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Evening star., 1940-08-04

on them and buried them deep In
the earth and then had slid past
them. Their bodies were out of sight
in the earth, but we could see the
shapes their bodies had stamped
upon the soil-almost flowerlike and
yet looking something like man, too.
Death and Destitution.
So here was the war. l had gone
out to meet it rather than stay and
let it crush me in my home in War;
saw. And here it was, or at least
here was the end of it, anyway! A
train lying on its side and dead
and injured scattered along the way;
a crowd standing helpless and nearly
silent: the smoke of disaster rising
peacefully and blowing away into
the black night and the waters of a
river gurgling nearby.
Nobody knew what would happen
next. Everybody stood loking 1t was
like looking at Poland itself. because
all over Poland that night. as for
days and nights before and days and
nights after, there was death and
dying and people standing shivering
In helplessness. The earth was
peaceful and the river waters were
peaceful, but all who had been its
masters were not.
At this moment a. woman-there
were numerous evacuees from War
saw on the train-began giving
birth. Those who could helped. The
others looked away Finally the cries
of the baby were heard and every
one crowded around. 1t looked like
a fine. big, healthy infant. A man
pointed to it and said, See, Poland
goes on" Everybody was pleased
1t seemed exactly the right thing
to say.
I don't know what happened to
the baby or the mother. She was a
young, middle-class woman. dressed
in good clothing. But I know that
Poland goes on. 1t suffered for a
month or 80 days and 80 nights an
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Dr.. Townsend Decides
To Vote for WiI|kie
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Aug. 3.-Dr. Fran
els E. Townsend reported tonight
he's Wendell Willkie man."
Pausing here en- route to San
dusky, Ohio, where he will make an
address tomorrow, the pension lead
er said he would cast his vote for
the Republican presidential nomi-
nee in the November election.
"Willkie strikes me as being a
businessman" DR.. Townsend told an
interviewer. land If there was ever
time in the history of this coun-
try when we needed businessman
it's right now
The 73-year-old originator of the
old age pension plan bearing his
name recalled he supported the
Union party's presidential candi-
date. William Lewke, in 1886 but
asserted he would never favor a
third party nominee "as long as we
can express ourselves at the polls
without such a candidate"
Evening star., 1940-08-04
B. & 0. Readjustment
Costing S1,489,000
Approved by Judges
Twenty-Poge Opinion
UphoIds Expenditures
As Reasonable
By the Associated Press.

~ tie ASSOtldteO fEeSS.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 3.-The Balti-
more g. Ohio Railroads rcddjust-
ment plan cost the company 81 49,
600, including S235,0 for lawyers
fees, it was disclosed today when
the expenditures were approved in
Federal Court.
A 20-page opinion on the expendi-
lures, by Judges John j. Parker and
Armistead NJ Dobie of the Fourth
United States Judicial Circuit, and
Judge w. Calvin Chestnut, district
judge, held that in view OF the
nature. novelty and result OF the
case, the amount, though regret
ably large, is reasonable and should
be approved
The three judges last November
approved the voluntary plan, under
which the railroad readjusted S542,-
600, 900 of its securities to save fixed
interest charges, reducing the
amount of fixed interest to be paid
each year to $4,000, 900, and pro-
viding that payment of other fiyed
interest, about Sl1,00OO00, should
be contingent upon net earnings.
The court observed that since pro-
mitigation of the plan, the railroads
securities which were affected by it
had risen more than s60000,000 in
market value.
The aggregate of all the expendi-
lures, while large, in itself must
fairly be considered in proportion
to the case as whole and in lela-
ton to the magnitude of the finan-
cial interests involved" the court
stated.
The aggregate expense is only
about one-quarter of l per cent of
the par value of the securities af-
fected by the plan"
Evening star., 1940-08-04

