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Evening star., 1940-12-06
Death Of Stewardess
Raises Toll 10 Nine
In Air|iner Crash
Accident Couse Not Yet
Determined as Three
Inquiries Continue
BY the Associs ted Press.

CHICAGO, Dec. 6.-The toll OF
dead in the crash of a United All
Lines plane was raised to nine today
with the death of the ships pretty
stewardess, Miss Florence M. Lit
tie, %.
Miss Little, Chicagoan. died in
the early morning hours at Holy
Cross Hospital. She had suffered a
skull fracture and other internal in
juries. The two other members of
the crew. Capt. Philip C. Scott, a.
the pilot, and Co-Pilot George S.
Young, 30, were killed instantly in
the accident. which occurred We'd
nesday evening near the Chicago
Municipal Airport.
Seven passengers. two of whom
were reported still in a critical con-
dition, were injured.
The crash of the huge, 21-pas-
senger airliner brought demand
for re-establishment of the Air
Safety Board. ,-.
@'~ Calls for Air Safety Board.
David L. Behncke. president of the
Airline Pilots Association, asserted
that Congress Immediately should
recreate the board as a means of
averting accidents on commercial
airlines.
The board was abolished when the
Civil Aeronautics Authority was
transferred to the Department of
Commerce under a Government re-
organization. Since then there have
been four crashes, he said, whereas
remarkable safety record was es-
tablished while the board was func-
tioning.
Meanwhile, the cause of the fatal
accident Wednesday evening re-
manned undetermined. Investiga-
tions are being made by three groups
the Cook County coroner's Office,
the company and the C. A. A.
The big plane fell to the ground
while heading for a landing. In
vestigators said that the ship ap-
parently lost flying speed when only
5 seconds from safe landing.
Icing Seen Possible Cause.
w. A. McHale, head of the Illinois
Pilots Association and the coroner's
expert on aviation, expressed the
opinion that ice on the wings might
have been the underlying cause of
the crash.
At an inquest yesterday Police
man Thomas F. O'Hara testified that
the operator at the airport control
tower had advised the pilot by radio
to make a west landing due to Icing
conditions. Officer O'Hara, who
was in the tower at the time, said
he did not know whether the op-
orator referred to ice on the plane or
on the ground A light snow was
falling.
Company spokesmen asserted that
evidence indicated that immediate
ly after the accident there was only
a minor amount" of ice on the
plane, and that icing had not pre-
vented other airliners from arriving
or departing.
c. A. A. investigators said they
probably would not announce any
decision for a week.
Evening star., 1940-12-06
Limited Divorce Grunted

ROCKVILLE, Md, Dec. (Spe-
ciaD Judge Stedman Prescott
signed a decree in Circuit Court
granting Mrs. Catherine Miller
Hutchinson Of Bethesda a limited
divorce from Robert M. Hutchinson
OF Washington. It was charged the
plaintiff was deserted November 81,
1889. The couple was married at
Bethesda February -, 1888.
Evening star., 1940-12-06

Another of the many masterWork,
of Richard Wagner, the great Ger.
man composer, will be made avail.
able in record form to music lover,
of Washington and vicinity to.
morrow as the 10th Offering of The
Stars current music appreciation
program
The newest offering is the opera
"Lohengrin." This is the second
Wagner work included in the Il
featured in The Stars series, record
ings of 'Tannahauser" having been
released three weeks ago. "Lohen-
grin" is offered in condensed form
on three 12-inch double-faced rec
ords made by famous singers and
orchestras.
AS usual, the special booths in
the lobby of The Star Building will
be open at 8 am. tomorrow to dis
tribute the new group Of recordings
as well as the nine previous offer
ings and the IL symphonic master
pieces which were added to the
program at the beginning of the
week.
Performed in 1850.
''Lohengrin" and "Tannhauser'
are the first two operas which
Wagner wrote in Germany after re-
turning from Paris, where he had
spent three unhappy years, suffer-
ing starvation and numerous disap-
pointments. "Tannhauser" was pro-
duced in 1845. and "Lohengrin" was
finished in 1848, but he couldn't get
this work accepted for perform
ance until 1850.
The German composer, who re-
volutionized the opera by his bold
defiance of all conventions, was A
before any of his operas were heard
in Vienna, and Sc before any were
sung outside of Germany. When
he was exiled from Germany. he
spent the first six years writing
essays on musical and dramatic sub.
Evening star., 1940-12-06

