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Evening star., 1938-01-09
GERMANY ANDITALY
EXCHANGE WORKERS
Duce's Farm Laborers to Go North
as Hitler's Artisans Aid Mus.
solini's Industry.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, Jan. 8.-Germany and italy
will exchange 10000 farm and indus
trial workers in March as an expert
ment in strengthening both political
and economic bonds of the Roman
Berlin axis.
The experiment in mass labor COL
laboration. announced today, will send
Italians skilled in land reclamation
and production of wheat, potatoes and
sugar beets to southern and western
Germany to reinforce the Reich CAM
paign for greater harvests.
At the same time German artisans
will come to Italy to place their tech
nical training at the service of Italian
industry.
Robert Ley, Nazi labor head, and
Franco Angelini. president of the
National Fascist Confederation of
Farm Workers, arranged the transfer.
Under the agreement Italians work.
ers will receive food, lodging and about
40 cents a day in wages, the amount
paid German farm hands. Most of
the Italians will work under long,
term contracts binding them to about
eight months labor-the normal dura-
ton of the German agricultural season
Evening star., 1938-01-09
CONFESSION OF SLAYING
CHECKED IN CALIFORNIA
Lumberjack in Ontario Tells of
Killing Man IL Years Ago
in Sacramento.

T1MMINS, Ontario, Jan. 8 Cana
dian Press .-Timmins police today
communicated with authorities at Sac
ramento, Calf, to check the story of
Andrew Moroz, AZ, a lumberjack, that
he killed a man more than IL years
ago in Sacramento.
Moroz made what police said he
called confession" yesterday after
saying: "I've gone to the ends of
Evening star., 1938-01-09
Tipsy Man Errs
In PickingC Car
To Take uNuD'

II Charles CLANCY ever drinks
again. he probably will do it far
away from Police Court.
Friday, CLANCY, who is "a and lives
in the 1400 block of Massachusetts
avenue NV, took too many drinks
and got sleepy. In search Of q place
to take q nap, he wandered into q
courtyard and fell asleep in the near
est car.
He had rude awakening, being
shaken by Deputy Marshal William
L. Lucas, who informed Chaney he
not only was in The private parking
place of police officials, but had
chosen for his nap the automobile of
Judge Edward M. Curran.
Taken before Judge Walter ]. Casey
yesterday on charge of drunkenness,
he was ordered to pay q $50 fine
or serve IS days.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
U. .S.-MEXICO SILVER
PACT DETAILS Barred
Washington to Buy 100000
Ounces Monthly in 1888, Says
Finance Minister Suarez.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 8-Finance
Minister Eduardo Suarez disclosed to-
day that the United States had agreed
to purchase 100000 ounces of silver
from Mexico each month in 1898, in
addition to 35,0O0.000 ounces con-
tracted for previously.
He said the new purchases were on
the same basis as last year-that is,
at prices the Treasury fixes by daily
bids in the New York market, which
at present is As cents an ounce. The
price for domestic silver in the United
States was fixed at 6464 cents an
ounce by President Roosevelt a week
ago. Previously it was 7757 cents.
Suarez, who returned yesterday
from Washington, denied that the sill
ver-purchasing agreement was the re-
suit Of horse trading" asserting that
the deal grew out of "the good rela-
tions between the two governments
and general reciprocity"
He admitted, however, that he was
studying the possibility" of rescind-
ing the presidential decree of last
year, requiring foreign shippers in
Mexico to advance 3 per cent of the
value of their eXports-a measure
which drew representations from the
United States.
The finance minister declared that
the United States Treasury's promise
to use its equalization fund to sup
port the peso was motivated by de-
sire to stimulate trade between the
United States and Mexico"
Evening star., 1938-01-09

