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Evening star., 1940-04-27
Ranking Democrats
Will Fight Extreme
Wage-Hour Changes
Labor Committeeman
To Vote to Recommit Bill
If Borden PIun Passes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Ranking Democrats on the House
Labor Committee served notice to-
day that they would try to kill
legislation amending the wage-hour
law If it, was loaded up" with far
reaching revisions such rs those
proposed by Representative Barden,
Democrat, of North Carolina.
Chairman Norton said many
members believed even the commit
tees less sweeping proposals went
too far. She added:
Many OF us most certainly will
vote for motion to recommit the
bill (send it back TO the committee)
II 1t is loaded up with q bunch of
the Barden or similar amendment" :"
Representative Ramspeck Of
Georgia, who ranks next to Mrs.
Norton among the committee Demo-
Gratis, agreed. He said the COM
mittee's proposal to exempt q group
OF operations closely related to the
farm from the 42-hour maximum
work week was too broad.
But Mr.. Barden predicted that
most of his proposals would be ac-
cepted by the House on q final vote,
probably Monday.
Barden's Argument.
MIR. Barden has proposed that 16
operations, connected with process
sing or manufacturing farm prod
ucts, be exempted from both the
work week limitation and the 80
cents-an-hour minimum wage re-
quirement of the law. He contends
that the statute results in increased
costs which are passed on to the
farmer by cutting the prices laid
for his products.
Mr.. Barden told the chamber
during yesterdays four hours of
debate:
IF you are going to put q floor
(of wages under those who handle
agricultural products, then, for
Gods sake, do not put the farmer
under the floor"
Representative Healey, Democrat,
OF Massachusetts, retorted, that q
'1og-rolling combination" of lum-
ber, cannery and dairy interests
was trying to deprive more than
100000 persons Of labor standards
provided by the act.
Party lines split. Republicans and
Democrats spoke for and against
the Barden proposals. Both sides
criticized Elmer F.. Andrews, for
mer administrator, for his admin
istration of the wage-hour law.
Cox Called Anti-Labor Leader.
There also was considerable talk
about wages in the South and about
Representative Cox, Democrat, of
Georgia, leader of the forces seeking
broad exemptions from the law.
Representative Welch, Republican,
of California called Mr.. Cox "a
coalition snti-labor leader" and the
forces behind him "Coxs army,
whose object is to deprive million
and a half workers of the protection
of law which requires the payment
of meager 80 cents"
MIR. WEIGH added that these forces
would "re-enslave" these workers ito
starvation wage of S and 10 cents
an hour"
Representative Ramspeck said 1t
was true that income in the South
was lower than in other parts of
the country and expressed belief
that the wage-hour law would prove
of benefit there.
Il am one of those from the
South" he said, who believes the
time has come when the South can
not live on a different strata from
the rest of the country"
Evening star., 1940-04-27
Stockholm
Continued From First Page.)

Germans gradually were solidifying
their positions along the west coast
and seeking to establish contact be-
tween scattered detachments.
No developments were reported
from Narvik, where a small German
force still is holding out. 1t was
said the British might eventually
win control of Narvik, ore port north
of the Arctic Circle, and thus Of
Evening star., 1940-04-27
Tea Will Be Given
By Count POtOcki

The Polish Ambassador, Count
jerry Potocki, will entertain at
the Embassy at tea at S o'clock
Tuesday afternoon, when his
guests will be the volunteer work.
ers OF the Polish Unit of the
American Red Cross.
Evening star., 1940-04-27
l40 Ships at Honolulu
After Hawaii Comes
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, April 27.-One hun
dred and 40 ships of the United
States Fleet swung at anchor to-
day, back from the 1910 war games
in Hawaiian waters.
The fleet, which began returning
Thursday, will remain here 10 days
before resuming the final phase Of
the maneuvers-a simulated attack
on a theoretical enemy force ap-
preaching the West Coast of the
United States.
Evening star., 1940-12-15
International Relations
Clubs 10 Meet al 6. j.

