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area along the two thoroughfares
which is located outside the county's
metropolitan district.
Roadside control within the met
ropolitan district is exercised by the
Maryland-National Capital Park ano
Planning Commission, but there are
no regulations to govern roadside
development outside that district
Vigorous attempts during recent
legislative sessions to enact a State
wide measure of the type proposed
by Mr. Jones have failed, but the
latter, declared he believes a bill
applying only to Central avenue and
Largo road could be put across.
They are the only two highway:
in Prince Georges which are moi
pock-marked with eyesores," he as
serted. There are only one or two
inns or signs along either road now
1t is time to act before they do be-
come marred with unsightly con.
struction."
Magistrate for Anne Arundel.
HIS SldCtillelG CdlIlt dS Ille oldlt
took up a measure which woulc
create an additional trial magis-
trate's position for a neighboring
Southern Maryland county, Anne
Arundel.
Senator Louis N. Phipps intro
duced the bill so that a trial mag
istrate may be named for the towr
of Odenton. the new appointee tc
receive an annual salary of $4,000.
The Phipps bill proposes a $500
cut in the $4,000 annual salary paic
the trial magistrate for Annapolis
but would allow the $500 received
by the Magistrate in Ferndale and
the $500 paid the Galesville mag
istrate to remain unchanged.
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Bill Would Bar Inns
And Signs From
7 Nearby Roads
Prince Georgian Seeks
Zoning Measure for
Largo, Central Avenue
BY JACK ALLEN,
Star Staff Correspondent.

ANNAPOLIS, Jan. ia legisla-
tive attempt to protect Central ave-
nue. and Largo road from inns, sign
boards and the type of eyesores that
mar other Prince Georges County
highways, is being prepared by
Delegate Thomas E. Jones.
Mr.. Jones said he is having a bill
drawn which would designate strips
500 feet wide on both sides of those
thoroughfareS as a residential zone
and require rezoning by the county
commissioners before any building
of commercial or industrial charac-
ter could be erected.
The measure further would stip-
ulate that no signboards could be
placed within the 500-foot zore.
Outside Metropolitan Area.
The Prince Georgeans bill, which
is being drafted by Dr.. Horace E.
Flack, legislative consultant to the
State Assembly, would apply to that
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Excess Bank Reserves
Register Increase
OF S6O,OOO,OOO
Decline in Circulation
Boosts TotuI Close
To November Peck
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
The Federal Reserve Board said
Yesterday lendable excess reserves OF
banks increased S60,000,000 to a
near-record total of $4,000, 900 900 in
the week ended January IS.
The new total was s3O.O00,O0O
under the record set during Novem-
Der. The gain was attributed most
" to a $4,000 900 decrease in money
in circulation.
The boards statement said:
During the week ended January
Is member bank reserve balances
increased S130000,000. Additions to
member bank reserves arose from
decreases of S86,000,000 in money in
circulation and S8,000,000 in Treas
ury cash, and increases of $4,000 ,OOO
In gold stock, S17000,000 in Reserve
Bank credit and S4,0OO.000 in Treas
ury currency. offset in part by an
increase of s170O0,000 in Treasury
deposits with the Federal Reserve
Banks. Excess reserves of member
banks on January ID were estimated
to be approximately S6900.000 900,
an increase of S6O0OO,000 for the
week
Changes III member bank reserve
balances and related items during
the week and the year ended Janu-
ary Is, 1941, were reported as fol-
lows:
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New Haven Papers
Miss All Editions
As Printers Strike
Union Charges Publisher
Refused to Negotiate
New Agreement
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated SIeoS.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Jan. IA
strike of pproXimately 100 compost
tors halted work today in the print
ing plants of New Hayen's two daily
newspapers, the Journal-Courier and
the Register, two of the Nation S
oldest publications.
The Journal-Courier. founded in
1855, missed all morning editions,
and no type was being set in the
plant of the 128-year-old Register,
an afternoon paper.
Richard Ryan, chairman of the
Scale Committee of New Haven
Typographical Union No. At, which
called the strike last night, said the
union sought written contract
providing wage increase and vaca-
tions with pay, and that John Day
Jackson, publisher of the Register
and owner of controlling interest in
the Journal-Courier, had CON
sistently refused to negotiate"
The strike was sanctioned, Mr..
Ryan said, by the International
Typogra phlcal Union ana was called
after local members had voted, "A to
I, to stop work. He contended the
union had given Mr.. Jackson more
than a months notice of its desire
to negotiate new contract. but
that the publisher had said the
union had no right to open" the
existing agreement.
Mr.. Jackson withheld comment.
approximately so of the strikers
we're from the Register composing
room and the rest were from the
Journal-Courier.
Editorial employees said it was the
first time in its 185-year history
that the Journal Courier had missed
an edition.
At the Register plant editorial
workers. proofreaders, stereotypers
and pressmen went about their
tasks.
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Businessmen's Club
Elects New Officers

