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Evening star., 1940-12-11
Auto Crashes Into Train;
Drivers Skull Fractured

Driving his automobile into the
side of a Baltimore & Ohio freight
train, John M. beavers, "a, of 4500
Holiday street, Brentwood, suffered
a fractured skull near Bladensburg.
Md, early today.
The impact hurled Mr.. beavers
machine nearly 100 yards to the edge
of Capitol Airport, where, police re-
ported, the injured man was discov-
cred by passers-by short time
later.
Members Of the train crew were
unaware of the accident and the
train did not stop, Prince Georges
County police said
Mr.. beavers, who moved into the
| county about five years ago from
North Carolina, is employed as a
bar tender at a tavern on Central
avenue, near Largo, and was en-
route to his rooming house, about
3:45 am, when the accident occur
red at the River road crossing.
Police took Mr.. beavers to the
Bladensburg Fire House. The F.."e
Rescue Squad carried him to CaS-
ualty Hospital.
Evening star., 1940-12-11
Hutton Wills Whole Estate
To 0nce. e.Estranged Widow
B, Il E Associated Press.

BY " Z hSSOCldltu FIcSo'
NEW YORK, Dec 11-Franklyn
L. Hutton, father of the Woolworth
sand -1o-cent store heiress. left his
entire estate to his widow, Mrs.
Irene C. Hutton of Palm Beach,
from whom he was once estranged.
His will was filed yesterday.
OF his daughter, Barbara, now
Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, he
wrote:
Il am mindful of the deep and
imperishable ties of love and de-
votion existing between my daugh-
ter, Barbara, and myself, remem-
bering the fine and dutiful daugh-
ter she always has been and all the
happiness she brought to me: but,
recognizing the abundance of world
ly goods with which sne is al
ready endowed. and how inconse-
quential any bequest or devise to
her would be, I make no provision
for my beloved daughter"
The 64-year-old broker died at
his South Carolina plantation last
week.
Value of the estate was unesti-
mated since the will was filed for
"safekeeping"
Countess Haugwitz Reventlow
was credited with effecting a re-
conciliation between her father and
her stepmother, the former Mrs
Irene Curley Bodde Of Detroit. after
an estrangement which became
known last year.
Mr.. Hutton's first wife, the mother
OF his title daughter, was Edna
Woolworth, who died in 1917,
Evening star., 1940-12-11
Flyer Forced Down in Bay
Without Even Wet Feet

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. l1.-A Naval
Reserve pilot. caught aloft when his
land ships landing gear became dis
abled, successfully put his plane
down on the water off Floyd Bennett
Field yesterday-and reached shore
without even getting his feet wet.
The pilot, Ensign r. A. Winston,
and his mechanic. z. J. Marrone,
were maneuvering the two-place BIZ
plane above the Naval Reserve air
base at the field, but when he began
to land one wheel stuck in its re-
tracted position
For an hour the two few around
the field. Then Comdr. Don F.
Smith ordered them to land in the
bay. A Coast Guard picket boat and
amphibian plane and a police sea-
plane stood by.
Ensign Winston landed perfectly,
opened the fiotation gear in the
wings-bag devices to keep the ship
f1oating-and he and his mechanic
stepped into the waiting Coast
Guard boat. The plane was towed to
the base.
Evening star., 1940-12-11
Jewish Center to Close
Institute Toniqht

Successful Marriage and Di-
vorce' will be subject of the Jewish
Community Center's final institute
Of the current series, which will be
held at $3.50 o'clock tonight at the
center. The speaker will be DR.. Rex
g. Buxton, director of the Washing
ton Institute of Mental Hygiene.
DR.. Ivy A. Pelzman will preside and
lead the general discussion that will
follow Dr. Buxton's address.
The second session of the season
Of the national center forum will
be held Sunday night, with Rabbi
Milton Steinberg, author and lee
turer, as the speaker. DR.. Steinberg
will discuss his recent book. LAS a
Driven Leaf" in which he attempts
to explain the factors that moulded
the character of the Jews.
Both the institute and forums are
open to the public.
Evening star., 1940-12-11
Two From Capital
Hurt in Rail Wreck
Near Atlanta
President of Southern
RoiIwoy and Secretary
Among II Injured
BY the Associated Press.

