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made great strides in last seven
years, gaining rights that have given
it parity with industry.
These gains have not been by
handout, by empty phrases or pats
on the back, but by having the rights
of labor recognized by the law OF
the land" he declared.
He warned, however, that this new
status has brought greater respon-
sibilities for labor leadership, and
that it is up to the labor movement
to produce as clean and intelligent
leadership as any other combination
Of men.
Asserting that the labor movement
has been marred by the strife be-
tween the American Federation OF
Labor and the Congress Of Industrial
Organizations, Mr.. La Guardia said
the quicker this division is eliminated
and labor is united again in one
strong powerful organization, the
better it will be for the labor move
ment.
The Mayor paid tribute to Daniel
J. Tobin. president of the Transfers
Union, for his efforts to effect a
Cancellation between the rival fac
tions.
He said the Transfers Union is
progressive and thoroughly Amer
ican." and, as the delegates arose to
cheer once more, Mr. La Guardia
concluded with this remark:
so, off with your coats: up with
your sleeves; get to work; and
America is saved"
To Pay for Radio Time.
In introducing Mr. La Guardia,
Mr.. Tobin called him neither a
Republican nor a Democrat but q
statesman" who has brought to the
City of New York fame. honor and
cleanliness" both politically and
industrially.
Earlier in the day President Tobin
announced that the Transfers
Union would reimburse the Demo-
cratic National Committee for the
$4,000 expense of broadcaSting
fiCSioCilI 1SOOoCNclIS epccCIl W lIlS
union delegates in Constitution Hall
tonight.
The speech. which the President
will deliver in Constitution Hall
is the first one since his nomination
to be labeled by White House spokes-
men as political"
Mr.. Tobin said the union would
not violate the Hatch Act, which
prohibits campaign contributions in
excess Of $1,000, because, he said
the $4,000 contribution would be
distributed among the local unions
Hatch Claims Violation.
Senator Hatch, Democrat, of New
Mexico, had asserted this would be
violation "of the spirit, If not the
letter. of the law"
The opening business session OF
the convention today was devoted
largely to internal affairs, including
the report of the international
treasurer, Thomas L. Hughes, cover
ing the unions activities for the last
five years. The report disclosed
funds to the credit of the union
September totaled IS ,267 $50, which
represented gain of s4,o30,000 in
the five-year period.
Of the amount expended during
that period $1,414,000 went for SAL
aries and expenses for officers and
organizers.
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fidence that I say let God defend
the right. These cruel, wanton, in
discriminate bombings of London
are. of course, part of Hitlers in4
vasion plan. He hopes by killing
large numbers of civilians and
women and children that he will ter
rorize and COW the people of this
mighty imperial city and make them
a burden and anxiety to the gov
eminent, and thus distract our at
tention unduly from the ferocious
onslaught he is preparing.
Little does he know the spirit Of
the British nation or the tough fiber
Of the Londoner whose forebears
played leading part in the estab-
lishment Of parliamentary institu-
tons and who have been bred to
value freedom far above their lives.
This wicked man, the repository
and embodiment of many forms of
soul-destroying hatred, this mon-
Strous product OF former wrongs
and shame has now resolved to try
TO break our famous island race by
process of indiscriminate slaughter
and destruction
What he has done is to kindle a
fire in British hearts here and all
over the world which will glow long
after all traces Of the conhagration
he has caused in London has been
removed. He his lighted a fire which
Will burn with a steady and con-
Stunning flame until the last vestiees
OF Nazl tyranny have been burnt
out OF Europe and until the Old
World and the New can Join hands
TO rebuild the temples of mans free
dom and mans honor upon founda-
tons which will rot soon or easily be
oyerthroWn.
Time TO Hold Firm.
This is time for every one to
stand together and hold firm. as
they are doing. | express nv ad-
miration for the exemplary manner
IN which all the afraid precaution
services of London are being dis
charged, especially the fire brigades
whose work has been so heavy and
also dangerous.
All the world that is still free mar
vels at the composure and fortitude
with which the citizens Of London
are facing and surrounding the
great ordeal to which they are SUBJ
Jected, the end of which or the Sc
verify Of which, cannot yet be fore
seen.
1t is message of good cheer to
our fighting forces on the seas. in
the air and in our waiting armies
in all their posts and stations that
We send them from this capital
city.
They know that they have behind
them a people who will not finch
or weary of the struggle, hard and
protracted though it will be. but
that we shall rather draw from the
heart of suffering itself the means
OF inspiration and survival.
And Of a victory won. not only
for ourselves. but for all; victory
won, not only for our time. but for
the long and better days that are
to come.
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Electric Power OUTPUT
Down So Per Cent
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, Sept. l1.-Electric
power output dropped to 2.462 ,622 900
kilowatt hours in the Labor-Day
week ended September 7, or So per
cent less than 2y601, 127 900 in the
preceding week. the Edison Electric
Institute reported today.
Latest production, however, was
still rs per cent ahead Of 2,289 $50 900
kilowatt hours in the comparable
1889 week which also included Labor
Day.
The decline was more than sea-
sonally anticipated. Hence the
Associated Press power index, based
on 1s29-30 as 100, declined to l29
from 1898 a week earlier. A year ago
the index, adjusted for seasonal
trend. was 1884.
1910. 1899. 1898. 1887. 1e34-s.
High 1925 1925 1l72 1852 1873
Low 1914 1873 1923 lll.8 9l.9
Percentage gains over a year ago
according to major geographic areas,
were reported as follows by the
institute:
New England, As; Middle Atlantic,
5.4; Central Industrial 1874; West
Central, 4.6; Southern States, 81;
Rocky Mountain, IL; Pacific Coast,
80.
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Refugee Ship Quonzo,
Barred by u. S, Fuels

