1886 to 1889,
inclusive, showed an average net
profit during that period of ap-
proximately $4,000. Company Of
flcials pointed out that was net
after deducting overhead.
Hospital Site Questioned.
Much of today's session was de-
voted to questioning Maj. J. A
NoXon, local construction quarter
master at Fort Meade, and Col
Groves, who visited the project only
at intervals, as to why the original
site for the camp hospital was
changed from a spot near the air
field runway to point where, ac-
cording to yesterdays testimony,
construction was more difficult and
costly.
In the course of the examination,
Chairman Truman said there was
an inference in yesterdays proceed
tngs that the hospital may have been
moved to save a golf course, and he
asked Col. Groves if that was his
opinion.
Col. Groves replied he had no
opinion on that, but explained he
was not a golfer and that, so far
as he was concerned, the hospital
could have been placed in the
center of the course.
Picked for Tactical Reasons.
Maj. Gen. James Kelly Parsons,
retired, former Sd Corps Area
commander, told the committee yes
terday he picked the camp for tao
tical reasons, to leave sufficient space
within the reservation for training
Of troops.
Gen. Parsons told the committee
II am the only man in the United
States Army or elsewhere" who was
responsible for selecting the camp
site, Gen. Parsons said.
81 had my reasons for establish
ing the post there" he said. Il
wanted to save every space possible
to train these men"
He chose the site despite recon-
mendations of the engineers, he
said, because he believed he would
obtain greater space for training,
which had been cramped, espe-
cially for artillery practice.
Evening star., 1941-04-30
Parks
Continued From First Page)

District population has increased
IS per cent during the last decade
and the Washington metropolitan
area population 43 per cent.
This growth is reflected in the
additional use and abuse to which
the park system has been subjected,
he said.
Mr.. Demaray pointed out that the
parks office frequently is required
to furnish police escorts for presi-
Dental parties and visiting digni-
taries, this service being rendered
by employees paid from District gov
ernment funds. 1t also must detail
personnel incident to other activi-
ties of purely national character,
he said
Increases in Detail.
The increases submitted to the
Appropriations Committee by Mr.
Demaray included $24,185 to pro-
vide for addition of one sergeant
and 10 privates to the park police
force and for police uniforms and
two police cruisers; $25 900 for main
tenance of the Chesapeake g. Ohio
Canal; $4,000 to heat the Washing
ton Monument; $500 to repair the
roof of the Lee Mansion; $27 ,485
for maintenance of the Thomas
Jefferson National Memorial, which
is expected to be completed about
July |; $4,000 for maintenance of
the ChopawamSic recreational area
in Virginia; $4,000 for maintenance
of roadways; ST 100 for cost of elec-
tricity for new lighting lamps on
Columbia Island
In cutting out the $4,000 item
for a comfort station and police
lodge at the Water Gate, the Ap-
preparations Committee said: TT is
believed that the sum requested for
this purpose is in excess of the
amount which should be expended
for a structure of this type"
104,640 for Shenandoah Park.
The bill contains an appropriat ton
of s104,640 for the Shenandoah Ma
tional Park. This is an increase
of $1,000 over current appropria-
tons.
-Four institutions previously in
cluded in the Interior Department
appropriat ton bill have been trans
ferred to the Federal Security
Agency. They are st. EliZabeth's
Hospital, Freedmen's Hospital. How
ard University and the Columbia
Institute for the Deaf.
For the first time, the George
Washington Memorial Parkway is
included in the authorization for
the Blue Ridge and Natchez Trace
highways, giving assurance to Vir-
gipia that the Federal Government
will carry out its part of the con-
struction agreement provided by
law.
Evening star., 1941-04-30
Progress Reported
In Growing Embryo
Rabbits in Test Tubes
Studies May Shed Light
On Human SteriIity,
Academy Told
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