Delegates from colleges in five
States, Canada and the District of
Columbia will gather at Georgetown
University for the Middle Atlantic
International Relations Clubs Con-
ference Friday and Saturday.
Delegates will be here from Della
ware, Maryland, New Jersey, New
York, Pennsylvania and Ontario and
Quebec, Canada.
Subjects for round table discus
sion include The European Theater
of War" Our Neighbors to the
South, Powers and Policies in the
Orient" and Democracy"
Among the speakers will be DR..
Lewis Hanke, director of the His
panic Foundation, Library of Con-
gress; DR.. Josef Kunz, lecturer in
international law at the University
of Toledo (Ohio), and Miss Amy
H. Jones, division assistant in the
Carnegie Endowment for Interna-
tional Peace.
DR.. Thor Kerekes of Georgetown
University is faculty adviser for the
conference.
Evening star., 1940-12-15
Labor Must Defend
lis Right 10 Strike,
Pressman Warns
&. |. O. Counse! Sees
Effort to Break Down
Hour Standards
By the Associated Press.

by the ASSOCldleu fItsS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 14.-Lee Press
man, general counsel for the c. I. O..
declared today that "all unions
which seek to protect the interests
of their members will combat any
Government action or legislation
aimed at curtailing or impairing
the right to strike"
Speaking at National Lawyers
Guild committee conference on la
bor's rights and the defense pro-
gram, Mr.. Pressman asserted that
labor has no weapon other than
its right to refuse to work to achieve
its just demands"
1T cannot rely" he said, upon
the Government or the benevolence
of employers such as Bethlehem
Steel Co. or the Henry Ford Co.
Mr.. PreSsman said that the labor
policy program outlined by the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
December 4, would permit employers
to "use the national defense to
fatten corporate dividends, or to
establish bonus schemes for the
higher executives while leaving un-
altered the wages of workers, re-
gardless of how low, and their work.
ing conditions, regardless of how
poor"
I'm the face of millions of idle
American workers" he continued
'the spokesmen of American in
dustry and finance have the gall
to urge that the hours of work
must be heightened.
This program Is nothing else
than an attempt to break down and
destroy the standards of labor which
have been built up over years"
Evening star., 1940-12-15
Optimists to Provide
Books for Bows Club

The Downtown Optimist Club Of
Washington will hold a ladies' day
at the Mayfower Hotel Tuesday at
1890 pm, to shower the libraries
of the Boys Club of Washington
with books.
Miss Helen Patterson, head club
librarian. will receive the additions
for the three branch libraries, which
already have 1000 books and maga-
zines.
Plans for the Optimist Club Boys
Club dinner at the Mayfower Janu-
ary % will be announced. The event
will celebrate the 18th anniversary
of cooperation between the two
groups.
William E. Hall, president of the
Boys Club of America, will be the
guest speaker at the banquet.
Evening star., 1940-12-15
Trade Board to Honor
Kinq Tomorrow Niqht

Senator King, retiring as chair
man of the Senate District Com
mittee at the end of the present
session, will be paid tribute by men,
bers of the Board of Trade at their
meeting tomorrow at 8 pm. at the
Willard Hotel.
Senator King was defeated in the
Utah Democratic primary. A reso-
luton adopted by the Board of Di-
rectors of the board will be pre-
sented to the Senator at tomorrow S
meeting.
Joseph E. Davies, chairman of the
Inaugural Committee, also will
speak. He is expected to discuss
present world affairs and the part of
the United States in them.
The addresses and presentation
will be followed by buffet supper.
Evening star., 1940-12-15
Sorority Meets Tonight

Members of Phi Pi Epsilon, foreign
service sorority of George Washing
ton University, will hear H. R.
Baukhage, radio commentator, in a
talk on Notes of An Impartial Par
tisan' at meeting at the Raleigh
Hotel at 8 o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1940-12-15
Actor Edward Cecil Dies

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. IA (P).-Ed-
ward Cecil, so, veteran motion pic
ture character actor, died of heart
attack yesterday. He entered pic
lures more than 20 years ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-13
P&<uE KILLER $pEAkS
~1 DDh RIcHARD/HouGHTON

