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Evening star., 1940-08-06
Text of Hull Statement
Warns Thut Citizens Must Be Reudy
And Willing to Make Sacrifices

into serious trouble or actual war
by the wild and destructive forces
now abroad elsewhere in the world
and to command respect for it's
rights and interests abroad Is for
our people to become thoroughly
conscious of the possibilities Of
danger, to make up their minds
that we must continue to arm and
to arm to such an extent that the
forces Of conquest and ruin will not
dare make an attack on us or on
any part of this hemisphere. To
this end, each citizen must be ready
and willing for real sacrifice Of
time and of substance, and for
hard personal service. In the face Of
terrific problems and conditions,
and until the present serious
threats and dangers have disap-
peared, we cannot pursue COM
placently the course of our CUSTOM
ary normal line.
I feel constrained thus to offer
my views in the light of what is
already a dangerously widespread
movement for world conquest and
for the destruction of most of the
worthwhile things which civiliza-
ton has given the human race.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Community House Work
By Children on Exhibit

A fashion show ana an exhibi-
tion of work done by the children
will feature the closing exercises of
the summer activity school of the
Southwest Community House at 7:3o
o'clock tonight at Bell School, Sec
ond street and Virginia avenue S.W.
Children of the house will take
part in folk dancing and songs and
games at the Southwest Center, SOL
Second street s.W., tomorrow from
6 to $50 pm.
Maj. Campbell C. Johnson, treas
urer of the Southwest Community
House, will speak on tonight's pro-
gram, which includes songs by
nursery children, a piano solo by
Gertrude Garnes and the awarding
of certificates by John T. Rhines.
c. o. Lewis, superintendent, will
speak briefly.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
FOLLOWING Is the tert OF a state
ment issued yesterday BY Secre-
tdrv OF State Hull:

By the Associated Press.
The strong belief of the repre-
sentatives of the 81 American ma
tions at the recent Havana meeting
was that the military and other
sinister activities on the part of
some nations in other large areas
OF the world present real possibilities
Of danger to the American re-
publics.
1t was universally recognized that
q threat to any important part Of
the Americas means a threat to
each and all of the American ma
tions. 1t was, therefore, agreed that
full and adequate preparations for
continental defense could not be
taken too soon II the threatened
danger from abroad was to be
checked and terminated. 1t was also
the unanimous view at Havana that
the prompt strengthening Of unity
and solidarity for the purpose of
continental defense and for its i'm
fermentation by concrete programs
supported by the 81 nations was
indispensable to the safety, Sc
curity, peace and welfare of this
hemisphere.
Lesson From Europe.
There was general agreement that
II the peaceful nations of Europe
had thus promptly organized them
selves for self-defense on the most
effective cooperative basis. the
chances are that their situation and
that of Europe would be vastly diff
ferent today. Instead, many of those
countries complacently relied upon
utterances of peaceful purpose and
upon their own neutrality to safe
guard them against the mighty
forces Of invasion, conquest and de-
struction. Some of them have been
overrun and destroyed by the ruth
less invader. Their fate should be
tragic lesson to us.
The vast forces of lawlessness,
conquest and destruction are still
moving across the earth like a
savage and dangerous animal at
large. BY their very nature, those
forces will not stop unless and until
they recognize that there exists un-
breakable resistance.
Other Tasks Ahead.
At Havana We forged new instru-
mentalities of continental defense.
These will be of vast importance to
our Nation and to every American
nation. But there are other and i'm
mense tasks still before us.
would greatly prefer to say that
we are safe in this country and in
this hemisphere from outside dan
ger. But am firmly convinced that
what is taking place today in many
areas of the earth is a relentness
attempt to transform the civilized
world as we have known it into a
world in which lawlessness, violence
and force will reign supreme, as
they did thousand years ago. The
people of this country cannot recog-
nize too soon this fact and it's over
whelming significance for our ma
tional safety and for the main
tenance of our national institutions.
Must Prepare to Sacrifice.
The one and only sure way for
our Nation to avoid being drawn
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Mccarthy. Proponent
OF Irish Freedom, Dies
BY the Associated Press.

