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tension lines as perfectly innocent
and very necessary. They state that
until recently it was approved by the
utilities men themselves. The utili-
ties executives, on the other hand.
see in the proposed system another
governmental effort to obtain an in
creased foothpld in their business,
and are accordingly deeply alarmed.
So, too, the Government men
say that the st. Lawrence power
project will affect only one utilities
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intention Of making Belgium conndng
and that Begums independence will
long she neutral They pointed to the King
they
the allies
by economic blockade.
The Dutch like the Finns
determined resist Germany like
fully will
ca point Of view but important from the national
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The Capital Parade
Power Policy Problems Threaten
To Upset Domestic tranquility

BY JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.
domestic tranquility
Policy power
emergency
undoubtedly wants keep the and the conservative Demo-
policy
last field in which the New Deal
ment remains active dominant Ar aggressive policy being
urged the President him strongly
tranquility will be knocked q cooked
Great Questions
From preliminary hfngs pufns -cangs
Is being inferred that another big
Government progress quite Both sides
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working excess
sive hours has
now become q
law governing
the wages far
above the mini
mum and a
scheme to in
crease expenses
without regard
to whether the
hours of work
are excessive.
This is the
substance of a
re ort jus t
adopted by a
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i> ltL SPEAK

will policy estaonsh
operation Utilities regare
that there shall be
the business AS TOR the
Cs Of the utilities
compliance Holding Company Act such broad chas tna
will be welnigh impossible Only the President can impose
problem will be highly indicative
he Alliance lnc)
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HE opinions OF the rtters this page their not
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented IN The
Stars effort to gtDe all sides questions interest to It's
readers although opinions may contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
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Great Questions

dIlAIUUSIy ueSITt 10 HVOIu row.
Both sides want to compromise. The
trouble, which has already caused
the huffings, puff1ngs and name
callings aforementioned, arises from
the feeling of each side that it is
misunderstood by the other. Three
great questions are at issue:
/. The Securities and Exchange
Commission has a previously undis-
closed plan to start stern legal pro-
ceedings against utilities holding
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lakes which form a natural barrier
between the Leningrad district
where the Russians have concen-
trated the bulk of their forces and
the rest of the country. The Fin
n1sh Army numbers some 10000
men and is moderately well
equipped with modern war para
phernalia. The aviation force is
very small and could offer no re-
sistance to the thousands of Russian
planes which the Soviet hinh COM
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By G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Unless President Roosevelt in
tends to become the Democratic
nominee for President in 1910, the
suggestion that the Democratic Ma
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tne Same resistance on the extern
sion of the Maginot Line as on the
Maginot Line itself.
But they can conquer Holland
without too much trouble. They as
sumo that neither the Belgians nor
the allies would come to Hollands S
rescue in time The German foreign
office is reported to have given Brus-
sells assurances (the Belgians are
accepting them for whatever they
are WORTH that the Reich has no
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Hordships
In Wage Law
Pointed Out
Uncertainties as to
Penalties Held
Worst Feature
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

What was proposed to Congress
as a social reform designed to fur
nish a minimum wage to American
workers and to prevent them from
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Troops Mossed Near Holland

Despite the l
81 German divisions concentrated
ton available here the Germans
stepping
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German Action Believed Near

In diplomatic quarters believed that
WILL be the signal OF other operations by the
Nh Germany nor Russia afford to be They
ana gain victories in order to keep
1t believed that
action made against
the Netherlands with the
whence they could send their bombing
time against British
Iurkey-yia Rumania-is for the time
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Only the President

Each Of these great questions thoroughly confused by camorous
Harold BENJAMIN v Cohen regard the grid high
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mand has at its disposal time of the wear
iaVormg December
few days with good visibility The Russian Handicapped
by snowstorms fog and high
But despite these Firms have no hope of
offering than heroic resistance are bound to
" ' ~ o ~
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Rescue Prospects Slim

