Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1940, Page 3

Appeal for Funds To Help Finland Fight Is Launched Campaign Is Mapped To Bolster Supplies of Arms and Munitions The Washington Committee of Fighting Funds for Finland today formally embarked on its appeal for money to buy military supplies for the little Baltic nation, following & meeting yesterday to set up a head- quarters organization and map pub- licity plans. Thomas P. Morgan, jr., chairman, and Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, vice chairman, announced that $3,500 has already been contributed, in both large and small sums, although the campaign had not been formally launched. The committee, composed of civic and business leaders of the District. employed Fred C. Spaulding. who has been connected with Washing- ton Sympheny Orchestra and Com- munity Chest drives, to be a full- time assistant to the group. Miss Helen Blair was selected to be sec- retary. Headquarters to Be Selected. Mr. Morgan said that a headquar- ters, centrally located, would be an- nounced shortly. Meanwhile, Rob- ert E. Haycock, treasurer of the committee, who is connected with the Riggs National Bank, is receiv- ing contributions. Distribution of three different kinds of posters and pamphlets is planned, as well as appeals in thea- ters and in radio broadcasts. Mr. Morgan said the group will invite heads of service organiza- tions, citizens' associations, labor unions and other bodies to join the committee in its efforts to supply money that may be used for any- thing from bullets to fighting planes. Other drives for Finland here have been for funds to supply relief either for civilians or- for medical supplies. Goes to Finnish Legation. Mr. Morgan pointed out that $1 will buy 20 bullets: $25 a rifie and $100 will outfit a soldier completely. | The money raised here is turned over to the national chairman of the fund, Maj. Gen. John F. O'Ryan,| who sends it to the Finnish Lega- tion. It was emphasized that every cent contributed to the fund goes to Finland, the committee underwrit- ing all expenses in connection with the drive. Those attending the meeting, held at the home of Mrs. Bacon, besides those mentioned, were Philip Mar- shall Brown, Mark Lansburgh, Emil Hurja. Mrs. Robert C. Allen, Robert ‘W. Bliss and Dwight Davis, former Secretary of War. The committee will hold its next meeting at Dumbarton Oaks, the home of Mr. Bliss, in Georgetown at 5 p.m. tomorrow. Critic of Japan’s Army Will Lose Diet Seat By the Associated Press. TOKIO, March 6—Expulsion of Takao Saito from Parliament for a speech considered to reflect on the Japanese Army's aims in China was decided today by the Disciplinary Committee of the lower house. The decision followed a month of political bickering in which Saito, a prominent politician, refused to re- tract his speech and demanded that the full text be published. The Diet was thrown into an up- roar February 2 when Saito sug- gested withdrawal of troops from China. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO | AIDING FINLAND—Members of the District unit of Fighting Fu Phillip Marshall Brown (standing) and Emil Hurja. nds for Finland, Inc., who met yesterday at the home of Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, included, left to right, Thomas P. Morgan, jr., chairman; Robert Woods Bliss (standing), Mrs. Bacon, vice chairman; Mrs. Robert G. Allen, —Star Staff Photo. Collision Sinks Dutch Sub; All But 3 of 30 Are Saved Naval Officers Pry Open Hatch to Release | Imprisoned Men By the Associated Pres. AMSTERDAM, March 6.—The | rescue | Netherlands submarine O-11 was sunk in a collision with a tugboat in the Nieuw Diep today, but a daring rescue helped save all except three of the crew of about 30. Two sergeants and a cook were | trapped aboard the submarine, and little hope was held that they could | be rescued. No signals were re-| ceived from inside the vessel and it | | was feared they were caught in the | flooded crew's quarters. | There was a possibility, however, | that the trio might be safe in the | water-tight bow torpedo chamber | with a 24-hour supply of air. The submarine was cruising on | the surface at the Denhelder Naval | | Harbor preparing to go to sea when | | rammed amidships by the tug Am- | sterdam. About 10 men on deck sprang clear and swam to the seawall. Ten minutes later a crowd gathered on the wall saw bubbles. Then the | periscope appeared momentarily. | After another 10 minutes part of the stern emerged. Two naval officers in a nearby | boat leaped aboard the stern and managed to pry open a | hatch and help the imprisonedi crew to safety. | The O-11, built in 1925 and with | a surface displacement of 483 tons, has a normal complement of 29! men, according to Jane’s Directory | of Fighting Ships. It is 1 of 30‘ submarines which the Netherlands | either has in service or is building FRANKLIN G. SARTWELL, Liquor hearing witness. —Star Staff Photo. Liquor (Continued From Pirs} Page.) 7 been considerable criticism of com- bination stores—those that handle liquor as a side line. “Most of that is ill-founded,” he declared. Discussing proposals for a re- Britain Defends Bermuda Search of Clipper Mail Suggestion in Comomns That Error Was