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Evening star., 1939-08-23
A New Crisis in the
European Situation

Every American is vitally
concerned about affairs in Eu-
rope. Our newspapers are
filled with news dispatches
telling of the threatening con-
ditions throughout the CONT
nent. If you would follow the
news quickly and understand
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1t shows boundaries prior to
the w O. r ! d War and all
changes up to and including
the absorption of Albania by
Italy. Gives old and new
spellings of capitals and ma
jor cities. On the reverse side
is a wealth of economic and
political data. Ten cents, post
paid.
Evening star., 1939-08-23
France Dispatches
Strong Instructions
To European ENJOYS
Notes Believed to Stute
Britain and France
Are Ready to Fight
Ry the Associated Press.


PARIS, Aug. 23-France was re-
ported today to have dispatched
strong" instructions to her ambas-
sadors in Europe while thousands of
reservists, taking up front posts,
pushed estimates of the number of
Frenchmen under arms to more than
100000.
Contents of the diplomatic notes
were not disclosed by government
sources which told of their trans
mission, but it was believed generally
they reasserted France and Britain
were prepared to go to war, if Po-
land saw fit to resist a German at
tack.
French leaders warned the coun-
try showdown in the German
Polish dispute was a matter of days
only.
Enjoys Report Awaited.
The government awaited report
from its Moscow Ambassador, Paul
Emile Magyar, who was instructed
to ask the Soviet government the
meaning of its proposed non-aggres-
sion pact with Germany.
On that report will depend the
governments decision whether to
break off its negotiations with Rus
Sia envisaging the Red Army's aid
against Germany in event of Euro
pean war.
A cabinet session, under President
Albert Lebrun, was scheduled for 10
am. % a m, E. S. t. tomorrow
The President. returning to the capi-
tai today from an interrupted holi-
day, will approve more economic and
military measures to put France into
shape to keep her pledges to aid
Poland
War Council Meeting.
Influential leaders admitted the
present crisis was far more dan
gerOuS than that of a wear ago
when Germany threatened force to
take Sudetenland from Czecho-Slo-
Vakla. Some publicly declared, I'VE
are within two fingers of war;
The superior war council. in al
most daily session, was expected to
meet again with Gen. Maurice Gus
tave Gamelin, who would lead COM
blned French and British land
forces if the two nations Went to war.
The additional defense decreec
which President Lebrun Will approve
have not yet been made public, but
informed sources said they would
soGdify frontier and other key de-
fenSeS.
These sources said Germany had
modified 100000 men and Italy
100000 in their determination to
settle the Danzig dispute and. per-
haps, other territorial grievances.
Evening star., 1939-08-23
Dog Mourns Master

BRA1NERD, Mimi. Aug. % tP-
Three months after Howard Bisiar.
35-year-old bachelor, died at his
lake cabin, his 7-year-old German
shepherd dog still faithfully stands
guard at the door, refusing to leave
Friends, giving up hope of finding
the dog another home, bring foot
to him daily.
Evening star., 1939-08-23
LITER Returns to Prison

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Aug. %
R).-Jesse Worth, g., of Terre
Haute, serving a life term in State
prison for killing his wife, tired of
prison routine after IA years and
walked away from an outside dor
mitory.
Less than II hours later he
tagged prison truck and rode back
inside the walls. He said he was
glad to be back. He hadn't found
anything to eat, he explained, and
a rain had wet him to the skin.
Evening star., 1939-08-23

playing episode, but he spoke with
zest about his craftsmanship.
After four days" he recounted.
they let me shoot an old German
rife. They were surprised when l
hit small rock at so yards on my
first shot. And they showed con-
siderable respect after our first tar
get practice. I had spent one sum-
mer shooting at Camp Perry, Ohio =
Preceded Home by Father.
MI. Goldner was preceded home by
his father, the Rev. DR.. Jacob Gold
ner, 81, who was kidnapped with him
on July l8 in the Moab hills of
Palestine. The elder Goldner was
released with a ransom note.
When we parted, We thought we'd
never see each other again. said
the younger GOldner as he sailed up
the bay aboard the Holland Amer
lean liner Statendam.
He said one of the bandits. who
was hostile until he learned the CAP
tiveS were father and son. wept when
the ransom finally was paid and
young Goldner released.
He told us that his son had been
killed by soldiers" the young min
lister said. He knew the SPOT we
were IN and because We were father
and son, he'd have nothing to do
with the ransom.
When ! was released, I had to
KISS each of the band three times on
the cheek as token of affection
and respect The more demonstra-
i've one is among those people the
better it is for him.
one Of the greatest inconven-
fences, he added, was in having to
SIraln drinking water through nv
shirt TO weed out the larger worms. ="
Evening star., 1939-08-23
Red Front Greeting,
Formerly Forbidden,
Now 0. K. in Reich
gy The Associated Press

