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Evening star., 1939-12-16
Plunge
Continued From First Page J

leave today for Germany. by way of
California and the Orient, to rejoin
his wife and three children.
The comely dancer came here last
March and announced she hoped
for a career on Broadway and in
Hollywood. Her only employment,
however, was in a modest Hungarian
restaurant in East Seventy-ninth
street, where she danced and sang,
Last night, according to Martin
Harmath, the proprietor. she left
early to attend the baron's party.
She was very, very happy" Mr..
Harmath said.
Went to Get Presents.
The baron, questioned by police.
SAID the party was at the Hotel st.
Regis, and afterwards he reminded
Miss Laszlo that he had Christmas
gifts for her and her parents. So
they went to his apartment.
The baron told detectives he
stepped from the living room for a
moment and suddenly heard a
crash. Returning he found the room
empty. A window was open.
1T couldn't have been a suicide"
her stepfather said. "She came here
six months ago and was so happy:
and she wanted great future. She
had no reason to be depressed"
Miss Laszlo was fully clothed in
black evening gown and fur coat
when she died.
She had picked up a toy dog and
was playing with it, the baron said,
while he wrapped the gifts. He left
the room once and returned to find
her still playing with the dog. When
he left again and returned after
hearing crash and the cries of a
crowd in the street, he found the
low-silled window open and Miss
Laszlo missing.
The baron-whose wealthy wife
was refused passage aboard the Rex
September 19 when she attempted
to return to Germany and her three
children after arriving here August
% to visit her husband and tour
South America-told police he had
banking interests in Cologne. His
wife eventually obtained passage
September % aboard the Volendam.
When Miss Laszlo arrived in this
country aboard the liner Manhat-
tan last March, she said she had
fought two duels in Budapest, once
with an actress, and six months
later with a male Hungarian writer.
She won both duels, she said, and
her antagonists were now her
friends, 'but not very good friends"
She declined to identify them.
Evening star., 1939-12-16
| Kierun Is Out
After Exchange
With La Guurdiu
By the Associated Press,


NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Mayor F.
H. La Guardia's press secretary
James M. Kieran, has either quit or
been fired" from his job.
What else could l do but fire
him?" the Mayor declared after say
ing Mr.. Kieran had called him a
name.
Later, however, Mayor La Guardia
said:
Mr.. kieran quit, that's all. I am
very sorry
Mr.. Kieran could not be reached
to give his version.
A former legislative correspondent
at Albany, credited with having
coined the phrase brain trust to
describe President Roosevelt's ad-
visers, Mr.. Kieran had held the s6 900
job since December Is, 1887.
He is a brother of John Kieran,
New York Times sports writer who
appears on a weekly radio quiz pro-
gram.
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Sale Of Metropolitan
Would End Glitter
OF Horseshoe
Producing Unit Voted
Option to Buy Theoter
And Real Estate
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-Soon comes
the last bow of the old regime at
the Metropolitan Opera-soon the
glistening diamond horseshoe"
with its parterre boxes will lose its
traditional exclusiveness.
For yesterday, 68 per cent Of the
stock held by the owners Of the
opera house itself and of its auxil-
iary warehouse was voted to give
the directors of the owning company
the right to extend to the producing
unit-the Metropolitan Opera Asso-
ciation-an option to buy the real
estate and theater.
Price Would Be $1,97O,00O.
The total price would be $1,97O 900,
of which $470,0OO would be repre-
sented by the assumption of an ex-
isting first mortgage, $500,0OO would
be a cash payment to the real estate
company, and 100000 would be
4 per cent second mortgage bonds
maturing in Is years.
The transaction means most of the
63 stockholders want to get rid of
their stock land their parterre
boxes, and in the process to shake
off the individual $4,000 assessments
which had been levied on them
each year to make up the difference
between revenue and expenses.
The producing unit, said Cor
nelius N. Bliss, its chairman, was not
anxious to buy the property, much
preferring" to continue under the
old system. But certain stockhold-
ers, particularly certain estates hold
Ing boxes and stock, felt differently.
Valued at $4,000, 900.
The value OF the, property has
been estimated as high as $4,000, 900
In boom years; its present value is
much lower, and some of the owners
have said that they felt a financial
sacrifice, If there was one, was justi-
fed because purchase of the prop
erty by the producing company
would eliminate the chance that
"outsiders' might buy in, and opera
in New York be jeopardized.
For old New York, however, all
this is just fuss and feathers. The
news is that this represents the first
serious weakening of the boxholders'
control, and these boxholders have
for more than so years been the
real directing head of the Metro
politan
Present owners will, of course,
have first choice when tickets for
their former boxes are put on sale.
But if they do not elect to buy, any,
body's money is good.
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Graf Spec
Continued From First Page.)

