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Witnesses Called Before i | Federal Grand Jury In New Orleans. BP IB Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 20.—Wit neaeee were summoned today for a Federal Grand Jury investigation Monday into an alleged plot to smug gle ammunition from New Orleans Into Honduras in violation of the neu trality laws. Five men had been charged with conspiracy to smuggle the ammunition aboard the United Fruit Company's Steamship Sixaola and were ordered to appear Wednesday before United States Commissioner Reginald H. Carter, jr. yhe latest charge was filed against J. 6. West, an employe of the United Fruit Company in Honduras. Dis trict Attorney Rene A. Viosca charged that West, then in New Orleans, load ed. 600 rounds of ammunition of .45 and .38-caliber in a taxicab and then onto the ship consigned to himself. yiosca said the ammunition was not removed from the ship on its arrival in Honduras but was returned to New Orleans and fell into the hands erf Federal Agents. The other four men charged were Isfael Slobotzky, connected with a furniture firm; Walter j. Stauffer, hardware company executive and pipminent socially, and Louis H. Har dee and James F. Perry, employes of tHe Stauffer firm. Government agents made raids Fri day night on the firms of Stauffer and Slobotzky, and papers and records were seized. Churchmen (Continued From First Page.) destroying confidence in their religious leaders. Produced Opposite Effect. “The attempt to vilify priests and to destroy their reputations in inde cent and frequently unjustified trials has produced in our country Just the contrary effect. It has shown us and the world the degradation of govern mental agencies in Germany today." Charging that all privileges, even the most fundamental natural rights of liberty, of work, advancement and legitimate protection of family and Individual interests are denied to those who remain steadfast to Christ and to the church, the bishops de clared that, "in spite of the pres ent inhuman struggle, systematic and cruel as it is. the faith still lives 1 and will ever live and will finally triumph over its persecutors.” The letter was -signed by His Emi nence Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia, who pre sided over the general meeting of the bishops here, and by the Most Rev. Emmet M. Walsh, Bishop of Charleston, the secretary of the meet ing. ^ . The letter to the hierarchy of Spain expressed sorrow over the suf fering inflicted upon the church in Spain and praised the recent pastoral letter of the Spanish hierarchy as presenting to the world the facts of the present persecution in that coun try. Declaring that irreligion and atheism, whatever be their changing cloak, are things with which bisnops may not temporize, the letter of the American bishops says: Real Facts Beclouded. "Pitiable indeed is the fact that many men, right-minded and hon est, have fallen victims to the mis shapen news which has been jiven the world about the church in Spain, Worse still, some Christian leaders unwittingly have allowed themselves to be the sponsors of principles which, if given wide sway, would destroy the very last vestige of western civiliza tion.” The letter said that “clever propa ganda, maliciously used by those who would promote atheism and chaos, has beclouded the real facts in the con temporary life of the church in Spain.” "Tragic are the true facts of the religious persecution in Spain by men who before the world sought to appear In the role of vindicators of human rights,” it said. "Recalling the Span ish bishops’ account of the slaughter of 10 bishops, thousands of the clergy and tens of thousands of the laity, the letter added: “Your words horrify us, who are wont to accept liberty of con science and freedom^ of speech as an axiom.” U. S. Amusements Hit. Declaring that the bishops of the United States yield to none in “loyal adherence to the great Democratic principles on which our Government is founded,” the letter said: “We know full well that your eminences and your excellencies with your truly admirable clergy, religious and courageous laity are laboring with a disinterestedness, which compels the sympathy and sup port of all informed men, to inculcate the principles of social justice and charity so fully and so clearly enun ciated in the social encyclicals of our holy father.” In their statement concerning the use of intoxicants, immoral movies and unclean floor shows In drinking places, the bishops said: “The bishops of the United States, In annual meeting assembled, voice their deep concern over the evils aris ing from the all-too-prevalent, promis cuous and unwise use of intoxicating liquors. They feel that the dangers Inherent to such intoxicants, under the present-day customs, critically threaten our growing youth, particu larly girls. With the same fervor with which they condemn immoral and un clean movies, the bishops condemn the suggestive, sensuous and unclean floor ahows connected with many drinking places and urge all dean-minded peo ple to co-operate In their suppression.” <00^1^37, New York Wanted ASSISTANT ENGINEER ’Chief engineer and super . lntendent of large indus trial building seeks an as sistant versed in all details j of plant managements Pre v fer licensed man, currently * employed. ,»■ Write full details of capa j blllties in. Strict confidence. Box 4-2i Star l>L * Nuns Aid Wounded in China « -w * J. • French and Chinese Sisters of Mercy do all in their power to make the ruounds of refugees more bearable as they go about their duties in this war-wracked area. The above picture was taken in Shanghai. