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Hoover Picked 10 Halt
Growing Espionage
On New Arms Works
1000 Cases Expected for
Year, Excluding Sabotage;
Sitter Penalties Voted
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Federal agents under the direction
Of J. Edgar Hoover today took over
the problem of protecting the Ma
tons new armament construction
program from foreign spies.
Intelligence officers of the War
and Navy Departments will turn over
to the Justice Department certain
phases of their espionage investiga-
tions.
Attorney General Murphy, in
making the announcement late yes
terday, said he had evidence of
sabotage as we'll as espionage and
that the number of cases of the lat
ter this year probably would reach
1000. Mr.. Hoover, the Attorney Gen.
eral said, will work closely with other
Federal departments.
Meanwhile, the Senate Naval
Committee recommended increased
penalties for such crimes. The report
said there was widespread evidence"
Of espionage.
"A foreign spy may steal our mill
tary secrets" said the committee re-
port, take photographs of war YES
sells under construction, fly over our
Navy Yards, penetrate our aircraft
factories, damage or destroy planes
and conSpire with others to steal
code books and secret reports and
get off with year or two in prison,
II, In fact, he is given a prison term
at all. This is the height of absurd
ity."
The legislation would increase the
penalties for most espionage offenses
from a maximum of two years and
$4,000 fine to sentence of to
10 years and $4,000 fine. Major
of1enses, such as sabotage, would be
penalized by mandatory 1O-year
term. Maximum penalties would be
q 20-year sentence and a $4,000 fine.
The report, drafted by Senator
Barbour, Republican, of New Jer-
sey, said there was widespread evi-
dence of espionage not only in Ha-
waii, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone
and the Pacific Coast, but on the
Atlantic Coast and the Gulf States
as we'll"
In letter to the committee Sec
retary OF the Navy Swanson Endorsed
the legislation, saying it would con
tribute materially toward the safe
guarding of military secrecy in its
relation to the national defense"
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Librories to Begin
Summer Schedule

The Public Library will close at
4 pm. on Saturday afternoons dur
ing the summer months, beginning
tomorrow, it was announced today
by DR.. George r. Bowerman, Dis
trict librarian.
Branches and sub-branches of the
library system will close at pm.
on Saturday afternoons during the
same period, which continues
through September /.
Evening star., 1939-06-16
Fire Etiquette

TEMPE, Ariz. R).-An interstate
transfer truck caught fire. Tempe's
firemen sped out in response to q
frantic telephone call, but halted at
the city limits, few yards short of
the truck. They informed the driver,
Bob White, a city ordinance for
bade them going further. So Mr..
White backed the truck inside the
city ard the flremen went to work
on the blaze.
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British Prestige Wones
In East, Says Foscists
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, June l6.-The Fascist
press today interpreted the Japa-
nese blockade at Tientsin as mark
ing the twilight of British prestige
in the Far East.
The newspaper La Tribuna in an
editorial said that certainly until
a few years ago it would not have
been even thinkable that British
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concession Which flies the nag OF
Empire could have been besieged."
In the Far East as in Europe, La
Tribuna, ancient despots must look
reality in the face and adjust them
selves to 1t in order not to be run
over by the inexorable course of his
tory"
The newspaper Regime Fascista
forecast that neither England nor
France would take any reprisals
against Japan because fear is
dominant"
London claims to have the worlds
largest clock factory.
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GOLDEN WEDDING-Mr. and
Mrs. Max Tannenbaum, who
celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary recently. They
were the guests of honor at q
surprise party given by their
four children and their grand
children.
Harris Ewing Photo.
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States Redesignoted
For Labor Certificates
By the Associated Press.

by tNe Associated Press.
Miss Katharine Lenroot, chief of
the Children's Bureau of the Labor
Department, announced yesterday
redesignation Of AZ States and the
District Of Columbia as agencies
whose certificates of age will have
the same effect as Federal certifi-
Gates under the child labor provi-
sions of the Fair Labor Standards
Act.
The redesignation, continuing one
expiring yesterday. was for period
ending next November !.
Employers having such State GER
tificates on file for all minors in
their employ will be protected from
unwilling violation of child labor
provisions of the Wage-Hour Act
relating to the age at which young
persons may be employed in estab-
lishments covered by the act.
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|HeadlineFoIk:
And What
They Do
Composer Menotti Is
Advocate Of Coy
And Simple Opera
BY LEMUEL PARTON.

