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Evening star., 1940-01-09
Talks With Uruguay
For Trade Treaty
Break Down
Chilean Negotiations
Continue, but Copper
Is Eliminated
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Negotiations for a reciprocal trade
treaty between the United States
and Uruguay have broken down, on
top of the collapse of efforts to reach
an agreement with Argentina.
The Argentine negotiations were
ended last week and after disagree
ment over placing customs quotas on
typical Argentine products such as
linseed and canned beef.
Because of the similarity in i'm
portant respects Of the export trade
of Uruguay and Argentina with the
United States" the State Depart
ment said last night. 1T has been
found necessary in view of the re-
cent termination of negotiations
with Argentina to terminate also the
negotiations with Uruguay"
Members of Congress from cattle
raising States had opposed agree
ments with both countries.
Negotiations with Chile still are
under way, but the controversial
item of copper has been eliminated.
Meanwhile, President William
Green of the American Federation
OF Labor declared in response to an
inquiry from Secretary Hull that the
Federation never had expressed op-
position to continuance of the re-
ciprocal trade program.
Mr.. Hulls inquiry was prompted
by accounts of the action of the
Wage Farmers Protective Confer
ence in petitioning Congress to re-
pudiate all agreements not ratified
by the Senate.
The conference is headed by Mat
thew Woll A. F.. l.. vice president
and describes itself as the tariff
group OF the Federation.
The conference petition said the
A. F. l.. Executive Council had
adopted resolution opposing re
ciprocal trade treaties which dis
criminate against American work.
ers."
Mr.. Green told reporters he did
not recall whether the A. F. l.. had
taken any official attitude on the
trade treaties.
Evening star., 1940-01-09

The disturbance that was central of the
North Carolina coast Monday morning has
moved east-northeastward over the ocean
with increasing intensity and it is central
this morning about 500 miles each of At
lantic City. NJ j.. with lowest pressure 1000
millibars (295S inches) or slightly less.
This disturbance is attended by shifting
gales over considerable area. The Far
Western disturbance remains practically
stationary. North Head. Wash. ] .OO4 MILL
bars t29.65 inchesl, but another center is
developing over Northeastern New Mexico
and the Texas Panhandle, Clayton, N. Mex.
1.014.6 8 millibars go. .96 inches). Pressure
is relatively low over. Northern Minnesota,
Bemidji. 1,022 millibars f3O.1S inches).
These disturbances have been attended by
precipitation almost generally from the Pa
cif1c Coast eastward to the Rocky Mountain
region, and in the Dakotas, Minnesota. the
upper Ohio Valley, the Appalachian region
and portions of the Middle Atlantic and
North Atlantic States The precipitation
was in the form of snow. except in the Far
West. High pressure prevails from the
Plains States eastward to the Atlantic
Coast. Terre Haute. Ind, 1.O34.2 millibars
(30.b4 inches). The temperature has fallen
over most sections east of the Mississippi
Valley. but the weather has become warmer
Minnesota. The lowest temperature re-
ported in the United States this morning
was -1s' at Lake Placid, N. Y.
Evening star., 1940-01-09
Action on Dies Probe
Extension 10 Be DELAYED

By the Associated Press.
Chairman SABBATH said todav that
the House Rules Committee would
defer action on legislation to ex-
tend the Dies Committee inquiry
into Un-American Activities until
Representative Dies. Democrat. of
Texas returned to Washington and
vacancies on the Rules Committee
were filled.
Representative SABBATH talked 10
news men after White House call,
but he did not disclose the Presi-
dents attitude toward an extension.
He left no doubt, however, about his
own opposition.
1T would be throwing money
away" he said. Ito continue the in.
vestigation. I think the Department
of Justice has better organization
than Mr.. Dies can ever expect to OBJ
tain or organize I don't believe in
duplicating the work"
Evening star., 1940-01-09
Fall Of Abe Cabinet
Predicted in Toxic
Political Circles
Failure to Improve
Relations With u. S.
Seen Chief Cause
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC. Jan. 9-ReSignation Of
the cabinet of Premier Gen. Nobu-
yuki Abe as soon as organization
is completed of new Japanese
dominated central government in
China was predicted in political
circles today.
The cabinets failure to achieve
any considerable improvement in
relations with the United States
was regarded as likely to prove the
primary cause for the predicted fall.
Others were the inability to end
the conflict in China and domestic
rice shortage which caused steep
price increases.
Formation of the new China re-
gime, to administer Japanese-oc-
cupied territories and be headed by
Wang Ching-wei. was approved by
the cabinet yesterday. Wang IS a
former Premier of China who has
been at odds with the Chung
king government of Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek for the past year.
II vas understood here that his
regime was to be launched at once,
without immediate powers. but a
japanese military spokesman in
Peiping said this could not be ac-
complished in January.
Observers predicted December 20
that the Abe cabinet would resign
if the United States did not react
favorably to a Japanese offer to
permit foreign trade on the Yang
tie in China as far upstream as
Nanking.
Japan has evidenced anxiety over
the trade treaty with the United
States which expires January Is
but the United States reaction tc
the Yangtze proposal included nc
move to extend this pact.
Evening star., 1940-01-09
Congress in Brief
TOMORROW.