IN him and they were small. When
the pain was too much for him he
turned his head and buried his
mouth in his mattress of cornstalks
so nobody would hear him groan.
BY the next night he began to
worry. He kept turning his head
to see his wounds. but it was dark
there and nothing could be seen.
When daylight came he took off the
dressing and he saw and l saw that
the mouth of the wound was turning
greeniSh yellow.
Soon the pain will STOP he said
at last.
I told him nonsense. I told him it
would hurt and hurt until he cried
like spanked baby.
Pain Finally Stopped.
mo" he said soon the pain
will stop" He touched the wound
with his finger. This is gangrene,
my friend" He turned his back on
me then. almost as if embarrassed
1t was gangrene and he did die.
We stayed there through Septem-
ber 9. 10, IL, IL and l3. Two of my
friends had remained with me and
they went foraging through the
countryside every day and brought
back food for all of us. But, for the
rest, nobody seemed to know what
to do. The dead were taken out and
buried and room was made for
freshly wounded, but for everything
else everybody was at loss. Then
suddenly an officer appeared He
Communicated all the peasant carts
in the neighborhood, loaded the
wounded on board and set off for
Lublin where there was a hospital
We reached the hospital on the night
Of September 13. beating the Ger
mans to it by four full days.
Tomorrow: Mr.. Sobdnski re-
lates his experiences as a captipe,
first OF the NazLs, then OF the
R0ISh pf,iks
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Hungarian Disorders
In TransyIvania
Feared in Balkans
Peasant Leader in Area
Anticipates Trouble
From Minority
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST, Aug. 3.-Fears Of
Communist disturbances in Hun.
gary and of Hungarian disorders in
Rumanian-held Transylvania COM
plicated the Balkan situation to-
night as Bulgaria, Hungary and Ru-
mania prepared for an attempt to
settle their boundary differences in
a manner acceptable to the axis
powers
Pennsylvania leaders said they
were told by Foreign Minister Mi
hail Manoilescu that it was fear OF
the strong Communist movement in
Hungary getting out of hand which
led Fuehrer Adolf Hitler to demand
q settlement of territorial claims
without further delay.
Hungary wants the return Of
Pennsylvania which she lost to Ru-
mania in the World War: but Hit
ler's idea of settlement is reported
to involve only partial satisfaction
of the Hungarian territorial claims,
together with a wholesale transfer
OF populations to make racial FROM
tiers harmonic with national
boundaries.
Disorders Feared.
Hungarians in Trans ylv ania
meanwhile are impatiently demand
ing quick transfer of territory to
Hungary, and former Premier Juliu
Manu-, the TranSylvanian peasant
leader, said he feared disorders by
the Hungarian minority might lead
to serious trouble there.
Bulgaria wants the Southern
Dobruja as its share of the forth
coming Balkan settlement and the
arrival in Sofia today of Victor
Kadare, Rumanian minister to
Yugoslavia, was taken to mean pre-
liminary negotiations for a transfer
OF territory already are well ad-
vanced. 1t was assumed Kadars
would make arrangements for for
NAL negotiations to open in Bu-
charest next week.
Hitlers scheme for a re-shufiing
OF populations would affect between
100000 and 100000 persons. it was
explained in German diplomatic
circles. The idea would be to return
all Hungarians left in Rumania to
Hungary, bring home all Rumanians
presently living in Hungary and re-
move to the Reich all Germans in
any ceded portion of Pennsylvania.
Hungarian Talks Limited.
1t is estimated there are 1,40O.0Oo
Hungarians in all Rumania, 500 900
Germans in Pennsylvania and about
100000 Rumanians in Hungary.
German sources said the recent
AXls-Balkan conferences had linn
lted Rumanian- Hungarian negotia-
tlons to q semi-circular frontier area
taxing in two large Transylvanian
cities, although Hungary began by
demanding the whole of Transyl-
Vanla. The same sources showed
dlspleasure over continued public
clamor in Hungary for a more
sweeping territorial settlement.
II Rumania, on the other hand,
there was agitation against ces-
sion OF any territory at all to Hun
gary. Circulars entitled "Rumania
Awake" were found in mail boxes
here yesterday, urging the people to
refuse to give up single fistful of
our land"
Several newspapers also took a
stand against making territorial
concessions.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Fried Chicken Fails
To Break Fast Of
Jailed Snake CuItist
Condition Of Girl Bitten
By Reptile Improves;
Womun's Deoth Probed
BY the Associated Press.

ADEL, Ga, Aug. 3.-Fried chicken
and other dehcacies placed before
the gaunt leader of a snake -han-
ding religious cult in Jail here
failed today to break his self-im-
posed hunger strike.
Sheriff w. 1. Daughtrey said the
farmer-preacher, w. T. Lipham. ap-
parently did not touch the food,
brought by his wife and other mem
bers Of his family ard left in his
cell.
He Just sat there and prayed"
the sheriff said.
Lipham and Albert Rowan, father
of b-year-old Letha Mae Rowan,
are held on charges of assault with
intent to murder, pending develop
ments III the condition of the child,
who was bitten by a poisonous
snake at rites conducted by the cult
nine days ago.
Other Cult Man Whistles.
Sheriff Daughtrey said Rowan,
who like Lipham has refused food
since Thursday, declined to eat to-
day. Members of his family. left
food with him also, the sheriff Said.
He just whistles" added the Of
ficer.
The two men are on different
floors OF the Jail. Plenty of fresh
water is kept in their cells, and
earlier today Lipham asked for and
was given cup of coffee, which
he appeared to relish.
Members of the cult say they
can handle poisonous snakes when
the power is upon them" They
say their faith will counteract the
venom from the fangs.
Girls Condition Improved.
Rowan's daughter, whose condi-
ton brought the rites of the cult
TO attention of the authorities, ap-
peared improved today. She was
bitten in the hand last week by a
copperhead moccasin al farm
house meeting when she and eight
others handled the snake.
Charges were lodged against Lip
ham and Rowan after the Rowan
family refused medical treatment
for the child.
Meanwhile investigation of the
death OF a woman two years ago fol-
lowing snake bites continued.
Sheriff N. N. Hughes of Berrien
County asked that Lipham be held
pending probe of the death Of
Mrs. Jeffie Smith at Ray City, Ga,
in July. 1888.
Evening star., 1940-08-04