weather Conditions Last 24 Hours.
The disturbance that was over the
no. .nein npps.acHisn Iesioh hhursosy
Atlantic coast. Another disturbance is
moving eastward over North Dakota.
Pembina. 1853 millibars t2e.4l inches.
with . trough extending southwark and
southwestward to the Texas Panhandle.
An anti-cyclonic system Is movins east
ward over the Atlantic States. Canton;
Ny. 1.o301 millibars s3o.42 inches and
inchesI. Pressure is also high over the
Plateau and the .Pscifc States. Burns,
Oreg 102s.s millibars t30.32 inchesl.
During the last "a hours rains have oc-
CURED in the North Pacific States. North
in southeastern Texas. and SHOWS and
rains in the North Atlantic states and the
eastern lower Lake region. Temperatures
have fallen in the Atlantic States, the ga st
Gulf States the Ohio Valley and the east
ern lower Lake resion while they have
risen In the upper Lake reeion. the upper
Mississippi Valley the Plains States. and
the west Gulf States.
Evening star., 1940-12-06
America to Dry Dock

PORTSMOUTH, Va, Dec. 6 (P.--
The S. S. America, flagship Of the
United States Lines and largest mer-
chant vessel constructed in this
country, will enter dry dock at the
navy yard January 4, the comman-
dant's office disclosed.
Evening star., 1940-12-06
Turkey Dinner Tomorrow

The Ladies Auxiliary Of the Up
per Marlboro (Md0 Volunteer Fire
Department VIII hold . turkey din
ner In the drehouse tomorrow from
5 to I pm.
Evening star., 1940-12-06
Named to Head Committee

WAYNESBORO. Va, Dec. 6 R).-
Humes j. Franklin, past district
lieutenant governor, has been ap-
pointed chairman of the Capital
Kiwanis District Committee on Laws
and Regulations.
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Iepert fer Last - Hsurs.

Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest. 100. on July %.
Lowest, Z. on January -. -
Evening star., 1940-12-06
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital current month to datel:
Evening star., 1940-12-06
Record for Last "a Hours.
From noon Yesterday to noon today
Hishest. 40, 1:30 p.m. yesterday. Year
ago. Is.
ago. 26

ago. 80.
Humidity for Last "A Hours.
From noon yesterday to noon todayl
Highes., 9s per cent. at l . m. yesterday
Lowest. 46 per cent. at noon today
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
al HarpeIs Ferry: Potomac slightly muddy
al Great Falls today.
Tide Tables.
Furnbhed by United States Coast and
Geooetic Survey
Evening star., 1940-12-06

The Sun and Noon.
Evening star., 1940-04-10
There's Many q Slip

In the Senate on Monday North
Carolina's courteous Senator Rey-
nolds filled number of pages of the
Congressional Record with an expo
sition of his favorite theme, which is
to keep the United States out of the
war in Europe-a splendid platform
for any statesman. AS a text for
some of his remarks, he quoted the
column from Fridays Star written by
Frederic William Vile, in which Mr..
Vile criticized the isolationists-in-
Guiding Senator Reynolds-for what
he thinks is their inability to see be-
yond the end of their noses.
Said Senator Reynolds, in part:
Mr.. President, I have before me
extracts from the columns of The
Washington Star of Friday last, by
the pen of Mr.. Frederic William Vile.
I desire to read to you his remarks,
and make comments thereupon.
Then I want to compare what he
says with the attitude taken by the
Scandinavian countries. In making
that comparison, I believe I shall be
able to show that Norway, Sweden
and Denmark, the Scandinavian
lands in the immediate vicinity of
the warning factions, are not only
desirous of keeping out of the pres
ent European squabble, but they are
going to keep out of it; whereas on
the other hand in this country, three
thousand miles away from the base
of conflict, there are persons in the
Capital of our country who are
insisting that we get into the war.
In this particular battle between
Senator Reynolds and Mr.. Vile, The
Star remains strictly neutral. But
as neutral, The Star hopes that
Senator Reynolds is better informed
as to the ability of the United States
to keep out "of Europe's squabbles"
than he was, on Monday, concerning
Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Evening star., 1940-04-10
Dark Duys

