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Evening star., 1939-04-16
Tax Appeals Board
Dismisses $1,400,0O0
Prudence Co. Suits
Order Ends II Cuses
Seeking Levies From
1923 Through 1887

Chairman Arundel Of the United
States Board of Tax Appeals yes
terday signed an order dismissing
the Governments $1,400,OOO tax
suit against the Prudence Co. of
New York City, one of the country's
largest bond houses. Edward F,
Colladay and Wilton H. Wallace of
Washington and Nathaniel L. Gold
stein represented the company as
counsel during various stages Of the
suit.
The order dismissed II cases
brought against the company by the
Bureau Of Internal Revenue, which
sought taxes for years from 1923
through 1887. The cases origin goes
back to March Is, 1o36-even before
the last tax year involved in the
final suit-when Judge Grover M.
Moscowitz of the District Court for
Eastern New York appointed Cola
day, McGarraghy, Colladay and
Wallace Of Washington as special
tax counsel to negotiate a settle
ment of the taxes.
100000 Settlement Agreed On.
A settlement of $400 900 was agreed
upon, and Judge Moscowitz ap-
proved the settlement in an order
signed May S, 1898, which authorized
the trustee for the company to pay
100000 to the Government. The
company has been in 77-B bank
ruptcy organization proceedings for
several years, and the trustee is
William T. Gown. Final reorgani-
zation is about to be consummated
in plan worked out by Mr.. Gown,
the R. F. c. and several committees
Of bondholders.
The $4,000 settlement was at
tackled in an application for ap-
peal laid before the United States
Court of Appeals by Bertha Stein,
holder of $4,000 Prudence bond.
The court agreed to the appeal.
heard the case June 20, 1888, and
upheld the settlement in a unan nj
nous opinion. The Supreme Court
turned down Miss STEMS request
last February for review.
Settlement Accepted.
The Secretary Of the Treasury
formally accepted the companys
reorganization plan and the tax
settlement. At his request, the
Attorney General, through the
United States District ATTORNEY in
Brooklyn, joined in conference
with the Collector of Internal Reve-
nue.. who received the settlement
payment
The court proceedings and fhe
Treasury action were reported
formally to the Board of Tax Ap-
peals by joint motion of the Wasn-
ington law firm acting as tax coun-
sci and of the Governments coun-
sci. Thurman Hill. Raymond F..
Brown and Louis Calls represents
ed the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue and the Secretary of the
Treasury in the case.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
N. !. T. Dinner Tomorrow

The Washington Society of the
Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology will sponsor its annual din
ner and ladies' night program at
7:15 pm. tomorrow at the Brooke
Farm Tea House on the Brookville
(Md) road. Guest speakers will in
clude Robert Lincoln O'Brien, former
United States Tariff Commissioner,
and DR.. Vannevar Bush, president
Of the Carnegie Institution.
Evening star., 1939-04-16

work is being delayed because Of the
loss Of substantial paving which
would accompany widening work
now.
The roadway is only % feet wide
from Monroe street to Spring road,
and 80 feet wide between Logan
Circle and Florida avenue.
Evening star., 1939-04-16
Zionist Rabbi to Speak

Rabbi Isadore Breslau, president
Of the Washington Zionist District,
will be guest speaker at the meet
ing of the Ladies Auxiliary Of the
Hebrew Home for the Aged tomor-
row at 2 pm. at the home. Mrs.
Elias Gelman will offer the OPEN
ing prayer.
Evening star., 1939-04-16

Glen opened yesterday the air holes in the Midway
floor in perfect working order these young
covered Shown endeavorng keep under control are
eft to right Norma Myford 4309 road Arlington
Va Josephine Shropshire 1887 Ashmead place NW and
Jerry Allen Of 1os George Mason drive. Arlington Va
Star Staff Photo
Evening star., 1939-04-16
WO-PIECE SUITE
Special 1853

A truly sophisticated style done In
your choice Of tiny figured cotton
topestry with beige background or In
green or mulberry eotton-ond -royon
srnoIl figured donosk. CurIed, black
horse hoir t5O% name and 5O%
TOLD and cotton felt filling. Rever-
sible cushions.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-11-02
Billings Set Free By
Governor Of California

