Evening Star Newspaper, April 25, 1940, Page 25

Washi TwoViewsGiven Jury in Trial 0f Union Heads Witness’ Testimony Conflicts on Cause Of Building Tie-up By J. A. FOX. The jury in the District Court trial of five officers of the Teamsters Union today got two pictures of the building tie-up here last fall which resulted in the conspiracy indict- ment of the labor leaders under the Serman Anti-Trust Act prohibiting illegal trade restraints. George L. Potts, a Baltimore con- tractor, who operates dump trucks, testifying for the Government, said the strike of all teamster union men on the Census Building September 12 resulted from a dispute between the Teamsters’ Union and Operating Engineers’ Union over the operation of concrete- mixer trucks by the latter. The Government, as a part of the Nation-wide drive for reforms in the building industry, based its charge ageinst the labor men on the contention that inter-union troubles lay at the bottom of the local situa- tion. Knew of No Tie-ups. Under cross-examination, however, Mr. Potts said he knew of no tie-ups of truck operations after a settle- ment of a wage and hour dispute in which dump truck drivers were involved September 26." The defense is contending that the wage hour issue plus non-union troubles with one contractor actually caused the strike of the teamsters which the Government ascribes to jurisdiction- | al troubles. Mr. Potts, under direct examina- | tion by Walter R. Hutchinson, spe- | cial assistant to the Attorney Gen- | eral, said that their contract with | the teamsters union for the opera- | tion of the dump trucks expired‘ August 31 last and that negotiations Wwere undertaken for a new contract, He said the operators were averse | to granting the wage increase the | drivers sought because they had jobs on which they had bid on the basis | of the existing labor scale. He said | that in company with other opera- tors he came to Washington Sep- tember 12 to meet the union repre- senatives who are now accused. These are: Thomas O'Brien of the International Brotherhood of Team- sters and four officials of local 639— Stuart M. Keyser. Charles J. Bell, Linwood A. Trainham and Aubrey | W. Stream. Warned of Trouble. He said that on going to the site of the Census job he met Mr. Keyser and Mr. Trainham and was told by Keyser that “it looks like we might have trouble here.” Continuing the witness said he asked what kind of trouble was anticipated and Mr. Keyser said “juridiction over the mixture trucks.” Mr. Potts said that he told them that the dump truck operators weren't involved in any mixing truck dispute, but that Mr. Keyser said “Well, whether you do or not, I think there's going to be trouble.” | Mr. Potts added that Mr. Keyser | Jth;n said “He thought he pulled the ob.” In the middle of that afternoon, | Mr. Potts continued, while he was | meeting with Mr. Bell and Mr. Stream, he received a telephone call that the teamsters had struck at the Census Building. Shortly there- after, he said, Mr. Keyser and Mr. Trainham came into the meeting and said the job had been pulled, and, according to the witness, Mr. Keyser added that it was for| *Jurisdictional reasons.” | Mr. Potts said that he said then that | there was no use going any further on the negotiations over the dump truck wage question, but that Mr. Bell urged that the negotiations be continued, saying that “we can get that case straightened out—that has nothing to do with the pulling off the job.” Labor Department Intervened. The Labor Department eventually | intervened in the dump-truck dis- pute and that was settled by an agreement to arbitrate on Septem- ber 26. Under cross examination Joseph A. Padway, counse! for the Amer- {can Federation of Labor with both teamster and operating engineers are affiliated, asked Mr Potts if he had not been informed that a strike would be caused September 11 if the dump trucks did not reach an agreement, but he said no. He also asked the witness if “in a general way” the teamsters did not strike on all jobs here. The witness said that the strike was only staged where the teamsters had dump truck operations and ‘“could control the Jobs.” Mr. Padway then asked if the witness “ever knew of any dump truck job being struck after Sep- tember 26” and the witness said “Not that I know of.” Battlehsip Bill Approved The House Naval Affairs Commit- tee approved today legislation au- thorizing modernization of the bat- tleships New York, Texas and Ar- kansas by increasing the range of their big guns by 10,000 yards. The cost would be $5,725,000. Banneker School On WMAL Today The students of Banneker Junior High will present a broadcast over Station WMAL at 4 o'clock today explaining the “ purposes and advantages of stu- dent government in the junior high schools. This is another in the series of educational fea. tures sponsored by The Star in co-operation with the National Broadcasting Co. and the Board of Education. |two hours today with legislation