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Evening star., 1939-02-27
Conditions in GERMANY"
Puerto Roco Trails Cuba
In Use Of i. ). Goods

Puerto Rico's 100000 people alb
sorbed S90,043,8 1856 worth of manufac-
tured and agricultural merchandise
from Continental United States in
1887. The same year Cuba's 4,055,000
people imported goods valued at
$92.262,753 from the United States.
The year before Puerto Rico. an
island that is but 100 miles long and
35 miles wide exceeded the Cuban
by $2l 100000. In 1887
Mexico exceeded the Puerto Rican
by but S17,00O,OOO while
the year before Puerto Rico beat
Mexico to the tune of $10,000,000.
was ahead of Puerto Rico
in 1887 by but $4,000 900 and trailing
Uncle Sans Caribbean possession
by Sl1 100000 the year before.
During the same years the absorp-
ton of Cuban and Argentine prod
ucts by the United States exceeded
shipments from Puerto Rico by
good many million dollars. Puerto
Rico shipped merchandise to the
value of S1O2,859,O41 to the United
States in 1887 while Cuba topped the
Latin American list with exporta-
tions to the United States of $148,-
046,616 and Argentina stood next on
the list with 9,122,627. High in
the list of Latin American countries
making heavy expectations to the
United States is Brazil with an all
time high for 1887 of $780, ,639251.
During that year Brazil's absorp-
ton of American goods was $685.
631,287.
These figures have been compiled
by the Insular Department of Agri-
culture and Comerce for the annual
report of the Governor of Puerto
Rico. Reports for 1888 are not in
cluded because commercial reports
covering Latin American commerce
with the United States are not avail
able in complete form at the begin
ming of the calendar year.
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Sorority Will Hold
Fair Tomorrow

Delta Chapter of Delta Alpha
Sorority will hold a sorority fair or
What Have You?" party tomorrow
at 8 pm. at the lexington Presby-
terian Church. North Capitol street
and Florida avenue NE.
Each of the four chapters of Delta
Alpha will have display tables for
exhibition of handiwork and hob
bies. Blue ribbons will be awarded
for the best article in it's class.
The committee in charge is headed
by Harriet Whelan and assisted by
Mariana Couch, Dorothy PLACER,
Grace Alley and Margaret Button
A surprise entertainment is planned.
Evening star., 1939-02-27
McHenry Will Address
Bethesda WOman'S Club.

Donald Edward McHenry will
speak on "The Conservation of Our
Native Flowers at meeting of the
Woman's Club of Bethesda at the
club house on Old Georgetown road
tomorrow at pm. The lecture will
be illustrated by Photographic
colored slides. He will be introduced
by Mrs. Charles Read, conserva-
ton chairman.
A representative of the Better
Films Commission will give short
talk under the sponsorship of Mrs.
F. G. Kayhoe, motion picture chair
man.
Tea will be served after the pro-
gram with Mrs. Eugene Doyle as
hostess.
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Bryn Mawr Club
Sponsors Benefit

The Bryn Mawr Club is sponsor
ing a benefit performance Of Cor
nelia Otis SINNERS CANDIDA" at
the National Theater on March 20,
the proceeds to 60 to the scholar
ship fund for Washington girls.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will
head distinguished list Of patron
esses. Mrs. Henry Abbott is chair
man of arrangements, with Mrs.
Lawrence Houghteling as vice chair
man and Mrs. William S. Culbertson
in charge Of patronesses. Mrs. Harry
L. Grant is in charge of tickets.
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Society Women Hold
Kidnapping Parties
3y the Associated Press.

ST. LOUIS.-Society has gone in
for kidnaping-and finds it lots of
fun.
''Kidnap" breakfast parties are
among the latest social sports at
suburban Richmond Heights. Just
about the time that the average
housewife is frowsing around in
wrapper and curriers'. a party of
women in cars descends upon the
house, blindfolds the surprised VIC
tim, and "kidnaps' her for the
breakfast party. She must go along
as is, or pay a fine.
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Initiation Held

The following pledges were in
itiated by Alpha Tau Chapter OF
Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority at Will
son Teachers College last week
Frances Goebel, Elizabeth Hall, FL
vira Little, Elaine OFlaherty and
Margaret Ruckert. A buffet supper
at the college followed the initia-
ton,
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Free Lance Writers to Meet.