Made Is Quickly Rejected By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 6—A govern- | ment spokesman rejected a sugges- tion in the House of Commons today | |that Britain had blundered in | searching American clipper mail at | Bermuda and declared “the gov- ernment action was correct and moreover was justified by what was discovered in the mail.” R. A. Butler, undersecretary for foreign affairs, said that under in- ternational law a belligerent was | at liberty to examine any mail whether neutral or belligerent | brought voluntarily within its ju- | risdiction, and the government had | decided to exercise this right at }Bermudn from January 18 in respect |of eastbound mail carried by the | Pan-American Atlantic service. When Laborite George Strauss suggested it had been a serious blunder Mr Butler replied, “I do not accept that at all.” Laborite Arthur Henderson then | | asked whether it would be possible 'to evolve some arrangement satis- fying the needs of the government and at the same time removing the fears.of a large section of the Amer- ican people. Mr. Butler replied: “It is always | our desire to find some form of set- | D. C, WEDNESDAY, 20 Brifons Killed In Raid on Dugout, Germans Report Nazi Shock Troops Said To Have Stormed Foe In Moselle Sector By the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 6.—Twenty British soldiers were killed and 16 taken prisoner on the western front yesterday morning when German shock troops stormed a British dug- out in the Moselle sector, the Ger- man official news agency, DNB, re- ported today. ‘The German high command’s daily communique told only of the capture of the 16 prisoners. Elucidat- ing, DNB said they were members of the Duke of Cornwall’s infantry regiment and told other details of the clash. A hectic exchange of hand grenade and artillery fire preceded the dug- out storming, according to DNB, and the English left 20 dead on the scene, while the Germans lost only one man. Flanked by French. ‘The German shock troops’ surprise attack was said to have disclosed that the British apparently were stationed at only one small point of the front line, flanked on both sides by the French, DNB jubilantly reported that “at last German shock troops have suc- ceeded in getting in fighting touch with British troops.” It was asserted that this was the first time the Germans had had an actual fight with British troops on the western front since the war be- gan. The report recalled that Ger- man outposts early in January re- pelled the British in two small clashes. DNB said news of the capture of the 16 prisoners, among whom there was one sergeant, was transmitted orally by German vanguards to the French lines on some sections of the front. Laughter Declared Response. The response in many cases, ac- cording to the DNB account, was “malicious laughter” and shouts from the French to the effect that “that serves them right, they're well cared for on your side.” This was the first group of fts size reported to have fallen into | German hands on the front since British soldiers joined the French. One wounded British artillery officer | was taken prisoner some time ago, dying later in a hospital. German Attack Made West of the Vosges PARIS, March 6 (#) —French and | gfter they were forced to dig their | British troops withstood small but savage German attacks after con- siderable fighting on the western front yesterday, the French com- | of women” were being executed, | mand reported today. The Germans attacked a British post and French outposts west of the Vosges, the French said British prisoners were taken by a German raiding party, according to a British general headquarters communique dated yesterday. Two British soldiers were killed and one wounded. along with one German fatality, it was said. The British communique, the first duction in the number of stores that | tlement which would be agreeable | to report any British land action sell liqguor by the bottle, Mr. Sart- well said that in 1893, when the population of the District was about one-third of the present population, there were 1,100 saloons in existence. Now, with a population of nearly 700,000, he said there are 1800 to both our nations.” | since the Tommies arrived at the MARCH. 6, 1940. Edison Compliments Father of 6 Assigned To Same Warship By the Associated Press. Secretary Edison has written Clarence F. Patton of Odebolt, Iowa, complimenting him be- cause his six sons soon will be on duty together aboard the U. 8. 8. Nevada. “It is a demonstration of practical patriotism of the high- est order,” Mr. Edison said. Premier of Poland, In Exile, Charges Massacres fo Nazis Terror Cited as Proof Of German Weakness In Hold on Poles By the Associated Press. ANGERS, France, March 6.—Gen. Wiladyslaw Sikorski, Premier of the | Polish government in exile, gave a detailed statement before the fourth public session of the Polish National | Council last night on “atrocities” and “massacres” which he accused the Germans of committing in oc- | cupied Poland. | Hans Frank, governor-general of | the Polish area occupied but not incorporated in Germany, denied February 10 that Germans there | “were shooting priests, sterilizing }Polish children, torturing Jews or | executing students by the thou-| | sands.” In denying all persecution charges he said “there isn't even any rationing of bread as in Ger- many itself ” | | Sikorski declared, “This unprece- | | dented terror is manifest proof of | the weakness” of the Germans.