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Evening star., 1940-12-10
Carpenter Indicted
In Arlington County
Poison Candy Case
Washington Man Accused
Of Attempt on Life
Of Stepdouehter

Frederick Degges. 69-year -old
carpenter Of the 1900 block of D
street S.W., was indicted yesterday
by the grand jury Of the Arlington
County CVa) Circuit Court on a
charge of attempting to kill his
stepdaughted with poisoned candy.
Judge Walter T. Mccarthy set
December 80 as the date of mental
examination for Degges. The de-
fendant, who is free under 1880
bond. did not appear in court yes
terday but was represented by At
torney T. Brooke Howard of Alex
andria. Mr Howard told the court
that Mr.. Degges now is employed at
Fort Meade
The indictment alleges Degges
mailed poisoned chocolate-covered
cherries to Mrs Velma Dunham of
the 5400 block of North Washington
boulevard, Arlington. on November
5. Mrs. Drnham testified at a
preliminary hearing that she did
not eat the candy because she be-
came suspicious of the unmarked
box.
Shortly after police announced
his arrest Degges was found un-
conscious in his automobile parked
at the rear of his home. with hose
connected to the exhaust pipe of the
thu a
Emergency Hospital.
The grand jury returned 10 in
dictmentS against seven persons
yesterday. Four indictments were
returned against Shirley Lee Brown,
%. of East Falls Church alleging
housebreaking and larceny of Jew
elry and clothing with a total value
of S525. Brown pleaded guilty to
each charge when arraigned. and
Judge Mccarthy imposed a sentence
Of 10 years imprisonment on each
charge. with the sentences to run
concurrentlv.
AS soon as the sentence was i'm
posed the mans mother, who had
been sobbing in court, rushed to the
rail and exclaimed:
You can't do this to my boy"
A companion with the mother
added, Its her only son, Judge"
The woman then left the court
room.
Joseph D. Tucker, jr.. colored, was
indicted in connection with the
murder of his father on November
10. and the court ordered him sent
to mental hospital at Petersburg
for observation. Arnold Collins was
indicted on charge of criminal
assault and pleaded not guilty. His
trial was set for January 81. Others
indicted were Fred Benny Smith,
housebreaking and larceny, pleaded
guilty, but imposition of sentence
continued: Robert Marsh. larceny
of SIS, case continued, and Leonard
Boyer, theft of $50 from Washing
ton woman, pleaded not guilty. and
December II was set as trial date.
Evening star., 1940-12-10
High School Students Enjoy
Another Opera Broadcast
Selections From Lohengrn' Presented
In Eighth Musical Appreciation Series

Thousands Of Junior and senior
high school students enjoyed another
half hour of opera yesterday after
noon as The Star, in cooperation
with the National BroadcGSting Co.,
presented the eighth in series OF
special school broadcasts featuring
the recordings now being offered in
The Stars music appreciation cam
paign.
Presented on the program, con-
Quoted by DR.. Edwin n. c. Barnes,
head Of the music department in
divisions / to 9 of the public schools,
were excerpts from the opera, Lob
engrin," by Richard Wagner. Re-
cordings of this masterpiece are be-
ing made available as the 10th Of
fering of the campaign.
IN brief talk which preceded the
playing of the "Lohenerir" record
ings, DR. Barnes described this work
as tho most beautiful o. all operas
and ore Of the most in5D Diled'
Recalls Tannhauser Theme.
You all remember. am sure, ur
study of Wagners 'Tannhauser,
with its contrasting themes of good
and evil" Dr. Barnes told the stu
| dents, who heard the broadcast in
their classrooms anu auditoriums
You probably also remember Tam
hauser's hard, unsuccessful journey
to Rome. He -etrrned to find his
Elizabeth dead With all hope thus
denied him, ne too passed to the
great beyond.
To-day We have greater Wagner
opera, 'Lohengrin.' veritable fairy
tale with a shining knight and a
golden-haired princess. This opera
is filled With scenes of great beauty,
great jov and still greater sadness.
rs moral is that to trust without
trying TO know is the secret of hap
piness
Il am on the air to broadcast an
opera. not to preach a sermon" Dr.
Barnes added Il do, however want
to repeat the moral of this gloriously
tragic stu"y. which is-that t. trust
witnouL tying to know IS the secret
Df happiness. Many a friendship
has been lost forever by such dis
trust as Elsa showed to her valiant
delive.er
The selections heard on the
broadcast included "Elsas Dream"
Kings Prayer" prelude ana We'd
ding March" and "Lohengrin's Mar
rative."
Recordings of this work and the
nine other operas released so far
remain available at the distribution
booths IN the LOBBY of The Star
Building The other operate works
are Bizets Carmen" Gounod S
Faust" Verdi's Aida" "Rigoletto'
and La Traviata," Puccini's Ma
dame Butterfly" and La Boneme,'
Wagner's "Tannhauser' and Leon
cavallos "Pagliacci."
The symphonic works now avail
able are Tschaikowsky's Fourth
Symphony" and 'Nutcrscker Suite"
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony" and
Eighth Symphony" Schuberts
Unfinished Symphony" Mozart's
&c Minor Symphony" Bach's
"Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 2 and
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Maj. Horton Dies;
Sent First Radio
Message From Plane
Method He Perfected
Used for Fire Control
During World War

