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Evening star., 1939-02-15
Senators Approve
II Appointments
By President
Chuirmon of Commerce
Committee Says Charges
Were Unfounded
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Senate Commerce Committee
approved today IL appointments by
President Roosevelt to aviation and
maritime boards and sent them to
the Senate for expected confirma-
ton.
Chairman Bailey said serious
charges that had been lodged
against some of the appointees we're
unfounded. The appointees were
interviewed by Commerce sub
committee at closed sessions.
The appointments were to the
Civil Aeronautics Authority. the
Authority's Air Safety Board and
the Maritime Labor Board. All the
agencies were created by the last
Congress.
Included in the list were six $12.-
000-a-year jobs on the Civil Aero
nautics Authority and three sl0,-
600 places on the Maritime Labor
Board.
Those approved today were:
Clinton M. Hester of Montana as
administrator of the C. A. A.. and
the following as members: Edward
j. Noble of Connecticut, to serve
through 1910; Harllee Branch of
Georgia. to serve through 1914:
Robert H. Hinckley of Utah, through
l943; Oswald Ryan, Indiana, through
1912, and G. Grant Mason. jr.. Dis
OF Columbia through 1941.
Tho NEorif;,,,&
pointments were: Robert w. Bruere.
New Yerk; Louis Bloch, California.
and Claude E. Seehorn. Colorado
all to serve until June %, 194l.
Chairman Bailey said appoint
ment OF Sumpter Smith of Ala
oama, as one of the three members
OF the Air Safety Board was ap-
proved subject to favorable action
by the Alabama Senators. Bank
mead and Hill. both Democrats.
Other members of the Safety
Board approved by the Commerce
Committee were Thomas O. Hardin
Iexas, and c. B. Allen, West Vir-
ginia.
The Civil Aeranautics Authority
was created to coordinate and ex-
pand Federal regulation over the
aviation industry. The Air Safety
Board was directed to probe all avia-
ton accidents and suggest safety
regulations.
The Maritime Labor Board was
directed to recommend to the Presi-
dent and Congress permanent Fed
eral policy for settling labor disputes
IN the maritime industry.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-The United
States Bureau of Mines has taken
the danger of premature explosion
out>of liquid oxygen, one of the most
powerful explosives.
There were reports q few weeks
ago that Germany had perfected
methods of using oxygen in airplane
bombs.
The Bureau of Mines work was re-
ported today to the American In
stitute of Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers by A. r. T. Denues of the
College Park, Nd, station. Liquid
oxygen is produced by cooling oxygen
until it is about 240 degrees below
zero.
AS long as the oxygen is in liquid
form it is a terrific explosive and
has been dangerous because the
slightest spark would set 1t Oh
Miners have been using this ex-
Evening star., 1939-02-15
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

Two more deputy United States
marshals, John B. Crawford and
William M. Gates, were suspended
today as result Of disclosures in
the Warning jury scandal, which has
involved seven men, including two
lawyers, in contempt of court cita-
tions.
Marshal John B. Colpoys an
nouncpd last night the suspension OF
the two deputies, effective today
because of testimony by a third sus-
pended marshal, John B. Upperman
that he and the two officers received
gifts of IS each from Attorney Harry
T. Whelan last Christmas. Mr.. Whe-
Ian and his law partner, William 8
O'Connell, are under contempt cita-
ton because, according to Upper
man, they gave him $110 between
them during and after the first
Warning income tax trial.
Both Mr.. Whelan and Mr.. O'Con-
nell have vigorously denied the &C
cusation, and Emmitt Warning also
denied that the lawyers had figured
in the alleged transaction.
Upperman said on the witness
stand that it was customary for
deputy marshals assigned to court
work to visit lawyers Offices near
the courthouse-Whelan and O'Con-
nell are across the street-and re-
ceive Christmas gifts.
The marshal said he was suspend
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Rioting Syrions Demand
Government RESIGNATION
By the Associated Press,

by the Associated Press.
DAMASCUS, Syria, Feb. 15.-One
person was reported killed today and
at least 70 injured in a new out
break of rioting at HONS against
the government for its pro-French
policy.
The rioters demanded resignation
OF the government because it con-
tlnued cooperation with the French
high commissioner despite French
refusal to ratify the 1886 treaty for
Syrian independence. HONS is 100
miles north of Damascus.
AT the same time it was disclosed
the government had sent a note to
France demanding immediate ex-
ecution of the treaty and transfer
OF governmental functions to Syrian
control. The government note, how
ever, expressed continued friend
ship for France. Syrian nationausts
interpreted this as a new sign of
weakness.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
BY FRANK SMOTHERS,