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Hitch-Hiker Blackjacks Deputy And Robs Him of Car and Pistol By a Staff Correspondent o/The Star. WOODSTOCK. Va.. Nov. 30.—An unidentified hitch-hiker who held up Deputy Sheriff Paul P. Borden and a woman companion and then made off with Borden's automobile and pistol after slugging the deputy into uncon sciousness was being sought tonight by Shenandoah County authorities. Sheriff Carl F. Gochenour later found the car almost completely de molished at the foot of North Moun tain, 14 miles from Woodstock. He said the machine apparently had been driven over the mountain side. Sheriff Gochenour said Mr. Borden and the woman were driving along the Edinburg-Woodstock road shortly before 2 o'clock this morning when the deputy stopped and picked up a hitch-hiker who asked them for a ride. The woman, the sheriff stated, was "a Miss Fadely” of Edinburg. A few miles away, according to the sheriff, the hitch-hiker slugged the deputy with a blackjack, threw him out of the car and ordered the woman from the machine at the point of the officer's gun, Mr. Gochenour declared. Miss Fadely notified police. A motor ist picked up the deputy and brought him to his home in Woodstock. Police say the hitch-hiker may have been the same thug who held up J. M. Still, a traveling salesman, near Salem on Thursday night and forced him from his automobile. RS EN - * 19 Held* Back by Erflbargo ' Sail on British Stiip, Perhaps to China. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. Nov. 20—Bound on a mission of death, a $1,000,000 "mystery” fleet of 19 American-made planes was aboard a ship steaming cautiously somewhere across the At lantic tonight. Their ultimate destination pre sumably was China—possibly to bomb Japanese cities for the first time in retaliation for the aerial havoc wrought by Nipponese airmen on Shanghai. A spokesman for the Chinese con sulate in New York admitted that the planes—all super-speed ships, manufactured by the Bellanca Air craft Co. of Newcastle. Del., with a cruising range of 4,000 milea—were purchased by the Chinese govern ment. But a double peril faced the con signment. Lying in wait, naval patrols from both Japan and Spain formed twin blockades against their safe arrival. Spanish insurgents reportedly feared that the high-powered fighting craft, capable of top speeds of 280 m.pJi., might be headed for Barcelona, via France, there to be used by govern ment pilots. Their fears were based on the re port that the crates containing the airplanes were marked “D. L. P.”— the initials of Don LUia Prieto, son of the Spanish government minister of defense, Indalacio Prieto. Don Lull is the London agent for the purchase '>f war material for the Barcelona government. DESTROYER LAUNCHED u. S.* S. McCall Christened by Miss Eleanor Xemplf. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20 VP).— rhe U. S. S. McCall, the Navy’s new est torpedo boat destroyer, was launched today with Miss Eleanor Kempfr, daughter of Rear Admiral Kempff, breaking a bottle of cham pagne on the bow. The McCall ia the first vessel but', for the Navy by a commercial ship - yard on the West Coast since tha World War. The craft, with « u.a placement of 1,500 tons, was named in honor of Lt. Edward Rutledge Mc Call, who distinguished himself in the engagement between the Enterprise and the Boxer in the War of liU. Colored Pair Fear Jobless Count Will Get Them In Army Special Dispatch to The Star. WARRENTON, Va . Nov. 20 — . Two colored men were heard on the street here discussing their unemployment cards. t "I didn’t fill out mine,” said one. "Me neither,” said the other. ’ They can’t fool me like that, be cause i know what they are for. Soon as they get all the names of the men out of work they are going to throw them In the Army and send them to China to fight. But they won’t get me, I know better!”. CAPETOWN-TO-ENGLAND AIR RECORD IS LOWERED Night Club Hostess Outspeeds Amy Johnson on Trip Financed With Champagne Baffle. Bt the Associated Press. LONDON, Nov. 20.