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Evening star., 1939-09-07
Pender Church Fete
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PENDER, Va, Sept THE Aid
Society of Pender Methodist Church
Will sponsor a lawn fete on the
church grounds Saturday at pm,
1t has been announced by the Rev.
4. Carl Maxwell, pastor.
Evening star., 1939-09-07
Thousands Attend Rites
For Domei's Founder
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Sept. Five thousand
persons, including a majority of
the japanese cabinet, today attend
ed the funeral for Yukichi Iwanaga,
president of Domei, Japanese news
agency.
Among the mourners at the Shin
to rites were former Premier Prince
Fumimaro Konoye, former Foreign
Minister Hachiro Arita ands high
army and navy officers. Iwanaga
died last SATURDAY..
Evening star., 1939-09-07
InsuIin's Co-Discoverer
Joins Conudiun Army

TORONTO. Sept Canadian
Press Sir Frederick Banting. pro-
fessor of medical research in the
University of Toronto and co-dis-
coverer of insulin. has enlisted as .
captain in the 18th General Hospital,
Canadian Army Medical Corps.
He entered the World War as
private in the field ambulance serv-
ice and rose to a lieutenancy in
the medical corps. He was wounded
at Cambrai, where he won the Mill
tary Cross.
Evening star., 1939-09-07
Sir Neville Henderson
Soils for England
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROTTERDAM, Sept. 7.-Sir Neville
Henderson, Britain's recalled Am
bassador to Germany. who has been
here since his departure from Berlin,
last night left for England aboard
Dutch steamer
He was the last of the diplomats
of the British-German-French bel
ligerents to be exchanged through
the Netherlands.
He was accompanied by about 40
members of his staff.
Evening star., 1939-09-07
Bonk Neutrality Law

SCRANTON, Pa, Sept. Z R.-A
neutrality law" forbidding tellers
to discuss the European war with
depositors was adopted today by the
South Side Bank & Trust Co.
The bank has many depositors Of
Polish and German extraction.
Evening star., 1939-09-07
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, Sept 7.-FolloWing
is the text of Prime Minister
Chamberlain talk in the House
of Commons today:
The House will, I am sure,
realize that it is impossible for
me to give more than q general
indication of the present Situa-
ton and of the state of our de-
fenses. There are necessarily a
number of matters to which, in
the public interest, it is impos-
sible for me to refer. With that
necessary preamble I will give the
House a resume of the position.
In the east the Poles are fight
ing hard against a strong and
ruthless enemy who is relying on
the weight of numbers and ma
terial to crush all opposition.
The Polish soldier has ever
shown himself to be a courage
Gus and determined fighter and
today he is Worthily maintaining
this tradition.
In spite of the human and ma
terial losses which they have al
ready suffered, the morale and
courage of the Polish people re-
mains unaffected. This govern
ment and the French govern
ment have today signed an
agreement with the Polish gov
ernment for the provision of
further financial assistance to
Poland to enable her to replen-
ish her resources.
French Forces Mobilized
Efficiently and Smoothly.
In the west France has, like
ourselves, mobilized her forces
with complete efficiency and
smoothness and they are now in
contact with the enemy on their
common frontier.
Certain information has been
published of what has taken
place. but for obvious reasons no
details can yet be disclosed. The
outbreak of war has found the
same spirit of determination and
solidarity among the French peo-
pie as is evident here.
The understanding between the
two countries is complete and the
arrangements which have now
been put into force for CO.
operation in all the activities
concerned with the prosecution
of the war are working smoothly
and we'll.
In this country the defensive
military disposition of our arms,
which cover a very wide field,
were made in good time, owing
to the precautionary measures
which it was decided to adopt
during the period of tension.
The manning of the anti-air-
craft and coast defenses was eff
GENTLY carried out. Within a
short time of the calling out the
units, guns and searchlights
were fully manned. Since
large NUMBER OF the antl-alrCra1t
units were in camp and away
from their home stations. this
reflects great credit on their Or
ganization.
The guarding of vulnerable
points has been taken over by the
national defense companies, sup
plemented by personnel of the
territorial army.
The personnel reached their
posts with the minimum of delay
and under trying weather condi-
tions. The mobilization of the
remainder Of the army has been
carried out with the greatest
smoothness. The morale of all
ranks is high, in particular the
spirit of the reservists recalled
from civil life, some of whom
have already this year been
called up for training, is excel
lent.
1 should like to make especial
mention of the women Of the
Evening star., 1939-09-07
|Luroy Deputy's
Daughters Help
BoK JoiIbreok
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
LURAY, Va, Sept. 7.-Armed with
a broomstick and their fathers gun,
the young daughters of a deputy
sheriff aided in battling jailbreak
attempt here yesterday.
According to Deputy Sheriff Rum
sey Sedwick, Sheriff William Ruff
ner was taking food to the prisoners
when he was attacked and thrown to
the floor by Robert Hurbon, an in
mate awaiting grand jury action on
a charge of breaking and entering
a railroad dining car.
Two fellow prisoners, Richard
Duncan and Robert Beahm seized
Hurbon, but the Sedwick girls, Kath-
crime, IL, and Marie, 16, shouted, Let
him come on. Wen tend to him!"
The girls were not permitted to
fulfill their promise, however, as
Sheriff Ruffner had regained his
feet.
Evening star., 1939-09-07
Veteran Actress Dies

