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Evening star., 1940-02-27
Special Programs Planned
For WJSV Power Boost

Special radio programs have been
arranged to mark Station WJSV's
boost in power to $4,000 watts and
Inauguration of broadcasting from
the new 100000 Wheaton (Md)
transmitter March Z.
Next Tuesday night the Columbia
network will present q salute to its
local outlet, featuring announcers
and performers formerly associated
with WJSV, including Warren Swee-
ney, Bob Trout, Larry Elliott and
Jim McWilliams. WJSV will reply
with a period designed to acquaint
listeners in other cities with typical
programs of the chains Capital
affiliate. An official Of the Federal
Government probably will partici-
pate.
A. D. Willard, jr., general manager
Of the station, is to throw switch
March 7 which will end transmission
from the present 10,000-watt plant
on the Mount Vernon Memorial
highway, and then effect q new
connection putting WJSV on the
air from Wheaton with 50,000-watt
power. The changeover Is to be
made during a special program
scheduled to begin at 10:15 pm,
originating In the National Press
Club.
Mr.. Willard, then an announcer,
was the first speaker heard through
the station after the Columbia
Broadcasting System took 1t over In
1892.
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joseph Z Grundy. So 1t has been
since the days of William Mckinley.
whom Delegate Grundy helped to
nominate. At times like this, he taps
the money stream, like a veteran
fireman who knows where all the
hydrants are.
Mr.. Grundy is a white haired,
white -mustached Bucks County
Quaker, with flock Of woolen mills,
IN and around Bristol, town which
he more or less personally owns and
operates. As to money, he has about
$25 900 900 of his own and has long
been one Of the most dependable
angels Of the Republican party. For
more than 40 years, he has been at
Washington, of and on. fighting for
high tariffs, all out in the open and
with no apologies to anybody. In
1917, he wrote, Honest lobbying Is
the inalienable right of every Amer.
ican citizen" He was for many years
the political associate of the late
Andrew w. Mellon and Boies Pen
rose. He cites century Of progress
under high tariffs, and the lean
years thereafter.
Age hasn't slowed his pace or
dimmed his ardor for protected in
dustries as the home base for pros
perity. He likes to drive his car at
top speed, and several years ago
broke his skull. skidding around
turn. He was schooled one year at
Swarthmore College, and occasional
ly lapses into the Quaker thee" and
"thou." He doesn't think much Of
college education, however. The old
early American free-for all. behind
tall tariff wall, incidentally, gives
better schooling for youth, in his
opinion. His skin is pink and youth
full and he wears gold-rimmed
glasses.
(Released By Consolidated News Features.)
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be compelled to anSwer-or pay
fine of 500 or spend 60 days In jail
or both. And II you give q false
report Of wages or salary, ETC., you
run the risk of being fined $500 and
put in Jail for year.
Judging from the mail on the
subject which Is now piling into
Washington from persons In every
part of the Union, Democrats and
Republicans alike, addressed tc
members of the Senate and House
the American people do not like
the idea of passing out this infor-
nation about their private affairs
to l30, 1000 politically appointed cen
suS enumerators-who may or may
not keep the data confidential. There
are provisions In the law laying
penalties on enumerators for letting
out such facts, collected on their
rounds Of the peoples houses. But
that kind of information may be
passed along-and its passing may
be very difficult to trace to an In
dividual enumerator.
Reed Starts Fight.
In recent weeks, loud explosions
against the efforts Of the Federal
Government. through the census, to
pry into the private affairs of the
people have been heard in both the
House and the Senate. Representa-
tive Reed of New York started the
ball rolling, with q speech In the
House in January. Senator Tobey
Of New Hampshire has taken the
lead In the discussion in the Senate
Tomorrow the Senate Committee on
Commerce, through q subcommit-
tee, will begin hearings on q reso-
luton offered by Senator Tobey ex-
pressing 1t as the sense of the SEN
ate that these questions relating
to wages and salary and other in
come be stricken from the "popula-
tion schedule" of questions to be
used in taking the census.
There isn't much time left in which
to do anything about these questions.
The census enumerators begin
their rounds in April. Already the
Department of Commerce and the
Census Bureau have endeavored to
stem the tide of opposition by point
ing out that the questionnaires which
must be answered by all the people
have been printed and that it is too
late to change them. But Senator
Tobey points out that 1t is necessary
only to send instructions to all the
eni1merators not to PROFOUND the
two questions which his resolution
seeks to have deleted and to give the
matter full publicity In the news
papers.
The New Hampshire Senator in
sists that no good can come Of the
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A CopeIIu Choir
To Give Lenten Concert

