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Deaths Reported

Lulie Meade. 7s, Epiphany Church Home
Antonio D. Vito. rs. 63s Kenyon st.
Christina McKenna. rs. 1882 Raum st. n e.
Louis Slagy, 81. Providence Hospital.
Samuel Racoosin: Sd 40 Bates St
Annie Abbott 4S, Georgetown University
Hospital.
Gertrude Johnson. ~. $40 Eye st. ne
Mary Bender. 46. George Washington Uni
versity Hospital.
Helen L. Cox, % Casualty Hospital.
Infant Thompson. Gallinger Municipal
Hospital.
Infant, Smith. Georgetown University Hos
Eliza Johnson, 81, Gallinger Municipal Hos
Baldwin Gray. 4s. Gallinger Municipal
Hospital.
Grant Parks. 43 Gallinger Municipal Hos
pital
George H. Richardson. 30. 1877 Florida ave
Gertrude Pryor. "a. Emergency Hospital.
Willie Brown. 20. Freedmen's Hospital
Robert Robinson. 2S, Gallinger Municipal
Hospital.
John H. Sembley T. Children's Hospital.
Infant Elliott Jacob, 907 1st st. ,s.w.
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STAR, WASHINGTON c., MONDAY MAY 49, 1885,

Belin, former Ambassador to Poland !;
Richard Southgate of Pan-American
Airways; G. Howland Shaw, State
Department.; Pierrepont Moffat,
State Department, and Representa-
tive Foster Sterns of New Hamp-
shire.
The American Peace Society, of
which Admiral Bristol was president,
was represented at the runeral.
Among messages of sympathy re-
ceived by Admiral Bristols family
was one today from King Boris of
Bulgaria, addressed to Mrs. Bristol,
which read: "Sincerest sympathy.
Keep grateful records of your be-
loved husband"
Admiral Bristol, who retired from
the Navy in 1882, lived here at 1921
Massachusetts, avenue NV.
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Births Reported

William and Muriel Brooks. boy.
Samuel and Eunice Lipkowitz, boy.
Raphael and Dorothy Parker. girl.
Marion and Marion Over. boy.
James and Lech Maloney. boy.
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Wins Scholarship

Edmund Pendleton, jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Pendleton,
542O Connecticut avenue NV, has
been awarded scholarship to the
University Of Pennsylvania. A
senior at the Peddie> School of
Hightstown, N. j., the Washington
youth recently was elected to the
Peddie Chapter of the Cum Laude
Society.
Evening star., 1939-05-15
Thomas n. Pickford
Dies in California

Thomas H. Pickford, 70, prominent
hotel and apartment house owner
OF this city, died Saturday in Coro-
nado, Calf, after a long illness, it
was learned through the Associated
Press.
Mr.. Pickford owned the La Fayette
and Carroll Arms Hotels and the
Toronto Apartments here. He lived
IN the La Fayette. He went to Cali
fornia about four months ago to
visit relatives.
Funeral services were scheduled to
be held today in California. The
body was to be sent to Washington
for burial.
"A native of Howick, Canada, Mr..
Pickford was engaged in the real
estate business here for some IS
years, until retiring several years
ago.
Survivors include a son, r. H.
Pickford, and sister, Mrs. James
Pascoe, both of Coronado, and a
brother, w. E. Pickford, Los Angeles.
Don't cross in the middle of the
block when cars are anrnoachinp
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Don't cross in the middle of the
block when cars are approaching.
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night OF a sud-
den illness at
the home of his
m o t h er, Mrs.
Mary C.. White,
OF Massachu-
sets a We n u e
NV.
Mr.. w h | t e ,
who lived in the
w e S t c h e Ster
Apartments, was
a lifelong resi-
dent Of this city
a n d prominent
in several organ
liza ations here.
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Of the Boys Club of Washington
He had been with the American Sc
curity & Trust Co. for many years
Besides his mother, he leaves his
wife, Mrs. Blanche Dalton White
and sister, Miss Mabel s. White
this city.
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COHERTH. GFORhE Q. The comTa1eE
TMN q. Pichar1 j Harden Camp. No
United Spanish War Veterans
HYF$M iii assemble at PythiaC Temple
EaH oi2 oh ,I.v s ny in39 E, S'2 for ths h
ri funeral of our late Comrado
@ GEORGE o. CoBERTH Fqnera
from the Ives funeral homo. 2Si1 Wilsor
boulevard Arlington. Va. at a m. SerV'
ices at St Agnes Church. Cherrydale
interment ARLINGTON National Cemetery.
WALTER L PIPER. Commander
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Harry P. White, Banker,
Dies Of Sudden Illness

