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Evening star., 1939-05-01
Club toOpen
New Quarters
Tonight
Newspaper
Women to Hold
Reception

The Newspaper Women's Club OF
Washington will open it's new club
headquarters tonight at the Raleigh
Hotel with reception and buffet
supper at 8 o'clock.
Those who have accepted invita-
tions to attend are the Secretary of
War and Mrs. Harry H. Woodring,
Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, wife of
the Secretary of the Navy; the Sec
retary of Labor. Miss Frances Per-
kins; Mrs. William E. Borah; the
Civil Service Commissioner, Mrs.
Lucille Mcmillan; the Director of
the Mint, Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross;
the President of the Gridiron Club
and Mrs. Raymond Clapper; the
managing editor of the Evening
Star and Mrs. B. M McKelway; the
editor of the Washington Post and
Mrs. Felix Morley; the editor-pub-
Usher Of the Washington Herald,
Mrs. Eleanor Patterson: Mrs. Will
liam N. Doak. widow of the former
Secretary of Labor; Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward A. Hartman, Mrs. Perry S.
Heath. Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Hurja,
Mrs. Robert Whitney Imbrie, Miss
Ruth Eleanor Jones, Mrs. Charles
M. Lea and her house guest, Mrs. j.
Madison Taylor of Philadelphia;
Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose, Mrs. Ed
ward Beale Mclean, DR.. and Mrs
Charles Stanley White and Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick William Vile.
Among the guests of members are; !;
Representative and Mrs. Dan r..
MCGEE, and the president of the
Washington Newspaper Guild and
Mrs. William w. Rodgers, who will
be with Mrs Harriet Heald.
Since Mrs. Ned Brunson Harris,
president of the club. is still in
the hospital, guests will be received
by the acting president, Katharine
Brooks, and the other officers, jose
phine Tighe Williams, second vice
president; Marie Watts, recording
secretary; Grace McGerr, corre-
spending secretary; Margaret Ger
mond, treasurer, and Margaret
Warner, historian.
Elena de Sayn, professional vio-
linist; the Rev. DR.. Hugh ONeill
Of Catholic University. celloist, and
Herbert Herzfeld, pianist, form the
trio whose chamber music will en-
tertain at the reception. The trio,
founded by DR.. ONeill, recently gave
formal recital at the Catholic
University and the Sisters College
as part of the jubilee pogram, and
played at the vic-American So
ciety of Music and Fine Arts.
Evening star., 1939-05-01
Beta Sigma Phi

Members of Gamma Chapter OF
Beta Sigma Phi will hold their cul-
tural meeting tomorrow evening at
8 o'clock at the Lee House. Mrs
Jeanne Cassil, the president, will
have charge of the business meeting
Miss Edna Steinberger will have
charge of the cultural program,
Literature" and will be assisted by
Mrs. Margaret Franzen. Miss Alton
Park and Mrs Alice Roberts Koch
Various types of literature will be
discussed.
Evening star., 1939-05-01
Mother.Daughter Tea

The Menorah Club. young girls
organization, gave a mother -daugh-
ter tea at the Morton House, 1900
Rhode Island avenue NV. yester-
day, the occasion being the first
affair at which mothers and daugh-
tiers were together since the clubs
organization two years ago.
Evening star., 1939-05-01

Fire loss in Nova Scotia during
1888 totaled $1,441,7 ,786. as compared
with $1,409 ,249 in 1887. Fires in
1898, however, were 1893, as COM
pared with 1884 the previous year.
Evening star., 1939-10-01
War Hits Canada Finances

OTTAWA.-To their intense surprise
with genuine shock an added ingredi-
ent-Canadian financial interests that
offlcially deplored the war and then sat
back to await an expected boom in their
fortunes are beginning to realize that
their first reaction was right.
Very definitely, war for the f1nancier-
speculator in Canada Is not what it used
to be.
In fact, with the Dominion's participa-
ton in democracy's struggle still reck-
oned only in terms of weeks, the finan-
cial interests of the country already are
in whole-hearted agreement with the
classic definition of war given by the
late Gen. Sherman.
The reason is not difficult to find. So
far, Canadian governmental policy has
made the financial interests the shock
troops that have borne the brunt Of the
Dominion's participation in Ellropes
conflict. There has been no Canadian
blood split as yet upon the battlenelds Of
the Old World, but there have been
widespread sacrifices imposed upon &C.
Evening star., 1939-10-01
By Norman M. Macleod.

