HOLLAND'S DEAD
SET AT 100,000
One-Fourth Of Army Is
Dead; Fleet Escapes To
Join British Sea Arm
PARIS, May 15.—(ff)—Netherlands
Foreign Minister Eelco N. van Klef
fens estimated today that the Dutch
army had suffered 100,000 men
killed — cr one-fourth of its total
strength of 400,000.
(Van Kleffens, a civilian, may
have overestimated the death rate.
If his figures are accurate losses
were many times greater than bat
tle rates in the World war, when
25 per cent casualties, wmunded as
well as dead, were considered very
high for large forces and the ratio
of dead to wmunded vTas one to
four)
Van Kleffens, however, said Hol
land’s fleet was almost intact and
had joined the Allied naval forces.
He said that resistance was con
tinuing in the coastal province of
Zeeland and that troops which es
caped into Belgium would enter the
Allied armies.
His disclosure of the army’s stag
gering losses was part of his gov
ernment’s first review of the cam
paign which forced virtual capitu
lation of The Netherlands in five
days.
The Netherlands foreign minister
arrived here from London last
night.
He said that prolongation or op
erations in Holland was decided
against, with “millions of souls
menaced with extermination," but
that “everyone knows the tenacity
of the Dutch—I am convinced we
will gain final victory.”
Although most of The Nether
lands now has fallen to the Ger
mans, Van Kleffens said, the Dutch
Empire still stands and all its re
sources will be placed at the dis
posal of the Allies. He said Dutch
were volunteering their services
throughout the world.
Standing beside Van Kleffens as
he spoke were Lieut.-Col. A. Q. H.
Dyxhoorn, minister of defense, and
Charles J. I. M. Welter, minister
of colonies.
Night-Riders Facing
Indictments In S. C.
ANDERSON, S. C., May 15.——
The Anderson county grand jury will
receive bills next Monday seeking to
indict alleged members of a night
riding band for offenses ranging
from assault and battery with intent
to kill to obstructing a public high
way.
The bills originally were to have
been handed to the grand jury today.
But the court adjourned yesterday
out of respect for Sheriff William
Oscar Marett, 54, who died after a
long illness.
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Service is seen in this photo of comely Company Assistant E. M.
Ironside, Auxiliary Territorial Service, dancing with Lieut. \\. Gar
waite, Fleet Air Arm, at the Officers’ Sunday club in London. Com
pany Assistant Ironside is the daughter of Gen. Sir Edmund Ironside,
Chief of the Imperial Defense Staff.
National Defense
WASHINGTON, May 15 —<£) —
Uncle Sam’s defense establish
ment, which president Roosevelt
says must be modernized and ex
panded at once to safeguard na
tional security, looks like this to
day:
Navy
Three hundred three warships,
incuding 15 battleships, manned
by 145,000 enlisted men and 10,651
officers; 25,000 marines and 1,345
marine corps officers; 41,992 men
in the enlisted reserve; 13,769 re
serve; 13,769 reserve officers and
5,382 officers and men in the mar
ine corps reserve.
Army
Approximately 227.000 enlisted
men in the regular army and Phi
lippine scouts, plus 13,831 officers,
of whom 2.300 are air corps pilots.
An additional 4,454 enlisted men
are on flying status, and some of
them are pilots. There are 103.000
eligible reserve officers and b y
next year the regular army’s en
listed reserve is expected to in
clude about 47.000 men with pre
vious military training. The total
authorized enlisted strength of the
army is 280,000 men.
The air corps expects to have
about 2,665 first-line planes on
hand by the end of June, but is
building toward a goal of 5,500
planes by June 30, 1941.
National Guard
Strength 251.000 officers and
men but president Roosevelt could
irder it expanded to about 400.000.
Squalus, Renamed The Sailfish,
Returns To Service With Fleet
By TOM IIORGAN
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., May 15.
—Up)—Gone from the navy rolls to
day was the tragic U. S. submarine
Squalus and in her place appeared
a new name—the Sailfish.
Nothing in the service’s prescrib
ed close-clipped commissioning cere
mony served as a reminder of the
stark peril that hovered about the
now sleek metal hull from the time
she sank carrying 26 men to their
deaths in 40 fathoms in a faulty
trial dive last May 23, until the
underwater craft \\»as raised and
brought into a drydock four months
later.
Joining the submarine’s new com
mander, Lieutenant Commander Mor
ton C. Momma, Jr., his three offi
cers and 55 men in the commission
ing was Admiral Cyrus AY. Cole, the
Portsmouth navy yard commandant,
soon to retire. He was decorated for
directing the first actual rescue of
its kind—the diving bell escape of
the 33 Squalus survivors—and for
the subsequent salvaging of the sub
marine.
