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Evening star., 1939-10-16
Argentine Trade PACT
Is Declared Threat
lou. ). Farmers
Western Senators
Warn Committee for
Reciprocity Information
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

Seven Western Senators-four OF
them Democrats-today warned the
Committee for Reciprocity Informa.
ton that approval of the proposed
Argentine trade agreement without
change in its proposed tariff con-
cessions would threaten a large Sec
ton OF American agriculture and
jeopardize the continued existence
of the trade agreements program.
Under the program. the executive
branch of the Government can send
existing tariffs up or down so pei
cent without specific congressional
assent.
At the opening of hearings at the
Tariff Commission on the Argentine
agreement, Senator johnson, Demo-
crat, of Colorado, protested that ii
concessions on agriculture commodi-
ties are extended, America in the
end will become a wholly industrial
country dependent on foreign
sources for food supplies, and vulner-
able in times of war as Great Britain
is now"
Independence Declared Envy.
"Our present economic independ-
ence is the envy of the world" Sena-
tor johnson said.
Without stating the case quite so
broadly, Senators OMahoney, DEM
ocrat, of Wyoming; Frazier, Repub-
lican, of North Dakota; Gurney,
Republican, of South Dakota; Cap
per, Republican, of Kansas; Adams,
Democrat, of Colorado. and Con-
nally, Democrat, of Texas. echoed
Mr.. Johnson's view.
Furthermore, Mr.. Connally and
Mr.. Adams, as well as Representa-
tives Andersen, Republican, of Min
nesota, reminded the committee
that Congress gave the executive
branch the authority to change the
tariffs and that Congress can take
it away.
Senator Connally said:
Il voted for the trade agree
ments program, but occasionally
have repented my vote. We don't
feel so kindly toward Argentina that
we want to hurt our own farmers
to help the Pampas cowboys. We
don't want to build up industry
which in already bloated and over
extended. Congress appropriated
$700, 900 900 out of the Treasury last
year to be spent for the aid Of agri-
culture, and we don't want to 60
now and harm agriculture"
Suspicious Aroused.
When he observed that the po-
tential injury to agriculture in the
proposed Argentine agreement made
him suspicious Of the worth of the
agreements. program, Senator Con-
nally added that those ere my
views as well as the views Of most
Of the Democrats as well as the
Republicans in Congress.
Mr.. Connally found that the
(see ARGENTINE. Page Aid
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Two henhouse Raids FoiIed
By Guns; Two Believed Shot

The moon or something was wrong
for stealing chickens in nearby
Maryland last night.
While one thief in Carroll County
was running off with more buck
shot than poultry, another, in a way
of speaking, was following fast in his
footsteps in Prince Georges County.
Joseph Royer of Mount Airy
opened up with shotgun on man
trying to enter his henhouse, and
the intruder fell, whereupon two con-
federates broke from the shadows,
one with repeating rifle.
The man felled rose to his feet
and ran while the man with the
rifle covered the retreat of MI three
across Z cornfield, the Associated
Press reported. Sheriff Walter
shiplay was looking today for the
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Films Will Return
1,.sTts Ass .ss-ys.- -
ID Moscow, but
Date Is Uncertain
Puosikivi Confers With
HeIsinki Officials on
Russion Proposals
BY the Associated Press.

HELSINKI, Oct. 16.-A foreign
Office spokesman said today Finn
ish diplomat mission would return
to Moscow for further talks with
Soviet Russian officials, but added
II don't know when."
The spokesman made his predic-
ton shortly after DR.. Juho Kusti
Paasikivi, head of the mission, ar
rived here bearing secret proposals
which Firms feared might menace
their neutrality-or even their in
dependence.
DR. Paasikivi. greeted expectantly
by city tense with repressed ex-
citement, went into conference with
Foreign Minister Elias Erkko less
than an hour after his arrival. It
was expected the government would
issue communique commenting
upon his report this evening.
DR.. Paasikivi stepped from his
train to be greeted by government
officials while a crowd of several
thousand stood silent in the back
ground.
The envoy remained at the foreign
vrTY NT~
Evening star., 1939-10-16

