Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1940, Page 1

Weather Forecast Cloudy today, followed by rain or snow late this afternoon and tonight; tomor- row rain, slightly warmer. Temperatures yesterday—Highest, 45, at 4 p.m.; low- est, 29, at 5 am. From the U; nited States Weather Bureau report. Full details on Page A-2. No. 1,822—No. 34,991. Describing Battle on Nazi Finns Pursued On Whole Front, Russians Claim By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, Feb. 18 (Sunday)— | Russian troops pounding incessantly on the Finnish Mannerheim Line in a drive on Viipuri, second Finnish city, today claimed the capture of the station of Sainio, 4 miles south- east of their objective, and said the enemy was being pursued on the | entire front. The Red Army communique thus pictured the present Soviet lines as forming a rough triangle, with the apex close to Viipuri. The reported capture of Sainio means the Rus- sians advanced nearly 8 miles in one day. Their communique yesterday’ gaid the town of Kamara had fallen. | Hurried Retreat Effected. “On the Karelian Isthmus the en- emy hurriedly retreated under the blows of Soviet troops toward Vii- puri and eastward of Viipuri, suffer- ing grave losses and setting villages on fire,” the communique said.- (The Finnish communique re- ported that the Finns had with- drawn “in some places to posi- tions further back” on the Karel- ian Isthmus south of Viipuri. The extent of the withdrawal was not given.) The Red Army report indicated | the Russians were concentrating (#) Means Associated Press. he 3 UM WASHINGTON, D. C., FEBRUARY 18, 1940 —122° PAGES., * 4 Miles From Viipuri, Reds Say; Altmark's Prisoners Return Home Will Learn of Reply By LOUIS P. LOCHNER, | Associated Press Forelan Correspondent. BERLIN, Feb. 18 (Sunday) .—Dark hints of revenge for the British attack on the German steamer Altmark were published by an in- | dignant Nazi press today. was not disclosed, but sources close to the foreign office predicted the world would learn today of some telling reply to the attack which would make it sit up and take notice. Authorized sources characterized the attack on the Altmark, five of | whose crew were killed, as “bestial” reversion to medieval prac- tices Wrathful official quarters took a grave view of the act. “The crime in Gjessingfjord (Josing Fjord) presents us with an entirely new state of affairs in war policy and war technique, the effects of which cannot now be foreseen in the slightest degree,” raged Adolf Hitler's own newspaper, Voelkischer Beobachter. “If old idiots and tiny criminal The possible nature of reprisals | ‘Reve'nge to Be Taken on British For ‘Bestial’ Act, Nazis Hint Sources Near Foreign Office Predict World to Seamen’s Rescue minds were not at the helm in England, then they would know that Natlonal Socialist greater Germany has the habit of striking back. has filled the entire German people with a single determination: We will present an accounting!” The more reserved Berlin Boersen Zeitung declared that the memory of the brave, unarmed German sailors who died “will continue to flame within us and demand ex- piation.” The Lokal Anzeiger described the incident as “a declaration of war on neutrals.” A blunt declaration that non- combatant nations now must show :whether they are “strictly neutral” was published by the Essener Na- tional Zeitung, which is close to | Field Marshal Hermann Goering. | “This murder shows by what | methods England wants to involve neutral statés in the war with Ger- many,” it said. “The outrage on | the Altmark ought to open the eyes of the neutral countries at last. One | (See RERLIN, Page A-3) their heaviest thrusts along the vital Viipuri-Leningrad Railroad. = Both Kamara and Sainio are stations on that line. The communique also said Soviet 'Norwegians Alarmed troops occupied the town of Ojnola, on the northern shore of Lake Mu- ola, to the east of the demolished town of Summa, around which has raged the heaviest fighting of the undeclared war. Also captured, the communique declared, were the tortified zone of Karhula, west of the Summa district, and the towns of Narja and Muurila, in the coastal area. Text of Communique. The text of the communique fol- lows: | “February 17—On the Karelian | Isthmus the enemy hurriedly re- | treated under the blows of Soviet | troops toward Viipuri and eastward of Viipuri, suffering grave losses and | setting villages on fire. | “Soviet troops occupied the town | of Ojnola, on the northern shore of | Lake Muola; the station of Sainio, 6 kilometers (4 milés) southeast of Viipuri; the fortified zone of Kar- hula, west of the Summa district, the towns of Narja and Muurila on the coastal area. “The enemy is being pursued along the entire front. ‘There was nothing of importance in other sectors. “Soviet aviation acted against the | expressed belief she would be in- | enemy's troops and military objec- tives.” Mannerheim Exhorts Army to Hold Firm HELSINKI, Feb 17 (#).