cumulated Canadian wealth and treas
ure. .....
All Of which constitutes 80 startling a
departure from the orthodox tradition
Of war as the author Of overnight for
tunes that the financial interests of the
Dominion are just little bit dazed by
events. To their credit, they have yet to
utter their first word Of real protest.
The situation with respect to govern
ment policy in the three weeks during
which Canada has been ofhcially at war
is simply that at no time in the past his
tory of the Dominion has any admin
istration been so drastic in its regula-
tions-or gone so far in the direction Of
conscription of wealth for the wartime
purposes Of the nation.
The stock market speculator has seen
his dreams Of sudden wealth shattered
by q stern governmental warning de-
nouncing speculation generally and &C.
tually preventing speculative transac-
tions upon United States stock and COM
modify markets. Some Of the other
more drastic developments are:
Evening star., 1939-10-01
West Wall Recalls
History and Legend

The strength Of siegfried is attributed.
along with his name, to the German
line OF forts facing France under the
omcial title Of the West Wall. 4 go.
In pre-Christian German legends Of
the Rhine treasure and the Nibelunes,~ -
q bulletin from the National Geographic
Society recalls, "Siegfried was the SUPER
human warrior whom no weapon could
harm. because a bath of dragons blood
had made him invulnerable. Discovery
Of small spot between his shoulders
which had missed the blood baths pro-
lection became, however, the cause of
his destruction.
Another popular name for the West
Wall. the Lines Line, recalls the strong
fortified wall which Romans built along
the Lines Germanicus, or German
boundary, almost 20 centuries ago. It
faced in direction opposite to that Of
the present Lines Line, however. It
was established to protect Roman legions
In the empires outlying provinces from
the attack Of hostile German tribes"
Evening star., 1939-10-01

Canadian wealth and securities held
abroad. whether owned outright or sim
ply on margin, must be declared to the
federal government and become liable
to appropriation. The government will
pay compensation In Canadian dollars
at the government fixed rate of ex-
change on the dav of the appropriation.
All import and export transactions
must be carried on under q license re.
ceived from the government. Such
licenses will be granted only in accord
ance with the principle that Canada's
foreign balances are to be held avail
able mainly for the purchase Of war ma
terials, not luxuries, and that the allied
powers are to have the first call upon
any necessities of life which the Do
minion produces for sale abroad.
A further function Of the export
license will be to prevent effectively all
sales Of raw materials to agencies which
may be under suspicion Of allowing them
to get into enemy hands later. In tho
last war Canada had drastic laws ban
ming dealings with the enemy. In spite
Evening star., 1939-10-01

medicine" plan in the District Of CO.
lumbia
The Government argues In its petition
for certiorari that the antitrust law
forbids any restraints upon an organi-
zation engaged In arranging medical
services for It's members, and that the
marketing Of professional services" Is
subject to the act. There is no dis
tinction, the Government contends, be-
tween trade" and profession" under
the trade and commerce clause of the
law.
The District Court in Washington dis
missed the case, holding that the prac-
tice Of medicine is not trade" within the
meaning Of the act, and that certain
allegations in the indictment were
vague, indefinite and uncertain.
Case Of National Import.
wide interest Of doctors, lawyers and
other professional men, some Of whom
see in the Governments arguments a
New Deal effort to supplant seH-regula-
ton with Federal Government super
vision Of the professions. If the court
grants the Governments petition for Ger
tiorari, an important legal point may
be defined.
OF the $50 cases already presented to
the court, many will be rejected. Usual
ly hundred or 50 petitions for certiorari
are denied at the second sitting of the
court, which this year will be October 8.
Jurisdiction was accepted last term In
a number of important cases. Two of
these are Socony- Vacuum OIL cases. In
one, the first Madison Oil CASE the
question at issue is whether concerted
action to Ak and control prices is un-
lawful per Sc, and In the other the oil
companies contend there was a lack Of
jurisdiction in the trial court.
Also up to the court are number of
Labor Relations Board, radio tax and
patent cases, and in the field of State
and municipal law there are questions
relating to price-fixing and anti-hand-
bill ordinances.
AS in previous terms, the Govern
ment gold program Is challenged. The
British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd, has
petitioned for review of Circuit Court
OF Appeals decision holding that the for
eign corporation was not entitled to
the world price Of gold bullion when the
President ordered such gold turned in
to the Treasury. The Government has
won all such gold suits.
Evening star., 1939-10-01

