Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1940, Page 2

Rome Police Rout’ Demonstrators Against Allies Rank-and-File Italians Showing Nerve Strain Of Awaiting War By the Associated Press. ROME, June 5—Fascist students attempted to organize new anti-Al- lied demonstrations today as Italy marked time on the edge of war, but were disbanded by police in the vicinity of the British consulate. The youths, many of ,whom had Just completed their examinations in the early closing of schools, formed a procession in the down- town streets. After they were dispersed, armed troops were stationed at doorways near the consulate, and the guards| at the French and British Embas- sies were reinforced. Turkish-Greek Tension. An Athens dispatch to 11 Messag- gero reported that Turkey, despite her denials, had sought permission to disembark troops on the Greek Islands in the Aegean Sea. The troops were said to be already con- centrated and ready to embark, While Allied war vessels were cruis- | ing among the islands. | The papers said the Greek gov-| ernment had rejected the request, but that it had been urgently re- newed. Turkey’s reasons were reported to be first, to prevent the islands from falling into Italian hands in case Italy entered the war and then be- ing used as bases for an attack on Turkey; and second, to make it pos- sible for Turkey to protect Greek territory from attack, since Greece lies within Turkey's safety zone. Tension was reported growing be- tween Greece and Turkey as a re- sult of the supposed demands. The soldiers guarding the British consulate in Rome were withdrawn in midmorning. About 20 British Leave. ‘ About 20 British, mostly members | of the Embassy’s commercial staff, and their families left today for Contributions to the Red Cross war relief fund will be received and acknowledged in the news columns if sent to the cashier’s office of The Star. The desperate, need of Europe’s war victims was epmhasized today as District Red Cross leaders re- minded Washingtonians their orig- inal quota of $150,000 in the war relief drive has been doubled and that donations to date are only $112,762.43. Among large contributions reported yesterday was one of $852.55 from the headquarters staff of the Ameri- can Red Cross. Mrs. Newland John- ston gave $500, as did Miss Edith Allen Clark, while a total of $3,243 was reported from the booths in banks and stores. Pointing out that less than half the local quota has been raised, Bruce Baird, general campaiagn chairman, declared “Washington has not yet fully awakened to the fact that the original quota of $150,000 has been doubled. Plight of Refugees Cited. “Washingtonians should compare their own safety and freedom with that of the refugees who are being | bombed out of home and city; who are being maimed and starved; who are, in many instances, little chil- dren and helpless old people. I am sure that if they consider this pic- ture, Washingtonians will give freely until the goal is reached.” Meanwhile, contributors from all over the country had swelled the American Red Cross war relief fund to $6,591,160. While money and relief supplies went forward, the British Red Cross cabled grateful acknowledgement for 50 ambulances which are being dis- patched to replace losses in the battle of Flanders. Letters have been received from contributors in every station of life—road gang convicts, couples THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Red Cross Is Far Short Of $300,000 Fund Drive Here Capital Declared Not Yet Awake To Need for Larger Quota celebrating their golden anniversary, charwomen and school children. $60 From Eskimo Village. From the remote Eskimo village of Gambell in Alaska came a check for $60.50 from the village’s fund raised by sale of ivory carvings. Funds ordinarily used for “smokes and otlfer few luxuries and necessi- ties” were sent to the Red Cross by 90 convicts at the State prison camp at Sandy Ridge, N. C. A public school class in High Point, N. C, donated the sum it had raised for a graduation party, and an elderly couple asked friends who planned to give them golden wedding anniversary presents to send the money to the Red Cross instead. From West Felinciana Parish, La., where flood victims have been helped by the Red Cross in the past, came $2 from a resident to “enable the Red Cross to do for somebody else what you did for me.” A scrub woman sent her day’s wages and a Polish resident of Rochester hit upon the idea of selling flowers from her small garden to raise a contri- bution. Other donations reported yester- day from Washingtonians included “anonymous” sums of $500 and $200, a $200 gift from Mr. and Mrs. Miiton King. $497.35 from L. R. Harris & Co., and $5 from a girls’ club of eighth grade students at Holy Cross Academy. Reports from Government depart- ments