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Evening star., 1939-11-29
Kuhn Jury Gets
Larceny Case Against
Bund Leader
Defense Says Trioi Is
Persecution Plot; Its
Thesis Held Lies
By the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-The case
Of Fritz Kuhn, German-American
Bund leader charged with grand
larceny and forgery, went to a jury
at 1:30 pm. (E. S. t. today.
Kuhn was denounced by the prose-
cution as pathological liar and
labeled by his own counsel as a
"strutting" little fellow who ought
to be "destroyed.'
Judge James G. Wallace already
had dismissed five of the ten counts
against the German-American Bund
leader, explaining insufficient proof
had been offered and criticizing the
original indictment as being too
loosely drawn.
Kuhn could be sent to prison for
more than 20 years, If convicted on
all five remaining counts. These
accuse him of stealing $717 from the
bund treasury to finance his extra
marital wooing of his golden
angel" Mrs Florence Camp. and
$500 he listed as paid to an attorney
| for legal advice. The attorney tes-
titled he never got the money.
Assistant District Attorney Her
man j. Mccarthy charged in his
| summation that the defense's case
was fabrication, and shouted
bund leaders put on the witness
stand had lied, lied, lied to follow
the leader"
In his closing address the day be-
fore, Defense Counsel Peter L. F.
Sabbatino expressed personal dis
taste for both Kuhn and the bund's
! principles, but contended his clients
present trial was persecution
| plot framed by assistants of District
| Attorney Thomas E. Dewey in the
hope of advancing Mr. Deweys ma
tional political fortunes.
Replying to the defense assertion
the case against Kuhn was ground
ed in prejudice and political mo-
tives, Assistant District Attorney
Mccarthy told the jurors:
"Kuhn is not on trial for un-
! Americanism He is charged with
being a common thief.
| "If we have proved this man
guilty, find him So If he is inno-
cent acquit him. We DO not want
flag Waving-no Drevfus case. no
religious or un-American issue. He's
either guilty. or he is innocent. We
| leave the issue to you"
Evening star., 1939-11-29
Peoples and Hecht Co.
To Distribute Bonuses

Peoples Drug Stores and the
Hecht Co. will distribute Christmas
bonuses to employees, it was learned
today.
Directors of Peoples Drug Stores
have authorized more than $50,0OO
to be paid in special salary dividends
to approximately 1000 employees.
The bonuses will range from Is per
cent to 30 per cent of the monthly
salary, depending on the employees
length of service.
Charles B. Dulcan, ST., vice presi-
dent and general manager of the
Hecht firm, said more than $4,000
will be distributed to employees VINO
have been with the organization for
six months or longer. More than
90 per cent of the regular employees
will participate. In addition, hun
dreds of temporary employees will
share in a special bonus arrange
ment, he said.
WOONSOCKET, R. l., Nov. % L4).
The Woonsocket Call. afternoon
newspaper, gave its employees a
Thanksgiving bonus today of one
weeks pay.
Evening star., 1939-11-29
Noveno Will Open
Tomorrow Niqht

A novena in honor of the I'm
maculate Conception of the Virgin
Mary will open tomorrow evening at
$50 o'clock at st. Anthonys Parish
Church, Twelfth and Monroe streets
NE, under the auspices of the
parish sodality.
The novena, to be conducted by
the Rev. Father P. ]. O'Connor of
Catholic University, will continue
through December 8, the feast of
the Immaculate Conception and
holy day of obligation in the Catho-
lie church.
Each evening of the novena two
services will be held, at $50 pm.
and 7:45 pm. Services will consist
of novena prayers, a sermon, bene-
diction of the Blessed Sacrament
and singing of hymns by the congre-
cation. On the last night of the
novena a reception of new members
into the sodality will be held.
Evening star., 1939-11-29
| Roosevelt Gets
ReportsFromHuN
Ion Finnish Crisis

