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Evening star., 1939-12-18

with her when she lay yide-eyed in
the darkness. And during those
months, the payments had lapsed
The house had been refinanced, but
even the interest was too much for
her after awhile. Now with Christ
mas just ahead. she faced the same
old problem with the question of
how to bring something of the spirit
of Christmas to the children.
Eviction Christmas Eve.
She stared at the headless doll
that Eva had put in her toy chair
before she went to school, Tommy s
truck rested in lopsided way or
the table-only two wheels were left
on it. Joan had left scraps of home.
work on the table, too.
The children would have to know
she decided. And then she was
crying
For families like Mrs. Johnson's
families that will face bleak
Christmas. families with children
scattered with relatives with their
own problems. December Is will
mean only another desolate day un-
less you help You can share your
own happy Christmas by sending a
cash donation to The Star cashier
for the Christmas Heart Fund.
Whatever you can spare from
your own holiday celebration will
make the holiday for some one like
Mrs Johnson SOnoo ono for r,h nm
Christmas otherwise will be a day
of sadness.
| It's up to you.
Evening star., 1939-12-18
700 Russian Soldiers
Reported Slain by
Patrol Of 9Finns
Soviets Mussed on Rood
Are Target Of Small
Enemy Groups
Bv the Associated Press.


COPENHAGEN. Dec. 18.-Nor-
wegian reports from Northern Fin
land today described forest fighting
IN which a patrol of nine Finnish
soldiers was said to have killed TOO
Russians in an exposed highway
position.
Exhausted Finnish soldiers cross
ing into Norway told how small
patrols equipped with light macnlne-
guns and light field guns were har-
RAISING the Russian advance in the
North.
They explained the tremendous
loss in one engagement as due to
the fact the Russians were massed
on road exposed directly to
Finnish guns.
A Norwegian Telegraph Agency
report from Svanvik, Norwegian
town near the Finnish frontier, said
that 40 Finnish troops had been
disarmed and interned. The SOL
diers said they had not slept in
five days and had fought until their
ammunition was gone.
There were reports of heavy fight
ing all night southwest of Salmi-
jarvi and the battle still continued
at noon today. The Russians were
said to be suffering heavy losses.
but were bringing up reinforce
mentS.
Evening star., 1939-12-18
Russians Reported Halted
By Films in Southeast

HELSINKI, Dec. 18 (P.-Russian
tank-pointed attempts to crack Fin
nish defenses on the eastern flank
of the Mannerheim Line were re-
ported today to have been smashed
by the defenders field guns.
The difficulties of the Soviet
mechanical warfare in the choppy,
snoW-drifted terrain of Finlands S
southeastern lake country were re-
f1ected in a Finnish communique
telling of destruction of 80 tanks
Friday and Saturday, including
three land battleships'-3O-t ton
machines.
Particularly intense was the COM
bat yesterday north of Lake Ladoga
which the reds have been trying to
round from the south and east to
roll up the flank of the main Fin
nish line. The Finnish forces re-
ported all attacks repulsed on the
Karelian Isthmus and elsewhere in
the southeast.
10000 Men Surrounded.
Meanwhile, the commander of
Finnish troops on the Salla and
Petsamo fronts told Swedish cor
respondents that two Russian
forces of about 10000 men each
were surrounded in the vicinities of
Tolvajarvi and Suomussalmi, about
As miles and 245 miles, respectively,
north of Lake Ladoga.
The Tolvajarvi force would be
part Of the army Russia is trying
to send around Lake Ladoga while
the Suomussalmi troops would be
part of the spearhead showed into
Central Finland.
The commander also was quoted
as saying the Finnish command
was convinced Russian tank corps
which recently attacked Salmijarvi,
on the Norwegian border in the
Petsamo region, northernmost Fin
land, had used Norwegian road.
Norwegian authorities. however,
said they had been informed of no
such violation of their border.
From the Salmijarvi front came
unofficial word that the Reds had
faltered in their assault on that CEN
ter of the nickel mining area and
that the towns defenders were max
ing a fierce stand in the Arctic
(see, FINLAND, Page A-30
Evening star., 1939-12-18
Smith Discusses
N.L.R.B. Investigation

Representative Howard w.
Smith of Virginia will be the
guest speaker tonight on the
National Radio Forum over
WMAL at 10:30 o'clock.
Representative Smith, who
Is chairman of the special
House committee investigating
the National Labor Relations
Board, will discuss the work
of his committee in probing
the boards decisions and its
interpretations of the law.
The National Radio Forum
is arranged by The Star and
Is heard over a coast-to-coast
network Of the National Broad
casting Co.
Evening star., 1939-12-18
Paris Reports Firing
On Western Front
kv the Associated Press.

