Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1940, Page 1

Weather Forecast Showers, followed by cooler tonight; to~ morrow partly cloudy and cooler; lowest tonight about 48 degrees. Temperatures today—Highest, 74, at 2 pm.; lowest, 61, at 5:30 a.m. From the Unlted States Weather Rureau report. Full details on Page A-2. Closing Mew York Markets—Sales, Page 18 — 35,064. 88th YEAR. No. ch WITH SONDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Sfar WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1940—FORTY-SIX PAGES. #%% -2 - British Are Forced to Withdraw To Prepared Positions After Stiff Resistance Near Dombas Storen and Roros Reported Retaken By Norwegians BULLETIN, ROME, May 1 (®.—United States Ambassador William Phillips was understood today to have been assured by Pre- mier Mussolini that no war move is contemplated by Italy at present. (Earlier Italian story on page A-4.) By the Associated Press. | LONDON, May 1-—The War Office announced today that British troops “withdrew to prepared posi- tions” in the important Dombas area, 100 miles south of Trondheim, after stubbornly resisting strong German attacks. The communique. issued after a military spokesman had described the position of British forces in Central Norwal as “dangerous and very obscure,” said, in full: “At Narvik (Arctic ore port) areas occupied by allied forces have been extended and operations are con- tinuing satisfactorily. “In the Namsos area (Central Norway, north of Trondheim) the situation at the front remains un- changed. “In the Dombas area our troops, after stubborn resistance in the face of strong enemy attacks, with- drew to prepared positions.” Storen Reported Retaken. Unconfirmed reports from Stock- holm said Norwegian forces had re- occupied Storen, vital railroad junc- tion 35 miles south of Trondheim possibly after German vanguards had abandoned it. Similar advices said Roros, road from Oslo. also had been re- entered by the Norwegians. The German withdrawals, how- ever, were said to have been in line with the Nazi tactics of striking with lightning speed to smash allied communications and then of waiting for reinmorcements before taking firm hold of advanced positions. Efforts to relieve the allied forces of the center continued. while the British air force struck savagely at three German air bases in Scan- dinavia. R The spokesman admitted it was’| “quite possible” that Dombas and Storen, vital railway junctions in the Trondheim theater of war, had been taken by the Germans, as re- ported in Berlin yesterday. Fresh Troops Landed. Tndications that the British were seeking to relieve the pressure on their forces in Norway was seen in & War Office announcement last night that fresh troops had been landed. The military spokesman declined to speculate on Norwegian develop- ments, declaring that “‘speculation at this stage may mean the loss of men’s lives.” He said that the situation at L4 Thousands of A And Guns Pour llied Troops Into Namsos Bases Are Being Established for Drive | South to Trondheim, By LELAND STOWE, Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent. ' OSTERSUND, May 1.—Thousands of British and French troops Stowe Reports are now being poured into the Namsos sector, headed by veteran Alpine Chasseurs and accompanied by all kinds of equipment, including very considerable quantities of anti-aircraft batteries. These guns are said to be superior to the Swedish Bofors, itself New Hatch Bill Killed by House Committee Measure Is Tabled; Vote Not Announced; Sumner Won't Talk The House Judiciary Committee killed today the Senate-approved Hatch bill to regulate political activ- ities of State employes paid with FPederal funds. The committee ordered the bill “tabled,” meaning that it will be stuffed away in a pigeonhole. The vote was not announced and Chairman Sumners refused to dis- cuss the matter beyond making the bare announcement of disposal of the measure, YOUR CAKE. JACK,ITS ‘From Press to Home Within the Hour’ Most people in Washington have The Star ‘delivered to their homes every () Means evening and Sunday morning. Associated Press. THREE CENTS. GENTLEMEN, THAT COMPROMISE. WER BUT IF ANYBODY EATS IT, THE BOSS WILLSAY WHO. 50 | miles farther southeast on the rail- | recognized as a fine weapon. | activity of British pursuit planes | German bombing activities north | | which was just brought out from the Namsos last night the allied commanders are now systematically establishing bases of operations for | a large expeditionary force intend- jed to drive southward toward Trondheim. The presence of detach- ments belonging to the French | According to reliable information<- Foreign Legion is denied. On the The appearance and increased has also put a sudden damper on of Trondheim. other hand, a small number of Czech and Polish Legionnaires has been reported from two quarters. Two Main Sections. It is possible at last to give an accurate approximation of the north Trondheim section as it is now constituted. It falls into two main "~ (8ee STOWE, Page A-4) \Nazis Claim Bombers 'Sank British Cruiser And Destroyer Jubilant Germans Admit Battle for Trondheim | Is Still Raging | By LOUIS P. LOCHNER, Associated Press Foreign Correspondent. BERLIN, May 1.