davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1940-07-12

NEW YORK. July 12 R.-Lack of
demand for raws eliminated early gains
in domestic sugar futures today Prices
in midafternoon ruled UNCHANGED to
points, higher: September sold at I.79:
~, World futures were idle and UNCHANGED
throughout in scattered and featureess
trading; September .9S: March. lO5
Raw offerings were scaled upward early
on a. 2.73 cent basis, but later were be-
lieved available around 27o
Refned was unchanged at $50 cents
Futures No closed UNCHANGED tn 2
lower Sales 64OO tons
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Commodity Prices

NEW YORK, July 12-The Associa ted
Press weighted wholesale price index of
80 commodities today declined to II %,
Previous day, 71.43: week ago, 71.79;
menth ago Il .93; year ago, 6499
., 1940; 1889. 1888. 1933-37.
High - 1929 1922 7437 aS14
Low 49, 71.09 63.7S $685. Ala
1926 aVeraae EQUALS LOO !
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Also extra or extras. eDeclared or
paid SO far this year
cation of Securities dealers. Inc, which
states they do not necessarily reflect actual
transactions or firm bids or offers, but
should indicate approximate prices
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New Orleans Prices.

Cottonseed oil closed steady. Bleachable
prime summer yellow, sos nominal
Prime crude, 5.12l2b. July, 5.60b; Sep
tember. 5.64b; October. 566b; December
5.69b; January, 5.11b. Bid. n-Nomi-
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CHICAGO Cash Market,

CHICAGO Cash Market.
Cash wheat, No. / hard, 76l7-94: No. ..
No; / red, III: No. i. =; AN No. In i mixed
.3i2 No. =. ,garlicky. 7212 Corn. No. /
yellow, 64l2-66i2: No. white, 76. Oats
NO, mixed, 31l4-32: No. 3 81: sample
grade,. 30 No. white. 34k4-l2: No 2
53-33'4; No 4. 32ha: sample grade. 80
SOY beans, No. yellow. 1880.
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Dividends Announced

NEW YORK. July 12-Dividends de-
clared, prepared by Fitch Publishing Co.:
REGULAR.
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Baltimore Stocks
Special Dispatch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star,
BALTIMORE, July H.
Sales. STOCKS High Low Close
SIS Arundel Corp -- l4M 14h 14h
rs Baltimore Transit % % 30
10 Consol Pow com T6A 76K 76A
l Consol Pow pf III liz 1l7
S5 Eastern Sug pf vt II IL II
10 Fidelity q Guar. 26s. 263s a6ss
10 Mt Ver W Mis- pf 40 40 40
109 New Amster Gas 1512 1874 1874
125 U Fidel & Guar 1874 1sia 1917
$4,000 BALTIC Trans IS B. 90 90 %
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Washington Exchange

SALES.
Capital Traction 1st $500 at
l002.
Evening star., 1940-07-12

Many Of Australia's rivers dry up
In the summer.
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New York Bunk Stocks

NEW YORK. July IL QP.-National As
sociation Securities Dealers. Inc.
Quotations as of oclock)
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Insurance Stocks

NEW YORK July 10 fP}.-National AS
ISOLATION Securities Dealers. Inc
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Nominal
Cott0nseed OIL
, Bleachable cottonseed oil futures closed
- lower. Sales, a3 contracts July
6,UOo: September, 6,14; October. 65lb;
December, 6.l9b; January, 6.22.
b BID
New Orleans Prices
NEW ORLEANS. July II LP-Cotton
futures eased today under long liquidation
Closing prices were steady, l point net
Evening star., 1940-07-12

STOCKS

Col Country c lst 4As 1857 103
Ter RI 4 w CD 1st 4As l94S 100
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Baltimore Quotations.

BALTIMORE, July IL 1P.-Whest M
red. winter. garlicky,. SPOT. domestic
old, 20 nornfnals; new, 131a; July, new,
1919
Evening star., 1940-07-12
CHICAGO Stock Market

CHICAGO July Il lP,.--Following is
the complete list of transactions on the
Chicago Stock Exchange today:
Sales STOCKS High Low. Last.
Evening star., 1940-07-12
C0ttOnSeed Oil.