will her aggressions in China be sub
ject for consideration?
It may be granted that Germany will
insist that Italy should be brought~into
the conference. That would involve
consideration of her claims against
France. It is incredible that America
should not be invited.
No Patched-up Peace.
All these essential matters will have
to be considered before the allies can
commit themselves to suspension Of
hostilities with view to entering into
conference. If not. 1t would be better
that the issue should be fought out, for
no patched-up peace will give the world
sense that conditions of tranquility
have at last been established, and that
it can go on with its daily tasks without
any apprehension that it can be dis
turbed in its peaceable occupations by
the outbreak of another tremendous
struggle against Unsuitable aggressors
In what has come to be known as
the Fontainebleau document. which I
submitted to the peace conference in
1919. gave general indication of my
views as to the kind of settlement we
ought to achieve. I pointed out the
supreme danger to the world of condi-
tions which would force Germany into
the arms of Bolshevism. Had the terms
of the treaty we finally agreed upon
been honorably carried out, am con-
f1dent this menace would have been
averted.
This Is not the time to enter into the
subject of how the victorious allies failed
to honor their obligations with regard
to disarmament and the rights of minor
tiles. The alarming new development
in the international situation arises
from the fact that the Bolshevism which
now reigns from the Vistula to the
Pacific is in aggressive alliance with the
Nazi-ism which has all the lands from
the Vistula to the Rhine under its iron
heel. This is the situation.
Want to Fight 1t Out.
The first impulse of the peoples of
France and Britain will be to give a
negative answer to these Moscow pro-
posals. There Is deep conviction that
the issue between dictatorship and
democracy has to be fought out, now
that the fight has started. There will
be very general feeling that it is
better to have 1t out at all costs.
In Britain there is no sense of de-
spondency, but grim if somewhat sullen
determination to 60 through with it. I
may also add that have not seen any
indications of doubt in any minds that,
however long the struggle may last, we
shall be as successful in our challenge
to universal despotism as we were in
our fights with Philip of Spain, Louis
XIV, Napoleon and the Kaiser.
All the same, the governments of the
two western democracies have a terrible
responsibility upon their shoulders. I
earnestly hope they will not come to
any conclusion without thoroughly and
fearlessly examining the conditions of
the struggle, and that they will not imi-
tate the needless temerities with which
they plunged into the guarantees to
Poland, Rumania and Greece without
even consulting their military, naval and
aerial advisers as to the best methods
and chances of carrying them out.
Copyright, 1889, by United Features syndicate.)
Evening star., 1939-10-01
Celtic Folklore Lives
On in France Also

"The Pan-Celtic Congress which met
recently In France brought out people
to whom King Arthur is a national
hero. to whom Lancelot and the tragic
1seult and the Irish kings of Tara are
ancestral kim" points out the National
Geographic Society.
For the medieval coastal town of
Vannes in Brittany lies in one of the
pockets Of geographic mystery where
survive the descendants of ancient Celts.
the brilliant and colorful people who
dominated France and the British Isles
before Caesar launched his campaign
against all Gaul. From Vannes the red
sailed fishing boats can ferry the goth
century visitor to islands where Druidic
stones of a pre-Christian era stand in
unexplained Stonehengelike circles, or in
the pattern of figure 8. An ancient
church near Vannes has a covered gal
lery expressly for the fairy folk.
"The Celts who came under Roman
rule for the first four centuries of the
Christian era modernized their lives to
keep up with their conquerors. But on
the outer fringes of the Roman Empire,
stubborn isolated Celts were encouraged
by their Druid leaders to keep their
old-fashioned musical language and fan
tastic folklore of fairies and giants.
Legendary King Arthur represents the
sunset of Celtic supremacy in South
western England. Some of the ancient
culture survives in out-of-the-way places
of Brittany, in Northern France, Corn
wall in Western England, Wales and
Fire (the southern four-fifths of Ire
land.
"The old language has left its traces
In Gaelic, Welsh, Breton, Cornish and
Manx, and the newly oficial Irish tongue
Of Fire as well - certain Scottish dia-
lects." .-.
Evening star., 1939-10-01
of which it was always suspected that

Of which 1t was always suspected that
neutral commission brokers served as
Intermediates for the forwarding of Ca
madam materials, particularly copper
and nickel, to Germany. In the present
war the Dominion has not only retained
the stringent laws preventing transac-
tions with the enemy that 1t had In
the last war, but 1t also has the regula-
ton requiring an export license to be
obtained. If there is even suspicion
apart altogether from proof-that .
shipment might fall into Mani hands. no
license for export viii be given.
Evening star., 1939-10-01

