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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-04-18
FIRE FIGHTERS
AT SPRINGFIELD

Springfield, o. (OLNS).-A district
meeting of the Ohio Fire Fighters is
to be held here at the Springfield La
Dor Temple Wednesday, April "a, with
John j. O'Doherty, trustee Of the In
ternational Association of Fire Fight
ers, as the principal speaker.
This is the last meeting prior to
the state convention which is to be
held in Columbus June 3, q and 5,
when many important problems are to
be discussed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-04-18
DECISIVE PART

When the real conditions of a last
ing peace come to be discussed, the
International Labor Organization will
be in a position to play a decisive
part. . 1t is conceivable that it may
become pattern and starting point
for the future organization Of world
relations. - CASTOR Tessier, general
secretary of the French Confederation
of Christian Workers.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-04-18

She: "Say, it's past midnight. Do
you think you can stay here all
night?"
He: Gosh, Ill have to telephone
Mother first"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-04-18
LACK OF LIGHT BRINGS FINE

Richmond, Va.-Elbert Lester, Lu-
ray, Va, wrecked his automobile to
avoid hitting nocturnal horseman
The case went to court and the Judge
fined Roy Frazier SIS for riding horse
on the highway without tail light.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
learn-to-Swim Drive
Wins Praise From
Bishop Freeman
Boys Urged to Register
At Y. M. G. A. Before
Time Ends TONIGHT

The boys learn-to-swim cam
paign to be conducted March Is to
80 by The Star and the Young
Mems Christian Association was
praised yesterday by the Rt. Rev.
James E. Freeman, bishop of WASH
ington, as "a most important work" I"
Bishop Freeman stressed the i'm
portance of swimming from safety
standpoint, declaring:
Il have known so many tragedies,
the result of the inability of boys
and men to take care of themselves
IN deep water that I regard this
campaign as Of great Importance.
$50 Boys Register.
II trust the boys of Washington
will take advantage of this oppor-
tunity to learn how to swim"
Through the middle of this morn
ing more than $50 boys had reg
istered with William r. Fry, assist
Evening star., 1940-03-23

ant boys director at the Central
Y. M. C. A., at the building, 1882 G
street NV. Mr.. Fry was anticipat-
ing 'last-minute" rush in register
ing, which he hoped would bring the
number up to TOO. Provision has
been made to give instruction to
that number.
Entries Close Tonight.
Boys may register at the building
in person up to 9 pm. today or by
mail, provided they post their let
ters tonight in time to reach the
"Y' tomorrow in the Sunday de-
livery. The name, age and address
is all the registration data required.
For the convenience of the boys,
The Star is running a Can You
Swim?" coupon, containing the
necessary blank space for registra-
ton data.
Colored boys may register at the
Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A., 1916
Twelfth street NV, where they will
be taught how to swim. Registra> =
tions will be open there up to noon
Monday, it was announced by A. A.
Greene, physical director, who is in
charge of the campaign there. More
than rs colored boys had registered
there up to this morning, Mr..
Greene announced.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Premier
In Rome 10 See
Duce and Ciano
TeIeky Believed to Be
Seeking Qualification
Of Italian Policy
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, March 23.-Hungarian
Premier Count Paul Teleky arrived
in Rome today for conferences with
Premier Mussolini and Italian For
eign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano.
Political observers said Count
Teleky's visit might play an i'm
portant part in the plans of the
Rome-Berlin axis during the next
few weeks.
1t was believed that his conversa-
tions would be based largely on what
II Duce learned of Germany's de-
sires in Southeastern Europe during
his surprise Brenner Pass conference
with Adolf Hitler last Monday.
Germany is striving to tie the
Danubian countries to her economic
war chariot, Italy is anxious to have
peace preserved in this area and
some Italian sources believe the
allies are searching for new front
on which to fight Germany.
Informed Fascists said, however,
that talks would produce no change
in 1talian-Hungarian relations.
Count Teleky was understood here
to desire further classification of Ital-
Ian policy in regard to Hungarian
claims for territory lost to Rumania
in World War settlements. Last
January, Count Ciano repeatedly
told Hungarian Foreign Minister
Count Stefan Csaky that Budapest
should soft pedal revisionist demands
in the interests of Balkan peace.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Police Guard Panamanian
Al Baltimore Pier