miral Graf Spec should she make
her DASH
Water front reports said a heavy
French ship, presumably the 26,500-
ton, 29.5-knot battleship Dunkerque,
had joined the British.
German sources here said the
British flotilla included an aircraft
carrier british had indicated the
22,0O0-ton Ark Royal was en- route)
a battle cruiser of the Renown type
$4,000 tons, 20 knots, one heavy
cruiser (probably the 10,000-ton
Cumberland), two light cruisers
Ajax and Achilles) and two or
three destroyers.
Misses Chance for Dash.
The German pocket battleship
missed a chance to slip out to sea
under the cover of fog when rain
stopped in mid-morning and visi-
bility increased.
An inspection showed the crew of
the Nazi ship cleaning her guns,
loading materials from a barge
alongside and repairing battle dam
age. Workmen also were preparing
to install new armour plate.
British seamen aboard two armed
merchantmen anchored near the
Admiral Graf Spec watched inter-
estedly as the Germans worked.
The Admiral Graf Specs officers,
who had been in consultation ashore
during the night, returned to their
ship. There was increased smoke
from her stacks.
The warship was headed toward
the shore near other vessels and ex-
perts said it would take at least a
half hour. even using tugs, for her
to turn about and slip out toward
the sea.
The government Of Uruguay,
which had exf rassed informally its
Evening star., 1939-12-16

dunn. Dated May 10, 1896, five months
before Mr.. Smith wrote to an off,
cial of the Filene department store
in Boston about labor conditions at
the Berkshire mill, the memorandum
was addressed to regional directors
by the former board secretary, Bene-
dict Wolf, and read:
Several instances have been
called to the attention of the board
where regional directors, in order to
secure compliance with the act, have
communicated directly or indirectly
with customers of the respondent in
an effort to have these customers
apply pressure on the respondent, to
get him to comply with the act.
THE board feels that this pro-
cedure is highly undesirable and
leaves it and the members of the
staff who pursue these tactics open
to justifiable criticism both from
the public and the courts. We must
make every effort to avoid any such
tactics in the future"
Didn't See Order.
Mr.. Smith said that, to the best
of his belief, he had never seen the
order before. He may have ap-
proved it, or he may have been alb
sent when it was discussed, he said,
adding:
"1f I saw it I would have ap-
proved it,"
Mr.. Smith reminded the COM
mittee that at the time he wrote
to Louis KRISTEN, vice president of
the Filene company, there was no
formal case pending before the
labor board concerning the Berk-
shire mills. Mr.. Smith transmitted
to Mr.. KRISTEN a letter he had
received from John w. Edelman of
the American Federation of Hosiery
Workers, in which Mr. Edelman told
of union plans in its fight with the
Berkshire concern, and that it would
seek any cooperation possible from
large purchasers of Berkshire goods.
In defending his action, Mr..
Smith asked the committee to re-
member that he formerly was en-
ployed at the Filene store, that he
knew Mr.. KRISTEN well and was
aware of the progressive, for
ward-looking policy of the store"
TT is your statement now to
this committee that you did not
aid or abet the hoycott?" Mr.. Toland
inquired.
Mr.. Toland asked the witness if
he thought his forwarding of the
material from the union leader was
a fair and impartial act.
"Yes, I do" Mr.. Smith replied,
bearing in mind that did not sug-
gest boycott"
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Labor Board
Continued From First Page.)

