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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25

At lastl Here we have it; page
481. And it was the Lord High
Chancellor, no less, Henry Broug-
ham, who said 1t, according to the
following account by Greville:
THE Chancellor, who loves to
unbosom himself to Seton because
he knows the latter thinks him the
finest fellow breathing, tells him
that it is nuts to him to be attacked
by the noble lords in the upper
house, and that they had better
leave him alone If they care for
their own hides"
Either the phrase was current at
the time or Greville liked 1t and
picked it up from the Lord High
Chancellor because, a few pages
further on, we find Greville writing:
ITO (Sir Robert) Peel it is nuts
to see Stanley and Graham draw
ing down unpopularity on them
selves and every day widening the
breach between them and their old
friends"
Judicial Decisions of Century Ago.
While the book is open, some
impairment Tin the classic sense
OF that wordD paragraphs might as
well be exposed to view here Just
for the fun of it. Here's one on
Judicial decisions of a century ago:
There Is a good saying going
about OF the Court of Exchequer and
It's baronS; it runs thuS-Parke
settles the law, Rolfe settle the fact
Anderson settles the bar. Platt set
ties nothing, Pollock unsettles every-
| thing" The inner temple must
have rocked with hilarity as that
one went the rounds.
Brougham became bored with the
Duke of Wellington in the old age
! OF the winner at Waterloo and
| GreVlue reports that the Lord High
Chancellor said cynically of the
aged duke: Westminster Abbey is
yawning for him" Was that nice?
| Editor Wilson comes up with a
/ good one that he traces to TalIey-
rand, who is tagged elsewhere by
/ the editor in a chapter headingD
as AN Artist in Treachery." But it
was from Talleyrand that there
/ came the account of the letter de-
scrlblng the browning of Alexander
l as Emperor of Russia in Moscow
IN 1901. The description was:
The Emperor marches, preceded
by the aSsassinS of his grandfather,
accompanied by those Of his father
and followed by his own"
Editor Wilson also mentioned the
Princess Lieven, "one of those
charming agents whom Russia often
employed as cosmopolitician. A
cosmopolitan" must be one who
/ deals in "geopolitik."
OF an eXtravagant speech in the
House of Commons Greville re-
| ported:
He (WetherelD was drunk, they
say. The Speaker said, the only
lucid interval he had was that be-
tween his waistcoat and his
breecheS.'"
/ OF Lord Stanley, the Earl of
/ Derby, Greville set it down:
! Stanley had a dual mind 1t
ran to race horses and religion"
/ He also mentioned Nesselrode, the
Russian diplomat, who now survives
/ in memory in certain sWank circles
only because a pudding was named
after him. But it's high time to
put the book back on the shelf for
the day.
released By The Bell Syndicate. rneJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25


