Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1940, Page 2

Italy Reinforces‘ Positions Along French Border More Reservists Called; Students’ March on Embassies Halted By the Associated Press. ROME, May 13.—In the midst of & rising anti-allied campeign, Italy busily reinforced her Littorl line of fortified positions along the western Alpine frontier facing France today and, according to Italian sources, called out additional reservists to reinforce her army of 1,250,000 men. There were two major expressions of anti-allied sentiment, one a series of student demonstrations that brought out 500 soidiers and police to protect the British and French Embassies, the other continued propaganda against British-French control over shipping in the Medi- terranean. Troops and police prevented the student demonstration from reach- ing the two Embassies. Students who had marched through the streets with an Italian flag dis- persed after spectators said they had heard them shouting for war. Italian units protecting the British and French Embassies were estimat- ed to total more than 500. Most of them were in the streets around the French Embassy. Others have reinforced the guard at the British Embassy. Most of the guards stood in doorways and courtyards out of sight, but within call. Seminaries Reported Closing. In addition, Catholic sources an- nounced that English and Scottish seminaries for student priests were being closed and that the Belgian seminary had been closed. Authorities at Scottish and Eng- lish theological seminaries denied the report in church circles that the % schools were closing. They said, however, they were waiting for ad- vice from the British consulate. No confirmation of the call for fresh reservists was available in authoritative quarters on the grounds that it was military information. | But one informed source said the figure of 1,000,000 men published abroad probably was exaggerated. The British Legation to the Holy Bee, as well as authorities at the Vatican, were reported reliably to have advised the English and Scottish students it would = be prudent for them to go home. Infantry, carabinieri and mounted police in doorways, courtyards and streets prevented groups of students from reaching the British and French Embassies. It was reported the Italian students had been let off from their classes for what was planned to be a large demonstration. Trucks Requisitioned. Ttalian authorities resumed requi- sitioning trucks for the second time since the outbreak of the war last September. A reliable source said 2,000 trucks were requisitioned in Rome alone. Premier Mussolini ordered further improvement of the Littorio Line in & busy Sunday,“during which He conferred with high officers of the army, including those who command zones on the French border, on “mil- itary questions concerning their armies” as an official announcemegt phrased it. The Littorio Line takes its name | from the Lictors, guards who pre- ceded magistrates of ancient Rome and bore the symbolic fasces from which the modern Fascist emblem derives. Details of the fortifications have been kept secret, but they are be- lieved to extend through the Brenner Pass and along the border with Ger- many as well as the French frontier. ‘Woman Roughly Handled. ‘There were street outbursts among Italians yesterday and last night, and differences of Italian opinion about the German entrance into Belgian and the Netherlands were widely reported. One woman who defaced an anti-British poster in Rome last night was roughly han- dled by a crowd, bystanders related, as ardent Fascists made clear their displeasure with Great Britain. In several instances, copies of the Vatican City newspaper, L'Osserva- tore Romano, which contained Pope Pius’ expressions of support for the rulers of Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg, were torn from read- ,ers’ hands by blackshirted Fascists. + Onlookers said one reader was iducked in a fountain. Students seized copies of the Vatican City :paper from some railway news- +stands. ¢ There was an unconfirmed report ithat the sale of foreign newspapers, tincluding L'Osservatore Romano, +was to be prohibited in Rome. % Press Issues Warning. 