Senate:
Probably will consider Harrison
resolution for appointment of the
Joint budget and taxation COM
mittee.
Finance Committee meets on
nominations. 1890 am.
House:
Continues debate on anti-lynch-
ing bill
Smith Committee continues in
vestigation of National Labor Re-
lations Board. 10 am.
Naval Affairs Committee con-
tinues consideration of naval ex-
pansion program, 10 am.
Evening star., 1940-01-09
Roosevelt Pledges
EquaI Treatment OF
All Denominations
Protest on Emissory
To Vatican Made by
Church Delegation

President Roosevelt today pledged
equal treatment and recognition on
the part of this Government toward
all Christian denominations. 1t was
reported by visiting delegation OF
churchmen after their presentation
to him of a protest against appoint
ment of a representative to the
Papal State.
Invited to the White House after
their separate denominations had
sponsored objections to the appoint
ment of Myron S. Taylor as a Gov
ernment emissary to the Vatican,
the delegation today represented the
Lutheran, Baptist and Seventh-Day
Adventist groups.
Emerging from their conference,
DR.. Rufus w. Weaver of the South
ern Baptist convention told reporters
the Chief Executive had assured
them no church will receive better
treatment or greater recognition
than any other.
Mr.. Roosevelt left us with the
impression that he would not have
taken this action unless he had some
hopes of progress toward world peace
to result therefrom The President
presented to us in detail his point
of view and we were permitted to
express our own.
He approves in principle our posi-
ton of maintaining separation be-
tween church and state. Our half
hour meeting was very delightful,
interesting and informing"
Those who saw Mr.. Roosevelt in
a joint conference were the Rev.
Frederick H. Knubel. president
of the United Lutheran Church in
America; DR.. Ralph Long, secretary
of the Lutheran World Convention;
j. L. McElhany and E. D. Dick,
president and secretary of the Gen.
eral Conference of Seventh Day Ad-
ventists; Dr. r. w. Weaver and DR..
William S. Abernethy of the North
ern Baptist Convention.
Evening star., 1940-01-09
Gifts 10 Start Free
Circulating Library Of
Symphonic Records
ITO Albums To Be
Presented-Appropriotion
Necessary, However

More than 10 albums of sym.
phonic music will be presented to
the Public Library at 10:30 am.
tomorrow by the National Commit
tee for Music Appreciation and
prominent individuals.
The gifts will serve ultimately as
nucleus for free circulating
library of fine records, Librarian
George F. Bowerman announced.
Mr.. Bowerman will accept 10 COM
plete symphonies of the type circu-
lated last year by The Stars music
appreciation campaign from Direc-
tor Edward T. Ingle of the National
Committee for Music Appreciation.
Educators to Present Symphonies.
Other symphonies will be given
in person by Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle. president of the District
Board of Education; Dr. Joseph M.
Gray, chancellor of American Uni
versity DR.. Edwin N C. Barnes.
head of music in the public schools,
and Mrs Fanny A. Roberts, presi-
dent of the Washington Music
Teachers Association, Mr.. Ingle an.
nounced.
Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas.
Representative Charles Hawks, jr..
of Wisconsin; Representative Ever
ett Dirksen of Illinois and DR. Nor
ma Bird of American University will
send contributions to the record COL
lection. he stated.
Motive behinu the gifts, Director
Ingle explained, is the desire ito
make it possible for every man,
woman and child-particularly
school children-to hear in their
home over and over again the music
of the masters"
1000 Works to Be Included.
To fulfill this ideal, he said. the
District Library will in the end re-
quire 1000 different symphonic
works. with Implications of those
most in demand.
Free circulation of records must
wait on congressional appropriation
for additional library personnel,
| however, DR.. BoWerman stressed.
! He said that the Public Library's
music division is now run by Just
one worker, who must care for sheet
music as we'll as records already in
the librarys collection.
If Washington is able to establish
a free circulation of records, it will
be the first city in the Nation to do
so, Mr.. Ingle declared. Detroit,
Minneapolis and ST. Paul circulate
music. but levy charge. he said.
The aim of the National Committee
/ for Music Appreciation is to estab-
lish system which will be model
| for the country, he declared.
Among the composers represented
| in the records to be given tomorrow
are Schubert. Beethoven, Mozart,
Wagner, Bach, Debussy, Haydn,
Brahms, Tschaikovsky and Frank.
Evening star., 1940-01-09
Ref|ectine Pool Ice Foi|s
To Hold 2 Snow P|ows

