Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1940, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, -WASHINGTON, D. C., Brifish Government - |E. B. Calvert Marks 50 Years As a Weather Forecaster - Reorganization Seen Over Easter Holiday Simon and Hoare Draw Fire; Raids on Baltic Bases Are Expected By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 21.—Parliameht recessed for the Easter holidays to- day amid growing reports that Prime Minister Chamberlain would recon- struct his cabinet during the interval before sittings are resumed April 2. The House of Commons session ended with outspoken criticism of two cabinet bigwigs, Chancellor of * the Exchequer Sir John Simon and Lord Privy Seal Sir Samuel Hoare, voiced by Geoffrey Mander of the liberal opposition. “It is widely felt throughout the country that the chancellor of the exchequer and the lord privy seal “are heavy liabilities both at home and abroad,” he said. Speculation outside Commons mentioned Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood and Supply Minister Leslie Burgin as ministers likely to be dis- placed by the Prime Minister in re- shaping his cabinet for more vigor- ous prosecution of war tasks. Demands Smaller Cabinet. Mr. Mander demanded that a smaller war cabinet be formed, senti- « ment which has been expressed fre- quently in recent weeks. The Air Ministry, meanwhile, an- nounced that one German plane had appeared today over the Shetland Islands and then vanished without dropping bambs when British fight- ing craft took to the air. Children in the locality left their schools for air raid shelters during & 15-minute raid warning. A British vessel, its name undis- | closed, was bombed last night off | . the south coast. Five members of | the crew were killed. Opposition criticism was - roused | in Commons by the government's colonial policy and particularly withholding of a royal commission’s Teport on conditions in the West | Indies. Colonial Secretary Malcolm Mac- Donald acknowledged West Indian conditions are bad, kut asserted they | are no worse than “in many other countries.” Baltic Bases May Be Next, Germany gun-bristling sub- marine bases in the Baltic are the next probable targéts of British bombers, it was reported meanwhile as the belligerents disputed the re- sults of their heavy exchange of blows across the North Sea. ‘The Admiralty belittled a German contention that nine British war- | ships and merchantmen had been Sunk in an air attack on a convoy | off the Scottish Coast yesterday. Actually, it said, only one Nor- wegian ship had to be abandoned | and another Norwegian and a Swed- ish steamer were hit. Two naval planes and anti-aircraft guns drove off 10 German Heinkel bombers, it asserted. However, it was announced later | that 30 men were feared lost from two Danish ships, the 2,109-ton Bothal and the 1,53-ton Viking, sunk off the northeast coast of Scotland yesterday. The manner Edgar B. Calvert (right), chief forecaster at the Weather Bureau, was presented a radio today by fellow employes on the occasion of his 50th anniversary in the service. tion is being made by Francis bureau. It won't be long before Edgar B. Calvert can go home and write the | boys at the office a letter about | their weather predictions. The veteran chief of the Weather | Bureau's Forecast Division, cele- | brating 50 years in the service today, | warned his associates that when he | retires he will check up on their | prognostications on the radio. | “They'd better be 100 per cent cor- , rect,” he chuckled, “or I'll write you a letter about it!” Mr. Calvert's remark got a big | laugh from the Weather Bureau em- | ployes assembled in his office to do him honor on the 50th anniversary of the day he entered the meteoro- logical service of the Army's Signal Corps. The weathermen took their chief at his word and presented him with |a fine radio. “You can listen to all the weather reports,” said Francis W. Reichel- derfer, chief of the Weather Bureau, “and check up on us.” Won't Talk About Weather. Mr. Calvert admitted he was | thinking of retiring to a home and “little workshop” near Annapolis, but he doubted if he would talk very much about the weather. After all, half a century of it is quite a while. “You must all come to see me after The presenta- W. Reichelderfer, chief of the —Star Staff Photo. T set out and about 10 pounds over when I arrived.” Headed Division Since 1920. Mr. Calvert, widely known in Gov- ernment and scientific circles, has been head of the Forecast Division since 1920, and is the dean of Weath- er Bureau officials in length of service. He has served under every chief of the Weather Bureau and knows per- sonally more than half the chiefs of meteorological services throughout the world. Mr. Calvert has been largely re- | sponsible for the development of | weather reporting systems from | ships at sea. He has had a larger part than any