Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1940, Page 2

A—2 %% Fast Nazi Progress Laid fo Inactivity Of Allied Airmen Little Effort Made to Bomb Troops or Roads, Lochner Declares By LOUIS P. LOCHNER, Associated Press War Correspondent. AACHEN, GERMANY (AT THE BORDER NEAR THE FRONT), May 25.—During six days with the German Army in the war zone I have witnessed probably the great- est massing of troops in history, car- ried out—to the expressed amaze- ment of the Germans—with almost no interference from the enemy air force, as far as foreign correspond- ents could see. Every German officer will tell you that the Nazi army’s fast progress was made possible only by perfect co-operation of the air force. I wondered where the simlar co-op- eration by the Allied air force was, but I found no answer. (The British Air Ministry yes- terday said 1,500 German planes had been destroyed in the two weeks since the invasion of the Low Countries and reported continued assaults on the enemy communications and troops.) Great Questions Raised. Our six days in the operations zone left great questions. Why, throughout this time, did ‘we never see an Allied plane during the daytime? Why were single bombers that we heard but never saw in the early hours of Friday and an air raid on Aachen last Wednesday morning the only evidences to us of the ex- istence of the Allied airplane fleet? During my stay on the front I traveled about 1,200 miles and went up and down more than 100 main roads. All were jammed. Imagine the confusion among horses alone, not to speak of men, which one bomber attack or such & street would have caused! We kept straining our eyes for Allied planes and saw none. Staff officers told us that Ger- man scouting planes located every enemy contingent. These scouters knew who was who in each ap- proaching column. ‘They also knew where bridges; which had to be crossed were with- out trees offering shelter or where else they were especially vulnerable. German Officers Puzzled. | ‘With this knowledge the German air force appeared so supreme that‘ attack on the massed roads by the | Allies seemed inadvisable. But we wondered why at least no effort was made to drop bombs on strategic bridges or military highways. Not only I as a distinterested by- stander was puzzled, but German officers implied they could not un- derstand it. Gen. Georg von Kuechlen, com- mander in chief of the German Army in the Antwerp sector, and Gen. Walther von Reichenau, com- manding the army pushing toward the French ports opposite England, were amazed at the absence of air activity. Allied air activity also seemed missing at the battlefront, although I can give only one personal im- pression. As we watched the struggle for possession of the Scheldt Canal near Tournai from the heights of Renaix, | we clearly saw German scouting | planes. Officers accompanying us ex- plained that these planes aided the artillery by wirelessing their obser- vation. We saw no Allied scouters. German officers professed to be puzzled by a seeming lack of co-oper- ation between the Allied air force and the Allied armies and by what they called aimless dropping of bombs at night on Western German cities. German officers assured me that they were keeping exact tabs on these bombings, all of which they claimed hit civilians and non-mil- itary objects. Hitler to Be Topic At Fifth Baptist The junior minister of Fifth Bap- tist Church, the Rev. J. Herrick Hall, will speak Sunday at 11 a.m. on “Wiil Hitler Be Defeated?” and in the eve- ning on “The Kingdom of God.” The Scripture lesson for the evening is the text of the sacred solo of John Prendle Scott, “Repent Ye,” which will be sung as introduction to the sermon. Dr. John E. Briggs, minister, will attend the commencement services of Eastern Theological Seminary at Philadelphia on May 27. He is a member of the Board of Trustees. He will return to Washington on ‘Tuesday and will participate in the installation services for officers of the Philathea Bible Class, which will be held at the church at 7:45 p.m., May 28, The church will honor Dr. Briggs’ 31st anniversary with appropriate services on June 2. Joan Crawford Adopts Blue-Eyed Baby Girl By the Assochited Press. NEW YORK, May 25.