—Finland's grizzled supreme commander, Field Marshal Baron Mannerheim, tonight reassured the nation that foreign help “is coming continually” and Over Neutrality, Protest fo Britain Disposition of Altmark Undecided; Internment Is Held Likely i | | Norwegian Navy Statement—A-10. | By the Associated Press. OSLO, Feb. 17.—British invasion of a Norwegian fjord in a daring raid on the German prison ship Altmark filled Norway tonight with alarm for the delicate balance of her neutral- ity and with resentment over the regard of her sovereignty. g protested vigorpusly to Great Britdin against the action of the British destroyer Cossack in forcing her way in the darkness last night |into Gjessingfjord (Josing Fjord) | under orders of the British admi- ‘ran.,v to free the Altmark’s prison- | ers “with or without permission of | the Norwegian government.” | The government had not decided | what action it would take concern- |ing the vessel. but political circles | terned, especially if it were estab- lished that she was armed and in the direct service of the German Navy. Norway received a strong protest | from the German government, de- | manding repair of damage and com- | pensation and warning of “a most serious situation which could have thé most severe consequences.” Premier Johan Nygaardsvold took | fiProcuremenl Records 'ToBe Scrutinized in N.L.R.B. Blacklisting’ Treasury Unit Ordered To Give Probers Data on Government Contracts By CARTER BROOK JONES. Treasury Department—construction and purchasing agency of the Gov- ernment—has been notified to turn over to the House Committee investi- gating the National Labor Relations Board all records relating to the alleged “blacklisting” of companies involved in labor disputes, it was | learned yesterday. - | The committee, it was disclosed, | has determined to get to the bottom jof any documentary evidence that there has been a concerted effort to | deny Government contracts and i other benefits to firms charged with | violating the Wagner Act: | It is expected the Procurement | Division will turn over these records | tomorrow, though the delivery may be delayed until Tuesday, when the ‘ committee is to resume public hear- ings. | It was understood last night that | the contract-letting branch of the | Treasury never actually has refused | to award a Government job because | the low bidder — or successful “re- | sponsible” bidder—was accused of | unfair labor practices. A few con- tracts—notably that of Remington- “They would know that the tragedy | The Procurement Division of the | Ship ‘Old Style Scrap’ Was Fought by Boarding Party 23 MERCHANT SHIPS sunk during 24th week of war; 84,095 tons are lost; total destruction in conflict, 402 vessels. Page A-4 NEW OIL ROUTE from Russia to Reich worries allies; tempers pleasure over slackening of Ru- manian shipments. Page A-5 By J. C. STARK, Associated Press Foreign Correspondent. LONDON, Feb. 17.—A conquering British destroyer came home tonight with 300 Britons rescued from the Nazi prison ship Altmark, leaving the German prison vessel rammed fast in the ice and rocks of a Nor- wegian fjord after a deflant and | furious fight on the very shores of frightened neutral nation. Like a chapter from the exploits of Drake or Nelson, a boarding party from H. M. S. Cossack, one of at least three British destroyers in- volved, swarmed over the decks of the dingy, 12,000-ton Altmark, freed | the seamen-prisoners taken months | ago by the now-scuttled Admiral | Graf Spee and killed five Germans and wounded five others. | The officer-leader of the boarding | party sprang eight feet to the lower | deck of the Altmark, knocked aside |a German guard and raced to the bridge to send the Altmark hard | ashore with a “full speed astern™ ring of the engine-room telegraph. Then he rushed to the captain’s | cabin and flung open the door only | to be wounded in the arm by a! pistol fixed in a “booby trap.” | “Real Old-Style Scrap.” The fight on the Altmark was de- | scribed by crewmen from the Cos- | sack as “a real scrap in the old | style.” | “Led by an officer,” one seaman | said, “the first boarding party of 8 or 10 feet which separated the Cossack from the Altmark. | “The Gthers followed and there was a grand melee on the deck. It lasted for several minutes before the Ger- mans gave in. “Some of the Germans who jumped to the jce fired at the boarders.” In a.spectacular side show to the battle the 5.805-ton German tanker Baldur, cornered offshore by the British