New life was thrown on some of
lifes profoundest mysteries in re-
ports presented before the National
Academy of Sciences here yesterday.
Further progress in growing en-
bryos of living creatures in test tubes
was described by DR. Gregory Pincus
of Clark University. Worcester,
Mass, originator of the technique
of fertilizing rabbit eggs with chem
icalS
Up to the present, DR.. Pincus re-
ported, it has been possible to grow
rabbit eggs, fertilized either natur-
ally or by chemicals, for no more
than four days in test tube. Up
to that time they appear TO develop
normally, but they reach critical
period when they disintegrate.
Extended to Seven Days.
He now has extended this period
to sever. days-a period equivalent to
about tWo-and-a-half months of
human CESSATION. Several chemicals,
he reported, are essential for en-
bryonic development during these
early stages. Among these are the
groWth-promoting substances, vita =
min b one, pyruvic acid, and the sui
fur-containing compounds, gluta
thloe. cysteine and thioglycolic acid
He extended the period by using
these.
Pyruvic acid, an organic acid pres
ent in plants and animals, was
found to be key substance in pro-
viding the embryo with energy for
growth. Vitamin B-1, however, is
necessary to activate 1t.
The experiments, he said, may
shed some light on human sterility
Lack Of the vitamin may be an i'm
portant factor in inhibiting fer
tility in cases where both husband
and wife are normal in all other
respects.
| New light on the mechanism BY
which amphibia. such as nevis anc
| Salamanders, are able to regeneratt
lost limbs was furnished in report
by Prof. Oscar E. Schotte of Am.
herst College and DR.. Elmer G
Butler of Princeton.
Presence of Nerves Necessary.
1t had long been known, they
said. that the presence of nerves i
necessary for limb regeneration. Al
/ amputated limb of an amphibian
with nerve supply unharmed, viii
regenerate. A limb deprived Of
nerve supply loses completely thiI
! potentiality.
The new studies show that ir
addition a nervelesS limb Undergoe'
remarkable repression changes. The
cells 20 back TO an earlier stage Of
development and keep on regressine
until even those parts of the limt
that had not been amputated dis
appear.
A close affinity between aborigina
Siberians and the American Indians
was reported by DR.. Ales Hrdlicka
curator of physical anthropology Of
the Smithsonian Institution.
In some cases, DR.. Hrdlicka said
the relation between a Siberian ano
an american group is so close as
practically to amount to identity
and some of the old Alaskan in
habitants were very close to group;
of the American mainland.
Newly discovered skulls of pre-
historic inhabitants of the Aleutiar
Islands. DR.. Hrdlicka pointed out
are very close to those of the Siouar
Indians and those of ancient people;
of Kodiak Island, to those of the
Algonquins, the Indians who met
Evening star., 1941-04-30
BY LLOYD LEHRBAS,
Associated Press staff Writer.

Great Britain and the 81 Amer
lean republics were reported near q
| compromise agreement today thai
| would make possible the mutually
advantageous use of approximately
$50 foreign flag vessels, now idle
refugees in hemisphere ports.
In brief, it would enable Britain
to acquire any surplus" shipping
that remained after Pan American
needs were met.
Forecasts that acceptance of such
a working formula was imminent
followed two conferences between
Viscount Halifax. the British Am
bassador, and Undersecretary OF
State Welles.
Under the compromise plan, 1t
was reported in informed quarters,
Great Britain will substitute a
realistic" attitude on the seized
ship question for the previous the
oretical' position that the seized
vessels were still subject to capture
as enemy property if caught at sea.
Realistic" Approach.
The realistic" approach calls for
recognition of the right of the
United States and other hemisphere
republics to seize foreign vessels
immobilized by war and use them
to promote the peace ana
security of the continent" This is
the right already claimed by the
Inter American Economic and
Financial Committee representing
all the American nations.
The American Nations, on their
part, would agree to negotiate for
the sale or charter to Britain OF such
surplus" vessels as remain after
enough of the seized shipping has
been set aside to meet the require
ments of inter- American trade.
where a ship shortage exists.
Viscount Halifax and Sir Arthur
Salter, chief of the British shipping
mission here, discussed the foreign
ships question-including the COM
promise proposal-with Undersecre-
tary Welles yesterday.
The Ambassador held another,
and unscheduled, conference with
Mr.. Welles last night. raising specu-
lative forecasts that he had brought
the British governments answer
presumably favorable-to the COM
promise proposal. The Ambassador,
however, refused to make any COM
ment.
Right Of Capture Claimed.
The British government, it was
said, has never questioned the right
of the United States or the other
American republics to seize any bel
ligerent or other foreign ships long
idle in American ports.
Britain has, however. claimed the
right as a belligerent to capture
enemy" vessels on the high seas,
even though title to the ships has
passed and they flew neutral flag.
Under that policy, informed
quarters reported, any American re-
public which attempted to operate
a seized foreign ship to carry
Evening star., 1941-04-30
Nozis Reported Warning
Irish Not to Aid Ulster
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, April 30.-The Brit
ish radio reported last night that
German airplanes have dropped
leaflets in Fire warning residents
against helping extinguish incendi-
ary-bomb fires in Northern Ireland
Referring to fire-fghting aid sent
from neutral Fire to Belfast, North
ern Ireland, after fires had been
set by Nad air raiders, B. B. c.,
in a broadcast heard by N. B. c., said
the German leaflets told Fire resi-
dents IF they tried this sort of
thing again they might be given
some fires of their own to be put
out"
Evening star., 1941-04-30
Northern Coal Miner.
AT Work as Southern
Talks Hit 5nag
PorIeys on Wage Details
That Baked Reopenine
Are Still Going On
a, thr Associated PreSs.

