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Evening star., 1940-12-24

fast as they came off the production
line"
Representative Harness. Repub-
lican, of Indiana, member of the
Military Committee, asserted that
the average Panamanian employed
on construction work on the canal
was incompetent lazy .
practically worthless"
Representative Harness said that
the United States has been nego-
tiating with the Republic of Panama
for defense stations beyond the
Canal Zone proper.
The Navy yesterday frightened its
contract forms against sabotage and
espionage in construction activities
everywhere. Under the new order,
the Navy can force a Navy con-
tractor to discharge any employe
designated by the Secretary of the
Navy as undesirable to have access
10 work or materials for the Navy"
Evening star., 1940-12-24
Recreation Program
Planned for Troops
Here From Camps
Facilities to Replace
'OId-Time Saturday
Night Sought

A co-ordinating committee named
to assist Army chaplains at nearby
training camps and Washington
churches of all denominations pre-
pared today to make survey of
religious and recreational facilities
in the District for the benefit of
enlisted men at cantonments.
Preliminary plans were made yes
terday at the Hay-Adams House
where representatives of Protestant,
Jewish and Catholic faiths met to
discuss means of ''offsettlng detri-
mental influences around camps
and to assist in maintaining the
religious life of the men.
I'VE are not trying to do polio
ing jobs but are attempting to assist
chaplains in their many duties,
Walter l. Lawson of the First Bap-
tist Church, who presided at the
meeting, told the group.
He stressed that Army officials
were in complete accord with their
efforts. He pictured between 10000
and $4,000 young men "set loose" in
Washington and other nearby cities
for week ends and added that "the
old-fashioned Saturday night should
be changed to something better"
The group agreed on the follow
ing program:
A canvass of local recreational
facilities, such as the Y. M. C. A,
the Knights of Columbus, Jewish
Community Center.
A compilation of church direc-
tory, listing services of all denomi-
nations in the city, to be posted at
camps
A conference with Army chap
lains on religious needs at camps.
George G. Cohen, Washington
field representative of the Jewish
Welfare Board, was selected to pre-
side at the next meeting of the
committee. He said conference
would be called the first of the
month, following completion of the
lOCdl oul NCyS. AZ tIldU blillC tllC
committee will work out a more
complete program.
Mr.. LaWton said it was the func-
ton of the committee to give en-
listed men "the right influences, the
right things to do and the right
places to CO."
Among those attending were Will
liam R. Barnhart, executive secre-
tary of the Federation of Churches;
Edward j. Heffron, executive secre-
tary of the National Council of
Catholic Men; Malcolm D. Lam
borne, sr., associate lay leader of
the East District of the Methodist
Church; Capt. Edgar Graham of
the National City Christian Church,
DR.. Thomas R. Wilson of the First
Baptist Church and Edward P.
Hodges of the Mount Vernon Place
Methodist Church.
Evening star., 1940-12-24
YuIe
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Continued From First Page.)
a general Christmas message to
all children and their parents.
The minister admitted that
"there was much heartache" be-
cause many children had been
removed from Western Germany,
Hamburg and Berlin and could
not enjoy Christmas with their
parents. He also recalled that
many children of families re-
patriated from other territory
had not found permanent homes.
"But that is the way things
happen in wartime" he said.
1--WE must all make big sacrifices.
Every mother must rest assured,
however, that no matter where
her child may be today it is sur
rounded by love-"
Reichs Marshal Hermann
Goering was disclosed by DNB,
official German news agency, to
be playing Santa Claus to the
children of his aviators who have
been killed.
The news agency said Marshal
Goering opened a savings account
of 1000 marks nominally $400)
for each child, but 1t was not
disclosed how many received the
gift.
Argentina hopes to ship large
quantities Of casein to the United
States.
Evening star., 1940-12-24

Argentina hopes to ship large
quantities Of casein to the United
States.
Evening star., 1940-12-24
Cemetery Is Robbed
For Christmas Tree

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, Dec. "a
Police are searching today for a
7-foot pine tree that stood in the
corner of National Military Gene
terry.
They suspect it was stolen for use
as Christmas tree.
Although the evergreen market
has been glutted here for some DAYS.
this tree, a particularly beautiful
specimen, was sawed off at the base
and carried away, it was reported
by Capt. D. M. Sprinkle, superin-
tendent.
Evening star., 1940-12-24
Decree Fuvors Landlords