Harry P. White, 54, assistant
treasurer of the American Security
e. Trust Co. and manager of its
Northeast Branch, died Saturday
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Uarna nf ThankH

CELESTINE, SIDNEY. 1 wish TO express
my sincere thanks to Rev A. Joseph Ed
wards, co-workers of Bureau of Engraving
and Printing. relatives and friends. for
their floral tributes and kind expressions
of sympathy extended to me at The death
of nv husband, SIDNEY CELESTINE,
MARY A. CELESTINE.
PRYOR, GERTRUDE Mrs Lucy Pryor
wishes to thank her pastor for his tribute
and her friends and relatives for their
manv kind expressions and for flowers sent
in sympathy. in the loss Of her loved
daughter. GERTRUDE
Evening star., 1939-11-06

.and passenger flights unless specif-
ically authorized by the War and
Navy Departments.
:, The new policy also valves a pre-
Hious restriction against the sale
of designs for 18 months after they
have been placed in standard pro-
duction War and Navy Depart
ments will now pass at once on all
such sales.
The new policy has been approved
by Secretary Of War Woodring and
Acting Secretary of the Navy
Edison. In a statement promulgat-
ing the restrictions, Mr.. Woodring
and Mr. Edison said:T.
The building up Of early and a
large scale munitions production
capacity by the American industry
and the continuous operation of the
necessary manufacturing facilities is
of vital importance to national
defense.
To obtain this end, the War and
Navy Departments reserve the right
to control the release of in
formation pertaining to all types of
aeronautical equipment which may
have a military value and which in
formation is intended for negotia-
ton purposes to manufacture, sell
or export at future date to sources
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ConnoIIy Discusses
Embargo Lifting

Senator Tom Connally of
Texas, member of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
will be the guest speaker to-
night on the National Radio
Forum over WMAL at 10:30
o'clock.
The Senator will discuss
how arms embargo repeal will
affect our foreign trade and
shipping, a subject in which
he is we'll versed, having
helped draw up the admin
istration's neutrality bill.
The National Radio Forum
Is arranged by The Star and
is heard over a coast-to-coast
network Of the National
Broadcasting Co.
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U. 5. and Venezuela
Sign Reciprocal
Trade Agreement
Pact Is 18th Between
This Country and
Other American Stotes

The United States and Venezuela
to-day signed reciprocal trade
agreement. the eleventh of such
pacts between this country and other
American republics. the State De-
partment announced.
Going into force on December l6,
the agreement includes concessions
from Venezuela on such important
American exports to that country
as wheat: -four. oatmeal, prepared
milks hog lard, lumber. iron and
steel products. automobiles, radios.
refrigerators. engines, pharmaceu-
teal products and paints.
The State Department said these
products represented about So per
cent Of total United States exports
to Venezuela last year or about
sl8. 600 900 out of s52,o0O,O0O.
Concessions Granted.
Concessions granted by this coun-
try to Venezuela include a so per
cent reduction in the import tax
on crude petroleum and fuel oil
on an annual quota OF imports not
in excess OF S per cent of all the
crude, petroleum processed in United
ataS ~kk4ties-rdvring the pre-
EedAks sk1af .. .G1Raiar5 toncessions in
cluaed guarantees Of continued
duty-free entry for list OF tropical
or seni-tropical products.
The Venezuelan agreement was
the 22d negotiated by this Govern
ment since the Trade Agreements
Act went into effect in 1884. The
State Department said that when
it went into effect our trade with
Venezuela and the other 10 coun-
tries with which trade agreements
are now in effect will constitute
about 60 per cent of the United
States total world trade.
The Venezuelan agreement was
signed at Caracas. A modus vivendi
signed at the same time. provided
that the agreements general pro-
visions will 60 into, force provision
ally on December 16, pending rati-
ficatlon by the Venezuelan govern
ment. The agreement will 20 into
full force 80 days after exchanges
of the Venezuelan ratification and
President Roosevelt's proclamation
OF the agreement. And it will re-
main in force until December Is,
1912, continuing indefinitely there
after until six months after notiro
of termination has been given by
either country.
The United States Venezuela
trade relations have been regulated
since May IL, 1888, by a provisional
agreement providing for reciprocal
unconditional. most favored nation
treatment. The new pact supplants
that arrangement, continuing and
strengthening its provisions in addi-
ton to providing reciprocal tariff
concessions.
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~. S. Acts to Guard Military
Secrets Under Neutrality
War and Navy Departments
Will Watch All Plone Exports

