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Evening star., 1939-11-04

for this section. Included were
sidewalk extensions, for which the
association has been fighting.
Bus service to Chillum Heights
was critized, but no action was
taken.
A pep talk" was given to the
group by Robert E. Copeland on the
associations community efforts. In
connection with this discussion the
news was disclosed that the Consti-
tuition Committee had found q con-
stitution of the former citizens as
ISOLATION of that section dated 1894
and listing 60 members, of which
five are still living. This makes the
association one of the oldest in
Washington.
William Blum, jr., spoke briefly on
the Community Chest drive.
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Iowa Politics Charge
Denied by McNutt
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Federal Security Administrator
Paul v. McNutt yesterday char
acterized as SILLY and absolutely
without basis" a charge by Claude
M. Stanley, Iowa unemployment
compensation commissioner, that
Mr.. McNutt had played personal
politics at a recent social security
meeting in Indianapolis.
1T is a product of imagination" !"
Mr.. McNutt said. perhaps Repub-
icans in Iowa work that way, but
I don't"
Mr.. McNutt said he held no small
conferences such as Mr.. Stanley
charged, but that "those who wanted
to see me, I saw." He talked politics
With no one, he declared.
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Germans Of HUNGARY
And Balkans Uneasy
Over Repatriation
Do Not Want to Give Up
Prosperous londs for
Homes in Poland
BY EDWARD KENNEDY.

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
BUDAPEST.-TWo million Ger
mans of Hungary and the Balkans
are watching with uneasiness Adolf
Hitler's resettlement in the new
Reich of Germans abroad-thus far
applied only to the Baltic region.
Rumania has nearly 5000 Ger
mans; Yugoslavia, 100000; Hungary.
more than half million, mostly
farmfolk who have migrated east
ward in groups in the last 200 to 800.
years.
Many of them have boasted proud
ly of their Germanism and demand
ed German schools and the right to
retain the German language and
customs, among other concessions.
When Hitler decided to move Ger
mans from the Baltic states to the
Polish Corridor, the Germans in
Southeastern Europe began to soft
pedal sneir Germanism.
D. Not Want to Leave Lands.
They became more alarmed later
when reports were published that
Hitler contemplated moving them
also to Western Poland to solidify
Germany's grip on that region to
make more difficult any eventual
restoration of it to Poland.
Despite their Germanism, the
overwhelming majority of these Ger
mans do not relish the idea of leav-
ing their prosperous farms in the
rich Danubian region for land of
dubious value on the bleak plains Of
Poland.
Those in Rumania are mostly
SaXons. In Hungary and Yugoslavia
they are principally Swabians who
moved into the rich regions de-
populated by cholera in the 18th
century.
They have retained their language
and customs, even their native cos
tunes, but have become attached to
their new lands. BY painstaking
labor through many generations
they made their land superior to
that of their Hungarian, Yugoslav
and Rumanian neighbors.
Names Magyarized.
Since the possibility of German
repatriation has confronted them, a
number of German families in
Hungary, who for generations held
out against being Hungarianized,
have had their names Magyarized.
Many others no longer talk about
their Germanism, but stress their
Hungarian citizenship.
Their uneasiness is not altogether
displeasing to the Rumanians, Hun
garians and Yugoslavs, for in it they
see the solution to one of their
minority problems. They say the
fear of being shipped into Poland
will keep the Germans from making
further claims on the basis of their
Germanism.
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Neutrality
(Continued From First Page.)

and most sacred task is to keep our
country secure and at peace, and
that it is my firm belief that we
shall succeed in this endeavor. I am
satisfied that the new act will
greatly assist in this undertaking."
Moral Embargo Remains.
With a flood of foreign orders for
American fighting equipment ex-
pected to follow Immediately on lift
ing the arms embargo, inquiry was
made at the State Department today
as to whether the Government's
implied disapproval of sale of bomb
ing planes to Japan would be con-
tinued. Informally, it was pointed
out at the department that the
Government has not changed its
feeling about the bombing of civilian
populations and that the moral
embargo" should be considered as
much in effect as in the past.
Signal for Big War Orders.
Signing of the bill is expected to
be the signal for a flood of war Or
ders, mostly from France and Brit
ain, estimated to total more than
81 600, ,OO0,00 within the next few
weeks.
The allied powers were expected
to begin moving across the Atlantic
almost Immediately some 300 air
planes completed for them by Amer
ican companies since the embargo
went into effect, soon after the war
began.
Congress gave its final approval
to the repeal legislation yesterday
and ended the A-day special session
called by the Chief Executive to re-
peal the 4-year-old arms embargo
law, which he said had worked to
the disadvantage Of powers unable
to obtain munitions near home be-
cause Of geographical circumstances.
Over the vigorous protest of q
substantial bipartisan opposition,
the legislature agreed tosrepeai the
ban on arms sales to warning ma
tious, but wrote into the bill some
Of the most stringent regulations oe
American ahippdns IN the Nations
Evening star., 1939-11-04
BY the Associated Press.

