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Evening star., 1940-04-17

political leaders of influence on the
administration side of Georgia's 1888
battle been able to persuade some
of the minor bureaus Of the S. E. c.
to drag the Georgia Power Co. into
the public prints in the hope Of
some local advantage?
Who Starts Inquisitions?
1t is significant that Chairman
Jerome Frank, with characteristic
fairness, has permitted himself to
be quoted as saying that the Georgia
investigation in no way involves
Mr.. Willkie. But how can inqulsi-
tions like this be carried on? Who
starts them? And are the vast
investigation powers of the S. E. c.
to be used to terrorize and intimi-
date?
Congress is just this week taking
up the problem of arbitrary power
by so-called independent commits
sions, An inquiry into the whole
subject of equal and fair enforce
ment of laws, irrespective of political
party, becomes more logical new
than ever before.
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Evening star., 1940-04-17
Benning School Heating
Needs Considered

The need of q more substantial
heating plant and better sanitary
facilities in the Benning School
were discussed by the Bennins
Citizens Association at its meeting
last night in the school. However,
no action was taken.
A committee was appointed to as
certain whether the property re-
ported bought by the Alley Dwelling
Authority on the south side of the
old Benning race track would be
sold to white or colored following
the building of homes on the tract.
]. G. Pasco, chairman of the
Kindergarten Committee, reported
that his investigation had revealed
too small a number Of children in
Benning to justify the opening of a
kindergarten class, but by July q
sufficient number will have reached
the proper age.
1t was announced that local
talent night" will be held in the
Benning School May 2 with talent
from throughout the community, If
arrangements can be made through
the Community Center and the
Board Of Education. Movies also
will be shown and refreshments
served.
Evening star., 1940-04-17
$40, 172 Judgment
Levied on Broker

A judgment for $10,172, plus in
terest at 6 per cent from October
/, 1886, against Charles S. Miner,
insurance broker and former pro-
moter of the Sportsmens Insurance
Co., has been entered in District
Court. The judgment was signed by
Justice Daniel w. ODonoghue.
Through Attorneys Neil Burkin-
shaw and Daniel B. Maher, the Ex-
cess Insurance Co. of America, Inc
of New York, claimed that Mr..
Miner was personally liable on a
$4,000 loan to the Guardian Man.
agement Co., the parent company of
Sportsmens.
The court was told that Mr.. Miner
had signed contract guaranteeing
that the management would pay
the loan.
Evening star., 1940-04-17
Protection of Greece Feared

Saonika belongs
diplomatic
Duce might
the
Norway diplomats
order becoming battlefield
the taken
If it is correct that at Benno when Hitler and Mussoln
role assigned then s
could do With exception modern
Italians
has the modern Italians This applies also
the comparatively small
few until assistance outside reached
According military really
this o strike.
British heavily the North Atlantic could
deach French the Mediterranean
French equal italian submarines
slight
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smashed a 0O0,000-a-year mar
cotics ring with headquarters here.
The Federal grand jury indictment
named DR.. D. NJ. Nigro, prominent
Democrat and sportsman and former
commissioner of children's hygiene
and communicable diseases; DR.. Car
roll p Hungate, active in the Jack
son County Medical Society; DR..
Edward Hipsh, DR.. Philip Saper and
DR.. Joseph Getelson.
Two druggists and three other
persons also were accused.
Evening star., 1940-04-17
A Silly Business

House The plan has this effect the board
fixed while
will
of his the transfer of c. A. the
Rowe Mceynods the details of
suited Bownlow the plan moment objected
to its main feature, the transfer
No doubt the red feelings of every will be calmed
fact Hnckleys
transferring the Aeronaut Authority
Edward Noble is Undecetary
remains silly business.
lianc 1ncl
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Five Physicians Indicted
On Narcotics CHARGES

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY. April 17-Five
Kansas City physicians were indicted
on charges of conspiracy to violate
the Harrison Anti-Narcotics Act yes
terday, less than year after Fed
eral agents asserted they had
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r e S e milling an
u n d ergr ound
boom for Wen
dell L. Willkie for
the Republican
pre- S i d e n t ial
n o m | n a lion.
Original Willkie
man is Arthur
Krock, Wash
ington CORE =
spondent of the
New York Times,
W ho in Feb
ru ary, 80.
] a u n c h e d the
nraSi RI enf of
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Washington Observations
WiIlkie Reported to Rate Ahead Of Taft
Or Top Dewey for 6. o. P. Nomination

