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Castle Speaks Tonight
At Inter-American
Conference
800 Hear Green and
Others Tell of U. S.
Influence Southward
William R. Castle, former Under
secretary of State, will be principal
speaker at tonight’s session of the
three-day Inter-American Confer
ence which opened last might at
the United States Chamber of Com
merce Building.
The conference, sponsored by the
Inter-American Center at George
Washington University, is consider
ing the question, “Can the United
States Retain Latin American Trade
and Cultural Relations Against Ger
man. Italian and Japanese Com
petition?”
Before some 800 persons attending
the first session last night, three
speakers, including Senator Theo
dore Green of Rhode Island, a mem
ber of the Senate Foreign Affairs
Committee, made the following
points:
1. The United States is more than
holding her own, compared with
other nations, in her trade relation
ships with Latin America.
2. The United States is woefully
behind other nations in cultural in
fluence on the Latin American
countries.
Adequate Transportation Lacking.
3. Despite expansion of aviation
and merchant marine transportation
In the United States, there is still a
long way to go to have adequate
transportation between the two con
tinents.
4. The Latin-American states are
Willing and interested to co-operate
With the United States, but don’t
want terms of co-operation dictated
to them.
5. Germany and Italy are making
concerted effprts through radio
broadcasts and aviation to export to
talitarian doctrine to Latin America,
and, in the case of Germany, every
effort is being made to regain pre
war trade relations.
In addition to Senator Green, the
speakers were George Grant Mason,
jr„ member of the Civil Aeronautics
Authority, and Max O'Rell Truitt,
member of the United States Mari
time Commission.
1 rade Held in U. S. Favor.
Mr. Mason said aviation has tipped
the trade balance in favor of the
United States despite the strong
efforts being made by Italy and Ger
many. and expressed the belief that
a unified system of air transporta
tion on the American continents and
the resultant binding together of
the sister republics are the best
means of meeting European compe
tition.
He cited the development of avia
tion in South America by the Fascist
countries and declared:
“The time has passed when it can
be doubted that aviation is being
used by Italy and Germany as one
of the means of winning vast trade
markets and perhaps gaining a po
litical foothold in our neighbors to
the south.”
Mr. Mason asserted that the
United States trade superiority can
be retained only by co-operative
effort of the Government, industry
and the public.
No Fear of Fascists.
Mr. Truitt said he was confident
the United States can retain cul
tural and trade relations against
competition from the Fascist coun
tries.
“We are the best customer todav
of a dozen or more of the Latin
American countries,” the maratime
commissioner said, "and at least the
second best market for most of the
rest.”
He added that the German sys
tem of barter with the Latin Amer
ican countries is forcing many of
the latter to compete with their
own products and is about as sound
economically as the “chain letter
racket.”
Germany, he said, is importing
considerably more Latin American
goods than she can consume to in
crease her own exports to those
countries. As a result Germany is
offering these South American prod
ucts upon the free markets of the
world, thus compelling the South
Americans to compete with them
selves.
But Germany and Italy have
rnade politics their most important
export to Latin America, he said.
Airplanes and radio stations are
promoting totalitarian doctrines
and interests in South America
daily, he told the group.
Seeks Travel Betterment.
He said the best reply to this
would be improvement of travel
services between the continents,
such as the development of the
Maritime Commission of the Good
Neighbor Fleet between New York
and the east coast of South Amer
ica.
Senator Green likewise was opti
mistic about the trade relationships
between the continents. He pointed
to figures showing an increase in
our imports from South America
last year over the preceding year,
while Germany imported less. And
the United States is the principal
supplier of almost every one of the
20 republics, he added. Shipping
and financial facilities between the
continents have improved, he stated.
Senator Green emphasized, how
ever^ that America takes a “back
seat ’ to European countries in its
cultural relations. He described
seeing French plays and Italian
opera billed about South America,
but nothing from North America.
In the Museum of Fine Arts at
Buenos Aires, a series of rooms is
given over to art of other countries.
The Senator said there were rooms
lor Spain, Italy, England, France,
Germany and Sweden.
United States Room.
I looked in vain for a United
Btates room," he said, "but there
was none. However, in a room
marked ‘miscellaneous,’ I found four
paintings, and there may have been
a couple more, by my countrymen.
Do you wonder our culture is not
esteemed highly?”
Senator Green said the Latin
Americans were disposed to be co
operative, but are as independent
In their spirit as in the United
States.
