Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1940, Page 4

Honor ‘salesmen Tecelving red rib- | president of the ministerial council | vénience of the bons for having $100 in their totals | f the mission. included ‘Mra. Cliffora Lewis, Miss Cenral Unlon Mission Drive Up fo $35,355 ‘The second dinner meeting of the Centrsl Union drive for $100,000 to build an tion brought to $35,355 the total subscribed so far, an advance of $4486 over the last Teport. W. W. Everett, general chair- man, presided over the gathering ‘Wallace Advises Farmers fo Fight For Easier Credit Urges Organization to held last night at the Calvary Bap- tist Church, A C. E. Bogardus was awarded the silver cup given the highest scori: men’s team. The highest women's t#ul:cupwnlwudaqumhr. . ‘The first double honor salesmen of the campaign to receive blue ribbons were Carl ‘Orebaugh and Miss Mary Hantzmon for having subscriptions amounting to $200. workers., The cam- paign will likely continue into the week of May 6. . Stephen, Miss Ethel Shirks,| ‘Next week’s dinner meetings will % Xffe Broadnax and Mrs. Eil-|be hield on Monday, April 39, aud | , Freaden® Roosevelt yesterday gent wood 2 Thursday, May 2, at the Calvary e Senate for confirmation the The invacstion opening the session | Baptist Church. Headquarters have | 8ppointment of Katheryn T. Schae- was asked by the Rev. Freely Rohrer, 'been established thcre for the con- ! fer as postmistress at Clinton, Md. Seek Revision of Federal Land Bank System By the Assoclated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn,, April 27.—Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, to- day urged farmers to organize and fight for reorganization of the Fed- eral Land Bank system, reduction of farm mortgage interest rates, and liberalization of farm credit policies throughout the Nation. Mr. Wallace, In an address pre- pared for a mass meeting of farm- ers from 17 States, characterized the land bank system as “of real value to agriculture,” but attacked “selfish interests which opposed efforts to improve the system and put it on a better basis for serving farmers.” Singles Out Bankers. The land bank system, Mr. Wal- lace contended, “can be put on a self-financing basis which will en- able the American farmer to get permanently the benefit of a 31, per cent interest rate.” He singled out the American Bankers’ Association and some of the State bankers’ asso- ofations as being prominent in the fight against lower interest rates for farmer borrowers: Warning that the war in Europe | is certain to have serious repercus- sions on all agriculture, Mr. Wal- lace pleaded for “agricultural pre- | paredness” as well as “military pre- paredness.” “There must be preparedness for peace as well as for war,” he as- serted. The Secretary declared the farm debt load was responsible for the increase in tenant farming and added that something must be done about the debt burden and also to strengthen the whole national farm program. The Same Interesis. “But our enemies don't want to see the farm program strength- .ened,” he said. He listed these “enemies” as the “same financial Journalistic and political interests which always gang up against any- thing which really will help the farmer.” “The farmers are the very back- | bone of democracy,” he said, “but| if the farmers, because of reduced | income and burdensome debt, are| forced to leave their land, then| democracy is threatened at its very | source.” The meeting was called by the National Farmers' Union and the National Federation of Grain Co- operatives. Stowé (Continued From First Page.) time, and none had been within miles of the town since it was| bombed. So Paul Melander, my Bwedish photographer companion, and I spurred our chauffeur down the sloping road until the car’s passage was blocked by heaps of refuse and rubble of all kinds. | of spreading the gospel of interna- | | tional fellowship. i The only untouched houses were those well up on the side of the valley’s down. Otherwise, virtu- ally every structure had been s tered or burned to the ground. Here on a hillside street, furniture of all kinds was piled in chaotic dis- | array for 100 yards or more—just as the fleeing owners had been com- pelled to abandon them. In front of our car a big red plush sofa stood n the road. Further on, a pair of | scales, the kind which are used for | weighing babies, was perched crazily upon a large dresser, and behind 1t pieces of pottery and a teapot re- posed on the crusted snow. Only Smoking Ruins Left. T counted eight separate fires blaz- ing at the end of streets leading to the water front, but here in the center of the town was nothing but smoking ruins. In one square, by some queer chance, the only struc- ture which was but slightly damaged was a gasoline station completely surrounded by charred walls or stark chimneys. I counted more than 20 such chimneys on one side of one street and gave it up. They ‘were up the slope a little and loomed in the gathering dusk like s dead man's grimace. But, if anything, the odor here ‘was worse than the scenes on every side. Mixed with smell of hundreds of burned out buildings was a curi- ously repulsive, chemical quality which must have come from the incendiary bombs. As it penetrgted our nostrils, it was an evil death-like thing. Something of burnt flesh seemed mingled with it but we never mahaged to learn whether any people died here. It would seem inconceivable, however, if any had escaped in the first swift and terrible raids. Large-Seale Mausoleum. ‘The machine guns on the other hill just beyond the town’s ruins were snarling louder and closer now. We had no more time to examine the corpse of what, for several centuries, had been the safe and peaceful town of Steinkjer. Hitler's war machine had created its first large-scale mausoleum on Norwegian soil. The fires were still raging along the water front. We went back up the hill away from the echoing gunfire and the evil odor and the dancing red flames. Within & few more hours this par- ticular specimen of perfect bomb- ing would be as complete as the hand of death could make it. Until Sunday, Steinkjer must have