Funeral Riles Today For Victor Kauffmann, Star Sunday Editor

Treasurer of Company To Be Buried in Rock Creek Cemetery

runeral services for Victor Kauff- mann, 73, treasurer of The Evening Star Newspaper Co., who died Mon- day, will be held at Rock Creek Par- ish Church at 3 o'clock this after- noon with the Rev. Franklin Johns Bohanan. rector, officiating. Burial

Will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers will be James

M. Green. Dr. Harry M. Kaufman, John W. Calvert, Fred W. Walz of New’ York. Theodore W. Noyes, Frank B. Noyes, Fleming New’bold, Maj. Gen. Frederick W. Coleman, Thomas D. J. Fuller, R. M. Kauff- mann, Crosby Noyes Boyd, George Adams Howard. Eugene G. Adams and Col. Leroy VV. Herron.

Mr. Kauffmann. who was also Sunday editor of The Star, died at Emergency Hospital where he was

taken recently upon his return from Florida. He had not been in good health for the past year.

Connected with The Star for 52 years, Mr. Kauffmann came on the paper as a cub reporter. He was

made literary editor in 1900 and five years later, with the beginning of The Sunday Star, was made Sunday editor.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Jessie Christopher Kauffmann; two sons. Philip C. Kauffmann, former city editor of The Star, and Samuel Hay Kauffmann, assistant business manager of The Star, and by nine grandchildren.

Young Mother Is Slain; Baby Placed in Her Arms By the Associated Press.

SAN BERNARDINO. Calif., May 8—A young mother was killed and hpr house guest critically wounded In the desert near Cajon Pass to- day by a man who placed the slain woman's baby in her arms before fleeing.

Mrs. Jean Wells. 20. of San Ber- nardino was slain. Rose Destree, 17, of Escondido, wounded, crawled to a highway and attracted motor- ists. She was taken to a hospital for an emergency operation. Mrs. Wells’ 13-month-old daughter was

rescued by officers. Mrs. Wells’ husband, Ray, was

missing. Officers feared he might have been harmed.

Undersheriff J. W. Stocker made a Statewide police broadcast asking for arrest of Mrs. W'ells’ brother-in- law, Alfred Wells, 30.

Undersheriff Stocker said Miss Destree told this story:

Mr. Wells, angry that his half- iister, Violet, had left his home, went to Mrs. Jean Wells’ house about midnight. He demanded that she and Miss Destree help find Violet.

He drove the women and baby Into the desert, forced them to walk half a mile through brush. He forced Kirs. Wells to write a note to her husband Ray, asking him to tell where Violet had gone.

Then. Undersheriff Stocker quot- ed Miss Destree, Mr. Wells killed Mrs. Jean Wells, shot Miss Destree, placed the baby in its mother's arms end left, believing Miss Destree also was dead.

Police found Violet Wells at Es- condido, where she had gone to live with her mother, Mrs. Violet Davis, who also is the mother of Alfred and Ray Wells.

British to Conscript Seamen to Serve Fleet By the Associated Press

LONDON. May 8.—A broad plan of conscription for Britain's mer- chant seamen and others with sail- ing experience for the British mer- chant fleet was announced today by the Ministry of Shipping.

The order creates a merchant navy reserve pool of which all pres- ent merchant officers and sailors will become members at tne expiration of their present employment on ships, starting May 26.

Officers and men discharged from ships since April 28 also will enter the pool automatically and be or- dered to report to mercantile ma- rine offices.

To supplement these, all persons Other than fishermen between the ages of 18 and 60 who have served at sea since January 1, 1936, but are not now serving, must register in the week starting May 26. Men In this group who are unemployed or whose work would be more useful to the merchant navy than ashore will be potential members of the pool.

Periods of leave between voyages and compensation for members of the pool during the periods they are awaiting assignment to ships are provided by the plan.

Baron Leathers, Britain's new Minister of Transport and Shipping, told a press conference the pool would be managed by the Shipping Federation with co-operation of the officers and men's societies in set- tling the duties to which pool mem- bers will be assigned.

He said the plan safeguards "the Interests of all sides."

May Enters Hospital Chairman May of the House Mili-

tary Affairs Committee is in Walter Reed Hospital for a “periodic check- up," but expects to return to his desk early next week, his office said today. He entered the hospital Tuesday.

