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Evening star., 1941-02-05
Monopoly Charges
AGAINST A. sc. A.P.
Filed by Government
Leading Figures in Music
Industry Named in
Criminal Action

Charging illegal restraints in the
sic, the Government today insti-
tuted criminal proceedings under
the Sherman Antitrust Act against
the American Society of Composers,
Authors and Producers, 26 individ-
uals and 19 corporations.
Virtually all the leading figures
in the music industry were named
in the complaint filed in United
States District Court at Milwaukee,
which said the restraints were eX-
ercised in radio broadcasting. sheet
music. motion picture films and
electrical transcriptions."
Federal Judge F. Ryan Duffy set
arraignment for March 5.
The long-pending action an
nounced here by the Department of
Justice followed unsuccessful at
temptS by the department to effect
a settlement with A. S. c. A. p
by civil procee ings, along the lines
of an agreement reached several
weeks ago with Broadcast Music,
Inc. the radio sponsor rival of
A. S. c. A. P, and the Columbia
Broadcasting System and the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co., with which
3. M. l. is affiliated. The latter
agreement under which B. M. I.
agrees to discontinue practices the
Justice Department says are illegal
is not to be effective until the A. S.
C. A. P. case is disposed Of
Todays action climaxes a long
drive by the Government to break
the monopoly it alleges th-.t A. S.
c. A. P. enjoys in the musical field.
The department said criminal &C
ton did not close the door to a
peaceful settlement, but insisted In
its complaint that A. S. C. A. P.'s
present practices deprive the radio
listening public of the privilege of
hearing and enjoying" A. S. C. A. P.
music. A. S. c. A. P and its mem
bers took their music off the two
(See A. S. C. A. p, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1941-02-05
National Symphony Wins New York
Dr. Kinder and Orchestra Receive Thunderous Ovation
In Their First Performance in Carnegie Hall

came a bond of sympathy between
the visiting musicians and the
listeners that lasted all evening.
Violin Prodigy Performs.
The National Symphony shared
the spotlight with violin prodigy
from Philadelphia, 8-year-old Saun-
dra Berkova, whom New York also
was hearing for the first time. The
child, looking even younger than
her tender years, played the Men,
delssohn Concerto" with the or
chestra. The audience didn't wait
for the three movements of the
work to be completed but loosed a
storm of approval at the close of
the opening allegro.
The little girl swept through the
exacting Concerto" on her child's
violin as if it did not present a
single difficulty. At the end, as the
audience applauded and yelled, she
shook hands gravely with DR.. Kin
dler, then laughed and went skip
ping into the wings as If she'd
only been romping with playmates.
Again and again she was called
back, and each time she went skip
ping of. But she understood enough
of the music to put depth and
nuance into the tones her dolls in
strument evoked.
DR.. Kinder went back to the Or
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Evening star., 1941-02-05

raided from 8 to 10 pm, the Air
Ministry news service said, and the
British pilots reported a big flre
which seemed to be burning oil.
The communique describing the
nights work said:
The r. A. F. resumed its attacks
on the enemy last night over wide
area and on a scale larger than for
the last fortnight. Though clouds
prevented full observation of the
results, these can be described as
satisfactory.
"A force of aircraft, belonging to
the bomber command, attacked
Dusseldorf, where fires were seen
to break out. A train in the neigh
borhood was also hit and burst into
flame and high explosive bombs fell
on two nearby railway functions.
"Other aircraft of the same COM
mand bombed the docks at Brest,
where very large red fire and some
heavy explosions were observed.
Another force attacked Dunquerque,
Dieppe and Ostend, where docks re-
ceived direct hits. Other targets
also successfully attacked were air.
dromes at Vannes and other places
in occupied France and the docks
at Bordeaux.
Aircraft of the coastal command
visited Cherbourg twice. Targets in
the docks, including repair yards,
(See RAIDS, Page A-3J
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Keep Your Chins Up,'
WiHkie Tells Britons