Mai. Harry Mack Horton. U. S. A.,
retired, who perfected the basic
method of radio communication be-
tween an airplane in flight and the
ground died yesterday in Walter
Reed Hospital at the age of So.
Maj. Horton conducted the first
successful transmission of radio
message from a flying plane to a
ground station August 27, 1910, at
the Sheepstead Bay race track on
Long Island. Made available to the
United States Army, his discovery
proved invaluable during the World
War as means of artillery fire
control.
Mai Horton also invented one of
the first gasoline gauges for auto
mobiles and trench mortar equip
ped with periscope. The Russian
Army purchased 3d. 900 of these guns
during the World War,
Heart Ailment Blamed.
His death was attributed to
heart ailment believed to have re-
suited from injuries he received in
an airplane crash in California in
1918. A pioneer aviator as well as
an inventor, Maj. Horton was train
Ing student pilots and radio opera
tors at March Field Calf, at the
time. He was placed on the retired
list because of the injuries and had
made his home in Washington and
nearby Maryland since that time
During the past three years he had
lived on farm in Wheaton, Md.
A native of Knoxville, Pa, where
his parents conducted a private
school, Maj. Horton began his studies
Of electrical engineering in jersey
City. N. j., while still in his early
twenties There he became ac-
quainted with DR.. Lee De Forest,
sometimes called the father" Of
radio. working as his assistant for
number of years. About 1905, Maj.
Horton worked in Denmark in COL
laboration with Valdamar Poulson
In developing the continuous wave
radio beam.
Established Airport.
In 1928. Maj. Horton established
the Congressional Airport near Rock
vile, Nd. with the intention Of
starting a large commercial air field
and flying school III health forced
him to drop the project. For several
years he engaged in the real estate
business in Montgomery County. He
was a member of the American
Legion and the Masonic Order.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Sarah C. Horton, and two sons,
Harry M Horton, jr., and Thomas
r. Horton, both of Wheaton: a
brother, Comdr. Fred E. Horton,
U. S. N, retired, of Virginia Beach,
Va, and two sisters. Mrs. Helen
Gambell of Vineland, N. j., and Miss
Ada M. Horton of Mansfield, Pa.
Funeral services will be held at
II am. tomorrow at the Fort Myer
Chapel. Burial, with full military
honors. will be In Arlington National
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Polish Legation Closed
At Request Of Hungary
b the Associated Press.

b the Associated Press.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 10
The Polish Legation closed its doors
yesterday by request of the Hun
garian government-once Poland S
closest friend.
The reason was not announced,
but 1t was generally believed that
Hungary felt, as a signatory of the
axis pact, she could no longer toll
crate the legation of q country abb
sorbed by Germany.
The British government protested.
The Polish Minister. Leon Orlowski
will remain privately in Budapest.
Evening star., 1940-12-10