MiddIing spot Gs-inchl. 10.5On.
Nominal
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NEW YORK CURB MARKET
By private wire direct to The Star.

Stock and Sales
Dividend Rate Add 90. High Low. Close
Aero SUPP (B) Use 4 5 S 5
Ala Power of az. los l0l l0l lOl
AIlao e.
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New York Suqur

AW--W
rants New. st (stp)-Stamped
sNesotiability impaired by maturity.
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BONDS ON N. Y. STOCK EXCHANGE

By private wire direct to The Star.
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BONDS

PUBLIC UTILITY
Evening star., 1940-03-03
WITHOUT 5ENTI!M!EN!

When he had begun his examination, this
woman's austerity had struck him as advan-
tageous to the defense Now he wished to
heaven he could wiring some feeling from her,
some emotion to bring tears to those twelve
pairs of eyes. He repeated his inquiry as to
Leonore McAllisters attitude toward her son.
''She loved to dress him up and show him
off. She used to say to visitors, This is my
baby. Isn't he beautiful Even when Mr.. Neil
was six she used to call him her baby. But she
spent more time with her dogs.'
The last sentence came with the crisp crack
of whip. 1t caused litter.
What age was Mr.. Cornelius McAllister
when his wife died?"
Between forty-6ve and fifty"
Did he spend more time with his son after
her passing?"
LESS. He travelled almost incessantly. He
would come home to stay and after few days
pack up and 60 away"
How old was Neil when his father died?"
'Ten."
did his uncle and guardian, Mr.. Morton
McAllister, ever come to see Neil?"
MI. N1UCON NlCAlllStcI uVcu III dis.
never saw him"
Then until Neil McAllister arrived at the
age of twenty-one, and came into the fortune
left by his father, he lived alone with servants,
tutors and yourself. He had no companions
of his own age is that right?"
That is right
Thank you" The defense attorney re-
turned to his place at the counsel table.
Mrs. TATE just minute. " The district
attorneys voice with its knife edge of sarcasm
stopped her as she rose. The State would
like to ask few questions which, have to do
with Neil McAllister when he was of age to
choose his companions He had interrogated
this woman in his office Immediately after the
murder and decided she had no information
of value to the prosecution. But this picture
(Continvsd on poos -
Evening star., 1940-03-03

have sons of their own =" He turned
ingratiatingly toward the jurors His photo
graphic eyes registered in swift, shrewd sur
vey the expression of EACH At least six poker
faces! The other six were stony in determina-
ton to Judge rich mans son with less mercy
than they'd show to boy born in the gutter.
Didn't Max know the signs? Couldn't he
see in the rigid faces of those twelve men
merciless conviction of fatherless youngster
who was everything they'd pray God to keep
their own sons from being? Make them see
Neil as lonely neglected child! That must
be done and done quickly. The scales of JUS
tice were tipped too far by the weight of
prejudice. These gentlemen" he pro-
ceeded bit sadly, must realize that am
not resorting to Snowman tricks. They are
entitled to learn certain facts which influenced
Neil McAllister's boyhood and later his choice
of companions"
Throughout this plea, the gentle tattoo
of the district attorneys pencil had been
resumed. "Your Honor, my distinguished ad-
versary has become involved with sentimen-
tality that can have no possible bearing on the
question of whether his client is or is not
guilty of premeditated murder"
II have put this witness on the stand be-
cause she is God fearing woman, able to
give us bare facts without sentiment or senti-
mentality. beg the Court to let me proceed"
Yet when permission was granted, Max
turned to Edith Tate with despair in his heart.
Evening star., 1940-03-03

