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Evening star., 1939-12-19
City News in Brief
TODAY.


Christmas party. w. P. A. Recrea-
ton Division, Mayfower Hotel, 8
pm.
Meeting, Delta Chapter, Kappa
Gamma Sorority. Raleigh Hotel,
1880 pm.
Meeting, American Gold Star
Mothers, Raleigh Hotel, 1:30 pm.
Meeting, Women's Bar Association,
Mayfower Hotel, S pm.
Meeting, Bon Vivants Clubs, La
3ayette Hotel. 6 pm.
Dinner. Graphic Arts Club, An
napolis Hotel, $50 pm.
Dinner, Washington Board of
Trade. Raleigh Hotel, 7p.m.
Social meeting, District CHAPTER.
Catholic Daughters Of America, VIII
lard Hotel, 7:3O pm.
Meeting. Power Engineers, Ra-
leigh Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Meeting, Zeta Beta Chi, May
flower Hotel. 8 pm.
Meeting, Washington Chapter,
American Red Cross, Wardman
Park Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting Phi Epsilon Pi Frater-
nifty. Wardman Park Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Sigma Delta Kappa Fra
ternity, Carlton Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Syrian Washingtonian
Club, Willard Hotel, $3.50 pm.
Dance, Willard employees, Willard
Hotel, 10 pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Monarch Club, Willard
Hotel. 1915 pm.
Luncheon, Rotary Club, Willard
Hotel. 1890 pm.
Luncheon. Gyro Club, LAFAYETTE
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Lions Club, Mayfower
Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Princeton Club, Cosmos
Club. l pm.
Luncheon, Soroptimist Club, Will
ard Hotel, pm.
Meeting. Executive Board, Amer
lean Women's Legion, Willard Hotel,
2pm.
Meeting, Washington Philatelic
society, May1ower Hotel, pm.
Dinner, Lawyers Club, Mayflower
Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Zeta Chapter, Kappa
Gamma sorority, Raleigh Hotel, 1880
pm.
Meeting. Washington Chapter,
American Red Cross, Wardman Park
Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Sons of the American
Revolution, Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Southern Cross Chapter,
q. D. c., Willard Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Executive Committee,
Washington Safety Society, Room
1929 Labor Bldg, 8 pm.
Meeting, Catholic Thought Asso-
citation, 5l9 Michigan avenue NE,
BIS pm.
Meeting, Alpha Beta Phi Frater-
nifty, Raleigh Hotel, 9 pm.
Buffet and dance, the Washington
Post, Wardman Park Hotel, 9 pm.
Evening star., 1939-12-19
Ferry Hearing Set

BALTIMORE, Dec. 18 R.-The
Public Service Commission yester-
day assigned the Claiborne-Annapo-
lis Ferry Co. rate case for hearing
January %. An investigation Of the
rates. charges, services, property
and affairs" Of the company was in
stituted by the commission last
july.
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workers. Works Projects Admins.

workers. Works Projects Admins.
tration and other Government
agency figures are cited by the
publication in support OF its con-
tention that there is an abundance
Of labor, even skilled workers.
Provision for the unemployed,
for youth and for old people must
be increased, not decreased" the
leaflet maintains. Those who want
to wipe out w. P. A., public works
and housing use the propaganda Of
false shortage Of labor to try to
convince the country that no legis-
lation and appropriation for the
unemployed are needed"
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Frederick q. Umbau, treasurer,
made . report.
Refreshments were served 1T the
conclusion Of the program.
Evening star., 1939-06-12
Loan Association
Reflects Boumon

Chaplin B. Bauman was reelected
president Of the Oriental Building
Association, oldest home financing
organization in Washington, at the
annual shareholders meeting last
week.
Total resources of $500, 900, one
Of the highest figures recorded in
the history of the organization
which has been in continuous exist
ence since 1861. were shown in the
report of Ralph A. xander, who
again was returned as secretary.
John G. Kolb was reappointed
treasurer of the organization, and
the following nine directors were
elected: Charles Schafer, Carl C.
Haneke, G. H. Schulze, Thomas B.
Young, Louis c. Dismer, C. S.
Parker, DR.. Frederick H. Morhart,
Fred w. Schneider and Mr.. Kolb.
The Oriental is q member of the
Federal Home Loan Bank System,
the District of Columbia Building
and Loan League and the United
States Building and Loan League.
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Federal Government is of pressure
groups, and Of how the authorities
like to bully the employers because
their votes are numerically small,
but are afraid to let the provisions
OF the Federal law operate against
labor groups for fear of the political
power of these groups.
The anti-racketeering law is an
unusual statute in that it does not
permit any local United States at
torneys to initiate proceedings. The
Attorney General alone can bring
prosecutions. That is why the prob
lem is distinctly in the hands of Mr
Murphy, and, if one is permitted a
prediction, it is that he will not
hesitate to look into the racketeering
at the Worlds Fair even at this late
date. Investigation of labor rackets
is just as important to the country
as prosecutions for income tax eva
sions or the ferreting out Of corrupt
judges.
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Congress Urged to Boost
D. c. Playground Sum