BY trt Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Dec. 11.-Officials OF
the Southern Railway sought today
to determine the cause of a wreck
which derailed seven cars of the
railroads passenger train, the Ponce
de Leon, about IA miles south of
Atlanta and injured II persons, in
cluding the roads president.
President E. E. Norris of Wash
ington, D. c., was trapped in his
private car after it dropped about
20 feet from a trestle into a dry
creek bed and overturned. He suf-
fered broken leg and scalp lacera-
tionS.
The derailment occurred about !
mile south of the village of Ellen
wood 80 minutes after the train,
en- route from Chicago to Florida,
left Atlanta yesterday.
Two Other Cars Overturn.
Besides Mr.. Norris car, an obser-
vation coach and a second private
car also overturned, and three Sleep
ing cars and diner left the tracks.
Also injured was the railroad S
general manager, o. B. Keister of
Knoxville, Tenn, who received a
fractured arm, and three other rail-
road officials. together with five pas
sengerS and two porters.
All the injured we're brought to an
Atlanta hospital. None was reported
in serious condition. Physicians
said Norris condition was fine"
J. M. Allwine Of Washington, sec
retary to Mr.. Norris, sustained a
broken pelvic bore; Capt. w. L.
Eagle, chief of the railroads police
staff in this area. suffered two frac-
tured ribs; and w. F. Cooper, At
lanta division superintendent, was
injured on the face and hands.
List of Injured.
The hospital listed the five injured
passengers as:
H. R. Hale, Atlanta, commercial
representative of the Western Union.
Norman Wilson Of Baltimore, Md.
Sam Koslen, Baltimore.
Tom Keely. Keely Construction
Co., Clarksburg. w. Va.
Mrs. Nancy Startling, address un-
available.
Mr.. Norris was on his way to Jack
sonville, Fla, to inspect rail con-
struction at nearby Camp Blanding.
His son, Frank c. Norris, had left
Atlanta on an earlier train for AL
bany, Ga.
Evening star., 1940-12-11
DR.. UrcioIo Named

Raphael Urciolo, real estate man,
has been elected president of the
Felice Cavollotti Lodge, Italo-Amer-
ican organization, it was announced
today DR.. Urciolo, a former in
structor in languages at Johns
Hopkins University and graduate
of Washington schools, is the first
American-born president of the or
ganization.
Evening star., 1940-12-11
Van Orsdel. r A.
Viner. Harry Arcade

Yeatman. W. n Yeatman. R. H.
Evening star., 1940-12-11
Japanese Mission Head
Will Go to Saigon

NEW YORK, Dec. II R>.-A
Domei Japanese news agency
broadcast from TOXIC announced TO-
day that Maj. Gen. Raishiro Sumita,
head of the Japanese Military Mis-
sion in French Indo-China, would
proceed shortly to Saigon.
His purpose, Domei said. would
be TO study on the spot condi-
tionS in Southern Indo- China, where
unrest among the native population
has been repeatedly reported dur
ing the past few weeks"
Sumita lis expected to remain
about a fortnight in the disturbed
region" Domei added.
Evening star., 1940-12-11
Christmas Program Set

Miss Margaret Sewers, religious
director of the Arlington (Va.)
Council of Religious Education, and
Miss Wilma Beaton of the Charles
A. Stewart School will participate
IN Christmas program at a meet
Ing OF the Kate Waller Barrett
School Parent-Teacher Association
at 8 pm. tomorrow. A Christmas
play under the direction of Miss
Barbara Shepherd and Miss Hattie
Hanks also is scheduled.
Evening star., 1940-12-11
Indo-China-ThaiIand
Fight Intensified,
japanese Declare
Considerable Air Activity
And Artillery Action
Are Reported
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Dec. 11.-A Domei Uap-
arese news agency dispatch from
Hanoi, French Indo-China, said to-
day hostilities were intensifying
along the border of French Indo-
China and Thailand (Siam, with
considerable aerial activity and artil-
lery action.
French authorities, Domei said,
were reported willing to open nego-
tiations for a peaceful settlement,
but were determined to oppose any
hostile action,
Evening star., 1940-12-11
PIT. A. to Hold Reception

A meeting of the Washington-Lee
High School Parent-Teacher As
sociation of Arlington. Va, will be
held in the school at 8 pm. tomor-
row. with a reception to the men,
bers of the faculty as a feature.
A special Christmas program will
be presented by the pupils.
Evening star., 1940-12-11
New Coins for France e

VICHY, France. Dec. IL CP.-New
French coins of 5, 10 and 20 francs
in value, bearing likeness of Chief
OF State Henri Philippe Petain, have
been authorized by the government.
Evening star., 1940-12-11
French Started Fight,
Thai Consulate Choroes

