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Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-03-23
The Problem That Must Be Solved

Elsewhere in this issue is the account of the
meeting held between Capital Transit Company repre-
sentet1ves end the Transportation Committee of the
Greenbelt Citizens Association. The results or
what we consider to be the lack of are signi-
ficant. Let explain:
The committee presented q plan to the Transit
conPany's officials. The plan studio cd, the
gentlemen so1eum1y observed that it it's points,
In fact it was good plan. They would even accept
it. With guar antees from a respons ib1e party.
Who is the responsible party in Greenbelt? Farm
Security Admin stration is. What do guarantees
mean? The payment Of money to losses. And
there we have it. They'll take the old subsidy,
thank you.
OF course, it may be argued, if the new plan
works. subsidy WON'T be necessary, there'l1 be no
losses to cover. think trusting fri ends. Yes
perhaps. Butts
That subsidy assuming would pay it,
bangles before the vision Of C.T.C. Just as soon
as they show loss, it's theirs. Such setup has
been known to discourage the black ink from winning
the day in the ledger book.
However, General Accounting WON'T pay the subsi-
dy anyway, and it's highly doubtful if anyone In
this town has the money inclination to do it.
So there are.
In plain language must look for some new al
Tentative take what Capital Transit offers.
$500 week for catch-as-cetch-can connect ons We
believe that the Woodworking Transportation
has not despaired Of reaching satisfactory I'M
derstanding with Capital Transit before seeking
other so1uti ons to this sore problem. More power
and support to them.
But we believe that the emphasis from here OUT
ward should be the Independent acti on Of the cit.
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-03-23

azens OF Greenbelt for the setting up Of their ou
transportation system. realize the obstacles
The alternative is even more DANGEROUS 1900
1oF che 1naoequate service being offered wi u
mean an increase in the number Of car riders and
-e W. mean Progressively less bus riders and
worse transportation facilities to orr ocnmws+ 49,
There must be acti On within reasonable length Of
time then. not hasty ill-considered but eoti on
faced. ~ wv
Greenbelt cooperator. (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954, 1939-03-23

c. o. C. BOX SCORE
According to surerss books at close ~ orfi.
hours Friday, March II:
Subscribe .o-
Shares subscribed for GO
Shares fully paid for 90
Dwelling units represented 400
Dwelling units with at least one share
fully paid for cc
Amount Deposited eoooe
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Justice Cox
Continued From First Page.)

trust laws and in connection with
war activities of the United States
through the Shipping Board, the
Food and Fuel Administration and
the operation of railroads and tele-
graph. During this same period he
was a member of the District Selec-
tive Service Board.
Taught at G. w. U. and G. U.
A resident of the District since
1898, he was director and counsel
for the Park Savings Bank of Wash
ington. He had been adjunct pro-
fessor at George Washington Uni
versity Law School and also taught
at>the Georgetown Law School. He
belonged to both the District and
American Bar Associations and is a
past vice president of the former.
He lived at 1850 Monroe street NV.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Emma L. Cox; three sons, Capt.
Joseph w. Cox, jr., West Point,
N. Y; Melville B. Cox and A. Lackie
Cox, both of Washington; daugh-
ter, Miss Carol McNeir Cox, Wash
ington; six brothers, Brig. Gen.
Greed F. Cox, Philippine Islands; DR..
Vance M. Cox, Bristol; Kyle T. Cox
and F. Mack Cox, both of Inde-
pendence; Daniel E. Cox, Barberton,
Ohio, and Samuel M. Cox, Harri-
sonburg; and four sisters, Mrs. D.
D. Cole, Chilhowie; Mrs. S. G.
Thomas, Grant; Mrs. Boyd c. Etter,
Rising Sun, Md, and Mrs. S. G.
Sarratt, Union. S. C..
Evening star., 1939-09-09
War Broudcusts
3 p.m.-News broadcasts, VOL.