—A night club hostess, whose friends raffled bottles of champagne to finance a round-trip Capetown-England flight, came home today the co-holder of three new air records. Mrs. Betty Kirby-Oreen and her pilot. Flying Officer A. X. Clouston, landed at Croydon Air Field 5 days 17 hours and 28 minutes from the time they left. Besides bettering Amy Johnson's old record of 7 days 22 hours and 42 minutes for the round trip, they set one-way records in both directions. Congressmen Are Expected to Sedk Additional Fences This Week* By the Associated Press. Congressmen, troubled by the specter of war and avowedly displeased with the administration’s policy in the Far East, probably will try this week to erect new neutrality fence? around the United States. Senator Nye, Republican, of North Dakota announced a meeting of a bi partisan group of Senators to consider a resolution recognizing a state of war between Japan and China. The effect of this would be to force invocation of the Neutrality Act, which automatically would embargo shipments of war materials to bellig erent nations and, within the discre tion of the President, restrict other supplies going to belligerents. Objection Blocked Sauthoff. Possibility of such a move in the Senate was anticipated in the House by Representative Sauthoff, Progres sive, of Wisconsin, who asked Friday for immediate consideration of a reso lution to declare a state of war in the Far East. A single objection to his motion, which required unanimous consent, blocked his request. Any effort of Congress to change the present neutrality law, however, might be blocked by presidential dis approval unless it were backed by two-thirds of Congress and thus might override a veto. No hint has come from the White House that President Roosevelt desires a change in the neutrality law. International unrest in Europe as well as the Orient occupied the Sen ate briefly last week, when Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan took cognizance of reports that Am bassador Bullitt had been sent to warn Poland against joining an anti communism alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan. The State Depart ment said Mr. Bullitt's visit was purely personal. Half a dozen or more bills designed to make it difficult for this country to get into war have been introduced. They differed somewhat from those offered in the regular session early in the year. inree uner senate Dills. Proposals then were concerned with eliminating profit motives for war and With establishing neutrality safe guards. Last week, however, three Senators introduced measures which would in effect limit the power of Con gress to declare war and put it largely in the hands of the people. The three. Senator Clark. Democrat, of Mlssour,; La Pollette, Progressive, of Wisconsin and Capper, Republican, of Kansas proposed constitutional amendments calling for a referendum i on any declaration of war except in | event of an invasion. Other pending measures Include the American Legion's "universal con scription” bill and the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ plan "to take the profits out of war.” Both have received com mittee study in previous sessions and j are pending in the Senate Finance ; and House Ways and Means Com mittees. Employing different methods both would put a check on the profits pri vate business could make from war. Embodied in another bill is the prin ciple of conscripting wealth through forced sales of war loan bonds, the amount of bonds an individual would have to buy being determined by the amount of wealth he had. Pittman Opposes Act’s Use. Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said after a talk with Secretary Hull yes terday that he could not see "that we would gain anything by invoking the Neutrality Act” against China and Japan. “Neither country has declared any blockade,” Senator Pittman said. Neither has established any prohibited military zones in the ocean. Neither is attempting to search any of our ships. Neither has made up a con traband list of articles which can not be shipped to the other country. Neith er Is using submarines. "There isn't any danger at pres ent that the Neutrality Act is in tended to protect us against war.” Senator Pittman said that "as long as the Brussels conference is going on, any action on our part might bring about a change In the situa tion, or at least would legitimatize any excuse any other government had for not going on with the con ference.” Asked whether he would favor withdrawing United States repre sentatives from the Nine-Power Con ference. as suggested bv Senator Lewis. Democrat, of Illinois, Senator j Pittman answered: "I would dislike to have our Gov ernment be the first to withdraw its representatives. As long as the other governments want to confer, why, should we pull out?" Of reports that other nations might seek to shift blame for any failure of the Nine-Power Conference onto the United States, Senator Pitt man said: “It is customary in every confer ence that fails for foreign countries to try to shift the blame to somebody else "When nothing is done it is the nicest thing