The United States Supreme Court this
month passed, without celebration, the
150th anniversary of its establishment
by the Judiciary Act of 1789 1t will con-
vene tomorrow for the 1939-40 term con-
fronted with about $50 cases, and during
the ensuing eight months will probably
decide the constitutionanty of three i'm
portant New Deal laws-the Bituminous
Coal Act of 1887, the Wage and Hour
Act and the Robinson-Patman. Fair
Trade Practices Act
When the court held its first meeting
on February /, 1870, in the Royal Ex-
change Building in New York only three
of the five justices were present despite
the importance of the occasion. Its first
term lasted only 10 days because no cases
were before 1t. The second term was
not ordered until the following August,
and again no cases were presented for
adjudication. During the first three years
of its existence the court had virtually
no business to transact, but the justices
had the physically more arduous duty
of presiding over the district and circuit
courts.
New Deal Justices.
Tomorrow one of the present nine
members, Justice Pierce Butler, will be
absent because of serious illness. Four
justices who will pass on the important
pending issues of constitutional law
taxation, governmental regulation, bank
ruptcy, patents and civil rights-were ap-
pointed by President Roosevelt within
the past two years. They are Justices
Black. Reed. Frankfurter and Douglas,
all generally in accord with the New Deal
philosophy.
The reconstructed court will not be
called upon at the forthcoming session
to decide such questions as the basic
constitutionality OF New Deal proposals
like the National Industrial Recovery
Act, the original Agricultural ADJUST
ment Act, the dollar devaluation procla-
nation, the Social Security Act, the
Tennessee Valley Authority Act and the
Public Utilities Holding Company Act.
Only the wage and hour law belongs in
the same category Of fundamental New
Deal enactments, yet the courts deci-
sions will be Of Importance because of
the tendency of the court to narrow
its definitions once it has broadly upheld
the constitutionality Of law.
The wage and hour case, contested by
the Montgomery Ward Co. for its Kansas
Evening star., 1939-10-01

Recent photograph OF Supreme
Court Building.
ALI Photos By Harris -EUtno.
By Raymond p. Brand.

0st ftOtOC w I1ufF so-G UEtJ.
City plant, is not yet docketed with the
court. The Wage and Hour Division Of
the Labor Department has sought sub
poena requiring the company to allow
inspection Of its books to see If there
have been violations of the wage and
hour law. The case is now pending in
the Federal District Court at Chicago,
and the company has announced that
If the decision is adverse, it will carry
the issue to the Supreme Court. The
Department of Justice also looks upon
this as a test case, and If the lower
courts decision is unfavorable to the
Government, there will be an appeal
to the Supreme Court.
The Robinson-Patman law case has
already been reviewed by the Third Cir
cult Court Of Appeals, which unanimous
ly upheld Federal Trade Commission
order requiring the Great Atlantic e.
Pacific Tea Co. to cease purchasing COM
modities at so-called net prices which
actually involve price concession in lieu
OF brokerage. The law prohibits the
granting Of lower prices to large pur-
chasers.
The Trade Commission declared this
week that the Circuit Courts decision
was "a clear-cut ruling on the most
important questions which have arisen
IN connection with the Interpretation
and application of the Robinson-Pat
Act" The A. & p. Co. announced i'm
mediately after the decision that it would
appeal to the Supreme Court.
Another Robinson-Patman case al
ready on the Supreme Court docket may
be the vehicle for decision on the con-
stitutionality Of the act, although it In
wolves conflict with the older Clayton
Anti Monopoly Act. In this case between
the Trade Commission and the Good
year Tire and Rubber Co., the Govern
ment contends that the Clayton Act,
prior to amendment, prohibited price dis
ordinations in the absence of a saw
ings in cost resulting in the difference
in quantities sold. Such price discrimi-
nation is specifically prohibited by the
Robinson-Patman Act.
Coal Act Also Faces Test.
Also docketed is the test case on the
Bituminous Coal Act of 1887, successor
to the invalidated Guffey Coal Act. In
this case the city of Atlanta is chal-
lenging the authority of the National
Bituminous Coal Commission to fix
prices Of coal. The case probably will
be heard early in the term.
Another important case has been
brought to the court, but there is doubt
whether 1t will take Jurisdiction. It is
that Of the United States VS.. the Amer
lean Medical Association and involves
the applicability Of the Sherman Anti
Trust Act to the opposition of the medi-
cal society to the so-called "socialized
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-01
40 SCOUTS TO
CAMP HAH0bAS