—Heavy new | blows to British naval power and is!eady strengthening of the Nazi | hold on Norway were reported by | the high command today as the | German Army, jubilant over its swift successes, mapped a sweeping | concentric attack aimed at driving | allied forces into the sea. | The high command's communique | said German aerial bombs had sent five transports to the bottom and had damaged another cruiser and five other traNSPOLLS.. . um: e i (British naval circles declined | to comment on the German claim | that one British cruiser had been sunk and another damaged " at Namsos. One British source | did say, however, that “having | sunk all our battleships, they now are reduced to cruisers.”) | “The air force attacked British Eight Dead, 100 Hurt In Britain as Nazi Raider Crashes Bomber Explodes As It Hits Homes In Seaside Town Br the Associated Press. LONDON, "May 1.—The crash of | &8 German bomber shot down by | anti-aircraft guns and the explo- | sion of its deadly load of mines and In addition to restricting the po- litical activities of State employes | paid in whole or in part with Federal | funds, the measure also would have limited personal campaign contribu- tions to $5,000. Included in the bill killed by the House group was an amendment which would have restored to Gov- ernment employes residing in Vir- |gmnia and Maryland suburbs of Washington the right to participate in local elections of a non-pnrtmn‘ S A FAIR E JUST ONE $1,000,000 Cuf HAPPY FAMILY AGAIN. | InD. C. Pay Roll Taxes 0.K.'d House Subcommittee Approves Bill to Liberalize Law By JAMES E. CHINN. After several months of struggle, the Judiciary Subcommittee of the House District Committee today put its final stamp of approval on a bill to liberalize the local unem- ployment compensation law—legisla- tion that would save employers about $1,000,000 a year in pay roll taxes and at the same time increase benefits to the jobless. Action was taken at a special executive session of the subcommit- tee, he added, by Representative McGehee, Democrat, of Mississippi. The bill will be reported to the full House District Committee Mon- day. If it is approved then there are strong indications the House will give the legislation the right of way and consider it before the next so- | called “District day,” May 13. | Benefits Are Increased. Primarily the measure would re- This right had been specifically recognized by the Civil Service Com- mission, but had been withdrawn after enactment of the original Hatch Act barring political activity by Federal workers. Pigeon-holing of the present bill will prevent a considerable number of town officials in nearby areas| from running for re-election this vear, and also will prevent Govern- ment employes from seeking elec- tion. The committee action will have little, if any, effect on the many municipal elections slated in nearby | Maryland Monday. Persons in- volved in those elections had gone on "« Warship ‘Sunk’ Secretary, Planning | | | By FRED H. MORHART, Jr. Secretary of the Navy Edison to- | day called for a general revision of the topsides of fighting ships after having watched maneuvers in the Pacific Ocean He declared the warships are vul- nerable to air attack to the extent | the assumption that the amend- | ment permitting their ‘participation | in local polities would not be passed | before the town elections. | | The new Hatch bill would have that damage. though not sinking the ships, would disrupt communi- cations, fire control and general op- eration. Mr. Edison also revealed that at | bombs at the east coast resort town prohibited employes of the District ‘,o{ Clacton-on-Sea late last night Rovernment from taking active part | killed the Nazi crew of five and|in politicc. The Commissioners | caused England's first civilian air- | would have been exempt. as polic,v-i | raid casualties—three dead and more | making officials, but all the other than 100 injured. least one ship theoretically was sunk under him during the Navy's sham battle. He said the destroyer War- rington was sunk while he was aboard observing operations involved a British cruiser, 'a destroyer and | 4 man planes were shot down and | “heavy damage” the three airfields. Nazi Gains Not Discounted. Confronted with repeated German reports of successes in Norway, there was no attempt by Britain's military spokesman to discount the Nazi announcement that German forces in Oslo and Trondheim had Joined hands. owever, he pointed out