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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-17
HUGE CRUISER
IS VICTIM Of
GERMAN UDOAT
Repulse. Sister Ship
OF Renown, L. Badly
Crippled, Maxi High
Command Asserts
snuIl.rrtNsl

LONDON Naval quarters Fsah.
ruled tessay German rsrotss that
the battle cruiser Repulss had been
badly damaged BY . German sub
The report ~ss called .
further piece ef German ptnpAs
Kanas."
BERGEN. Nsswss-~The sews-
paper ualn Tsdeade repsSt~d .
naval hattie Oft the lstaHA 81
Nerd~AAgssey Mesday. Thres
wnr~hip~. the s~wspapes sstd.
were firing shreuxh heavy psilsrs
Of smoke. a feaFth warship. sssla
Tlaend~ said. lss~s arrived neArss
10 the NorweEtaa coast and TIE
thr~~ ships which hsd be<s fivssg
heavily disappeared westward.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-17
Neutrality Bill
amendment Okehed
Cash And Carry Principle Will b
Restored, Sen. Pittman Announces
BULLETIN

WAsilIN0ToN-Chsirmas key s1ttasna, ~. New = ~
relations eomtses today lnrd bsess ~ esse
hill eliminating eeday ess1ies
placing with helxeress stvset sne-asA-
carry bssis.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-10-17

Secretary Harry Woodring and
his general staff are chuckiing
Continued on Page 4, Column Al
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Finland TO Stay Neutral,
Minister Here SAYS

Finland is determined to stick to
a policy of "strict and unyielding
neutrality" in cooperation with the
other Scandinavian nations during
the new European war, Hjalmar
Procope, Finnish Minister to the
United States, said in statement
yesterday.
DR.. Procope said Finland is con-
fident her trade relations with the
United States will not be interrupted
by the conflict. AS matter of fact,
he said, many ships have left Fin
nish ports for this country since the
outbreak of hostilities.
The minister said that although
foreign trade now is subject to gov
eminent control, the regulations are
purely formal measures and the
maintaining of trade relations with
this country should not encounter
any special difficulties Safe routes
for Finnish ships are still available
through Swedish and Norwegian
territorial waters to the northern
part of the North Sea, the state
ment said.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
State Department
Says 137 Of 1,747 on
Liner Were FOREIGN
Figures Are Released
After Complaint Of
Senator Reynolds

The State Department said today
the 1,747 passengers who arrived in
New York Monday from Europe
aboard the S. S. Washington includ-
ed 1877 persons who probably were
foreigners.
Figures on the Washington's pas
senger list were released after Sem
ator Reynolds, Democrat, of North
Carolina, who was among those re-
turning on the liner, complained
that scores of foreigners had taken
up space on the United States Lines
ship, while thousands of Americans
were striving vainly to obtain quick
passage home from Europe.
Asked to comment on Senator
Reynolds charge that the Govern
ment had fallen down miserably in
returning Americans from Europe,
Secretary of State Hull said at his
press conference today:
We do our best to keep on our
feet and if we have fallen down. we
have not become conscious of it
yet
The State Department has been
cooperating with the Maritime
Commission and other agencies in
efforts to make extra ships available
and otherwise speed the repatria ton
OF Americans stranded in Europe.
Senator Reynolds said Yesterday
ne would ask the State Department
for specific figures on the number
OF aliens who were aboard the Wash
lngton. The department said there
were 1888 United States citizens
aboard; II persons with re-entry
permits, that is, foreigners who had
been in the United States, and had
obtained permission to return before
they left; % transits, or persons
crossing the United States; SO
visitors, and As quota immigrants.
Subtracting the II re entries, there
were 1877 probably foreigners aboard
the ship, the department said.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Wi|tse to Wed Mrs. Clark,
Mrs. John RooseveIt's S Mother
D. c. Naval Officer
Popular Figure in
Society Circles