by tne Associated PresS.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 6.-Joseph
Mccarthy, a leader of the move
ment in the United States for the
independence Of Ireland, died yes
terday. He was 66.
Mr. Mccarthy, who came to this
country at the age of Is, formerly
headed Clan Ma Gael, the American
association of Irish patriots, and was
close friend of such Irish Repub-
lican leaders as Eamon de Valera
now Premier of Fire; Sir Roger
Easement, who was executed by the
British during the World War, and
Terrence MacSweeney, Lord Mayor
of Cork. He founded and directed
the Irish Press, and in 1922 was
instrumental in uniting two Re-
publican groups headed by De Valera
and Michael Collins.
Despite his love for his native
country, Mr.. Mccarthy called his
American citizenship "one of the
most valuable of all gifts"
Evening star., 1940-08-06
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Evening star., 1940-08-06
Apprenticeship Plan
To Be Speeded Up 10
Assure Craftsmen
Federul Committee to
Extend Program to
Defense Manufacturing
BY OLIVER MCKEE.

To assure an adequate supply Of
skilled workers in the national de-
fense industries, the Federal Com
mittee on Apprenticeship is plan
ming to expand and speed up its
apprenticeship program. Established
by Secretary of Labor Perkins in
1894, the committee until recently
had devoted most Of Its attention to
obtaining the training Of apprentices
in the building trades industries,
through voluntary agreements be-
tween labor organizations snd en-
ployers. Now it will extend It's pro-
gram to manufacturing, particularly
the industries engaged in the pro-
duction of war materials.
The committee has increased re-
Gently the number of its field agents
and Is establishing five regional ofii-
ces at Denver, Dallas, Boston,
Harrisburg, Pa, and Madison, Wis.
Through the regional Offices and its
corps of field agents, the committee
is seeking the active cooperation Of
manufacturers and organized labor
in plans for training future workers.
About 10 Per Cent Skilled.
OF the Nations labor force, ap-
proximately 10 per cent are skilled
craftsmen. Though the mass of
workers in modern production plants
are classified as semi-skilled, effi-
cient and dependable, output largely
depends on the availability of an
adequate working force of skilled
craftsmen-"lead and set up men, ~
who have an expert knowledge ac-
quired only through years Of ex-
perience of the operations OF a
particular trade.
In the World War the lack OF
skilled workers in the defense in
dustries was major factor con-
tributing to the delay in the manu-
facture Of war munitions and equip
ment. Attempts were made by the
Government to train apprentices
for the skilled crafts in few weeks
The results were unsatisfactory. To
train an apprentice for the metal
trades or other national defense in
dustries requires anywhere from two
to seven years, according to Labor
Department experts.
There Is no shortage of skilled
workers throughout the country as
whole today, though shortages
may exist at certain points and in
certain specialized crafts, the Labor
Department contends. Shortages
may occur later, however, If the ma
tional defense program, as now
seems likely, requires enormously
increased production for a period
of several years or more.
In its plans for apprentice train
ing. therefore, the Federal COM
mittee is looking to the needs of the
future rather than the present, to
the time when additional skilled
workers will be needed as replace
ments.
Evening star., 1940-08-06

sands Of soldier graves, all of Poles.
There were no German graves. Ger
man soldiers, I learned later, were
carted off to special cemeteries.
The German losses were greater
than Hitler said. know this to be
true. Hitler said 10000 had been
wounded. A friend of mine In
Katowice counted two conveys of
German wounded moving through
in trains. One was of 10000 men,
the other of $4,000. This was in
one city alone, from one sector of
the front. Ambulance trains were
carrying wounded out of Poland for
months, and the Nazi-controlled
papers that I read listed them faith
fully.
Tomorrow: Mr.. SobdnSki de-
scribes his return to WarSap and
ho,O the Germans restored "or-
der" among their neDly made
"SlaUes."
released by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Tnc)
Evening star., 1940-08-06
She'll Oil Co. Is Fined
$4,000 in Trust Case
~ the Associated Press,