that “we b remember that what with de- ons and bombing German communications will not be easy He said that if only small part of Germans had made contact tl “does not mean there is a constant flow of men and material.” Prime Minister Chamberlain in- formed the House of Commons that he would make a statement on the Norwegian situation tomorrow. Mr. Chamberlain was believed to have given King George VI a con- fidential account of the war in an audience last evening before the King and Queen Elizabeth left for Lancashire. There .was no imme- diate indication that the consultar tion with the King implied any min- isterial changes. Liberal Attacks Chamberlain. An attack on Mr. Chamberlain last night by Sir Archibald Sinclair, Liberal leader, brought into the open rumbling criticism. especially among Laborite members of Parlia- ment, on the conduct of the war. Speaking at Glasgow, he warned that the government must adopt vigorous measures in Norway or Eu- rope's remaining neutrals would hop on the German bandwagon. Sir Archibald was absent Monday when Mr. Chamberlain conferred with Laborite Leaders Clement R. Attlee and Arthur Greenwood after which they deferred demands for an immediate statement on the war situation. “If the government muddles this Norwegian campaign it will be for Parliament to act objecti (See LONDON, Page Hirohito Receives Sfiyre TOKIO, May 1 (#.—Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako re- ceived Francis B. Sayre, United States High Commissioner in the Philippines, and Mrs. Sayre in audience today. Later Mr. Sayre paid a courtesy call on Foreign Min- istér Hachiro Arita. The Sayres 2 ”d !esterday. ‘ was inflicted on | Declaring that “the German ad- | vance in Norway continues,” the | high command reported that Ger- | man forces had taken more than | 4.900 prisoners. Of the front, it said | merely that “at Trondheim fighting | still went on yesterday,” without indicating how near Trondheim the battle was raging. The report of continued fighting | in the Trondheim region indicated that allied resistance still was for- migable in some areas in the path of the German advance. A lack of reports from north of the Nazi-held port, where the Brit- |ish are believed to be strongly in- trenched, was regarded as a sign of | allied opposition there. That the | cruisers reported bombed were said to have been off Namsos, 100 miles north of Trondheim, also was taken to indicate newly arriving reinforce- ments for the British. The Germans, presumably, were engaged chiefly in consolidating their positions Trondheim railroad. Lillehammer Force Captured. The prisoners, it said, were 40 Britons and 200 officers and 3,500 | men of the Norwegion Second Divi- sion captured northwest of Lille- hammer and 1200 other enemy troops, who laid down their arms in the mountains near Lomm. Seized arms at Lillehammer, it said, included seven cannon, 125 machine-guns and 250 motor ve- hicles in good condition. The British, meanwhile, were said to have met reverses ir their air forays. The high command declared eight Britsh warplanes were shot down by German pursuit craft and anti- aircraft guns in an aftack on Stav- anger. It said the British lost an- other in the first of two raids on Fornebu, airport near Oslo—the | latest early today—and had caused only slight damage. However, DBN. official German news agency, said that later reports put the British losses at Stavanger at 11 planes. DNB also said that isolated British attempts to attack the Aalborg airport failed. Taking its cue from Fuehrer Hitler himself, who praised the army for having “fulfilled a tremendous as- signment,” the Nazi press predicted destruction of the allied forces oper- ating in the region of Andalsnes, on the coast south of Trondheim, unless they withdrew speedily. Only Matter of Time. After establishing a connection be- twene Trondheim and Oslo yesterday the Germans now proclaim the isola- tion of the allied troops which land- ed in the Andalsnes region, “They will be caught by the closing German " (See BERLIN, ‘i’il’e”hfi‘r on the Dombas- | | Air-raid workers dug charred bodies from the debris resulting |from the crash, which resembled a giant skyrocket exploding a box of fireworks. The explosion de- stroyed three houses, damaged 50 others and left a huge crater i the streebo. ' .. . ... B England’s first air-raid losses in the | war, one civilian has been Killed |at the Orkney Islands. north of Scotland. during raids on the Scapa | Flow naval base and other civilians | have been wounded in Scotland. The spot where the bomber, a huge Heinkel. crashed is at the sealiEoroes successrully before Nam- | busiest junction on the main street | s0s,” the communique said. describ- ing yesterday's operations. “One anti-aircraft cruiser was sunk by two direct hits, one heavy cruiser | was damaged seriously aft by a di- | rect