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Evening star., 1939-03-20
.W.P. A. Orders Slash
OF 100000 April ;
Col. Harrington Issues
Stote-by-Stote List
Of Reductions

BY the Associated Press.
The w. P. A. informed its State
administrators today that they
would have to throw 100000 persons
off work relief during the week be-
ginning April unless Congress ap-
propriated additional funds before
then.
Col. F. C. Harrington, the w. P. A.
administrator, made public a State
by-State list of the reductions he
said would have to be made in the
rolls if Congress failed to act. =,
The list was issued while President
Roosevelt was trying to obtain from
the Legislature an additional appro-
priation of $l50.OOO 900 to carry on
work relief to July l. His request
for this sum was refused earlier this
session.
In a letter. to State w. P. A. adj
ministrators, Col. Harrington men,
toned that the additional appropria-
ton was before the House Appropri-
ations Committee. Pending action
on it, he said, it was necessary to
plan operation of the works program
for April on a basis of funds actually
available.
Five Methods Of Cutting.
If the reduction became necessary,
he said, it should be accomplished
by these methods:
l. Reducing employment on prof.
ects where this would not affect
efficiency seriously.
2. Disseminating "least desirable"
projects at the completion of work
on useful units.
3. Disseminating projects on which
Federal contributions to labor costs
were unusually high.
| 4. Possibly" diScontinuing w. p.
A. work in areas where projects we're
so few or small that administrative
costs were excessive.
5. Disseminating projects on which
excessive Federal funds were
necessary for the transportation of
workers to and from their jobs.
| Ainance Delegates Arrive.
Another development was an an
nouncement by David LASER, presi-
dent of the Workers Alliance of
F, America, that 100 delegates from
Southern units of his organization
had arrived here to urge congress
sional approval of President Roose-
velt's request for additional w. P. A.
money.
He said this group would appeal
particularly TO Southern members
in Congress.
Mr.. LASER said the alliance, al
organization of w P. A. employees
and the unemployed, was printing
100000 ballots for a poll of all
w. P. A. workers in the United
States on another job march on the
Nations Capital. The ballots would
be sent out simultaneously. he add
ed, with w. P. A. orders to cut the
work relief rolls.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
Colder Weather
To Mark Debut
OF Spring

The flowers that bloom in the
spring, ira la. can start their bloom
ing any time after 1923 am. to-
morrow.
For spring. ira la, will arrive at
that minute on Track Il, the
Weather Bureau said, giving the
flowers the 60 signal.
The vernal equinox will arrive
with slightly faltering step, the
forecaster said, and should not be
trusted. For slightly colder weather,
with fair skies, is scheduled for the
31rst day of the season.
Temperatures tonight will dip to
38, and winds from the north are
to keep the mercury down tomorrow.
For Wednesday, which will be the
second day of spring, according to
an unofficial reckoning, there will
be rain, ira la.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
Overdose of SIeepinq
Tablets Kills Woman

Mrs. Ruth Wright Hurley, 40. wife
Of Harlow Hurley, former National
Labor Relations Board attorney,
died yesterday at Gallinger Hos
pital, q victim of an overdose of
sleeping tablets.
Born in Michigan, Mrs. Hurley
lived with her husband and an
only son at 3100 Connecticut ave-
hue NV. She had been admitted
to the hospital last Friday.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
Prof. Lang to Be Guest
Of Catholic Guild

Prof. Anton Lang, jr.. of George
town University. who plans to re-
turn to his native land next sum-
mer to play role in the Oberam-
mergau Passion Play. will be the
honor guest tonight, when The
Third Cross is presented by the
Catholic Players Guild at the Holy
Name Auditorium, West Virginia
avenue and Neal streets NE.
The guild players include Grace
Hanley, Eileen Stella Davis, John
van Sikken. Norman Rose. Clar-
ence Ruebsam, Carl ChristianSon
and Charles Grunwell. Singers from
st. Matthews Church Choir will as
sist in the performance.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
Western High Will Utilize
Records Offered by Star
Symphony Broodcosts

Through the cooperation of
the National Broadcasting Co.
The Star is presenting over
WMAL each weekday morning
a movement from one Of the
symphonic compositions fea-
tured in the music appreciation
campaign. The program on
which the recordings are heard,
'Today's Prelude" is scheduled
daily except Sunday from $50
to 7:25 am. and The Stars
recordings may be heard at ap-
proximately 7 am.
The recordings already re-
leased in the campaign may be
obtained at the special booth
in the lobby of The Star Build
ing each weekday from 8 am.
to 6 pm. The booth is closed
on Sundays.
Evening star., 1939-03-20

