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Evening star., 1940-01-08
Kenneth Crawford,
Washington Writer,
Heads News Guild
Election as Successor
To Broun Assured
As Four Withdrew
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 8.-Kenneth
Crawford, Washington correspond
ent for the New York Post and The
Nation, emerged today as the only
nominee for the presidency of the
American Newspaper Guild-a post
left vacant by the death of Hey
wood Broun, columnist and founder
Of the guild.
His election, guild officials said. will
be brought about by the casting of
a single ballot by the national sec
retary-treasurer When this can be
done was not known as yet, but Mr..
Crawford will function as national
president Immediately.
His election became certain when
all other candidates withdrew after
a conference in Cleveland last week.
Nominated by d. C. Guild.
Mr.. Crawford's nomination by the
Washington Guild December 81 was
seconded last Friday by the New
York unit.
Mr.. Crawford has been Wash
ington correspondent for the New
York Post for the last seven years,
and for the last year also has rep
resented The Nation there He was
born in Sparta, Wis, in 1902. He
was graduated from Belo,. College
in 1924 and Immediately entered
newspaper work. He was manages
of United Press bureaus in Lansing,
Mich; Cleveland, st. Louis, Mil
waukee, indianapolis and St. Paul
and was reporter for the Buffalo
IN " Times. He married Betty
Bartholomew of Lansing. Mich, in
1928 and they have two children.
A member of the guild since its
organization, Mr.. Crawford now is
the first vice president of the Wash
ington unit. Recently he wrote
book on lobbying entitled THE
Pressure Boys
Four Others Withdrew.
Jonathan Eddy, former A. N. G..
executive vice president. and Max
Ways of the Philadelphia Record,
withdrew Yesterday. Several hours
Evening star., 1940-01-08
Robert 6. B|ocher;, 50,
Veterans Adjuster, Dies

Robert G.. Blocher, so, claim ad-
juster in the Veterans Bureau here
and an employe of the bureau for
more than 20 years, died early today
in his home, 67l2 Forty-fourth
street NV, Chevy Chase, Md, after
a brief illness.
Mr.. Blocher was taken i'll Satur-
day with a heart ailment. DR.. Karl
c. Corley issued a certificate OF
death from natural causes.
A native of Gettysburg, Pa, Mr..
Blocher was war veteran and had
lived here since 1919. He was active
in Columbia Commandry, Knights
Templar, and was an elder in the
Luther Place Memorial Church and
secretary of the church council.
DR.. Carl c. Rasmussen, pastor OF
the church. will officiate at services
in the Hines funeral home tomorrow
night, after which the body will be
taken to Gettysburg for burial. Mr..
Blocher is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Ruth Blocher; a daughter,
Phyllis Jane; sister, Mrs. Charles
Garland, Dayton. Ohio. and a
brother, DR.. John Blocher, Berea,
Ohio.
Evening star., 1940-01-08
Symposium Features
36th Convention
OF D. T.. Nurses
VenereuI Disease
Control Will Be Topic
For Discussion

The 36th annual meeting Of the
Graduate Nurses Association and
the League of Nursing Education OF
the District opened today at the
Willard Hotel, featuring a SYM
postum on the control of venereai
diseases.
Registration for the conference
and business session of the nurses
association was to be followed
shortly after noon by the opening
discussion of the meeting topic.
conducted by Miss Mary J. Dunn,
regional public health nursing con-
sultant of the United States Pub
lie Health Service.
The afternoon meeting was to be
taken over principally with an in
PRODUCTION of the subject by Miss
Dunn and discussion of the patho-
genesis of acquired syphilis and the
public health aspects of syphilis
control by DR.. George w. Creswell
of George Washington University,
DR.. Otis Anderson, medical con-
sultant on venereal disease control
of the Virginia State Department
of Health, and DR.. George M. Leiby,
director of the Bureau of Venereal
Disease Control of the District
Health Department.
A second symposium scheduled for
8 o'clock tonigh' will be led by Dr..
David Kushner and DR.. R. M. LIE
Comte, both of Georgetown Univer-
sity;; Ruth A. Heintzelman, regional
public health nursing consultant:
Edith Mccoy, medical social worker
of the District Health Department,
and Ray H. Everett, executive secre-
tary of the Social Hygiene Society
of the District.
The meeting will continue through
tomorrow with resumption Of the
symposium, business sessions of the
nurses association and the League
of Nursing Education and election
of officers
A Red Cross luncheon in connec-
ton with the meeting was sched-
uled at noon today, with other
luncheons and a banquet on the
program later in the two-day con-
ference.
Miss Annabelle Petersen is presi-
dent of the nurses association and
Miss Elizabeth c. Earle. head OF the
league.
Evening star., 1940-01-08
Labor Board
Continued From First Page.)

