Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1940, Page 3

_ King Haakon's Escape From Four Bombings Told by U. S. Girl Shells Barely Missed Royal Party, Stockholm Broadcast Says By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 13.—King Haakon and his staff were bombed four times in their flight from his temporary Norwegian capital to an unknown spot of safety, an Amer- fcan girl declared yesterday in a short wave broadcast frem Stock- holm, The girl, Betty Wason, of Indian- apolis, Ind.,, said she was told the story of the flight by a Swede who was a member of the royal party. “Tonight,” said Miss Wason, “none of us knows exactly where the royal party is hiding. They fled from | Nybersgund last night after four air attacks which came in rapid Buccession.” Her account, in part, follows: The first alarm was given by the Bwede who was seated in his auto- mobile outside the house where the King and his entourage had taken refuge. At the first blast of the horn King Haakon, Crown Prince Olav, the British and Polish Min- isters and other government officials fled from the house into the nearby woods. - There they had to stand waist-deep in snow while bombs fell all around them. A second blast from the automobile horn told them all was clear and they emerged from the woods. But within an hour the second at- tack came, and this time the fiyers used both machine guns and bombs. With sheets which they had jerked from beds, the court and visiting ministers fell flat in the snow and tried to camouflage themselves. When the firing eased up, the party dashed from one woods into another close by; soon planes machine-gun- ned the exact spot where the refu- gees had been lying. A nearby school which had first been consid- ered as the refuge was struck by an incendiary bomb and burned to the | ground. | After the third raid the King, found a car and he and his party got to a safer place; by the time the German planes returned a fourth time, they were well on their way to a new refuge. The only member of the party injured was a government official who received a bullet wound in his hand. Festival (Continued From First Page.) her place on the festival stage. After the coronation, Miss Colli- flower and her attendants are to view the remainder of the program from the dais, facing the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, now under construction. { Capt. William Santelmann will conduct the United States Marine Band in “Pale Potomac Moon,” bv Arthur Godfrey, theme song of the | celebration. | Folks Dances and Operetta. A group of 16 dancers of the Evelyn Davis School next will pre- sent a series of folk dances, and at 8:30 pm. a “streamlined” treat- ment of Sigmund Romberg’s operet- ta, “Blossom Time,” will begin. It will be performed by the Columbia Light Opera Co. “The Star Spangled Banner” is | to be sung by the entire assembly and a fireworks display is to bring the program to a close. Miss Colliflower will be attended by Princesses Helen Snyder, Ameri- can University; Shirley Tholen Chevy Chase Junior College; Alice Betty Nichols, National Park Semi- nary; Grace Dexter, Holton Arms School; Mary Jane Harrington, Uni- versity of Maryland; Mary Irving Corbett, Georgetown Visitation Con- vent; Jane Winchester, Marjorie ‘Webster School; Rosemary Burns, described a rough semi-circle capital. miles from Oslo. STOCKHOLM.—NAZIS BREAK STEEL RING AROUND OSLO —Relief to the isclated German forces in Oslo, captured Nor- wegian capital, appeared to be on the way today after newly landed Nazi troops broke through the ring of steel Norwegian forces had thrown up around the city. The Norwegians’ lines German reinforcements are reported to have com- mandeered buses and automobiles and to have surprised the Norwegians between Moss and Holen (arrow). THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1940.. Miss Maddux Dies at 85; Needle Expert Despite Blindness ROMERIKE (heavy black line) about the Holen is 25 —A. P. Wirephoto. Nazi Raid on Isle In Rhine Repulsed, French Declare Artillery Also Attacks Germans Constructing Saar Fortifications By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 13.—Repulse of a German raid on an island in the Rhine, infantry activity along the river's banks and firing of artillery at Germans building fortifications were reported today in the French It said: “Late April 12 in the Saar region our artillery fired on enemy works under construction. “During the night infantry activ- ity along the banks of the Rhine both in the region east of Mulhouse and around Strasbourg. “The enemy attempted unsuc- cessfully a raid on an island in the Huningue.” Met by Blast of Fire. The German troops shoved off from their bank of the Rhine in boats about 2 am., French military sources said. Silently they approached the French position on the island, only to be met by a sudden blast of fire. The raiders withdrew, but because of the darkness it was uncertain whether any of their boats were sunk, There was machine-gunning on both sides east of Mulhouse and Martha Washington Seminary; Nora |.around Strasbourg, but the lines re- Stuart, Immaculata Junior College, and Caroline Wadden, George ‘Washington University. The water procession and Marine Band, dance and opera group per- formances will be repeated tomor- row night. Parking Restrictions Issued. During the festival program no automobile parking will be per- mitted on Fourteenth street between Pennsylvania and Maine . avenues nor on the east side of Seventeenth street between Constitution and Pennsylvania avenues, police have announced. To help administer the special regulations governing traffic, 10 ad- ditional men have been assigned to the fourth precinct. Leaves of men on the 4 pm. to midnight shift have been canceled for tonight by the Metropolitan Police, and all leaves through Monday have been canceled by the Park Police. The festival is sponsored by the Board of Trade and its Greater National Capital Committee, the Hotel Men’s Association, the Res- taurant Men’s Association and the Merchants and Manufacturers’ As- sociation. ‘The program scheduled follows: TODAY. €:00 p.m.