raising enterprises of the committee
60 into central fund. from which
disbursements are made as necessary
to take care of sundry expenses. The
net balance is used to provide hot
lunches and milk for 5000 school chill
dren.
Mrs. Boyle said the committee has
enough money in sight to continue
the lunches the remainder of this
month-and every effort will be made
to carry the work on throughout the
school year.
One fruitful source Of daily funds
are several hundred milk bottles, with
slotted caps, distributed in stores all
over the city, so that customers may
drop pennies, nickels, dimes or larger
sums for the benefit OF the hot lunch
fund. The proceeds from these bottles
are said to average 5000 or 5000 a
day
Officials Of the committee yesterday
awaited completion OF an audit Of
accounts Of the velvet ball. It was
indicated report would not be ready
for several days.
Mrs. Boyle in the meantime said
she was going down in the country
to rest from her labors over the week
end,
Evening star., 1938-01-09
1887
UP $1,499,566,ODO
Increase in Foreign Com
merce Credited in Part
to Trade Pacts.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The State Department yesterday
credited q portion Of the $1,499, $685.
900 increase in Americas foreign com.
nlerce in the first II months of 1897
to Secretary Hulrs reciprocal trade
policy.
There are definite indications that
the trade agreements program is help
ing to promote mutually beneficial
trade between the United States and
other countries" the department said.
Observing that it was not possible
to separate completely the factors con-
tributing to the general increase, the
department added:
1T is significant /" not only that
our exports have gained relatively
more to the agreement countries as
group than to non-agreement coun-
tries, but also that imports of Amer
ican products into the agreement coun-
tries have generally increased more
than have imports Of the products Of
other countries.
I'm other words, the relative posi-
ton Of the United States in these
markets has improved"
This country now Is preparing to
negotiate commercial pact with the
United Kingdom-a project regarded
as the most important in Secretary
Hull's program to expand interna-
tional trade by breaking down tariff
barriers.
Statistics made public by the de-
partment showed that the total two
way trade with the IA nations with
which agreements were in effect dur
ing all Of 1896 rose from $1,7l9,33O.-
900 in the first IL months of 1885
to $2,262 ,517,00 in the same period
Of 1887, an increase of 3l.5 per cent.
Trade with all other countries in
creased 35.5 per cent during the same
period-from $2,784, ,278, 900 to $685.
$4,000
Exports to trade agreement coun-
tries expanded from s799, 1886, 900 in
the first II months of 1886 to ST.
lac. 1897 900 for the same period of
1887, or 42.6 per cent; while those
to all other countries increased from
81 1925 ,s4l 900 to sl,ss6 ,645, 900, or 1922
per cent.
Imports from trade agreement coun-
Evening star., 1938-01-09
JAPAN AIMS u. S.,
NINE. CHANG WARNS
Wife Of Generalissimo Envisages
That Nippon May Some Day
Invade United States.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Jan. 8.-Mme. Chang
Kai-shek. Wellesley-educated wife OF
China's generalissimo. in a letter to
a friend. made public today, en-
visages that Japan may some day in
wade the United States.
The letter. dated November 9, was
written to Mrs. George w. Van Gorder
of suburban Newton. Mrs. Van Cor
der lived in China for several years
and became a close friend of Nine.
Chang.
IF japanese planes can bomb our
cities with inlpunity," the Chinese
feminist leader wrote, there is no
reason why they should not, some
day, push towards Hawaii, establish
a base there and with California so
near at hand, invade your national
territory"
Nine. Chang asserted it was a
Japanese ambition to establish a
continental empire on our soil" with
the ultimate aim "the conquest of
Asia, the domination of the world"
Evening star., 1938-01-09
EIGHT WAIT TRIAL
IN PUERTO RICO
Nationalist Group Members
Accused of Trying to Kill
U. S. Judge.
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne ASSoclateQ Press.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Jan. g.
Eight members Of Nationalist group
will go on trial here Monday charged
with an attempt on the life of United
States District Judge Robert A.
Cooper, former Governor OF South
Carolina.
A score or more shots were fired at
the Judge last June 8, the day after
Pedro Albizu Campos, president Of the
Nationalist party, and seven other
Nationalists were taken to Atlanta,
Ga, to start prison sentences for
attempting to overthrow the United
States Government in Puerto Rice.
The indictment against the. present
defendants charged the attack .re-
suited from Judge Cooper's perform
ance Of official duty in trying and
sentencing Albizu Campos and his
confederates.
Originally there were 10 defendants
in the present case but two of them,
Anibal Arsuaga, 10, and his cousin,
Jesus Casellas Torres, %, pleaded
guilty yesterday. Sentence was with
held pending outcome of the trial
of the other eight.
Judge Cooper, motoring home after
an afternoon billiard game, was am
bushed at an end of the Condado
Bridge. The jurist, however, escaped
injury from the revolver fusillade
which burst from the automobile of
the would-be killers, parked to block
his way.
Judge Cooper will be the chief
prosecution witness at the trial in
his regular courtroom where Associate
Justice Martin Travieso of the Puerto
Rico Supreme Court will sit as special
judge.
The eight defendants are Tulio
Monge, %; Dionisio Velez, "a; San
tiago Nieves Maisan, 81; Juan Bau-
tista Colon, %; Julio Pinto Gambia,
%; Manuel Avila, 20; Raimundo Diaz,
30. and Juan Alamo, 80.
All but three-Alamo. Pinto Gambia
and Avila-Were charged with taking
part in the gunfire and the others
were accused Of conspiracy in con-
nection with it.
The two who pleaded guilty-Ar-
suaga and Casellas Torres-and three
others were said by District Attorney
A. Cecil Snyder to have signed con-
fessions. That Of Cacellas Torres,
made public last August. said the plot
originated in the national council of
the Nationalist party.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