German planes attempted to
raid the coast of Scotland today,
the British air ministery an
nounced, but the Royal Air Force
inflicted heavy losses on the at
tackers, a commupique said. The
announcement followed an asser-
ton by the admiralty that Brit
ish planes had made scouting
flights over Germany last night.
British naval observers conf
IDENTIFY declared that the new
German submarine offensive
would be brought quickly under
control. page AID ---
French heavy artillery was re-
ported today to have opened fire
upon German troops reported
being massed behind the western
front in preparation for gen.
eral offensive. A heavy barrage
was reported being laid down
upon communication lines and
troop concentration points along
q 100-mile front extending from
the Moselle River to the Haardt
Forest. page A-1o
The German submarine which
sank the British battleship Royal
Oak also scored q torpedo hit on
the battle cruiser Repulse, put
ting her out of commission. the
supreme army command an
nounced in Berlin. The British
admiralty declined to comment
on the report the Repulse had
been damaged. The war In the
west was still inactive, the Ger
man command said, with only
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three, one of them generously
sprinkled with shot.
At the same time Prince Georges
police were looking for a thief be-
lieved to have been wounded in an
equally unsuccessful attempt to rob
q hen roost near Ritchie Station. Roy
Fowler seid his barking dogs routed
him from bed about 80 O'Clock and
he ran outdoors.
He saw q man fleeing his chicken
house and opened fire with q shot
gun. Fowler said the man screamed
when he fired, but continued run
ming.
Police have asked physicians and
hospitals in Washington and vicin-
ity to report any patients who looked
Is II they might have tried to steal
chickens Ia Maryland last night.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Communist Leader
Declines 10 Answer
False Passport Query
Max Bedocht Also
Silent on War Aid
Before Dies Group
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

Max Bedacht, an avowed member
OF the National Committee of the
Communist party in the United
States. declined to tell the House
Committee on Un-American Activi-
ties today whether he had travelled
to Russia on false passports.
The witness also refused to answer
q question as to whether he would
support the United States if 1t be-
came involved in war with Russia.
Refuses to Answer Question.
Mr.. Bedacht, who appeared before
the committee with Joseph r. Brod-
sky, New York lawyer who previously
had represented William z. Foster
and Earl Browder, was asked
whether he had travelled on an illegal
passport. He turned to his counsel
for brief conference. and said:
II refuse to answer that question" !"
"On what ground?" inquired Rep
resentative Dempsey, Democrat, Of
New Mexico.
"On my constitutional ground"
Mr.. Bedacht replied.
Its grand thing that the Conn.,
munists have the Constitution to
wrap themselves up in, isn't It,"
remarked Mr.. Dempsey.
Its a grand thing for many
others, too," said Mr.. Bedacht.
Passport Probed.
The committee was told by Rhea
Whitley, its counsel, who directed
the questioning of Mr.. Bedacht, that
he had information from State De-
partment files that the first time
passport ever had been issued to
the witness was May 10, 1888. Mr..
Bedacht had told of making a trip
to Spain at that time with ship
inent of medical and other supplies
Gao aTTN-Ah6ERrNA poua IfEl
Evening star., 1939-10-16
First Germans to Quit
Estoniu Thursday
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
TALLINN, Oct. 16.-The first ship
load of German emigrants to leave
Estonia under the Reichs resettle-
ment program was expected to leave
Thursday. .....
A mixed commission reached an
agreement that all property would
be. registered to the special account
of the German Legation, but that
any transfer abroad must not injure
the Estonian balance payments.
The emigrants' cash and deposits
were estimated at 100000 kroons
(about 1880, ,000). Total capital in
vestments were estimated as high as
5000, ,000, 900.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
BRITISH REPULSE AIR RAID ON EDINBURGH
3 Nazi Planes Reported Downed;
French Blast Massed Reich Armv
Liner De Crosse, Armed,
Arrives With 281
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-Armed
with two 75-millimeter guns. one
each fore and aft and manned by
a navy crew, the French liner
De Grasse arrived from Europe to-
day with 28l passengers, Al Of them
Americans.
She was the first French passenger
ship to reach here since the lie de
France docked September 8. five
days after France declared war on
Germany. The lie de France is
still here.
Both guns were described as capa-
BILE of repelling attacks by either
submarines or aircraft.
Evening star., 1939-10-16

