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Evening star., 1940-01-14
Arkansas Society
Reception and Dance.

The annual reception and dance
honoring members of the State con-
gressional delegation will be held
by the Arkansas State Society at
the Wardman Park Hotel on
January 23
Federal Security Administrator
Paul " McNutt and Mrs. McNutt
will be guests of honor and in the
receiving line will be members of
the congressional delegation. DR..
Erwin H. Shinn is president of the
State society, which gives four to
six dances and receptions year.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
New York Society Members
To Hold Dance Tomorrow.

Announcements of the New York
State Society of Washington has
been sent to members advising
the next dance and entertainment
of the society will be held in the
west ballroom of the Shoreham
Hotel tomorrow evening from 10 to
! o'clock. Also members of Con-
gress from New York State have
been extended invitations to be
guests of the society on this Occa-
sion.
Admission will be by 1910 men,
bership cards or guest tickets, which
may be procured at the door the
night of the dance or from Mr.. C. M.
Little, treasurer, Southern Railway
Building.
Mr.. James E. Black, president of
the society, and the officers extend
a cordial invitation to all New
Workers and their friends to be
present.
Evening star., 1940-01-14
Annual Congressional Dance
OF Delaware Society FridaY.

The annual congressional dance
of the Delaware State Society
will be given Friday at the Hotel
Twenty-Four Hundred. Mrs. Adam
Penrod is chairman of the Recep-
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Illinois Society Dinner
To Be Held Wednesday,

Mr.. V. Y Dallman, editor in chief
of the Illinois State Register
Springfield, ILL.,, will be the guest
speaker at the annual dinner of the
Illinois State Society, to be held at
7 o'clock Wednesday in the old
Gingham Club over Childs' Res
taurant, 1923 Pennsylvania avenue.
1t is expected that both Senators
from the State of Illinois. Senator
Scott w. Lucas and Senator James
Slattery, will be at the speakers
table. Representative Laurence Ar
mold, president of the society, will
be the toastmaster.
Other honor guests that evening
will be Mr.. Emil Scram, chairman
of the Reconstruction Finance
Corp; Mr. M. S. Szymczak of the
Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System, and Judge L. E
Birdzell of the F. D. &c.
The program will consist of the
address by Mr.. Dallman, the intro
duction of as many of the prominent
people from the State as time will
permit by the POSTMASTER, and
music by Leon Brussillof, we'll
known Washington entertainer.
The committee in charge of ar
rangements is composed of Miss
Grace Keller Cooper and Mrs
Walter Bastedo. Reservations for
the dinner are being received by
Evening star., 1940-08-18

itself. The fact is that England has
Mediterranean blockade in force which
cuts Italy from the Italian African En-
pire by sea, so that supply contact be-
tween the empire and home is difficult.
For Greece, this is an unhappy situation.
Greece is still neutral in the greatest
Of all wars, but Greece heard the
noise of war through propaganda guns
from Rome-the Italian charge that the
Greeks were supplying oil to
Greek British warships and planes
Crisis as well as conniving in "plots"
along the Greek border Of
1talian-conquered Albania. where there
is a restive population dissatisfied with
Italian control and ever-ready for a try
at overthrowing it. The reported be-
heading of an obscure Albanian minority
leader. Hau. Hoggia, by Greek border
raiders touched of violent Italian press
campaign reminiscent of those by Ger
many against -Slovakia and Po-
land. Greece. said Italy. is allowing
British use of Greek island naval bases
for war against Italy.
Climax Of tension came in midweek.
The Greek minelayer Helle, 2,ll5 tons,
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dence was not shaken. The British peo-
pie for the first time realized the ter
rible efficiency and power of the military
machine they had challenged.
Notwithstanding the boastful and
blatant broadcasts which German propa-
ganda has been vibrating through the
air, we know that incontestible facts
demonstrate that our valiant airmen
have more than held their own at the
end of each day of furious battle. We
know from what we ourselves can see
or credible witnesses testify to us how
grossly the German reports have exag-
gerated the damage and destruction in
flicted on our ships, our ports, airdromes,
factories. And the more often they
reiterate those extravagant tales of woe,
which are refuted by the vision of our
own eyes, the less credit is given to
fantastic German reports as to the ex-
tent of their achievements.
Germans picture q people crouching
with fear of these terrible attacks which
are supposed to be raining upon them
Evening star., 1940-08-18