The Keystone Automobile Club
has called attention to the fact
that four fewer school Fairgrounds
will be open this summer than last
and urged Congress to increase the
SIS 900 sum allotted for this purpose
in the 1910 supply bill now in con-
ference.
The club declared that of the lO9
school Fairgrounds considered suit
able for use, only 81 will be open. 1t
pointed out that June 81 will mark
the end of the school year, when
thousands of school children will be
seeking safe off-street play spaces.
Evening star., 1939-06-12
w. P. A. Orchestra
Will Play for Patients

The Federal W. P. A. Orchestra
will play for a dance for colored
patients at st. Elizabeth's Hospital
at 7 o'clock tonight. and at 7 pm.
tomorrow a general dance will be
held at the hospital At $3.50 pm.
Thursday a dance will be given
in Friendship House and at pm
Friday the group will play for a
dance at the Benning c. C. c. camp.
The Federal w. P. A. chamber
music ensemble will give a concert
for patients at St. Elizabeth's at
1:30 pm. tomorrow. Wednesday and
Thursday. At 7:30 pm. Tuesday
they will play for patients at the
Washington Sanitarium.
Evening star., 1939-06-12
Washington Observations
Congress Member Seen Close to Unwilling
Violation Of Law in Telegram to Kinq

young Oriental diplomat who per-
sonifles curious international COM
bination. He is a native Korean,
just appointed Consul General to
Poland by the government Of Man
chukuo. His name is S. Boku, pro-
nounced Pahk in Korean. Mr.. Boku
Is an accomplished speaker of Eng
lish, being graduate of Cambridge
University. He was sorry to be here
while the Washington baseball team
was on the road, because In Japan he
was renowned as a college pitcher.
Poland Is one of the few countries
which have recognized Manchukuo
and established diplomatic relations
with Japan's puppet state.
If our laws permitted, thered
probably be crop Of British
knighthoods for a group Of Wash
ington ofncials who were responsible
for last weeks superb arrangements
for the convenience and protection
OF the King and Queen. Honors
belong chiefly to George T. Sum-
merlin, ceremonial officer of the
State Department, and to Joe
Murphy and Ed Startling, respect
lively, assistant chief and White
House squad head of the Secret
Service, who jointly worked out
every detail of the plans concerned
with safeguarding their Brittanic
maJesties' persons while on Amer
ican soil. Murphy and Startling were
members OF the blue ribbon Secret
Service detail that accompanied
President Wilson to Paris. Mai.
Ernest w. B1own, superintendent of
the Metropolitan Police Department,
would also Qualify to be a British
sir" for Washington's cops gave
an outstanding good account of
themselves throughout the royal
visit, with the possible single ex-
ception of the frightful trafic mess
at the Embassy garden party. Mrs.
Brown was presented to the Queen
at the Lindsays fiesta. Now it can be
told, Washington ofhcialdom had q
violent state of filters over the pos
sibllity OF an untoward royal event.
King George to his delight dis
covered crony Of Oxford under
graduate days at the Embassy gar
den party, Axel B. Craven, who
practices law in Washington and
New York. While a Rhodes scholar
from the University of California
l8 or 20 years ago. at the time the
then Duke of York was at oxford,
Craven helped to finance himself
by coaching in tennis. He was
West Coast net star in college days.
Among his pupils at oxford was the
man who is now King of England.
George vi spied Craven in the
crowd at the Lindsays' party, pulled
him out for a chat and jovially
razzed the American about having
grown older since we last knew
each other" Craven was once an
R. F. c. attorney.
Britain's celebrated special cor
respondent, G. Ward Price, was with
the royal party in Washington last
week. Representing the London
Daily Mail and close associate of
its proprietor, Lord Rothermere,
Price is famed as the only press
man" in England who can inter-
view Hitler, Goering and other Nazi
moguls. as well as Mussolini, any
time he wants to. He has written
book entitled II Know These Die
tators.' Washington newspapermen
received from Price a wealth of low
down on conditions in unpredictable
Europe
Evening star., 1939-06-12