Observers also pointed out that
today's attack came within three
days of the reports on the sink
ing of the Royal Oak, bringing to
mind Hitler's threats In his
Reichstag speech of a smashing
offensive against the allies unless
his peace proposals were ac-
cepted.
Meanwhile, the admiralty de-
clined to comment on German
statement that a torpedo had "se-
verely damaged" the 32,OOO-ton bat
tie cruiser Repulse.
An admiralty spokesman, in
answer to query regarding Ger
man claims on the Repulse, said
officials would not 60 to the trouble
Of denying all these reports"
At the same time, naval observers
predicted the new German sub
marine offensive, which sent the
Royal Oak to the bottom and de-
stroyeds three allied merchant YES
sells over the week end, would be
quickly brought under control.
These sources interpreted the
fresh Nazi onslaught as Hitler's
reply to Great Britain's rejection
of his peace gestures. They pre-
dicted, however, the campaign would
be halted more speedily than the
one German launched at the out
break of hostilities.
In the first four weeks of the
war, it was recalled, enemy sub
marines sank nearly 10000 tons of
British shipping before First Lord
of the Admiralty Winston Churchill
was able to announce the offensive
had been checked.
Air Defense Speeded.
While Britain's Navy concentrated
on German undersea raiders the
nation intensified preparations to
meet possible attacks from the air.
Some military men expressed belief
the new submarine offensive would
be accompanied by aerial attacks
on British perts.
Naval experts said that while loss
of the 29,159-ton Royal Oak, one
of Britain's Is capital ships, was
admittedly severe blow, it was by
no means critical.
The three merchant ships sunk
were the British-owned 9205- ton
Lochavon and the French, Lines
10,108-ton Bretagne and 6903-ton
Louisiana.
No lives were lost in the sinking
of the Lochavon, but at least IS
were reported missing from the
other two vessels. British warships
landed more than 400 survivors of
the three ships in English ports yes
terday.
Survivors of a German submarine
were landed at the same time, but
ofhcial dispatches did not say when
or how the submarine had been
sunk.
Attacked without Warning.
Masters of the three vessels said
they had been attacked without
warning, the skipper of the Bretagne
declaring his first knowledge of the
submarines presence came when the
wireless room, lifeboats and decks
were shelled. The radio operator
was wounded and seven persons
were killed, a survivor said.
In predicting speedy crushing of
Germany's latest submarine cam
(See LONDON, Page AID
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Deer Hunter Killed

OROFINO, Idaho, Oct. 16 R-
Robert Lee Caldwell, as, and his al
year-old brother Clarence went deer
hunting with three friends.
Clarence spied gray object in
the brush. He fired.
Robert fell, wounded fatally. The
gray object was his shirt.
Evening star., 1939-10-16
Dr.. Robert Huub Dies
By the Associated Press


ZURICH, Oct. 16-Dr. Robert
Haab, twice President of Switzerland,
died at his home here Sunday. He
was IS.
Evening star., 1939-10-16

(See LINLAND, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1939-10-16

(See CONGRESS, Page A-3)
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(see UN-AMERICAN, Page A-15.)
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(See SUPREME COURT, Page A-3.
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(See REPULSE, Page A-30
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Continued on Page AT, Column !
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Forecast

From the United States Weather Bureau report.
Full details on Page Az
Fair, warmer tonight, minimum tenn
perature about 43 degrees; tomorrow
fair; gentle to moderate southwest
winds. Temperatures today-Highest.
81, at 2 pm; lowest, 35, at 6 am.
Evening star., 1939-01-30
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing
National-Dark

National-Dark
Earle-"They Made Me a Grim
inal," John Garfield in vigorous
drama: 11:10 am, LAS, 4:25, 7:20
and 10 pm. Stage shows: 1855,
3:35, $50 and 9:1O pm.
Capitol-"Thanks for Everything u
new comedy with Jack Haley and
Adolphe Menjou: 11:10 am, 1:50,
4:35, 7:15 and 10,pm. Stage shows:
1855, 3:35, $40 and 9:05 pm.
Metropolitan-"Of the Record"
excitement and romance in the
newspaper business: 1925 am, 1:30
3:35, $40. 7:45 and $50 pm.
Columbia-"The COWBOY and the
Lady," the romantic comedy with
Merle Oberon and Gary Cooper
11:15 am, 1:20, 1925, $50, 7:35 and
$40 pm.
Palace-"Jesse James," new action
drama inspired by the life of the
famed outlaw: 11:55 am, 2:20, 4:45
ITO and 9:35 pm.
Keith's 1.-The Lady Vanishes, N
mystery with the Hitchcock touch:
HAS am, 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and
GAS pm.
Little-"Power," vigorous story of
persecution: II am, los, $40,
Sis, 7::25 and $50 pm.
Belasco - Beethoven Concerto, N
new Aim with much of the master S
music: 4:30. 6:15. 8 and $50 pm.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts; con-
tinuouS from 10 an.
Evening star., 1939-01-30

