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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
| BoIky Horse
| Runs Awuy
| With SIeiqh

Police, who are seldom bothered
by horses there days. today had a
report of one which ran away with
a sleigh, vehicle which they meet
even more infrequently.
Roscoe Cook, colored, a former
employe of Mrs. Jane H. Maher,
APO Seventeenth street NV, called
in the sleigh and suggested that
some Of the children and perhaps
their mother might like to 60 for
a ride over the hard-packed snow.
Mrs. Maher and 9-year-old Joan
accepted the invitation. But the
vehicle had gone only a few blocks
when the horse pulled up on the
sidewalk and came to a complete
and uncompromising stop. Efforts
to get under way again were futile.
The three passengers alighted.
The horse then swung back into
action. It dashed along, dragging
the sleigh. Policeman c. S. Rod
man Of the tenth precinct found
two boys leading the horse and what
was left Of the sleigh at Second
and Upshur streets NV. The ami
NAL had turned docile again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
Woman Hurt as Auto
Is Hit by Street, Car

Miss Elizabeth M. Bandler, 80, of
62l Rock Creek Church road, re-
ceived decorations of the head and
minor injuries to the knee and ribs
late yesterday when her automobile
collided with street car at Ninth
street and New York avenue NV.
Police reports said Miss Bandler's
machine and the street car were
both going west on New York ave-
nue., and that the automobile made
a U-turn. Miss Bandler was treated
at Emergency Hospital and dis
missed.
James Copeland, colored, pas
senger in Miss Bandler's car, was
treated at Emergency Hospital also
for cut forehead and abrasions to
the right leg.
A coroner's jury late yesterday
absolved James r. Wilson, %, of 7l8
Eighth street Sc. in the traffic
death of Mrs. Mary E. Hall jan
uary 10. Mrs. Hall, 70, of 1925 Half
street S.W. was struck by Mr.. Will
sons car in the HOO block of Fourth
street Sc. She suffered conclusion
of the brain and fractured wrists,
She died at Casualty Hospital Sun
day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
Finnish Tab|eau
To Precede Benefit
6. W. w. Showinq
Minister to the U. S.
To Be Presented
In Ceremonies

A tableau, Salute to Finland"
and the presentation of the Finnish
Minister will precede the benefit
performance of Gone With the
Wind" at the Palace Theater to-
morrow night.
The prologue, which starts at 8:25
o'clock, will show a narrow defile in
the Arctic Circle, featuring the he
roic figure Of Finland. The tableau
also will display types representing
the Firms and the Finnish soldiers
clad in their snoW-white uniforms.
Choir to Sing Anthem.
The introduction to the Salute
to Finland" will be in the form of
two stanzas of poetry composed for
the occasion. The Finnish national
anthem will be sung by the choir of
Foundry Methodist Church and will
be followed by the introduction Of
Hjalmar J. Procope, Minister Of
Finland.
Another feature Of the Finnish
relief fund benefit will be one spe-
cially decorated chair, which will not
be occupied.
1.-THE unoccupied chair" explained
the Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j.,
chairman of the Washington unit
OF the fund, will represent the &C
cumulated donations of the friends
OF Finland who have purchased
seats but then turned the tickets
back for resale. This chair, there
fore, will be kept reserved for tho
invisible guest of the evening as a
symbol of the wide sympathy and
support for Finland which the peo-
pie Of Washington are showing"
Some Seats Unsold.
Less than one-fifth of the seats
are now available, it was announced.
Remaining tickets, priced at SO, IS
and $40, are on sale at the Willard,
Carlton, Shoreham, Mayfower,
Washington and Wardman Park
Hotels and at the Office of the fund,
room 425, Transportation Building.
Every penny collected through the
sale OF tickets is Immediately trans
mitted to the Civilian Relief Com
mission in Finland for provision of
food, shelter, clothing and medical
assistance to the more than 100000
homeless civilian Firms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
WASHINGTON G, FRIDAY JANUARY 2e 1910
4 Firemen Overcome
By Dense Smoke
OF Carbon Blaze
Is Others Are Treated
After InhoIing Dust
At Ink Plant Fire

Four flremen, including battalion
chief, were overcome and at least
Is others experienced i'll effects by
inhaling carbon dust while fighting
stubborn fire early today at the
Capitol Printing Ink Co., 806 Chan
ming place NE.
The fire was confined to an 8-foot
pile Of carbon black-a fine dust
used as an ink base-in one of the
company's storage rooms, but dense
smoke and clouds Of the carbon par
ticles spread throughout the two
story structure.
The firefighters who had to be
carried from the building when their
respiratory membranes became
checked with the dust were:
First Battalion Chief Harmon A.
Chapman, SO, who was treated at
Emergency Hospital for asphyxia-
ton.
1t. Joel Best, 40, of No. II Engine
Company, admitted at Casualty
Hospital.
Pvt. George Quinn. 40, Of No. IS
Truck Company. also admitted at
Casualty.
Pvt. Harry Watson. 49, Of No. IS
Truck Company. treated at CASH.
atty and allowed to go home.
Score Of Others Treated.
More than a score Of other fire.
men, several Of whom had to be
assisted from the building, were
given first aid after they returned
to their stations.
G. r. MacQuaker, superintendent
OF the plant, said no estimate of
the damage could be given before a
complete inventory of the ink color
watts to determine the number ruined
by the flying carbon black.
All exposed surfaces in the build
ing were coated with a thin layer
of the dust which billowed from
the pile in great clouds when fire.
men played streams of water on
the source Of the fire.
Damage From Dust.
Black smoke had filled the second
floor Of the building, used as auxil-
larry storage space by the Pioneer
Laundry, by the time fremen ar
rived at the scene.
Water sprayed on the carbon pile
ran of on the floor a thick ink, and
the faces of flremen quickly became
smeared with the black dust which
filled the air.
Principal damage resulted in the
wide diffusion of the carbon par
ticles, the value of the destroyed pile
itself amounting to less than slOO
All motorcycles and scout car
cruisers attached to the police traf-
f1c division were ordered to the
vicinity of the fire at 6 o'clock.
about an hour after the alarm was
turned in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
Freighter City Of Flint
Due 10 Anchor Off
Baltimore Tonight
Ship kozis Seized Neurs
End Of Adventurous
War Zone Voyage
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 26.-The 1863
ton freighter City of Flint steamed
up Chesapeake Bay today toward
Baltimore and the end of an ad
venturous wartime voyage on
which she was seized by German
crew who held her in a Russian port
In command of Capt. J. A.
Gainard, the 390-foot vessel picked
up pilot, Capt. c. S. brennan, at
Cape Henry, Va, early today. Bound
from Norway with a cargo of iron
ore, she was scheduled to moor of
the Baltimore Quarantine Station
tonight.
Two officials of the United States
Lines boarded the City of Flint at
Cape Henry with heavy pay roll
for the 40 crewmen. They had not
been paid since October 8, when
the ship sailed from New York and
headed into a strange series of
adventures.
On october the City of Flint
was overhauled by the German
pocket battleship Deutschland. A
prize crew boarded her, painted the
flag OF Denmark on her sides, re.
named her the ALI and sailed her
into the Russian port of Murmansk
for repairs"
Six days later the prize crew
weighed anchor, announced they
would run the British blockade and
set out, ostensibly for Germany
Two Norwegian warships trailed
her through the coastal waters OF
Norway to protect that country's
neutrality.
On November 3, for reasons not
made clear, the German crew put
the City of Flint into the Nor
Wegian port of Haugesund. The
Norwegian government promptly
seized the ship, informed the Ger
man crew and released her to the
American crew.
On January the City of Flint
her cargo holds filled with iron ore
set out from Norway, only to suffer
a harbor collision with a British
steamer.
After a delay of two days she
weighed anchor again and, taking
a circuitous northern route, skirt
ing the iceberg-strewn coast OF
Iceland, began the long voyage
home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
Virginia Bill 10 Tax
Federal and DC.
Workers Studied
Little Opposition Seen
For Measure Applying
To 1899 Income
BY ALEXANDER PRESTON,
Star stad Correspondent.

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 26.-The
House Finance Committee today
was studying new bill to tax the
incomes of Federal employees. esti-
mated to produce an additional $125,-
900 annually, most Of which would
come from Virginia's metropolitan
area of Washington.
Delegate Samuel D. Rodgers Of
Petersburg, chairman of the FL
nance Committee, introduced the
revenue bill, which would include
Federal judges, members of Con-
gress and employees of the District
of Columbia Government among
those taxed.
BY far the largest amount of
taxes would be derived from the
thousands Of Federal employees liv-
ing in Arlington and Fairfax Coun-
ties and Alexandria, who commute
daily to their Federal Offices in
Washington.
Little Opposition Forecast.
The bill was anticipated because
Of Governor Prices program for an
additional $4.500,000 during the next
two years to maintain a balanced
budget. 1t is expected to meet little
or no opposition and is regarded by
most members as reciprocal tax
to balance the Federal levy against
incomes of State employees, the
constitutionality of which has been
upheld by the United States Su-
preme Court.
The bill, which carried the names
of six co-sponsors, will be supported
by the Northern Virginia delegation
representing the areas most vitality
affected All expressed the attitude
that TITS bound to come" in view
of the Supreme Court ruling. Those
expressing this view included Sem
ator William D. Medley of Airing
ton and Delegates Charles r. Fen
wick Of Arlington, Maurice D. Ros-
enberg of Alexandria and Francis
Pickens Miller of Fairfax.
Carries Emergency Clause.
The measure carries an emer-
gency clause and would become
effective Immediately following its
passage. The definition of gross
income would be amended to in
clude compensation received after
December 81, 1888. for personal
service as an officer or employee of
the United States, its Territories or
possessions or political subdivisions
and the District of Columbia.
Officers or employees would be de-
fined to include "a member of a
legislative body, a judge, or officer
Of court, and a person in the
armed forces"
Included in the exemptions would
be pensions from the United States
or from Virginia granted ION &C
count of military or naval service
in armed forces, whether such serv-
ice was rendered by the recipient OF
the pension or by relative by blood
or marriage"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
Civil Liberties Probe
Turns 10 Work Of
Employer Groups
Associated Formers
And Communists Held
Blocks to Federal Aid
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26.-The
La Toilette Civil Liberties Commit
Federal efforts 70 aid farm labor
situation, delved into employer asso-
Citations today after hearing testi-
mony that Communists and the
Associated Farmers had hindered
Federal efforts to aid farm larbor
conditions.
Executives Of several employer as
sociations, including the Associated
Farmers and the former Industrial
Association of San Francisco, now
merged into the San Francisco In
oustrial Council, were under sub
poena to appear.
Committee spokesman said they
intended to look into the organiza-
ton of the employers associations,
their effectiveness and their CO.
operation with other similar groups
and with law enforcement agencies.
Called Extremist Groups.
The Associated Farmers and the
Communists were blamed by Fed
eral official yesterday with being
the extremist" groups which had
harassed the Government in its eff
forts to improve the lot of an army
Of California migratory farm work.
ers.
The witness was r. L. Burgess,
regional representative of the Agri-
culture Adjustment Administration
Division of Information, who said
he had denounced both the or
gained farmers and Communists
for seeking to pervert all programs
for the benefit of agriculture"
He termed the Associated Farm
ers as definitely moving toward a
Fascist concept of how agriculture
should be rum" and said the Com
munists were playing dangerous
game. = In effect acting as
agents OF foreign power which is
not sincerely interested in the well
fare" Of the States migratory
workers.
Says Many Are Sincere.
MANY of the Associated Farm
ers are very sincere people who
think that every decency, every
freedom they value is endangered
unless they deny agricultural la
borers the right to organize unions,
for example" he said.
Mr.. Burgess, who stressed that he
was giving only his personal views,
declared corporation farms should
be permitted so long as their la
borers are allowed to form collec-
tive bargaining units. Otherwise, the
industrialized farm is simply a fac
tory manufacturing class warfare"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
Boiling Coffee ScuIds Boby

ROCKVILLE, Md, Jan. rs (Spe-
ciaD.-Minnie Carter, 18-month odd
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Pearl
Carter of Croydon Park near here,
was taken to the Montgomery
County General Hospital at Sandy
Spring last night in a serious condi-
ton after she had been scalded by
pot of boiling coffee. The child
pulled the coffee pot off the kitchen
stove. She is expected to recover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
U. S. Writer Quizzed
Daily by japanese
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
TOXIC, Jan. 26.-James R. Young,
International News Service CORE
spondent detained since Sunday
without explanation, was reported
today to be undergoing daily ques-
tioning at metropolitan police head
quarters. He has been denied visit
ors. The foreign Office has dis
claimed knowledge of the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
Says Many Are Sincere.
Weather Report
FURNISHED by the United States


District of Coumba-Fair
tomorrow night slowly rising lowest
tonight about degrees gentle tonight and
tomorrow. ~
Maryland and Vrgna-Gneraly fair in
cold tonight
Monday ~
West Vrgina-Mosy cloudy tonight and in
northeast portion tomorrow slowly
rising temperature Sunday and Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
Letters to Hitler
Found by Censors
In Clipper Mail
b the Associated Press.

~ VIZ ABBOCIkVeU 1IeSBs
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Jan.
26.-The chief censor Of Ber-
muda announced yesterday that
In examination Of Pan-Amer-
lean Clipper airmail, recently
instituted, the censors had dis
covered three letters addressed
to Adolf Hitler himself.
He won't get them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
Mount Rainier Bonouet

Leon Pearson, newspaperman, will
be principal speaker at 8 pm. to-
morrow, when the Mount Rainier
(Md0 Volunteer Fire Department
holds its annual banquet. Battalion
Chief Hartman A. Chapman Of the
District Fire Department will in
stall officers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
Party Postponed

A bingo party, which was to have
been held tonight by the Ladies
Guild Of st. Barnabas' Church at
st. Barnabas' Hall, Oxon Hill, Md,
has been postponed on account of
road conditions until April.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
War Equipment Scarce

So great is the demand for mill
tary equipment in South Africa that
recruits must buy some army Access
SORES from regular clothing stores
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
Congress in Brief
1oDA Y.
House and Senate.

In recess.
Monopoly Committee studies steel
basing point price system.
Senate Appropriations subcom-
mittee works on s1,10o,0O0,00o indie
pendent Offices bill.
House Ways and Means Commit
tee continues hearings on trade
agreements program.
House Agriculture Committee
studies expansion of farm loan pro-
gram.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
Weather Conditions Last "a Hours.


High pressure and extremely low tenn
peratures continue from Montana. the
Dakotas and Minnesota southeastward to
the Gulf of Mexico and the Middle At
lantic and South Atlantic Coast The
highest pressure reported this morning was
1O40.6 milibars (30.73 inches) at Chadron,
Nebr.. and the lowest temperature, $50
at st. joseph, Mo. The line of zero tenn
perature this morning extends southwark
into Northern Mississippi Northern Ala
bama and extreme Northern Georgia
Temperatures are from 20o to more than
40' below normal from the Central and
Southern Plains States and Texas eastward
to the Atlantic Coast Pressure remains
low from Western Alaska southeastward
to Northern California. Dutch Harbor
Alaska. 1913 millibars (29.16 inches). and
Tatoosh Island Wash, 1856 mllibars
co 40 inches). and from New England
eastward over the ocean. Caribou. Me-
998.3 millibars t294S inches) There
have been general rains In the Pacific
states as far south as Central California
while light snow or rain has fallen In the
Plateau rerion. and light snow in the
Northern Rocky Mountain region, the
Upper Mississippi and Upper Ohio Valleys
the Lake region. the Appalachian region
and portions Of New England. South Caro-
lima and Georgia.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry: Potomac slightly muddy
at Great Falls today.
Report for Last "a Hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
Unframed Army Fights Firms,
Captured Russians Declare
Outmoneuvered and Outfoueht by Defenders
They Say; Charge Leaders MisIed Them
By JAMES ALDRIDGE

HE1s1NK1 Finland JAM 26 NANA by radio)-This is the
CT five captured Soviet ocersons Of the Red
Your talked a
Sitting Joined eating thick Finnish SOUP with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26

n
49, wIub
ococ tonight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26

Record Temperature This Year.
Highest. 55. on January IA.
Lowest, s, on January 20.
Weather in Various Cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26
Precipitation.

Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital lcurrent month to date:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-01-26

Record for Last "a Hours.
frrom noon yesterday to noon today,
Hishest. Is, at 4 pm. yesterday. Year
ago, %.
Lowest. IL. at 7:16 am. today. Year
ago. II.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today)
Highest. 81 per cent, at am
Lowest. SO per cent at pm.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-11
WEED PRODUCTION
ESTIMATE BOOSTED
This Years Crop Will Still Be
Materially Below Record
One Of 1889

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1o.-f-
The department of agriculture
boosted slightly today its last pre-
vious estimate of 1910 tobacco pro-
duction but predicted the year
crop still would be materially pc
low" the 1889 crop Of 1,S4S, oo4' ooo
pounds.
Indications on October l were
that this years production wouid
be 1893, 912, 900 pounds. two per
cent more than was predicted on
September l and almost 100, 600, O0o
pounds below the 1929-1938 aver
age.
BY types, the 1910 output was
estimated as follows: flue-cured'
661, 855, 900 pounds dark fired, o.
948, 900. hurley, 81, S46, 900 Mary
land 30, 240, 900 dark air-cured, H.
500, 900 cigar tobacco, l27,46O, ooo'
Late rains the report said, ap-
parently added many pounds to
the crop in Kentucky, where 70
per cent of the hurley is'produced.
The largest tobacco crop was ex-
pected from North Carolina, fol-
lowed by Kentucky, Tennessee,
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Mary
land, Ohio, Connecticut, Florida,
Massachusetts,, Indiana and Mis-
souri,, in that order. J. 8
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-11
WILMINGTON MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N. c.

funds was similar to previous ac-
tons immobilizing wealth OF nine
European nations occupied by
troops of Germany or Russia. IN
der it. none of the funds or securl-
ties may be Withdrawn without
the approval of the treasury.
Cable dispatches have declared
that Germany was despatcnlng
troops to Rumania for the an
nounced purpose of protecting the
oil resources there.
Other Action
Other move included: the War
department announced a new
grouping of the expanding land
forces around four field armies,
which in turn are composed Of
corps and divisions. Other major
divisions of the land and air forces.
expected to number more than l.
the mobile general headquarters
air force, the newly organized
a1mored force of tanks, air de
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-11
Obituaries
EDWARD H. SWITZERLAND, SIR

Edward H. Switzerland, ST.,
died at his home on Wrightsvine
Sound. early Wednesday night after
a long illness.
Surviving are his wife; one
daughter, Mrs. Margaret Burnie,
of Charlotte; one son, E. H. South
erland. Jr., of Wrightsville; " o
sisters, Mrs. A.. J. Wright, OF At
lanta, Ca, and Mrs. ]. A. Groom,
of Carolina Beach.
Funeral services will be held this
morning at II o'clock from the
Yopp Funeral home. The Rev. r. L.
Jerome, assisted by the Rev. J. L.
Malone, will officiate. Interment will
follow in Oakdale.
Honorary pallbearers will be:
Jerry Hewlett, Julian Kornegay, Pat
Gerken, Jimmy Oldham, Julius Ru-
dolph, DR.. w. c.. Mebane, B. c.
Evans, G.. C. Baltzegar, J. o. Hinton,
E. r. Clark, H. E. O'Keef, J. E. L
Wade, Charles B. Parmele and ]. r
Thomas.
Active %pallbearers will be: J. P
King, R. H. Taylor, W. w. Higgins
T. r. Taylor, G. A. Rothlinger ane
w. A. Carothers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-11
MISS MARTHA r. WILLIAMS

Funeral rites for Miss Martha
Routh Williams were held yester-
day morning at II o'clock at the
Presbyterian Church Of the Coven-
ant. Miss Williams died early Wed
nesday morning at the James Walk
err Memorial hospital after an ILL
ness Of several weeks.
DR.. J. Harry Whitmore, past of
the church., conducted the funeral
services. Interment followed in
.Oakdale cemetery
Active pallbearers were: John
R. Murchison, DR.. David R. Murch-
ison, Williams Harriss, Lawrence
Sprunt, E. P. Crow, Jr., and Frank
Harriss. Honorary pallbearers
were: DR.. ]. Hooper, J.. ". Grain
ger, George Thomas and Henry
Peschau.
The daughter Of the late George
Washington and Katherine Murchi-
son Williams, Miss Williams is
survived by three nieces, Mrs.
William A. Kirksey, of Fayette-
vile, Mrs. Emmett Crow, of Will
mington, and Mrs. Hal V. Worth,
of Raleigh; and a nephew, James
Horner, of Houston, Texas.
She was a lifelong member OF
the Presbyterian church.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-11
U. S. REINFORCEMENTS
ORDERED TO HAWAII
Continued from Page One)

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nd battalion Of Los Angeles, in
which he is a captain, was directed
to go into service at San Diego,
Calf.
STANDBY" Orders
Some 1880 other marine and
navy r%eservists have received
standby orders to b ready for
duty.
Ten American-made pursuit in
terceptor planes, which had been
enroute to Thailand, were stopped
at Manila. The license for the ex-
port of the craft, known as North
American AS" was cancelled, Of
ficials said, because. it had been
decided that they were needed for
the national defense.
However, the capital was quick
to recall that Thailand had served
There was known to be a feeling
in some official quarters that these
demands might be receiving the
support of Japan, which has made
military movements into 1ndo
China.
The order freezing Rumaniar
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-11

tense commands, coast artillery
districts and various reserve
troops.
The defense commission said ar
engagements were being made to
bring an emergency reserve sup
ply of $50, 600 pounds Of British
owned Australian wool to this cou
try for storage in bond. It is t ODE
kept off the market except as need
ed to meet American require
ments. Wool is classified as a
critical military material and
the reserve supply is considered
sufficient to meet American needs
for three or four months.
Although the war department
cancelled Citizens Military Train
ing camps for next summer be-
cause of defense training require
ments, reserve officers training
camps will be held as usual IN
1941, it was announced. The ROIC