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Evening star., 1940-01-22

Two shadows of Abraham Lincoln
met in his temple today.
One was lean-faced Raymond
Massey, the actor, who in the play,
"Abe Lincoln In illinois," told Amer
lea about the rail-spntter' passion
for the democratic ideal. The actor
is in town for the world premiere
of the film tonight.
The other shadow was the great
figure of the Civil War President,
which the late Daniel Chester
French chiseled out of snow-white
marble 20 years ago.
Mr.. Massey sauntered up the long
steps of the Lincoln Memorial
with a gait which would have in
dicated boredom in any man except
Mr.. Massey or Lincoln himself.
Come on, maw," he said to his
wife, and he took his hand out of
his pocket and pulled his hat of.
Mr.. Massey looked up at the great
stone Lincoln, but Mr.. Lincoln looked
out over the actors head, gazing at
skaters on the rejecting pool.
wish I could go skating out there
myself do" said Mr.. Massey, jut-
ting his jaw out in Lincoln's own
way.
And that was about all Mr.. Mas
sey would say, except that he could
see that Sculptor French had studied
Lincoln for many months before
he began to chisel.
!. "It is very profound study Of a
very complex character" he declared.
Mr.. Massey commented that he, too,
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Washington Woman Fined
In Horse RINGER Probe
BY the Associated Press


RICHMOND, Jan. 22.-The ex-
pulsion of one member from the
United States Trotting Association
was announced here yesterday at a
meeting of directors of District
of the organization, which embraces
13 Southern States.
The meeting also saw the adoption
of resolution denouncing so-called
contract or hippodrome" racing
after the alleged practice in Virginia
had been criticized by Seabrook
Smith of Mathews County.
Frank L. Wiswall, of Albany, N. Y,
executive vice president of the u.
S. T. A., told the directors Ii C.
Curtis, trainer-driver of Bemidji,
Mimi, had been expelled and fined
$884.80 as the result of an in
vestigation of ringing" racing a
horse under an assumed name.
Mr.. Wiswall also announced that
Mrs. Mae F. Omundson, of Wash
ington, owner of horse identified as
Totum, was fined $384.80
It was charged that Totum was
raced last fall on tracks in the Caro-
linas as horse named John R., in
classes for which Totum would not
have been eligible. Mrs. Omundson,
1t was reported, acquired the horse
after the questioned races and de-
MED any knowledge Of the case.
A fine of $38480 also was assessed
against the horse.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Star Staff Photo.

had studied Lincoln earnestly-in
Carl sandburg's tale of the young
lawyer on the prairies.
The interpreter of the great man
said nothing more, but he read
through the wall inscriptions flank
ing Lincoln's statue. On the right
side-'Fourscore and seven years
ago Government, of the
people. by the people, for the peo-
pie shall not perish from the earth. :"
On the left the inaugural address
''Fervently do we pray that this
great scourge Of war may speedily
pass away"
q. AS he left the Memorial busload
of boys from Boston University, the
school glee club on tour, crowded
Mr.. Massey for autographs. An
other crowd of several hundred met
him at the airport last night when
he flew in from Harrisburg by a
route approximating that which
Honest Abe" himself once slowly
followed over the hills below.
Mr.. Massey, who shares Lincoln's
sense of humor along with other
characteristics, was pleased when
he WAS escorted from flying field
to White. House by Robert E. Lee.
The Robert E. Lee, on a motor
cycle, was just Washington po-
liceman. MIR. Massey embraced him,
nevertheless.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Salaries
Continued From First Page)

Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures.
Louis B. Mayer, M-G-M head, who
led@all others on the 1887 salary
list with 81 ISL ,753, was not shown
for 1888, nor were celebrities like
Clark Gable, Myrna 10y, Bette
Davis, Paul MUM and Greta Garbo.
Some of these may appear later on
a supplemental list.
The film pay checks listed, how
ever, included: Warner Baxter,
$279,807; Producer Daryl F. Zanuck,
$265,000; Bing Crosby, $3.50, 900; Jack
Benny, $250,000 from Paramount
Pictures alone; any income from
radio and other sources apparently
did not exceed $4,000 from any one
employer; Shirley Temple, $114,-
848; Leslie Howard, $141 ,249; Loretta
Young, $181,615; Fred MacMurray
$183,333; Henry Fonda, $105, 900;
George Raft, $186,964; Gary Cooper,
$140,129; John Barrymore, $105, 1888;
Bob Burns, $155,952; Joel McCrea,
$152,000; Marlene Dietrich, $13O, 900;
Charles Boyer, $161 900; Fredric
March, $136,311; Tyrone Power,
$140,750; Director Roy Del Ruth,
$216,741; Samuel Goldwyn, $156,000.
The only stage celebrity in the list
was Helen Hayes, who got $113,45
from Heron Productions, Inc.
Charles b. Dulcan on List.
The District of Columbia was rep
resented by one executive. Charles
B. Dulcan, ST., of the Hecht Co.
received a salary of $50,0O0 and a
bonus of $51, ,30944 for total COM
pensation of $1O1 ,309.44. Mr.. Dulcan
directs Hecht stores in Baltimore
as well as in Washington and his
return was filed in Maryland.
Only one other person in Mary
land was listed. This was Charles
E. McManus of Crown Cork & Seal
Co., Inc, whose salary was 100000.
Virginia was not represented.
Although 1898 was not generally
as good business year as 1887,
few important changes in compen-
sation appeared. The biggest was
q reduction from $5OO,O0O to $1OO, 900
for William Randolph Hearst from
his vast publishing and other enter
prises. Mr.. Countway's No. l salary
OF 1888, however, was more than
double the $204,301 he collected in
1887. Mr.. Watson's $453, ,440 in 1888
compared with $419, 1893 of 1887.
Grace in Third Place.
No. 3 salary man was E. G. Grace,
Bethlehem Steel magnate, whose
compensation dropped from 1894 ,97e
to $378,698, and No. 4 was George
Washington Hill, whose American
Tobacco Co. remuneration declined
from $380,976 to 1891 ,348.
The motor industry supplied its
usual crop Of headliners, with w. s
knudson of General Motors ad-
Evening star., 1940-01-22

