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Evening star., 1939-01-15

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Evening star., 1939-12-08
eaWCasua|ties
OF Reds Laid 10
Arctic Darkness
Firms ComoufIoeed With
White Uniforms Suffer
Relatively Small Loss
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KIRKENES, Norway, Dec. 8.-The
brief, gloomy daylight of northern
most Finland, combined with the
Firms camouhage tactics, were re-
ported here today to be causing
heavy Russian casualties against
relatively small Finnish losses.
The Firms were said to be making
good use of white uniforms and
other devices to camouf1age them
selves against the background Of
Arctic snow on the far Northern
Finnish front.
These reports said that the result
had been that only Russian troops
could be discerned from a distance
or from the air and that Soviet fly
ers had been machine cunning their
own troops.
As far as could be learned here
the Russians have made no progress
In their drive to cut Finland in two
since their advance across the east
ern frontier as far as Kuolajarvi.
The Russians were said to have
been driven back with heavy losses
after an engagement near Ovre
Slottet.
The Films said most of the troops
they were encountering were from
the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Repub-
lie, a constituent republic of the
Soviet Union in Central Asia.
They said their foes were brave
fighters, but were being cut down by
Finnish machine-gunners.
Finnish scouts again reported
sighting warships resembling Brit
aims of Petsamo, but said Russian
men-of-war apparently had gone.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
President Dubious
About Sugar Quotas
BY the Associated Press.


President Roosevelt told a press
conference today that, while nothing
had been decided, there was serious
doubt as to the advisability of re-
storing the sugar quota system under
present conditions.
Quotas on sugar were removed last
September, shortly after war broke
out in Europe, and sugar prices be-
gan rising at home This permitted
Cuban and other sugar to flow freely
into the United States.
In response to question, the
President said the Cuban sugar sit
uation had been discussed yesterday
with Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace and Undersecretary Of State
Sumner Welles.
There are certain international
obligations that have to be carried
out in letter and spirit, he said
Asked whether those international
obligations meant cutting the sugar
tariff, the President responded in
the negative.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Troops Advancing
On Three Sides Of
Finland, Reds Claim
Army Reaches 70 Miles
South Of Petsomo, Soys
Leninerod Communique
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Dec. 8.-Soviet Russia
today reported advances Of Red
Army columns pushing into Finland
from three sides.
A communique of the Leningrad
military headquarters said the ad-
vancing Russian forces had seized
Finnish supplies and downed two
Finnish warplanes. The commu-
nique covered military activity of
yesterday.
In the north, it said, Soviet troops
reached a point As kilometers (28
miles, south of Petsamo, Finland's
outlet to the Arctic Ocean, advanc-
ing over Finnish minefields and
piercing entanglements erected by
defense forces.
Along the center of the Finnish
frontier, the 800-mile border be-
tween Finland and Russia from
Lake Ladoga to the Arctic Ocean, 1t
said, Soviet troops broke the resist
ance of Finnish White Guards"
and pushed the Russian vanguards
10 to rs kilometers (43 to 46 miles)
within Finnish territory.
Several Storehouses Seized.
These forces, it said, captured six
75-millimeter (295-inch) and nine
37-millimeter Q.45-inch) guns, 20
heavy and 81 light machine-guns
and several storehouses filled with
food and supplies.
The Firms were said to have left
many wounded and more than 800
frost bitten soldiers on this front.
In the south, on the Karelain
Isthmus between the Gulf OF Fin
land and Lake Ladoga, the COM
munique reported Russian advances
on two lines.
1t said Red Army forces had pro-
gressed from to II kilometers Is
to Z niles after breaking through
the main Finnish defense line along
the Vuoksa water system and had
reached point beyond the Taipa-
leenioki River.
(Finns have declared this line
Stlll lntactD
On the western side of the narrow
isthmus, just above Leningrad, it
said, Soviet forces occupied the town
Of Perkjarvi and the Perkjarvi rail-
road station on the railway connect
ing Viipuri and the frontier.
Two Planes Reported Downed.
On spur line looping along the
coast from Viipuri to just north Of
Terijoki, the Russians said they had
forked 9 kilometers (5.5 niles to the
northwest. occupying the towns of
Kirka and Uusikirkko and the
Naurijarvi railroad station.
The two enemy airplanes were re-
ported shot down by anti-aircraft
fire, the communique reporting a
snowstorm and dense fog had kept
Russian air forces grounded. 1t said
four Finnish aviation officers were
taken prisoner.
Evening star., 1939-12-08

