Evening Star Newspaper, June 3, 1940, Page 2

A2 ®& THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, Army Seeks Funds For 1,600 Tanks And 3,000 Planes Mechanized Force Would Compare With Numbers Nazis Had in Flanders By EDWARD T. BOMAR, Associated Press Staff Writer. An American Army of tanks com- parable in numbers to the force which formed the spearhead of the German drive through Flanders was visualized by authorities today in new defense estimates laid before a House Appropriations Committee. Funds for more than 1,600 light and medium tanks were included in supplementary budget requests for the Army and Navy aggregating possibly $1375,000,000 in cash and contract authorizations. They em- bodied recommendations made last week by Prestdent Roosevelt. ‘With the mechanized weapons al- ready in Army service and on order, and those provided for in pending defense measures, this would give a grand total of more than 3,000 tanks of various types, not including such lighter-armored vehiclcs scout cars. The German Army employed a force of approximately this size in breaking through French defenses on the Belgian frontier, by the best available estimates. The newest American types are mostly 10 and 18 ton vehicles. There has been no hint that the Army high command favors under- taking 70 or 80 ton monsters such as both Nazi and French forces have used. ‘The Army also proposed 3,000 ad- ditional planes—largely training types needed for the new job of turning out 7,000 pilots a year—and $200,000,000 for new and expanded arms plants. The outlay for muni- tions facilities would double earlier requests for the purpose. Other requests in the latest sup- s plementary estimates for the Army | include more than 500 large-caliber howitzers, ammunition and aerial bombs, anti-aircraft defense equip- | ment costing $30,000,000, a start on the manufacture of a new model 105-millimeter field howitzer, and medical equipment and supplies. | In advance of testimony by War | Department officials, House Com- mittee members understood the Army’s share of the latest defense bill was more than $700,000,000, and | the Navy's slightly less. | The Navy had served notice that | 1t would ask funds to start three| score more warships in line with authority already given to expand the Fleet's tonnage by approximate- | ly 11 per cent. The new demand for tanks sug- | gested the Army had decided to undertake mechanization on a scale scarcely contemplated before the | European war began. Thus far, progress has been relatively slow in equipping the Army with the deadly but costly fighting machines. About 300 light infantry tanks | were massed in the South for last month’s Regular Army maneuvers, with the announcement that they constituted virtually all in service. The first of 329 light tanks ordered last October from the American Car & Foundry Co. at a cost of $6,000,000 already have undergone successfully the acceptance tests. Congress in Brief Benate: Considers naval expansion bill. Naval Affairs hearing on bill to expedite ship- building. discusses Barlow bomb. House: Considers minor bills. Dies Committee begins secret hear- ings on Communism in South. Ways and Means Committee resumes hearings on defense tax bill. TOMORROW. Benate: Probably will continue debate on naval expansion. Interstate Commerce Subcommit- tee resumes hearing on wire tapping, 10 am. Education and Labor Subcommit- tee holds hearing on Pepper em- ployment bill, 10 am. Appropriations Subcommittee meets on W, P, A, bill, 10 am. House: i Ways and Means Committee con- tinues consideration of national de- :!ense tax program, 10:30 a.m. | decision holding that the 1890 Sher- Committee holds | Joint Military Affairs Committee! | Flag Salute (Continued From First Page.) bor cases and a woman politician. | The litigation involves the right of a newspaper to comment editorially | on court cases prior to a final set- | tlement, | Denied a petition by Grover Cleve- | land Bergdoll, World War draft | dodger seeking release from military | prison on the ground that he never | was “legally inducted into the Army.” The Federal Circuit Court at New York denied him a writ of | habeas corpus. Agreed to review a Circuit Court idecision holding that the National Labor Board has authority, if an agreement has been reached, to re- quire an employer to enter into a written collective bargaining con- tract with a labor organization. The litigation applied specifically to the H. J. Heintz Co. of Pittsburgh. Declined