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Evening star., 1940-03-24

Another function of the Council
from time to time Is to attend hear
ings at the Capitol to explain and
further certain needed legislation
for the city. Sometimes the mem
bers may 60 for the purpose of Sc
curing needed appropriations, but
generally it is for legislative reasons.
The educational work of the Coun-
Gil is wide. Through the schools,
the churches, the. press and many
organizations, safety work is carried
on. Radio programs in the interest
OF safety also are devised, and like
wire shorts" for the motion thea
ters. Members of the Council, be-
sides heads Of various business
houses, include Board of Trade men,
the Capital Transit Co., taxicab
companies, theater, radio and news
paper men.
Some Of the subjects that the
Council considers is all phases OF
parking, trafic signals, one-way
streets, uniformity of Police Court
penalties, new highway improve
ments, additional policemen, pedes-
trian protection plans, signs, limi-
tation of taxicabs, proper placement
OF loading platforms, police instruc-
ton, child safety and adult safety,
opposition to ticket fixing, weaving
in street lanes, failure to give pc
destrians the right of way
and numerous other matters that
continually are being brought up.
+. The Council works hard. It may
make mistakes, but they are of the
mind rather than of the heart. Its
mistakes can and are rectifed. II
is public servant. 1t desires criti-
cism If of constructive nature.
1t should be supported by all resi-
dents of Washington.
Well, SO much for local news. The
industry throughout the Nation is
considering subject of great i'm
portance to participants in the au-
tomotive field concerning business
practices. The matter had its real
attention first centered at a con-
vention Of Nationwide dealers early
this year in this city. From then
on interest has increased.
Now the motor spotlight is turned
once more on the question of inter-
relations within the industry as the
National Automobile Dealers Asso-
cations referendum on the Patman
bill moves toward a climax, accord
ing to Consolidated News features
On the final result of the poll
will depend the attitude of the
N. A. D. A. toward the bill or any
similar measure to regulate factory.
dealer relations. Balloting by the
dealers will close March 30.
The ballot sent out by N. A. D. A
headquarters here has been simpli-
ned to a mere yes-or-no vote on
two questions: do you approve this
proposed bill?" and 'if not, do YOU
approve any other type of Fedora!
legislation regarding the automobile
industry?"
Briefs for and against the bill
have been inclosed with the ballot
along with a copy of the Patman
bill.
Chief of the arguments cited in
favor OF the legislation are these:
Manufacturers must be forced to
recognize the dealers interest. The
Federal Government is the only
agency strong enough and the Fed
Evening star., 1940-03-24
P.-T. A.
Continued From Page C-6)

Mrs. Jones will discuss "sex in
Childhood"
Anacostia Junior Senior High.
The association will hold a card
party on April at pm.
The Executive Committee will
meet on April 3 at 8 pm. at the
home of Mrs. Lloyd Wineland, 519
Prenton street Sc. Mrs. Ira Ma
rine and Mrs. ]. c. Hamilton will
assist the hostess.
Bancroft. .-
Miss Esther Dudley of the Child
Guidance Clinic will lead the meet
ings Of the study group which will
be held as follows: April and April
9 at 1:30 pm, April Is at pm.
This will be the final night meeting
for the year and fathers will be
special guests.
Burroughs.
Miss Lii Peller discussed Mental
Hygiene for Child and Parent" at
the study group meeting on March
u. The final meeting of this group
will be held at the Abbot Vocational
School the week of April II.
At the March meeting of the as
sociation, Mrs. Walter Valentine re-
ported that the total membership
in the association is $40, of which
number 1877 are fathers.
On April 4 at $3.50 pm. and on
April 5 at $3.50 and, pm. circus
will be presented by pupils of the
Brookland. Noyes and Bunker Hill
Schools. Scenery, posters and pro-
grams will be made by pupils of
Burroughs and the John Burroughs
PIT. A. Will share Ia the proceeds.
Evening star., 1940-03-24
BY JESSIE FAINT EVANS.