The prospects of Sweden and at
once are SLIM The Scandnavian
the Reich shows definitely that intends
they will
siding with Stain practically nil y ~ "
The allies nothing
sympathy they win the war the
independence Of Finland together
will ~
Al one time the Hesnk government had
States
their design Finland President appeal DELAYED
- ~ N'0N
But the do nothing more than
express sympathy The Russian agents the United
informed about the trend Of public opinion country
elr Ambassador Oumansky
that the chief interest on the e4o
election Hence the Kremln something
happen this side Of
La gaceta., 1939-06-23
Ell GobiefmO acusd a los japOne-
-Ses de iRsultOs intOlerdbles

Londres, JUNO 23.-La indig-
naci6n contra ell Gobierno japO-
mes y sus actos "semisalvajes"
aumenta por momentos en- las
esferas oficiales.
Ell primer ministro Chamber
lain anunci6 que Lord Halifax
llamara al embajador japones
Shigemitsu con Ell fin de comu-
nicarle que ell gobierno no segui
ra soportando en- China los Sin
sultos intolerables" de los 1lti
mos dias.
Hablando en- la camara de los
comunes, donde Sc pide que no
haya pasos de retroceso y CO.
bardia, Chamberlain do cuenta
del llamado y dijo que Lord
Halifax econ entera claridad"
lie infdrmara a csc diplomatico
sobre los nuevos medicines.
Contestando a una interroga-
ci6n relacionada con represa-
las, ell jefe del gobierno mani
fest6 que aun no Sc habia llega-
do a esa etapa. Sabese que otros
ocho s1bditos ingleses han sido
sometidos a indignidades por
los japoneses, que hicieron des-
nudar en- p~resencia de los COO
lies chinos para examinar sus
ropas.
mo tengo la menor duda so.
bre que ell miniStro de negocios
extranjeros lie hara saber TODD
10 que lbiensa con respecto a e.
SOS intolerables insultos'.
I'm diputado Conservation, ell
captain Heilgers, fue ovaciOna-
do cuando | epregunt6 a Cham
berlain: IEsta enterado ell pri-
mer ministro de que la indigna-
ci6n del pueblo ingles Sube y es-
ia lsto para respaldarle cuando
Sc refiere a los insultos intole-
rabies?
A estas palabras no Sc di6
contestacion.
Los jefes de las escuadras
francesa e inglesa estan reuni-
dos en- conferencia, en- Singapo-
re, y tambien los jefes de las trc
pas de esos paises en- China.
La gaceta., 1939-06-23
CONFERENCE EsTlGARRt
BIA CON US MINISTRo
DE BOLIVIA

Rio de Janeiro, JUNO 23.-El
p~residente electo del Paraguay,
general Estigarribia, conferen-
clio aqui con Ell Sr. Alberto o.
tria Gutierrez, ministro de esra
do de Bolivia.
Estigarribia hizo una vista
a esta ciudad, en- canine de 81
pals, invitado por ell p~residente
Vargas.
Dicese que un tratado conner
cial quedara concertado muy
pronto entire Bolivia y Ell Para
quay.
La gaceta., 1939-06-23
RECOGIO EN- LA CARRETE-
RIA A UN INDIVIDUO Y
ESTE LIE ASESINO

Lansing, Michigan, JUNO %
La polioia busca hoy ell ca.
daver de George G.. Hall, de
so amos, que Sc dice fue ase-
sinado por un individuo a
quien por favor recogi6 en- Ia
carretera. Como testigo del he
eho Sc present6 la Srta. Ruby
Doty, de 80 amos, quien dice
que ell asesino la oblig6 a Sc
guirle durante ocho horas Y
que al fin la dej6 en- libertad
a la l de la madrugada de
hoy.
FL criminal lie quito al HON
bre misericordioso, ell dinero y
un Feloj p%ulsera, tirando des-
pues ell cadaver en- uno de los
caminos.
Ella era la que guiaba y
Hall estaba sentado junto al t
mon, cuando ell criminal dis
pAr6.
La gaceta., 1939-06-23

mo, Sc regalara entire los asisten
ties.
Ell punto de la ventilation es
de innegable Importance en- es-
ia clase de fiestas y los mucha-
chos presididos por Hevia Sc
prcponen complacer a todos.
En- la sala Bar sc serviran EN-
panadas, dulces, sandwiches, "a
demas de los refrescos, los lico-
res y las ''variedades" prepara-
das.
Aumenta ell ndmero de las me
sas vendidas, cada una al preciO
de $500, incluyendo la entrada.
La entrada general costara 50
centavos a los caballeros y 25 a
La gaceta., 1939-06-23
Una Queja

