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Evening star., 1940-02-23
We||es Will Confer With Hitler:
Allies Reported B|ockading Reds;
British Planes Bomb Nazi Fleet.
Clash Is Said to
Have Occurred
In Arctic
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 23.-A Brit
ish-French warship squadron began
today e blockade of the Northern
Russian coast, the newspaper Ber-
lingske Tidende reported, while
uncomfortable rumors circulated
| that clash with the Soviet Arctic
Navy already had been precipitated.
The paper said the allied ships
were strung out for a considerable
distance along the Arctic coast to
prevent shipment of Russian sup
plies to Germany and to halt any
possible attempt to deliver Russian
submarines to the German Navy.
Presence of allied vessels In that
far northern vicinity was confirmed
yesterday.
Aside from blocking trade between
Germany and her friend, Russia.
the British and French were de-
scribed as aiming to prevent any
German ships from taking refuge
IN Russia-as number Of mer-
chantmen did in the early days nf
the war.
Murmansk Connections Maintained.
/ Until now, it was reported that
German merchant carriers had been
maintaining steady connections with
Murmansk, which is an ice-free port
despite its Arctic location on Kola
Bay.
Development of the blockade
magnifled uneasiness OF Scandi-
navian nations over the future of
their neutrality.
In view of the bad feeling that
resulted from British rescue of cap
tive merchant seamen from the
German ship Altmark in Norwegian
waters last Friday night. there were
apprehensions that any new naval
clashes in northern waters would
raise further knotty and embarrass-
ing problems for the neutrals.
The British and French contend
that Norway's coastline, broken by
fjords and screened by offshore
islands, offers a comparatively safe
highway for German ships from
Murmansk and has been used ef-
fectively to evade their blockade
IN the North Sea.
Red Navy Prepared for War.
The Stockholm newspaper Alton
bladet reported yesterday that the
Russian Arctic Navy had been pre-
pared for the possibility of war and
that Admiral Nikolai Kuznetzoff
naval affairs commissar, had flown
to Murmansk to inspect it.
The Scandinavian countries are
coming to the foreboding view that
almost anything can happen in the
waters of Northern Europe.
The Stockholm newspaper Dasens
Nyheter voiced the hope that the
Scandinavian foreign ministers, who
are to confer in Copenhagen Sat-
urday and Sunday. would agree on
uniform rules for the treatment of
belligerents' ships in territorial
waters.
Evening star., 1940-02-23
Summary Of Todoy's Star
Foreign

Foreign
Welles to confer with Hitler on
European trip. Page Al
Allied warships reported blockading
North Russia. Page Al
British planes bomb Nazi fleet in
Helgoland Blight. Page Al
Reich requires far more than Soviet
exports to world. Page Az
King George inspects veterans Of
Montevideo battle. Page Az
New wave of German submarines
reported operating. Page AS
British note to U. s. reported defend
ing export blockade. Page AS
Chinese boy is enthroned at 14th
Dalai Lama. Page Al
National
House votes additional $4,000 for
Labor Board probe. Page Al
House group fails In move the nber-
alize Finnish aid. Page Al
Art dealer denies knowledge of $780,
900 policy. Page Az
Senate farm leaders to push fight
for parity payments. Page AS
President to dedicate new Pennsyl-
vania superhighway. Page AS
More settlements Of defaulted Latin
American debts sought. Page Al
Evening star., 1940-02-23
Thomas Says New Deal
Hompered Dies Inquiry
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Dies Committee work has been
hampered, Representative Thomas,
Republican, of New Jersey, a men,
Der, said yesterday, by the fact that
the New Deal has $50 often made
itself the official or unofficial sponsor
OF the very Communist groups which
the committee was trying to in
vestigate."
He accused President Roosevelt,
Mrs. Roosevelt, Attorney General
jackson and Secretary Ickes of
friendly guestures toward these
groups.
Evening star., 1940-02-23
BY DON s. WARREN.

