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Evening star., 1941-08-03

permit employees under the $4,000
level to reach the top of grade in
nine years, and the others, in 10.
In expressing the belief that the
principal beneficiaries under the
emergency order scales would be
field employees, officials said that
this class of workers in Washing
ton generally we're at the top of
their grades, for the reason that
these maxima corresponded to the
minima under the Classification Act
for comparable work. Such agencies
as the Home Owners Loan Corp,
Farm Security Administration, Ma
tional Youth Administration and
part of the Public Works Admins
tration were said to be among the
groups still operating under the
emergency scales, which were
adopted when the emergency agen-
cies were flourishing in the earlier
days of the New Deal in an effort
to bring about some uniformity. The
coverage of these rates is being
gradually lessened however, it was
said, and they will disappear as the
Ramspeck Civil Service Extension
Act becomes effective, bringing under
civil service agencies now exempt
and extending the Classification Act
to the field service.
Proponents of the plan contend
that in the long run it will pay for
itself by lowering turnover and in
creasing efficiency.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
F. D. |. {. Denied Interest
On Deposits It Insures
BS the Associated Press.

BIZ the Associated Press.
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark, Aug. q
The Federal Deposit Insurance
Corp. is not entitled to collect in
terest on bank deposits insured by
1t, Chancellor j. B. Ward of Pope
Chancery Court held IN a ruling
announced today.
Described by court attaches as
the first decision of its kind in the
Nation. the ruling may form the
basis Of a test case to be carried
to higher courts.
ut was not the legislative intent
OF Congress to allow interest to be
collected by the F. D. I. c. upon
bank deposits insured by that
agency" Chancellor Ward said
dismissing for want of equity the
F. D. I. C's suit for $3,685.64 inter-
est on approximately $1,000 in in
sured deposits in the Merchants &
Farmers Bank of Atkins, Ark.
The Atkins bank closed in March
1899, and the F. D. I. C. paid of
the depositors. Liquidators subse-
quently repaid the F. D. I. c. in
full, the final settlement being made
last January. The F. D. I. G. sought
interest at per cent on the full
| amount of the insured deposits
from the date the bank closed until
the final settlement.
The suit was argued before Chan
cellor Ward last March, taken un-
der advisement and the ruling an
nounced today.
Evening star., 1941-08-03

desire of war officials to centralize
their operations. are greatly con-
cerned by the difficulties that nee
essarily would arise out of such a
step. The traffic problem created
on the Potomac bridges is one i'm
portant angle considered; the de-
mand that would follow for other
facilities in Arlington County is an
other.
The subcommittee expects to
grapple with the issue in executive
session Tuesday or Wednesday,
after testimony has been completed
on other phases of the $8,063, 900 900
first supplemental defense bill, which
includes the building funds. In ad-
dition to War Department officers,
the subcommittee is expected to
summon representatives of the Fine
Arts Commission and of the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission, which has recon-
mended that the size of the build
ing be halved.
cChdtC Ni6ut Sus HiOJCCts
In the event the Senate appro-
priations group decides to reduce
the size Of the project by provid-
ing only for an initial unit. or elimi-
mates it entirely, the final decision
would rest with conferees for both
branches. since the full amount is
already in the House bill.
1t has been emphasized in the
discussion of the proposal that most
of the large force of War Depart
ment employees living in Washing
ton would have to get through not
only the Districts congested traffic,
but across one of the bridges twice
a day.
Even before the project was put
forward, a House committee was
considering the necessity for an ad-
ditional bridge or tunnel to facili-
tate traffic across the Potomac. Nc
such project has yet been author
lied, however, and would take con-
siderable time to construct.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
By SHEILAH GRAHAM,