San Francisco (LNS).-Gov. Gull
bert l.. Olson, who pardoned Tom
Mooney, has committed the sentence
of Warren K. Billings to time served.
He acted following receipt Of world
from the California Supreme Court
that majority Of the court approved
the communication.
Billings was convicted September ri
1916, of first degree murder charges
in connection with the bombing of the
Preparedness Day parade in which
ten persons were killed. Mooney was
convicted of the same crime on testi-
mony since proved to have been per-
jured.
When Gov. Olson pardoned Mooney
he said he had full confidence in the
innocence of Billings but could not
pardon him at once because of state
law requiring approval of the State
Supreme Court in cases where there
had been a prior conviction. In rec
ommending communication of sen
tence, the Governor said he was COM
vinced Billings was convicted upon
perjured testimony and through sup
preston of evidence.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-11-02

Times-Herald, four great new divisions of gov
ernment are proposed The first, National De-
tense, would include all military affairs and
counter-espionage. The second Production, would
include the Agricultural Department, the Labor
Department and social security, and would have
sweeping powers over the country's non-military
nanpower The third, Construction and Trans
)ortation, would control Federal public works, all
communications, the Power Commission, the In
;erstate Commerce Commission, the Post Office,
Interior Department, etc. The fourth, Finance,
government fiscal bureaus, and would deal with
)anks trust institutions, insurance companies,
tic.
All of these divisions would be under the direct
control of the President who would appoint their
leads. The catch comes in the plans for giving
the proposed new divisions authority And ac-
cording to the news reports, this authority would
be virtually unlimited. Every business and every
individual in the country would come Immediately
under the fullest possible official domination. La
Dor would be virtually conscripted-no man could
change job without permission from the govern
ment The orders which any business could ac-
cept would be determined by official fiat. Indus
tries owners and executives would be mere figure
heads who could do nothing save carry out the
orders given them by government. A dictatorship,
complete in every detail, would be established.
And this isn't all there is to I'M Day" plans by
a long shot. Complete government control and
censorship Of the RADIO the press, the rights Of
protest and assemblage are envisioned Elections
could be deferred if the poWersthat-to-be decided
that the emergency made it necessary.
All this and more is going to happen II war
comes to the United States. Gone will be democ-
racy gone our liberties Could there be stronger
case for neutrality?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-11-02
Office Workers Hit
By Factory Methods

Startling information that assembly
line methods are being installed
among white collar workers was re-
Gently given by Thomas Amlie, former
Wisconsin Congressman, in an address
before members of Office Workers
Union No. 1886, Milwaukee, Wis.
Mr.. Amlie said that the application
of the factory system in Offices de-
velops change in the attitude of the
workers, manifested in their tendency
to lose interest in their work.
He declared that an extra emphasis
was being placed on efficiency, which
he illustrated by the statement that
meters are placed on typewriters in a
New York office which register the
mistakes made by typists with wages
determined by the number of mistakes
recorded.
Mr.. Amlie said a person of aver
age ability has much less chance of
getting along today because mechan-
ization has extended so rapidly and
entered SO many fields that he is lost.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-11-02
SLAVERY OF THE PEOPLE UNDER
HTTT ERTSM

COME of the notorious methods by which Htler's
~ Nazi government imposes virtual slavery on
the German people were forcefully described by
Gerhardt H. Seger a former member of the Ger
man Rechstag and now representing the German
Labor Delegation in the United States in an ad-
dress before the annual convention of the Amerl-
can Federation of Labor at Cincinnati.
According to Mr.. Seger, German citizens are
arrested and imprisoned without trial, and strikes
are outlawed, with jail terms for workers who take
part in them.
''We have in Germany today" Mr.. Seger said,
"an institution which, by rather Disgusting term,
is called Protective Custody 1t MEANS according
to the law by which the institution was inaug-
ulated six years ago. that anybody can be arrested
any time and kept in prison any length OF time
without having done anything, without any trial
without any charge, without any Indictment
without any legal or judicial procedure what
soever, if the secret police force or the debating
Nazi Party officials suspects the person involved
feels that he or she might do something in the
future which might be dangerous to the state, to
the dictatorship. That means you are just taken
away and you can rot in any of these So concen-
tration camps throughout Gelmany-and that has
been the case with many trade union officials of
former times
THAT means, of course, that the whole popula-
ton, including labor is kept in constant terror"
Pointing out that in Germany today the ring
ing of the doorbell may mean the secret political
police to take you away you don't know where,
you don't know why, and you don't know for how
long," Mr.. Seger continued:
"And so on the basis of this general terror a
special terror was organized against what was
formerly organized labor Let me describe for you
the situation of labor in Germany today. Organ
izing strike is punishable with capital punish
ment. Participating IN strike is punishable by
at least ten years in the pententary. 1t is punish
able to bargain collectively 1t is punishable with
three months in jail if someone goes individually
to his employer and asks for a raise
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-11-02
NEVER AGAIN" SAYS NATION