fell here on the ground. We've go1
to stop him!"
Butch Who it it," He was
whipping the flashlight beam over
the trail. I found the gun.
mo time to explain. l." The
light touched the girl, who had
come up behind Belzer, painting
but unafrarid. LOUISE mean
Miss Markham, what are you do
ing here? This is dangerous. That
man probably is armed"
Then please don't go after
him!"
"Stay in the car" Belzer or
dered. Butch and I'll stop him.
He started along the trail on the
run. l hesitated only a moment,
but Lousie had a flashlight of her
own and was turning obedlently
back to the car. I followed Belzer,
marveling at his power over wom-
en-.
We reached the top of the levee
together. 1 grasped his arm as l
saw the lights of the barge draw
ing away. TOO late," 1 said. Hes
on that boat"
Belzer fired his revolver into the
air and shouted stop"
A bullet from the barge struck
the ground in front of us and
ricochetted off with a long whine.
Belzer snapped off his flashlight.
THAT guy means business" he
said.
1--WE can't fire on the boat,"I
told him. THE crew isn't at fault.
Well, I'm afraid our little ad-
venture is at an end. Who was
your friend?"
His name is William Gala,
bootlegger, living at 2 Cleaves
street. He's the fellow who kid
mapped me the night Alfred was
killed. He's also a dope peddler."
Belzer whistled. You've been
learning things Where's that
farmhouse? We'll put the police on
his trail"
mo police boat could catch that
barge now" We're better than half
way to San Franciscoo."
"You under-rate our police boats.
Anyway, what's the matter with
the San Francisco harbor ~police?"
We found the farmhouse. Every
n was asleep, of course That
was why I had seen no lights. The
farmer stuck his head out an up
stairs window. He was sleepy, but
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-13

remarkably obliging. Two minutes
later Be1zer was talking to his edi.
tor. Not until he was sure his story
would make the last edition did he
call the police.
AS we walked back toward the
stalled car l asked him, What in
the world was the idea of bringing
Louise Markham out here?"
Il didn't bring her. She brought
me. l told you I'd get someone with
a good car"
But a girl"
"Say, she's got real nerve, that
girl has"
We heard the automobile engine
running, surging as though Louise
were rocking the car back and
forth in the deep rut into which
it had sunk.
That was exactly what she was
doing. She extricated it in triumph
just as we arrived. Next time"
she told Belzer, "I'Il drive all the
way" She turned to me After we
left the pavement he insisted driv-
ing these roads was a job for
a man. What a mani"
She was laughing, but I was
uncomfortable. I remembered her
telephone call in the middle of the
night, when Muriel Benson had an
sWered the phone, from my room.
Miss Markham. About that tele-
phone CALI want to explain
why, Bill' her voice softened.
Did you think I ever would doubt
your" z
(TO Be COntinued)
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-13
Hollis And Miss Guilty.
Will Attend Institute

Two representatives of the New
Hanover county department of pub
lie welfare will attend the fourth
in a series of public welfare insti.
tutes scheduled Friday at the club.
house in Clarkton.
J. R. Hollis, superintendent, and
Miss Edith P. Guffy, case work
supervisor, will attend the institute,
which has been called by Miss Anna
Cassatt, director, case work train
ing and family rehabilitation, state
board of charities and public well
fare in Raleigh.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-13
Bella LANAN|COURT REPORTER Rv T ATon Uao
" FOUNDED on Actual Court Reo Ims and You Can Be the Judge

The MEN CROWD ABOUT THE CON-
rESSED LEATHER THIEF, ELISHA
WEEKS: AND THEN, Sc0IT JONES
GIVES HIM HIS CHOICE JAIL OF
A WHIPPING
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-13

Tunis, Capital of Tunisia, has a
metropolitan population of some
225, 900, of which, in 1881, French
numbered 33,649 and Italians 46,
.457.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-01
DEFINITIONS.
Wise and Otherwise

SECRET: Something woman thinks is
too good to keep.
GossIPER: One who gets her best stuff
from somebody else who promised
she would keep it a secret.
ECHO: The only thing that ever
cheated a woman out of the last
word.
GENEALoGY: Tracing yourself back to
people better than you are.
FASHION: That which becomes out Of
date as soon as universally adopted.
SOCIAL TACT: Making your company
feel at home even though you wish
they we're.
Collected by
JNO. GARLAND POLAR
Former Governor of Virginia
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-01

demand made on them by Navy
experts - speed, fuel consumption,
maneuverability, seaworthiness. He
recalls with satisfaction the cry that
went up when it was proposed - not
by him that we should let the
hard pressed British have them while
we were building more. Even men who
had been pooh-poohing suddenly
we're insistent that we needed them,
and the deal was killed.
Naval experts have many theories
about the best uses for the little fight
ers. Many visualize them as doing on
the sea what the German dive bomb
ers did in France - racing ahead. of
the attack and serving in place of
artillery. Against lightly armored
ships, such as aircraft carriers. their
torpedoes would be especially effec-
tive. Because of their speed and
flexibility, they would be the most diff
fcult of targets themselves; attacking
down a sun streak in the daytime.
they would be well-nigh invisible. and
attacking at night with muffled en-
gines, they would be like ghost ships.
Raiding harbors. chasing submarines,
attacking enemy shipping in narrow
waters - these, plus normal patrol
and reconnaissance work, are among
the uses seen for them.
Mr.. Sutphen doesn't pretend to
know just how they will eventually
prove most useful. The answer, of
course, may be given in European
waters at any minute. Perhaps even
before these words are printed,
major triumph or defeat for motor
torpedo boats will be on the record.
But you don't find out the most
effective use for anything, or even
whether it is any good at ALL" says
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THE MOSQUITO FLEET
Continued from pose six