Especial Correspondent of The Star and
North American Newspaper Alliance)
BRISTOL, England, Aug. O.
Prime Minister Churchill was in the
Grand Hotel here at the height of
the worst raid on Bristol. While he
was in the hotel bomb fell and
demolished part of 1t.
I learned this hitherto unreported
fact on my arrival in blitzed Bristol.
This was the raid during which a
great number of people were killed
in one short street and business and
shopping buildings were reduced to
rubble of twisted iron girders.
Mr.. Churchill sat through the
raid with his usual imperturbabilitv,
smoking his usual cigar. But in the
morning when it was all over he said
to the hotel manager:
II would like bath, please"
Water Sysemt Damaged.
If he had asked for a flying car
pet the manager could not have
been more distracted. There was
no water in the hotel except on the
ground floor and basement. Bombs
had damaged the system supplying
water upstairs. Mr.. Churchill was
upstairs. But If the Prime Minister
wanted bath, the Prime Minister
must have a bath.
So as they say In 9 movies out Of
10, Boil some hot water" COM
y,oopIoI tho m N q por IN hic y,,;,,iooc
Every spare jug in the hotel was
requisitioned. Ditto every able
bodied man. And men, and jugs,
and as an afterthought a milk
can, continued an unending pro-
cession to the Prime Minister'S tub
until there was enough water for
immersion.
And then the manager made a
hideous discovery. Not only was
the tub full of water, but there also
was much gravel as result of the
bombs
Gravel and Water Bath.
"We must use filtered water" said
the manager.
NO" said the Prime Minister,
who is a very busy man, 1T is now
or never"
And he took his bath in gravel
and water.
A general cleaning-up process is
now going on in Bristol Demoli-
ton and salvage squads are at work
on ruined shops, Offices and houses,
under which the victims Of the
Easter holocaust were buried. Un-
der one pile of bricks and dust they
found a woman and her baby. She
was feeding it when death struck
them both. No one can say for
certain exactly how many were
killed during the raids, but there
were a lot of funerals, the waitress
at my hotel tells me. She is mar
ried and has a husband in the home
guard and a daughter. Enid, 2h
years old.
'We take shelter under the stair
case of our house." she tells me,
and we got a bit annoyed when a
bomb fell on our house. We heard
it touch the roof and my husband
shouted Look out!' I flung myself
over the baby so she wouldn't get
hurt. She cried and said, Il don't
like bombs, Mummie."
Shelter Used as Dining Table.
For people who prefer to stay al
home during air raids, Bristol au-
thorities are giving free to those
with incomes less than $3.50 a new
Morrison shelter which can be used
as a dining table as well. 1t has a
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Pay Bill
Continued From First Page.)

program was adopted. First-year
promotions under the bill alone are
estimated to cost about S5,OO0O00,
with the figure diminishing there
after.
The pay raises are contemplated al
1s-month periods for those employees
receiving less than $4,000 annually
and every 80 months for those over
that figure and under $4,000. Ell
ficiency ratings of good, or better
than good. however, will be required
to qualify. Unless the case Is ex-
ceptional, one-step increases Will be
the rule: for the exceptional cases
an additional step may be granted
The advances under the Classifica-
ton Act will be $50 or 500 IN the
18-month bracket, and 5000 or $3.50
for the 30-month group. For the
E. o. advances, the executive order
provided these steps: Grades l to
7. $50: 8 to IL, 500; 13 to Is, $500
and II to 10, $3.50.
Inequities Disclosed.
The pay raise legislation is the
result of q survey the Budget Bureau
made at the request Of the House
Annroriations Committee which dis
closed widespread inequities in ths
distribution OF promotions from year
to wear Is between different agencies
and groups Of srnployes. It Is esti-
mated that the uniform system VII
Evening star., 1941-08-03
ChurchiIrs Marrow Escape
In Bristol Raid Disclosed
Prime Minister Next Day Demanded Both
And Got One-In GroyeI and Water

steel top over which goes table
cloth with steel legs and steel mesh
net sides. There is enough room
underneath for two mattresses.
The waitress is hoping to get her
daughter evacuated before the long
dark nights and the expected re-
newaI of the air blitz raids. She
put in her application four months
ago, but there is long waiting list
and it is more difficult to evacuate
babies than children of school age
who don't require nurse.
1 stopped for lunch at pub be-
tween Bristol and Weston. The
landlord insisted there was no short
age of beer, but that, contrary to
what Lady Astor told me a few days
ago, more people were drinking 1t.
Run Out of Beer Early.
Most of the public houses around
Bristol are closed until evening.
Then their supply usually runs dry
at o'clock, an hour before closing
time. Several pubs save their beer
during the week and open on Satur-
day and Sunday for a short but
glorious thirst quenching. The
landlord of one public house showed
me a small room where during air
raids he puts up 50-odd people, who
walk, cycle or drive from Bristol.
In Bristol there are huge cigarette
and chocolate factories, but the peo-
pie of Bristol don't see much of them
unless. as a Bristol girl tells me,
you have brother, father or hus-
band in the forces. They get ciga-
rettes and chocolates and it's right
that they should, but lots of the
men don't like chocolate and they
send it to their girls, who give it to
their families"
Evening star., 1941-08-03
| Bread Increased
ICent a Loaf by
ICompony'Here

