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Evening star., 1941-03-05
; or 4 Subs Attacked Convoy,
British Survivors Declare
Sinking of l6 Ships
In December Told
By Officer
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOBOKEN, N. J. March 5.-A
sudden, mass attack by German
submarines followed by a rain of
bombs from low-fying aircraft sank
16 vessels of a "a ship convoy en-
route to England from Newfound-
land last December, a British naval
officer revealed last night.
The officer, one of 20 passengers
all naval officers-who arrived on
the Dutch freighter Edam, carefully
concealed his identify, but said he
was one of ITO officers and men who
survived the sinking of the armed
British cruiser Forfsry 700 miles
northwest of Ireland, with loss Of
200 lives, last December 2.
The Forfar, formerly the 16,403-
ton liner Montrose owned by the
Canadian Pacific Railway, was as
signed to convoy the argosy of small
freighters, most of them of the
8,000-ton class, the officer said.
Left st. Johns In November.
Leaving st. Johns, Newfoundland
late in November, he said, the feet
was accompanied for two days by
Canadian destroyers, but about
three or four days after the destroy
ers turned back to Canada, the
U-boats struck. --.
Suddenly, without warning, the
officer said, the death-dealing tor
pedoes smashed into the freighters
in the dead Of a cold winter night
only three hours before British
destroyers we're due to pick them up
for the rest of the voyage to
England.
From the frequency with which
torpedoes smashed against hulls,
he said, naval officers estimated
there were at least seven submarines.
all of them large, perhaps of the
300-foot class. or larger.
While the Forfar still was afoat,
the officer said, "she blazed away in
the darkness, hoping and praying
to hit one of the unseen subs"
Aircraft Rains Bombs.
Meanwhile, he said, the submarines
sent 10 or more freighters to the
bottom of the sea and then, from
overhead, German aircraft rained
bombs on the rest of the fiotilla,
sinking five or six more, leaving
only 18 vessels to continue the
voyage.
The British destroyers, he said,
finally broke up the submarine feet
and he added that he believed that
at least three submarines were sent
to the bottom by depth charges.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Hearing Opens Tomorrow
In Atlanta Air Crash
By the Associated Press.

ATLANTA, March 5.-The Civil
Aeronautics Board arranged to open
a public hearing here tomorrow to
inquire into the crash last Thursday
of a giant Eastern Air Lines sleeper
plane that claimed the lives of eight
persons.
Seven we're killed when the al
mot-new $4,000 airliner, en- route
from New York, careened near mid
night into pine woods while circling
far out for landing at the Atlanta
Airport.
c. M. Tappen, 46, an oil company
executive and attorney of New York
City, died in hospital yesterday of
fractured vertebrae.
G. Grant Mason, jr.. member Of
the Civil Aeronautics Board, will
preside at the hearing, and Robert
Crisp of the boards safety legal
division will sit as associate ex-
aminer.
Physicians reported that Eddie
Rickenbacker, president of Eastern
Air Lines and famed World War
pilot, continued to show improve
ment from multiple injuries received
in the crash.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
nv the Associated PresG.

By the Associated Press
HOLLYWOOD, March 5.-The
movies perfect wife" has gone back
to her husband-their marital trou-
bles ironed out.
Actress Myrna 10y and Producer
Arthur Hornblow were reconciled
Monday, friends learned today, after
four months separation. When
they parted In November, they
jointly issued statements through q
studio disclosing a years effort to
settle their differences.
At that time, Miss 10y said there
was no hope Of reconciliation. End
of their separation brought no for
NAL announcement, but Mr.. Horn
blows agent confirmed it.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Navy and F.B.I. Probe.
Death Of Pay Clerk
And $3.50 Shortage
Worront Officers Body
Found in New York Hotel;
S2,867 Wus Left at Desk

