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Evening star., 1941-12-10

DIAMONDS from estates and private
parties must be sold at sacrifice prices
Fine color diamond weighing 7s carat in
expensive platinum mounting, S275. 3 very
fine color diamonds weighing / carat each
for S235 each, will sell separately Very
fine color diamond weighing over IA carats
for S310. Beautiful diamond weighing
l 60/1Q0 earats in platinum mounting
diamond. very beautiful, weighs 3O/IOO
in mans platinum mounting, owner will
take S1,9 900. On sale at 903 F st. NV
See Mr.. Oppenheimer.
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CATTLE g LIVESTOCK.
FARM g GARDEN.

COW MANURE, well rotted. 81 hundred
lbs: 500 lbs, SIS; $3.50 ton; rich garden
dirt. SOC hundred lbs; 500 lbs. S2.50 /
sS1 s eewood sn%ts any Ies5t 1ea5th oord a
pm. Glenhurst Dairy, Box 575s, Be-
thesda. Nd.
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MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE.

STOVE. four-burner electric. high oven,
ooio type, in good working order s25.
u5 Shadow road Kenwood Md
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19 rooms 3 baths, accommodating %
people: good downtown NV loc: income
approx $500 mo. BLDG. and business COM
plete for $4,000. Terms can be arranged.
JOHN J. McKENNA.
THE BROKER OF ACTION
Sliitp 4I3 l01O Vermont
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O. N. Depot Proposed
For Alexandra

Erection of a $2,500, 900 quarter
master depot at Alexandria and .
5000, 900 depot for storage and dis
tribution between Richmond and
Charlotte, N. c., is authorized in the
$3,778, 1893 ,254 nth supplemental de-
fense appropriation bill reported to
the House today.
These two projects are included
in $77,423,500 Quartermaster
Corps storage construction pro-
gram. The largest depot, costing
$40 1865 900, is to be at Philadelphia,
and the next largest, costing $780,
600, is to be located somewhere in
the Northwest.
In testimony before the House Ap-
preparations Committee on the fifth
supplemental defense appropriation
bill, the Quartermaster Corps ex-
planned the Alexandria depot, OF
100000 square feet, would be provided
in funds to be requested in q supple
mental appropriation for the next
fiscal year.
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priation bills for several years. The
administration sought to eliminate
it from the Navy measure last week
but the House Committee blocked
the attempt. Yesterday, a provi-
sion to strike it out was defeated in
the Senate by a tie vote when Vice
President Wallace was absent from
the chamber.
In broad outline, the Army sec
ton of the bill carried:
$1,000, 100000 for the procurement
of $500 bombing planes-2,400 me-
dunn, two-engine craft and 1000 Of
the heavy, four-engined type-to be
produced at four new assembly
plants being constructed in the Mid
west. Parts for the planes will be
manufactured by about 400 con-
tractors, including many automobile
factories.
s3432S8,14O for the purchase of
1,425 other bombers and transport
planes required to complete the Air
Corps current 18,000- plane program.
s971, 1,769,114 for ordnance and
variety of other military equipment
to be held in reserve.
A total of $14S,039,2 ,296 was in
cluded for the continuation of con-
struction and development of the
new Atlantic island bases and the
installation of defense equipment
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Spring Will Bring
Freezing Weather
To District Tonight

Spring will bring freezing
weather to Washington tonight,
the Weather Bureau predicted.
The first full day of spring
will find the mercury sliding
to a low of about % tonight,
with a slightly lower tempera-
ture expected for tomorrow. 1t
was said. Overcast skies are
also expected.
However, yesterday, in which
spring arrived officially at 7:21
pm. was about as average a
spring day as one could find,
the bureau said. The tempera-
ture ranged from a low of 36 to
a high Of So, while the normal
spring day for Washington
ranges in temperature between
SO and So.
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6. H. A. Not Involved
In SeIders Rejection,
DR.. White Insists
Surgeon Says Hospital
Refused Privileges on
Professional Grounds
BY HAROLD B. ROGERS.

