Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1940, Page 3

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NAtional 2690 {tion of fortified and unfortified re- | his place is the modern, active news | by Mr. | | whose experience on the news front | | told us we cannot have any staff in | German-occupied territory except at| | the fact that bombing planes have | Bot so large as no longer to be very | naturally were top-heavy with dam- | age to schools and hospitals, with | sheviks were not deliberately trying | expensive and civilian life is cheap | average bombing plane is a blunder- | begun to realize its scope or even | dimly dream its colossal ultimate Mr. Cooper said that for the first | time the members, instead of listen- ing to an outside speaker, were going to hear from the staff of the Asso- ciated Press. “I need not remind you,” he con- tinued, “of what at once is a glorious reportorial opportunity, but a heavy | risk. * * * The wholesale devasta- gions had left no place of reasonable 1 safety for the war correspondent | fabled in story, who worked at a | So the war correspondent | of yesteryear has disappeared. In | reporter in the field. | “We have some reporters here| who happen to be temporarily ‘back | from the wars” * * * No greater honor could be bestowed on me than | in thus being allowed to point with | pride today to the work they are| doing at their posts, and personally to introduce to you those who are! here now.” | Werner Predicts Great Hatred. The first correspondent introduced Cooper was Mr. Werner, | ranges from Hollywood to Moscow. He went abroad in 1929. Mr. Cooper described him as a “chief without a bureau, since the Germans have | Berlin.” | Mr, Werner predicted: “If war in the air comes to Europe in the con- | centrated form we experienced in Finland, and lasts as much as two | years, a greal hatred will sweep the civilian population of Europe, and it | will not be hatred of the enemy. It | will be hatred of the machinery of the war " | He blamed the civilian death toll | in air raids in Finland not on delib- | erate intent of the Russians, but on accurate. “Bombers seldom hit their target until they have hit everything else in the neighborhood,” he said. “Censored dispatches ffom Finland casualties among civilians rather than among soldiers. Bombing Plane a Blunderbuss. “Yet I honestly believe the bol- to bomb civilians. I honestly doubt whether any belligerent in the pres- ent war will deliberately aim to kill civilians in an air raid. Bombs are . the truth is, I fear, that the buss and the bigger the plane the greater the margin of error . . . “The war we are now watching from a great distance is a very big war. So big that we have scarcely consequences. “It is a war so big that the great belligerents have found it difficult to-get at each other; a war so fan- tastic that some of the fiercest fighting has been between neutrals— the great neutral Russia and the tiny neutral Finland.” Mr. Stark, whose work has been in London, told of the difficulties with British censorship. For example, he said, the Admiralty announced at a press conference one day that it needed 10,000 more fisher- men to man trawlers. The Cautious British. “Our story was held up,” Mr. Stark said. “I argued with the censor, ex- plained it was an Admiralty an- nouncement, but he said he hadn't been notified so he would have to check. A little later he said he could release the story if we changed it slightly. “Instead of saying ‘the Admiralty today called for 10,000 more fisher- men’ we must say ‘the Admiralty may ibly require 10,000 more fisherm’ By this time, thoroughly exasperated, I suggested he might at least leave out the ‘possibly’ as superfluous. But he even refused to do this. “So I told him to let the story g0 with his revision, Later he called, full of apology, to say he had been in error; that the ad- miralty really had issued an ap- peal.” : McDaniel said that while hostilities in Europe had taken the news spotlight from the Orient, the war in the Far East “hasn’t really begun yet.” “The opposing leaders and their i THE EVENIfiG STAI.E, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1940. LITTLE FALLS, N. Y.'—37_ YEARS AGO AND TODAY—A period of nearly 37 years elapsed between the times the two pictures above were made. At top is shown the wreckage of a three- car train which overturned at Gulf Curve here in August, 1903, causing the deaths of the engineer and fireman. Below is a main forces have for some time kept well away from each other, or have gone far into remote regions with unspellable and unpronounce- | | able names,” he said. | Losey (Continued From First Page.) Mrs. May Banta Losey, whose resi- % ,xv view of the wreck of the Lake Shore Limited on the same curve, which resulted in the deaths of 30 persons April 19. The pic- tures were made from the same spot on tracks on an upper level. The 1903 wreck is said to have resulted in the establish- ment of a 45-mile-an-hour speed limit for the curve. —A. P. Wirephotos. hovde of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N. J. The professor ac- companied his wife and 3-year-old son: The children, two of whom were “But that does not mean that|dence is in Hollywood, Calif.; his|Sick when they left Oslo before the nothing is happening out there.| mother, Mrs. Nellie M. Losey, and;GermRM_occupled the city, seemed Much less does it mean that bigger | a sister, Miss Margaret P. Losey, of | t0 have withstood the hardships well. stories are not going to break in| the future. Japan still has a million | Brooklyn, N.Y. The only American casualties so The party also included Mrs. Ray- mond Cox, wife of the legation sec- or more men on the Asian mainland | far in the European war before|retary; Mrs. T. O. Klath, whose hus- who are quite capable of doing a|Capt. Losey’s death occurred when | band is commercial attache; Mrs. lot of damage. and more armament than she start- | ed the war with. These immense forces are now sparring, their gen- erals waiting for the right moments | to deliver telling blows.” The editorial and business execu- tives of newspapers throughout the United States and Canada, conven- ing for the annual meetings of the | Associated Press and the American | Newspaper Publishers' Association, | reported widespread opposition to American participation in the Eu- ropean war. In rooms and corridors of the | Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, the mer who direct the greatest free press in the world drew these conclusions: That, with exceptions here and there, business was a little better. That generally an anti-war feel- ing pervades the country. Members of the Associated Press were to choose