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Evening star., 1940-04-04
Al Least One Garner
Delegate Elected
In Wisconsin
Second Race Undecided
Despite 81 Roosevelt
Preference Sweep
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE,, April 4.-Despite
Wisconsin Democrats 3-to-1 vote In
favor of third term for President
Roosevelt, Vice President Garner will
have at least one Badger State dele
gate in the Democratic National
Convention.
Belated returns from the 9th con-
greSsional district, although incOm-
plete, assured the election of Willis
E. Donley of Menomonie, who is
pledged to Mr.. Garner.
Reports from 332 of the 1854 pre-
cincts in the 9th district gave Mr..
Donley a 656-vote lead over the
nearest of his five opponents, and
a margin of 1882 over the third
place candidate. Inasmuch as two
were to be chosen, Mr.. Donley's vic
tory was definite.
There was a possibility that Mr..
Garner might pick up another dis
trict delegate, but the slowness OF
reports, occasioned by sleet storm
which disrupted communications,
left it in doubt.
Likewise, tardy returns also held
the key to whether Thomas E.
Dewey would have solid delega-
ton in the Republican convention
Mr.. Dewey was assured Of is Of
the "a Republican delegates. He
also held what appeared to be safe
margins for the remaining eight
seats.
Available returns from 2,491 of
the States 3,011 precincts gave Pres
ident Roosevelt 262, 1926 of the 347 .814
Democratic presidential preference
votes to IS ,489 for Mr.. Garner.
The leading Dewey and Vanden-
berg candidates drew a total of
301 1863 votes in $500 precincts. Mr.
Dewey's leading candidate had 1885,
215 votes and Senator Vandenberg's S,
113,648.
Evening star., 1940-04-04

people free to judge, the recent rec
ord of some courts and some public
officials is appalling. We could fill
this page with instances Of defective
indictments, inexcusable delays,
packed juries, incredible incom-
petence on the part of prosecutors,
and threatened, bribed or murdered
witnesses. In the case of the election
frauds alone, thousands of felonies
have been committed in st. Louis in
the last few years and not single
election crook has gone to prison.
IF a newspaper is to be gagged
by being hailed into court to answer
a charge of contempt whenever q
Judge has felt the sting of editorial
criticism, that means the end of the
power of the press to tell the people
about the failures and evils of their
courts. That means the end of free
dom of the press.
"We do not believe that American
courts or the American people will
accept such a revolutionary depart
ure from American principle On
behalf of American newspapers in
general, big and little, rich and poor,
powerful and obscure, we accept this
challenge.
"The Post-Dispatch will continue
honestly, fairly and sincerely to
criticize the courts.
''The Post-Dispatch will not be in
Inundated.
"The Post-Dispatch will not be
shackled.
"The Post-Dispatch will not be
gagged"
Evening star., 1940-04-04
Huge Smuggling Ring
Declared Being Probed
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, April 4.-The
Times said today Federal authorities
are investigating an alien export
smuggling ring extending from Can
ada to California and Florida.
The inquiry is centered, the news
paper stated, at Los Angeles, San
Francisco and Seattle harbors where
a number of aliens recently were re-
ported shipped to the Orient, using
purportedly forged passports.
Asserting the investigation is be-
ing conducted directly by F. B. l.
Director j. Edgar Hoover, the Times
reported that a number of aliens
figuring in the inquiry are believed
to have escaped from Canadian con-
centration camps and were smuggled
into this country.
Evening star., 1940-04-04
House Factions
Muster Forces for
Labor Act Battle
Fight May Start April IS,
When Mrs. Norton Hopes
To Get Rules Suspension
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES

BY CAkTER BkOOkE JONES.
House factions were mastering
forces today for q hot battle over
the Wagner Labor Act.
The fight was expected to open
at an early date, perhaps on April
Is, when Chairman Norton Of the
Labor Committed hopes to move for
suspension Of the rules and passage
of the bill her committee voted yes
terday to report. The bill proposes
four amendments to the law, the
most radical of which would enlarge
the National Labor Relations Board
from three to five members.
The committee closed its con-
sideration of amendments to the
law with the more drastic changes
recommended by the Smith investi-
eating committee-including aboli-
ton of the present board and its re-
placement with another three-man
board-left nesting in a pigeon
hole.
But the Smith supporters vowed
to get their amendments on the floor
by one means or another. They
planned to start petition discharg-
ing the Labor Committee from con-
sideration of the Smith bill. Some
of them, anticipating defeat Of Mrs.
Norton's motion for suspension of
the rules, hoped to get her bill up
under an open rule, which would
permit them to offer the Smith bill
as a substitute.
"Whole Law q Mistake"
With House members holding vari-
Gus shades of opinion concerning the
beleaguered Labor Board, ranging
from its abolition to no change at
all, torrid dispute is certain when
ever one of the bills reaches the
floor, by one means or another.
Representative Cox, Democrat, Of
Georgia thus commented in the
House on the Norton bill:
II feel that the whole matter
should be opened up for full and free
discussion in this House. My opinion
Is that the Smith amendments will
pass by an overwhelming majority"
In response to question from
the floor. Mr.. Cox added: II agree
that even the Smith amendments
do not go far enough. I think it was
a great mistake to have passed the
act. It never should have been put
on the statute books"
Representative Hoffman, Republi-
can, of Michigan, member of the
Labor Committee, told the House
that William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, had
written a few days ago that the or
ganization wanted to see the present
board put out of Office and replaced
by fair and impartial tribunal.
The Labor Committee instructed
Mrs. Norton to use every parlia-
mentary procedure necessary to OBJ
tain early consideration of the bill.
Another motion which carried told
her specifically to ask for passage
under suspension of the rules, and
she said she would seek this method
first"
April Is Is Next Date.
April is is the next date on which
suspension of rules will be in order.
But the chairman first must get rec
ognition from the speaker. Speaker
Bankhead is in Florida and may
not return by then. Majority Leader
Rayburn is acting speaker. If the
motion to pass under suspension is
granted, two-thirds vote Of those
present is required. But no amend
ments may be offered.
In addition to the five-man board
Evening star., 1940-04-04
| Ickes Considers
IA Want Ad
For Next Year

Secretary of the Interior Ickes
hasn't seen the census man yet, he
said today, but is prepared to answer
any question put to him.
Asked at a press conference how
he would reply to a query about
what business he would be in next
year, he laughed and commented: ::
Il guess I'll have to put a wan.
ad in the papers. Something like
this: Position wanted by shopworn,
overworked, tired man who has re-
ceived more brickbats than any
other man in public life. Even no
unreasonable offer rejected"
Evening star., 1940-04-04
Civil Liberties Union
Offers Aid to Poper
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 4.-The Amer
ican Civil Liberties Union has Of
fered its services to the st. Louis
Post-Dispatch in the newspapers
appeal from its conviction for con-
tempt.
In a telegram to Publisher Joseph
Pulitzer, Arthur Garfield Hays, A. c.
L. U. general counsel, said, 1.-THE
fundamental issue in your case ap-
pears to us to present a grave prin-
ciple of freedom Of the press. We
stand ready, therefore, to render
our services On appeal"
Evening star., 1940-04-04
Onward, Christian Soldiers
Is Called Too Militant
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, April 4.-The
old-time Sunday school favorite,
Onward, Christian Soldiers" is
"too militant in spirit for these
troublous times" the Music Edu-
Gators National Conference was
told yesterday.
D. Sterling Wheelwright, organ
ist of the Latter-Day Saints Chapel,
Washington, D. c., the speaker,
added:
AT this time when the world is
filled. with thoughts Of war and we
in this country are imbued with
the hope that America will keep
out Of war, let's slight those rousing
Sunday school songs which use
armies and hosts and banners as
figures to arouse q militant spirit"
Evening star., 1940-04-04

"A similar provision STANDS IN the
constitution of Missouri.
"Out of this amendment restrain
ing Congress from abridging the
freedom of the press there has grown
in this country code of law, includ-
ing countless decisions of the courts,
protecting the press from unwar-
ranted attacks, not only by Congress,
by the State Legislatures and by the
Executive, but by the courts them
selves.
what has freedom of the press to
do with this charge Of contempt?
Record Is Cited.
"For years the Post-Dispatch
striving to comply with the provi-
sions Of it's founders platform, pub
lished daily at the masthead of this
page, has been exploring and expos
ing and condemning the rottenness
and incompetence that testers In
local administration of law. Con-
versely, and for the same motive, the
Post-Dispatch has upheld and laud-
ed judges and prosecutors who are
doing their work well; likewise, the
Post-Dispatch has Joined every
movement instituted by the bar as.
sociations to take the courts out o.
politics, to modernize the State!
criminal code and otherwise to pro.
tect and preserve the majesty Of the
law.
when a judge cites a newspaper
for contempt Of court he can, or hi
may think he can, silence that news.
paper. In that event, there would in
evitably recur miscarriages of justice
such as have shamed us far too otter
In the recent past. Even now, with
the press free to comment and tn
Evening star., 1940-10-13