j. d. Draper has been elected
president of the Silver Spring Md
Businessmen's Association, succeed
ing P. NJ Williamson.
Other officers chosen are Lee Rob-
insop, vice president; c. E Cogan
treasurer; H. Brooks Perring, secre-
tary, and Dr. w. B. Mehring, Fred
L. Lutes, Mr.. Williamson, Ray E
Barrett and Winship l. Green
members of the Board of Directors
Mr.. Barrett. chairman of the
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Directors Reelected
By Germantown Bank
ereeial Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The star.
GERMANTOWN. Md, Jan. IL
All directors of the Germantown
Bank were reelected at the annual
meeting of the stockholders. They
are William e. Beall Charles A.
Boyer, Thomas C. Darby, Smith
Hoyle, Walter Perry johnson,
Charles E. King, DR.. Upton D.
Nourse, A. r. Selby. John A. Stover,
Bowie F. Waters, William Waters
and Harry l.. Watkins.
The directors reelected officers as
follows: Mr.. Selby, president; Bowie
F. Waters, vice president and chair
man of the board; Mr.. Stover,
cashier, and William o. Young, as
sisGant cashier.
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Traffic Committee, reported at the
meeting that the State Highway
Commission has been requested to
change the two traffic signals at
Georgia avenue and Bonifant street
from the near side of the intersec-
ton to the far side The committee
claims the lights in their present
position are difficult to see.
The recommendation, Mr.. Barrett
said, has the Endorsement of County
Commissioner o. w. Roby.
A committee composed of Past
Presidents Winship 1. Green, Shir-
ley Workman, William A. Walsh, DR..
W. B. Mehring and Mr.. Williamson
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Stimson Sends Price
Guard Induction Order
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 17.-Sec-
retary of War Stimson transmitted
to Gov. Price today orders provid-
ing for the induction of Virginia
National Guard elements of the 29th
Division and Company G of the
191st Tank Battalion February 3.
The units involved total approx
mately 5000 men.
The guardsmen will remain al
their armories about 10 days for the
most part. but some will move to
Fort Meade, Md, by February 5.
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STANDARD Products
Declares Dividend
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 17.-Directors
o. Standard Products Co. have de-
clared dividend of 25 cents a share
on 300, 900 common shares outstand-
ing, payable February l TO holders
of record January "a.
This payment will bring to a total
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In millions Of dollars.

Jan. Is, Jan. s, Jan. II.
194l, l94l, 1910.
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of 50 cents a share dividends on
common for the fiscal year which
started July !, 1910 The company
manufactures automotive equipment.
Evening star., 1941-01-17
Not Funny to Nuzis

LONDON (P,.-Flippant remarks
about Germans plans for invasion
bring heavy penalties in the Neither
lands. the Hague correspondent OF
Vrij Nederland reports.
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81 Dividend Ordered
By L. & N. Directors
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-Directors
Of the Louisville & Nashville Rail-
road Co. declared a dividend of 50
on the capital stock, payable Febru-
ary % to holders of record Janu-
ary 80.
Payments last year were $1.25 in
February, S275 in August and So in
December.
The latest dividend calls for a
distribution of S1,193,400 to Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad on is holdings
OF 81 per cent of L. g. N. stock.
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has been appointed to redraft the
bylaws.
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will fight against Germany on
England's side.")
1.00O Germans on Train,