eight directors at their meeting—the fortieth annual | gathering. To Elect Five Directors. There were 10 nominations to fill | vacancies of five directors of the! general classification whose terms have expired. A director also was to be chosen to represent papers with less than 50,000 circulation, and two others to fill vacancies created by the resignation of Frank Gannett, | publisher of the Roshester (N. Y.) Times-Unjon, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, and by the death of Frederick E. Murphy, publisher of the Minneap- olis Times-Tribune. The following were nominated to fill expiring terms in the general classification: J. R. Knowland, Oak- land (Calif.) Tribune; Paul Bellamy, Cleveland Plain Dealer; John Cowles, Des Moines Register and Tribune; W. J. Pape, Waterbury (Conn.) Republican, and Clark Howell, Atlanta Constitution, all of whose terms end with this meeting; also E. K. Gaylord, Oklahoma City (Okla.) Oklahoman; Harry J. Grant, Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal; Richard Hooker, Springfield (Mass.) Republi- can; F. A. Miller, South Bend (Ind.) Evening and Sunday Tribune, and Oscar 8. Stauffer, Arkansas City (Kans.) Traveler. Publishers Meet Tomorrow. Two New York State publishers nominated to succeed Mr. Gannett were Edward H. Butler, Buffalo Eve- ning News, and Arthur Hays Sulz- berger, the New York Times. Houston Harte, San Angelo (Tex.) Standard, and William R. Mathews, Tucson (Ariz.) Star, were nominated for the directorship representing papers of less than 50,000 circulation, Nominations for the Murphy vacancy were made from the floor. Tomorrow the 54th annual con- vention of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association opens, to continue through Thursday. John S. McCarrens of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, president of the A. N. P. A., will preside at the business meet- ings, making his annual presi- conflict began last September. Twenty-eight Americans were lost in that disaster. Last September 3 Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, jr., American Am- bassador to Poland, reported to the department that a power-diving German bombing. plane dropped six bombs near his villa outside War- saw, damaging the building. The Ambassador and his family were in the villa at the time, but escaped injury. A Russian incendiary bomb dropped through the roof of a villa in Finland that had been occupied | by American diplomatic officers a week before, Minister H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld reported on January 15. He earlier had watched Russian bombs fall near the Legation in| Helsinki, President Roosevelt, 1n a message appealing at the outbreak of war for belligerents to refrain from bomb- ing civilian centers, said that “if resort is had to this form of inhu- man barbarism * * * hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings who have no responsibility for, and who are not even remotely partici- pating in, the hostilities which have now broken out, will lose their lives.” The wives and children of foreign service officers have been ordered evacuated from danger spots, but in most cases the foreign service officers and military and naval at- taches remain on duty even in the face of bombing danger in order to look out for American interests. Party Quit Lillchammer. The party Capt. Losey was help- ing evacuate from Norway was com- ing over the northern road from Lillehammer, where the Americans had been concentrated, to Sarna. The Germans today claimed to be holding Lillehammer. In the party were eight children, the youngest Ann Ronhovde, 15- month-old daughter of the Nor- wegian-born professor, A. G. Ron- VENETIA BLIND BUDGET CLE TERMS ARRANGED dential address Wednesday morning. The Philippines’ new price-con- trol measure is being fought. A NEW PAINT NEW TAPES | the British liner Athenia was tor-‘Austianregtoln, wife g:f the consul “Chi; v i jers | pedoed and sunk soon after the |general at Oslo; Mrs. Easton Kelsey | ‘China has several million soldiers ! P | and Mrs. Brigg Perkins, whose hus. | | bands are vice consuls. They all left Oslo early April 9| | after a wakeful night because of air | raid alarms, and drove to Lilleham- mer in & motor caravan with Ameri- |can flags spread over roofs. Col. Hagen said htat a snowstorm | plans to come out of Norway by way of Hamar and Elverum. Those towns time the storm cleared. 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The locomotive, tender and two cars still remained at the sharp curve where the fast New York- Chicago Lake Shore Limited, speed- minute clip, leaped the rails and plunged into a stone embankment late Friday night. Herkimer County Coroner Fred C. Sabin, postponing a scheduled in- quest until later in the week, said he was informed by State police two or more bodies probably will be recovered. All of the 30 bodies thus far re-| moved from the debris have been | identified, the railroad listing 19 as| “revenue passengers” and the re-| mainder as “non-revenue passen- gers,” including employes The Little Falls Hospital, where most of the 100 injured were taken, reported all but 35 have left for | their homes, while the nearby Her- kimer Memorial Hospital said five | patients are still under observation. | The cause of the derailment re- | mained undetermined, but railroad | officials said the train traveled at| 4 MONTHS TO PAY For Finest Clothing at EISEMAN’S F at Tth Men's and Women’s Apparel _ Wiy 0 P, W, DEVELOPING & PRINTING Aoy viea, & o 8 onp o0 R"l—% 1112 G St WW, 1346 G St W.W. e =D *% A3 59 miles an hour, 14 miles an hour faster than the limit established for this point—sharpest curve on the New' York Central's system. ‘Two of the four tracks of the line ‘were opened, permitting the railroad to resume reasonably normal traffic to both East and West. However, trains were running from 30 minutes to an hour late. Officials estimated three more days would be required to clear the other two tracks. P.-T. A. Head Says War Creates Student Problem By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 22—The Eu- ropean war and unemployment problems are contributing to the mental maladjustment of American school children, Mrs. Joseph K. Pet- tengill, president of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. asserted yesterday. She suggested increased use of psyehological clinics to uncover and help adjust the mental difficulties which, she said, were developing as a result of discussions of these two problems. Mrs. Pettengill, whose home is in Detroit, made the suggestion in an interview while she prepared de- tails for the 43d annual national P.-T. 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