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Evening star., 1940-08-04
Russia Condemned
As Aggressor by
Auto Workers
Resolution Names Soviet
Along With Germany,
ltoIy and japan
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 3.-Delegates to
the C. I. o. United Automobile
Workers Convention today adopted
by a large majority a resolution
condemning Russia, Germany, Italy
and Japan as relationships and ag-
gressor nations.
The resolution was adopted over
the strong protests of minority,
which opposed the inclusion of Rus
sia IN the resolution.
Although Union President R. ].
Thomas repeatedly gaveled for
order, opponents of the measure
were interrupted frequently with
booes, cries of where's Finland?"
and sporadic singing of God Bless
America"
Joseph Ditzel of Toledo, Ohio,
chairman of the Resolutions Com
mittee, declared that the union
could no longer hide behind weasel
words" but had to take a clear
stand on the issue. Passage of the
resolution would not bring any purge
of union members for their views,
he pointed out.
Another resolution passed opposed
involvement in any war on foreign
SOIL" and requested that motion
pictures, skits, mass demonstrations,
plays and newspaper articles be pro-
NOTED to explain about this war"
In other resolutions, delegates op-
posed war profiteering and attempts
to deport Harry Bridges, West Coast
C. I. o. leader, and Endorsed the
30-hour week, the union sho pand
consumers co-operatives.
Delegates planned a session to-
morrow to complete action on hun
dreds of proposed resolutions, elect
officers and adjourn.
Evening star., 1940-08-04

Manchukuo and Japanese occupied
North China. The Japanese are
understood to be seeking American
loans for development projects.
Gen. Organ was retained by
Eastman, Dillon g. Co., New York
bankers, and the Japan Economic
Federation, representing leading
Japanese industrialists.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
New Shirley Temple

RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 10 R.--
Ways lost no time in giving name
to the new building of the Virginia
State Highway Department, under
direction of its commissioner, Henry
G. Shirley.
It's Shirley Temple"
Evening star., 1940-08-04
St. Mory's Luwn Fete

ROCKVILLE, Md, Aug. 3 (Spe-
ciaD The annual lawn fete and
festival of st. Mary's Catholic
Church here will be held on the
church grounds August 6 and 7.
The Rev. John j. Coady, pastor, an
nounced that John A. Jarboe will
be chairman of the General Com
n1ittee.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
6. O. P. Group to Meet
In Prince Georges

A meeting has been called by the
Republican State Central Commit
tee of Prince Georges County, Md,
for 8 pm. tomorrow at the court
house at Upper Marlboro. Plans
will be discussed for the coming
campaign. All persons interested
are invited to attend.
Evening star., 1940-12-08
land, Jack Haley. Ray Bolger In
Metro o-Goldwyn-M Mayors wizard of

