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Evening star., 1939-05-21
lCordenos Gives
|GoId to. Needy
lMexicun Farmers
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
JUAREZ, Chih, Mexico, May 90.
sPor Dios! He is giving away gold"
An old woman in a faded shawl
at Francisco Villa, Chihuahua, gazed
with open mouth at Mexican Army
onicer when he took her name and
handed her 80 pesos tabout So.
The soldier said: This is a pres
ert from President Cardenas."
Women wept and tears filled the
eyes of armed agrarian farmers
when President Cardenas distributed
money to needy on his 1O0-mile tour
Of the Juarez Valley yesterday.
The President talked with the
farmers, asked their troubles and
instructed his officers to give
amounts of money to each needy
person. He distributed so pesos
(about S10) at Francisco Villa, a
tiny village across the Rio Grande
near Farens.
Evening star., 1939-05-21

with serious hurts following an ac-
cident on the Leesburg pike outside
of Falls Church, Va. His car struck
culvert.
Charles Gamble. 7. colored, ,202
H street NV, was seriously hurt
when struck by car in front of his
home. He was removed to Chill
dren's Hospital by the driver of the
car, who gave his name as Hurl G..
Propost. %, of 1922 Second
street NV.
Susie Mae Peterson, 6, colored, of
CAT Second street NE. was run over
while crossing the street in front
of her home She was taken to
Casualty Hospital where her con-
dition was said to be not serious.
James F. Wingrove, 40, 2514
Twenty second street NE, was re-
moved to Casualty Hospital with
serious injuries after being struck
by a car at Seventeenth and Girard
Evening star., 1939-05-21
T Traffic

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Evening star., 1939-05-21
Important Changes
Are Announced
For Marine Corps
1t. Col. Moore Will Shift
Stations With
1t. Col. Campbell

Orders affecting a number of i'm
portant Marine Corps assignments
in Washington and at Quantico
Va, have been issued by the Navy
Department, most of them taking
effect next month.
1t. Col. James T. Moore. 1st Ma :
rine Aircraft Group, Qusntico will
be detached about June l for duty
with the Fleet Marine Force. San
Diego. Calf. in a transfer of posts
with 1t. Col. Harold D. Campbell
who is to arrive at Quantico about
June IS.
1t. Col. Alfred H. Noble, on the
staff of the Marine Corps Schools
Quantico, and 1t. Col Lemuel C.
Shepherd, jr.. 1st Marine Brigade
Quantico, will transfer duties next
month.
Maj. Kendall Promoted.
Promotion of Maj Donald J. Ken
dali to the rank of lieutenant colo
mel, with rank from February l
was announced.
Maj. Vernon M. Guymon has beer
ordered detached from Marine
Corps headquarters, Navy Depart
ment, about July l. and assigned
to the 1st Marine Aircraft Group
Quantico. Maj. Thomas j. Cush-
man also will join the same group
after being detached from the 2o
Marine Aircraft Group at San Diego
about June 3.
Mai. Orin H. Wheeler has beer
assigned to duty at Marine Corps
headquarters, Navy Department. He
will be detached about July IS from
duty at San Diego.
Four Assigned to QuanticO.
Assignment of four majors to duty
at Quantico has been ordered. They
are Majs. Harold E. Rosecrans ano
Augustus H. Fricke, both now or
duty at San Diego: Francis I, Fen
ton, Puget Sound Navy Yard, Wash.
and William E. Maxwell, Sar
Francisco.
The following officers have beer
ordered detached from duty a
Quantico and assigned to the post!
named: Capt. Hewin o. Hammond
to the battleship New York, Capt
Paul Drake and First 1t. Alexander
A. Vandegrift, jr.. to the marine
forces in North China; First 1t
Lawrence H. McCulley to st
| Thomas VIRGIN Islands
To Quantico will come Capt. Johr
A. White from San Francisco, Capt
Edward c. Dyer from the Universit!
of California, Capts. Peter P. Schri
der, Arthur F. Binney, John S. E
Young, Frank H. Wirsig ant
Thomas J. Walker. all from the 2nt
Marine Aircraft Group, San Diego
and First 1t. Joseph P. Fuchs from
San Diego.
Evening star., 1939-05-21
Cupt. Martin ThieIen Dies

ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla, May 20
tP,.-Capt. Martin Thielen. So, re-
tired Army officer, died today of a
heart attack.
A native of ST. Paul. Mimi, Capt.
Thielen was stationed at Fort Sheri-
dan. ILL.,, when he ceased active
service in 1894.
Evening star., 1939-12-04
Christmas Heart
Continued From First Page.)

