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Evening star., 1939-11-05
DIPLOMACY BY TELEPHONE
Continued from poss four

lomat, the proposal was vei)ed. If so.
Sir John Simon can be pictured as the
most bewlldered man in Geneva when
he listened to the first call. He was
attending the League of Nations meet
ing. and was called to booth in the
League lobby. No British stenographer
listened in to take down verbatim
what MIR. Stimson said or what Sir
John replied. And Sir John undoubt-
edly emerged from the booth red in
the face and little ashamed that he
had been forced to talk state business
of great Importance with an American
nearly four thousand miles away.
Those telephone negotiations got
precisely nowhere. They may have
failed simply because Sir John Simon
did not like what he heard. He was
pro- Japanese and he pooh-poohed
both MIR. Stlmson and his ability to
implement any proposal he may have
made. Ultimately the Prime Minister
told the House of Commons that MIR.
Stimson himself had dropped his
proposal. That is not the way the case
should have been put. Sir John never
acted on it, nor did he even consult
the entire British cabinet about it, He
rejected it on his own hook. 1t was a
decision that - as | have already
mentioned - certainly foreshadowed
the end Of world peace. since it con-
tributed to the collapse of international
law in Asia. That is beyond the prov
ince of this article to discuss. The
point to be made here is that the
telephone Wds used for direct, in
innate, man-to-man conversation and
it signally failed to produce excep-
tional results.
Secretary Hull has never talked by
long-distance telephone with Lord
Halifax, now the British foreign Sec
Evening star., 1939-11-05
So WHAT?

ONCE again European nations are
fighting to make the world safe for
deficiency.
If 1T keeps up even the infant repub-
lies will be up in arms.
TOURISTS are warned these days to
keep away from European travail.
WARMONGERs envision the world of
tomorrow as world flare.
DOME labor unions think recovery
is within striking" distance
If PROSPERITY doesn't arrive soon
posterlty will.
WE'RE wholeheartedly in favor of
employing munitions makers on
peace work basis
+ oREsIGHTED dictators might do we'll
to save for reignless day.
R. W. DAWSON
Evening star., 1939-11-05
Poor coat and rrhuted skim like many
other common oiimsm& frequently due
to wrong diet. 7hsy are unknown osnonq
the dogs roised exclusively on Pord at
S~ifs Research KenneIs!

Veterinarians are seriously crusading against
hit-or-miss feeding :. because they've found
that it's the underlying cause of many wide.
spread dog troubles. Not only dietary skin irri.
tation, but nervousness, listlessness and loss of
appetite, excessive shedding, bad coat, and
other ailments actually may be symptoms of
intestinal disorders and malnutrition from i'm.
proper feeding.
Many of these crusading veterinarians rec.
ommend Pard-because Pard's nutritional
balance has been uniquely proved. -Four suc-
oessiue generations of pedigreed dogs have been
weaned to Pard and raised on it without tast.
ing any other food. Not one Pard-fed dog has
ever had digestive upset. Not one has ever
suffered any of the common ailments which
plague less-well-fed dogs! Each has had mag
nifcent health from birth-has been repre-.
sentative specimen of its breed.
To make sure your own dog is in tip-top
condition, have him checked over by good
northumberland to keep him that way, feed
him Pard regularly!
Evening star., 1939-11-05

variably delivered was priced and
boarded by the women for dye
making purposes.
In many households the precious
sugar was reserved exclusively for
very special occasions and some
times one of these huge cones would
last a thrifty family for a full year.
Sugar shears or cutters were used
to cut the sugar into the required
number of equal-sized Jumps.
"A. R. ARMSTRONG
Evening star., 1939-08-12
TeIegrophers File
Arbitration Plea

A complaint to compel arbitra-
ton was filed yesterday in District
Court by the Commercial Telee-
rapherS' Union, 90l Massachusetts
avenue NV, against the Western
Union Telegraph Co., Inc, 7O8 Four
teenth street NV.
The court was told that on Nav
"a a contract was entered into
under which disputes would be re-
ferred to board of arbitration
Disputes have arisen between the
parties, the court was advised in
the complaint, concerning hours of
employment, working conditions
and wages, which cannot be settled
satisfactorily between them by ne
gotiations.
Representing the union is Attor-
ney Hugh C. McKenny, and the
court was told the workers had
requested the company to submit
disputes to arbitration, but it has
refused to do so.
Evening star., 1939-08-12
Reform Federation
Requests Tax Writ