There are times when 1t seems
that it is the destiny of the human
race to destroy itself. Hundreds of
years of progress on occasion appear
to be swept aside by forces repre-
Senting deliberate intention to
wreck civilization. Sometimes these
powers of evil are frankly anar-
chistic; again they exemplify cer-
tain negative logic which at first
glance is plausible in character.
Those who set them in motion will
argue that better world cannot be
achieved until the existing world has
been demolished or it may be their
choice to insist that for the advan-
tage of one community all others
should suffer.
Plato, it will be remembered, re-
quired slaves for his ideal republic.
His citizens were to have servitoEs.
Thus leisure class" would be Gre
ated and maintained at the expense
of men and women who should be
living sacrifices to the comfort of
their masters. That such a social
order would be unstable did not
occur to its author. He counted
upon Subservience which should
continue indefinitely. Small Won
der then that his Utopia remains
what it was in the beginning-an
idle dream, an unworthy aspiration.
So, too, there is something ephem-
eral in policies of conquest. Ma
poleon Bonaparte visioned a fed
Grated Europe, and he sought to
achieve that end by the destruction
of the independent neighbors of
France. For while he prospered,
yet, as the historian looks back upon
his career, it was finished before it
was begun. Louis XIV and Fred
erick the Great had made the same
mistake. They had sought to build
empires with their swords and they
had been encouraged in their ambi-
tionS by the ease with which their
successes were won. But the maps
they drew in blood and flames fell
to pieces when their backs were
turned. Like the Corsican who
strove to excel them, they failed
because they did not take into
account the natural spirit of the
human species.
Perhaps it was thousands of CEN
turies ago that the race first learned
to resist the impulse to commit sui
eide. Certainly, the instinct to sur
vlve is very old. 1t also happens to
be immortally dynamic. Under hos
tile conditions the inhabitants of
this earth do not surrender. Rather,
they rise from their degradation.
The whole chronicle of mans expert
ence may be cited to prove the point.
Again and again there have been
dark days, days when millions de-
SPARED. Yet the planet still followed
the sun, the stars in the heavens still
shone, and at last the timid hopes
of humble, inoffensive people were
justified.
Evening star., 1940-04-10

The margin by which he defeated
the Michigan 5enator was not so
impressive-yet 1t was sufficient to
give a clear indication Of the pref
erence of the voters.
The trend in both Illinois and Ne
braska, as compared to the political
sentiment in 1885 in those States,
was Republican yesterday. Presi-
dent Roosevelt four years ago carried
Illinois over his Republican oppo-
nent, ALT M. Landon of Kansas, by
7l2,606 votes. In Nebraska his mar
gin OF victory was 98,723. In the
Illinois primary in 1885 the Presi-
dent, unopposed, rolled up a vote
almost double that cast for the two
Republicans contesting for the presi-
dental preference vote-Col. Frank
Knox, Chicago publisher, and the
late Senator William E. Borah. The
vote cast yesterday, in the light of
returns received from more than
half of the States voting precincts,
will show the President leading
Dewey by much smaller margin
The votes cast for Vice President
Garner are anti-third term.
Senator Edward R. Burke of Ne
braska, Democratic opponent of the
Presidents court bill in 1887 and of
other administration measures, has
been defeated for denomination by
Gov. Roy L. Cochran. The shift of
Senator Burke to support of the
President in his foreign policy since
the war abroad broke out was not
a help to the Senator in Nebraska,
where large block of voters of for
eign extraction were not in sympathy
with the repeal of the arms embargo.
The Nebraska Senator faced in
surmountable odds. He was opposed
by labor because of his advocacy of
amendments to the National Labor
Relations Act. He was opposed by
the 100 per cent New Dealers in his
party because of his refusal to 60
along with the President on the
court bill and on the administra-
tion's spending program He had
against him the farmers because he
voted last year against parity pay
mentS"
Senator Burke earned a reputation
for independence and integrity of
thought and action in the Senate,
and his defeat will be regretted by
a majority of his colleagues in the
Senate.
The Republicans scored a victory
in the Nebraska first congressional
district, where an election was held
to fill House seat made vacant by
the death of the late Representative
Heinke, Republican. Strenuous ef-
forts were made by the Democrats
to regain this seat which they had
lost by a narrow margin in 1898.
The Republicans, however, increased
the measure of their victory of two
years ago.
Evening star., 1940-04-10
THIS AND THAT
By Charles z. Trdce1Dell.