Taking part in the panel discus
sion were A^Dert W. Atwood, finan
cial write-'; James Christopher
Corliss, associate professor of Inter
American Economics at George
Washington University; Roy T.
Davis, president of National Park
College and former Minister to
Panama, and Frederic William Wile
0f the editorial staff of The Star.
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MARLBORO’S WELLS FAIL—Town Chief of Police Vincent
Talbott watches Miss Connie Middleton trjr in vain to fill a pitcher
with water at the Memorial Fountain in front of the courthouse.
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Miss Mary Lentz of Duley, Md., clerk in a Marlboro store, has
to go to the pipe leading from the town’s new municipal well for
water when most of the town’s artesian wells failed.
—Star Staff Photos.
Yule Campaign
(Continued From First Page.)
after describing many campaigns, in
cluding The Star-Warner Bros.-N.
B. C. Christmas campaign in the
Nation's Capital and the toys and
thousands of food baskets distrib
uted annually under its auspices.
“And while they may run contrary
to sociological principles in raising
meney—by making an emotional ap
pel instead of educating people to
their duty of giving—yet they get
results, and the Christmas candle
shines in many dark places.”
In Washington YOU are Santa
Claus.
The campaign sponsored each
year by The Star is designed to
make readers realize that each can
in truth be Sa/ita Claus and to make
it easy for them to play the role for
the poor and the needy of the city.
The aim of the campaign is that
no needy family in Washington will
be forgotten or neglected at the
Yuletide season, that there will be
no empty stockings and no heart
broken children.
I enters Established.
Readers are asked to contribute
food, clothing and toys to this
worthy cause. Their gifts will be
distributed to the needy by the
Parent-Teacher Association and the
Metropolitan Police Department,
who are working in co-operation
with the Council of Social Agencies.
Aiding in the collection of con
tributions are the Warner Bros,
theaters, in 17 of which special toy
matinees will be held on Saturday
morning, December 17, to which the
price of admission will be a new
toy, and where gifts will be received
at any time.
Gift collection boxes have been
placed in 50 Peoples Drug Stores,
and Federal employes in all branches
of the Government have estab
lished collection centers, where gifts
are being assembled.
To stimulate interest in the cam
paign the National Broadcasting Co.
is presenting a series of entertain
ing programs featuring stars of the
screen and radio. The Shoreham
Hotel, co-operating with The Star,
is planning to hold its annual toy
ball on Friday night. December 16.
S. E. C. Unit Active.
The Federal agencies' part of the
campaign rushed forward today,
and Miss Bonnie Taylor, chief of
the voluntary collection organiza
tion at fhe Securities and Exchange
Commission, set up an unusually
attractive arrangement of collection
boxes to receive gifts from the S. E.
C. employes.
Harry R. Daniel. Federal co-ordi
nator for the campaign, suggested
that other agencies might follow
Miss Taylor's lead and copy her
arrangement. He urged also that
all groups begin to gather the gifts
so that the collection trucks can be
gin to pick up the donations as
soon as possible.
Two other Federal agencies which
joined the campaign today are the
Central Statistical Board and the
Electric Home and Farm Authority.
The chief of the collection arrange
ment at the Statistical Board is
Roger W. Jones, assistant executive
officer, who was appointed by Mor
ris A. Copeland, who also is assist
ant executive officer. The chief of
the collection arrangement at the
E. H. F. A. is Mrs. Margaret Phil
lips, appointed by A. T. Boson, sec
retary of the authority.
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Miss Margaret Trunnell
Funeral Services Held
Funeral services were held this
morning for Miss Margaret Trun
nell, 76, lifelong resident of Wash
ington, who died Sunday of a cere
bral hemmorhage at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth W. John
son, 1708 Newton street N.W.
The daughter of the late Silas
and Elizabeth Robbins Trunnell,
Miss Trunnell was educated at Holy
Cross Academy. She was a niece
of the late James Robbins, prom
inent Washington builder.
Besides Mrs. Johnson she is sur
vived by a nephew, Hiram E. John
son of Woodside Park, Md.
Funeral services were held at
the William Reuben Pumphrey fu
neral home in Bethesda, Md„ the
Rev. Father Fannan of Sacred
Heart Church officiating. Inter
ment was in Holy Rood Cemetery.
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Upper Marlboro's Old Wells
Dry Up as Town Shaft Is Sunk
Hotels, Homes, Businesses Without Water
Or Hot-Water Heat as P. W. A. Well Is Dug
cy a atari oorresponaeni oi The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO. Md„ Dec. 7.