Senate:
May complete action on Govern
ment reorganization.
Education and Labor Committee,
executive session, 1920 am.
immigration Committee, hearing.
at 10 am, on a variety of bills.
Banking and Currency Committee,
executive, 10:30 am, on National
Housing Act.
House:
Resumes consideration of Interior
Department appropriation bill.
Ways and Means Committee con-
tinues consideration of social secur-
ity legislation at 10 am.
Appropriations subcommittee con-
tinue hearings on relief and District
supply bill at 10 am.
Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Committee considers bill for annui-
ties for Panama Canal construction
force at 10 am.
Agriculture Committee resumes
consideration of farm bill at 10 am.
Labor Committee considers wages
and hours legislation at 1890 am.
Post Office Committee considers
bills affecting substitutes In the
postal service at 10:30 am.
Subcommittee of District Com
mittee resumes hearings on tax bill
at 10 am.
Public Utilities Subcommittee Of
District Committee begins hearings
on taxicab limitation bill 1t 10 an.
Evening star., 1939-03-20

The disturbance that vas central over
extreme Western Ontario Sunday morning
has moved east-southeaStward to the
Lower Lake region. Parry Sound. Ontario.
29.92 inches and broad trough extends
thence southwestward to New Mexico and
Arizona. Phoenix. AriZ. 5000 inches, and
Wink. Tex. 30.OS inches Another dis
turbance is moving east-southeastward
over the Upper Mackenzie Valley. Fort
Smith. district Of Hacktnzie, 20, so inches:
and pressure remains low thence westward
to the Gulf of Alaska. Cordova. 1926
inches High pressure prevails over prac-
tically all other sections. with centers as
follows: Port Harrison. Quebec. 1880
inches: Sable Island. Nova Scotia. 80 AZ
inches: Bemidii, MINI. 3O.46 inches. and
Wilmington. N. C. 30.44 inches. Light
precipitation has occurred in the Lake
region. the Ohio Valley New England. the
interior of New York. Arkansas. New Mexi-
CO and extreme Western. Texas. The
weather has become considerably warmer
in the Ohio and Middle Mississippi VAL
leys, Tennessee. the Southern Lake region
and the Middle and North Atlantic States,
while the temperature has fallen in the
Plains States Minnesota and extreme West
efn Ontario.
River Report.
Potomac River clear and Shenandoah
slightly cloudy at Harpers Ferry Potomac
slightly muddy at Great Falls today.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
Man Attacked and Stabbed

Paul M. Walker, %, colored, of 30
Myrtle street NE, was recovering
In Gallinger Hospital today from
stab wounds inflicted by three uni
Identified colored men who attacked
him as he was walking near his
home early yesterday morning.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
Jewish Council Delays
Palestine Strike

By the Associated Press.
JERUSALEM, March 20-The
Jewish National Council yesterday
announced indefinite postponement
of the 24-hour strike throughout the
Holy Land which had been scheduled
to begin today. The decision was be-
Ieved due to the grave international
situation.
The council issued the call for the
strike last Friday as the first step in
its program of drastic political ac-
ton against Britains Palestine
plan.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
Weather Report

District OF tonight and tomorrow colder tomorrow:
lowest tonight
northwest and north winds becoming easter tomorrow night
MayandGeneraly fair tonight
and in north portions tonight: Wednesday
Vgma-Generay mostly
south portion tonight
West VgniaMostly cloudy tonight
and in northeast portion tomorrow: Wednesday
Evening star., 1939-03-20