Minor forays in radio opera never
have attracted the attention Of tho
more Olympian musical critics. The
one-hour opera, THE Old Maid and
the Thief" receives not only this
august critical nod, but 1t is OH
cially certified as a distinguished
arrivee in the musical world. -.
The Shelleyesque. or, perhaps
more accurately, Byronic, Clan
Carlo Menotti is the young Colum-
bus Of radio opera. AS composer
and librettist. he fused classical
musical tradition. in which he was
nurtured from infancy, with the
strange devices Of his compatriot,
Signor Marconi, whose first historic
sparkling and sputtering were about
contemporaneous with the arrival Of
the infant Menotti-at Lugano.
Italy, the sixth of 10 children.
Mr.. Menotti. % years old, came to
this country with his mother when
he was l8. From babyhood he had
been stepped in great opera, in the
family box at La Scala, In Milan.
and as child had indentured him.
sell as composer. He continued
his studies at the Curtis Institute
OF Music IN Philadelphia. He scored
with his mellifluous operate farce.
"Mmella Goes to the Ball." running
two seasons at the Metropolitan, one
OF the youngest composers ever to be
represented there.
While he processes a dislike for
atonal music, he thinks the opera
should get rid of lot of old fustian
IN settings and tradition and
freshen up lot, within the compass
OF sound musical and artistic
standards. He's for gay and simple
and understandable opera, without
high heroics, which sounds like q
workable formula for radio opera,
which he now plants in the musical
dictionaries. But. with all that, his
first musical intake was Gregortan
chants, taught him by his mother,
possibly on the old theory that only
the pure in heart can make good
counterpart"
At an artists drawing board, In
his Upper East Side penthouse, he
composes libretto and music. The
smooth Intervening of words and
music has been ascribed to this
joint production. He is tall and
slender, with abundant, wavy dark
hair, with sharply aquiline features,
given to a touch of the outre in
dress. He was described to this
writer as one who would move
gracefully through a Burne-JoneS
drawing room
(Released by Consolidated News Features.l
Evening star., 1939-04-25
The Political Mill
6. O. P. Possibilities for 1910 Not Limited
To Dewey, Tuft and Vundenberq

