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Evening star., 1940-01-14
Margaret Mitchell
Undergoes Operation
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ca, Jan. 13-Dimin-
utive Margaret Mitchell underwent
today an operation for abdominal
adhesions which she had deferred
for months so she could attend the
world premiere screening December
IS of her Civil War novel, Gone
With the Wind"
Her condition was termed salts
factory tonight. When physicians
ordered the surgery late last sum-
mer, the writer told them it would
have to wait.
''She wanted to see the picture,
of course" explained her husband,
John r. Marsh, "and she also felt
that her absence might be con-
strued as indifference to Atlanta's
big celebration"
A siege of influenza in November
also restricted her activities. She
did attend a women's press club
tea for visiting film stars, when
Clark Rhetts ButleD Gable re-
quested, and got, private chat
with her. At the premiere she made
a brief speech of appreciation.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
MI. Pleasant Citizens
Oppose Increase
OF Cent in Gas Tax
Levy, to Be Diverted to
Other Than Rood Use,
Feared Precedent

Opposition to increasing the Dis
trict gasoline tax by cent a gallon
and permitting diversion of funds so
derived for other purposes was
voiced last night by the Mount
Pleasant Citizens Association.
The increase and provision for di-
version. which are incorporated in
bill introduced by Representative
Jennings Randolph of West Vir-
ginia, came in for criticism on sew
eral points before a resolution of
opposition was adopted.
Raymond J. Bowan, who made the
motion to oppose the bill, said that
if one initial diversion of gasoline
tax funds were permitted there soon
would be nothing left of tax funds
so derived to maintain city streets in
good condition.
Charles F. Consau!, former presi-
dent of the association, said the
extra tax would simply be an addi-
ton to taxes already levied on vote
less District residents 9nd would not
be a substitute for any other tax
now in force.
On another point Mr.. Consaul
said that, in his opinion, the "joker"
in the proposed tax was that Con-
gressmen from nearby States re-
sented the fact the District has a
lower gasoline tax than their own
States.
The association, in another action
last night favored the District Zon-
ing Commission's proposed regula-
ton which would provide that all
new buildings designed for the use
of more than one family be equipped
with off-the-street parking facilities
The association considered as well
plans for its 30th anniversary cele-
bration, which it is to hold jointly
with the Bancroft PIT. A. February
at Bancroft School.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Fletcher ChenuuIt
Dies of Injuries

BY the Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Jan. 13.-
Fletcher Chenault, Sc. veteran news
paperman and World War veteran,
died at hospital today after two
years illness resulting from injuries
suffered when he was struck by an
automobile in Kansas City.
After Is years service on the
editorial staff of the Arkansas Ga
zette, Mr.. Chenault became public
relations director for the Recon-
struction Finance Corp. when Har-
vey c. Couch, Pine Bluff utilities
executive, was appointed to the
R. F.. c. in 1888 He left the r. F. C.
post in 1886 to become publicity
counsel for the Social Security
Boards regional Office in Kansas
City and held that post until his
accident,
Evening star., 1940-01-14
6. o. P. Strotegists Told
To'Count on Roosevelt

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. Ex-senator
Bridges, Republican, of New Hamp-
shire believes Republican strategy
should count on Roosevelt being
a candidate for third term
'I doubt the President has def
nitely made up his mind yet
whether he'll rum" Senator Bridges
said in an interview today. Il think
he desires to keep the door open
a while longer to see what happens.
But even if the President runs
again, I am firmly convinced the
people will vote a change and the
Republicans will win"
Senator Bridges speaks before the
National Republican Club of Kansas
City Monday. Tomorrow he will
visit ALT M Landon, Republican
candidate for president in 1886, at
Topeka, Kans.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Child Conference
To Open Three-Day
Session Thursday
Roosevelt Will Speak
Friday; Formal Report
To Be Presented