land, Jack Haley, Ray Bolger In
Metro ro-Goldwyn-Mayer's wizard of
o."
Silver, Georgia avenue and Coles
vile pike, Silver Spring, Md: Rus
sell Hayden in Paramounts
knights of the Range"
Takoma, Fourth and Butternut
streets NV: Dead End Kids in
Warner Brothers Dead End Kids
on Dress Parade"
Tivoli, Fourteenth street and Park
road NV; Enrol Flynn and Miriam
Hopkins in Warner Bros "Vir-
ginia City,"
Uptown, Connecticut avenue and
Newark street NV, will also show
M-G-M's Wizard Of o."
Response Hailed.
In announcing the TOY matinee
shows and the theaters where they
will be held, John j. Payette, gen.
eral zone manager Of Warner Bros,
declared:
1T is again privilege to join with
The Star and the National Broad
casting Co. for the 10th annual
Christmas campaign.
1.-The people of Washington have
gladly and fully supported the CAM
paign in previous years, but the
needs of the more unfortunate this
year are such that we hope no home
will be without cheer on Christmas
Day."
For those who can't get to the
"toy matinees" or would like to take
their toys to the theater in their
neighborhood right away, the lobbies
of all Warner Bros. theaters are
serving as collection centers.
Christmas Atmosphere.
Already the lobbies are taking on
q Christmas look. For instance. at
the Earle Theater toys are spread
under a poster which appeals: Let
there be no unhappy home on
Christmas Day" Beside the poster
decked with Christmas wreaths is
great red box out of which peek
games, toy pandas and elephants,
dolls, a child's snowsuit. little
bathrobe, woody caps, play stove,
a set Of baby dishes, warm bedroom
slippers, books and lots of the other
things that make Christmas for
| children.
Cash gifts 60 to The Stars Christ
mas House. Your dollars sent to
Christmas House will enable moth
ers of the needy to purchase food for
Christmas dinner, fuel for cold
stoves, warm sweaters for the chill
dren and the other things that each
individual family needs to make
Christmas a day Of real rejoicing
You may bring your gift to Christ
mas House. at Eleventh street and
Pennsylvania avenue, or mail it to
Christmas House in care of The
| Star.
| A number of the donations that
have been received are contributed
in memory of a loved one at the
| Christmas season. Among these was
a gift from Julia Brambilla in men,
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Patterson Asks j. !.
To Realize Gravity
Of lis Situation
Assistant Secretary
Says Army Is in Better
Position Than in 1917
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Dec. Robert p. Pat
terson, Assistant Secretary of War,
declared tonight the greatest evil
tnat could befall the. United States
IN the present emergency would be
lts failure to awaken in time to
the critical seriousness of our posi-
ton"
Addressing the Harvard Alumni
Association, Mr.. Patterson said
failure to appreciate the situation
is the only thing we have to worry
| about"
! After previewing the Nations
military history, with particular
emphasis on that of the World War
period. Mr.. Patterson asserted the
Army believes it is much better off
now, because of careful planning
and prompt placement of production
orders, than when the United States
declared war on Germany in 1917.
Fundamental Factors Favorable.
In the World War we would have
taken "a months to produce COM
plete armament for our forces" he
said.
Now 1t was estimated that IS
months would suffice, he went on.
Although he conceded plumbers are
bound to be made" and that some
money is sure to be wasted" Mr..
, Patterson asserted I'VE have many
fundamental factors in our favor as
to armament
Our stock piles of raw materials
are ample" he continued. Our
productive facilities are greater than
those of any possible combination
of hostile powers. Our inventive
genius is unsurpassed. With such
resources we shall have no excuse
! if our Army is not completely
motorized, if it does not have arms
of the greatest fire power. if it does
not have planes of the greatest per-
| formance and in the greatest num-
bers."
Asks Situation Be Realized.
Asserting that achievement of
those goals required only that the
Nation go about the task "as men
who realize the gravity of the threat
presented by the dictators and who
have the resolution to go the limit
to avert it." Mr.. Patterson had this
word for labor and business:
DO sensible men in such a pre-
dicament stop production because Of
quarrel over wages? Do they resist
priorities urgently required by the
needs of the Army, on the plea that
some competing civilian activity Of
their own might have trifling
value for national defenses.
"No-not if they appreciate the
gravity of the situation"
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Case 28

A family consisting of father,
mother and six children live in an
old, unkept, unpainted house with
broken window panes down by the
railroad tracks. They occupy three
rooms downstairs consisting of a
kitchen and two other rooms. An
other family with six children lives
upstairs.
The mother is % years of age;
father. 33. and children range in
ages from months to years. A,
years; B, 5 years; c, 4 years; D,
years: E, 2 years: F. 5 months.
The father has been unemployed
since August. He has, however. re-
ceived unemployment compensation
of SIG per week.
The diet consists of surplus food
orders received through Public As
sistance Division. The family is
not eligible for scent milk. On
several nursing visits to the home,
the three tiny children were eating
rice without milk out of jelly jars.
At present, the only source of heat
in the house is gas stove in the
kitchen which is used only for cook
ing.
There are two double beds, cot
and a crib which provide sleeping
quarters for the family. At present,
they have two sheets and two pillow
cases and four old blankets. Coats
are used to provide extra covering.
The clothes worn by the children
were furnished for most part by the
parent teacher association of the
school attended by the two school
children. They have, however, prac-
! tically no underclothes.
The mother said she wanted to get
the girls doll last Christmas but
she was not able to do so. She said
they did have several little rocking
chairs which were broken in NOV
ing. Old cardboard boxes and jelly
glasses are their only playthings.
Cose 29
please. Santa, bring me Christ
mas tree" says Jenny, aged 8, as she
kneels beside her cot which she
shares with two younger sisters,
Lefty, aged 6, and Josephine, aged 3.
Jenny is unable to understand
why her Christmas for the past two
years has been so different from the
previous holidays before father was
confined to the sanitarium. Father
has been i'll now since August, 1888.
Prior to his disqualification he had
managed to exc out meager exist
ence for his wife and four children
on w. P. A. laboring job. Even
though it was difficult to provide
adequately for the family, neverthe-
less, they had a feeling of indie
pendence. They had a comfortable
four-room house located in middle
class neighborhood. The parents,
by denying themselves, always plan
ned a happy Christmas for the little
ones. Since the illness Of father,
they have had to, manage on q s4s
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Club to End Exercises

