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In Berlin DNB, official German news agency, announced that four enemy planes (an American- made Curtiss. British Spitfire, French " Morane and French Potez 63) were shot down. One German pursuit plane was re- ported lost. | The British Royal Air Force, claiming four of ‘these six, an-| THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 21, 1940—PART omu. nounced that another was belleved destroyed. The French said they| shot down twe German planes on | | the western front ift savage aerfal| | duels while their anti-aircraft guns| bagged, anoiher in central France. | In addition, one German bomber | crashed at the tip of Holland after' being hit by a Belgian plane’s fire. ! The dog-fights veered repeatedly over the Netherlands and Belgian borders. Scores of planes were engaged in the violent struggles over the front lines, themselves occupied with heavy exchanges of artillery fire and | the repulse of several German in- | fantry attacks. | One Royal Air Force plane was| forced to land “by enemy action,”| the British reported. A French | fighter was forced down within his own lines. The British Admiralty also re-| | ported aerial successes in the north. | There, a communique reported, three German warplanes belonging to the squadrons seeking to break the flow of allied troops and supplies | to Norway were brought down and others were damaged. i The communique from the British | air forces in France said: “This morning, fighter aircraft of the Royal Air Force were en- | gaged in several battles on the western front. One of our fighters attacked and shot down a Heinkel 111, which fell in French territory | near Charnay. The crew were captured. “One of our patrols attacked another Heinkel 111 which was |escorted by three enemy fighters. The Heinkel and one Messerschmitt 109 were shot down. “Later another of our patrols attacked a formation of nine enemy fighters. As a result of this en- gagement, one Messerschmitt 109 was brought down behind the French lines and another is believed | to have been destroyed. “One of our aircraft was forced | to land by enemy action. The! | pilot escaped unhurt. All the rest | |of our aircraft returned safely.” | Berlin (Continued From First Page.) “could prevent effective co-operation | | between British and Norwegian | soldiers. | They added, with a great show of | confidence, that allied efforts on | Norwegian soil were bound to be | more or less ineffectual because of | “the demonstrated vulnerability of | | the British fleet to German air | | bombers.” | ! In some German quarters, how- | ever, there seemed to be irritation | over the continued opposition of | | Norway, a feeble country from a | ! military standpoint, but one which | is taking full advantage of its geo- graphical position and difficult ter- rain to oppose the German forces. Nevertheless, war maps have showed widening arcs of German | occupation about Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger and even Arctic Narvik. | | Control 40 Per Cent of Norse. | German military experts esti- | mated that about 40 per cent of | Norway’s 3,000,000 people now are | in regions occupled by German | troops, an area placed at about 12,500 square miles. These experts explained that in entering Norway April 9 the army struck first at the most populous re- gions. Three Norwegian divisions were “destroyed,” they said, and 5,000 other officers and men cap- tured, while 10,000 fled to Sweden and were interned. Norwegian mobilization in the Oslo region has been disrupted, they contended, and the German march is going on northward of Kongsvin- ger, near the Swedish border. A sharp clash occurred preceding oc- cupation of Honefoss, rail junction northwest of Oslo. In 11 days of sea action which | merely make battlefields of certain | ALLIES POUR TROOPS INTO yesterday that the. allies have NORWAY—Stockholm reported poured at least three divisions Confident of Viciory For Nazis, Duce Tells Hitler on Birthday Fuehrer Expects Italy To Win ‘Vital Rights,’ He Says in Reply BERLIN, April 20.—Benito Musso- lini today sent Adolf Hitler a birth- day message expressing “definite confidence that the German people will victoriously stand the great test under which it has been placed.” Hitler replied with ‘“hearty thanks” and an expression of “un- shakeable belief” that the German and Italian people would win their “vital rights.” Hitler also got telegrams on his 51st birthday from King Christian of Denmark, whose country is un- der “protective” German occupa- | tion; King Leopold of the Belgians, | Queen Wilhelmina of the Nether- lands, King Carol of Rumania, Prince Paul, the regent of Yugo- slavia; King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, Regent Nicholas Horthy of Hungary and Generalissimo Fran- cisco Franco, chief of state of Spain. The Mussolini-Hitler exchange: Mussolini: “While the German people are celebrating your birth- day, I, in the name of the Fascist government and the Italian people, would like to extend cordial good wishes, together with definite con- fidence that the German people will victoriously stand the great test under which it has been placed.” Hitler: “I thank you heartily, Duce, for into Norway through Namsos, Molde and Laerdal. British troops | the best wishes which you have sent were reported advancing to Steinkjer, Nazis to Levanger, for a major battle north of Trondheim. After London feported con- voy operation carried out without loss of life, Berlin declared a British cruiser was sunk and a transport set afire by bombings near Andalsnes. set back by Norwegian victory Stockholm reported Nazi adyance from Oslo in battle at Elverum. —A. P. Wirephoto. failed to disclose the Germans from | Narvik, the experts asserted, the British have lost 4 cruisers, 10 tor- pedo boats or destroyers and 8 sub- marines, while 6 battleships or cruis- ers have been damaged seriously. This tabulation is unofficial. The same compilation said as many as seven British transports had been sunk prior to this after- | noon's engagement. Pointing to the availability of Norway as a base for air attack on England, one expert said: “Norway is an unsinkable airplane carrier for us.” A DNB dispatch from Narvik said total German troop casualities there | to date were 1 dead, 2 missing and 13| wounded in a clash with the Nor- wegians. Naval or air-force cas- ualties were not mentioned. From Berlin, the semi-official commentary, Dienst aus Deutsch- land, warned Norwegians that Ger- many is determined to “end this purposeless opposition as quickly as possible.” 