try" Mr.. Arnold declared. "The
results which these men can achieve
may be illustrated by an enterprise
which, although not similar in pur-
pose, would be similar in organi-
zation. I refer to the county agents
in agriculture, who, by a process of
education, have done marvels for
efficient production through CO.
operation among the farmers. The
same thing can be done with the
committees Of the women's clubs
and the consumers associations and
the secretaries of trade associations.
Consumer Voice Needed.
Consumer representation in gov
ernment is sorely needed. They are
interested today in price problems
as they have never been before. The
only thing needed is a sufficiently
decentralized personnel, so that
their efforts may be directed in
telligently. This is not enforcing
antitrust laws with club; it is
enforcement by public education,
interest and corporation"
The demand for such an organiza-
tion has been intensified by the
European war, Mr.. Arnold testified.
The Sherman Antitrust Act can
become an effective instrument of
price control, he argued, if the fol-
lowing essential conditions are met:
A study of business, industry by
industry; investigation of each in
dustry in its entirety, rather than
piecemeal; easy contact by con-
sumers of regulatory representatives,
so that complaints of consumers can
be made articulate and form the
basis for proper investigation; crea-
ton Of an agency before which hear
ings may be held in situations where
existing laws are inadequate.
Cites Building Inquiry.
Mr.. Arnold devoted part of his
testimony to defense of the results
obtained by the Antitrust Division
in its investigation of the building
industry, and added:
II am using the building investiga-
ton as q pattern for activity in all
fields where prices are behaving
unreasonably."
He said his office has discovered,
however, that the results will not be
permanent, "in building or any other
industry, If the staff IS withdrawn.
If we were to withdraw our investi-
gators from any locality where We
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Leiserson 10 Be Called
In Probe OF n. |. R. B.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The House committee investigat-
ing the National Labor Relations
Board probably will hear DR.. Will
liam M. Leiserson. the boards new
est member, as its first witness.
Edmund M. Toland, general coun-
sci of the investigating committee,
headed by Representative Smith.
Democrat, of Virginia, announced
Mr.. Leiserson was most likely" to
be the initial witness when the
group opens hearings here Monday.
Mr.. Leiserson, a veteran labor
mediator, was appointed to the
board last April. He has dissented
several times from board
decisions.
Besides the Washington hearings,
sessions may be held next year in
other cities, including San Fran
cisco, Los Angeles. Seattle, Chicago,
Cincinnati and New York.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Europe's War DAY by Day
Carol Vows to Fight Invasion, but Chances
Seem Small If Several Attack at Once

But Rumania' S luck hasn't stopped
there. Having been blessed with this
abundance, she has Black Sea ports
through which to clear her products.
Also the great Danube, which moves
the products of many countries clear
to Germany, runs along Rumania's S
southern border and then swings
north to empty into the Black Sea
on that fortunate countrys coast
line.
In assaying Rumania's resources,
Nazidom certainly won't have over
looked the Danube. One of the
great dreams of Field Marshal
Goering, Hitler's political heir, is to
connect the Danube and the Rhine
by canal in Germany so to make a
through waterway from the North
to the Black Seas. Control of the
mouth Of the Danube would be
worth kingdom to Germany.
King Carol has his army mobilized
and declares he will fight to pre-
serve his country's sovereignty
None doubts that this forceful
monarch.dictator means that. Still,
the cards seem stacked against him
and it is doubtful if he could hold
out long especially should more
than one opponent go for him at
once.
Half Million Under Arms.
. Carol has about half a million
men under arms. He himself has
been taking an active hand in get
ting his forces in shape. When I
was in Rumania year ago he had
just made the disconcerting discov-
cry that the army equipment wasn't
what he had been led to believe 1t
was.
Being nothing If not a direct ac-
zionist, Carol promptly had a ter
rife housekeeping. Since that time
large quantities of arms and NUM-
tions are reported to have arrived in
Rumania, chiefly from the. Skoda
works in former Czecho-S -Slovak ter
ritory.
There has been some speculation
whether Bulgaria might forget Do
bruja for the moment and join with
the other Balkan states to 60 to Ru-
mania's defense in event OF aggres-
sion. That is a possibility, for all
these small states fear both Russia
and Germany, but the circumstances
at the time of invasion undoubtedly
would govern their action.
1t is interesting, but not con-
elusive, that the Fascist Grand
Council. meeting in Rome, has
warned Russia by implication to stay
out of the Balkans.
Evening star., 1939-12-08