in the world for them to say there is something wrong with the United States." LIBRARIAN APPOINTED Columbus University Names Miss Hilda M. Jackson. The Board of Trustees of Columbia University yesterday announced the appointment of Miss Hilda M. Jackson as librarian. She takes over duties formerly held by Regina C. Goddard, who resigned last summer. Miss Jackson, a practicing attorney here, is a graduate of St. Paul's Acad emy and the Washington School for Secretaries. She received her LL.B. from Columbus in 1934. f PHOTOGRAPHIC^ DEVELOPING (a or * PRINTING al .7J OUTFITS ^ | COMPLETE 3full?r Sc it*AUiprt'nf The Oldett Complete Photographic Store in Waihington ^ 815 10th St. N.W. NA. 4712 J WEST POINT TESTS Four Washingtonians Are Desig nated for Examinations. Designation of four Washingtonians as candidates for the March 1 exam ination with a view to admission to the Vnited States Military Academy July 1 was announced yesterday by the War Department. They are Harry A. Clark, jr.. 1918 N street N.\y.; John Morris Field, 3d, 1445 Rhode Island avenue N,W.. and John R. McNiel, 2024 First street N.W.; named as Presidential candidate from the United States at large, and John Hamlin Traylor, jr.. 1918 N street N W„ designated by the President as the son of an officer. JAPAN REVAMPS FLEET TOKIO. Nov. 20 ().—The Japanese Navy today established the China Sea Fleet, charged with the blockade of China's seacoast to Chinese shipping. Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa. who hitherto has been commander in chief of Japan's 3d Fleet, largely concentrated in the vicinity of Shang hai, was named commander of the new unit. 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The Prince, who is 33. also is under a 10-year sentence for the death of Miss Felicity Connors of Fresno. Calif., \ killed in an automobile accident in 1932. Judge H. E. Stafford ordered the terms to run consecutively, making a maximum of 20 years. DRAFT STATEMENT Declaration on Orient War to Be Given Parley Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. BRUSSELS, Nov. 20 —United States Ambassador at Large Norman H. Davis ' and British delegates today debated the draft of a new statement bn the Chinese-Japanese conflict to be sub mitted Monday to the apparently moribund Brussels conference. The absence of the principal dele gates from Great Britain, France and Russia was regarded as a portent the next session would end without de cisive action. > May Follow Davis Outline. The drafted statement in final form might follow the general outlines of ’ the speech urging direct negotiations between the warring nations Mr. Davis made at the opening session of the conference seeking peace in the Orient. The draft was submitted to Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Spaak prior to discussions Mr. Davis had with the British delegates, Viscount Cranborne, ' foreign undersecretary: Dominions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald and Sir Alexander Cadogan. ' Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's absence was ascribed in British quar ters to a cold he contracted in Brussels last week. Also missing were Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos of France and 1 Soviet Ambassador V. P. Potemkin. Chinese Are Optimistic. Chinese delegates remained optimis- ’ tic, however, despite the growing belief * in conference circles that the powers would not give China the material support she asked for her struggle against Japan. Neither was it believed that the conference would impose economic v measures against Japan—measures'! that Tokio warned the powers she would consider hostile acts. China's appeal to the 19 govern ments represented at Brussels to with hold war supplies and financial credits from Japan was the main business scheduled for consideration Monday. It was believed that final adjourn ment would be taken early next weelt^. after adoption of some new state- / ment. ’4' » 1 -1 a f. | ~ • LIONEL TRAINS M Y Come in and get j ou, FREE TRAIN Toy Catalogue OL 4 /0 vr Tall Lionel trains Model Shown 1. Locomotive. *. Coal car. Observation car. t. Transformer. s. i>. Plenty of track, ti. Two Pullman » cars. $7.25 Net,7^, "VSst ELECTRICAL CENTER & . AuaJLSmml, Dtp0Sit W^Hn,d A”>' A"‘rle Until Xmas' ^ j^ i W l B B BlpML. If *.,¥ £$$$&, w > 3j| -n ■ (§&§f HiSLIBIlIR®1'' .; Wh,n you •*•»» out of our *0™ with one of the brilliant new Hamiltons on your j^^H| wriet you can do so with a feeling of assurance and confidence, for behind that j^^^B marvelous timepiece stand two time-honored names: HAMILTON and CASTEL- f ^^B BERG’S. 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(In case you’ve forgotten, president Monroe told European nations 114 years ago that we would keep hands off Europe, and expected, in return, that they would keep their colonizers and their political systems out of the Western Hemisphere.) But here is what has been happen ing: 1. European radio stations—espe cially German. Italian and Russian— have been broadcasting news and entertainment programs to Latin Americans in their own languages for several, years. 