Evening Star Newspaper, August 19, 1938, Page 1

WEATHER. (U, 8. Weather BureAu Forecabt.) Fair tonight and tomorrow; slowly rising temperature; gentle variable winds. Tem- peratures today—Highest, 83, at 2 p.m.; lowest, 64, at 5 a.m. Full report on page A-2. Closing N.Y. Markets—Sales—Page 14 86th YEAR. i DUNLAP QUSTER TURNS SPOTLIGHT ON GEORGIA FIGHT George Stalwart Requested to Resign R. F. C. Post by General Counsel. SHEPPARD COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE ACTION Determined to See Battle Through to Finish, Says Senior Senator. BACKGROUND— Determined to purge administra- tion ranks of all opposition, Presi- dent Rooscvelt has centered attack on Senator George of Georgia and Senator Tydings of Maryland. Speaking at Barnesville, Ga., one week ago the President demanded the defeat of Senator George be- cause of his opposition to some administration measures. Senator George promptly took up the chal- lenge, terming Roosevelt's action “n second march through Georgia.” Br the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Aug. 19.—The “request” resignation of a campaign stalwart of the Senator Walter F. George forces from his Government job today fo- cused political attention for the sec- ond time within a week on Georgia's hard-fought senatorial primary cam- paign. Edgar B. Dunlap, active supporter of Senator George and Georgia at- torney for the Reconstruction Finance Corp., announced yesterday he had resigned his R. F. C. post at the re- quest of Claude E. Hamilton, ir. R F. C. general counsel at Washing- ton. The announcement came exactly one week after President Roosevelt urged the defeat of Senator George because of his opposition to some ad- ministration measures and advocated the nomination of Federal District At- torney Lawrence S. Camp, one of three George opponents. To Continue Work for George. Mr. Dunlap, who said the tele- graphic request for his R. F. C. res- ignation “is solely occasioned by my activities for Senator George,” added that he would continue to work for the renomination of the senior Georgia Senator. (The R. F. C. announcement said that Mr. Dunlap’s resignation had “been requested by the directors because of his refusal to discontinue his political activities in the face of repeated requests made by the corporation in line with its policy to have its employes refrain from active participation, aside from voting thejr convictions, in political campaigns” (Mr. Hamilton explained today that he telegraphed Mr. Dunlap at the request of the directors of the R. F. C, whose wishes were made known to him by William C. Cos- tello, assistant to the chairman, Jesse Jones. Mr. Hamilton was chosen to inform Mr. Dunlap of his dismissal because Mr. Hamilton is the superior officer of the division of the R. F. C. with which Mr Dunlap is associated.) The telegram to Mr. Dunlap de- manding his resignation stated that William J. Hobbs of North Carolina would succeed him. Action to Be Probed. The announcements, both from R. F. C. headquarters and from Mr. Dun- lap, brought from Senator Sheppard, Democrat, of Tex chairman of the (See DUNLAP, Page A-5) 1918 War Stores Raze Towns. ATHENS, Aug. 19 (P).—An explosion of a privately-owned warehouse filled | with war materials left by the allied army in A918 virtually destroyed the village of Cordelio, at the outskirts of Salonika, and killed two early to- day. Salonika itself was shaken, and windows were shattered. “] Wanted to Be President” Says Alfred M. Landon But Now “The Grapes Are Sweet”, . . Two years after his unsuccess- ful campaign as the Repub- lican candidate for Presi- dent, the former Kansas Governor has decided to write, in frankly human fashion, his impressions of that losing fight and about the lessons he learned in it. In a series of four articles, the man who had such a swift rise to political fame enforces his statement that he would not accept the G. O. P. nomination “in the remote contingency” it was offered to him in 1940. He writes about the compen- sations of private life, “which make the grapes of defeat sweet instead of sour,” and he tells why he is very much in politics without wanting office. What are the innermost feel- ings of a man who has been defeated for the presidency? Mr. Landon, proud that he has kept his sense of humor and his sense of proportion, sets down the answer in a strikingly revealing human document. ) Alired M. Landon's Articles Will Appear Exclusively in Wash- ington in The Star, Beginning in The Sunday Ster 34,443, Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, . C. U.S. Astronome First Map ch WASHINGTON, r Is Compiling of the Universe British Scientists By THOMAS R. HENRY, Star Staff Correspondent. CAMBRIDGE, England, Aug. 19.