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Bridges Discussed N.L.R.B. Aides With Smith, Probers Hear Letter Is Identified By Board Member At House Inquiry By CARTER BROOKE JONES. Harry Bridges, West Coast C. I. O. leader, discussed National Labor Re- lations Board personnel in San Francisco and Hawaii in cor- respondence with Board Member Edwin S. Smith, the House investi- gating committee learned today. Mr. Smith, recalled to the stand by Committee Counsel Edmund M. Toland, identified a letter from Mr. Bridges, dated January 8, 1938, stat- ing that Hawaii was in need of a “good man” who would be able to “resist the employer arguments” better than the board’s representa= tive who was there then. “I agree with you as fo the im- portance of having the right sort of man in Hawali,” Mr. Smith wrote to reply, “and the board has this very much in mind.” Edises Mentioned for Job. Mr. Bridges’ letter said he under- stood that Bertram Edises, then acting regional director at San Francisco, was to be sent to Hawaii. While he regarded Mr. Edises as “ideal” for that post, Mr. Bridges wrote, he urged that Mr. Edises be retained in San Francisco, where the C. I. O. unions had been dissatisfied with the board’s regional office. He suggested, however, that some one of the type of Mr. Edises or Elwin J. Eagen, regional director at Seattle, “be immediately selected for Hawaii.” About a year previous to this cor- respondence, the board files showed, Mr. Smith telegraphed Mr. Edises: “Please have Harry Bridges tele- phone me from your office or some- where else, our expense, tomorrow, Tuesday, between 2:30 and 5:30, Eastern time.” “Was it your custom to have in- terested parties in board cases tele- phone you at Government expense?” Mr. Toland asked. “It was not our custom,” said the board member, “but in this instance I did not know where to reach Mr. Bridges.” The telephone conversation, Mr. Smith explained, was not in regard to assignment of a staff man to Hawaii, but to the maritime troubles on the East Coast, where the so- called Rank and File Union was on strike. “Family Row” Aired. Another “family row” within the scattered staff of the Labor Board was aired earlier before the investi- gating committee. Harold A. Cranefield, a regional attorney for the board, wrote Sec- retary Nathan Witt at great length in violent objection to the board’s decision to reopen the case of the American Newspaper Guild against the Times Publishing Co. of De- troit. In the letter, introduced in evi- dence by Committee Counsel Toland and read to the House group, Mr. Cranefield observed: “Maybe I have been all wet all these years on trial practice, but I suspect that you have some infants in the review section without any trial experience whatever who have no business trying to retry a case by remote control * * *, Sees Administration “Simplified.” “If we are to try cases on the theory that the respondent (the employer) and his agents are going to be gentlemen and Boy Scouts and answer our questions truthfully, I wish to be definitely instructed to that effect. Thereafter we will save the board a very great deal of money. We will simply call in em- ployers who are complained of, ad- minister an oath and interrogate them as to the charges. If they deny them we will dismiss the case and beat hell out of the union men for lying to us. Administration will be greatly simplified.” The field attorney objected par- ticularly to the fact that the board had ordered the hearing reopened without notice to the regional office. Louis Newman, a review attorney, was on the stand at the time the letter was read, and he testified that he had advised the board not to re- open the case. There was considerable doubt in | his mind after studying the record of the hearing, said Mr. Newman, whether the board would be justified in finding the Detroit Times guilty of any unfair labor practice. Board Dismisses Complaint. The board decided the evidence was inconclusive in certain particu- lars and further testimony should be taken. The guild had accused the com- pany of interfering with organi- zation of a union and with discrim- inatory discharge of employes. The trial examiner found the pub- lisher had violated the Wagner Act. The board, however, after reopen- ing the case and receiving addi- tional evidence, dismissed the com- plaint. The Detroit paper is a Hearst pub- lication, and Mr. Toland then went into a case brought by the Guild against another Hearst paper, the Baltimore News-Post. Meanwhile, the records of the Smith committee were swollen with a fresh sheaf of documents relat- ing to the activities of Heber Blank- enhorn, special investigator for the Labor Board, whom Mr. Toland charges with helping John L. Lewis, C. I. O. chieftain, organize the steel workers. Denies Aiding Organizing. Mr. Blankenhorn did not deny the authenticity of various letters and memoranda bearing on the point which the attorney had ob- tained from board files, but the witness did deny he had aided in organizing any union or otherwise interfered in workers’ affairs. He said he had gone to labor conven- tions and elsewhere as an observer and researcher for the board. In one personal letter which Mr. Toland read the House group Mr. Blankenhorn said he had been “mixing in plans” for organizing the steel workers. New Zealand Honors Achilles’ Commander By the Associated Press. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, May 2—Capt. William Parry, com- manding the cruiser Achilles, the first warship to engage the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in the battle last December off the coast of Uruguay, today was ap- pointed commodore of the New Zea- land naval division and the first member of the naval board. - ' 1 Baptist Seminary Seeks $5,000 in Fund Drive 13th Street Building Is Acquired for Institution A campaign to raise $5.000 to be applied toward the indebtedness of the Washington Baptist Seminary is being conducted by a committee of colored Baptist clergymen and lay leaders headed by the Rev. Dr. E. L. Harrison. The drive opened April 22 and is to continue through May 26. The General Baptist Convention of the District of Columbia has acquired a building at 1600 Thir- teenth street N.W. to house the seminary, which formerly was lo- cated in the Second Baptist Church. Elks officers will conduct cere- monies at 3:30 p.m. May 26 when a corner stone will be placed in the building which will contain names of all contributors in the current historical underwriters’ campaign. The names also will be inscribed in a “big book of remembrance” which will repose in the seminary chapel. The seminary was established in 1926 by the General Baptist Con- vention to provide education for would-be clergymen and lay church workers. The Rev. Dr. J. L. S. Holloman is president and the Rev. Dr. W. H. Jernagin, leader of the founders, is chairman of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Holloman is re- ceiving donations at the seminary. Chamberlain (Continued From First Page.) to enable our troops to withstand the enemy drive from the south.” Advantage Held Allies. to capture Trondheim, Mr. Cham- | berlain said he was satisfied “that the balance of the advantage lies up “Norway is not conquered,” he stated, “after three weeks of war in which heavy losses have been sus- tained by the enemy on the sea, on land and in the air. He said he could not give details of casualties in Norway but believed they were not preportionately heavy. Mr. Chamberlain gave German naval losses as two capital ships damaged, three or four cruisers sunk, 11 destroyers sunk, five submarines sunk and 30 transports and store- ships sunk, scuttled or set on fire with the loss of several thousand lives. In addition, he said, 10 Ger- man transports or storeships prob- ably were sunk. The losses of the German Navy, he said, “were so substantial as to alter the entire balance of naval power” and permitted “an important re- distribution of the main allied fleets.” . British losses at the same time, he said, were four destroyers, three sub- marines, one sloop and five trawlers sunk and “five other warships” dam- aged by air attack. One store ship had been sunk by torpedoing, he said. Forestalled by Treachery. Early in his report to an anxious and critical House, the Prime Min- ister asserted Germany had fore- stalled Britain in Norway by “long planning and carefully elaborated treachery.” He disclosed that allied forces had been gathered originally to help Finland but these were dispersed when Norway and Sweden refused to allow transit of the troops. About a month ago, however, he said, it was decided to keep ready “certain small forces” to occupy western ports of Norway at short notice in case of invasion by Ger- many of the northern kingdom. He said instructions to the com- manders of these forces provided they were to proceed to the occupa- tion only under “one of iwo tondi- tions—either that they were invited to do so by the Norwegian govern- ment or that Norwegian neutrality had already been violated.” Noted Troop Accumulations. The Primé Minister declared Brit- ain “had been aware for many months that the Germans were ac- cumulating transports and troops in Baltic ports and that these troops were constantly being practiced in embarkation and disembarkation.” “It was evident some act of ag- gression was in contemplation,” the Prime Minister said. “But these forces were equally available for attack upon Finland, Sweden, Nor- way, Holland or this country, and it was impossible to tell beforehand where the blow would fall,” he added. “If we had known that Denmark and Norway were to be the victims we could not have prevented what happened without the co-operation of those countries.” Those countries took no precau- tions against invasion “in the belief that their neutrality” would save them, the Prime Minister asserted. Referring to British mine-laying % ) Though it has not been possible | lantry and determination and in- to the present with the allied forces.” | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1940. in Norwegian waters, Mr. Chamber- lain said “it was a curious chance that this date of April 8 decided upon by the government should have coincided almost exactly with that' chosen by Germany for the invasion of Norway.” Fleets Sent Out. Mr. Chamberlain related how, after “we got information on Sun- day, April 7, that a large German naval force was moving towards and along the