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Evening star., 1939-04-29
$4,000 Workmen
Toll 10 Prepare Fair
For Opening Sunday
New York Is Jummed
By Visitors With Million
Expected on Grounds
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 29.-With the
opening of the New York World S
Fair a scant "a hours away. $4,000
workmen toiled today to put the
vast exposition in shape for its
debut.
Out on the erstwhile Flushing
marshland. part of the mile-square
aggregation of the fairs wonders
still was short of completion, but
the scores of finished buildings,
thousands of exhibits, together with
full program of opening day cere-
monies, promised plenty of attrac-
tions for the expected million Wis
itors tomorrow
Most of the commercial displays
towering temples dedicated to every
thing from beer and bread to cars
and communications ready.
The principal tardiness was in nu-
merous National and State Gov
ernment displays. some of which
still disclosed incomplete exteriors
shrouded with scaffolding. interiors
empty or cluttered with Grated ex-
hibits and grassless grounds in the
process of grading.
Boom Town Activity.
Barren OF its much-touted strip
teasers. the already famous amuse-
ment area looked like a boom town
on its first day. its streets echoing
with the clatter of hasty hammers
mailing up walls and roofs.
Visitors streamed into town by
the thousands, stores and buildings
broke out in bunting and eyes peered
down the bay for the arriving At
lantic Squadron of the United States
Navy.
The main feature of the opening
will be an address by President
Roosevelt which will be broadcast
throughout the world over an un-
precedented radio hook-up. 1t will
also be televised to receivers within
the area of a New York station.
Temple of Religion.
This will take place at 1:3O pm,
three hours after the gates are
thrown open to the public. and will
be preceded by parade of fair
workers and Army and Navy de-
tachments, and a dedication of the
Temple of Religion at noon.
When dusk falls a cosmic ray
from distant star will impel the
fairs huge illumination system, su-
perbly brilliant in rehearsals, into
action.
The feature of the first night will
be a frolic in the amusement area
with theatrical and radio entertain
ers performing al fresco amid the
crowds-all climaxed, according to
the fair schedule, by general "danc-
ing in the streets"
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Irish Raise 0utcN
Against Drafting
Into British Army
Feor Those Residing in
England Moy Be Forced
Into MiIitory Service
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 29.-An Irish out
cry against the copscription of Irish
living in England created a delicate
situation today.
Anti-Irish hostility, aroused in
England over bombings attributed to
the illegal Irish Republican Army
was reversed after Prime Minister
Chamberlain conscription an
nouncement on Wednesday, because
of reports that Irish living in Eng
land will be forced into military
service along with Englishmen.
This decision was expected by
some to be announced when the
military training bill is introduced
in the House of Commons Monday.
Prime Minister Eamon de Valera S
Dublin paper, the Irish Press, some
times regarded as the Irish govern
ment's mouthpiece. began a cam
paign by replying to Viscount Craig
avon, Premier of Northern Ireland,
who has asked Mr. Chamberlain to
include Northern Ireland in con-
scription plans.
The Irish Press said: LET us as
sure him (Viscount Craigavon) that
should the British government take
his advice and attempt to force Irish
Nationalists into the British Army
this new form of aggression will not
only be resented by the Irish people
everywhere but resisted by every
means in their power"
De Valera himself was reported
to have warned Mr.. Chamberlain
that Ireland views seriously the re-
ported proposals.
De Valera considers that the mi
nority of Irishmen in Northern Ire
land who wish to join with his gov
ernment are subject to London s
rule against their will.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Move for Ha|f-BiI|ior
Fund for P. W. A.
Projects Started
Senotor Need PIuns
To Sponsor Fund for
Approved PIons
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