Chicago Daily News Foreign Correspondent
LONDON, Feb. 15-The revela-
ton that Italy has increased her
garrison in Libya, facing the French
! protectorate of Tunisia on the west
and Egypt on the east, has further
undermined what remains of the
appeasement program of Prime Min
lister Neville Chamberlain and has
added to fears of a new major
crisis.
1t was confirmed at the British
foreign Office today that the italian
foreign minister, Count Galeazzo
Ciano, has officially informed the
British Ambassador in Rome, Lord
Perth, of the Libyan garrison in
crease. 1t was pointed out that this
information came to Lord Perth
after he had asked the strength of
the Italian forces there-forces
which Italy, in communication
annexed to the Anglo-Italian agree
ment, had stated wouA be success
sively reduced to normal strength" )"
The extent of the increase was
not officially announced. The US
ually well-informed diplomatic cor
respondent of the London Daily
Telegraph says today that he un-
derstands that Count Ciano declared
that Italy is assembling force
of not less than 10000" in Libya.
From an equally well-informed dip
lomatic source I receive the esti-
mate of $1,000. This compares with
normal strength" previously de-
scribed as about 10000.
French Increases Cited.
According to the foreign Office,
Count Ciano told Lord Perth that
the Italian forces had been reduced
to the level referred to" and that
the subsequent recent increase was
(See ITALY, Page AID
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Five Bandits Raid
Florida Hotel,
Get $150,000
By the Associated Press.


MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Feb. IS
Five holdup men rif1ed a bank of
safe deposit boxes in the Blackstone
Hotel early today and escaped with
loot placed by some sources at be-
tween sl50,000 and 100000.
The figure was obtained by the
Miami Daily News from insurance
investigators who declined to be
quoted directly. Police Chief H. V.
Yocum and hotel officials said, how
ever, no estimate of the loss could
be made pending a further check.
The paper also reported four of
the bandits carried submachine guns
and the fifth revolver.
The robbers trussed up five guests,
the clerk, a bellboy and two house
men and then, apparently well
acquainted with the hotel layout,
went to the basement to bind a
baker working there.
Returning to the Office they broke
open the safety deposit boxes with
chisels. entering only is in a bank
of 100. They escaped in a big
sedan.
Evening star., 1939-02-15

FS the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Feb. 15. Premier
Bella Imredi resigned today because
of parliamentary opposition to his
sweeping proposals for regulating
Jews and afterward startled his
party members by announcing he
had discovered that he himself was
partly Jewish.
In a speech before colleagues OF
the party of National Unity, whom
he had persuaded to adopt his anti
Jewish program-which envisaged
laws curtailing political rights of
Jews, barring them from certain
types of work and limiting their
number in others-Imredi declared
one of his great-grandparents was
born a Jew
This fact, which only lately came
to my attention, is one of the reasons
why felt myself obliged to retire as
Premier" said Imredi, who assumed
the Hungarian premiership nine
months ago. He had been accused
of trying to introduce an authori-
tartan regime. Many legislators sus-
pected that he intended to abolish
Parliament or greatly reduce its
powers.
Resigns After Conference.
II held, and still hold, that legis-
lation for the regulation of Jewish
participation in economic and cul-
tural affairs of the country is a
good thing for our fatherland," he
said in tired voice at party meet
ing in the Parliament Building. A
(See HUNGARY, Page A-40
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Refugees at Ku|ing
To Get New Wornind
BY the Associated Press.


SHANGHAI, Feb. 15.-A Japa-
nese spokesman said today that flve
American and British officials would
60 to Kuling, summer resort near
the Yangtse port of Kiukiang, Sun
day to arrange evacuation of any
foreigners there who want to leave
before the threatened japanese Of
fensive against Chinese surrounding
the town.
The party will include United
States and British naval officers and
Vice Consuls who have been stand
ing by at Kiukiang to give neces-
sary aid to IL Americans and SO
other foreigners at Kuling.
No information was available as to
whether communication had been
established with Kuling, and If so
how many foreigners would heed the
japanese warning and leave.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Roman Mourners
Pray al Plus Tomb
Under s.. Peters
Fourth of Series of Nine
Funeral Moses Held
In Busilico
BY The Associated Press.