Dr. Charles Stanley White, Wash
ington surgeon. today testified in
District Court that the application
Of DR.. Raymond E. Selders to prac.
tice general surgery at George Wash
| ington University Hospital had been
rejected in 1887 purely on account
of his professional qualification"
and not because DR.. Selders was the
Group Health Association surgeon.
Testifying for the defense in the
Governments antitrust suit against
organized medicine, DR.. White,
former president of the District
Medical Society and Of the WASH
ington Academy of Surgery and now
president of Doctors Hospital,
countered the charge Of Government
prosecutors who have attempted to
show that DR.. Selders was excluded
from several Washington hospitals
because he was a G. H. A. staff
doctor. DR.. White is not q de-
fendant.
ton by John Henry levin, special
assistant to the Attorney General,
testified he knew DR.. Selders was
connected with G. H. A. He in
sisted, however, that this connection
had nothing whatever to do with
the action of the medical stan OF
George Washington University Hos
pital in rejecting DR.. Selders' ap-
| plication.
Action on Academy Report.
DR.. White, to whom all applica-
tions for the practice of surgery
in that institution were regularly
referred. said he sent the applica-
ton to the Washington Academy Of
Surgery. When the recommendation
Of the academy came back to the
hospital, DR.. White said. it was
adverse" A vote was taken by the
medical staff of the hospital, and
DR.. Selders was rejected.
when you voted on the applica-
ton of DR.. Selders," the witness was
asked by Defense Counsel William
E. Leahy, "did you vote to restrain
or break up G.. H. A.?"
NO" responded DR.. White. II
voted to reject him purely on the
report of the committee of the
Washington Academy of Surgery. I
had the utmost confidence they
would give him proper examination
and investigation
Asked by Mr.. Leahy what was dis
cussed at the staff meeting at the
hospital where DR.. Selders had been
rejected, DR.. White said:
"I stated this was to be acted
upon purely upon professional quail
fications. I made that statement at
the time. I felt he ought to have a
fair deal"
Through Regular Channels.
DIR. White testified that Dr. Selders'
application went thdough the regu-
lar channels, through which all sur
geons apply for privileges to prac-
tice at the hospital. He said that it
was not unusual for a surgeon to
be rejected and that several were
rejected from time to time. The
institution, he said, prints the ap-
plications "by the thousands" and
(See MEDICAL, Page A-40
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Library Of Congress Moves
To Protect Its Books in War

Problems of packing and storage are
under consideration.
Although no change is anticipated
in the Librarys service or mainte-
nance of it's collections, Mr.. Mac
Leish stated, preparation for the
protection of a collection of 5000, 900
volumes and pamphlets is "a slow
business" since enormous quantities
of books must be handled to list ex-
ceptional material.
ANY large library, and particu-
larry library of the size and i'm
portance Of the Library of Con-
gress," said the librarian, "has In its
collection many books and manu-
scripts Of such great value that
every possible precaution against
any risk, however remote, must be
taken for thei- preservation"
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New 'Panzer' Division
Information Studied
By General Staff
High Authority Seeks
To Determine if U. S.
Force Will Be Sufficient
by the Associated Press.

tSy tLt f2ooOSldIcQ EIcSS.
New data on the way Germany's
"panzer" divisions we're used in the
conquest of France are being studied
carefully by the Army general staff,
Congress learned today, in connec-
ton with plans for possible greater
expansion of the Army's new ar
mored force.
Gen. George c. Marshall, chief
of staff, told a House Appropria-
tions subcommittee on March that
the Army had received more exact
data about two weeks earlier than
had been available previously as to
the employment of the German
mechanical and motorized forces,
particularly the former, in the
break through into France and the
plunge to the Channel" The testi-
mony was made public today.
The general said information was
being analyzed to determine the
adequacy of the United States pres
ent plans for an ultimate armored
force consisting of eight divisions,
plus the equivalent of a ninth di-
vision in IS armored battalions.
Materiel for Four Divisions.
Discussion Of the subject was pre-
cipitated by Representative Collins,
Democrat. of Mississippi, who ques-
toned whether the present plan to
have four divisions in the armored
force by the end of June was "suf-
flcient to go on the offensive" in
view Of Germany's reported possess
sion of IA mechanized divisions.
TT depends on where you go, sir, -
replied Gen. Marshall. The four
divisions are the number that we
would have materiel for. Materiel
is the limiting factor"
If conditions warranted the ex-
pansion of the Army beyond the
1,418,000 scheduled to be in service
June 30, Gen. Marshall said it was
planned to increase the armored
force to eight, or possibly 10 divi-
sions. Two such divisions already
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Ship Reported Torpedoed
Reaches New York Safely
- the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 21.-The
8,441-ton British freighter Empire
Attendant, which had been report
ed torpedoed 1000 miles of the
Irish coast March 7, along with four
other ships III convoy, arrived
unexpectedly today and anchored
at Quarantine.
Capt. AIRY Kooy of the Dutch
liner Leerdam had said on his ar
rival Wednesday that he was close
to the Empire Attendant when a
torpedo struck her.
British officials here refused COM
ment on her arrival and said her
captain and crew would not be al
lowed to tell of their experiences.
The after mast of the freighter
was missing, and harbor officials
said she would be taken to dry
dock.
Evening star., 1941-03-21
Two Italian Attacks
RepuIsed on 3-Mi|e
Front, Greeks Say
Entire Fascist Company
OF $50 Is Declared
Killed or Wounded
By til Associated Press.