train aisle immediate ly. He said he
saw Pvt. Wilson lifting Mrs. James,
who had sprawled into the aisle.
Blood spurted from a neck wound,
and Mr. Norton said, ut looked to
me the wound was made by a
gouge"
Mr.. Norton also thought he saw
a man running down the aisle, but
1t was dark and "it might have
been curtain fluttering"
Pvt. Wilson said the scream
awakened him and he looked out
in time to see heavy-set man run
ming away. The man was dressed
In brown striped suit. Pvt. Wilson
said he pulled on his pants and
shoes as fast as possible and jumped
down. He propped Mrs. James up
with pillow and discovered she
was dead.
Then he ran to the rear of the
train after the man. He discovered
no one.
A porter, called from the car next
to Mrs. James sleeper, said no one
had passed that way.
Tracks Found in Snow.
A trail of blood specks was found
through the three cars to the rear
Of the sleeper. Police said they did
not believe the trail had been left
by Pvt. Wilson, who had been spat-
tered while lifting Mrs. Jones.
brown suit was found among
Waiter Punches possessions, but it
did not have stripe. Punches said
he had played cards with other
colored employees that night, retiring
about / am. Police said he APP
parently still was asleep at 4 am.
in a car far in front of Mrs. James
sleeper.
Tracks were found in the snow
where the train stopped momentarily
in Tangent, indicating a man stepped
off the California bound limited and
swung aboard a northbound train.
Police said, however, a brakeman
could have made the tracks.
A brakeman said he saw a colored
man resembling the one Pvt. Wilson
described on the train between Port
land and Salem. The man was not
seen after the train left Salem, 30
miles north of Tangent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Senate Committee
Expected 10 Approve
Flynn Wednesday
Five Doubtful Votes
Could Defect Favorable
Report to Senate
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Approval by the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee Wednesday of
President Roosevelt's nomination of
Edward j. Flynn to be Minister to
Australia appears likely, although
five Senators whose attitude is in
doubt could alter the result.
Chairman Connally and Demo-
cratic Leader Barley both predicted
the committee would report favor
ably the nomination of the former
Democratic National Committee
chairman. who also has been picked
by the President for his personal
ambassador in the Southwest Pa
cific area.
One informed committee member,
who asked that his name not be
used, predicted the vote would be
strictly partisan. There remained,
however, the possibility of defections
from the ranks of the Is Democrats
and eight minority members.
The membership of the committee
in addition to Senators Connally and
Barley, is as follows: Democrats
George, Georgia; Wagner, New
York; Thomas, Utah: Van Nuys,
Indiana; Murray, Montana; Pepper,
Florida; Green, Rhode Island; Rey-
nolds, North Carolina; Guffey,
Pennsylvania Gillette iowa: Clarke,
Missouri: Glass, virginia; Tunnel,
Delaware. Republicans = Johnson,
California: Capper, Kansas; VAN
denberg, Michigan; Write, Maine;
Shipstead. Minnesota: Nye. North
Dakota; Davis, Pennsylvania. Pro-
pressive-La Toilette. Wisconsin.
Most Democrats were expected to
support Mr. Flynn's appointment
and it seemed likely all seven Re-
publieans would oppose 1t. Senator
La Toilette declined to commit him
self.
Twelve would be a majority If all
members voted. Senators Glass and
Johnson were not present at hear
ings last week. If they do not return
for Wednesdays meeting, they can
vote by proxy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
clio Head Says Army
ConfroIsU.S.Workers
Scorns New Deal
WPB, Commerce Chiefs
Share Its Attitude,
Murray Maintains
BY the Associated Press

by tne Associated Press.
DETROIT, Jan. 25-The Army
has almost complete control over
the economic life of all workers
In this country" and, together with
"top-f1ight businessmen" on the
War Production Board, rules war
production, which Is mot an ad-
ministration of the Democratic
party" Philip Murray, CLIO presi-
dent, believes.
Mr.. Murray made his remarks
in an address yesterday before the
Association of Catholic Trade
Unionists, one of three weekend
speeches here.
you may not know It," he said
but the Army-a staff Of 1,250,00O
men under 1t. Gen. Brehon SON.
ervell, chief Of the Services of Sup
ply-has almost complete control
over the economic life of all worker:
in this country. Most of the adj
ministrators in the War Depart
ment treat with complete disdair
the aspirations OF the New Deal.
The same attitude, he said, wa.
held by the WPB and the Depart.
ment of Commerce. The Depart.
ment Of Labor, he added, "ha.
been emasculated, If not g almost
destfoyed.'fA 80 ssSs
Mr.. Murray said zone of the
greatest. sore, spots in America al
the shionieft is the hesitancy OF
management to accept the whole
some and whole-hearted co-opera-
ton Of labor to win the war" He
asserted they should join to reduce
the mounting rate Of industrial
accidents" and charged that man
agement's refusal to bargain hon
estly with labor since labor gave
up the right to strike" was the
chief cause Of wildcat strikes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25

