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Evening star., 1939-08-04
Connecticut Coup|e
Decide 10 Return
Thorne Baby
Mrs. Growers Lawyer
Says Parents Will Get
Child Back Today

The adopting parents of 5-month-
old Barbara Alicia Thorne have de-
cided to give the baby back to her
real parents. H. L. Mccormick, at
torney for Mrs. Annie Grover, said
today.
The lawyer. who with Mrs. Grover
narrowly escaped being cited for
contempt of court by Justice T.
Alan Goldsborough yesterday for not
producing the baby in court, said
the wealthy Connecticut couple who
had planned to adopt the baby are
sending it back to Washington by
train today.
Mr.. Mccormick explained that he
had talked with Samuel Spencer
local counsel for the couple, and
was advised by him that they feel
the baby could not be happy with
them now.
Publicity Protested.
The unfortunate publicity" the
case has received in the courts, he
said he was advised. made the Con-
necticut couple feel the child ran
the risk of having its past affect
the rest of its life
Mr. Mccormick said the child
was scheduled to arrive in Wash
ington at $50 pm, accompanied by
nurse. The baby, he said, would
be met by Mr. Spencer and taken
to the home of Mrs Grover, on
Jocylen street, where it would be
given a physical examination.
To Be Returned by Parents.
The doctor, he said, would be
asked to make a certificate of the
child's physical condition. and then
the child would be turned over i'm.
mediately to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Thorne. the real parents, who are
to meet it at the Grover home.
Mr.. Mccormick said he had not
yet notified the court, the Thornes
or Mrs. Grover of the impending
move.
BY returning to Washington, he
said, the child is giving up a mil
lionaire grandmother resi-
dence in a 15-room house and fos-
ter parents who are both college
graduates. The adopting parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Tilt of Green
Wich, Conn, have an income of
$4,000 a year, he said.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Loborer Is Caught
By Ditch Cove-in

Caught by cave-in, a colored
laborer was pinned in an 8-foot
ditch aboutjl o'clock this morning
In the 300 block of Old Georgetown
road, Bethesda, Md, while work.
men and members of the fire rescue
squao struggled to effect his re-
lease
Before being dug out at 12:45 the
man was given hypodermic iniec-
ton by DR.. Leo Donovan of Bethesda
The fire rescue squad ambulance
stood nearby and took him to George
town Hospital as soon as he was
freed.
The ditcn is being dug by Corson
& Gruman, contractors, to lay a
conduit for telephone lines.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Relief From Humidity
Forecast for CopituI

A measure of relief from the heat
in the form of a break in the ex-
cessive humidity was predicted for
the Capital today.
AS the forecast was issued this
morning the temperature was lag
ging eight degrees behind yester-
days readings and the forecaster
ventured that the afternoon would
see the murcury rise no higher than
IS, as compared with yesterdays S
maximum of SO.
The forecast was partly cloudy
and some risk of brief shower this
afternoon, tonight also partly over
cast and tomorrow mostly clear,
with little change in temperature.
Last night showers drove the tenn
perature down considerably, with
the overnight low being 10 at $3.50
am. At 1880 an. the reading
was 76.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Trade Pact With Reich
Announced by Bolivia
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LA PAZ. Bolivia, Aug. 4-The Bo-
livian government announced today
it had reached a trade agreement
with Germany.
Under the pact the newly nation
allied Central Bank of Bolivia will
be sole export agent for Bolivian
products to Germany The bank will
receive askimarks-special trade
currency-in exchange and will allot
them to importers of German goods
R. Becker, representative of the
German foreign ministry, and H
Koppelmann, representative of the
German ministry of economy, who
negotiated the agreement, left for
Lima today to discuss possible
trade pact with Peru.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
1ydings' Hat in Ring
For 1910 Nomination
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
BALTIMORE, Aug. 4.-Mary-
lands Senator Millard E. Tydings,
victor over President RooseYslts
purge" of -administratF6
congressman last year, became
candidate today for the 1910
presidential nomination.
Baltimore's Calvert Club, poiiti-
cal group organized during Sena-
tor Tyding's 1898 senatorial CAM
paign against Representative David
j. Lewis, New Deal candidate put
the Marylander in the running
with an announcement the club
said bore Senator Tydings' full
approval" r~-
Col. Alvin K. Baskette. retired
Army officer and club president,
said Senator Tydings had au-
thorized issuance Of the first TO-
900" Tydings-for-Pres stckers,
which appeared in the city today.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Coal Hole Cuve-in
Traps Two Miners
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RAVINE, Pa, Aug. 1.-Two men
were trapped in a cave-in today in
an isolated coal hole on Lincoln
Mountain, between this little Schuyl-
kill County mining town and toilette
There was no indication whether
they escaped death.
Miners said one of the men was
Robert Fiddler, As, and the other
also probably resident of nearby
Penns Grove. They went to work
with picks and shovels while an
appeal was sent to colliery at Ire
mont for equipment.
Heavy rains yesterday had soft
ened the ground.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Congressional Group
Asks Milk Monopoly
Investigation
Accuses Borden Co. and
National Dairy
Products Corp.