BENEFIT FLOWER MART—Amid the profusion of spring blossoms, Mrs. Victor Alfaro (left), a member of the Trowel Flower Club, shows Mrs. Walter Wiatt a few of the flowers at her booth in the third annual flower mart held yesterday at Washington Cathedral. The affair was for the benefit of the gardens of Cathedral Close. —Star Staff Photo.

Plight of France Offers Hitler Hope for Its Final Conquest

Tightening of Rule and Food Shortage Lead to Expectation of Swift Action

(Fourth of a Series.)

B.v JOHN T. WHITAKER. Foreign Correspondent of The Star and

Chicago Dally News.

SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE.— i The situation in French North Africa, the sudden tightening of police measures through the Vichy

j zone and the shortage of food, no

less than Admiral Darlan's tendency to force fleet co-operation with Germany, offer Hitler the hope of

| swift action for the final conquest j of France and the completion of ; the “new Europe.”

French North Africa has been an

enigma to most observers. The German and Italian armistice com-

! missions there have not carried ■ through the disarmament of the

j French forces, and indeed Gen. Weygand s army has been expand- ed somewhat so that some even estimate that it totals 360.000 men, though the most reliable estimate Is 100.000.

There were many rumors through the winter from Casablanca and Oran as well as from Vichy. It was known that Marshal Petain had sent Gen. Weygand back to Africa despite the protests of M. Laval and the Germans.

“If German demands become im- possible,” Marshal Petain was quoted as having said to Gen. Weygand, “you will know how to act. With or without orders from me you will knew what your duty is as an officer of France.”

Germans Undismayed. ! The Germans seemed undismayed

by these reports that Led London and Washington to count on the possibility at least that Gen. Wey- gand would swing his army over to Gen. De Gaulle's "Free France.” Marshal Petain and Gen. Weygand evolved the formula that they would defend the empire in its in- tegrity against any power that threatened its violation. The Ger- mans had no intention during the winter of threatening Moroco, they so informed Marshal Petain and Gen. Weygand.

The Germans must have been I very frightened when Gen. Wavell 1 destroyed Gen. Grazianis Libyan ! army, marched steadily across Cv-

renaica and threatened to continue ;

undisturbed to the Libyan-Tunisian frontier, where they could have made contact once again with their former French allies. But Greece declared its intention of fighting even in the event of the inevitable Germ, n intervention, and the Brit- ish went on the defensive in Libya, transferring troops from there.

If Gen. Weygand has ever In- tended to fight against the Germans that was his moment. Four Ger- man panzer divisions had not then been transferred to African soil. Africa could have been swept clear of all Italian forces. Spain was | neither ready nor willing then to intervene against French Moroco.

Had Only 300-Odd Planes. He had only some 300-odd planes,

mostly Curtiss-Wrights, based far south near Marakketch, and he lacked every kind of supply, includ- ing even ammunition for small arms. But supplies and ammunition were not badly needed for such a move at that moment, and they could have been transported then from America. Is that possible now or in the period when Hitler starts cleaning North Africa and the Western Mediterranean?

Since that critical moment—as- suming that Gen. Weygand was ever capable of fighting against the Germans—Hitler has acted quietly but quickly in preparation for the moment when he will take the initiative in that theater. On Feb- ruary fl five Dornier transport planes flew into Casablanca with German officers and soldiers. Un-

I til that date civilian control and port authority had been in charge

of German and Italian officials. The two, moreover, had their spies and agents throughout the whole of the French empire in Africa But they had not sent down mili- tary units.

Since February 6 the Germans have arrived daily and steadily, ac-

cording to trustworthy quarters. There is no key town with fewer than 200 German officers and men. They are not allowed to walk in the streets in uniforms. They have been given whole apartment houses or hotels for their lodging. I have checked the names of their dwell- ing places in cities as far apart as

Casablanca, Oran, Marraketch and Dakar.

This German infiltration comes at a moment when two things are

likely to have a very important effect on French officers in Africa. The Germans have got into the Deuxieme Bureau, the famous se- cret service of the French Army, j As a result the Germans know ex-

actly what the French do and do not know, and every French officer | is aware that what he does and re-

ports is known to the Germans, so that he can be called up for arrest at any hour merely for doing his duty in an intelligent or capable way.