Forty Boz Scouts are Leaving
here At s a. m. Saturday aboard
the Sea Scout ship outealt for
Camp Hahobss. Hood canal. Tney
VIII return Sunday. July ?.
Those who viii go to THIS first
summer camp week of the year
are: Howard Perkin, Lewis Per-
kin Billy Robertson. Jerry Berg
man. Dick Bergman, corwin Bon
ham. sisurd wingard, Bob FAX,
Harold snodgraSs. Daryl Trent,
Bill Robertson. Jim Robertson.
Stanley Smith, Robert Gibson,
Kenneth Sheard. Gales Young, Jim
Kennedy. Vernon Hogarth, SID
Pryor. Hawley Dudley. Bill Lewis.
Clinton Weed. Ted Dodge. David
Turene. Tom Hermsen. Raymond
Paulos. George Laudenglos, STAN
ley Keders. Ralph Nelson. JACK
Heating. Dick Ryan. Peter Bach
man, John Paplow. Charles Pap
low. Richard Uhrich. Don Ferris,
Dick Haggstrom, Gene Brown.
Wayne Christianson and Dave An
derson.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-01
ABORT ROAD
TRIAL IN FALL

An order of public use and neces-
sity. opening the way To county
condemnation of property for lis
new East Airport road. was signed
Thursday afternoon by Presiding
Judge Robert f. Evans
The action was filed several
weeks ago against As property
holders along the edge of Mcchord
field when it became necessary for
the county 10 Yaeate The old Mill
tary road running through the
army airbasc tract.
Trial was sci over until October
without definite date. County
Civil Attorney G. +. JIM Peter
son said settlements with some of
the owners undoubtedly will be
made during the summer. Values
of tracts upon which the county
and owners cannot agree will be
decided by jury in October. The
date will be fixed when the court
reconvenes for that month.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-01
LINCOLN CLUB
TO AID C. Of C.

The Lincoln Citizens club an
nounces Il is cooperating with the
Chamber Of Commerce committee
in preparing the district for the
Golden Jubilee celebration. The
work Is conducted on certificate
Of merit system. Certificates Will
DC presented 10 those. either bust
ness or resident. who cooperate in
cleaning up yards. lawns. and
vacant lots The painting Of
fences. houses. or even planting
specially arranged flowers and
shrubs viii draw an award
The personnel of the committee
as announced by DR. G. o. Walters,
club president. includes. Seymour
s. Todd. chairman: Rev. J. Edgar
Taber. A. NJ. jackson. Mrs. A. L.
Royse. Mrs Ray Mckinnon and
Mrs. r. s. Gee.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-01
MAIN STREET
Goings. Comlnqs and Doiugs
OF Tneomaus rs the Re-
porter Found Them.

Jack Reese telling about ". ".
Griffith of ST. Regis Kraft Co.
making telephone call from barber
chair to San Francisco Dan
Baumgardncr visiting back IN his
old neighborbood = Russell Early
enroute TO hearing in Legion bldg.
Johnny Fowler turning in le,t
ticket Harry Brown making re.
port al Rotary club meeting
4. {. c. Gamer back in Tacoma
with fine coat Of Alaska tan
acquired on trip with the Greeters
in the north = Dorothy Above
and Lois Jernbcrg playing golf =
Minnie and Harry weinstone
naming their summer home Vein
Woo" Johnny Palo entertaining
friends at Elks club Victor kape-
rick and BIZ Butsch playing soft
hall Al Bcrgersen bidding good
bye to his sisters son, Ivan Jacob
sen. of Morton. who left yesterday
for Syria. via California and Hol-
land Earl Rogers drinking to-
mato juice Mr.. End Mrs. Daniel
Gibson celebrating Goth wedding
anniversary.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-01
British Land Men,;
u. S. School Hit
THE ORIENT

Japanese planes bombed and set
fire TO the American mission union
high school at Foochow. dispatches
said today, as the British gunboat
Grasshopper landed SO bluejaekets
at the blockaded port to protect
British property.
The japanese planes flew low
over the mission. which displayed
two big American flags as a signal
to airplanes, the dispatches said.
One bomb struck the west cor
ner of the school and set fire TO IL.
Most of the building was de-
stroyed. it was said.
DIR. A. w. Billing and his
wife. the only Americans mt
the school. were reported I'M
harmed. II was believed they
and others were taking shelter
In dugouts.
The bombing was part of a
heavy Japanese aerial lombard
ment Of the center of Foochow,
Other planes bombed inland ports
and Chinehsi. Port Of Ningpo ur
the coast.