q new battle and a new crusade,
Mr.. MCGUIRE stated that knights
of Columbus have always been at
the forefront of every patriotic en-
deavor," but that this is a crusade
that will test the timber of your steel
and the firmness of your resolution. ~
But, he concluded, "be assured that
one thing is certain-the American
way Of life and our democratic
method of government will survive,
because they are predicated upon
principles that are eternal, which
principles are yours"
Several Honor Guests.
Mr.. Mcclure was introduced by
Leo A. Rover, former United States
District Attorney. who was toast
master. Other speakers included
Alfred A. McGarraghy, State dep
uty, who earlier in the day placed
a wreath at the base of the Colum-
bus Statue, and William H. Collins,
general chairman.
Guests of honor included the
Very Rev. Arthur A. OLeary, S. j.,
president of Georgetown University;
the Right Rev. Msgr. Peter Guilday
of Catholic University: Thomas
Carlin, Frank Malloy, Thomas Ny
ers, Joseph McKenna, Fred Brady,
James F. Kehoe, James Fox, Law
renee Gage, Robert Sheridan and
Andrew L. Oehmann, all onicials of
the order.
Musical entertainment was fur
nished by Mrs. Estelle Dean and
Lawrence H. Downey. A ball fol-
lowed the banquet.
Evening star., 1940-10-13

persons drowned by rush of water
in a basement shelter which was
loosed upon them by an aerial bomb
that burst a water main in the house
above them.
The first detachment of bombers
to come in last night worked its
way over the coast while another
and larger formation of some 30
warplanes engaged British fighters
over the coast, eventually breaking
and turning back over the English
Channel.
Military Damage Less.
At the beginning of this new week
in the seemingly endless series of
struggles for England's air mastery,
authoritative sources here declared
that the past week had seen hopeful
developments.
In the first place, they said, the
military damage wrought had "con-
tinued to decline"
In the second place, they called an
admission of weakness" the fact
that the Germans had sent con-
verted fighter planes-not bombers
on almost all their daylight raids.
More of these fighters got through,
these sources said, than had the
heavy bomber squadrons in earlier
days, but they had done less harm
since each is capable Of carrying
only a few bombs.
The checkup on Friday nights
raids disclosed that Liverpool hotel
had been smashed and its guests
and employees trapped in the wreck
age. Some were pulled out alive;
the number Of dead was not on
ciaIly estimated.
Evening star., 1940-10-13
Medical Report Ends
Action in Girls Death

No further action is contemplated
in the death of 10-year-old Dolores
williams of 204 Madison street,
Bethesda, Nd. DR.. C. z. Hawks,
Montgomery County medical ex-
aminer, said late yesterday following
q report from DR.. Christopher j.
Murphy, deputy District coroner,
in which the local official held the
child died of natural causes
ruptured appendix and generalized
peritonitis.
DR.. Murphy performed an au-
topsy after Dolores died following
an operation for abscess in her side.
The autopsy was to determine II
her injury resulted from kick re-
ceiyed accidentally Wednesday while
she was at play at Bethesda Ele-
mentary School Dolores died in
Children's Hospital.
Police were told the child. fifth
grade pupil, had been kicked acci-
dentally by q boy. She was the
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. John w.
williams.
Evening star., 1940-10-13

