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A—2 ¥¥@ Atlantic Coast Line. Must Refund $260,000 To 3,500 Employes : Amounts Improperly Deducted Under Wage- Hour Law, Decree Asserts B the Asscciated Press. . RICHMOND, Va., May 31—TFed- -eral Judge Robert N. Pollard di- ‘rected the Atlantic Coast Line Rail- road today to make restitution of ‘an estimated $260,000 to approxi- ‘mately 3500 maintenance-of-way employes for wages which the Wage and Hour Administration charged the company had deducted im- properly. “The consent decree, entered in the District Court for Eastern Virginia, dizected the company within two months to compute the amount due each employe and submit it for the $ipproval of the Wage and Hour Di- ~yision of the Labor Department. &he division, which Made the' esti- Jnate of the amount due, may reject the computations or make its own. {Its determination will be final. £ In its complaint, filed against the #ailroad May 4, 1939, the Wage and $Hour Division charged the company vith arbitrarily deducting from the ay of its maintenance-of-way em- ®loyes unreasonable sums for the #ental of houses, “many of which Xvere non-existent and others unfit gor human habitation.” ¢ The railroad operates more than 5,000 miles of line in Virginia, North nd South Carolina, Georgia, Flor- da and Alabama. : Two Charges Abandoned. £ Collins Denny, jr., local counsel for the A. C. L, said the order was #ntered by the court with the con- ent of the railroad. The wage d hour administrator originally €Marged that the road was not keep- 1ng its records as required by law. He said: That it was overcharging cer- | t4in of its employes for rations sold | them and that in connection with | divellings owned and other facilities furnished employes by the road its rentals and charges were too high. :Subsequently, he added, the Gov- ermnment abandoned its charge that the records were improperly kept afd also abandoned its charge that | On April 29 entered pleas of guilty in| the company was overcharging em- ployes for rations. He said, how- ever, that: “Upon careful reinvestigation tiyroughout the six States in which it operated the Coast Line did find inlstances in which it felt that the rental and the cost of other facilities charged against employes were more than permitted by the regulations issued by the administrator. It, therefore, consented to have the in- Junction order entered.” Mr. Denny said the wage restora- tions would be made as soon as the individual amounts could be calcu- lated and approved by the wage and hour administrator. Housing Standards Prescribed. A separate stipulation, which was made a part of the judgment, pre- gcribed minimum standards of Housing for which deductions may made and prohibited the railroad om compelling employes to live in mpany-owned houses. It also di- ted the company to distribute to its employes within 10 days a notice setting forth the standards, the rental - to be charged and the fact that they are not required to live 4n company houses. Under terms of the order, the flroad may make deductions from the pay of its employes for the fol- lowing services: i1. Railroad unemployment insur- ance, social security and any unem- ployment compensation taxes in any of the States in which the defendant operates; and any additional such taxes which the railroad will be re- quired to pay by virtue of the resti- tutions. 2. The amount expended by the railroad pursuant to garnishment or attachment of the wages of any such employe earned after October 24, 1938, when the wage and hour law wient into effect. i Relief Membership Dues. H 3. Membership dues in the rail- n9ad’s relief department when the employe has become a member of it. 1 (4). The amounts charged for ra- tions purchased by such employes | ahd paid for by pay roll deductions. 1(5). The reasonable cost to the ocempany of housing facilities volun- | t4rily accepted and actually lived in{ by any such employe on October 23, | 38, and who contiuued to live| therein. A schedule of “reasonable” rentals Pper month was set forth and pro- vistons made that no deductiens could | be effected for housing unless rooms met a prescribed minimum size and upless sanitary facilities and water supply were reasonably accessible #hd kept in reasonable repair. *The judgment said no other de- ductions could be made without the cdnsent of the administrator of the Vage and Hour Division. e Employes Won Suit. *As a result of the suit filed here afainst the railroad, five mainten- apce-of-way employes sued the com- pany last June for amounts they claimed were deducted improperly their wages, for an equal unt in liquidated damages and for Jatttorneys’ fees. Judge Isaac Mr Meekins of the United States Tistrict Court at Fayetteville, N. C., spg@'med these claims in February and: rendered judgments totaling 81Q79. A similar suit at Waycross, Ga,; also resulted in a judgment against the company. | | Féllowing these judgements, the railroad agreed not to contest fur- ther” the case pending against it in the; District Court here. Erfibch Spokesman Lays Nazi Successes fo ‘Treason’ v fae Assoctated Press. ' PARIS, May 31.