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Evening star., 1939-09-06
Auto Repair Cord
Racket Is Exposed

An automobile repair service bar
gain card racket in the District
was revealed today by the Gasoline
Retailers Association of Washing
ton, which has asked the Better
Business Bureau and the Police De-
partment to investigate the scheme.
James D. Gouldin, president of
the association, said that two
"racketeers" have been selling for
81 cards which call for So worth
OF service at filling station in the
900 block of North Capitol street.
The STATEN proprietor, in whose
name the cards have been printed.
has stated he knows nothing of the
offer and has had no cards printed
Mr.. Gouldin said.
The association announced it was
learned that 1000 of the cards had
been printed and 400 of them sold
to unsuspecting car owners in the
city. Motorists were warned by the
retailers to be on the lookout for
the salesmen.
Evening star., 1939-09-06
Communists Agree
With Party or Get Out,
Browder Asserts
Leader Declares He
Would Not Support U. S.
In War With Russia
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Earl BroWder, leader of the Amer
lean Communist party, told the
Dies Committee today members of
the party must agree with decisions
of the Communist Internationale or
part company" with it.
Questioned at length about the re-
lationship between the party in this
country and international headquar-
ters in Russia, Mr. Browder re-
peatedly asserted that decisions of
the central organization are re-
garded here as voluntary agree
ments."
Representative Dies, Democrat,
Texas, chairman of the House Com
mittee on Un-American Activities,
asked: h
"All Communist parties meet
through delegates in Moscow, con-
slider policies and tactics, enter an
agreement and those agreements
become decisions of the Communist
party?"
That's right" the witness replied.
Agree or Get Out.
"And they become obligatory"
Those decisions become obliga-
tory in that they have the force of
moral persuasion, and If you don't
agree, you get out"
j. B. Matthews, the committees
chief investigator, developed testi-
mony from Mr. Browder that party
leaders in the United States urged
very strongly" that members become
familiar with history of the Com
munist party of Russia.
Would you expel member for
criticizing the Nazi-Soviet non-ag-
gression pact?" asked Mr.. Matthews.
Such criticism" replied the Com
munist leader, would show serious
lack of understanding of political
considerations and serious disre-
gard of the national interests of
America, which might have been
helped by the pact"
Would Not Support U. s.
Asked if ne would support the
United States in war against Rus
sia. Mr.. Browder said:
If we ever were to have a war
with Russia, it would be because of
the Trotskyites"
Representative Casey, Democrat,
OF Massachusetts,, insisted on an an
wer without any ifs or ands or.
equivocations."
I can only answer for myself"
said Mr.. Browder, "and I am not for
my country right or wrong. / would
oppose war as I did in 1917. If this
country tried to defeat the peace
policy Of Soviet Russia, I'd oppose 1t
and I'd probably land in Jail"
An admission that he had travelled
under false passports was made by
Evening star., 1939-09-06
Public Officials Croft
Blamed by Prisoner
By the Associated Prose

BY the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, Sept. GA con-
fessed bank robber, Charles Henry
Pierce, 80, blames graft by public
officials for starting him on trail
of crime.
Sentenced to five years, Pierce
was brought back from Mcneil Is
land prison to face additional
charges.
Pleading guilty and accepting an
additional 20-year sentence, he told
the court:
Il got to hearing about graft by
public officials. I got bitter on So
ciety. I stuck up one bank after
another. Twenty years doesn't mean
thing to me-"
Evening star., 1939-09-06
Mass for Poland
To Be Celebrated

The Polish Embassy announced to-
that solemn mass for the welfare
OF Poland would be celebrated at
10 am. Friday in the Church of st.
Paul, Fifteenth and v streets NV.
Ambassador Potocki and his staff
are planning to attend.
Evening star., 1939-09-06
Antique and Book Shop
Opens on 18th Street

Exhibits of books, several CEN
turies old, art and furniture dis
plays were to feature the opening
this afternoon of Antique and Book
Shop of Goodwill Industries of
Washington, Inc, at TOT Twelfth
street NV.
Among books on display will be
The History of the Reign of Queen
Anne, Digested Into Annals Year
the Eighth printed in London in
ITO; Works of the Right Honor.
able Lardy Mary Wortley Monta-
que" Volume 2, printed in London
IN 1903, and AN Easy Introduction
to the knowledge of the Hebrew
Language Without the Points"
printed in Philadelphia in 1872.
Staff members and patrons of
Goodwill Industries will have an on.
portunity to take part in voice re-
cordings which later are to be
broadcast over Radio Station WJSV.
1t is announced.
Evening star., 1939-09-06