BRISTOL. England, Feb, S (P).-
Wendell L. Willkie headed back for
the United States and an appear
ance before the Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committee with the parting
pledge today to do anything I can
in America to help Britain in her
fight for freedom"
Your people have shown mag
nifcent courage" the unofficial
American visitor declared as he left
to board a plane for Lisbon. Keep
your chins up"
Mr.. Willkie slept couple of hours
on the train which brought him here
from London. He arrived before
dawn and was greeted by Mayor
r. H. J. Underdown, who took him
for a quick trip through the city's
bombed sections.
Pretty bad, pretty bad" Mr.. Will
kie commented as he passed wrecked
buildings.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Quinter Is Removed
As a Prosecutor
In Police Court
Keeeh Says He Used
Bod Judgment in
Dropping Buckley Case

Corporation Counsel Richmond B.
Keech today found that Ralph D.
Quinter, jr., an assistant prosecutor
at Police Court, had used extremely
bad judgment" in dropping a driv-
ing while drunk charge in the At
torney M. Edward Buckley case, and
ordered the assistant transferred to
District Building assignment. eff
fective tomorrow.
Edward M. Thomas. an assistant
corporation counsel with 80 years
service. was assigned to Police Court
to take full charge of the work of
the staff there.
Keech Issues Instructions.
Meanwhile, the jury court at the
Police Court Building was forced to
suspend operations shortly after
convening today because witnesses
in the cases against seven Defend
ants had not been summoned. The
courts docket is crowded with traf-
flc cases to be tried.
The missing subpoenas later were
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Evening star., 1941-02-05
Democrats on House
Committee Discuss
Amendments
BY GOULD LINCOLN.

Democratic members of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee, meeting
with Speaker Rayburn today took
up the question of further amend
ment of the lend bill, largely
motivated by the eloquent appeal
yesterday of Representative Wads-
worth. Republican, of New York for
national unity.
Mr. WadSWorth, addressing the
House late yesterday, declared that
Congress and the country could be
rallied back of the bill and its pol
icy Of aid to the British if two or
three changes could be made. limit
ing the amount of money to be ap-
propriated and the amount of fu-
ture commitments which can be
made under it.
Speaker Rayburn. on leaving the
committee room. said serious con-
sideration is being given by members
of the committee having charge of
the bill to proposed amendments.
Nothing has been arrived at as yet"
Speaker Rayburn mentioned as
two important amendments which
were discussed a proposed limitation
on contracts that may be entered
into and proposal that an amend
ment be written into the bill to for
bid the shipment of goods into the
warzoneS in American merchant
vessels.
The Speaker did not express an
opinion on either of these proposals
He said. however, there was nothing
IN the bill which specifically per-
mitted the shipment of goods into
Evening star., 1941-02-05
By CARTER BROOKE JONES,
Star Staff Correspondent.

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-The Ma
tional Symphony Orchestra, making
its New York debut in Carnegie Hall
last night, received laundering
ovation from an audience which
filled this musical shrine on an eve
ming of biting cold.
Later the Manhattan critics. sew
eral of them rated as musical au-
thorities, wrote appreciatively and
sympathetically of the musicians
from Washington and their conduc-
| tor, DR.. Hans Kinder. They called
the symphony an excellent orchestra,
! it's director a maestro of force and
ideas.
When the players finished tuning
up and a hush fell over the famous
hall, the audience seemed to sense
that it was more than another con-
cert-that it was an occasion. From
the downstairs up through the boxes
to the three balconies, it was hard
to find a vacant seat. When DR.,
Kinder appeared from the wings,
there was more than the polite, per-
functory applause to be expected
He was given warm greeting.
The orchestra plunged into a
Kinder arrangement of the "Toc-
cata in D Minor" by the 17th cen
tury composer, Frescobaldi. AS the
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Crash Of Pursuit Plane
KiIIinq Pilot Is Probed
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
mitchell FIELD. N. Y, Feb. S.
Crackup of one of the Army's new
est and fastest pursuit planes in a
power dive which killed the pilot
was under investigation today by a
military board of inquiry.
Second 1t. Sherman E. Denny, %,
of San Diego, Calf, died in the crash
yesterday in woods near Northport,
Long Island, after the ships left
wing snapped off in an apparent at
tempt to level out of the dive.
Witnesses placed the height at
which the wing was lost at 1000 to
$500 feet. The crafts altimeter
showed it had been up 10000 feet.
Although Army officials would not
comment, airmen believed 1t. Denny
did not use a parachute, either be-
cause he lost consciousness or was
struck on the head when the wing
few off.
The plane was one of six Curtiss
P-40 single-seaters of the 9Th Pur-
suit Group here which were partici-
pating in . routine training fight.
Their top speed is better than 300
miles per hour.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Baron of ArehongeI'
Title for Ironside
Sets London Agog
By.Cable to The Star.

