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Evening star., 1940-12-05
Fifth HoIdup Of Store
Here Nets Bandit S31

A young colored bandit escaped
last night with $31 taken at gun
point from Clifford johnson, pro-
prietor of liquor store in the 2100
block of Pennsylvania avenue NV.
Mr.. johnson said the bandit fled
from the store in an automobile
The victim said he fred several
shots at 1t.
Later q taxicab with bullet holes
in the rear drew up before No.
precinct police station, and its
driver said he didn't know how the
holes got there. Police detained
him for questioning.
The store, owned by Mr.. john
son and his brother Rudolph, has
been robbed five times in six years,
with a total loss of about $400. Two
Evening star., 1940-12-05
Seven-Point Program
For u. S.-Mexican
Relations Drafted
Bon on Activities of
TotoIitorion Agents
Included in Plan
By ALLEN HADEN,

CHICAGO Daily News Foreign Correspondent.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 5.-A seven
point program to govern Mexican
United States relations has been
formulated through the efforts OF
Mexican Ambassador Castillo Najera
and the State Department in Wash
ington, according to well-informed
circles here.
This program, which, it is empha-
sized, is not treaty, but definition
of policy, forecasts an era of in
innate and constructive cooperation
of benefit to both countries and,
Furthermore, has the tacit approval
of the defeated presidential candi-
date Gen Juan Andrea Almazan.
The seven points of the new policy
are outlined as follows:
/. Pan-American co operation.
Faithful observance of the agree
ments adopted at the Pan-American
conferences. This includes the
Havana conference agreements re-
stricting the activities of totalitarian
agents 1t will be recalled, in this
connection, that few months ago
Mexico got rid of the notorious Ar
thur Dietrich, Gestapo agent op-
Grating under the protection of the
German Legation here.
2. Internal order. The Mexican
government will make all the po-
litical adjustments possible for the
sake of internal order. Since the
program enjoys the support not only
of President Manuel Avila Cana
chos administration, but also of the
opposition leader, Gen. Almazan, the
present administration should have
comparatively smooth sailing.
8. Settlement of international diff
ferences Mexico will try to settle
its differences with Great Britain.
Diplomatic relations were severed in
1888, but the present Mexican gov
ernment is expected to follow pro-
ally policy similar to that of the
United States. The announcement
by Foreign Minister EZequiel Padilla
OF action under way to renew MeXi-
can-British diplomatic relations is
seen as a quick attempt to put this
feature of the new government S
policy into effect.
4. Settlement of pending United
States questions. These in
clude the chamisal dispute (regard-
ing the course of the Rio Grande) =,
definition of frontier irrigation
questions and use of the waters of
the Colorado River. Claims of
United States citizens for expro-
priated lands come under this point.
Settlement of most of these ques-
tions has been pending for many
years.
Oil Settlement Question.
5. The oil question. The United
States Government will assist all it
can to bring about an honorable set
tlement between the Mexican gov
eminent and the oil companies af-
fected by the Mexican eXpropria-
tions.
6. Internal financial questions. The
United States Government will give
financial assistance to enable the
Mexican government to settle inter-
nal land claims and balance its
budget.
7. Mexican development. The
United States will give all possible
assistance to develop Mexican pro-
duction, particularly goods useful 70
national defense. This assistance is
expected to increase Mexican pur-
chasing power and eventually in
crease our exports to this country.
Such a definition of policy sounds
comparatively elementary. But its
Importance is that, though gov
ernmental agency, it contains the
Evening star., 1940-12-05

extraordinary increase In the con-
sumption of alcoholic beverages.
Arrests for drunkenness have
nearly doubled.
Deaths from alcoholism are Al
per cent greater than for the first
seven years Of prohibition.
1.-THE annual average Of traffic
deaths has increased 80 per cent over
1919-1925.
Since repeal, the hard-liquor
trade alone has sold the equivalent
Evening star., 1940-12-05

Of 9,570, ,370, TAO shots Of whisky and
other alcoholic Installations.
1.-The liquor trade has taken in a
gross of $21 sos, ,048, 400, while thou
sands Of other industries serving the
people with food, clothing and neces-
sary products have lost large part
of this trade total"
Evening star., 1940-12-05
Record Of ! Repeal Years
DepIored by W. {. I. U.