too, that if the board felt that the
c. I. o. was on the right track" as
to the majority of workers he saw
no reason why 1t should not be ia
vored.
Related to a Speech.
The memorandum related to the
draft of a speech Mr.. Smith wrote
March 30, 1887, to make before the
National Conference on Social
Work which he sent to Mr.. Saposs
for comment.
II question the wisdom of a
member of the board taking side
in the c. I. O.-A. F. of L. con-
troversy at the present time, par
ticularly in a written speech" was
one comment of Mr.. Saposs. AL
though my sympathies are we'll
known, I think it is not a good
policy for an agency like our board
to publicly place itself on record
as indorsing the position of one
side or another. In that connec-
ton I have the following suggestion
to make:
IF you begin your talk with para
graph 3, on page /, you would not
at the outset be placing yourself in
a position Of criticizing or condemn
ing craft unionism. At any rate,
should you desire to express your
opinion on that subject, I believe
paragraph l and 2 of page /, would
properly fit in on page g."
Lining Up With C. 1. O.
Mr.. Smith said he was certain
Mr.. Saposs made these suggestions
because he was anxious that he
make no references in the speech
that he was lining up" with the
G. I. o. as against the A. F. of L.
MY dissenting opinions" he de-
clared, make very clear my opinion
on these particular points"
(The A. F. Of L. Is composed
chiefly of craft type unions and
the c. I. o. of the industrial
type-that Is unions which ex-
tend throughout a whole in
dustry0
The 1886 strike at the Berkshire
MILLS involved the American Federa-
ton of Hosiery Workers, an organ
ization which committee counsel
said yesterday had participated in
the formation of the C. I. o. in 1885
and was suspended from the A. F. of
L. in 1886.
Mr. Smiths activities in connec-
ton with labor trouble at the Berk-
shire Mills were challenged by Mr.
Toland during a three-hour session
yesterday afternoon
After Mr.. Smith had insisted he
was not trying to boycott the Penn
sylvania mill by writing to Boston
department store official about the
labor situation at the mill, Mr.. To-
land sprung a surprise by producing
q labor board memorandum to re-
gional directors, warning them not
to communicate with customers OF
q concern as means of enforcing
the Labor Act.
Order Antedated Letter.
weren't you violating q rule OF
the board?" Mr., Toland inquired,
showing the witpess the memoran-
Evening star., 1939-12-16
j. ). Moral EMBARGO
Extended 10 Plane
Materials
Firms Compliance Sought
With Ban on Bombers
Of Civilians

The State Department today
sought compliance by American
producers with President Roosevelt's
moral embargo" against shipment
Of airplanes or plane-making ma
terials to nations guilty Of bombing
civilian populations.
The moral embargo" is openly in
effect against Russia and Japan
and would apply to Germany be-
cause of Nazi bombings in Poland
If Germany should seek to buy air
craft here, although official state
ments setting forth the policy never
have mentioned any specific coun-
tries.
Manufacturers were reminded by
the State Department that the long
standing policy against sales of air
planes, parts and bombs to civilian
bombing nations had been extended
by the President to cover materials
essential to airplane manufacture"
Is we'll.
Manufacturers Notified.
The department announced yes
terday it had sent letters to manu-
facturers of molybdenum (an es-
sential ingredient for hard steeD and
aluminium. notifying them that these
materials were included under the
ban.
Russian imports of molybdenum
have increased tremendously since
the European war began, and re-
ports are current here that some
Of 1t is being re-exported to Ger
many.
In letters to manufacturers of
airplanes, aircraft parts and aerial
bombs-for the export of which IL
censes are required-the department
said it hoped it would not receive
any application for a license to ex-
port their products to countries en-
gagged in such bombing.
The moral embargo" is an ex-
tra-legal policy. and depends for
enforcement only upon public opin-
Ion and cooperation of the manu.
facturers.
Copies of Statement Inclosed.
The letters to manufacturers in
closed copies of the Presidents S
statement of December 2, in which
he said:
THE American Government and
the American people have for some
time pursued a policy of whole
heartedly condemning the unpro-
voked bombing and machine-gun-
ming of civilian populations from
the air.
This Government hopes, to the
end that such unprovoked bombs
shall not be given material encour-
agement in the light of the recent
recurrence of such acts, that Amer
lean manufacturers and exporters
OF alrplanes, aeronautical equipment
and materials essential to airplane
manufacture, will bear this fact in
mind before negotiating contracts
for the expectation of these articles
to nations obviously guilty of such
unprovoked bombing"
This statement amplified the
moral embargo" policy originally
declared by Secretary of State Hull
last year in view of japanese bomb
1ngs in China.
Ban May Include Steel.
Oh1cials made it clear today that
molybdenum and aluminium were
not the only materials which might
be included under the ban essential
to airplane manufacture. There
was some speculation that steel
might be included. This would strike
hard at Japan, large importer of
American steel.
Department of Commerce figures
showed that Russia and Japan take
over half the total United States
exports of molybdenum.
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Old Concern Dissolved,
Brooknigo EmpIoye Says

