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Evening star., 1940-02-26
Foreign Policy Talk
On Radio Forum

Senator Brown, Democrat, Of
Michitan, leading figure in the
recent Senate debate on increased
loans to Finland, will be the suest
speaker tonight on the National
Radio Forum over WMAL 1t
1880 o'clock.
Discussing "Some Aspects Of
Our Foreign Policy" Senator
Brown Is expected to touch on
the question Of aid to the Finnish
people and what form it should
take.
The National -Radio Forum 10
arranged by The Star and 10 heard
over . .to-coast network Of
the Natioaal Broadcastint Co.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
M-MiIIion Farm Fund
Added 10 Supply Bill
byHouse Committee
SIoshes Of 5000, ,704
Are Made, However, in
$90,069,l39 Measure
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The House Appropriations Com
mittee granted an additional $780,
00,000 for farm benefit payments
today In approving q $50 ,069 ,139
deficiency supply bill.
At the same time, however, the
committee cut presidential estimates
for the measure by 5000, ,704, bring
ing the total congressional cuts from
President Roosevelt's requests to
$274 900 900 for this legislative ses-
sion. The bill contained funds to
meet unexpected current require
ments Of various Government agen-
cies until July 1. =.
In asking the $4,000, 900 now,
Secretary Of Agriculture Wallace had
proposed that next years fund for
farm benefits be reduced the same
amount.
$90,0e0 for Secret Service.
The total included t90, 900 for the
pay Of Is Secret Service agents and
five clerks to guard the President
and his family "in view of the con-
ditions In this country arising as a
result Of the wars in Europe"
Frank ]. Wilson, Secret Service
chief. In testimony before the COM
mtttee said most of the new agents
would be stationed in Washington.
Others would be scattered through
out the country. .,.
Principal cuts were $1,000, 900 each
from proposed fund for insect
control. from 100000 asked for
Grand Coulee Dam, Washington and
Oregon, and from 5000 600 asked
for the Central Valley Project, Cali
fornia.
The committee also whacked
$500, 900 OF a War Department re-
quest for urgent" work at the San
Diego, Calf, harbor.
In the cases of both Grand Coulee
and Central Valley, the committee
said 1t believed the sums it allowed
were sufficient to carry forward con-
struction work until new appropria-
tions become available after July l.
The committee also asserted that
the $l,500. 900 allowed for San Diego
would take care of "the essential
part Of the work necessary to be ex-
pedited."
As for the insect control cut, the
committee declared that "the larg-
est proportion of the sum was for
combating grashoppers with mo
pretense or claim on the part of the
Department of Agriculture Of feasi-
bility of complete eradication"
Census Item Fares Well.
Despite previous floor attacks by
several Republicans on the 1910 CEN
sus Of housing, th0 committee al
lowed almost the full sum asked for
that enumeration. The amount ap-
proved was IS, ,000, ,0c0, or $125, 900 less
than had been requested.
Among the larger items in the bill
were $l,017,0 900 to the Bureau of Rec
lamation for the Rio Grande project,
(see APPROPR1AT1ONs, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Death Of One Of Quods
Brings Money Problems
By the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NAUvOO, Ala, Feb. 26.-The
death of 4l-day- -old Hope Short, one
Of the quadruplets born near here,
multiplied financial problems today
for q committee chosen to aid in
handling the infants affairs.
A $4,000 contract with q milk
firm was Cancelled and plans for
building q permanent home for the
quads and their five brothers and
sisters, children of sharecroppers,
were held In allegiance.
Hope. who died of bronchial pneu-
monia in . Jasper hospital Friday
night, was buried yesterday. Hun
dreds crowded the Nauvoo First
Baptist Church for the funeral.
Hopes two sisters and brother.
Faith. Charity and Franklin. re-
inained In incubators at the JASPER
hospital-an In good health.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
British Cite 128
Cases Of Air Attack
On Unarmed Ships
Charges Made in Answer
To Query on Nozi
Pledge to Roosevelt
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, Feb. 26.-The govern
ment today charged 128 instances of
attacks by German aircraft on "un-
armed British merchant ships and
fishing vessels" from the start of
the war up to February %.
Richard Austen Butler, undersec-
retary of foreign affairs, gave this
figure in answer to q question in
the House Of Commons whether
such attacks were "a breach of Herr
Hitler's undertaking to President
Roosevelt that the German air force
would not bomb civilians"
Mr.. Butler said that the facts
were "too well known" to require a
statement.
All British merchant and fishing
vessels in the North Sea now arc
being armed against aircraft.
Echo Of Altmark Case.
There was an echo of the Altmark
case In query concerning the ex-
tent Of territorial waters along the
peculiarly indented coast of Norway,
to which Mr.. Butler replied that they
were the subject of much discussion
and not finally determined.
He said, however, that the Nor
wegian government while not de-
parting from her claim for a 4-mile
limit has informed the British
government that for the purposes of
this war it would not accept obliga-
tions Of neutrality beyond three
miles from the coast.
Mr.. Butler also said that the limit
Of territorial waters swings inward
at the mouth Of the larger f,ords,
depending on the distance between
the headlands, but also swings out
ward elsewhere owing to the exist
ence of offshore islands.
Gaps in Blockade Cause Worry.
Fear that war supplies are flowing
to Germany through gaps in the
British blockade prompted a series
of uneasy questions for the govern
ment in the House of Commons.
One source Of concern was fig
ures showing exports from the
United States to Great Britain and
France rose only 10 per cent in
the last four months of 1899 over
the same period in 1898, while they
(See LONDON. Page A-lO)
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Norman Thomas Prefers
Third Term 10 Bad President
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Feb. 26-Norman
Thomas, Socialist leader, said today
that while he would not support
either Republican or a Democratic
candidate for President, '"I would
rather see good President in Office
for q third term than bad one for
Q first term"
And" he added, II don't see any,
body in the New Deal capable Of
succeeding President Roosevelt
and all the Republican candidates
are so mediocre" Mr.. Thomas spoke
at symposium at the Town Hall.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Subcommittee Acts to Save
DC. From Triple Income Tax
Moves to Amend New Disputed Law
For Relief Of Thousands Of Employees
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Districts Personal Income Tar
Act OF last July made persons
liable to leUy tDho Dere DON'T
ctled" IN the District as OF De-
cemoer 81, 1889 regardless OF
source OF income. Corporation
Counsel E. H. Seal ruled don,icile
to mean residence for indefinite
period. thus making Federal en-
Dloyes Nving here With voting
residence elsewhere subject to
. the tar.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
- Rsocued Amid lee FIoes.