Uruguay has decreed that land
lords may evict unemployed work.
men and that the government shall
compensate the landlord.
Evening star., 1940-12-24

List of Christmos Donors
Gifts Will Bring Cheer at YuIetide
To Hundreds in Capitol Area

Here are the dollars that will
enable the mothers of needy children
to buy the things that make q
Christmas. And here are the people
who today put those mothers and
children on their own Christmas
lists by contributing to The Star
Christmas funds:
Evening star., 1940-04-01

over the revenue legislation, the
committee considered three bills but
withheld action on them until next
Monday.
One would permit voluntary re-
tirement of police and f1remen at
half pay after Is years service.
Another would revise existing law
regulating the practice OF podiatry.
The third would transfer from the
ONCE Of the Recorder of Deeds to
the Department of Vehicles and
Traffic the duty of recording and re-
leasing liens and encumbrances on
motor vehicles.
Mrs George C. Thorpe. chairman
of the Legislative Committee Of the
Advisory Board of the American
Automobile Association. Harry 8
Wender. vice president of the Fed
Grafton of Citizens Association and
others, appeared before the commit
tee to urge approval of the last
named bill.
Washington I. Cleveland of the A.
A. A. told the committee the meas
ure had been Endorsed by the Civic
Federation. the Washington Board
Of Trade, the District Bankers As
sociation and a number of other
organizations and that the only
opposition had come from the ohice
OF the Recorder of Deeds.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
D. 6. Taxes
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. OAAs = SAW 4 o6S(
should demand that the House con-
slider this BILL
Il have talked, too, with a num-
Der of House members" declared
Mr.. Schultz, "and I know they will
fight a sales tax in any form"
Representatives Bates pointed out
it is imperative" that some form
OF tax legislation be enacted this
year because of a million dollar de-
f1cit that confronts the municipal
government at the close of the pres
ent fiscal year. which he said would
amount to about $l,700.0OO at the
close of the new fiscal year begin
ming July l.
Unless new tax legislation is en-
acted. he said, the Commissioners
would be forced to raise the pres
ent $1.75 tax on real estate and
personal property. And, he warned.
increased real estate taxes will bring
increased rents.
Representative Poage, Democrat,
Of Texas insisted that rents in
Washington already are high in
comparison with other cities that
have lower real estate tax rate.
Chairman Randolph requested
members of the committee to con-
slider the tax situation during the
week, but declared he would not
make another attempt to call up the
Nichols bill unless specifically in
structed by vote of the committee.
Before and after the discussion
Evening star., 1940-04-01
German White Book
Held Retaliation
Against Roosevelt
Was ReprisoI, Soy French.
For Refusal to Help
Peuce Offensive
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, April IA semi -ofiicial
French statement yesterday charged
the Germans with issuing alleged
Polish documents, which attributed
war Vaccinations to United States
diplomats, In an attempt to "ad-
vance themselves" against President
Roosevelt because he refused to be
an "accomplice" in a Hitler peace
offensive.
At the same time. a Polish gov
ernment spokesman said a COM
munique was being prepared for re-
lease probably today. which would
brand as fakes" the documents the
Germans said they discovered In the
files of the Polish Foreign Once in
Warsaw and which they made public
Friday as a white book.
The spokesman said all important
diplomatic papers were sent out of
Warsaw to places of security during
the first week of the September war
between Poland and Germany.
The French statement saw Sig
nificance" in the fact the Germans
did not publish the documents until
President Roosevelt had conferred
with Undersecretary Sumner Welles
on his return to Washington from
his fact-flnding European tour.
After the conference, it said, the
American executive dashed their
hopes with the statement that there
was "scant immediate prospect for
the establishment of any just, stable
and lasting peace in Europe.
The Presidents statement came
after his second conference with Mr.
Welles, on Friday, and after the
Germans issued the alleged Polish
documents.
1t was added that the Germans
wanted to compromise" President
Roosevelt before public opinion and
"to try to prevent his reelection in
case he is candidate for a third
term"
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Democrats Will Study
Selection Of Delegates

Special Dispatch to The Btar.
FAIRFAX. Va. April IA meet
ing of the Fairfax County Demo-
Evening star., 1940-04-01
DR.. William Gerry Morgan
Wins High Medical Honor
College Of Physicions
Will Award Degree
Of Master