to reconsider a May 6 man Anti-Trust Act bars “any com- { bination which tampers with price | structures.” The opinion ruled that a group of oil companies had violated the legislation by conspir- ing to raise the price of gasoline sold | in 10 Midwestern States. Granted an appeal by Mikhail Nicholas Gorin, a Soviet citizen, and Hafis Salich, Russian-born natural- ized American, contesting their con- viction of violating the 1917 Espion- age Act by obtaining information from United States naval intel- | ligence files. Salich was employed by the naval intelligence at San Pedro, Calif. They sought an “au- fiam'wm’. copshruction’, of, m;e{x-‘ tionl butlawitig spy “KELNVTL this country. Refused to pass on a Circuit Court decision sustaining the constitutign- ality -of -the--1885 Federai-Adsofio Administration Act regulating inter- state trade in alcoholic beverages. The law was contested by Arrow Distilleries, Inc., of Peoria, Ill. Appeals Court Reversed. | In the decision on the flag salute, the Supreme Court decision re- versed the finding of the Third Cir- cuit Court of Appeals, which had said the regulation violated religious | rights of the youngsters, who also won in the District Court in Penn- sylvania, where the father sued to enjoin the enforcement of the regu- | | lation. In upholding the board re- | quirement, the Supreme Court said it had the force of State law, The disputed pledge, as quoted in | the brief, reads: “I plsdge alle-| giance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Re- public for which it stands, one Na- tion indivisible, with liberty and, Jjustice for all.” Justice Frankfurter said the ques- tion before the court was “whether the Legislatures of the various States and the authorities in a thou- sand counties and school districts in this country are barred from de- termining the appropriateness of various means to evoke that uni- fying sentiment without which Plans to Train C.C.C. in Tactics pposition in Army Meets O Officials Declare At By ROBERT BRUSKIN. Attempts to give Civilian Con- Zervation Corps enrollees military draining in their 1500 scattered ccamps might disorganize Army #fTorts to expand and train its own Yersonnel at a critical time. An authority said today the War {Department was opposed to military art-time training in C. C. C. camps ‘at this time.” The 280,000 youths xow in camps could not continue xonservation work and be trained as swombatants, nor could they be effec- Jtively trained in tactics while scat- #ered in companies in every State. % Although camps are managed by Reserve officers who are exceilent administrators, he said many of them would need a “brushing up” themselves before being capable of ‘training the enrollees even in Judimentary close order drills and ‘manual of arms. ‘Would Have to Send Officers. » If Congress votes partial military 2raining, as suggested in a half dozen measures in committee, the Army Mwould be faced with the necessity of Fending Regular Army officers and mon-commissioned officers to the fcamps for the work. # When the C. C. C. was organized, %raining in the United States Army “was disrupted for a short time for 'k of higher personnel who were jummoned to open and establish %he new camps. vesascarennn = There are about 3,000,000 Spring- | Hfield and Enfield rifles available in rrmy stores which could be”sent to he camps, but many Army officers Aunofficially declared they were op- d to “stuffing military training «down the throats” of a group of ouths from families living in de- Zressed circumstances. A class feel- 9ng would be engendered which wyould be hard to overcome and Sower morale, they indicated. However, C. C. C. enrollees already ) Expansion of Own Personnel tempt Might Disrupt have been physically hardened for possible military training and the discipline they undergo is only slightly less strict than that im- posed upon military groups. Byrnes Bill Praised. The bill introduced by Senator Byrnes to train the youths as me- chanics and in other non-combatant duties was lauded by C. C. C. offi- cials, who, since the introduction of expanding defenses, have re- frained from declaring again their opposition to military training. James J. McEntee, director, re- cently said the C. C. C. was “ex- ceptionally qualified” for any pro- gram contemplating training in de- fense industries. Officials pointed out today that the C. C. C. could turn out every three months 10,000 men who could keep automotive equipment in re- pair but would not be entirely