Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1940, Page 3

- U. S. Joins 20 Other American Re ¢ ‘Down With Hitler,” Marchers Shout In Montevideo German Sympathizers Stage Demonstration In Buenos Aires By the Associated Press. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, May 18—The United States and the 20 other American republics have gone on record with an official denuncia~ tion of Nazi Germany's invasions ‘of neutral countries. Uruguay drafted the declaration. It was sent to all the other repub- lics by Foreign Minister Alberto Guani and last night Chile and Nicaragua sent in unreserved ap- provals to make it unanimous. Montevideo had a man-in-the- street manifestation of the coun- try’s sentiment when demonstrators marched through the streets, last night, shouting, “Down with Nazi- ism! . . . Down with Hitler!” German-Owned Cafe Stoned. Several mounted police were hurt by stones when they sought to dis- perse the demonstrators. Several shots were fired into the air. A German-cwned cafe was stoned. In Buenos Aires, at about the same time, there was an anti-allied demonstration. German sympathizers shouted, “Down with England,” “Down with France.” Four noise bombs were exploded, doing negligible damage to the tracks of the British-owned street car company, Police said the demonstrations in the Argentine capital were by “Na- tionalist elements” demanding the _ resignation of Foreign Minister Jose Maria Cantilo, who has advocated abandonment of Pan-American neutrality for “non-belligerency.” Guani said the attitude of the United States was one of “unre- served adhesion” to the text of the Uruguayan protest, without ad- mendments or additions. Minor Objection Withdrawn. Argentina, Paraguay and Colom- bia, who with all the other American Republics are co-operating in the neutrality system instituted by the Panama Pan-American Confergnce, withdrew minor objections to the Uruguay declaration. Chile announced her readiness to convene with the other American governments to “study all means designed to reinforce and make more effective the security of the nations of this hemisphere.” The text of the protest declaration was to be released at Panama this afternoon. Panama, meantime, began a checkup on all foreigners listed in the recent census. Defense (Continued From First Page.) hour standards of the Walsh-Healy Act when these were found to be “prejudicial” to national defense. 4. Suspend Federal profit limita- tions of 10 and 12 per cent on con= tracts of $25.000 or less. The pres- ent limit is $10,000. 5. Permit the Navy Department to make allowances for plant expansion costs on Navy contracts. These costs now are subject also to Treasury Department approval. 6. Remove present work period | limits of 40 hours weekly and 8 hours a day, with a provision for overtime payment at a rate of “time and one-half.” This would apply to Government naval workers or those on Government contracts and would set up a maximum of 48 hours sub- Ject to increase by presidential order. | Two Committees Meet. Meanwhile, America’s mightiest | peacetime preparedness drive was moving into high speed, powered by | aggressive non-partisan support for the plans drawn in broad outline | by President Roosevelt. Foregoing their usual week-end letdown from legislative matters, two congressional committees met to carry on momentum of ex- pediting necessary legislation. Be- fore a Senate Military Appropri- ations Subcommittee was a pro- posal for addition of $132,000,000 to the Army subply will, while be- fore the House Naval Committee was legislation aimed at speeding the fleet-building program. Impetus to committee deliber- ations was given yesterday by the Senate subcommittee’s approval of $1,694,877,724 in the Army bill, rep- resenting an increase of about $675,- 000,000 above the amounted voted by the House. The Senate group first added $545,770,364 in new funds asked by the President Thursday, then tacked on $50,000,000 for Army personnel. Moreover, it inserted more than $51,000,000 in items which had been approved by the Budget Bureau last January but had been denied by the House. These items included $35,415,069 for the Signal Corps, ordnance, transportation, etc. Specific authority to enter into contracts, to be met by future ap- propriations, brought the grand total to $1,694,877,724. The $132,000,000 being considered today would represent the Army’s share of the $200,000,000 fund which the President requested Congress Thursday to place at his personal disposal. The subcommittee worked at such a pace yesterdav that