Gov. Bricker should attend to his
own knitting as chief executive and
let the Senator make all the presi-
Dental running.
Unless there Is to be a real knock
down, dragout struggle among the
Republicans Of Ohio, Gov. Bricker
and Senator Taft will have to come
to an agreement on what shall be
the course of procedure In the
Buckeye State. There is a presi-
dental preferential primary in Ohio
next spring. when delegates are
selected and instructed for what
candidate they shall vote in the
national convention. In 1896, SEN
ator Taft was put forward as the
favorite-son candidate and had all
the delegates except a handful who
were instructed for Senator Borah.
Taft at that time was put forward,
not with the expectation of becom-
ing real presidential possibility,
but to prevent Borahs getting the
whole Ohio delegation by default.
But the situation is different now.
Senator Taft not only cleaned up
handsomely in the primary election
last year in Ohio, when he defeated
Judge Day, considered a great vote
getter, but he also won handily in
the general election-and Ohio is a
pivotal State.
Dewey Better Speaker.
TO the more conservative Repub-
llcans, and to those who believe that
a presidential candidate should be
more than 38 years old, Mr.. Taft
appeals as against Mr.. Dewey. On
the other hand, Mr.. Dewey, as a
speaker, has few equals in public
life today. and he can cut rings
around Senator Taft in that respect.
Furthermore, Dewey is regarded as
more progressive and he has the
glamour of the successful racket
buster in our greatest metropolis,
where rackets have been real
rackets.
OF the 1s Republican Governors,
outside OF Bricker, Stassen of Mime
sofa is an appealing figure, but he
IS TOO young-has not reached the
constitutional age to be President.
nor will he until 194l. Gov. Arthur
H. James Of Pennsylvania, who led
the way for his States return to its
old moorings last November, has
been q judge. He, too, is regarded as
a conservative. Gov. Aiken of Yer
mont, who put himself forward a
year or two ago as a critic of the
Republican national organization,
might be vice presidential posi-
bility, but would scarcely be consid-
cred to head the Republican ticket.
Connecticut has a forceful figure in
Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin, but he
is still an unknown nationally. Mich
igan's Governor, Fitzgerald, who
might have sought the State dele
CATION in opposition to Senator
Vandenberg, recently died.
Bridges, Lodge in Picture.
Two Republican Senators, other
than Vandenberg, come sometimes
into the 1910 picture. One is Sena-
tor Bridges of New Hampshire and
the other Senator Lodge of Massa-
chusetts. Lodge is as youthful as
Mr.. Dewey, having been born in
1902, and Senator Bridges is Al
years old.
A postcard questionpaire. asking
what Republican had youth, vigor,
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tional affairs. And yet it is scarcely
fair to say that neither Thomas w.
Dewey, district attorney for New
York County and candidate for
Governor last fall, nor Senator
Robert A. Taft, have no knowledge
of national affairs.
Dewey is young man-37, or just
two years older than the constltu-
tional limit set for Presidents Of the
United States. 1t is clear that the
trainers of the Constitution at least
thought the American people might
wish to consider a young man Tor
President some day, or they would
have fixed the age limit higher. Mr..
Dewey does not impress those with
whom he comes in contact as overly
youthful. On the contrary, he gives
the impression Of being sure of him.
self and of his facts, when he speaks.
Senator Taft will be so years old
next September. Senator Vanden-
berg is S years his senior. The
Ohio Senator's experience in public
ONCE before he came to Washington
last January to take his place in the
Upper House was in the State Leg
islature, where he served with dis
tinction in the Senate and as Speak
er of the House.
Governors In Lists.
Since the elections last November
the Republicans have Governors in
18 States, gain Of a dozen. In
1886, the G. o. P. picked Governor
for its standard bearer. ALI NJ. Lam
don Of Kansas. And there are Re-
publican Governors today who un-
deniably have the itch" for the
presidential nomination-and who
will at least be the favorite-son can
didates Of their States, In all prob
ability, in the national convention
Of 1910.
There is. for example. Gov. John
w. Brcker Of Ohio. Gov. Bricker
has been somewhat obscured as a
presidential possibility owing to the
bright light that has been cast upon
his fellow statesman. Senator Taft.
There is reason to believe that Gov.
Bricker may come to the fore, from
now on. Taft has been considered
, an avowed candidate for President,
despite the fact that he has made
no public statement to the effect
that his hat is in the ring. Bricker,
1t Is well understood. has had his
own ambitions. Indeed, he has been
maneuvering about a bit In his own
State and apparently has been lay
Ing his own lines to capture the
State delegation to the national
convention when the time comes.
This has been bit upsetting to the
TAFT supporters, who consider that
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ing program will usher prosperity restore
he new Deals political strength
talk suggests variations Andrew theme:
But at my back always hear,
Times winged chariot
Onoruaney even If the President is persuaded and
getng hospitals and public health made bulk
tne ne" program an economy minded Congress likely
peat spending beyond the budget All Of which
sizes the Importance of number
10 put 1t buntly the second remarkable
the courts and of law enforcement
General Frank Murphy OF themselves Attorney dongs
vastly important Political trading
holes and the Justice Department suddenly
fected such machines that of Tom Pendegast
openly heartenng achievements which
that democratic
ramifcatons.
However, would be childish
significance The powerful local organizations threatened
Murphy both frankly incidents like Indictment
indirectly through their henchmen political political
Justice Department officials
phys list few will be destroyed
frightened And the New Deal will
Democratic party are rendered impotent.
AS for the third and by far the greatest the
weapons is the President himself The Presidents energetic
support is indispensable Democratic
partys need for him the President
Unfortunately for the New Deal
this leverage is will
hand picked the Democratic
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Benefit to Be Planned

The directors of the Washington
Self-Help Exchange, of which Sec
retary of the Treasury Morgenthau
is president, will meet at 2 pm.
today at 2529 Pennsylvania avenue
NV. one of its three plants, to
discuss final plans for the concert
to be given by the Finlandia Male
Chorus at Constitution Hall next
Tuesday evening, May 2. The
chorus is virtually donating its ser.
vices so the proceeds Of the concert
will go entirely to the benefit of
the Self Help Exchange.
Evening star., 1939-04-25
F. B. !. Police Academy
Opens New Session

