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Evening star., 1941-03-22
Five Slightly Injured
In Headon Collision
Of Sfreetcars
Released After Treatment
At Hospitals; Traffic
Halted on Hour

Five persons were slightly injured
and released after treatment at
local hospitals, according to police
following headon collision of two
street cars at Seventh street and
Pennsylvania avenue NV. at BIS
o'clock last night.
The injured were Mary E. Tactic,
so, of 238 Seventh street Sc.
treated at Providence Hospital for
bruises; Mary Clark, %, of 427 Six
teenth street Sc, Providence Hos
pital, cuts; Grace Keyes, 26, of 233
Pennsylvania avenue Sc, Emer-
gency Hospital, leg injury; Vera
Gregg, 26, of 233 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. Sc, Emergency Hospital, cuts
to forehead, and John c. Hansel
%, colored, of 1107 Irving street
NV, Casualty Hospital, rib frac-
ture.
Police reported the accident oc-
CURED when a streetcar turning
left at Seventh street and Penn
sylvania avenue collided with a
westbound car on Pennsylvania
avenue. The fronts of both cars
were caved in by the impact and
the eastbound car was derailed
Traffic was halted nearly an hour
before the cars could be removed.
In another traffic accident in the
city, William j. Carroll, At, of 1908
Douglas street NE, was iniure
Evening star., 1941-03-22
D. {. Dentist Faces Trial
ApriI 9 in Traffic Death
B, a Staff Correspondent OF The star.


ROCKVILLE, Md, March 22-
Trial for DR.. Mark o. Davis, TO,
Washington dentist indicted on a
charge of manslaughter, has been
set for April 9, States Attorney
Ben G.. Wilkenson announced to-
day.
DR.. Davis was charged in connec-
ton with the traffic death February
27 of John Adair, jr., Chevy Chase
fireman, who was struck by an auto
mobile while attending pumping
engine at the scene of the Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School fire. DR..
Davis is at liberty under $500 bond.
There were AZ indictments re-
turned against 35 defendants who
must stand trial in the Montgomery
County Circuit Court Among those
indicted are Emmett Taylor of Wash
ington, charged with perjury. 1t is
alleged he misrepresented by 5
years the age of Corrine S. Sellers,
said by the prosecution to be only
IS, in an application for a marriage
license on January 20.
Nine colored men were indicted
on charges of housebreaking and
larceny. They are accused of par
ticipating in a series of 13 robberies
in and near Rockville. One of the
defendants is William Henry Peters,
who was acquitted several months
ago on another burglary charge in
which the evidence centered around
tooth marks in piece of cheese.
William H. Norwood was indicted
on charges of assault with intent
to murder his wife, Mrs. Francis E.
Norwood, and trial was set for
March q on his plea of not guilty.
Evening star., 1941-03-22

IF you need no word at all" he
said, IF the CARTOON explains itself,
then you've got perfect gag"
Turning out five gags day makes
it necessary for him to use every
thing and everybody he sees. When
he meets a lawyer, he asks him how
he spent his day. Those hospital
jokes that brighten Esquire pages
are born in conversations with doc
tor friends.
One Sunday morning, he attended
a church service and heard the
choir sing amen" Then he strolled
into the foyer and a small colored
boy ran out, shouting, yeah, man, y
to a friend.
When the cartoon appeared, Mr..
Campbell had a minister looking
sternly at a colored choir boy and
demanding, Did you say amen or
yeah, MANI"
Uses Model Infrequently.
Between sketching and thinking
up ideas, Mr.. Campbell has little
time to work from models. But
twice a year he calls a model in for
an intensive few weeks. He sketches
her in every possible pose. Working
like a movie crane, he pencils the
lines of her back, for instance, from
every view.
Then he keeps a file of drawings
When he gets a harem idea with a
dozen beauteous ladies in various
stages of activity and repose, he dips
into his file for poses.
That's a way of getting conviction
into his work. A layman, he says
may know nothing about art, but
if hand is wrong or neck out OF
line. the cartoon loses conviction.
Just in case it all sounds simple
Mr.. Campbell is the man to tell you
that eating, sleeping and living with
gags is no joke.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Dies Committee Dead ,
Attorney Contends
In Communist Case
Indictments for Refusal
To Answer Questions
Invalid, Counsel Says