That "age cannot wither. MOI
custom stale her infinite variety,
is the unanimous impression a group
of Washington enthusiasts is carry.
ing away from the lenten visit ol
Miss Rose Macdonald, Clarke Coun-
ty. Virginia's leading feminine citi-
zen, to Mrs William Chaplin Hunt
ington here.
This resident of Berryville
has Just finished the only biography
of the life of Mrs. Robert E. Lee
In addition she is the author of q
series of juvenile historical best sell
ers and has number of careerine
"flrsts" to her credit.
She is as modern as tomorrow ir
her outlook on rural education ano
its relation to Americas progress.
Not only was she Virginias first
judge of a juvenile court, which
she moved from one rural school,
house to another, but she was the
first woman in Virginia to be ap.
pointed supervisor of its rura.
schools,
Today after 10 years of outstand-
ing service on the Virginia State
Board of Education, she has just
been reappointed for another four
year term by Gov. Price.
Helped Compile Curriculum.
A member of the Textbook Com
mittee for Virginia and of the first
group to decide on list of books
for the school libraries of Virginia
she is also one of the compilers OF
Virginia's new educational curricu-
lum, which she tells you "is looked
upon as being progressive in educa-
tional circles
If have one educational fetish
above all others in regard to our
school children" she emphasized
whether they live in the country OF
IN our cities, it is that our tendency
Is to do so much for them that we
unconsciously deprive them of the
great opportunities for service OF
which they themselves are so mag
nifcently capable"
THE greatest feat of school SUPER
vlsion," she added, "is to gain the
cooperation of school children with
the educational ideals of school
systems through having an actual
part in community activities
OF the tireless expenditure of her
time and energy in her Common
wealth's educational behalf, it is
said of her. Rose Macdonald gives
herself with the loving kindness OF
wayside well, that knows neither
sect, nor creed, nor social barrier.
Has Many Activities.
With all of her good works for the
State, Miss Rose" as she is fondly
known to all Berryville, manages tc
be its good neighbor as we'll as out.
standing woman citizen. When
queried as to how she managed tc
find time for her writing together
with such activities as being presi.
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Judge Clark 10 Talk
Al Symposium on
Constitutional Law
Professor Powell Of
Harvard and Ex-SoIicitor
General Also to Speak

Judge Charles e. Clark Of the
second United States Circuit Court
of Appeals, Prof. Thomas Reed
Powell Of Harvard University and
william L. Frierson Of Chattanooga,
Tenn, former Solicitor General, are
among the distinguished speakers
who will address the symposium on
constitutional law to be held Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday under
the auspices Of the George WASH
ington University law school and
the Federal Bar Association.
The conference will meet each
night on the days named and on
Saturday afternoon. ALI sessions
will be held In the United States
Chamber of Commerce auditori-
UNI. Two principal addresses are
scheduled at each session on the
subject, "The New Nationalisn and
the New Independence Of the
States"
Judge Clark will speak at the
Saturday night meeting on the
"Procedural Aspects of the New
State Independence" Mr.. Frier-
sons subject is "A Revolutionary
Decision-Erie Railroad VS.. Tomp-
kins," and it Is to be delivered
on Saturday night also.
Prof. Powell will speak on IN
tergovernmental Tax Immunities"
on Saturday afternoon, and Warner
Gardner, special assistant to the
Attorney General, has selected the
subject, Can States Tax Income
from Federal Bonds and Notes"
for his address at the same meet.
ing.
The aim of this series of confer.
ences is to present discussions Of
important recent developments in
the constitutional system of gov
ernment. The content Of the law
rather than the procedural or ad-
ministrative side of recent devel-
opments will be emphasized.
The symposium is under the di-
rection of joint committee con-
sisting of Dean William c. Van
Week, Prof. Charles S. Collier and
Prot. Forester Dawson of the law
school faculty. representing the uni
versity, and President William N,
Morell, DR.. Emery J. Woodall and
Wilbur N. Baughman. represent
ing the Federal Bar Association.
Advance ticket sales indicate more
than 200 alumni, students and
friends of the university will turn
out for the alumni sponsored stag
night buffet supper Tuesday night
at the Wardman Park Hotel.
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, air
lines official and former war ace,
will speak on Aviation in Peace
time" There will be short talks by
President Cloyd H. Marvin. Coach
Bill Reinhart and Athletic Director
Max harrington. Prof. Collier of
the law school will act as toast
master.
A program of entertainment will
follow the brief lineup of speakers.
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Vile Is Named Judge
For journalism Awards