Ry the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Aug. 23.-The Rus
sian Communists are tops today
IN government Offices of Nazi
Germany.
Civil service officials meeting
each other say jokingly:
Hell Hitler-Rot Front
Hall Hltler-Red Front"
A few weeks ago such a greet
ing would have meant the con-
centration camp.
Evening star., 1939-08-23
officer Toes Own Car

CENTRALIA, III, Aug. % Dr.
c. E. Brantley, a traffic officer
assigned to enforce the city's two
hour parking ordinance, wrote out
ticket for an offender.
The license number seemed vaguely
familiar He looked inside the car
It was his own.
Evening star., 1939-08-23
Crowds Cheer Kennedy
After London PurIey
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 23.-United States
Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy was
greeted with cheers and hand clap
ping when he left the foreign office
this afternoon after a conference
lasting three quarters of an hour.
Crowds in Downing Street recog-
nized him as he entered his car.
Count Raczynsky, the Polish Am
bassador, also called at the foreign
office.
A little later Mr.. Kennedy called
at Prime Minister Chamberlain S
Office.
Evening star., 1939-08-23
Nice Decipherinq

CHANUTE, Kans. R.-The Cha
mute Tribune offers an orchid to
Uncle Sans Postal Deciphering De-
partment. A letter addressed to the
newspaper at "Chenook, Kans," ar
rived on time.
Evening star., 1939-08-23
Racing Results
Nurrugonsett
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press,
FIRST .RACE-Purse. $1,000: claiming.
3-year-oids and up; furlongs; chute.
secret Chatter (Adamsl 1900 $50 400
Flying Victory Donosoj 370 so
Balkos Maid fAtkinson) 5s0
Time. lips
Also ran-Savant,. Escohigh Squawker,
Night Chase, On the Dot. Patchpocket,
CrowninR Glory and Lady Bewithus.
Evening star., 1939-08-23
Weather Report

Weath Bureau
District OF CoumbaLoa
morrow not much
showers beginning tonight or early
morrow; not much change ~
VrglnlaScattered
slightly warmer in southwest portion tonight.
West VrginiaScattered
tonight tomorrow
Evening star., 1939-08-23
Reports for Last FL Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest. So. pm. yesterday. Year
ago, SS.
Lowest. 81. 8 am. today. Year ago. 6s
Record Temperature This Year.
Highest. 96. on August g.
Lowest, II. on February %.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
tFrom noon Yesterday to noon today)
Highest. 93 per cent at 1 am. today
Lowest, 40 per cent, at 2:10 pm. yes
terday.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises Sets.
Sun. today 5:2S 653
sun, tomorrow 5:29 6:52
Moon, today y- gar pm. -
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthlv precipit atto,, fnchsS In the
Evening star., 1939-08-23
River Report.