The facilities of the Government to
investigate labor racketeering are
Just as extensive as to Investigate
anything else. The other day the
Attorney General gave his blessing
to the proposed legislation whereby
the Federal Government is to be-
come the policeman with respect to
employers who engage in eSpio-
mage or strikebreaking But all the
time there has been on the statute
books a provision of law passed in
June, 1884, which plainly puts up
to the Federal Government the job
of exterminating labor rackets.
The stories of the exactions and
extortions forced upon the foreign
governments whose exhibits we're
threatened with sabotage unless
they complied have been set forth
in public. and the New York Times
editorially refers to the shocking
conditions" which have surrounded
the building and maintenance of the
foreign exhibits.
Law Is Quoted.
What does the Federal law say?
First, that any person who in
connection with or in relation to
any act in any way or in any degree
affecting interstate commerce or
any article or commodity moving
or about to move in trade or COM
merce, obtains or attempts to obtain,
by the use of or attempt to use
force, violence or coercion, the pay
ment of money or other valuable
considerations or. the purchase or
rental of property" is subject on
conviction to fine of $4,000 or
Imprisonment for term OF from
l to 10 years.
Second, another clause specifically
says that any person who commits
or threatens to commit an act OF
physical violence or physical injury
to a person or property in further
ance of a plan to obtain the prop
erty of another is guilty of felony
Now it will not be difficult to es-
tablish that the exhibits of the for
eign governments had relationship
to their trade and commerce and
opportunities to sell their goods in
America. and it likewise will not be
difficult to establish from careful
examination of the report of DR.
Neil Van AIKEN, president of the
Foreign Government Commissioners
Club, just what the exactions and
extortions have been. The New
York Times says:
The heads of a dozen foreign
pavilions admit privately to reporters
their agreement with Mr.. Van Akens
charges, but say they have been
afraid to speak because of fears of
sabotage. In one case in which a
foreign pavilion. stated its restau-
rant with its own men, refusing to
displace them with outside union
help, chairs were slashed and guards
have had to be assigned to prevent
further depredations. This is a form
of racketeering that would defeat
one of the very purposes of the fair
the creation of international good
will"
Viewed in Another Light.
No congressional committees here
bent on discovering the nature of
employer "conspiracies' to hire
guards presumably for protection of
property but to carry on violence
has seemed to be interested in situa-
tions requiring armed guards or to
the threats of violence which are
here made the subject of complaint
by the representatives of foreign
governments.
1t certainly will be strange
travesty on Americas democracy il
the foreign representative go back
homo with tales of how afraid the
Evening star., 1939-06-12

informal discus Frederic william VILE.
sion OF such possibility. The law in
question, known as the Logan Act,
is 140 years old. 1t threatens with
a $4,000 fine and three years i'm
prisonment every citizen OF the
United States, who, without per-
mission or authority OF the Govern
ment, directly or indirectly, COM
menceS or carries on verbal or
written correspondence or inter-
course with any foreign government
or any officer or agent thereof, with
an intent to influence the measures
or conduct of any foreign govern
ment or of any officer or agent there
of, in relation to any disputes or
controversies with the United States,
or to defeat the measures OF the
Government of the United States. y
There is no provision for congress
sional immunity.
Immediate cause of the passage
of the act to prevent individuals
from interfering with the executive
authority in our foreign intercourse"
was the intrusion of private citi-
zen, DR.. George Logan, into negoti-
ations pending in 1898 between the
United States and France. Presi-
dent Adams had sent John Marshall,
Charles c. Pinckney and Elbridge
Gerry as special ENJOYS to Paris to
settle all claims and causes Of differ
ences. They returned, having &C
complished nothing. Thereupon,
Logan, a benevolent Pennsylvania
Quaker, undertook to act on his own
account. Bearing letters of intro
duction from Jefferson, Thomas
Mexican and others, he sailed for
France and moved to achieve what
the three ENJOYS had failed to do.
While Logan's errand was sincerely
intended and was probably without
any partisan political motive, he was
denounced by the Federalists as a
reasonable envoy of the Republican
party and for carrying on a traitor
Gus correspondence with the French
"Jacobins." On returning from
France, Logan was coldly received
by Secretary of State Pickering and
even more coldly by former Presi-
dent Washington, who regarded his
action as fatal iptermeddling. 1t
was resolved that such interference
should be forbidden by law in future.
The Logan Act has never been con-
strued in any reported case.
Americas ranking isolationist,
Senator Hiram johnson, was an
llonored and apparently happy
guest at the British Embassy garden
party for King George and Queen
Elizabeth. Washingtonians, who
have not recently met the Cali
fornian, found the veteran irrecon-
cilable looking and feeling amaz-
ingly we'll and virile Senator john
sons appearance and buoyancy
completely belle the fact that he will
be 73 in September. He attributes
his vim and vigor to having entered
my second childhood" During the
forthcoming Senate neutrality de-
bate, which may develop into fill
buster, johnson is expected to figure
prominently. He is supposed to look
with considerable favor upon the
basic provisions of Secretary Hull's
plan. The Senator opposed the ex-
listing neutrality act.
4 Il y
Washington's visitors include q
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week, reminding
him that Great
Britain still owes
the U ii t e d
States over S.
600, 900, 900 in war
debts may not
unwittingly have
approached the
border line Of
violating section
S of the Federal
Penal Code. It
Is known to this
observer t h a t
tn ere has at
least been some
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IN 1880 has been twice prolonged beyond term
too ASIDE from the routine his striking
IN these last years the British treaty signature
was not especially dramatic but British
British
from first to last Sir Ronald
WIN he Hull trade policy was patiently ntermnaby
IN me END ne Won At the State
cedlt the final
tnat ne has done is great achievement for
Amerca Nexsnaner Anan.
Evening star., 1939-06-12
School Safety Patrol
Founder Is Dead
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, June 12.-Hor-
ace D. Rickard. 81, public school
principal here since 1920 and rec
ognized as father of the national
school safety patrol system. credited
with saving the lives Of thousands
of pupils, died at his home yester-
dav.
Evening star., 1939-06-12
Fair Director Named