The Washington A Capella Choir
will present its ninth annual lenten
concert on Monday. March IL, at
$3.50 pm. at Constitution Hall.
Hundreds Of music students in
high schools Of Washington and
nearby Maryland and Virginia are
expected to attend, and many choirs
and choral groups Of the District
customarily make block reservations.
Mrs. Ruby Smith Stahl directs the
choir, which consists Of 90 singers.
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census, the enumerators will ask each
individual the amount of indebted
ness on his home, first and second
mortgages, the amount paid, and If
regularly paid, interest rates. etc. It
is Reeds contention that the whole
inquiry is shopping" affair by the
Government, and is in line with a
policy Of RECOMMENDATION" Of the
people.
Among the first witnesses called
before the Senate committee will be
Director Austin Of the Census Bu-
reau, and there has been talk Of call
ing Secretary Hopkins. Senator
Tobey will make q statement to the
committee and present q number Of
witnesses in opposition to the in
come questions.
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Political Mill
Letter Writers Join Protest Against
Two Income Questions on Census List

collection Of this income data BY the
Census Bureau: that 1t IL not for the
benefit Of the American people but
merely for some large business con.
Germs and for research bureaus,
which would like to have tho In
formation.
Called Invasion Of Rights.
"Any supposed benefits that might
be derived from the collection Of
this income information" he insists,
"are entirely disproportionate to the
invasion Of the private rights of the
people" Apparently from the tenor
OF the many letters which are now
coming in, the people have pretty
much the same idea that Senator
Tobey has.
Senator Tobey argues, also, that
these income questions are q direct
violation Of Article Nv Of the Bill Of
Rights, which says: "The right of
the people to be secure In their per-
sons, houses, papers and effects,
against unreasonable searches and
seizures shall not be violated" This
Is q part Of the Constitution. He
quotes william Starr Myers, head of
the department Of politics at Prince
ton University, who wrote him that
these questions are totally unwar-
ranted as an infringement Of private
rights and individual liberties"
The Department Of Commerce,
through Secretary Harry Hopkins,
has undertaken to dub the explosion
over the questions a tempest in q
teapot, pointing out that all the
data collected by the census
enumerators Is confidential. That,
however, has not appeased Senator
Tobey. who points out that informa-
ton collected by the w. p. A., of
which Mr.. Hopkins was head at one
time, was not supposed to be used
for political purposes and was sup
posed to be confidential, yet it was
80 used and not held confidential.
Hasn't Effect Of Law.
The Tobey resolution does not have
the binding effect Of law, even II it
Is enacted. It merely expresses the
sense" of the Senate. But it hardly
seems likely that Secretary Hopkins
would defy the Senate in this mat
ter-and II he did, there would be
enough resentment on Capitol Hill
In all probability to force the passage
Of law-even at the eleventh hour
to compel Mr.. Hopkins to remove
the questions.
The issue might have political re-
percussions, If the administration
stood out solidly against removal Of
these income questions from the
census. It is Just the kind of
meddling with personal matters that
Americans resent.
Never before has the Census Bu-
reau undertaken to ask the American
people what wages and salaries and
other income they receive, although
the inference has been left by the
Commerce Department that such
questions have been asked in the
past Senator Tobey and others in
sist that there is no authority of law
for asking the questions any way,
since the law provides that the
fifteenth and subsequent decennial
censuSes-the coming census is the
sixteenth-shall be restricted to in
quiries relating to population, agri-
culture, irrigation, to drainage, to
distribution, to unemployment and
to mines. The law providing for q
national census Of housing extends
the scope Of the population inquiry
to include information regarding
dwellings.
REPRESENTATIVE Reed has Intro.
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peng laid to hold late State convention probably
ne National Convention July 5 the President
mas not taken himself out by ten
General Homer Cummings resolution calling for third
term This will be adopted easily. -
Meanwhile other matters viii be clearer besides the Presidents
lions Jim Farley other candidate
wen leap aboard the bandwagon Il the President
market still Connecticut probably Yankee
OF keeping over
all the goods
byth American Newspaper Alliance. Inc,
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The Capital Porode
ForIey Appears Certain President Won't Run,
Except in Circumstances He Con Approve
BY JOSEPH ALsOP and ROBERT xNTNE