west coast of Norway,” the main battle fleet and second cruiser squadron sailed from Scapa Flow and Rosyth “in the hope of en- gaging the enemy.” He continued: “Our objectives in deciding on further action were: “l. To give all support and as- sistance in our power to the Nor- wegians: “2. To resist or delay the German advance from the south; “3. To facilitate the rescue and protection of the Norwegian King and government.” Amid rousing cheers, he explained that it was obvious these objectives could be most speedily attained if it were possible to capture Trond- heim and, in spite of the hazardous nature of the operation, “we re- solved to make the effort.” “Two landing places were selected respectively north and south of Trondheim,” he reported. Landed April 14. British naval forces landed at Namsos, 100 miles north of Trond- neim, on April 14, and British troops followed April 16 to 18. A few days later French “Chas- teurs Alpins” landed, and their ar< rival was “a welcome support to our men,” the Prime Minister said. Part of this force advanced rap- idly to the neighborhood of Steink- jer, midway between Namsos and Trondheim, to support Norwegians known to be holding that place. Mr. Chamberlain declared he could not give any details of fight- ing on both fronts since the land- | | ings. “All that can be said at present is that our troops fought with gal- flicted heavy losses upon enemy,” he told the House. After Mr. Chamberlain sat down, Labor Leader Clement R. Attlee and Liberal Opposition Leader Sir Archi- bald Sinclair announced amid cheers that they would not make any com- the lment or ask questions today. Yugoslavia (Continued From First Page.) Mussolini when, it is said, he re- ceived assurances from Il Duce that Italy did not plan any war move for the present. Although nothing was made known at the American Embassy, it was said in political circles that Ger- many wanted to keep all Balkan countries, including Yugoslavia, at peace as sources of supply for the Nazis. It was explained that Italy, as a non-belligerent ally of Germany, would adhere to this policy which she has followed since the outbreak of the war. French Ambassador Andre Fran- cois-Poncet consulted Mr. Phillips this morning after the United States envoy had returned from his inter- view with Count Ciano. British diplomats in Rome were reported reliably to have been un- aware of the rerouting of British Mediterranean shipping before the announcement was made in London. This precautionary measure was believed to have been taken as long 8go as last week when the pro- German tone of the Italian press was at its height. The apprehension appeared to have been dispelled in British cir- cles here with the general tendency evident in most quarters to consider the action only as a warning that Britain is prepared to face any eventuality. Mr. Phillips’ visit preceded Mus- solini’s attendance at a cabinet ses- sion at which heavy surtaxes on war industry profits were imposed. The interview took place in the Premier’s office in the interior ministry and lasted for 45 minutes. Martinique shipped over 2,000,000 gallons of rum to other countries last year. Boys Use Their Toes For Fishing Poles to Fool Game Warden By the Associated Press. STAMPS, Ark, May 2— Small boys sitting quietly beside the Lake June spillway, wear- ing innocent expfessions and dangling their feet in the water aroused the suspicions of Game Warden Frank Burke. Fishing being prohibited in the spillway, Warden Burke in- vestigated, found each lad with a line and hook tied to & sub- merged toe. The warden made the youngsters release their catches, then sent them home with a_warning. Y BOUGHT FOR WASHINGTON BAPTIST SEMINARY—This building at 1600 Thirteenth street N.W. has been purchased by the General Baptist Convention of the District of Columbia as the new home for the Washington Baptist Seminary. < —Star Staff Photo. Migrants (Continued From First Page) _ 445,000 a year—and the increase is fastest in those very areas which already are poorest and most over- crowded.” Offers Corrective Program. The Secretary offered a correc- tive program to stop the “human erosion” involved in “the spec- tacle of many thousands of fam- ilies roaming from State to State in which is a warning to the Nation.” “While Federal agencies been taking measures to help the | migrants already on the road, their | main efforts have been devoted to checking migration at its source. For every dollar which the Farm Security Administration has used example, it has used $20 for the re- habilitation of needy farm families in the five States from which most of the Pacific Coast migrants orig- inally came — Oklahoma, Texas, Kausas, Arkansas and Missouri. “Throughout the Nation it has used nearly $480,000,000 in the last five years to help low-income farm families get a new foothold in their home communities. A little more than $100,000,000 of this sum has been paid out in direct relief grants to provide a minimum of food and clothing for the victims of drought, floods and other catastrophes, until they could make a new crop and begin to support themselves. “The rest has been used for re- habilitation loans, to enable needy farm families to buy the tools, live- stock