other single individual in perfecting the daily weather fore- casts to the general public. | Under his supervision this branch | of the service has expanded until its reports represent an annual | monetary value of hundreds of mil- | lions to businessmen, farmers, fish- | ermen, fruit growers, fighters, shippers and others. Native of Virginia. The hurricane and cold wave | warning service under his super- | vision have come to be depended upon by millions of residents in danger areas. The service has progressed from the point where mail, press and signal flags were forest-fire | President Will Stay Out of Pennsylvania Race, Early Indicates Secretu}y Declines Comment on Farley Announcement By JOHN C. HENRY. President Roosevelt will take no hand in the bitter Pennsylvania senatorial fight, Secretary Stephen T. Early indicated at the White House today. “I am quite certain,” Mr. Early said, “that nothing is going to be said from here to project the Pres- ident into the Pennsylvania primary battle.” Mr, Early said there was no com- ment to be made on yesterday’s dec- laration by Postmaster General Farley that he is in the presidential race to stay and that his name will be submitted to the party conven- tion in July. Asked if it would be a fair assumption that Mr. Farley had discussed the question with the President, Mr. Early repeated his “no comment” reply. Edison Talk Indicated. Yesterday Mr. Early conceded a fair assumption might be made that Secretary of the Navy Edison had discussed with the President his decision to run for Governor of New Jersey, but the White House spokes- man flatly declined to go this far with regard to the Farley develop- ment. Mr. Early likewise said that thus far James H. R. Cromwell, Minister to Canada, has no appointment with President Roosevelt to discuss his much-debated Toronto speech of Tuesday, in which he expressed in positive fashion his support for the allies in Europe’s war. It has been reported that Mr. Cromwell will visit Washington before return- in New Jersey. The Pennsylvania primary ques- tion arose today at Mr. Early’s press conference in the wake of a speech by John B. Kelly, Philadelphia Dem- ocratic chairman, in which he as- serted the President had remarked that Pennsylvania Democrats had better pick the right man or another one might be chosen for them. Guffey and Jones Candidates. At present, the two avowed candi- dates are the incumbent Senator Guffey and Walter A Jones, with the Democratic party bitterly split in its State factionalism. Senator Guffey declared yesterday he would not withdraw, if nominated. Mr. Roosevelt declined any com- ment on the Kelley speech or the Pennsylvania situation at his Tues- day press conference. Still running a slight temperature from the cold which has bothered | him for nearly two weeks, the Presi- dent remained in the White House | proper today, but planned to see two callers, Federal Loan Adminis- | trator Jesse H. Jones and Mayor | La Guardia of New York City. Mr. Early told reporters the Presi- I recire,” Mr. Calvert said. “I'll tell| the principal warnings to the pres-|dent’s temperature was normal last you all about the perfectly useless| ent use of radio broadcasts and |hight, but was up about a half articles I manufacture in my shop. | automatic telephone forecasts ob- | degree this morning. No concern is Tll even tell you about the flowers my wife and I plan to raise. But | of their sinking was not disclosed, A lifeboat landed seven survivors early today. DNB, official German news agency. said nine ships sunk totaled 42,000 tons and two others of 11,000 tons were damaged badly. The agency acknowledged that one German | plane had failed to return. The Danish steamer Minsk, 1225 tons, was sunk by torpedo and shell fire Tuesday night, it was dis-‘ closed today when nine survivors | landed at a Scottish east coast town. | Twenty of the crew are missing. Reprisal for Sylt Raid. The German raid was in reprisal | for the British bombardment of Sylt Island Tuesday night and Wednes- | day morning—a raid that was itself | in reprisal for Saturday’s German bombing of the British naval base at Scapa Flow. | Watchers along England's south- east coast reported that a mysterious bomber, believed to be German, dropped white, orange, red and green flares during the night. Intense activity of British coastal defense forces last night led to re- | ports that German planes were ap- | proaching, but there were no vcrx-‘ fied reports of + + besides that of craft. British fighting planes, however, | Were reported ranging far out to sea with other patrols active along a| wide stretch of coast. [ Tonic for British Spirits. The Sylt raid, in which British | officials said great damage was'done to the German seaplane station, was | & spring tonic for the spirits of the | whole British nation. The flyers themselves expressed relief at being | permitted to “cut loose” at