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Roosevelt was considering 9 plan
to aid Britain by sending conveys
to the ports of neutral Fire.
CKarl Megerle, semi -oincial
commentator for the German
Foreign Office, informed Fire
and the United States yesterday
that Fire would continue to be
included in the Nazi blockade
zone even If it should be ex-
cluded, by amendment. from the
danger zone specified in the
American Neutrality Act.
("Whoever appears there" he
wrote in the Boersen Zeitung,
"does it at the risk of exposing
himself to warlike action.")
The Rome radio assured Fire Of
the support of Germany and Italy
in the event of Irish conflict with
Britain.
Fascist newspapers gave much
space to dispatches from the United
States reporting isolationist oppoSi-
ton to President Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1940-12-28

plar, and of Albert Pike Consistory
Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. He
was potentate of Almas Temple
Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine in
1887, and took active part in the
annual conclave of shriners from
North America here in 1885.
The new Junior grand steward
was master of William R. Singleton
Lodge in 1928, and recently served
or the Grand Lodge Committee on
Bylaws
The clock was presented to Mr..
Turnage by Marvin E. Fowler, presi-
dent of the 1910 Association of Wor-
shipful Masters; and the past grand
masters jewel was presented by
Joseph H. Milans, a past grand
master.
Appointments Made.
The new grand master made the
following appointments L. Whiting
Estes, grand marshal; Harry E. Ben
son, grand sword bearer: Charles A
Appleby. grand pursuivant; and
Sidney J, Mayer, grand tiler.
AS grand master Mr.. Daniels be-
comes head of blue lodge masonry
in the District of Columbia with a
membership of more than 1000 be-
longing to Al lodges.
On behalf of the 1910 Association
of Worshipful Masters, Mr.. Fowler
presented to Mr.. KEEPER, check for
$11, ,70623 proceeds from the Might
of Thrills" entertainment last June
at Griffith Stadium. The money
goes to the Masonic and Eastern
Star Home. at 5000 New Hampshire
avenue NE.
Evening star., 1940-12-28

The disturbance that was over Louisiana
Friday morning is advancing northeast
ward with. slightly decreased intensity. be,
ing central this morning over northwestern
Alabama, Birmingham, 9946 millibars
(29.37 inches). with a trough extending
southwark to Northwestern Florida. Weak
secondary centers are central over North
western Pennsylvania and Southeastern
Virginia Another disturbance Is moving
eastward over the Plains States, Huron, s.
OAK 1O0O.3 millibars C29.54 inches). with
a secondary disturbance over Northwestern
Texas. Abilene. 1OO1.4 millibars .(29.57
inches). Pressure is relatively high over
Maine. Caribou. 1O13.a millibars t29.9
inches), and over the Plateau and Middle
Rocky Mountain regions, Salt Lake City.
Utah 1OI9.6 millibars C3O.11 inches)
During the last a hours rains have &C.
and Middle and East Gulf States. the Ohio
and Middle and Lower Mississippi Valleys:
and the lower Lake region. and rains and
SHOWS in the upper Lake region. the North;
ern Plains States. and the middle and
north portions of the Plateau and Rocky
Mountain regions. Temperatures have fsllen
slightly in the Middle Gulf States. Eastern
Texas, the Mississippi and lower Ohio VAL
leys. and the Middle and Northern Plateau,
while they have risen in the Plains States.
the Southern Rocky Mountain region and
Western Texas
Evening star., 1940-12-28
New Peak Set in Out of 7 own
Requests for Opera Recordings
Hundreds in Various Parts of u. S. Send
To The Star for Appreciation Works

The interest of music lovers in
other communities in the operate
and symphonic recordings now be-
ing offered through The Stars
music appreciation program has
reached a new peak, 1t was disclosed
today as the final release of the
campaign was made available to the
public.
With the campaign entering its
14th week, mailing clerks are being
kept busy filling dozens of new re-
quests from lovers of the musical
classics in almost every State, and
it Is estimated that more than 800
persons in cities, towns and tamlets
all over the country have obtained
some of the recordings now being
distributed.
New requests were received yes
terday from music lovers in Minne-
sofa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Tennes-
see, Florida. Ohio, North Carolina,
Maryland, Virginia and New York,
Many sets of recordings are being
sent 10 colleges ana universities,
while others are going into homes
in many different communities.
The 18th and final release of the
campaign, which was made avail
able at the distribution booths in
the lobby of The Star Building to-
day, is the ever-popular Marriage
of Figaro" by Wolfgang Mozart,
the great Austrian composer. This
work is offered in condensed form
on three 12-inch double faced re-
cordings.
All of the IL operate works in
cluded in The Stars series, as well
as the IL symphonic works which
were added to the program several
weeks ago, now are available at the
music appreciation booths and may
be obtained any time before the
end of the campaign.
Radio listeners will have an op-
portunity to hear excerpts from the
recordings of The Marriage OF
Figaro" during tomorrow's music
appreciation broadcast over WMAL
The program is scheduled at 2:35
pm This will be the last of these
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Woman Is Badly Burned
As Couch Catches Fire