Called by President Roosevelt tc
chart a course for the welfare oi
American childhood during the next
decade, the White House Conference
on Children in a Democracy will
convene here Thursday for three
days of deliberations.
These child conferences are held
every 10 years and the session this
week is the fourth. They were in
augurated in 1909 by President
Theodore Roosevelt.
High light of the conference will
be the night program Friday in the
asst room of the White House,
when the President will address the
800 persons attending the session
after receiving their formal report
and recommendations The Presi-
dents address will be broadcast over
three national networks between
10:30 and II pm.
Mrs. Roosevelt, who will take a
leading part in the conference, will
address the assembly at the closing
session Saturday in the Department
tai Auditorium, Constitution avenue
between Twelfth and Fourteenth
streets NV.
Miss Perkins Chairman.
The President named Secretary of
Labor Perkins as the 1910 chairman
of the conference and Miss Kath-
arine Lenroot, chief of the Children S
Bureau of the Labor Department
was made executive secretary. About
600 men and women accepted men,
bership, committees were appointed
and research staff was put to work
Expenses involved were betrayed
from private sources.
An opening session was held at
the White House last April and Mr.
Roosevelt, who addressed the men,
bers, asked them to come back in
1910 with a report outlining major
needs of the Nations children and
practical ways of meeting them.
The report will be presented to
the President Friday by Homer Folks
of New York, who took part in the
first white House conference in
1909.
This conference was called to deal
with Children in Democracy" be-
cause, as the President said in a
speech at the opening session last
April, one of the principal objec-
tives is considering the relationship
between a successful democracy and
the children who form an integral
part of that democracy"
DR.. Plant Heads Group.
DR.. James S. Plant is chairman of
a group meeting on THE Family as
the Threshold of Democracy which
takes place Thursday.
The first White House conference
dealt with the care of dependent
children and from it resulted the
mothers pension movement and the
establishment of Federal Chill
dren's Bureau. The 1919 conference,
called by President Wilson, drafted
child welfare standards which stimu-
lated many measures for the protec-
tion of American childhood. Presi-
dent Hoover called the third confer
ence. 1t gathered more facts about
children than any previous confer
ence and drew up the Children's S
Charter. -.t-
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Static-Free Radio
Is Demonstrated
Here by Inventor
Maj. Armstrong Sees
Chonee-O to New Sets
In Not-Distunt Future

Let the lightning flash, let electric
lights and appliances turn on and
off. Still that favorite radio pro-
gram will come out of the loud
speaker without annoying crackle or
buzz, for "F. NJ" will have none OF
them.
This is no dream of a listener s
Utopia, according to Maj. E. H. Arm
strong, famous radio inventor, the
adapter of "F. M" who demon
strated radio reception minus static
last night before the Washington
Radio Club in the auditorium of the
National Museum.
What Maj. Armstrong and his as
sociates refer to as IF. M" is a
principle of radio transmission
known as frequency modulation,
which when applied to broadcasting
has the effect of increasing fidelity
and banishing man-made and nat
ural static.
He says it is destined to begin re-
placing the present method, ampli-
tude meditation, as soon as the
Federal Communications Commits
sion agrees to set aside a wide
enough band in the frequency spec
trum to permit operation of suffi-
Client transmitters in this country.
AS proof it is out of the laboratory
stage he displays receiving sets be-
ing built for sale to the public by d
Well-known manufacturer.
A veteran in radio experimental
ton, Mai. Armstrong has conducted
frequency modulation tests for sew
eral years with a high-power pri-
vate transmitter on his Alpine
On. j. estate. The station is located
on a bluff overlooking the Hudson
River, for Maj. Armstrong explains,
CT M" requires transmission from
a relatively high point to be COM
pletely effective.
A practical deterrent to rapid
acceptance of "F. M by CONNER
cial broadcasters is the expense of
replacing transmitting equipment
with the new apparatus demanded
by frequency modulation, but the
inventor, who heard his previous
important contributions, such as the
superheterodyne and regenerative
circuit, termed "too expensive" when
he introduced them, is confident
the changeover will come in the not
very distant future.
Preceding his demonstration be-
fore the technically minded last
night, Maj. Armstrong, head of the
radio and electrical department of
Columbia University, endeavored to
give an explanation for laymen.
A broadcast comes out of a loud
speaker, he said, because the signal
is transmitted as something differ
ent from the other impulses in the
ether. The receiver is designed to
recognize and accept the station S
signal and remain deaf" to every
thing else, he explained, but ampi-
tude modulation-varying the in
tensity of the signal-does not pro-
duce sufficient individuality, since
various electrical disturbances are
OF similar character, and the re-
ceiver picks them up, too.
Frequency modulation, on the
other hand, involves a varying of
the waves frequency, and this pro-
duces something far different from
the impulses of lightning and elec-
trical appliances. A receiver de-
signed to pick it up is offered moth
ing similar, so reception is not dis
turbed by natural or man-made
interference.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Detroit Police Head
Gusts Superintendent
On Neglect Charges
Order Is Latest Angle
In Robbery Involving
Two Missing Detectives

