Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1940, Page 2

Census Takers Get Maps of Districts; Trailers Problem Mrs. Roosevelt Praises Objectives of Task In Broadcast By the Associated Press. The Census Bureau today finished scattering a 147,000-plece jigsaw puzzle to the four corners of the Nation. Assembled, the pieces form a mammoth map of the United States, showing all streets, alleys, institu- tions and landmarks. Each section covers one of the enumeration dis- tricts for the 16th decennial census which begins next Tuesday. Each enumerator received a map of the district where he will work. And because not everybody in the United States lives on the streets, alleys, etc., shown on the huge map, a special day has been set aside for catching those who live in dif- ferent places daily—the trailer no- mads. Estimating -that as many as 1,000,000 persons may be living in rubber-ti.~d homes, the Census Bureau has designated April 8 as| the day on which enumerators will make a special effort to catch up with all the traveling families, Mrs. Roosevelt Defends Objectives. As the whole project thus becomes increasingly complex and far-reach- ing, a defense of its objectives was advanced yesterday by Mrs. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt in a radio address in which she declared the study will “make available the greatest assem- blage of facts ever collected by any people about the things that affect their welfare.” “Much doubt has been raised as to the propriety of some of the ques- tion,” she remarked, but decllred’ that they were “designed to give the | fact which will provide illuminating data on problems which have become particularly pressing in the last decade.” ’ Question and Answer Dialogue. The President’s wife spoke on a pro- gram in which Mrs. Sheppard, wife of the Texas Senator, and Mrs. Eber- harter, wife of the Pennsylvania Rep- resentative, played the roles of a census-taker and housewife in a guestion and answer dialogue about the census. y The “housewife” inquired “why the census has to ask so many more questions now than ever before” and received the reply that “the coun- try is so much bigger and modern life so much more complex.” Meanwhile, the Census Bureau #aid that a 5 per cent sample of its Job enumeration would be published during the summer and that the to- tal count of unemploved might be | completed before the November elec- | tion. D. C. Red Cross Sends Clothing fo Refugees Nine packing cases of clothes, | surgical dressings and other items for tne relief of war refugees are on their way today to Europe from the District of Columbia Chapter, American Red Cross, which dis- patched them yesterday. Two cases, destined for Polish refugees, contain 355 garments, in- cluding clothing for children as well as for women and men. Two otker cases contain 380 garments for the use of Finnish refugees. Seventy- two layettes, consisting of 2,088 baby garments and other items, also were sent to Finland and Poland. Finnish hospitals will receive two packing cases containing more than 7.000 surgical dressings, which were all made by Red Cross volunteers in the District. The Polish Production Unit has turned over $400 to the local chap- ter for purchase of woolen mate- rials to be made into dresses for destitute children in Poland. Daughter Is Born To D’'Alesandros Representative D'Alesandro, Demor erat, of Maryland today was admir- ing his new-born 8!4-pound daugh- ter after solving two youth problems yesterday. The Representative was about to | vote on the National Youth Admin- istration appropriation when he re- ceived an urgent communication from home that he had a youth problem of his own—his wife was about to have her seventh child. Mr. D’Alesandro bustled about, ar- ranged to “pair” his vote, and headed home. He has six boys—including a %7-year-old named Franklin Roose- velt D'Alesandro—but this time his wife presented him with a girl. The | Representative said she would be named Annunciata Maria. Cosmos Club Members Will Meet Tonight Members of the Cosmos Club will meet in the United States Chamber of Commerce Auditorium at 8 o'clock tonight to consider sale of their property at Madison place and H street N.W. to the Federal Govern- ment, which has $1,000,000 available for the purchase. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Continues debate on reciprocal trade program. House: Debates appropriations for N. L. R.B,N. Y. A, C. C. C. and Social Security. - Military Committee hehrs Secre- tary Woodring explain revamped plane export policy. Agriculture Committee hears Sec- retary Wallace discuss farm credit legislation. ‘Ways and Means Committee starts hearings on Patman chain store tax bill. TOMORROW. Senate: Will continue reciprocal trade agreement debate. Judiciary Subcommittee considers public defender bill, 10:30 am. Military Affairs Committee con- siders La Follette resolution on sale of airplanes, 10 am. House: Begins consideration of District appropriation bill. Agriculture eonsideration of ittes continues rm credit bill, EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON First aid being administered at the scene of the fire at St. Peter's Catholic Church to Al Craver and Paul Knight, firemen, who were overcome by smoke. They were taken to Providence Hospital and later reported to have recovered. And Some Politicians Got the Jitters (First of a series.) By MORGAN M. BEATTY, Associated Press Stanh Writer ‘Twelve New Hampshire voters armed themselves with 36 cents in stamps and an irresistible urge to write their Congressmen. And the 1940 Battle of the Census was off Thousands of privates enlisted for the duration, on both sides. Firing became—and still is—general. Those 12 New Hampshire voters may yet occupy a place in political history not unlike the niche in world history of that Serbian youth who took a few pot-shots at an arch- duke's car, World War. the Census will be & real battle. ‘What those New Hampshire voters started was a curtain-raising skir- mish. The real battle to come—a struggle for survival of the fittest politician — may last for months, perhaps a couple of years. And be- fore it's over political blood will flow in many a State in the Union. Funny what a few voters with in a democracy! Tobey Got an Idea. Bald, spectacled Senator Charles William Tobey of New Hampshire got the letters—and an idea. Hadn't somebody in upstate New York pro- tested against income questions in the census? If 12 of his constituents didn't like them either, maybe he had something here. He'd see. so he asked the Census Bureau not to bother his voters with questions about their private affairs, like in- comes, divorces, physical fitness to work, and whatnot, or at least let them answer to Washington by mail. “Too late to change our setup,” said the Census Bureau. “Oh, yeah?” retorted Tobey, mak- ing a bee-line for the nearest micro- phone with a Nation-wide hookup. The Senator's strategy clicked. After one month, he claims 14,000 recruits throughout the Nation. Hundreds more letters poured in on other Senators and Representatives. The Census Bureau said it got a few hundred, too. Angry pen-wielders said the in- come questions weren't half of it, either. They'd been told over the radio they'd go to jail if they didn't answer. As red-blooded Americans, they'd just go to jail. So there. The heat was definitely on. “Un-American, unlawful,” shouted Quick-on-the-Trigger Tobey. “Un-American yourself — absurd,” sputtered harassed Harry Hopkins, formerly of the W. P. A, and now responsible for census questions as Secretary of Commerce. Epithets burned the air at both ends of Constitution avenue. And still they come, burying the merits of the issue in blasts of hot words. It sounds more like the babble of the census. - “Business Sought Data.” For public consumption, Tobey insists the income and divorce ques- tions violate the bill of rights, and exceed the authority of the Secre- tary of Commerce under the census law of 1929. Also for the public ear, Harry Hopkins replies that the demand for the questions originated with professional and business groups and statesmen who needed to know something more about the incomes of people who make less than $5,000 a year. Furthermore, says Hopkins, the facts about unemployment—our biggest unsolved problem—can be gathered accurately in no other way, and they're legal. No doub* they both believe sin- cerely in what they say. But, this being election year, and all, is that the whole story behind the Battle of the Census? Hardly. Where did the questions come from, anyway? The Census Bu- reau’s expert, Dr. Leon Truesdell—a rock-ribbed Republican from Maine —framed them in response to de- mands for questions about the “economic status” of Americans. Statistical, economic, business and insurance organizations—substantial groups—all have talked economic status questions with the bureau for 10 years and more. Some of these groups aré what impolite New Dealers refer to privately as Tory outfits, too. Income data will tell them not who makes how much, but where the various income levels lie in the Nation’s towns and cities. That's hte same thing as telling business people wher- business is good for different qualities of goods and services. It’s money in their pocket. Many politicians and statesmen want the income data for speeches, programs, bills, and what-have-you, dealing with unemployment and re- lief. Some ¢ them are curious to know, too, whether the President was right—or talking through his hat—when he said one-third of the Nation is ill-clad, ill-housed, and ill- fed. Hopkins Interested? It could be asked whether Harry Kopkins, & right bower in the White House, might not be interested in those questions for similar reasons. Would they e the President’s 10 am. thesis? Justify New Deal spending and touched off the! For, in the long run, the Battle of | postage stamps and an urge can do ! SENATOR TOBEY. 