DR.. William Gerry Morgan, former
president Of the American Medical
Association, professor of medicine
at Georgetown University, and one
Of the most eminent practicing phy-
sicians in Washington, will be
awarded the highest distinction of
the American College of Physicians,
meeting at Cleveland this week,
when he Is made 4 master Of the
college.
This honor is to be awarded for
the first time in IL years. DR..
Morgan will share the honor with
DIR. James B. Herrick, noted heart
specialist of Chicago, professor At
the Rush Medical College.
Only six masters have been
created in the past and of these
only one, DR.. Charles F. Martin of
Montreal, is now living. He will
formally notify Drs. Morgan and
Herrick Of the honor conferred on
them Wednesday.
The American College of Physi-
clans is the highest professional
organization of physicians in the
United States whose members are
not confined to single speciality.
DR.. Morgan long has been 4 leader
in professional activities in the
United States and one of the best
known specialists in gastro-intes-
final ailments in this section of the
country. He is the author of the
standard book on gastroenterology
associate editor of the Encyclopedia
Of Medicine, and has contributed
many articles on his speciality to
medical journals.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Several Are Injured
As Weather Lures
Crowds 10 Highways
Upper Marlboro Man
Brought: to Hospital
Here After Crush

An Upper Marlboro CMd.) man
was in a serious condition in Cas-
ualty Hospital today. one of several
victims Of trafllc accidents in WASH
ington and nearby yesterday as mo-
torists crowded highways for spring
outings.
Elmer Canter, "a, was brought to
the hospital by the Marlboro Rescue
Squad early today from an acci-
dent near Marlboro. He was treated
for a head injury and a compound
fracture of the arm.
Two persons were treated at
Emergency Hospital Yesterday fol-
lowing a collision at Twenty first
ard K streets NV. police reported.
Clarenc" Hollaway, 81. of 1910
Twenty-first street NV, received
treatment for rib injuries and Ora
B. Goggins, SO, of Arlington, Va, for
multiple cuts of the face. They
later were released from the hos
pital.
Police arrested a man who gave
his name AS Arthur A. Burr, 80, Of
Arlington after he was reported to
have collided with two automobiles
near Thirteenth and Buchanan
streets NV. last night. Following
treatment at Gallinger Hospital for
body and head lacerations, the
driver was charged with driving
while drunk and leaving after COL
liding.
Police said Mr.. Burr drove on for
block after the accident. There
were no other injuries.
Rockville (MdD police continued
their search for the hit-and-run
driver who struck two youths late
Saturday night as they walked along
West Montgomery avenue near the
town limits. Pau A. Taulelle, II,
and Walter c. Smith, II, both of
Rockville, were struck.
The two were treated at Mont
gomery County General Hospital at
Sandy Spring and later sent home.
Evening star., 1940-04-01

cratic Executive Committee will be
held in the courthouse tonight to
reconsider the method of electing
delegates to the State convention,
John A. K. Donovan, secretary Of
the committee, announced.
The Executive Committee pre-
viously voted to select delegates
at magisterial district wass meet
ings to be held during the present
week. The Providence district meet
ing was set for Wednesday, and all
others for Saturday afternoon.
Evening star., 1940-04-01

He became president of the Amer
ican Medical Association at It's
meeting here in 1927 and has served
As president Of the American Con-
gress on Internal Medicine. He also
has been vice president and COVER
nor Of the American College of
Physicians. He formerly was dean
of the Georgetown University School
Of Medicine and Is still associated
with the Georgetown faculty.
The regents Of the college yester-
day approved the nomination Of
IA physicians from all parts of the
United States for association mem
berships. They elevated l26 associ-
ates to fellowship in the college.
Evening star., 1940-04-01

$1,700 to fall back on, and felt that
the reduction was justified in view
of the new reassessment.
A reward Of $25 was voted by the
council for information leading to
the conviction and arrest of the
poisoner Of several dogs in the COM
munity.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Garrett Park Reduces
Tax Rute 20 Per Cent

A Accent tax rate on 500 as
sessed value, = reduction OF 20 per
cent, was set for Garrett Park, Nd,
at a special meeting Of the Town
Council Saturday night.
The council also adopted budget
Of $2,500, with estimated receipts in
about the same amount. Mayor
Roy p. Moore, in announcing the
reduction in the levy, said the town
has q surplus of between 81, 500 and
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Iroq Changes Cabinet