will be one new toy. all of which
will find their way into the hands Of
a needy child on Christmas morn
A number Of radio programs in
connection with the Christmas ap-
peal are to be broadcast over
Station WMAL, and it is expected
that stars from the Earle stage will
be heard on these programs.
The Star Warner Bros.-N. B. C..
toy matinees will be presented on
Saturday, December 16. All except
the Earle show, which will be at
8 am, will begin at 10 am. Toys
collected at these performances also
will be distributed through the
Council Of Social Agencies.
List Of Pictures.
Following is list of the feature
pictures to be shown at the theaters,
together with short subjects max
ing up full-lenghth performances:
Ambassador-Bing Crosby with
Baby Sandy in East Side Of
Heaven" courtesy Of Universal Pic
lures.
Earle-The Jones Family In TOO
Busy to Work." courtesy Of Twen-
tieth Century-Fo
Tvoli-Mickey Rooney in "Ad-
ventures of Huckleberry Finn"
courtesy Of M-G-M.
Penn-George Brent and Olivia
de Havilland in wings Of The
Navy" courtesy of Warner Bros.
Sheridan - Shirley Temple in
Little Princess" courtesy Of Twen-
tieth Century-Fox.
Uptown-Deanna Durbin in
Three Smart Girls Grow Up,"
courtesy Of Universal Pictures.
Silver-Cecil B. De Miles Union
Pacific" with Joel McCrea and Bar
bara Stanwyck, courtesy of Para
mount.
Beverly-W. c. Fields and Charlie
Mccarthy in "You Can't Cheat an
Honest Man," courtesy of Universal
Pictures.
Avalon-Penny Singleton and
Arthur Lake in Blonde Meets the
Boss" courtesy Of Columbia Pic
lures.
Colony-Nickey Rooney in "Out
West With the Hardys," courtesy of
M-G-M.
Takoma-Dick Foran in Heart Of
the North,' a technicolor produc-
ton, courtesy Of Warner Bros.
Evening star., 1939-12-04
CrucibIe Steel Workers
Tokinq Strike Vote

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 4.-The G. /
O.'s Steel Workers Organizing Com
mittee said strike vote was under
wey today among the $4,000 en-
ployes of the Crucible Steel Co. OF
America and its affiliate, the Pitts
burgh- Crucible Steel Co. of nearby
Midland.
The union said the poll weuld be
completed in a week at the Crucible
plants in Pittsburgh and McKees
Rocks Pa. Syracuse, N. Y, and
Jersey City anG Harrison. N. j.
The S. w. o. G. ordered the strike
vote yesterday after the collapse OF
negotiations to revise its former
contract with the company. The
union asks sole bargaining rights,
basic pay Of 621z cents an hour,
consecutive work week of five
8-hour days, modified checko6 OF
union dues and seniority conces-
Sions.
Evening star., 1939-12-04
Shushan Called 10 Trial
On Mail Fraud CHARGES
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 4.-The
Government called A. L. Shushan,
once high In the councils of the
Huey p. Long political organization,
and four co-defendants to trial to-
day on charges Of using the mails to
defraud.
The Indictment was based on q
1895 bond-refunding operation Of the
Orleans Parish Levee Board, which
Shushan then headed. in which q
fee of $496,000 allegedly was split
among the defendants and others.
Indicted by the Federal grand Jury
with Shushan were Herbert w.
Waguespack, Robert ]. Newman,
Norvin Trent Harris. jr., and Henry
j. Miller. 3
The indictment charged Newman
and Harris, investment brokers,
'bribed" Waguespack, q 1896 Levee
Board member, to use his intiu-
ence" to have the board approve the
refunding of $5,485, 900 then out
standing in its bonds.
Evening star., 1939-12-04
Mr.. and Mrs. Lieser Mark
Golden Anniversary

Mr.. and Mrs. william Frank
Lieser, residents of Washington since
1908 who today are celebrating their
golden wedding anniversary. will be
given a dinner by their children and
grandchildren at the Mayhower Ho-
tel tonight.
The couple, who live at 81 T
street NV, came here from Cuero,
Tex, where Mrs. Leser was born.
Mr.. Lieser, who retired from service
in the Adjutant Generals once Of
the War Department in 1887, is .
native of Louisiana, the son Of q
circuit-riding preacher.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lieser's three chill
dren are Mrs. Milton D. Smith, Mrs.
ROLAND L. Mutt and Mrs. Leroy A.
Kaufman. Mr.. and Mrs. Lieser
have nine grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren.
Evening star., 1939-12-04
footing Proves Profitable