chinists at about this period of the
1920 convention campaign fig
ured Wood would emerge from the
first ballot with 400 or more votes.
He was 100 shy of that total even
at his peak. Taftites claim a 300
frst-ballot minimum for the Sena-
tor, including a pretty solid bloc of
Southern delegates.
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pOlltlCdl U p pO-
nents-is so uni
versally out of
harmony W l t h
t h e American
concept of fair
play h a t 1t
would be a great
surprise to the
people Of t h e
N a tion if the
first reports that
the Securities
q n d Exchange
Commission had
q t t e m pied to
8 m e ar Senator
George of Geor-
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when
had begun the invasion Poland They
Seed believed
could
trouble disposed which they would
complicated if II Ducet hand called then
believe that late it. is OF
admitted that the position difficult when the Germans
has
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to give the administrator all "ad-
ministrative" activity and to confine
the board to purely quasi judicial"
functions. They also recommended
the abolition of the Air Safety
Board.
Smith took the plan of the ex-
perts to the President, who was i'm
pressed by their reasoning, perhaps
because he has long felt that the in
dependent agencies should be more
Hiroct1y recrnv,cihle tn tL~ yryl,;t~
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ernment officials
of high and low
degree, poll t l.
tians on the out
side looking in
Including a n
assort m e n t of
presidential can
didates), bank
ers, industrial
lists, publishers,
editors. newspa-
per writer's, ct
cetera, ct cetera,
gathered before
and after the
Gridiron Clubs
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him the problem squarely: Italy can
not remain neutral in this conflict.
Hence II Duce must chose right
away (that was in September 1887
between the allies and Germany. If
he chose to be with the allies he
would not be required to fight but
will have to cut off all connections
with the Reich and permit allied
troops to go unhampered to rescue of
the Balkans. If on the other hand
he decided to throw his lot with
Evening star., 1940-04-17
This Changing World
Italian Protectorote Over Greece Feared
In Some Quarters os Next Coup
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.


While world public
being played IN Northern Europe there signs that things
off in the Mediterranean
The beigerent Dvce has
At the time number Italian
according to certain reposhave Albania
official Italian explanations these
Evening star., 1940-04-17

HE opinions OF the rtters page are their on not
necsary Ths stars Such opinions presented In
Stars eDot to gve all sides questions OF to It's
readers although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
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over year. But foreign observers
have not noticed any of the re-
lieved troops come back to Italy yet.
The Italian fleet is reported to
be concentrated in the Dodecanese
Islands with the Island of Rhodes as
the main concentration point. Thus
the bulk of Italy's sea power is within
"a hours distance from one of the
most important strategic points in
Evening star., 1940-04-17
Is Nation Tired Of Glamour?

Some Republicans think Taft's
best chance lies in his undramatic
personality. They think the coun-
try is surfeited with charm" espe-
cially over the radio, and not minded
simply to exchange Roosevelt charm
for Dewey's brand These sooth-
sayers point to what they term
certain curious trend of demand
among American voters for different
temperaments in the White House
from time to time. Successive tram
sitions since 1884 are cited as cases
in point-the switch from Arthur
to Cleveland; from Cleveland to
Harrison, and then back again
from Harrison to Cleveland. Cleve-
land gave way to Mckinley; the
placid Mckinley to the strenuous
Roosevelt. and, in 1909. Roosevelt to
William Howard Taft. Taft, the
Jovlal, was followed by Wilson, the
austere, and Wilson, the scholar, by
Harding, the incarnation of Babbitt-
ry. After Coolidge came Hoover
not much change that time. From
Hoover the country fled to Franklin
Roosevelt, tops in political contrast.
With firm faith that history is going
to repeat itself this year by mani
testing an aversion to the incum-
bent personality. seasoned Repub-
licans will tell you that the lessons
OF the past and the portents of the
future alike point to Bob Taft, with
possibly Styles Bridges as runner-up.
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John Euton PIT. A.

The John Eaton nt-Teacher
Association will hold its monthly
luncheon tomorrow at the school,
after which . business meeting will
discuss the question Of Suffrage.
Evening star., 1940-04-17
StimSon New Dark Horse,

Brand-newest G. o. P. dark horse
entry is Henry L. Stimson. WASH
ington friends are quietly booming
him. As the author of the "Stim-
son Doctrine" of non-recognition Of
aggressor conquests they call the
former Secretary OF State a nat
ural" if'the war dictates the NOM
ination Of a man who knows his way
about in foreign affairs.
Evening star., 1940-04-17