Mr.. Browder before the committee
yesterday, but the Communist leader
declined any detailed information
on this matter on the ground he
might incriminate himself.
Denies Party Approval.
Under questioning, he said it had
been done without the knowledge or
approval of the party.
Earlier in the day, Mr.. Browder
testified "a Mr.. Davidson had Of
fered the Communist party $3.50 900
II 1t would name President Roose-
welt as its presidential nominee in
1886. The intermediary claimed, Mr..
Browder said, that the offer was
coming from six or seven persons,
all Republicans" who hoped to stig-
Matte the President as the choice
of the Communists.
1. F.. Stone, now an associate
editor of the Nation, told the Asso-
clated Press in New York last night
that he recalled Mr.. Browder telling
him this story in New York prior to
the 1886 elections. but that it had
never been printed to his knowledge.
The Communist leader said he dis
cussed the proposal with Mr.. Stone
and with Haywood Broun, news
paper columnist.
Evening star., 1939-09-06
War Odd 10 London,
ShE Untouched byAny
Actual HostiIities
Curiosity Consumes
PopuIoce os Western
Front Remains Quiet
BY JOHN GUNTHER.

LONDON, Sept. 6 (N.A.NA)-
London remains calm and cheerful.
Every one is marking time today.
Unless something happens pretty
soon, people are going to say, This
is the oldest war ever fought any
where"
Yesterday, as usual, my first
political conversation was with our
magnificent hall porter. He said,
Where is it?" I said, "What?"
He said, This 'ersWar."
The natural i'm 1ience of every
one to know what is going on
the papers contain very little. and
the broadcasts announce only bare
minimum Of news-of course is bal
anced by the knowledge that this
particular period in the war is one
! when it is not useful to disclose too
much information.
The Well-Dressed War Victim.
Fashionable shops are doing a
thriving business today in neat
leather pouches in which denizens
of the upper world may conceal
their somewhat unsightly gas masks.
A famous Bond street optician is
advertising gas mask spectacles. A
good many shops in the West End
closed their doors yesterday The
most luxurious shops emptied their
show windows, and the windows Of
many were boarded up.
One of my friends reports the
following conversation from lady
in loWly pub: Trouble with this
'Itler is 'e's 'ouse painter. They're
all alike. They fling themselves
about. I know. My 'usband's one"
The tremendous curiosity that
consumes every one is tempered by
the assumption that something will
happen in the West when the mo-
ment is right. Some reports indi-
cate a leSsening German pressure in
the East, which may mean trans
fer of resources to the Western
! front.
| Germans Still Ultra Cautious.
There was considerable surprise
here Monday night that the Ger
mans did not retaliate for the Brit
ish bombing of the German fleet
in the Kiel Canal by attacking
analogous British objectives. A
theory advanced is that the Ger
mans still are ultra-cautious and
are extremely reluctant to begin any
offensive action against France and
Britain. The German plan was to
abolish Poland and then face the
West with fait accompli and try
to talk terms. This theory, how
ever, does not jibe with the subma-
I rlne attack on the Athena.
Another puzzle is the comparative
hghtness of the German raids on
Poland. They have caused numer.
Gus casualties and plenty of misery,
OF course, but, as seen here, do not
comprise a really big-scale offen-
sive. The Germans are saving their
big stuff for the West, presumably.
Evening star., 1939-09-06
War Department
Studies Promotions
For Civilian Staff
Col. Tenney Details
To N. F. F. {. Convention
PIons to Aid Employees
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, Sept
6-The War Department is studying
plan for automatic promotions
and annual wage surveys in the
classified service in a general pro-
gram for, improving the working
conditions of civilian employees, 1t
Col. C. H. Tenney, chairman Of the
Civilian Personnel Committee, tolc
the biennial convention of the Ma
tional Federation of Federal En-
ployes here today.
Explaining the work of the com
mittee, which was set up several
months ago under the direction OF
Assistant Secretary of War Louis
johnson, Col. Tenney said also that
1t was hoped to develop a training
program that would look to in
creased efficiency and better prepa-
ration for promotion, and an ap-
peals system for handling employe
grievances.
In the short time in which it has
operated, Col. Tenney added, the
committee has only scratched the
surface" of possible improvements
and he forecast valuable results
from its work.
One advance he predicted for the
immediate future will give unclassi-
fled laborers the opportunity to 70
to classified positions throughout the
department. Now only those en-
ployes in the Ordnance Department
and the Chemical Warfare Service
enjoy this advantage.
Col. Tenney said that the War
Department. is also trying to break
up the practice of hiring ordnance
workers through private employ
ment agencies when the Civil Service
Commission has no registers. He
said that the United States Employ
ment Service is to be used for this
class OF employment which is outside
of the classified service.
A chief topic of resolutions being
discussed today is the merit system
followed closely by retirement and
classification extension.
Tonight delegates will be guests
at banquet and ball at conven-
ton headquarters in the Whitcomb
Hotel.
Evening star., 1939-09-06
Get This New
Map Of Europe
To Understand
The War News