NEW. YORK, Dec. 4 LP.-Patrol-
man Wallace Matters arrested Mich
olas Olskewsky, 81, shaggy-h haired
street musician who plays a French
horn, on a charge of putting a
Slug" into a subway turnstile.
Police who searched his pockets
said they found six bank books
showing deposits of $47,830, cash to-
falling $691-and three more slugs.
Boy" whistled Patrolman Mat
ters, II wish I could blow q horn
like that"
Evening star., 1939-12-04
Former Ursinus Heed Dies

AKRON. Ohio. Dec. 4 R.-Dr.
David w. Ebbert, SO, former presi-
dent OF Ursinus College, Collegeville.
Pa. died yesterday after an illness
Of 10 days. He had been q minister
Of the Reformed Church 50 years,
retiring two years ago.
Evening star., 1939-12-04

Tohepprovide toys and Christmas happiness
for needy children in Washington, Warner
Bros, theoters in cooperation with The Stor
and the National Borodcosting Company will
present special matinee performances in eleven
theoters on SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10Th, TO
WHICH THE SOLE PRICE OF ADMISSION
WILL BE
Evening star., 1939-12-04
A NEW TOY

The best in entertainment has been pro-
vided for these motinees, featuring outstanding
stors Of the screen and designed to offer pros
gram Of unusual merit in each theoter, OF spe-
eioI appeal to children and growo-ups alike to
give you an opportunity to aid the needy Of the,
city. -
YOU WILL NOT WANT TO MISS THEM
-nor would you overlook this simple means to
be helpful.
Your gift Of toys, your price Of admission to
these shows, will be collected and distributed to
needy families through the Council Of Social
Agencies.
The Toy Matinee will begin at 9 am. at The
Earle Theoter, and similar motinees will be held
beginning at 10 am. at The Ambassador,
Tivo, Penn, Sheridan, Uptown, Silver, Beverly,
Avalon, Colony and Tokomo theoters.
II you connot offend send your gift gifts to any
one Of the theoters listed.
Read The STAR daily for full details,
tune in stations WRC and WMAL
Evening star., 1939-12-04
Ruth Judd Escapes
Second Time From
Arizona Hospital
Mad, Trunk Slayer Gets
Coot and Food, Leaves
Note at Pastors Home

BACKGROUND
Winnie Ruth Judd killed tho
friends, Agnes Ann lie Roi and
Hedvt0 Sdmuelson In 1881 and
shipped their bodies to Los An
0eles IN trunks. She Das con-
utcted and sentenced to hang.
but subsequently declared In
sane. Last October ~ she
escaped from the Arizona State
Hospital, but Was Secaptured sir
days later on the hospital
grounds.
By the Associated Press.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 4.-The
Rev. Robert A. Warren reported
early today the fugitive Winnie
Ruth Judd, insane trunk murderess
had stolen a coat, oranges and
crackers from his home.
Mr.. Warren told Sheriff Lon Jor.
dan that she had entered his home
while he was presiding at Sunday
evening services in his First Fret
Methodist Church. That was within
an hour or two after she fled the
Arizona State Hospital here a sec.
ond time in less than six weeks.
Mrs. Judd left q note to Mr.. War.
rem expressing regret for. having
entered the pastors home. She also
left a note addressed to Gov. Bot
Jones. 1t was understood the min.
lister delivered the Governors not<
to Mrs. Judd's parents before re.
porting the burglary,
Discovery of the theft was. thu
first clue to Mrs. Judd's whereabout.
since she fled the hospital at pm
last night.
Her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. H
]. McKinnell, are members Of Mr.
Warren's church. As on her previ.
Gus escape, they urged her to sur.
render because you'll be caught
anyway"
Sheriff,s deputies searched ,
Phoenix residential section after ,
woman's footprints were found out
side the duplex where Mrs. Judd hit
during her first escape. -
Attendants said Mrs. Judd, WHIT
escaped the gallows by being de-
clared insane in 1888, was nervous
irritable and highly excited whel
they last saw her about $50 pm
She. was sitting on the side Of hel
bed at the time.
When they returned for a regula,
checkup 30 minutes later, she wa
gone, and the ward door was stand.
ing open.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-06
A LITE FRESH
AIR NEEDED
(Wall Street JournaD