skilled as mechanics. There are now build- ing, planned or already in existence, 50 automotive repair shops in the corps where enrollees are trained as they maintain its 40,000 pieces of automotive equipment. The National Youth Administra- tion has about 19,000 youths en- gaged im activities where pre-ap- prentice training is given which would be useful in expanding avia- “ tion production. Many young wom- | en are being trained for public | health and hospital work—not as nurses. About 60,000 additional youths are learning various phases of building construction. In all, about 325,500 boys and girls are being trained in useful occupa- tions outside of school. A half mil- lion more are in schools where many of the boys already are receiving military training through the regu- lar Reserve Officers Traingin LONDON.—KING TESTS GUN—King George is sh an inspection of a factory yesterday. After pumping 60 shots in or close to the bullseye at 200 yards, he remarked: “I had no idea it was so steady.” He stopped frequently to examine machines and talk with workers. Later he said he was greatly impressed with their lively spirit and willing- ness to work on a customary holiday. gty ) ol own trying out a Bren machine gun during —A. P. Wirephoto. there can ultimately be no llbemes,' civil or religious (in this country). To stigmatize legislative judgment in providing for this universal gesture of respect for the symbol of our national life in the setting of the common school as a lawless in- road on that freedom of conscience which the Constitution protects would amount to no less than the pronouncement of pedagogical and psychological dogma in a fleld where courts possess no marked and cer- tainly controling competence. The influences which help toward a common feeling for the common country are manifold. Some may seem harsh and others no doubt foolish. Surely, however, the ends are legitimate.” Stone’s Dissenting Opinion. In his dissent, Justice Stone said: | “The law which is thus sustained is unique in the history of Anglo- | American legislation. It does more than suppress freedom of speech and more than prohibit the free exercise of religion which conceiv- ably are forbidden by the first amendment and are violations of the liberty guaranteed by the four- teenth. For by this law, the state | seeks to coerce these children to express a sentiment which, as they interpret it, they do not entertain and which violates their deepest re- ligious convictions.” “We are dealing here with the formative period in the development of citizenship,” said the court ma- jority, in upholding the salute. “Great diversity of psychological and ethical opinion are expressed among us concerning the best way ta train children for their place in soclety. Because of these differ- | Al ences and because of reluctance to permit a single, iron-cast system of education to be imposed upon a Na- unded of so many strains, eld that, even though pub- lic education is one of our most cherished democratic institutions, the Bill of Rights bars a State from compelling all children to attend the public schools. But it is a very different thing for this court to ex- ercise censorship over the convic- tion of Legislatures that a particu- lar program or exercise will best pro- mote in the minds of children who attend the common schools an at- tachment to the institutions of their country.” Several Briefs Filed. Responded Justice Stone: “History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in the name of righteousness and the public good and a few which have not been directed, as they are now, at politically helpless minor- ities.” The committee on the Bill of Rights of the American Bar Associa- tion and the American Civil Liber- ties Union filed briefs in the court in support of the children. The re- verse is the first that the Jehovah's Witnesses have had in three cases | before the court in the present term. In one instance, the religious or- ganization was responsible for the outlawing of an Irvington, N. J., ordinance which required an official premit as a prerequisite for distri- bution of their literature and in a case in connecticut they were re- sponsible for the voiding of one member who had been found guilty of disturbing the peace by playing a phonograph record attacking the Catholic religion on a street in a Catholic neighborhood in New Ha- ven, Conn, Former British Boxer Held LONDON, June 3 (#).