vancing from $247,219 to 1903, 400,
the fifth highest salary reported;
Edsel Ford dropping from $146,056
to $113,291, and Walter P. Chrysler
from $189, ,136 to $162,083 Alfred P.
Sloan, jr, received $164,450 and
Charles F. Kettering received $780,
923, both from General Motors.
BY industries, here are other top
pay checks of 1888:
Banking-Withrop Aldrich, Chase
National Bank, New York, $177 900.
Radio-W. S. Paley, Columbia
Broadcasting Co., $171,849.
Electrical-Owen D. Young and
Gerard Swope, both General Elec-
trio, each $245 AT.
Telephone-Walter S. Clifford,
American Telephone & Telegraph,
$2O9,350.
Telegraph-R. B. White, Western
Union, $86,84O.
Oil-H. F. Sinclair, Consolidated
Oil Co., $2O0,55O.
Merchandising-C. w. Deyo, F. w.
Woolworth Co., $174,346.
Aviation-J. H. Kindelberger,
North American Aviation, Inc,
SOC, 6,299.
Insurance-H. M. Leisure, Occi-
dental Life Insurance Co., SIT, 1858.
Chemicals-Lammot du Pont, E.
I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., $780,
22O.
Railroads.&c.. w. Clement, Penn
sylvania Railroad, $1OO,410.
Beverages-J. F. Brownlee, Frank
fort Distilleries, $125,000.
Sports-C. H. Strub, Los Angeles
Turf Club, $140,887.
Publishing-Joseph M. Pulitzer,
Pulitzer Publishing Co. (St. Louis
Post-Ditpatch), $3.50, ,461.
Candy-Mrs. E. v. Mars, Mars
Inc, $4,000.
neutrality-suspicious. r. Coons,
Lord & Thomas, $108,921.
Household supplies-Sir Douglas
Alexander, Singer Manufacturing
Co., 100000.
Mining-E. T. Stannard, Kenne-
colt Copper Co., $97,543.
Beauty-Alfred and Syma Busiel,
both Lady Esther, Ltd, each $96, 900.
Baking-R. E. Tomlinson, National
Biscuit Co., $96,550.
Dairy-Thomas H. McInnerney,
National Dairy Products Corp,
$50, 0,460.
Food-Colby M. Chester, General
Foods Corp, $122,000.
UtilitiesJ. I. Mango, Utility
Clearing Corp. ASSOCIATED Gas d
Electric System), $82,818.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Glass Aid Sought
To Clear Status
Of Wage-Hour Head
Administration Feurs
To Stir Controversy
Over Exemptions
Nv the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
The administration is reported re-
Nably to have enlisted the aid Of
Senator Glass, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia in an effort to clear up the
status of Col. Philip Fleming, acting
wage-hour administrator, without
provoking a congressional contro-
versy over exemptions to the Wage
Hour Act.
Col. Fleming, recently promoted
to the rank of colonel in the Army
Engineering Corps, cannot be ap-
pointed wage-hour administrator
without giving up his active status
in the Army, because of an old
statute barring Army officers from
holding civilian posts.
In the case of Col. F. G. Harring-
ton, w. P. A. commissioner, this diff
ficulty was circumvented when Con-
gress enacted legislation permitting
him to hold that Office.
When similar legislation was
sought to cover Col. Fleming's case
administration leaders heard that
a bloc of farm-State members in
the House might seek to attach
amendments proposed by Repre-
sentative Barden, Democrat, of
North Carolina to broaden wage
hour law exemptions for workers in
agricultural processing plants.
Fearing these amendments would
stir considerable controversy, ad-
ministration leaders were said to
have approached Senator Glass.
The Virginian announced at a
meeting of the Senate Appropri-
ations Committee that he would
offer on the floor an amendment to
the first deficiency bill which would
preserve Col. Fleming's military
status while permitting him to
serve in the administrators post.
The amendment, if adopted by
the Senate, would be up for con-
sideration by conference commit
tees of the two Houses following
Senate passage. Consideration of
the Barden amendments would be
barred, however, as conferees are
restricted from writing new legis-
lation into a bill.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Swiss on German Border
Held Ready 10 Evacuate
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KREUzLINGEN, Switzerland,
Jan. 22-The entire population of
this area, facing the German city
of Konstanz, the Nazis' only strong
hold on the south bank of the
Rhine, was under orders today to
leave in the event of danger.
Between 10000 and $4,000 persons
were affected in the district, but
similar measures may be taken, it
was said, to cover the entire forti-
fed Swiss zone, including Basel, a
city of 10000.
Posting of the instructions was
termed a routine measure. Mill
tary authorities indicated that the
citizens, if removed from any area,
would be sent to special camps
pending later settlement in Geneva.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Automobile Dealers
Convention Opens
Here Today
Delegates Welcomed
By National President
Stanley Horner