This is an especially timely
of1er because of the present
critical situation. All Ameri-
cans are interested in these
stirring European events. You
cannot understand the news
dispatches and radio talks
without a good map. This
new map of Europe, in five
colors, will be found an inval-
liable aid in visualizing and
understanding what is going
on across the Atlantic. It is
not only a map-it carries the
latest statistical information
essential to intelligent COM
prehension of Europe's tragic
happenings. 1t has all the
new boundaries, including Al
bania. You can get this map
only through our Washington
Information Bureau. Send 10
cents in coin to cover cost,
handling and postage. Order
your copy today.
Evening star., 1939-09-06
Turner Quits Air Racine
After Thompson Victory
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Sept. 6.-The name
of Col. Roscoe Turner was indelibly
stamped into the list of aviation's
speed champions today.
The 43-year-old Chicagoan few
282.536 miles an hour-a scant mile
behind his own record-to win the
300-mile Thompson Trophy race
yesterday for the third time.
Afterward, he announced his re-
tirement from competitive racing
because Of age. He has been racing
II years.
Tony LEVER of Monticello, Calf.
was second yesterday and Earl Ort-
man, an airplane pilot of Montreal
and Newark, N. j., took third.
Harry Crosby of Burbank, Calf.
was fourth; S. J. Whitman of Osh-
kosh, Wis, fifth, and 1t. Joe Mackey
OF San Antonio, Tex, sixth. The
other entrant. Art Chester Of Los
Angeles, pulled out after II of the
20 laps because of motor trouble.
Whitman finished ahead of Crosby,
but was forced to fly an extra lap
because officials ruled he cut the
scattering pylon at the start of the
race.
Evening star., 1939-09-06

years in a large hotel in Miami. He
described the hotel as Jewish" He
said he was assaulted recently by "a
Communist" and was forced to re-
cuperate in a Jacksonville hospital.
The defendant said he also was a
director of American Unity, local
organization, and explained that his
activities with the White Front were
to help check the spread of Com
munism throughout the Nation"
Did you get paid for this?" Judge
Edward NJ Curran asked.
Il received no pay" Lyman re-
piled. I'm fact I have been living
from hand to mouth except for oc-
casional donations which people
give me. I can't even make living
at it. I've got patches in my pants
and holes in my shoes and 1 was
going to leave for Florida tomorrow. "
Policeman Groves submitted a
briefcase OF literature obtained from
Lyman. Two pamphlets were en-
titled, "Roosevelt's Jewish Ancestry, j"
and How Key Jews Rule the U.
S. A."
Evening star., 1939-09-06
|ta|y's Press Wakes
Warm Over German
Thrust Into Poland
Neutrality Carefully
Kept, However; U. S.
Passengers Crowd Rex
Bv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, Sept. 6.-Italy pursued her
neutral course in Europe's conflict
today with new indications she does
not expect to enter the war in the
near future-but she kept her war
machine ready.
While workmen took down tempo
rary air-raid shelters in Rome, ad-
ditional equipment was requisitioned
to facilitate military movements
and the sending of supplies to the
100000 men under arms.
Such preparations extended to Al
bania. Libya and Ethiopia, where
most of the quasi-Wartime measures
in effect in Italy also have been in
stituted.
Enthusiasm for Germany.
Plans for wartime precautions
were discussed in Tirana, Albania,
by 1t. Gen. Francesca Jacomoni,
head Of italian authority in the
country, and the projects of the 10
Albanian districts.
The Fascist press continued to
publish official communiques from
both sides. and exhibited increasing
enthusiasm over the German ad-
vance into Poland. Dispatches from
correspondents were supplemented
with numerous photographs of Hit
lers army on the march.
Much was made of the situation
on the Western front where, the
newspapers said, the French had
not yet fired a rifle shot. In the
Eastern theater, 1t. Col. Amedeo
Tosti described Poland's situation as
desperate. Writing in Forze Armate,
outstanding Italian military organ,
he said it was virtually impossible
for Poland to get supplies, claimed
great superiority for the German
Army in men and equipment and
spoke of the vulnerability of Polish
territory to air raids.
Rex Passengers Pay High.
Americans seeking to return home
have booked to capacity the liner
Rex, sailing Saturday from Naples.
Rates are higher than normally,
with $500 the minimum for first
class passage to New York and $3.50
for tourist accommodations. The
increase was believed due to higher
insurance rates and the probability
that only a few passengers would be
carried on the return trip.
Only dollars were being accepted
in payment. The sailing will give
Italy more than $500,000 of needed
foreign currency.
Evening star., 1939-09-06
German Motorship Inn
Sunk in South Atlantic