The train on which Won Heeren
departed for Berlin pulled out Of
the Belgrade station only eight min
utes before the midnight deadline
he had set for the departure of all
German nationals.
Approximately 1000 Germans
were crowded aboard. The train
was an hour late in leaving because
of the strain on railway facilities
caused by the frantic rush of per-
sons of many nationalities seeking
to flee the country.
Won Heeren said tersely he would
report to German Foreign Minister
Joachim Won Ribbentrop 'imme-
diately" upon arriving in Berlin,
but made no other comment.
Italians joined German nationals
in the hasty exodus.
Thousands of persons OF many ma
tionalities still thronged the Bel
grade station today, waiting for any
kind of transport out of the capital.
Some diplomatic sources expressed
belief that, despite strained German
Yugoslav relations, which Nazi quar-
tiers described yesterday as "des-
perate and practically hopeless" a
f1areup might be delayed 10 days be-
cause Hitler is not ready for decisive
action.
This view was given some support
by dispatches from Berlin. which
quoted a Foreign Office spokesman
as saying "the time for Germany
to take stand has not yet arrived" :"
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as sunk in an attack on q convoy
and another large freighter dam
aged" The communique said four
hangers also were badly bomb hit''
and set afire in a low-altitude raid
on an air base in Southern Eng
land.
Dive -bombers were credited with
having scored heavily on field forth
flcation and concentrations OF Brit
ish armored units in North Africa.
From March Is to March 81. the
high command added, the British
lost a total Of IS planes and II
barrage balloons to German losses
of "a planes.
Several places in Northern and
Northwestern Germany were bombed
by small r. A. F. units, it said, but
no military damage resulted. (The
British reported Bremen and Emden
were attackedD
British Freighter Claimed.
The Germans also reported that a
Nazi warship operating overseas
had sunk the 4,878-ton British
freighter Warlaby recently.
The Warlaby is registered as the
property of the Ropner Shipping
Co., Ltd, of West Hartlepool.
DNB, official German news
agency, said British bombers yes
terday and last night attacked sew
eral Dutch communities. One plane,
the agency said, machine-gunned
ferryboat carrying only Dutch
civilians. Four houses were de-
stroyed by bombers and others dam
aged, the agency said.
Evening star., 1941-04-01
Hospital Is Damaged
By British, Nozis Chorqe

BERLIN, April l lP.-British air
raiders who few over Western Ger
many during the night damaged the
famous Bethel Charity Hospital in
the suburbs of Bielefeld, killing IL
patients and injuring five, the Ger
mans declared today.
1t was the second bombing of that
group of hospital buildings near
Bielefeld within a few weeks, the
high command said.
Three of the attacking planes were
downed, it stated, two by fire from
patrol boats and one by an anti
aircraft battery. Two other British
planes were said to have been shot
down in air fights over the Channel.
Hull, Great Yarmouth Targets.
Hull and Great Yarmouth bore
the brunt of Nazi air raids on
Britain, the war bulletin said, and
a ship was set afire in Great Var
mouth Harbor.
In air operations over Britain a
1000-ton merchant ship was listed
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Roosevelt
Continued From First PAGE

to Britain, Greece and China-and
probably to Yugoslavia if that nation
is forced to defend itself against the
axis-became more than ever evi-
dent when Maj. Gen. James H.
Burns, War Department ordnance
expert, joined the presidential party
at Fort Bragg yesterday. Mr.. Roose-
welt announced there that ship
ment of 75-mm. guns has been
marked for early shipment to Greece.
Confers With Hopkins.
Gen. Burns has been working
closely with former Secretary of
Commerce Hopkins in recent weeks
in drafting the lease-lend program,
and the two conferred at length
with the President on his train last
evening.
Capt James Roosevelt, one Of the
Presidents sons, met him at Union
Station today.
While he was on the fishing cruise
among Britain's Bahamas islands
last week, Mr.. Roosevelt authorized
additional consignments of Ameri-
can war goods to Britain and Greece,
and officials said more authorize
tions could be expected when he
reached Washington. There was a
chance that he would be ready to
announce some of his latest deci-
sions at press conference late to-
day.
In his homeward trip the Presi-
dent paused in the Carolinas both
at Fort Bragg and at Fort Jack
son, to see how the new Army is
molding its men into an efficient
fighting force. He manifested great
satisfaction at the progress his in
specticns revealed.
Instead of the formal reviews with
which military posts usually receive
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Albert Boyd Neal Dies;
War COLLEGE Chief Clerk