—Concert by the Metropol- itan Police Boys’ Club Band, under direction of Clifton Brown, jr. 1:30 pm—Arrival by swan boat of the queen and her court, with torchlighted water escort. 9:45p.m.—Address of welcome by General Chairman Edgar Morris. 9:50 p.m.—Coronation of the queen by Commissioner Mc- Coach. 8:15 pm.—Playing of the festival theme song by the United States Marine Band, as- sisted by a chorus of the Columbia Light Opera C 0. 8:20 pm.—American folk dances by the Evelyn Davis Dancers. 8:30 p.m.—Presentation of “Blossom mained unchanged. Many Scout Flights Made. ‘The French also said that while allied scouting planes made numer- ous flights over German lines, the German aerial reconnaissance seemed to be diminished, indicating the Nazi planes might be occupied with the Norwegian warfare. The French added that 20 French naval vessels were operating . with the British fleet in the northern war zone. Both Huningue and Mulhouse are situated at the eastern end of the Burgundian gateway, an historic battleground. Huningue is only a few miles from the Swiss frontier at Basel. The clash followed exchanges of artillery fire yesterday on a 30-mile line along the Maginot “hinge” from the Bitche region to Lauterbourg, between the Vosges and the Rhine. ‘blue communique from the western front. | Rnine held by our troops north of | GRIFFITH-CONSUMERS COMPANY Announces PRICE REDUCTIONS Effective April 15 Prices are the lowest of the entire year— starting Monday—on ‘blue coal.” Save money, fill your bin with ‘blue coal’ while prices are way down. Call MEtro- politan 4840—see how much you actu- ally can save on ‘blue coal’ by ordering at the Spring reductions. Italian Fleet Gathers Amid Secrecy for Maneuvers Monday Rome Press Speculates On Possibility of War Spreading in Europe By the Associated Press. ROME, April 13.—Amid unusual secrecy imposed because of wartime | conditions, the Italian fleet was gathering today to embark Monday on maneuvers which naval officials described as the regular spring training. ‘While concentration points were not disclosed, there were indications that naval preparations were being made at the southern seaport of Taranto. It was assumed that naval reserv- ists had been called up for their usual training period. Meanwhile the Italian press spec- ulated on the possibility of the war spreading in the wake of fighting in Scandinavia, which most Fascist commentators said had resulted in a first-round victory for Germany. In this connection the official Ttalian news agency Stefani, quoted the Netherlands Foreign Minister. Eelco N. van Kleffens, as saying his country would resist any attempt at invasion. Most Fascist newspapers said the allied air and naval offensive against German position on Norway’s coast could be considered a complete failure. Reapportionment Bill Goes fo White House By the Associated Press. The Senate approved finally and sent to the White House yesterday a bill providing for reapportionment of the 435 House seats on the basis of the 1940 census. The measure was passed by the House Thursday after a provision to exclude aliens in determining the new apportionment was eliminated. The Senate previously had passed similar legislation. Yesterday it ap- proved minor House amendments without dissent, The legislation provides for an automatic reapportionment on the basis of the 1940 population in the various States. Population shifts since the 1930 census will cause some States to lose Representatives and some to gain. The reapportionment will take place after the 1940 census, coal’ 93 Million Increase In Defense Budget Is Predicted Faster Production of Army Equipment Held Urgently Needed By the Associated Press. The spread of Europe’s war brought national defense to the forefront of congressional problems again today, and signs pointed to a possible $93,000,000 increase in Army and Navy budgets which already total close to $2,000,000,000. From a War Department source came intimations that as much as $75,000,000 was urgently needed to speed up production of “critical” equipment for the Army. Capitol Hill likewise heard that an addi- tional $18,000,000 would be sought to accelerate the Navy's ship-building program. ‘The Nazi invasion of Scandinavia, War Department sources said, and the danger of a further spread of the war made it imperative to obtain faster production of the so-called “critical” items of Army equipment. Equipment Orders Placed. Congress allotted approximately $262,000,000 last year to provide the Army semi-automatic rifles, anti- tank guns and kindred “critical” equipment. Authorities said that orders for most of this equipment already had been placed, but that the only way to speed up its de- livery would be to put Government arsenals and private manufacturers on a 24-hour production