Nothing is so likely to undermine the morale of French officers who, while carrying out the orders of 1

Vichy, have been waiting, neverthe- !

less, for the time when Gen. Wey- gand would fight once more on the British side. This is what they have hoped for when they have gone to Moroco as reserve officers or when they have enlisted in answer to advertisements in Vichy or when \ they have flown planes to Gen. ] Weygand instead of flying on to British lines.

Similarly morale will be flattened by the success of the Germans In Cyrenaica and in the Balkans. Nothing can save French Africa or bring it in on the British side short of serious German reverses or an immediate entry of America into the war. The French are impressed with German victories.

Control Tightened. Knowing this, the Germans have

suddenly tightened the control of their secret police in the unoccu- pied zone. In Marseilles in the last 10 days the Germans have started herding Frenchmen together on the sidewalks, putting them in trucks and taking them to concentration camps by the hundreds. There pa- pers are inspected carefully. A man whose political and military record shows that the Germans have noth- ing to fear from him is quickly re- leased. Others are held three or four days. Others are taken to concentration camps. Others are shot.

Simultaneously in Vichy the Ger- mans have started a campaign to round up Frenchmen and foreign- ers they have been unable to locate heretofore, according to a reliable informant recently escaped from Vichy through the underground.

Important French police officials are called in, given a list of 10 names, told to have them or their bodies within a given time or be responsible with their own lives. A French police inspector found that an important anti-Nazi German on his list had committed suicide. He dug up the body and took it to the Germans before they would be sat- isfied.

These signs that Hitler’s hour approaches for swift action to com- plete the conquest comes when the French food shortage is becoming acute, so that the Germans can

scarcely expect to bleed the French of much more in the next four- month period.

Acute Food Problem. Trustworthy figures will suffice on

wheat, meat, sugar and fats, he 1940 wheat crop was under 40,000,- 000 Quintals, as against 71,000,000 for 1939 and against norifial French needs of 80,000,000. Less has been sowed for this year’s crop than for 1940, fertilizers are lack- ing, there is no gasoline for tractors, binders and the like; livestock has been requisitioned, and there is a

complete absence of such things as binder cord, so that wheat cannot be shocked as usual.

In 1940 France had 3,500,000 head of cattle. The Germans have taken more than half, and the rest have had virtually no fodder. The 1940 sugar crop stands at 400,000 tons, as against 950,000 for 1939, with current prospects worse.

Fats come from Africa, but the Germans take virtually all of them, and the French mistakenly sowed oily seeds, counting on the Germans granting them some importations from Africa. Actually the Ger- mans are in every southern French port, and they confiscate virtually all foodstuffs and fats coming from Africa. ICOTurrlfht, 1041. Chlearo Dally Neva, Use.

New Direct Hits Made On Battleships at Brest, British Say

St. Nazaire Sub Base and Docks at Bremen Also Reported Raided

By the Associated Press.

LONDON, May 8—British air raiders made direct hits on the

battleships Scharnhorst and Gnei- senau with heavy armor-piercing bombs in an attack on the German naval base at Brest last night, the Air Ministry announced today.

Later the Ministry's news service said a “large and brilliant explo- sion" resulted when a very heavy bomb hit the forepart of the Scharn-

horst and another equally heavy bomb was seen to burst immediately forward of the Gneisenau's funnel.

Attacks also were made, a com-

munique said, on the Nazi submarine base at St. Nazaire. docks at Bremen, oil refineries at the mouth of the Loire River and docks and shipping at Bergen, Norway.

The British acknowledged that two planes were missing from the night's operations.

Tell of Giant Fires. The Air Ministry News Service

said the first bombs dropped on two large oil refineries and oil storage plants at the mouth of the Loire “found the target and, when the following aircraft came in. observers saw great fires suddenly appear. • • *

"One by one tall chimneys of the refineries were toppled over. • • •

Very soon a wide area was well alight. The countryside, which shortly before nad stood out dis- tinctly in the full moonlight, became completely obscured by rolling bil- lows of smoke.’’

It was the second time this week that the British had claimed direct hits on the two 26,000-ton German vessels, reported to have been shel- tering at Brest for more than five weeks.

Numerous hits on quays at which the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are berthed have been repeatedly re-

ported as the result of earlier raids. Considerable Damage Reported. The attack on Brest last night was

described as heavy and it was said that "considerable damage" was done to the naval base itself.