announcement Of a prize contest In
which school children will be invited
to select a name for the publication.
A $l00 prize fund has been contrib
uted by Southern Diaries, Mr.. Orrison
said. In addition there will be month
ly prizes to high school and grade
school students for the best essays on
health. safety and kindred topics.
These awards will be made by the
Chestnut Farms Dairy, he said.
The magazine will be printed at cost
by the Federal Lithograph Co.. with
which Mr.. Orrison is associated. Pro-
ceeds from advertising will be used
to defray this cost, he explained and
any excess will be turned over to the
children's lunch fund. So far approx
mately 1000 applications for subscrip-
tions have been received, and a total
OF 25.000 subscriptions is anticipated,
he said. Enough national advertising
has been obtained to defray expenses
Of the first edition, Mr.. Orrison de.
clared.
Authorities to Write.
A number OF prominent authorities
on child welfare and related subjects
have agreed to write articles for the
magazine.
Proceeds from the various fund
Evening star., 1938-01-09

Russia shipped more than $25, ,000,-
900 worth Of merchandise to the
United States in the last year.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
Velvet Ball
Continued From First Page.)

said last night he was certain Mr..
Goodman was not an official member
Of the incorporated committee" The
same official siad he had not met Mr..
Goodman nor heard of any plans for
the Uncle Ezra affair.
Mrs. Boyle concurred with Mr..
Goodman, however, as to his member
ship on the committee. She said he
was recommended to her by Senator
Robert R. Reynolds Of North Caro-
lima. The latter said yesterday he
knew Mr.. Goodman and that his (the
Senator's) Office probably recon-
mended him to the committee"
Mrs. Boyle said Mr.. Goodman was
promoting the "Unc Ezra" enterprise
but MIR. Goodman hastened to en-
phasize that he is mot q promoter"
"Get this straight" he said TN
not q promoter, Tn a retired business
man from the Carolinas, now living
right here in Washington"
Mr. Goodman said he thought up
the "Unc Ezra" plan as q means of
, helping Mrs. Boyle to feed Washing
= tons hungry school children. Being
person with lots Of time on his
, hands, he pointed out, he has volun-
! teered to help In any way he can, with
no thought in mind of compensation
; for himself.
He was very much distressed over
the troubles Mrs. Boyle and her COM
! m1ttee had with a professional pro.
moter, Jay Corbett, whose contract
to stage the recent velvet ball was
( investigated by the Better Business
! Bureau and finally Cancelled after pay
ment to Mr.. Corbett Of $3.50.
) Not Costing Fund Anything.
s This 'Unc' Ezra affair is not cost
{ Ing the committee or the Children's
Lunch Fund one penny" Mr.. Good
: man said, "and it should net them a
Z handsome sum for the hungry chill
Hdren. I've sent out few circulars and
letters, asking for donations, and have
- pile Of them ready to be mailed out
right now-as soon as We get the velvet
i ball thing Strengthened out.
d Il had not planned to ask for any
newspaper publicity until lated, how
ever. It's little early for that
2: Mrs. Boyle said she had not worked
out any details with Mr.. Goodman as
to financial arrangements for the
"Unc' Ezra" event.
a# Meanwhile, she Is going forward
with an immediate Embarrassing prof.
sect, the selling of health bonds" for
: l25 each, which includes a years
= subscription to magazine on child
{ welfare. which the committee plans
: TO publish as soon as editorial and
business arrangements can be worked
out
~ I'VE are asking the people Of WASH
anston to purchase health bond 30
THAT We may have enough money to
buy the food for the month Of Jan
e.uary," Mrs. Boyle announced in the
sssvelvet ball program. with this
Health bond you will receive for one
pear . magazine. None of the $l,25
Bwill 60 into the publication. The
cost Of printing is covered by the ad-
$&aetisements"
E& y Prises for Name.
&# TX. T. Orrison. . member of the
&&Citisens' Permanent Committee and
smbusiness manager of the magazine
project. said yesterday the first issue
S8of the magazine viii be published
#when $4,000 health bond" suhscrip-
tions have been sold. This figure was
ssset to assure advertisers Of wide cir
sculation, he said.
The initial issue Of the magazine
Will beSnameless, but viii carry N
Evening star., 1938-01-09
new HEARING JAN.
IN BERRY MARBLE CASE
Arguments Over Two Leases to
Be Presented in Knoxville
Before Judge Taylor.