Varies comerciantes de la Sep
TINA Sc nos quejan de la frecuen
cha con que recogen anundios,
para programs de fiestas y fun
clones, ciertos grupos.
Nosotros lie hacemos saber a
los concentrates que la Camara
de Comercia no patrocina esos
programs y que tiene un acuer
do en- contra de ellos.
De modo que ellos, desobede'
ciendo los acuerdos de la Cana,
ra, son los Gnicos responsible
de 10 que les pasa en- cuanto
"aflojar la mosca".
En- cambio con los peri6dicoi
cierran Ell bolsillo, muchos de los
comerciantes, cuando saben qut
son los Gnic0s que pueden ayu
darlos de veras.
La gaceta., 1939-06-23
ESTA EN- M DE ME-
XICO Ell ~SUBSECRETA-
RIO BETETA

Washington, JUNO 23.-Lue.
go de conferenciar con ell secre-
tario de estado Hull salio con
rumbo a Ciudad de Mexico, don
de Informant al Presidente La
faro Cardenas, ell subsecretaric
de relaciones exteriores de la re
p1blica mexicana, Sr. Ramon
Beteta.
La conferencia con ell general
Cardenas la sostendra Beteta er
un lugar de la Baja California
En- los 1ltimos meses ell go.
bierno mexicano ha venido ges.
tionando tambien la repatria.
ci6n de miles de sus ciudadanos
que desean retornar a la patria
La gaceta., 1939-06-23
Los Maestros CNbanos

A@E1
Tenemos ell gusto de repetir
que ell dia 8 de julio llegara a
Tampa una delegation de 300
maestros cubanos, en- ell vapor
Cuba.
Patrocina la excursion ell Co
bierno de la isla preciosa, segdn
Sc nos dice.
Ell Circulo Cubano organiza-
"a varios actos en- su honor,
de los cuales en- su oportunidad
daremos cuenta.
La gaceta., 1939-06-23

Picnic
La Union Local de Panaderos
nos comunica que celebrara I'M
Picnic, ell dia 16 de julio, en- los
terrenos de La Columna.
Varias orquestas seran contra
tadas. I'm Comite de Propagan-
da ha sido nombrado.
Promote enviarnos los deta-
lles-el secretario Evelio Tomas.
La gaceta., 1939-06-23
FL TEMPO

Probables lluvias Sc proncs-
tican para la tarde de hoy, con
un ligero descenso de la tenn
peratura Y por 10 tanto memo
calor. Vientos variables. Maxi
ma temperature aver, 81 gra-
dos; minima, TIA.
La gaceta., 1939-06-23
Ell Club


Sc reunira esta noche, a las s,
en- uno de los salones de la Pts
Gina de Nataci6n ell Club Gus
caden Park Woman Recreation
al.
Una dana perita en- obra ar
tfstica manual Sra. Forman, di-
rigira las actividades de las Sc
noras y sehoritas del club, en-
esta rama.
Encarecese la asistencia Of
todas las asociadas y de aque'
Has que deseen ingresar.
La gaceta., 1939-06-23
De ImpOrtdncid

Ell gran establecimiento Ju-
venil Shop, de los estimados a.
migos Fernando y Garcia, tie
ne ofertas especiales para las
madres latinas, en- esta semana.
Mas de 200 bonitos vestidos han
sido marcados a SO ~centavos ca
da uno y por un dollar Sc podran
adquirir dos. Hay trajes de ba-
no para nihas y ninos, marca-
dos especialmente a SO cts.
Muy bonitos son los trajecitos
de sol, a 20 cts.
Una semana propicia para
comprar.
La gaceta., 1939-06-23
Para Damas D Damitds

