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Evening star., 1938-12-17
S. n. Kuuffmunn Named
Hospital Bourd Officer

S. H. Kaufman, assistant busi-
ness manager of The Star, was
elected second vice president of the
Board Of Directors of Emergency
Hospital at a special meeting of the
board late yesterday. Mr.. Kauff-
mann succeeds the late w. w. Spaid.
O. H. P. johnson, president of the
National Metropolitan Bank, was
chosen treasurer, succeeding the late
George W. White. j. Thilman Hen
drick was named a member of the
Board of Directors. Maj. Gist Blair
is president of the board.
Evening star., 1938-12-17
Fine for Obstructinq
Fire Engines Imposed

David A. Brown, colored. of 1905
Capitol avenue NE, Washington,
was fined $51.45 or given the option
Of 81 days in Jail at Bethesda, Md,
after being arrested yesterday for
failing to surrender the right of
way to apparatus en- route to fire.
Brown, who was driving truck,
allegedly obstructed two engines of
the Chevy Chase Fire Department
that were proceeding along Connec-
ticut avenue to an automobile on
fire.
He was arrested by Montgomery
County Policeman Leo Day and was
tried before Justice of the Peace
Ernest D. Houghton.
Evening star., 1938-12-17
Capital Correspondent
Is Sued for Divorce

A. E. Blair Moody, jr., Washing
ton correspondent for the Detroit
News, was sued for divorce in Dis
trict Court today by Mrs. Mary M.
Moody, 1885 Linnean avenue NV.
She named a correspondent.
The suit stated the Moodys were
married in June, 1925, at Provi-
dence, r. l., and have 4 10-year-
old son, whose custody the wife
seeks. She also asked ahmony,
stating she believed her husband s
present income as 4 correspondent
is between $4,000 and $4,000 an
nually.
The suit was filed through Attor-
neys Alvin l.. Newmyer and Lewis
Il. Shapiro.
Evening star., 1938-12-17
Weekly Outlook.

North and Middle Atlantic States-Some
light precipitation about Tuesday in North
Atlantic States. precipitation over most
sections about Thursday. Temperature
near normal beginning of week. warmer
near middle and colder toward end of week.
Ohio Valley and Tennessee-Some light
precipita ton at beginning OF week IN Ohio
Valley. precipitation again Wednesday or
Thursday. Temperature near normal be-
ginning Of week. warmer near middle and
colder toward end Of week
the Bahamas Friday morning is moving
slowly orth-northeastward and was CEN
tered this morning about latitude 30 de-
grees NJ. and longitude - degrees W..
with lowest pressure about 2965 inches.
Another disturbance Is moving east-north-
eastward over Southern James Bay. Moo
sonee. Ontario. 90 70 inches. with trough
extending outh-southwestward to Eastern
Texas. Pressure is falling over Manitoba
The Pas 29.74 inches, while pressure con-
tinues low over Alaska. Nome. 1884 inches
hiRh-pressure area is moving eastward
over the Canadian Maritime Provinces and
Southern Newfoundland Sable Island
Nova Scotia, 30 56 inches Pressure is ris-
ing over the Lower Missouri Valley. Omaha,
Nebr.. 30. 26 inches, and it continues high
over the Plateau region. Boise, Idaho, 1892
inches. During the last q hours there
Lake region. the Central Valleys and the
Southern Rocky Mountain region. Tenn
peratures have risen considerably in the
Middle Atlantic and North Atlantic states.
the lower Lake region and the Ohio valley,
while they have fallen over the Middle
and Southern Plains and the Upper Mis-
sisSippi Valley
Evening star., 1938-12-17
'CediIIo Followers
Reported Killed
BY the Associated Press.