2. These broadcasts naturally re flect Fascist and Communistic sys tems in a highly favorable light and constantly use labels and terms that go with those systems. 3. Some South American newspapers pick up this information daily and re distribute it in printed form. All of this means that the Monroe Doctrine is daily suffering erosion from Europe, and yet the doctrine is not being violated. Any nation may broadcast information and entertain ment. Meanwhile, South ^Americans are growing more and more familiar with Fascist and Communist ideas and labels, such as "the corporative state,” "centralized control,” “economic ex pansion for the state,” and the like. One unofficial authority in Wash ington, who is in a position to analyze first-hand reports from Soyth America, puts it like this: “The fact is that the South Ameri can nations commonly labeled Fascist are not Fascist in the Italian sense; nor is the Latin American group that bears the Communist stamp Com munistic in the Russian sense. South American dictatorships now are what they always were—minority groups or strong-arm leaders controlling nations with the aid of armies.^ Here’s where the rub*"comes: United States officials—and many business men, for that matter—fear that the constant use of political lan guage and labels of Europe ultimately may lead South American nations and the world at large to believe Com munism and Fascism of the European variety actually have taken root right at our own doorstep. If that should occur, then these ticklish question would have to be answered: Would European Fascist and Com munist nations be able to gain an economic perch in South America at the expense of the great democracies? And, more important, would such a movement finally force the United States either to defend the Monroe Doctrine or cease to consider it as a matter of foreign policy? Only the future can tell, but for the time being it can be said on reliable authority that the economic ties be tween the United States and South America are holding fast. Brazil, the latest South American nation that has reverted to dictatorship, has taken great pains to assure the United States that It haa not gone Fascist, con tradictory as that may seem. x likewise, Argentina’s President Au gustin P. Jus to reminded the “Fas cists” of ills country recently that its natural economic ties were with two powerful democracies. Great Britain and the United States. As for the wide gulf of language and culture that separates the United States from South America, a begin ning has been made. Stellar attraction of last year’s Pan American conference was the Presi dent of the democratic United States. The conferring nations agreed to swap cultural lore. The United States Bureau of Edu cation has already plunged Into the Job of educating our own citizens in elemental South American history. Its radio program, “Brave New World,” Is broadcast on a network of 80-odd stations every Monday night. There’s another ace in the hole. The United States has five short-wave radio bands set aside by international agreement for non-commercial broad casting to South America. The Fed eral Radio Commission has started hearings to decide whether private broadcasters will use those bands. And at least one Congressman is agi tating a bill to put the Government in the Pan-American radio broadcasting field. American news associations and agencies are sending news dispatches to South American newspapers daily— unhampered, however, by any argu ment for any political system. It is possible we’ll be listening to South American opera stars one of these days, and South Americans will be going wild over baseball . . . Time will tell. Traction Line Workers Bought To Retain Jobs Is Debt Free oy me Associated rress. WHEELING. W. Va., Nov. 20.—A bankrupt street car system, taken over four years ago by employes who wanted to keep their jobs, is operating free of debt and difficulties today. All of the 240 men who put aside part of their earnings in 1932 and 1933 to help purchase the traction company still are on the job, except for five who died. In that time, the co-operative transit company has added two bus lines to the original holdings of the insolvent Wheeling Traction Co. and now serves eight West Virginia communities and 35 Eastern Ohio communities. Acquisition of the bus lines in creased the number of employes to' 290. but only the original employes are stockholders. General Manager Harry McCune said the company pays out $423,000 annually In salaries, operates 67 street cars and 46 miles of track and 23 buses on a 50-mile route. The employes got the company for $75,000. State and county remitted back taxes to aid them to complete the transaction. 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