Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1940, Page 29

Freedom of Press, Service fo Readers On Editors’ Agenda Post-Dispatch Contempt Case to Be Taken Up at THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, French Seek Defense Data In Gravelly Point Runways Mission Learning of Road-Building Methods Which Withstand Transportation of Guns By FRED H. MORHART, Jr. A French mission traveling in this Session Starting Tomorrow country ostensibly to inspect air- ports and airport runways is, in reality, gathering information which pieces. To date, it is understood, no soft spots have developed under the strain, Mobile Pieces in Use. The French have, of course, a fii!l such as the Germans have built for rapid movement of artillery. The gun emplacements, thus far in the war, have been practically inactive, according to reports. However, the mobile pieces have been firing on the French in many places along the ntrenched line. Earlier this month Marcel Bufnoir and Claude Amedee-Mannheim, en- gineers of the Prench public works department, in the company of Lt. Charles Humbert of the French Em- bassy, inspected the runways of the National Airport. ‘The French engineers took elab- orate notes of the entire process, after having conferred with C. A. A. technicians, On leaving Washington the visitors were to make a tour of road building and airport projects throughout the East before return- ing to France, APRIL 17, 1940. District Heights Reports 100 Pct. Tax Collection All taxes for 1939 in District Heights, Md., have been collected, leaving a balance of $400 as of April 1, Treasurer Kenneth . Jose re- ported at the April meeting of the Board of Commissioners. This is the second year the treasurer has at the current rate of 10 cents per $100 on real property. Mr. Jose also ———————— F. B. I. Employees Should Have an Account at EISEMAN'S F at 7th M ’s and Women’s Apparel To quick’y allay painfal thr. bin;ofi-nlfir:ru apply at once, soothing ‘With European journalism blacked out by government control and cen- sorship, United States editors will meet tomorrow to “determine how better to serve newspaper readers and face two instances of purported infringement of press freedom by courts. Donald J. Sterling, managing edi- tor of the Oregon Journal and presi- dent of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, which meets to- morrow and Friday at the National Press Club, said one of the “most important” topics for discussion will be the contempt citation against the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Ralph Coghlan, editor of the edi- torial page for the Post-Dispatch, who was fined $200 and sentenced to 20 days last week for criticizing the dismissal of an extortion suit against a State representative; is expected to speak. Daniel R. Fitz- patrick, nationally famous cartoon- ist of that paper, also was fined $100 and sentenced to 10 days. The case has been appealed. The other contempt citation was returned against the Los Angeles Times. “Must Resist Oppression.” Mr. Sterling acknowledged that “freedom of the press is a liberty to be cherished and not a license to be exploited,” but added: “By the same token it follows that any attempted oppression of press freedom must be resisted to the very limit that liberty permits.” Newspapers in this country are better than ever before and are far ahead of those in other countries in presenting their “primary object”— printing the news. “We have a free press,” he de- clared in an interview. “With a | free press no democracy has ever fallen. Without it no democracy The system used in the case of has ever survived.” hit Gravelly Point was to dredge out |- Cognizant that publishing is a | the runways and then fill them with vastly expensive procedure, and that | 4 river gravel and sand mixture pro- the modern, mylti-edition newspa- portioned with earth taken from per requires the best business meth- | nearby Virginia hills. The system, i ods, Mr. Sterling added: %primarily developed by the Bureau |: ~In order to survive. newspapers| of Roads, for the first time has been have to be solvent. In being solvent | given a thorough workout by Army | : they aren't subservieent.” engineers constructing the landing | Cites Circulation Gain. field. Newspaper circulation has in-| The French sent the mission to |; creased 42 per cent in the last 20 Washington as soon as the runways years, despite a population gain of | had reached a state of stability. only 24 per cen, he declared, and this | Daily the Army engineers have been is indicative that the public are testing the stability and strength of finding the newspaper of increasing | the lanes by rolling heavily-loaded value. multi-wheeled trailers over them. “A newspaper represents the- so- | The tonnage of the testing apparatus clety it serves” he said. “Papers | approaches that of the heavy fiels of 50 years ago were very dull, but — the readers of that time would probably consider our present news- papers very flamboyant.” The hundreds of Washington cor- respondents may be shocked, but Mr. Sterling considers local news more important than news emanat- ing from the Nation's Capital. is of vital importance to the de- fenses of the Maginot Line. ‘The National Airport at Gravelly Point was of particular interest to the visitors and information they obtained concerning the building of the airport is expected to play a considerable part in future work behind the French defenses. Army engineers and scientists of the Bureau of Roads of the Agriculture Department have developed the use of local materials to such an extent that the French government felt it necessary to send several experts to ‘Washington to collect first-hand information. The Germans have developed a system of “shoot-and-run” whereby heavy guns on mobile bases are fired and rushed off to another point for a repeat performance. The Nazis developed this system to counteract the accurate spotting system of the French. ‘Would Develop Similar Strategy. The French, to combat the Ger- man “hit-and-run” method, sent the mission to this country to study roadway and airport runway con- struction in an effort to develop a similar strategy, it is understood. Veterans of the World War will re- call the muddy stickiness of French communication lines. This is hoped to be avoided in the present conflict by following, for one thing, the methods used at Gravelly Point. Using local materials, the runways at Gravelly Point have been de- signed and built in such a manner that they will withstand operations by the heaviest planes for many years to come. In addition, engi- neers on the project say that field guns would do little or no harm to the runways should they be dragged around the airport. system of communication lines to the Maginot defenses, but lack roaus et e R Wedding fnvitations and Announcements Authentic in style and distinguished in details of craftsmanship. Ask to see samples. ‘BREWGD Engravers and Fine Printers 1217 G Street Big New Handbags you can carry now and take along on your vacation —what could be smarter than these . . . of the sturdiest, most wonderful leather imaginable (simu- lated Frog) with a rough, pebbly texture as chic as it is practical. Two styles—as good-looking outside as they are inside—available in red, white ‘or blue. Both with shining gold-color metal s‘o clasps—one has space for your initials. 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