—A mysterious drying up of the
dozens of artesian wells that have
supplied this historic old Maryland
town with water for more than
three-quarters of a century today
forced thirsty residents to go to the
volunteer fire house for a drink.
Homes and business houses alike
were waterless. Hotels had to apolo
gize to their guests for the lack of
water to drink and for baths. The
town's only theater had no heat
because there was no water to flow
through the heating pipes, until the
fire department pumps came to the
rescue.
No one seemed to know exactly
what the trouble was. but it was
believed that digging of a new mu
nicipal well with P. W. A. funds to
give a modern water system to the
town had tapped the main water
basin and drained the supply of the
individual wells.
Although water still flowed in
weakened streams from the faucets
in some homes, the only abundant
supply was to be found at the new
well, where pumps were lifting the
water to the surface at the rate of
200 gallons per minute.
Daughters of Confederacy
Re-Elect Mrs. Pendexter
Mrs. R. Stevens Pendexter was
re-elected president of the District
of Columbia Division. United Daugh
ters of the Confederacy, at the an
nual convention held yesterday at
Confederate Memorial Hall, 1322
Vermont avenue.
Election activities climaxed a day
long program which included me
morial services for members whose
deaths occurred during the last year,
reports of division officers and com
mittee work, a resume of the
national convention at Tulsa, Okla.,
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5tar-Warner Bros.-N.B.C.
Christmas Campaign
The Evening Star, Warner
Bros, theaters, the National
Broadcasting Co, the Metro
politan Police Department, Par
ent-Teacher Association, Peo
ples Drug Stores and Federal
employes in all branches of the
Government have joined forces
to help you provide food, cash,
NEW toys and NEW clothing
for needy children and needy
families in Washington this
Christmas.
NEW toys and NEW clothing
will be received at all Warner
Bros, theaters at any time and
will be taken as the price of
admission at 17 theaters on Sat
urday morning, December 17.
Non-perishable food and any
other gifts will be received at
any police precinct.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
PHONE NATIONAL 5000.
IRANCHES 450, 451, 452, 453
AND 239.
Fortunately, it was explained,
Marlboro is well supplied with run
ning water in creeks in case of fire.
Even the county courthouse felt
the dearth of water. Vincent Tal
bert, custodian of the courthouse,
said he had to stay up all
night to keep the trickle of water
coming from the county well pumped
into the heating system. Old-timers
said the well which supplies the
court has not failed before in nearly
50 years.
One spot in the town never known
to have been dry before yesterday
felt the aridity gripping other and
newer sections. For years a Roodly
stream has flowed into a trough in
front of the war memorial in front
of the courthouse. There was not
a trickle there today.
The new well, one of three to be!
dug in the development of the new
water and sanitary system, is deeper
than the individual wells in the town ;
and it is believed that this greater |
depth has drawn the water to a
level where it cannot be forced to
the surface. It is located near the
volunteer firehouse and several per
sons who had no other water supply
went there to get drinking water.
in November, and a musical program.
Other officers elected to serve with
Mrs. Pendexter were Mrs. Livingston
Mann, first vice president; Mrs.
Louise M. Preston, second vice
president; Mrs. William Downing,
third vice president; Miss Margaret
Cockrill. treasurer; Miss Mary Way
nick, recording secretary; Miss Maud i
Smead, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. Lena MacDonald, auditor; Mrs. i
A. Eugene Barr, chaplain; Miss |
Laura Virginia Snuggs, recorder, Mrs. j
Benjamin Grady, custodian: Miss
Katherine Wooten, historian, and
Miss Frances Shirley, registrar.
The 10 District chapters have 350
members.
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Dr. McKinstry Accepts |
Delaware Bishopric
E> the Associated Press. I
WILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 7.—The
Rev. Dr. Arthur R. McKinstry of
Nashville, Tenn., has accepted the
post as Protestant Episcopal bishop
of the Diocese of Delaware. His
election took place November 15 at
Immanuel Church, here.
His decision, made after a visit
with Mrs. McKinstry to Wilmington,
was received yesterday by Col.
George A. Elliott, a personal friend
and a member of the Diocesan Noti
fication Committee. Dr. McKinstry
succeeds the late Bishop Philip Cook.
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Oldest Inhabitants
To Hear Roper Tonight
Secretary of Commerce Roper will
deliver the principal address to
night at the 73d anniversary ban
quet of the Oldest Inhabitants of
the District of Columbia at the
Raleigh Hotel.