destroyer Ivanhoe, was scut- tled by her crew—"in Gérman fash- ion,” as the British admiralty put it. Counter-Representations Made. The British foreign office received Norway's protest over the seizure with counter-representations over Norwegian failure to find and re- lease the British prisoners during a search prior to last night's incident. This failure, it said, left Britain no alternative but to take matters into | its own hands and free the captives. | An scribing the boarding of the Altmark | in official language, said shots were boarders feund two pompom guns and four machine guns on the Alt- mark. It also described the rescue of one Altmark crewman from the ice-filled water and told how the de- stroyer Ivanhoe rescued the crew of day Slar . WITH ,DAILY EVENING EDITION 10 EVENING AND DELIVERED IN CITY AND SUBURBS Single Copy Cents SUNDAY 175 CENTS ONTH The House Is Almost Ready to Take Up Finnish Relief Emergency Relief Is Urged by Schulte I,For Home for Aged Operator’s Decision Film Is ‘Too Long’ Costs Passes for 50 By the Associated Press. HUNDRED, W. Va., Feb. 17— Fifty patrons of this commu- nity's only movie theater have passes for a show tonight be- 'On Convention Dafe; ‘Meet July 15 Three New District Inquiries Will Start This Week cause the operator decided a double-feature bill was “too long” and shut down the pro- Jjector. Ralph Murphy, the only | about 12 bluejackets jumped the | admiralty communique, de- | | fired by both sides and asserted the | By JAMES E. CHINN, | Emergency relief for the Home for | | the Aged and Infirm was advocated | | last night by Representative Schulte, | Democrat, of Indiana, as congres- | | sional committees completed ar- | rangements for a series of investi- | gations this week into District available operator, closed the show 15 minutes before com- pletion of the second film last night. His only explanation was “too long.” so Miss Isabelle Brown, theater manager, handed out passes to the patrons so they affairs. | | could see the end of the picture. Three new inquiries, plus a re- | | study of plans for reorganizing the & = | municipal government and liberal- Bo 3 F h l |izing the local unemployment com- | y’ y lg 's ‘o Ive pensation act, are on the wheduti of both standing and special sub- | committees of the House m.smch er 45-f00' Fa“ Committee. | Mr. Schulte, incidentally, deellreg . none of these investigations woul ‘F w d be necessary if the disfranchised rom 'n ow residents of the District were al- lowed to elect their own municipal X officers and could “throw out the | Dodg‘d When Sister ones who don't work.” Tried to Squirt Water in Ear Changed Mind on Suffrage. | “I am just as strongly in favor of | posed to | l:‘t?c:zlhes:flx"bgeecl:exlmr:&r of the| Three-year-old William Tinsley District Committee nearly _eight | a2 at least & fighting chance of sur. years ago,” he said. “It's the only | Yiving & ‘15‘“”‘ tlt:" ‘f‘“’? L b‘”'::;‘ real solution of local problems.” ;:“"‘xy h."""‘“ e o m‘“w'fil Phie The new investigations to start|90W O N\ll!l pane this week are: |G ok ‘Tomorrow—A special subcommit- | tee headed by Representative ‘Nich- | afternoon, police were told, when ols, Democrat, of Oklahoma begins | William, sitting on the window sill, | hearings on complaints that some} dodged as his sister, Dolores, 7, play- gasoline dealers have been selling ;fully wied to squirt water from an straight or inferior gas at high-test | eye dropper into his ear. premium prices. George M. Roberts.| The bathroom was on the third | superintendent of weights, measures | floor, and the child fell into a bricked s e e 4 floor. bel street. level. | The hearing will be held in room 327 | *'co o> low The accident occurred yesterday | of the Old House Office Building, | exhorted the Mannerheim Line de- | the extraordinary step of going to Rand, where there was a strike - th have been held up temporarily. e Baldur. headquarters of the House Claims | Committee, at 10 am. fenders to hold firm to the new de- fenses to which they have with- drawn under the weight of the Red Army’s 17-day offensive. This stirring appeal by the 73- year-old supreme commander, spoke confidently of “every possibil- ity of victory,” followed reports of a smashing Finnish victory on the eastern front, with Russian dead numbering 1,800, but also grim ad- mMissions of a further retreat on the vital Karelian Isthmus. “No Longer Fight Alone. “Our nation no longer . fights alone,” Baron Mannerheim declared. “From abroad there already has come aid to a considerable extent, and it 1s coming continually. “You can rest assured that the enemy never will be able to break my defensive system, if from a deep formation we raise new fortified positions to wear down his offensive