Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1940, Page 19

.Wheafley Promises Gaming Cleanup in Prince Georges Declares He Will Put Plans Into Effect as Soon as Possible Efforts to clean up gambling and tighten liquor restrictions in Prince Georges County, Md., will be intensi- fled soon, it was revealed yesterday by States Attorney H. Winship ‘Wheatley, jr. Mr. Wheatley's warning came a day after the county grand jury commended him in its report for his “sincere and whole-hearted efforts” toward enforcing the law and bet- tering conditions in the county. The State’s attorney said he ap- reciated the compliment paid him y the grand jury, which closed its 15-day session Friday, but added e felt there is still much to be done 8o far as law enforcement in the county is concerned. Leads Provided. The jury also reported it had made “explorations” into the gam- bling situation in the county and recommended that a “more sin- cere” effort be made to “clean it up.” Mr. Wheatley said that these “ex- plorations” had developed a num- ber of “interesting sidelights” which, he said, would provide a considera- ble number of leads for intensifica- tion of efforts by county k:w-en- forcement authorities. He said he had questioned nu- merous witnesses after their ap- pearance before the grand jury and added that he has gathered infor- mation from them that should be of much assistance. One item revealed in these inter- views, he said, has led him to the conclusion that a certain amount of the accounting business of Dis- trict gambling activities apparem.ly is being conducted in the county. Withholds Details of Plans. Mr. Wheatley declined to reveal details of his plans, but said he would put them into effect as soon as possible. He indorsed the jury’s stand in advocating more regard for the wishes of neighbors and property | owners in the issuance of alcoholic beverage licenses. it He agreed with recomrendations for stricter enforcement of build- ing regulations, new regulations to control tourist camps and the | elimination of unsightly dumps. Heq also urged action on the jury’s sug- | gestion for new efforts by State and county police to combat druck- en driving. 6. W. U. Medical Society b Asks University Inquiry The George Washington Univer-i sty Medical Society, composed of | graduates ‘of the university, last night adopted a resolution favoring & “thoroughgoing, impartial” inves- tigation of the university’s a:imin- istrative thethods. @ 7 The resolution was adopted with one dissenting voice out of the ap- proximately 65 members present.| The society’s full membership is| about 100, Dr. Arnold McNitt, president of the society, read to the members a letter to him containing the resolu- tion written by two members of the society. Dr. McNitt requested rep- resentatives of the press not to use the names of the two physicians. The resolution, which passed after | aocout five minutes of discussion, follows: “Since the George Washington University Medical Society is an alumni organization affiliated with the General Alumni Association and therefore vitally interested in the welfare of the university; and because of certain unfavorable, de- grading and widespread publicity concerning alleged administrative irregularities emanating from the university’s administrative offices, Be it resolved that the George Washington University Medical So- ciety support and/or advocate a | thoroughgoing, impartial investi- | gation of the administrative meth- ods and such other departments as may be necessary to protect under- graduate and graduate interests and | to restore harmony in one of the oldest, largest and most worth- while universities in America.” Foster Will Discuss Values of Exercise Ralph W. Foster, director of the @epartment of physical education of the Central Young Men's Christian Association, will speak on “Values Obtainable Through Exercise and Sports” at 8 p.m. tomorrow in one of a series of health lectures under auspices of Y. M. C. A, in the building at 1736 G street NW. Some of the ; subjects of Mr. Foster will dis- cuss will include “Why Exercise or Play Games?”, “The Physiology of Exercise,” 3 “The Effects of ' Various Sports on Bodily Func- Mr. Foster. tions.” “The Meaning of Health Hab- its, Skills, Knowledges and Atti- tudes,” “The Physical, Mental and Moral Aspects of Sports,” “Rules for Keeping in Condition and the goal— a Healthy Personality.” Sports mo- tion pictures will be shown. Under arranggments by Mr. Fos- ter, many of the city’s leading phy- siclans have spoken in connection with the health lecture series. On April 20 Dr. W. T. Harrison, senior surgeon of the United States Public Health Service, will lecture on “Hay Fever, Asthma and Other Allergic Disorders.” i Students’ Strike Brings Suspension of 48 By the Associated Press, PALM SPRINGS, Calif, April 20—A strike of high school pupils in protest against failure of the school board to rehire three teach- ers for next year resulted today in suspension of 48 of them. Morris F. Richardson, principal of the Palm Springs High School, said: “These young people will not be readmitted to school until such time as their parents can give as- surance of their children's intent to conduct themselves as orderly law-abiding citizens.” | ANTIQUE EXHIBIT—COrnalia’ Alfriend (left) THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 21, 1940—PART ONE. : over Norway and to seaward of the Norwegian