BY the Associated Press.
BELEM, Brazil, Sept. 6.-The
North German-Lloyd liner Inn
which sailed from here for Hamburg
August 25, has been sunk in mid
Atlantic, it was announced today
The announcement added no de-
tails.
Attaches of the North German
Lloyd offices said the Inn carried a
crew of 80 men.
She was built with accommoda-
tions for passengers, but officials said
they did not believe any were aboard
when she sailed.
The Inn is registered as a motor
ship, powered with Diesel engines,
OF 1857 gross tons and 295 feet long.
She was built in 1929 and listed her
home port as Bremen.
Evening star., 1939-09-06
Front Propogondist
Sent to Jail for Assault

William R. Lyman, "a, of Miami,
Fla. who says he's a member of
the White Front, so-called national
anti-Communistic" organiza ton, was
sentenced in Police Court today to
serve go days in Jail on an assault
charge and to pay a fine of $25
or serve an additional 25 days on a
disorderly conduct charge.
The case grew out of an alterca-
ton in front of the police garage, at
3O3 Sixth street NV, last night
while the defendant was distribut-
ing anti-Semitic pamphlets and dis
cussing racial issues.
Policeman Milton B. Groves told
the court Lyman struck him after
calling him "a idiot" Mr..
Grove said he was forced to summon
two other officers to help arrest
the man.
Appearing before the court in his
own behalf, Lyman said he was a
member of the White Front in
Florida, where he had been working
as night auditor for the last two
Evening star., 1939-09-06
Professor Repeats {
Story Hitler Is Under
Care Of AIienist
Whole Peoples Being
Subjected to Poronoid
Infection, He Says
1y the Associated Press.

1y the Associated Press.
PALO ALTO, Calf, Sept. 6.-Be-
fore group of social psychologists
Prof. Harry c. Steinmetz of San
Diego State College, repeated today
what he termed "a report OF
calumny" that Adolf Hitler was suf-
fering from severe mental disorder
and was under the almost constant
care of an alieniSt.
Prof. Steinmetz said the state
ment was made to him by "a leading
American research physician, re-
Gently returned from Germany" He
did not name the physician.
The report "or calumny" said Hit
ler's affliction was paranoid maniac
depression. 1t is a supposedly in
durable mental disease which causes
its victims to have alternate fits OF
depression. 1t is supposedly induced
by delusions that they are being per-
secuted.
Whole Peoples Seen Infected.
Prof. SteinmetZ, addressing a divi-
sion of the American Psychological
Association, made the remark in a
technical discussion of what he
termed increasing paranoid condi-
tions.
He asserted whole peoples or
groups were being subjected to sort
of national paranoid infection-that
is, in their collective thinking and
acting, particularly under prolonged
unusual stress.
Erroneous beliefs, he said, became
a center of paranoid infection, espe-
cially under social disorganization
and tension. Such stresses, he added,
may cause people to take refuge in
delusions, in "rationalizations" or
excuse making, or in defense mech
anisms," which are mental tenden-
cies designed to thwart expected
trouble.
Features Of Paranoid Conditions.
Such centers of infection, he
added, can facilitate the spread of
paranoid conditions among individ-
uals, making their social organiza-
ton progressively more dependent
upon the very persons affected.
Features of paranoid conditions he
named were delusions of grandeur
as well as of persecution; "retrospec-
tive Justification" a chronic course
through suspicion, retreat and de-
fense to delusion, illusion and at
tack.
Discussing recent potential modi-
fications of the definition of para
noia," Prof. Steinmetz referred to the
Oxford movement and the bour-
geoise moral rearmament craze" as
being within the hypothetical clas-
sif1cation Of euphoric paranoidal
delusion."
Evening star., 1939-09-06