VATICAN CITY, Feb. 28-The
Roman public was admitted today
to visit the tomb Of Pope Plus XI
beneath st. Peters.
In groups Of 20 they descended
the winding stairs to the chill grot-
to into which the triple CONN bear
ing the body of the Pontiff was low
cred yesterday with elaborate cere-
mony attended only by high officials
of church and state and others of
prominence.
The coffin itself no longer was Wis
ible, masons having walled in the
tomb. Many who descended knelt
on the stone floor and prayed, while
in the basilica above the fourth of
series of nine funeral masses was
celebrated by Msgr. Antonio Anas-
tasio Rossi, patriarch OF Constanti-
nople.
Hundreds of persons, including
prelates and ordinary citizens,
crowded to participate in the service.
Cardinals continued to arrive in
Rome for the conclave which will
named the new Pope. Although
none could predict, Romans in their
speculation remarked, as had their
forbears, that when a Pope dies
they make another words defin-
ing their sense of the continuity of
the Catholic Church.
With this saying they coupled an
other that who enters a conclave
a Pope leaves it cardinal'-mean-
ing that the names most heard in
prediction speculation often failed
OF the two-thirds majority neces-
sary for election.
Perhaps because of his early ar
rival in Rome, the name of Car
dinal Schuster CT Milan particularly
was on Roman tongues-although
other Italian cardinals likewise were
mentioned frequently.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Brody, First Premier .
Of Ukraine, Released
Es the Associated Press.

r. } tliC ASSOSidtGu fIeSS.
PRAGUE, Feb. Is. - Andrew
Brody, first premier of autonomous
Carpatho- Ukraine in Czecho-Slo-
vakia, was released today from a
Prague Jail.
He was arrested October q under
suspicion of high treason for al
legedly negotiating with Hungary
for cession of Magyar-populated
areas of Czecho-Slovakia.
The dropping of proceedings
against Brody was interpreted here
as a friendly gesture toward Hun
gary. He was appointed premier of
Ruthenia (now Carpatho- Ukraine)
October IL and resigned October 26
because of internal dissension.
The Carpatho- Ukraine National
Council, body of heads of national
organizations of Ukrainians in
Czecho- -Slovakia, appealed yester-
day to Ukrainians abroad for funds
to create an all Ukrainian ma
tional empire"
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Argentina DEGREES
Sharp Reduction in
Imports From u. 5.
Reich and Britoin Are
Expected to Benefit
From Action
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
United States has long sought
basis for reciprocal trade agree
ment 11ith Argentina, but SINH
larity OF export surpluses of the
t,Do countries makes them riudls
for foreign trade. Complicating
the DIFFICULTIES has been Argen-
tina's use OF exchange control,
Great Britain and other Gus
toners OF Argentina receiuing
priority in ALLEGATION of exchange
at expense OF United States.
United States sanitary regula-
tions hare long been thorn in
side OF Argentine meat producers.
Convention tor their moderation
is no,o aUaiting action in Senate.
B, the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 15.-Ar'
gentina ordered a sharp reduction
in purchases from the United State
today and the implication was fel
that Germany and Great Britain
would get more Of the business.
The announcement in mornine
newspapers by Pedro Groppo, min.
lister of finance, appeared to have
developed between the two richest
American nations an open breach
over trade-the base upon which
United States Secretary of Stat.
Hull built the American gooe
neighbor policy.
Groppo declared that Unitee
States imports must be reduced tt
the level of three or four year.
ago" because the imports far over
balanced United States purchase.
of Argentine goods.
Wants Bi-Lateral Pact,
The Minister indicated Argentine
could not accept a most favored ma.
ton treaty offered by the United
States but wanted a bi-latera
agreement to strike a trade balance
"a treaty similar to that which
Argentina already has with mum.
Der of European countries.
A reduction of imports to previou.
levels would mean a cut of 40 pel
cent from 1888 figures or abou
$31 100000.
Groppo's announcement was pub
lished as half-page advertisement
IN morning newspapers. It insisted
that the reduction-to be effected
(See ARGENTINA, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Two More Deputies
Suspended in
Warning Case
Both Got S. Christmas
Gifts From Lawyer,
Uppermon Says
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Emmitt Warning and his
brothers, Leo and Charles, and
Gordon L. r. Sadur, public ac-
countdnt, Uere indicted last
spring on charges OF detrauding
Government OF income tares on
numbers game profits. First
trial resulted in hung jury. Sec
ond trial ,Dds interrupted in mis-
trial week ago because OF jury
tdmpering charges in 1Uhich En-
mitt 10ds only defendant in
UOlUed.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Mexico Divides More Lond

TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, Mexico,
Feb. Is F.-Government engineers
have begun distribution to peasants
OF about l25,000 acres Of expropri-
ated German, French and British
owned coffee plantations.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Cardinal Innitzer
Departs for Rome