though I objected as point of law
and the irrelevancy Of it. 1t finally
came to the point that in order to
protect the board the objections
had to be withdrawn.
Il endeavored to telephone you
for your opinion. but you were
away: 1 then called for Bob Watts,
and he was away. I talked with Mr..
Madden and have carried out his
suggestion as to allowing such ex-
animation to go into the record, and
the atmosphere has cleared consid-
erably"
Thanked for Services.
Mr.. Toland offered letters in which
two officials of c. I. o. unions
thanked Mr.. Davis for his splendid
services to the board.
The committee counsel brought
out that an index of the N. L. r. B.
showed references to Jack Davis in
the files under these headings:
"Lauds C. I. o.
only C. I. o. union would get
back pay.
Tried to get men to say it was
lockout"
On September q, 1887, Robert B.
Watts, associate general counsel of
the Labor Board. wrote Mr.. Shaw:
1T has come to my attention that
in the course of trying the Ameri-
can Radiator case considerable tes-
timony was to be offered bearing
upon the activities of Jack Davis
while in your region. While 1 do
not wish to interfere with your time
during the trial of this case, I am
very anxious that when an oppor-
tunity presents itself you should give
me a fairly complete outline of just
what has happened in that par
/ ticular case.
II should also like to have your
report on any matters which have
come to your personal attention in
connection with Davis actions in
your region, which would assist us
in evaluating his usefulness to the
| board"
Miss Freezing. the first witness to-
day. in private life is Mrs. Julius
Schlezinger. She said her salary
was $1,000 and her husband, for
merly with the N l.. r. B., now is
an attorney with the wage-hour di-
vision of the Labor Department at
$4,000.
Mr.. Toland asked Miss Freezing
if since her admission to the Massa-
chusetts bar she had ever prac-
ticed law.
NO" she said. Il never have"
Have you ever appeared in a
court representing any clienr?'
Il have not, said the witness.
Sponsors of Wagner Act amend
ments expressed the hope today
that the current Investigations
| would generate sentiment in the
House Labor Committee for revising
the law.
| Leaders on both sides said that
recommendation of the special in
vestigating committee would get
nowhere unless the Labor Com
mittee approved amendments to the
law and asked the House to con-
slider them.
Evening star., 1940-01-08
Wage-hour Division
Staff Inadequate.
Congress Told
Complaints Pouring in
Far Beyond Aeency's
Ability to Investigate
BY the Associated Press.


Congress today was urged to en-
large the Wage-Hour Division OF
the Labor Department so that the
bureau can enforce the Fair Labor
Standards Act.
The division told Congress that
it was receiving complaints of
wage-hour law violations at the
rate of 1000 a week and that 1t
was confronted with a task "far
beyond" it's resources in trying to
investigate the 15,547 complaints
already received.
Summing up the enforcement
situation IN it's first annual report,
the agency said that 1874 per cent
of the valid complaints" had not
yet been taken up by field inspec-
tors.
'The necessarily cautious devel-
opment OF inspection technique and
policies" the report said. slowed
up inspection activity and made
some duplication of effort unavoid-
able"
The wage-hour agency is PLAN
ming to increase the number of field
inspectors from 290 to TOO by June
and indicated it. may institute a
policy of regular inspections of the
250,000 employing establishments
coming under the law.
One Inspection in Two Weeks.
AT present about 250,OOO estab-
lishments are subject to the pro-
visions of the act" the report said.
I'm order to be sure that all en-
ployeS are on a fair competitive
basis in respect to compliance, it is
desirable to carry out systematic
inspections in all these establish
mentS.''
The report indicated that in the
early stages Of administration in
1888, complaints arrived at the rate
of 500 a week while the average
inspector was able to complete only
about one inspection every two
weeks.
The desired goal" the report said,
is one inspection every four days
by each inspector.
The inspections and litigation al
ready undertaken were said, how
ever, to have produced agreements
for restitution of wages aggregating
more than 100000. The amount
already paid back, the agency said,
totals $250,0OO.
Evening star., 1940-01-08