Frederic William Vile, Washing
ton Star columnist and editorial
writer, has been named Judge for
Sigma Delta Chi's five distinguished
service awards for excellence in
Journalism. The organization is
professional journalistic fraternity.
Other judges include Roy Roberts,
managing editor of the Kansas City
Star; John w. Owens of the Balti-
more Sun and Evening Sun, Paul
Scott Mowrer of the Chicago Daily
News and Arthur Krock, head OF
the Washington bureau of the New
York Times,
Evening star., 1940-03-24

eral Trade Commission is the best
equipped department to exercise the
necessary supervision
"This bill provides for q minimum
three-year contract. This bill is not
the whole answer, but it seeks to do
the one thing dealers cannot other
wise co-force the manufe: :turers
to recognize the dealers right to
run his own business"
On the other hand, the dealers are
offered these arguments, among
others, against the bill:
THE proposed bill brings auto
mobile dealers closer into interstate
commerce, with all the involvement
OF the National Labor Relations
Board and the Wage and Hour Act
ready to come in.
Used cars account foryour losses.
The proposed legislation does not
deal with this problem.
Meanwhile, the American Auto
mobile Association has taken a stand
IN favor Of the proposed rules Of
talr trade practice for the auto.
mobile industry issued by the Fed
eral Trade Commission. These rules
strike at some of the same practices
that are attacked by the Patman
bill.
While some of the proposed rules
affect only the relationship between
factories and Dealers" Russell E..
Singer, general manager of the A..
A. A., says, Many of them would
outlaw practices detrimental to the
consumer
The A. A. A. is particularly in
terested in the proposed rules which
would prohibit the packing of the
cash delivered price or the finance
charge with fictitious and nom
existent costs, which would prevent
misrepresentation as to insurance
rates and coverage and finance con-
tracts, and which would prohibit
unlawful combinations to Ak or
control allowances on cars trad
ed in"
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Catholic u. Dean
Will Deliver Three
Sermons Today
OFutoricuI Contest
Has Been Arranged;
Rome Prize Test Passed