A move was under way at the
Capitol today to appropriate another
$500 900 900 for approved projects OF
the Public Works Administration, an
agency that was not listed in the
Presidents message Thursday for a
share of the new $1,75O 900 900 relief
bill for the next fiscal year.
Senator Mead, Democrat. Of New
York made known he would seek to
have the Senate Appropriations
Committee consider such an amend
ment when the work relief measure
is received from the House, where 1t
will originate.
The New York Senator early in
the session drafted a bill to make
P. w. A. a permanent branch of
the Interior Department, with a
$500, ,00O,O 900 fund to. carry on. He
explained today that the President S
reorganization plan, consolidating
p. w. A., w. P. A. and several other
construction activities into a new
Federal works agency, makes part OF
his bill unnecessary.
Accordingly, he will strike out the
permanent organization features
and ask only for the additional ap-
preparation.
In Strategic Position.
The fact that P. w. A. has 5,8O7
proposed projects for all parts of the
country pending and ready to start
whenever additional funds are avail.
able for loans or grants, it expected
to create strong support for ar
amendment along the lines of the
Mead proposal
Senator Mead pointed out thai
many communities already hav.
held elections approving bond is.
sues to cover their share of P. w. A
projects, and in some cases have
awarded conditional contracts, sub.
ject to approval of the projects
OF the 5.807 pending projects, loca
bond issues have been authorized
for about 1000, and this will give
added impetus to the drive for an.
other allotment.
Senator Schwellenbach, Democrat
of Washington announced he woulc
support new P. w. A. fund a.
matter of keeping faith with
communities that have arranged
to finance their share of the cost
Popularity Attested.
The popularity of the P. w. A
part of the work relief picture wa.
evidenced last summer. when Con.
gress earmarked 1865 900 900 of thu
current years appropriation fol
these heavier type construction
projects.
Senator Mead said there are 8
number of towns. both in New Eng
land and elsewhere. in need o.
replacing school buildings damaged
by storm or fire.
To take care of all of the 500
pending projects, P. w. A. woulc
need sits 900 900 for Federal grants
toward a total construction cost ol
Sits 900 600.
Advocates Of the P. w. A. typt
of pump printing contend that fol
every job created directly at thu
site of heavy construction project
other men are put back to work
indirectly in the industrial plant!
manufacturing and fabricating thu
materials.
Since the House Appropriations
Committee is expected to get fur
ther along with its w. P. A. in.
quiry before bringing out the new
work relief bill, the issue probably
will not arise in the Senate for an.
other month.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Lutheran Society Picks
Members of Boord

Seven members were elected to
the Official Board of the Washing
ton Lutheran Inner Mission So
ciety at the annual meeting last
night at the Incarnation Lutheran
Church, Fourteenth and Gallatin
streets NV.
They were the Rev Harold Num-
per. Keller Memorial Church; the
Rev. Ralph w. Loew, assistant pas
tor of Reformed Church, and the
Rev. George M. Grewenow Of Faith
Lutheran Church in Arlington, Va.
and the following lay members
A. M. Cooper. st. Marks; Pau
Murtz, st. Stephens; Lloyd Nelson
Luther Place Memorial; Martins
Folk, incarnation. and Martin Nc.
Grory, Atonement.
The board will hold its first meet.
ing of the year next month. The
society's work was presented ir
sketches and exhibits by Mis-.
Frances Dysinger, executive director
The annual report revealed that
1896 quarts of milk were distributed
by the organization to invalids ano
children.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Langley Day Trophies
Put on Display

Trophies for the seventh annual
Langley Day air maneuvers. to be
held by the Washington Air Derby
Association Sunday, May 7, at Col
lege Park Airport, College Park, Md.
have been put on display in the
windows of the Chesapeake & Po-
tomac. Telephone Co., 723 Thir-
teenth street NV.
Among the trophy donors are the
Air Track Manufacturing Co.
American Oil Co., Aero Club OF
Washington, L. S. Julien, Inc; Cap.
itol Cadillac Co., Willard Hotel
Washington Board of Trade, Frank
r. Jelleff, Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co., Fries, Beall g. SHARP
Co.; Modern Radio Co., Arthur
Sundlun, National Airport Corp
and Morris Auto Service.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
CothoIic Groups Join
For One-Doy Retreat