1t would doubtless be rash to conclude
from the statements of Under-Secretarv
Welles concerning the appropriation by
Mexico of the foreign-owned oil proper
ties that the long-delayed Showdown
with our good neighbor" below the Rio
Grande is at hand. But it is evident that
the Administration stock of patience
which has for many years seemed as
lneXhaustlbIe as the widows curse-is
running somewhat low. 1t is a fair guess
that the next few months will witness
a stiffening of this countrys attitude in
its dealings with the Mexican government
and, as a presidential campaign opens
next year in both countries, the chances
seem to favor change in the atmos-
phere surrounding their relations.
Much will depend upon the nature and
extent of this change, for it is plain that
MeXicos action in confiscating property
of foreigners has caught the sympathetic
attention of certain other Latin Ameri-
can countries. Should Mexico prove its
ability to get away" with the oil prop
perties, it will furnish direct suggestion
to other of the Latin-American 'democ-
racies" to ''go and do likewise and this
is not likely to fall upon deaf ears.
The Under Secretary properly takes
international law" and of "justice and
fair dealings" by which this country gov
erns its relations with other nations.
Those principles are "established' for us,
but it is not over-clear how stable may be
their establishment" in Mexico-or, for
that matter, elsewhere among certain of
our "sister-republics" in South and Cen
tral America. The plain truth of the
matter is that there is as little in common
between the democracy" the concept of
justice and the structure of law in these
countries and our own notions of these
things, as there is between our manners
and customs and our ways of thinking,
and theirs. Yet We profess to ignore these
differences or at least we talk as though
they did not exist.
The truth is that there is more solemn
humbug talked about this subject in gen.
eral than about any other topic of gen.
eral discussion. There is danger in this
if we want to live at peace with these
countries, for their statesmen are per-
fectly we'll aware of the humbug, and it
is little less than a continuous incitement
to them to play horse" with us. A little
fresh air would do this atmosphere no
little good.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-06
Sympathy IS NO
EXCUSE FOR WAR

America must not sacrifice the lives
OF thousands of her best young men in
the mud and muck of European battle
fields because Americans sympathize
with the allied nations
Most Americans do sympathize with
England, France and Poland. Their feel
lngs, If they are wise will stop there.
The quarrel in Europe is not ours
There are some things Americans. in
this day of STRESS should keep always
before them. They include:
Germans are not all bloodthirsty bar
barians There are good and bad Ger
mans, just as there are good and bad
Americans. Chances are there are Just
as many undesirable Englishmen as there
are undesirable Germans That the un-
desirables have not gained control of the
British government is Englands good
fortune
War is not glorious. It is not desirable.
1t is bloody, dirty, horrible. 1t is a mix
ture of all the evil passions known to the
human race-and all in their worst form.
The martial music of bands. the color of
troops on parade, the grand slogans of
the recruiting offices. all are mere gaudy
trimmings placed on the horror of death
and n1elong INJURY.
Passion, not calm reasoning, starts
war. Grief and irreparable loss follows
it.
Americans, if they value their national
unity, their prosperity and their lives.
will let reason guide them in this crisis,
stunning passion as they would the very
death and horror that war brings.
Consider the things passion does.
If home in your neighborhood were
quarantined because the occupants had
infantile paralysis in virulent form, you
would shun that home. You might even
move out of the neighborhood You would
take no chances of catching the disease.
Yet grand speeches and rank passion
influences entire nations willingly to en-
ter state of war far more terrible than
any plague of paralysis could be.
War, divorced from its selfishly inspir-
ed glamor, is worse than the worst dis
ease you can imagine. Why not consider
it as you would disease-something to
be Stunned as you would shun death in
its most horrible form.
There is no reason for us to fear be-
ing implicated in the European war, un-
less we allow ourselves to be implicated
The exercise of common sense will pre-
vent that.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-06

ROCHESTER, N. Y. There aren't
many men in America who are
more bitterly denounced by the
strict New Dealers than Frank E.
Gannett, publisher of a thriving
chain of New York newspapers.
It was Mr.. Gannett who first
scented perils in the New Deal
court -enlarging program in its
government reorganization plan, in
its spend bill. Furthermore, he
organized opposition to them and
beat them.
And because he has been one OF
the most articulate and effective
of the New Dealers foes, it seemed
we'll worth this correspondent s
while to pay him a visit.
Now. it happens that Mr.. Can
nett is neither a crusty reactionary
nor a blind Roosevelt-hater. In
stead he is a thoughtful, sensitive
person who dislikes the present
drift in world and national affairs
and thinks it's up to him to do
something about it, according to his
lights. Whether he is right or
wrong you can decide for yourself.
First of all what is this busi-
ness of liberalism, anyway?
Liberalism he says, implies an
open -mindedness, a readiness to
change. A liberal, fundamentally,
has sympathy for the mass of the
people; he wants a world of things
as they ought to be, and is ready
to change the things we haye-if
he can thereby get something better.
"Ill fight any reactionary swing.
The men who framed our consti-
tuition were not conservatives. They
were liberals; they stood for the
freedom of the individual as con-
trasted with the oppressive govern
ment regulation they'd known in
Europe.
so, I say the constitution is the
greatest liberal document ever
penned, and I contend that we who
defend it are liberals just as were
the men who framed it.
Il went to Europe a few years
ago, and l saw the dictators and
the men who live under them. l
was 50 impressed by what l saw
by what it means to be deprived
of the liberties We have had, that
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-06
new TITLE FOR
The SHERIFF
{ Alameda Times-Star)