Three sermons in one day will be
preached by the Rev. DR.. Ignatius
Smith, o. p, dean of the School of
Philosophy at Catholic University,
when he speaks in the Cathedral
at Baltimore this morning at 10
o'clock on "The Path of Peace;
over Station VOL at 3:45 pm. "On
the Installation of Archbishop Cur
ley' in honor of his enforcement
on Monday at st. Matthews Cathe-
dral as the first Archbishop of the
recently-created See of Washington,
and over the same station but from
the pulpit of the Church of the
Immaculate Conception at 7::3O pm.
on The Peace of Christ"
Father Smith will also speak in
Wheeling, w. Va, Wednesday, at
the opening Of the university golden
jubilee fund campaign in that dio-
cese, and Thursday, he will speak
on "The Philosophy of Labor" at
the meeting of the Notre Dame
Club of Washington at the Raleigh
Hotel.
DR.. Allen H Fry, of the depart
ment OF German language and
literature and comparative philol-
ogy, will speak on Pronunciation
OF S in Sanskrit," at the annual
meeting of the American Orient
Society in New York, Friday
through Sunday.
Oratorical Contest.
For the first time in the univer-
sity's history, an oratorical contest
for the students of the Basselin
Foundation has been arranged by the
Rev. p. j. O'Connor, assistant pro-
fessor of sacred eloquence.
The students of the foundation
are resident in the Sulpician Semi
nary and all are preparing for the
priesthood. Leo Schumacher of the
diocese of Cleveland, Leo Coady of
the archdiocese of Baltimore WASH
ington, Raymond McGinnis of the
diocese of indianapolis and James R..
Deleke of the archdiocese of Mil
waukee will compete in the finals
in the Mcmahon Hall Auditorium
at 8 o'clock, April 26. Plaques will
be given to the winners. DR.. Smith,
will serve as chairman of the ora
torical competition, and prominent
teachers on the university faculty
will act as judges.
Nursing Institute.
Mrs. Eugene K. Spalding of the
School of Nursing Education. will
conduct an Institute on Curriculum
Development and Revision in Nurs-
ing under the auspices of the De-
troit League of Nursing Education
in Detroit, Friday and Saturday.
Edgar c. Berry, jr., 40. 900 Sheri-
dan street NV. has successfully
passed the preliminaries of the
Rome Prize He is one of 10 boys
now preparing to take the finals
next month. from which the winner
OF the scholarship is chosen.
Joseph NJ. Murphy. director of the
Bureau of Public Relations, will at
tend the regional meeting of the
American College Publicity Associa-
ton at the College Of William and
Mary, Williamsburg, Va. Friday
and Saturday. Mr.. Murphy will
participate In a round-table dis
cussion on publicity problems and
will also serve as toastmaster at the
luncheon at which DR.. John Stuart
Ryan, president of the college, will
be the principal speaker.
Evening star., 1940-03-24
Births Reported

Adon and Frances Phillips, boy twins.
Milton and Sophie Fischer. boy.
Garvin and Sarah Tankersley. boy.
Albert and Pearl King. boy.
James and Alice Heath jr.. boy.
Francis and Frances Showalter, boy.
Arthur and Hilda Irwin. boy
J. Wesley and Leno Smith, boy.
Wayne and Mary Pollard. boy.
John and Margaret Rehe. boy.
Arthur and Calledith Raines, boy.
Evening star., 1940-03-24

Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass,
she served for time as the librarian
of the Bureau of Fisheries. In this
capacity her first published work
was the compilation of an
analytical: subject photography for
this bureau.
Subsequently, she resigned to live
in Virginia, where she proceeded to
make history as its first juvenile
judge, woman supervisor Of rural
schools and an author presenting
hitherto unpublished source his.
torical data.
Evening star., 1940-03-24
1000, 900 Cakes of Soop
Donated to Firms

Hershey, Pa, has provided Finn
ish victims of war with one million
cakes of soap.
The gift, made in the name of the
chocolate town by M. S. Hershey,
was announced today by Norman H.
Davis, chairman of the Red Cross.
Its value was set at $4,000.
Evening star., 1940-03-24