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT. Jan. 13.-Police Com
missioner Frank D. Eaman, ap-
pointee Of Detroit's new Mayor, Ed
ward j. JeffrieS created a sensa-
ton tonight by removing his next
In command, Supt. Fred w. Frahm,
on charges Of neglect of duty"
The removal order, developing in
connection with a mystifying rob-
berry case involving the disappear
ance Of two detectives, was followed
Immediately by Frahm's announce
ment of his resignation. His re-
moval had been technically a sus-
pension.
Just before Frahm's removal,
Chief of Detectives John A. Hofx-
man, for % years a member of the
police department, had asked to
be retired because of differences of
improper conduct" which he said
Commissioner Eaman had made to
him.
Four Men Are on Trial.
The actions clinaxed a long in
vestigation into robbery last sum-
mer for which four men are now
on trial. The two missing detec-
tives are State witnesses In the
case. The victim was supposed to
have been returned $1,000 by the
detectives, but he said he never re-
ceived it.
In relieving Frahm of his duties,
Commissioner Eaman charged that
the superintendent, a city law off,
Ger since 1911, had permitted "sus-
picion" to fall on subordinate and
failed to act on it until recently"
The commissioner charged that
Frahm had totally disregarded"
his official duty and had allowed
false allegations" to be made
against Detective 1t. Harry Gen.
shaw.
Details Held Unreported.
Before asking retirement, Chief
of Detectives Hoffman had accused
Grenshaw of neglect of duty, in that
he failed to report knowledge of
irregularities" in the holdup case.
The complex story, which became
more confused almost daily of late,
dates back to the holdup of DR..
Martin B. Robinson in his office
last July.
Frahm said the two missing de-
tectives, Byron E. Parrish and Will
fred Brouillet, had told him they
had concealed and returned to DR..
Robinson $1,000 of the loot recov-
cred when the four were arrested.
Robinson has denied he received
the money. One of the detectives,
Frahm said, asserted their action
was taken on orders of a superior
officer"
Went to Get Coffee.
The two detectives were last seen
by fellow officers in Hoffman's Office
on Thursday morning. where they
had gone presumably to discuss the
Robinson case. Hoffman permitted
them, after the conference, to go
and get cup of coffee" he said,
and they did not return.
Hoffman ordered charges of neg
lect of duty brought against Gen
shaw, in charge of the detective
detail at the precinct station where
Parrish and Brouillet were assigned.
Smiling and appearing fully at
ease, Frahm denied tonight any
wrongdoing.
If the commissioner didn't think
we acted fast enough, then maybe
we were guilty of neglect of duty, to
his way of thinking" he said.
Frahm disclosed he had prepared
his resignation earlier today, pre-
vious to Commissioner Eaman's
custer order, since he had felt that
"the new setup' was not going to
work out for me-"
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Mixed Luck

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Jan. 13 (P).-
A short circuit set fire to house
here today, but it evened things up
by arousing five sleeping persons.
Awakened by the constant jang-
ling of the door bell, Mrs. E. E.
Hendershaw found the house filled
with smoke and awoke the others.
Firemen said a short circuit caused
the $500 blaze, but also set the door
bell to ringing the alarm.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Library Association
To Elect -Four Trustees