BY the Associated Press.
EVANSTON, Ill, Dec. 5.-Co-
incident with the 7th anniversary OF
prohibition repeal, the National
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union today issued a "scoresheet on
liquors seven years" The score
sheet" set forth:
"The repeal years have shown an
Evening star., 1940-12-05

years ago one bandit was caught
and sent to the penitentiary.
Henry A. Montague, At, messenger
for drug store in the 5000 block
Of Connecticut avenue, was robbed
Of $40 last night while making a
delivery three blocks from the store
He said one colored bandit robbed
him while another sat in an auto
mobile, both covering him with
pistols.
Evening star., 1940-12-05
main features of Gen. Almazan's
program.

main features of Gen. Almazan's
program.
Opposition Discounted.
The violent opposition of Gen.
Almazan to the present administra-
ton is, therefore, discounted, since
the ground has been cut out from
under him by the new Presidents
adoption of his views. This seven
point program, therefore, explains
his hurried return to Mexico from
the United States few days before
Gen. Avila Camacho's Inauguration
and the generally accepted belief
that he will head a party of loyal
opposition"
The administration of President
Avila Camacho should be greatly
strengthened by the positive ad-
vantages to Mexico resulting from
the operation of this new program.
(Copyrisht, 1910. Chicago Daily News, Inc.)
Arc oppipo III yeorS old hoe
Evening star., 1940-12-05

Mexico's first hospital exclusively
for children will be opened shortly
in Colonia Buenos Aires and will
have TOO beds
Evening star., 1940-12-05
q Men From Yugoslov
Freiqhter Crew Lund
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Dec. 5.-Twenty-three
members of the crew of the 1887
ton Yugoslav steamer Cetvrti, which
was sunk by Nazi bomber off the
coast of Ireland, were landed yes
terday at Valentia, Ireland.
Evening star., 1940-12-05

American men and women in
Brazil are playing "co-ed" softball.
Evening star., 1940-12-05

A fire engine Ill years old has
worked at air raid fires in England.
Evening star., 1940-12-05

Uruguay will mint 100000 new
coins of small denomination.
Evening star., 1940-02-19
Legislator 10 Speak
Al Roosevelt Hiqh Toniqht

Representative Mcdowell of Penn
sylvania will speak on Lincoln as
Citizen" at community patriotic
exercises to be held at 8 o'clock to-
night in Roosevelt High School
under sponsorship of Fort Stevens
Post, No. 80, American Legion.
Guests will include Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle. president of the
Board of Education; William T
Slattery, department commander oi
the American Legion; Mrs. Mary
B. McMillin. department president
of the American Legion Auxiliary
William H. Hargrave, grand chef de
gare. Forty and Eight; Mrs Edith
P. Landvoigt, Chapeau Depart.
mental, Eight and Forty, and Zeb T
Hamilton, department American
ism officer. American Legion
Many students will be awarded
medals and certificates of merit foI
activities in high schools, junio
high schools, and elementary school,
in the northwest suburbs.
Presentations will include Ameri
can Legion citizenship awards tt
students of Roosevelt High, Macfar
land Junior High, and Paul JUNO
High Schools; medals and certifi
Gates to winners of the patrioti
essay contest, conducted in the sixth
grades of IA elementary schools, an,
quarterly merit prizes to member
of the Sons of the American Legiol
Squadron.
Evening star., 1940-02-19

Associated Charities. He organized
and for four years operated Camp
Good Will. a tuberculosis camp IN
Rock Greek Park.
Active in Many Fields.
He also aided in laying the foun .
dation for Washington's playground
plan. conducted a widespread cam
paign against tuberculosis and
helped obtain the appropriation for
the first local clinic, and was
leader in the movement to rid the
city of slum dwellings. Before COM
ing to Washington he organized in
Pennsylvania and Rhode Island the
first Statewide campaigns against
tuberculosis.
Mr.. Hatch also organized the
Bureau of Visual Instruction at the
University of California and the
war camp community service in
Cleveland and Cincinnati.
Born in Boston.
Born in Boston, he was educated
at Rice School and the Roxbury
High School, being graduated from
Tufts College in 1902.
He was a member of the Board
of Directors of the Washington
Council of Social Agencies and the
Washington tuberculosis Associa-
ton, vice president of the Washing
ton Rehabilitation Commission. and
belonged to the Monday Evening
and Cosmos Clubs and Federal
Lodge of Masons He was also a
member of the Laymen's League OF
All Souls Unitarian Church.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Lii
liam A. Hatch: three daughters, Mrs
William H. Winkler of Bethesda
Md; Mrs. William Hartgen of Sill
yer Spring, Md, and Mrs. Francis
P. Hammatt of Cape Codd, Mass.
Funeral services will be held al
pm. tomorrow at the Hines funera
home, 2901 Fourteenth street NV
His body will be cremated.
Evening star., 1940-02-19
Lithuanians Celebrate
Nation S Birthday