Miss Estelle Devlin, 30, was said
to be recovering in Emergency Hos
pital today from serious burns re-
ceived In q fire in her apartment at
1896 Meridian place NV. last night.
Firemen say she was doing on a
couch which caught fire. Her side
and hands were badly burned and
she was affected by smoke.
Members Of the Fire Rescue Squad
administered oxygen and stimu-
lants and removed her to the hospi-
tai for treatment. The fire was put
out quickly. Firemen could not de-
termine the cause Of the blaze.
Evening star., 1940-12-28

grand warden; Aubrey R. Marrs,
junior grand warden; Charles e.
Baldwin, grand treasurer (re-elect-
ed; Aubrey H. Clayton, grand lee
turer (re-elected); the Rev John C.
Palmer, grand chaplain Ge-elect-
ed); Simpson B. Daugherty, as
sistant grand chaplain (re-elected): {:
Paul B. Mattix, senior grand deacon:
William E. Schooley. Junior grand
deacon, and Marvin Farrington,
senior grand steward.
Held Many Offices.
The new grand master has been
prominent for years in the Masonic
fraternity. He was master of
Pentalpha Lodge, No. 23, in 1890:
is a past high priest of Mount
Vernon Chapter, Royal Arch Masons:
is a member of Columbia Com
mandery, No. 2, knights Tenn
Evening star., 1940-12-28
1000 Additional Seats
Are Planned 10 Meet
Inaugural Demands
Advance Reservations
And SoIes Are $56, 900;
First-Aid System Mapped

An advance demand for inaugural
seats which today reached a total
Of $56, 900 in cash sales and reserva-
tions will result in erection of
1000 additional grandstand seats
on the south side of Pennsylvania
avenue between Fourteenth and
Fifteenth streets NV
Attorney Melvin D. Hilbreth.
chairman of the grandstand ticket
committee, said cash sales now were
over $4,000 and some SAC 900 worth
of reservations have come in from
various schools, railroads, travel
agencies, as well as from governors,
electors and other officials.
Virtually all of the priced
seats have been sold, Mr.. Hildreth
said, with the result that the ma
jority of seats available in the new
stands will fall in the 81 and $3.50
class The new stands will contain
some box seats.
Elaborate First-Aid System.
Meanwhile, plans are being COM
pleted for one of the most elaborate
first-aid systems ever seen here. The
setup will include II first-aid sta
tions, each served by four nurses
two nurses aides, four motor corps
drivers and eight first-aid men and
stretcher bearers.
The stations will be supplemented
by Is ambulances, each with doc
tor and nurse, and by 200 flrst-aid
volunteers trained by the Red Cross,
who will occupy posts between the
stations. The program. being plan
ned under the direction of Rear
Admiral p s. Rossiter, will be a
model upon which other cities can
pattern ef1cient disaster relief Or
CARNATIONS. it was said.
Admiral Rossiter, now chief of
staff at Gallinger Hospital, is
familiar with first-aid work on a
large scale. He has appointed as
his aides DR.. Roy Lyman Sexton,
chairman of first-aid, life saving
and accident prevention for the
District Chapter of the Red Cross.
and Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald, who is chairman OF the
disaster service of the District Red
Cross.
IL Radio Stations.
The doctors used in the program
will be chosen from the stats OF the
city's hospitals. Fifty nurses will be
picked from the emergency register
of the Red Gross, and motor corps
drivers, stretcher bearers and first
aid volunteers also will be chosen
from Red Cross rolls.
Twelve short-wave communication
stations will be set up to keep in
contact with the central disbursing
station of the District Chapter of
the Red Cross.
Admiral Rossiter's committee on
medical aid includes DIR. William A.
Morgan, vice chairman; DR.. Walter
A. Bloedorn, DR.. James A. Cahill, jr.;
Capt. George w. Calver, U: S. NJ;
DR.. Worth B. Daniels, DR.. William
Thornwall Davis, DR.. William p.
Herbst, Capt. william T. Holmes, U.
S. A.; DR.. T. Edward Jones, DR..
Howard F. Kane, Comdr. j. j. Kavo-
ney, Brig. Gen. Frank r. Keefer,
retired; DR.. Macdonald, DR.. F. X.
McGovern, DR.. William Gerry Nor
gan, DR.. Ivy A. Pelzman, DR.. Charles
Stanley White, Col. Eugene Whit
more, retired, and DR.. Wallace M.
Yater.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Opero Broodcosts