Charges that an Investigation
agent of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board attempted to solicit
a "bribe" from licensed George
town restaurant, whose permit later
wos suspended, were heard today
by the Eberharter Subcommittee Of
the House District Committee, along
with proposals for establishment Of
a dispensary system in the District.
At the close Of today's session
Chairman Eberharter asked that the
bartender and the proprietor Of the
establishment be requested to ap-
pear before the investigating com.
mittee at 10 am. Tuesday.
The charge was made by Claude
S. Martin, executive secretary and
business agent Of the Bartenders'
Union, Local IS. He told the CON-
mittee he was informed the A. B. c.
Board agent Qater called rookie
policeman) had almost asked the
proprietor to hand over few dol
lars. to keep his mouth shut" The
proprietor, Mr.. Martin conNhued.
had refused and later his permit was
suspended.
.. Sheppard Seeks Survey.
This development came after
Representative Sheppard, Democrat,
of California had urged the Eber-
harter subcommittee to seek a con-
gressional appropriation to permit
deep survey of the whole dis
trict liquor situation, including VIOLA
tions of the present law and regula-
tions. methods of operation and to
gather whatever other information
was necessary as to the effects Of
dispensary system.
Both Mr.. Sheppard and the
spokesman for the Bartenders'
Union urged abolition Of sale Of
package liquor goods by private op.
orators and transfer Of this bust.
ness to District-owned and District.
operated dispensaries.
Mr.. Sheppard protested that
liquor is being sold to minors In
the District through the very easy"
process of making telephone calls
for liquor stores, which will deliver
orders to customers.
He suggested the practice was
widespread and quoted a former
member of the A. B. C. Board, pre-
sumably George w. Offutt. former
chairman of the board, that the
agency "just couldn't police the
field" and that if it had a force Of
500 agents it still could not control
sale to minors via the telephone
order route.
Greater Revenue Envisioned.
Mr.. Sheppard also argued that q
dispensary system not only would
set up greater protection for ju-
veniles but also would produce "at
least" s1,500,000 more in District
revenues per year than the present
system.
. Mr.. Martin, while advocating the
dispensary system for handling
packaged liquor goods, also urged
amendments to the District law
which would permit customers Of
on-sale licensed places to drink
either beer or hard liquor while
standing up at the bar. His argu-
ment was that it would be easier
for the bartender or the proprietor
to tell when a customer was get
ting intoxicated than when he was
drinking while seated at a table.
Mr.. Martin also recommended
that the District license bartenders,
since they are held responsible in
large degree for the conduct of the
place."
Mr.. Martin also proposed that
the inspectors of the A. B. c. Board
should be known" to licensees,
contendng the present system of
using rookie policemen is too much
(see LIQUOR, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1940-02-23
Liquor Prober
Sought bribe,
House Unit Told
Georgetown Cofe
Proprietor Refused, ,
Union Leader Says
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Largely because the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board failed
recently to issue tDo liquor
licenses, the House District Com.
mittee tUo weeks ago ordered a
subcommittee TO Investigate the
liquor situation in Washington.
To date. one restauranteur has
charged that he Uds made an
"ofer" for aid In getting a liquor
license; former A. B. c. Board
attorney has charged the board
handles liquor licenses by rule
of fear"
Evening star., 1940-02-23
pictures ON PAGE R-1l

DR.. Edgar A. Bocock. Gallinger
Hospital superintendent, and a
three-man medical board embarked
today on physical examinations of
every inmate in the infirmary at the
Home for the Aged and Infirm. Ex-
aminations of all the other inmates
Of the home will follow.
At the same time, District Health
Officer George c. Ruhland, who
ordered the medical survey of in
Urinary patients, said DR.. Carl c.
Dauer, epidemiologist of the Health
Department, and DR.. Joseph A.
Murphy, director of the Bureau of
Medical and Sanitary Inspection
Of the Schools, also would visit the
home at Blue Plains today.
DR.. Rutland said his assistants
already have inspected the Chill
dren's Receiving Home, but en-
phasized that their reports will not
be submitted until they have COM
pleted their investigation of both
institutions. This work, he added,
probably will take a few days.
After he receives the report, DR.,
Rutland explained, he will turn it
over to the Board of Public Welfare
to determine what steps can be
taken to develop the "stop-gap"
programs requested for the two in
stitutions by Commissioner George
E. Allen.
To Determine Possible Action.
The Health Department experts
also are expected to determine what
can be done in the operation of the
two institutions to prevent any pos
sible spread of disease which might
result from deficiencies in their
medical care programs.
This new survey was undertaken
after Representative D'Alesandro,
Democrat, of Maryland, chairman
of the House District Subcommittee
conducting hearings on conditions
in local public welfare institutions.
asserted immediate improvement
could be made at the receiving home
and the Blue Plains institution
without additional funds.
DR.. Rutland said the survey prob
ably would take some little time
because one of the jobs assigned to
the investigators is to determine
whether any of the 100 inmates of
the inflrmary should be transferred
to other institutions because of ILL.,
ness or disease.
DR.. Bocock estimated the survey
OF the Blue Plains infirmary pa
tlents would require four days. His
stah of doctors includes DR.. Albert
fSon rNCrTTTTwTONIC \
Evening star., 1940-02-23
BY CARTER BROOKE Homes.