The Society of Free Lance Writers
will meet at the Shoreham Hotel
Thursday at pm, with the presi-
dent, Parke A. Arnold, presiding.
Original stories will be read by
Robert w. Cochran and Benjamin
r. Ferrill, and discussion will follow
Manuscripts for the feature article
contest are due at this meeting.
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Sorority Chapter Entertains.

Pi Chapter of Beta Chi national
sorority entertained yesterday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Marion
Louise Risdon. Guests of the chapter
included the national and assistant
national officers of Beta Chi living
IN Washington. as we'll as the presi-
dents of the sororitys eight other
local chapters and Pts rushees.
Evening star., 1939-02-27
Hainan Island
To Be Topic
OF fLecture
Nicol Smith to
Address Club
Tomorrow

An illustrated lecture on the
Hainan Island. the Chinese possess
sion across from French Indo- China,
recently occupied by Japanese troops,
will be presented by Nicol Smith be-
fore the Washington Club at II m.
tomorrow. Mr.. Smith, who headed
an expedition into the interior of
the island, will describe it's abo-
riginal inhabitants and customs
which have persisted for 1000 years.
Mrs. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, the
Program Committee chairman, has
returned from an extensive trip in
the South and West.
Recital to Be Preceded
BY Dinner Parties.
Several dinner parties will be given
tonight, preceding Miss Florence
Lockes recital of Amy Lowell's
Bronze Horses" to be presented at
$3.50 pm. at the Washington Hotel
under auspices of the District of
Columbia branch of the Women's
International League for Peace and
Freedom.
Among those entertaining are Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Acker, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. Calhoun Sterling. Mr.. and
Mrs. Waldron Faulkner and Mr.. and
Mrs. Daniel McC. Kidney.
Mrs. Cohen to Be Hostess
At Pen WOmen's Tea.
Mrs. Rose Robson Cohen will be
hostess at the fellowship tea of the
League of American Pen Women in
the studio at the Grafton Hotel
Wednesday from 3 to pm. Mrs.
Harry w. King is co-hostess. Those
who will pour are Mrs. Tomas
Cajigas, Mrs. June Rainsford Butler,
Mrs. Frank c. Nickels and Mrs.
Harriet Disney.
AS feature of the afternoon, Mrs.
Cohen will present small group of
students from her studio of drama
in one-act play, "Overtones."
Those who will take part are Edythe
Gordon, Gertrude Berman. Lorraine
Levinson, Ruth Ulman and Carol
Racoosin.
The program at the poetry work.
shop Friday at pm. will be under
the direction of Mrs Barbara Whit
ney. Brief stories in verse will be
read by members and prizes awarded
to the best.
Evening star., 1939-02-27
P. E. 0. Reciprocity
Luncheon to Be
Held Wednesday

The monthly reciprocity luncheon
of the P. E. o. Sisterhood will be
held Wednesday at Woodward &
LoIhron's tea room. Chapter o will
be the hostess and its president,
Miss Hazel B. Nelson. will preside
The program is being arranged
by Miss Frances Hays and Mrs. c.
l.. Vaile. Miss Julia Macmillan, 2O7
A street NE, is in charge of res
ervations.
Tea to Follow Meeting.
All members of the P. E. o. in the
District are invited to attend a tea
to be given tomorrow from to 7
pm. by Mrs. William E. Andrews,
1925 Fairmont street NV, following
the regular meeting of Chapter B.
State officers and presidents of
the District chapters are to be
guests of honor.
X k,s
Officers to Be Honored.
State officers also will be guests
of honor at the meeting of Chapter
D tomorrow at 8 pm. at the Fed
Grafton of Churches headquarters
with Miss Myrtle L. Seidler and
Miss Adah L. Bagby as joint
hostesses. DR.. F.. R. Moulton.
permanent secretary of the Amer
ican Association for the Advance
ment Of Science, the guest speaker,
will give an illustrated lecture on
Consider the Heavens"
The chapter will hold a dinner
Thursday at the Fairfax Hotel with
Miss Louisa M. Wilson of the Fair
fax, in charge of reservations.
Chapter E to Meet.
Chapter E will meet at the home
of Mrs. A R. Horn, 1918 Livingston
street NV. tonight. The Mellon
Gallery" will be the subject of a
paper to be given by Mrs. Kenneth
R. Jacob, past president of the State
Chapter.
Conditions in Germany"
Chapter j will meet at the home
of Mrs. Edgar A. Stansfeld, 1852
North Troy street, Arlington, Va,
tomorrow, at pm. with Mrs. Bert
E. Frost in charge of the program.
The topic is conditions in Ger
many
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-02
TROLLEY RAILS TO
 BE COVERED OVER
North Main Street Traffic Hazard to Be Eliminated
 Right Away