—Joe Beckett, former British heavyweight boxing champion, and his wife were de- tained today by Southampton police under defense regulations. No de- tails were given. Mass Meefing Planned By Group Favoring Aid to Allies William Allen White Is Asked to Attend City-Wide Session Leaders of the newly-organized ‘Washington branch of the National Committee to Defend America by Alding the Allies today were on call to-continue development of plans for a city-wide mass meeting, following a meeting yesterday of interested workers for the cause. A telegram was sent to William | Allen White, Emporia (Kans.) editor, | asking his attendance. The date for | the meeting will be set after word is received from Mr. White, who is chairman of the national committee. The organizing meeting was held at the home of Huston Thompson, 2500 Massachusetts avenue N.W., local chairman. Headquarters have been established in the Evans Build- ing, it was announced. Among the aims of the organiza- tion is increased production of planes in this country for the Allies. In addition, the group wants Con- gress to appropriate $100,000,000 to aid war refugees. The leaders also desire to halt the production of all war materials which may ultimately reach those nations at war with the Robert Woods Bliss, former Am- bassador to the Argentine, told the meeting Chancellor Hitler has de- clared that the United States as well as the Allies “must be smashed as world powers” and then Germany will rule the world. From conditions in Europe, he said, there is sufficient evidence of the danger of taking Hitler's threats ligntly. Short of a war declara- tion, he declared, this country should make every effort to aid the Allies, “who are now fighting our battles across the sea.” Dwinght Davis was named vice chairman of the local committee. In addition, various groups were named to work among professional, | educational, social, industrial and | ministerial organizations for support | of the movement. Mrs. Morrow to Speak On Radio Tomorrow EMPORIA, Kans, June 3 (.— William Allen White, chairman of the Committee for American De- fense Through Aid for the Allles, said yesterday Mrs. Elizabeth Mor= row, Englewood, N. J.,, would make a radio address under the commit- tee's auspices tomorrow night. Mrs. Morrow, widow of Dwight W. Morrow and the mother of Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, will speak on “Does America Deserve a Miracle?” The address will be broadcast by the National Broadcasting Co., Mr. ‘White said, from 9:15 to 9:30 p.m. Two D. C. Girls to Get Degrees in New York Two Washington girls are among the graduating class of the Man- hattanville College of the Sacred Heart in New York City. Com- mencement exercises will be held Wednesday. ‘The girls are Charlotte Jane Le Comte, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ralph M. Le Comte, 2809 Thirty- fourth place N.W., and Catherine Holloway Tilghman, daughter of Mrg! Charles Tilghman, 1608 Thirty- second street N.W. ‘Fifth Column’ Has Permeated Into U. S., Says F. B. |. Head The “fifth column” method of “conspiring Communists and goose- stepping Bundsmen” have “perme- ated into every walk of life in the United States,” J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Mederal Bureau of In- vestigation today told the graduating class of Drake University at Des Moines, Iowa. As Mr. Hoover was detained in Washington, his address was broad- cast over the Mutual System to the Midwest institution which conferred upon him the honorary degree of doctor of laws in a two-way cere- mony. “By falsehood and fakery they gnaw at the Nation’s vitals,” Mr. Hoover said. “Their insidious prop- ganda in one form or another has even gained an entry into some of our churches and many of our schools. Unless we resist their ef- forts on a united front America will rue the day it let down its bars of self-respect—then it may be too late to act. “The Communists and the Bunds- men represent more than a mere RISl ‘| American citizens have been hood- materialism, destruction and the blacking out of decency. They stand for the overthrow of demo- cratic institutions, social, mental and religious, even While their lying leaders in our midst speak in a mumble-jumble of high- sounding phrases.” Mr. Hoover by implication took cognizance of criticlsm which re- cently has been directed against the P. B. I, particularly in connection with the arrest of the Spanish loyal- ist sympathizers in Detroit a short while ago. He said: “The lying propaganda machines of un-American bodies have been working overtime, while all too many winked by their falsehoods, tirades and vituperation. From these same sources have come charge after charge designed to discredit and blacken the good name of the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation and to undermine public law enforcement. ‘They stop at nothing in their efforts to misrepresent the organization which has made American homes safe from the kidnaper and which is now in the first line of defense | maintenance of the political status govern- | J Japanese Premier Sees Way to Improve - Relations With U. S. Details Undisclosed; Arita Discusses East Indies By the Associated Press. TOKIO, June 3.—Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai told newspaper- men today that “there is a way of improving aggravated relations be- tween Japan and the United States " but added that, “of course, such a method is neither being considered nor being taken.” “I am not in & position now to dis- close the nature” of this way to better relations, the Premier added. Many of his hearers interpreted his cryptic statement to mean that Japan did not intend to conciliate the United States by abandoning any of her policies toward China or other Far Eastern issues. The Premier, a former minister of the navy, replying to a question con- cerning the concentration of the United States Fleet in the Pacific, said “Japan feels no menace in this connection.” To another question concerning the future of the Netherlands Indies, now that Holland is under German occupation, Yonai replied: “Some Japanese think it is nec- essary for Japan to reserve her rights in the East Indies if their status quo is altered. The foreign minister (Hachiro Arita) already has said that such rights will be re- served.” Discusses East Indies Position. Foreign Minister Arita, speaking at the Institute of the Pacific, em- phasized that Japan’s concern in the East Indies is not limited to main- tenance of the status quo. “The imperial government cannot remain unconcerned at any develop- ment which may change existing conditions in the Netherlands In- dies,” he said. | “Our concern is not confined to| quo. In view of their resources, trade potentialities and industrial possibilities, it is but natural that Japan should entertain the most | serious concern over the economic | status of the Indies as well. “It is true that the Netherlands East Indies are connected with Eu- rope as a Dutch possession, but | since these areas are located in East Asia, they also are intimately bound with the destiny of the entire East Asia. “Nobody can possibly ignore their East Asiatic character.” | Sees Friction Continuing. | Without naming any countries, | Arita asserted that an “absence of | | friction and conflict cannot be ex- pected” when economic dislocations, | immigration and tariff restrictions exist between nations. | He drew a picture of two nations, | one with a small area and a large | population and poor natural re-| sources; the other with a large area, thinly populated and with good re- sources. “Suppose,” he said, “a further | situation developed in.which a nor- mal flow of goods and commodities between them is seriously impeded by tariff walls, immigration restric- tions and other barriers. “We can hardly expect an ab- sence of friction and conflict be- tween the countries. I am afraid not a few so-called Pacific questions may be traced to just such contra- dictions and injustices.” Paris (Continued From First Page.) | Finance | Nazi planes bomb Paris outskirts; From the roof the American | Embassy observers noted that the dreaded bombers suddenly zoomed heavenward into the| blue sky to get out of range of the anti-aircraft guns. | As the guns opened up, they | were joined by machine guns| mounted on rooftops. Then came the thunder of the French fight- ing ships taking off in pursuit. Traders at the Bourse, idling in the sunshine or talking about the market, heard the outburst of gun- fire, the noise of the planes, the piercing shrieks of the air-raid sirens, and scattered like frightened ants from a stirred-up nest. Night workers, dozing abed, grab- bed their clothes and dashed for the security of basements and air-raid shelters. The drone of the planes, the steady chatter of machine guns, the roar of the big guns continued. Bomb Crashes Heard All Over City. Where bombs struck the air was choked with dust. Peaceful streets were suddenly ripped up and lit- tered with rubble, plaster, stones, broken tiles, twisted chunks of steel girders. From