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Evening star., 1939-11-03
Moscow
CONTINUED From First PAge.)

cation was expected to start its final
discussions at the Kremlin.
Foreign circles had interpreted
Erkko's speech Wednesday night as
conciliatory in tone and foresaw an
early settlement of the Russian re-
quests, but the Pravda article used
the strongest language yet employed
publicly In the four-week negotia-
tions.
Citing the fact that Estonia, Latvia
and Lithuania already had signed
mutual assistance pacts with Russia,
Pravda said:
Attempts to deny the mutual
advantages OF these agreements for
all their signatories are made only
by their common enemies inter-
ested in fomenting war not only in
Western but In Eastern Europe as
we'll, particularly on the Baltic
coast"
1t said that naturally, the gov
ernment Of the y. S. 8. r. was
bound to address similar proposals
to the fourth Baltic country bor-
dering on the U. 8. 8. R.-Finland.
1T is sumcient to glance at the
map Of Finland to realize that the
problems Of security of the U. s.
S. r. are especially acute on the
Finnish border.
THE Soviet Union not only has
the right, but is obliged to take
measures to assure security of the
sea and land approaches to Lenin-
grad, whose population equals the
entire population of Finland.
THE government of Finland
cahnot avoid considering these in
terests and rights of the U. S. S. r."
Firms Met HALF Way.
Pravda declared Russia had met
Finland half way on all important
questioning, mentioning that Pre-
mier-Foreign Commissar Vyaches-
laff Molotof1 Tuesday told the Su-
preme Soviet that Russia had not
insisted on q mutual assistance pact
because Finland believed such a
pact was incompatible with her
position Of absolute neutrality.
I'm exchange for territories on the
Kareli4n Isthmus and certain other
areas, vitally necessary for the Sc
curity Of the U. s. s. r." said
Evening star., 1939-11-03
S|ovak Riot Demands
Hungary Return Land
Obtained Last Year
Two Newspaper Office.
And Shops Socked
In BrutisIuvo
Nv tha A aaoci afed pYesa

0y the Associated Press.
BRATIsLAVA, Nov. 3-Thousands
Of Slovaks rioted here last night,
sacking two Hungarian newspaper
odices and . number Of Hungarian
shops, following a mass meeting
called to protest Hungary's acquisi-
ton Of . slice Of Slovak territory %
l. result Of the Munich settlement.
Police looked on with folded arms
as the rioters, shouting anti-Hun-
garian slogans, surged through the
streets of this capital Of slovakia,
nominally an autonomous republic
but which Is under German military
protection.
Down with Hungary-we got re-
vision from Poland, pow it's Hum
gary's turn to give back what she
TOOK" shouted the demonstrators
who sacked the premises Of the Hun
garian newspapers and the head
quarters Of the Hungarian minority
party.
German and Italian mediators
meeting in Vienna a year ago yes
terday, little more than a month
after the Munich agreement, award
ed Hungary 1875 square miles Of
territory with 860, 900 inhabitants In
the Slovak area of the then Czecho-
Slovak republic after it already had
lost the Sudetenland to Germany
and the Teschen region to Poland.
The rioting started at pm. and
continued until shortly before mid
night.
The crowds swarmed through the
Hungarian quarter, in which one.
third Of Bratislava's 125,000 inhabi.
tants live. Hungarian shops were
smashed and signs in the Hun.
garian language were torn down.
Evening star., 1939-11-03
World Photo.

Pravda. I'VE offered Finland terri
tory Of double size in Soviet Karelia.
THE proposal for creation Of a
naval base for the Soviet at the
northern entrance Of the Gulf of
Finland meets not only the interests
Of the Soviet Union but those OF
Finland herself, fully securing the
Gulf Of Finland against hostile ac-
tions on the part Of third states.
However, contrary to common
sense, certain leaders of Finland
express no desire at all to reach an
agreement with the U. s. s. r."
Emergency Steps Cited.
It asserted that the Finnish gov
ernment had taken "a number of
emergency measures comprehensive
only when country Is preparing for
war: The evacuation Of urban popu-
lations, mobilization of reservists
and reorganization Of industry to
serve war needs.
"On the very next day after Molo-
tof1's speech, which fully clarified
the position OF Soviet Finnish nego-
tiations. Finland's Foreign Minister
ETkko made . speech which cannot
be appraised otherwise than as an
appeal for war with the U. 8. S. r.
1.-The minister declared the pro-
posal of the U. 8. 8. R., for peaceful
negotiations and consolidation Of
friendly ties with Finland to con-
stitute an attempt against Finland's
sovereignty.
"Erkko asserts, allegedly referring
to removing the frontier line near
Leningrad for several kilometers,
from Finland's point Of view this
is Russian imperialism. There is
q limit to everything: Finland can
not agree to the Soviet proposals
and will defend her territorial IN
volatility and independence by any
means"
Pravda declared, I'm conclusion,
Erkko directly threatened the Soviet
Union, stating that he knows the
forces on which Finland can rely,
forces which can insure Finland's s
neutrality and independence In case
Of menace 10 her security"
Erkko sxtd, II difficulties and
dangers are 10 be overcome. 1t may
be that wss,must throw into the
scale all we own"
The Finnish delegation, which has
made tWo previous trips to Moscow,
arrived for a third time yesterday.
Evening star., 1939-11-03
Hotel Group Discusses
Modern Advertising