| | Their actions betray their “uncer- tainty and worry,” he added. Allies Seek fo Settle Blockade Problems Raised by U. S. Officials Here to Confer With State Department On Protested Policies By the Associated Press. Great Britain and France began special efforts today to iron out diffi- culties with the United States aris- ing from allied attempts to blockade Germany. Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, an ad- viser to the British ministry of eco- nomic warfare, and Charles Rist, formerly deputy governor of the Bank of France, were here to confer with Secretary Hull and other State Department officials. The problems that confront them are embraced within the series of American notes sent to Britain in December and January. They in- volve: 1. Taking American ships into contraband control ports within the European combat area. 2. Censorship of American mails. 3. Undue delays in examining American ships at Gibraltar. 4. Blocking German exports to the United States. . On Road to Settlement. The matter of taking American ships into the combat zone—forbid- den by the Neutrality Act—appar- ently is on the road to settlement without any agreement actually hav- ing been reached. The British took one United States ship into the com- bat area at Kirkwall, Scotland, but American reaction was unfavorable, and they have not repeated the step. It seems likely they will refrain from doing so hereafter. ¢ Censorship of American mails stili is under discussion, but the disagree- ment has been partly solved through the refusal of the American Post Office Department to accept parcel post and certain kinds of checks, money orders and cash in the trans- Atlantic airmail. The delay to American ships at Gibraltar has been decreased by the T w% A3 Nazis Hin Treatment 0f Neutral Shipping Will Be Stiffened Sinking of Vessels of Non-Belligerents Is Upheld in Berlin By the Assoclated Press. : BERLIN, March 6.—General stif- fening of Germany’s treatment of neutral shipping was overshadowed today in an official statement re- ferring to foreign press assertions that German flyers were sinking T;utrnl merchantmen without warn= g. According to the statement Ger- man planes cannot discern from the air whether neutral vessels are being voluntarily convoyed or forcibly taken to British control stations for search. The mere fact of the con=- voy, the statement asserts, is suffi- cient for Germans to deal with such neutral vessels as hostile. The German government, there | fore, makes the enemy “exclusively responsible” for Germany’s having to regard such vessels as aiding and supporting the enemy. The official release further states that the German air force does not shoot at officers, crews or passengers on neutral vessels without cause. The air force has orders to fire one shot across the bow of the ship, asking it either to stop, show its flag or make for a given port. If the ship declines to heed such requests, under international law- according to the German view— German airmen are entitled to take such measures as deemed necessary to enforce its orders. Specifically referring to the sink- ing of Netherlands ships authorized German sources said these vessels were all in convoys and when or- dered to display lights tried to escape by blacking eut These sources emphasized that | Germany gompletely indorses Italy's | stand regarding coal shipments, but | declined to say what steps were | next contemplated in this matter. The general spoke shortly after | British. The United States Govern- | the release of an official paper to| ment complained in a note early in | | appear with others in a “white|the winter that the average delay book,” whose purpose will be to to American ships there was 12 | “demonstrate” that “the Germans | days. This has dropped to 3.7 days, | are attempting to exterminate the|but United States officials think population of Western Poland by a | there is room for further improve- regime of the most cruel violence ever applied in Europe.” Among the crimes that the emigre government listed were: The firing squad deaths of 136 ent On the question of blocking Ger- man exports to the United States, | Britain has agreed to make some exemptions in the case of Ameritan | m | Polish schoolboys, 12 and 13 vears purchasers who had paid for Ger- ;uld. at Bydgoszc: man goods before January 1. | (Tg‘go;mgsff%“e" at u‘eds““? place | To Discuss “Navicerts.” | 0! 