The General Baking Co. an
nounced yesterday that, effective
Monday, the price of its bread
would increase / cent loaf due
to recent rises in production costs
New prices of the companys
Bond" bread will be 10 cents a
loaf for white and rye and II cents
for whole wheat.
Such prices were anticipated by
the Office of Price Administration
and Civilian Supply last week when
it appealed to leading bakers to
keep increases to a maximum of
cent a loaf and, if possible
to absorb additional operation costs
through curtailing promotion and
other expenses.
Leon Henderson, Opacs admins
traitor, said that increased prices
appeared to be justified in many
areas because of higher costs o.
-four, labor and other production
expenses. But added, increases ol
more than l cent a loaf did moi
appear to be justified in any
instance.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Cool Wind 10 Terminate
Heat Which Fened Two

"A beautiful week end" with clear
skies and slightly lower tempera-
lures today and tomorrow, was pre-
dicted last night for the District
By the Weather Bureau.
Cooler air, which has been mov-
ing slowly southwark from Canada
will come into Washington in the
form of q gentle north wind, the
forecaster said, and is expected to
keep the maximum registration
today and tomorrow at about "a
degrees.
Less humidity also was expected
about 10 per cent below yesterday s
mark.
A slight increase in humidity was
expected tomorrow, however.
Yesterday, when the temperature
reached a high of SO degrees, two
men we're given hospital treat
ment for effects of the heat but
were later released to return home
They were Melvin Mccoy, 26, Of the
1900 block of c street Sc, treated
at Emergency Hospital, and John
Buchanan, SO, colored, Of the 1900
block Of Sixth street NV.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Dr.. Scott Breckinridge
Funeral in Kentucky

: Funeral services for DR.. Scott
Dudley Breckinridge, So, gyne-
cologist who died Friday in Lex
ington, KY, will be held there at
II am. tomorrow.
DR.. Breckinridge was well known
here, where he was born and where
he studied medicine at Georgetown
University. He served an interne-
ship at Providence Hospital and was
practicing physician here until
the World War, when he became
a colonel in charge of base hos
pital in France.
After the war, DR.. Breckenridge
practiced in Lexington. An expert
fencer, he was at one time Ameri-
can foils champion.
He came of the old Kentucky
family, descendant of Thomas JEFF
ferson's attorney general. His father
Gen. Joseph G. Breckenridge, was
stationed here for several years.
He has two survivors in Wash
! ington and vicinity, son, John
Breckinridge of the District and
sister, Mrs. Margaret Vance Of
Chevy Chase, Md.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
VieiIontes to Speed
FREIGHT Car Movements

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. "A growing
tightness of railroad freight cars
prompted the Midwest Shippers Ad-
visory Board today to organize more
than 100 vigilance committees to
expedite car movements.
The committees, scattered in 80
rail centers over five States, will
each be composed of 10 men rep
resenting the railroads, shippers and
freight receivers. They will spot un-
necessary delays, investigate the
causes and recommend faster
methods.
The Midwest territory includes
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, upper
Michigan and Western Indiana.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
First Of 6 Small Arms
Plants Ready 70 Produce
BY the Associated Press.

BY TIE Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 2.-The
Governments S10,O00,000 Lake City
plant today became the first Of six
small arms ammunition factories,
under construction in the Nation,
to get into preliminary production.
Brass cartridge cases were pro-
duced in a trial run.
More than 200 of the $500 ma
chimes to be installed were in their
places today and ready for produc-
ton. However, it will be several
weeks before assembly line proceed
ure gets into full swing.
First cartridge cases were to go
to Brig. Gen. L. H. Campbell of the
Ordnance Department at Washing
ton for inspection. Others were to
be sent to War Department officials
and to heads of the Remington Arms
Co., which will operate the plant
for the Government.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Britain and Germany
Warned by Argentina
On Propaganda
Activities Must Be Toned
Down or Bureaus Will Be
Closed, Ministry Says
ne the Associated Pres.