this ftem was overlooked, and today’s session was to remedy the omission. Plans were being drafted simul- taneously elsewhere to cover the “whole sphere of military effort—from large-scale expansion of aircraft and munitiions industries to the training of pilots. Led by former President Herbert Hoover and Alfred M. Landon, 1936 presidential nominee, key Republican figures backed the administration in putting defense needs foremost. There was conjecture in some quarters as to whether a bi-partisan defense coalition might be in the offing. This speculation was spurred by an invitation to Mr. Landon to lunch with President Roosevelt at the White House Wednesday. There was a deterrent, however, in Mr. Landon’s charge that the adminis- tration had been “tragically late” in assuring preparedness, Interest likewise attached to the announcement of Col. Frank Knox, Republican vice presidential nom- inee in 1936, that Mr. Roosevelt had authorized him to disclose plans for “Plattsburgs of the air,” an jdea con- 2 3, .0 \4 LA w. s ST » OISE B N ‘.I' }AMIENS 2 QUENTIN® FARTHEST GERMAN ADVANCE-/9/4 muvuem ADVANCE ~1940) wnen wnn THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1940. 20 MILES FROM PARIS—This picture, according to French sources, shows wreckage of a house at Mery sur Oise, 20 miles OSTEND (TG .. 8 YPRES N\ R® ..(Y\ LILLE BRUSSEL % 5 (I‘ G, pleiie, {0 e o r A vsg ¥ SOISSONS ArsNER BELF visions a series of training camps to produce thousands of military flyers, contemplating voluntary enrollments of 10,000 young men. Operation by Government. It was made clear at the White House that actual operation of the program would be by the Govern- ment, with trainéd Army-Navy per- sonnel and financed by Federal funds. Only the promotion end will be in the hands of the Knox com- mittees. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh will discuss “The Air Defense of Amer- ica” tomorrow night in an address from the studios of Station WJSV which will be broadcast over the Nation-wide network of the Colum- bia Broadcasting System. The talk will be heard from 9:30 to 9:45 pm. One of the first steps toward ex- panding the Nation’s industrial re- sources to meet preparedness de- mands was the calling of a meeting of American aircraft manufacturers here Monday. The subject for dis- cussion was increasing warplane production to 50,000 annually. * President Roosevelt said he did not ow how soon that goal might be 1eached, but he hoped to have a better idea in two or three weeks. Assistant Secretary of War Johnson estimated that a 25,000-a-year mark would be reached by next January without emergency methods. With this Government firmly on record as encouraging'sales of mili- tary supplies to the allied govern- ments, partly because such indus- trial activity ‘here’ contributes greatly to the increase of productive capacity, the Anglo-French Pur- chasing Board announced yesterday that Britain and France thus far had ordered more than $1,000,000,000 worth of “essential needs” from the United States, including $650,000,000 worth of airplanes and airplane equipment. Superior Results Expected. Aircraft expenditures were said to “comprise orders for a total of ap- proximately 4,000 planes of all types.” Reports on combat experience of American-made planes, the board said, rated their performance as “highly satisfactory.” It added that “increasingly superior” results were expected from latest model craft recently released for export. The board said about $600,000,000 more would be involved in the pur~ ceived and backed by a group of patriotic citizens. This pmjm,pm. ) A chase of the latest models. Purchases to date were said to in- A clude machine tools and munitions, electrical equipment, armaments, clothing, metal, boats, horses and mules. The question of Federal financial aid in expanding plant capacity was being studied, Mr. Roosevelt said at his press conference yesterday. The Government might build and retain ownerships of new plants, he con- tinued, but entrust their operation to private enterprise. Former President Hoover ex- pressed his approval of the pre- paredness drive in New York yes- terday, declaring, “There can be no partisanship upon the principle of national defense.” Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio, and Thomas F. Dewey, New York prosecutor, two aspirants to the Re- publican presidential nomination, also indorsed adequate preparedness. From New York, Bernard M. Baruch, financier and head of the World War Industries Board, sug- gested yesterday that emergency powers to suspend the Sherman Anti-Trust Act be given to the President. Paris (Continued From First Page.) units assembling inside the pocket. The “most gigantic battle of all times” is in full progress, the French War Ministry spokesman said. (Here six words were censored.) The French Admiralty denied a German communique’s assertion that & destroyer had been sunk and & cruiser damaged by German air- planes at the French port of Dun- kerque, ‘The spokesman said the situation in Norghérh France was “very seri- ous, but not catastrophic.” The Belgian forces at Namur are still holding out, Havas, French news agency, reported in a tch from “somewhere in Belgium.” King Leopold was reported to have sent the city’s defenders a message calling on them to “resist to the end for the fatherland.” - Yenguns? Havas distributed the following Belgian communique: “The operations that were men- tioned in the last communique have been continued according to plan. “Belgian troops have checked enemy assaults at various points of the front. “In Antwerp Province especially north of Paris, after ‘a German bomb struck May 10. Note radiator hanging by a pipe. S\ STRASBOURG, « 1S X BASEL X TANKS WIDEN SALIENT TOWARD PARIS—The French admitted today that German tanks were widening the pocket driven into France near Rethel. Map locates present battle line and the extent of the German advance in the dark days of 1914. declared was seized today. No. 2, The apparent center of most severe German attack indicated by arrows aimed at Avesnes, Vervins and Rethel. No. 1, Antwerp, which Germans —A. P. Wirephoto. they inflicted heavy losses on the attackers.” German forces penetrated into Brussels and occupied Louvain and Malines after the British-Belgian forces withdrew to the west. Allied spokesmen declared the withdrawal was a strategic one and accom- plished in good order. The battle line now stretches from Rethel in France northward through the Vervins and Avesnes regions to the Belgian border and through Belgium to the west or sea- ward side of Brussels and Malines to Antwerp. Some isolated points in the re- gions overrun by the Germans, like forts around Liege, were declared to be holding out. The Paris region, where anti-air- craft fire was heard during the day, remained calm. The nearest point of the battle area was still in the Rethel zone, about 100 miles away. Spurred on by the order of Gen- eralissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin to “conquer or die,” the French sought to close in on the Germans by land and air. Allied warplanes bombed incessantly at the Nazis who advanced daringly away from their supply bases. “The fate of the fatherland, that of our allies and the destiny of the world depends on the battle in coursé,” Gen. Gamelin said in an order of the day to his troops. “¢,* * Any soldier who cannot advance should die on the spot rather than abandon the part of native soil confided to him. “As always at grave hours for our history the word of the order today is: Conquer or die! We must conquer!” « for LATEST NEWS The Night Final Star, containing the iatest news of the day during these dramatic times, is de- livered- every evening throughout the city and suburbs between 6 P.M. and 7 PM. Telephone National 5000 for. immediate ' delivery. —A. P. Wirephoto. Roosevelt Wins 36 More Votes; Needs 45 for Nomination’ Oregon, North Carolina In Column; May Pick Up 32 in Jersey Tuesday By the Assoctated Press. President Roosevelt, in winning the Oregon preference primary over Vice President Garner and a third- term indorsement from North Caro- lina, ran his convention delegate strength to within 45 votes of a majority for renomination. Oregon’'s 10 convention votes and North Carolina’s 26, added to a pre- vious total of 46714, gave him 5031% with only 548 needed for the nomi- nation. The Democratic convention will have 1,094 votes. Democratic leaders said that in next Tuesday's New Jersey primary the Chief Executive would pick up 32 of the 45 required to make his nomination a mathematical cer- tainty. Although his name was not entered in the preference voting, party chiefs said the State's dele- gation would be pledged to him. The President’s Oregon victory gave him a clean sweep of primary contests with Mr. Garner. He had won previously in Wisconsin, Illi- nois and Nebraska in the only pri- mary battles where the Texan was a challenger, although he lost three T a8 K X-3 publics in Denouncing Nazis’ Enough Wood Used in Crating|Roosevelt Studies Warplane to Build Small House|Move-fo Half Drop ‘When the last cigar had been stumped out