were as follows: Federal Work Agency, $83.50; Treasury, $330.90; Federal Housing, $393; Public Library, $103.14; ex- ecutive office Government repre- sentatives, $59.10; White House, $385; Library of Congress, $299.75; Interior Department, $2,667.90; United States Tariff Commission, $113; Walter Reed Hospital, $203.20; Public Utilities Commission, $58; Maritime Commission, $211.75; Smithsonian Institution, $119.36; General Accounting Office, $900.10; Suveyor’s Office, $35; District of Co- lumbia Health Department, $52.75. home. Fellow-countrymen who bade them farewell at the station| shouted, “Hurrah for England!” as| the train departed. | The government issued instruc- tions for blackouts in case of air | raids. | The Fascist press continued to publish reports or alleged \Allied per- secution of Italians. The latest ac- cusation was contained in a Stefani news agency dispatch from Brus- sels, charging French troops had executed seven Italians and Bel- | gians after a court martial con- | victed them of espionage. | The victims were reported to‘ have been part of a group, which‘ Defense Commission | Starts Conferences With Army and Navy Industrial Mobilization Plan Reported Sifted For Production Clues The National Defense Commis- | sion today began a series of confer- Biddle Seeks Unity Without "Hysteria’ In Alien Control President Expecied To Fill Edison’s Post Promptly - Navy Secretary’s Letter Of Resignation Paid Tribute to Compton By JOHN C. HENRY. Quick selection of a new Secretary of Navy to replace Charles Edison, resigning, in order to prevent any break in continuity of the defense program was being forecast today in quarters close to the White House and the Navy Department. Mr. Edison, leaving the cabinet on June 24 to open his campaign as the Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey, actually submitted his resignation to President Roose- velt on May 24. Its receipt and ac- ceptance were announced by the President at a press conference late yesterday. Thus far no definite indication has been given as to who Mr. Edi- son’s successor may be or whether the President has even decided on the choice. Paid Compton Tribute. It was noted, however, that in his letter of resignation Mr. Edison paid particular tribute to Assistant Sec- retary Lewis Compton, and selection of Mr. Compton for the post would not be surprising. Also from New Jersey, Mr. Comp- ton came to the Navy Department as an old associate of Mr. Edison, having served from 1936 to February, 1940, as assistant to the present Secertary in his capacity as presi- dent of Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Previously, Mr. Compton was New Jersey State relief administrator and assistant W. P. A. administra- tor. He served in the Navy during the World War. In recent months, Mr. Compton has occupied a key post in the Navy Department, exercising immediate supervision over the construction program of the department. Con- tinuity in this phase of the Navy’s preparedness plans is considered particularly important now. Likewise mentioned as a possi- bility for the cabinet post is Ad- miral William D. Leahy, retired, now the Governor of Puerto Rico. Admiral Leahy preceded Admiral Stark as chief of Navy operations and is considered one of the top | authorities in naval matters. | Would Break Precedent. parture from precedent, however, in .| that it has not been customary to Solicitor General Aims At Co-ordination of Work Of Six Department Units By the Associated Press. Solicitor General Francis Biddle |name men from the services to ment secretaryships. It is a fact that the President some time ago sounded out Col. }Frank Knox, Chicago publisher and Republican vice presidential nomi- nee in 1936, for the Navy post, but | His appointment would be a de—: either the War and Navy Depart- | $26,000,000. Raid Alarms Sounded ' As Planes Fly High | \Over Swedish Port Allied Forces Smashing East Along Norwegian Railway to Border By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, June 5.—Air raid alarms were sounded briefly in | Northern Sweden today, when at | least two foreign planes were sighted | | at great height over the iron ore | | port of Lulea, heavily fortified Boden | and Pitea, another northern port. | The planes disappeared before they could be identified. | British, French and Norwegian WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1940. MODEL OF WAR DEPARTMENT BUILDING—Judges at the architectural exhibit of the Associa- tion of Federal Architects, being held all this month at the National Museum, are shown examin- ing a model of the proposed new War Department buildin Twenty-first, Twenty-third, C and E streets and Virginia avenue Green Bay Packers File Tax Protest As ‘Charity’ Group By the Associated Press Green Bay Packers, Inc., operator of the