4 CREAM epidemic OF influenza similar to the
dcath-deang outbreak of 1918, after the
United States entered the World War, may well
be expected in association with the present war,
says DR.. Thomas NJ. Rivers Of the Rockefeller In
stitute.
Memory of the terrible 1913 Scourge is un-
doubtedly one of the things seeling the resolution
of the people of the United States to keep this
nation out of war. And they know that the "flu''
epidemic was only one Of the many disastrous
consequences Of the Wal-conSequcnceS which are
still with us.
ton is strong?
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-11-02
PAID HOLIDAYS FOR BRITISH WORKERS
MARCH FORWARD

DROGRESS made in securing paid holidays for
working men and women in Great Britain was
emphasized by Herbert H. Elvin, Fraternal Dele
gate from the British Trade Union Congress to the
annual convention of the American Federation of
Labor in Cincinnati, Ohio in an address to the
convention.
Pointing out that the British labor advisers, of
which he was one at the international Labor Of
flee Conferences of 1885, took the most promin-
ent part in the passing of the convention for
holidays with pay, Mr.. Elvin said:
"This convention brought the question in our
country right to the front of practical politics,
and, arising from the unanimous Report of the
Government Department Committee, continued
progress has been made, with the results that
some II million workers in Great Britain now have
at least weeks holiday with pay. In 1910 we
expect much bigger advance.
'"The corolary of this is the provision of hoh-
day facilities for workers. Until a greater i'm
provement in the economic position of trade union
lists has taken place, hundreds of working class
families will not be able to make the best use OF
holidays with pay. We are, therefore, giving close
consideration to the possibility of securing faclll-
ties within the pockets of the ordinary workers
to enable them to leave home for the holiday
period"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-11-02
A STEP IN ADVANCE

THERE is bitter opposition to the Wage-Hour
Act, among certain quite limited coterie OF
employers of cheap labor. These are engaged
mainly in the food industries, and it is curious to
note that only one-third OF those receiving less
than 80 cents an hour are located in the South.
The estimated increase in the total payrols,
from the application of the increase in the mini
mum wage of % cents to 80 cents an hour, which
became effective October "a, is about 500 million.
Next year the other slice will be added, when the
standard wage will be raised to 40 cents an hour.
That will have {. wider swath also, and probably
may raise a louder howl from those whose profits
will be affected. Meanwhile, less than 100000 will
be affected, out of total of 10 million, by the dl-
rect wage increase, which is only about 55 per
cent of the total manufacturing roll
The shorter standard work week will affect a
larger number, who will draw overtime for all
wages over AZ hours. This should have some ef-
feet on spreading the work among larger num-
Der OF workers. But where that would entail more
equipment, employers are likely to find it cheaper
to pay the overtime.
At any rate, it is another step toward a goal
all too ineffective, which really set in the days
Iof the NRA.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-11-02
TASKS CONFRONTING LABOR

We have still to find jobs in pri-
vate industries for millions of work
ers and assure to the thirteen millions
of families now living on less than
$3.50, an income that will provide them
minimum standards Of living neces-
sary to comfortable living. We
must provide all workers assurance
Of income against those emergencies
which prevent workers from earning
their regular incomes. :. Of immedl-
ate concern is the determination Of
national health policy and provision
for medical care for all-American
Federationist.
Common sense supplies the answer to
those questions.
There is but one more word left to
say. The only organizations in this
country that have refrained from con-
demning the Stain Hitler pact are
Communist-front organizations. I'm
less the G. |. 0. convention dareS to
defy its own leaders and make such
condemnation it must be branded now
and forever as Communications or
ganization more obedient to the die
tates of the Communist Party line
than to the decent and honorable I'M
pulses Of Americanism.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-11-02