and London admitted, sank the British
auxiliary cruiser Transylvania, 1900
tons. The northernmost point of Ger
man air attack was Moray
Waves of Firth, far up in Scotland. on
Deofh the North Sea side. The
Germans visited Aberdeen,
Scotland; the Vickers Armstrong arms
works in Rebburn, towns in Northum-
berland In northern England: Newcastle
on-Tyne, a Northumberland port; Roch-
ester and Chatham, near the Thames
Estuary. In the dark hours English
planes raked at the German-held 100
miles of French coast from Calais to LIE
Havre For the day, London reported
1859 German planes down, "a British.
Evening star., 1940-08-18
AIR RAIDS BOLSTER MORALE-LLOYD GEORGE
BItzkries Deferred
yDaudL Lloyd

from the skes-a population hiding
night and day in shelters, unable to
pursue their daily tasks because their
hands are trembling with apprehension
and their hearts are sinking with chronic
dread of worse horrors to come. There
never was a more grotesque caricature of
the state of mind Of the British people.
Factories are working full time and at
full strength to produce munitions Of
war. The output is increasing daily,
even hourly. Men and women are pur-
SUNG their daily avocations without re-
nilsson. What is. still more to the
point-the people are exhilarated with
accounts that come in of the prowess Of
our young men who are fighting their
battles in the air with inferior numbers,
but with superior skill and audacity.
Reassured by Bad Aim.
There have been air raid casualties
mostly occurring where objectives are
missed and humble dwellings Of people
are hit instead. But these incidents
exasperate, rather than intimidate.
Ordinary people are encouraged by wit
Messing for themselves how. in most Of
the attacks, bombing airplanes fail to
hit the object at which they were clearly
aiming. Up to the present, people in the
raided areas have been treasured by
the inaccuracy Of the raiders aim.
The German air attack cannot hope
to win the blitzkrieg which was to bring
war to a victorious end by the conquest
of Britain before winter comes. What
about an invasion? It fingers. It may
be awaiting q more favorable issue out
Of the aerial battle If so. it will have
to tarry some time before 1t starts. Con-
ditions for an invader are not improving
lust now. Still, we must not fall into
the Goebbels habit of premature boast
fulness. War is an uncertain gamble
and even If invasion Is frustrated, we
have still long-a very long-way to
20 before we recover ground lost by
democracy during the last disastrous
years of fatuous diplomacy and limp
preparation for the certain conflict
which was awaiting the inevitable failure
Of that diplomacy.
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Evening star., 1940-08-18
Bons Royal Air Force Bears Up Voony Against Mighty Noz Sky Armada

making the attacks was seeking real
provocation. Italy is far stronger than
Greece.
Far to the Mediterranean's south, Italy
kept up with the war already at hand.
The chief matter of
Action in the moment is the
SomoIiIond battle for British So
maitland and for Ital-
ian control of the southern side OF the
Gulf of Alden, much of which Italy al
ready controls through the geographical
arrangement of italian East Africa and
the fact that French Somaliland is under
Axis control.
Italian troops continued through the
week their drive begun the week before
on Berbera, the chief British Somaliland
port. London admitted that the British
military situation in Somaliland was
rather critical. 1t was expected that the
British troops defending the heights
around the town may be forced to fall
back on Berbera. The British. facing
two italian divisions, are badly out
numbered, and England needs her troops
more for what might come in Northern
Africa. This seat of war has not pro-
duced real fight yet.
The British annoyed the Italians on
their home field by sending bombers
with missiles for the Fiat aero factory
in Turin and the Caproni aircraft works
in Milan-two great North Italian cities.
glass furnace in Genoa was hit. The
Italians received two British air raids.
In the first, % were killed in Turin,
Milan, Tortona and Alexandra. The
Swiss government ordered its Minister
in London to protest against violation
of the Swiss frontier as result of the
air raids. More than 80 British planes
few over Swiss territory to and from
Italy.
Evening star., 1940-08-18

