Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1940, Page 5

Americans Throng To Galway to Board Liner Roosevelt 1,200 Waiting for Refugee Vessel Due Late Today Br the Associated Press. GALWAY, Ireland, May 31— Hundreds of homeward - bound | Americans in the British Isles were singing “Take Me Down to Galway Town” today, and by noort most of them had had their wish. T uls sleepy west coast fishing town of a normal 18,000 population re- . eeived an influx of 1,200 Americans overnight, and all but a few were awaiting the arrival of the United States liner President Roosevelt to take them home. The President Roosevelt is expect- ed about nightfall. Every hotel, practically all pri- vate residences and even public. halls are equipped with cots and other bedding to care for the rush of Amer- leans fleeing the war zone, Hostelrles which nearly closed last week be- cause of the scarcity of tourists thankfully put on extra help. Dining Rooms Filled, Every dining room in town was filled by groups of well-dressed Americans. They gathered at street corners, and the strange talk of the people from the great Nation® across the sea seemed a magnet for Irish folk who spoke just to hear the American speech. Here in Galway County the Irish speak with a brogue Americans love to hear, so it is a 50-50 proposition. The response to consular appeals to Americans to return home has far exceeded expectations. The President Roosevelt will be taxed to capacity. Cots will be set * up in halls, lounge rooms and in every available space, In spite of that, however, there is a question whether all who wish to return will be able to do so on this trip. 3 Can Take Only $64. At first there was considerable grumbling about the arbitrary cost of $300 per cot on the ship. The complaints ceased after it was pointed out that the ship was mak- ing the eastward crossing without revenue of any sort and the ma- Jority of those Americans still here are here only because they failed to heed earlier consular suggestions that they return home. Special trains were run across the country from Dublin yesterday and today. Americans, finding they were al- lowed to take only £20 (about $64) when they leave Ireland, spent the day in local stores. Linens, laces, knick-knacks of every description were being bought up as fast as the shopkeepers could wrap them. Galway never saw anything quite like it, but it is not complaining. Many debts will be paid with the cash left here by the Yankees, some | of whom have been residents of Britain for 15 and 20 years. 300 to 400 Americans Lack $300 for Passage LONDON, May 31 (#).—Three hundred dollars stands between 300 to 400 “destitute” Americans and safe passage home from the war danger zone, authoritative embassy sources disclosed yesterday. The $300 is required for passage on the United States liner President Roosevelt due at Galway, Ireland, today. About 300 Americans who have booked passage traveled through Dublin to the port yesterday on a special train with Comdr. N. R. Hitchcock, Assistant Naval Attache of the United States Embassy in London. Three to four hundred others were said to be “so poor they hesitate to sign promissory notes to the Gov- ernment for $300 which they feel they never will be able to repay.” ‘The American Refugee Society, which in September interviewed hundreds of applicants, has been helping with “small loans,” and the State Department has forwarded “a small sum of money” to Ampassador Joseph P. Kennedy in London to help in the evacuation. No regular fund exists for such work. Among the American party with Comdr. Hitchcock were Mrs. Robert Montgomery, whose movieland hus- band has joined an ambulance unit in France, and Robert Sweeney, amateur golfer whose name has been coupled with Barbara Hutton, American heiress. State.Department Allots Funds to Return Needy By the Associated Press. | A State Department official said yesterday the department had al- | lotted funds from its own limited | appropriations to enable needy Americans to travel home from Europe aboard the President Roose- velt. Congress gave the State Depart- ment & special fund of $500,000 last autumn for special war emergency work. Most of this was expended at | that time, when around 80,000 Americans were brought back from | Europe. Mexico fo Question Writers On 'Fifth Column’ Reports By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, May 31.—The Secretary of the Interior last night asked the Attorney General to sum- mon Arnaldo Cortesi, Mexico City correspondent of the New York Times, and Hal Burton, special writer for the New York Daily News, for questioning on reports of “fifth column” activity in Mexico which appeared recently in the two news- papers. ‘The burden of the dispatches from Cortesi and Burton, as quoted by the Secretary of the Interior, was that German and Communist agents had established headquarters in Mexico and were collaborating to distract United States attention from Europe while German secret agents were organizing air and naval bases in various Mexican states. The Interior Secretary, Ignacio Garcia Tellez, asked Attorney Gen- eral Genaro Vasquez that he “take the necessary steps” that the two men “should present proofs of their affirmations, that all data relative to the dangerous facts which they report should be obtained, and that measures in conformity with the law