Trolley rails on North Main street, lcng criticized as Q dangerous traf- fic hazard, are to be paved over, 1t was announced today at the ofiice of Mayor Patrick M. Perriello. Work on eliminatin the hazard has al- ready been begun, the Connecticut Railway & Lighting Co.,, having yielded to urgings by the mayor tc have the paving done as soon as possible. The tracks will be cov- cred all along North Main street from Savings street to Lakewood It is expected that the work will be completed before the arrival of win ter driving conditions.
 Efforts to have the North Main street rail hazard ended have been made by the city for months Mayor Frank Hayes and Executive Secretary Thomas F. Kelly conferred a number of times with c. R.. & D officials. When Mayor Perriello tooh office, he resumed the city's nego- tiations with the concern. The agreement that the area around the rails would be paved was finally reached.
 The rails, which have not beer used since trolley service was ended in Waterbury, have been blamed fol a number of accidents. A spectac- ulaf crash in which a fire engine skidded on the tracks and side. swiped several parked automobiles was blamed on them
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-02
SNOW CRUISER IS
 NUMBERING AHEAD

Mansfield, O., Nov. 2-(UP)-Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's 35-ton snow cruiser numbered on today to- ward Boston, its embarkation point for the Antarctic.
 The 55-foot vehicle stopped for the night near Bucyrus, and this morn ing passed Chestline and Ashland. Akron was its goal tonight.
 Mechanical difficulties caused sev- eral halts yesterday, but Dr. Thomas o. Poulter, designer-pilot of the land ship, was not discouraged.
 This is shake-down trip" he said, designed to uncover the bugs and 1t is doing just that" Replace ment parts were flown to upper San- dusy yesterday for repairs to the high-pressure oi Hines controlling braking and steering.
 The snowmobile left Chicago last week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-02
FRENCH TOWN HIT
 BY NAZI SHELLS
People Had Been Evacu- ated For Long Time--ltaly
 Signs Up With Greece
BY RALPH HEINZEN
United Press Staff Correspondent

kOAAtCu IACSS 0taAA NVAACSPOAAuChsJ
 Paris, Nov. 2.-(UP)-GerInan ar- tillery, after previously shelling a French village on the western front, have shelled French town for the first time since the war started, 1t was announced today.
 German batteries of four inch and six inch guns opened bias yes- terday afternoon on the town of Forbach, capital of the administra- tive district for that area. The people of the town, only four miles from German Saarbrucken, had been evacuated long ago.
 The Germans also shelled with four inch guns a hill two miles northeast of Sarrlouis (Saarlautern) 1t was announced.
 Apropos of a clash of patrols in which the French made prison German youth of IS, French in- fornants said that the German forces contained large numbers of youths serving under experienced officers
 Authoritative commentators paid considerable attention today to re- cent German reports of activities on the western front, terming them shameless inventions which exag- gerated German successes and minimized losses.
 French Deny Reports First, it was denied that the French had retired, as the Germans asserted, from their resistance posi- tions established before the Ger man attacks of Ocotber 16.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-02
POLICE EXPECT
 TO HAVE BATTLE

Burlington, Vt, Nov. 2-CUP)- Steel helmets and tear-gas bombs were distributed to state motor ve- hicle police today as AFL union truck drivers and major operators in Vermont prepared for finish fight in a strike called for 5 p. m.
 A possible last-minute appeal to Governor George D. Aiken for inter vention was seen as the only means of averting the strike, expected to affect all trucking in the state and most of its interstate hauling. Aiken, unable legally to act unless request ed. had no communication from either side this morning.
 President Lynn Valyou of the Brotherhood of Chauffeurs. Team sters & Helpers Union, which claims 400 members with power to halt $50 trucks and tie up every major in- terstate truck company in the state, said he had asked the operators committee to consent to labor board arbitration but was refused.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-02
Finland Envoys Enter Russia For Showdown
Three Neghbor Nations of Films Stand Behind Them; They Show How Finland Could Resist-Moscow
 Believes Films Will Surrender
nv NORMAN B. DEUEL)