have already accomplished beneficial
results, it is almost certain that
within a year the old abuses would
reappear.
"As we have often asserted, the
problem is similar to that of con-
trolling traffic. There must be a
traffic policeman on crowded cor
ner. If the policeman is there the
law will be obeyed. If we have an
adequate staff in the field to receive
and investigate complaints, we will
get the complaints and the investi-
cations will accomplish beneficial
results. If the men are not there,
nothing will happen and the con-
sumers will get discouraged and the
law will be ignored"
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Landon Supporting
Roosevelt Foreign
Policy 1907, He Say,
Sees Republican Party
As Only Prosperity
Hope, However
BY the Associated Press.

oy Inc Associated freSS.
ALI M. Landon said today he was
supporting the administrations
foreign policy 100 per cent"
The 1885 Republican presidential
nominee said the State Department
and the President hold "the threads
of all American interests In the
world" and that they should know
better than any one else what steps
this Nation should take in foreign
affairs.
Unless and until I see some direct
evidence that the President wants
to lead us into war" the former
Kansas Governor asserted, Il am
for the administration foreign
policy 100 per cent in a crisis like
this"
Mr.. Landon, here for tomorrow
nights Gridiron Club dinner, said
at q press conference that "the only
way the country can get back to
prosperity Is to elect q Republican
in 1940."
President Roosevelt's policy "has
Dccu W SILL up AlAStAOA d1AAOAA6
classes, he said, and added:
He doesn't even give his own
pump -priming a chance to work
because he is always nagging at
business. One minute he gives 1t
shot In the arm, and the next min
ute he calls it crook and wants to
know why it doesn't get up and 60
to work.
part of his administration, at
least, believes that the capitalistic
system has outgrown its historic
use and that government has to
take over and replace it. Business
knows that, and that Is one reason
why we haven't made any progress
In seven years."
Mr.. Landon said he had heard
attributed to Vice President Garner
statement that If ,you had q
fellow on your farm who hadn't done
a good job for seven years you
wouldn't keep him any longer"
Evening star., 1939-12-08
By DEWITT MACKENZIE,

Associated Press Foreign Affairs Writer
With Russia taking time out from
its invasion of Finland to train its
feld-glasses on Rumania, King
Carols kingdom finds itself in the
most unhappy position OF any OF
the small countries which fear ag-
gression against them may result
from the European upheaval.
Rumania is so isolated from It's
sworn guardians, England and
France, that in event of invasion
1t likely would become another
Poland.
This largest of the Balkan states
has the misfortune to be a prize
from which, not one nation, bu!
several, would like to cut fat slice
Naturally, its big worries are Russia
and Germany, lying as it does vlr-
tually under the heavy guns of these
two powers. But there are other
dangers.
The fears of this potential victim
of the storm frame up in this dis
concerting fashion: Russia wants
back Bessarabia cat leasb which
Rumania got at the end Of the
World War; Germany would give
much to get at Carols rich store
of oil, other minerals and grain;
Hungary has never ceased to de-
mand the return Of TransNvania
which she lost in the last war,
and on Rumania's south, Bulgaria
is after the rolling wheat fields OF
Dobruja, which were taken from
her.
Not First Difficult Time.
Should this trial he thrust upon
Rumania, 1t won't. be her first. She
had rough passage through the
World War, but may get encourage
ment in her present predicsment
from the fact that she ended up in
magnificent fashion.
When Rumania finally signed up
to join the allies in 1915, she lasted
100 days against Germany and Aus
tria, and signed humiliating treaty.
However, the allied victory reversed
her fortunes. She more than dbu-
bled her .prewar area, to become the
largest country in Southeast Europe
bigger than the British Isles-and
her population rose to over 17O0O,-
900.
Since then Rumania has been
steadily on her way to become a
great and important nation. She has
the richest oil resources in Europe
Iron and copper are abundant. The
land is rich with timber. She is one
of the big wheat-growing countries
and raises vast quantities of corn.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Wallace Orders Cut
On Cotton Export Bonus