National Pro- fessional Football League team of Green Bay, Wis., has told the Tax Appeals Board it should not have to pay a Treasury claim for $5865 of undistrib- uted profits taxes for 1937 Its petition contended it was a non-profit sharing organiza- tion, that any proceeds from its operations went to the Sulli- van Post of the American Legion or to Green Bay chari- ties, and that as a charitable organization it was not subject to tax g. The structure will be bounded by N.W, and is expected to cost —Star Staff Photo. Northeast Depositors To Get Dividend of '5.16Per Cent Final Payment Interest On Claims Already [ Paid in Full | | Closing up receivership of another bank here, Justus S. Wardell, re- ceiver of the Northeast Savings | Bank, today announced that he will | begin disbursement of the final divi-1 dend to 7400 depositors tomorrow morning. ‘ The $54,712.98 dividend. authorized | by the Controller of the Currency, represents 5.16 per cent interest to | depositors, who previously had re Garment Workers Vote Reaffiliation WithA.F.L., 6401012 Communists Are Only Objectors to Action Of Former C. I. O. Unit By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 5—By a vote of 640 to 12, delegates to the For- tleth Convention of the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers Union voted today to reaffiliate with the American Federation of Labor. The union, claiming 250,000 mem- bers in the United States and Can- ada, left the A. F. L. to become one of the most powerful units of tne C. 1. O. Then, a year ago, it with- drew from the C. I. O. in protest afainst the C. I. O.s setting up a permanent rival organization to the A. F. L., and has been function- ing as an independent. Before the vote, the delegates had loudly cheered the recommendation of the union’s Executive Board to rejoin the A. F. L. The only op- position came from the Communist bloc. This drew the denunciation of the president, David Dubinsky, who declared: “The vote indicates again the conflict between the Com- munist party and the welfare of the union.” A message to the delegates from William Green, A. F. L. president, said that discontinuance of the 1- cent-per-month anti-C. I. O. assess« ment would be recommended at next, November’s A. F. L. convention in New Orleans. It also said that the A. F. L. Executive Council had decided to recommend to the conven- tion that all suspensions of inter- national unions be subject to action by delegates at an annual conven- tion réther than solely by the coun- cil. Both these points had been sore spots with Mr, Dublinsky. The letter was read by Samuel Otto, manager of the Philadelphia Dress Joint Board, who said 117,000 | members, or 73% per cent, had voted for resolutions favoring reaffiliation with the A. F. L. Of the rest, he said 26 per cent favored continu- ation of all union's independent status and one-fourth of 1 per cent voted to return to the C. I. O. The Green message, overcoming the Dubinsky objections to re- affiliation, also cleared the way, Mr Dubinsky said, for a return to A. F. of L. good standing of the Typographical Union, suspended when it refused to pay the per capita tax. AlliesTlirIuaIly Control Ten Vital Raw Materials no understanding was reached. | troops smashing eastward along the | Narvik Railway were reported in Lawyers Guild Is Hit | Swedish press dispatches today to have stormed the Ge dfensesz B I f Rf I | Edison wrote the President that: “?‘g‘;d“:‘:r-)eab"“: hsi’;::*; b:“"ee"? y erie or ke usa | for dealing with aliens and combat-| “In general, the objectives we | the Arctic ore port of Narvik and ing subversive activities. | have striven for, over the past three the Swedish-Norwegian frontier. included women and children, who | ences with the Army and Navy to were lined up against a wall for | find a basis for production of the summary execution. This, according | most pressing rearmament needs of to the dispatch, was postponed at |the Nation. the last minute pending the court- | Acting with renewed assurances martial, which then passed the!from President Roosevelt that they | death sentence. would meet no interference from It | ceived 100 per cent distribution on | BY the Associated Press. | claims totaling $1.062,089.73. The | LONDON, June 5—The Ministry last prior dividend of 5 per cent on4 of Economic Warfare announced to- | principal was paid in November, | day that Allied empires now virtually 1938. | control the world production of rub- Post cards were being mailed out | ber, tin, diamonds, nickel, Jjute, today notifying depositors when to | ka said today that he would endeavor |is now understood that the Chi- to co-ordinate the work of the six €280an would not accept the job. Justice Department units responsible | In submitting his resignation, Mr. Strain on Nerves Shown. Rank and file