3 Fascist newspapers refrained to- +day from raising the possibility of iwar with the allies over the vexa- itions of contraband control in the | Mediterranean as part of the block- ‘ade against Germany. The Italian press warned Britain and France, Jhowever, that they were playing a “dangerous game.” Popolp di Romano asserted Italy ‘would not be inclined to accept *certain arrogance nor are we a peo- ple to leave unsettled accounts run- ning around.” © “If we have marauders to deal with,” the paper concluded, “it is well to know right now that we have means and methods to reply fully with their methods.” Knights Templar Elect Officers Tonight Election of officers will feature the 45th annual meeting of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of the District of Columbia at 7 o'clock tonight in the Masonic Temple, Thirteenth street and New York avenue N.W. Among those who will attend are Earle C. Richardson, grand com- mander of Maryland; Samuel T. Luckett, grand commander of Vir- ginia; Ernest H. Bitner, grand com- mander of West Virginia, and J. Marvin Pettit, grand commander of New Jersey. J. Fred Huber, District grand com- mander, will preside, Nazis Push Production Of Flax in Bohemia By the Associated Press. 1 PRAGUE.—The government of the protec of Bohemia and Moravia is asing flax produc- tion by force law. °© Farmers whose ground is suitable and who have mode than 12 acres under cultivation may be obliged to idevote » certain ares $o flax. a road near Beltsville today. Typical Unemployed American Mother Séleded by Delegates Jobless Conference Here Chooses Woman . With Eight Children The typical unemployed American mothers—as selected by 200 dele- gates to the National Women's Con- ference on Unemployment, meeting here—is Mrs. Hughs Easley of St. Louis, mother of eight children. She was the only nominee, and she was to be installed formally at a session of the “Daughters of the American Depression,” as they call themselves, late today. A tall, thin woman in her middle thirties, Mrs. Easley told the con- ference that her children ranged in age from 3 to 19. Her youngest child came along to the meeting. This family of 10, Mrs. Easley said, receives €58 a month for food and $10 a month for rent from Missouri relief” funds. The Easleys live in a four-room house. The oldest girl is working as a domestic, receiving $2 a week in cash. *Call on' Capitol Hill. EERs Delegates went to Capitol Hill to- day and called on their Senators and Representatives, urging an in- crease in the W. P. A;appropriation. Yesterday. they tolll skoary df preminent Washington ‘women how some relief families have had to live on little as $4 a week in unemploy- ment relief money. | Cite Cases of Distress. | wives of W. P. A. Workers or unem- ployed on relief—emphasized dis- tress caused by the recent reduction of $5 to $10 a month in the wage of women withh the W. P. A. and by extensive layoffs of men and women relief workers. One delegate described how she lived on sardines and bread tor months after she was dropped from the W. P. A, A woman from Tampa, Fla., said unemployed relief there was $1 a week for families as large as 10. The jurors included Miss Josephine Roche, Mrs. Melvin Douglas, Mrs. John Barry, Mrs. Gardner Jackson, Mrs. Helen Moorehead, Miss Hilde- garde Kneeland, Mrs. Henry F. Grady, Mrs. Murray Latimer and Miss Hilda Smith. Hearings before the jury will continue tomorrow morning, with Mrs. Eleanor Roose- velt added to the panel. A verdict will be brought in during the after- noon. In addition to calling on their individual Congress members, the delegates planned to meet a group of Senators on the steps of the Capi- tol early this afternoon. Hope for Peace Expressed. Yesterday afternoon the group the Unknown Soldier, issuing there a statement expressing horror of war and hope that America might continue at peace. At 6:30 p.m. tomorrow a relief din- ner will be held at the National Press Club auditorium, at which a 5-cent meal will be served. “Speak- ers will include Miss Kneeland, Sen- ator Pepper, Democrat, of Florida; Representative Marcantonio, Amer- ican Labor, New York, and Oscar Chapman, Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Miss Sophia Dalza will give satirical dances. Delegates come from 20 States. Smith Hotel. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Debates President’s proposal to transfer Civil Aeronautics Authority. House: Considers bill to pension all war veterans’ widows and orphans. Judiciary Subcommittee continues hearing on bill to bar poll taxes as requisite to voting. TOMORROW, Senate: Will continue debate on reorgan- ization of Civil Aeronautics Author- ity unless vote is reached today. subcommittee to hear Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones on amendment to R. F. C. Act. 10:30 am. Appropriations Subcommittee con- tinues work on Army supply bill. 10 am. House: . Resumes consideration of con- ferencé report on Agriculture ap- propriation bill. Ways and Means Subcommittee continues hearings on Patman chain store bill. 10 am. Merchant Marine Commi be- gins hearings on bill to Coast Guard Act. 10 am. d Irrigation Committee considers Boulder Dam bill. 10 am. Naval Affairs Committes meets. .10:30 amn. * | The women—W. P. A. workers, | placed a wreath on the Tomb of |, BODY FOUND CHAINED IN BURNED AUTO-—This is the in- terior of the automobile in which a charred body was found on Charles N. Thompson, special (Story on Page A-1.) investigator for Prince Georges pictures. Arrows point to ch: County police, is shown making ains, which had been wrapped around victim’s neck and fastened to door posts of the car. —Star Staff Photo. L] Two Armored Nazi Divisions Hit With ‘Hurricane’ Force Correspondent With British Army Tells of Power of Drive in Belgium By DREW MIDDLETON, Associated Press Foreign Correspondent, WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE IN BELGIUM, May 12 (Delayed).—Allied troops, ready for a storm, found them- selves in the path”of a hurricane today. As tanks and armored cars of the British threw their first fire into the advancing Germans there was no doubt that the first great battle of this war had Informed sources told me the Ger-¢— mans had two armored divisions in the van of the attack; synchronized with a terrific bombing. The hurricane rides on the wings of the German air force. Despite serious losses in the Netherlands, Belgium and France— placed by some in the neighborhood of 200. planes—the German fiyers still are hammering at their ob- Jectives. A new front was established by landings of German parachute troops behind the allied lines. Bombs Fall About Hotel. As T write, this dingy hotel shakes with .the thuds of bombs falling outside the town and with the deep “twung twung” of anti-aircraft bat- teries. I have been on the continent just 38 hours, but I haye heard sirens scream the “alerte” 11 times, seen six Nazi bombers methodically lay their eggs, watched two fall burn- ing to earth and seen scars of their operations. 3 A railway which Germans bombed at dawn was uncut. A French ob- server counted 18 craters, but said proudly “they are hurried, those devils, look— Sure enough, there was a train chugging steadily along the tracks. As I traveled nearly 300 miles over this little nation—just a bit smaller than the State of Maryland —I saw grim evidence of what total War means. There was two-way traffic on the road. Moving toward the distant sound of guns were British men, ma- terials and munitions in trucks, widely spaced to offer unattractive bombing targets. Stream of Refugees, Moving painfully away from the guns was another army—the army of the homeless and stricken. Refu- gees went slowly through the thick Wwhite dust toward the safety that may le behind the lines. The rich rode in cars. The poor rode huddled in trucks, on burdened bicycles or walked. ‘Their voices haunt you: “We knew nothing. Friday morn- ing there came the explosion. Our windows broke. The little boy across the street—so bright a little boy— is dead. So we left.” “Those Germans. Four years of them we had when 1 _was middle Headquarters are at the Roger|. [ PREVIEW OF COUNTRY FAIR—] these girls showh begun. | aged. Now we go. No one can hold | them.” Nazis Will Be Hard to Halt, | Correspondent Says By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN, Chicago Daily News Poreign Correspondent | WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN | BELGIUM, May 13.