— The first map of the universe, in which galaxies of billions of stars are scatiered like groups of islands in in- finite oceans of emptiness, is being compiled by a Harvard University astronomer. Dr. Harlow Shapley described to the British Association for the Advance- ment of Science, meeting here today, surveys of the immensities of space stretching more than 6,000,000,000,- 000,000,000 miles in all directions from the sun and its planets, a region which light moving at 186,000 miles & second traverses in 100,000,000 years. Within this space, he explained, there are more than 200,000 galaxies, each roughly comparable in size to the {Dr. Shapley of Harvard Reveals 1o Holding 200,000 Other S 'ystems. an Infinite Space Milky Way system of about 30,000,- 000,000 stars, of which the sun is an inconsequential unit and which in- cludes all visible heavenly bodies. Even the existence of anything out- side this system has been known only for the past 15 years since photo- graphs of a luminous cloud in the con- stellation of Andromeda with the tel- escope of the Carnegie Institution of ‘Washington at Mount Wilson, Calif., revealed within it a variable star whose distance could be determined from its luminosity. Following this first clue, vast num- bers of such nebulae have been found at ever-increasing distances from the Mikly Way galaxy and the great “‘red shift” paradox has arisen which seems to show that the ther aw uch " (See HENRY, Page A-3.) CONDRACEEPT AT 10 FNGH [Answers Purge Attack by| Calling for Showdown on Dictator Issue. | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—Representa- | tive John J. O'Connor, Democrat, of | New York has picked up “the xazcj which the President has thrown down” | and pledges himself to fight the ad- ministration “purge” which he calls | SAYS HINES'CLUB' GOTLOTTERY CUT Former Operator Testifies on Cash Bankers of Games Gave to Schultz. BACKGROUND— Tammany District Leader James J. Hines is on trial in New York on charges of Racket-buster Thom- as E. Dewey that he was political protector jor Dutch Schultz's multi= million-dollar lottery racket. Mr. Dewey told- court Hines was paid “an escalator to dictatorship.” “Let’s have it out,” he said in a| | broadcast address last night. “If the people of the United States desire to extend an invitation to a dictatorship, we should know about it just as speedily as possible.” | His speech was a reply to the state- ment of President Roosevelt earlier in | | the week calling for Mr. O'Connor’s | defeat in the September primary elec- | tion. Mr. O'Connor said the President had read at his press conference a New York newspaper editorial containing | “a brief, but viciously untrue refer- | ence to me,” and had added, “you can | interpret that as coming from me.” | (He referred to a part of a New York Post editorial which said O’'Connor is “one of the most ef- | fective obstructionists in the Lower House” and “labors to tear down New Deal strength * * * and pickle New Deal legislation.”) “Nearly every man in public life | * * * hes been insulted by that news- | paper. But it is quite different,” said | Mr. O'Connor, “to be insulted by the President of the United States. One | naturally feels it very keenly and | naturally is at a disadvantage to reply | in kind. * * * { “I would be derelict, however, in my | duty as a Representative elected by the people and as an American citizen, if I did not express myself as to what | I believe to be the issue now definitely | raised in this country.” #he veteran Representative of Man- hattan’s 16th congressional district and. chairman of the powerful Rules Committee of the House said his op- position to the President's reorganiza- tion bill was “the one unabsolvable ‘sin’ which has placed me high on the ‘purge list." " Mr. O'Connor, seeking renomination | for a ninth term on both Democratic | and Republican tickets, will be op- posed in the Democratic primary by a | 100 per cent New Dealer,” James H. | Fay, deputy collector of internal | revenue. “It is not the challenge to me | personally that