NEW YORK, Sept. 7 tP.-Kath-
ryn Kidder, 10, who made her stage
debut at the age Of Is as Lucy Fair
weather In "The Streets of New
York." died today after a long ILL
ness. She retired many years ago.
Evening star., 1939-09-07

light irregularly showing and &C
ton is at once taken to deal with
the offenders.
The government decided last
Thursday that the plans for
evacuation, mainly in respect to
school children. should be put
into operation. Evacuation
started on Friday morning. In a
number Of towns it was complet-
ed on Saturday
In London, where the problem
Is exceptionally large, it was COM
pleted by Monday. The operation
has now been substantially COM
pleted and has covered not only
those towns for which plans had
been worked out beforehand, but
also a number of other vulner-
able areas. So far approximately
l,475,000 children and mothers
have been evacuated in the coun-
try as a whole. The arrange
ments for evacuation and trans
port were carried out without a
hitch and those responsible for
reception in receiving areas have
displayed remarkable enterprise,
efficiency and good will
The process Of assimilating
this large increase of population
in the receiving areas will take
time and call for tolerence and
mutual understanding. Schools
are to be reopened in the receiv-
ing areas as quickly as possible
and both public authorities and
voluntary effort will be busily
occupied with measures for the
welfare of the children and for
the assistance of the household
ers who are SO generously pro-
viding homes for the mothers
and children.
100000 Hospital Beds
Ready for Casualties.
Over 100000 hospital beds are
ready today for air raid casual
ties; $500 of these are in the
London region: $500 inside the
county and 41,000 outside the
county
The beds in any region would,
of course, be available to meet
the needs of any other hard
pressed area.
Over 1000 trained nurses,
1000 assistant nurses and over
$4,000 auxiliary nurses have
joined the civn nursing reserve
for services in hospitals and first
aid posts. But more Of both
trained nurses and auxiliaries
are needed, especially women
who can give Whole-time service
in any part of the country
Doctors have accepted enroll
ment in the emergency medical
service and acceptances are being
received daily. The auxiliary
fire service was modified quickly
and on the whole smoothly and
in the main the available fire.
fighting units are being kept
permanently manned and ready
for action. In London, for in
stance, there are over 1900 fire
pumps ready for action, as
against about 125 in peacetime
l hope the statement I have
made will show the House and
the country that our war effort
in its many aspects is rapidly
gaining momentum. l know
that it has behind it the full
weight of all the people of this
country, who are united in their
conviction that no nation ever
went to war in higher cause.
We are greatly heartened by
the knowledge that in the strug-
gle for the defense of liberty
and free institutions and the
preservation of all that makes
life worth. living we can count
on the support of the overseas
members Of the British Com
monWealth.
- OF their own free will and
under no form of compulsion
save the moral compelling force
of right and justice, these self
governing nations have declared
their intention Of cooperating
in cause which is no less pre-
cious to them than it is to the
people of the homeland.
Evening star., 1939-09-07
Weather Report
Furnished b


