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Evening star., 1939-09-12
Brown Urges
Supervision Of
Wrestling Here
Commission Similar
To Boxing Unit
Is Recommended

Establishment Of Wrestling Com
mission similar to that which now
supervises boxing in the District was
recommended to the Commissioners
today by Police Chief Ernest w
Brown in his annual report Of the
Police Department.
Maj. Brown, who is chairman OF
the Boxing Commission, said that at
the present time there is no super
vision whatever over wrestling"
Conditions have developed in
wrestling bouts" he declared, that
in my opinion, require that they be
under the supervision of commits
sion similar to the commission which
now supervises boxing.
The police chief pointed out that
wrestling contests are conducted
weekly and attract considerable at
tention. In majority of jurisdic-
tions nowadays, he continued, wrest-
ling is supervised either under an
Athletic Commission or commission
similar to the Boxing Commission.
Mai. Brown said he was recon-
mending in a separate report the
enactment of legislation which would
place wrestling under some District
agency.
Praises Work in Kings Visit.
Mai. Brown also took occasion to
throw a few bouquets to the Police
Department for their work in con-
nection with the visit last June Of
the King and Queen of England.
The police services at that time,
he said, were most outstanding and
resulted in a commendation for the
department by both President Roose-
welt and King George.
Other high lights of the report
included a recommendation for a
new police precinct on property
owned by the District at Forty
second street and Benning road
NE. Funds to establish the new
station, which would supplement
the work of No. II precinct, are
being sought in the l94l budget
estimate.
There were more than l,40O less
felonies reported during the past
year than in 1888, the report stated.
The bulk of these we're handled by
the Detective Bureau, but a large
number was also reported at pre-
cincts Nos. and 2.
More than 1885 900 worth of lost
and stolen automobiles, bicycles
and motorcycles was reported by
the department. This included
more than 1000 automobiles, more
than 1000 bicycles and 10 motor
cycles. The Detective Bureau re-
covered more than $104 900 worth of
this property.
Inquiry on Gambling.
Maj. Brown revealed that the de-
partment at the moment is conduct
ing "a thorough and intensive in
vestigation of gambling conditions
in the District, which. he said, will
shortly result in numerous arrests.
He pointed to a decreasing per-
centage of juvenile arrests as evi-
dence of the value of the Police
Boys Clubs.
The police chief also had high
praise for the radio system which
he said was proving to be invalu-
able to the department. During
the past year, more than $4,000
calls were sent over the system,
which he said represented an in
crease of $1,000 calls over the pre-
vious II months. Radio commune
cation with the Maryland State
police has also proved of great
value.
He reminded that a study is being
made at this time of the inStallment
of a two-way communication sys-
tenn.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Formers Protest

Farmers of Poland are protesting
that the government is not making
sufncient use of funds raised by q
new tax for the purpose of raising
: grain prices.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
LEROY Is Bur Speaker

"The Right Of Neutrals in Respect
to Aircraft In Wartime" will be
discussed by Howard S. Leroy at
a luncheon meeting of the Federal
Bar Association tomorrow at 1880
pm. at the Army and Navy Club.
Evening star., 1939-09-12

Taxpayers pay for trafIic tickets.
Traffic violators pay for foolishness.
Evening star., 1939-09-12
Traffic Record

Int CTdIIIC TeCUIU, DIS IcVcdIeU
at police headquarters for "a
hour period ending at 8 am.
today:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, As.
Motorists injured, 6.
Motorists arrested, 312.
Pedestrians injured, 10. ;,
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation of pedestrian control
regulations, 16.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Service Orders
Army Orders.

Falk, 1t. Col. David B., jr, to
Office of the Inspector General,
Washington, D. c.. effective upon
completion of his present tour of
foreign service
Sherry, Maj. Bertram j.. from Of
flee of the Chief Signal Officer,
Washington, D. c., to Brooklyn, N.
Y, effective December /.
Navy Orders.
Stark, Rear Admiral Harold r., to
Chief of Naval Operations, Navy
Department, August /.
Taylor, 1t. Comdr Edwin A., de-
tached Naval Operations, Navy De-
partment, to U. S. S. Mayrant, about
August /.
Gilbert, 1t. q. g. Robert G., de-
tached Brooklyn, N. Y, to Naval
Medical School, Washington, D. c.,
in August.
Gross, 1t. g. g. Francis w., de-
tached Naval Hospital. Philadelphia.
Pa, to Naval Medical School, Wash
tngton, D. c., in August.
Mast, 1t. q. g. George w., de-
tached Quantico, Va, to Naval Med
ical School, Washington, D. c., in
August.
Marine Orders.
Tyler, Capt. Lewis R., detached
Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Va,
to U. S. S. Philadelphia.
Enk, Capt. Willard r., detached
Washington, D. c.. ordered home to
retire on August /.
Newhart, Capt. Harold G., de-
tached Marine Corps Schools, Guam
tico, Va, to San Diego, Calf. on
July IS.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Thoyer Will Attend
School of Dance

