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Evening star., 1940-04-01
Stage Play at Marking

Still blind to the realities of her
relations with the United States,
Japan has carried through with all
the niceties of political ceremony
the little drama at Nanking, in
stalling with all seriousness her
puppet, Wang Ching-wei, as Pro-
visional President and Premier of
China.
But any illusions under which
Japan and Wang may have labored
that the United States might recog-
nize the new regime were exploded
by Secretary Hull almost before the
Ink was dry on Wangs proclamation,
promising policy of good neigh
borliness" and peaceful diplomacy"
BY putting Japan on notice that
the government of Chang Kai-shek
IS the government of China, as far
as this Government is concerned,
Secretary Hull made it clear that the
United States will press as vigorously
as ever for the protection of it's rights
under International law and existing
treaties, and that the United States
will press Toxic, not Nanking, to
respect those rights.
Creation of the Wang government
exercising authority in all parts of
occupied China-with the exception
Of the three northeastern provinces
which are placed under an autono-
nous regime-therefore does not
change the Chinese situation as far
as this Government is concerned.
Nor will it alter the other salient
facts in the Far East, namely, that
China will continue to fight as reso-
lutely as ever, that the japanese
must maintain a tremendous ex-
peditionary force in China, and that
the japanese people will continue to
be as heavily burdened with the
costs of war as they have been for
nearly three years.
Japan hoped that the Wang gov
ernment would provide a facade be-
hind which to conduct its monop-
clistic Vaccinations without the
necessity of justifying each new step
to cinch the economic hold on China,
a duty which it was expected to shift
to the shoulders of the Wang gov
ernment
Success of this maneuver depends
on the willingness of the powers
to deal with Wang as the japanese
have required them to do with
the Manchukuoan government. The
British position In this important
matter was placed in some doubt by
the conciliatory speech in Toxic last
week of Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, the
British Ambassador in which he eX-
pressed the view that Britain and
Japan can cooperate for the attain
ment of their common aim of peace
In East Asia. The British govern
nent has denied that Craigies ad-
dres betokened a change in policy,
but it Is apparent that the position
of the United States might be pref
udiced if Britain were to lend any
klnd OF recognition to the Wang
government.
The European war, therefore, may
Shift the whole burden of maintain
Ing the policy of non-recognition of
forceful territorial changes onto the
United States, but also because of
the European war the United States
holds certain powerful weapons over
Japan's head. weapons which can be
welded Immediately should the
necessity arise. Japan still wants
new commercial treaty with this
country, and the commodity en-
barge has been shelved, but not
abandoned.
Japan's little stage play at Nanking
has been interesting to watch, but
the State Department will continue
to carry its complaints to Toxic.
Evening star., 1940-04-01

Is it not beautiful and touching
spectacle to see Congressman so ex-
ercised because their constituents
who work in Washington might be
subject to three separate income
taxes?
Evening star., 1940-04-01

Among the palatable new meat
products claimed to have been de-
veloped by the Department of Agri-
culture is smoked turkey. Federal
research men will be claiming picked
pigs feet next as their own idea.
Evening star., 1940-04-01

Grapefruit sent from the United
States to the U. s. S. r. for planting
purposes have survived the Russian
winter successfully, 1t is announced.
Gee whiz!-they got them out of
Florida Just in time.
Evening star., 1940-04-01

Carnegie Institute scientists have
discovered that the color of Ger
tain things can be markedly changed
by putting tremendous pressure on
them. The contents of fathers
purse, for instance, from green to
silver and -colored.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Arlington Democrats
Commend Star.
To the Editor OF The Star:

commend star.
To the Editor Of The Star:
BY vote of the Democratic Executive
Committee I have been instructed rs
secretary to convey to you our sincere
appreciation Of the most accurate re-
ports given in your paper Of the activi-
ties of the Virginia Legislature in Rich
n1ond this session.
We wish to commend Mr. Alexander
Preston for the most efficient way he
handled the news. RUTH MARCY.
March 28.
Evening star., 1940-04-01

=. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
tae use Tor republication OF all news dispatches
credited to It or not otherwise created in this
paper and also the local news published herein
All rights of publication of special dispatches
b. rem also are reserved
Evening star., 1940-04-01