ATHENS, March 21.-Greek SOL
diers along a three-mile front in
Albania beat of two furious italian
attacks supported by tanks yesterday
and killed or wounded an entire
Fascist company of $50 men, the
Official government spokesman de-
clared today.
It was the second time in as many
days that the Greeks reported a
whole Fascist company destroyed in
battle.
The spokesman said the Italians
lost three tanks in the bitter fight
at a point he did not disclose.
The Greeks still did not claim the
capture of the strongly-defended
town of Tepeleni, as reported twice
yesterday in advices reaching Yugo-
slavia. The Greeks said the Tepe-
leni report had not been confirmed
in Athens.
Among the officers captured in
the recent Mussolini- directed offen-
sive, the spokesman reported, was
a cousin of II Duce. He identified
the officer as 1t. Col. Tuveri Ciglio,
commander of the SD Battalion OF
the 26th BlackShirt Legion.
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With an eye to precautions
against any risk, however remote, ~
the Library of Congress has started
taking steps to protect its 5000, 900
volumes and pamphlets, Librarian
Archibald MacLeish disclosed today
American libraries and museums
have had the general problem of
safeguarding collections under con-
sideration ever since the beginning
of the present war. the Librarian
said, following in the footsteps of
the British Museum which had
completed plans for protection as
early as 1885.
The Library of Congress staff,
taking the first step toward protec-
ton, is beginning to list its ire
placeable books and manuscripts
Evening star., 1941-03-21
Dick Chapman Appeals
Droft Classification
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
GREENWICH, Conn.,, March al
Richard D. Chapman, national anna
teur golf champion, has filed an
appeal on medical grounds from his
selective service classification of Ia.
The Greenwich Draft Board up
held its original classification last
night and referred Chapman's ap-
peal to the Fairfield County Selec-
tive Service Appeals Board, after
hearing q medical report on him.
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Big Bomber Fleet
Can Secure Defense
| OfU.S., Knudsen Says
B, the Associated Press.

bs Inc AssOCldIcd FreSS.
A fleet of large, long-range
bombers can secure the defense
of the United States, William
S. Knudsen believes.
Il really feel that we can
secure defense If we have these
large bombers," he said. If
we had 1000 of that type now,
We could fix things up over
there"
The Office of Production
Management chief did not elab-
crate his Elk things up" re-
mark, which occurred during
testimony which a House sub
committee made public today.
Evening star., 1941-03-21
Atlantic Bases 10 Cost
Army S2OO,O0O,000
n, tbs Axsoei.tsd Press

~ the Associated Press.
Congress learned today that the
cost to the Army of Atlantic bases
In British possessions would be about
$500, 900, 900.
OF this amount, $3,750, 900 would
be for land acquisitions and the re-
i1ainder for military construction
and defense installations.
1t. Col. Robert w. Crawford of
the engineers staff gave this in
formation to a House Appropriations
subcommittee when he testified on
the Army's requests for funds to
cover the first half of the work.
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Committee Asks
4 Billion More
For Army, Navy
$500 Bombing Planes
Included in Great List
Of Defense Arms
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
ErcluSiDe of $1,000, 900. 900 Bit
tsh-aid appropriation bill passed
by House and not0 before Senate
committee, total OF appropria-
tionS, contract authorizations and
budget estimates for Army and
Navy for current and neTt fiscal
year is brought to $25,182,674,O15
by Introduction in House today of
S4,073,810,074 measure for supple
mentary items for armed services.
hy the Associated Press.
An additional outlay of $4,073, ,810,-
074 for the Army and Navy, includ-
ing funds for new plant capacity
sufficient to supply 1000 ,000-man
army "on combat status" was
recommended to the House today by
its Appropriations Committee.
About half of the huge sum would
be direct cash appropriation, with
the balance in contract authorize
tions for which Congress would have
to provide the funds later, possibly
this year.
The committee explained that
roughly half of the Army's $3,778,-
1893 ,254 share was earmarked for
new projects. The balance orig
inally had been included in the War
Departments budget estimates for
the fiscal year starting July and
we're transferred to this bill to ex-
pedite the program.
rs Billion Now the Total.
Opening debate on the measure,
Representative Woodrum, Democrat,
of Virginia told the House that ex-
elusive of the $7,000,000000 to
f1narce the British-aid program,
the pending bill brought to $685.
l82,674,015 the total of appropria-
tions. contract authorizations and
budget estimates for both the Army
and Navy for the current and next
fiscal years.
The bill contained an amendment
by Representative Scrugham, Demo-
crat, OF Nevada to prohibit expen.
diture of any of the funds for Ar
gentine canned beef or any other
food product produced outside the
United States, unless 1t cannot be
obtained here.
A similar prohibition has been
carried in the regular naval appro-
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B, the Associated Press.