Switzerland, her only remaining
outlets.
Whether the Vichy government
will be able to prevent such German
domination of unocc,lpied France in
the face Of increasing martial
moves in the Mediterranean appears
uncertain.
Transportation difficulties. which
have played a major role in some
food shortages, must be solved
through reconstruction Of damaged
rail lines and bridges and replace
ment of engines ana rolling stock
destroyed, damaged or taken into
occupied territory.
Miles Of highways and hundreds
of bridges must be repaired or re-
built
Rationing Is Severe.
Thousands Of homes and hun
dreds Of factories, industrial plans
and warehouses must bt constructed
to replace those bombed and blasted
and burned.
The nations food supply, depleted
by war; government purchases,
requisitions, ruined factories, dislo-
Gated transportation, ungathered
crops and inability to import goods
must be conserved and rationed.
Rationing is already extremely Sc
we're and will probably be even more
strict before winter passes. Coal
must be obtained to run plants and
heat homes and something must be
done-no one knows what-to get
cotton, wool, leather rubber and
other raw materials or manufac-
tured goods to clothe the nation.
Jobs must be provided for the
thousands Of men who went into the
army and have now been demobil-
lied to find many industrial plants
ruined or working part time, foreign
trade ended, shipping at mini
mum, and no opportunity to 60 to
the colonies to seek a livelihood.
Thousands Of refugees, many of
them from Germany, Austria,
Czecho-Slovakia, Belgium and
Spain, who must eat, add to Frances
burden. Some assistance must be
sent to the nearly 1000. 900 French
soldiers held captive in German
prison camps.
The widows and children Of the
estimated 100000 soldiers who died
in the war must be provided for in
some manner.
Taxes must be raised to pay the
cost of Germany's army Of occupa-
ton, to rehabihtate and reconstruct
areas Of the country left in ashes
and ruins when the armies had
swept by, to extend needed aid to
Frances farmers who lost their
crops and work animals, and to
bandage and repair hundred other
war wounds.
Thus, beset on the one side by the
sharpened German bayonets and on
the other by the cries of domestic
distress, the plight of Marshal Pc
tain is one which might easily
cause lesser spirit to crumple.
Evening star., 1940-10-13
500 Attend K. Of T..
Dinner Honoring
Patron Of Order
Washington Catholic
Chapters Observe
Columbus Day

The troubles the world is expert
encing today would have been
avoided if men patterned their lives
after Christopher Columbus, Assist
ant Attorney General Matthew F.
Mcclure said last night at the
annual banquet of the Washington
Knights of Columbus. The dinner
honoring the orders patron was
held at the Mayflower Hotel. at
tended by approximately 500 persons
In honoring the memory and
achievements of Columbus, Mr
MCGUIRE said the discoverer had
given the new world its greatest
lesson-the lesson Of faith. For
without faith there can be no hope,
and without hope there can be no
charity-without charity all Is lost. "
Says U. S.. Needs Faith.
Americans, Mr.. Mcclure con-
tinued, need a resurgence of the
faith of Columbus. We are the last
citadel of freedom. 1t seems to be
a manifestation of the Divine will
that here in this great country Of
ours all creeds and all races should
live in harmony and peace with one
another, for it is to be remembered
that it was for religious and politi-
cal freedom that they became their
own Columbuses, crossing the ocean
wastes to discover a new hope, q
new freedom and a new day in new
world"
Declaring the United States faces
Evening star., 1940-10-13
London
Continued From First Page)

parts of the capital. Some fires
started but were put out quickly.
Mostly, the raiders came singly
and much higher than usual. It
was impossible, except occasionally,
even to hear the drone of their mo-
tors.
But when a bomb drops nearby 1t
Is evident that a plane is up there
OF was moment ago.
1T still was reasonably calm as the
moon went down and the sky
clouded over.
In one section explosives damaged
q, number of homes, smashed the
windows of a shopping center and
Of the local police station.
All of 1.-THE assault, the defense
went forward upon a fixed and mel
ancholy pattern; the outskirts got it
first, the rumble of falling bombs
rolling up toward the center of the
city, and the anti-aircraft guns
thundered an old tattoo.
Two hours after the first night
raider had appeared the moon broke
through, helping to d1sperSe the
haze which had lain over London
and the ground guns redoubled their
fire to keep the Nazis far aloft.
AT about the same time, the Air
Ministry announced that II Ger
man planes had been shot down to
10 British fighters lost.
Five Daylight Attacks.
1t was the sixth raid since yester-
dey morning, five daylight thrusts
having left new rubble in Lon
don's streets, new dead among civil
ians.
These daytime attacks had in
volved a total of some 200 or more
planes, and while most of that
number had not got far inland be-
yond the Kentish coast some houses
and stores in London were smashed
by raiders floating far overhead
aud cloaked in clouds of mist. Water
and gas mains were burst In one dis
tIict.
Among those who died were six
Evening star., 1940-10-13
First Americans Quit Toxic
On Canadian Liner