District
Saturday
West Vrgna-Fair
and continued followed by showers night
Evening star., 1939-09-07

The, northeastern disturbance has re-
manned almost stationary, Antlcosti Island.
Quebec. 9a5.6 millibars C29.40 inches). The
western disturbance is moving eastward
over the Plains States, the Upper Missis-
sppi Valley and the Lake region, Sioux
Falls, S, OAK, 1003.4 millibars (29 SO
inches) and pressure is low also from
Northern California ,sontheaStward 70 the
l0075 milibars t2975 inchesl. Another
disturbance is moving southeastuard over
Yukon and the District Of Mackenzie, Daw-
SON Yukon. 1868 millibars (29.42 inches).
Pressure is high and rising from the North
Pacific coast eastward to Manitoba and
the western portions Of the Dakotas and IT
remains high from the Lower Mississippi
Valley eastward beyond Bermuda with q
wedse extending from the South Atlantic
Coast northward to James Bay. Missoula:
Mont, 1921 millibars t3027 inches and
Miami, Fla, 10000 millibars .t30;12
inches. Showers have occurred in the
Plateau and Rocky Mountain regions the
Dakatos. the eastern and northern Lake
region and the NORTH portion of the Middle
ATLANTIC States. The temperature has
Valley eastward to the Atlantic Coast, while
cooler weather has overspread most of
the western half of the United States
Evening star., 1939-09-07

Italian East Africa has 4,007 In
dustrial firms.
Evening star., 1939-09-07
Summary Of
Todoy's News

Foreign.
So missing as British freighter is
sent to bottom. Page Al
Troops within 20 miles of Warsaw
Germans declare Page Al
French drive spearhead into Sieg-
fried line. Page Al
Army fighting Germans like lions, :"
says Poland. Page Al
Paris gets first full nights sleep as
no alarms sound. Page Az
British plans for finish fight against
Hitler are barred. Page AS
Canada's Parliament sits to enter
war. Page Al
Thousands fleeing France and Ger
many into Switzerland. Page AS
Japan tells Britain it desires neu-
trality. Page AS
Evening star., 1939-09-07
Washington and Vicinity.

Polish Red Cross officials confer
mere on cooperation. Page Az
Revised D. c. aid budget asks
S2,007 200. Page B-1
War causes plea for economy in 1941
D. C. budget. Page B-1
-year-old boy is sixtieth
traffic victim here. Page B-1
Housing program retarded; Ridge
road bid rejected. Page B-1
Evening star., 1939-09-07
National

National
u S. moves swiftly to curb spies, en-
force neutrality. Page Al
Food price jump brings warning on
profiteering. Page Al
Evening star., 1939-09-07

Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast
Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1939-09-07
River Report

Potomac River muddy, Shenandoa
slightly cloudy at Harpers Ferry: Potoma
muddy at Great Falls today.
Report for Last "a Hours
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Child Safety

The assignment by the w. P. A.
Of fifty additional supervisors for
the Districts Fairgrounds, insuring
enough such employees to properly
operate all of the play areas in the
Capital, is progressive step in the
citys summer recreational program.
AS the primary purpose and principal
value of the playground system is
to provide supervision and guidance
for the younger members of the COM
munity in their play, the increase to
two hundred supervisors is welcomed.
AS a measure Of protection against
the hazards of traffic, the full super
vised operation of the Fairgrounds
will afford some security. 1t is prob
able many children who would be
forced otherwise to play in the streets
will seek their recreation under safer
conditions. But it must be borne in
mind that supervised Fairgrounds
supply only a small part of the
answer to the traffic problem.
The principal factor in Washing
tons safety campaign for adults as
well as for children is that of edu-
cation. A meritorious suggestion is
Evening star., 1939-07-15

