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Evening star., 1940-02-20
Conduct Of Children
To Be Conference Tonic

The Lincoln Civic Association to-
day called on the Parent-Teacher
Associations Of the Francis Junior
High and the Briggs, Stevens and
Montgomery Schools to join in a
conference on the conduct of chill
dren.
Disturbed over actions of school
children and their public conduct,
the civic group, meeting in the
Francis Junior High School yester-
day, agreed to work for joint action
by parents, teachers and community
leaders.
AS first step, it is proposed to
hold a father-and-son banquet and
a mother-and-daughter banquet.
Dewitt Long was named chairman
Of the mems section to formulate
plans and Mrs. Rosetta Dutch was
designated to work on the mothers
meeting. Extent of the program,
E. F. Harris, association president,
said today, would depend on the
response received from the parent
teacher groups.
The meeting also adopted a reso-
luton calling on President Roose-
velt to name a colored represent
ative to the Alley Dwelling Author
ity with full rights and privileges"
The group charged inefflciency and
inactivity on the part of the author
ity, and claimed four projects had
been pending two years and only
recently had definite action been
started on two of them.
The organization also agreed to
continue to push its congressional
resolution asking a better admins
tration of the A. D, A,
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Gardner Indictment
In Dies Probe Is
Upheld by Court
Demurrer OverruIed:
20 Days Given to
Answer Charges

Legality of the Dies Committees
investigation of American activ-
tiles was sustained today in an
opinion by District Court Justice
Peyton Gordon, who overruled a de-
murrer to an indictment charging
Fraser S. Gardner with perjury.
Gardner, claimed by the Govern
ment to be associated with William
Dudley Pelley, leader of the Silver
Shirts, as a research expert, was
given 20 days within which to plead
to the indictment.
Gardner demurred to an indict-
ment returned on October 2, in
which it was charged that on Au-
gust % he testified falsely under
oath as witness before the Dies
Committee. The Government
charges Gardner contended he had
no connection with any group under
investigation by the committee.
Seven grounds of attack were set
forth in the demurrer, one of the
principal points being that the in
dictment was bad because the Dies
Committee, authorized by House
resolution of the Seventy-fifth Con-
gress, ceased to exist with that Con-
gress on January 3, 1889.
1t Is expected that Gardner will
plead innocent and that the Gov
ernment will bring him to trial
soon.
Assistant United States Attorney
John w. Fihelly is representing the
Government in the case.
Meanwhile, Chairman Dies said
today his committee probably would
resume hearings March Is and con-
tinue until June /. 1t will recess
during the presidential campaign.
Evening star., 1940-02-20
David Richie Mckee, Jr.,
To Be Buried Tomorrow

Funeral services will be held to-
morrow for David Ritchie Mckee
jr., go, a native Of Washington, who
died yesterday in New York City
The rites are to be conducted in
Oak Hill Cemetery.
Mr.. Mckee was the son Of David
r. Mckee. head Of the Associated
Press in Washington for many years
Graduated from Yale University in
1902, he had been a construction
engineer In Mexico and Venezuela
During the World War he served
overseas with the Artillery Corps.
Surviving are his brother, Laniel
Mckee, and a nephew and niece
e. Bates Mckee and Mrs. Charles
Parker Stone, all Of New York, and
q daughter, Mrs. Frederick H
Brooke Of Washington.
Evening star., 1940-02-20
F Frustrotion Often the Lot
Of Wang, Chinese Politician
Chiong Koi-shek's RivoI Has Been
Near Supreme Power Several Times

Chinese politics. His career is a series
of jumps in and out of the Chang
Kai-shek fold. He has often been
accused of putting personal ambi-
ton above the best interests of his
government and his country.
Wang did not stick long as head
OF the government at Canton. In
1926 he quit the job because he
couldn't get along with Chang
Kai-shek. He went of to France
on "sick leave" but came back soon
to rejoin the government. Again he
disagreed with Chang and again he
set sail for European shores.
Seriously Wounded by Gunman.
It was not until 1929 that he re-
turned to China to become president
OF the executive yuan of the central
government at Nanking. But he
didn't like the setup, for all the
power and the revenues were in the
hands OF Chang Kai-shek and his
in-laws. And he didn't like the gov
ernment's policies, which were not
sufficiently pro-Japanese to suit
Wang. He continually advocated
compromise and cooperation with
Japan, even through the Manchurian
incident. In 1885, at a political meet
ing In Nanking, gunman critically
wounded Wang. He departed again
for Europe.
On his return to China in 1887,
Wang became chairman of the Gen.
trail Political Council of the national
government and the following year
was elected head of the Peoples
Political Council, hailed at that time
as Chinas first step toward democ-
racy. He stood by the government
during the first year and a half of
the war and made speeches de-
nouncing Japanese aggression. But
he worked continually for peace.
He was under general suspicion.
however, from all quarters and
especially from the Communists, who
feared that he would sell out the
country.
After the removal of the govern
ment to Chungking he lost practi-
cally all influence and authority.
(copyrisht, 1910. By Chicago Daily
News. 1nc)
Evening star., 1940-02-20
British Air Force Ready
For Possible Shift East