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 1.-THE
war department announced last
night three followers Of rebel Gen.
Saturnino Cedillo were killed in a
clash with Federal troops in the
mountains Of San Luis Potosi State.
The report Of the encounter, which
occurred last Wednesday, indicated
the troops still were seeking the
elusive Cedillo. accused by the gov
ernment Of leading an aborative
revolt last May.
Evening star., 1938-12-17
ChristIess YuIe
Is Prescribed for
Reich by Nazis
Religion Ordered Kept
Out Of Community
Celebrations
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Dec. l7.-Instructions on
how to celebrate Christmas In ac-
ceptable Nazi fashion have gone
forth from various cultural depart
ments of the National Socialist
regime.
Emphasis is laid on the principle
that observance of Yuletide is an
ancient Germanic custom and
should be followed as such.
Under National Socialism" one
order observes. "Yule has regained
its ancient traditional character of
winter solstice rejoicings.
Our Germanic forefathers cele-
brated Yule. which is older than
Christ and which Christendom bor-
rowed from the Germanic proto-
type"
Girls Won't Sing Carols.
In several cities members of girls
Hitler organizations have indicated
they win sing no more Christmas
carols.
that the place for religious Christ
mas exercises is church and must
ION no account be introduced into
community celebrations
Christmas plays must not be per-
formed in schools. Instead. reyer
sion to the old custom of presenting
dramatic versions of ancient leg
ends bearing on the battle between
light and darkness. good and evil
is recommended. with full allowance
for old local customs.
Christmas Trees Popular.
Meanwhile, Christmas trees are as
popular as ever and many pater-
familias can be seen these days
trudging home with an evergreen
over his shoulder.
The Orthodox Christian view to-
ward Christmas is retained by
Bishop Theodore Heckel, who was
appointed in 1894 to have charge OF
the church foreign affairs depart
ment.'
In q Christmas message sent to.
day, on behalf of the home church
to Evangelical communities abroac
he said:
The message of the gospel mus
always stand in the midst of strife
After one year of war peril!
avoided. 1t behooves Christians Of
all the world to kneel by the mangel
and render thanks. but also to pray
for strength to continue peace work
already begun
Religious Teaching Remains.
Efforts to eradicate religious
teaching in schools seem to be max
ing little headway in Germany
Only about Is per cent of Protestant
teachers have responded to the Naz
teachers unions demand for elm
ination of religious classes.
The rest said they found parent.
strongly opposed to dropping re.
ligious education. Even severa
provincial governors have sided with
the parents.
A voice in favor of religious edu.
cation. but not by the churches, wa.
raised by Education Minister Bern.
hard Rust. In a circular to schoo
| authorities Rust declared religion.
education is as much q Nazi servic.
as any other branch of instruction
Evening star., 1938-12-17
Greece JuiIs Reds

ATHENS, Greece, Dec. II (P.-
Athens police announced yesterday
what they termed decisive blow at
the remaining Communist element
In Greece with the arrest of 46 per-
sons and seizure of documents, leaf
lets and printing machine.
Evening star., 1938-12-17
Baltic Society to Meet

The Baltic American Society will
meet at 2:30 pm. tomorrow in the
international Students House. 1708
New Hampshire avenue NV, to
discuss Christmas traditions and
customs of the Baltic countries.
There also will be a musical pro-
gram and choral singing.
Evening star., 1938-12-17
Weather Report

of light tonight probay
tonight "a
gentle moderate shifting north
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. light tonight
morning; colder tomorrow night
Vrgna-Cloudy colder; light
generally fair slightly
Evening star., 1938-12-17
Weather Dutu Sought

To gain information on weather
conditions for the benefit of the
proposed air service between Sydney
Australia, and Auckland, New Zea-
land, a meteorologist is travelling to
and from across the Tasman Sea
releasing balloons and watching
their behavior.
Evening star., 1938-12-17
Conodo Sells u. S. More

OTTAWA, Dec. II Canadian
Press ).-Canada's exports >, to the
United States in November totaled
81, ,5s4, ,371, an increase Of $4,2o5, ,87z
compared with $31, ~, 40 in Novem-
Der. 1887. the Dominion Bureau Of
Statistics reported yeg1 gasy.
Evening star., 1938-12-17
Nazis in Reich
To Rule Germans
OF Cze(ho-SIovakia
Planning Own porty to
Exercise Control
Over $4,000
BACKGROUND =