power until the end. “The moment has come when by strong and vigorous measures the enemy's attack must again be stopped at the new defense line, to the support of which I have directed, | from my reserves, new forces and artillery. “Soldiers of Finland! We must stand without falteriing. The de- velopment of the situation gives us every possibility of victory. The Finnish nation stands behind us and trusts us. Let us be firm.” Hundreds of Bombs Dropped. Echoing the thunderous roar of battle in the Karelian Isthmus and the eastern front were the explosions of hundreds of vombs dropped by Red Army raiders ranging over southern Finland. Three air raid alarmgs were sound- ed here and enemy bombers were e extremely active over southern and southwestern Finland. Two women were killed at Ylistaro while, in cen- tral Finland several persons were reported killed. Also bombed were the towns of Tampere, Rauma, Pori and Lohgia. Official reports said several Rus- sian planes were shot down. Military informants here con- sidered it improbable that any part of the Mannerheim Line proper, a vast, irregular system of fortifica- tions miles deep, was involved in today’s losses. They said it was more likely that the abandoned positions were frontal (See FINLAND, Page A-8.) Radio Programs, Page F3 Complete Index, Page A-2 > ho | 4 | the British Legation personally to | lodge Norway’s demand for return |of the freed British seamen, com- | pensation and for respect of Nor- | way’'s neutrality in the future. But even as she protested, Nor- way found herself confronted with the British admiralty’s declaration that the British warships which | stalked the Altmark had “full au- thority of his majesty’s government | to enter neutral waters.” On the other hand, Norway's un- Bull, issued a statement that, “Ac- cording to international rights, for- (See OSLO, Page A-4.) dersecretary of foreign affairs, Jens | eign commercial ships and even| warships have the right of innocent | Remington-Rand later was awarded | a large Government contract, it was pointed out. |~ The present position of the Pro- | curement Division is said to be that | it has no authority to “blacklist” | any company otherwise eligible for a contract, but facing a complaint or a conviction by the Labor Board. This, said a source close to the Treasury, was not due to any ruling by the Controller General, as the committee was told last week, but to an opinion of the general counsel of the Tregsury. J. Warren Madden, chairman of the Labor Board, identified before (See LABOR BOARD, Page A-10.) Ambong Brides; No Record of Divorces ° A 23-year-old man was being held at the first precinct station last night on evidence obtained by a de- tective that he had been married five times without a divorce, twice to ‘Washington girls. 2 The man, who gave the name of Horace Monroe Sharpe of the 3500 block of Thirteenth street N.W., was arrested Friday on a warrant charg- ing him with bigamy. It was issued Thursday in Fredericksburg, where Sharpe reportedly married a 17-year-old District girl last Decem- ) Precinct Detective Roy E. Blick said the warrant was issued on the complaint of the mother of another Washington girl, who said Sharpe married her daughter in La Plata, Md., in November, 1938, when the girl was 15 years old. Detective Blick' said he had ob- tained the marriage certificates in the two cases and a third license was on the way here by mail from Lex- ington, S. C., where Sharpe is be- lieved to have wed a 17-year-old girl in 1933, The chief of police in Swansea, S. C. Sharpe’s home town, was quoted by Detective Blick as say- ing two other marriages' were con- tracted by the youth in South Caro- lina. Licenses for those marriages now are being sought, the detective stated. Sharpe will be charged here with Va, ! 'Youth Held Here as Detective Sifts Story of Five Marriages Two D. C. Girls Listed” : HORACE MONROE SHARPE. bigamy within the next few days, Detective Blick said, after arrival of the license from Lexington and receipt of additional evidence in the other two South Carolina cases. The detective, who has been in- vestigating thé case for about eight weeks, said Sharpe, at the time of his arrest, was living with the giri be married last December. She visited her husband in the first pre- cinct station cell block yesterday. This naval account of the boarding blamed the grounding of the Alt- mark largely on her efforts to break free from the ice of Gjessingfjord despite British commands, and on an aitempt to ram the Cossack as she pulled alongside. The Cossack answered by flinging grappling irons aboard the Altmark and boarding her. Gunner Severely Wounded. “Firing then broke out on both sides and Mr. J. J. F. Smith, gun- ner in