and seed necessary to make a living. It is a tribute to the hon- esty ahd industry of these families— none of which could get credit from any other source—that an estimated 80 per cent of these loans eventually will be repaid into the Federal Treasury. | _ “There remain, however, at least | 500,000 farm families which are in | urgent need of rehabilitation loans, | but have been unable to get them because of the limited funds avail- able. I believe it would be prudent and economical for the Government it is too late.” Mr. Wallace added: alarming speed during the last half century, until today more than 42 per cent of our farmers are tilling land they do not own. Moreover, the number of tenants still is grow- ing at the rate of about 40,000 a year, so that the Federal program on its present scale does not even enable us to hold our own. Under the impact of mechanization, low farm prices, shrinking foreign mar- kets and similar developments many tenants are being forced every day into the ranks of day laborers. If this kind of human erosion con- tinues unchecked, the effect upon our social and economic order may be very profound indeed. Owners Should Be Aided, Too. “To correct the maladjustments resulting from the increase in farm tenancy, it is imperative that steps be taken in two directions: Those farmers who have already become tenanty should be given effective assistance in becoming owners; and, of equal if not more importance, those farmers who are still owners, but who are threatened with the loss of their farms due to excessive farm debt burdens, should be assisted in retaining ownership. “To assist present tenants to be- come owners, it would appear to be desirable to enlarge the Bank- head-Jones far tenant loan program as rapidly as the availability of good land at reasonable prices will per- mit. Similar programs already have been carried out with marked suc- cess in other countries—notably Ireland, Finland, Denmark and Sweden. Moreover, it should be remembered that such loans impose very little burden upon the Federal Treasury, since all of them are self- liquidating, and are, in fact, being repaid ahead of schedule.” The Secretary also suggested a long-term public works program in the overcrowded rural areas. The committee will convene on the migrant - tenancy - farm labor question again at 10 a.m. Monday, with Secretary of Labor Perkins as the witness. A railway in China will try to induce people in Japan to tour China. As an Aid in High Blood Pressure in Valley Water tends to eliminate cumulated w and dangerous d “'";Iolgg' 'lllll case of this celel Mineral Water from Hot Springs, Arkansas, today. Co. Mountain Valley Water W. ME. 1062 1405 K St. ! t. 1062 Our Duty RUG Beaut €LEANED AND STOR RS Pyle na.3257 SANITARY CARPEY & RUG-CLEANING CO. 106 INDIANA AVE. search of precarious seasonal work, | have | to aid migrants in California, for | to give these people a chance before | “Tenancy has been increasing with | Brifish Warplanes Rake Nazi Airports In Scandinavia Air Ministry Reports Heavy Damage to Enemy Terminals By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 2.—British bomb- ers harried German airport termi- nals in Denmark and Norway yes- terday, causing heavy damage and shooting down one sea plane with- out losses to themselves, the Air Ministry reported today. Its communique said: “The Royal Air Force maintained its pressure on enemy air bases in Norway and Denmark. “Stavanger (on Norway’s Atlantic coast) was bombed twice during day- light hours of yesterday, and this airdrome, together with airdromes at Aalborg and Fornebu, was heav- ily bombed during last night. “In the course of the night’s re- connaissance over the southern area of the North Sea one of our air- craft encountered an enemy sea plane near the Island of Nordarney and shot it down into the sea. No losses were suffered in these op- erations.” Fornebu, airport near Oslo, is the Norwegian terminal of the Nazi mil- itary air-ferry operating from Aalborg, in Northern Denmark. A war officc communique last night described operations in the area about the northern iron ore port of Narvik as “continuing satis- factorily.” Operations on the vital Steinkjer front north of Trondheim appeared to have slowed down, but Swedish reports indicated that both sides were maneuvering for decisive fight- ing in that sector. Unconfirmed reports said that British warships continued to bom- bard German-held forts in Trond- heim Fjord. In naval warfare the Admiralty disclosed the loss of the 710-ton | minesweeper Dunoon, which struck a mine off the east coast. Twenty-four men of the crew and three officers were listed as missing |and it was believed that most of | | them were killed outright by the | explosion. Another war vessel | picked up 40 survivors. I Two British submarines returned to their bases safely, it was an- nounced, following hazardous pa- trol work in Norwegian waters. | One of them, the Sea Wolf, was | credited with sinking of two 4,000- | | ton German transports. | Loss of Bittern Admitted. | | The Admiralty announced today ' the loss of the sloop Bittern. A communique said: “The secretary of the Admiralty | regrets to announce the loss of H. M. S. Bittern, a sloop of 