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, March GA spe-
cial police detail stood guard today
at the pier where the freighter
Panamanian became flooded and
partially submerged Thursday while
taking on a cargo for a run to Eng
land on the hazardous North At
lantic route
Five officers checked the goings
and comings of crew members and
those without identification cards
were refused admittance to the ship
owned by Arnold Bernstein, refugee
German-Jewish shipping magnate.
Along the water front there were
unconfirmed reports that when the
10,000-ton cargo was unloaded the
crewmen would be paid off and dis
charged and that the Panamanian
then would be placed in drydQck
for inspection and repairs.
Two salvage tugs were en- route
here from New York to pump out
the freighter and raise it from the
mud in which her keel was stuck.
The Panamanian was scheduled to
have sailed Friday with a $4,000
ton general cargo.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Shakedown Laid 10 Police
In False Sex Charges
BY the Associated Press,


CHICAGO, March 23.-Charges
that hundreds of innocent men had
been arrested and falsely accused
OF sex offenses by four Chicago de-
tectives operating shakedown
racket will be investigated Monday
by grand jury.
The inquiry was ordered by States
Attorney Thomas j. Courtney after
charges were filed by Police Capt.
John Howe.
Police Commissioner Altman has
suspended the accused officers
William j. Kearney, Edward Hickey.
Elmer johnson and Francis OMal-
ley. All are attached to the police
morals squad.
"The arrests almost always fol-
lowed this pattern" Capt Howe
said: "The person arrested is asked
his business. When he arrives at
the lookup he is left open Cheld
without charge) and sent to the
Bureau of Identification. Soon after
lawyer appears in the lookup and
informs the prisoner he is in a bad
jam and offers to get him out for
5000 to $40O."
II the victim retained the LAWYER
specified by the arresting officers he
would be charged only with dis
orderly conduct, drunkenness or
some similar minor offense, Capt,
Howe said.
Evening star., 1940-03-23

Miss Beatrice Phillips, attractive
26-year-old daughter of the Am
bassador to Italy, can take an au-
tomobile apart and put it together
again, but mending a tire she finds
is the hardest job.
Miss Phillips interest in things
mechanical stems from her determi-
nation to help in France. Two
months ago she volunteered to do
chauffeur service with Miss Anne
Morgan's Friends of France.
But there were qualifications she
had to fill first. There was the lit
tie matter of knowing what to do
when an automobile acted like a
mule, to say nothing of learning the
fine points of first aid and stenog-
raphy.
She worked as volunteer at Red
Cross headquarters here and went
from garage to garage picking up
the fine points of automobile me-
chanicS.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Giant New Army Bomber
Is Worlds Biggest Plane
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The worlds biggest plane, a
bomber believed capable of flying
across the Atlantic and back with
out stopping, is expected to take
its place this summer in the Army's
air armada.
1t Is lotion, 100000 warplane
which dwarfs the newest 42-ton
trans-Pacific clipper and is half
again as large as the German built
DO-X, which carried 112 passen-
gers.
Two years under construction in
the strictest secrecy, the new sky
monster is now so near completion
that the Army revealed yesterday a
few guarded facts about it. The
first test flights are scheduled for
this summer on the Pacific Coast.
where the ship is being finished.
Designated the Bio, the bomber
probably will have no sister ships.
officers said, indicating it would
operate as a lone eagle" Expert
ence gained in its construction, how
ever, may be valuable in building
smaller planes. Solution of technical
difficulties was a major reason for
building the Bio, officers explained
The plane will have a Widespread
OF over 2l0 feet, four engines,
speed of "over 200 miles an hour"
and a cruising range of more than
5000 miles. 1t is expected to carry
a useful load of % tons, including
bombs and fuel.
Hints that a superplane was
being constructed leaked out re-
Gently when the F.. B. I. revealed
that some of the blueprints for it
had been stolen last year. Agents
recovered them, however.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
A.F.L.Unions Consider
Cutting Wage Scale
On Small Houses
Head Of Building Trades
Department Appeals
For Reduced Pay
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
Belief that q reduced wage scale
might be put into operation by A.
r. L. unions on small house con-
struction throughout the country
was expressed today by John p.
Coyne, president Of the A. F. LIS
building trades department.
Mr.. Coyne disclosed that he had
appealed to 10 unions for accept
ance Of the reduced-or secondary"
scale in New York City and that
it also was under consideration in
Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati and
Toledo.
50 or SO Scale Possible.
Proposals for a new wage rate
were advanced after a conference
between building trades unions and
contractors in New York earlier this
week. The new rate was expected
to be fixed at 50 or $40 a day, as
against the $12 to SIS daily sched-
ule in force on large commercial
structures.
Mr.. Coyne informed the presidents
Of the 10 unions that small housing
contractors in New York had agreed
to negotiate with A. F.. L. locals
on the proposed secondary" scale
for an 8-hour day, 5-day week, on
the condition that all the trades
would work for the suggested rate.
Seeks to Spur Building.
The A. F. L. has been giving spe-
cial attention to the small housing
field lately in organization efforts.
The motive has been both to pro-
mote construction operations and to
meet G. I. 0. rivalry.
The c. I. o. Construction Work.
ers' Union has been holding its own
conferences with New York build
ing contractors this week. It Of
fered wage scale on small house
construction similar to that which
Mr.. Coyne approved.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Mrs. Robert Hutchinson
Heads Eastern Star Unit
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MANASSAS, Va, March 23.-Mrs.
Robert Hutchinson has been elected
worthy matron of the Wimodausis
Chapter of the Order of the Eastern
Star.
Mrs. Nellie Cosdon of Arlington,
past worthy grand matron of Vir-
ginia, will install Mrs. Hutchinson
and other officers of the Manassas
chapter next Tuesday night in the
Manassas Masonic Temple.
Other officers elected to serve dur
ing 1910 are: Worthy patron, Paul
Cooksey; associate matron, Mrs.
Beulah Stauff; associate patron,
John Harpine; secretary, Miss Sally
Proftltt; treasurer, Mrs. Lula Broad
dus; conductress, Mrs. Earl Hurst;
associate conductress, Miss Bertha
Luck; marshal, Mrs. Evelyn Brown
ing; chaplain, Mrs. Lillian Reeves;
Ruth, Miss Virginia Mays; Ada,
Mrs. Irene Hayden; Esther, Mrs.
Norma Cooksey; Electa, Mrs. Mar
garet Lewis; Martha, Mrs. Irene
Harpine; organist, Mrs. Margaret
Broaddus: warder, Mrs. Melza Nc
Donald; sentinel, Theodore Reeves.
Evening star., 1940-03-23

