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Evening star., 1939-11-01
PIoy Will Be Given
At Woodside Church

A three-act comedy, "Here Comes
Charlie" will be presented tomor-
row and Friday at 8:l5 at the
Woodside Md Methodist Episco-
pal Church by the Dramatic Club
Of the church.
The cast includes Miss Jean Nc
Candlish, Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin War
field, Mr.. and Mrs. Truman Dod-
son, Miss Charlotte Keith, Miss
Doris Sharrar, George Hitchcock
and Glenn Hall. Proceeds of the
play. which Is to be directed by
Hugh Smyth. will be used for the
building fund,
Evening star., 1939-11-01

uct comes within the testing scope Of Good
Housekeeping Institute or Good Housekeeping
Bureau can bring in his product and have it
tested free. whether he 0dpertises IN the n,aeo-
zine or not, provided ~ he 10 established With
good stability and ~ his product 10 sold with
reasonably wide distribution.
Ihls sssvsss. which has cost the mafa1ine ovee .
million dollars IN the last five years, is designed
to protect the consumer, without In any way
integfeein1 With .hse freedom. e ehoico.
Evening star., 1939-11-01
More Thousands Idle,
With {. |. o.-chrys|er
Deadlock Holding
Dodge Truck Plant
Closes; Parts Foctory
Due to Shut Down
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Wh1t influence automobile
iuorkers can haze in determining
hotc much and how fast they pro-
duce Is the issue in present con-
tyactudl negotiations betDeen
Chrysler and c. I. O., sttll blocked
after three weeks. Company
claims right to determine pro-
ductton schedule Union demands
task "cdpdble OF human PERFORM
ance NTH high standards"
D3 the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Nov. 1.-Additional
thousands Of automobile workers
were idle today as negotiators for
Chrysler Corp. and the G. I. o. Auto
mobile Workers remained dead
locked in their efforts to frame .
new contract.
The Dodge truck plant here closed
yesterday in a dispute similar to
that which shut down the Dodge
main plant at the outset of the ex-
tended controversy. The corporation
said union employees had begun a
"slow- down" which made further
operations impossible. The union
charged that Z lockout was IN
progress.
The truck plant, which had been
employing 1000 men and working
at half normal capacity, was one of
the few Chrysler units able to con-
tinue operations after the main
Dodge unit closed more than three
weeks ago.
The New Castle, Ind, Chrysler
division, employing $500, was sched-
uled to close today because of a sur
plus Of parts 1t normally ships to
Detroit units.
Unofncial estimates have placed
the number directly or indirectly az
fected by the dispute at close to
100000.
James r. Dewey. Federal labor
conciliator, said yesterdays confer
ences between company and union
negotiators dajourned without show
ing any progress.
Evening star., 1939-11-01

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Evening star., 1939-11-01

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Evening star., 1939-11-01

Of masterpieces and owner Of race
horses, had made an offer to send
his paintings to Warrington pro-
vided he could erect a gallery Of his
own to house the collection. For
some reasons, believed to have been
connected with the location Of the
site for the gallery. this project was
not carried through to completion.
But 1t is known he has been SYM
pathetic for years with the idea Of
sending his collection here.
One Of Finest Collections.
The Widener paintings, now To-
Gated at his home in Philadelphia,
are said to be one Of the greatest
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Evening star., 1939-11-01

claimed for them. Yes, Mrs. America, you
have two choices in this world. Two ways
you can turn.
One is to the decree of The dictator. 1t saws:
This is good for yo1 And take it and like il
by dietator's ordsr."
The other is the right of free choice. 1t says:
"Yo~ may choose freely any dne of many good
tbings."
Picture, then, your sister from foreign land,
dictator's decree under her arm. 1t says:
"You are not competent to select what is good
for you. l, the dictator, will settle that
You face her with copy of Good House
keeping in your hands. 1t says: This is to
help you become more competent-to help
protect you against fraud and danger 50 that
you can shop in peace-and buy what your
heart desires most
Evening star., 1939-11-01