At time when the dictatorS are threatening
we as trade unlonists, know that the trade unions
are the buwarks of both freedom and democracy.
For under relationships trade unions are suppress
ed and with il all forms of civil liberties. The
one great force that can prevent the distinctions
Of the organizations of labor is labor ITSELF
James Wilson, Labor Adviser, international Labor
Office, in address before A. f. of l.. Convention.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-11-02
HOUSING SHOULD BE IMPROVED

In each generation, unless we
choose affrmatively, inaction deter
mines our choice for us. All over, in
urban and rural America, our hous-
ing should be improved. Only plan
ned, concerted, purposeful action by
all who are equipped to improve
housing can give the results we rec
ognize as essential to our progress
and our well-being.-President Roose-
welt, i'll message to United States
Building and Loan League.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-11-02
WHAT NEXT?

Corn bins are now being made
of steel. The Federal Govern
ment has ordered 10000 steel
bins, to be used by the Commodity
Credit Corporation to store corn
turned over to it in payment of
Government loans to farmers.
Each of the bins has capacity
of 2,3O6 bushels.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-11-02
PLANNED DICTATORSHIP

IF anyone is still looking for d sound reason for
vigorously maintaining American neutrality, all
he need to do is examine the plans now being
made for expanding and changing the power and
set-up OF the Federal government if we again go
to
These plans are now about complete. Accord
ing to a review published in the Washington
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-11-02
Truths Pondered While
Riding At Anchor
MIR. MODESTUS
. THE URGE OF VIKINGS
Q FIRST IT'S LINDBERGH
. NOW IT'S LUNDEEN
= WOULD MAKE AMERICAS
ONE

These Vikings!
First came Lindbergh-
The reticent, reserved, introverted
Scandinavian
Mechanic who never makes mis-
takes
Aviator who always comes home
with the bacon
Like Henry, Of the Fords, who
built a fool-proof auto
Or the omniscient small-town bank
Local encyclopaedia of theology,
economics, and school taxes
Charles the Viking, stirred by the
approach of battle-smoke-
Suppressing his ancient impulses
toward fighting
Following his habit of self-restraint
toward newspaper men
None of whom ever felt the weight
of his fist
This young blonde out of the great
Northwest
Rebuking his family foes, news
papers, takes to the radio
Nevertheless, perhaps unconscious
ly, but clearly
Reveals the urge of the Viking con-
querOrs-
In his demands that his United
States should annex
All Of the Americas not now held
| by American governments
Making America one unadulterated
unit
Hurray for the Swedes!
X x x
Next comes his comrade in arms,
and in blood
Husky Lundeen, from his native
| Minnesota-a-a-
In stentorian tones, with ringing
Of any rights claimed by any decad-
ent nation of Europe
Excepting always the Swedes, of
course
Whose statecraft holds the Da-
kotas-
BY bond more subtle than battle
ships
Viking Lundeen demands that we
make France and England pay
With West Indian islands and
South American lands
The debts they owe to Uncle Sam
X x X
The only land England ever gave
up
Was that of these Thirteen Col
onies-
Partly because the Quebec fur
lands
Looked like a better consolation
prize
Which she would never have done
had she known
How much gold there was in SUIT
ter's mill dam site
Or the fisheries, fruit, and wheat Of
Columbia basin
X X X
SO now these Vikings, turned paci-
fist
By reversion, not to type
Deeming that they have given up
and foresworn-
Deepest instincts and racial habits
of their forbears-
Asserting their love Of peace, their
hate of war
Exemplify the oldest traditions of
their race
By running up the flags of con-
querors---
Demanding, in the name of peace
That other nations give up their
islands, seas and peninsulas-
For which they have fought bloody
battles
At the words Of couple of Scan
dinavians--
These avators have similar ten
dency-
When they don't fly the wrong
way
They do tailspin, going backward
somehow
SO "Wrong-way Lindbergh," with
out seeming to know it
Points backward to his warlike an
ceStors-
Aiming to lead his present country,
men
Along with Lundeen the lusty-
On forays across the St Lawrence
and the Gulf Stream
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-11-02

All reason, all history, all our own experience
show that wrongs cannot be Iighted and durable
peace cannot be imposed on nations by force,
threats, economic pleaSuIeG, OF Nar.-l1erDelt
Hoover.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-11-02

WISDOM

He that plants thOrns must
never expect to gather roses.
---Pilpay.
Evening star., 1939-10-08
FiinIund
Continued From First Page.)