Her course completed, she is SAIL
ing April 6 for Rome, where she
will see Ambassador and Mrs. Will
liam Phillips before reporting in
Paris.
The Boston society girl, who has
been spending the winter here, is
interested chiefly in the mothers,
wives and children behind the lines.
She said her family had no OBJ
jections to her going and, besides,
she likes to travel. She also likes
languages. In fact, a knowledge OF
French was one of the requisites
for the job.
But learning French, a feat which
she accomplished long before she
responded to the call to France,
was simple compared with automo-
bile mechanics.
you have to go into it rather
deeply" she smiled. But mending
a tire is the hardest part"
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Archbishop Cicognoni
Fills Three Posts

Appointment of a bishop and two
auxiliary bishops was announced
here today by Archbishop Cicognani,
apostolic delegate to the United
States.
Msgr. Vincent j. Ryan, vicar gen.
eral of Fargo Diocese, was raised to
the rank of Bishop of Bismark, N.
OAK, succeeding Bishop Vincent
Wehrle, o. S. B. Since 1917 Bishop
designate Ryan has been pastor of
St. Anthony's Church in Fargo,
Msgr. George j. Donnelly, chan
cellor of the Archdiocese of st. Louis
since 1929, was named Auxiliary
Bishop of st. Louis and Titular
Bishop of Coela. The Rev. Henry
j. O'Brien, rector of st. Thomas
Seminary in Hartford, Conn.,, will
be Auxiliary Bishop of Hartford and
Titular Bishop of Sta.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Warning Is Issued
On Conservation as
Group Is Formed
TuewelI and Chase
Are Among Speakers
At Meeting