Sv the Associated Press.
PARIS, Dec 18.-Renewed ar
tillery fire was reported on the
western front in today's allied high
command communique.
It said:
"A quiet night. Some artillery
fire"
Last nights communique said ac-
tivity was reduced and added.
Nothing of Importance to report
Meanwhile the ministry of in
terror. took action to halt what it
termed new German propaganda
methods, by circulation of records
and songs Frenchmen who fail to
report the records or songs to police
will be charged with acting against
the national defense. the ministry
said. 1t reported the records were
brought into France through an
indirect route"
Evening star., 1939-12-18
"a British Bombers Brought Down
In He|go|and Raid Nazis Report; !;
Enq|ish Sub Claims Foes Cruiser
a Merchantmen
Fall Before Planes,
Germans Declare
By the Associated Press.

:
BERLIN, Dec. 18.-Thirty- -four
British bombers were said by Ger
many to have been shot down in a
terrific air battle off the North Ger
man coast in the vicinity of Hell
goland this afternoon.
Forty-four British planes were
said to have participated in the at
tack. Helgoland, a German naval
base, is an island off the north
coast of Germany.
The German fighters rose to at
tack as soon as the British flight,
the biggest unit yet used against
Germany, was sighted.
Reports said the German planes,
led by a Capt Schumacher, sue
ceeded in scattering the British.
Two German planes were lost, it
was said. Their crews took to para
chutes.
The wreckage of many British
planes was reported washing up on
German shores.
First stories of the battle indi-
Gated it was the biggest air engage
ment of the war, with sharp fight
ing over the sea and an intensive
anti-aircraft fire coming from land
batteries.
Claim Four Ships Sunk.
The official German News Agency,
DNB, reported earlier that German
bombers sank four British mer-
chantmen and damaged three war
ships yesterday in an air attack
In celebrating on high COM
mand communioue which said ''one
vanguard ship" was sunk by bomb,
DNB declared German planes at
tackled British convoy with bombs
and machine guns.
THE mere appearance of the Ger
man planes on the scene suffced to
cause the greatest disquietude on
the British ships" DNB reported
Numerous crews fed into the life
boats, although their ships were not
attacked at all.
"One group of German scouters
attacked the convoy protected by
the men-o'-war After the first bomb
fell among the ships, the CONVOY
scattered to the four winds. Several
explosions could be observed
Say Warships List.
The German news agency iden-
titled two of the four merchant ships
reported destroyed as the Pearl and
Serenity.
.tThe British announced the
487-ton British steamer Serenity
was sunk by bombs yesterday.
Lloyd's shipping register lists the
Pearl as q 678-ton British Ship
The men O. war reported damaged
ranged up to $500 tons, DNB said.
Damage to the warships was
proven, the agency asserted, by their
listing, flames and smoke. Their
crews were said to have taken to
the lifeboats.
Light bombs were dropped from
great height while Nazi scouting
planes flew low, machine-gunnlng
the ships, the news agency said.
The German planes sighted the
convoy while returning from a scout
ing fight.
Evening star., 1939-12-18
1ruckIoad Of Cream
Seized by Police al
DaiN's Plant:
Unlicensed Product
Loaded at Alexandria,
Seal Told in Report

A truckload of cream. said to have
been transported from an ice cream
mix plant in Alexandria, Va, was
seized by police and Health Depart
ment officials today at the High
lands Farms Dairy, 1915 First
street SW.
Policeman John B. Layton. who
with DR.. T. w. Sproesser, Health
Department inspector, made the
seizure, reported to Corporation
Counsel Elwood Seal that the truck
was loaded with A cans of un-
licensed cream at the Comico Prod
ucts Co. in Alexandria last night.
Luther w. High, owner of the
Highland Farms Dairy, denied, how
ever, the truckload of cream seized
had come from the Alexandria plant.
The cream, he said, came from the
Highland Farms and was being
loaded on the truck in Highland
Farms Dairy cans at the First street
plant for transfer to the firms
plant at 1926 Half street Sc. this
morning
Policeman Layton had reported
that the truck was kept under sur
veillance all night on the lot ada
cent to the Alexandria Grain &
Feed Co., where it was parked prior
to leaving for the local dairy about
6 am. today.
Mr.. High declared the truck, which
he said belonged to the Comico
Products Co., was parked in Alex
andria last night, but was empty
when it arrived at the Highland
Farms plant.
Preston Wilmer, driver of the
truck, was being held at a police
precinct station, pending questioning
by Policeman Layton. The cream
was seized and taken to the Terminal
Storage Co. District officials said
they would Immediately notify Mr.
High to remove the cream from
the District within "a hours.
Corporation Counsel Seal said the
Comico firm has a license to ship
cream into the District for ice
cream purposes, but not for dis
tribution by a dairy. He said Pc
liceman Layton and DR.. Sproesser
would confer with him Wednesday
morning to decide what information
would be filed against the Local
dairy.
Evening star., 1939-12-18

