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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31
Plant Protection

The Black Tom and KingSland
sabotage explosions which occurred
just before America entered the first
World War taught the Government
lesson which it has not forgot
ten. Those explosions, investigators
learned many years after, were set
off by German agents sent to the
United States to destroy munitions
and other war supplies destined for
the Allies. Evidence unfolded to the
Mixed Claims Commission revealed
astounding laxity on the part of
Federal authorities and private in
terests in guarding against espionage
and sabotage. German agents ex-
perienced little difficulty in getting
into this country by way of Mexico
and in carrying on their nefarious
activities at ports of embarkation, in
shipyards and in arms factories.
At that time the Federal Govern
ment had no counterespionage serv-
ice worthy of the name. It was not
until war was declared that military
and naval intelligence agencies we're
expanded and that other Federal
investigators began a concerted drive
on alien agents. Today, fortunately
for the Nation, there is in operation
an efficient peacetime counter
espionage system that includes spe-
cial protection for industrial plants
engaged in producing war materiel
for this or other governments. This
plant protection service is under
general direction of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, with Army
and Navy intelligence officers closely
cooperating. Inspections are being
made of thousands of factories hold
ing contracts for planes, arms and
other military equipment, with a
view to erecting safeguards against
theft and sabotage The need for
vigilance is emphasized by the dis
closure that F. B. I. agents lave
found number of plants in which
subversive agents would have needed
little ingenuity to gain entrance.
AS an experiment, agents walked
into two factories without identifying
themselves and found no one to
challenge them. In another plant
q vault containing vital plans was
easily accessible through a window.
Such major faults as these and many
lesser ones have been corrected in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31
How can arrogance be acceptable7
When II comes from q blue Jay.

Wnen II comes from blue Jay.
How can we swallow Haunting and
boastfulness and screaming?
When they are presented to us by q
jay. Here is one bird whose unseemly
actions are fraught with so much good
humor and zest that even the observer
who cares very little for birds, as a class,
cannot help but be interested.
That garden is fortunate, we have
always held, which attracts these bold,
beautiful fellows.
There are few birds more picturesque,
In the true sense.
No garden holds finer picture than
a jay perched on limb just few feet
above yellow cat, at which 1t is scream
ing.
The blue and white and gray bird is
a picture all by himself, but when to
his flashing colors are added the soft
yellow of the cat fur, a real natural
painting is presented.
A great many harsh things have been
said about these birds. You can read
them in any book devoted to the song
sters. A jay, too, is a song bird.
He Is a nuisance, a murderer and
worse. Young birds suffer at his bill,
eggs are carried away and devoured.
He scares other songsters away from
the bird feeding stations So say the
books.
When these claims are analysed, they
will be found to be rather exaggerated,
at least in many garden.
The blue Jay seldom attacks the young
Of other species; it may carry away
eggs. but the average gardener may not
see 1t done once in lifetime; the jay
seldom stays at feeding station more
than 10 to Is minutes at time.
He Is much too busy for that.
While all birds exemplify life in zest-
full detail. the blue jay seems just little
more alive than most of them
1t is so full of vim and vigor that it
cannot remain at feeding station very
long, even if it wants to, because it must
fly away to new fields.
Something is going on, just over the
hill, and the Jay has to fly over to find
out what it is. This curiosity of his is
one of his most predominant traits He
comes by it naturally, too. The little
Canadian Jay, called by the lumberman
the whisky jack, is noted for his thieving
propensities, and his general curiosity.
1t thinks nothing at all of flying into a
tent, to see what bright object it can
find and steal.
The husky lumberjacks. praising them
selves in selecting a name for this bird.
call him Jack" by way of compliment.
Just how the word whisky" gets in the
name we do not know.
4
Our blue jay likes cottage cheese.
Since this food is cheap, it may be fed
to the blue jays at any time. with salts
faction both to consumer and purchaser.
There are few sights in the sport of
bird feeding more happy than that of
big blue jay coming up out of a mass
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31
Strands Of Memories