—The allied | crack expeditionary force moved up knowledge that its failure or its ance of war, It was equally certain, as British and French forces moved forward to engage the Germans in a wholesole holocaust, that the outcome was far from certain—that only the most dauntless kind of stand would be enough to stop the German sweep across the Low Countries. All that the British knew was that they were prepared to fight the Germans to the finish, Moving with lightning speed, backed by perfect organization, the greatest air force the world has ever seen, and by “fifth column” sabotage on-a stupendous scale, the Germans already are in a position of ad- vantage. It will be a wonder if they are stopped within the next few days and it will still be remarkable, in the opinion of this correspondent, if they are stopped short of the French frontier. To a great extent, it is 1914 all over again, and any- body who expects a miraculous re- buff of the Nazi forces is liable to be badly disillusioned. <« The German advance has not only been a storm—it has been a rending hurricane. From this point, nothing can be reported about the actual movement of allied troops, beyond the fact that they have moved swiftly into Belgium, have taken up defensive positions along a line fixed well in advance, and are probably in con- tact with the Germans at several points. It cannot be confirmed from here that British troops have been thrown into battle on & mass scale and up until last night it is not likely that they had been. Incidentally, censorship in this War is such on both sides that movements of importance, for the time being, will be reported only in official communiques. Correspond- ents have not yet been allowed to visit the fighting front, and, for that reason, it is not possibles to success might sway the whole bal- | confirm or deny any of the wild George H. Hoffman of Branchville, Md., in whose name the burned car was listed and who has been miss- ing since yesterday. | to stem the tide of the German ad- | rumors of success or failure which | | vance into Belgium today with the are now current in such places as|thorough as that of the Prench Brussels or Paris. Belgium presents a picture of sus- pended animation. It is like a man ! who has had his skull fractured and keeps on his féet until thg brain | suddenly becomes numbed. Yester- | day — Whitsunday afternoon — the | country people crowded the road- sides watching British troops pour |in as they might watch the circus |come to town. Dressed in their | Sunday best, they waved to the | Tommies and cheered them and actually threw flowers at them. | In centers of population the scene | was different. Groups of friends | gathered around soldiers who had |been suddenly called up and were | leaving for the front. Here and | there, small detachments of troops were collected, ready for entrain- ment. You could tell in an instant | that the country had gone to war even if you had not heard the sound of bombs and anti-aircraft guns in the distance. (Copyright, 1940, Chicago Daily News, Inc.) Explorers to Make Trip To Dismal Swamp Sunday plorers’ Club will make a field trip into the Dismal Swamp on Sunday, May 26, it was announced today by McFall Kerbey of the National Geo- graphic Society. Lake Drummond will afford the special study on this expedition, which is closed to all but members of the club. They will be joined at Norfolk, Va., by members of the New York Explorers’ Club. They will meet at the new Post Office Building, Granby street and Brambleton ave- nue, Norfolk, at 8:30 am. Sunday, and proceed by automobiles to the George Washington Canal, - where boats will be waiting. All arrange- ments are being handled by Mr, Kerbey at the National Geographic. The trip was postponed from yes- terday. -Preparing for the Community Chest League’s Country Fair are weaving and making pottery at the Georgetown Children’s House. They are (left to right) Dorothy Hill, Joy Nimnom and Gladys Clements. The fair will feature exhibit booths, demonstrations and entertainment, with 40 of the 67 Chest agencies participating, and will be held May 31 on the grounds of the Charles Carroll Glgver residence, 4300 Massachusetts avenue N.W. Members of the Washington Ex-| N Doubt "Nerve Gas” Is New Nazi Weapon Victims’ Loud Protests Would Have Followed Its Use, Says Army Aide mask—was the new and mysterious weapon employed by Germany in capturing the Belgian fort of Eben Emael. An Associated Press dispatch from Bern, Switzerland, quoted neutral military attaches there as believing “nerve gas” was the Reich’s newest secret. These sources said such a type affects the nerves of those in- haling it and brings lassitude and 1nability to co-ordinate the muscles. Discussing this speculation, Army spokesmen here pointed out that thus far neither