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Evening star., 1941-08-13

Will prODdDlN ItHldlli al Saiiip wy
until the weather is definitely au-
tumnal and there is little danger OF
return of summer in the Capital.
Mrs. Burlew Entertains
For Mrs. J. w. Barringer, Jr.
Yesterday was filled with as many
parties as the gayest day OF the
"bir season"-and delightful affairs
they were, indeed There was the
tea given Yesterday afternoon by
Mrs. Ebert K. Burlew, wife of the
Assistant Secretary of the Interior,
who entertained in honor of Mrs.
John w. Barringer, jr., who will
leave shortly to make her home in
the West. Mrs. Barringer will ac-
company her son and daughter-ln-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Bar
ringer, Sd. the former having re-
signed from the R. F. c., to be
associated with the Joint Confer
ence Board of Western Railroads.
Other guests included Mrs. Beck,
OF st. Louis, sister of Mrs. Barringer,
IT,: Mrs. w. Calhoun Sterling, Mrs.
Daniel Partridge, jr,; Mrs. John t.
ORourke, Mrs. Harry January, Mrs.
Carl Loos. Mrs. Udo Rail. Mrs. Lud-
well Denny, Miss Olive Williams
and Mrs. David Williams.
Oscar ChapmanS Give
Farewell Party for Tugwells.
Then there was another farewell
party-that given by the Assistant
Secretary of the Interior and Mrs.
Oscar L. Chapman, who were hosts
at cocktails in honor of Mr.. and
Mrs. Rexford Guy Tugwell, who will
leave soon for Puerto Rico, where
Mr.. Tugwell will take up his duties
as Governor of the island. Yester-
days party was held in the Chap
mans Kennedy Warren apartment,
and guests included many members
Of official and residential society
among whom the Tugwells have
made a permanent place for them
selves in the affections of Capital
residents.
The party was originally planned
to take place next week. but the
Tugwells received their marching
orders" sooner than expected. SO
everything had to be done promptly
Miss Patricia Hill Fe:ed
By Mr.. and Mrs. Bradford.
Still another farewell party was
the dinner given by Mr.. and Mrs.
Lowell Bradford to honor Miss Pa
tricia Hill Miss Hill very popu-
lar member of the younger set of
the city. left today with her mother,
Mrs. Uline Hill. whose marriage to
Dr. Jean Paul Pratt will take place
next Wednesday in Detroit. Miss
Mary Theresa Norris was hostess at
luncheon yesterday honoring Miss
Hill. and today Miss Achsah Dorsey
entertained at a similar party.
A welcome to the city" rather
than a farewell was the luncheon
given yesterday by the Counselor
of the French Embassy and Nine
Georges-Picot. Their honor guests
were M. and Nine. Etienne Denis of
France, who are en- route TO Indo-
China Others at the luncheon, be-
sides the three Denis children, were
Comdr. Pierre Beneche, former naval
sttache of the embassy; the newly
Attache of the embassy; the newly
appointed Financial Attache, NJ
Robert Lacour- Gayet; Nine. Mireille
Bertrand-Vigne, and Baron James
Baevens, first secretary of the en-
bassy.
Evening star., 1941-08-13
Plans Miami Trip

Mrs. Frederick Andrew Hessick
will leave this week for Miami. Fla.
She expects to be there several
weeks. inspecting the building OF
new home near Coral Gables
More women are applying for Jobs
on canal oarges in England than
can be employed
Evening star., 1941-08-13
Miss Mary Shelton Engaged
To Mr.. John Dean Evan.

Mr.. and Mrs. Grover c. Shelton
announce the engagement of their
daughter. Miss Mary Louise Shelton.
to Mr.. John Dean Evan OF this
city.
The wedding will take place in the
autumn.
Evening star., 1941-08-13
McLeans Return

Representative and Mrs. Donald
n. Mclean again are in their apart
ment at the Wardman Park Hotel
after a short stay in their home in
Elizabeth, N. J.
Evening star., 1941-08-13
Seret. Howard Here