By the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, Aug. Both
the British and German govern
ments were requested by the Ar
gentine Foreign Office today to
tone down the activities of their
propaganda bureaus in Argentina,
so that Argentina would not have to
close them.
The Foreign Ministry in notes to
both governments declared mate
rial published in Buenos Aires
more or less" under the auspices of
the British and German Embas-
sizes and picked up by police in a
campaign against anti-Argentine
activities had been found to con-
tain statements injurious and Of
fensive to one side or the other" in
the European war.
Tranquility Held Affected.
The notes added that these pub
lications thus constitute propa-
ganda which affects deeply the
tranquility and order of this neutral
country"
The notes pointed out the Con-
venience of preventing intervention
In the press Offices (of the embas-
sies) in the distribution of these
publications" thus limiting that
such intervention be made unnec-
essary.
The government meanwhile sup
pressed the Alliance of National
ist Youth" on grounds that the
movement "has a totalitarian mil
itary character violating in fla
grant form the constitutional pre-
ceptS governing the life of our
country"
Action Follows Raid.
This action followed a raid on
the German welfare culture move
ment headquarters at Parana and
the arrest of some of its members.
The raid was made on complaint
of residents that secret military
drills were being held there at
night.
The congressional committee in
vestigating anti-Argentine activi-
ties disclosed tonight 1t had car
ried its inquiry to the Salta re-
gion, on the Argentine-Bo Bolivian
border, and found it to be "a
heretofore unsupported area of to-
talitarian infiltration." No details
were given.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
FomiIy of 6 Generations

PRESTON, Md. Aug. 2 CP.-A
colored family of six generations has
been discovered at Jamestown, by DR..
Walter B. johnson, Caroline County
deputy health officer. He said two
of the women became mothers at
IA, one at Is and one at 26.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Mexico Completing Plans
To Gust Foreiqn Spies

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2 UP.-The
newspaper Universal Grafico re-
ported today that the Ministry of
Interior is compiling data on scores
of Nazi, Fascist and Communist
spies in Mexico preparatory to ex-
pelling them.
The newspaper said the govern
ment might take action against such
foreign agents next week.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
Mail Pact With Germany
Is Denounced BY Peru

LIMA, Peru, Aug. 2 R.-Accusing
Germany of misusing diplomatic
mail pouches, the Peruvian Foreign
ONCE tonight denounced a 1925
agreement with Germany covering
such mail.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
War BuiIdino
Continued From First Page.)

be regretted for decades after this
emergency is past history in the
minds Of future Americans?
THE members of the Commission
Of Fine Arts are aware that the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission pointed out the prac-
tical difficulties attendant upon
carrying out the program for build
ing this huge war Office in Airing
ton. We have discussed, therefore,
problems of traffic, of sewage dis
posal, and other troublesome fac
tors incident to the proposal. We
feel that the presentation of the
aesthetic factors are worthy of your
careful consideration, for the de-
struction of these values will result
in a movement backward, which
cannot help but react against the
future worth of this city and cause
American citizens to lose confidence
in those charged with the duty of
carrying out an orderly plan based,
not alone upon convenience and
health, but also upon those intangi-
bles we call beauty, delight and
great charm.
Defense Needs Conceded.
The Commission of Fine Arts is
fully aware of the necessity for
bending every effort to stimulate
more effective measures in the in
terests of national defense. Nothing
that has been written in this letter
should be construed to mean that
we are not wholly sympathetic to
the needs of the War Department.
We belieye, however, that those re-
quiremerfts may be fulfilled without
the destruction of values which have
been jealolfsiy guarded throughout
the life OF this commission. We
believe that there are other satisfac-
tory solutions to the problem and
we stand ready to assist in any way
we can to the end that the War
Department may be served and that
this great city may not be made a
place of less beauty than now OBJ
tains.
Members of the Commission of
Fine Arts served with distinction as
officers in the last great war and
they are not likely to be accused
of taking action to slow down de-
fense; they rather hope that this
action, aimed to prevent the erec-
ton of a single huge building for
the War Department Offices in Ar
lington, may result in new scheme
based upon the decentralization of
the department, which may obviate
a potential disaster resulting from
creating a single target for enemy
bombs.
Respectfully submitted,
For the Commission of Fine Arts,
GILMORE D. CLARKE,
Chairman"
Evening star., 1941-08-03

Restoration of capital punish
ment for major civil crimes is being
advocated in Mexico.
Evening star., 1941-08-03
One War Office Planned.