1 'olish men and women. | " ” e | Deportation of 350 Polish hostages| Oné question around which dis | active front, said the raid “took ip)ace this morning against a post | . . s / |in the British front line and the Mail Seizure b)’ Force | enemy succeeded in capturing some | The “armed seizure” of United prisoners. | States mail on the Pan-American “The post was recaptured, and the |Clipper Passenger Denies for delivery this year. places in which liquor can be pur- hased. “And,” the witness remarked, ‘there were more than 2,000 | speakeasies in Washington during |l Three-fourths of France's textile | mills are working on government | ., orders. Finland {Qontinued F‘rrofrlFins( VPage.) down during the forays, the Finns said, adding that their own air force “undertook numerous patrol | and bombing flights in support of our land force’s operations.” A half-hundred persons were killed and scores wounded at a small town in South Central Fin- land in the latest and perhaps the deadliest Russian aerial thrust be- hind the lines. The raid, a superlative example of the bombing offensives which Soviet Russia has coupled with her hammering land drive, came yester- day as Finnish airmen bombed and machine-gunned a section of the| Russian cordon closing in on Vii- puri. Big coastal guns sweeping the ice of Viipuri Bay on the flank of the depopulated, half-runined Karelian capital joined in the aerial assault on the tightening siege lines. Tanks Plunged Through Ice. Bombs and shells ploughed great | holes in the ice, it was reported, and some of the Russian troops with several tanks were plunged into the water, infantrymen and tank crews alike drowning. And early today Finland’s flag— & blue cross on a field of white—still fluttered from a battlement of his- toric Viipuri castle, although the Red Army was pounding at the very gates of the city and Finns them- selves acknowledged that Viipuri could not be held much longer. Unofficial reports said the Reds still were unable to penetrate the main part of Viipuri despite their intensified attacks. Viipuri long since has been bereft of her civilian population, about 74,000, by com- pulsory removal in the face of the Russian drive on the Karelian Isth- mus-Mannerheim Line. Bay Crossing Prevented. ‘The best Finnish advices were that the Russians had been unable to cross Viipuri Bay in force. Reports of the Finns' smashing bombard- ment of attempts in that direction appeared to support this. Although military observers be- lieved the Finns should have with- drawn from Viipuri before now, there was no indication of how long the position would be held before full retirement to a new line of defense. Capture or neutralization of Vii- puri would appear a prerequisite for any Russian attempt to drive west- ward along the Gulf of Finland coast toward Helsinki, about 135 air- line miles away. Town Target of 200 Bombs. The Finnish town hardest hit in yesterday's air raids was the target of 200 bombs. Thirty-two Russian planes droned in on it in two flights 50 minutes apart shortly after a party of foreign newspapermen and photographers arrived. (Military censorship forbade naming the place.) The bombers dived out of clouds | | prohibition.” to bombard the place from less than | Mr, Sartwell declared “a great 2,000 feet altitude. Five direct hits | many loose charges” have been made | were scored on a hospital, and one | ahout the liquor situation. As one bomb struck an air raid shelter, the last killing 25 persons, nearly all of | them women. } A Finnish communique charged three hospitals were bombed, and that more than 10 patients were killed in one and at least four in | another, aside from “many” patients | who were injured. “On Tuesday, bombing was, if possible, more raw and brutal than ever before,” said the communique in recounting the attacks on hos- pitals. “Also the bombing of civilians caused many casualties. Bombs were dropped among other places on Mikkeli, where many people were killed and wounded; also Kuopio and Lahti.” Grip on Viipuri Closing, Say Reds MOSCOW, March 6 (#).—The Red Army continued today to close its grip on Viipuri, its commanders re- ported with the capture of the town of Neetela, 9 miles northeast of the beseiged city. Neetela is just east of Karisalmi, a station on the Viipuri-Sortavala Railway. The capture of two islands on Vii- puri Bay, one of them Ravansaari, Jjust north of the Koivisto Fortresses taken some days ago, also was re- ported as the Red contingents con- tinued mopping up in the bay area. Twenty-one Finnish airplanes were reported shot down in the aerial war. The communique did not mention the progress of Red Army units which were reported yesterday to have vaulted Viipuri Bay and gained a foothold on the mainland west of the city in a movement to take Finnish defenses from the rear. ‘Text of communique: “March 5, in Karelian Isthmus area, Viipuri Bay, Soviet troops oc- cupied the island of Ravansaari with the town of Ravansaari, and the island of Suonionsaari, the town of Neetela, northeast of Viipuri and one kilometer east of the station of Karisalmi on the railway line of Viipuri-Serdobol. “Other sectors of the front noth- ing important. “Soviet aviation acted against enemy troops and military ob- jectives. Twenty-one enemy air- planes were brought down in air combats.” Demonstration by Girl Scouts Mount Ranier and Brentwood Girl Scouts will give a demonstra- tion of their work and activities at a meeting at 8 o'clock tonight of the Brentwood (Md.) Citizens’ As- sociation ii. the Brentwood School. The demonstration will be in con- nection with observance of the anniversary of the founding of the Girl Scouts. illustration he cited an article which he said appeared in a publication of the Council of Social Agencies which charged that high school