coast line. New bases must be constructed in terrain | poorly adapted for the purpose and and Carter Ran- +dolph Andrews are pictured witd some of the historic articles on digplay at the McGuire House, Washington and Prince streets, Alexandria, Va. this week. Borrowed from various Virginia families, mamy of 3he pleces date back to Revolutionary War days. Others are considered priceless objects of art. The exhibit will be open-tomdrrow through Saturday from 10 am. to 9 pm. 4 —=Star Staff Fhoto. Nazi Grip on Norway Depends On Air Force Now, Eliot Says Difficulty for Germans Is Declared Lack of Bases for Bombers By MAJ. GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT. As the allied attack on thegGer- mans in Norwey apparently grows in power, it may be usefy! to survey the &tuation from the Germae view- point—or, rather, from the severa: VRwpoints of the three Ggrman armed services. In the beginning, the German Navy was asked to perform the fol- Ypring tasks: (1) Cover the landing of the German trops from inter- ference by the British hume fleet; (2) provide escorts for the troop con- voys against attack by British light forces or single cruisers; (3) sup- port the landings of the German Army against Norwegian coast de- fenses; (4) maintain the line of communications across the Skag- errak from Danish ports into Oslo Fjord. Obviously (1) entailed the likeli- hood of heavy losses; (2) likewise, with the additional chance of ' es- corting vessels being blockaded in Norwegian ports and unable to re- turn; (3) was extremely dangerous unless the Norwegian defenders were wholly paralyzed by “Trojan horse” methods, which proved true at Narvik, Trondheim and Bergen, but not wholly so at Oslo and Kris- tiansand. In other words, the German Navy was asked to gamble much of its surface strength to put the German Army and air force into Norway, and in the event sustained crip- pling losses. The fourth mission it has performed only indifferently well, against persistent allied mine- laying and submarine operations. Several troopships have been lost, ' and nothing is more likely to pro- duce bad blood betwen army and navy than the loss of troopships. On the other hand, it is quite likely that the navy is beginning to ask whether its heavy losses have been all in vain. Most of Subs Preserved. At the moment the German Navy must feel that it has thrown away its rather bright chances of be- coming a thorn in the allied side by the operations of a “fleet in being”; it has not even enough destroyers for normal inshore convoy opera- tions, it cannot (until its new ships are ready for sea) even be certain of commanding the Baltic against the Swedes—a very serious matter. It still has in hand the major part of its submarine force, which has been little risked in these opera- tions because it was one of the main objectives of the whole Scandinavian adventure to provide the U-boats with harbors on the open Atlantic from which to raid British ship- ping, and if a large number of U- boats were lost in attaining these harbors the plan would have stulti- fied itself. The German Army was asked to provide: (1) An occupying force for Denmark, where no opposition was anticipated; (2) a main army to seize Oslo and to expand outward from that central point of horse, rail and road communications to over- run the country; (3) garrisons to seize and hold the main Atlantic ports until they could establish liaison with the Oslo army; (4) a detached force, a sort of forlorn hope, to seize Norvik and hold on as long as possible, until perhaps the issue had been decided elsewhere. The army command must have known that in the first waves there could be little artillery or mecha- nization taken along and no very large stores of artillery ammuni- tion. What was needed was a force possessing a power of wide dispersal, that is, chiefly infantry with plenty of automatic arms, with some engi- neers and light artillery. Against this was set the German plan, which called for the practical disarming of the Norwegian Army at & blow. The army command no doubt fully realized thai eventually this expeditionary force might have to fight an allied landing force or the Swedish Army, and that it could not do so with much hope of suc- cess unless it had an adequate line of communications and plenty of modern weapons and equipment. The' army command must have raised this point and the answer came from the-air staff. A landing is impossible without air superiority. We will protect you [ Y y ! from any landing, and we will over- awe the Swedes so that they will not dare to stir a finger. Fur- thermore, if the navy cannot keep your supply lines open we will sup- ply you through the air and rein- force you, too, as the Italians did in Ethiopia. Thus the basic question was the ability of the air force to make good this promise. Upon this turns the issue of the whole northern campaign. To understand its funda- mental importance, examine the sit- uation if no air forces were involved. In that case, no additional men and supplies would have reached the German outlying garrisons, not much would have come into Oslo. The allied landings could have pro- ceeded almost without disturbance. The Swedes could have taken up strong, effective positions in the south, detached forces to co-operate with allies in destroying the Ger- man troops in Norway; they would have little immediate fear of the devastation of their country and