Thus Edith Tate's part in the
sequence of events before and
after the killing was negative.
Yet Max Conrick counted on the
impression on judge and jury
which this austere woman would
create in the sensational show of
a playboy on trial for his life.
She answered questions in a
hard, clipped tone that during
her hour on the stand became
Evening star., 1940-03-03
Il Short Story Complete in This Issue

+
s~nEATED in the witness chair, a space of
- white plaster wall behind her, she had
~ the sharp edge of black silhouette
pasted on white paper. Pinched face, thin
nose, fiat eyes, black hair severely parted,
black dress with long tight sleeves and high
collar held by an onyx brooch, this was Mrs.
Edith Tate, housekeeper in the McAllister
home for twenty years.
To spectators packing the courtroom she
looked more like country schoolma am than
witness at murder trial. Called to defend
the character of young man accused OF
brutal crime. she gave no sign of the slightest
sympathy for Neil McAllister. Obviously the
experience was duty which the widow Tate
undertook because of her long association
with his family. Equally clear was the fact
that it must be endured with strict regard for
the truth by which this middle-aged husk OF
woman ruled her life.
Defense attorney Max Conrick was we'll
aware that Mrs Tate could supply no single
piece of evidence to counteract the appalling
mass built by the prosecution to prove that
Neil an amateur artist - firing of his sweet
heart-model, Thelma Clarke. slashed her
throat with his painting knife. Mrs. Tate had
gone to bed at nine-thirty the night of the
party following which Thelma's body was
found on the floor of NeiIs studio The
testimony of the butler established beyond
doubt that she was fast asleep in her room in
,vo<hor 1x;Du of tho ho,,ce whon he hanuod Oy,
her door at five AM and shouted his discovery
Evening star., 1940-03-03

for the first time of his mothers death?"
Il was"
How did he take the news?"
He said it couldn't be true. He said,
Leonore can't go away from me-"
Did he always address her by her first
name?"
He did,"
"Why?"
"She taught him to.
Did she ever tell you why she objected to
being called Mother?
'She used to say, Tate, it makes me feel
old. never want to be old"
did Mrs. McAllister appear devoted to
her SOM"
Here the district attorney sprang to his
feet He had been tapping a pencil on his
palm, gentle tattoo, and now impatiently
he suggested that while mother love was an
interesting topic in its place, it had no place
in the vital question before the Court. "Your
Honor must realize that my worthy opponent,
however well-meaning, is wasting the valuable
time of Your Honor and these gentlemen
Evening star., 1940-03-03

II 1Our f1O1lOI VIII pellIl1C
me, wish only to establish this
defendants background as a
child" Max Conrick's voice,
habitually low, took on a note of
appeal. Surely no man should
be judged by what other men see
on the surface of his life. These
twelve gentlemen who very likely
Evening star., 1940-03-03

deadly monotonous Not once did she look at
Neil. Not once did her colorless eyes meet the
ones she had seen times innumerable darting
gay mockery at her disapproval. Those eyes
now sank deep in holows made darker by the
whiteness of his face They we're like holes in
ghastly mask. His forehead glistened, and
perspiration seeped into his bright hair until 1t
clung, damp metallic cap.
Having examined the witness as to her
movements on the night of the party, Conrick
suddenly asked: When you first entered the
McAllister employ. how old was this de-
fendant?"
-Four"
who engaged you?"
His mother, Mrs. Cornelius McAllister."
Mrs. McAllister was young woman at
the time, was she not?'
Very young
And Neil was an only chid?"
Yes"
approximately how many months every
year did Mr. and Mrs. McAllister spend in
their home?'
About six months"
What season."
Late spring, early summer and early fall"
AND where did they spend the remain
der of the year,"
'Traveling."
did Neil accompany them?"
No"
$50 that he spent practically six months of
every year without his parents"
Yes"
Was he sent away to SCHOOL,"
mo. He stayed at home'
WAS anybody in the house in addition to
yourself and the servants?"
His tutor"
"How long had you been housekeeper there
when Mrs McAllister died?"
Three years, six months, fifteen days"
What caused her death?"
IAN automobile accident"
Neil was about seven at the time?"
Seven and a half"
Were you present when Neil was told
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She looked more like prim country
schoolma' am than a key witness at a
murder trial. Then she began TO talk
by Rita vveillaan
NIvs,,oted by Wotss Ruvnhofsr
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
NORTHWEST PASSAGE" is
FILM FARE AT CAROLINA