12 Voters’ Growls About Census Questions Started a Babble That May Become a Battle Tobey Got the Letters® SECRETARY HOPKINS. | |for low-income Americans? And wouldn’t the census taker's answers to those questions be ready to release |to the public (and orators) in the heat of the coming presidential | campaign? Maybe so, maybe not.| And another stickler: | Why have none of the profes- | sional groups outside Government ! that originally told Harry Hopkins | he had their O. K. on census ques- | tions No. 32 and 33, come charging to the rescue of the beleaguered | secretary? | ‘They're not saving. But maybe | they don't like to back publicity | inquests into private incomes, or they figure they’ll be singed in the | political bonfires this fall. Or if they're anti-New Deal, maybe they agree with that Senator, who said a couple of “silly questions” might lose | the Democratic party 1,000,000 votes this fall. And why hasn't the Republican | party high command come blasting | | down the political highway to back | up Senator Tobey? | Now we're getting warm. Posi- | | tively hot, in fact. The Republican | iparty‘s high command knows — as | does the Democratic high command —that the real Battle of the Census is still to b fought. And it's not | strictly a party affair. Jealous | members of the House of Represen- | tatives in both parties, especlally members in both parties who may lose their seats when the census man's figures are totalled, are the primary strugglers in that battle. Reapportionment's the word for it! And it mean. political blood-letting every 10 years. But that's another story. To date we have only three devel- opments in the opening skirmish of the census: 1. Lots of people don't like the idea of discussing their incomes and divorces with the census taker. 2. Senator Tobey's blast may dam- age the results of the 1940 census. 3. And Tobey or no Tobey. John Q. Citizen will be asked about his income if he makes less than $5,000 a year, although he may seal the answers away from the eyes of the census taker, and mail them to ‘Washington. Senator Tobey wins his fight—and also loses it—because (a) the Sen- ate won't push through his resolu- tion asking the Census Bureau not to ask the income questions, and (b) the courts won’t have time to pass on the legality of the questions be- fore the census takers arm them- selves with blank forms, umbrellas, overshoes and smiles and assault the Nation’s doorbells. | | (Tomorrow: Who is going to kill Congressman Cock Robin and his five colleagues?) Cartoons to Ask Co-operation During Census Uncle 8am, the high-hatted, coat- tailed gentleman of the cartoons, has been officially adopted by the Bureau of the Census as the emblem to carry a message to the American people about the 1940 census. He comes in three different sizes, and is being distributed throughout the country, in the form of a sketch, inclosed in a circle of letters reading: “Co-operate 1940 U. S. Census.” Several hundred national adver- tisers have agreed to use this Uncle Sam appeal to the public, and the figure may be expected to blossom forth in all sizes and in a variety of places any time now, in newspapers and magazines. | The Government is sending Uncle Sam out in the form of “mats” of 'Coalifion (Eabinel Formed in Helsinki; Ryti Still Premier Rolf Johan Witting Takes Foreign Ministry; Tanner Welfare Minister | By the Associated Press. HELSINKI, -March 27.—Prime Minister Risto Ryti, who negoti- ated peace with Moscow, reorgan- ized his government today, form- ing a cabinet officially described as a coalition ministry uniting all par- ties for the ask of reconstruction. Vaino Tanner, foreign minister in the old government, who was the target of bitter personal attacks by the Soviet press and radio, was stepped down to the post of Min- ister of Welfare. The new Foreign Minister is Rolf Johan Witting, | 61-year-old veteran of varied politi- cal and financial experience, in- cluding service in several cabinet ts. Other Cabinet Members. Others in the new cabinet: Justice—Oskari Lehtonen. Interior—Ernest von Born. War—Maj. Gen. Karl Rudolf Wal- den. Gen. Walden also was a mem- ber of the peace delegation. Finance—Mauno Pekkala. Education—Ariti Kukkonen. Agriculture—Pekka Heikinen and Juho Koivisto. Commerce—Vaino Kotilainen. Social—Karl Augista Fagerholm. ‘Welfare—V. Tanner. Communications — Vaino vaara and Karl Erik Ekholm. Tanner Ex-Premier. ‘Tanner was minister of