The Senate Civil Liberties Com
mittee said today "the purchasing
and storing of arsenals of firearms
and tear and sickening gas weapon:
Is q common practice by large EN-.
ployers who refuse to bargain collec.
lively with legitimate labor unions.
The committee, headed by SEN
ator La Toilette, Progressive, Of
Wisconsin recommended legislation
to prevent the use of machine guns
and offensive chemical weapons" in
industrial disputes. 1t also urged
that movements of armed company
police and strike guards be restricted
to plant property.
Any legislation should maintain
employers rights to protect their
property. the committee added.
1t reported that employers bought
$1,255 .312 of tear and sickening gas
between 1888 and June, 1887, Chiefly
during or in anticipation of strik-
ers.'
"All of the largest individual pur-
chasers are corporations, the report
said, land their totals far surpass
those of large law enforcement pur-
chaserS.
Republic Steel Biggest Buyer.
...,s I'm fact, the largest purchaser
Of gas equipment in the country
the Republic Steel Corp, bought
tour times as much as the largest
law enforcement purchaser"
- During the Little Steel" strike
of 1897, the committee said, Re-
public had $50 revolvers, 81 rifles
with 1925 rounds Of ammunition,
245 shotguns with 5,784 rounds of
shotgun shells, 143 gas guns with
4,o33 gas projectiles, and 2,707 hand
grenades."
"Out of $49O598 worth of gas
purchased by the 80 largest private
purchasers between January, 1898,
and June, 1887" the committee said.
''$40l ,l27 was bought during strikes
or when strikes were threatened.
in all, 1864 ,507 worth of gas was
purchased before or during strikes
or strike threats in which union
recognition was the exclusive or q
contributing factor"
Three Firms Lead Field.
The committee statement outlined
activities of three firms which it
said sell most of the tear and sick
ening gas equipment-Federal Lab
oratories, Inc, of Pittsburgh, the
Lake Erie Chemical Co. of Cleve-
land, and the Manville Manufac-
turing Corp. of Pontiac, Mich.
The statements of responsible
officers of the munitions companies
reveal that their business depends
IN large measure on the existence
Of labor disputes and Strikes the
report said.
The wave of union organization
evoked by Section IA of the Ma
tional Industrial Recovery Act and
the National Labor Relations Act
meant increased business for the
munitions companies as it did for
the detective and strikebreaking
agencies"
The report included excerpts from
letters it said were written by
munitions vendors regarding their
sales efforts. These included the
following statements:
wish a hellsof a strike would get
under way. I hope that this
strike develops and natures and
that it will be a damn bad one; we
need the money. /" " We are sur
rounded with strikes, but they are
too peaceful to suit me. ="
The committee said that employers
often furnish munitions to law en-
forcement agencies during strikes.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
Montevideo Congress
On Democracy Opens

BY tre ASSOCIATED PfeSS.
MONTEVIDEO, March 20.-A
delegation of $50 Argentines to the
International Congress of the De-
mocracy of America arrived yester-
day announcing their determination
to 'repudiate the conduct of the
Argentine delegation at the Lima
Conference"
The delegates said they would seek
an international alliance of all dem
ocratic countries in America against
Fascism.
The conference gets under way to-
day.
Common sense, not legal rights,
Evening star., 1939-03-20

Motorist: Help the pedestrian
and protect yourselves.
Evening star., 1939-03-20

Traffic lights protect you. Watch
them,
Evening star., 1939-03-20

Record fer LAST - Hssrs.
fFrom noon YESTERDAY to noon today
Highest. Al, AIS pm. yesterday. Year
ago, "A.
Lowest. "a, midnight. Year ago, 81.
Record TeaDeratares This Year.
Highest, rs. on March s.
Lowest. II. on February %.
Humidity for Last "a Hours
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, rs per cent. 1T midnisht.
Lowest 32 per cent, at 6 pm. yesterday.
Tide Tables.
Hurnished BY United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Today Tomorrow.
High 7.35 am. S:13 q. m
low - 200 am 2:46 m
High T:57 pm 4.34 I'm.
Low - 2:36 pm. 3:16 pm.
The San and Neon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun today y-- 6:I4 6:l9
Sun. tomorrow-- 6:1g go
Noon. today ~ 5:42 Z: IN. 6:13 q. m.
Automobile lights must be turned on
pne-hah hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
La Toilette Group Hits
Tear Gas Purchases
By yAnti-Union Firms
Senate Committee Asks
Legislation to Ban Use
In industrial Disputes
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
For SeDeral gears Senate sub
committee headed by Senator
La Toilette OF Wisconsin has
been Investigating violationS OF
the rights of free speech and
assembly and undue interference
aDtth the right of labor to organize
nnd bargain collectively. Reports
on pdriouS angles are issued from
time to time. Other member of
committee is Senator Thomas of
Utah.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches In the
Capital (current month to date):
Evening star., 1939-03-20

Common sense, not legal rights,
means traffic safety.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
River Report.
Report for Last ~ Hours.