the destruction of their industrial centers. In fact, without air power no German government in its senses would have launched any such at- tack as has taken place. It is probable, as we have pre- dicted, that the main allied effort is now directed toward obtaining se- cure possession of the port and rail- road of Trondheim. Once this has been done, and the allies in secure possession of the surrounding coun- try, they have (1) a bridgehead through which they can bring in all the troops and supplies they need; 1@ a direct rail connection with Sweden. There will then commence a campaign driving southwatd against the Germans, coupled with vigorously renewed naval efforts to command the Skagerrak; the Ger- mans will be compelled to bring in Sweden as an additional enemy, be- cause they cannot hope to fight suc- cessfully without the Malmo-Oslo Railway. The result will be a new battle front in Scandinavia, with the Ger- mans operating on the shorter lines and with the stronger air force, but with sufficient advantages of the allied side to make sure there will be no “Blitzkrieg.” Psychologically, as to the rest of the world, the Ger- man attack on Scandinavia will be a failure, perhaps a disastrous fail- ure. No more iron, copper, zinec, timber, fish from Scandinavia for Germany; the blockade immensely tightened; the control of the Baltic definitely challenged—these will be heavy factors against Germany in world opinion. Air Force Faces Test. It is not for this result Germany has risked much. Therefore, their air force must now make good on its assurances, or be seriously dis- credited. It must gain enough time for the Germans to overcome Norwegian re- sistance, it must beat off the allied landings on the coast, it must man- age to reinforce the outlying gar- risons so that they can maintain themselves and expand their hold- ings, it must protect them against allied air and sea attacks; mean- while it must continue to keep the Swedes in awe. In studying the ability of the Ge:- man air force to do all these things, we come at once to the maior factor of air power’s strategical immobility. A modern air force requires a greay and growing ground organizetion, especially for bombing plunes, it de- mands large, expensive and ‘mmo- bile bases Lacking these, it is badly handicapped. : Now Norway affords nc such bases. The Norwegian air force, Norwegian commercial aviation were both very small. There are fairlv guod flying flelds at Oslo and Stavanger; for the rest, there are landing fields of sorts and & little oil storage. Air power cannot, as “l:tl:' lfi land power, bring with own means its supplies and aruch of its base equipment. These must in great part be brought to it by ships or on wheels. Its taciical mo- bility and fiexibility within its radius of action is very great but strategic- ally it is the least mobile of the three types of modern fighting forces. This is the present German dif- ficulty. They cannot develop, 1:dom existing Norwegian bases, an ade- quate air effort to control the air 4 ) without supplies and - stores other than those available within the lim- ited area of German occupation, of such as can be flown in. British’ Can Establish Bases. The allies, on the other hand, have no bases in Norway at all. They must have them if they are to fight the Germans there. But they can use the sea to bring the troops to seize the necessary po- sitions, and to bring thereafter the equipment to establish the bases, and meanwhile they are little if any worse off than the Germans as far 88 giving air support to these opera- tions from home air bases is con- cerned. The German advantage is the possession of a certain number of advance bases in Norway of lim- ited capacity; against this, the allies have their afrcraft carriers. The German hope will be to extend their base capacity and perhaps create new bases in Denmark or southern Norway; the allied hope will be to firmly fix themselyes in protected base positions on Norwegian soil be- fore the Germans can complete their efforts. Incidentally, the Germans hardly dare put all their dependence in im- proving the base at Oslo because it is too near the Swedish frontier, and the Swedish Army is an un- certain and harassing factor in the whole situation. Incidentally, the better the allied air position be- comes, the more will Swedish hopes and Swedish courage rise. The Germans cannot hope to pre- vent an allied landing in force un- less their air arm can prevent it, or unless they can consolidate their whole Norwegian position; the allies have struck so swiftly that they probably cannot do the latter unless the air arm can check the allied advance, meanwhile,: to the German outlying garrisons the air force is “father and mother,” as the troops at Gallipoli said of the royal navy. This is & campaign in which air power may be initially decisive; which is not to say that it is capable of securing a final décision, but that the question of whether it justifies, or fails to justify, the faith placed in it by the German high command may be determinative of the out- come of their whole Norwegian en- terprise. (Copyright, 1040, New York Tribune, Inc.) Circus Will Conclude Engagement Today The Frank Wirth Circus, presented for the benefit of Children’s Hos- pital, will conclude its week’s en- gagement at Riverside Stadium today with performances at 3 p.m. and 8:15 pm. Rear Admral C. R. Train, United States