Friends of the Land, group
seeking to encourage conservation
of land and water resources, was
organized today at the Wardman
Park Hotel amid warnings by speak
ers of dire happenings in this coun-
try should conservation be neg
lected.
Rexford G. Tugwell, former
Undersecretary of Agriculture, told
the Founding Committee of so men
from 36 States and Canada that:
1T is proposed here to eschew
blame and fury, but rather to en-
list the lasing resources of quiet
determination we know to exist.
There is brewing among men a will
to prevent the baSer members of
our race from shaping the future
for our sons We mean to add to
the riches they may inherit; and
we mean to prevent their being
stolen for private advantage now.
ut Is popularity of the race that
there should be this paradox at the
center OF human struggle; that our
immediate superiority over the
beasts, would come from clever ex-
ploitation of the earth, should so
often result in long-run disaster.
The evidence of literal wastage, of
timber Slaughtered of soil losses by
wind and water, and, of course, of
human exploitation, raise irrepress-
IDLY the question whether after all
we can establish for the race such a
permanent superiority as will as
sure survival"
Stuart Chase, author of many
books on economics, declared, I'VE
shall need research and technicians
and husbandmen on the land who
are skilled in their way as electric
ians, power engineers, surgeons, in
dustrial chemists and airplane max
ers"
There are already more conserva-
ton organizations than we. have
conservation, j. N. Ding) Darling,
newspaper cartoonist and prominent
conservationist, assisted in a letter
to the meeting.
mo nation was ever more crimi-
nally wasteful and no people were
ever more needless of its conse-
quences." he wrote.
j. Russell Smith, professor of
economic geography at Columbia
University, told the founding COM
mittee I'VE must make our farming
ut the land, otherwise the United
States promises to be but a flash in
0f HI
ganization lists an imposing group
Of scientists and national figures, in
cluding DR.. Albert Einstein. the
mathematician, and Dr.. Charles
Beard, the historian.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Two Homes Burned,
High Winds Spread
Brush Fires
Hundreds of Acres in :
Nearby Areas Are
Swept by Flames

High winds yesterday kept fire
companies in nearby Maryland and
Virginia busy battling more than
score Of fires which destroyed two
homes and burned over hundreds
of acres of grass and timber areas.
Washington flremen, too, had their
hands full during the afternoon.
The department reported it had re-
sponded to ~ alarms between and
7 pm. Most of the alarms were for
brush fires, none of which proved
serious.
Aided by No. 10 Engine Company
from the District, Prince Georges
County volunteer firemen battled in
vain to save the two-story frame
home of Ernest r. Pyles at jenkins
Corner. near Clinton, Md. Loss was
set at $1,000 by D. E. Randall, forest
warden.
Mr.. Randall said the fire appar-
emily started from sparks from q
chimney which ignited the shingle
roof. The family of four fed to
safety.
Family Flees to Safety.
Another fire destroyed the home
OF Mosby Butt at Ounce Orchard,
on the Darnestown road near Rock
vile, Md. Mrs. Butt and several
children were in the two-story house
when the fire started upstairs. They
made their way to safety. Most of
the furnishings were saved.
Meanwhile, 10 Prince Georges
County volunteer fire companies
and a corps of C. c. c. enrollees
fought a brush fire which swept
over more than 200 acres of land
between West Lanham and Ardwick
and approached five homes on the
Ardmore road before it was brought
under control.
Warning Issued.
Arlington County (Va.) Fire Chief
A. c. Scheffel again warned against
careless burning of trash following
nearly a score of brush fires in the
county. Famed by the high wind,
several of the fires were difficult to
extinguish.
In Alexandra, Fire Chief James
Duncan said five brush fires were
fought yesterday.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
New Aircraft Engine
Is Rated Worlds
Most Efficient
Produces Horsepower
For Every Pound
Of Its Weight

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 23-Develop-
ment of the worlds most efficient
aircraft engine, which produces a
horsepower for approximately every
pound of its weight, was announced
today by the Wright Aeronautical
Corp. of Paterson, N. j.
just licensed by the Government,
the engine is rated at 1900 horse
power for take-off-that is, with the
throttles wide open at the moment
plane leaves the ground. Engineers
have been striving for years to fash
ion motors of extremely light weight
for both commercial and military
use.
Arthur Mutt, vice president for
engineering of the Wright organiza-
ton, said the rating of the new
engine is 100 horsepower more than
is developed by any other American
manufactured air-cooled engine of
nlne-cylinder construction. Europe
has no air-cooled motor of equal
horsepower, and no other American
made aircraft engine can compare
with it for horsepower per pound.
The new engine has been installed
IN a number OF military planes. The
hrst commercial application will be
IN a fleet of 2l-passenger transports
now being built for the Chicago &
Southern Airline
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Chicago Grain
BY the Associated Press,