later the withdrawal OF James p.
Kirby Of the Cleveland Press and
Harry Martin Of the Memphis Com
mercial Appeal was announced in
Cleveland. Nominations for the
presidency closed at midnight.
The Cleveland conference issued
the following statement, which it
said had been authorized by Mr..
Ways, Mr.. Martin and Mr.. Kirby:
THE New York locals support of
Kenneth Crawford of Washington
appears to end the danger that the
domination Of the AN. G. by the
faction now in control will be In.
creased. We are glad that the New
Evening star., 1940-01-08
Dewey PoIIbeorer
At Pierce Funeral
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PLATTSBURG, N. Y, Jan. g.
Funeral services for Wallace E.
Pierce. United States Representative
from the 3lst New York Congress
sional district, were held yesterday
An overflow crowd of 1000 persons,
including many nationally promi-
nent Republicans and leaders of the
party in New Yorks Legislature
heard the hour-long services con-
Quoted by the Rev Henry N. Hern-
don, pastor of Trinity Episcopal
Church.
Active pallbearers included Thomas
E. Dewey, Manhattan district attor-
ney.
Evening star., 1940-01-08
Civic Forum Speaker
Predicts Vote for D. 6.

A voting franchise for District
citizens in the near future" was
predicted yesterday by Woolsey W.
Hall at meeting of the Civic Ma
tional Forum in the Whitelaw Hotel
Thirteenth and T streets NV.
The speaker stressed the impor-
tance of capable. honest leadership
and active participation of all in.
dividuals in community welfare. The
group will meet again next Sunday
at 4 pm.
Evening star., 1940-01-08

tho local unit and supported by sew.
eral others, announced today he
would not seek tie post.
II elected, ne would nave presided
over the National Guild convention
he.e in June.
Evening star., 1940-01-08

York; leadership has finally been
brought to realize the desirability
of broadening OF control In the
American Newspaper Guild. We
join in support Of Crawford whose
candidacy originated In the opposi-
ton to that narrow domination. We
trust his election will bring balance
and harmony during the critical
period between now and the con-
ventiOn."
Evening star., 1940-01-08

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. @.-
Harry Martin, Memphis newspaper
man nominated for the presidency
Of the American Newspaper Guild by
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-12

of the Allies is to prevent the Ger
man thrust toward Liege from sepa-
rating Belgium and the Netherlands.
A gain Of significance to the Brit
ish was the announced recapture of
the airdrome at Rotterdam by the
Hollanders after British bombers
softened the resistance Of the Ger
mans who seized it yesterday. Had
the Germans been able to consoli-
date their gains, they would have
had a coastal base for assaults on
England over only 1875 miles of
water.
All Netherlands air bases, it was
said, now are in the hands of the
Hollanders or Allies. (Berlin au-
thorities disputed this claim, saying
their forces held all airports they
took Friday in the Netherlands and
Belgium).
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-12
.Learn-To-Swim Week
Opens At Y Monda,