Italians, admitting privately that the on-and-off state of Italy’s‘war preparations was get- ting on their nerves, took the view that “if we're going to fight, let's get it over with.” This commeént highlighted clamor | for an Italian blow for her terri- torial aspirations—stirred by Fas- cist writers’ descriptions of plans for | attacks on British and French Mediterranean territories, with con- | quest of the Suez Canal as a main| goal, perhaps to be followed by a| move into the Balkans. | A cabinet meeting presided over| by Premier Mussolini yesterday pro- duced only secondary preparedness regulations and left still undis- closed the date and place of possible Italian intervention in the war as a | | German ally. Speculation regarding the time of an Italian plunge into war ranged from the end of this week to the end of the month and one source close to the government declared that no immediate move was likely. Italian lines sold tickets for sail- | Ing of the liner Rex for New York ! June 11, after nearly every one had | concluded that the United States liners President Harrison and Ex- cambion, now en route to America would be the last ships to leave for the United States before extension of the war to the Mediterranean. Mrs. Linn R. Blanchard Funeral Services Today Mrs. Sara Johnston Blanchard, 67, wife of Linn R. Blanchard, chief of the accessions division of the Library of Congress, died Monday in George Washington University Hospital after a brief illness. Funeral services were to be held at 3 pm. today at the Hines funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street N.W., with burial in Fort Lincoln Ceme- tery. Mrs. Blanchard, a native of But- ler, Pa., was graduated from West- minster College, New Wilmington, | Pa., with B. A. and M. A. degrees. She afterward taught school in But- ler and Monesen, Pa. She was mar- ried to Mr. Blanchard in 1911. They had lived in Washington since 1927, making their home at 3714 Windom place N.W. Besides her husband, Mrs. Blan- chard leaves a son, Alan J. Blan- chard, and a grandson, Alan F. Blanchard of Arlington, Va.; a daughter, Mrs. Alice Barnes of Washington; a brother, Wesley Johnston of St. Louis, Mo.; three sisters, Mrs. Robert Shomo of But- ler, Mrs. Samuel J. Levy of Gallitzin, Pa., and Miss Flora M. Johnston of Lincoln, Nebr. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Considers Army promotion bill and other defense measures. Appropriations Committee acts on $1,055,000,000 relief bill. Foreign Relations Committee con- siders Pittman-Bloom bill reaffirm- ing Monroe doctrine. Naval Committee holds hearing on bill to expedite shipbuilding. Military Committee considers bills aimed at “fifth colnmns.” House: Continues debate on Wagner Act amendments. ‘Ways and Means Committee stu- dies billion dollar tax increase. Foreign Affairs Committee dis- cusses Pittman-Bloom bill. Eire keeps imports of women’'s hats on a quota basis. ] i cabinet officers, Edward R. Stet- tinius, jr., charged with acquiring | industrial materials, and William §. Knudsen, in charge of production, | alternated the conference between | their new offices in the Federal Re- serve Building and th Navy and Munitions Building acrfit street. It was reliably report y also were examining the Army’s indus- trial mobilization plans, long in preparation for war-time use, which would furnish the Defense Com- mission with immediate information for producing much of the im- | portant material. Air-Cooled Engine Studied. Most pressing was increasing pro- | duction of airplane engines. Mr. | Knudsen, now on leave from his job | as president of General Motors, was reported examining the possibility of placing in production by the au- tomobile industry an air-cooled engine for warplanes. It was ru- mored this might be the Rolls Royce engine design sent here by England last month. Also reported under discussion were plans for increased produc- tion of General Motors’ own Alli- son engine, an air-cooled type for | which all new Army pursuit planes are designed. This, it was said, would be accomplished by permitting other automobile companies to produce the Allison engine through retooling plants, an expensive procedure which could not be completed ordi- narily in less than a year, The un- official embargo on machine tool- ing disclosed yesterday to have been placed in effect may speed the re- tooling process. So busy were Mr. Knudsen and Mr. Stettinius they scarcely had time to select secretaries and office per- sonnel. Other offices in the air-con- | ditioned building were being pre- pared rapidly for Sidney Hillman, { who will have charge of defense | personnel. Now ill, he is expected to | arrive in Washington near the end of the week. Others Due Next Week. Miss Harriet Elliott, dean of women at the University of North Carolina and charged