—A French mili- hry 'spokesman declared today that Gérman military successes in Bel- gum were “directly due to treason.” » “Without this treason,” he said, “wE, would most probably still be fighting on the line of the Albert +Be spoke of an incident, in which only .one officer knew how to blow =8 bridge which the &n forces 8 able to cross over Belgian Cpnpl fortifications, as “distinctly unmilitary.” wft is unbelievable” that no one yhlet that officer's command of 50 men-knew how to blow up the bridge. 6. spokesman said, adding: \“Anyway, the French soldiers who fAhuted the German advances to Fyench high command mistakes 0% 'know where to place the > . GETTING READY FOR TROUBLE—This snapshot, taken in Willemstad, Curacao, a Netherlands possession in the West Indies, shows one of the sandbag bomb shelters thrown up since Nazi invasion of Holland. In a letter accompanying the picture, it was pointed out that the populace of this Western Hemisphere island is in a “rather frantic state of mind.” | Girls, 17, Admit Arson, |But Judge Orders Inquiry The two 17-year-old colored girls lcharged with arson in connection | | with a fire in a dormitory of the | National Training School for Girls | District Court today, but an investi- | gation was ordered to see if a valid | defense to the charge exists. |~ Justice F. Dickinson Letts, after | hearing the pleas of Martina L. | Quigley and Esther M. Wheeler, ap- | pointed Attorney Geerge C. Hayes | to inquire into the circumstances, | with the possibility that if a good defense is seen the two girls may | be permitted to change their pleas and have a jury trial The two girls were inmates of the dormitory on Conduit road N.W., near the District line, when it was fired, causing damage estimated at $800 and endangering the lives of | about 40 other persons there. Juvenile Court has officially re- linquished jurisdiction over these cases, but retained custody of an- | other accused. Assistant United | States Attorney Cecil R. Heflin, | handling the case for the Govern- | ment, pointed out to the court that | the two girls are not eligible for probation reference, inasmuch as arson is one of the offenses specifi- | cally named in the probation law | as not permitting probation. However, Justice Letts instructed | the probation officer, Joseph Y. Reeves, to make *an iridependent{ | investigation of the case. The com- | plainant is Director of Public Wel- fare Robert E. Bondy. $8,000,000 Compromise | Forecast for Annenberg i By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, May 31.— United | States Attorney William J. Campbell announced today a tentative agree- ment had been reached for settling | the income tax difficulties of M. L. Annenberg, wealthy publisher, for a | compromise payment reported to be | $8,000,000. | The prosecutor declined to be quoted on that or any other specific figure, but it was reported reliably at the Federal building. The tentative agreement, which would dispose of both civil and crim- inal cases against Annenberg him- self and dismissal of 10 of his asso- ciates in criminal income tax cases, was reached in Washington, Mr. Campbell said. Annenberg’s attorney, Weymouth Kirkland; Guy T. Helvering, com- missioner of internal revenue; J. P. Wenchell, chief counsel for the Revenue Bureau, and Samuel Clark, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the tax division, were the conference parties, he said. Mr. Campbell said the Washing- ton agreement for disposal of “the Annenberg case” required the rati- fication of Annenberg himself and Secretary of the Treasury Morgen- thau. Belgians in Mexico City Disavow King Leopold By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, May 31.—The Belgian Legation announced today the unanimous decision of Belgian residents in Mexico City to support “the constitutional government of Belgium,” headed by Premier Hubert Plerlot in Paris, which disavowed King Leopold III after his capitu- lation to Germany. The Legation declined to say how many persons attended a meeting at the Legation at which the de- cision was made. The meeting was closed to outsiders. There are re- ported to be several hundred Bel- gians in the city. ‘Lafayette Escadrille Of 1940’ Is Planned By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 31.