The Silver Spring (Md) Public
Library Association will hold its an
nual meeting January % in the
hearing room In the Dispensary
Building. Four trustees will be
elected and plans discussed for the
years program.
Allen H. Gardner, chairman of
the Nominating Committee, has an
nounced the following candidates
for the trusteeships: Howard P
Bailey, Mrs. H. H. Hewlett, Mrs
Howard D. Dozier and Gerard F.
Hubbard, all present board men,
bers, and William H. Reynolds and
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Farm Bureau Urges
Legislative Control
Of Roadside Signs
Toxotion Held Way to
Gain Advice From
Landscape Specialist
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 13.-Legisla-
tive control of roadside signs was
among the proposals made by the
Maryland Farm Bureau at it's meet
ing. which closed here today.
1T is our opinion that such con-
troll may be secured through taxa
tion and education" said the COM
mittee's report, adopted at the con-
vention.
AN increase in revenue from this
source would permit the employ
ment of landscape specialist who
would assist abutting owners and
operators in improving the attrac-
tiveness of their places of business"
Bonds for Market Facilities.
Another proposal urged that the
Maryland Legislative Council con-
slider issuing self-liquidating bonds
for market facilities in Baltimore,
and another proposed a study of
the possibility of selling farm sur
pluses through the stamp plan"
Of the Federal Surplus Commodities
Corp.
Renamed to Office at the conven-
tion's close were Philip C. Turner,
president, Parkton; c. C. Phillips,
vice president, Quantico, ard E. W..
Wise, jr, secretary
A bureau resolution asked officers
ito request of the Stamp Plan Divi-
sion of the Surplus Commodities
Corp. that survey be made of both
Baltimore and Washington with the
view to having surpluses moved
through the stamp plan this coming
season"
Relief families buy orange-col-
ored stamps at face value. but for
each dollars worth receive so cents
worth of blue stamps used to obtain
surplus" items
Joint Tax G.. Action,
Improvement re mar
keting facilitieS Inmended
by joint tax committee of the
Maryland State Grange and Farm
Bureau, which said the city has
excess facilities for handling produce
shipments by rail, but present
farmer and trucker terminals are
overtaXed by increased truck ship
ments.
Another resolution opposing the
wages and hours administrators
rulings declared "all agricultural
labor and labor in the first process
ing of agricultural products should
be exempt from wages and hours
legislation"
The committee approved reciprocal
trade agreements in principle, but
recommended that they be approved
by the Commerce and Agriculture
Secretaries as well as by the Secre-
tary of State.
Evening star., 1940-01-14

Robert G. Watson. Three Of the
trustees will be elected for 3-year
terms and one for 1-year term.
Other nominations by petition
signed by 10 members of the asso-
clation may be sent in to the presi-
dent, Mr.. Bailey, or Harry S. Elkins,
secretary, to be presented the night
Of the meeting.
Mr.. Bailey will report on the status
OF the building program for the IL
brary, which has been Endorsed by
16 local organizations.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Kentucky Governor
Bonishes Liquor
From Mansion

BY the Associated Press.
FRANKFORT, KY, Jan. 13.-
No liquor is to be served in the
Governors mansion in Ken
lucky, the Nations greatest
whisky producing State.
This was announced by Gov.
Keen johnson during the serv-
ing Of fruit cocktails at a dinner
for State officials at the man
sion last night.
Gov. Johnson explained he
was following the custom" of
his predecessor, United States
Senator A. B. (Happy) Chan
dler.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
STUBBORN
RHEUMATIC pain

When Irritated by Excess Uric Acid
Thousands take ALLENRU for the
pains of rheumatism, neuritis, lumbago or
rheumatic backachs when irritated by ex-
cess uric acid or other circulating poisons.
Such excess acid and poisons should soon
start to leave your body and thus the ter
rible agony is often relieved - no opiates.
Ask any live druggist in America for an
3 ounce bottle Of ALLENRU-a liquid
costs about IS eouts save this notice.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Fire Auxiliary Plans Porty

The Ladies Auxiliary of the
Bladensburg Md Volunteer Fire
Department will hold a bingo party
Tuesday night in the firehouse.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14
MINIMUM PAY TEST
in PENNSYLVANIA

Harrisburg, Pa. (ILNS) The first
wage order under the 1897 women's s
minimum wage and hour law has been
put into effect. The order calls for a
27-cent-an-hour level for IL 900 work
ers in the laundry industry.
Lewis G. Hines, state secretary of
labor and industry and former direc-
tor of organization for the American
Federation of Labor, asked compli-
ance with the new wage minimum for
a 90-day period under his directory"
order. After that, he said, if there
has been substantial compliance the
wage will remain in effect.
eff at the end of 80 days we find
there has been noncompliance, we
will call public hearing and then de-
termine whether we will put the wage
into effect on mandatory basis" "
Hines added After mandatory or
der the state can prosecute employers
who refuse to meet the wage stand
ard.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14