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 26 R,.-
Twenty persotls, including three
women. were rescued by the Ice
breaker Fenris today after they had
drifted i11 . snaAll boat for u hours
among Ice does 81 the - lane be-
tween Denmark and Sweden,
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Summary Of Todoy's Star

foreign
British cite 12s cases Of air attack
on unarmed ships, Page Al
Firms surrender fortified Islands Of
Koivisto. Page Al
Nazis to try Warsawis heroic Mayor,
Poles report. Page At
Patrol activity increases on western
front. Page IA
Rumania faces crucial oil talks with
Germany. Page As
scandinavians pledge mutual sup
port on neutrality. Page Al
National
Welles confers for hour with Mus
solini. Page Al
Pan-American Always omits east
bound Bermuda stops. Page Al
q. o. p. support seen for 500 900 900
farm parity program. Page A-3
Oklahoma Governor to malt work on
dam. Page As
Woshinetoa and Vicinity
Stray bullet narrowly misses D. G..
motorist In Maryland Page A-4
Marylander kills self after wrecking
home. Pare Az
Cars TO b givsn mental cases from
Blus r1ainA. PasS B-l
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Glasxow Steamer Torpedoed.

LONDON, Feb. as R-The Glas-
cow steamer Loeb Maddy, 1896 tons,
was torpedoed In the North Atlantic
Thursday with the loss Of four lives
and q British warship which rescued
IS survivors was believed to have
sunk the submarine attacker, 1t was
announced today.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Firms Give Up
Fortified Isles
Lose Greet Coastal
Guns Anchorins
End of Defense Line

NAILS TO TRY heroic former
Mayor of Warsaw. Poles report;
misappropriation Of city's funds
, charged to Starzinski. Page Az
PATROL ACTIVITY INCREASES
along western front; French re-
port sharp Nazi raid repulsed near
Wissembourg gap. Page A
RUMANIA IS FACING crucial oil
talks with Germany; DR.. Clodius
Is expected to make strong de-
mands against restrictions.
Page AS
NEUTRALITY SUPPORT pledged
each other by Scandinavians; for
eign ministers also hope for
preservation of Films independ-
ence. Page Al
Evening star., 1940-02-26