foreign af- fairs in the last government and formerly Premier. Pekkala was min- ister of finance and Fagerholm min- ister of social welfare in the last government. The new minister of justice, Leh- tonen, is a member of the coalition party; Interior Minister Von Born is a member of the Swedish People's party; Pekkalo, Salovaara, Fager- holm and Tanner are members of the dominant Social Democratic group; Kukkonen, Heikkinen and Kolvisto are Agrarian party mem- bers. Other members are described a8 non-partisan. The new Foreign Minister, who is 61, served twice as Minister of Com- munications and Public Works, 1924-25, 1930-31. He & member of the Swedish People'§ Party. In private life he has been assist- ant astronomer at Helsinki Observ- atory and director of the Finnish Institute for Sea Exploration. Salo- Easter Cold May Help Fruit RICHMOND, Va., March 27 (#).— The State Department of Agricul- ture reported today that the Easter cold wave had not damaged crops and might help fruit by delaying blossoming until after the usual frost deadline. Finnish Donations Through Star Pass $1,000 Mark ‘The Star has continued to re- ceive and accept contributions for the relief of war-torn Fin- land, although hostilities ceased March 13. These contributions will continue to be sent to the Washington unit of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc., for transinis- sion to Finland via New York. Acknowledgement of the latest receipts follows: Previously acknowledged. $942.26 Anonymous - 300 KTW T. A. Homey “Total - __ -|go to the polls next Tuesday to D. C, WEDNESDAY MARCH 27, 1940. Wisconsin Democrats’ Fight Spurs Hopes |0f Garner Faction Two ‘Roosevelt’ Slates in Field for Tuesday Vote; Progressives Hold Key By G. GOULD LINCOLN, Star Staff Correspondent. MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 27.— The Democrats of Wisconsin, for- getting for the time being the Re- publican opposition, are engaged in one of the sweetest intraparty rows 'ol the national election year. —A. P. Damaged, smoke-filled interior of the church. Priests niade several trips inside during the fire to save sacred relics and vessels. Photo. in this preference contest—and probably in a big way. But the preference vote is not binding, and if any Garner delegates are elected, they will be pledged to vote for the Vice President irrespective of the preference vote resuit. All of which does not seem to make any sense, but that is the way things political are in this State of Wisconsin right now. Garner Leaders Not Partial. ‘The Garner leaders are not partial to either of the pro-Roosevelt groups. They are basing their whole campaign on the third-term issue— plus the fact that they have a “liberal” candidate in Vice President Garner, a candidate of great expe- | rience in public affairs. | |to make a man with a toothache | laugh. The Democratic State chair- |ing the Garner slate of delegates. | The Garner managers here are| Three complete slates of dele- gate candidates for the Democratic National Convention have been en- tered in the primary, which takes place here next Tuesday. ‘Two of these slates are Roose- velt slates, and one is for Vice Pre.i- dent John N. Garner. Unless Sec- retary of the Interior Ickes or some other trouble shooter for the New | Deal third-term brigade is sent out to this State quickly, the up- | shot of the primary election may | | be the election of from four to eight | Garner delegates—out of a total of 24 ‘That would be a sad anti-climax | ! for the third termers in this State, | | which President Roosevelt carried | { Even the election of a single Gnr-i ner delegate would be a mishap | from their point of view. Garnerites Gleefully Watch Fight. | of delegate candidates are hurling| invectives at each other—while the Garner people look on with glee. | If the third-term vote can be split evenly enough between these two factions, the Garnerites may slip in between This, however, is a| chancy thing. The combined vote of the two Roosevelt factions will easily out- number the votes cast for the Gar- ner delegates However, if any of the Garner slate should be elected by a plurality vote, they would be | pledged to the Vice President and be compelled under the law to sup- port Garner when the roll is called | in the national convention. The two Roosevelt slates of dele- | gates have been entered in the primary in a desperate struggle! between two sets of Democratic lead- ers, to hold or to obtain control of the State Democratic organization. Broughton Heads One Group. Charles E. Broughton, Sheboygan publisher and Democratic national committeeman, ‘heads the so-called “officially indorsed Roosevelt-Far- ley delegates.” The “conference- indorsed Roosevelt delegates,” on the other hand, are headed by Edward Curry and Gustave