—Joan Crawford became a foster mother yesterday. The screen star adopted a blue- eyed, flaxen-haired, 3-month-old girl and named her Christina. , Miss Crawford’s business repre- sentatives said she obtained the baby from an Eastern institution and had Just completed legal details. She recently obtained a divorce from Franchot Tone, screen and stage actor now appearing on Broadway. Henry (Continued From First Page.) able to.keep the Germans from raiding into the heart of France. While we talked on the well- camouflaged field, fast fighter patrols swept into the air to meet another bombing raid on a neighboring fleld. The heavy crunch of bombs fol- lowed one another in rapid .suc- cession until the German bombers ‘were beaten off by the French planes which dived with machine guns and cannons firing. ‘Throughout the northern air army zone officers told of heavy German bombardments but with only ma- terial damage. Summary of Today’s Star Amusements Obituary _.A-10 B-16 | Radi Church News, A-12-14 Comiss.. B-14-15 Editorials ..A-8 Finance ___A-15 Lost, Found B-8 Forei Nazi Embing squads launch attack on ch airports. Page A-1 Fast Nazi progress laid to inactivity of Allied airmen. Page A-1 Gravity of sltuation deepening, Churchill warns. Page A-1 Allies battle to close narrow gap on Germans. Page A-1 Mobilization decree passed, Italy awaits word for war. Page A-3 Further arrests due in British drive on “fifth columnists.” Page A-3 National. U. 8. refugee ship sails for Ireland; crew carefully checked. Page A-2 Congress due to act on laws to curb “fifth columnists.” Page A-1 Barlow bomb fails to kill goats in test. Page A-1 Washington and Vicinity Compromise submitted in Anacostia rail bonds case. Page A-18 Editorial and Comment This and That. Answers to Questions. Letters to The Star. David Lawrence. Alsop and Kintner. Jay Franklin, G. Gould Lincoln. Constantine Brown. Sports Feller gets advance vote as league’s most valuable player. Page A-16 Pofahl keeps chin up despite having to decorate bench. Page A-16 Armstrong wins everything but big cash against Zanelli. Page A-16 Team balance chief factor in track victory of Central. Page A-17 National golf laurels aim of Hoyas after Navy tilt. Page A-17 Miscellany Barbara Bell Pattern. Needlework. Dorothy Dix. Vital Statistics. Serial Story. Service Orders. Nature's Children. Bedtime Story. Cross-Word Puzzle. Letter-Out. ‘Winning Contract. Uncle Ray’s Corner. 1 Sports ._2-16-17 Page Page Page Page Page Page A-9 Page A-9 Page. A-9 A-8 A-8 A-8 A-9 A-9 A1 A7 Page Page Page A-7 Page A-9 Page A-10 Page A-10 Page B-8 Page B-14 Page B-15 Page B-14 Page B-14 Page B-15 Cardenas Pushes Police Hunt for Trotsky's Attackers Assassination Attempt Is Cited as Proof of a Fifth Column in Mexico By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, May 25.—Police under direct orders of President Cardenas tried today to pick up the trial of the men who tried to | kill Leon Trotsky, while conserva- tive politicians declared the attack was “conclusive” proof of a Nazi- Communist “fifth column” in Mex- | ico. | Some federal deputies said they feared that the pre-dawn raid yes- terday by more than 20 machine- gunners, riflemen, incendiarists and kidnapers might have been the pre- lude to a “reign of terror.” A Communist leader called it “a plot of reactionary domestic and foreign interests to discredit Mexico.” Mr. Trotsky, who escaped by feigning death — although only scratched by shattered glass and flying splinters in the midst of a machine-gun crossfire into his bed- room—had charged that “Joseph Stalin was directly responsible.” The attempted assassination turned into a kidnaping when the gunmen and incendiary bomb- throwers fled, apparently believing they had killed the one-time war commissar of Soviet Russia. They took with them one of Mr, Trotsky’s secretary-bodyguards, Weldon Harte, 25, of New York. His fate is not known and his father, Jesse Hart, was reported en route from New York to Mexico City by plane. Examination of Mr, ,Trotsky’s bomb-torn garden and bullet-pep- pered bedroom, where he and his wife huddled on the floor to escape death, was said to have produced no tangible clue to the identity of the raiders. Theft of $400 Reported ‘Theft of $400 from a strong box in the United Tile Distributors, Inc., at 1006 Fifth street N.W. was re- ported to police yesterday by Joseph Maas, manager of the company. Methodists Smother Resolution to Aid In "Spy Hunfing Third of Southeast’s Conferences Will Have Change in Bishops By the Associated Press. » N. C, May 25—A resolution favoring co-operation with the Federal Government