nouncement concerning the cabinet
meeting but informed sources said
the Russian invitation was the prin-
cipal topic. These sources said it
was possible the delegate would
leave tomorrow
The Finnish public took the news
of the Soviet proposal quietly and
seriously but without alarm. Gov
ernment circles likewise showed
calmness with outward signs of de-
termination. 1t was emphasized
that no demands accompanied the
Moscow invitation and that Fin
land was prepared for a thorough
discussion of trade possibilities.
The summoning of the Army re-
serves was regarded purely as pre-
cautionary measure.
Helsinki officials reiterated that
contrary to all reports, preparations
were going forward for the 194C
Olympic games to be held in Fin
land.
Pacts Likened to Shackles.
In connection with Russia's moves
to extend the Soviet sway through
pacts with Estonia and Latvia and
negotiations with Lithuania, the
Helsinki Swedish language news
paper, Svenska Pressen, observed
the new agreements seem like
shackles."
The paper. regarded as sympa-
thetic to the strongest party in the
Finnish Diet, the Social Democrats
noted that the Baltic states often
have been termed by the Nazis as
a "bulwark against Bolshevism, u
but that they now were approach
ing new fate"
I'm the near future they no long
er will be what they were during
20 years of independence" it de-
clared.
communism has now got a bet
ter hold on the West than ever in
the past. Communists now have
made strategic and military con-
quests which ordinarily presuppose
war"
Russian Troops Awaited.
1t observed that the Soviet forces
10 be stationed in Estonia and Lat
via would be more than those coun
tries troops.
Estonians heard that the first
OF $4,000 Russian troops to be quar-
tered there would arrive next weeA,
1900 being due Tuesday and $4,000
a little later.
Latvia was expecting a Russian
military commission next week, and
Lithuania had a large governmental
delegation en- route to the Russian
capital.
Evening star., 1939-10-08
Thousands Of Catholics
To Parade October y

Thousands of Catholic men, rep
resenting SO parishes in the District
will march Sunday afternoon. Octo-
ber 20, in celebration of the feast
of Christ, the King, it was an
nounced yesterday.
Forming west of the Capitol
Grounds, the parade will march up
Constitution avenue to the Monu-
ment Grounds, where solemn bene-
diction will be sung by combined
choirs from the religious orders at
the Catholic University.
The Most Rev. Michael J. Curley
Archbishop of Baltimore, and other
distinguished guests will review the
marchers from a stand at the
Monument Grounds.
Members of the Holy Name
Branch at Walter Reed Medical
Center and Fort Myer will add a
military touch to the parade, while
bands will furnish music for the
marchers.
The feast of Christ, the King, was
established by the late Pope Plus
XII in 1925 to proclaim to the
world the kingship of Christ, and
demonstrations on the last Sunday
in october have been annually in
celebration of this feast.
Evening star., 1939-10-08
D. 6. Girls Receive
Honors at Stuart Hall

-Four girls from Washington and
nearby have received honors at
Stuart Hall, Staunton, Va, it was
announced yesterday.
Miss Frankie Lou Hines of 1909
Kalmia road has been elected presi-
dent of the Writing Club and be-
longs to Alpha Literary Society.
Miss Jeremy Hohenstein of 5000
Connecticut avenue NV. has been
made a member of the student
council, treasurer of the Dramatic
Club and has been invited to join
the German Club, the social club
of the school. Miss Mary Reed,
daughter of Maj. and Mrs. Walter
j. Reed of Washington, is librarian
of the Glee Club, secretary treasurer
of the Granddaughter Club and has
been invited to join the German
Club.
Miss Jo-Ann Will of Indianhead
Md, has been elected to the stu
dent council and has been made
vice president of that body.
Evening star., 1939-10-08

come after the Vincent C. Burke.
convention is called to order at .
am. Tuesday in Constitution Hall.
President George Purcell of Bloom
ington. Ind, will preside.
Delegates will gather on the south
lawn of the White House on We'd
nesday to hear a word from Presi-
dent Roosevelt. On Thursday Mrs.
Roosevelt will entertain the guests
at White House tea. Business
sessions will be held in the May
flower Hotel, and a convention BAN
quet will be given there Thursday
night in honor of Postmaster Gen.
eral Farley.
The latest development in a;:-sz1,aii II
service-a pickup device for shifting
mail to and from the ground while
the plane is in flight-will be DEM
onstrated at pm. Thursday on