1,109 tons. |Lt Comdr. R. H. Mills. ““This ship was repeatedly attacked by enemy aircraft and after pro- longed fighting, in which one air- craft was shot down in flames and others severely handled, was set on fire. “Efforts to extinguish the fire | were taken on board another war- ;shlp. H. M. S. Bittern was finally sunk by our forces in order to avoid her becoming a danger to naviga- tion. | “No casualties have yet been re- | ported.” | The Bittern, completed in March, | 1938, cost £223668 (currently about | $780,000) and was a sistership of the Admiralty yacht Enchantress which | took King George VI and Queen | Elizabeth to France in 1938. | _ The sinking of the Bittern brought Britain’s announced naval war losses to 46 vessels—equally divided be- tween regular naval ships and trawl- ers drafted for mine-sweeping and anti-submarine work. About 2775 men have been lost, in addition to 69 who are German prisoners, Bombed for Six Hours. J. Norman Lodge, Associated Press correspondent on the Norwegian | front at Namsos, yesterday reported | the destruction of the Bittern in| the fjord off Namsos Tuesday. Observers said they watched Nazi warplanes try for six hours to hit the little warship and then sacrifice two of their bombers to get her by & time-worn ruse. The Germans put the sun at their backs so that anti-aircraft batteries peppering them did not see one streak away and make a sudden power drive on the Bittern. The trick worked, but the witnesses said two Nazi planes were lost. The German high command had announced in Berlin earlier that a British cruiser, a destroyer and five transports were sunk by air attack off Namsos and another cruiser and five transports damaged. Of similar appearance to a de- stroyer, but slower and less heavily armed, the Bittern is classified in Jane’s Fighting Ships, authoritative register of war vessels, as an “escort vessel.” She normally carried 125 men. Parasites which attack the pests of Burma’'s teak forests were re- cently flown from India. allable OF LAN GES, . (at L) National 0270 ERLITZ SCHOOL IN EVERY CITY OF THE_WORLD BERLITS ‘SCHOOL 1115 Conn. Ave. THERE IS A B LEADING 'Hi This Includes e EYE EXAMINATION BY Medical Doctor (Oculist) @ Single or Double Vision Lexses. 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There apparently was little change in the situation on the Steinkjer front, 50 miles north of Trondheim, or at Narvik, the Arctic ore port, where the allies were reported to have a German force surrounded. An allied-Norwegian communique issued last night from Grong, Nor- way, said there was little ground activity in the Steinkjer sector, but that aerial warfare was continuing there unabated. Methodists (Continued From First Page.) forsaken the mother that gave them —and are no longer Methodist ex- cept vaguely in name.” ' 5,000 Attend Rally. Addressing a rally attended by 5,000 delegates and visitors, Bishop Leonard spoke of the “need for sep- aration of church and State,” point- ing out that: “Protestantism in this country has always maintained this American fundamental principle. 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We Deliver $1 or More in D.C. GIBSON'S 917 G St. N.W. —Star Staff Photo. propaganda, its nature and its sources from pulpit and platform.” Another report by the committee asked the General Conference to create in the Methodist churches courses of instruction for youth in “love and marriage, home budget- ing and child training.” The Ministry Committee recom- mended that, effective in 1942, all Methodist pastors be compelled to retire at the age of 72. Although bishops are required to resign fol- lowing their 70th birthday annie versary, no retirement age has ever been fixed for the general clergy. The delegates elected five min- isters and five laymen Yo serve as| trustees of Westminster (Md.) | Theological Seminary. They in- cluded the Rev. Reuben Y. Nichol- son, John H. Baker, William C. Scott and F. Murray Benson of Baltimore; the Rev. L. E. Bee of Clarksburg, W. Va.; the Rev. Lester A. Welliver of Harrisburg, Pa.; the Rev. Benjamin W. Meeks of Fred- | erick, M he Rev. Thomas S. 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Your Noighborhood SHERW00D NOTICE Convention Call 1940 By order of the Republican State Committee in and for the District of Columbia, pursuant to authority conferred in the Call for the Re- publican National Convention: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on May 13, 1940, at 8 P.M., in the Cabinet Room, First Floor (above Pennsylvania Avenue lobby), of The Willard Hotel, the delegates elected in the various voting dis- tricts will meet and elect delegates at large. The aforesaid delegates, both district and at large, will meet in general convention, which is hereby called on May 18, 1940, at 8 P.M. in the Willard Room, ground floor of The Willard Hotel (F Street en- trance), and elect three delegates and three alternates to represent the District of Columbia in the next Republican National Convention, and also nominate a National Com- mitteeman and a National Com- mitteewoman to represent the Dis- trict of Columbia on the Repub- lican National Committee. JAMES C. WILKES. 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