Two truck k-mounted snow plows
joined in a mechanical invasion of
the Lincoln Memorial Rejecting Pool
shortly before noon today.
The trucks sped over the ice, clear
ing away the snow for skaters. They
had swept away the 5-inch snow
from 20-foot strip almost the
entire length of the pool. when both
plunged through thin spots in the
ice not 100 yards apart.
A crane was dispatched to fetch
the trucks out, and, at the same
time, the National Capital Parks
and Planning Commission announced
that skating would be permitted on
the cleared spots-but only until
dark.
Evening star., 1940-01-09
Public Debt Passes
$4,000, 100000
N the Associated Press,

., the Associated Press.
The Treasury disclosed today that
the public debt passed $42 ,0Oo. 900, ,000
on January 6, coming within
$4,000, 600, 900 of the statutory limit
President Roosevelt advised Con-
gress last week that further debt
increases would be necessary be-
cause of deficits next year, but said
then that if Congress voted $780,
100000 of additional taxes to pay
for emergency national defense
costs the debt would not reach
5000. .0O0, 900 in the next fiscal
year. With the new taxes. he said,
the estimated debt on June 80, 194l,
would be $44,938,577, ,622.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 8 jR.-Un-
less the $45, 900, 900 900 limitation on
the national debt is lifted a new
source will have to be found for
funds with which to make parity
farm payments, Secretary of Agri-
culture Wallace said today.
The Secretary, here to appear at
q court hearing on stockyards COM
mission rates, said the fiscal sit
uation is boost for the certificate
plan of paying parity benefits.
Evening star., 1940-01-09
Jonitor,s Soyinqs Stolen

COLUMBIA. Mo- Jan CP).-B.
F. Smith. jaintor at the Baptist
Church, worked many years to save
81 900, Burglars stole 5000 OF it
from the church safe.
Evening star., 1940-01-09
Weather Report
FURNISHED by the


Of Columba-Fair cold.
IL tonight coudnes
slowly gentle nohery light variable
tonight and gentle to moderate southerly
Maryland Vrgna-Far slightly tonight
increasing coudiness, with slowly
cloudy,
Evening star., 1940-01-09

dictive designs. To put 1t about
that our desire is the humiliation
of the German people is fantastic
and malicious invention, which can
only be put forward for home con-
sumption. But, on the other hand,
The German people must realize
that the responsibility for the
prolongation of this war and all the
suffering that it may bring in the
coming years is theirs, as well as
that of the tyrant who stands over
them. They must realize that the
desire of the allies for a social, hu-
name, just, Christian settlement
cannot be satisfied by assurances
which experience has proved to be
worthless.
The methods that are pursued by
the government of Hitler are a
standing threat to the independ-
ence of every small state in Europe.
They are constant menace to the
moral standards on which the whole
of western civilization is founded.
Nowhere have they aroused greater
detestation than throughout the
continents of North and South
America.
Risk Blood and Treasure.
In his recent message to the
Pope the President of the United
States declared that only by friendly
association by the seekers of light
and seekers of peace everywhere
could the forces of evil be overcome.
I profoundly agree. But 4 would
add that If the forces OF Fight are
to prevail, we must not hesitate to
risk our blood and our treasure to
so great an end.
In our determination to achieve
our purpose we are UNITED among
ourselves. We are supported by the
peoples of the empire, by the power
and resolution of our great and
gallant ally, France; by the moral
approval of all who realize that the
fate of civilization Is bound up with
our success. Against such a combi-
nation as that the powers of wicked
mes will fight in vain, and we are at
the beginning Of the new year, can
await the future with unshaken con-
fldence in the strength of our arms
and in the Righteousness Of our
cause.
Evening star., 1940-01-09
Report for Last "a Hours.