-
could in those days when young
Mr.. johnson had a good job and
the money was coming in every
week.
Now we've paid for the dining
room and the parlor and the kitch-
en- Mr.. johnson used to say, Two
more bedrooms and a few closets
and the house is ours"
Sold the Furniture.
They had never been able to buy
much furniture and after her hus-
bands death. Mrs. johnson gradu-
ally sold of the better pieces-the
pieces they had bought new when
they were married-to try to keep
up with the installments that
weren't joke any more.
But she kept the wicker chair, the
old rocker that had been his ia
vorite, and it was there she sat the
other afternoon while the older chill
| dren were in school and the baby
was taking his nap. She got some
comfort from that chair.
She stared at the figures on the
paper before her.
Five children. she told herself
Forty-eight dollars coming in a
month from the relief people (aid
to dependent children. Enough for
food, enough even for clothes and
shoes if she was careful, but not
enough for installments on the
house. She was getting used to that
set of figures. For months, they
had been her constant companion,
with her when she went to the store.
Evening star., 1939-12-18
1,039 at Buenos Aires:
Officers May Be
Given Freedom
By HAROLD X. MILKS,

nSSOCldtcu EicSS 6lsH Correspondents.
MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 18.-New ex-
plosions shook the twisted hulk of
the German pocket battleship
Admiral Graf Spec today even as a
high Argentine official announced
her crew of 1,039 would be interned.
At the same time, Uruguay sought
to learn just how the Nazi crew sent
the ship to the bottom of the Plate
River estuary yesterday with blasts
in her hull by arresting four of the
crew for questioning
Most of the officers and crew went
to Buenos Aires by tugboat and
barge in the hope that Argentina
would treat them as shipwrecked
sailors rather than as belligerents,
but high Argentine official said
the crew would be interned.
The officers. the official said, may
be granted their freedom on their
Evening star., 1939-12-18
Missing Boy|sFound
After Ah-Nieht Search
In Virginia Woods
c. c. c. Youth Discovers
Child Lying Beside Log
Near Picnic Site

| Five-year-old John Ashby (Dicky)
Williams, Sd, of 1909 Otis street NE,
who strayed from a picnic party
near Independence Hill, Va, yester-
day afternoon, was found at 9 am.
today after a posse of 300 had
searched through the tangled un-
derbrush of the area in an all
night search.
Stanley Lanieski. one of more
than 125 enrollees at nearby
Civilian Conservation Corps camp
who joined in the search, found
Dicky lying beside 2-foot log on
the edge of 3,000-acre forest, about
"a of a mile from the site of a
church picnic where he was last
seen.
The Lanieski youth said he saw
the childs legs protruding from the
end of the log, and after he cried
out, I've found him! I've found
him!" the youngster began thresh-
ing about.
Blue With Cold.
Dicky, blue with cold, according
to the c. c. c. enrollee, cried weakly
to Stanley:
Il want my mommy. I want my
mommy" He then began to num-
BILE unintelligibly, the searcher
stated.
Remembering his camp first aid
training, Stanley said he began rub
bing the child's body vigorously and
called to companion, Joe Krick,
who was searching nearby.
| The two carried the child to the
huge bonfire which had been kept
up all night near the picnic scene.
The mother, Mrs. Marian AIM
quist Williams, q, who had kept an
all-night vigil by the fire while the
searchers combed the surrounding
territory, collapsed when her son
was brought to her. She was re-
vived shortly, however, and tear
fully coddled the youngster by the
campfire.
Examined by Physician.
Dicky, a grandson of Col. John
Ashby Williams of Washington, well
known international lawyer, later
was taken to the Office Of DR.. Ben
jamin Franklin Williams at Triangle
Va, for thorough physical checkup
| (see LOST CHILD, Page A-50
Evening star., 1939-12-18
Dr.. Boyd Leaves Miami
On Way to Panama
B, the Associated Press