charge of one of the board- ing parties, was severely wounded,” the communique said. “The British prisoners were found locked in shell rooms and store rooms and in an empty oil tank. “While these captives were béing released a number of German armed guards, put on board by the Grat Spee, escaped over the stern of the ship and making their way across the ice reached an eminence on shore from which they opened fire with rifies. “The fire was returned by the British and two Germans who were scrambling across the ice to join those already on shore were hit. “At the same time another Ger- man fell into the water amidst the broken ice. Two of the Cossack’s officers plunged overboard and saved him. 3 Twice Visited, but Not Searched. “One of the officers stated that she had twice been visited while in Norwegian waters but had not been searched. This would explain the fact that 300 British prisoners on board who were clamoring for release were not noticed. “As soon as the boarding party and all the British prisoners had (Continued on Page A-10, Column 1.) Irate Jaywalker Puts Up Bail, Pickets Cop By the Ansociated Press. ~ SAN DIEGO, Calif., Feb. 17.— “This cop is unfair to pedestrians!” An jrate woman pickefed Patrol- man Claude L. Pickering for two hours today, shouting that slogan. Arrested for jaywalking, she de- posited $1 bail and returned to the scene of her “crime.” ‘Whenever a shopper started to ja , the woman yelled, “Look out! | He'll give you a ticket!” glee ‘as Patrolman ) - eted persistently by the pinched perspired profusely. Tuesday — Another special sub- | committee, headed by Representa- tives Eberharter, Democrat, of Penn- sylvania, will begin public hearings lon the liquor situation. The first | witness will be Ralph A. Lee, whose application for a license to sell liquor by the drink in a restaurant he planned to open in the vicinity of Riverside Stadium was rejected. This hearing will be held in the Dis- trict Committee room, No. 345, Old | House Office Building at 10:30 am. Receiving Home Hearing. At the same time Tuesday, in the Claims Committee room, the Public Health Subcommittee, temporarily headed by Representative D’Alesan- dro, Democrat, of Maryland, wifl begin an investigation of conditions at the Receiving Home for ‘Children. Miss Fay L. Bentley, judge of Juve- nile Court, and Robert E. Bondy, director of public welfare, will be the principal witnesses Later in the week, probably Thurs- day or Friday, new hearings will start on the municipal government reorganization program and the Mc- Gehee bill to revise the unemploy- ment compensation law. A definite date and time will be fixed later. Also to be investigated are the baby adoption business in Washing- ton, and fortune tellers, palmists, clairvoyants and others.who claim to have psychic powers These two inquiries, however, are not expected to start for a week or two. Mr. Schulte, a member of the Pub- lic Health Subcommittee, which has virtually completed an inquiry into conditions at the Home for the Aged and Infirm, said he believed Con- gress should not wait until the reg- ular appropriation bill for the Dis- trict is passed to start to remedy some of the serious conditions found (8ee INVESTIGATIONS, Page A-5) British Speed Listing Of Men for War Service By the Associated Press. LONDON, Feb. 17—Registration of men of 24 years of age and those ‘who reached the age of 20 since Jan- uary 1 was ordered tonight , for March 9, three weeks earlier than had been expected. The announcement on the day that 23-year-olds were being regis- tered was interpreted as marking a speedup of British mobilization. Each registration adds approxi- mately 250,000 men to the army rolls. All men up to the age of 28 are lable to call under & royal procla- mation of January 1. A William suffered a possible ;skull fracture and internal injuries and cuts and bruises about the head and hips. His condition was described as “serious” at Casualty Hospital. The father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Tinsley, had left Wil- liam, Dolores and 2-year-old Jose- phine in charge of Rosalie West, a colored maid. The maid was pre- paring to do some washing in the tub. She said that William raised the bathroom window and she spanked him for it. The maid low- ered the window and left for a moment to get some soap. When she returned, Dolores told her William had fallen from the window. The child was picked up from the areaway by L. A. Jordan, who lives on the ground floor, and was rushed to the hospital. Mrs. Tinsley returned shortly afier the -accident and hurried to the hospital. Robert Farnsworth Dies NEW YORK, Feb. 17 (#).