Through the cooperation >of
the National Broadcasting Co.,
The Star is presenting over
WMAL each weekday morning
excerpts from the operate re-
cordings featured in the opera
appreciation campaign. The
program on which the record
ings are heard, "Today's Prel-
ude," is scheduled daily except
Sundays, from 6 to 7 am. The
Stars recordings may be heard
between 6:45 and 7 o'clock.
The recordings already re-
leased in the campaign may be
obtained at the special distribu-
ton booths in the lobby Of The
Star Building each weekday
from 8 am. to 6 pm. The
booths are closed on Sundays.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Man Fires on Robbers
After Losing $17

Adolph Mickels, 727 Eighth street
Sc, who operates jewelry store
at Seventh and o streets NV, re-
ported to police early today that
he had fired on colored robbers who
took SIT from him last night
Mr.. Mickels said he was leaving
his store when the robbers-he
wasn't sure how many there had
been-approached him. They beat
him and held knife against his
back, then took his cash, he stated.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Chisox Pitcher Rigney
To Wed Dorothy Comlskey
y the Associated Press.

BY Che HSSOCIHCtu FIeSS.
CHICAGO, Dec. 28.-The engage
ment of Miss Dorothy Comiskey,
treasurer of the Chicago White Sox
baseball club, to John Rigney of
the White Sox pitching staff, was
announced today by Mrs. Grace
Comiskey, mother of the bride-to-be.
Miss Comiskey, %, daughter of
the late j. Louis Comiskey and
granddaughter of Charles A. Comis-
key, founder of the American League
club, said the marriage would take
place next fall. Rigney, 26-year- old
son of Mr. and Mrs Thomas J. Rig
ney of River Forest, led White Sox
hurlers in 1910.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
City News in Brief
TODAY.

TO-DAY.
Dinner dance. Senator's Club of
Catholic University, Wardman Park
Hotel. 9 pm.
Dance, Capitol Club, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, Kennedy
Warren.
Convention, Junior Order of B'nai
Birth, A. z. A, Reg. No. 4, Hotel
Raleigh, all day. ...
Convention, Theta Kappa Psi
Medical Fraternity, Willard Hotel
all day.
TOMORROW.
Hike to Garrett Park, Md, Wan
derbirds' Hiking Club. leave Ma
tional Theater 9 am.
Evening star., 1940-12-28

OF Columbia, at
t h e a n n u a |
m e e tt n g last
n i g h t at the
Masonic Temple,
Thirteenth street
and New York
avenue NV. He
succeeded Need
ham G. Turnage,
United S t a t e S
CO m m i S i oner.
who retired, and
W a S presented
with a grand
fathers cloc k
and the gold
a n d diamond
Evening star., 1940-12-28
SoItz Employees Get Bonus

Thirty employees Of the Lewis g.
Thos. Saltz Mems Stores, 1409 q
street NV have been given holiday
bonuses, 1t was announced today
Bonuses for regular employees
ranged from 500 to $3.50 for extra
sales clerks, based on the length Of
service. The annual custom was
further supplemented with num-
ber Of salary increases, 1t was an
nounced.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Can't Add to Warning,
Nozi Sources Assert

BERLIN, Dec. % (R.-Authorized
sources said today oficial Germany
had nothing to add to warnings is
sued yesterday by the inspired Nazi
press to both Fire ureland) and the
United States that Fire would con-
TIME in the German blockade zone,
come what may.
Evening star., 1940-12-28
but distributions from the fund

but distributions from the fund
have since been made.
A complaint for dissolution of the
company was filed October % in
District Court by Attorneys Stohl-
man and George A. Cassidy, jr., at
the instance of the Board of Di-
rectors. The case was referred to
the District Court Auditor, A. Left
wich Sinclair, who recommended
dissolution of the corporation.
Roger P. Hollingsworth was presi-
dent of the concern.
Evening star., 1940-12-28

steward, UeSAe
ming his promo
ton upw a r d S
through the va
rious offices, was
Dean Hill STAN
ley, attorney.
j. Claude Kei-
per was re-elect-
ed grand secre-
tary for the 18th
year.
Other officers
e ! e C t e d were:
Noble D. Larner,
d e pu ty grand
mo ctar. Tor1 II
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Berlin Claims SINKING
OF 5 Armed British
Merchant Ships
Two Nuzi Submarines
Are Given Credit for
Destroying Vessels
By the Associated Press.