The Government has evoked war
time authority under the Espionage
Act to safeguard military secrets
and this country's national defense
program in the anticipated sale OF
thousands of warplanes abroad, it
was disclosed today.
Under the new policy, it was
learned, the War and Navy Depart
ments will maintain strict control
over exports to see that no aviation
secrets of military Importance are
revealed to foreign powers.
Major provisions OF the new policy,
in brief, are:
l. Requires manufacturers to re-
port negotiations on foreign and do
mestic orders for planes and equip
ment other than for the Army and
Navy.
g. Bans export of military planes
until they become standard produc-
ton.
3. Prohibits the export of expert
mental planes. ~
!. Bans foreign inspection at air.
craft plants manufacturing for the
War and Navy Departments unless
on specific authority OF the War and
Navy Departments and then only
under special circumstances"
5. Prohibits foreign demonstration
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Attorney Says Dr.. Smith
Will Enter Guilty Plea
BY Yfhe Asxnriatad pras,

BY the Associated Press.
BATON ROUGE, La. Nov. g.
Counsel for Dr. James Monroe
Smith, former Louisiana State Uni
versity president. summoned to trial
today on forgery charge involving
university bonds, announced in
court that the educator would plead
guilty this afternoon.
Court recessed until pm, when
it was reported Smith was suffer-
ing an attack of nervous indigestion.
Walter B. Hamlin. Smiths attor-
ney, said his client would throw
himself on the mercy of the court.
Mr.. Hamlin said an arrangement
had been worked out with District
Attorney Dewey j. Sanchez whereby
Smith would plead guilty to one of
each type of charge contained in
more than two dozen indictments
returned against the former l.. S.
U. president.
Evening star., 1939-11-06

in the upper 30's, Washington was
soaked with 122 inches of steady
rain for a 24-hour period ended
early last night Washouts were re-
ported on streets in several sections
of the city. mostly in the vicinity
Of new construction work.
The temperature, which varied
only 4 degrees from low of 38 dur
ing the week end, was described by
Weather Bureau officials as about
10 degrees below the normal average
for the District at this time of year.
A light to heavy frost is in store
for the District and Virginia tonight,
with warmer weather expected to-
morrow. Washington will expert
ence a low of about "a degrees to-
night. the Weather Bureau reported,
with fair skies overhead.
Snow in the Shenandoah Valley
fell in light flurries for a 24-hour
tSee WEATHER, Page A-3O
Evening star., 1939-11-06
i. ). Lines Ask
Ship Transfer
To Panama Flag
Would Circumvent
Barring Of Vessels
From Europe -. :.