and all members of the Board of Governors of the Na~ tional Wooden Box Association pre- pared to leave for their homes after the 41st annual m in the Wardman Park Hotel last night, L. T. Overman, trade’ tion manager, gave vent to a classic re- mark. Said Mr. Overman: “We care not who makes the wars of the nations so long as we make the boxes.” To the making of boxes, it seems, there is no end. The American wooden boxmakers stand on the threshold of s new era on account of the European war. Bigger and better boxes are now the brder of the day. Best boxes are being made for shipment of airplines to the the Democratic nomination in the 3d congressional district (Portland), to oppose Representative Homer An- gell, Republican, at the general elec- tion. Two Republicans are running a close race for the opportunity to face uncontested Representative Walter Pierce, Democrat, in November. Rex Pendleton, topped Roy Ritner, Pendleton, 4529 to 4226, in 128 of the 414 precincts in the Eastern Oregon district. Representative James W. Mott, Salem, Republican, was easily out- stripping Kenneth Brown, anti-Jew- ish campaigner, in the 1st Oregon district. Charles Robertson, Salem, won the Democratic choice without opposition. North Carolina’s 26 delegates went into the Roosevelt column at a State convention. Josephus Daniels, Am- bassador to Mexico, a convention speaker, predicted Mr. Roosevelt would be drafted and renominated virtually by acclamation. The remaining Democratic con- vention delegates chosen thus far are devided this way: Postmaster General Farley, 38);; Speaker Bank- head, 22; Senator O’Mahoney of ‘Wyoming, 6; Mr. Garner, 31;; un- instructed, 70%5. Republican Line-up. Senator McNary became the sixth candidate with delegates lined up for the Republican presidential nomination. 5 The others: Thomas E. Dewey ot New York, 96 pledged and semi- pledged delegates; Senator Taft of Ohio, 54; Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, 38; Hanford MacNider of Jowa, 22, and Senator Capper of Kansas, 18. A total of 530 Republican dele- gates so far chosen are uninstructed, including 13 named in Alabama yesterday and 92 from New York which are in dispute between Mr. Dewey, Frank Gannett, another New York State contender,” and Kenneth Simpson, New York County Republican leader who is not a can- didate but has challenged Mr. Dewey’s claims. Five States — Arizona, Georgia, Maryland, Utah and Virginia—and the District of Columbia were to pick an aggregate of 65 more Re- publican delegates today. Error in Identification In Explosion Story In yesterday’s Star Ira B. Nixon, 23, of 942 Virginia avenue S.W., one of two men slightly injured in a ma- chine shop explosion at the Wash- of Wisconsin's 24-man delegation. Voters Oppose Power Plan. Although Oregon Democrats rec- ommended Mr. Roosevelt for a third term, a big portion of the State decided against a New Deal-created issue—the public distribution of Bonneville Dam Federal power. The President swept past Mr. Gar- ner. In 1,031 precincts out of 1,693, he received 50,697 against Mr. Gar- ner’s 7,500. Portland rejected, together with at least three out of five counties, efforts to create a people’s utility dis- trict for distributing electricity from the Columbia River hydro-electric project. Three other Oregon counties —Lincoln, Coos and Tillamook—also turned down the program. A slight trend in favor of the plan was shown in Washington County. Senate Minority Leader McNary, who was unopposed for Oregon’s 10 Republican presidential delegates, received a greater indorsement than, the combined count for Mr. Roose- velt and Mr. Garner. He tallied 59,005 in 982 precincts, Mrs. Nan Wood Honeyman, ‘the first woman to hold a congressional seat from Oregon, apparently won ington Gas Light Co., Eleventh and O streets SE., was listed erroneously as colored. The error was made in a police teletype report on which the identification was based. The Star regrets the error in identification. Both Mr. Nixon and the other in- Jjured man, John Giehle, 55, of 3615 Alton place N.W., were treated at Casualty Hospital and discharged. The explesion, in a hollow piston which the two men were heating, occurred about 10 a.m. Mrs. Ladu Is Appointed To D. C. Penal Post The District Commissioners today announced the appointment of Mrs. Blanche L. Ladu, now attached to the office of the supervisor of pro- bation of the Bureau of Prisons, as director of the women's division of the District penal institutions. She is expected to take office in about a week. Her salary, less an amount for maintenance, will