ran over him and continued south
ward without stopping.
Mr.. Moody was pronounced dead
and his body taken to Halls funeral
home at Lorton.
Police reported that Mr.. Moody, a
guard employed by construction
firm engaged in erecting new bar
racks at Fort Belvoir, was single and
lived with a sister, Mrs. Elsie Dali
ton, at Pohick.
The Washington man held In the
Fairfax Jail, it was stated, is
truck driver employed by Capital
contractor.
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Roosevelt Asserts
Wealth Division
lis Defense Need
President Sends Message
To Form Convention
At Baltimore
BY the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE. Dec. 10.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt declared today that
effective rearmament Of the Nation
requires, In addition to mobiliza-
tion OF men and munitions, IAN
equitable distribution Of the wealth
from our unparalleled resources"
This statement was made in a
presidential message read before
the 22d annual convention Of the
American Farm Bureau Federation.
The convention was considering
new proposals designed to give
farmers a larger share of the ma
tional income
Mr.. Roosevelt told the 1000
farmer-delegates that the second
World War. like the first, was having
an injurious effect upon the economy
Of the world.
But out of this war already has
emerged" he said, "a clearer realiza-
ton OF the value of democracy and
the danger to it from unbridled
force and aggression Using the
democratic processes. this Nation is
arming to preserve freedom and to
see to 1t that the enslavement OF
millions of human beings will pass
like the nightmare that it is.
The President said the Nation, In
this crisis, could count upon the
federation of farmers everywhere.
TO rearm effectively, however,
means more than men and NUM-
tons 1t means an equitable dis
tribution of the wealth from our
unparalleled material resources, help
for the underprivileged, security for
workers and farmers and whatever
else that Is necessary to keep
democracy democratic force"
Meanwhile, federation officials
claimed support in high administra-
ton quarters for a revision OF
Federal farm programs under which
crop prices would be pegged at
higher levels and parity payments
would be eliminated.
Evening star., 1940-12-10

The disturbance that was over Northern
Minnesota Monday morning has advanced
eastward and northeastward, Canton, N. T..
1.000.7 millibars t2a.55 inches) with a
weak trough extending southwark and
southwestward to the upper Rio Grande
Valley Big. Spring. Tex. 1,O13.5 millibars
t29.93 inches: An anti-cyclonic system
extends from the east Gulf States eastward
to the. Carolina coast; Wilmineton. N. G;
1924 millibars 1904 inchesl. and
thence northeastward over the ocean, An
other anti-cyclonic system is central over
Washington Seattle, 1.O3O.1 millibars
(3O42 inches), with a wedge extending
southeastward to Nebraska, North Platte
1O24.7 millibars t30.26 inches. During
the last "a hours light SHOWS have occurred
in North Dakota Northern Minnesota and
Upper Michigan, and light rains in Arizona
Temperatures have fallen in Maine and
over the Plains States. the upper Missis-
sippi Valley. the middle Rocky Mountain
region, and the middle and northern
Plateau. while they have risen in the lower
Lake region the Ohio and a. ID, middle MissIs is
the Rio Grande Valley.
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Operu Broodcusts

Through the cooperation of
the National Broadcasting Co.,
The Star is presenting over
WMAL each weekday morning
excerpts from the operate re-
cordings featured in the opera
appreciation campaign. The
program on which the record
ings are heard, "Today's Prel-
ude," is scheduled daily except
Sundays, from TO 7 am. The
Stars recordings may be heard
between GAS and 7 o'clock.
The recordings already re-
leased in the campaign may be
obtained at the special distribu-
ton booths in the lobby of The
Star Building each weekday
from am. to s pm. The
booths are closed on Sundays.
Evening star., 1940-12-10
M. U. Unit Gets A Rutino

The chemistry department at the
University of Maryland has been
given Class A rating by the Amer
lean Chemical Society, it was an
nounced yesterday at College Park,
Md. Maryland was one of 65 COL
leges to be approved in the first
rating made of chemistry instruc-
ton.
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Report

FURNISHED By the
Coumbia-Some oudiness with highest
cloudness colder with lowest
generally fair and COLDER
afternoon shifting northwest early tonight
slightly cloudy in central and west portions to-
nigh nc
Virginia-Cloudy slightly portion
colder
vgna-Some cloudne and colder tonight and tomorrow
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Dr.. Huber to Speuk

Radio In Education will be the
subject Of an address tonight by DR..
Clyde M. Huber at meeting OF the
Barnard School PIT. A. at the
school, Fourth and Decatur streets
NV. The meeting will begin at 8
o'clock. A program of Christmas
carols will be sung by the audience.
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Tipsy Horse Driving

GETTYSBURG, Pa, Dec. 10 [P.-
Clayton Brumgard, IS. farmer from
Carroll County, Md, was sentenced
TO serve 10 days in jail here TO-DAY
after being convicted of being drunk
while driving a horse on the city
streets
Evening star., 1940-12-10