gide has used “nerve gas” to any great extent, and if it had been used in great quantity, then it was reasonable to assume that loud protests would have come from those attacked. Air Corps officers scanning week- end-reports are inclined to the belief the Germans’ “new weapon” was some type of explosive rather than a gas. They point to a report that 8 German air lieutenant was dec- orated for the feat of capturing Eben Emael. New System of Attack? The fort is a huge block of ma- sonry and it is believed the Germans may have developed a new system of corfcentrated attack bombing from the air. This could put the fort out of commission and leave it open to capture by parachute troops or rapidly advancing land forces, Another observer here holds to the theory that the Nazi air force took the fort through an attack on its electric and power systems. By wrecking electrical mechanism, he pointed out, guns, range finders, door controls and other fighting machinery would be rendered use- less. This would lay open the de- Iending_ force to quick attack by parachute troops or land operations. The Bern dispatch said something akin to “nerve gas” is known to have been developed in Germany and studled elsewhere in recent months. No Lasting Effect. The gas has no lasting effect and soldiers can be protected only by certain types of gas masks, they said. The fortress troops at Eben Emael had only standard Belgian army filter ....sks. ' Soldiers inhaling the gas stagger and fall, it was said. The gas was reported to have a faint smell similar to a geranium and is almost beyond detection. The military experts said that it might be the Nazis’ much-vaunted weapon but that its scope was lim- | ited to forts like Eben Emael, where the ventilating system may not be as Maginot Line forts. Allied and Belgian forces are re- ported to have captured a number of German troops equipped with special gas masks which now are being studied. U. S. Chemists Discussed ‘Nerve Gas’ for War Use By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE, Associated Press Science Editor. NEW YORK, May 12—One chemical which may be similar to the “nerve gas” reportedly used by Germans has been discussed by American chemists. It is acetyl choline—a compound that appears naturally in the human body. Its function is not fully known but it plays a part in the work of the nerves when they transmit im- pulses to the muscles. It is present in extremely minute amounts. When a little acetyl choline taken from a chemist’s bottle in the form of a liquid is placed in a scratch in the skin, it causes speedy uncon- sciousness. Unconseious for Hour. This kind of use of acetyl choline, it was suggested at the Rochester, . Y., meeting of the American Chemical Society two years ago, would e a soldier unconscious for as mhch as one hour. But he would recover without any bad effects. This form of acetyl choline, how- ever, required direct contact of the liquid in some sort of a wound or break in the skin. No method was suggested at that meeting by which this chemical might be used to cause weakness or un ess when breathed. American military gas experts have been discussing a different possibility for a gas surprise in the present war. They have believed it is very unlikely that any really new :::d‘w&u;dnl:et used, but they have ic at a slight chiang the form of any P gases might make that §as pene- trate any and all of Ppresen masks, e Ll This possibility is backed uj certain World War experlences.p & Include Nerve Poisons. These standard gases include di- rect nerve poisons. They are sub- stances which directly affect the heart action, nerve reflexes or inter- fere with absorption and assimila- tion of oxygen in the body after the blood picks it up from the lungs. The direct nerve poison gases as listed in the United States Hand- book of Chemical Warfare Gases are hydrocyanic acid and carbon monoxide. In the 1931 edition of S o o T e al ey Present for offense The other standard war ases are lung irritants, vesicants, wgmch are those which burn the skin and membranes wherever they touch, lacrimators which cause tears, sternutators which produce violent sneezing and coughing followed by physical disability, and irritant smokes. The latter may cause in- tolerable sneezing, tears, the concentration is very low. The most . effective vesicant {is mustard gas, the chief