Record for Last "a Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon todayJ
Hiehest, 90. at 2 pm. yesterday. Year
ago, 81.
Lowest, 90. at z am. today. Year
ago, 81.
Record Temperature This Year.
Highest, 81. on January 8.
Lowest IA, on January 4.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
tFrom noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest, 30 per cent at 8 pm. yesterday.
Lowest, So per cent at noon today.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation In inches in tbs
Capital (current month to date):
Evening star., 1940-01-09
Tax Burden Increased.

Well, I don't believe that anybody
who remains at home will complain
of such sacrifices as this imposes
upon him. when he thinks of the
much greater sacrifices that are be-
ing made by those men who are to-
day braving with such magnificent
courage the perils and the hardships
Evening star., 1940-01-09

of this country for military pur-
poses is already on a prodigious
scale.
Civil Defense System.
Then, a parallel with this devel-
opment of our military forces, we
have the great system of civil de-
fense which has been built up by
way of preparations against air
raids. Day and night our fighter
aircraft, our anti-aircraft guns, our
balloons, our observer corps are
mobilized and stand ready to de-
tect and meet the raiders.
Then we have also the auxiliary
firemen and police, the air raid war
dens, the casualty services and all
that great army of volunteers, most
of them part-time, unpaid workers.
who form a central part of our sys-
TEN of civil defense.
Then there are finally the safety
measures which we have taken to
diminish risks: Evacuation, the
blackout, the restrictions upon the
hours of places of public entertain
ment and all the complicated ar
rangements for casualties at first
aid posts and hospitals.
Those are vast preparations, and
they have occasioned a good deal OF
hardship, inconvenience, loss OF
money, and, I am afraid, loss of life
too, in street accidents. And then
after all. four months have gone by
and the air raids have not come
Some people think it really is very
Disappointing. And 1t is perhaps
not surprising that others should
ask whether, after all, these precau-
tions were necessary, and whether
we have not gone . great deal too
far In the direction Of safety.
l Well, wish could take that
Evening star., 1940-01-09

FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic SurveyD
Evening star., 1940-01-09

SIlOI CcSG pOSSlUlC tlAIlC. 1HCA ACAOI e,
if you find that you can't buy the
woolen goods that you have been
accustomed to, we'll, remember that
wool is wanted for the clothing of
the army. If you are asked to
lessen your consumption of bacon
or sugar, remember that you are
making available space in ships
which can be used for iron ore or
machine tools. If you are asked
to put your surplus into saving
certificates instead of spending it,
remember that you are giving help
ing hand to the chancellor in his
herculean task of finding the where
withal to pay for unprecedented
expenditure upon munitions.
In these times of trial we cannot
guarantee, no one can guarantee,
that the sacrifices of war are going
to be equal, but if each one makes
the sacrifices as the call comes to
him, his own conscience will be
clear and our combined efforts will
see us through.
Program Of Conquest.
have now only few more words
to say. It is becoming increasingly
clear that the German government
had long planned the successive
stages of a program Of conquest.
and that its appetite grows by what
it feeds upon.
Today the members Of that gov
ernment do not hesitate to say that
they desire to achieve the ruin Of
the British Empire, and no doubt
they would rejoice If they could
treat US as they are treating the
victims who. are already within
their grip. a.
We on our side have no such VIM
Evening star., 1940-01-09