HELSINKI, Feb. 26,-The Finnish
high command today acknowledged
that Finland had surrendered to
invading Russians the strategic
islands of Koivisto, armed with
great coastal batteries anchoring the
western end of the Mannerheim
Line.
These islands. situated Of the
Town of Koivisto, are 20 miles
south Of Viipuri. lying in the Gulf
OF Finland near the entrance to
Viipuri Bay.
Possession of the islands pre-
sumably would give the Russians q
new advantage In their drive on
Viipuri. normally Finlands second
largest city, by aiding an attack
from the sea as well as from land.
The Firms on Saturday admitted
that the Russians had conquered the
coastal regions about Koivisto. The
Russians already had announced
capturing both the town and the
island coastal batteries which had
been a strong point of defense for
the Firms.
Russian land forces on the isthmus
itself already have driven up a rail-
way toward Viipuri as far as
Kaislahti, only TX miles due south
Of Viipuri, according to the Firms
own admission. The Russians ap-
parently are cleaning up the area
between the railway and the coast.
Heavy Damage Claimed.
"On the isthmus our troops have
given up the Koivisto Islands," said
today's daily army communique. "On
February Is the enemy continued his
attacks on the western part Of the
isthmus. The attacks were checked
by fire from our artillery and in
fantry, and the enemy suffered
heavy loss In men,"
At one town In this region, SAL
menkaita, enemy attacks were re-
pulsed after fighting which lasted a
whole day." the communique stated.
The Firms said the day passed
quietly at the eastern end of the
Mannerheim Line, where the Rus
slams last week launched great 1T
tacks.
At Kuhmo, northward near Fin
lands waist" the Firms captured q
strong point" and destroyed" q
company Of Russians, said the COM
munique.
The Firms said their air force had
carried out bombing attacks behind
the Russian lines during which a
number of successful air fights were
engaged In by u.s." Five Russian
planes were reported shot down.
Withdrawals Strategic.
In their Withdrawals on the
isthmus, where they have now taken
a stand at their second positions of
defense, the Firms continued to point
out that they have done so strateg-
ically and only at great cost to the
Russians. They point out that the
second line positions are stronger
than those Of the abandoned first
line.
One foreign military observer esti-
mates that 1t has cost the Red Army
100000 men to reach their present
position of threatening viipuri.
This observer says 1000 Red SOL
diers killed has been the average
price exacted daily for the gains
lSee FINI AND pare A-al
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Non-Residents Banned
From North Scotland
BY the Associated Press.

BY TIE ASSOcl4ted PreSS.
LONDON, Feb. 26-Non-resident
civilians were banned today from
all of Northern Scotland where
many important British war indus
tries are concentrated.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
nazi Liner Orizaba
Aground OF Norway
~ the Assc ciated Press.

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 26.-The
1854 : ton Hamburg American
steamer Orixaba, put into service
only nine months ago, was reported
today to have gone aground at
Skjervoy, near Hammerfest, on the
north coast Of Norway.
The crew was reported saved, but
the ship was said to be sinking.
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Hull Calls Trade Pacts
Necessary 10 Restore
Postwar Prosperity
Senators Told Program
Will Be Decisive in
Reconstruction Work
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
In 1887 Congress extended to
June II. 1910, administrators au-
thority to negotiate reciprocal
trade agreements Without con-
gressional ratification. Opposi-
ton to lotU-tarif aspects OF the
agreements began to groD last
summer. chiefly in agricultural
centers of the West. In his mes
sage to Congress, President
Roosepelt emphasized need for
program as fundamental part Of
any tOorld peace.
Evening star., 1940-02-26

(See LONDON, Page A-10.)
Evening star., 1940-02-26

(See COURT, Page A-40
Evening star., 1940-02-26
Withdrawals Strategic.

(See FINLAND, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1940-02-26

(See INCOME TAX, Page A-4
Evening star., 1940-02-26

(See WELLES, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1940-02-26

(see CLIPPER, Page A-30
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS, ia.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS, IA
nous orator, statesman and aboli-
Zionist, who fled from a slave
plantation in Maryland, located in
the North, and became one of the
foremost abolitionists. Douglass
went to England, and by his fiery
eloquence, aroused intense public
sentiment against American slav-
cry. For a number of years he
edited in New York a militant
newspaper, 1.-THE North Star" and
held many important political posts
during his career.
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Kentucky's Greatest Daily Favors
Anti-Lynching Bill; Gives Reasons

