Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1940, Page 4

A— wx EVENING B e — G. 0. P. Fight Forecast Over Phrasing of Peace Plank Party Leaders Split; Speculation Rises Over Stassen’s Address Prominent Republicans forecast to- day that their Platform Committee would have its greatest battle over phrasing a “keep-out-of-war” plank. After a series of talks with Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, the convention keynoter, party leaders here disclosed a difference of opin- ion over the precise position which Republicans should take on foreign policy. They generally agreed the party should promise to keep the United States at peace, but they were split over the best methods .of accom- plishing that goal. Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan and others were re- ported to want a strict “mind-our- own-business” declaration in the platform, while Senator Austin, Re- publican, of Vermont and some fel- low Republicans were said to be- lieve the United States should give what aid it could to the allies with- out itself becoming involved in the | European Wwar. Speculation on Address, Republican platform talk was| Interwoven with discussions of Gov. Stassen'd address to the Repub- lican convention at Philadelphia, which opens June 24. It generally was agreed that Gov. Stassen would offer no specific for- eign policy, leaving that question to the Platform Committee. He was advised by party leaders in Con- gress, however, to emphasize the idea that Republicans were deter- mined to prevent American involve- ment in foreign wars. The tall, 33-year-old Governor, it was reported, plans to make these declarations in a 45-minute keynote address: That the administration’s recip- rocal trade program should be re- pealed or trade agreements should be subject to Senate ratification. That relief should be adequate to prevent suffering, but that adminis- | tration should be turned over to States and localities. | Balanced Budget. That Democrats have been ex- | travagant with public funds and | that Republicans propose a return to a balanced budget. | That key New Deal social pro- grams snould be retained and per- fected. Some change should be ! made in the Wagner Labor Rela- tions Act, perhaps along the lines suggested by the A. F. L. | That farm benefit payments | should be disbursed on the basis of co-operation with a broad soil | conservation program and that a | two-price system should be insti- | tuted. Under the latter the farmer | would receive a higher price for that | portion of his crop consumed do- | mestically than the part sold abroad | at world prices. 'London (Continued From First Page.) had served with the Indian army | were included in the northern expe- ditionary force because of their ex- perience in mountain warfare. Air Base Near Oslo Attacked. The British Air Ministry today added -to the story of continuing struggle for supremacy in Norwegian skies with an announcement that the German air base at Fornebu, near Oslo, was “successfully” at- tacked last night by the Royal Air Force. No details of the attack were given. Two German planes were damaged | In battles with British aircraft ot‘l‘l the Norwegian coast within the last 24 hours, an authoritative British | source said. The reticence of British official- dom to discuss land operations in| Norway was underlined by reports | that labor opposition leaders had} passed word along to party members | to withhold any further demands for an immediate statement by Prime Minister Chamberlain on the war situation in the House of Commons. Labor Chiefs Given Details. ‘The necessity for caution regard- ing public statements on the delicate | strategic situation in Norway was | #nderstood to have ben impressed | upon Laborite Leaders Clement R.| Attlee and Arthur Greenwood when | Mr. Chamberlain gave them a con- fidential account yesterday. Parliamentary circles said the | Laborites also agreed that a secret session of Parliament to hear a government war report would be un- wise at this juncture because the | public might draw the “wrong con- clusion.” Mr. Chamberlain told Commons today, “I do not think it would be in the public interest” to make any statement as to measures adopted by Britain in Norway. Later he said he desired to make ‘whereabouts of the warship was not disclosed. ¥ % 1 ; i LILLEHAMMER, NORWAY.