10 tax the International Reform
Federation, 134 B street NE, would
be to impose penalty on the ex-
ercise of religious. charitable and
educational rights and privileges
and violate the Bill of Rights, it
was Claimed before District Court
yesterday.
The federation filed a complaint
for an injunction against the Dis
trict of Columbia Unemployment
Compensation Board regarding the
filing of reports and paying a tax
and asked the court to determine
its rights.
Represented by the law firm of
Mcneil & Edwards, the federation
told the court it is a corporation
whose object is the promotion OF
reforms and is corporation or
ganlzed exclusively for religious,
charitable and educational purposes,
with the incidental right and au-
tnorlty TO promote the enactment
and enforcement of laws suppress
ing alcoholic liquor traffic and other
evils, to promote the defense of the
Sabbath and purity, the suppress
sion Of gambling and corruption and
the substitution of arbitration ano
conclliation in industrial and inter-
national affairs.
Clinton N, Howard, superintend-
ent OF the organization, signed the
complaint, and the court was ad.
vised the board demands s5O5 in
taxes. The court was told in the
complaint the plaintiff is non.
profit, non-dividend corporation: il
draws its support from churches.
has a staff of "a trustees who serv~
without pay and represent various
religious bodies.
Evening star., 1939-08-12

liquor lost in the 1886 and 1897
floods.
He said he was hesitant for two
reasons:
l. 1t differentiates between orig
inal taxpayers where spirits were
lost or destroyed because of an
act OF God and other. not original
owners, who through flood lost sim
liar property.
2. An amendment was tackled on
the bill in the Senate exemptine
retroactively from social security
taxes persons who, directly or in
directly, helped salvage timber dam
aged by hurricane This, in effect,
is whiting away" at the Social
Security Act, whereas the law should
be extended to more people than it
now covers, he said.
Doubt on Future Wisdom.
But, he added, the actual effect
of the bill would not be extensive
and he was suggesting to the next
Congress that the measure raises
doubts about the advisibility of ex-
tending its purposes in similar cases
in the future.
Among the bills disapproved was
one which would have authorized At
lantic seaboard States to make COM
pacts regarding fishing in the At
lantic.
The President said the measure
lacked a provision requiring con-
gresslonal approval of an agreement
before it could become effective. Mr.
Roosevelt said he believes it would
be unWise to establish a policy OF
granting advance consent of Con-
gress to compacts having such broad
outlines.
The President turned down also a
bill to let the Secretary of the In
terror dispose of recreational DEM
onstration projects, asserting he
thought certain safeguards should be
studied at the next session.
Likewise tossed overheard was a bill
to advance o..e grade certain retired
Army officers, not above the rank of
colonel, who served in the Spanish
American War.
The President said it would grant
advanced rank to the retired list as
a reward for war service and thus
utilize the retirement system for a
purpose for which it was not in
tended
Evening star., 1939-08-12
We|Ies 10 See
Mexican Envoy on
Oil Farley Deadlock
Conference Also
Scheduled WithU. s.
Firms Counsel
~ the Associated Press,