D' ht't h.sSONldtcN L 400.
Soft coal miners, whose output IS
urgently needed by important de-
fense industries, moved back into
production in the Northern APP
palachian district today after a
months tie-up, but Southern mines
remained idle while operators and
union representatives continued to
discuss wage details.
On another coal front, Pennsyl-
vania anthracite miners and op-
orators, whose contract expires at
midnight tonight, agreed TO con-
tinue at work until May 10 while
negotiations toward a new agree
ment proceed.
1t was estimated that 70 per cent
of the soft coal mines were reopen
ing at once, following negotiation
of new contract raising the gen.
eral wage level from s6 to ST a day.
The snag holding up Southern pro-
duction was said to be adjustment
of the wage increase for miners in
high wage brackets. such as those
employed on mechanical conveyers.
Agree to S1-a-Day Increase.
Southern operators have agreed
to raise the basic wage from $3.50
TO $3.50 a day and, after getting
into production, negotiate further
with the union on its demands for
elimination of a sectional wage diff
ferential.
Fifty per cent of the Northern
mines were reported back in opera.
ton as Southern producers and the
c. l. o. United Mine Workers re-
Sumed negotiations today.
Approximately 100000 Pennsyl-
vania anthracite miners Cwhose
product is used largely for domes-
tic rather than industrial purposes
are asking s1-a-day increases for
day workers. 20 per cent increase
for contract workers and annual
paid vacations.
General Motors Hearing.
Meanwhile the Defense Mediation
Board cleared the decks for action
tomorrow on a threatened strike
involving 100000 General Motors
Corp. employees over the Nation.
The boards hearing originally was
scheduled for Friday but was ad-
vanced a day without explanation.
Higher wages and closed shop
were among the demands of the C.
I. o. United Automobile Workers.
James F. Dewey, Federal labor
conciliator, reported a breakdown
in negotiations in Detroit late yes
terday and revealed that virtually
no progress had been made sine
Evening star., 1941-04-30

the white men on the Atlantic coast
of North America.
DR.. Wood Receives Medal.
The Henry Draper Medal Of the
academy was awarded at the an
nual dinner last night to DR.. Robert
w. Wood of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity for his pioneer work on de-
velopment of methods for concen-
trating to a high degree the light
from diffraction gratings in desired
regions of the solar spectrum. These
have led to results of great promise
in the photography of spectra of
faint stars.
This has made possible, said Prof.
Otto Struve of the University of
Chicago in presenting the medal,
analysis of the spectra of the
brighter stars on a large scale, has
opened up the almost unexplored
ultraviolet region of stellar spectra
and has already led to important
discoveries regarding the constitu-
ton of gases in interstallar space.
Evening star., 1941-04-30
Accord on Formula
For Ship Seizures
Reported Near
Britain Seen Willing
To Surrender Right
Of Capture at Sea
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
United States last month sud-
denly placed under protective
custody SO foreign ships in
American ports, found that Ger
man and Italian crelUs had been
Sabotaging machinery in most OF
them. With British shipping
losses creating serious problem OF
maintaining supply lines for car
rying American War materials
under ledSe-lend program. it is
expected seized ships eventually
,UilI be used to bolster Atlantic
cargo Serpice.
Evening star., 1941-04-30

the dispute was certified to the
Mediation Board Friday.
He indicated the unions demand
for a blanket 10-cent hourly wage
increase was the main hurdle.
once that issue is settled, every
thing else can be Strengthened out
in 10 minutes" he declared.
Evening star., 1941-04-30
Chilean Women Protest

Women of Chile are protesting
that while the law protects women,
making no difference between the
work of the sexes, in practice many
receive lower pay than men, even
when their work is efficient.
Evening star., 1941-04-30
Hong Kong Centenary

Hong Kong, China. celebrated its
Centenary Week quietly with a
special church service and a special
issue of stamps, having decided to
postpone it's big celebration with a
carnival program until after the
war.
Evening star., 1941-04-30

Works of North American authors
are being extensively read in Chile,
where French literature was pre-
ferred until recently.
Evening star., 1941-04-30


= The deep mass of moist air of tropical
origin has continued to move northward
between the extensive eastern antl-cyclone
Asheville. N. C.; 1924 millibars t30.3l
inches. and shallow trough that extends
from Western Texas northward to the
Dakotas. Goodland. Kans.. 1O13.5 milli-
bars (29.93 inches. and general showers
have again occurred during the last "a
hours from Texas and western Louisiana
northward to Minnesota and North Dakota.
An extensive low-pressure system that Is
advancing very slowly eastward over the
Far West, Tonopah. New, 1002.7 millibars
t2a.61 inches), has caused rain in Western
and Northern California, Oregon and Ne
vada. minor disturbance is centered of
the coast of Maine. moving southeastward.
Portland. 1O146 millibars (o9.96 inches).
There is a widespread disturbed condition.
but with no definite center. from Southern
Florida southwark and southeastward. low
est reported pressure. 1009.1 millibars
(29. so inches), at Havana. Cuba. Rain is
falling this morning over Southern Florida:
Except for warmer weather in New England
and New York and portions of the Plateau
region, temperature changes have been
slight as a rule.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear at
Harpers Ferry: Potomac clear at Great
Falls today.
Evening star., 1941-04-30
Weather Report
FURNISHED by the United