Recent rulings regarding television
by the Federal Communications
Commission have a sort Of now you
see It and now you don't" flavor.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
oedr the name and address OF
the Dr'ter, although the use OF
q pseudOnyn1 for publication is
permissible. Please be brier
Evening star., 1940-04-01

turned to them. This means that IS to
20 dukes and counts once more become
the masters of all SPAIN and Spain be-
comes once more "a country of men
without land and land without men"
5. Membership in the Masonic fra
ternlty Is outlawed by decree. and for
the sole crime of being Mason one faces
prison or firing squad. In the prison
at Burgos, for example, there are over
300 Masons.
l could 60 on indefinitely giving de-
tails and examples. I could relate stories
that are harsh upon civilized ears. but
all would tend to prove one point, viz:
Franco desires to carry Spain back
hundred years and to achieve this has
descended to the vilest terror imag-
Unable. This terror is so vicious that it
becomes imperative for all civilized and
democratic peoples to cry out against
this blot upon our planet and let their
voices be heard in protest.
March 20. ELMER H. ROGERS
Would Let Europe
Go Its Own Way.
To the Editor Of The Star:
Please let me agree with the letter
signed Monitor" so far as it asserts
that this country would be presump-
tious to horn into peace conference
in Europe. But that is as far as I can
agree with him, and even so our reasons
differ. The less we NEEDLE in the af-
fairs of Europe and Asia and the more
we mind our own business the better
of we will be.
The hell below the one mentioned by
Monitor" is the one prepared for those
who promote wars in which others must
suffer and die. If there is any right"
In the incessant European squabbles no
one has ever discovered it. If the people
of the European nations are willing to 20
on slaughtering each other just to make
a Roman holiday for their rulers, that is
their little red wagon Right for me
means for the U. S. A. to play in its own
back yard, and wrong is for the same
~ NJ <As W SCV AlAACu OP III UGilSI DcODle S
wars.
Now as for the Republican party-far
be it from me to give the G. O. p. advice
let me observe that, while 1t has made
some frightful blunders. If 1t wants to
be right at least once in it's career 1t will
stand resolutely for keeping this coun-
try out Of the European mess-and mean
1t. And II the Democrats want to sur
vive they will do likewise. There are
about ten million young men, with an
other ten million parents, their friends
and kinfolks, who will 70 cunning for
that political party and those politicians
that get this country into q war Those
youngsters and their mothers and dads
are not going to be ballyhooed and
spread-eagled into another war to make
the world safe for democracy"
In conclusion let me add that am
not an "isolationist" I'm an "ostracism.
ist.' I would cut these other peoples out
until they can be peaceable and re-
spectacle. osTRAC1sM1sr.
March 40.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Member of the Associated Press,

Entered as second-class matter post once,
Washington D. c.
Evening star., 1940-03-13
Novel Contest Open
To Lotin Americans

A contest to select the best un-
published novel written by q Latin
American has been announced by
the PAn-American Unions division
of intellectual cooperation.
Farrar and Rhinehart, contest
sponsors, will publish the novel. The
contest will open March Is and will
close September Is. A prize of 81 900
will be awarded to the winning au-
thor.
National contests will be held in
each Latin American republic, and
the winning novels in each country
will be submitted to an international
jury. The contest is open to any
Latin American writer. The writ
ing may be in Spanish, Portuguese
or French, but the novel should be
at least $4,000 words long.
Evening star., 1940-03-13
Bar Unit i Reports
Districf'sLaws
eAntiquated
Association Is Told
Of Revision Need
In Several Fields