to |in the day. ngton News just brought to the Zoo. Jobless Aid Benefits Refused Domestics And Canvassers House Subcommittee Gives Most Discussion To Experience Rating Behind closed doors the Judiciary | Subcommittee of the House District Committee struggled for more than liberalize the local unemployment compensation law without reaching a final decision or its fate. The subcommittee, it was an- nounced by Representative Mec- Gehee, Democrat, of Mississippi, the chairman, spent the major portion of its time discussing a so-called “experience rating” plan under which employers who maintain a steady force of employes would pay a lower rate of pay roll tax than those who have a fluctuating staff. The primary gbject would be an inducement to employers to maintain a steady force, Two bills designed to liberalize the unemployment compensation law were considered by the subcommit- tee. One was sponsored by Chair= man McGehee, the other by Repre- sentative Eberharter, Democrat, of Pennsylvania. Both would reduce | the present employers’ pay roll tax | from 3 to 2.7 per cent and at the same time increase benefits to the Jjobless, as a step toward reducing the unemployment benefit reserve fund, which already has exceeded $17,000,000 and is expected to reach $20,000,000 before the close of the year, Chairman McGehee indicated the subcommittee concerned itself pri- marily with his revised bill, but had tentatively “lifted” and incorporated in it several features of the Erber- harter bill. These changes were not revealed, but Mr. McGehee called them minor. He did disclose, however, the sub- committee had agreed to exclude provisions that would have entitled unemployed door-to-door salesmen and domestics to benefit under the law. Representative Eberharter, it is understood, made a vigorous fight for such provisions. Information given the subcommittee shows there are about 20,000 domestics in Wash- ington, all in the low-wage income group. Chairman McGehee explained that the desire of subcommittee | members to take part in House debate on amendments to the wage and hour law prevented final action on the unemployment compensa- tion legislation. He said that if arrangements could be made an- other meeting would be held later Inquest Tomorrow An inquest into the death of Her- man Sirkis, Deanwood liquor store proprietor who was shot during a holdup, will be held at the Morgue at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow, Coroner A. Magruder MacDonala announced today. Two colored youths have confessed the murder, police say, along with approximately 25 other robberies here recently. They have helped detectives establish their guilt—re- freshing the memories of their vic- tims when the latter hesitated in identifying them. Yesterday .they did detectives one more favor. Police had taken them to the liquor store in the 4800 block of Dean avenue N.E, where Mr. Sirkis was shot to death during & holdup on February 26. The pair re-enacted the holdup and then police took them to nearby stores to see if any one could identify them. They went into a grocery store from which one of the robbers had made a call to the liquor store a few minutes before the robbery. The clerk could not remember either of the boys. Then one of them stepped up to the clerk and said: “Don’t you remember that I bor- rowed a pencil from you and went over to the phone?”’ The incident restored the clerk’s memory and he recalled the whole thing—identifying positively both of the suspects. Traffic Record The traffic record, as revealed at poMce headquarters for 24- hour period ending at 8 am. today: Fatalities, none. Accidents, 35. Motorists injured, 7. Motorists arrested, 284. Pedestrians injured, 4. Pedestrians arrested for vio- lation of pedestrian control @h WASHINGTON, D. C, A TOUCH OF HOMESICKNESS—Or perhaps this little fellow with the moony eyes was just a bit frightened by his new surroundings., If you havent guessed, it's an ocelot from the cargo of 200 animals and birds g3 Supreme Court Is Told Several Issues Hinge On Sweeney Tax Case Seal Seeks Review, Claiming Three Errors in Appeals Tribunal Ruling An appeal for a review by the United States Supreme Court of the Sweeney case, decided against the District in the Court of Appeals, was filed late yesterday by Corpora- tion Counsel Elwood H. Seal, who told the high court other important issues were involved in addition to the application of the old intangible personal property tax. In a brief in support of his peti- tion for a writ of certiorari, Mr. Seal suggested that the District’'s new income tax, the District estates tax, administration of estates and grant- ing of divorces all might be affected. The test of the nowrabandoned intangible personal property tax was brought by James J. Sweeney, an attorney of the Justice Depart- ment, who had resided some 20 years in the District, but who claimed he was not subject to the intangible tax on the ground that he was a legal resident