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Evening star., 1940-03-18
U. S. Mail Too Risky
Liner Sails Without 1t
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 18-The Nor
wegian-America liner Bergensfjord
sailed today for Bergen without the
usual United States mail which her
owners are under contract to carry
Too risky" explained Capt. Ma
thias Anzjon.
The ships sailing, set for last Sat-
urday was postponed twice because
of dispute with Government off,
Gals over the carrying of mail. ON
cials of the line announced at 9:3C
am. that she finally had received
he. clearance papers.
The steamship company seeks to
avoid ENHANCEMENT with either
British or German naval contra
band forces.
Evening star., 1940-03-18
Lovenbein Loses
Parking LOT Fight
|nAppea|s
Claim to Concession
Near Municipal Center
Site Is Rejected

Samuel Lovenbein, 1888 Thir-
teenth street NV, who operated
an automobile parking lot at John
Marshall place and Constitution
avenue NV, near where the
Municipal Center is being con-
structed, today lost his fight in the
United States Court of Appeals to
establish his claim to the property
as concessionaire.
The appellate court upheld the
District Court ruling which declared
groundless Mr. Lovenbein's conten-
ton that the District Commissioners
were without legal power to let ou,
the property by competitive bid
ding. A one-year lease was granted
recently to the Grand Plaza Parking
Area, Inc. on bid of s2,250 pei
month. Mr. Lovenbein had offered
bid of s1,400 month.
Mr.. Lovenbein had contended he
paid more than a fair rental while
occupying the disputed property fol
tive and half years. He said he
had spent more than $4,000 in i'm
provements, had monthly tenancy
at $3.50 a month, and was required
to bid against himself, although g
tenant in possession.
He further contended the Com.
missioners did not try to Ak fail
rental value of the property as re.
quired by statute.
Considering the case were D
Lawrence Groner, Associate Jus.
tices Henry w. Edgerton and Wiley
Rutledge.
A suit by the District government
against Mr.. Lovenbein for use ane
occupation of the property-a bill
of $3,l35 and costs from August. l.
is now pending in District Court
The suit is expected to be hearc
shortly.
Evening star., 1940-03-18
6. G. 6. Faces First
Major Cut in Rolls
BY the Associated Press.

oy tHc SASSuCldtcO STeSS.
The Civilian Conservation Corps
today announced the first major re-
duction in enrolment since it was
started in 1893.
James J. McEntee, director, said
the corps would enroll only 65 600
young men and war veterans in the
20-day replacement program to start
April l. This will be 1000 less than
the last quarterly enrolment in Jan
uary.
In line with a reduction in c. c. c.
funds made by Congress, Mr.. Nc
Entee said enrolment of young
men and veterans will be reduced
from 100000 to 245 900 by July and
the number of camps from 1,500 to
1927"
Mr.. McEntee said field reports
showed 10000 applicants for April
replacement jobs, or almost three
applications for each vacancy.
Evening star., 1940-03-18
Woman Who Plunged
7 Floors Held Suicide

A certificate of suicide has been
issued in the death of Mrs Martin
c. Gordon, 81, who died Saturday
in a leap from her apartment on
the seventh floor of the Broadmoor
Apartments, 3601 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
issued the suicide certificate after
viewing the bathroom window out
Of which Mrs. Gordon leaped and
after talking to members of her
family She had been suffering
from nervous ailnent for some
time.
She was killed instantly by the
seven-story plunge. Her husband is
real estate broker here.
Evening star., 1940-03-18
Fair Labor Standards
Act Extension 10
Farmers Announced
Wholesale Distributive
Trades to Have Hearing
Beginning April 10