Secretary of State Hull said to-
day he was making periodic tele-
phone reports to President Roose-
welt on Russian-Finnish develop
ments. The President is travelling
northward from Warm Springs, Ga.
Asked whether there was a posi-
bility that this country might send
some new message to Russia or Fin
land, Secretary Hull told his press
conference he could not ado to his
statement that the United States
was keeping up with developments.
This Government, in a recent mes
sage, urged that Russia take no steps
which would upset her friendly rela-
tions with Finland.
Hjalmar Procope, the Finnish
Minister, conferred briefly on the
situation with Undersecretary Sum-
nr Welles this morning.
Evening star., 1939-11-29
24-Hour Shopping Rule
Reimposed on Border
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Treasury reimposed today a
24-hour shopping rule on the Cali
fornia Mexico border.
The rule originally was to 60 into
effect November l, but was suspend
ed for month because of protests
from a majority of the California
congressional delegation. After
studying the situation again, the
Treasury ordered the rule to be made
effective tomorrow at midnight.
Under the rule, Americans going
across the California border to visit
Mexico will not be allowed to bring
back 500 worth of merchandise free
of American tariff duties unless they
stay in Mexico at least "a hours.
Along the rest of the Mexican
border, the 500 exemption from
tariff on returning tourists has no
time limitation.
Evening star., 1939-11-29
To Jail Autos, Not Drivers

DENVER, Nov. 20 R.-1mpound
the automobiles of traffic violators,
but don't put the drivers in jail be-
cause that frequently creates hard
ships for their families.
That's the advice of Manager of
Safety William E. Guthner, and he's
going to ask the City Council for
authority to practice 1t.
Evening star., 1939-11-29
lGHI Actress Cry
I'm Murder Play
Kills Brother,

By the Associated Press.
PITTSVILLE. Wis, Nov %
SiXteen-year-old Lois Zeimendorf.
enacting a role last night in q
high school murder mystery play,
screamed.
Her 7-year-old brother, Robert,
sitting near the front of the hall,
collapsed and died The Wood
County coroners Office said death
was caused by heart attack,
brought on by the cry.
Evening star., 1939-11-29

The far southwestern disturbance Is ad-
vancing slowly eastward Enele. NJ Mex
lO125 millibars (29.90 inchesl. and a
broad trough extends thence northeast
ward to Minnesota Pressure remains low
over southern Alaska. Kodiak, 991 !? milli-
bars t29.27 inches). Pressure Is relatively
low and falling over Montana, Havre.
IOlO.2 millibars (29.S3 inches). Pressure
remains high over the northern Plateau re-
gon and it is still high but considerably
ern half OF the United States. Asheville:
N. c.. 102s.s millibars (30.3s inches: and
Boise Idaho. 10247 millibars t3026
inches) Rain has fallen from Arizona
eastward to Texas and thence northeast
ward to Central Missouri. Fair weather
weather has become warmer from the
upper Mississippi Valley and the upper
Lake region southwark to the Gulf Coast
North Dakota
Evening star., 1939-11-29
Arts Club to Hold
Poetry Festival

The fifth annual poetry festival of
the Arts Club will be held at the
club tomorrow. An afternoon ses-
sion at 2::30 o'clock will be devoted
to discussion of the sonnet, and at
an evening session, at $50 pm,
three prizes will be awarded for the
best original Petrarchan sonnets.
DR.. Charles Edward Russell, men,
ber of the Board of Directors of the
Blue Moon, poetry journal, will pre-
sent the prizes. Moref than 100
sonnets have been ent+red In the
contest, club officials said.
Evening star., 1939-11-29
British Take u. ). Ships
To Forbidden Ports
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Nov. 2e.-The ministry
of economic warfare today disclosed
that United States vessels. forbidden
by the American neutrality law to
enter the European war zone, were
being brought into British ports for
examination.
Neutral shippers declared that the
vessels thus concentrated for ex-
animation by the British contraband
control were exposed as easy bomb
ing targets for enemy bombers.
In the week which ended Novem-
Der 25 the British contraband control
considered the cases of 1874 ships, 10
of them from the United States.
Yesterday there were IS ships still
at contraband control points. Two
were United States vessels which
had been held more than a week.
Evening star., 1939-11-29
Mary Bethune to Talk
Before Peace LEAGUE