of Boston. The ap- pellate court held he was not “domiciled” in the District for:pur- poses of taxation. | “The court's ruling,” continued! the petition, “does not purport to have application to all persons in the District but is limited to em- ployes of the Federal Government. Apparently, the court does not intend that its ruling shall have ap- plication to all employes of the Federal Government, but should be limited to such employes residing in the District of Columbia. would appear to be no logical argu- ment supporting a special rule re- garding employes cof the Federal | Government which applied to only; a limited number of such individ- | uals. Any special rule for deter- | mining the domicile of Federal | employes must apply to all such, employes alike. Certainly it is not reasonable that the thousands of | Federal employes residing in nearby Virginia and Maryland must have their domicile determined on a different basis than those Federal employes residing in the District. “There are more than 930,000 civil employes of the United States, of which number less than 130,000 are employed in the District. Many of those employed in the District re- side in nearby Virginia and Mary- land.” Spanish War Veterans’ Allowance Is Vetoed President Roosevelt has vetoed a bill to grant additional travel pay and sustenance allowance to Spanish-American war troops held in the Philippines after the war was over, it was announced today—large- ly on the ground that these officers and men already have received such compensation. “Approval of this bill,” said the President’s veto message, “would re- sult in the payment of a gratuity to each of the officers and men con- cerned, in an amount exceeding his pay for a full year, plus the value of rations for the period involved in sea travel from the Philippines to the United States, a benefit utterly without warrant, since each in- dividual concerned has already re- seived transportation and subsistence at Government expense for the journey performed, in addition to full pay for the entire time.” The War Department estimated approximately 15,000 officers and men of the volunteer forces were left in the Philippines at the con- clusion of peace with Spain. The estimated cost of the disapproval legislation was $7,000,000. Proposal of the New York World’s Fair for a Nation-wide expression from women on the subjectof “peace and freedom” has drawn opposition from a group belonging to the District of Co- lumbia Women’s Advisory Com- mittee of the fair, because thesg are terms bandied about com- monly by Nazi, Cummunist and pacifist organizations, it was learned today. % The opposition developed at a meeting of the committee Mon- day at the home of Mrs. Charles Carroll Glover, jr., chairman, and it has brought a formal letter of protest and & threat of resigna- tion from & number of prominent regulations, 2. There |' members, headed by Mrs. Glover, The plan was for women all SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Introducing a rare pouch rat from Southern Chile, believed to be the first ever brought into the United States. was found nestling comfortably today in the hand of a Zoo keeper. THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1940. It e Foening Staf 3 A happy reunion between Malcolm Davis, curator of birds at the Zoo, and Dugan, the Em- ~peror penguin. -Those guys looking on are:the new.arrivals imported to cheer up the lonely Dugan. Oldtimer Zoo Pehguins Receive 'New Arrivals With Dismay Jackass Varieties Behave That Way; Davis Makes Crab-Eating Seal a Fish Fancier He and the rest of the collection landed in New York yesterday on a passenger steamer to By W. H. SHIPPEN, Jr. The Zoo's new collection of speci- mens from Little America, including 11 penguins and the first crabe eating seal to be brought out of the Antarctic, was being distributed to- day to tanks and display cages throughout the park. _ ‘There was a happy reunion in the birdhouse this morning between Malcolm Davis, who returned with the animals from the United States Antarctic expedition’s base on the ice barier, and Dugan, the big Em= peror penguin which Mr. Davis cap= tured and shipped to Washington several weeks ago. Dugan seemed to know Mr. Davis. He rubbed against his legs and | stretched his neck to get his head scratched. Dugan was the only Em- | peror penguin seen by members of the expedition. Mr. Davis captured him with a blanket and for weeks forcibly fed the big, bewildered bird. Dugan got the idea at last, as did the 11 smaller penguins of the Adelie species which members of the expedition cap- tured by tossing ship's cargo slings over them as they waddled or to- bogganed on their stomachs over the ice floes toward the water. They Were Fed, Willy-Nilly, In heavy weather, while the little supply ship North Star bucked the stormy seas of the Far South, Mr. Davis’ daily task was to stuff fish down the throats of his finicky charges. The Zoo's penguin display, now