w. L. MACKENZIE KING,
Canadian Prime Minister, Uho
conferred ,rith President Roose-
uelt regarding continental defense.
Harris -E1Ding Photo.
was torpedoed in Tinos Island harbor in
the Aegean Sea, with loss of one petty
officer and injuries to % crew members.
The torpedo came from a submarine.
Premier John Metaxas of Greece at once
summoned his army. navy and air
leaders.
Who sank the Hele Greece did not
say. Vitginio Gayda, authoritative
Fascist editor. accused the British of
sinking the ship in an attempt to pre-
cipitate a crisis between Italy and
Greece. In IstanbuA Premier Rafik
Saydam of Turkey conferred with the
Greek Minister and then held long con-
ferences with army and navy leaders as
Turkey took an increasingly serious view
of the Italian-G situation. The Tur-
kish press hinted strongly any open
Italian move against Greece might see
Turkey involved in fulfllment of the
Turkish British mutual assistance pact.
Greece acted by ordering partial mo-
bilization of Greek reservists for next
Tuesday. The order was given Friday,
when two Greek destroyers were bombed
by war planes. The destroyers' conn
manders said the planes we're italian.
The ships were steaming toward Tinos,
scene of the Helle disaster, when the
attack came. 1t was reported also that
q Greek merchantmen, identified as the
Erin, was bombed by unknown warplanes
while lying in an unidentified Greek har-
Dor. Diplomatic observers expressed be-
lief in Athens that the secret attacks
left Greece virtually with an undeclared
war on her hands. Greek officials, how
ever. declared the government had re-
Trained from defensive military meas
ures because 1t felt that the power
Evening star., 1940-08-18

LONDON-The tremendous battles
which have been going on during the
last few days over the English Channel
and adjoining coast Of England repre-
sent the greatest aerial struggle since
the invention of this formidable wea-
pom of modern warfare. The German
broadcast is seeking to create an i'm
preston not merely that the result has
been victory for their forces, but that
1t has produced a sense of repression
and dismay throughout Britain. have
no hesitation in giving a most en-
phatic denial to that fable. The reverse
is the exact truth, for these battles have
revivified and elevated morale which
was inclined to droop.
Norway was a bad defeat; the cam
paign in Flanders and the crushing
of the French army were unmitigated
disasters. Both these calamitous set
backs were aggravated by the painful
feeling that the Allied direction had
once more been hopelessly outclassed.
To use Reynaud's phrase, in both cases
the catastrophe had been due to I'm
credible blunders" in high places. It
would be idle to pretend that these ca
lamitous events did not produce a sense
Of detection. But at the worst moment
tlere was no panic.
No Counsels Of Despair.
There was much legitimate criticism
Of those responsible for our humiliation,
but there was not a voice lifted in any
quarter to utter counsels Of despair.
Fresh levies were raised without sin
gle protest. Drastic measures were taken
to insure that all deficiencies in equip
ment should be made up and depleted
stores replenished. The government was
given free hand to take any or every
measure which was deemed necessary to
meet the emergency.
The action of the Petain government
was viewed with unmitigated disgust and
the imminent peril of invasion precipi-
tated by the French surrender woke the
people up from slumberous complacency
into energetic resolve to use all their
resources to fight the battle of democracy
to the very last ounce Of their strength.
It would be idle to pretend that conf
Evening star., 1940-08-18

Germany said 80 Germans lost, 143
British.
Friday and yesterday the Germans
went at their aerial war Win the same
deadly intensity, Large forces of Nazis
few over the Thames by London, dropped
bombs and damaged both banks-to the
eastern, or sea, side of the British capital.
More than 1000 Germans were in the
Friday night.
Germany at weeks end proclaimed
total blockade of England, announcing
the sea area around British Isles has
now become combat zone within which
shipping would run serious risk of de-
struction. Berlin warned Germany would
not be responsible for what might hap
pen to American ship American Legion,
Evening star., 1940-08-18
Review of Fiftieth Week of War
By Blair BoHes.