oy INC ASSOClAtto EIcSS.
A summary of the provisions Of
the Neutrality Act passed yesterday
by Congress:
Arms sales-Repeals the present
embargo and permits arms sales to
belligerents for cash. Forbids Ameri-
can ships to carry arms to any
belligerent port In any part Of the
world.
Shipping-Bars American vessels
from transporting supplies or pas
sengers to belligerent ports, with the
following exceptions: Ports in the
South Atlantic South of the 35th
parallel; New Brunskick and Nova
Scotia on the Bay of Fundy; the
Pacific, Indian Oceans and depend
ent waters; the China, Tasman and
Arabian Seas, and the Bay of Ben
gal; permits inland transportation
by rail, air or water to Canada.
Neutral ships also are granted these
same exceptions.
Requires Title Transfer.
Title transfer-Forbids export of
any materials to a belligerent state
until shipper has filed sworn state
ment with port collectors that title
has been transferred to some foreign
government, corporation, agency or
national. However, shipments to
individuals or private companies at
ports included within the exempted
areas in the shipping section can be
made on normal trade basis, with
out previous transfer of title.
Combat areas-Empowers the
President to establish danger zones
around either belligerent or neutral
ports, including the areas exempted
in the shipping sections, into which
American ships could not go.
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Conductor Richards
Retired BY B. & O.

Conductor w. L. Richards, who has
worked so years for the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, retired yesterday.
The last lap Of his service was on
the Capital Limited from Washing
ton to Baltimore.
Mr.. Richards worked in the pas
senger service Of the B. & o. for Is
years. He will continue to live in
Baltimore.
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Radio and Stage Stors
Back Leqion Ball

Labor Post a., American Legion,
has received assurances of the sup
port of Victor Moore, Sophie Tucker
and William Gaxton, famed stars of
radio and stage currently appear
ing at the National Theater, for
their ball at the Mayflower Hotel
November II.
Yesterday Franklin j. Porter Of
the national guard of honor and
Robert Duvalle, representing the
post, received the assurances and
contributions from the barnstorm-
ing actors.
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FIoherty and Hogerty
To Talk to BOYS Clubs

Coach Ray Flaherty Of the WASH
ington Redskins and Jack Hagerty
and Mush Dubofsky of G. q.
VIII discuss football experiences at
O'Clock this evening at an "ath-
letic night" for members Of the in.
termediate and junior boys clubs
OF the Jewish Community Center
at the center. Movies Of the Red.
skins IN action will be shown.
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France Appropriates
$1S,3M,000 10 Hike
Pay Of Soldiers
Combat Bonus Is Decided
Upon BY Cobinet in View
Of 'Rigors Of Service