Sergt. v. E. Howard of Fort Bliss,
Tex. is spending his furlough as the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Ben A. Shaw
at their home in Silver Spring Md
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-27
Judge Davis Denies
Selling Justice 10
Fox, Film Magnate
Jurist Declares He Did
Not Receive $27,500
In Unsecured Looms
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May 27-United
States Circuit Court Judge j. War
rem Davis denies every Govern
ment accusation that Justice was
sold" In five of his decisions prior to
retirement two years ago, declaring:
Although I have been poor, not 4
dishonest dollar ever found its way
into my pocket or possession"
Testifying In his own behalf
against criminal charges, the IA
year-old jurist yesterday said VIII
liam Fox, one.tiIne movie magnate,
did not give him SGT 500 In unse-
cured loans for judicial favors Is
claimed by the prosecution.
Gave His Best to Gases.
Asked if anything occurred to in
fiuence his decisions on five bank
ruptcy cases involving the former
$57 900. 900 Fox movie holdings,
Judge Davis declared:
Nothing whatever. 1 gave the
best I had to those cases as I had
to all cases"
The white-haired jurist is on trial
with Morgan S. kaufman, former
bankruptcy referee and Fox legal
adviser, Jointly accused of conspir-
acy to obstruct justice and defraud
the United States. Fox pleaded
guilty to similar indictments and is
awaiting sentence.
Appearing as a Government wit
ness last week, Fox said he sent
Davis $4,000 at his request by
kaufman in 1896 and several
months later personally handed the
jurist $12.500 on a Philadelphia
street corner. ....
Denies Street Transactions.
Judge Davis stated that kaufman
never brought me a cent" As to
the street corner transaction, he
added that never happened" He
further declared he never even met
Fox, in 1885 and denied going to his
Atlantic City home and hearing his
financial trials and tribulations" as
claimed by the former movie fsure.
Five 81 900 bills have been traced
py Government witnesses through
serial numbers from the Fox family
to 4 Florida bank, an oficial Of
which said they were deposited
there by Judge Davis daughter.
Mrs. Mary Davis Firestone, daugh-
ter-in-law of the late tire magnate.
Stating he gave the money to Mrs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-27
Supreme Court Orders
New Trial in Vernon Case

Joe Vernon, Birmingham colored
man sentenced to die for murder
will get a new trial as the result OF
the decision yesterday of the Su-
prene Court reversing his convic-
ton.
The action was taken in an order
which merely said that the judg-
ment of conviction was reversed in
the light of other similar decisions
by the Supreme Court.
The man had previously been
saved twice from execution by
stays granted by the high tribunal
Counsel for the defendant con.
tended among other things that he
had been beaten to the point
where he was crazy" in order to
obtain purported confessions.
1t also was asserted that mem.
bers of the Negro race had been
Intentionally and Systematically
excluded from the jury.
He was convicted in the Jeffer.
son County Circuit Court of shoot
ing Bonnie Montgomery in 1881
and the verdict was upheld by the
State Supreme Court. He was con.
fined in Kilby Prison in Montgom.
cry County.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-27

One-twelfth of Australia's rubber
is coming from the island of Papua.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-27
Every Ship Of Export Line
To Aid Weather Bureau

Every passenger ship Of American
Export Lines on the high seas will
become an upper-air weather OBJ
servation station as soon as equip
ment can be provided, under a new
policy of cooperation with the
United States Weather Bureau.
At the request Of the Weather
Bureau, each ship will be provided
with radio equipment, consisting OF
automatic recording and transmit
ting apparatus and certain other in
struments that are carried aloft by
helium-infiated balloons. Special
receivers installed aboard the ships
will automatically receive and re-
cord instrument readings trans
mitted in code from the sonde as it
Ascends.
The weather soundings Swill be
transmitted to the Weather Bureau
in Washington for use In analyzing
and forecasting weather over the
mainland as we'll as over the ocean.
The new equipment will be OPP
Grated by meteorologists of Ameri-
can Export Airlines, new aviation
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-27
British Actor, U. 5. Wife
To Go 10 War TOGETHER

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 27.-John VIII
liams. English actor. will give up
his $400-a-week part in the Board
way comedy, Claudia" next week
to enlist for his country's defense.
His dark-eyed American-born
wife. the former Helen Blanchard of
Hazelton, Pa, will go with him to
become an ambulance driver.
Married IA years, they said today
they had decided to do this one big
thing together"
Mr.. williams said he was going
home because IT guess it's in my
blood"
MY age class, 80, will be called
up to register in June" said the vet
eran Of Is years on the stage. II
can't be conscripted here, but I'm
very anxious to do something. I'll
enlist before the CONSUMPTION date"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-27
Girl Enters Guilty PIeo
To Ball Bot Staying