~ the Associated Press.
Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary
OF State, said today he expected to
hold further conferences with rep
resentatives of the Mexican govern
ment and American oil companies
concerning negotiations over expro-
priated oil properties.
He told reporters at his press
conference that he planned to see
Donald Richberg, counsel for the
companies, on Monday and that he
probably would confer earlier with
Mexican Ambassador Francisco Cas-
tlllo Najera. He added that he
might have something to say on
the subject after the discussions.
Both Mr.. Richberg and the Am
bassador conferred separately with
Acting Secretary Welles last week.
Negotiations apparently were dead
locked over the question of whether
the Mexican government or the
companies would control future op-
erations Of the oil properties.
Companies Insist on Control.
Through the Ambassador, Mexico
let it be known that any agreement
must include board of directors
and management controlled by it.
DR.. Castillo Najsra spoke after w.
S. Parish, president of the Standard
Oil Co., had said in New York that
the companies would insist on a
long term contract giving them op-
Grating control of the properties.
The Ambassador replied that the
companies were taking an "intran-
sigient attitude" and therefore, the
Mexican government had been re-
heved OF the necessity of continuing
to study their proposal.
From the beginning of the ne
gotiations," he said, my govern
ment has firmly maintained its de-
termination to manage and operate
the Oil industry, this being a condi-
ton without which no settlement
could be effected"
The properties, appropriated bv
Mexico in March, 1888 were valued
by their former United States, Brit
lsh and Dutch owners at $4OO, 900 900.
Companies Want Control
Ambassador Najera said "the
statement by Mr.. Parish shows the
companies persist in their determi-
nation to impose an inadmissible
and impracticable plan"
Without mentioning specifically
the context Of the plan involving
appointment of persons from coun-
tries other than the United States
Mexico, Great Britain or the Meth
erlands, the Ambassador said his
government had not presented such
proposal, although it did admit
the existence of a plan embodyine
them
He added that these proposals had
been under study by his govern
ment, which had not made any pro-
nouncement thereon He said he
mad good grounds" to suppose that
the oil companies had furnished to
the newspapers details of the plan
involving neutrals.
Evening star., 1939-08-12
japanese Premier
Takes Firm Stand
Against Axis Pact
Civilian Leaders Refuse
To Yield to MiIiturists
On Outright Alliance
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Aug. IL. - Indications
strengthened today that Japan's
civilian leaders, especially Premier
Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, were TAX
ing a firmer stand against militarist
agitation for an outright alliance
with Germany and Italy.
The independent newspaper Toxic
Asahi, usually we'll informed, said
the Premier was steadfastly oppos-
ing any change in the policy re-
specting European commitments ap-
proved by the cabinet June 5 and
that he was gaining important sup
port.
Although the June 5 policy never
has been officially announced, high
authorities said at the time it pro-
vided for broadening the basis for
cooperation with the Rome Berlin
axis, but ruled out military alll-
ance. 1t was said to propose a
strengthening of the anti-Com-
intern pact in which Japan is linked
with Germany, Italy, Hungary,
Spain and Manchukuo.
Reliable reports reaching
Shanghai from Toxic this week
said bitter internal struggle
which might cause the cabinets
fall was in progress IN Japan
over the question of an alliance
with the axis powersJ
Evening star., 1939-08-12
Weekend Truce
In Effect as Actors
Await Green's Ru|inu
Ralph Morgan Says We'll
Organize Like On Army
If Verdict Is Adverse
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK. Aug. PA week
end truce was in effect today in the
fight over whether the Stagehands
Union should be permitted to extend
its jurisdiction to include Sophie
fuckers American Federation of
Actors.
Film, radio and stage star men,
bers of the Associated Actors and
Artistes opposed to such extension
said they would withhold direct ac-
ton until after Monday. when the
American Federation of Labor's Ex-
ecutlve Council is expected to rule
in the dispute
A delegation of Hollywood and
Broadway stars which went before
the council at Atlantic City Thurs
day appeared disappointed when A.
F. L. President William Green an
nounced late yesterday no decision
had been reached.
Sophie fuckers A. F. A. group
obtained charter from the Inter
national Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employees, the Stagehands' Union.
after the A. A. A. A., parent of II
theatrical unions, expelled the A F.
A. on charges of executive misman-
agement.
Representatives of both the A. A.
A. A. and the l. A T. S. E. planned
to confer here today with A. F. of L.
Vice President Matthew Woll. head
of a three-man mediation board
appointed by the Executive Council
to investigate the controversy.
Ralph Morgan. president of the
Screen Actors Guild, an A. A. A. A.
affiliate. said he and a group of
movie stars who few TO Atlantic
City to attend the council meeting
would return by plane tonight to
Hollywood. where they will report
to a mass meeting of screen actors
tomorrow.
Mr.. Morgan said the delegation.
including Edward Arnold, Jean
Muir, Binnie Barnes. Wayne Morris
and others would fly back to At
lantic City for the Monday council,
session if necessary.
I'VE are trying to be as optimistic
as possible. but we are ready for any
emergency" he declared, adding
that. if the council ruled against
the A. A. A. A., like an army, We
will organize our forces and go to it."
Among stage stars who planned
to return to the New Jersey beach
resort for the meeting Monday
were Tallulah Bankhead and Miriam
Hopkins
Evening star., 1939-08-12
TH-Power Stuff Talks
Begin in Moscow
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Aug. 12.-British-
French-Soviet Russian staff talks
aimed at an agreement for a three
power mutual assistance pact began
here today.
The Soviet public was not aware
that the military discussions had
started. Although Moscow news
papers reported the arrival yesterday
OF the British and French missions
nothing of today's program was dis
closed
The army, navy and airforce off,
GERS met in a building which was be-
tore the revolution the home of a
wealthy industrialist and until re-
Gently the residence of Maxim Lit
Vlnof1, former foreign commissar.
Evening star., 1939-08-12
Attempt 10 Sell
Tires Snares Two
Escaped Convicts
Routine Check of Stolen
Cars Leads to Arrest
And Identification
BY the Associated PreSS