basis. This, they estimated, would cost an addi- tional $60,000,000 to $75,000,000. President Roosevelt conferred on naval matters yesterday with his departmental and congressional ad- visers, and was said to have given his approval to the $655,000,000 fleet expansion bill, which already has been voted by the House and is now pending in the Senate. The measure authorizes construction of 21 combat ships and 22 auxiliaries, but carries no appropriations. Present plans call for all 43 ships to be started in the next two years, and informed sources said the extra $18,000,000 to be sought at this ses- to get under way at once. It was explained this sum would be in ad- dition to the construction funds in the Navy's $963.797,478 supply bill, now pending in the Senate. Hearings to Start Monday. Chairman Walsh of the Senate | Naval Committee, who attended th White House conference yesterday, said his committee was ready to begin hearings Monday on the ex- pansion program, which would give the fleet three new aircraft carriers, the largest the Navy ever has built specifically for that purpose, and an unspecified number of cruisers and | submarines. Although the size of the projected | cruisers is a secret, there were strong indications some of them might greatly exceed 10.000 tons. Including the ships in the expan- sion program, the Navy will lay down keels for 63 vessels in the next two years. The air arm of the national de- | fense also figured in yesterday's developments. Secretary Morgen- thau notified the Allied Purchasing | Mission that, if it wanted fast de- liveries on the latest American warplanes, it would have to meet the cost of developing future better models 10r the Army Air Corps. Secretary Morgenthau upheld the War Department on this point at a conference with Arthur B. Purvis, head of the Allied Purchasing Mis- | sion, on prospective aircraft orders | which manufacturers have been told may reach $1,000,000,000. Hull__— (Continued From First Page.) far as possible the governmental agencies in control of the ports will be notified officially before they leave, ‘The department said that the Mormacsea was partially unloaded and ready to sail from Bergen, and that the Flying Fish probably was ready to sail. The exact position of the: Charles R. McCormick was less certain, the freighter’s owners and charterers reporting that she ar- rived at Bergen Monday, destined to Bergen and Narvik. Under President Roosevelt's ex- tension of the European combat area under the Neutrality Act, American vessels now are prohibited from entering waters around the entire Scandinavian peninsula. Reg- ulations under the President's proclamation permit the vessels | this way. ‘The strange life story of blind Hattle Maddux, who was reared as & white child only to learn that her mother was colored, has come to an end. Miss Maddux, who was 85, died Wednesday night at St. Anna’s Home, a refuge for colored women at 2224 N street N.W. She had been 1l about four months. An attack of scarlet fever in baby- hood left her blind. She was en- rolled in a school for blind children at Staunton, Va., when, in adoles- cence, she was told her mother was colored. The change for her was easy. Being sightless, she was unable, of course, to distinguish between a per- son’s color. She enrolled in a school for colored children and set out on a useful life of supporting herself solely by her own labors. Upon finishing school, Miss Mad- dux went to work for the Post Office Department in 1889, working in the mailbag repair shop here, where she put draw strings in canvas sacks. She retired on a pension in 1924 after 35 years of service. She was highly skilled with knit- ting and crochet needles, turning oui flawless handiwork. She made the layette for the first baby born to President and Mrs. Cleveland and also presented a knitted bag to President Wilson’s daughter, Mar- garet. Miss Maddux supplemented her small pension with money she earned from selling her elaborate needle- work, turning her money over to St. Anna’s. She also contributed to the Community Chest, whose funds aid in supporting the home. She was born in Warrenton, Va., and her closest relatives are cousins. Funeral services were held at Mc- Guire funeral home, 1820 Ninth street N.W,, this afternoon. Stowe - (Continued From First Page.) courtesy of all the German officers whom we encountered. Nevertheless, we had been warned that Oslo was ringed in and no civil- ians except women and children evacuees were now allowed to leave the city. And when we left our hotei one of the chief Nazi plain- clothes officials, the one who had a mocking light in his eyes when he spoke to us, was lounging in the lobby. We sauntered out and piled our bags into the car where the lady with the smile and the jaunty spring hat sat at the wheel. She looked and acted as if she were enjoying the war immensely. Met First German Column. German motorcycle troops, rifles flung from their shoulders, buzzed along in our direction as we left Oslo at 3:45 o'clock. But we en- countered no German sentries until well south, on the road to Mysen, and they merely stared as if doubt- ful whether to challenge us or not. As neutrals with Swedish vias, we had a perfect right to leave, but the military control might cancel that at any moment. We drove on hope- fully and swiftly as possible. ‘Within an hour we caught up with the first German column. Soldiers (on the rear truck motioned us to sion would enable preliminary