If in the great beyond still am blessed
With strands of memories Of earthly
things,
I would not have them be Of mighty
kings
Or of the gold and power they possessed,
But these: My newborn at his mothers
breast,
Exchanging with her awesome won
derings;
My children watching when the evening
brings
Me home-their faces 10 the window
pressed;
A robins carol on an April dawn
And after rain, the robins on the lawn:
The sparkle of the sun on icy boughs,
And scent of clover hay fresh in the
mows.
And more than all, I hope In heaven
above,
may keep loving those whom now I
CHARLES J. BENEDICT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31

accordance with recommendations of
the investigators. The Government,
of course, cannot undertake to post
guards at all private plants needing
protection, but it can give advice
and otherwise assist manufacturers
in taking proper precautions. Here
is another field calling for close
cooperation between industry and
the Government in the interest of
national security.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31
August 28,
Calls Attention to
Juvenile Jurists."

AZ tAAc &uieok "a AaS SSdE.
On April IS The Star published q
letter from me on the walter-Logan
bill pointing out the pressing need for
this measure which is intended to re-
store the judicial power to the courts
and terminate irresponsible bureaucracy.
If anything more were needed to show
the necessity for the enactment of this
bill into law it would be found in an
article in the Saturday Evening Post
for August "a entitled Juvenile Jurists:
The N. L. r. BIS Curious Personnel"
Truly we are in the grip not only
Of what Lord Hewart of Bury, Lord
Chief Justice of England, has character
lied as 1.-THE New Despotism," but of
concept that immaturity is entitled to
govern.
When will Uncle Sam free himself
from the Liliputians?
HARRISON TuGHMAN.
August n,
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To Stur Service

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Make practice of asking questions. 1t
pays to make sure you are right.
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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor must
bear the name and address of
the toriter. although the use OF
q pSeudonyns for publication is
permissible. The Star reserves
the right to edit all letters tUith
U1e1D TO condensation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31
Recipes for Mixed Drinks

Includes recipes for about so different
kinds of cocktails, numerous punches,
juleps, fixes; favorite recipes Of noted
people; the etiquette of wine service;
pictures of the proper glass for every
beverage, and catalogue of non-alco-
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Urges Prompt Action
On Defense Measures.
r. A., Ed;tor - T-hs a,ar

To the Editor OF The Star.
Every one of our important defense
measures has been submitted to those
masters of procrastination, our Congress-
men, to be mauled, pushed around and
otherwise successfully delayed. It's time
for those who are not too foolish to
profit from the experience of others to
take q stand and push some Of these
important measures through.
August 26. e. B. CALLOW.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the for republication of all news dispatches
credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news published herein.
All rights of publication of special dispatches
herein also are reserved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31

Our blue jay likes cottage cheese.
Since this food is cheap it may be fed
to the blue jays at any time. with salts
faction both to consumer and purchaser.
There are few sights in the sport of
bird feeding more happy than that of
a big blue jay coming up out Of a mass
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31
Member of the Associated Press.

Entered as second-class matter post once.
washington. D. c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-31

G. What is the widest and narrowest
parts of the English Channel?-G. E.
A. The Channel at its narrowest point.
the Straits of Dover, is 20 miles wide.
The widest point. between sidmouth and
Saint-Malo, is 40 miles.
Evening star., 1940-01-17
| Slippery Rocks
Head in Court,
| Team Praised
3y the Associated Press.

by tne Associated PreSS.
BUTLER, Pa. Jan. 17.-Twice
convicted Of nonfeasance and mis-
feasance, the president of Slippery
Rock State Teachers College. was
sentenced to pay the costs of the
case by a judge who praised him for
developing the college and turning
out an undefeated football team.
DR.. Charles S. Miller was refused
an arrest of judgment yesterday in
the case which grew out of irregu-
larities in management of school
funds and properties. He was con-
victed last October. but was granted
new trial. Two weeks ago he was
again convicted.
Judge John H. Wilson, trustee OF
the college, said evidence did not
show the institution or State sus-
tanned any loss or that any one
proflted by the irregularities, add
ing:
This same evidence shows the
college prospered and grew in every
department. educational and phys
ical, under the presidency of the de-
fendant Miller and as crowning
scholastic achievement at least in
the minds of many people and
alumni developed a football team
that won every game it played last
season and gave the college and the
team Nation wide fame"
Evening star., 1940-01-17
Companies Role in Safety
Emphasized in Article