The District Bar Association last
night heard q report from Its Com
mittee on Revision Of the District
code that the statutes in force In
Maryland and Virginia "far excel"
those in the District.
George Gertman, chairman Of the
committee, reporting at q Meeting
on progress of q bill that would
provide for rewriting of the 40
year-old District code, declared:
"Our corporation law is anti
quated, as are also our criminal
laws. Our interest and usury laws
need overhauling. Our dover and
courtesy laws have outgrown their
usefulness"
Identical bills have been intro
duced in the House and Senate that
provide for revision Of the Districts
laws. Mr.. Gertman said the work
Of drafting should be done by law
yers with at least 10 years expe-
rience in practice in the District.
Memorial Services Held.
The first part of the meeting was
given over to memorial services
honoring members of the District
bar who have died in the past year
E. Hilton Jackson, chairman of the
Memorial Committee, presided.
Memorials were presented to John
Paul Earnest, Paul Sleman, Royal
c. johnson, Frank w. Mondell,
Robert T. Scott, Justice Joseph W..
Cox, Gibbs L. Baker, Charles A.
Douglas, Percy H. Marshall, James
w. Beller, Charles Henry Butler, A.
Coulter Wells, r. Golden Donaldson
and Frank S. Easby-Smith.
The speakers presenting the me-
MORALS, in the above order, were
Walter G. Clephane, Henry p. Blair,
Charles D. Hamel, s. Wallace Demp-
sey, Frank ]. Kelly, Justice Jesse c.
Adkins, Horace S. Whitman, 10 v.
Morgan, Roger j. Whiteford, War;
rem w. Grimes, George M. Morris,
William E. Carey, jr.; Seiforde M.
Stellwagen and Samuel M. Boyd.
A report of the Low Cost Legal
Committee, presented by Nathan
Lubar, chairman, outlined three
methods of aid being studied: The
Legal Reference Bureau, the Legal
Service Bureau and the neighbor-
hood law Office.
Set-Ups Suggested.
The first would be a panel of
qualified lawyers to whom the pub
lie would be referred by the Bar
Association secretary or by some
other office; the second would
consist of a paid full-time staff
of attorneys supervised by the
association and assisted by younger
members of the bar, and the third
would consist of a partnership Of
attorneys in neighborhoods.
The committee did not recommend
action be taken on the various ways
legal aid might be extended to low
income clients but told the associa-
ton the study would be continued.
Sol M. Alpher, presenting the re-
port of the Committee on Legal Aid,
said that $1,000 was spent last year,
most of it at Municipal Court. The
attorneys there had 1,425 applica-
tions for assistance.
Evening star., 1940-03-13
City News in Brief
TODAY.

Dinner, Board of Trustees, Co.
lumbus University, Willard Hotel,
6 pm.
Dinner, National Sojourners, La
fayette Hotel, $50 pm.
Meeting, Gen. Ulysses Grant Nc
Alexander Post SO, American Legion,
Willard Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Meeting, Izaak Walton League,
Willard Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Montana State Society,
Wardman Park Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, United Brotherhood of
Carpenters, Local Union 1851, An
napolis Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Washington Board of
Trade, Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Washington Philatehc
Society, Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Alpha Beta Phi Fra
ternity, Raleigh Hotel, 8 pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, North Washington
Lions Club, the Kenesaw, 1915 pm.
Luncheon, Junior Board Of Com
merce, Annapolis Hotel, 1920 pm.
Luncheon, National Rivers and
Harbors Congress, Mayflower Hotel,
1890 pm.
Luncheon, Kiwanis Club, May.
flower Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Military Order of the
World War, Maydower Hotel, 1880
pm.
Luncheon, Cosmopolitan Club,
Carlton Hotel, 1890 pm.
Meeting, District of Columbia
Chapter, American Red Cross,
Wardman Park Hotel, pm.
Dinner, Reciprocity Club, May
flower Hotel, $50 pm.
Buffet, Roanoke College Alumni
Association, Raleigh Hotel, $50 pm.
Meeting, Chemical Society of
Washington, Cosmos Club, $50 pm.
Founders day banquet, Phi Delta
Theta Fraternity, Carlton Hotel, Z
pm.
Dinner. the Barristers, Mayfower
Hotel, Z pm.
Meeting, Washington Union Labor
League, Annapolis Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Washington Astrological
Association, Raleigh Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, Legislative Committee,
American Legion, Maydower Hotel,
8 pm.
Meeting, Sodality Union Commit
tee, Willard Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting, st. Charles College Lay
Alumni Association, Willard Hotel,
8 pm.
Dinner, Les Amis D'Escomer, Will
lard Hotel, $50 pm.
Meeting, National Capital Cinema
Club, Raleigh Hotel, $50 pm.
Meeting, Young Friends Club,
Raleigh Hotel, $50 pm.
Meeting, Society Of Automotive
Engineers, Carlton Hotel. Ill day.
Evening star., 1940-03-13
Federal Building Guards Seek
Status as Police Force