BUCKEYSTOWN, Nd, Aug. s.
Along streams branching from the
Potomac River stand the ruins of
many a tumbledown mill whose
hungry millstones chewed grain into
-four in days now long forgotten
The mills are dead and the millers
vanished.
Yet one mill has forgotten to die.
One miller has neglected to vanish.
Leo Michaels mill stands mile
from here, hidden-if you lack a
sharp eye-among trees that crowd
the bank of the Monocacy River.
It's ancient water turbines are
churning with power these days;
mill machinery is humming and
grumbling on all of the stout mills
floors; farmers, loaded wagons are
rolling up to the door. The grind
ing season turns 61-year-old miller
Michael into one of the busiest in
dustrialists of Frederick County.
Turbines 127 Years Old.
His industry has granted the
miller a good living for the last
third of century, as it did for
many of his predecessors. It's spin
ming turbines are at least 127 years
old, records show, and an under
shot millwheel powered the mill
in days before that. Legend says
the building was first erected during
the Revolutionary War. An angry
slave woman set it afire. It was
rebuilt, but she burned it once
again-and was sold South for her
rebellious spirit.
The mill is a puzzle. What early
architect-builder piled stone on
stone, brick on brick and timber
on timber until the structure clam
bered six stories up the hillside
from the mill race? How did those
giant yellow pine beams, 66 feet
long, get to the site? They did not
come from this part of the country
says the miller. They may have
been hauled through an extinct
canal, the remains of which can
still be seen rounding the rapids.
Yet the biggest puzzle, at first
sight, is not how the mill was
created but how it continues to
survive
Trade Circle of rs Miles.
The Michael mill is no museum
piece; it makes it's way on profits
It's annual gross income is about
$4,000. 1t exists because 1t is close
to the Maryland farms growing
corn, wheat, rye, barley and oats
in summer and consuming stock
feed in winter. 1t draws its trade
from a radius of Is miles.
1t lives also because Of It's free
power. This was abundant enough
Evening star., 1940-08-04

agony of war and chaos and revolu-
ton. I saw some of that I walked
through more than 200 miles of it.
Then after that il became a slave
population-the first European pop
ulation to be enslaved, actually,
almost as If in chains, in many
centuries. I lived in the midst of
that in Warsaw for eight months,
from October 2, 1899. to May IL, 1910.
I was captured by the Germans and
then turned over to the Bolsheviks
and held captive by them. So 1 have
known all the new masters of Poland
and I know that Poland goes on. 1t
lives in submission and bides its time
getting along as best it can and plots
the death of it's rulers.
Hospital Train Arrives.
In the meantime my arm and
three of my ribs were fractured.
Finally hospital train came along.
1t consisted of string of freight
cars that had been used to transport
live stock and on board were a few
women who had volunteered for
work in East Poland. They decided
they might as well work right there.
This was near the town of Las
karzew and the Vistula River, where
Germans and Poles faced each other,
was only 10 to IS miles away. Many
wounded were brought and finally
the car in which I lay was all
filled up. There was no more room
on the cornstalks for bodies. Most
were shrapnel cases or machine gun
cases. A machine gun wound was on
one side of me and a pistol wound
was on the other. The pistol wound
was very quiet. He had been shot
by one Of those big, heavy pistols
German officers carry and there was
big hole in his side.
But the machine gun wound talked
in gentle. friendly way. He was in
pain, he said. and said that was
good sign because when pain stops
life stops. He had only a few holes
Evening star., 1940-08-04