BY JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT XNTNER
striking puzzle lies In the con.
uadicton IL
term Nevertheless accepted position
choice Of the Massachusetts,
delegations is the Presi-
dent II he should choose to
The puzzle Is simple Why should Farley always
demns The best would
-, VIZ" spp.ve tn WI not rum
admission that situation
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WneW1or you 70.
ceived m In
come Of $50 or
m ore from
sources 9th q r
that wages or
salary?
Whether you
wish to or not
unless these
questions are
dropped from q
list of 81 that
are now about
to be put to you
by the agents Of
the Census Bu-
roal1 unll will
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ana oeneath the surface there Is
discernible strong desire to be free
to trade with any one II the Presi-
dent takes himself out.
Like Democratic leaders every
where, of course, the Connecticut
leaders like and admire Jim Farley
But this is a case where liking and
affection for another, as usual in
politics, are subordinate to the more
intimate considerations of SELF
interest. Consequently nlans are
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report Pershng
the American forces in
agreeing an amce under the present circumstances
victory had not yet either sde)
OF negotiated peace rather than dictated the allies
the moral position they hold
actually to world
this prophetic wanted
Persh1ng spanked BY Mr. Wilson It never to that
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fore his depar-
ture, but the un-
expected angle
Is the curiosity
which the tour
has aroused in
on d on a n d
p aris, where,
judging from
cable dispatches,
there is a ten
ency to b e
uneasy.
The fact that
Mr.. Welles first
saw the Italian
foreign minis
$A~ CS~~@~ ~
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againtn the front
trench Of cam.
p q gn finance
S t r a t e gy. AL
though Ernest T..
Weir, the steel
m a 6 n q te. is
chairman Of the
Republican Ma:
tional Finance
Committee, the
T-year-old Mr..
Grundy, former
Senator, Is still
the white hope
OF the party as
a money getter.
Evening star., 1940-02-27

HI opinions of the wytsrs this page thstr o not
necessay The Stars Such opinions presented n The
stars e0t to g!De an sdes Of Qusgons oj tntere s
reader although such opinions may contradictory among
themselues and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1940-02-27
Son and a Judqeship

the conclusion all the nescapabe only other ex
SIMPLY won't wash Observers
e a term obviously distressed by the
nave suggested that Farley
enthusiasm Farley place. according to
to have first place. ~ ~ ~ "'
This may have been hardly have
neen Connecticut The would
the President first and Jim Farley Fitzgerald
crac national committeeman Fitzgerald
pc mas @ no great strength IN the Connecticut organization but
could obtain udgesp whose
elevation to the bench held the Justice
President had approved
there every reason believe that naming Farley
even as second choice Fitzgerald stretching
ms without consulting State Chairman Francis Smith
cut leaders having been sadly
Smith extremely reluctant
to the President
Yankee Thrift
Instead OF RooseveltFaIey delegation
leaders talking Roosevelt delegation
Evening star., 1940-02-27
By q. GOULD LINCOLN.

Do you want to tell . census
enumerator what your wages OF
salary have been for the year? or
do you want to tell the enumerator
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might have to be renominated. from
the White House have come re-
peated and highly authoritative re-
ports that the Presidents decision
on the third term question would
largely depend on the result Of the
spring offensives. Men close to the
President say that he will run only
II the allies are in danger OF defeat.
It Is only reasonable to suppose
that Farley has had assurances to
this effect from the President him
self, and therefore feels tustifled in (
Evening star., 1940-02-27
Allies Fear
Intrigue for
Peace
WelIes' Mission,
However, Is to
Sound Out All
BY DAVID LAWRENCE,

Every move being made by Sumner
Welles, Undersecrfetary Of State, in
his visit to Rome and now to Berlin
Is working out as contemplated be-
Evening star., 1940-02-27
|HeudlineFoI
And What
They Do
Joseph r. Grundy
Remoins 6. O. F..
| Money Getter
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON.