with con- sumer protection in the Defense Commission, and Ralph Budd, charged with supervising trans- portation for the needed materials, are expected early next week. Their arrival will complete the com- mission. Shortly after Mr. Stettinius re- signed from his $100,000-a-year job yesterday as chairman of the United States Steel Board, President Roose- velt refuted at his press conference assertions that Secretary of Com- merce Hopkins and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau would retain control of the defense plan. The Treasury, he said, would retain the task of co-ordinating military pur- chases by foreign nations which Mr. Roosevelt said will remain outside the Defense Commission’s jurisdic- tion because of financial problems and the fact that the Treasury has | been dealing continuously with the | Allied Purchasing Board. Meanwhile, a national inventor’s council was reported being created as a defense measure by Secretary Hopkins and will include scientists. | A similar group was organized dur- |ing the World War. The council will have representatives of the | Army, Navy and Patent Office. I Three D. C. Youths Graduate Three Washington students were graduated from Staunton Military Acamedy at exercises in Staunton, Va., yesterday. They are Robert A. Chambreau, 5704 Sixteenth street N.W.; Stephen H. Smith, 4211 Mili- tary road N.W., and Layne Loeffler, 3109 Nichols avenue S.E. } Mr. Biddle said i an interview that there was no thought of merg- | and a half years, have in great part ibeen realized or will be when the Narvik in Allied Hands. | Narvik now is in Allied hands and ng these units—ecivil Mberties, neu. | Present Congress finally passes the | Allied forces are trying to free the trality, immigration, naturaliza- | CUrTent legislative program. The |railway into Sweden from the Ger- ton, border patrol and the Federal | Shipbuilding program and plans for mans. Bureau of Investigation. What he would seek to do, he said, would be to keep a “balance” in their work. “The problem of subversive activ- ity,” he declared, “is not greatly an alien problem. Many of those to be watched are recently naturalized citizens.” Department *“to Keep Calm.” He added the department's aim would be to “convince the immi- grants that what is being done is for their protection and to tie them into the American way of life.” The department, he said. “will be extremely readv to follow up dence of sabotage or espionage, but will attempt to keep calm in what may become an hysterical situation.” Transfer of the immigration and naturalization service to the Justice Department from the Labor Depart- ment becomes effective June 14. At- torney General Jackson has made Mr. Biddle responsible for fitting the new division into the depart- ment. Personnel to Be Checked. Mr. Biddle said he already had ordered a “careful check” of the bor- der patrol personnel and effective- ness, particularly in view of the strain which might result if Canada ordered conscription. The solicitor general likewise said he had started to work with the Post Office Department and the Census Bureau in anticipation of congressional enactment of legisla- tion calling for registration of all aliens. This bill would require finger- printing of all aliens before admis- sion to this eountry, registration and fingerprinting of all aliens now here, reports of change in address of alient permanent residents, and re- ports every three months from other aliens. Mr. Biddle estimated eight months would be required for registration of the 3,500,000 or more allens in the United States. Heat Overcomes Four; Cooler Is Forecast Cooler weather and thundershow- ers were in prospect tonight and to- morrow following yesterday after- noon’s heat which sent the mercury to a new high of 92 degrees and prostrated four persons. Only one of the four heat victims was seri- ously affected. The forecast said: “Cloudy tonight with local showers and thunder- showers; tomorrow partly cloudy followed by local thundershowers in the afternoon. Not much change in temperature.” The low this morning was 70 de- grees, some eight points above that of yesterday, but cloudy skies kept temperatures in the 70’s throughout the forenoon. John Dixon, colored, 30, 1100 block of Fifth street N.W., remained at Garfield Hospital today for treat- ment after he was overcome while at work on the Naval Medical Center Building under construction on Rockville pike. He was brought to the hospital by the Bethesda Rescue Squad. Others less seriously affected were Dexter Brady, 39, 1500 block of A street N.E.; McKinley Chapman, 38, 600 block of Callan street N.E., and Ernest Ellington, 55, 800 block of Second street N.W. They were given first aid at Casualty Hospital and sent home. Fish friers of Britain want a $4,000,000 subsidy. evi- | its expansion are in good condition, | as is the fleet in being “In Good Hands.” 