St. Nazaire was heavily bombed and large fires were started, a com-

munique said.

Weather Report (Furnished by the United State* Weather Bureau.)

District of Columbia—Partly cloudy and cooler, with lowest tem- perature about 52 degrees tonight; tomorrow mostly cloudy with moderate temperature, followed by cooler in afternoon and night; moderate westerly winds becoming northwest tomorrow.

Maryland—Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, with a few scattered showers in the mountains. Cooler tonight and in w-est and central por- tions tomorrow.

Virginia—Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, with scattered light showers in the mountains; cooler tonight and in west portion tomorrow.

West Virginia—Mostly cloudy with Mattered light showers in central and north portions tonight and tomorrow; cooler tomorrow.

A trough of low pressure is moving east- ward over the Atlantic States. Burlington. Vt 1003.4 millibars <29.83 inches), while a disturbance of considerable intensity Is

moving east-southeastward over the Upper Lake region, Houghton. Mich.. 998.3 milli- bars (28.48 inches). Pressure Is relatively high over the Gulf States and some dis-

tance oil the Atlantic Coast, while it is

rising over the Northern Plains. Port Peck. Mont, 1018.3 millibars (30.07 Inches). During the last 24 hours there have been moderate rains in the Eastern States and light precipitation in the Lake region, the Upper Mississippi Valley and the ex- treme Northern Plains. Showers occurred also in the North Pacific States and the Northern Rocky Mountain region. Tem- peratures have fallen somewhat In the Ohio Valley and the Middle and Northern Appalachians while rather cold weather for the season is spreading southeastward over the Northern Plains and Minnesota.

Report for Last ft Hours. Temperature Bar'eter

Yesterday— Degrees. 4 p m _ 78 8 p jr. _ 7fi Midnight _ 87

Today— 4 a m._ 8S s a m. __... 6ft _ 74

Inches. 29.78 29 74 29.74

Noon

29 71 29 74 28.74

Record for Last 24 Hours. (Prom noon yesterday to noon today.)

Highest. 78, at 4:20 p.m. yesterday. Year ago. so.

Lowest 84. at 8 a m. today. Year ago. 62.

Record Temperatures This Year.

Sighest, 94. on April 20. iwest. IS. on March 18.

Humidity for Last 21 Hours. (Prom noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. 98 per cent, at 2 a tn. today. Lowest. 38 Per cent, at noon today.

Ut»r Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear

at Harpers Perry: Potomac slightly muddy at Great Palls today.

Tide Tables. (Purnlehed by United States Coast and

Geodetic Survey.)

High

High Low

_ Today. Tomorrow. _ 8:20 a m. 8:13 a.m. _ 12:28 a.m.

__ _ ft:4ft p m. 8:39 p.m. _ 12:12 p.m. 1:0? P.m.

The Run and Mean. Rises. Sets.

Sun. today ft 03 7:07 Sun. tomorrow .. ft:02 7:08 Moon, today 4:1ft p.m. 3:58 a m.

Automobile lights must bg turned on one-half hour after sunset.

Precipitation. Monthly precipitation In inchei In the

Capital (current month to date): Month. 1B4J.

January _3.04 February _0.92 March _2.5fi April _2.73 May _0.35

Avg. 3.56 3.27 3.15 3.27 3.70

Record. .83 *37

June __ 4.13 July Auguat ___

September__ October __

November __

December ___

Weather in Various Cities. Temp. Rain-

Barom. High. Low. fall. Weather.

4.71 4.01 3.24 2 64 2.37 3.32

6 84 8.84 0.13

10.OP 10 04 10 63 14.41 17.45

8.81 8.69 7.66

*84 ’91

89 ’00 '86 ’28 34 37 ’89 ’01

20.83 29.68 29.89 20.74 20.74

9.94

Abilene_ Albany __

Altanta Atl. City- Baltimore Birmaham Bismarck 29.97 Boston.- 29.71 Buffalo Butte Charleston Chicago Cincinnati. Cleveland. Coluirbip Davenport Denvei Des Moines Detroit El Paso Oalveaton. Huron Indian oils Jacks'ville Kans. City L. Angeles. Louisville Miami

29.71 29 89 29.83 29.71 29.83 29 74 29.83 29.71 29.83 29.71 29.68 29.77 29 98 29.89 29.77 29.89 29.8.3 29.77 29.89 29.8JI