~ the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6.-Federal
Judge Paul j. Mccormick yesterday
fined the Shell Oil Co. $4,5O0 on its
plea Of nolo contendere to an in
dictment charging Al major and
independent oil companies with
Sherman Antitrust Act violation.
Fines of a similar amount, $500
less than the maximum allowance,
were paid last week each by the
Standard Oil Co., General Petroleum
Corp. and Union Oil Co., which also
entered nolo contendere pleas.
The defendant concerns were in
dicted on charges of conspiring to
create and maintain artificial and
excessive" gasoline prices in the
Pacific Coast area.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Plot to ToppIe Regime
Of Metoxos Reported
BY the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
ATHENS, Aug. 6.-An alleged plot
to overthrow the regime of Premier
Gen. John Metaxas, which cele-
brated its fourth anniversary Sum-
day, was reported by the well-in-
formed newspaper Kathimerini.
Details we're not divulged. but it
was charged that an anti-Metaxas
group tried through foreign lega-
tions" to intervene in Greece's in
ternal affairs to break the Premier S
authoritarian rule.
The conspirators, the newspaper
said, have been banished, presum-
ably to the Aegean prison islands.
Evening star., 1940-08-06

SSS' III tne mean
time, Communists and those eager
to identify themselves as Commu-
nists emerged in little bands and
took over" Guns and ammunition
had been abandoned on every road,
in almost every field, and the Com
munist committees" armed them
selves with guns they could not
shoot. This was Ukranian country,
everybody was up in arms against
the Poles, and there was nothing
to keep hatred in check or greed in
check or lust or the mad dog that
Is in so many men.
Women in Complete Terror,
The first person I met along the
way was a middle-aged woman,
who saw the uniform I was wear
lng-the uniform of a Polish stu
dent volunteer-and fastened her
self to my side. She was in COM
plete terror. She said her husband
had been chief of police in the town
OF Brezziny. They had been max
Ing their way out of the town to-
gether when suddenly a 14-year-old
boy ran up to him and slapped him
IN the face. Her husband had tried
to pull his gun, but she had wrapped
her arms around his and had begged
him to remain calm. Finally he said
he would, and she released her hold
on him and stepped back. The boy
had been watching the mans rage
with a rage all his own. When the
woman stepped clear the boy pulled
out a pistol and shot the police
chief dead. She did not know who
the boy was or why he had done
this. Perhaps, she said, a police
man had once made trouble for
him.
A little way on I met Sergt. STAN
lsiau Dytwach. We kept together
and he lived with me for a month
in my house in Warsaw. He said
he had started for Warsaw on q
bicycle but had been halted by a
Communist committee" because OF
his uniform and his bicycle. Only
one member of the committee had
gun. He was big peasant, crazy
with excitement and fear. He
seemed never to have used a gun
before. He held it very close to
Stanislau'S head, several times with
the barrel resting right in his ear
The gun shook. 1t waved back and
forth in the peasants trembling
hands while his companions were
searching Stanislau, and Stanislau
worried that the gun might 90 of
accidentally. 1t did go of, but for
tunately at a time when it had
waved backwards and was pointing
at air In back Of my friends head
All 1t did was make him deaf for
four or five days.
New Graves Line Roads.
We kept out of towns to avoid
committees" Hastily dug new
graves lined the roads in clusters,
with gun stuck bayonet first in
each to mark it and a helmet on
the gun stock. Our progress was
slow at first, because the Bolshevik
army kept coming along the road
behind us and we had to hide from
it. They were moving to the Wis.,
tula in columns of about 10 tanks
each, big tanks, moving along at
40 or so miles an hour with a tre-
mendous clattering roar that could
be heard miles away.
At last we got tired of hiding and
discovered that the Russians paid
no attention to us. They just kept
hurrying on to the Vistula, which
was to be the boundary of their
occupation. The Germans retreated
before them. Later there was q
second act to this gruesome comedy
carried out with as much haste as
the first. When the treaty was
Evening star., 1940-08-06
Ice Placed in Furnace
To Keep Church Cool

KANSAS CITY, Aug. Ga Bap-
tist congregation jammed two tons
Of ice into the church furnace to
cool off.
1t cost 81 but lowered the tenn
perature II degrees. Novus Reed,
the choirmaster, had the idea.
A 6-foot fan in the fire chamber
blows heat during the winter
through two ducts opening in the
auditorium. All the congregation
did was to unload the ice in the
furnace room and start the fan
spinning.
Evening star., 1940-08-06
BY MICHAEL SOBANSKI.
(As Told to Ira WnIferf