1 “The affairs of the Navy are in | the hands of an exceptionally able group of men at this time from | Assistant Secretary of the Navy Mr | Lewis Compton, the Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold R. Stark, | the bureau chiefs and department | heads on.” Wishing him success in his gu- | bernatorial campaign and con- | gratulating him on his “splendid | record” in the cabinet, Mr. Roosevelt | | replied to Mr. Edison: | continue to count on your advice in | many matters which relate to fhe the next few months to come to ‘Washington frequently in order that I may talk things over with you.” Georgetown Citizens Win Fight for Street Name Georgetown residents have won another battle to preserve senfi- mental attachments to their his- toric community. The Commis- sloners decided yesterday that the two-block street running north and south from K to M street N.W. parallel with Thirtieth street will continue to bear the name of Jefferson. However, under a compromise in- tended to prevent confusion with Jefferson street N.W. which runs east and west, a block above Ingra- ham street N.-W., or with Jefferson place, off Connecticut avenue above M street N.W. the Commissioners decided the street in lower George- town should be called Thomas Jefferson street. Commissioner John Russell Young lives on Jefferson place, but did not make the original suggestion that Georgetown's Jefferson street be renamed Thirtieth place. This proposal, which brought protests from a long list of Georgetown residents, came from F. F. Healey, District surveyor, and it was he who submitted the compromise which was adopted. Baden-Powell Urges Scouts to Further Effort By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 5—Lord Baden- Powell, head of the Boy Scouts, sent & message to all Scouts today calling for “still further effort” to help the Allies win the war. “You have done grand work behind the scenes already,” he cabled from his home in Kenya colony to imperial headquarters here, “but as the fight- ing has grown more desperate it calls for still further effort from you. “So with tails up and sleeves up, g0 to it in every way you can to help win the war.” Poles Plan to Transfer Refugees to Syria By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, June 5.—Polish dip- lomatic circles early today disclosed plans to transfer to Syria all the 13,000 Polish refugees in Rumania. Many Polish refugees recently have been arrested in a drive against possible “fifth columists.” The Polish circles said that nearly 50,000 refugees, the majority men of military age, had left Rumania since last September, mostly for France. “I want you to know that I will | | defense development now under way, | and I hope you will find time during | | The dispatches said the Germans | were yielding under the heavy rain of shells from British destroyers and | |1and batteries. A final onslaught against the main German forces at Bjornfjell, about 2 | miles from the Swedish frontier, is | expected within a day or two if the present advance continues. | The Allies and Norwegans are now | moving in accordance with well-laid | plans. The battleground is a mountain railway which burrows through 14 long tunnels. | Casualties Reported Heavy. Inside these tunnels the Ger- mans are fighting furiously, in many instances heroically holding on to the last man. Into the mouths of the tunnels fly showers of shrapnel from the guns of British destroyers | lying in Rombakfjord, alongside the | railway, and from Allied mountain | artillery. Taking advantage of this bar- rage but still exposed to German air attacks, the Allied troops are ad- vancing along the railway from Narvik to force their way through and around the captured tunnels. Casualties are reported heavy on | both sides. Nazi Air Reinforcements Blocked, British Say NEW YORK, June 5 (#).—British pursuit planes have forced the Ger- mans to abandon the landing of reinforcements in Northern Norway from transport planes, it was an- nounced today in a broadcast on the wavelength of the official British wireless heard by C. B. S. The British also reported that the | Germans were frustrated in at- iempts to land troops, provisions and ammunition by means of para- | chutes. . 1. 