the outlying districts smoke rose into the vision of men watch- ing from roofs in the center of the city. The crash of the bombs could be heard all over the city. Windows shook. Some fell out from the deep vibrations. Fire engines and ambulances rolled swiftly across the city to bring aid to the wounded and halt the progress of any fires which might start. One fire did start in a fac- tory. Inside, it was reported, there were dead and wounded workers. In one street a bomb ripped a hole at least 35 feet deep and 40 feet in diameter. Windows and doors were blown out of the apartment where the Na- tional Broadcasting Co. has its office. Paul Archinard and Kay Herrick of Bethel, Me., escaped without in- jury. Three Carried Out of Building. Three weunded persons were car- ried out of another apartment eight stories high after a bomb had ripped through to the second floor and burst. Bombs demolished a wooden house and sent fragments smashing against the face of a seven-story apartment building. A subway sta- tion was struck, but no one was inside. In the slu mdistrict, where the three apartment houses began blaz- ing after the incendiary bombs struck, the ambulances were filled as quickly as possible. one roaring off after another to the nearest hospital, Crowds of badly frightened Pa- risians from the neighborhood be- gan crawling out of air raid shelters | quickly got under control. and cellars. In another Associated found that three big bombs had residential district, an Press corresponden against the enemies of Americe.” ] {allen not & hundred yards from his t | few who wer# injured nhear the plant JUNE 3, 1940. W 1 { BIRMINGHAM, ALA.—EXTREMES AT AIR SHOW—In 1910, when the plane at top was built, it attracted attention because it could get off the ground and back again in one piece. But today Vincent “Squeek” Burnett of College Park, Md., (below) had to fly upside down and cut a ribbon with his wheels to get the same attention. Both are shown at the air carnival. —A. P. Wirephoto. Summary of Today’s Star Page. Amusements, Obituary A-10 B-18 | Radio B-16 Comics B-16-17 | Serial Story B-13 Editorials A-8 | Society B-3 A-15 | Sports A-12-14 Lost, Found B-lsiWoman's Page, B-11 Page. Foreign | Italy delays exposition, calls up more reservists. Page A-3| German high command claims cap- ture of 300,000 Alfies. Page A-1 Entire German division destroyed, British claim. Page A-1 Bullitt has close call. Page A-1 Germans assure U. S. they won't mo- lest Washington. Page A-3 Germans charge British plot sabot- age in Americas. Page A-2| Egypt interns 700 seized as “fifth column” suspects. Page A-2 German bombers continue attacks in Southeastern France. Page A-4 National. Mrs. Roosevelt advocates compulsory | non-military service. Page A-1| Army asks funds for' 1,600 addi- tional tanks. Page A-2 Connecticut Democrats select con- vention delegates. Page A-6 Browder and Ford again nominated by Communists. PageB-10 | Washington and Vicinity Officials make final inspection of new Juvenile Court. Page B-1 Ground broken for National Guard Armory. Page B-1 Hearing to be held on women'’s mini- mum wage law. Page B-1 Sports Lyons, Chisox vet, proving base- ball's best Sunday pitcher. | Page A-12| Damaged | Trainer's faith makes Goods top 2-year-old filly. Page A-12 Three D. C. pros invade Cleveland | for open golf tourney. Page A-13 D. C. middle, welter titles at stake in Furr-Mamakos bout, Page A-14 | | Editorial and Comment This and That. Page A-8 Answers to Questions. Page A-8 Letters to The Star. Page A-8 David Lawrence. Page A-9 Alsop and Kintner. Page A-9 Frederic William Wile. Page A-9 Charles G. Ross. Page A-9 H. G. Wells, Page A-9 Miscellany Nature’s Children. Page B-9 Letter-Out. Page B-16 | Bedtime Story. Page B-16 | Winning Contract. Page B-16 Uncle Ray’s Corner. Page B-17 Crossword Puzzle. Page B-17 own apartment. His terrified French wife, hardly able to speak for shock, said the planes had come over while she was in the garden. Shai had thrown herself flat on her face. perience, she said, was the high plercing and rising scream of the bombs as they came closer to earth. “You hear them coming,” she said, “and it gives you time to wonder whether this one is meant for you or for some one else.” Many Bombs Fall on Homes. Several different zones of the city appeared to have been selected by the Nazi raiders, and although the immediate objectives seemed to be military, many bombs had fallen on civilian residents and their homes near these