The Pan American Union an
nounced today that Rogelio E. AL
faro of the counselor's Office has
been appointed director of the Pan
American Union Pavilion at the
New York Worlds Fair. He will
begin his new duties Thursday.
Evening star., 1939-06-12

cessful career in many posts. He
was one OF the most important
British representatives In Egypt In
the troubled war years. He was the
Ambassador who healed the war
time breach between England and
Turkey. and with infinite patience
negotiated the important Mosul oil
treaty. He was at the Berlin EN-
bassy before he came to Washington.
Evening star., 1939-06-12

John C. Calhoun the
who have stepped out OF the role of This the
New Deal angle the Garner candidacy should
those r.
Vice President.
ancon all political
fails to command
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of cronies. ~ ~ G
Ohayes" replied examining the ceiling
again Yes. Isn't it lucky didn't kill him?"
Diplomat and Man
Both the fact that the unique the story
good deal about Sir Ronald generally
described as goodw would have become the subject
anecdotes IN nine Washington Sir Ronald
unable to De Ambassador and probably wanted
anyway His famiya ancient Scottish one
legend that
after long separation that their
father who had placed his hand
and remarked absracedy Let
And then beside being Withdrawn and conempv
Ronald diplomat
% and private cancellations which required
sador The failure make the
has sometimes generated ilwil.
At the those position
managed his real ob which
Government of this efficiently managed japanese
He frank calm and sensible negotiation
here, like
hard times when preparations for the London
sent the administration aimless
man IKE Sir Ronald is least able to understand No doubt he
occasionally shocked the
dents diplomacy and he Dealers
call overcod
him. his npertubabiy his
long perspective
Evening star., 1939-06-12
The Capital Parade
One Good Story About Lindsay Recalled
After kne-Yeur Tenure as Ambassador
By JOSEPH ALsoP and ROBERT KINrNER

There only good Washington story about Sir Ronald Lindsay
finished British
States 1t deals with an at the White House diplomatic reception
held shortly
the then British Ambassador
Sir Ronald his
looking usual monunentay tall
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in "disto r t e d
a n d mutilated
form" He has
therefore given
out the full text.
Whether or
not the charge
of distortion Is
true, the article
W a S certainly
abbreviated, and
in at least one
important par
ticular the con-
densed version
gave an imper-
f e c t i'd e a OF
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p a r t m e n t o f
Justice itself has
been challenged
by the latest dis
closures of labor
racketeering at
the Worlds Fair.
Evidence has
been adduced in
the public prints
" h ic h shows
that some one in
the department
here has been
asleep at the
switch or has
" ! n k e d a t
wrong doinp O
Evening star., 1939-06-12

machine politician of the rural
school of partisanship, and the joo
calls for a man with knowledge Of
the world. of industrial problems and
of national craftsmanship. His de-
sertion of President Roosevelt is
calculated to disturb those machine
politicians with whom loyalty is the
cardinal virtue and may arouse the
distrust of those Americans who do
not revere the memory of Aaron
Evening star., 1939-06-12