in- cluding three varieties, is one of the finest in the country, The birds, in their air-cooled, natural habitat cage, have become the Zoo's most popular attraction. Mr. Davis taught the new crab- eating seal to shift his crab diet to fish, a tedious process, which con- sisted of cramming fish down the 6-foot specimen’s throat for weeks. The seal has limpid, protruding eyes, and each of his teeth contains over the United States to write || 100-word letters to the fair. A committee of the fair was to select certain ones and these would be broadcast from planes bringing groups of Women's Advisory Committee members to the fair on the opening day. Washington, along with other cities, was asked to promote the plan, A motion.at the meeting to have the Washington committee control its own output of letters, forwarding only those it deemed advisable, was declared lost after sharp discussion. Certain mem- bers then signed a round-robin letter, which was sent to Mrs. Oswald W. Lord, in charge of women's activities at the fair. A "copy went to !mq?. Gibson, several points. which Mr. Davis transferred in Valparaiso, Chile. With Mr. Davis was his wife, Mrs. Nellie Davis, who met him in Panama and had a large collgction of tropical birds and frogs | awaiting him. Seal Has Home Outdoors. The big seal was turned into an outdoor pool in the ravine below the Zoo restaurant, The arrival of the penguins was received with dismay by the six al- ready on display here. The jackass penguins kept strictly in a group to themselves, craning their necks at the newcomers. The new penguins dived into their pool to wash the stains of travel from their feathers. Mr. Davis’' collection included a Patagonian puma picked up in Southern Chile, and a rare rat from the same country with a pouch in which it carries its young like g kangaroo. It is believed to be the first ever seen in the States. There were four honey bears, a ring-tailed monkey, a Chilean fox and an Ecuador crocodile, and an ocelot from Central America. Cages of Birds Filled. Numerous cages of birds were filled with 9 cardinals, 40 blackbirds, 60 finches, 10 doves, 4 hawks, 4 thrushes and other small specimens from Central America. Mr. Davis sailed with the expedi- tion under Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd last November. He made one round-trip from Little America to Valparaiso before leaving the Ant- arctic on the long journey north. Today the collector was back ‘in overalls, hard at work as usual. In the last three years he hds been to the Netherlands East Indies, to Calcutta, India, and to Central America, “Malcolm, you certainly are seeing a lot of the world,” a fellow keeper remarked this morning. “Yes,” grinned Davis, “you’d be surprised to know how many coun- tries I've seen from a work deck loaded with enough cages to keep two men jumping.” _president of the fair. The letter said: 5 “We are troubled that the result of such a referendum would not truly represent the sentiment of the women of this country, owing to the fact that there exist today many pacifist, Nazi and Communist organizations. These groups are so well organized that it seems to us they would welcome just such an opportunity of what might be ¢alled a mass production vote on this referendum. The unorganized women, knowing that such a referendum might im- properly hamper the efforts of those who must bear the respon- sibility of our foreign pelicy, might refuss to . them- selves, whils the % ele- —Star Staff Photos. "32 Young Musicians Try Out Today for Stokowski Orchesfra Dr. Kindler Conducts Semifinal Auditions For This Region ‘The musical equivalent of a try- out for big-league base ball was | offered to 32 young musicians from | the District, Maryland and Vir- ginia today as Dr. Hans Kindler re- sumed preliminary auditions for Leopold Stokowski's All-American Youth Orchestra. Dr. Kindler, conductor of the Na- tional Symphony Orchestra, is aid- ing Stokowski in conducting semi- final auditions for this region, which also includes North Carolina and West Virginia. Contestants from those two States were heard yester- day. % ‘} Stokowski now is making a Na- tion-wide tour to select the 110 musicians for the orchestra, which wil make a tour of South America this summer; leaving New York July 5. 30 May Be Chosen Here. A maximum of 30 musicians may be selected from the more than 60 contestants in this region. Those chosen then will compete with semi- finalists from other regions. Local musicians scheduled to ap- pear at the Washington College of Music for their auditions today in- cluded: William W. Eldridge, double bass horn; Albert W. Tipton, flute; Harry Rosoff, violin; Philip Silver- man, tuba; Frank M. Biskey, bas- « soon; Boleflaw D. Zukowski, cello; John F. Yesulaitis, Frencsh horn; Howard B. Smith, trombone; Joseph Harrison, jr., cello; Norman W. Irvine, bass viol; Reino Luona, piano; Herman Brunk, double bass; Ernest St. Jacques, violin; Jerry Knop, French horn; F. van Lier Lanning, French horn; Sudie E. Jones, violin; Harold E. Green, tuba; Bernard Milofsky, viola; Ralph L. Burge, bassoon; Leonard Nanvetta, oboe; Kay Ricket, violin; Frank ‘Witzel, oboe; John W. Terwilliger, trumpet, and Rudolph Riley, clari- net. Fair's Peace Referendum Draws Ire of D.