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Evening star., 1939-07-07

.FOrWOnen
Provided
Room in Library
Of Congress Is
Opened for Them

A new home for the World Center
for Womens Archives, in room 1876
OF the Library of Congress, was
opened for the first time yesterday
when the Washington Unit met
there to discuss plans for the fall
The room has been placed at the
disposal of the organization through
the courtesy of Library authorities
Mrs. Grace Keller Cooper, COR
responding secretary of the unit,
conducted the negotiations through
which the quarters were obtained
Mrs. Cooper explained yesterday
that the room will provide ample
shelves and locked desks in which
valuable documents may be safe
guarded during the first years of
the groups development.
Plans for series of "archival
teas" to be held next club season,
were reported by Mrs David Cush-
man Coyle, chairman of the Program
Committee. At these teas reports
will be made on material located
for the archives, which is collecting
and cataloguing papers and docu-
ments relative to women and their
contribution to world achievements
Mrs. Emil Hurja, president of the
Washington Unit, called attention to
the radio program Women in the
Making of America" which is being
presented over the blue network of
the National Broadcasting Co. on
Fridays from 2 to 23O pm, under
auspices of various national organ
izations.
The World Center was asked to
assist the sponsors of this program
to obtain data on the contribution of
women to the upbuilding of this
country" Mrs. Hurja explained.
Young as it is, the center was able
to help"
Other officers of the Washington
Unit Of the World Center for Wom-
ems Archives include Miss Irene A.
Wright, vice president; Mrs. Lester
Schoene, recording secretary; Miss
Cooper, corresponding secretary, and
Miss Gwladys Jones. treasurer.
Directors are Mrs. Martha Bruere,
Mrs. Ernest Gruening. Mrs. Coyle,
Miss Fola La Toilette, Mrs. Lucy S.
Howorth and Mrs. Mary Bethune.
Committee chairman are Mrs.
Emily Newell Blair, public relations;
Mrs. Gruening, membership; Miss
Wright, archival material, and Mrs.
Coyle, program.
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Davies Confirmation
By Committee Seen

A Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
was expected to recommend to the
full committee Monday the con-
flrmatlon of Elmer D. Davies, Nash
vile attorney, as a Federal Judge for
the Middle Tennessee district.
Extensive hearings on the nomina-
ton were held yesterday by the SUBJ
committee, with the only opposition
coming from two spokesmen of Ten
nessee labor, basing their position on
the nominees record as a member of
the Tennessee Legislature.
Although Mr.. Davies admitted
yesterday that he once belonged to
the Ku Klux Klan, Endorsement of
his appointment to the bench was
given the committee by Catholic and
Jewish community leaders of Nash
vile. Former Gov. Hill McAlister
appeared to defend Mr.. Davies leg
islative record.
The predictions of subcommittee
approval were made later by Sena-
tors Nicely of West Virginia and
Connally of Texas. Democrats and
committee members.
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Wage Hour Law Revision
Will Be Pressed Again
By the Associated Press.


Another attempt will be made next
week to obtain congressional ap-
proval of changes in the age-hour
law.
Revisions which have the indorse-
ment of farm blocs, Uniformed
members said, will be sent to the
House Rules Committee for ap-
proval. Two recent attempts by
Chairman Norton of the House
Labor Committee to amend the act
failed because of opposition to the
farm provisions.
The amendments, besides exempt
Ing more farm operations than the
present law, would exempt white
collar workers whose monthly sal
ary exceeds 5000, employees of small
telephone exchanges and workers in
the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
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court but limited her defense to
love theft allegations to a deposi-
ton. Alderman likewise was alb
sent.
They have been away from Cali
fornia since shortly after the pianist
was shot last October. Miss Etting's
first husband, Martin (the Gimp
Snyder, subsequently was convicted
OF the assault and sentenced to 20
years in prison, whom which he is
appealing.
Attorneys concluded summations
late yesterday afternoon, with the
judge listening to some harsh re-
marks from both sides.
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Leo Brady's Comedy
To Be Staged Toniaht

Leo Brady, young Washington
playwright, is again being honored
by Catholic University, his alma ma
ter. His Brother Orchid" drama
tization of magazine story, which
has been called excellent" by Ed
die Dowling and highly amusing
by Guthrie McClintic, is to be pre-
sented tonight at o'clock to open
a summer series of plays at the
school.
Local Blackfriars Guild members
and Catholic University drama stu
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Lawrence Trial Date
Set for September
By the Associated Press.