hit of light caliber. | | “In_addition, one destroyer and | Namsos and Steinkjer, north of Ger- | five British transports sank after | man-held Trondheim, was "good” | being hit, whxlgv five others suffered | and that the allied forces were | SeVere damage. moving closer to Narvik, Nazi-oc- | Advance Continuing. cupied ore port in Far-Northern Norway. The Air Ministry said seven Brit- ish bombers were lost in raids on German airdromes at Stavanger, on the Southwestern coast of Norway, on Fornebu, near the German-oc- cupied capital, Oslo. and on Aalborg, Denmark. but declared three Ger- London. Crippled by Air Batteries. The crash occurred shortly after three enemy planes had been sighted flying at a low altitude over the Humber River estuary—a favored objective of German mine- laying aircraft. plane indicated it was carrying explosives. Apparently crippled by the anti- aircraft batteries, one of the planes | headed inland, circled Clacton for half an hour, dropped a landing flare, and then suddenly plunged into a row of seven houses which it demolished. The explosion blasted out a crater which eyewitnesses said was “as big as a house.” Walls of neighbor- ing homes collapsed, burying their occupants. A baby carriage, standing beside one house, was blown into a tree- top. Other trees were uprooted and fell across the street. Traffic Disorganized. The crash caused the biggest turn- out of air raid precautions units under actual wartime conditions in Britain since the start of the war. Witnesses said the center of Clacton looked as though it had undergone an artillery bombard- ment, traffic was completely disor- ganized today and bus service was rerouted around the town. By an ironic coincidence, Clacton Hotel operators, seeking to assure the public of the safety of the resort, announced only yesterday that their guests would be given a one-third discount on their bills for any day on which a bomb fell near the town or a mine exploded near the promenade pier. Although the casualties here are! of Clacton, less than 50 miles from | city employes would have been ! subject to the same restrictions now | applying to Federal employes. in fleet problem 21. He also said the flagship Pennsyl- vania received considerable mimic damage from shellfire. He reported the damage was inflicted during a | night attack which featured heavy J shellfire. {Jesse B. Williamsdn; | Jesse B. Williamson, assistant sec- | retary of the Federal Power Com- ‘ Rooseve" Consu"s | mission, died of a heart attack a few | | minutes after coming to work this | House Members on C. A A. Transfer morning. He was 54 yvears old. Solid Republican Vote Mr. Williamson was in good | health except for a slight cold, ac- | Against Reorganization Plan Expected | cording to his wife, when he left his | home in Hyattsville, Md., today. | He had just sat down at his desk | | when an employe in the next office | | heard him struggling for breath. | | She ran for help, but by the time it | arrived he was dead. An Emergency Hospital physiclan and the Fire| Rescue Squad responded to the call, ! The Navy Secretary said, in dis- | ) 8l | Williamson attended the University of Indiana, and until five years ago was in the banking business in New | but were unable to help him. | Explosion of the | "Bom in- New Albany, Ind, Mr.| 1 B-19. See story on Page B-11 and text of President’s statement on Page By JOHN C. HENRY. Albany. He came here to work in| Anticipating a virtually solid the banking section of the Treasury | front of Republican resistance in Department, and two years ago was | both House and Senate to the two transferred to his present post with | Pending Government reorganiza- | the Federal Power Commission. | tion plans. President Roosevelt to- Besides Mrs. Williamson, he is|day summoned to the White House survived by four sons, Beach Wil-|the Democratic members of the liamson of Omaha, Nebr.; Jesse B.| House Committee on reorganization |of New Albany, John, who is em- | for a discussion of prospects for ac- Under Him, [Edison Asks Better Air Defense 'Steps for Removing | Vessels Vulnerable to Planes’ Attack, Says to Call Conference cussing his maneuver operations, that he intends to hold conferences with the Navy's high command on remodeling this country’s fighting | ships with a view to strengthening air. defenses. On modern ships such as destroy- ers, he said, it is the intention of | the Navy to provide increased pro- | tection for gun crews and personnel iworking above decks. Mr. Edison said there was no intention of asking Congress to pro- changes in the superstructure. the same time. however, he ex- pressed disappointment that Con- gress had not provided for a 25 per cent increase this year in the Navy's appropriation. The present bill makes provision only for an 11 per | cent increase in appropriations. | He reported that the