By the Associated Press.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wallace
ordered yesterday a second reduc-
tion in the rate of payment the
Government will make on cotton
sold abroad under its export sub
sidy program.
The rate was cut from rs cents
per 100 pounds to 40 cents, effective
today.
Secretary Wallace said the new
reduction, the second of the week,
was necessary because Of limited
funds available. The original rate
was is cents a pound.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
ut judgment when it came to

ent judgment Wnen IL came 10
voting.
He expressed the opinion the Pres
ident had not decided on the former
Indiana Governor to succeed him.
The Interior chiefs remarks
evoked no immediate comment from
Mr.. McNutt, who spoke last night
before meeting of vocational edu-
Gators at Grand Rapids, Mich. In
that address the security admins
traitor called on the country to
rededicate itself to fuller achieve
ment Of the democratic ideal
through a greater equality of edu-
cational opportunity. Following the
speech he departed for the Capital,
where he is scheduled to address
conference of public welfare Of
ficials tonight.
When Representative Taber, Re-
publican, of New York heard about
Secretary Ickes' remarks he said:
Honest Harold is just trying to
look after his own neck"
Representative Voorhis, Democrat,
of California, said: "Mr. Ickes' state
ment will be most interesting to
those who seriously believe in the
Importance of securing candidate
of tested progressive principles.
Representative Plumley, Repub-
lican, of Vermont: IF nobody pays
any more attention tp what Harold
Ickes says than do, nobody pays
any attention"
Referring to the Ickes contention
that Mr.. Roosevelt was the only
choice of the liberal element for
President in 1910, Senator johnson,
Democrat, of Colorado, said:
1.-THE liberal element Is in hell OF
a fix If there be but one among them
At to run for President. I do not
agree with Ickes."
Senator johnson suggested that
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, OF
Montana Is available as Q liberal
Democratic nominee.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
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Evening star., 1939-12-08
Four Win Certificates

Raymond F. Moore, Arnold South
we'll and Harvey Warwick of WASH
ington and A. F. Thellander of Ar
lington County were among those
the Virginia Board for Examination
and Certification of Architects, Pro-
fessional Engineers and Land Sur
veyors certified as practicing archi-
tects at its semi-annual meeting in
Richmond yesterday.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Road Contract Awarded

A contract for installing 2.87 miles
of waterbound macadam surface
treatment along Route Z, near Falls
Church, in Fairfax County. has
been awarded by the Virginia High
way Commission to the Blackwell
Engineering & Construction Co. Of
Warrenton.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
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Evening star., 1939-12-08
New York Airport
To Be TrebIed in Size

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. ga 60 per
cent increase in air travel during
1929 and introduction of skyliners
with 125-foot wingspreads led Of
ficials of the city's new $4,000 000
La Guardia Airport to announce
plans today to treble the size OF the
field, opened this month.
Maj. Elmer Haslett, director OF
the airport, said the field would
have to be enlarged to provide about
ITS per cent additional landing ana
loading space.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Racing Results
Charles Town

FIRST RACE-Purse, s40o; 2-year-olds;
about A., furlonas
Irish Mirth Godfrey 500 400 $50
Supreme Kin (Hernandez) 1880 $50
1Zarra moral $50
Time, 05Ozs.
Also ran-Grouchy Girl. westly, Turkey
Hash Westgro. Challente.
SECOND RACE-Purse. S4OO: claiming;
3-year-olds and up: 4Ia furlonss.
Royal Veil HernandeD 4S0 $50 240
Happy Host tSnyder) $50 $50
Merab lTacketD $50
Time 0:512s.
Also ran-Foresee. Pegadette, Tveety,
Brief and Small Devil
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Report
lEurniShed by tn

he
District OF ColumbaFar colder tonight with minimum
ue about 27 degrees quite
west winds diminishing
MARYLAND and VrgnaFar, colder tonight tomorrow fair
West VrgnaFair, slightly
row fair, rising temperature portion.
Evening star., 1939-12-08