B, the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 21.-The port
of Plymouth, pounded repeatedly by
the German air force since the start
of the war, bore the brunt of attacks
by the Luftwaffe again last night
as the r. A. F. stabbed for the 48th
time at the Nazi submarine base at
Lorient.
Daylight activity opened today
with a raid on a southeast coast
town by a Junkers 88 which stole in
under cover of fog over the Strait
of Dover, dropped a number of
high explosive bombs and machine
gunned streets.
There was some slight damage to
residential property but no casual
ties were reported.
Evening star., 1941-03-21
Matsuoka May Visit
London During Trip
~ +bn Aeeoc{otad YrssS

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 21.-Usually re-
liable Japanese sources in Berlin in
dicated today that japanese Foreign
Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, now en-
route here for axis conferences,
might visit London while in Europe
They were unable to say whether
this might mean he would return
by way of the United States.
Evening star., 1941-03-21
Smoking Ruins Left by Nozis
In Heavy Bombing of Plymouth
Port Repeatedly Pounded by Germans,
Bears Brunt of German Night Attacks

London, heavily raided the pre-
vious night, escaped comparatively
lightly, but firebombs and high ex-
plosives scattered by the Nazis left
a trail of smoking ruins in the busi-
ness section of Plymouth.
Fire fighters worked until dawn
Evening star., 1941-03-21
129 R. 0. 7. {. Cadets
In Maryland Called
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, March 21.-Third
Corps Area Army officers announced
today that 129 cadet officers from
Reserve officers Training Corps
units of Maryland colleges have
been called up for one years active
duty.
The University of Maryland will
supply about 70 cadets, it was said.
More than 40 are Johns Hopkins
University students, while 16 are at
Western Maryland.
The cadets who accepted duty
all were given the choice of entering
active service or foregoing their
commissions-will be commissioned
as second Ieutenants and assigned
to Army posts throughout the
country.
At the University of Maryland It
was said that none of the men
would be called until they had fin
ished their training in June, at
which time about so would receive
commissions.
Evening star., 1941-03-21
Ohioon Dies Of Injuries
In Troin-Freight Crosh
PNtte Associated Press.

RAVENNA, Ohio, March AL. c.
Basch, 40, Youngstown, died today
of injuries suffered in a train wreck
at nearby Windham. His was the
first death resulting from the Tues
day crash between an Erie freight
and a nine-coach train taking work.
men to the Ravenna shell-loading
nlant.
Evening star., 1941-03-21
Greek Defense Works
Bombed by italians

ROME, March 81 R.-Italian
warplanes bombed Greek defense
works on the Albania battlefront
from low altitude yesterday, the
Fascist high command reported to-
day. Ground operations were said
to have been limited to normal
artillery activity
The italians also reported their
planes had bombed the naval base
at Suda on the Greek Island of
Crete, shooting at ships in the
harbor" and downing a Hurricane
fighter.
Evening star., 1941-03-21
s., 900 Tons of Ships
In Convoy Sunk by
Subs, Nozis Claim
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 21.-German
submarines operating of the
African west coast have sunk
$1,000 tons of merchant ships
out of a British convoy, the
high command announced to-
day in special communique.
Evening star., 1941-03-21
Congress Gets
St. Lawrence
Agreement
President to Ask
Legislation Making
Accord Effective
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Effort to authorize st. Laurence
RtUer seu,Duy and potDer project
through treaty betUeen tUo ooU-
ernments failed in 1884, Uhen
United States Senate gaue plan
only bare majority rather than
tUo-thirdS majority required.
Present effort, through Joint
agreement and congressional res
olution, tDiH require approval Of
both branches Of Congress, but
tDill need only majority OF each.
(Tert OF Agreement, Page All
Evening star., 1941-03-21
BACKGROUND

Germany has launched spring
aerial offensive against British
Isles, 1Dhtch already has seen netD
widespread damage inflicted on
London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Hull
and other cities. British stimuli
taneouSly haze intensified their
bOmbardment OF German military
objectiues and Ndst bases along
the Channel and North Sea
coasts.
Evening star., 1941-03-21
Briton Entombed
IA Days in Ruins
Is Rescued Alive
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 21.-After
seven and one-half days in
which he lay entombed by the
bomb wreckage of a tenement
of a Clydeside town, Frederick
Clark. 80, policeman, was re-
ported rescued today.
Workers were removing a
woman's body when they heard
his means.
Evening star., 1941-03-21
Nazi Ships Gneisenau
And Scharnhorst Off
u. s., English Say
British Press Association
Identifies War Vessels
Churchill Mentioned
ry TIE Associated Press.