1UTU DUHtuS " DuHttCuo
Con motive del fin de sema-
na,, Raul Vega, Inc, en- una nue.
va orientacion dinamica, mere
cedora del apoyo de la colonia
latina, ofrece una liquidation &c
trajes de verano dentro del all
canoe de los bolsillos de nues-
tras damas Y damitas.
Los trajes de 1896 y $4.95
han sido rebajados a 1895; los
de $5.75 y S7.95 a $4.95 y los dc
$1O,95 a SASS dejados en-
$685..
La gaceta., 1939-06-23

Para nihos hay unos fuses
muy graciosos y elegantes, de
dolores carmelita y girls, a me-
nos de siete d6lares.
Sc ha hecho una rebaja en- los
pantalones de verano y Ell bolsi-
Ito mas humilde podra comprar
varios de ellos. Los hay de $1.29
excelentes.
La gaceta., 1939-06-23
TedtrO Casino

Pronto exhibira la empresa del
Casino dos nuevas excelentes re
liculas cubanas.
Con una de elias Sc hara el
secrificio monetario de traer de
Cuba a las principles actrices
y actores.
Jose Glamour Sc propone
mantener la animation de Ia
temporada de verano.
va daremos otros detalles.
La gaceta., 1939-06-23
Para Ell Verano

En- esta semana, para los me
SEES del veranO, Sears, Roebuck,
la poderosa firma de Florida Y
Polk, cfrece unos trajes para
mantener ell cuerpo fresco, y
muy elegantes, a pocs mas de
$14.OO. Son trajes que en- otros
.lugares no pueden ser igualados
por $4,000. Hay un surtido pa
ra todos.
La gaceta., 1939-06-23

WDAE-I220 CHS Features
5: 100 Press News
6:15 Lum & Abner
80 All Hands on Deck
7:30 Geo. Burn & Grace Allen
800 Raymond Paige orch,
$50 Ridley Show
1890 Cab Galloway orchestra
IL 80 Benny Goodman orch.
La gaceta., 1939-06-23
RADIO

WFLA-6Gd NBC FIXTURES
AS Lowell Thomas
100 Fred Waring orchestra
z 100 Lucille Manners concert
AS Harry Horlick orchestra
$50 Horace Heidi orchestra
10 80 Tommy Dorsey orch.
IL 700 Program from Hawaii
IL 80 Larry Clinton orchestra
La gaceta., 1939-06-23
De Verbena

DE Verbena
La Secci6n de Recreo de Ia
Casa Asturiana esta lista para
ofrecer ell sabado, en- TODD ell pa
lacio de la avenida de Nebraska,
un programa repleto de atrac.
tivos. A.
I'm aparatO de Radio, bellisi-
La gaceta., 1939-06-23
las sehoras v senoritas.

Ayudar a estas fiestas equi-
vale a reforzar los cimientos del
mutualismo latino, constructive
y humane.
La gaceta., 1939-06-23
NOTAS SOCIALES

Dense por alli una ~vueltecita
nuestras bellas muchachas y Sc
noras.
La gaceta., 1939-06-23

LLAMADO POR HALIFAX
Ell EMBAJADOR JAPONES
Evening star., 1939-02-03
|HeudlineFo
And What
They Do
Reginald Denny,
Ex-Boxer, Actor.
Reveals Talents
By LEMUEL PARTON.