BERLIN, Dec. 28.-The sinking Of
four armed British merchant ships
totaling 24.340 tons, and a fifth Of
1898 tons. identified as the Waio-
tira, was officially credited by the
high command today to two Ger
man submarines.
Also, German scouting plane
was credited with dropping two
heavy bombs on a merchant ship
Of 5000 to, 10000 tons yesterday east
of the Thames mouth. Informed
sources said the vessel burst into
flames and presumably sank.
(Mackay Radio intercepted a
message Thursday from the
Naiotira saying she had been tor
pedoed about 400 miles north
west of the Irish coast)
A "few" British planes penetrated
the German-held coastal region in
the night, the high command re-
ported, but it said no bombs were
dropped on German territory.
Report Attack on London.
Large units Of German warplanes
were said to have attacked London
last night with incendiary and high
explosive bombs. The high COM
mand claimed violent explosions
and large fires" in the center and
eastern parts of the city proved
the strong effect of the raid"
British ships which tried to ap-
proach German Dunkerque on
the French Channel coast during the
night were reported to have been
shelled and turned north by long
range guns of the army and navy
Effective" fire on shipping in the
Channel continued early today, in
formed sources added.
DNB, official German news agency
said three British planes were shot
down in the North Sea yesterday
during two unsuccessful raids on
German patrol boats
Torpedo Planes Shot Down.
Two torpedo planes were shot
down by anti-aircraft on the ships
in the first attempted raid, the
agency said, and a flying boat fell
victim in the second raid soon after
DNB said the German Navy is
using a former British submarine
the 2,50o-ton Seal, in operations
against England
DNB reported the submarine, her
commander and her crew were cap
tured af1oat in the North Sea last
May 5 after she had been incapaci.
tated by mine. The agency sale
the vessel was recommissioned in q
German harbor.
The Seal. an undersea minelayer
was reported overdue and presum-
ably lost by the British Admiralty
on May IL. One of the Porpoise
class, she carried a normal compile
ment of SIS men. James Fighting
Ships lists the Porpoise class ton
mage as between 1920 and 2,157.
Rome Reports Sinking Steamer.
ROME, Dec. % P.-An Italian
plane torpedoed and sank a scooter
steamer in the Mediterranean, the
high command reported today, while
acknowledging the failure of an
Italian submarine to return from the
Atlantic
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Ara N. Daniels Named
Grand Master Of
District Masons
D. H. Stanley Is Elected
Junior Grand Steward
As Officers Move Up

Ara M. Daniels, 1887 Underwood
street NV. was elected grand
master of the Grand Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons of the District
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Italy Drops Doncinq

MILAN, italy R.-Public dane
ing has been forbidden Ia italy as
. war precaution.
Evening star., 1940-12-28

studded jewel Of past grand
master.
New officer elected at the foot"
of the grand line, as Junior grand
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Report for Last - Hours.
~>.-a.>Asx.>
Record for last 81 Hours.

Record for Last - Hours.
fFrom noon yesterday to noon today
Highest. Ho. 4 p.m. Yesterday. Year
ago. 81.
Lowest, 46. 3 m. today. Year ago, 81
Record Temperature This Year.
HIGHEST. 100. on July ~.
Lowest. z. on January 90.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday at noon today
HiGhest, "a per cent at 7:3O am. today.
Lowest. 81 per cent, at 1890 am today.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers muddy
at Harpers Ferry, Potomac muddy at Great
Falls today.
Tide Tables
Evening star., 1940-12-28
Precipitation,

Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to datei:
Evening star., 1940-12-28

Automobile lights must be turned on one.
half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1940-12-28

Furnished by United States
Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1940-12-28

The Sun and Nc
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-22
Literary Note