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 27.-Betty
Klempa. 10, baseball-bat welding
slayer of her employer, interrupted
her first-degree murder trial in
Bronx County Court today to enter
a plea of guilty to murder in the
second degree.
Judge James M. Barrett set June
10 for sentencing her to a manda-
tory term of 20 years imprisonment.
The district attorneys ONCE con-
ceded the State did not have evil
dence enough to ask the jury for
a verdict of first degree murder.
Miss Klempa, a domestic, killed
Mrs. Leah Rubin, last october Is,
after complaints had been made
concerning her work in the Rubin
house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-27
Two Suspects Ordered
Sent to New Mexico

Justice T. Alan Goldsboroueh IN
District Court today ordered Frank
N. Plummer and James r. Walsh,
who are under Federal indictment
In New Mexico on charges Of vio-
lating mail fraud laws, to be sent
to New Mexico June 2.
Assistant United States Attorney
John H. Mitchell, who handled the
habeas corpus case before Justice
Goldsboroueh growing out Of re-
moval proceedings, said the two men
were among "a persons indicted in
New Mexico on charges Of defraud-
ing persons in the District. Mary
land and elsewhere In connection
with oil and gas leases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-27
Stettinius Moves to Get
More Training Planes

In a step designed to assure con-
struction Of additional light Air.
planes for the civilian pilot training
program, E. r. Stettinius, o. P. M.
director OF priorities, today an
nounced ALLEGATION in June and
July, each, Of $1,000 pounds OF
aluminium to makers Of this type
Of craft. tt--
Eleven plants will share in the
anotments, worked out by the
o. P. M. Priorities Division and the
Civil Aeronautics Authority. The
action was taken because Of the i'm
portance Of the program in training
potential Army and Navy flyers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-27
Man Hanging on Trest|e Saves
Youth Knocked Off by Train

him from plunging unconscious into
the swift mountain river.
Mr.. Hartman chung to the tie until
his brother Oscar, and the conductor
Of the train pulled the two to safety.
Young Craymer was brought to a
Denver hospital aboard the train.
Physicians said he had an even
chance to live.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-27
BY the Associated Press.


DENVER, May 27.-Swinging from
beneath a railroad trestle by one
arm, Alvin Hartman, 81, caught a
boy struck by a passing train and
saved him from almost certain
death in the swollen Fraser River.
Mr.. Hartman, Denver landscape
gardener, and the boy, Arthur Cray
mer, jr., IA, were fishing from the
trestle near Tabernash.
When the train rushed on them,
Mr.. Hartman and the boy caught
hold of the ties and hung beneath
the bridge.
Mr.. Hartman noticed the boy was
about to lose his grip. He tried to
pull himself up and the steps Of
coach struck his head.
AS the boy dropped, Mr.. Hartman
swung out and caught him, saving
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-27
List Prices Are
Important!

Because Of the maSnitude Of this sale,
We expect to be unable TO handle all
tire mountinss Immediately, there
fore we ask you to please keep your
sales check rs receipt and have your
tires mounted any time within the
next week.
. Prices Shown Include Your Old
Tines In Trade
Tires Must Be BcuEht In Sets Of
or More Of Same Size and Style
. Remember This Sale Il For This
Week Only.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-27
Robert Nixon to Speak

Robert Nixon, foreign correspond
ent for International News Service
with the Belgian and French Armies,
will discuss his experiences in Bel
GUM, France and England at gen.
eral meeting Of all Army Reserve
officers in the local military district
at 8 pm. tomorrow in the new In
terror Department auditorium.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-27

subsidiary Of the steamship COM
pany, who have been permanently
assigned since last October to the
passenger liners.
This is said to be the first time
that radio sonde equipment has been
installed on American merchant
vessels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-27
Fat Of the Lund Plenty

The United States is In a better
position than any other industrial
nation to expand substantially its
supplies of food fats. which are this
greatest producers of energy avail
able in the diet Of national defense
workers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-27

Firestone, Judge Davis explained the
notes were received from David
Lewis, a Trenton IN. j. scrap iron
dealer and tire jobber, in payment
of loans he and Mrs. Davis had
given the man.
Evening star., 1941-03-07

The Shropshire was said TO have
suffered no casualties.
"All important italian positions
along the coast were bombarded by
our naval units" the communique
said, adding that these attacks were
carefully co-ordinated with the
army's advance.
The naval assaults progressed
from Chisimaio, the first Somali-
land port occupied by the British,
up the coast to Bravo, the next to
fall. and to Mogadiscio, the colony 8
capital and major seaport.
1t said the effectiveness of the
naval support was indicated by the
Quick British drive to Mogadisicio
which fell February 26, IL days after
the capture of Chisimaio, an ad-
vance of some $50 miles.
"One important naval result OF
the successful military operations
in italian Somaliland," the an
nouncement said, lis that the cap
ture of Chisimaio and Mogadiscio
have deprived the enemy Of two
East African bases most convenient
for use of commerce raiders and
supply ships.
That Mogadiscio was used as a
base by raiders for supply ships is
shown by the discovery and release
by our army of considerable num-
Der of merchant seamen landed and
interned in the Mogadiscio area
after their ships had been sunk by
enemy raiders"
Evening star., 1941-03-07
Planes Bomb CONVOY
In Mediterranean,
Italians Claim
+ Cruiser, Destroyer, ;
Merchant Ships Hit,
High Command Says
BY the Associated Press.