Arrested by the sheriff, strikers at
the Marysville cannery complained that
they had been kidnapped, and the COVER
nor's office listened with more serious
ness than it is pleasant to think about.
kidnapping is an offense which carries
with it, if conviction follows, the applica-
ton of capital punishment
If the affair at Marysville wasn't of the
comic opera type the charge of the ar
rested strikers and the action of the gov
ernor's office would be mighty serious
matter. AS a matter of law, the governor
was without legal right in interfering
in dispute which the local authorities
have we'll in hand It is without prece-
dent and is an example of high place
meddling that is certain to encourage di-
rectors of organizations such as the
Workers Alliance and similar groups
headed by radicals.
Kidnapped. The public is getting about
fed up on the performances of men act
ing under the orders of those whose chief
purpose is to make trouble
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-06
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Disseets the News

| came back thinking that no
American could ever be content to
live without those liberties. Since
then I have devoted great deal
of time and money to the attempt
to preserve this rich heritage"
How are those liberties princi-
pally threatened in America to-
day? In two ways, as Mr.. Gannett
sees it.
First, by the fact that-in his
belief-the great tendency of the
New Deal program has been to con-
centrate increasing power in the
hands of the executive, upsetting
the old system of checks and bal
ances and-to an extent, at least
paving the way for a totaltarian
regrime.
Even more important, he feels,
is the fact that our continued de-
pressure on the mass of the people.
preston is increasing the economic
I'm Europe" he remarks, due
to intolerable economic conditions,
the people sold their birthright for
a mess of pottage and their liberties
for loaf of bread. If we don't
change economic conditions here,
the same forces are apt to saddle
us with more and more dictatorial
powers
Yet, the economic problem, Mr..
Gannett believes, cannot be solved
by any government which operates
as he believes the New Deal does
ON a so-called scarcity program.
He denies that America has
reached its last frontier; its in
herent richness, its active and am
bilious people, it's tremendous pro-
ductiveness in all fields, give 1t a
limitless succession of frontiers.
And this man feels that If the
country can come to recognize that
fact-and act on it-all will be
we'll.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-06

turned in and made one. He went
to our largest meat market, asked
for the manager, and told him he
wanted work.
THE manager pulled out file,
flipped it open, and said: "These
are applications from men of expe-
rience. You have had none, so that
will have to end it.
But it didn't end it for Bill. He
said: I want to show you that I'm
in earnest. I'll work for nothing!
I'll scrub your floor; your refrigera-
tor; your counters; meat blocks;
anything.
"The manager looked at him with
more interest.
Give me uniform and I'll start
in said Bill.
Something about Bill impressed
the manager. He called the head
butcher, and said:
Put a uniform on this boy and
see If he really wants to work.
Bill did everything. He dressed
poultry, cleaned fish, sWabbed ia
bles, refrigerators, counters. The
dirtier the job, the harder he work.
ed-from Ills in the morning until
700 in the evening. I felt sorry for
him when he came home at night.
for the sight OF meat on the table
made him, sick
soon he was waiting on custom
ers. He resolved to show them cour-
tesy, and to have patience; traits
he thought some of the other clerks
did not shine at.
one afternoon I had work to be
done and asked him to come home
and help me. He had not been home
long when they called him to come
back to the store. He turned to me
and said, I've been waiting for
long time for this When he got
to the store, the manager called
him into his office and said:
Bill, I've been watching you
closer than you realized. You GER
tainly know how to handle Gus
toners. You have both courtesy and
patience. How would you like to
go on the payroll?"
HE answered, I'D like to very
much. I'm glad if I've shown you
I was worthy
"The manager asked him how
much he expected and Bill answer
ed he would leave that to him. The
manager proved generous, and Bill
was delighted. When he came home
he said.
Many young fellows go to
training school to learn the meat
business, but here I'm learning 1t
and getting paid for 1t. I think I
am a very lucky chap
Since he created this job for
himself, I no longer fear for him.
He can stand on his own feet"