bH tnS ASSOCIHUeu FIPSS.
MIAMI, Fla. Dec. l8.-Dr. Augusta
s. Boyd, hurrying home to assume
the presidency of Panama, left here
today aboard an Army bomber for
the Latin American republic
DR.. Boyd, now Vice President, will
succeed President Juan Demostenes
Arosemena, who died Saturday of a
heart attack.
DR.. and Mrs. Boyd arrived here
yesterday from Washington.
Evening star., 1939-12-18
japanese 10 Reopen
Yangtze 10 Trade;
New u. ). Pact Seen
PIon to Lift Bon
On River Navigation
Revealed to Grew
BY the Associated Press.

by tne Associated Press.
TOXIC, Dec. 18.-The japanese
forces in China have decided to re-
open the Yangtze River below Man.
king to third-power commerce under
military restrictions. the foreign
office announced today.
The decision was made known to
United States Ambassador Joseph c.
Grew in . half-hour conversation
with Foreign Minister Admiral
Kichisaburo NomurA. He was un-
derstood to figure prominently In
American Japanese conversations
aimed at settling outstanding dM-
ferences between the United States
and Japan.
The Yangtze River, which is the
main artery of trade and commerce
with vast Central China, and opens
up to foreign trade the greater part
of China proper. was closed to third
power traffic in August. 1887, one
month after the beginning of the
japanese war in China.
Now. said a foreign Office COM
munique, the japanese forces in
China have decided to make prep
arations with a view to lifting the
ban on navigation in the Yangtze
from Nanking downward under GER
tain restrictions for the maintenance
of peace and order and for military
operations
Gradual Modification.
The decision, it was stated, re-
suited from the fact that absolute
military requirements calling for
closure of the Lower Yangtze area
have become amenable to gradual
modification" The communique
continued:
1T is greatly regrettable in this
connection that Japan is misunder-
stood in some quarters as If she were
intending to act in an exclusive and
monopolistic manner.
THE japanese government is not
acting with view to shutting out
in the future economic activities of
other powers in China. As a mat
ter of fact they are not reluctant to
open even the Yangtze, Pearl and
other rivers (The Pearl is at Can
TOM It is hoped in the light of
(See TOXIC, Page A-50
Evening star., 1939-12-18
Heat Records Tumble
Week Before Christmas

A small sale of summer clothes
for Christmas shoppers might turn
a tidy profit along about now.
The Weather Bureau reported
heat records tumbling a week be-
fore Christmas. Yesterdays high
of "a, registered at 4 pm, set a new
high for any December II since the
bureau began to keep records.
Evening star., 1939-12-18
Threat Laid
oLabor Board
Regional Chief
Probers Are Told Of
Phone Talk With
Company Official
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Internal dissension in National
Labor Relations Board held
spotlight in first weeks inuesti-
cation by special House Commit
tee. Probe of much -criticized
N. L. r. B. launched last Mon
day to determine Uhether agency
1CaS impartial in decisions, con-
duct and Interpretation OF Wng-
ner Act. One of boards former
regional directors traced his
resignation to failure to take
Washington orders to piolate
WAGNER Act.
Evening star., 1939-12-18
Winston Churchill
To Broadcast Today
y the Associated Press

ny the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 18.-The British
Broadcasting Corp. announced today
that Winston Churchill. first lord of
the admiralty, would broadcast on
The Glorious Battle Of the River
Plate" at 9:l5 pm. H:lS pm,
E. S. to tonight.
Evening star., 1939-12-18
By LOUIS P. LOCHNER,

Associated Press Foreien Correspondent.
BERLIN, Dec. 18.-The possibility
that Germany may claim damages
from Uruguay for the scuttled
pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec
arose today when authorized sources
explained the basis of a German
protest to the Uruguayan govern
ment.
They cited article XVII of The
tSee BERLIN, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1939-12-18
.iIheIminu to Broadcast

THE HAGUE, Dec. 18 (P.-Queen
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands will
broadcast message to her people
at l pm. GAO am. E. 8. To We'd
nesday, officials announced today.
Evening star., 1939-12-18
Facts About The Star