BACKGROUND -
In tho and one-halt months
since the dismemberment OF
Czecho- -Sloualcia Germany has
established rule oDer the reduced
republic. Economically and polit-
tcdlly Csech destinies haze been
tied up NTH those OF the Reich,
the Prague government being
concerted into a pirtual depend
ency OF Berlin.
By the Associated Press.
PRAGUE. Dec. Information in
the near future of a German Ma
tional Socialist party in Czecho-
Slovakia patterned after Nazi or
ganizations in the Reich was an
nounced by the newspaper Prayer
Zeitungsdienst.
Thurs Germans still remaining in
the reshaped republc-approxi-
mately IS 5000 of them-apparently
are to come under Nazi control
though theoretically they are under
Czecho-Slovak sovereignty.
The newspaper which announced
imminent formation of the party is
the organ of Ernst Kundt, formerly
a Sudeten party subleader.
German Wishes Recognized.
"It is self-evident that Germans
must have liberty to profess and
practice German National Social
ism" the paper declared, revealing
that Czech and German politicians
long had been negotiating this point
and that the CZechs recognized
German wishes as fully legitimate" :"
Psychological restraints on the
part of Czechs must be overcome,
however. the paper agreed but made
plain these plans cannot be post
poned indefinitely
The organ envisages a party Or
ganized exactly along German lines
so that suborganizations like the
Labor Front, Hitler Youth. Food
Front and other economic institu-
tons would be established.
Even the formation of SIS black
uniformed guards is contemplated
on Czech soil.
Drive on Jews Planned.
The organ also said it is expected
that the cultural life of Germans in
the republic will be governed in Nazi
fashion. In other words. Jews will
be elected from spheres of life
which likely colll6 Influence tho
German element.
Praguer Zeitungsdienst offered no
clues as to whether the demand for
elimination of Jews would be ap-
piled generally in Czecho- -Slovakia
or was meant to apply only in the
realm of the new Nazi party.
The organ said significantly, how
ever, that with elimination of Jews
"a new spirit" must emerge in the
cultural life which is prominently
governed by Czechs.
Evening star., 1938-12-17
P. W. A. Gront Approved

President Roosevelt today ap-
proved P w. A. allotment of So
600 900 to the Army Quartermaster
Corps for the construction of an
aircraft laboratory at Wright Field,
Dayton, Ohio.
Evening star., 1938-12-17
Lite Saver Honored

For life-saving, M. C. Stone. sec
retary OF swimming club at Ennis,
ireland, was presented a special
medal.
Evening star., 1938-12-17
Reports fer Last - Hours.

Record Tor Last "A Hours.
From noon Yesterday to noon today
Hiehest. 3S. 3 pm. yesterday. Year
aEo So.
Lowest. a. 4 am. today. Year AGO Il .
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. %. on August 15
Lowest IA. on November 81.
Humidity fer Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today
Highest. so per cent at . am today.
Lowest 80 Der cent. at noon yesterday.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy
at Harpers Ferry: Potomac muddy at
Great Falls today
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Evening star., 1938-12-17
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches IN the
Capital tcurrent month 20 date)
Evening star., 1938-12-17
FOREIGN STATIONS.
Temp. Rain =

& am. Greenwich time. today.)
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Evening star., 1938-04-03
L. Y. A. to Be Forum Topic