Albert Boyd Neal, IS, chief clerk
at the Army War College for 23
years, died Sunday at his residence,
149 r street NE.
Mr.. Neal, a native of Knoxville,
Tenn, came to Washington 40 years
ago and was graduated from George
Washington University law school.
For several years prior to 1901 he
worked here as secretary to the
assistant passenger agent Of the
Southern Railway.
In 1901 he went to work with the
adjutant generals Office of the War
Department, going to the War Col
lege in 1903. He was offered a
captains commission in the Army
Reserve Corps in 1917, but declined
because he had just been made chief
clerk at the War College.
He was member of the District
of Columbia and the Tennessee bars,
of the Mount Pleasant Lodge, F. A.
A. M, and of the Bannockburn Golf
Club.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. jeanette
Gibbs Neal; a daughter, Phoebe j.
Neal; a sister, Mrs. Kate Adams Of
Knoxville, and two brothers, William
Everett Neal and Frank Neal.
Funeral services will be at II a m.
tomorrow at the Chambers funeral
home, 1400 Chaplin street NV.
Burial will be in Cedar Hill Gene
tery,
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the commander in chief, Mr.. Roose-
welt had asked for demonstrations Of
how soldiers actually train.
So he saw men sprawled nat in
deep dust operating guns. He
watched sham battles, a mock gas
attack, drills with weapons varying
from shoulder rifles to cannon.
Everywhere he looked there was
action instead of stiffly aligned ranks
Of men in their best uniforms. At
Fort Bragg, the President saw a
company Of selectees who had en-
tered the camp four hours before
and already were drilling in uni
form.
Mr.. Roosevelt admittedly was i'm
pressed by the demonstrations at
both the Army camps. He remarked
that new streamlined divisions such
as those he saw, probably would
become the standard divisions of the
Army eventually.
He noted, too, that while the
troops at the two posts had insult
ficient arms and equipment for COM
bat conditions, there were plenty
for training purposes.
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Cooler Weather Predicted
As Policemen Shed Coats

Washington weather is expected
to be cooler tomorrow and so are
Washington's policemen.
Any overcoat seen on a policeman
from 8 am. to pm. beginning to-
morrow will be strictly unorthodox.
So apparently, will be any police
man seen with chattering teeth.
For police officials have decreed
in effect that spring is here. and,
therefore, all police commanding
officers have received notice that
the daytime uniform for all
branches will consist only of fall
blouses, winter trousers and serge
caps.
The order, signed by Inspector
william G. Stott, does provide, how
ever, for overcoats to be worn by
officers on duty from pm. to am.
The forecaster at the Weather
Bureau said that today's tempera-
lures in the middle 40s are expected
to drop somewhat tomorrow, with
possibly fair weather in prospect.
Policemen are holding out for .
sunny day,
Evening star., 1941-04-01
Berlin Sources Silent
On Events at Belgrade

BERLIN, April 1 P,.-Authori1ed
sources for the first time declared
themselves unable today to COM
ment further on political events in
Belgrade.
When asked whether this meant
the situation between Germany and
Yugoslavia was hopeless, they said
this did not follow, but interpreted
their remark to mean, there is
nothing to add to what we have
said on previous days because now
state has been reached in Yugo-
slavia when uncomfortable feelings
OF hate are uppermost, when inciters
are doing their work, when men
are murdered and women are
beaten up, German nationalists and
Volksdeutsche German folk are
insulted and molested, when the
whole country is in a state of
turbulence"
Viktor Won Heeren, German minis
ter who has been recalled from
Belgrade. was expected to arrive
this afternoon to report.
The fact that Won Heeren was
coming here and the Yugoslav
Minister to Germany also had been
summoned to his capital was re-
garded by informed Germans as an
indication Of the seriousness of the
crisis"
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YugosIovio
Continued From First Page.