NORFOLK. Va, Sept. 1.-THE
Portuguese refugee steamer Quanza.
whose passengers were denied per-
mission to land in New York and at
Vera Cruz, Mexico, entered Hamp-
ton Roads today to refuel.
Immigration officials here said
they had received no word from the
State Department altering the
ruling made when the ship put In at
New York and unless word was re-
ceived from Washington the pas
sengers would not be allowed to dis
embark.
The ships local agents said she
probably would remain in port only
six or eight hours-long enough to
load coal.
A number Of the Quanza's passen-
gers were reported bringing all their
wealth to the United States to in
trust to relatives here. She sailed
from Lisbon August 6.
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last night or that of the night before
have not been announced. Deaths
the first two nights of the raids were
placed at total of 500. with approx
imately 2.700 injured seriously.
One bomb fell in a famed West
End street 10 yards from shell
ter, killing pedestrian and shat
tering windows 100 yards away.
A Roman Catholic church in CEN
trail London was demolished by a big
bomb which crashed into the street
beside the building. The explosion
ignited broken gas main.
Heavy Anti-Aircraft Fire.
Unusually heavy anti-aircraft fire
over London was credited by some
with cutting the last overnight raid
shorter than previous attacks and
beating back many of the raiders
from the central city. The alarm
was in effect from Sill pm. until
4:40 am
Planes forced back from the mid
London area circled the city, bomb
ing the notwithstanding at targets
picked out in four scouting raids the
day before.
Long before dawn weary patrols
Of wardens covered their beats in
search Of time bombs, firemen worked
ceaselessly to check bomb-set flames
and rescue crews dug into new heaps
OF debris to save the living and car
ry out the dead.
Trains took many from the city
Of nightly horror, but for the most
part Londoners stuck it out grimly
determined not to bulge.
They put up with dislocated gas
and water service-cut off to some
districts because mains were dam
aged-walked to and from work be-
cause of detours and delays in the
transit system, and kept kits ready
packed for as much comfort as pos
sible in the air raid shelters to which
the trek at dusk has become rou-
tine.
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NSOIlIlIluCQ FIOUl T II Sl fhBtJ
Germans have built on the French
shore.
There are now considerable gath
er1ngS OF shipping in the German,
Dutch, Belgian and French harbors
all The way from Hamburg to Brest.
Finally there are some prepara-
tons made for ships to carry an in
vading force from the Norwegian
harbors. Behind these clusters of
ships or barges there stand very
large numbers of German troops
awaiting the order to 60 on board
and set out on their very dangerous
voyage across the sea.
Big Attack Being Prepared.
We cannot tell when they will
try TO come. We cannot be sure
in fact they will try at all, but no
one should blind himself TO the fact
that a heavy, full-scale invasion of
this island is being prepared with all
Of the usual German thoroughness
and method. and that it may be
launched at any time now upon
England, upon Scotland, or upon Ire
land, or upon all three.
II this invasion is going TO be
tried at all, ii does not seem that il
can be long delayed The weather
may break at any time Besides
this. it is difficult for the enemy
to keep these gatherings of ships
waiting about indefinitely while they
are bombed every night by our
bombers and very often shelled by
our warships, which are waiting for
them outside.
therefore. we must regard the
next week or so as very important
week for us in our history. AS
great as the days when the Spanish
Armada was approaching the Chan
mel and Drake was finishing his
game Of bowls, or when Nelson
stepped between US and Napoleon S
grand army at Boulogne.
We've read about the English in
the history books. But what is hap
penlng now is on far greater scale
and OF far more consequence to the
life and future of the world and its
civilization than these brave old
days in the past.
Every man and woman will.
therefore, prepare himself to do his
duty, whatever it may be, with spe-
cial pride and care. Our fleets are
very powerful and numerous. Our
air force is at the highest it has
ever reached, and it is conscious
of its proved superiority. not indeed
in numbers, but in men and ma
chimes.
Shores Well Fortified.
Our shores are well fortified and
strongly manned, and behind them.
ready to attack the invaders. we
have far larger and better equipped
mobile army than We have ever had
before.
Besides this, we have more than
a million and a half men of the
home guard who are just as much
soldiers of the regular Army in sta
tus as the Grenadier Guards and
all are determined to fight for every
inch of the ground in every village
and in every street.
1t is with devout but sure con-
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Export-|mportLoan
Pressed in Senate;
Debate Limited
BorkIey Says Hitler
Is Supplying Arms
To Latin America
BY the Associated Press.