The annual Y. M. C. A. Learn
To-Swim campaign will get under
way tomorrow afternoon, with eight
grammar schools in Wilmington
and suburbs participating. Regis
tration cards have been distributed
to the following schools and indi-
cations are that all will be well
represented when the first class
opens at 2:30 Monday afternoon.
The daily schedule Of classes for
tomorrow afternoon are as follows:
2:30 o'clock, Hemenway; 3:15, Tiles
ton; 4 o'clock, Isaac Bear and For
est Hills; 4:15, William Hooper,
Cornelius Harnett, Delgado and
Sunset Park.
All non-swimmers who have
reached the age Of ten years are
urged to come in for the swimming
instruction. The boys will be under
the expert instruction Of members
of the "Y'' staff and Of the New
Hanover High school swimming
team, several members of this
squad having pledged their sup
port. The water will be warm and
will be tested regularly by the
Health Department.
Learn-To-Swim week will be fol-
lowed by Splash" week, which be-
gins Monday, May 20 and will fol-
low the same daily schedule. In
each ease the h0VS are asked to
bring soap and towel.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-12

lister. thus freeing Churchill for the
big job of running the war.
Some criticism of this appoint
ment was heard in the lobby on the
ground that it gives the former
prime minister too much authority
In the government.
Four Left Out
Reconstruction of the war cabinet
leaves out the chancellor of the ex.
chequer and the three service minis
tiers. One of the riticisms of Cham
berlain's war cabinet was that it in
cluded service ministers.
The war ministry kept silent on
the disposition of British French
forces in the low countries, but the
air ministry let it be known that it's
arm of the service had attacked
German concentrations between the
Rhine and the Meuse and that hits
were obtained on a bride over the
Rhine near Wesel and one line of
traffic at its approaches"
Also, at least SO German planes
were reported destroyed and many
others put out of action in the first
days raids in the lowlanus.
"Tfe enemy's advance was further
hampered by a series of operations
in which bombs were seen to hit i'm.
portan railways and road functions
and bridges at Alderkerke, Geldern,
Rees and Goch," the ministry's COM
munique said.
Another admiralty announcement
said British naval planes made two
forays against Bergen, scoring three
hits on a German ship believed to be
the 14,600-ton training vessel Bremse.
The second raid, achieved with
complete SURPRISE" was reported to
have fired and heavily damaged Ger
man fuel tanks.
Since April 8, the air ministry
said, 20 Nazi aircraft had been shot
down off Norway by the fleet air
arm, which is separate from the
Royal Air Force, and that many
others had been destroyed or the
ground. The fleets anti-aircraft guns
were credited with bagging an add
tional 81 enemy aircraft.
Norway Lessons
Fresh from the lesson of Norway,
where lack of air support cost the
Allies the rich south and center re-
gions, the Royal Air Force led the
campaign to hold lowland flying
bases at all costs and delay Ger
many's land power until Allied
troops can take up positions aong
side the Dutch and Belgians.
Disposition of the British French
forces vas kept secret, but it was
no secret that one of the big Jobs
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-12
GIVEN WAR
MINISTRY POST
Continued from Page One)