objectives. Throughout the city, particularly in sections which had suffered dam- age—and for blocks around the area where bombs had fallen streets were filled with broken glass—people stood around in scared little groups talking of their experiences. Explosive and incendiary bombs hit a factory near the Seine and started a raging fire. Great billows of smoke rolled out of the building to blot out the sky across the river from one of the city’s most fashion- able districts. Here at least a dozen bombs fell. . Equipment was rushed up to fight the blaze which apparently was (From the cabled description, the location of this particular fire might be opposite the fashion- able Auteuil district, and just north of the Issy-les-Moulineaux Airport on the left bank of the Seine.) Few Hurt Near Factory. Rescue workers said there was virtually no loss of life at the fac- B tory as the workers were sway at lunch when' the raid startel. The were mostly hit by hurtling bricks A The most horrible part of the ex- | ) ms‘yum o Nazis Charge British Are Plotfing Sabotage In Americas Secret Agents Would Lay Incidents to Reich, Says Legation in Mexico City By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, June 3.—The press bureau of the German Lega- tion charged today that many Brit- ish secret service agents had ar- rived in Mexico and the Panama Canal Zone recently to organize sabotage operations and to create “incidents” which would be attrib- uted to German agents. ‘The aim of these alleged tactics, the bureau asserted, is to arouse fear and hatred of Germany in the Americas, particularly the United States. A statement issued by Arthur | Dietrich, chief of the bureau, said in part: “The government of the Reich has authentic information that a great quantity of British agents belonging to the secret service have arrived in Mexico and the neigh- borhood of the Panama Canal Their mission consists of creating incidents and practicing acts of sabotage which would be attributed later to Germany. “In its desperation, the British government believes that, by resort- ing to these methods, it will spread panic among the American peoples and a psychosis of hatred against the Reich. “The current catch-phrase ‘fifth | column’ of which British propa- ganda talks so much in the Umbed‘, States, is designed to create un- | easiness and fear in the American people—which are exactly what the war-mongers desire for their mach- inations.” MeximN—egomg With Second Oil Firm By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY, June 3—Fran- cisco Castillo Najera, Mexican Am- bassador to the United States last night confirmed reports that nego- tiations are in progress with another American Petroleum Co. for settle- ment for oil properties expropriated in 1938. Egypt Inferns 700 ‘ Seized as Suspected "Fifth Columnists’ Transportation and Communication Lines Under Heavy Guard By the Associated Press. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, June 3.— Seven hundred “fifth column” sus- pects, seized in a week-end roundup, were sent today to internment camps in upper and lower Egypt. Approximately 600 of the suspects were seized in Cairo and the re- mainder in Alexandria. All were held under strong guard to await trial before military tribunals. Premier Aly Maher Pasha, mean- while, said the government is study- ing new measures to assure the nation’s internal security in view of the tense situation in the Medi- terranean. Heavy Guards Posted. Z Fully-equipped soldiers with fixed bayonets stood guard over telegraph and telephone systems. Heavy guards also were posted at railway stations, bridges and strategic points along highways and canals. Police armed with rifles patrolled the streets. Authorities prepared to requisition trains and other transport facilities quickly to remove children and aged persons from Alexandria if Egypt is attacked. Failure of negotiations between Italy and Britain over contraband control spurred intense diplomatic activity. The Premier conferred with Gen. Henry Maitland Wilson, commanding officer of the British forces in Egypt; British Ambassador Sir Miles Lampson and the Italian Minister, Seafino Mazzolini. Belief grew in official circles that the Mediterranean situation would be clarified after the scheduled meeting of Premier Mussolini’s cabe | inet 1n Rome tomorrow. | Foreigners Checked Closely. The newspaper La Bourse Egype tienna said that nearly 1,000 per- sons had been taken into custody since police started a roundup of