ship-build- | ing program is approaching & peak {and that (s“"ny %m in Health Session Hears Warning Against Post-War Plagues Parran Asks Vigilance in . Keeping Disease From Spreading Over World | The present war is essentially a | struggle of starvation, out of which |may come major plagues, which | only constant vigilance can prevent | from becoming world wide, Surg. | Gen. Thomas Parran warned the | delegates of 21 Western Hemisphere republics at the opening session of | the fourth Pan-American Confer- | ence of National Directors of Health at the Pan-American Union this morning. Tllustrating the extent to which starvation has become a deliberate duce the pay roll tax of employers from 3 to 2.7 per cent, with salaries | over $3.000 exempt; raise the amount of benefits to the unemploved and extend the period over which bene= fits are paid. Benefits under the proposed leg- | islation would be paid to an un- | employed person for a maximum of |18 weeks. ranging from $6 to $16 a | week. | Few changes were made in the new plan from those agreed on by | the subcommittee about a week ago. One of the additions to the bill. however, would cause the pay | roll tax receipts to be audited by the | District auditor. 'City Heads Approve Fire Hazards $75,000 to Be Asked To Provide Additional Inspectors for D. C. | By DON S. WARREN. . BRI | General approval was given today o Th:)" Plans '”';‘""(;d";dp' ot { by the Commissioners to the recom- udar:v::nC?}r‘“r:«"":'fi:‘lprz:en!ugla;: o | f e ST me g g ! £ Eheaded by Capt. John L. Person,| Pensation program. The one finally calling for a strengthening of the AaPProved bears a close resemblance | District’s building. fire and electrical {0 the latest bill introduced by vide additional funds this vear for | i ion services and of the Dis- | Representative McGehee. Ll Ll de 0t :rt :?isc;:ecélroen :::;;e and other safety previously introduced another meas- regulations, The Person Board report was based on a survey which was ordered fol- He had ure to modify the unemployment compensation plan. In order to give the full District | fire in the White Court Committee a “clean bill” to consider, ;k):al?rin::fs 2131 O street N.W., in Representative McGehee will in-, { which three persons lost their lives | troduce a fourth measure to,revise | The Commissioners, acting to the unemployment compensation law: | prevent similar disasters and to —one that contins all amendments eradicate as rapidly as possible a approved by the subcommittee. o long list of suspected fire hazards in| The subcommmittee failed to write other -multiple family structures,|inio the final plan a, g directed Budget Officer Daniel J. gested by various business organiza= | Donovan to prepare and send to the tions in Washington for an “exper- |Budgey, Bureau a deficiency appro-| ience rating setup under which em= | priation request for $75.000 to pro- Plovers who maintain a steady pay | vide for additional inspectors for the | roll would pay a lower tax than 2.7 District. | per cent. This plan is suggested as | Seal Asked for Review. | an inducement to employers to keep | They also called upon Corpora- employment at the maximum. tion Counsel Elwood H. Seal to re-, The District unemployment com- | view and recommend action on pro- pensation reserve fund for payment | posals made by the Person board for | 0f benefits alreadv has exceeded additional legislation or. regulation $17.000.000, and unless the proposed to strengthen the Fire Escape Act legislation is enacted, according to | and other suggested changes in | estimates, will reach $20.000,000 at regulations. 1 the close of the present year. The report recommended an ap- propriation of $91.200, to permit the | employment of 20 additional elec- | trical inspectors, 19 additional build- | ing inspectors and 5 additional priv- ates in the Fire Department to be assigned to fire prevention work. Order fo Expel 200 Nazis {Reported in Rumania | By the Associated Press. | In reducing the total of the re-| BUCHAREST. May 1.—The Ru- = manian government was reported jquested funds, the Commissioners 5 I | decided the additional men should | t0day to have signed orders for the | be subject to assignment by the | expulsion of 200 Germans after a | Commissioners instead of being de- | Canvass of 600 homes in the oil field ;(ailed to specific services. on |he]‘dlsnlu[s and other strategic areas 14 f Rumania. round that savings dould be ac-|© - ‘gompliahed while giil\'ing more elas- | The raiders reported resistance in ticity to the service. one case near Craiova which resulted | - | | ployed in the Bureau of the Census, and Donald, & student in the Cor- coran Gallery of Art School. New Jersey Takes Over 46 Building Associations By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J, May 1-—The| New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance announced today it had taken possession of 46 build- ing and loan associations with ag- gregate assets of $38.079,000. Frozen assets in the form of large holdings of real estate and of mortgages excessively in arrears made theé step necessary, the de- partment said. Its action climaxed a campaign of more than a year to put building and loan associations throughout the State on a solid footing. Summar_y of Page. | | Obituary _ Radio Amuse- ments __ - A-12 A-16 Cc-10 Comics .. C-10-11 | Society . B-3 Editorials __A-10| Sports ____C-1-4 Finance .. _A-17| Woman’s Lost, Found .A-3| Page _____ B-12 Foreign British cruiser and destroyer sunk, Nazis claim. Page A-1 ‘Thousands of allied troops reported pouring into Namsos. Page A-1 Eight die, 100 hurt as raider crashes in Britain. Page A-1 British admit withdrawal near Dombas. Page A-1 Germans intensify aerial warfare in Northern Norway. Page A-2 National President sees legislators on T. A.A. transfer fight. Page A-1 Edison sees warships vulnerable to planes, asks changes. Page A-1 Smith committee hears regional di- rector accused. P A-2 Snowstorm in. Middle West cancels ball game in Chicago. Page A-2 U. S. Chamber is warned tax on savings may come. Page A-2 McNutt reports 18 per cent gain in private employment. Page A-3 Mjk deliveries in Chicago halted as Page., At least 14 dead as storm hits Mid- Today's Star west and South. Page A-12 Washington and Vicinity Hatch bill killed by House Judiciary Comnmittee. Page A-1 Bruce to answer Tydings charges in speeches tonight. Page A-2 Radcliffe and Tydings speak in Prince Georges County. Page A-2 Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival opens tomorrow. Page B-1 New bill would tax all incomes earned in District. Page B-1 Editorial and Comment This and That. Answers to Questions. Page A-10 Page A-10 Letters to The Star. Page A-10 David Lawrence. Page A-11 Alsop and Kintner, Page A-11 Charles G. Ross. Page A-11 Frederic William Wile. Page A-11 Jay Franklin, Page A-11 Miscellany Service Orders, Page A-9 City News in Brief. Page _A-8 Trail's End. Page B-6 V;tal Statistics. Page B-10 Nature’s Children. Page C-12 Bedtime Story. Page C-10 Cross-Word Puzzle. Page C-11 Letter-Out. Winning Contract. Uncle Ray's Corner. Page C-10 Page C-10 gm Cc-11 ceptance of the plans. Most furious controversy yet aroused over any of the four plans was precipitated by the President’s proposal in plan 4 to transfer the Civil Aeronautics Authority from its present independent status to the jurisdiction of the Department of Commerce. Centering mostlv on this provi- sion resolutions calling for rejection of the pending reorganization plans have been introduced in both House and Senate. Roosevelt Defends Transfer. Yesterday, Mr. Roosevelt spoke in defense of the C. A. A. shift, assert- ing that opposition is based either on ignorance, gullibility or politics. Furthermore, he added sharply, friction within the Air Safety Board. which would be abolished as such by the pending plan, makes it imper- ative that the change be made if progress in civil aviation is to con- tinue. Those who saw the President to- day were Representatives Cochran of Missouri, Warren of North Caro- lina, Robinson of Utah, Beam of Illinois and Cox of Georgia. ‘Will Come Up Monday. As the group left the White House Chairman Cochran told reporters the matter would be brought to the House floor Monday. Declining any prediction as to the outcome on the grounds that he had not polled the House, Mr. Cochran said the whole fight is centering over the fourth reorganization order which vests jurisdiction of the C. A. A. in the Department of Com- merce. The President emphasized to the committee, he said, that the transfer will not impair the inde- pendent operation of the’ authority but simply will bring it under broad Jjurisdiction of a cabinet officer. Mr. Cochran said he had heard no objection to the third order which makes certain changes in the func- tioning of the C. A. A. administra- tor. White House anticipation of a solid Republican vote against the plans was disclosed this morning by Stephen T, Early, secretary to the President. 