Advertising in modern merchan.
dising was the subject Of a talk last
night by Bert Sarazan, publicity and
sales promotion manager of the
Hecht Co., before a meeting of the
Washington Hotel Promotion Mems
Association In the Capitol Park
Hotel
Mr.. Sarazan sketched the develop
ment Of advertising in the past 20
years and declared salesmanship
and advertising are identical, "ex-
cept In approach"
The organization voted to invite
the National Hotel Sales Managers
Association, of which 1t is a local
chapter. to hold its next convention
in Washington.
Evening star., 1939-11-03
Roosevelt
Continued From First Page

since first suggesting such q course
on September Il.
Under further questioning about
all implications of our neutrality
policy, Mr.. Roosevelt answered in
the Affirmative when asked If the
Panama declaration establishing q
neutral waters belt around the West
ern Hemisphere Is actually in force
at present. Reminded that there
had been considerable criticism Of
this declaration, some of it from All
M. Landon, the President replied
merely that many people have failed
to read the pronouncement care
fully.
He said he did not consider that
approximately 80 German vessels
now in refuge in parts o fthis hem
isphere could engage safely in coastal
trade inside these waters under pro-
lection Of the Panama declaration.
Actually, he added, he had no in
formation that any of the German
vessels had such intentions, although
one has been reported transferring
cargo between two American ports.
Case of Poor Manners"
Asked If it would be violation of
the declaration If a British ship
should take hostile action against
one of these German vessels, Mr..
Roosevelt said that bridge would be
crossed when we come to 1t.
Mr.. Roosevelt indicated rather
clearly that he is not favorably con-
sidering the recall Of United States
Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt
from Moscow. remarking, in effect,
that he didn't feel that poor man
ners should beget poor manners.
Official indignation has been ex-
pressed here at the discourteous
treatment of Mr.. Steinhardt by the
Russian government during his
efforts to obtain information on the
City Of Flint seizure.
The President today described as
mystery likely to remain unsolved
until the end of the war the German
warning that the refugee laden
American steamer 1roquois would be
destroyed on a recent transatlantic
crossing. No further information
on this incident was at hand, he
said
Evening star., 1939-11-03

long prepared, on the one hand,
and, on the other. that they are
defensive positions.
Suppose Germany wishes to at
tack somewhere in the Maginot
Line, won't that explain the delay
or the lull since Poland's defeat?
Because the attacked, far more than
the defender, must prepare and I'M
provise and be ready to feed his
marching men and guns and tanks
and planes as they go forward. It
is less pleasant explanation than
to think that the war" will be post
poned until Easter. But is it more
wrong on that account?
Evening star., 1939-11-03
Orders on West Coast
Total $110,00O,000

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 LP.-Three
major aviation companies in the
Los Angeles area-Douglas, Lock-
heed and North American-report
orders for more than $4,000, 900
worth of foreign and domestic air.
planes.
British and French orders placed
before the arms embargo went into
effect total $30,0O0,00O. Remaining
orders represent War and Navy De-
partment expansion business and
non military commercial trade.
Lockheed has yet to fill one third
of its $4,000, 900 order from Great
Britain for $50 reconnaissance
bomberS. North American has yet
to fill 10 per cent of its $4,000, 900
British order for 400 single-motored
combat and training ships and IS
per cent of an $8,0OO,000 order for
l5O similar craft for France.
Douglas has not yet delivered any
OF 100 twin -motored attack bombers
ordered by France on a $4,000, 900
contract.
Evening star., 1939-11-03
Two Italian Liners
Searched by French

BY the Associated Press.
MARSEILLE, Nov. 3.-Two French
warships halted and searched two
italian liners, the Orazio and the
Augustus, yesterday in the Mediter-
ranean.
French authorities held 40 Ger
man passengers from the Orazio and
seized q number Of German-owned
securities on the Augustus.
The liners were en- route from
Italy to South America.
Evening star., 1939-11-03
by COL. FREDERICK PALMER,
Noted Military Expert.