The House Committee on Un-
American Activities Is legally dead,
District Court was told yesterday in
arguments over the validity of in
dictments returned against alleged
Communists for failure to answer
questions put to them by members
of the committee.
Defense Attorney Charles E. Ford,
seeking to have evidence quashed
and the indictments invalidated, told
Justice F. Dickinson Let's that the
Dies Committee died with the Con-
gress that created it in 1888 and
that the so-called continuing resolu-
tions were an effort to revive a
corpse.
Mr.. Ford contended that the COM
mittee is invalid, and consequently
any subpoenas it issued for witnesses
and the indictments are invalid.
Those indicted in the case are DR..
Albert Blumberg of Baltimore, whose
Office was allegedly entered and pa
pers illegally seized: Philip Frank
field, described as executive secretary
of the Communist party in New
England; Thomas F. P. ODea, re-
puted president of the Young Com
munist League of Massachusetts,;
George Powers and James H. Dolsen
of Pittsburgh.
Mr.. Ford, continuing his argu-
ment, also contended that the COM
mittee is operating in conjunction
with a word-Un-American-which
is vague, indefinite and uncertain
and not susceptible of the same
definition by any two persons. He
also declared that the Supreme
Court has condemned an investiga-
ton such as the Dies Committee
attempted in this case.
The hearing will be continued
Friday. Assistant United States
Attorney Charles B. Murray an
nounced that he would put On the
witness stand two Baltimore police
men and two agents of the Dies
Committee.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Powerful Protest
Against u. 5. Entry in
War Urged by Nye
Willingness to Coneede
Involvement Called.
Greatest Weakness
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March Ex-senator
Nye, Republican, of North Dakota
said last night that "those who
would take us into war in the name
Of keeping us out of war" had made
rapid progress, but that involvement
in the European conflict could still
be avoided If the American people
would raise their voice in protest.
In an address before a meeting of
the Negroes Against War Commit
tee, Senator Nye said the greatest
weakness" was a willingness on the
part Of many Americans to concede
that involvement in war was in
evitable
''It is only as inevitable as we, the
people, permit it to be inevitable, /"
he said. "A determined people can
keep out of this European war if
only they will keep alive and vibrant
a powerful voice of protest against
involvement in the war"
National Referendum Urged.
AS one safeguard against war, he
urged legislation to require a ma
tional referendum before American
armed forces could be sent outside
the Western Hemisphere or United
States possessions.
Tracing the development of Amer
lean policy from the revision of the
Neutrality Act to enactment of the
Evening star., 1941-03-22

lease-lend bill, Senator Nye said the
events he mentioned had occurred
under the leadership Of one and
the same man" and inquired what
view of this course might be taken
by historians Of the future.
at is going to be surprising" he
added, "if we escape utter con-
demnation for our inconsistency and
our weakness to resist forces so OBJ
viously selfish and bent upon max
ing our country again the under
writer of European war"
. He predicted that there would be
growing want" to convoy shipments
to England, and said this would
mean immediate involvement in
war as soon as 1t is practiced"
Constant Protests Urged.
Many of those who talk about
the needlessness of American lives
being sent to Europe to there bleed
and die are in their hearts wanting
American blood on the other side
of the world more than they want
anything else today" he continued
What shall and what can a peo-
pie determined to keep out of war
do? They ought to be constantly
voicing protest against the possibility
of conveys and patrols. They ought
to be protesting against the move
ment which is taking our Navy far
away from those lands and institu-
tions it was intended to defend. We
should protest everlastingly any al
legged right resting with the Presi-
dent to send our fighting forces into
possessions that are inviting of trou-
BILE. 80 We should be insisting upon
careful weighing of every dollar
afforded under the lease-lend pro-
gram"
Evening star., 1941-03-22
0verfon Formula
Is lndorsed by Public
School Association
tuberculosis o Organization
Will Cooperate With
Schools, Official Declares

The District Pubic School Asso-
ciation last night indorsed the Over
ton plan for determining the Federal
Governments annual share in Dis
trlct expenses on the ratio of the
amount of land occupied by the
Federal Government to the land
area of the District.
Meeting in the boardroom of the
District Building, the association
supported the Senate bill as pro-
viding fair and equitable basis
for determining the Federal Gov
ernment's payment toward defray-
Ing the expenses of the District
government.
A general outline of what the
District tuberculosis Association
plans to do this year was given
by Harald H. Lund, recently ap-
pointed executive secretary.
The tuberculosis organization, he
said, had long been interested in
working with the schools and would
give them its full cooperation.
"The Tuberculosis Association"
he said. has no interests or activi-
ties which it jealousy protects; its
aim is to determine, in company
with interested agencies, the gaps in
the community program of tubercu-
loSiS prevention and to work with
such groups to fill these gaps"
Criticizing overcrowding in the
schools, Mrs. r. NJ. Graham, State
chairman of the Summer Roundup
Committee of the District Parent
Teacher Association, cited North
Randle School where, she said. 96
pupils are in the kindergarten class.
Evening star., 1941-03-22