last after their long series of pamphlet raids and reconnaissance tours over Ger- man soil. The Exchange Telegraph Agency reported 49 giant bombers had par- ticipated in the Sylt raid, 48 of them returning safely, Sir Kingsley detailed the Sylt ex- ploit happily to the House of Com- mons yesterday, but did not reply when a member advised him: “Bear in mind that the country sincerely hopes this will be no iso- lated instance.” Nevertheless, reports persisted that Germany’s submarine nests and shipyards in the land-locked Baltic Sea would be probable objects of attack, Danes to Protest Bombing. The Baltic is sheltered from the North Sea by Denmark. Reports from Copenhagen said that 10 bombs were dropped on Danish soil during the British raid on Sylt and that the Danish Minister to London would protest. “Scores plane visits today | the flare-dropping | of Germany’s most DANCE LESSONS Cost Very Little at ARTHUR MURRAY’S Each dance lesson costs but a few cents more —but what & satisfaction in the final result! Under sonscientious experts fewer lessons are aquired to become a good dancer. Call for half- Bour private trial lesson. . re- ARTHUR MURRAY 1101 Conn, Ave. don’t press me too much about the weather.” Mr. Calvert recalled the day 50 years ago when he stepped into the same office in which the group as- sembled this morning. “I was full of milk and pie,” Mr. Calvert chuckled. “In those days there was a weight requirement at- | tached to the job. I walked out from downtown and stopped at every lunch stand. I took on all the milk and pie I could hold. “I was 4 pounds underweight when | tainaole in many cities. A native of Virginia, Mr. Calvert | served briefly in the Signal Corps here before being transferred to Chicago. He returned to the cen- tral office in 1895, and has served there since. Asked if in 50 years he had en- | countered persons disposed to crit- | icize the accuracy of the bureau's weather predictions, Mr. Calvert | said that he once rode a Pullman | train to Chicago and tipped the | porter a nickel. “I knew if I could survive the look he gave me, I could survive | other things as well!” valuable aircraft — seaplanes and bombers—were destroyed,” declared the Daily Mail in reporting on the Sylt raid. “The attack had been delayed so that it should take place when the | maximum number of German planes | was concentrated on the island. For | some time the allied command had known that the Nazi authorities were feverishly building hangars on Sylt—and storing hundreds of planes | there. “Today a number of those hangars | are in ruins * * * pilots returning| told of wrecked barracks, blazing | oil tanks, crippled railways.” New German Device. The flyers also described a new German defense device—the “flam- ing onion"—an incendiary anti- aircraft projectile which bursts into fiery fragments in midair, like a rocket. “They look pretty but they are not very effective,” said the pilots. | Convoy Dispersed, Nazi Command Claims BERLIN, March 21 (#).—The Ger- | man high command’s communique today was devoted largely to yester- day’s raid against a British convey off Scapa Flow in which it already had been reported that nine naval and merchant ships were sunk. The communique follows: “On the western front, between Speci | the Moselle River and the Pala- tinate Forest, local artillery and re- connaissance activity. | “German fighting planes late yes- | terday atternoon successfully at- tacked off Scapa Flow a British convoy heavily protected by cruisers, destroyers and airplanes. Another armed merchant ship was attacked in the English Channel. | “The convoy was dispersed. Nine navy vessels and merchant ships, | with a total tonnage of roughly 42,- 000 tons were sunk. “In addition, two merchant ships with a total tonnage roughly of 11,- 000 tons were badly hit. One enemy plane was shot down in an air fight. One of our own planes is missing. “Yesterday forenoon British scout- ing planes were spotted near the East and North Frisian Islands and repulsed by the German defense. “The losses.of the British air force during its attempted attacks on Sylt Island during the night of March 20 after final investigations rose to three planes.” FORDS ENGINE HEADS WELDED WELDIT, INC. 516 1st St. NW. ME. 7944 ial Purchase of 100 SOLID BRASS C TOASTERS olonial Style LIGHTING FIXTURES for LIVING ROOM or DINING ROOM *Yes, Wall . owe JUSt in time for spring fixing-up . . . the added piece that your living room, my dining room . . every one's home needs for that “‘something new’’ sparkle . .. and this fixture can easily be installed. - %12.95 Complete with 5 imported semi-frosted shades. or _immediate installation. Regularly $22.00. Brackets to Match Are Available Free consultation on lighting fiztures for the entire home. Open Wednesday and Saturday Evemings Till 9:00 | felt, he said, and the President him- self has jokingly diagnosed his ill- | ness as “swamp