3 ‘This warning, echoed by other sources, was directed especially to the northern and central regions | jngication as yet of any real clash. | of Norway, where efforts are being | made to consolidate Norwegian de- | fenders and the British expedition- | & ary forces which have gained a foot- | hold at 'Harstad and other points | north and west of Narvik and pos- | sibly at other coastal points south head of Sogne Fjord and one of of that region. Any serious effort to bring about such contacts with the British “will sections of Norway which may as| well be spared the horrors of war,” | German spokesmen said. Whatever emotional impulse may have been needed to give the Ger- man spirit new fortitude with which to pursue the Scandinavian cam- paign to a victorious conclusion seems to have been supplied today, at any rate, by the host of expres- sions of implicit faith in the Fuehrer. At some of the birthday observa- tions these had a touch of almostl religious emotionalism. Confers With Advisers. For Hitler himself the day was| comparatively quiet because he was | spared the exertion of a great fes- tival. He held his usual morning conference with military advisers in the chancellery workroom. Then he stepped to a balcony and, hand upraised, saluted a cheering, sing- ing crowd outside. The radio brought endless eulo- gles, the press sidetracked war news to make space for tributes to the “deliverer of the Reich.” A milli~n 10-year-old school children were In- itiated into the “Hitler Youth” movement an@, at a’ little cere- mony in the chancellery, Field Mar- shall Hermann Wilhelm Goering re- ported the successful results of Ger- many’s collection of old metal with which to make armaments. Stockholm (Continued AF'Aro_m_F'ir_st Page.)_ | major ports on the western coast of Norway. Conflicting claims leave | in doubt the exact status of the far | northern ore port of Narvik, scene | of two naval battles between Britain |and Germany and the reported goal |of a force of British which has 'landed north and west of Narvik. 3. The railroad from Trondheim to Sweden is in the hands of the Germans, gained by a ruse which allowed safe conduct for a special train filled with German troops. 4. In Southeastern Norway, Ger- many is reported in control of points extending from Oslo directly to the Swedish border. Signs Point to Major Fight., Signs pointing toward a major fight for possession of Trondheim have been seen in the reports that | the allies put ashore one division at Namsos, 100 miles north of Trond- heim, and another at Molde, an equal distance south of the port. There have, however been no reliable Molde lies at the Rauma River Valley and permits access to central rway. The third allied division is said | to have come ashore at Laerdal, Norway's deepest coastal indenta- tions. This is 90 miles northeast of Bergen and 140 miles northwest of Oslo. A communique from the Norweg- ian high command declared: “Norwegian fighting forces are | putting up a heroic defense on all fronts, especially around the Trori- heim, Narvik, Elverum and Hamar sectors. @ “The Germans, of course, are oc- cupying major citles, as already known, but outside of the actual confined occupation there is little | importance in their operations thus far. “The southern part of Norway seems to be more or less in control of the German armed forces. “Although the Germans are in possession of both the Bergen and Oslo railroad stations, the major part of the trunk line running be- tween these two points is in pos- session of Norwegian forces, thus making this particular line useless to the Germans.” Book Chat Tomorrow The monthly book chat of the Takoma Park (Md.) Public Library will be held tomorrow at 8 pm. at the library, 8 Sherman avenue. Frank McNaughton, Associated Press writer, will review “Chip Off My Shoulder,” by Thomas L. Stokes, and Mrs. J. Allen Clark will review “I Begin Again,” by Alice Bretz. Fire Board (Continued From First Page.) lost their lives and others were injured. After investigating the causes of that fire the board held | there had been some “faulty” con- struction and a lack of necessary inspection by District agents. More Funds Asked. Before rendering its report on possibly negded changes in regu- lation, the board—which also in- | cluded Building Inspector John W. | Oehmann, Fire Marshall Calvin G. |Lauber and Herbert A. Friede, superintendent of fire alarms—con- sulted with representatives of the National Fire Protection Association, the Washington Building Congress, Washington Master Builders’ Associ- ation, Washington Real Estate Board, the Bureau of Standards |and the Washington Building | Owners’ and Managers’ Association. In his report, which the Com- missioners are expected to approve with few if any changes, Capt. Person said: “As a Tesult of its studies and consultations, the committee finds that an urgent need exists for im- mediate additional funds to bring inspection service up to date; that future appropriations for building inspection service should provide more inspection personnel than has been provided in recent years; that steps should be taken with in- creased personnel to improve the organization of the building inspec- tion services; that certain changes should be made immediately in the Fire Escape Act and in the License Act of 1932; that publication of building codes, regulations, and so forth, be expedited; that all moneys received from sale of such codes and regulations become part of a re- volving fund to be used to defray the cost of printing additional copies thereof; that studies should be made with a vigw to recommend- ing to the next Congress certain minor changes in the act of June 1, 1910 (relating to the height and fire-resisting requirements of build- ings); and that studies should be made to determine the desirability of & change in the disposition of fees collected for licenses, permits and so forth.” 