Reginald Denny, the one-time
professional boxer who became a
motion picture star, developed his
toy airplane hobby into business.
He rings up a sale of six Robot
planes to Uncle Sam, to be used in
Army experiments next summer.
The Coast Artillery will get three
and the Army Air Corps three.
They are expected to be curtain
callers for larger and more business
like robots, flying without pilots,
guided by radio beams, busting TINT
on tntruders. The opening half
dozen will be used mainly for target
practice.
Reginald Denny will be re-
membered as the actor extolled a
decade or so ago as "the typical,
wholesome young American" Then
he turned out to be an Engnshman,
flyer and machine gunner in the
British Royal Air Force in the war.
A light comedian, he had two abb
sorbing interests-his screen antics
and what seemed at the time a
juvenile absorption with miniature
airplanes. From the latter, he de-
veloped some ideas about RADIO
controlled planes.
He established the Reginald
Denny Industries, with James
Blackton, an experienced tech
nician, as manager. He seemed to
be merely amusing himself, which
he had always done with great zest,
but early in 1896 he announced that
a foreign power" had asked him
to make small flying torpedo"
designed for flying in swarrns, with
no pilot, and with land-control Of
the bomb-dropping as well as
guidance.
Mr.. Denny said he was doing just
that, but that, when his plane was
finished, the United States and not
a foreign power" would get it. It
seemed good guess that the would
be buyer was England.
He Is member Of an English
theatrical family of five generations
on the stage. He ran away from
school at 16 to play for Charles
Frohman at the Duke of Yorks
Theater. His first featured role
was In the Merry Widow" The
troupe collapsed on a tour of the
provinces and it was then that he
became a professional boxer, later
champion Of the I'd Corps of the
Royal Air Corps. Stranded in In
dia, he put on a program OF hoofng
and spoofiing for the Maharajah
of Mysore, which so edited that
potentate that Mr.. Denny rode
home on the cushions. His versa
tility is endless and 1t wouldn't be
beyond him to work up a radio-con-
trolled tap-dancer and gagman.
Evening star., 1939-02-03

venture the long-range prophecy
that by such action the President
OF the United States has prevented
q world war for the measurable
future. I lived in Germany in 1914.
Had Woodrow Wilson been In posi-
ton in July OF that mad summer
to let the Kaiser and the Berlin war
party know that if they attacked
France, Great Britain and Belgium,
Germany sooner or later would have
to combat the matchless and in
exhaustible resources of America,
there is hardly the shadow OF a
doubt that the Reich's thunderbolts
would never have been unloosed.
The Germans would have known
that victory was impossible against
such a combination. They would
sullenly have kept the peace. I am
just as persuaded that if F. D. r.,
last September, on the threshold of
Munich, could have assured Hitler
and Mussolini that the moral in
huence and material wealth of the
United States were back OF Cham
berlain, Daladier and Benes, Czecho-
Slovakia would still exist. Instead
Of bludng. the dictators would have
been bluffed.
Those howls of rage against the
President and Americans in gen.
eral, now yelling up from anguished
Nazi quarters, are tell-tale evidence
to any one who knows the German
mentality that Hitler, Goering,
Goebbels, Himmler and Funk do not
misinterpret the history written in
Washington this week, when Mr..
Roosevelt told the Senate Military
Affairs Committee that he is pre-
pared to go to every possible length,
short Of war, to help the British and
French Withstand Fascist attack. It
Is this observers conviction that the
President is not altruistic in thus
putting himself on record. Franklin
Delano Roosevelt is democratic In
his every fiber. But he is, first of
all. thoroughly and uncompro-
misingly American. He is genu-
inely concerned for the safety of
free institutions in those European
nations where they still flourish.
Primarily. his anxieties are asso-
ciated with the security Of human
liberties in his own country. Mr..
Roosevelt understands, as every
American whose thinking extends
beyond the 12-mile limit must real
ize, that the moment Britain and
France succumb to the dictators,
our turn will not be far away.
+ \ X
We don't need to go back further
than the World War to visualize
the soundness Of that theory. Any
American military or naval authori-
ty worth his salt knows that all
which stood between German guns
and these shores in 1914-l918 was
the British fleet. If the Kaiser's
armada had been victorious at Jut-
Evening star., 1939-02-03

to all nations which can pay for
them and that American sympathies
should not be expressed on the side
of the democracies through military
sales. This is dangerous viewpoint
from the standpoint of practical pol
itics. For while the American people
do not want war, 1t will not be easy
for the Republicans to convince them
that Mr.. Roosevelt wants 1t either,
and that's the burden Of their case
to date. The speech OF former
President Hoover is a surprise, for it
indicates that he, too, has fallen
victim to the delusions of partisan
politics so evident here, namely that
Mr.. Roosevelt couldn't possibly be
trying in the best way he can COM
mand to convince the Nazis that
they had better not repeat the mis-
take the German authorities made
in 1917 when they paid more at
tentien to what a minority Of OBJ
structionist members of Congress
said than to the true effect in Amer
lea of their own policies of in
humanity.
Copyright. 19390
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Robert L. O'Brien
Heads Harvard Club