Extension of the Fair Labor STAN
dards Act to farmers living in or
neat an "area of production" was
announced today by Col. Philip B
Fleming, administrator of the Wage
and Hour Division of the Labor De-
partment.
I'm my opinion" said Col. Flem-
ing at press conference, Congress
intended to protect the farmer from
any direct adverse effect on his mar
ket by the Fair Labor Standards
Act. 1t imposed on the administra-
tor the duty to define area Of pro-
ductjon' in such terms as would
provide that wages and hours re-
quired by the act should not be paid
for by a direct reduction of the
farmers selling price"
Col. Fleming pointed out that 1--WE
are confining ourselves to the actual
measurable effect upon farm
prices"
The administrator also announced
that public hearing would be held
to decide which members of the
wholesale distributive trades come
under the act. 1t will begin or
April 10 at the Washington Hotel
and will determine bona fide execu-
tives, administrative, professional,
and outside salesmen."
Council Asked Session.
A petition for this hearing was
filed by the Council of Nationa
Wholesale Associations and others
concerned in the problem.
THE hearing said Col. Flem-
ings announcement, "is confined to
the wholesale distributive trades
because those are the only interests
which have petitioned for amend
ments and hearings on the defini.
tions in question. Whether there
will be similar hearings in the fu-
ture, applicable to other industries
depends primarily upon whether
these interests request such actor
and show similar cause therefor"
Dol. Fleming also announced ap-
proval of the 3312 cent -an-houl
minimum wage recommended by the
Knitted Underwear & Commercial
Knitting Co., and of the 35-cent-an-
hour wage agreed to by the Knitted
Outerwear Committee. Orders will
be issued placing the knitted under
wear wage in effect on May 6 anc
the outerwear minimum on July !.
Many Under Minima Now.
THE knitted underwear and com.
mercial knitting industry" said Col
Fleming, "is carried on in some 50t
establishments, located principally
in New York, Pennsylvania, Ten
nessee, North Carolina. Massachu
setts and Virginia. The industr,
employs some $4,000 workers, ant
it is estimated that about 1900 o
these are presently paid less thar
33l2 cents an hour"
The report added:
The knitted outdoor industr.
employees an average of $4,000 fac
tory workers and an undetermined
number of industrial home workers
The latter are largely engaged il
making infants knitted wear. 1t i
estimated that some $500, of tn
factory workers are presently pait
less than IS cents an hour, tn
minimum rate which will go int,
effect July l."
Evening star., 1940-03-18
Plane Sales 10 Allies
Help NavyP Program,sq
Edison Declares
Costs Are Cut and
Deliveries Expedited,
Vinson Is Told
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Secretary Edison said today that
sale of domestic aircraft to the al
lies, instead of interfering with the
Navy's procurement program, had
tended to reduce costs and to ex-
pedite deliveries.
In letter to Chairman Vinson
of the House Naval Affairs Commit
tee, Mr.. Edison said, in part:
You are advised that the sale of
aircraft to the allied governments
by domestic manufacturers has not
lnterfered with the Navy Depart
ment's aircraft procurement pro-
gram.
Il have no evidence that the cost
OF aircraft to the Navy Department
has been enhanced by sales of such
equipment to the allied govern
ments. There is evidence that the
cost has been reduced
The letter, which Representative
Vlnson placed in the Congressional
Record, said that in at least one in
stance, sales to foreign govern
ments had resulted in earlier deliv-
cries to the Navy than usual.
The contractor" Mr.. Edison said.
"had built up a large and efficient
force and manufactured the Navy
Departments order at a very high
rate. Except for prior sales to the
allied governments, this large force
would not have been assembled"
In another instance, Mr.. Edison
said, manufacturer, in connection
| with a sale to Finland, offered to
make certain Improvements on naval
planes if the government would ac-
| cept an extension of delivery dates.
The request was granted and Mr..
Edison added:
Had the sale to Finland not
eventuated the Navy Department
could have accomplished the same
betterment of its equipment only
at the cost of greater overall delay
and of greatly enhanced expendi-
ture of funds"
In a third case, the Secretary
said. manufacturer export orders
enabled him to reduce overhead costs
which saved the Navy Department
s575,00o.
Evening star., 1940-03-18
Nozi Trade Ne9otiotor
Arrives in Bucharest
BY TIE Associated Press.