Naval officials and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation today are.
holding an inquiry on the death Of:
q pay clerk of the Naval Research
Laboratory and a shortage of
$3,880.66 IN the laboratory's funds. J
Arthur S. Ehler, 40-year old war,
rant officer at the laboratory, was
found dead yesterday in New York.
hotel after leaving 81 J867.5 wrapped
in paper at the desk on registering.
Officers Of the Sd Naval District,
New York, appointed q Board Of
Inquiry which today is still in
session.
A preliminary report given the
Navy by the r. B. I. said he had
died under suspicious circum-
stances" and that the body had been
taken to the New York morgue for
an inquest.
Had Been in iii Health.
At his home here, 2111 Eighteenth
street Sc, his wife said he had
been in i'll health for the last three
months. New York police, according
to the Associated Press, said they
found an emptied fifth gallon whisky
bottle and sleeping tablets near the.
bed. An inferno pronounced him.
dead apparently Of natural causes"
Rear Admiral Harold c. Bowen,
superintendent Of the laboratory.
here, said Mr.. Ehler was reported.
missing Monday and that q board.
had been named to investigate IAN.
apparent shortage" in the lab
oratory's funds. After registering at
the New York hotel at 7:30 pm.
Monday as James Montgomery, he
deposited s2,867 so wrapped in brown
paper at the hotel desk, the Asso-
ciated Press said. :
His body was discovered by q maid,
who, unable to get into the room,
called a house detective who opened
the door with a pass key. Police
found $143 In a pocket of his cloth
ing.
Had No Baggage.
Having no baggage, hotel officials
are quoted as saying, he paid for his
room in advance and obtained O.
pajama and toothpaste nightkit. :
Mr.. Ehler went on duty at tha
laboratory May Is, 1910, and had.
been in the service since November
1884. He had had IT years of prev<
ious service, naval records indicated.
He was born April 2, 1900, In New
Jersey and cards found in his CLOTH
ing indicated he served during the
World War aboard a warship.
Navy officials here said Mr.. Ehler
was under a routine IS 900 bond. >
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Acid Cinders Blamed for Runs
In Hosiery, May Be Eating Goats

show tiny particles have nodded"
themselves around stocking fiber be-
cause they were soft at time of i'm
pact.
Though Mr.. Shearer has not had
time to examine stockings that suf-
fered runs Monday and yesterday,
he said he was sure from the de-
scription of complainers that the
cause was the same.
February 18, between 8 and o am,
there was 52-mile-an-hour wind,
and runs burst everywhere in stock
ings of Government and business
workers and shoppers. Yesterday
at noon when the trouble reap
peared, the wind was again over 40
miles an hour.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Navy Decorotes Officer
For Ponuy Rescue
By the Associated Press.

CHEYENNE, Wyo., March s.
Maj. Frank N. Roberts yesterday
received the Navy Cross for his
rescue work at the time of the
U. S. S. Panay bombing in China
in 1887.
The presentation was made at
Fort Francis E. Warren by Maj. Gen.
George Strong.
The cross has been awarded to
only few Army men. Its award
to Maj. Roberts was approved by
Congress and President Roosevelt.
Maj. Roberts, a native of Oska-
loosa, Kans., enlisted in 1916 as a
private.
Evening star., 1941-03-05

No suit was flied, although Miss
10y earlier declared she had given
such instructions to her attorney.
The reunion came as no great sur
prise to Hollywood, which has seen
them happily lunching and dining
together on several occasions. Their
first public appearance since the
separation was at a preview Of Mr..
Hornblow's new picture three weeks
ago.
They were married in Ensenada,
Mexico, in 1896, three years after
they met on a movie set. Before
their marriage, Miss 10y in series
of domestic comedies with William
Powell had earned her perfect
wife" sobriquet.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
German Offensive
Against SaIonika
Predicted in Italy
British Have Londed
Almost Division of
Conudions, Goydo Says
By the Associated Press.