p.m-News broadcasts, VOL.
S p.m.-Evening Star flashes,
WMAL.
$50 pm.-News broadcast, WJSV.
$50 pm.-News broadcast, WRC.
6:I5 pm.-News broadcast, VOL.
$50 p.m.-William Shirer, Ber-
lin; Edward Murrow, London, and
Thomas Grandin, Paris, WJSV.
$50 pm.-News broadcast, VOL
6:45 pm.-Albert Warner from
Washington and Elmer Davis from
New York, WJSV.
pm-News bulletins, VOL.
9:45 pm.-Edward r. Murrow
from London, WJSV.
10 p.m.-News broadcast, WRC.
10 p.m-News broadcast, WJSV.
1890 p.m.-News bulletins, VOL
10:30 pm News broadcast
WMAL.
12:45-News, WRC.
All programs will be interrupted
for bulletins and latest news dis
patches from European battle
fronts. The above listings are nec-
essarily incomplete; however, all
stations are prepared to transmit
important news at all hours and
with all possible speed.
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Pacific Coast and Gulf
Rates to Europe Up Third

SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 8 tH1.-
Freight charges on ships operating
between the Pacific Coast and Eu-
rope, and between South America
and this coast, will be increased 331ls
to so per cent next Monday War
cargo demands at the same time
caused shipping boom in all Pa
cific Coast ports.
The rate increases were announced
yesterday after emergency meetings
Of the Pacific Coast European Con-
ference and the Pacific Coast-River
Platte Brazil Conference.
George Yater, chairman of the
Pacific Coast European group, said
the rate increases were based on
estimated increased costs, chiefly
War-risk insurance and increased
wages and bonuses for crews.
Rates to Norway, Denmark and
Mediterranean ports were increased
so per cent. Those to the United
Kingdom and midcontinental ports
go up one-third.
E. J. A. Watts. spokesman for the
Pacific Coast-River Platte-Brazil
group. said rates for northbound
cargoes, excepting coffee and Brazil
nuts, would be increased so per cent
simultaneously, the Maritime
Commission ordered the construc-
ton of five new 12,875-ton 14-knot
freighers in San Francisco ship
yards. The Bethlehem Steel Co. will
build the vessels for Sl0.0l0,00O
Fifteen hundred men will be en-
ploYed.
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Po|iceman's S Death
Is Called Suicide

A certificate of suicide was issued
today by the coroner for William
B. Melvin, A. 1854 Fourth street
NE, Metropolitan policeman and
World War hero, who shot himself
in his home yesterday after express
ing worry over the European war
situation.
Mr.. Melvin put bullet through
his head late yesterday afternoon
and died at $50 pm. at Casualty
Hospital. Yesterday had been his
day off from duty at the ninth pre-
cinct.
Detectives said he had been talk
ing about the war and had searched
through the house for a picture OF
himself, taken in France when ne
was being decorated for valor during
the World War
He came upon his service revolver
detectives said, and shot himself
after declaring:
This is the end of Bill
Evening star., 1939-09-09

BY the Associated Press.
Europe's war was marked today
by Hitler's claim that he has re-
gained in Poland all the territory
taken from Germany after the
| 1914-1918 war. If this be true, it
means the German war machine in
eight days has conquered the Polish
Corridor area, Polish Upper Silesia
and added them to the already AN
nexed" Free City of Danzig. These
districts comprise about one-eighth
of Poland, or 1870 square miles.
The worlds sentimental interest,
however, probably is fixed on War;
saw, Polish capital, where German
troops admittedly are at the gates.
Germany announced the first force
entered the outskirts yesterday. but
conflicting radio broadcasts be-
lieved to have come from Warsaw
raised doubt on the situation. The
Poles maintained they still defended
the CITY and called on the popula-
ton to dig trenches in and around
the city. The government several
/ days ago moved to Lublin, 100 miles
southeast.
In this conflict between Germany
and the British-F French Polish al
lies, the real fighting still seems
confined to Poland There is war on
the western front between Germany
and France and war at sea between
Germany and England and war in
! the air, but there is nothing to
indicate it is on large scale
French Preparing for Drive.
The two great groups of forts
along the Rhine are the vast Magi-
not line defending France and Ger
many's "Siegfried" or west wall fac
ing it across considerable French
and German territory at most points
The French Army is cleaning out
the space between. 1t is massing
/ troops at the two ends. What the
exact plan is. does not appear but
the French frankly say there is nc
prospect of big action for several
days at least. The present work is
cutting intervening barbed wire
roofing out machine-gun nests ano
pill-boxes, discovering tank traps
and searching for hidden mines
intended to blow up advancing
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Failure to Unleash Air Force
Is Mystery of War
Military Observers Believe Planes Are
Beinq Held as Reserve Shock Force