River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac muddy at Great
Falls today.
Tide Tables
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1939-08-23
Halifax 10 Broadcast
Talk on Polish Crisis
To Britain Tomorrow
Hitler to Speak Sunday;
Both Will Be Heard
In United States
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Aug 23.-Foreign Secre-
tary Lord Halifax will broadcast to
the British nation tomorrow night
an important statement on the tense
international situation. The speech
will be rebroadcast to the United
States and Europe.
He will speak from the Prime Min
lister Chamberlain residence at 10
Downing Street at $50 pm. G. M. T.
$3.50 pm. E. S, IT,.
The Columbia Broadcasting Co.
announced it would carry his ad-
dress. which was expected to take
about 10 minutes.
There was no indication of the
purpose of the broadcast, but it was
believed the foreign secretary would
re-state Britains policy to the
world and make a last-minute ap-
peal for peace.
Prime Minister Chamberlain made
a similar broadcast from 10 Down.
ing street September 27, 1898, two
days before the Munich settle
ment of the Czecho-Slovak crisis.
Both Chamberlain and Halifax
will make statements to the emer-
gency session of Parliament tomor-
row afternoon prior to Halifax's
broadcast.
Hitler to Talk Sunday.
BERLIN, Aug. % (P.-Adolf Hit
ler is scheduled to speak at Tan
nenberg Sunday at II a m. (5 am.
E. S. To, the propaganda ministry
announced today.
The celebration will be held to
observe Germany's World War vic
tory over the Russians in the battle
OF Tannenberg 25 years ago.
The fact that official Germany is
IN high state of jubilation over
the new friendship with Moscow
apparently had no effect on the
plans for the Tannenberg exercises,
which have been under preparation
for weeks
1t also was announced that Col.
Gen. Walter Won Brauchitsch, chief
commander of the army, would
address the German soldiers ever
a nationwide radio hookup Satur-
day.
He will speak for half an hour
beginning at 7:30 pm. 1:3O pm.
E. S. T)
To Be Broadcast in United States.
NEW YORK, Aug. % P).-The
speech of Reichschancellor Adolf
Hitler at Tannenberg Sunday has
been scheduled for relay in this
country by the three coast-to-coast
networks, N. B. c., c. B. S. and M.
B. S. The speech is scheduled at
5 am, Eastern Standard time.
English interpretations during the
speech are planned as well as an
English summary at the close. Fol-
loW-up comment periods are also
being arranged.
Hitler's speech will be heard To-
cally at am. Sunday over stations
WRC and WJSV. Station VOL will
broadcast an English translation of
the talk at 2:45 pm, while WJSV
VIII rebroadcast the speech at
1890 pm.
Evening star., 1939-08-23

Hitler's speech will be heard To-
cally at 5 am. Sunday over stations
WRC and WJSV. Station VOL will
broadcast an English translation of
the talk at 2:45 pm, while WJSV
VIII rebroadcast the speech at
1890 pm.
Evening star., 1939-08-23
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
CAPITAL lcurrent month to datel:

Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
rfntt
Evening star., 1939-01-15
aging view Of Germany's future

aging view Of Germany's future
greatness"
The country with far less cause to
rejoice over the walk Of the Hun
garian fly into the totalitarian
spiders parlor is Rumania. On that
state, especially Pennsylvania, taken
from Hungary and transferred to
Budapest's sovereignty after the
World War, Hungary's action may
have far-reaching effects. King
Carol has been under heavy pressure
from Germany also to identity him.
self with the Nazis' Central European
economic schemes. Hungary's as
piration to recover Pennsylvania is
one of the chief goals of her twenty
year treaty-revisionist clamor. In
Hitler she now has a powerful friend
at court in seeking to bring Carol to
terms. Should Pennsylvania revert
to Hungary, and pass under the in
fluence of the new four ur-cornered
"anti-Comintern" axis, the Ukraine
Hitler's dream of dreams, as he dis
closed at Nuremberg in 1936-would
become the next-door neighbor of
territory dominated by the broad
ened Berlin-Rome axis.
Evening star., 1939-01-15
Buy Now

The Schools Committee of the
Board of Trade is to be commended
for bringing forcefully to the atten-
ton Of the public the Importance Of
making timely purchases of land for
school purposes.
For many years Superintendent
Frank w. Ballou has endeavored to
convince those in charge of the
school budget items that land avail
able for purchase now at a reason
able price may not be available at
a later date except at a prohibi-
tive cost.
Whether the District builds a
school on new site at once is OF no
particular consequence. The land is
there when the construction money
is available. It is "penny-wise,
pound-foolish" policy to cut from the
school budget requests for purchase
of land sites which are apt to be
much more expensive if the land is
acquired later.
These sites are not selected at the
whim of the school officers, but on
the basis of requests from citizens
and in the light of statistically pro-
jected enrollments in future years.
Evening star., 1939-01-15
Touch of Humanity

Seldom does it appear in public
print. That is what makes it the
more commendables It is brought to
attention at this time only because
IN a recent issue of the paper two
humble little stories were printed
about it.
Reference is made to the charitable
work being carried on throughout
the year by the successful business
and professional men of Washington
through their various civic clubs.
The stories told of the annual ap-
preparation of the KiWanis Club of
five thousand dollars for assisting in
bettering the possibilities of the chill
dren who have less than normal
privileges, and of the Reciprocity
Clubs decision to turn its entire well
fare fund over to the purchase of
eyeglasses for children who would
otherwise be unable to buy them.
Fer many years clubs of this type
have been doing such work in Wash
ington, and, except for an occasional
mention of the annual reports, little
has been said about it. The program
of the Reciprocity Club is typical.
Working with the schools, clinics and
opticians, the club has evolved a plan
whereby about a thousand school
pupils whose eyesight has been found
faulty by the free clinics will have
chance to improve and preserve their
most valuable physical faculty.
Considering the total population of
the city, these clubs are comparative
ly small But their works are great.
Evening star., 1939-01-15
Tragedy