HARRISBURG, Pa, July 7.-David
L. Lawrence, Pennsylvania State
Democratic chairman and former
secretary of the Commonwealth, will
go on trial September Is on extor-
tion charges growing out of last
years elections, District Attorney
Carl B. Shelley said today.
Lawrence was among IL Democrats
indicted on charges of misconduct
during the administration of former
Gov. George H. Earle. He is accused
of extorting $1,000 from the former
head of gravel company which did
business with the State, to be used
for political campaign funds.
His trial will be the third in con-
nection with the indictments.
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Gives Perfect Excuse

LOS ANGELES R.-John B
Eley, prospective juror in the trial
of man charged with robbing a
bank messenger, was asked if he
could judge fairly.
I'm little nervous about these
matters" he replied. I've been
held up three times in banks where
I have been employed"
He was exused-promptly.
Evening star., 1939-07-07
De Valera to Sail
For U. S. September FL

Eamon de Valera, premier of Ire
land, will sail for the United States
September 81, 1t was announced yes
terday by John Cudahy, American
Minister to Ireland.
The Premier was scheduled to
visit this country last April, but he
postponed his trip after England
announced its CONSUMPTION plan.
Evening star., 1939-07-07
Miss Mannix Married
To DIR. J. J. Dorsey,

Mr., Edward Mannix announces the
marriage of his daughter, Miss Ann
Mae Mannix, to DR.. John j. Dorsey
son of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Jere-
miah j. Dorsey of Peekskill, N. Y.
The wedding took place in the
Church of the Assumption at Peek
skill, December 81, 1888, the Rev.
Francis J. Boyle officiating. DR..
Dorsey is an alumnus of Notre Dame
University and received his medical
degree from Georgetown University
Evening star., 1939-07-07
City. of Washington
Sets New Record

Something of record for river
excursion travel was set by the
City of Washington last Monday,
the boat carrying more than 5000
passengers on her regular four-trip
schedule, according to the Wilson
Lines announcement today. Cloudy
skies and occasional showers were
no help to the July 4 festivities on
the City of Washington, but still
the boat carried almost 5000 per-
sons on the trips to Mount Vernon
Evening star., 1939-07-07
Judge Begins Study
OF Alderman Case
By the Associated Press

BY the ASSOC1Ateu PTeSS.
LOS ANGELES, July 7.-Superior
Judge Samuel R. Blake set about
the business today of placing a cash
value on the affections of Pianist
Myrl Alderman.
Alderman's former wife, Alma
blond and attractive. has put the
figure at $150,000 1t is that amount
which she asks from his present
mate, flaxen-haired Ruth Etting
torch singer, who did not appear ir
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Ringeisen-Wolff Wedding
Sunday Is Announced,

Mrs. Carrie v. Wolff of Bladens-
burg road NE. announces the mar
riage of her daughter, Miss Clara
Eleanore Wolff, to Mr.. Ocar P. Rim
geisen of this city, Sunday, July 2.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ringeisen left imme-
diately after the ceremony for a
wedding trip through the New Eng
land States.
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and Marshall Hall Park that day.

and Marshall Hall Park that day.
Next important event scheduled
for the Wilson Lines steamer is
the Miss Washington contest, to be
held aboard the boat the evening
Of July IA. Drama critics of the
four local newspapers will be among
the Judges who will select the lass
to represent the Capital at Atlantic
City IN the annual beauty contest.
. Moonlight cruises still are a
popular nightly feature on the City
of Washington, of course, with
dancing to music by the Davy
Crocker-directed McWilliams Or
chestra.
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dents compose the cast of the com.
edy, among them Anthony Messuri,
Edgar Ford, Clarence Wittler and
Richard Boulger. Brother Orchid"
is being directed by Father Gilbert
v. Hartke, o. P.
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Return to Citv

Mr.. and Mrs. Aubrey H. Terrell
and daughter, Betty Ann Terrell,
have returned to the city after
spending the month of June at the
Gay Manor, Virginia Beach.
Evening star., 1939-04-01

belonging to his father, a railway
mail clerk.
Mr.. Mahoney said his son related
that he loaded the pistol and then
thought he removed all the shells
before he snapped the trigger.
The gun exploded, however, and
the bullet struck young Williams In
the right side of his chest and
lodged beneath his left shoulder
blade.
Treated first by a private physi-
clan, the victim was taken to Sibley
where physicians removed the pellet
early today. They said he has "an
excellent chance" to recover.
The accident occurred while Mr..
and Mrs. Mahoney were at church,
and the boys were alone in the house
at the time.
Julians father said his son had
gone to his playmate's home to
listen to a radio detective serial, and
that the first he knew of the tragedy
was when the boys came in the Will
liams' home by the back door and
started dressing Julian's wound.
X-rays were to be taken today to
determine whether any bones were
broken by the bullet. Doctors said
they believe it might have nicked
one of the boys lungs.
Evening star., 1939-04-01