BY TIE Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, March 18,-Ger-
many's renewed spring drive for
more Rumanian oil and other pro-
ducts opened today with the ar
rival of DR.. Karl Clodius, top Nazi
trade negotiator.
1t was reported reliably he would
again demand a speed-up in Ru-
manian oil deliveries and an in
crease in the value of the German
mark in terms of Rumanian cur
rency to give the Nazis more goods
for the same price In their own
currency.
Evening star., 1940-03-18

A disturbance of moderate intensity is
advancing eastward over the Middle West
and the southern Lake region, Joliet, m :,
Plains, Mo-. 1.O07.1 millibars (2974
inches). A minor disturbance is centered
this morning about 100 miles southeast Of
Atlantic City. N j.. moving eastward, a
ship, 1,O1I.9 millibars (29.sS inches), and
another Is moving rapidly southeastward
over North Dakota. Devils Lake, 1.00S.S
millibars t29.19 inches). Pressure is rela-
lively low over California. San Francisco.
1,Ol6.6 millibars 1906 inches). Pressure
is high over Alaska and most Of the western
half Of. the United states and over the
North Atlantic States and from the Gulf
of Mexico and the east Gulf States east
ward over the ocean. Fairbanks. Alaska,
l.O35.6 millibars t3O.5S inches); Tatoosh
Island. Wash. 1.03l.5 millibars 3O.46
inches): Denver. Colo. .024.7 millibars
c0.26 inches): Jacksonville. Fla. 1.021 o
millibars l3015 inches), and Burlington.
VT. 1.020.O millibars t30.12 inches). Light
precipitation has occurred from the North
ern Rocky Mountain region eastward to
the upper Lake region and light precipita-
tion in the, form Of snow has occurred in
Colder weather has overspread the central
Plains States and the middle Rocky Noun
tain region. while higher temperatures are
reported over the west Gulf States. the
Southeastern States. and the Ohio Valley,
Tennessee. and the Middle Atlantic States.
Rammrt fnr 40 unur~
Evening star., 1940-03-18
Prof. Bliss TuIks
To Alumni Association

Prof. Louis D. Bliss addressed 300
members of the Washington section
OF the Bliss Electrical School Alumni
Association on Opportunity" at the
annual meeting Saturday night in
the school.
Mrs Louis Bliss spoke briefly on
the early history of the school.
Officers elected at the meeting
were Preston B. Langley, '26, presi-
dent; j w. Hollister, '27, vice presi-
dent, and C. E. Carpenter, '33, Sec
retary-treasurer. The retiring presi-
ident, w. D. zirkle. 81, was master
of ceremonies.
Evening star., 1940-03-18
Dyer, Whitby Address
Civic National Forum

Members of the Civic National
Forum last night heard talks by DR..
J. Francis Dyer, Washington ply
sician, and Dr. F. D. Whitby, neurol-
ogist and psychiatrist, at the White
law Hotel, Thirteenth and T streets
NV.
DR.. Dyer, speaking on Modern In
ventions and Discoveries" explained
uses of the photo-electric eye. the
short-waye machine, the blood bank
glandular substances and other dis
coveries in the field of medicine. Dr.
Carbohydrates in Diet"
DR.. Ira L. Ferguson will speak at
the next forum meeting to be held
March 81.
Evening star., 1940-03-18
Film Society Lists
Six Privute Showinos