Affording Spencer Tracy and Wal
ter Brennan roles which are beliey-
ed to be more colorful than those
which have twice won them Academy
Awards, and elevating Robert Young
to the threshold of stardom is
Northwest Passage" now at the
Carolina Theatre.
Filmed entirely in Technicolor the
picture is the result of two years
careful planning.
The story is one of courage, for.
titude and almost superhuman phv-
steal triumph. Tracy as Major Rogers
takes his hardy Rangers, including
Young and Brennan, on a secret M ).
sion to wipe out a village of maraud-
ing Indians. Thus starts a thrilling
journey during which the men carry
their heavy boats over a mountain,
struggle for days through swamps,
cross a river torrent by forming a
human chain, stage a narrowing bat
tie with the Indians and then batter
their way back home starving weak.
ened and in tatters.
World News Events complete the
program.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
Movie Revues
PIONEERS OF THE WEST"
ON RLJOU BILL TO-DAY

pioneers of the West" Repu blic's
new offering in its Three Mesqui-
teers' series TO- playing at the Bijou
Theatre lived up to all expectations
last evening.
Bob Livingston, Raymond Hatton
and Duncan Renaldo were never
better in their hard-riding, fast-shoot-
ing action roles. With an engrossing
story, careful casting and expert di-
rection, the current film is satisfy.
ing from fade-in to %close-out, and the
Three Mesquiteers" have added to
their laurels as outstanding attrac-
tons in the western field.
The story deals with the efforts
of the pioneers to make a home for
themselves in the west, in spite of
marauding Indians and scheming
politicians who seek to wrest from
them the homes they nave establish
ed at great cost.
An Edgar Kennedy comedy O'clock
WISE" and the current chapter of
Overland With Kit Carson" arc
at the Bijou also today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
WPA Workers Complete
Standard First Aid Work

Standard first aid courses con-
Quoted recently for WPA workers
of the Wilmington section by r. J.
Divine at the courthouse under the
auspices of the local chapter of the
American Red Cross, were completed
by 38 workers, Mrs. Ida B. Speiden,
executive secretary, reported yes
terday.
They included: Delmar S. Bat
son.. Joseph Blake, C. e. Brewer,
E. L. Bowen, F. W. Cox, E. A.
Edens, L.. T. Edens, William H,
Edens, D. F. Fowler, Rupert L.
Garner, Wade F. Herman, r. W.
Jernigan, T. c. Jones.
J. T. Klein, Martin Koen, o. E.
Larson, James Larson, Joseph r.
Lewis, T. W. Lewis, William J,
Melton, Marion Mills, W. D. Mote,
M. D. Moseley, Luther Neville, AL
ton T. Parker, B. F. Penny.
c. H. Rogers, c. E. Russ, Cecil
c. Stanley, Norman Smith, Clar.
ence Skipper, Thomas Teachey,
John G.. Vernon, Marsden Ward,
ST., Edward Williams, James L.
Williams, c. j. Wooten, and Letta
G. King.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
FSCC Awards Contracts
For Cotton Sheeting