WASHINGTON, DC. II have
no hesitation whatever in saying
that I favor the passage of Fed
eral anti-lynching BILL"
This statement by Mark Eth
ridge, general manager of the
Louisville, KY, Courier Journal
and Louisville Times, was read in
to the record of the Senate hear
ing on the federal anti-lynching
bill February 6 by Walter White,
secretary of the NAACP. Wit
nesses for and against the mea-
sure are being heard by sub
committee of the Senate judiciary
committee headed by Senator F.
Van Nuys of Indiana.
The fortnight endorsement of
an executive of one of the leading
daily papers in the entire South
was contained in letter which
Mr.. Ethridge wrote to the NAACP
January % and in which he set
forth six reasons for favoring fed
eral action against lynching. Part
Of the text of the letter follows:
Dear Mr.. White:
1T have no hesitation whatever
in saying that I favor the passage
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of a Federal anti-lynching bill.
That is based upon several rea-
sons:
Il. 1 favor it as an affirmation
that Americans as a people do not
tolerate a form of barbarism that
is only little more refined than
cannibalism not as sentimental as
suffice, and not as effective as po-
groms;
"2. 1 favor it because the United
States Government owes the pro-
lection of a Federal law to its
humblest citizens. The guaran-
tees under the bill of rights are ex-
tended to the persons of citizens
of the United States, not to the
citizens of states. The accused has
the right to be heard in court, and
in court he has the right to con-
formation, to counsel, to the pre-
paration of a defense, to testify
as he desires, and to present wit
nesses.
"3. I favor the Federal bill be-
cause the states have failed to af-
ford protection vouchsafed to Am
erican citizens under the Constitu-
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Frederick Douglass, greatest
Marylander, greatest American,
was the Abohtionists' best exhibit
of the fact that the slave was a
man.
So well did he speak in anti
slavery meetings that his oppon-
ents in the South refused to be-
ieve that he had ever been an ig-
norant, untutored slave, and his
friends had to persuade him to de-
vote some of each address to his
slave experiences. "Give us the
facts, Frederick" they said. Don't
just denounce slavery"
Extracts from some of his adj
dresses follow:
II saw at once in peace and in
war, l am content with nothing
for the black man short of equal
and exact Justice"
1.-THE church of this country is
not only Indifferent to the wrongs
of the slave, but it has made it.
self the bulwark of American slav-
cry and shield of slave hunters,
shamelessly given the sanction of
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Pleads Guilty
Gets 3 Years
Born February IL, 1909

William Moore, % yr. old post
man, arrested for stealing letters,
tried before Judge Lloyd L. Black
in the United States District Court
Saturday, Feb. 33, was sentenced
to serve 31a years in the federal
reformatory at Ell Reno, Oklahoma.
Moore was charged on 8 counts
to which he pleaded guilty Gerald
Schuklin, assistant U. S. Attorney,
asked the extreme penalty on the
first count, Diminishing the others.
Judge Black in passing sentence
on Moore, took cognizance of the
many pleas by friends for leniency
and this his first criminal offense.
In passing sentence, Judge Black
addressed the prisoner:
'There was no excuse for you
to do wrong. You have a good IA
Their and a good mother and you
have committed crime against
members of your race. Here are
some 1,6OO letters. Some husband,
some wife, some sweetheart or
some mother is waiting for those
letters and wondering why they do
not arrive. The u. s. mail is a
department which has grown to
the point that one may deposit
his letter and feel certain that ii
will lreach its destination"
The government is making every
effort to see that all letters in
its possession, reach the persons
to whom addressed as early as
possible.
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James Boyd Kills
Self With Gun

James Boyd, 81, killed himself
with a revolver in his room, 625
Washington street, at o'clock
Tuesday morning. His brother,
Mack Boyd had previously been
summoned to his side, and was
asleep in the same room when the
shot was fired. He Immediately
called the police.
A note written by Boyd read as
follows: IF should fail to awake,
l want you to have me cremated,
and under no circumstances do I
want a funeral with a lot of NOR
bidly curious hanging around. If
you do, it will be very much
against my wishes"
1t was reported that Boyd with
drew some $4,000 or more from a
bank, sending a sister in Detroit
$500 and $1,000 to his mother in
Los Angeles.
Friends of Boyd report that
since his arrest on a federal mar
cotic charge last November and his
subsequent indictment and plea of
guilty, he began making prepara-
tons for his death. Death, he said
would be preferable to serving a
term in prison at his age.
Only two weeks ago he had his
dog, his faithful companion, put to
death. Just prior to the death of
his dog, he spurned an offer of
5000 in cash, saying his friend was
priceless.
Five days ago he called in a
couple Of those call my friends, I"
and around a bottle of wine, re-
hearsed the scene enacted Tues
day, emitting the time and man.
ner.
Boyd led a colorful life and was
as well known in California and
the East as in Seattle.
He was fearless in life and death
for him had no terrors.
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religion and the Bible to the whole
slave system. For my part, I'd
say, welcome infidelity, welcome
atheism, welcome anything in pre-
ference to the gospel preached by
those Divines."
History does not furnish an ex-
ample of emancipation under con-
ditions less friendly to the eman-
cipated class than this American
example.
They (Negroes) were hated be-
cause they had been slaves, hated
because they were now free, and
hated because of those who had
freed them"
II will not listen, myself, and I
would not have you listen to the
nonsense that no people can sue
coed in life among a people by
whom they have been despised and
oppressed.
1.-THE statement is erroneous and
contradicted by the whole history
of human progress. A few CEN
turtles ago, all Europe was cursed
with serfdom, or slavery. Traces
of this bondage still remain but are
not easily visible.
The Jews, only century ago,
were despised, hated and oppress-
ed, but they have defied, met, and
vanquished the hard conditions inn
posed upon them and are now opu-
lent and powerful, and compel re-
spect in all countries"
mo people to whom liberty is
given can hold it as firmly and as
wear it as grandly as those who
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Sarah Tinker Dies
After Years Illness