The United States Lines requested
permission from the Maritime Com
mission today for the tlansferance
of nine of its II transatlantic. ships
from American to PanamSnian reg
istry so that they may continue to
operate in the European service
barred to them by Saturdays neu-
trality proclamations.r ~
|. John Franklin, president Of the
United States Lines, and George
Hicks, line official, discussed the
proposal here with commission
officers.
The commission refrained from
disclosing its attitude toward the
proposal and would say no more
than that any application would
be considered on its merits. How
ever, the commissions past policy
has opposed transfer of merchant
vessel registry on the ground that
Government aid was obtained for
the ships in the form of subsidy
under the Maritime Act as national
defense auxiliaries. Under another
flag the ships would no longer be
available for defense purposes. :
Plan to Charter Neutrals.
AS another avenue of circumven-
tion of the proclama tions, the Black
Diamond Line, operators of eight
freighters between the United States
and neutral ports in the prohibited
combat zone-Antwerp and Rotter-
dam-told the Associated Press In
New York they planned to charter
neutral foreign ships to carry cargoes
on the routes now banned to ships
flying the Stars and Stripes.
The Black Diamond expects to
dock Its own freighters during the
war, which is the expected length
of life for the neutrality proclama-
tons effectiveness. Neither the
line nor the United States would be
involved. a Black Diamond official
said, If any of the chartered ships
are sunk. The American Scantic
Line, trading with forbidden Baltic
ports, has not announced its plans
Four Objections to Plan.
-Four possible objections to the
United States Lines transfer pro-
posal were advanced informally but
authoritatively here today. They
are:
I. That the Government, through
the Maritime Commission. would be
Dlaced in the Onsitian nf circ,,ne
venting the provision Of the .Neu-
traltty Act preventing American
shipping from entering combat
areas.
z. That, Panama could not pro-
vide, crews for these ships. If the
original American crews were re-
tanned and the ships went into the
danger zones, the Americans might
be in the positien Of violating the
sectia1 of the act prohibiting
d 's.,sFF 4 e e rt.tteYn thus. 9
so ,,s-sisss IA. sss.;a
: % THAT =-sstsz<nsfer to PaHsnt4
could scarcely be, a bona fide one,
since the administration. desirous
of, building up large mercantile
marine; would not like to see the
present American merchant marine
dissipated and therefore would no.
want American ships to pass per-
manently to a foreign registrv.
Consequently. there necessarily
would be an understanding that
tSee SHIPPING, Page A-5)
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D. c. Lucky to Get Only Rain
As Snow and Gales Batter East
Shenandoah Valley Buried Under 20-Inch Fall;
Storm Along Coast Causes Heavy Damage

The District, saturated by a chilly
and penetrating weekend down.
pour, nevertheless found itself
among the more fortunate weather
centers on the Eastern Seaboard
today.
Virginia S Shenandoah Valley was
digging itself out of a record break
ing snowstorm. which blanketed the
ground to a depth of 20 inches in
some areas and blocked highways.
wrecked communication facilities
and felled trees.
Property along the North Atlantic
coastline was under repair after a
battering from storm which
lashed with fury reminiscent of
the devastating New England hur-
ricane of September, 1898.
Inland New York and Pennsyl-
vania, like Virginia, were mushy
with melting snow.
With the temperature lowering
Evening star., 1939-11-06
High Court Holds
H. H.0.L.C. Mortgages
Exempt From State Tax
Maryland Stomp and
Recordotion Levy
Prohibited by Ruling

The Supreme Court ruled today
that Home Owners Loan Corp.
mortgages are not subject to the
Maryland stamp and recordation
tax. No dissent was announced.
The decision read by Chief Justice
Hughes said that the creation of
the Home Owners Loan Corp. was
a constitutional exercise of the con-
gressional power and that the ac-
tivities of the corporation through
which the National Government law
fully acts must be regarded as gov
ernmental functions and as entitled
to whatever immunity attaches to
those functions when performed by
the Government itself or through its
departments"
The Supreme Court ruling affirmed
the decision of the Maryland Court
Of Appeals
The action had been instituted by
M. Luther Pittman. clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore.
Mr.. Pittman had refused to re-
ceive and record mortgage on a
Sill loan from one Martin Burns
and Mary Burns, his wife, without
the affiXation of State documentary
stamps and the receipt of the State
recordation tax of so cents. The
Baltimore City Court, however. over
ruled the clerks action, and the
Court of Appeals of Maryland af-
f1rmed the finding of the lower court.
The Maryland court said the State
statute was invalid on the ground
that the Home Owners Loan Corp.
is, under the Constitution and the
laws of the United States, exempt
from taxation on its mortgages; that
it is an instrumentality of the Fed
eral Government: that it Is subject
only to such State taxation as the
statute creating it permits, and that
finally. imposition of the tax in this
case had been prohibited under the
H. o. L. c. Act.
To the contrary, the State con-
tended that the recordation of the
mortgage actually was necessary for
the protection of the MORTGAGE
Home Owners Loan Corp.
The H. o. L. c. contended that
the tax is an excise tax rather than
a service charge and that the at
tempted collection would unlawfully
interfere with the actions of the
corporation.
The courts decision agreed that
in the present instance Congress
has undertaken to safeguard the
operation of the H. o. L. c.
The recordation tax was levied by
Maryland to provide relief for the
needy and to match Federal appro-
priations under the Social Security
Act, and the State said that. if the
H. o. L. c. was to be exempt, then
similar exemption must exist as
to the numerous other lending
agencies Of the Government, and
that a legitimate source of State
taxation thereby would be substan-
TALLY impaired.
The court adjourned today with
out acting on suits instituted by the
receivers for the District National
and Commercial National Banks to
regain deposits recovered from these
closed institutions by Government
agencies in q manner that is con-
tended set them as preferential
claimants.
Evening star., 1939-11-06
Drink of Gasoline FotoI