islation would be proposed to take
away from labor its gains achieved
in the past quarter of century.
Il warn you who claim to be the
friends of organized labor" he said,
that if something is not done in the
next 80 days and these strikes keep
on, all of us who are the real
friends of labor and real friends
of organized labor are going to have
to stand on this floor and fight
drastic legislation that would take
away the gains of organized labor
that it has taken them 25 years to
bring about"
Representative Smith said only a
part of the recently completed Rad
ford, Va, powder plant could go into
operation because essential machin-
cry was tied up in the Allis-Chal-
mers plants strike, called, fostered
and brought about by Communist
influences"
Evening star., 1941-03-22
British Flyer on Radio
Saws He Is Goerinq

While returning from a raid on
Hamburg, Germany, British flyer
aboard a bomber switched on his
radio transmitter and one of his
crew gave a burlesque of German
news in English. Suddenly the
plane was caught by a big con-
centration of searchlights, and the
wireless operator of the bomber
shouted into his microphone: This
is Goering. Put out those flaming
lights"
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Strikes
Continued From First Page.)

bank local Of the A. F. L. Interna-
tlonal Association of Mechanics,
pledged 100 per cent cooperation.
A bright spot appeared in the de-
ciSion of A. F. L. building trades
workers to return to work on prof.
ectS vital to the Army'S air program
at Wright Field, Ohio. A 17-day
strike of 400 A. F. L. craftsmen
started March 4 because five G. @.
electricians were employed at the
field.
John Breidenbach, president of
the Dayton Central Labor Union,
said the men would return to work
today 'in the interests of the Ma
ton
Wright Field Men Go Back.
Because of short notice only a
handful of men reported today,
but Wright Field officials were in
formed so per cent of the workers
would be back Monday and the
remainder would report during the
week.
The War Department appealed
that further interruption OF work
on a S5900,000 expansion program
at the field would seriously cripple
the defense program"
The men will return to work on
construction of a wind tunnel,
torque stand, administration build
ing addition and radio and dyna-
mometer laboratories at this gi-
gantic testing center for new planes
and aircraft equipment being de-
veloped for the Army Air Corps.
Soft coal miners and operators
planned to get down to business
next week on new two-year con-
tract. The miners want 81 a day
more for $4,000 men in the Ap-
palaChian area, with paid vacations
and a guarantee Of 200 working days
annually. Negotiations have been
going on in New York for week.
At MartinSburg, w. Va, A. F. L.
Hosiery Workers Union members
called strike for today at the
JnterWoven Stocking Co. plant, en-
ploying about 1,500.
Julian Caldwell, local union presi-
dent, said his committee had been
unable to contact any final au-
thority" with whom to deal con-
eerning its demands for a 20 per
cent wage increase and other
changes in the contract.
Evening star., 1941-03-22

E. Simms Campbell, creator of
those harem ladies in Esquire car
toons, started his career by sketch
ing women with tight wads of hair
and pince nez glasses.
The caricatureS didn't have to be
labeled teacher" Nor did they
have to be signed. Young Camp
bells schoolmateS had no trouble
identifying the subject and teach
ers came to know that every time
there was a rush of laughter from
the back rows, Campbell was Great
ing again.
When he attended the Art Insti-
tute in Chicago he did his work as
the instructor requested. Then he
did il his own way-sketching a top
nat on Rodin statue, for instance.
Starts Out by "Doodling.'
Now the teachers pest" and one
time dining car waiter averages five
cartoons a day for Esquire and a
newspaper syndicate, and for adver-
tising campaigns illustrated with
beautiful ladies making funny re-
marks
Interviewed before his lecture at
Howard University last night, the
colored cartooniSt described the
technique of turning out gag after
gag.
He starts out by "doodling." Per-
hapS he sketches a policeman. He
has to put him in a situation. So he
thinks of all the daily experiences
Of a policeman and all the people a
policeman may deal with. A police
man may make him think of judge
and Judge of alimony, and he ends
up with an alimony joke. The joke
may be a paragraph long. He cuts
and cuts until he has sentence
under his cartoon. Then he tries
to cut it to a single word.
Evening star., 1941-03-22

when his automobile early today
struck the west end of the Balti-
more & Ohio viaduct in the 700
block of Rhode Island avenue NE.
He was taken to Casualty Hospital
in an ambulance and treated for
lacerations to the face and leg and
injuries to facial bones.
Beverley Gene Baggett, 2, of 623
Morris place NE, was treated at
Casualty Hospital for cuts and
bruises after ne had been struck
by an automobile near his nome.
He was later released.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
City News in Brief
TODAY.