District of Columbia about 81
tonight continued gentle variable
temperature
Virginia-Fair slightly tonight; tomorrow
Evening star., 1941-04-30

Demand for mahogany logs by
Americans far exceeds the supply
available in British Honduras.
Evening star., 1941-04-30

Record for Last "a Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 50, at $50 pm. yesterday.
eI Lowest, est g, at am. today. Year
ago, 81.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, "a on April 90.
Lowest 10, on March Is.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today
Highest, 80 per cent, at $40 am today.
Lowest, 1S per cent, at 5 pm. yesterday
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Today. Tomorrow
High 1919 am. IL 200 a m
Low - 4:45 am. $50 am
High 10:49 pm. 11:33 m
Low - 5:23 pm. 500 m
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun. today 5:12 6:59
Sun, tomorrow 5:11 ZOO
Moon, today S;07 am. 1898 pm.
Automobile hshts must be turned on
e0s-hah h4r after sunset.
Evening star., 1941-04-30

Report for Last "a Hours.
Evening star., 1941-04-30

the white men on the Atlantic coast
of North America.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-25
Traffic Signal
Is Sought for
9Th Ave., K ST.

Crossing of 9th ave. at X ST. is
a serious hazard to pedestrians,
Lyle Lemley. school board director,
told the city council Monday as he
presented petition asking in
stallation of a stop-and-go traffic
light at that intersection.
Lemley. accompanied by dele
CATION, said there were 234 names
on the petition.
Safety Commissioner Eastwood
advised Lemley that the board of
contracts and awards will open
bids March 81 on new traffic
semaphore type lights for the
downtown district and that then
the present lights downtown will
he assigned to outside intersec-
tions where they are most needed.
I'VE have already determ-
ined." Eastwood said. that
one of these lights will he
put In at 9Th ave. and h ST."
Lemley said that because of
numerous churches in the vicinity.
the shopping district and the hos
pital, there is heavy pedestrian
traffic at 9th and K St, and that
some control is very badly needed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-03-25
Secondary Road
Projects Listed
State Will Spend
NeorlY 2 Million

OLYMPIA-The state highway
department was directed to spend
s1.97e.979 on 13s secondary road
projects about the state under
terms of pork barrel" bill pass
ed by the Legislature.
The bill specifies how much
money the department must spend
in maintaining and improving
specific projects in IS counties
San Juan county was the only one
not included since its highway
problems are handled separately.
The legislature killed bill which
would have added some 500 miles
more TO the state secondary sys-
TEN. Projects specified in the
measure which did pass both
houses follow:
Pierce Electron to Elk
horn. SEC, 900; Saith st. from Stella
COON to Fruitland avenue in vicin-
ity of Puyallup. $1,000; 72nd street
from Pacific highway to Mountain
highway in Puyallup, S40,451; Ort-
ing to Electron. oiling. $3.50; Roy
junction in McKenna, 10,s00;
Purdy to Mason county line. SIS
600: secondary road Sc. $4,000;
McChord field to Narrows bridge,
S25 900. Hylebos waterway west
to Tacoma. $4,000. Total, $780,
sol.
Thurston County - Rainier TO
Tehino. $4,000: Yelm To Tenino,
s14.o61: Tenino-Bucoda Centraia
Of esta blishedl. S11 900: Roy juno
ton to Tenino. SlO.s00. Total,
S107 .s61.
kitsap County-Bremerton to
Keyport. s10.500: Junction pri-
mary state road 81 to Chico to
Hood canal near Seabeck. S23. 52e /;
from ferry al White Point TO
Winslow ferry, $4,000. Total,
SAT ,o2e.
Lewis County-Gslvin 10 Bun
kercreek road. s10.50O. Toledo
west. $500; Toledo to LaCamas
creek. $500; junction secondary
road 1-R TO Salmon creek, 500, 900;
Toledo to Cedar creek. $4,000:
onalaska 10 Bear canyon, s45. 900;
Tilton river bridge and approaches,
S4s, 900; Tenino TO Bucoda to Gen.
traia. $4,000: survey from Pc Ell
to Grays river. $500: Winlock 10
Napavine to Claqusto. s11 900. To-
tai. sl7e.69e.
Mason County-Grapeview road
TO primary state highway No. "A.
$4,000; junction secondary road
l4A TO state road Il. 81 500: Allyn
to Vaughn. SIS. 900: Kamilche cut
off Ss.555: discretion Of high
way director in county. S21.6
Total. Ss2.707.