The part the management OF an
organization must play in the safe
ty of its commercial fleet is de-
scribed by H. S. Cole, assistant su-
perintendent of The Evening Star
Newspaper Co., in the January
issue of Public Safety magazine.
In feet safety, as in any other
phase of business" Mr.. Cole says,
management must form the nu-
cleus of the activity"
Pointing out that safety in fleet
operation is just as much a part
of modern-day business as is pro-
duction or sales, Mr.. Cole declares
the difference between profit and
loss in business may we'll depend
on the accident record Of firm S
feet of vehicles.
Likewise" Mr.. Cole says, "the
outcome of a fleet safety program,
success or failure. reflects the man.
agement's attitude toward safety
The degree of success in any safety
program is directly in proportion
to the intelligent and aggressive
attention devoted to it by the
management
Evening star., 1940-01-17
Murphy 10 Take Seat
Week From Monday

Attorney Gen. Frank Murphy
unanimously confirmed by the Sen
ate yesterday to succeed the late
Justice Pierce Butler in the Su-
preme Court, is expected to take
his seat a week from Monday when
the court reconvenes after two
week recess.
Mr.. Murphy. President Roose-
velt's fifth appointee to the court
probably will take the oath late
this week or early the next, and
arrange to turn the Office of At
torney General over to Solicitor
Gen. Robert H. Jackson. The lat
ter also was confirmed for his new
assignment yesterday as was his
successor, Judge Francis Biddle of
the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Mr. Jackson announced yesterday
the appointment of committees tC
arrange meeting of the Supreme
Court bar members Saturday to take
appropriate action in memory OF
Justice Butler, who died November
-16. Mr.. Jackson named Frank j
Hogan, past president of the Amer
lean Bar Association; Charles War
rem. historian of the court; j. Har-
ry Covington and Seth w. Richard
son, all of Washington, to the Com
mittee on Arrangements.
The committee to draft resolu-
tions on Justice Buffers death in
cludes George Wharton Pepper
Philadelphia; Michael J. Doherty
st. Pail, and John S. Flannery
Washington. William D. Mitchell
of New York is chairman of the
committee.
Evening star., 1940-01-17
Paralysis Funds
Help Youth Go Far in
Life on Clutches
Wallace Morgan, 16,
Wins an Education and
Chooses Life Work

Wallace Morgan has walked on
crutches all his life but he has gone
far
Here's what the 16-year- old COL
ored boy has done:
Worked his way through Francis
Junior High School with high
scholastic record.
Won the American Legion charac-
ter award for leadership, courage,
honor, service and scholarship.
Created picture of children sing
ing Christmas carols which now
hangs In the Kiwanis Club Office at
the Mayf1ower Hotel.
But best of all, to Wallaces way
of thinking, is the fact that he can
walk without brace on his right
leg, not very far, but few steps.
Stricken While an Infant,
Now finishing his sophomore year
at Cardozo High School. Wallace
was months old when he was
stricken with infantile paralysis.
One day his mother noticed her
baby didn't kick his legs like other
infants She took him to the hos
pital and there he stayed.
He could scarcely move for the
rest of his baby years He was on
his back until he was 5 years old.
Then, helped by crutches and a
brace, Wallace began to walk little,
began, finally, to 60 to school.
He can't play football with the
other boys, but he can draw He
works at it all the time. wants to
make it his life job
Son of a w. P. A. worker. he comes
regularly to Childrens Hospital to
have his legs massaged and the
braces adjusted. The hospital has
provided his shoes. the braces and
crutcheS.
Says Wallace with modest grim
I'm doing pretty good"
Money Required.
Wallace is doing pretty good"
but the therapeutic care he gets in
the clinic costs money, money that
is provided by funds raised through
VIZ ASlS VI dtloll Vi lllC IICSlutIlI )
birthday-the Birthday Balls and
the Mile O Dimes, to name two
major features of the celebration.
Half of the funds raised in Wash
ington will be kept here to help
young people like Wallace, victims
of disease that recognizes no bar
rlerS. The rest of the money will
go to the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis, to be used for
research, education and to fight
epidemics.
To help carry children through
the acute stages of the disease and
the long years of after treatment
you can plan to attend the Birthday
Balls and add your dime to the
Mile O Dimes.
That's how you can help Wallace
keep on doing pretty good"
Evening star., 1940-01-17
Resigns as Director
OF Associated Press