Mrs. F. Haven Clark, mother-in-
law of John Roosevelt, son of the
President, filed intentions today to
marry Comdr. Lloyd Jerome Wiltse,
popular figure in local society cir
cles, according to an Associated
Press dispatch from Nahant, Mass.
Reached at his Office here in the
Bureau of Navigation, Navy De-
partment, Comdr. Wiltse said the
date for the wedding had not yet
been set, but that it probably would
be some time in late fall.
The naval commander, who has
been attached to the Bureau OF
Navigation since 1887, said he has
known the Clark family since 1925.
Mrs. Clark, widow Of a Boston
investment counselor, gave her
maiden name as Frances Sturgis and
her age as 49, Comdr. Wiltse, a
bachelor, gave his age as 48. Mrs.
Clark's first marriage took place IN
1914. Her husband died in July,
1886, after a long illness.
Comdr. Wiltse, a native of Mitch
ell, S. Oak, was graduated from
the United States Naval Academy
in 1914 and later saw submarine
service in the World War. Among
his Washington clubs are University
Metropolitan and Army and Navy
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Ex-Head Bookkeeper
OF Bank Indicted on
Embezz|ing Charge
Grand Jury Is Told
He Took $4,l6l by
Double Charging Checks

The District Court grand jury,
handing up so indictments to
Justice Peyton Gordon today, ac-
cused ROLAND H. Tabb, former head
bookkeeper of the National Savings
e. Trust Co., of embezzling $4.l6l
between 1888 and last December.
Authorities said that the conversion
was accomplished by causing GUS
toners checks to be charged to
their account twice.
Herbert S. Harris, "a, and John j.
Harris, 25, brothers, were indicted
on a charge of second-degree mur-
der for the alleged Staying of John
J. Purcell, so, of Mount Rainier, Md.
Police contend that Purcell was
fatally attacked on August % at
433 G street NV. and that he died
on September l. The grand jury ig-
nored homicide case against Nellie
Harlow, %, who was allegedly being
choked by Purcell at the time OF
the attack.
Arthur Morrison, SO, was indicted
on eight charges of housebreaking
and larceny, for the alleged taking
of about $4,000 in property from pri-
vate homes, including that of Paul
E. Lesh, an attorney who lives at
1920 Thirty-second street NV.
Others indicted and the charges
against them are: Dennis A. Rear
don, non-support of minor chill
dren; Earl Thornton, joyriding: Jack
D. Vaughan. violation of National
Motor Vehicle Theft Act; Charity
Andrews and Marie Bennett, grand
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Martinsburg Pastor
Heads Conference
Special DISPATCH to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Sept.
20.-The Rev. Millard j. Miller of
this city, formerly pastor in Win
chester, Va, was reelected super
intendent of Virginia Conference of
the United Brethren in Christ yes
terday at the close of the first day
OF the 140th annual meeting, being
held in Second Church and at
tended by more than 200 ministers
and lay delegates.
The Rev. Carl Hiser, pastor at In
wood, was named recording secre-
tary, succeeding the Rev. w. H.
Smith of Elkton, Va.
The Rev. w. B. O'Baugh of Win
chester, Va, was renamed statistical
secretary.
Bishop G. D. Batdorf of Harris
burg, Pa, is presiding at the annual
sessions.
Last night the conference heard
an address by the Rev. DR.. U. P.
Hovermale of Dayton, Ohio, super
intendent of Home Missions and un-
til last year superintendent of Vir-
ginia Conference, on "The Challenge
of Home Missions"
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Well Done, Men