of motorized units, airplanes, tanks
and all needed supplies and not in
sist upon sending troops except upon
the formal request of the Polish and
Rumanian governments? That is a
most delicate point which has to be
settled.
France Committed.
1t is needless to add that France
is committed toward Poland and the
other states in Eastern Europe to the
same extent as Britain and that her
treaties with Poland and Russia.
which after Munich were considered
as little more than a futile legacy
of the past. will now be fully revived.
The above details suffice to give
some idea of the many problems
which call fer solution. But now
Britain cannot retrace her steps,
and. despite the wording of Mr..
Chamberlain statement, the British
commitment must not be understood
as temporary or conditional. If it
had been so. Poland would not have
dared to take the risk of such a
drastic change in her policy.
1t now remains to be seen whether
Hitler will see his way to come to
terms with the powers included in
the new collective system and en-
deavor peacefully to settle the prob
lens which may arise between Ger
many and each of the nations in
the system, or think that an in
tolerable limit has been set to Ger
many's expansion and take the law
into his own hands.
Copyright. 1889, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1939-04-01
Hans Peter Petersen,
Gem Expert, Dead

Hans Peter Petersen, 80, proprie-
tor of an antique and jewelry store
in the 900 block of Seventeenth
street NV, died last night at his
home, 1926 Seventeenth street NV.
He was believed to have been re-
covering from an illness when
stricken with heart attack.
Mr.. Petersen was considered an
expert on precious stones. He spe-
cialized in dealing in jewelry which
he designed. He formerly was in
business in the 1900 block of F
street NV. for some 20 years.
A native of Odense, Denmark,
Mr.. Petersen came to this country
when he was young man. He had
been resident of Washington for
40 years. He is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Mabel j. Petersen.
Private funeral serevices will be
held at 1:30 pm. Monday at the
residence. Burial will be in Rock
Greek Cemetery.
Evening star., 1939-04-01
Blind Youth Is Forced
Give Up Business

Curtis Jackson. totally blind youth
who for two months tried to make
a go of earning his own living, this
week gave up his newsstand at the
Arlington Va) Post Office because
his shop was not patronized.
Before he left to hitch-hike to0his
home at Gibsons Station, Va, Jack
son said he thought he might be
able to do better somewhere else.
He was placed at the post office by
the Virginia Commission for the
Blind.
A young Arlington man has been
operating the tobacco, candy and
newsstand until the commission can
assign an other blind man to the
spot. The stands are allowed in the
post office buildings by special per-
mission and can be used only for
the assistance of the blind.
Evening star., 1939-04-01
DR.. Gourrich Resigns
AS ). {. {. Adviser
By the Associated Press.

oy tIle aSSOCldteQ PTeSS.
DR.. Paul P. Gourrich resigned
yesterday as technical adviser of
the Securities and Exchange Com
mission and director of its invest
ment trust study.
In a letter to Chairman William
o. Douglas. in which he praised
Mr.. Douglas brilliant leadership
in advancing "round-table principles
of give and take" he said:
Il am retiring from the Govern
ment service to attend to my per-
sonal affairs and to do what I can
on the business front to help
strengthen our economic and social
order through the development of
growing and enterprising economy
bottomed on the profit incentive of
private enterprise.
1T is my firm conviction that in
the final analysis the key to the
solution of all our problems lies in
a growing national wealth and
national income, generated by that
profit incentive of private enter
prise"
Mr.. Douglas praised DR.. Gourrich
for having greatly enriched our
work He formerly was economist
for Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
Evening star., 1939-04-01
Labor Leaders Join
In Fight on Radio
Liquor Advertising
Ban Would Invite Action
For Other Commodities,
Senators Told
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Labor union spokesmen joined
representatives of the brewing and
distilling industries yesterday in
voicing opposition to legislation
which would prohibit radio ad-
vertising of alcoholic beverages.
Ira N. Ornburn, secretary-treas-
urer of the Union Label Trade De-
partment of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, told Senate subcom-
mittee the measure was "a direct
attack on American labor"
1t was, he said, "as directly aimed
at the jobs of labor as if the bill said
so in SO many words" because it
would tend to curtail the sale of
alcoholic beverages.
1T will invite further pressure by
militant minority groups to pro-
hibit advertisement of other COM
modities," Mr. Ornburn declared.
Senator Johnson, Democrat of
Colorado, author of the bill, replied
to opposition witnesses with the
assertion that the legislation was
designed solely "for the protection
of the sanctity of the home and
the sanctity of the school room'
Also supporting the objectives of
the measure were Howard A. Daw-
son, director of the Division of
Rural Education of the National
Education Association, and Mrs.
Sina H. Stanton of the Council of
Women for Home Missions.
Mr.. Dawson said radio advertis-
ing of alcoholic beverages made more
difficult the educators task of
teaching the harmful effects of
consumption of alcohol and mar
coticS." s..
Joseph Obergfell of Cincinnati,
secretary of the Brewery Workers
Union, contended, however, that
beer was "a mild beverage and
that efforts should be made to "wean
the youth away from habits acquired
during prohibition and hip-pocket
drinking"
Senator johnson protested that
his proposal was not aimed at beer
any more than other alcoholic
beverages, but Mr.. Obergfell asserted
that most other liquor advertising
had been taken off the air volun-
tarily, leaving beer to feel the chief
effect of the legislation.
Evening star., 1939-04-01

