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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
| British Rotary
Says War Aids
Amity With u. S.

CAMBRIDGE, Md, Dec. 49,
Rotarians of Cambridge, England,
see a great gain in new under
sanding" between Great Britain and
the United States resulting from
the loss and suffering of the war
with Germany and Italy.
In an exchange of Christmas
greetings the Cambride England)
Club said that peace is not for us
yet, but your country has shown
so much good will toward ours that
our hearts warm toward you, and
we rejoice to think that even now
loss and suffering bring the great
gain of new understanding"
The local club responded with a
message, signed by DR.. Robert Wey-
gand, president, saying:
THE valiant and courageous part
you are playing in this world Of
strife is an inspiration. Needless
to say our every wish is for the
bright sun of victorious outcome
to be your reward. The desire to
clothe them with more needs Is daily
becoming more accepted"
The message from the English
club said that each year ION your
country's Thanksgiving Day, or at
our club luncheon nearest to that
date, our custom has been to invite
every U. S. A. citizen in this univer-
sity or town to foregather with us
as our guests. That luncheon has
been one of the high spots of our
Rotary year."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
British Say 41,476 Tons
Of Shipping Sunk in Week

3, tire Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. ga total Of
Al ,476 tons of merchant shipping
was sunk by enemy action" during
the week ending December Is, the
Admiralty reported today. This
marked a sharp decrease from the
weekly average of 62,867 tons.
An authoritative source said, You
cannot take it from this that the
danger to shipping from air, sur
face and undersea raiders has
passed" but he pointed out that the
December weekly average of losses
OF merchantmen based on figures
to December 16 was II 900 tons, the
lowest in the last six months.
Of shipping reported sunk in the
week ended December IS, the Ad-
miralty said five vessels totaling
30830 tons were British and two
! totaling 10,646 tons were allied. No
neutral ships were reported lost.
1t said that its total of 41.476
tons compared with German claims
of having sunk 82,450 tons during
the week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
Army and Navy Ease Rules
To Make Holiday Merrier
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
For men in the Army and Navy
the CHI istmas holidays will be gala
days-not drab, like the yuleldes
in World War training centerS.
Army furlough privileges have
been liberalized to permit many
men to visit their homes while
active training is suspended, and
railroads have cut their rates dras-
tically for the men in uniforms.
For those who have to remain In
the camps special Christmas din
ners, religious services and holiday
festivities are being arranged. The
same holds true for the men in the
fleet, few of whom will be able to
spend the holiday at home.
The Army also has arranged TO
include relatives and friends OF
the men in camp in as many activi-
ties as possible.
If President Roosevelt follows the
precedent observed during the 1877
holiday season, he may present some
of the Army and Navy officers, with
coveted promotions. In 1917, for
instance. Admiral Harold r. Stark,
now chief of naval operations, was
elevated from heutenant-command-
err to commander the day before
Christmas.
Not all of the troops in France
got turkey on that 1917 Christmas,
a dispatch revealing that a ship
carrying large quantities of the fowl
had sailed from the United States
too late. Another carrying cram
berries was forced off her course
by a submarine attack.
Secretary Knox, in a 1910 Christ
mas message to the Navy, told its
officers and men yesterday, you
are the greatest feet in the world"
The Navy, he said, pledges to
the American people our vow to
carry on steadily and Conscientious
ly during the next year in accord
ance with the highest traditions"
and to give the utmost to the tasks
that lie ahead"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
ness, Slightly warmer.