J. Keller. ‘The Curry-Keller outfit politely refers to the Broughton outfit as| the “reactionary minority” in the Democratic party. Keller and Curry point out that they started the Roosevelt third-term boom in Wis- consin, and that they filed the first slate of delegates entered in the primary—pledged without reserva- tion to Roosevelt. They poke fun at the “Roosevelt- Farley” designation given to the Broughton slate—particularly since Postmaster General Farley issued his defy ir Massachusetts, saying that his name would be presented to the Democratic National Conven- tion, no matter what. They charge that the Broughton slate is a Farley slate in reality, and that Mr. Farley, who is close friend of Mr. Broughton, is engaged in a movement to “delib- erately assassinate” the movement to draft the President for a third term. Embarrassed by Farley Move. ‘The Broughton people have been at some pains, on the other hand, to maintain they are 100 per cent pure Roosevelt. They have obvi- ously been embarrassed by the sud- den move made by Mr. Farley, The ballots havc been printed and they cannot get Mr. Farley’s name off. So their slate continues to be known as the “officially indorsed Roosevelt- FParley” delegates. Not only do the Democratic voters elect a slate of delegates to the national canvention, but they will vote in a preference primary for presidential and vice presidential candidates. The names of President Roossvelt and Vice President Garner appear on the ballot in this “preference vote.” No one has been entered for Vice President by the Democrats and the names of none of the Republican presidential and vice presidential candidates have been entered in -this preference contest, although complete slates of delegate candidates have been filed in the Republican primary for Senator | Vandenberg of Michigan and Dis- trl’ct Attorney Dewey of New York. {3 wii e ‘President Garner | date, then Senator F. Ryan Duffy, |for the Senate against Monfgomery Board Acts Tomorrow on Levy and Budget Retention of $1.50 Tax Rate Hailed as Benefit To County Financing praised by a group of individuals Here is another angle of the and organizations, the Montgomery Word that the British air force Democratic tangle that is enough | coynty (Md) Board of Commis- " Britain Believed Setfing Trap for Nazi Warships Fleet in Skagerrak Is Thought to Be Lure For Reich Cruisers By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 27.—While Brit- ish warships busied themselves with tightening the blockade against German ore imports in hope of luring the German fleet into open battle, Great Britain counted on the Royal Air Force today for yeo- man service against any spread of German submarine raids, Concentration of British destroy- lers and submarines in the Skager- rak, off the Danish and Norweylan coasts, was aimed primarily at cut- ting Germany's ore supplies from Sweden, but neutral observers saw a deeper motive. They said that if Germany could be goaded to send out a cruiser squadron against these compara- tively light forces, the British prob- ably would nave some heavv uniis nearby to fall upon the Germans with superior power. Destroyers Sighted Twice. The Norwegian Admiralty an- nounced last night that eignt or nine British destroyers were sighted in Norwegian waters on at least two occasions last Friday, when Ger- man ships were passing the coast and that a Norwegian torpedoboat fired a warning shot in one in- stance. British foreign office sources said a Norwegian protest alleging that territorial , waters had been vio- lated was being studied and “the entire affair is being investigated.” The Skagerrak. passage linking 4 the North and Baltic Seas, is espe- cially important to Germany in winter when her ore shipments from Sweden must come down the Norwe- | gian coast. ‘When the ice is gone ships can sail from Sweden to Germany in- | side the landlocked Baltic, where British warships have not yet pene- After hearing the proposed budget trated and where battle operations and levy for the next fiscal year would be hampered in any case by Senator | Farmer and himself, wo “Bob” La Follette, Progressive, in pared to sign the 1940-1 11934. At the time President Roose- | Thursday session but that velt elbowed Mr. Callahan out of | to give as much time as possi the picture by giving his personal | consider all provisions of the pro- blessing to Bob La Follette. That is| posed $2.849.592 budseé ‘ ounty So the senior Mr.| payers’ Association, meanwhile, con- Callahan is active in the fight for tinued plans for a mass meeting at Mr. Garner, as well as his son, and | 8 p.m. tomorrow to protest final ac- a grandson, John A. Callahan. a fion on the budget and levy. Criti- “high-handed treat- | School, one of the Garner candi- | ment” of citizens by the commis- “arbitrarily John M. Callahan was a strong Al| meeting only 19 hours in advance” Smith supporter in days gone by.