WITH THE BRITISH AIR
FORCES IN FRANCE, Feb. 20 P,.
With the approach of spring and
the possibility that the war may
warm up along with the weather,
British flyers are ready to take full
wing at moments notice-perhaps
in a new theater of action.
For six months the fighter, bomb
er and scouting squadrons have been
doing regular patrol work over the
western front. They report they
have lost only one or two fighters
and a few reconnaissance ships in
that time while bringing down "a
German craft of all types.
The severe winter, with tempera-
lures down to 8 below zero and SHOWS
up to 2 feet in depth, put a crimp In
activity on the continent, particu-
larly after heavy snowfalls in jan
uary and February.
During the lull, Air Marshal A. S.
Barratt, who looks like a movie hero,
took over the post of commander Of
all British flying forces in France.
Now the fiyeds are looking for action,
and say it would find them better
prepared than at any time since the
war began in September.
The non-fying time has been put
to use in re-equipping squadrons,
consolidating bases and improving
airports. New planes have been
brought in and old Ones assigned to
other missions.
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Congress in Brief
TODAY.

SGuAtes
In recess.
Appropriations Subcommittee con-
siders funds for State, Justice and
Commerce Departments.
Commerce Department takes up
rivers and harbors legislation.
Monopoly Committee continues in
surance investigation.
House:
Continues debate on reciprocal
trade program.
Banking Committee studies Finnish
loan bill.
Labor committees resume hearings
on Wagner Act amendments.
Smith Committee resumes hear
ings in Labor Board Investigation,
Special subcommittee of District
Committee begins open hearings on
liquor situation.
Public Health Subcommittee of
District Committee begins investiga-
ton Of Receiving Home for Children.
Special subcommittee of District
Committee continues investigation
Of gasoline situation.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Will not meet.
Conferees on transportation bill,
executive, 10 am.
Foreign Relations Committee,
general business, executive, 1890
am.
House:
Continues debate on reciprocal
trade agreements.
Smith Committee resumes inves-
tigation Of National Labor .Rela-
tions Board, 10 an.
Indian Affairs Committee con-
siders Indian jurisdictional bills,
1880 am.
Post Once Committee considers
bill to extend franking privilege to
widows Of former Presidents, 10 am.
Special subcommittee Of District
COMMITTEES. resumes Investigation Of
liquor situation, 10 an.
Evening star., 1940-02-20

ing Camp at Fort Myer, Va, out of
which he emerged a major.
Camp duties bored him so he
transferred to the air service and
became q pilot. In France, with
rank Of lieutenant colonel, he COM
manded the military police training
school and later was deputy provost
marshal Of the American Expedi-
tionary Forces.
Became Ranger After War.
When the war was over Col. White
became a ranger In the National
Park Service. Roaming the noun
tains and forests suited him so well
he remained in the service. It
wasn't long before he was made
superintendent of Sequoia National
Park, a position he held until q
year ago, when he took q desk job
in Washington.
Col. White wrote his early adven-
lures in q book called Bullets and
Bolos." He is also co-author Of
book on the Sequoia, big Trees"
Friends say he isn't sorry to return
to the West.
Since his graduation from George
Washington University and National.
University Law School. Mr.. Tolson,
who Is resuming the post of opera
tions chief, has had about 20 years
In the Government service. He was
q special agent at one time in the
Federal Bureau Of Investigation and
entered the park service In 1882 Is
an attorney.
Mr.. Tolson was q marine during
the World War and . track athlste
IA his college days.
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Will Duront Says
~. S. Reads Too
Much About War
BY the Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 90
Americans are being given too much
news on Europe's war, DR.. Will
Durant. author and historian, be-
lieves.
In an interview, he said historians
and editors who play up the war
news are leading the thoughts of
the men in the street away from the
things they should be most con-
cerned with.
Americans should be concen-
trating on their normal duties, such
as taking care of their families,
working, going to the movies, and
other things"
DR.. Durant said life would go on
the same after the war in Europe
ended. Man will not change his
inherent instincts for greed and
pugnacity.
Permanent and enduring peace?
That's a new one on me-sounds
like cemetery, doesn't it?"
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Col. White Returning to West
In Exchange of Park Jobs
Many Adventures
Mark Career of
Picturesque Figure