in the ATS, she said, was driving
about so miles night over the mar
row, winding Scotch roads in COM
plete blackoutS. BY the time she had
trained her eyes so she could see
about as well in the dark as in full
daylight, she was transferred to
general duties" which meant about
any kind of auxiliary service required
blythe British Army August.
1871, she was commissioned as a
subaltern and transferred to the
signal service.
This is, on the whole, the most
specialized work of the ATS and
Comdr. Clark has become an expert
in the complex system of military
and international telephones. She
describes her present job. held since
her promotion a few weeks ago, as
signal master" 1t consists of direct
ing the work of corps of women
operators.
Sent All Over World.
Little can be said about this sys-
tenn. Deep underground not far
from WHITEHALL is the permitted
description of the location of its
headquarters. This particular office
handles practically all military and
other government communications
These amount to about 10000 mes
sages a week. They include all i'm
portant operational communication
with every part of the world where
there are British troops. There Is
now, it Is claimed, no unit at home
or abroad with which fairly rapid
communication cannot be estab-
lished.
Through this office passed the last
messages from Dunquerque Beach
and the last messages to the outside
world, via the army wireless chain,
from Hong Kong and Singapore. An
ATS clerk in the signal Office will &C
cept call to Washington, Moscow
of Chungking as calmly as If it were
for some point in the United King
dom.
Send Messages to Soldiers.
press dispatches occasionally come
through this channel, as they did
concerning the British campaign in
Madagascar. A regular part of the
traffic consists of the messages
which relatives of the men serving
abroad are allowed to send them at
small cost. The signal Office is
stated almost entirely by ATS per-
sonnet.
Thus far, Comdr. Clark says. she
has come across only one other
American citizen entitled to wear
USA on her shoulder in the Or
ganization. This designation of ma
tionality was encouraged at first by
Mrs. Jean Knox, chief controller of
the organization, whose rank is COM
parable to that Of major general
She has encountered a sprinkling of
French girls with SFrance" seWed
on their shoulders and few with
"SAs," meaning South American, re-
CARELESS of the specific country.
Does Some Teaching.
Her present job, Miss Clark says,
Is primarily administrative, with
some teaching Of telephone work to
recruits. She hasn't had leave since
she Joined up.
The best I could get" she says,
is IA days. People have tried to ex-
plain to me that I could take this
leave, spend eight days with my
family in Washington and still have
plenty Of time to go and return. But
still am not clear on just how to
figure it out"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Montgomery to Address
Monday Evening Club

Donald E, Montgomery, former
consumers counsel OF the Agricul-
ture Department, will address the
Monday Evening Club at 7::30
O'Clock tonight at the YWCA, Sew
enteenth and K streets NV, on
Does the Consumer Have a Voice
in Food Control?p The Rev. Fran
els w. McPeek will be discussion
leader. -
The discussion will be on Food
Control in Relation to Family Sc
@curity~ In Washington. Harald H
Lund. president of the club, will
preside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25

literature had used that phrase Its
the nuts"-or words to that effect
long, long ago. Shakespeare? Quite
possibly. The Bard of Avon, in his
merry passages, was three centuries
ahead of much of the current slang
Of these times.
But the vague memory was Of the
nuts" in some prose paragraph.
All! Now it came closer. Greville's
Diary!
A century ago in England this
Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville
was the secretary Of the Privy
Council. For some years he kept a
diary that was packed with in
side information concerning kings,
queens and cabinets, peers and
politics, races on the turf and riot
ing around the mills, tidbits of gos-
sip in high life and the sage, silly or
cynical remarks of famous person.
ages of that era.
Some of the paragraphs being
highly inflammable historically and
socially, he didn't dare TO print the
diary during his lifetime. Even after
his death, when the diary was
printed in part, much was sup
pressed by the royal edict of the
disturbed Queen Victoria. But as
time went on and various notables
died off, the ban on certain sections
was lifted by degrees and in 1927
the distinguished Philip Whitwell
a,ly- hi
was able TO bring forward an all
revealing edition that might be
called the nuts" which puts us
back on the trail again.
Job of Thumbing Pages.
Down came Volume 1.-THE edi-
ton is in two volumes-from the
bookshelf. Now for a Job of thumb
ing pages. The passage is marked
somewhere. Here's something about
the Duke of Devonshire. No: that's
another story. King William ",
who was described by Editor P. w
Wilson as prince who had lived
in blameless irregularity,' was in
his dotage in 1888 and at dinner
he leaned over to the Duke Of
Devonshire ana asked him, by way
of table-talk, where he meant to
be buried
Here's something else marked
ct the Ascot races--it's still the
regal William IV-"The event of
the races was the King having his
head knocked with stone. 1t
made very little sensation on the
spot, for he was not hurt, and the
fellow was a miserable looking rag
enuffln."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Gloss Son Commissioned