MIR. Sutphen, until you have it. A lot
of people said submarines wouldn't
amount to anything. They said the
same thing about airplanes. All say
is, let's find out before it's too late"
And because he didn't stop with
saying that, Lieutenant Caldwell and
his young men have something with
which to find out. Uncle Sans mos
quitoes are beginning to swarm.
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Continued from preceding page

your life Doing what everyone around
you is doing does not take courage.
But swimming against the stream ..
Toward nine o'clock his father came
in on tiptoe. The breakfast table was
set in the adjoining room. The old
pastor held a newspaper toward him
and pointed to Berlin dispatch on an
inside page. Wilhelm read that the
Gestapo was looking for "a we'll
known woman, a foreign correspond
ent" who had disappeared. A search
of her premises had revealed conclu-
sively that she was dangerous spy.
Her confederates had already been
arrested and had confessed.
Wilhelm looked up and met his
fathers glance. The old man turned
his eyes toward the library. where
Catherine still slept. Wilhelm nodded
Eyes, it's she. but she isn't a spy. The
gentlemen in Berlin didn't like the
things she wrote" He had barely said
the words when he was sorry. After
all, it was not his secret alone. How
could he expect his father to under
stand the things he himself only half
understood?
But to his surprise the old pastor
nodded agreement. The truth" he
said. They don't like the truth. Hun
dreds of my brothers have been taken
from the pulpit. When we tell the
truth, we are thrown into concentra-
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ton camps. But the truth must be
told. must be shouted aloud -"
Il never realized all that" Wilhelm
said. 81 never even suspected. never
thought about these things"
"You are a soldier"
"A soldier must act"
The old man reflected for moment.
THE American consul -? ?"
''She would vanish before he could
lift fingel.'
Something had to be done. and
quickly Catherine could not stay long
in his fathers house. Rumors spread
too fast in a small town She would be
arrested. tried before = secret tribunal.
a written confession would be forged,
and then they would execute her. Or
else she would simply be shot trying
to escape. The pastor said. THE
Dutch border is only thirty miles
away -" This was before the inva-
sion of Hollan6.
Its PROBABLY well guarded.
STILL, l may be able to help" He
left. An hour later he returned with
man in cape and a SLOUGH hat pulled
down over his face: Everything is
arranged. Our friend knows place
where she can slip across the border.
He will call for her this evening. BY
midnight she'll be safely across
Wilhelm took the man hand. "How
can thank your
The man shook his head. 1--WE want
so much to help D and there's so lit
tie we can do There is so much injus-
tice in Germany, every day so many
terrible wrongs -"
The pastor had left. closing the door
softly. The man came closer to Will
helm and said in low voice: But if
you really want to help -" They
stood alone. talking in whispers.
Catherine did not appear until
nearly five o'clock. Her eyes we're
bright and she felt fresh and rested.
After she had eaten, Wilhelm told her
of the newspaper item. She paled. Il
understand. They've decided to get
rid of me at all costs. l know too
much" There was fear in her voice,
but she regained her composure al
most Immediately.
They sat in the library waiting for
the darkness to come. For a long time
they sat in utter silence, with the
embers in the fireplace slowly flicker
ing out. "Only few hours" Wilhelm
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||E!I5Y5IE!3QN "a:
Labor Day Speech

u S NEAR as l can tell. what
A this country has got to
4 = do is 60 back to work.
l guess presidents Of big COM
panies have got to start in dom
more presidin'. And statesmen
have got to sell harder and
plumbers have got to plumb
faster.
What with booms and depres-
sions, the last twenty years has
got us into a lot of loafin ways.
Why l bring this up is on ac-
count of what happened to
France. That was nice country.
once. But they dilly-dallied
around with what some call
socialism - which is like layin in
bed and imaginin' it's Sunday
when it isn't.
Now I'm not denyin the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-01
Discouraged? Given u, trying?
Is II because you need this help?