MRS. AMERICA, we do it little differ.
AVA emily here. No dictator, no army, no
government dares to tell you what style your
car shall be. What color your dress, what
shape your aatiron. You know all the answers
and can prove it. Your home is comfortable,
your children are we'll, your family is happy.
You are Free
Now Get these two pictures In mind. Remem-
bsr them all your life. They are night and
day. black and white, wrong and right.
ONE: You ean lot government decree what
you sho!! do, what you she'll buy, how much
you she'll pay.
TWO: You con keep those rights for yovrseK
IF YOU VOTE FOR NUMBER TWO, as most
Americans will, you must be prepared to do
certain things for yourself. You must have
knowledge, good taste, good judgment-a lit
tie enough price to pay for your freedom of
Evening star., 1939-03-31
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 3l.-One Of
the greatest treasure shifts in his
tory, attributed in financial circles
chiefly to fear of war in Europe, was
marked today by additional large
arrivals of gold from England and
France.
Hundreds of boxes of the precious
metal from the monetary stores of
central banks and private boards
have been unloaded from fast trans
Atlantic liners as the transfer was
speeded up the last week.
Many Wall Streeters were inclined
to couple the haste to move gold
to the comparative safety of the
United States partly to the stiffen-
ing of British and French policy
toward Germany's expansion.
The Aquitania brought $35, ,000, 900
today, making imports of approxi-
mately $2l0.O00,OOC this week. A
record single cargo of $56, 1000 900 ar
rived yesterday on the Manhattan.
Ordinarily gold moves from coun-
try to country in settlement of in
ternational trade balances and shifts
OF private capital. Foreigners sell
1t to American banks, which in
turn sell it to the United States
Treasury for $35 an ounce, the
result being the marking up Of
deposits on the banks books.
The extraordinarily large ship
ments the last few days, however,
led some financial circles to beyeve
central banks had expedited a shift
OF reserves both for sake of safety
Evening star., 1939-03-31
Stock Market Again Drops
81 TO 81. in Selling Wave
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 31.-Stocks
cracked downward 81 to $4 q share
today in heavy liquidation, riding
the heels of a joint British French
pledge to fight with arms any Ger
man thrust at Poland's freedom.
The ticker tape ran several min
utes behind around noon as shares
were dumped on the heightened
European tension, coupled with
signs domestic business was tapering
in some places as the result of the
latest crop of war scares.
Noted particularly by traders was
the slump of around $500 cars in
automobile production this week to
IS $50 units at a time when seasonal
production should be rising.
There was a slight rebound later
and dealings quieted in early after
noon.
Near the fourth hour American
Telephone was down $3.75 q share,
Dupont, $3.50; Douglas Aircraft,
$237, Great Northern preferred,
$1.37; Johns-Manville, $2.12; Good
year, $1.75; Chrysler.. $1.62, and
Phelps Dodge, $l.l2, and Bethlehem
Steel. $l.12.
Evening star., 1939-03-31
European Gold Still Pouring Into u. S.;
S27O 900 900 Arrives This Week

and to have cash here for emer-
gency purchases of foodstuffs and
raw materials in event of war.
Bankers pointed out war supplies
probably would have to be bought
on "cash-and-carry basis" France
and England already have con-
tracted for large numbers of Amer
ican-built airplanes. Trade in scrap,
oil and other strategic war ma
terials for some time has con-
tributed to an export merchandise
surplus in United States trade and
enabled this country to command
gold in settlement with Japan and
Europe.
A large part of the gold arriving
here recently has been going into
"earmark" at the New York Federal
Reserve Bank to be held there for
the foreign owners, presumably
central banks.
It took four hours for stevedores
to unload today's treasure from the
Manhattan.
Escorted by police radio cars and
automobiles full of armed detectives,
armored trucks left a West Side pier
at 15-minute intervals carrying the
metal through the city's crowded
downtown business and financial dis
tricts to the United States assay
Office.
Each truck carried about 81, ,000, 900.
Federal Treasury guards and city
police swarmed at the pier as the
gold, in prosaic-looking boxes. came
over the side in cargo sings from
the Manhattan's special stronghold,
(See GOLD, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1939-03-31