In the intensifying activity and;
tightening organization Of the Re-
publicans, on the eve Of battle,
Joseph r. Grundy Of Pennsylvania 10
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duced . resolution in the House to
repeal the National Census Of Hous-
ing Act-which he insists will violate
Evening star., 1940-02-27
This Changing World
Diplomots Look for Unexpected Developments
On MeIles' Return From Europe
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The 0ermans and the British splitting
has taken leaf from the Kasers book and prong
NIT (Cod
people that they can't possibly
Prime Minister
sought on this fountain youth He asserted that the
II he still
In the meantime reports from begerent
blood viii now freely the permits
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'the sacred rights Of . free people"
II carried out a. planned by the Cen
sus Bureau. In taking this housing
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insiders Not Surprised
Still Open to Proposals

British still proposals
there will be advantage for nation it.
economists politicians
England who believe early provided the major nations
don't suffer It, the allies will
stick by their promises that Poland and be rnsaed
allies Munich
Will that Poland
Independent again with section of back the
republic? Hafaxs months
entitled
still stand? satisfied
that the Polish state should
through q German Danzig and Germani7ed Gydna?
thing depends anxious
that all territories
international
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economic reconstruction with the
assistance Of the gold deposited at
Fort Knox.
Realists in England and the
overwhelming majority Of the
French government believe 1t would
be mistake to listen to any peace
proposals from Herr Hitler. A peace
under present circumstances you'd
be Just another armistice. In con-
nection with this, some Of the OBJ
servers in WASHINGTON quote from
Evening star., 1940-02-27
Loss in Shipments Offset

Greece's Loss in shipments to Ger
many since the war began has been
more than Offset by the increase In
exports to the United States.
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Weles returns to America.
Arrangements for welles interview with Hitler
prise outsiders Undersecretary State certainly
grata with the foreign
forgotten the verbal spanking the the
Charge dAe at washington December 1888 the latter
tested against Of Mr. It thought that the
would receive Undersecretar with courtesy
obviously would his opposite
number ocethe cold ocial Weszaecke,
and possibly Herr Ribbentrop.
insiders Not Surprised
the Rchs capital
insiders.
leaders Of the beeerent states know perfectly well that Mr.
Weles
various Of states wa there
this sit-down
Mussolni bengent Hitler has the
inside track with the German 1t assumed that at the
conference with Wles informed what the
basic conditions Of Germany
Armed with this hrsthand knowledge the State
listen what Herr Hitler has He will have
the listening according
the Fuerer since the outbreak the still has the habit
talking all the time.
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who knows how many other smaller
nations are expected to become the
theater Of operations. There are
hints that even the British and the
French might eventually become in
volved In an active war II the Ger
mans decide to attack the Neither
lands and Belgium.
But wise diplomats put little
stock in this war of words and
Evening star., 1940-02-27
Yankee Thrift

1head OF delegation
leaders talking Of Roosevelt
made in the State Of the Presidents
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-11-01

times as inviolable neutral terri tory. Hitler in the Refehstag, January 30. 1887.
 May 10. 1940. Hitler invaded Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg, leveling Rotterdam.
 Germany has no territorial pos sessions in the American continent and has given no occasion whatever for the assumption that she in- tends to acquire such possessions D Hitler. July 5. l940.
 And that's why this country is working night and day on PRE- PAREDNESS-to make sure that Herr Hitler continues to have no intention of acquiring possessions in the American continent.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-11-01

some time in santa Barbara with Dr and Mrs. Devighne. former well known Juneau residents and others who now live in the south She took in the San Francisco fair and had a thoroughly good time.
 pr Loren Oldroyd. Director of the University of Alaska Extension Service was Washington. D. C.-Ward bound on the Aleutian last Monday on official business. He was accom- panied by Mrs. Olaroyd They wall be gone several weeks.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-11-01
GTIBIlR@U@H TBIlE POLITICAL
 PERISC0PB