matters,” Mr. O'Con- | nor said. “The President’s attack on | me and other members of Congress is a challenge to America and its present | form of government. “The repetitious disavowal of any de- sire to become a dictator cannot be taken at full faith when actions evi- dence the contrary,” he said. “No ‘dictator’ in Europe would for one moment admit he is a dictator. They all palaver and prate honeyed words about ‘democracy’ and * * * they all claim to be supprted by a ‘mandate’ from the-people. Sees “Divine Right” Alibi. “This demagogic expression successor to ‘by divine right.'” Asking ‘can America ever subscribe” to ignoring of minorities, the Repre- sentative said that ** ‘100 per cent’ this or ‘100 per cent’ that, is a very recent innovation in our national ideology” and he noted that the first step of dic- tators is to “abolish, or make impotent, " (See O'CONNOR, Page A-5) BRITISH-ARAB FIGHT | RAISES DEAD T0 65 Battle of Sharon Follows Conflict Yesterday on Acre Outskirts. By the Assoclated Press. JERUSALEM, Aug. 19.—A fresh battle between Britain's scrappy Irish Guards and kilted Scotsmen of the Black Watch and an Arab guerrilla band today briught the casualty list for two days of bloody conflict to 65 dead and hundreds wounded. Today's conflict occurred on the Plain of Sharon and followed closely yesterday's battle on the outskirts of Acre. The two days’ fighting was the heaviest the Holy Land has seen in the current reign of bloodshed, which became serious July 5. Fifty Arabs were killed—50 near Acre and at least 10 in the Sharon battle—and hundreds wounded in the two engagements, while five British soldiers lost their lives. Thirteen Brit- ons were wounded. The Sharon battle started near Kalkilyeh, an Arab center, when a patrol of the Irish Guards was am- bushed and a British Army motor truck damaged when it passed over & on Plains $500 a week as “fizer.” Ex the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—Joseph “Big | Joe” Ison, 47, a West Indian colored man and one-time Harlem policy game operator, testified in Supreme Court today at the conspiracy trial of James J. Hines, Tammany district leader. | that money he and other bankers had to turn over to the Dutch Schultz mob was going to “Jimmy Hines' club.” Ison said Hines got $125 a week from the multi-million-dollar policy racket for political .“protection.” The witness said arrests for policy | violations dropped 50 per cent late in 1932 and early in 1933—the period shortly after Hines, according to Dis- | trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey’s ac- | cusations, entered into a conspiracy | ! with Dutch Schultz to “put the fix" | on the racket. said the money was| “Big Joe” recorded on the policy slip books as “fees” for lawyers and bondsmen. Puzzled by Figures. “I was puzzled at first #hat the figures meant,” he said. He said he talked it over with George Weinberg and J. Richard (Dixie) Davis and that one of them told him: “The money is going to Jimmy Hines' club.” Ison later said that his bank alone. among many other Harlem policy banks, was forced to contribute $123 weekly to the Hines Club. He sald that in the spring of 1933 his bank cleared $75,000, but that all the profits were taken over by “Big Harry” Schoenhaus. “Dixie Davis told me that $10,000 of the money was to go for ‘fixing’ the | numbers at the Coney Island race | | track, on which the policy pay-offs | were made.” he said. | A few months later, in the fall, he sald, the Schultz mob tapped him again for $2,500 on two occasions. “Weinberg told me the money was | for campaign expenses to elect a Democratic Mayor and the party's | ticket,” he said. | (John P. O'Brien, Tammany Demo- | crat, was defeated by Mayor F. H. La Guardia in November, 1933.) | Dewey Aide Accused. | Earlier, #ith one of Mr. Dewey's aides accused of brow-beating and “coercing” a witness, the district at- torney called Edward Grant, grand jury stenographer, to testify. Grant was called to swear to the accuracy of grand jury minutes which the witness had challenged. The stenographer identified the minutes and Defense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker conceded their accuracy. ‘The prosecutor emphasized a quota- tion by the witness, Julius (Red) Wil- liams, 46, a South Carolina-borh col- ored man and an election captain in Hines' West Harlem ward, that Hines specifically sent him to the policy racket headquarters