"0i '""AhSA" AFTERNOON
and all night. They searched along
the train for us, humming like flies
and searching like flies for sugar.
Every time the bomoers came the
train would stop and We all would
get out of our wooder freight cars
and run into the neal est woods and
stand there and pray.
The planes did not bomb the
train They seemed to be saving
their bombs for WARSAW. But they'd
come down low, perhaps to 100 yards;
anyway, so low that we could see the
first warning Germans any of us had
ever seen. We could even see the
small slit of placid-looking faces
under their big goggles.
When they got low they'd cut loose
with their machine guns at the
woods in which we were hiding, Civ
ing us the back of their hand, as
they say, in passing Nobody was
killed or even hurt on our train all
that day, but it was frightening,
nevertheless, and eXhausting to brush
to close to death so many times.
And it was like giant stamping
his foot at our huddled bodies. The
wind of the passing planes blew into
the forest and shook and bent the
trees and blew at us. The bullets
sent the leaves falling in showers
over us.
Train Falls Into Hole.
The fall is early TINS year." said
a friend, whose little brother had
been killed by a bomb in Warsaw.
Only an empty shoe had been left
of him, 1T is killing green leaves"
the friend said.
So I was asleep at midnight and
did not hear the bombs or hear our
train fall into the hole. l woke
up tumbling and could see bridge
below me and water below that, all
swimming in warm, milky night.
l girded myself for the plunge into
the river, but it never came. Even
as tumbled and stared with sleepy
eyes at this unexpected spectacle
and set myself to fall, huge noise
twisted and ground into my eyes
and weight of metal rode up over
me and crashed down and folded
around me.
!, 1t looked like death The darkness
of death lay on my eyes. But I
could feel pain. Then high up
above something was cleared away
and a voice shouted, Michael!
Michael" 1 tried to move and tound
I could move and climbed up Slowly
out of the darkness to the light and
got finally out of the train to the
earth.
The train had fallen on its side,
partly on the bridge, partly on the
land beyond. The car behind had
piled up on ours. Five persons
were dead. About 20 were hurt and
some of these were dying. The loco
motive had done a fantastic thing
to two of the victims. 1t had fallen
Evening star., 1940-08-04

to enable the recent establishment
Of a small sawmill in conjunction
with the -four mill Upkeep of the
entire establishment costs about
500 yearly.
And the mill survives because the
miller is canny man. If you don't
believe it, put your hogs on a diet
- his special pig meal, compounded
of oats, corn, bran, middlings and
secret ingredients.
City folks are fools" says Miller
Michael Something in his voice
makes him sound right.
He says it from the vantage point
of an American civilization which
depended upon manufacturing in
the midst of farm and woodlot, a
form of production now little re-
membered by a race of Americans
living in great part within office
cities and factory cities.
What, then. are the blessings of
this older life?
The Ingredients of Life.
These can be cited:
The home across the road from
the industry. The view from it out
across the fields to mountains blue
with distance. The independent
attitude CT don't have any one to
reckon with'D The cluttered Office
with plenty of room in it raise baby
chicks as hobby. The rolltop desk
in a corner. The green river out
side, full of bass and swapping
turtles below the dam, rebuilt 70
years ago by laborers working 100
days for $l0O."
The hollyhocks and roses all over
the yard. The five acres of oak
trees behind it. The cake-baking
chicken-frying wife, Mrs. Edna
Michael. Sugarloaf Mountain loom
ing up in sight of the front porch.
The hired man, Lewis Norman, who
lives with his young wife in the old
log house next door. The lima
beans he is planting in the field
by the river. The four giant
hogs whose rhythmic grunts drone
through a summer day. The cool
breeze in your lungs.
Oh, yes, there are worries, too.
The fine maple tree on the lawn
has got some kind of bugs in It,"
Billy, the 11-year-old bow-legged
bulldog, "has got rheumatism pretty
bad. Why. in his younger days he
used to climb right up trees after
the cats"
Evening star., 1940-08-04

Weather Conditions Last ~ Hours.
disturbance of slight intensity has
moved southweStward to Florida. Tampa
l,ol0;S millibars t29S5 inches) and a
trough Of low pressure extends from
Illinois. Peoria. 1.0l35 millibars C29g3
lnchesl southwestward to Western Texas.
Amarillo, l.O10.5 millibars co "a inchesi.
Pressure is also low over the Northern
Rocky Rocky Mountain region. Miles City. Mont,
LOOPS millibars t29 81 inches) and thence
southwestward over the middle and south
ern plateau. hish pressure area is
moving southeastward over the south
ern New England Coast, New York, N Y,
l,025.1 millibars (30.27 incheSJ with
wedge extending southwestward 20 East
ern Tennessee Pressure is also high on
the Washington Coast. Tatoosh Island
1887 milibars (3029 inches) and is
relatively high over Minnesota During
the last "a hours local showers have
occurred in the Upper. Lake region. the
Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri
Valleys, and at scattered points in the
South Atlantic, the Middle Gulf, and
the southern Plains States. and the
Southern Rocky Mountain region. Tenn
peracures have risen slightly In the
Lake region and Lower Missouri and the
Upper Mississippi Valleys.
River Report
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry today; Potomac muddy
at Great Falls today.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
PART FIVE.
Rotioning Of Textiles
Announced in Holland
BY the Associated Press.