kindly old scrubwoman. At the peak
of her form, Miss Taylor is close to
the best actress you ever saw. She
is particularly brilliant in that third
act passage of outward Bound"
when she is the humble, loving
mother, willing to surrender her high
place in Heaven to live on a lower
plane with the bitter, erratic son
who does not even know of their re-
lationship.
Florence Reed, last seen here in
the Inflated "Herod and Marianne"
gives a very persuasive performance
in the role of Mrs. Clivedon- Banks,
the acidulous aristocrat, whose OBJ
servations on people, life and Heaven
itself constitute some of the richest
comedy of the play. Others of the
group who give luster to the play
are Bramwell Fletcher as the weak,
sarcastic sot; Vincent Price as the
bewildered young minister who
stands at the gates of Heaven doubt
full Of all he has preached; Louis
Hector as the stuffed shirt capitalist
who could not bluff his way into
eternal bliss and Thomas Chalmers
(narrator of THE River'D as the
examiner" sent out to decide the
fate of the newly dead.
In the extremely difficult parts
of the young half ways" a pair of
lovers in the process of suicide, Alex
ander Kirkland and Helen Chandler
seemed less facile than their fellow
players. That probably is Mr.. Vane's
fault, however, for the way his play
is written. they are left somewhere
between earth and Heaven, which
obviously would be a very confusing
place to be.
Superficially, in view of its some
times tragic and beWildering mo-
ments. outward Bound" might be
regarded as hardly the happy birth
day anniversary gift that might have
been expected. To have seen it,
however, is to know that nothing
could have been happier.
The play and the cast are back
in New York today, ready to resume
their engagement, which deserves
to go on and on until maybe next
January, when it can come back
for another birthday anniversary
benefit performance.
Evening star., 1939-01-30
Film Society's Next
Is 'KimikO'

"Kimiko," outstanding Japanese
motion picture, will be shown
Wednesday night at Pierce Hall as
the final film on the first half of
this seasons program of the Film
Society of Washington. Subtitled
"The Eternal Quest" it presents a
blend of old Japanese customs with
the modern civilization in which
they remain.
Munetoshi Ohki Attache of the
Japanese Embassy, will speak briefly
on the film industry in Japan, a
f1ourishing one, which produces
more pictures than Hollywood.
Next on the Film Societys sched-
ule is ''The Last Laugh" with Emil
Jannings. Pictures to follow will
be "The Making of a King" also
with Jannings; What Price Glory
robin Hood" and Greed"
Tickets for "Kimiko' and the re-
manning programs are on sale now
at the Office of the Film Society,
1874 F street NV.
Evening star., 1939-01-30

VlSlGllB f1OllyWOOu CclcUIItAcS Was d
part of it, So was the fact that it
was a benefit affair. the proceeds of
the packed house going to the in
fantile paralysis fund. There was
the thrill of a command perform
ance" Miss Laurette Taylor, star of
the play. made a curtain speech ad-
dressed directly to the President. In
short, there was about the whole
thing an atmosphere that rarely
belongs to an evening at the theater.
The play alone, however, would have
made the evening memorable. The
canny minds of the Playhouse Com
pany which decided to revive 1t did
a very exciting thing, for Mr.. Sutton
Vane's idea, even after these Is
years, is remarkably appealing one
for a play. With a brilliant cast
giving it eloquent Interpretation,
there is no reason why it should not
go one indefinitely knocking the
stuffng out of the notion that what
the theater needs is realistic drama.
Naturally not quite so startling
today as in 1924, Mr.. Vane's drama
of a group of newly dead men and
women on their way to eternal life,
via a luxurious ocean liner, still is
something to excite the imagination
and touch the heart.
There has been bit of retouching
of the dialogue here and there, but
only enough to efface the 1924 date
mark on the drama. The basic pre-
mise remains its old fascinating self,
namely that death is high adven-
ture compounded of mystery, terror.
release, reward, punishment and
various correlatives.
The acting of the cast of "Out-
ward Bound" is splendidly compile
mentary to the sentimental fantasy.
The well-directed company goes for
it's laughs and its heartaches with
spirit that usually is assoc ted
with a homecoming football game.
The result is rich revelation that,
given the right opportunity, actors
still can act, thing about which
theatergoers were doubtful until the
current season brought full dozen
brilliant performances.
1t is pleasure to report that Miss
Taylor is back at the peak of her
form in the role of Mrs. Midgit, the
Evening star., 1939-01-30
Benefit Play at National
Proves Brilliant Event
Outward Bound,' Superbly Played,
High.Lighted by Presence of
President and Movie Stars
By JAY CARMODY,

Nothing merry crowded noisy and brilliantly cast onighs
Presidents birthday celebration could be good thing
that for otherwise last nights performance of Outward Bound
National excellent
that presence
Evening star., 1939-01-30