The Tennessee Valley Authority, It's
Administration and the Need for a
Congressional Investigation" will be
the subject of an address by Repre-
sentative May of Kentucky in the Ma
tional Radio Forum tomorrow at 10 80
pm. The Forum is arranged by The
Star and broadcast over Station
WMAL and a coast-to-coast network
of the National Broadcasting Co. sta
tions.
Mr.. May is chairman of the House
Committee on Military Affairs, which
handled the legislation creating the
T. " A. and all legislation amending
the original act. Chairman May,
frankly critic of T. v. A. as it has
been operated. has made a thorough
study of this governmental agency.
set up at the request of President
Roosevelt.
He was among those who early de-
manded a congressional inquiry into
the charges brought by former Chair
man Arthur E. Morgan of the T. v. A.
against the other members of his
board. Since President Roosevelt dis
missed Chairman Morgan from Of
fee, Mr.. May has continued his de-
rnand for congressional inquiry.
Chairman May insists that there
must be no "whitewash" investigation.
Only the fullest kind Of an inquiry,
Evening star., 1938-04-03
COOPERATION ASKED
FOR CLEANUP WEEKS
D. c. Householders Are Urged to
Paint, Repair and Modernize
Homes Anril II to O

Householders of the District were
urged yesterday by the Commissioners
to make special efforts to beautify
the city during the period from April
II to % by painting, repairing and
modernizing their houses, planting
gardens and removing trash and rub
bish
In their annual proclamation of
cleanup weeks the city heads placed
special emphasis on removal Of rub
blsh and appended an appeal from
the city refuse division that these
operations be done in accord with
the law and regulations.
In fact, officials recalled that fines
up to 500 may be levied for viola.
tions OF the rules. For instance. a
warning is issued against placing OF
grass cuttings, leaves or other debris
in streets or alleys for the white
wing" force or the alley cleaners to
remove.
They added that a reasonable" &C.
cumulation OF leaves, grass cuttings.
small twigs and branches and like
burnable material would be collected
by the trash collectors, but that such
material must be placed in receptacles
or tight bundles that one man can
handle.
Evening star., 1938-04-03
HANGAR FIRE LAID
TO LEAKING TANK
Blaze at Airport in Miami
Destroys IA Planes Valued
at 100000.
By the Associated Press.

By the Aseocisted Press.
MIAMI, Fla. April ADMINISTRATIONS
tonight blamed an airplane's leaking
fuel tank for hangar fire at the Mu-
nicipal Airport, which destroyed IA
ships, valued by insurance adjusters
at 100000.
The watchman who discovered the
blaze, Harry Andrews, 81, said it
started in plane owned by a Miami
sportsman flyer which had been
brought in short time before with
GASOLINE stains on the fuselage, an
parently from a leak.
Fed by series of explosions. the
fire spread rapidly. FIremen were
hampered by nitrate gas. formed BY
burning dope" on the wings. The
$4,000 hangar and the usual ac-
eumulation of expensive planes inside
we're reduced to charred skeletons.
Nothing could be salvaged.
Among the planes DESTROYED we're
an experimental ship, valued at $780,
600, in which Maj Alexander p. De
Seversky set many speed records: a
$4,000 Lockheed Electra, owned by
M. l.. Benedum, Pittsburgh oil mag
nate, in which Jimmy Mattern hunted
the Russian flyers lost in the Arctic.
and s65,ooo amphibian owned by
Gar Wood, Detroit speedboat racer.
Evening star., 1938-04-03
Frenzy Fiction
Readers Form
District Club