BY Lne ASS0clated PreSS.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 3 (Via Ber-
lin) Textiles will be rationed along
the lines Of the German system, the
director of the Netherlands State
Distribution Bureau for Textiles an
nounced today. The population will
be given ration cards.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Oldest Inhubitunts
To Meet Wednesday

Recollections Of presidential cam
paigns will be the topic of men,
bers of the Association Of Oldest
Inhabitants Of the District at their
meeting, 7;30 pm. Wednesday, in
old Union Engine House, Nineteenth
and H streets NV.
Evening star., 1940-08-04

This was at
midnight, Sep
tember 8, and I
was asleep, as
were most of the
others. We were
very tired. We
had spent the
a + t e r n on in
prayer. We were
each about 20
years old or less
and not too pi-
Gus, ut IN e
German bomb
ers h a d been
coming after us
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Life in Poland Under the Nozi Conquerors Heel
AmeHeonBorn Son Of Army Officer Tells Uncensored
Story Of the Conquest From September, 1888, Moy 1910

This Is the first OF series OF
sir articles By the American-born
son OF Polish Army colonel, oiu-
ing an uncenSored account OF the
German conquest OF Poland.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Report

State Wealth
District of Columbia-Fair TODAY followed
showers thunderstorms tonight tomorrow
~ 'N
Maryland-F today followed and thn-
derStorms late tomorrow ~
VnglniaParty cloudy portionx
followed by local and in
portions ~ ~ ~No
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Fences Become Arms

Iron railings surrounding monu-
ments in the church yard of St.
Margaret's in Rochester, England,
were pulled up and donated to the
government.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
College Closes at Election

To permit students to go home
to vote. the University of Havana
closed for three days beginning "a
hours before election day.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
BY MICHAEL SOBANSKI
(AS Told to Ira Wolfert).

The train on which / was riding
from Warsaw to Lublin with student
friends to join the Polish Army fell
into a hole blown by a bomb.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
PART TWO.
PART THREE.
PART FOUR.

Sports.
Nationals start badly in losing to
White Sox, to 6. Page Ell
Capital ringerites hitting fast pace
in Star play. Page E-2
Mrs. Herbert retains tennis loop
singles championship. Page E-3
D. C. amateur golfers to make big
bid in title tests. Page E-4
Sickle T and Attention get upset
wins at Saratoga. Page E-5
Classified advertising. Pages E-6-17
Service orders. Page E-7
Vital statistics. Page E-7
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Readers Guide
ond
News Summary
The Sunday Star, Aug. 4, 1910.
PART ONE.
Nam NeiUS Section.

Foreign.
Nazi bomb blasts follow warning by
Churchill. Page Al
Canada weighs steps against Mayor
who defied war law. Page Al
Diplomatic crisis grows from British
seizure of japanese. Page AL
NeWsmen on tour of Hamburg see
no "pulverization Page Al
Hungarian disorders in Transylvania
feared in Balkans. Page Az
British northern command tortifes
$500 square miles. Page A-3
Eliot questions expediency of send
ing Britain destroyers. Page AS
Tapering claims belle assertion Nazi
blockade is at peak. Page AS
Retiring Governor of Bahamas to
quit Nassau Tuesday. Page A-4
National.
Willkie to limit campaign cost to
$500 900. Page Al
Conscription only if voluntary enlist
ments fail proposed. Page Al
Washington and Vicinity
Fight seen to restore Senate D. c.
representation plan. Page Al
District budget hearings to be held
August 26-27. Page B-1
Defense housing plans bog down for
lack of funds. Page Az
Guard units leave for largest peace
time maneuvers. Page B-1
City planners study problems of ex-
panded population. Page B-1
Arrests increase in drive for litter
cleanup of District. Page B-1
Miscellaneous.
Obituary. Page A-10
Travel and resorts. Pages B-3-4
Evening star., 1940-08-04

The forest service planted $780,
900 trees In Kansas farm shelter
belts this year.
Evening star., 1940-08-04
Report Until 10 PM. Saturday.

Record Until 10 PM Saturday,
Highest 10, 4 pm. Yesterday year
ago, SIS.
Lowest. SO, 3:15 am. Yesterday year
ago. 20.
Tide Tables
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
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