8y.Cable to The Star.
LONDON, Feb. 5.-A diplo-
matte storm In the teapot has
been created by an inadvertent
slipup in giving former Sir Ed
mund Ironside, former chief of
the imperial general staff, his
new baronial title.
Remembering his glories of
other days which far exceeded
those achieved by him in the
present war, Ironside harked
back to the days when he led
Great Britain's interventionist
army in North Russia, and de-
cided to take the title Baron
Ironside of Archangel."
Nobody in the College of
Heralds looked amiSs when the
title was submitted for approval
and the order went through
confirming it. When the For
eign Office discovered what had
happened there were near
Mysteries. Soviet Russia. for all
it's peccadillos. is now being
handled with kid gloves and the
Kremlin does not like whites"
Furious articles in Pravda are
now in order and the fat Is in
the fire.
copyright, 1a41. by Chieaso Daily
News
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Italian Is Reported
Going to London on
Ethiopian Evacuation
BY PAUL GHALI.
Chicaso Daily News Foreign
Correspondent.

VICHY, Feb. 5.-According to
reliable information just re-
ceived by your correspondent,
Italy's former finance minister,
Count Giuseppe Volpi, stopped
over here last week end on his
way to London to negotiate for
the evacuation of 100000 Ital-
ian colonists, settled in Ethiopia
since the Italian conquest.
Jose Felix Lequerica, Spanish
Ambassador to Vichy, is report
ed to have negotiated Volpi's
London trip, by way Of Vichy.
Several weeks ago the Brit
ish offered to guarantee the safe
conduct of the whole white ci-
william population from Ethiopia
between Jibuti or ports in
Somaliland and Eritrea and
some port in Italy to be agreed
upon. Italy at first scorned
this suggestion and the British
were somewhat surprised that
the Italians attached so little
importance at the time to their
proposal.
Evening star., 1941-02-05

BY the Associate Press.
CAIRO, Egypt, Feb 5.-British
general headquarters reported today
that, urged on by our pursuing
troops, the Italians are increasing
the speed OF their withdrawal toward
Bengasi' and that some 400 strag
glers had fellen into the hands of
British forces.
These British columns had driven
two-thirds of the way across East
ern Libya in less than two months
and were closing in on Bengasi, cap
ital of the province of the same
name, which makes up part Of East
ern Libya. or Cirenaica.
In Eritrea. hundreds of miles to
the southeast from this North Afri-
can front, the British. after two
week drive, were reported closing in
for a showdown fight for Asmara
Eritrean capital
The r. A. F. command announced
"a Italian planes were shot down,
destroyed on the ground or cap
tured on the farflung African bat
tlefronts yesterday. British losses
were placed at one fighter and one
bomber.
In a raid by German planes yes
terday on Malta. Britain's island
fortress in the Mediterranean. the
R. A. F. communique said three
Junkers bombers were shot down
and another severely damaged.
Operations Develop.
The high command reported that
operations about Cheren were de
veloping successfully" with Italian
forces retreating eastward from
Barentu and Biacundi
The communioue said the Italians
were leaving all roads Uttered with
gear, war material and vehicles"
In addition to those already re-
ported. many hundreds of prisoners
have been captured" the COM
munique said of the operations in
Eritrea.
In Somaliland it continued, a
British patrol attacked and cap
tured an Italian post As miles in
side the frontier.
The advance eastward toward
Gondar. Ethiopia, was also pro-
gressing,' the communique said,
while in the southern area South
African troops are consolidating
enemy positions recently captured.
Bombers Range Over Libya.
For the second straight day, r.
A. F. bombers roamed over Northern
Libya, bombing and straflng Italian
columns on the road to Bengazi and
blasting BARGE, the Berka airdrome
at Bengasi and Benina.
Between Marau and BARGE, today's
r. A. F. communique said, Fascist
(See AFRICA, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Medical Antitrust
Trial Jury Of 10 Men,
Two Women Chosen
One Member CoIored;
Defense Opens With
Attack on Indictment
By HAROLD B. ROGERS.