AS the House authorized without
debate today second $4,000 to
continue its investigation of the
National Labor Relations Board, the
special committee intrusted with the
task heard the first worker to testify
say:
I'VE would hate to see any change
in the Wagner Act. Our trouble has
been with the Labor Board"
The committee also heard J. War
rem Madden, chairman of the N. L.
r. B., and Thomas I. Emerson, an
associated general counsel, contra
dict fatty the testimony of Emil
Schram, chairman of the Recon-
struction Finance Corp, that it was
the board that sought an arrange
ment under which the lending
agency would be notified of alleged
Wagner Act violators and asked not
to give them loans until the labor
troubles were settled. It was the
R. F. c. that started this, the board
officials said.
The first worker before the COM
mittee was Gerald l.. Gill, trouble
shooter for the Consumers Power
Co. Of Michigan and State chairman
OF the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor.
Election Is Cited.
, Mr.. Gill blamed the board because
in an employe-representative election
at the Michigan utility, in which
the A. F. l.. union got 1,072 votes,
the c. I. Q. union, 1,164, and 5O6
workers voted against both-neither
union getting a majority-the board
(See T,AROR R0APn Dooe A-11V
Evening star., 1940-02-23
House Group Loses
Move 10 Aid Firms by
Unrestricted Loan
Committee Expected to
Follow General Scope
Of Senute Measure
BACKGROUND

Senate last Ueek approved bill
to enable Finland to obtain fur
ther non military credit of s20,-
100000 out OF 100000, 900 new
authorization for Erport-Import
Bank. Previously, Senate passed
resolution urging Securities Com
mission to expedite registration
OF any application Finland may
make to float prtpate bond issue
in this country.
Evening star., 1940-02-23
Doctor's S Examinations
Of Inmates Begun
Al Blue Plains
Infirmory Patients Are
First in List;; RuhIond
Aides Also to Visit Home
BACKGROUND

Mrs. Rooseuelts unannounced
Uistt to the Blue Plains Home for
the Aged. and subsequent Disit to
Recetving Home prompted her to
remark adversely on District uel-
fare institutions. Her UieUs
prompted congressional muesti-
cation. Testimony has been heard
on both institutions.
Evening star., 1940-02-23

(See LIQUOR, Page A-40
Evening star., 1940-02-23

(see BLOCKADE, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1940-02-23

(See FINLAND, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1940-02-23
House Authorizes
Another $4,000
For Nj. R. B. Probe
Board, Not Act, at
Fuult, Says First
Worker to Testify
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Special House committee has
been Investigating National Labor
Relations Board since last fall.
Public hearings started in Deem
Der. Committee is charged Dfth
recommending any Wagner Act
amendments it may consider de-
sirdble.
Evening star., 1940-02-23

tsee INSTITUTIONS, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1940-02-23

(see LABOR BOARD, Page AID
Evening star., 1940-05-15
"Airplane Discounters"
Decried by Writer.
90 A. s-. -.

10 the EDITOR OF Tue star:
English. French and American big
navy men and big army men of the old
school can properly claim good share
Of the credit for the aerial successes
achieved by aggressor war lords.
The proverbial ostrich buries his head
in the sand. Our airplane discounters
also bury their heads in the sand.
Manchuria, the conquered parts OF
China, Ethiopia, Spain, Czecho- -Slovakia,
Poland, Finland, Albania and Norway
altogether 2oO,0oo,o 900 people IN quivering
subsection to the ruthless power and
speed of the aerial bomber, and still we
hear the fervid assurances from men In
high of1ces Of responsibility, and re-
putedly sound mentality, that aircraft is
not of decisive Importance in warfare.
The success of these airplane discount
ers in prolonging for the allies and for
the United States state Of unprepared-
ness and incompetence in the air should
fill Hitler to overf1owing with his warm.
est gratitude. They are his best and most
effective partners In fact If not in intent.
Without adequate aerial equipment
the Britons may as well crouch under
their own umbrellas at home and await
the coming rain-of bombs. In the
meantime their ofncial airplane discount
ers, no doubt, will entertain them with
verbal barrages on the ineffectiveness of
aircraft in warfare
Moville, Iowa. o. P. SANDBECK.
May 8.
Evening star., 1940-05-15
New World Problems