8" Wagners preludes to Die Meis-
tersinger' and "Parsifal," "DebusSy' S
Afternoon of a Faun," Clouds"
and Festivals Haydn's SYM
phony No. SO in E Flat Major,
Brahms Second Symphony and
Francks d Minor Symphony"
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Report for Last ~ Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon today0
Highest, So noon today. Year ago. 81.
Lowest. 3S, 2:30 am. today. Year
ago. As.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 100. on July q.
Lowest, Z, on January %.
Humidity for Last II Hsurs.
tFrom noon Yesterday to noon today)
Hiehest. f6 per cent. at 2:45 am. today.
Lowest, 43 per cent, at noon today.
River Report.
Potomac snd Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac clear at Great
Falls today.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic SurveyJ
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation IN inches in the
Capital (current month to date):
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
r MARY j. WALLACE

CHADBOURN, May % - Mrs.
Mary Josephine Wallace, 70, wife of
Marshall Wallace, died at the home
of her son, Howard Wallace, auction.
Ger on the Chadbourn strawberry
market, near Cerro Gordo, this morn.
ing at 1870 o'clock after an illness
of about a week.
Funeral services will be held from
the late residence Wednesday after.
noon at 2 o'clock with the Rev. e. C..
Names, pastor of the Chadbouln
Methodist church, officiating. Inter.
ment will follow in the Moody eme
terry, near Marion, S. c..
Pallbearers will be: Perry Snipes,
Earl Snipes, Wilson Snipes, l.. l.
Foxworth, Clarence Smith and Wal
ter Smith. Nieces of the deceased
will act as flower girls.
She is survived by her husband
one son and four grandchildren.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
BELGIUM'S PEACE
NEGOTIATORS NEAR
GERMANY'S LINES
Continued From Page One)
Hitler but there was no hint as
to its name or location. There
was talk, however, that it was
located i'll the Ardennes Forest.
Fate OF Colonies

An interesting question raised by
the capitulation was the fate of the
Belgian colonies. An unverified re-
port circulated in Berlin was that
the Belgian government in Paris,
which does not recognize its kings
c~apltulation order, offered to place
the colonies under the protection of
France. 1t was stated here London
and Paris negotiating on this
point.
The commentary said a violent
quarrel between Leopold and Gen,
eralissimo Maxine Weygand of the
Allied forces preceded the Belgian
action. When Weygand failed tc
prevail upon the king, it said, French
Premier Reynaud tried vainly tc
reach Leopold by telephone in an eff.
fort to change his mind.
The Allies tried to satisfy the mon
arch, 1t went on, with what the Ger
mans call a feeble drive from the
south in an effort to relieve the be.
~leaguered troops in Flanders.
Dienst said the Allies were unable
to keep cheir promises, that instead
the situation becarme Catastrophe
and that Leopold lost patience. 1t
was then, it asserted, that Reynaud
tried to communicate by telephone
with the king.
The king insisted he had consti-
tutional authority to order cessation
of fighting, the commentary went
on.
Leopold reached his decision to
capitulate Sunday, German sources
said, whereupon Weygand was re-
ported to have made another visit
to him. On this visit he was said
to have been told that French aid
was inadequate and that the Eng
lish were moving toward the channel
with the apparent intention of en-
barking and leaving Belgian to her
fate.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
CLAIMS FIRM
COULD MAKE 1000
WARPLANES DAILY
Continued From Page One)

Continued From Page One)
must not be dictated to by
men who haven't kept up to
date in airplane design and
operation" came the reply.
THE manufacture of airplanes
If agreement is had upon just
what is wanted-becomes SIM
ply an assembly problem"
Of the proposals for an enor-
nous defensive armament"
program, Ford said:
Zone of the things we must
remember is that preparedness
for defense is also prepared
ness for war and with tremend-
Gus so-called defensive anna
ment,' we are in just the posi-
ton the war makers want us
to be, in order to be pushed
into a conflict in which we
should have no part-pushed in
by an insidious middle group
that are fighting neither Ger
many nor England, but getting
them to fight each other solely
that this group might profit
financially.
The real fifth columnists' il
this country are these financial in
terests that make money out o
war, propagate it and peddle prop
aganda.'
Ford said he regarded the oceans
as our best protection agains
invasion. An enemy can't hau
tanks and other mechanical equip
ment of war across 6 d e {
oceans" he said.
Reverting to the volume produc
ton of airplanes, Ford said tina
not only would the 1000 planes {
day be possible of attainment, bu
that their cost also could be re
duced to one-eighth of what the,
sell for
You a depend upon it," ht
asserted, Germany didn't pay the
enormous prices that planes cos
in this country
Asked whether the huge volume
of plane production would inter
fere with motorcar output, Ford
said "emphatically not The mo
t%orcar, he added, has become th'
greatest instrument for education
and good will among people and it
production must not be permitted
to lag.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29