NEW YORK, Jan. II R.-Frank
E. Gannett, who announced last
night his candidacy for the Repub-
lican nomination for President, has
resigned as member of the Board
of Directors of the Associated Press.
The resignation is effective at once
in conformity with the bylaws.
Mr.. Gannett became director in
1885 and was reelected in 1898 for
a three-year term. His letter of
resignation follows:
With deep regret, I hereby ten
der my resignation as a member Of
the board of directors of the Associ-
ated Press. I feel that this action
on my part is necessary, because I
have announced that I shall be a
candidate for the nomination for
president on the Republican ticket.
"Of course, all who are intimately
acquainted with the Associated
Press know that my membership on
the board would not in the Slight
est degree affect the news policy
of that great organization, but the
board Democrats and Republicans
men holding different opinions on
all public questions, and that the
board is meticulously careful in see
ing to it that the A. P. dispatches
are as accurate, unprejudiced as is
humanity possible.
Nevertheless, want to safeguard
the Associated Press from any un-
warranted suspicion of favoritism
and for this reason 1 feel should
retire from the board.
May I add that it has been a
great pleasure to serve on the board
of directors, and that I have had
much satisfaction in seeing the A. P.
steadily grow and develop and the
high ideals of its founders constantly
promoted.
II trust that the members of the
Associated Press who elected me to
the board will understand why my
resignation was necessary in the
circumstances"
Evening star., 1940-01-17
Gannett Race |nsures
Fiqht for New York's
6. 0. P. Delegation
Publisher Will Seek
Presidential Nomination:
Resigns From A. P. Post
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associa ted Press.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, Jan. ia
battle for New York's powerful bloc
of 80 votes towards the Republican
presidential nomination is assured
with the candidacy of Publisher
Frank Gannett.
Several weeks after Manhattan's S
District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey
entered the race. the Upstate Re-
publican leader, former chairman of
the Committee to Uphold Constitu-
tional Government, announced he
would run at a civic testimonial
dinner last night.
My answer is yes" Mr. Gannett
replied to several speakers who
urged him to run. Il realize what
1t means to be candidate for the
Republican nomination for Presi-
dent yet it is call to duty
that no citizen can ignore"
Choice of Upstate Bloc.
The publisher candidacy is
backed by bloc of Upstate
grass roots" Republicans, headed
by Thomas E. Broderick. a men,
ber of the State Executive Com
mittee. An avoWed opponent of
the New Deal, he continued his at
tack in his address last night, de-
claring:
The only way to stop them New
Dealers is to get rid of them"
Too he said, there. was little
real freedom in the world political
or religious, until our Constitution
was adopted. 5's
IF the New Deal had gone. un-
bridled, down the road President
Roosevelt started US on three years
ago, we should have nothing left
today but the empty form of con-
stitutional democracy"
by arcusing the public to support
patriotic Senators and Representa-
tives,' he added, I'VE were able to
defeat the New Deals four majo
assaults on the foundation of our
Constitutional system"
Lists Four Grabs for Power"
These -four camouflage grabs for
dictatorial power" the publisher
listed as:
Court packing wore the disguise
OF reform; Government reorganiza-
ton, the mask of efficiency the un-
American purge however, was just
plain New Deal vindictiveness. The
political lending-spending spree was
dressed up as the spirit Of benevo-
lence.' All were frauds"
Mr.. Gannett announced through
the Mail today his resignation as
the Constitutional Government Com
mittee chairman in favor of Samuel
B. Pettingill of Indiana.
Evening star., 1940-01-17
Thieves Rob Mrs. HubbeI|,
Lock Her and Maid in Closet
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. ia thief
yesterday locked Mrs. Irene Hubbell
and her maid in closet of her Park
avenue home and then robbed the
place of an undetermined amount of
jewelry. including a $4,000 pearl
necklace.
Mrs. Hubbell, widow of Vincent B
Hubbell, merchant and prominent in
New York society, said the intruder
overlooked $25 900 in gems. although
he ransacked the apartment for an
hour
The thief entered the apartment
by the service elevator under pretext
of delivering package. forced the
maid to take him to Mrs. Hubbell S
bedroom and there locked the two
women in the closet.
After he had gone, they broke
down shelf and knocked a hole in
the closet door to escape.
At the time of her marriage in
1925, Mrs. Hubbell described herself
as the daughter of Count Scardech
Wazinsky and as a native of Petro-
grad, now Leningrad, Russia.
Evening star., 1940-01-17
Interpreter Bonded
After Charge Of
Violence Threat
Anton Angelo Letters
Toto|ine q Pages
Offered us Evidence