Six private showines of a series
Of motion pictures of unusual in
terest were announced today by the
Film Society of Washington. The
program is in connection with the
opening Of the Modern Art Film
Library
The first of the private showings
will be tonight at the Friends
School, Tomorrow the scene will
be Goodwill Industries headquar-
tiers; Wednesday, the American As
sociation. of University Womens
clubhouse; Thursday, Georgetown
Children's House, and Friday, All
States Hotel.
The pictures will include two
features-a romantic drama Of civil
war in Finland at the time of the
Russian Revolution, and the 1889
March of Time.
Evening star., 1940-03-18
Report 10 President
Sets Unemployment
At9t 10 Z Millions
Economic Advisers
Give Estimates From
Various Sources
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt's economic
advisers, it was learned today, have
sent him a memorandum indicating
the Nation started with from g.
100000 to 100000 unemployed.
The memorandum is a compila-
ton of differing estimates from
prominent labor statistics sources.
1t draws no original conclusions.
The President was told the best un-
employment figures available until
the census takers check up in April
are as follows:
Estimated Estimated for
1889 Average. Jan, 1910.
Industrial con-
ference Board 100000 100000
A. F. Of L. 100000 10000 900
C. I. o.. 10,700,000 100000
A Federal econ
omist -- $780, 900 l0,5Oo, 1000
The economist, one whose figures
are used regularly by half dozen
Federal agencies, said that the
higher figures for January were due
partly to the business decline in
that month, but largely to seasonal
factors which always increase un-
employment in that month.
Fluctuati0n Shown.
The statistician figures that an
average of 100000 was unemployed
in 1929, with the figure rocketing
to $4,000 600 in March. 1888. declin-
ing to 6,250,0O0 in September, 1887,
rising again to 100000 in Febru-
ary, 1898, and touhing temporary
bottom again at $500, 900 last Octo-
ber.
If the usual seasonal factors op-
crate this year-a circumstance Of
which he is not sure because Of the
recent business decline-this eco
nomist calculates that unemploy-
ment should be down to about g.
0000 in April.
The Bureau Of Agricultural Eco
nomics, meanwhile, forecast spring
reversal of the downturn in business
activity, but did not find any signs
indicating a rapid improvement
thereafter.
Special Study Made.
Employment and business condi-
tions are being given special study
in administration and congressional
circles at this time because Con-
gress soon will have to appropriate
relief funds for the next fiscal year
Senator Murray. Democrat. OF
Montana wants President Roosevelt
to recommend more than the ap-
proximate 100000 900 which was
recommended for the w. P. A. in
the budget estimates. His proposal
is winning support from several
colleagues.
The budget figure is about $780,
000,0 900 less than this years total
and would require a 100000 reduc-
tion in w. P. AS average enroll
ment.
Evening star., 1940-03-18
Terrorism Probe SOUGHT

Federal investigation of alleged
crimes on "peonage farms" and ter
rorism among Negroes by the Ku
Klux Klan will be urged at a mass
meeting to be held tomorrow by the
National Negro Congress, the Ma
tional Committee to Aid Agricul-
tural Workers and the Interna-
tional Labor Defense The meet
ing will be held at pm in the
Lincoln Temple Congregational
Church, Eleventh and R streets
NV,
Evening star., 1940-03-18
| Baby Improves
| After Fever of
| ITO or More
BY the Associated Press.

BY ine AsSCclaLeo fIeSS.
SPOKANE, Wash, March 18.-
An infant girl was reported i'm
proving today after surviving a
temperature of at least ITO degrees.
The child, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Yount, was brought to
Spokane Friday night. The father
and A. A. Shuler kept the baby
alive with artificial respiration while
Mrs. Shuler drove the SIS miles from
RitZville, Wash.
DR.. E. J. Barnett said the baby S
temperature Friday night was "at
least 110-our thermometers won't
60 any higher" Later the tenn
perature dropped to SO.
DR.. Barnett ascribed the child's
condition to a disturbance in the
heat regulating center of the brain.
Evening star., 1940-03-18
Dutch Convict 2 for Use
Of Radio to Aid Nuzis

BY The Associated Press.
ROTTERDAM, March 1.-TWO
men convicted of using a secret
radio to transmit weather reports
to Germany were given the maxi
mum sentence of six years in prison
today. The weather reports were
intended for use by the .Nazi air
force.
The men are P. c. Baker, a
Netherlands citizen, and H. Dreves,
German national. Theirs is the
first case of conviction of espionage
in Netherlands since the present
war
Evening star., 1940-03-18
Weather Report
Furnished by the III