LYNCHBURG, Va, Jan. Is CP).-
1t was Maj. Carter Glass, jr., today.
Maj. Glass, Virginia State Senator
representing Lynchburg and Camp
bell County, was commissioned in
the Special Service Division of the
Army last week. He will report to
Washington for Temporary duty early
this week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Senator Murray Asks
Special Liaison Group
To Aid Small Firms
State Council Hears
Capitalization of Power
Assoiled by O'Conor
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 25.-Asserting
that small businesses had been
ignored by war agencies, Senator
Murray, Democrat, of Montana, to-
day suggested to the Council OF
State Governments the formation
of an independent civilian supply
administration and of a special State
and Federal liaison committee to
consider small business problems.
Senator Murray said the war had
changed the Nation S production pic
ture so that. instead of small plants
producing 10 per cent of the coun-
try's manufactured goods and 100
big plants producing 80 per cent. as
in peace time, the figures were just
the other way around.
IF this spectacle of concentration
of business is permitted to continue"
he said, "' tens of thousands OF
small concerns will vanish, never to
return. Bankruptcy will surely In
wade the once prosperous small COM
munities; ghost towns will rise all
over America"
OConor Appeals to States.
Gov. O'Conor of Maryland, presi-
dent of the Council, yesterday called
on the States for vigorous opposition
to greater and greater centraliza-
ton of powers in Washington" but
added that "the States can blame
none but themselves If their future
power and strength is sapped by
inaction and indifference.
Opening the sixth General Assem-
bly, of the Council. Gov. O'Conor
said the war was being fought and
would be won by the men and the
sinews of the 48 States, not "by some
detached central agency"
Asking for a strict watch on State
rights, Gov. O'Conor said the States
had shown they could cope with
changing conditions to meet any
emergency" and "the States must
carry on without letup or limit, the
part which is rightfully theirs in
the present crisis"
Secretary of War Patterson told
the council that the people who
contend that our Army is too large
seem to overlook two important fac
tors"
The first of these, he asserted, "is
that it is as essential to obtain SUI
periority over our enemies in num-
Der of soldiers as it is in training
and in number and quality of weap-
ons.
The second point . is that we
are training men in 1943 to fight in
1914. Our training program must
contemplate long war and un-
fortunately there are no sound rea-
sons to believe that the war will be
finished in 1943."
Representatives of State govern
ments from all parts of the Nation
are attending the first wartime
meeting of the council prepared to
tackle problems including man.
power, fuel oil and imitation control.
Nearly 200 State officials and
members Of State Legislatures ar
rived for the first days session, with
total of about 400 expected before
the conference ends tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Turkey Views kayt
As Crucial Hour, With
Aazi Attack Possible
Desperate Gesture Might
Be Made to Divert Allies
And Get Concession Oil
BY PRESTON GROVER,


NEW DELHI, India, Jan. "a
! information gathered in the
wake of a visiting Turkish press
mission indicates that Turkey
! considers May her crucial hour,
seeing an outside possibility that
Hitler may attempt then to
break through into the Middle
East and drive behind the Rus
slams in the Caucasus.
The press mission, five leading
Turkish journalists brought to In
ella by the British on a goodwill tour.
spent several days in New Delhi, and
-is returning to Turkey early in Feb
2 ruary.
q. May l is considered the critical
date because then the passes through
the barrier of the Turkish and
southern and eastern mountains will
be cleared of snow, and the ground
sufficiently dry ror motorized oper-
atoms.
Would Divert Pressure.
= Such an outlook is by no means
eoff1cially aired, but was obtained
from competent source. The sup
position is based by the Turks on
these points:
i. The attack would be designed
to divert both Anglo-American and
Russian pressure from other fronts.
2. 1t is a military logical zone
for German operations to get at the
Caucasian oil and split the enemy
front.
8. It could come as a desperation
gesture, since Hitler cannot simply
sit tight while the Allied ring
closes in.
= The Turkish Army is being kept
modified to the peak despite the
terrific drain it imposes on a rela-
lively poor country.
Officially Neutral.
In official Turkish positions the
neutrality and friendship of both
sides are maintained, but in recent
months frequent comment has been
heard among the population that the
time is ripe for Turkey to side with
the Allies.
Reports reaching here said the !
little Balkan countries recently at
tempted to sound out Turkey in a
series of calls at the Foreign Office. |
The Balkan diplomats were re-
ported to have gotten little satisfac- |
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Train Murder Mystery
Deepens as Probe
Enters Third Day
Motive Still q Puzzle
In Staying of Ensien's
Bride in Berth
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Greg, Jan. 25.-The
Staying of comely Mrs. Martha Vir-
ginia Brinson James, 81, whose
throat was slit as she lay in lower
berth 10 of California bound train,
grew more mystifying today.
Clues abounded, but police in their
third day of investigating the
strange death of a Navy ensign's
bride said they could determine no
motive and could find no suspects.
They held two men for questioning
at klamath Falls, Harold r. Wilson,
%, of Buckley, Wash, a marine pri-
vate who slept in upper 10, and
John Punches, 30, Oakland, Calf,
dining car waiter on the train, but
emphasized there was no evidence
to connect them with the crime.
Third Man Sought.
They issued John Doe warrant
for the arrest of an unidentified
colored man who was believed to
have been passenger, although
trainmen could find no record of
him.
DR.. John Beeman of the State
police medical staff said Mrs. James
had not been assaulted. There was
no evidence, either, of robbery, for
the woman's purse containing SIP
in cash was undisturbed.
Police said this was the story:
Mrs. James, daughter of promi-
nent Norfolk (Va0 family, was fol-
lowing her husband of four months,
Ensign Richard F. James, also of
prominent Virginia family, after a
routine Navy transfer from Seattle.
WOman's Scream Heard.
About 4 am. Saturday as the
train neared Tangent, Greg, two
men, in berths near Mrs. James,
heard woman exclaim, IT can't
take this any longer" and then, MY
God, this man is killing me-" A
scream followed.
One Of the men, Eugene Norton
Of DAILY City, Calf. looked into the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Sailor Held as Suspect
In Attempted Assault