Mary Mcleod Bethune, Negro
affairs director of the National
Youth Administration, will speak at
8:15 o'clock tonight at membership
meeting of the Washington Branch
of the American League for Peace
and Democracy. to be held in the
Friends Meeting House, 21l1 Florida
avenue NV.
Prof. Robert Ming of Howard Uni
versity Law School also will speak.
The Rev. Thomas L. Harris Of
New York, national executive secre-
tary of the league, will speak on
the national membership drive Of
the organization.
Evening star., 1939-11-29
Weather Report
Furnished by &

Furnished
about 36 degrees
followed
light variable winds becoming moderate souher
and slightly tonight tomorrow mostly cloudy
in extreme
afternoon.
Vrginia-Fa portions tonight
row mostly slightly followed the
interior tomorrow night
west Virginia Cloudy light
Evening star., 1939-11-29
Racing Results
Bowie
Bowie

FIRST RAcE-purse, $1,000; claiming;
for 2-year-olds: furlonss.
shailleen tNfills) $3.50 1880 1880
Machane Eccard) 500 $50
Good Reception uindbcrg) 7.SO
Time, 1914.
Also rsn--Uprising. Dark Rapture. Can
terup aPtmlico Queen. Athanasian. Callao,
White samite, Ponemlh, Dams Folly.
AF. Garrett-Howsrd Bruce entry.
Evening star., 1939-11-29
Arthur M. Kinsmun Dies

BALTIMORE, Nov. % LP).-Arthur
Munroe Kinsman, IS, former chief
engineer of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad and a railroader for 60
years. died last night after a long
illness
Evening star., 1939-11-29
Sub SIGHTED OF DordoneIIes

ISTANBUL, Nov. 20 [P).-Turkish
maritime authorities reported sight
ing a submarine OF unknown ma.
tionality today at the southwestern
entrance of the Dardanelles, near
Tenedos Island in the Aegean Sea.
Evening star., 1939-11-29
SIGNATURE OF
DONOR

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Evening star., 1939-11-29
Report for Last "a Hours.

Record for Last "A Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today)
HIGHEST, so. 3 pm yesterday Year ago,
Lowest 43. am. today. Year ago, 90
Record Temperature This Year.
Highest 100 on September 8.
Lowest. II on February 23
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 4S per cent, at 7:3O am. today
Lowest. 81 per cent. at noon today.
River Report
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear at
Harpers Ferry; Potomac clear At Great
Falls today.
Tide Tables
Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Today. Tomorrow.
High ------- 9:2S am. 10:16 Am.
Low ---- 4:0S am. 4:52 am.
High ----------- g:4g pm. 1887 pm.
Low -------- 4:06 PIN. 4:54 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun, today - 7:O5 4:47
Sun. tomorrow - 7:06 4:47
Moon, today $780, TAT pm. 0:22 am.
Automobile lights must b turned on
one-haH hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1939-11-29

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Evening star., 1939-11-29
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in the
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Evening star., 1939-05-19
Revised Griffenhagen
Plan First Step,
Roosevelt Says
Agrees With Sponsors
On Seeking Passage
Of Port Of Program