den stabs against German-occupied
Bergen, on Norway's west coast.
In addition to the premiership,
Churchill retained the portfolio OF
defense minister and designated
Chamberlain lord president of the
council; Attlee, lord privy seal;
Greenwood, minister without port
folio; and kept Lord Halifax in his
old foreign post.
In appointments outside the wal
cabinet, he handed over his former
job of first lord of the admiralty to
A. V. Alexander, laborite who held
the post in Ramsay MacDonald's
government in 1929-31; and appoint.
ed Anthony Eden, conservative, min
lister of war, and Sir Archibald Sin.
clair, liberal leader, air minister.
Churchill expects to announce 9TH
er cabinet appointments Monday or
Tuesday.
There were no immediate indica.
lions who will be chancellor of the
exchequer or whether Sir John 81.
mon is being replaced in this post.
1t is regarded now as unlikely that
David Lloyd George, World war pre-
mier and chief critic of Chamber
lain, will be included in the Church.
i'll cabinet.
Eden For Stanley
Handsome, assertive A t h o n y
Eden, former foreign secretary I'M
der Chamberlain and later dominions
secretary. supplants Oliver Stanley
whose replacement of popular Leslie
Hore-Belisha in the war ministry
last January caused sharp criticism
Attlee, chief of the labor opposi
ton who helped bring Chamberlain's
downfall, replaces Sir Kingsle y
Wood.
Sir Samuel Hoare is supplanted by
Sir Archibald Sinclair, the liberal OPP
position spokesman, and Greenwood
deputy labor leader, takes over the
post formerly held by Lord Hankey
AS lord president of the council
Chamberlain is presiding member o:
the privy council, a position not for
merly included in the war cabine
but listed in tonight's announcement
as second only to C%hurchill's post.
The smaller war cabinet meets thu
demands of numerous members o
parliament for a less unwieldy bod.
to facilitate quick decisions. It
duty is to step up the British wa
effort unhampered by departmental
red tape.
Chamberlain in his new post is ex
pected to be able to take over a grea
deal of the house of commons worl
formerly falling on the prime min
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-12
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class; Adoramus TIE, Palestrina,
high school glee club; scripture
reading, the Rev. Sankey L e e
Blanton, pastor of the First Bap-
fist church; the Lost Chord, by
Sullivan, band, trumphet, solo,
Dennard McCool; prayer and re-
Spouse.
Then Round About the Starry
Throne" by Handel, glee club;
sermon, the Rev. Mr.. Blanton;
DAY Is Dying in the West" by
SherWin, glee club; benediction
and response; class occasional,
Relig.oso March, by Chambers,
high school band.
Program leaders will include:
Albert Brown, director of glee
club; Lieutenant E. j. Lacock, di-
rector of band; staging by the vo-
cational woodwork department;
program committee, students, Peg
gy Wilson, Kathleen Skipper, Alan
Strange, and William Craig; and
faculty, E. P. Brock and Mrs. c..
B. Newcomb.
Sacred Concert
The sacred concert to be pre-
sented by the high school glee club
and band at 3 o'clock Sunday af-
ternoon, May 10, in front of the
high school building is as follows:
Part One, glee club program:
"Rejoice and Sing" Bach; ADO
ramus Te," Palestrina; Gloria
Patri," P%alestrina; BE Still My
Soul" by glee club quartet com.
posed of ortense Brown, Jack
Ca-ady, Carolyn Tusch, and Owen
Jones.
Carol of the Bells" Leonto-
vich; -Four Leaf Clover" Brown
lea; John o. john" Arr Cain:
MY Soul, There Is a Country"
Warrell, girls glee club; Then
Round About the Starry Throne"
Hansel; and THE Lord Bless
Y y"
Part two, band concert pro.
gram: march, Faithful a n d
True, Lacock overture, "Stra-
della, Won. Flotow; cornet solo,
1.-THE Lost Chord" Sullivan, Den
nard McCool, soloist; song, when
The Sun Goes Down." Bloom.
Two religious numbers, A.
Creation Hymn" Beethoven, and
B., 1.-THE Old Church Organ"
Chambers; three selected mum.
bers, A., March of the Trump
hets," B., March from Aida"
and c., "Schubert's Serenade"; ar
rangements by Tobani; march,
"Religioso," chambers; and "The
Star Spangled Banner"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-12
N. E. DEMOCRATS
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tive were named in all these coun-
ties except Beaufort, about which
they said they had no report other
than that the resolution failed.
The resolution was not introduced
in Carteret, Cleveland, Franklin,
Henderson, Hoke and Rutherford
counties, and it was said Roosevelt
delegations" were named in all but
Hoke, from which headquarters here
had no report.
Cleveland is the home county of
Governor Hoey, with whom the
North Carolina for Roosevelt"
forces effected a compromise after
he had issued a statement support
ing Secretary of State Cordell Hull
for the presidential nomination.
It was said here that the decision
whether to introduce the third tedm
resolution in Cleveland was left with
political leaders there and they de-
cided not to present it.
Under the terms of the compro-
mise. Roosevelt leaders agreed not
TO campaign for a draft Roosevelt"
movement and the resolutions were
introduced today.
DR.. Ralph Mcdonald, a candidate
for the democratic gubernatorial
nomination in 1886 and now asso-
ciate director of the University of
North Carolina Extension division,
said "at least" SO per cent of the
county conventions passed the third
term resolutions unanimously.
"some even added" he said, that
If Roosevelt declined the nomination,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-12
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