The Catholic Social Service Work.
ers and Nurses of the various Or
ganizations and hospitals of the
District will unite with the women
of st. Aloysius and st. Mary's
churches tomorrow in a one-day
retreat at the Washington Retreat
House. 1000 Hardwood road NE.
The retreat master will be the Rev.
Wilfrid Parsons, dean of the Gradu-
ate School of Georgetown University.
The women of st. Aloysius are
under the leadership of Miss Rose
Juneman. She will be assisted by
Mrs. William Roche, Mrs. Mary
Horan, Miss Mary Oddeninom, Miss
Margaret Ganey, Miss Elizabeth
King, Mrs. Anna Moore and Mrs.
Catherine Darr. Miss Theresa Be-
habetz is team captain of st.
Mary's Church.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Logue Doomed as Foe
OF Senator Guffey
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, April 90
Pennsylvania's secretary of internal
aHalrs, Thomas A. Logue, is being
doomed for the 1910 Democratic
senatorial nomination in opposition
to United States Senator Joseph F..
Guffey.
Inc boom was touched OF pre-
Inaturely at testimonial dinner
gwen to Mr.. Logue by employees of
ms department this week. He retires
from Office Tuesday.
He did not tell the gathering
whether he intends to seek the
nomination at the Democratic
primary election next spring.
senator Guffey already has in
formed Pennsylvania Democratic
leaders ne will be a candidate to
succeed himself.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
O'Mohoney Agreeable
To Monopoly Fund Cut
BY the, Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator OMahoney, Democrat, of
Wyoming, chairman of the Federal
Monopoly Committee, said yester-
day the congressional action in re-
ducing an appropriation for the
committee from 5000 900 to $12O, ,OO0
was perfectly agreeable" to him
The Senate had voted the larger
amount, but the House reduced it.
and the Senate followed suit.
Senator O'Mahoney said he had
agreed to the cut at the request of
House members, who felt the appro-
priatio0 should not be granted with
out committee hearings. He said
he would appear before the House
Appropriations Committee later and
ask for the additional sum.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Countess Loses Ring
Left Tuxicub

Countess de Baillet-Latour re.
ported to police today the loss of q
ruby and diamond ring, valued al
$500 in a taxi here last night.
She said she left 1t in cab which
transported her from a downtown
theater to the Carlton Hotel. The
ring is platinum, set with a round
ruby and a cluster of diamonds and
rubies..
The Belgian countess, who, as
Mariana Dunn, made her debut
here in 1896, is staying with hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James C.
Dunn, at n Observatory place NV
Mr.. D2nn is adviser on political rela-
tions at the State Department..
Evening star., 1939-04-29
John Dougherty Heads
6. W. Student Council

John Daugherty was elected presi-
dent of the George Washington Uni
versity Student Council for the COM
ing academic year as two days of
student balloting ended last night.
The election was a clean sweep for
the Service party for the official
council posts. However, Barbara
Harmon, an Independent Voters
League candidate, won the presi-
dency of the senior class.
Other council officers are John
Breckenridge, controller; Alice Mil
Ter, secretary-treasurer; Elwood
Davis, program director; Don Rush,
intramurals director, and Irwin
Nathanson, forum director.
Other senior class officers are Roy
Lever, vice president, and Jay Sam
uel, secretary.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Mrs. Noffsineer Elected
Alumnoe President

MRS. j. S. Noffsinger was elected
nrst president of the Washington
woman graduates of Columbia UNI
versity at an organization meeting
Yesterday In the clubhouse of the
american Association of University
Women.
MISS Augusta Kriemer was chosen
vice president, Mrs. Edward L.
hoWes' secretary, and Mrs. Arthur
.henstrom, treasurer. The group will
meet a joint formal dinner with
the male alumni ct the shoreham
Hotel May u,
Evening star., 1939-04-29
CoIored Doctors Urged
On GoIIinqer Stoff

A formal request, asking that COL
ored physicians be represented on
the staff of Gallinger Hospital, was
being drafted today by special
committee of the Federation of Civic
Associations.
The question Of colored repre-
sentations on the hospital staff was
brought up last night at fedora
ton meeting at the District Build
ing. The committee, composed OF
DR.. C. Herbert Marshall. jr.; DR.. E
S. Jones and Mrs. Velma Williams, is
to submit the request it is preparing
to the federation.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Huge Shork Caught

Claiming to have landed the larg-
est fish ever caught with rod and
line. c. R. Cowell of Adelaide, Aus
tralia. has asked the Game Angling
Association of Australia to confirm
his record. Cowell hooked a white
shark weighing 1921 pounds on a
standard 39-cord line. The previous
known record is l.130-pound shark
caught in New South Wales last
year.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Rooseve|t's Speech
For Fair Unchanged
By Killers Reply
Morse RoyoI Couple
Entertained at Home
In Hyde Park
, the Associated Press.