emergency. They have built bomb
shelters, blacked out, distributed
gas masks, evacuated children and
the lnfirm, removed national cul-
tural treasures, organized extraordi-
nary fire-fighting brigades.
Yet a week has passed without a
bomb having been dropped in Lon
don, Paris, Berlin, or any other city
in the three countries, although
there have been alarms and anti
aircraft guns have gone into action.
1t may be, also. that fear of re-
prisals is holding back the arms of
the air commanders There is no
question that the cities of today
are horribly vulnerable to air at
tack and that all of the belligerents
realize this only too we'll and will
hesitate a long time before laying
themselves open to air warfare by
wantonly attacking the cities and
civil populations of their enemies
Whatever the reason, the fact
that the air forces are being delib-
erately held back today constitutes
one of the interesting-and, so far
encouraging-phases of the war.
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Atlantic Cargo Rates
To British Ports Are
Raised 0ne-Third
Wur-Risk Insurance
Cost increase BIomed;
Pacific, Gulf Action
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 9.-Freight
rates on cargo from Atlantic ports
of the United States to Great Brit
ain were increased 1914 per cent to-
day by the North Atlantic United
Kingdom Conference.
The conference, composed OF
principal American and foreign lines
operating to England. Wales, Scot
land and Ireland, said the hike was
necessary because of increased war
risk insurance costs.
The North Atlantic-Baltic Confer
ence earlier this week suspended all
contracts with shippers in some in
stances and advanced other rates
100 per cent.
Meanwhile, American war-risk
underwriters here reported their
first loss since the outbreak Of hos
tilities in the sinking of the British
freighter Olivegrove with a cargo OF
sugar valued at $250,O00. The craft
was sunk by torpedo off the coast
of Ireland Thursday.
Except for small claim early in
the Chinese Japanese War, this was
the first loss suffered by marine
war-risk underwriters here since
1920
Evening star., 1939-09-09

troops. The French call this pre-
liminary work.
Great Britain, the worlds chief
sea power, yesterday announced
something of the old 1914 blockade
methods This came when the first
week brought sinkings of number
of British and German merchant
vessels. The British government
declared Germany is conducting
ruthless submarine warfare
Britain's answer to the German
sea threat is widespread organiza-
ton of anti-submarine defense with
nets. mines, depth bombs, recently
developed listening devices and di-
rect fighting with seaplanes and
small fast Warships. Further, Brit
ain announced search even Of neu-
trail vessels suspected of carrying
supplies for Germany.
Little Fighting in Air.
In the air there has been little
or no fighting. The British at
tacks' have been largely propaganda
lllSlltS vi plollCo odhlpiiiS ASoAASI
on Germany in the hope British
arguments would stir Germans to
revolt Hitler.
1t may strike many as strange
but it is quite in tune for there to
be talk of peace when the real war
can not be said to have started.
Hitler's announcement he had re-
gained all former German terri
tory in Poland and the almost pas
sive German tactics toward the
French fit in with the often dis
cussed theory that Hitler intends
to confront Britain and France with
capture OF former German soil in
Poland and then ask them:
whats all the fighting about?
Many Germans long have believed
that Britain and France are reluc-
tant to have a world war over the
return of former German soil to
Germany. The British particularly
but also the French, have declared
"Hitlerism" must be stamped out.
BY that they mean what they con-
slider Nazi tactics and plans to
spread over Europe. They say they
don't trust Hitler to be content with
what once was Germany's. They
fear Hitler will lead his armies over
most of the remainder of Europe.
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Polish Army Is Far
From Being Routed, ,
Is Opinion Of Paris
Only IS Divisions
Out of As or so Put
Into Fight, Is Belief
By PERTINAX.