Potomac River clear and Shenandoah
slightly cloudy at Harpers Ferry: Potomac
slightly muddy at Great Falls today.
Evening star., 1939-03-20
Congress in Brief
TO-DAY,

0CudIC.
Debates Government reorganiza-
ton bill. Noon.
House:
Resumes debate on Interior De-
partment appropriation bill. Noon.
Interstate Commerce Committee
begins hearing on bill to authorize
training of 10000 cilivilian airplane
pilots. 10 am.
Evening star., 1939-03-20

Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-05
BY RALPH HEINzEN

United Press Staff Correspondent
With the French army in Ger
many, Oct. 5.-(UP)-The French!
armyS cautious, methodical, down.
hill advance into the Saar valley has
paralyzed $1,000, 10000 worth Of
German industry there.
One can stand at a French front
line observation post, dug In the
mud just across the crest overlook
ing 20 miles of valley, and see nc
sign of life.
There are many German soldiers
below, hidden in pill boxes and be-
hind artillery emplacements, but no
civilian life. No smoke pours from
any chimney of the big factories
where Germany's best steel has been
made. There isn't an industrial
wheel turning In the whole region
from Mertzig past Saarlouis, Saar-
lantern, Dilligen, Voelklingen, Saay-
bruecken and Zwiebruecken to Pr
masens. at the edge of the great
Palatinate forest, which is a DARK
blur on the eastern horizon.
Bite by bite, the French are biting
off more German territory west of
the Saar river, and adding it to the
$4,000 acres they claim already to
hold. The advance is slow but gen.
eral. saw sample of 1t yesterday
French tanks charged through and
beyond the Borg forest in the Mo-
selle valley, few miles inside Ger
many. German tanks went out to
meet them. For hours, these mon
sters battled at close range among
the trees, firing shells point blank.
There were no supporting infantry,
no protecting airplanes. One by one
tanks fell out Of the fight, their
armor plate blown away, their crews
dead. The French tanks finally en-
erged victorious on the eastern side
of the forest.
The Germans hurriedly evacuated
several villages In the triangle form
ed by Perl, the forest and the Mo-
selle. French infantry moved up be-
hind the tanks and thus straighteH-
ed out a crook in the line on the
east bank Of the Moselle.
There have been many such en-
counters, but while they have been
localized and on a small scale, they
are all part Of the general French
plan. From what I saw from the OBJ.
servation post, the German general
staff is nowhere near ready for a
big push In the west and the French,
who, have been ready on the mag
mot line for seven years, are In no
hurry.
The operations so far have been
preliminary phases of sounding out
the enemy, establishing contact with
him along the whole front, getting
an exact picture of his strength and
his intentions. This can be done
only by taking air photographs If
enemy positions and questioning
prisoners. The French and British
already have photographed every
inch of the German front from air
and charted every Fertilization
General staff maps show all the
German strong and weak points and
operations now can be laid out ac-
cordingly.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-05
rench Advance In
Saar Is Methodical
Billion Dollars Worth Of German Industry Paralyzed;
French Forces Move Steadily Into German
Land Behind Tank Warfare

However, even in these prelimi-
naries, the Allies have crippled the
Saar, an important section of Ger
man industry.
The Germans have given ground
without severe opposition. They have
many sacrifice" units scattered be-
tween the French line and the Saar
river in a zone the French are daily
squeezing thinner. The German ac-
ton has been mostly by patrols Of
10 to 40 men attacking various Sec
tons of the French Line. That is
why French communicates frequent
ly refer to great patroling activity
by both sides during the night"
There are still German troops IN
the important towns of Saarbrueck-
en- and Saarlouis, but not many
French artillery recently uncovered
an unusually strong line of fortifi-
cations in the Warndt forest on the
Saarbruecken front and has been
hammering at them steadily. Saar-
bruecken has many bridges, railroad
yards, industrial stocks and factor
les. The Germans used only steel In
their Notifications because they
could get it at the city's plants and
did not have time to build concrete
emplacements. The French discov-
cred eight inch guns in steel cupalos
Of these forts, which the Germans
had ringed with tank traps and
barbed wire.
Fog, rain and mud have halted
air activity the past few days. Planes
have been used mostly for photo
graphing and observation and un-
less visibility is good they do not 60
up.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-05
CUILFOILE CASE
PUT OVER A WEEK
S e title m e n t May Be
Reached Before Tuesday:
Lawyers in Conference