of the Dutch Schultz mob to get a job. Bail Raised to $10,000. Williams was recommitted to Tombs Prison last night as a material witness when Justice Ferdinand Pecora raised his bail, at Dewey's request, from $500 to $10, 5 Williams had accused Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Saul Gelb of putting words in his mouth and threatening to send him to jail unless he signed a statement, which he protested he was unable to read, linking Hines with the notorious gang overlord, Dutch Schultz. Reading the jury minutes, Mr. Dewey quoted Williams as having testified that he went to see George ‘Weinberg, a Schultz mobster, and say- ing: *“I told him Mr. Hines told me to come up and see him.” The power of Hines' name in the Schultz racket headquarters, the wit- ness testified, led to his getting a $30- a-week job “doing very little.” Ison, next on the stand, said he had to go to Schultz when a “hunch” number nicked his bank for $18,000. Agrees to Proposition, “Schultz asked me what security I had, and I sald none,” he said, “so the Dutchman told me he'd take over my bank and he'd take two thirds of the profits and I'd get the rest. I didn’t like that, but I finally agreed to take $200 a week.” ~ As hundreds of persons jammed the courthouse cortidors, reporters, speécial writers and other accredited attendants had to display police cards in addition to the special cards signed by Justice Pecora in order to | dispute reached a new stalemate. | instructed all males | withdrawing completely. land mine. gain entrance to the courtroom. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. (., FRIDAY, JAPANESE PLACE MILLION ON CALL FORUSE INCHINA Siberian Border Peace Talk With Russia Reaches New Stalemate. ALL UNTRAINED MEN 20 TO 34 GET ORDERS Soviet Negotiations Are Stalled on Selection of Commission to Demarcate Frontier. BACKGROUND— Japan has been forced to throw more and more of her resources into the Far Eastern conflict. In March drastic mobilization law was passed by the Diet on understand- ing it was not to be used in Chinese war. Several moths later por- tions of the law were invoked to marshal economic force of Japan behind the invasion of China. By the Associated Pres: TOKIO, Aug. 19.—The Japanese government acted today to make quickly available an estimated 1,000.- | 000 more men for its fighting forces, | as negotiations with Soviet Russia for | cettlement of the Siberian frontier AUGUST 19, 1938—THIRTY PAGES. ¢ Foening Star $¥% AND THE ECONOMIC ROYALISTS WILLGET Yoy Too, DONT WATeH (F You ov The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 134,885 (Bome returns noi vet receivec.) /) Means Associated Press. T | | [ PASTOR ADMITS A new order by the war office simply | in the recruit | division, made up of men between 20 and 34 who have not received active training, to “stand by."” This was taken to indicate that they | might be called soon an dthat Japan | was planning to throw huge numbers | of reinforcements into what would be | a grand drive to end the war in China, | Unagreed on Commission. The foreign office spokesman made known that conferences jn Moscow and Tokio had failed to reach agree- ment on selection of a joint commis- | sion to fix the Siberian-Korean fron- tier in the vicinity of Changkufeng. After one month of diplomatic ten- | sion and bitter fighting at Chang- kufeng Hill, Russia and Japan agreed in a truce on August 11 to name the commission of two Russians and two Japanese to demarcate the frontier. | Both nations claim ownership of the Changkufeng territory. The foreign office, informant added that all Japanese troops had been withdrawn to the south bank of the Tumen River, opposite Changkufeng. | but that Soviet troops still occupied | the top of the hill in violation of the truce. “Japan has shown good faith by It now is up to the Soviets to do the same,” he said. Not Hitherto Affected. The group of Japanese men put on call by today's war office order had not hitherto been affected by en- listment or conscription in the China campaign. Should they be called to the front they would be given a quick period of training for 40 days to three months. They are meanwhile under stringent regulations. Those absent from home or planning to travel were ordered to maintain constant touch with family or the army authorities in their home town. The announcement said that when- | ever a recruit necessarily leaves his place of registration he should appoint “some one of adult age” to convey military orders to him if they were issued suddenly. There were no official figures of the | exact number of men involved, but best estimates placed the figure around 1,000,000. 