—PRISONERS OF NAZIS—These men, according to German sources, are the first British soldiers to be captured in fighting in Norway. Photes transmitted by | radio from Berlin, —A. P. Wirephotos. to know whether United States citi- | transporting not more than 100 men l zens who enlisted in Britain's armed | each, Reuters said. services could retain their Ameri- The allied troops were said to can citizenship, was told by Stan-|be debarking “at the originai Lanu- | ley that “no alien who enlists in| ing points and at some fresh places | * the British Army is required by us to forfeit his nationality.” Nazi Forces Put at 60,000. Military observers here inter- preted unofficial Scandinavian re- ports as indicating an improvement in the allied position in Norway al- though these same advices contained estimates that as many as 60,000 German soldiers have been concen- trated in the northern battle zone. The allies, with anti-aircraft bat- teries and fighting planes in action against swarms of German bombers, were said to be speeding up the landing of reinforcements which might be rushed to the defense of the Dombas and Storen Jjunctions Iteld by the allies south of Trondheim. The British were reported to be using Jarge flying boats to land parties of experts on Norway's west coast fjords to prepare the way for air and land operations. Fresh allied troops, according to Swedish reports, have been landed at Sunndals Fjord, northeast of Andalsnes, and at Nord and Sogne Fjords to the southwest, and are moving into the Gudbrands Valley. Legionnaires Pour In. Reuters (British news agency) reported from Namsos that Polish and Czech Legionnaires are among the allied troops now ‘“pouring in- to Norway in a steady flow.” The dispatch said German troops are continuing to arrive in Nor- way, but “it is thought” not as fast as the allied reinforcements. Most of the Germans are coming in airplanes, “30 or 40 at a time,” or in coastal vessels capable of railway | | along the Norwegian west coast.” | The French-British forces north of Trondheim, the dispatch said, are holding their present line “pend- ing a favorable moment for con-‘[ tinued disembarkations, which it | s thought would make an offensive | | against Trondheim possible.” | Deny Command Shifted. The British War Office issued a denial last night of a report, said unofficially to have been circulated | | widely in the United States, that | the French have superseded the | British in command at Namsos, on ;t.he west coast of Norway. | “Statements made that the British | | commander at Namsos has been | | superseded by the French are un- | true,” said the War Office denial. “The statement that our men | were untrained and without re- | serves is nonsense. As in previous | exaggerated statements, reports have been based on conversations |with a soldier influenced by his | personal experience during the heat of battle and without knowledge of | the situation as a whole.” | |Swiss Regard Alps |As Military Secret | By the Associated Press. | ST. GALLEN, Switzerland—The | Swiss military authorities are so | careful to snap up anything which | might be of military interest that even picture postcards containing views of the Alps have to be cen- | sored. | All detailed Swiss road maps have | long since vanished from stationery \ shops. & statement on the Norwegian cam- | paign as soon as possible, but de-| clined to set a date. He said, how- ever, he expected to give the House some information this week. No Vindictive Designs. | The Prime Minister reiterated that | the allies have “no vindictive de- signs against the German people.” ‘This was his answer when he was asked if he would take steps to avoid complete identification between Germans and the Nazi government | in all statements of British govern- | ment policy. | The German people, he said,| “must . realize their responsibilities for prolonging the war and the | suffering that it would bring to| them.” The Prime Minister asserted that was the attitude of the British gov- ernment and declined amplification when a questioner asked if word | had gone forth that government spokesmen should endeavor to im- | press the British people with “the| fact that the German people are as | vile as their Nazi leaders.” | Newsmen to Go to Norway. | ‘War Secretary Oliver Stanley told 8 questioner that a small group of | correspondents was ready to go to| Norway on short notice and that fa- | cilities for publicity of the Scan- dinavian campaign would be given as soon as circumstances permitted. | Ronald H. Cross, minister direct- | ing the British blockade, told the House that efforts were being made | to check air traffic linking Portu- gal and Spain with Germany. The Economic Warfare Ministry, | Mr. Cross said, is doing its utmost | in the face of difficulties arising from the fact that aircraft connec- ting with trans-Atlantic airlines do not land in allied territory. Another questioner, who wanted OFFER During the Month of May A year’s supply of high test Oxydol Soap Powder with each washer pur- chased during this Apex offer. ALSO LARGE TRADE- IN ALLOWANCES Will Be Made in this May Sale NEW 1940 MODELS Ridoely 3524 14th St. N.W. Procter COl. 10,000 STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1940. WOUNDED BRITISH SOLDIERS ABOARD NAZI WARSHIP—This picture, according to German sources, shows heavily bandaged British soldiers in a hospital aboard a German battleship. The President Approves Promofions in Navy Medical Corps 30 Officers Recommended By Selection Board For Advancement The President yesterday approved the recommendation of the Medical Corps Selection Board for the pro- motion of 30 officers of the Naval | in, Medical Corps. Capt. Robert E. Hoyt was president of the