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Evening star., 1940-11-09

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Nov. 9-Reports were
current here today that former
Foreign Minister Kichisaburo No
mura had been chosen to succeed
Kensuke Horinouchi as Ambassa-
dor to the United States.
officials declined to comment on
the rumors, but Foreign Minister
Yosuke Matsuoka was known TO. be
en- route to the palace and it was
believed by some observers that his
visit was for the purpose Of re-
porting on the selection of Horinou-
chi'S successor.
Horinouchi was recalled from
Washington in September in a
shakeup of the Japanese diplo-
matte service.
Evening star., 1940-11-09
New York State clio.
Demands Lewis
Keep Promise
City Council Chief Hits
Action, Calls Board
'Disruptive Clique

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 9-The Execu-
tive Board of the New York State
C. I. o. Council wants John L. Lewis
to resign his c. I. o. leadership, as
he said he would do if President
Roosevelt won reelection.
A statement issued for the coun-
ellis Executive Board by Gustave A.
Strebel, president, after meeting
yesterday, said election results con-
stituted a complete reputation" of
Lewis, and demanded that he make
good his promise to step down as
C. /. o. president at the national
convention in Atlantic City No.
vember 18.
Joseph Curran. president of the
Greater New York Industrial Union
Council &C. I. o.. which has started
a movement to call on Mr.. Lewis for
another term, charged that the
State board had no authority to
speak for C. I. o. unions in the
State.
He asserted that the board had
been elected illegally at the State
convention six weeks ago in Roch-
ester-a convention which Mr..
Lewis, himself, declared illegal after
left wing delegates walked out in
protest against resolution indors-
ing third term for President
Roosevelt.
Mr.. Curran described the State
board as "disruptive clique" and
"phoney subdivision clique" and
gamated Clothing Workers Of
America, the union headed by Sid
ney Hillman. Mr.. Hillman is la
Dor member of President Roosevelts
National Defense Advisory Commits
sion.
Evening star., 1940-11-09
British Abandon Liukunq
For Duration of War

SHANGHAI, Nov. 9 (P.-The
British Navy was officially reported
today to have abandoned Liukung
Island off Shantung Peninsula,
which it used as a base for summer
maneuvers, for the duration of the
European war"
japanese marines landed on the
island several weeks ago after the
Japanese-sponsored Chinese regime
at Marking had declined to recog-
nize renewal of a 10-year lease
granted the British by General
isSimo Chang Kai-shek.
The British Consul at Weihaiwei
reported that naval stores on the
island had been shipped to Hong
Kong and that maintenance party
stationed there had departed.
A Chinese was killed today when
a police reserve squad conducting
a routine search of automobiles in
the International Settlement fired
on a car which they said refused to
halt.
The other occupants of the car,
described as four japanese subjects
and Chinese, were arrested.
Meanwhile, Japanese lieutenant
and a gendarme were reported to
have died as a result of wounds
suffered in outbreaks of violence
outside the International Settle
ment.
The lieutenant was wounded by
unidentified gunner Tuesday and
the gendarme was wounded last
night in a gun battle with a Chi
nese. The Chinese was killed.
NEW YORK, Nov. 9 (P.-The
japanese wireless reported last
night that Japanese air squadrons
had bombed the Hong Kong road"
Thursday from Chungking to the
coast, destroying several bridges
and attacking several Chinese junks
carrying war materials. -.
Japanese newspapers were quoted
as saying that this was in answer
to the hostile attitude of the Brit
ish - who have practically re-
opened the Hong Kong road for
Shipping war materials" to China.
Evening star., 1940-11-09
R. A. +. Reports Fierce
New Raids on XuIonu

CAIRO, Egypt, Nov. 9 P.-The
r. A. F reported yesterday it had
carried out a 5-ton bomb assault on
Valona, Albanian port opposite the
heel" of the Italian boot, in the
second heavy raid there in as many
days.
Twice yesterday British planes
swept over Valona and spread havoc
among Italian planes on the ground
at its airfield, a communique said,
in follow-up to a similar attack
Wednesday.
italian planes rose to meet the
attack and killed the gunner of one
British plane. Two British planes
failed to return from other opera
tions over Albania.
Evening star., 1940-11-09

ter Winston Churchill had no idea
of how they were being increased
in number.
He also ridiculed Mr.. Churchill
"for beginning an air war with
exactly the weapons in which, COM
pared with us, England is the weak
est"
Sarcastically he called Mr..
Churchill a "strategist of the great
est genius yet born"
They wanted to destroy Ger
many with an air war" he said. Il
will now show them who will be
destroyed"
Evening star., 1940-11-09
Non -Portison League Unit
Urqes Lewis to Remain