After hours of conference had
been held between Atty. william K
Lawlor and Atty. william w. eager,
Judge John A. Cornell called the
attorneys into the judges room late
yesterday afternoon and adjourned
the cases Of ex-Mayor Francis p.
Guilfoile against Luciano Sanford
and Luciano Sanford against the
former mayor until next Tuesday
morning. It was thought a settle
ment in the case would be reached
by that time.
The case started last Tuesday
morning and the ex-mayor was the
only witness to take the stand up 10
the time the conference was called
In an attempt to settle the case.
The suits grew out of criminal
charges by Mr.. Sanford that the
had appropriated $500
Of his money to his own use.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-05
MANNING FILES
BANKRUPTCY PLEA
Bank Street Shoe Store
Lists $25,867 in Liabili-
ties, No Assets

A petition in bankruptcy was filed
with the clerk of the United States
Court at New Haven yesterday by
Charles A. Manning. president Of
the G. A. Manning Shoe Co., pro-
prietor of the Manning Armstrong
Shoe Store at So Bank street.
Liabilities are listed at $25, 1857
and the petition sets forth there are
no assets.
Manning's petition states that a
judgment for $4,000 and $9495
costs was secured against him and
others in superior court by Paul
Berner, of Troy, N. Y. and that
suit has been brought by Berner
against him and others in superior
court, returnable next month, for
$4,000 damages.
Unsecured claims include one
for $13,675, a loan to him from
the C. A. Manning Shoe Co.
Coincident with the petition of
G. A. Manning another voluntary
petition was filed by F. T. Man.
ming Of Meriden, manager of the
Manning Shoe store there, listing
liabilities of $20,591 and no assets.
Both Mannings and David r. Man.
ming, of Boston. were defendants
in the suit brought by Berner.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-05
. BRUCE CATION
In WASHIN GTON.

was certain to get far more pub
licity than it could have obtained
If issued from the navy depart
menD that two foreign subma-
rines had been sighted In Ameri-
can territorial waters and so
on, and so on.
These things give the capital
the feel" of war.
RUMOR FACTORY
GETS GOING
The most fantastic rumors are go
ing around. Here are two samples.
heard within the past week on Cap
itol Hill:
NUMBER ONE: A congressman
got long distance call from an
old-time college classmate, who is
now ON the staff of an "interna-
tional banker" In New York. The
classmate was worried. He'd just
been talking with member Of a
British mission sent over here to
prepare for the turning Of British
held American securities into cash
for war purchases: the Briton told
him his government felt that the
American government was going
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-10-05

keep out, it will do no good because
it Is inevitable" that America will
ultimately get involved.
On Sept. 9, as conservative and
non-sensational magazine as
Business Week announced fatty
in its Washington letter that the
administration was calculating
that the United States would be in
the war within six months.
Shortly thereafter a reputable
business advice service notified its
clients that every indication here
pointed to war by mid-winter.
u. 8. BRUSHES UP
MILITARY MACHINE
The enlisted strength of the army
and navy is being increased, under
the limited emergency" proclaimed
by the president. A feet of Gecom-
missioned World War destroyers is
being put back into service. New
details have been sent to strengthen
the defenses at Panama and else
where in the Caribbean. Naval pa
trolls far out in the Atlantic are rln-
der preparation. The war depart
ment is pushing its program OF "edu-
cational orders" by which industry
is helped to retool its plants for
possible war production.
AL of which, military men say,
simply add up to the precautions
which any sensible nati.m would
take in time of world crisis. Yet
the atmosphere which these steps
create is very definitely a war
like atmosphere. You can sense
it in the war and navy depart
msnts. 1t extends to little things,
top, as well as to big ones Such
as
Presidential Secretary Stephen
Early's recent remark that the adj
ministration does not contemplate
airy censorship of press or radio
at this time" The presi-
dents proclamation of a limited
emergency The action of
the capitol police in closing the
capitol building to sightseers on
closing Of the iron gates through
which by-passers ordinarily can
stSoll freely onto the White House
grounds. The tremendous
number of police and secret serv-
ice men detailed to guard the cap
itol when President Roosevelt
went there to addres, the joint
session on Sept. 81. ~. The
navy's order that no news of U. S.
warship movements be made pub
lie. The presidents an
nouncement at a White House
press conference twhere the news