By the Associated Press.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 8.-Fed-
eral Judge George Taylor is scheduled
to hear arguments January II con-
corning the validity Of two leases
owned by Senator George L. Berry
and his associates on marble deposits
in the T. v. AS Norris Dam reservoir.
In recent hearing. the T. V. A.
sought to have the Berry leases con-
demned by q Federal commission as
worthless.
Ben Testerman, a special master ap-
pointed by Judge Taylor, reported two
of the leases were invalid because roy
alties had not been paid within the
stipulated time limit. The leases
covered an important section of the
Berry holdings.
The Berry interests contended their
marble and mineral holdings were
worth as much. as S2,5O0,OOO.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

the earth since that time, but the
memory Of the thing has haunted mo
until l had to come and make .
confession"
According to the story, taken down
by Police Chief Leo H. Gagnon, Moroz
shot a friend named Miller August
80, 1925. during an argument. Miller
died the next day.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
EX-OFFICIAL SENTENCED

YORK, Pa, Jan. 8 (P.-Former
Justice of the Peace David S. Wilmer
was sentenced today to II months on
a charge of extortion to which he
pleaded guilty.
Clifford M. Hopkins of Baltimore
yesterday was exonerated by a jury
OF charge of bribing Wilmer in
drunken-driving case.
Judge Henry c. Niles rejected
plea for a probationary sentence by
winners attorney, based on a claim
Wilmer was not in good health.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

tries amounted to $919,ss4, 1000 in the
1895 period. compared with sl,122,-
100000, a rise Of % per cent; while
from all other countries the import
increase was 1914 per cent from 81
257. $4,000 to 52,912,o00.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
POWER STRUGGLE
RACES|NBALKANS
] Foreign Ministers Of Italy,
Austria and Hungary
Meet Tomorrow.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Hungary. Jan. ga
struggle for the balance Of power In
: Southeast Europe-most intense In
Europe's powder keg since 19l4-took
new shape today with italy as a
potent factor.
Semi-oficial sources outlined an i'm
portant three-day conference starting
here Monday of the foreign ministers
Of three nations-Count Galeazzo Ci-
ano of Italy. Guido Schmidt of Aus
tria and Koloman Won Kanya of
Hungary.
Trade Aid Envisaged.
Their talks, said the sources, demon
strate solidarity of these Rome pact
nations and will help their mutual
trade with new commercial agree
ment.
But larger issues. hinging greatly
on Rumania's possible disruption of
her allies foreign policy by close
friendship with Germany and Italy,
were expected to take the ministers
attention.
Rumania's rapproachement with
Germany and Italy, move initiated
by the anti-Semitic Rumanian Pre-
mier, Octavian Goga, upsets the uni
fed pro-French policy of the Little
Entente - Rumania, C9echoslovakia
and Yugoslavia.
This shift is Of prime Importance
10 the confering foreign ministers.
Hungary May Follow Austria.
Perhaps it might drive Hungary,
who surrendered much territory to
Rumania in 1919. toward the ideal of
Austria's Chancellor Kurt Schusch-
nigg for an Austro- Hungarian alli-
ance with Czechoslovakia based on
friendship with the large democracies,
France and Britain.
Such a move would cause a new
cross-current since Austria and Hun
gary have never forgotten that
Czechoslovakia was carved largely
from the old Austro- Hungarian empire
by peace treaties.
Too. Ciano and the other ministers
were expected to discuss recognition
Of German interests in the Danube
Basin, and now friendly relations Of
Italy with her one-time enemy, Yugo-
slavia.
Semi-official quarters said the talks
would be Of ''the Rome Berlin axis as
base for peace which other nations
are invited to join" the bid Of those
two powers to lead smaller nations
in a common front.
Anti Red Pact Up.
Also up for more consideration will
be the 'anti-Communist pact which
creates new European system by
pointing out new orientation for all
countries"
Italy's wishes were believed to be
for her Rome pact satellites to join
the Italo-G -German-Japanese signatories
Of the anti-Communist pact and also
to follow Italy out of the League of
Nations.
In the view of Austrian and Hun
garian diplomats, however, that would
be playing Italys game too hard" at
the sacrifice of Franco British friend
ship.
Observers looked to the conference
to reveal just how far Austria and
Hungary would play follow the leader
with 1taly's foreign minister.
Evening star., 1938-01-09
WAR, W. VA, GETS PHONE
Town With Unusual Name Linked
to Neighbor City.