The eleventh session of the F. B.
I. National Police Academy was
opened at the Justice Department
yesterday, with 36 police officers
from State and local departments
and l from the municipal police at
Shanghai, China, in attendance.
Advanced police work and admin
istration are taught in a course re-
Quiring three months.
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Senator Bridges says he knows Moth
ing about the origin OF these post
cards. But it may be expected he
will go to the convention with the
New Hampshire delegation safely in
his vest pocket And further, he
may look around and gather in
delegates in several other States, If
he can,
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progressiveness, experience as an
executive of State and experience
in national affairs was sent out a
week ago. The name of this Re-
publican, 1t was promised, would be
revealed this week. 1t was, and
Senator Bridges. who was Governor
OF New Hampshire before being
elected to the Senate, was the man.
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u1lpOICAuCc ucTc
because it sig
nihes a hopeful
change of policy
Unfortunately,
the Attorn ~
General gave as
a fragrant exam
pie Of political
inv lv e ment"
some Of the jul
dietary appoint
ments of tn e
Harding = Cool
idge era, but ne
omitted to make
mention of OF
Evening star., 1939-04-25
The Capital Parade
New Dealers, With Their Eyes on 1910, Discuss
Spending Program, Back Murphy Cleanup

By JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.
Since the highest authority the subject has remarked
there's politics OUT discussions of politics
be trife ephemera But long there
extremely important to know what political remain
New Deals depleted armory.
So far the efforts OF the President and his New Dealers to
control OF the Democratic have been successful
he has not made up his mind the has
1940 while
chief his
that New Dealer the nomination.
Immediately called remaining months
session named the possible
possible action
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Huzen Receives Plaque

Commissioner Hazen yesterday
was presented a bronze plaque as q
testimonial from more than $50
liquor dealers of the community.
The plaque Is In the form Of a
paper weight on which is inscribed
a moderation pledge.
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ton next year.
Dewey, Taft and
v a n d e n b e rg,
re pr e S e n ting
New York, Ohio
a n d Michigan,
r e S pc c tiv ely.
h a v e b e e n
b r o u 6 h t con-
stantly to the
fore. OF tn e
t h r e e, Senator
Arthur H. VAN
denberg Is the
only one with
more than a
years experience
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tive the would be private and
ignored Farley President
hrdterm attempt feared the oldlne Democrats
Postmaster General Farley with would
tainy believe President could
end The troubles that he would have make
and for would surely be opposed probably by the
With
thirdem tradition campaign tough
Indeed should forgotten that nominated
by the Democrats will probably find the campaign tough going
Evening star., 1939-04-25
This Changing World
Political Experts See Stormy Weather
Ahead for This Week End
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN,

BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
If the political weather
another stormy week
Hitler will reply to President Roosevs message Friday
13 days after the message
Diplomats puzzled
stand why message couched
require nearly fortnight whether he intends
to attack other countries
has belcoe intentions said so within
48 hours
that the German
to the nations designated
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HE opinions OF the ,Drers this page
ecsssa+y 7hs Sa1s Such opinion. presented TIE
readers although such opinions contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1939-04-25

Of State Cordell Hull, who have
served so long and faithfully that
the President could not threaten
to refuse his support to them.
The leverage must be increased,
and there are only two ways the
President can increase it. He can
either offer himself as a candi-
date for denomination. or threat
en- to offer himself unless his man
is accepted.
Evening star., 1939-04-25

Bile have to will from its southern
and western neghbors-he Bulgarians the Hungarian
explanation Hitler decided take
3 days to simple that the German fleet had
reached its rendezvous where it
sent for another 10 days Where that fleet is going to be-
nobody quite Some believe will join italian fleet
in the Mediterranean while the communications between the
Atlantic and the Mediterranean others believe that 1t
will itself the Atlantic and become raiding
force in the event Of trouble.
Experts the British foreign and the Quai
inclined believe will after ALL the principal
of the Rechsfuehrer in the future.
being disclosed that April II the intelligence branches
military dpomatc-of French British
had communicated to their that had
decided attack Poland few days earet Lk the Polish Am
bassado Berlin had been virtual ulmam He told
by that Poland must settle its outstanding problems with
the Reich short order conSentng the Of
Germany the ceson Of portion Of slesa the Reich and finally
form corridor within the corridor by consentng
building highway linking East Prussia with Germany
military intelligence agents Germany informed their
stafs Germany Poland
satisfactory 18TH
Hitler change his mind matter specua-
Polands quick Britain
promise immediate assistance by
others President
ve's telegram to the dictators.
The
ttery Hitler will reply President
Evening star., 1939-04-25
Murphy Talk
On Judiciary
Hopeful Sign
But Administration
Is Not Without
Its Mistakes
BY DAVID LAWRENCE