SINGAPORE, Dec. IL R.-The
Thai tSiamese) Consulate charged
today that a flare-up Monday in the
Thailand-Frenc Indo-China border
fighting was started by the French,
who were alleged to have bombed
and machine -gunned the Thai bor-
der towns of Lakhon and Penom.
The Thai report said one of the
French planes was shot down by a
Thai pilot in an air battle.
1t added that on the same day
French artillery fired 100 shells
across the Mekong River, the
boundary between Thailand and
Indo-China, damaging residence
districts in the Thai town of Ban
Muk-Dahan, Whereupon Thai war
planes were sent across the river
and bombed French batteries.
The account of the fighting from
Hanoi, French Indo-China, said last
night that Thailand troops shelled
the Indo-China town of Savan-
nakhet. across the river from Ban
Muk-Dahan, and that Thai planes
b m BED and machine-gunned
Vientiane, farther north on the
1ndo-Chinese side of the Mekong.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-15
Famous Sayings

Nor CELL chain, nor dungeon speaks to the muir
derer like the voice of soltude-Maturin
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-15

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. National
Editorial Association. Call
fornia Newspaper PUBLISH
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-15
THE MOUTHPIECE OF
DICTATOR GOVERNMENTS

Too many people think war with Japan
is inevitable because the japanese press,
controlled by the japanese government,
has redoubled its vitriolic attack on Am
erican policies and the American govern
ment.
Too many people misread news dis
patches which quote some Tokyo news
paper, admittedly the voice" of the
japanese military regime as declaring
Japan is ready for war with the United
States.
Understanding of the part Japanese
and German and Italian = newspapers
play in the game of diplomacy is abso-
lutely necessary 20 intelligent reading of
dispatches from those countries. 1t is
not enough to know merely that the news
papers in dictator countries print moth
ing without the consent of their govern
ment 1t is necessary to understand as
well the uses to which dictators put their
newspapers.
Let us take the present crisis in Japan:
The japanese foreign office, from
which "official' statements must come,
has been anything but belligerent in its
attitude to the United States. The Japa-
nese newspapers. on the other hand,
have been little short of warlike in their
views of this country. Yet the newspapers
would not print anything without the con-
sent of the japanese officials.
Why the difference?
Because, in diplomacy, Japan would
feel called upon to back up any statement
made officially from the foreign office,
while it does not feel obliged to support
the statements made in the newspapers,
even though they are inspired by the Of
ficials themselves. All this seems quite
involved, yet it is not. Behind it is sound
diplomatic reasoning.
The unofficial newspaper rantings are
merely trial balloons sent up to determine
how another nation-in this instance the
United States-will react. If the bal
looms are punctured, the diplomats pull in
their horns. If the other nation shows
signs of weakening its policy or giving
way, the diplomats follow up their ad-
vantage.
That is one use the dictators find for
controlled press. 1t is use people in
this country must understand if they are
to evaluate the news intelligently.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-15
THE THIRD TERM

Boston Post)
The Post opposes the third term prin-
ciple in the present Presidential cam
paign.
1t does this not because the third term
candidate is Franklin D. Roosevelt, but in
spite of it.
History has magnificent place for
Mr.. Roosevelt. We say in all earnestness,
and gladly, that he will take his place
among the great men of all time -.
But we cannot support third term in
office, not only for him, but for any
president ...
Primarily, we cannot keep faith with
our New England tradition if we advo-
cate third term for any man. We, in
the oldest and most settled section of AM
erica, feel that this principle keeps our
nation free.
Secondarily, as a democratic journal,
we cannot support the third term, for
a third term is undemOcratic ..
A third term has the effect of perpetu-
ating in the rulership of the country not
only a man, but a whole bureaucracy
which becomes more and more embedded
in the national structure as time goes on.
Change, exercised by free men, is the
essence of the rights of man. A third
term for President obliterates the prin-
ciple of change 1t creates a governing
person and governing class. 1t was for
the elimination of such a governing per-
son and a class that the events of 1775
took place within our environs and within
our view.
1t would be specious for us to pretend
that we have forgotten them now.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-15
WOMEN IN THE
AIR CORPS?
(Christian Science Monitor)