—A “Lafayette Escadrille of 1940” soon will be cre- ated with American flyers and mon- ey to fight for France, Humbert J. Clemente, commander of the Paris American Legion Post, announced today. It will be the successor to the famous American air-:squadron of the World War. P Meanwhile, press reports said French pilots in nine American- made Curtiss planes had held off & wave of 42 German Heinkels at- tempting to bomb a railway sta- tion. The French were said to have brought down six of the Germans as against a loss of two of their own. Boy Scouts of England have been presented a 9-mile rallway, ). can be curried on despite Cornell Students Send War Tank || To White House | A war tank was delivered to the | White House today, but it hardly was in shape for service. | Made of gray cardboard, the imi- | tation was addressed to President | Roosevelt by the American Student | | Union of Cornell University and| | was intended as a protest against | | American participation in war. Standing nearly 6 feet high, the imitation was topped by a dummy turret and gun. Numerous Cornell | | stickers and signatures of Student | | Union supporters were plastered | over the model. Painted in large black letters was | the following: | “Dear President Roosevelt—keep | | America out of war.” | Curacao (Continued From First Page.) bombs. His fate, as yet undecided, | is expected to be a firing squad. | “The governor has proclaimed a | state of siege and all important places are under heavy guard. Bombproof shelters have been erected all through the town and citizens have been instructed by pamphlet and bulletins pasted on the walls of buildings on proper ac- tion in case of an air raid. Black- out has beer. in effect since Sunday. This is said to be due to the report that some of the German npilots, | formerly on the Sedta Air Lines in | Colombia, did not go to Germany when the lines were taken over at the outbreak of the war by Pan American. Rumors of Oil Attacks. “The rumor has it that they are fitting out some planes at hidden | airports somewhere in Venezuela | or Colombia and are going to come | over here to destroy the big oil re- | fineries. The rumor is with but little doubt entirely groundless, but the populace here are in a rather frantic state of minc. “This was somewhat allayed by the arrival Saturday morning of | the H. M. S. Dispatch. Sunday morning the French cruiser Jean d’Arc landed a detachment of ma- rines in Aruba, the Dutch Island to the westward of Curacao. Sun- day afternoon the H. M. C. S. Fraser (Canadian destroyer) and H. M. S. Caradock came in. Monday morn- ing the steamer Jamaica Planter arrived with two companies of Shropshire Regiment from Jamaica, together with some light armored cars and squad cars. No anti-air- craft guns have been brought in as yet. Today the H. M. S. Dispatch and H. M. C. S. Fraser left and the H. M. S. Dundee arrived.” | Mrs. Timberlake Dies; Had Four Sons in Army Mrs. Augusta Wrenne Timberlake, 63, wife of Col. Edward J. Timber- lake, U. S. A, retired, and mother of four graduates of West Point, dled yesterday in Walter Reed Hos- pital, where she was brought a month ago from her home in St. Petersburg, Fla. She was a native of Nashville, Tenn. The sons are Maj. Edward Wrenne Timberlake, stationed with the R. O. T. C. at the University of Illinois; Maj. Patrick Weston Timberlake, stationed here in the office of the chief of the Air Corps; Lt. Edward J. Timberlake, jr. of Kelly Field, Tex. The fourth son, Lt. Joseph Coleman Timberlake, died several years ago. Funeral services will be held at the Walter Reed Memorial Chapel at 11 a.m. tomorrow. McGuire Again Heads Theosophical Society James W. McGuire today began his 17th year as president of the ‘Washington Lodge of the Theosoph- ical Society in America following the annual election of officers yes- terday at its hall, 1216 H street N.W. Also elected were Dr. George W. Chiswell, vice president; Lewis E. Collins, treasurer; George T. Bean, recording secretary, and Mrs. Jessie Waite Wright, Mrs. Georgiana P. Latimer and Mrs. Caroline M. Gil- lett, trustees. Nazis Get Yugoslav Trade BERLIN, May 31 (#).