78 82 76 62

u 53 7ft 71 54 7ft 73 78 70 78

63 69

54

70 7) 71 01 82 05 70 82

31 5ft 40 37 80 51 50 50 «2 51 43 48 52 01 09 38 40 05

0.35 0.02 0.09 0.31 0.01 0.02

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0.16

0.00 0.33 0.02 0.08

0.07 0.89

29.08 29.77 29 80 29.83 29.71 20.74 20.80 29.OR

Mpla.-8t. P. 29.05 N. Orleans 29.91 New York Norfolk Okla. City. Omaha Phlladel'ia Phoenix Pittsburgh P'land Me P'land Ore 30.15 Ralelgt. _ 29.80 St Louis 29.83 S. Lake C. 29.83 S Antonio 29 8!i

rn Dieao 29 77 rar.cisco 3(Ui3

Seattle 39.12 Spokahe 29 97 Tampa 29 89 WASH D C. 29.75

97 74 70 02 g7

?8 72 82 99 82 71 54 81 75 84 90 85 08 58 59 80 78

07 52 74 42 00 67 00 59 46 04 ftl 52 61 42 50 48 52 07 01 53 44 43 73 04

0.05 0.03 0.03

0.32 .015 0.03 0.01 0.29

0 34

0.45 0.34

0.17 0.33 0 10 0.31

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FOREIGN STATIONS. (Noon. Greenwich time today >

Temperature, weather. Horta (Fayall. Aierta 85 Cloudy

(Current obltrvatloBt.) San Juan. Puerto Rico 78 Cloudy Havana Cuba 74 Cloudy Colon. Canal Zone 82 Cloudy

G. W. Voters Stamped to Foil Campus Ballot Box 'Stuffing'

An alert Elections Committee at George Washington University to- day adopted a plan of stamping voters with indelible ink to prevent “stuffing” the ballot box in a campus election.

The polls were opened at 9 a.m. in the student club and the medical school and about 1,000 students were

expected to vote for members of the student council and senior class officers.

A previously-announced plan to mark voters with silver nitrate re-

portedly fell through when campus politicians found chemists who ad- vised them how silver nitrate might be removed.

Nobody knows how many spurious votes were cast last year, but one

student expressed the belief there were "plenty." Haley Scurlock is chairman of the group trying to eliminate Illegal balloting.

The two competing parties are the Reform and Service organizations. Anne Blackistone, a member of Chi Omega 8orority, is the first girl to run-for student council presidency. She is the Reform candidate. Joe Bob Gale is trying to return Service to power after a year in which the party was without a single member on the council.

Four candidates for senior class presidency are Carter Bowen of Re- form, Bus Fleming of Service and Bob Dearth and Roy Lowry, inde- pendents.

Last Year's Winners Take Top Honors At Flower Mart

Hundreds Visit Benefit Sale at Cathedral; Rockville Entry Scores

Hundreds of flower lovers visited

Washington Cathedral yesterday, when the third annual flower mart was held for the benefit of the gar- dens of Cathedral Close. The event is sponsored by the All Hallows Guild.

Both dainty and hardy blossoms, in nearly every color of the rain- bow, were displayed in booths, but a simply decorated exhibit featuring only blue and white carried og top honors.

It was the “boutonniere” both, ’under the chairmanship of Miss Rosalind Wright, who also had the winning exhibit last year. Bachelor’s

buttons, carnations, lilies of the

valley, snapdragons and baby’s breath were among its blossoms.

The second prize winner of last year also won that prize this year— the novel “fruits and vegetable” booth of Mrs. Charles Warren. Every point on the compass was repre- sented among the scores of deli- cacies offered. Olives from Cali- fornia, honey from Texas, baskets filled with ingredients for real New Orleans gumbo, Chinese oranges and Guatemala pineapples were a few of the items.

Third prize was taken by the Community Garden Club of Rock- ville, Md., which entered a booth for the first time. It featured potted plants, evergreens and flow- ering shrubs and was under the chairmanship of Mrs. Phillip A.

! Pi-ear. Honorable mention went to a

candy booth that was arranged in the color scheme of red and white peppermint, a sweet that was fea- tured along with other bought and homemade varieties. Mrs. Elbridge Durbrow was in charge.