From Brest-Litovsk to Warsaw Is
perhaps 200 miles. 1t is thickly
populated and fat farm country in
normal times. Now, as the final
week of September was beginning
in a heat wave that made the air
breathless, it was a land Uttered
with death. And those people who
were left alive in 1t swarmed over 1t
as erratically and lawlessly as mag
gots swarm over q corpse. There
was one law for all--survivSl-and
each had to maintain it for himself.
AS one of the maggots scrambling
Evening star., 1940-08-06

over the still
smoking corpse
of Poland, I soon
discovered that.
All government
had disappeared.
People here
thought the Bol-
sheviks were 60
ing to rule to the
Vistula River. 1t
was not until
later, after I left,
that it was de-
cided r u S S | q n
rule would end
at BreSt-LitovSk.
Evening star., 1940-08-06

United States travellers spent
$469, 100000 in foreign countries
last year.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-06
Sells E. H a W k n s.
Contract To Moe Gale
For Over Ten Grand

New York city Although Gale
me. has been the personal manae-
ing Office of Erskine Hawkins for
"A couple OF years. il was rot until
recently that II became anxious 10
mold an exclusive CONTRACT with him
as Il does with the majority Of is
attractions Since the Corp. has rx-
landed 10 include booking dr-
parimenl. and joined hands win
warner Brothers To form the now
Advance Music Publishing Co. lis
directors feel that they should
nave complete control over an
company attractions. and nor no
hampered by the fact that anoth ,r
Office has say-so over the hand
Since Hawkins contract with
Consolidated Radio Artists stlll
mad three years to run Moe Gale
president Of the firm. made ar
laneements TO buy the document
back II is rcputed that il COST his
owner $4,000 to do this. but he
feels that it's we'll worth It.
Der Bart. who is connected wth
me new hooking department OF the
olhce. has just returned from =
-"oo mile trip through tho Sonth
hooking Gale Attractions. While
Tim Gale is scheduled to set on, in
few days toward the West for Inc
same purpose. The Hawkins doaI
comes through only Just in time,
ae the Twentieth Century Gabriel
Is due 10 go on tour.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-06
Negro B a n d Dept.
Dissolved; May Join
Gale Booking Agency

NEW YORK CITY After many
trials and tribulations. much ~
penditure and results. the color d
band dept OF Music Corp. OF Ameri-
"a. one Of the largest booking Of
fees in the world has gone into
the discard Greeted with loud ac-
claim. and hailed AS one OF the
most progressive moves any ofhce
aad made 10 date. the department
with is colored president. WIS
expected TO do great things for the
hands already under contract. and
those 10 cone huf alas II did not
work oat that way.
Harry Moss who has been
head OF The one-niier dept OF the
Office fog quite sometime felt deep
~ the failure OF the sepia sctup.
As ne VAS one Of iis siaunchest
supporters. However. he advanced
as The reason for the demise OF ;ae
dept the extreme Costumes OF v.
ana also It's weak foundation. The
idea originally was for the new
sctup To- handle all booking tor
Meas colorcd attractions OF which
there are many. including Count
Basie. who is the biggest 'nans'
band. Teddy Wilson. Harlan
Leonard Benny Carter, John Kir-
hy. Floyd Ray and Al Cooper and
his Savory Sglans. The man a the
head Of all this was Nacco Birch.
who has been Count Basie's road
manager ever since he came out OF
Kansas City.
Since present plans do not tend
toward the establishment Of anoth-
or special colored hand dept at
MICA. rumor has Il that the cor
poralion will tie in with Gale Inc,
which already has Us booking de-
partment going like q house ahre-
This is especially irHe. in view OF
the fact that the Cole office al
ready holds personal management
contracts with both Benny Car
ter and Al Cooper and his Savoy
Sultane
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-06
West Side Council Is
Making Ready F o r
It's Cleanup Drive

The West Side Human Relations
Council will meet Wednesday,
April s at s .. m. at the Lothrop
branch library. West Warren and
West Grand Blvd. All churches,
clubs ard organizations are re-
quested to have representative
present. Initial plans will be made
for the community's annual Clean
UP. Paint-Up drive. The city has
set April p TO May 10 inclusive
for this years campaign.
For the past two years the West
Side Human Relations council has
done a splendid job in making It's
citizens conscious OF the fact that
wholesome and beautiful surround
ngs are essential TO ones we'll be-
ing,
Many interesting reports will be
made at the meeting including
full report OF the recent theatre
party sponsored by the council
Judge Thomas f Maher of the
Traffic Court was the principal
speaker at the last meeting and
brought to the courcil some very
valuable information concerning
traffic casualties and the function
OF the Traffic Court.
Marguerite Gillespie is secretary
OF the council.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-06
J. Lunceford A n d
Fletcher Make Discs