CANTON, Ohio, Nov. 9 (Pl.-Ex-
ecutive Board members of Labor's
Non-Partisan League in Stark
County want John L. Lewis to re-
tain the chairmanShip of the c. I.
o. which, Mr.. Lewis announced. he
intended to resign in event of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's reelection
In a resolution adopted last night
and forwarded to Mr.. Lewis ths
board said:
While we do not agree with your
presidential Endorsement, we are
unanimous in the belief that labor
would be best served by your re-
manning as chairman of the Con-
gress of Industrial Organizations"
Evening star., 1940-11-09
Work Of Salvage
Al Narrows Bridge
Speeded by Crew
Engineers Rush to Tocomu
To Prepare PIons for
Rebuilding Spon
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TACOMA, Wash, Nov. 9.-Engi-
neers planning reconstruction of the
Narrows Bridge converged on Ia
coma today while workr1en hacked
at what remained of the concrete
roadway with jack-hammers.
The workmen were attempting to
remove the sagging concrete and
steel work in order to reduce the
strain on cables and towers,
warped by the shift of weight when
the main part of the roadway
plunged into Puget Sound Thursday.
Clearing of debris yesterday per-
mitted resumption of railroad serv-
ice on tracks under the eastern ap-
proach of the collapsed span.
Associate of Designer.
The engineers, including Frederick
Lienhard of New York, associate of
the bridges designer, Leon S. Mois-
self, represented nearly every
agency involved in the construc-
tion job-the State of Washington's
Toll Bridge Authority, assisting
Oregon observers and Federal rep
resentatives.
Mr.. Lienhard, arriving in Seattle
last night, answered mot true" when
told of an assertion by Clark H FL
bridge, chief engineer of the bridge,
that Federal lending agencies had
insisted on use of Eastern designs in
the bridge.
Mr.. Eldridge, earlier in the day,
had declared that State engineers
protested the design but added that
the State had been told it could not
have Federal grants-S2,8 100000 by
the p w. A and an R. F. C. loan of
$500 ,000-unless Eastern designs
were used.
Wind Resisting Girders.
The part of the design protested,
Mr.. Eldridge indicated, was the solid
undressing plate girders, now
blamed by some engineers for caus-
ing the extreme sway which wrecked
the structure.
Mr.. Eldridge said plans for re-
building depended on the success of
present salvage opera tions. These
include cutting away of the approach
roadways, the weight Of which has
DETECTED each of the two 425-foot
towers some II feet sh)reward; re-
moval of dangling steelwork and
suspender cables, and examination
OF the main cables for fraying.
Whether cables or towers may be
used in rebuilding the bridge, he
said, depends on what is discovered
when complete inspection is made.
Evening star., 1940-11-09
Neutrality
Continued From First Page)

erIlment as a result of the sinking
of the City of Rayv.lle. They pointed
out it still was uncertain whether
mine was responsible for the
sinking. If 1T should be determined
that the ship struck mine it would
be extremely difficult to determine
what nation had laid the mine.
The City of Rayville was the first
American ship to be lost under such
circumstances during the present
war, in contrast to the large number
of vessels which were sunk by mines
and submarines in European waters
during the 1914-18 World War.
Mines were blamed for the loss
OF five American ships between
January and October of 1915, but
no precedent developed then for
any action by this Government to
hold either of the belligerents re-
sponsible for the damages.
Representations Made.
The State Department made rep
resentations to the German gov
ernment about the sinking of the
Evelyn and Carib in the North Sea
during February, 1915, but the Ger
man government blamed the sink
ings then on failure of the vessels
to secure the services of a German
pilot through the mine fields
Provisions of Hague convention
against indiScriminate mine laying,
adopted in 1907, were generally dis
regarded during the last war. Under
the convention, it is forbidden ito
lay unanchored automatic contact
mines except when they are so con-
structed as to become harmless one
hour at most after the person who
laid them ceases to control them.
II also is forbidden under the con-
vention "to lay anchored automatic
contact mines which do not become
harmless as soon as they have
broken loose from their mornings
Signatories to the convention
agreed to take every precaution to
prevent danger to neutral shipping
from anchored mines, notifying ship
owners where the danger existed.
Soon after hostihties began, in
August, 1914, William Jennings
Bryan, then Secretary of State, took
cognizance of the British charges
that Germany was laying mines in
discriminatory in the North Sea and
Great Britain's contention that this
action left her free to adopt similar
measures in self-defense. In notes
TO the belligerents Mr.. Bryan called
their attention to the illegality OF
such action under the Hague Con-
vention. Germany contended at
that time that the Hague Conven-
ton was not binding, since it had
not been ratified by Russia.
Mr.. Bryan then suggested, in
identical notes to Britain and Ger
many on February 20, 1915, that they
agree not to sow any floating mines
at all and to restrict the use of an
chored mines to within cannon range
Of their harbors for defensive pur-
poses only. The agreement he sug-
gested also included provision that
all mines would carry an identifica-
ton mark and would be constructed
so that they would be harmless if
they should break away from their
moorings. This suggestion was not
carried out, however.
Evening star., 1940-11-09
Mail Is Something
SeIectee NeverG Got