automatic rifles, mortars, tanks, anti
tank and anti-aircraft guns and
other weapons to equip our proposed
initial protective force of million
men. This includes shells if we are
to have an adequate supply for war,
or Tor arming as means to keep
out Of war.
Machine Tools May Cause Lag.
AS for undertaking to produce
shells for the allies, it seems that
financing the plants to make them
is IN order no less than financing the
plants for plane making, to which
the allies appear agreeable at the
start.
If they continue the practice, we
could be sending to their aid an
astounding number of planes a year
hence. It takes from five months
to q year to build plane plant
The possible lag is in the prompt
and adequate supply OF necessary
machine tools when machine tool
makers are loaded with orders. At
present. with a few exceptions, our
plane factories are working on a
single shift. Under pressure they
could work three six-hour shifts.
Enthusiastic production experts in
sist that labor can be trained rapid
" In adequate skill.
At intervals, it seems, the Ger
mans have produced 1000 planes
monthly. Britain and France have
20 stepped-up production that they
are said to be producing at least
1000 and soon will be producing
$500 and ought to continue to pro-
duce more than Germany. It is
by no means setting the limit for
us to predict that we can produce
more than Britain and France If
their financial backing warrants.
Ceslsased BY North American Newspaper
Alliance, Inc.)
Evening star., 1939-11-03
British Air Force
0verconles Vast
Difficulties
Organization, Supply and
Preparation Carried Out
Quickly, Efficiently
By WALTER DURANTY.


AT BRITISH AIR HEADQUAR-
TIERS IN FRANCE. Nov. 3 (N.A.
NA).-One Of the things your cor
respondent has learned from this
war-although I am ready to bet
that Pan-American Anyways knew
1t long ago-is that the airplane Is
not only the fastest but also the
slowest means Of locomotion invent
ed by man.
Planes now fly the Atlantic in one
day, but ask the Pan-American' di-
rectors how many months and years
they needed to prepare this simple
service. And 1t is q question whether
the huge multi-engined clippers.
with their tons of load and passen-
gers, are less helpless or need more
nursing than q modern fighter plane
which can do 400 miles an hour.
Five hours from New York to
San Francisco" one says, coolly.
"Aint that wonderful"
But do you realize that few of
these modern fighters carry two
hours fuel? To make q long non-
stop flight requires an in11nity of
preparation and special fuel con-
tainers and q hundred other de-
tails Of training and adjustment.
Once all this is done and the serv-
Ice Is fully established the whole
process works like q clock-generally
speaking, although clocks have been
known to stop.
And one must not forget the air.
fields all along the route and the
vast effort of labor, money and time
that their establishment involves.
Everything Improved.
If that Is all true In peace-time
in ones own county, what do you
suppose it is like for the British
air force in Northern France, where
almost everything. from living quar-
tiers to airdromes, must be more or
less improvised, where everything.
including the language, is unfamil-
lar and where, last but not least, the
whole country is in darkness for IL
hours out of "a. That's the job these
folks are really doing-to enable the
planes to fly.
As a guesswork estimate, I would
say that it took thousand man
hours of work to keep q plane in
the air for an hour. OF course, once
this work has been accomplished,
then 1t follows that hundreds Of
planes can fly for hundreds OF hours.
The British air force has done in
this respect in the last two months
little that Is spectacular, and we
reporters here, and doubtless the
public at home, are grumbling that
nothing happens and that even prac-
tice flights are interrupted by bad
weather.
Don't the airmail planes fly in
any weather. or mighty near it?"
you ask plaintively. Yes, but ven
ture to reply-without unduly COM
plimenting the British air force,
which says it hates compliments and
is even restive In talking about itself
and disapproves Of interviews-that
few ss,ch Jobs Of organization. sup
ply and preparation ever have been
carried out 80 swiftly and efnciently
In the face of such difficulties.
Itsis hard to detect changes from
day to day, but. In little more than
the three weeks I have been here,
Evening star., 1939-11-03
Shirt Tail Stuys in Now

CLEVELAND, Nov. 3 R.-The lit
tie boy was careless about letting
his shirt tail hang out so his mother,
Mrs. Margaret Reed, devised cure.
She sewed bits of lace and en-
broidery on the tails. Now he keeps
them out Of sight.
Evening star., 1939-11-03
Contracts
Continued From First Page }

against sabotage if embargo repeal
resulted in an increase in subversive
activities.
The department, he said, has
moved cautiously, and a protective
system has been set up under J.
Edgar Hoover, director of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation. Mr..
Murphy said the existence of such
a system minimizes the possibility
of widespread sabotage.
"At least they won't be blowing UP
plants right and left as they did 20
years ago." he said.
He added, however, that already
there had been some sabotage.
Evening star., 1939-06-12
Sylvan 1heater Program
includes II PLAYS