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 20 (P.-Mr.
and Mrs. Ronald Garritsen were en-
route to hospital for a blessed event
when their car broke down. Gar
ritsen called police. Sympathetic
squad car officers raced Mrs. Gar
ritsen to the hospital with the siren
shrieking.
The baby was born an hour later
and the officers proudly printed on
their report, in large letters, 1--WE
made it'll"
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Power Labor Porley
Remains DeudIocked
Nv the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
LANSING, Mich, Sept. 20.-Rep-
resentatives of the Consumers
Power Co. and of two rival unions
remained deadlocked over "one lone
point" today in a proposed agree
ment to avert a strike affecting the
utility's properties which supply gas
and electricity to cities in Central
and Eastern Michigan.
Arthur E. Raab, chairman of the
States Labor Mediation Board, said
the point in dispute could be settled
IN a matter of minutes, or hours
The conferees after being in almost
continuous session since 2 pm. yes
terday, took a two-hour recess this
morning and resumed their meeting.
Leaders of the c. I. o. Utility
Workers Organizing Committee,
who had been authorized to call a
walkout of their members last mid
night, withheld the strike order.
The other union involved in the dis
pute over bargaining rights is the
A. r. L. International Brotherhood
Of Electrical Workers.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Maurer, Mrs. Taylor
Reelected in GreenbeIt

Mayor Henry H. Maurer and
Councilwoman Mrs. Ruth Taylor
were reelected yesterday to the
Council of the Government-spon-
sored community at Greenbelt, Md
Three new members were elected to
serve with them. The Council men,
bers will meet later and elect a
Mayor.
Out of BOT persons registered 461
voted. Mr.. Maurer led all candi-
dates, with 1856 votes, followed by
George A. Warner, 307; Mrs. Taylor,
283; A. N. Gawthrop, 244, and
Thomas B. Kicker, 241.
Other candidates and the vote
they received Were-Walter j. Bier
wagon, 13l; Francis J. Lastner, 214;
Alvin B. Reamy, 166, and Betsy M.
Woodman, 100.
All the winners received at least a
simple majority of the vote cast,
making a runoff unnecessary.
The election was the first mu-
nicipal balloting in this area since
the Hatch Act became effective.
The number of candidates was half
that of last year.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
is assisting.

Special window displays calling
attention to the annual District Red
Cross Roll Call will be presented
by more than SO Washington mer-
chants and organizations during the
drive September 28October 10, AL
vim @. Ehrlich, president of the Ad-
vertising Club of Washington, an
nounced yesterday.
Mr.. Ehrlich received from Edgar
Morris, general chairman of the
campaign, awards to be made for
the most original, most dramatic
and most artistic displays.
Judges of the windows are to be
Irwin S. Porter, local architect,
chairman; E. P. Schrierer, president
of the District Chapter, American
Institute of Architects, and Frank
B. Steele. president of the Arts
Club of Washington. They will con-
duct the judging September 30.
Evening star., 1939-09-20

larceny; Marie Bennett, James F.
Saunders. Lynn D. FELTON,, forgery
and uttering; George L. Baker and
James Taylor, violation of the Num-
bers Law; James Taylor and George
Stone, violation Liquor Taxing Act
of 1884. John D. Jefferson.
violation of the Harrison Narcotics
Act and Narcotic Drugs Import and
Export Act; Jack E. Chapman and
Joseph Kunkle, assault with intent
to commit robbery; Samuel R. Per-
ritt, Oscar H. Verreen, William H.
Thomas, Clarence D. Bache and
George J. Hart. robbery; John Ham,
ilton, Paul Bradley, Edward T.
Shorter, Nose Bradley. Mary L..
Thompson, Morris E. Moore, Nathan
D. Gross. Joseph S. Parker, Clara
Brown, Charles E. Pride and Lake
Stewart, assault with dangerous
weapon: Charles F. Hartman and
Charles H. Evans, carnal knowledge
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Service EnIistments
Are Reported
Steadily
Reserves Being Token
On Voluntary Bosis,
Navy Heads Emphasize