More than 90 per cent Of the adult
pedestrians killed in traffic acci-
dents in Washington during the last
four years had no permits to drive
automobiles.
This discovery was announced to-
day by william A. Van Duzer. trafnc
director, as the result Of q study into
this phase of trafnc deaths with q
view toward bringing down trafiic
fatalities.
The amazingly high percentage Of
deaths among pedestrians who do
not drive automobiles led Mr.. Van
Duzer to believe that there must be
some reasons for such q surprisingly
definite showing along this line.
Apparently, he believes. the fig-
ures point to the indication that
persons who know how to drive. au-
tonobiles are more familiar Is
Evening star., 1939-03-31
$341, ,802,2 292 Bank
Deposits Here Set
AH-7ime Peak

Deposits in Washington banks
at the close of business Wednes-
day, March 20, aggregated
s341 1902. .2o2. .88. a new all-time
peak for the Capital. it was
learned today following the call
for condition issued by the
Controller of the Currency.
The previous high point was
three months ago on December
81, 1888. The gain in the first
quarter of this year was only
a modest s279,526, recent in
come tax payments having
pulled total deposits down from
a much higher figure.
OF the % active banks in the
city. 16 reported higher deposits
than on the call three months
ago while six announced small
decreases.
"Details in Financial Sec
tom
Evening star., 1939-03-31
Spectators Brave
Chilly Winds 10
0pen Blossom Fete
Dancers and Music Tell
Of Spring, but Heavy
Goats Are in Style
Pictures on Page BIZ

Washington Cherry Blossom Fes-
tival-the city's official salute to
spring early today with
colorful folk dances on the western
shore of the bloom studded Tidal
Basin before more than $500 spec
tators, most of whom shivered in
winter coats.
While the United States Marine
Band played such airs as Rustic
of Spring" and Spring Zephyr" %
dancers clad in short-sleeved rural
costumes whirled gaily through
Southern dance routines on a huge
canvas spread over the damp grass
near the waters edge. The tempera-
ture was IS degrees, the Weather
Bureau said.
Several hundred spectators, in
cluding Commissioner Melvin C..
Hazen, Engineer Commissioner
David McCoach and number of
Federal Government officials, filled
rows of reserved seats. while a vastly
larger number lined the semi-circu-
lar area. standing four and five deep
AS the inaugural program got
underway, National Parks Service
workmen were setting the stage at
the nearby polo field for the high
light of the festival at 4:30 this
afternoon-the ceremony at which
Miss Peggy Townsend will be
crowned queen of the fete by Sem
ator Alben w. Barkley. A special
guard of honor from Fort Myer will
be on hand
The festival program will end
with brilliant fireworks display
at the basin tonight.
Obscured by the heavily overcast
skies, the sun made brief but
futile effort to peek through just
as the sunrise service" began. Pho
tographers turned their cameras
skyward, through the low-hanging
branches of the Japanese cherry
trees, as its rays shot from be-
hind a cloud in line with the WASH
ington Monument. But the cloud
shifted and the crowd continued to
shiver.
Camera Fans Rampant.
Candid camera fans were all over
the place. Many of them were hang
ing from branches of the larger
trees to get odd angle shots of the
whirling dancers. Members of the
group, directed by Miss Evelyn
Davis, posed willingly in their COM
paratively scanty attire for snap
shot artists who wanted some
thing different with the beauteous
background.
Miss Townsend was absent from
the ceremony this morning, but in
(See BLOSSOMS, Page A-l6)
Evening star., 1939-03-31
White House Source!
Assert World Fears
Expansion by Hitler
Feel British Pledge Put
War Responsibility
Up to Germany
BY the Associated Press.