Two OF the White House secret six
dents adviser Government
gotten along we'll enough except for jealousy
But IN Government holds
ana the Presidents first executive order had hardly Congress
before real
rather convincing
po determined his vacatoning
IN Utah. and his sympah
this through good friends Rowe
cnods and BWnoW Hester had gotten White
uade the President tc better his position.
Hester
taken with several salt Hadn't member
shortly before the
House would
if this happened? order had the reverse
effort but nckeys Hesters rmor was
for the plot There
both At least board
industry heard
that the c. A. A. was about to be made political
Silly Business
II the people who actually
are to be believed Hester had nothing
was the Presidents c. be
Some months when the White House
authority Budget Harold experts adn
ave management section They
clear demarcaion of and
Evening star., 1940-04-17
Fair Play
VS.. Punitive
Government
Congress Holds
Power to Check
S. {. c. 'Gestopo'
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Punitive Government - Govern
ment that uses its accusing and
prosecuting powers to carry out
political reprisals or to besmirch
Evening star., 1940-04-17
Babel Gives
Forth These
Wisdoms
Random impressions
Left in Wake of
Gridiron Dinner
By CHARLES G. ROSS.

Some random impressions gained
from or confirmed by the babel of
tongues in the smoke-filled rooms
of the Willard Hotel, where Gov
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cessful Utah automobile dealer when
he was drafted into Government in
1888. A year or so ago he was named
c. A. A. chairman. He sponsored the
civilian pilots training program and
is generally conceded to have done
a good job. Hester is a Government
career man of some years who
earned promotion from the Treasury
after he helped draft the Aviation
Act. He is a close friend of James
Rowe and William H. McReynolds,
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Howes, Roosevelt Pioneer.

Chubby. jolly, bespectacled Will
liam w. Howes, who is quitting the
first assistant postmaster general
ship for his first love, politics. as
sumedly to promote Jim Farley's as
pirations. ranks close to being orig
inal Roosevelt man No /. In his
personal history of a politician, the
autobiography entitled Behind the
Ballots Farley credits Howes with
having paved the way for Gov.
Roosevelt's pre-convention avalanche
in 1882. Sunny Jim was lunching
one day at Aberdeen. with Howes,
South Dakota Democratic ma
tional committeeman. Suddenly Bill
pumped his fat fist on the table
and growled in a deep voice: Far
ley, I'm damned tired of backing
losers. In my opinion Roosevelt can
sweep the country and l am going
to support him!" South Dakota was
one Of the first States to instruct
for Roosevelt and Bill Howes thence
forth ranked as major prophet.
Evening star., 1940-04-17
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

1t would be proof that the age of
miracles Is not past, if it should
get anywhere, but there's something
Evening star., 1940-04-17
Taft Unb0wed.

Tom Dewey's runaway head start
may have. as generally believed,
crowded Arthur Vandenberg off the
track. but Bob Taft's friends think
Ohio's favorite son is going stronger
than ever, despite Dewey's primary
victories in Wisconsin, Nebraska and
Illinois. They point out that Borah
carried both the Wisconsin and Illi-
nois primaries in 1886 and was not
nominated. Leonard Wood in 1920
swept Wisconsin and took at least
half of Illinois away from Gov.
Frank Lowden, but Wood was not
nominated. Shrewd G. o. p. ma
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c o mmonwealth Frederic william Vile.
and Southern as a White House
possibility. The suggestion never
stirred any illusory hopes in Will
kie's breast.
He realizes that any man tarred
in the public mind with the utilities
brush would have slim chance of
nomination by either party and still
slighter prospect of election. Never
theless, Boomster Krock is undis-
mayed, and now reports that at last
weeks Gridiron Club gathering of
the country's political, industrial,
financial and journalistic great,
WILKES name was on certain in
f1uential lips more than was that
of Dewey, Taft or Vandenberg.
The erudite New York column
ist narrates that several outstand-
ing men of affairs, who are popularity
supposed to pull the off-stage wires
at national conventions. communed
with one another and with practical
political machinists as to ways and
means for drumming up Willkie
delegates to the Republican National
Convention.
Evening star., 1940-04-17
The Capital Parade
StreomIning Of Aeronoutics Control
Produces Bitter Government Row

BY JOSEPH ALSOP and ROBERT KINTNER.
The President the
Civil Aeonaucs Authority the
bipartisan veman board to single individual the
TRAITOR He abolished the independent
partment.
There obviously much said against the
plan Its
responsibility for the first time Its
political control of aviation
Government
Demon PIotter
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port called to play
the Balkans and
poance to the belgerents
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French Favor Settling Issue

the began the French of the
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Demon PIotter

The hubbub
chairman Hinckey was
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What Is Wilkes Politics?