In recruiting stations throughout
the country the Army, Navy and
Marine Corps were being augmented
steadily today as Navy ofIicials here,
taking cognizance of numerous ru-
mors being circulated concerning
the enlistment drive, emphasized
that members of reserves are being
taken only on voluntary basis.
No figures are yet available on
the program to increase the coun-
try's armed forces in view of the
emergency abroad. However. by the
time the first reports are compiled,
probably this weak, figures are ex-
pected to reveal that these three
branches of the service are well on
their way to reaching new quotas
fixed by President Roosevelt when
he proclaimed a limited national
emergency.
The Regular Army is being in
creased from slightly more than
zoe, 900 to 227,0O0 men. The Navy
personnel is being boosted from
131 900 to 145 900 and the Marine
Corps from 10000 to 25,OOO. The
National Guard, the reservoir of
trained manpoWer on which the
country could draw Immediately in
time of war, likewise is being in
creased from about 100000 to 235 900
men.
In the enlistment drive special
attention is being paid to men with
service who have been honorably
discharged. They are being permit
ted to enlist and resume their old
rating. In other respects the re-
quirements for enlistments have
been eased. These include advanc-
ing the age limit, waving certain
requirements as to physical condi-
ton which do not affect the general
health and other steps to expedite
enlistments.
Conditions Announced.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Edi-
son has announced conditions under
which retired officers of the Navy
and the personnel of the Naval
Reserve may be ordered to active
duty. The Naval Reserve Act of
1888 provides that persons joining
the reserve ''obligate themselves to
serve in the Navy in time of war
or when in the opinion of the Pres
ident national emergency exists"
Under present instructions, re-
tired and reserve personnel, other
than Fleet Reserve, will be called
on a voluntary basis. For them
orders for active duty will be issued
only on written request from a re-
sponsible official under whose juris-
diction the officer or enlisted man
is to serve.
Members of the Fleet Reserve are
in a different category from the
Naval Reserve, which is composed
of civilians who are on active or
inactive status. If they are on
active status they have two weeks
of duty a year, weekly drills and
may advance in rank Inactive re-
Servists may not advance in rank.
Fleet Reservists, on the other
hand, are subject to orders and may
be ordered to duty against their
wishes. They are enlisted men
transferred after 16 to 20 years OF
service, who still draw part pay.
After 80 years they may 60 on the
regular retired lists.
Evening star., 1939-09-20

The speaking program. under di1
rection of Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox,
was to get under way today c. Mel
vim Sharpe, vice chairman of the
roll call, was to address the Ameri-
can Business Club at luncheon
in the Hay-Adams House and the
zonta Club was to hear Mrs. Helen
Moody, another campaign worker,
at luncheon in the Y. w. c. A.
Building.
Charles E. Smoot, vice chairman
of the Speakers Bureau, is sched-
uled to speak at the Jewish Com
munity Center tonight.
Representatives of 80 American
Legion posts will meet in the Den
rike Building at o'clock this after
noon to complete formation of a
departmental committee for the
drive.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Three D. {. COLLEGES
Settle Down 10
Fall Semester
Hilltop Enrolment
Staggered to Avoid
Lorge-ScoIe Bustle