The Portuguese Club of George
town University will conclude this
afternoon its series of exercises held
since last February commemorating
the Portuguese independence CEN
tennials of 114O-164O. The final
meeting will be held at 4 pm. at
the home OF DR.. J. de S. Countinho.
1903 Nineteenth street NV, and
Paul Harmon. a member of the
club. will speak.
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Education Aids Recovery

A medical certificate submitted in
London recorded that a man was
suffering from fracture Of the base
of the skull and a slight bruise on
the brain, and added that mans
complete recovery from these hurts
was the more likely the better edu-
Gated he was.
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Here Are Two More Families
Who Need Help at Christmas

reports of the thousands families
Washington afford Christmas either themselves
their children Put them your Christmas list by mailing
gift Christmas of The Star by taking
Warner Bros heaer time this week by attending
the II manees Saturday at 1870
depends families circumstances like these
food clothing and at the time these gifts
the mosthe Yuede Details of the printed that
which your gifts will
hriobt Dav
Evening star., 1940-12-08

monthly relief allowance and it has
been necessary for them to move to
one room in crowded rooming
house. The mother, burdened down
by the many misfortunes, tries to
keep the little group together. She
is interested in her family and as
sumes the role of mother and father
Jenny is a sensitive child. She is
alert to the conditions through which
she has lived. 1t has made her older
than her years. To Jenny, lighted
Christmas tree is the one thing she
Evening star., 1940-12-08
ory of her mother, Mrs. George Won
Lengerke Meyer.
Contributors Pull Huge Bell.

Many who contribute come during
one of the frequent broadcasts from
Christmas House. Presenting their
contribution, they pull the huge bell
that sounds once for each dollar
contributed.
Some of the bell ringers at Christ.
mas House yesterday were Junior
Star correspondents in the schools.
Among them were Ruth Davis, Paul
Junior High; Ted Towers, Western;
Charles Stebbins, Central, and Alice
Reed, Mary Barr Fisher and Mildred
Edler of Anacostia.
Charles S. Beilman, commander
OF George Washington Post, No. l,
American Legion, brought his posts
contribution.
Il know" he said. that all our
Legion posts will not be found want
ing in this most humane cause"
Representative Edwin Hall, Re-
publican, of New York brought five
of his six children to the microphone
to give Christmas greetings and TO
urge support of the campaign.
Evening star., 1940-12-08

NV: Laurel and Hardy in R-K-O's
Flying Deuces."
Kennedy, Kennedy street, near
Fourth street NV: Billy Lee in
Paramount The Biscuit Eater"
Beery at Penn Theater.
Penn, Pennsylvania avenue at
Seventh street Sc: Wallace Beery
in M-G-Ms Thunder Afoat"
Sheridan. Georgia avenue and
Sheridan street NV: Judy Gar
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Christmas
CONTINUED From First Page.)

Goldwyn Mayors Marx Brothers
at the Circus"
Calvert, 1924 Wisconsin avenue
NV: Penny Singleton and Arthur
Lake in Columbia's Blonde Bring;
Up Baby"
Colony, 4935 Georgia avenue
Evening star., 1940-12-08

wants most Of all. To her the tree
represents the full meaning of
Christmas. To sit by the tree in her
little rocker, gazing at the lighted,
tinseled, trimmed tree.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-16

gladiolas, Mrs. Charles Sperry, r. NJ
Chapman; Dutch Iris, Mrs. Reed
wilkinson; iris flags, Mrs. r. L.
Sperry; tulips, mixed, Mrs. Charles
Sperry. anemones, mixed, Mrs. Reed
wilkinson; cannas, Mrs. R. L. Sper-
ry, Mrs. Reed Wilkinson; mixed wa
Ter lilies. R. M. Chapman; water iris,
Mrs. t. j. Thompson.
FloWering shrubs, shellflowers
Mrs. Frank Grubel. Mrs. C. A. Sper-
ry' Mrs. Herbert Reed: bignonia
Mrs. Frank Grubel honeysuckle
Mrs. Reed Wilkinson: lantana. Mrs
Earl Holmquist, Mrs. Herbert Reedv
Mrs Reed wilkinson; flowerinp
pomegranate, Mrs. r. L. Sperrv; or
chld flower, Mrs. r. L. Sperry: poin-
settia, Blanche Woods; ice plant
mrs. Clyde Harding.
Mrs. Reed Wilkinson won first
prize with a score of 70 points: R.
M. Chapman, second, with a total OF
% and Mrs. C. A. Sperry, third. scor-
ing 80 points.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-16

what was in effect, an annual re-
port To stockholders" he reclteo
certain statistical factors OF the
funds history. He said:
During the "a years OF the profit
sharing funds operation, 8l,85l en-
ployes who have died. retired or
otherwise left the company de-
posted S13 ,2O6,049 in the fund. They
drew out in cash or stock valued
at the time of withdraWaD assets
worth 57,388,7l7.
"Thus these employees who have
left the fund realized a value OF
S57,388,717 from an enveStment, out
of savings, of $33.2O6,0 ,049 which rep
resents an appreciation of $44,182 ,668
and that looks like pretty fair
interest rate to me.
Summarizing the operation OF
the fund, Sears employees, past and
present, have deposited $26, lat 1894;
the company has contributed $685.
512,828: and the combined assets
both those drawn out and those
remaining in the fund (the latter
based on a market value of $50 per
share for Sears Stock) amount to
$lO8,523,357
Sears employees were paid in sal
aries during 1899 an all ll-time-high
record of SOC, ,O88 900. Manager Ham,
burger said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-16
Anuesthetic Cos
Explosion Fatal

operating room, where Dr. Benjamin
Watson was waiting to operate.
Mrs. Sutphen was unconscious.
Suddenly, the pressure bag. from
which the gas was being run
through a tube into the patient s
mouth, exploded ana broke the glass
cover of dial ON the anaesthetic
unit.
Mrs. Satphen was shocked into
momentary consciousness, but she
lapsed again. Surgeons examined
her, decided she had not been in
Jured BY the explosion. and pro-
ceeded with the operation.
TWO hours later Mrs. Sutphen
suffered a relapse. Then it was
discovered that the explosion had
1upturcd her Windpipe and bronchi
the tubes leading out from the
WindpiDe. She died in an hour after
adrenalin, oxygen and artificial res
piration had been administered
Dr.. Raymond B. Miles, assistant
medical examiner, said, Apparently
what caused the explosion was q
static spark inside the rubber bae
caused from the rubbing together ol
bit OF wool and glass or metal
ihat generated static electricity JUS
as you sometimes do by rubbins
your feet over thick carpet"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-16