NEW YORK, Dec. 16 R.-An en-
ploye of Bookniga, Inc, 255 Fifth
avenue, said today the Bookniga
Corp, named in a Federal 'indict-
ment in Washington on charges of
criminal conspiracy, was dissolved
last March IS. A new concern,
Bookniga, Inc, was formed, the
employe said.
She added that the three men
named in the indictment, Raphael
Rush, Norman Weinberg end Nor
ris Liskin, were connected with the
old corporation and had nothing to
do with the new organization.
Evening star., 1939-12-16
Indictments
Continued From First Page.

Yost, assistant chief, Office of Arms
and Munitions Control, State De-
partment, signed on behalf Of Book
niga Corp. by Rush, in which the
writer represented that the Book
niga Corp was not an agent Of a
foreign principal.
THAT on or about November 81,
1888, the Bookniga Corp willfully
failed and refused to file with the
Secretary Of State a registration
statement"
Evening star., 1939-12-16

His work on English life In the
Middle Ages, for instance, added
much to the knowledge Of the great
part played by the wandering tribes
of minstrels; mendicants, friars and
Evening star., 1939-12-16

annoyance that the battle was
fought off territorial waters, lodged
formal representations with the
German and British governments
against the fighting in River Plate
waters which Uruguay considers ter
ritorial.
Informed sources said the notes
were sent last night and were de-
signed essentially to protect Uru-
guay's freedom of action and to
provide a basis for a case should
indemnity claims result from this
or future fighting,
Albert GUAM, Uruguayan foreign
minister, announced he was con-
sulting the foreign ministers of other
American nations, and believed a
joint statement should be made be-
cause "the combat evidently oc-
CURED within the area" set by the
Panama Conference as a neutrality
zone.
Britain had made two urgent de-
mands that Uruguay intern the
Admiral Graf Spec, or force it to
leave its refuge. The Uruguayan
foreign office previously had said
the ship could be made seaworthy
before sailing, without setting a
deadline.
Naval Board Report.
Subsequently the naval board was
asked to determine the necessary
time, and Comdr. Rodriguez Varela
and 1t. Comdr. Mario Fontana re-
ported the Graf Spec could navigate
without extensive repairs.
The naval board pointed out that
in running for cover, the Graf Spec
entered port at 20 knots, and that
a ship making that much speed had
nothing radically wrong with its
machinery.
It was reported principal damage
to the ships fighting equipment was
the ruin of its two scouting planes
and a shell hit in the control tower.
A well-inforced naval source said
the warship's pumps steadily were
throwing out water, indicating dam
age below the water line, and that
masses of debris on deck showed
where British shells had struck.
There was a gaping hole in the
starboard side, forward, where q
projectile had penetrated and ex-
ploded in the interior. This source
said the chamber in which, the ex-
plosion occurred was the hospital,
or sick bay, which at the time was
filled with men wounded by previous
shots.
Fueling Completed.
The position of the Admiral Graf
Spec in the water indicated refuel-
ing had been completed. Capt.
Langsdorff said his shortage of fuel
had been q handicap in Wednesday, s
battle.
Reports were circulated widely In
Montevideo and Buenos Aires that
the ship would sail ahead of the
deadline. It remained, however. at
the same spot where it first dropped
anchor.
German business leaders here said
national prestige" would require
the running of the British gantlet,
but German Minister Otto Lang
mann said only that he was COM
municating NAh his government.
Evening star., 1939-12-16

well learned in British lore and his
tory that the English could never
get over the fact that he was able
to teach them much that was in
teresting about their own country.
Evening star., 1939-12-16