ding system would be replaced by
negotiated contracts. Contracts up
to $25, 900 would be exempt from
the present laws provision limit
ing profits to 10 per cent. Certain
labor regulations also would be
relaxed.
Talk of fortifying Guam, island
i'll the far Pacific, revived during
discussion of the air force bill,
and Rep. Mas (R-Minn), senior
minority member of the house nav,
al committee. declared that if he
had his way I'D fortify Guam
tomorrow"
"One of the worst votes cast
in this house was when we re-
jected the fortiication of Guam,
he shouted. IF we had fortified
Guam two years ago, we wouldn't
be worrying now about what is
going to happen to the Dutch Eas1
Indies"
Applause greeted his remarks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
nFFENSE PROPOSAL
aft BY WADE
Wants Fort caswe'l Consider
''e ed In The National De-
Tense Program

Wade, city commission
J.nb1ic works. has written to
er rarolina's senator's and to
ND.I representatives in Washing
0''. ,rsing that the mouth of the
s' Fear river, particularly the
.'ps .swell section, be given con,
ig t, when the government
'idel@'- coast defenses in this part
Of 'os cited the ideal location OF
NJ Casvell for the placing OF
folV defense ornaments and the
eeso,@In 9e of this section OF the
YUM in time of invasion.
slate iet+er was as follows:
%InrolIowing the letter addressed
~, aOI by the city clerk and treas
70 sOs and authorized by the board
ut'I city commissioners, and be-
o. .a Of certain conditions in Eur
eao' and the need for prompt &C
ope ~ orr Federal government in
s .ua our national defense, |
~ writing you suggesting a n d
e eroroIv urging contact with the
saO,tS officials in Washington lay
p,TP before them all facts pertain
in5 to the mouth of the Cape Fear
river, .ou r;+ is
;ao9l with its splendid three way
I ,'otar connection, north, south and
,.ost for seaplane operations and
rlo,,ty of back country b d
eo1,thport for landing fields, hang
ors and other facilities necessary
tar national defense. Highway con-
n~octions north, south and west pro-
vide quick communication.
The Cape Fear river channel
ran be easily defended. Quarters
e~p available and can be made
rosdv for almost immediate oc-
nnancv, The sand forts are i'm
mime to bombs. The Dow Chemi-
cal company is situated on the
npripsular in New Hanover coun-
tv in sight of the property, which
would be a very important factor
in our National defense in case OF
conflict.
Our gasoline terminals, among
the largest in the country, are vi
tai and absolutely necessary to
any modern defense program.
I'VE believe the above justities
a survey. if same has not already
been made. and that same may
be included in whatever scheme OF
defense our Federal Government
may have or is developing, will
YOU not in the interest of Whining
Ton, Southport and the nation, lay
this matter before the proper Of
%fcialS??'
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-29
II Ally
FALL OF BELGIUM
HEIGHTENS WAR
FERVOR in ITALY
Continued from Page One)

time required before they could
obtain visas were Informed those
details we're not yet available.
There was no immediate comment
from the government on King Leo
pold's surrender of the Belgian
army.
However, Virginia Gayda in the
Giornale D'Italia that the surren-
der was IAN act of high political
and humane wisdom
His newspaper article said the
British had planned to use the Bel.
gian army to cover their withdraw
al from Flanders.
There was speculation as to
whether Premier Mussolini might
have influenced King Leopolds
surrender through King Nittorio
Emanuele of Italy.
Related
The king is the father-ln-laW OF
Princess Maria Nse sister of Leo
pold and wife of Italian Crown
Prince Umberto.
Princess Maria Jose received
cheers and a demonstration of SYM
pathy as she stepped from a train
after a visit to Italian Red Cross
centers at Naples.
Some observers suggested that
Italy might be holding off entry
into the war to see what effect the
Belgian surrender would have Oh
the British and French defense.
1t was considered likely that Pope
Plus MI discussed Italy's immi-
nent action today with Babuscio
Rizzo, counsellor of the Italian EN-.
bassy at the Vatican in a private
talk preliminary to al audience to-
morrow when Bernardo Attolico is
to present his credentials as the
new ambassador.
The Pope also conferred with AL.
fonso, former king of Spain.
Italians privately and in govern.
ment circles have expressed curios-
ity recently as to what effect Italian
intervention in the war would have
in the United States. Expressions
of American opinion on the war are
being followed closely.
Americans were not included in
today's regulations requiring visas
to leave the country.