President Roosevelt regards the
revised Griffenhagen plan for par
tial organization Of the Distric5
government as only the first step
necessary toward moderniZatio of
the local governmental machinery
he said at his press conference to-
day.
The President said he had agreed
with congressional sponsors of the
reorganization program that it
would be better to try to get only
the less controversial parts of the
plan passed at this session of Con-
gress than to make an apparently
futile effort to pass the entire plan
1t was pointed out at a recent
conference with group headed py
representative Kennedy, Democrat,
of Maryland, chairman Of the Re-
organization Subcommittee of tne
House District Comm ttee. Mr..
Roosevelt explained. that the orig
inal plan called for such drastic re-
organization that it was doubtful If
Congress would approve it this ses-
sion.
Then he discussed with the House
members the possibility of concen-
trating attention now on certain
parts of the report which might
stand a chance of going through
Congress without much discussion,
the President said.
From this discussion there de-
veloped the present plan for retain
ing the commission form of govern
ment, giving the Commissioners au-
thority to appoint city administra-
tor and consolidating many of the
existing agencies of the District gov
ernment.
He said the original plan for sub
Stituting city council for the COM
mission was dropped temporarily
because it was considered there was
no chance for it being approved by
Congress now.
He was told, the President added,
that there now are about 135 sep
arate departments and agencies op-
Grating under the District govern
ment. The original reorganization
plan called for consolidating these,
with abolition of some non-func-
tioning agencies, into II depart
ments. Mr.. Roosevelt suggested the
reorganization go further and get
them down to IL departments.
Emphasizing that he regarded the
revised plan as only the first years
step toward needed reorganization,
the President indicated that other
provisions of the original Griffen-
hagen report would be considered
at the next session of Congress.
Evening star., 1939-05-19
Lindbergh Tool of Sinister Men,
Lloyd George Tells Commons

the agent and tool of much more
astute and sinister men than him.
self.
He went about from one Member
of Parliament to another saying he
had been in Russia. He was in
Russia, I think, about a fortnight.
He had not seen any of the great
leaders of Russia, he could not have
seen much of the airforce and he
came back and told us the Russian
Army was no good, that Russian
factories were in an awful mess.
"And there were many people
who believed it-except Hitler"
Lloyd George reiterated his own
opinion that Russia had the finest
airforce in the world"
Evening star., 1939-05-19
Isle Reported
Sinking Into
Sea With 1000
,y the Associated Press.

MANILA, May 19-Tiny Verde
Island, some 100 miles south of
Manila. with a population of 1000,
was reported tonight to be quaking
and sinking fast into the sea.
Gov Vicente Caedo of Batangas
province reported to government
headquarters here that persons on
the island. only IS kilometers square.
were being evacuated Reports on
exact conditions were meager, but it
was believed those on the island
were crossing the 10 miles to the
Batangas coast in small native boats.
Verde Island, midway between the
Islands of LuZon and Mindoro, is in
Verde Island passage.
Father Miguel Selga, director of
the Weather Bureau here, said there
was no cause to fear volcanic
eruption at Verde Island because
the quakes were of tectonic origin
He believed the settling of the island
was due to the effect of sea water
on It's limestone formation.
Evening star., 1939-05-19
Committee Approves
Social Security Changes
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee gave final approval today to
broad amendments designed to bring
more individuals into the Social Sc
curity System and lower some Social
Security taxes.
Chairman Doughton said he would
Introduce the amendments as soon
as experts could put them into legis-
lative language.
If there is any delay in getting
the bill before the House, Represent
ative Doughton said, Secretary Nor
genthau will be invited to lay the
Treasury's tax revision program or
studies before the committee imme-
diately.
social Security Board officials
estlmate the tax alterations will re-
ouce the burdens on those who pay
the levies by more than $500, 900, 900
. year.
The expanded benefits will boost
the cost of the program by an esti-
mated 81 ,20o,0O0,00O in the next five
years and $4,000 900 900 in the next
l5 years. But by cutting down on
the payments later on the Security
Board figures, there will be no net
increase in the long-range cost.
Evening star., 1939-05-19
By BLAIR BOLLES.