fever.” | Massachusetts Waives Penalty on Tax Delay Inaugurating a tax drive in the District of Columbia, Massachusetts is waiving the $5 penalty on delayed | returns from workers here who | claim residence in Massachusetts, to | encourage payment of the State’s | income tax by those who previously | bave evaded this levy. The waiver was disclosed today by publication in the Congressional Record of a telegram sent yesterday lican, of Massachusetts, by Henry F. Long, commissioner of corporations | and taxation for Massachusetts, who said that “any return filed on or be- fore April 1 will be accepted without any penalty because of lateness in March 1.” Mr. Long added that tax forms will be forwarded promptly to all applicants. The period of grace was suggested by Mr. Treadway to aid Massachu- setts revenues as the result of the Court of Appeals ruling on local taxes which has been construed as meaning that local residents claim- ing domicline glsewhere could escape the District income tax. Drive slowly —expect the unex- frs A FACTY dd 1 :Aoderni‘i:::;ei:‘:;e‘. 1 ] 1 1 c.\\yu* Kay's today an 2 o our registere ‘ ::\:nekrist to show you ing to Canada from a short vacation | to Representative Treadway, Repub- | filing the return which was duefi Shafer Injured Badly as Auto Plunges in Creek REPRESENTATIVE SHAFER. By the Associated Press. . SALEM, Ohio, March 21.—Repre- sentative Shafer of Michigan, in- jured in an automobile crash, was reported to be in a “serious but not critical” condition today. The Republican Congress mem- | ber’s car plunged through a guard rail 6 miles south of here as he was driving from Washington to Three Rivers, Mich., where his father, John McClellan Shafer, died yesterday Representative Shafer is suffering from a back injury and severe lac- erations, but the complete extent of his injuries has not been deter- mined. He was driving alone. Salem City Hospital's report said Mr. Shafer “spent a restless night.” The accident occurred between Lisbon and Salem. Representative Shafer’s coupe plunged down a 15-foot embank- ment and landed in a shallow creek. ! Representative Shafer is a mem- ber of the House District Committee. Appropriations (Continued From First Page.) special House committe investigat- | ing the board presented evidence re- cently designed to shcw that Mr. Saposs held radical views. “Overstaffed.” “The committee is of the opinion that the National Labor Relations | Board is overstaffed,” the appropri- | ations group said in its report to the | House. “On the basis of the record |of a continuing reduction in the | | number of cases received and the | firm belief * * * that both the field | service and the departmental serv- | ice of the board have entirely too many employes for the work load, the reduction has been made.” Testimony before the subcom- mittee brought out these state- | ments: Isadore Lubin, Labor Department | statistician, said that if war con- | tinues retail prices will go up and labor will demand higher wages. An end to war, he said, would in- crease unemployment and cause | prices to drop. Madden Opposes Union Penalty. Labor Board Chairman Madden, in reply to a question by Repre- sentative Tarver, Democrat, of Georgia, expressed the opinion that | outlawing labor unions which vio- late contracts with employers would | be too drastic a penalty. " George C. McNulty, general coun- sel of the Wage-Hour Division, said that 29-year-old Joseph Rauh had | been out of law school only four | years when put in charge of writing | the division’s opinions. Representative Engel, Republican, of Michigan commented that he re- garded Mr. Rauh as “very brilliant,” | but added, “In my judgment, he is | trying to assume a responsibility | which is beyond his age and be- | yond his immature judgment.” Commissioner of Immigration Houghteling said a Supreme Court decision holding that Joseph Streck- | er, a former Communist, was not de- portable had contributed to a drop in deportations from 47 in 1936 to 1 in 1939. Arch A. 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The destination of the two liners was unknown. Their commanders sailed under sealed orders, presum- ably sending them on dangerous missions as troop ships. Sighted Heading South. The Queen Mary later was sighted 5 miles off Long Beach, N. J.. Coast Guard observers said she was steer- ing a southerly “Bermuda” course and was proceeding at 28 knots. Both Ships Camouflaged. Rain, wind and hail swept the Mauretania’s decks last night, when she signaled her departure by two sharp blasts of her whistle, but this morning the 81,235-ton Queen Mary sailed under a clear, cloudless sky. Both liners were drab in their camouflage gray, their windows blackened and all signs of identity blotted out. The Queen Mary had been at her | berth here since September 4—the day after war started. Transport Duty Rumored. 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