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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20
Roosevelt Will Law
Cornerstone at New
Airport Wednesday
Ceremony Postponed
From Lost Week;
Dedication to Be Dec. II

President Roosevelt will lay tn.
cornerstone of the terminal building
Of the new Washington Airport next
Wednesday, the Civil Aeronautics
Board announced today.
The President, the announcement
said, will arrive at the Gravelly
Point airport shortly after pm.
In his automobile he will proceed to
an elevation 500 feet from the ter
minal building site and there will
signal for the landing of the first
transport planes on the runways.
Five Planes on Program.
Five transport planes will take
part in the program, one each from
the Civil Aeronautics Board, the
American Airlines, the Eastern Air
lines, the Pennsylvania Air
lines, the Army, Navy and the Coast
Guard. American, Eastern and
Pennsylvania are the commercial
airlines serving Washington and will
be using the new airport.
After the planes have landed the
President will move to the speakers
stand and, after a brief address,
will lay the cornerstone
Officials, members OF Congress and
leaders in aeronautical work will be
present and the public will be ad-
mitted.
Ceremony Once Postponed.
The ceremony, scheduled for this
week, was postponed because Presi-
dent Roosevelt was absent from
Washington attending the funeral Of
House Speaker William B. Bankhead
in Jasper, Ala.
Col. Sumpter Smith, chairman Of
the Interdepartmental Airport
Building Commission, renewed as
surances today that the airport will
be completed in time for formal died.
ication December II, which will be
the thirty-seventh anniversary Of
the Wright brothers flight
Col. Smith said the runways are
now 80 per cent completed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The population center of the United
States has moved eastward for the
first time in history. preliminary
census figures indicated today.
Experts said it would be several
months before the exact location
could be fixed. but. as far as they
could tell from early figures from
almost every State, the center would
be several miles southeast of its 1890
location, which was 20 miles north
east Of Linton. Ind.
They based their calculations pri-
marily on the fact that while the
total population of the United States
apparently gained between and 8
per cent, the South Atlantic States
gained l25 per cent.
The Census Bureau already has
compiled preliminary 1910 popula-
ton totals for every State and for
the Nation, but is guarding the fig-
ures for the last six States and the
Nation with unusual secrecy until
their scheduled release this week end.
Meanwhile, the most informed
estimates place the national total at
approximately 1872 1000 900. or about
rs per cent above the 122,775 ,046
count in 1890
As indicated by the possible east
ward movement of the population
center, the 1910 census is expected
to show many important shifts in
the distribution of people-changes
which may alter substantially the
apportionment Of seats in the House
of Representatives.
Figures so far available point to-
ward these general conclusions:
The South Atlantic States appar-
emily have had the largest numer-
ical population gain.
The Pacific States lead in per-
centage gain.
The Midwest States from North
Dakota to Oklahoma, inclusive, have
lost population.
The New England States have
gained a little, but less than the
national average.
Wherever the center of the Ma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20
Short-Weight Counts
Bring $1,000 Fine

Bernard N Siegel, president (.
the Square Deal Market Co., In,
today was sentenced by Police Court
Judge Hobart Newman to pay fines
totaling $4,000 and serve Is months
in Jail on Is charges of violation
of the District weights and meas
ures law in five company stores dur
ing last December.
The fine was the largest ever i'm
posed in the District for violation
of that statute, court attaches said.
The company was found guilty by
Police Court jury on August %
after testimony by Charles F. Ap-
plegate, chief inspector of the Dis
trict Weights, Measures and Mar
kets Department. and other agents
who visited five Square Deal stores
and made purchases of meat which
they said were short weight.
Judge Newman, after hearing de-
tense counsels plea for considera-
ton # the efforts made by Mr..
Siegel in correcting the situation,
declared:
Frankly, I can't conceive Of a
case that deserves less considera-
ton. The record of the defendant
dates back over period Of Is years,
with numerous convictions. and
from my observation and investiga-
ton of the case I think there are
strong indications of intent on the
part of the company. If 1t was
merely negligence by the manage
ment. then it would seem to be neg
ngence with intent.
II therefore impose a sentence OF
80 days on each count, and $500 o,
80 days additional in default Of the
fine on each count to run consecu-
lively in each of Is counts"
Assistant Corporation Counsel Ma.
Mahorner prosecuted the case for
the Government.
The five stores named in Govern
ment informations were at 63l
Fourth street S.W., sol Eighth street
Sc. COL Eighth street Sc. 925
Fourth street SW. and 1910 Seventh
street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20