Col. John r. White, operations
chief of the National Park Service.
former adventurer and gold pros
pector, will be transferred soon from
his post here back to the West.
For the last year he has confined
his activities to an ONCE In the In
terror Department, after spending
more than 20 years in the field
service and 20 years before that
roaming about the world in search
of adventure. He Is exchanging
posts with Hillory A. Tolson, former
operations chief, who Is now direc-
tor Of Region III, which embraces
the park areas in the Southwest and
parts of Colorado and Nevada.
Mr.. Tolson had been on duty in
Washington many years until his
transfer in January, 1899, and is ex-
pected to resume his former duties
April 16.
During his brief period in official
Washington circles, Col. White has
been a picturesque figure. He is 60
now and it was 43 years ago when
he began his life of adventure. AS
youth of II he enlisted in the
Greek Foreign Legion and fought
the Turks in Thessaly in 1897. A
year later he returned home in time
to join the gold rush to Alaska In
Y8.
Stayed In Tropics Is Years.
The wanderlust possessed him and
a year later found him with the
United States Army in the Philip
pines. He liked the tropics and
stayed there 13 years in the Philip
pine constabulatory. Before long he
was q colonel.
Life in the Philippines was to his
taste. There was constant guerilla
warfare and jungle fighting against
savage head-hunting natives. Be-
tween expeditions he served as gov
ernor Of the wild Agusan Province,
became superintendent of the Iva
hig Penal Colony and founded the
first military academy for Filipino
cadets at Baguio.
In spite Of severe wound in
CURED during one Of the expeditions
which caused him to retire from
the constabulary In 1914, Col. White
volunteered for World War service.
He had done relief work in Europe
earlier but when the United States
entered the war he was one Of the
drst % toin the First O@cerS' Train.
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Two Homes Bequeothed
1oGospeI Mission

The Gospel Mission, 214 John
Marshall place NV, will receive
two houses after the death of q
woman who was granted the use
of them during her lifetime, by the
terms of the will of Miss Grace
Garriott, who died october Is. Her
estate Is valued at around $4,000.
Miss Garriott left her property
at 1904 Kenyon street NV. and 1919
Kennedy street NV. to Minnie Bub-
year for her life and upon her death
it goes to the Gospel Mission.
Miss Garriott left $500 to Uni
versalist General Convention, Bos-
ton, Mass, in memory Of her mother
and she made numerous bequests to
relatives and friends.
Evening star., 1940-02-20
House Passes Leuve Bill
To Benefit U. S. Workers

Thousands of Government em-
ployes on a five-day work-week
basis will benefit under liberalized
leave legislation passed by the
House yesterday and sent to the
President.
The bill ends the practice Of
charging time of against employees
on sick and annual leave for inter-
vening Sundays, holidays and other
days when no work would be per-
formed anyway. A controller gen.
eral ruling had held that the charge
was proper.
The principal beneficiaries will be
employees in the Government
Printing Office, Navy Yard and Blu.
reau Of Engraving and Printing.
Evening star., 1940-02-20

disturbance Of considerable intensity
tucket, Mass. with lowest pressure about
1892 millibars (29.33 inches). apparently
moving northeastward or north-northeast-
ward. Pressure continues low over the
Ohio Valley and the Middle Atlantic and
South Atlantic States, Elkins, W Va, 999
millibars (2950 inches). Pressure is high
from the Great Plains westward, Pembina,
N. Oak. 1.032.2 millibars (3O.4s inches).
and Havre. Mont. 1,O349 millibars GO 56
inches). During the last "a hours there
the Central Valleys, the low Lake region
and the Middle Atlantic and North At
lantic States. The amounts have been
ern sections. with some heavy SHOWS il,
portions Of New England and New York
states. Temperature changes have been
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Malone and Burton
To Talk to Accountants