Twenty prominent doctors and
four medical organizations went on
trial in the United States District
Court here today on charges of
violating the Sherman Antitrust
Act.
A jury of 10 men and women
was selected shortly before l pm.
The jury, including one colored
woman, is as follows:
Reuben Acton, jr. 80. 1910 North
Carolina avenue NE. salesman: Ed
win H Ayres, 46. 6213 Thirtieth
street NV, gas dealer.
Columbus Facchina. %. 1915
Quincy street NV. secretary
treasurer of the Charles Facchina
Tile Co.
Egbert H. Irwin. 80. 3808 Benton
street NV. salesman
Otho T. M. King, 81, 1919 Orren
street NE. salesman; Eugene B.
Magruder. Al. $500 Fourteenth street
NV, foreman.
Charles A. Marggraf. 80. 222 Ken
lucky avenue Sc, salesman.
Mrs. Madelvn M. Mcdowell. COL
ored, A. 727 Irving street NV.
Mrs. Edna Hayes ONeil 81, 1859
Otis place NV, housewife
Joseph F. Taylor. sr.. SO. Pill
Twelfth street NE, floor manager.
Washington w Horad, As. $40
Twenty-fourth street N. E, mail
carrier.
Jesse Ellis Porter, As. 6688 Thirty
second place NV, assistant enei-
neer.
Two Alternates to Be Named.
After the jury was selected. the
court recessed for lunch. On re-
suming the afternoon session two
alternate jurors were to be chosen.
When the trial began this morning
counsel for the doctors and the med
ical associations moved to strike
large portions of the indictment
against them as "prejudicial to their
rights. redundant. impertinent or
scandalous.'
Justice James NJ Proctor post
poned consideration of the motion
until after a jury is obtained.
The doctors were indicted in De-
cember. 1888. on charges of restraint
of trade against Group Health As
sociation, Inc, medical co-opera-
tive of Government employees.
All but two of the individual
defendants were in the court and
stood for Identification as their
names we're called by the jurist.
The two missing doctors were DR..
Francis x. McGovern. who is i'll,
and DR.. Warren Baxter Conklin.
Defense Counsel Charles S. Baker
explained that DR.. Conklin has a
desperately ill infant on his hands"
Justice Proctor asked for his Office
and home address and requested to
Continued on Page 3, Column s.
Evening star., 1941-02-05

came along and said the berth was
his. The porter took the tickets OF
both men for inspection and, re-
turning, advised Mr.. Arnold that he
had the wrong bed. The porter
didn't explain that it was in the
wrong car which would be coupled
on TO the wrong train.
A new bed was made and Mr..
Arnold reported he had fine sleep,
but that it was a rude awakening
when he looked out of the window
and saw Boston instead of Wash
ington.
He few back to the Capital.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Britain Can Win Only With Aid,
WiIIkie Is E Expected to Report;
'EnqIish Commitments Probed
Bombs Don't Weaken
People, He Is
Likely to Soy
By EDDY GILMORE.