Leroy H. Thayer, Washington
dance instructor and president of
the Dancing Masters of America,
went to New York yesterday for the
21st annual normal school of the
association. to open tomorrow at the
Astor Hotel. More than 1000 dance
teachers from various parts of the
country will attend to brush up on
many forms of dancing-tap, ballet,
modern, ballroom and musical
comedy.
Mr.. Thayer predicted that the
polka will be a popular ballroom
dance this year, along with the
waltz. while new steps will be intro
duced for the rhumba and tango
Evening star., 1939-07-16
U. 5. Ready 10 Push
Cultural Exchange
Between Americas
Students and Professors
t. Be Traded to
Better Understanding
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Uncle Sam, with $4,000 in his
pocket, is launching one of the most
important attempts ever made to
bring the 81 American republics
closer together.
With a congressional appropria-
ton that became available July !,
officials are preparing for an eXten-
sive exchange of professors and
students with other nations Of the
Western Hemisphere.
BY the time the snow flies, they
expect some $50 professors and stu
dents will be ready to move among
II of the 81 republics for a years
residence in one another's universi-
ties.
Three years were required to put
into effect the original exchange
agreement reached at the Inter-
American Conference at Buenos
Aires in 1886, but officials predict
brilliant success for it. Taking
the example of the Rhodes scholar
ships at oxford University in foster
ing better relations between Great
Britain and the United States, Off
cials think they have an excellent
means of linking the Nations of the
new world.
1850 Ultimate Total.
Eleven American republics have
ratified the Buenos Aires agreement
the United States, Brazil, Chile,
Dominican Republic. Haiti, Hon.
duras, Nicaragua, Panama, Ven-
ezuela and Guatemala. Every nation
will send to every other one profess
sor and two students, so that each
will send out 30 professors and STU
dents, or total of $50. AS further
ratifications are made, the total
will increase until it may reach 1860
The Federal Office of Education,
working in conjunction with the
State Departments Division of Gull
tural Relations, is receiving applica-
tions from American professors and
students desirous of doing a years
scholastic work in Latin American
universities. Officials will prepare
panels from among the applicants
accepted. These panels will be pre-
sented to the 10 Latin American
countries that have now ratified the
1886 convention, and they will be
asked to select the professors and
students they are willing to receive.
Similarly the United States will re-
ceive panels from the Latin Amer
ican countries and select the profess
sors and students it is willing to
take.
Share Student Expense.
The travelling expenses of the stu
dents are to be paid by the sending
nations and the residence expenses
by the receiving nations. All the
expenses of the professors are to be
paid by the sending nations.
Professors and students received
here will be spread among a num-
Der of American universities and
negotiations are now being con-
Quoted with various institutions.
Officials regard the professor STU
dent exchange as potentially one of
the most fruitful elements of the
good neighbor policy. They say the
students who go to Latin America
will bring back better apprecia-
ton OF our neighhors to the south,
and those who come here will 20
back with better understanding of
the United States. The professors
coming here will have something to
offer in the way of Latin culture,
those who go to the nations south
of us will have something to COM
municate in the way of North Amer
lean learning and achievement.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
Heads Rainbow Division

Elmer F. Neagle, secretary to Rep
resentative Maciejewski of Illinois,
yesterday was elected president of
Rainbow Division Veterans at their
20th annual reunion in Oklahoma
City. Okla.
Mr.. Neagle is attending the re-
union.
Evening star., 1939-07-16
New ZeuIunders to Speak

The Washington Chapter, Radio
Servicemen of America, will hear
I. c. Hansen of Aukland, New Zea-
land, discuss problems of the trade
in his homeland during meeting
at $50 pm. Tuesday in Pythian
Temple, 1912 Ninth street NV.
Evening star., 1939-09-28