ROME, March 5.-A German drive
from Bulgaria against the Salonika
sector of Greece was predicted today
by foreign observers as Italy's fore
most Fascist editor, Virginio Gayda,
declared the British had already
landed IAN almost complete division
of Canadians" In the historic old
city.
Gayda, in II Giornale dTtalia,
added that Germany recognized "the
great italian task and effort and
importance of the Mediterranean
theater in general"
Gayda made his assertions IN
reply to a Greek news agency's
denial that British troops had landed
in Salonika. (Gayda thus far is the
only authority for British landings
in Salonika. Authorities in London
and Ottawa have refused to COM
ment)
May Divert Army TO Greece.
Observers here said that with only
month or two of fighting weather
left in North Africa before the sun
becomes too hot, Gen. Sir Archi-
bald P Wavell, British commander
in chief, presumably would be able
to leave a reduced force in Libya
and divert many of his armored
units to Greece.
Gayda estimated the British have
20 divisions in the Mediterranean
area, much motor-hauled artillery
motorized nti-aircraft and other ar
mored equipment, furnished large
ly by the United States" and large
naval forces.
Therefore, before the British
could land large numbers of troops,
observers believed, the Nazis would
open their campaign against Sa-
lonika, hoping to repeat their VIC
tories of Norway and Dunkerque.
Italian Coast Is Bombarded.
Italian warships were reported by
the high command to have bonn
barded Greek positions along the
Albanian coast in cooperation with
bombing attacks by Fascist war;
planes on Crete.
italian fighter planes engaged "en-
emy" planes which attacked the
warships during the bombardment
and shot down six, the daily war
bulletin declared. Two italian planes
were listed as missing.
The attack on the Greek island of
Crete, where the British have estab-
lished a base, was aimed at ships
and port facilities in Suda Harbor,
the italians said.
German dive bombers again at
tackled British troop concentrations
in Libya and an airport near Aged
abba, south of Bengasi, the COM
munique said. CA similar announce
ment was made by the German
high command in Berlin)
Patrol Actions in Eritrea.
"Patrol actions" were reported in
the Cheren sector of Eritrea, but
the high command mentioned no
other ground operations in East
Africa.
Mario Appelius, military COM
IlCllIdOOL 4O1 II fOPOlO " AtnAAo' oeAAN
today the Italian troops defending
Cheren, Eritrea, had completely de-
stroyed a famous Indian regiment
which he identified as "the Ratsane
Rifles"
Entire battalions of New zea-
landers have been shattered against
''the bulwark" of Italian resistance,
Appelius declared. He also said
Italy's armies were intact on all
fronts in Africa and Albania.
The Italian high command said
today a submarine which reported
sinking three British steamers in
the Atlantic March had claimed
sinking two additional steamers,
also in the Atlantic.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Congress in Brief
Senate:

SenAte.
Continues British-aid bill debate.
Appropriations Subcommittee
works on supplemental defense bill.
House:
Considers amendments to $780,
100000 farm appropriation bill.
Military Committee resumes study
of letting of Army contracts.
Merchant Marine Committee con-
tinues hearings on bill to eliminate
subversive activities In merchant
marine.
Evening star., 1941-03-05

The mass Of cold polar air has moved
coast during the last "a hours and the
temperature Is now considerably below
normal over the eastern half Of the United
near Boston Tuesday morning has con-
tinued to move rapidly eastward and
trough of low pressure. extends this morn
ing from latitude 45' NJ and longitude
So W. southwest to the extreme Northern
Bahamas Another disturbance is develop
ing. over the. Southern Rocky Mountain
region, Trinidad, Colo. 1007.S millibars
(29.76 inches). These disturbances have
been attended by precipitation, mostly light
and in the form Of rain, in the Eastern
Rocky Mountains High pressure prevails
from the Plains States eastward and over
the Pacific states. Terre Haute. Ind. 1890 L
I02s.S millibars (30.3S inches, and
Eureka, Calf. 1021.0 millibars (3O.15
inches)
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Many Handmade Shoes

While about 10 per cent of the
leather footwear produced in the
Ostmark, formerly Austria, is ma
chine made, handmade shoes and
boots are still in demand in rural
districts.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Students to Tour CopituI

A group of students. from Blue
Ridge College, New Windsor, Md,
will visit the Capital tomorrow.
They plan to go to the Capitol for
lease lend bill debates, Dies COM
mittee hearings and to visit the
Justice Department and other
Washington places Of interest.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Weather Report