The. disturbance Of slight intensity
MISUNDERSTANDING, being central about
600 miles west Of Tampa, Fla, with lowest
pressure about 1oO7.S millibars (29.76
inches). The disturbance that was over
Northeastern New York has moved east
southeastward and is central this morning
about 400 miles east of Nantucket, Mass,
attended by strong shifting winds. Another
disturbance is moving eastward over North
Dakota Devils Lake, 1006.1 millibars
129.71 inches). with a weak trough ex-
tending southwark to Western kansas.
Another disturbance of marked intensity
is central on the Washington coast. North
high pressure area Is moving east-south-
Head. 9S4.4 millibars (29.07 inches). A
eastward over the lower Lake region, Buff
fa1o, N. Y. 1924 millibars t3O.37 inches),
with q wedge extending southwark to the
Carolinas and another wedge extending
southwestward to Eastern Texas. Pressure
is also high over Western Colorado. Dur
ing the last "a hours rains have occurred
in the Pacific States, the Plateau, Florida,
along the east Gulf coast and in Northern
New York and Northern New England.
Temperatures have fallen In Eastern Texas
and in Northern New. York. while they
have risen slightly in the northern Plains
States. the middle Rocky. Mountain region
and the east Gulf and South Atlantic
States
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
Reds Deny VIodivostok
Is Chinese Supply Port
B, the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Dec. 23.-Tass, offcial
Russian news agency. denied today
that the Chinese Army had received
large quantities of war material,
medicaments and other supplies by
way of Vladivostok, Soviet Russia S
Far Eastern port.
The Tass statement, published in
denial of a report published in the
United States, also said 1t was untrue
that the American military officer,
Carlson, will shortly go to Vladivos-
tok to speed up transportation Of war
material to China"
tThe published report had at
tributed such plan to Evans
Carlson, a former United States
marine offlcer)
"Tass is authorized to deny this
report, which is fabricated from be-
ginning to end" the agency said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
Chicago Bund Leader
ToIks With Prosecutor

BY ne Associated Press.
CHICAGO. Dec. 23-Dr. Otto
Willumeit, chairman Of the Ger
American Bund in Chicago
appeared at the Federal building
today. carrying black case, and
went into immediate conference
with United States Attorney j.
Albert Vol.
Assistant Prosecutor Paul Plum
kett said DR.. Willumeit had been
ordered" to appear and bring bund
records. He was accompanied by
his secretary, Mrs. Irene Matz.
Investigators had been interested
in questioning DR.. Willumeit since
Thursday when State ofiicials raided
the bund headquarters in connec-
ton with a tax case and seized a
membership ledger listing some
1000 names.
Mr.. Woll assigned Mr.. Plunkett
to cooperate with the F. B. l., which
has declined comment on the in
quiry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
Nine Persons Injured
When Broken Rail
Wrecks StreamIiner
Fourteen Cars Of City
Of Los Angeles Leove
Tracks in Colorado
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JULESBURG, Colo, Dec. 23-
Seven passengers and two dining
car employees were injured when IA
cars of the Union Pacific's east
bound streamliner, City of Los
Angeles, were derailed near here last
night
Railroad officials, who gave the
cause of the accident as a broken
rail, said none of the six was injured
seriously. They listed the injured
as:
Philip Heitzman, Hollywood; Alma
L. Barnes. Monticello. Calf; Mrs.
H. M. Ridgway and daughter,
Sandra, Los Angeles; Mrs. Esther H.
Croft, SIS, Los Angeles, and Mrs.
Wright H. Prickett, jr., Long Beach,
Calf Miss Violet Zimmerman,
Hollywood, Calf, Walter Lester AL
bert and Chef Jack Alderman.
The wreck was blamed on
broken rail beneath the last OF
three power units. This unit, a
baggage car, three coaches, two
diners, a lounge car and six Pullmans
left the track. One of the Pullmans
turned on its side, but the railroad
said none of its occupants was in
jured. Two more Pullmans remained
on the track.
President w. M. letters of the
Union Pacific and Otto Jabelmann,
vice president IN charge of research.
left Omaha, Nebr., to conduct a
personal investigation
The baggage car dragged about
500 feet before coming to a stop,
slanting away from the tracks The
company said the roadbed was not
badly damaged, because the equip
ment was light. It estimated that
wrecking crews would have the line
open by mid-afternoon. Meanwhile,
trains were routed by way OF La
Sale, Colo, and Cheyenne, Wyo.,
because the other line of the double
track was blocked.
The Columbine passenger train
from Denver was halted here and
backed up to pick up approximately
ITS passengers. 1t continued on
toward Chicago. While waiting for
it to arrive, occupants of the derailed
coaches built bonflres along the
track.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
Boys Death in Icebox
Listed as Accident

Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
today issued a certificate of acci-
dental death in the case of Lesls
Kane, 7, colored, whose body was
found in an icebox in the basement
of his home, 1903 Fourth street NV,
early yesterday.
Detective Sergt Dewey Guest said
the child evidently had been playing
in the cellar and had hidden in the
iceboX as prank on his grand.
mother, Mrs. Frances A. Handy.
with whom he lived Apparently
the door swung to, trapping him in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
Supreme Court Kills
$3.50 Privilege lax
In North Carolina
Unanimous Decision
Holds Discrimination
Is Evident in Levy

The Supreme Court today inval-
idated o North Carolina law which
imposed a $3.50 privilege tax on out
of-State retailers of display wares in
the sample room of hotels.
The tax was attacked by Best &
co. of New York, which declared It
placed q burden on interstate COM
merce.
The North Carolina Supreme
Court upheld the tax as one on the
commercial use OF temporary quar-
tiers which in operation did not
discriminate against and therefore
did not come into conflict with the
commerce clause Of the Constitution.
Decision Unanimous.
The unanimous decision of the
court, delivered by Justice Reed,
said:
THE commerce clause forbids
discrimination whether fortnight
or ingenious. In each case, it is
our duty to determine whether the
statute under attack, whatever its
name may be, will in its prac-
tical operation work discrimination
against interstate commerce. This
standard we think condemns the
tax at bar"
The opinion added that the tax,
required in advance from out-of-
State retailers and not from their
local competitors, "can operate only
to discourage and hinder the ap-
pearance of interstate commerce in
the North Carolina retail market. "
The court agreed to review a
decision holding invalid a 1887 Flor
ida law directed at monopolistic
practices Of music copyright owners
and parts of 1899 statute regu-
lating licensing of public perform
ance rights.
Two-Week Recess Taken.
Florida appealed from decision
of the Northern Florida Federal
District Court. seeking to establish
validity of both statutes, while the
American Society of Composers, Au-
thors and Publishers, known as
A. s. c. A. p, appealed from the
same decision insofar as it hello
valid some portions of the 1889
statute.
The high court recently agreed to
review a Nebraska decision holding
invalid State anti-monopoly law
which permitted the public per-
Torrance of music whenever the
original purchase price had been
paid.
The litigation was another phase
of the effort Of A. S. C. A. P. to con-
troll prices charged for the public
playing of popular music under its
control A three judge Federal
court in Nebraska held that the
legislation violated the Federal
copyright laws.
The court recessed two weeks
today without deciding the con-
tempt cases against Harry Bridges,
C. I. o. leader, and the Los Angeles
Times which originated In the
California courts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
Italy Makes Borter Deal
With Sweden, SIovokio
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, Dec 23.-Italy has ar
ranged to obtain metals and cattle
from Sweden and Slovakia In newly
signed barter agreements, it was an
nounced today.
Sweden is to supply iron, other
metals and some machinery in ex-
change for flowers, vegetables. dried
fruit and gloves. From Slovakia,
Italy is to receive cattle and barley
used as a coffee substitute-in ex-
change for fresh foods, wine and
machinery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
Son of Cote Founder Dies

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. % (P).-
CASTOR A. Alciatore, 68, last sur
viving son of Antoine Alciatore,
founder of world famous Antoine's
Restaurant here. died yesterday.
A nephew, Roy Alciatore, now con-
ducts the restaurant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
VIII Attend Convention

DR.. c. D. Swope of Washington
will attend the semi-annual meet
ing of the Executive Committee of
the American Osteopathic Associa-
ton in Chicago December q to 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
Weather Report
FURNISHED by the United 81


with lowest temperature about
oudiness slightly gentle
shifting northeast winds.
Maryland-Far tonight; fair, slightly warmer
VirginiaFair tonight increasing coudiness slightly
tonight increasing coud
sp hfu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
Opera Broudcusts
Through the co-operat