The Board of Judges was com- posed of Mrs. John H. Gibbons, chairman: Mrs. Nellie B. Allen New York; Miss Cary Millholiand, and F. B. Hoffman.

Other booths offered gadgets for gardeners and one attractive stand had California coral and shells to be used in flower arrangements. A

| buffet lunch was served. General chairman was Mrs. Lewis

Clark. Garden clubs of the District and nearby area co-operated.

Buozzi, Seized in Paris, Reported Taken to Italy By the Associated Press.

VICHY, France. May 8—The Italian socialist and labor leader, Bruno Buozzi, who was arrested In Paris several weeks ago. was re- ported here today to have been turned over to Italian police and taken to Italy.

Buozzi was secretary-general of the Italian Federation of Labor and served as member from Turin and Milan in the Italian Chamber of Deputies.

Congress in Brief TODAY.

Senate: Considers contest over West Vir-

ginia Senate seat. Defense Committee hears testi-

mony on Fort Leonard Wood. Mo. Commerce Committee considers

legislation to acquire foreign ships. Banking Committee hears Secre-

tary of Commerce Jones on proposal to expand activities of Disaster Loan Corp. and Reconstruction Finance Corp.

Labor Committee hears William M. Leiserson of Labor Board on

legislation to provide cooling-ofT period in labor disputes. House:

Debates bill to extend priorities for defense materials.

Ways and Means Committee hears tobacco witnesses on new tax pro- posals.

William Green, A. F. L. president, resumes testimony on defense labor situation before Judiciary Commit- tee.

Unalarmed Nudists Stare Back As R. A. F. Flyers Locate Camp

By EDDY GILMORE. Associated Press Foreign Correspondent. GREEN HILLS. HERTFORD-

SHIRE, England, May 8.—Britain's biggest nudist camp has faced the fact that modern war is war in the air—and now trades stare for stare

! with R. A. F. pilots who conduct low-altitude reconnaissance flights

■ over the camp. "They seem to be over the camp

! a great deal.” said the proprietor, I his black beard streaming in the I cold May wind,' “but I expect they’ll get used to us as we're getting used

! to them.” At first the nudists, who sprawled

j on the greensward within the wood- land camp, thought, of hot-footing it for the bushes whenever inquisi- tive flyers swooped over.

“But, everything in life being relative,” the proprietor philoso- phized, “we adjusted ourselves. Now- adays. we just look up at them as

they look down at us.” It didn't take the R. A. F. patrols

long to spot the 10-acre park which I is dedicated to the absorption of j sunshine and fresh air in the j altogether.

“If those pilots are as good at ; locating their targets across the water as they were in finding us

they will serve their country nobly,” he said.

The proprietor’s wife explained that the nudists do not shun their responsibilities during air raids.

‘‘The nights are too cold now, of course, for fire-watching In the nude,” she said, ‘‘but on summer

nights we’ll be out with only our tin hats on.”

Speaking above the hum of a Spit- fire cutting dizzy circles overhead, they said the war at first had threat- ened to cramp nudist activities, but :hat affairs now were nearing normal in the shed-your-shirt circuit.

The threat of invasion broke up two large camps on the coast, so this retreat—a short trip north of London—now is the chief haven for the clothesless.

Twelves families live in camp throughout the week, but on week ends more than 30 devotees—princi- pally from London—come out for sun.

Here was one place in England where prices have not soared. The rates for a de luxe furnished cabin was $1.50 per day, with meals, and $1.25 without.

If you really want to get back to nature and sleep in a tent and loll on the turf, the rate is 90 cents.

Plane and Gun Mount Output Threatened By Labor Disputes

Strike Ties Up La Porte Factory of Allis-Chalmers; Hudson Walkout Feared

Bs the Associated Press.

Delivery dates on $15,000,000 worth of plane parts and anti-aircraft gun mounts were made uncertain today by a strike at the Allis-Chalmers factory at La Porte. Ind., and a threatened walkout at the Hudson Motor Car Co., Detroit.

Nearly all the 950 employes of the Indiana concern struck yester- day. calling for union security, wage increases and “a more substantial contract." Neither union nor com-

pany officials disclosed the present wage scale or the increases sought.

The plant has $5,000,000 in defense orders and has been making gun mounts.