made by Police Captain Richard H.
Mansfield, who urges the establish
ment Of safety school where traffic
violators and others would be given
instruction in accident prevention.
Captain Mansfield speaks with au-
thority when he stresses education
as safety factor. He has conducted
Glasses" in the twenty-eight schools
OF his precinct. In seven years of
the experiment only one child,
newcomer to the neighborhood, has
been killed there.
During the school year valuable
traffic educational work is done by
the School Boy Patrol, the police,
and the teachers. In the summer
months the burden rests mainly on
the home. Fairgrounds will help
somewhat. But an extension of Cap
tain Mansfleld's suggested program
would aid greatly, meeting many Of
the safety problems involving not
only children, but adults, drivers and
pedestrians. Compulsory inspection
OF vehicles, and a multiplicity OF
rules, valuable as they are, must re-
main ineffectual in many cases until
the lessons of responsibility, and
thorough knowledge of their duties,
rights and limitations are learned by
every person, young and old.
Evening star., 1939-07-15

tors without going into bankruptcy,
but an impasse has been created by
Senate amendments limiting its ap-
plicability to the Baltimore and Ohio
and Lehigh Valley, which possibly
makes the measure unconstitutional
as class legislation, deprives other
lines Of help and nullifies an earnest
effort by the B. and o. and Lehigh
to work out their own salvation.
In Senator Wheeler's omnibus
transportation bill passed by the
Senate, provision was made for regu-
lation by the Interstate Commerce
Commission Of domestic water car
riers-a change sought by the rail-
roads but the House Interstate
Commerce Committee wrote its own
bill, and SO amended the regulatory
feature that its value becomes doubt
ful, setting up another area OF dis
pute.
Mr.. Chandler still has hopes for
his measure, and there is not single
good reason why both of these pro-
posals should not be approved in the
form IN which they would do the
greatest good.
Evening star., 1939-07-15

that much poorer" but no economist
would condescend to take part in such
frivolous discussion unless he chanced
to think Of some quibble he could intro
duce. Otherwise he must admit that IF
one acquires dollar, a million dollars
or even one of the billions we can now
mention casually, without rendering a
corresponding service, he is that much
richer because others somewhere, some
how and sometime, are that much
poorer"
All economic discussion lacks consist
ency. "The principles, obvious in the
simpler relations of men, are not abro-
gated or reversed by the intricate rela-
tions that result from our social de-
velopment'' and when Uncle Sam prof.
tied two billion, six hundred million dol
lars by the devaluation of the dollar,
individuals, somewhere and somehow,
were rendered that much poorer. As q
matter of principle it was dishonest and
just like taking pennies from q blind
mans cup. Four Of the nine on the
Supreme Court bench had the perspi-
cacity to see it that way and the indie.
pendence to say 20.
J. B. CHAMBERLAIN.
Evening star., 1939-07-15

also part, that the injustice should be
remedied. The very fact that most of
the strikes were purely spontaneous
SHOWS how obnoxious the conditions
were to the workers.
And then, to end with, consider these
points which no newspapers stoop to:
l. Working 130 hours a month means
that no worker will have time to look
Tor private job. If it is true that
w. P. A. workers are making a career of
relief, certainly it is no cure of that to
make them work every day of the month
so that they can never get time of to
nnd work in private industry, unless the
idea Is to make work on W. P. A. 50
unbearable that. in desperation, the
worker will leave and attempt to chisel
some one out of his job.
2. The 130-hr. provision means that
no more than hours can be made up
month for illness or loss of time for
legitimate reasons. If a man should lose
a week at work for illness it would mean
that he would be seriously crippled by
the loss of pay.
The point really is that unless the
organized opposition can offer some con-
vincing reason for continuing to work
w. P. A. workers 100 hours a MONTH
which to date it has woefully failed to
do-then Congress should Immediately
yield, not to the demands of the w. P. A.
workers, but to the justice of their cause.
PHILLIP BONOSKY,
President, District Workers Alliance.
July II.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
DevaluatiOn of Dollar
Dishonest in Principle,
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
OF all the sciences political economy Is
the one that is of the most importance to
every individual. 1t treats of labor and
production, wealth, value and possession.
1t has to do with our bread and butter
and our neighbor's bread and butter and
touches every pocketbook every day. It
is also the one science which the ordi-
nary man can easily study because it
requires no tools or apparatus, and no
special preliminary training is neces-
sary. Although the rule is not followed
in our schools and universities, as with
the other sciences, the study must pro-
gress from truth universally accepted
and upon which we base our everyday
reasoning and action-from accepted
standards of right and wrong, as obvious
as the axioms fundamental to the study
of the other sciences.
The problems of the other sciences are
real and perplexing problems which dill.
gent, conscientious men strive endlessly
to solve, but the problems of economics
are fictitious and make-believe The
professors and writers, never relating
their palaver to an accepted premise,
have made the subject SO bewildering
and incomprehensible that it is referred
to as ''the Dismal Science" Inasmuch
as ignorance is a crime, contemplating
those who influence legislation or sway
public opinion" 1t would be very fitting,
that those employed in our legislative,
judicial or executive departments should
be required to pass an examination for
economic sanity before being assigned
to the pay roll.
The average child Of ten can compre-
hend that IF one finds a dollar, he u
that much richer because some one Is
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Rail Aid Needed