WARM SPRINGS, Ca, March
21-Sources close to the White
House asserted today there was a
general fear in the world that Ger
many might extend her "don1ina-
ton" of other races to other
continents and that current British
ard French actions appeared to
seek an end of that danger.
While President Roosevelt refused
to discuss the foreign crisis at a
roadside press conference, intimates
declared Prime Minister Chamber
lains pledge to the House of Com
mons today that Britain would fight
if Poland's independence were
threatened and his statement that
France would take similar action
seemed to put squarely up to Ger
many the responsibility for any
possible general war.
These sources said Britain and
France were, in effect saying to
Germany that war could come only
by invasion by Germany of some
other country and war would be
avoided if there were no such in
vasion.
Therefore, it was said, the world
has been put on notice where the
responsibility lies If there is war.
The President was keeping in
close touch with the State Depart
ment and Europe. He told reporters
he had talked with both by tele-
phone and probably would talk with
them two or three times again dur
ing the day. He would not say with
whom he discussed foreign affairs
by transatlantic telephone.
White House sources, summing up
the world situation since Munich
said what was concerning the VIZ. ~
today-the Near East, Far East,
Africa and the Americas-was that
the hope the world had last Sep
| tember that Germany's policy was
| 49,. VrYo
Evening star., 1939-03-31
D. {. Budget, Cut
S750,000, Will Be
Reported Thursday
Slash Is Believed Made
In Sum to Be Repaid
On P. W. A. Loans
BY DON S. WARREN.

A slash of S750,0OO or more has
been made in the 1910 District bud
get from the total recommended by
the Budget Bureau. it was indicated
today after the District Appropria-
tions Subcommittee of the House
marked up the bill.
Representative Collins. Democrat
of Mississippi, Chairman of the SUBJ
committee. plans to submit its re-
port to the House next Thursday
1t is expected the copies of the
voluminous hearing on the budget
would be made available about the
same time.
The appropriation as approved by
the Budget Bureau totaled $47,177,-
780, not counting trust funds, and ii
the cut amounted to $750,00O it
would reduce the total to some
SAC, 400 900.
Possibilities that various depart
ment services and projects might
have been severely trimmed were
countered by reports that the pro-
posed appropriations for capital
improvements have been increased
rather than reduced from the
Budget Bureau total. There were
indications also that no major
slashes have been recommended in
the operating expenses.
One suggestion was that the COM
mittee may have found it possible
to effect a substantial cut in the
appropriation total by means OF
holding down the amount which
the District would be required to
repay to the Treasury in the next
fiscal year under the Capper- Cram
ton park improvement program. The
District has been paying 1900, ,0O0
a year to the Treasury for the park
improvement debt and the Districts
original P. w. A. loans. District Of
ficials suggested this total be greatly
reduced next year because only sew
eral hundred thousand dollars are
still owing on the original District
(See D. c. BUDGET, Page A-70
Evening star., 1939-03-31
Brown Shifts -Four
From Vice Squad
To Precincts
Transfers Are Made
Effective Tomorrow as
Shokeup Continues
BY HENRY A. Muslin.