be $3,800 a year. The post was created at the request of Penal Director Ray Huff, who said the population of the women’s division had more than doubled in the last year. MADISON TERRACE BEAUTY SALON 5509 Colorado Avenue N.W. Is Now Being Air Conditioned f/&qy&t& AIRTEMP * SUMMER COMFORT IS INEXPENSIVE AT PEPCO LOW RATES [ ] Sold and Installed by - (@errTH-(ONsuMERs @neany 1413 N. Y. Ave. ME. 4840 warring big these. countries, And just how are ., president; J. Walter Rogers of San Francisco; R. W. Jordon, Em- poria, Va, and Charles K. Brown of Pittsburgh, vice presidents, with ohn Galbraith er and C..D. Hudson sectional manager, Yarnell Insists U. . Stay Out of War if 1918 Is Repeated Plane Attack Possibility Remote for Some Time To Come, He Asserts _ By the Associated Press. NEWPORT, R. I, May 18.—Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, U. 8. N, retired, declared today that America should keep out of war until she is assured that her men and money “will be spent to a far better end than in 1918.” “The people of this country,” he said in a prepared address before the graduating class of the Naval War College, “are still painfully aware of the result of the last World War, when we sent 2,000,000 men abroad and spent 30 or more billions of dol- lars to make the world safe for de- mocracy; then at the end witnessed & relapse of the high ideals and a resumption of the old selfish, na- tionalistic policies that planted the Seeds of future war. “Why should we spend out blood and treasure, until there is assurance | that they will be spent to a far bet- ter end than in 1918? “Do not enter the war to assist any nation,” he admonished, “until that nation unreservedly pledges it- self to support a treaty of peace | that will be fair to all and will be of some value in discouraging in the future the use of war as an in- strument of national policy.” In the event, however, the United States should reach the end of its endurance, Admiral Yarnell said, the war should be made “purely a naval war,” and no troops should be sent beyond the limits of the con- tinental United States. “The Atlantic Ocean still remains 4 large body of water and the prob- ability of plane attack from over- seas on this country will remain remote for some time to come,” he a ed. “Command of the sea is and will remain the primary factor in our plan of national defense and as long as we have it we are safe | from successful enemy invasion. “Bear firmly in mind that sea- power defeated Napoleon and it will be seapower, today and tomor- row, that will prevent another dic- tator who lacks it from acquiring domination.” The world's largest motor vessels for cod fishing, with a capacity of 1500 tons each, are being con- structed in Italy. In Grain Prices New Loan Program May Be Launched, Officials Say President Roosevelt was reported - by administration farm officials to- day to be considering a neéw growers’ wheat loan designed to halt * recent sharp declines in grain prices. Wheat tumbled more than 20 cents & bushel this week to the lowest level in months, with harvest time only a few weeks away in the southern part of the important winter wheat belt. The week’s slump was the most acute of this century, except for the 1933 decline. May wheat slid down to 86 yesterday and July wheat to 84, a drop of more than 5 cents, which made the week’s net losses 25 cents per bushel. While market authorities attrib- uted the price declines to European events, Agriculture Department offi- clals said another depressing factor was that the 1939 loan program, with its price-sustaining effects, had expired. Intensification of the German war drive also was credited with adding & dash of uncertainty to the other- wise fair outlook for domestic busi- ness in coming months. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics declared a quick victory, especially for Ger- many, “would necessitate complete reappraisal of the outlook,” but a prolonged struggle might stimulate American business. A further drop of between 10 and 15 cents a bushel in wheat prices would make a loan program manda- tory under the A. A. A. Act, officials said. On the basis of present prices, the President and Secretary of Agri- culture have discretion to initiate such a program. = FALSE TEETH REPAIRED WHILE. fou waIT ROBT B. SOTT DENTAL TECA 605 14th.at F. Bma. V0L, VU3 uu 835" eivate Watting Geoms FULLER BRISTLECOMB HAIR BRUSH Doesn’t Disturb the WAVE $945 Short Time Only ENGINE HEADS WELDED WELDIT, INC. 516 1st St. NW. 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