Harold G. Malone, controller Of
the Hecht Co.. and Harold E. Burton,
vice president and treasurer of
Southern Diaries, will be the speak.
ers at a dinner meeting of the
Washington Chapter, National AS
sociation of Cost Accountants, to.
morrow at $50 pm. at the Hamilton
Hotel.
Mr.. Malone will discuss proposed
amendments to the District Unen-
ployment Compensation Act. and
Mr.. Burton's topic will be Market
ing and Distributing Costs"
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Chest Speakers Visit
Friendship House

Volunteer speakers Of the Com
nunity Chest became neighbors for
. night when q group Of 80 persons
last night toured the 50-room
Friendship House at 619 D street
Sc.
A supper was served at the settle
ment house before the tour. and
following inspection the group was
invited to Join in the square dane
ing which featured the social por-
ton Of the program.
Evening star., 1940-02-20
French Await Attacks
On Air ceniers When
Real Mar Starts
Plane Factories, Boses
First Nozi objectives,
Flyers Believe
BY TAYLOR HENRY,

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
WITH THE FRENCH AIR ARMY
AT THE FRONT, Feb. 2o.-should
"real war" break out with the end
Of winter weather, French flyers
believe one Of the first German
moves would be mass attacks on
Frances air bases and plane fac
tories.
This theory, heard among the
rank and file, is not ofacial, but
apparently has enough official sup
port to have caused strengthening
Of ground defenses for all air bases.
The air army reasons that before
Germany can hope to start any
large-scale land offensive, she must
master the air in combat or by de-
stroying French bases and sources
Of supply.
Could Start "TotaI War"
II such a campaign succeeded,
the French flyers say Germany then
could start the long-awaited total
war" They believe that in the
meantime the German bombers
would avoid other objectives for
fear of reprisals in kind.
The French opinion is that such
campaign would fail for three rea-
sons:
That the French and British to-
gether are at least equal to Germany
in the air: that even If the Germans
broke through, they would have to
face a ring Of anti-aircraft defenses;
and that to master the air 1t would
be necessary to destroy the French
planes themselves, difficult task in
the French view.
French Confident.
With the elaborate warning sys-
tenn along the frontier, the French
believe their planes could fight the
Germans out of the air before an OBJ
Jectlve could be reached. All they
ask is a fighting chance, they say,
and even If caught on the ground,
they would not risk overwhelming
losses.
The French do not group their
planes in hangers, but leave them
on flying fields at wide intervals, dis
persed SO that q direct hit would be
necessary to destroy any one plane.
1T would take a thousand tons of
bombs to destroy this field alone"
an onicer at an average-sized field
summed 1t up. And the Germans
just haven't got that many bombs"
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Wang S Fukien Army
Reported Disrupted
By kutin,y, Defeat
1900 Have Surrendered,
Chinese Soy, Others
Almost Surrounded
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
HONG KONG, Feb. 2o-Mutiny
and defeat have disrupted q Japan
ese-sponsored army Of Chinese
within a week of its first move
against the Chinese government
forces, the Chinese Central News
Agency reported today.
Japanese military authorities an
nounced February 13 that new
army of Chinese, supporting Wang
Ching-Wei had been landed on the
coast of Fukien Province and was
lighting the troops of Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek. They indicated
the army was $4,000 strong. Wang
Is the anti-government Chinese
chosen by Japan to head a Japan
ese-controlled regime in China.
Central News. an agency of
Chiang's, said 1900 men of this
army had surrendered in Fukien,
taking with them to the Chinese
government side $500 rifles and
20 machine guns.
A mixed force of Japanese and
the dissident Chinese was said to be
engaged on three sides Is miles west
Of Annoy, in the Hating district.
Five hundred other members of
this army were said by Central News
to have mutinied at Lanfeng, in
Honan Province, killing their Japa-
nese officers and advisers and burn
ing barracks and supply dep6ts. The
rebel leader was killed, the agency
Iaid.
Meanwhile, reliable sources indi-
Gated the Chinese had been over.
optimistic in reporting that the Jap
anese were withdrawing from the
Kwangsi Province city of Manning.
Latest reports said the Chinese
advance guard still was 10 miles
north Of the city, and that the Jap
anese were building new fortif1ca-
tions to prevent its recapture. It
was estimated $500 truckloads of
Japanese had moved southwark, but
that large garrison remained In
the provincial center the Japanese
seized last November,
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Readers Club to Give
Two Plays Toniqht