oS bnr hsSOCIhLeo EEcob.
ROME, March Italian bomb
ing planes attacked a strongly eS-
corted British convoy in the East
ern Mediterranean, hitting a cruiser,
a destroyer and three merchant
ships, the Italian high command
announced today.
italian planes also bombed Brit
ish air base in North Africa, the
daily war bulletin said, while Ger
man planes attacked marching COL
umns and troop concentrations
there.
Twenty motor trucks were de-
stroyed and many others seriously
damaged" the communique said.
Barracks, tents and encampments
also were bombed near Derna, where
fires started.
"Other German planes bombed
military detectives of Valletta (naval
base) on Malta"
The communique told Of the at
tack on the convoy with single
sentence:
In the Eastern Mediterranean
our air formations attacked enemy
ships in a strongly escorted con-
voy, hitting a cruiser, a destroyer
and three steamers"
In East Africa, the high COM
mand said, considerable losses"
were inflicted on British forces in
the fighting reported yesterday
around Cheren, the Italian strong
hold in Eritrea, and a British at
tack near Kurmuk, in the Upper
Sudan on the Ethiopian border,
was said to have been "repulsed."
Evening star., 1941-03-07
Oatmeal Shipment
Ban by British Hit
By French Envoy
Henry-Hoye Protests
'DreudfuI' Policy on
Red Cross Supplies

CASTOR Henry-Haye, French Am
baSsadOr, sought Secretary of State
Hull's aid today in overcoming what
he termed "dreadfur' British policy
that has cut off shipment of 300 tons
of oatmeal by the American Red
Cross for French children.
The Ambassador called on Mr.
Hull after being informed that the
oatmeal, which was scheduled to be
shipped with large quantities of con-
densed milk, childrens garments
and medical supplies aboard the
mercy" liner Exmouth next week,
had been eliminated from the cargo
because the British refused permis-
sion for it to 60 through the block
ade.
IT think this is dreadful policy,
and hope Mr.. Hull will call attention
to it," Mr.. Henry-Haye told re-
porters.
Emphasizing that the oatmeal was
intended for distribution by the Red
Cross to children in unoccupied
France, he said he could not under
stand how the British could justify
their policy on any ground that it
might aid Germany.
Beyond Original Agreement.
British Embassy officials explained
that last December Britain had
agreed to allow limited quantities of
milk, medical supplies and children's
clothing to pass through its blockade
for distribution to French children
under strict Red Cross supervision.
Permission was refused for the
oatmeal shipment because this went
beyond the original agreement, it
was said.
Red Cross officials said a larger
quantity of condensed milk had
been substituted for the oatmeal
originally intended to be shipped
aboard the EXmouth, an 8,000-ton
freighter being loaded at Jersey
City. It's cargo will include 12,O00,-
900 pounds of powdered and evap-
GRATED milk, 10000 garments for
children and a quantity of medical
supplies.
One Shipload Sent.
One shipload of such relief sup
plies already has gone to France
under the agreement with Britain.
The French Ambassador said
France already had lost this winter
double the number of children who
died last winter. Attributing the
toll to lack of proper foods and "our
most cruel winter for centuries, "
he said that this is terrible for a
country which has never played a
selfish game"
He said France had shared every
thing she had with Britain before
the armistice with Germany and
now should deserve some consid-
Grafton in her misery"
Evening star., 1941-03-07
U. s. Control Over Merger
OF LARGER Firms Urged
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A Treasury official recommended
to the Monopoly Committee today
that a Federal agency be given
authority to pass on mergers of all
corporations with assets larger than
a certain size.
The proposal was made by Joseph
]. O'Connell special assistant to
the Treasury's general counsel and
Treasury representative on the COM
mittee. He said he spoke for him.
self only.
The Clayton Act, designed to pro-
hibit combinations which would ma
terially lessen competition in an
industry, has fallen "far short of
its objective" Mr.. O'Connell said,
and had failed to prevent "uneco-
nomic growth of large aggregations
of capital"
Mr.. O'Connell suggested that a
tribunal be authorized to require a
showing that a merger of any cor
poration having assets of more than
SIS ,000, 900, for example, was in the
public interest before it could be
consummated.
Evening star., 1941-03-07
Nazi Sea Raid Bases
In Africa Wiped Out,
English Announce
Moeodiseio, Chisimoio
Used for Indian Ocean
Ships, Admiralty Says
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, March Recent cap
ture of Mogadiscio and Chisimaio,
in the British offensive in Italian
Somaliland, has eliminated the chief
bases for axis surface raiders in
the Indian Ocean, the Admiralty
announced today.
The Admiralty told of the elimi-
nation of these bases in a commu-
nique which reviewed coordination
of naval forces with British land
troops in Italian Somaliland.
One outstanding naval action, it
said, was the bombardment of
Mogadiscio by the cruiser Shrop-
shire. In shelling the harbor the
Shropshire sank the 6.861-ton Ital-
ian tanker Pennsylvania and caused
"a large number Of military cas-
ualtieS."
Evening star., 1941-03-07
Half Of Machine Tools
Idle, @. P. N. Aide Saws