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Nov. 4.-France appro-
priated $4,000, 900 francs (about
$1s, 800, ,000) today to raise the pay
Of her soldiers.
In addition to . daily l0.franc
combat bonus" (about q cents) for
men at the front, the cabinet de.
creed that the pay Of poilus be In
creased from so to rs centimes 0rom
about ! to ~ cents) and that Of
higher grades be raised by 10 per
cent.
The appropriation was added to
more than 100000 y000, 900 francs
which France already had set aside
in ordinary and extraordinary bude.
cts and special war chest for mill.
tary expenses this year.
Cabinet approval of the bonus was
won yesterday by Premier Daladier,
himself an old soldier, and an
nounced this morning in the odicial
journal.
Official circles said the increases
were justified by rigors Of life In the
service and were made to express
the nations gratitude.
The morning communique Of the
war ministry noted only continued
patrol activity "at various points" on
the western front.
Military dispatches indicated, how
ever. the French were on the alert
for possible surprise attacks on the
northern flank in the wake Of per.
sistent German artillery fire.
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Oslo States Will Meet
At Copenhagen Monday
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 4.-Lesal
experts representing six small neu-
tral nations which last August
joined IN a peace appeal to Europe's
great powers, will meet here Monday
to discuss technical problems In.
volving their neutrality, it was an
nounced today.
The States to be represented-all
members of the Oslo trade conven.
tion-are Belgium, the Netherlands.
Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Fin
land.
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Maritime Men Plan
To Avoid Congestion
In Arms Shipments
Goods Are PiIine Up
In New York as
Bon's Lifting Neors
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-Giant
trucks rumbling along the New York
water front in an endless stream sig
nailed the lids of" on the shipment
Of war materials to Europe today
as President Roosevelt prepared to
sign the new neutrality law.
simultaneously, with pier sheds
already bulging, maritime experts
began to plan against recurrence
of the nightmare of congestion
which choked Americas No. / port
in 1914-1917.
For more than two years, even
before we got into the last war,
New York was swamped with goods
piled high on the wharves and no
ships to move it," said Cornelius H.
Callaghan, head of the New York
Maritime Exchange.
I'VE won't let that happen again,
at least. Railroad and shipping
officials are working out a plan to
forestall dumping cargo unless there
are bottoms to handle it,"
More Freight Than Ships.
British Shipping officials acknowl-
edged that they already have "a
good deal more freight than ships"
but it was said in other quarters
that the British admiralty probably
would step up the tempo Of the con-
voy system in the immediate future
to safeguard the transportation of
allied war orders. Estimates have
valued probable orders at 81 ,000, 900, :
600 within q few weeks.
One official estimated the new
neutrality law, forbidding American
ships to enter belligerent waters,
would take about 100 United States
vessels out of the North Atlantic
trade.
A last-minute ship Swapping"
arrangement, however, was ex-
pected to prevent collapse of this
country's merchant marine through
enforced idleness during the dura-
ton of the war.
The agreement calls for British
lines to withdraw their vessels from
South American trade, thus mobiliz-
ing their maximum tonnage for the
transportation of American war ma
terials, and turn the business over
to American shipping companies.
Sailings Cancelled.
The first effect of the neutrality
measure on America S transatlantic
shipping was the cancellation of the
sailing of three United States Lines
vessels that had been scheduled to
leave before last night for English
and French ports.
They were the President Roosevelt
and the American Farmer, carrying
only cargo, and the Washington
which listed cargo and 275 passenger
bookings.
Officials of the United States Lines
had hoped to start the vessels or
their way before the new bill became
law but, when they learned that the
amended measure provided that YES
sells leaving America for belligerent
ports before the act became effectiv.
would do so "at their own risk" the,
decided the dangers were too great
particularly since the clause affected
ship insurance.
They announced the sailings hae
been indefinitely deferred" which
maritime circles said was tanta
mount to outright cancellation.
Most Of the liner Washington
passengers transferred to the Hol
land America liner Statendam ant
the Cunard ship Scythia.
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be able to revise their ports of call
to some extent.
Unofficial estimates were that be-
tween so and 100 ships might have
to be withdrawn from the North
Atlantic trade.
Title Must Pass.
In addition to lifting the embargo
against exporting arms, ammuni.
ton and implements of war to bel.
ligerents. the bill requires shipments
OF arms and other materials to war
ring governments in Europe to be
paid for in cash and transported in
foreign ships. Title will have to pass
to the purchaser before such goods
may leave American ports.