Inc disturbance that was over Eastern
Lake Superior Thursday morning has ad-
vanced rapidly eastward to Eastern Maine,
Eastport. aSl.4 millibars t299S inches).
with trough extending southwark and
southwestward to the Georgia coast Press
ure is relatively low and falling over the
Northern Plains States. Havre. Mont.
1904 millibars t29.67 inches. and 1t is
low on the Washington coast Tatoosh
Island. Wash. 997.6 millibars (2946
inches).. A high-pressure area is moving
eastward over the middle Mississippi VAL
ley. Spfinefield. ILL.,, 1921 millibars go. 80
inches. with wedge extending northward
TO Lake Superior. Pressure is also high
GIand S1o Junction Colo. 1024.O nfillibars
1904 inches). thence southeastward to
TEXAS. Galveston 1023.0 millibars f3O.ol
inches). and thence eastward over Florida
During the last "a hours rains have oc-
CURED In the. North Pacific States. and
iieht rains and SHOWS in the eastern lower
Lake region and portions Of the North
Atlantic States. Temperatures have risen
IN the Middle Atlantic States and the
Carolinas and over the Northern Plateau
and Montana. while they have fallen In
the Lake region the Southern Plains States
and the Ohio and middle and upper Missis-
River Report
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
AZ harpers Ferry; Potomac clear at Great
Falls today.
Evening star., 1939-12-08

Record for Last - Hours.
rrom noon yesterday to noon today
Hishest, 81. 10 pm. yesterday. Year
ago 81.
Lowest. ~. 7:15 am. today. Year
ago. 35.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon todayJ
Hishest. "a per cent. at 8 am today
Lowest, u per cent, at $3.50 pm. yes
terday.
Tide Tables,
(Furnished BY United States Coast and
0eodetic Survey
Today. Tomorrow.
Hi9h - b:37 am. 6:29 am.
Low -- 1905 am. 100 Am.
aieh -- sos pm. 6.66 pm.
Low -------- 1923 pm. 1:14 pm.
The Sun and Neon.
Sun. today TIA 4:46
Sun. tomorrow TIA 4:46
Noon, today 4:41 an. 500 pm.
Automobile lights must be turned on one
half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Record Temperature This Year.
Highest. 100, on September 8.
Lowest. II, on February %.
Precipitation,

Monthly precipitation in inches IN
Capital current month to date).
Evening star., 1939-12-08
Report for Last ~ Hours.

Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clea
Falls today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-11
Recognizes Man
From His Photo

The camera eyes" Of Detective
Captain Cliff Osborne was credit
ed Thursday with arrest Of Jack
Smith. SO. who was lodged in city
jail on charge OF investigation
by the pawn shop detail.
Osborne and Detective Henry
Warren were driving up So. 18th
81. Wednesday afternoon when the
captain noticed a man walking in
crowd down the hill.
That's the fellow the pawn shop
wants for investigation. Osborne
doomed. Il remember his picture
at the station"
Warren stopped the car. Os-
borne alighted, but me suspect
had disappeared in a public mar
ket. Warren then parked the po-
lice car and the pair started a
hunt for the man.
At 18th and Broadway the de-
tectives saw Smith.
Sgt. Tom Brown. of the motor
division. who happened To be on
the corner, also recognized him.
The trio surrounded the suspect
and he was taken into custody.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-11
HAS TULAREMIA
FROM TICK Bite

Recovering from tulsremis,
rare malsdy, brought on from the
bite Of a wood tick while touring
through Eastern Oregon last
month, Mrs. Rachael L. Lyman.
IS, Of Tacoma. was confined
Thursday at the home OF a sister
in Seattle.
Mrs. Lyman, wife Of Harold
Lyman, editorial employee at the
News Tribune. was on a camping
trip in Eastern Oregon with her
husband, when she was bitten BY
the tick. Returning to Tacoma.
the woman. on July Il, became
III and developed a fever. At first
II was believed she had typhoid.
Later she was removed 10 the
home Of her sister. Mrs. Fred
Wills. where a physician diagnosed
the ailment as tularemia.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-11
Association of Credit Men
Executive Entertained Here

for Seattle, where he is to speak,
and will 90 to San Francisco to
deliver talk at the worlds fair,
August "a,
His hosts at the dinner included
Sam jackson. manager of the Ma
tional Bank OF Washington; w. w.
Reyes. attorney; William Deering
and Lindsey Crawford of the John
Dover Lumber Co.: Orren Judd,
West Coast Grocery Co; +. NJ,
Meyer, of Sperry Flour Co.; Fred
Wines of the F. ID. Wines Co;
Joe Brosamer, Tacoma Tribune
George Turnbull, Medosweet dairy;
Oscar Lagasse, W. p. Fuller Co.;
Carl Parks. Tacoma Feed CO.;
J. W. Ewart, National Bank of
Washington, and J. NJ. Upland. of
the wholesalers association. Walter
Pate. president of the group, pre-
sided.