7 All males are subject to military ription, but during peace time (See JAPAN, Page A-4) e Jury Calls Broker's Patrons. BALTIMORE, Aug. 19 (#)—The grand jury summoned 22 customers | of Willlam P. Lawson’s brokerage firm today to appear before it at 6 p.m. for its third consecutive night ses- sion investigating affairs of the self- suspended police commissioner. Lawson suspended himself when the 8. E. C. filed charges of fraudu- lent practices against him and his firm and quit business. . Mrs. Jules Sandoz Dies. ALLIANCE. Nebr., Aug. 19 (#).— Mrs. Jules Sandoz, widow of the West- erh Nebraska pioneer rancher, who was the central figure in the book, “Old Jules,” died at a hospital here today. Her husband died in the same hospital in 1928. “Old Jules” was written by her daughter, Mari Sandoz. their | MURDERING GIRL Begins Life Sentence After Confessing Poisoning Her and Firing House. Py the Associated Press. MANDAN, N. Dak, Aug. 19—-A special midnight court session to avoid trouble with an aroused populace pro- vided speedy justice today in one of North Dakota’s strangest murder cases. Explaining, impassively, that “the devil overcame me.” the Rev. Heio Janssen, 51-vear-old Evangelical Lu- | U.S. Mint, Idle Since 1893, to Be Auctioned | By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19.—Does anybody want to buy a mint? It's not a confidence game. The Government really wants to sell one. The old Carson City, Nev., mint hasn't coined any money since 1893. But there might be some loose $20 gold pieces in the two-story stone structure, said William Arthur New- man, district engineer for the Treas- ury’s public building branch, in an- nouncing it would go on the block. Mr. Newman sald gold coins fre- quently dropped through cracks In the floor when the mint was handling gold by the ton. “The boys didn’t bother much, be- U.S.TOBUYSTOCK OF DOLLAR LINE {Maritime Board Plans to | Acquire 90 Pct.—Firm ‘ Stays in Charge. By the Associated Press. The Maritime Commission announc- ed today it had entered into an agree- | | ment with the Dollar Steamship Lines ! | of San Prancisco whereby the com- | mission plans to acquire 90 per cent of | the company's voting stock. i | The commission said that on suc- | cessful completion of the plan, opera- theran pastor at Krem, admitted in | cause times were easy,” Mr. Newman | tions generally would remain in the court that he had poisoned Alma Kruckenberg, his housemaid, because | she was pregnant and then burned the parsonage containing her body. Acting swiftly at the request of State counsel, who told him feeling was running high among people in Mandan, District Judge H. L. Berry | sentenced the pastor to serve s life | term in the State penitentiary. Janssen was rushed to the prison | within a short time after his con- | fession, ending two days of intensive questioning. The fire occurred Mon- | | day might. | ‘The arraignment followed swiftly | | after Janssen signed a confession be- | | fore State's Attorney Floyd Sperry of | | Mercer County admitting he perpe- | | trated the crime Monday and burned \ his 10-room house that night. ‘ Says “Devil Overcame Me.” | *“The devil overcame me,” the pas- | tor sald impassively. “I did wrong. T have a very good Christian wife and | two boys any father would be proud | |of and I feel only too sorry that T| bring such grief to them.” | Miss Kruckenberg was one of ten children in the family of Mr. and Mrs. John Kruckenberg, farmers, near Krem, which is located 60 miles north | | of Mandan. She had been employad | | at the parsonage since last January. Sperry and Special Assistant Attor- | ners advancing. Vosmik made a great | James Austin began | running gloved-hand catch of Buege's | | ney General i | questioning Janssen Tuesday morn- | |ing. During two days of incessant | | interrogation, Sperry said, the min- | ister denied any connection with the | | fire and burned body found in the | ruins, | Thursday evening the parents D“} | the murdered girl confronted Janssen and pleaded that he “tell the truth.” | The confession followed. Feeling ran | | so high in the community that trial | | was ordered immediately. Girl's