health insurance. With almost In.
sidious deftness 1t leaves such q mat.
ter to discretion of the States. They
must decide whether to adopt in
surance or set up a system Of tax
supported State medicine; and II
they fail to adopt plan acceptable
to the Federal Government, they
must do without liberal tax money
allotments from the Federal Gov
ernment.
DR.. Heyd Hits Act.
'"Thus in effect, the Wagner bill
is huge bribe to install politically
controlled medical service"
DR.. Charles Gordon Heyd, former
president of the American Medical
Association, was present when Mr..
Gannett released his statement. "The
medical profession" he said, "be-
lieves that the Wagner Act would
mean the destruction of the volun-
tary hospital system"
DR.. Heyd said the number Of hos
pital beds in the Nation was incress-
ing at the average rate Of 101 daily
and that last year only SO per cent Of
the general hospital beds were occu-
pied.
THUS" DR.. Heyd said, "there are
81 per cent more beds available now
than were needed in 1888. In other
words, there are too many beds
available. The Wagner Act would
provide in three years $4,000 more
beds. The Government would be
adding unnecessarily to this num-
ber If the Government is to be-
come a competitor, no voluntary
hospital can survive"
Evening star., 1939-04-01
A. Warner Parker Rites
To Be Held Monday

Funeral services for A. Warner
Parker, 66. prominent lawyer, who
died Thursday at his home. 6 West
Underwood street. Chevy Chase, Nd,
will be held at pm. Monday in
Hines funeral home, 2901 Four
teenth street NV. Burial will be in
Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Mr.. Parker, known as an author
ity on immigration law, had been
engaged in law practice here since
1918, following earlier work for the
Government, including service as
special assistant to the Attorney
General from 1908 to 1919. Since
1924 he had been senior member OF
the firm of Parker e. Parker, being
associated in law practice with his
son. Warner Heath Parker.
Mr.. Parker aided in the prepara-
ton of the immigration bill passed
by Congress in February, 1917.
Evening star., 1939-04-01
Hitler Not Best for Reich, ,
German Declares
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. April 1.-Dr.
Ernst Wilhelm Meyer, former first
secretary of the German Embassy,
declared today. Millions and mil
lions of Germans instinctively feel
that Hitlerism is not good for the
lasting interests of their country
mo splendor of any European
hegemony can fool them" he said
in an address prepared for the ADD
meeting of the American Academy
of Political and Social Science.
These millions say, he added, that
the Germany represented by Hit
lerism can teach other
countries how to run trains on
time, how to organize armies and
storm troops =.
But it cannot develop, strengthen
or defend in any country affected
by its nationalist socialist nege-
mony the principles of religious
freedom, of internal freedom, of
tolerance, of law, of free science, of
personal dignity or of anything else
which represents the core of Chris
tan and Western civilization
Evening star., 1939-04-01
Shift in Polish Policy Revives
Collective Security Plan
Britain Seen Setting Up Brood System
Of Alliances Against Germany