Georgetown and American Univer.
sites and Gallaudet College today
cast off the vacation atmosphere and
began to settle down to the work
Of the fall semester.
Students could be seen wandering
about the Hilltop campus with their
books just before 8 am. and the
office of the prefect of discipline was
doing good business in handing
out room keys A staggered plan of
registration, however, which left
only the seniors unsigned as of that
time, eliminated large-scale bus
tie
In White-Gravenor Hall the Office
Of the College of Arts and Sciences
was we'll filled with arriving seniors,
and officials estimated that the final
enrolment of the college would be
around 700. Glasses were scheduled
to begin today in all schools of the
institution except the graduate
school. Freshmen, however, began
their program last week.
Freshmen Wear Green.
Some $50 pupils had checked into
American University at the Nebraska
avenue campus early this morning,
and others, it was said, had made
arrangements to report later FRESH
men wandered about the campus, the
girls in their green hair ribbons and
the boys with their green dinks and
ties, all Of them walking in the road
ways instead of on the grass.
The new students are scheduled
to meet daily at pm. for the next
few weeks on the steps of a campus
building where they will learn school
songs. And anybody getting their
late has to waddle like a duck.
The college was officially opened
with faculty procession in cap
and gown around the campus and
over to the chapel. Brief class
sessions for assignment purposes
were planned, it was stated.
Gallaudet reported 167 students
enrolling-the largest student body
in the rs years Of the colleges his
tory. The Office of President Per-
cival Hall was we'll filed with
students getting arrangements COM
plCIC 4Ol Vic lleW yedI.
Story About Statue.
Also sitting in Dr. Halls Office. but
paying no particular attention to
the furry of initial preparations, was
statue of small dog. Fifty years
old, they say it is.
The story is that John B. Wight,
business manager of Gallaudet be-
tween 1877 and 1889, had a dog
which was very popular with the
students. When old age finally
overcame the animal there was deep
distress and it was not until some
time later that the Wights. browsing
through an antique shop, found the
statue that reminded them of their
dog.
For many years thereafter the
statue sat in front of Fowler Hall
in which the Wights had lived, and
students stopped to pat and caress
it. Alumni still like to do it.
Some one started to carry it away
one day and dropped it. A leg
was broken. Since then it has been
! hidden in DR.. Halls Office and is
brought forth only at alumni re-
unions, DR.. Hall said.
Although classes are not sched-
uled to get under way at George
Washington University until Mon
day, registration opened there today
1t will continue tomorrow and
Friday.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Polish Club Boil
To Be November II

The Ball Committee of the Polish
Club of Washington. at a meeting
last night, set November II as the
date for the relief ball, Walter S.
Pawl, president of the club, said
today.
The ball, which will be held at
the Wardman Park Hotel, is to raise
funds for the relief of persons in
War-torn areas of Poland.
The General Relief Committee
will meet tonight at Stansbury Hall,
1892 Georgia avenue NV, to dis
cuss further plans for other func-
tions.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Labor Board Probers
Mail Out $4,000
Questionnaires ~:
DeIve Into Every Phase
Of Relationship Of -.
MI. R. B. and Unions

The special House committee
charged with investigation Of the
National Labor Relations Board has
mailed $4,000 questionnaires to en-
ployers and labor organizations as
prelude to public hearings, it was
announced today by the chairman,
Representative Smith, Democrat,
of Virginia.
These ouestionnaires delve ex-
haustively into every phase OF pos
sible relationship between the N. L.
r. B.. and labor unions. Edmund M.
Toland, general counsel of the COM
mittee, said material contained in
the replies should go far toward
achieving an analysis OF the boards
policies and activities.
Evidencing the depth to which the
committee will investigate board
cases, the questionnaires list more
than 100 questions.
High lights of the employer ques-
tionnaire are:
q. Did the trial examiner direct
the reporter to omit from the record
any part of the proceedings?'
%. Did he examine or cross-ex-
anime your witnesses? Or witnesses
for N. L. R. B.? If so, to what ex-
tent?'
80. Please furnish also whatever
information you can on the attitude
and conduct of the attorneys Tor
N. L. R. B. before and during the
hearing; the attitude and conduct OF
the trial examiner before and during
the hearing and the cost OF the
hearing to your company, as well
as the effect, if any, the results
had upon your community"
In the QUESTIONABLE to the unions
the committee asks, among other
things:
u. What was the attitude gen.
orally or specifically of the boards
representatives toward your organi-
zation or any affiliated union or
organization or toward any of the
charges filed or to be filed?"
30. Have any activities of the
board or policies of the board or
its agencies and employees inter-
fered with Cor aided) your growth
and functioning as collective bar
gaining agency?"
The House at the last session of
Congress appropriated $4,000 out of
its contingent fund to finance the
investigation.
The committee plans to start pub
lie hearings about october Is.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Womun's Deuth Probed