avenue to Thirty-first street, no
parking on the south side at any
time
Wisconsin avenue NV, from the
car barn south Of Jenifer street to
Jenifer street, no parking on the
west side at any time.
N place Sc, from First to Second
streets, no parking on the south side
at any time.
Nichols avenue Sc, from Good
Hope road to Howard road, no park
ing on the east side from to 6 pm;
one hour parking allowed between Z
a m. and pm. on the east side;
no parking on the west side between
7 am. and $50 am, and one hour
parking allowed on the west side
from $50 An. t. 8 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20
Roosevelt
offered a two-paragraph summary
of the New Deals program.
Continued From First Page)

offered a two-paragraph summary
of the New Deals program.
at is only within recent years"
he recalled, that government has
given it's attention in a serious, eff
fective way to the insurance of bank
deposits. to soil conservation. relief
to farmers and to farm tenants,
development of cheap electric water
power, reclamation of soil by proper
use of water and forests; to the
prevention of fraud and deceit in
the sale of securities: to the as
tive bargaining by workers in in
dustry; to Government assistance
to the blind and the handicapped;
or to the need of taking care of ell
derby people without throwing them
into the poorhouse.
These are some of the new in
struments of social justice which
America has forged to meet the new
conditions of industry, agriculture,
finance and labor-conditions which
have been neglected too long and
which were beginning to endanger
our internal security. These are
the means which our own genera
ton have adopted to overcome the
threat to economic democracy In
our land-threats which in other
lands led quickly to political des-
potism."
Quotes Eliot.
In building up his own adher-
ence to the doctrine of the voting
privilege for all rather than for
q select few, Mr. Roosevelt at one
point quoted former President Eliot
Of Harvard University in the con-
viction that even though we have
multiplied our universities in every
State of the Union, even though
higher learning seems to have come
into its own, If the ballot were to
be confined to the holders of col
lege degrees, the Nation would go
on the rocks in a very few years"
Sees Naval Construction.
Seated in an open automobile with
Rear Admiral A. E. Watson, the navy
yard commandant, after his In
spectioa trips, the commander IN
chief Of the Nations Army ana Navy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20
Youth Orchestra
Arrives for Concert
Here Tonight
Program Will Be Lost
OF Tour Which Carried
Group to South America

Minus Stokowski. the All-Ameri-
can Youth Orchestra arrived in
Washington today and piled a good
ly portion of the Capitals taxis high
with bass flddles, horns and hat
boxes.
Leopold Stokowski, the famous
conductor of the organization of
youthful musicians. did not arrive
on the train which brought the
troupe from last nights concert in
Baltimore. 1t was learned that he
was expected to motor here some
time later today in time to supervise
the orchestra's seating and the
lighting at Constitution Hall where
a concert will be heard tonight at
8:45 o'clock.
Last Concert of Tour.
The performance tonight will be
the last one on the summers tour
which has carried the All-Ameri-
can Youth Orchestra to the prin-
cipal cities on the east coast of
South America. Tomorrow the Or
chestra will play at Philadelphia.
There are l09 musicians in the
organization and 20 of them are
girls. and they represent nearly every
State in the United States.
Twenty-three-year- olo Elizabeth
Stratton comes from Wichita. Kans.
and almost always requires one COM
plete taxi to carry her huge cello
and assorted luggage Carrying pos
sessions becomes a problem on a
tour like this, and one girl had used
the cloth cover of hel cello to dc
double duty as shoe rack.
Roberta Groninger. viola player
from Arcadia. Calf. expects to &c
back home When the season ends
tomorrow. It's expected. however
that the orchestra will reassemble
next spring.
South American Trip Swell
Sanford Schonbach, %. of Ro-
chester, N. Y. will play first viola in
tonightS concert. The first part OF
the program will present several Sc
lections of the music of Bach. with
the orchestra to play Shostakovich's
symphony No. 5" after the inter-
mission.
The South American trip they
pronounced as swell" with enthusi-
astic receptions to their playing be-
ing shown at every stop
According to Dorothy Fennell, IS
PnRhnSfnr
bored because the trip had all the
necessary elements-adventu trav-
Ell, music and an unequaled chance
at expert instruction from Sto-
kowski.
Most of the musicians are staying
at the Raleigh Hotel, and expect to
do little sightseeing this afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20
passed the sleek 35.OOO-ton Wash