District Columba-Ran
colder afternoon night tonight
moderate south southwest winds becoming moderate
west tomorrow.
MayandRan tonight tomorrow
night this
vigna-Rain tonight tomorrow: tonight
afternoon night.
West vienaRain tonight changing to light
portion
Evening star., 1940-03-18
Political Analyst to Talk
To 6. o. Club TONIGHT

John A. Held. California political
analyst, will address the Young Re-
publican Club Of the District Of
Columbia at 8 o'clock tonight at
the clubhouse Of the League of Re-
publican Women, 1901 Seventeenth
street NV.
Mr.. Held will present charts he
complied showing the trend of voters
in each State since the last presi-
Dental election and will discuss the
present strength Of each presidential
candidate.
Evening star., 1940-03-18
Swiss Guns Fire
On FOREIGN Planes

BY the Associated Press. -
LONDON, March 18.-Reuters,
British news agency, reported from
Berne, Switzerland, that Swiss anti
aircraft guns and warplanes went
into action today when foreign
planes twice flew over Swiss ter
ritory.
Evening star., 1940-03-18
Congress Committee
Arrives in Nicoruquo
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 18.
"A special committee of seven
United States Congress members, en-
route to inspect Panama Canal Zone
defenses, arrived here today in a
naval plane and were greeted at the
airport by high government OFF,
cials.
The Representatives, members of
a subcommittee of the House Naval
Affairs Committee, were taken on a
sightseeing trip by the American
Legation staff.
Evening star., 1940-03-18
Dr.. KoIb to Speak

DR.. Lawrence Kolb, assistant sur
geon general of the Public Health
Service, will discuss the treatment
of drug addicts at Government hos
pitfalls at a meeting Of the Bureau
of Rehabilitation Board tomorrow
at the Y. w. G. A., 6l4 E street
NV. A luncheon will be served at
1880 pm. prior to the meeting.
Evening star., 1940-03-18

With Nation wide traffic toll Of
2,730 lives reported in January, 1910.
this casualty list was per cent
greater than in January a year ago.
Evening star., 1940-03-18
t for Last 48 Hours.

Record for Last "A Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today,)
Hishest. IS, 5:15 pm. yesterday. Year
ago. 80
Lowest. IS, $40 am. today. Year
ago, %
Record Tsmperatures This Year.
Hizhest "a. on February IL.
Lowest. Z. on January 90.
Humidity for Last "A Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest. e3 per cent. at $50 am today.
Lowest 20 per cent. at SIS pm. yes
terdAy.
Tide Tables.
rurnishsd by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
To-day Tomorrow.
High - 2:4O am 3:46 am
Low ------- 9:10 am. 1924 am.
Hish - 3:O7 pm. 4:11 pm.
Low ----------- 1902 pm. 11:06 pm.
The Sun and Neon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun, today ---.- 6:16 6:1e
Sun tomorrow 80 6:14 6:1o
Noon. today ----- 12:41 pm. 2:14 am.
Automobile lights must be turned on one
half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1940-03-18

Don't gamble with safety-the
odds are against you.
Evening star., 1940-03-18
River Report.

River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac muddy at
Great Falls today.
Evening star., 1940-03-18

Monthly precipitation in inches In the
Capital (current month to datel
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
Bynum Shaw To Deliver
Grafton Friday Night

Bynum Shaw, New Hanover High
school senior, will. deliver his ora
ton on the Constitution of the
United States at 5 o'clock Friday
evening, March %, at the court
house, R. c. MacMahon, commander
of Wilmington Post No. 10, Amer
lean Legion, announced yesterday.
Shaw was selected to represent
the post in the annual American
Legion oratorical contest held
throughout the United States and
will represent the counties of New
Hanover, Penler, Brunswick, and
Columbus.
Five members, Of the New Han
over County Bar association will
be OF hand to ask Shaw questions
on the Constitution after he de-
livers the grafton.
The weekl,- meeting of the post,
scheduled tonight at the Tide Water
Power company assembly hall, will.
not be held, Commander MacMahor
said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
MISS ANNIE RUSSELL,
B~RIDE-ELECT, FETED