—German and Yugoslav trade discussions have been successfully concluded, author- ized sources said today. Details were not announced, but it was said the conversations showed trade War, ¥ Randolph Calls Meeting To Consider D. C. Bills Seeing some possibility of House action on further District legisla- tion at this session, Chairman Ran- dolph of the House District Com- mittee has called a meeting of his group for Monday to consider sev- eral bills. He said the committee would dis- cuss the bill offered this week by the Commissioners for a new and more stringent eight-hour law fox women, another bill to correct the retirement status of Mrs, Elizabeth K. Peeples, former director of the Community Center and now prin- cipal of an elementary school, and several bills passed by the Senate. The House District Committee also is expected to consider a report vy the Eberharter subcommittee on its investigation of the operation of the District liquor law. Man Who Decorafed Father’s Grave Jailed By the Associated Press. UNIONTOWN, Pa., what it's all about, but he’s in jail for invading a State game preserve to decorate the grave of his father, who fought in the Civil War. William T. Bryner was buried in the preserve several years ago on a tract once owned by the family. The 52-year-old son and his cousin, Gibson Bryner, were at the grave when arrested by a deputy game warden for trespassing. A justice of the peace sent Bryner to jail for 28 days and fined the cousin $25. “We go to the grave every year and nobody ever bothered us before,” declared the bewildered Bryner from | behind bars. “We tried to tell the warden we hadn’t done nothin' but decorate my father’s grave, but he took us to the squire's office.” Assurances of help came from Dis- trict Attorney H. Vance Cottom, who asserted: “I've never heard anything like this before in my life” He ordered his office to assist in an appeal if necessary. Lindbergh Mother-in-Law Urges Aid for Allies By the Associated Press. Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, mother- in-law of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, urged today that the United States give active aid to the Allies. A telegram from Mrs. Morrow, placed in the Congressional .Record by Senator Smathers, Democrat, of New Jersey, said: “I and members of my family sup- port resolution passed by New York branch of Committee to Defend America by Aiding Allies. “Urge you to support immediate action on three points, as follows: “First, make available to Allies as many planes as may, in opinion of President, be released without im- Ppairing national defense. “Second, make available $100,000,- 000 to aid refugees in war zone. “Third, stop export of war materi- als which may find their way to aggressive nations.” In a radio address May 19 Col. Lindbergh said, “Let us turn our eyes to our own nation. “We cannot aid others until we have first placed our own country in a position of spiritual and ma- terial leadership and strength.” French General Killed In Automobile Accident PARIS, May 31.—Gen. Gaston Bil- lotte, former military governor of Paris, was killed in an automobile accident three days ago while com- manding a group of armies in the fleld, it was announced today. No details were given. Gen. Billotte, 66, was born at Strasbourg. He was graduated from the French military academy, St. Cyr, in 1896. After fighting in the World War he became, in 1926, leommu;der of the French War Col- lege. He went to Poland in 1920 with a French military mission which di- rected the Polish fight against the Bolsheviks. Maret Pupils to Give Play Proceeds of the Maret School’s outdoor presentation of “A Mid- summer Night’s Dream” Tuesday will go to the Queen Wilhelmina fund for Netherlands war relief, it was announced today. The play will be given at 4 pm. on the school’s newly purchased land at Cleveland avenue and Twenty-ninth street. NW. Thirty students will participats under Mrs, Charles i r \ D. ¢C, Signs in Sedan Gap Point fo Surprise Of French by Nazis Germans Say Ardennes Mountains Did Not Even Have Land Mines By LOUIS P. LOCHNER, Associated Press War Correspondent. WITH THE GERMAN ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, May 31.