No doubt II the government Of France
at that time had been able to pass
around huge slices of coconut cake-or
did they have coconuts then?-the popu-
lace would have relaxed with wide Rrins
of approval, and been SO busy eating
that they would have forgotten all their
harsher instincts.
4
Among the many lessons we might get
from the birds, surely this is one Of
them, that if you eat all the time, you
haven't much energy left for revolution.
We have never had much sympathy
with the idea of some observers that
birds, as class, or certain birds, as in
dividuals, are greedy.
You can't call bird greedy" Just be-
cause 1t eats all the time.
1t is the sensible thing to do-for a
bird.
We are not sure it would not be the
sensible thing for human beings, If they
could make the bulk of their food the
fruits and vegetables, whose vitamins
and minerals and bulk we all need so
much.
Modern food science has simply proved
what the old-tmers believed, that there
Is nothing better for one than a good
mixed diet-provided it is mixed"
enough.
BY eating little of everything. by
being, in other words, an omniverous
animal. not just carniverous one, or
herbiverous one, man is sure to get
most of everything he needs.
Surely he needs, now and then, a bit
of cake!
Chocolate cake marble cake, angel
food, coconut cake, caramel cake
There you have the big S, if you were
brought up in the Middle West.
Can the South or any other section of
the country beat those cakes?
1t must be remembered that all cake
Is rich in calories, amazingly so; they
are best eaten as the main course of a
meal, rather than mere addition after
one already has eaten too much, per-
haps
A slice of real cake, and a glass of
mllk-where could the harassed busi-
nessman- becoming more harassed every
day, find better lunch?
But hold! we have forgotten-but not
Tor long-one of the grandest and SIM
plest of all cakes-the pound cake So
called.
just plain pound cake, and there isn't
anything better, when it is made right
Let us hope our correspondent mar
rows her wrenhouse door down to an
inch, or even seven-eights of an inch,
and that she tries her hand at a plain
pound cake
And when she brings in a slice, to
prove her proWess as a baker of good
cakes, for heavens sake let her leave if
on the desk, and not take it away with
her.
Evening star., 1940-04-10
Roosevelt and Dewey

Illinois and Nebraska primaries
yesterday served only to fix more
firmly in the public mind the de-
termination of the Democratic voters
to renominate President Franklin D.
Roosevelt-if they can make it stick.
In Illinois the Democratic supporters
of the President showed under Vice
President John N. Garner, the Presi-
dents only opponent in the contest
for the preference vote.
These same primaries also ad-
vanced further the claims of Dis
trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey of
New York for the Republican presi-
Dental nomination. The racket
busting, youthful and picturesque
New Yorker repeated his Wisconsin
victory over Senator Vandenberg Of
Michigan In the Nebraska primary.
Evening star., 1940-04-10

To the Editor of The Star:
I wish to express my qualification for
the editorial entitled Modern Dent
istry,' memorializing the Tooth anniver-
sary of the establishing of the first
dental school in America in 1910 at
Baltimore. Nevertheless 1 regret the
brevity and incompleteness of the
article.
There was no mention made of the
real contributions of dentistry toward
the more complete establishing of medi-
cine and surgery in general, nor of the
real and concrete advances made by
dentists themselves in the fields of
anaesthesia, both local and general, and
in the study of focal infection and pre-
ventive medicine and dentistry.
1t is now generally accepted that a
dentist was the first to administer a gas
successfully in the field of surgical treat
ment.
The very valuable contributions of
dentistry in the elimination of infective
foci are also clear. The dentist is oft
Evening star., 1940-04-10
EAST FALLS CHURCH, Va.