Enthusiasts Of the eerie in fiction
are banding together in the District.
A new club has been formed by readers
Of scary fiction for the purpose of
drawing together people who enjoy
such literature.
A gToup of 16 Washingtonians
elected officers last night and chose
as the club name THE Outsiders. !"
The name is tribute to particularly
hair-raising and effective story of that
name by H. P. Lovecraft.
James Robinson Small was elected
as the first president of the club.
Other officers include Mrs Everil w.
Murphy, vice president, and Edward
F. Hopper, secretary-treasurer. Will
liam J. Foster, 1921 @ street NV. is
chairman of the Membership Com
mittee.
Members appointed a committee to
draw up protest to the office of the
United States attorney because of the
permanent ban issued by that office
on one Of the magazines devoted to
weird and eeries tales. Members COM
plain that now they have to 20 to
Maryland or Virginia 10 get the pub
ucataon.
Evening star., 1938-04-03
HITLER will SEE
ITALYS AIR MIGHT
Greatest Display Ever Seen,
Planned in May, to Be
Essentially Warlike,'
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, April 2.-Italy's air force
intends to stage the greatest aerial
display ever seen" for the benefit O,
Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler when he
visits II Duce in May.
officials said the exhibition would
be essentially warlike."
Three hundred land and sea planes
divided into 10 squadrons, will dror
live bombs of various sizes along q
stretch of Mediterranean Coast near
Rome, the announcement said.
Then, flying In formation. they will
attack assigned objects. All move
ments will be directed by radio from
the ground. Inter-plane communi-
cation by radio will be used to CO.
ordinate the attack maneuvers.
Targets with the appearance of
camouhaged warships, troops, ports
and industrial zones will be con-
structed for the bombing show.
Aerial acrobatics and a formation
parade of 400 planes were planned TO
round out Mussolini's entertainment
for Hitler.
Evening star., 1938-04-03

The disturbance that developed over the
Southeastern States Saturday morning has
continued to move rapidly east-northeast-
ward with increasing intensity and was
centered Saturday evening about 200 miles
east OF the Virsinia Capes, with lowest
pressure about 1880 inches Pressure con-
tinues low along the Labrador coast. Reso-
luton Island 2al2 inches. disturbance
OF slight intensity is moving rapidly
southeastward over the Red River Of the
North Valley. Pembina. NJ Dak... 29s2
inches. Pressure continues relatively hiRh
southeast Of Bermuda. st. Georges, 3OO4
inches. while high h-pressure area is moving
eastward over the west Gulf States, Dallas.
Texas 1925 inches. Pressure is relatively
nigh over the middle Rocky Mountain re-
sion. Yellowstone Park, Wyo.. 30. 90 inches
and is high and rising over the Cambridge
Bay region. Coppermine. District OF Mac
kerzie.. 1880 inches During the last "a
hours there have been rains in portions
OF the Middle and South Atlantic States
and southern portion Of the middle Gulf
States. while snow hurries occurred in por-
tions in, the Lake region. Temperatures
aave fallen rather senerallv in the Atlantic
states and the Ohio Valley. while they
nave moderated in tho Plains States
Evening star., 1938-04-03
NAZI ENVOY TOTALLY
NAMED; TWO SHIFTED
Secretary of State, Hans Won
Mackensen, Gets Rome
Ambassadorship.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, April 2.-The appoint
ment of State Secretary Hans Won
Mackensen as Germany's Ambassa-
dor to Italy was announced today.
DR.. Herbert Won Drksen, here
ttfore Ambassador to Toxic, was ap-
pointed Ambassador to London. Mai.
Gen. Eugene OFT, military attache at
Toxic, succeeds DR.. Won Dirksen.
Count Won Weiszaecker, political ex-
pert in the foreign ministry, was ele-
waited to Won Mackensens post of
secretary of state.
DR.. Ernst Woermann, counselor of
the embassy in London, was named
to the foreign Office ministry with the
title of undersecretary of state.
The appointment of Gen. OFT marks
the first time since the World War
that Germany has sent a general to
Japan as Ambassador.
Gen. OFT has been military attache
at Toxic since April, 1884. Prior to
that time he was German observer
attached to the japanese Army. Be-
fore going to Japan he was q depart
mental chief in the war ministry at
Berlin.
Evening star., 1938-04-03
FINAL LABOR SPLIT
IN PENNSYLVANIA
A.F.l. Reorganization Move
Ordered by Green Called
for This Week.
BY the Associated Press.