PARIS, Sept. 9 CNANA)-The
German radio announced last night
that Warsaw has fallen into the
hands of the Reichswehr. 1t Is
needless to say that the German
people are being told by all the
spokesmen of the Nazi regime that
the ladder of Polish resistance, from
top to bottom, has been broken and
that her defeat is merely a matter
of days.
But to see the capture of Warsaw
in its true perspective, two sets Of
figures must be kept in mind. Only
IS Polish divisions, out of total of
As or so, have so far been put on the
front line. and, on the German
showing, the IS divisions have lost
number of prisoners which does
not suggest that they have been
routed. Secondly. the divisions of
the Reichswehr which fight on the
Polish front are no fewer than so.
At the beginning of the week, the
presence of no more than Is Ger
man divisions had been ascertained
on the western field of operations
in or around the Siegfried line,
while Is other divisions were in
process of being formed in the in
terror of Germany.
Smashing Poland First.
From the above, it is clear that
Germany is making serious at
tempt to settle accounts with her
eastern neighbor speedily enough to
forestall the assistance that France
and Great Britain are bound to lend
to their Polish ally.
The duty to Poland that the
French Army now performs is to
exert such a pressure on the Sieg-
fried line as to compel the higher
German commands to transfer
westward part of the bodies engaged
against the armies of Marshal
Smigly-Rydz. That some result has
already been obtained in that re-
spect was indicated two days ago
by the French official communique
That pressure will become stronger
and stronger as days go by.
Little by little, the Hitlerian gov
eminent will have to give up the
hope that it can make an end of the
Polish Army before hostilities on
large scale have begun to unroll
themselves on the Franco-German
frontier, and that. being confronted
/ with Dn1icH
French government would choose to
bow its head to the accomplished
fact and recognize the new situation
in the East rather than sustain an
uphill fight.
Working Now on France.
But, for the time being, the Ger
man rulers apparently consider that
there is chance left for them to
detach France from Poland and
Great Britain. to entangle her in
compromise of some kind, and in
that way to localize at last the Ger
man-Polish war
From August Is to 81. as related
in the British white paper. the
German rulers worked feverishly to
persuade Prime Minister Chamber
lain to come to direct agreement
which would have secured for the
British Empire, in case of need,
Germanys military assistance. To-
day they have turned toward France
and they address themselves to
French public opinion in addition
to making all the efforts they can
to approach the French cabinet
through genuine or so-called neu-
trails.
Evening star., 1939-09-09

in neutral security here. the Nor
mandie's crew of 900 left abruptly
by train for Nova Scotia and home,
and the Queen Mary's 600 crew
members sailed on the British
George, along with 152 other pas
sengers. Only one of them was an
Americana. Dickson Carr, a writer
who lives in London.
The British Samaria sailed with
66 passengers. all British. The Brit
ish Lancashire. less than an hour
after her arrival with AS passengers
from a West Indies cruise, began
taking on a coat of camouhage in
evident preparation for continued
operatiOn
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Ex-Ambossodor Edge,
Grand Duchess Return
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Sept. 9-With can
vas hung over her deck windows to
black out lights during her crossing,
the French liner lie de France ar
rived today, bringing home 1924
Americans.
! There were 1858 persons aboard.
1901 of them passengers. Cots filled
all the public rooms, the gymnasium
and even space near the engine
room.
The liner. scheduled to leave
Havre last Friday, remained there
26 hours, sailing late Saturday. She
left Southampton Sunday. AS far
as passengers could see, she had no
! convoy.
| News of the sinking of the
Athena had been picked up. pas
sengers said, "by the ships grape
vine," but they received no direct
word. Only one salon was we'll
lighted at night. Most of the pas
sengers went to bed early.
Ex- Ambassadors Aboard.
Walter E. Edge, former United
States Ambassador to France, and
Mrs. Edge returned from six-week
trip to England, France, Russia,
Danzig and several other countries
The Grand Duchess Marie OF
Russia, another passenger, said the
Soviet German pact will make peo-
pie realize that Stain is as bad
a dictator as Hitler and both OF
them together mean the destruction
Of civilization. There is more to it
than has yet been seen, but I am
sure that on the Russian part 1t is
for the world revolution. When the
world is weakened they will step in"
Canadian Planes Sighted.
The grand duchess, who now lives
in New York, had spent the summer
in France.
Vladimir Golschmann, conductor
of the st. Louis Philharmonic Or
chestra; Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist,
and Virgilio Trujillo, former Presi-
dent of the Dominican Republic,
with his family were aboard.
Foggy, cold weather led passengers
to believe the ship took the North
ern route. On Thursday, they said,
some Canadian airplanes flew over
the ship, but were not seen after
that.
Camouhaging Starts.
Although French and BRUSH
played safe with their giant vessels,
the Normandie and the Queen Mary,
the British continued to pit their
smaller vessels against Atlantic
perils.
While the two big boats remained
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Tourists and Residents
Returning to Nice
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NICE, France, Sept. 9 tBy Radio
Despite the war. number OF
residents and tourists are returning
to this Mediterranean play garden.
Hotels and pensions both at Nice
and Cannes report new arrivals and
reservations.
Some believe this is due to conf
dence in the Allied armies. They
also see a possibility that the hos
tilities will resolve eventually into
an economic war of entrenchec
positions rather than destructive
offensives as in the World War
The Anglo-American Ambulance
Corps has received a cable thai
General Motors will ship the first ot
20 ambulances from Detroit soon.
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Paris
Continued From First Page.)