poison gas of the World War, and the one said still to be the main military relian for defense. o i New England Experts Say ‘Nerve Gas’ Is Possible y produced “some volatile liquid which, when dispersed from a bomb, would be capable of producing par- :.m anesthesia in men who inhaled t.” Pointing out that ordinary anes- thetic materials such as ether, propane and ethylene, if not ad- ministered in the proper quantities to produce complete anesthesia, could leave a person in a “state of complete indifference to - thing,” the chemist said- it was en- tirely feasible for chemists to pro- duce a dispersible liquid that would indtee lassitude in men who inhaled its vapors. As further {llustration of the phenomenon of “partial anesthesia,” he pointed to the action of a water- soluble solid that induces so-called “twilight sleep.” U. S. Fleet Drills In Hawaiian Waters To Be Resumed Squadron May Operate As Offensive Force to Test Lahaina Defenses By the Associated Press. HONOLULU,. May 13.—Powerful units of the United States Fleet were ordered to Lahaina Roads today for further training practice in Hawalian waters which the Navy unexpectedly ordered last week. Additional ships of the main force will depart tomorrow for the rendezvous off the Isle of Maut, leaving only the normal Hawaiian squadron and a few additional ves- self at Pearl Harbor, near here. The decision to keep the fleet longer in Hawail was disclosed last Tuesday when Admiral James O. Richardson, commander in chief, announced the Navy had approved his request that it stay here for a time for additional tactical exer- cises. New Schedule Arranged. It had been expected originally that the 90 ships comprising the fleet's main body would sail last Thursday for the California coast. The fleet put in here late in April after completing extensive ma- neuvers in mid-Pacific waters, The new operations off Maui will be arranged in such a way that ships usually will depart on Mon- days and return Thursday or Fri- day for week ends at Lahaina. It was believed that the Ha- waiian squadron, reinforced by the aircraft carrier Lexington, might operate as an offensive force to test the Lahaina defenses. Displeased With Fleet's Showing. Reliable San Francisco sources have indicated that Admiral Rich- ardson was not satisfied with the | | showing made by the fleet in re- sisting attacks after it took refuge at Lahaina Roads during the re- cently completed war games. Lahaina problem involved an air- plane attack against the fleet. It was believed that in the new maneuvers the fleet would incor- porate some of the lessons learned from Europe's War, in which Brit- Ish fiyers bombed ‘the German fleet base at Wilhelmshaven and in which Nazi bombers attacked the gupa Flow base of the British eet. Retail Price Index Unchanged in April By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 13—Fairchild | Publications’ index of retail prices| remained unchanged during April after having advanced steadily for nine consecutive months, it was dis- closed today. The index as of May 1 stood at| 928, the same level as a month| earlier, but 4.2 per cent higher than a year ago. Despite repeated advances since last July 1, however, the level of re- | M tail prices is still about 8.9 per cent below the hluklles'. point reached in 1937. The | A. F. L. Council Mees; To Draft Labor Plank To Give Both Parties Nonpartisan Political Policy Expected to Be Reaffirmed With the writing of & labor plank for presentation to the Resolutions Committees of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, one of the major items on its agenda, the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor convened here today for its spring mee In addition to drafting a labor plank and s discussion of the best methods for applying the Fed- eration’s nonpartisan political pol- icy in the presidential campaign, the council will consider labor's attitude toward developments in the European war, particularly as these developments bear on the neutrality policy of the United States. The council is expected to reaffirm the Federation’s nonpartisan politi- cal policy. Though the A. F. L. in 1924 supported the La Follette- Wheeler ticket, its usual policy is opposed to indorsing any political party. Indications point to a lively debate over the Government's prosecution of building trades leaders for alleged violations