Everybody has trouble. No living
soul ever escapes punishment in this
world. But for poignant suffering it
would be difficult to find anything to
equal the anguish of those parents
whose little four-year rold daughter
lies dead because her mother yielded
to her wish to go to meet her father
on a stormy night. All Washington
sympathizes with them. They have
tasted the bitterest tragedy.
Yet it is possible to imagine some
thing more pitiful Suppose man
kind did not care, would not that
be greater occasion for grief? Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Amberger must know
that in their sorrow they are not
isolated. Strangers, plain people of
whom they never have heard, mourn
with them, share their loss. Their
neighbors, near and far, are their
brothers and sisters in spirit. Let
them take heart, then, realizing that
the fellowship of pain is a universal
bond in which every race, every
nation, every class, every home is
included, not for i'll but for good,
that every individual may learn
justice and mercy under the love of
One who notes even the merest
SparroW's fall.
Evening star., 1939-01-15
Fucts und Mr.. Ickes

In view of the fact that Secretary
1ckes used to be newspaperman
himself, he made some rather sur
prising statements in his recent radio
debate with MIR. Frank Gannett on
freedom of the press.
For instance, in support of his con-
tention that the press had been
"shackled" by the advertisers, MIR.
Ickes contended that Johns Hopkins
report designed to show that smoking
was harmful had been suppressed by
the newspapers. He suggested the
article was not published for fear OF
offending tobacco advertisers. Mr..
Ickes, of course, has been in politics
for long time and has not had oc-
casion to revert to his early training
as reporter in verifying his facts,
but even so it seems that he might
have done little better in this case
The report in question was published
in newspapers all over the country,
including The Star, and had Mr. Ickes
resorted to the simple expedient of
making telephone call to Baltimore,
where the author of the report has a
"pailful" of newspaper clippings dis
cussing it, he would have saved him.
self an embarrassing error.
But Mr.. Ickes, in addition to falling
short of the standards of accuracy for
ex-neWspapermen, also appears to
be guilty of some inconsistency.
He told his Thursday night audi
ence that "the lack of free press in
America is the most serious threat
confronting our democratic govern
ment and our social order" But in
1885 he said: Overwhelmingly the
newspapers of the United States are
ever conscious of their obligation to
seek the truth and to tell it, regard
less of whether or not they would
prefer that the opposite be the truth"
On the whole, it seems safe to con-
clude that Mr.. Ickes has attained a
greater measure of success in politics
than would have been the case had
he stuck to journalism.
Evening star., 1939-01-15
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
By the Right Reu James Freeman, D. d. ILL., d. D. L.,
Bishop of WASHINGTON.

Great leaders, teachers and prophets
have come and gone. leaving behind
chem systems, PHILOSOPHERS, prophecies
and the promise of better things to come.
Their big or little systems
Have their day, they have their day
And cease to be-"
and still the world travels on, hoping,
expecting, believing that presently the
great sought-for leader will come who
will satisfy the deepest hopes and aspi-
rations Of the human soul. There is
something pathetic in this unsatisfied
hope.
Does our modern age differ from the
ages that have gone before? Are we at
another period in the worlds history
where the very pressure of events is
forcing the world to look with greater
eagerness for leader whose authori-
tative voice shall tell it what its future
course Is to be? Have we entered upon
a new "fullness of time" in which we
are to experience the recasting of sys-
TENS upon which men have long labored
but without satisfaction? Disillusion-
ment, confusion despair these have
been the distinguishing characteristics
of this latest period in human history.
There is feeling abroad in the world
that something is imminent, something
that as yet we are incapable of compre-
hending. Such periods have marked
other great transitions in the history of
the race. They have distinguished the
end OF one era and the beginning of a
new. 1t was written of an ancient race
ct crisis in its history that "all the
people were in expectation" They had
been stirred and aroused by the chal-
longing voice of great prophet They
had heard him declare that a new and
mighty leader was at hand, a leader
whose mission 1t would be to usher In a
new day for mankind the world over.
The prophets blunt message was: RE
pent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is
at hand" 1t was accompanied by stern
condemnation of the existing order; it
was the prophecy of new age and a
new order. 1t was to be the age of the
Son OF Man." ip the person of Jesus
Christ.
This incompatible leader came and
the record of His ministry and teaching
is contained in four brief books known
as the Gospel which literally means
good news" What this Gospel has
meant to the world no one has ever yet
been able to adequately set forth. 1t is
Evening star., 1939-01-15
The House Revolts