When you send cash contribu-
ton to The Stars Christmas Heart
Fund you share yuletide Joy with
some one, who needs help.
Evening star., 1939-12-16

fugitive peasants, how they brought
the news of one district to another,
and thus bringing all the men and
women of Merrie England to sense
of their common life.
Evening star., 1939-12-16
A Learned Man

Jean Jules Jusserand, Frances
one-time envoy to Washington,
while still a young man was so
Evening star., 1939-12-16

NEW YORK-DEATH PLUNGE-Lola Lazlo 21year- old Hun
garan motion picture actress and daughter of Aadar Lazo
composer who plunged death early today 10th
floor apartment Of Baron Frederick Oppenh Of Cologne
Germany Her body crashed into the marquee Fifty
second Street Hotel Miss Lazo is shown her
the United States last March. "A P. Wirephoto.
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-10-20

haps I have been bit quick IN
temper and a bit quick IN speaking
my mind, however, this was one
time when I was feeling fully justt-
fled.
With my mind In a turmoil,
headed up the street where l beheld
man stridding down the sidewalk
with his head up and shoulders
thrown back, while upon his head
hung at a jaunty angle was a large
cap bearing in bold letters POLICE.
met him head-on and stopped,
while he looked at me scornfully.
Are you the marshal of this town.
asked, Yes, yes" he answered,
trying to be a little important. You
see those little children crying in
the rain over there?n l asked oh,
yes, yes he answered. why in
Hell don't you make those drunken
parents take the children on home
out Of this rain and feed them?'
asked him. Why. why. 1 cant do
thing with that fellow when he
is drinking. He is crazy and l can't
do anything with him this marshal
said. Just why are you strutting
your stuff and drawing your pay II
you cant handle one drunken bum. "
asked him. To which he had not
thing TO say.
Please remember that these state
ments are absolute facts and 1 have
related them Just as they came to
pass. However, you may rest assured
that that city cop did not last long.
Perhaps it may be all right Tor
various people, including officials,
to carry home sacks and packs that
have a tendency to clink and gargle.
Perhaps they are entitled to their
drinks as well as others, and per
haps they do not wish to drink at
bars. However, we are wondering
who is going to look after the little
ones while father and mother and
the officials are celebrating.
And yet it is quite possible that
some Of those little ones fast be-
coming worldly wise while being
The Wrangell sentinel. (Wrangell, Alaska) 1909-current, 1939-10-20
oTIs#H.sP BHR

We are quite well aware that
there are two sides to every question
This fact along with an article
which came out in our local paper
sometime back, has caused ms to
submit the following.
This article which gave full de-
tails as to our present cocktail bars
and open saloons, has a tendency to
give the impression that with our
more modern saloons and bars, quite
an achievement has been reached.
Somehow, after practically all
such moves or changes there just
naturally comes a rebound or after
math and it is of those evil after
effects that we wish to speak.
Quite a number are given to
reasoning that with our more open
and modern methods of drinking we
are more openly expressing our in
dependence. that we are well justi-
fled to exercise our rights and pri-
vileges. Perhaps this may be, how
ever there are other things that We
may do well to consider.
1t all recalls to my memory many
unpleasant things that I have had
occasion to witness in times past.
First I shall relate a little true story
that came to pass in the old saloon
days.
A number of years ago. out in one
of our western states where every
thing ran wide open and we took
much pride in exercising our indie
pendenee, quite late one night Il
was walking down the main street
of a wide open town in the far west,
when I became attracted by the Sob
bling of a little girl. This little girl
was no more than eight or ten years
of age was crying very bitterly
while trying to console her little