retorted that the party's activities
were as open as those of the Ku Klux
Klan.
Dies Committee Not Endorsed
Emphasizing the the resolution
was not intended as an endorsement
of the Dies committee and that it
specifically condemned the tactics of
that committee as violations of the
civil rights of American citizens,
Hochman said the public was entitled
to know whether the policies of the
Communist party were determined by
Soviet Russia.
He contrasted the manner in which
the garment workers convention was
run with that of a Communist con-
vention. All of the /. L. G. w. u. ses-
sions were open to the public and the
press, he declared, whereas the Com
munists divided their conventions into
two sessions. Democracy was ex-
tolled at the "bluff" convention held
under public scrutiny, while plots
against democracy were concocted at
secret sessions, the union leader as
serted.
Reds Good Faith Challenged
After the vote had disclosed only
six opponents of the resolution, David
Dubinsky, president of the |. L. G..
w. u, challenged the good faith of
American Communists. He recalled
that the party had condemned the
laws enacted under the leadership of
President Roosevelt until the United
States recognized Russia, but that
after recognition these same laws
were regarded as progressive" meas
ures by the Communists.
The defense of democracy and civil
liberties by genuine trade unionists
was not based upon the position of
any foreign government, but on the
interests of American workers and
American citizens, President Dublin
sky said.
The resolution barring Communists
or Communist sympathizers from
paid or unpaid offices in Canadian
locals was proposed by Local 90,
Toronto. 1t noted that Canada was
at war with Germany and that Cana
dian Communists had demonstrated
their support for "the Hitler-Nazi
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-Unem-
ployment of youthful wage earners
after the war will be problem of the
utmost seriousness, demanding vigor-
Gus efforts to solve, it is emphasized
in the leading article in the current
issue of the International Labor Re-
view, published by the international
Labor Office, Geneva, Switzerland.
The article is study of the expe-
riences of various nations in combat
ting unemployment of youth, which is
recognized as a matter of grave con-
cerne in many countries, including the
United States.
Main causes of unemployment
among young persons are seen by the
international Labor Review article
as: first, the temporary lack of de-
mand for labor in times of depression
which demoralizes youth and deprives
them of skills and training for jobs
later on; second, the blind alley"
character of certain jobs which are
taken by young people who are just
out of school and who are willing to
work for low wages. This last men
toned factor is considered as the more
fundamental and more permanent
cause and the one which must be most
vigorously attacked.
Proposed Remedies
Remedies for the unemployment of
young persons as proposed in the
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14
DEFENSE BILLS
Seen THREAT

Washington, d. C. (ILNS). = The
emergency national defense program
is being used as an excuse for legis-
lation "to destroy the right of gov
ernment employees to organize and to
take from them many other priv
ileges won by long years of effort"
James B. Burns, president of the
American Federation of Government
Employees, charged here.
Burns attack was leveled at sec
ton of the naval and military pre-
paredness bills designs to speed dis
missal of "ffth columnists" from
service, but which, he said, also would
nullify the Lloyd-La Toilette Act of
1912 giving government workers the
right to organize.
Written charges and the oppor-
tunity for reply by the accused en-
ploye would not be required in dis
missal cases when deemed unneces-
sary by the head of the department,
under the section in question.
Expressing the belief that labor
generally would combat the proposed
legislation, Burns said that ''there is
no occasion for breaking down stand
ards won by labor in the government
service"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-06-14
Overwhelming Vote Against ntiDemocratic" Activity
Shows Trend of Notwithstanding of Labor Frances
Perkins Sets Forth Views on Corrupt Elements.

New York City (ILNS).-Deelara-
tions aimed at Communist and other
"anti-democratic" activity were passed
by overwhelming vote at the fortieth
anniversary convention of the Inter
national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union.
Following passage of the resolu-
tions, Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins set forth her views on cor
rupt and subversive elements in the
ranks of organized labor, saying:
II think we are going to see the
labor movement of the United States
free of all tricks, free of all crooks,
free of all Communists and free of
all fifth columnists."
Few Oppose Resolutions
Anti-Communist action was taken
with the adoption of two resolutions
The first prohibits Communists from
.holding Office in the unions Canadian
locals and the second calls for estab-
lishment of joint Congressional
committee to investigate the Com
munist party, the German-Americar
Bund, and all other "anti-democratio
groups" in this country.
The first resolution was passed
without dissent, but six of the 652
delegates voted against the second.
Those opposing the motion for ap-
pointment of Congressional investi-
eating committee contended that the
activities Of the Communist party
were IAN open book" Julius Hoch-
man, union vice-president and chair
man of the resolutions committee