Mack presiding. studied them at
Zagreb.
Rumors which could not be con.
firmed said that British Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden and Gen. Sil
John J. Dill. chief of Britain's i'm
perial general staff, would come here
soon.
(Such reports also were heard
in Berlin. but an authoritative
source in London called them
"feelers" to sound out British in
tentions and said there was no
confirmation" Both men, who
have been making a Near East
ern survey during the past
month, were in Athens yesterday
capitaD
Despite German-YugoSlav tension,
both countries continued to MAIN
tain relations and the opinion was
expressed in some quarters that the
situation might not be clarified for
another 10 days.
Evacuation Completed.
Under circumstances suggestive of
approaching armed conflict, Ger
many completed formal evacuation
of her nationals from this country,
which only a week ago she tri-
umphantly welcomed into the Rome
Berlin Toxic alliance.
Five NaZi divisions-approxi-
mately $4,000 men-were reported
massed on the Hungarian-Yugo-
slav frontier within a few hours
after German Minister Viktor Won
Heeren left Belgrade for Berlin.
Reports were current that an ulti-
matum from Adolf Hitler might be
expected at any moment, demand
ing that Yugoslavia demobilize and
fulfill the treaty of alliance with
the axis which the since-deposed
regency government signed last
Tuesday in Vienna.
CThe Hungarian Telegraph
Agency said today in a dispatch
from Berlin that the German
Foreign Office had received a
note from Belgrade explaining
the Yugoslav governments for
eign policy, but that the note
did not mention the axis pacto
Premier Gen. Simovic, meanwhile,
held the Yugoslav Army Of 1000, 900
men ready for instant action.
Seeks to Calm Public.
The government sought to calm
the public as welter OF rumors
circulated throughout the country,
but took extraordinary measures to
meet any emergency.
Gen. Simovic banned all public
gatherings, issued orders tc forestall
a possible massed fight Of alarmed
civilians and directed state and local
authorities to remain at their posts
"in every case"
He told the population in broad
cast address last night there is
no cause, for worry" and that the
government is trying to remain on
friendly relations with all neigh
bors." But he added, almost in the
same breath:
I'm the interest of the state, the
people all are required If
destiny orders, to give their lives
for the good of their homes, father
land, king and all the people. The
army, air force and navy are ready
to do their duty"
Reports reaching Budapest
said a number of Yugoslav Army
officers who previously had been
retired because they opposed the
axis agreement had been REIN
stated and that two generals re-
garded as pro-German had been
deprived of their commands.
(The same sources told Of an
anti-German demonstration at
Maribor, near the old Austrian
border, in which Yugoslavs dis
tributed pamphlets saying, "We
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mats here have had steady contact
with the Turkish government for
the past few days.
Concentrating the Goth ami
versary of the success of Turkish
armies in the fight for independence,
an announcer of the official radio
station expressed the wish that all
armies which today are fighting
for freedom will have the same sue
ceSS"
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Congratulations Not Sent
To BeIqrode, Soviet Says

MOSCOW, April R.-Pravda,
Communist party organ, said today
Soviet Russia had not sent con-
gratulations to Yugoslavia, but ex-
planned that perhaps the Soviet
government forgot to do SO or did
not think of it,"
Undoubtedly the Yugoslav people
have glorious past" it said. "A
people worthy of their glorious past
deserve congratulations and If such
congratulations occurred there would
be nothing unusual"
This statement was contained in a
two-column article denying Bel
grade report that Soviet congratula-
tions had been sent to Yugoslavia.
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hotels in Washington had . policy
against serving men In uniform and
stating these men ARE more well
come, If anything, than any one
else" was issued by Gardner Moore.
president of the Washington Hotel
Managers Association.
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Hotel
Continued From First Page. !

Continued From First Page)
the Federal Employees Council
passed a resolution calling on all
Federal workers to boycott any
establishment where it is proven
the establishment has Disseminated
against any man in uniform %
An announcement denying the
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Turkey Due to Coll Up
Three Closes of Youths

ANKARA, Turkey, April / Up.-
Turkey soon will call up youths in
the classes of 1924, 1925 and 1926 in
unspecified districts for training, 1t
was learned unofficially last night.
The Greek Ambassador to Turkey
talked for an hour yesterday with
Foreign Minister Sukru Saracoglu.
Yugoslav, British and Greek diplo-