LONDON. March 21.-The Brit
ish Press Association said today
that the German warships which
Prime Minister Churchill said Tues
day had crossed to the American
side of the Atlantic" were the bat
tleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
The press association did. not
give the source of its information
Mr.. Churchill told the Pilgrims,
British-American society, that not
only German battle cruisers" but
also Nazi U-boats had crossed the
Atlantic and already had sunk un-
conveyed British ships as far west
as the forty-second meridian, which
runs 1,500 miles east of New York
He did not specify the size Of
the NaI raiding force, but the
term he used for the surface raiders
indicated that they were of the
size of the Scharnhorst and the
Gneisenau, sister ships of $4,000
tons each.
His statement came in a formal
welcome for John G.. Winant. new
United States Ambassador to
London.
The German battleships Scharn-
horst and Gneisenau have been fire.
quently listed as sunk or destroyed
by British and neutral sources.
Last April IL Reuters, British news
agency, said the 26,000-ton, 27-knot
Gneisenau had been sunk in Oslo
ford. On April "a the Norwegian
Telegraph Bureau said she went
down bow first with three propellors
racing in the air, amid big area Of
flaming OIL" The bureau said she
was hit twice by big guns at Oskar-
borg fort. Germany denied the re-
port.
A Reuters report of April IT said
Trustworthy" traveller had seen the
Scharnhorst in Rissa Creek near
Trondheim with her stern under
water.
On June IA the British Admiralty
said the naval air force struck her
See WARSHTPS page A-ll
Evening star., 1941-03-21
Soviet Naval Chief Named

MOSCOW, March 81 R.-Ad.
miral I. S. Isakoff, vice commissar to
the navy, was appointed naval chief
of staff today. He succeeded Ad-
miral L. M. Caller.
Evening star., 1941-03-21
All British-Aid Funds
To Be Committed in
Year, Knudsen Says
Defense Chief Testifies
More Than Hour Before
Senute Committee
BACKGROUND

" UuJ HtuLST tQtS uHHttg iOU,
Congress recently enacted lat0
empowering President to acquire
and lease or lend arms to nations
Dhose defense D1s deemed Uitdl
to safety of United States. Ap-
preparation of $1,000, 900 900 to
implement program then tDdS re-
quested by administration.
By the Associated Press.
William S. Knudsen assured Sen
ators today that the full amount
of the $1,000, 900 900 British-aid fund
would be committed during the fiscal
year starting July /.
After testifying for more than
an hour at a closed session of the
Senate Appropriations Committee,
the director general of defense pro-
duction said his testimony dealt
largely with matters previously pre-
sented at a similar House hearing.
I'VE may not be able to spend
the entire $1,000 100000 in the year,
but we will make commitments for
it." Mr.. Knudsen told reporters wait
ing outside the committee room
I'VE already have our plans for
expansion well under way" he
added.
Speedy o. X. Is Urged.
Three key defense officials were
reported reliably to have advised the
Senate committee yesterday that
speedy approval of the British-aid
appropriation would deal a powerful
psychological blow to the axis
powers.
The three-Secretary of War
Stimson, Secretary of the Navy
Knox and Gen. George C. Marshall,
Army chief of staff-testified as ad-
ministration leaders worked to rush
the progress of the big cash allot-
ment so it would be ready to 60 to
the White House by Monday night.
Organized resistance to the meas
ure, meanwhile, virtually collapsed.
Opposition Senators freely conceded
they had little chance either of re-
ducing the total or of cutting the
cash amount and making up the
difference by granting the admins
tration authority to make future
contracts.
Majority Leader Barkley was con-
f1dent the full Appropriations Com
mittee would indorse the House
approved legislation without change
by tomorrow.
Members of the Appropriations
Subcommittee conducting hearings
(See pPTTTSu Am PAGE AL
Evening star., 1941-03-21

to bring under control a series of
blazes, some of which, the gov
eminent acknowledged, were of Sc
rious proportions.
Though the attack was not
(See LONDON, Page A-5D