MADISONVILLE, Tex. (P).-The
selective service registration clerk
was asking a man about his address.
81 amt got none" was the response.
where do you get your mail?"
Il amt never got no mail"
well, where does your father get
his mail?"
HE amt never got no mail
neither" 4
Evening star., 1940-11-09
Boby Show Health Tests

Two hundred children under the
age of were given health exam
nations yesterday at Moose Hall,
1414 I street NV, preparatory to
the baby show which will be held
there Wednesday. The coronation
pageant for the winners will be held
November 10 at the Washington Ho-
tel.
Evening star., 1940-11-09
Munich
Continued From First Page.)


sion is given him to tread the
sacred soil of democracy, although
scarcely 10 persons to the square
kilometer live there.
"As far as American production
goes" he said with sarcasm, ''one
cannot even represent it with as
Economical figures.
But I can assure you that Ger
man production capacity is the
highest in the world for
we are today in a position to mo-
bilize the powers of almost all Eu-
rope Our reserves are so
great that I must stop production
in many fields because there is no
possibility of storing these masses
noW."
Production Facilities Switched.
He indicated that the Reich, as a
result of this stop order, had freed
additional industrial facilities for
airplane production. He said he
had switched production facilities to
the improvement of the things
which Il believe must be especially
strong"
The Fuehrer rejected all thought
of compromise in the war and de-
clared
Il imagine that I am not only
the hardest man which the German
nation has had for decades. per-
hapS centuries, but in addition !
possess the greatest authority.
Il have no munitions shares in
my possession, earn nothing from
this war. These international
criminals are at the same time the
greatest munitions profteers there
are. The factories belong to them.
They make the business. They are
the same people we had earlier in
Germany"
Reviews War to Date.
He dangled the threat of intensi-
fled air and submarine warfare be-
fore the British, and declared I'VE
will see who is blockaded in a few
months: We or the others"
Reviewing the war to date, the
Fuehrer said munitions expended
by Germany thus far amounted to
"only one part of one months pro-
duction," and listed German cas-
ualties sat little more than half
of those in the Franco-Prussian War
of 1901. German losses on this
basis would total slightly more than
10000.
The anniversary today has been
designated as work day" and GER
emony was dispensed with so that
Germans may concentrate on the
effort to defeat Britain.
"One of us must break and that
will not be Germany" Hitler said
of the war and Germany's enemies.
THE moment will come when the
gentlemen who now conquer the
entire world with their mouths will
have to stand up with their
weapons. Then we will see who has
employed the months better: We or
the others"
nc Sdlu IIldG WllCh lllC llOuI 1O1
the decisive attack comes, II hope to
reach again the same results which
we have behind us. We have pre-
pared everything most funda-
mentally to act quickly and dar-
ingly then"
He said that when he became
aware that the British were de
termined under any conditions to
go to war" he had "only a single
wish: If they are already deter
mined to war on us that they do it
while I still lived. For I know that
would have to be the hardest strug-
gle ever set before the German
people"
Ridiculing British estimates of the
number of German submarines
sunk, he said British Prime Minis
Evening star., 1940-11-09

The Canadian Pacific liner, one
of the worlds most beautiful pas
senger ships, traded between Van
couver and the Far East before the
war. She was converted into a
troopship at Hong Kong last April.
In July she arrived at Manila
with 1,640 British women and chill
dren who fled Hong Kong when the
Far Eastern problem became serious.
Last June she was seen at Free
town. Africa, ferrying Australian
troops.
Built in 1890 at Glasgow, she was
ga feet long.
In 1880 the Empress of Japan set
a trans-Pacific speed record of
8 days, 6 hours and d minutes and
a month later broke the Honolulu
Yokohama record. She set new rec
ords few years later.
Evening star., 1940-11-09
Rome
Continued From First Page }