-C. Women's Group ments undoubtedly would muster their entire g A threat to resign “if the plan of this referendum is adhered” to was added. The letter was signed by Mrs. Glover, Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone, wife of the associate Supreme Court justice; Mrs. Dean Ache- son, Mrs. Arthur Woods, Mrs. James Clement Dunn, Mrs. Trux- ton Beale, Mrs. Robert Dunlap, Mrs. Dwight Davis, Mrs, Arthur Krock, Mrs. Archibald MacLeish, Miss Faustine Dennis, Miss Clara Herbert, Mrs. McCook Knox, Mrs. William Flather, jr.; Mrs. Mathew Whittall, Miss Elizabeth Houghton, Mrs. G. . Howland Chase, Miss Emily Millard, Mrs. Society and Genetal Mad about something, old boy? This is a crab-eating seal, the firse to be " brought out of the Antarctic. On the trip to the United States the seal went on a hunger strike. It has long teeth, large eyes and a habit of siémnz loudly. Burlington Hotel Addition Given Loning Approval 12 Other Variance Appeals Granted by Adjustment Board i Permission for construction of a 12-story addition to the Burlington Hotel, at 1122-1124 Vermont avenue, near Thomas Circle, was granted yesterday by the Board of Zoning Adjustment as it granted 12 other appeals for variances or exceptions from existing zoning rules. Three petitions were denied and action was deferred on a number of others. The cost of the Burlington Hotel addition has been esfimated at around $400,000. The appeal was filed by the Burlington Apartment House Co. The board denied three petitions for establishment of gasoline serv- ice stations and deferred action on five other such appeals. The three denied were filed by Mrs. Evalyn Walsh, McLean, owner, for Arthur Desendorf, tenant, of the parking lot on the north side of New York avenue N.W. between Fourteenth and Fifteenth street, formerly used as a bus terminal; Max Kushner for property on Bladensburg road at Levis street N.E., and by ‘Foxcroft, Inc., for a station at Benning road and Twenty-fifth place N.E. Apartment Extension Approved. The board, headed by Theodore I. Coe, announced it would approve— subject to the signing of a covenant that np additional buildings would be erected on the site—an appeal by Henry Oxenburg for permission to extend a proposed three-story apartment house into an “A” re- | stricted district, | The following appeals were ap- proved: By the Washington Home for In- curgbles, to extend a permitted | grocery store and parking lot at the southeast corner of Wisconsin ave- nue and Upton street N.W. for a distance of 25 feet into the adjoin- ing residential use district, subject to certain restrictions. By Axle Anderson, to permit the erection of a one-story front porch on the dwelling at 4134 Twenty- second street N.E. By Lavinia M. Engle, to change & non-conforming use from a gro- cery store to a delicatessen store, at 601 Massachetts avenue N.E. By Mrs. William Knobloch, to permit erection of a rear one-story addition to the dwelling at 3417 Woodley road N.W. Neon Signs Curbed. | By Israel Pinkelstein, to change | a non-conforming use from a gro- cery store to a cleaning and dyeing agency, at 500 Twelfth street N.E..i provided nd neon signs, boilers or pressers are installed. By Benjamin Ourisman, to permit construction of a third-story addi- tion to the building at 610 H street N.E. By Frank S. Phillips, for permis- sion' to establish an educational in- stitution on the north side of Watson street east of Conduit road N.W. By Meyer Siegel, to permit estab- lishment of bowling alleys on the east side of Alabama avenue S.E. north of Pennsylvania avenue, sub- Ject to approval by the Zoning Com- mission and subject to a restriction that there is to be no entrance on the alley side of the building. By Abe Glickman, to permit erec- tion of a one-story rear addition to the dwelling at 218 Cedar street N.W Bakery Change Grinted. By Mary Chillemi, to change a non-conforming use from a bakery to a sporting goods shop at 901 Monroe N.E, provided there are to be no neon sighs installed. By Katherine V. Hopkins Wylie, to permit establishment of a park- ing lot at 1450-1454 N street N.W., subject to stipulations that a five- foot wiré fence must be installed, that an attendant must be placed in charge and that there may be no signs or lights. By R. N. Manganan, to permit re- moval of a front terrace and con- truction of a new front wall and a two-story rear addition at 1410 Mas- sachusetts avenue N.W, Cou;ty to Impound Dogs Without Tags Dog owners in Montgomery Gounty were warned today by Police Chief Charles M. Orme that tagless dogs would be impounded, starting next The dog tax is due January 1 and delinquent after April 1, he pointed out. After May 1, he