Freely acknowledging that the
program was aimed at Hitler" and
"NaZi infiltration," Senate leaders
pressed today for approval Of a
$500 900 900 loan fund to assist trade
in South America.
Majority Leader Barley, after
getting unanimous Senate consent
to a strict limitation on debate,
forecast a final vote on legislation
which would increase funds of the
Governments Export-Import Bank
and broaden its powers.
Fears Hitler Penetration.
Senator Barley, In answer to a
series Of speeches criticizing the
loan program asked by President
Roosevelt, said he had reliable in
formation that "Hitler is Offering
ornaments to some South American
nations after this war is over"
Senator Wagner, Democrat. of
New York. chairman Of the Senate
Banking Committee and floor leader
for the legislation. told the Senate
earlier that the 'NaZi" leaders
sought economic controls in South
America and would follow with at
tempts to gain political controls.
Senator Wagner said the loans
would be used to back up mutual
aid" promised by the United States
to 81 other Western Hemisphere ma
tons at the recent Havana confer
ence.
Bill Called Futile.
Republican Senators. with some
Democratic help, peppered away at
the loan program as futile" at
tempt to keep up price levels for
surplus products from South An1eri-
can nations. Several cited heavy
losses suffered by private investors
due to the default of South Ameri-
can countries on bond issues.
They also commended that Gov
eminent loans might create i'll will
over the long run instead of aiding
the good neighbor" policy.
Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio,
an opposition leader, sought to
amend the bill to restrict any loans
to development of strategic and
critical materials or products nom
competitive with those of this coun-
try.
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Lincoln
Continued From First Page.)