Half of the Nations machine tools
manufacturing implements badly
needed in the defense program
either are idle or working less than
eight hours day, Francis j. Trecker
of the Office of Production Manage
ment'S Defense Contract Service
said today.
While these idle machines include
older and less efficient equipment,
Mr.. Trecker said "the reservoir of
unused facilities has a vast potential
productive capacity"
Speaking before a Chicago regional
meeting of the Division of State and
Local Cooperation, Mr.. Trecker as
serted that the success of the defense
program depends to a very large
degree upon how successfully we can
employ our vast potential facilities
in its support. He said the Defense
Contract Service is attempting to
farm out" defense manufacturing
projects among the some 10000
potential prime contractors who
have not yet been touched by the
program. Ninety per cent of the
SIC, 1000, 900, 900 worth of defense con-
tracts awarded between June and
the end of last year, he said, went
to about 600 large concerns.
Evening star., 1941-03-07
New Recreation Program
Planned by Church

A new recreation program for all
age groups in the Westminster
Memorial Church, Seventh near E
street S.W., will be started at z
o'clock tonight, according to the
Rev. Harry v. Porter, pastor.
The program will be held each
Friday night in March, Mr.. Porter
said, and will include supervised
ping pong, badminton, Switchboard,
dart baseball, dramatics, chess and
checkers, cooking, a tinker's club,
a model airplane club, clay modelling
a sewing club, an art club and a
photo club.
Mr.. Porter said the plan is based
on an experiment tried by church
in Columbus, Ohio.
Evening star., 1941-03-07
Weather Report
Furnished by tn


possibly mixed with sleet freeZ
morning ending afternoon not
temperature tonight n degrees increasing
northeast winds becoming tonight backing north
ending afternoon continued cold
possibly
freezing the interior tonight and tomorrow morning
afternoon; somewhat colder tonight.
this
slightly tomorrow light moderate
slightly colder.
period 73o Friday March ls4
o pm. Wednesday, March II, inclusive.
Delaware Maryland New YoHeavy
Northern New
Saturday afternoon
precipitation mostly Wednesday Cold tonight
Sunday Tuesday and colder Wednes-
day. Temperature will average normal
Virginia, Western
Saturday
mostly
Cold tonight Saturday Sunday
Evening star., 1941-03-07

hurst of Arizona and former Sena-
tor King of Utah. Harold Lee,
managing director of the Mormon
Church Welfare Committee and
a former president of the Pioneer
Stake at Salt Lake City, will attend.
Sundays sessions will be marked
by testimonial service to the late
Senator Smoot of Utah, who was
member of the Quorum of Twelve
Apostles.
Evening star., 1941-03-07
Speech Cut by Censor, Citrine
Refuses to Broadcast to u. S.

"how I found things when I came
home and how our people were
standing up to great task"
Among the things he wanted to
tell listeners, he said, was that he
had seen convincing evidence OF
indiscriminate bombing of Britain
presumably the other matters OF
which Citrine wished to speak still
are forbidden from communication. }
Speaking today at a luncheon on
the Goth birthday of O. w. Bower
man, chairman of the Ruskin Col
lege board, Sir Walter said he was
profoundly disturbed that respon-
sible men could be dictated to as tc
what they felt able to say and that
in conflict of judgment "a bureau
crat could muzzle Democrat"