The battle of bombs powed
Jagged heavily
sh afternoon Thursday August 49, suka bmber
approaching the feet above dives
toward their objective miles awayCroydon Aom Lndons out
skirts mpgnabe untouched by
Now the the German Every
last the bombed the island f The howl sounded
all day day in English
The is still aerial German obecdves Europes
the attack? the question everybody wants
England
British
against what probably will be daily visits OF major magnitude from NaI
cities
almost old.
Evening star., 1940-08-18
Home Front

The prospect of early enlargement of
the United States fighting force bright
ened last week when the House voted by
342 to So to grant President Roosevelt
authorization to order out the National
Guard and Organized Reserves for one
year of field training The Senate al
ready had approved the bill in a manner
slightly amended by the House. It is
expected that the first contingent of
$1,000 National Guardsmen will be Or
dered to duty by September Is and that
practically all the guard, 220 900 soldiers
and officers, will be on duty January l
if funds are appropriated. President
Roosevelt asked for the authority in a
message July 29
The conscription bill, on which the
leaders in the American rearmament
program rest their hopes for a real
American military expansion aimed at
meeting whatever threat
MIlitoY may come from overseas,
1roininq still is a subject for Sen
ate debate. The House
Military Affairs Committee, which has
the bill before it, heard from Col. Frank
Knox last week that Congress should
pass the measure quickly in order to out
wit the 'Fascist-Hitler crowd" in its
efforts to calm our fears in the hope of
paralyzing preparedness" He felt that
fears were justified, but he said he did
not expect danger for six months. Mean
while, the Senate voted to make the
armed services more attractive by in
creasing the base pay of enlisted men in
the Army and Marine Corps from s21 to
$50 month.
Defense Commissioner Knudsen ad-
vised Congress during the week that an
American Army of 1000 900 men could
be placed in the field with full equipment
by october l, 1943.
The problem of defending the Amer
lean lifeline" the Panama Canal,
turned President Roosevelt to negotia-
ton with the British for the use of
British Western Hemisphere possessions
as naval and air bases for the United
States. Mr.. Roosevelt at the same time
is negotiating with Canada to bolster our
hemisphere defense program. He visited
Northern New York yesterday to inspect
the Army participating in war games and
to meet Prime Minister Mackenzie King
Of Canada on the Canadian-Unitec
States defense deal
Gen. George Marshall chief Of staff
described the hemisphere defense prob
lem as Critical"
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Southern Front

The defense Of the island, Of course.
is but a part of the war for England.
There is the defense also of her arteries
of empire, the most important of which
goes through the Mediterranean. Eng
lands fight over England is with Ger
many. Englands fight over the English
Empire is chiefly with Italy.
The positive aspect OF the Italian &C
ton is war in Africa against England
and in theory war in the Mediterranean
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on way from Petsamo, Finland, to
United States with more than 300 pas
sengers, including German enemy Crown
Princess Martha of Norway.
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-13
SUPREME COURT
UPh0LDS kLRB POWER
TO VOID CONTRACTS

WASHINGTON. = OPP = Holding
that workers were entitled to bene-
fits obtained under the individual con-
tracts with their employers, the SUI
preme court here upheld the NLRB
and directed the National Licorice Co.
of Brooklyn, N. Y. to comply with an
NLRB order.
The court, in a decision written
by Justice Stone and dissented from
by Justices Black and Douglas, held
that the NLRB was correct in declar-
ing the contracts in violation of the
national labor relations act but said
that the workers could still claim the
rigts given them under the contracts.
The NLRB's decision ordering the
company to declare contract with
company union void was upheld, the
court holding it was within the power
of the board to cancel contracts made
in violation of the act.
Stones decision amended the order
to state that individual employees re-
main free to assert amy legal rights
they may have acquired under such
contracts"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-13
Taxpayers Protest
Paying Sheriff
Back Mileage

WOLF POINT. = (SpeciaD - The
Taxpayers association has filed a
written protest with the board of coun-
ty commissioners of Roosevelt county
against payment of the claim of Henry
Lowe, sheriff, for s2.597.37 back mile
age. The claim covers the period
from August 1888 to January 1910 and
represents the difference between the
&c rate of mileage and the 10c rate
which a recent decision of Attorney
General Freebourn said might be col
lected by sheriffs.
The taxpayers are protesting all
parts. of the claim prior to the present
term of office of Mr. Lowe, claiming
that each term of office is a unit in
itself, and that an official has no more
right to collect for services back of
his present term of office than he
would have to collect for the services
of a predecessor. Their protest is
further based on the law that says
that the salary or emolument of a
county officer may not be increased
or decreased within the term of office
for which he was elected.
The commissioners tabled the claim
until a later date.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-13
NLRB DEFENSE OF
ITSELF ATTACKED
IN HOUSE HEARING.

