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Kelleher, of the anti-trust division of the Depart- ment of Justice and Special Attor- ney George B. Haddock. Tomorrow the new grand jurors will organize and launch an inquiry at the Police Court Building. The additional grand jury was or- dered impanelled after Attorney General Robert H. Jackson ad- vised the new district attorney, Edward M. Curran, that an inquiry, looking to possible anti-trust in- dictments in the gypsum industry, was desirable. Chief Justice Al- fred A. Wheat of District. Court, | at the instance of Mr. Curran, signed the necessary papers to summon 550 citizens to the courthouse today. The recent additional grand jury, discharged a couple of weeks ago, dipped into the gypsum situation when books and records of a num- ber of nationally known firms were subpoenaed, but authorities found there was not the necessary time to Consequently a new grand jury was summoned. Stowe (Continued From Pirst Page.) chology was pulled last Thursday afternoon just after the first of 20,- 000 German troops debarked in Oslo harbor, thereby assuring the Nazi grip on the capital. After wafching the first trans- ports tie up at the quays, I rushed to the telegraph office. When I re- turned, half an hour later, the har- bor’s semicircle of quays was a curi- ous sight. I heard what sounded like a students’ chorus at a football match long before it could press its way through the throngs of Osloans near the embarkment. Lounging on the embankment were perhaps three platoons of German infantry. Their kits, blankets, rifies and bay- onest all were piled in neat rows on the sidewalk below them. Consciences Suffer. The soldiers sat with their arms locked, and swinging from side to side, shouted out the words of the German song, “Going to Town,” with splendid harmony on the re- frain. Before them stood a hardy Teuton getting the maximum syncopation from his accordion. The singers all acted like a group of carefree young men whose only de- sire in life is to have fun and serenade people. Behind their boom- Ing choruses was the implication that there was nothing serious about these thousands of iron-muscled troops who were marching down the gangplanks at the quay’s edge. Almost unbelieving, several thou- sand Osloans paused and listened, in the course of the next two hours. But their expressions had changed from the incomprehensible curiosity and the seeming indifference of the last two days. Now, for the first time, there were many faces with harassed lines and troubled eyes. All the songs chosen had lots of gayety. They attracted people, but did not hold so many. Something, some sharp realization, had at last sunk into the consciences of the Norwegians at Oslo. After 48 hours it was beginning to sink in. I walked on a few paces, for an- other body of singing soldiers was so close that the songs clashed mid- way between the two groups. These fleld-gray men, standing as they sang, had one tenor whose voice was & winner. One of their best songs, and the one that each group sang repeatedly, was something about a Rhineland town which “has the finest Maedels (girls) in the world. We want to love them. We want to love them.” With those kinds of songs people are not supposed to remember that their capital is being conquered for inestimable months or years. Yet a great many Osloans did not linger as long now around the German troops as they had been lingering the last two days. They were see- ing an enormous amount of machine guns, too, and several more troop- ships, lined with soldiers, out in the harbor waiting to tie up. From the largest of these more singing echoed shoreward. Meanwhile, up in the park directly in front of Parliament, the people of Oslo, from 11 o'clock in the morning onward, had been treated to the most amazing band concert the Norwegian capital probably ever heard. A little 12-piece band played almost unceasingly all afternoon just as if nothing important were happening anywhere, least of all down in the harbor. The German band played countless American dance tunes, interspersed with Ger- man waltzes and occasional Nazi marches. They kept up their enter- tainment, never lacking an audi- ence of 200 or 300. The soldiers only ended their zestful music at night- fall, when fully 5,000 more troops had already safely augmented the Ger- mans’ exposed shoestring garrison of occupation. < The next morning, Friday the 12th, the music period of the oc- cupation had completely ended. There was no further need for bluff. Also, much more serious business was at hand. That morn- ing for the first time, I saw no Ger- man soldiers standing guard at the Parliament and university build- ings. Until now they had stood like statues, or had tramped osten- tatiously back and forth. Now all had gone. I was puzzled to see that the German guards had been replaced by Norwegian police at the Parliament doors. We still could not understand why Oslo’s big, strapping policemen re- mained in the capjtal. Nor why the city had been occupied without the electric current being cut off or the slightest cessation of trolley car service, or any strike in other services as & show of passive re- sistance. During