The northeastern disturbance is central
over the Gulf OF St. Lawrence moving
slowly east;northeastward,. Anticosti Island.
Quebec. 991.5 millibars t29.2S incbes). The
northwestern disturbance is moving east
ward. Churchill. Manitoba. lO0O7 millibars
l2955 inches: Sioux Falls {. OAK. 1O01.7
mllllbars l295S inches, and Miles City,
Mont. 10O4.1 millibars 1866 inches).
Pressure is low and falling over Arizona
and California, Yuma. Ariz. 1OO34 milli-
bars (29.63 inches, and pressure is abnor-
mally low and falling rapidly over the
Gulf of Alaska. Kodiak, Alaska, $3.50
mlll1bars (2S.91 inches. Pressure is high
from eastern Hudson Bay southwark to
Florida and thence eastward over the ocean
and over the North Pacific States British
Columbia SoIn and Alberta. Elkins., W.: Va,
1O23.0 millibars l30.21 inches); South
ampton. Ontario, 1920 millibars (3O.ls
inches. and North Head Wash: lO2O.3
millibars C30.13 inches). Rain has fallen
in the North Atlantic States, Arizona. ex-
treme Southern California and the west
ern portions Of Colorado and New Mexico
and from the North Pacific coast eastward
to the northern Lake region. The weather
has become cooler in the Atlantic States.
the Ohio Valley, Tennessee and the lower
Lake region and from the Pacific coast
eastward to the Dakotas and Manitoba,
while the Temperature has risen from the
northern Lake region southwestward to
Missouri and Kansas
Evening star., 1939-09-06
British Embassy
Announces List Of
Contraband Of War
War Materials, Food
And Money Shipped
At Risk of Seizure
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The British Embassy announced
last night list of "contraband of
war" which it said had been for
mally proclaimed in London. The
term applies to goods which a neu-
tral may not ship to enemy bellig-
erents without risk of seizure.
The list follows:
Absolute contraband.
(a) All kinds of arms, ammunition,
explosives, chemicals or appliances
suitable for use in chemical war
fare, and machines for their manu-
facture or repair; component parts
thereof; articles necessary or con-
venient for their use; materials or
ingredients used in their manufac-
ture; articles necessary or convent
ent for the production or use of
such materials or ingredients.
(b) Fuel of all kinds, all con-
trivances for, or means of. trans
portation on land, in the water or
air, and machines used in their
manufacture or repair; component
parts thereof; instruments, articles
or animals necessary or convenient
for their use, materials or ingre-
dents used in their manufacture,
articles necessary or convenient for
the production or use of such ma
terials or ingredients.
(c) All means of communication,
tools, implements, instruments
equipment, maps, pictures, papers
and other articles, machines or doc
uments necessary or convenient for
carrying on hostile operations: arti-
cles necessary or convenient for
their manufacture or use.
Cd Coin, bullion, currency, evi-
dences Of debt; also metal, materials.
dies, plates, machinery or other arti-
cles necessary or convenient for their
manufacture.
Conditional contraband.
(e) All kinds of food, foodstuffs
feed, forage, and clothing and arti-
cles and materials used in their pro-
ductson.
Evening star., 1939-09-06
League Employees Told
Work Is Interrupted

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, Sept. 6.-Employes OF
the League of Nations were told yes
terday that due to events "the work
OF the League of Nations has been
interrupted"
Joseph Avenol. League secretary
IN q speech to the employees added
that he had an unbreakable faith
that the idea of the League would
be born anew as result of the war
Evening star., 1939-09-06
Charges Of Beating,
Claiming Girl Dismissed

BY the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Sept. g.
Charges that Ross Hale beat his
2-year-old stepdaughter with stick
and chained her by the neck were
dismissed by Judge Brown Taylor.
A warrant for Hale's arrest was
sworn out Monday by Mrs. Ivy Gill
bert, neighbor. Yesterday the de-
fendant told the court: Il love the
baby as much as I would my own.
Il have spanked her with my hand
for running into the street. We
chain her with a belt around the
waist on wash day so she won't fall
out the window while my wife is
busy"
Mrs. Hale, with the baby in her
arms, corroborated her husbands
testimony.
Evening star., 1939-09-06
Reich to NotionoIize
Sausage to Reduce
Foodstun Waste
nv p.d,n .. m. co..

BY Radio to The Star.
BERLIN, Sept. 6.-Sausage
may be nationalized, too, as part
OF the German campaign to re-
duce the waste of foodstuffs to
minimum. Beginning on Mon
day, only one type of wurst will
be available throughout the
Reich, it is reported.
Community kitchens" also
may be set up for the popula-
tion IN order to eliminate
wasteful individual cooking.
(Copyrisht, 1899. BY Chicago Daily
News, 1nc.)
Evening star., 1939-09-06
Ickes' New Son to Bear
Name of Harold McEwen

The infant son of Secretary and
Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, it was said
today, will be christened Harold
McEwen. He was born Monday at
Johns Hopkins Hospital.
The "McEwen," aides of Mr.. Ickes
explained, was taken from his
mothers name, changed from
McCune, the earliest spelling.