Pointing out they are required
continuously to perform the duties
Of police and have the authority Of
such law-enforcement ofncers-even
to their own "black Maria"-a num-
Der Of United States special police,
moro commonly known as FEDERAL
building guards" have launched a
tight for recognition as q full
fledged police force.
Representatives Bolles Of Wiscon-
sin and Springer and Gillie Of
Indiana, Republicans, are among
members of Congress who have
pledged their support for legislation
which would give these policemen
status as members of q protective
rather than q custodial force, an
increased pay scale and assurance
Of adequate equipment, according
to officers Of the United States
Special Police Association.
The association recently was &C.
cepted as an afiliate by the Ameri-
can Federation Of Government EN-
ployes after 318 members had been
certified to the latter organization
when charter was sought. Federal
special policemen Of all ranks here
now total approximately $50.
Evening star., 1940-03-13

lie Roy Westbury is president OF
the U. s. s. p. A.
Members of the association con-
tend their responsibility for the
safety Of millions Of dollars in
Government property entities them
to higher salaries. They assert the
average pay Of all men on the force
here is 81 ,260, as against a beginners
minimum Of $1,000.
The fact that 82.5 per cent of the
force In the Capital is composed OF
disabled former service men has
brought the organization the sup
port Of Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines
veteran administrator for its legis-
lative program, according to the
officers.
Aside from the tangible benefits
Of increased salaries, the policemen
are seeking an establishment OF
Evening star., 1940-03-13

status which would end reference to
them as mere guards" They ex-
plain they make arrests in con-
nection with any crime committed
on Federal property, have their own
patrol wagon for use II necessary,
have sergeants, lieutenants and cap
tains, just as do the Metropolitan,
United States Park, Capitol and
White House police, and appear
in the courts as arresting officers.
Evening star., 1940-03-13
Visiting Nurses Core
For 4.712 Patients

The stan Of the Instructive Visit
Ing Nurse Society gave care to f.
712 patients and made 14,723 visits
to these patients during February,
Miss Gertrude H. Bowling, execu-
tive director, reported to the So
ciety's Board OF Directors yesterday.
Present work OF the staff is about
normal, Miss Bowling told the
Evening star., 1940-03-13

board, meeting ut the organiza-
tion's headquarters. $40 Albee Build
ing, after considerable pressure on
the nurses early in the month from
q heavy load Of respiratory disease
outbreaks"
Mrs. Harlan r. Stone, president,
presided.
Evening star., 1940-03-13
Home Hygiene Course

A course in home hygiene and
care Of the sick win be organized
by the District Red Cross at 10 am.
tomorrow in its chapter house, 1730
E street NV. Miss Caroline T..
Thomson will instruct classes each
Evening star., 1940-03-13

Tuesday and Thursday from 10
O'Clock until noon for . six-week
period.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-10

Compared with national aver
ages Of important crops. II
Washington farm products. nota-
bly, butter and butterfat. were
higher and Il were lower than in
other parts of the United States,
the service reported.
A three per cent increase in the
state wheat price. while hogs held
steady, caused slight drop in the
Washington wheat-hog ratio. How
ever. the states relative position,
compared with Oregon and Idaho,
remained unchanged. and for the
second successive month was the
most favorable of the three
states.
Poultry items, due TO a Scent
drop in eggs, averaged lower than
in December, however. No sharp
advances in farm prices were
noted, although veal calves and
lambs advanced 80 cents and 20
cents, respectively.
Wheat was up two cents. Whole
sale milk, up five cents per cwt.,
made its eighth consec tive
monthly gain. Miscellaneous items,
such as potatoes. apples. cows,
and work animals, were I'M
changed.
Compared with . year ago,
Warrington farm prices
showed interesting but not
surprising changes, 1t was re-
ported.
Meat animals all averaged low
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-10
ParkIa1,d Church
Program, Friday

A program Of entertainment win
be held Friday evening at 7:4o
o'clock In Falkland Methodist
church In Falkland. Refreshments
will follow.
The program will be opened by
instrumental numbers by w. Smith
and Mr.. and Mrs. T. H. Algeo. A
vocal solo by Harry Wade will
follow. Congregational singing.
readings by Mrs. Webster and
Mrs. Evelyn Wright. and vocal
and Instrumental numbers by Dom
ME Hausler. Misses Wingate and
Doubleday. Mira. Sheppard, Mr..
Smith and Mrs. T. H. Algeo viii
conclude the entertainment.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-10

terry and set sail for Bermuda.
A favorable wind carried US down
the harbor and just as we passed
the statue of Liberty a familiar
ship doomed up the Joseph
Conrad"
The last time I had seen her was
in Auckland. New Zealand, when
Alan villiers was sailing her
around the world.
Memories
AZ looked at my Grew" both
already seasick from the slop of
the choppy Narrows. I thought of
how Timi. my Tahitian crew"
and I had sailed alongside the
Conrad and boarded her in 1885
how Villiers eyed the little
Idle Hour and said: Joey ire
ferring to the Joseph Conrad) Ii
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-10
TOTEM CREDIT UNION
DECLARES DIVIDEND