of the anti-trust laws. The A. F. L. has taken the position that Congress, in enacting the anti- trust laws, never intended that they should be applied to labor unions. The Department of Justice, in its prosecutions, contends these laws apply to labor unions if they act to restrain trade. The Executive Council will re- ceive reports on [Federation organi- zational activities and review plans for future organizational efforts. Imports of Rubber Soar During April By the Associated Press. Imports of rubber in April were the third highest for any month in history, the Commerce Depart- ment reports. The total was 70,699 long tons, and was surpassed only by the December and January fig- ures, when imports exceeded 71,000 tons. March imports were 59258 tons. The April entry price was 17.6 cents & pound, unchanged from March, but four-tenths of a cent above the February price. | Arbor Day Observed WINNIPEG, May 13 (#.—Grain traders remained idle today as the | Winnipeg Grain Exchange was | closed in observance of Arbor Day. | Operations will be resumed tomor- TOW. Racing Results Belmont By the Assoclated Press. FIRST RACE-—Purse, $1.200: 3-year-olds up: 6 Iflllr;'n“ '(l:h'llt!! = b Regent ruganm) 8.30 aree . Rollo (Haas) 500, Time, 1:1245, T Also * _ ran—Designation. _ s Ramonev, Tyrone, Count Happy. a Iron Will. Balleon, Sieat, General, Quaker Brass, Conicr & Brookmeade Stable. bJ. Widener entry. SECOND RACE—Purse. $1.200; 4-year olds: ‘steeplechase: 2 miles. | Kellsboro (Banks) 6.00 440 2350 | Speculate (Walker) 540 388 Game Runner (Leonard) |~ Time. 3:503 | ; (Also “ran—Greenwich Time and Mying Lancer. Narragansett By the Associated Press. PIRST RACE—Purse. $1.000: claiming; 4-vear-olds up: 8 furlongs (chute) Glenbroom (J. Mearle) 810 4.60 330 Escohigh (J. Borup) 7.90 5750 480 roadway Juel. Ouragan. Oid Dominion. Dona Montex. Strange Times. War Streak. Lees Count, Bonnie Buzz and Wesgot. SECOND RACE—Purse, $: Ing: 4-vear-olds "and up: e. chute. Sunabell (Taylor) Gr: i (Berger) 1,000: claim- 6% furlongs: 25.90 11.90 5.00 1140 320 2390 Also_ran—Goggles. Discourse. Sun High. Sandy Bill, Prince Splendor, Secret Chatter, Epitaph_and Prum. (Daily Doubie paid $135.40.) Weather Report District of Columbia—Mostly cloudy, light showers beginning late tonight or tomorrow; not much change in temperature; lowest tonight about 56 degrees; moderate southwest shifting to northerly winds tonight and becoming variable tomorrow. Maryland—Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, with occasional light showers; not much change in temperature. Virginia—Fair and slightly warmer tonight; tomorrow mostly cloudy followed by showers in north portion. West Virginia—Mostly cloudy, light showers in extreme north por- tion tonight and in central and north portions tomorrow; not much change in temperature. The Atlantic storm continues to move—— north-nc one of the old war Homn tward over the lowe! region, Buffalo. N. Y.. 1007.5 .73 inches). while another dis- | Pel Jacksonville. Fla.. 10 inches). while it is Fising over she Great Lakes region. and the No caflic States, Baker. Oreg.. 1 bars (30.20 inches) ! st 24 hi light showers in portions of the Middle Atlantic States and the lower Great Lakes region. Showers occurred also in the northern Piains and the middle Rocky Mountain_ region, Tem- peratures have risen in the Central Valleys l;\d the southern portiom of the lake re- slon. Repert for Last 48 Hours. Saturd: Tfldlflltlu\ I.ll’vl:em. urday— ees. nches. om N 20.9 even though i Record for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) “.mmm'h“" 5 30 & Tiodur e a0, Record Temperatures This Year. o R A (Prom noon yesterday to noon todsy.) Highest, 86 per cent, at 5:30 a.m. today. h;a'ut. 23 per cent, at 2:45 p.m. yester- Potomac lnr'l"hknlndoflh Rivers clear at Harpers Ferry: Potomac clear at Great Falls today. ‘Tide Tables. (Purnished by, United States Coast and Geodetic m’&{) Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches tn Capital (current month to date): Month. A Sgdiidssgeged § SR IRSES o, L i s 34 Weather in Various Cities. ~Temp.~ Rain- Baro. Nigh. Low. fall. Weather, Birm'sham Bismarck__ 29, Boston.____ 20, Cincinnati. Cleveland Columbia —_ o % BE3RN L RBBR3N 3R BNNIBZBRES Omaha __ Phila’Ilohia Phoenix . Pittsburgh_ Portl’d. Me. Portl'd, Or. lego San Prises se‘:‘"l! g Bpokane~ (&mn" "?';m-”fi::. "::