Time may show that some of the
restrictive amendments written into
the deficiency relief bill by rebel
lious House of Representatives were
unwise, but there is no gainsaying
the fact that the legislators have
made the most of their first oppor-
tunity to defy the Roosevelt admin
istration. 1t was generally believed
the results of the November elections
and the collapse of the primary purge
efforts would stiffen the determina-
ton of Congress to stand on its own
feet, but the manner in which the
relief measure was rewritten must
have come as something of a surprise
to both the President and his most
ardent opponents
The House appropriated only $725,-
0,000 to finance relief work until
June 80. That represents a drastic
reduction when it is remembered that
the President recommended S875,-
100000, the United States Conference
Of Mayors, $915 900, 900, and the Con-
gress of Industrial Organizations and
the Workers Alliance, ST ,050, ,0000 900.
Without doubt, the House acted in
the belief that there are many per-
sons now on relief rolls who do not
belong there, and on the assumption
that improving business conditions
will result in the absorption of others
In private employment Should ex-
perience prove those premises to be
wrong, some remedial action will be
necessary.
In the meantime, however, the
House has taken the first and hardest
step toward economy in the admin
1stering OF relief-that of actually
making some reduction in appropria-
tions. If this reflects a determina-
tion to pare governmental costs all
along the line, the goal of balancing
Federal expenditures and income
may not be as remote as many have
supposed. That, of itself, should be
encouraging to those who have re-
fused to invest private capital be-
cause they feared the ultimate con-
sequences of continued apparent in
difference to the necessity of balanc-
ing the national budget.
The effort to establish safeguards
against future political activity by
administrative employees of the Works
Progress Administration was COM
mendable, but the wisdom of such
other amendments as banning relief
to aliens and refusing to blanket into
the Civil Service some $1,000 w. P. A.
workers is debatable, to say the least.
But these provisions, if unsound, can
be rectified, and they do not offset the
salutary fact that at last Congress
has shown real disposition to exer-
else legislative powers it surrendered
six years ago.
Evening star., 1939-01-15

so bold, so challenging, so out of con-
sonance with mans conception Of life
that 1t has provoked more speculation,
controversy and reverent study than any
and all the books on religion and moral
ity the world contains. BY its standards
new civilization was born that called
itself Christian" Even the calendar
bears witness to this significant fact.
For 10 centuries the world has ac-
'cepted and then rejected its mighty pre-
cepts and exalted teachings. America
as Nation traces the inspiration Of its
rise and its proud position to the Found
er of Christianity. At times the course
of the Republic has disclosed the faith
Of people who trusted in God and
sought to be obedient to His rule. At
times this faith has been as beacon fires
to light the pathway of the Nation and
by it it has come to new day of amaz-
ing advance and achievement. What Of
this faith today?
We are passing through the shadows
of recurring crisis, crisis unlike all
others, in that it involves the peoples of
the world. New types of leadership, new
experiments in government, new systems
and PHILOSOPHERS are clamoring for
recognition. Along with these strange
manifestations we are witnessing a spe-
cies of bitterness and racial hate such as
the world has not experienced for CEN
turies. 1t is a situation that, while it
confounds, deeply moves those whose
discriminating judgment sees in it the
possibilities of a new and better era, an
era that may mean a saner and finer and
happier human society than the world
has ever before known. To believe less
than this is to face the future without
confidence and without hope.
1t has been made increasingly evident
these recent years that something other
than the skill and cunning of statesmen
and tndustrialiStS is demanded to re-
store us to the normal, healthy ways of
life. We need something to give us
freshened courage and a better spirit.
Our morale is low and we are experience
ing an unduly long period of GONZALES
cence. A voice out of the past is calling
to us today. 1t is the voice of experience,
and 1t is telling us that the way to recov-
cry is the way Of a renewed faith. Re-
store the Nations faith in the leadership
OF the Man of Nazareth, in His lofty
teachings, and We shall be at the dawn
Of new day. The hour is one of great
expectation!