ROSEHILL, March 20.-One of
the loveliest parties of the season
was held Friday afternoon when
Mrs. J. C. Alexander, of Kinston,
entertained at a luncheon and mis-
c%ellaneous shower in honor of her
sister, Miss Annie Marion Russell,
bride-elect of Rosehill.
The residence was beautifully ap-
pointed with arrangements of
spring flowers.
Before lunch, cocktails and hors
d'oeuvres were served in the living
room by Mrs. Alexander and Mrs.
E. Y. Turnely.
Guests were then invited into
the dining room where lunch was
served buffet style, where Mrs. M.
T. Yarren was seated at the table
serving coffee.
Those present were: Miss Annie
Marion Russell, honoree; Mes
danes E. T. Turnely, Alton Smith,
w. o. Briley, Jack Alexander, Merle
Edwards, Troy Rouse, W. L. Klise,
E. M. Utley, S. H. Ragland, M. T.
Garren, and w. D. Carroll.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
Publicity-Creedy Debs Show
More 'Clamor' Than Clamor

least they are no better endowed
by nature than the girl next door.
And with their dead pan express
sion, they don't have the attractive
bright look Of the average high
school girl. Besides, they admitted.
ly are bored-and she isn't. She
has a part in the high school play,
a new evening dress, her best beau
gets to use the family car on Sat
urday night and everything is
hunky-dory.
Judged By Possessions, Not
Accomplishments
They have no talent. They don't
need to have. Any night club will
let one sing-because her friends
will flock to hear her. Or any store
will let one model-because her
friends may buy there.
They don't even have to bother
tc be polite. A deb gets a three.
way rating her family, her
money, her looks-and it doesn't
matter a boot what kind of person
she is.
No wonder we are fed up with
her dead pan,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21
By RUTH MILLETT

Let's start an "T'm-not-looking"
campaign against the society
"glamor girls"
Reason-we're sick of the long
haired sight of them.
We were bound to be fed up
with their much-publiciZed glamor
in short order. For what have they
got-outside of enough money to
be seen in the most expensive night
clubs?
Little Beauty and Less Brains
They never make a remark witty
enough to be repeated. They never
have an idea worth printing. And
why should they? Few of them
have any education. They Ire II
when they make their debuts (the
average age of high school juniors
throughout the country and for
two years before that they have
been doing the night clubs-think.
ing about nothing much except how
to make a splash when they Off.
cially "come out"
They aren't raving beauties. At
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-21

for the evenings entertainment and
spoke of the value and advantages
that the young men today have in
acquiring an education. Followiis
musical selections by members OF
the club the o. Henry society pre-
sented a one-act comedy Corn Fed
Babies" recent winner of the Inter-
Society contest.
A hilarious basketball game be
tween fathers and sons played III
the gymnasium concluded the pro-
gram.
Mrs. Jack Evans in honor OF hef
little daughter, Julia Rae, n OF
the mascots of the Senior class, was
hostess to the seniors Monday nlgh1
at a weiner and marshmalloW roast
held at Kings Bluff.
Mrs. Caroline Thomas, of VIII.
minston, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
J. w. Beckwith. Miss Bee Barn
hardt has returned to Greenville
where she is a student at E. G. T.
C. after spending the spring holi-
DAYS with her brother and sister-in-
Mr.. and Mrs. John j. Barn
hardt. Mrs. Agnes Barnhardt,
member of the faculty of Baden
boro, spent the weekend in Acme
her son, John j. Barnhardt,
and daughter, Miss Bess Barnhardt.