passed the sleek 3500O-ton Wash
ington, near completion in drydock:
the heavy keel of the $4,000 ton New
Jersey, steel cradle where another
45,00O-t0n Super-f1ghter, the Wis
consin, Is soon to begin. and numer-
Gus other vessels in varying degrees
of readiness for action.
Already manned by 10000 work
ers. the yard is expected to have
10000 men employed by the end Of
next year. A year ago the employ
ment was 5000, Mr.. Roosevelt said.
Calling newspapermen to his car
as he neared the exit, the Chief
Executive described the plant and
it's current work as an amazing
illustration of what can be done
when this Nation buckles down to a
task.
Stresses Speed Of Work.
Remarking that more had been
seen than probably was realized by
the newsmen, the President laid
particular stress on. the improve
ment in the element of construction
vital in a period when months
mean much in the worlds history.
Expansion of this yard dates back
one year, when the first order was
given for reconditioning of so World
War destroyers for neutrality pa
troll duty. At that time about 5000
were employed here.
In his conference the President
called attention to the aircraft works
in the yard, established originally
when he was Assistant Secretary
of the Navy in 1916. About $500
men are employed there, he said,
efforts being divided between ex-
perimental work and the produc-
ton of some so training planes per
month.
Workers Cheer Him.
Mr.. Roosevelt also made a quick in
spection trip to the new 16-story
naval hospital and to the quarter
master depot, where 5000 civilian
workers are engaged in turning
out $4,000, 900 of clothing and
equipage for the Army.
Nearly the full complement OF
civilian workers lined the winding
narrow streets of the navy yard
waving their hats and noisy ap-
plauding the commander in chief
Whitehead crews stood smartly a
attention along the rails Of nearly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20


A trough of low pressure extends from
Lake Superior southweslWard TO Arizona
and Southern California Blythe, Gait
.OOS \ millibars C!g.5g inches: Houehton'
Mich. 1918 millibsrs ,29,SS inches !,
and Sydney, Nebr., l.Olno millibars t?9 ~
inches Pressure is still low, but rising
over Alaska Nome, 99i.3 millibars 90 -
inches. Hi2h pressure prevails over the
Northwestern States and from the South
ern Plains states and Iowa eastward to the
Atlantic Coast and thence eastward over
the ocean, Pulaski, Va, ,024.4 millibars
coos inches. and TstooSh Island. Wash
.O2@.1 millibars 5000 inches. Showers
have occurred in Florida, the extreme
southern portions of Louisiana and MiSsls-
sippi the Rocky Mountain and Plateau
Western New York and Western Pennsyl
vania. Temperature changes have been
slight as rule.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry; Potomac slightly muddy
at Great Falls today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20

Germany's trade with China has
practically disappeared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20
Weather Report

Furnished United States Weather Bureau
of little
temperature Souherly winds
Vignia-Fr tonight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20

pal Architect Nathan c. Wyeth;
Mrs. Elise z. Watkins, secretary Of
the Board of Education: Capt. John
L. Person, Assistant Engineer Com
missioner and director of construc-
ton. and L. j. Cantrell, assistant
school superintendent in charge OF
junior high schools.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20

Trinidads entire sugar crop has
been taken by the government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-20

Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Evening star., 1940-07-22
Russian Note Brings
First Text Of Axis
Pledges TO Rumania
Moscow Message Stresses
Interest in Popular
Rule for Carols Domain
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, July 22.-Rumanias
newly-won pledges OF support from
the Rome-Berlin axis are about to
receive their first test, 1t was re-
ported here today. as result of a
note from Moscow emphasizing Rus
sian interest in a popular govern
ment" for King Carols monarchy.
Authoritative Rumanians said the
Soviet note was received Saturday
and that yesterday Rumania Foreign
Minister Mihail Manoilescu met with
German and Italian Ministers at
a resort on the Black Sea.
King Carol, shortly after receipt
of the note, was said to have met
with Vice Premier Gen. Mihail
Ionescu. War Minister Gen. Con-
stantine Nicolescu and Chief Of
Staff Florea Tyenescu.
Observers assumed here they dis
cussed the new Rumanian defense
system in the east. set up since
Russian occupation of Northern
Bucovina and Bessarabia June %.
These sources said Premier Ion
Gigurtus pro-Nazi government was
advised by Moscow that Russia
wished to improve her relations
with Rumania and felt this could be
accomplished by formation of a
popular government.
Meanwhile, Bucharest newspapers
carried reports that the Moscow
radio after numerous attacks on
Rumania. suddenly had swung to
support of Rumania in her terri
torial dispute with Hungary over
Pennsylvania.
In Tarnono. Bulgaria, Premier
Bogdan Philoff announced yester-
day that Bulgaria hoped to realize
her territorial claims, which in
cluded part of the Rumanian prov
ince of Dobruja, mot by war or
arms but by peaceful means and
through accord"
Evening star., 1940-07-22
Sunsets on Planet Venus
Photographed Successfully
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PASADENA. Calf, July 22.-Four
young scientists have returned from
a mountain-top camp with $500
photographs of sunsets on the planet
Venus.
They said probably not more than
dozen astronomers had observed
the phenomenon during the last
200 years. They described the pho
tographs as the first successful
series Of pictures of the sunset ever
made.
The pictorial record was started
last year at Lowell Observatory
Flagstaff. Ark, by j. B. Edison. Mr..
Edison and three other graduate
students at the California Institute
OF Technology-J. L. Winget, Rich
ard Canright and Ernest Wright
camped for two weeks on Lookout
Mountain, 80 miles southeast of
here. taking daily pictures at the
Smithsonian Solar Observatory.
The expedition, said Mr.. Edison.
was timed to coincide with the SUM-
set phenomenon-a red glow in the
planets upper atmosphere-visible
only when Venus is almost, but not
quite, directly between the earth and
the sun.
Evening star., 1940-07-22
Mrs. Carrie |. Ma||on,
Mother Of Writer, Dies

Mrs. Carrie L. Morsman Mallon,
81, mother of Miss Winifred Mallon,
Washington correspondent for the
New York Times, died yesterday at
her home, the Woodward Apart
ments, 2311 Connecticut avenue
NV. She had been i'll since Jan
uary with a heart ailment.
Mrs. Mallon, native of North
Evans, N. Y, was the widow of
Robert Patrick Mallon, who died
here IN 1912. She was the daughter
OF Lewis William and Maria M.
Morsman Harvey. She was a de-
scendant of William Woodbury. of
Somerset, England, who settled in
Beverly, Mass, in 1923, and of Dean
Carlton, one of the eight original
members of the Congregational
Church in this country.
Besides Miss Mallon, she leaves
another daughter, Mrs. Charles D.
Oothoudt of Oakland, Calf.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 pm. tomorrow at the Church
Of the Reformation, 212 East Capitol
street, with burial in Congressional
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1940-07-22

Hindsigght and Foresight :
By HOLCAR J. JOHNSON
President, Institute of Life Insurance

payments or in the payments on endowments
or annuitieS.
TN the ten years that followed annual payments
/ ranging from two billions upward were made
regularly to policyholders, widows, orphans and
old people. Can you imagine what stabilizing
influence this was, when the value of most kinds
of property seemed so uncertain?
But perhaps am painting too rosy picture
What would DR.. Muzzey say on this subject? We
got in touch with him and asked him what he
thought of the way the life insurance companies
handled themselves during the depression.
IT you ask me-" he said, "the depression
proved that life insurance is the soundest bust.
ness institution in the country"
Today, like yesterday, we in the insurance bust.
ness stand braced to help Ga million policy
holders withstand whatever economic shocks
man or nature can deliver, in every way within
our power.
This is what is expected of us, and this il
what we expect of ourselves.
NOTE In this regular Monday column paid for adver.
tsing rates, the Institute of Life Insurance has asked s
president to dscuss questions Of interest to life insurance
pocyholdees Inquiries be addressed - East 43n1
Street, 0sW Yeek Cty.
Evening star., 1940-07-22
Petain Government
Provides Loans for
Industry, Colonies
Advances Made to Algeria
And Tunisiu to Assure
Supplies Of Food