been a pretty little town as it huddled there in the curving palm of the spruce-covered, snow-blan- keted bluffs. The green hills are still beautiful around Steinkjer— ‘where the snow isn't red. (Copyright, 1040, by Chicago Daily News.) Business Held Slowed- By Federal Agencies Bome 50 governmental agencies are slowing business down, Merle Thorpe, editor of Nation’s Busi- ness, last night explained at a din- ner meeting of the fifth conference, local student chapters of the Ameri- ean Society of Civil Engineers at Wesley Hall. Mr. Thorpe expressed hope that the next party in power, no matter what party, will “loosen the nuts” ‘which bind the business machine. More than 100 students attended, representing George Wi . University, Catholic Unlvm Unliversity of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University. N OLDEST MEMBER FELICITATED—Ashlan F. Harlan (lett), grand master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is pic- tured congratulating J. H. Windsor, whose 61 years’ membership make him the oldest active member of the I. O. O. F. in this jurisdiction. The scene was enacted here yesterday as the order celebrated its 121st anniversary. —sStar Staff Photo. 1.0.0. F. Marks 121st Year at Ceremonies; Hagerman $peaks Deputy Grand Sire Pledges International Fellowship Efforts More than 500 persons lmnded’ the ceremonies last night marking | the 121st anniversary of the Inde- | pendent Order of Odd Fellows at| the organization’s temple, 419 Sev- enth street N.W, in conjunction with its observance by the 23,000 lodges throughout the United States | and Canada. | Graybeards mingled with young- sters in the audience as James A. Hagerman of Saskatchewan, Can- ada, deputy grand sire, the princi- pal speaker, sounded the keynote of the celebration when he said: “The purpose of this order is to seek to improve and elevate the character of man—to lead man to| cultivate true fellowship and to| spread the gospel of good will.” Hopes to Spread Fellowship. Undaunted by the dark clouds hovering over Europe, Mr. Hager- man, who will be grand sire next year, dedicated himself to the ideal | Attending the ceremonies was 85- | year-old J. H. Windsor, the oldest ! active member in the District, who recently celebrated 61 years’ mem- bership. Born in Virginia, he came to ‘Washington at the age of 9 and has lived here ever since. He joined | the Odd Fellows when he was 23 years of age and has held practi- cally every position in the organiza- tion except a national office. He now is a patriarch militant. Grandfather Also Member. Mr. Windsor’s father and grand- father were members of the order, while his son is 2 pas* grand mas- ter. There were 62 members in Metropolis Lodge, No. 16, when Mr. Windsor joined in 1878, but he is the sole survivor of the entire group. He is a member of four District lodges at present and lives with his son, Lemuel H. Windsor, 513 Nicholson street N.W. The program included musical se- lections by the Potomac Electric Power Co. Glee Club, which was followed by a dance. The invocs- tion was pronounced by Hiram E. Johnson, grand chaplain. David Simons was chairman of the gen- eral committee in charge of the affair, Blasts Shake Houses, Residents Claim Residents of the 2800 block of Adams Mill road N.W., complained today that dynamiting nearby for the Rock Creek sewer diversion proj- ect has tossed rocks in their yards and has shaken their houses. Howard Wilkins, president of the Wilkins-Rogers Milling Co., lives at 2814 Adams Mill road, said the blasing knocked tobacco ashes out of his pipe, causing rumbling in his cellar, rattled his windows, and threw a “grapefruit-sized rock” in his yard. Mrs. Gerrit S. Miller, Jr, two doors away, said a pitcher ‘was shaken off a shelf at her house and that rocks fell on the roof like hail, at times. B Chief Engineer H. A. Kemp said he couldn’t understand how rocks could get up in the yards of the houses on the bluff above the proj- ect. The blast he said, are muffied by heavy, woven mats of rope or wire. Inspectors from the District’s sanitary engineering corps reported they had made a survey of the situation and that there seemed to be no danger. Mu Chapter Dines Tonight Mu Chapter of the Delta Sigma Pi Fraternity of the Georgetown Foreign Service School will observe the close of its semi-annual initi- ation period with a dinner at 7 o'clock tonight at the Hotel Bene- dict. The 10 new members to be honored are Joseph Wells, Adolf Dikkers, Robert B. Harley, Otto Howard Salzmann, Charles W. Getty, James Umphries, Robert Schiangen, Arthur Willis, Robert Smith and Joseph Bey. for LATEST NEWS The Night Final ~Stqr, containing the latest news of the day during these dramatic times, is de- livered every evening throughout the city and suburbs between 6 P.M. and 7 P.M. who | _ Telephone National 5000 for immediate delivery. 6-Man Says He Heard Plot.fo Kill Congressmen By the Associated Press. [ NEW YORK, April 27.—A Federal | agent testified in the sedition trial of 16 men yesterday that he hax overheard one defendant say he would “recommend knocking off at | least a dozen” Congressmen to show | they were wrong in voting to re. peal the arms embargo law. The witness, F. B. I. Agent Lero; Barnhart, said he heard John F. Cassidy make this assertion on No. vember 4, 1939, while he, Barnhar listened into conversations in th basement bar of the home of Denis A. Healy, & Government informer. Cassidy, testified Barnhart, said | he “couldn’t recommend from the | platform shooting Congressmen who voted for repeal of the arms em- | bargo law, but among themselves | he would recommend knocking off at | legst a dozen to show them they wer: on the wrong track, and if they | didn't realize it, they were going to | have a revolution.” | Cassidy also said the agent added, | “that they had always wanted con- | trol of the Government—physical conirol.” FALSE TEETH REPAIRED WHILE YOU WAIT ROBT B. SCOTT DENTAL TECR 1 . Rms. V01, VOR MECT%3 *Tivate Waltine "Reoms ENGINE HEADS Sing a song, the year around Of gift-ideas galore For each day is a gift day In this great gift store. 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