WAR, w. Va, Jan. 8 R.-Ths
town OF War lost one of its distinctions
today but gained telephone system.
Mayor John w. Blakely Of Welch
and Mayor c. s. Brown Of War ex-
changed greetings on the first call
put through to War, Is miles southeast
OF Welch in the heart of the coal fields.
Before today this town Of $500 was
the largest in the United States with
out telephone.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1938-01-20

and written almost none since and
made it needful to wash her eyes
with a cup and solution thrice daily
and to have a moistened cloth at
the bed each night for relief of dis
comfort. A dry cloth covers the
cheek when lying down. '"Tic"
pains came in the other side-but
one operation is enough SO aspirin,
the electric hot pad, and endurance.
On two successive nights the spasms
came about midnight; one lasted
ten minutes. One side of her face
is as tender as a boil, allowing
scarcely the lightest touch There
have been numerous falls, difficult
bad strangling spells; and much
WEAKNESS. At times she can hard
ly speak and loud sound on the
radio is painful. There has been
numbness, cold feet, bowel and kid
ney trouble, shoulder that hurt
like genuine arthritis, pain in the
side, pain in the stomach-all Won
derfully we'll borne and with und1-
minished confidence in Rom. 1928.
Though under the osteopath since
April, 1929, she has literally taken
gallons of medicine. Occasionally
she gets to church. For those dear
friends around the world who have
sent greetings, flowers, cards, let
ters, ice cream, money, clothing,
fruit, grape juice, candy, etc, and
who have prayed, and for the good
doctors, both she and 1 are very,
ly yours, Don Carlos James, 1046
Dudley avenue, Louisville, KY. We
are always glad to hear from
friends
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1938-01-20
TRAVEL SHORTS PREPARED BY
INSTITUTE OF FOREIGN TRAVEL
When a Park Is Not A Park

When A Park Is Not A Park
| Famous English parks are San
down Park, Hurst Park, Kempton
Park and Alexandra Park, but they
are not parks. They are racecours-
| es.
Visit Germany To See New America
If you want to see new America
and who doesn't?-you can take
a car from Berlin, Germany, via
words New America on the sign
post. 1t is a small village Of less
than a dozen houses.
When Uncle Sam Lives In Paris
The American colony in Paris has
one daily newspaper, one club, two
high schools, four churches, one
hospital, one library and two Amer
lean Legion posts.
Shank's Pony In Venice
In Venice there are no highways,
no subways, no automobiles, nc
street cars. Hundreds Of VenetiaDs
have never seen a horse. Yet be.
side it's silent canals pedestrian
could walk for days without retrac-
ing his steps.
But Will They Eat Peanuts?
At Port Logan in Galloway, Scot
land, there are Goldfish so tame they
can be handled with mussels. When
anyone approaches to feed them
they poke their heads out of the sea
to receive the food. Naturalists
from all parts of the world come TO
see them.
Pctrarch First Tourist To France
Petrarch is often honored as the
writer Of the first sonnet, but France
also honors him as her first tourist.
He came on pleasure trip to
Tfn1x pI
1886, over six hundred years ago.
Where 1t Pays To Keep Clean
If you would see Spotless Town,
go to Warsaw, Poland, where the
streets are cleaned every night by
machines. Every householder is
held responsible for the tidiness of
the street in front of his house, ana
pedestrians who litter the streets
are fined two dimes for each offence.
No Bite Means Some Fish
Czechoslovakia is accounted
customary there, if one does not get
a ''bite," to purchase "big ones
from more fortunate anglers, thus
enabling all disciples of Isaac Wal
ton to return home heroically.
Play Six Hours A Day In Norway
Most stores close at p. m. in
Norway's summertime, which allows
SnOD assistants anu DuSlHcSS IlCu
six hours for swimming, sailing, and
other sports Twilight does not start
till ten O'Clock.
Swiss Ports
The ports to enter if one wishes
to go to Switzerland are Antwerp,
Cherbourg, Havre, Rotterdam, Bre~
men, Hamburg, Naples, and Genoa.
All roads lead to Switzerland as
well as Rome.
Here's To The Ladies
The United States passport figures
show that more American women
than men travel to Europe. If they
are not just housewives, they are
teachers, stenographers, interior
decorators, artists, actresses, nurses,
students, and servants.
"a Heap o. Siller"
Scotland, where the Empire Ex-
hibition opens in May, is spending
twenty million dollars-a heap c
siller for Scotland-to build and re
construct a thousand miles of high.
ways for tourists in the north.