Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1940, Page 8

Reporter Had Story Of Nazi Expedition, Didn't Believe It Big Troop Concentration Information Sounded Too Much Like Plant Because of the invasion of Nor- way and Denmark, Mr. White has interrupted his trip to the Balkans to send the following and succeeding dispatches on events in the North. By WILLIAM L. WHITE. PARIS (By Wireless).—Not so many weeks ago on my way out of Finland, just before the war there closed down, I passed through Scan- dinavia and the low countries, stop- ping about a week in each capital The question which then interested me most, since I had Jjust come from Finland, was which of thése other little nations would really fight when its number was called, as all their numbers probably will be called before this present war is over, or even well begun. ‘The resulting box score, which I set down in my notebook when T reached London, holds good today Here it is: Swedes: Probably will fight. Norwegians: Certainly will fight. but can’t do much. Danes: Couldn’t do much if they did fight, but won't even do that. Dutch: Certainly will fight and can do a lot. Belgians: Ditto for Belgium. All Hope Allies Will Win. T also checked on their feelings about the big war and found that they all fervently hoped the allies would win; the highest parcentage of pro-German sentiment was an estimated 10 per cent in Denmark but even here I was cautioned that not all this 10 could be counted as pro-Nazi. ACTOR ARRIVES—John Payne, film player, pictured as he alighted at Washington Airport after a trip by air- liner from Hollywood yester- day. Mr. Payne was en route to Baltimore to join other members of the company en- gaged in production of “Mary- land,” a Technicolor motion picture. —Star Staff Photo. pedition could only be directed | against England. | We knew, of cburse, that from the | military standpoint such a plan was | nuts. And we thought—or at least | I did—that the Germans were care- | fully framing us with this story either to confuse and fluster the English and hide their real plans, or for the purpose of making it the pretext for heaving some of us out | of the country for sending such a | wild yarn. And that's the story | of the story I was too smart too send from Berlin. |Woman's Traffic Death The big hotels in both Copenhagen | apd Oslo were crawling with Ger- | mans, most of them apparently | hard-eyed young officers in civilian | clothes, up to we did not know what. And let me now confess that | while I was in Berlin I heard all about the landing expedition which has since grabbed Norway. I got from what was considered a very authentic inside source the story about the huge concentration of troops in a north Germar port, be- ing trained daily in embarking and disembarking with full equipment, for some kind of an overseas land- ing expedition. Didn’ Believe Story. T had the whole story and didn’t 3end it because I didn’t believe it I didn’t believe it because the source Was so very good that I was sure it Was a plant—as many stories in Ber- lin turn out to be. I was a wise guy and I wasn't going to be taken for & ride. None of us were remotely thinking of Norway then—it was Just before the Finnish war started —and we assumed that such an ex- Is Ruled Accident A verdict of accidental death due | to the carelessness of the victim was returned by a coroner’s jury at | an inquest yesterday into the traffic | death on April 12 of Olive May Mason, 35, colored, of 1545 Fourth | street NN\W. The woman was struck | about 7 p.m. by a southbound au- | tomobile operated by Robert L. | Miller, 20, of Berwyn Heights, Md., ‘I as she was crossing First street be- tween Seaton place and S street N.W. Testimony at the inquest revealed that the victim was crossing not in & crosswalk and that she apparently had stepped into the street from }between parked cars, since auto- | mobiles were parked solidly along both sides of the street. The | weather at the time of the accident | was said to be a mixture of rain and snow. In Scotland, the principal local “court is the Sheriff's Court. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1940. Dr. Kindler Praises Pioneer Qualities 0f Carolinians Many Trained Selves, Says Conductor as Auditions End Dr. Hans Kindler, exhausted from two and a half days of hearing the scraping of violins, the blowing of horns and the pounding of pianos during auditions of 67 young musi- cians, expressed his conviction to- day that the pioneer qualities of early America have survived in the rural counties of North Carolina. The conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra last night con- cluded the auditions for Leopold Stokowski’s All-American Youth Orchesta which will tour South America this summer. More than 30 of the musicians, between the required ages of 18 and 25, were from the District, but it was of the North Carolinians that Dr. Kindler was most anxious to speak. “Those young people, with less opportunities than city folk have, were the most fervent” he de- clared, pointing out that many of them had to train themselves, | He said about 25 young people | had come up from North Carolina for the auditions, which embraced four States and the District, and that only two came from Maryland. The other States were Virginia and West Virginia. Terming it “a sign of pioneer quality,” he said the talent of some | of the young people who loved mu- sic enough to train themselves was “perfectly marvelous.” He also re- vealed that “one of the greatest trombone players I have ever heard” was in the North Carolina contin- gent, Dr. Kindler hasn’t decided yet which of the young contestants will be recommended to Mr. Stokowski, _— A You'll Enjoy N Our Lobster 85‘ Subgum Chow N % Mein DINNER 3 FREE PARKING ON The ORVENT 1715 Wis. Ave, (at K St.) ML 9547 but he expects at least 20 will gur- vive the elimination and that sev- eral of these will win places in the All-American Youth Orchestra. Mr. Stokowski, who is now mak- ing a Nation-wide tour to select 110 musicians for his orchestra, will come here the end of May fo take his pick of the musicians from this section. Then all the finalists will assem-. ble here for about three weeks of rehealsal, concluding with a con- cert, probably at the Water Gate, before they leave for New York and South America. Bill Opens St. Elizabeth'’s | To Virgin Islanders The House District Committee had before it for consideration today the draft of a bill which would authorize citizens of the Virgin Islands legally adjudged to be in- sane to be admitted to St. Eliza- beth’s Hospital. The legislation was requested by the Interior Department which ex- plained in a letter to Speaker Bankhead there is now no hospital for mental patients on the islands. Beauvoir Open House Will Be Held Tomorrow Beauvoir, the National Cathedral elementary school, will hold its an- nual open house tomorrow at 4 pm. Mrs. Elizabeth Glascock Taylor, principal, will receive guests, who are expected to include the Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Wash- ington and president of the Board of Trustees. | Children’s work will be on exhibi- | tion and some of the children will | aid in showing the guests around. Center takes its greatest stride forward. Center is known as the largest sports tions. bigger with a bigger Washington. better. We Above: Our new store at OK SALE (Oth AND E ST (Wardrobe $15 to $20 Ladies’ 2- Northeast Trade Unit Calls for Stadium Seating 100,000 Association Acts After Bowdler Voices Opposition to Cut Any reduction in the 100,000 seat- ing capacity of the District’s pro- posed stadium was opposed by the Northeast Businessmen’s Associa- tion last night on the motion ot Louis L. 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