Through the cooperation OF
the National Broadcasting Co.,
The Star is presenting over
WMAL each weekday morning
excerpts from the operate re-
cordings featured in the opera
appreciation campaign. The
program on which. the record
ings are heard, "Today's Prel-
ude," is scheduled daily except
Sundays, from 6 to 7 am. The
Stars recordings may be heard
between GAS and Z o'clock.
The recordings already re-
leased in the campaign may be
obtained at the special distribu-
ton booths In the lobby Of The
Star Building each weekday
from 8 am. to 6 pm. The
booths are closed on Sundays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
Senote Confirms SpIuwn

The Senate today confirmed tn
denomination of Walter M. W
Splawn to be a member of the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
Report for Last 4S Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today
!. Highest. 80. at $50 pm. yesterday.
Lowest. 81. at $50 pm. today. Year
ago, 81.
Record Temperature This Year.
Highest 100. on July ~.
Lowest z, on January 90
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 70 per cent, at $50 am.
Lowest, "a per cent. at 4 pm.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
To-day Tomorrow
High 2:2Sam. 3:32 q m.
Low - OLA am. 1918 am.
High - 3:OS pm. 4:10 pm.
Low - 1856 pm. 11:01 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun, today 1:24 $50
Sun, tomorrow - 1928 ADJ
x1XC sase .sss ui. nut TT ). tSsn.d % ss
halt hour after sunset
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
FERTILIZATION.
Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to date):
River Report,


Potomac River cloudy. Shenandoah clear
at Harpers Ferry: Potomac slightly MUDDY
at Great Falls today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-12-23
New Records in Opera Series
Available at Star Tomorrow
Second Unit of Tristan and Isolde
Music Continues Love Duet

were added to the offer q few weeks
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-29
FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1910.
THE ONLY INDEPENDENT
WORKERS

The average of union wages is
double the average of non union
wages.
There are men still foolish enough
to parrot the employers bunk about
the independence of the non-union
men.
Where there is non-unionism, the
only man who has any independence
is the employer.
The union man has the only true
independence. He is the only worker
who has rights. He is the only worker
who has real say as to his wages,
his hours, his conditions of work
The non-union worker has few
rights, no independence, no freedom
and in addition he pays high price
for his state Of subserviency.
How can any man afford so high
price for such ignominy?
And, why are there any non-union
workers?
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-29

for longtime results and for the pre-
vention of multiplication of snakes.
Such agencies and particularly
that one - are bulwarks for democ-
racy and freedom. They should have
hundred times the support they get.
If you have some money you'd like to
put to good use, send it to the League,
quickly.)
But it happens that there's a war
on between dictatorship and democ-
racy. And, on top of that, there's war
with guns in Europe.
The aggressors will use any method
or any weapon that they think will
get results.
They have no scruples, no COM
junction, no principles, no ethics.
With them, ''the end justifes the
MEANS" always.
And so they go on, building nests of
hate and destruction within our midst
and in Mexico, from which they get
ready to jump on us, if, as and when
they deem it helpful to their policies.
One more thought: Those who are
startled by the Dies testimony of these
passing weeks would do we'll to recall
that more than Is years ago the Amer
lean Federation of Labor prepared for
a Senate committee complete testi-
mony which was exactly like the testi-
mony of today in fact and in deed, diff
fering only in names, dates and places.
And no more than five or six years
ago William Green presented to the
State Department, protesting against
recognition of the Soviets, an equally
complete document, every bit as SEN
sational as the Dies testimony and also
differing not at all in anything except
the dates.
The Reds have been at it a long
time, doing the same thing continu-
ously. The American Federation of
Labor has neither been fooled nor
asleep, but it appears that almost ev-
eryone else has been both, simulta-
neously.
America has everything it prizes to
protect; and labor, above all others, is
alert and on the job in that protection
Human Rights, Freedom, Democ-
racy-that's America. Let's keep it so.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-29
F. J. GORMAN sues
clio. HEADS FOR
FINANCIAL LOSSES
Asks Damages for False, SlanderOus
and Libelous Statements.