in rounding up German sympathizers and persons guilty of un-American activities was killed by the South- eastern Jurisdictional Conference of the Methodist Church yesterday. The conference also voted down a resolution by the Rev. G. Ray Jor- dan of Winston-Salem calling for church registration of conscientious objectors to military service in order to facilitate their exemption. The resolution to co-operate in the rounding up of pro-Germans was supported by a number of church leaders from Alabama and Florida, among them the Rev. J. W. Frazier, superintendent of the Mobile dis- trict. ‘Will Set Policies Today. A special order for today was the hearing of the report of the Special Committee on Jurisdictional Policies and Objectives. In each of the 17 conferences of the jurisdiction a basis of not less than $10 a year for each year of service was set as the standard for the retired ministers for the mini- mum annuity claim. More than one-third of the juris- diction conferences will have new presiding bishops for the next four years. The conference yesterday approved the report of the Commit- tee on Episcopacy on assignments. In approving the report on the assignment of bishops, the confer- ence moved Bishop Urban V. W. Darlington from Huntington, W. Va., to Louisville, Ky.; Bishop W. T. Watkins from Atlanta to Columbia, 8. C., and Bishop Arthur J. Moore from San Antonio, Tex., to Atlanta. The shifting of assignments brought the North Carolina Con- ference, formerly under the super- vision of Bishop W. W. Peele of Richmond, under the guidance of Bishop Clare Purcell of Charlotte, who will continue in charge of the Western North Carolina Conference. Bishop Watkins Moved. The South Carolina and upper South Carolina Conferences, former- ly under the supervision of Bishop Purcell, will be taken over by Bishop Watkins, who had formerly had charge with Bishop H. M. Dobbs of the Mississippi, Memphis and North Mississippi Conferences. Bishop Dobbs will retain the two Mississippi Conferences, but the Memphis Conference will be taken over by Bishop J. L. Decell of Bir- mingham, who also will retain the Alabama end North Alabama Con- ferences. The North and South Georgia Conferences, formerly under Bishop Decell, and the Florida Conference, formerly under Bishop Paul B. Kern, will be taken over by Bishop Moore. Bishop Kern will retain his assign- ment to the Tennessee, Holston and Cuba Conferences. Bishop Darlington, although mov- ing his residence to Louisville, will retain under his supervision the Kentucky and Louisville Confer- ences and Bishop Peele, who gives up the North Carolina Conference, will retain the Virginia Conference and will, in addition, take over the South-Central Europe Conference, attached by the General Conference | to the Southeastern jurisdiction. In this charge, he will work with the advice of Bishop Moore, ‘who for the last six years has been in charge of the European, African and Ori- ental affairs of the Methodist Church. George O’Neil Dies; Hollywood Scenarist By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, May 25.—George O'Neil, 42-year-old playwright and Hollywood scenarist, died yesterday of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was found in a critical condi- tion in a downtown park Thursday night. Up until death Mr. O'Neil, who also was a poet, was at work on a screen story for Universal Studio. Mr. O'Neil collaborated in the writing of numerous productions for major studios. Among these were “Intermezzo,” “A Leve Story,” “Mag- ni!}léent Obsession” and “Sutter’s Gold.” ! . . Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Judiciary Subcommitiee hears proposals to tighten alien restric- tions. House: In recess. # i States liner President Roosevelt, F. B. 1. Checks Crew As Refugee Ship Sails for Ireland Liner Roosevelt Equipped To Bring Back 1,100 Americans By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, May 25.