NEW YORK CITY Realizing the
trend toward records which is
sweeping the country. all the Top
flight bands are rushing to make
rs many waxings as they possibly
can. in order that the race for
fame and popularity NAV not pass
them by The two latest colored
orchesfras which have turned out
Uses for violation. are Jimmy
Lnnceford. and Horace Henderson
With his brother, Fletcher, con-
Quoting
The Lunceford platter is sizzler
with Its Time TO jump And
SHOUT on one side. and Pretty
Eyes on the other with The voca-
ICING done by Dan Grissom. Two
tne recordings in typical .unce-
ford siyle are highighted by the
alto-sax solos Of Willie Smith
and the melodious voice OF the
Gfissom lad
The second disc Is a humdinger
with Fletcher conducting his bro
iher Horace's band through the
thythms ~ hiS OWE arrangements
Viola Jefferson sings out on ooh
Boy I'm In The Groove" 10 the ac-
compartment. of some terrific piano
and trumpet stand-outs Kitty On
Toast is an original composed by
the TWO brothers and holds the in
teresi with Ray Nance's violin for
nearly half the record The latter
half turns the spotlight on Hor-
aces piano with the band coming
In for a subdued last chorus.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-06
Club Personalities At Exbosition Tea
The Iota Phi Lambda
Sorority Makes Plans
For Business Week

Iota Phi lambda Business Week
will be celebrated this year from
April IA TO 90 During this annual
observance. the members empha-
size the benefits OF Business Edu-
cation. Public meetings, vocational
aptitude clinics, trips to business
and industrial centers. business
shows, and round-table Discus
siors, are some OF the ways IN
which Iota sorors In the various
chapters show the opportunities
for Negro women In the business
field. Applications for the National
Scholarship. which Is awarded to
June or mid-year high school
graduate interested In Business
Administration. are received during
this period.
Forward. Negro Business Ia
the theme adopted by Gamma Chap
ter. Washington. With Soror Anna
Steer, chairman. they are spon-
soring Business Forum with
many OF washington's business
leaders as participants. and DR..
J. r. Walker OF Memphis. Tenn,
president OF the National Negro
Business League. as guest speak
err; Business show. and type
writing contest.
Alpha and Alpha Beta Chapters,
Chicago. will launch plans during
this busy week for a typewritiny
contest 10 be given later: they will
have luncheon meeting at which
round-table questionable will he
participated In by some OF Chi
Cages outstanding business men.
Among those who have been in
vited are Frayser T. Lane. ArchI-
bald J. Carey. A. ". Williams,
Samuel B. Danley. Jr., ]. f. STAMPS
and Harry Pace. These two chap
ters will also cooperate with tina
Vocational Opportunity Campaign
or the Urban League which will oe
observed during that same week.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-06
=: Your Klub Klues -:
Detroit Memphis Club

Mr.. and Mrs. Kyles. OF Hunt
street were hosts to the Detroit
Memphis club Sunday afternoon
March IL at s .. m. Mrs. Pearl v
Collins, president. presided over a
brief business session. durins
which time plans were made and
committee appointed TO stage an
Old Fashioned concert sooc.
AT the conclusion OF the business
session Mrs. jenkins. chaplain, in
stalled the officers. Many were the
praises given Mrs. jenkins for this
beautiful installation service con-
Quoted.
Mr.. Plumkett OF Inkster was re-
ceiyed as a rev member. Refresh
ments were served by the host and
hostess.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1940-04-06
North End Colds
Sponsor Pot Luck

The North End Goods held their
monthly Pot Luck supper Thurs
day evening at the home OF the
supervisor. Miss VI Scruggs, 567
Hague.
Among those who enjoyed the
games. music, and bountiful supply
Of ice cream. cake and punch were .
Harold Gregory, Roosevelt Lester.
Putnam Glenn. Harold Franklin.
Charles. Gordy, Stanley Sykes.
Cleophus Harper Robert Carter,
Howard Anderson. John George.
James Bosley Lugenia Wingo.
Grace Wingo. Ida Iarkins. Willie
Mae Carter Gertrude Slaughter.
Louise Anderson. Ruth Gordy,
Lorraine Ellis. Oralee Ferguson,