Assigned to the Sailfish were four
who escaped the Squalus disaster.
One was Electricians Mate Lloyd
B. Manness of Greensboro. N. C..
who closed a watertight door and
shut out the sea, saving all those
who were in the Squalus' forward
compartments. He returned from
the murky depths to the unlighted
world in the second trip of the res
cue bell.
Another was Electricians Mate
Gerald C. McLees of Richmond,
Kans., saved in the first descent
of the hell; a third was Torpedo
Man Leonard De Medeiros of New
Bedford, Mass., who came up on
the third trip and who has served
eight of his 12 navy years in sub
marines; while the fourth was Gun
ners Mate Eugene D. Craven of
Thayer, O., who returned on the
fourth and final trip.
Production Of Power
Shows Slight Increase
NEW YORK, May 15—(fl—Elec
tric power production in the week
ended May 11 totaled 2,387,566,000
kilowatt hours, a minor rise over
2,386,210,000 kilowatt hours in the
preceding week, but a gain of 10
per cent over 2,170,750,000 kilowatt
hours in the comparable week a
year ago, the Edison Electric Insti
tute reported today.
All major areas of the country
contributed to the increase over
1939 with the best showing in the
central industrial states of 15.8 per
cent above a year ago.
The slight rise over the preced
ing week was in line with seasonal
expectations and the Associated
Press index of electric power pro
duction was unchanged at 122.1.
This compared with 113.2 a year
ago.
Canada’s Red Party
Outlawed By Court
OTTAWA, Ont., May 15.—(iP)—
Justice Edgar Rhevrier of the On
tario supreme court today declared
the Communist party of Canada to
be an “illegal organization.”
He sentenced Harry Binder, con
victed Of publishing and circulating
anti-war pamphlets in violation of
the defense of Canada regulations,
to three years in the penetentiary
and fined him
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War Games In Louisiana
Closely Parallel Action
Of Battle Meuse
By WILLIAM X. HIVES
LEESVILLE, La., May 15.—(^*)—
Great tanks of the Red and. Blue
armies raced down dusty Louisiana
roads today, pointing toward a spec
tacular clash of some of the army s
finest equipped units.
Army officers, judging from po
sitions the steel monsters assumed
yesterday, expected a head-on col
lision that would play an important
part in tactical work of the war
maneuvers’ second phase.
The outnumbered Red army from
Texas fell back along the line yes
terday and prospects were no bet
ter today. Reports filtering in from
enemy lines said the Blues had some
300 tanks, which bested the Texas
troops three to one.
In the forefront of the Red ele
ments was the blitzkrieging Seventh
cavalry lyrigade, the army’s only
all-mechanized outfit.
With tanks—combat cars, they are
called—armored cars, and other in
struments of death, the brigade em
ploys the cavalry essentials of mo
bility, speed and shock.
The unit strikes, runs, and then
strikes again, in contras', with the
infantry tanks’ habit of laying a
heavy attack forward by deploying
of infantry troops.
Clustei-s of natives stood in awe
by roadsides as the tanks lumbered
into positions. Sometimes the ma
chines left the highway to cut a
path, without noticeable delay,
through fields studded with trees.
The IS,900-pound steel, mobile
forts are propelled by 7-cylinder air
plane motors and are protected by
a thick steel coating and these fir
ing weapons: A .30 calibre machine
gain, an anti-tank gun, an anti
aircraft gun, a "lap gun," so called
because the gunner holds it in his
lap, a sub-machine gun and pistols
for the four-man crew.
In Hollywood
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, May 15.—Among
recent prizes rounded up and
brought back from Broadway by
movie raiders is a symmetrical
dish called Grace MacDonald. I
believe that some of these days
you are going to see and hear quite
a lot of Miss MacDonald. Right
now she is too busy to pose for the
glamor-cameras or to charm the
lyricists of ballyhoo.
She’s playing the lead in her
first picture, a musical titled
"Dancing on a Dime.” It’s the
story of a group of youngsters,
stranded by 'Collapse of the Fed
eral Theater Project, who live for
several weeks in the old Garrick
Theater in New York and put on a
show. Thus the picture, instead of
having 200 chorus girls futily ar
rayed against $200,000 sets, be
comes the sort of intimate revue
which Hollywood long has believed
will lead song - and - dance flickers
back into popularity.
REHEARSAL ROOMS
ARE MADHOUSE
Such a film, anyway, will make
a good showcase for the vaude
viilistic talents of Robert Paige,
Virginia Dale, Peter Hayes, Carol
Adams and other up-and-comers
who have been assembled by Par
amount. The rehearsal rooms are
a fascinating madhouse these days
as the routines are whipped into
shape.