CHICAGO, March 23-Trading
was resumed in wheat today at
prices only fractionally higher than
Thursdays close, with the market
exhibiting a nervous undertone that
helped to restrict operations.
Gains of as much as q cent were
chalked up at times, but prices later
settled back to around the previous
close.
Absence of moisture in dry Sec
tions of the Southwest, as we'll as
the European situation, held sellers
In check and contributed some en-
couragement to buyers, although the
short session between two holidays
was not attractive for large-scale
operations. Most traders preferred
to keep accounts fairly well evened
up.
A holiday atmosphere prevailed in
export grain circles, with only a
small amount of Canadian wheat al
ready afloat reported sold to Contin-
entail Europe.
The spring wheat and soft winter
wheat areas received some precipi-
tation over the holiday and occa-
sional light SHOWS were in prospect
for the week end. Low temperatures
were not regarded as dangerous as
there was snow in the Ohio Valley,
while the blanket measured from u
to IL inches in the Dakotas and
Minnesota. Light rain or snow was
forecast for Southern Kansas and
Western Oklahoma with lower tenn
peratures, while the weekly forecast
also promised additional moisture.
Prices of other grains held about
steady. although rye was fraction
ally higher at times. Lard showed
little change.
At II am. wheat was u off to "a
up compared with Thursdays finish,
May $1O57s, July $1031a, and corn
was unchanged to y down, May
e6ss, July 57h.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Major League Club Sought
For Southern California
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, March 23.-Rich-
ard Cantillon, an attorney, said
today he was representing a group
Of wealthy sportsmen interested in
buying major league baseball
franchise for Southern California.
He said he had a capital of up
ward of $4,000 900" for the proposed
project. Mr.. Cantillon is nephew
Of Joe Cantillon, who managed the
Washington club 30-odd years ago.
1--WE are prepared" said Mr.. Can
tillon, "to make outstanding offers
to the st. Louis Browns. the Phila-
delphia Phillies and the Boston Bees.
"The offers will be sent to the
owners Of these clubs within the
next few days.
Southern California is ripe for
big league baseball and if money
can swing the deal our present
idea will materialize.
Mr.. Cantillon said the advance
in airplane travel had nullified the
chief objections to establishment
of big league baseball in California
the great distances involved. He
declined to disclose the names of
his hackers, asserting the name of
the corporation would not be an
nounced for several days.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Fire Equipment Firms
Told to Stop Price-Fixinq

BY the Associated Press.
The Federal Trade Commission
announced yesterday it had ordered
five fire-fighting equipment COM
panies to cease "price-fixing ac-
tivities" and directed one to discon-
tinue contracts alleged to have been
made in violation of the Clayton
Anti Trust Act.
The commission said the COM
panies were Walter Kidde & Co.,
Inc, New York; American La
France and Foamite Industries, Inc,
Elmira, N. Y; C-O-Two Fire Equip
ment Co., Newark; National Foam
System, Inc, Philadelphia, and Fyr-
out Co, Inc. New York, subsidiary
of Walter Kidde & Co.
Walter Kidde & Co., the commits
sion said, holds two patents for car
bon dioxide fire extinguishers and
has issued patent license agree
ments to the other companies. At
tached to each agreement, the COM
mission alleged, is a schedule of
minimum prices and terms, includ-
ing uniform prices" at which the
companies have sold material, in
violation of the trade commission
act.
Evening star., 1940-03-23
Writ Filed to Tie Up
Illinois Road Funds
BY the Associated Press.


SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, March 23.-
A Republican candidate in the Illi-
nois primary campaign filed an in
junction suit yesterday to tie up
100000 of highway funds, charg-
ing that thousands" of political
workers have been given State jobs.
Representative Arnold L. Lund,
running for Lieutenant Governor,
named Gov. Henry Horner and two
other Democratic officials in the
legal action.
THE present Democratic admin
istration has been hiring thousands
of unnecessary employees during the
last few weeks" Mr.. Lund said in
statement. These employees are
obviously politicians who will do no
work except in the interest of
certain Democratic candidates"
The suit alleged unitemized high
way appropriations were illegal in
Illinois.