Norway has placed orders for six
fighting planes valued at $225, 900.
Evening star., 1939-09-28
This Changing World
Reich Peace Plan to Be Directed More ot Masses
Than Leaders Who Have Already Decided to Fiqht

point Of view. Besides many other
questions which are being discussed
by Won Ribbentrop and Stain is the
matter of placing the whole of East
ern Europe under the patronage of
the Russo-German combine Some
countries will have to lose their in
dependence completely and be alb
sorbed by either Russia or Ger
many; others will be permitted to
maintain a nominal independence,
provided they accept the tutelage
of the large ones.
A prominent German diplomat,
discussing this question two years
ago, stated bluntly that the world
will have to be divided into four
parts: Eastern Europe under the
wing of Germany, Western Europe
under that of Great Britain, the
Asiatic continent under Japan and
the Western Hemisphere under the
United States. At that time the
Germans were still flirting with
the British and regarded Russia as
a country which eventually should
be reduced to impotence by Germany.
The Reich would take the whole of
Russia's southern parts and Japan
most of Siberia.
The diplomatic game has changed
the situation as far as the nations
involved are no longer the same
But the theory of large states con-
trolling politically and economically
the smaller ones remains the same.
For several years the Germans have
maintained that the map of the
world must be radically changed.
And at the Moscow conference they
intend to lay the basis for these
changes.
Evening star., 1939-09-28
Warsaw Broadcaster
Silent After BIare
OF Defiance 10 Nazis
Berlin Announces
CopitoI Will FinoIIy
Surrender Tomorrow

By the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Sept. 28-Except for
strange, sputtered signals, the wave
length of the Warsaw radio was ST.
lent today.
Apparently the stations epic tale
was told, ended on the same defiant
note it struck during the 20 days
it told the outside world of German
siege.
Its last message, broadcast at 8
pm. g am, E. S. T0 yesterday, was
a new challenge to the Nazi be-
siegers:
1--WE will never give in while one
Of us is alive"
But last night the Polish Tele-
graph Agency carried a dispatch,
dated Warsaw, which indicated that
defense of the Polish capital had
been abandoned.
German announcements said the
city had capitulated Internationally
and would surrender formally to-
morrow.
From the picture painted by the
radio announcers and by a Polish
Army flyer who escaped through a
barrage of Germans shells, Warsaw
gave up only after it had become a
city of ruin and tragedy.
Smoke Hangs Over Warsaw.
The flyer, 1t. Col. Mateus Izycki,
who flew out Of Poland last Mon
day, told of an ever-deepening black
pail of smoke over Warsaw.
In husky voice that dropped to
a whisper, he told of starvation, of
lncessant rumblings of siege guns, of
civilians creeping from cellars dur
ing lulls in artillery fire and between
air raids to bury their dead in parks
and public places.
From the air the city is a hor-
rible sight" he said. Hardly a
building is intact.
The city is ringed by six divi-
sions of German soldiers, whose ar
tlllery is pouring in shells unceas-
ingly, aided by an average of 200
raiding planes day.
Warsaw is city where from 40 to
60 new fires start daily from incen-
diary bombs. Only small fires can be
handled; the big ones are left to
burn.
1T is city where priests say mass
in wrecked churches; city of never
ending bedlam, where heavy bombs
go crashing through four or five
floors and topple an entire building.
Streets Strewn With Dead
There's no-man's-land strewn
with dead men. women and horses.
There's some life in the streets, for
the city must live, but old people and
children never leave their cellar
refugees"
Col. IZycki said Warsaw's defend
ers could rest when the Germans
took time out for lunch" but other
wise the bombardment was steady
Evening star., 1939-09-28
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