not regard it as a British French
Polish alliance, but as much wider
league. First. there is good reason
to believe that, on Poland's insistent
demand. Lithuania will share by
the side of Poland in the Franco
British guarantee. Lithuanias s in
dependence, threatened by the re-
cent annexation of Memel to the
Reich, is of vital interest to the
Polish state, and so much was said
to the British Ambassador.
Treaty Direction Shifted.
Secondly, British diplomacy has
urged upon both Poland and Ru-
mania the necessity of making ap-
plicable to the case of German ag-
gression their old treaty of alliance.
which, so far, had been translated
into a single military convention
directed against Soviet Russia. and
it may be presumed that British
diplomacy has been listened to.
Third, all the probabilities are
that Turkey, already bound to Ru-
mania by a military agreement con-
cluded for the purpose of keeping
Bulgaria within the bounds of exist
ing treaties, will follow suit, and
that other signatories of the Balkan
pact, Yugoslavia and Greece, will
adhere to the new combination.
Fourth, the major task which now
devolves upon the British govern
ment is to win Soviet Russia's CO.
operation, since, without it, neither
Poland nor Rumania can reasonably
be expected to be strong enough and
sufficiently provided with war ma
terial. ammunition and perhaps even
foodstuffs (were the hostilities to
last many months) to Withstand the
onslaught of Germany and her
allies.
AS early as March II, even before
the British plan for consultation and
public declaration of collective Sc
curity had been launched, Maxim
Litvinof, commissar for foreign af-
fairs. told the British Ambassador
to Moscow, Sir William Seed, that
his government would participate.
But will Russia accept the limiting
of her contribution to the dispatch
Evening star., 1939-04-01
Prof. Coun Dies
After Long Illness
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LEXINGTON, Va, April 1.-Prof.
William Coan, 81, head Of the de-
partment of accounting in Wash
ington and Lee University's school
of commerce and administration
since 1920, died at his home here
last night after long illness.
Funeral services will be held at
the residence tomorrow at 2 pm.
Burial will be in Dayton, Ohio.
Before coming to Washington and
Lee he taught in high schools at
Lincoln, Nebr.. and Montclair, N. j.
Surviving is his widow, Mrs. Laura
Detamore Coan.
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charges.
BY PERTINAX.

PARIS. April l (NA.NA).-Prime
Minister Chamberlain's statement in
the House of Commons yesterday
made history. It marks decisive
turning point in international strife.
On January 26. 1884, Joseph Beck,
the Polish foreign minister, started
a policy of close association with
Germany amounting to completely
In turn, Austria and Czecho- -Slo-
vakia have succumbed to it, But, as
the outcome of Czecho-S -Slovakia S
destruction, Poland finds herself to-
day exposed to the growing German
danger.
British diplomacy, fortnight ago,
took bold step in proposing a guar
antee of Poland's frontiers against
attack from the west. At first, Col.
Beck seemed to hesitate. and, in his
talk with British Foreign Secretary
Halifax, Count Radcynski, the
Polish Ambassador to London, had
not much to say that might encour-
age Britain to persist in her under
taking.
But Lord Halifox was determined
to succeed and overcome all the OBJ
stacles which stood in the way. The
main negotiations were transferred
from London to Warsaw, and the
British Ambassador there was in
structed to approach directly Mar
shall Smigly-Ridz, commander in
chief of the Polish Army, who ranks
second only to Ignace Moscicki,
President of the republic, in the Po-
ush hierarchy. The French govern
ment had likewise attempted to ap-
peal to Marshal Smigly-Ridz over
the head of Col. Beck in September,
1896, and again in June, 1888, but to
no avail.
Beck Forced to Change Policy.
This time Marshal Smig1y- Ridz
was found in state of great irrita-
ton against Col. Beck, whom he
held responsible for his country S
plight. Moreover, the anti-German
popular demonstrations helped him
to convince the President of the re-
public. Soon, COL Beck had no
choice left but to carry out a policy
very different from the past.
Thus, after having contributed to
pulling down the French system OF
collective security. the Polish gov
ernment now reverses its whole po-
sition in European politics and joins
the British system. which is merely
revival of the former. Such a
courageous move by the British gov
ernment was needed to repair, at
least partially, the moral and ma
terial disaster suffered at Munich.
The Polish spokesmen went so
far in the initial phase of the nego-
tiations as to press the British Am
bassador and, behind him, Lord
Halifax and Mr.. Chamberlain, to
pledge the British cabinet to create
q British army of continental size
and pattern. All the requisite assur-
ances were given without delay.
Mr.. Chamberlain statement lifts
the veil not upon the whole, but
merely upon q part of the defensive
coalition that the foreign office is
sndeavoeins to set up. We must