Problems Of tremendous import for
the American republics are arising
swiftly from the European war.
Their solution demands calm reason
ing In the light Of established New
World doctrines and long-range OBJ
jectives. One case In point is the
landing Of British and French forces
at Curacao and Aruba in the Neither
lands West Indies, on invitation Of
the local authorities, to help guard
against probable German attempts
at sabotage" to the vital oil refineries
there. Another is reflected in the
Argentine proposal that the Ameri-
cas- scrap some of their rules of neu-
trality on the theory that a neutral
ity based on international law is q
fiction" unless all the belligerents
observe 1t.
In the first instance, the imme-
diate question concerns possible ap-
plication Of the Monroe Doctrine and
Evening star., 1940-05-15

its Complementary Declaration OF
Lima. Obviously, the allied action In
the Dutch West indies does not vio-
late the Monroe Doctrine because 1t
implies no menace to the existing
sovereignty Of the islands-despite
German propaganda to the contrary.
It may be worth while to recall
Just what the doctrine enunciated by
President Monroe on December 2,
1923. really means. Under 1t, we
would consider as dangerous to our
peace and safety" any further
colonization by outside powers or
attempts to extend their political
systems in this hemisphere, while
promising not to interfere with their
existing dependencies. The doctine
has been applied to prohibit any
change from the outside in the
sovereignty Of any territory in this
hemisphere. It was reinforced, but
not superseded, by a declaration
adopted by all the twenty-one Amer
lean republics at Lima in 1898,
pledging joint action to maintain
and defend against all foreign in
tervention" or threatening activity,
the territorial integrity, personality,
sovereignty and independence OF
each American state"
American principles would be
jeopardized in the Dutch West In
dies, it appears therefore, only If
their sovereignty were threatened
as would be the case If German
forces should attack them.
The Argentine suggestion for
abandoning some OF the rules and
limitations" of neutrality-which in
clude bans against belligerents re-
cruiting for their armed forces or
establishing bases in American ter
ritory-is shortsighted. AS Secretary
of State Hull emphasized in a speech
to the American Society Of Inter-
national Law Monday night, the
arm establishment Of order under
law" is essential to avoid con-
tinued "chaos and retrogression" in
world affairs. It also is true, as the
Argentine Foreign Minister has
pointed out, that neutrality under
international law implies bilateral
obligations, and that Germany has
shamelessly violated her obligations
to observe the rights Of neutrals.
But Americans do not condone the
use of third degree" or other illegal
methods against even the worst do
mestic law breakers. The same
principle holds true in international
affairs. One of the last bulwarks of
order under law" the American re-
publics cannot afford to violate the
very principles they are striving to
uphold.
Evening star., 1940-05-15
Face Suvina

The Senate has saved face for the
administration but at the cost Of
injecting undesirable factors In gov
ernment regulation Of civil aviation
in the United States. It is difficult
to take any other view Of yesterdays
vote by which the Senate gave life
to the Presidents order abolishing
the Air Safety Board and transferring
the Civil Aeronautics Authority into
the Commerce Department. In view
of the almost united countrywide
protest against the Presidents order
and the overwhelming vote by which
the plan was rejected in the House,
it is impossible to believe that Sen
ate vote based upon the merits Of
the proposal alone would have been
favorable to the transfer.
It is no secret at the Capitol that
administration pressure was brought
to bear upon Senators who had been
tn the doubtful column prior to the
vote and that the decision was made
an administration matter despite the
open rebellion of many Democratic
Senators against the order. Every
airline and every major aeronautical
organization In the country joined
in what apparently was a perfectly
sincere protest against the order.
The tenor of their arguments leaves
no doubt that they consider return
of civil aeronautics control to the
Commerce Department a serious
backward step. The Senate vote con-
stitutes for them a discouraging
defeat.
Evening star., 1940-05-15
Rear Admiral Wiley
Differs on One Point,