LEWISBURG, Pa, Nov. 6 (P.-
Burns proved fatal yesterday for a
69-year-old farmer who drank gaso-
line in mistake for wine and then
spat it out on a hot stove. Mrs.
Austin Burd said her husband
picked up the wrong jug. Flames
lkaped up as he spat out the gaso-
line, igniting his clothing.
Evening star., 1939-11-06
Be|gians Reported
Studying Virtual
Nazi U|timatum
Pledge Not to Promise
Aid to Netherlands
Believed Asked
BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER,

Chicago Daily News FOREIGN Correspondent
PARIS, Nov. 6.-Belgium's cabinet
met today under the personal presi-
dency of King Leopold to discuss
what answer should be made to 4
virtual German ultimatum.
According to exclusive informa-
ton given this correspondent. on
Saturday, Alexander Won Buelos
Schwante. German Ambassador to
Brussels. called on Foreign Minister
Paul Henri Spaak and handed him
note asking for the definite assur-
ance that Belgium intends, under
all circumstances, to remain neutral
meaning, even in case Germany
decides to try. to crash through the
Netherlands along whose borders
German concentrations and Hrsil-
lery, have. assumed threatening pro-
portions: ~.-f' %. '''''' .i''t
j Germans. :. note was. reported to
have warned Belgium that entering
any new commitments now would be
regarded by Germany AS an "un-
friendly act" and, that Belgium was.
furthermore, invited In It's answer
to clarity .'its relationship to Hol-
land" - :.
The Belgians seem to have been
very much impressed. Their first
cabinet meeting Saturday evening
failed to reach any conclusion and
a second meeting WAS called for to-
day, Apparently the Belgians In
tend to answer:
First that their attitude remains
one of strict neutrality; -,
Second. that Belgium will only
assume new international oblga-
tions-meaning an arrangement with
the Netherlands-"if it feels that
its security is being threatened"
which apparently means that the
Belgians do not actually consider
their security threatened;
Third. that Belgium's relations to
the Netherlands will be dictated
solely by considerations of security
a sort of phrase which means little
or nothing.
Some fear that the Belgians will
not even dare to 60 this far, but
will submit an answer to Germany
that will tie Belgium's hands and
make self-defense extremely difficult
and a common attitude with the
Netherlands almost impossible.
Evening star., 1939-11-06
plymouth Gets
Mote of Regrets
From President
By the Associated Press.

PLYMOUTH, Mass, Nov. O.
President Roosevelt sent his regrets
today to the committee which in
vited him to participate in Ply
mouths November 30 Thanksgiving
Day observance The President has
sought to have the holiday observed
on the 23d, but he conveyed hope
Plymouth's observance on the later
date would be successful"
A letter signed by Edwin M.
Watson of his secretariat read:
please accept the Presidents
thanks for your letter of November
l, in which you extended to him an
invitation to participate in the OBJ
servance Of Thanksgiving DAY to
be held at Plymouth November 80.
"The President has asked me to
convey to you an expression Of his
sincere regret that tentative en-
gagements already made preclude
acceptance Of your invitation; also
his hope that the ceremonies at
Plymouth are successful in every
way"
PORTLAND, Me-, Nov. s P.-An
obscure Maine State law which stip-
ulates observance of any holiday
proclaimed either by the President
or the Governor and Council, Attor-
ney General Franz U. Burkett said
last night, will force 1t to be one Of
several States observing two Thanks
giving Days this year.
The law, he said, clearly indi-
Gates" both November %, President
Roosevelt's date, and November 20,
the date set by Gov. Lewis o. Bar
rows. Republican, In 4 State procla-
nation, would have to be observed
as bank holidays.
Chief Justice Charles j. Dunn of
the States Supreme Court had ad-
vised him, the attorney general
added, that both days also would be
court holidays.
Evening star., 1939-11-06
20 Die in Bus PIunoe

MANILA, P. l., Nov. 6 R.-
Twenty Filipinos were reported
killed today in the plunge of a pas
senger bus through 4 wooden bridge
into a swollen stream at La Castel-
lana, Occidenta Negros Province.