0y the ASSOCldteQ fIeSS
HYDE PARK, N. Y, April 90
President Roosevelt today continued
to study an official summary of
Adolf Hitler's Reichstag speech as
White House officials reiterated mo
comment"
Presidential secretaries empha-
sized again that Mr.. Roosevelt's
Worlds Fair speech in New York
tomorrow, as written, contained no
references to the German leaders
eaustic reply to his non-aggression
pledge request.
The Sunday address, to run
around 1000 words, was completed
Thursday nigl1t and officials said
there had been no additions to it.
Meanwhile, the President and
Mrs. Roosevelt gave over the better
part of their time today to their
royal guests, Crown Prince Olaf
and. Princess Martha of Norway,
who are in this country to attend
the fair.
The prince and princess were
driven to the Roosevelt home for tea.
Later there was what was de-
scribed as a country family dinner" !"
attended by relatives and neighbors
of the Roosevelts. The VasSar COL
lege Choir sang afterward.
All formality was dispensed with,
and today's entertainment sched-
ule was even more markedly demo-
cratic. The Roosevelts planned a
picnic for their guests either at Mrs.
Roosevelt's Waikiki cottage across
the road from the big house" or at
the Presidents new Dutch Colonial
stone bungalow a few miles away.
Norwegian singers and dancers
from New York were to provide the
entertainment
The royal couple came up the Hud-
con from New York on the presi-
Dental yacht Potomac, escorted by
three Coast Guard boats. They were
piped over the side onto an old
lumber dock, where the President
and Mrs Roosevelt. standing beside
their car. greeted them with smiles
end handshakes.
I'm glad to see you and How
are you?" said the President, first
to Princess Martha, in gray en-
semble, then to the 35-year-old
prince, who wore a black suit and
overcoat. There were no formal in
Productions, although naval and
military aides were there for that
purpose. The President beat them
to it and then presented each to
Mrs. Roosevelt.
New York Times Story Denied.
The usual Friday morning press
conference was Cancelled and the
only statement from the President
during the day was a denial of
Washington story by Arthur Krock
U the New York Times. The story
said that some time before the Mu-
Mich conference last fall Mr.. Roose-
velt asked Hitler and Mussolini to
meet him at sea rendezvous to
discuss ways of guaranteeing peace
and that the dictators rejected the
proposal.
The President authorized the fol-
lowing formal statement:
Il have read the Krock story in
the New York Times. 1t is not true,
but otherwise it is interesting and
we'll written
The story said the Presidents pur-
pose was to learn from the dictators
at first hand their minimum terms
for pledging lasting peace and, if
ne found these practicable, to offer
his services as intermediary"
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Argument in Cafe
Results in knifinq

Rufus Cornell, %, of 724 Takoma
avenue, Silver Spring, Md, was
treated in Washington Sanitarium
early today for three stab wounds
received in an argument at the
Pickwick Grill. 8233 Georgia avenue.
He was stabbed under the left arm
and twice in the chest, but his con-
dition was not reported serious.
Montgomery County Md police
are holding John r. Watson, 26.
colored. of 1924 Hunt place NE. an
employe of the grill, for investiga-
ton.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Horse Show Postponed

Because of unfavorable ground
conditions, the Fairfax horse show,
scheduled this afternoon, has been
postponed until tomorrow afternoon
at l o'clock. The entire program
! will be held over.
Evening star., 1939-04-29
Two Admit POISONING:
Eleven for Insurance, ::
Prosecutor Says J.:
PennsyIvonions Sold
Witch's Brew at $500
A Pint, He Asserts
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April 29.-A
convicted member Of an insurance.
murder ring and another man who
described himself as an "errand boy"
for the leaders, were quoted by Dis
trict Attorney Charles F. Kelley to-
day as admitting they had a part
in the poisoning Of IL persons.
The district attorney said Her
man Petrillo, convicted with a rec
ommendation of death for poisoning
a w. P. A. worker. had related in
statement that he provided
"witch's brew"-a solution of poison
which sold for $500 a pint-used to
kill eight people for insurance
money. -,
Petrillo. 40-year-old former spa
ghetti salesman, made the state
ment, Kelley said. after Rafaele
Polselli. IS, had admitted compile
ity in the poisoning of three others,
and had implicated Petrillo. Polselli,
a boarder in the home of the rings
confessed members, surrendered to
police yesterday.
Chief County Detective William
Connolly predicted more than a
score of murders" would be linked
to Petrillo before the investigation
was completed. Thirteen persons,
many of them widows of poison vic.
tins, already have been charged
with homicide.
District Attorney Kelley said
Polselli identified himself, Petrillo
and Mrs. Carina Favato. confessed
poisoner of three persons. as the
organizers Of the ring. started about
10 years ago. Police believe the
ring may have been responsible for
100 deaths in Eastern seaboard
States.
Police here were asked yesterday
by Philadelphia police to try to find
Ralph Polselli who may be living
in the 100 block of Bryant street
NV" But before they went to
that address another wire came
from Philadelphia police saying
Polselli had surrendered there and
| to disregard" the request.
Local police have no other infor-
nation whether Polselli is a Wash
| ington man.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-11-03
IN MEMORIAM