0. Asks Dismissal 0f Republic Steel Suit By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, June 5—The Con- gress of Industrial Organizations asked Federal District Court todav to dismiss a suit for $7,500,000 dam- ages brought by Republic Steel Corp. under anti-trust statutes resulting from the 1937 “little steel” strike. Counsel for C. I. O. cited the recent United States ‘Supreme Court ruling that a C. I. O. union’s sit- down strike “of the most brutal and wanton character” against the Apex Hosiery Co. did not constitute viola- tion of the Sherman act. In his written motion Attorney Marvin C. Harrison contended the Apex decision established a precedent under which acts of violence alleged by Republic “do not create a cause of action under the anti-trust laws.” Republic has 10 days in which to flle a reply. It named 750 organiza- tions and individuals in its suit and, like Apex, asked treble damages. Ambulance Volunteers To Train in New York By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, June 5—The Amer- ican Volunteer Ambulance Corps, which has sent 110 ambulances and 40 drivers to France, will train ite drivers henceforth in New York in- stead of In Paris, to avoid delay after the men reach Europe. The A. V. A. C. is one of several volunteer organizations sending men and ambulances to the war zone. ToDiffer With Reds State Department Aide Resigns From National And Local Bodies Expressing dissatisfaction with the organization's refusal “to take any stand which conflicts with the Com- munist party line,” Assistant Secre- tary of State A. A. Berle, jr., hafi resigned from the National Lawyers Guild, as well as its District of | Columbia chapter, his office dis- | vision of Rece closed today. Attornev General Jackson and Interior Department, resigned from the organization a few days ago. Mr. Berle gave notice of his resigna- tion in brief letters dated June 3 to John Gutknecht of New York City, retiring president of the Na- tional Guild. and Merle D. Vincent, president of the Washington chapter. | | Mr. Berle wrote that “the guild was | Europe is said to have been sold in | formed in the hope that expression | the streets of Paris in 1484, during | might be given to the liberal senti- | the Italian war of that year. ment in the American bar.” However, the latter said, as long as the guild is not prepared to con- flict with the Communist party line, “in company, I think, with most progressive American lawyers, I have no further interest in it.” Asked today to comment on the resignations, Mr. Vincent, who is di- rector of the hearings branch of the Wage-Hour Division of the Labor Department, said: “So far as T am acquainted with the view of members of the Law- yers’ Guild—and I think I know the views of a great many of them—they are wholly at variance with the implications of Mr. Berle’s state- ment. So far as I know, a great madority *of them are emphatically and decidedly in favor of the ad- ministration’s program of national defense and the President’s state- ment of the purpose of maintain- ing his legislative aims. “I believe Mr. Berle is under a| misimpression created by the views of a very few members.” Mr. Vincent added that he thought the election last week of Judge Robert Kenney of Los An- geles to the national presidency of the organtzation was the best an= swer to its critics. Judge Kenney, Mr. Vincent pointed out, is a “typ- ical Democrat” and a supporter of the administration. The new pres- ident was chosen Saturday at the national convention in New York. Thomas Oriani, 75, Dies; Was Refired Policeman Thomas Oriani, 75. retired police- man of 1313 Irving street N.W., died today in Naval Hospital after a brief iliness. He was a veteran of 43 years’ service. Mr. Oriani performed about every duty a private can. He was com- mended on numerous occasions. In private life he was a collector of stamps and antiques. Another of his hobbies was the City of Wash- ington. His home was a storehouse for old prints and historical trivia of the Capital. He was a member of the Association of Oldest Inhab- itants. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary Ellen Oriani; three daughters, Mrs. John Dillon Fitzgerald, Mrs. William Leo Collins and Miss Ethel Oriani, and a son, William Oriani, all of Washington. The funeral will take place Fri- day, with requiem mass at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart at 9 am. Burial will be in 8t. Mary's Ceme- tery. > call for their checks at the office of | the receiver, 1614 K street N.W. Depositors were “urgently requested” by Mr. Wardell not to seek payment prior to the receipt of the post eards and to be sure to bring their re- celver's certificates for surrender. | Still in the hands of the receiver | is $8400 not yet collected by de- | positors from previous dividends. | | The amounts are comparatively | | small, Mr. Wardell said as 5238 i checks have been issued to cover| this figure. | | The Northeast Savings Bank is the second bank under the super- iver Wardell to have | disbursed to depositors full pay- ment of the amount due them, and, | Nathan Margold, solicitor of the in addition, a further payment of interest. The depositors of the | | Washington Savings Bank were paid | 100 per cent of their claims and an interest dividend. |First Newspaper The first newspaper