The Washington Monument will
be the scene of II programs this
year in the summer festivals of the
National Sylvan Theater beginning
June 20 and continuing through Au-
gust %. The programs will be on
Tuesday of each week, with Is local
groups cooperating with the Com
munity Center Department of the
National Capital Parks.
The Blackfriars Guild of Catholic
University, will present the opening
program. The guild has made an
annual contribution for several
years. The presentation will be
"Cyrano de Bergerac," with Dennis
E. Connell in the leading roll
Later in the season the Roosevelt
Langley Players, directed by Miss
Pauline Oak; the Troupers Of East
Washington Community Center, di-
rected by L. Zaff Rogers; the Play
ers Club of the Central Community
Center and the Washington Players,
will present plays.
Several choral groups will appear
during the season, including the
Columbia Light Opera Co., directed
by Mrs. Ethyl Manning; the Gypsy
Chorus, directed by Robert Fred
erick Freund. and the Tempo Choral
Club, directed by DR.. w. Scott Mayo.
Two dance concerts will feature the
Washington Civic Ballet, directed
by Mrs. Elizabeth Giles and an in
ternational folk dance festival, di-
rected by Mrs. Harriet Lewicki.
Several bands will furnish prelim-
inary concert music. They are the
Washington Gas Light Co. En-
ployes' Band, Tall Cedars Band,
Washington Elks Boys Band and
the Chevy Chase Dairy Band. Mrs
Elizabeth K. Peoples is general
chairman of the summer festivals
Evening star., 1939-06-12

CoaSCed toward w. n. Shippeh 'f'
Bariloche. We wound in and out,
descending a twisting track which
showed the engine and at least 10
cars ahead.
The diner stewards, an Austrian
and young Argentine, got bit
excited looking for their friend, the
hermit. The Argentine tried to
raise window which (because the
train traversed deserD was tightly
fitted.
In his hurry he shattered the
glass. His wrist went through.
The steward wrapped a napkin
about his hand to hide the crimson
stain. and got the bundle of bread
out at its proper destination.
The hermit, it seems, is quite
fond of bread. although he has fore
sworn other benefits of civilization.
He lives in cave and has no truck
with the world, as represented by
the trains which come dropping
down, and hufflng and putting back,
once week in the off tourist sea-
son.
The trains have been passing for
two years-pretty regularly ever
since the line was built to its ter
minus at Bariloche, on Lake Manuel
Huapi, in the Andes, just under the
border of Chile. The stewards knew
nothing about the hermit. They
had seen him only once or twice
He had a beard. of course, and he
was deeply religious.
Beyond that the stewards could
give us no description of the recluse.
The hermit" they said, likes
bread"
But what about those sheep back
there? They seem to be eating the
hermits bread"
"Ah, senior, the hermit will be
there soon. If the sheep eat the
bread. perhaps the hermit will eat
the sheep!'
Isl, 81, 81, senor," I said, meaning,
"yes, yes, yes, mister!"
Evening star., 1939-06-12
Cosmopolitan Club
ToHeur Choristers

The Hecht Choristers will be heard
by the Cosmopolitan Club at its
luncheon Thursday at the Carlton
Hotel This feature, obtained through
the courtesy of Charles B. Dulcan,
vice president and general manager
of the Hecht Co. and a member of
the clubs Forum Committee, was to
have been heard last Thursday, but
was postponed.
The annual convention of the Cap
ital District Federation of Cosmo-
politan Clubs, to be held next Satur-
day and Sunday at Newport News,
Va, has drawn large number of
reservations from Washington, Ed
mund o. Carl, president of the local,
club, said yesterday. c. J. Mack, ex-
ecutive assistant manager of the
Mayf1ower Hotel, is unopposed for
district governor.
Evening star., 1939-06-12

! had my
pocket camera
out and the
train crew was
on the alert.
The diner stew
ards had a bum
die of bread to
toss to him.
But the train
was going down.
grade, having Ia
bored over the
divide.
o n e cliff
looked like an
other as we
Evening star., 1939-06-12
Hermit Of Patagonia
Keeps Hidden as
Train Rolls By
Steward Cuts His Arm
Opening Window to
Toss Out Breed
BY w. H. SHIPPEN, Jr.
Star STAFF Correspondent.