1t is rare that an absence of plot
in motion picture is truly
delightful quality but that is the
case with THE Lady Vanishes." The
idea, and fascinating one, with
which the picture starts does bob
up occasionally, but it never hampers
the violence, the humor, the nom
sense or the urbanity of the film.
The whole thing is a mad whirl
that leads everywhere, leaves one
limp and is fun every foot of its
antic way. One of those fine English
casts, with enough characters to i'm
press even Maxwell Anderson, is
endlessly helpful to Mr.. Hitchcock
in making 1.-The Lady Vanishes"
both exciting and amusing.
To give you an idea of the story,
which is all Mr.. Hitchcock bothers
to do, woman on a train vanishes
into apparently thin air. The last
time you heard it maybe it was
from a hotel room, but this time
it is train. Where she went, why
she went, and how. are the questions
with which the picture goads you.
That is all we are going to say about
it, except to say that the questions
eventually are answered, proving
that ladies can vanish into thin
air if the director of the film is the
kind of magician Mr.. Hitchcock is.
All the characters in The Lady
Vanishes' are pleasant people. Even
the Williams have their ingratiating
ways, are boys and girls you would
like if you were to meet them in
your own home. They are just the
victims of situations. And what sit
uations! Sometimes, when they re-
Evening star., 1939-01-30
Nadia Is Headliner
Of Gayety Show

Countess Nadia, the exotic Rus
sian dancer, returns to town now
to headline the new show at the
Gayety, which opened yesterday
With a talent for singing and dane
ing that far outshines that of many
a burlesque star, she gives her own
special "yumph" to new numbers.
Also novel are the doings of 70
rita, the snake charmer.
The two feminine headliners are
supported by Diane Logan, billed
as "the new Venus of burlesque";
Comics AL Golden, Max Coleman
and Billy Ainsley; the Moran
brothers and Sam Gould.
Evening star., 1939-01-30

Wilkinson, James Cremens, John
Miller. Wallace Buell. and Graydon
Tolson.
February 18 the Vagabond Play
ers, under the direction of Charles
Turner, will present an evening of
drama at the Arts Club for the ben
eft of the Kalorama Suffrage Asso-
citation. Featured will be the world
premiere performance of Mr..
Turner's latest one-act play, "Mael-
strom,' prepared at Harvard under
the guidance of John Mason Brown
Chekov's Marriage Proposal and
a group of Shakespearean scenes
will complete the program.
x X X
Casting today:
Denis Connell, who apparently
is the busiest fellow on the local
drama scene at the moment, is hold
ing tryouts tonight and tomorrow
night for Barter" by Rev. Urban
Nagle, o. p. which the Blackfriars
Guild will do sometime in March.
The time is 8:15 o'clock, the place,
the guild hall, 2115 Fifteenth street
NV.
Tonight and tomorrow night also
the Mount Vernon Players have try
outs for Anne of Green Gables" I"
Edward P. Mangum, who will direct,
will look over the possibilities for
his cast both nights at o'clock
at the Mount Vernon Place Church,
Ninth street and Massachusetts ave-
nue. NV.
The second performance in the
series of recitals by students of Rose
Robson Cohen's Children's Studio
of Drama will be presented next
Sunday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock at
the Grafton Hotel. There will be
plays. monologues, poems and skits,
one of the features of the program
being the playlet, Little Miss Muf-
fet," arranged and played by the
pre-school tots. The high school
group will present one-act play,
"Monologues"; The Old Maid" and
a collection of monologues.
X X X X
This, so help us, is a direct quote
from story right here on the desk.
This is one of the only Lenten
plays to be given this season in the
city"
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Thrills and HumOr Abound
In Current Keith Film
The Lady Vanishes' Lavishly Marked
With Alfred Hitchcock's Genius
For Whimsical Direction

Alfred Hitchcock things pictured
them alvonce atmosphere
of peopen The Lady Vanises The film
keths
will miss at his risk Mr. Hitchcock concocted emotional
which downright healthy both bodies
and polite in these times
Evening star., 1939-01-30
Local Drama GROUPS
The Years Play Tournament
Gets Under WAY
BY HARRY MACARTHUR.

competition is what the towns players playwrghs
them they should be pretty we'll
There are contests all over the acat least two First
1889 which,
well under Plans also in the
contest by which the Dramatic Club of the
q
Evening star., 1939-01-30

This, so help us, is a direct quote
from a story right here on the desk.
This is one of the only Lenten
plays to be given this season in the
city"