WASHINGTON, April s. Up -
The Federal Surplus Commodities
corporation awarded contracts today
for the purchase of $4,000 900 yards
of cotton sheeting and 1900 900
yards of ticking for distribution to
needy families for bedding material.
The corporation had previously
bought 4,75O,OoO yards of ticking
anC 1882 ITO yards of sheeting for
the same use.
The contract for the ticking went
to the Avondale Mills Of Alexandria
City, Ala.
Contracts for the sheeting were
awarded to the following firms con-
Germs, with offices in New York
city:
The BATAVIA Mills, Inc, Cone Ex-
port and Commission company,
Deering Milliken company, Herbert
G. Franz company, lncmn Lambert
Manufacturing Supply Company,
Inc, Pepperell Manufacturing COM
pany, ]. P. Stevens and company,
Erwin Cotton Mills company and
the Springs Cotton Mills company.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
Cardinals Famous %Playmakers
Celebrating 21st Anniversary

years. said DR.. Koch. 1--WE began
additionally as a one-man theater
in the department of English. Now
we have a separate department OF
drama with a full-time staff .
"a year ago this college venture
entered the fields of cinema and the
radio. Time only can tell the eff
feet of our folk play-making. But
from the basic idea underlying their
work and philosophy stem such
writing as that of Caldwell, Hey.
ward, Miller, Bradford, Faulkner,
Stribling and a good many others.
Other influences have operated,
but we feel that the idea of draw
ing hundreds of plays from the i'm
mediate life of the writers thereof
has had a good deal to do with crys-
tallizing the interest of the country
in the life of the country.
1.-THE anniversary celebration has
brought to Chapel Hill II plays from
II typical southern t~heaters, the
most distant being one from the
University of Oklahoma. Besides
Oklahoma, the states of Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Ken
lucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missis-
sippi, South Carolina, Texas, Ten
nessee, Virginia and West Virginia
have some part of this first southern
theater festival"
Today's program came to a climax
tonight with the first performance
of the revised Version of Paul
Green's "The Field God" by the
Carolina Playmakers under the di-
rection of Samuel Selden.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
Dow Pender Required
To Meet Labor Code

RALEIGH, April 5.-R-An or.
der was recorded in federal court
here today requiring L.. Dow Pender,
ST., Raleigh farm implement manu-
f%acturer. to abide by the regulations
of the federal fair labor standards
act.
Judge I. M. Meekins signed the
order Tuesday.
1t set forth that Pender would
pay his employees wages required by
the wage-hour act, work them un-
der terms Of the act, and reimburse
them the difference between what
they have been paid since October
"a, 1888 and what they should have
been paid.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
Locklear Wins Parole
On Term For Liquor

RALEIGH, April 5.-R-Lonnie
Rawlins, negro sentenced in Neck
lenburg county August rs, 1895, to
~ to Is years for second degree muir
der, was one of six convicts paroled
by Governor Hoey today.
Others we're Rick Mccall, given
5 to Z years in Henderson county
March 7, 1888, for manslaughter
Sammy Dotson. convicted in Wilkes
June 10, 1889, for manslaughter and
serving 80 to So months; Campbell
Locklear, given - months in Robe
son December 20, 1889, for posses
sion and transporting; Isaac Gore,
convicted in Columbus October 4,
1889, for assault with a deadly wea.
pom and serving 9 months; and A.
T. Allsbrook, given 9 months in
Halifax county in November, 1899.
for public drunkenness and indie
cent exposure.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
ROYAL THEATRE FEATURES
"TROPIC FURY" TO-DAY

Revealing the methods necessary
to break a threatened worldwide
rubber monopoly, Universal's newest
Richard Arlen, Andy Devine action
drama, "Tropic Fury" is nov the
top attraction at the Royal Theatre.
The two stars ride to higher pop.
ularity as a team of Adventures in
a setting Of jungle terror and lropi-
cal romance.
On the romance side are Beverly
Roberts and Lupita Tovar, who ap-
pear to nice advantage as the respec-
tive daughters of an eminent scien-
fist and the brutal ruler of a dark
empire. In the cast are Lou Merrill,
Leonard Nude, Noble Johnson and
Adia K~unzenzoff, with Merrill TAX
ing the honors as the self-styled
Napoleon of a Guamo dynasty.
Samuel S. Kinds ably presents tn .
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
Dr.. Barton To Preach At
Temple Church Sunday