stu- dents were using “dope” and carried whisky bottles in their pockets or hid them in school lockers. “The police made an investigation of those charges,” he declared, “and were unable to find a scintilla of evidence to support them.” Subsequently, Mr. Sartwell be- came critical of certain members of the investigating committee whom he did not mention by name. “Some of the questions asked by some of the members of this com- mittee have been unfair,” he de- clared. “The implication yesterday, for instance, that wholesalers control the A. B. C. Board is utterly absurd. “The wholesalers couldn’t control the board if they wanted to.” Representative Hunter explained a number of witnesses had told the | committee in executive session they had evidence of sales to minors and that these people did not want to testify in a public hearing because they did not care to involve their children “We have had testimony before this committee in executive session that certain people fear your organ- tzmon," said Representative Hun- er. “I feel flattered that any one fears ourlorgnmutlon," replied Mr. Sart- well. The witness afterwards told the committee “antagonism” of certain groups had been aroused by the action of the A. B. C. Board in granting licenses in neighborhoods where liquor stores were not wanted. To curb these protests, he ex- plained the Alcoholic Beverage Council had adopted a policy of urging that the wishes of residents in areas affected should be the governing factor in the issuance and transfer of liquor licenses. “Most of the complaints made to this committee,” said Mr, Sartwell, “could be handled by the Commis- sioners if the Commissioners would adopt some regulations.” Mr, Sartwell registered vigorous opposition to proposals for a dis- pensary system. Representative Hunter said as a member of the Ohio State Legisla- ture he had opposed establishment of the dispensary system in that State, but had observed it is “work- ing better” than the private license system in the District. Mr. Sartwell said 5,000 liquor store employes would lose their jobs if the dispensary system were adopted’ in the District. The committee will resume the investigation tomorrow at 10 a.m. The principal witnesses will be Maj. Emnest W. Brown, superintendent of police, and Lt. Earl Hartman, in command of the Detective Bureau vice squad, whose men are enforcing the A, B. C. Act. ' clipper at Bermuda on January 18 has received more attention than the incident was worth, a Washing- tonian who was aboard the plane said today. | “I'm not defending the searching of the mail by the British,” asserted Henry A. Berliner, president of the | Engineering & Research Corp., back |in Washington today after a six- weeks visit to England and France, “but I do think stories about British marines flourishing fixed bayonets and that sort of thing have been greatly exaggerated. “The Britishers had side arms, but the whole thing was done with a minimum of ill feeling. Both the clipper captain and the leader of the British party kept their tempers. When Capt. John Lorber of the clipper was instructed to hand over the mail, he ordered his crew not to touch it—thus registering a pro- test and compelling the marines to take it themselves, which constituted forcible seizure. The ‘force’ part ‘was purely nominal.” Mr Berliner added that the Brit- ish inspected the personal papers and baggage of all passengers—"just as they would do in a customs in- spection. We would have expected that on landing at a port in England, but not at Bermuda.” The English in war-time are bet- ter off, from a food standpoint, than the Germans were two years ago, Mr. Berliner observed. “If there is food shortage in London, youw'd never know it.” Mr. Berliner, son of the late Emile Berliner, famous inventor and engineer, has been engaged in aviation design and manufacturing since the World War. The Engi- neering & Research Corp., situated near Riverdale, Md. which he heads, is engaged in production of two-place, low-wing monoplanes of metal construction with the latest type tricycle landing gear. In ad- dition, it is now exporting aircraft manufacturing machinery to 20 for- eign countries. 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Soldiers Missing, British Announce LONDON, March 6 (#).—The war office published a communique to- day reporting a British sergeant- major killed and several soldiers missing in a German raid yester- day on a Maginot line post of the British Expeditionary Force. The British communique said: “A raid on March 5 on a British post in a Maginot line sector took place under cover of a barrage of mortar and machine-gun fire at daww. The enemy succeeded in en- tering the post, which was held by part of a platoon of infantry. “The platoon sergeant-major was killed. The Germans left one dead in the post and suffered casualties during their withdrawal from ar- tillery and machine-gun fire. “Several of our men are missing.” Nearly- $155,000,000 has been in- vested in cotton manufacturing in To ?ickly allay painful throbbing of small burns and ease parched skin, apply at once, soothing RESINOL § 811 E Street N.W. 917 G St. N.W. | morning French Japan Ready for Peace? 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