The 23d annual convention of the
National Automobile Dealers Asso-
ciation got under way today at the
Mayflower Hotel with nearly 1000
dealers and their families from every
State attending. It is the first
meeting Of the national organization
here since 1t was formed primarily
to allow the industry to build pleas
ure cars during war time.
Greeting the delegates was
Stanley H. Horner Of this city, ma
tional president, and Lee d. Butler,
president Of the Washington Auto
motive Trade Association. Meetings
today following registration were
executive sessions Of the Board of
Directors. Reports will be presented
to the membership tomorrow and
Wednesday.
OF interest to the dealers is a
legislative proposal that will be
offered to the convention based on
the the e, "The Future of Auto
mobile Retailing" Representative
Patman of Texas will keynote this
program in an address Wednesday
morning on Whats Ahead in
Federal Legislation" Developments
in State legislation will be discussed
by Harlan w. Kelley, special counsel
of the Wisconsin State Banking
Commission.
McNutt to Be Speaker.
Paul v. McNutt, Federal securi-
ty administrator, will be the speak
er at the banquet at $3.50 pm.
Wednesday. His subject will be
Social Security and Business Sc
curity."
Donald r. Richberg, former gen.
eral counsel of the N. r. A., will
open the sessions tomorrow by an
address on After N. r. A.-What?"
Other speakers scheduled are DR..
w. H. Crichton Clarke, president
Of the American Fair Trade Coun-
Gil, Inc; James Dalton, editor of
Motor Magazine; Samuel Heimlich,
veteran automobile dealer of Long
Branch, N. j, and Charles W..
Bishop, general counsel of the NJ
The kutomotive Trade Associa-
tion managers are meeting simul-
taneously and will hold two ses-
sions. Among the special features
will be the presentation of bronze
plaque to the oldest dealer in at
tendance; an oyster and beer sup
per given by the C. I. T. Corp; q
visit to the Smithsonian Institute
where the first American cars are
displayed, and several luncheons
and social functions.
Mrs. Butler Heads Hostesses.
Mrs. Butler, wife of the newly
elected president of the Washington
Automotive Trade Association, Is
heading a committee of wives of
members of the association who
will act as hostesses to the women
who came to Washington with their
husbands for the convention.
The Hostess Committee includes
Mrs. Oscar Coolican, Mrs. Dyke
Cullum, Mrs. Walter B. Guy, Mrs.
Fred l.. Haller, Mrs. L. S. Julien,
Mrs. Whitney Leary, Mrs. Robert
L. Lewis, Mrs. Paul B. Lum, Mrs.
r. j. Murphy, Mrs. j. M. Sanders,
Mrs. Joseph B. True and Mrs. STAN
ley H. Horner, honorary chairman
The committee plans to take the
visitors on sightseeing trip, enter
tain them at luncheons and teas,
and Wednesday night will take their
guests on theater party.
Evening star., 1940-01-22

measure and to aid Unemployment.
The demand for extra men was not
granted.
The settlement did not end trou-
bles of dealers who said contract
negotiations would be started soon
with five other unions engaged in
coal transportation.
Dan M. Rugg, coal dealers Joint
Labor Committee chairman, said
coal costs would be forced up Is
cents ton If pay increases SINH
lar to yesterdays settlement were
granted all unions.
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Rumanian Aim Reported
Balkan Military Pact
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, Jan. 22.-Reliable
sources indicated today Rumania
would throw her support in the
meeting Of the Balkan entente Feb
ruary 2 to an outright military
alliance to protest herself against
attack by Soviet Russia or Hungary.
This course was decided on, COM
mentators said, at preliminary
meeting Friday between Foreign
Minister Grigore Gafencu of Ru-
Evening star., 1940-01-22
Cool Delivery Resumed
As New York Strike Ends

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-Crdeys
went to 5000 coal handlers to re-
sumo deliveries today following a
strike compromise settlement pro-
viding for a 75-cent-a-day wage in
crease. The strike and lockout"
halted coal deliveries in New York
four days.
The International Brotherhood of
Teamsters and Chauffeurs GA. F. L.
had demanded pay raises from 81
to $1.20 an hour, with an extra
man on each truck as a safety
Evening star., 1940-01-22

Fishermen Of Kessingland, Eng
land, caught" 728 lengths of timber
worth $1,000, which was thrown
overheard by a grounded steamer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-17
BRITISH POSTPONE
CHILD EVACUATION
Private Transfers Will
Continue But Parents
: Warned OF Risk