WASHINGTON.-( OPP - Attempts
to show that the national labor rela-
tions board had in some way been
guilty of illegality in opposing amend
ments to the national labor relations
act marked the progress of the special
House committee allegedly investigat-
ing the act and it's administration by
the board.
A request for an additional $4,000
with which to pursue the inquiry
further, in the meantime, was granted
without debate by the House. It is
expected the committee will file pre-
liminary report shortly.
Edmund NJ Toland, corporation
counsel acting as attorney for the com
mittee, headed by Rep. Howard Smith
d., Va, put into the record numer-
GUS documents and memoranda show
ing board officials had been active in
building up the boards case against
amendments.
NLRB Chairman J. Warren Madden
wrote several college professors ask
ing them to testify concerning the
act or to file statements with the
Senate education and labor committee.
Benedict Wolf, former secretary of
the board, wrote letters to various per-
sons asking them to testify in support
Of the act, it was revealed VOLTS
activities were conducted after he had
eft the employ of the board
Regional officials, one memo showed
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-13
BUTTE L. N. P.L..
ELECTS OFFICERS

AT a largely attended meeting in
Judge Lynchs courtroom on Friday
March LIST Silver Bow unit of Labor's
Non-Partisan League elected the fol
lowing officers who will serve for the
current year: President, Glen Zorn of
Butte Miners Union No. 1; vice pres
ident, Pat C. Sullivan of Plumbers &
Steamfitters Union No. Al; and sec
rotary, Charles Christman Of the Ma
chinists union.
Plans were laid for an intensive
campaign in Silver Bow county and in
the other counties throughout the
state. The League will cooperate
with other genuinely progressive
groups in the movement to elect can
didates to the state legislature who
will pledge themselves to the enact
ment of legislation in the interests of
the common people. 1t is also the
aim of Labor's Non-Partisan League
to work with other progressive groups
in the selection and support of prog
ressive candidates for all other state
offices.
The next meeting of the League will
be on Friday, March 49, All members
are urged to attend and all labor UNI
ions and other progressive groups are
requested to send delegates.-R. G.
Brown
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-13
Dies To Resume In
March; Union Officials
First Witnesses

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
the United Electrical Radio e. Machine
Workers (CIO) will be the first wit
nesses before the House committee
allegedly Investigating un-American
activities when it resumes hearings
late in March, it was announced here
by Rep. Martin Dies d., Tex, chair
man of the committee
Dies made the announcement as he
left for Miami, Fla, for an un-an-
nounced purpose. He recently re-
turned to Washington after an ex-
tended stay in Orange, Tex.
The UER&MW officials, 1t was said.
will be given an opportunity to an
swer charges made against them in
the committees last report to con-
gress. Two members of the commit
tee have already apologized on the
House floor for the inclusion of the
name in a list of II unions
Hinged" with communism.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-03-13
Newspapers Are
Big Business, ANC
Tells Wages-Hours

WASHINGTON Newspapers
are operated on the same basis as
other big business enterprises and can
lay no claim to being Service estab-
lishments," the American Newspaper
Guild (CIO) declared in a memoran-
dunn filed here with the wage-hours
division
The memo, prepared by Attorney A.
j. Isserman on behalf of the guild,
was presented to Wage-hours Admin
istrator Philip B. Fleming in opposi-
ton to brief filed by the American
Newspaper Publisher Association re-
questing exemption from the wage
hours law.
1.-THE memo" the guild said, twas
filed at this time in view of reports
from Washington that many employer
are seeking to induce
the new administrator, Philip B. Elem
ing, to make new interpretations
which would eliminate many cate
gories of workers from the scope of
the act particularly newspaper white
collar workers and all persons receiv-
ing average pay of $3.50 a month or
more.
'sThe situation is made worse by the
threat of amendments in congress,
Rep. Graham Barden 3D., N. O. hay
ng introduced some destructive
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