undesirables May 31. Among them were 11 men held as suspected accomplices in the as- sassination of Sheik Abdel Raouf Abdel Zaher, member of Parliament wno was shot to death from ambush May 25. Former Infernes fo Meet | At Freedmen’s Tomorrow The 21st annual three-day meet- | ing of the Association of Former In- ternes of Freedmen's Hospital will open at the institution tomorrow with more than 200 physiclans from 35 States expected to attend. | Dr. Ralph Young of Baltimore, president, will preside at the ses= sions, to be addressed by specialists | who teach in the medical schools of Johns Hopkins, George Washing- ton and Howard Universities and the University of Maryland. Speakers will include Drs. Richard W. TeLinde, Perrin H. Long and Joseph E. Moore, all of Johns Hop- kins; Dr. Montague Cobb, Howard; Dr. Harry M. Robinson, Maryland; Dr. Paul P. Dickens, George Wash- ington; Dr. H. M. Williams, Druid Hill Health Center, Baltimore; Dr. George M. Leiby, District Health Department; Dr. Charles R. Drew, Freedmen's Hospital, and Dr. E. G. Howell of New Brunswick, N. J. Other officers of the association are Dr. W. A. Warfield, honorary president emeritus; Dr. T. E. Jones, honorary president; Dr. E. C. Wig- gins, president-eiect; Dr. Arthur H. Simmons, executive secretary; Dr. Robert S. Jason, secretary; Dr. J. H. Parker, Red Bank, N. assistant secretary, and Dr. L. G. Brown, Elizabeth, N. J,, treasurer. The first | five are residents of Washington. | Chairmen of committees in charge of arrangements are Drs. C. Wendall Freeman, George L. Johne son, Willilam H. Welch, Jesse A. Keene, Donald M. Harper and Paul E. Piper, all of Washington. {D. C. Woman Admitted To Supreme Court Bar Miss Margaret Ann Shea, grad- uate of the Washington College of Law in the class of 1938, was ad- mitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court today. Weat her Report (Furnished by the United States Weather Bureau.) District of Columbia—Fair, continued warm tonight and tomorrow; gentle variable winds. Maryland and Virginia—Fair tonight; tomorrow generally fair, con- tinued warm. West Virginia—Fair tonight; tomorrow fair, slightly warmer. Pressure is relatively low along the Northern New England coast, Boston, Mass.. 1013.9 millibars _(29.94 inches). disturbance is moving eastward ver Minnesota. Minneapolis. 1007.8 mil- libars (20.76 inches). with a trough ex- tending southwestward to Arizona. In this trough another wave disturbance is mov- ing_slowly eastward over Western Ne- braska, North Platte. 1004.7 millibars (29.67 inches). High pressure’ prevails off the South Atlantic Coast and in the Ohio pd in the Middie Atlantlc snd uf 10207 milifbars (30.14 inches). is relatively high over North Dakota, Devils Lake. 1015.2 millibars (20.98 inches). and in the North Pacific States. North Head. Wash., 1020.3 millibars (30.13 "{nches). During the iast 24 hours showers have occurred in the northern Rocky Mountain | Dece region. the middle and northern Plateau, the northern Plains States, the northern upper Lake region. Northern New Eng- land. Eastern North Carolina and Florida. Temperatures have risen in the lower Lake Tegion and along the New England coast, while they have fallen in the northern Plains States. River Report. Baltimore_ Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy | Birm st Harpers Perry: Potomac very muddy 8t Great Falls today. Report for Last 48 Hours. Temperature, dearees. Saturday— 4 Record for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. 82, at 4:15 p.m. yesterday. Year ago, 77. Lowest, 60. at 5:30 s.m. today. ago, 62. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 92. on May 14. Lowest, 7, on January 29. Tide Tables. (Purnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. Year ‘Temorrow. High 8:43 Low igh 7 1:52 pm. ta, tomorrow 22 &1 73 3 $83am EiSpm A lights must be turned oo oo BOT W S olhit 2008 06 .09 09 97 94 .08 .09 Chicago___ 08 » | Cincinnafi™ 80,13 Clevelang 06 Columbia__ ‘30.09 8 & 0 8 dity for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. 98 per cent, at 7 a.m. todsy. Lowest, 38 per cent. at 4 p.m. yesterday, Precipitation. ' Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to dat Month. anuary ebruary March Weather in Various Cities. r'l‘em&- Rain Baro. High. Low. Abilene___ 2083 94 60 Alban: 30. RE23% . Pr 18’ Beattie- - ° 30,09 WASH.D.C. 30.09 EELF RS SRR PR R FOREIGN STATIONS. (Noon, Greenw Horts (Pa; Cu"rn‘x::m foduatees Colen. time. today). mperature. Weather, Cloudy Observations.