— FRIDAY, again—this time places like Lille and Arras and possibly Calais are ulti- mate goals. Meanwhile, we are haying an op- portunity to study the gap in the Maginot Line extension between Sedan and Maubeuge forced by Ger- man strategy. All signs point to a complete surprise to the French by the Germans. PFrance ought not to have been surprised. A source which I con- sider gilt-edge told me that the French {ptelligence had advance word of the plan for forcing a gap at Sedan. It was suggested, however, that May 31— | Charles Bryner doesn’t understand the French general staff was so convinced that the old Schlieffen plan, which calls for a wide sweep- ing move into France via Belgium, would be followed to the letter that | it did not deem likely that Germany | would try at the same time to come by way of Luxembourg through the Ardennes Mountains. Or if it came, only weak forces were to be ex- pected. Not Even Mines in Ardennes. Germans said they were surprised to find that not even mines had been laid in the Ardennes to hold | up the German rush. | However that may be, the fact| remains that fighting appears to have been terriffic in the section be- tween Sedan and Maubeuge. Sedan itself .is a heap of pathetic ruins. Maubeuge also was badly bombed I am with Germany’s war machine | and shelled. Charleville is the same. | What powder did not destroy fire | | finished. | Again, we realized what weapons the power-dive bombers are. The turret of one huge French tank had | | been blown completely off by a| | bomb while the rest of this fortress | on caterpillars was hurled upside down into a gutter. | | At Avesnes, scene of a tank battle, French tanks were telescoped into| | each other from the joint action of | German artillery and Stukas (dive bombers). | | Allied Tanks Numerous. Tt is difficult now to get evidence of the exact number of tanks which | participated in these bitter fights. | One gets one stock reply, however: | “A huge number.” | | Rather surprising was the num- | ber of Allied baby tanks scattered ! . among the huge fortresses on treads. | Apparently in FPrance, as in Bel- gium, German air superiority de- | cided the issue. | Allied tanks alone availed nothing | against the combined German air, | tank and artillery attack. Another impression gained was | that of the individual work done by | smallest units of German infantry following closely behind and under cover of tanks. Make Careful Use of Cover. | Accounts by eyewitnesses agree | that the Germans moved and jumped like the Indians of old. always seeking cover and seldom ex- posing themselves until quite ready | for a leap at the enemy. | They would then hurl bunched hand grenades at enemy tanks, one or several infantrymen aiming at| the caterpillar mechanism while others would aim at the slits in the | armor plate behind which the driver | sat, 1 Burned-out tanks along the road | | spoke eloquently of the effectiveness | of this German mode of attack. ‘To one huge French tank named | Zephyr some one with a grim sense | of humor had fastened an umbrella, apparently in memory of Cham- berlin. Michelson Gaining After Operation Charles Michelson, public rela- tions director for the Democratic National . Committee, who under- went a minor operation yesterday at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., is progressing as well as could be expected, his office reported today. Mr. Michelson is expected to re- main in Rochester for another two weeks. He left here for the Mayo Clinic a week ago for a physical checkup. Japan Held Slowed By Lack of Supplies Japan'’s inability to get vital sup- plies because of the European war has been a great help to China in the Sino-Japanese war, Frank Oliver, veteran Far East correspond- ent, said last night in a lecture at George Washington University's Hall of Government. Being less able ecohomically to support the war, Japan has been on the defensive for the past 18 months, he declared, while Chinese forces are gaining momentum. Rev. Austin Fleming, School Chaplain, Dies The Rev. Austin Fleming, 68, chaplain of St. Joseph's Normal In- stitute at Ammendale, Md., died yesterday at the school. He also was pastor of St. Joseph's Parish. Born in Australia, Father Flem- ing Al been 25 years in the Arch- dioces¢ of Washington and Balti- more. He had been chaplain at St. Joseph’s Normal Institute 10 years. Previously he had been connected with St. Martin’s and St. Ann’s in ‘Washington. Requiem mass will be held at 10:30 am. Monday at the school. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s Cemetery. |Attorney’s Name Listed As Accused in Error In the list of sentences scheduled for today in Criminal Court No. 1 of District Court, before Justice F. Dickinson Letts ‘and published in the late editions of The Star Wed- nesday, the name of Ben Lindas appeared. This should have read Kenneth Turnburke. Mr. Lindas is attorney for the accused. ‘The information was supplied to The Star by the district attorney’s office, The Btar regrets the error. r MAY 31, 1940. Washingtonian Shuns Wealth |Ford Company Calls To Drive Ambulance at Front J. D. Wellborn Leaves Prospering Business To Sail for France John D. Wellborn, 40, of 2410 Twentieth street N.W. turned his back today on wealth and sailed for France to drive an ambulance in the war zone. a handful of others to join the American Volunteers Ambulance Corps at the front. His apartment | here has been closed and his flour- | 1shing business put in the hands of | ! his associates. Mr. Wellborn is the son of a for- mer governor of the Federal Re- serve Board in Atlanta, Ca. He fought with the American forces in the World War, enlisting when he was 17 years old, and served over- seas. For the last eight years he has | made his home in Washington. He was owner and president of the New Method Typewriter Cleaning Co., a business with branches in many cities. He is reported to have made a fortune in the business. He is unmarried and is a mem- ber of the Congressional Country Club and the University Club. He departed from New York with | JOHN D. WELLBORN. —Rideout Photo. “He felt very strongly about the| war,” an official at Mr. Wellborn's | firm said, “and just decided about 110 days ago that he would go | abroad.” Text of Roosevelt Message The text of President Roosevelt's message to Congress asking a sup- plemental defense appropriation fol- | lows: The almost incredible events of the past two weeks in the Eu- ropean conflict, particularly as a result of the use of aviation and mechanized equipment, together with the possible consequences of further developments, necessitate another enlargement of our mili- tary program. No individual, no group can clearly foretell the future. As long, however, as a possibility exists that not one continent or two continents but all continents may become involved in a world- wide war, reasonable precaution demands that American defense be made more certain. An investigation into manu- facturing resources since my message of May 16, to determine | the practicability of placing ad- | ditional orders with industry for | special material, both to provide | | an early expansion of existing production facilities and to ob- tain increased quantities of the special weapons concerned, has caused the War and Navy De- partments to submit to me an urgent and new recommendation that increased appropriations and authorizations for the na- tional defense be made before the adjournment of the present Congress. Machinery of Industry Required for Defense. Over and beyond the acquisi- tion of this actual material is the evident requirement for the im- mediate creation of additional production facilities to meet pos-. | sible future emergencies as well as. present deficiencies in the making of munitions, such as guns, ammunition and fire-con- trol equipment. These facilities require a long time to create and to reach quantity production. The increased gravity of the situ- ation indicates that action should be taken without delay. The problem of defending our national institutions and terri- torial integrity is no longer a problem for men equipped simply with an indomitable determina- tion. Modern defense requires that this determination be sup- ported by the highly developed machinery of our industrial pro- ductive capacity. The expansion of our defense program makes it necessary that we undertake immediately the training and retraining of our people, and especially our young people, for employment in indus- try and in service in the Army and Navy. Must Take Up Task Of Training Personnel. The requirements of industry and the expanded armed forces for persons with experience in mechanical and manual fields are obviously going to be great. We do not have such trained persons in the number that will be re- quired for the tasks that lie ahead of us if our defense is to be assured. We have, therefore, the task of training a large num- ber in the skills and, semi-skills required by modern production in industry and by a highly mech- anized defense force in the Army and Navy. A primary consider- ation in the training of skills must be, not the existing distri- bution of workers among skilled fields, but the distribution that would be required if our indus- trial machine and our defensive forces were fully mobilized. In the national effort for de- fense upon which we are now engaged, it is imperative that we make full and effective use of the mighty capacities that lie in our population. Here as yet unde- veloped lie the ability and the strength needed in the building up of our armaments to provide a sure industrial foundation for the meeting of any and all de- fense