BY the Associated Press.
VICHY. July pa series Of
DEGREES granting loans to private
industry and certain colonies and
rectifying the exchange rate for the
French and Belgian franc were
enacted today by the Petain gov
ernment as part of its reconstruc-
ton program.
Loans up to 100000 francs may
be made to private industries for
three months to enable them to
pay salaries and buy indispensable
raw materials.
(The French franc is not at
present quoted on the foreign
exchange market. Previously this
year, however, 1t ranged from
high OF 226 cents on January 20
to low of 1.73 May 10)
Advances of 5O0,OOO,0O0 and 10O,-
900 900 francs were granted, respec-
lively, to Algeria and Tunisia to
assure food supply In these
colonies.
Through an arrangement with the
Belgian government, 500 Belgian
francs were made equal to 722
French francs.
(The Belgian franc, internal
currency. is worth one-fifth Of
the belga, the international ex-
change unit which no longer Is
quoted, but which has ranged in
value from ITO to 1852 cents
this year,
The Finance Ministry in a COM
munique invited banks, exchange
agencies and insurance companies
to return to Paris as soon as pos
sible, declaring plans were being
made to reopen the bourse.
Finance Minister Yves Boutillier
announced he would leave for Paris
today to re-establish his department
there.
A dispatch from Paris reported
that German dissatisfaction with the
makeup of the Petain government
was apparently one of the obstacles
delaying return Of the French gov
ernment to the city.
The Paris press published reports
from Berlin that Germany, aston
ished to find in the new government
the influence Of men responsible for
the war" is maintaining extreme
reserve toward French policy"
Evening star., 1940-07-22
Worry About Fate Of Kin
Abroad Blamed in Suicide

Worry over the fate of her three
sisters in England and over her
o. n health was blamed today for
the suicide of Mrs. Ruth Davidson,
81, of BIT Warder place NV.
Mrs Davidson was found dead in
the kitchen of her home early to-
day and Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald issued a certificate Of sui
eide.
Her body was discoverd by her
husband, James Davidson, a car
penter. She had covered her head
with sheet and turned on gas Jets
in the stove.
Evening star., 1940-07-22
Corbin Leaves Britain

LONDON. July % (P.-Charles
Corbin, former French Ambassador
to Great Britain, was disclosed today
to have sailed on British liner for
South America.
Evening star., 1940-07-22

Speeds at which fatal accidents
occurred most frequently on Kan
sas highways in 1889 ranged from
so to 10 miles an hour.
Evening star., 1940-07-22

There are about 14O different
dates assigned to the creation of
the world.
Evening star., 1940-07-22

"MADE FOR ENGLAND" SAY THE GERMANS-Bombs of the
heaviest caber being turned out in munon
throughout Germany and they're being for England
says the German caption accompanying this picture
shells OF the used blast the Magnot forts and
TO war on cruisers and baeshps Now they being
out for the promised onslaught Great Britain
shows the shells being checked in the facoyA Wrphoto
Evening star., 1940-07-22

tory" Factories and mills were closing :. banks
were falling prices of wheat, cotton, oil, copper
were steadily falling, exports were declining and
mortgages were being foreclosed all over the
land"
In this crisis, tho public turned to its institu.
tiOns that had always stood for security. Life
insurance was one of these.
Except for a short period beginning with the
bank holiday, when the insurance commissioners
of certain states ruled that policyholder must
show his need before he could surrender his
policy for cash or borrow on it, the companies
carried on as if there were no depression. At no
time was there any interruption In death claim
Evening star., 1940-07-22

past. Your old history book-the
one you used in school-has been
brought up to date. Have you
read the new chapters that de-
scribe what happened in 1929
and afterwards?
"A terrific crash in the stock
market in October ruined thou
sands," says Professor David S.
Muzzey in his "American His
Evening star., 1940-07-22

AS we face troubled times and solemn decisions,
n it often gives us courage and strength to look
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