On the absence Of the Skipper and official Periscopeer in Ketchi- kan on business l?1, a brief wire comes to "fix up a Periseope." Just like that. It's a rare opportunity and one to which we could answer. when land if he returns, Well. you asked for it.n but much as we are tempted. down here at 40 fath- oms. we'll blow the tanks and up periscope in search Of a target not quite so perilous for our wanting mentality. as Territorial politics.
 We sight clear over to Iowa To Story City, to be exact, on an article appearing in the Story City Herald entitled. "Why We Are Preparing Excellently put the wri- ter quotes:
 Germany has neither the wish nor the intention to mix in inter- nal Austrian affairs or to annex or unite with Austria. Hitler to the Reiehstag, May 21, 1885.
 March II. 1888, Hitler took pos sessio of Austria.
 This (the Sudentenland) is the last territorial demand I have to make in Europe I further as sured him Chamberlain and I re- peat here that if this problem is solved there will be no further ter ritorial problems in Europe for Germany. l give him the guarantee. We do not want any Czeehs. = Hitler to the world in tthe Berlin Sportspalast, Sept 26, 1888.
 March 15, 1889, Hitler entered Prague, thus signalizing the end of Czecho- -slovakia.
 We Germany and Poland) sue ceeded in arriving at an agreement which for the duration of 10 years basically removes the danger of any clash We are two peoples. They shall live. One cannot anni- hilate the other Hitter to the world in the Berlin Sportspalast, Sept. 26. 1888.
 Sept. 1, 1889, Poland was in- vaded. Warsaw was blasted from the face of the earth, and the coun- try was wiped off the map.
 The German Reich and the Kingdom of Denmark will under no circumstances resort to war or any other form of violence against each other. ."-Article 1 of the peace pact signed in Berlin, May 31, 1899.
 April g, 1940. Hitler's Nazis en- tered Denmark and began footing the country of supplies.
 Tn the spirit long existing of good German-Norwegia relations the Reich government notifies the Norwegian government that she has no intention thru her measures, now or in the future, of infringing upon the territorial integrity or the political independence of the king dom of Norway. From Berlin, April 8, 1s4O
 April g, 1940, at a. m. Hitler's troops invaded Norway.
 We are ready to acknowledge and guarantee these states (Bel- gium, Holland, Luxembourg) at all
The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-11-01

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The Wrangell sentinel., 1940-11-01

Queen City home after a summer spent with the Rogges in Fair | banks. Mrs. Rogge reports one of | the toughest crossings over the Gulf in her thirty years travel from che Territory. Before return 1 ing to join Afr. Rogge in Juneau in January when the legislature meets. Mrs Rogge will go to Butte, | Montana to visit a brother who is |iu.
 Mr. and Mrs. J. s Jeffreys, we'll | known Alaska sales couple. took the north bound Yukon for Peters burg last Tuesday after calling on trade in Wrangell over the week end. After a few days in Peters burg they will go to their head quarters in Juneau.
 Charlie Gay. son of AIr. and Mrs Dave Gay of Wrangell. returned to | his home at Anacortes on the Aleu-
 tian last Monday afternoon after a ! summer spent here. He will join his family on Anaeortes
 c. W Call, employee of the Hirst | 1ultHdAQI HilAE ul A.ui1Ale 6aA Was a J through passenger on the Yukon
 Tuesday evening on his way back
 10 work after a vacation in the states.
 Mrs Ed Loeken. wife of the man
 ager of the Petersburg Bank was i homeward bound on the Yukon af- ter two months spent in the states,
 mostly in California, where she
 was toastmisuess at the Alaska | Yukon assembly of the o. 2. & She reports a grand time, taking in the
 San Francisco Fair and generally
 doing the Bay City.
 Miss Gladys Forrest. Secretary in the Governors office at Juneau, was
 on her way back to the old grind
 after a two months vacation in the States Miss Forrest attended
 the Eastern Star Alaska-Yukon
 banquet in San Francisco and re-
 ports that Mrs. Ed Loeken. of Pe-
 tersburg did noble job of Toast 1 mitrsessing and doing her work generally as chairman of the ban quet committee. It was a grand sue cess, she says. Miss Forrest visited