Furnished by the
tonight fair with rising temperature
winds becoming variable.
VginaFair continued cold tonight tomorrow
fair with rising temperature
west Vrgina-Fair and quite neas
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Many Idle in Argentina

According to the Ministry Of
Finance, Argentina is facing an eco
nomic situation more serious than
that of 1892, when there were $50 900
idle workers in the country.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Neil Angus Mckay Dies

LOS ANGELES, March 5 P.-.
Neil Angus Mckay, 81. business
manager for screen actress Mary
Ptckford for 10 years, died yesterday. /.
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Report for Last "a Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
CFrom noon yesterday to noon todayD
Highest, 81, at 1901 pm. yesterday.
Year ago, 46.
Lowest, 81, at am. today. Year
ago, SO
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 6S, on March 3.
Lowest 10, on February 1e.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today0
Highest, "a per cent, at 1850 .. m. today.
Lowest, 43 per cent. at $50 pm. yes
terday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpsrs Ferry; Potomac clear at Great
Falls today.
Tide Tables.
Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1941-03-05

Since the outbreak of the China
incident" toy prices have risen
steadily in Japanx
Evening star., 1941-03-05
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches In the
"A anital (current month 10 datel.
Evening star., 1941-05-07
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK, May Prepared By Fitch
Publishing Co.
Extra.
Pc Stock OF Psv.
Rate riod record. able
Masonite Corp -25c @ $50 clio
Reduced.
Bridgeport Gas Lt----4Oc @ 6-14 $50
Increase
Evening star., 1941-05-07
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer.


NEW YORK, May stock
prices tilted uneasily in either di-
rection today as traders, extracting
narrow profits, experimental with
resistance levels.
Non-ferrous metals, firm through
out the day, supplied rigid back
bone OF operations, with other Sec
tlons of the list changing only in
fractions at the close. About 550,-
900 shares changed hands.
Final transactions bore little re-
semblance to early trading. The
opening was fast in continuation of
yesterdays solid gains, but inde.
cisive trends came into the as
cendancy when many operators
caShed in.
After that, from time to time,
irregular advances were made sue
cesslvely by steels, rails and motors,
but none OF these was steadily main
tanned.
Shares ahead most of the session
included Kennecott. Cerro De Pasco,
international Nickel, Air Reduction,
Union Carbide, United Aircraft,
United States Rubber and Mont
gomery Ward. Inclined lower were
Texas Corp, Youngstown Sheet,
Eastman, Du Pont. Great Northern
preferred, Chesapeake & Ohio,
| North American and Pacific Gas.
The last two reached new lows for
the year.
Evening star., 1941-05-07
Chicago Livestock

to IS cents we're recorded on all weights
Of hogs and sows IN todayS III vessedK stssdK
and cattle fully steady.
Government buying of pork products
and lard helped commission men TO obtain
higher prices on reduced run OF swine
The Department of Agriculture bought "a "a
625,O55 pounds of lard and Al !96
pounds of pork meat products yesterday,
it was announced today.
hogs sold between ss 60 and $3.50 with
top at SSS5
YearlinE cattle and light steers were
ines selling at S11.75 in early dealings:
Medium weight and weighty steers held
fully steady M IN spite Of liberal TnoiaI supply n.s
{uTited jaHSS ssa States a bepartment :p of Agri-
ee1lturel-salablee boss, Loco; t1tal: r..
and sows; top, s.s5: bulk good and choice,
10000 pounds. s.60-S0: 16O-sO pounds,
9beT feod vess TO s5 and s9v abo7. s5
- salable sheep, 5000; total, 5000; late
Tuesday, lambs closed fairly III active, bulk
skins ski III" i1.75 to city Butchers; bulk, Ss-Iia
pound shorn offerings. 9.25-60; most Cali
fornia springers averaging 80, pounds,
er most % paskfFs astve sorns oa9 lambs
today's trade generally steady on. all avail
able supply; one load a2 pounds fed wooled
pounds, II 90; most shorn lots, 9.25 down
to $50 and below: ewes auotable steady
at 725 down
Salable cattle, $500: calves. 1000:
liberal supply medium weight. and weighty
steers; very little done on kinds scaling
over 1900 pounds; few loads, 10.T5-11.5O
fully steady. numerous loads scaling 1850,
,450 pounds and better; .yearlines and
light steers, strong to ,25 higher: supply
typical yearlings small: best yearlings early.
rs; several loads. 1O.50-l so; medium
light steers, S.75-9.50: choice to prime
medium weights and heavies held above
I3 90. but only light cattle all grades get,
ting reliable option on early round; fed
heifers fully steady with supply liberal;
numerous loads al IL 90 down TO 1000:
cows and bulls firm to shade higher; very
active: yeaers steady at l0.00-12 .00;. few
go; heavy sausage bulls to $40, and
weighty cutter cows at 1.35.
Evening star., 1941-05-07
Washington Produce