The birth of the little Baltic nation
Lithuania was celebrated by Wash
ington's colony of Lithuanians at a
dinner and dance last night in the
Roger Smith Hotel. Lithuania de-
clared its independence % years ago
last Friday.
Earlier in the day an anniversary
mass was said in Immaculate Con-
ception Church with the Rev. John
K. Cartwright, pastor, giving the
sermon.
DR.. John T. Ellis, professor of his
tory at Catholic University and
principal speaker at the evening pro-
gram, expressed belief that Russia
would not keep its faith with Lith-
uania, which last October permitted
the Soviet nation to station troops
within its boundaries.
Guests, numbering nearly 80
were welcomed by Albert w. Shu-
pienis. president of the society. The
Rev. Joseph E. Gedra gave the in
vocation.
Evening star., 1940-02-19

gerry. The promotion of the officers
was recommended by Medical
Corps Selection Board headed by
Rear Admiral Benjamin H. Dorsey
Promoted to Captaincy.
Promotions to the rank of captain
included DR.. William J. C. Agnew
of High Falls, N. Y. now on duty
at the Bureau of Medicine and
Surgery, and Jesse w. Allen, Kings
vile, Ohio, stationed at the An
napolis (MdD hospital. The pro-
motion Of William R. Manlove, jr.,
on duty at the Naval Hospital here,
to commander also was approved.
Others on the list for promotion to
captain are Virgil H. Carson, Phila-
delphia Naval Hospital; Franklin F..
Murdoch, Samoan Naval Station !;
Harold L. Jensen. San Diego Naval
Hospital; Ogden D. King, Pensacola
Naval Hospital; John P. Owen, at
tached to the staff of the COM
mander in chief of the Asiatic Fleet;
Thomas c. Anderson, Philadelphia
Naval Hospital; John T. Bennett,
Pearl Harbor Naval Hospital, and
Paul w. Wilson, Samoan Naval Sta
ton.
Advanced to Commanders.
For future advancement to a
commanders rank are Gilbert e
Gayler and James F. Hays, both at
the Philadelphia Naval Hospital;
Frederick c. Greaves and John M
Brewster, both at the San Diego
Naval Hospital; Jacob w. Troxell
Norfolk, Va; Wendell P. Blake,
Guantanamo. Cuba. and Fred M
Rohow, U. s. S. Sirius.
The promotions will become ef-
fective as vacancies occur.
Evening star., 1940-02-19
Frances Willard Luuded
At Memorial Services

A woman's vision that all inter-
national conflicts might be settled
by arbitration and other peaceful
means was praised yesterday by Dr.
Harry w. Burgan of Hamline
Methodist Church during annual
memorial services before the statue
of Frances Willard at the Capitol
The temperance leader. DR.. Bur-
gan said, believed that through
moral reforms based on religion
both war and social violence could
be abolished. DR.. Burgan declared
that the tragedy of our day is that
morals have become separated from
religion.
DR.. Albert j. Mccartney, pastor
of Covenant-First Presbyterian
Church, gave invocation at the
services, sponsored by the District
Women's Temperance Union. The
union president. Mrs. William H
Ramsey, presided.
Evening star., 1940-02-19
Bond Concert

BY the United States Navy Band
Symphony Orchestra tonight at 8:15
o'clock in the Marine Corps auditor
ium. 1t. Charles Benter, U. S. N,
conductor; Charles Brendler, as
sistant conductor.
Program.
Overture to the opera "The Bar
tered Bride" Friedrich Smetana
Entrance of the Gods Into VAL
halla' from the music drama,
"Tne Rhinegold" Richard Wagner
Concerto for Flute, Opus 107,"
Cecile Chaminade
Musician Richard Townsend.
Three Hungarian Dances" Nos.
5, 6 and IT, Johannes Brahms
Waltz, Wiener Blut, Opus 1884,"
Johann Strauss
&c Minor Symphony, No. 40,"
Wolfgang Mozart
Allegro motto.
b Andanta.
Menuetto.
d Allegro assai.
Hungarian Rhapsody, No. H."
Franz Liset
Evening star., 1940-02-19
Lutheran Churches Here
Collect for War Relief

Washington Lutherans yesterday
threw their full support behind the
Nationwide drive of the Lutheran
Emergency Relief Committee to
raise S500,0O0 for war relief
Churches throughout the city held
special collections.
Designed principally for Finland.
which is SO per cent Lutheran, the
fund also will be used to alleviate
suffering of French Lutherans
caught on the western war front
and foreign missions formerly under
the jurisdiction of the German
Luthern Church.
Ministers here reported whole
hearted support of their congrega-
tions, rejecting a favorable response
throughout the United States. Al
though the minimum goal has been
set at half million, the Lutheran
Relief Committee, local churchmen
reveal, expects the drive to reach
nearly s1,00O, 900.
Evening star., 1940-02-19
CIV. u. Will Confer
Highest Law Degree