A group of members of Congress
today petitioned Attorney General
Murphy to extend the Justice De-
partment's trust busting activities
into the milk industry by instituting
proceedings against the National
Dairy Products Corp. and the Borden
Co., two OF the countrys largest milk
concerns.
The members made their request
in personal call on Mr.. Murphy at
the Justice Department. A petition
they presented charged the two
companies are guilty of "monopolis-
tic abuses"
One of the group, Representative
Francis D. Culkin, Republican, of
New York said after the conference
that antitrust action, if undertaken
by the Justice Department, un-
doubtedly would touch on the local
milk situation, subject of bitter
controversy in Congress.
Meeting Set Monday.
After talking with Mr.. Murphy
and Assistant Attorney General
Thurman Arnold. who heads the
Antitrust Division, the Congress
members arranged to meet with Mr.
Arnold at 10 am Monday at the
Justice Department for a fuller dis
cussion of their petition.
The petition asked Mr. Murphy to
institute legal proceedings, either
civil or criminal, to dissolve the two
companies into their local parts and
subsidiaries
During such proceedings, the petit
TONERS asked that the two COM
panies be enjoined from exercising
any influence over or conspiring -
for the prevention of competition of
the exclusion of competitive dealers
Of milk and dairy products" in areas
served by subsidiaries of the COM
panies.
Would Bar Agreements.
They would also bar the COM
panies from entering into any
agreement or from using any
powers of coercion to establish and
maintain a uniform price for fluid
milk or cream or other dairy prod
uctS.
ut is the purpose = =" the petition
concluded, ito end by orders of the
court, including preliminary injunc-
tions, the abuses, monopoly powers,
and destructive influences now ex-
ercised by said corporations over
100000 people on the farm de-
pendent upon the dairy industry and
10000, 900 urban consumers who rely
upon milk as a necessary item OF
food"
The petition was signed by Mr.
Culkin and Representatives Clyde
H. Smith and James c. Oliver OF
Maine, B. J. Gehrmann, Stephen
Bolles, Frank B. Keefe and Merlin
Hull of Wisconsin, William Lemke
of North Dakota, Walter Pierce oi
Oregon and r. T. Buckler of Min
nesota.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. 4.-"Persecution
by the new German government of
Czecho-Slovakia was blamed by a
coroners jury today for the plunge
of a 43-year-old refugee mother and
her two sons to their deaths from
the 18th floor of the Congress Hotel.
The jury which heard the tragic
testimony of the once wealthy hus-
band and father, Karel LANCER, so,
decided his wife, Adelia. committed
suicide while temporarily insane due
to worry over being forced to leave
her home in Czech -Slovakia due to
persecution"
Jan Misha, Az. and Karel Tommy
6, the sons, were victims of murder
committed while tthe mother was)
temporarily insane" the verdict read.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Man Sent to Prison
For Roosevelt Threats