Body Is Found. The parsonage burned Monday night | shortly after Mrs. Janssen had gone w{ Bismarck for medical treatment. The minister told authorities the 10-room structure was ignited by chimney | sparks, | Investigation located the charred body of the girl in the basement and revealed she was pregnant. After two days of questioning, State's Attorney Floyd Sperry of Mercer County Thurs- day night announced a confession had been obtained. “Threats by the girl to tell Mrs. Janssen about her conditions were said by Janssen to have brought him finally to put some poison crystals in a glass of wine given the girl,” Sperry stated. Summary of Page Radio - ----.B-8 Short Story -A-15 Soclety ----_ B-3 Sports Woman's Page | Amusements_B-14 Comics __B-12-13 Editorials .. A-8 Financial __A-13 Lost & Found B-8 Obituary __ A-10 FOREIGN. Siberian border peace parley at new stalemate. Page A-1 Britain protests Germany's arrest of passport officer. Page A-4 Sudetens get political plums in pacifi- Pgge cation effort. A-4 Keynes urges Britain to become vast storehouse for war. Page A-4 Rebels prepare Catalonian drive to end war soon. Page A-4 NATIONAL. House members gave red salute, Dies probe is told. Page A-1 Dunlap ouster again focuses attention to Georgia fight. Page A-1 Roosevelt denies extension of Monroe Doctrine is involved. Page A-5 Sen. O’'Mahoney commends monopoly analysis of A. A. Berle. Page A-16 WASHINGTON AND NEARBY. Seal asks special Trial Board hearing in Keys shooting. Page A-1 Hepburn battles Roosevelt on St. Law- rence aeaway. Page A5 Today's Star Police probe ice cream Venders' feud after man is beaten. Page B-1 Two armories asked in $3,366,080 Guard budget. Page B-1 Hazen approves safety program, minus “pedestrian control.” Page B-1 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. Editorials. Page A-8 ‘This and That. Page A-8 Answers to Questians. Page A-8 Letters to The Star. David Lawrence. Capital Parade. Frederic William Wile, Jay Franklin. Lemuel Parton. SPORTS. Hubbell, arm ailing, may be lost to Giants for year. Page B-5 Budge and Hunt expected to reach net final at Newport. Page B-5 Lewis' misplays give Yankees 21 funs in 10 days. L Page B-6 Star's Federal golf tourney proving wide-open affair. ¢ Page B-7 MISCELLANY. Vital Statistics. Nature's Children. _ Cross-Word Puzzle, Page A-11 Page B-4 Page B-12 said. GRIFFS LEADING BOSOX, 3-0, IN 3D Bonura and Bluege Connect for Timely Singles in Early Innings. By a Staff Corréspondent of The Star. BOSTON, Aug. 19.—Potent singles by Zeke Bonura and Ossie Bluege gave the Nationals a 3-0 lead over the Bos- ton Red Sox in the third inning of the opening game of a series here this afternoon. Monte Weaver was the starting hurler for the Griffmen, while Man- ager Joe Cronin sent Fritz Ostermuel- ler to the mound. FIRST INNING. WASHINGTON—Case got & base on balls. Lewis was hit by a pitched ball. Simmons walked, filling the bases. Bonura singled to center, scoring Case and Lewis, Simmons topping at sec- ond. Travis popped to Cronin back of third. West was out. Foxx to Oster- mueller, who covered first, both run- line drive. Two runs. BOSTON—Cramer singled to center. Vosmik forced Cramer, Bluege un- assisted. Foxx was called out on strikes. Cronin singled to center, Vosmik stopping at second. Higgins walked, filling theu?se Chapman fouled to Ferrell. runs. Washington, 2; Boston, 0. SECOND INNING. WASHINGTON—Ferrell flied to Vosmik in deep 18ft. Weaver flied to Cramer. Cronin threw out Cese. No runs. BOSTON—Travis threw out Doerr from deep short. Desautels walked. Ostermueller hit into & double play, Bluege to Travis to Bonura. No runs. Washington, 2; Boston, 0. THIRD INNING. WASHINGTON—Lewis was called out on strikes. Simmons doubled down the third base line. Bonura walked. Travis flied to Chapman in right center. West grounded to ‘Hig- gins' and the bases were loaded when Higgins was too late to beat Simmons to third base for a force play. Bluege singled to left, scoring Simmons and leaving the bases filled. Ferrell forced Bluege, Cronin to Doerr. One run, BOSTON—Cramer lined to Bluege. Vosmik popped to Bonura. Foxx walked. Cronin filed to West. No runs, \ ‘Washington, 3; Boston, 0. Blast Wrecks Bank. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,, Aug. 19 (#).