Die, and staring, as usual, up at
the ceiling. Suddenly. a member of
the Japanese Embassy staff trotted
up to introduce himself. The other
diplomats saw Sir Ronald's attention
attracted by the loud, polite, Japa-
ness kissing somewhere in the region
of the Lindsay waistcoat, watched
Sir Ronald's head bend, and heard
the Japanese saying, between more
misses, how happy he was to meet
Sir Ronald. and how many English
Evening star., 1939-06-12
WASHINGTON G, MONDAY JUNE 12 1889

HE opinions OF the rters page are their oon not
necessary Ths stars Such optnton. presented The
readers although such opinions contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
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Rucketeeriino
Affair Cited
To. Murphy
Law Makes Him
Solely Responsible
For Prosecutions
Nv DAVID LAWRENCE

Attorney General Murphy is a
righteous man and he is making a
good record in prosecuting wrong
doers, but the sincerity of the De-
Evening star., 1939-06-12

though with some support from the
senatorial stop = Roosevelt group.
They have felt the Vice Presidents
hand in some of the reverses in New
Deal policies on Capitol Hill. They
have resented what they regarded
as disloyalty on the part of the Vice
President, who promised the NOM
mating convention at Philadelphia
Il have enlisted for the duration!"
They have tried to circumvent this
Evening star., 1939-06-12
I'VE, the People
Corners Candidacy Seen Clearing Way
For Another Running Mate for Roosevelt
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

From the New Deal angle the public
Vice Presidents
Nance
Democratic nomination
For the past ID months
candidacy
Evening star., 1939-06-12
Ickes Sees
Revolt Of
Liberals
Roosevelt Viewed
As Sure Answer
To Future Tuctics
BY CHARLES G. ROSS.

Secretary Ickes complains that
the articles he wrote for the maga-
zine Look, entitled, why I Want
Roosevelt to Run Again" appeared
Evening star., 1939-06-12
Bv FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE

Some question has arisen as to
whether Representative Martin l..
Sweeney, Democrat, of Ohio, who
telegraphed King George vi last
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Economy Crusade Seen q Failure

They feel that the economy
Republican bloc have
political
the needy and OF interfering business
Eighteen months OF Carnerm
has taken place spending
under the New Deal principles
Dealers also believe
not think that the Vice President making his decisions in this
abruptly airing the purely domestic issue Of the pres
dental for 1910 the British
ngon because they disturbed growing
Roosevelt a third
But politics being what rather brutal elimination
the friends OF the administration relieved
Garner against
considering the elder Of Uvad
running for Roosevelt in 1940
Viewed as q Showdown
Until Mr. Garner took of the
had be assumed that in the showdown would
Roosevelt In 940 in 1885
elsewhere for vice presidential candidate They could
Of
would combination
the ticket with would be
This list far from exclusive might
Gillette OF Sehwlenbach
Thomas of Utah. Wallace
OMahoney OF Wyoming whole
be preferable but other combinations should arbitrarily
machines
assumed that they had nothing further politically
tinuing the Roosevelt administration.
New Dealers should be noted do
candidacy seriously He is TO OF and the job
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forced
nadequay the
solidarity the New Dealers crippled
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The Treaty Maker

AS individual Sir Ronald kindly philosophical and
cautious
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n
of " ~ Fo
ohah-yes replied Sir vaguely examining the ceiling
Yes ii lucky him?
Evening star., 1939-06-21
City News in Brief
TO-DAY.

Meeting, American Business Clubs
Mayflower Hotel, 4:30 pm; ban.
quet 7 pm.
Dinner. Washington Credit Men's
Association, Hamilton Hotel, $50
pm.
Meeting, League of Laymens Re.
treats. Willard Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Zeta Chapter, Kappa
Gamma Sorority, Releigh Hotel
7:30 pm.
TOMORROW.
Meeting, Brotherhood of Railway
and Steamship Clerks, Hamilton
Hotel, 9 am.
Luncheon, kiWanis Club, May
flower Hotel, 1890 pm.
Dinner, Auditors section, D. c
Bankers Association, Wardman PARK
Hotel, 7 pm.
Dinner, Luther League of Ameri-
ca, Mayf1ower Hotel, pm.
Crab feast, Temple -Noyes Lodge
Mayfower Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Alliance Club, Hamilton
Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Epsilon Chapter, Kappa
Gamma Sorority, Raleigh Hotel
8pm.
Meeting, Young Friends Club
Raleigh Hotel, $50 pm.