OF smaller vessels.
What is much more serious, more
painful, is that we have also lost a
number of valuable lives-in the
royal navy, in the mercantile navy,
in unarmed and defenseless COM
mercial vessels.
And yet, ladies and gentlemen, our
command of the seas is unimpaired
and the defeat of the Graf Spec, in
one of the finest naval actions in all
our history, followed by her self
destruction rather than face a re-
newal of the fight, has not only
cleared the South Atlantic Of that
raider, but 1t has inflicted irrepar-
able damage upon German naval
prestige throughout the world.
Meantime, inexorable pressure OF
sea power acting upon the enemies
is producing ever-increasing dimcul-
ties for her own economy and hel
ability to carry on the war. The net
results are not yet strikingly visible
and you may be quite sure that every
effort is being made to conceal them
You have only to read the Christ
mas orations of the German leaders
to see that they are very present tt
their minds.
Firms Fighting for Liberty.
When I look forward beyond thu
boundaries of this country, we can.
not fail to observe how easily, how
rapidly those evil things of which
have spoken before would spreae
unless they were checked. Germany
used her brute force upon unhappy
Poland. Today we can see how She.
treating the Poles and the Czechs
exploiting their resources, carrying
of their food, starving and shooting
the people, tearing them and uproot'
ing them from their homes in order
to make WY for Germans, who, II
their turn, have been forced to leave
the lands where they and their fam
Evening star., 1940-01-09
Burden on Shipping.

scale, we are adding enormously to
the amount of imports which become
necessary to us, and therefore add
ing more loads upon our shipping,
and that shipping is bound to work
more slowly in war than in peace
because we have to employ the con-
voy system, and every now and then,
we have to alter the destination of
these ships to unaccustomed ports.
And then again, consider this, that
Of course, all imports have to be paid
for and they they can be paid for
only IN one of three ways, either in
gold or by the sale of foreign securi-
ties or by the export of goods and
services.
And, therefore, since our supplies
of gold and foreign securities are
limited-and mind you, we must
keep reserves of these things in case
this should prove to be long war
since they are limited, as I say, we
are driven back upon the exports.
and we have therefore got, in order
to cope with this situation, to in
crease our exports as much as we
can and at the same time to dinin-
ish the imports of the things that
we can do without.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-09

which paid for itself and then some.
 MacPhails first act upon taking over the outfit early in 1888 was to give the Phillies $45,000 and an athlete of no consequence for First Baseman Dolf Camilli. This quickly convinced the good people of Flatbush he intended to make every effort to give them . winner.
 AN ALL.AMERICA OUT
 BECOMES A MANAGER MacPhail made 50 many deals some of them had to be bad-the purchase of Mel Armada from the Browns for $25.0 .000 and an outfieleler, for example-but the majority of his transactions banned out very well.
 One in which not 6 few of the sharpshooters believed MacPhail was shortchanged no little brought Leo Ernest Durocher from the Cardinals In exchange for infielders Joe Stripp and Jimmy Bucher, Outhelder John ny Cooney and Southpaw Roy Hen- shaw.
 But 1t turned out that MacPhail gave nothing In particular and Durocher appeared in Al games in '38 and was selected as the manager of the year after batting .277 in ll6 games in '39.
 At 35, Lippy Leo Durocher has no superior as e fielding shortstop.
 Yet he has been kept in the dug out this spring by the brilliance of Pee Wee Reese, whom the Red Sox did not believe would hit well enough to fit into other plans.
 MacPhail turned to Milwaukee for two members of Brooklyn's pitching Big Three. Luke Hamlin, ard Whitlow wyatt and drafted the third, Hugh Casey, from Memphis
 Tex Carleton, the no-hit, no-run hero, Tot Presnell and Newell Kim ball also came from the Brewers.
 Fat Fred Fitzsimmons and Vi- tautaS Tamulis were obtained on waivers-from the Giants and Browns, respectively.
 DODGERS LAND GOOD YOUNG CATCHER IN HERMAN FRANKS
 The Red Birds seem to have let 6 fine young catcher go in Herman Franks, who caught Carleton's no- hitter and who has made bench warmers out of Phelps and Gus Mancuso.
 Pete Coscarart, only 24 and pur- chased from Nashville, is the key man In the slickest infield the National League has boasted in years [. one backed up by such capable reServists as Durocher and Johnny Hudson.
 MacPhail gave S25000 each for two of his three former American League outAelders, Joe VoSmik and Roy Cullenbine. Dixie Walker came from Detroit at the waiver price. They have been keeping Charley Gilbert, up from Nashville, Jimmy Ripple and Ernie Roy in the dug out.
 Larry MacPhail always managed to dig someone up whenever Leo Durocher pressed the button.
 But their cyclonic finish of 1030 and early rush this trip IS evidence that the Brooklyn Dodgers are finally set.
 They are now going about the business of forcing some of the other clubs to make some changes--that is if they care to remain contenders.