A reception is scheduled for 7 p.m.,
to be followed by the dinner at 7:3o!
Theodore W. Noyes, president of
the association, will submit some
remarks, it is expected, in lieu of
an annual address, and introduce
special guests of the evening. They
will include men and women leaders
in the civic affairs of the District.
John Clagett Proctor, vice presi
dent of the association, will read an
original poem. Music will be bv the
Glee Club of the Potomac Electric
Power Co. and by George H. O'Con
nor. The invocation will be offered
by Chancellor Joseph M. M. Gray
of the American University.
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International Politics
Blamed for Unrest
Speaking on “Social Unrest in
the Western World.” Dr. George A.
Briefs, professor of economics in
the Graduate School of Georgetown
University, declared in an address
last night that “the threatening
impasse in social-economic life ap
pears today as an impasse between
nations in the field of international
politics.”
Dr. Briefs, who was formerly a
labor expert and economist under
the German Ministries of Labor and
Interior, opened a series of weekly
meetings of the new Georgetown
Forum. Sponsored by the Graduate
School for Alumni, the forum ses
sions will be devoted to discussions
of social and economic problems.
The Rev. Wilfred Parsons, S. J.,
dean of the Graduate School, pre
sided in the Copley Lounge.
Dr. J. W. Stoneborough of the
Labor Department will speak on
"Labor and Democracy" in the next
session of the forum the evening
of December 13.
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Alexandria. Egypt, is studying air
defense plans.
G. O.P. to Seek Boost
In Ratio of Senate
Committee Posts
McNary to Ask 3-to-l
Proposition Instead
Of Current 4-to-l
By J. A. OXEARY.
When the Senate organizes for
the opening of the Seventy-sixth
Congress next month the Repub
licans will seek an increase in their
ratio of membership on committees,
in accordance with the gain they
made In the November elections.
Near the close of the last session,
when there were 77 Democrats, only
15 Republicans, 2 Farmer-Laborites,
1 Progressive and 1 independent,
the ratio between the two major
parties on most committees was ap
proximately four to one. On the
Appropriations Committee, for ex
ample, there were 19 Democrats to
5 Republicans. On finance, 16 Dem
ocrats, 4 Republicans and 1 Progres
sive. Other committees varied only'
slightly from this ratio.
The loss of eight seats by the
Democrats last month makes the
standing of the next Senate 66
Democrats, 23 Republicans, 2 Farm
er-Laborites, 1 Progressive and 1 in
dependent. Senator McNary of
Oregon, Republican leader, pointed
out this narrows the ratio to three
to 1 and he indicated he expects a
corresponding change in committee
assignments.
Assignments Not Due Soon.
It is probable the Republicans will
have a larger proportion on the
District committee than last sum
mer, when that group consisted of
12 Democrats and 3 Republicans.
The actual assignment of new
Senators to committees will not be
undertaken, however, until after
Christmas. Leaders of each party
usually work out slates of commit
tee assignments for presentation to
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the Senate a few days after the ses
sion begins.
The major task confronting the
Democrats is to fill four vacancies
in committee chairmanships since
adjournment. The filling of these
posts may leave other chairman
ships open in some cases for Sena
tors who do not preside over com
mittees at present.
Chairmanships Open.
For example, if Senator Bailey,
Democrat, of North Carolina suc
ceeds the late Senator Copeland of
New York as chairman of commerce,
it would leave an opening at the
head of the Claims Committee. Oth
er committees that will have new
chairmen at the coming session are:
Patents, formerly presided over by
Senator McAdoo, who failed to win
renomination in the California pri
mary this year.
Manufactures, whose chairman,
Senator Bulkley of Ohio was de
feated in the general election.
Pensions, whose chairman. Sena
tor McGill of Kansas was defeated
on election day.
Debaters Will Argue
British Peace Role
Two George Washington Universi
ty debaters will meet an Irishman
and a Welshman in debate tonight
on the subject "Resolved, That the
British Empire Is an Obstacle to
World Peace.” Arguments are
scheduled to begin at 8:15 in the'
Hall of Government at George
Washington.
Charles Corker and Leonard Wil
son of the local school are to sup
port the affirmative. They will be
opposed by William A. Beers of the
University of Dublin and William
Thomas Williams of the University
of Wales.
The foreign debaters are tour
ing 20 States and are meeting teams !
representing more than 30 universi- I
ties on the trip. 1
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