Battling feature OF this budding
boom is that Mr.. Krock seems to
identify Willkie as Republican. In
his photographed Who's Who"
sketch, the utilities magnate de-
scribes himself as a Democrat. He is
a native Indianan, hailing from Ell
wood where Senator Jim Davis Of
Pennsylvania, got his start as puG-
dler in the tin mills. Willkie and
Paul McNutt were classmates at In
diana University. and remained good
friends. 1t would be 1920 all over
again If rival 1910 presidential nomi-
nees should turn out to be from the
same State, as Harding and Cox
were.
Wendell Willkie, despite the utili-
ties taint. personifies what thousands
Of Americans, fed up with mere
politicians. look upon as ideal presi-
Dental timber, because of his emf
nence as businessman. We've put
lawyers galore, two or three soldiers,
a college professor and an editor in
the White House. but no honest-to-
goodness man of affairs like Willkie
ever made the grade in our time.
Willkie himself was lawyer before
going drlto utilities In 1888. He seems
a rank outsider as either a Repub-
lican or Democratic nominee, but
unless Roosevelt consents to be
drafted a dark-horse finish at both
Philadelphia and Chicago is far
from an impossibility. so Willkie
may bear watching. He is 48, an
Episcopalian and an effective
speaker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-17

gladys and Mary, SecOnd-year
High, are worried about the
Flture. They love brides and
weddings and hate the pros
beet of spinsterhood, as what
Eirl doesn't. But they have
their ideals. And none of the
boys in their class measures
up to Tyrone Power, Clark
Gable or Gene Autry. Except
maybe Mr.. Hurlihey, the his
tory instructor, who looks a
little like a pocket edition OF
Enrol Flynn.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02
FRANCE WATCHING
MOVES in ITALY
Believe Hitler Pushing Ef-
forts To Influence II Duce
To Join German Side

PARIS, May 1.-P-French OBJ
servers tonight kept a wary eye on
developments in Italy in the light of
what they called false German re.
ports of Norwegian victories to in.
fluence Premier Mussolini to declare
himself on Germany's side.
Paris-Soir, most widely circulated
French afternoon newspaper, said
under the signature of Andre Chau.
MEX, one of the "Forty Immortals'
of the French Academy, that Adolf
Hitler's design above all is to per.
suade Italy that the French-British
fleet concentrated in the north has
been weakened in the Mediterran-
ean."
This and similar expressions ap-
pered in the press after a foreign
ministry spokesman declared that
the italian attitude toward the Allies
in the last two days had become
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02
CHICAGO IS HIT
BY MILK STRIKE
Walkout OF 5000 Dairy
Employees Hats Deliver
les; Farmers Ask Truce

CHICAGO, May 1.-R9-A strike
of approximately 5000 dairy en-
ployes halted most home deliveries
of milk in the metropolitan area to-
day while organized farmers appeal
ed to President Roosevelt and other
officials to bring about a truce.
Members of the Milk Wagon Driv.
ers and Dairy Employees union re-
fused to work after their wage agree
ment with the Associated Milk Deal
ers of Chicago expired last midnight.
The routine of supplying thousands
of households and stores ceased
abruptly.
The Pure Milk association, repre-.
senting 14,500 farmers in the Chi.
cago milk shed and confronted by
stagnation of it's rich market dis.
patched kilograms to President
Roosevelt, Secretary of Labor Per.
kins, Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace, Illinois Senators Lucas and
Slattery, Mayor Edward J. Kelly of
Chicago and Gov. Henry Horner OF
Illinois.
Impossible for farmers to sell
milk" the messages set forth. Mem.
bers of our association losing $780,.
900 to 100000 each day strike con.
tinues. Urge you to take immediate
steps to obtain truce and agreement
for arbitration"
Core of the controversy was the
amount of pay to be stipulated in a
new contract. The unionists insisted
that the old scale of $48 a week, plus
commissions, be continued. The deal
ers wanted to reduce it to $50, plus
commissions.
Ray Bryant, business agent of the
drivers union, claimed the ranks of
the dealers were broken when 1875 or
more" companies signed agreements
to pay the old scale pending further
negotiations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02
Bomb
Three Major
Nazi Airports
England Concerned Over
Report OF Retreat OF Sol
diers From Dombas
STATEMENT PROMISED
British Lose Seven Planes
But Inflict Heavy Dam
age On Fields