Some authorities have said that
Britain and France, whose seapower
would enable them to carry goods
away and to prevent Germany from
obtaining shipments, except possibly
through neutral countries, had more
than $1,000, ,000, 900 in gold in the
United States for purchases Of arms
and planes.
Under the bill American vessels
may continue to trade In non-mil-
tary cargoes, free from title transfer
restrictions, with belligerent colonial
possessions in the Atlantic and Pa.
cific outside area which Congress
considered dangerous.
Loans and Credits Banned.
Loans and credits to warning gov.
ernments are banned and heavy
penalties provided for violations Of
these and other restrictions.
Under one Of the last-minutes
changes made in the bill by q joint
Senate-House conference commit.
tee, ships leaving an American port
before the President issued proc.
lamations putting the law into effect
would be exempt from It's restric-
tions.
The conference also incorporated
in the bill a preamble saying tho
United States voluntarily imposed
the restrictions on its shipping and
nationals and reserved all this Ma.
tions rights under international
law.
Protesting against the bill before
the House adjourned, Representative
Fish, Republican, Of New York de.
clared America stood to lose some
Of her ships and would be "imme.
diately confronted with an issue with
Germany"
This would occur unless the Presi.
dent designated the North Sea and
British Channel as combat areas"
and forbade American vessels to visit
neutral ports In that zone, Mr.. Fish
said.
The New Yorker contended also
there was . very vicious" loophole
In the bills credit ban, under which
. private citizen Of Britain or Francs
could come here and negotiate foe
perhaps . billion-dol loan With
J. p. Morgan d 90. TO buy scrap iron,
steel, and other matesials."
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ll4StOIy. lie ldltcI WcIc OcSleueu W
avoid incidents" and possible sub
sequent involvement Of this country
in the European conflict by keeping
ships and passengers out Of danger
zones.
Adjournment Voted.
The Senate adopted the final
draft Of the bill, SIS to "a; the
House shortly afterward by 243 to
172. With little of the back-slap-
ping and noisy finishes customary
at regular sessions, the Senate then
voted, 46 to Is, to adjourn, and the
House did likewise, 223 to 1se. Both
ballots were largely along party
lines. The session ended formally
at 6:35 pm, when the House called
1t day.
After issuing the proclamations
and executive orders putting the
new law into effect, the President
planned to vote in his home town
elections Tuesday.
He had written farewell messages
which were read to the Senate
and House-expressing congratula-
tions and good wishes and the hope
that world events" would not make
necessary another extraordinary
meeting of the lawmakers before
the regular session begins Jenuary
3. The messages were addressed to
Vice President Garner and Speaker
Bankhead. The text Of the Senate
message follows:
"As it seems probable that this
extraordinary session of Congress
will be brought to adjournment
within a few hours, may I extend
through you to the members Of the
Senate my congratulations and good
wishes?
Il hope that world events will not
make it necessary to have any other
extraordinary session-and, there
fore, in anticipation Of seeing you
all on the third of January next,
I extend to you in the meantime my
best wishes for happy Thanksgiv-
ing and merry Christmas. May I
add that I hope those members from
States whose Governors have set
November 80 as Thanksgiving Day
will celebrate both Thanksgivings-
the 23d and the 3Oth."
Secretary Hull and his advisers
drew up the series of presi-
Dental proclamations and executive
orders putting into effect the new
legislation.
The hardest task of the State De-
partment chief was the delimitation
Of the danger area from which Con-
gress decreed that American ships
should be barred. The prohibition
against entering this presidentially-
defined zone Is in addition to the
bills provision that American vessels
must stay out Of ports in England,
Scotland, Northern Ireland, France
and Germany and, generally speak
ing, those on the east coast Of Cam
ada. Furthermore. this country's
merchant marine in forbidden to
carry arms, ammunition and imple-
ments of war to belligerent ports
anywhere. except by inland routes
to Canada.
Licenses to Be Reissued.
Nearly $s000O,o0 worth of arms
export licenses to Great Britain and
France. granted before the present
embargo was proclaimed after the
outbreak of the war, will be reissued
by the State Department on the ap-
plication Of the American arms
manufacturers holding the orders.
Ship lines expected to be affected
Immediately were the United States
Lines, American Scantic Line, South
Atlantic Mail Line. Dixie United
Kingdom Line, Southern States Line
and Black Diamond Line.
Some shipping authorities said
they expected that the lines, al.
though certain to b hard hit, might
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ON DOTTED LINE-Vice
President Garner placing his
signature on the administra-
tion's neutrality bill last night
after the special session Of the
Seventy-sixth Congress had
approved the measure.
A. p. Photo.
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~ the Associated Press,