TOXIC, Oct. IL P.-The Cana
dian Pacific liner Empress of Russia
sailed for the United States today
with the first Americans to heed
their State Departments advice to
get out of the Orient-about 100
wives and children of American
business men.
There was no noticeable excite
ment, although many of the fam
lilies were aware their separations
would be long.
The United States consulate was
flooded with inquiries about ship
ping facilities, and bookings were
reported heavy on all ships sched-
uled to leave soon.
Many Americans here indicated
they would wait for further develop
ments before quitting their homes
and work in Japan.
A Domei, japanese news agency,
dispatch from Nanking said men,
bers of the staff of Standard Oil
there and employees of the British
American Tobacco Co. and their
families would be removed soon to
Shanghai-the residence of 1000
Americans-on two United States
gun boats now sailing up the
Yangtze to Hankow to take others
on board.
Evening star., 1940-10-13
Offensive
Continued From First Page)

docks and the Deutsche petroleum
works at Hamburg, flyers said.
One pilot swooped to 5000 feet at
Den Helder and left chain Of fires
among shippings and sheds at the
quays, and bomber observers said
other explosives hit the jetty.
Large explosions and fires in the
inner harbor at Boulogne and the
outer harbor at Ostend we're among
results mentioned.
During the attack at De Kooi, said
an Air Ministry news bulletin, two
enemy fighters attacked British
heavy bomber, but the rear gunner
fired three bursts at $50 yards, and
one of them disappeared in a swish
of water, while the other sheered
of.
Although some pilots reported the
impossible weather" caused their
planes to ice up, they found the
thick clouds also served to hinder
the Germans searchlights and anti.
aircraft batteries.
Evening star., 1940-10-13
Two Liners 10 Speed
Return Of Americans
From Far East
Hull Says Manhattan
And Washington
Will Be Dispatched
BY the Associated Press.

by tne ASsOcldteo ftesS.
In order to speed removal of
Americans from the Orient, the
State Department arranged yester-
day for the Manhattan and the
Washington, two of the Nations
largest liners, to make special trips
to the Far East.
The two vessels, formerly in the
transatlantic service, have pass
enger capacity of between $500 and
5000 each. Secretary of State Hull
said they would sail on their mission
as soon as possible.
In addition, Mr.. Hull said five
other American passenger liners
were now in the Pacific, number
of freighters were available for some
passengers, and that efforts were
under way to arrange for other
ships to transport Americans from
various Japanese and Chinese ports
Offlcials said there were about $1,000
Americans in the Orient.
A suggestion has been made, 1t
was said, that the emergency vessels
first make a series of shuttle trips
between Honolulu and Far Eastern
ports, leaving their passengers to be
brought from the Hawaiian city to
the mainland later. Officials said
no action had been taken Of the pro-
posal and it was indicated that the
department did not look on the idea
with favor.
Officials had no comment on re-
ports that several points of friction
between the United States and Rus
sia had been removed through per-
mission for the Soviets to ship large
quantities of machine tools pur-
chased here and to charter several
American tankers.
Shipment of the machine tools,
needed in Russias war industries,
had been held up under an act re-
quiring licenses for export of strate-
gic war materials.
It was pointed out that the ship
ments were permitted in August,
after the start of discussions be-
tween Soviet Ambassador Constan-
tine Oumansky and Undersecretary
of State Welles, designed to smooth
out Soviet-American relations.
Evening star., 1940-10-13
F. c. 6. Orders Hearing
On Radio Stotion Shift

The Federal Communications
Commission yesterday, by three
to-two vote. ordered q hearing on
sn application to transfer control
Of radio station WSAR at Fall
River, Mass. from the Doughty &
WEIGH Electric Co. to the Fall River
Broadcasting Co.. q subsidiary of
the Fall River Herald-New Pub
fishing Co
Evening star., 1940-10-13
No Hope for France
Seen in Victory
Of Axis Powers
German Intention to Make
Nation q Dependency Is
Evidenced in Its Acts

Lloyd Lehrbas, Associated Press
roping reporter, has Just returned
by clipper from covering the ioar
In Europe. For the last three
months he has been In Vichy
matching the Petain- Ldudl oor-
ernment's desperate moDes de-
signed to "sape France" and
travelling through unoccupted
France. In this article, he 0tpes
his impressions OF the major
problems facing France and It's
ruling regime.