(Christian Science Monitor)
Women fliers in the United States have
won a good deal of fame, but little for
tune so far. They've piloted big planes,
fast planes, and winged over ocean and
jungle in long, courage-testing flights.
Despite this demonstration of pluck and
skill, however, women have not as yet
found a working place in commercial
aviation.
A few undoubtedly have landed jobs,
but women on the whole have found the
ceiling zero" when it comes to regular
work in the air. Now, with the govern
ment's national defense program come
the first hopeful prospects of good fly
ing weather for the girls. To be sure, it's
only faint glimmer on the horizon, but
women pilots are heartened as they beg
for an opportunity to serve in the big air
defense program.
Women do not envision themselves as
combat pilots, but are firm in the belief
that they could qualify as instructors,
as air couriers, and could act in numer-
Gus behind-the-line capacities where men
could be relieved for the more impor-
tant front-line posts.
Says "the worlds outstanding airwom
an" Jacqueline Cochran, Il believe a
corps of women fliers, competent to give
preliminary instruction to thousands of
cadets necessary for the increased air
force, would be of invaluable aid
Women filters in England are serving
behind the lines. Hannah Reitsch, Ger
man aviatrix and Captain in the German
Air Corps, has taught many a German
pilot in the Luftwaffe. Perhaps Ameri-
can women, too, have their place in the
sky.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-15
by Bruce Cation =.
The Inside Track in Washington

very lines in which -produc-
ton is now problem.
Then it outlines a suggested pro-
gram to meet this situation.
PLAN AID
TO MIGRANTS
First suggestion is for a vast
rural works program, to keep all
idle farm hands busy on a sol
conservation and reforestation pro-
gram-a gigantic affair whose cost
was earlier estimated at upwards
of half billion year. Great ex-
tension of the existing Farm Sc
curitv Administration program for
aiding migrant labor is also urged
as is extension to farm workers OF
a law like the wage-hour act, plus
old age and unemployment insur-
ance benefits.
A varied program is proposed to
encourage development of the fam
ily-sized farm:
/ Expansion of the tenant
purchase program to enable ten
dIllS anu Sildi CSiopPSiS W pSSoiiiN
farm owners.
2. A rule that none but family
sized. operated farms be
permitted on reclamation projects
and other made land" develop
ments.
3. A program for buying up good
land in areas now farmed in large
units and subdividing it into small
er farms.
4. Use of government funds to
buy land from farmers who wish
to retire and to resell it to young
men who cannot find farms.
Development of rural industries
possibly through outright sub
sidization-together with decentra-
lization of existing heavy industries
into rural areas wherever possible,
is also urged. Coupled with this is
a plea for a vast extension of non-
commercial on subsistence home
stead" farming into fertile terri
tories where that kind of farm
ing is not now known.
Lastly, it is urged that consump-
ton be increased by expansion of
such devices as the food stamp
plan and that commodity loans,
acreage control and similar pro-
grams be continued in effect.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-15
by Willis Thornton
Shall We Feed Europe?

that he would watch unWaVeringiy
the feeding of the conquered Willie
the German people, the conquerors'
subsist on insufficient ratlonS!
No matter. say those who favor ald
to Europe. Unless Americans display
humanitarianiSm, they polnt out'
this country will sink in moral pres
tige. The act of feeding Europe can
not directly influence the conduct
of the war; they maintain.
Oh. can't it? ask the opponents.
Suppose there is no food this VIM
ter. Hungry people become desper-
ate. And desperate people revolt.
Let Hitler feed them. Even meager
rations of food among Europe's
vanauished will keep them IN
state of beaten lethargy.
Americans can never completely
close their hearts. Even those who
most violently resist the idea OF re-
lieving Europe's suffering must
vince when they think of the hard
ships among innocent civilians. They
take their stand not because they
are ruthless and barbarouS but be-
cause they believe that aloofness
to suffering now will work toward
the ultimate preservation Of liberty.
It's difficult decision to make.
Whatever conclusion we reach, it
will take years before anyone can
determine whether it was the right
one.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-15

WASHINGTON Oct. Is - A
merican agriculture is in for some
pretty sweeping changes in the
event of New Deal victory in
November.
Some indication of the nature of
the changes is to be found in a
study of farm technology just re-
leased by the Department of Agri-
culture. 1t may be assumed that
Henry A. Wallace's ideas influenc-
ed the report to some extent, and
Wallace is going to be pretty i'm
pertant figure around the capital
if the Democrats win the election.
This study is the product of more
than a years research by a spe-
cial inter-bureau committee of de-
partment experts working in con-
junction with the Bureau of Agri-
cultural Economics.
When the results of this re-
search were first outlined by this
writer in a series of exclusive ar
ticles some six months ago, giving
a survey of changes technology
has already brought to the farm,
it was roundly criticized for being
a picture of unmitigated gloom
Publication of the final report,
however. confirms the original
forecast and, if anything, spreads
the gloom on thicker, for it finds;
l. There are now 1,5OO 600
farm workers totally unemployed,
with an equal number whose in
comes are under the subsistence
level.
2. There will be a further dis
placement of from 350000 to 500,-
600 men in the coming decade.
8. Farm population will rise by
100000 by 1880
4. Technological changes and
improved seed varieties and farm
ing practices will vastly increase
farm production in some of the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-15