—The United States liner President Roosevelt pointed her nose toward Ireland to- day on a war-time errand of state, after a two-hour delay while Fed- eral agents carefully checked each officer and crewman. Under special instructions from the State Department, which au- thorized the trip through waters normally closed to American ships under the Neutrality Act, the 13,869- ton vessel was equipped to bring home up to 1100 American na- tionals from Galway, Ireland. Her sides were emblazoned with painted American flags, lighted by glaring searchlights at night. She was instructed, too, to run brightly lighted through darkness. Belliger- | ent nations were advised of her | mission. | Federal Bureau of Investigation men questioned and checked the 255 crew members even as the ship pro- ceded down the bay yesterday, leav- ing her just as she put to sea. A | spokesman said this was done to | “make sure every one on board was a bona fide American seaman.” The liner carried no mail or cargo and was a “clear” ship so far as warring powers might be concerned. Seven hundred Americans applied for visas and exit permits to Ireland trom London, embassy officials re- ported. It was expected half of the 5,400 Americans in the British Isles would seek to leave for home, these officials added. Many Americans fleeing the war zone were stalled in Italy because of postponement in the sailing of Ttalian liners. 'Security Benefifs Here Tofal $5,334 a Month Monthly benefits totaling $5334 are being paid out in the District under the revised Social Security Act, the Social Security Board re- ported today. They are divided as follows: 164 retired workers, $3,756; 14 aged wives, $180; 62 children, $811; five aged widows, $104; 22 widows with young children, $483. The report, as of April 30, showed that nationally 62,264 persons were on the rolls, for monthly payments totaling $1,173,933. The breakdown for this was as follows: 38,915 retired workers receiving $849,621, 6,307 aged wives, $73,692; 12,185 children, $149,- 567; 396 aged widows, $8,130; 4,561 widows with young children, $92,- 923. Lump sum death claims over the country totaled $4,000,000 for the first four months this year. Federal Security Administrator McNutt said the number of claims from retired workers over 65, and their wives in the same age brack- ets, was exceeding estimates by nearly 20 per cent; in other cate- gories, the claims were less than had been anticipated. Japan exports of canned goods in 1939 topped all records. MEXICO CITY—TROTSKY TELLS OF NARROW ESCAPE—Leon Trotsky, exiled Russian, is shown (center) telling police and a reporter how he and his wife escaped from a machine-gun attack by a band of men near here, & L} % NEW YORK.—SAILS TO PICK UP REFUGEES—The United prominently displaying evidence of her neutral character, is shown as she sailed yesterday on an Gibbs Says Allies Can Smash Foe by Closing 25-Mile Gap Declares Union of Armies Would Crush Nazis Filtering Into By SIR PHILIP GIBBS, British War Corresondent. PARIS, May 25 (NAANA) (By radio)—The armies of France and England now face a su- preme chance. If, in spite of the monstrous forces bearing down on them, they are able to cross a gap of 40 kilometers or thereabouts, (about 25 miles) now dividing their armies on the north and south, they will smash the German plan and the defeat the enemy’s thrust toward the coast. By the crossing of that gap they will cut off and annihilate German contingents now fighting around Boulogne and filtering into the re- gion of the Channel ports for a war on England itself. . Can that link be made by two powerful armies fighting down from the north and up from the south, with full knowledge in every soldier’s heart that success or failure will be the decision of destiny? That ques- tion may be answered before these | words are printed. It has already been answered by every Frenchman {and woman with whom I have talked. “Weygand will do it,” they say. “It must happen. It is happening now.” Awakened by Premier’s Speech. These French people know very little—do any of us know what is really happening in that vast re- | glon where their sons or husbands along the Somme and the Aisne or farther north on the Scarpe and the Scheldt? It was Premier Reynaud's speech over the radio which first awakened the French people to the full grav- ity of the situation. For a moment, as some of them tell me, their hearts seemed to stop. But only for a sec- ond. The French heart is heroic, as I saw in the last war and as I see now, especially among the humble people who are now—hundreds of thousands of them—nomeless wan- derers on the roads, bombed and raked by machine gun fire as they trudged away from towns and vil- lages. Talking with these refugees, I have heard many, many tragic tales, and from them gleaned something of what was happening behind the cur- tain of fire. They mentioned names like Arras and Bapaume and Amiens. These