The degree of doctor of juridical
science has been established at
George Washington University Law
School, Dean William G. Van Week
announced today.
The degree. graduate research
degree granted by 20 of the coun-
5ry's leading law schools, is the high
est in law.
Work for the degree has been or
gallized so the candidate may secure
maximum utilization of the re-
sources that Washington affords for
research and teaching in public
law, Dean Van Week stated. In
addition, he explained, specially
qualified graduate students will be
accepted in certain fields other than
public law.
Evening star., 1940-02-19
Owner of Decatur Cup Found
In Pownshop Believed Located
Collateral Descendant of Naval Hero
Offers to Purchase Wine Goblet

quarters, where they identified the
goblet by describing a crack that had
been soldered.
Campbell Cochran gave 1t to Howe
Cochran 10 years ago, he said. 1t
was pawned by a Mr. Johnson. y
colored, who got so cents for it from
Schiller's Pawnbrokers' Exhange, 444
Ninth street NV. johnson gave a
fictitious address. Detective Sergts
Nally and Baker found it in the
pawn shop February 8. They noted
the engraving
For a week the police investigated,
and when on Friday the detectives
decided to give the news of the find
to the newspapers. Inspector Ber-
nard Thompson, chief of detectives
of Metropolitan Police, stayed them
in favor of further police check
They gave out the news late Satur-
day.
The police were making inquiries
of the Rhode Island Historical So
ciety. The background of the cup
was easily established by The Star
through reference to biography
of Commodore Decatur.
1t was part of set of silver
service given Decatur, then living in
Washington, in 1918, by a commit
tee Of five Philadelphians, the whole
service costing SLOTS. Decatur's
family came from Philadelphia and
he grew up there. The service con-
sisted of IL goblets. 2 wine cool
ers and trays, all inscribed as the
cup at headquarters.
Campbell Cochran said that his
family, when he was a boy. had six
OF the goblets. One of the wine
coolers is in the museum of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1940-02-19
Revolution 10 Revive
Church Demanded
By Baptists
Religion Is Beset by
Creeping PoroIysis,'
Convocution Told
picture on Page A-6.J

Charging that creeping paraly-
sis" and ''impotency" have claimed
organized religion in the United
States, Baptist leaders from distant
points today demanded here a rev.
olution" in the church.
In addressing a CITY, wide Baptist
convocation at Calvary Church, the
Rev. M. Forest Ashbrook declared
that IN most American communities
the populace now expects nothing
more Of the church than a friendly
meeting place and a good influ-
ence"
do we turn things sufficiently up
side down." he asked. calling for a
revolution which would mean more
than counting lifted hands and
baptizing people"
DR.. Ashbrook said church men,
bers should look back to the earlv
Christians who became sensitive
to the terrible contrast between
what was and what might be-" This.
he said, would relieve the creeping
paralysis and impotency of the
church.
Lack Of instruction.
DR.. Elmer A. Fridell of Berkeley.
Calf, president of the Northern
Baptist Convention. asserted that
there are more than 10000 COM
munities in the United States large
enough to support religious insti-
tuition, but in fact without any
Jewish, Catholic or Protestant place
OF worship More than $4,000, 900
boys and girls receive no religious
instruction, he said. Most of these
areas are located in new suburban
regions, small towns and open
country. he indicated.
Something resembling "the old
time revival" was called for by the
Rev. Walter E. Woodbury. of the
American Baptist Home Mission So
ciety. who said that in the last
10 or Is years church people
especially women"-have changed
their moral standards in response
to outward pressure. He called at.
tention to soaring" purchases Of
cosmetics, gum, tobacco anc
booze"
DR.. Woodbury. pleaded for a re.
lease of spiritual energy so that
church members will soon be
saying:
Something is happening among
those Christians"
LarEe Circle of Thought.
DR.. Earl Frederick Adams, gen.
eral director of promotion of the
Northern Baptist Convention, tole
the convocation that religious mer
must now enlarge their circle o.
thoughts to include America anc
then ell of the world"
Leaders of the convocation art
touring 100 Northern cities leading
discussions upon THE Mission O.
the Church in a Distressed World.
At afternoon sessions today they
were to consider "The World Mission
of the Church" World Servic,
Through Christian Education" an,
THE Mission of the Local Church.
Three dinners will be held at GIL
o'clock. Young people and womel
will dine at Calvary Church Will
mems dinner will be held at Firs
Congregational Church.
Convocation will close with a mas
meeting at o'clock tonight q
Calvary Church.
Evening star., 1940-02-19
Treat Them Kindly Formula for Man Accused of Boomv