LONDON, July 16-LR)-Official
announcement that the government
had postponed its plan to trans
fer British child refugees to the
United States was made in com.
mons today and precipitated pro.
tests by laborites that thousands
of children from wealthy homes
were being sent overseas while
those of the poor were forced to
remain and face war conditions.
One laborite declared he was
convinced that the whole plan had
been merely "camouflage' to
get the children of wealthy par
ents out of the country ahead OF
the threatened German blitzkrieg.
The announcement, authorita
lively forecast, was made by Gle
ment r. Attlee, Prime Minister
Churchills lieutenant in the house
of commons.
Registration of children under
the evacuation scheme continues,
however. So far $4,000 have ap.
piled to go to Canada and 10000
to the United States.
Attlee said private transfers Of
children would not be stopped, but
that the risks involved must be
shouldered by their families.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-17
ARGENTINA JAlLS
FIFTH C0LUMNlSTS
Report Says Arms, Nazi
Propaganda Discovered
AT Bund Offices

R11ENos AIRES, July 1e-R-
Reliable reports from Apostoles, II
/ the northern Argentine territory o.
Fornosa. said today that Is Ger
man residents had been arrested
of whom eight still were in Gus
tody. in raids aimed at possible
fifth communists -
The national gendarmerie, raid
ing homes and Nazi meeting places
seized stores of arms and ammu
milton and propag ganda pamphlets
these reports said.
Some of the pamphlets were des'
cribed as telling of German victor
les in Europe and alluding to what
might befall any country daring to
oppose the Nazis.
The investigation is continuing
it was reported.
The government has made n c
comment.
Argentina has banned alien
groups whose aims are contrary
to the republican and democratic
principles of the country
In April, 1889, Buenos Aires po'
lice announced they had raided
four 'nexts of Nazi infiltration" in
the capital.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-17
NOT WAR NEWS

CHARLOTTE, July 16.-lR'
Items to take your mind off
the war news
Fires are so scarce in Cam
den, S. c., that rat took up
residence in the boot of Fire
man Peter Bradley, built a
nest therein and raised a faml-
ly. Bradley said he had not
had occasion to use his boot In
five months.
When Ambulance Driver
Louie Campbell broke into a
sudden jitterbug dance while
standing in corridor of a
Spartanburg, S. c.. hospital
he had good reason. A small
mouse had run up his trouser
leg.
Hickory has gone in for un-
usual plant life. M. L. Hendrix
discovered a potato that grew
through the neck of glass bot
tie. A. w. Penland exhibited
some green bean pods that
were from eight to ten inches
long and that grew in his
garden. ,
A baby alligator appeared on
the streets of Spartanburg7-
hundreds of miles from the
usual habitat Of alligators.
Newsmen expressed the be-
lief that the gator escaped
while being shipped.
When an Anderson, S. c.,
service station operator refus-
ed to get out of bed at 2 a. m.
to sell two gallons of gasoline
the person who had demanded
the gas stepped back and
blasted a hole in the front door
of the station with a gun.
A dozen baby chicks left
their mother on a Bentonville
farm and now follow Daisy, the
COW, day and night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-17
Medical Care
BY LOGAN CLENDENING. M n