DN DL1In DoLLES.
Skillful manipulation of w. P. A.
building-wrecking services in Chi
cago has netted that city petty
cash" profit of $45 .23l 10. the House
Appropriations Committee was told
today by one of it's agents in the
investigation of the Works Progress
Administration.
E. w. Erickson. Just returned
from study of the way the Illinois
city has done its best to get the
most out of the Federal work relief
program, told the committee the
Municipal Department of Public
Works solicits building wrecking
Jobs for the w. P. A. and then
takes title to the wreckage. Part
of this is used for w. P. A. sewer
projects, but other portions of the
salvage are sold and the money put
into this special petty cash" ac-
count
The money is used for car tokens
and other incidental expenses" a
city official told the investigator.
Direct Profit Seen.
The investigator made no sug-
gestion that dishonesty was in
volved, but he agreed with Repre-
sentative Wigglesworth, Republi-
can. of Massachusetts when Mr..
Wigglesworth remarked that the
city OF Chicago was profiting directly
from the program.
1T sounds like plain fraud"
Representative Ludlow. Democrat.
OF Indiana commented.
Mr.. Erickson said the double
credit has not been granted since
last December 27. when the w. P. A.
demanded its end.
The investigator said the w. p. A.
took pictures of buildings whose
owners. it thought, might want
them torn down. Then the city's
Department of Public Works would
write the owners, pointing out that
the w. P. A. would tear down their
building free. The letters added. the
investigator said, that the city was
about to revalue the property and
that the demolition of the building
would cut down the assessment.
Drive to Cut Own Assessments.
Representative Taber, Republican.
OF New York remarked, The City of
Chicago was conducting a campaign
to reduce its own assessments"
Mr.. Erickson said that apparently
was the case
The Ciey of Chicago on May /
after the quardriennial tax assess
ment revaluation was ended-asked
the Illinois w. P. A. administrator
to halt the demolition projects, Mr.
Erickson said He said the admin
istrator opposed halting the project
if the men working on it could not
be assigned to other projects.
When private wrecking company
seeks permit, the investigator said
the city refuses the permit unless all
taxes are paid. He said this re-
quirement is waived on w. P. A.
wrecking projects.
Representative Otter, Republican,
of Pennsylvania, registered indigna-
(See w. P. A., Page A-14)
Evening star., 1939-05-19
President Declines
To Ask King George
To Press Conference
Reporter Requests
Closer Contact With
British Ruler
Bv GARNETT d. HORNER.

President Roosevelt indicated TO-
day that he will not intervene on
behalf of newspaper reporters eager
for closer contact with King
George vi than will be availa BILE
from the official press stands at
public appearances of the King and
Queen during their visit here next
month.
woman reporter suggested to
Mr.. Roosevelt at his press confer
ence today that he invite King
George to attend the regular Friday
morning presidential press confer
ence that will be held on the second
day of the royal visit, June 9.
The President replied that he did
not believe such a request would be
polite to his guest When the per-
sistent reporter countered that it
might be privilege for the King to
meet the press in such a manner.
Mr.. Roosevelt said with a hearty
chuckle that there was room for ar
gument about that.
Lindsay Holds First Conference.
Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Am
bassador who held the first press
conference of his life yesterday to
answer queries about the royal visit
and confessed that he did not "pre-
tend to like the experience, made
1t clear that he did not believe the
King would hold a press conference
Of his own while here.
AS a matter of fact, the King and
Queen will have little time to see
anything but the official side of
American life and the high spots OF
a standard sightseeing tour during
their visit to Washington, for which
a minute -by-minute schedule has
been planned long in advance.
And the average Capital resident
will be extremely lucky if he gets
any closer view of the royal visitors
than perhaps glimpse of them as
they drive in a closely guarded au-
tomobile along carefully selected
routes to some official function.
Virtually every moment of the
waking hours of the two days the
King and Queen will be here is
accounted for in a detailed sched-
ule of their planned activities, re-
leased last night by the State De-
partment.
Now touring Canada, King George
vi and Queen Elizabeth will enter
the United States at Niagara Falls
N. Y, at 9:35 pm. June 7, arriving
here at II am. the next day and
staying as guests of President and
Mrs Roosevelt at the White House
until 11:30 pm. June 9, when
they will board train for New
York.
Their schedule here includes a
diplomatic reception, formal dinner
(See ROYALTY, Page Asa