Galeazzo Ciano at the Soviet En-
bassy's celebration on the anniver-
sary of the Bolshevik revolution.
The Fascist press published a
statement attributed to Soviet Am
bassador Gorelkin by a Bulgarian
correspondent that relations between
Germany and Russia were develop
ing happily from the economic and
political point of view while those
between Russia and Italy has 'en-
tered into a new phase of economic
and political rapprochement.
Evening star., 1940-11-09

The Italian colony of Libya has
population of $4,000, of which
about seven-eighths is native.
Evening star., 1940-11-09
Empress
Continued From First Page

later sank the submarine that got
the Empress Of Britain.
The Fushimi Maru, carrying sew
eral hundred japanese withdrawn
from Britain and homeward bound,
left Galway, Ireland. November 7
for Bermuda, the Panama Canal
and Japan.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-07
Three Persons
Hurt by Autos

A pedestrian was struck down
and injured by an automobile IN
an early morning Tacoma accident
Sunday. and two men suffered in
juries in a collision of cars on the
Pacific highway Saturday night.
f. C. Bouchey. II, resident of
the Rhodes apartments, sustained
painful scalp decorations when he
was knocked down at 9th and
Broadway. Clifford Peterson, Rt.
5. box 252. driver of the car that
struck him, toook Bouchey to the
Bridge hospital and reported the
accident to police. The elderly
mans condition was not serious.
Ervins Koehn, a sailor, drove a
car that struck another driven by
Stanley Demars, a soldier from
Fort Worden, south of the city
late Saturday. Koehn, attached to
the U. S. S. Enterprise at Bremen
ton, was lodged in the county Jail
on reckless driving charge.
Frank Bagwell. riding with Koehn,
was unhurt. but Koehn suffered
cuts and bruises. Demars was
taken to the Fort Lewis hospital
with undetermined injuries.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-07
Dinner Sponsors
In Tacoma Named

Names of the sponsoring COM
mittee for the Tacoma industrial
leadership dinner were announced
Monday b. Corydon Wagner, vice
president. st. Paul and Tacoma
Lumber Co, who is chairman of
the Tacoma National Association
of Manufacturers advisory COM
mittee.
The conference dinner will be
held on Thursday, May %. at Hotel
Winthrop by the Industrial Confer
ence board of Tacoma and the
N. A. NJ.
Local business associations CO.
operating in organizing the lead
ership dinner are represented on
the sponsoring committee by ]. ].
Carman, president Carman Manu-
featuring Co.; Allan T. Crutcher,
president F. S. Harmon Co, and
J. P. Weyerhaeuser, vice president
Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-07
Razor Attack
Is Reported

A woman proficient with razors
was at liberty under $1,000 bail
Monday. charged with slashing her
husband in domestic argument
Saturday night.
The husband, Ray Buck Nc
Connell, A, remained In the city
Jail for investigation. His wife,
Ethel Mcconnell, 43, barber.
1716 Fawcett ave. was charged
with second-degree assault and &C
cused of slashing him with a razor
from his right eye to the back of
his neck Police intimated domes-
tic jealousy was the cause.
Police were summoned to the
Bridge clinic Saturday evening
when Mcconnell appeared there for
treatment. He said stranger had
accosted him in a downtown cafe
and cut him, but later while en-
route to the county hospital NAM
ed his wife as the assailant. De-
tectives arrested the woman, who
promptly furnished bail for re-
lease.
Mcconnell, twice convicted on
charges involving narcotics. re-
Gently was released from the feder-
al prison at Leavenworth, Kansas.
He was removed from the hospital
back to a Jail cell Sunday, where
he was recovering from effects of
the seven-inch cut.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-07
Broadway Paving
Plans Submitted

Specifications for repaving of
Broadway and st. Helens ave. are
now in the hands OF the state
highway department engineers for
checking, Works Commissioner
Bergersen reported Monday.
He said II is not certain yet
how soon bids can be called.
Meanwhile the council received
two ordinances and a resolution
bearing on the project. One
ordinance repeats the original
ordinance which was hastily
drawn some three months ago to
provide for inclusion of upper st.
Helens ave. in the local improve
ment district If satisfactory
petition should be received.
The extended district failed,
however. through opposition OF
property owners. A new ordin-
ance accordingly was prepared on
the basis of the original district
bounded on the north by It'll St,
and on the south by jefferson ave
The resolution designated the
paving rs city street project to
qualify for not to exceed $30.00O
Of state gas tax funds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-07