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Helsingfors, Finland, November 2 -UP)-Finland's Nordic neighborS encouraged her today in her opposi- tion to Russian territorial demands. Sweden began three nights of "black out" tests last night and the news paper Dagens Nyheters said: "The President of the United States has referred to Finland's strong moral position and his view harmonizes perfectly with those of Finlands neighbors."
 At Oslo, the Norwegian govern ment newspaper Arbeiderbladet said, Tt seems that further Finnish Soviet negotiations are useless, as the Russian demands are affirmative and threatening" but it warned that world opinion is fully on Finland's side, factor that Molotov (Soviet premier and foreign minister) and (Josef) Stalin cannot overlook"
 At Copenhagen, Denmark, the Finnish legation announced that Hango, the Finnish port at the entrance to the Gulf of Finland, had been mined and the channel be- tween the Isles of Hastoe and Busoe closed. Hango was included in the Russian demands. Molotov, in mak- ing the demands public in an ad- dress before the supreme Soviet, said that Russia wanted to lease the dis trict for naval base. Esthonia already has ceded Russia the Port of Baltiski, directly across the 40-mile entrance to the Gulf of Finland from Hango.
 Will Never Surrender
 Danish observers, commenting oll Russian demands for some Finnish territory on the Karelian Isthmus, believed that Finland would never surrender 1t without fight because the Films have fortified 1t heavily. The Russian and Finnish borders meet on the isthmus, between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga, where Finnish territory extends within 20 miles of Leningrad, sec- ond largest Russian city. Military experts classify the Finnish defenses there as the third strongest in Eur ope, next to the Haginot and Sieg- fried lines.
 There are thousands of small lakes, Marshes, woods and expenses of glacial boulders in the region and these natural barriers, interwoven with barbed wire and pill boxes form an uninterrupted defense line for the Films. They have set tank
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-02
TAX COLLECTOR IN
 HARTFORD SHORT
Mayor Spellacy Has Made Public Total Amount,
 As $33,628
Special to The Democrat)

Hartford, November 2. - An echo of the Waterbury scandal was heard today when Mayor Thomas J. Spellacy made public an account ants report showing that short ages in the office of the tax collec- tor here total 33,628.09. Four per- sons arrested after irregularities had been discovered, one of them being Deputy Tax Collector George w. King, have pleaded guilty in super for court to charges against them
 The report of the auditors was submitted several weeks ago to States Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn ST. It was made public by the mayor, preparatory to taking civil action against a bonding company to recover the missing funds.
 The auditors recommended that better accounting and bookkeeping methods be placed in operation irl the tax collectors office, and hit al several irregular practices which allegedly have been followed in the past.
 Tax Collector Otis J. Hart, Re- publican, who has held the office for AZ years, has been i'll for some time. He will retire at the end oi the year, the Republicans having failed to renominate him for next Tuesdays election.
 The report claims that uncol. lectable checks were accepted 1T (Continued oy, paua A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-02
COWBOY HELD IN
 TAVERN BATTLE

Boston, Nov. 2-iUP)-A six foot, three-inch South Dakota cowboy was held on suspicion of man. slaughter today after Reading man died of a broken skull suffered in a hotel taproom fracas.
 Police were to decide later wheth- CT Lloyd McCrorey, g. of Deadwood, S D.. here for the rodeo at Boston Garden, would be charged with manslaughter or assault.
 The 237-pound cowboy was seiz- ed after the scuffle in which Char les F. Gormlie, 52, a Boston & Maine railfoad accountant, fell and struck his head on the tile floor. McCrorey said he pushed or struck" Gormlie after the accountant said to group Lets gang up on the cowboy" and started for him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-02
THREE CONNECTS
 WILL TESTIFY

Wethersfield Conn, Nov. 2--CUP) Orlando F. LaPorte, 30, Hartford, serving a 6 to 9 year prison term for a robbery which he claimed he never committed, will have three New York convicts testify in his behalf when he goes before the pardons board Monday.
 The convicts, according to LaPor- te, confessed the robbery of @ Tor rington grocery store for which be was convicted early last year. They are now serving sentences for bank robbery at Philmont, N. Y.
 They will be brought to the par dons hearing in custody of New York and Connecticut state police
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-02
British Freighter, Reported
 Sunk Yesterday, Is Sea Mystery
Canada Station First Re- ports Ship Safe-Then
 Will Not Confirm If