DR.. Arthur j. Barton, pastor u
Temple Baptist church, has just
concluded a nine-day evangelist
meeting. conducted with the Rev.
Wayne W. Williams at the latter's
Oteen Baptist church at Oteen, and
will return to his pulpit here again
Sunday during a Lords Supper Ser
vice.
DR.. Barton will leave Sunday
night for Nashville, Tenn, to at
tend committee meetings Of the
Southern Baptist convention. The
Rev. J. F. Herbert, pastor of Grace
Methodist church, will preach in
his stead at Temple church Sun
day night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
BY JOHN SELBY
ASSOCIATED Press Arts Editor

CHAPEL HILL, April 5.-lR-
The drama of the small things of life
is being demonstrated before an au'
dience from all the nation in Chapel
Hill this week. The occasion is the
21st anniversary Of the Carolina
Playmakers, Frederick H. Koch's IA
nous organization at the University
Of North Carolina.
"In those distant days Of 81 years
ago." said DIR. Koch today, North
Carolina was regarded by the play
publishers as a dead state-so lack
ing in dramatic interest that the en-
tire state had been struck from their
mailing lists as not being worth the
price Of postage to carry their cata-
logues.
"The immediate success Of our
first Carolina folk plays suggested
to us that perhaps we might ere
ate here an oasis in the south,
which then was called by H. l..
Mencken The Sahara of the Bo.
Zart'."
The first mention of folk plays
in the American Theater was, DR..
Koch says, the announcement of his
playmakers' first bill Of one-act
plays 81 years ago in North Caro-
lima.
Now the University of North
Carolina has one of the best known
dramatic departments in the coun-
try and 1O1 colleges, high school
and community theaters cover the
state from the Great Smokes to the
Atlantic.
I'VE have come a long way in 21
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
Change In Easter Date
Affects Store Sales

WASHINGTON, April s. Up -
Because of different Easter shop
ping dates, the federal reserve board
said today that department store
sales in the week ended March 80
were 20 per cent below the cores
.ponding week last year.
This year the week was after
Easter and last year before Easter.
In the preceding week sales had
been ~ per cent above last year,
and in the four weeks ended March
80 sales averaged 1 per cent more
than last year.
BY federal reserve districts, de-
clines in sales for the week ended
March 30, compared with a year
ago, included:
Boston 10 per cent, New York IT.,
Philadelphia 35, Cleveland 81, Rich
mond 26, Atlanta 20, Chicago IA, St.
Louis Is, Kansas City 10, Dallas IS,
and San Francisco %.
No separate estimate was made
for the Minneapolis district 80.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-04-06
OIL SETTLEMENT
ASKED BY U. S.
Hull Reveals U. S. Has Asked
Mexico To Arbi-
trate Dispute

WASHINGTON, April S. - Up -
Tn an attempt to break a two-year-
old impasse, the state department
has proposed arbitration of the con-
troversy over Mexico's appropriation
of American oil properties.
Secretary of State Hull disclosed
today that he had handed a note
containing the proposal to the Mexi-
can ambassador, Castillo Najera, on
Wednesday. Hull refused to give de-
tails of the proposal or to Indicate
the reaction that may have been
received from Mexico.
The arbitration was suggested
when it appeared that the direct ne
gotiations conducted for over two
years with the Mexican government
by the American oil companies we're
destined to failure.
The negotiations have been carried
on by two groups, Standard Oil OF
New Jersey and the Sinclair inter-
ests, the first through Donald Rich
berg, former NRA administrator, and
the second through Patrick Hurley,
former secretary Of var Their re-
course to the Mexican courts has
olso met with failure.
1t is understood the American note
again calls the Mexican govern
ment's attention to the traditional
view of the United States. AS con-
tanned in previous notes to Mexico
on the subject of that country's ex-
preparation of American-owned agra
rian lands, the view is:
The government of the United
States cannot admit that a foreign
government may take the property
of American nationals in disregard
of the universally recognized rule of
compensation under international
law or admit that the rule of COM
pensation can be nullified by any
country through it's own local legis-
lation."