TODAY.
Initiation. Tau Epsilon Phi Fra
ternity, Willard Hotel, pm; ban
quet and dance, $50 pm.
Dinner, Matrons and Patrons,
Hamilton Hotel, 7 pm.
Dinner, George Washington Uni
versity Law Alumni, Mayfower Ho-
tel, 7 pm.
Dinner and dance, Charlotte Hall
Alumni, Mayf1ower Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Dinner and dance, Montana State
Society, Wardman Park Hotel, 1880
pm.
Party, Junior Board Of Commerce,
Carlton Hotel, 10 pm.
Meeting, American Council on
Education, Mayf1oWer Hotel. all day.
Lecture by Clifton Fadiman, In
side Radio" Constitution Hall, $50
pm.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Reur Admiral to Be Chosen

A Selection Board will convene
Wednesday in the Navy Department
for the recommendation of an Of
ficer of the Naval Reserve for pro-
motion to the grade of rear admiral,
it was announced yesterday.
Rear Admiral Hayne Ellis is presi-
dent of the board.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Mark G. Harris Dies

CHICAGO, March % (P1.-Mark
G. Harris, II, former clothing man
ufacturer who became an authority
on golf and wrote two books. after
taking up the game at the age OF go,
died yesterday.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Strikes May Cost Labor
Heavily, Smith Fears
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Representative Smith, Democrat,
of Virginia asserted in the House
yesterday that if strikes continued
In defense industries, drastic" leg
Evening star., 1941-03-22
BrowninqsviIIe Supper

The Home Demonstration Club
of Browningsville, Md, will give an
oyster and ham supper from to
9 pm. today in the Browningsville
hall,
Evening star., 1941-03-22
Robinson Crusoe

1t is said that the story of ship
wrecked Robinson Crusoe has been
translated into more languages than
any other English book.
Evening star., 1941-03-22
TOMORROW

Hike, Wanderbirds Hiking Club,
from Chantilly, Va, to Centerville.
Leave National Theater. 9 am.
Meeting, Bartenders Union, An
napoliS Hotel, 2 pm.
Meeting, Electric Workers, Hamil-
ton Hotel, pm.
Evening star., 1941-03-22

Nicaragua will have three motion
picture censors for each cinema.
Evening star., 1941-03-22

| A cooperative union in Kenya
will sell oyster nut kernels.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-02-14
Over 30 Signed UP Here For Pilot
 Training Course

Over thirty-two Of Wrangelrs younger population have signed up for the Civil Pilot Training course conducted by the CAA and which, 1t is hoped will be given in Wrangell.
 At present. Tony schwamm.. on authority from CAA is giving the course in Petersburg and, it was said, If Wrangell could furnish 25 OF more young men and women in- terested in sprouting wings the course would be given here as well as in Petersburg.
 Twenty-two young people. be- tween the ages of 19 and 26, six of which are women, registered this week at the Legion Dugout, signify ign their desire to obtain the five weeks ground school course and 35 to 45 hours actual flight trainingo and ten pupils at Wrangell Institute are ready to sign up. Legionnaires, who are in charge of obtaining the said there were more town folks still to sign.
 Pilot Tony schwamm, of the Wrangell-Petersburg Air Service, is instructor for the course.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-02-14
FUGITIVE FROM
 TENNESSEE IS
 FOUND IN JUNEAU

Juneau, Feb. 14-U. s. Marshal William T. Mahoney will leave here within the next week or ten days for the south with several prisoners. Among them is Jesse Gahagen, des- tined for Greenyille, Tenn. Gahagen has been a fugitive from justice since 1884 and has, for some time past been working at the Juneau airport. He was picked up a few days ago on the street by Juneau's Police Chief, Dan Ral- ston who recognized the fugitive from having seen an Identification card sent out by the FBI bearing Gahagens picture and fingerprints.
 At first, Gahagen stoutly denied his identity, but his fingerprints were found to match those on the record card, according to Juneau au- thorities.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-02-14
FOR Asks Funds
 For Submarine Base At Kodiak
(By. Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON, Feb 14-Presl- dent Roosevelt this week asked Congress for $898,892,OOO for cash contract authorizations to expedite the navy's shipbuilding program and carry out the vast expansion plan of the fleets shore facilities.
 Included was $4,7OO,OOO re- quest to establish fleet operation facilities with bomb proof shelters on the tiny island of Guam and $5,747.OO0 for similar purposes at the Guantanamo naval base Funds were also sought for the establish ment of submarine operating facil- ities at Kodiak. Alaska and Midway Island.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-02-14
NEW, NOVEL TEA
 PLANNED FOR HOSPITAL