EN- ROUTE TO BARILOCHE,
Patagonia-Wen never saw the her
nit. He was supposed to be hidden
In the rocks-very well hidden!
Evening star., 1939-06-12

Cuba has decreed that medicinal
wines may be sold only in drug
stores.
Evening star., 1939-06-12
Sl.65 White Shirts

Just casually ask Dad what are his favorite shirt
for Summer. And it's dollars to doughnuts he'l
say WHITES! White is cooler White is smarter
White goes with every tie! White goes with ever
suit! Surprise him with half dozen of these whit
broadcloth shirts. They're guaranteed not to hav
over % residual shrinkage .. . assuring perfec
collar fit after numerous launderings. Every shir
tailored to our rigid specifications for smartness
comfort and wearability. Sizes 1872 to II.
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The Sauk Centre herald., 1939-03-02

building" It rested on posts since
the land was lower than the street
Some of them settled in the soft
ground and waved" the build
ing. On the north it was bounded
by the familiar boardwalk, hoist
ed on a trestle.
It was spacious building though.
1t would seat 600 or 700 perhaps.
1t sported a balcony, stage, in
latter years an inclined floor for
better vision. 1t was always equip
ped with electric lights.
It was in 1911 that George one
evening walked home with Henry
Parker, Civil War veteran. AS they
passed the hall, Mr.. Parker said,
you can buy that for 1000 dollars" |"
George didn't think he'd heard
right. He went home for supper
but he couldn't eat. He talked with
Mr.. Parker again that evening.
That night he couldn't sleep.
The next day a delegation from
the Post went to see him in his
restaurant near the Great Northern
depot. when I finish these dish
es, I'll go down and look it over"
The Sauk Centre herald., 1939-03-02

he told them. He bought 1t with
check to hold. And with just
rs dollars cash, floated loan for
the remainder.
For several years he played to
roadshows, and operated his NOV
ing picture business. One he re-
members was a play, Sign of the
Cross" In the late years he resort
ed to a roller rink with about IT'S
pairs Of skates. So the old hall
went back to what 1t was.
Then one day, Al DuBeau blew
into town, George said. He want
ed to build a new opera house."
So there was a meeting, and it was
decided. In 1915 the Caughren
theatre building was erected.
George O'Gara went out of busi-
ness. The history of Sauk Centre
theatricals moved up the street, was
transferred to the Caughren build
ing that has undergone numerous
ownerships, was changed recently
to the Oxford.
Then George tore down the old
GAR. hall. A house, occupied now
by DR.. and Mrs. r. B. Kettlewell,
The Sauk Centre herald., 1939-03-02
First Movie
Here Thirty
Years Ago
George O'Gara Opened
First Cinema In This
City Way Back When

There were moving pictures in
Sauk Centre as early as 1909 or 10,
but the rainy one-reelers were a
far cry from the modern cinema
as far as the horse and buggy
from the auto. And local theatri-
cal history bridges just such span
of time as that.
Interwined in the whole origin
of moving pictures here is the
career of George O'Gara. For he
had the first moving picture this
town ever saw.
George was talking about it this
week. 1t was the old Dubois build
ing, razed by fire early in 1887,
that housed the first moving picture
protector. 1T was a Powers ma
chine" George remembers.
1t was pretty hard to get a build
ing for a protector in those days
because people were afraid of them.
Many of them had caused fires.
There was no rewind on the ma
chine" George said. You ran your
film through and let it drop in
gunny sack. After the show, you
rewound it." They were rainy
affairs, showed a train skidding
across the screen, or some indis-
tinct images. But that was the be-
ginning that presaged what Sauk
Centre has now.
It was all pretty new-fangled and
the people were a bit skittish. So
movies didn't supplant the popular
roadshows. And that angle has
something historical too.
There was the old opera house.
1t stood on the corner of 5th and
Main streets, where residences now
are. And it took just 25 dollars
in cash and the usual George
O'Gara progressiveness to obtain
that. But it has an older story.
In September, 1885, the hall be-
came the property of a Mr.. Brow
er who operated among other things
the Sauk Centre Tribune, a roller
skating rink, a community hall in
the building. It's interesting to
note that it first was a roller rink,
a very popular pastime in those
days, and it's dying days were spent
in just such thing too.
On February Is, 1895 it became
the property of the GAR, B.R.
Palmer Post, and it was the only
community hall in the city. They
carried road shows and travelling
troupes. 1t was pretty popular sort
of pastime to go to the opera
house with the elocutionists, the
sleight-of-hand artists, or a good
play.
J. F. Cooper, who is responsible
for the dates in this piece, remem-
bers the hall as a hard looking