-Four more members of the police
vice squad were ordered transferred
to precinct duty today by Police
Chief Ernest w. Brown in keeping
with his announced policy of Great
ing ghost" squad whose members
will not be known to the public.
The transfers become effective at
8 m. tomorrow. At the same time
it become known that six other men
will be drawn from precinct duty to
take the places of those transferred
Their names were not divulged.
The move was regarded as a con-
tinuation of the shakeup begun
February %, when a sergeant and
three privates were relieved of duty
with the squad At that time Sergt.
George Deyoe and Pvts Melvin Kite,
H. o. Dodson and William McEwen
were shifted to various precincts.
Others Were Transferred.
Five days later two more privates,
F. A. Jordan and R. D. Mcclure,
were transferred from the squad.
At that time Maj Brown said he
would create vice squad whose
members would be unknown other
than to himself and those in his
strictest confidence.
The major denied he had ordered
the squad shaken up after charges
of alleged police protection figured
in the Warning brothers numbers
case. He said he had made the
move purely for the good of the
force"
| However. it was rumored in police
circles that special investigation
squad which reports directly to Maj.
Brown had delved into the situation.
Those to be transferred tomorrow
are B. R. Campbell, who will go to
No. II precinct; w. D. De Groot to
No. 8. D. L. Green to No. / and w. D.
Young to No. 3.
Little Remains in Charge.
Acting Capt. George Little, who
has headed the squad since January
/, 1884, is to remain in command,
at least temporarily. Left with him
of the original squad are four
privates-S. r. Smith, o. T. Coffin,
Robert Joyner and his son, Paul
Little. The personnel of the squad
now numbers II men including the
captain.
1t is believed that those who re-
main from the original squad will
be kept on duty to act as liaison Of
flcers between the ghost" person.
mel and the courts. This theory was
advanced by member of the
squad who could not see how names
otherwise could be kept secret after
the officers appear as witnesses.
AT the same time the announce
ment was made of the promotion of
two policemen to the rank of SER
geant. Pvts. Charles Cunningham
will move up in rank and be shifted
from the ninth to the twelfth pre-
cinct station and Charles Van Meter
receives a like promotion and is
moved from the first to the thir-
teenth precinct station.
Sergt. Thomas Heffernan will be
transferred from No. Station to
duty as night inspector.
Evening star., 1939-03-31
Treasury Files Lien
On Reichsbunk Funds
By tie Associated Press.

~ Vac aSSOCIAteu 1Icoos
The Treasury disclosed today it
had filed lien on the funds of the
German Reichsbank to enforce col
lection of an old tax claim.
The lien was filed in the United
States District Court in New York
and an official explained that the
action had mo diplomatic aspects" p"
He asserted the only purpose of
the lien was to prevent notification
of the Treasury's claim because Of
the lapse of time since the claim
was first made.
He said the Treasury was asking
$l25 900 plus interest, which now
makes the total claim $144,454 on
commercial transactions of the
Reichsbank In 1924 to 1927.
Evening star., 1939-03-31
81 Pct. of Pedestrian Victims
Not Auto Drivers

pedestrians with the way automo-
biles act on the streets and with
the general trafnc conditions at
intersections than those persons
who do not drive cars. The driver,
therefore, is safer on foot than the
non-driver.
He sounded a warning coupled
with a suggestion to non-driving
pedestrians that for their own safety
1t would be advisable for them to
become more familiar with the regu-
lations governing the driving of au-
tomobiles. They should learn more
about the use of trafic lights at
intersections, he said, and how au-
tomobiles are supposed to move and
stop at the lighted intersections.
The showing of high fatalities
among non-driving pedestrians was
(GAA DWnU4r0Y AN0 BoWA AlN
Evening star., 1939-03-31
G~sSSIk!;ipper1A 81
.%STAhoy!X]

Spring is here and summer
cannot be far behind, judging
by the revival of activities
down on the water front and
far down the river and bay.
Washington's amateur yachts
men and other devotees Of
sports afloat are making
everything shipshape for a
busy season.
All of which is good news
and so Is this:
Beginning Sunday, The Star
will cover the water front In q
special weekly Boating Page.
And with the fishing season
also at hand, complete news
for anglers will be found in
the fishing column, four times
a week, including Sunday. For
all the nautical news, get The
Star regularly-and be sure to
read the Boating Page in
Evening star., 1939-03-31
Syrion Disorders Spread

DAMASCUS. Syria, March 81 up.
Disorders which caused the French
military occupation of Damascus
March 20 spread to Aleppo today
with the explosion of bomb near
the house of a French resident. A
Ppm. curfew was put into force.