New York, Nov. 2.-(UP)-Naval and coast guard patrolmen believed today that the British freighter Coulmore either had been sunk without @ trace by a submarine she reported attacking her 68o miles east of New York, or had escaped and was proceeding toward Great Britain without reporting her safety.
 Six coast guard cutters and an undisclosed number of naval de- stroyers churned the choppy sea of the vicinity all night without finding any survivors or wreckage. The weather was moderating this morn ing and the search continued.
 The coast guard cutter Bibb, which had been patroling the Amer ican security zone within 200 miles of the location given in the Coul- more's sos, had reached the scene yesterday morning and searched all day. She had been joined by the cutters Campbell, Hamilton, Chelan, Argo and Duane, by destroyers and by two coast guard airplanes which were immediately forced back to shore by bad weather. A south gale was blowing when the Bibb arrived and the possibility was considered that the Coulmore's crew had taken to lifeboats which the waves had sunk.
 Inside Security Zone
 The location given in the Coul- more's sos was 62.31 degrees west of Greenwich. That is almost 10C miles inside the security zone, estab- lished by the q American nations a month ago at Panama, from which belligerent activities are barred. Il was believed that should the Coul- more fail to reappear safely some- (NNY1fipi1od Nv1 Do0a Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-02
PRETTY WOMAN IS
 SENTENCED AS SPY
Swiss Federal Court Gives Her Five Years-Other
 Spies Punished

Geneva, Nov. 2-(UP)-Virginia Capt Rota, pretty divorcee who said she had served as spy "just for the fun of it," was sentenced to five years in prison today by the Swiss federal court.
 The court accepted charges of military espionage against Miss Rots and Roger Joel, draftsman, who was accused of sending the girl across the frontier with spectifica- tions of Swiss anti-aircraft guns and other defense measures.
 Joel was sentenced to three years in prison, was deprived of his civil rights and excluded from the army.
 Paul Rochat, a private detective tried with Miss Rota and Joel, was found guilty of maintaining a po- litical espionage service in Switzer- land for foreign power. He wal sentenced to IS months in prisor and deprived of his civil rights fol two years.
 Rochat's wife,, Dolly, who wa. charged with being her husband. accomplice, was sentenced to si1 months in prison and to three year. on probation.
 The trial of Miss Rota, who was { dancer before she turned to espion. age, and her accomplices was pri. vate because the testimony involved high military secrets. The court ignored the pleas of thu defense for the acquittal and il the main accepted the recommen dations of the prosecution. Joel, who was employed in Gen eva munitions factory, was alleged t have admitted that he obtainet details of Swiss defense plans ans technical information from his em ployers which he gave to Miss Rot to carry across the frontier to { foreign power.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-02
Rep. McC COrmack of Mass. in House Asked Return
 of Our Ambassador DEVEL DEMENT'S ARE
 VERY SIGNIFICANT Disposition of Captured American Ship Caused
 First Estrangement
BY T. F. REYNOLDS ~. P. White House Correspondentl

(U. F. White House COrreSpOndenvG
 Washington, November 2. - UP) - Relations between the United States and Soviet Russia, who as the largest neutral nation may hold the balance of power in the Euro pean war, took an abrupt turn for the worse todays Diplomatic relations, already tense as a result of RuSsia'S brusque treatment of American diplomatic representatives in the City of Flint case, became more starined because of criticism of this country by Premier and Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov.
 Representative John W. McCor~ mack, Democrat, Massachustts, speaking from the floor of the House, demanded that MT. Roose. welt withdraw his Ambassador to Moscow, Laurence A. Steinhardt. Diplomatic moves by the White House suggested that the temper Of the administration might not be averse to such a move, although there was no indication from the State Department that recall of Steinhardt has been considered.
 In the Senate, William E. Borahs Republican, Idaho, g leader of the unsuccessful Senate fight against repeal of the arms embargo, sug- gested that there was nothing to cause surprise in the attitude Of Russia since, he charged, "the United States already is regarded as one of the Allies" Chairman Key Pittman, Democrat, Nevada, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee described the criticism by Molotov "an uncalled for attack on the United States.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-02
STOLE CAR BUT
 DIDN'T MEAN IT

Boston, Nov. 2 = (UP) - Charles Nelson was driving his own car again today and considered himself doubly lucky.
 Dashing through drenching rain Tuesday night, he hopped into a car he believed was his. Next morning he found one similar to his parked in his yard, but 1t had strange H. cense plates. He learned from police the car was reported stolen from a Newton man.
 Nelson went back to the theater where he had parked his car and found it still was there - and not tagged for overtime parking.