man; mixed, r. M. Chapman, R. M
Chapman.
Climbing roses of one color, Mrs
T. j. Thompson.
Under the spring flowers division
the following classes were featured
snapdragons. Mrs. Herbert Reedy
Mrs. l.. T. Morehead, Mrs. Gay
Adams; carnations. Mrs Clyde Har-
ding, Mrs. Reed Wilkinson; sweet
peas. Mrs. Joe Williams, Mrs. w. j
Young, Mrs. w j. Young; baby's
breath, Mrs. Reed Wilkinson; sweet
alyssum, r. M. Chapman, bachelors
buttons, Mrs. Helen Williams, Mrs
r. L. Sperry: mixed snapdragonS
Mrs. L. T. Morehead, Mrs. Reed
Wilkinson, Mrs. Newton Swain; mix
ed carnations, r. M. Chapman, Mrs
Reed wilkinson, Mrs. c. A. Sperry
mixed pansies, Mrs. Newton Swain
Mrs. C. A. Sperry; mixed sWeetpeas
Mrs. Helen Williams, Mrs. Herbert
Reedy, Mrs. Helen Williams; mixec
bacheolrs' buttons, Mrs. NeWtor
Swain, Mrs Herbert Reedy; Califor'
MIA poppies, one color, Mrs. Reee
Wilkinson; mixed, WI. Young, Mrs
Herbert Reedy; coreopsis, r. M
Chapman; daisies, one color, r. M
Chapman. Mrs. r. l.. Sperry; 60
delta, one color. Mrs. c. A. Sperry
mixed, Miss E3olia Morehead; lark
spur, one color, Mrs. Gay Adams
Mrs. Clyde Harding Mrs R. L. Sper
ry; mixed, Mrs. Frank Grubel, Mrs
Reed Wilkinson, Mrs. c. A. Sperry
nigella, Mrs. Frank Grubel, Mrs. c
A. Spery; marigolds, Mrs Herber
Sperry: nasturtiumS. Mrs. w. }
Reedy: mignonette, Mrs. Charlie
Young. Mrs. Reed Wilkinson, Mrs
Charles Spery; mixed, Mrs. Reet
wilkinson, Mrs. w. J. Young, Mrs
w. j. Young; phlox. mixed Mrs
Cav Adams; stock. one color, Mrs
Charles Sperry, Mrs. Reed Wilkin
son. Mrs. Herbert Reedy; mixe'
Mrs. Reed Wilkinson, Mrs. Ga,
Adams; vincas. Mrs. Reed Wilkin
son: petunias. one color, Mrs. Leot
Cook, Ms. Leota Cook; ruffled, Mrs
Reed wilkinson: single, Mrs. Her
bert Reedy. Mrs. Reed Wilkinson.
Mixed spring flowers, Eolia More
head. Mrs. Reed Wilkinson, Mrs
Vance Wilson; Flanders poppie'
r. M. Chapman; Iceland peoples
Mrs. Reed Wilkinson: mixed, Mr.
Reed Wilkinson; South Africa
daisies, Mrs. Reed wilkinson; Shir
lev poppies. Mrs. Reed wilkinson
paniculalum. r. M. Chapman; cand
tuft. Mrs. Lloyd Love; sweet sultaf
Mrs. Herbert Reedy, Mrs. Reed vii
kinson: polemonium, Mrs. Charlie
Sperry: peony poppy, one color Mr.
Vance Wilson; mixed Mrs. zee
wilkinson, Mrs. Gay Adams; Scotc
broom, Mrs. Vance Wilson; oXall'
Mrs. Charles Sperry; hibiscus, II. N
Chapman. Mrs. Charles SSperry
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-16

Hawkins, 81. and Lorraine Spinelli
1a-year-old daughter of Mrs. Spin
ELI.
O'Shea said all had admitted par
ticipating in the groups activities
except the girl. who said she had
been living with her mother but
knew nothing of the crimes. Two
sons of Mrs. Spinelli one Is and the
other 8, also were taken into custo-
dy and were held in the county
detention home.
referred to as the Duchess gave
him the gun he used in the San
Francisco holdup. He said he walked
up to Cash with the gun in his
pocket and when the proprietor
turned and attempted to grapple
with him he fired the fatal shot.
Ives told also of holdup by the
ton and plans for another holdup
here.
Sherrod was killed last Saturday
night after the group had come to
Sacramento from the bay city, Ives
told O'Shea. Mrs. Spinelli gave the
youth drugged liquor then struck
him on the neck with the back OF
her hand. Ives said. Someone car
ried the unconscious man down.
stairs and put him in the car. Haw-
kins then drove the machine to the
Freeport bridge. south of the city,
Ives continued. where he and some
one threw Sherrod over the railing,
Mrs Spinelli admitted her part in
the killing OF Sherrod. authorities
said, and commented she wanted
it to be mercy killing, because I
kind of liked the boy"
Mrs Spinelli said she had come
from Detroit in January and had
not been connected with the gang
prior to that time.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-16
News Of
Business