people had fled from those places after frightful bombardment from the air or after a warning that German mechanized troops were advancing down the roads. Miss Perkins and Labor Confer on Defense In a move to obtain co-operation between the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. in carrying out the emer- gency national defense program, Secretary Perkins yesterday con- ferred with representatives of the two organizations. She will soon name committees representing both the C. I O. and the A. F. of L. to study methods of efficiency in pro- duction and co-operation by work- ers in plans for strengthening na- tional defense. “The meeting was an exploratory one and the first of such confer- ences to be held at regular inter- vals,” Secretary Perkins sald. “We took up in & preliminary way the question of physical conditions in plants, such as ventilation, light, decident protection and sanitation. The use of the United States Em- ployment Service as an interstate agency for the clearance and trans- portation of workers, the absorption of the unemployed and the re- employment of men and women with no discrimination against older workers fit and able to do a job were also discussed. “Other matters to be studied will concern the stabilization of hiring, & suryey of housing in industrial centers and the relocation and ex- pansion of plants. In this connec- tion the matter of locating new plants in industrial towns will re- Rites to Honor War Dead In Jewish Cemeteries | are under storms of high explosives | fir oo eight-day voyage through the northern war zone to bring Amer- icans home from Galway, Ireland. Channel Ports From one Frenchman I have had a vivid picture of this war in which the enemy is using every devilish method to spread terror and widen the area of death. His bombing planes have shrieking sirens when 'they fly low. Some of his tanks fling out a jet of flame of white heat. His heavy tanks, powerfully gunned, advance in masses and work always in close union with bombing planes, which try to destroy tank traps and other obstacles. Hitler Staking AllL It is useless for the Allied troops to dig themselves in, and naked flesh cannot stand against these jugger- nauts. That is happening now be- tween Arras and Bapaume, where the enemy is trying to force open a gap and thrust his mechanized col- umns to the coast. The Germans, I am now told, have put all in—the last of their tanks, the full and | monstrous weight of their war ma- chine, followed by masses of in- fantry. Hitler is the gambler who has thrown all his stakes on this table of fate. But there is more now than human flesh in front of those steel beasts that have ploughed a gap through France—that narrow strip which has divided the Allied armies north and south of the Somme. French and British guns are pounding them. That German war machine has been slowed up, checked and blasted by this shell- e. The enemy’s losses must be very | heavy. His men, of flesh and blood like ours, must be nervous wrecks— those who remain alive in this shambles —under the incessant bombing of Royal Air Force planes, which are over them by day and night. Spirit of People Praised. The people of France know more than is told in the brief dispatches. They know the worst now, but be- lieve in the best. That is not mere Jjournalistic jargon. Having flown to Paris because, by no fault of mine, I am cut off from the British Army, I am filled with renewed admiration for the soul and spirit of the French people. They are anxious, but confident. They talk gravely, but without a sign of fear. In the parks women go on with their knitting. Outside the cafes men talk quietly and calmly. Many parents have gone south with their small children, but Paris is still crowded and there are more motor cars in the streets than in London. Bishop Freeman Urges Prayers for Peace The Right Rev. James E. Free- man, Bishop of Washington, today issued an appeal to the Episcopal clergy of the Washington Diocese, urging prayers for peace. In a letter he sald: “Supplementing my appeal to you of last Saturday, I am in receipt of a special message from the presiding bishop which I beg you to observe. He says: “‘In this hour of catastrophe I call the church to join with fellow Christians throughout the world in solemn supplication for world peace Sunday, May 26. Please advise your parishes.’ “We cannot be too instant in our prayers during these critical days. May I suggest that you summon your congregation to a period of silent prayer, followed by prayers for world order and peace? I feel | 1095 deeply that this must not be just|to abo for one Sunday but for every Sun- day and every day. In our private as in our public devotions let us re- | X member those who are passing through this Gethsemane of suf- e 11 fering.” President Approves Aid For Negro Exposition President Roosevelt today ap- e proved legislation authorizing ap- propriation of $75,000 to assist in defraying the expenses of the Amer- ican Negro Exposition at Chicago from July 4 to September 2. The exposition is being held in commemoration of the 75th anni- members, one to be named from the House, one from the Senate and the third by the President. Winning Cadet Captain Gives Saber to School Cadet Capt. Ralph Hartline Anacostia’s winning company recent competitive drills has sented his saber tq the school & remembrance of the school’s winning unit, it was announced to- Principal John Paul Collins re- ceived it on behalf of the school Emergency Requires (i -A. P. Wirephoto. Man and Boy Treafed For Traffic Injuries Ploravant Dizebba, 44, of 1100 Florida avenue N.E., was in unde- termined condition at Casualty Hos- pital today with injuries received when knocked down by an automo- bile shortly after midnight. | Mr. Dizebba was struck as he| crossed the street near Eleventh street and Florida avenue N.E. and | was brought to the hospital in a private car. William Smith, 11, colored, 1026 Sixteenth street N.E., was under treatment at Casualty for injuries received when struck by an automo- bile last night as he was walking} across the street at Trinidad avenue and Owen place N.E. | Charles Reynolds, 18, Buchhan-| non, W. Va., was brought to Gallin- ger Hospital last night after his car | had been forced from the road by | another automobile on Central ave- | nue, near Capitol Heights, Md. Mr. Reynolds was treated for a | possible fractured skull. A com- panion in the car, Carl Hoyle, 23; of Marlboro, Md., was also treated for minor injuries received in the acci- dent. Frances Waynes, 9, colored, of Vienna, Va, was in Georgetown Hospital today with serious injuries received in an accident yesterday near Tyson's Corner, Va. Home Defense League To Be Revived in Capifal Declaring that he does not want “Washington taken by surprise,” A. D. Calvert, a member of the Home Defense League here during the last war, yesterday announced plans to form another such protective organi- | zation. | Mr. Calvert issued a call for all residents of East Washington who were members of the old league to gather at the Northeast Masonic Temple, Eighth and E streets N.E,, at 8 pm. Tuesday to form a new organization. Mr. Calvert said he decided on the move because he believes there are forces which want to “subjugate the entire world to Communism, Fascism or some other such ‘ism.’” He said he believed there is danger that some internal force may at- tempt to take this city. The Home Defense League in the last war, numbering from 900 to 1,000, aided the police in patroling the streets. Heavy Seas Delay Clipper HAMILTON, Bermuda, May 25 () —The eastward flight of the | Pan-American Airways Atlantic Clipper was delayed further today by reports of heavy seas at Horta, the Azores. The ship left New York Wednesday and landed here the same night when weather turned her back after she had passed Bermuda. unfavorable | Roosevelt at Helm, Norris Declares Willkie Disputes Theory President Alone Can Handle Defense Problem By the Associated Press. With more than a majority of Democratic convention delegates already committed to President Roosevelt, Senator Norris, inde- pendent, of Nebraska said today: “I do not see how the President can refuse another nomination with conditions as they are.” Prior to Germany’s lightning smash toward the English Channel the veteran Nebraskan had doubts that the Chief Executive wanted a third nomination. He felt then that Mr. Roosevelt was permitting State after State to pledge delegates to him in the hope of swinging this strength to “another liberal can- didate.” But now Senator Norris believes the man he has supported in tise last eight years will “almost have to run” whether he wishes to or not. The “rank and file” of the party want the President to stay | in the White House, he said. Rpnning Mates Suggested. ‘The belief is so widespread at the Capitol