published in It | ceased circulation in 1495 and can | now be found only in the public ;hbrn.ry of Nantes. | upok. tea, sisal, shellac and palm oil. The German invasion of the Low- lands and the resultant alliance with the Netherlands empire and a similar alliance with Belgian terri- torles have given the Allies a near monopoly of these materials, he said. Most of Belgium's oil reserve was destroyed before the German con- quest, the ministry declared, bu the Belgian steel industry and iron ore mines fell to the Nazi invaders little damaged. The ministry considered it prob- able large stocks of gold and secur- ities privately owned in Belgium and the Netherlands have been seized by the Germans. Most of the Nether- lands’ shipbuilding industry was be- lieved destroyed. Besides products the Allies vir- tually control, the ministry said the Allies also have a large measure of control over mica, copra and wool The Bata (Czecho-Slovak) Shoe Co. was placed on the Board of Trade blacklist as being a concern trading with the enemy. The order applies to all of the 140 subsidiary companies of the giant firm through- out the world. except six in Britain and those in the United States and in Allied countries not overrun by the Germans. ‘Weather Re (Furnished by the United tonight; tomorrow and east portions toni | in temperature. West Virginia—Partly cloudy, tonight; tomorrow local showers a in temperature. | Minnesota Tuesdlj morning has advanced east-northeastward beyond the Ca border with a trough extending somiwe: | ward fo Northwestern Texas. Alpena, Mich 1,000.5 millibars (20.81 inches) Pressure 'is low from Montana southward to New Mexico. Lander, Wyo.. 1,004.4 mil- libars (29 66 inches). Pressure continues | high off the South Atlantic Coast. Wilming- | ton, N. C., 1.012.0 millibars (30.15 inches), with an extension _westward _over | South Atlantic and East Gulf States and | the Ohio Valley. A high-pressure area is moving eastward over Minnesota. and t Northern Plains States. Fargo. ; 1,016.3 millibars (30.01 inches) PBressurs is also high over the North Pacific States, North Head. Wash.. 1,023.4 millibars (30.22 inches). During the last 24 hours showers have occured in the middle and northern plateau. the Rocky Mountain re- gion. “the Upper Mississippi Valley. the South Atlantic States. the southern Ap- palachian region and in portions of the upper lake region. the North Atlantic States and the plains States. Temperatures have risen in the interor of the East Guif | States and over the middle and northern Rocky Mountain region, while they have fallen in the Upper Mississippi Valley, the interior of the middle plains States and in Southern New Mexico. Report for Last 24 Hours. Temperature, Barometer, degree inches. 30.00 he k. Saturday— 4pm. Record for Last 24 Hours. (Prom noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. 92, 4:30 p.m. yesterday, Year ag0, 85. Lowest, 70. 6 a.m. today. Year ago, 59. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 92. on June 4 Lowest, 7. on January 29. Humidity for Last 24 Hours. (From noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest, 97 per cent. at 5 a.m. today. Lowest, 31 per cent, at 12:30 p.m. yes- | terday. \ River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy at Harpers Ferry: Potomac muddy at | Great Falls today. Tide Tables. (Purnished by United States Coast and detic Burvey.) High Low High Low Sun Sun today________ Sun. tomorrow____ Moon, today Automobile 1 one-half hour ts must be turned on ter sunset. District of Columbia—Cloudy, with local showers and thunderstorms The disturbance that was over Southern s the | Mi port States Weather Bureau) partly cloudy, followed by local thunderstorms in after- | noon; not much change in temperature: moderate southwest winds. Maryland—Cloudy, with local showers tonight and in central and north portions tomorrow: not much change in temperature. Virginia—Cloudy. with local showers and thunderstorms in central ght and in north portion tomorrow; not much change with local showers in north portion nd thunderstorms; not much change Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month, January February March Recorg. 3 a7 202, % BYERERE2ANE; MopIRESE 3 i D 3 00 §32hkERBLRRE December o o Weather in Various Cities. ~Temp.~ Rain- Baro. High. Low. fall. Weather. 0.01 Abilene Albany Atlant Atlan. Cits Baitimore Birm'gham Bismarck _ * Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear °, o & Charleston Chicago _ 2 Cincinnati Cleveland Columbia Denver Des Moines Detroit _ El Paso Galveston Helena Huron _ Ind’nagolis Jacks'ville 1828 o 9 o, , 923, =t 2IBADBIPDRPI1: 2 0.70 --- Cloudy Forelgn Stations. (Noon Greenwich time, today.) Horta (Fayal). Azores Cloudy (Current _observations.) 3 SR Hhay : Goudy San Puerto Rico Havana. Ouba Cloudy Colon, Canal Zone