Miss MacDonald, who is some
thing under 20 years and 120
pounds, can dance and sing and
act, as has been proven by her
successes on Broadway in “Babes
in Arms,” “One for the Money”
and “It’s Very Warm for Mav.”
Whether she will be able to act lor
the camera instead of for the bal
cony patrons is something that the
nation’s fan jury will have to de
cide. But the studio isn’t worrying
a bit and it hasn’t suggested any
coaching.
The newscomer is relieved about
that. She said, “If there’s anything
I couldn't stand it would be drama
and diction teachers. All the best
actors say that nobody can teach
another person to act, and it seems
to me that most of the youngsters
sound dreadfully diction-conscious
on the screen. If I’m ever taught
anything, it will be by audiences,
and that’s why I’m going back to
the stage—for part of each year,
anyway.”
BEGAN DANCING
AT SEVEN
You’d think that a girl who began
dancing at the age of 7 and had
come up through night clubs and
the stage shows of movie palaces
would consider herself pretty well
seasoned. But she still has ualms
of stage fright. “And I’m a ham
at heart,” she said. “I really want
to act.”
At first she was determined to
become a great ballerina, but when
she was 10, over-exertion put her
to bed for a year and a half with
some sort of infantile rheumatism.
When the doctor said he’d never
dance again, Grace thought she
might as well die. Her brother,
Ray, disagreed with both of them.
He said, “Let’s make a team. You
just go out and look cute, and I’ll
take care of the tapping.”
So they did, and pretty soon she
was doing her share of the work.
And they climbed together until,
after “Babes in Arms,” Ray broke
an ankle and couldn’t dance for
five months. By that time, their
styles and ambitions had drifted
apart; he still likes vaudeville and
night clubs.
Metro rushed Miss MacDonald to
Hollywood last year to test for
i “Dancing Co-ed.” But a stage en-.
A
gagement wouldn't permit her
signing the six-months contract
the studio required, and Lana Tur
ner got the role. She barely had
time to make this picture, either,
being slated for rehearsals of
"Three After Three” in New York.
Alter that show, though, we’ll be
seeing more of her.
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DENTISTS HEAR
FAKERS RAPPED
‘Dental Economics’ Held
No Basis For Service
To The Ailing
By RENNIE TAYLOR
Associated Press Science Writer
OAKLAND, Calif., May 15.—A
sharp criticism of dentists who diag
nose their patients’ needs on the
basis of their credit ratings or who
adopt a “chairside manner” to fat
ten fees was sounded before the
California Dental association today
by Dr. B. B. McCollum of Los An
geles.
Asserting the profession was being
importuned to use “so-called dental
economics,” credit analyses, auditing
bureaus, financing systems and even
“courses in effective speaking” to
sell their services, Dr. McCollum said
there was a growing reaction against
such tactics.
“The more intelligent,” he added,
“have acquired sales resistance. Re
sistance to sales talks is being unin
tentionally taught the public every
day on the radio. Schools are actual
ly teaching students now to resist
sales talks.
"Should dentists acquire the use
of trick salesmanship methods just
when slick salesmanship is passing
away in commerce?”
Dr. McCollum, a pioneer in gnatho
logy, which applies the study of jaw
movement and structure to dentistry,
urged the profession to improve
mouth diagnosis on the ground that
it is one of the most important but
carelessly handled matters in dentis
try.
‘Dry’ Leader Claims
State Vote Favored
CHARLOTTE, May 15. — (£>> —
Ninety-four per cent of all candi
dates for the legislature who chose
to go on record declared their op
position to .he legal sale of alco
holic liquor in North Carolina, Mrs.
T. H. Plemmons, state president of
the Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union, said.
The identical 94 per cent, she
said, “stated that if elected, they
would vote and work for the enact
ment of a bill to permit the people
to vote in a state-wide referendum
on the manufacture ana sale of in
toxicating liquors.’"
The W. c. T. U. on April 25 re
cently sent out letters asking the
candidates how they stood on the
liquor question.
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Causes Most Accidents
WINSTON-SALEM, May 15—Un
it is not the driver’s recklessness
or even his intoxication that is re
sponsible for so many highway ac
cidents, Rear Admiral Percy W.
Foote, U. S. Navy, retired, said
last night.
•‘It is simply the lack of knowl
edge of safe driving and a low or
der of mental alertness among a
large percentage of drivers,” said
Foote, former commissioner of the
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Pennsylvania motor PoiiCp .
He spoke before the industrial '■
ty conference. la sa!e.
Other addresses were : c,r,
day. Carl Goerch of R-,ipi‘Fd !r>
speak tonight. eigl1 Mil
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