In expressing the opinion that ma
jor railroad legislation is dead for
this session, Chairman Wheeler of
the Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee strengthens a suspicion
that has prevailed for some time,
and thereby emphasizes another
failure in the present Congress.
Despite slight upturn in business,
the perennial rail problem" is no
less pressing now than at this time
last year when the advisability of a
special session Of Congress to deal
with it was discussed, but the atten-
ton this matter has received since
January has been sadly dispropor-
tionate to its needs. The little that
has been done has found Senate and
House travelling in different direc-
tions, and rail management and la
Dor which have most at stake have
found their inherent conflict of in
terest standing in the way of a
program that-would treat the basic
rail ill-too much plant for too little
business.
Two pieces of worthwhile legisla-
ton have reached a stage where they
could be completed If Congress had
the inclination to see them through
but they presumably are due to be
shelved.
Representative Chandler of Ten
nessee got q bill by the House that
would pave the way for about fifteen
weakened carriers to work out debt
adjustment plans with THAR nrnd,.
Evening star., 1939-07-15
Something in the Air.

lmpenetrable mystery continues to
surround the action of the Roman
government in ordering the expul-
sion OF all foreigners from the Italian
Tyrol, the former Austrian Alpine
province along the Brenner Pass
where the Nazi and Fascist armies
face each other. Some DAYS ago
Italy ordered the evacuation of all
Germans in Bolzano Province. Ma
tive-born have the choice of going
back to Germany or becoming good
Italians" probably in other parts of
the kingdom. Inexplicable as this
plan IS, the latest exodus ordered bv
Mussolini's Ministry of the Interior
ousting all foreigners, is even more
puzzling. The communique ordering
them to decamp suggests that "some
elements belonging to western DOW
ers' have been engaged in certain
political and military activities. This
OF course, means espionage, or allie
cations thereof.
The American, British, Dutch and
SWISS ENJOYS at Rome Jointly and
seVerally have asked the Italian for
elgn Office for explanations. To date
they nave had to be satisfied with a
cryptic reply that all foreigners must
get out of the Tyrol for political
and military reasons" In some cases
departures are ordered to take place
within twenty-four or forty-eight
hours.
AS the Tyrol in midsummer is the
mecca OF large and lucrative inter-
natlonal tourist traffic, the Austro-
1tallan population of the district is
economically hard hit as we'll as
completely mystified Conviction is
universal that something is in the
air" Naturally, with the current
strain in international relations
the possibility that Germany NAV
orag Italy into axis adventures in
Northeastern Europe-the idea per-
slsts that italian troop movements
OF some sort are imminent in the
Iyrol, and that Rome desires to car
ry them out far from the gaze of
prylng foreign eyes. If the expulsion
order does mean that some such
yelled movement of troops is con-
templated, it is not easy to under
stand why military activities should
be hampered, as they must be, by a
large-Scale civilian migration