As approved by the House, the
project is designed to quarter in the
single group of structures the entire
War Department force-estimate
to reach 10000. The department
figures to have 10000 workers by the
end of this year.
AS the Senate subcom1..ttee pre-
pared yesterday to debaSe the mat
ter, 1t was indicated that some mem
bers, while sympathizing with the
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-31

According to Aristotle. what is
truly a mans SELF is the thinking
part of him.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-31

News Review

Raleigh, March 3l.-Feed markets
maintained a firm tone during the
past week di,pite the approach Of
spring pastura9e in southern areas.
according 10 the {. S. and North
Carolina Departments OF Agriculture
IN the weekly market neW!s service
lreVieW.
Most feeds We're in fairly plentiful
supply but al active demand from
feeders and mixed iced manufac-
turers advanced prices OF Whealteeds
and most concentrates. Wheat feeds
made about the usual seasonal ad-
vance during Marca but gains in
spring Wheatieeds We're slightly
greater than in winter wheat feeds.
J Cotton meal made more than the
seasonal decline in March.
The market tor Virginia type pea
nuts in Eastern North Carolina and
Virginia, both farmers stock and
finished goods, continues strong. All
grades Of sheIled and cleaned pea
inuts are in active demand and extra
large slightly stronger. The best
grades Of farmers stock are in eX-
cell6nt demand and the supply now
lett at country shipping points is
very small for this season Of the
year. Meanwhile, on a delivery point
basis selling prices of tanners stock
peanuts were 3 81 TO 4 cents per
pound for best jumbos; 8 81 to 3.85
for best bunch and 8 - to 3.65
cents for best shelling stock.
The seasonal increase Of | percent
in creamery butter production for
the week ending March 30 was much
less than year earlier. due to snow
storms which blocked roads and pre-
vented cream deliveries in some ma
ior north central producing states.
Farm prices of eggs advanced but
live poultry prices held steady in
the Raleigh area when compared
with a week ago. Egg prices were |
to 9 cents stronger at IS to 10 cents
Dey dozen for candlcd and graded
u. s. Extra large whites and at L.
to IS cents for nearby ungraded hen
Irerv whites and browns. Good t.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1941-03-31
Comes Here Wednesday For Golf Match
Baseball, Tennis Teams OF
East TO Invade Chapel Hill

The freshman baseball team will
open us season here Friday at 4
@ clock against Durham high schools
Eastern Glass \ champions. This
game is the first of II contests for
the Tar Baby njnc this season.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-03
BATTLE CRUISERS ON THE WAY

For the second time in its history, the
ers. The Navy recently revealed that six of
these immensely powerful and efficient
ucrships are row being constructed
In 1916 when President Wilson prof.
ectCd an immense American Navy. in view
Of the world situation at that time, the pro-
gram included battle2cruisers." Eventually,
six were in process of construction during
World War days, but four were strapped
under the Naval Disarmament Treaty. The
ether two were converted into aircraft car
i.C-s serving the nation under the names
of Lexington and Saratoga.
The difference between a battleship
and battle-cruiser is chiefly in armament
and speed. Whereas the battleship, cost
ing close to seventy million dollars, is
heavily armored to withstand the fire of the
largest gun, the battle-cruiser, costing
about half as much, carries less protective
armor in order to specialize in faster
speeds. Both types are equipped with big
guns fourteen-inch to sixteen-inch weapons
of death.
While the battle-cruiser cannot stand
the punishment that the battleship can en-
dure it is swifter and well adapted for the
job of policing sn ocean, being able to de-
stroy ordinary cruisers which are unable to
stand it's powerful broadside In pursuit
Of enemy commences aidihg cruisers and in
gn2ashing through the scouting screen of an
enemy fleet, the battle cruisers are without
equals. Obviously, they are not intended
% stand up and fight battleships.
While the Navy announcement is in
teresting, we should not lose sight of the
fact that these battle-cruisers are merely
begun and that several years will elapse be-
fore they will be available for service.
Much the same observation applies to the
battleships now under construction. While
two will join the fleet this year, and four
next year, the other eleven while under
construction may not be completed in time
to serve, the nation during the present
emergency.
This does not mean that the United
States should not complete its projected
battle fleet. There is no way to know what
may be the world situation in 1943 and
1914. 1t is just possible that this country
will need all the batteships it can assemble
in order to protect the nation.