BUTTER-93 score tubs. 81: I-pound
prints. 37h2; l4-pound prints, as: %
score, tubs, SO; Ipound prints, 3Gls; Ia
pound prints q; 81, score. tubs 80: l.
pound prints, 36l2; i4-pound prints. 81;
90 score: tubs. 3594: 1-pound prints. 36i.:
l4-pound prints. 3624: 50 score tubs
35ss4; 1-pond prints. 36I4; l4-pound prints,
36s4; SIS score. tubs. 3514: l-pound prints
1914; l4-pound prints, 36l4.
=, LIVESTOCK - Calves. 11n: spring
Prices paid net fob WASHINGTON
EGGS--Market steady: prices paid for
federal-State graded eggs received from
sraolng stations MAY ~, whites, U. s.
mediums. 21-23; u S. standards, large
23-24 U. S. standards. mediums, 2O-3I;
U. S. trades. 90: browns, U. S extras,
large; lar :, 24-26: y; S; extras, mediums: 81
sstandards s0. mediums. 2O,2l; U. S. trades
receipts; whites, 21; mixed colors, 20,
few higher.
LIVE PoULTRY-Market weak on
chlckens; steady on other classes. Fowl,
eolored all sizes, 1920; No. IS, 12-l3;
Leghcrn hens. all sizes, 1915, few higher
Roosters, 10-12. Chickens, Virginia broil-
ers and fryers. all sizes 1919; No 2s,
1914. Delaware Rocks and crosses, broil-
ers and fryers. all sizes, IS: No 2s, 1914,
turkeys, old toms. 14-16: old hens 1915:
No. rs. ~.
Evening star., 1941-05-07
Electric Production
Takes Slight Drop
From Last Week
Decline Is Less Than
Seasonal Expectations
And Index Advances
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 7.-Electric
power output for the week ended
May 3 topped by 14.6 per cent the
figures for the comparable period
last year, but was down slightly
from the previous week, the Edison
Electric Institute reported today.
Outturn was 2,734, 4,460, 900 kilowat
hours against 2,750277,000 in the
week ended April 26 and 2,386,21O 900
in the same period in 1910. The
week-to-Week decline was less than
seasonally due and because of this
the Associated Press power produc-
ton index advanced to 141.2 from
1410 the preceding week. The in
dex, adjusted for seasonal and long
term trend with 1929-30 taken as
100, was 1921 a year ago.
Evening star., 1941-05-07
New York Produce

NEW YORK. May : LP,.-Esgs, 4s247:
firm. Mixed colors: Fancy to extra fancy,
24l4-26: extra. "a: storage-packed hrsts,
% a; graded flrsts. %: current receipts,
p "a: mediums. 81: dirties, No. /, 2O34-
2l: average checks, 20-20A.
Whites-lResale of premium marks, 27-
29l7: nearby and MidweStern premium
marks 25-26la; specials, 24l7: standards.
"a resales Of exchange to fancy heavier
mediums, 22la-25) mediums. %.
Browns--Nearby and Midwestern, fancy
to extra fancy, 24l2-26l2; specials, "a:
standards. 2314: mediums. 211a.
Butter-1, ,5247s5; frmer. Creamery,
higher than 80 score and premium marks.
36A-37: % score leash market, 36:
sS-9l score. 1886; s4-S7 score, un-
quoted
Cheese-329. .S71: firm. State vhols
milk fats held 1899. 25-26: held, 1910,
1893 current MAKE -uf2.
Buffalo. $500
Other articles steady and UNCHANGED
Evening star., 1941-05-07
Metal Market