Navy, retired, chairman of the Children’s Hospital Circus Com- mittee, expressed the committee’s pleasure at the support given the benefit, despite rainy weather. “It is our sincere wish,” he said, “to extend our deepest gratitude to every one who in any way has helped to make this undertaking a success.” Special bus service for the two final shows has been arranged by the Capital Transit Co., with direct service being supplied to the stadi- um from Fifteenth street and Penn- sylvania avenue every few minutes. Clowns, aerialists, animal acts and other performers in the circus will entrain after tonight's performance for New Haven, Conn. The United Kingdom has lifted its ban on foreign alarm clocks. Fight on Zoning Bill For Anne Arundel Promised by Group Private Owners Fear Measure Will Provide Free Beaches By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 20—A stiff fight against a planning and zoning bill for Anne Arundel County, to be voted on in the general election next November, was promised today by owners of private beaches who expressed fear that passage would bring free public beaches for Balti- more and Washington residents. The bil provides for a Planning Commission of reven members, four named by the Board of Caunty Commissioners and three by the Annapolis City Council. The commission would draft a master plan for future development of the county and city of Annapolis and would approve or disapprove building permits and real estate alterations, as well as other matters generally falling within jurisdiction of zoning boards. Edgar 8. Kalb of Mayo, at a meet- ing last night, attacked the measure in its entirety, and said he feared water-front property would be pur- chased for park and beach purposes. He said the measure was wrong in giving such broad powers, adding that “no group of men, no matter how honest, should be intrusted with such power.” Benjamin Michaelson, counsel to the Anne Arundel County Board, branded the bill “too drastic” and HOUSE & HERRMANN'’S SIMMONS SLUMBEREST Convenient Budget Terms acres that had been marked by the State Planning Commission as adaptable for parks, public forests and soil erosion projects. Other meetings are to be held and & fund to finance the opposition has been started. Drive fo Ask W;V_iclims Be Admitfed fo Alaska A drive to be launched in support of legislation providing for coloni- zation of Alaska by European war refugees and development,of this country’s northern possession by Government supervised private cor- porations was announced here last night. The Alaskan Development Com- mittee said the plan, which is em- bodied in the King-Havenner bill recently introduced in Congress, has the approval of Secretary of the In- terior Ickes. Alaskan industry, commerce and mining would be developed under the bill introduced by Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, and Representa- tive Havenner, Democrat, of Cali- fornia, the committee said. Finnish, Norwegian and other refugees from Europe would be settled there by the extension of non-quota visas. American citizens would be given preference in at least 50 per cent of the jobs offered to prospective settlers, the legislation specifies. The colonists from Europe would be eligi- ble for citizenship after a residence of five years in Alaska and when their quota number from their coun- try of origin is not otherwise filled. The corporations would be capi- talized at not less than $10,000,000. ‘ The committee declared such de- velopment of Alaska would aid American industry and agriculture and contribute toward the problem of national defense. Grounded Italian Ship Blocks Florida Harbor By the Associated Prers. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., April 20—The §,400-ton Italian freighter Confidenza went aground here today, blocking the bottle-neck entrance to the harbor of Port Everglades. Damages may require she go into drydock for repairs. The Coast Guard sent a crashboat to her aid and later called the cutter Mojave. The ship, out of Genoa, Italy, was here to pick up a load of 3,500 tons of scrap iron and was scheduled take on another 5000 tons later at Jacksonville. The accident occurred just after the thrice-weekly freight-car ferry left for Havana. The ferry is due back Monday with a load of pine- apples. No major shipping is ex- pected to seek entrance to or exit from the harbor before that time. Adams School Children To Present Operetta Some 100 children of the John Quincy Adams School will present “The Magic Beanstalk,” an operetta, !in the school auditorium Friday at 8 pm. . The performance is for the benefit of the school Parent-Teacher As- sociation garden project and the new school library. Scenery is being made by the pupils and the an- nouncer for the show will be Calhoun Pittman. The libretto of the operetta is by Mitchell Hubrich and music by \Carol Christopher. INNERSPRING MATTRESS $‘| 69> Now you can buy the famous Simmons Slum- berest Innerspring mattress at this remarkable Hundreds of coils interlaced into Covered in a durable woven ticking and tailored with custom care and finish. Simmons ribbon top low price. a grandly buoyant innerspring unit. coil spring $11.95. HELLER STUDIO Smart comfortable couch with metal back and arms in plain or figured tapes- try. Innerspring mattresses and trim-looking back and arm pillow. Strong metal back and arm rests. 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