Two plays will be staged at $50
o'clock tonight by the Washington
Readers Club in the alliance room
OF All Souls Unitarian Church,
sixteenth and Harvard streets, NV.
They are THE Flattering Word"
by George Kelly and "Kate's Press
Agent by Edward Frieberger. A
musical program also is scheduled.
Evening star., 1940-02-20
.J.l. Webb and Betty Brann
Wedding in Florida Surprise

BY the Associated Press.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, Feb.
20.-Jacob L. Webb, a great-great-
grandson of Commodore Cornelius
Vanderbilt, and his bride, a daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. William l..
Brann Of Frederick. Nd, flew to
Nassau yesterday after a surprise
marriage at Fort Pierce.
The former Miss Betty Brann's
father owns Challedon, the coun-
trys 1899 3-year-old thoroughbred
racing champion.
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Montonun Files

HELENA, Mont, Feb. 20 R.-
Representative Jacob Thorkelson,
Republican, has sent 500 to Sec
retary Of State Sam w. Mitchell
us a filing fee for denomination.
The Butte doctors official filing
will be made when Mr.. Mitchell
receives back a formal nomination
petition from Washington.
Evening star., 1940-02-20
French Again Protest
Hanoi Raid Bombings
sy the Associated Press.


TOXIC, Feb. 20.-French Ambas-
sador Charles Arsene Henry pro-
tested today for the third time to
Japan over repeated bombings OF
the French-operated Hanoi-Kum-
ming railway running from Indo-
China into the Chinese Southwest
In q 40-minute interview with
Vice Foreign Minister Masayuki
Tani, the French Ambassador was
believed to have demanded that the
Japanese pay for damage to the
railroad.
The French last protested Feb
ruary 6. The railroad is route
Of supplies sent to the central Chi
nese government.
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Col. Lindbergh Sees
No Justification on
Either Side in War
It's the Old Story Of
Modern WorId,' He
Says in Article
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20. .- Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh sees no bal
ance Of justification" on either side
in the European war, declaring it
merely another struggle for material
gain by the western nations.
The German people, he says in the
March issue Of the Atlantic Month
ly. are struggling to gain territory
and power; the English and French
to prevent another European nation
from becoming strong enough to de-
mand share in influence and en-
pire.
"It is the old story In a modern
world-the right Of conquest against
the right Of possession. Measured
by their own standards of today, or
their enemies standards of yester-
day and tomorrow, the Germans are
as much in the right as the English
and French, for right is not an alb
solute quality; it is relative to out
look, and outlook changes with con-
ditions-varies from year to year
and from generation to generation"
Col. Lindburgh declares neither
America nor Western civilization
will gain by a continuation of the
struggle.
1.-THE longer it goes on the weaker
our family of nations will be, and
the more 1t will add to the conquests
Of Russia and Japan" he predicts.
To save themselves, he says, West
ern nations must find some way to
adjust the rights of nations to share
in material benefits of the world
under changing conditions and birth
rates.
The solution, he says, lies in shar-
Ing influence among a sufficient
number of Europe's peoples to
make sure they control an over
whelming military strength.
Then. and then only, can our
civilization endure in safety. Ger
many is as essential to this group
as England and France, for she
alone can either dam the Asiatic
hordes or form the spearhead for
their penetration into Europe"
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Report


FURNISHED by the United Bureau
District OF ColumbiaCoudy tomorrow with
ram PROBABLY mixed with not Temperature:
ongn ABOUT "a degrees moderate northev
snow In west portion mixed with snow
tonight. ' ~ AA e"'' pofton
and tomorrow; slightly colder tonight. - ~ p 'oAsa'
West vgnaLgh tonight tomorrow: not mucb h.n..
in temperature. ' ' AA"S'' eaiAnss
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Humidity for Last - Hours,
Qrom noon yesterday to noon tod.vN
!. hlsness. ~ Der cent. ut pm. yester.
Af.v..

River Report.
-. fotomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy
Great Falls today. Noos ~
Evening star., 1940-02-20

Speeders start there, careful
drivers get there.
Evening star., 1940-02-20
Report for Last "a Hours.

Record for Last "a Heury,
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today.)
40 HiGhest. 45, noon yesterday. Year axo,
Lowest, 80. 9 am. today. Year aso, 80,
Record TsmDeraturss This Year.
Highest, a. on February 12.
Lowest. 2. on January 90.
Tide Tables.