To the Editor OF The Star:
have just read with interest and un-
qualified approval, except in one respect,
your editorial entitled American Crisis"
Of this date.
The one exception that I make is this
interrogatory: rs this Nation going to
imperil its own security by shutting of
further supplies Of planes and guns be-
cause the nations fighting our battle for
us cannot afford to pay cash?" do not
feel that the allies are fighting our battle,
but do feel that they are fighting the
battle for civilization and that the United
States cannot afford to permit the Ger
mans to succeed. My thought is, and it
is not new one, that the sooner we
pour all the supplies we possibly can,
especially airplanes, into the allied coun-
tries the better it's going to be for us
and for the world.
May IA. H. A. WILEY.
Evening star., 1940-05-15

least the outskirts Of Brussels, but
north Of Liege the Germans are said
by the French to have taken 4 severe
drubbing in q battle between nearly
two thousand tanks In the first mass
engagement OF such machines.
The battle is still in Its preliminary
stages, with the Meuse River mark
Ing roughly the line along which
French and German forces are
drawn, with its extremity winding
around Sedan-now in the hands Of
the Germans-Luxembourg and the
sierck sector Of the Maginot Line.
Dutch capitulation to German
force will release some of Germany's
strength for the drive south into
France, If that is what Fuehrer Hitler
has planned. More important, Of
course, is that 1t will give Germany
the hopping-off place for the ex-
pected air attack on England.
Although the battle Of the Meuse
may decide the fate of Belgium, 1t
may decide little as far as France
proper is concerned, except as it
brings the Germans within range OF
the little Maginot Line which guards
Frances northern border.
Before France herself Is deeply
invaded, that line-which is not as
strong as the main Maginot Line
must be penetrated. Sedan is only a
hop, skip and Jump across the border,
lying as it does in front of the main
French defenses, so that its capture
is not greatly significant.
Hitler is now making his supreme
effort. What its final effect will be
only the most presumptuous would
guess. If it fails Germany will have
been forced to expend her major
effort in a futile attempt to destroy
the allies quickly. The longer the
allies resist, the greater support they
receive from Time.
Evening star., 1940-05-15
Thankful His Mother
Come to America
offieiul Poys Tribute
To Foresight Of q
Scotch Pioneer
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
My mother is little Scotch lady who
came to this great Western Country over
so years ago. with hope that in America
she would flnd her place among the other
pioneering Americans where opportuni-
ties to live peacefully held promise Of
happiness. Her lot was not too greatly
different than that Of countless other
strangers who looked toward America for
the fulhliment of their dreams. The
fact that she's my mother makes me feel
that she Is different.
Ipicture her now as saw her 80 years
or more ago. q steadfast, thrifty. quiet
mother, living among the dinicult sur
roundings Of a ranch in Montana; suf-
fering sorrows and disappointments with
her family; courageously carrying her
job Of being housewife, mother, coun-
selor, and through it all carrying an
abiding faith in the fitness Of things.
She now looks back through the years
Of what was America, seeing clearly,
while I peer forward still, unseeing, but
believing that this is America.
The people Of our United States enjoy
a freedom OF life and opportunity un-
paralleled in the experience Of any other
nation on earth. Where else on earth
can farmers son rise to become q
great statesman; where else can man
live by the fruits OF his labor in peace
with his friends; where else can people
travel hundreds of miles without effort
or Inconvenience; where else can a man
take his gun or fishing pole or dog or book
and retire to piece Of earth as much
his as any one else's7 Or where else can
the needs Of life be had so nicely de-
livered? wrapped in cellophane)-no-
where else but in America.
From the carriage and kerosene lamp
to the automobile and automatic toaster.
the advances of the earth's constructive
minds are ours to enjoy with thankful
ness to its founders For the govern
ment Of their day Is not outmoded; 1t
still lives, but on a greatly expanded
scale. 1t will live in the future without
change, If We believe in it. Changes are
costly. If we feel the urge to cast OF
a practice of government as "outmoded," +"
let's look at Europe now and bury our
discomfort before we lose our heads.
America has lasted this way for 100
years or more. It can easily last that
much longer If we want 1t so.
Today the moors of Scotland are
trembling with the blasts of bombs. To-
day the peace of Europe's nations is
virtually unknown. The feeling Of in
dividual opportunity and security is once
again shattered for every human draw
ing breath in that dark continent. To-
day turn my eyes toward a penetrat-
Ing hum Of engines. and. without fear
or trembling. see giant friendly wings
spanning the Skies My bombproof is
America: my blackout is restful sleep:
my fears are not engendered by the
noise of sirens. I thank God my mother
chose America for me!
DAVID J. MACLAY,
Assistant Chief, Regional DiW-
sion of Wild Life Management,
U. S. Forest Service.
Missoula, Mont.