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 4.-John
Dean, Sc, was ordered to Federal
prison today for writing threatening
letters to President Roosevelt.
After being. given 12-months
term a year ago, Deans sentence
was changed to three years proba-
ton because he assured Federal
Judge Merrill E. Otis he didn't
mean it,"
Today's action was based on a re-
cent letter to the President in which
Dean wrote, You are a great men,
ace to America and should be re-
moved somehow" His earlier letter
stated, Il feel must come to Wash
ington and kill YOU"
Evening star., 1939-08-04
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 4-Parliament ad-
journed today for a two-month va
cation after hearing Prime Minis
ter Chamberlain warn Japan that
Great Britain might find it neces-
sary lin certain circumstances" to
send fleet to the Far East.
The Prime Minister, in one of the
bluntest declarations he has made
on British-Japanese difficulties, said
he hoped no one would think 1T
absolutely out of the question for
such circumstances to arise"
Il do not say that as a threat" he
added, but only as warning"
Mr.. Chamberlains speech was
made against the background of the
news from Italy that Japan's closer
adherence to the Rome-Berlin axis
was under discussion by the Japa-
nese Ambassadors to the axis powers.
Parliament Adjourns.
The House of Lords adjourned at
11:56 am. and the House of Com
mons at pm. Parliament will re-
assemble October 3 unless an emer-
gency should cut short the vacation.
Mr.. Chamberlain indicated Britain
earlier might have taken such &C
tion as he now said might be neces-
sary if it had not been for the criti-
cal situation in Europe which held
the feet at home
Let us not forget that we have
graver and nearer problems to con-
slider in the course of the next few
months" he declared, land we must
conserve our forces to meet any
emergency that may arise"
Speaking in foreign affairs debate
in the House of Commons, Mr..
Chamberlain said:
Sometimes I hear members say
Why don't you do the same as the
United States does? 1t is hardly
necessary for me to point to the
fundamental difference between the
United States and it's isolation from
Europe and this country.
Limits to Action.
Even in the presence of those in
suits and injuries which have been
inflicted upon British people in
China by the japanese we must re-
member there are limits to what we
can do at this time to help our peo-
pie there
"At the present moment we have
not got in the Far East a fleet su-
perior to that of the Japanese. We
have such fleet here In certain
circumstances we might find it nee
essary to send fleet out there"
! Britain normally maintains in Far
Eastern waters only her China
squadron. which includes no capital
ships and would be no match for the
Japanese Navy, the worlds third
strongest.
The China squadron, commanded
by Admiral Sir Percy Noble. includes
three 10,OO0-ton cruisers, one 9,100-
ton cruiser. one aircraft carrier, one
destroyer f1otilla of ships. Is sub
marines, about Is river gunboats and
escort vessels and half a dozen sta
ton and mother ships
Britain has. however. built great
naval base at Singapore. two OF
three days steaming from the China
coast, capable of basing and repair
ing the largest battleships.
Last April Is President Roosevelt
(See LONDON, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Pedestrian, Given Ticket, Calls
Friend, Who Gets One Too

This is the story of Three Men
and a Traffic Light" or How to
Double a Traffic Ticket"
Leon H. Holt, 4128 Eighth street
NV, walked across Morrison street
at Connecticut avenue yesterday aft
ernoon, and Policeman Foster Rowan
gave him ticket for crossing against
a red light.
Mr.. Holt then walked to the gro
cery store of Harry Spund at 5516
Connecticut avenue. A few minutes
later the two Of them returned to
Morrison street and approached
Omcer Rowan.
Evening star., 1939-08-04

Before either could speak, observ-
ant Ofhcer Rowan informed them
they had crossed the street against
the red signal. Mr. Spund replied
he had come to talk about the ticket
given his friend. Mr.. Holt, not about
the trafiic lights.
WELL" countered the policeman,
II am going to give you ticket first,
and then you can talk about both Of
them
He whipped out his pencil, tore a
ticket from his book for Mr.. Spund,
and then threatened Mr.. Holt with
another for violating the pedestrian
control law q second time.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Nozis' Victim, P|unges
To Death With Two Sons
Riches Seized in Czecho- -SIovokio, She and
Husband Feared Custer by u S.

MRS. LANCER hurled the children
and herself from a window of her
hotel room to the sidewalk of busy
Michigan Boulevard last night.
Her distraught husband testified
at an inquest today his wife con-
stantly talked of taking her life "and
taking the babies with her" She
had been Respondent since fleeing
to the United States four weeks ago
he said, after being more or Jess
compelled to leave" their native land
to find opportunities for the chill
dren.
Nervous and broken. the slight
Jewish father unfolded through an
interpreter, Attorney Otto Oplatka
a story of having been practically
forced" to sell his million dollar
tSee PLUNGE, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Suffrogist Dies