no you feel hemmed in by life .
y as if you're getting nowhere?
This blue mood may just mean you
are tired and rundown.
Depression often comes when
digestion is sluggish, when intes-
final waste poisons from ordinary
constipation sap your vitality,
wreak havoc with your nerves.
Here's help that thousands
have found put them back in the
running! A remarkable food that
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-01
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE

said consolingly. just to break the
silence.
At the sound OF his voice Catherine
was overcome with anguish. She
rubbed her hand across her forehead.
What was the matter with her? Was
she afraid of what was coming? No, it
was not that. She had been through
and seen too much for that. There had
been other times when her life was in
danger. She was not afraid.
This was something different. She
had no reason to fear; in all prob
ability she would escape to Holland.
Then she realized she was worried
about him. She would be saved, but
what would happen to Wilhelm? In
low, helpless voice she said: 1--WE
dragged you into all this -"
you've opened my eyes,"
Her tone became urgent. They'll
find out who helped me. They'll make
you pay for it." She jumped to her
feet and laid her hands imploringly on
his shoulders: Come with me. To
America. There we can - there you
can live in safety -" As she spoke
she knew that she was not only afraid
for him. She was afraid of leaving him.
He looked into her eyes with great
calmness They we're wide and earnest
now, and when he took her hands in
his own he felt for the first time that
she was no longer stronger than he.
that now he was the one who felt
certain of his task mo" he shook
his head - must stay here. A SOL
der dor, not run away"
She began to cry. She buried her
head against his chest and wept. She
had known what he would say. He
would not have been himself had he
decided differently. With the tears still
streaming down her cheeks, she tried
to smile. my nerves -"
He turned away and walked toward
the window as she wiped away the
tears. Later, some time in the future"
There was something else he wanted
to say, something deep and wonderful.
ut won't last forever" he added.
That was a promise. 1t was all he
could say to this woman. now, all he
could let himself say. How long would
it be? A few hours. few days. an
eternity?
She stepped over to him. 1t was as
if she knew what he had been thinking,
for she whispered, mo. it won't last
forever. And we we have been to-
gether for an eternity already. haven't
WEI"
Toward nine o'clock car stopped
in front of the house. Catherine got in.
As Wilhelm was spreading blanket
over her knees she suddenly took his
head in her hands and kissed his
mouth. "I'll watt" she said. Then the
car vanished into the night. -.
During the next few days the Propa-
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ganda Minister'S machine worked at
full speed. The papers were literally
flooded with stories about Wilhelm
Faber. The Minister had kept his
word. Wilhelm became the most pop
ular man in Germany.
He stayed with his father for three
days. At times he had visitors, most of
whom came late at night and left
before dawn. On the morning of the
day when he was to give his first
radio address in Berlin. he took leave
of his father and got into his car.
He never arrived in Berlin.
! SAW Catherine Newton ON Christ
mas Eve in Stockholm cafe. She was
preparing to leave for Finland. had
just come from Germany. and among
other things l told her of the excite
ment in Nazi circles over the secret
radio station, which no one had been
able to locate. 1t was then that she
told me Wilhelm Faber's story. when
he said to me before l left, "A soldier
doesn't run away l didn't know what
he meant. A week later understood"
The day of the first radio address
they looked for Wilhelm Faber all over
Berlin. He couldn't be found. But at
the hour fixed for the speech he stood
before microphone. Not at the gov
eminent radio station. He explained
why that was. He explained that he
did not want to say the things the
government would force him to say;
that he didn't want to deliver speeches
written in the Propaganda Ministry.
He wanted to tell the truth.
Not many heard him at the time.
But he spoke again and again, day
after day. week after week. and always
at the same hour. Word got around.
Germans passed on the wave-length of
the secret station to one another. and
more and more people tuned in. The
SCSIdlO SOuldu IONdlC lllC SldllOl.
All they could do was arrest those
they suspected of listening.
Catherine said: They arrested his
father, too, and put the old man in
concentration camp. He died after a
week of it." There were tears in her
eyes as she spoke.
l said: How long can it last?
They'll find Faber eventually. He'll be
just one more martyr, and our time
isn't made for martyrs. People forget
too quickly"
Catherine shook her head. She was
white with suppressed emotion. But
her eyes were calm and full of faith,
and as she spoke her voice was grave
and solemn.
mo. Nothing is done in vain. Just
as surely as the truth can never be
suppressed, so it is certain that no one
who fights for the truth ever really
diesv'
The End