Americans have the biggest hearts
in all the world. Any nation of Eu-
rope that has ever endured suffer-
ing of any kind, from war or FAM
inc, knows that to be fact.
And that's why the problem Ameri-
ca faces today is one of the tough
est it ever had to decide: Shall
Americans help feed European vic
TINS of Nazi aggression this winter?
Under ordinary circumstances, the
answer would be easy. 1t would be
a thunderous YES, punctuated by
the clink of CONS, gladly given.
Under the usual conditions, boat
loads of food and clothing and medi-
cal supplies would already be on
their way. But these are not Ordi-
nary times. War still RACES. The
fallen nations are still fallen. And
for the first time in American his
tory, citizens are arguing over whe-
ther charity might not turn out
eventually to be a slap in Uncle
Sans face.
The need is Enthusiastically there.
Some folks contend that this alone
is sufficient reason for helping. But
should the United States ask the
British to relax their blockade of
the continent and obtain a solemn
promise from Berlin that food ship
ments to France and Belgium and
the Netherlands and other conquer
ed territories will not be appropriate
ed by the Nazis?
Opponents scott. Promises! Has
Hitler ever been known to keep his
solemn pledge? And even if he meant
to keep this one, does it seem likely
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-15
WANT TO GO TO JAIL?
Then REGISTER

There have been lot of questions
about who must register Wednesday in
the conscription program. There has
been some indication that a few people
who should register will not, because they
think they don't have to. If they go on
thinking so, they're liable to wake up in
Jail some morning.
Who does have to register?
About the simplest way it can be put
is this:
Every man in the United States who
is between the ages of 21 and 35, inclu-
sive, unless he is already in the army or
navy.
That includes everybody-aliens, in
valids, naturaliZed citizens, native citi-
zens convicts, all others.
There are, of course few exemptions
such as men working for the state depart
ment, but they do not affect the average
citizen any more than a man on Mars
would.
So, if there is any doubt in your mind
at all, register Wednesday. If you do,
you won't have to repent If you don't,
you may repent for long while.
Claim your exemption after you regis
ter. Don't try to get it by not registering.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-15
Editorials and Comment
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 49, 1910
So They Say

If Roosevelt is reelected, he will
go on serving as long as the people
elect him.
Raymond A. Moley, former New
Dealer.
All the stories you've heard about
shortages (of men and equipmen0
are sad but true.
Maj. Gen. Lesley j. McNair,
chief of staff of U. S. army gen.
eral staff.
Government and business are
necessarily interdependent and
must get along.
Jesse Jones. secretary of COM
merce.
There is no country that is not
looking for its man of destiny, no
people who are not clamoring for a
Caesar.
Francisco Campos, Brazilian min
ister of government.
1t is my ambition to make rela-
tions between the United States
and Mexico better than they have
ever been.
Manuel Avila Camacho, MexN
can resident-elect.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-15
''BuiId-Up /" For Women
HELPS Avoid Distress

Do you suffer periodically from
headaches, nervousness, irritabil-
ity. cramp-like pain?
If SO, here's good news! These
may be symptoms of functional
dysmenorhea due to malnutrition
often helped by CARDUI.
CARDUI usually increases appe-
tite and the flow of gastric Juice;
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-15

SO aids digestion and helps build
up strength, energy, physical re-
sistance. Result for many is less
periodic distress. Or you may find
this also helps ease your periodic
discomfort: Take CARDUI a few
days before and during "the time"
so years of use and popularity in
vite your confidence in CARDUI.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-15
Barbs

Mussolinis paper threatens us
with war, if we NEEDLE. Maybe
that's his idea of booming circu-
lation.
Army officers are urged to 60
easy on conscripts and use the
guardhouse sparingly. Spare the
guardhouse and spoil the recruits
chances of taking things easy.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-15
thoughts for the Day

Moreover ye shall take satisfaction for the life of
murderer, which is guilty of death but he shall be
surely put to death-Numbers 35 81
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-15

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