TICONDEROGA, N. Y, Aug. 4 LP)
Mrs. Stephen H. P. Pell, 81, prom
inently identified with the womens
rights movement during the suffrage
campaign and a former member of
the New York State Republican
Committee, died today at Boston,
Mass, hospital after an illness of
three months.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Danzig Nazis Finish
Bridge 10 Open Up
East Prussia Border
Ready for installation
As Step in Return
To Reich Control
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Free City of Dunsig Uds Gre
0ted by treaty OF Versailles and
placed in customs union NTH
Poland. Rise of Nasis in Ger
many created Nasi party in Dam
zig, Which has obtained control
OF the government, and demand
has arisen bet,Ueen Germany and
Dansig for reunion, but Poland.
uhtch depends on Dansig for part
OF her outlet to the sea, has
harmed she will fight to prevent
German recovery OF the Free City.
BY the Associated Press
FREE CITY OF DANZIG. Aug. 4
-Danzig authorities announced to-
day that a pontoon bridge which
would provide the only bridge con-
nection over the Vistula River be-
tween the Free City of Danzig and
German East Prussia was completed
and ready for installation.
Announcement of the new bridge
follows a threat on Tuesday by
Danzig Nazi leaders to ignore the
established frontiers after a revival
of the herring and margarine war
between Poland and Danzig.
The Polish press today discussed
the possibility that Danzig Nazis
were preparing forcibly to open the
frontier between the Free City and
East Prussia-a step in the direction
of incorporation of Dapzig in the
Reich.
The bridge has not yet been put
in place and authorities said they
were not certain when it would be
anchored.
1t will be entirely on free state
territory and will connect Kaese-
mark, on the west side of the river
and Rotebude, on the east
The completed bridge is now at
Danzig dock awaiting installation.
Treaty provisions place the Free
City within the Polish customs ad-
ministration.
The Danziger Vorposten declared
that if such disturbances of trade
continued, "the Free State will direct
its trade to the German market
without regard for the former
customs frontier, now broken by
Poland"
The Polish commissioner to Dan
zig, Marian Chodacki, sent a note to
the Nazi-controlled Danzig Senate
replying to a protest over the mar
garine and herring war"
Measures limiting Danzig mar
garine exports to Poland will be
withdrawn only if the Senate makes
sure that the rights of Polish Of
ficials to inspect and control Dan
zig's customs personnel are re-
spected," Chodacki declared.
Polish inspectors in large Dan
zig margarine exporting plant were
(See DANZIG, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Secretary lckes
q Column
BY the Associated Press

The Secretary of Interior
turns newspaperman again as
guest conductor of Frederic
William Wile's "Washington
observations" Today on
Page AT.
Evening star., 1939-08-04

Foreign.
Danzlg Nazis complete bridge to
open East Prussia border. Page Al
japanese lay groundwork for closer
tie to axis. Page Al
May send fleet to Far East, Britain
warns. Page Al
Bruening reported helping Nazis
seek Danzig settlement. Page A
Chinese in Tientsin attack office OF
British export firm. Page As
Notionol.
Long deadlock on social security bill
broken by conferees Page Al
-of-session tangle developing
over deficiency bill. Page Al
Kentucky primaries tomorrow first
under Hatch law. Page Az
President plans to name two more
White House assistants Page Az
Agreement reached for ending Gen.
eral Motors strike. Page Az
Washington and Vicinity. Il.
Lawyer says Connecticut couple CIV
ing up Thorne baby. Page Al
Authorities confer on next step in
drive on "Jimmie's." Page Az
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Stands Collapse, Killing 4

TUNA, Colombia, Aug. 4 (P.-
Four persons were killed and four
others injured today when a grand
stand collapsed during celebration
in the local bull ring.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
japan, Nearer Axis
Alliance, Warned of
British Fleet Move
Force May Be Sent
To China, Soys
Chamberlain
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
British interests in China hare
been under constant attack since
Japan invaded China in july,
1887, but strong British defensive
action has been prevented by ne
cessity OF maintaining forces at
peak strength in Europe. British
negotiating ,Dith Japan at Toxic
on Tientsin dispute, but contro-
rersy oUer British support OF
Chinese currency delays agree
ment.
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Summary of Todoy's Star

Club women ask federations to aid
D. c. representation. Page Az
Boy, 8, killed in traffic in view OF
family. Page B-1
Commissioners urged to break milk
monopoly" Page B-1
Arlington Federation campaigns for
Hatch bill exemption. Page B-1
Roland M. Brennan named D. G.
purchasing officer. Page B-1
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Nippon's ENJOYS Lay
Groundwork for
Pact TuIks

BACKGROUND
Since anti-Comintern pact was
concluded betUeen Germany and
Japan in 1886 Italy, Hungary and
Spain haze joined. Italy and
Germany haze extended their
agreement into a military ali-
ance, and in recent months mill
tary circles in Japan haze agt-
tated for a military alliance be-
t1Deen Japan and the aris poDers,
but government has declined to
90 that TAR yet.
Evening star., 1939-08-04

(See CONGRESS, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1939-08-04

BULLETINS.
A $119,599,1s0 appropriation to
continue Government loans for
bolstering farm prices was ap-
proved quickly by the Senate this
afternoon by a vote of 60 to 7.
Evening star., 1939-08-04