BY LOGAN CLENDENING, M. d
Fireworks and explosives are moi
the only hazards of the days we
celebrate. find in my files a
newspaper clipping with the date
line Wednesday morning, July S
1899, with the headline" "Holiday's
Toll of Deaths Exceeds $50 in Ma.
tion."
The automobile accounted for
the largest number of these fatal.
ties, 251. Drowning was the cause
OF death in 167 instances, % train
accidents, 80 shootings and air.
plane accidents added their share.
AS we look over this list, it seems
very impersonal to US. 1t didn't
happen to our family. We are all
careful drivers, bathers, etc. Let
US resolve to go on that way. Be-
cause most of these fatalities are
Individual responsibilities and de.
pend for their prevention 95 per
cent on common sense.
First Aid Day
There isn't very much more for
the hygienist to do about it than
point out that self-evident conclu.
sion.
But holiday is certainly a good
day to put in a little lesson ON first
aid.
Resuscitation has technique
that should be learned by all vaca-
tlonlsts. In cases of drowning
from fumes-such as automobile
electric shock, or Inconsistencies
exhause-any condition which re-
suits in suspension of breathing.
ARTIFICIAL respiration should be
started as soon as possible, which
cl.ar of the causative agent.
whether it be a gas-flled room,
water, or the electric wire.
Keep Victim Covered
The best way to give artificial
respiration is the prone pressure
method, but any method will be
helpful
The Sylvester method. of put
ting the patient on his back and
alternately raising his arms over
the head and pressing them against
the chest wall will do if in your
excitement you can't remember
any other way. Its advantage is its
simplicity: its disadvantage h |
the tongue may fall back in the
mouth and keep air from going in
The prone pressure method is to
put the patient face down, with the
forehead resting on one of his fore.
arms, then bestride him facing the
back of his head, and alternately
lean forward with one fiat hand on
each side of the chest and pres
and then lean back and release
pressure.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-17
WESTERN ISLES
TO Be PROTECTED
u. S. Sounds Out Other
Nations On American
Pr0tectOrate

SANTIAGO, Chile, July 1e.-F-
Foreign Minister Cristobal Saenz
disclosed today that he had received
and was studying a note from the
United States on establishment Of a
protectorate over European posses
sions in Central and South America.
Details Of the communication were
not Immediately forthcoming.
Ut is probable that the note re-
lates to Latin American proposals
for protectorate over European
possessions In South and Central
America-already advanced-rather
than any proposal originating with
the United States.)
WASHINGTON, July 16.-P)-In-
formed persons said today the Unit
ed States was sounding out other
American countries on their attitude
toward establishment of protec-
torate over European possessions in
this hemisphere.
This sounding, they said, was part
of the preliminaries on several ques-
tions likely to come before the inter-
American conference opening at
Havana Saturday.
State department officials said
they had no knowledge of a formal
note to the Chilean government pro-
posing such protectorate but it was
not denied that Ambassador Claude
Bowers may have presented men,
orandum on the subject.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-17
Daniels Will Preside
At Bryan Memorial

CHICAGO, July 16-(R)-Josephus
Daniels, U. S. ambassador to Mex.
leo, will preside tomorrow morning
at a breakfast in honor of the late
William Jennings Bryan. Daniels
was a national democratic commit
teeman in 1896, the year Bryan was
nominated for president.
Daniels recalled today that North
Carolina was pledged to Bryan that
year before his famous speech and
that the Tar Heel state was the
first state to so instruct its dele
gates. The breakfast will bring to-
sether those who were present at
the 1896 convention.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-17
AAA Tobacco Control
Endorsed By Grange

SHELBY, July 16.-(P)-The fed
eral governments three-year tobacco
control program, which will be voted
on by the farmers Saturday, was
endorsed in a resolution here yes
terday by the executive committee
of the North Carolina Grange.
The resolution said that In the
opinion of the committee the pres
ent surplus of tobacco and the world
outlook makes it important that the
tobacco farmers work with the fed
eral government by approving the
three-year control program"
Congress was urged to provide
funds for the development of mar
kets for American grown tobacco
in Central and South America.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-17
New Zealand Forms
War Cabinet OF FiUe

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, July
16.-R)-The New Zealand govern
ment formed a war cabinet of five
men today, including three members
of the government and two of the
opposition.
The war cabinet will have full
control of the Dominion's war ell
fort.
Its members are Prime Minister
Peter Fraser; Minister of Finance
Walter Nash; Minister Of DEFENSE
F. Jones; Adam Hamilton, leader
of the opposition, and Joseph Coates,
former prime minister.