A heavily armored peace dove is
likely to fly from Moscow to Paris
and London via Berlin in the next
few days.
Before beginning to hammer the
Maginot Line and possibly violate
the neutrality of one or two more
countries, Chancellor Hitler has de-
cided to make a last peace effort
His peace proposals will be based on
the fact that Poland has ceased to
exist, that Poland in fact never ex-
listed as an independent nation ex-
cept in the minds of her creators
who made out of the Palish- -inhab-
tied German-Austrian and Russian
districts a state for the purpose OF
curbing Germany's power. Poland
has now disappeared, the Germans
say, and it would be necessary for
the allies to fight Russia and the
Reich-that is to say, two countries
having total population of $50 ,0OO,-
900 and unending natural resources
to re-establish that fiction" re-
public.
This Russo-German point OF view
will be brought forward with a
wealth of arguments intended more
for the consumption of the masses
in France and Great Britain than
for the leaders, who have made up
their minds definitely that they must
fight the Hitler-Stalin combination
The ground is being prepared in
France in particular to make the
arguments as plausible as possible
The reason why Russia and Ger
many will concentrate on the French
man in the street is because it is
he who is going to bear the brunt OF
the Reich onslaught for the first
three or four months.
Lloyd Georges controversy with
the Polish Ambassador in London
regarding the regime of colonels" in
Poland is likely to have a certain re-
percussion in the allied countries, es-
pecially France, if the censorship
permits the old statesman's articles
to be circulated. The exposure of
an oligarchic system of government,
coupled with the desertion of the
country by its leaders, is likely to
play into the hands of the dictators
as far as the French people are con-
cerned.
The resistance of Warsaw showed
the world what the Polish Army
could have done-how long it could
have delayed the Germans-if it had
been properly led. The French and
the British always had the greatest
regard for the fighting qualities of
the Polish individual. The London
and Paris governments knew there
was something rotten regarding the
way the country was being run.
Stain and Hitler are leaning heavily
on the mistakes of the former Polish
regime to make their peace proposals
listened to by the French and the
British.
Whatever differences may exist
between the German and Russian
governments regarding many ques-
tions, there is one theology on which
they are fully agreed. This common
point of contact is the theory that
small nations have no business to
exist; that the world must be di-
vided among certain big powers,
while the little fellow, even If he Is
permitted a certain degree of inde-
pendence, must live in the shadow
of the big one. The present Moscow
conversations will illustrate this
Evening star., 1939-09-28
Bergdo|| Children
Back Fathers Story
He Came Back 10 j. :,
Alfred, II, and Emma, II,
Tell Of Droft Dodgers
Philadelphia Visit
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Sept. 28.-Two of
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll's five
children today corroborated their
fathers testimony that he lived
secretly in Philadelphia during part
of the 10 years he was supposedly
a fugitive in Germany.
Bergdoll, on trial before a general
court-martial on charges of deser-
ton and escape, testified yesterday
he slipped back into the United
States twice. remaining four years
the first time and three years the
second. Both times, he swore, he
lived in the home of his mother,
Mrs. Emma Bergdoll, in Wynnef1eld
avenue. Philadelphia, but never VEN
tured from the house.
His Oldest son. Alfred, IL, who has
attended the William p. Mann
School in Philadelphia for the last
four years, was called as the days
first witness after Army prosecutors
agreed to stipulate that If Erwin
Bergdoll, the draft dodgers brother,
were called he would corroborate
the story of Growers secret resi-
dence.
Son Remembers Visit.
Alfred could not remember when
he first saw his father in the Phila-
delphia house, but knew it was a
long time ago." A fifth-grade pupil,
he said he remembered his father
lived with them in PHILADELPHIA
while he was in the second and third
grades and part of the time when
he was in the fourth grade.
This would have been on Berg
dolls second visit, from October,
1885, to October, 1898. His first visit
lasted from June, 1929, to May, 1898.
Alfred said he was constantly
warned not to mention his fathers
presence in the house.
His sister, Emma, blonde child
Of II with long braids, told the same
story. Her Uncle Erwin, she said,
came to the house every night while
her father was there.
Both children, with two younger
ones-the fifth was born in Philadel-
phia-were brought back to America
several years ago by their mother,
Mrs. Bertha Frank Bergdoll.
Seek to Outlaw Charges.
When Emma left the stand Berg
dolls civilian counsel, Harry Vein
berger, said she was the last witness
he would call to support his con-
tention that Bergdoll's residence
here in his fugitive years outlawed
the charges under the statute of
limitations, since he was within the
jurisdiction of this country during
that time.
Bergdoll, already serving a SEN
tence of five years for desertion-a
sentence imposed for evading the
World War draft-faces an addi-
tional penalty of five and a half
years If convicted.
He was court-martialed in March,
1920, and in May of that year was
given permission to 60 to Western
Maryland to dig UP pot of gold"
worth sos, 900. according to the
story he told then. Yesterday he
testified the gold did exist, but was
hidden in a closet in his mothers
home. He recovered it on his first
visit home, he said, and turned it
over to his mother, who invested
about $4,000 of it in Liberty bonds.
Evening star., 1939-09-28
Proposal to Freeze Tariffs May Pro|ong Panama Conference
and 'methodical, striking every SEC

and methodical, striking every SEC
ton Of the city"
II had room In the Bristol Ho-
TEL" he related. "One day went
there, to find my room had disap-
peared in q mass of ruins.
"All hospitals have been hit or de-
stroyed and practically all medical
aid is administered on the spot. In
many instances there was nothing
to do but watch those die who were
seriously wounded.
"At times the wounded had to be
thrown from burning houses to the
street below, even though they suf-
fered additional broken bones"
Col. Izycki said the Poles found
pamphlets on some captured Ger
mans promising them that by
Christmas Nazi Propaganda Minis
ter Goebbels would speak to them
from London"
Make Dash in Planes.
He said he and six other Polish
aviators made a dash from Warsaw
to save the last seven planes left
in the city. He told of watching the
others roar out from hiding places
between houses near the airfield and
climb into the air. That was the
last he saw Of his comrades.
While Polish soldiers attacked the
Germans to distract their attention,
Col. Izycki said, he took of in an
instruction plane which had been
reassembled under constant threat
from German machine guns.
Tracer bullets whined all around
me-" he said. Il went to 5000 feet
with my machine guns ready and
only gasoline for an hour and a half
of flying.
Il glided long distances to save
fuel. had no maps and only knew
that I was in Hungary when I came
down low and saw the peasant cos
tunes"
Evening star., 1939-09-28
Two Youths Sought
In Purse-Snutchino