posite Forbach in the path of the
French advance.
Civilians Reported Leaving.
Dispatches have reported German
civilians are leaving towns in the
Moselle and the Saar River regions.
including Saarbrucken, important
river city of 10000. The Saar
region was returned to Germany in
the plebiscite of January, 1885.
The French staff communiques
said the Germans are placing land
mines before the French in order to
check their advance.
The French strategy in moving
toward the Siegfried line on the left
obviates any military hazard the
Rhine frontier presents from Lau-
terbourg south to Switzerland.
French artillery continued to
pound German forts on the other
side of the river along the right
side of the Maginot inverted "V."
AS British troops moved up to as
sist the French, air forces of both
nations directed artillery fire on the
left flank, where the French were
occupied in cleaning out small
fortresses atop dominant hills.
French Move Cautiously.
Evidently the French are proceed
ing cautiously in this fortress war, "
because they are moving always
against INDICATED scattered pill
boxes in mo Mans Land between
the Maginot and the Siegfried lines.
French aerial photography in this
sector has been extremely useful
dispatches said.
Reports to the French say the
Siegfried line is fully garrisoned and
in some spots doubled in manpower
where the French threaten.
With the British fleet marrying
the 'Kiel Canal area and both ma
tions apparently fully ready for a
long war, French leaders empha-
sized "Hitlerism must be destroyed
no matter what Poland's immediate
fate is in the East.
Meet First Real Tests.
The infantry patrols were sup
ported by tanks and armored cars
and the mechanical forces were
meeting their first real tests as they
ran into the blasted area which had
been mined by the Germans to cover
their retreat.
Concerning Italy's neutrality
which he characterized as one OF
reserved expectancy" the diplo-
matte correspondent of LIE Journal
said it could only be temporary. ex-
planning:
Germany makes no mystery OF
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Polish Mission Arrives
In London; Route Secret

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. ga Polish mis-
sion arrived in London last night by
q secret route.
It was met by Polish Ambassador
Count Edward Raczynski, the Polish
military attache and a represent
ative of the British war Office.
Gen. Miezyslaw Horwid Neuge-
bauer, an army inspector of Warsaw,
headed the mission.
Evening star., 1939-09-09

her intentions She pretends that if
Poland can be crushed quickly, the
general conflict could be stopped
and the new frontiers of Germany
re-established on 1914 basis.
such a proposition cannot be en-
tertained in any way by Britain or
France. Now that war has begun, it
will be pushed right to the limits.
That's why the position of reserve
adopted by Italy can only be tempo
rary."
Evening star., 1939-09-09
United States Lines Opens
Bordeaux Refugee office
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The State Department said yes
terday it had information that the
port of LIE Havre, France, would not
be available to American passengers
after today.
The statement added, however,
that the United States Lines would
establish by September IL, an office
at Bordeaux, where passengers not
residing in Paris would be able to
book passage for the United States.
As to Americans seeking to return
home from Italy, the department
said the steamship Rex would sail
for New York today, followed by the
Vulcania on September 13 and the
Conte de Savoia on September II.
Evening star., 1939-09-09
Britain to Rotion Food
In Next Few Weeks

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. Sept. 9-Food Minister
w. S. Morrison disclosed yesterday
that 'of course" food rationing will
come to Great Britain.
He said at press conference,
however, that he believed formal
food rationing would not be neces-
sary for three or four weeks
I'VE have at present ample sup
plies and there is no immediate
necessity for food rationing," Mr..
Morrison said. There is no cause
for the slightest apprehension or
alarm in the food situation, no
matter however long the war may
last so far as one can see