requirements. Without the full development of these skills our national defense will be less than it must be in the critical days which lie ahead. Without the full contribution of our peo- ple our defense cannot attain the invulnerability which the Nation demands and which we are de- termined it shall have. The one most obvious lesson of the present war in Europe is the value of the factor of speed. There is definite danger in wait- ing to order the complete equip- ping and training of armies after a war begins. Authority to Call Out National Guard Asked. ‘Therefore, I suggest the speedy enlargement of the program for equipping and training in the light of our defense needs. I have instructed the repre- sentatives of the War and Navy appropriations to earry forward & congressional decisions in bills already pending, for immediate appropriations to add to the pro- gram and for authorizations to enter into contracts which it will take some time to complete. There is a specific recommen- dation I would make in conclud- ing this message—that before ad- journment this Congress grant me the authority to call into active service such portion of the National Guard as may be deemed necessary to maintain our position of neutrality and to safeguard the natlonal defense, this to include authority to call into active service the necessary Reserve personnel. The amounts involved are large—over a billion dollars—but I believe that for national safety the needs are urgent. ‘S'ummury of ‘Today's Star | | Page. | Page. | Amuse- Obituary _ A-14 ments _____C-4 Radio D-10 | Comics D-10-11 | Society - B-3 Editorials __A-12 Sports = __.D-1-4 Finance A-21 Woman's Lost, Found .D-6, Page D-5 | Foreign | British Navy sets up wall of fire across Channel. Page A-1 Allies to reject any separate peace offer by Hitler. Page A-1 French advance units fight way into Dunkerque. Page A-1 | Americans _ throng to Galway to board liner Roosevelt. Page A-5 Mussolini expected to strike before declaring war. Page A-3 Refugee-clogged roads blamed for for allied reverses. Page A-4 National. Roosevelt asks supplemental defense program costing more than billion. Page A-1 Morgenthau urges new defense tax bill at House hearing. Page A-1 McNutt's support heartens third- term advocates. Page A-1 Washington and Vicinity One dead, several injured in Memo- | rial Day traffic. Page B-1 Editorial and Comment Letters to The Star. Page A-12 | Answers to Questions. Page A-12 This and That. Page A-12 | David Lawrence. Page A-13 Alsop and Kintner. Page A-13 | Washington Observations. Page A-13 This Changing World. Page A-13 | Constantine Brown. Page A-13 | Charles Ross. Page A-13 Miscellany Service Orders. Page B-5 Serial Story. Page C-2 Nature's Children. Page C-6 Bedtime Stories. Page D-10 Letter-Out. Page D-10 Cross-Word Puzzle. Page D-11 Uncle Ray’s Corner. Page D-11 Examiner’s 'Thug' Charge Unsupported Claim of Labor Board Official Held ‘Unjudicial And Inflammatory’ By the Associated Press. The Ford Motor Co., accused by & Labor Board trial examiner of using “thugs” to discourage unioni- zation of its employes at Dallas, Tex., retorted today that the cu rge was “inflammatory” and unsupported by evidence. The company filed formal excep- tions with the board to the exam- iner’s intermediate report, which had recommended that the Dallas Ford plant reinstate two employes and that the company post notices in all of its plants that workers were free to join any labor organization. It was not granted a “full and fair hearing,” the company said, during the month the board’s agent cone ducted a hearing in Dallas on ale | legations that a so-called strong- arm squad had beaten union or- ganizers. Lack of Evidence Claimed. A finding by the examiner that the company had gathered at the | Dallas plant the “most brutal, vic- | lous and conscienceless thugs in its employ,” the company asserted, was unsupported by any avidence that the alleged acts of vivolence were committed by the authority and direction of the company. Ford counsel said the charge was “pat- ently argumentative, unjudicial and inflammatory and designed to fur- nish material for reproduction in the press.” The examiner’s conclusion that acts of hostility toward the C. I. O.'s Auto Workers’ Union were instigated by the company, it continued, was “erroneous.” The company took particular ex- ception to the examiner's recom- mendation that it post notices in all its plants throughout the United States that Ford workers were free to join any labor organization. Called- Unauthorized by Aect. The company called