| was expressed in a ‘lener vnl M;.* | Many of his associates in the Gar-| Hampton from Curtis J. Ireland, by:a bigivole in ot Mdanc e | for-President race today also president of the association. “TNis action indicates the need of | Also they include old-line Demo- | a law requiring public hearings on | crats who still believe that George | budgets be made mandatory and be- | fore the tax rate is set.” Mr. Ireland | Fr not the kind of thing a Callahan is | likely to forget. student in the Marquette dates for delegate at large. ner-: were Smithites in 1928 and 1932.| | ‘Washington, Thomas Jefferson and United States rightly did not permit third term in the White House. Cry for “New Blood” Raised. One reason advancea oy the Cur- ry-Keller group in their fight to| get the upper hand over the| Broughton-Crowley group is that the latter have done nothing for the | Democratic party in Wisconsin for several vears, and have been con- tent merely to hand out Federal| offices. They point out that under Mr. Broughton's leadership the Democratic vote in the senatorial race in 1938 dropped down to about 78000, and the Democratic candi- | ran a poor third. They insist new blood is needed, and more progres- sive blood, to put the party back on its feet. | As a matter of fact, the Demo- | cratic party has been very much a minority party in this State for many years and only has won in State elections when it was joined by the La Follette Progressives to defeat the Republican opposition. It would not be surprising if the vote polled in the Democratic primary next week, therefore, was small, Mnless the Progressives, as they have | the right to do under the Wisconsin law, vote in large numbers in the Democratic contest. Garnerites are hoping that a number of Republicans will go into the Democratic primary—for their candidate in order to slap at Presi- dent Roosevelt and the New Deal. There is nothing very substantial, however, to base that hope upon, unless the supporters of Senator Taft, not wishing either to aid Sen- ator Vandenberg or Mr. Dewey, do go to the polls and cast ballots for Garner. Already some of the Re- publican State leaders, however, are pleading with all Republican voters to stick by the Republican rimary and make as large a show- ing as possible, to have its effect on the voting next November. Progressives Hold Key. The La Follette Progressives, who polled something more than 300,000 votes in 1938 for their candidate, former Gov. Philip La Follette, hold the key to the primaries. They have no presidential candidate of their own to vote for and are in a position to raid either the Democratic or Re- publican primary. Their attitude will be dealt with in a dispatch to- MOrTOW. The Curry-Keller Roosevelt group was much encouraged today because of a statement issued for the Wis- consin Joint Board of the Amalga- mated Clothing Workers’ Union— which has, they say, some 20,000 members in the State, urging sup- port of the Curry-Keller third-term drafters. The joint board adopted a resolu- tion yesterday urging President Roosevelt to run again. A. G. Piep- enhagen, business manager of the board, and Louis Schultz, national representative of the union, declared that the campaign against Roose- velt in Wisconsin was the ‘“most vicious and misleading campaign ever conducted.” They accused Mr. Parley of capitalizing Roosevelt’s popularity to tée his own avowed campaign for the presiden- tial nomination. | sioners The Montg Law cism of the in The two so-called Roosevelt slates | Other prominent Presidents of the | declared. Spokesmen omery for the nouncing the meeting. At the hearing. attended by abou man, William D. Carroll, is support- | 10 am. to take final action. Board President Thomas E. Hamp- ton announced at the conclusion of John J. Slocum and William R. Cal- | a public hearing yesterday that the lahan. The latter is a son of John | majority members of the bo M. Callahan, Democratic nominee Commissioners O. W. Roby, R. uld be pre- levy at the Roval has ran ard, w. brushup’ at home. lack of sea room. Two More Subs Claimed | would help combat any spring rush | sioners voted to meet tomorrow at of German submarines came with unofficial reports that British bomb- ers had sunk two submarines this month in the North Sea and that the big aircraft carrier Ark Royal was on duty again after a “wash and the war began the Ark ged from the North + Since he wished Atlantic to South Africa and South setting | themselves to be nominated for a | said the commissioners action il | preparing to act on the budget to- P | morrow would not prevent the mass | With unbounded energy. meeting and said a sound truck had been engaged