Movement of ore, pulp and lum-
Der accounted for the bulk of ac-
tivity on the waterfront Monday.
Five vessels remained in port, and
five others departed during the
weekend.
Two of the ships were at the
smelter. The Sutherland. inbound
from South America. was occupied
with the discharge of about 1900
tons of ore. and was slated to re-
main until Thursday night The
Norco discharged British Columbia
ore. Both were weekend arrivals.
The Parrakoola berthed at st.
Regis dock. 10 load about $50 skids
of pulp for Australia. She arrived
Sunday.
Slowing heavy load Of pulp at
the Milwaukee No. 2 dock. the HE
Maru was scheduled to sail in the
afternoon.
At Defiance mill, the Whitney
Olson was taking on a load of
lumber estimated at 100000 feet,
and was expected to leave Tuesday
noon. The Charcas remained in
port at the Northwestern dock.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-07
Blind Association
Hears Census Head

fra. Kathryn =. Malstrom, head
Of the local census bureau. Sunday
urged cooperation OF Tacoma citi-
xens In boosting the 1910 enumera-
ton over the 100000 mark. She
spoke to the Pierce County Associ-
alton Of the Blind. which met In
Emerson hall. 110ph Broadway.
She went on to explain the Job
5e~tionshle. questions asked by the
census takers did not originate In
the census office at Washington.
D. c.. but were requested by busi-
ness organizations Of the United
States.
Offers appearing on the program
included Jay Ball. xylophone solo
lat. accompanied at the piano by
his sister. Doris May Ball. and q
girls trio. consisting Of Doris May
Ball Louise Denton and Betty
Beasley. Lincoln high school stu
dents.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-07
Indoor Picnic
AT Lakewood
Community PurtY
Monday Evening

Lakewood Community clubs
annual indoor picnic and COM
munity party Is set for Monday
evening when papas, mamas and
children of the whole district
commander the entire facilities
of Lakewood center - recreation
room, dining terrace and theater.
President Henry A. Hoskins
said the affair is sell-out. tickets
having been purchased for prac-
ticaily the limit of the center's
capacity. about 400. Many not
attending the dinner at s o'clock
will come at S for the special
entertainment program in the
theater where Harry p. Cain will
function as master OF ceremonies.
Fred NJ. Holt will perform at the
organ.
Lakewood families are to pro-
vide their own picnic dinners,
dishes and silverware; the club
supplies coffee, cream, sugar, ice
cream and cookies.
In past years the recreation
room has provided the setting for
the family dinner event, but the
overflow last year and advance
ticket sale this year made it nee
essary to take over the terrace
dining room as well. Hoskins
said.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-05-07
c. E. Meetings
To Be Tuesday
To prepure for
Golden Jubilee

IN preparation for their Golden
Jubilee celebration TO be held in
Tacoma from June ~ TO July /.
Christian Endeavor societies of
Tacoma and district win meet
Tuesday evening In q four-group
rally.
The Rev. J. Renwick Mccul-
lough. pastor Of First Presbyterian
church, designated as m Getting
place for the convention, has been
named chairman Of the event. with
Dick Ross and Paul Benton assist
ing. Other officers include Jean
Shining. registrar; Eunice West
gate, convention treasurer; Mary
Eta Doubleday. convention secre-
tary. and Louise Miner. publicity
director.
Societies win meet Tuesday as
1ollows:
Sumner Christian church a. host
70 Summer Presbyterian. Puyallup
Presbyterian and Jovita churches.
with Paul B enton and Gladys
Ryan directing: sprague Memorial
church ~ host to Manitou. Oak
land and Pine Street Christian
churches. with Mary Eta Double
day and Eunice westgate direct
ing: First Presbyterian church a.
host TO wsyside chapel. Bethany.
Calvary. Hope chapel. Roosevelt
Heights, Mckinley Park and
Friends churches. with Leo Fors-
berg and Lorraine Thoren direct
ing, and Gray church. North
American lake, ~ host to Dupont,
oberiin tstsilacoom), Alder. Min
eral and Little Brown churches.
with Jean Shining and Louise Miner
directing.