board. The list includes, for lieutenant commander: Emory E. Walter, sta- tioned at the Norfolk Naval Hos- pital; George B. Ridout, San Diego Naval Hospital; Hubert J. Van Pee- nen, Portsmouth (N. H.) Naval Hos- pital; Ralph E. Fielding, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; Harold L. ‘Weaver, U. S. S. Tippecanoe; Thom- as G. Hays, Destroyer Division 82; William R. Whiteford, Philadelphia Naval Hospital; William S. Cann, Destroyer Division 62; Wilbur E. Kellum, Pensacola Naval Air Sta- tion; Robert R. Leamer, Brooklyn | Naval Hospital; Frederic W. Farrar, Washington (D. C.) Naval Medical | School; Robert Faust, Philadelphia General Hospital. Also William F. E. Loftin, U. S. S. | Neosha; Fred Harbert, Philadelphia Naval Hospital; Carey M. Smith, San Diego Naval Training Station; Guy E. Stahr, Destroyer Division 65; Tilden I. Moe, Guam Naval Station; Lester E. McDonald, Aircraft Scout- ing Force Staff; Edward E. Evans, Portland (Oreg.) Naval Receiving Station; Charles B. Stringfellow, San Juan (P. R) Naval Air Sta- tion; Bishop L. Malpass, U. S. S. Patoka, and Roy F. Cantrell, New London (Conn.) Submarine Base. For promotion to full lieutenant: David R. Dodge, jr., Pensaloca Naval Air Station; Theodore R. Austin, Chelsea (Mass.) Naval Hospital; Anton Zikmund, Mare Island Naval Hospital; James C. Flemming, Patrol Wing 1: Martin T. Macklin, Washington (D. C. Navy Yard; Eldon C. Swanson, Naval Academy Robert B. Simons, Philadelphia Naval Hospital, and William N. New, Norfolk Naval Hospital. DIAMONDS { At Special Prices! We frequently act as brok- ers for private individuals § and important estates that must be liquidated. 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This form of deafness is accom- panied by roaring noises in the ears. The vitamin is the so-called fertility vitamin E, found chiefly in the germs of various grains. That it is absojutely essential for human beings never has been demonstrated conclusively. It is known that when rats are kept on diets entirely free of it they loss the capacity to praduce living young. Actually, Dr. Josephson told the sound experts, it has a very funda- mental function in the human body. In all muscle is a nitrogen-contain- ing substance known as creatine. It is believed essential for muscular contraction, strength and stability. Creatine itself is contained in meats and fish and can be synthesized in the body itself out of a great variety of foods. Ear Muscles Blamed. Creatine is excreted rapidly. The function of vitamin E, Dr. Joseph- son believes, is to raise the thresh- hold of kidney excretion. Thus creatine is held in the body. He has used it previously, with some suc- cess, in the treatment of the weird disease, myathenia gravis, in which the muscles loose all capacity to function. The peculiar deafness, he said, appears to be due to a malfunction- ing of some of the ear muscles. It can be relieved by various other drugs but always returns. The vita- min E treatment, he has found, not only stops the roaring in the ears, which nearly drives the victims in- sane, but results in a gradual and permanent restoration of the hear- R. It should be accompanied, Dr. | Josephson said, by foods contain- | ing plenty of creatine-producing substance to supplement the gen- erally adequate supply in the nor- mal diet. At the same time Dr. Josephson | described new operations on the | eardrum which offer relief and | temporary improvement of hearing, | although they do not get at the | fundamental cause of deafness and cannot be considered a cure. The disease process that causes the deafness continues to operate until discovered and arrested. A mechanical lip for playing brass wind instruments, which not only duplicates the actions of the lips of | the musician, but the tension given | them by the surrounding muscles, | was described by Dr. Daniel W. Mor- ton of the University of Illinois. The purpose, he stressed, was not | to throw trumpet and cornet play- ers out of jobs, but to provide a means for testing the sound quali- ties of the instruments. The me- chanical lip eliminates the personal equation in such tests, ‘School ‘R oundup’ Set The annual summer “roundup” of | children of pre-school age entering | school in September or February in | the vicinity of the Brookland and Noyes Schools will be held at Lhe‘l | Brookland School tomorrow at 91 |am. under the auspices of the | Brookland-Noyes Parent-Teacher | Association. Chicken Dinner at Church ’ The Ladies’ Aid Society of Gor- | | such Methodist Church will hold its | | spring chicken dinner tomorrow | | from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the church, 1105 Fourth street S.W. L SIDNEY \Court Upsets Ruling 14th and G Se. QUALITY pERSONIFIED S Grubasty British Hotel Of: ers One-Third Discount When Bombs Fall By the Azsociated Press. LONDON, April 30.