AhSOCldlcu flcSS WAT SOIIeSpOHucHb-
LONDON, Feb. 5.-Fourteen days
Of travelling with Wendell L. Willkie
and listening to his questions and
the answers he has received lead
to the conclusion he will tell the
United States that Great Britain
will win the war with American aid.
Mr.. Willkie probably will say that
victory will be by the closest
squeeze.
He also is expected to tell the
people and the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee considering the
British-aid bill that the bombing of
cities does not frighten or weaken
Britons, but instead unifles them.
From no person in the hundreds
he talked to did Mr.. Willkie hear
complaint He saw everything he
asked to see. The government ar
ranged many visits, but Mr.. Willkie
often went out privately, appearing
at unannounced places.
Watched Demonstration.
He said once he was positive no
RONcl lllllCHG Ildu OctIl
to show him only approved places
and people. On one occasion he
saw a group of women demonStrat-
ing against the system of food ra-
tioning. He watched them in a
London hotel lobby long time and
then apparently drew his own con-
clusions.
II am sure know who those peo-
pie were Mr.. Willkie said, and I
don't believe they represent Britain. y
The big weakness of the Willkie
trip was that he saw no major actual
air attack in progress.
Mr.. Willkie has definite ideas on
aid from the United States in the
matter of shipping and is expected
to stress this.
His trip to Ireland (Eire), he main
tanned emphatically, was his own
idea. About Fire he gathered con-
siderable number of opinions which
he will present to the Senate COM
mittee if he is urged.
Mr.. Willkie was keenly interested
In Britain's financial situation. In
talking to financial authorities he
always had with him Landon
Thorne, retired investment broker
who accompanied him on his flight
across the Atlantic.
Touched by Peoples Spirit.
It is believed here that Mr. Willkie
will say that Britain is good flnan-
cial risk with certain restrictions,
but even if she were not, she should
receive aid.
Mr.. Willkie was deeply touched by
the peoples spirit. If he was dis
appointed in any class, it probably
was what once heard him refer to
as the "so-called smart set
The best time he had was on an
unannounced visit to the Lambeth
Walk district of London. where he
rubbed shoulders and drank tea with
the people of this poor section whose
homes have been bombed
Mr.. WILKES tour of the coastal
defenses was sketchy, but in the
bombed areas it is believed that he
was shown everything. Efforts were
made to show him the worst in the
Midlands. yet there was nothing
stage-set about it.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
| ; German Bombers
| Shot Down Roidinq
| Convoy in Channel
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A SOUTHEAST Asst
TOWN. England. Feb. 5-Three
German bombers were reported
shot down in the sea today after
an air attack on a British con-
voy in the English Channel.
Watchers along the shore said
the Nazi planes were destroyed
in an air and sea fight which
lasted about 20 minutes.
The weather was hazy, but the
crump of the bombs and the
chatter of machine-gun fire
could be heard plainly for a
considerable distance along the
Kentish coast, observers said.
Evening star., 1941-02-05

lIldH al IIOlu " as
telling friends
about it today.
In New Haven.
Conn, Monday
night. he board
ed what he be-
lieved to be a
w a S h i n 6 on
Pullm a n and
gave his ticket TO
a porter. Then
he climbed into
lower six. he
related, and was
settling dow n
com f or I a b ly
when a stranger
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Johns Hopkins Official Quits

BALTIMORE, Feb. S (P).-Henry
D. Harlan, president of the Board
Of Trustees of Johns Hopkins Hos
pital since 1903, retired from the
post yesterday and was succeeded by
John Sears Gibbs. Mr.. Harlan will
remain on the board, which named
him president emeritus.
Evening star., 1941-02-05
British Planes
Swarm Over
French Coast
Air Force Resumes
Heavy Offensive
Begun in Night
BACKGROUND

Both British and German
aerial nctiUity has been restricted
in recent tUeeks by bad 1Uedther
oDer Western Europe. Bad con-
ditionS also haze hampered Ger
man offensive against shipping.
January set record lo,D since bat
tie OF Britain began for number
OF planes shot dOlUn. British fear
enforced idleneSs may haze giUen
Germans opportunity to prepare
dnetD for an inUdSion attempt.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 5.-The Royal Air
Force carried out wide sweeping
daylight raid over the French coast
today, British sources said, after
their biggest night aerial offensive
in two weeks.
The Ministry of Information later
termed the raid "a successful sweep
over Northern France. Full re-
ports are not yet available" it said
saw strong force of bombers, pro-
tected by heavy formations of fight
ing planes, soar high over the Strait
of Dover in the direction of Calais
Other fighting planes patrolled the
English coast.
TN Berlin authorized spokes-
men announced that IA British
bomberS were shot down over the
English Channel today in the
shattering of an attempted large
scale attack on German oblec-
tiVes)
A similar widespread daylight at
tack was made on azi-occupled
territory last Sunday.
Smoke Seen Near Calais.
Some time after the British planes
moved to the French coast, thick
columns of black smoke were seen
rising near the harbor of Calais.
In last nights attack the German
industrial town of Dusseldorf in
the Rhineland, the Nazi-held French
ports of Cherbourg, Brest, Bordeaux
Dunkerque. Dieppe and Ostend were
hit by the British, the Air Ministry
said.
The old French naval base at
Brest, believed now to be one of the
ports used by Nazi submarines. was
Evening star., 1941-02-05
Ajox!
Arnold Finds
Railway Travel
A Bit Confusinq

By the Associated Press.
To fall asleep on train in New
Haven bound for Washington, and
wake up in Boston instead
Assistant Attorney General Thur