Committees ill charge of the Civ ic club fruit-shoWer-tea which will be given for the hospital Thursday afternoon, February 20, from to D. m, are promising novel and diff ferent arrangements and fine pro- gram during the middle period of the afternoon. The charge for the tea. which will be given in Civic Center, will be can or jar of fruit juice, canned fruit, jelly, jam, rel ishes or pickles---anything that can be used for patients who are on a full diet as well as for those whose food is more limited.
 The main part of the program will consist of skits by school child ren from Country Gardens' and Lazy Town" written by Miss Gene vieye Mayberry. Those taking part will be. Paul Thornquist, Bobby Brown, Dolores Paulson, June Rose Dibble, Loretta Hibner, Justin Rip- ley. Joanne Washington, Georgia Fabricius, Beverly Bayne, Frances Hanford, I1elneth Binkley, Ralph Devenney, Arnold Bakke, Jones Joseph, Ben Miyasato, Leo 0sterman Marion Newman and Hernando Vil- larma Tn addition t) the skits, Miss Mary Mccormack will contribute piano selections.
 Under the direction of MT. Robert Evans skit from Midsummer Nights Dream" will be given by six of the high school boys: Lew Will Hams, Bernard Iverson, Malcolm Me- Cay, Willie Tommila, Kenneth Do- Ian and Eddie Churchill.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-02-14
WILLKIE WANTS ALL OUT AID TO
 GREAT BRITAIN

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14-Urging passage of the Iease-lend aid to Britain bill, with modification" , Wendell L. Willkie, returning from a trip to Great Britain last week end, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week to give his views on the inter- national situation after careful study abroad.
 Willkie asked that we furnish Britain with from five to ten des- troyers a month.
 The Republican Presidential can- didate of last fall appeared in the oenate's caucus room and packed hundreds in the House waited to near hlm. Tn prepared statement Willkie declared Britain needs long term assistance and We should pro- vide her with destroyers directly and swiftly rather than through a rigamorole of dubious legalistic in- terpretations. Incidentally" he add ed, Eff we make destroyers available, the balance of them should be re- conditioned in this country in our own yards"
 As for qualifications, Willkie said his wish would be to limit proposed aid to the British commonwealth. China and Greece.
 In discussing legislation, Willkie said, i've must not hide important facts and must have courage to draw proper differences. The facts are that Democracy cannot live by lodging around corners"
 He said he believed a policy of isolationism would eventually "des- troy civil liberties in the United States and bring down economic up- heaval."
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-02-14
British Attempt To Drop ParachutiStS
 In Southern Italy
lBY YAssociaLed Prese )

War in the air was highlghted this week by a reported British at- tempt to land paraehutists in Italy. Burst of activity was reported from other fronts as sparks of a threaten ing conflict in the Orient and Bal kans could be seen.
 The parachute descent was re- ported attempted by a heavily arm ed British detail on the soil of southern Italy under cover of dark ness Monday night but was frus- trated by Italian planes. Reports said Italian bombers rained bombs generally on British positions.
 Britain's own bombers, fighting two wars. swept in daylight raids over German held ports on the French coast and RAF said 1t car ried out heaviest and most sue cessful bombing Of the Albanian campaign yesterday. AIbania's cap ital, Tirana, Port Durazzo. Wells and Tepelani were the immediate objective. cooperating with Greek ground forces.
 Some optimism was reflected a. mong Cabinet ministers on the situ- ation in the Orient though Acting Prime Minister Fadden of Australia considered 1t with utmost gravity"
 Meanwhile the U. s. state depart ment has suggested" to Americans that they leave the Orient and re- ports from Manila said wives and families of military officers were being sent to the States. A show down between Japan and Britain appears imminent in French Indo- China with Great Britain grayely concerned that French Indo-China may permit the Japanese to use Saignon as an air base. Such a base would be a direct threat to Britain Is great base at Singapore.