VIENNA, Feb. Is P).-Theodore
Cardinal 1nnitzer left by train today
Tor Rome to participate in the con-
clave which will elect a new Pope.
The cardinal, looking we'll and
cheerful, was accompanied by his
secretary, Jacob Weinbacher. While
IN Italy he will be the guest of the
italian government.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Hungarian Premier Resigns,
Finding Ancestry Part Jewish
Imredi Out as War
With Parliament
Comes to Head

BACKGROUND
Hungary, in drdDing closer to
the Rome Berlin dris under the
leadership of Premier Bela I'm
redi, hos gro,Dn more and more
dnti-Semitic. Premier Imredi
had prepared draft OF regulations
OF Jetoish participation in Hun
garidn national life, many OF
them similar to Germany's
Nurnberg l1tDS.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Italy Dispatches
Additional Troops
1olibyan Garrison
TotoI Force There Now
Is Reported at Not
Less Thon $4,000
BACKGROUND

It1lo-F French tension In Africa
has become tense since Notem-
Der 30, tDhen Italian Deputies
shouted for Tuntsia, Corsica and
Nice. Subsequent press cam
paign, marked by demonstrations
in Rome, Paris and the coDeted
French territories, led to
Strengthening of French garrt-
sons in Africa and similar meas
ureS by Italy.
Evening star., 1939-02-15
Reich toDraft
Labor 10 Widen
kie| Canal
Enlargement to Be
Ready for Big New
ButtIeship
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Kiel Canal, connecting Baltic
and Black Seas across Schles1Dig-
Holstein, in Northwest Germany,
uas dug first in 1895 and recon-
structed in 1914. The canal is
53.3 nautical miles long. The
Versailles treaty PARTICLES 38O-
1861 restricted German control
OF the canal, but on November
IS, 1886, the Nasi government
renounced the navigation clauses
OF the Versailles treaty and there
by resumed control of the Kiel
Canal, as aDell as all inland Ua-
terDdys. January IS, 1887, Ger
many announced foreign War-
ships must get special permission
to enter the canal.
Evening star., 1939-02-15

(See WARNING, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1939-02-15

(See ARGENTINA, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1939-02-15

(See ITALY, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1939-02-15

BACKGROUND
Controversy 0Der United States
helping European democracies
rearm fared in Congress after
recent Ureck OF new Army air.
plane 1Dith French officer aboard
brought disclosure administration
is smoothing ,Day for French and
British purchases OF fighting
planes here. Officials haze told
Senate investigators no military
secrets 11ere inUolDed in deals.
Evening star., 1939-11-05
Capper, Thomas Patrons
For Art Display Wednesday

Senators Cepper Of Kansas and
Thomas of Oklahoma were an
nounced yesterday as among those
who will be patrons of the allocations
and childrens art exhibitions to be
reopened by the District of Columbia
Work Projects Administration We'd
nesday.
Other patrons of the showing, to
open at pm. at the w. P. A. gall
leries, 816 Independence avenue
S.W., announced yesterday include
Representative and Mrs. Randolph
of West Virginia, Representative and
Mrs. Nichols of Oklahoma, John NJ.
Carmody. Federal Works Admin
istrator: Col F. C. Harrington. COM
missioner w. P. A.; Mrs. Florence
Kerr. assistant commissioner. w. P.
A.. and Frank r. Jelleff, well-known
Washington merchant.
More than a score of other prom
inent men and women, including the
District Commissioners, were an
nOunced as patrons several days. ago.
The specially invited guests for
Wednesday will be served tea by the
Sponsors Committee, composed OF
Mrs. Slocum Kingsbury, chairman:
Mrs. L. Corrin Strong and Miss
Peggy Duffy. After Wednesday the
gallery will be open to the public,
without admission charge, from / to
pm. daily except Sunday.
The children's exhibition will show
pictures done during school vacation
by those who studied under w. p. A.
art teachers, while the ALLEGATIONS
gallery will show oils and water
colors by artists of the art section
of the District w. p. A. community
rr0iortS
Evening star., 1939-11-05
Oslo Foreign Office
Confirms Flint Release
By the Associated Press.