44 Inspectors Asked. Under the Person Committee pro- posals, 44 additional inspectors would be added beginning July 1, to the fire, building and electrical in- spection services so they can get current with a back-log of work. The proposed emergency outlay of $91,200 would be allocated as fol- lows: 1. For the office of the chief elec- trical inspector, $37,200, which would permit the hire of 15 addi- tional inspectors and 5 extra clerks. In this office, the commit- tee found, only about 50 per cemt inspection service has been ren- dered since 1937, although inspec- tion fees have been paid in ad- vance. As a result, it was esti- mated that accrued unfinished work, would require 62,3870 visits of inspection to complete. 2. For the building inspection di- vision, $45,000 to employ two engi- neer computers, six assistant” build- ing inspectors, four fire escape inspectors, seven clerks and an al- lowance for printing and contin- gent expenses. This sum of $45000 was recom- mended to bring, and keep, inspec- tions up to date and to make a complete survey of multiple-occu- pancy dwellings to require their compliance with the fire escape law. It is planned to secure lists of all such buildings to make rigid in- spections and to require the owners to take the necessary steps to cor- rect “hazardous conditions.” Fire Department Fund. 3. For the fire prevention division of the District Fire Department, $9,000. This amount, it was stated, represents the salaries of five addi- tional privates needed to bring the inspection service of this division to an adequate, current basis, and to assign one officer to the Fire Pre- vention Bureau for the investigation of fires. One new feature of the recom- mended fire escape act is that “all buildings or multi-family dwell- ings, hotels, institutions, of five stories or more in height, or having a grade floor area of over 35000 square feet, shall be equipped with a municipal fire alarm connection and a remote control station located at or near a point of egress on each floor and in janitor's room or at the telephone desk, and be connected to & municipal fire alarm box. All such stations shall be distinctly marked s0 as to indicate their purpose and distinguish them from local sta- tions.” If the committee’s program were approved, it would mean that owners of buildings specified under the fire escape law would have to obtain approval from the Commissioners of details, plans of equipment, escapes and stairways in their proposed structures. As explained by Capt. Person, the necessity for a revolving fund is in making copies of codes and reguld- tions available at all times to pros- pective builders. He said that under the present system it is necessary to obtaint annual appropriations for printing codes and regulations, with the result that a heavy demand usually: results and then several months during which no copies are available. [ | me in the name of the Fascist gov- | ernment and Italian people. I re- { turn your greeting in the unshake- | able belief that our nationals, allied |in a community of Weltanschauung | (world outlook) and of aims, will survive successfully the battle for their vital rights.” |Sales Tax Opponents | Reiterate Their Stand District on the ground that the burden of the levy would fall on those least able to pay was reiterated | by the Emergency Council Against | the Sales Tax at a nieeting in the |Y. W. C. A. yesterday afternoon. | | The council members also urged | that the District’s income tax ap- ply to all persons living here and enjoying the benefits for which the taxes are levied, whether or not they are legally domiciled elsewhere. Herbert S. 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Dent made another count late yesterday, but found that the total receipts still were more than $500,000 below the early estimate. +As he had foreseen in recent days from the progress of tabulation of tax returns, the deadline for which, in most cases, was last Monday midnight, the returns from the net personal income levy exceeded the early estimate of $1,000,000, but the returns from corporations and other business concerns, on which there is a flat rate of 5 per cent tax, fell considerably below the estimated $2,200,000. e With all corporation returns seg- regated and counted except for about 200 concerns which have been granted extensions of time, Mr. Dent found there were 2,786 returns, about half of them showing no tax- able return and on which there was paid only the $25 filing fee, showing a return of $1,327,000 in taxes, as | against the $2,200,000 estimate. On the personal income levy there have been tabulated some 60,000 taxable returns, showing payments of $1,330,000, on an annual basis, with an additional 22,800 returns showing no taxable return and with perhaps as many as 15,000 returns | received but yet to be tabulated. | If the returns total less than $3,- 1200.000, the difference will be added | to the estimated $800,000 deficit. D. C. Taxes (Continued From First Page) | State and a $15 tax in the District, would pay the District $15 and Vir- | ginia $5. | The House tomorrow is scheduled | to devote its entire time to local legislation, but Representative Ran- | dolph said the renewed attempt to call up the controversial combina- tion retail sales-income tax bill | would not be made until six other | measures had been acted on. | The six bills to be called up in dvance of the dual tax plan pro- ide: ' 1. Voluntary retirement of police ands’ ; only as good as the reputation of the jeweler who guarantees the name A. 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