Employees of the Ell Centre store
of Sears, Roebuck and Co. got To-
gether Saturday in what was
kind Of local annual stockholders
meeting" There they learned that
they will share in the $3,0l3,433
contribution which the company Is
making out of 1889 profits to the
Savings and Profit Sharing Pen
siol1 Fund of Sears, Roebuck and
Co. Employees.
Company contributions to the
profit sharing accounts of all en-
ploye members were made according
to the length Of their periods OF
service as follows:
For members of the fund who
. have been with the firm for less
than five years, the company con-
tributtd 49 cents for every dollar
deposited by the emplOye during
the last fiscal year. For those who
have served from five to ter years,
the contribution was SO cents for
every dollar saved by the employe.
For those with more than ten years
of service, the company added $1.47
for every dollar of the fund men,
ber's deposits.
In addition, the company contri-
buted 20 cents for every dollar Cup
to S9n deposited by each member
without regard to the members
length Of service.
The fund operates in the follow
ing manner:
Five per cent of the salary OF
every member is deducted at the
end of each payroll period and
placed to his credit in the fund
However, all profit sharing fund
members are limited to a maximum
contribution of $3.50 a year, thereby
limiting the contribution of the
higher salaried employees. The con-
tributions. out of profits, are made
at the end of the fiscal year. The
Hlonies thus deposited in the fund
are invested in Sears, Roebuck and
CO. stock which is apportioned
among members according to the
years deposits registered to their
Rmount.
The fund now has 40174 men,
bers. More than SO per cent OF all
eligible employees belong. Its cur
rent assets amount to $51,l34,640,
based on a value of $50 per share
for Sears stock, and these assets
are credited directly to the &C
counts of the Sears employees who
are members of the fund. However,
the actual money deposited by the
employees in order to acquire these
credits was only $l2,941 ,945.
Manager B. L. Hamburger pre-
sided at the meeting here and
passed out in sealed envelopes, in
dividual statements to local profit
sharing participants. Delivering
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-16

counsel" if Chandler refused to act
Justice Mcclellan, in a taxpayers
suit brought by Mrs. Jean Kay Of
Brooklyn, revoked the British phil
osophers appointment to a two
season post at City College on the
grounds that his writings proved
he had IAN immoral and salacious"
attitude toward SEX
Defenders of Russell pointed out
that he was hired to teach mathem-
atics, logic and the philosophy of
science, not morals. City College
students and many educators and
ministers throughout the nation
rallied to his support.
Last nights meeting found Ord
way Tead. chairman of the board,
heading those favoring an appeal
and Charles II .Tuttle, former Unit
ed States attorney, leading the
opposition.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-16
County Gets Check
From State Fund

Imperial county. for a change. was
on the the receiving instead of the
delivery end of check Monday.
The county received check for
1893 90 as Il refund on costs from
the state compensation insurance
fund
Your county made an excellent
record in keeping down accidents
and accident costs during 1888 and
l939,' officials of the insurance de-
pratment wrote the board. your
cooperation and the care the county
employees exercised in handline
county equipment We're excellent
for that year"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-16
HoIdup Murder Gang Tells
Of Dual Killings: Thug
Slain to Insure Silence

SACRAMENTO, April 16. CUP)-
Four of five persons held in con-
nection with the holdup-murder a
week ago of Leland S. Cash, S.
year-old San Francisco barbecue
stand proprietor, have admitted par
ticipation in that crime and also told
of the killing Of another member of
the gang, Deputy District Attorney
j. Francis O'Shea said today.
Albert Ices. %, told OShea he
shot Cash, then assisted in killing
Robert Sherrod, one of their own
number, who was drugged and
thrown into the Sacramento river