Yesterdays Sunday Star con-
tanned 6 sections (94 pages
printed on regular newsprint
weighing 232, 900 pounds, or 116
tons; also IL pages of color
Comics, IL pages of Roto-
gravure pictures and 16 pages
Of This Week" magazine.
Yesterdays Circulation
The Sunday Star
Sunday, Dec. II, 1899 -169, ,573*
Sunday, Dec. Is, 1885 -141,091*
. Increase in 4 years 28,482
Returns from newsstands not de-
Quoted. No samples included.
The circulation of The Star,
both evening and Sunday, has
increased more than 10000
copies per day during the past
year.
Evening star., 1939-12-18
Widow and S Children Face
A Bleak Christmas Day
Relief Payments Not Enough to Make This
Family Aware of the Holiday

A-3J
They bought their home the little
street by little yard after they
Their children born there
husband died after the accident.
Each before his a
pay the monthly inStamentS the house
The Johnson
Evening star., 1939-12-18
Specs Crew to Be Interned;
Reich May Claim Damages
Protest to Uruguay
Charges Violation
Of Hague Pact
BULLETIN.

Secretary Hull said today
common action among the
American republics as a result Of
the British German naval bat
tie off Uruguay would take place
within a very few days, certainly
this week.
(Tert OF Capt. Langsdor1's let
ter on Page A-20)
Evening star., 1939-12-18
Editorial and Comment
Sports

sports
Wander Nicer and Northwestern grid
ders years prize flops. Page Ala
Major college basketers on tour for
intersectional laurels. Page Ala
Snead, Miami winner, hopes dentist
will help his game. Page Ala
Alice Cole rolls 160 for top game in
Star pin event. Page Ais
Tourney-crowded 1910 card looms
for golfers hereabout. Page Ais
Evening star., 1939-12-18

Foreign.
German planes sink 3 ships in North
Sea. Page Al
"a British bombers brought down.
Nazis claim. Page Al
Germans may claim damages for
sinking of Graf Spec. Page Al
Graf Spec scuttled by own crew of
Montevideo. Page Al
japanese to reopen Yangtze to third
powers. Page Al
100 Russians reported slain by 9
Firms. Page Al
Evening star., 1939-12-18
NotionoI

Supreme Court may rule on flood
control program. Page Al
C. I. o. assails N. L. r. B.; wants
act changed. Page Az
President receives new reports on
sinking Of Spec. Page A-2o
National Progressive League may
back Roosevelt again. Page Al
Washington and Vicinity.
Lost boy found after all-night
search in Virginia. Page Al
Police seize truckload Of alleged un-
licensed cream. Page Al
Evening star., 1939-12-18
Summary of Todoy's Star

Weekend traffic accidents take four
lives. Page B-1
Stokowski to take U. S. orchestra to
Latin America. Page B-1
Evening star., 1939-12-18

(See SPEC, Page AID
Evening star., 1939-12-18

(See LONDON, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1939-12-18

tSee BERLIN, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1939-12-18

tonight, minimum about AZ; tomorrow
cloudy, occasional light rain. Tenn
peratures today-Highest, 81, at pm:
lowest, IS, at am.
From the United States westh Bureau report.
Full details on Page Az
Evening star., 1939-12-18

(See. FINLAND, Page A-3)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-28

asserted today at Hsingking, Man
chukuo, that Japanese-M anchu-
kuoan airplanes shot down 9s
outer Monaghan planes in a from
tier fight at dawn.
The communique disclosed also
that Japanese airplanes bombed an
outer Mongolian airplane base at
Tamsk, and it was asserted the
Japanese destroyed 80 planes on
the field there. II was reported
many buildings were burning at
Tamsk.
According to the Japanese YER
sion. 200 outer Monaghan airplanes
flew over Manchukuoan territory
near Lake BUR, and 9s of them
were shot down in 40-minute
fight. II was believed. the COM
munique said. that six additional
planes were destroyed. Loss of
three japanese planes was ad-
mitted.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-06-28
HIGH SCHOOL
BOY RESCUED
Bob Price, Tacoman,
Dives in Bay and
Saves Youth

Years of experience around the
Tacoma Yacht club stood Bob
Price. University Of Washington
senior. in good stead Monday night
when he rescued young Seattle
high school boy from drowning at
the Seattle Yacht clubs Portage
bay headquarters.
Price is the son of Mrs. Edna w.
Price of the Buckingham apart
ments. She is deputy collector
of internal revenue. Price, a good
swimmer, is a graduate of Stadium
high school and for a time attended
c. P. S.
He and Gilbert Walton, Seattle
city light employe. were standing
nearby Monday evening when Jerry
Travers of Seattle, fell into Port
age bay. Price dived in. hauled the
Travers boy out and Walton took
care of the resuscitation. Young
Travers could not swim.