to tour the county an- 75 persons, Frederic P. Lee, :poke: man for a group from the Mont- Civic Federation, the :he Sunday midnight was the first since necessary | gomery County praised the proposed action of Commissioners present tax rate of $1.50 per $100 valuation while paying off two-thirds of the bonds falling due during the coming year. “The action of the board is in line | Castlemoor with recommendations of the feder- ation,” Mr. Lee said, “and we believe | her crew of 40. the inauguration of public hearings jon the budget will county. More time for considera- | ton Court, | tion of the budge: can be allowed an unidentified tanker in mid- lin the future, when it will not be | Atlantic March 13, were landed in to wait until minute to learn the taxable base had rescued them from a single before adopting the budget.” in retaining benefit Tax- ubout the | ble to America and it was disclosed that her planes already had been used against subrarines. The British press today published lengtny accounts of the Ark Royals recent stay at Portsmouth, taunting the Germans for their intimations early in the war that the $15.000.000 ship had been sunk by a German bomber. For furthering the propaganda battle, the British Broadcasting | Corp. meanwhile engaged Earl Step- anek, Czech movie actor who once played in German films, to make adcasts. { German language bro: ! Informed sources said that a “fighting speech” last night by ance’s Premier. Paul Reynaud. got a warm reception” in British gove association ernment quarters as an indication n | of “the determination of the Prench people to continue the war policy Meanwhile Britain continued to count her mounting mercantile losses. The reported sinking on ¢ | Sunday from an undisclosed cause of the British tanker Daghestan, 5742 tons, spoiled a British Ad- miralty announcement made only yesterday that the week ending last the war began in which no British. or Allied merchantman had been sunk. The 6574-ton Rritish steamer today was reported overdue and was feared lest with Thirty-six survivors from the 6.922-ton British steamer Rossing- rammed and sunk by the last Britain today by a motorship which | lifeboat. h It With a Nation-wide traffic toll of reported 1 that the President ' this Ataatis St antic Stal Minnesota. Duluth. 1.019.3 millibars ( inches) and is rising on the Pacific A disturbance of slight intensity is moving east-northeastward over Northern Missourl St. Joseph. 1.00K.5 millibars (29.78 inches), with » weak, warm front extending east- Pressure is aiso low inches). Di occ and rain Northern and the Upper Mississip atures have risen qul Lower Missouri Ststes. and from the Mississippi River east- ward to the Atlantic coast. Weather Report (Purnished by the United States Weather Bu"#au.) District of Columbia--Cloudy, witn occasional rain tonight and to- morrow; slightly warmer tonight; minimum temperature about 42 de- grees: moderate southwest winds. Maryland—Cloudy, with occasional rain tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tonight and in east portion tomorrow. Virginia—Cloudy, followed by occasional rain tonight and tomorrow; warmer tonight and in east and south portions tomorrow. West Virginia—Occasional rain tonight. tonight and tomorrow; warmer high-pressure area that was over«— ral on on 1.0 tes. ward to New Jersey. over the Rocky Moul Lander. W: and ions. uring n Plains North ‘millibars (30.40) inches, with | ending northward to the North | on the last 2§ red in the Pacific . and in portions of the s _and snows are reported in the Lake_region. Temper- The the Ohio Valley and the Appaiachian re- gion has moved southeastward. being Carolina coast, Wilming- ressure is also intain and yo.. 24 _hours States. Valley. the ihe Washington Dl Valley. te generally in_the West Gult eat 99729 millibars ( rains Report for Last 24 Hours. Yesterday— ‘Temperatures, Barometer. Inches. Degrees. 30.28 30.31 .30 Record for Last 24 Hours. 150, 53. Year ago. TE. Year (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 58. noon today. Lowest, 35. 11:45 p.m. yesterday. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest. 65. Lowest. 7. on January 29. on Mareh 20. Humidity for Last 24 Heurs. Hi ig) Lowest, 17 terday. Rit N iver Repert. t Great Palls today . Tide Tables United States Coast etic Survey.) (Purnished by and 10:4: :’ 5:06a.m. 1118 p. 11:08 pan. hts must e ter sunset. BB U (Prom noon yesterday to noon today.) hest. 43 per cent, at 3:50 a.m. today. per cent. at 7:30 p.m. Yes- c and Shensndoah Rivers clear 'rs Ferry: Potomac slightly lll!\lddr turned. ¢ cen- have States, the northern Gulf States. the Precipitation Monthly precipitation in inches tn the Capital (current month to date): e. Record 5 783 37 8! 8. 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