Mrs. Sarah Tinker, pioneer re-
sident of Seattle, died Sunday
night, Feb. 4, at the Douglas Apt.
where she resided, after years
illness. DR.. w. Brown was in at
tendance.
Mrs. A. Harris of Everett, life
long friend of Mrs. Tinker, was at
her bedside Sunday night.
Funeral services were held We'd
nesday, Feb. z, in Everett and she
was buried beside her husband
who passed away seven years ago.
Mrs. M Duncan, Mrs. Norton,
and Mrs. McGale went to the SER
vices in Mrs. L. Davis car.
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Jas. Lenair Dies
At Virginia Mason

James Lenair, 81, SIG 21st Ave-,
died Sunday, Feb. A, at Virginia
Mason hospital of double pneu-
monia.
Early in the week, he complain
ed of heart ailment and went to
the hospital for treatment Com
plications set in and his condition
grew steadily worse.
Lenair had been employed in the
Humane Society for 81 years and
would have retired during the year.
He was one of the oldest members
of Harmony lodge, A. F. & M. and
Grand Marshall of the Grand
Lodge.
He leaves a widow, Carrie Lee;
a daughter, Mrs. Mildred Cooper;
sister, Mrs. Elsie Richardson and
two grandsons, Donald and Mil
lard, all of Seattle; and son, Will
liam Lenair, of California.
A large crowd filled the Angelus
Mortuary to witness the last rites
The employees of the Humane So
ciety were granted a half holiday
to permit fellow workers to attend
the funeral. Inspector George
Comstock of the Police department
furnished the funeral cortege po-
lice escort.
The Reverends Jack Nelson OF
the Pentecostal Mission and Foun-
tain Penick of Mt. Zion Baptist
church shared the service.
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CriSpuS AffuclxS Was
Eulogized BY Pres. Adams
Later Dishonored By d. A. r.

Let all Americans turn faces to
Boston, Mass, in remembrance of
the first great martyr of liberty in
our land-Crispus Attacks. One
hundred sixty-nine years ago, on
March 5, occurred the Boston Mas
sacre.
In front of the Old State House,
in Boston, each March 5 there as
semble Boy Scouts, Legionnaires,
and patriots of New England's fin
est blood, there to pay tribute to
this fearless man.
In 1899, more than ever in any
previous history, Boston and Mas
sachusetts saluted the ideals for
which Crisput Attacks gave up his
life. On the great Boston Com
mon, in close sight of the gold
domed capitol building of Massa-
chusetts, there stands a monument
to the memory of this day and this
deed.
How ironic-and tragic-there
have been in past decades, those
who would alter, or erase, the bold
and gold, facts of Crispus Attacks
as well as the thousands of black
men who fought under George
Washington in the War of Revolu-
ton. The heritage of our America
cannot be denied by i'll thinking.
The truth is record written in
blood.
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ika; his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. FL
mer Wilson; a niece, Airline Will
son; brother, Arlon; sister-in-law,
Ruby Wilson; grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Ennox, Bremerton;
and an aunt, Mrs. Louise Allen, of
Bremerton
The Rev. John r. Harris of the
Presbyterian Church will conduct
the funeral rites at the A. M. E.
Church Saturday at p. m.
The passing of Elmer Babe"
Wilson, was a shock to the Negro
community and a loss that can
not be replaced. The young man,
only 80 years old, was well known
all over the realm of baseball and
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