by tne Associated Press.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Aug. l2.-
An attempt to sell tires from a stolen
automobile spelled the end OF tree
dom yesterday for two Of the seven
Federal prisoners who escaped from
a prison bus at Thornburg, Va, on
July 26.
Detective 1t. Edgar C.. Bourne an
nounced that 22-year old John B
Gibson of CoeDurn. Va, was ar
rested first. and short time later
city police picked up his companion
Robert Raymond Walker, 90 of
Richmondale. Ohio.
They later were turned over to
Federal officers.
Police on a routine check of stolen
automobiles made the arrests and
Identified the men as fugitives after
reaching the police station.
This brought to six the number
recaptured since the break from a
prison bus. in which the men over
powered the guards and fed in a
car stolen in Thornburg. The car
was found the same night in sub
urban South Charleston.
1t. Bourne said the two men said
that they and three others OF the
prisoners came to Charleston in the
stolen car.
Gibson and Walker went to Hunt
lngton on bus, thence to Ashland
KY. and from there to Kingsport
Tenn, police said.
1t. Bourne said they stole a car
there Thursday and doubled back
ON their trail to Charleston.
Two of the tugitives were recap
tured in tourist camp at Kankakee
ILL.,, last week; another was picked
up in Tennessee, and a fourth was
arrested at Macarthur, Ohio, Thurs
day.
Gibson was serving four years for
counterfeitlng and Walker was un-
der sentence of three and a half
years for automobile theft.
Evening star., 1939-08-12
Hull ond Aides Study
Embargo Suggestion
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Acting Secretary Sumner Welles
SAID Yesterday the State Depart
ment has taken under consideration
the statement of Senator Schwel-
lenbach, Democrat, of Washington
that the United States already pos
sessed the legal means of enforcing
an embargo on the shipment OF
war materials to Japan.
Mr.. Welles said it was too early to
oner comment at this time.
Senator Schwellenbach wrote q
letter Thursday to Secretary Hull
saying the Government could make
use of an OLD statute to enforce an
embargo or the State Department
could exert pressure on American
companies shipping materials to
Japan as it did in the case of manu-
facturers of aircraft.
Evening star., 1939-08-12
japanese Promise Probe
OF Kaifeng Situation
BY the Associated Pres.

BY the Associated Press.
The State Department was in.
formed today that Japanese military
authorities were investigating the
reported detention of Americans ir
the isolated Chinese city of Keifeng
Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary
| said diplomatic report from Toxic
contained assurances that there hao
been no agitation thus far against
American citizens.
The efforts of a score of diplo-
matte and consular officers in China
have failed to penetrate the mystery
surrounding the fate of at least sc
Americans. some of them women ano
children. who were believed to be in
the North China city.
Mr.. Welles said that Eugene v
Dooman, Charge dAffaires at Toxic
had reported that military author
tiles had said many of the mission
aries who had left Kiafeng because
OF anti-British agitation were Cana
dlans who had not indicated inten-
ton to return to America.
Mr., Dooman said he was told the
Canadian nationality of many OF
the British missionaries presumably
gave rise to reports that Americans
and their properties had been mo-
Tested.
Evening star., 1939-08-12
Wind and 1900 People Cheat
81, 7,OOO,OOOFire of Village Prey
Idaho Town Half EncircIed by Boze
AS Men Fight 1t and Women Pack
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 12.-Spirit
Lake, Idaho little mill village of
900 persons, was half encircled today
by a million-dollar forest fire that
roared up to the towns edge last
night, only to be turned aside by the
tickle wind that had been its ally.
Fifteen hundred f1refghters-C.
c. c. enrollees. Forest Service work
ers, townspeople and fire companies
from nearby villages-formed pro-
tective Gordon around the town.
Gale Revives Flames.
The fire. which had smoldered
for several days after roaring down
from Mount Spokane to blacken
10000 acres As miles north of Spo-
zane, was whipped to new life yester-
day by a sudden gale.
1t blazed down a mountainside to-
ward Spirit Lake, destroying 10000
Evening star., 1939-08-12
Plane Hits Airline Office

CHICAGO, Aug. IL GP.-Fourteen
passengers escaped injury last night
when United Airlines plane, in
bound from New York, struck the
Braniff Always Office on the south
side of the Municipal Airport while
landing during rainstorm.
Spokesman for the airline said the
plane, trip nine from the East. ran
OF the runway because of a defec-
tive brake. One wing of the ship was
damaged.
Evening star., 1939-08-12
Mrs. Rosenberg Wins
Temporary AIimony