A sailor was being held by elev-
enth precinct police today after a
l7-year-old employee Of downtown
drug store reported he attempted to
assault her early today in Fairlawn
Park near the Eleventh street
bridge.
The girl, who was treated for cuts
and bruises, said the sailor forced
her out of an automobile in which
they were riding on Nichols avenue
Sc. and dragged her to the park
nearby.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Chamber Head to Speak

THE Challenge of Change" will
be the subject of a talk by Eric
Johnston, president of the United
States Chamber of Commerce at
1880 pm. Wednesday. In the Com
merce Department Auditorium. He
will address the Society for Person
mel Administration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25

er. They ap-
proved heartily.
S aid one of
t h e m aim o S t
b r e a t h ] e ssly:
You must see
that picture. It's
the nuts!"
1t was the nut
flavor in t h e
enthusiastic in
dorsement that
s I / RI e d some
thing in mem
DRY. It's o ID d
how things pop
IN t o m i n d.
Copn a hNSy IN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Power Fails Bakery;
Dough Hits Pavement

BY Che Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Five thou
sand pounds of dough in a giant
mixer ready for pummeling, began
TO rise-and the power failed.
Bakers couldn't do anything, for
without electricity the mixer was
useless.
Now 5000 pounds of dough isn't
hay. Soon it rose out of the mixer.
pushed against window, and
eventually landed on the sidewalk,
glass and all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
Congress in Brief
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senate:
May debate telegraph merger bill.
Military Affairs Committee calls
on 1t. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney,
deputy chief of staff, for data on
ultimate size of Army.
House:
Routine session.
Rules Committee considers reso-
lutions to set up standing aviation
committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
New Glasses in NURSING

The first of new series of classes
in home nursing will be held from
to 10 o'clock tonight at st. Joseph's
Home and School under the auspices
OF the District Red Cross. Future
classes will be held the same hours
on Mondays and Thursdays for a
minimum of six weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25
One Small Voice BY John Kieron
Boiling Through Book in Search of Nuts

The youngsters had been to see
Noel Coward ct al. In the movie I'm
Which We Serve" the story of the
life and death of a British Destroy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-25

Adolf, Benito and Hirohito-the
three blind mice. Make them run
with War bonds.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-29
Benefit Planned
For BoysviIIe

A GARDEN party bridge will
be given Aug. 3 for the benefit
of Boysville of Michigan, Inc,
at the home of Mrs. +. j. Boyer
in Lincoln road Mrs. Arthur
D. Kerwin is chairman, and on
the reception committee are:
Mrs. T. Curtis Mckenzie. Mrs.
Albert J. Tobin, Mrs. George
w. Salowich, Mrs. Robert
Simpson, Mrs. c. f. Centers,
Mrs. J. S. Phillips, Mrs. John
II. Pringle, Mrs. Anna Willard
Winkler, Mrs. r. c. Tenerowicz,
Mrs. Earl d. Miller, Mrs. Henry
Platz, Mrs. A. J. Siebert and
Mrs. Clarence Patton.
Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Tenero-
wicz arc also on the special
activities committee with Mrs.
Kenneth II. White.
Arrangements are being made
by Mrs. Lester Winslow and
Mrs. Thomas w. Roosen. The
ticket committee is composed
of Mrs. George d. Noble, Mrs.
Louis j. Schneider. and Mrs.
George r. Morris.