The 23-year-old man whom
at least three women have found
attractive enough to marry be-
lieves in treating them kindly"
That's how he accounts for his
matrimonial success" and his
present occupancy of cell in the
first precinct station.
Slim, soft-voiced, but somewhat
haggard after a week end in Jail,
Horace Monroe Sharpe, who is
being held for investigation on
warrant charging him with big
amy, explained today he "just
meets them and falls for them"
meaning girls,
Each time I got married I
thought I'd never have anything
to do with another woman" he
said sadly. II guess I've just had
hard luck"
Evening star., 1940-02-19

in Florida. Columbia, S. c., and
near Swansea.
One of them, according to De-
tective Blick, is the 1888 or 1884
wife whom Sharpe admits hav-
ing married in Columbia when
he was very young" He said
he had signed what he thought
were divorce papers In this case
and that this wife had remar-
ried.
II had a child by this mar
riage," he recalled, but I only
saw it once-at a distance"
The warrant which landed
Sharpe in Jail was sworn out in
Fredericksburg last Thursday by
the mother of the Washington
girl he married in La Plata, Md,
in 1898. He said today he thought
that marriage had been annuled.
Marriage Is only IN avocation
with Sharpe. BY training, he Is .
Evening star., 1940-02-19
S in j. ). Had Incomes
OF 100000 in 1888

Fifty-five Americans reported net
incomes of 81. 900 900 or more in 1888,
compared with 81 in the same class
in 1897 and 40 in 1896, according
to report released by the Bureau
Internal Revenue.
The SIS reported that in 1888 their
net income amounted to $1O7, ,724 900,
on which they paid total tax of
$46 .391 900.
The report also disclosed that
6,l55,856 persons made returns to
the Internal Revenue Bureau, re-
porting total net income of $18,315,-
$4,000. Only 2,995,O34 of these
however, had enough income to be
taxed, and paid $764, ,724,O00.
The taxpayers with net incomes
of less than 5000 a year were more
numerous, but paid small part OF
the total tax, only $69, ,125 900.
The most revenue was paid by
the group with net incomes ranging
from $25, 900 to $4,000 a year. They
paid $120,O97 900, at an effective
total tax rate of 1851 per cent.
Evening star., 1940-02-19

Mrs. Anna Decatur Wright of
Philadelphia, great-great-gr
niece of Commodore Stephen De-
catur, offered today to buy the silver
goblet given to her herioc great
great-great-uncle 122 years ago and
found 10 days ago in a pawnshop
here by two Washington detectives.
Mrs. Wright, who is visiting in
Washington, read in The Star yes
terday of the police discovery of
the goblet and of the circumstances
of its presentation to the commodore
by citizens of Philadelphia to
their townsman. Commodore De-
catur, esteemed for his virtue,
honoured for his valour." Those
are the words engraved on the gob-
let.
Police are convinced that the
cup was stolen from the home of
Howe P. Cochran, oxford street,
Chevy Chase. Md. 1t was iden-
titled at headquarters yesterday
by Mr.. Cochran's brother. Camp
bell C. Cochran of Alexandria, Va.
who reported that it had been in his
family 80 years and that though it
was his property it had been stored
at his brothers home. Howe Cochran
was in New York City. and it was
thought that his house had been
robbed in his absence.
Washington police today turned
the cup over to Montgomery County
police, since Mr. Cochran's home is
in that county. 1t was to be given
later to Mr.. Cochran.
Both Campbell Cochran and his
niece, Mrs. A. Philip Stockvis, 1921
Massachusetts,. avenue NV, read in
The Star of the police discovery
of the goblet. Mrs. Stockvis called
Mr. Cochran and they went to head
Evening star., 1940-02-19

What Sharpe has been looking
for since he began his matri-
monial career back in 1888 or
1934-he can't remember which
Is home. he said.
Now, he claims, he's satisfied.
At least he has found a girl who
is willing to live away from her
family. That would be the Wash
ington girl he married in Fred
ericksburg, Va, last December.
I've gotten along better with
her than with any of the Others"
he said. II think this1l be my
last one. Three is enough"
Police claim there are more
than three wives in the Sharpe
past-all undivorced. Precinct
Detective Roy Blick is investi-
eating . letter from the Swansea
Is. c. chief Of police which
charges Mr.. Sharpe has wives