NEW YORK, May Z lP.-Copper steady:
electrolytic spot, Connecticut Valley IL 90;
export. fa.s. New York, II ;O0-12 90. Tin
5I.s7ia Lead steady: spot, New York,
$500: East St. Louis. $40, Zinc, spot,
East st. Louis and forward. 7,25. Pig
iron. aluminium antimony, quicksilver
platinum, Chinese wolframtte and do
meetie ochaelitA unchanged.
Evening star., 1941-05-07
Total Sales for the I

Unit OF trading shares
or xedrn
OF tab
based
included ~ - ~ N-'Ne-O' ~4e no'
or Pad last year Payable
dividends paid or declared ~
Evening star., 1941-05-07

Major geographic divisions re-
ported the following percentage in
creases in power use over the 1910
period: New England, 219; Middle
Atlantic, 1871; Central Industrial,
1873; West Central, 100; Southern
States, 15.7; Rocky Mountain, 16.1;
Pacific Coast, 7.6.
Evening star., 1941-05-07
New York Suoor

NEW YORK, MAY Z lPy.-Increased Of
1eflneS OF raw sugars today checked rising
Gomestlc sugar futures prices Opposition
by Leon Henderson TO proposed excise taxes
on FOODS, however was a supporting factor
and late prices held l to > points higher;
July, 2.4S; September. 2.54.
World futures lost part of earlier ad-
Vances of as much as 80 points on profit
taklng. liquidation and hedging. A steady
ing lnnuence was news that the United
kingdom had bought 10000 tons of San
Domlngan sugars. Late prices were un-
changed to ! higher: July, 81, March, 30
Raw offerings approximated $4,000 tons.
Prices were mostly from 3.45 to $50, with
some sales lower.
Refined held at $40 cents.
Liquidation and hedge selling in the
last half hour depressed world futures
prices.
Futures, No. 3 closed unchanged 10 2
higher sales, 10,450 tons.
July 249 24S 24Sb
September 254 PSI 252b
sales. 9,450 tons.
sept.mser ssIs 80 81 81 ..sss .ssbs' So
December ----- .91A .6Sh .sSAsb
b Bid.
Evening star., 1941-05-07
Stocks Tilt UneasiIY
As Operators Try
Resistance Levels
Profit-Tuking Holts
Steady Price Advance
Of Previous Day
Stock Averages

60-Stock Range Since 1921:
1889 1932-37. 1922
High - SAT 1873 1877
Low 1877 1863 6l.8
New l94l low.
Compiled py the Associated Press)
Evening star., 1941-05-07
Baltimore Stocks
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE May =
Sales. STOCKS. High. Low. Close.
SO SO BTuEr BaIto transit sR pf 80 5' 25S a5S So
$50 Consol Pow com 51la 57la 57h
4 Consol p 4i2re -pf 1l5 115 lis
500 East Sugar pf VT 24h 24la 24h
a555S Eo4fh EiafI1ty Amer % Psp 5 ds 1ds tx dds
80 Northern Central g6ss 96ss q6A
$50 Fldel & Guar e1A 2lS 2lL
$4,000 B T Deb & 0SpS 4 = a Aoa u4
Evening star., 1941-05-07

PLUS extras, CSC paid so far this year.
e2"- extra. 5000 extra paid De-
cember IS. 1910. $500 extra zoe
extra. m 81 80 extra; 81 90 paid Sep
tember 30. 1910. $500 paid in 1910.
$1,000 extra.
Evening star., 1941-05-07

Teheran, Iran, has a real estate
boom and SPECTATORS are active