cratic candidates-few Of the latter
have been able to carry Mime
sofa in recent years, except 1888,
by combining the votes Of the
Farmer-Laborites and those of the
Democrats. Under the circum-
stances this will be particularly
difficult this year. Minnesota Is
more than likely to 60 Republican
down the line. Four years ago, some
of the Democratic nominees for
ONCE withdrew and threw their
support to the Farmer-Laborites.
in return for Farmer-Labor support
of President Roosevelt.
Senator Shipstead's leading OPP
ponent was Martin Nelson, twice
Republican nominee for governor.
Senator Shipstead was running far
ahead of him in the returns so far
received. The vote cast in the
Republican senatorial primary, from
the same number of voting pre-
cincts reporting, was more than
twice the size of the Farmer-Labor
primary vote.
Senator shipstead went al the
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Washington Exchange

SALES.
Capital Traction, LIST SSH 900 at
l03, 81 1000 at 1903.
Washington Gas Light. pfd-5 at
los, 8 at 1051s, 2 at 1855 10 at los,
10 at 105, 10 at los, 10 at los, 5 at
los.
American Security Il Trust Col
at 231.
Capital Traction, 1st 5s-sl 900 at
103, $500 at 1927.
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U.S.. Embassy Damaged Slightly
In British Raid on Berlin

UNEMPLOYED until the danger of
handling incendiaries-if that is
what they contains reduced.
The damage to the Embassy
was a dent in the wall of the
ONCE of First Secretary Donald
r. Heath.
Heath arrived at his ONCE after
the raid and found a half--ound
fragment of a bomb which ex-
ploded $50 yards away had
smashed through a window,
dented the opposite wall and
dropped to the floor.
Otherwise the Embassy prop
erty, in the center of the bombed
area which includes the Reich
stag. French Embassy and Knoll
Opera House, was undamaged.
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BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Sept. 1.-THE United
States Embassy was damaged
slightly by one Of the bombs
dropped into Central Berlin today
by British night raiders.
Half of the Embassy garden,
including the tennis court, was
closed because of fresh holes
suspected as containing unex-
ploded bombs.
One such hole at the edge of
the garden is barely a yard from
the home of Propaganda Minister
Paul Joseph Goebbels, which ad-
joins the Embassy property.
The holes, about inches across
and a foot deep. are being left
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Sofewoy Store Sales
Slightly Above 1899
Special Dispatch to The Star.

sptc!aI DISPATCH 70 The Star.
NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-Sales Of
Safeway Stores, Inc, for the four
weeks ended August 81, 1910,
amounted to s3o,547 .230, an increase
of SIS per cent over sales of $780,
380,8l8 reported for the four weeks
ended September 2. 1899.
Sales for the So weeks ended
August 81, 1910, were $272, 222 1854,
a gain Of 400 per cent over sales
Of S260,259,676 for the So weeks
ended September 2, 1889.
Stores in operation on August 81,
1910. totaled 1886. compared with
1885 on September 2, 1899.
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London Tin Quotation

LONDON, Sept. IL tR.-Tin
easier; spot, f248 bid, f249 asked;
future, f25l bid, f25l los asked.
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Newport to Condition
Six More Destroyers
BY the Associated Press,


NEWPORT, r. l., Sept. 11.-Naval
station offlcisls said yesterday six
average destroyers would arrive this
week from Norfolk, Va, to be condi-
toned for transfer to Great Britain
in the trade for Western Hemisphere
naval and air bases.
The six vessels are the McCook.
Bancroft, Kalk, Maddox, Crowell
and Foote.
-Four more d,etroyers-the Aulich,
Laub, McLanahan and Edwards
are due here from Norfolk within
two weeks.
The Japanese Empire comprises
nearly 600 islands
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tx QlVldehQ.

Plus extras. d20c paid June is. 1910.
e2G extra. gS14 90 extra paid Deem
per 20: 1889. k20c extra. m S1.60 eL-
trsso nj SOC paid September 90. 1888
1870 vS1.00 extra paid January. 1910.
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FIVE NEW STAMPS COMING-The Pest ONCE Department
Bureau today released photographs designs
pared for postal adhesives concentrating Ave additional
Heroes of Peace. All inventors the list including Eli Whit
ney, cotton gin; Samuel F. telegraph; Cyrus H
Cormck reaper Elias Howe sewing machine and Alexander
Graham Bell telephone The stamps will 60 sale during
October. Post Office Department Photos
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BONDS