In memory of my husband who
passed away one year ago today,
2, 1888.
There is someone who misses you
sadly and finds the time long,
since you went.
There is someone who thinks of
you always and tries to be
brave and content.
Remembrance is a golden chain
Death tries to break, but all in
vain.
To have, to love, and then to part
Is the greatest sorrow of ones
heart.
Ever Remembered,
Mrs. Samuel Teal, Wife.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-11-03
Negro G. O.P. Leaders Not Wise

which because of
loyalty been receiving complaints from
about the failure of Governor Stassens
the of giving Negroes fair share of state
jobs
Ordinarily that if the spo in effect then
there will be house cleaning when there is change in
administrations While spoils system is very undesirable form
politics. hngs and rngs far reaching would
glance Always under the spos
tuay the best machines eventually them
ofe-thereby making possible job holders
to living
makes the Republican house cleaning unfair that
masked itself variety of other things ranging from ench
displacement Communists" addition
when alleged civil service being into effect
strategy the beginning the Republican
would have sought which would
them share of jobs after the election but they
would have also insisted that certain unusual jobs which Negroes held
be left untouched.
fair share would not have done
any important posts
all whites who Benson oud but certain Negro
that all coored who favored him
the civil law has into will
before another chance number of responsible
positions
The long and short of it that Negro Republicans have helped
anything which family resembd member of the
With this done they find that there practically
comparable them fill VACANCIES These
have been filled with white and the oored o.
been left holding the bag
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-11-03
POrgy at the University

Controversy which incidentally makes good promotion publicity
raging University question
the University Theatre should Pog play based deep
South Negro life in low sum called Catfish Row."
nothing else will of the brothers
and involved to read little than ordinarily The demand
the play has swamped libraries in both Minneapolis ST. Paul
object the the University trotng
number of phrases like artistic success misunderstanding
of what involved" and number of other humbuggeres
Some of those interested presenting the play defend their
by telling about how Negro students reported in
The laugh however, that number of those
spending had heard of the play and did know what
about.
dispute the existence Catfish Row" than
would dispute the existence Tobacco Road which porays
similar conditions whites the south Unfortunately however
of those who the play will remember that it offers
social picture They will tend regard typical illustration of
Negro life everywhere.
The students they participate should not be denounced because
they still the formative and naturally tend follow the
thought faculty opinion the University The University the
other hand and especially the faculty members in the social science
departments should better and must blamed for unfavo
able outcome.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-11-03
Why Negroes
Should Oppose
The War

WHY NEGROES SHOULD OP-
POSE THE WAR, by J. R. John
son. A SC pamphlet. Pioneer Pub
fishers, New York, 116 University
Place. Also on sale at Labor Book
Store, 919 Marquette Avenue, Min
neapolis.
This 32-page pamphlet comes at
a particularly timely period, when
war is once again raging in Europe,
and Negroes and Africans all over
the world are asking: What are we
to do? What does this war mean
to Negroes?
The author estimates the amount
of democracy the Negroes got out
of the first "War for Democracy"
in 1917-1919, and comes to the con-
clusion that the Negroes were de-
ceived and betrayed by the war
makers, and that by supporting this
war the Negroes would get even
less democracy than from the last
war.
Mr.. Johnson surveys all the
forces in the world today that are
working to drag the Negro into
war, and those forces that are OPP
posing the war, and calls upon the
Negroes to line up with the oppo-
nents of imperialist war.
Brothers and sisters of what
ever color" he writes, "this war is
not our war. We will not support
it. We, the workers, the poor farm
ers in every country, white, black,
and brown, are not going to kill
one another at the command of
Chamberlain, or Hitler-at the or
ders of Roosevelt or the Japanese
Mikado. We shall fight for the fra
ternal unity between all the poor
in every country against all the
rich. That is the war we shall fight.
Down with the imperialist war;"
Whether or not one agrees with
all the authors ideas, the pamphlet
is certainly provocative of deep
thought upon the part of any read
er.