the make an exhaustive investigation. | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1940. saw a single individual who seemed ashamed. Perhaps he was the only one because those young men who believed that Norwegians must also fight for their own freedom had left, or were leaving town. When we left Oslo, their absence or de- parture for the first time had be- come slightly noticeable. Before leaving, we learned from s Red Cross nurse that one Nor- wegian had been’ shot by the oc- cupation forces for refusing to drive & commandeered car. This was the only case we had heard of up to that time. With the arrival of 20 or more transports, however, resistance in- side Oslo became impossible. “Roll Out the Barrel” had become the unparalleled, incredible dirge of Nor- wegian independence so far as Os- loans were concerned. (Copyright, 1940, Chicaso Datly News, Inc.) E)"ewitness (Continued From First Page.) e e greatest speed. Soon it became evi- dent how necessary this speed was, for only a short time after us Brit- ish destroyers appeared before Nar- vik, “Foggy weather alone had kept them from carrying out their com- mand to invade Narvik the day before. Thus, in the final analysis, it was our better navigation skill which assured® us of priority. We simply risked running into the fjord despite weather conditions giving poor visibility. “We had hardly set up our de- fenses when the British destroyers, at first invisible to us, began shoot- ing into the city. We started a counter-attack immediately, “I was standing on the bridge of the destroyer on which also our commodore (Fritz Bonte, whose death in action was reported today byuthe high command) found him- self. Hot Fight Insues. “A hot fight insued between our ships and our enemy. “As soon as we started firing the | English turned off. They were pur- sued by our destroyers, which sank three British destroyers right off the bat and so badly damaged a fourth that it sank soon thereafter. “Reports and detonations, re- peated manifold by the echo of the mountains, resounded across the harbor and fjord. “Suddenly there was an explosion in my tmmediate vicinity. Our ship had been hit. “Heavy pleces of iron hurled into the air struck me and I was later brought ashore wounded. “The first attack by the English had been repulsed. (The British reported they sank one destroyer and left others in flames in the first battle of Narvik. The British also ad- mitted the loss of two destroyers. The Germans said they sank six British destroyers in the first two days of German occupancy of Narvik.) “They later repeated their attack. In s0 doing they shot blindly into the city. They didn't attempt to concentrate on military aims. Dwelling houses at the harbor, rocks and Norwegian inhabitants were targets for these planless attacks. Major Attack Described. “Then came the mafjor attack of Saturday. Our :destroyers, still ready for a fight, warded off an i enemy tremendously superior to us until the last grenade and last torpedo had been fired. “Again the fjord reverberated with the thunder of cannons and with explosions. “The Englishmen couldn't carry out their command to enter the :n- ner fiord. They neither reached the harbor nor has a single Englishman reached land.” said, he watched from the tower on & hill above Narvik city. (The British reported the de- struction of seven German de- stroyers in the second fight and asserted their damages were only slight.) “I myself was received in a friendly manner in Narvik Hospital, together with our other wounded,” Gerlach continued. “The doctors and nurses of the city shared the care of the wounded. Inhabitants visited us and brought us friendly gifts. Injured Taken Home. “The transport back home of the injured was started. After the Eng- lish reports had for days already been claiming the capture of Narvik, my turn came for transport home. “Narvik city, harbor and the entire hinterland up to the Swedish border were still in our hands when we left Narvik by airplane. And so I arrived today in Berlin for a re- port and must go to a hospital to- night. “Up there, however, the crews of our destroyers stand ready to defend the soil. After having shot all their munition at sea they will now, after Commodore Bonte's heroic spirit, continue to fight on land in the same spirit and determination. (This seems to bear out the British contention that the Ger- man destroyers at Narvik were destroyed and the Berlin high command’s report that the sur- vivors joined German forces , ashore.) “That’s the contribution of our destroyers to the total action where- by Germany anticipated England’s attack on Norway’s neutrality. That such an attack was already in proc- ess of execution is proven not only by British mines in Norwegian sov- WHERE_TO MOTOR AND DINE. 