Careless drivers sometimes get
there-careful drivers always do.
Evening star., 1940-12-20
Retail Trade Scars
6 10 9 Per Cent
Above Year Ago
Heaviest Christmas
Volume Since 1929
Reported in Week
BY the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press-
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-Biggest
news of the week in trade circles,
the Dun & Bradstreet weekly review
said today, was the increasing evi-
dence that holiday buying was shap-
ing up to the best volume in a de-
cade.
"Store traffic, 1t added, was of
capacity proportions in many large
cities and retail turnover in units
was frequently found to be the
heaviest since 1929"
Increases in dollar volume over
last year, averaging to per cent,
were well distributed over the
cities reporting, although there con-
tinued to be more of a clustering of
big gains in the South and Middle
West than in other sections"
Percentage improvement in the
various regions compared with the
1899 week was estimated as follows
New England, to 6; East, to TO-;
Middle West. 8 to II; South, 9 to
Is; Southwest, to IL; Northwest,
5 to 8; Pacific Coast, to 7.
"Last-minute rush orders for
Christmas goods were in heavy
volume" said the review, indicating
that many retail merchants had
underestimated the strength of de-
mand. Wholesalers were kept fairly
busy filling these requests and at
tempting to catch up on deliveries
of contract orders"
Evening star., 1940-12-20
Firestone DiscIoses
Profit
In Fiscal Year
Net Compares With
$6,722,0 ,046 Recorded
In Previous Period
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-Firestona
Tire & Rubber Co. yesterday re-
ported for the fiscal year ended
October 81 net income of s8,652 GOT,
equal to $3.02 a share on the common
stock. This compared with $6,722,-
046, or $2.03 a share, in the preced-
ing year
Net sales for the year established
new record at S187 ,209,29 and
compared with $l60,119,022 in 1899,
the previous best year.
Eastern Gas & Fuel.
Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates, a
aoppers affiliate, reported consolidate
ed. income of $12,266, $3.50 for the II
months ended November 30, an in
crease of s2,900,831, compared with
the same period for 1899. After all
charges, the net income available for
dividends amounted to $3,341,311. p
Minneapolis Moline.
Minneapolis Moline Power Imple-
ment Co. and subsidiaries today re-
ported net profit for the year ended
October 81 of s1,165,736 after all
charges including State. Federal
and foreign income and other taxes.
This was equal after preferred
dividend requirements to "a cents
common share and compared with
$64 ,140, or 65 cents preferred share.
in the preceding year Plants are
in Minnesota and Illinois.
Evening star., 1940-12-20
Chicago Produce

CHICAGO Dec. 20 0P.-Butter. re-
ceipts, 66s.O19 weak: creamery. 80 score,
34h 80. 3334: SO. 32: IS. 33i2; 30,
centralized carlots, 1914; other prices un-
changed.
unchanged.
Poultry, live; Al trucks; steady; broilers,
2L2 pounds and under, colored. 11t2;
Plymouth Rock, 10; White Rock. 1Sl2;
springs pounds up, colored. ia; Plym-
outh Rock, 1Sl2; White Rock, 1872; under
4 pounds colored 17l2; Plymouth Rock,
10; White Rock. 1917; geese. over IL
pounds IL: other prices unchanged:
Potatoes arrivals 107; on track, 357;
total u g. shipments 437; supplies lib
eral; demand very slow; market dull vi with
slightly weaker feeling prevailing; ldaho
Russet Burbanks, U. S. No. l.. ;4o-55
Nebraska Bliss Triumphs, U. S. No; l
1.65-15; Minnesota and North Dakota
Cobblers. S0-S5 per cent U. S. No. !,
a5-I O2l7; Early Ohios. 1850 per, cent,
q: S: No. |, 90-i 90; Bliss TrIumphSi ndli az! so
Wisconsin Green Mountain. U. S. No. l.
i.15.
Evening star., 1940-12-20
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO Dec 20 eP UNITED States
Department of Agriculture ,-Salable hogs,
1000; total. $4,000; market active, tuily
steady with Thursdays average; top, 635;
bulk good and choice 1907 20 pound aV-
erages, 62O-30: most 27o-3SO POUNDS,
$1,000; 160-1s0-pound lights generally
6OO-25; good packing sows,- 425 pounds
down mostly 5.30-55. with 45o-35O-pound
kind 500-25.
Salable cattle, 1000: calves. 300; mar
ket generally steady on all classes; mostly
a cleanup trade on COWS and helferS. with
cows slow and weak and heifers showing
q little more active outlet buyers attracted
to medium to good kind at recent sharp
decline: few loads steers 9. 90; these
medium to good common kind, 500;
load good yearlings, l2,35; stockers and
feeders slow; steady at 9. 30 down to 100;
best heifers. 1000: mostly 9..5 down TO
500; common heifers scarce; canner and
cutter cows, 4.25-5. rs; these and beef OIL
ferings at 625-7 90 a little lower than the
weeks high time. but higher than week
ago bulls steady; weighty sausage offer
tnes to 7.4O: few selected vealers to IL 90;
mostly 1880 down.
days trade. fat lambs active. steady to
strong: early top 9.35 on around one load
good to choice fed Westerns to shippers
bulk good Westerns and natives, a25;
sheep very scarce quoted nominally steady;
best handyweight fat ewes eligible up to
S0
Evening star., 1940-12-20
Lumber Still Too Hiqh,
Henderson Declares
the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Leon Henderson. defense commits
sioner in charge of price stabiliza-
ton, said in a statement today that,
although lumber prices have settled
back to some extent from recent
high levels, it was believed that a
further recession was necessary to
bring them to reasonable level"
Approximately 80 per cent of the
lumber for Army cantonments had
been purchased, Henderson said, and
the remainder would be in relatively
small lots, thus relieving pressure on
the industry.
Hence, prices should recede to a
more stable level early in the coming
year." he added.
"The lumber industry itself has
much to lose in too high a price
since markets lost to substitutes
take years to regain, and high prices
have always had the effect of en-
couraging substitutes"
Evening star., 1940-12-20
Bond Averages
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-United
States Treasury bonds declined to-
day in a moderate trade, while cor
porate issues followed uneven
trends.
Some Federals were down around
one-half point toward the final hour
Bond men said the losses were
due more to waning investor interest
rather than large offerings. A
psychological factor influencing buy
ing caution, they suggested, was a
decline in excess reserves held by
tho Nations banks to the lowest in
four months.
In the foreign dollar list Berlin
City IS lost more than points and
Japanese and italian issues tended
lower.
Corporates in favor included Con-
tinental Oil GAS, Commonwealth
Edison Convertible 312s of SO.
Allegheny Stamped SIS of SO. and
Missouri Pracific IS of IT "F"
Pushed down a bit were Inter-
national Telephone SIS, Baltimore IL
Ohio Convertible 6s, American &
Foreign Power SIS and Nickel Plate
612s and As.
Evening star., 1940-12-20
New York Bank Stocks
NEW YORK, Dec. 20 tP.--National 4
sociation Securities Dealers, Inc.
(Quotations as of . o'clock)
Dry Goods Market