BAGHDAD, Iraq. April (P.-
The cabinet of Gen. Muri Es-Said
resigned yesterday and a new cab
met was formed Immediately with
Rashid Ali Gallant as prime min
lister and the general as foreign min
lister.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Norwegian Ship Aground

LONDON, March 81 P.-The
625-ton Norwegian vessel Nydalen
ran ashore on the Scottish coast to-
day and was feared to be a total
loss. The crew was rescued.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-15
Britain Hopes
To Terminate
Sino-Jap War
Prepared To Offer Conces-
sions To Japan In Hong
kong; On Burma Road
NEGOTIATIONS BEGUN
Washington Officials With
hold Comment On Latest
Move In The Far East

LONDON, July 14.-R-Grea1
Britain is prepared to offer con
cessions to Japan in Hongkong and
over the Burma road in the hope
of ending the japanese Chinese
war, authoritative quarters sug'
gested tonight.
Although the British were por'
trayed as unwilling to forego trea'
ty rights and industrial interests
in the far East, they yer said to
be interested in arranging a larger
settlement to end@the 93-year-old
conflict.
Negotiations Begun
Negotiations already are in pro.
gress in Tokyo concerning the Bur
ma road, which is China's last
important link with the outside
world.
The Japanese have demanded
closure of this route, and British
Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie
Craigie is reported to have been
authorized to offer a 3-month re.
striction on arms traffic over it
pending broader exploration of the
entire problem.
The rainy season is coming on,
and the road would be of little use
during that period in any event.
Few Shipments
It was said here that there had
been few recent shipments of Brit
ish munitions over the road be-
cause Britain has needed all she
can produce for her own war
against Germany.
In these negotiations, the posi-
ton of Hongkong, British crown
colony on the China coast, is re-
garded as secondary, because
arms shipments to China from that
port have been restricted since
1889.
Observers pointed out that since
Britain has even gone to the length
of issuing trade credits and send
ing arms to China in the past,
there is no reason to suppose that
any large-scale settlement would
damage Chinese interests.
The British desire was said al
ways to have been for peace on
equitable terms for both parties.
Authoritative quarters cautioned,
however, that it would be wrong to
assume that Britain intended to
start any policy Of granting major
concessions to Japan which would
jeopardize British Oriental inter-
ests or prejudice China's resist
ance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-15
BASTILLE HOLIDAY
NOTED IN FRANCE
Mourning Services Replace
Merriment On 151st An
niversary OF Freedom

VICHY, July 14.-R-France in
tears observed today the 151st an
niversary of her freedomthe day
revolutionary mobs stormed the
Basti1e fortress and won the first
taste of a liberty that now lies
crumbled in military defeat.
Mourning services in the church
es replaced cafe merriment and
dancing in the streets.
Heading the Bastilleday observ-
ance was Marshal Henri Philippe
Petain in whom are vested the
powers of president, Premier and
parliament as chief of the new
state to which France looks for
salvation.
With members of his govern
ment the marshal attended mass,
placed a wreath on a monument
President Lebrun, turned from Of
fee in the swift change of govern
ment that made France an auth
oritarian state.
For ten minutes they talked pri-
vately. The crowd outside cheered
Lebrun as he rode slowly away.
The anniversary of the storming
of the bastille fortress by Paris
revolutionary mobs brought no hol-
iday rest for the new government.
Its agencies worked ceaselessly
with the vast problems of reorgan-
ization and resettlement.
The American embassy was
crowded by Americans and others
unable to reach representatives OF
their own countries.
dispatches from Lisbon S d
William C. Bullitt, United States
ambassador to France, booked
passage on the clipper plane for
New York and will leave Portugal
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-15

The policy does not apply to
the higher enlisted ranks of
Of master, staff and technical
sergeant which carry pay con-
sidered sufficient to provide
for dependents.
Looking toward the time
when thousands of workers an
nually may leave their jobs
for periods of military service,
many employers already had
worked out plans for leaves
with pay before President
Roosevelt announced last week
his intention to call four ma
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-15
|NAZIS MAKE CALLS
UPON PUERTO RICO
Demands Presented In Re.
cent Communication Re-
garding Farley