Oswald Garrison Willard, back from
a visit to Germany, reports that A.
Hitler's "Mein Kampf" has been with
drawn from circulation by public IL
braries "until new edition, with all
the scurrilous references to Russia
and the Bolsheviks withdrawn, is pub
lished." This may explain why Mr..
Hitler has been too busy to make
many speeches lately. 1t also may
explain the Berlin announcement that
vest-pocket copies of "Mein Kampf"
are to be issued to all German SOL
diers. When Mr.. Hitler finished the
monumental task of cutting out all
the scurrilous references to Russia he
probably found that his book was
down to vest-pocket size.-Washing-
ton, d. c., Daily News.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-22
Peaceful Methods Learned

We may be proud of the wholesome
industrial relations existing in this
state. In recent years we have been
signally free of major conflicts and
strikes. Our employers and workers
have learned how to adjust their diff
ferences by rational methods. We
have avoided much of the economic
wastage which inevitably results from
labor difficulties. All this has been
done because we have recognized the
responsibility of democratic govern
ment to encourage mutual co-opera-
tion and respect between industry and
labor-to provide means for the peace
full adjustment of controversies
Gov. Herbert L. Lehman of New York
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-22
N.Y.A. AIDS CONSERVATION

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-Youth
employed on N. Y. A. work projects
constructed or improved 1926 plant
and tree nurseries, $3.50 bird and
game sanctuaries and 103 fish hatch
cries in the last fiscal year, Aubrey
Williams, administrator of the Ma
tional Youth Administration, shows in
preliminary tabulation of physical
accomplishments. Conservation has
been one of the important types of
work carried on by N. Y. A. youth.
Activities have included wide range
of projects such as flood control, soil
erosion prevention, planting trees,
stocking game, and fire prevention.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-22

Pope Gregory had accommodated
that Emperor, Henry "
Which was embarrassing to the Ger
man
But when Pope Gregory gave him
absolution-
Henry raised an army of Lom-
bards-
Laid siege to Rome, drove out
Gregory
Appointed his own pope, Anti-pope
Clement III
Who then crowned Henry as EN-
peror of the Holy Roman Empire
Pope Plus XII
Look out! For wandering German
rulers
Who come looking for favors, when
in need
But who have no superstitions what
ever
About promises, treaties, alliances,
or the truth
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-22

Which doubtless accounts for the
"haggard face
Of this Twentieth Century emissary
Of Deutschthum-
When he gave permission for the
return to Poland
Of the Catholic Archbishop Hlotha-
There's a hot spot
Somewhere in Germany today
When Hitler's personal agent
Makes pilgrimage to the Roman
Pope
In humiliation, bearing belated con-
gratulations-
Which no Italian Pope could accept
at face value
From a Reich claiming that a Ger
man God
Helped to defend" it from savage
Poles
Whose Polish unity is cemented still
today
By it's common tradition and faith
In the Roman Catholic creed
Won Ribbentrop may have per-
spired--
AS Henry w froze, standing naked
in the snow
Almost ten centuries back in the
Middle Ages
But that mad genius at Berchtes-
gaden--
Will not hold his hand, in his day
of power
Any more than Henry w did after
Canossa-
But imagine: Won Ilibbentrop, the
beggar!
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-22
COMMUNISM HERE HELD
AT AN "ALL-TIME LOW"

New York City (ILNS).-Under the
joint leadership of Adolf Hitler and
Joseph Stain, Communism has
reached "an all-time low" in the
United States, the Very Rev. Robert
l. Cannon, president of Fordham, de-
clared in his annual report.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-22
UNION-BUILT POWER HOUSE

Organized labor in Bismarck, North
Dakota, and the contractor on the Bis
marck power house recently. reached
verbal agreements for the employment
of union building trades workers on
the job.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-22

What penance, if any
Did Won Ribbentrop perform?
What was there, equivalent to the
hair shirt?
They tell of how he was in perspira-
ton
When he came out of the Pope's
presence
It is said that this German ruler
Promised a crusade against Boil
shevisn-
That the Pope insisted that justice
must be done
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-22

Not that Hitler or Won Ribben-
trop-
Might appoint new Pope
But if and when Nazism fulfills its
schedule
Taking over the European map en-
tire
There will be no Salerno in Eu-
rope
In which an exiled pope may find
safety
Whereupon: Plus may come over
To America, North, or South { -
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-22
Truths POndered While
Riding at
Anchor
'Then gently scan
your brother man
pxy NJ. MOIncfr,c

Dy MT. NIOueSCuS
Absolution-
Was not given by the Pope
Te Won Ribbentrop, when the latter
went to Rome
There was German ruler, who
went to Canossa-
Waited three days in the snow, with
only hair shirt on