Dear Sir.
"This will acquaint you with the Fact
that over a week Ego I dropped into
your Office, fortified with concrete evi-
dence that the much disputed coconut
is the most profitable nut value on the
market today, since its shell, sawed of
at the end allowing enough room to
extract the meat, and later glued to-
gether with cement and the very tip
sawed of to an opening about an inch
and half, has proven to be the most
promising wren house of all.
Although have securely wired it to
the forks of pussy willow tree over a
week ago, it was only yesterday
noticed chickadee looking it over.
"As previously, she is the first to seek
housing quarters but usually takes over
one of the bluebird houses, to my dis
may.
Il also brought generous slices of the
best coconut cake I ever made to sub
stantiate my theory above.
Your correspondent G. B. S. of this
village can relieve his mind of the belief
that his bluebirds are Sleeping in my
yard, when I tell him that my back
yard is about IS acres of virgin pines
and seldom ever traversed bv human,
or any disturbing hunters, so although
1 have been accused of enticing cardi-
nails to my feeders, hope to be forgiven
when ic tot oI hat
didn't know what to do to attract these
finest of wild birds.
I count the other four years of nv
residence in the woods as lost. It is a
joy to reach home about $50 and to
know that these handsome birds ac-
tually wait for me, as they call to me
from the nearby bushes.
Il then dash into the house and scat
ter their sunf1ower seed when they all
ways feed alone, and late in the after
noon.
This heavily wooded tract is between
Walkers Chapel and Chesterbrook and
is perfect environment for wild birds.
with swift running stream, Pimmet Run,
at the lower end
Your column, which affords an ex-
change of observations of bird lovers.
has been the joy of my life for many
months. and the editor possibly doesn't
realize what big feature it has been
IN promoting interest in wild life here
abouts.
Yours for the back to the woods
movement. Sincerely, o. E. c."
Let the editor state right now that he
Is sorry he missed that coconut cake.
Unless it is chocolate, what cake is
better?
Men and birds like cake. When Marie
Antolnette said, Let them eat cake" it
really wasn't as foolish as it sounded.
Bread is all very nice, but cake is
mighty good, too!
Evening star., 1940-04-10

that they entered Denmark and
Norway purely for protective" pur-
poses-to save those countries from
allied violation. Such pretenses fool
no one except Hitler's own propa-
nda-drugged people. That nation
Of dupes is not likely to be disillu-
stoned except in the presence of
undeniable military defeat. To bring
such situation home to Germany Is
the urgent task confronting Britain
and France. In the presence of
Hitler's lightning strokes in Scandi-
navia, 1t will be no child's play.
Evening star., 1940-04-10

bered on earth, it cannot possibly con-
tinue to exist as a nation. The notion
of a peaceful economy, based or re-
sources originally acquired by force, is
utterly contrary to natural law and
cannot endure before the challenge of
a master of natural law.
Our Nation for the past 20 years has
had its fun" at the expense of the rest
of the world and now the "payoff" time
has arrived. Not all of the pious de
ploring" of the present situation by our
economists, educators, religionists and
statesmen ever can atone for the fact
that we ourselves are largely responsible
for this catastrophe, and must pay for
our part in it just as remorselessly as
the other democracies are paying for
theirs. The sooner, therefore, that we
manfully face up to the crime that is
ours and resolve to pay our share, the
smaller will be the penalty that we will
have to pay and the better will be our
chances to survive as q nation. Our
american way of life" has not bred in
us the character that permits the ready
acknowledgment of our mistakes, and
will be the means of our undoing unless
we speedily awaken to our folly.
Armageddon is here. Let us face the
facts squarely and ask ourselves what we
are going to do about it. We have
brought it upon ourselves by our dis
honesty, our violations of natural and
moral principles, by our purposelessness
and by our egotism. Have we enough
manhood left to try to save what we
can from the wreck of civilization? Do
we prefer to die, if we must, as men
rather than as hunted beasts? These
are the questions that we solemnly must
ask ourselves today, and upon answer
to them will depend. think, the fate
Of America. DE WITT s. SMELL.
Schenectady, N. Y.
March u.