Washington, d. G. (ILNS). - Suit
for $103,719 for personal damages and
financial loss has been filed in District
Court of the District of Columbia
against the C. |. O., John L. Lewis,
Sidney Hillman, and other c. |. 0. Of
ficials by Francis J. German, chair
man of the executive board, United
Textile Workers of America, an Amer
lean Federation of Labor affiliate.
The complaint, drawn up by Patrick
j. Taft, attorney for German, charges
that the defendants are indebted to
German in the sum of $3,719.93 for
salary and expenses due him as presi-
dent of the United Textile Workers of
America, from October /, 1898, to May
6, 1889. The union at that time was
affiliated to the c. l. O.
Damages of 100000 are asked for
alleged false, slanderous and libelous
statements made by the executive
council of the u. T. W. A. on Decem-
ber %, 1888, in accusing German of
facts detrimental to the interest and
welfare of the international union. :"
The acts in question included encour-
agement and assistance to local unions
which left the G. l. o. and reaffiliated
with the A. F. of L.
German charges that the statement
caused him great mental suffering
and anguish" and damaged his good
name, character, reputation and stand
ing with the organized labor move
ment and the public" to the extent
of 100000.
Papers in the suit were served on
Hillman at the Wardman Park Hotel
here, where he was attending a meet
ing Of the executive council of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
America, C. l. O. affiliate.
Defendants named in the action, in
addition to those already mentioned,
included Philip Murray, Emil Rieve,
Reid Robinson, Sherman Dalrymple,
C. l. o. vice presidents; James Carey,
secretary treasurer; the Textile Work
ers' Organizing Committee; Sidney
Hillman, chairman of the committee,
and Thomas Kennedy, secretary treas
urer.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-29
TRAFFIC CODE
CHANGES FEW

Middletown, Ohio.-The special traf-
ic committee, chosen by the city COM
mission to study and offer recommen-
dations for revised traffic code, COM
pleted it's work Monday after advising
only minor additional changes.
Proposals to recommend changes in
city bus stops and routing and an
other to recommend installation of
parking meters were left in allegiance.
Another proposal to prohibit angle
parking on Broad Street, between
Manchester and First Avenue, was
likewise dropped after discussion.
Captain Hugh A. King, secretary of
the committee, was instructed to pre-
pare a summary of the recommends
tions passed on in the five meetings
of the group.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-29
INDUSTRIAL HOMEWORK
MUST GO

A court decision upholding New
York's Industrial Homework Law and
an order prohibiting homework in the
artificial flower and feather industry
is of interest to every state cursed
with the industrial homework evil.
Labor and most employers are in
agreement that the industrial home
work system, with its long and ir-
regular hours, night work, wretchedly
low pay and child labor, must be abol-
ished. AS long as it exists, it is a
threat to factory employment and fac
tory fair wage standards.
But industrial homework is not only
threat to the worker. 1t is threat
to every employer with decent wage
and labor standards. Since employers
who use the labor of home workers can
produce in direct competition with fac
tory employers who have higher
standards of hours, wages, and work
ing conditions, home work is an un-
fair practice, undermining such stand
ards. In the face of these facts, it is
strange active steps are not under way
in every state to end industrial home
work
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-29
SAFETY RULES FOR
KITE-FLYING

Robert H. Krone, safety director of
the Cincinnati Gas and Electric Com
pany, has issued several safety rules
for children who fly kites.
Among the precautions urged are:
ONE-Do not fly kite where the
string or kite can come in contact with
any kind of electric wire. Fly kites
in open places.
TWO-Wire, tinsel cord or even
wet kite-string are not safe to use
as kite-string.
THREE-Do not fly kites on trav-
eled streets or highways.
FOUR-A kite that becomes en-
tangled in a tree or electric wires is
lost. No effort should be made to
rescue it.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-03-29
May Limit Law Library

Butler County commissioners have
taken under advisement a proposal of
attorneys that only attorneys be per-
mitted access to the law library on the
third floor of the courthouse and that
the room not be used as a jury room
and for other purposes, G. E. Condo,
committee chairman, reported at a
meeting of attorneys in the Y M. c. A
Condo said commissioners favored
the proposal and that the board prob
ably would make an effort to provide
another room for jury quarters.