that Mr. Roosevelt will not decline another nomination that talk in recent days has revolved almost exclusively around the vice presidential candidate. Cloakroom conjecture has men- tioned Senators Byrnes of South Carolina, Wheeler of Montana and O’Mahoney of Wyoming for second place. Even another Roosevelt- Garner ticket is not being dis- counted. Several friends of the Vice Presi- dent reported privately a belief that the Texan would not refuse a third-term bid on the ticket in order to demonstrate party's unity | in_the present emergency. Republicans, meanwhile, kept up their insistence that Mr. Roosevelt state he is against a third term. The current challenges call on him to announce his intentions during | his “fireside chat” tomorrow night. Willkie Speaks. ! In Kansas City last night Wen= dell L. Willkie, potential Republican | presidential nominee, disputed what he said was the theory of “a few” | that the President is the only man “capable of handling the defense | program.” | “This theory can mean only one thing,” he said, “that we should | permit the New Deal to spend the billions of dollars for national de- fense just as it has spent the | $60,000,000,000 that has passed | through its hands the last seven | and one-half years.” | Saying four more New Deal years would be “ruinous,” Mr. Willkie added. “the Republican party would | become America’s fifth column if it | failed to undertake its vital task of , | restoring sound government and sound industry in our land.” | Roosevelt Wins 8 More Votes. Democrats in Rhode Island yes- terday added eight more to the Roosevelt delegate total, bringing it to 5551, with only 548 needed for a majority of the 1,094 convention votes. The Democrats have yet to pick 374 delegates. On the Republican side, Indiana added 28, Vermont 9 and Nevada 6 | to the uninstructed group to run | this total to 583. All but 52 of the | 1,000 Republican convention dele- | gates have been named. The num- ber of unchosen will be reduced | further today when Washington | State selects its 16. | Thomas E. Dewey, New York dis- | trict attorney, continues in front, | with 150 pledged and semi-pledged delegates, Bottle Crosses Pacific ABERDEEN, Wash. (#)—Frank Burke picked up a barnacle-in- crusted bottle along the beach near here. Inside it Burke found a well preserved card printed in English and Japanese which revealed the object was set adrift just east of the Japanese Islands by the govern- ment hydrographic department on November 2, 1910. Weather Repo rt (Purnished by the United States Weather Bureau.) District of Columbia—Partly cloudy with lowest temperature about 56 degrees tonight; tomorrow most! not much change in temperature. ly cloudy followed by light showers; Maryland—Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow followed by light showers tomorrow afternoon; not much change in temperature. Virginia—Partly cloudy; slightly cooler in west central portion tonight; tomorrow mostly cloudy followed by scattered showers in the interior. West Virginia—Occasional light showers tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Weekly Outlook. North and Middle Atlantic States—Oc- casional light showers and temperaturcs ?:lllo'w Jiormal first part of week. = Mostly peratures nea: fall witn cem r normal latter Te Ohio _ Valley and cloudy first &n.rt of week . Cool at fol . T Teer o llowed by show- region. rbance 18 moving moving Middle Missistiopl US 15 Felatively. high - Plains. " Pembung, N e o8 reston. e Temperatures have fallen from portions 3 Repert for Last 24 Mours. Temperature Barometer. Yesterday— Desrees " Dacher o.m. 8! 20. (;t':: noon yesterdsy to noon today.) est, 62, noon today. . B o o e mlnnl Temperature This Year. ighest, 92, M A Lowest. 7, nnm.hnfinuzu. Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (Prom noon yesterday to noon today.) oe! Highest, 91 per cent, at 11 p.m. yester- | Portl ay. L:'ut. 79 per cent, at 5 p.m. yesterday. Tide Tables. (Purnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) ‘ennessee — Partly | Ohjo Valley & Sl fogigara o -— Precipitation, Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): 1940. Ave. Record. L7 37 it 253 e BB IRSES Dl a3 & SBEGEBEB LR E Potomac River clear and Shenandoah muddy at Harpers Ferry: Polomac slightly muddy at Great Falls today. Weather in Various Cities. gIemp.~ Rain- . High. Low. fall. 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