Anton Angelo. 1888 Sixteenth
today while Judge Hobart Newman
of Police Court digests the contents
of two single-spaced typewriter
letters-one 16 pages and the other
seven pages long-to see whether
they contain threats against the
wife Of a Washington music in
structor in the belief that she broke
up Mr.. Angeles romance with her
sister.
Mr.. Angelo. an interpreter of Ian
guages at the Smithsonian Institu-
ton, was arraigned in Police Court
yesterday on charges by Mrs. Marie
Toutorsky. wife of DR.. Basil Toutor-
sky. 1925 Sixteenth street NV. that
he threatened personal violence to
her in the letters, and on January 5
threatened to choke her on the
street in front of her home
He thinks I am responsible for
my sister not seeing him." she told
the court.
Mr.. Angelo denied all the charges.
He told the court the Tourtorskys
had resorted to police action to
intimidate him and keep him from
writing the parents of the sister,
Miss Ena Howard. of Mexico City,
about the way she was allowed to
go about without chaperone.
He admitted he was angered when,
he said, she told him she was %,
'and later found out she was 32.'
He told Judge Newman there was
nothing of a threatening nature in
the letters offered in evidence by
Assistant United States Attorney
Stephen Haycock, pointing to the
final paragraph of one letter as
emphatically stating he had no
thought of physical violence.
There's no law to keep me from
writing letters he oplned The
Constitution may have been repealed
lately, but haven't heard about it,"
Judge Newman continued the case
for 80 days.
Evening star., 1940-01-17
Radio Helps Find Heir,
Wife Has Him jailed
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-Immedi-
ately after he told radio audience
how thrilling" it was to inherit an
unexpected $4,000 fortune, Henry
Gee Jordan, So, crippled Pittsburgh
news vendor, was arrested and sent
to Jail last night on a warrant
charging non-support.
Fortune and misfortune inter-
locked when Mr. Jordan was met in
the lobby of the Columbia Broad
casting Systems Building by Mrs
Loretta Jordan of Brooklyn and q
patrolman who served the warrant
Mrs. Jordan complained in the
Brooklyn Court of Domestic Rela-
tions that Mr.. Jordan deserted her
II years ago, leaving her destitute
She told the court she discovered
him through news stories and pic
lures relating that Mr.. Jordan was
located through the radio program,
Court of Missing Heirs" as bene-
ficiary of a $4,000 estate left by his
brother James in Atlanta, Ga.