—Robert P. Parnsworth, 38, vice president of the Curtiss-Wright Corp., died to- day at Harkness Pavilion. He had been ill tyo weeks. Democrats Win Point | Wheeler to Avoid State Races Where Name of President Is Entered By G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Democrats scored over their | Republican opponents in the pre- | convention jockeying—and will hold | their National convention after they have learned the names of the Re- publican presidential candidate and | | read the Republican platform. | | This may or may not prove a val- | | uable asset to the Democrats. Any- | way, they considered it of sufficient | value to spar with the minority party for the latter date. With the National convention | dates settled—the Republicans | meeting June 24 in Philadelphia cago—interest centers now in the selection of delegates to these con- ventions. Particularly is this true in the States holding primary elec- tions for the selection of delegates, and presidential preferential pri- tharies. Brisk Contests Likely. The Republicans, with three very prominent candidates for the pres- idential nomination, Senator Van- | denberg, Thomas E. Dewey and | | President and the Democrats July 15 in Chi- | | Roosevelt Heads For Panama fo Inspect Defense Cruise Secrecy Is Lifted; More Data Promised By the Associated Press. ABOARD U. 8. S. LANG AT SEA, Peb. 17 (Via Wireless) —Lifting the veil of secrecy surrounding his cruise, Roosevelt announced through an aide today that he would arrive at the Canal Zone early to- morrow for an inspection of the defenses on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal. Brig. Gen. Edwin M. Watson, the President’s secretary and military aide, said Mr. Roosevelt would eon- fer with Commanding Gen. Van Voorhis of the Canal Zone and mili- tary, naval and civilian authorities. Gen. Watson indicated further information would be disclosed to- morrow night. Straight Course Set. It was assumed President Roose- velt would discuss the proposed ad- ditional set of canal locks and in- creases made in the defense garri- son at the strategic link between the Atlantic and the Pacific. ‘The mystery of the voyage was solved as the cruiser Tuscaloosa, carrying the President, and the con- voying destroyers Lang and Jouett cruised in the Caribbean Sea off Nicaragua. Since leaving Pensacola, Fla., Thursday, the three warships have been setting the straightest course possible toward Panama. They passed Cape San Antonio, the west- ern tip of Cuba, Friday noon and have maintained a uniform speed of 21 to 225 knots. The weather was excellent and a | tropical sun sent the thermometer upwards of 85 degrees, giving mem- bers of the presidential party a | chance to sun bathe on the Tusca- loosa forecastle. One Untoward Incident. There was but one untoward in- cident that caused only momentary uneasiness. It occurred when an American tramp tanker refused to | alter its course and passed between the Jouett and Tuscaloosa. In the voyage from the United States mainland—it is approximately 1,500 miles from Pensacola to the Canal—the ships have maintained a triangular formation, with the de- stroyers out front, about 1,500 yards apart, The President’s destination was | undisclosed until 48 hours after em- barking; for the two days interven- ing not even the course or speed were revealed to newsmen on the Lang. A Speculation on the purpose of the trip ‘was climaxed—before . tdday’s announcement—by the suggestion Mr. Roosevelt might meet at sea en- voys of European belligerents to dis- cuss peace. At his final press con- ference on land before embarking Senator Taft, and several dark horse candidates of whom Representative | Joseph W. Martin, jr., minority | leader of the Mouse, is the most | promising, are going into the bus- | iness of delegate-picking under more | or less normal conditions. There | will be brisk contests on behalf of | the various candidates all along the | line. The Democrats, however, are fac- ing what many of them now d scribe as a “chaotic condition,” | caused by the refusal of President Roosevelt to say whether on not he | will be a candidate for a third-term | nomination. President’s Name Entered. will be entered in presidential pri- maries in a number of States, includ- ing Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In several of these States, Vice President Garner also has been entered as a candidate for presidefitial preference and for dele- gates. If the President runs rough shod over the frame of Mr. Garner in these contests, & hue and cry will go up for the renomination of the President that only the strongest measures could halt—and those only by the President himself. The President still could stop all this by ordering his name taken out of the primary elections. So far he has said nothing. ~ On the other hand, if