PUBLIC UTILITY.
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way in his conversion to the Re-
publican party, declaring himself
for the election Of the G. o. P.
presidential candidate, Wendell
Willie
Evening star., 1940-08-25
Invasion Of Eng ond Waits British Battle Control

verbally tore Mr.. Bullitt to pieces during
odd moments of interminable debate
over conscription bill. And punctuating
this American way" Of considering great
issues, group of women on Wednesday
hanged F!orida's Senator Pepper IN
efigy for his espouSal Of draft measure.
Probably Of greater importance than
these mental and oratorical convulsions
were three cooperative projects with
belligerent Britain and Canada.
First, decided upon at a weekend
border conference Of President Roose-
velt and Prime Minister
Joint Mackenzie King was the
Boord creation Of a joint Cana
dian American Defense
Board to plan a continental defense
program - presumably to implement
pledged policy of this Government that
it would never permit invasion of North
ern Dominion. Including New Yorks
Mayor La Guardia, six American men,
bers Of board were named Thursday
night, met with Chief Executive here
yesterday and sit with Canadian group
in Ottawa tomorrow.
Second, first revealed in previous week,
was negotiation with London govern
ment for acquisition Of of1shore naval
and air bases at strategic Atlantic,
Caribbean and Panama locations. Al
though London sources indicated agree
ments we're near completion. official
Washington withheld definite informa-
ton. On Wednesday, special cabinet
group discussed legal ramifcations of
proposition; on Thursday they met with
President.
Third was administration considera-
ton of transfer of some so overage and
decommissioned destroyers to British op-
Grafton. Cognizant of controversial
qualities Of this idea, administration
spokesmen would make only coyest OF
admissions that consideration was being
given to plan. But that Britain could
make good use Of vessels for convoy work
was obvious.
Evening star., 1940-08-25

Back on Capitol Hill major business
of week was consideration of conscrip-
tion legislation, with
Conscripts vs.. significant test pending
Volunteers in form of Senate pro-
posal that draft be de-
ferred until 194l for further trial Of
voluntary recruiting.
Opposition to this suggestion was
voiced by President Roosevelt in Friday
press conference. In his most forth
right statement thus far on this issue,
Chief Executive warned that time is
of the essence, that voluntary recruiting
of 100000 needed men would take two
years, that continuance of congressional
talk instead Of action will seriously
jeopardize defense program.
Meanwhile. Congress accorded to
President authority to call into service
100000 National Guardsmen and Re-
servists. And the Senate Appropriations
Committee accorded its approval to s5,-
0Oe 900 supply measure, opening way
to important naval construction and
permitting support of army of 1,2OO 900
men.
Still under conversational debris is
legislation which would ease tax and
profit restrictions upon national defense
contractors. And as big bloc of Amer.
lean industry announced itself ready to
expand for defense orders first and talk
profits later. Senate blocked effort to
enact legislation drafting industry and
capital. United States exports rose IS
per cent in 10 months of Europes war,
principal gains being to Britain and
Latin America
In New York State, defending Blue
Army routed invading mechanical Black
Army in giant maneuvers.
In New York City. camoufaged Brit
ish liner landed first 210 English refugee
children, already assigned TO American
homes. Congress completed action on
measure to permit American ships to
enter combat zones to bring out refugee
children.
Evening star., 1940-08-25

Of Albanian minorities Qtalian forces
brought freedom from oppression" to
tiny Albania last year by taking over
previously independent country and de-
manded cancellation of Greco-British
defense agreement. Surprise occupation
of strategically located Greek islands of
Crete and Corfu by either British or
italian naval units became constant
possibility in midweek.
And as delicate Balkan balance thus
teetered, Turkey and Russia watched
intently-not far, perhaps, from involve
ment in this maddest of wars.
At opposite end OF Mediterranean,
Italian aircraft three times bombed
Britain's Gibraltar-once firing ammu-
milton dump-and once more attacked
important British naval base at Malta.
AS did Berlin earlier in week, Rome
on Wednesday proclaimed total block
ade" of British territorial ports citing
as partial justification for advice" to