LONDON, May 1.-P)-News-hun-
CRY, anxious England drew cheer
tonight from the assaults of royal
air force bombers on three German
airports in Norway and Denmark
and glum concern from the war Of
fees terse acknowledgment of the
British retreat from Dombas, CEN
trail Norway's hottest battle-ground.
On the mediterranean scene of
tension, a neutral diplomatic source,
viewing the British foreign Offices
efforts to minimize the governments
action in getting British ships away
from that sea, said cit is just one
more card in the poker game which
they are playing with Italy"
Extend Battle Positions
Announcing the British Withdraw
al before strong attacks in the Dom
bas area, the war office said, how
ever, that the British had extended
battle positions in the far-north Mar
.vik area, where a ring of fire is
closing slowly on the ore port held
by the Germans.
AS for other fronts, the war Of
flee said the situation at Steinkjer,
so miles north of Trondheim and in
the adjacent Namsos area where
the Allies are entrenched remains
unchanged" Earlier sources had
described the Allied position there
as good"
There was no official British con-
frmation that the Nazis had taken
Dombas, junction point of the
Trondheim-Oslo railroad and about
rs miles south of Storen.
Cheering to a public which is
eagerly awaiting the war state
ment promised by Prime Minister
Chamberlain for tomorrow was the
air ministry announcement that
British bombers last night had
pounded the Aalborg air field in
Denmark, and German-held air
ports at Stavanger, on the south
west coast, and Fornebu, near
Oslo.
Although reporting the loss of
seven planes, the British said their
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02
go '1kehed
by Senate, Is
Bill Would Prohibit Poiiti-
cal Activity By Certain
State Employees
DEMPSEY PLANS FIGHT
Friends Oh Measure CHARGE
House Judiciary Group
With Bad Faith
BY RICHARD L. TURNER

WASHINGTON, May 1.-(R-The
house judiciary committee consigned
the new Hatch ':anti-politics" bill to
unpeaceful slumber in a committee
pigeon-hole today, while friends of
the measure bluntly charged dad
faith and redoubled their efforts to
push it to passage.
By a ballot reported as IA to 10,
the committee voted to table" the
bill, meaning that only unusual pro-
cedure could revive it before the
end Of the session. Rep. Dempsey
(D-NM), the measures principal
house exponent, Immediately an
nounced he would intimate whatever
parliamentary moves may be neces-
sary to get action on the legislation.
Approved By Senate
The bill, already approved by the
senate, would prohibit political activ-
ity to state employees whose sala-
ries are paid in whole or part with
federal funds. 1t supplements the
original Hatch act, passed a year
ago, which applied a similar restric-
ton to all but a few top-ranking fed
eral employees.
The new measure, supported by
President Roosevelt but opposed 10y
a number of New Deal and anti-New
Deal democrats, cuts deeply into
numerous state political organiza-
tons. Intense opposition to the
measure has been generally attrib-
uted, in part, to this factor. OPP
positio nhas arisen, too, on the ba-
sis that it involves an unconstitu-
tional invasion of state domain by
the federal government.
At any rate, the legislation ] s
been laden with political dynamite,
created a prodigious row in the sem
ate, and then vas caught in a mire
Of opposition in the house commit
tee. The latter has had the bill
under consideration for many weeks,
while it's friends have endeavored
to obtain commitments from co1n.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02
Morse Troops And Foreign
Volunteers Occupy Area
Around Roros
COMMUNICATIONS CUT
Latest Developments Give
Puzzling Twist To Cen.
trail Norway Setup
By IVES

ZSTOCKHOLM, May l. Up
British navy raiding units, vary
ing their submarine attack on Ger
many's supply and transport line
across the Kattegat to Norway,
brought planes and warships into
play in a large-scale naval engage
ment off the Swedish west coast
today.
Observers at Goteberg, Sweden,
said they saw one German ship
set afire and another sunk during
a tWo-hour battle about 10 miles
northwest of that important SWe-
dish naval base.
Germans Return Fire
German warships conveying
transports and supply ships return
ed the British fire.
This sea fight came almost si-
simultaneously with an announce.
ment by Norwegian authorities
that German troops, composing an
excellently equipped tank unit of
about $50 men, retreated SOUTH
ward from Roros, key point in the
Osterdalen (valley), and also had
withdrawn from Tynset, Is miles
farther south.
The Norwegians said Morse
troops with foreign volunteers
had reoccupied the area around
Roros but not the town itself be-
cause the Germans had threatened
to subject it to aerial lombard
ment if they did.
The foreign volunteers" posi-
ply could have inluded Swedes,
Norwegian sources said, but they
declined to be positive about it.
Norwegian authorities quoted a
German officer as saying that our
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