Mr. Gar- ner should roll up a substantial vote in any of these primary elections— even though the President carried them—the third termers and the President would be given pause. The President’s supporters, however, do not expect this to happen. Senator - Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana, in a statement widely in- terpreted as meaning he was de- termined not to be drawn into any “stop Roosevelt” movement, said last (Continued on Page A-14, Column 4. Decatur’s Wine Cup Found In Pawnbroker’s Shop Here One of a Set Given Naval Hero by Admirers Had Brought a Loan of 50 Cents By BLAIR BOLLES. In a pile of old clothes, abandoned guitars and valueless jewelry, two detective sergeants of the Metro- politan - Police clothing squad, Thomas Nally and Earl Baker, saw a big gleaming silver cup. Idly they inspected it. and on its side they found inscribed: “By citizens of Philadelphia to their townsman Commodore Deca- tur, esteemed for his yjrtue, hon- oured for his valour.” ‘The policemen took it with them to headquarters, where, in their records,. they —described it as a “loving cup.” There in a safe it is today. The detectives found it ex- actly two days less than 122 years after five Philadelphians sent Com- modore Stephen. Decatur a set of silver plate, including two wine cups. The goblet at headquarters is one of the wine cups. The other is %1 the Museum of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in mmnu.\ A The news of the find was made public yesterday after Sergts. Nally and Baker had devgted a week to a vain search for the owner. They came across it on February 9 during a routine visit to Schiller’s Pawnbroker's Exchange, 444 Ninth street N.W. Arthur. M. Sehiller, proprieter of the shop, told'the policemen that he had loaned 50 cents on the cup & week before to a colored man who gave his name as Johnson and his address as 1860 Fourth street N.W. There is no such address. The police then communcated with the Rhode Island Historical Society, which, they were told, might be able to shed some light on the of the article. . The original owner is the same Stephen Decatur whose naval ex- ploits during the early years of the 19th century excited the Nation, (8ee CUP, Page A-10) [ The President’s name has been or | Thursday, the President would nei- ther affirm nor deny this possibility when he was questioned about it. Reinforcements Sent To Canal Last Fall By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt will have the opportunity on his arrival in Pan- ama to inspect the reinforcements he ordered last fall as an emergency measure to make the Canal Zone | possibly the most strongly defended American military position. An infantry brigade and additional anti-aircraft troops, numbering al- together nearly 4,000 officers and men, were sped to the Canal Zone shortly after the President pro- claimed a limited national emer- gency because of the European war. The reinforcements raised the canal's Army garrison to more than 18,500, exclusive of Navy and Marine Corps forces. Pending the construc- tion of barracks, the new troops are living in tents. Only Hawaii, with about 22,000 regulars on the island of Oahu is more strongly garrisoned. The canal has been under martial law since the start of the war. Guards are placed on every ship using the canal, and are maintained on all locks and at other vital points. In addition special patrols have been established. Until Congress voted $27,000,000 for initial reinforcements last year, only half the sea coast and anti- aircraft defenses could be manned simultaneously. Ohio State D—'eanb's?on Found Hanged in Home By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 17.—The body of Wendell D. Postle, 16-year- old son of Dr. W. D. Postle. dean of Ohio State University’s Dental College, was found today dangling from a rope fastened to a basement steampipe. The youth had attended a movie showing a hanging a few hours before. Young Postle, co-captain of his high school football team last sea- son, had chatted with his mother about 15 minutes before his body was discovered by a maid. Coroner E. E. Smith, asserting “there was no possible reason for suicide,” indicated the youth might have been the victim of an experi- ment. British Ship Reported Sunk by North Sea Mine By the Associated Press. LONDON, Feb. 17.—The British steamer Baron Ailsa, 3,656 tons, was reported mined and sunk today in the North Sea. Thirty-two survivors were brought to port by & naval craft captain. One of the crew died of exposure. The 1387-ton Norwegian motor- ship Segovia was reported “presum- ably lost as a result of war measures” with a crew of 22 and one passénger, in an Oslo dispatch to Reuters (Brit- ish news agency) today. ) o