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Gerlach, who his been on the seas for 15 years, finished reading from his notes just as Admiral Raeder’s officer secretary entered the room and asked him to come to the chief of the navy immediately. “What is the condition of Narvik,” he was asked on the way to the ad- miral’s office. “The harbor has been pretty well shot to pieces,” he said. “There has been considerable material damage.” In the first encounter with the British, he said the forces were about equal in that the British had one cruiser and five destroyers while Germany had 10 destroyers. In the second encounter the Brit- ish were superior with a battleship of the “Wasp” class, eight destroyers and one-or two cruisers. The Brit- ish said the force involved in the second battle was headed by the bat- tleship Warspite. Comdr. Gerlach said he believed Bonte must have been killed in- stantly, for he was working in his| cabin when a direct hit struck the vessel amidships where the com- modore was. To save coal, Italian industrialists have authorized a plant to produce methane gas for cooking and heat- ing from sewage and garbage. Georgia Avenue Group Asks Larger Lump Sum Substantial increase in the Fed- eral contribution to the District of Columbia was urged last night by the Georgia Avenue Businessmen’s Association, at its meeting in the office of the Washington Reality Co., at 5320 Georgia avenue N.W. The closing of loopholes through which certain groups are exempt from the District income *tax was urged. Opposition to the Reynolds bill to | increase the gasoline tax in the Dis- trict by 1 cent was voted on the ground that the $1,000,000 estimated receipts would be used for the gen- eral fund instead of street and high- { way projects as at present. Full co-operation was pledged to the new Commissioner, J. Russell Young. The organization voted .to send a letter of commendation to President Roosevelt. | 5 Takoma Narcissus Show The Takama Horticultural Club will open its 25th annual narcissus show tonight at 8 o'clock, in the ‘Takoma Park branch of the Public Library, Fifth and Cedar streets N.W. The blooms in the show, which will include 26 classes, will be judged by Edwin C. Powell, and the arrangements by Miss Alice C. Atwood. Senate Approves Bill For Nine New Judges By the Associated Press. The Senate approved yesterday, 47 to 21, legislation creating three new Federal Circuit Court of Ap- peals judgeships and providing six additional district judges after re- jecting a series of efforts by Sen- ator Reed, Republican, of Kansas to restrict the measure, The legislation, which now goes back to the House for action on amendments, would provide a new Judge for the sixth cirtuit and two for the eighth circuit. New judges also would be added to the southern district of California, New Jersey, the western district of Oklahoma, the eastern district of Pennsyl- vania, the southern district of New York and one for the northern and southern districts of Florida to- gether. The Senate also wrote in an amendment to increase from $7,500 to $10,000 the annual salary of the Federal district judge for the Virgin Islands. The vote was 48 to 17. As the measure was previously approved by the House, it provided | Jjudges for the northern district of Illinois and the northern district of Georgia, but these were elimin- nated by the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee and the Florida judge added. Despite contentions by Senator Reed that the work of the courts Federal judges increased, making new judgeships unnecessary, the Senate rejected on voice votes amendments by Senator Reed to strike out the New Jersey, Cali- fornia and Pennsylvania judgeships. Walter Reed Stamp Goes on Sale Here BY the Associated Press. A postage stamp honoring Walter Reed, who discovered the cause of yellow fever, went on first-day sale at 10 am. today at Walter Reed Hospital here. The stamp, of 5-cent denomina- tion, is one of a series honoring out- standing scientists. Dr. Reed was born in Gloucester County, Va., in 1851. His son, Maj. Walter Reed, is now on duty at the ‘War Department here. Three Army Officers Sail for Chile April 26 By the Associated Press. The War Department announced today that an Air Corps mission of | three officers would sail April 26 from New York for Santiago, Chile, i to help train Chilean Army airmen. | Lt. Col. Omer O. Niergarth heads | the mission, which includes also Capt. Robert W. Burns and, First Lt. Joe W. Kelly. A | Eight hundred species and sub- had declined while the number of | species of birds have been noted in China. | | | | Dr. Deybe of Berlin Given Mendel Medal By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, April 17.—Dr, Peter J. W. Deybe, director of the Max Planck Institute at Berlin, was selected last night as the 1940 re=- cipient of the Mendel Medal, award- ed arnually to an outstanding Cath- olic scientist. The .Very Rev. Edward V. Stanford, O. . A, president of Villanova College, made the an- nouncement, Dr. Deybe, a native of the Neth- erlands, is & chemist and research physicist. He is the author of many gnpen dealing largely with molecu- r structure. Winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry four years ago, Dr. Deybe is now lecturing at Cor- nell University. for LATEST NEWS The Night Final Star, containing the latest news of the day during these dramatic times, is de- livered every evening throughout the city and suburbs between 6 P.M. and 7 P.M. Telephone National 5000 for immediate delivery. 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