work | slow down. The column had halted, so the lady with the smile jumped out and exercised her excellent Ger- man and indubitable charm. Soon we were motioned to pass. As we rode by I counted 32 heavily loaded caissons all without guns but bear- ing munitions and supplies. There | ere also several field kitchens, but not one field gun. (As I write the windows of this Swedish hotel are being boarded up—a precaution against the air raids which people in Gothenburg have a right to fear—and I wonder again if, wherever I go, the black- out will persist in catching up with me.) Second Column Overtaken. About 5 o'clock we overtook our second German motorized column, this one with two fleld guns and with an air of being ready for business. At the head of the column several officers stopped us and one held a revolver in his hand. The lady at the wheel smiled and said we were Americans. The officer saluted and showed every deference, but the commander explained: “There is fighting just ahead here and you cannot possibly go through I am sorry. You will have to turn back.” So we turned back and consulted the road maps. The fighting, we learned, was concentrated between Spyderg and Askim where a main bridge crosses the Glommen River. Evidently the Norwegians were still holding the bridge, but how to get through to the Norwegian side? Our topographical expert decided we must gamble on the chance that the Germans had not yet occupied Fredrikstad at the mouth of the Oslo Fjord. So we swung directly south, still counting on the Amer- ican flag tied across our car'’s hood, and especially on the lady’'s smile. Another 30 miles and we needed it again. Come Upon Third Column. At Moss, two-thirds of the way down the fjord, we came up with a third German column. This one consisted of requisitioned Norwegian buses all filled with soldiers. Some of them were singing as they waited. A lusty German youth took one look at our woman chauffeur and yelled, “Hey, lady.” We laughed and waved and they all waved in response. Then our pilot turned her devas- tating orbs on the commander at the head of the column and chat- |§ tered her little piece. Papers? Yes, here they were. already in the combat area to sail|{ The German officer looked at the away without penalty, however. documents of the occupants of the CHEAPER T | 500 CASH Northeast of Catholic University 5 SOLD THIS WEEK—3 LEFT $;50 Month Includes Interest HAN RENT uildin front seat—and most agreeably neg- lected to look at the newspaper credentials of Irvin and myself. “Have your troops occupied Fred- rikstad?” asked the lady with the smile. “Not yet,” said the officer. Dutch "Orange Book’ Emphasizes Neutrality B7 the Astoctiated Press. THE HAGUE, April 13—The Netherlands government, in & move designed to emphasize its strictly impartial attitude toward Europe’s warring powers, today issued an “Orange Book” outlining the pro- 'tests it has filed with both Germany and the allies because of alleged violations of Dutch neutrality. Observers noted that the book was isued at a time when the belligerents have been accusing each other of plotting to spread the war to the low countries. The publication included diplo- matic correspondence concerning violations of Netherlands neutrality by airplanes of both sides, attacks on Dutch ships by German sybmarines and the November 11 border incident at Venlo, when German guards crossed the frontier to seize two British secret agents. The allies were told that their blockade of Germany had imposed many hardships on the Netherlands by hampering Dutch sea trade. “Is the way open to the Swedish frontier?” (Mr. Stowe’s dispatch was cut off here as it was being tele- phoned out of Sweden.) (Copyrisht, 1040, Chicago Daily News, Inc.) German Expert Evades \British fo Reach U. §. On Trade Mission Dr. Westrick Reported Conferring on American ‘Frozen’ Investments By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 13.—Dr. Ger- | hardt Alois Westrick, a leading Ger- man economic and trade expert, is in New York .with special diplo- matic status as commercial coun- sellor to the German Embassy, for the stated purpose of keeping an eye on German-United States trade relations. Dr. Westrick, a friend and asso- ciate of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, lead- ing German economist, arrived by way of Siberia, while the British were stopping and searching trans- Atlantic liners for Dr. Schacht or any other German economists bound this way. Schacht Arrival Rumored. Wall Street has buzzed recently with reports that Dr. Schacht and others had evaded the search and arrived in Manhattan for the pur- pose of working out a new eco- nomic basis for trade relations to circumvent the British economic blockade of Germany. Dr. Westrick was reliably report- ed to have been in touch with a number of leading American firms with heavy investments in Ger~ many. A canvas of leading Wall Street banks specializing in international finance disclosed that none of them has been approached in connection wiith any new plan to create credits or new dollar exchange. G. M. C. Investments ‘Frozen’. United States corporations which have heavy “frozen” investments in Germany, and with whose executives Dr. Westrick has been in touch, in- clude General Motors Corp., and International Telephone & Tele- graph Co. Responsible officials of these firms said they did not know of any new arrangements pending. 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