Robert Lincoln O'Brien will head
the Harvard Club Of washington
for the coming year.
Chosen vice presidents are Ralph
H. Hallett, James F. Couch, Lau-
renee Duggan and Frederick A. Bal
lard. Howard s. LIE Roy is treasurer
and John H. Pratt secretary.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Young Southerners
To Hold Bunouet

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and
DR.. Homer p. Rainey, chairman Of
the American Youth Commission,
will speak next Wednesday night at
banquet of the newly organized
Council Of Young Southerners in
the Shoreham Hotel.
Educators, public ofncials and
members of Congress from the
Southern States will attend the af-
fair, first gathering of the council
which has been formed to co-ordi-
nate youth activities In the South.
Miss Helen Fuller Of Washington
is chairman of the Executive Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Movie Club to Meet

The Washington Eight Millimeter
Movie Club will hold its February
meeting next Wednesday night at
the Washington Hotel. E. M. Rus
sey will discuss the Importance and
technique of correct exposure and
motion pictures of the recent tele-
vision demonstration here are to be
shown.
O. S. Granducci, elected president
at the last meeting, will preside.
Evening star., 1939-02-03

Franklin OelanO
Roosevelt thi S
week took q long
stride tow ar d
m m or t a ii ty
when he pro-
cl a / m e d hi S
r e q d ! n e SIS to
pledge the moral
support and eco
nomic resources
Of this country
to the European
democracies In
t h e ir struggle
for e xis t e n C e
against the die
Z faforsh I inc I
Evening star., 1939-02-03

ships let me quote q passage from
Won Hindenburg's memoirs:
Americas brilliant, if pitiless
war industry had entered the
service Of patriotism and had not
failed it. Under the compulsion
of military necessity a ruthless
Evening star., 1939-02-03

autocracy was at work, and
rightly, even in this land at the
portals of which the Statue of
Liberty flashes its binding light
across the seas. The Americans
understood war"
(Copyright, 1939)
Evening star., 1939-02-03


business properties sugar. lumber. construction and
cattle.
financial policies than most not ALL American bankers The
years his banking experience the toughest
Nearly financial institutions failed and
the failures frequent rural regions the South
West where the Of deaton hardest The Bank of the
United States New York failed the National
tona City Bank and the Hartman National Bank accused OF
unsound practices two Of the leaders metropolitan banking
Albert H. Wiggin Michel-had
drivers seat Dawes Bank Chicago the Detroit
of the explosion which wrecked the Nation.
Yet In all those bitter Mr.. Eccs his Western
banks without dollars 1882 he dsavowed the
both political parties
the budget restoring confidence realized that
economic problem simple all that.
few back Stuart Chase the liberal economist
lecture Salt Lake City, but delayed by While
waiting audience asked
Chase slipped In while Eccles holding
forth
Deal light Chase told Tugwe about Eccles and
told Treasury
Mr. Ecces running Federal
Board policy
ing would be worth attention than those successful
Virginia and politician those the New York bankers
who plunged the country into the last financial crisis AS chairman Of
the Board Of Of the Reserve Mr. Ecces
problems Of Government finance and national banking policy AS
Of finance not the offices downtown Manat
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Will Talk on Motors

Roy j. Buress, travelling represen-
tative of the Bussmen Manufactur-
ing Co. will speak before the Re-
frigeration and Service Engineers
Association at $3.50 pm. Wednes-
day at 1912 Fourteenth street NV.
Evening star., 1939-02-03

necessarily The Stars Such opinions are presented n
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1939-02-03

United S t a t e S
G ov er n m e n t
severed diplo-
matte relations
with Germany.
These two an
niversaries re-
call to mind the
clrcu instances
under which the
United S t a t e S
en- t ere ID the
World War and
t he state of
mind of Repub-
licans at that
time in the evo-
llltinn of foreign
Evening star., 1939-02-03
Republicans
Hit Roosevelt
Peace Effort
Even Hoover Seen
Victim of Partisan
Politics
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

Fifteen years ago today Woodrow
Wilson died as hundreds of people
knelt in prayer on the streets out
side his home.
Twenty-Five years ago today the