should be taken.” | 2 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1940. NO MORE WAR FOR THEM—Two German soldiers carry a wounded comrade into a French prison camp. Beside a French guard, a German prisoner with shaven head is shown as he was questioned in a French prison camp. A group of aviators at a detention camp after being captured by the French. Photos passed by French censors. —A. P. and Wide World Photos. Dr. Barr fo Address Bethesda Graduates Dr. Stringfellow Barr, president of St. John's College at Annapolis, will address the senior class of Be- thesda-Chevy Chase High School at its commencement exercises June 18 in the Leland Junior High School. Mrs. Lawrence Darby, faculty member in charge of the program, today said that Dr. Barr had been chosen by popular vote of the grad- uating class, 207 members of which will receive diplomas. The exercises will begin at 8:15 pm. with a processional of the seniors. John Shumate, class presi- dent, is to deliver the address of welcome and introduce Dr. Barr. ‘| Jack T. Irwin of Battery Park, member of the Montgomery County Board of Education, will present diplomas and Principal Thomas W. Pyle is to speak. The commencement schedule is to open Sunday afternoon with a tea which faculty members will give for the seniors and their parents at the ‘Woman’s Club of Bethesda. Class Day will be held in the school gymnasium at 1:30 p.m. next Friday with Mrs. Florence Massey Black in charge of the program. ‘On June 10 a picnic for the seniors will be given in Rock Creek Park. ‘The senior banquet and senior prom are scheduled for June 12 at Ward- man Park Hotel. The baccalaureate sermon is to be delivered by Dean Noble Powell of the Washington Cathedral in the All Saints’ Episcopal Church at Chevy Chase, on June 16, at 8 pm. The service has been arranged by the Rev. Henry Teller Cocke, rector. Iceland Goes Top Hat When an ' Iceland fisherman walked into the shop of a London outfitter and asked to see a silk hat the proprietor was astonished. The buyer examined the top hat and tried it on. “How many of these have you ” he inquired, and the out- fitter said he had 11. “Very well, T'll take them all,” said the fisher- man. Now the outfitter wants to know when and why Iceland went top hat. House Revives Plan For New Locks at Panama Canal Senate Banking Group Approves Modified Bill On R. F. C. Defense Loans Congressional authority to start .work on a third set of locks at the Panama Canal, to cost $277,000,000, virtually was assured today as one result of the current national de- fense drive. Spurred by the widespread de- mand for national sescurity, the House yesterday revived a Senate proposal it had rejected earlier in the session, making $15,000,000 avail- able to start the new Canal project. Meanwhile, the Senate Banking Committee approved in modified form the bill to enable the R. F. C. to throw its $1,000,000,000 of avail- able credit into the task of equip- ping American industry to turn out the implements and supplies needed for the defense program. Vinson-Walsh Bill Debate. The Senate itself hoped to begin debate this afternoon on the Vin- son-Walsh naval expansion bill, containing the basic authority for a larger fleet, as soon as action is obtained on the President’s reor- ganization order transferring the Immigration Bureau from the Labor to the Justice Department. The Banking Committee amended the R. F. C. bill to meet, in part, the objection of Senator Taft, Re- publican, of Ohio to the original draft, which he contended gave the lending agency much broader pow- er to put the Government into bus- iness than was necessary for na- tional defense. The measure authorizes R. F. C. either to lend funds to private cor- porations, or to set up a Govern- ment corporation, to procure the implements and supplies needed for national defense. Fecieral Loan Ad- ministrator Jones said the purpose is to work through private corporations wherever possible. Taft Still Unsatisfied. Senator Taft said the bill as reported was an improvement over the original measure, but still did not satisfy him fully. The commit- tee had invited Edward R. Stet- tinius, jr., member of the President’s new Defense Commission, to be present, but the commission was in conference downtown most of the day. 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Admiral Furlong testified that the Army and Navy were buying for $400,000 the patent rights to France's new Hispano-Suiza-Burket 20-mm. aircraft gun and that it was planned to put 2,000 of them in new warplanes. The European war has shown, he said, that ordinary machine guns were of little use against armored planes. Armor Is Developed. Admiral Furlong said the Navy had obtained considerable success in de- veloping armor for planes, largely using armor supplied by manufac- turers of saws and safes. Rear Admiral S. M. Robinson, co- ordinator of shipbuilding, told the committee the Navy’s program also called for equipping the entire fleet with devices for protection against magnetic mines and for the develop- ment of mine sweeping gear. The committee learned that 35 destroyers are to be converted for special duty. Of theni, two are to be detailed as anti-aircraft ships, four as fast transports, eight as fast mine sweepers and eight as small seaplane tenders. Capt. C. W. 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