Mrs. j. Borden Hartman, Ameri-
man Minister to Norway, advised
the State Department today that
the Norwegian foreign Office had
given her oral confirmation of the
release of the steamer City of Flint
to the American crew and had ad-
vised that "all on board are we'll"
Mrs. Hartman said consular Of
ficials at Bergen informed her that
the ship arrived at Bergen harbor
this morning.
The diplomats advices contained
no mention of the plans of Capt.
Joseph Gainard of the City of Flint.
Since the shipping restrictions in
the new neutrality law do not apply
to American vessels which sailed be-
fore proclamation of the law. the City
of Flint is free to sail from Bergen
for Kirkwall, England. If Capt. Gain
ard chooses kirkwall was one of
the ports to which the steamer. with
mixed cargo, was bound when the
German pocket battleship Deutsch-
land put prize crew aboard her
on October 9.
State Department officials ex-
pressed the view. however. that the
City of Flint probably would remain
at Bergen for day or so. Mrs.
Hartman advised that there was no
train from Oslo to Bergen today. but
that she expected to go there Mon
day to investigate further.
Evening star., 1939-11-05

. Despite the crowds this fon,ous branded
stock Of ours looks os if it hasn't been broken
-. Come. if you wont the greatest borooins in
cur history! This Sole will positively end Mo-
vember l8
Evening star., 1939-11-05
Flint
Continued From First Page

Continued From First Page.)
and internment of the German prize
crew.
Foreign observers said they de-
duced from all appearances that a
German protest filed at Oslo against
Norways action at Haugesund was
based on humanitarian, rather than
legal. grounds.
Nazis Loathe to Comment.
German officials were loathe to
comment on the case because as
Dienst aus Deutschland, a COM
mentary close to the foreign Office.
said the tendency is observable in
Berlin that dramatization of these
events (City of Flint and American
embargo repeaD is, if possible, to
be avoided in view of the inter-
national atmosphere of conflict"
The German position briefly was
that the commander of the prize
crew, who directed the City of Flint
from Murmansk, Russia, on her way
to some German port, for humani-
tartan reasons needed President
Roosevelt's appeal to Britain and
Germany to see to the safety OF
the American crew. Therefore
when a member of the crew re-
ported himself sick the commander
entered the nearest port, namely
Haugesund, to obtain medical aid
His "chivalrous, loyal conduct,
one source said, was rewarded by
internment and loss of the prize
vessel.
"UnseawOrthinesS" Claimed.
On the legal side it was acknowl-
edged in semi-official quarters thai
international law covering prizes
did not specifically mention patient.
as valid reasons for seeking refuge
In neutral ports, but the German
contention, these sources said
would be that under the peculiar
circumstances surrounding the Cit!
of Flint case, the ship was "unsea'
worthy" when it had on board some
one who was the special object O.
the American Presidents solicita'
ton.
The evening press made no men
ton of the sudden turn in tn
prize ships case. The foreign serv
ice of D.N.B., the official new
agency, issued an item quoting tn
Norwegian admiralty, but apparentl,
the German press was asked t.
withhold, for the present, not onl.
comment but even news on tn
case.
Evening star., 1939-11-05
Neutrality
Continued From First Page.)

land and Russia may be reached
also by little-used routes through
the Arctic-such as the course fol-
lowed recently by the City of Flint
to Murmansk, Russia. Finnish and
Russian ports on the Baltic Sea are
cut off by the combat zone.
Since Portugal is not included in
the forbidden zone, American
Airlines may continue trans-Atlan-
tic plane service via Lisbon.
Some 80 to IS Ships Affected.
Maritime Commission officials said
the restrictions would affect to some
degree the operations of II of the
larger American shipping lines and
some 80 to IS ships.
Of1icials believe place may be
found for some of these craft in
trade with South America, perhaps
replacing British ships transferred
to North Atlantic routes which
American vessels must abandon. It
was said, however, that no agree
ment had been made with British
shippers.
Mr.. Roosevelt pointed out that
combat areas may change with cir
cumstances-that some areas now
safe may become dangerous or vice
versa-and said his demarcation of
the areas would be changed to fit any
new situation.
"Coastwise American shipping is
not affected by the bill" he added,
nor is shipping between American
republics or Bermuda or any of the
Caribbean islands In the main
shipping between the United States
and Canada is also not affected"
Citing a provision of the law CIV
ing him authority to make some ex-
ceptions to the ban against Ameri-
can shipping in the combat area
where there is clear necessity for
them, Mr.. Roosevelt said it was in
tended to specify these exceptions
in regulations later.
Regulations Likely Tomorrow.
State Department officials said the
shipping regulations probably will
be issued tomorrow, together with
rules to clarity operations of some
other parts of the new law. Treas.
ury Department experts were under.
stood to be working on regulation.
to cover the cash" provision of tn.
section establishing a "cash-and.
Evening star., 1939-11-05
fIint'sCrew Weary
OF Travel After
Long Northern Trek
Well Treated by Germans.
Men Soy, but Happy to
Be Rid of Them

Soisedu Motpinckel, ,ofte OF the
Norwegian correspondent OF the
Associated Press at Bergen, 1Ods
the first person to interDietD
cretDmen aboard the City of
Flint. Her story folloUs.