A dividend of AZ per cent was
declared at the annual meeting Of
the Totem Stores Employees Credit
union, held at the Broadway Sports
Center. Officers and directors
were chosen at the same meeting.
They are as follows:
Board Of directors-C. A. Ho-
gan. president: Chester Hogan,
vice president: Clara Simpson,
treasurer; Margaret Titus. clerk:
John koenig. !. M. Erdahl and
Everett Thompson.
Credit committee Nat Flani,
chairman; Steve Hale and Barbara
Wells.
Supervisory committee - Ralph
Stormans. chairman; f. w. Nc
Menamin and Harris Ward.
Educational committee = w. e.
Gosselin. chairman; Sterling Car
michael and L. NJ. Erdahl.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-10

small enough for me-" And the
Joseph Conrad is a vessel of 225
tons. She Is now attached to the
coast guard station at Hoffman
island and every fortnight takes
green apprentices out for a five
day sail on the north Atlantic.
Unfortunately my crew could
not enjoy either the delicious steak
or the ice cream so / had a feast
alone. Our first night out was
filled with excitement as ships
seemed to pour into Ambrose
channel from all directions. With
light airs we tackled back and
forth, thanking the Almighty 1t
was not thick weather.
NEXT-Out to Sea.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-10

er. with the exception Of veal.
which at $50 per cwt.. was the
same Livestock products were
all higher than q year ago. with
important gains Of 30 cents per
cwt. for wholesale milk. three and
five cents per pound. respectively,
for butter and butterfat. and nine
cents per pound for wool.
Poultry items were all lower. A.
follows: Chickens and turkeys
tiive) four cents a pound: eggs
four cents per dozen. Grain items.
with the exception of oats. which
averaged three cents per bushei
lower, were up sharply from mid
January year ago, as follows:
wheat, Is cents; corn. II cents;
barley, seven cents: rye. 10 cents.
Cows were higher. Horses and
mules were 50 lower, hay 81 and
apples, down 10 cents a box.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-02-10

from Its base. he asserted, where
wind-powered naval craft Of other
days could cross the oceans several
times and still be able to fight
When considering defensibility
Of the western hemisphere. he
said, mark off radii Of that dist
ance from the nearest naval bases.
Refueling . whole fleet at sea, he
said. ID recognized a. actually inn
possible.
First essentiais Of defense Of
the Americas. said Gen. Barrows.
are that the United States hold
certain bases for itself and deny to
any other powers bases on this
side Of the sea.
SOUTHERN BASES NEEDED
But are our bases in the Carib-
bean adequate. II the navy Is to
take over the task Of defending
the integrity of all South America
A. far ~ the Strait Of Magei-
LAMP he asked.
I'VE must have bases much
further south, or lie linked with
other natiops 20 as to occupy their
harbors and bases, II necessary"
In spite Of . few exceptions and
some propaganda about Latin
American suspicions Of the United
States. he said. he feels the re-
publics to the south are ready for
closer and closer unity with this
country.
The only thing lacking" he
said, appears to be the wisdom
and attitude on our part"
ZONE UNJUsTIFTED
Gen. Barrows said he was salts
fled the American navy now In
the equal OF any other and leads
In air power.
I'VE don't need a navy that
can overbear the British navy"
he said.
While the Panama declaration |
Of Z 200 mile neutral zone around |
the Americas was demonstration |
Of Pan-American unanimity. the
general said. he found himself
that It couldn't be justi-
fled under any phase of inter-
national law.
Gen. Barrows. who began his
own military career at Fort Lewis,
was introduced to the council by
Maj. Emil p. Antonovich. con-
structing quartermaster at the
post now. DR.. Charles =. Martin.
dean Of the college of political
science at the University of WASH
ington. introduced Professor
Seward.