such a rec- ommendation “inappropriate and not authorized by the (W .er) act.” The board’s examiner failed to take into consideration in reporting his findings, Ford counsel said, that its employes had “compelling grounds for engaging in extraordi- nary acts of hostility to labor organ- izations affiliated with the C.I.0.” The Ford reply also contended that the examiner failed to consider that the Dallas Ford workers had a “general feeling of antagonism" toward the C. I. O, and that he also neglected to consider that the Dallas employes reasonably believed they could obtain the best possible wages and working conditions without the intervention of an outside union. |Mrs. Mary Corinne Craig ' Dies of Long lllness | Mrs. Mary Corinne Craig, widow |of Willlam Pranklin Craig, died | vesterday at her home, 21 Seventh | street SE., after an fliness of sev- | eral months. Mrs. Craig was the | mother of Mrs. B. Franklin Marsh, teacher and superintendent of the ’Bald Eagle Health Camp, and the | late Donald A. Craig, sr., Washing- ton newspaperman. Mrs. Craig was born at McKees- port, Pa., the daughter of the Rev. Alexander B. Fields and Mrs. Mary | McElroy Fields. She was a grand- niece of the Rev. John Cuthbertson, ploneer preacher, and Representa- | tive William C. McCauslen of Ohio. Mrs. Craig was active as a mem- ber of the Metropolitan Presby- terian Church. She was a member of Marcia Burns Chapter of the D. A. R, Surviving besides Mrs. Marsh are three sisters, Miss S. Helen Fields, Miss Margaret B. Fields and Mrs. William H. Lester; two grandchil- dren, Mrs. Albert A. Clagett and Don Craig, drama editor of the News; a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Eliz- abeth May Craig, and a sister-in- law, Miss Madge Craig, all of Wash- ington. | _Funeral services will be held at }3 p.m. tomorrow at the home, with | burial in Rock Creek Cemetery. Weather Report (Purnished by the United States Weather Bureau) District of Columbia—Fair tonight; showers at night; little change in degrees; gentle winds, mostly south Maryland and Virginia—Partly occasional showers in the mountains u tomorrow partly cloudy: local .emperature; lowest tonight about 58 west. cloudv tonight ard tomorrow, with ; not much change in temperature. West Virginia—Occasional showers tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Ense disturbance that was centered overdp——m0m— o stern North Carolina Thursday evening has moved north-northeastward and was Centered this morning over the Middle Atlantic States, Harrisburg. Pa.. 1,009.5 millibars (29.81 inches). This disturbance has been accompanied by strong east and Southeast winds along the middle Atlantic coast and it is apparently moving north or northwestward. Pressure continues low ove, e Ohio y. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1,008 millibars inches). Pressure is rel- atively low from the Piains States west- ward over the Rocky Mountain and Pla- teau regions. Miles City, Mont.. 1,008.8 millibars (29.70 inches). Pres; tinues high off Eastport, Me., 1,025.7 inches),” and from wes ard over wer ! Marquette. Mich., 1,019.0 millibars (30.09 inches). =During’ the last 24 h ave been rather general rains in th Ohio Valley e and portions of the Ati Zates and the so 5 o ot The River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy | Buffs at Harpers Ferry: Potomac § Siarvers | otomac muddy at Great Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature, Barometer, Yesterday— degrees. inches. 4 pm. 57 20.98 fi &.,m 55 29.91 idniy 87 29.81 Today. Noon '_ 89 2988 Record for Last 24 Hours. (Prom noon yesterdsy to noon today.) Highest. 69. noon today, u&'&. 55. 5 l.:. Ml’y Year ago, 68. Record Temperature This Year. Highest. 92. on May 14 Lowest. 7. on January 29. Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 98 per cent, at 4 p.m. vester- ay. Lowest, 60 per cent .at noon today. Tide Tables. Y t. (Furnished by United States Coast and | g’ Geod. g letic Survey.) ‘Tomorro Year ago, 95. | Mis Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date) Weather in Various Cities. EIemp.S Bains Baro High. Low. fall. Weather, 3 67 0.03 Rain 87 78 50 77 58 60 55 83 55 70 5 79 82 67 50 73 51 83 69 57 gn 5 64 51 81 59 i 79 52 67 54 23 2 84 3 79 4 83 62 68 H 76 70 = 84 Mbls.-St. 81 N. Orleans_ 88 29.94 29! 8 n0r 2 orcncrn oS on: EREE RS R m. 4:81Dp. 10:44p.m. 11:33p.m. The Sun and Mooen. Rises. R Sets. 7 4:4/ R 7: 1:37sm. 2:23pia, s =] e 2 WASHD.c. 3688 143 oian FOREIGN STATIONS. (Noon. Greenwich time: todag). A Cloudy" Horta (Fayal). Anre‘ 3 b 61‘““‘ Vo o =1 = loudy k{