de- clared, dogs without licenses will be picked up and impounded. tag receipts this year are only about 50 he estimated. at . Thirty-third | | place and Pennsylvania avenue S.E. | B Appropriations Within D. C. Tax Limits Urged Carruthers Hopes Committee Will Not Force New Levies J. A. O'LEARY. A plea against increasing District appropriations above ‘anticipated yield from the present tax structure was made today by L. A. Carruthers of the Federation of Citizens’ Asso- ciations before the Senate subcom- mittee considering the $48.276,717 District supply bill. Pointing out that Congress ap- parently has sidetracked District tax revision for this session, and that Senate increases in the appropria- tion total might force the Commis- sions to boost the real estate tax rate, Mr. Carruthers declared that real property already is bearing more than its share of the local tax bur- den. As the subcommittee began an- other day of hearings, it was re- ported reliably that it will strike ot the House provision to require non- resident pupils to pay tuition 1f they are hereafter enrolled in Dis- trict public schools. Similar efforts by the House in prior years to ease the non-resid pupil burden on District schc have been blocked in the Senate. Lump Sum Held Inadequate. Mr. Carruthers, who heads tl» Federation Committee on Taxat.c and Fiscal Relations, said his gr recognized that the present $6.000.- 000 lump-sum payment is not an adequate Federal share of the cost of maintaining and developing the National Capital. He said, however, that, masmuch as an understanding ' has been reached by House and Senate lead- ers on local appropriations to cone tinue the $6,000,000 figure for ane other year, it appeared unwise to assist on reconsideration of the fiscal relations issue this year. In the next Congress, he said, the citizens’ associations *‘ought to get behind the Overton plan,” for permanent solution of the problem on a definite, scientific basis. The subcommittee had finished to- day, tentatively at least, hearing testimony in support of the Commis- sioners* recommendations for aps propriation increasing sums au- thorized by the House. If the Senate adopts all these rec- ommendations and restores items deleted by the House the District will face in 1941 an estimated deficit | of $1,198,000. As it passed the House the bill, carrying $48276,717, would entail a deficit of around $800.000, District officials figured . It has beea proposed that the deficit pe met by using the District's statutory authority to obtain advances from the Federal Government, to be re- | paid later. Woman Hurt Fighting Off |Purse Stealing Attempt Kathrine Hundley of 2230 Cali« | fornia street N.W. was under treate | ment today for injuries received when she was beaten near her home | last night by a colored man who was | apparently attempting to steal her pocketbook. Police said that Miss Hundley was in a parked automobile in the 2400 block of California street about 11 p.m. with Forest Harris, 2122 Tunlaw road N.W.,, when the colored man approached. He snatched open the door of the car and began to beat Miss Hundley and her companion with a shiny metal object, which they said was probably a flashlight. They fought back and Miss Hund- ley finally kicked the man in the stomach. He fled, leaving her purse lying on the running board of the car. She was treated by a private doctor for scalp cuts. Warning fo U. S. Cifizens In Hungary Hit by Nazis By the Associated Press. The German Embassy issued & statement last night criticizing the Tecent warning of the United States Minister in Budapest that Amer- icans should leave Hungary while there was time. “This is the way to cause alarm,* the embassy said. It devoted ons brief paragraph to the matter in a press release dealing with Norwe= glan and Swedish relations. “An official statement whether Germany is at war with Norway,” the Embassy said, “is still unavaile able since Germany's protection of Norway must be looked upon as a rvooccure necessitated by develop- menis and preparations made by the eneny.” The Embassy attributed disquiet in Sweden to the Swedish press it- seif and said that “even today thers is no cessation in the process of alarming the public by publishing colored . news and spiteful com- mentaries” regarding action in Scandinavia. Justices Must Cast Unanimous Ballot On Court Picture Many decisions are rendered by the Supreme Court, but none of the official ones must be unanimous. The voting may vary from five to four to eight to one. However, there is one decision, not official but important to the members, in which a unan- imous vote is necessary. That is the approval of the official court picture. One is always taken soon after a new member is sworn in, and each member must give Jis approval to the reproduction of his own likeness. Recently 20 pictures and 20 ballots were taken before every member was satisfied. The photographer had to wait until the vote was nine to nething.