The coroner was investigating to-
day the death of Grace Pope, Sc,
colored, 618 c street Sc, who died
in Gallinger Hospital last night, ap-
parently as the result Of a beating.
She was admitted to the hospital
September 13 and treated for head
injuries, which she told police were
received in the course of fight in
her home. A 53-year-old colored
man, roomer at the house, was
held for questioning and Coroner A.
Magruder Macdonald ordered an
autopsy on the woman.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
MISCELLANY
Davies Visits Border
Near War Zone
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BRUSHES, Sept. 20.-Joseph E.
Davies, United States Ambassador
to Belgium and Minister to Luxem-
burg, visited the German-Luxem-
burg border today along the Moselle
River not far from the German
French war zone.
Heavy explosions testified that the
battle of the Saar region was in
active progress.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Weather Condition Last 81 Hours.
light; tomorrow fair and cooler.

weather COnuItlOn LAST n HOuIs.
Pressure is relatively low over California:
northern New York, northern New England
and the southeastern Gulf Of Mexico Ha-
vana. Cuba, 1.011.2 millibars t29.S6
inches): San Diego. Calf, 1.O125 millibars
'2990 inches. and Caribou. Me. 1.0l9.0
millibars (3009 inchesl. High pressure
Aberdeen. 8. OAK O34.5 millibars C3O.35
inches. vessel about. 500 miles east Of
Boston, Mass, 1.032.2 millibars ,30.35
inches). and Fairbanks Alaska, 1.02S1
millibars (3036 inches). Showers have oc-
CURED in New Mexico. California. the up
per Ohio Valley. the lower Lake region. the
Appalachian region and portions Of the
Gulf and South Atlantic States. The tenn
perature has risen in the Atlantic States,
the lower Lake region and the far West,
while the weather has become cooler from
Montana and Wyoming eastward to Mime
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Planes OFF for Manila.

HONOLULU. Sept. 20 tP'.-Four-
teen naval planes, with American
flags stenciled on their wings. left
Pearl Harbor yesterday en- route to
Manila. The Navy merely an
nounced "a flight" had departed for
Manila, giving no details.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Racing Results
Aqueduct

BY the Associated Press.
FIRST RACE-Purse 81 900; claiming;
@-year-olds: go furlongs
Sure Cure tDupuy) 81 2-1 4-5
First Choice tAnderson) 5-l So
Colored Child tParadise) s-5
Time, 1I92s.
Also ran-Bouncalong. Ken's Pop.
Ballyhaste Cross Vine Transbye and Jocks
Ann.
d Finished third. but disqualified
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Gov. Price to Attend

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 20 @.-
Gov. Price said yesterday he ex-
pected to attend Governors Day ut
the Blackstone Fair Friday.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Weather Report

Furnished b.
fair
moderate northery tonight
afternoon followed
tonight fair and cooler
Vrgna-Generaly slightly
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Rockingham
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FIRST KACEPurse. $500; claiming;
2year-olds; furlongs; chute.
Melissa tKrovltZl 1850 $50 440
Pernelle tBierman) 400 $50
Witchf1n tRobartJ $50
Time-1:15.
Also ran-Edwardian. Royal Wanton.
Sara Cash Sea Miss and Phoebe Anna.
Evening star., 1939-09-20
River Report.

Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac slightly muddy
at Great Falls today.
Tide Tables
Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetlc Survey.}
Evening star., 1939-09-20
Report for Last ~ Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, rs. pm. yesterday. Year
ago So.
Lowest. 81. $50 am. today. Year
ago So.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 100, on September s.
Lowest, II. on February 23.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 90 per cent. at 2 a m. today.
Lowest, 40 per cent. at 3:45 pm. yes
terday.
The Sun and Noon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun. today ------ 5:53 $40
Sun tomorrow - 5:53 500
Moon, today ------ l 90 pm. 11:31 pm.
Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset