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Evening star., 1940-05-19

substitutes for essential war and
industrial supplies not presently
produced in this country or not
produced in this country in sufficient
quantities to meet current and prob
able needs.
1--WE affirm our unqualified belief
in the right of labor to freely
organize and to bargain collectively.
We favor the adoption of such
necessary new laws, as, when fairly
and impartially administered, to-
gether with existing laws, will in
sure fair and equal treatment to
both employe and employers, with
out regard for race, creed or color" I"
The convention was presided over
by James c. Wilkes, chairman of
the Republican State Central Com
mittee. The various officials of the
Central Committee will accompany
the delegates to Philadelphia to
serve as an advisory group.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
40 and 8 Marches
In PhiIudeIphiu +.
nr the Assorinted pracS

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May ia roll
stering band of the Society of 40
Men and Horses, fun making
branch of the American Legion,
took over Philadelphia's midtown
section today.
To the booming accompaniment of
miniature cannon the Legionnaires
marched before thousands of per-
sons jamming downtown streets.
Veterans from eight States par
ticipated in the parade, commemo-
rating the organizations founding
in Philadelphia 20 years ago. on
cials estimated 1,500 marched in the
parade.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
$1,000, 900 Check Given
Sinclair Firm by Mexico

Don Francisco Castillo Najera,
Mexican Ambassador, yesterday
presented check for 100000 to
Patrick J. Hurley, representing the
Consolidated Oil Corp. as the first
payment by the Mexican govern
ment for oil properties appropriated
in 1898.
Presentation was made in the En-
bassy in the presence of Jerome
Hess, attorney for the Mexican gov
ernment, and several Embassy at
taches. The corporation is a Sin
clair subsidiary. Settlement of the
Sinclair claims calls for total pay
ment of $8,500,000, of which the re-
mainder is to be paid in two and a
half years.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
MIR. PYLE SAYS "TborousbCle.n.d Rue, A..
SANITARY RUGS"

Our individual process exercises the advantages Of
Mf. Pyes 40 years experience in the g-cleaninE
Expert application Of gentle cleaning
rlds rugs Of every speck of dirt, restores dimmed
eoiors to a fresh newness and adds years Of wear
for assured safe1ess place your rugs in Mr. Pyle's
eHpa9e hands Ask about our moderate rates
cleaning and summer storage.
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Berlin
Continued From First Page.)

effected, DNB, official news agency.
said, after the outer ring of the
city's heavy forts had been broken
in two places.
On the left wing, in France, the
high command asserted German
armored forces penetrated French
frontier Notifications, dispersed two
allied divisions beyond the upper
Sambre River and pursued "the re-
treating enemy" southwark to the
upper Oise, more than 20 miles
south.
This is on the western end of the
deep and wide pocket which the
Germans have gouged into Northern
France.
Infantry divisions now are follow
ing up these troops in tremendous
marches" and many French prison.
ers and large supplies have been
taken, the Germans said.
South of Sedan, too, the Germans
claimed southwark gains to widen
the east end of their French pocket
where the Meuse forts approach the
western anchorage of the main
Maginot line.
Attention Turns to Italy.
From the glowing reports of oper-
ations in the west German writer's
are turning to Italy's position in the
Mediterranean.
One of the most influential of
them, Karl Megerle of the Boersen
Zeitung, wrote:
"The government and people of
Italy are at an end of the patience
with which they have endured eight
months of measures and effects of
the British French blockade war.
To establish freedom of the seas
for all is the task, accomplishment
Of which would bring good to all ma
tions."
Possibility of Italys entrance into
the war again pushes the fate of
Switzerland to the fore, because a
campaign in Southern Europe
might, for strategic reasons alone,
envelop this historic neutral in Eu-
ropes bonfire.
There have been occasional hints
in the German press that Switzer-
land is not as neutral as she might
be.
DNB today told the story of the
German entry into Brussels, relat-
ing that the German troops entered
the Belgian capital yesterday with
out fight, enemy (British) troops
withdrawing beyond the city.
Heavy enemy losses and rela-
lively small German ones were
claimed in the fighting for Louvain
and Malines, now in German hands
Now that Antwerp, % miles from
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Advertising Club
To Elect Wednesday

The Advertising Club of Washing
ton will elect officers at its annual
meeting Wednesday at 1890 o'clock
in the Raleigh Hotel. Three direc-
tors will be selected from a list of
seven nominees.
Other nominees are George B.
Burrus, for president: F.. Reid Wal
lace and A. D. Willard, jr., for first
vice president; Louis D. Krakow,
for second vice president; Charles
j. Columbus, for secretary; Allan V.
Deford and Ernest S. johnson, for
treasurer.
Evening star., 1940-05-19

great help and would open the
gates for healthful, wholesome,
character building recreation to
girls, particularly those in the more
crowded sections of the CITY,"
Evening star., 1940-05-19
Buboons Shock Selves

To keep balloons from destroying
his garden, farmer near Jensen
vile, South Africa. has strung a
wire around it and erected a device
which will cause the beasts to turn
on the current when they approach.
La gaceta., 1940-07-23
CONTRA LOS MITINES AN
~TTPATRIOTICOS

Una L4opue:.d urdenanza y
ley para prohibir los mitines de
organizaciones antipatri6ticas
en- los edificios del Municipio y
restringir la circulac6n de cier-
ia clase de literature esta sien-
do estudiada por Ell Comite Dc
Relaciones P1blicas de la CANA
.ra Municipal.
La ordenanza fue propuesta
por ell Centre Asturiano, que re-
comieBda la prohibition de mi
tines en- los cuales Sc ataque a
los americanos, su bandera o las
instituciones del pals, y prohi-
.biendo tambien la distribution
de literature ofensiva a la reli-
.gi6n cristiana o que tenga por
objeto ell socavar la confianza
pGblica en- nuestro gobierno o
sus instituciones.
En- un juicio publico, que tu-
vo lugar aver, la oposici6n a la
ordenanza fue expresada por Ma
nuel Garcia, presidents del Co
mite Consultivo Conjunto de las
.Uniones del Tabaco, quien dijo
que la tai ordenanza podrfa uti-
.lizarse para suprimir la libertad
La gaceta., 1940-07-23
JAPON u SIN PRE-.
VIC AVISO

Toxic, Jap6n, julio 23,-El
gcbierno expanSionista del ia
pen ha decidido seguir un pro-
grama de 'blitzkrieg" diploma
tico, por ell cual Ell Jap6n actua-
ra sin previo aviso para obtener
sus objetivos por sorpreSa.
En- declaraciones hechas a la
prersa por mitmbros del gabi-
nete Sc indica claramente que la
expansion Y mas intima coope-
raci6n con los pOieres del "axis'
conStituyen el curse a seguir.
Matsuoka, ei ministro de A
La gaceta., 1940-07-23
PIDE A CUBA ESTADISTT-
CAS- COMERCIALES

Habana, julio 23.-Se ha sabi
do aqui hoy que ell consul aleman
ha pedido, por mediaci6n del
Departamento de Estado cuba
no, datos statistics del movi-
miento comercial de Cuba con
los EstadoS Unidos, la Gran Bre
tana, Francia y Alemania en- los
pasados 2 ~OS.
Sc tiene entehdido que ell De-
partamento de Estado di6 la ca
llada por respuesta, pero extra
oficialmente Sc sabe que las ex-
portaciones e importaciones de-
cayeron bastante, especialmente
con Alemania, desde Ell comien-
20 de la guerra.
Con rsspecto a Inglaterra, ell
Gambia comercial no ha sufrido
gran cosa, pues la Gran Breta-
ma ha sostenido sus compras en-
este pals.
La gaceta., 1940-07-23
Muy m6dica la cantidad Sc
nalada por la entrada: 25c las
damas y 40c los caballeros.
N. W. s. Social Glib.

En- junta celebrada por el re-
cien organizado club social -
W. s." con el prop6sito de etegir
a su nueva oficialidad resulta-
ron electoS:
Srta. Mary Betancourt, Pre-
Sidenta; Jennie Granell, Vice
PraS;denta Ramona Gomez, Sc
-~retaria: Adriana Cano, Tesore
ra Ni'da Gomez V Frances La
Ia. Reporters.
va tienen en- proyecto la cele
hraci6n de su primera fiesta, "a
cue l,evara por nombre Get
A Tuainted Party"
Larga vida Y buena suerte a
la nueva oficialidad.
La gaceta., 1940-07-23
N1TAN NAIAl N
Slack Snit Dance

Slack Sa0t Dance
Con gran animaci6n Sc habla
del segundo bale de verano que
afectuara la Secci6n de Recreo
del Cireulo Cubano en- su Patio
Jardin Ell pr6ximo s&b2do.
Seg1n hemOs dido la Secci6n
Sc propone celebrarlo cada s3ba-
10 81 contin1an obtaniendo exito
como el del pasado sabado. Es-
tos bales lie brinda a los baila-
dolcs comodidad va que pueden
asistir en- camisa de mangas
cortas.
lLas orquestas que 10 ameni-
zaran? las mismas que Ell pasa-
do sabado o sean don Francis
co" Y la Tropical
Precios 25c las DamaS Y SOC
les caballeros.
No olviden que habran dos
premios.
La gaceta., 1940-07-23
Ell picnic de LA FrOterWidGd'

Ell picnic de la FrdternidGd'
Con gran interes trabajan las
distintas Comisiones en- la pre-
paraci6n del Picnic que tienen
anunciado para Ell domingo Is
del entrante mes de agosto.
Esta fiesta que Sc caracteriza
IA por q almuerzo que servira a
las dOce del dia tendra lugar en-
los Salones de la sociedad S. M.
Italia sta en- "a Gale 10 Y ave-
nida Octava.
Dos populares orquestas ten
dram a su cargo la parte baila-
BILE.
Dare mas detalles.
La gaceta., 1940-07-23
(Por Mario Rodriguez

Sentida Manifestation de duelo.
Imponente fue la manifesto
ci6n de duelo ofrecida en- la tar
de de aver a la Srta Laura Gre
co, falleciIa en- la noche del pa
sado domingo tras una diff
operation.
Hoy descsnsan en- paz los res
ties en- ell Cementerio Woddlawn.
Lleven estas lineas un mensa-
je de sentida cOndolencia y que
sean un lenitivo para sus queri-
familiares que Koran su
irreparable perdida.
La gaceta., 1940-07-23

suntos Extranjaros, prcnete
que Ell gobierro utiliaara Ia "di.
plomac!a relampago' cuando
trate de obtener sus ~coja+vea,
sin intercamoics, discusiores
previas 0 demoras de niLgdna
clase,
10 gvlpes diplomaticcs &c
Hitler" dijo el ministro, son un
verdadero modelo de agudeza."
La gaceta., 1940-07-23

de pa'sbra y do reunion, Tam
b:Sn h2ol2ron en- contra Albert
crrcni. al Part.io Comrns-
ta, : Patrick Vhelan por 81
co entrs otros.
x favor aa Ia Crdenensa ha-
Sharon W, j. Dorian, en- repre-
g n'aoj6n da Los Defensores de
In Bsndera, Y George Wilder,
quien dijo representa- a les a.
merieanos icon sangre roja en-
las venas.' La Asamblea Gen.
trai de Aries Y 0ficios endos6 ia
proposition. Dos abogados pre-
sentes aconSejaron a los conce-
jaleS actuar con cautela, pues "a
Fey puede resultar inconstitucio
nal.
La gaceta., 1940-07-23
Beneficio a ZorGida BedtO

Els la noche de hoy la sehala-
da para la primera tiple Sra.
Zoraida Beato para su function
de beneficio, en- ell teatro del
Circulo Cubano.
Con gran esmero TODD el elem
co artistico de la companfa de
Revistas 1910, ha ensayado la
notable y bien traida obra cuba
ma "Gentes del Arroyo.
En- la segunda parte presenta-
ran un novisimo acto de varie-
dades en- ell que Sc distinguira
graciosamente la beneficiada.
La Sra. Beato en- esta function
hara su despedida ante Ell publ
co tampenO, pues regresara a ia
Perla de las Antillas, su pals de
origen, donde tiene varios con-
tratos que cumplir con la radio.
FL precio de la function es ell
siguiente: Lunetas numeradas
35c entrada general 25c y memo
res l0c.
Dada las simpatias de la Sra
Beato no dudamos que su fun
ci6n de gracia sea un exito.
La gaceta., 1940-07-23
RecOrdGnOS

A los muchos simpatizadores
de la Logia Caballeros LeaQes de
America, que Ell sabado 8 3e
Agosto, efectuara un bale en- Ell
Patfo-Jardin del Circulo Cuba
no, con ell prop6sito de cump!ir
ell compromise con con todos
aquellos que no pudieron disfru-
isr de la fiesta picnic que cele-
braron en- ell parque La Colum-
ma y que tuvo gue suspenderse.
"Don Francisco" y Sonora
tendran a su cargo la parte bal
liable.
La gaceta., 1940-07-23
Hacia Key West

Despues de una corta Tempo
rada de vacaciones en- esta ciu-
dad, en- la mahana de hoy par
para la ciudad de Key
West la venerable senors Isabel
Vega y Orlano Cabahas, abuela
y primo del que estas lineas es-
cribe.
Muy divertidas vacaciones pa
saron en- 6sta al la 10 de familia-
La gaceta., 1940-07-23
res queridos, llevandose para el
pintoresco Cayo gratos recuet-
dos.


La empresa de este teatro pre-
senta hoy Y mahana por Ultima
vez la lindisima peiicula toda
hablada en- espanol titulada Con
Ias alas rotds, y la pelicula en- in
giles strange Cargo" ademas
noticias Y cartoon.
La gaceta., 1940-07-23
DOCTCR'S
> GREAT SUCCESS FOR UGLY SURFACE
PIN PIES
A COSTA

No pase humillaciones por tensr
la ara LENA oe granOs. Aqui es-
IA la aynda. FL liQuido ZEM0,
poLeroso suavizante, alivia rapi-
damente la c5mez6n, ell dolor y
cura. ZEM0 coatiene 10 de los
m a podesosos Electives ingre-
dientes medicos. recomendados
por specialists de gran mkritO.
Ina prueba lie c~onvencera. IS cts.
eac y S1.00. En- cualquier boti~A.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-22
Ohio Farmers Hoaxed
In 1887 Grain Swindle

In the late summer and early fall
of 1887 three agents, claiming. to be
representative of the Missouri and
Kansas Grain company, sold to Ohio
farmers wheat claimed to be n.y.
brid, at SIS bushel.
The price seemed to be exorbi-
tant, but there was catch and the
farmers fell for it. The agents
bound themselves in writing to sell
all the wheat the purchasers raised
the succeeding seasons at the same
price. Pay was taken in cash or
notes which in some counties alone
amounted to as much as $25, 900.
The agents reaped such harvest
from Ohio farmers that they went
into Missouri, where their fictitious
business was investigated and all
persons connected with it were in
dicted.
One of the men was Schuyler S.
Cox of Ohio, who, getting wind of
the trouble, fled back to Ohio and
successfully remained in hiding until
his companions were safe in the
penitentiary This was one of the
most successful hoaxes ever perpe-
trated upon Ohio farmers, and it
was long known as the Ohio hybrid
wheat scandal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-22
Arizona Indians Seek
New Mode of Living

Young Havasupai Indians of the
Grand Canyon, AriZ., area, who re-
turn to their reservation after train
ing at government schools are dis
satisfied with customs and practices
of their forefathers and have ap-
pealed to the federal government
for aid in getting the modern con-
veniences about which they learned
in school.
These young tribesmen will agree
with the white-man visitor that
their reservation, located on the bot
tom of the Grand canyon OF the Col
orado river is as picturesque a
place as can be found.
But they've seen and read too
much about the outside world to be
satisfied with the crude shacks and
the almost primitive farming tools
which their parents and parents
parents have been using for gen
erationS.
They want to build stone houses
that can be kept clean, houses able
to withstand any kind OF weather.
They want new tools for agriculture
and new equipment for irrigation
similar to that used by progressive
farmers.
To help them out, the federal gov
eminent, through the National
Youth administration, is working
out a plan whereby the Havasupais
can get funds for their much-de-
sired program of modernization.
What the Indians need most of all
is cement to build these new stone
houses. Stone and timber they can
find with abundance on the reser-
walton, which comprises only 518
acres-the nations smallest.
But to get cement they have to
have cash, and cash is the stum-
bling block for these ambitious
youths.
The NYA's plan for these youths
will be ranked as a student aid prof.
ect and merely will consist of pay
ing them wages for doing work on
their own houses. This will permit
the money to buy cement.
The building program will have
second purpose as far as govern
ment officials are concerned. The
young Indians, fresh from school,
usually are full of enthusiasm and
eager to institute reforms in reser-
walton life. But, handicapped by
lack of funds, they begin to forget
about improvements and lose the
spirit of progress instilled in them
at government schools. By encour-
aging house-building, officials hope
to prevent the loss of such a spirit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-22
PHGRMAGES DETERMINED
EASTER DATE

Easter was originally dated to suit
the convenience of pilgrims who
needed moonlight in their annual
tricks to Resurrection festivities.
Footsore and weary, they plodded
both day and night to reach sacred
shrines for this observance. Hence
it was decided that Easter shall
fall on the Sunday following the
first Paschal full moon after March
21. The occasion may therefore vary
over a period of 35 days-from
March % to April 25.
Lent, great period of fasting in
Christian churches, grew from
4O-hour to a 40-day ritual as 1t
came down through the ages. While
most Christians commemorate Good
Friday as the day of the Crucifixion,
Mohammedans also celebrate it as
the day of Adams creation. Among
ancient Germans, this date was sacr-
ed to the goddess-mother, wife OF
Odin.
The association Of Easter Sunday
with the arrival of spring arises
from a coincidence. The day oc-
ours almost simultaneously with the
ancient heather Roman celebration
of the vernal equinox.
Many customs have grown up
around the Easter observance. In
England, figs are always eaten on
Palm Sunday to commemorate Fac
cheus, the publican, who being lit
tie of STATURE" climbed into tree
to see Jesus pass by the way
through Jericho.
Easter eggs and Dummies" are
traditions among American children
at this season of the year. In Ger
many, spring lambs are sold for
the Easter feast.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-22

College students between 1880 and
1850, usually pictured as swagger-
ing, adolescent pranksters, were
characterized by preoccupation
with religion, according to a study
of the undergraduate of that period
published by the Columbia Press
Educational institutions used reli-
gion as connecting link between
all subjects, including chemistry
philosophy, and mathematics. Re-
ligious interest was fostered by the
faculties. For example, one profess
sor devoted his entire inaugural
address to an avowal of his faith in
God, and in the Bible as the literal
expression of His will.
In a typical undergraduate essay
"On the Rhetoric of the Bible" a
student declared that the word of
God was the best model of literary
composition. 1t is impossible to
overestimate the importance of such
religious thinking in education.
But there we're frivolous moments,
it is pointed out. At one meeting of
a student literary society the sub
ject was whether or not old bache-
lors ought to be taxed for the sup
port of old maids, decided by young
bachelors in the affirmative.
During the entire period between
1880 and 1850 there was an epidemic
of interest in college education. The
chief symptom was the quantitative
increase of such institutions, there
having been in the neighborhood of
80 colleges founded. In spite of the
financial panic of 1887 and the en-
suing depression more than two
score colleges were begun in the
1840s, 80 of them substantial enough
to survive to the present day.
Generally speaking, this furry of
establishment was the result of a
marriage between the then univer
sal American respect for education
and UNCONVENTIONAL enthusiasm
among the churches. The colleges
were designed primarily as institu-
lions to train men for the ministry
or for God-fearing professional ca
reers, and each sect strove to Guido
all others in providing its own fu-
ture leaders. Amherst, according
to it's Greek professor, had been
"born of the prayers, and baptized
with the tears, of holy men" early
in the century, and most of its later
rivals were similarly conceived.
Much of the interest in American
literature during the period was ex-
pressed in earnest or arrogant de-
malls of it's nonexistence.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-22
Rigid Air Safety Code
Benefits u. S. Aviation

One reason for the supremacy OF
American aviation over foreign r.
walls is supplied by estimates that
this country's commercial air trans
port companies spend 500 per cent
more each year on research, main
tenance and inspection than all the
rest of the worlds airlines.
Rigid safety standards are applied
to even seemingly minor items OF
air equipment by aviation inspection
crews. An example of their I'M
usual requirements is found in a re-
port on the development of new
type of plane refuelling hose now in
use by major oil companies having
refuelling contracts at airports from
coast to coast.
Five years of research by scien-
lists of the B. F. Goodrich labora-
tories went into the perfecting of
the new hose which incorporates
safeguards against two peculiar avi-
alton problems. A special COM
pound Of synthetic rubber was de-
veloped for the hose to prevent the
natural rubber-which has a tend
ency to disintegrate in contact with
gasoline-from passing into the mo-
tors. The new compound is said
by technicians to be completely gas
oline-proof.
Stranded stainless steel wire was
also woven into the hose in order
that static electricity which might
have been generated by the fric-
ton of air on the planes surfaces in
fight might be conducted harmless
ly to the ground through the wire.
which is attached to couplings on
the field.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-03-22
TRADITION LINKS EASTER
BUNNY" WITH NEW
MOON

Tradition abounds in the popular
American customs that surround
Easter eggs and 'bunnies," ia
miliar to every child who has been
taught the OCCASIONS significance.
The connection between Easter
and the rabbit is said to come from
the fact that the hare is a symbol
for the moon, which determines the
date of Easter In Egyptian, the
name of the hare also means "to
OPEN" hence the association of the
hare with the opening of new life at
spring festivals.
The egg is an obvious symbol of
the spring awakening. The bright
colors of painted eggs symbolic
hues of the Easter sun and the joy
which follows the Wilderness of win
ter. In Germany, where both Easter
rabbits and eggs originated, children
are told that if they are good a
white hare will steal down the Chin
ney and hide brightly-colored eggs
in the house. In many foreign places
the Easter hare is as important a
figure as Santa Claus at Christmas.
If young men in some English
villages can catch a hare and pre-
sent it to the parson before 10 a. M,
on Easter Monday, the rector is
bound by and old law to give them
100 eggs, calf's head and a groat
Egg rolling on the White House
lawn, a. popular Easter custom at
Washington, began soon after the
close of the Civil war. Originally
the annual affair took place on the
Capitol terrace. When authorities
complained that children were harm
ing the turf, President Hayes and his
wife invited youngsters to do
their egg-rolling on the White
House lawn. The event has been an
nual ever since.