Two youths-apparently the same
pair of purse-snatchers sought for
other crimes in the same neighbor-
hood recently-were wanted by DO
lice today for snatching a pocket
book near Connecticut avenue and
California street NV. last night.
Victim of the theft was Elizabeth
Brinner. ~, of 1920 Tracy place
NV, who said the stolen purse con-
tanned $42. Several purse-snatch-
ings have been reported in the same
area recently.
Margaret Castro, 40, of 81 New
York avenue, had her pocketbook
seized by two colored men In the
first block of New York avenue NV.
last night. Police captured one of
the men short time later, recov-
ering the stolen purse.
Evening star., 1939-09-28
New Plan Reinstutes
The Cesurewitch
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 28.-The Cesare-
witch. one Of the English turf's most
important handicaps which was
called of originally together with
other racing fixtures because of
the war, was reinstated today under
a plan to run two abbreviated pro-
grams at Newmarket.
The meetings will be October 18-
10 and November IL. The Cesare-
witch, on which is based the draw
in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes,
viii be run on one of the November
dates. Originally 1t was scheduled
for October Is. The draw was
slated for October 20.
Evening star., 1939-09-28
Couple Married 78 Years

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. % R).-Mr.
and Mrs. George w. Cohen of Lucas,
Iowa, each 80, were announced as
the winners in a motion picture
producers search for Americas
couple longest married. The Gobens
have not been separated for a day
or a night during their 78 years
of welded life.
Evening star., 1939-09-28
LOST

COAT, mailman's: KEYS in pocket: vicinity
1st and H SITS. ne. Geo. 1897. Reward
COCKER SPANIEL red. white throat; age,
3616 S st. NV. Woodey 1897. Reward
COCKER SPANIEL. brown: answers to
named Brownie: lost Monday eve in vi
cintty OF 5000 Conn. ave. Phone Adams
1900.
GOLD STAR. 6-pointed; INSCRIPTION. Nam
ME H. Riges, 1887" Peabody Institute
Call Shepherd 3417-J Reward.
IRISH SETTER. young, female. lost Tues
day. Finder please call Wis. 3109.
NOsEGLAssEs, ladys, in case; on satur-
day. Reward. Falls Church 1914. 2s'
POCKETBOOK, black, Friendship Heights
sspers eaT 2s
SUM OF MONEY between Lamont st. and
ward. Columbia 5000. - e. ~
TYPEWRITER, portable, in case on S St.,
near 18th NV. Reward. Decatur 4937.
WATCH. old lady's. yellow gold Elgin. on G
". NV. or Arlington bus, Sept. 16th rope
cnaln attached; wanted for sentimental
reason Reward. Call Mrs. Fee, Dt. CLIO,
E41. 429, between $50 and 4 daily: 29'
WRIST WATCH, Ladies Hamilton. with
2iack oand lost vicinity 7th st. shopping
1Ssxs1icS 1Sx1cS OF n; l. ave street car line. Atlantic
VTIHSs: MRIsT WATCH, VA .Walthsm." white sold.
I1esoay.- Reward. Georgia 1904.
WRIST WATCH, Hamilton, lost Tuesday
reward. Cal Woodley 6239.
Evening star., 1939-09-28
Injured in Fall

Ida E. Hooe, rs, was in serious
condition today in Garfield Hospital
with skull fracture received yes
terday when she fell down the back
steps Of her home ct 3742 Benton
street NV.
Evening star., 1939-09-28
Brond-New Penny
BIRMINGHAM Al

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Sept. % (P).
The c. T. Pennys paid 5000 pen
nies for brand-new Penny yester-
day.
The new Penny was named Cor
nella Ann and Papa Penny paid the
doctor with pennies he had saved
during the last year.
Evening star., 1939-09-28
FOUND,
SPECIAL NOTICES.

BRING OR REPORT deserted, stray or Iost
ton 1900 Wheeler rd Sc Att 7l42