NEW YORK. Dec. 90 R,-Prices
we're frm and tending upward today as
traders reported wool consumption con
tlnuinE at the highest daily rate recorded
since June. 1918
On the other hand cotton goods activity
lApsed into the pre-inventory quiet. which
characterized the market early this week
changed.
In rayon goods demand was spotty and
business light. Silk goods continued IN
active.
Evening star., 1940-12-20
London Market
Strengthened
By Naval News
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 20.-The latest
admiralty communique gave strength
to the stock market today after
initial dullness. The gilt-edged Sec
ton closed lis to 1s higher and
some local buying supplied an up
ward movement in kaffirs.
Oil and copper were steadier IN
final dealings, but few price changes
were noted.
Industrials generally were firm
with the store group strong.
Elsewhere quietly steady condi-
tionS prevailed.
Evening star., 1940-12-20
New York Produce

NEW YORK, Dec. 90 QP.--Eggs, 10,251;
arm Mixed colors fancy to extra fancy,
2s-29: extras. 27ia: Graded nrsts, 26;
seconds, 24h-25: mediums, 2312; dirties,
No. i, %; average checks, 21-21 "a. Re-
frigerator fancy to extra fancy, 24-24h;
extras. 23-2317: standards. 22k: firsts,
22-22A; seconds 21-21h; mediums 21A-
Butter. 44a.4ee; easy. Creamy, higher
than 92 score and premium marks. 34s4-
35: % score, cash market 34A-Ia: sS-91
score, 33-34A: S4-S7 score. 81 -3212
Cheese. 69,S64 hrm. Prices unchanged.
Evening star., 1940-12-20
Bonus Is Distributed
By United Air Lines
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 90 Bonus
checks were distributed to local en-
ployes of the United Air Lines today
as part of approximately 100000
being given by the company to its
3,100 employees.
The bonus was one days pay for
each year of service, with a maxi
mum of 500 and minimum of SO.