HARRISBURG. Pa, April "A
final parting of the ways neared to-
| night for Pennsylvania American
Federation Of Labor and Committee
for Industrial Organization unions.
held together long after similar splits
in other States.
Unions loyal to William Green and
the American Federation of Labor will
gather here April 7, and 9 to re-
organize the Pennsylvania Federation
OF Labor. This became necessary after
, Mr. Green revoked the 4O-year- -old
| charter Of the federation-because its
officers refused to expel unions affiil-
lated with John L. Lewis c. I. O.
The officers, including President
John Phillips, pleaded with Mr.. Green
for harmony in Pennsylvania be-
cause. they asserted. 80 per cent of
the federation, including the power
full United Mine Workers of America,
had gone under the Lewis banner.
Mr.. Green's dictum left the State
without welded unit of labor organ
izations.
c. l. o. Perfects Organization.
The c. I. o. unions promptly formed
the Pennsylvania Industrial Union
Council. This week they perfected
their organization by choosing Mr..
Phillips to head it, adopting a con-
stitution and jumping into the polit-
ical fight pointing toward Pennsyl-
vanias May II primary. They in
| dorsed 1t. Gov. Thomas Kennedy.
secretary of the United Mine
Workers, for the Democratic guberna-
torial nomination in opposition to the
Democratic State Committees can
didate, Charles Alvin Jones, Pits
burgh lawyer.
Organized labor. always a factor in
Pennsylvania, thus assumed a vital
part in the bitter current primary
| United States Senator Joseph F. Guf-
fey long a Pennsylvania Democratic
leader. came out for Kennedy in a
bolt from the regular organization gu
berna torial choice.
Guffey Makes Clean Break.
Senator Guffey went on to make it
clean break from the committee by
turning against Gov. George H. Earle,
committee candidate for the United
States Senate, and indo-sing Mayor S.
Davis Wilson of Philadelphia. Mr..
Wilson had announced for the Senate
from Mr.. Kennedy's Harrisburg head
quarters.
Pennsylvania c. I. o. groups claim
508,000 members. A. F. of l.. unions
claim 100000 Mr. Lewis had said he
can muster 100000 Pennsylvania votes.
In the 1884 election-which gave
Pennsylvania its first Democratic Gov
ernor in 40 years-4,l38,1O5 votes
were cast
At Hazleton, in the heart of Penn
sylvania's great anthracite regions,
mine union officials announced Mr..
Lewis would speak there probably May
IA, three days in advance of the pri-
mary, in behalf of Mr.. Kennedy's
gubernatorial candidacy.
Evening star., 1938-04-03
GIRL FACES QUIZ
IN lands DEATH
Detective to Question North
Carolina Woman Friend
of Accused Husband.

A young woman friend of former
Fireman James L, Lands, %. prob
ably will be questioned at her home
to shed new light on Lands activities
prior to the time he was charged with
the murder of his eStranged wife,
Mrs. Blanche Gertrude Lands, %.
Detective Sergt William j. Liver
man of the honEicide squad was to
leave for an unannounced destination
IN North Carolina today to interview
the girl. Investigators said the young
woman left Washington at about the
time Lands was arrested in connec-
ton with the fatal beating of his
wife 10 days ago.
Girls Name Withheld.
The girl. whose name was not re-
Vealed will be questioned with a view
to uncoverlng motive for the murder.
In a suit for separate maintenance,
filed in District Court last August.
Mrs. Lands charged her husband was
spending money on the entertainment
of other women while failing to pro-
vide her with the necessities of life.
At the time of his arrest Lands
was under orders from the court to
pay his wife s45 month maintenance.
Mrs. Lands was found, beaten and
dying, on lonely section of Twenty
fourth street NE. about 8 am. on
Thursday, March "a. Her skull had
been crushed with stones.
Admitted Drive With Wife.
Lands at first claimed an alibi,
but later admitted he was with his
wife at the time she was injured in
leap from his moving automobile.
A coroner's jury held him for the
grand jury and murder charge was
lodged against him. The grand Jury
has not acted in the case as yet.
Lands, rookie fireman attached
to the fireboat station, was dismissed
from the force. He had slipped away
while on duty. he admitted, to take
his wife for an early morning ride,
leaving and returning unnoticed to
the station house. Police suspected
him after seeing blood on his shirt
and under an ear.