District Court Justice T. Alan
Goldsborough yesterday ordered
Meyer Rosenberg, SO, of 4O07 Four
teenth street NV. to pay his wife
temporary alimony of $3.50 a month
pending the outcome of her suit for
limited divorce.
The wife, Mrs. Betty Rosenberg
4723 Fourth street NV. claimed in
her suit that her husband, reputedly
worth around 100000, made her
live as housekeeper and char
woman in her own home for more
than 33 years and gave her weekly
allowance of only $3.50.
The suit, filed through Attorneys
Alvin L. Newmyer and Lewis H.
Shapiro, claimed Mr.. Rosenberg not
only gave his wife a small allow
ance but would deduct money for
meals he ate downtown.
Evening star., 1939-08-12

600 feet of stacked lumber in the
Panhandle Lumber Co. yards and
burning a partially abandoned Mil
waukee Railroad Co. warehouse.
Losses were estimated at more than
81 ,000, 600.
Box Factory Saved.
For hours the report was accepted
that the La Barge Box Factory had
been destroyed-then Owner Louis
La Barge came out of the smoking
timber with the news his plant had
been saved by small crew of c. c. C.
enrollees.
While their men fought the fire,
Spirit Lake women packed house.
hold goods, then many stood guard
outside their doors, beating out
wind-borne embers as they fell.
Rathdrum, Idaho, 8 miles from
Spirit Lake, turned its village park
over to refugees.
Evening star., 1939-08-12
|Left-Hunded
| Stone Carver
| Saves the Day
sy the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. l2.-Builders
OF the new public library in Brook
stone-carver yesterday-and found
one right away.
Coloma Dirham showed up and
was put to work with chisel and a
mallet, carving a 40-foot limestone
pylon which was so designed the
right -handers had given up IN de-
spalr.
"A world convention OF lett
handed sculptors wouldn't crowd a
street car" said John Donnelly, the
job foreman, as he observed Mr.. DR.
hams hook armed handlwork ap-
provlngly.
Evening star., 1939-08-12
Cinderella in Reverse

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug II P).-
This is not to be confused with the
story of Cinderella and the lost
slipper.
Eugene B. Gale, Federal alcohol
tax investigator, chased a colored
man suspected of liquor law viola
tion. The man got away but left
behind both shoes, a car and five
gallons of alcohol.
Then police investigating several
robberies arrested McHenry Turner
Mr.. Gale saw him in the police show
up, took out one of the shoes and
had him try it on. It fitted. Said
Turner: II guess you got me, boss. u
Evening star., 1939-08-12
China Protests brifain's
Decision on Prisoners
BY the Associated prexs


LONDON, Aug 12.-Quo Tai-chi.
chinese Ambassador, protested to-
day to the foreign office Britain,s
decision to hand over four Chinese
alleged terrorists to the japanese in
Ilentsln. declaring that such action
could not legally be justified.
lhe decision, announced yesterday
met Japanese demands for surrender
OF the four for trial in connection
with the killing April 9 of S. G.
Cheng, Chinese Official of the Japa- :
nese-dominated North China regime
lhey were held in the British con-
cession in Tientsin.
The Ambassador said the surren-
der might be interpreted as de facto
recognition of the illegal regime"
established by the Japanese and
might involve far-reaching political
principles and consequences.
Evening star., 1939-08-12
Pope Recalls Visit
To Georgetown
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CASTEL GANDOLFO. Aug. 49,
Pope Plus today received in private
audience Charles c. Pettijohn OF
New York, general counsel for the
Motion Picture Producers and Dis
tributors of America; his son
Charles, jr, and John P. Burke of
Providence, r. I.
The Pope recalled his visit to
Georgetown University, Washington,
D. c., where young Pettijohn and
Burke are students, and congratu-
lated them on Burkes winning the
Sweetser Cup there with Pettijohn
placing second.
Evening star., 1939-08-12
FronkIin N. Singer
Dies in France
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Aug. 12.-The death OF
Franklin M. Singer, 6S, a member
Of the family that founded the
Singer Sewing Machine Co., was
disclosed today.
Mr.. Singer, who had lived in
France for years in comparative re-
tirement, died at the American Hos
pital here Thursday. He had main-
tanned homes both here and at
Monte Carlo.
He Is survived by his widow, the
former Emile Maigret, and several
children. He was a brother of
Princess Edmond de Polignac. born
Winaretta Singer, known for her
philanthropic work in France.