(See PARLEYS, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1939-08-04

(See PLUNGE, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1939-08-04
Weather Forecast

From the United States Weather Bureau report.
Full details on PAGE Az
Partly cloudy tonight, mostly clear to-
morrow; little change in temperature,
but less humid. Temperatures today
Highest, 83, at l pm; lowest, 70,
at $3.50 am.
Glacier County chief., 1939-05-05

A weekly Newspaper published every
Friday at Browning. Glacier County,
Glacier County chief., 1939-05-05
The Low Down
From Hickory Grove

III was to ever get around to the
point where I am not loo busy l
would kinda like to put on a cam
paign for the young men Of our Ma
ton.
Our young men, they are being
pushed off the map. Sometimes ]
feel sorry for them, and then again
1 cannot describe my feelings.
To begin with l would start a re-
search. l would find out first. If
these young ducks really had real
blood in their arteries, and not
water.
No male person could have a full
nickel's worth Of blood in his sys-
tenn when he allows his lady friend
to take his cigarettes and drive his
car, while he leads her dog. And
his pants, she has got them away
from him. along with taking over
his barber shop. His bathins suit,
it is on the verge of being usurped
etc. etc.
Our young fellers. they are q
sorrowful lot. They need either
some crochet needles, or a swift
kick-and soon.
Yours, with the low down.
10 SIERRA
Glacier County chief., 1939-05-05

Congress hasn't been doing much
of late. European troubles have
taken most of the lawmakers en-
ergies, and discussions of possible
changes 10 our neutrality law have
kept Capitol Hill busy. Many a
solon is going gray trying to figure
out a way to keep us out of war,
and at the same time to help the
much beset democracies across the
sea.
However, the sentiment of Con-
gress toward domestic issues be-
comes constantly more clear. The
trend is strongly to the right.
Never was Mr.. Roosevelt's influence
at so low an ebb. And those While
House advisors who used to write
most of the major bills and who
threw tremendous weight, are far
out Of the limelight.
The attitude of the White House
is in itself proof of this. When the
President wants something done
now. he makes requests which are
moderate in tone, and there have
been no must demands" for a con-
siderable time. And his plea to his
party to keep internal peace shows
the way the wind is blowing.
Glacier County chief., 1939-05-05

Writing in Manufacturer News,
E. E. Lsxman goes thoroughly in
to the problem of transportation.
And he comes to the conclusion
reached by many another expert
that the only way out is to bring an
end to public favoritism of certain
carriers, as expressed through SUBJ
sides.
Some common carriers. notably
the waterways and commercial mo-
tor carriers. have been subsidized,
directly or indirectly, to an 'amaz-
ing extent with tax dollars. The
current annual report of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission goes
into the subject in great detail. For
example, it says: Private capital
and enterprise have been response.
Bile only in part for this transporta.
ton revolution. The extraordinary
development of highway transports.
ton could not have been accomp.
lished. save for the expenditures OF
billions of dollars of federal and
state funds =. Public funds have
likewise been responsible for the
building of the Panama Canal and
for the construction or improve
ment OF many inland waterways.
harbors. and docks. Similar aid
has been given to air transporta-
ton. The vast increase in the
supply of transportation facilities
this accomplishment was made with
out any general plans. provision of
results, or attempt to shape or con-
troll them on the part of the govern.
ment. In considering a sound
transportation policy for the nation
for the future. the importance Of
this subject (tax subsidies) is mani
fest. particularly in view of the rap.
id growth of private transports.
tien.'
What has been the result of our
chaotic policies? In Mr.. Laxman's
words. I'VE have an unintegrated
set OF transportation facilities, ex-
banded beyond our national neces
stiles. receiving markedly different
treatment at the hands Of the public.
and competing on a dog eat. dog
basis for diminished total volume
of traffic. to the economic disadvan-
tage not only of the transportation
industry but of the nation as we'll
Here. then. is the problem, The
Glacier County chief., 1939-05-05
A Don Quixote Eagle Is
Killed in the Rockies

DENVER.-The mighty eagle no
longer rules the air above the Colo.
RADIO Rockies.
One monarch of the crags went
out to battle three fearsome-look-
ing invaders yesterday and crashed
to death against the wing of an
army attack plane so miles north
east of Pueblo, Colo.
The three planes were doing about
275 miles an hour when the eagle
tackled one piloted by Lieut.. c. E.
Putnam.
He dove straight at me, like an
attacking plane" Lieutenant Put
nam said. 1.-THE impact tore a hole
the size of a mans hat in the leading
edge of the planes right wing"