—A mysterious powder blast heard 9 miles away early today wrecked the two-story Bank of America Build- ing and damaged others for four blocks in the heart of Mountain View. hands of the company. | The agreement, the announcement said, anticipates continuance of un- | interrupted service and employment of | both off-shore and on-shore personnel. | The agreement was signed today in | San Prancisco by Reginald 8. Laughlin, acting as special counsel for the com- | mission, and a group of 13 corporations | and individuals representing Dollar | Line interests. | Terms of the agreement, the an-| subsequent -granting of a five-year operating differential subsidy, now be- ing worked out by commission experts and expected to approximate $3,000,- 000 a year; the granting of & $1,500,~ 000 loan by the commission for re- | pairing and rehabilitating the com-} pany's fleet of 12 vessels, only four of which are now in operation, and the | granting of a $2,500,000 R. F. C. loan | | to provide the company with working | capital. The commission said work- | ing capital at present is “practically exhausted.” TOKIO THANKS ITALY FOR STAND ON WA Konoye Envisages Po: ‘Universal Civilization’ From . Co-operation. | B the Assaciated Press. ROME, Aug. 19.—The premier of Japan thanked Italy today for her attitude towavd the war in China and | suggested that a “universal civiliza- tion” could grow from friendly Italo- muniam, which he gave as a principal reason for the China campaign. Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye's message was published in Premier Mussolini’ newspaper at Milan, Il Popolo d'Italia. “The anti-Comintern Pact (against world Communism and with Germany also & signatory) established a united cultural front between two extremely ancient civilizations,” it read. “These are the Japanese civilization which is a consecration of tradition 3,000 years old, and the Roman civili- zation which is the voice of the entire Occidental civilization.” Bloc Ties Seen Close. ‘TOKIO, Aug. 19 (#).—A message in which Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye thanked Italy for her attitude in the China war was regarded here today as the newest evidence of Japan’s intention to maintain the closest possible relations with Ger- many and Italy. Bund Probe Demanded. SCRANTON, Pa., Aug. 19 (#).—An investigation of the German-American Bund and the expulsion of members associated with bund camps was de- manded today in a resolution placed before Pennsylvania American Legion- naires at their 20th Annual State Con- vention. Babies Asleep in Car Prevent Officers From Towing It In ‘The crowd laughed, and the police- man commanding the towing truck commented that never in his life, pri- vate or professional, had he come so close to being a kidnaper. The truck was cruising westward along D street N.W. shortly after 8 a.m. today looking for cars parked llegally. At Ninth and D streets, the com- manding sofficer called out, “Thar she blows.” The driver of the truck pulled up in front of & small sedan halted beside a sign which read, “No parking from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.” ‘The ‘truck-driver began to lej down Page B-12 b Bedtime Story, Letter-Out. Winning Contract. the towing chain preparatory to haul- ing the car to the impounding lot. on the back seat appeared a blond girl about 5 years old. She rubbed her eyes‘and stared at the officer. 8he had been napping out of sight on the back seat. ‘The policeman, in consternation, stared back. A crowd gathered and laughed all the more when a 2-year- old baby, still asleep, was sighted on the back seat. ‘S0 you're robbing the cradle now, officer?” one of the spectators ribbed. “Well, I certainly can’t tow that ear in,” the policeman said. ‘“They would get me for kidnaping.” S0 he went off in his triick, leaving the two children behind. But not before he put & perking ticket under windshield wiper. Suddenly the policeman started, for | the { nouncement said, are contingent on | ibility of Japanese co-operation to combat Com- | THREE CENT RED PROPAGANDA INW.P.A'SPLAYS CHARGED AT QUIZ Woman Speaking for Group of Theatrical Workers Makes Allegation. HOUSE MEMBERS GAVE RED SALUTE, IS CHARGE 0'Connell and Bernard Named by Witness in Recalling Their Appearance in Spain. Py the Associated Press. Mrs. Hazel Huffman, speaking for & committee of theatrical workers on relief, today told the House Commit= tee Investigating Un-American Activi= ties that W. P. A's Federal Theater project was being used to spread Comse munist propaganda in New York. She said the Workers' Alliance, which she described as closely allied with the Communist party, “now domi= nates” the theater project. Her testimony followed that of a | witness who accused Representatives O'Connell, Democrat, of Montana and Bernard, Farmer-Labor, of Missouri | of giving the “regular Communistic salute” on a visit to Spain. Mrs. Huffman said Mrs. Hallie Flanagan, director of the project, pare ticipated actively in Communistic ac= tivities and charged that her inter est in things communistic was “be=- ing used in the Federal Theater proj« ect to the detriment of the workers and in violation of the act of Con= gress.” z Attired in a somber black dress, re- lieved only by a small white collar and & red pocket handkerchief, the witness read excerpts from plays and addresses by Mrs. Flanagan to support her con= tention that the project had a Com- munist background. Quoting Mrs. Flanagan as saying that the theater could make things “happen,” and provide the “yeast” which “makes the bread rise,” Mrs. | Huffman said that while not all the project plays were of the “bread ris- ing” type, “propaganda plays have been the rule.” Names Plays as “Red.” Among the plays Mrs. Huffman named in this category were “Can You Hear Their Voices,” written by Mrs. Flanagan and one of her students at Vassar College; “Ethiopia.” which was not produced because of international complications; “Triple A Ploughed Under,” “Class of '29,” “One-Third of the Nation,” and others. Representative Starnes asked if Mrs, Flanagan was “taking Government money to make a little yeast.” “I would say so,” Mrs. Huffman answered. Early in her testimony, Mrs. Huff- man told the committee Aubrey Wil- liams, deputy W. P. A. administrator, had “lauded” the Workers Alliance because he said he felt it filled a “real need” of the unemployed. Mrs. Huffman told how one musie | cale, “Sing for Your Supper,’ had | been in rehearsal 11 months and now is scheduled for presentation in Oc- tober. Earlier, the probers were told Repre= sentatives O'Connell and Bernard gave the “regular communistic salute” after addressing several hundred | American youths who were fighting in | Spain. Alvin I. Halpern, who testified yes- | terday about his experiences in the | Spanish Loyalist army, said the House | members spoke at a dedication of | pillars at a hospital at Benicasim, | Spain. “They told us we were fighing for great cause—democracy—to wipe out Fascism,” Mr. Halpern said. “They gaye the regular Soviet salute— a clenched fist in an upright position. “They told us if we wanted anytning | after we returned to this country to let them know." Abraham Sobel, another youth who related his experiences in Spain yes- terday, told the committee under ques- | tioning by Representative Starnes, democrat, of Alabama, that speak for the Roxbury Workers’ Club and the American League Against War and Fascism, of which he was a mem- ber, solicited his enlistment in the Spanish fighting forces. Deserters’ Testimony. ‘The committee later unanimously ordered transmission to the Justice Department of the testimony of the two young American deserters from the Spanish government army for de- termination of whether Federal law was being violated by communist agents recruiting volunteers here for the Spanish conflict. Representative Mosier, Democrat, of Ohio, a com- "~ (See UN-AMERICAN, Page A-3) Flock Holds Priest, Given Another Charge 7 the Associated Press. VULCAN, Mich., Aug. 19.—Parish- ioners of St. Barbara’s Catholic Church, who forcibly prevented de- parture of the Rev. Simon Borkowskl yesterday, the deadline of his trans- fer to a Wisconsin seminary, main- tained a vifll at the church and parish house today. Leonard Plourde, a spokesman for the parishioners, said the “picketing,” now in its sixth day, would not be abandoned until assurhnce was re- ceived that the 44-year-old priest, known to members of his flock as “Father Simon,” would remain at the church of which he has been pas tor for 15 years. Three hundred persons assembled yesterday when Father Simon at- tempted to leave for his new assign- ment at the Salvatorian Seminary, 8t. Nazianz, Wis. Scores of women and children walked the grounds, some weeping and many carrying rosaries. A group of men grasped the priest as he emerged and led him blfk into the house. A aimilar demonstration was suc- ceasful last spring. ¢