3 One of the purposes of his re- organization plan,.President Roose- velt told reporters, was to have the Civil Aeronautics Authority report through the Secretary of Com- merce, rather than directly to the (See AVIA'HON,? A-5) war weapon, Dr. Parran said the| v - | comprehensive examination of all :‘-,’;Z"ff_wf;:,‘,e;'fifi";fu,‘:f,: n,"‘u;?t::" multiple family buildings. within the | now cannot be published in any of | DXt Year, to place the District in a | the countries at war for fear of | POsition to issue orders for the elim- “giving useful information to the|iPation of any hazards that might enemy.” | be foun “Human diet,” he declared, “has Would Broaden Classification. . One of the main purposes in seek- | Public Health Service has just|iNg the extra men is to permit a |in an exchange of revolver shots. Police said quantities of firearms were found in many houses inhab- ited by Germans suspected of being | members of a “fifth column” which was said to have planned to rise in | case German troops marched across | Rumania. | Most raids were made just after dawn. | become a military secret.” Although the actual war may not spreaa to the American continents, Dr. Parran said, “we cannot avoid direct effects upon the health of our peoples resulting from it. Even thougn some impossible destiny were to stop the war tomorrow, the ef- fects of it would be felt throughout our generation in a lowered standard of living among all peoples. With so much productive human energy and the natural resources of so many nations given to death and destruction, world-wide economic repercussions are inevitable. Even In our own countries, which are at peace, adequate nutrition of the masses is one of the most important healith problems.” Health Stressed. At the same time, he declared, the advent of totalitarian govern- ments has made medical science decadent in the Old World, and the nations of the Western Hemisphere must be depended on to provide further advances. . “The strength of any nation in modern war,” he declared, “depends on the health and vigor of its cit~ {zenship. To lift from our people " (3ee HEALTH, Page A-5) — The report showed that not only | were the inspection services far be- hind in their work, but that rooming | houses were not subject to the same requirements as apartment houses in provision of fire escapes and it rooming houses in this classifica- tion. | _Another recommendation was that | ali multiple family dwellings, hotels and institutions of five stories or more in height and having a grade floor area of more than 35,000 square feet must have fire alarm systems connected with the municipal fire alarm system. One other proposal was for ar- rangements for the prompt printing of revised electrical and building codes so that builders and owners would have knowledge of current re- quirements, Woman Hurt in Crash | _Mrs. Mary G. Kelly, 31, of 402 Elm avenue, Takoma Park, Md. was under treatment today at the ‘Washington Sanitarium for injuries received last night in an automo- bile collision at Eastern and Wal- nut avenues N.W. She received a fractured collarbone and lacerations. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 1.—The vard Square last night and seven Harvard students were arrested for disturbing the peace. g They were fined $5 each in Dis- trict Court today. The riot, which embodied all the usual features of Harvard Square spring disturbances, appargntly de- veloped from a combination of the warm evening air and the fact that a group of Massachusetts Institute of ‘Technology students put one over on the Harvards by '?sbducunz" Eddie L first riot of spring occurred in Har- | 8T8 Benny’s ‘Rochester’ Duped, Harvard-M. I. T. Riot Follows “Rochester” Anderson, colored come- dian on the Jack Benny radio pro- m. Rochester, scheduled to appear at & Harvard smoker, turned up instead at the Delta Kappa Epsilon house at M. I. T, after being persuaded by a group of Dekes to leave his plane at Providence, R. I, and motor to Cambridge. The comedian thought he was at Harvard until two hours later. The riot, which found some 200 Harvard and M. I. T. students milling around in the square, followed soon after, giving police quite a good workout for about an ho‘. recommended legislation to include | Showers Expected {With Cooler Weather Showers today were expected to | send the mercury downward again | after the warmest day the city has | had this year. | The Weather Bureau forecast | cooler weather tonight after the | showers. Tomorrow will also be partly cloudy and cooler. The max- imum temperature today was to be | about 76. The mercury reached 82 degrees | Yesterday at 3:30 p.m., not only the highest of the year so far but also | the first day the temperature has | been normal for this time of year. | It was 8 degrees above normal. Meanwhile, the double chetry blossoms burst into full bloom, the latest, by 10 days, they have ever reached complete blooming. Offi- cials of the National Capital Parks Office predicted the blooms would still make a good showing over the week end. Soap Box Broadcast Washington's two Soap Box Derby champions, Norman Rocca, 1938 winner, and Carl Cederstrand, jr., champion last year, will give this year's con- testants the story of their trips to the national finals at Akron, io, in a radio broadcast over Station WMAL st 4:15 p.m. today. Zeb T. Hamilton, Derby director, and Bill Coyle, radio director of The Star, will talk with the champions and discuss plans for the 1940 Star-Amer- ican Legion sponsored coaster race for boys between 11 and 15 years of age.