—The management of an East Coast hotel announced today that be- ginning with Whitsunday, May 12, it would offer guests a one- third discount on their bills “each day that a bomb falls on or near the town or a mine ex- plodes near the promenade or pier.” Denying Copyright In Test Case En Masse Registration Of Features for $2 Fee Held Valid Serials, comic strips and variou$ other features intended for haga- | zine and newspaper publication may | be registered en masse for $2 in- Namsos said that “British forces are in touch with the ene: north of Steinkjer.” It said th British patrols had ambushed German detachment, kjling seversd and taking some prisoners, E‘nemg patrols were repulsed. Nazis Use Disguises To Slip Through | but were driven off by British antiy aircraft fire. Th Dress as Peasants; pd thic & s e v pmn;a British Contact Foe Near Steinkjer | circled the allied base six times b dropped bombs only once. O German plane was shot down, th§ British said. H The majority of the troops at Namos are British, from Yorkshire, They were brought here from the western front in France. Namos Norway, April 30.—German troops | NOW looks like a Western fronf have tried all manner of ruses to | town itself, with streams of troopg get through the Norwegian lines, |2nd ambulances coming and going;® sometimes dressing themselves in| The French say they have los§ Norwegian péhsant costumes in at- | €ight dead in nine days of fighting tempts-to slip past allied guards. here and 27 wounded. 3 A few, but not many, have been captured, according to allied offi- cers here. On the way to the front I passed one little prison camp where several German Alpine troops | and three aviators were under guard. 30 Flyers Interned. By GUNNAR KNUTSSON, Associated Press Foreign Correspondent. ON THE STEINKJER FRONT, Dance Schooil Studio Damaged by Fire Fire of undetermined origin toda§ Vitessistaad | stead of a fee for each item, Dis- | trict Court Justice Jennings Bailey ruled yesterday. | | The decision was contained in a | irulmg that the Twentieth Century. |Fox Film Corp. is entitled to mandamus to compel issuance of n’ | copyright certificate for a publica- tion entitled “In Old. Chicago,” the novel version of a film of that | name, | | Disagrees With Col. Bouve, | | Col. Clement L. Bouve, registrar | lor copyrights, has held the pubh-l | cation in question was not a book, | but merely a compilation of cr)nw‘ tributions. Justice Bailey dis- | | agreed, saying the Fox Corp. had | | obtained a copyright on “In Old | Chicago.” | “The work was actually offered for sale to the public,” Justice | Bailey wrote, “and although the | number of copies offered for sale | was quite small, and the publica- | tion made as a requisite to bringing | suit to enforce registration, it can- | not be said that. there was no pub- ! lication, for had the work been of- | fered for sale without copyright | | notice, there would have been a | | surrender of all right to a copy- right.” | Sees No Power to Refuse. | Justice Bailey said he thought the registrar of copyrights does not have the power to refuse registra- tion of any copyright that is en- titled to registration under the law, | providing (he.nppllcant has com- ! plied with the law. “I think,” the jurist added, “that the powers of the registrar of copy- rights are analagous to the powers of the Postmaster General in ad- mitting articles in the mail and of | the register of deeds in recording | instruments.” ‘Criminul Record Listing | Reduces Prisoners’ Mail By the Associated Press. SALEM, Ore.—Mail between Ore- gon penitentiary inmates and the | governor’s office has diminished from 15 letters a day to one or two“ a week. Cecil Edwards, executive depart- ment secretary, explains it this way: The State decided to furnish sta- | tionery with a printed form on the back. Every time a convict writes to the governor or the parole | board he must list his complete | criminal record. 1 KODAK - MOVIE Camera Bargains olumbia Photo 8ugply 1424 N. Y. Ave. NA. 0619 L] WE’TIN:-{ SUITS FOR SPRING armed and best trained soldiers. Altogether, I was told, about 30 German flyers from planes which had been shot or forced down now have been interned in this region. It would seem unquestionable that the young Germans fighting here are among the world’s best Experienced Alpine troops travel- ing on skis are now having their in- nings on this unusual fighting front and the first impression is that the caused an estimated $2,000 damage in the Julia Cunningham School of Dance, located on the second floor of a four-story brick structure at 1208 Eighteenth street N.-W. Miss Cunninghah, proprietor of the studio, discovered the blaze shortly before noon when she weng to meet with a dancing class. Thé fire was confined to four rooms oce cupied by the studio. 2 Miss Cunningham said several pianos and dancing equipment we! German soldiers must be regarded as individual arsenals, so well are they | equipped. 1 At the moment only sharp patrol activity occurs here, but the rough, forested area of the so-called Steinkjer front is being gradually developed into a battle area. Valuable silver foxes occasionally can be seen fleeing the sound of rifie fire. 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