Attorney General Murphy's ad-
dress in New York, emphasizing the
need of judiciary free from poll
tics, becomes an utterance of major
Evening star., 1939-04-25
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

It's been a habit in recent weeks
and months to mention only two or
three names in connection with the
Republican presidential nomina-
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The British have sent their Ambassador back Berlin
given the Germans assurances that they do not intend ecrce
the
But in the caught mapping by
Hitler and their
mouth of the Suez Canal
Evening star., 1939-04-25

drive. 1t may be the plan has
not even been proposed to the
President. But that does not
diminish the importance of the
fact that New Deal leaders are
discussing an extra -budgetary
spending program Of huge pro-
portions. the money to be used
for public works. Convinced as
they are of the vital economic
need for spending, the New Deal
leaders believe that such a spend
Evening star., 1939-04-25

worries them so much. It Is the
fact that the Reichstag has been
convened in a special session
which disturbs the European
countries. In the past whenever
the Fuehrer sought popular"
approval-be it at the Nuremberg
convention, or in a special ses-
sion of Parliament, something
serious happened. And some
thing" may happen again during
Evening star., 1939-04-25

the Fuehrer'S delay. The fact that
he did not address his query to
Britain, France, the Soviets and
Poland is interpreted as an indi-
cation that these countries might
become the target of his expan-
sionist plans. The Rumanians
found little solace in their inclu-
sion by the German government
as nation which was asked Are
you afraid Of us?" The Rumanian
government knows that tho trol1,
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New Officers OF
Local Forty And
Eight Elected
Lionel Ward, Of Boone, Elect
ed Chef de Care to Sue
coed Ed Barr.

Lionel Ward, of Boone, was
elected chef de care of the North
Wilkesboro Voiture of the For
ty and Eight, at the annual
meeting of this ''fun and honor
society" of the American Legion,
held in North Wilkesboro last
Wednesday night.
Mr.. Ward will succeed Ed
Barr, of West Jefferson, as head
Of the North Wilkesboro voiture
for the coming year.
The other officers chosen were
as follows: Frank E. Johnson,
North Wilkesboro, chef de train;
B. F. Williams, Boone, correspon-
dent; Ralph Reins, North Wilkes
boro, conducteur; Charlie Porter,
North Wilkesboro, garde de la
porte; w. E. Miller, West Jeffer-
son; lampiste; Edwin P. Robin
son, North Wilkesboro, comm.
voyageur; A. H. Casey, North
Wilkesboro, avocat; A. C. Finley,
North Wilkesboro, aumonier and
DR.. r. P. Casey, North Wilkes
boro, medicin.
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weightand moving his chair
nearer to her, 1--WE got to look
into this"
''Tll tell you what you can do
she said with shaky little voice
that was trying to be gay, "you
go and find Ellery Aiken for me
and tell him I've been taken sick.
Tell him 1 want him right
away!"
He stared at her a minute and
laughed.
''Is thish some joker" he ask
ed. He wasn't exceedingly keen
or he would have seen that she
was frightened. But then he had
been drinking freely and he was
somewhat foggy in his percep-
tons.
'No!" she said sharply. cts
true! I'm sick! Get Ellery for me
quick"
He studied her stupidity anoth-
er minute and then he said;
I'LL rightie, darling, if you shay
its sho it mustn't be sho! I'll dc
my beshtw He got up and tot
tered off, but then to her horror
he turned back again and lean.
ing over her chair said:
'You wouldn't razyer I'd take
you hime, m'shelf?"
mo, thank you!" she said
drawing a deep breath and feel
ing suddenly faint. The world
seemed whirling under her.
But he went off and was lost
among the dancers.
(TO Be COntinued)