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, July IA.
-tR-Diplomatic sources said to-
day that economic demands upon
Costa Rica were contained in the
recent German communication re-
questing that no action against
Germany be taken at the Ameri-
can ministers conference July 20,
The German note about the con-
ference was transmitted to four
other Central American countries
by DR.. Otto Reinebeck, German
minister.
Diplomatic circles here, how
ever, were unable to say whether
the demands reported made to
Costa Rica were included in the
other notes.
In addition to observing that any
action at the Havana conference
affecting Costa Rica's neutrality
would be "idsadvantageous," the
German communication was quo
ted in diplomatic circles as say
ing:
Frozen deposits in the Costa
Rican National bank intended for
exporters in Germany should be
made available to the reich, pos
sibly to maintain German ships
and crews in refuge in Costa Ri
can ports. Enactment of a law to
this end was asked.
2-The treatment accorded Ger
man naval units refuged in the
port of Punta Arenas is not as
satisfactory as that accorded Al
lied naval units there.
The same sources said it was
that all five Central
governments would re-
ject the German minister's note,
and indicated Costa Rica's reply
to all phases of the communication
would be in harmony with the
answers by the other governments.
It was predicted here that the
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-15

A movement among employ
ers to give limited leaves Of
absence to men summoned by
the army or navy likewise
promised to cushion personal
difficulties resulting from the
prospective partial mobiliza-
ton of the guard.
Under the new official policy
governing service in the ma
tional guard, only single men
will fill the three lowest ranks
Of private, corporal and SER
geant. Married men already in
these ranks will be permitted
to resig~
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-15
WHIPS %EX-PRESIDENT'
Takes Case To Polls And.
Downs Dr.. Ramon Gran
San Martin By 80
BY EDMUND A. CHESTER

HAVANA, July 14.-R -Fulgen-
clio Batista, the stalwart army Ste
nographer who became the strong
man of Cuba when he led the six
Sergeants' Revolt" in 1888, evidently
won easily at the polls today the ma
tional presidency into which he could
have stepped at any time without
the formality of election.
Choosing to take his case to the
voters, he defeated a former presi-
dent, DR.. Ramon Grau San Martin,
by a 8 to 2 margin on the basis of
unofficial reports from throughout
the island.
Scattered Violence
There was scattered vi n C e
which caused at least four deaths
and wounding of rs persons, but gen
orally the balloting was compare
lively quiet.
A few election booths
burned, some telephone wires were
cut, a bridge or two blown up, and
a few trees felled acros highways,
but all these were regarded as more
u less routine exuberance in a
Cuban election.
Always confident that the people
favored him, Batista never had got
ten a clear-cut answer since he and
five other sergeants on Sept. 4, 1888,
seized military and civil power in
Cuba.
Tonight, though official returns
will not be available for a day or
two, Batista appeared definitely "in."
Charges and counter-charges of
fraud were made but there was
nothing to indicate that, they could
possibly change the result, in which
the self educated Batista, born to
poverty and ~peasantry, won from the
~58-year-old DR.. Grau, an %aristocrat
and intellectual with leftist tenden-
cies.
In the Havana mayoral race, Sec
ond in Importance to the presidency
itself, Raul Memorial, a Batista can
didate, was gaining a slight edge in
a close race with Miguel Mariana
Gomez, a Grau man.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-15
AT NOON TODAY
Col. George Gillette Makes
Arrangements For Trip
Through The Canal

Josiah w. Bailey, senior senator
from North Carolina and chairman
of the senate commerce commit
tie, along with j. Melville Brougn-
ton, governor-nominate of North
Carolina, will arrive in Whining
ton at noon today to begin an In
spection trip through North Caro-
lina's waterways.
They come to Wilmington at the
invitation of Lieut.-Col. George Gill
lette, district army engineer. Alex
Webb. of Raleigh, will accompany
them.
Purpose I,
The purpose of the trip, the col
onel said last night, will be to en-
able the senator and the governor
nominate to familiarize them
selves with the status of present
improvements here and in other
places and to obtain first hand
ideas as to the future needs OF the
city and the state as a whole"
The party, upon arrival here,
will 90 direct to the government
dock at the foot of Market street
where they will board the survey
boat Kitty Hawk. After an inspec-
ton of the waterfront and harbor,
the inspection party will proceed
down the river and north througs1
the inland waterway, making brief
stops at all projects along the
coast.
Both Senator Bailey and
Broughton,' Col. Gillette said,. ARE
interested in the development OF
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