The Hudson factory at Detroit has been working on $10,000,000 worth of airplane parts and in addition is building a $20,000,000 naval ordnance plant. In filing official notice of intention to strike, the C. I. O. United Automobile Workers an-

nounced they were seeking a wage increase of 15 cents an hour for 8.500 hourlv-ratea employes. The existing scale was not disclosed.

Ordered “Cooling Off Periods.” In several previous cases involving

threatened strikes in defense indus- tries. the Michigan State Mediation Board has ordered 30-day cooling off periods while mediators sought to adjust differences.

The National Mediation Board here, currently seeking to avert a

threatened strike against General Motorr Corp got a new assignment —a wage dispute at the Bendix

aviation plant, South Bend, Ind. In certifying the threatened strike to the Mediation Board, the Labor De- partment did not specify the current wage scale or the increase sought by the C. I. O. union.

In the General Motors case, in- volving 60 scattered factories and 165,000 workmen, the union has asked an increase of 10 cents an hour and the corporation reportedly has offered 2 cents. The present rates were not indicated.

Packard Division Settlement. Tentative settlement of a week-

old strike at the Packard electric division of General Motors at War- ren, Ohio, was announced by Michael J. Crosetto, Federal conciliator. Terms of settlement were not an-

nounced. The C. I. O. union struck for a wage increase of 10 cents an hour and to protest dismissal of certain employes. Current wage rates range from 50 cents to $1.15 an hour. The union will vote today- on ratification.

Without debate, the Massachusetts House yesterday killed on voice vote a bill to require a “cooling off'' period in industrial disputes for at least 20 days—and twice that time in defense work—before a strike or

a lockout. The measure was spon- sored by the Massachusetts Cham- ber of Commerce, but was opposed by organized labor.

Reliable sources said today Ala- bama coal operators were agreeable to a $1 a day wage increase asked by United Mine Workers, but that other union demands were holding up agreement on a new contract. Among the points still contested, one of these sources added, was elimination of the wage differential existing between the Appalachian and Alabama coal fields.

The Defense Mediation Board last night announced settlement of a month-old strike at the J. Sklar Manufacturing Co. of Long Island City, N. Y., the country's largest makers of surgical instruments.

South Africa's ‘‘no treating’’ ban has been lifted from clubs. •

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Small Nations Using U. S. to Store Gold, Morgenthau Says

Extension of President's Money Power Asked as

Weapon for Defense Bj the Associated Press.

Secretary of the Treasury Mor- genthau, urging extension of Presi- dent Roosevelts monetary powers and the $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund as “potent weapons of defense.’* said today that small countries around the globe were buying gold and storing it in the United States.

The Secretary added an assurance to the House Coinage Committee that "obviously the administration has no present intent whatsoever to devalue the gold content of th» dollar.”

But this power, and the stabiliza- tion fund, he said, had proved their value "during years of unparalleled crisis in international trade and finance.

"Now we are going forward into time of even greater peril.” Mr. Morgenthau told the committee behind closed doors.

In discussing gold, Mr. Morgen- thau said that not counting countries such as England, which have sent their own gold for storage here. 18 other countries have bought $380,- 000,000 of gold from the Treasury stabilization fund since the war began. They include such nations as Afghanistan. Netherlands Indies and Uruguay. Brazil was identified as another, but no further details were

given. Altogether, foreign gold deposited

in the Federal Reserve banks in the United States aggregated $1,916,- 919.943 on April 30.

Unless extended by Congress. the stabilization fund and revaluation powers will expire June 30. Mr. Morgenthau said:

“But certainly this is not the time to remove flexible powers for the executive when the executives of all other nations possess virtually com-

plete powers over the domestic and external monetary affairs of their countries.”

Sailing of Yugoslav Ships Resumed After Checkup By thf Associated Pre6».

NEW YORK, May 8—Sailing of Yugoslav ships from American porta was resumed yesterday after a two-

day interruption caused by Coast Guard “checkups" of vessels of that nationality in American harbors.

Ivan Ivanovic. treasurer of Com- bined Argosies, Inc., which operates a number of Yugoslav ships, said normal operations would be resumed and the Coast Guard reported that vessels obtaining clearance papers would be permitted to sail.

On Monday when the Coast Guard inspected the ships it was denied they were being seized, as Axis and Danish vessels had been earlier. Washington sources said the check- up was to determine the attitude ofc the crews toward King Peter and Great Britain.

Regular air service now connect# Shanghai. China, and Japan