Here is the vote by which the
House yesterday approved the con-
ference report on the administra-
tion's neutrality bill:
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Air Practice Area
Shows DesoIation
OF Last War
Even Ruins Of Cities
Are Missing os PIones
Drop Heavy Bombs
Bv WALTER DURANTY.

ny WAL 1 EN- OOnhN H
AT BRITISH AIR HEADQUAR-
TIERS, in France, Nov. 4 (N.ANA).
BY the roadside a big red sign
says Danger Zone," and a stout
French soldier halts the auto for a
permit. He salutes, and you drive
on into 10 square miles, into what is
actually no more than the area re-
served for practice by the Franco
British air force.
Never were name or place chosen
better. For this was the scene of
some Of the most prolonged and
doughty fighting Of the last war and
of one terrific battle in 1918. The
officers who selected the target
ground had an easy job, for there
was no need to move away any
French peasants from these trench
SCARED slopes and shell-pocked pla-
teaus, where nothing grows save
stunted bushes and where no living
creature is in sight.
Ruins Missing.
Here and there, in the valleys,
you pass a placard with the name of
village that once stood there. There
is no ruin to mark a former human
habitation-only an occasional small
apple tree or vine or raspberry plant.
Along the low crest of hills that
formerly was a German battery po-
sition there are dotted, at half-mile
intervals, concrete pillboxes, minia-
ture forts about 20 feet square which
emerge 10 feet above the ground,
their sides thickly banked with earth
and stone. They are the only build
ings anywhere In sight.
All around the spot where I stood
to watch the bombing practice there
was no space S yards square that
was free from old shell craters, save
where a narrow road winds up to q
pillbox entrance. On one side lay
a rusty German helmet; farther on,
a small grenade bomb from a trench
mortar with a wing-edged tail to
direct its fight.
Rattle Of Machine Guns.
High in the air, on the left, scared
a fleet of French pursuit ships, and.
as they dived, heard the rattle Of
machine guns. Beyond them, in the
distance, another plane must have
been towing a target. I could not
see it against the sun, but heard
the staccato firing of an anti-aircraft
battery.
Overhead droned heavy English
bombers to converge upon a target
marked with a pink cross in the
middle of sandy plain. With the
naked eye, it was possible to detect
the bomb falling at what seemed a
long distance short of the target. 1t
struck, and there was an instant S
delay, then a cloud of smoke and
dust SO much nearer the target than
had expected that at first I was
surprised, until I realized that the
bomber must allow for the great
speed at which the ship is flying
Then afterward came the dull, heavy
thud of an explosion, as II. the earth
herself were groaning to receive new
blows from men, her children.
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TOTAL FOk-243.
Democrats for-222.
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Progressives Against-2.
IT,, Wis GEHRMANN, Wis.

HULL, Wis. GEHRMANN. WIS.
Announced pairs-TAYLOR. Democrat,
of Colo for, and ANDREWS Republican:
of N, Y. against; SMITH Democrat. OF
va, for. and DARROW. Republican. OF
Pa, against; MONKIEWICZ: Republican.
of Conn, for, and CHIPPERFIELD. Repub-
lican, Of nl against; KEOGH. Democrat.
Of N. Y. for. and BARRY. Democrat: Of
N. Y. against; MARTIN J. KENNEDY,
Democrat. Of N. Y, against: KENNEDY.
Democrat, Of Md. for, and JEFFRIES.
Republican, Of N. j., against.
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House Vote on Neutrality Bill
Conference Report Accepted on
Roll Call, 243 to 172

American Labor for-l.
MARCANTONIO. N. r.
Farme1-LsbeP ier-1.
HIYCKY ED Ainn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-03
Riggs And Hunt Feature Match
 At Southampton

Southampton, N. Y, Aug. 3-(UP) Singles and doubles -finalists of the Meadow Club annual invita- tion lawn tennis championships will be determined today.
 Bobby Riggs, defending champion and Americas No. singles player, will resume his campaign to retire the Meadow Club bowl with his third title. He meets Joe Hunt, An- napolis midshipman from Califor- mia.
 The other singles matches send Robert Kambath Of Austin, Tex, vs Henry Prusoff of Seattle; Bob Pea cock of Berkeley, Calf, vs Ernie Sutter of New Orleans, and Sidney Wood of New York vs George Foley of Los Angeles.
 Riggs, Wimbledon champion who has the No. singles berth on the Davis cup team virtually sewed up, and Hunt command most of the in- terest of Davis Cup officials because Hunt still is very much in the run ming for the No. 2 singles spot. A victory over Riggs today and good showing in the eastern Lan cham pionships at Rye next week would come close to clinching it.
 The doubles pairings send Ches- ter and William Murphy of Chica- go vs Norman Bickcl and Marvin Wachman, the Chicago pair who eliminated the top-seeded Wood- Hunt combination yesterday; Ron- aid Lubin and George Foley of Los Angeles vs Riggs and Elwood Cooke, Wimbledon champions; Gardnar Mulloy of Miami and Gene Mako vs Frank Guernsey of Coral Gables, Fla, and Russell Bobbitt of Atlan- ta; Johnny Doeg and Charles Matt an of New York vs Don McNeill and Frankie Parker, trial Davis Cup combination.
 Singles play also will be resumed at East Hampton today, where the leading women players are contest ing for the Maidstone club cham pionships.